The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-05 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COi4SISTORY COURT—(THIS MO LI N
LORD ERSKINE.---The Court was' unusually
thronged,'paiticularly by sonie elegantly-diessed
f6nales, in consequence of it • being the day ap-
pointed by Lord ERSkINE for the exculpation
of his Lady from some unpleasant charge that
had, previotisly existed, and of which his Lord-
ship complained there had been some misrepre-
sentation.:—Soon after Sir WILLIAM SCOTT took
his seat, Lord ERSKINE entered. Nothingi how-
ever, was done except a conference • with ThiS
'Lordship's professional adviSers, and, the•consi-
deration of the case was postponed to Friday
fortnight. - his Lordship signified his intention
of-attending, and then left the court.

COURT OF CHANCERY 4 JU27E 4.
JUDGMENT.-GORDON V. GOILDO,Ii.

The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, lie7wasm opithon that it
was established by the verdict of a Court of Law, -that the
Plaintiff, Harry Gordon, the younger, was the legitimate soy
of , his father, and his heir at law ; and that the defendant,
James Gordon, was r.ot the eldest legitimate son of his fatly!,
Harry Gordon the elder : and, thereforei that the agreethentx
entered into between the defendant and the .plaintiff in sop-
psition on the part of the latter, that he Was only the -
mate son of his father, should be delivered up andd cancelled,
es it appeared the defendant knew at the time the a.greements
were entered into between him and the I?laintiff, that a privat.-:
ceremony of marriage passed between his father and mbther
before the birth of his brother the plaintiff. On these ground!:
he would pen the minutes of his decree, anes.ddliver Clem out
on Thursday next.

COLEBROONE P• L7IGI-,

The LORD CIiANCELLOII-" When yet attend me, Mi.
Halt, to-morrow at the House of Lords, on another subjec,t,
will give you any judgment in tais pttition."

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Ju/tt 4.
This "being the last day of Raster Term, , the Judges were
occupied in hearing and deciding points of practice..

TUE -i:INO I. DOLBY,

GURNEY sheered cause against a rule obtained by Air.
EVazis, calling upon .the Attorney for the prosecution to
.fur
nish the defendant with the names of persons forming the Cot-
stitutional Society, by whom the defendant is prosecuted. After
the question had been most ably argued by Mr. GURNEY, my.
ScARLETT and Mr. EVAiis were heard' in support of the rule.
The Court were of opinion that the rule could not be made
absolute, but they allowed the defendant the power of putting
a question, to every Juror as he enters the box, in order tip
know whether he is, or L 3 not, a member of the Constitutional
Association.—The rule was discharged.

LONDON SESSIONS.
Yesterday these Sessions commenced before the Lon.rb
MAYOR, Sheriffs Williams and Waitliman, the Common Ser.
j cant, A ldetmah Wood, Sir C. S. Hunter, Sir John Peering, and
Alderman Rothwell..

Thy Court was occupied during the morning in the trial cf
assault cases of no importance. In the afternoon the Court was
broken up by the departure of some of the Aldermen, whet= no
others could be got to succeed them, and the Court was olkged
to adjourn in consequence.

STATE OF IRELAND.-It is With pain and regret
we advert to the present state of this country.
We have never attempted unnecessarily to alarm
the loyal part' of the community, by doleful prog-
nostics ; nor have we stigmatised our unthink-
ing fellow-countrymen with the disgiaceral
epithet of Rebel—for these ephemeral feuds
a people constituted as they are must
.of ne-
cessity be liable to; but there are times wheii
our duty to both makes it necessary to
speak out, and the time has unfortunately
arrived, when silence would be pusillanimity, if
not crime. It has been our painful duty to direct
the attention of our readers to the occasional Pro-
clamations issued, for the preservation of the
Peace in the disturbed parts of Ireland. These
notifications we have given as matter of information,
accompanied with such observations as we conceiv-
ed. the different cases called' for. The items of
this sad account, inserted at periods distant from
each other, were not .calculated to alarm ;- but
the sum total is fearful, and the loyal inhabitants
and the Protestants of Ireland will be startled to
hear that out of thirty-two counties which it con-
tains, there have been ten in which the spirit of
insurrection alid insubOrdination had attained so
fearful a height, and the violations of the law of
the' land have become so flagrant, so frequent,
and so flagitious, that it has been found neces-
sary, upon, the application of a majority of Magis-
trates,_to extend to them the provisions of a spe-
cial Act of Parliament for the protection of the
lives and properties of his ntjesty's loyal sub-
j cts. We mean to return to this subject, ancr to
detail the causes which have produced thOse
lamentable effects. For the, present we simply-
confine ourselves to the enumeration of dies-,
Counties where the Law of the Land has been
found inoperative. There are some, however,
only partially' disturbed :—Kildare,.Tipperary,
Kilkenny, King's County, Queen's County,
Dublin, Roscommon, Galway, Wicklow, eiir-
low.—( Hibernian Journal, June 2.)
. .

