The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-19 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCt,

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.
ArrOINTMENIS FOR TIIIS ♦WEEK.
Vine Hounds, on Thursday, at Ash Warren Farm ; and
Saturday, at Northanger—at ten.
The Surrey Fox-hounds, on Thursday, Irt Godstune ; and
Saturday, at Leaves Green—at hall.past ten.
The Halifax Subscription Hounds, on Thursday and
Saturday, at Harrowgate.
The Lambton Fox-hounds, on Thursday, at Embleton ;
and Saturday, at Fishburn—at ten.
The Holderness Fox-hounds, on Thursday, at Vawu ;
and Saturday, at Everingham—at half-past ten.
The York and Ainsty Fox-hounds, on Thumday, at
Skipwith Bridge; and Saturday, at Aldwark Wood= at
half-past ten.
Mr. Price's Hounds, on Thursday, at Gwayinynag ;
and Saturday, at Moel Vodia—at half-past ten.
Mr. Wickstead's Fox-hounds, on Thursday, at Swinner-
ton ; and Saturday, at Willow Bridge—at half-past ten.
The Plas Teg Harriers, on Thursday, at Lane-end,
Buckley—at ten.
The Cheshire Hounds, on Thursday, at Chohnondeley ;
and Saturday, at Wrenbury Village—at half-past ten.
The Marquis of Cleveland's Fox-hounds, on Friday, at
Exilby, at half-past ten ; and Saturday, at Thieves Gell,
at eleven.
• Sir It. Puleston's Hounds, on Friday, at Harthill—at
eleven.
Lord Harewood's Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Tadcaster
Bar—at ten.
Lord Scarborough's Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Sparken
Hill ; and Saturday, at Cenisbro'—at half-past ten.
Sir T. Sykes's Fox-bounds, on Friday, at Prickte'y
Lodge—at ten.
The Hurworth Fox-hounds, on Ft iday, at Neaharn—
at ten.
The Sinnington Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Hutto*
Bank—at nine.
The York 'City Harriers, on Friday, near Poppleton
Bar—at half-past ten.
The Boroughbridge Harriers, on Friday, at Low Duns-
forth—at half-past ten.
The Northumberland Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Belsay
—at ten. , - - _

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Earl of Derby's Stag-hounds, on Friday, at Catterharn
Common—at ten.
The Conock Harriers, on Saturday, at Kinton'a Barn—
et eleven.

His MAJESTY will, it is expected, receive
the report of the Recorder of London on Monday next.
A GOVERNMENT DEFAULTER.—A defal-
cation, on the part of a person holding a confidential si-
tuation in an office in Somerset-house, to the amount, it is
rumoured, of 20,000/., has been discovered within these
few days. The delinquent has, it is said, arranged his
plans so well—and so little suspicion, up to the time of the
discovery of his defalcation, was attached to him—that
but little expectation is entertained that the defaulter can
be made to answer for his offence. The individual in
question obtained leave of absence, in the beginning of
September, for a month, on pretence of going into the
country. Not returning at the expiration of that time,
some inquiries were instituted at the beginning of last week,
when a discovery of a defalcation to the above-stated
amount was made. At the same time it was ascertained
that the defaulter had absconded. The place of his retreat
has not been yet ascertained ; it is, however, feared that the
defaulter bas availed himself of the opportunity afforded
him by, the absence of suspicion for so long a period, to get
beyond the reach of pursuit.-31orniny Herald.
LUCA GIORDANO was so remarkable for the
celerity of his pencil, that he acquired the nick-name of
Luca fa presto, " LUKE MAKEHASTE ;" and was in this
respect a contrast to CARLO Da.ct, who was singularly
slow in his manner of working; and it is reported of him
that his brain was affected by seeing LUKE despatch more
business in four or five hours than he could have done in
as many months.

