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opened it; they did Lot see the blow struck, but
they would prove the condition in which th,zpleiintilt
was, and that the defettdiu't ".(iaS standing on the
other tide O.! the railing, brandishing a stick, uttering
iinprecations, and striking the plaintiff, who, after re-
ceiving some severe blows, did at last, with much
difficulty, get into his own house. While the de..
fendant was thus striking the Oaint4o, he Called out,
Ridley, come oth" Ri'dleY was one of the de-
fendant's wotkinen ; he was probably there, and if
his evidetice Will be of use to the defendant, lie will
have an opportunity of chlli'rt him. The d'r-fetitle.'.t
also called the plaintik a" rascally Quaker,"
and 'told hirn he had been setting a trap fof him,
nd htta caught him at last." Probably the barrier
was built with this view. /The words clearly show
a malicious premeditation on the part of the defend-
ant, who has inflicted upon the plaiatiff a permanent
injury.

John Reid Sicking, the plaintiA66 apprentice, and
Frances Robins, hia maid-servant, opened the door
for their master. The defendant's conduct was very
violent. He struck at the plaintiff froth the adjoin-
ing garden several times with a thick stick, before
he could get into his house. His neckkerchief, waist-
coat, and cloak were covered with blood; the door
rot and stones in front of the door were also all
over blood.- The plaintiff had three of his teeth
broken. They both heard the defendant say—" I
set a trap for you, and have caught Lou at last, you
rascally Quaker,"

John Trotter, a neighbour, heard the defendant
say it was the -- rascally Quaker; he had waited
for him long, and caught him at last. He heard
the defendant say afterwards, " Nichols's gate was
left open, and I nicked him."
Margaret Pickering proved that the barrier fence
was made that day, the 3d of May, and
Thomas Layton, surgeon, proved the injury in-
flicted.

Mr. BROUGHAM spoke in mitigation. He would
not say one word against the excellent society
whereof the plaintiff was a member, fur which he
had the most sincere respect; neither would he say
any thing against the plaintiff, or any of his witnesses.
Still less would he say any thing against the very
handsome girl, Frances Robins, who was called as
an ornament to the case; neither would he himself
call Ridley, who, as there was no proof that any
such person existed, was probably some fictitious
person who owed his existence to his friend's inge-
nious imagination, and not a real man employed by
the plaintiff for the double purpose of building with
in the day-time, and of beating with in the night-
time; but he must observe that there was another
reason than what his friend had mentioned, for the
plaintiff not going into the Criminal Court. In the
Civil Court the plaintiff is heard only by his wit-
nesses : in a criminal case a man tells his own story.
rt was not improbable, that the injury to the teeth
was occasioned by the plaintiff's running against the
door and knocking them against the door-post,
which, it appears, was covered with blood. A blow
inflicted with a stick would not occasion the blood
to spirt, and the way he, Mr. Brougham, had ac-
counted for the injury done to the teeth was the
most probable. It did not follow that the plaintiff
was necessarily a very peaceable quiet man because
he was a Quaker. Some of the Society of Friends
were very choleric; but if this were not the case
with the plaintiff, still the gentle manner-and calm
air in Ndich words might be used in the second
person singular, might be much more irritating and
annoying, without the use of bad language or of
oaths, which, like safety valves, sometimes carry off
a man's ill-humour, than any abuse, however violent
and intemperate it might be:
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 601.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Journal des Debate.)

" LISBON, AUG. I.—The police ordinance, dated
the 28th, prohibited the assembling of more than
eight or ten persons in groups. Immediately on its
being posted up, the assemblages ceased. However,'
the troops still continued under arms, and piquets of
cavalry from 50 to 100 strong, with detachments of
infantry still more numerous, have every night pe-
rambulated the principal streets and squares,without
the slightest reason for such a display of force. A
grand parade was announced for five in the evening,
but it was the same as en the preceding days. The
troops assembled in the Praca do Commercio. The
War Minister, and Count de Villa for, who corn-
mands the armed force, were present with the troops,
and gave three viva: for the Charter, Don Pedro,
and the Princess Regent. The troops repeated
these cries, but trie spectators who had been pre-
vented on the preceding days from shouting viva:,
remained silent. The troops continued during the
night in the square, but the patrols were neither so
strong or so numerous as before.
The guard of the theatre of San Carlos, which
usually consists of 30 men, was yesterday increased
to 150. Notwithstanding this display of force, the
theatre was brilliant. Verses were recited in honour
of Pedro IV., and the ladies in the boxes answered
the viva: for the charter by waving their handker-1
chiefs. The day passed off quietly, but the Intend-
ant of Police, frightened by the first assemblages of
the 24th, has now begun to arrest those citizens
who, from a mistaken patriotism, had joined in the
movement. About 30 were this morning conveyed
to prison. They are all the sons of merchants, or
persons of property. Among them are a Priest and
the Canon Delgado, a Royal Chaplain. It appears
that these arrests will be continued for some days ;
for the police-officer who arrested the two sons of
a draper had in his hand a list of more than twenty
names.

