The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-14 00:00:00

SCOTCH :NOTES.

We stated in our last that a. meeting was about to be
held in Carlisle on the subject of a threatened withdrawal
of the circulation of Scotch notes from this district. At
that time very little was-known on the matter, but since
then, Sir James Graham,' Bart. M. P. for Carlisle, has vi-
sited Scotland for the purpose of obtaining. information;
and the result of the Honourable Baronet's inquiries was
communicated to a meeting held at the Coffee-house, on
Thursday afternoon. It appears that in consequence of
the intimation in the Report of the Parliamentary Com-
mittees on the Scotch banking system, that a general
law for the suppression of 'small notes was inevitable,
unless their circulation in England could he pre-
vented, strengthened also by some. communications
with personages high in office, the Scotch bankers
lately held a meetings and unanimously agreed to with-
draw all their agencies and commissions from the north of
England;. and they have already given 'private notice to_
that effect, and contemplated the carrying of their resolu-
tion into speedy operation,-, Sir James'a inquiries Were di-
rected to ascertain if the Scotch bankers were willing to
continue their business upon its old footing, provided the
coneurrenet of Ministers could be assured, and the reply
Was in the affirmative. The meeting of Thursday there.
fore adopted two memorials • one to 'the Lords of the
Treasury; 'the other to Scotch bankers, therein setting
forth the vast importance of the Scotch me-pound Bank-
notes to the agriculture, trade, and manufactures of the
north of England : and requesting at least a suspension of
present intentions, as a sudden change would be absolutely
ruinous, there being no visible means of supplying the defi-
ciency in the circulating medium which a hasty retirement
of the small Scotch notes would occasion, amounting, it is j
calculated, to more than two-thirds of our regular circula-
tion, besides being the main-stay of the cattle-trade in
the northern counties, Previous to this meeting, a requi-
sition for a general meeting had been forwarded from the
southern part of the county, and the northern part of
Westmorland, signed by Sir P. Musgrave and other influ-
ential persons in that quarter, with a request that the in-
habitants
'of Carlisle would sign it and co-operate. But as
the gentlemen who met at the coffee-house thought a
public discussion on such a question likely to prove disad-
vantageous, the memorials were forwarded to the south
for the concurrence of that district, and another meeting is
to take plaCe at 'the coffee-house, on Thursday, to receive
an answer, and despatch the memorials to their destina-
tion. We hope and trust than the hasty measures con-
templated by the Scotch bankers may be averted, and we
have no objection to hazard a'prediction, that the Bill of
last Session will be considerably modified in the next, for
that it is defective is admitted on all sides, except at the
Bunk of England. Certainly the English bankers are
quite as much entitled to a Committee es the Scotch, and
we dare say have an equally strong case to offer.—en dish-
Patriot.

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DEATH OF EARL GREY'S SON,----The family
of Earl Grey have been thrown into considerable affliction in con.
sequence of the rather sudden death of the 'Hon: Thomas Grey,
h►s Lordship's fifth son. The youth was just turned fourteen
years of age, and possessed most promising abilities. He had been
educated at Ripon in York Shire ; but was recently removed to
Leeds, or its neighbourhood. About eight or ten days since, he
was playing with other youths, end had neglected, as older people
frequently but dangerously do when the sun is strong, to wear my
hat or covering to the head. The excessive heat, in consequence
seriously and very peculiarly affected him, and brought ,on brain
fever. His father was sent for, who, indeed was in the North,
looking on, if not engaged in, the electioneering bustle in
Northumberland. His Lordship lost no time in proceeding to the
youth ; but so high was the fever that the son knew not his ilither
nor any person about him, till a short time before his death,
which happened on the fourth day of his•iinese,. About an hour
previously to death he recognised Earl Grey, and immediately
inquired very anxiously about his mother and sisters ; and in
about half an hour after the conversation he expired, on the fitli
instant. The Countess Grey and her daughters were in town,
but they immediately, left- London for his Lordship's residence,
Howick House, in Northumberland. Though his Lordship has a
very large. family (fourteen sous and daughters) this is the first.
death that has occurred amongst his children The Hon. Thomas
Grey, we believe, was educating for the Bar.

