The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-18 00:00:00

LAW INTELLTGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY—..(Trite DAY.)
WELLESLEY V. THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT.
At the sitting of the Court, Mr. II A E LD pros
ceeded with his argument, and combatted, point
by point, the affidavit of Dr. Bulkley. If Dr.
Bulkley's affidavit was met by
,a person of equal
rank and station in life, it wood be for the Court
to judge of the truth of the one or the other. It
was true that
the affidavit of Dr. liulkley was one
of the utmost importance ; but the averments
made were contradicted ; indeed, that gentleman
contradicted himself. He felt confident that the
inconsistent statements of Dr. Bolkley, eau.
trudictetl as they were by Humorous 4f_
(Ida vits, would induce the Court to treat
it with its merited value. What occasion
was there for Mills; so many affidavits as to the
character of Dr. Bulk ley There were a great
many of them, but as they were ail drawn up in
the same form, consequently it was only neces-
sary to say, that they were made by gentle-
men of the highest rank in the army, and,
as might have been expected, bore the highest
testimony towards that gentleman. A letter
had been produced by him, which he re-
cived from Mr. Wellesley, dated August 4,
1825, in his character of confidential friend
and adviser of ,Mr. Wellesley. How did
that letter answer his (Dr. Bulkily's) assertions?
One passage of it ran thus :—" Sir, the subject
nearest my heart is the protection and welfare of
my children." It was unnecessary for him (Mr.
Heald) to read farther, us he was sure, before
deciding on this rase, his Lordship would feel it
incumbent on him to read over the whole of the
affidavits. Dr. Bulkley, however, had made out
a complete case, instead of confining himself to
those matters which he would have been most
likely to have been called on to speak
to ; and this fact spoke for itself. There
were, however, four other affidavits filed by that
gentleman, and as the Court would not be able
to go through the whole of them to-day, he
would for the present dismiss him and pro-
ceed to the affidavits of two gentlemen, only
observing, that it was the great importance
attached to Dr. Ilulkley's affidavits, that
caused him to have gone SO minutely into it,
for the purpose of chewing; his Lordahip how
black and flat the contradictions given to it had
been. The next persons to whom he should call
his Lordship's attention, were Messrs. Pickwell
and O'Meara, or Mean, he did not know which,
Pickwell was the butler, and Meara the footman,
to Mr. Wellesley, and persons from the import-
ance of whose situations were most likely
to be possessed of every information if they
had chosen to observe. The footman had
made a very long deposition, and, fortunately,
as it generally turned out, had completely
refuted himself.. Pickwell had laid himself
open. Ile had been raised front the very
lowest office in the family—that of stable-boy.
—Mr. Wellesley had encouraged and educated
him, as he had done a number of boys round his
establishment, and at length he had rose to be
his steward. This person represented Mr. Wel.
lesley as having no regard to his expellees—
living in an extremely extravagant way. What
was the answer to that ? Why, Sir, you received
the monies ; you spent them, and yet I always
settled your 'accounts, not yearly, not monthly,
but weekly. Was not this a complete refu-
tation. Ile, Mr. Heald, would not go into the
accounts. It was only necessary for him to
say, that his evidence was made out to be
as black as evidence would he ; Pickwell was
again laid open ; he had been discharged for mis-
conduct ; lie had stated the conduct of Mr. Wel.
lesley to have been such as every man who heard
it would shudder at. lie had stated that Mr. We-
llesley had taken his mistress into the house to be
the companion of his wife; that he (the witness)
had been informed that at Paris, this was
the case, and that this servants at the hotel at
Lausanne had told him so. 'Wits this true? No,
utterly false ; for if it had been true, the solici-
tors of Mrs. Long would not have failed to have
brought them forward. Omeara was completely
contradicted, though he seemed' to have been a
most sweet tempered man, for he said that though
he was about to leave the situation in conse-
quence of the adulterous course of life, he was so
overjoyed when Dr. Ilalkley arrived that the
tears gushed from his eyes—what was this for,
because the Doctor had come for the purpose Of
rescuing Mr. Wellesley front his adulterous life.
The allegations of this man were really absurd.
The fact was, he was discharged for not keeping
his travelling expences correct ; and even this
man proved that Mr. Wellesley examined his
accounts every week.--[The Leurned Counsel
was left speaking when our Paper was put to
Press.]

