The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-07 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.) COURT•MARTIAL UPON CAPT. DICKEN-

FROM LLOYD'S.
DEAL, SEPT. s.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the
Ajax, Sims, from St. John's; Druid, Freedwell,
from Montserrat. Arrived from London, the Mary
Ann, Hiskers, for Barbadoes; and Tom BowliPs
Beuston, for Malta.
SEPT, W.--Arrived the Sappho,
Holmes, from Sierra Leone; British Sovereign,
Thompson, from Quebec; and L'Union, Therese,
from Nice.'
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 5 and 6.—Wind W.S.W.
-7-Arrived the Woodbury, from New Orleans; and
his Majesty's ship Druid, from Vera Cruz, &c.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 4 and s.—Wind S.S.W.—
Sailed the London, Pratt, for Rio Janeiro; his Ma-
Jesty's ketch Vigilant, for Lisbon ; Pigeon packet,
for the Mediterranean; Princess Elizabeth packet,
for Brazils ; Swallow packet, for Jamaica ; and
Opossum packet, for Halifax.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. s.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived
the Lyra, May, from St. John's.
CORK, SEPT. 4.—Arrived the Daniel, Dock-yard
lighter, from Plymouth.
LANCASTER, SEPT. s.—Arrived the Eleanor,
Hathaway, from Jamaica.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. s.—Arrived tha Superior
Thompson, from Savannah ; Cornwallis, Baines, and
Henry Grant, from Quebec; Ceres, Miller, from
Richebucto; Hope, Roberts, from Miramichi ; and
Perseverance, Tonge, from St. John's.
COWES, SEPT. s.—Arrived the Calcutta, Molin,
from Batavia; Quebec packet, Carr, from Bahia;
Margaret, Mackinson, from Havatina'h ; and Wood-
berry, —, from New Orleans.
.GUERNSEY, SEPT. s..—Arrived the Albion, Le-
chminant, from Rio Janeiro.
GREENOCK, SEPT. 4.—Arrived the Richard,
Brown, from Grenada; and Olive, Hawkins, Alex-
ander, I3ailie, from Virginia.
DUBLIN, SEPT. 4.—Arrived the James, Laas,
from St. John's, N. B.; and Coquette, Hirst, from
St. Lucia.

The Recovery, Patterson, from Trinidad to Lon
don, was abandoned at sea the 28th ult., having 1]
feet water in her hold, and soon after sunk.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).

CORN-EXCHANGE.
There Was a large supply again of foreign Wheat and
Oats last week, and a moderate arrival of English Grain
and Flour. This morning the fresh supply of most kinds
of Corn is small. The sales of good dry Wheat, both
Old and New, have been more free than on Friday last,
the best samples are Is. to 2s. and damp parcels 4s. per
quarter cheaper than ma this day se'nnight, with a very
dull trade for the latter. Barley continues without va-
riation. Beans are not so plentiful as of late, and they
fully maintain la.t quotations. Pease of both descriptions
are unaltered. Oats are quoted the same as on this day
Neinight, with a very slack trade, except for prime par-
s. The The Flour trade is very heavy, at last week's rates.
R‘:,feed is scarce, and rather dearer, being quoted from
-"" to 33/. per last.

PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP.
............_Wheat,
~..Re.d.(01d)
...._ -...:Zrh_it,e (old) s4s. 78s.
5........_ Red 0829) ... 50s. 545. - Tick (new)....-s -s.
........___---- Fine
55.....j......--z,,uperfine.. 665. 70s. - Harrow (new)-s. -5.
.........___ white (1829). 545. 655.
.................--
Superfine
ne 6Bs. 725. Brank 225. 245.
--............ Nlperfine.. 745. 78s. Oats, Feed 15s. 255.
Ily. . Foreign free 48s. 808. New
Bark; . : .................... 30s. 345. - Poland 16s 28s.
New --s. -s.
.."----" Inc ..............
:2ige.. 325.. Potatoe 225. 28s.
m.„
.. Superfine
.....1.1.-` 5v..n..................... 48s. 565. - Scotch 29s. 345.
Pe,e:l j I
60.. 64e. Irish l4s. 18s 265.
re 'l6s. . Flour Town (per sack) 60a 655.
.....___ '..."- Ma 40s. 425. Seconds 50s 56s
- WhPitee
325. 345. - North Country 465. 555.
.....--- Boil
-_____ ers 365. 335. Bran

4!tRIVALs OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK.
5 T F Pi F '
f '
From Whence. 2 i,-,• r • p l" v
r ':'
Qrs. Qrr. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks.
Aldhorough 277 5 12 36
ut
Metnoh 184
fk4tang on . .
'''''' .. .-. - -- 1017 -- -- 200
liriiOn --
--
350
ti Loalrcwhieseitier :: 44
113300 2,774 17 IN 22
12,.T?
gi2
Leigh - - 121 320 --
Maldon . "
bainsborough - 810
Hull
'synch 249 517 2154 )00 19 445
65
Inneat .. 587 9 228 20 130 336 957
Yrin .•., •...••.•• - 1055 39 100
hw.oici ..... 65 4
._ _. _.. 11
:4::::nridge 241 6°
20
/414h.ael
::, -3: -3-6 446
Monh
rtAberdeel ... ...
_69
_— _ 20
ervrek '••••
IjUn4o -
--
--
1117
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--
50
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wig 2720 5208 3634 912 1548 7366
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WaterfoZ ..
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80
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1®
A _ FOREIGN.
j.l.Changei .. 3315 23675 350
c'rene
o
vorso. Penhagen ' 990 1 =
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bantzic . ~,: -
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irklsarald ...
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„alnburg... - __ __ _- -- --
131Abeck 210 90
„obi
sbe - 780 --
Nte4 rg - -- :: :: ::
1,,,,4 urgh -
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1iii,511...... -
qto l6O 385
leriii3o,
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Total 20563 6355 391 a 2602
--.
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435
14-12 1988 1-466
.

