The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-10 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS, DEC. 9.

James Browne was indicted with being a com-
mon utterer of counterfeit coin. The prisoner
pleaded " guilty," and was sentenced to one year's
imprisonment and hard labour at Brixton, and at the
expiration to enter into sureties for his good behaviour.

William Booker was indicted for robbing Lot
Bennett, on the 3d of November, of Si. 2s. 6d.
Verdict—Guilty, and sentenced to seven years'
transportation.

Thomas Young was indicted for stealing from
John Chandler, at Croydon, a watch and a pair of
trousers, his property, on the 11th of November.
The prosecutor identified the property.
Verdict—Guilty, and sentenced to seven years'
transportation.
Two lads, named Taylor and Leary, well-known
characters, were convicted of robbing the shop-win-
dow of Thomas Powell Special (one of the Society
of Friends), of three combs and other articles his
property, and sentenced to be transported for life.
George Roach was indicted upon three separate
charges, with meeting children, and, under pretext,
getting them to carry letters promising them 6d. for
their trouble, and persuading them to leave their
bundles in his charge. The children go to the
houses pointed out, where no such person as the in-
dividual addressed is known. On their return, they
find the prisoner and the parcels gone. He was ac-
quitted upon two indictments ; but upon the third,
wherein Mr. Franks, of Stamford-street, was the
prosecutor, it was clearly proved, and he was found
Guilty, and sentenced to seven years' transportation.
The Grand Jury having gone through the bills
presented to them, presented the gaol, &c., all well,
but complained of the dreadfully immoral scenes that
were continually acted in Newington, especially the
Elephant and Castle, the Rockingham Arms, and
in front of the Fishmongers' Alms-houses, and other
parts of Newington, caused by the assemblage of a
number of idle and disorderly persons, particularly
on Sundays during divine service and after dusk.
The CHAIRMAN thanked the Grand Jury for their
services, and said that the parish and place so pre-
sented were governed by a local Act of Parliament;
but it was the determined intention of the parishes
to put down so great a nuisance and crying evil.
The Grand Jury then retired.

The Austrian Ambassador had interviews
yesterday and also on Tuesday with the Earl of ABERDEEN.
The Duchesses of WELLINGTON and BUCK-
INGHAM remain at Strathfieldsay and Avington, gladden-
ing the hearts of the poor at this inclement season, and
are not expected to join the festivities at Stowe.
STORIES OF WATERLOO.—The interest
excited by this production, at the present (lay, seems to be
as great as it could possibly have been had it appeared im-
mediately after the grand event which it so powerfully
illustrates. Yet this ought not perhaps to excite surprise,
when it is considered that there is scarcely a family in the
kingdom that was not more or less affected by that ex-
traordinary conflict. What signal changes in worldly
affairs, what agonies of heart, what heroism, were con-
densed in the few days between the hurried breaking-up of
the ball at Brussels and the retreat of NAPOLEON !

We are pleased to find that Mr. LE BRE-
Triox has published a new edition of his " French Gram-
mar and Exercises." Certainly there never has been so
successful an attempt to form a perfect grammatical ma-
nual in any language, nor any in which so much inge-
nuity has been exerted to make the reader, as he proceeds
step by step, perfect in what it is his object to learn.
This is the very book for all who desire to learn the lan-
guage without a teacher, or where the teacher is only par-
tially experienced.
THE LOST JEWELS.—The Court Journal
of Saturday next, will, it appears, in addition to its numer-
ous other attractions, be accompanied with engraved FAC •
SIMILES, on a separate sheet, of all the Princess of
ORANGE'S Lost Jewels. The ladies will now have an op-
portunity of forming some idea of the value, beauty, and
splendour of these treasures which have of late excited so
much curiosity and speculation.

The son of Mr. ANTILL, fruit salesman in
the Borough Market, and who is 21 years of age, swal-
lowed some oxalic acid on Tuesday, in consequence of hav-
ing been slighted by a female to whom he was paying his
addresses. He was taken to Guy's Hospital soon after he
had swallowed the poison, and it was removed from his
stomach, but he remains in a precarious state.
CONTRIVANCE OF THE MOLE TO GUARD
AGAINST MOISTURE.-Though the moles are partial to
fields within the reach of water, they like to have their gal-
leries in dry banks, or the more elevated parts of dry fields,
where they are nut in danger of being flooded. An instance
in proof of this fell under our observation last winter. In
the woods adjoining Shooter's Hill there are considerable
patches of swampy ground, which are partially flooded in
rainy weather. On passing near one ofthese swamps, we
were struck with the unusual size of a mole-hill, which we
at first imagined to be an ant's nest. It was, indeed,
rather a singular locality fur a node-hill, moles being sel-
dom found in woods, and much seldomer in swamps ; but
though it was as large as six ordinary mole-hills, there
could be no doubt that it was one. Upon removing a
portion of the upper layer of the mould, the reason of its
extraordinary elevation was at, once explained; a circular
gallery having been constructed on the highest part of the
mound, and covered only by about two inches depth of
mould. As this gallery was at least two feet above the
level of the swamp, it was out of the reach of any com-
mon inundation.— Companion to the Almanack.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

