The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

The more enlightened portion of the commercial
world will have observed svith satisfaction the an-
swer given by Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald on Tuesday
evening to Mr. Robinson, who brought forward a
petition from some operative silk-weavers of Man-
chester, Salford, and their vicinity, praying for a re-
turn to the prohibitory laws against the importation
of foreign silks. The President of the Board of
Trade informed the lion. Member distinctly, that ,
Government had no intention of reviving the prohi-
bitory system ; and be added, that when the sub-
ject
should be discussed on Tuesday next, he would
undertake to prove that the sufferings of the dis-
tressed silk-weavers were " not imputable" to the
late alterations in the law. We are well enough
convinced that it will not require an extraordinary
effort of ability from the President of the Board 01
Trade to make good his promise to the letter; but
we rejoice that he has spoken out upon this occasion,
because it will contribute to settle the minds of the
manufacturers, to banish all delusive hopes, avert
a number of grievous disappointments, and en-
courage men to resume the regular transactions of
their business ,which had been suspended through an
expectation, now declared to be groundless, that his
Majesty's Government contemplated some impor-
tant change. - Really, if it were not for the sake of
the poor weavers, we could scarcely command our
gravity at these Macclesfield folks and their peti-
thol, who ascribe the alleged distresses of the trade
to the act of 182 E l What, then, has the same
act of Parliament produced the ruin of the Lyons
manufacturers too ? for their sufferings have been
simultaneous with those of Macclesfield, as appears
_ _

from the statements of the people of Lyons them-
%elves. The Macclesfield manufacture, we are in-
Airtned, consists principally of what are called Ban-
handkerchiefs. Now it does so happen that
fOt the last year or thereabouts the use of Bandana
handkerchiefs has been superseded by that of Cam-
bric ones; so completely has the fashion veered
round. Here, therefore, is an adequate cause for
the depression in the former article. Why not pe-
tition the two Houses of Parliament to prohibit the
manufacture of cambric pocket-handkerchiefs, and
of cotton kerchiefs for the neck ; since, manifestly,
there would be just as little impudence in an at-
tempt to perpetuate the monopoly against cambrics
and cotton, and, with regard to itc efficacy, a great
deal more of common sense? Thz communication
which we publish on the Macclesfield petition ex-
hibits such a sound and extensive knowledge of the
subject of these complaints, as, without any pointed
recommendation from us, would ensure it a large
share of notice.—Times.
Sir James Mackintosh postponed to this day the
presentation of the petition of which he had given
notice, from the city of L•'dinburgh. From the
following account of it given by the Courant and
Cukdonian Mercury of Monday last, an idea may
be formed of the extent of the popularity of the
measnra for the relief of-the Catholics in Scotland
" CATHOLIC PETITIONS.-the, petitions from this city
in favour of the measures of Government for a settlement of
the Catholic Question, were forwarded by yesterday's mail
to the Earl of Ilmani.NovoN, Lord MELVILLE, and Sir
JAMES iNfAcKtrrosH. They were open for signature for
only six days, and within that period they were signed by

above 7,600 of the inhabitants. The list comprises,
among others, six Peers, sons of Peers, or Privy Council-
lors, 23 Baronets or Knights of the Bath, 155 Gentlemen
of considerable landed estates, the Principal and 16 Pro-
Ocl-,sors of the University, 21 Bankers and principal officers
of banks, 128 practising Advocates, 50 Divines of the
establishment, of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and of
the different denominations of Protestant Dissenters, and
Licenstd Preachers at present in the city, 32 Admirals,
Captains, and other officers of the Royal N;sy, six Gene--