Yesterday morning a meeting of the Portu-
guese No6lesse and Merchants residing in this
country, took place at the London Tavern, when,
after an animated discussion, Addresses to the
KING and the Cortes were agreed to, approvirig
of the late Revolution, and the Constitution, as
at present established.

The noble silver vase voted by the county of
Hertford to the Marquess of SALISBURY, on ac-
count of his Lordship's having• held the oft ee of
Lord Lieutenant for above half a century, is com-
pleted. It is of great value, and will be prt:senl-
ed to him in the course of a few days.
Mn. KEAN.—It is stated in the Charleston.
papers that Mr. KEAN has been prevailed upon
to defer his departure for Europe until February
next, and that he has entered into an engage-
ment to perform in the southern theatres for 35
nights. lie made his debut at the Baltimore
Theatre on the 23d of April, in the character
of the Duke of Gloucester. The Philadelphia
Theatre closed for the season on Wedn..sday,
18th of April, with the tragedy of Venie Pre-
served, for the benefit of Mr. KEAN, who pro-
ceeds to the south.

A match of a singular nature was decided a few
'days ago on Leith Sands. Mr. S-rr, of Leith, beiteel that
he would run fifty yards sooner than Mr. Tit-Ng of Edin-
burgh, could gallop his mare the same distance. The rate w:,s
pined by the mare, owing to the admirable style in which Mr.
T. urged her at once to full speed. Some years ago a match on
the same principle, of 100 yards, was decided at Newmarket,
botween a race-horse and a pig, which was won by the latt.43rbe-
fore the horse could be put tolls speed.
Yesterday morning, half Fast fcur o'cleck,
a poor woman was found, drowned in a commo I
sewer ditch adjoining the Regent's Canal, in the
Shepherd and Shepherdess fields, islington. Her
appearance was truly distressing. She' hadjoß,
an old black gown and bonnet, and appears to. be
about forty-five. She now lies at the church to
be owned.

THE LONDON JOURNALS,

'DAILY B3CTRACTS FROM THE MORNING rApins,
June 5.

' [MORNING HERALD.]. •
'Yesterday we received, through the medium
Ai:United States' papers, intelligence of the re-
.newal of hostilities in South America. Bolivar
:it is 'who provoked hostilities, and all-that is irri-
suted to him by .General -La Torre, the Royalist
:successor of Morino, is " impudence."' General
.;.ii,slivac has, not broken the armistice, but. availed
tiimself of a discretion reserved in the .articles of
'agreement to either party, to resume hostilities
after the lapse of a specified .period from notice
given. The President demands the acknow-
ledgment of the- independence of the new Re-
yablic as the_ alternative, and has probably good
.reasonsior his conduct. His case, however, has
•not yet reached us. The .Royalist General seems
14ert by surprise, .says he is not empowered to
;accede td the proposition of independence, and
...odds, that Bolivar, when he made it, knew this.
f,. however, the latter has a right to renew hos-
.
ailities under the-terms of the armistice, it would
:be childish to suppose that he ought to abstain
:fro.r;.a- doing so, merely..because the alternative
must embarrass his adversary. Bolivar finds that
the resumption of. hostilities is most likely to lead
the-.acknowledgment of the- independence of
his. country, and perhaps has- discovered bad
faith, or manMuvring, on the part of the Spa-
. niards. It is painful to contemplate a renewal of
:the horrors of war, and under circumstances- pe-
culiarly shocking ; but the independence of that
cast section of -the globe is an object in which ,
_ -hurnanity and justice, the interests of universal
:.corsinierce and civilization, are deeply interested.
,11 the' colonies continue under the dominion even
•of Constitutional Spain, they could be neither.
-prosperous nor free. The: Colonial Representa-
.tion in the Cortes would be a mockery. England
-and the-United-States would be shot out from all
the resources of consumption and produce, which
the independence of 17,000,000 of people would
present; and South America would again be '
'stunted and withered to snit, the monopolizing
policy of the mother country.

