The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-22 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

The Edinburgh papers contain an account of a very sin-
gular and atrocious case of seduction and breach of promise
of marriage to more thin One female by a clergyman of
the Relief Church, a hotly of dissenters from the established
church of Scotland. The facts are given in the Edinburgh
Evening Post, under the head of " Report of the Pro-
ceediuge of the Relief Synod, in the case of the Rev. Wm.
Craig, Minister of the Relief Congregation, Dalkeith."_..
The report is said to contain an account of the case as far
as decency would permit it to be stated; but of those who
peruse the report, many will, perhaps, be of opinion that
decency would require mote suppressions than the reve-
rend publishers have thought necessary. It appears that
Mr. Craig was ordained to the Relief Chapel in Dalkeith,
where he now is, in July 1827. * In October following, he
was charged upon libel, at the instance of the Relief Pres-
bytery of •Edinburgh, with conduct derogatory to his pro-
fession, and in particular with having criminally cohabited
with Mies Elizabeth Jamieson, residing near Kirkintulloch,
during the three years preceding his ordination at Dal-
keith. He was also charged with having made a promise
of marriage to a Miss Margaret Fergus, while holding cri-
minal intercourse with Miss Jamieson; which promise be
denied, and refused to fulfil. The whole matter was
brought before the Synod, which met at Edinburgh last
May, where he was found guilty in part, and ordered to be
suspended from the exercise of his ministry. The libel
served on him by the Presbytery, after pointing out the
impropriety and criminality of living in carnal communica-
tion with a woman, without being lawfully married to her
—the holding of meetings with females in suspicious cir-
cumstances—the violation of direct promises of marriage
—the carrying on an epistolary correspondence with them
for some sinful and improper end—and, finally, the tkser-
tion ei them, to the iajury of their peace and reputation—
went on to charge him with one and all of these crimes, in-
asmuch as he had for three years kept up a criminal con-
nexion with Miss Elizabeth Jamieson, having given her
reason to expect and believe that he would make her his
wife, by the fiequency -of his visits, the language he used,
and by au engagement usually called a line, or promise of
marriage. Moreover, he was charged with having given a
promise of marriage, in the year 1825, to a Mitre Margaret
Fergus, residing near Johnston, and having written many
letters to her, conceived in terms of the most ardent affec-
tion, and contemporaneous with his intercourse with Miss
Jamieson. Farther, that afteCall his promises and professions
of love—his long-continued and flattering attention to these
ladies—he had deserted them both in 1827. It appeared also
that, in his love letters, he had used many expressions of
an indelicate and profane character, wholly inconsistent
with his profession, and calculated to corrupt the minds of
those to whom they were addressed. In support of these
charges the evidence of witnesses was adduced, as well as of
the documents themselves. Miss Jamieson's examination,
which lasted about four hours, brought to light facts of a
very disgusting and revolting nature. She deported, that
after several visits to her father's house, Air. Craig was re-
ceived on the footing of her suitor. That, in a short time
afterwards, he offered to take liberties with her, which she
always repelled, until one Saturday, when he overcame her
sense of duty ; but that it was only in consequence of his
having given her a solemn promise of marriage, first ver-
bally, and then by a " line" in his own hand-writing, and
numerous letters, addressed to her, expressive of unalter-
able attachment. That these letters, so necessary to es-
tablish the credibility of her testimony, he afterwards. ob-
tained from her, under the pretence that they would be
useful to him in the composition of a sermon which he in-
tended to write on the fall of man ! That, after that
evening, he made constant visits to her father's house for
the space of three years; and during that time they, in
certain respects, lived as husband and wife : and, upon her
remonstrating with him upon their manner of life, be told
her they were as well married as they Could be, except for
a few words from the mouth of a minister. She stated
that this intercourse had been kept up between them until
he removed to Dalkeith. A. female servant deposed that
she had seen acts between the parties which confirmed the
charge of criminal intercourse. She immediately reported
what she had seen to a Aire. Jarvis, who deposed that she
had received the communications. at the time stated.—
Another witness swore to having seen the reverend inas
tnorato climbing up to Miss Jamieson's bedroom window.
Several other witnesses were examined in support of the
charges, and two letters were read, the only two preserved
out of 117 said to have been addressed to Miss Jamieson.
These letters contained expressions of everlasting attach-
couched occasionally in the language of Scripture,
impiously mixed with obscenity. The committee on- this
case gave the following deliverance on the counts of the
libel.:—" Upon the charge of criminal .correspondence
with Miss Jamieson, 33 voted not proven, 13 voted guilty,
and four voted not guilty. Upun the charge of breach
of promise of marriage to Miss Jamieson, 27 voted
not proven, 17 voted guilty, and four not guilty."_
The next charge was a breach of promise of mar-
riage to Miss Fergus. The disappointed lady deponed that
the letters produced in Court were those received by her
from the Rev. William Craig. That be obtained a promise
from her that she should remain unmarried until be obtained
a settlement in life. That upon that event taking place, he
most solemnly declared he would unite himself to her alone,
and she now believed he had since come under promise of
marriage to another lady !! ! Being now confronted by
both claimants, this clerical CaptainMacheath attempted
to get off by a non nii ricordo. Before the letters were
produced, he solemnly denied having corresponded with Miss
Fergus for some years ; but upon their production, he
offered, in explanation, that they bad entirely escaped his
memory. Finding himself rather mistaken on this point,
Ire was less positive as to the other, and would scarcely trust
himself to deny the possibility of his having also given Miss
Fergus verbal promises of marriage. The letters, which
were very numerous, were then read; they were full of
burning love, vows of eternal attachment, and panegyrics
on constancy I The gallant divine is quite expert at snaking
presents and assignations; and gives the lady some learned
instructions about the tucks and scallops of a muslin gown.
The letters addressed to Miss Fergus are remarkable for
the extravagance of the amorous style in which they are
composed, except the last, in which he rejects her claim,
which is no less remarkable for want of feeling and an im-
pudeat disregard of truth. One of the numerous love
letters is written in the form of a heart, with the letters
" M. F.," the initials of Miss Fergus 's name, in the centre.
After the minutes of evidence had been read, Mr. Craig
entered on his defence before the Synod, but no copy of
it has been published. lie produced a plan of the kitchen,
to refute the female servant's deposition, and to prove the
impossibility of her seeing what took place from where she
vi
was. Several respectable persons were called, who bore
ample testimony to Mr. Craig's character. The mem-
bers of the Synod were then heard at full length, but we
are not favoured with any abstract of their speeches.
It appears, however, that many of Mr. Craig's reverend
friends were disposed to be very indulgent to him. One
reverend gentleman affected to regard the amorous
epistles by which the two deluded women had been so
cruelly imposed upon as mere innocent valentines. Upon
the charge of breach of promise of marriage with Miss
Fergus,
ette yd
4 5 members of the Synod voted guilty, and one
o
not
guilty. Upon the charge of indecency and
theim-
piety letters on the record, the Synod were unani-
mousthey agreed solemnly to rebuke Mr. Craig, and to suspend
him from the exercise of his ministry sine die—aye, and
until he gave the Presbytery of Edinburgh satisfactory
evidence of his repentance and contrition fur his bins. Mr.
Craig acquiesced in the sentence,' and took his solemn re-
buke like an obedient son of the church. Moreover, he
.seems to have repented with all his might, as the Presby-
tery were very soon satisfied of his contrition. His sine die
suspension only lasted six weeks, at the end of which time
he rose like a phoenix out of his sackcloth and ashes, was
reinstated in the pulpit, and in the favour of the ladies,
who considered him a martyr for their sake, as it' nothing
had happened.