A correspondent of ours, who appears by Ms
plain speaking to have worried Mr. Daniel
O'Connell in nt, trifling degree, leaves it to the
Times to deal as it thinks proper with entain
calumnies which the Learned Agitator, in pure
t•pantonness, has been pleased to put forth
against this Journal. The Times will deal
with the calumny as it will with the
Cdluttiniatof, that is
_to say, ‘v ill have

no dealings with. either; it feels su-
preme contempt for both. Mr. O'Con-
nell is likelly to succeed as well in proving that
the rinirs is venal, and has been bribed by the
Beresfords ! of nil people in the world,—as in
in persuading the respectable Irish Catholics to
join his stupid outcry against the Union, or the
electors of the county of Waterford, that he has
riot !mitered" for a fee from the Beresfords,
whom he now rails against like pickpockets. We
must observe, however, that Nlr.O'Connell has no
eaSon to be so very positive in his charges against
this POW: We never were on terms of friend-
ship or acqtidititance with the learned gentleman ;
lie therefore know; none of our secrets ; if he
had, indeed, he would doubtless have disclosed
them long ago. We
r sought to render
rim'
from
that ma
t greataly personal cause, or
rprisveart‘eice6es o:vti:ces'apart
which fhoa e
gained us no trifling abuse from 00e party, and
equal applauses from another ; if we had, we
might long ago have expected some proots..4 the
learned gentleman's ingratitude. There is, any
has been, therefore, no relation between the con-
ductors of this Paper and Mr. O'Connell, from
which that learned personage could extract ma-
terials wherewith to just* the indulgence of his
favourite and characteristic Modes of speech.
We finally submit to the learned ce.itator, when
next he volunteers a stigma so grave as that of
bribery against a member of the English ", 1. :vie,
that he need not employ so many tawdry ads
jectives by way of adding emphasis to the incurpation. Let him put off his jack-pudding tone
and fustian phrases ; and say, in plain words,
when, where, and wild was the bribe. Unless
we are very much mistaken, this poor blustering
booby has nearly had his day.—Times.

The noise that was made in Ireland on ac-
count of the departure of the Solicitor-General
from the usual practice, by examining Dr. Heiss
at the portis-o'Kane trials, must be yet fresh in
the recollection of most of our readers. Dr.
Heiss gave evidence highly favourable ih the pri-
soners ; and it was loudly cohtswled that bis
business, as Counsel for the prosecution, being
to exert himself to the utmost to hang the pti,

soners, and having conducted the pieparatovi;
investigations, and being consequently aware that
the evidence of Dr. Heirs would be such as we
have stated, he ought to have abstained from
calling him. Whether or not the Solicitor-Ge-
neral would have felt any repugnance to the
keeping back evidence calculated to prove the
innocence of men in whose fate the authorities
of the country were not interested, is a point
which was agitated during the discussions on
some subsequent trials. We have at present,
however, no concern with the Irish Solicitoi-
General, and therefore we leave this question
where we found it. We were led to it by a
letter, which our readers will find in ano-
ther column, from Mr. Whitmore, surgeon,
on the case of Edwin Harris, a lad,
who was brought up to receive sentence
at Hicks's Hall, on Saturday last, for au
improper assault, of which he had been con-
victed a few days before. The statement of
Mr. Whitmore, which is confirmed by a cer-
tificate from Dr. Gordon Smith, speaks volumes
as to the dreadful immorality of tl►e practices
which all must follow who earn their money at

the Bar in this country. Mr. Whitmore, un-
easy under the imputation to which his conduct
apparently exposed him, of his allowing a young
man, of whose innocence lie was assured, to be
deprived of the benefit of his evidence on the
trial, and postponing his exertions till a time
when they were no longer available to the pri-
soner, comes now forward with this simple and
moving explanation, " Allow me (he says) to
explain my apparent disregard to what I con-
sider the extreme hardship of this unfortunate
youth's situation, by stating that I attended in
Court the whole of the day of his trial, by virtue
of a subpoena on behalf of the prosecution, hav-
ing been called on by the sitting Magistrates at
I latton-garden to give my opinion on the case
when this offence was first said to have been
committed, and when I expressed my firmest
conviction that the offence laid to the prisoner's
charge had not, in the remotest degree, been
committed by him or any one else, but, above
all, certainly not by him, for reasons which ad-
mit of easy explanation, which opinion I took
care to have strengthened by the enclosed certi-
ficate of Dr. Gordon Smith. This being known
to all parties to have been my opinion at that
time, of course you cannot be surprised that the
Counsel for the prosecution had no inducement
to place me in the witness box ; the Counsel
for the prisoner, knowing that I had been sub-
pcenaed on the other side, and knowing, also,
that my name was on the back of the bill of in-
dictment, it should seem, was suspicious that
my evidence might not be of the most propi-
tious kind for his client ; and thus the prisoner
was altogether deprived of my evidence ; in the
absence of which, that the Jury should return
the verdict they did is not much to be wondered
at, and the punishment awarded by the Court
(six months' imprisonment) cannot be thought
excessive for any wretch guilty of such an abo-
minable offence." The Counsel for the prose-
cution, knowing that the evidence of Mr. Whit-
more would go to establish the innocence of the
prisoner, takes care not to examine him, and, as
it is his business to exert all his ingenuity to
obtain a conviction, by subpoenaing Mr. Whit-
more he produces an impression on the pri-
soner's Counsel, that that witness is on the side
of the prosecution. The Counsel for the pro-
secution does no more than what any other
Counsel would do in a similar case. Were a
Counsel to neglect any ruse, by which evidence
to establish innocence could possibly be kept
back, and thus fail to obtain a conviction, he
would lay himself open to the reproach of not
having made the most of his case. He has
nothing to do with the guilt or innocence of the
party against whom he exerts himself—his busi-
ness is to obtain a conviction whether the party
be guilty or innocent : and as it is always reckoned
a greater merit in a COunsel to procure the ac•.
quittal of a guilty than the acquittal of an inno-
cent man, in like manner it is far more merito-
rious to convict innocence, than to convict guilt.
It is, therefore, in a professional.. sense, no re-
proach, but, on the contrary, a matter of tri-
umph, that the Counsel in this case earned his
fee by obtaining, through•his management,. tho
conviction of an innocent'youth of a 'foul 'crime.
We have often thought an autobioirip-hy`'of, a
Barrister of extensive praclice..-in Jro
Courts, drawn up with naive fidd4for the in-

