The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-19 00:00:00

CANTERBURY ELECTION.

A very numerous and respectable body of the
Freemen of the City of Canterbury, residing in Lon-
don and its vicinity, attended last night at the -White
Hart, Giltspur-street, for the-purpose of promoting
the return of Colonel Torrens, as Member of Par-
liament for that city, in the event of a vacancy,
which is expected soon to occur, in consequence of
the appointment of Mr. Lushington to the Governor-
ship of Madras.
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Mr. G. AMOS was unanimously called to the
Chair ; and
Mr. SITELDRAKE, tile Secretary, read the minutes
of a former Meeting, by which it had been resolved,
that it was of the utmost importance that some one
should be called upon to undertake the Representa-
tion of the City of Canterbury in Parliament on the
independent principle, and that Colonel Torrens
should be called upon to stand forward as a Candi-
date on that principle—and invited to attend the
Meeting of last night, in order to state his senti-
ments, and give the Freemen assembled an oppor-
tunity of judging whether they could conscientiously
support him.
Colonel Torrens accordingly attended, and was
introduced by Mr. Sheldrake, and was received by
the Meeting with great applause.
Colonel TORRENS then addressed the freemen, and
commenced by observing, that he was most happy
to come forward in obedience to their Requisition,
to state his sentiments before them, and give them
an opportunity of judging whether, in case of a va-
cancy, he was a proper person to represent them in
Parliament. At the same time, it was right to
ob-
serve, that there- was no actual vacancy, and that it
was not very certain that any such would imme-
diately occur, and therefore he could only say at pre-
sent, that if a vacancy should occur, he would cer-
tainly, if he met with proper encouragement, obey
their summons, and offer himself a Candidate for
their suffrages. The freemen would, however, ob-
serve, that the situation of Governor of Madras,
which had been accepted by one of their present re-
presentatives, was not strictly such a government
situation as necessarily compelled him to vacate his
seat; and if he thought proper to take their votes
With him to India in his pocket, he might perhaps
be able to do so, and, in fact, after having taken the
oaths required by his new situation, he had attended
his place in Parliament. But be that as it might,
there was some probability, on account of recent
events, that a General Election would soon take
place, and in that case he would certainly do himself
the honour to apply to them for their support. Having.
said so much on that head, he begged their permis-
sion to advert to the most extraordinary political
events of the present time—most extraordinary,
surely, they might be called, when those persons
wi:-) had assumed an extravagant and almost exclu-
sive pretension to loyalty, had turned their backs
upon his Majesty, and entered into a foul conspiracy
against the prerogative of the Crown.—(Loud ap-
plause.)—He did not mean to say that those con-
spirators had gone so far as to attempt to dethrone
his Majesty, and to alter the order of succession in
the House of Brunswick, but he did say that they
had attempted to erect seven other petty thrones
in his Majesty's stead, and that these Tory
traders had endeavoured now to put down the
King, as they had before endeavoured to put
down the, rights of the people.—(Applause.)—
if he should ever be called upon to represent them
in Parliament, he would certainly set himself against
this species of Oligarchy, and represent them on the
principle of Loyalty to the King, and liberty to the
People.—(Applause.)—After all, he believed that
these Tory conspirators acted, not so much out of
disloyalty to the King, as of personal hatred of Mr.
Canning. Why they should hate Mr. Canning, it
was not so easy to say, and he could only answer
the question by asking another—Why did the Devil
bate holy water ? Why did bats and owls detest the
light ? The reason was, that they hated the light
because their deeds were darkness, and these people
hated Mr. Canning because lie was a friend to liberty.
—(Applause.)—ln order to understand this the
better, it was material to look back a little upon the
circumstances in which the country had been placed
a little before and after the times at which Mr.
Canning had come into office as a Cabinet Mi-
nister. At the close of the war, our fleets and
armies had brought it to a successful termination in
the Peninsula, While we acted in concert with
the free Government of Spain. Then, when Fer-
dinand escaped from the thraldom in which Buona-
parte had held him, he overturned the free, Govern-
ment which had fought for him and liberated him,
and the Duke of Wellington acquiesced in the re-
storation of the despotism. Then Spain itself rose
against the misrule, and the Constitution was again
restored, but the despots of Europe, acting upon the
Castlereagh system, had again restored despotism—
he said the Castlereagh system, by which the at-
tempt had been made to crush freedom all over the
world. By that system ;he famed Republic of Venice
had been handed over to the despotism of Austria;
and Genoa had been consigned to its ancient des-
potic enemy, the King of Sardinia. By that system
England was made a mere tail to be dragged after
the chariots of the Despots of Enrope. Such was
the state of things when Mr. Canning came into office
as a Minister ;and then what could he do ? He could
not restore what had been so deranged. But he
did what he could. He speedily put an end to the
close connection which had been established with the
Despots of Europe, and supported the cause of Con-
stitutional freedom among the South American
States, and in Portugal, and he was now employed
in negotiations to secure, if possible, the free-
dom of Greece; and this was the cause of