160
350
=
20563 6355 1 391
QUANTITY OF OTH
o—Linseed, 10677-1
Mustard, 627—Set

Total ,
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SMITHFIELD MARKET.
ply At this day's market, which exhibited the largest sup-
for that of a Bartholomew Fair Monday for many
;are, the trade throughout was very dull, with Veal, at a
1131.740 n of from 2d. to 4d. per stone •; with Beef, Mut-
ha•arnb, and Pork, at barely
to Friday's prices. We be-
ei. the stock, on the whole, have been of fair average
1444', but the Beasts were so huddled together, owing
tc, Pace occupied by the Fair, it was impossible to ascer-
' pitt:hether any of them merited particular notice.
lets PEP. STONE OF SIAS. TO SINK THE OFFALS.
s. d..to 4. d. s. d. to s. d.
'etotr Beasts O2 2 Large Lambs 32 0 0
P;iireaguaalV ditto 2 8 Erarimeosoamarsoll datiov.e ;2 8
10
10 4 0 Prime small ditto 310 4 4
Evenruf mice!) 2 4 2 8 ' Large Hogs 2
otricylallty ditto 210 3 4 Small. P rkers
W°olledditto 310 4 0 Suckling Calves 123 to4Bs. each
-awnWethers 4 0 4 4 Quarter old Pigs 12s to 16s. each.

team surrLy, AS rEL STATEMENT.
2,74,Z• 'Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. rigs.
1 25,310 210 I 200
461:63,1t 200,
!'n
200 of the beasts cae up the different North
40 from
kent ".,.uffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ; about 12 frorn
ip the Sussex • and most of the remainder from the marshes,
neighbourhood of London.
lit 1,,
" GATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS.
Bee At per stone, by the Carcass.
Slul, .
a. d. to s. d. s. d. tog. d.
............... 2 2 3 8 Veal
" .....
. 6 310 Pork
... ...... 4s. Od. to ss. Od

lit u,„, , it. —ASTLE-UPON.TYNE MARKET.—Sept. 5.
',-)r ti- heather since last Monday having been favourable
414,ke't harvest we had several samples of New Wheat at
"tild ht°-day, the quality very various, but better than
'l4krte 4Ve been expected, and sold from 525. to 808. per
(If)irl r ; Old 'Wheat was without change, and very little
414,1%4 granaried parcels. Some New Oats were also at
tl.lkt tt; and sold at from 225. to 265. per quarter, but
1
'"lrle,„aci,„e generally dull. Fine Malt in fair demand.
(hlire;i) -"elms, and Pease, as our last. Fresh Rye in-
Ikh after. Flour dull sale.
...s, N. Northumberland
New. Old.
--..,......-1::: No'rthumberland —s. —s.
, kerfujk and Sullblk 78s. 84s.
ty\. b, rwlek and Scotch —s. —s.
`‹. Norn ag.
likt,,,'i'g'K and SutiolK —s. —s.
—s —s. 32s. 365.
eil;':. 114 ting, Norfolk and Suftblk -2:. --ss. 32s.s 31s.
t ,r, .
t,,,... log and Feet-1111g
~...,11 s .o.k and Suftitlk —a. —s.
Po' 4,a1l
-*te Tick —s. —a.
—s.
04 zyhite .................................. zss.
34:. s
ta, .koray
.. • •
. ............ ...—s. —5.
w
—s. —5. —s.
'thl-trn"be"r.l ...n.71 ..
.............. —s. —s.
tore. Feed —s —s. 2Bs. 295.
s ktillien
(per sack) _, ....„, s3s 565.
114;-- - -----

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sox eh
' d-Y their respective families, between LordilloN-
.'" 4AthA- aikriina, the b'autiful daughter of Lady
Court Journal.

SON, R. N.

PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY-TENTH DAY.

At the meeting of the Court at nine o'clock this
morning, Mr. Andrews sent a message to the Pres:-
dent, that he was desirous of saying q few words,
in consequence of something which he wished to ex-
plain in his evidence of yesterday. He had under-
stood that he was supposed to be implicated in the
ship's company's letter, of which he had already said
he knew nothing, except what he had mentioned.
His reason for troubling the Court was, that he had
understood yesterday it had been intimated that
Commander Dickenson and the crew of the Genoa
did not get up this letter (the round robin), but
somebody did ; and he understood his name had
been used as that of a person likely to give farther
information upon it. " I have already," continued
Mr. Andrews emphatically, " declared that I know
nothing about its origin. I have been 34 years in
the service, arid I hope I know better than to be
engaged in such an act, and when Captain Dickenson
mentioned it, I expressed my opinion upon it."
The PRESIDENT.-Mr. Andrews, we have not
the slightest reason to suppose you were concerned
in getting up that paper; and if we even had thought
you were involved, your evidence of yesterday, in
which you stated that you had endeavoured to dis-
suade the Captain from presenting it, would have
completely effaced such an impression.
Sir ROBERT OTWAY repeated the same opinion.

The JUDGE,ADVOCATE.---I am bound to say, tha,
Sir Edward Codrington had not the least idea that
Mr. Andrews had any concern in getting it up.
The following interrogotaries were then put to
Mr. Andrews :
Did you know at the time you were apprized of
this letter, that any body had been appointed, or
was about to be appointed, to the command of the
Genoa ?—I did not.
Had you heard any rumour or conjecture of such
nomination ?—I had not. In fact, this occurrence,
as well as I remember, took place only two days
after our arrival in Malta.
JAMES COLLIER was then called to speak con-
cerning the round robin.
What situation did you fill on board the Genoa on
the 20th of October, 1827, and subsequently?—
Boatswain's mate.

