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London, England, 1827-12-04 00:00:00

the 'fleet at Navarin, prove correct—or rather,
following the authority of an Evening Paper,
should the intimation conveyed to the Austrian
Internuncio be converted into a direct requisition
—there would be a large set :off on the part of
Great Britain, in the depredations committed by
the Greeks upon' the English commerce in the
Mediterranean ; for either the offending GreekS
were subjects of the Porte, or they were not , if
they Were, the Porte must answer for their conduct;
if they had ceased to be' so, the modified, indepen-
ence which formed the basis of the Treaty of
London must be considered as a measure
obtaining that for the Sultan which his own efforts
were unable to effect. The principle of the Law
of Nations which gives States the power of in-
flicting punishment on pirates, to whatsoever
nation they may belong, must obviously receive.
a different mode of application when the piracies
committed have their origin in a civil war
between' revolted .provinces and the paramount
State. The piracy . is, in the case before us,
an accident, but it is so mixed with the very
essence of the war, that;tranquillity must be ab-
solutelyrestored, or the evil cannot be removed.

The evil of piracy in such a great commercial
thoroughfare as the Mediterranean was so intole-
rable, and the inability of the Turkish Govern-
ment to produce 'maritime security was so ob-
vious, that a direct acknowledgement of the in-
dependence of maritime, Greece and 'the islands
would have been a legitimate proceeding on the
part of Great Britain, on the sole condition of

the cessation of piracy. That independence
once acknowledged, the question of prefe-
rable alliance with the former paramount, or
the new State, would have arisen, to be deter-
mined by the actual interests of Great Britain in
relation to its Mediterranean commerce. If,

.therefore, the logical dictum, Omne majus in se
continet minus, be applicable to the question of
interference between the Ottoman Porte and the
insurgent Greek Provinces, it must follow,
that having a most extended right of
self-redress, the
.greatest limitation cOnsis-.
tent with effecting -.the object has been
applied to the exercise of that right. The let-
ter of
.the, Admirals of the. Allied Fleets, ad-
dressed to the Legislative Body of the Greek
Government, proves that, had Ibrahim Pacha
adhered to the suspension of hostilities, the Sul-
tan
would have been in a less difficult position
as to his future proceedings than at present..
The longer he. hesitates or resists, the more coin-
plete and grievous must be his ultimate submis-
sion - Times.

Sinee writing the above we have learned that
letters were received yesterday, by a house of the
highest respectability in the City, stating that
all negociations with the Allies had been broken
off by. the Porte, and that the mediation of Aus-
tria had been peremptorily refused. The above
information, however, comes. to- us unaccompa-
tiled typaaiy date, which (Amnia-stance, though it
does not affect our opinion of the channel through
which -it reached us, throws a certain degree, of
doubt over the news itself. ' Alt-we can state is,
that the letters from which we - quote Were the
latest received List night in

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

COUNTRY DIARY.-TFIURaIIaY, Dec. 6.
Benwiek, M., Ncwcastle.on-Tyne—Turk's Hpad, - New
castle , lO
Bull, L., Chaseley—keathers, Lcdbury II
Carpenter, W., Clifton Castle and Ball, Bath ' 12
Clitherow, IL, Horneastle—Bull,-Horneastle 3
yre, E., Shcffield—Comnaercial inn, Sheffield l'l
.
Graham, J., Liverpool—Angel, Liverp00l
Jones, R., Led'uttry—Feathers, Ledbury ll
Melen, IL, Petshore—Mr. Workman, Evesham 5
Phipps, G., Moreton in March, Gloucestershire—White
Hart, Evesham 5
Vaughan, J., Yazor—New inn, Hereford ................

INSOLVENTS_ APPLYIN
Petitions tp be heard at Portm
Dec. 6, at /
Archer, P., Stapleton •
Bulmer, E., Somers'-town
Formby, .A., Limehouse
Jefferies, J., Chelsea
Kemp, J., Newington
Long, R. Lambeth
Phillips, R., Walworth

COUNTRY.—At the Court-h,
at Ten
. _ _

Cooper, 8., Stockport
Cooper, J., Preston
Edward A, A., 'ShOtswiek
StockportGreen, J., Stockport

Hawkes, S., Chester
Jones, 'l'., Babbington
Jones, W., Kinnerton
At Shrewsbury,
Allin, M., Shrewsbury
Clec, J., Bitterley • .1