rah Officers, 40 Colonels and other officers in the army,
11 Civil and Military Officers in the East India Com-
pany's service, 198 Physicians and Surgeons, 232 Writers
to the Signet, 370 Solicitors, Accountants, Writers, and
others connected with the law, 237 Merchants and Traders,
and about 6,000 respectable Inhabitants, comprising a vast
mjority of those engaged in education, the arta, and the
general commerce of this great city."
We have here arrayed on the side of Government
nearly the whole educated population of the
_icottish capital. The laity and clergy teem to vie
with each other in endeavours to strengthen the
bands of Government, at a time when faction is re-
curring to the most disgraceful means to thwart its
well-meant exertions. To' show how cordially the
clergy and laity unite on :his occasion, we may refer
to an Edinburgh Almanack (we take that for 1822,
the latest we have now beside us), in which the
Clergy of the Established Church, Episcopal
Church, Dissenting congregations of every deno-
mination, are stated at 64 (there can have been no
great addition in seven years), while the number
who have signed the petition is fifty ; that is,
five-sixths of the whole. We dwell on this the more
particularly, because the opponents of the measure
in Parliament—Sir Robert Inglis among the rest—
have been ringing the changes incessantly on peti-
tions from the Clergy of some places in the south-
west of Scotland, which, ever since the persecutions
under the Stuarts, have been the abode of fanaticism
and intolerance, and in which a strong feeling of
hatted towards the Irish, from the distress expe-
rienced by the labouring classes in consequence of
constant immigrations of labourers from Ireland, is
mixed up with religious animosity. To those who
might feel disposed to despair of the improvement
of the people from the disgusting spectacles exhi-
bited in Kent and the West of England, we have to
observe, that Scotland half a century ago was in a
state of mental prostration, compared with which
these —the most benighted and priest-ridden dis-
tricts of England—may be described as super-illu-
minated. The following account, with which we
have been furnished by an intelligent Correspondent
in Edinburgh, speaks volumes on this subject :
" It is exactly half a century since Scotland was in a
ferment on account of the intended repeal of an Act,
passed in the reign of William and Mary, entitled An
Act for preventing the growth of Popery (23d November,
1700.)' By the provisions of this Act, not only Jesuits,
but Popish Priests, or trafficking Papists, were punishable
with banishment and death ; and if any person be found
in any meeting where there is either altar, mass-hook, or
vestments, or Popish images, or other Popish trinkets, or
instruments of superstition, and shall refuse to purge him-
self of Popery, it shall be a sufficient ground for the Lords
of his Majesty's Privy Council to banish him forth of the
Realtne, under what certification they shall think fit, even
to the pain of death.' By the same Act it is provided
that the children of Popish parents shall be taken from
them, and edwested by Protestant relations, or such per-
ms as his Majesty's Advorate shall appoint. Papists are
also declared incapable to purchase or inherit property, and
other severe penalties are inflicted on them.
" In 1778, the greater part of these atrocious provisions
were repealed, as far as regards England ; but when it
was.proposed to repeal the same barbarous statute in re-
g rd- to Scotland, the General Assembly took the alarm.—
Declarations, and Resolutions and Petitions against the
Repeal, issued from every quarter of the country. Asso-
ciations—a kind of Brunswick Clubs, under the name of
the Protestant Interest, were formed in different places,
p trtictdarly in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
" On the 2d of February, 1779, the Protestant inte.
rest burnt and pillaged the Roman Catholic Chapel in
Edinburgh, and plundered the library of Bishop Hays,
and the old chapel at his house ; and in Glasgow the Pros
testantanob, in their holy seal, broke into the shop of a
Papist, and transferred its contents to their own orthodox
bands—the Magistrates in both of these cities joining in
the cry of No Popery.
In 1780, a pretty thick Bvo. ♦olume was published
under the title of ' Scotland's Opposition to the Popish
BiLl,' being a collection of the Declarations, Resolutions,
and Petitionapublished by the Counties, Presbyteries, Cor-
porations, &e., against the proposed repeal of the penal
statutes affecting the Roman Catholics.
" Among the various Protestant Corporations and So-
cieties, we find the Society of Discharged Soldiers, in
Glasgow, resolving Popery a manner of worship directly
repugnant to the second precept of the moral law, propa-
gated by carnal weapons instead of spiritual.' The So-
ciety of Porters,' in Edinburgh, wailing over the loss of
their religion, 'take into their sarious consideration the
alarming reports that the penal statutes against Papists are
about to be repealed.' But the four old companies of
Porters in Leith beat the piety of the Edinburgh Porters
to sticks. ' We rejoice (say they) that we were bred and
educated in the Protestant religion, and would wish to
transmit the same inviolate to our posterity.' The Coal

Hewers, in and about Carntine, stand aghast at the
too true report of a Bill coming into Parliament for
tolerating Popery in our land, a religion which ought to
mike every true Protestant tremble at the very thought
of it.'