Can you read ?—No, Sir.
State to the Court what you know of this round
robin ?—A letter was requested to be written by
the petty officers and ship's company at large to the
Vice-Admiral, requesting )aim to keep Capt. Dick-
enson as commander.

If you know who wrote that letter, name him ?
I cannot exactly state who did, nor did I hear it
read on board, though I knew it had been, and I
saw the letter myself at the time it was agreed to on
the lower deck, before James Burgess, the captain
of the forecastle. The letter in Court was very like
what I saw on board when 100 or 200 of the ship's
crew were present, or more, attending to it.
The PRESIDENT—Do you know what it was that

led the ship's company to do this Being used to
Captain Dickenson, we did not like to have a strange
commander; we preferred to have him.
Sir R. OTWAF—Do you know by any means
whether Captain Dickenson, or any of the ward-
room (I don't mean petty) officers,had any thing to
do in getting up that letter ?—No, Sir; none.
Captain INGLEFIELD—You are quite confident of
that, are you ?—I am, Sir.
The PRESIDENT—Where were you stationed in
the action ?—Third gun from the mast on the main
deck.

Had you hot work of it ?—Yes, we had.
From what ship were you engaged most 2—The
Turkish line-of-battle ship.
For how long ? —lt might be four hours, I think.
Do you know whether your gun was at any time
pointed at any thing else than that Turkish ship ?
No, Sir, we always fired at her. I was captain of
,t_

_
he gun.
Had you to train it much to fire at her ?—Some-

times we were about half a point forward.
At what part of the ship which was so near you
did you point your gun ?—Between wind and water.
Were you lying head and stern ?—Yes.
Could you see her bowsprit ?—Yes, and it was
nearly in a line with my gun.
Sir H. BLACK wooD—Does it come within your
own knowledge that all or a great portion of your
starboard guns were fired during the time you speak
upon your opponent ?—Yes, Sir.
Did the ship vary her position much ?—About
half a point, I should think.

Do you know whether springs were made use of
and how often ?—Yes, Sir, once I can speak to.
Were the stern guns on the main deck fired ?
Yes, from the larboard stern port.
Do you know that at any period during the action
any and what number of guns were fired on the
larboard side ?—None that I know of; but they
might.
Did you see the object on which the larboard stern
gun was fired ?—To the best of my recollection it
was at a double-banked frigate. I saw that myself.
Could you see the Asia out of that stern port ?
Yes, Sir, by looking two points on the starboard-
quarter, I think. _

_
Did you see a schooner or cutter lying near her
or astern ?—No.

Was that double-banked frigate a cable's length
from you ? Two lengths I think, I can't be positive.
Captain SCIiOMBERG-I ask you, as a seaman, was
the Genoa placed advantageously to bring her broad-
side to bear upon her opponent during the action ?
Yes, Sir.

Captain MUNDY—CouId the stern gun have been
Pointed to the Asia, if you had wished it ? I can't
say, Sir.

-Captain ELLIOTT—Was your opponent (the
Turkish line-of-battle-ship) ever two points abaft
your beam ? No, Sir, never, I think, above half a
point.
How often could you see your opponent so as to
take aim ? I believe about every quarter of an hour,
or 20 minutes.

Could you at that time see the whole of the
ship, or only a part of her ?—Sometimes part, some-
times the whole.
Did you ever see the Albion during the action ?
No, Sir.

Were you ordered to point your guns at the water
line ?—Yes.
With what shot ?—Always round shot, sometimes
double, sometimes single.
The PRESIDENT—Were they constantly firing
during the whole of the action, I mean your gun ?
—Yes, Sir.

Capt. INGLEFIELD—Was the Genoa raked at any
time of the action, and if so, by what ship ?-1 can-
not say; no shot came in at my quarters in a raking
direction. There were several shot next day on our
side.

Were any men killed or wounded at your
quarters ?--None at my gun.
Capt. GORDON—Are you sure that the starboard
stern gun was ever fired during th© action ?—I can-
not say.

Was it out at the stern port ?—Yes, Sir.
Was that done before you went into action ?
Going in.
At what time of the action was the spring used,
was it early or late ?—About two hours after we
began, I think.

Can you particularize any person, either officer or
man, seen by you, hauling on the springs ?—I saw
Captain Dickenson himself.
Did you see the Turkish line-of-battle-ship out of
your port ?—Yes.
Was she before or abaft the beam ?—Abaft a

little; she sprung, I think,:bo;; half a point.
In answer to some questions from Capt. Mundy,
he said he had been 16 years in the King's service,
but bad never been in action before. When he
mentioned hot work at his gun, what he meant was,
the labour of pointing the gun, and the fire of the
enemy.
Captain MUNDY—But if nobody was hurt at
your gun, your hot work must have been from mere

