The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

TORY POLICY.

At two o'clock yesterday the Mayor o f Clonmel
accompanied by Alderman Bianconi (whose success-
ful enterprise has so greatly promoted internal com-
munication in Ireland), attended at Mr. O'Connell's
residence in Merrion-square, to present him with a
congratulatory address from the burgesses of that
town.
The Mayor read the address, which contained the
following passage :—" Whilst we offer you our
cordial gratulations on the signal triumph which you
have just achieved over the knaves and tyrants of our
country, we beg to accompany them with the expres-
sion of our firm and unchangeable determination to
stand by you and support you in the noble efforts
you are making for her happiness and regeneration."
Mr. O'CoNNEnn, in reply to the address said:—
Worshipful Mayor, and Alderman Bianconi, the
praise which you bestow upon me is indeed precious,
coming as it does from a people so independent, so
full of genuine patriotism as the men of Clonmel.
You do well, Mr. Mayor, to censure the proceedings
which have taken place on the late trial, because our
great object now is to bring forward addresses re-
flecting the public sentiment, and proclaiming the
national determination, in order that we may succeed
in removing and scattering the Ministry, and punish-
ing its minions. Yes, I repeat it—one of the most
important considerations to the Irish people at pre-
sent, is that of the impeachment. We know not
what measures may be taken to allure us from this
subject; but our course is plain, we will be tranquil
and quiet—yet most persevering on this point. We
will be unawed by fear and uninfluenced by
doubt, and will continue our efforts with an unde-
viating consistency until we be amply and fully
satisfied for the wrong committed. To that end
I shall devote whatever energies I may possess—
whatever remnant of intellect may still be mine—all
the resources of my professional experience, and all
my hopes of co-operation from the English people.
Our determination to demand the punishment of
those who have violated every principle of law and
justice, in our regard, may bring down upon us the
vengeance of the Minister; but if we pursue a peace-
able course of seeking for redress, my own opinion
is, that no Minister ever created in England could
bear the brunt of the united demands of a nation in
a just and honest cause. You will inform the
people of Clonmel, that our hopes are high, and our
expectations vivid—that there will be no compromise
as there has been hitherto no shrinking ; but the
principle of legislation in Ireland by Irishmen in
whatever form worked out, is worthy of considera-
tion. If worked out to satisfaction by federalism, I
am ready to adopt it; but unless 1 be convinced
of this, there shall be, I repeat, no compromise, no
surrender of principle on our part. To you, as my
personal and private friends, I have always stood in-
debted. 1 am rejoiced to receive such a compliment
through your hands, and can only assure you—and
through you the generous people of Clonmel—that I
shall endeavour to deserve it by unremitting exer-
tions in the cause of Old Ireland."
In the preceding reply, Mr. O'Connell manifestly
alludes to the threats of Tory coercion and martia'
law.

GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.
The following letter has been received by the
Mayor of Cork :
" Dublin Castle, Sept. 19, 1844.
" Sir—ln reply to your letter of the 14th, I am
directed by the Lord Lieutenant to acquaint you, for
the information of the Town Council of Cork, that his
Excellency has appointed Thomas Forsayeth, Esq.,
to the situation of Recorder of that city, and has no
doubt that his qualifications for the office are such as
will deserve the confidence of the citizens.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"E. LUCAS.

" William Fagan, Esq., Mayor of Cork."
On this official communication the Cork Reporter
of yesterday remarks :
" The above was in reply to a letter from the
Mayor, stating that it was the intention of the
Council to memorialise his Excellency, in reference to
the appointment to the office vacant by the death of
Mr. Bennett. The Secretary's communication must
have been written before the memorial was received
at the Castle—and therefore the appointment was
made in total disregard of what might be the recom-
mendation of the Council. Courtesy, at least, should
have suggested the delay of one or two days, to con-
sider the purport of the memorial, and the hasty step
taken by the Government exhibits a desire to slight
the municipal body as well as a determination
to use the Castle patronage in direct opposition
to its wishes. We could not from this Govern-
ment have expected otherwise. They acted pre-
cisely in the same way in respect to the appoint-
ment of city magistrates. It must be now very
clearly seen, that though there is a change of men,
the same policy is to be pursued ; and that all the fine
parade of conciliation is mere pretence. Unmitigated
hostility to the wishes and feelings of the great body
of the Irish people has been, is, and always will be
the ruling sentiment of the Tory party ; and on all
occasions it will exhibit itself as in the presentin-
stance. This conduct on the part of the present
, Government is doubly reprehensible and discour-

teous, from the fact that the Corporation must pay
the salary."

THE ARMY.

Head-quarters of the 4th, or Royal Irish Dragoon
Guards, under command of Colonel Chatterton, ar-
rived at Caher on Friday, to be stationed.
The move of the Bth Hussars from Dundalk to
Dublin, and of the 11th Hussars from Dublin to
Dundalk, will commence on Tuesday next.
_ _

An order has been issued that no officer in Dublin
garrison should appear, in or out of barrack, except
in military uniform.
A recruiting party of the depot of the 14th Regi-
ment is ordered from head-quarters, Beltarbet, to
Dublin, to embark for Liverpool, en route to Bricig-
water, to be stationed.

Recruiting parties of the 72d Highlanders, at But-
tevant, are ordered to march for Cork, to embark for
Scotland, to be stationed at Aberdeen, Glasgow,
Dundee, Dumfries, and Inverness.
A recruiting party of the 95th depot is ordered to
march from Kinsale, for Philipstown, to be stationed.
The Limerick Chronicle says :—" The expected
military brevet will include lieutenant-generals,
major-generals, and colonels of 1837 ; lieutenant-
colonels, majors, and captains of 1836, and will cause
the following changes :—Major-General Lord Fre-
derick Fitzclarence, to command Dublin district,
vice General Wyndham, promoted ; Major-General
Prince George of Cambridge, to be Inspector of Ca-
valry, vice General Lygon, promoted; Colonel Sir
Robert Sale to be Deputy-Adjutant-General in Ire-
land, vice Colonel Napier, promoted ; Colonel Sir
Richard England, K.C.13., to he Adjutant-General in
India, vice Colonel Sir Robert Sale, to Ireland ;
Colonel Love, 73d, C. 8., to be colonel on staff at
Corfu, vice Prince George of Cambridge ; Colonel
Spink, to be Deputy- Quarter-Master-General in Ire-
land, vice Bainbrigge, promoted to major-general.
The only war-steamers now in the Shannon are the
Cyclops, Captain Lapidge, R.N., at Tarbert, and
Flamer, Commander Postle, R.N., at Limerick.

