The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-17 00:00:00

This day was published,

AN EARNEST APPEAL to the BI-
SHOPS and CLERGY in' behalf of APOSTO-
LICAL CHRISTIANITY.

Upon one point, Trinitarians and Unitarians, as P: o•
testants, are unanimous : that the highest praise to which
they can aspire, is, that of being "Bible-only" Christians.
Now, if the one Sect wou!d abdicate the " mere" men,
and the other the gibberish derived to them through the
polluted channel of the Roman Catholic Ritual, might they
nut one day chance to meet and shake hands on neutral
g►ound as Apostolical Christians? The Disciples of the
Prince of Peace may, perhaps must, differ amongst them-
selves upon many points, but whey should controversy be
unnecessarily and for ever kept alive by the mutual use of
contraband weapons ?
Sold by J. R. Hunter, St. Paul's Church-yard.

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MONSIEUR M A LLAN and SON,
SURGEON DENTISTS, No. 3.2, Great Rus-
sell-street, Bloomsbury, grateful for the high and extensive
patronage which has so eminently distinguished their priftlr-
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respectfully announce to their YEARLY PATIENTS It the
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have formed an ADDITIONAL ESTABLISHMENT at
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all OPERATIONS on the TEETH and GUMS, :5
CLEANING, FASTENING LOOSE, and STOPPING
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and Paris, and SUPPLY WHOLE or PARTIAL SETS
of TEETH, either NA I'URAL or formed of the above
INCORRODIBLE MINERAL. .

Mr. Secretary PEEL and Lord
noucu bad interviews with th;- Duke of wELLyi“IToN
yesterday, at the Treasury. hr. L ENDO-
.

