The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-05 00:00:00

CASE OF THE LATE MRS. PHILLIPS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sut,—ln reply to the letter of " Medicus," which
appeared in your Paper of yesterday, I beg to state,
that bad he given his name and address, I would
have triumphantly replied, not only.to his queries,
but to his insinuations. Having come forward with-
out disguise myself, I am not disposed to enter into
correspondence with every annonymous scribbler
who may tbi;:k tit to call on me through your Paper
—the only one, I take it, which would have inserted
such a prmduction.#
I was in great hopes, after the notice in your:Paper
of Saturday last, that you should not insert my
letter unless it were " paid for as an advertisement,"
that you would have adhered to your resolution,
instead of giving two or three partial extracts only,
the effect of which is to insult your readers (if they
have expressed the desire you mention—that " I
should be beard"), and at the same time to injure
me.

I eln, Sir, your obedient servant,
Finchley, Dec. 2. HENRY PHILLIPS.
4' Has Mr. Phillips read a letter which appeared in a
Mornit:s Paper of Wednesday last ?

We find in the Lancet of last night the following
paragraph, which we publish in order to enable Mr.
Phillips to give an explanation if he shall think fit. •
There is no necessity for a long letter. The points
are short, and admit of very short answers :
" We have beard, from most respectable autho-
rity, that although it was sworn or. the inquest that
Mr. Phillip! was at Barnet on the day preceding
his wife's death, and did pot return unto eleyen
o'clock,' that he' was seen to come out of his own
house about seven o'clock in the evening; further,
that he passed that same evening in the neighbour-
hood, in company with one or two women of doubt-
ful character; that, in the course of the even'og,
Mrs. Phillips sent several messages to her husband
complaining of her severe illness, and deairipg him
to return; and that of these messages he eo:Acl
either have heard nothing, or they were altogether
disregarded by him, as he did not leave the public-
house until about twelve o'clock. Tiles? reports ore
extensively and confidently circulated, and it is but'
just to make Mr. Phillips acquainted with them.
Whether at Barnet or the Torrington Arms, be
could not have been a spectator of what was passing
in his own house, and probably he has been misled
am some points by inaccurate information. Mr.
Slays will doubtless, therefore, say a few words in
explanation of the reports respecting the alleged
scene at the Torrington Arms, and of the alleged
unheeded messages of his unfortunate wife. He is
not called
rpon for a defence, but merely for an ex-
ploitation):

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER: 5, 1829.

The arrival of his MAJESTY'S frigate Galatea
which sailed from Vera Cruz so late as the 9th

October, settles all doubts, if any really existed,
respecting the discomfiture and surrender of the
Spanish expedition at Tampico. Indeed, the
Mexican Packet, with Vera Cruz Papers of the
26th September, brings all that is necessary.
These Papers contain a long official despatch
from General SANTA ANNA, dated Tam-

pico, the 19th of September, detailing the
full particulars of the surrender. It appears that

the Mexican General gave the Spaniards only
48 hours to consider, at the expiration of which
all quarter was to be refused if they did not sur_
render. During the battle a violent storm pre-
vailed which overflowed the lines of the Mexicans,

and placed some of them in a very critical situa

tion, but when the storm abated SANTA ANNA
succeeded in capturing one ofthe forts, on which the
Spaniards hoisted the white flag, and surrendered
on nearly the same terms as those already stated.

The loss of the Mexicans was 127 killed and
151 wounded ; that of the Spaniards consisted
of 104 killed and 96 wounded.

The Galatea brought a considerable quantity
of specie to this country, both for the Merchants
and for the Mining Companies-40,000 dollars
for the United Company, and 130,000 dollars
for the Bolonas Company.

The following are extracts from American
Papers to the 16th September :
MEXICO, SEPT. 13.