The Pluto steamer, Commander Crozier, from Kil-
rush, has arrived at Galway- Bay, in consequence of
matters connected with the fisheries on the western
coast.

Lieutenant-Commander Bowyer, Hecate steamer,
on the coast of Clifden, Galway, fell from a cliff, broke
his arm, and fractured his head. Notwithstanding
the severe nature of those injuries, the gallant officer
is convalescent.

The Meteor steamer, Commander Butler, has ar-
rived with astronomical apparatus at Valencia, to
assist Professor Airy and Lieutenant Gossett. RE.,
in the observations now making there, in reference to
the fixing of the west longitude from London.
VICE-REGAL COURT.—It is said that Lady Hey-
tesbury is preparing to give a series of balls at the
Castle.

The report is renewed, but finds no credence, that
Lord Ellenborough, on his return from India, is to
succeed Lord lleytesbury in the government of
Ireland. _ _ . .

Mr. Smith O'Brien, M.P., is now in Limerick.
Mr. John Grey Vesey Porter, High Sheriff of Fer-
managh, author of the pamphlet for a Federal Union,
and Domestic Legislature, is grandson to the late
Bishop of Clogher, Dr. Porter, an Englishman, who,
in the Lord Lieutenancy of Lord Camden, accom-
panied him to Ireland as his chaplain. Mr. Porter's
father is rector of Killskerry, in Tyrone, and pro-
prietor of Belleisle, an extentive and valuable estate
in Fermanagh, which he purchased from the Earl of
Rosse.

The Attorney-General, Mrs. Smith, and family
have arrived in Dublin, from Leamington.

James Morris Drought, Esq., aged 70, died sud-
denly on Friday, in the Marshalsea, where he was
confined for eigteen months for a debt of Si.!
LORD DE Roos.—The Northern Whig says :
" It is with much satisfaction we learn, from a cor-
respondent, that Lord de Roos has recently made a
considerable reduction in the rents of his property at
Bonecastle, near Downpatrick. his lands in that
townland are now let at from 245. to 28s. the Irish
acre, apparently a very moderate rent, for soil of so
good a quality. Lord de Roos is at present resident
in Strangford ; and, by precept and action, sets an
excellent example to be imitated by other Irish
northern landlords. IVe hope it will not be lost on
them. The tenants' interests and theirs are identical."
The general area of the city of Dublin, according
to the Ordnance survey, is 3,807 acres, 2 roods, and
1.5 perches, which includes 214 acres, 2 roods, and 32
perches of water.

ESCAPE OF A CONVICT FROM
GAOL, AND HIS RECAPTURE.

At our last assises a young man named John
Powell, alias Bumper, was tried and convicted before
Mr. Sergeant Atcherley, for committing a burglary
in the house of Mr. John Crowther, of Lydbury
North, and received sentence of ten years' transpor-
tation. At that time he was labouring under the
effects of a loathsome disease, which prevented
his removal to th© hulks with the other trans-
ports, and he was placed in the gaol in-
firmary, with liberty to walk daily in the court for
the benefit of fresh air, and at night he slept in a
cell on the ground floor in an outer court, surrounded
by a wall eight feet high. At six o'clock on Friday
evening he was locked in his cell for the night ;
but on one of the officers going round to light
the lamps at half-past seven, he discovered that
the prisoner had escaped. The manner in which
he effected his escape exhibits a considerable de-
gree of tact. He contrived to unjoint his bed-
stead, and secreted in his sleeping cell a long piece of
wood, which had been used as a part of scaffolding
for repairs. He then tore up the sheets and blanket of
his bed, with which he lashed the piece of wood to the
side part of his bedstead ; and to make it firmer he in-
serted a nail which had been extracted from the span
attached to the bedstead. Having thus far made his ar-
rangements, he next tried his skill upon the door of the
cell, which proved to be very rotten ; and by using the
leg of a stool as a lever, he soon made an aperture large
enough to allow him the escape underneath. Hav-
ing got into the open air, he dragged his scaling
ladder after him, and quietly mounting the wall
of the court, he reared the spliced timber
against the outer wall ; but it being about
seventeen feet high his means of escape proved too
short. In a moment he thought of a wheelbarrow
which he had seen it the yard, and to prevent the
creaking of its wheels from being heard, he carried
the barrow to the place he intened to scale,
and placing the pole in it, he climbed
up, and reached within a yard of the top of the wall.
He afterwards said—" I don't know how I did it ;
but I went over the wall as light as a bird." In his
fall he sprained his ancle, and lay on the ground for
some time in great pain. " I was so frightened (he
said) at what I had done that I almost wished myself
back again." He added, that the only person who
saw him lying under the wall was a factory girl, on
her way home from work, and she took no notice.
He then made his way along the river side to the
Welsh Bridge, and thence to the Bridges, on the
Bishop's Castle road ; and on the way he threw
away his gaol waistcoat, and pulled out his shirt to
hide his trowsers, in the manner of a smockfrock.
From thence he made his way across the country to
the neighbourhood of Wurthen ; and he has since
stated that he never tasted food till Monday night.
The greatest exertions were used by the governor,
Mr. Dawson, to re-capture the runaway, and bills of
101. reward, and messengers were dispatched to
every direction. On Wednesday Mr. Dawson pro-
ceeded to Chirbury, where the relatives of the pri-
soner are living, and after an ineffectual search he
was returning, when he received information from
policeman Hemming, of Worthen, that he had just
caught the prisoner in a ;table belonging to Mr.
Jones, of Marton, where he had been hiding among
the hay in the loft. On the appearance of the
officer he attempted to jump through the window of
the loft; but after a sharp struggle he was secured,
and given in charge to Mr. Dawson, who conveyed
the runaway back to his old quarters. A meeting of
the Visiting Justices was held in the afternoon,
when Jones, the turnkey, who had charge of the pri-
soner, was suspended from his office. The information
to the policeman was given by a person whom the
prisoner designated as a " friend," and who will share
the 10/. reward with the policeman.—Shrewsbury
Chronicle.

