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London, England, 1827-09-14 00:00:00

LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Sept. 11

There was a large supply of Wheat, the chief part of
which was New, and of various qualities; the best sam-
ples of New were full 2s. per quarter lower, and the
werep s quarter de-
c. at from
mid-
dling and damp qualities were scarcely saleable. The de-
mande?ine. for
Several Old Wheatsamples wasof New Be
Limited,
Barley aty lei
;d
380. to 40s. per quarter. There was a good supply of
Oats, and they were very dull sale ; New ones were offered
at 14d. to 15d. per stone, but scarcely any sales were ef-
fected. In Foreign Oats and Shelling there was little
doing, and prices rather cheaper. Beaus were scarce, and
dearer. Rapeseed oom;nally the same.
Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b.
---- York. and Lincoln. 60Ib.
Barley. Norfolk and Suffolk 355. to 40s. le
---- 'Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
Grinding
Beans -'
631 b.
Oats, Potatoe
Shelling ..... s
~ .- .. ~ ................. 345. to 355. per load.
.---Mewling, Foreign 13d. to 14d....English 14d. to J6d. per st.
Rapeseed, En.g1i.5.h.,..i01.. ....... ........ Foreign, —l. to —l. per last.
MANCHESTER YARN MARKET.—Sept. 11.

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HOP INTELLIGENCE.
WoacasrEa, SEPT. I2.—The picking is now be.
coming general in our plantation, and the planters in most
districts are of opinion that the produce will much exceed
what they anticipated. Those hitherto picked are of fine
quality. Our duty is at 12,0001. We shall, no doubt,
have New Hops in our Market on Saturday.._ Calculations
have been entered into to prove that there are now two
years' consumption on band.

over all others. Of
have health and
A traveller on foot, if he
the most essential is, that complete tshpeirsiets, has many advantages
inde-
pendence of every thing but his own exertions,
which will enable him, without difficulty, espe-
cially in mountainous counties, and bad unfre-
quented roads, to view and examine many places
which are altogether inaccessible to persons in
carriages or on horseback.

Tar 'KING AGAINST GRIDISHAIr AND ?TEENS.
' Mr. CaOmprox opened the pleadings, and Mr.
BROUGHAM' stated •rthe
,corporation of
Liverpool, in their capacity of conservators of the
Mersey, and owners of the harbour of Liverpool, had
deemed it their duty to institute the prosecution
against the Irwell and Mersey Canal -Navigation
Company. The Mersey, the navigation of which
was so importpt to the purposes of commerce, was
peculiarly unhapply situated in some very material
respects, for in no other navigated river had nature
created so many almost insuperable obstacles to na-
vigation. - The sand-banks in its mouth rendered it
so shallow, as to be unfit for navigation, excepting
in two channels between sand-bank and sand-bank,
of which the mariner was obliged to avail himself;
and the rills and iivulets were constantly bringing
matter from the hills, which formed !,nosits in the
upper part of the river. These' circum• rices made,
and would continue to make, the river an object
of watchful attention to the CorporatioP, who nar-
rowly oboerr ed*iisreirtti caiwit;t4zaolied either
.by the Viand OM/ill or from.natural cani:7o and their
attention hadlie:en peculiarly directedlo:the causes
which keep, or had a tendency to keep, the channels of
rivers clear, deep, and free from-being choked up. The
quantity of alluvial matter brought down by the rills
and rivulets, and the working of the sand, as it was
affected by the flowing of the tide, were constantly
making depoSits in the channel of the river; the
broader the channel, the shallower was the river, and
the greater was the deposit; but where the banks
were narrower, and the stream deeper, there the de-
posit was less, for the river had greater power to
clear itself.: The scouring of the river was effected
by the ebb or reflux of the tide, the force of the
water, as it ebbed back, forming a scour essentially
necessary to keep the channel clear, and to remove
all deposits. The degree in which this scour existed
would, if suffered to take its fair course, exactly cor-
respond with the quantity of water which came in
with the flow; but if, by adiversion of the water,
the land scours should, be so much diminished as not
to carry away the deposits constantly forming, the
river would become less and less navigable, and more
and more choked up, especially in the broader and
shallower parts, where the ebb tide had less power.
It was on account of such a, diversion of the water