manual labour.--The Turkish ship of the line some-
times ceased firing for about 20 minutes.
The PRESIDENT—Its what part of the ship was
the greater number of the Genoa's men killed ?--
About the main hatchway.
Cross-examined by Captain DICKENSON—At this
distant period, can you recollect whether I was on
board the Asia a slim t time after the battle ceased ?
I cannot say.
Captain MORRIS, who was a Lieutenant of the
Genoa at the battle of Navarin, said he was then
quartered at the eight foremost guns of the main-
deck,andconsidered their opponent to be the Turkish
74, upon which they had brought their guns to bear
immediately after the action began, chiefly upon her
hull midships. They could bring the guns near his
quarters to bear upon their opponent by training, ex-
c, pt the three foremost. The Genoa's position was
first taken without using springs, although he heard
they were used afterwards. She anchored in a pa-
rallel line with her opponent. He was on the main-
deck when the ship anchored, but he bad been on
the upper deck previous to her firing. The Turkish
frigate was lying broadside out when they went in.
He had received and given directions to the men to
avoid firing near the Albion, towards the latter part
of the action. There were, at the 7th and Bth gun
of his quarters, nearly all the men killed and wound-
ed by the shot of their opponent, as well as he could
judge. They must have been in action with that.
Turkish 74 about three hours and a half, or four
hours. At this distance, it was impossible for him
to speak upon details with minute accuracy.
Captain CURZON was called, and at the same time
a basket, containing several 321 h. British shot, was
brought into Court, marked with the King's mark,
as was said. When this shot was examined, no-
body could, however, prove it to be British ; and
Sir H. BLACKWOOD said, even if it were, it would
not bear on this case, for the Turkish ships had
shots of all nations.

PRESIDENT—HOW long was the Asia in action
with the Capitana Bey's ship ?—I cannot possibly
tell exactly.
Were you two hours ?—No, I think not one ; she
was silenced soon : and had not a gun out of her
board, or a man to be seen on her decks, before she
drifted.

How many broadsides did she fire at the Asia?—
It is difficult for me to say, but I do not think she
loaded her guns three times.
How long was the Asia in action with the ship
of Moharem Bey ?—Moharem Bey's cables were
either cut or shot away in less than tee minutes, and
she drifted away out of our fire. I think we gave
her only two broadsides.
After the first ten minutes, what fire did you
keep up ?—I cannot exactly say.
Cross-examined by Captain DICKENSON—Did the
Capitana Bey's ship strike her colours when she
went adrift ?—She did not.

Did Moharem Bey's, or any of the Turkish ships ?
—I saw none of them strike their colours. On the
next morning the Turkish ships had both French
and English colours up.
How long did the Genoa fire after the Asia had
ceased ?—I have really no precise recollection, for I
was sent on board the Trident to stop her fire.
Sir Edward Codrington here seat in a note to
the Court, stating that he wished to explain the pro-
motion he made after the death of Captain Bathurst,
and was introduced for this purpose. He said—
" Thinking that I had left an impression on the
Com t yesterday, that I had promoted Captain Irby
to the vacancy caused by Captain Bathurst's death,
in the Genoa, I beg leave to explain, that I gave
that vacancy to Captain Davis, then commander of
the Rose, by the concurrent testimony, I may say,
of the whole Allied fleet, as to his extraordinary
merits and superior claims; and I made known to
him, and generally to the officers who came on
board the Asia, that such was my decision on the
21st, before Captain Davis left the fleet with the
despatches; and I will add, that if times had been
chivalrous, and I had had chivalrous power, I should
hare knighted him on the field of battle, such was
my admiration of his conduct. My reason for send-
ing him off immediately with despatches to Smyrna
was this—Admiral de Rigny, on quitting Smyrna
the first time after receiving the treaty and the in-
structions of the 6th of July, 1827, concerted a pri-
vate signal between him and the French Consul for
the information of the other Consuls, resident at
Smyrna, in case of any collision taking place be-
tween the Allied and Ottoman fleets ; and also for
the protection of the Franks in the Turkish do-
minions, by enabling the British Consul to commu-
nicate rapidly with the British Ambassador at Con-
stantinople, in the event of any re-action by the
Turks.

After some mere formal evidence was adduced,
the Judge-Advocate announced that he had closed
the case for the prosecution.
The Court was then cleared for an hour; and,
upon the re-admission of strangers, the President
informed Captain Dickenson that the prosecution
was closed, and he was now called upon for his
defence.

Captain DICKENSON—I would, if allowed that in-
dulgence by the Court, solicit until Wednesday or
Thursday next for that purpose, promising the Court
that my defence shall be as short as possible under
the circumstances.

The PRESIDENT—We rely upon your making it
as short as you can.
Sir H. BLACKWOOD—YOU had better take at
once the time you think you shall require.
Captain DICKENSON—Then on Thursday I shall
certainly be ready; but should my defence Toe pre-
pared sooner, I will notify it to the Court, as I am
aware they must meet daily.
The PRESIDENT—Yes ; the Court can only ad-
journ from day to day. We shall adjourn now till
ten o'clock on Monday morning.
Mr. Minchin, the solicitor for the defendant, pro-
mised that not a moment should be lost in com-
pleting the arrangements for the defence.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 5.
The Court-martial on Captain Dickenson still
continues to engross attention, and to excite very
considerable interest, which has rather increased than
diminished as the business has advanced towards a
termination. The evidence for the prosecution
closed to-day, and the Court have granted Cap-
tain Dickenson the intervening days to Thursday to
prepare his defence. It is evident that the trial has
occasioned a strong sensation, and given birth to
a variety of feelings and opinions, which, with the
extraordinary circumstances of the case, must render
the event a kind of epoch in our naval history. All
parties appear to be placed in a difficult and painful
situation, arising from a complication of causes
which it is impossible wholly to develop; and if ever
there was a case calculated to show the necessity of
abridging the limit of time for bringing accusations
to trial, the present instance has established it,
evincing, as it does, how imperfectly facts are re-
membered beyond a period even shorter than that
which our naval code has appointed as a term of li-
mitation to prosecutions. By the narrative of Sir
Edward Codrington with the Admiralty, which he
gave to the Court, we have an insight into the ori-
gin of this remarkable trial, and little is now want-
ing to make the history complete. The narrative
brought the correspondence down to the letter of
information dated the 17th of July, 1829, which the
Vice-Admiral has emphatically said at the table of
the court, he placed before the Admiralty for their
Lordships to consider, and out of which they might
extract such charges, as they had witnesses to de-
pose to, and not as itself a charge, upon which Cap-
tain Dickenson ought to be arraigned. He has also
complained that his statement so given in deference
to the Board, who had decided on a trial which he
had relinquished, has been put before the Court
without the other letters, which would show that
the line he has adopted has been forced upen him.
He quoted on one occasion from Mr. Croker's letter,
certain expressions confirming the impossibility of his
acting otherwise than he had done under circum-
stances, such as, " you have brought charges—it is
incumbent on you to prove your said charges---and

