The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-05 00:00:00

SPARRING AT TLIE TENNIS COURT.

Harry Holt took his benefit yesterday, and had a respect-
able muster of the " right sort" to witness the sports. The
setting-to was good, and gave general satisfaction. A
set-to between Torn Spring and WhiteAczuled Bob afford-
ed much pleasure, and the Ex-champion was hailed with
enthusiastic applause. Harry Holt set.to with Ned Neal,
anti apologised for the absence of Young Dutch Sam ; but
before the display was over Sam made I;is appearance, to
redeem his pledge, having rode forty miles for that pur-
pose. This circumstance he announced, and was loudly
cheered.

Roche, as well as Neal, was present. The former was a
good deal punished about the head, while Neal chewed but
a slight discolouration on the right eye, and appeared as if
nothing had happened.
NEW MA rCH FOE NEAL.-After Neal had finished his
set-to with Holt, he said he was prepared to meet the chal-
lenge given to him by Maurice Delay, and fight him for a
hundred a-side.

Ned Stockman immediately challenged him to fight
Young Dutch Sam from 1001. to 500/. ; he would give
ll
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Neal said, if Sam meant to sanction Stockman's proposi-
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offer, and 21. a-side were put down to make the match
the same evening at Tom Spring's. match,i
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a-side, to fight in May, previded he would fight 10st. 101 b.
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Should the snatch be off with Neal, Sam will no doubt ac-
commodate the Snob.

HARRY JONES AND Tn RzioxE.—The third deposit
for this fight was made good last night at Harry Holt's.
PADDY FLYNN and BLISSETT.—The second deposit for
this fight will be made good this evening at Harry Holt's.

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work to the notice of the public.
On Monday last a selection of Sacred Music
was performed on the organ of St. Leonard's Church,
Shoreditch, by Mr. Mather, the Organist of St. Bride's,
in the presence of several of the respectable parishioners.
The instrument, which has just undergone a thorough re-
pair by Mr. Buckwell, the organ-builder, is considerably
improved, and under tke hands of the above-mentioned
scientific performer, gave general satisfaction.
Mr. Win. Perry, farmer, of the New Forest,
Hants, died last week in consequence of taking a quantity
of colchicum wine in mistake. The wine had been placed
by his bedside instead of a draught which he was ordered
to take,
the label.
e,andhe swallowed it in the morning without look-'
ing

the ships on the coast
the
tremendous wind of Monday evening
occasioned an appalling destruction of property amongst
the shipping at Hull. A whole tier of vessels broke from
their moorings in the Dock. From the sudden change in
had no warning, nor time to get off the land : thirteen ves-
sels went on shore at Filey, five at Scarborough, and a
large number in the intermediate line. The life-boat esta
bfishment was eminently useful in saving numerous mari-
ners and others, who must otherwise inevitably have pc-
wind from W.N. W. to E.N.E.,
risl I ed.— Stanybrd Mercury.
The suffering state of the silk-weavers in
Taunton has excited the compassionate solicitude of the
inhabitants, who have obtained the sanction of the bailiffs
for a public fleeting next Tuesday-, to consider what Inca
sure of relief can be adopted on the occasion. The dis-
tress of the artisans employed in this staple manufacture
of the town, begins now to assume a serious character,
and it is at once wise and benevolent in our town.nen to
adopt some timely provision, if possible, for preventing the
further accumulation of the evil, before the rigour of
winter shall augment the distress of the individuals, and
increase the difficulties of mitigating their wants.— Tutu,
ton Coaricr.