G TO RE DISCHARGED,
cal-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
fine o'clock.
Robertson, 'J., Berwick-st.
Rouse, J., Dover.street ,
,Seholefielti, 8., Alcitnonbury
W., Paddington
'.l.'urner, J. Aylesbury •
IWinter, R., Tunstall
IWorsey, E., Birmingham

ouse, at Chester, December 6,
o'clock. • •
Leche, J„ 'Liverpool
J.,:Chcster
Pearson, Cheadle
Penny, A., Hattersley
Read, W., Chester
Rushton, T., Prestbury
Venal)les, P., Congleton
Dec. 6, at Ten.
Lloyd, IV., Newton
Wilding, R., Shrewsbury

IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT.-Mr. JAMES
Watsox, of Dundee, who is noticed in the:Esliuburgh Phi-
losophical Journal as the inventor of an ingenious cOntriv-
anee for enabling him to play the violin and violoncello at
the same time, has made an important. improvement in
his apparatus, by. joining two violins together. The vio-
lins are bound with their breasts to each other, at such a
distance.as to bring their bridges nearly in contact. Each
violin has four strings, and the bridges are so cut and ac_
comModated to each other, that theeight strings, by resting
upon them, are brought into the proper curve over the
finger-board of the lower violin, in the rest of which there
are eight pins for receiving them.--The tuning is perform-
ed exactly as in the single violin, only that there are two
Gets of strings to regulate, each corresponding two being
tuned, in unison. The power of the instrument arises
from the circumstance of the one set of strings resting on
the one bridge, and the other on the other, by which means
the, bow, when passing over them, brings out the full effect
of two dinburgh Advertiser.

As audacious a robbery as any we have recently
heard of was perpetrated en Sunday morning in the shop
of Mr. G. TAYLOR, a linen-draper, residing at No. 13,
High-street, Deptford, within a few yards of the watch-
man's box. About half-past three o'clock, a person passing
observed a -taxed cart, in which there were four men
(having the appearance of cads), drawn up in front, of Mr.
TAYLOR'S shop-door. Not, however, suspecting that they
had any- unlawful design in contemplation, this person
proceeded on about his business, and the instant his back
was turned, the burglars,
who must have been expert hands,
went to work. They forced the lower panel out of the
shop-door with great dexterity, and without even occasion-
ing the slightest motion :of an alarm-bell, which was fas-
tened on the inside, and which, if much violence had been
used, must certainly have rang, and roused Mr TAYLOR,
who was sleeping in a room over head. One of the party
then entered the shop through the aperture, and having
drawn back the bolts, and got rid of the other fastenings,
threw the door open for the more free ingress of his com-
panions. The villains then commenced their work of
they selected the most valuable part of Mr; TAT-
on plunder; ,
s stock, and without much loss of time, transferred
More than 150/. Worth of ladies' cloths, Irish linens, bom-
bazins, stuffs, =Wins, -and calicoes, from the shop to their
cart, and then drove off with their booty, without even
tieculin it necessary to dole the door after them.

Mr. Rogers, of the firm of Rogers arid Co., chymists,
Cheapside, attended to deliver to the Sitting Alderman
315., the balance of various subscriptions which he had
been entrusted by the public to apply for the benefit of a
black man, who called himself the son of the King of Congo,
and who, overcome by despair and distress, had attempted
to purchase poison at Mr. Rogers's shop. Mr. Rogers
stated, that the man was taken into the service of a gentle-
man, in consequence of the statement respecting him in the
newspapers; but he soon grossly misbehaved himself towards
the females in the family, and was discharged ; and he (Mr.
Rogers) had lost sight of the man now for some months.
Sir PETER LAURIE advised Air. Rogers to pay the
money into the subscription for the • Spanish Refugees.
BOW-STREET.—Sarah Smith, a middle-aged decent
looking woman, was charged by the son of Mr. Foulkes,
linen-draper, and haberdasher, of Little itusselil-street,
Covent-garden, with purloining a roll containing several
yards of ribarnh •
Mr. Foulkes, junior, stated that the prisoner was in the
habit of buying small articles at his father's shop, but,
until lately, she was never suspected of dishonest practices.
=Several articles, however, having been missed off the
counter, suspicion fell upon the prisoner, whose repeated
visits to the shop for trifling purchases, and often without
buying anything, led to the belief that she must be time
thief. Accordingly, when the prisoner came into the shop
:on Saturday night, between nine and ten o'clock, and
asked for a yard of riband, the witness determined to watch
her motions, and while looking for the descrtption of
article she wanted, he perceived her purloin a roll contain-.
ing several yards of riband.
Parish, one of the patrol attached to Bow-street, took,
the prisoner into custody on the. charge stated by the last
witness, and found the roll in her possession. While con-
veying her to the watch-house, the prisoner took 13s.
from her pocket, and offered to snake that sum a pound if
the witness would let her go.
",What !" rejoined the Magistrate, "a Bow-street officer
reject a bribe! Wonders will never cease. But did you
really refuse the gold?"—" Certainly, Sir," replied the
officer, " it would have been very.wrong in me to have.
taken it."
" I see how it is," said Air. limas ; " you are but,
young in the business; as you grow older you will learn
better."—" I have beer. some time in the service, your
Worship," said Parish.
"Impossible," said M.r. HALLS, " It is really hardly to
be credited, that a member of such a corrupt system of
police as Bow-street. is represented to be, should reject a
sovereign." '