We have before us letters from New Orleans to
the 30th of August, which affirm that the second
expedition from the Havannah was to sail on the
2d or fld inst., and that its force would amount to
3,000 men. Many asserted that it would go to
Vera Cruz, but we cannot believe this. It is most
natural that its plan should be to reinforce the
division of General Barradas, which cannot be very
strong at present. However, we must not neglect
any point, as the enemy has the advantage of know-
ing where he will attack us, and we cannot obtain
certainty on this point,
The invaders have pliblished a commercial no-
tice, in which they exempt from all duties provisions
of every kind, except flour, which is to pay half the
duty fixed by the tariff of the Havannah, i. e, four
dollars per barrel.
Many Spanish vessels were at New Orleans, pre-
paring to sail with such articles for the expedition at
Tamatiiipa.i, At Tornede los Ingleses there were
12 or 1,400 Spaniards, ready to embark for some
point on our coast, supposed to be Matamoros or
Soto de la Marina.
The Spaniards are making their last efforts to as-
sert imagmary rights on a free people. We have
received no news from the field of battle ; but we
know that the enemy's force was daily growing
weaker, and that our army was actively engaged in
the necesEary fortifications. Gen. Santa Anna was
to attack the enemy between the Sth and 10th inst.
The Mexican troops were eager for battle, and be-
sought the Commander-in-Chief to lead them to the
attack. Our forces are about 9,000 men, under
Generals Santa Anna, Teran, Corlazar, Velasquez,
and Valdivizco.. We do not know to what point
the army of reserve if. to go, which is commanded
by the valiant General isas,temente, accompanied
by able and brave officers.
fign, 14.—The Correio of this date eontaißs a
Decree of te President, by which the widows of
the officers who Lege died during their banishment,
on account of the plan of Montano, are to be re-
lieved by the monk pio, and the 011...ers themselves
implic‘ted in- that plan, who may be in wary parts
of the territory of the Republic, are immediately to
poseat themselves, in order to be restored to their
rank, as their services may 4a, employed to advantage
in the present ei:rumstansces of the4epublic. This,
gays the Correio, may serve to iluiet the nl.Fros of
thoo Iyho really believed that the ,extraordinary
.powers granted to the Executive might be abused,
We see that it is most inclined to show mode-
ration and indulgence? and to offer a reconciliation
between all the Mexicans, and has begun by par-
doning tb.ose who were banished on stcount of the
affairs of Tuloncingo. We have reason to expect
that this amnesty will be extended to all those im-
plicated in Montano's plan.
An express from the army received today brings
word that our General would begin his attack on

the Bth. As the second Spanish expedition was
to sail on the 6th or 7th, it will probably reach our
shores about the 23d or 24th, by which time the
division already landed will be nearly ruined.
The Correio of the 11th and 15th contains an ar-
ticle on the justice of declaring war against the
United States of North America. Great rejoicings
are making in Mexico to celebrate the anniversary
of the republic:

The following are extracts from Frankfort
Papers of the 28th November;—

BERLIN, NOV. 25.

We are informed that his Majesty the Emperor
of Russia has acknowledged the laudable zeal and
the success of Lieutenant-General Baron Von
Muffling, in his mission to Constantinople,
_by, con-
ferring on him the order of St. Alexander Newsky,
and a present of 100,000 silver rubles. The affairs
of Greece must now soon take a decided turn;
many friends of Greece are apprehensive that that
people may be checked in its developement ; they
aro particularly desirous that Count Capo &Istria
may remain President of the new State.
MUNICH, .NOV. 25.

In Art. 10, of the commercial convention between
the kingdoms of Bavaria and Wurtemburg on the
one hand, and the kingdom of Prussia and the
Grand Duchy of Hesse on the other, it is stipu-
lated that the Consuls of either of the contracting
Powers, residing in foreign sea ports and commer•
cial towns, shall be instructed to afford protection
and assistance to the subjects of the other parties.
In reference to this article, the Minister for Foreign
Affairs has published a list of the Consuls and
commercial agents of Prussia in foreign ports.
His Majesty is still confined to his room by the
hurt in his foot, which however is gradually, though
slowly, getting better, and does not hinder him from
devoting the greatest attention to the affairs of Go-
vernment. A change in our Ministry is still
spoken of.