The rumoured successor to Mr. CROKER, in
the .Secretaryship to the Admiralty, is very generally as-
serted to be Mr. ROBIRT HAY, one of the Under Secre-
taries for the Colonial Department.—Sunday Paper.

We are extremely glad to hear that the I-lon,
Mrs. LANCIIA3I, (blighter of Lord KENvoN, has neadY
recovered from the tffects of her late dreadful accident.
Chester Chronicle.

thority for stating that his Excellency
THE LORD LIEUTENANT.—We have au-
the Marquis of
ANGLESEA will not visit this city at least sooner than a
month or six weeks. Ills Excellency has considerably
recovered front his late attack, but is not yet as well as
his best friends could desire. lie will shortly have to pro-
ceed northwards.— cash Constitution.
We understand that his Excellency the Mar-
quis of ANGLESEA;ItaS accepted the invitation of the Trus-
tees of Markets to lay the foundation stone of the new
the
river about to be built across the south branch of
river Lee at Warren's Quay, and that his Excellency has
been graciously pleased to permit its being called "
tingle-
sea l3ridge."— Cork Constitution.

We have heard that there is at this time an
entire Arakian horse in London, for which 2,000 guineas
are aske,l, and fur which 1,500 have been refused.

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

(FROM THY TIMES.)

The loyal Portuguese who have sought refuge in
this country, are overwhelmed with joy at the pro-
spect of seeing their infant Sovereign in the midst of
them, and the reflecting part of them still more so,
at the confidence which they are now justified in en-
tertaining., that the ,British Government will not
violate its duty to a faithful and useful ally in the
moment of distress, for the sake of serving an odious
and irreconcileable enemy. This consideration is
one which affects the interests of Englishmen, no
less than the happiness of the Portuguese exiles them-
selves. We do not remember to have seen stronger
marks of apprehension or disgust in the public mind
of England, on any former occurrence illustrative of
her relations with fOreign States, than on the de-
velopment of those successive facts which lead to a
very general suspicion that the cause of rebellion,
usurpation, and tyrannical government, in the Eu-
ropean dominions of our natural friend Don Pedro,
was secretly favoured by the King of England's
Ministers, to the sacrifice at once of every. feeling
for liberty, policy, fidelity, and honour.
.It is quite
certain that since the administration of affairs fell
into the hands of the Duke of Wellington, an im-
pression was gradually produced on the minds of
the Portuguese people, and strengthened, unques-
tionably, by that which has almost to the present
hour prevailed throughout the British nation, that
the Canning policy towards Portugal had been
wholly abandoned, and the course of that enlight-
ened Minister, which, without overstepping a
single barrier imposed by the rights of independent
States upon the free agency of others, had powerfully.
supported the crown and constitution of a king-
dom almost identified with England,--that such
a course of action was (it is too late to ask how
wisely—though we think not unwisely) to be
thenceforth superseded by one of open indifference
to the obligations of faith and friendship, but of
vigorous, though disguised, protection to the com-
mon enemy of Great Britain and her ally. The
infatuated speech of Lord Aberdeen in the House
of Lords was most injurious to the character of the
British Government. In his quality of Secretary
of State, he might have forborne, if he pleased, to
say one word upon the merits of the two belligerent
parties in Portugal. We do not affirm that Mi.
Canning would have so shirked the subject—quite
otherwise; but, undoubtedly, allowance would have
been so far made for the natural instincts of the Right
Hon. Gentleman's present successor, as to take away
all surprise at Lord Aberdeen's forgetting (if he had
done no more) to bear a kindly testimony to the
Royal charter which gave freedom to Portugal, or
to the merits and principles of that part of the Por-
tuguese nation which upheld it. That Lord Aber-
deen, however, should not only have abstained from
expressing his admiration of the loyal and patriotic
Portuguese who made England, jointly with the
charter, their watchword—that he should not only
have neglected the opportunity of reprobating the
base miscreants who paid court to Miguel by their
joint abuse of Britain and of liberty—but that he
should have added to this double oversight a com-
pliment to the serviles, as being " friends of Eng-
land," and an attack upon the advocates of their
Sovereign's charter, as enemies to all govern-
ment whatever !"—this did, assuredly, exceed
the measure of endurance practised by ordinary •
men, and was well fitted to persuade the world that
nothing too extravagant could be asserted of the evil
bias against Portuguese liberty in which such lan.
guage had its birth. Sir F. Lamb's (our Ambassa-
dor 's) resignation of a power which he could no
longer exercise but for the ruin of the charter, was
a second ground of distrust against the secret intim-
, dons of the Ministry. The eager acknowledgment
of a paper blockade of the island of Madeira was a
third. Are we wrong, then, in stating that Minis-
ters have much evil imputation to get rid of, and
that the event now about to be accomplished—
namely, the arrival of the legitimate Queen of Por-
tugal—gives them an opportunity of effacing, in
the eyes of all England, a blot upon their pclicy
which no honest English Minister could look at
without feeling himself and his country alike de-
graded by it ? There are individuals—partisans of
Don Miguel no doubt—who affect to hope that the
English nation will not afford any such reception to
the Queen of Portugal, as would in its consequences
amount to an interference between cc the belligerent
parties." This hope, inconceivable as it may be to
any upright mind, we have heard expressed by a
certain foreigner,—a spy, as we are sure, of the
Usurper's. If this were to be acted upon by the
British Government, then must every other branch
of public law be equally sacrificed, lest the effect of
our discharging our duty should prove indirectly un-
favourable to some different culprit in some other
quarter of the globe. We have already, in the exe-
cution of what Ministers professed to be their
" duty" as neutrals, worked all-the bad consequences
that could well be imagined between the royalist
and traitor parties in Portugal; for, whatever the
motives of our policy may have been, it is our
measures which have raised the Usurper. Where,
then, the consequence of our conduct was destruc-
tive to a good cause, we were nevertheless to
pursue it without shrinking ; but where a strict ob-
servance of the rights of friendship and hospitality
may eventually serve that cause, there are creatures
base enoughto remonstrate against our fulfilling them.
(FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.)
- -

