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London, England, 1817-11-25 00:00:00

Pitt;IIINCIAL JOURNALS.

Among the several testimonies of grief on ac-
c9unt of the recent National Loss, we have not
?eel) a more allect iog tribute to the lamented Pi in-
cvss CHARLOTTE, than the following Extract from
The Leicester Journal, anti Midland Counties Ge-
neral Adee)lizer, cf the 21st inst.

A:nidst acclaim of-universal praise;
44 If. Lii-e'S and G 1 y's freshest
4 Death came remorseless on and sunk her to the tomb."
Wc n vt•r ICco!ic.et a more Sacteti observance
of National humiliation than appeared on Wed-
nt•;dry, the day appointed for the interment of
the etir •I,e-latnetited Princess Charlotte. There
tt as no • difference of Opinion. Pet sons of every
r..ligi'ons and political perstiasion were 11111“111110LIS
io !heir tt ;:titnony of -grief, for the great calamity
that has he.hallen the nation. The windows of
every shop were closed ; there was a total sus-
-I,ensinn front business ; and houses not imme-
diately connected With trade, had their windows
•closed as far as it was practicable. The several
places of Worship were crowded, and the great
British 'Family-, animated by the same feelings,
la'n,wring under the same calamity, and mingling
martial tears, appeared prostrate at the foot of our
aitars, acknowledging the powers and mercies of
Rea ven. At St. Martin's Church, a most excel-
lent and highly impressive discourse was delivered
by the Rev. Edward Thomas Vaughan, from 15th
chap. Ist Corin. 53d ver. For this corrupti-
ble must put on incorruption.' The whole Cor-
porate Body attended upon the occasion', and, we
understand, the worthy Vicar has conceded to
their rrquest of puhlishing•the Sermon at their
expence.
_ _ _

" The silence of the tomb has now received the
remains of a Princess on whom the fondest hopes
of a whole people were reposed, anti over whose
ashes tl'e. onbidtlen tears of a nation fall. For
we know of no exceptions. The sternness of the
fiercest factions, utilised as they are to the.visit-
'iog of sympathy, where royalty is concerned, has
been softened, and one searching feeling of re-
vo-et, like the pressure of Shiite kindly and univer-
sally operating element, has spread over all minds
the sadness of Sorrow, and tendered them to the
•Impression of the common- calamity. In this
there is no affectation, for in whatever light,the
melancholy event presents- itself, it sitekes sonic
aspect of deep and affecting interest. It was un-
expected. Hope was in her full career, heedless
in the intrusions of disappointment. We saw, in
the person of the Princess Charlotte, a future So-
- vereign ; principled in the theory and the love of
the Constitution ; educated in strong regards and
reverence for our civil and ecclesiastical institn-
tioos ; rising in the habits of all the virtues which
.more adorn a crown, than are adorned by it ; and
preparing for the discharge of high public ditties,
by the culture of those private, social, and do-
mestic habitudes, which at once soften and
strengthen the character, and shed grace and love-
liness on power, at the same time that they en-
rich and uphold its dignity. We saw in her not
only a future Sovereign, surrounded with 'all the
attributes which bind up the loyalty, of feeling
with thc loyalty of ptinciples, but the mother of
Sovereigns, British, Christian, and patriotic.
rhe sanctuary of Claremont, consecrated by
domestic peace, studious and correct habits, the
warmth of charity, and the bendings .of comic-
scension, was fondly contemplated as the cradle of
our furore Kings, and destined to connect with
their earliest associations, all which could give
•.streng•h of virtue, and public spirit to dominion.
The vision is dissipated ; all is in a moment va-
'nished ; and the scene is filled only with images
of physical mental torture, lot-lend trains,
anti the sad and solemn pomps of death. The
suddenness of the stroke, notwithstanding its
weight, almost forbids the belief of the tact : and
we ask, are all these die musings of melancholy,
Gr are they disastrous realities ? Had the illnstri-
ous personage moved in a much lower sphere, the
event would have awakened strong emotions
Youth, beauty, and worth, the joy of a hits-
band, and the hope of a family, cannot die un-
wept. IF er such, the sweetest strains of poetry
have flowed, and round their bier, in fondest re-
grets, have lingered. Feeling springs from the
heart, when the simplest record of the fact is read
on the tomb-stone, or when the tale is told on
the family hearth. The strong and universal
*motion ()folic country, on this greater occasion,
is therefore, hut natural. The loss is felt as a fa-
luny affliction ; the private affliction has a tide of
grief, swelled by the sense of public loss. The
mint) alterthoes between both, and it adverts to
the one only, to spring with quickened sensibility
to the other. Youth, and grace, anti dignity, and
worth, are gone ; and this youth, this grace, this
dignity; this worth, were the public property. In
these we had all an interest, and to all they are
lost. But for a more rigid and powerful destiny,
-they were destined to give splendour to the throne,
and mildness to dominion. They would have
been the finished capital of the column of so-
ciety, proud to be borne by it, and-giving it, in
retitru, its proportion and majesty. Her's was a
character to have purified a court, to have fallen
with it strong sanction upon the proprieties of
life, and to have hallowed the domestic habits of
• Bviton's home.. It would have afforded a slid-.
ter to virtue from the attacks of scorn, anti
• whatsoever things are pure, and lovely,- and
honest, and of good report,' would have vege-
•tateti and flourished tinder it. Her's would have
'formed a happy succession to the. reign of a Sove-
reign (now happily, perhaps, in his own afflic-
tion, insensible-to' the loss sustained by his house
and people), to whose personal character the
•eountry is so much indebted, and which sur-
'rounded his Throne with reverence, and kept an
affectionate loyalty warm in the hearts of his
people, when it had become a fashion to scoff at
King,,, and the passion for change -was mire-
It rallied by the. majesty of thrones. and the anti-
' ooit y of But whilst these reflections
!,•ioliten our reo.cts, they also prove them un-
.r...Hog. Vile pall is thrown over the -scene, -and
-wo:4,lhe laMeoted Princess some of the best hopes.
nation descend into the grave." •

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 44.