struction of his childten, would be a valuable
memorial. We can conceive such a productio;►
communicating the successive triumphs of the
writer, in some such way as this:—" At the Old
Bailey this Sessions I conducted a prosecution
s►4ainst a man accused of a rape. I knew that
two medical men had maintained that the pri-
soner could not be guilty, and I took- care that
b
they should be subpoenaed for the prosecution—
t►ot, you may be sure, that I should examine
them, but that I might keep them from toy op-
ponent. I was for some time uneasy lest the
Counsel for the prisoner should venture to call
them, but at length I had the satisfaction of
seeing his fear prevail, and I obtained a verdict
Some time afterwards I saw the prisoner exe-
cuted. He was a handsome young man. No
hero was ever more proud on bringing down his
antagonist than I was. What I would have
given that my poor father had lived to witness
such a blessing on his endeavours for Inc! . . .
I this Sessions succeeded in obtaining the acquit-
tal of a felon who had committed a highway rob-
bery. I had before befriended him. He had ample
means, and by my advice the principal witness
was got hold of, so that an acquittal followed of
course My fortune was now

made. My reputation was such, that when a
prisoner saw in appear against him, he gave
himself up for lost ; and, on the other hand,
the prif,oners for whom I appeared were full of
etv:oidence. I was never so well pleased as when
I was oppeistd to an innocent man. Confiding
in his innocence, such a man is often taken un-
awares by the preparations against him, whereas
a rogue is generally wary and suspicious." This
i 3 but a very faint approximation to the reality.
Is it not monstrous that a trial should he in this
manner a mere strategical operation of the Coun-
sel on the two sides ? The Magistrates of
Hatton-garden were aware of the nature of Mr.
Whitmore's evidence ; but the function of these
Magistrates was at an end when the committal
for trial was. signed. The Judge knows no
more of the circumstances of the case than
what transpires doting the trial. The trial
itself is, as we have said, a manceuvre, in which
it is the business of the Counsel for the prose-
tor to obtain a conviction, and the business of
the opposite Counsel to . obtain an acquittal.—
There is ttn check on parties : every thing is left to
their dietretion. There is no individual in an F..ng-
'!'-ish trial whose business it is to see that the facts of
tht case are brought forward. The Counsel on both
sides have ample scope—the Jury and the Judge
can only form their judgment on what is laid
before them—they have no means of knobvina
what is withheld. Some time aeo the second
edition of a pamphlet—first published about two
years ago, by Mr. Stephen, a professional gentle-
man, under the title of " Practical Suggestions
for the Improvement of the Police"—was sent to
us. Some idea may be formed of the ample
scope given, by the mode of conducting a trial
in this country, to dishonesty, from the follow-
ing pastage :—" it is left entirely to the prose-
ciutor 1/431.• his agent to procure the requisite evi-
i:ekv:_`e, and also to sift the degree of credit due
to the witnesses themselves.