'4 The Society of Coblers in Edinburgh, consisting of
98 members, are duly convened to consider of the Bill ;
and the Society of Chairmen and Bearers in Edinburgh
' think they would be deficient in duty to themselves, their
country, their King, and to the Almighty himself (what
a plagiarist is his Grace of Newcastle), were they not to
declare their sentiments against the intended Repeal.'
" All breathe the same orthodox spirit of hitred, dread,
and exclusion. Tailors, Presbyteries, ilammermen,
\Vaukers, Sons of St. Crispin, Synods, Plowmen, Cor-
diners, Clubs, and Kirk Sessions, all vie with the Pot-
terow Society' in their ' Detestation and abhorrence of
Fail' Bill.'
" Of the Declarations, Resolutions, &c. thus issued, the
volume gives the following abstract :
From Ecclesiastical Courts
Counties
Boroughs
Towns
Parishes
Incorporations
Private Societies .

24
..
55

In all

" The cause of toleration was ably advocated by the
distinguished historian Robertson, and supported by other
enlightened individuals ; and their numbers, as compared
with the No-Popery men, was quite inconsiderable.
" It is highly gratifying to see that the dense mass of
ignorance, bigotry, and intolerance, which fifty years ago
sePniA to oppress all ranks and societies of men in Scot-
land, is now so much dissipated. It has nearly cleared
away from the higher and the middle ranks ; and it only
requires a little more agitation, and a few years' expe-
rience, to dispel the absurd apprehensions and the gross
prejudices which still unhappily infect the greater part of
the lower and uninstructed classes."—Morning Chronicle.

It is highly gratifying to us to find that those
Prelates of the Church of England of whom it has
most reason to be proud—the men who do not de-
rive their importance from their situation, but who
owe their elevation to the desire felt in high places
to strengthen the Establishment by an admixture of
men distinguished for piety and splendid talents—
are all ranging themselves on the side of the Admi-
nistration. We may conscie ourselves for the op-
position of such prosing Prelates as the Bishop of
Bath and Wells, by the support of the Bishop of
London, the two distinguished brothers who fill the
Sees of Winchester and Chester, the Bishops of
Norwich, Rochester, Landaff, &c. Last night, the
Bishop of Winchester, on presenting a petition
against concession to the Catholics, declared, that
" he would take that opportunity of stating that he
would support the measure, to which the petition
referred, when it came before their Lordships. It
would deserve the support of every individual, if it
could be shown that it tended in any degree to pro-
mote the tranquillity of the country
. . There was a wide difference between politi-
cal opinions and religious opinions. To the religious
opinions of the Roman Catholics he was decidedly
opposed ; but their political opinions were not liable
to similar objection. If the measure, in settling this
long-agitated question, was likely to weaken the
advantages possessed by the Protestant Establish-
ment, he would not support it; but he looked on it
as removing the obstacles to conformity in Ireland,
and as likely to unite all classes in peace and con-
cord. Now for The first time would the Protestant
Religion have fair ploy in that country." This is
precisely the language which we anticipated from a
Prelate of the disposition of the Bishop of Win-
chester. It is as natural that a Bishop who is well
known to be distinguished for his zeal for the diffu-
sion of religious knowledge, and his vigilant atten-
tion to the state of his diocese, with respect to the
means best calculated to promote the object, should
confidently believe that the Protestant religion requir-
ed only fair play to be successful, and that the means
hitherto pursued for aiding it have only impeded its
progress, as that Prelates, with whom Religion and
Church Revenues are sytionomous, and the welfare
of the souls committed to their care is the very last
consideration with them, should look on persecution
as their only arm of defence. The Bishop of Win-
chester, like Dr. Chalmers, of Edinburgh, says, let
us have no hostile feeling to close the hearts of the
people against our exhortations—let us appear be-
fore them as friends who are eager to persuade, and
not as foes who wish to punish those whom we dis-
dain to conciliate by reason, and we are confident of
the victory. If the Protestant religion prevailed
against the Catholic when power was arrayed on the
side of the latter, while it has experienced a signal
failure since it placed its reliance on the means which
formerly were unable to secure Catholicism, this
affords strong grounds for believing that the Pro-
testant cause had been injured by -the aid which it
received from power.—lbid.