SELDEN, in his History of Tithes, says that
they were anciently disposed of by the owners of the land
where they arose, at their pleasure, to such monasteries,
and in such portions, as they thought proper. tvery per-
son fonuding a church for his owu use, and that of his te-
nants, appropriated to it the tithes of his lands.

STATE OF TRADE.--There has again been
a very brisk demand for twist for shipping, and prices, for
some torts, we believe, have experienced a trifling advance.
The purchases now making are chiefly for the German mar-
kets, the buyers for which have kept aloof until this time,
in the hope that when the Russian orders we re-executed,
they might come in on more favourable terms. This ex-
pectation has not been realised ; and they ate Anted, at
the end of the season, and with no stocks pressing on the.
market, to make their purchases. In Haniburgh also, we
understand, the stocks are very light ; so that there seems
no doubt of the briskness continuing so long as the Elbe
remains open. Manufactured goods are still dull. We
have heard of some very large sales of power-loom cloth
this week, but at very low prices. We regret to say, there
have been further failures in Glasgow, to a considerable
extent, both in the shipping and yarn trades.—/licuschester
Mercury.
BLISTERED FEET.—The following mode of
cure was communicated to Captain Cocuttaxe, and which
he says he never found to fail:—" It is simply to rub the
feet at going to bed, with spirits mixed with tallow
dropped from a lighted candle into the palm of the hand.
On the following morning no blisters exist ; the spirits
seem to possess the healing power, the tallow serving only
to keep the skin soft and pliant. The soles of the feet, the
ancles, and insteps,
should be rubbed well ; and even where
no blisters exist, the application may be usefully madeas a
il
preventive. Salt and water is a good substitute--and while
on this head, I would recommend foot-travellers never to
wear right and left shoes ; it is bad economy, and inded
serves to cramp the feet ; and such I felt to be the case.'—
Cochrane's Pedestrian Tour.-
The following is so extraordinary a specimen
of what can be done by a person who can write, that we
should not consult the amusement of our readers did we
not publish it, letter for letter, as we received it :
" to the Edeter of the Brighton .Herlad
ienh the
And familyNvo way
let her suck well last Mondy the old Anitnall was confind
And
den up the
set
" Sir A Most Curie And Extroydny thing as our Readers
oftin hear in a house on the right hand side of Lowr Rock
gardins Leading from hieratic Parade to St. Jameses st
ther is a very fine cat there that in Aprill last had a Link
of very fine kitins one of them was keept And suckled her
Mother hoo was very kind to her till withn this Last week
Ltitble daughter
very
very heavy
with out much asistance the old Lady the Mrs of the cat
drownded the young fatnly then the old cat become very
old
Poor ca
Painefull with her milk the Craftness of the old eat Pre-
tend to be very fond of the former kitin and cudild it and
huged it to Get it to suck againe and what is very extroy-
day. thing to me the wonderful large kitin took to the at
again i wonder if my mother could get me to suck :vine
now if she was to try Mr. EdeterPremit to beg of you to
Publish, this in your very usefull and iutresting Paper ok!
Saturdy .next. .

Mr Edeter i remain your obedint seryant
—Brighton Rerald. 4. W. H."

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SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

The prospects for the poor Spanish refugees
begi►►ning in sonic degree to brighten, the friends
of htrn4anity will look With natural i►opatience tci
the daily arltount of subscriptions, which, of

course, the counrthige, or those individuals who

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have been hitherto rO5l. forward to constitute

the quorum acting in its name, of course
submit regularly to public inspection. The
rnt'eting about to be presided over by the Lord
Mayor Neill form a crisis ill the fate of theseun-

exilest'?lld 0.4 e by
and we are satisfied that nothing
v
the Chief Magistrate, or
ftrosc who act, in co-operation with his Lordship,
to render that auspicious day as fruitful of bless-
ings to the destitute, as of honour and inward
peace to their benefactors. Above all things, it
%i happyl)e
left
would be desirable that previous arrangements
;should be agreed upon for giving-the most abun-
dant effect to the generous feelings of the public.
A subscription will, of course, be entered into
on the spot, and-a-notification made of the bank-
ing-houses ready to receive further contribu
.. ,
tions. .A. specific appointment should be an-
nounced of certain . tradeSmen's houses in the