Thus, professional ignorance or inactivity, or
a prosecutor's poverty, may, even in the very
first stage of proceeding, insure the offenders im-
punity ; and still greater is the risk at the stage
when the prisoner is tried ; when an acquittal
would immediately follow on a necessary link in
the evidence being defective ; or on its being ob-
served that any essential witness was undeserving
of credit, or incapable of giving evidence. But it'
such may be the consequence of ignorance or po-
verty on the part of the prosecution, still mere cer-
tainly is it in the power ola dishonest solicitor to in.
sure the acquittal of the prisoner. The production
or non-production of evidence either before the
Grand Jury or the Court, is entirely discre-
tionary with him, except as respects those wit-
leotsts who have already been bound by the
.'..lagistrate under a penalty to appear ; but as it
is sufficient to make out merely a case of sus-
picion for the Magistrate ; and as it is a prin-
ciple with experienced Solicitors not to open
more of the prosecutors case than is necessary
for a committal, that the prisoner may not be
prepared to tamper with individuals, or by sober.
tuition of perjury to contradict the witnesses, it
follows that but a small number of them will in
most cases have been bound over by the Ma-
gistrates." It is the system that is in fault, and
not individuals. Professional men are not re-
sponsible for the system. They labour merely
in their vocation. Abstractly speaking, to pro-
cure the conviction of an innocent man, or the
escape of a guilty man, is an immoral act ; but
those who have the hangman on their side, need
not be very squeamish about their morality. The
hangman being for or against makes all the
difference in the world.—Morning Chronicle.
TO THEEDITORPF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
Cold Bath-square, Dec. 8, 18'29.

Stec—ln the Observer of lest Sunday notice is takee
of the case of Edwin Marie, who was brought up to re-
f-, ive sentence at Hicks's Hail, having been convicted a
fee, days before of an improper assault upon a young female.
With that accuracy of detail which distinguishes your
Journal from most of your contempt raries, you mention
th it I attended to speak on behalf of the prisoner. It
must occur to your readers to he very strange, if I had any-
thing to say in proof of the prisoner's innocence, that I
did not attend on the day of his trial and stete then what
I knew of the case, which statement would doubtlessly
have been thought entitled to the consideration of the
Jery ; for it is to the boy's innocence I speak, and not by
way of palliation of the offence, if committed. Allow
me to explain my apparent disregard to what I consider
the extreme hardeliip of this unfortunate youth's situation,
by stating that I attended in Court the whle the day
of his trial, by virtue of a subpoena on behalf of the
prosecution, hiving been celled on by the Sitting Magis-
trates at Hatton-garden to give my opinion on the case
when the offence was first said to have been committed,
and when I expressed my firmest convietien that the
offence laid to the prisoner's charge had not in the re-
motest degree been committed by him or any one else, but
above all, certainly not by hint, for reasons which admit of
easy eeplanatiou, which opinion I took care to have
eteengtlened hy the enclosed certificate of Doctor Gordon
Smith. This being known to all perties to have been my
opinion at that time, of course you carnet be surprised
tkat the Counsel for the proiecurion had no inducement to
place me in the witness-box. The Counsel for the prisoner,
knowing that I had been sublime:led on the other side,
and knowing also that my name was on the back of the
bill of indictment, it should seem, was suspicions that my
evidence might not I:e of the most propitious kind
for his client ; and thus the prisoner was altogether
deprived of my evidence; in the ahsenee of which,
that the Jury should return the terdict they did is
not much to be wondered at, and the punish-
ment awarded by the Court (six months' imprison-
ment) cannot be thought excessive for any wretch guilty of
such an abominable offence.. Indeed, the reception I met
with from Mr. Const, the Chairmen, when the youth was
brought up for judement, when I begged to be heard as to
the impossibility of the truth -of the evidence edeluced on
behalf of the prosecution, was- the most humee - and gen-
tlemanly possible to conceive, but of course he eould not
allow himself to listen to contradictions of evidence which
was given. upon oath on the day of trial.
Allow use in conclusion to say, that I feel myself in
pessession of such facts which vet admit of proof—not
mere assertion—of something which may or may not have
taken place, and left no trace behind—but facts which
yet admit of proof, that it is impossible that the prisoner
or any one else has been guilty of that which is laid to his
charge. I may be told that the case was badly defended
that the forms of Court require ,that evidence should be
deco at a proper time. Granted. But, after all, it is

shocking that any forms of Court, or any thing else widt
which this poor lad can have nothing to do, should be suf-
fered to stand in the way of the administration ofjustice.
Having said thus much by way of explanation, which
has occnpied so much time that really I have not enough
left to enable me t,) go over it for the purpose of correc-
tion, if you think this worthy of insertion in your vain-
:thin columns, do me the Incur to correct or condense the
matter in any way y, u please.
I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
HENRY WHITMOIIE, Surgeon.

" London, Svtember 26, /829..

" This is to certify, that I h3vice thia day carefully in-
spected the person of Edwin Harris, now confined in the
New Prison, Clerkenwell, and that I am cenfident he nei-
ther now labours, nor has, within the space of a fortnight,
laboured under any syphilitic complaint.
" I have also examined the person of Heckf.rd,
a female under the ne of puberty, residing in the house of
Sydec, of No. 14, Radnor-street, and find that
she labours under a morbid discharge ; but there is not the
least mark or trace of her havingibeen assaulted for the pur-
pose of committing a rape, or any reason to ascribe her
complaint to venereal contact.
" J. GORDON SMITH, M.D."