The officer, who did not appear to comprehend the exact
drift of the Worthy Magistrate's observations, seemed
puzzled to account for them. Without meaning, however,

to 'detract
.from his merit, it may be as well to observe, that
he could not, in this instance, have accepted the proffered
bribe without being immediately detected.
The prisoner did not attempt to deny the charge, and
she was 'committed accordingly.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Edward Moore, a
fine youth of about 18, late groom to the Hon. Mr. Stan-
- •

ley,
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, was yester-
day fully committed for trial on a charge of stealing two
new suit* of livery. and a great coat, furnished him for the
year's.service. He had entered Mr. Stanley's service about
a month back, but being connected with had characters,
he had notice of discharge at the end of
.a-rnontb,-wherthe

immediately absconded with the articles in question. .11e
was traced to a common brothel in Woodstock-street,
Bond-street, where he resided with a set of prostitutes, and
there the suits of livery were found. The coat he con-
fessed he had sold to a Jew for 20s.

A decent•looking man, named O'Reilly, was charged
with disturbing the.congregation at St. Ann's Church, Soho,
last Sunday morning, during divine service, by calling
out in a loud voice to a person in a pew opposite to him,
ic I say, you Sir, with the spectacles, why don't you look
at the parson, and not lie looking at me ?"
As he appeared to be labouring under insanity, and as
the parish clerk did not wish on that account,to press the
case, he was diScharged with an admonition.
Mr. Roe, the Magistrate, was occupied fin• about three
hours with a frivolous charge of felony, preferred,brthiee
pupils of Mr. Carpue, the surgeon, of Dean-street, Soho,
against three of their fellow pupils, for stealing a case of in-
struments, a brush, and an umbrella. The parties werein
the habit of visiting each other ; and although the articles
were certainly taken, and were pledged. by one of the de-
fendants, the whole seemed to be no more than a frolic: the

duplicate had been given up.
Mr. ROE dismissed the charge of felony, no suspicion of
which, he said, attached to the youths ; but as a punishment
of their folly, he ordered them to pay the ss. for which
they'had pledged the articles, and fined the youth by whom
they were pledged 205..,, under the act against illegal
pawning.

Mr. Carpue, at , this moment, entered the office, and
hearing the issue of the affair, expressed his thanks to the
Magistrate.
Ballard, the officer, now stated that Mr. Carpue had
abused him very grossly, and had threatened to kick him
down stairs and break his neck, when he went to his lee-
ture=room to apprehend the accused.
Mr. ROE observed -that such a' threat against an officer
was an indictable offence, but he presumed Mr. Carpue
meant nothing by it. _ _ _

Mr. Carpue said he did mean it, and proceeded to ad-
dress the Magistrate in such a manner that the latter declared
that however he might be disposed to pass over such an
insult from a low ignorant person, he should deal diffe-
rently with Mr. Carpue, And • he directed evidence to be
taken, with a view of holding Mr. Carpue to bail.
Many of Mr. Carpue's friends and pupils now urged
him to retract his words, and apologise ; he however re-
fused for a long time. Towards six o'clock he relented,
and agreed to male an ample apology in terms dictated by
the Magistrate.

MAWYLEIIONE-OFFICE.-111r. Joseph Metcalfe,
of Oxford-street, stationer, was charged by NEI% William
Robert Gardiner, of Carmarthen-street, Fitzroy-square,
artist,. with having unlawfully and fraudulently obtained
of him the sum of 125., hig property.
The parties retired into the constables' room, and there
mr. Metcalfe returned the 12s. to Mr. Gardiner, and paid
the costs.

