The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-19 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTHWARK, DEC. 17.—We have rather more demand for
Weald of Kent and Sussex Pockets. Choice Bags are incluiPed
after, but being scarce, there is little doing in them; the see
coed-rate Bags are plentiful, but very dull sale.

displeasure, instead of that joy which might
have been presumed to visit them on the achieve-
ment of a constitutional v►ctory. The word
44 impatience " is used i❑ the reports of the Jour-
nalists,—a species of uneasiness which may have
been excited among the Ultra Liberals, by the
prospect of some degree of popularity accruing
to their rivals, from this abandonment of an
odious law, or by their ignorance of the further
intentions of Ministers in regard to that branch
of the chartered rights of Frenchmen which it
had beeit the purpose of the meditated projel to
abolish. In a previous debate on the admission
of one of the Deputies, M. de la Bourdonnaye, a
Royalist, expressed himself in language which
was understood to pledge him to the support of all
institutions which the constitutional charter had
promised. The Chamber, soon after the ordinance
was read, adjourned sine die. 'Fhe new Ministry
brings with it a serious change in the relative im-
portance of the French Journals: some of those'
which were before silenced can now speak aloud,
and proclaim the sentiments of which they are
the accredited organs. The Drdpeau Blanc
seems, by this revolution, to have obtained an
extraordinary prominence. We extract from it
an article worthy of perusal, because it appa-
rently points out the course of party politics
which the Royalist leaders are inclined to follow.
It states that the Royalists only required of the
late Ministry an acknowledgment, " that neither
" the principles nor the men which overturned
44 the throne could be deemed capable of conso-
" lidating it." Hence it may not be very rash
to conclude, that neither such men nor such
principles will find much favour from the new
Administration. The next paragraph yields an
assurance that there will be " a perfect analogy
44 and consequence between the regulating grin-
" ciples of a legitimate Monarchy, and the acts
" of the Government, and the Administration."
Every reader will make his own comment on this
language ; and we shall wait to see the new Mi-
nistry in action, before we ascribe to the decla-
rations of their partisans any more pointed

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS
December 19.

[MORNING HERALD.)
There are some very strange anticipations from
the'anibiguous sentence in the memorable Address
• respecting the compromise of the dignity of
France in her foreign relations. It is said that
France will now assume a more important atti-
tude in the affairs of Europe ;—that the indepen-
dente of nations will thereby be better provided
—that Italy will be freed from the yoke of
Austria—and that this Austrian usurpation was
one of the undignified compliances of the late
.Government. To mean any thing in the quarter
whence it comes,this must mean that M.,de Villele
and-his friends would have supported the constitu-
tions. of Naples and Piedmont! an absurdity the
',piost glaring. It is likely that the sentence in the
*Address was agreed to, in this sense, by the left
of the Chamber. But it is evident, that if .the
ltra Members contemplated the non-interference

of France in the affairs of Italy at all, their cen-

s.::e was directed at the Government for not
.
! as-%g shared in the occuption, and divided the
perhaps, by occupying Piedmont. Have
riot the Ultra-Royalist partisans, both in the
Chambers and out of them, been clamouring dur-
ing the last two years for the interference of
foreign bayonets to re-establish order and re-
ii ion---that is, despotism and the Inquisition, in
?