" The arrests of this morning have not, however,
produced the effect that was expected from them.
All the persons in easy circumstances who were ar-
rested sent for coaches, and were accompanied to
prison by their friends, who observed that their
turn would come soon, but that they did not fear
it, and that persecution would not make them aban-
don the Constitution which they had sworn too
defend.

" It was expected here that on the arrival of the
news of General Saldanha's dismissal at Oporto, a
great sensation would be produced in that constitu-
tional city, where the General had won the esteem
of all the inhabitants during the two years he was
governor. In fact, letters of the 29th state, that as
soon as the news was received, more than 6,000
persons assembled, declaring, that the Princess Re-
gent was deceived ; and the same cries were heard
throughout the whole city as at Lisbon. The vo-
lunteers of Pedro IV., the Cacadores of Maria 11.,
and the militia, spontaneously took up arms and as-
sembled in the square. The troops of the line joined
them, and all swore to die in the defence of the
throne of Don Pedro IV. The citizens repaired to
the principal authorities, to request that a represen-
tation from them should be made to the Princess
Regent, whose goodness had been imposed upon.—
It is said that the Governor, the Chancellor, and
the Juiz do Poro, have transmitted the required re-
presentation to the Princess. For some days past
amusements had been preparing for the celebration
of the Charter, but on the arrival of this news every
thing was suspended, and Oporto is in the greatest
consternation.

" Her Royal Highness is still at the waters of
Caldas. For the three last days she has had for
her guard a regiment of English Lancers. The
English troops marched the day before yesterday for
Mafra, whither her Royal Highness will repair as
soon as she shall have taken the waters. The Por-
tuguese Regiments, especially those who made the
campaign against Chaves, see with pain that the
Princess Regent takes English troops for her body
guard.
" Yesterday, 3 prisoners were brought here from
Evora. Their crime is endeavouring to seduce the
sth Regiment of Cavalry', and a detachment of the
20th of the Line, in garrison at Evora. Among
these prisoners are a canon, three monks of the order

of St. Paul, an advocate, and tlwo officers who had
Eceep d the amnesty.
" PARIS, AUGUST 16.—The Augsburg Gazelle
contains what folloWs under the date Odessa, July
17:

" A private letter : from. Constailtlr.iople; elated
.nnr, Jut die contents oi wined we do
not guarantee, states that the Reis Effendi being in-
formed of the sailing of the Russian tleet, .and the
VPfioac.hing.coneltision of a:treaty for the execution
pf the Protocol of the cOnfereneei et Peters.
litogh of the 4th of April, 1826, thus expressed
himself in the presence of an European diplomatist :
Wo.to the Franks of Pera, and particularly the
English, if there exist a treaty for opposing the ope-
rations of the Turkish fleet The report of this
menace is so generally circulated that we can no
longer dottbt
(Prom the eonetautionnel of Thin.s4ay.)

" aSBON, AUG. I.—The English Stearn-packet
kSYtamner, Sailed from the Tagus Oii the 29th ult.for
Fahnouth. Foreign diplomacy had a powerful in-
terest in deadening the blow which the reading the
Government Journal, written under the eye of the
existing Ministry, and under the inspection of a se-
vere censorship, have produced in London. A
serious forgery of the name of the Princess Regent
has not been regarded as culpable, and the act of de-
privation was published in the evening of Saturday,
the ?,Bth, in a supplement of the same Gazette—a
supplement which has astonished the whole world.
" SUNDAY, JULY 29.—The indignation of the
public against Count da Ponte, the self-appointed
director, who thought it his duty to commeileehis

new career by a measure of force and violence, with-

out reflecting that in attempting to ape certain
strokes of state policy, he ought to have sufficient
tact to discern the differences of times, places, and
circumstances, as being universal. The first results
of his false step are already known. "ought, how-
ever, to add once more, that at the moment of the
attack, the militia or troops of the second line were
going to joirk the commercial guard. The first mus-
ket shot would have been the signal of the greatest
disasters.

Every thing, however, has remained tranquil,
and public order has not been disturbed. The
troops remain drawn up in battie array in the great
square of Commerce.
" On the evening of the same day, this Minister,
and the General Count de Villa Flor, placed them-
selves on horseback at the head of the troops, and
made for the first time a tardy concession to the
prevailing opinion, in crying themselves, in a loud
voice, and in making the soldiers cry, " Long live
Don Pedro IV., long live the Charter."
" These unseasonable acclamations were received
with a mournful silence and a frozen apathy by the
people.