Thomas 111i!grove Sheppard was charged with enter-
ing the house of William. henry Fellowes, Esq., M.P.,
No. Ili,• Lower Berkeley-street, •on Saturday night, -with a
felonious intent. . .

The prisoner was committed for trial. He kept a green-
grocer's shop in Lisson-street, Marylebone, and has been
tried before for Oony.
Ann .Bristow, a girl of the town, was charged on sus-
picion with stealing a gold watch, Chain, and seals, a gold
eye-glasi, a snuff-box, scent-box, and handkerchief, belong-
ing to Mr. James Ward, of Grove-end-road.
The property has not been found, and the prisoner is
detained.

QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday a gentleman most
fashionably dressed Was placed at the bar, before G. W.
Manutorr, Esq.'charged with having altered a draught
upon a banker, and obtained the sum of 1501.

The gentleman gave his name and address, which in the
present stage of proceedings, it might. nut be proper to

mention.

The circumstances were rather singular, and excited
considerable interest. A number of fashionable gentlemen
of a certain description, well known at the west end of the
town, were in the office.
Mr. Ford, a respectable solicitor of Greet George-street,
Westminster, attended for the prosecution, sad Mr. Isaacs,
for the defence.

William Ford, Esq. of No. 45, Curzon-street, Mayfair,
on the 20th of Nov. last, had occasion to write two draughts
upon his banker, Sir Claude Scott and Co?, one for 1501.,
and the other for 1001. While writing the draught for 1501.
the pen was so bad that he did not finish it, and turned the
sheet of paper on which he was writing, and having got the
pen mended, here-wrote it on the other side, but not on the
back part of the original writing. He then cut off the two
draughts, one for 1601. and the other for 100 L, and gave
them to the respective parties (to a Mr. Dyke). The draught
which was on the other side of the sheet he forgot to
destroy, and left it on the table. The word] " Pay the
bearer one hundred and fifty pounds" were written at full,
and his name signed at the bottom. The letter WM in
the comer, AO attached A.o it were the Plumber' I.iuid 5?

Mr. MARRIOTT—I could perceive that from the first.:
Pray, Mr. Ford, was the prisoner present at the time ?
Mr. Ford—He was.

Mr. MARRIOTT—Did you know him ?,
knew his name and person.
Thomas Pace, an officer of the establishment, state(.,
that on Saturday night Mr. Ford called upon him, and in-
formed him of the circumstances : he apprehended the pri-
soner between 10 and 11 o'clock on the same night, in
King-street, St. James's.
A long conversation now ensued between the solicitors,
about allowing the prisoner to go at large.
Mr. Manniorr said he could not think of any thing of
the kind, and inquired of Mr. Ford whether he was certain
he could produce his witnesses.—Mr. Ford said he did not
know where they lived, with the exception of Mr. Reed ;
but lie had no doubt but they would come forward.—The
prisoner was then remanded.

'—Mr. Furcl—

Sarah Peppiatt, who has been in custody for several
weeks for passing a forged 51. note at Mr. Emery's, .the
landlord ..of the Duke of York, in the Vauxhall-road, was.
brought up fur final examination. The prisoner cohabited
for about three weeks with Nathaniel Peppiatt, who was
committed from this office for passing a forged 5/. 'note. -
Mr. WHITE addressed the prisoner in the most feeling
terms, and said the charge. would not be pressed against.
her, and ordered her to be delivered to her friends, who
wero in attendance, they undertaking that she should bei
forthcoming, if required. .

After she left the office, it was with some difficulty that
the unfortunate girl could he persuaded to go home with
her friends, so infatuated was she to return to her wretched
associates.

UNION-HALL.—Yesterday a Mr. Laurence Keen
was brought up from the Surrey watch-housei where he
had been confined during the night, on a chatgisof attempt-
ing to defraud the driver of the hackney-coach, No. 475,
of his fare. He was bespattered with mud from top to toe.
Mr. CHAMBERS ordered him to pay the fare and ex-
penses, amounting in the whole to 138. ; in default of
which he should be committed to Kingston House of Cor-
rection for 14 days.
Richard' Welch was committed to the House of Correc-
tion for one month for the following offence :—He was in
the habit of stationing himself in the Kent-road, and allur-
ing countrymen and boys to play with him 4 a game
called "the thimble rig," who were invariably cheated.
On searching him, a number of flash notes wer•s found,
which were committed to the flames. It was stated that
he gained from 101. to 12/. a-day by this "rig." •

A most wanton and cruel act was perpe-
trated on Wednesday by two lads named HAWKER and
JONES, who seeing a donkey near the Market-house, Chi-
chester, introduced some quieksilvr, nutshells, &c. into its
ear. The sufferings of the animal were excruciating.__
They were sentenced under Mr. MARTIN'S Act to pay a fine
of 'soa. each, in default of which the latter was 'sent to
prison for six iveeks.—Hants Chronicle.