DERBY CLUBS.—The question as to the legality of
Derby clubs, which has occupied so much the attention
of tavern-keepers and the sporting portion of the public,
has lately been submitted to Mr. E. Jame, the eminent
barrister, for his consideration, and that 'gentleman has
given it as his decided opinion that such clubs. are illegal,
and that persons in any way connected withthemTaire
liable to be proceeded against for heavy penalties.
Act upon which the Learned Counsel. has grounded,
his
opinion is the 10th and 11th William 111., c. 1, , which is
still in force, and intituled " An Act for the Suppression
of Lotteries."
IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—Yesterday afternoon, about
half-past three o'clock, a man, dressed in a flannel jacket,
paper cap, and having all the appearance of a carpenter,
came to the door of Clerkenwell Police-court, and, ad-
dressing Waddington, the gaoler, inquired after the fate
of a person who, in the course of the day, had been
charged with an assault, and, on being answered, he de-
liberately walked. over to the shop of Mr. Smith, up-
holst er6r
maneddicaatbelly poneotp-maskieter,tahte cotheur,
cornert of Frederick-
street, entered the shop,
and taking up a valuable looking-glass, walked out of the
shop with it. Fortunately Mr. Smith was just returning
home, and at a short distance from his shop saw the
fellow leaving with the property, and on ascertaining
from Mrs. Smith that she had not sold the glass, Mr.
Smith pursued the party, and overtook him about three
hundred yards from the shop, and gave him into custody.
He affected great indignation, said the looking-glass be-
longed to his master, and it was a " reflection" upon his
character. He was taken to the station-house, where he
gave his name John Egan. He said. nothing in his de-
-1 fence, and was fully committed for trial.

INAUGURATION of the STATUE of
ADMIRAL DUQUESNE.

DIEPPE, SEPT. 22.—This ceremony, which has
excited so much interest in this part of France, and at
which it was anticipated that his Majesty the King of
the French would have been present, took place here
today in the presence of an immense concourse of
spectators, who had assembled from various parts of
the country. Government had forwarded orders to
Cherbourg for some of the men-of-war steamers to
proceed to Dieppe to assist at the ceremony. The
steamers that have arrived here under the command
of Rear-Admiral La Susse, are the Caimon (with the
admiral's flag), the Eylau, and the Alecto, and the
Levrier (sloop). The fetes consequent on the inau-
guration are to last three days, as the; French
people are resolved to pay every honour to tlte naval
hero whose exploits form so prominent a feature in
their history. They have, however, been rather a
long time considering whether they should erect a
statue of Duquesne, as it is nearly two centuries since
he died.

At daybreak this morning the shipping in the roads
and the forts fired a salute, to announce the com-
mencement of the fetes. All the public edifices, and
most of the houses, were decorated with flags. The
men-of-war steamers were all dressed out in their
colours. and every merchant vessel had the
national flag flying. At twelve o'clock the mayor
Monsieur Deslandes, chevalier de la Legion d'Hon-
neur ; Admiral La Susse, and all the civil, military,
Lnd naval authorities, assembled opposite the Court-
house, and marched thence to the Place Royal in the
following procession :—A squadron of mounted Gen-
darmes ; a squadron of Cavalry of the National
Guard; a division of the National Guard, with its
band ; a division of Marines ; the various trades con-
nected with shipping, with their respective banners ;
the members of the Musical Society ; the troops of
the line, with their bands; the mayor and the mem-
bers of the Municipal Council ; the mayors of the
arrondissement ; the chiefs of battalion of the National
Guard and the arrondissement; naval and military
officers ; the members of the Legion of Honour;
crews of the Caimon, Alecto, and Eylau; a detach-
ment of the National Guard of Dieppe; troops of the
line ; horse and foot artillery, with their field-pieces.
When the procession reached the Place Royal, the
statue of Duquesne was uncovered, and salutes were
immediately fired from the batteries, and from the
shipping. The inaugural address was then spoken by
the mayor ; after which the corps musicale sung the
following songs, composed for the occasion :—Gloire
au heros du ma patrie ;" " Apotheose de Duquesne ;"
" Revell de Dieppe ;" " Salut nobles couleurs."

In the evening- there is to be a public display of
fireworks, and the town will be illuminated.

FORGERY OF POST- OFFICE MONEY-ORDERS.--. 011
Saturday Thomas Edwards, a young man of very re-
spectable exterior, was brought before Mr. Rushton, on a
charge of having forged a signature to two Post-office
money-orders, for the sum of 8/ 10s., and thereby
fraudulently obtained the amonnt. Mr. Commissioner
Dowling said he should be unable that day to bring the
case to a conclusion, as the prisoner was taken into cus-
tody suddenly, and the principal witness was out of
town, The letter containing the money-orders had been
addressed from Abergavenny, in the month of June last,
to a Mr. Stephen L. Edwards, who lived next door to the
prisoner. how that letter got into the possession of the
prisoner was as yet unknown ; most probably he
received it from the Post-office, but at all events

it would appear that he had signed Mr. Stephen
Edwards's name to the orders, sent them to the money-
order office by his errand-boy, and thus succeeded
in obtainine, the amount. The orders were drawn in
the usual form, and a blank was left at the bottom for

the signature of the person to whom the money had
been made payable. William Thompson, a clerk in the
Post-office, deposed that he had paid the amount of the
orders in question on the 29th of June. He had made
an entry of the payment in his books, but he did not
not make, nor was he in the habit of making, an indorse-
ment on the back of the orders. lie knew not to whom