[MORNING POST.]
We announced yesterday the overthrow of the
late French Ministry and the establishment of
the Ultras in the full possession of political
}:over. We have this day to record the first act
of their administration. It is one calculated to
redeem their character in the opinion of their
most prejudiced en,rnies, and to create sanguine
hopes that they will pursue a wise and salutary
course. They have abandoned the project of
law introduced by their predecessors for conti-
nuing the Censorship over Newspapers. This
homage paid to the sense of the couutry is at the
same time a return to the principles of the charter.
It she ws that the men who have Ititherta.been
represented as hostile to every liber;l institution
and constitutional right which had sprung out of
the Revolution, entertain a more sincere respect
for the integrity of those rights and institutions
than the agents and ministers of the Revolution
themselves. Whilst the latter only maintained
their authority by daily violations of that Charter
of which they pretended to be the sole friends
and guardians, the Ultras establish their own by
sweeping off those fetters and abominations which
,chained and defiled the constitutional liberties of
their country. It may be said, that although the
Censorship will be abolished, the Journals are to
be subjected to certain regulations equally incon-
sistent with the existence of a free Press. To
this, in our present ignorance of what those regu-
lations may be, we can only answi:r, that the
principle of regulation is recognised and was an-
nounced by the Charter, and that it has been
invoked by the Liberals both in the Chamber
and out of doors as the only constitutional mode
of restraining the licentiousness of the Press.
The great complaint against the late Ministers
was, that instead of acting on that principle, and
affixing penalties to the perversion of a right,
they preferred suspending the exercise, and for
a time destroying the existence of, the right itself.
They were repeatedly called upon by all parties
to restore its activity and to enact punishments
for its abuse, a course which the Ultras now
seem determined to adopt. The merit of having
abandoned the injurious project is therefore not
lessened by the proposal of a mode strictly Con-
stitutional, the effect of which will be to restore
the fell exercise of a right guaranteed by the
Chamber, but bearing, as it is just it should, a
certain degree of responsibility.

meaning.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

We have repeatedly urged as one, and cer-
tainly not the least weighty, of our objections to
the Constitutional Association, that it disqualifies
its Members for the due discharge of duties con-
nected with the administration of justice. Hav-
ing now the authority of the Lord Chief Justice
of the King's Bench, to affirm that the Sheriff,
whose office it is to impartially return the Jury,
is disqualified as to the discharge of that duty
by being a Member of this Association, may we
not assert that its members are disqualified in
respect of the still more important duties of
Judges and Jurors ? If this be conceded, it be-
comes incumbent on those who are charged with
the superintendance of the Magistracy, to advert
to the condition in which many individuals have,
by their ill-judged zeal, or love of persecution,
placed themselves. We would ask how the Chief
Justice of Ely is to conduct himself, supposing any
prosecution to be brought before him by this As-
sociation ? We would also ask, how Mr. Alderman
Atkins, if he be Member as well as Treasurer of
the Gang, is to act in the event of any proceed-
lugs coming before him by, or against, the Consti-
tutional Association ? And extending the question
to every individual Member liable to be called
upon to act as Magistrate or Juror, we think
we should by the answer be warranted in
concluding that they have placed themselves in a
situation that renders them unfit to be entrusted
with a decision upon the guilt or innocence of
those whom in their folly or malice they may
think proper to accuse. This, however, which
might be an offensive exclusion to some, may be
a desirable exemption to others. But at all
events it leads to this dilemma, that either some
of those who are now members must withdraw
frbm the Association, or their accusations must
be tried by persons who hold the conspiracy
against the liberty of the Press in unmixed ab-
horrence.