the hatred of these Tory conspirators towards
Mr. Canning. They asked why should Mr. Con-
niny have been so much more popular than Lord
Castlereagh ? Their different modes of acting in
many
.important particulars sufficiently accounted for
that, and Englishmen were not slow in the percep-
tion of what was meritorious in their rulers, and to
bestow on them liberally such applause as they de-
served.—(Loud cheers.)—The Freemen whom he
then had the honour to address, were the first great
public body of Electors who had assembled since the
strange political events which had lately happened,
%and he felt particularly gratified at the manner in
which these sentiments were received. He trusted
they were a symptom of the feeling which would
soon be manifested all over the kingdom, and he was
most happy that the manifestation of that feeling
had commenced with the Men of Kent,—(loud
cheering;)—that the voice had arisen first among
those men who had always stood foremost in loyalty
to their King and patriotism to, their Country—
. Men of Kent distinguished long, •
In hist'ry's page, in poet's song," &c.

He had little more to say to them at present. He
was a friend to civil and religious liberty all over
the world, while, at the same, he would do all in his
power to take care that the Protestant Religious
Establishment of this country should be fully pro-
tected. He would oppose any Oligarchy which
might attempt to destroy at once the prerogative of
the Crown and the liberties of the people. The
prerogatives of the Crown were established for the
sake of the liberties of the people, and the good of
the community; and he who supported the just
prerogatives of the Crown, at the same time sup-
ported the true liberties and interests of the people,
and when an Oligarchy of men attempted to set
themselves up at the expence both of the Crown
and the people, then came the season for
" Flying from petty Tyrants to the Throne."
He repeated, that if a vacancy should occur, he
would be happy to offer himself as a Candidate for
the high honour of representing the ancient city of
Canterbury.
The CHAIRMAN remarked, that the cause for the
support of which they were assembled was that of
independence—a very serious consideration, consider-
ing the immense multitudes of human beings whose
destinies were connected with the votes of English
electors. As for their votes being carried to India
in the pockets of one of their present Representa-
tives, they must endeavour by some means to coun-
teract any attempt of that description.
Mr. FULLER, the Deputy Chairman, stated that
some Gentlemen around him wished to know what
were the sentiments of Col. Torrens on the subject
of Parliamentary Reform ?
Mr. SIIELDRAKE, the Secretary, thought, that as
Colonel Torrens was not as yet actually a candidate,
it might be as well to refrain from questioning him
more particularly at present.
Col. TORRNS said, that he had no objection even
then to state in general terms, that he was a decided
friend to the liberty of the subject; and would cer-
tainly promote, to the utmost of his power, every.
improvement that might appear to be wisely con-
ceived and was likely to be well executed.
A FREEMAN next inquired, whether Colonel
Torrens was disposed to be a supporter of Catholic
Emancipation ?
Colonel TORRENS observed, that he had already,
as he conceived, answered that question, when he
stated that be was a friend to civil and religious
liberty. • But at the same time, he would require
the most ample security for the Protestant Establish-
ments of this country. He was a true son of the-.
Church, as they might readily believe, when he
stated that his father had been a fat Protestant Rec-
tor, with a very good Living ; that his mother's
father had been in the same situation ; and that he
had two brothers—one a Rector, and the other a
Dean, with the prospect of becoming a Bishop, on
the Irish Protestant Establishment. No one could
be a more decided friend than he was to the Protes-
tant ascendancy in this country ; and as to the charg(
of Popery, he threw back the stigma upon thos(•
Tory conspirators who had restored the Pope,
brought back Ferdinand and the Inquisition, were
themselves Monks and Jesuits in principle, and were
supported by that devilish party of Apostolicals in
France and Spain which was so anxious to under-
mine in this country that' firm Protestant rock,
against which all the waves of Popery would beat in
vain.—(Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN then called upon the Freemen tc
mark by a show of hands how far they were disposed
to support Colonel Torrens, iR case he should ap-
ply for their suffrages in the event of a vacancy.
The show of hands was decidedly in favour of Col.
Torrens, and none were held up against him.