-"SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(FROM LLOYD'S.]

DEAL, MARCII 17.—Wind S.E. by S. moderate werither..—
Arrived from the River, and :tailed about noon tins day, the
Lady Melville, Clifford, for India, and the Commerce, tbr
Havre.

PORTSMOUTH, Miami 17.—Wind E.N.E.—A trivet' from
he Downs the Henry, Binney, for New South WIIICH ; and the
3latton, Lawton, for Honduras. Sailed the June and Mary,
leynolds„ for Cork.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH l6.—Wind E.—Sailed the Zeiler
and Diadem transports, having on board the Bth Regiment,
bound to Glasgow; and his Majesty's ship Sparrowhawke, for
the Cape.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 18.—Wind L, fresh breeze.-Arrived
the Fly, Farrant, from Figueira, in 8 days; and the Frelia
Packet, from Plymouth.
Conic, MA Reit It —Arrived the Hope transport, hoax
Cowes, with troop..

Yesterday the dispatches for St. Helena, Prince of rod's
Island, Singapbrc and China, by the ship Ma gni!! car ft?'
Captain Fox, were closed at the East titaia Ang " '
voted to the Purser of that ship.

Tbrouhgrbete
wViethttethiiamrss,inwtiolontlhtilsiecioautio,triiolrdwileriett::
cc at the worst we Call set illicit
dreadfully attacked by ophthainiins as almost en-
tirely to lose their eyesight. What can 'we do
with these poor fellewol"
said, his Lordship,
said Dr. L.
when he heard of their misfortune. " Why 13‘
Cll Ojt
them as a kenetian Mind."

THE LONDON JOUItNALS.

-0.1141-
Extractsfrem the Mandril; iipers,M arch 1$ ,1 82G.

TIMNS.i
The hopes which we yesterday cherished of
Ms Majesty's improvement in health were con-
limed, we rejoice to say, by a Bulletin issued
yesterday afternoon. The greatest regard to
public feeling has been paid throughout his Ma-
jesty's indisposition. It has been asked, why
was it not announced three weeks ago that the
King was under the influence of gout ? Plainly,
because it was nut wished to harrass and agitate
she minds of a loyal and affectionate people
without necessity. But then again it is said,
why inform the nation of the illness now that
the symptoms are abating? Precisely, because
the symptoms are abating. Alarm had began to
'creep abroad, rumour had exceeded the truth,
and it could not but be beneficial to put the pub-
lic in possession of authentic information, more
especially when that information was of a cheer.
ing and consolatory nature.

[THE REPRESENTATIVE.]
We understand that on the next dissolution of
Parliament, a contest in London is expected.—
The Lord Mayor has been invited to offer him-
self ; and another individual, not possessing like
pretensions, it is said, will exhibit himself, in
the person of Mr. Alderman Waithman. The
chances of the success of the latter we shall not
at present stop to discuss ; but we must he per-1
milted to lament that any conjuncture of circum-
stances should have arisen which should give
Chance that the first city in the world should be
thrown into such hands. It is really a shame
that the men of actual weight in London should
leave it to he represented by one who, in any
point of view, would he utterly unworthy of that
honour. The time, we should think, is gone by,
when talking absurd and stupid Cockneyisms,
and " misusing the King's English damnably,"
should pass for oratory, even in the parts most
east of Temple liar; and when we take away
these eminent qualifications from people similar
to Mr. Weidman, we cannot conceive what re-
mains to recommend them to attention. It is, we
repeat, to be lamented, that the City—end we
speak -.lthout reference to the mere question
of ministerial or anti-ministerial politics—should
he exposed to the insult of such a candidate.