that the present proceedings were instituted. The
Mersey and Irwell Canal Company had obtained an
Act so long back as the 7th Geo. 1., and at that
time, and under the provisions of that Act, they
made a cut, the legality of which, as exceeding their
powers, was, in the opinion of a most Learned Judge,
much more than doubtful. Notwithstanding this
opinion, a much larger cut was afterwards effected
by them from Latchford-lock to Runcorn-Vnt,
a distance of 71- miles of the canal, and of 15 miles
of the Mersey. The Corporation,' however, made
no objection, and indeed as long as the river was
left as convenient and navigable as before, they
had no reason to complain, nor would they now com-
plain if its navigation were properly secured ; but
though, far from allowing that no mischief had been
occasioned by the first cut, they were compelled to
raise their voice against what had been done between
four and five years ago by the company, who had so
very much enlarged the feeders of the second cut, as
to make them of so great dimensions as to subtract
from the river [lO,OOO tuns of water daily, a quan-
tity which had so much diminished the force of the
ebb-tide, as even to affect the works and power of a
mill on the banks of the river. The consequence
had been, that the deposits constantly forming not
having been fully carried off, the river was becoming
more and more unnavigable. His friend the Attor-
ney-General might attempt to justify by their act the
conduct of the defendants. There was no doubt that
an Act of Parliament could give them the authority
they had exercised, or any other authority; it could
give authority to one man to knock out another
man's brains, or to pick his pocket, but it would be
absurd to do so : it would also he absurd to give a
power to hurt the navigation of the Mersey, and the
act had not given that power, the intent of it being
not to hurt the Mersey river, but to improve the
Mersey and Irwell canal. The Attorney-General,
or his predecessor, had brought the consideration of
that act, by an ex-ojficio information, before the late
Lord Chancellor, whose opinion was that the Com-
pany had exceeded their powers. That was the opi-
nion of a man who, during the whole period of a
quarter of a century in which he presided in the
highest Court of Equity, was without a rival as a
profound and sagacious lawyer, and was without a
superior among his illustrious predecessors. He
(Mr. Brougham) concluded with calling upon the
Jury to use their judgment impartially, and to ex-
tricate themselves from the mazes which the in-
genuity of his learned friend might prepare for them.
John Peers, formerly in the employ of the Mer-
sey and Irwell company, examined by Mr. PATTE-
SON.—There was a feeder to the Latchford and
Runcorn canal—an iron pipe put into the river from
the Wolston, generally called the Paddington lock.
The old feeder was 17 inches in diameter. As it
could not supply the canal, which from increase of
trade wanted more water, a small wooden trough
16 inches square was put across the river, just
above the iron pipe, that was taken away, and there
was a double trough, which continued till the new
feeder was opened in 1821. 'Witness saw that new
feeder a fortnight since. Three or four flats a day
used to come up the lock, and now about 16 a day.
The increase of trade made them want more water;
they lost water at both ends wlictier:r a flat came
into the locks, and they wanted more water in pro-
portion as the water went back into the river.

Henry Tipping was employed to watch the water
coming into the canal, and was prevented by the
Company.

Francis Giles, civil engineer—l practised under
the late Mr. Rennie, until he died. I have been
employed lately by the Liverpool corporation, to.
survey the port and river Mersey. I have surveyed
it at different times from 1819 to the present time.
The last time was for two days in July. I am well
acquainted with the river and its navigation, from
the sea-banks to Wolston. The navigation towards
the north of the river is difficult from sand-banks.
From the Black-rock to Liverpool it is deeper and
easier, and for two miles above Liverpool it is also
deep, but above that to Bank-quay it is full of sands,
and the navigation difficult, and cannot be navigated
unless the water is of a certain height. The want
of back water to scour away the said banks occa-
sions the difficulties. A deposit is occasioned by
what is brought down from the country. It is best
diminished by the scour of water from above. The
natural effect of diminishing the water' from above is
to permit the lodgment of alluvial matter from the
land, which will lodge in those parts where the
diminution is first felt, that is, in the wide and cir-
cuitous parts. These deposits create banks, and
obstruct the navigation. The tidal water scourizng
over the banks is the best scourer, and with the aid
of the land water keeps channels deep ; the scour-
ing power of the tidal water is regulated by the
power of the back water in the estuary ; Aral in
proportion as that is diminished in capacity, the
tidal power is lowered, and therefore the withholding
the back water must be injurious. The scouring
of the tidal water is exceedingly important to the
navigation of the Mersy : the land scour is also im-
portant. The water high up is of peculiar import-
ance, because it ebbs out of the mouth of the river
at the low part of the tide, when it exercises greater

Peter Robinson.—Formerly, when there was a
15f feet tide at Liverpool, a tlat drawing five feet
water could get up Bank-quay. They cannot now
get up such a flat under 16 feet. •
John Atherton, of the Bank-quay Glass Corn-
pany.—ln the last six or seven years the banks on
the Lancaster side had increased very much. The
flats had not so much room to tack as they had be-
fore, which was a great inconvenience.
John Ellisten, another flatman, said there was
not the same sea-room in the river that there was.