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS,

The recovery of the Earl of Liverpool from
the melancholy malady' into which be fell nearly
two years ago, being from the first hopeless, its
termination in death was an object rather to be
desired than deprecated ; and now that the event
has actually taken place, we should consider it
as a relief, and not as a new affliction, to his
surviving friends. When the mind of man is
- gone, the vital functions cannot cease too soon,
and the body sink into its kindred earth too ra-
pidly. A living monument of departed genius
ssr talent, or even of ordinary human intelligence,
is a 'slistressing object to view. The situation
which Lord Liverpool was reduced by a stroke
of apoplexy tsn the 17th of February, I-827, is
well known to the public. We shall subjoin an
account of the event, as it was reported in the
journal at the time. And the bodily sufferings of
his Lordship were closed yesterday morning at an
early hour at Coombe-Wood. The slay of death
is with some the season of panegyric. It is, no
doubt, the time at which all enmities should be
appeased,—all injuries forgiven ; but there is no
era at which the truth, the unadorned truth,
ought not to be spoken of public men ; and
Lord Liverpool neither provoked enmities nor
inflicted injuries. Of all the Statesmen who
have lived in our day, he was the one who di-
verged least from his course, to excite indigna-
tion, or instil hatred, by personal attack or wan-
ton insult. It was his habit simply and frigidly,
to ti.,:fend his own measures, and to oppose those
of his political antagonists, by time best reason-
ing of which he was master. For the purity of
his moral conduct, the rectitude of his mind, and
the uniformity of his political principles, he was
much and deservedly respected. Indeed he was
never tempted to swerve from the course which
vs'AF. prescribed to him by his father, and was
adopted in early life, by any extraordinary ir-
radiation of genius, any burst of fancy, or
any sudden perception of innate and late-
waked sagacity. But if every thing with
him was moderate, every thing was steady,
sedate, and even dignified. He commenced
his political career under Mr. Pitt, who, though
he admired and approved of his industry and
integrity, had no high opinion Of his talents;
neither could that more eminent statesman have
believed it possible, that the councils of this great
nation should have been directed by one of Lord
Liverpool's powers for the space of fifteen years.
The exclamation which Mr. Rose imputes to
his dying patron—" Oh, my country ! my
country !" and which he asserts to have been
the last words spoken by Mr. Pitt, would have
been absurd if he who spoke them had thought
that a survivor whose principles were so much
identified with his own, had possessed also the
necessary capacity for giving them effect. Still,
with but a short interval that almost escapes
observation on a cursory review of time past,
Lord Liverpool has been Prime Minister of
England from that tune to time present. After
the animated debates on the subject of •the
second Regency, • his Lordship glided, by
an easy descent, frem the councils of the
father to those of the son, whose change
of sentiment, natural if not commendable,
made an opening for the new guest. The state
of Europe continued to be most tempestuous
for many 'years afterwards ; and if the native
energies and unconquerable spirit of the people
were their chief support ; during-the
.arduous
struggle in which they continued to be engaged,
time character of their Prime Minister was gene-
rally unsullied by any of those intrigues, cabals,
and Court factions, in which politicians are too
apt to be immersed. His views were simple,
and his soul sincere. He did the work of a
statesman with unremitting industry, and sunk
the victim of his own labours.
(From the Times of Monday, Feb. 19, 1827.)
We are concerned to announce that the Earl of
Liverpool was, about noon on Saturday last, seized
with a fit of paralysis, and that his physician, Dr.
Dreyer, hardly expected him to survive the night :
arty thing like recovery was held to be quite out of
the question. The Noble Lord had been sitting
alone, and so sudden was the attack, that he had not
time to ring the bell, but was found by some of his
family stretched upon the flocr, and speechless. He
continued yesterday in a hopeless state, the use of
one side quite gone, as well as the power of speech.
This result of the bad state of health under which
his Lordship had long been suffering was by no
means unlooked for by his medical advisers. For
three years past the average rate of his pulse had not
exceeded 45, and - from other circumstances attend-
ing the circulation, such a catastrophe had been ap-
prehended as has just occurred.—Times.
We briefly call attention to a Parliamentary
paper of the very highest moment, presenting a
statement of the labours, so far as they have
gone, of the Commissioners for investigating
b b
the public charities throughout England, and for
ascertaining what means have been actually pro-
vided by law, for the e-
ueation, gratuitous or
otherwise, of Enalish youth. Fifteen counties
in England and 'Wales have not yes been re-
ported, but in those counties and cities which
have been already examined and reported on by
readers say to the
the committee, what Will our

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

AIANSION-HOUSE.

