The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNAL,

llreland is on all sides petitioning and corn-
' plaining. The presence of Lord Anglesea as
Lord-Lieutenant was, after the full disclosure of
his feelings towards the Catholic cause, a pledge,
and no weak one, so long as he might continue,
• that the Government of England approved a
system of mild and equitable administration be-
tween Protestant and Catholic. The King's
representative doing impartial justice, proved by
his retention of that honourable post, that the
King himself had enjoined the Viceroy to do
justice. The people of Ireland were shrewd
enough to see this ; and the consequence was
peace and forbearance throughout the country,
so far as the Catholics were concerned. The
continuance of Lord Anglesea was a further as-
surance that a Lord Lieutenant miOt be popu-
lar without offence,—that he might he beloved
in Dublin, without being thought in Downing_
street a traitor. But the talismanis broken : in-
different justice was a had example—condescen-
sion towards the people was disloyalty at Court.
The " good old Protestants" were as much dis-
mayed by the equal cordiality shown to Catholic
gentlemen with t hemselves, as the "good old cour-
tiers" of Louis XVIII. were, at his Majesty's
kind reception of all other elass?:. of his subjects
at the reformation. The Gregors andSaurms
cried out that "it will never do." " There is
no ascendancy"—" there is no exclusive entree
for loyal men." "•The Sun shines on all alike."
Oar charter—our beloved impunity —is
wrested from us." For the menials of mono-
poly, persecution had been the choicest perqui-
site. Think ye, then, that their last cheese-
paring would be so quietly relinquished ? We
apprehend that in Ireland, as well as here, a
tough, and possibly a tedious, contest may still
precede the breaking up of the political game-
laws. Orangeism is the " Irish preserve," as
Toryism is that of England. When the Catho-
lic poachers become too strong for the keepers
on that side of the Channel, and when on this
the Liberals,—but not till then,—we shall, every
man, shoot his own game, and enjoy in common
right that which Providence designed for the com-
fort of all civilized and social beings. Dublin has
witnessed several public meetings, held with oppo-
site views, upon the occasion of Lord Anglesea's
recall. The Catholics assembled in the several pa,
rishes and passed:resolutions expressive of regret
and of attachment ; other bodies were convoked
likewise; and in the Guild of Merchants a vote of
• thanks to the Lord Mayor, for refusing to
comply with the great requisition of noblemen
and gentlemen for a general assembly to address
Lord Anglesea on his departure, was with much
difficulty, and after a sharp struggle on the part
of the more moderate and reasonable portion of
the Guild, passed without the appendage of a
gross insult to the feelings of the Lord Lieute-
nant. But the masterpiece of all productions is
the petition from the Grand Orange Institution
of Ireland against the Catholics, which is a per-
formance almost infinite, in point both of mag-
nitude and of merit. After reciting the great
services rendered by the Orange cats-o'-nine-tails
during the rebellion of 1798, and professing
gravely not to admit any Protestants, however
zealous, into the ranks of the institution but such
"as are incapable of persecuting or injuring
any man on account of his religious opinions,"
the Orange grandees appear, not without reason,
to suspect that such a confession as the last
may hurt their reputation with a world which
had given them credit for virtue far more
unqualified and uncompromising ; and there-
fore, with admirable naivete, they invoke his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland as a
witness to character—" an evidence," without
appeal, " to the purity 2f our intentions." From
the Duke of Cumberland, sliding on the easiest
manner possible to the Jesuits, and thence to the
Elective Franchise Act of 1793, the petitioners
humbly pray that the Jesuits may be banished
(for that we don't much quarrel with them), and
that by the repeal of the. said Act of Parliament
the Catholics may no longer he permitted to vote
for representatives of the people, or to act in any
manner as Magistrates of cities, towns, or bo-
roughs ! A blessed state should we soon arrive
at, had such men the ear of his Majesty, or the
confidence of the Legislature. There is, how-
ever, a redeeming fact in our condition. If his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, in
the course of nature, shall become King of Han-
over—should it please Providence that such an
event took place during the minority of a British
Sovereign—the King of Hanover being then a
foreign Prince, would, be excluded, by every
principle of our Constitution, from all share in
the Regency, and, by consequence, in the go-
vernment of these realms. We have, therefore,
some chance of escaping the Orange Potentates
at last.—Times.

