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London, England, 1827-07-31 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1827.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Jinx 30.
TURNER Y. TURNER.

-• -Mr.. SHADWELL appeared_for the plaintiff. The
snit regarded the children of a Mr. Samuel Turner,
deceased, and their property. The defendant was
the guardian of the children, and executor under Mr.
S. Turner's will. The suit was instituted for the
winding-up of the affairs, and upon its coming on to
a hearing, by consent all matters in dispute were
ordered to be referred.

The COURT dismissed Mr. Shadwell's motion,
and granted Mr. Horne's..

MONTAGU V. SMITH AND OTHERS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR was occupied nearly the
whole of the day in hearing the arguments of Counsel
on a motion for an injunction in this cause. It ap-
peared that the plaintiff had employed a Mr. Peter
Hill several years ago to procure *money for him on
his personal security. In the course of their deal-
ings, the plaintiff had put into the hands of Hill two
bonds of 1,000/. each, on which money was to be
procured. After various transactions between them,
it .was agreed that the plaintiff should give Hill a
bond for 5,0001., in discharge of all monies old se-
&Woes that had at any time been between them,
and that his two bonds should be delivered up to
him to be cancelled. The plaintiff performed his
part of thiS agreement by executing and delivering
the 5,000/. bond, but never received the others. It
appeared afterwards, that the two 1,000/. bonds had
been put by Hill into the hands of a Mr. Pritchard,
whose executor, one of the defendants of this suit,
commenced .an action against Mr. Montagu to re-
cover the amount. The plaintiff then filed his bill
to restrain the proceedings at law, and for an ac-
count. Au injunction was granted, which, uppn
motion before the Vice-Chancellor, was dissolved,
and the present application was, that the injunction
might be revived. The further hearing of the case
was put off till to-morrow (this day.)

city and advertised for auction, an immense stock of
the articles of which he was the manufacturer. On
the day of the sale, he received notice from the
Mayor, that he had no right to sell within the city,
not being a freeman ; but he persisted in the sale, de-
claring he had taken the best advice, and was war-
ranted in so' doing.
In support of the defendant's case, several women
and poor men proved that they bad traded within
the city, although they had not taken up their free-
dom; but, on cross-examination, acknowledged, for
the most part, that they were in indigent circum-
stances, and that the city, after issuing process
against several of them, had foregone further pro-
ceedings from motives of humanity.
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN was clearly of opinion, that
it would be hard indeed, if the clemency and great
forbearance which had been shown by this corpora-
tion to persons in necessitous circumstances, were to
work the annihilation of rights traced'to such ex-
traordinary antiquity.
The Jury found a special verdict :first, that
Oxford was an ancient city, having citizens from
time immemorial ; 2d, that the custom as alleged
in the declaration. was proved, and had been infracted.
The moment the verdict was given, the ball from
one end to the other resounded with the acclama-
tions of the freemen ; and when the result became
known out of doors, the bells were set ringing, and
ribands were seen flying in all directions; and Ox-
ford is now in a complete uproar. It must be re-
membered that it is now vacation time.