the money was paid, but he should not have had the
orders in his possession if they had not been paid. They
bore the signature of " Stephen L. Edwards." A clerk
in the prisoner's office identified the orders as those he
had taken to Mr. Thompson, and upon which he had
received 8/. 10s.; and another clerk identified the signa-
ture to the orders as being in the prisoner's handwriting.
The prisoner, who bad nothing to urge in his defence,
was remanded.—Liverpool Albion.
THE PROPOSED NEW HOSPITAL FOR THE CURE
OF CUTANEOUS DISEASES.—A meeting of the inhabi-
tants of the united parishes of St. Anne Blackfriars, St.
Andrew by the Wardrobe, and of Bridewell Precinct,
was held yesterday morning pursuant to advertisement,
and in conformity with a requisition signed by upwards
of seventy of the most respectable inhahitants of the
neighbourhood, at Radley's Hotel, New Bridge-street,
fur the purpose of considering and determining upon the
needful measures to be adopted for preventing the esta-
blishment of the London Cutaneous Infirmary at the
house situate at the corner of Earl-street and New
Bridge-street. The attendance of inhabitants was
numerous, and but one feeling a strong one
against the establishment of the infirmary at the
proposed spot—seemed to pervade the meeting. Mr.
Delane was voted into the chair. He regretted
that it had not fallen to the lot of some gentle-
man longer resident in the parish than himself to have
occupied the chair ; he was, however, very glad to do
anything in his power to further the object of Ow meet-
ing. Ile thought that any one who was acquainted with
the locality of the premises which had been selected by
the Society, must at once perceive that they were in every
respect unsuited for the purposes for which they were
intended. There was not as much space as the breadth
of a table behind the house ; it abutted on three streets,
and contained only the ordinary accommodation of an
ordinary dwelling-house. In addition to this he under-
stood, from the prospectus which had been put forth, that
the Society expected to have 500 patients a week, who
must necessarily be in attendance nearly every morn-
ing. He could expect nothing else, therefore, than
that the result would be a vast increase of disease
in a neighbourhood already too often and too severely
afflicted by fevers and influenza. Mr: Under-Sheriff
Anderton proposed the first resolution, which was as
follows:—" That this meeting has heard with regret
and alarm that it is proposed to establish an Infimary for
the cure of Cutaneous Diseases at No. 25, New Bridge-
street, situate at the corner of Earl-street and New
Bridge-street." He considered it to be the duty of every
father of a family and of every master to take care that
the infirmary should not be established where it was
proposed. A committee was subsequently appointed to
carry out the objects of the meeting. Petitions to the
Court of Common Council and the Court of Sewers were
read, and unanimously agreed to; and the committee
were requested to wait upon the managers of the in-
firmary to represent the state of feeling in the neigh-
bourhood upon the subject of its erection. Thanks to
the chairman concluded the business of the meeting,
which soon after separated.
THE CASE OF MRS. DAY AND THE OFFICERS OF
THE KENSINGTON UNlON.—Yesterday Mr. T. Wakley,
1N1.P., coroner, resumed and concluded a lengthened in-
quiry at the Hand and Flower Tavern, Vale-place, Ham-
mersmith, touching tke cause of death of Catherine

Charlotte Day, aged six years and nine months, whose
death was alleged to have been caused by the neglect of
the guardians of the poor of Kensington Union. It ap.
pears that Mrs. Day was left a widow, her husband
having died of consumption, in January, 1839, leaving
her destitute, with six children, in consequence of which
she was compelled to seek parochial relief, which, not-
withstanding her frequent applications, was refused, on
the ground that her friends were in affluent circum—
stances, and contributed towards the maintenance of
herself and family. Four of the children having died
from various causes, the deceased was admitted into
Fulham workhouse, in May, 1842, but was removed by
Mrs. Day in July, 1843, the child being in a dreadfuk
state from a disease of the ears and eyes. A short time.
after, Mrs. Day renewed her application for assistance,
when the board refused her relief in kind, but offered her
an asylum in the workhorse, which she declined. Upon
a subsequent application she received an order for tw©
pounds of mutton per week and a pint of milk per dap
towards the support of her child, which small relief wag
suspended, but again renewed, the child gradually decline,
ing, and was continued to the time of its death. Mrs.
Day stated that on one occasion the chairman of the
board (the Rev. Mr. Attwood) told her she was de.
grading her husband's family by applying for parochial
treated shirm
relief. Yesterday evidence was adduced tending to prove
that the case had received every attention from the hands.
of the parochial officers, the chief feature being the
deuce of William Thomas Day, aged 15 the only en..
bothThsis
lad •
viving child, who stated that his mother had
inboOot
cane.
Hanedh alsoi his
manner, deceasedsftraetgeud frequently
tal hisbt brothers eamrt
isontaghnedtrhshei
t.rast sisters
with rbse ii n 1
cotlin:tantly in the
habit of receiving assistame from his garabndammother and
necessaries,
been relieved by I\tlbre. Saltar.family,
and that she had money
and
coals,
andot other
or t membersher
had also frequently
with much clearness, his testimonygave his evidence
being listened to
with much interest by all
present. The coroner having
summed up the evidenc e at great length, the jury re-
turned a verdict "That
the deceased died from scrofula.
and that the relie • ving and other officers of the union
were exonerated from the charge of neglect imputed to
them."

MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.—Sir Robert and Lady
Peel and family left Whitehall-gardens yesterday after-
noon for Brighton, the Right Hon. Baronet having
taken a mansion there for two months. Miss Peel con-
tinues a short time longer at Drayton Manor ; that
young lady, we rejoice to hear, is rapidly regaining her
health and strength, but cannot remove to Brighton as
yet. Lord and Lady Jemima Eliot and the Hon. Miss
Eliot arrived in Dover-street on Friday night from Port
Eliot, the Earl of St. Germain's seat in Cornwall. Last.
evening the Noble Lord left by the mail• train for Liver-
pool en route to Dublin, to resume his duties as Secre-
tary for Ireland. Sir James Graham remains in town,
not having gone to Netherby, as erroneously stated.
The following notices appeared yesterday, at the
General Yost-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand :—" 'The next
mails for Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, and
India, via Southampton, will be dispatched from hence
on the morning of 3d October. The next mail for India.,
&c., via Marseilles, will be dispatched from hence on thep
evening of the 7th October. Her Majesty's brig Express
for the Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres mails of let
October. Dee for the West India mails of the morning
of 2d October. Mid Lothian for the Sydney (Nest
South Wales) mails of the evening of 30th instant.
Acadia for the American mails of the evening of 3cti
October."