There is an influence abroad to suppress public
opinion at the present alarming crisis throughout
England. A great portion of the Press has
lent itself to the unwcrthy, but, we trust, the in-
effectual attempt to keep down the expression of
public sentiment on the unparalleled distresses
of the country. We make no account of the
old Government hacks by whom every measure
of politicians in office have ever been, and ever
will be supported. However regardless of prin-
ciple, they are consistent with their creed—they
labour in their vocation ;—but the worst " sign
of the times" is, that Papers, which have gone
ezetreme lengths under former Administrations,
in commenting upon the acts of men in power,
and advocating either supposed or real popular
rights, are now vieing with each other in slavish
submission and courtly sycophancy to a Govern-
ment under which the difficulties and embarrass-
ments of the country have accumulated beyond
all previous example. It is not necessary to im-
pugn the motives of the present Ministry. There
is sufficiently obvious cause of complaint in their
feebleness, indecision, and ignorance of sound
and comprehensive principles of statesmanship.
The want of wisdom in a Minister has, perhaps,
more pernicious effects upon the interests of a
country than a want of virtue. If the intentions
of the present Administration be good, they do.
not act wisely in shutting their eyes to the dis-
tresses of the country. The ostrich that runs its
head into the sand to allude the hot pursuit of
its enemies has never been accounted the most
sagacious of birds. To face difficulties in a
manly way is the most likely mode to overcome
theta. But then, to meet them properly, one must
ascertain exactly what they are. Do the Govern-
ment endeavour to acquire such a knowledge of the
existing evils that beset the country as is neces-
sary before they attempt to redress them ? They
do no such thing—their underlings in office,
and their underlings in the newspapers, repre-
sent the country as improving, while the events of
every day bear witness to the decline of its
prosperity, and to the increase of the sufferings
of the people. What could be the object of the
Sheriff of Lincolnshire, in refusing to comply
with the request of a most respectable body of
requisitionists, to take into consideration the
propriety of petitioning for the repeal of the
Malt and Beer duties ? He states that he
does not wish the Government to be embar-
rassed. In other words he does not wish the
Government to hear the language of truth through
the constitutional organ of a County Meeting.
He probably recollects that some years ago the
Duke of Wellington was said to have called a
County Meeting " a farce." The Whigs then
made an excessive clamour about this expression,
but now they are as silent as the recluse philo-
sophers ofLa Trappe; they express no indigna-
tion at the conduct of the Sheriff of Lincoln-
shire. It suits their present purpose that County
Meetings should, in reality, be treated as a
" farce," although there never was a time when
the circumstances to be taken into consideration
at such a Meeting were less fit to become the
subject of tl:e Comic Muse. It will be seen
from a communication in:our Paper to-day, that
the reasoning of the worthy Sheriff is not likely
to be taken as conclusive by the people of Lin-
colnshire. His logic, instead of allaying the
desire for public discussion, has stimulated it.
Both the gentry and yeomanry feel that this re-
fusal on his part to accede to a request involving
the exercise of the important right of petitioning
for redress of grievances, was as discourteous
as it was unconstitutional. We publish the
names of the gentlemen who signed the requi-
sition, and it will appear that several of them
were men of the first consideration and fortune
in the county. The requisition from the yeo-
manry was signed by about 200 substantial
farmers, many of whom are proprietors of from
1001. to 1,0001. per annum. Such men are not
likely to be rebuked into silence by the dictation
of a Sheriff; or to be accessary to their own
ruin by being too timid or two servile to awaken
the attention of Ministers to the alarming situa-
tion of the country, in the language of honest
feeling and constitutional remonstrance.—Morn-
ing Herald.
In the absence of any matter of foreign intel-
ligence worthy of comment, we know not that
we can poss 4, lay before our readers matter of
greater importance, or greater interest, than that
which is contained in an article in the last num-
ber of the Foreign Quarterly Review, (pub-
lished a few days ago) entitled " European
Diplomacy." We noticed the conclusion of
this -article on a former occasion, and entered
our protest against certain doctrines advanced
by the writer respecting the supremacy of the
Porte over the infant state of Greece. The ar-
ticle, which we know to be based on official do-
cuments, not hitherto published, has attracted
the attention of persons in a higher circle than
we pretend to move in : it has confounded the
great Lord of the Treasury, as well as some
other Lords equally responsible for the conduct
' of foreign affairs: and we understand that the
most eager inquiry is on foot to ascertain who
has furnished the documents, and who has writ-
ten the article to which they furnished the basis.
The Russian Ambassador is suspected on the
one hand, and Admiral Codrington on the
other ; and. both, we beg to assure their
Lordships, have as much to do with the matter
as the Emperor of China. They are on
a false scent, and by no means likely to disccv2r
the right track. In the mean time, let us
address ourselves to the article in question,
which, Mier noticing various publications re-
specting Greece, proceeds, in the first place,
to give a brief history of the Greek Revolution,
and in the second, of the intervention of the
Allied Powers in the affairs of Greece. And
what a picture is here exhibited of the weakness
of the English Ministry, from the time that the
protocol at St. Petersburgh was signed, to the
conclusion of the treaty of Adrianople I It is
painful—it is disgusting—even to look at it. We
expected to find, on the' accession of the Duke