[NEW TIMES.
The Paris Journals of Sunday were received
yesterday, but they brought no intelligence of
any importance; for we suppose nobody will
attach importance to the Ordinances naming
Messrs. De Serre, Simeon, &c. Members of the
Privy Council, a mere honorary title, usually
conferred on the Cabinet Ministers 'who retire
from office. Neither is it of much consequence
to record the formal withdrawing of the proposed
law on the Press, as it was self-evident that that
law could not be carried by the majority which
Lad already pronounced against it. All parties
agree that there must be a law to repress the
licentiousness of the Press, but the Constitutional
Royalists, at present in power, have uniformly
opposed the more slavish restrictions imposed on
the Press by their predecessors. A new law
must therefore of course by prepared, and we
have no doubt it will be found conformable to
the principles of sound and rational liberty,
which the present French Ministers have uni-
formly professed.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Paris Papers of Sunday, which have arrived
by express, contain some further official appoint-
ments, and such other regulations as the new Mi-
nisters think essential for the security of their
power. The sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
on Saturday presented some circumstances of
considerable interest, the most important of
which is the retraction, as we yesterday antici-
pated, of the law lately proposed for continuing
the censorship of the press. This first measure
of the new 'Ministry gas announced by M. Pey-
ronnet, the Keeper of the Seals, who presented
to the Chamber an Ordinance of the King, which
briefly declared that the former project was with-
drawn. The intelligence was received by the
various parties in the Chamber with strong
expressions of their respective feelings, which
shews that the point was not one of mere
Ministerial expediency, but one upon which
public opinion is really very much divided. The
Censorship now in existence was established in
consequence of the murder of the Duke de Berri,
who was at that awful moment loudly declared
to have fallen a victim to the unbridled licen-1
tiousness of the press ; and the Ministers then in
being, who were the same that have recently
retired from office, were as loudly censured for
having suffered that licentiousness to acquire so
formidable a front by their culpable indifference.
The loudest in that censure were the Ultra-
Royalists, who now emulously remove the
restraint which they so lately thought 'essen-
tial to the safety of the Royal Family and to
the tranquillity of the couptry. Have the cir-
cumstances of the country changed ? are the
elements of sedition less active ? is the character
of the Public Press improved, or its influence
less extensive ? are the lives of the Royal Family
more secure or less valuable than at the period of
the Duke de Berri's death ? Upon these several
matters we do not profess to entertain any opi-
nion ; but unless some changes have occurred in
the internal condition of France, in the moral
habits or the social principles of those who, whe-
ther as assassins or as seditious writers were
lately the avowed object of ultra-royal alarm, we
do not see how the present Ministers can recon-
cile their conduct with any ordinary notions of
political consistency.

[THE TIMES.]
' However concise is the report in the newspa-
pers of that part of the proceedings in the French
•Chamber on Saturday, which concerned more
immediately the recent change of Administra-
tion, it is far from being devoid of interest,
distinguished as it is by party symptoms,
from which inferences, more or less positive
'and important, may be drawn with regard to,
the future. The Ministers, it is observable,
ha've not intimated the Royal pleasure that the
present law of censorship shall be suffered peace-
ably to expire. They preface the perusal of a de-
cree for withdrawing the projet which M. de Serre
had just opened, by announcing from his Majesty
The preparation of another projet for the regula-
tion- of. the journals. What, then,' is to be the
character of this new projet; and in what is it to
prove more or less acceptable to the friends of
the Constitution than the censorship which has
just been,given up ? Nor does the accession of
the,Rbyalist party to power appear to have satis-
fied-the hopes, or soothed the irritability, of some
of M. Chauvelin's friends, although it has fulfilled
so completely the predictions of that Deputy.
itke reading of the Royal ordinance was receiv-
eci the extreme left, as Messrs. Demarcay,
Mechin, and others, with marks of testiness and

SMITHFIELD CLUB:

- -
At a Meeting of the Smithfield Club on Friday,
the Secretary read the following letter from his
Grace the Duke of BEDFORD :--