A scene was yesterday represented at the Justice-
room, which further illustrates the very unfair prac-
tice of paying the male pauper of one parish to take
the burden off another parish, by marrying a female
who claims upon the funds.
Charles Clarke, one of Saunders's equestrian troop,
and Ma►y, his wife, were brought before the LORD
MAYOR, charged with having solicited charity in the
streets. Allen, the °Ulcer, found them begging be-
fore the gates of the Mansion-house, and took them
into custody.
The LORD MAYOR immediately suspected that
this wedding was concerted by a parish, and desired
to know whether Clarke had got any fortune with
his wife.
Clarke said he, married for loa e, not for money. •
In order to ascertain how the matter stood, 11:s
Lordship desired the pauper to mention the parti-
culars of his marriage.
Clarke—Why, your Lordship, I belonged to the
Saunders's troop, and we went down to Greenwich
about a year and a half ago, for to show off at the
fair. So I saw this body (pointing to his wife)
there. L► the night I was in want of a bed, and I
went to a house and asked the people of it whether
they could let me have a place to lie down in. They
said no, but I might lie down before the fire, and
who
.should be lying on the chairs but herself.
(Laughter.) So I axed her to get me a little sum-
mut to think, and she did so very kindly; and after
we drinked, I some how or other found my head
upon her pillow. (Loud laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR asked whether he found hiA
head in that situation the first time he beheld her ?

income amounting to the enormous sum of be-
tween 480,000/. and 500,000/. per annum ?
How magnificent is this fund for public edu-
cation ! How ample, if well applied, to edu-
cate nearly the whole rising generation !
How frightful must have been the amount
of malversation which could have produced
a necessity so glaring for the commission first
moved by Mr. Brougham ; and how mortified the
stubborn anti heartless arrogance of those by whom
it would, if they durst, have been defeated !
—Rid.

As the Parliamentary season approaches the
Duke of Wellington begins to feel sensibly the
impossibility of maintaining the campaign, with
the undisciplined and inexperienced troops which
he commands ; and for some time past various
rumours have, in consequence, been afloat re-
specting the alterations which he intends to make
in the Cabinet. Few of these, we suspect, have
any solid foundation, or are very likely to termi-
nate to the satisfaction of those who originated
them. There is little doubt, however, that pro-
posals have been lately made to Mr. Uttsk-isson,
to Mr. Charles Grant, and to Lord Dudley, to
j and that they,
,loin their former colleagues, on
.the other hand, have signified no unwillingness to
accept the office on condition that such measures
shall be pursued as will not compromise their
principles. But in case of such a coalition being
formed, a difficulty of no small moment
still to be overcome ; we mean, that of find-
ing places for them ; for, on the one hand,

the buke cannot well turn round upon those who
adhered to him " iu his hour of difficulty," and
tell them that he has no further occasion for

their services, and, on the other, unless he dis-
misses them he has no where to bestow his

new auxiliaries. Tha creation of two or three

additional Secretaryships of State after the
example of Mr. Pitt, would certainly solve
the difficulty ; but the country in these piping