We are much indebted, and so, we have no
doubt, many of our readers feel, to a correspondent
who, in Tuesday's paper, drew our attention and
their's, to a project which is now going on, fcr
raising the funds for making the approaches to the
new London Bridge, by a tax on all coals which
arrive in the river. There is, probably, nothing
more objectionable in Parliamentary practice than
the way in which Private Bills can be smuggled
through both Houses. Indeed, how that Bill can
be called a private one, the main object of which is
to inflict a tax, is more than we can comprehend.—
Surely it would redound to the honour of the House
of Commons if some such rule as this were to be
established,—that every Bill for raising money on
the subject, in whatever shape, were considered a
public Bill, and its contents made publicly known
to all who are liable to be affected by it. How a
tax is less a public one because it is raised at the
instigation of the Corporation of London, instead of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, we know not.—
Had the latter proposed a tax on coals as part of his
Ways and Means for paying the public creditor, we
should have had the whole body of patriots open-
mouthed at such a project. The patriots of the
Civic Body would have quite boiled over with
wrath and indignation. The Common Council,
that mirror of Parliaments, would have met, and a
Common Hall would most likely have been called,
where all the Civic froth would have been displayed
in all its foam. Now, however, we have the Civic
Body quietly working their own job, and silently
doing that for themselves, and to save their own
pockets, which would in the other case have ap-
peared to them, as in this it does to us, a project
which Parliament ought not to be found to sanction.
We are glad too to see that the subject has been
brought before the House of Lords, and that the
Duke of Wellington has consented to a full inquiry
into it. As one of moment to the whole commu-
nity, we will return to it again, and nust that on
this, as on other occasions, the Press will be of some
use in protecting the public interests.-31orning
Herald.

The preparations for the concert at Guildhall
for the Spanish and Italian refugees are proceeding on a
grand scale. The orchestra is in considerable forwardness,
and the organ (on the largest scale ever erected in the me-
tropolis) is now completing by Mr. GRAY. The band will
consist of the elite of the late Opera-house orchestra, and
that of the Philharmonic, and the chorus will be as power-
ful as at the concert last year. The selection was then
confined to the works of HANDEL and HAYDN, and to two
only of their orator. It will now be more varied, and
will comprise the sacred compositions of MOZART,
BEETHOVEN, and PAISIELLO, in addition to those of
the first-mentioned masters- The " Recordare" from
the " Requiem," the last chorus of the " Mount of
Olives," and the magnificent double chorus from HANDEL'S
" Solomon," will form part of the sacred selection.
ITAYDN's " Cum sancto spiritu," horn his sth Mass, and
PAISIELLO'S celebrated scene, " The fall of Zion," will be
performed for the first time in this metropolis. The second
act will consist of the most favourite airs and concerted
pieces, principally from the Operas of " Tancredi," " Ric-
ciardo e Zoraide," " " La Donna del Lago,"
" Die Zauberflote," &c., supported by Madame PISARONI,
Madame CARADORI, Madame DE \Two, Mademoiselle
BLASIS, Signor DoszErmr, and Signor DE BEGNIS ; while
the talents of Miss PATON, Mrs. W. KNYVETT, Miss
WILKINSON, and Messrs. BRAHAM, W. KNYVETT, PHlL-
tars, and E. TAYLOR, will be engaged in the performance
of the first !selection.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