Thomas Clare, a flatman.—Between Runcorn
and Fidler's ferry, the navigation had been a great
deal worse during the last four years. The ebb we;
not so strong.
Thomas Hyam, a flatman.—Richmond-hank and
Fidler's ferry-bank had lately increased very much,
Cross-examined.—There was less water in thr
Sankey cut during the last two years.
Thomas Williamson.--A 14. i foot tide at Liver-
pool used to carry a vessel drawing five feet water
to Bank-quay ; it now required 153,- feet, the banks
had so increased and the water had become s.)
shoally within the last four years.
Thomas Moore and many other flatmen gave sip
milar evidence.

Richard Ocleshaw, mill used, at low
water, to drive from 14. to 17 pair of stones, at the
proper speed ; now, it could only drive six pair, and
sometimes they were forced to stand still. This
was not entirely owing to the feeders, but partly to
the company's taking away the dam-boards.
Mr. Walker, civil engineer, was well acquainted
with the Mersey. He considered that in principle
the taking away of any quantity of water would be
injurious, but the daily taking away 90,000 tuns
between Latchford and Runcorn, was sensibly inju-
rious, particularly during the summer season. The
effect of the abstraction of the water was to cause a
considerable deposit of sand.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, the jury were
not sitting to try a tendency, but to try' what actual
mischief had been produced; and, if any had, to
try whether a compensation outweighing that mis-
chief had not been obtained. What was the use of
a navigable river, but for trade? And if every
thing that had a tendency to hurt the river were
taken away and prohibited, then there could be no
quays, no docks, and no vessels, for all these things
had that tendency, although that• tendency was so
small, that according to evidence, one grain of sand
might hardly be affected by it. They had evidence
that the evil, whatever it was, had risen to its maxi-
mum : and what was this evil,—what vessel had it
prevented going up the river,—what flat had been
prevented going up the Sankey navigation ? But
even if there had been some little injury,—if the
evidence had proved that the navigation had been
prejudiced in some certain degree, and that the tidal
force had been diminished,—still he (the Attorney-
General) would deny, without referring to and re-
lying upon the act of George 1., that such small in-
jury would be no ground for a verdict against the
defendants, because the interests of the greater
number must be consulted, and the trade had so in-
creased, that were it not for the cut- which enabled
vessels to make a transit in two, and sometimes in
one day, the greatest delay, loss, expense, and in-
convenience would take place.
Mr. Baron HULLOCK said he could not accede to
that doctrine. The question was, whether a
nuisance had been created with respect to individuals
who wished to pass along the river; the argument
implied that if the public at large were benefited,
that those who were injured must acquiesce.

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The ATTORNEY-GENERAL resumed.—He denied
that the prosecutors had proved any mischief, either
by their tendencies or any thing else, but he might
be allowed to state that the improvements by means'
of those cuts were so great as hardly to be calculable.
It was a usual Parliamentary proceeding in acts con.
cerning navigable rivers to allow cats to be made in
convenient parts, which cuts were taken and consi-
dered as parts of original river. The Jury would
see by the plan of the Mersey that it was in many
parts like a horse-shoe : it ran in portions through
sand, and in those places every fresh was apt to
make a change in its channels. It was of great im-
portance to the improvement of tbe river, and to
make it navigable, that 'some power and authority
should be given ; and there was an Act of Parlia-
ment, by which certain gentlemen. were appointed
undertakers of the navigation, and" had full powers
to make the rivers Merseyand Irwell navigable from
Liverpool to Huntsback, in Manchester, and for
~ Under this act, if the Company
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the river,rposes to clear, scour, open, enlarge,
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straighten and to make any new cuts,
they were not
convenient for the navigation of boats,
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passages for water, as should b
it necessary to divert the whole river into a
the 'town of Warrington, and there was a clausethat no other quay should be made nearer to
justified. Bank-quay was near
to cut through the Harpley meadows, without
the consent of the .
wtehr ae n Horsley, and
proprietors, who might, there-
fore, ask half a million for their consent.
In 1800, the company- commenced the Latch-
ford and. Runcorn cut ; the landholders objected,
and their objection would have prevailed, if the
Company had had no power ; for an action of tres-
pass was brought against them in the county of
Chester, and tried before that most consummate
lawyer Sir James Mansfield, then Chief Justice of
Chester, and the Company gained the verdict.
Another action was brought against them in the
Court of King's Bench; the Coinpany pleaded the