most public streets of London and Westminster,
ithere books may be opened for the record of
namegi however humble, and sums however
small ; and where boxes marked " Distressed
Spaniards" may be placed on the counters, being
first sealed over the lock with the seal of the
Secretary, and one or more of the Committee.
A narrow hole ought to be cut in the lid of the
box in which the contributor, alter signing his
name in the book, may deposit his money, and
the book and box, after some days, be both at
the same time. delivered up on the requisition of
the Committee. The expediency of circular
visits throughout the town may be considered
before the meeting, and there discussed, some
authority being shown by the parties to prove
that th,tv Act-on behalf of the Spanish Commit-
tee.. We /i,ould strenuously' recommend and
supplicate, that time measures-. for the relief of
these unfortunate people should not be confined
to Tionden. Why: should not the rich and ge-
nerous eonamiliiitreS .•of Liverpool, Bristol,
Leeds, Manchester, &c: &c., be rivals of the
metropolis in deeds of merry, as well as in_ those
efibrts of science and industry from which the
fountains of beneficence are supplied? We re-
peat our respectful solicitation to the clergy of
England in a cause so worthy of their liberal
character, and of their sacred calling, that they
will join their pereoia.infinertee over the better
portions OF society,' Of .So many of
its most distinguished laymen, for the fur-
therance of a work so eminently virtuous and
Christian. Amongst an immense multitude
of letters, we have received two from Dissent-
ing Clergymen near London, whose exertions
from the pulpit last year obtained very con-
siderable sums. for the use of these unhappy
objects. After the motley shall have reached
the hands of the Committee, we doubt not that
it will be distributed with impartial kindness
and regularity among those for whose relief.
it is designed. . No individual, however eonsin,
cuous—Spanish or English—we are sure, will
be suffered by the Committee to employ success-
fully his personal interest, in favour of any friends
or dependents, to the exclusion of equal claims
in other quarters, or to the creation of any well-
'founded jealousies among people, whose extreme
privation and cruel suffering must naturally ren-
der them keen-sighted to the treatment experi-
enced both by themselves and by their fellows.
We merely throw out these general hints, be- '
cause however numerous or distinguished may
be the names upon the list of the Committee,
still if the realty acting persons be but few (as
is the case with most charities), it is the more
essential for them to be cautious of affording
even a shadow of pretence for murmur. In the
mean time let no effort be relaxed on any side to
produce the Means of prompt and effectual suc-
cour. The question for the poor exiles is bread
or famine.—Times.
It will be recollected that in the course of the
last Session of Parliament, we spoke of a sum of
mone)•honourablv paid by the French Govern-
ment to that of this country, in liquidation of
the claims of all our fellow-subjects upon France.
—The money thus paid was assigned to certain
British Commissioners, to be by them doled out
`Foods
to their countrymen in proportion to their esta-
blished claims, or undisputed debts due from
France. So far the transaction was just and
equitable on all sides. But it somehow or other
got wind, that of this • money; due only to the
ed
(in-
deed, a quarter of a million) had been paid over
byr the Commissioners of
a to considerable
the Surveyor
o portion
odsf
and Forests, and had been from him withdrawn,
creditors
or by him surrendered, to pay the current ex-
peaces of building palaces. This, no doubt,
was a very nefarious transaction, and a very
painful discovery. However, it was asserted that
the real claimants on the Freneli- Government
were satisfied, or that there' was a suspension of
their deinands from the difficulty of proving their
debts ; but that, -whenever well-authentica-
ted claims were advanced, they should be sa-
tisfied ; in truth, that we had made rather a
Sharp bargain with our too easy neighbours, and
could screw a palace, or part of a palace, out of
the extortions which we had practised upon
them. This also was disgraceful, and we do not
wonder that a palace has succeeded so ill which
has been built upon such a principle. But what
will be said if the just and bond fide claimants
on the French nation "be Dot satisfied ? We
have heard at least that the Commissioners for
the liquidation of their debts, paid them a divi-
dend some months since, which it was • • intimated
was to be the last, on account of the alleged
Want of funds ; but which dividend
amounted in
the whole to only 531. per cent. upon the allowed
debts ! The 250,0001., it •is asserted, which
has been taken for p alace-buildinu, would sup-
ply the other 471.,and
thus would the French
Government
pay, as they ought to be allowed to
pay, 20s. in the pound to British claimants. In
any way, this appears to us to be a disgraceful
transaction to the British nation. If we have
driven an extortienate bargain with the French,
it will cast a discredit upon all our pecuniary
transactions with other Governments, and justify
the Emperor of 'Austria for his disregard of our
claims upon him, and he scanty manner in
which he- has met them. If we have stopped
or- diverted the current of foreign bounty
in its progress to our own subjects, we
have acted dishonestly at home, and shall
paralyze our own efforts in future to
procure justice for British creditors from
foreign debtors. Proceedings, we believe, have
been instituted in the Court of King's Bench,
with a view to getting the quarter of a million
restored ; and unusual efforts have, we hear,
been made to baffle the attempt by technical ob.
.
jections. • But can the Commissionerers have
sworn that the money intrusted to them for a
specific purpose is exhausted, when they have