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

" Woburn Abbey, Dec. 6.
" Sin,—Perceiving by " The Farmer's Journal," that the First
Christmas Meeting of the Smithfield Club is fixed for Friday,
the 14th instant, 1 feel it incumbent on me to avail myself of this
opportunity (the sending of 'certificates of his Grace's stock to
be shewn), to state my determination to withdraw my name
from the Club. It will necessarily follow from this, that I shall,
after the ensuinc, Show, discontiaua to offer those premiums
which I have hitherto given. On a former occasion I stated it
to be my intention to place these premiums at the disposal of the
Smithfield Club, as long as they might be thought conducive to
the great objects for which this Society was originally establish-
ed. Those with whom r have communicated' on the subject,
some of the Vice-Presidents, and several of the most efficient
and intelligent Members of the Club, agree in opinion with me,
that the advantages which, on the first formation of the Institu-
tion, we held out to the public, have been amply realised, and
that any further incentive to improve the breeds of Cattle, Sheep,
and Swine, is become wholly useless.
" It was stated at one of the earliest Meetings of the Society,
by my lamented predecessor, that our Only object was to increase
the animal produce of the kingdom, and this object has been
fully attained. The meat markets of the Metropolis, and
throughout the kingdom, are abundantly supplied: the best and
most profitable breeds oicattle and sheep have been brought into !
notice, and have made rapid and extraordinary progress, in the
estimation of the breeder and the grazier and the coarse and
unsightly animals, alike unprofitable to both, have gradually
disappeared ; the consumption, indeed, has hardly kept pace
with the supply, notwithstanding an increased population, as
the present low prices must sufficiently shew : therefore are the
laudable objects of the Smithfield Society campletely attained ;
and here, in my opinion,ought our labours and our exertions to
terminate.
" It may gratify perhaps_ the personal vanity of some of
us, to exhibit extraordinary animals, but the public derives no
benefit from our bringing to a greater degrree of perfection
animals of a breed known to possess the highest merit. Agri-
cultural Societies should have but one object in view—the
public benefit; this has been the early, constant, and unremit-
ting pursuit of the Smithfield Club; if no further general good
is to be obtained, I think the sooner we dissolve ourselves the
better; but I state this, without presumption, as my own
opinion; though not unsupported by that of other Members,
in whose judgment I have the highest confidence. It would,
however, be the height of arrogance in me to attempt to dictate
to the Club the line of conduct they ought to pursue ; whatever
decision they may came to, 1 am persuaded will be influenced
solely by a regard to the national welfare. I am, Sir,
" Your most obedient humble servant,
" BEDFORD."
" Mr. John Farey, Secretary to the Smithfield Club."
The letter was then ordered to be entered on the Minutes ;
after which it was
" Resolved unanimously, That the respectful thanks of this
Meeting be presented to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, for the
honour which die Smithfield Club has, through many years, re-
ceived, by having his Grace as its President, and for his Grace's
premiums for live stock, so long and liberally given through
the medium of the Club ; with an assurance that the circum-
stance of his Grace having determined to withdraw from the
Club both his name and premiums,_ will not lessen the sense of
past favours received, or diminish the respect which the Mem-
bers must rover entertain for the illustrious House of Russell."
We have the pleasure of adding that the Club means to con-
tinue its usefttil labours, its finances being in a very flourishing
state ; and that due notice will be given of the premiums to he
offered for the next Christmas Show.—(Fanner's Journal.)

COURT OF cIIANCERY, DEC. 13.