of Wellington to the Pretniei ship, a display
of the firmness and decision which characterized
the administrations of Chatham, I'itt, and Can-
ning ; but instead we only discover weakness and
vacillation—timidity and a total absence of the
most ordinary foresight ! Russia not only taking
die lead in all political transactions—France
pursuing a separate policy when it suited her
purposes—and Greece, through Count Capo
d'lstria, bidding defiance to our threat:—
but even the Ministry itself, so vacillat-
ing and so irresolute, as to agree on
one day to terms, to which, at a former meeting
of the Cabinet, it had vowed never to accede to.
We know not whether it be true that Mince
Lieven, and the Foreign Ambassadors, generally,
make a daily jest of our foreign policy, and sneer
at the vaunted decision of a certain high per-
sonage ; but this we do know, that the country was
never so little respected abroad as it now is, and
that had we a Parliament' of sufficient talent and
sufficient honesty to investigate the course of
our foreign policy, the reputation of the present
Ministry, for political sagacity, would be at so
low a rate of discount as Spanish Bonds, or
Potosi Mining Shares. This, however, by the
bye. Come we now to the question of Grecian
independence, and of the intervention of the
Allied Powers in the affairs of Greece, respect-
ing which we find in the Foreign Quarterly
Review, the following most interesting morsel of
history :
" When the insurrection had gained consistency
by the establishment of a government in Greece,
the Emperor Alexander not only pressed the neces-
sity of an accommodation with the insurgents on the
part of the Porte, but made specific proposals of in-
terference, similar in several respects to the stipula-
tions in the protocol of St. Petersburgh, April,
1826, and the treaty of London, July, 1827. In a
memorial presented by Russia to the Allied Courts,
so early as the winter of 1823, the Emperor ex-
pressed his views for the pacification of Greece, and
urged the necessity of it, from considerations affect-
ing his own government in particular, and the inte-
rests of Europe in general, declaring that effective
negotiations for that object could not be undertaken
too soon, nor pursued too zealously. If this great
point were settled, and the question of the Greek
insurrection disposed of, his Imperiel 111,ijesty, who
had had no mission at Constantinople since the year
1821, engaged to send an Ambassador immediately
to settle the subjects of his separate misunderstand-
ing with the Sultan. The earnestness of the Court
of St. Petersburgh is evident from the following
passage of the above memorial :
" Russia cannot see with indifference the pro-
longation of a state of things in the East, which in-
terrupts her relations with the Levant, paralyses her
trade, and affects her dearest interests. 'l' he other
Allied Courts, it is true, have not the same reason
for interfering ; but would it be consistent with true
policy, and that generosity which is its first attri-
bute, to refrain from putting an end to the evils
under which both: Greece and Turkey are Mowing ?
These powers regard it as a sacred 'duty to unite in
preserving the general peace, but while the struggle
between the Porte and Greece continues, while re-
volutions and ana.chy are perpetrated in that quarter,
this peace, the ohject of such just solicitude, can
neither be real nor complete. It cannot he so
physically, for the struggle appears far from being
terminated! it cannot be so morally, for this same
contest maintains in the public mind of Europe a
disquietude, the existence of which is a real danger.'
" The Emperor then calls upon his allies to inter-
fere upon the same principles, or the same motives,
as those on which they acted in puttinc, an end to
the revolutions of Naples, Piedmont, and Spain. He,
in fact, proposes that in this case they should sanc-
tion an insurrection, in order to quiet the revolu-
tionary spirit, or prevent future revolutions, and to
remove from themselves a reproach which wouid be
fatal to their security, namely, that of replacing a
Christian people under a barbarous infidel yoke, and
of thus shewing an equal regard to Mahometan-
ism and Christianity. The Autocrat, after these
observations, submits to his allies his plan of paci-
fication, which proceeds on the supposition that
the Sultan will never consent to recognize the en-
tire political independence of the Greeks, and
that the Greeks will never consent to replace
themselves under Turkish despotism, as exercised
before the war. In order, therefore, not to excite
the repugnance of the Turk, he takes as a model
a kind of dominion already existing in the Turkish
empire, namely, that of the provinces on the Da-
nube, and propose, principalities or hospodarships
in Greece, as in Moldavia and Wallachia. Three
principalities are indicated by the position of the
Greek territority, the first comprehending Thessaly,
Bceotia, Attica, and the rest of Eastern Greece;
the second, Epirus, Acarnania, and Wetern Greece!;
and the third, the Morra, or Southern Greece, and
the island of Candia. The islands in the Archipe-
lago would be suljected to a kind of municipal go-
verment, independent of Greece, similar in some
respects to that which they have enjoyed for ages.
The Porte would still preserve her sovereignty over
these States, after the new arrangement, and would
receive from them a stipulated tribute; but would
not be authorized to send Pachas or Governors.
Their trade would be entirely free—all employ-
ments, civil and military, would be held by natives;
they would have their own flag, and would be re-
presented nt the Porte by the Patriarch, who would
enjoy for this purpose the same rights as a foreign
Ambassador. The Turkish dominion, as far as it
was to be maintained, would be preserved by garri-
sons in certain places, confined for subsistence
within a circle beyond 'which the troop's would not
be allowed to forage. As some apprehension seems
to have been entertained that the Turkish govern-
ment would not be very quick-sighted in perceiving
the benefits, or very eager in submitting to the hu-
miliation of this arrangement, the memorial enters
largely into the reasons why it ought to be adopted
on the part of the Sultan. His tributes would be bet-
ter paid, and his authority would be less contested by
the rebellious movements of such Pachas as that of
Epirus. Principalities, with limited submission to the
Porte, would be no novelty to the Empire, and the
admission of foreign interference was likewise no
novelty. On the otherhand, the Greeks could not be
supposed to object. They had now concluded their
third campaign with success, but if the contest were
continued, there was still a danger of their final over-
thro N. If they adopted the proposition, their trade
would be free, and they would acquire every means
of securing their repose, and extending their pros•
perity by wise and selutary laws. Even, how-
ever, thought they might make objections,' the me-
morial adds, in the peculiar spirit of the Emperor,
the Allied Courts could not recognize their entire
independence, without deviating from those maxims
which have established the safely of Europe.' "