It is with much satisfaction
towns
wen
s throughout
noticehro
unge :0;1i:
the Acts of the last Session of Parliament, o
(chap. lxxii.) the object of which is to promot ue
The Act is not
.imperative in its nature, facilitate the establishment, in
Ireland, of a cheap and simple police, under
e,mbunatitioutri.s—u_
mediate controul of the inhabitants' largethe iin.
administered by officers of their ownaitio •;
and
ing a principle similar to that of the Tithe Cpoiniso.
sition Act, offers to the acceptance of such to.cus
as may choose to avail of and adopt it, an ecooomicat
and popular system of police ; thereby superseding
the necessity of special applications to Parliament
for Private Acts, and relieving small towns from the
grievous expence attendant on procuring such Acts,
the apprehension of which must,
have deterred the inhabitants from applying for
them. It is a measure which, we think, deserves
of towns throughout
Newry,
and which may be said, in the terms of the Preamble,
Yenactment belongs wo
ot of
thebe characterisedA ct,
~ g re
a t
lays
toon
tee of great
toianr
dpnsrlauctnitiyiec aiillstittainli instances,
improve-
ment, good order, and security, and much to pro.
find by the
ntrieoitieintdl.l,e, traTdielealiniderpitroosfptehriist
county of Down, y in tho
I:
mroe,' I::
I:roc:oed' adoptli nigi:l4oonfidi ,a eimanrettlyittienigteoa n through.Nee Newt y,
longli-
fr vlegrapb.,
to a Member of the English Bar, connected witiA
At the meetiar
The Act has ln eit subsequently la a.
Act, and by
the force of his representations induced the Irish
referredmG
eol :tei. olirseipliootn•t,edwilritotldier,eAwre :lir :
athpti o, and
Ireland, Mr.
speech, delivered a statement Of'
p . the
U .i,'
rovisions of his Act, a summaryl i of tho
of hi • is given)
;as follows, by the Jou • I
til
brought into opPration iii
‘.‘ Mr. O'Hanlon he Ina above-named :---7 . .
re entered upon his explanation of
the Act, from which
W
brought into e collected that this Act is to be
operation by an application to the Lord Lieu-
tenant, signed by twenty-one house holders, inhabiting
houses of the annual valtt of 20/upwards, that there-
upon his Ex • ii . e . . or
ex eney will direct a meetinv of the town to
be held, which meeting will determine to' adopt or reject
the Act; and if to adopt it, will proceed to the election
of a certain number of Commissioners, not less than nine
and not more than twenty-one, for carrying it into execu-
tion. The Commi.ssiouers must occupy houses of the an-
nual value of 201. or upwards.. Every inhabitant will
have a vote who occupies a l'on'e of the annual value of
5/. There is to he a fre,h election of Commissioners
every three years; but the former Commissioners are
eligible to be re-elected. The rates to be levied under the
Act are not to exceed, On houses and tenements under the
nominal value of 101. and above Si. (those under 51. are
•xempt from all assessment), sixpence in the pound on
:uch annual value; above 101. and under 201. the rate
!moot exceed nine-pence ; aboV.e 20/., one shilling. But
.n extraordinary assessment way be levied in any year, if
r.e4n.m:oded for any special I urFose, by two-thirds of the

Commissioners, and approved of by a vote of the majority
of the rate-payers at a meeting for that object to be con-
vened. The purposes for which the assessment is to be
applied are—Lighting, Watching, Cleansing, Pairing, :and
the Supply of Water. The Commissioners are required
to hold open monthly meetings, at which any inhabitant
may prefer any matter of complaint. They must also
balance their'accounts on 31st July, in each year, and
print such accounts; they must also keep minutes of their
transactions, which are to be open to public inspection.
O'Hanlon said that the regulations for preventing aigy
encroachment on the public streets, and of every other
description, were of a very limited nature, and related only
to matters of the first necessity. He also said that the
Commissioners were not themselves to inflict any penalty;
but that all offenders must he brought before a Justice of
the Peace, from whom there was an appeal to the Quar-
ter Sessions."

We extract from two Scotch Papers an acco►int
of some proceedi►►gs instituted against a Clergyman
belonging to the body of Presbyterians in Scotland,
who differ from the Established- Church of that
country only in being relieved froM patronage, and
are therefore called the Relief. The Rev. William
Craig was accused of living with one woman, while
he was making warm love to another, and of having
deserted both. Clergymen are not more exempt
than other men from the failings of humanity ; and
as no conclusion can be drawn from the case of an

individual, we should not have adverted to it but
for the peculiarity of the high hand with which his
clerical brethren have carriedhim through his troubles.
The worst part of the business is the exposé in an
extract from the Edinburgh treeh•ly Chronicle of
September 17. It appears from it, that to make
sure of convenient decision, the Clergymen in the
interest of the Rev. Wm. Craig actually met on a
Tuesday instead of Thin sday, which had been fixed
on ; and went so far as to falsify the Record, by
afterwards altering it from Thursday to Tuesday.
The Rev. Gentleman, for his delinquencies, was
suspended for weeks. We remember a case in

which a beneficed Clergyman in one of the largest
towns in England, having been detected in a paw-
paw business, through the officiousness of his banker,
who suspected that a young lady who presented
a cheque had come dishonestly by it, was sus-
pended for two years. But mark the progress
of liberality. The genuine representatives of the
old Puritans, are now so much more liberal than
the daughter of old Scarlet, as they used to term
the Church of England, that while the latter
punished one comparatively harmless peccadillo with
a two years' suspension, the northern Puritans make
almost nothing of a desperate load of sins.—Shade
of John Knox, behold thy children ! What a loss
the Clergy hive sustained in the deprivation of the
privilege (in all but clerical offences) of being the
Judges of each other ! B►tt the law has made sad
encroachments on them. However, it must be
Owned, they make the most of what they still re-
tain.—llid.