Colonel TORRENs then stated, that in case he
were to become a Candidate for the ancient City of
Canterbury, be must depend upon the out voters in
London and its vicinity, for he knew well what sort
of Treasury influence, and other influence, prevailed
among a great portion of the residents in the City.
He felt himself, therefore, bound to state candidly,
that unless he could secure a great majority of the
out-voters, he would not think it either wise or pru-
dent to hazard a contest. He, therefore, threw him-
self entirely on their exertions.
The Meeting soon after separated.

Died, on Thursday last, Matthias Kerrison,
Esq., of Bungay. Mr. Kerrison was one of the most ex-
traordinary characters that this age has distinguished 1)
the accumulation of property. Born in the meanest con-
dition of life, and enjoying none of the advantages of edu-
cation beyond the commonest rudiments, Mr. Kerrison yet
has amassed, by trade and by saving, property not much
short probably of a million sterling, much of which is
vested in the fine estates, late the possessions of Lord May-
nard and Marquess Cornwallis. His own habits of life
than
agreeable,
,
O thatF
otherwise
were of a very plain kind. The gallant Sir Edward Ker-
rison is his son, and probably succeeds to his immense
wealth.—Norwich Mercury.
VALLADOLID.—The As
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evening I accompanied them to a tertullia, which was at-
tended by all the fashion of the place. I really think then
is less of art in the composition of Spanish women than of
any other people whatsoever. They neither paint nor patch,
nor have those periodical rnoultings of feathers, which fa-
shion elsewhere prescribes ; but they all dress nearly alike,
and in the same way all seasons ; so that Senora Maria is
only to be distinguished from Senora Mariana by a coun-
tenance more melancholy, by black eyes swimming in
More maiden whiteness, or by a figure (which is ever grace-
ful) of a somewhat larger or smaller mould. The fasquina,
or black silk petticoat, is generally bordered at the botton,
with black beads, and so disposed into an open kind of net-
work, as to afford the curious eye a casual felicity of admir-
ing the most beautiful ancles in the world. Their stock-
ings are of white silk, anti they are never without a mantels
(an ample veil of white lace) which is gracefully hung over
their head and shoulders when they go abroad, and at other
times adopted as a shawl. Small pieces of lead are attached,
I understand, to the bottom of the fasquinas, which account,
for the lonian elegance of its foldings and fall. Amidst
the many changes that Spain has undergone, the women
alone seem to he unchanged. Lattices, and jealousies, and
duennas, and indeed all that used to give love-making such
a romantic air in this beyond that of any other country,
have long since disappeared ; but the passion itself still con-
stitutes the existence of Spanish women. It is not, how-
ever, that intriguing kind of love, which we hear of it.
France, where a lady changes her love as easily and as oftet
as her glover ; but rather devotion to one object, which
renders them the greatest tyrants in the world, and makes
them exact more adoration than was ever offered up at an)
idol's shrine. —Adventurts in the Peninsula.