Act, which they set forth in Their plea and put on
record, and then they pained, under it. The Plt'in-
tiffs, by their replication, brought the sowers f the
Act before the Court. At the trial, the Judge said,
on summing up, that the only question for the Jury
was, was it necessary and convenient ? If they were
of opinion that it was not either necessary or con-
venient, they might find a verdict for the plaintiffs,
which Would still give the Company an opportunity
of raising the question, whether they were not, even
then, justified in making the cut by their act. The
jury, however, thought the cut was convenient, and
gave their verdict for the defendants. No applica.
tion for a new trial was made to the Court above,
and the landowners acquiesced in the judgment.
The cut was in consequence made, and in 1803 was
completed; and no one afterwards complained of it,
until, with a view of making it more convenient, the
dock and floating basin were projected. The
Act precluded the Company from laying any toll
for navigation up to Bank-quay; but tint was
ruled upon these trials not to control the ge-
neral powers. The Company have not stopped
bp the navigation at Bank-quay, nor have they done
any thing that has a tendency to stop it up. War-
rington received its supply from the Latchford cut,
and no witness from that town had been called.
They paid no toll on going through Bank-quay, but
the Latchford cut was so much more convenient,
that all the vessels came by it ; and yet no opposi-
lion to the cut was made by Warrington, neither
was any made by the owners of Bank-quay, or by
any of the proprietors of the Northwich Salt-works.
Let it be supposed that notwithstanding their Act
the defendants could be convicted if Bank-quay were
injured. There was no proof that it had been in-
jured. This was a criminal proceeding ; the de-
fendants were not to make out their innocence until
the prosecutors had made out their case; anti would
any body believe that the navigation at Bank-quay
was injured when none of the proprietors com-
plained ? Were the Jury satisfied on such evidence
as had been produced, and on the absence of all
such as mig'nt have been produced, that there was a
sufficient convincing ground that the navigation had
been injured, as to induce them at once to put an
end to so immense a property, and so prodigiously
useful to the community ? The abstract principle
that the diminution of water had a tendency to de_
stroy the power of the tidal water was_atiitted; it
was true, a pailful or even a thimbleful of water would
make a difference, but was that sensible difference ?
A pailful of water taken fro;,, the Mississippi would
have a tendenc ! Th- pp
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prosecutors had not proved
that the feeders `:/ere always at work, nor were
they. It was. admitted that during the hours
the tide flowed there was no damage to the river.
HOW, ',hen, could the Jury say that the river was af-
fected by the defendants ? They could not convict
on a case of doubt; and if the case was left doubt.
ful, the defendants were intitled to their verdict.
All the evidence concurred in one point,—the great
utility of the works to the commerce between Liver-
pool and Manchester. Hk had surely a right to avail
himself of that, and to ask the Jury if on such light
and unsatisfactory evidence they would disturb such
a property. Were they satisfied that the navigation
of the Mersey had been impeded at all ? If not fully
satisfied on that point, the defendants were entitled
to their verdict; but if they thought it had been
impeded, were they satisfied the company had done
the mischief, and that it was not owing to the dry-
ness of the season, to the Liverpool Docks, the Duke
of Bridger,vater's cut, to the land-freshes, and the
other causes he had stated ? Unless they were so
satisStd, the defendants were entitled to their verdict.
Mr. Gillbody, agent and engineer to the Old
quay Company.—The canal is of the greatest im-
Bortance to Manchester, Liverpool, and other places.
efore the canal was made, the cats used to lay at
neap tides for days together, between Runcorn and
IVarrington. Those flats had often valuable cargoes
on board, and were exposed to bad weather and to
pillage. The trade between Manchester and Liver-
pool could not be carried on without the canal.
There had been no alteration in the feeders of the
canal until more water was wanted ; then another
truuk was placed, which was-afterwards taken away,_
and a large one was put down. All the feeders were
added in consequence of the increase of trade. The
Mersey was always a very bad river to navigate; it
is so very crooked that no wind will carry a vessel
round, and so narrow as to make it very difficult to
tack. This difficulty made the cut still more neces-
sary. They frequently made the passage from
Manchester to Liverpool in one day, which was im-
possible before. The canal and works are of a very
expensive kind. Witness went down the river from
Latchford-lock to Runcorn on the 23d of last July,
and wee astonish.ed to find, after two dry summers,
that the chalinel was so deep. He never saw it
better than it was then.