31ary Scully was again brought before the LORD
MAY ox, on the charge of having deserted her child.
Corporal Batson, of the 21 Coldstream Guards, at-
tendA, by the command of the Colonel at the Tower.
Mary Scully having sworn that the corporal was father
of the child, the corporrd declared that he had no reason
to suppose the child was his, as several men in his regi-
ment spoke of her rather loosely.
A woman, who stood near with the child, exhibited it
to thooe in the office, and
The LORD MAYOR said that the likeness between the
corporal and the child was very striking.
Mr. Hobler was of the same opinion. "Look at your
poor babe, you brute," said he, " it must be your's—you
have a strong ugly likeness of it."—(Laughter,)
" If it's like me," said the corporal, turning his face
away, " I can't help it; but I don't think it is. She
was as well known to other men in the regiment as to me."
Mary Scully—You lie, you blackguard. Nobody ever
had any thing to do with me but yourself, and you know
it welL

Mr. Holder advised the woman not to use such harsh
language. The mild course was the best way to get a hus-
band, after a poor girl had placed too great ctuifidence in a
worthless fellow's honour.

Mary Scully—How can I help it, your Honour ? He
has ruined me for ever. He made all my friends turn
their backs upon me, and now he calls me a prostitute,
and denies his own child, which the Lord knows is his
true born. lam no bad woman. I tried all I could to
support his child, and now he wants to make me appear a
common street-walker.

The LORD MAvou asked the corporal whether he meant
to make any allowance for the child ? The Corporal.—l
can't give a halfpenny, my Lord. After piping the Quar-
ter-mister for mess, I have just 9d. at the end of the week,
and not a farthing more.
Here there was a general examination of the child's fea-
tures. The likeness was perceptible to every eye. The
women were all convinced that the corporal must be the
father. The corporal cut rather a strange figure. He
stood as firm and upright as if under the order of " atten-
tion," and neither looked right nor left while he and the
child were undergoing comparison.
The LORD 3lAvoa regretted that he could not compel
the corporal to do justice to the girl, who did not appear
to be by any means like the description of character she had
been said to he. He could do nothing, as the child had
been born in Ireland.

The overseers of All-hallows Barking, to which parish
the child had been sent by the authorities at the Tower,
required that they should not be burdened with the child.
The act for getting rid cf Irish paupers supplied the means
by bundling over to Ireland all Irish paupers, however
desolate and comfortless might be the chances in that
country.
The LORD MAyon said, that he should he obliged to
send over AI try Scully and her child, if nothing could be
done for them here.

Mary Scully.—Whatever you do with me, your honour,
he must take care of his child. He has disgraced and
ruined me, and hasn't left me a friend in the world; and
now that he has roe i❑ a strange country, he has said I was
a common prostitute, and every thing that, was br.d. I
won't have any of his breed. Let him support his own

The Loan illnvoit thought it better to suspend the
order of removal for some days, in order that something
might if possible be done for the child. ifs Lordship
asked whether the Foundling Hospital did not supply an
asylum for such poor children. It was evident that the
poor mother could not support it, nut having a farthing
in the world.

His Lordship was answered that children were not re-
ceived into the Foundling without introduction by people
of distinction, and that it was believed that there were but
very few poor foundlings under the protection of that
charitable institution.

The Loan MAvon sent to Sir William Curtis, who is
an active member of the Institution, and whose disposi-
tion to render service to the friendless is well known, to
learn whether the poor Irish child could be received into
its bosom ?

The answer given by Sir William was, that the regula-
tions prohibited the reception of the little candidate.
Mary Scully was then ordered to be taken care of in the
Compter for a few i:ays. As soon as the child was put
into her arms, all the mother rushed into her heart, and
she covered her infant with tears and caresses. The cor-
poral, of course, marched away.
A young man, who has been for some time known to
the police as rather what is called an awkward customer,
was brought before the LORD MAyort, charged with having
attempted to rob a boy who was carrying some goods in a
basket. The officer stated, that the prisoner had first
fixed his eye upon the boy at the Old Bailey, when the
four wretched culprits were hanging on Tuesday morning.
The pi isomer made several attempts without success, and
flowed the boy to some distance, but finding that he stood
no chance of getting booty, turned off to something of a
more tangible description. The officer, however, thought
it ton bad to allow a man to commit a robbery under such
awful circumstances, and took him into custody.
The Loan MAYOR asked the prisoner, who vehemently
denied that he had attempted to commit any thing of the
kind, what brought him to the execution? The prisoner
—Vy, your worship, I vent for to make it be an example
to myself—a bit of a caution, your worship, not to do
nothink as was every bad.
Mr. Bobler—And a pretty caution it has been to you.
A fellow who steals at the foot of the gallows is sure to
come to the gallows.
The officers said the prisoner was seen at his tricks by
several, who significantly pointed to their necks as a cau-
tion to him, but he would take no caution. Committed
for a month as a rogue and vagabond.