He replied, that he certainly did; but then, as an
excuse for that, they were both so poor. (A laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR—But when did you marry
her? - Did you follow up the courtship from that
moment ?—Clarke : I went away next day, for we
was to ride at another place in the troop, but I came
back to Greenwich at the next fair, and I axed for
her. So they told me she was in the workhouse,
and as I was badly off myself, I went off to her and
axed her to marry me at once. (Laughter.) She
said she coud'nt without the consent of the master.
So I goes up to the workhouse-keeper, and tells
him I wanted her. " Wants her," says he, " what
do you want with her? Do you want her to be your
servant,or doyou want to live scandalously with her ?"
(Loud laughter.) . " I wants her for my wife," says
I, "and I'll take her away now if you lets me."
The LORD MAYOR—And so they gave her to
you ? Clarke : The workhouse-keeper wouldn't do
anything, for he thought I was a rogue. So I went
to the overseer, and proposed the marriage to him.
" Very good," says, " but you had better wait for
three Sundays, and then you shall have .5/.;" but I
wouldn't consent to no such delay.
The LORD MAYOR—What ! not for 5/. ?—Clarke
—No, your Lordship; her fortune wasn't my object.
So I told him I was quite uneasy, and I knew she
was uneasy, too, to get married (laughter); and
then he bought the licence, and we was spliced at
once. (Continued laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR said that this mode of getting
rid of paupers was extremely reprehensible.
Clarke declared that it was not to oblige the
parish he married—it was because he was in love.
(A laugh.) •
The LORD MAYOR—And the match was really a
love-match ?—Clarke said he was perfectly satisfied.
He was as poor as possible; but riches did not make
people happy; and if he had five shillings, he and
his wife would go down and visit their parish at
Norwich, and stay and die there.
The LORD MAYOR again reprobated the pauper-
marriage scheme; and giving Clarke five shillings,
advised him, not to meddle with any more paupers,
nor to appear in London again as a vagrant.
A poor man, named Long, was charged with hav-
ing stolen a cod-fish at Billingsgate. He was appre-
hended with the fish in his pessession, and he ap-
peared dreadfully agitated, but it was evidently not
on his own account.
Upon being asked what he had to say, •
The unfortunate man said, that his wife and three
children were starving at home, and he had com-
mitted the robbery to support life in them. Re was
ashamed to apply for parish relief, and had no other
means of obtaining victuals.
The LORD MAYOR ordered that inquiry should be
made into the case.
Booker, the beadle of Bishopsgate,,stated, that he
ascertained that the prisoner and his family, who
belonged to his parish, were in the most deplorable
condition, and that they had not applied for parish
relief, which, if they had sought it, would have been
most cheerfully dealt out to them. The unfortunate
man had been most respectable.
The prosecution was not persevered in, and the
prisoner and his family were received into the work-
house.