CHAPPEL AND OTHERS V. CADELI, AND OTHERS.
This case arose out of a doub!e, appeal agaihst a decision of
the late Master of the Rolls. It was grounded on the following
circumstances, as far as they could be collected from the state-
ments at the Bar :—Prior to 1804, a number of persons belong-,
ing to the bookseliing trade, in this city, purchased two Daily
Newspapers called THE BRITISH P.ltss and THE GLOBE,
the first a Morning Paper, and the second an Evening Paper
•
The number of proprietors were at first thirty-six, who en
tered into resolutions for the regulation and management
of the concern. These resolutions, a hich were more than
ten in number, embraced in detail a variety of regulations,
and among others, provided that no proprietor, nor his
representative, should be allowed. to sell out or dispose of
his share without having first offered such share to the
Committee of the Proprietors, in order to be purchased for
the benefit of the other remaining proprietors ; and that the
act of the majority should bind all. Meetings of the gene
ral body were ordered to be held every three months, at
each of which a managing Committee was to be appointed,
and the value of the property ascertained. From various
purchases the number of the shares were,. towards the close of
the year 1807, reduced to 31. The publications being then in
their infancy, no great profit was derived from them ; and a
variety of dissensions having arisen anion:; the proprietors, some
of them proposed that the property should be sold. A meeting
of the proprietors was accordingly called together on the 17th of
November, 1807, and it was ordered that a general meeting
should be held on the 2d of December, to decide upon the pro-
priety of disposing of the whole. The meeting assembled and
26 proprietors proceeded to vote; when an equal number ap-
peared ready for the sale, and the same number opposed it ; it
was then proposed that the Chairman should have the casting
rote, on which he decided for the sale. The sale of property of
that description was then advertised, and sealed tenders were so-
licited to be given in to the Committee ; who met for that pur-
pose at the London Coffee-house, on the Bth of the same month.
Three tenders were received, and the highest was declared the
purchaser, when, according to the stipulations, the money. pro-
posed was partly paid down, and in part satisfactorily secured.
afterwards a sum, between 701. and 1101. each, was given to
twenty-nine of the proprietors, as the price of the share of
each. Messrs. Chappel and Fisher, two of the proprietors,
however, who had opposed, from the beginning, the sale of
the property, and who had, on all occasions, refused
to assent to it, applied by bill to the Court of Chancery,
to be declared still possessed of the shares, which they had re-
fused to dispose of. The case was heard before the late Master
of the Rolls, when it was argued that the last purchasers of the
property were persons who had been proprietors, under the for-
mer regulations ; and that, therefore, the two proprietors who
had always refused to sell their shares, were entitled to consider
those purchasers as trustees, not only for themselves, but for
those two proprietors who, not having surrendered their shares,
maintained that they had a right to an equal share in the pro-
perty as any individual of the last purchasers. His Honour de-
cided that the two claimants were entitled each to a 31st share
of it ; but declined to give costs to either, party.
Mr. Haul', on behalf of the plaintiffs, the two proprietors,
rose to-day to appeal against that decision. lie contended that
Mr. Fisher had never given his assent to the sale of the property
at one of the meetings of the first proprietors ; that before the
meeting of 26 had proceeded to vote, 111 r. Fisher had given a
paper to the Chairman, which was read aloud to the whole, pro-
hibiting the saleOf his share ; that the sale had been hurried on
and etrected under such circumstances, as gave strong suspicion
to collusion ; that the person, Mr. George Lane, who had given
in the highest tender, although at the time he was apparently
unconnected with the concern, was, in reality, nothing morel
than the stalking horse of scme of the present proprietors, who I
had spoken unfavourably of the property, and who -had procured
its sale at a disadvantageous time, in order to purchase it with
success. The lowest bidding for the property was 4,0001., the
second 4,5001., and the third 4,6001. for which it was sold.
There were statements in the evidence before the Court that the
property was worth from 6,0001. to 8,0001. Under such circum-
stances. he contended, that the decree of his Honour, in hav-
ing declared the! plaintiffs possessed of only a 31st share each,
was not to be supported.
The Loan CHANCELLOR said that there were various diffi-
culties in the decree of the Master of the Rolls ; it had declared
the plaintiffs entitled to certain shares under the present
system, without deciding. whether they were to act under the
former regulations. Again the bill might have been dismissed
as not having prayed for adequate relief.
Mr. WETHERELL, on behalf of the defendants, said that
they had lodged an appeal against that decision, on the ground
that the bill ought to have been dismissed.
Mr. HAILT proceeded to argue that the costs, which were very
great, ought to have been divided also. In one instance his
client had applied for accounts and papers containing the state-
ment of the affairs of the proprietors, when the defendants said
that the books were too voluminous to he given in, but they
were open to the investigation of the plaintiffs; his client asked
again for the papers, when they lodged books and papers, of
which an office copy cost more than 701.
Mr. GIRDLESTONE followed on the same side.
Mr. HORNE was prepared to maintain that the plaintiffs had
given full authority to the sale, which they so much spoke
against, for they were bidders to the second tender; but they
had not been successful in their offer.
Counsel on behalf of the defence not having been heard,
The LORD CHANCELLOR desired the arguments to be pro-
ceeded in on Thursday next.