Mr..HILL opened •the pleadings. This was an
action of slander, to which the defendant pleaded
" Not Guilty."
Mr. Edward Pritchard—l am clerk to the plain-
tiff; he practises as an attorney in the Court- of
King's Benda, and in the Court of Chancery ; I
'know the defendant; he was formerly a client of the
Pleintiff's; he continued so till 1827; he was also
an intimateiriead of the plaintiff's; there was some
difference between them about that time; in June,
1828, an order was obtained by the defendant to ;
tax the plaintiff's bill of costs ; there were many •
meetings under this order before Me. Goodrich, one
of the Deputy Masters of the King's Bench. On
the 7th July we attended at the Master's Office;
he came out immediately before us into the-King's
Bench-walk, in the Temple ; he (defendant) turned
round and said, " You are a thing, and no man, and
a mere apology for a man," and immediately added,
"I do not follow other men's wives." The plaintiff
made no reply, but passed on.. I begged him to
take no Notice. On the 7th of Nov. .we again
attended at the Master's Office ; the plaintiff, defend-
ant, andWeCarlou, defendant's attorney, were there.
eonsidetable bundle of affidavits was produced
by the plaintiff.. As soon as he had stated what the
affidavits were, the defendant replied, " I'll prove
some of those affidavits to be false." The plaintiff
said, " Take care what you swear." Defendant
said, " If I had committed as many perjuries as you
have, I ought to have been hanged; you have com-
mitted perjuries enough—you ought to have been
hanged long ago ;" and he added, " He is keeping
a woman—he has put that woman into a shop, and .
is robbing tradespeople to supply her with goods;"
and, addressing the plaintiff, he said, " You are a
nice character—l once saw you strike out and alter
a deed of Ritchie's, after it had been executed."
On the affidavit of a female named Harkey being
produced, he said, " That is the affidavit of the
woman he keeps."
Mr. Serjeant ADAMS said there were two motiv.s
which induced parties in general to bring actions of
this sort. The first was that high feeling which an
honourable man entertained, and which would not
allow him to exist quietly under imputations' un-
justly cast upon his charactee; the second was that
feeling of anger and vindictiveness which made a
man wish to revenge on the pocket of another those
expressions which that person might have tittered
in a moment of warmth. These were the two
motives that influenced common parties. But there
was a third which had often great weight with some
attorneys; that was, a wish to obtain costs. Whether
the plaintiff was not influenced by the latter motive
in the present instance, the Jury would say, when
they recollected that he was his own attorney, and
that his own clerks, whose attendance he could have
commanded at any place, and at any hour he chose,
had been subpoenaed like other witnesses, as if, like
other witnesses they could not be brought here but by
• the authority of the Court. The plaintiff drew out Lis
own briefs-his clerks drew out the proofs—he con-
duCted the case on his own behalf—and then, in
order to. screw the last farthing from this ardor-
tunate defendant, he tummoncd twelve special jury-
men of the city of London to decide this trumpery
case. He (Mr. Serjeant Adams) should like to
know if the Jury had seen the Robber's Wife, which
had recently been brought out at Covent-garden
Theatre ? • If they had not, he would tell them
something of it; and they would, he was sure, agree
with him, that some of the scenes in that piece were
an exact counterpart to this action. He was fortu-
nate enough to have been present. the other evening
at its representation. There was in that piece a
pettifogging attorney, called Penpuddle—(a laugh)
—who was attacked as this plaintiff had been by a
client that was dissatisfied with him, and curious
enough the actor who represented the enraged client
was that excellent comedian Fawcett. In a great
rage at the mismanagement of his business, Fawcett
(the respectable actor, not the attorney) came on
the stage, and thundered forth his anger upon
the attorney, who on that occasion was repre-
sented by Blanchard ; with Blanchard's merits the
Jury were no doubt fully acquainted, and he
could assure them that on this occasionßlanchard
was more than usually excellent. When attacked
by his enraged client, he looked exactly as the wit-
ness said this plaintiff had been called " a thing, and
no man—a mere apology for a man."—(Loud laugh-
ter.)—Like this plaintiff, he wanted his clerks to
write down what was said; he bawled for theta
some time in vain. At length, however, a clerk,
Larry O'Gig, played admirably by Mr. Power,
came on the stage, and was ordered to write down
all the words; bur, unfortunately, through his Irish
blundering, he forgot everything that was said, and
the poor attorney ran .off the stage, exclaiming in
most piteous tones, " oh, what an action I have
lost."—(Continued laughter.)—Just so was the
conduct of this plaintiff—he had not, indeed, to call
clerks, for they were with him; but, like attorney
Penpuddlc, he no sooner heard the words, than he
called out to his clerk, " write me down an ass,"—
(Laughter,)—and an ass accordingly he was written
down.—(Much laughter.)—But then Ire thought
one would not do, so he called on the other to write
him down an ass too; " that I will," said the
other—so down he wrote it. 'I o be sure this
was a month afterwards ; but that made little
difference; ire had his wish, and ire was
twice written down ant ass, and now the clerks
came to prove him one.—(Continued laughter.)—
What did the Jury think of this action ? Were they
not convinced that it was a trumpery case ? If not,
why was not the Master called as a witness ? Why
did not the plaintiff put into the box that gentleman
whose gooil opinion he affected to be so anxious to
retain ? lie was sorry he could not, by law, ask
them for a verdict ; but, on the point of damages, he
would tell them a story which would give what he
thought to be the true measure of damages in this
case—a measure which he trusted the jury would
adopt. There was once a parrot which one person
wished to buy from another, but they could riot agree
about the price. The parrot had been taught to say
a number of different things, and the parties at last
agreed that they would listen to the parrot, and that
the first sum it called should be taken as the price.
The seller hoped it would call out the largest sum it
had been. taught to speak, and the buyer hoped it
would give the smallest. They waited for some
time in anxious expectation, and at last the parrot
screamed out " Give the rogue a groat."—(Much
laughter.)—He said the same thing of the plaintiff.
The Jury retired for about an lama, and then re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages-51.

• There is now in the possession of a gentle-
man at Manchester an old Bilde,in good condition, which
contains about 1,000 copper-plate engravings and maps of
all the ancient pkees mentioned in Scripture, as ale:o the
Apocrypha, and the Psalms of David in metre. This
Bible fornmrly belonged to the grandfather of JOHN
%\'CJLtY. It also belonged to his father. It was in the
hou'e• when it. was on fire, but was s wed from the con-.
quering element, and handed down to the present possessor
as a valuable relic.

There is a good deal of saucy w.t in Lord
BYnoN's anecdote of the lair astronomers. " Some lit,-
rary ladies hying asked how they could be sufficiently
inttrested in astronomy to spend to much time in watching
the heaven,' replied that.tbey had a great curiosity to we
whether these Was Iliac, a man in the moon !"

On Tuesday, flit km Steer, a young man of re-
spectable appearance, was placed at the bar of the
Worship-street Police Office, before Wm. BENETT,
Esq., charged with attempting to strangle his wife,
Marie. Steer, by hanging her up by the neck wit)]
a rope.