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let it go out of their bands for a totally different
object, upon a promise of restitution ? The
French Government have their eyes upon this
affair. We pare spoken of the Palace which is
Said to lie in part built out of this French money,
The principal approach to it for foreigners, and
View of it by them, will he from the
portion which is now finishing at Hyde Park-
corner ; and what will be their access to it from
thence ? Not to an open and magnificent front,
but to the exterior angle. of the left wing. This
just as if our Gracious Sovereign, on a foreign
Prince being presented to him, should not offer
him his noble person en fax, but instead thereof
present him with the outside of his left shoulder.
The Palace has a kind of 'scrape-bailiff look at
this moment, and indicates the source from
whence the money is derived.—lbid.
The " march of intellect" has been exceed-
ingly rapid within these few months. Among
other things, we have discovered that the lessons
of history are quite useless. For instance, it
used to be believed, on the faith of history, that
towns were favourable to knowledge and bide-
pepdenee—that from towns, as so many centres,
civilization has been diffused over countries, and
that ignorance and prostration of mind prevailed
in the ratio of the distance from towns. in for-
mer times it would not have been taken for
ea-Ited that public opinion in England ought
to be sought for in the wealds of Kent, or round
Dartmoor, or in Wales. What do the people
•of London, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds,'
Glasgow 3 Edinburgh, and Norwich think ?
would have been the first question. Now, how-
ever, we have exploded ail these notions. In
ascertaining public opinion in England, towns
o'aght to be left quite out of consideration. In
Trance, public opinion ought to be sought after
ia Brittany or Auvergne, In Scotland, round
Ben Nevis ; and in k.:ngland,, in the wealds of
Kent or Susiex. > 111-Leeds the Brunswiekers
dare not Ca.li,a meeting--,-in Manchester they ate
equally afraideleein-Liverpool we hear nothing of
thee. ; there is not temovement in all Scotland ;
and, lastly, in this ineror. olis hear nothing of
them. We arc to presunie; "then, that because
in all these plaCes that ttaed formerly to he taken
as the eentres.:V,Ve oonoti could be
most satisfacCO.rilxatmo4e„uot one word has
been saidi4il4v4_,9)E..„eiiktutatstick Clubs, there-
fore the people of. Eggliknd,7ara-to.be presumed
hostile, to,further concessions 'to the Catholics,
because , the only Tait of , population which
ought to . have asrdpinion ii such a case is that
which- is at a diStanee .fedin tOwns, and under
the inflifenee 'of
Cironick. •