[NEW TIMES.]
The French Funds continue to advance, and
every thing in that country affords the prospect
of steadiness to the recent improvement in the
state of public credit. By an express received
-yesterday from Paris, the price of the Renter at
:the•close of the market on Saturday was stated
'to be as high as 86 :50. Other foreign Stocks
were also on the rise. Neapolitan Stock was
quoted at 73:50 ; ,and Spanish bonds at•s6.
Letters were yesterday received from Odessa,
but neither by this conveyance nor by any other
'has any confirmation been given to the alarming
'report of the conflagration of Smyrna, or the
flight of the English from thence. Although the
Pari; Papers of Wednesday seemed to give some
'credit to those rumours, the more general opi.
ition is, that they were wholly without foundation.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The pretended Constitutional Association ap-
pears to approach the limit of its existence, or at
lea;:t its power of doing mischief, seems likely to
'be neutralised for ever. The County of Mid-
dlesex Grand Jury On Saturday thre,:v out four
:bills of indictment for seditious libels, preferred
.14 this unconstitutional Society, and the ground,
ar; we are 'given to understand, which induced
the Grand Jury to reject ihese bills, is, that they
cotr:'.der the Society preferring theth an " illegal
combination." This example of the Grand Jury
ofliliddlesex will, we trust, heithitated 'by all
ether Juries to whom bills of indictment may be
offo-ed by. this combination of informers. The
Ilublic press will thereby be protected from a new
and unconstitutional object of alarm, .the rights
of the Crown will not be arrcigantly assumed by
anfrrresponsible Society, and a chance will be
afTfirded that the funds inadvertently applied to
the oppression of the Subject, will be appropriated
ir) Purposes of unegnivoca,l benefit. Had the Mi-
nisters of the drown been Sullicienilv sensitive
upon the insult offered to them by the formation
of such a Society, they would not have suffered
vindication of the rights and prerogatives of
ttic CroWit to fail...upon the
_Middlesex- Grand
Jury. It was the 'duty of tha ttornev-General
tiled in f9rma tionagainst Mr. Murray,the
'attorney, and others, the active prelnirecs of the A s-
sciation,for presuming to undertake the exercise
or-.e. of the most serious and delicate duties that
appertain to his office, as the first law 'officer of
the' qoprlime..a.. The Solieitor General, indeed,
4 . I
in- the House 'of Coininoris, said that his Learned
I.'7liend ought to feel very grateful to this Society,'
yiho gratuitously relieved him of the most pain-
ful 'Of his duty .; and further remarked that
imposale fur the Attorney7General to
thene,ws7venders and tract-sellers' shops
ca tOndoo to. terret out subjects for criminal
f9l pAttops, and Oat tilerefoke Socikly as
tliiit'p;:esent was not. only
.useful, but necessary.

[TIE TIMEs. •
the evening fixed, by Mr. Stilart-Wrt-
,ley fcr_ his, motion respecting the declaration of
ffvn lirn"erors and King of Prussia issued from
The.genecal political principles and
.•
altachrpents of the :non. Qenth;nian who makes
Atte,M_Otion render it a matter of greater interest
otherwise have been, the case. A
s,3.bjeit which concerns the national honour of
-f4.eitt -Oritain—we allude to. the question, with
alntnbe-brnught forward .by
LordWm..lientirick.-.. That island had posiessed
44)11Stiill,tif) T 1 fur more than seven centuries—a
ios,,stitution, it is.,true, established, by the. Nor-
;.-but a constitution which recognised the
`Tight& of the people as distinct from those: of the
4crip,xeigir, and whieh,was far enough from cOn-
jo9-ring legitimate" government and abSolute
ver As-the same. Under this ancient .code of
iltit4nl.te though.. imperfect, freedom,
,and under
,13fMra, familiar.to the people of Sicily, ttiegrant
4: supplies rind the . redress of grievances
snoCsn.bOautially together. rßhe QrowO had no
More authority to raise- troops .tben .to levy
taz,N, without the consent -of Partao2ent.