ROMANTIC SUICIDE.-Doughts, Isle of Man,
Nov. 22.—0 n Saturday afternoon, a person call-
ing himself James Baines, who had been lodging
at the Plough Inn, in this town, kept by Mr.
Blake, for nearly six months last past, precipi-
tated himself from a rock into the sea, at a place
called Port Soderick, about two miles of the
south side of this town. Baines was indebted
301. to the innkeeper, for board and lodging, and
being pressed to settle his account, he made va-
rious excuses, and at length meditated to leave
the island, without settling his bill ; for which
purpose he obtained a pass, on Saturday, the
10th instant, and occasionally from thence to
Friday last, left the inn under the pretence of
dining from home. On the morning following, a
pursuit took place, and Mr. Cleator, the chief
constable of Douglas, accompanied by some ofi
Mr. Blake's family, and other assistance, disco-
vered him amongst the cliffs at Port Soderick,
about twelve o'clock at noon ; from thence to
three, he kept moving from one frightful cliff to
another, when he at length, getting on a rock
round which the flood tide was rising,he sat down
with much apparent composure. The Chief
Constable, on observing his situation, sent for al
boat, on the appearance of which Baines descend-
ed from the summit of the rock, and walked into
the sea until it reached about his breast ; at this
crisis, Mr. Cleator, who was on the cliff above,
called to him to return, and not to risk his life ;
Baines returned to his former station, but on
finding that the boat was fast approaching, he
rose up, waved his hat three times to the per-
sons on the cliff, and immediately plunged into
the sea. The boat was heavy, had but two oars,
and those manned by ploughmen ; it was there-
fore nearly 20 minutes before they got up with
the unfortunate man, from whom the vital spark
had then fled. The swell being great, the men
inexperienced, and Baines a very weighty man,
the persons in the boat were unable to get him
on board, but towed him from the place he was
to laud, a distance of about 200 yards. What
is remarkable, Baines never sunk, mg was lie
noticed to make any other exertion, after he got
into the water, but that of putting his hat down
over his eyes.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DECEMBER 18.
The cases argued this day before his Honour possessed no
public interest. Hisllor,u got through the paper by 3 o'clock.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 18.
Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and a Special Jury.
JONES V. BIRD AND OTHERS.