"In an hour and a half afterwards this very peo-
ple divided into small groups of nine or ten persons
at some distance from each other, conformably to the
last order of the Police, which forbids the assem-
blage of more than ten persons together, repeated, in
the presence of the troop which had Da Ponte and
Villa for at its head, with enthusiasm, during
more than a quarter of an hour, in the midst of the
most deafening applause, the usual patriotic accla-
mations, laying particular emphasis on the cry of
" Long live the great Saldanha in his retirement."
" The troop remained immovable at the moment
that their chiefs received this severe lesson.
" The same groups, still divided into tens, after-
wards quietly paraded through several streets; and
some of the patrols of the troops of the line repeated
the same vivas. Every thing has been quiet since.
There were remarked, on this occasion, many satiri-
cal and witty strokes which evinced the poetic ima-
ginations of the fellow-countrymen of the illustrious
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Cam cen s.

" MONDAY, JULY 30.—The soldiers are fatigued,
and their horses are exhausted, under the excessive
heat which prevails, and to no purpose. Every
thing has continued calm; and this vain display of
force evinces only a puerile ostentation, for really
there is nothing to fear. _ _

" The official Gazette of the same clay publiskeo
—lst, the contract respecting the'•hrin -Ut 2,A0,0
contos of reis,* which the Bank of Lisbon has un-
dertaken to make up the loan of 4,000 contos, which
was ordered to be raised by a decree of the Cortes.
" This treaty bears the signature of Saldanha,
and was agreed to by him, and applied to the-pay
and other expenses of the army. 2dly—The decree
which appoints the Count de Villa Flor commander
ad interim of the armed force at Lisbon. He is
authorised to dispose freely of this force, without
zoly dependance on the Governor-General Count de
Sampayo, and will only be obliged to transmit his
reports through him to the Regent. By this de-
cree a cruel injury is done to the Nestor of the Por-
tuguese army, a member of the Chamber of Depu-
ties. Deprived of the disposal of the troops, this
excellent citizen will be only a manikin of a Gover-
uor—a sort of head of the Post-office to receive and
transmit the despatches of the General Villa Flor.
" This latter has already lost much in public esti-
mation by the single circumstance of his acceptance
of a mission directed evidently against General Sal-
danha, his old comrade and acquaintance. Certain
rules of social life are not violated with impunity;
for a high sense of feeling would point out the duty
of leaving this delicate task to persons who had not
to observe the same nicety. M. de Villa Fler did
not seem to consider, that in accepting that office
he served the purpose of a political hypocrisy and
Machiavelism which would be happy to destroy in
his person a great constitutional, support. The very
great readiness which he afterwards evinced to exe-
cute this mission, has caused him to lose, in the
opinion of the country, all the merit of his late cam-
paign against the rebels.
" The 3d article published in the Gazette is a
circular on the events of the day, drawn up by Count
da Ponte, and addressed to the Military Governors
of the provinces. This Count is cousin-german to
General Saldanha. The public is indignant at the
insolent tone in which he speaks of a man who had
re-organized the army, secured its due payment, and
advised the Regent to convoke the Extraordinary
Cortes, according to the decrees of the King
and the wish of the nation. Although the order
for the dismissal of General Saldanha from the
Ministry has not yet been published, his cousin does
not think it necessary to give him even the title of
General, and his circular commences thus John
Charles Saldanha Oliveira having gone out of the
Ministry, her Royal Highness the Infanta Regent
has appointed me in his place, thus exercising the
right which the Charter gives her in article 74,
sect. 5, respecting the free appointment of her Mini-
sters,' &e. &c.
• " This characteristic trait recalls the remark made
by a man of genius speaking of the elements of society.
He said,' Democracy may be furious, but it has com-
passion ; it may be appeased. But aristocracy is
ever frigid : it never forgtvec,' &c.
"Bet to proceed. M. da Ponte does not consider
that in insulting General Saldanha, he greatly.
strengthens those local and fcreign intrigues, whose
'only end is to divide and weaken the nation, and to
prevent that powerful organization, which would
probably dispense with a humiliating and burdensome
protection. Besides, it was thought that M. da
Ponte had his place marked in the Cabinet, and that
he ought not to have accompanied the Count Villa
Flor•when lie wished to charge the people.
" TUESDAY, J&JLY 31.—Every thing had been ar-
ranged by the ex-Minister Saldanha, to celebrate with
great pomp the Anniversary of the taking the oath
to the Constitution. The new Minister has yield-
ed to the force of public opinion. The arrangements
not having been countermanded, salvos of artillery
at sun-rise, from the tower of Belem, and repeated
from the forts and the ships of the Portuguese and
English squadrons in the Tagus, announced the
festival of the day to the inhabitants of the capital.
At seven in the evening the Portuguese troops were
paraded in the Place du Commerce. The Counts
da Ponte and Villa Flor mingled their acclamations
with the patriotic vivas of the soldiers, who re-
* A conto reis is about 6,000 francs.