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London, England, 1821-09-25 00:00:00

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THE .LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS mon TIM MORNING PAPERS,

IS'eptember

[MORNING POSTS]
Advices from several of the Leeward Islands
have Come to hand. His Excellency Lieutenant-
General Sir Henry Warde, K. C. 8., the 'new ly-
appointett Governor of .Barbadoes, had arrived at'
that -port, accompanied by his family, in the Py-
ramus frigate. In consequence of the privations
endured by
~the inhabitants of the island of
-Moutserrat, for want of a necessary supply of
lumber, his Excellency Sir Benj. d'Urban had
allowed the admission into that Island for three
mouths, to commence from the 28th of July, of
staves, headboards, timber, shingles, and -lumber,
to be imported -by British subjects in British
built bottoms. The seas in the neighbourhood of
the Island still continue to .be infested with• pi-
ratical vessels, which find shelter generally in
-tit. Bartholomew's, where it is said they are pro-.
teciled by the Swedish Government, notwith-
standing the complaints daily and loudly made
against the acts committed by these vessels. The
French and English squadrons,.however, were
constantly on the watch for those desperadoes.

Advice from Cadiz- and Gibraltar weres.re-
ceived yesterday.;-„froin the. latter place to the
instant.. Aninsurgent privateer, mounting
11 guns and 100 men, was seen off Cadit. some
time since, and chased by.- four small Spanish
vessels of war, who repeatedly: fired upon her,
but she got- clear off, and subsequently captured
vessels.! ladeir: with cocoa, indigo,
tic., and. having fallein in with, an English ship
"it the crews on boa d. She?manned the
which are now cruising in the ueighhouthood of
carp Trafalgar.• The.-Serincrapatam 'frigate' had
arrive 4 at .Gibraltars wi-th:Sir Thos. Maitland
tind Suite-on.hoard. llis Excellency landed on
the 3d instant under a salute.: A vessel from.
the Spanisir Main .hreught intelligence
from Valparaiso. %to the Middle of May,
but not of a sufficiently late date to con-
firm our previous account 'of • Lord Cochrane's
.departure from theTeruvian.coast.. At the-date
-of these adlices, however, the Chilian -squadron
stpod in gveat:..w.ant••of ..resources :necessary for.
carryin gon astrict blockade.; and in:consequence
:of the-long -inactive-state in which- tire crews had
•rV•tnainedi they-had .hecome .nnich dissatisfied.
Thig..eircumstance3.-comhineds. with the intention
.expressedl.
,by Sir T.. Ilartly not to :respect .the
4194ade of. the Peruvian coast, -may ce-rtainly
h'ave induced Lord coclirano,i-to.abandnn •ki, mea-
sure which he could_no longer reader effective..---
(f6id.)

[nfirriSix
The.right
.of the:Crown to.e3erelso itS power
in way, in which it has been visited
_upon Sir
Kober( Wilson, we do,-not` question; .but,„ the
right being .adinitied, 'mire-1y it must prove a. sa-
tisfaction •to:, those who wield it, to beWell
assured that it has. rot_ been ex.ercisetl.. with
greater severity than the OffenCe deservei. We
Can 'conceive no cane in which this 'course could.
be rnOteSe4eSsary than the present. Ott the:Pre-
cise words addressed to 'Captain Oakes .or:ttte
' Soldiers 'wider his"command, nothing.appears to
,b.e.)4nowti with certainty
.and so.rnuch.depends
-*Tian manner,: emptiasisi, and gesture,
cannot be.. sure
.that: correct estimate has been
forip,ed;.and that Rio .miscopception .respecting
• their rneatting or arty misconstruction of their im-
port .has 'taken place, where,' all Opportunity of
defence or: .explanation - has been• denied to the
party. This will be sufficiently illustrated. by a
reference. to gr. Sheriff Waiti .nnan's case. That
„Gentleman; feeling himself: aggrieved, made- his
complaint to Lord Bathurst,: in his • an-
:swer, says, " 1 had before. the, receipt
.of your
letter given directions for inquiry to be made
Into the circumstances of thiS transaction;
sequence of. representations.made -to nie; which I
ain. bound to say dilfer_in ManyeSSential
lars from the statement which I liave received
"from you." - Now the same party spirit, the same,
political feelingsi the :same irritation • which
dictated the report of, the Sheriff 'lConduct made
'to Earl Bathurst, must have irifinenced_the..re-
presentation made. of. Sir Robert Wilson's beha-
viour. If any inquiry has beeu thought tteces-7
sary to elicit the truth from conflicting•accoupts in
the one case, how can it be consistently refusedin
the other? It Will not be said,that•Governnieut, if
it had the power, would have dismissed the
she-
riff from his office in a:summary
.way. •
ititution of an inquiry an admission _that • his
statement may prove correct, and his. complaint
well founded. Should: this: prove the result of
:the inquiry., .then the representations made
against him are wrong; and if without
inquiry, can the representations on which Sir R.
%Vilsou:.has been punished, be pronounced.correet ?