The Sicilians had their own tribunals apart from,
and, uncontrolled by, those of Naples. 'They
.441 an exclusive right.to. all offices and dignities
within -their•own islaiid except four. They had
their own mint, their own llaa—two among the
most characteristic attributes of an independent
nation. In. 1810 the King and Parliament con-
curred. in abolishing the exemptions from impost
hitherto enjoyed by feudal proprietors, to the
great injury of the revenue and oppression of
the people. After a few months, however,when
the alarm of invasion by Murat had ceased, this
concession to justice and to public feeling ap-
peared to the Court of Palermo, then under the
guidance of the Queen of Naples, a gratuitous
and: unprofitable sacrifice. Three edicts were
promulgated. in .1811, which filled the minds of
the Sicilians with dismay, as they went in .effect
to destroy not merely the regulations for reform
of 1810, but to transfer the power of taxation,
from the Parliament, which had exercised .it for
many ages, to the Ministers of the reigning
Sovereign.

I-MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We congratulate our Readers on the defeat
sustained by the Constitutional Association on
Saturday last, when four of their bills were in-
dignantly thrown out by the Grand Jury of the
Court of King's Bench. The views of this body
are, we think, now pretty generally understood.
Every man of the least reflection must know that
it aims at nothing less than to place the Press of
the Country in a state of complete subserviency
to the Ministry, and to extinguish every thing
like free discussion. That object will not now,
we think, be accomplished, thanks to the good
sense and spirit of the Country. We shall have
something more to depend on than the views of
expediency of the Attorneys and Barristers
interested in the expenditure of the large
sums which they had the good fortune to
get into their hands. It is confidently
maintained that the Members of this Society
have subjected themselves to the penalties of the
Act against Corresponding Societies, which, as is
well known, are no light matter. Many of the
Subscribers have got an inkling of this, and begin
to wish they had never had alny thing to do with
the business. What ! the Duke of Wellington, a
Cabinet Councillor, subjecting himself to the pe-
nalty of transportation ! But the Subscribers may
tranquillize themselves—penalties of this kind are
not for those who sin on the right side. An Advocate
and Member of the Association told us that in their
admirable address " they formally disavow all
party politics." They know very well, however, for
%% hose benefit they labour, and those for whom
they labour will know how to appreciate their
good intentions. We do not mean to say that
Ministers, if they had been consulted with respect
to this. Association, would have approved of it,
because it required no great wisdom to foresee
that the indignation which the proceedings of
such an Association could not fail to excite, would
soon put it down. Accordingly we find,
that, with the exception of the Duke of
Wellington, they have all kept themselves
clear of it, and that some of them have even done
all but openly disapprove of it in Parliament.
To be sure, it is not a 'little surprising that any
Cabinet Minister should have become a member
of the Association ; but perhaps we ought not to
be surprised at this when we know that at least one
of the present Cabinet Ministers lately proposed
a Censorship of the Press.—liowever, thank God,
these foreign notions have yet made little pro-
gress among the great mass of the people of this
country. There are, we believe, many Tories as
well as Whigs, with sound English feelings, who
do not think County Meetings farces, who detest
the doctrine of divine right ; who would not wish
to see the Press subject to a Censorship, and who
will be rejoiced to hear of the discomfiture of this
pretended Constitutional Association.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS

[From the LeiceJter Chrtnicle of June I.]