I am desired to ask if you are ready to proceed to
the trial," and so forth. The refusal of the Court
to receive these letters has led the Vice-Admiral tai
show the whole correspondence freely amoHg
professional friends, who, to do them justice, wt.
must say, follow his example of being pretty com-
municative; arid .we have therefore learned that the
remainder of Mr. Croker's letters not gone into on
Friday, arid which the Vice-Admiral referred to in
an early stage of the proceedings, as material in
elucidation of the one letter from him which was
read to the Court by the Deputy Judge Advocate,
upon the point of his own position, exhibits strong
proofs of the first order for trial having been given
►n hostility to him. We have caught the following
expressions—" Sir Edward Codrington not having
asked for a Court Martial, could not, of course, be
held bound to undertake the distinct character of
prosecutor; but as charges were made by Sir Ed-
ward Codrington which their Lordships considered
required investigation at a Court Martial, it was in-
cumbent on him to establish the truth of the charges
advanced."—lt was for Sir Edward Codrington to
take measures with the Judge Advocate to substan-
tiate the charges or, if he declined so doing, their
Lordships would consider themselves at liberty to
view Captain Dickenson's conduct as free from all
imputation," &c. " Sir Edward Codrington was to
state if he were willing that the trial should proceed"
" And that if Sir Edward Codrington did not ap-
pear willing for the trial to go on as before under-
stood, the Admiralty had no alternative but to con-
sider Captain Dickenson free from all imputation."
These extracts, as coming from the Admiralty's
Secretary, did not deter the Vice-Admiral from
moving steadily onward in the course he had chalked
out for himself.

Mr. GEORGE DAWE, R.A., who has recently
arrived in this country from Warsaw, where he had been
engaged in painting the Emperor and Empress of RUSSIA
as King and Queen of Poland, and also the Grand Duke
CONSTANTINE, went to the Royal Lodge, in Windsor-
park, yesterday, by command of the KING, for the pur-
pose of showing his MAJESTY portraits of the King of
PRUSSIA, the Duke of CUMBERLAND, and other works
executed since his last visit to this country. His MA-
JESTY was graciously pleased to express his approbation
of them, and honoured Mr. DAWE with some flattering
commissions. The Earl of ABERDEEN arrived at the
Royal Lodge on Saturday evening from town, on a visit
to the KING.
The Earl of ROSSLYN visited the Earl of
ABERDEEN on Saturday.
Earl FIT-WILLIAM arrived at Wentworth
House on Saturday last from Ireland. His Lordship had
a very rough passage to Holyhead, the voyage occupying
fourteen instead of six hours. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE
passed through this town yesterday, on his way from Bol-
ton Abbey to Chatsworth, where he will remain until
Doncaster Races.—Sheffield Courant.

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT came from Twicken-
ham on Wednesday, to dine with the Duke and Duchess
of ST. ALBANS, at their house in Piccadilly. The Duchess
has engaged a house at Brighton, where she will remain
during the autumn and part of the winter. Sir FRANCIS
BURDETT has likewise hired a residence at Brighton, for
himself and family, to which they will retire when the
period is up for which he engaged the villa of Archdeacon
CAMBRIDGE, in Twickenham Meadows.

The Duke of RICHMOND, Lord MOUNT*
CHARLES, and Lord FIFE, are reported to have interested
themselves in the restoration of the performances at Co-
vent Garden Theatre, and if their efforts be seconded by
the opulent amateurs of the drama, and the play-goiag
public generally, and a commensurate sacrifice be nude in
their salaries by the principal actors, there is no doubt of a
successful issue.

ENGLISH OPERA• HOUSE.--A new pleasant
interlude, entitled Sold for a Song, was produced here on
Saturday evening. The title of the piece is derived from
the strange fancy of Count Cremona (Mr. J. RUSSELL),
who is afflicted with such a love of harmony, as induces
him to determine that the hand of his niece, diddle (Miss
CAwsE) shall only be awarded to him whose vocal powers
are of the finest order. The interlude was received with
the utmost satisfaction by a crowded house.

Bolton Abbey, in Yorkshire, has become the
favourite residence of the Duke of DEVONSHIRE during
the autumn of the year. At Christmas the princely Palace
of Chatsworth enables his Grace to entertain large parties,
and in the spring, the Villa of Chiswick, and the dinners,
balls, and routs at Devonshire House fill up the measure
of his Grace's hospitality.

MICHAEL TOLL has been lodged in our
county jail, having been committed by Mr. HALLEN, Co-
roner, on a charge of causing the death of ANNE COOK,
by pushing her into a coal-pit, at Lye-on-the-Waste, near
Stourbridge. The parties were seen sitting near the pit
on Monday se'nnight. The body was found on Friday.—
Worcester Journal.

NEW POLICE.---.lt has been determined that

the policemen are not to wear swords in the day time.
These weapons, however, will be kept at the different
stations, to be supplied, if necessary. Deputations from
several parishes in London and its vicinity have, we un-
derstand, waited upon the Commissioners of the New
Police during the last week, to urge the adoption of the
new system in their several districts.— Observer.