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.THE LATE REPORTED SAILING
MATCH BETWEEN THE FRENCH BRIG
OF WAR ADONIS AND THE VINDICTIVE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
• Six,—Having just seen, with more surprise than I
cxn express, a paragraph in The Sun, copied from the
Globe French journal, in which it is represented that
the Adonis had sailed with the Vindictive in the
.Vacific,. and had had a consflerable advantage over
• her, and that, on the return of each to Europe, the
Adonis had maintained the same advantage, I am led
to observe that I feel assured that these statements
have Veen made wholly unknown to my worthy
fiend, Captain the Vicount St. George, whose cha-
racter stands too s'nigh ever to have sanctioned their
insertion, because no such occurrence ever. look place
as a sailing match between the Adonis and Vindictive.
It is true that the Adonis was at Callao in the
month of January last, when the Vindictive sailed
ton a trial with the American frigates United States
and Costellation, and when she beat the former fibOUt

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Sir Andrew Agnew's address to Lord
Aberdeen, to see the manner in which her Majesty
keeps her Sundays, while she continues in Scotland,
is a graceful display of the mantle of John Knox
fallen on lay shoulders. In the sixteenth century,
clerical monitions to Majesty at church and at Court
were more frequent, and much more violent, than
attacks on crowned heads now are in the " leading
articles" of the most Republican shade of the
Fourth Estate. The Church reformers were a
real Fourth Estate, representing (like the press at ex-
cited epochs) the movement of the public mind in
antagonism to, or independence of, the other three.
The last Queen who was admonished about her reli-
gious observances in Scotland, was thrown by educa-
tion, and by most natural repugnance to rude schooling,
into that attitude of antagonism to popular feeling which
happily has no parallel now. The impulse of Mary,
and the elaborate impolicy of her son, in opposition to
that feeling, have been judged by history ; but the dar-
ing novelty of style (presuming on a divine commission)
has not been taken quite sufficiently into account as
necessarily revolting those " born in the purple"—at a
time when royalty had a much more unapproachable
sense of itself than it has now. It was, in fact, the
old sacred majesty of the throne and the new sacred
assumption of the pulpit confronting each other, with-
out any softening medium—things which would asto-
nish us, signed " Publicola" or Brutus" in Sunday
papers, were said at church to hearers humming as-
sent, or even at court, in the ears of royalty. Some-
times, indeed, couched in a Latin epigram—as that
most slashing one which poor King Jamie, seeing the
listener milt, made Andrew Melville repeat to him,
and the occasion of which was the monarch's broad
and undignified mirth, while in deep mourning for his
mother—
" Scilicet hie matrem plorat ut ills patrem."
It would be difficult to kill two royal birds with
one stone more succinctly ; and such an epigram, re-
peated to a King in his own court, " bangs Ba-
nagher." The comparison of the son's hypocrisy in
pretending to mourn his mother, with that mother's
hypocrisy in pretending to mourn his (James's)
father (whom the epigrammatist, of course, takes it
for granted she murdered), is certainly the coolest on
dit ever Latinised impromptu in royalty's ears.
Honest Andrew stipulated he should take no
harm for it before he repeated it to his Majesty;
and, we have no doubt, thought it by much too
good a joke to be lost. He had afterwards
leisure to compose more such epigrams—in the
Tower. The modern Andrew accosts the milder
Aberdeen with more courtly circumbendibus. He
does not state, or even insinuate, any Old Testament
parallels. He does not accost the royal conscience
with quite the same plainness as Knox. " Con-
science requires knowledge; but you have no more
real knowledge than the Jews who crucified Christ."
Indeed, as the modern Andrew avows, he has no sort
..of occasion or plea to do so. He expresses his
";thankfulness to Almighty God, who at another
--time put it into the heart of our Protestant Queen
to hallow the holy day of the Lord of the Sab-
bath, in a foreign land." Sir Andrew does not allege
that her Majesty has since shown any lapse from
Protestantism, or any the slightest disposition to
swerve from exemplary religious observance. He
considers, however, and he undertakes to speak
in the name (though without having had time to
gather" ti.e signatures) of " the friends of the
observance of the Lord's-day in Scotland—that
her Maiesty'a good habits cannot be trusted
to continue—without his intervention ! We have
hesitated to notice this absurd impertinence; and
we have now done w:th it. But it gives us a
peg on which to hang perhaps an impertinence of
our own. We have sometimes thought (an I pro-
iincial communications have confirmed our impres-
sioe) that the loyal Foinily of late divest themselves
a little o entirely of what the French call " repre-
sentation," t!woughout their provincial progresses.
It is not of course to be expected that her Ma-
jesty should submit to pompous and triumphal
doings immediately after the fatigues of sea voy-
ages ; or a110..v the atra c-zra of Court ceremonial
to pursue her to Bitir Athol. However.
in our humble, but wry loyal view, the dis-
epeintment expressed so often, that the Queen ep-
pears to all her remotse. subaects " juit like any other
lady"—ia not altegether without so:ne groun 1, and
without some chits' on attention. We have ha.l long
letters on former occasions, in grievous se.mlplaint of
her Majssty's fast ttains—and of her plain straw
bonnet. We were witnesses to decided disappointment
last year on the part of " Young Bristol," when Prince
Albert ca:ne to launch the Great Britain in a plain
black coat, and white waistcoat—just like any other
gpntleiran I Provincial spectators understand this taste-
ful and unassuming style just as little as those habi-
tuated to splendours understand the provincial appetite
for them. But, after all, is it not natural enouh that
her Mijesty's loyal subjects, who are not gratified, a,
Londoilers are, with the sight of royal personages.
and pr,ce.-sions on the grand state occasions, should
tisane, once in their lives, to see something corres-
ponding with all they have been accustomed to hear
sad imagine of those occasions ? It must, however,
he admitted that those who recollect " George the
Magnificent," and his ideas of all that graced royalty,
may well rejoice in the present contrast.
STANDARD.--An article of this morning's
Times recals us to a subject upon which we have
more than once claimed the attention of our readers—
emigration. The remarks of the Times are cru le
and ill natured enough, but they suggest by these
very faults considerations which it may be well for
the public to weigh with care. The Times sneers at
plans of emigration as schemes of cheap and hypo-
critical benevolence, and asks, with an air of
insulting triumph, why the English aristocracy,
imitating the early Greek, and, we suppose,
earlier Phoenician, founders of States, do not
hiemselves embark as emigrants. All this is
very foolish, if no worse. An extensive drain
by emigration is a necessity to a great and an
advancing country, whether that country is or
is not peopled up to its capacity, or even
within a tenth of its capacity. The solution of
this paradox, if it deserves the name, is obvious.
The country may not be overstocked, but the
classes into which its 'social circumstances have
east the population easily may run to excess ;
and it is the surplus of classes for which there
is no recipient at home, which claims relief
by emigration. It is easy to say, reform your
social system, so as to provide at home for all.
But, besides that this has never been done, and that
it is obviously opposed to the great scheme of Divine
wisdom in the government of the world, to what
would it amount but to a plan to imprison nations and
to starve them after arriving at the point at which
population might pass production? No ; emigration
is necessary for the happiness of all in a progres-
sive country—for the happiness of those who
emigrate, as well as of those who remain, espe-
cially necessary to protect the social state from a
constant tendency to deterioration. One of two
things you must have, a check to the increase of
population, which can be obtained only by the
agency of misery or vice, or room for the additions
• made to the people in their several classes. 'With
whatever motives, therefore, emigration may be
recommended, the proposition is nevertheless one de-
serving of all favour. We believe that generally of
late years emigration has been recommended in a sin-
cere and benevolent spirit, and we will not admit the
sneering suggestion of the Times, as to the emigra-
• tion of the aristocracy, as any argument to the
contrary. The aristocracy, generally so called,
.are the landholders of the country. They are
the adscripti glebtr, exactly the one class to whom
locomotion is by circumstances forbidden. What
rational motive can be supposed to influence ;the
• Possessor of acres in Kent or Devon to sell his
estates, and " seek new seats beyond the western
main," or the southern main, or any other sea?
And net only to seek new seats, but new society and
new social duties, for in selling his estates he separates
tioslelf from the tenantry and labourers on his lands,
for whom, as a Christian and an English gentleman,
he is bound to provide with almost as much anxiety
as for his own family. The non-emigration of
the aristocracy, therefore., is no proof of insincerity
on their part when they recommend emigration.
He who suggests to a young friend to try his fortune
abroad is not less sincere or friendly in offering the
suggestion, because his own business, by which he
is to support his wife and children and maintain
his and their position in society, keeps himself at home.
Still every one must see that emigration is not
yet
placed upon a satisfactory footing, and must
admit that our colonial system would be infinitely
improved by a more just and natural proportion in
the-classes of emigrants going out; or by sendingforth, as it were, our colonial societies "in frame''
instead of sending nothing but the raw material,
and that of the plainest quality and in the rudest state.