MR. SCARLETT'S POOR LAWS' BILL.
Yesterday morning, in pursuance of a Requisition presented
to the Churchwardens, a numerous and respectable Meeting of
the Inhabitants of. St. Mary's Parish, in this town, was held at
the Vestry, to take into consideration the propriety of pre-
Senting aTetition to Parliament upon the subject of Mr. Scar-
lea's proposed Bill for an alteration.of the Poor Laws. •
The Rev. the Vicar having taken the Chair, and the Requi-
sition having been read—.
31r. SYOCXDALE HARDY said, 'that as one - of the persons
who had signed that .Requisition, he begged to direct the at-
tention of the'Meeting to as important a subject as any which
had occupied the attention of Parliament for many years. The
Bill to which the Meeting referred had for its object the almost'
total annihilation of those Laws which - had regulated the af-
fairs of the Poor for nearly two centuries and a half, and LaWs
which had existed so long, ought neither to be trifled with nor
repealed, without the utmost deliberation and e:e most extended
discussion; since, although very great. defects might exist in
-them, our ancestors ought at all events-to have the credit of hay-
ing some substantial motives for theirs Acts, atcl as the real ex-
cellencies of our old Laws had frequently not been .discovered
until the inconveniences arising from .the# repeal had shewn
them. Mr. H. then proceeded to comment, clause by clause,
upon the Bill of Mr. Scarlett as amended by the Committee.
'the clause•as to R.eruoVals.wa.s most object'.onable • since it
went to do away With. the liability of parisheli in which Paupers
were nowlegally settled—as. to Removals thmaselYes, he was
no friend to them ; since it was hard • that when a poor man
had left his place of nativity for a number of years, and had
farmed Many intelBting CbmiectiOns elst.wheee, -that-IWshould
be transported (as it were) to another and perhaps distant
District for no' other crime than his poverty. The ori-
ginal place of Settlement must however be still made liable,
• or there would be a breach of faith not easily reconciled with
the principles which had hitherto regulated British Legislation.
As, to the establishment of a maximum as to Poor-rates, this
seemed really a most Utopian scheme. They all knew the price
of provisions and the demand for labour always regulated the
poor man's stock and comforts. To say, therefore, that
under, no circumstances whatever, more than a certain sum
should be raised, was to go upon the supposition that the
rate of provisions would always be the same—the demand
for labour invariable—and the state of trade not affected
by those fluctuating circumstances which it has generally been
supposed and known to be. A most striking instance of the
impolicy of any such measure as this, was contained in a Re-
presentation which had been lately made by tile city of Nor,
with in refereneeto the Bill now before Parliament. It appear:,
ed that last year (the amount of the rates raised,. in which is the
maximum of-Mr. Searlett) there was about 18,0001. raised for
the support of the Norwich poore—in 1818, there required
28,000—and in 1802 (the year of scarcity) there required no lesS
a sum than 41,0001.! If Mr. Scarlett's maximum had been then
Law, what. must have been `tone with the Poor at Norwich
The same circumstances might again arise and Could not be
Provided against—and they only need to.picture the horrid con-
dition in which a populous town or city would be placed—sur-
rounded with claimants requiring upwards of forty thou Sand
pounds to satisfy them—having little beyond a third of the
sum to give them and the claimants themselves increased and
'hourly increasing thro' the emigration from the .adjacent country
continually pressing upon the place in consequenceOl' the first
clause of the :Bill to which he had alluded. That part of the
measure which denied any
,relief to any one marrying after the
passing of the. Act, except aged or impotent, was extraor-
dinary, and could tearer be adopted, except its supporters
were prepared to say th6t all could obtain employment, fad

. . . .
obtain it upon terms by which they could Hie. Now what had
been the case in uns.llllistrict ? At one period during the last
winter,
.2000 Prainework Knitters had been receiving relief
. from the Friendly Relief Society, because they could not obtain
work. What must have been the case had the Bill of Mr.
Scarlett been in. operation ? It was a most singular fact, that
since the establishment of the Framework Knitters Society (a
period Of about twenty months), there had been no less a sum
than £17,000 paid from it to unemployed workmen, although,
latterly only 3s. 6d. per week could
,be afforded to a man and
his family. It was no less singular that £O,OOO of this £17,000
had been raised by the workmen themselves, and wrung from
their scanty pittance.—Thesecircumstances, while they showed
the utter impracficability of the Bill, yielded also a forcible an-
swer to those who maintained that the Poor *ere averse to, or
careless of, providing for contingencies. At all events this stig-
ma could not attach to our provincial Poor.—(A4lause.)—The
Bill, upon the whole, was as injurious to the landed as to the com-
mercial interests of the country ; inasmuch as if passed, at no
distant period, when the one interest was borne down, a most
ruinous re-action would necessarily take place upon the soil of
the country—its noblest boast and strongest palladium. The
Petition he was about to propose did little more-than intreat for
time to weigh the Provisions of the Bill ; this surely was no-
thing but reasonable, considering the magnitude of the interests
concerned. Amendments might be made, and perhaps a Bill
unobjectionable to all parties framed, but the time which would
elapse before the close of the present Session of Parliament Was
far too short to allow of any such hope. Mr. H. then read a Pe-
tition to the House of Commons, and moved its adoption by the
Meeting.
Mr. FirsnY seconded the Motion.
The question having been put,
Mr. PAGET moved, that the Petition should be again read,
which haVing been done, it passed unanimously.
The .Petition was then ordered to be presented by the Mem-.
berm for the Borough. •