We call the attention of our readers to a sen-
sible article, in another column, which we have
extracted from the Coventry Observer, on the
subject of the Game Laws. " Under the
present Code of Game Laws (says the writer),
no gentleman is safe from the insults of ma-
rauders, even in his own dwelling. It is now
quite common for hands of poachers to meet
;n regularly organized corrvanies, of from
twenty to forty men. These persons act in
concert under the command of leaders—beat or
murder any one who interferes with them—and
carryon their operations up to the very walls of
bentlemen's seats, from the vicinity of which they
ear off their spoil in open defiance of the law-
ful owners. Something must be essentially bad
in a state of things like this; no country in
Europe offers any violation of social order so
gross as the proceedings of armed gangs who in-
fest almost every county in England." It is
calculated, by statistical writers, that of the 196
millions of people in Europe, 58 millions live in
towns, and 138 millions in the country, giving a
proportion of six in towns to fourteen in the
country. The British dominions form a singu-
lar anomaly, for here the inhabitants of towns
considerably out-number the inhabitants of the
country. Yet such is the country chosen for the
monstrous and impracticable experiment of ex-
cluding the inhabitants of towns from their share
of a large class of animals eagerly desired as
food, The result of this mad attempt is the
civil war, as it is not inappropriately called,
which has long been raging throughout the land,
and which seems at length 'to have attained
a height which must bring the stupid Aris-
tocrats to their senses. What must foreign
nations think of the higher classes of Eng-
land, when they read such statements of
the effects of their monstrous wickedness
as those with which the papers daily teem ? It
has never been denied, as far as we are aware,
that the land and all that is fed on it belong to
the nation inhabiting it, and that the right of
property is a trust, to be held for the benefit of
the nation. The landholder is suffered to oc-
cupy a part of that which belongs to the whole
nation, merely because particular occupancy is
supposed to be most advantageous to the cont.