MANCHESTER, SATURDAY EVENING.--
An attack was this afternoon made upon the Knobsticks
in the employment of Messrs. SANDroan and GREEN, by
a large body of turn-out spinners. The Knobsticks go to
the mills on the Monday morning, and so intimidated are
they by the threats of the tarn-outs, that they eat, drink,
and sleep in the mills, and dare not, for any purpose what-
ever, venture outside the walls till Saturday night, when
they are brought out under the protection of the soldiers
and the police. This afternoon the Knobsticks in SAND-
FORD and Co.'s mill, who, I believe, are all from the coun-
try, were conveyed out of town in hackney-coaches.
On Saturday afternoon, between five and six
o'clock, a number of persons who were proceeding over
Westminster-bridge, were horror-struck on perceiving a
respectable-looking gentleman climb to the top of the third
arch, and instantly precipitate himself into the river. The
unfortunate individual instantly sunk, but in a few seconds
after he was seen by those on the bridge and the Surrey
shore, struggling in the water. Fortunately, however,
the son of Mr. CARY, proprietor of the floating bath at
the bridge, was at the time rowing across the water, and
instantly pulling towards the drowning man, arrived in
time to save him. Mr. CARY conveyed him to the Water-
mens' Arms, Stangate, where every attention was paid to
him, and he was shortly so far recovered, as to be re-
moved to an hotel, in Bridge-street, Westminster. He was
at the latter place immediately recognised as Captain
COOMBER, of Lewes.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 3.—A very extraordinary
case of crim. con. has just transpired in the county of
Mayo, at the residence of a young baronet of high family
and fortune. The parties move in high life, and are con-
nected with the principal gentry of Connaught. The
frail lady and her husband have been for some time on a
visit at the splendid mansion of Sir the lady's
brother. A gentleman well known in the fashionable
circles in Dublin, and remarkable for his immense size,
had been also on a visit at the same place. On Saturday
evening Mr. —__ unexpectedly entered his lady's
chamber, and was horrified on beholding her in such a
situation with Mr. as gave ample ground for ap-
prehension that she had been regardless of her plighted
vows. Her husband, as might reasonably be expected,
proceeded to give very unequivocal proofs of his resent-
ment against the destroyer of his peace; and the noise
occasioned by the boisterous altercation between the
parties, which was rendered more alarming by the slit ieks
of the lady, soon brought the young baronet and other
members of the family, to the apartment. Sir
aided the escape of the ponderous lover from the husband's
vengeance—not, however, without appointing a meeting
with himself at Galway on the subsequent day. Sir
accompanied by Dlr. was at the place
of meeting at the regulated hour ; but Mr. —,
actuated, probably, by the Christian feeling of forbearance
where injury had already been inflicted, did not appear on
the ground ; and it is said he has taken his departure for
the continent. But there was a duel notwithstanding,
quite unconnected with the faux pas. At the hotel
where Sir ---- and his friend stopped there happened to
be an altercation between the latter and a Mr. L---, of
Dublin. The gentlemen terminated their dispute in the
true Connaught style by proceeding forthwith to the
place appointed for the meeting with the huge Lothario,
and after an exchange of shots,
without producing any
injury, the parties returned to the hotel, and became
totally oblivious of their brawl at the festive board.

LITERATURt.

LOVES 01.' TIIE POETS.—Two \Tots.

LeIN Do N. }s':'9.

In her book of the Boudoir, Lady Morgan
has observed that Poets make bad lovers. A
perusal of the present volumes will, we con-
ceive, convince her Ladyship to the contrary.
She will here see of what materials a poet's love
is made ; how pure, how lofty is its essence,
how lasting, how imaginative, how disinterested
its character and complexion ! Not that we
ourselves believe in the celestial purity of such
attachments ; far from it, we are of opinion that
poets love pl•etty much as other men, only that they
make more of it, and turn it to a better ac-
count ; but certainly no one can sit down to the
perusal of the very romantic work before us, and
not feel convinced, even against his inclination,
that the love of a poet is a wondrous fine thing—
a passion in short far exceeding in its essence
the ordinary capabilities of humanity. And
yet, if the true history of such a love could be
placed before our eyes ;if facts could be allowed
to displace fiction, and wild romance to give way
to sober reason, how much of its high unearthly
complexion would be lost ! How would Pe-
trarch's Laura, Dante's Beatrice, Tasso's Leo-
nora D'Este—but no, we will except this really
angelic woman—Waller's Sacharissa, and Sur-
rey's Geraldine sink into mere ordinary females;
beautiful perhaps, and accomplished, and sensi-

ive and innocent, but not a whit more so than

thousands of others of their sex who have lived,
died, and passed away into oblivion, because un-
luckily they had no enamoured historian to im
mortalize their deserts. The love of a poet is a
fine thing certainly, but it shines, we suspect, to
greater advantage in fancy than in fact. It looks well
on paper,decoratedwith the garniture ofa splendidly
embellished duodecimo, but is apt to lose its
caste when touched with the Ithuriel spear of
reality. Despite the power of sentiment and
the charms of verse, poets will sometimes lose

their temper, and ladies the high tone of their
romance. Quarrels, and those not of the most re-
fined character, will occasionally take place between
them. They will now and then, not exactly
pinch and scratch, but grumble, sneer at,
and anathematize each other. But mark even

here the advantages of the poet's calling. The
simple expressive oath which an unsophisticated
lover would utter—the honest, straight-forward
" damn" into which he would epigramatically
condense his wrath, is in the bard's hands con-
verted into an eloquent apostrophe—fierce, im-
passioned, indignant—fitted to make ladies weep,
men envy, and the world admire.