This exclusive piece of information is only a
sample of what follows. But to return to the
subject. The representations mentioned in the
previous extract " were pressed," says the author
of the article, " on the chief governments of
Europe towards the end of 182=1, and the Porte
constantly solicited to enter into some accommo-
dation with its revolted Greek provinces." Mr.
Canning saw clearly how the matter would end,
unless England so interwove herself with it as to
have a negative on any attempt which Russia
might make, either to arrange the affairs of
Greece separately, or to take advantage of the
Greek insurrection to make a separate quarrel
with Turkey ; and he accordingly sent, first, the
Duke of VlTellington, and, next, the Duke of
Devonshire, to St. Petersburgh, to endeavour to
arrange the Greek affair. " The protocol of
' St. Petersburgh," however, says the Foreign
[ Quarterly Review, " though formed with such
apparent urgency, was no; immediately commu-

nicalea to the other Courts of Europe, which
continued, separately, to press upon the Porte
the necessity of a pacification of Greece." The
following morsel of history we must extract, for
it is incapable of abridgment :
" In visiting Paris during the autumn of that
year, Mr. Canning sounded the French Ministry on
the subject, but met with little cordiality or confi-
dence. Subsequently, the protocol was communi-
cated to the Courts of Austria and Prussia, with an
earnest request that they would adopt its resolu-
tions, and enter into the proposed alliance. The
Emperor of Austria returned his definitive answer by
Prince Metternich, on the 29th or 30th Dec4'lB26 ;
and the King of Prussia, on the 4th of Jan., I 527.
The former, in a note addressed to the English and
Russian Ambassadors at the Court of Vienna,
(never yet published,) acknowledges the receipt of
the protocol of St. Petersburgh, thanks the Allied
Courts for their confidential communication, and
eulogizes the spirit in which their humane project
originated. Before, however, his Imperial Majesty
can actively accede to the proposed treaty, he re-
quests additional information on the proposed mode
of its execution, and takes the opportunity of giving
his views on the question. His Majesty has al-
ways objected, and still objects, to any interference
by force; to any attack on the rights of the Turk,
and even to any menace of that power.' Through-
out this document the Greeks are regularly styled
insurgents, whom the Porte was called to put down
if it could. It even predicts the danger which would
result from giving countenance to a system of po-
licy tending to justify insurrection and encourage
rebellion, by enabling them to triumph. . This last
argument, addressed to the fears of politicians, had
often succeeded with the late Emperor Alexander,
but was lost on his brother Nicholas and the Eng-
lish Minister, who had resolved to break up tae
Holy Alliance by destroying the principle of its
union. Count Bernstodf, the Prussian Minister,
returned a more liberal answer, but declined making
his country a party to the treaty, on the ground that
she had no immediate contract with Turkey, having
no fleet in the Mediterranean, and that the Prussian
Ambassador might be useful in meditating between
the other powers and the Porte, in the event of
their withdrawing their ministers. The negociations
at Loudon between the three Courts did not com-
mence till the spring of 1827, as some coolness had
taken place bet ween Mr. Canning and tie Court of
the Tuilleries, occasioned by his speech on the Por-
tuguese question. But so keen did the French Go-
vernment afterwards become in the formation and
support of the alliance, that his Most Christian Ma-
jesty has more than once styled himself its chief
Filar and promoter."
At this point we must close for the present
our brief account of the extraordinary disclosures
in the Foreign Quarterly Review, respecting
the conduct of the English Ministry. To-mor-
row we shall return to it at greater length.—
Morning Advertiser.

FORGERY ON GEN. SIR W. PRINGLE.

Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, a youth,
apparently about 13 years of age, entered the bank-
ing-house of Messrs. Wright and Co., in Henrietta-
street, Covent-garden, and presented to the cashier
a cheque for 901., purporting to have been drawn by
Sir William Pringle, of Stratford-place, upon that
thin, where the General has kept an account fur
many years. The cashier, the moment he saw the
signature to the cheque, suspected it to he a forgery,
and he took it to Mr. Wright, the senior partner,
who at once pronounced it to be forged. Mr.
Rogers, the inspector of the police for the district,
was sent for, and took the boy into custody, and
questioned him ai to where he got the cheque, and
he entered into a statement, of which the following
is the substance :

Ile said he was standing at the window of a print-
shop in Bond-street, where a man in the garb of a
gentleman came up to him, and asked if he would
go of a message for him, if he paid him for his trouble.
The boy consented, and the stranger then produced
a packet addressed to " General Sir William Pringle,
No. 3, Stratford-place," and said to the boy,
" Now, my lad, make all the haste you can. You
will see Sir W. Pringle, and he will give you some
money, which you must bring to me immediately at
my chambers, No. 26, Charles-street, St. James's-
square, where you will inquire for Mr. Oakley."
The boy unsuspectingly took the letter to No. 3,
Srat ford-place, and met a gentlemanly-looking
elderly man descending the steps, and said,
"0, my boy, is that letter fur me ?" The
boy replied that it was for Sir William Pringle,
and the gentleman opened the letter, and said,
" 0, yes—this is quite right—it is for me—
I was just going to send the money to Mr. Oak-
ley." The supposed Sir W. Pringle then gave the
boy a packet addressed to Mr. Oakley, and said it
contained the money that the latter wanted, and de-
sired the lad to be as quick as possible. The lad
took the packet to 26, Charles•street, where on his
arrival he was met on the stairs by Mr. Oakley,
who said " That's right, my boy; I suppose the
General has sent me the money ;" but on taking
the packet into his hand, and examining it, he said
" -- it, this is very awkward; he has not sent
me the money, but a cheque. It is now late, and
)ou must go off to Wrights, in Henrietta-street,
and bring me cash for it. Mind, you have no time
to spare." The lad then started off to Wright's,
and there he was detained as already stated.

The boy was taken to the watch-house of Co-
vent-garden, arid Mr. Roger►, the inspector, went
to 20, Charles•street, and found that no such person
as" Mr. Oakley" lived in any part of that house,
and he also ascertained that General Pringle is at
present out of town ; so that there cannot be a doubt
that the whole was a deep-laid plan to obtain, by an
impudent forgery, the sum mention in the cheque
(90/.) from Messrs. Wright and Co.
The boy was brought before Mr. HALLS, at Bow-
street, in the evening, and gave his name, Gerald.
His father arid several friends came forward to his
character, and the Magistrate expressed a decided
opinion that he had been made a mere tool of, and
liberated him on an undertaking that he should be
forthcoming whenever'he might be called upon.

We are authorized to state that the various
rumours in circulation, and mentioned in several of the
London papers of the Sd and 4th instant, respecting the
sons of the late much-lamented Mr. Hums,- Wzi.Liam
HEYrio, along with other circumstances alluded to, are
totally false from the first syllable of the paragraph to the
last.—Hull Packet.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday morning,
at tin o'clock, an inquest WAS taken at the Queen's Head,
in the Borough, before Mr. PAYNE, Coroner for the
city, touching the circumstances connected with the death
of CHARLES HENRY Gosithitio, surgeon, who terminated
his existence by taking prnstiis acid. Verdict--Inssnity.

During the late gales, a rare and very large
bird, the Baas:mum, Gannel or So!an Goose, was taken
alive.upon the beach at Bacton. Theae birds abound in
the northern regions, particularly in Pass Island, in the
Frith of Forth. It has been preserved by Jr. Itaxsostx,
of North Walsham, in whose possession it remains.
Norfolk Chronicle.
MENTAL IMPROVEMENT.—A person tra-
velling by one of our stage coaches between a northern
market town and this city, passed a young woman return-
ing from market, riding on a pony. She was clad in a
riding habit, and had a green veil negligently thrown over
her hat ; on her left arm hung her butter basket, and in
her right hand she held a volume of the Waverley Novels,
which she was attentively perusing. What a spectacle
would this have afforded to one of the sneerer; at the
-" march of intellect" as it is contemptuously called ? And
yet what could be more pleasing, or more proper, than to
find the daughter of a respectable farmer, as her attire
proclaimed her to be, uniting business with intellectual
nj° and relieving the tedium of a lonely ride, by
eperu)Sminegn'
at work partly fiction and partly historical fact,
and which does nut contain one sentiment that can injure
ignorance ofrustiacn dli feg
rhosustnwhich
n and is
is:sitmliollleicifityner feelings which its scenery and its
i cuaa.)l cuucl et
thee d
itpursuitsnhienidio :.
are fitted to expand and improve,— York Courant.
to purify it of its

POLICE INTELLIGENCE•

GUILDHALL.

The driver of a cOal-waggon, belonginiz to Mr.
Summerville, a coal-merchant at Vauxhall, was
charged before Mr. Alderman Luces, yesterday,
with wilfully overturning a cabriolet in Fleet-street,
on Thursday last.
Davk a strFet-keeper in Cheapside, on the day
in question, obliged a cabriolet to get out of the way
of the waggon, and the defendant observing thi.,
remarked to him that he had just before " well
served out a cab."

Mr. Alderman LUCAS, taking into account that
the defendant would have to pay the costs, and con-
sidering that he had a large family, mitigated the
fine to ss.