The unfortunate young woman, who appeared to
be about twenty-five years of age, stated she had been
married to the prisoner about five years, but has
had no family. 0:1 Sunday afternoon last, about
half-past four o'clock, she Was with her husband in
the sitting-room, on the first-floor, she had occasion
to go up stairs into her bed-room, and her husband
followed her; when she got to the top of the stairs
a clothes basket, which hung on a hook in the wall,
fell down ; she turned her head round, and suddenly
found a rose, which was tied to the hook, round her
neck ; she fell oil the stairs, and clung to the rope
with her hands. her husband vas behind her, and
pulling her legs; instantly the hook came out of the
wall which the rope was fastened to, and she fell
down. She immediately ran down stairs, and went
out at the front door. Her husband followed her,
and said he only did it to frighten her. She went
into her next door neighbour's house, and returned
by the back door, accompanied by her neighbour,
into her own house. She went up stairs, and called
to her husband, who did not answer—he had gone
to bed; she rook her bonnet and cloak and went to
her husband's father, in Portsmouth-street, Lincoln's
Inn-fields, soon afterwards her husband followed her,
and at twelve o'clock at n'ght.they returned home
together; she being fearful something might hap-
pen, told him she should speak to the watchman to
protect her; he said, " I don't wish to hurt you,
Maria; take the key, and go.and sleep by yourself."
Yesterday morning she got up and went to her hus-
band's father, and remained there till this morning.
Mr. BENETT—Do you feel sore, or have you re-
ceived any injury from the rope ?
\Vitness—f am scratched, but I believe I did it
myself in catching hold of the rope—l have a bruise
on my neck.
Mr. BENETT (to the prisoner's father)—Has your
son any legal adviser here?
Prisoner's father—No, Sir.

Mr. BENETT—I would advise you to provide him
with one, for he stands in a dangerous situation ; at
present I can take no other view of it than that
which affects his life.

Ths prisoner's ife here burst into tears, and ex-
ellimcd—" Oh ! God forbid ; don't hang him, don't
hang him."
Mr. BENETT—Have you ever been in the habit
of quarrelling with him ?
Witness—No, Sir. He has frequently said he
don't like me, and never gave any reason for it.
Mr. BENETT—Do you really think he meant to
strangle you ?.
Witness (very much dis,ressed)—l don't know;
I don't think he meant to kill me. Pray dont't
hang him.
Mr. BENETT—Has he ever left you ?
. .

Witness—Yes, Sir ; about a year ago he left ire
for nearly eight months, without saying a worl to
me; he was always a very kind husband and a very
sober man.

Waters, an officer, here produced the rope, with
a noose it, which he found concealed in a cupbond
in the prisoner's house.
Mr. BENeTT (to the prisoner)—l shall not ask
you any questions, and I advise you to reserve your
defence until the next examination. I shall there-
fore remand you until Thursday next, to give you
an opportunity of obtaining professional assistance,
and which I recommend you to get, as you are in a
most dangerous situation.
The prisoner, who is a hair-dresser, residing in
Crown-street, Finsbury-square, appeared very much
agitated during the examination.

We are happy to understand, that the Go-
vernors of Gonnotes Hospital have entered into contracts
for the additional buildings to that Institution, which,
when completed, will afford accommodation for a con-
siderably greater number of the sons and grandsons of
Borgevies. This work, a,ong; with the Harbour and
Polize improvements, will also have the good effect of
giving employment to a number of workmen, during the
ensuing year.—Aberdeen Observer.

EXTRAORDINARY FACT.-A young woman
was received into the Hull workhouse, about two years
ago, who was labouring at the time under a severe com-
plaint, attended with a considerable degree of internal pain.
As she did not recover, she was at length removed to the
residence of her friends at Barrow, Lincolnshire, with a
weekly allowance from the governor and guardians of tl e
poor of Hull. About a fortnight ago she went to that
place, and proceeding to the persons from whom the allow-
ance was received, thanked them for their kindness ; stat-
ing-, at the same time, that she was now nearly well, having
vomited a large newt, which had, no doubt, been the
moving cause of her complaint ! York Courant.