The present elegant volumes, however, keep
up in a high tone the superiority of the poet's
love. All that might be deemed too earthly in
his passion is slightly glanced over, while its more
impassioned spirit is dwelt on with grace, tender-

ness, and animation. What, for instance, can be
more interesting—more deeply affecting than our
fair authoress's details of the love of Tasso for
the Princess Leonora D'Este ? Without in the
slightest degree swerving from truth, she has yet,
by the magic powers of her eloquence, so
heightened its interest that it possesses all the
charms of romance. We annex as a specimen
the description of Tasso and Leonora. The
lady is beautifully pencilled :

" No poet perhaps ever owed so much to female influ-
ence as Tasso, or wrote so much under the intoxicating
inspiration of love and beauty. He paid most dearly for
such inspiration ; and yet rot too dearly. The high tone
of sentiment, the tenderness, and the delicacy which per-
vade all his poems, which prevail even in his most vo-
luptuous descriptions, and which gave him such a decided
superiority over Ariosto, cannot be owing to any change
of manners or increase of refinement produced by the
lapse of a few years. It may be traced to the tender in-
flueuce of two elegant women. He for may years read
the cantos of the Gerusalemme, as he composed them, to
the Princesses Lucretia and Leonora, both of whom he
admired,---one of whom be adored.

Au reste—the kiss, which he is said to have imprinted
on the lips of Leonora in a transport of frenzy, as well as
the idea that she was the primary cause of his insanity,
and of his seven years' imprisonment at St. Anne's, test
on no authority worthy of credit; yet it is not less cer-
tain that she was the object of his secret and fervent ad-
miration, and that his hopeless passion conspired, with
many other causes, to fever his irritable temperament and
unsettle his imagination, beyond that " fine madness,"
which we are told ought " to possess the poet's brain."
" When Tasso first visited Ferrara, in 1565, he was
just one-and-twenty, with all the advantages which a fine
countenance, a majestic figure, (for be was tall even among
the tallest,) noble birth, and excelling talents could be-
stow : he was already distinguished as the author of the
Rinaldo, his earliest poem, is which he had celebrated (as
if prophetically,) the princess d'Este,--and chiefly
Leonora."

" When Tasso was first introduced to her in her
brother's court, Leonora was in her thirtieth year; a dis-
parity of age which is certainly no argument against the
passion she inspired. For a young man, at his first
entrance into hie, to fall in love ambitiously—with a
woman, for instance, who is older than himself, or with
one who is, or ought to be, unattainable,—is a common
occurrence. Tasso, from his boyish years, had been the
sworn servant of beauty. He tells us in grave prose,
che la sua giovanezza fu tutta sotto-posta all' amorose
leggi ;' but be was also refined, even to fastidiousness, in
his intercourse with women. He had formed, in his own
poetical mind, the most exalted idea of what a female ought
to be, and unfortunately, she who first realised his dreams
of perfection, was a Princess—' there seated where he
durst not soar.' Leonora was still eminently lovely, in
that soft, artless, unobtrusive style of beauty, which is
charming in itself, and in a Princess irresistable, from its
contrast with the loftiness of her station and the trappings
of her rank. Her complexion was extremely fair; her
features small and regular; and the form of her head pe-
culiarly graceful, if I may judge from a fine medallion I
once saw of her in Italy. 11l health, and her early ac-
quaintance with the sorrows of her unfortunate mother
had given to her countenance a languid and pensive cast,
and sicklied all the natural bloom of her complexion."
" Ider eyes were blue; her mouth of peculiar beauty,
both in form and expression."
" Leonora then was not unworthy of her illustrious
conquest, either in person, heart, or mind. To be sum-
moned daily into the presence of a Princess thus beautiful
and amiable, to read aloud his verses to her, to bear his
own praises from her lips, to bask in her approving smiles,
to associate with her in her retirement, to behold her in
all the graceful simplicity of her familiar life,—was a
dangerous situation for Tasso, and surely not less so for
Leonora herself. That she was aware of his admiration,
and perfectly understood his sentiments, and that a mys-
terious intelligence existed between them, consistent with
the utmost reverence on his part, and the most perfect
delicacy and dignity on her's, is apparent from the mean-
ing and tendency of innumerable passages scattered through
his minor poems—too significant in their application to
be mistaken. Though that application be not avowed,
and even disguised—the very disguise, when once de-
tected, points to the object. Leonora knew, as well as
her lover, that a Princess ' was no love-mate for a bard.'
She knew far better than her lover, until lie too had been
taught by wretched experience, the haughty and implaca-
ble temper of her brother Alphonso, who never was known
to brook an injury or forgive an offender. She must
have remembered too the 12 years' imprisonment and the
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nobles, whom she had Uniformly rejected, at the rink of
displeasing her brother ; and tke eyes of a jealous court
were upon her. Tasso, on 'the other hand, was impru-
dent, hot-headed, fearless, ardently attached. For both
their sakes, it was necessary for Leonora to be guarded
and reserved, unless she would have made herself the
fable of all Italy. And in what glowing verse has Tasso
described all the delicious pain -of such a situation ! now
proud of his fetters, now execrating them in despair."

Next to Tasso and Leonora in interest, is
the account of Petrarch's love for Laura. Our
fair biographer has taken considerable pains with
this portion of her work, though she has failed
in rendering Petrarch so interesting as we think
he might have been made. But it is with her
females that she is generally most successful.
Here she is quite at home, and throws a remark-
able degree of grace, dignity, softness, And
feminine sensibility into the portraits of her
heroines. Waller's Sacharissa is a graceful
sample of this talent, and we are pleased to find
that incidentally in speaking of her, she has done
justice to that intolerable old coxcomb, Waller ;
a scribbler who, with scarcely one spark of poetry
in his composition, has yet by some means or
other contrived to smuggle himself into the good
graces of posterity.