The LORD CHANCELLOR this morning gave
judgment in several cases which v: ere of no public
importance. He ordered further hearing in the
case of Procter v. Procter to be postpo►►ed, in con-
sequence of sonic new affidavits being filed.

WILLIAMS V. THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE LAND-

TAX.

This • was an appeal from a judgment of the
Vice-Chancellor, respecting a demurrer which
had been tiled by the defendants against a bill filed
by the plainiiff. The bill was filed by the plain-
tiff for the, put pose of compelling the defendants
to complete a contract into which they hart en-
tered win) hini for the redemption of the Land-
Tax. Against this hill they put in a deMurrer on
three grounds : Ist. Tlint ihe bill was not sus-
tainable, inasmuch as it appeared in the nature of
a wirridanius, and should therefore have been
brought before a Court of Law. 2diy, That the
case was one in which.this Court had no jurisdic-
tion, because the defendants had acted in the
wi“,le transaction as the agents of Government,
and were therefore not individually responsible,
as the bill sought to make them ; and besides the
question, as a matter of revenue, ought to come be-
tore the Court of Exchequer. idly, The plaintiff
could possibly have no equity whatever, because
another person had made an offer higher in point
of value than be had. The Vice-Chancellor al-
lowed the demurrer, in consequence of which the
present appeal came before his Lordship.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL and Mr. BELL were
heard in support of the Vice-Chancellor's judg-
ment, and Sir SAMUEL RoMILLY for the plaintiff.
Mr. TROWER was proceeding on the saute side,
when the Court rose at two o'clock.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 24.

THE KING V. JOHN CEIUKCH.

Mr. 111A.ItRYAT prayed the judgment of the
Com t against this miscreant; aMethonist Preacher,
who, it will be recollected, was convicted at the
last Assizes for tl►e County of Surrey, before Lord•
EllenborOugh, of an assault upon a young man,
named Adam Foreman, with intent to commit an
atrocious offence.

The defendant now put in Affidavits, complain-
ing of defamatory publications issued against burn
since the trial, and of his having been serenaded
in his house by a tumultuous mob, with marroW-
bones and cleavers. He also 'lige(' as a circum-
stance of mitigation, that he was a married man,
with four children

Mr. MaaavAT addressed the Court in aggrava-
tion of punishment.

Mr. GURNEY and the COMMON SERJEANT, who
appeared on the defendant's behalf at the
were now without any instructions.
Mr. JusticellAyLEy then proceeded to pass sen-
tence, previously to which he addressed the pri-
soner in nearly the following -.worth :—" John
Church, it becomes my painfl.l duty to pass the
sentence of the Court upon you for a crime which
is shocking to the ears of men in civilised society,
or to men in any state. You are a man somewhat ad-
vanced in years. From your situation as a preacher,
it .was your duty to inculcate morality upon others,
not less by your example.than by your words. It
was yOur duty to point out the punishment which
hereafter awaited such gross violations of the
law of nature as that for the attempt to commit
which you stand convicted. It was also your
duty to impress upon the minds of those persons
whom you undertook to instruct in tine work of
salvation every thing which could tend to that
great end,- and those persons looked up to you,
as they generally do to their preachers, for ex-
amples of that morality which they preach ; and
it is unnecessary for me to state how very much
young persons, so circumstanced as some of your
bearers, are apt to be influenced by the conduct
of their teacher. How very badly you fulfilled
that impottant duty, the situation in which you
now stand is a melancholy proof. The lind on
whom • you had this. unnatural design was very
young, and if he had, influenced by your ex-
ample, been led to perpetrate drat horrid crime,
for an attempt to commit which a Jury of
your country has found you guilty, what would
have been the consequence ? lie might have
grown up in the practice of deeds at which the
human mind revolts, and that by the fatal insti-
gation of the man -hose duty it was to guide his
mind from the commission of any offence what-
ever. , You are a married nnon, and it is disgust-
ing as well as shocking to reflect, that even that
consideration did not stay your Inorrible,atterupt.
In your affidavit you state, that you have already
suffered by the libels which have been written
against you, by the malicious reports circulated
to your prejudice, and byline attacks of the mob.
It you had prosecuted any person injuring you,
you would have found protection from the
law ; but the conduct of others towards you,
whatever it may have been, is no extenuation of
the infamy of your high crime. It is to be hoped,
that if your past life hay not been one of deep
bypocricy, you will now endeavour to amend it,
and strive to remove the infamy which your con-
duct has brought upon you. It has been very for-
tunate for you that you did not succeed in the
horrid attempt for which you have been convicted,
for then your time for repentance would not be so
long as it is now likely to be. The sentence of.
the Court is, that you, John Church, shall be im-
prisoned in his Majesty's gaol of Newington, in
the county of Surrey, for the space of two years ;
that at the expiration of that time you give se-
curity for your good behaviour for the space of flee
years, yourself 'inn the sum of 5001. and two se-
curities in the sum of 1001. each, and that you he
further imprisoned until such security is given."

The defendant was then removed from the
Court—and, in passing through 'Westminster-hall,
was assailed by the hisses and execrations of a
vast concourse of people, who were apprised of the
nature of his offence.