[MORNING POST.]
In the House of Lords last night, a Select
Committee, similar to that of the Commons, was
appointed to consider the state of the Banking
System in Scotland and Ireland, and at the same
time the expediency of extending the abolition of
small notes to those countries. The motion was
introduced by the Earl of Liverpool, and agreed
to by the House, without any observations what.
ever anti when it was proposed to refer to the
Committee the petitions which had been received
against the anticipated extension, a discussion
arose which, though not of a very imp scant
character, will still he found interesting In
its details. Nothing surely can be more
just or commendable than the conduct of Go.
vernment upon this subject. They wished
,to extend the Bill to Ireland and Scotland, but
not suddenly. A general sentiment had pre.
veiled in Scotland against that extension, and the
table was covered with petitions on the subject.
What was then the most decorous course of pro-
ceeding ? Why, to recommend the appointment
of a Committe to inquire into the facts stated in
those petitions, and to see whether the provisions
of the 13itt ought or ought not to he extended to
Scotland and Ireland. The motion was also
agreed to ; and after the recess it is expected
that the report of the Committee will be reedy.
ed, and its recommendation adopted its the shape
of a Bill, to be introduced in the Commons.

[MORNING CIIRONIGLE.I
A most important subject was brought before I
the !louse of Commons last nightr—the Licensing
of Public blouses. 'Whatever men may be in
.thopia, experience has sufficiently proved that
list England, wherever they have the power to
dipinto the pockets of their neighbours, without
14ving-to fear the consequences, that power is
'regularly abused. The licensing of public houses,
Artiorder that the public may be secured against
'inett.of had character in such houses, is one of
those. things which carry with them a show of
'fairness. But money is made in public houses,
end'those who had the power of giving or with.
balding these licences at discretion, very soon
thought• only of making that power available to
the helping themselves or their relations to a
-share of that money. The licence, so far from
being personal, came to be given to a certain
house, and that house came as regularly into the
handsof a person whom it was the inter,bt of the
ildagistrates to favour. Hence the closest alli.
once has been formed, in all populous places, be.
tweet') 4. the 'Magistrate and the Brewer. The
Magistrate is ',frequently a person' with whom
Brewer 'deals; and , the Brewer quarrels
not with his prices, so long as he can retain
the monopoly :of a house, in which so man'',
~liOprels 'of Beer cart,be sold at a monopoly price
•to,the public. What appalling details of the
dirty practices to which the Magistrates of Sur-
- fey have lent themselves, are to be found in the:
Pamphlet'of Dr.' Edwards! But is Surrey worse
'With respect to trafficking than Middlesex ? It
appears from the statement, of Dr. Edwards,
`that -while 'a went of public houses is felt in
many parts of the Brixton 'lltindied, there' are
several low neighbouriniods ie which they are
so clustered togetherohat the owners are forc-
ed,' to resort, to the' inns(' diVetettable prat.
'flees to grain 'a hiviog. These things Ate well
known to the Magistrates-•-to the men, to shorn
tie power of or-Withhatiling of licences is
o,(4ltif the sake of the public Morals. But it
Atli; money extrarte.d• :frourthese dens 'of
that is the otatn•spring— time teoruls are
pretext.' 'The money,'aS Vespasian said of
tl:4` lastttrlu,tt;oi,„l tax in a certain -artticle, the
101011(4 is not tainted ; and as out'ofi the bosom of
'c"ruilti4o springs beautiful vegetation; so part of