_
With Swift's conduct to Stella and Vanessa
our authoress is justly indignant. But the sub-
ject should be handled by a man—no woman
can throw sufficient energy into her reproba-
tion of the Dean's behaviour to two of the most
charming women that ever lived--both of whom
died broken-hearted for him. Mr. Jeffrey has,
accordingly, taken up the matter, and in one of
the earlier numbers of the " Edinburgh Review"
has done justice to Swift's character, in an ana-
lysis replete with eloquence and a high generous
indignation. But we must here come to a close,
though not without thanking our fair authoress
for the gratification her very captivating volumes
have afforded us. Her work is essentially a lady's
work, full of grace, elegance, tenderness, pathos,
and romance, and should be studied by the sex
as a sort of text-book, or manual of the heart.

STATE OF BARNSLEY.

(Abridged from the Leeds Mercury.)

The town of Barnsley has been greatly agitated
during the present week. After the destruction of
property at the house of Mr. Thomas Jackson, in the
night of Thursday week, as stated in our last paper,
no fresh outrage was perpetrated till Wednesday last,
when, about nine o'clock at night, a large barn, 24
yards by seven, the property of Sir Francis Lindloy
Wood, Bart., in the occupation of Messrs. Jacksons
and Hoggetts, manufacturers, was discovered to be
on fire, and on proceeding to the place it became but
too evident that this conflagration was the work of
an incendiary. The barn is situated at about a mile
from the town, and almost close to it stood three
haystacks, containing at least 70 toms of hay. The
building hadbeen used as a deposit for unemployed
looms, timbers, &c., all of which were consumed
before the fire, which bad been lighted in several
different places, could be extinguished. The loss in
the barn is estimated at about 2001., and the injury
done to the building is probably to about half that
amount. The haystacks escaped almost miraculously,
owing to the direction of the wind.
A reward of fifty guineas has been offered for the
apprehension of the offender or offenders, and about
nine o'clock on Thursday night, John Atkinson was
apprehended at the door of the King's Head-inn, in
Barnsley, on suspicion of having been engaged in
the attack upon the house of Messrs. Cordeaux and
Sons, and Mr. Coe, on Thursday night. The agi-
tation of the town was considerably increased on
Thursday morning by William Hill, a private in the
troop of the Third Light Dragoons, now quartered
in Barnsley, having applied a pistol to his body and
shot himself through the heart, in his quarters at
the Three Cranes-inn. The cause of this rash act

is not satisfactorily ascertained, but it is said that
Hill, who is very respectably connected, was subject
to despondency, which had been aggravated by a
love-affair in Ireland, and by habits of intoxication,
which he had unfortunately acquired.

_ .
On Wednesday last a great number of applica-
tions were made to Dr. Corbett, one of the Magi-
strates for the West Riding, by the unemployed
Irish weavers of Barnsley, for passes to return to
their own country. The Magistrates intimated their
intention to grant passes to all the Irish weavers
that might apply to them, and it was expected that
upwards of fifty applications would be made yester-
day by persons wishing to leave the town.
Such is the state of public apprehension created
by the riots and outrages of Barnsley, that almost
every warehouse in the town is converted into • sort
garrison, with arms, ammunition, &c., and persons
are appointed to remain all night in most of the
warehouses on the watch, to protect the property
under their care.

On Thursday night, at eleven o'clock, another
troop of the 3d Dragoons arrived from Sheffield in
Barnsley; and the military force now in that town,
including the Yeomanry Cavalry, is from 100 to
200, while the special constables recently sworn in
amount to about 150. Picquets of soldiers and bo-
dies of constables continue to traverse the town and

its immediate neighbourhood, each successive night,
during what is emphatically called " the reign of
terror."

It was intended to hold a meeting of the weavers
on Thursday last, and notice was given to that
effect, but the destruction of the premises of Messrs.
Jackson and Co. on Wednesday night, and an in-
terdict from Dr. Corbett against holding any public
assemblage, prevented the meeting from taking
place.

On Monday last a numerous meeting of the
weavers was held in the market-place, in Barnsley,
Peter Hoey in the chair. At this meeting a long
discussion arose between Dr. Corbett, who with se-
veral of the manufacturers attended, and Patrick
Flanigan and other weavers, respecting the propriety
of s Mme expressions used at former meetings, to the
effect that the master manufacturers were tyrants,
&c. Dr. Corbett said, that he would not allow
such inflammatory and improper expressions to be
used on this occasion. If they were, he told them
that he would immediately declare the meeting dis-
solved. It was stated by Patrick Flanigan, that out
of 23 manufacturers who signed the former list of
prices, only seven were in favour of a reduction of
wages. He advised every weaver to go and throw
himself on his parish rather than work at the prices
proposed in the new list. James Bosomworth gave
the same advice. The following resolution, moved
by P. Flanigan, and seconded by J. Bosomworth,
was the only resolution of importance brought be-
fore the meeting :
" That this meeting views with disgust the con-
duct of the manufacturers, in thus persisting in their
contemplated reduction, when they, the manufac-
turers, know that the weavers cannot get a living
without parish relief, with the present prices ; there-
fore, this meeting is of opinion, that it is better for
the weavers to cease working, titan work for next
to nothing."

A man named RYAN was murdered near
Beechwood, county Tipperary, a few nights ago. The
savages cut his ears and nose off:— Tipperary Paper.
A very important meeting of the Magistrates
of this county will be held at nudes, on Monday, for the
purpose of taking into consideration its present state.—
The Commander of the Forces, and Lord LxvcsoN
GOWER, Chief Secretary of Ireland, will be in attend-
ance. It is generally rumoured, that besides Dr. FITZ-
GERALD, Who is to be stationed in Clonmel, the qu irters
of the other stipendiary Magistrates will be
.Thurles, Tip-
perary, and Borrieokeerl.--Chnirag .eleivarteger.