MARYLEBONE.
The extraordinary death of a gentleman, who lived at
No. 16, Great Castle-street, Regent-street, occupied a great
deal of Mr. RARLINSON'S attention yesterday, and until
a late hour last night.
Elie name was Henry Neale. He was not in business,
we believe, but his wife had something to do with the
fashions, and she went off for Paris on Monday.
Mr. Neale left his house at half-past nine on Tuesday
night, and was brought borne at half-past one yesterday
morning, by a soldier, in a state of intoxication. The
soldier told the servant who opened the door that he
found him "sprawling in the street," and be.directed him
to walk home with him, and remain with him all night.
The servant thought it strange, but did not interfere, and
her master and the soldier went into the parlour together.
Her master then ordered her to bring him the key of the
w ine closet ; but before she could get back with it he broke
open the closet-door, and took out two bottles, of which
they partook. The soldier was sober when he entered
the house, but after he had taken the wine he appeared
to be intoxicated, and in that state he attempted to carry
Mr. Neale to his bed, and they both fell down together.
The servant then brought some bed•clotbes down, and
after placing her master's head upon a pillow, and
making him as comfortable as circumstances would
admit, left the room with a determination to sit up.—
She heard the snoring of a person as late as half-past
five, and she believes it was her master.. She
then fell asleep, and when she awoke, a little after six, she
found her master was dead, and his body was covered with
a sheet, which was not upon him when she left him ; and
he had been robbed of his coat, waistcoat, hat, and stock,
and a silver spoon was missing from the wine-closet. The
soldier was gone, and the street-door was wide open. She
immediately called up her fellow-servant, and sent for Dr.
Dennis and Mr. Kirton, a surgeon, in High-street ; and,
from the appearances which those gentlemen found upon
the face of the deceased, there is strong reason to suspect
that he was murdered. His nose was bent on one side, as
if it had been sat upon ; and there were marks upon it, as
if caused by the pressure of fingers.
The maid-servant give a very minute description of the
per.•on and dress of the soldier ; and Stowell, the officer,
has discovered that such a man is absent from the 2d bat-
talion of Grenadier Gua'ds at the Portman barracks, and
that he was seen yesterday morning in coloured clothes,
like those of Mr. Neale.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

TUESDAY, ALtucx 24. —Wind East.--High
water 20 minutes past one.—Arrived the Ann Pa-
ley, from Lisbon ; Robert Boyle, Soford, from Belfast ;
Countess of Galway, --, from Garlieston ; Dispatch,
from Ulver,tone.
Sailed—The George Canning, Allyn, for New York;
Ann, Barton, for Brazil; Regent, --, for Newfound-
land ; Rankin, Wishart, for St. John's; Eldon,
for Bay ChaJeur ; Hyllus, Furrie, for St. John's, New-
foundland.

THE ENSUING ASSIZES.—The calendar for
the approaching assizes is, in every view of it, a black
and a heavy one. There are already 99 prisoners for
trial, and the last fortnight before the assizes is usually
prolific in committals. Among them there are four ag-
gravated cases of burglary, five of highway robbery, five of
housebreaking, and fire of poaching and maliciously shoot-
ing at a gamekeeper.— Chester Courant.

LENT ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, MARCH 23.
MARY GREEN V. MARTIN.