We copy the following from the Chronicle of

his morniNg :

" We are glad to see, from our report of the proceed-
ings at the Middlesex Sessions yesterday, that the report on
which our observations on the conduct of the Chairman, in
altering a sentence from seven years' transportation to
transportation for life, was not correct. On examination,
we find the account was copied by us from The Sun
newspaper. There was an account in several other Even-
ing Papers of Friday, perhaps the same as that so copied
by us.
" Mr. Const says, 'that in consequence of something
said to him by some gentlemen who were sitting with him
on the Bench, he ordered the boy to be brought back, and
told him that the Court, on re-consideration, thought his
a ease which ought to be punished by transportation for
life. But, when he said this, be never meant so to sen-
tence him. Every gentleman in Court knew what he
meant, and that his object was to impress on the other
boys the danger of the course they were pursuing ; and he
had reason to hope some good had been done in this way.
Immediately after pronouncing the sentence, he leaned over
to Mr. Gylby, the Clerk of the Peace, and told him to
take no notice of it.'

" As the Reporter was not in the secret, like Mr.
Gylby, he may well have been excused for not understand-
ing the Learned Chairman. We rejoice to Mid that he
did not exceed his duty, and we rejoice to find that he is
so sensible of what is due from a Magistrate to the public;
but if we may be pardoned the freedom, we would recom-
mend him not to leave Reporters in the dark in future.—
Even our contemporary, the Courier, from a natural de..
ference to the wisdom of a Magistrate, justified the altera-
tion of the sentence as highly praise-worthy ; and we
should not be surprised if the Chairmen of Sessions
throughout the country, misled by such high authorities,
were to act upon the precedent."

Now as the Chronicle copied the report from
The Sun, we can assure our liberal cotemporary
that the Report was correct to the letter—and
we also assure him, from a little experience of
what has taken place at Quarter Sessions, that
the practice of recalling a culprit after sentence,
and honouring him with a second but more

durable proof of Magisterial vengeance, did not
originate in the present instance. However,
we are now glad that the intention of the Chair-
man was not divined by our Reporter, as the
circumstance may be the means of preventing
such mistakes in future. The Chairman no
doubt meant very well, but then he took rather
an odd way of doing it. Had he ordered the
boy to be flogged on the instant, for insulting
the judgment-seat, it would have had a more
touching and corrective influence, both by pre-
cept and example, than the prospective terror of
residing in a foreign land for the remainder of
his life. Distant punishment, like uncertain
danger makes little impression upon a mind
which is already prepared for the worst.

It is, we know, a common observation, when
people read Newspapers which make a fuss about
nothing, " Ah ! the Papers must say something,
and, therefore, when they have nothing else to do,
they find fault, merely for the sake of doing so."
We conjecture this remark must have been ap-

plied to some of our Tory contemporaries, who
are so fierce in their attacks on the New Police,
and so fearful for our liberties, which they tell
us are being gradually swept away. The thieves
and flashmen probably make the same complaint,

for it is incontestible that an encroachment has
been made upon the vested interest enjoyed by
one portion of the community in picking the
pockets of the remainder. The wisdom of our
forefathers had provided for the exercise of the
right of thieving with comparatively little moles-
tation, and that this right should be now sub-
verted by a new fangled scheme of Police,
amounts, it is contended, to an arbitrary assault
upon British liberties, if not to a violation of the
Constitution of 1688 !
These sticklers for our liberties are supported
by several old ladies in one of the districts of
Marylebone parish, who, in consequence of Lord
ELDON'S eulogium on the ladies' petition against
the Critilolies, have become sensible of the great
weight due to female remonstrances, and have re-
presented to the Secretary of State the injustice of
destroying their nocturnal comforts, by depriving
them of the solace of the musical intonations of
the watchmen, in the absence of which these old
ladies find it impossible to lull themselves to
recto Mr. PEEL !--Mr. PEEL !---what reparation
can you ever m.lke to the elderly gentlewomen
of Mar ylebone for the loss of that constitutional
lullaby which in happier times soothed their
slumbering eyelids to repose ?
It is impossible to argue seriously with those
who deny the benefits of a well organized Police

traversing the metropolis by night and by day,
for the preservation of the persons and property
of the inhabitants. What we wanted was simply