the money obtained from these vile sources, may
be again expended in subscriptions to Bible So= 1
cieties, or missions to convert the South Sea
Islanders, though no doubt the greatest part
will be expended in clothing the guardians
of the public morals, and their protegees,
with fine clothes and silks, and covering
their tables with dainties. It is fortunate that
our Magistrates have only hi►herto been trusted
with discretionary power over one description of
bad houses. Had the Legislature extended their,
power to another, we might have seen the same
alliance between the Magistrates and a certain
species of contractors, mostly of the Jewish per-
suasion, in Marylebone and Wapping, which
we now see so firmly established between Ma-
gistrates and Brewers. Man can never safely
be trusted with irresponsible power. The'
only way of putting down this crying evil, is to
follow the recommendation of Mr. Hume, and
make the certificate of the Clergyman, Church-
wardens and inhabitants of a neighbourhood, as
to good conduct, imperative on the Magistrates,
and to require the concurrence of such a num-
ber to the granting of every license, say twenty
or thirty, that the share of the corrupt matter ac-
cruing to each, would be no temptation to miscon-
duct. We rely chiefly on the extension of the
number necessary to license. It is to the cir-
cumstance that the licenses in Scotland are
granted by a large body of Magistrates, that among
a people as quick in scenting out jobs as any
on the face of the earth, the jobbing in licenses
has never yet been thought of. The law, we
believe, is the same in both parts of the island,
but in Vngland the cutting up Counties into
small licensing divisions led inevitably to the
alliance between the Brewer• and the Mngis-
rate.

[THE TIMES.)
By the Lisbon Gazettes which arrived yester
day' to the Bth inst., we learn that the King o
Portugal was so seriously indisposed, that his life
was despaired of. Majesty's complaint is
described as a series of nervous attacks, the con•
sequence of indigestion, which began on the 4th
inst., and had continued up to the 7th. On the
evening of the 6th, his Majesty's paroxysm was
so violent, and the fears of his attendants so
strong, that the sacrament of extreme unction was
administered; and a Regency for the Provisional
Government of the kingdom appointed, in con-
temptation of his speedy demise. The bulletins
which describe the progress of his malady, and
the decree which provides for the administra-
tion of the Government till his recovery, or the
arrival of his successor, are given below.--.
(See THE SUI!I•of yesterday,)—About that suc-
cessor nothing is said, though of course the Em-
peror of Brazil would either be invited to re-unite
the two crowns which belonged to his father, or
would have his choice as to which of them he would
he disposed to place or retain on his head. The late
convention by which the independence of Br.tzil
was acknowledged, so far as its articles were
published, left undetermined a point which the
death of John VI. must immediately settle.—
The state of the Royal Family of Portugal at
the present moment is not a little singular, and
the nomination of the chief of the. Regency
affords a proof of the continued existence
of that distrust which must have been pro-
duced in the mind of the King by the un-
natural rebellion of his son, instigated by
the hatred, and directed by the intrigues,
of his wife. Don Miguel Could not be no•
minuted,' because he is in exile ; the Queen
could not be appointed, because she is In forced
seclusion ; and the honourlqherefore, was obliged
to fall on one of the Princesses. As the effective
Members of the Provisional Government are sup-
porters of the present system, it is not likely,
even on the demise of the Crown, that any change
will take place till the accession of the new
King. If that is not the present Sovereign of
Brazil, the:Crown of Portugal must suffer a cruel
spoliation, as. it can no longer glitter with Imne-
riaflustre, the title of Emperor being assumed by
his Faithful Majesty to place him on a level with
the Chief of:his former trans• Atlantic colony.

E unman Pangs.]
A • statement having appeared in the British
Press a few days ago, of the speech of Mr. Whit-
law, at the City of London Tavern, in which he
made an attack on the conduct of the Directors
and Guardians of the poor of Saint Mary lebone,
and their medical officers respecting the treat-
ment of certain scrophulous patients belonging
to the :work-house, during the time • they were
under his care;. we are authorised to state that
the whole of his assertions are founded on misre.
presentation. In justice to the medical officers of
that establishment, we ore desired to add, that the
patients were entirely removed from the Infirmary
during their treatment by Mr. Whitlaw, and were
never seen by them until after his dismissal:
neither did the sick nurse, who attended those
patients, ever receive any directions from them as
to the application of •any dressing to their sores,
or the use of any other remedy whatever. The
assertion that those children had their fiesh'cor.
roiled to the bone, and were, near losing their
lives, but for the assistance of Mr. Whitlaw, is
also unfounded. If Mr. Mildew's Committee
are not satisfied with this statement, the Directors
and Guardians meet every Friday at eleven
o'clock, and will be ready to give 'any further
information.