Mr. Sergeant STORKS (with whom was Mr.
PramE) stated the case for the plaintiff. The Jury
had already heard that the plaintiff in this case
sought compensation in damages at their hands, for
one of the most serious injuries of which any person
could complain in a Court of Justice, namely, the
seduction of her daughter by the defendant. The
ilaintiff was a widow of irreproachable character,
and the young woman, Eliza, her daughter, who was
the subject of the present action, was at this time
24 years of age. All the parties lived at March, in
the Isle of Ely, where the husband of the plaintiff
formerly carried on the business of a farmer till he
died in 1819. In that year he died, leaving his
widow the mother of right children, for whom she
struggled to carry on the farm for some time. For
five years she continued the business, when she fell
into difficulties, and ultimately the farm was given
up. With the exception of Eliza, he believed that
all her children were married and settled in life. It
was in 1821 that the defendant and the plaintiff's
(laughter Eliza commenced their acquaintance ; he
showed her great attentions, and it was for some
time supposed that his views were of the most ho-
nourable nature. In 1824, his uncle died, leaving.
him in possession of a fortune of 2001. a-year.- The
intimacy continued, and shortly afterwiirds it was
that the plaintiff gave up her farm. It was then
thought by the plaintiff that her daughter Eliza
might do something for her own subsistence ; the
defendant was consulted, and at his suggestion she
• was placed apprentice with a milliner. Still the ac-
quaintance went on, and it was naturally imagined
that the defendant would have put into execution
his promise of marriage ; but, instead of so doing,
he took occasion to commit the greatest injury of
which man could be guilty to an unprotected female
—he seduced and deserted her. She proved to be
pregnant, and then the defendant began to cool in
his attention 5, and at length left her, without solace
or support.
Eliza Green examined—l am 24. My father
lived at March, in this county, and died in 1819.
After his death, the plaintiff, who is my mother,
continued the farming business. In 1821 1 first be-
came acquainted with the defendant. I was then
16 or 17. He also lived at March, and " kept
company with me." When he had continued his
addresses for twelve months, I asked my mother if
she was agreeable whether I might be with Martin,
and she sad she had no objections, which I told
the defendant. After that he continued to keep
company with me, and told me he had a property
that would amount to 2001. a year. He continued
his attentions for six years, and down to about
twelve months from this time. I have seven bro-
thers and sisters. When he ceased his coming, he
assigned no reason. There had about fifteen months
before that time been a very great intimacy between
us. I had a child, hut only once. It was born on
the 3d of January in the last year. The defendant
was the father of it. I told him I expected the
thing would happen, when I was about six weeks
gone, and he promised to make an honest woman
of me. When four months had elapsed I told the
plaintiff, and at her • house I was confined. The
child was a girl, and about a month after the birth
he ceased to come. I was thirteen weeks confined
to my bed, and come to me any more he never did.
Cross-examined by Mr. KELLY—Defendant visited
at my mother's house for the first time in 1822. I
constantly slept with my mother. The defendant
came two or three times a week to see me. He is
about a month younger than I am. He never passed
the night with me ; the latest hour at night that he
left me was eleven at night. I know Eliza Watson;
she lived in the house she does for three years.
She banished her husband away from her, by being
caught in bed with another woman's husband. My
ruination took place in February, 1827, in my mo-
ther's house.

A4surgeon proved the birth of the child, which is
still alive; and he :aid that the grandfather left de-
fendant a very pretty property."
Mr. KELLY addressed the Jury for the defendant,
after which the Jury found for the plaintiff—Da.
mages, 70/.

COE AND ANOTHER V. CLAY.

Mr. GUNNING opened the pleadings. This was
an action on a special agreement, by which the de-
fendant had agreed. to let to the plaintiffs a certain
farm and premises, situate at Waterbeach, in this
county, for seven years ; and, in case either party ran
back from his bargain, he was to forfeit the sum of
101. The defendant had been requested to deliver
possession of tlie'llarm to the plaintiffs, which he
had refused to do; whereby an action had accrued
to the latter to demand the ,10/.
Mr. Sergeant STORKS stai-ed the case. In January,
1827, the plaintiffs, defendiiiis and other persons,
met at the Sun public-house n the parish of which
they had heard, and there the defendant and the
plaintiffs entered into the agreement of which they
had heard. The agreement, verbatim et literatim, is
as follows :