LOVE AND MURDER.—About ten months ago,
a double marriage was concluded at Veigneuz, between the fa-
milies of Dumoulin and Briant; John Dumoulin having married
Maria Briluit, and John Briant having married Sophia Dumoulin.
In the month of November last, at nine o'clock in the evening
John Briant, in returning from the house of the widow Dumoulin,
his mother-in-law, was assassinated. His body was found on the
following day, and suspicion fell upon a man named Docettl, who
had loug lived as a servant with the Dumoulin family, and was
+inspected of an improper intimacy with Sophia Duman,
since her marriage with the deceased. A variety of circum-
stances transpired to implicate Docenis, among other things,
it was proved, that he had said, immediately after the
murder, "I, have' just done a thing which I never did
before, :and can never do again 1" but the most conclusive
evidence. was that of a poor beggar and half idiot, named.
Colas, who, having no asylum, wanders about the fields. After,
maintaining silence for a long time, Colas said, that on the night
of the murder, he was lying in a ditch near where the body was
found, when he heard the prisoner say to Briant, " It is here that
you must die, for you have robbed me of my wife," After this
dialogue, the witness declared that he saw the prisoner fall upon
the deceased, who cried out for help. This evidence made a great
impression, and a majority of the
,Jury returned a verdict of
Guilty; but the Judges having some doubt of it, joined them-
selves to the minority, mid thus acquitted the prisoner. Doceul
was fast asleep when the verdict of acquittal was pronounced. He
was awakened by force, and apprized of it.

JUDGES IN THE TIME OF HENRY Vl.—The fol.
loWing delleription' of the Judges in the time of Henry VI. is
from an old translation of Fortescue, in praise of the Laws of
England :—" Furthermore, I would ye should know, that the
lustims of Englande sit not in the King's Court above three limns
in a day, that is to say, from eight of the clock in the forenoon('
till eleven complete, for in the afternoones those Ctiurtes are not
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holds or kept. But the suters then resort to the perusing of
their writtings, anti elsewhere consulting with the Sergeants at
Law and other their Consaylors. Wherefore the Justices, after
they have taken their refection, doe passe and bestow all the re.
sidue of the day in the study of the hives; in rending of holy
scripture, and using other kind of conteniplations at their plea.
sure, so that their life may menu) more contemplative than active.
And thus doe they lead a quiet life, discharged of all worldly
cares and troubles: and it bath never been corrupt with gifts or
bribes. Whereupon we have seen this kitule of grace following,
that skant any of them dieth without issue, which unto just men
and peculiar blessing of God, and in mine
nth‘tittlinalni(ni eptlacny,o
haveut of
oispaintiottlitliosfttho ebegjreu,liged ibirloiiiiiistinett,llainmdinltioolflottillre. boyureii,,fatliigoouod
netts of God, that mit of the generation of bulges there havt,
hitherto
merchants surmount the numbers of Judges by many
tatahisioy,itsiro:ilteldssi,risoi:ops; truart7esof:lnivientilell,i,stiaicksh, abnydtPhleirr'oowf
of just men,. saith,
being men of such singular wealth, that among them
commonly there bee ninth, as one of them in riches passeth all
the Justices of the recline. For this cannot bee ascribed to fury
tune, which is nothing, but ~it is to, be attributed (as I take it)
e
which thus eurieheth,
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►ii:Tlinag.Pileittttilihidet•
them that have her in veneration. And4beAntylottihaeilie:ilo
the law, the very will spring of justice, that by you
centPrinee; be you in love with justice,
it may be
exalted) to honour, and advanceth m perpetuity, the children of
seedusehloaluer:
said, as it is Written of the righteous,
main far ever.'"