• • •
The panic raised about the price of core has.
rapidly subided, as we all along conjeCtwed
that it would do. The fine weather,: which pre-
vailed with little interruption
,from Monday . the
7Lit until last' Friday, enabled;
,the farmers:
throughout the low countries of SCotland to cut
and- carry an.immense proportion of. their grain.
,In various parts of I:orlishire likewise, especially.-
about Halifax and the neighbonrhood, all hands.
were set going, as ::016 skies•cleared,up, and
larger quantity of corn ,Was housed-in the course
of ,Tuesday and Wednesday' of last week; than,
has often been seen :by the oldest inhabitants
of those districts. ;In Durham the crops are
extremely abundant ;" and with another
week or ten dayS of: fin 4 weather, it was said
bj the. last accounts, that the whole would
be cut doWn.. Turning now towards, the
southern extremity of the island,- we are happy
to understand,- that although. some damage had
been suffered among the crops Sus Sex, parti-
cularly in the Weald, the Down farmers have
within the last seven days been'enabled to se-
cure the great body of their outstanding corn
that the spring corn has been almost universally
carried home; • and that much
.of the grain
throughout, that productive 'county has been al,
:readythragked out for market. Upon the whole,

if, with a view to make timely provision for ac-1
cidents, we should.be disposed ito acknoWledge I
that the English harvest of 1821 may possibly
fall short of the-abundant produce of 1826 y we
are nevertheless: persuaded, so far us general and
iitipartialinformation can satisfy-us of the result
of a labour which is .still iuprogress, thatthe
supply throughout the United KingdOm•(lreland
included) will not be below an average. The
fact, too, that much of last year's prOduCe re-
mains an hand, shoUld not be lost sight. of. .The
fall in Mark-lane since yesterday se'nnight is ss.
per qUarter on- old wheat, .and 10s. on new ; flour
has sunk ss. per sack ; and, so far frOm-a‘pro-
spect of the ports being opened; the average for
the five Weeks,: ending September 10, was 410
more than 61s. 6d: . - ,

[MORNING •CHRONICLE.]

\V have ling SlnCe pronotinced"the Constitu7,l
tional Association a dangerous innovations vicious
in its principles and Most malignant in its effea.
But the: organ of-this Institution places-it.noin
an attitude in which it .has•not yet-been exhi-
bited, and would prove, that the. odium so
honestly earned by the-Association, is calculated
" •to poisail jusliceat its -very well springs ;"
that the concentrated' venom of its malignity •is
likely to corrode the integrity of 'our 'Jurors.—
This is an event we. cbuld-scarcely have contem.
plated, add-ire not disPeSed to believe to the ex,
tent urged ; but assurnin-there is some- truth in
the argument, 'it is Cer tainfi • deserving' of notice:
This Association, it then appears, is so loath-.
some and abhorrent to 'the community, that an
-undue -commiseration is. *excitedin favour of the
objects of 1-f§' iiltack„.and 'the crittie• of• the
offender. who-sins for bread, is -lest sight of in the
enormity- of :the .prosecutors tflaf 'persecute for
vengeance. They that-have an interest in the
soil may.earnestly desire.,to.be rid:of-A noxious,
animal ; but 4.35-destruction may .be purchased at
the expellee of a right; and they may not relish
the iport-tbat tramples,dOwniiie barriers of their.
dearest. Ipossessi'onS;' though.' even... Lords and
Bishops join. in tiik..--purftiit -3 and thns,:,when a
Carlile is to be prosecuted, perhaps his trespass
appears of A- less :-tnischipous' and , obnoxious
CouipleXion than - the trespass
.of those .com-
bined' to hunt hitn down. If, -then; the-weight
of prejudice against this Constitutional Agotia-
tionis so .great that it .taints-the-impartiality of
our Jurors, its Very. appea-tance in Court is sub-
I'M:rive-of the iteryfirst'prinii&Sof.jUstice, dud
an acquittal of-the Offender may be procured, by
inducino this fespectable- Society to;prosecute.—
How iinfoftunate that this deduCtidn_has.not been
duly considered, and :that they
-didnotanticipate
her•-;late Mitjesty's, Attorney- eueral in the
prosecution .of the •ReVerend Richard Blacovv.
We:have- sofarexamined the monster in the atti-
tAle in. which it has been ingenionSly presented
.lifinly.c.etcinporary—as.ttle Gorgon's head that
petrifies justice 3 and. the cOnclusion to be drawn
from.the premises 'would,. we think,- be, that as
this Association.. is' so pernicious to
the sanity of-our Jurors:,und aS.we can more con-
veniently spare . the Constitution, than
-abolish:Trial by Jury.',• the sooner the former
cedesto-the-popular.voice, the better for the in-
terests of morality, religion, and justice. •