munity, of which the wants are supplied by pur-
chase from the cultivator of
~.tt he does not
require for his own consuini. The condi-
tions of fhe implied' trust ire, that all that the
earth or water nourishes must be distributed
among the people, in the proportions indicated
by, their ability to purchase. The attempt to
monopolise any one production is anti-social,
and justifiable on no other ground than that by
which your purse is taken from you on the high-
way. It is impossible to conceive a grosser
tyranny than the assumption of this power by the
English aristocracy, of excluding the majority of
inhab4ants of the country from all right to ob-
tain, by purchase, a share of the animals raised
in the country. If power be a justification of a
Legislature, there is nothing which may not be jus-
tified. Whatever body has the power of legislating
in a country ought to ask, when a measure is
proposed—ls this such a measure as the people,
if they knew their interests, would choose for
themselves ? If it will notestand this test, it is
tyranny, no matter whether the Government be
Monarchy, Aristocracy, or Mongrel. Tried by
such a test, a more monstrous tvranny than the
Game Laws of England has never been forced
upon an insulted nation. It is submitted to by
the people of England, because it is imperative,
as far as regards their exclusien. They know
that, to enact that in a country in which money
is all-powerful, and everything is bought and
sold, Game shall not be marketable, is as absurd
as to enact that water shall be deemed equal in
valtie to wine, or a pound of Newcastle coal
shall be deemed equal in- value to a pound of
silver. The law merely remains as a memorial
of the impotency and stupidity of the Legisla-
ture. The addition to the mass of crime pro-
duced by the means necessary to ensure the dis-
tribution of the game throughout society, the'
deterioration of the peasantry, the sufferings of
the iestruments engaged in violating the tyran-
nical law, are not of the class of grievances which
come home to men's bosoms and impel them to
action. The sufferings of poachere, the conver-
sion of thousands of labourers first into poachers,
and lastly into thieves, is a questioe of humanity
rather than of property ; and however admirable
a subject humanity may be for a sermon or a
speech, property alone brings men into the
arena. Who cares for labourers—who cares
for the needy victims whom the moneyed
inhabitants of towns make use of to violate
the Legislative monopoly ? A chance enthu-
siast here and there has perhaps persuaded him-
self into a belief that he cares for these poor
creatures. Mr. Henry Drummond obseeved, is
his speech at the Surrey Sessions, that " every.
Iran who purchased a head of game should bear
in mind that he 'was accessary to the crimes by
which it was obtained—that he was, to a certain
extent, a purchaser of human blood." We pro-
test against this doctrine. It is quite sufficient
for men to answer for their own sins, without
taking upon themselves the sins of others. The
Legislature, and the Legislature alone, are ac-
countable to God and man for the crimes and
the evils to which the Game Laws give rise.
The people of a country may see defects in their
Government, and may disapprove of the laws
which are enacted ; but it is a question of dis-
cretion with them, whether they should hazard
the peace of the country by forcible attempts
tither to reform the Government or to resist its
measures. If a people see that more might be
lost .than gained by. such attempt, they are jus-
tified in remaining passive. But they are not
called on to renounce the means by which they
can, with safety to themselves, defeat unjust
laws. This would be to add to the tyranny, and
to renounce advantages to which they are en-
titled without any corresponding benefit. They
must get on as well as they can; under the Govern-
ment and under the laws of their country ; and
their justification will he determined by the na-
ture of the measures which they oppose, and not
by the name given to those who are the authors
of the measures.—Morning Chronicle.
IS has become part of the philosophical cant
of the day to talk of the " interests of science"
as opposed to the interests of morality. But
that science which, instead of promoting, coun-
teracts morality, is a curse, and not a blessing
to mankind. The Scotch murders—those enor-
mous, those portentous crimes, which, if we
had only read of them in a " German tale of
horror," would be supposed the fictions of an
imagination peculiarly savage and depraved—
evenehose murders, the atrocity of which defies
an appropriate epithet, are palliated, nay, almost
excused, by some writers, who affect an extraor-
dinary zeal for the interests of science," but
who forget that the great end of science is to
elevate our moral being, and to humanize the
world. Such writers touch upon the crimes to
which we have alluded with the most cautious
delicacy, while they exhaust their indignation
upon, the law which pueishes the profanation of
the grave. They do not hesitate to say that the
law is the cause of those crimes, and pretty
plainly intimate that a repetition of them is to
be expected, until the Legislature interferes,
and either allows the contents of the churchyard
to be carried off with impunity, or at least le-
galises the sale of the " bodies of the poor."—
There is no law more in unison with public feel-
ing, with the instincts of our nature, and with
common decency,. than that which forbids the
violation of the grave. If any alteration should
be made in it, we trust-it will be to render the
crime afelony, instead of a misdemeanour, and
subject the ruffians who live by the beastly traffic
to transportation for life, instead of being coH.
fined a few months, as at present, and then let
loose upon society, more hungry and ravening
than ever. As to " legalising the sale of the
bodies of the poor," the less that is said about
it the better ; those who are Unfeeling or
" philosophical" enough to sell the bodies of
their relations can, it appears, easily manage to
dispose of them at present, and transmute the
produce into gin ; and those who retain the
decent instincts that raise man, even in his
humblest state, above the brute creation, are not
to be, induced' by any law to purvey among their
kindred for the' Surgical shambles. Let surgical
students reform tlieinseives, instead of " reform,
ing the law," by treating the dead body, when,
under the knife, with less grossness and inde-
cency than they are in the habit of doing, and
they may have more chance of a supply. Talk of
prejudice, indeed ! when does a surgeon give up
his own body for " the interests of science ?"
Morning Herald.

A prudent banker would not trust to his
clerks, or even to his partners, for the safe keep-
ing of the securities belonging to the house or to
its customers. From the very nature of things
these. must be continually changing. An ac-
count of all deposits of the kind should be kept
in a book expressly for that purpose, and checked
A least once a month, if not oftener. If this
had been done in Stephenson's case, the greater
part of what has happened could not have oc-
curred. Sure, "under such a system, of imme•