The Assize closed this evening at seven o'clock.
Mr. Sergeant PEAKE had previously gone onto open
the Commission at Worcester.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT, OAKHAM, FRIDAY, Jura- 27.
The Assizes for Rutlandshire commenced and
terminated to-day. On the Civil side one cause had
been entered, and that referred by consent to Mr.
Amos, the barrister. On the Crown side there were
two for trial.
John Baynes .was indicted for sheep-stealing.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good charac-
ter. He was found guilty, and sentence of death
was recorded.—The Learned Judge intimated, that
though the prisoner's life might be spared, he should
be sent out of the country for life.
Willianz Smith was indicted for stealing a mare,
the property of John Meadows. The mare, which
was big with foal, was taken from the prosecutor's
field, at Longhorn, between the hours of 6, on the
evening of the 19th of this month, and half-past 6in the
morning of the 20th, on which morning the defend-
ant sold .her to a farmer named Clarke, at Help-
stone, in the county of Northampton, 22 miles dis-
tant. He told Clarke, to whom he gave his real
name and address, that he had been directed by his
father to sell the mare at Stamford fair, but had
been unable to do so. He disposed of her for 71.,
and 8/. worth of straw—The Jury found him Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE ordered sentence of death to
be recorded; and told the prisoner that if his life
were spared, he must expect to be sent out of the
country for life.
As soon as the aboVe trials were over, Mr. Jus-
tice HOLROYD set out upon his way to Lincoln,
where his Lordship will open the commission to-
morrow.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—HUNTINGDON, JULY SO.
The LORD CHIEF BARON took hii seat in the
Crown Court at nine this morning, and after the
usual preliminary business had been gone through,
proceeded to charge the Grand Jury.
The bills against Joshua Slade for the murder of
the Rev. Mr. Waterhouse have been just now sent
up to the Grand Jury. His brother John Slade has
been admitted as a witness for the Crown.

With a view, as it would seem, to prevent the
possibility of Slade's escaping, the Grand Jury have
deferred entering upon the.consideration of the in-
dictment against him until they shall have before
them all the evidence which can possibly be had
upon the subject.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-YORK, Jux.r 28.

This afternoon Mr. Justice Bayley and Mr. Baron
Hullock arrived in this city from Ferrybridge, where
they met in the morning. The Sheriff of the
County, Henry Darley, Esq., and the two Sheriffs
'for the City, 'William Simpson, and James Barber,
Esqrs., with their Under-Sheriffs, and - a vast body.
of attendants, went out to the Dring Houses
about two miles from the city, to meet their
Lordships. On their arrival, they immediately pro-
ceeded to the Castle, where his Majesty's Commis-
sion of Assize for the County was read ; after which,
having gone a short distance in their carriages, agree-
able.to ancient custom, they alighted, and took seats
in the state carriage of the corporation, and proceeded
to the Guildhall, and there opened his Majesty's
commission for the city. The charge will not be
delivered to the Grand Jury until Monday. There
are about 60 prisoners in the calendar for trial,
amongst whom there are two charged with murder :
the one, a father charged with administering poison
to two illegitimate children, by which
.they died;
and the other a charge against a medical professor
for selling poison with intent to procure abortion.
Although the charge is laid in the indictmen,
capitally, it is thought, from the intended effect not
having taken place, that it cannot be maintained, and
that a bill will be presented, charging an offence not
capital.

FEVER.—About a fortnight ago, a fever broke
out among the servants of the Police establish-
ment, which has been productive of serious con-
sequences. One of the officers died on Thurs-
day, and other five are still in a precarious state.
It is conjectured, and with some probability,
that the fever was introduced by one of those
unfortunate girls who reside in, or frequent the
wretched haunts of immorality, dissipation, and
disease. By her it was as a matter of course con-
veyed to Bridewell, and eleven of the prisoners
became infected. They were forthwith conveyed
to the fever hospital in Canongate, and are in a
fair way of recovery. It is to be regretted that
this fever still prevails in different parts of the
old town. A watchmaker and his wife, who re-
sided in Canongate, died of it, and were buried
on Wednesday last.—Scotsman.

MAIL COACH DRIVING.—James Farren
and David Neale, the former the driver, and the
latter the guard of the Kip'gstown mail coach,
appeared before the Magistrate upon a sum-
mons, served upon them at his instance, in con-
sequence of improper conduct in driving the
mail from Dublin to Kingstown. It appeared
that Counsellor Cole, on his way, on Tuesday,
to the_ Rock, and other gentlemen, observed
ParreriAriving the mail in the middle of the
road, at a most furious rate. At the request of
the gentlemen who travelled with him, as well
as from his own sense of his duty to the public,
as a Magistrate, Counsellor Cole very properly
had those men. summoned before him, to ad-
monish them of the danger which would result
from this-practice. After severely reprimanding
the coachman, he inflicted a penalty of ss. on
him---upon giving security for the payment of
whit on the next day, he was discharged.—
Duin Patriot.