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When the .Jato;Duke-of York determined to
pull down .•his' house-, in the Stable-yard, S. James's, -anti; to erect in its stead a splendid
mansion, or rather Palace, the outer walls of
which were scarcely ompleted before. his death,
every one expressed their surprise at it as a
strangc and unaceountable proceeding. No one
expected (as the case. turned out to be) that at
the Dukes tone of life„or in his state of health,
there could be much chance of his living' to oc-
cupy the house ; and his finances being known
to be in far from tit flourishing state, the wonder
was increased as to where the fluids were to come
from to build4ntia-4up so sumptuous. a plaCe,
or pay the it!ereas'ei,Y,Ortienei_
size and magnificcned, would, i'ztf 'necessity, entail
upon the owner.. Those who raised these ob-
jections were told at the time, however, that the
matter was nothing to the public ; that both the
house, and the money to rebuild it, were the
Duke's own ; and that he- wiss as much a free
agent in such matters as anyone' else, and had a
right to do as he pleased. Though this kind
of logic was undeniable in the abstract, still facts
were stubborn things ; and it seemed not only
incredible, but a slur upon the Duke's character,
that, while he was known to be iucumbered 'with
hez.y debts, he should possess means of his own
for such an outlay. Some people were, there-
fore, found to be still incredulo,s and inquisi-
tive ; to satisfy whom it wasgiven out, first, that
a Ncble Duke, then that a Noble Marquis (both
personal fricadS of the illustrious personage),
were t 9 furnish the funds ; and that to one of
these tie property was to revert, either on the
Duke's death, or accession to a higher station.
Not,oneayllable.of this, however, now turns out
to be true. A strong suspicion was all along
entertained that the house was building with the
public money, which now turns out to be the
case ; and, that the -then Lords of the Treasury
had, in the shape of mortgagees, advanced the
Duke the" necessary supplies out of some funds
in hands. The house, it seems, was
afterwa"ls' sold to the Marquis of Staf-
ford, as
egeu, for much less than its
value—whether eve. for, the sums which have
been advanced upon it "is not stated; but the
-creditors of the Duke7,l„- d
, among the rest, the
builder of the houSe, complain that an impro-
vident bargain has been made by the Lords of
the Treasury, in which their interests have been
over looked. This may .or mar not be, so ;. but
the public, we think, have a right to complain
both of „ the disingenuousness with which it has
heel; treated, and that the then Lords of-_the
Treasury could, have no ftin4 out of which they
coal.i, with propriety, do that which subject the.
Caernment -to the imputation or having
advanced the public money to the Duke for the
.
purpose of securing ins support to their Admi-
nistration. The transaction, in a great degree,
resembles that which was brought to light by the
Finance Committee, of great part of the funds
remaining in the hands of the french Compen-
siaian Commissioners having been appropriated
to building the new Palace at Pimlico. These

matters reflect but little credit upon the actors ;
they tend to weaken the faith of the well judging
part of the community in the independence and
intcgrity of public men ; while they shoe, a dis-
regard* of economy. How these kind of ad-
vancei, can be made, and not appear in the
public accounts, and are, as it were, only found
out l)-y` accident, is another and more important
point, and one which, we strongly recommend
to the pryi:ig research of Mr. Hume.—Mont-
Herald.

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TRIAL BY Jli anecdote
is related by an eminent hair:Ater :—The'vvife of an inha-
bit4rit of a small town in the west of England having died
suldenly, and it • being known that the" deceased hadlived
on no very friendly terms with her husband, from whom
she had received repeated hwatiugs, a report obtained cur..
rency that she had died from ill-usage, and the husband
was taken up and put upon his trial for manslaughter. On
the trial the husband called sevaal witnesses to prove that
be had never beaten his wife, except upon very great pro..
voaatiou, and that the deceased, from her temper, required
wholesome correction. Two surgeons swore that the death
w.is natural, and that it had nut been at all hastened by
unkind treatment; and the general impression of the court
and jury seemed to he, that the man had been needlessly
(bagged before a tribunal of justice. When the clerk of
the court went to the foreman and, inquired if the jury were
.on their verdict, the foreman replied. emphatically
‘. Yes:' The. elerk then said, " What is your verdict,
B,:fitlemen ?'? To which the foreman, with still greater
emphasis, replied, " b'are'd her right,"

LAW INTELLIGENCE,

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 18.