diate detection by his partners, this guilty man
himself would, have been 'deterred from a com-
mencement of ii- course, in which, on the con-
trary, grown bold by laxity and impunity, he has,
at length, brought ruin on himself, and so much
loss and injury to others.—lbid.
We have given, in another column, a length-
ened report of what may be considered the lay-
ing of the foundation stone of the Butchers'
-Charitable Institution ; and we feel assured that
there is no one among our readers, who has
either a heat to feel for the miseries of others, or
a mind to appreciate the progress and beneficent
influence of Charity, who will weary in its pe-
rusal. As was well remarked at the Meet-
ing, if there be any one duty more sacred
or imperative than another, next to that
which we owe to the Great Author of all
Things, it is that of employing the talents
which have been conferred up-on us, and using
the means which we enjoy, in ministering to the
necessities of our less fortunate brethren. Such
use and employment of them are at once a
blessing both td the giver and to the receiver.
They diffuse kindly feelings among those whom
it is our duty to relieve ; while the gratification
which they afford to those who bestow the
gift may fairly be set down as inestimable,
when compared with any other enjoyment which
wealth could purchase. That the butchers of
the metropolis are animated by such feelings is
most honourable to them ; and the best answer
which they can give to the calumnies which
have been circulated to their prejudice, will be
the complete establishment, and munificent. en-
dowment, of the Institution which they have now
founded, and to the success of which we shall
cheerfully contribute, by giving it every publicity
in our power.--Morning Advertiser.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

111.kNSION.HOUSE.

Yesterday the Justice-rooni was crowded during
a great part of the. day, in consequence of the ap-
prehension and examination of four men, named
Wheatley, Kite, King, and Young, charged with
having broken into a►~d plundered Teddington Lock-
home, which stands on the Surrey side of the
Thames, opposite to Teddington, on the night of the
21st of December, and plundered it of cash, wear-
ing-appal el, &e. . . _

Alderman WOOD sat with the LORD MAYOR dur-'
ing the investigation, in which he took a very active
part. The prisoner Young had voluntarily confessed
his participation in the crime to the former.
Mr. Savary (a respectable elderly man), keeper
of the lock-house, stated, that on the night of Sa-
tardav, the 21st of December, between, he sup-
poseti, one and two o'clock, some men (he believed
there were four) broke into his room. They had
two lights, and one of them had a pistol in his hand,
and said to him, " Your money, your money !"
Another stood at the foot of his bed, and told him to
get up out of bed. Only one eye of• each of
them was visible; the rest of the features were
covered with a handkerchief. One of the party
began to rummage at a chest of drawers. Wit-
ness attended the robbers down stairs, and saw
the room in great disorder. He had a bag with 44.
in silver, and an Oxford bank-note for 10L; .and he
was frightened at the idea of being ill-used if they
thought he had no money. One of the robbers put
his hand into his (witness's) pocket, and took out
the silver and a small book, out of which the 10/.
note fell and. 11. note. One of them said that the
10/. would not do for them, but a second said that
it would, and picked it up immediately. Witness
said that he had no more money, and was: then told
to go up to bed, while a third stood to watch him
going up. Witness afterwards, when he found they.
were none, went down stairs, and ascertained that
a cask with some gin in it had been taken, and that
a leg of mutton, a case with two razors in.it, a blue
coat, and several other articles were also missing.
Young (the prisoner) was then a.ked whether he
wished to make any statement ? He was, at the
Lime time, informed, that if he intended to do so,
he was to speak without conditions, and - take the
whole risk of the statement upon his own head.
After some little hesitation, be requeSted to be
allowed time to consider, and he retired instist-fdy
of an officer, who was strictly ordered, not to speak
a word to him.