Mr. STOCKDAL4: HinDY moved the thanks of the Meeting
to their worthy Representative, Mr. Mansfield, for the strenu-
ous opposition he had manifested in his place in Parliament to
Mr. Searlea's Bill. Had the other Hon. Membim for the Bo-
rough been present in the House, he had no doubt he would
have been equally active ; but it was understood he was una-
voidably absent.

The Motion was carried, and after thanks had been voted to
the Chairman, the Meeting was dissolved.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

A BILLIor facilitating the TAKING of the POLL on CON-

TESTED ELECTIONS for the COUNTY of YORK.

Whereas the county of York is of great extent, and the num-
ber of Freeholders therein entitled to vote at Elections for
Knights of the Shire to serve in Parliament is very large, and
great delays f).4:1 inconveniences have arisen from the Poll at
such Elections being taken at the Castle of York only.
Be it therefore enacted, by the King's Most Excellent Ma-
jesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiri-
tual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and
after the upon every Election to be made
of any Knight or Knights of the Shire, to serve in this present
or any future Parliament for the County of York, in case such
Election be not determined at the County Court, held at the
Castle of York, within the said County, upon the view, with
the consent of the Freeholders there present, but that a Poll
shall be duly required for the determination thereof, the
Sheriff of the said County, or in his absence, his Under She-
riff, shall and he is hereby required to adjourn such Poll to
be taken at the market' towns of Wakefield, Beverley, and
Northallerton, and the Castle of York respectively, and to be
commenced in each of the said places respectively on the day
on which such Poll shall be demanded, or on the next day but
one at furthest, unless that shall happen to be a Sunday, and
then on the day after.

And he it further enacted, That the said Sheriff, or in his
absence, the under-sheriff, shall forthwith, by writing under
his hand and seal, nominate and appoint prover
and sufficient persons to be the Vice-sheriffs of 'Wakefield,
Beverley, and Northallerton ; and that the Poll for the wapen-
takes of Claro, Barkstonash, Bulmcr, Pickering, Lyth, Whit-
by Strand, Buckrese, Ouse and Dement, and the Ainsty of
the city of York, shall be taken at the Castle of York, before
the Sheriff of the said county, or in his absence, his under-she-.
riff; and that the Poll -for the remainder of the West' Riding
of the. said county gillali-be filen at Walrefieldhefore the vice-
sheriff of Wakefield ; and that the Poll for the. remainder of
the East Riding of the said, comity shall.be taken at Beverley
before the vice:Sheriff of -Beverley ; anti that the Poll for the
remainder of the North Riding of •the said county shall be
taken at Northallerton before the vice-sheriff of Northallerton.
And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful
for each of the said-vice-sheriffs within their respective districts
during the continuance of-the poll therein, and, no longer, to
do, and he is hereby required to do all matters and things, and
to use and exercise all powers and authorities for taking such
Poll as are now or hitherto have been or may be by law done
used and exercised by the Sheriff of the said county, for taking
the Poll therein at contested Elections fur Knights of the Shire
for the said county.
And be it further enacted, That the Polls to be taken at
Wakefield, Beverley, Northallerton, and the Castle of York
shall, from and after the commencement of the same,
be duly and regularly proceeded in from day to day (Sun-
days excepted) until the same be finished, but so as that no
such poll shall continue more than days •at most
(Sundays excepted), and if such poll shall continue until the
day, then the same to he finally closed at or
before the hour of threein the afternoon of the same day ; and
so as that every such poll during the continuance of the same
be kept open for eight hours at the least in each day, between
the hours of eight iu the morning and eight at night, unless
prevented by any unavoidable accident
And. be it-further enacted, That the said Vice-sheriffs re-
spectively, shall immediately after the final close. of their re-
spective polls, seal up all the poll-books taken thereat, and
shall forthwith convey the same to the Castle of York, anti
shall there personally deliver the same to the Sheriff of the said
County, or in his absence to his Underasheriff. •
• And be it further enacted, That the, Sheriff of the said
County, or in his absence-his Under-sheriff; shall immediately,
or on the day next after the final delivery of such poll-books
by the respective Vice-sheaiffs, and the final close of the whole
poll, truly, fairly,- and publicly declare the name or names of
the person or persons who have a majority of votes upon the
whole poll, and shall forthwith make a return of such person
or persons to serve in Parliament as Knight or Knights of the
Shire for the said County.
And whereas. it woald much tend to shorten the duration of
each of the polls to be taken by virtue of this Act, if a power
were given-of erecting more than one. booth for taking the poll
for each wapentake, but the same cannot now by law be done ;
Be it therefore further enacted; That from and after the
'the Sheriff of the said County, or his Linder-
sheriff, and each 'of the said Vice-sheriffs, within his respec-
tive district, shall erect or cause to be erected, at the expence
of the candidates,. at each of the places within the said county
herein appointed for ehe •taking of the respective polls, such
number of cotrvenientlotittei for 'taking tile- pollas the candi-
dates, or any of thethe shall require ; and shall affix, or cause
to be affixed, on the most public part of the said booths, the
name or names of the district or districts for which each both
is allotted or designed, and shall appoint ,a proper clerk or
clerks at each of the said booths- to take the poll,. which . said
clerk or clerks shall be at the expense of the candidates, and
be paid not exceeding • per day each
'clerk ; and shall also make out a list for each of the said booths
respectively, of all the several towns, villages, hamlets and pa-
rishes lying or being w,holly •Or in part in the district or dis-
tricts for which such booth is allotted or designed, and shall,
upon request made, deliver a true copy thereof to any of the
candidates or their agents who shall desire the same, taking for
each of the said copies the sum of
and no more.