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THE ENTERVIU SR .O,EA-VE SSE L.
This liesselAslSit;g4trkst.'l4.4pited for the
naval serviei eirkl*',o**o4l,4".ativit' h depart-
ed for its
.cleat, ,ina a 1!:! .' , F.V44l ' early nine
olf
months, enqi...' 4 ', •iitl:v44, d making al-
terations in, gip.
~, ..s*AtOttile steam-engines.
The Enterprza was remove d from the builder's
dock to the moorings at Deptford in July last,
land left Deptford for -Greece on the 13th inst.
From the account whiCh has been given to us of
the mode in which the •voyage as far as Dover,
has been performed, we should conceive that the
vessel will fall much short of the expectation
which has been raised respecting her by those
who have sent her to Greece, and that she is
much inferior in that respect to the Persever-
ance which was sent out last year. The Enter-
prise did not reach Dover till the afternoon of
the 16th. It appears that some delays not at-
tributable to the mechanism of the vessel did
take place, and it would be therefore incorrect to
say that a voyage which is frequently performed
in about twelve hours from the river, occupied
three or four days, but enough delay did occur
to prove that the Enterprise is far from adequate
to-the service for which she has been construct-
ed. As this is a question of much public in-
terest, the delay and difficulty in fitting out these
vessels having been even insinuated as a charge
against the country of seeking to embarrass the
Greeks, we annex a short journal of the voyage
to Dover (divested ofteehnicallanguage) in proof
of what we have asserted above :

"APRIL 13.—The Enterprise left Deptford,
and dropped down to Blackwall.
14.—Got under weigh at four in the after-
noon. Steam-gauge, 36 ; rate of going, 44-
miles per hour. The Enterprise steers well,
which is her best quality. Brought up again
almost immediately, and made fast to the East
India moorings, in consequence of a boat, and
part of the crew, which was sent for stores, not
having returned. Remained all night.
" 15th.—Got under weigh at four o'clock
the morning, and reached Gravesend at 35
minutes after six o'clock. The tide was very
strong in favour. Just below Gravesend, at the
request of the engineer, the engine was stopped,
on doing which the vessel became unmanagea-
ble, and it was necessary to let go the anchor to
prevent her going on shore. Got under weigh
again at a quarter before eight ; but on reaching
a part of the river a few miles on this side of the
Nore, the steam-guage had sunk down to 23,
and at 11, when within two miles of the Nore-
light, the steam was all consumed. The engine
was consequently stopped to supply the boilers,
and it was half-past 'l2 before the vessel was
again able to proceed. The steam-guage was
then 36, and the rate of going through the water
was not more than 34 miles per hour. At one
o'clock in the afternoon the steam-gauge had
fallen to 264, and at quarter past two to 244.
At three o'clock it was understood that the steam
would not possess sufficient power to work the
vessel above one hour longer, and that three or
four hours would .be necessary to rectify her
defects, and bring her to her average degree of
velocity. At four o'clock came to anchor not
far from the buoy of the Spaniard.
" 16th.—At six in the morning got under
weigh, and at nine o'clock the North Foreland
was S. by W. The average pressupr:eter.,o,f the
steam from six to nine, by the guage, was 35
from 9to 12, 34. Reached Dover at half past
two in the afternoon, at which time the steam
rti onw ofas
guage was down to 214, andmethrleal
portion vessel
proceeding very slowly through the w
The above comprises the in
andthe journal, .it
experiment,remains tom,b,ilel
firstthis, like the seen
b eiphaerte
characte-
rized as a successful performance by the
interested.—Times.

BERLIN, APRIL 7.—On the 17th of March,
the Government at Posen leaned a notice, contradicting a
report spread among the inhabitants of the Circle of Birn-
baum, that the Empress of Russia would come to Berlin,
and on her return to Russia, take with her many thousand
people from the Prussian States, to settle as colonists in
Russia.

THE NEW LONDON BRIDGE--The con-
struction of the New Bridge across the Thames, is proceed-
ing with great rapidity. The foundations of four out of
the five arches have been laid. The piers of the two
arches on the Surrey side have been raised considerably
above high-water mark ; the wood work is completed, and.
the masons are beginning to turn the arches with atone.
On the City side, the foundation of the abutment only re-
mains to be sunk, the piers of two of the other arches
being completed, and that of the last arch in a very for-
ward state. The wood work for the third arch is nearly
ready, and will shortly be brought from the Isle of Dogs,,
when it is formed, and where also nearly the whole of the
stones used are hewn to their proper dimensions. In order
to widen the water-way at the old bridge, and to lessen.
the fall, which was much increased by the obstruction oc-
casioned by the coffer-dams for the new bridge, on each
side of the old bridge two arches have been thrown into
one. From the great labour required to demolish the stone
work, it is apparent that the bridge would have withstood
the ravages of time for another century at least. It is fully
expected that the new bridge will be completed within the
vity displayed.
period first stated (Are years, we believe), such is the acti-