James Parke, Esq. barrister-at-law, was called to
the degree of the Coif, and, after the customary
forms, took seat as one of the Judges in the
Court of King's Bench this morning, in the room of
Mr. Justice tiolroyd, resigned.

WATTS V. Ft SELL

This was a special argument on a ease arising out
of a covenant in a lease, by which the plaintiff cutlet,.
voured to limit the defendant in taking apprentices.
In an early stage of the argument the Court recom-
mended the plaintiff to ettoid his declaration, on
the ground that the interest, regarding which he
sought to enforce the provisions in such covenant,
was not sufficiently explained. The recommenda-
tion was adopted, and the cast stood over. Before
the proceedings had gone thus far, Mr. Sergeant
Stephen cited a 'ease that had-been tried at York, in
which it had appeared that the plaintiff had paid 100
guineas to a person, about 1806, on condition that he
should get a guinea a-day for every day Napoleon
Buonaparte had lived after his advance of the XOO
guineas. On trial the Court held that it was an illegal
wager, as its tendency went to promote assassina-
tion, and to beget a spirit of disloyalty. If Napo-
leon Buonaparte landed on our shores, an individual
having a pecuniary interest in his preservation would
not hare the proper degree of patriotic ardour in
taking up arms to repel the invader—and every
alien might make a hostile attempt on our coast
without opposition from those so concerned in his
welfare.

The LORD CHIEY JUSTICE expressed his opinion
that the wager was illegal in two ways; first, as it
might have the .effect of causing the death of Na-
poleon by unfair means; and next, as it had a ten-
dency to protect him from death in the fair field of
war,

announcement of the opinions on this si
gular wager excited considerable merriment

Court.

Mr. Justice PARK did not consider this a case
that should he treated with levity.
Nothing further passed respecting it, and the case
of Watts v. Fuseli stood over as recommended.

LORD MAYOR'S COURT, Nov. 18.

OAKS V. EITTOON.

The plaintiff, who is the landlord of a house in
tepney, sought to recover the amount of arrears of
rent from the defendant, Isaac Bittoon, a retired
prize fighter, who upwards of twenty years ago was
one of the most' powerful and celebrated fighters of
the day.
The case on which evidence was given for •the
plaintiff was' that he bad been obliged to put an
execution in.Bittoon's house. The man in posses-
sion was treated with liquor, in which some ex-
tremely powerful narcotic drug was infused, and
under its influence he went to sleep. In the mean
time two cart loads of goods were removed clan-
destinely. Nothing was left except a few trumpery
articles, which sold for ten shillings. The action
was brought to recover the deEit.

The jiiry found a verdict for the piaintitT to the
full amount of his demand.

CHEAP LAW.

The RECORDER, in :fismissing the jury, and thank-
ing them for their services rendered to their fellow
citizens, took occasion to observe that many cases
had been decided before them, and several for the
recovery of property to very large amounts. He was
happy that the citizens of London were beginning to
rcort more frequently for justice to their own courts,
which in speed, simplicity, and efficiency of process,
as well as in cheapness, possessed great advantages.
The important causes tried there that day would be
expedited at not more than one-fifth the expeoc,: of
the procedure in any of the superior courts, and here
execution would follow judgments within three days.
The citizens. had in this, their most useful court, an
equity jurisdiction, and besides other useful and pe-
culiar privileges, they had the highly valuable power
of attachment against the goads of creditors in the
hands of third parties.