Richard Humphreys, a lad about 16 years old,
grandson to Mr. Savary, generally slept at the lock-
house c,n Saturday night. On the night in question
he heard a noise in the middle of the night. His
cousin, a boy seven years old, was with him in bed
in a landing at the top of the stairs. Witness
thought it was his grandfather ho head coming to
bed, but on looking through the curtains he saw the
hand of a man with a pistol in it. • Ile immediately
covered himself up in bed, for he was mach frightened.
He heard speaking or whispering in the next room.
Cooke, the Kingston-on-Thames officer, went on
Sunday morning to the house of one William Strud-
wick, at Whitton, in Middlesex, in search of a
family token, knowing it to be the property of Mr.
Savary, of Teddington-loek. Strudwick• said, that
he had bought the token of Young (the prisoner)
for a pint of beer. Witness then apprehended
Young, who denied the transaction, but afterwards
acknowledged that lie had got the token from the
lock-house on the night of the robbery, and that he,
Wheatly, Kite, and King were concerned in the
robbery. On Monday witness apprehended Kite
and King, and Wheatley was apprehended by
another officer,
Young (th' prisoner) here re-entered the jus-
tice room, and said that he was ready to make a
disclosure of all he knew of the robbery, and having
been again informed that he could not be proniisecL
any exemption froth punishment if he criminated
himself, he stated as follows :
I live at Twickenham, and know those three men
at the bar, Wheatley, Kite, and King, from their
infancy. On the Saturday night before Christmas-
day, the three came to me, and told me there was a
good. concern to be done well. Wheatley said they
were going to rob the lock-house at Teddington.
We all went together to the water-side, and we went
into a punt which was fastened to a peter-boat, and
went across the water to the place. When we
landed, we went to the lean (a sort of shed) of the
lock-house. It was then near 12 o'clock. There
were iron bars in the window, but we forced out
the frame alto,,,,setht r, and Wheatley and Kite went
in, and handed King and me out some bottles of
gin and gingerbread. They then came out, and
we went to the other end of the house, and broke
through a brick wall into the other lean, so that
we could unlatch the door; but there was nothing
there but fowls, and we took none. We then went
to the back-door of the house, and made a hole
with a centre-bit large enough to put in the
arm. Wheatley worked the centre-bit, and made
a variety of small holes, which he broke into
a large one. We then entered the house,- and
found '4. keg of girl and a leg of mutton in the
kitchen. We struck a light with flint and steel
and tinder, which I carried with rne, and we
lighted a candle. We then went to a door at the
foot of the stairs, which was also fast, and Wheatley
made another hole with the centre-bit. We undid
the door, went into the office, and found a family
token in the desk, which we broke, open with a
crow-bar that Wheatley carried with him. We
broke open two cupboards, but found nothing in
them. We then went up another flight of stairs,
and into a room, and searched the drawers, and Kite
took out three shawls and a cloak, and Leghorn
bonnet. (Here Kite cried out, " Oh, its false, gen-
tlemen, its false:") We then went to Mr. Savory's
bed-room, but found the door locked inside. Wheat-
ley and Kite, immediately upon finding it fast,
forced it open with their bodies, and entered. Kite
went up to the bed and said "Your money or your
life," holding a pistol to Mr. Savary's head. We

were all of us disguised. Wheatley took a metal
watch, and we rummaged the room, while Kite
l•eld the pistol over the bed. King stood guard over
the children's room. I thought I heard the children
cry, but did not,exactly hear what they said. I was
standing otftside. Kite desired Mr. Savary to get
up and go down and get the money for us. Mr.
So vary did get up, and went with Kite and Wheat-
ley into the office, and I stood at the door. Mr.
Savary went to the corner cupboard, and said, " You
have got the money." " No," said Wheatley, and
Mr. Savary took a bag of silver out of his pocket, and
a 11. note, and a 101. note. I did not hear any threat
used. After he gave the money, we went down
stairs, and Kite told Mr. Savary to go to bed, and
that. he would return in ten. minutes to see that he.
was in bed. Kite waited till the rest of us were in
the boat, and then joined us. We then went to my
house, and carried with us all that we took away.
We put the gin and other things into Mrs. Gos-
ling's furze pit until Friday night. King and
Wheatley went to London with the money and the
watch, and returned at night and divided the money.
I had 11. .ss. for my share. On Friday night we
divided the gin in mugs, and Wheatley had the
cask and the Leghorn bonnet. King had the
blatiket and sheet and a new pair of water-lig:it..
Kite had the shawls and the cloak. I had nothing
but the division of the money and the copper medal,
Kite, when he saw the 101. note, threw it down,
and said it would not do ; but Wheatley said it
would.

The LORD MAYOR—Were you satisfied at this
division of the property ? Young—No, not quite.
Au officer said he found two bottles of gin, a
picklock-key, and a tinder-box, in Young's house.
He found at King's house a blanket and sheet; and
at Kite's house he found a razor, a ruler, and the
outside of a shawl.

Auether officer found a. blue coat at the house of
a man named Alexander, and produced it.
Alexander said, that Wheatley had worked for
him, and left the coat for him to take care of.