It is singular that 'Dr. BLOMFIELD, the
Bishop of Chester, was not sparing of his censures even on
his Royal Highness the late Duke of YORK. He took oc-
casion to write to his Royal Highness, in no very measured
terms, remonstrating with him. for proceeding to the
country in his travelling carriage on Sunday. The reply
of his Royal Highness was very dignified and becoming;
and this apostolical and inconsiderate interference, improper
in every sense, as applied to a Prince who devoted the
other days of the week to severe official labours, produced
an effect the direct reverse of that which was contemplated.
--Morning Paper.

At the house of a labouring man in the parish
of Egg Buckland in this county, there are now lying, in
a common-sized bed, two mothers, two sons, one daughter,
one grandmother, one grandson, brother and sister, uncle
and nephew, all of whom (eleven) are comprehended in
four persons. ' The following explanation will make it ap•
pear clear:—The daughter, being married, resided in the
house 9f her parents with her husband, and she and her
mother were brought to bed, each of a son, just at the
same period, a few days since, and in consequence of the
accommodation in the cottage being contracted, the lying-
in-women (the mother and daughter, with their off-
spring) were placed in one bed ; and these four persons
constitute the characters above mentioned.•--Plymouth
Herald.

The number of thefts which have been com-
mitted in Elgin during the preceding six weeks, are, we
believe, unprecedented in
.this place during the same
period of time ; and we are aware of several other depre-
dations of a similar nature, which have also lately taken
place, tliough not generally knoWn. In order to prevent
as far as possible the progress of theft, robbery, and other
similar crimes, we would respectfully suggest to those in
authority the re-establishment of a night police in Elgin
during the winter months. Two active and honest indi-
viduals would be sufficient to patrol the streets, and we
should think that those occupying premises fronting the
High-street, would cheerfully contribute their iota to de-
fray the comparatively trifling expences which such a mea-
sure would necessarily incur. —E/gin Courier.,
AN IMPORTANT LEGAL POINT SETTLED.

—At a meeting of county Magistrates at a Shire-hall of a
town in Suffolk, last week, a most important legal ques-
tion connected with the Game Laws, was for ever set at
rest. The 'discussion arose on the hearing of a charge
against two young men under the sth of Amoc, for beating
a hedge-row with dogs, and throwing a stick at the phea-
sants as they rose from the hedge, with intent to destroy,
or, in common legal parlance to do them some grievous
bodily harm. The evidence proved the beating of the
hedge, and their throwing a stick at a pheasant. The de-
fence made was, that they were hunting for rabbits, having
leave (which was proved) from the landlord for that pur-
pose. The Magistrates, however, of whom seven were pre-
sent, after mature and grave deliberation, were unani-
mously of opinion, that a stick, was not an engine—as
described in the Act, and dismissed the culprits with a suit-
able admonition.

A fine looking boy, 15 years of age, was
charged by his father with attempting to put an end to his
own existence, by means of poison. From the investiga-
tion, it appeared the boy had received, for a long time
back, the most abusive treatnient, from his father, who had
not only been in the habit of striking him most unmerci-
fully, but had frequently turned him out during the night,
and he had been forced, for three or four nights last week,
to sleep in a coal cellar adjoining the house. This treat-
ment had acted upon the boy's spirit (naturally proud, as
appeared from the evidence of some of the neighbours) to
such an extent, that he conceived the idea of destroying
himself, and had procured poison for that purpose,"but was,
prevented by detection, • from carrying his purpose into
effect. The father said that the boy had exposed himself
to correction by bad conduct. A number of the neighbours
gave evidence as to the fact of 'his having been cruelly used
acted under the influence'
ofliawife, who was step-mother to the boy. The Court
straugbl reProbatta,the ocouluo the,parent, and recom-1
by his father, who, it was alleged,
ineuded a cepa:l;4oom Glasgow Chronicle of SAturday,