ETIIE PUBLIC LEDGER.I
The affairs of Spain have begun again to assume
an alarming degree of importance ; in several of
heT provinces, the standard of rebellion is raised,
and it is admitted, even by the Ministerial Jour..
nals of France, that crowds are daily flocking, to
join it. The intelligence, however, is still too
confused to enable us to ascertain the precise
views of the insurgents, though the cause is clear
enough to every one who has paid the least at-
tention to the conduct of that obdurate and reck.
less Government:" We presume,
however, thatthe,
the'
movement
- is not wholly servile : and,
indeed, some of ' the accounts Positivelly
state that there are Constitutional bands
also in tin. field,
Whoever reflects on
,the cruel treutinent which that party has

experienced since the restoration of Ferdi-
nand, as well as upon the hopes which they
have never ceased to entertain, of being sooner
or later, able to retaliate on their persecutors,
will easily credit this part of the statement. It
is well known, too, that. the Constitutionalists are
considerable enough, in point of numbers, to look
fearlessly at any contingency that should bring
them again, face to face,with their adversaries, and
that they have been hitherto solely restrained by
the presence of the French army, from bring-
ing the dispute between them once more to an
issue. As to courage, enthusiasm, and know-
ledge, they have so decided a superiority, that
nobody can be surprised at the menacing attitude
they have never ceased to maintain, under cir-
cumstances the most disheartening. At one pe-
riod of the Constitutional System, nearly half a
million of Spaniards had enrolled their names to
take up arms in its defence ; and they would have
redeemed this pledge, had it not been for the
gross treachery of some of their leaders, who
had insinuated themselves into their confidence,
solely with the view of betraying them. Such was
the conduct of that arch traitor, O'Donnel, Count
of A hisbal, and of that still more infamous in-
triguer, the Count of Cnrthagvna, not to omit a
name equally execrable,thaton3allasteros. These
wretches have, however, run their race of trea-
chery ;
and, what is more closed it, to others in the
event of a new struggle. The experience which
the Constitutionalists have recently acquired has
not been purchased too dearly ; and though the
price has been as high as it was possible for their
enemies to exact,, yet they have no cause to re-
gret it, as it will be the means of securing the
ultimate triumph of their principles.

[MORNING HERALD.] '
he indisposition of the King was the chief
topic of conversation in the City yesterday, and the probable
contingent results have been balanced by the gamblers with as
much avidity and nicety as the raising of a loan of twenty mil-
lions. The spirit of gain, without regard to who lives or dies,
has got. so firm a hold of these men's minds, that it hangs about
their necks like an incubus, to the annihilation of all common
decency ; and it is no longer a matter of calculation bow far the
demise of a Monarch will affect our rights and privileges, but
what influence it will have in producing a rise or fall of prices
in the Money Market. Except, however, to maik the apathy
with which this vampyre system causes the most delicate sub-
ject to be treated, it is unnecessary to notice the nature of the
reports that were put in circulation, particularly as the varying
effusions of the contending parties so nearly neutralized each
other, that they had very little influence on prices yesterday.—
Consols opened at 774, from which they only varied j above
and i below during the day, the highest of them being the
closing quotation. There was very little done after twelve
o'clock, but the Bears remained in the Market, anxiously
watching every unfavourable rumour regarding the King, to
get an opportunity to run them down. The Four per Cents.
were equally steady, the prices being confined between 95i and
Exchequer Bills fell about 2 per cent. in consequence, it is
said, of the Bank having been feeling the pulse of the ulcet
with some of the Stock they have on hand. The closing price
of Exchequer Bills was 4 preen., and of India Bonds 2 Fern.
The only change of consequence in the Foreign Securities was
the advance of Columbian 6 per Cent. Bonds to 43i, and Mexi-
can to 65. This advance was caused by the dividend hunters
buying in, these dividends being payable on the Ist of April ;
and it is now supposed that these two States will be able to
make good one more payment without a fresh loan. The high
sense of honour and honesty of Noble Lords and M. P.'s, toge-
ther with the newly-created integrity of Solicitors, is throwing
all the villanous schemes into a galloping consumption.