Mr. Savary identified the coat. He also identified
much of the other property.
The prisone►s were then all remanded.
GUILDHALL

James Martin was brought up for final examina-
tion yesterday, charged with stealing a bull, the pm-
perty of Mr. Johnson, of the Manor-farm, Highgate;
and Thomas Wentworth, on suspicion of receiving
the same, knowing it to have been stolen.
Mr. Harmer attended for the prosecution, and Mr.
C. Phillips and an attorney for the prisoners.

Martin had carried on the business of a cow-
keeper, on Kennington-common, reputably, for some
years. He had purchased largely from Mr. Johnson,
and paid honourably; so that latterly Mr. Johnson
had not scrupled at giving him credit to large
amounts.. On the sth of June, Martin bought a
bull of him; but, in October, he complained that
the bull had become lazy, and Mr. Johnson agreed
to let him have another in exchange, Martin volun-
teering to keep the first bull for a few weeks till
the prices advanced, as a compensation for the
difference in the value of the two beasts. Mr.
Johnson was to fetch him away whenever he liked;
and shortly before Christmas he gave Martin notice,
that he should send for the bull on the sth of Ja-
nuary. On the 3d, however, Martin deserted his
premises, and disposed of his cattle, a portion of
which he had purchased of Mr. Johnson with bills
not yet due. The bull in question, which became
Mr. Johnson's property in 'October, was" exposed
for sale in Smithfield on the •oth instant by Went-
worth, who refused to part with it, or satisfy any
inquiries, and was therefore appl'ehended. Before
the Magistrate, Wentworth said he had purchased
the bull from Martin, and Mr. Harmer was prepared
to show, by persons residing near him, that he was
in such straitened circumstances, that it was quite
improbable that he should have made such a pur-
chase.

;Th.. Harmer said Mr. Johnson was not an
ing prosecutor, but he (Mr. Hurmer) bad dotibts
whether Martin could-properly be comcnitted for
stealing, there being_ no change of
,possessien after
the bull was lawfully in the hands of the prisoner.
Mr. Phillips dwelt on the same point, viz. that as
the buil remained in Martin'lt possession after it be-
came Johnson's property, Martin
_could, not be
charged with taking from Johnson.
Mr. Beresford (the chief_clerk) concurred with
Mr. Harmer and Mr. Phillips, but
Mr. Payne, the assistant clerk, advised the Ma-
gistrate that the case might be held to be of the
class where a bailee converts goods to .his own use
after the
.contract of bailment had determined (as
when a canier opens a bale of goods and takei a
part, it is a larceny, because, by this tortirous,, act
the contract of bailment is determined.—Ket. 82,
83) ; and Mr. Alderman- ANSLEY appearing
ign to decide that the case was not one of felony.
Mr. Phillips proposed that his client should be
held to bail by two magistrates, and Mr. Harmer
and Mr. Alderman ANSLEY concurring, it was agreed
the prisoners should come up to be bailed, on Satur-
day next.
Robert Roberts, formerly a law-clerk, was finally
examined, charged with stealing a bundle of,up-
parel and other articles, the property of Mary Ann
Chandler.

The prisoner, who is a married man, had been
paying his addresses to the proseeutriz three years,
and having flied a time for leading her to the altar,
called a day or two before for her clothes, that he
might send them down into Norfolk, where the
wedding was to take place. Having obtained these,
she saw him no more till he was in custody.
The pawnbrokers produced a part of the property,
but could not identify the prisoner.
There was a second charge, of stealing a watch
from a young widow named Hovelly, to whom he
had been paying his addresses and promising mar-
riage, during a great portion of the time he was
courting the first complainant. On the• 10th May
she was going to her sister's, and at his instance
left the house before hire, allowing him to lock up
the doors. Finding he did not follow, she returned,
missed her watch, and discovered in its place a
written admission that he had taken it from distress.
.She pardoned this, and had contributed largely to his
support since April ; but learning through the news-
papers that he was married, and how he had misled
Mary Ann Chandler, she determined to prosecute
him for his baseness.