(FROM THE. MORNING ADVERTISE.R.)

It is very generally reported and believed, in the
best informed political circles, that the present va-
cancy in the Cabinet is kept open with a view of
further changes among Ministers. It is affirmed,

that overtures have been made to Lord Eldon to
become President of the Council, and that he has
declined the offer, being determined not to accept
any seat in the Cabinet, unless restored to his former
,itutition of Lord High Chancellor. Negotiations
to this effect, it is even said, are now actually in
progress. It is further reported, that it has been

proposed to the present Lord Chancellor to continue
Speaker of the House of Lords; with a salary, and
the usual pension enjoyed by Ex-Chancellors, as he
has made a great sacrifice in resigning the Rolls
(which is a situation for life), to accept the Great
Seal, and because, were it now to be transferred to
Lord Eldon, Lord Lyndhurst would be a consider-

able sufferer: It is probable, that the Duke of Wel-

lington, finding himself nearly as weak in the House
of Lords as he is in the Commons, is anxious to
have the aid and influence of Lord Eldon in the
Upper House, and the proposed arrangement, it is
o;aid, has the entire concurrence of whigh personage.
In consequence of the late changes in the Admi-
ralty, Mr. Croker retires from the Secretaryship, and
is to be succeeded by Mr. Hay, Under Secretary for
the Colonial Department. There is no truth, how-
ever, in the rumour that Mr. Croker is to succeed
Lord Ellenborough as Lord Privy Seal. The report
probably arose from the pretensions of the former
assimilating to those of his Lordship; Mr. &faker's
manners being equally unobtrusive as those of the.
Noble Lord. He has also the same modest opinion
of his own talents, and as orators and statesmen they
are allowed to he pretty much on a par. It is more
probable that Mr. Croker, like his predecessor, Sir
Evan Nepean, will be honoured with a Baronetcy,
and appointed Governor of Madras, or some ona of
our Colonies, as a reward for past services.—lbid.
FROM THE NEWS.)

A NEW ORDER Or ULTRA ISM—DONCASTER RACES AND COCK-FIGIITING
Then," said Paul, .c I stand at Cwsar's Judgment Seat, where
I ought to be judged"

I appeal unto Caesar."
" When the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of
such things as I supposed;" but had certain questions
against him /Paul) of their own superstition."—rPorcius
i-estus to the Itoman Court.]

There is nothing more strikingly consonant with
true practical Christianity, than the personal history
of the Apostles; (it is in :act regarded as the.best
evidence of the truth of the Christian system) ; nor
anything more strongly contradistinguished from the
primitive Apostolic spirit, than the pettifogging cant
of our own age, Here are the Jews of the olden
time,---the believers in part of the Religion of our
own country and our own dayse—appealing to
Heathens, who disbelieved the whole of that Re-
ligion ; the said Jews are stimulating the Romans to
put an orator to death, who had given a certain im-
port to the doctrine of the Jewish prophets ; and here
is the slandered Christian appealing in the fullest
and noblest confidence to the justice of a Heathen
bigotry and superstition of
Viceroy, against the,
Jewi,ll demagogues . Neither the believers in the
Old Testament of that day, nor the Apostles, are
found gainsaying the Religion of the Roman;
the Jews thought nothing of men rejecting their
Creed in the lump : but when any person of their
own persuasion (for such was Christ) proclaimed a
any point of their faith,
wed, reading as it were of
then all the blood-thirsty passions rose in arms againkt
him. The Romans saw and appreciated this purblind
zeal and superstition of a Sect ; and in the exercise
of that sense of natural justice of which the world
has never shewn any deficiency (save and except
when it has wandered from the light of reason, in the
pursuit of something adjudged to be superior to
reason)—stood between the quarrels of the ancient
Jews and the early Christians ; and Christianity is
itself in fact indebted to Heathenism for the labours
of St. Paul. We have sketched this view of men
and their rival creeds, in order to show how
.finei y
the spiritual province of Religion is Masai:tell In the
conduct of St. Paul. You find in him, no arraignm•
of the customs of the world. He rather proceeds in
the quiet path of the moral philosopher, without as-
miming the name or the purpose of philosoplj ; and
i=,eelcs to remove the rause of error that the e,7gi'ci may
cease. He is thus seen boldly appealing to a sense
of justice in those men, to whose laws, customs, and
prejudices, he must be opposed. He leaves meaner
and minor considerations to right thenuelves ; for to
begin the objects of his mission with any interference
with those, were only defeating his own enlightened
purposes. Here is the greatest of the Apostles,-
bearing himself not only courteously, but with a
colour of esteem and admiration towards Heathen
Emperors and Governors; among whom it was the
fushion for countless thousands to crowd the Cob-
where the Gladiator was
" Buteher'd to mike a Roman holiday r