times of peace, of heavy taxes and stagnation of she questioned the prisoner upon the subject, and
trade, would not be much inclined to patronise after some heitation he acknowledged to her that he
such a step, and, indeed, the cure might in was married to another woman at the time he mar-
ried her. The prisoner then produced a paper, and
the long run be worse than the diSease. It is be-
b
sides inaderstood, that Lord Melbourne and his directed her to sign it. The prisoner explained that
iir:igmthat paper she promised never to appear
brother coLsider themselves as having strong against
(the prisoner) on account of his having
claims to be included in any new arrangement imarried her at a time when his first wife was living.
that may be made, and that these claims are i The witness consented to sign the paper, on condi-
powerfully supported in a quarter which can give tion that the prisoner should bind himself by a so-
them effect. Such, we have been given to lemn oath never to desert her or the child she had
understand, is the present situation of affairs. borne him. The prisoner took an oath to that effect,
The rumour of Lord Sidinouth's return to and she signed the paper.
w11...rr. MlNN•sruuLL—And did he keep his promise?
an active part in the Cabinet is wholly destitute
ao'dtb7siTeveor,
.Sir; he desertedton:se,ary
of foundation. His recent interviews with thedesrythson" after,
Duke of Wellington related, it is understood, o f his
nhee pennyliiies I was in thee ,Tepapteosrtt
entirely to his son, Mr. Addington, who, it is distress. Had he kept the oath he had taken, and
understood, is about to be appointed to a new been kind to his child and me, I would not have ap-
embassy.—Morning Advertiser. peared against him.
Thomas Ayling, the young man who on the first
DEATH OF THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL.--
dexdamo examination objected to be sworn, alleging that he
This truly amiable and excellent Nobleman was
t believe in a future state of rewards and pu-
yesterday relieved from all sublunary cares and nishments, was then called forward, he having been
afflictions, when his pure spirit departed hence a subscribing witness to the first marriage. As the
for " another and a better world," there to re- oath was about to be administered to him, the Ma-
ceive the due reward of his virtues in eternal gistrate observed, " I have directed that you should
bliss. His Lordship had, through a long and be sworn in the usual way, because lam unwilling
laborious political life, successively filled nearly to believe that any human being, pos,essed of com-
the whole of' the Great Offices of State. Under mon reason or common sense, can in his heart, be an
the virtuously fostering hand of the immortal Atheist.—The witness made no reply.
Mr MINSTLL then directed that the register of
William Pitt, who early discovered his high .RI
marriages solemnized in the New Church of St. Pan-
,he was invested with important eras should be produced, by which it appeared that
political trust, and gradually passing through in June, 1823, a marriage was solemnized in that
all the Principal Secretaryships of State, at church, between Daniel Heath and Caroline Char-
length became the Prime Minister of Great neau, to which marriage Thomas Ayling had sub-
Britain, in which high and arduous Office scribed his name as a witness, together with one
he acquitted himself at once with distinguished Sarah Elizabeth Moor.
Mr. MINSIIULL asked Ayling if he recollected
advantage to his. own country, and acknow-
be.ing present at the ceremony ?—The. witness re-
Following benefit to Europe and the whole world,
6 •plied that he was present at the wedding, and that
Followm, the virtuous and patriotic example of
0 the signature in the hook was his hand-writing. He
the great and illustrious Saviour of his Country (the witness) gave the bride away.
(whose last prayer was piously offered up for her . Mr. MINSHULL—Can you, of your own know-
glory and prosperity),. he intrepidly pursued his
ledge, say that she was living on the 26th Septem-
wisely adopted path, in fearless defiance of the bee, 1826 ? Witness—l really cannot undertake to
most determined systematic opposition, and at say whether she was no was riot.
length accomplished the proud triumph of the Mr. Thisselton, the parish clerk of St. Pancras,
principleS of Pitt, in the overthrow of the most was asked if he recollected bring present at the
marriage of the prisoner and Caroline Charneau.--
implacable and formidable enemy with whom
Mr. Thisseyon replied that he had no recollection
England has ever had to contend, and the eon-
of the parties, but he rather thought he could not
sequent emancipation of Europe from the tyranny have been present, as his name did not appear as a
and oppression under which it had so long and witness. Upwards of 4,000 marriages had been
so painfully groaned.—Morning Post. solemnized in St. Pancras New Church since 1823.
Mr. MINSIIULL—Haying now sufficient evidence
before me, I can certainly feel no hesitation in. re-
manding the prisoner to a future day.
The prisoner was then rep oved in custody, and
will be brought forward again on Wednesday next
We understand that up to the period of his appre
hension he was a clerk in the office of Messrs. Big.