five miles and the latter full fifteen miles, in a run of
eight hours, going from five to seven miles an hour
by the wind; but, to my great disapppointment, the
Adonis did not join in this race, she having remained
at anchor in Callao roads.
About ten days after this, I think on the 2d of
February, when the Vindictive was under easy sail,
exercising in the Bay of Callao, the Adonis was ob-
served bearing out, on her way to Valparaiso and
France. I immediately steered towards her, the wind
being very light, in order to bid Captain St. George
and his officers farewell, and on our approaching very
close to her, I directed our band to play the French
national air, which was acknowledged by the French
officers taking off their hats. We then separated ;
the Vindictive hauling in the 'opposite tack towards
Callao. It being very nearly calm at this time, it
would have been impossible to have tried the rate of
sailing, had I wished to have done so ; but having
beaten the American frigates, I did not like offering
to try the Adonis unless her Captain had invited me
to do it.

Thus, Sir, you will see that the statement about
the epaulettes is quite imaginary, at least so far as it
relates to the Vindictive. Possibly it may have oc-
curred with some other of our ships, for as the Adonis
left Valparaiso for France in the month of March, it
cannot be a matter of surprise that she should have
reached the English Channel before the Vindictive,
which did not quit Valparaiso until the month of
May.
As to the sailing qualities of the Vindictive, all I
can say is, that during our voyage round the world,
we never met with any vessel that could compete
with her.

When she was first commissioned, and we were
sent to to the Downs to receive the King of
Prussia, the Warspite appeared to have the advan-
tage of us, but the Vindictive was then nearly a
foot too much by the stern. We had no trial of
sailing whatever with any ship in the Channel previous
to our going to China. On that voyage we were
only 85 days under canvas from Torbay to Hong-
Kong, and five at anchor. We sailed from England
on the 21st of March, and anchored at Hong-Kong
on the 19th of June, having reached Madeira in four
days and a half, crossed the line on the 16th day, and
passed the Cape of Good Hope on the 40th day from
England. No ship, I believe, ever did more than this,
and all the qualities of the Vindictive are quite equal
to those of her sailing.
I most happily- avail myself of this occasion to
express the gratification it afforded me during the
whole of my services in the Pacific, and especially
during the execution of my delicate duties at Ota-
heite, to have been on terms of friendly intimacy
with the French officers with whom I had inter-
course ; and from the captains of the French merchant
ships, also, I repeatedly received grateful acknow-
ledgments for the aid I had afforded them whenever
they needed assistance ; and I trust, whenever I may
again be called into active service, that I shall find
opportunities o evincing the same good feeling.
I have the honour to be, Sir, Scc.,

I. TOU.P NICOLAS,
Late Captain of the Vindictive.

Devonport, Sept. 19.

EAST SURREY REGISTRATION

The Revising Barrister, Mr. S. C. Fish, yesterday
attended at the Town-hall, Kingston, for the purpose
of revising the lists of voters in that district.
Mr. E. Meymott, attended as the Conservative agent,
and Mr. Jeans for the Liberals.

A good deal of inconvenience was occasioned by
the negligence of the overseers in the country districts,
and they appeared to be certainly ignorant of the
duty which the law required them to perform, and in
some instances parties were disfranchised through their
ne ligence.

In'l'hames Ditton parish the overseer had sent in
no list, either of voters or new claims; neither did he
attend to present any list whatever to the Court.
Mr. Fish remarked that such conduct wai really
too bad, and he should feel compelled to take notice
of it.

The Deputy-Clerk of the Peace said he had written
to the overseer and requested that the lists might be
forwarded, but he took no notice of his application.
The ItuVISING BARRIiTEZ said he sh3all adjourn
lie consideration of the list until a future day, and,
unless some very good cause was shown for the
neglect, he should certainly fine the overseer for not
sending the lists, and also fir not attending the Court.
In the parish of Kingston the claim to vote made by
Mr. Award May was objected to by the Conservative
agent.

Mr. Meymott said that this case involved a matter
of some importance. The nature of objection to the
overseer had been posted in due time, and he would
now ask the overseer whether he had ever received it ?
The overseer said he had not.

Mr. Meymott said that, under these circumstances,
he was unable to press his objection • it was clear,
however, that the post could not be relied upon.
Mr. Jeans said that the notice of objection appeared
to be addressed on the hack of it to the overseers of
Richmond, and this probably accounted for the over-
seers of Kingston not having received it.
Mr. Meymott said the notice was addressed to the
overseers of Kingston-on-Thames, and he knew
nothing of the address at the back of it to the over-
seers of Richmond.
The REVISING BARRISTER said he could not enter
into any question relative to the non-delivery of the
notice. The forms of the Act of Parliament had not
been complied with, and the name of the voter must,
therefore, remain upon the list.
Mr. E. H. V. Lewes claimed to have his name
placed upon the list of voters. He described his quali-
fication as being one undivided fourth part of certain
property at Kingston.
Mr. Jeans objected to the claim, on the ground that
the qualification was not- properly described. Mr.
Lewes should have stated that he had a freehold
interest.

