The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-12 00:00:00

BOW.STREET.

. The two pauper children whom the parish officers
of -St. Martin were desirous of apprenticing to a
chimney-sweeper, were again brought forward yes-
terday for thut purpose before Sir R. BIRNIE and
Mr. HALLS. Mr. MINsnuLL, before whom they ap.
peered in the first instance, had expressed a strong
opinion upon the practice of thus disposing of poor
parish children, and Mr. Rawlings, clerk and soli-
citor to the churchwardens and overseers, took the
opportunity of that Magistrate's absence to bring
the matter before his colleagues.
Sir R. BIRNIE inquired if the parish had given
notice to the mother of their intention to bind her
son to a chimney-sweeper?
Mr. Rawlings replied that the mother had been
made aware of the circumstance.

The poor woman stated in reply, that as soon as
she ascertained the intention of the parish, she went
to the overseers upon the subject, but they would
do nothing for her. She then presented herself
before " the board," but there her objection was as
little attended to, and in a day or two after her poor
child was taken away from the workhouse, and fur
nearly six weeks, although she applied almost every
day to know what was become of him, she could
get no satisfaction until by chance she heard that
he was on trial with a chimney-sweeper. " For
God's sake, your worship," added the poor woman,
" save my child from being made a sweep, he is unfit
for such a business. Only look at the miserably state
he is in;. his head is swollen as big as a bushel
measure, and he is altogether unlike the child he
was only six weeks ago." Both Sir R. BIRNIE
and Mr. HALLS immediately declared that the boy
should not be apprenticed against the wish of his
mother, and the latter having returned her grateful
thanks to the Magistrates for their humane determi-
nation, took her child by the hand and left the
office. The other boy was then brought forward.
He was an illegitimate child and an orphan.
Mr. HALLS asked if, while he was on trial, the
overseer had visited his master's house, for the pur-
pose of personally ascertaining that the boy was likely
to be well done by?—Mr.Rawlings not being p4pared
_to answer this question,-Mr. Halls'observed that-it
was the overseer's bounden duty to have done so,
and until the fact were ascertained, he should with-
hold his assent to the apprenticing of the boy.
Mr. Snow, the surgeon, and his brother-in-law,
Mr. Churchill, the barrister, waited upon Mr. Halls
in:the course of the day, and inquired if Mr.
Ashurst, the solicitor, had sent him the examina-
tion (which his clerk had promised to furnish) of
the witnesses whose testimony had been taken at
Finchley, with respect to the death of Mrs. Phillips.
Mr. HALLS replied that a packet had been re-
ceived about half an hour before from Ashurst,
which he supposed contained the documents in ques-
tion.

Mr. Churchill wished to know whether the ori-
ginal examinations had been forwarded, or copies
only ?
Mr. HALLS, upon referring to the papers, said
that they appeared to him to be partly originals and
partly copies.
The gentlemen thanked him, and withdrew.

Persons, we hear, are now permitted to pass
over the New London-bridge, for the purpose of ♦iewing
the works, on payment of one shilling each.
ROLLS COURT.—BAILY v. TAYLOR.---in
this case, which was not concluded yesterday when wa
went to press, and which was a bill filed by Mr. F. BAILY,
author of several works on leases, annuities, &c. against
the defendant, a bookseller in Holborn, praying an account
of the receipts and profits of certain " tables" relative to the
purchase of estates and annuities, published by the defen-
dant, and containing matter alleged to be pirated from the
defendant's works ; which bill moreover prayed that the
defendant might be restrained from publishing any except
the first edition of such " tables," the publication of which
had been authorised by the plaintiff; his Ho:4mm re-
fused to grant an injunction, and stated that the bill must
be disnsisseil with costs.