RESTORATION OF A NOSE.--On Thursday
last, Mr. Liston, surgeon in this city, performed an ope-
ration of a very peculiar nature on the face of a young
man, whose nose had been almost completely obliterated,
by the effects of a severe blow. The appearance of his
face had been rendered quite hideous, more like that of .a
death's head than of a living mortal. The method of re-
storing the lost feature is called the Taliacotian operation,
from the name of the surgeon who is said to have first
performed it. This is the first time it has ever been tried,
in Scotland, and it is hoped from the success attending the
operation, that it may not be the last. The writer of this
was a non-medical witness, who saw Mr. Liston operate
before the pupils attending his class. The courage of the
young man who was to undergo the operation, had been
screwed up to the cutting point, and it was somewhat dif-
ficult to say whether the dexterity of the operator, or the
fortitude of his patient, was most to be admired. The
first part of the operation is to cut off a portion of the
small remnant of the original nose, for the purpose of form-
ing a surface to which the new nose may be attached, and
finally adhere by the complete vital union of parts. The
second stage of the operation is to flay down from the CC .1•-
tre of the forehead to the top of the nose a portion of the
skin and muscles which will be of sufficient size, when
propped up, to form the external appearance of the organ.
The upper portion of this skin is cut very narrow to forin
the division of the nostrils, and the whole is then turned
upside down and laid over the part where the nose should
he. It is then firmly attached to the face by means of a
number of single stitches of the needle, and left to adhere
and heal up, which generally very soon occurs. It is true
that a gash of rather an unseemly appearance is made in
the forehead ; but by means of adhesive plaster the edges
of the fresh wound are made very nearly to meet, and
when it is healed up, there only remains a scar, which is
but a very trifling disparagement to the countenance of
min, compared with the disagreeable look which always
attends a defect in the nasal premontory. The operation
altogether lasted nearly half an hour, but the time during
which the knife was actually applied to the parts, and in
which alone the pain mast have been eery intense, was not
more than two or three minutes. It may not be out of
place to mention, that tie same able and dexterous surgeon
about, ten days previously, performed an operation on the
same organ of a gentleman of this city, whose nose, from
some constitutional idiosyncrasy, had grown to a most un-
natural size. Instead of presenting, as he did formerly, the
appearance of a handful of large strawberries attached to
his face, by some maladroit operation of nature, this gen-
tleman actually can now, by means of the plastic hand of
Mr. Liston, exhibit a nose of as elegant a form as if it had
been Cast in the purest Roman model.—Caledonian
Mercury.

I:ENT ASSIZES.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.-:.TiNTON, APRIL 16.

CROWN SIDE.

William Parker, the 'boots at the London Inn,
Tannton, was indicted for breaking open the writ-
ing-desk of Mr. Alexander Bailer, a traveller for the
. house of Messrs. Edward Shepphard and Son,
clothiers, in Gloucestershire, and stealing therefrom
se)ove 801. in Bank notes. _

Ir appeared from Mr. Bailer's evidence, that he
left his desk in the travellers' room, at the London
Inn, Taunton, on Sunday the 18th Mai ch, and that
the case was brought to him opened, by Miss Willie,
the daughter of the landlord, on Monday morning
before he was up, and that the money was missing.
After dinner on Sunday, he was sitting by the fire
alone, when some person twice disturbed him as he
was dosing by entering the room, whom he believed
to be the boots.

On his cross-examination, Mr. Bailer said, he was
not intoxicated, nor was he asleep when sitting by
the fire, but his back was to the door, and he only
saw the shadow of some person, whom he supposed
to be the boots.

Manly, the head ostler, stated, that the
boots tame to him about six o'clock, and said the
house had been robbed: he went with him to No. 3,
and found the place in disorder.
This was all the evidence against the prisoner,
although other witnesses were called, and from the
cross-examination of several of them, it appeared
that the prisoner bore an excellent character.
The JUDGE asked Mr. Moody if he wished this
case to go to the Jury.
Mr. Moody said, he did not wish to press the
case, and