About six weeks ago, a Clerk in the house of
Dortvit.LE and Co., of America=square, quitted
the- country, having :committed a -fory,ery.upon
the banking-house of Sir J. ESDAILE to the
amount of 6801... Mr. Dorville 'applied .to the
City Magistrates': upon the subject, and Samuel
.Fogg, the marshalman, was.selec.ted as a proper
person to follow the delinquent and bring him to
the hands of justice:- havina-i procured a
warrant., proceeded to .11011 and and landed at a
small town near .11.0iCeidatn, 'where he roan:.
nately met the'object•Of'hi6 PurstiltOeho-was on
the 'pint of sailing for,4merica.-...The clerk in-
stantly surrendered himself,- saying to' Fogg, " I
know what youlCOUle:ahout;;.do:not expose me ;
I shall gladly go. with you ;:indeed.l have been
!miserable since I committed the offence,
.and I
am rejoiced at the *opportunity Of going and
throwing myself at the feet of Mr. DOrville ; I
should have done so before, but vas .ashamed;
I had spent so mn.ch money." Brit although the
clerkbad-expressed• .strongest 'terms hiS
wish W yet-urn, the Cap.tain-7who is an American,
strongly opposed his determination to leave the
shipand accused Fogg of :having arrested hitri
in defiance ;of the authority the _country.
They .were bOth taken. in consequence by the:
police to Dordrecht, where, notwithstanding the
protestations of the clerk, 'who denied that any
'arrest hid 'taken. place, Fogg was thrown into a
suhterraneous dungeon. For the first iveek he
was allowed nothing . but. bread and water ,•
but, "upon writing to the Chief • Magistrate; and
requesting to be permitted to purchase 'Soinething
to keep the life in him, he obtained leave to eat
' meat at. his own eXpence...Before he-- had been
long in confinement, the gaoler,aCCOmpanied by
othersi entered 'his cell,: and, having stripped
'off his coat incl.-waistcoat,: took away all the.
Money with which he was charged, and of which
he had become. possessed upon meeting •with the
clerk:....This. money amoUnted_ no less a sum
than 3801. The clerk: had voluntarily given it
to Fogg, having* previously complained of ale
great weight and trouble of it, and .said that it
was what remainethof the sum • heloid so dishO-
nestly become master of. Fo-r upwards of thfee
weeks_the marshalman remained' in•confinement,
notwithslanding the fact that he had
,written. to
the. Ambassador at, Brussels, -and others, 7w.hose
interference he supposed might have= been efftea
g.-
ciolts- in procuring enlargernent. The dun-
geon in which he WaS imprisoned was of the most
• .