But where have we any trace of St. Paul or any
of his creed, seeking to put down the barbarous cus-
toms of that age ? Why if they had done .so it is
probable, in the operation of natural causes, that the
progress of Christianity would have been arrested in
!mine as it were; and .such a conduct would be
quoted and adjudged, in our times, as an evidence
against the inspired truth ff such Mis•.riorraries.
With this example of the only true province of Fe-
Egion before their eyes, in the leaders of Christia-

nity, we find weak men purporting to be their fol.
lowers, adopting a conduct directly the reverse of
their illustrious predecessors ; and presumptuously
and absurdly interfering with the usages of the world
like ignorant barbarians; and thus causing men to
hate the truth, and to conflict with the doctrines that
would promote it. On a very late occasion a pions
Junta—at Doncaster—God woo! erected themselves
into a tribunal that sought to counsel, controul, and
direct the magisterial authorities ; and commenced
their labours, Saint-like, by insidiously, meanly, and
cowardly pretending to put a stop to the Thimble
Tables, Little-Goes, and Twirligigs ; but crawling
thus humbly and lowly at the same time, towards
the foot of the stairs of the grand betting-room!
All saw and despised the hypocrisy of the measure;
and a thundering public meeting of all classes assem-
bled tumultuously; and the bubble of the Saints
burst into " thin air." It was thus that the good
sense of the people, while they denounced, laughed
at, and despises! all paltry and unfair games and
gambling, rescued the character of the finest race in
the world from all contamination, with the strait-
laced zealots of the age on the one hand ; and on the
other from those broken down adventurers in vice
who always have flocked and who always will flock, to GUILDHALL.—HORSE-nEALING. —Two well-known
any large and promiscuous assemblage of the people; Smithfield dealers, named James Joyce and Henry Mar-
as a prey on the credulous and the unwary. The Don- rell, appeared on Saturday before Sir PETER LAURIE.
caster Saints were made Bankrupt; and the St. Leger The former was placed in the dock under the charge of
selling a glandered horse for 11/h. 155., and two other
is itself again. Not damped by this failure of modern
Reformation.ship, another attempt has been just made thhoersNevso;rti, but
Atihdeertacnn mcostualndecsenotefrttaien
no
osei
jurisdiction
nh
overth at
at Lichfield, to put down the Cockpit. One of the them. de, however recommended the plaintiff to obtain worthy Corporation of that celebrated City—and it evidence against Joyce and his employer, under which they
is but justice to say the only one—has for a length might be indicted for a conspiracy.
of lime been gradually showing and shadowing forth 'A man named James Knowles was then put to the bar,
his superior sanctity and over-righteousness, as he and charged by Murrell with appropriating the sum of
scrambled and climbed the ascent of the ladder of Si. 10a. paid him for a pony to his own use.
the Common Council, and slept up the degrees of The prisoner was discharged.
Aldermanic station. Placed in the seat of judgment BOW-STREET.—On Saturday Thomas Cummins, a
he proceeded, Don Quixote-like, to judge all judges; decent-looking young man, dressed in a good suit of black,
and recast the moral order of things—preventing whose mother is a teacher of music at Hackney, was
the hunger and thirst of the Lord's Day—or at charged before Mr. HALLS, on suspicion of having been
least the usual means of appeasing such sinful pro-
concerned in a daring burglary, committed on the 10th of
pensities; closing the shops and inns hermetically September, at the house of a Mrs. Stoukon, at Hackney,
at a most patriarchal hour ; and thundering forth the where his mother and himself were residing at the time.
George Ledbetter, a Bow-street officer, stated, that in anathemas of a new Pope of his little world, from
consequence of information he received, he took the prisoner
round .with the portraits of Methodist Parsons, and
the Vatican of a petty and shabby parlour, pasted into custody on that morning at his lodging, Clarence-rents,
Church-street, St. Gilts s. The prisoner was in company
of Evangelical Preachers from pious Magazines; and with a female at the time of his capture.
carpetted with papers from the Tract Society. Not Mr. Joseph Fensum Tucker stated, that he lived at Cres-
satisfied with this Revolution in the ancient city, cent-cottage, Cambridge-heath, Hackney. Last Wednes-
which had been thus more disturbed within the day week, the 10th of September, he was awoke between
bosom of her liberal and tranquil society than by any three and four o'clock in the morning, by a carpenter named
event that had occurred since the uproar of the Jackman, who came to inform him that the house in which
Commonwealth—our Evangelical High Bailiff so far his mother lived, situate at Oval-cottages, had been broken
screwed up his courage to the sticking place, as to into and robbed. Witness immediately repaired to the
fire a shot over the heads of some Peers and Right house, and found his mother in a dreadful state of alarm.
Honourables. As it should fortunately happen, the I'he i
et c: r‘e vra vlee all
rsanfid)rebed o
boxes in the
ransacked.apart
apartments which
Hismother's
she ot-
spirit of cockAghting was going gradually out; and epeforced open. Witn n
lwilrtroom door had also been and:
went
but for this Saint—or rather perhaps Martyr as he into the street and alarmed the watchman, who said that he
may prove himself—the thing would have dropt al- had seen some " queer-looking chaps about," but not see•
together into disuse ; but persecution, among ing any thing bulky in their possession, he (lid not feel
Englishmen, will perpetuate any thing; they have, warranted in stopping them. The thieves carried property
us experience shews us, as much undoubted right away with them to the value of 50/. and upwards.
to go wrong, if they should think proper so to do. Mrs. Elizabeth Stoukon deposed, that the last-witness was
—as to go right ; and they will go wrong, if any her son, and she lived in a house of his, No. 7, Oval_ cottages,
one presumed to say that they should not do so. The Hackney. Mrs. Cummins, the prisoner's mother, and
sehoolmen of the new lights may call this folly ; her daughter occupied part of the house. On the night of
and tell us that it ought to be put down ; but we the 10th of September witness went to bed about 10 o'clock,
and was awoke about one o'clock by the barking of a
will tell them that it is not a folly; it is the pledge
of the presence of free minds among us, that will dog,i sad, alsobi a noise outside of her bed-room door. Pre-
Lenwt i-thiear
dark
hrlolonTerdnooinr wasone bhuanrsdtaonpdena, aizloal
imnatun,eroutshheNrl
not be dictated to. We require no Clubs of Bigots•
to tell us what is right; it is our province to look His face was concealed by a black handkerchief,p which hid. '
about us, and to judge and to choose. If some of his features up to his eyes. The light fell from the lan-
our brothers still abide by cruel, barbarous, and ir- tern, and the man who held it took a piece of candle from
rational amusements and sports, let us strive to con- off the table, lighted it, and placed it in the lantern. Wit-
vince them that they are mistaken; make war upon ness was dreadfully alarmed, and attempted to rush from
them, and men will fight for one thing just as well the room, but the man seized her by the arm, and holding
as for another; they do not contend for the value the pistol to her head, swore that if she stirred or made the
of the abstraction in question ; but for the extensive least noise he would blow her brains out; but if she kept
and holy circle of those privileges which it may in-
and
do
andetj her r
no made
harm. v
no
ln i
se, would
sat down, e takoe nand remained
whath e wanted,
solve. He who knows not this is an ignoramus
both in morals and politics ; and unfit for an silent, and the robber asked herw for her etch and money.
Y office Witness replied that she had no watch. The robber then
of power. But to the sod. When it was found that went to the bed-side, and took a silver watch, a ring, and
the proprietor of one of the chief inns of the city other articles, from her pockets. Another man then made
was summoned before the Godly High Bailiff,— his appearance, and stood sentinel at the door, while the man
there was no want of purses or of hands to find the with the lantern began ransacking the boxes and drawers,
money or the cocks for a main (which had prowl- taking out just what he pleased.- The agitation of witness
ousts been the case.) It was insultingly asked, in was so great, that she had no recollection of the men, but
the prisoner Thomas Cummins was neither of them. On
the Court of this petty Monarch, by one gentleman
of high character and of extensive landed property, the night of the robbery the prisoner was let in by his