The JUDGE said, God forbid that upon such evi-
dence as that, a man should be put on his defence on
a capital charge.
Mr. William Browne, one of the partners in the
late firm of Cavenagh, Browne, and Co., bankers,
of Bath, appeared to plead to an indictment for em-
bezzling propertybelonging to the estate:of that firm,
they having become bankrupts. By an arrangement
between the counsel, it was agreed to postpone his
trial until the next Assizes. Sir William Cham-
bers Bagshaw and Mr. James Randolph, put in bail
for his appearance to take his trial at Bridgewater,
in a penalty of 500/. each, and the bankrupt in 1,0001.
Elizabeth Viner, 15 years of age, was indicted fot
administering poison to Mrs. Tereza .Eliza Fry, of
the parish of Monkton Coornb, near Bath, (in whose
service she was placed by the parish officers of Bath,)
with intent to murder her.

Mr. GUNNING stated the case. Mrs. Fry keeps a
school for young ladies at Coomb Villa, about two
miles from Bath. About 10 months ago she took
tie prisoner from Walcot parish, intending to have
her bound as an apprentice. Some sugar of lead
was soon after this brought into the house for a gen-
tleman who lived there, for the purpose of making a
mixture to apply to his eves. Three weeks before
the offence was committed (the 4th of December
last), the girl brought the paper of sugar of lead to
her mistress, calling it burnt alum, and Lnquired if it
would not be well to apply some of it to the child's
mouth. Mrs. Fry was very much alarmed at this
suggestion, told her it was poison, and wrote upon
it, " Sugar of lead—poison." This packet was
then put on the higher shelf of a cupboard in the
parlour, which was locked up. On the morning of
the 4th of December, Mrs. Fry found herself ill, and
desired that the cook should prepare her some arrow-
root. The prisoner brought it to her in a basin, and
said that the cook wished her to sweeten it herself.
Mrs. Fry observed something on the top of the basin
like water, and said, " Why the cook has put water
in this." The girl said she had seen the cook make
it, and she put nothing but milk in it. The
prosecutrix then tasted it, and found it very sweet.
She then said, " I thought you told me the
cook had put nothing into it." She first found
it very sweet, but afterwards it turned acid in ,
her mouth. She then a-id she thought there was
cream of tartar in it. The girl said nothing. On
the cook's being sent for, sire said she had put
nothing into it but arrow-root, and took a spoonful
of it herself. She was soon afterwards seized
with violent pains in her stomach. This
alarmed the mistress, and the cupboard was searched
for the sugar of lead, as also for some oxalic acid,
which had been left in the cupboard some months
before. They could find neither. Mrs. Fry then
desired her husband to carry the basin to her doctor,
Mr. Day, who told him he had no doubt there was
something of a noxious quality mixed with the arrow-
root. Medicines were then administered to both
the females, and Mrs. Fry was ill for some consider-
able time afterwards. The prisoner, on being charged
with putting poison into the arrow-root, denied it,
" I wish I may be struck dead if I know any
thing about it." Afterwards, she began to cry a
great deal, and told a relation of her mistress's, who
happened to be in the house, that she could tell her
all about it. They went into another room, and
the prisoner said she saw the cook take something
out of a paper, and put it into the arrow-root, after
which she threw the paper into the grate in the
:itchen. She afterwards mixed it ail up together
with milk, and boiled it in a saucepan. The state-
ment she repeated in the presence of the cook, and
she offered to attest the truth of it upon her oath.
On the following Wednesday evening, she went into
the breakfast-parlour, and falling down on her knees,
confessed to Mrs. Fry that she had put the sugar of
lead into the arrow-root herself; but said she had
not seen any thing of the oxalic acid.
Mr: Cuff, chemist, of Bath, proved that a basin
was brought to him by Mr. Fry, that it contained
arrow-root, that he analysed it, and that it did not
contain any sugar of lead or oxalic acid. From the
evidence of Mr. and Mrs. Fry, it appeared that the
basin had passed through a great many different
hands, from the time it was taken from Mrs. Fry to
that at which it was analysed by Mr. Cuff, so that
it was impossible to say that the contents were the
same.

Mr. Justice PARK stopped the case, observing,
that after this it would be impossible to arrive at a
legal conviction, and it would be better at once to
acquit the prisoner.
The Jury acquitted her.