THE SPANISH INQUISITION.

(From Colonel Van Hallen's Narrative.)

On the night of the 18th, I again appeared
before the Tribunal. I was made to go through
all the ceremonies 'and formula of swearing, as
on the first occasion. "Do you swear," said
Zorilla, " to have told the truth in all the an-
swers you have given to the Holy Tribunal ?"
" Yes, Sir." "Do you swear, as an aposto-
heal and Roman Catholic, that you have not
concealed from the knowledge of the Holy Tri-
bunal, any person or fact inimical to the Divine
Jr human Majesty " Yes, Sir." "Do you
swear it upon your Catholic conscience ?"
«
Yes, Sir." " Are you sure that you have
nothing ? Do you require more time
to refleat?" " I believe that I have forgotten
nothing, Sir." " Well, then, sign." I had
scarcely laid down the pen, when the two gaolers
approached, and suddenly seizing me, succeeded
in spite of my struggles, in binding my hands
behind my lick with strong leather thongs,
which were wound round my arms from the
elbows to the wrists. The fiscal then rose, and
read a very long remonstrance, in the name of
the Divine Redeemer and of the Holy Tribunal,
and concluded by warning • me, that if in 24
hours I did not make a full and complete avowal.
of all that I concealed, the Holy Tribunal would
declare me guilty of perjury, and proceed in con-
sequence to treat me as I deserved. To this I
replied, that my conscience forbade me to comply
with the desires of .the Tribunal ; that to do
what they required of me would render me guilty,
at the same time, of falsehood and baseness. On
hearing this, the President in a fit of impatience
dashed his snuff-box on the table ; Verdejamade
the sign of the cross, and Zorilla, starting furi-
ously from his. chair, exclaimed, " Ah, what
wickedness ! Well, to-morrow, we shall find a
way to untie your tongue. You have twenty-
four hours to choose between your safety ,and
your ruin. Gaoler, take him away." And
Juanito, pulling me by the end of the thong that
hung from my wrist, took me back to my
dungeon. Marcellino followed us. Seeing that
I was to be left with my arms thus bound, I
asked them to give me some water before. they
locked me up. Marcellino, who always showed
somewhat less inhumanity than his colleagues,
raised the vessel to my lips, and said, in a con-
fused tone of voice, that they were expressly for-
bidden to speak to me. About one o'clock in
the morning, the door of my dungeon opened,
and Zorilla, followed by his worthy satellite,
Juanito, entered. Finding a standing or sitting
position intolerable from the pressure on my
arms, I had thrown myself upon the bed ; they
made me rise, and murmured at my awkwardness
in doing so. I was devoured by a burning thirst ;
for, being deprived of the use of my hands, I had,
in endeavouring to drink, thrown down the vessel
containing the water. The moment I saw my
gaolers, I asked them in, a suppliant voice for
water. They paid no attention to what I said,
but proCeeded to search my person; and after-
wards my bed, bedstead, pillow, and even my
watch. I then again begged for something to
drink, imploring them, in the name of religion,
charity, and all the Ch ristian virtues, of which
the Holy Tribunal talks so much. At length,
Zorilla ordered a pitcher of water to be brought,
and when .Juanito poured some into a bowl, he
said to me, " Drink like the savages of Africa,
since you have no more religion than they have."