The REVISING BARRISTER thought the objection
was well founded.

Mr. Jeans said he believed the gentleman was a
lawyer, and therefore he ought to have known what
the law required.
The REVISING BARRISTER decided that the quali
fication was not properly described, and he struck out
the name.
James Laurence claimed to vote.

Mr. Jeans said the claimant held an appointment
under the Post-office, and he was not entitled to vote.
The REVISING BARRISTER asked if any objection
had been taken to his claim ?
Mr. Jeans said he was not aware that there was ;
but as the Revising Barrister had struck out a claim
of a similar nature at the Reigate Court, he thought
it was his duty to make the present objection.
Mr. Fish said that in that case the party was ob-
jected to by the overseers.
Mr. Meymott said that where no formal objection
was made to the claim, it ought not to be disallowed.
Although the party could not vote, there was no
reason why his name should not be upon the register.
The REVISING BARRISTER said he should retain the
name upon the list.
When the other parishes had been gone through, the
question arose what should be done in the case of
Thames Di tton.

The REVISING BARRISTER said he should adjourn
the consideration of the list until Thursday, when he
should sit at Camberwell, and as he had before stated,
he should certainly fine the overseer for his neglect.

PUBLIC WALKS AND Pians.—A subscription has
come of 2001. from the Phoenix Fire-office, of London,
which, we understand, was quite unsolicited. The do-
nation was accompanied with the following letter, the
terms of which much 'enhance the value of the gift;
and, as nearly every fire-office in the kingdom is under
equal obligations, we hope the example will not be lost
on them:—" The benevolent measure entertained by the
leading merchants and manufacturers of your town, for
the promotion of the health and comfort of its indus-
trious population, by the establishment of public walks
and gardens, has to-day come under the notice of our
Board ; and the Board feeling that, during its long and
extensive connexion with the trade of Manchester, the
Phoenix Company has had frecjuent experience of the
good disposition of the labouring classes, when their
personal services have been required, in cases of fire, are
desirous to avail themselves of the opportunity which the
measure alluded to presents, of adding their assistance
towards the success of a measure so well calculated to
effect the object contemplated. I am, therefore, in-
stracted to request that the name of the Phoenix Com-
pany may be added to the list of contributors for the sum
of NOV—Manchester Guardian.

PRESTON.—ELECTION TRlCK.—lmmediately after

the announcement of a vacancy in the representation of
North Lancashire • an agent of the Conservative party
purchased from the clerks of the peace every disposable
copy of the register for this division, which, in case of a
contest, would have very much inconvenienced an oppo-
nent, leaving him almost without the means of knowing
who were the " free and independent electors" to whom
tltythi!
he had to pay his respects. As there is no probability
went,blr
VARa
navalst
of a contest, the " sharp practicers" have gained nothing,
step,. except the possession of an immense quan-
tity
gains.—Preston Chronicle
of what will be mere waste paper. The trunk-
makers
and
_butter merchants may therefore look out for II
NiEßs.—During the early part of the
here, inspecting
officer, from the Admiralty, was down
the different steamers belonging to the
port, in reference to their
q capacityin as war steamers, iu
the event of hostilities requiring a to such means
of defence. He fund
tent to carry 148 large guns, several smaller ones, and a
competent number of men. He expressed his admira-
tion of their strength and capacity, and seemed pleased
give a warm reception to the Prince de
to think that they could, with wonderful facility, 1 e
elude to oii:.-
ville, should he ever approach our shores in a spirit clif-
terorit (rein that which now secures his royal father an
hospitable reception. The river steam-boats, tug-boats,
&c., he pronounced capable of being converted into gun-
boats of a most formidab:c description. It is gratifying
to know of our warlike capacity, but we hope to remain
lung strangers to practical knowledge of the fact.---1
Liverpool Journal