George Gore and ./chn Wall were indicted for
feloniously assaulting and robbing George Day on
the King's highway at Banwell.
BAyi.v called George Day.—l am a farmer at
Winseomb. I was returning from Banwell on the
20th of November. I left Banwell for Winscomb
about nine in the evening. It was about a mile
from one place to the other. I was overtaken by
two men. I spoke to them. I said, " Night to ye.'4.
They made no answer. I said what countrymen
One of them said west-countrymen. I asked where
tile's/ were going ? One of them said to Wood-
borough. We walked together from 200 to 300
yards. 'f,'?ey asked me what I had been to Ban-
well for ? I said to buy two hatchets and a hook.—
It was a very star-light night. I saw one of them
distinctly, not the other. George Gore is the man
saw. The other held down his head. One of
them struck me down ; he hit me on the cheek-bone
—(The manner of this witness excited laughter in
the gallery. The Judge said, " Who is that laugh-
ing ? This is a very serious matter ; it becomes no
one to behave in this way. This must be a very depra-
ved county for the people to enjoy these things.")—
Ile knocked me down on the road; they hove me
tip and put me on the bank ; both of them picked
my pockets; one pat his hand in one pocket, and
the other in the other pocket. One of them said,
" -- ye, I'll have no squeaking; if we do, I'll
put it on you." I had halfpence about me, but I
am not sure that I had silver. They robbed ma of
ever! thing. George Gore stood by me, the other left
me ; he pulled my waistcoat open, and searched my
inside pockets. George said, " your eyes,
you used to carry a watch with you, where is he
now ?" I told him the glass was broken, and I
had not carried it for some days past; he stayed
with me about four minutes; he pulled mrbreecheS
don, a.,1 turned my watch-pocket inside out. He
:said I had more monev ; I told him I had not. As

I was buttoning up my breeches, he used most
abusive language, and knocked me down again. I
cannot swear to Wall.

The Jury found Gore, Guilty—John Wall, Not
Guilty.
Mr. Justice PARK told Gore that he should show
lenity in his particular case, as he had not manifested
so great a degree of cruelty (although it was still
very great) as to induce him to leave him for exe-
cution. He had laid it down as a rule, from which
he had never departed in his judicial career, to
punish highway robbery with death, whenever it
was attended with circumstances of violent cruelty.
George Gregory was indicted for a rape on Han-
nah Smith, at Under-hill, in the parish of Midsum-
mer Norton.

The Jury acquitted the prisoner.
Two other prisoners, John Short, aged IC, and
John Rogers, aged 9, were indicted for a misde-
meanour with the same woman.

Mr. Justice PARK said, that as they had given no
credit to the prosecution in the former case, they
would hardly do so in the present. Indeed, the law
deemed that the younger of the prisoners was incapa-
ble of the offence.

The Jury acquitted the prisoners.
The JUDGE said that, from the depositions, it ap-
peared that they had behaved with great rudeness
and impropriety, adding, " My little lads, don't con-
tinue this course; follow your calling as good little
lads, and don't attend to wicked advisers, who would
seduce you into wicked courses."
In the course of the day, Mr. Justice PARK re-
ferred to the extraordinary length of the calendar,
and observed, that the county of Somerset must be
an extremely wicked county; that he had gone over
all the counties of England, but had never met with
one in which there was so dreadful a list of criminals.
Between 60 and 70 in the calendar were under 20
years of age.

GLOUCESTER, TUESDAY, APRIL 17.

CIVIL SIDE,

JOHN SA xx)ronD ROWLES, DEMANDANT V. DEVEREUX
BOWEN', OTHERWISE. BOWLES', TENS T.

This was a writ of entry sur disseisin en k post.
The deraandant claimed an estate at Chesterton, near
Cirencester, as heir-at-law of Mr. Robert Sandford, of
Cirencester, deceased. The tenant held the estate
as a bona fide purchaser, for a valuable consideration,
from a Mr. Davis, who purchased of a Mr. Self, who
took the estate by virtue of a deed of gift made in
consideration of love and affection from Mr. Timbre'',
the sole devisee of the same Mr. Robert Sandford.
The question at issue was, whether Mr. Sandford's
will, dated March 12, 1804, was valid, or through
the weakness of the testator's mind was void. The
witnesses were ordered to withdraw, and be kept
separate.