[Colonel Van Haiku underwent another ex-
amination the next day, though in an alarming
state of fever. The result was the same as on
the former occasion—denials on his part, and
menaces on the part of the inquisitors. It was
not till some days after that their menaces were
put in execution.]
Between seven and eight o'clock in the even-
ing of the 27th November, Juanito entered my
dungeon, followed by four men, whose faces were
concealed by black veils, that covered their heads,
shoulders, and breasts, in the form of a cowl. 1
was dozing ; the noise awakened me : and when,
by the dim light of the lamp which Juanito held,
I perceived these four phantoms, I remained lb]
some time in doubt if I were not in a dream.
They signified' to me to get up, by pulling the
end of the leather thong that bound my arms,
and without uttering a single word bandaged my
eyes with a leather strap. In this state I was led
from my dungeon to the place of punishment ;
there, upon an order of Zorilla, whose voice I
recognized, my arms were unbound. " Listen
with attention," he said, in a tone of fury, " you
propagator of secret and impious societies—you
who have been deaf to those counsels of peace,
mildness, and religious charity, which the Holy
Tribunal has so often given you. Well, the
Holy Tribunal has at length recourse to force the
secret from you, 0 perfidious enemy of our holy
religion and our Catholic Sovereign—those truths
which neither oaths nor exhortations hare been
able to.obtain from you. It is the cause of our
Divine Redeemer and our Catholic King that
we judge ; we shall not shrink from doing our
duty, Yes, prepare yourself. Yes, the moment
is come. Let justice, truth; and religion, be at
length satisfied." At this moment the four
executioners approached, and, without giving me
time to utter a few words which, the troubled
state of mind I was then in would have allowed
me to pronounce, laid hold of me, raised me up
'several feet from the ground, and plaCed me upon
a kind of crutches, to one of which my right
arm was bound in a vertical position, whilst my
left was stretched out horizontally : my left hand
was then put into an iron glove, very tight at the
wrist, and from which extended two iron bars that
enclosed the. whole length of my arm up to the
shoulder, and prevented me from making the
least movement. My two legs and the middle
of my body were bound in the same manner
as my right arm, to the pillars between
which I was suspended, so that in a little
time all movement but that of respiration was
suppressed. When the Tribunal saw me in this
painful position, they ordered the various charges
accumulated against me to be read. Zorilla, in
a trembling voice that. indicated his thirst of ven-
geance, said, " You have carried on revolution-
ary relations with the Count de Montijo, the
Marquis de Campo Verde, Don Juan O'Do-
noju, and Don Jose Torrijos ; they have written
to you several times—you have answered them ;
you had assented to their plans. Is, not this the
ease ?" I uttered a few words meant to prove
the contrary. " No circumlocution ; yes or no
—is not this the case ?" I persisted in my de-

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nected with a whop!, Oleri%tightened, and
as the movement of die iron bars began to
squeeze my arm, I gradually felt, particularly
from the elbow to the -shoulder, a most inde-
scribable pain. Soon after, all my limbs be-
came convulsed, and a cold perspiration covered
my face. The interrogatory, however, was con-
tinued. " Yes or no—is it not so ? is it not
so ?" until I fainted away, and heard nothing
more than a confused sound of voices. When
I recovered• my senses, I found myself stretched
on the floor of my dungeon, and surrounded by
my executioners, in the midst of whom my en-
feebled sight recognized Zorilla and Juanito.—
During my state of insensibility I had been
heavily ironed. Martyrized as I was, I kept
my teeth firmly dosed upon a corner of the collar
of my coat to prevent myself from giving utter-
ance to those cries which the pain I sufrered
might have forced from me before those odious
beings. Zorilla spoke to me in the most abu-
sive terms, saying that I suffered more from rage
and despair than from anything else. When
they quitted me I dragged myself across the
floor to my bed. The noise of my chains
brought in my executioners at every moment,
and their presence was not the least cruel of my
torments.

Col. Van 'HatHen was not again subjected to
torture ; and, after a captivity of 131 days, he
made his escape by knocking down .Marcellino,
one of his gaolers, and locking him in his
'dungeon.

FAST INDIA COMPANY-FREE TRADE.
IDOLATRY, AND HINDOO MURDERS.