-tell and 10berts, solicitors, Lincoln's-inn.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Yesterday, William Smith, Esq., an East India
merchant, and stated to be a gentleman of very
extensive fortune, residing at Euston-place, New-
road, was brought before Sir GEonta; FARRANT,
the sitting Magistrate, in custody of \Vestcott, the
dicer, under a warrant, charged with violating the
person of a young female, named Jane Byrne, un-
der the following very extraordinary circumstances :
The complainant, a good-looking young woman,
about 25 years of age, deposed that in September
last she observed an advertisement in the Times
newspaper, stating that a housemaid was wanted in
the establishment of a single gentleman of fortune,
where a regular set of servants was kept; arid, in
consequence, she applied to the address given, and
having referred for her character to where she had
before resided, she thus found her way into the ser-
vice of Mr. Smith, who was the gentleman that ad-
vertised, and Mr. Smith expressed himself perfectly
satisfied with the character given of her by those
to whom she had referred him. On the 9th of
September it was that she went into Mr. Smith's
service, and although after a little experience
she did not much like the place, site continued
there without any thing particular happening until
Saturday last, the 29th of November, but on that
day the occurrences of which she now complains
took place. About two o'clock in the afternoon of
that day, while she was engaged in sweeping and
cleaning rip Mr. Smith's bed-room, arid not know-
ing that Mr. Smith had yet returned from the city,
where he had gone in the morning in his gig, she
was suddenly surprised, not. having even heard him
corning up stairs, to see Mr. Smith enter the apart-
ment in his dressing-gown, and without saying a
word he at once locked the room door; he then
seized her with great force, arid twisting both her
hands behind her back, he threw her upon the bed,
and perpetrated the offence charged against him, en-
tirely without arid against her will or consent.
(Here. the witness gave to the Magistrate that mi-
nute description of the capital offence which the law
requires.) She made, she said, all the resistance
that she possibly could against the attack upon her
virtue, and frequently screamed aloud as much as
she could for assistance, but as there happened to
Le no one in the house at the time besides .them-
selves, except the housekeeper, who was then down
in the kitchen, and this violence having taken place
on the second floor in a back room, nobody heard
her cries or came to her aid. As soon, however, as
Mr. Smith suffered her to disengage herself froin
him and quit the room, she ran down stairs irame-
diately, and told the housekeeper the shocking man-
ner in which she had been treated, and boils the
housekeeper and herself quitted the house altogether
on the same day.
Elizabeth Roebuck, a very respectable-looking
matronly female, stated that she also had got into
the service of Mr. Smith by means of an advertise-
ment in the Times newspaper about three wombs
ago, and had continued there in the capacity of
housekeeper till Saturday last, when she quitted the
house as stated by the last witness. About two
o'clock on that day, as she was doing some business
in the kitchen at the bottom of the house, she heard
suddenly the loud screams of a female above stairs ;
and as she was going up to ascertain the cause, she
met the complainant running down the stairs, scream-
ing aloud, her hair all hanging about her, and her
clothes in the utmost state of disorder; and on
questioning her as to the cause, the girl .exclaimed
that Mr. Smith had utterly ruined her, for that he
had forcibly violated her person. Mr. Smith came
down stairs shortly after, and abused her, the wit-
ness, in the most gross language, so that she quitted
the house on the same day, as did also the com-
plainant. Witness knew nothing whatever, she
said, of the complainant, nor did she ever see her
in her life until she met her at Mr. Smith's house.
There were about 100 young girls came in conse-
quence of Mr. Smith's advertisement for a house-
maid, but the complainant was selected by Mr.
Smith himself from amongst them, as preferred.
Mr. Smith, who seems to be a gentleman about
.50 years of age, and of a very nervous habit of body,
stated in reply to thecharge,that this was art accusa-
tion entirely got up against him with a view to ex-
tort money from him, because he was known to be
a man of large fortune, and he therefore earnestly
entreated the Magistrate to investigate the case fully
and sift it to the bottom before lie entertained such
a charge against a gentleman, a man of fortune, arid
a man of as high honour as any Englishman ever
possessed.
Sir G. PARHAM' should certainly investigate the
case as far as his duty as a Magistrate enabled him
to do; but if the evidence of these two women re-
mained unshaken and uncontradicted by other evi-
dence, however painful the duty, he must feel him-
self bound to commit Mr. Smith to Newgate, to
take his trial for the capital felony.
Mr. Smith then stated the facts to be, that this
woman, the housekeeper, came into his service by
means of a false character, and upon detecting that,
he ordered her to quit his house within a given time,
arid, moreover, he found out that she was an Irish-
woman, arid every body knew that the less people