And be it further enacted, That it shall and maybe lawful for
the Sheriff of the said County, or his Under-sheriff, and for any
of the said Vice-sheriffs within his respective district, and they
are hereby revired, on any day after the fourth day of polling,
to close finally any book in which no more than twenty electors
have polled, or have been referred for decision to the booth Of
such Sheriff, Under Sheriff', or Vice-sheriff 'during that day..
And be it further enacted, That" nothing in this Act eon-
tained shall take away from the Sheriff of the county of York,
any power, right, privilege, or authority, which previously to
the passing of this Act he hath had used or exercised, in
taking the poll at elections for any Knight or Knights of the
Shire to serve in Parliament for the said County; but that all
such
.powers, rights, privileges and authorities, shall be and
remain in full force and effect.

And be it thrther enacted, That no nomination and appoint.
went of the said Vice-sheriffs by the said Sheriff, or in his ab-
sence by his Under-sheriff, shell be liable to any stamp 'or other
duty whatsoever.
And be it further enacted, That-this Act shall be deemed
and taken to be a Public Act, to all intents and ptirposes wkat-
soever.

ii'Oß THE §I3N.

ROMAN• CATHOLICS..-(LETTER III.)

Mn. EDITOR,-Sorry should I be to incur any
just suspicion of intolerance or illiberality to-
wards our Christian brethren of the Romish
Church. Still more should I lament, if such an
accusation should generally adhere to those zea-
lous members of our, purer . Church, who, like
myself, oppose the admission of Roman Catholics
to high power and legislatiVe authority. Sin-
cerely do I love and venerate the names of many
pious Romanists ; who, though under invincible
error in some points, demonstrated by all their
actions that they were full of Christian virtues;
preferred the love of Christ to all the bles-
sing:; of this life. Such men we also can pro-
duce, in more perhaps than proportionable num-
bers, comparing the extent and duration of the
two Churches; yet our Christian heroes they
rank with Judas or Julian, considering their
faith as vain, and their virtues, as no better than
specious crimes.