Peter Ford.—When the cut was first made, it was
supplied with water by a small iron pipe at Wolston.
The old feeder was very awkward; it was a very
awkward passage from the river to the old Wolston
cut. When the flats got through the cut, in floods,
they locked into the river again, and the passage to
Latchford was very difficult ; there were many shoals,
one is called the Sunny Brow. The river was
shoaler in summer time. The new feeder is rather
mere than 1000 yards in length. It could not be
made until the new Wolston cut was made. That
cut is on the same level; it leaves the river above
Wolston, and goes into the Paddington lock. It is
much more convenient than the old cut. The tow-
ing horses go on the north side, and a little up
beyond the Paddington lock ; there is a bridge across
the canal, where the horses cross. The trunk goes
across the river.

John Tarbuck.—The channels have frequently
vlanged. I remember a samphire bed in the river;
it was about 15 rods long, but was narrow. It was
washed away 31 or 52 years ago. It is now clear
away. At that time the channel run on the Lan-
cashire side. The navigation is now as safe and
more expeditious than I ever knew from Fiddler's
ferry down to Western point, the entrance into the
Weever. It is better for the larger vessels. We used
to draw only four feet nine with 27 tons of coal, and
new we draw five feet three inches, if there is water
in Sankey canal. I never heard any complaints from
the owners of flats.

Cross-examined by a Juryman.—The channel is as
good as ever it was.

John Mills, Tatman.—l was the master of the
Morgan for 27 years. The navigation is not worse
than it used
.to be ; the channels are deeper; the
draught of my vessel has been the same that it used
to be. The inland freshes are the best things for
scouring the river.
James Deakin.—l navigate from Northwich to
Liverpool. I have known the Mersey for 30 years.
The channel has shifted to the other side. I account
the navigation to be safer than it was. The scour-
ing of the river was from the freshes.
John Leigh, an old sailor—l frequently steer flats
up the river. Ido it for my own pleasure. I think
the navigation between Warrington and Fiddler's-
ferry better than it was by some inches. If there
were more freshes, it would be better. The river is
scoured by freshes. Vessels of the same draught as
formerly now navigate the ferry. It depends upon
the winds and tides.

Cross-examined by Mr. BROUGHAM—I am a man
of pleasure.—(The witness's appearance caused a
hearty laugh when he gave this answer.)— I have
pleasure in helping others. I sometimes navigate in
round boats. I sometimes go up in a balloon, and
sometimes in a flat. It is ,quicker travelling in a bal-
loon. It depends upon the winds, and not the tides.
Tlieboets would have now as much room to tack as
they used to have if there was more water. There is
plenty of room from side to side, but there is want
of water, The river is so narrow above, that we
can't tack.
•
Re-examined—__ I live upon my own property.

went up with Mr. Green in his balloon, and gave
him la, and I liked it as Well as any voyage I ever
had in my life.
`William Haddocks—We can with 15 foot tide at
Liverpool, navigate a flat that draws four and a half

i-4ss
water up Bank-quay. We can do so with a 14
foot tide, when the wind lies up the river,
John Clair—My father and I Welk considerable
wharf and warehouses on Bank-quay. We own 35
flats, and we employ several others. We have
more trade than any other individual on the canals.
I rarely go with the fiats, but I always look after
them. It is our interest that tire jiver should be
kept in a navigable state. With the exception of
the two last summers, the river is as good as ever it
was ; that exception is owing to the dryness of those
ennimers. The traffic has much increased, The
Hannah, with 108 tons, arrived itt the ferry in
April. We have vessels still la4es. I believe the
tides are equally rapid -11,3 'thy were 30 years ago.--
I have made no .conspiaints to the Corporation.
Crossexenined—l consider that no bad effect
vehatestr has taken place from the operatiOns of the
Company.
Mr. Alexander Nimint,—l have been much em-
ployed in making tide harbours. I examined the
Mersey with Mr.j Telford four years ago. I have
examined it since. I have ascertained the average
velocity of the low water river. The water ob-
structed by the canal cannot produce any sensible
effect on the scouringa of the river; that quantity is
not 90,000 tun's a day. The trunks do not draw
water the whole day, not quite 18 hours a-day.
After subtracting the water returned by the Latch-
ford lock, the quantity of water the feeders convey
to Runcorn is about 59,000 tuns a-day, or 1,365
cubic feet per minute: If that water were not taken
away, the whole increase of the velocity of the ebb
tide would be from 10 inches and 2-10ths per second
to 10 inches and 6-10ths per second, at Bank-quay,
where the water runs narrowest. That increase
would make no difference in the scouring of the
river. The river was scoured from other causes.—
The calculation was made at IoW water, when the
difference is the greatest. The channel at and near
LiverpoOT is scoured by the tide-way, but the tidal
waters do very little good in the upper part of the
river : they deposit more than they carry away.—
The company's works have done no real and prac-
tical hurt to the navigation of the Mersey.
sreMr. BROUGHAM cross-examined Mr. Nimmo at
great
:ength, upon his calculations, and the manner
which they were made, and upon his experiments
and his opinions ; after which he addressed the Jury,
defending the Corporation of Liverpool from the
accusations of the Attorney-General, that they were
actuated by a wish to injure the Company. Their
only wish and desire was to preserve the navigation
of the Mersey, upon which the prosperity of Liver-
pool depended.—The Jury found a verdict for the
defendants of " Not Guilty."