The prisoner declined saying any thing on either
charge, and was committed on both. - "

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday Sir R. BIRNIE took occasion to ob-
serve that •he had lately received several anonymous
letters, assuring him in the most positive terms
that the plan for obtaining subjects for the dissect-
ing knife, as exposed by the trial of the monster
Burke at Edinburgh, was also practised in this me-
tropolis.
Mr. BECKETT, a county Magistrate, after look-
ing over the anonymous correspondence, said, he
had no doubt whatever of the truth of the statement
they contained. The unaccountable disappearance
of several persons lately almost confirmed it. Sir
Astley Cooper, in his evidence before a Committee
of the House of Commons, described resurrection-
men as the vilest dregs of society, and capable of
committing any act of atrocity if paid for it.
Sir R. BIRNIE said, that there could be but one
opinion as to the character of resurrection-men. He,
however, could scarcely bring himself to believe the
statements contained in the letters addressed to him.
If those statemen:s, however, were capable of proof,-
the persons by whom they had been made ought to
lose no time in coming publicly forward for the pur-
pose of having the matter legally investigated, in
order that the parties implicated should be punished
as they deserved.
Mr. BECKETT concurred in this opinion, and the
conversation dropped.
Grubb, the person who formerly kept a house of
entertainment in Bow-street, which was chiefly fre-
quented by flash characters, and who lately opened
an establishment of a similar character in Long-acre,
appeared to answer to an information preferred
against him by Mr. Brekner and Mr. Salter, two re-

spectable inhabitants of Long-acre. The information
charged the defendant with keeping a disorderly
house, and suffering dancing therein, contrary to th-•
25th Geo. 11.

Mr. Brekner and Mr. Salter having sworn to t' :e
truth of the notice, describing Grubb's as a dis-
orderly house, it was handed to the overseers, who
immediately charged a constable with the custody of
Grubb. _

Sir. R. BIRNIiI then said, that it now only re-
mained for Grubb. to enter iuto recogniaances to
meet the charge at the Sessioni.
For this purpose the parties 'retired to the clerk's
office, but returned soon after, when Mr. Salter said,
that as Mr. Grubb had pledged himself to.close xhe
premises, perhaps all further proceedings might•be
dropped. -
Sir R. BIRNIII—But what securitthave we that
Grubb will keep his word ?
Grubb—Sir Richard, I pledge my word and
honour as a man.

..-..—.
Sir R. BIRNIH—So you say; but I prefer your
entering into bail to taking either your word or
honour. The Act of Parliament must be complied
with. _ _

The parties again retired, when Grubb entered
into his own recognizance in 201. and two sureties
in 104 each, to meet the charge at the Sessions.

LAW INTELLIGENOR.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT-JAN. 15.
WOODYBTT AND REATHCOTB.

This case was a motion for the removal of a re-
ceiver, which had been appointed by the Court, of
the profits of a certain mineral estate, of wbich
Mr. neathcote, M.P., is proprietor of •two-thirds,
and -his sister, Mrs. Woodyett, of one-third. The
order for a receiver was obtained by the trustees of
the marriage-settlement of Mrs. Woodyett, and by
the other parties interested under that settlement, on
the ground that Mr. Heathcote had mismanaged the
estate, and misrepresented the value of it, in order
that he might purchase the one-third for less than it
was worth. Several affidavits had been filed by Mr.
Heathcote in contradiction of these charges.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR would not go through
the voluminous evidence which it had been thought
necessary to put upon the record. Though Mr.
Heathcote was owner of two-thirds:, still the parties
interested in the one-third had a right to protection,
and he thought that he could not refuse to appoint
a receiver. Considering the whole of the circum-
stances, he did not feel himself called upon to say
any thing with respect to costs.
The Seal, which has now lasted two days, will, in
consequence of the great arrear. of motions, be con-
tinued to-morrow (this day).

PREROGATIVE COURT, JAN. 15.
KENNY AGAINST DUNBAR.

This was A proceeding in which the executoref
an executor of an executor of a testator, who died
in the West Indies, was • cited to show cause why
probate of a will, dated in 1755, obtained in 1760,
should not be recalled ; and another will in favour
of an only child (a minor
,at the testator's death, but
now an aged woman), should not,be proved in its
stead.

Betore the argument was commenced, Sir J.
tcitoun interposed, and retnalked, that this attempt
to rip pp proceedings .after such a lapse of time, by
way of experiment, could not be countenanced by
the Court.