Yet, thinking as I do of their best men, such.
as lluet, Fenelon, Bossnet, and many others,
whether known to public fame or would
not, even to such men, consent to entrust in-.
tluence and dominion in a Protestant State. Their
piety.may .be pure, but their errors are invete-
rate. Those errors, when involuntary, may, and,
I trust, be found pardonable, in considera-
tion of the accompanying piety ; but every error
that they hold is ,hostile to our Government.—
Their errors act- upon their consciences, and the
more sincere they are, the more powerfully do
they act, impelling them at all times, and by all
available means, to counteract, undermine, and
subvert, every Protestant. doininion. How can
it he otherwise, while they regard in their souls
and consciences our Government as founded in
pernicious heresy, rebellious against Christ's
Vicegerent, and leading myriads of souls to ine-
vitable and hopeless perdition ? Charity itself, as
they must think, -requires an everlasting' coun-
teraction against such a power, secret perhaps,
when imperious circumstances so .command, but
never for a moment intermitted, as to its ope-
ration on the conscience.

I appeal not to history for proofs, with which
we know it overflows, of this invariable feeling.
I appeal to the principles of their belief, which
must have this effect, as long as human motives
have an influence on human minds. It is not a
feeling of one time more than another. Every
honest man must always wish to see an end of
that which he regards as originating in wicked-
ness, and leading to everlasting perdition.
Have we such feelings, with reference to them ?
Far otherwise. We pity and lament their errors,
'but condemn not the persons. The errors in-
deed we abhor, as leading to idolatry. will-
worship, and a thousand dangerous supersti-
tions ; but to the believers in them, if so believ-
ing conscientiously, and with soundness in all the
genuine articles of faith, we impute no unpardon-
able sin. What would be guilt in us, whose
eyes are opened, may be innocent in those
" whose eyes are holden," that they cannot see.
But though I can compassionate, and even
love, a man whose conscience tells him that he
ought to overturn my system of faith and prac-
tice, it by no means follows that I should en-
trust him with the power to do so. The power
he asks, from natural and even pious motives, I
am bound in conscience and in self-defence to
refuse. Every indulgence he can wish, for the
profession of his religion, though 1 think it la-
mentably corrupt and very dangerous, I can give
with a free heart and every brotherly wish. But
to give him power, in the remotest degree, to
injure, counteract, or any way impede the faith.
which I hold sacred, I never can consent. I
know what he must do when he is able ; and
that assures me what I must do also, in my own
defence, as long as I have any power to act.
The case, in a religious point of view, stands
thus between us. The pure and ancient creeds
of our religion (the Apostles, &c.) we both hold
in common ; but the Church of itome has added
a fourth creed, which we reject in all its parts.
Their fourth creed we think corrupt and super-,
stitious—our rejection of it they pronounce dam-
nable. Under such circumstances, union is im-
possible, hut Christian charity may still subsist,
and on oar parts, I trust, will never receive any
violation.

CATHOLICUS.

DapDFUL RIOT IN Si'. GILES'S.---During the
whole of Sunday afternoon, the parishes of St.
Giles and Bloomsbury were one scene of riot and
disturbance, arising out of one of those brawls
which occasionally take place between the low
Irish' residing in that quarter. About three
o'clock, a mob of about 200 persons assembled
in Buckeridge-street, armed with sticks and
other weapons, and commenced a most desperate
fight, each party being decorated with distin-
guishing colours. The women employed them-
selves in collecting brickbats for their respective
champions, and at length one party beat the
other into High Holborn. The latter then rallied,
and forced the others back to St. Giles's again,
where the affray was truly dreadful, and no less
than 20 men were conveyed to the hospitals and
doctors' shops, four of whom are reported to have
died sootr afterwards. At length Samuel Furz-
man, one of constables of the parish, with about
20 assistants, arrived, but were speedily repulsed;
and it was not till Sir Robert Baker sent a strong
detachment of the Bow-street patrole, that any
thing like'order could be maintained. The of-
ficers charged upon them with their swords,
and succeeded in apprehending about twenty of
the principal rioters, who were lodged in the
strong room of St. Giles's watch-house. They
were examined yesterday at Bow-street, and se-
veral were held to bail.

An experiment is now making at Whitebaven
for keeping herrings fresh and sweet for a long
journey in summer, by means of pyroligneons
acid. The fish are wiped dean and their gills
removed, and, they are then brushed lightly over
with the acid. Haddocks, equal to those froth
Aberdeen, may be prepared by the same acid,
after.being,slightly rubbed with salt. It ghes
_them the smoked taste of Finnaud haddock.