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCri PAPERS.

(From the Gazette de France, dated Sept. U. )

HYDRA.—The Greek Bec contains the following
complaint made by the Greek Captains who con:-
mandcd in the Acropolis, against Colonel Fabvier,
and addressed by them to the Greek Government :
The respectable Government knows the answer
which we gave to the first proposal made us to sur-
render the citadel to Redschid Pacha : it knows
the Cum resolution which we then expressed, to
hold ont as long as we had a grain of oats, though
we should, from time to time, have had to suppress
some mutinies among the soldiers, natural under
circumstances.

Things were in this state, when we perceived an
European Commander of an Austrian vessel (Major
Comer), who cried out to us from the Areopagus,
that he wished to hold a parley with us. We sent
to him, and learnt that he offered his services be-
cause he had perceived a white flag in the Citadel.
The unanimous answer of our people, in conformity
with our common resolution, was, that we had not
hoisted any white flag, and that we had no need of
any mediation.
Then Colonel Fabvier, in the midst of the sol-
diers, stamped with his foot—cried out very loud—
consulted the other Chiefs—went so far with his
menaces against us that the Austrian Commander
and M. de -Rigny were invited, and by their inter-
vention the capitulation was drawn up and the fort
was surrendered. We consequently require that
Colonel Fabvier shall, with us, be put on his trial,
in order that our people and the world may know to
' which of us they ought to ascribe the surrender of
the fortress which had been defended for above a
year, and bad cost so much blood.
To convince itself of the truth of this patriotic
accusation against the author of the fall of the cita-
del, the Government may ti.ik all the Greeks and all
the impartial Philhellenes, and consult the Journal
of the Public Secretary. _ .

Signed—the Commander of the troops, N. Kri-
ziotes, D. Emmorphopulo, Eust. Kazzikojanni, I.
Mammuris, G. Phokas, the Dernogerontes, Stayrus,
Vlachopoulo, Nicholas Zakkanzzi."
The Oriental Spectator, which publishes this
document from the Bee, adds, among other reflec-
tions, that the Greek Chiefs themselves asked the
intervention of M. de Rigny, in letters signed by the
same names as the accusation against Fabvier, and
that these papers are still in existence.
VIEN:it, AUG. 31.—The Emperor, who always
appreciates good and loyal services, even after the
death of those who have performed them, has writ-
ten the following letter to the Countess Traut-
mannsdorff:—

" DEAR COUNTESS TRAUTMANNSDORIT—Though the
advanced age and severe illness of your worthy husband
left no hope of his recovery, and I was expecting, in the
greatest uneasiness, to receive the melancholy news of his
death, yet the loss of this good and faithful eervant has
deeply affected me. The deceased takes with him to the
tomb my esteem and my gratitude for the great services
which he has performed, and his boundless attachment to
my person. _

"What can I do, my dear Princess, to console you for
such a loss ? Your known resignation to the will of God,
and time, can alone afford you some comfort.
" I send to you at the same time Count de Czernim,
my High Chamberlain; he can tell you all the interest I
take in whatever concerns you, as well as your family, and
that this sincere interest answers to the particular esteem
which I always feel for you, and which you so well deserve.
" FRANCIS."