lOathsome kind,.and while he was in it be never
saw the face of a human being, except .that of
his gaoler. One of the Magistrates, however,
treated him with humanity, and-frequently sent

for him under pretence of examining him, for the
.purpose of -giviug hirn.ati opportunity of, breath-
ing the fresh air. The-Clerk was all this timeat
liberty, but he'never made an attempt to leive
pOrd-recht. until hcwas.adyised by Fogg to go to
London,. throw.himself upon the, mercy of his
master, state *hatlbail'otcurred,-and cause some

interference to .he made to prevent the continu-
ance 'of the harShMeasure§.at Dordrecht.' The
clerk was punctual to, those.engagements,.bnt
soon after I4departure.Foi,rg wasliberated, hav-
ing been-- declared. honourably acquitted of the
charges against him. nl _open Court. There was
some 7delaior''aNu't .returning to. him the money
}which had,heen::taken from him, but he insisted
ufwit.gettiii-g eveyy.f,afthing.,.and- hairing obtained.
set siillyith- all possible expedition. One: of
the firm (sir "Berijaniiti =H atpet) -yesterday ap-
plied to the gagistrate- at -Guildhall to order
that the money given by the clerk to Fogg
should-be delivered to the firm. This was even-
tually
.. • -
done. .
. .

Co wts,. 2-I.—The Glasgow frigate; which is appoint-
ed io convpy..Sr Edward'Paget and suite to the Island of eby-
ion, still remains in our Roads, detained by contrary winds.
She was expected to sail early on the inorning of the. 20th
and on the preceding evening the following interesting cotinnu-
ideation took place between Sir: Edward and the respectable in.:
habitants (equally honourable to the feelings of both parties)
who are niutually and sincerely affected by the separation to
which it alludes :

To Liefitenant-General the Hortintrable Sir Edward Paget,.
. G.C.13..an4 Governor of Cowes C.astle, &c.

Stet—We, the Undersigned, beg leave tOaddress you, upon
the occasion of your departure. from Cowes, and your appomt-
'tient o:the Govermperit of Ceylon. We present our congra-
tulations on that.honourableappointment, rejoicing at any oc-
currence that may give you satisfaction. Af the same time we
cannot suffer you to leave-the shores of the Isle of Wight, with-
out•expressing Our, regret that we had no sooner begun duly to
appreciate yOtir. worth and
,urbanity, and the pleasure :we re-
ceive from the residence of yourself, and Lady Harriet Paget
and family amongst us, than we are-deprived of it, leaving us
only the expectation of your return (which though remote, we
shall anxiously look forward to), and the interest we take in your
happinessand prosperity.
Sir EpwAun PAGET'S ANSWER.
COWES CASTLE, SEPT. 19, '1824.--.Sir,• I find- myself so
unequal at this, moment to convey in the.ternis that I could
wish my sense of gratitude to the Gentlemen, who, through
you,: have done me the honour to:express their regret at my de-
pqrture from. this Island, and the interest they kindly take in
the happiness and prosperity of Lady Harriet Paget and my-
self, that finust entreat you to represent to them, in my behalf,
how deeply I am penetrated by 0.• condescension which I cannot
hut feel to be as unmerited as it was unexpected.—l assure you,
Sir, that I count amongst the happiest days of my life thosq
which I have pasSed in this favoured spot ; and L pray Heaven,
that when the undertaking in which I am now engaged is com-
pleted, that I may be here perMitted to. terminate them. I have
the honour to be, Sir, your very faithful humble Servant, •
To Henry Day, • Esq. EDivii. PAGET.

Last week, a gentleman who had .formerly
been a stirgeon in the army, and it is said be-
longs to Exeter or its neighbourhood, came on
visit. to Durham, and took up his abode at the
Queen's Head Inn. O•n the night of Sunday
laSt he left the house of a friend in Old Elvet,
where he had supped, about ten o'clock, to re-
turn to his inn, but since that time be has been
neither seen nor heard of, and serious apprehen•
sions •are entertained for his fate. It having'
been supposed that, being a stranger to the town,
and the night -being very dark, he might have
missed his-way and walked into the river, it has
been dragged, but nothing has been found which
could warrant a supposition of ibis- hAving met a
watery grave. He has left an excellent horse, a
gig, and his portmanteau at the Queen's Head.--
(Newcastle Courant.)
In an action for defamation, tried at the Omagh
Assizes, in which the H•ev. Mr. IbmsoN was the
Plaintiff, and the. Rev NAsn the Defendant,
there was a verdict for the Plaintiff; found by a
most respectable Jury---• 4001. damages aud. costs.