in contempt of such an administration of the law,
fastened
about half-past eleven o'clock. Mrs. Cummins
--" What was the penalty on each battle ?" offer- the top bolt of the street-door, and desired her son
to fasten the bottom bolt. Witness saw the man turn ing at the same time to pay the tax for the main every thing out of the boxes and drawers in the front room.
&jive/rand ! No man can adequately describe the While the robbers were engaged in her room, she heard the
shout and confusion and uproar of triumphant sneers voice of Mrs. Cummins call out from her bed-room,
and derision that followed this chivalrous offer of the " Thomas, where are you ? Come up." He replied, "1
friend of the sod; all the cocks in the city were in cannot come," and one of the robbers said, "We have
instant requisition ; badgers and bears made a hasty taken care of him." The bed-room of Mrs. Cummins is
OH the first floor, and removed from that of the witness's
muster in honour of such a ruler; and there was
battle royal of bipeds and quadrupeds; with Plato's by a few steps. The robbers, as soon as they got what
theyi wanted,h left the.
.lanteßrnfon a chair,h and locked the
f
" unfeathered" animal at the head of the conflict, all
before the High Bailiff's door every day- in the door
rn
usTiTl ‘t‘ We e 'arte snso't going "lb:- wentliyalf an houra ‘t.away
yeton e•
if
week. He became suddenly the object of a thou- you make any noise we will return and shoot you." When
sand ridiculous anxieties ; his knocker never rested ; the robbers went away, Mrs. Cummins unlocked the door,
one messenger came after another with Mr. Such- and they both went to the next house and alarmed Mr.
aione's compliments to enquire what time the cock Jackthan the carpenter. After the robbers went away,
broth would be ready, &c. &c. &c.; one porter the prisoner was no where to be found, and witness never
left him a pair of cocks'-spurs; the postman came day saw him since until he was taken into custody. The rob-
after day with letters from all parts of the kingdom ; hers took with them a silver watch, a gold watch, and va-
soliciting his patronage of Bible Clubs, Brimstone rious Other articles of property.
Companies, Bull Baits, Ass Races, &c. &c. &c. Mr. Tucker said, that the gold watch had been lent to
Such is said to have been the effect of this diversion Miss Cumming when she was ill, by a benevolent lady.
extraordinary of the race week at Lichfield, that the Miss Cumming use to wear the watch by a chain around
the robbers.
her neck until about a fortnight ago, when the prisoner
for some snug retreat or water-ing place for the
worthy Evangelical is reported to be on the
re• move
which
persuaded her to hang
place. it was taken it to the curtain of her bed, from
mainder of the season I If we east a retrospective „. by
view on the changes which have been made on the
Meoncott stated, that he went to the premises on the
morning of the robbery, and after a close examination both
manears and customs of the people within the last
within-side and without, he could discover no trace what-
thirty years; and calculate that cant or puritanism ever of the premises having been forcibly entered. From
shall continue to make a similar progress in the next all that he saw he felt convinced in his own mind that the
thirty years to come;—the nation would not be able robbers had been admitted to the house by some person re-
to raise either an army or a navy. Reasoning by siding on the premises. Witness found in a drawer of the
analogy, and from some reference to experience, we kitchen table the half of an iron pair of pincers such as are
may however conclude that the evil will work out used by carpenters. On examining the marks on the bed-
its own cure ; a crisis is developed, and the nation room dioodr of. Mrs. Stoukon, Stnoudkoofn,
the pincers.
found
fthst they cor-s
rrso.hhCeursnilinv Cum
mins
same itself; but that crisis will, as we suspect, as•
said
n(
the
in thethouspem%(l7-hrseil the
same apolitical character ; the nation will be divided i that herw sont
up stairs, but she had riot seen him since, and did note'e
on some public question ; on feelings and opinions know where he went to. She pointed to a box which she
growing out of the rival relations of different creeds ; said contained his clothes. Witness examined the box and
and the hypocritical pretensions to superior sanctity found it empty. ,
and over-righteousness will explode. The Saints of Fagan, a Bow-street officer, was present when Ledbetter
our times are destined tofall,not only as their views apprehended the prisoner. Searched the room where he
may regard a permanently extended power of the was found, and discovered twenty skeleton keys, several
Priesthood, but even in bringing true and practical articles of housebreaking, and also half of a pair of pin-
religion into contempt—to the latter of which there cers. In bringing the prisoner to the office he said that
is so strong a tendency in religions intolerance. To
the conduct of the earl • Apostles of Christianity, bad company haebrought him to his present situation.
unbiassed and sound mind will always turn with Along with the skeleton keys found a key which he has
the
sold ,earn equally to shun every reason to believe belonged to the hall-door of Mrs.
profligate,toa ijl.ior
advantage; i
the reckless principles of the cenfirmeadn:inight
of the robbery.
and the officious intermeddiing of the political Somt.
(FROM THE. SUNDAY' HERAT:H. ) .Mr. HALES asked the prisoner if he wished to say any
thing tending to relieve him from the suspicion which at-
tached to him. •
prisoner replied that he had nothing to say at pre-
The faint hopes which were entertained by the
sent.—HeTlle
,
Navy and the people of England generally, that thewas then remanded to Tuesday week.
quarrel which had arisen between his Rol Highe In tne course of the proceedings, it was stated that the
ness the Duke of Clarence and the Duke of Wel- his ap'
yawoman who
prehemiroans, fNovuansdthteviltvllfethoef
mpmrliessopneeertaabtlethpeerstoimnereo..f
lingtou, would be made up, and the former induced, siding at Hackney, by whom she has had six children. The
in consequence, to remain at the head of the Ad- prisoner, it was said, seduced her from her home about a
the appointment of Lord Melville to the
dissipated during the past twelvemonth ago, and she has since been residing with
rl;,:,iczl:t!l'iave been wholly
him. The poor man (her husband) had offered a reward
Ake of First Lora,. and a board of Commissioners.,
of
Press to the continued tile Lord to any person who would discover her retreat, and restore
by the Ministerial her to her family. Having received information that she
This arrangemeet is ascribed
w:leiffemreanythe inelined was found with the prisoner, lie took her home on Satur-
High Admiral, an(i w.e hatei no day, on her assurance that nothing criminal had passed be-
rectness of the fact,
.rfieposidsioet,:bt
of
the tor-
tween her and the prisoner.
interpret his indispost
to
manner from MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—On.—On Saturday' night,
/tilo though
iig i h a
just before the close of the office, Mr. Cerfield, writing-
; between the administri'i- desk-maker, residing in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square,
what they do ;. but respecting time difference whish
the country will experience applied to 111 r. CONANT for advice under the following
.Hieiness, and the circumstances :
tion of the Navy by his Royal
Mr. Corfield stated, that during the last week he had
present First Lord of the A
arty,
which his
one opinion. The manner, in fact, in .
ve
with
bheen.absent from town, and on his return home on Friday,
(.Imiralt there is but
Lordship dealt out the immense patronage iscetnst!rs informed him that a person, having the appear-
which'Tee'
noefaba gentleman, drove up to the house, in a handsome
for the Earl ofe Wd
cg-ompan.e,rimilet, with a gray horse having a switch tail, aca
he was entrusted, when formerly in office, is,
we fear, but too certain an index to that in whit!' it
mmar.gcrooormin
lin livery. On entering the shop,
he asked if Y
will now be managed. Parliamentary interest bore
eun,as not
hinnthhe habit of
idoing
the sway over all—the claims of merit were disco- business
garded, and side by side were to be seen in the set
ley rep le( n
his
King's am in said
oaf ma
dressing case and other
amrmative, he then sald, "7" ; rig t • son to us
King's service,
shored Lieutenants of fifty, who had wee- I Lordship,
battle, and
many a gale, and fought in many a hard articles." He then looked out a ver handsome selection
offered to be sent,y when he said,
Captains, with scarcely a mark of mail- I of goods, which was
hood on their chin-, who had never seen a broadside 1 " Don't trouble yourself, I will take them." Lie then
tired at an enemy. The Duke of Clarence set him- i handed them a handsome pink card, on which was en-