" Whoever is guilty of free trading or free speaking in
India is guilty of the greatest crimes ; while the Company
carry on with impunity their two great monopolies in that
country—one of opium, by which they teach intoxication
to the Malays, Chinese and other nations, and on which
the profits are enormous ; and the other on salt, by which
they deprive the poor Hindoo, who lives chiefly on rice, of
the only little relish he can have, for his food, by making
out of its forced manufacture the most creel and oppressive
process, worse than the flogging of the West India slaves,
a profit of 350 per cent. These two monopolies of salt and
opium—the one for destroying the comforts of the poor,
and the other for corrupting the morals of the rich, added
to the taxes or tribute received by the India Company for
permitting, and even supporting, idolatrous worship and
human Sacrifices throughout India—form, indeed, the chief
sources of the revenue of that country, which comes hOrne
to be divided among—{two thousand gentlemen]—the
Proprietors of India Stock in Leadenhall-street. We think
that while the manufacturers of England are pining in
want of distant markets, and the philanthropists of Eng-
land are desirous of ameliorating the condition of the people
subject to our distant rule, these things deserve considera-
tion : these startling facts we think worthy of attention,
and shall be glad to see them repeated in every journal in
the kingdom, on an authority which we are ready at 'all
times and in all places to maintain and support."—Editor
of the Sphynx.
_ .

A Tax on Pilgrims going to Juggernaut was
originally levied by *the Mogul Government, and
continued under the Mahrattas till. 1803, when
the province of Orissa became an integral part
of the British Empire. The Marquis of Wel-
lesley left the affairs of Juggernaut to the priests ;
it was not till that high-minded and enlightened
Nobleman left the Government in 1806, that
the tax_was revived ; it continues with all its.ap-
palling evils unto this day. The Company re-
ceives the revenues of the Temple the expences
of the table, of the priests, and of the entire para-
phernalia of Juggernaut, are regularly provided
for with a portion of this revenue, the Company
pocketing the 'balance. Well might the natives
ask " why should the Company destroy Jugger-
naut ;he is their servant ?" Why, indeed !
' The pilgrims are divided into four classes, and
the rate of charges with all other regulations are
provided for by the laws of the Bengal Presi-
dency. The period for which the pilgrims are
allowed to stay in the town, the forms of certi-
ficate to be given, &c. &c. are all to be seen in
Mr. Harrington's valuable Analysis of the Laws,
&c. All this may be very well, but the follow-
ing " is too bad,' ----a premium is given to the
pilgrim-hunter, independent of the tax. Colonel
Phipps, lately in command of the station at
Pooree, where the famotts idol temple is situated,
remarks,—" The British authorities collect from
the Pilgrims, and pay the priests and attendants
of the Temple a very high premium for enticing
Hindoos to this frightful pilgrimage. The pre-
mium is about one-fifth of the collections. In
two months of one year (1822), 5,0001. ster-
ling were collected and paid to the attendants of
the temple, who had brought the pilgrims to the
barriers of town." Well done, John Company !
Thou art in truth a faithful master, and Jugger-
naut is thy veritable profitable servant ! Idola-
try is established, regulated and promoted by.
Britain ; its celebrity is increased by the Go-
vernment, and by the services of Europeans in
the conduct of its affairs.

The premium is one of the greatest means of
encouraging and promoting the horrid supersti-
tion. Its effects are now felt so sensibly that
the trade of pilgrim-hunter is pursued much more
systematically than was before known. In 1822,
one man detached to various parts of Bengal
Proper 100 agents, and during the two months
before referred to, be is said to have obtained
the premium for 4000 pilgrims. He now has
100 extra agents for the upper provinces, whom
he is instructing. The regular troops of the
Company guard the barriers at the very gate of
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aorretxhrteitslatdseitnrispte trhs:ativttei foror:
efficient support they receive from their rulev,,
has not been so rapidly increasing as it is now
known
this authority we are indebted to the published
statement of Colonel Phipps, lately in command
of the troops stationed at Juggernaut's temple.
We shall take some subsequent opportunity to
recur to this subject, till we hope to see the Com-
pany shamed out of this disgraceful traffic in
principle and blood.—Manchester Gazette.

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Evening Courant.