While working a recently opened mine—cop-
per having been the olject of search—there has been dis-
cored a large and regular I,,de of silver and gold in the
Wigford Mine, which is situated not far from Loddiswell,
near Kingsbridge, Devonshire. It has excited a good
deal of interest amongst the curious in such matters, and
of late years the search for precious metals has aroused the
curiosity of the scientific, as well as of those whose stimu-
lus was profit. The ore that cuntaina the precious metals
discovered in the Wigfurd Mine, m y be considered, it is
said by those who are conversant in such skill, a new pro-
doctimt in this country, it being dilferent both in appear-
ance and produce front any heretofore discovered in Eng.
lartb In some perttru!ars it bears great similariiy to, the
cOppiT t.re' of the liar z Mountains, iu ,-strany. The
ore of the Wigford Iline is ctf a dark grey colour, approach-
ing to black, with a metallic lustre ; and upon -analysis it
is found to consist of iron, antimony, copper, silyar, and
The lode is of consider:ll,le width, and the aceom-
italtyiog minerals are a white floor spar, spatose iron ore,
art.l carbonate of lime. The mine has been worlic.l, and
the discovery by some private indivititl*4--Wants
•
CTraniele, -

" Friday, Nov. 27.
" Governer Penn—Four desperate reduced tradesmen
have walked many a dreary mile to come here. We are
well armed with loaded pistols, and cane swords, two of
us are quite well acquainted with you, your ways, and
your riches. We have made ourselves masters of ell your
movemen.s, and acquainted with every corner of your
Castle. We have been here since this day week ; want
501., which you can very well spare, to purchase imple-
ments of industry to go to Swan River. If we sacceed,
you shall have it back this day -twelvemonth. Fail
not on peril of your life to have it made up in a
paper parcel, at four o'clock to-morrow, on the seat of
your new walk. Mark well the instructions. We coin-
mand you to silence, and that you take 501., chief part in
sovereigns, to that seat unattended. Fail in ore tittle, and
a troop of horse should not—could not—save your life.
You love your money we know, but you love your life
better. You have plenty-you do not want to carry it
to the grave with you—you will leave it to those who care
not for you, and who already pray for your death. If you
have not 501. in the house, send your servant to Weymouth
for it. Flinch not—peach not. Utter one sentence to
human being, and your mangled corpse shall be strewed
al.oat the island. We command you to total silence, and
your life shall be saved. Every movement of your's we
shall watch. Burn this—show it to no ens. We do not
trolble you to walk far with the money, and in broad day-
light; let that assure you that you are safe, and that
your life is held sacred. As soon' as you have put down
the money, wrapped in brown paper, on the seat of the
new walk, gd bark the same way you came, on peril of
Yeitretittctfirwfoliffigiflitsiste a-short time in terror and fear.
Mark well our commands, not a hair of your head shall he
touclied; but if ybu dare disappoint, dread our utmost ven-
geance. We are desperate, and, you must perceive, de-
termined to have what we want. If you make any per-
son or persons a party concerned in this transaction, mark
that you will be answerable for their blood. We shall no
more mind running you through the body, or shooting,
like a mad dog, you and them, than eating our breakfast.
We do not want to shed blood, bat we defy all resistance,
all pursuit. Rely upon it, if we find you more fond of
your dirty dross than of your life, you will never behold
either Stoke-park or any other place in this werld—never
more, never. One of us a ill step and leave this at the
Castle. What we want you will not miss. You have
much more than you ever can want, while others have not
the necessaries of life."

The Governor, who is very aged and infirm, was
naturally much alarmed at this strange and myste-
rious communication, but he at once deterinitied to
show it to his friends, by whom he was advised to
deposit a checque for 50/. in the spot rintcd °tit
the letter, and he did so at the hour meiit:oned Lv
the anonymous writer, having previon,ly pLeed two
of his household within view of the seat to watch
for the coming of the expected visitor. It so hap-
pened, however, that the General had scate,-ly re-
turned to the Castle, after depositing the parcel,
when a labourer passing by, saw it, and to k it up ;
and like an honest fellow conveyed it to Cast'e,
where he gave it to one of the servants, wi..o took it
to the Governor, and thus for that day the plan for
the detection of the writer of the letter was foil. d.
The servants placed on the watch saw, soon after
the labourer took up the parcel, a lady apprnach the
seat and look at it, and even underneath it; but
she was well known to them as an occasioned visitor
at the Castle, and suspicion aid nor, t:f course,
attach itself to her for a single moment. On the
following day a second letter w'as dropped in the
hall, of which the following is a copy :
_ .

dovernor Penn,—You have f.,rfeitra your honour_
Your blood must be spilt; and that within thric days, un-
less you comply.