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday Jacques Besset, who under the firm of
Pricener and Co., general merchants, of No. 73, Fen-
church-street, and against whom a warrant was ob-
tained on the 13th instant, was brought up in the
custody of Stephen Thornton, of the A division,
charged under the law of France with the offence of
fraudulent bankruptcy.
Mr. James, the barrister, and Mr. Robinson ap-
peared for the prosecution, and Mr. M. Chambers and
Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor, for the accused.
Mr. James said, that as the prisoner was in custody
under the warrant granted by the Lord Mayor,
which was founded on a warrant issued by Sir James
Graham in pursuance of the convention ratified be-
tween England and France, he now had to request
that the prisoner be committed and given up to the
French authorities.
Mr. Chambers wished to know on what ground the
warrant had been granted ?
Mr. James having stated the nature of the warrant
which had been issued by the Secretary of State, as
well as the documentary evidence taken in Paris,
Mr. Chambers said he should like to have the whole
of the documentary evidence read.
Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, then proceeded to
read the whole of the documentary evidence, consist-
ing of the copies of 16 letters written by the prisoner
in pencil, and the examination of the several witnesses
taken before the above judge.
Mr. Chambers wished to know what proof existed
that the copies of the letters which had been read were
true copies of the originals ?
Mr. James—The copies contained in the deposi-
tions have been duly authenticated before the judge of
the tribunal who issued the warrant.
Mr. Goodman then read the depositions of Mr.
Matthieu, a French advocate, which appeared in our
paper of the 14th.
Mr. Matthieu was then called, and cross-examined
by Mr. Chambers—The definition of a fraudulent
bankrupt was to be found in the 598th and 599th
sections of the " Code Commercial." The penalty
for that offence was to be found in the " Code Penal.'
Considerable difference existed between a simple
bankrupt and a fraudulent one. The 403 d section
of the " Code Penal" made no distinction between a
fraudulent bankrupt and a " complice." The pri-
soner, in his opinion, was a "complice." This opi-
nion he founded on the 59th, 60th, 61st, and 62d
sections of the " Code Penal." The punishment
awarded to a fraudulent bankrupt as well as to a
" complice" varied from 5 to 20 years' imprisonment
in the galleys.
By Mr. James—Nearly the whole of the deposi-
tions were taken in witness's presence. He saw the
parties whose evidence had now been read sign them.
He bad examined the whole of the letters which had
been read, and upon the evidence they contained he
had no hesitation in saying that if the prisoner was in
France he would be charged as a fraudulent bankrupt.
Had he not committed such an act the warrant would
not have been issued. The buying of goods in the
manner described by the documentary evidence was
sufficient in France to establish an act of bankruptcy.
The whole of the evidence which had now been read
was given before the judge, and that before he issued
his warrant.
M. Dufour deposed that he is a merchant, and re-
sides at Paris. He had seen the prisoner several
times in Paris, who came in company with Regis
Germain and purchased goods ; they were directed to
be sent to Boulogne, and he was never paid for the
goods, but received a bill of exchange from Germain ;
the prisoner said what goods were to be bought.
Since he had been in London he had endeavoured to
find out the firm of Pricener and Co., but they had
absconded; the firm only existed ten days. De la
Nlarcotelly had absconded to America ; had he met
him he would have given him into custody.
By Mr. Chambers—The bill is in Paris. Goods
were ordered of him up to the very day of the bank-
ruptcy ; thence arose the act of fraudulent bank-
ruptcy.
By Mr. James—An act of bankruptcy was the
same in France as in England.
Mr. Chambers—That is by running away.—(A
laugh.)
Mr. James now prayed for the prisoner's commit-
tal; should his Learned Friend urge any objections
he should reply.
Mr. Chambers said, that although this was a most
important question, yet he would submit that it was
not one of a difficult nature to decide, and he would
at once submit to the Lord Mayor that in the first
place he possessed no jurisdiction, for neither the
treaty nor the Act of Parliament founded on that
convention set forth the peculiar offence which was
now attempted to be made against the prisoner. In
proof of this, the treaty contained the nature and
description of offences for which each Government
was to give up persons who stood charged with any
of the crimes thus enumerated. The treaty was en•
tered into on the 13th of Febru wy, 1843, and was
ratified on the 13th of May following. But the
offence was not stated, besides which no such offence
was known to the English law ; he had been informed
that the prisoner had been apprehended in Surrey;
there the Lord Mayor had no control. To remove
all doubt, he would examine the officer.
Stephen Thornton, No. 26 A division, deposed that
he apprehended the prisoner on Friday afternoon
about a quarter of a mile beyond Kennington-com-
mon ; he had no warrant; he could not say whether
it was 300 yards beyond the boundaries of the city
of London.
Mr. Chambers, in continuation, said, he would refer
to the jurisdiction by and by; there could be no doubt
that the parties who were appointed to draw up the
treaty had paid very great attention to the subject,
for the offences enumerated were murder, assassina-
tion, parricide and infanticide, forgery, and fraudulent
bankruptcy. Now, with the exception of the last
offence, the other crimes were known to our law, and
a magistrate here could have no power to adjudicate
on an offence for which, if committed in England, he
could not commit for trial. Upon the act of fraudulent
bankruptcy, even the French penal code was not very
clear, therefore it was too much to say,that the justice
here could commit, for the only offence here known
was that of conspiracy, the course of proceeding against
which was by indictment. To enable the warrant to
be acted on, the offence committed was of such a nature
as would enable the magistrate, if committed here, to
send the prisoner for trial. According to the French
codes the prisoner was charged with being a complice,
and the French advocate who had been examined was
not very clear in the law on this point, for he had,to'refer
the " Code Commercial" and the " Code Penal " for
an explanation. The Learned Counsel then, at great
length, proceeded to analyse the French laws,
which, in many instances, he declared were copied
from the English code, and, in support of this view,
cited Archbold's "Principles of Law," and then pro-
ceeded to contend that, admitting an offence to have
been committed, and which could only be founded on the
letters which had been adduced, yet, to bring that offence
within the laws of France, the letters must have been
written there, instead of which they had been written
in London ; therefore the act was not committed in
France, but here, and the act not being in England
an offence, the prisoner could not be committed, and
yet the Lord Mayor was called on to make that legal
here which was evidently irregular before the French
court. There was another ground which he intended
to urge ; it was essential, by the convention and the
Act of Parliament, that the same offence should he
stated in the original warrant and in the one issued
by Sir James Graham. Now, in the original, the
prisoner was charged as a complice, while in the war-
rant of the Secretary of State he was designated as a
fraudulent bankrupt. Again, the arrest took place in
Surrey, when the warrant was directed only to the
Lord Mayor. No person would deny that treaties
were entered into with grave deliberation, and that
competent persons were employed to watch that im-
proper words should not creep in, but while we had
entered into a treaty to give up persons guilty of cer-
tain offences, England was surely to be allowed to
shelter those who had only been guilty of a civil
crime. The present proceedings were certainly im-
portant; for, with the exception of a case arising out
of a similar treaty with America, which occurred
last year, this was the first time the convention was
attempted to be put in force. Looking at the whole
of the case, he submitted it did not come under his
Lordship's jurisdiction.
Mr. James said, his Learned Friend had made a
very long and able address, which he did not intend
to follow. lie would merely refer to the heads. His
Learned Friend had said that fraudulent bankruptcy
was not known in England ; but here was known the
crime that if the bankrupt absconded, he was guilty
of felony, and the only difference between the offence
charged against the prisoner from that known in
England was in the term given to the offence. So
clearly was this offence established, that the judge
took the whole of the evidence before he issued his
warrant. His Learned Friend had confined himself
to subtle disquisitions on the French law, which no
doubt would be highly advantageous to the prisoner
if he (Mr. Chambers) went over to France to defend
him. Had the prisoner been found in France he
would have been deemed as a principal, but being out
of the country he was termed a complice. If the
prisoner had not committed a fraudulent act of bank-
ruptcy, that would have been shown, for there were
several of his accomplices in Court who could give
that evidence. Surely his Learned Frivild could not
be serious when he argued that the original warrant
and that of the Secretary of State differed in stating
the offence. If they were wrong, the prisoner could
raise the question in the courts of France.
The LORD M tron said, that he had been called
upon to carry out an important treaty which had been
entered into between the two countries, and that the
prisoner was charged with an offence which would
have to be decided in France. When he was first
applied to, he entertained great doubt as to whether
an offence had been committed in France, but that
doubt was removed on hearing the evidence which