The will of the late General Thomas Garth was
proved yesterday in the Prerogative Court of Can.
terbury. It is dated the 12th of September, 1829,
and describes the testator as of Grosvenor-place, in
the county of Middlesex, and of Piddletown, in
the county of Dorset. It bequeaths the fee-farm
rents and profits of his estate at Northampton, now
collected by Christopher Smyth, Esq., and devised
to the testator by his sister, Elizabeth Garth, to
his nephew, Thomas Garth, a Captain in the Royal
Navy, his heirs and executors for ever. It be-
queaths an annuity of 3001. to the testator's niece,
Frances Garth, spinster. It then proceeds, in
a somewhat wordy manner, to direct that a
moiety of an annuity or annual pension of
3,0001. secured to the testator by letters pa-
tent granted by his Majesty King Charles 11., and
payable out of the revenues of the Duchy of Corn-
wall, and treasures in the Exchequer, which the
testator, by a deed of settlement, dated the 17th
of November, 1820, had settled on himself, and
" in certain circumstances," on his son, Thomas
Garth, with a power of appointment reserved to
him (the testator), should be paid by the trustees
to his said " beloved" son (the testator renouncing
the power of appointment under the deed), during
life, and after his decease, to the natural and law-
ful issue of his said son; and if he should leave no
issue, then to the aforesaid nephew of the testator,
Captain Thomas Garth, R. N., his heirs and
executors. The instrument then bequeaths the
house belonging to the testator, No. 32, Gros-
venor. place, which he purchased of Sir Henry
Hardinge, to his said beloved son, Thomas Garth,
and also the plate, household furniture, and per-
sonal effects in the said house, and in and about the
estate at Piddletown. It then directs the payment
of sundry legacies (one of 1004, for a ring, to Lady
Drummond, the daughter of the testator's friend,
Mr. Boone) to friends and servants ; and it con-
cludes with bequeathing the residue of the testa-
tor's property, real and personal, to his nephew,
Captain Thomas Garth, R.N., who is appointed
executor with John Fullerton, Esq., to whom a le-
gacy of 100/. is left. There is an interlineation in
that part of the will which directs the disposal of
the moiety of the annuity of 3,0004, but its object
seems to have been to render the case more clear;
it was made prior to execution. .

DON MIGUEL.—(From the Plynzouth
Journal.)--We know not altogether what degree of credit
is due to the following intelligence said to have been con-
tained in a letter received by the Staxmer packet, which
arrived on Monday last from Lisbon, by a Portuguest
emigrant resident at Falmouth : it is proper to observe that
letters to the 24th ult., received from Lisbon by the Por-
taguese gentlemen resident i❑ this town, are totally silent
as to the intelligence said to have been received at Fal-
mouth. The following are the particulars :—Don MI-
GUEL left Lisbon for Villa Vicosa, (Villa Vicesa, in the
province of Alentejo, is very near the frontiers of Spain,
and from this place two roads lead into Spain, one by
Elvas the other by Olivenca), on a hunting expedition,
accompanied by a battalion of riflemen, a park of artillery
of six guns, strong detachments of regular infantry, and
police cavalry, his households, and a train of 200 horses
and mules. It is rumoured that he proceeded through
the province of Alentejo to the frontiers of Spain ; and
that two vessels laden with treasury were to proceed forth-
with to some port in Spain. Rumour adds that AliouEL
carried with him the sum of 29,000 milreas, being the
entire contents of the Royal Treasury at the period of his
departure. The same letter states that the QUEEN Dow-
AGER was to leave LISBON on the 3d instant (Thursday)
for Spain, in order to be present at the marriage of her
brother FERDINAND. Letters from Oporto by the same
packet acquaint us that the garrison of Valencia had de-
serted, taking with them some state prisoners who were
in that fortress ; and that on the usual evening muster of
the 4th Regiment of infantry, stationed at Oporto, 75
men were found to be missing. We shall look with con-
siderable anxiety for a confirmation of the above intelli-
gence, which we cannot but regard as very apocryphal
in its present shape; it would be a worthy termination of
the perjured Usurper.