Upon the receipt of this an application was made
to George Murray, Esq., a resident Magistrate,- aed
the -matter becoming generally known, a publ.c
meeting was called of the inhabitants of the island
at the principal church, and a resolution passed for
publishing hand-bills, offering a reward of 1001. for
the discovery of the author of the letters. At the
same meeting it was resolved that an officer should
be sent for from Bow-street, and on application to
Sir Richard Birnie; Gardiner was sent down. In
the mean time, suspicion had fallen upon the lady
who was seen by the servants to approach the seat
and examine it so narrowly on the 28th November,
and she had undergone an examination before Mr.
Murray, but was permitted to go at large on the un-
dertaking of a gentleman, of whom she rented a
cottage which she occupied, for her appearance et'
a future day if necessary. Gardiner, on his arrival,
looked at the letters, and saw that they were writ-
ten in a feigned hand, and from a certain character in
the writing, he felt convinced that they were the
production of a female. The letters were written
with remarkably deep-coloured ink, and on very
tine paper. Gardiner, from a variety of circum-
stances, was induced to advise the re-apprehension
of the female alluded to; and he also searched the
house, and there found some Indian ink, some of
'which had been mixed for writing, and also a quaetitv
of fine writing-paper, which bore the same N ater-
marks.of the name of the maker, and the date of its
manufacture, as that upon which the threatening
letters were written. On another examination, Gar-
(liner produced these articles, and declared his firm
conviction that the female accused was the guilty
party. She was then allowed, at her own request,
to retire for a short time in ens•ody, and, during her
absence, she confessed to the officer that site was the
author of the letters, and said she would throw herself
on the mercy of the Governor. Thii eolifession wan
received by the Governor and the Magistrate, and
by all who heard it, with perfect astonishment. On
being asked what could have induced her to act in
such a manner, she said distress was the cause. She
added, that her circumstances had been in a very re-
duced state for some time, and that her finances
were completely exhausted, when she made up her
mind to adopt that extraordinary course. The Go-
vernor, on this ample confession, humanely consented
to withdraw from a prosecution, on condition that
she would leave the island immediately. The con-
duct of this person is the more singular, as she was
considered to be in good circumstances, and so much
was she respected that a direct application for pectt-
niary assistance to the Governor, or to any wealthy
inhabitant of the island, would have been at once an-
swered by compliance in the most liberal manner.
The female is about 35 years of age, personally at-
tractive, and what is called accomplished.

COTTON MARKET.—The de7aand for cotton
has been extremely limited since 11.; last. Some holJers
having shown an anxiety to a'..11, prices, wit', the excep-
tion of those of Sea Island, remained firm, declined
about II per pound. 'the sales, front Friday to Friday
reached only 44.00. bags ; on Saturday alone they
ainouwed to 1,590. Liverpool Albion.
STATE OF TRADE AT BOLTON.--The
demand for counterpanes, which has existed foe some
tim ~ we aro happy to say, still continues t.eady ; but
with the exception of these fabrics, and the narrow tape
st:ips for printing, very little busitlut is doing. Tho
bleachers in the ticighbotoboed art:, generally speaking,
busy ; but we are given to understand that this apparent
improvement arises ,olely fr(a.tn the holders of large stocks
b!ing compelled to sell at uorne price; and the preparation
of bleaching it van,,,asary, previous to the goods laeing
brought into t 4 market. The shopkeepers and publicans
"inplain I;i:icily of the decrease of business, and many of
t iem decla; e that their receipts do not cover family ex-
pences. Power-loom weaving is on the decline here, and
one firm are snoring their looms out of their mill, nut
substituting mules in their stead. The general fltiCaV'
rf
lluiliess latterly experienced by the middle elassea, appz'ara
to hay.. directed their attention to the heavy pres4ure of
taxatian, awl in which the country is Lbottriug. It ie
broadly Bilits,d that a public meeting of all classes will
shortly 1)• held, to petition Parliament for a !eduction of
(he asse•-e.ed tax,s, and - -the remedy of other
oatirn:,l gr:evauccs --..11-RticieeSter Mercury,