(From the Journal der Debate.)
PARIS, SEPT. 11.—According to letters from Mar-
seilles of September 4, it appears that hitherto only
six French vessels have been captured by the Alge-
rines. There are, however, a great number of pri-
vateers, and it is to be feared, as the season advances,
that commerce will suffer great losses. What is
most burdensome for trade, however, is, the long
quarantine to which all vessels are exposed at Cadiz,
which go there even to find convoy. We hope that
this war with Algiers will speedily terminate. The
following are the reports in circulation on the sub-
ject :—Negotiations are going on with the Regency,
and arrangements are making for completing the
liquidation of the seven million of francs as speedily
as possible ; they are treating with the Dey and his
subjects on favourable terms, after guaranteeing the
interests of French subjects. M. Deval is to be ap-
pointed Consul-General at Tunis; it is not yet
known who will succeed him at Algiers. M. Guys,
Consul-General at Tunis, is coming to Marseilles, as
Agent for Foreign Affairs, to succeed M. Pottu.
SMYRNA, AUG. 4.—.(Extract from the Spectateur
Orientale.)—We can state, and guarantee our state-
ment, that the English frigate Ariadne, with the
Pelican and Alacrity brigs, have sailed from Corfu,
with orders to take possession of the rocks of Cara-
busa, which have long been the harbour for those
pirates who have made these waters unsafe.
ODESSA, AUG. 6.—Trade, which has fallen into
decay here since the Greek insurrection, as at all the
ports of the Mediterranean, and seemed likely to be
entirely extinguished, has again revived, since it was
known that the squadrons of the three Powers were
to assemble in the Archipelago, in order to suppress
piracy, and maintain, with that dignity which be-
comes these Powers, that neutrality which alone can
establish tranquillity in the East.

(From the Constitutionnel.)

PARIS, SEPT. 1 I.—There arrived yesterday morn•
ing, says a letter from Perpignan, of Sept. 1, a vesse

Port Vvt:ll23;, corning horn the blockading squa-
r;ron off Algiers. It came over in six days, and brings
dispatches for Toulon. It is supposed that the squa-
thou will be augmented.
Catalonia is .1.'611 is a 'State of increasing anarchy
rAid insurrection. Since the Duke of Berga (Jep
dell Etanys) has driven tie King's troops out of
his duchy, pillage and murder have become fashion-
able. Hostages are ever where carried off in order
to levy contrib=_itlOns on families. Opulent people
livfig near tile frontier take refuge in our territory,
and the fortified cities arc the retreats of • the rest of
the population. There arc at present 200,000 inha-
bitants in Barcelona. The different Governors of
places know not what to do nor whom to obey. A
Provincial Junta has been established at Manseta.
The Marquess of Campo-Sagrado has been much
embarrassed ; sometimes he has given orders for the
population to arm themselves—sometimes he has
given contrary orders, to please the Apostolicals, who
still fear the Constitutionalists. The King's troops,
however, have arrived—sore at Figueras, and some
at Tarragona. Will they flea against the rebels, or
swell their ranks ? It is to 14 ?resumed, that if they
are sent in small parties against the rebels, they will
be defeated, and will be only auxiliaries to the fifteen
thousand rebels which the Junta has at present under
arms, not including the bands which make war on
!Inir own account.

FRONTIER OF SPAIN, SEPT. I.—liere has been,
within these few days, a movement among 0.19 troops
in the provinces of Biscay, which are to proceed
through Arragon to Catalonia. We have, however,
sonic difficulty in reconciling the march of these
troops with the news we have received front
Arragon. It is said that a strong column of
Agraviados, commanded by a Colonel, whose name
is not given, have mastered Lerida. The number of
men who occupy the fields of Ripoll and Vich is
said to be 12,000. There are also, it is said,
Agraviados in Arragon, whose rallying cry is,
" Long life to religion and the King; down with
the Masons and the Negroes." From Soria we un-
derstand that the loth regiment of cavalry, which
was expected there from Almauza, to proceed to
Catalonia, has put to death several of its officers.
This regiment ought to have reached Soria Valle de
Carol, September 2d. The news from Berga and
Manreza, of the conduct of the rebels, particularly
from the latter, where the atrocities committed have
been great, have caused great alarm throughout the
Spanish Cerdagne and Pnycerda. Their fears are
not without foundation ; we hear this instant that
the local authorities have received, from one of the
Chiefs of the Agraviados, orders to provide for one
thousand five hundred men this evening. The Go-
vernor has left the place, and it is not knoWn in
what direction he is gone. The Custom-house
officers of the Spanish Cerdagne have sent their
property to Livia, to be prepared for flight.
(From the Courrier Francais.)

PARIS., SEPT. 11.—We will not make any re-
flections on the events passing in Catalonia; they
speak for themselves. We beg only that our rea-
ders will • attend to the news that we have taken
from the Southern newspapers. The Gazette dc
Lyons says, that the Carlists have abandoned Man-
resa, after having levied a contribution of 4,000
ounces. A detachment of Carlists went to Mataro
on the nights of the 29th and 31st of August. A
small detachment entered, but they afterwards went
away. The Carlists are increasing in numbers
every day, and there are at present no forces to op-
pose them. Letters from Bayonne say, an insurrec-
rection is dreaded at Navarre, similar to that in Ca-
talonia.