NEW DISCOVERIES IN MEDICINE,—Of
the superior efficacy of the Bladder Podded Lobelia
Herb, Dr. ANnaaws, an eminent physician of Glas-
gow,
in a letter published in the Glasgow Medical
Journal, states that he has found no medicine so effectual
in allaying asthma and clearing the air vessels of viscid
phlegm, as the Lobelia Lijlata. Mr. Gonnos, of Hull,
has published several cases of Spasmodic Asthma, in which
the Etherial Tincture of it acted like a charm, the first
dose affording great facility of breathing in a fow minutes,
Dr. REECE, in Isis late Treatise on the peculiar Anti-Asth-
matic properties of this herb, clearly slims by reasoning
and experience that from its quieting effect on the par
vaguin, the part of the nervous system (evidently the
seat of Asthma) that it is the most efficacious remedy
that has been discovered for Asthma and winter cough.
For the first discovery of the mild but efficacious tonic
properties of the Round Leaf Cornel we are also indebted
to the Translantic Physicians. This stomachic and con-
stitutional tonic medicine, Dr. ROBINSON' in his valu-
able " Practical Treatise on the Proper Diet, &c. of
Elderly and Weakly Subjects," and also Professor IvEs
and others, from its uniform grateful and strengthening
effects on the stomach, &c., termed the natural tonic of
the human race. The last edition of Dr. ROBINSON'S
" Treatise on the Round Leaf Cornel " contains several
cases of local and general debility, in which the remedy
fully succeeded after the Peruvian Bark, the Sulphate
Quinine, and otht r tonic medicines, had failed.— Ga-
zette of Practical Medicine for Nov. 1829.
A TRUE TIIOUGYI ROMANTIC TALE.—A
young Lothario a few years since fled to the 'West Indies,
and from thence to New York, in the United States of
North America, at which latter city, landing a pennyless
refugee, he was compelled to seek employment in hoeing
turnips, whereby to pay his passage, and redeem his lug-
gage ; he then wandered into the state of Virginia, where,
though a hapless alien, the family of the high sheriff kindly
received him, and soon admitted him to matrimony with
an interesting daughter. On receiving a marriage portion
the happy pair sailed for England, and were received with
all due honour by the bridegroom's family in Huntingdon
shire, with whom they continued to live until misfortune
drove them to lodgings in London, where hereditary insa-
nity
separated them : be being forcibly taken against her
will to an asylum, and she left with a pittance of 10s. per
week from his family, to which she, in deep distress and
destitution, recently came one evening, but was refused
admittance, the domestic mansion being closed against her.
Yet would she not quit it, until a very late hour, (when
she was forced away by the constable,) being determined
rather to. perish on the cold stones of the door, not colder
than the living stones within ! A public-house humanely
received her for the remainder of the night, and the next
day she was lodged with the family of a poor cotter. Thus
circumstanced, she applied to Ex-Sheriff TusoatrsoN, who
generously pitied and relieved her with whatever his hos-
pitable mansion could afford, and at length caused her hard
case to be brought before the bench of magistrates at St.
Ives, where the Rev. R. TILLARD, and the Ex-sheriff
FRYER have nobly considered her miserable necessities,
and afforded Ler all needful protection, as well as a free
passage to her respectable family and friends in America :
all of whirls boons, however, she refused with a high-
minded, Virginian disdain, being firmly resolved on never
forsaking the destinies of, nor returning without her
much loved, though unfortunate husband I—The parish
officers of Somersham, who attended with this unhappy
' stranger in a strange land, were then ordered to receive
her under their protection. She has since suddenly dis-
appeared, and it is supposed has gone to visit her partner
in Bedford asylum.—Stamford News.

Great quantities of pollock were seen last
week off the northern parts of Scilly. Above 1000 of
those fish are said to have been caught by the boats of
Brye and Tresco. The weather has been remarkably fine
for some time, but is now changed to stormy.—Plymouth
Journal.

THURTELL'S COMRADE.-JOSEPH HUNT,
the notorious comrade of THURTELL, who was trans-
ported for life fur the prominent part he took in the min,•
der of W 5 RE, and who was stated to have died on his
passage to New South Wales, is still living, and in excel-
lent health. Various other stories have been circulated
about his death, which are all fabulous. He is, from the
last accounts from that colony, employed in the Bathurst
district, about 100 miles from Sydney, by the Govern-
ment,as a posting-messenger, the duty of which office is
toc convey letters and despatches from one station to
another. His average journey is about thirty miles per
day, which is considered very heavy work, over a moun-
tainous country, Where his fatigues are of course no ordi-
nary task.

CONSISTORY COURT, DEC. 11.
MUSKETT AGAINST MUSKETT.

This is a suit for divorce, promoted by Mr. Joseph
Salisbury Musket t, of Ingwood-hall, Norfolk, against
Mary his wife, on the ground of adultery committed
by her with Mr. Richard Hanbury Gurney. The
parties married in 1812. In 1817, after the birth
of a daughter, a separation took place, in conse-
quence of the discovery of certain clandestine meet-
ings of Mrs. Muskett with Mr. Gurney; and in
1818 an action of orbit. con. was brought by Mr.
Muskett against Mr. Gurney, which was tried at
Thetford in that year, when a verdict went for the
defendant. Subsequent to that period,—namely, in
the present year, Mrs. Muskett eloped with Mr.
Gurney, and has cohabited with him in Montague-
square. The libel now offered for admission was
founded upon this last transaction between the
parties; but in a variety of articles, the antecedent
transactions, which had been the subject of the
action at law, were introduced, and these articles
were now objected to by Dr. Addams and Dr. Chap-
man, on behalf of the wife, and defended by Dr.
Dodson and Dr. Blake on the part of the husband,
on the ground that they led up to the act of adultery
now charged and exculpated the husband from any
charge of laciws or neglect.
Dr. LUSHINGTON said, that the questions for the
consideration of the Court were, first, whether these
particular articles, pleaded in their present detail,
were necessary to establish the guilt of the wife;
and, secondly, supposing them inadmissible on. that
ground, whether they were requisite in order to
clear the husband's character from imputation. Now
it was admitted, on the part of the husband, that
he was in possesion of no additional evidence of any
act of adultery prior to that which forms the ground-
work of the present suit ; and therefore, the articles
were inadmissible on that ground. As to Mr.
Muskett, the Court would not impute any guilt to
the husband because he separated from his wife,
unless he could be proved to have been negligent, or
in collusion. Considering, then, that- the articles
objected to were unnecessary for either object, he
should direct them to be reformed by compressing
them into a narrow compass.