—security ; and the Government, seeing that no
former system had attained that end, has esta-
blished a new force for our protection, which, so
far as can be
_hitherto judged, is very effective,
and answers its purpose extremely well. It is
really too bad to talk of the evils of introducing
a gendarmerie into England, and of the ap-
proaches that are making to a Military Govern-
ment ; the complaints of the old ladies of Mary-
lebone is a far more suitable one. If foreigners
who write articles in Reviews, lecturing us to
beware of the tyranny to which a military police
is leading us, would study England a little more
closely, they would find we are not exactly the
people to be led by the nose under a military
yoke ; and they would perceive that Policeman
is merely another name for constable, though of
a somewhat more efficient kind. The whole
business of Government is the application of
means to a given end ; and if that end is reached,
or, at all events, approached, it is perfect child-
ishness to blame the means, because they are in
some respects analogous to those adopted in
countries less free than our own. People who
do not think arc deceived by names ; but there
are others who do think, and are not deceived at
all themselves; though they have bad faith enough
to avail themselves of popular prejudices to raise
an outcry against a Government which they are
trying to undermine. They try, however, in
vain, the Government will stand ; and the Police
will stand ; and the former will as surely confound
the machinations of the Ultra Tories, as the latter
will drive the pickpockets from their Metropo-
litan haunts.

Despatches were received at the Colonial
Office, this morning, from Major-General Sir
H. TURNER, Governor of Bermuda; from
Sir WILLIAM DOUGLASS, Governor of New
Brunswick; and from Major General Sir P.
MAITLAND, Governor of Nova Scotia.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY. Twiarz ot Cr.ocr.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 3, 9 r. m.—Up to the above time
there has been no communication with the Napoleon New
York packet, the weather is so thick.
A Halifax mail has arrived by the Opossum, which
sailed from Bermuda the 30th October, and from Halifax
the 10th Nov. ; also a mail from Vera Cruz, by the
Lady Wellington, which sailed from thence the 28th
September, and from the Havannah the 16th October.
By the above conveyance we have received from the
North and South American Coffee-house, Halifax Papers,
to the 10th November, Prince Edward's Island Papers to
the 4th Nov., and Mirarnichi Papers to the 21st Oct.
The former Papers bring accounts that the Rifle Bri-
gade landed at St. John's, New Brunswick, on 29th Oct.
and the 81st Regiment commeneed embarking on the 2d
Nov, and it was supposed would sail for Bermuda on the
6th Nov. The latter Papers contain nothing of importance.

The private letters from Vera Cruz, which are of a
much later date than the packet, having been brought by
a frigate, state that Santa Anna had arrived at Vera Cruz.
Joy was expressed in the capita, on the happy event of the
surrender of the Spaniards.
Consols, which left off rather heavy in the house at
94i 95 for the Account, were afterwards done at 95,
buyers; and opened this morning at 95 to for January.
Reduced may be quoted 93i with little business doing
as yet.

In the Foreign Market, Mexican Bonds have improved
owing to the confirmation of the surrender of the Spa-
niards at Tampico.

FUNDS.
31 per Cent. 971 100
New 4 per Cent., shut
4 per Cent. 1826 1051 6
India Bonds, 68 70
Exchequer Bills, 69 70
FUNDS.
Greek, 261 71
Mexican, 24/ 51
Peruvian, 16 17
Portuguese, 501 511
Prussian,
Russian, 109 1
Spanish, 101 I

TWO O'CLOCK.