This was an action upon the case.—The defendants, Messrs.
Bird and Co., who are considerable bricklayers, contracted
with the Commissioners to repair a certain sewer which runs
from Clare-market through part of Clement's Inn. In the
course of the operations attending these repairs, Messrs. Bird and
Co. had occasion to undermine a place called St. Clement's pas-
sage ; they broke in upon the ancient foundations of the houses,
without taking care to substitute sufficient support, whereby one
building fell down, and two others were damaged.
It appeared from the evidence called by the plaintiff (whose
dwelling was one of those injured as above) that notice of their
danger was given to the residents of St. Clement's passaga, and
that (previous to the occurrence of the downfall in question)
they had removed both their persOns and their property from the
premises. It further appeared, that the unlucky accident,
which might, by proper precautions, have been prevented, had
arisen in some measure from a schism between contending par-
ties. The inhabitants of St. Clement.): passage said, " You are
endangering our houses, and you ought to prop them up."—
The Commissioners said, " The houses are yours, and it is
your business to take care of them."
Mr. SCARLETT contended, on the part of the defenoants,
that the houses must very soon have fallen of then:Rives : they
were all in a state of extreme decay ; and had been sold by
auction'4 years back, merely for the price of the ground which
they stood upon. The Learned Gedtleman then stated that the
sewer in question was of very ancient date, and that nothing,
even in the way of repair, had been done to it since the year
1692. The houses (which must have been built subsequent to
the formation of the sewer in question) rested in a great
measure upon the arch of that structure : the arch itself was en-
tirely decayed, and it was impossible to restore, or even to
meddle with it, without endangering the edifices above.
Witnesses were exammrd at considerable length.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL replied. An old house (the
Learned Counsel submitted) could not, legally, be thrown
down to-day, because, by possibility, it might fall down to-
morrow.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE (as to measures of precaution
between the Commissioners and the landlords) thought that
the Commissioners were bound, as far as they could, to secure
all buildings endangered by their operations. His Lordship
then left it to the jury to consider whether the fall had arisen
merely from decay in the buildings, or whether it was to be as-
cribed to the negligence of the Commissioners.
CONFESSION OF MURDER.—A most wonderful The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1701.
NORRIS V. WARDEN AND OTHERS.
confession, by a dying man, has lately been made,
horror which This was an action of assault and false imprisonment.
explaining things that have long been bidden in Mr. MARRYATT was for the plaintiff, and Mr. SCARLETT
mystery ; and unfolding a scene of for the defendant.
The plaintiff had been a tradesman at Salisbury, in Wilt-
makes the eyes bloodshot to look upon :—A few shire, and was declared a bankrupt. The defendants, attornies
of that city, were appointed Commissioners to open the Coin_
years' ago a barn was burnt, and all attempts to
ineffectual. mission, and upon the plaintiff's third examination, having
given
discover the conflagrator provet. The as was alleged, unsatisfactory answers touching his af-
dying man referred to, tortured by the pangs of fairs, he was committed to prison. He was afterwards brought
to London by Habeas Corpus, and discharged, after two
conscience, to which those of death were monthssensa-
confinement, and this action was brought to recover a
tions of pleasure, had the horrid secret wrung compansation in damages for the imprisonment, the plaintiff
from his soul. lie confessed that be had robbed having given an undertaking to give material evidence in the
and county of Middlesex. There being nothing to prove that the
defendants had done any thing in the county of Middlesex, and
murdered a man, and placing the corpse in
the barn, had set it on fire to conceal his crime. therefore shewing that the cause of action arose therein,
He had an accomplice ; that accomplice is still Mr. SCARLETT, for the defendant, submitted that the venue
living, and justice, though slow of foot, will consequently
to have been laid in Wilts, and not in Middlesex, and
F' consequently that the plaintiff must be nonsuited, not having
surely overtake him,—(American P °per .) conformed to this undertaking above-mentioned. He founded

SPRING Goys.—The following singular occur-
rence took place on Thursday last, in one of the
preserves belonging to HENRY HocwroN, Esq.
at Walton The gamekeeper was, as usual,
going his daily rounds of visiting the different
spring guns that are set in the woods, and had
approached within twenty yards of one of them,
when it went off, apparently without any cause :
after re-charging it, he went to adjust the wires,
when at the distance of between forty and fifty
yards from the gun, to his great astonishment, he
found a fine cock pheasant lying dead upon the
ground. The bird was probably alarmed by his
near approach, and in flying came in contact with
the wire, and thus discharged the gun.—(Preston
Chronicle.)

DIED.

On the 18th instant, at Cliffe, Lewes, after a few days' ill..
ness, 3lr. Thomas Gibson, ironmonger.
On Tuesday, the 18th instant, at her house in Bedford-T(0/0
Mrs. Mary Kinderley, widow of the late John Kinderley, Dick,
of the same place.
On the 10th of October, at St. Helena, of apoplexy, iliatlace
Livingston, Esq., surgeon, much and justly regretted.
On the 15th instant, at Cheshunt, at the house of her son-ill'
law, Sarah, relict of the late Alexander Goudge, Esq. aged 82.
On the 18th July, at Chittledivog, in his eighteenth year,
Lieut. J. 31. Powell, of the 14th Regiment of Native Infantry,
of the Mathas Establishment. The death of this promising
and excellent young man was occasioned by the explosion of sn.ne
damaged gunpowder, carelessly misplaced in a cave, insteid
of being thrown into water, as directed, for the post was to be
given up. Lieut. P., with another Officer, and some atteni-
ants strolled from a party on the hill, and immediately a loJd
explosion was heard, and, shocking to relate, they were all
found dead. It is supposed, as some of the party had segar3
in
their mouths when they left their friends, that one of them, lin-
conscious of any danger, threw down an end of a segar.
fell a young Officer of great merit, beloved by his regiment,
and adored by all who knew him. .

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