self to reform this obnoxious system with the same
zeal and determination which the late Duke of
York had manifested in behalf of the army—he had
effected much, planned still more, and would, no
doubt, have succeeded in cleansing the Augean
stable ; but the army now, and not the navy, is held
forth as the broad shield of England, and as the Go-
vernment could not go on without having a more
direct control over the latter than the conscientious
discharge of his duty by the Lord High Admiral
would permit, it was resolved to arrest him in his
progress, and return to the good old system, which
had" worked so well "in former days. The navy
is, therefore, again abandoned to all the evils of Mi-
nisterial interest, and the short meed of justice which
such interest is accustomed to deal out. The time,
however, we Would fain hope, is not far distant
when the Duke of Clarence will be again restored
to the office of Lord High Admiral—the navy freed
from Ministerial shackles, and those who have de-
served well of their country feel assured that their
country will do them justice.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

graved "Mr. William Wemyss, Woodland-cottage, Re-
gent's-park," and said be was is treaty with a nobleman
fur the purchase of the cottage. On the goods being
handed to him he drove away. When he (the applicant)
came home, his sister informed him of the circumstance,
and seeing so many cases of swindling stated in the papers,
he went to his Lordship, and, upon inquiry, he learned he
Lad no son, and that they kept nothing of such a person.
Mr. ColeANT—What ! were the goods delivered to him
upon his own representation? Mr. Corfield—Yes: my
sisters took him to be the person he represented himself to be.
Mr. CoNANT—That is bad of tradesmen : they give
credit upon appearances, and I am no way surprised they
get swindled.
Mr. Corfield—l am not the only person he has swindled ;
fur he went to Mr. Seaife, tailor, in Bond-street, and got
651. worth of clothes from him. He then gave his ad-
dress, Thomas's Hotel, and at which place he was actually
residing.
Mr. CONANT—I have no doubt he is a well known
character.
Mr. Corfield—lf we could succeed in having him ap-
prehended, innumerable charges could be' brought against
him. The horse and cabriolet belong to Mr. Tilbury,
who has offered a reward of 20 guineas for his apprehension.
Mr. CONANT-Did lie pay at Thomas's? Mr. Cor-
field—No : he paid no person ; and to prevent any sus-
picion, he gave my sisters an order for a lady's dressing.
case, which was to be fitted up in a style of aiagnificenee,
and said he should not care to pay 20 or 30 guineas for it,
as it was to make a present to a lady.
Mr. CONANT—If you can find him, we will apprehend
him.

At this instant, an ironmonger, residing in Regent-street,
entered the office, and stated, he had on Friday night been
swindled out of a padlock, by a person appearing to be a
groom, and whom he had no doubt was connected with
Mr. Weinyss. The groom said Lord Graves had sent him
for the lock, and his Lordship being a customer, the article
was given instantly. He then ordered several other articles,
but upon Lord Graves being applied to, he found no such
orders had been given.
Mr. CONANT—I shall have no hesitation in granting a
warrant for their apprehension, and must again state that
tradesmen will be swindled out of their property, if they
part with their goods upon mere appearances.
Mr. Corfield observed, that the fellow's success at the
west end was unparalleled, for there were many tradesmen
who had been duped.
HATTON-GARDEN.—FRAUPS oN TRADESMEN.---