"An agreement be-twixt James Clay and Henry Dork-
inge and Jonathan Coe, of the parish of Waterbeach: the
set! James Clay hath n-gread to let all his homestall (&c.
describing it); it is ails° a-greael that all taxes to be pade
by the tennants; and it is allso a-gresd that if any of the
partys run back, under a forfeit of 10/., &c." •
Now this, said the Learned Sergeant, was pre-
cisely what the defendant had done. He had " run
back," and he ought to pay the " forfeit of 101.,"
which the Jury would make him do, when he had
proved bow and under what circumstances the de-
fendant had " run back " from this very intelligible,
though not very polished, agreement.
Various witnesses yi.ere then called for the plain-
tiffs, who swore that the defendant had requested a
man to draw up the above agreement, which was ac-
cordingly done in the presence of some guests as-
sembled at the Sun on the evening of the 16th of
January, 1827. One of the curious features of this
document was, that it was attested by three persons,
neither of whom saw the parties sign it ; while, on
the other hand, the witness who did see it executed
was not one of the subscribing witnesses, he was
the scholar who composed this elegant document.
It seemed agreed on all hands that the defendant
was no youth, but his age was as difficult to learn
exactly as if he had been a lady of a certain age, and
varied in the evidence of the witnesses from some-
where about 40" till " somewhere near 70."

The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 10/.

lIEREFORD, MARC!! 24.
PAYNE V. MORGAN.

Mr. CAMPBELL, in stating the case, said this was
an action upon a bond, given by the defendant to se-
cure payment of a sum of money to the plaintiff, and
the whole question would turn upon the non-appear-
ance of the subscribing witness, who it was impos-
sible now to produce. He had formerly been an at-
torney in considerable practice at Ross; but having
got into difficulties he went to Boulogne, and from
thence to Tunis, where he had since submitted to
the rite of circumcision in order to become a Ma-
hometan.

Mr. John Baylis knew Mr. Gibson. He left
BRoss in 1810,and he saw him four years ago at
Cross-examined by Mr. RICHARDS—HOW long
will it take to return from Boulogne,?
ouiogn
e.
Mr. CAMPBELL-I'll admit three hours.

Mr. RICIIARDS—Thin is not sufficient to account
for Mr. Gibson's absence. He was in Boulogne four
years ago; but your Lordship and 1, who have been
often in Boulogne—
Mr. Justice PARK-:—I never was in Boulogne in
all my life. I never was in France ; and, indeed, I
think if one-half the fools who go there stayed away
it would be better for them.
Verdict for the plaintiff.

NOTTINGHAM, MAReff 23.
Lord Chief Justice Best is much better to-day,
but was not sufficiently recovered to resume hisju-
dicial duties here. His Lordship, however, expects
to be able to do so at Derby, where the commis-

sion will be opened to-morrow. In the mean time
Mr. Serjeant ADAMS presided in the Crown Court.
Richard Fowler, a blacksmith, aged 35, was in-
dieted for feloniously killing and slaying Samuel
Rhodes, at the parish of Munsfield. The deceased,
whose death was occasioned by a rupture of the
bladder, stated, when conscious he was dying, that
he hail had some words with the prisoner at a public-
house, upon which the latter invited him out of the
house, and upon reaching the passage for that pur-
pose, he suddenly gave him a kick in the bottom of
the belly. The deceased immediately felt a desire
to pass water, but on attempting to do so failed, and
experienced great pain. A surgeon, who was called
on behalf of the prosecution, stated that a kick was
likely to have ruptured the bladder, when it was
partially distended, in consequence of the deceased
having been drinking gin and water. Another
surgeon, who was called for the defence, said that
in his opinion the rupture had not been occasioned
by a kick.
The Jury, after a few moments' deliberation, re-
turned a verdict of Not Guilty.
John Ashwell was indicted for maliciously cutting
and stabbing Francis Coup Lamb, with intent to
kill or do him some grievous bodily harm.—The
jury accquitt eel the prisoner.
Joseph the younger, was indicted for
feloniously killing an ewe sheep, at- the parish of
Rempston, with intent to steal the same, and felo-
niously stealing a part of it, the property of John
Hopkins. The charge was clearly proved against
the prisoner. The prisoner had been more than
once in prison before, on charges of poaching.
The Learned SERGEANT ordered sentence of death
to be recorded, and told him that if his life were
spared, it would only be on condition of his being
sent out of the country.