The English newspapers arrived to-day, have all
translated General Gourgaud's letter in answer to
Sir W. Scott. Not one of them has made any re-
flections on it; but there is no doubt that this letter
will be commented on, and that the discussion will
turn out to the discomfiture of the calumniator.

A Journal says, that a part of the Portuguese mi-
litary encamped in the district of Rioja is organizing
into a regiment. In this district there are 9000 re-
fugees, and 6,000 of them ate soldiers.
,n4ppaut ,
:3,000, it appears, are to be ottutpren
re
to be, it is said, the guard of honour for Don Miguel
during his residence in Spain.
SMYRNA, AUG. 4.—Travellers arrived here on the
27th July, from Poros, say that Colonel Fabvier is
quite destitute of money, and that, in order to pay his
soldierN he had been forced to sell a cargo of provi-
sions which had been sent him from Ancona by the
Cures of the Greek Committee of the Papal terri-
tories. Salt meat, which formed a part of this
cargo, and which is very good, has arrived here.
After the capitulation of the Acropolis, Colonel
Fabvier addressed the following letter to the Mem-
bers of the Greek Provisional Government :--

" Methane, May 7 (June 25th), 1827-
" Gentlemen—Having learnt from public report that
there existed a denunciation against me, made by the Cap-
tains of the Acropolis, I had the honour to require of you
that you would, in writing, do me justice against this
calumny. You replied that you had received nothing of
the sort ; and that as to reports, it would be better to pay
no attention to them. It was in your interest, Gentlemen,
that I made the demand ; as for myself, all the signatures
which could possibly be added would not cause a single
French Citizen to change his opinion of me ; but, if 1 had
to continue to fight, I should not have the confidence of
the people to lead their children to battle. Henceforth,
Gentlemen, the affair is yours. Let us see if you will do
yourselves such honour in the eyes of the whole world as to
reward, in this manner, a man who, during three years,
has exhausted himself in efforts for you."

FRENCH FUNDS.—Five per Cents., 101 f. 65c. ; Three
per Cents., 72f. 80c. ; Bank Actions, 2005 f. 2000 f.
VoaxtuN Foxes.—Neapolitan Reutes, Fal. Cert. 78f.
75c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 63k; Interminable Spanish
Annuities, 46i ; Haytian Loan, 695 f.

Apples are now selling at Newark at 6d. per
peck,, and onions and wood-nuts at is. per peck
each.—Lincoln Mercury.

Mrs. 'Whipple, who was indicted for con-
spiring with a man named Orton, alias Strang,
(whose trial, as reported in a New York News-
paper, we gave some days since in the SUN) to
murder her husband John Whipple, has been
found not guilty.
Such was the unusual abundance of fruit and
vegetables in Mansfield market, on Thursday the
fith instant, that fine apples were sold at 7d. to
ls. per peck ; plums, 9d. to ls. 2d.; nuts,
10d.
peck ; kidney
beans, ld. per quartern ; large cauliflowers, ill.
and onions, is. 2d. to is. 4d.
to is. ; potatoes, sd. to 7d. per
and ld. each ;
per peck. Even at these low prices, much re-
mained unsold at night.—Lincoln Mercury.

HYDRAULICS.--Mr. J. M. Cooper, of
Gintdhall (Vermont), has just invented a machine
of great power, a model of which he is now ex-
hibiting. It consists of a cylinder eight inches
long, by as many in diameter, with a winch, the
two extremities of which are attached to a pivot.
The strength of four men is sufficient to make
it throw constantly a stream of water, three-
quarters of an inch in thickness, 120 feet dis-
tance, in a straight line, and more than 90 feet
perpendicular height. It is said that this machine
is constructed upon quite a new principle.—
The inventor has given it the name of the Rota-
tory Piston, although, in point of fact, it has'
neither piston or valve. It has rather the ap-
pearance of a wheel which forms a vacuum on
one side, and a strong compression on the other.
The volume of the water raised by it at a single
turn, surpasses, it is said, that of the whole
machine itself. It is thought that it will soon
replace the ordinary pumps, as well as the fire-
engines. A manufactory has been established
for making it upon a large scale, and agents
have
been sent to Europe, to prepare for its intro-
duction in England and France.—French Paper.

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