On Saturday, Reid, the chief officer of this establishment,
communicated to the Magistrates the following artful
fraud, of which he had received information :—A day or
two ago, a lad, about sixteen, with a blue bag under his
arm, went to the counting-house of Messrs. Terrey and
Co., silversmiths, Hatton-garden, and presented a note,
purporting to be sent by Mr. Hill, of Fleet-street, also a
silversmith, requesting them to send two or three chased
silver tea-pots, of a new pattern, for show. Mr. Hill
being known to the firm, four tea-pots of the value of 191.
each, were selected and given to the lad, who placed them
in the bag, and went away. An application being made
to Mr. Hill, to ascertain if the patterns suited, the fraud
was discovered. In the course of the inquiry resulting
from this transaction it has been ascertained that a jeweller
named Vile, living in Mount-pleasant, Gray's-inn-lane,
had been, about ten days before, swindled out of a necklace
of 40/. value by similar means. The lad is no doubt the
instrument of some more experienced swindlers, who will
not, -it is hoped, long escape the vigilance of the police.
MARYLEBONE-OFFlCE.—lnformation having been
given by Mr. Edward Davis, of No. 34, Carey-street, Lin.
coin's Inn-fields, that French plays were acted at the West
London Theatre, in Tottenham-street, without lawful au-
thority by virtue of letters patent, or license from the Lord
Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household, as required by
the Statute 10th George H., cap. 29, Monsieur Catherine
Antoine Chedel, the', proprietor and manager, was sum-
moned to answer the charge, and the case came before Mr.
HosKtrqs and Mr. GRIFFITH on Saturday.
Mr. P. Farren, of the Haymarket Theatre, was the first
witness examined. Ile went to the West London on the
night of the 17th instant, paid 2s. 6d. at the door, for ad-
mission to the pit, and saw Entienne's comedy Brueyes et
Palaprat performed ; it was in every sense a comedy, and
it was announced as such in the play-bills; and 11r. Car-
ter, of Southampton-street, gave similar evidence.
Monsier Cliedel, through adinterpreter, said, perform-
ances of the same kind had been held there for 11 years,
under a magistrate's licence, which he was in possession of;
and he had been assured by the Lord Chamberlain himself,
that with that authority no one could interrupt him. The
entertainments were supported by subscription, and the
Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Eife, and other noblemen,
were subscribers.
Mr. GRIFFITH asked how it was possible they could be
supported by subscription alone, when large bills were posted
in the public streets, and money was taken at the doers of
the theatre.
Mons. Cliedel said, if money had been taken at the
doors, it was without his knowledge, and contrary to his
directions. Bills were distributed that the public might
see the performances of the night, for many subscribed only
fior one day, and at the bottom of the bills many places
were named where subscriptions were received, and tickets
of admission given, and a notice " No money taken at the
doors." Mr. Farren and Mr. Carter were again called
forward. The man who received the money did not stand
in the money-taker's box, he met them at the door, de-
manded 2s. 6d., told them no check was necessary, and said
" go in."

ilosmNs asked if Mons. Chedel Lad any other an-
swer to give 2—lie said, " No ;" and he was convicted in
the penalty, prescribed by the Statute, of 50/.
Mons. Chedel gave notice that he should appeal to the
Sessions.

QUEEN-SQUARE.----On Saturday Thomas Limb-
rick and Edward Wright, two parish constables of St.
John's, Westminster, appeared to summonses issued against
them before Mr. Mnantorr and Mr. Wir.r.rams, a county
Magistrate, fur extorting money from Mr. Joined Bryson,
the landlord of the Two Brewers public house, Brewer's-
green, Pimlico, under threats of laying informations against
his house for being open at an improper hour. Private in-
formation was given of the transaction to Gilmore, the
chief constable at this office, wire immediately made in-
quiries, and finding it to be a fact, determined not to let
,

Mr..Bryson be plundered, and cited all the parties before
the Magistrates.
Mr. MARRIOTT said that Gilmore deserved the public
thanks in bringing the transaction before the Magistrates.
—The fines were theu paid.
WORSHIP-STREET. •-•• * and *" "
" "* ", his wife, were, on Saturday, placed at the bar,
charged by Thos. Leary.
The complainant stated that the prisoners reside in the
same house with himself, at Bethnal-green. That, on
Friday, on his returning home to dinner, he missed his

watch from off the mantelpiece, where it always hung, and
where he left it the same morning. No person had been

in the house during that diy but-the prisoners, therefore

one or the other of them must have stolen it.

The Magistrate (Mr. TWYFORD) observed it was a very
serious charge ; and questioned the prosecutor very minutely
as to the probability of any one else entering the house un-
observed on that morning.
Mrs. Leary had not been out of the house the whole of
the day, nor had any one but the prisoners been there.
Mr. Twyroan asked the prisoners what they had to
say ? The prisoner's wife said she left the house on the
morning in question at half-past seven o'clock, and returned
home at five o'clock. As respected the watch, she knew
nothing of it.
The husband of last witness protested against the accu-
sation altogether. His wife, he was convinced, was the
last person living who would commit such a crime.
Mr. TWYFORD examined the prisoner very closely ;
when, reply to a question, he admitted having been home
between twelve and one o'clock, and that he did not return
borne until one o'clock the next morning, and also that
he was then out of employment.

Mr. TwYFORD told them that, under all the circum-
stances, he must detain them. At this moment, the female
prisoner (who was in the family way) raised up her
hands, and implored the Magistrate would not commit her,
and the next moment fell senseless on the ground.
Mr. T wvroßD—Poor creature ! 'tis a lamentable case.
Let every care be taken of her.
The gaoler having administered a little water, she was in
a degree restored so as to be carried out of the office; but,
on entering the yard, she miscarried !
Tyrel (a Bow-street officer) stated that, when he took
them into custody, he searched them, when on the male
isoner he found one farthing, but on the woman nothing.
Mr. TWYFORD having desired every attention should be
paid to the poor woman, the prisoners were remanded.

Major-General Sir EDWARD BLAKENEY,
K. c. 8., is to arrive in this garrison on Monday next, to
assume the command of the South Western district, in
place of Mujor-General Sir CHARLES DoTLE, whose pe-
riod of command has expired. An order has been received
in this garrison to strengthen all the outposts, and in con-
sequence reinforcements have marched hence this week to
all the principal military stations in the counties of Lime-
rick and Clare. With a view to carry the above order
more effectually into execution, a third regiment is expected
in this garrison,—Limerick Chronicle.