Mr. LUDLOW, for the tenant, began and stated his
client's case, which will appear from the evidence.
Mr. Thomas Saggars, from Doctors'-commons,
produced the will.

Wm. Lawrence, Esq., formerly a surgeon—l was
acquainted with the late Mr. Robert Sandford, and
am one of the attesting witnesses to his will. I saw
the testator and the other two witnesses sign their
names. All the witnesses and the testator were in
the same room. I knew the testator intimately for
many years ; his illness lasted a long time; I at-
tended him; he was perfectly sound in his intellects,
and collected during his illness; he died of an en-
largement of the prostate gland; he had a very su-
perior understanding, and was a well-educated man;
about a fortnight after making the will he died;
I saw him daily; his understanding was good for
days after the execution of his will, and he was per-
fectly collected.
Joseph Cripps, of Cirencester, banker, M.P., one
of the Chairmen.of the, Quarter Sessions—l was
born at Cirencester; and resided there all my life. I
remember witnessing Mr. Sandford's will. I then
was present with Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Roberts.
Roberts was one of my clerks. The testator held
the pen himself; he was feeble from illness but in
as perfect state of mind as ever he was.- and
Mr. Timbrell used to call each other cousins; both
lived at Cirencester. They were extremely inti-
mate indeed.

By Mr. CamPßELL—There are some interlinea-
tions in the will. Have you any recollection of see-
ing them ?—No, I have not.—[Mr. Campbell handed
up the will.]
You observe the word interlineations in the at-
testation ?—I do.

Does not the final s seem written at a different
time ?—lt seems in a different ink.

Mr. Roberts.—! was one of the attesting wit-
nesses, and remember the execution of the will by
Mr. Sandford, who appeared to be in complete pos-
session of his faculties. I had known him for seve-
ral years before, but not intimately. In my opinion
he was a man of sense. Mr. Sandford said, " You
may wonder, Mr. Cripps, at my not doing this be-
fore ; but Mr. Ledyard knows why." The letters
" Richd. Robe" are my writing. The letter s, and
the letters ts, appear to me to be an alteration, and
I know nothing of it. The execution of the will
took place regularly, according to my supposition.
Joseph Pitt, Esq., M.P.—I lived for many years
at Cirencester, and practised there as an attorney
from 1779 to 1811. I knew Mr. Sandford intimately.
He had read a great deal, and was a man of strong
sense. Ido not know that he ever was deprived of
his mind by illness. I know Mr. Timbrell and Mr.
Self. They are both magistrates. Sandford arid
Timbrell were very intimate. They were, I believe,
first cousins once removed.

Edward Cripps, Esq.—l am a Magistrate. I
knew the latP Mr. Sandford and was intimate with
him. Our intimacy continued, as long as he saw
people, up to his decease. ' He was a man of re-
markably strong mind, which he retained to the last.
I remember him during the time of his last illness,
that impaired his bodily strength, but not his mind.
I know Mr. Timbrell. He and Mr. Sandford were
on remarkably good terms. They called each other
cousins.

Cross-examined—l saw Mr. Sandford within a
month or six weeks of his death. The last time I
saw him was at his own house, within six weeks
of his death. I have seen him when under the
affliction of his disorder, in pain, but I did not think
it affected his mind. He never conversed with me
about the disposition of his affairs. He did not fre-
quent his club within a twelvemonth of his death.
Edward Wibraham, Esq., a Magistrate—l have
resided chiefly at Cirencester. I knew Mr. Sand-
ford and Mr. Timbrell. They were on the most
friendly terms. He appeared to me a very sound sen-
sible man. Up to the last time I saw him I never
noticed any failure of his natural intellect. I know
of no other relation to him than Mr. Timbrell.

Mr. TAUNTON.—The question to be tried is not
what was Mr. Sandford's understanding during the
whole period of his life, but what the state of his
mind was at the time the will was made, and re-
ceived the form of signing. There were three ser-
vants, and I shall call them all, and if, as I am in-
structed, they prove that Mr. Sandford had been
gradully sinking into a state of dotage and imbe-
cility, and did acts which will show you his under-
standing was gone, you will not think he was
competent to do so solemn an act as to make a will
in which he disinherits his heir-at-law. I charste
that the will was made by conspiracy, and that the
conspirators were Timbrell, Self, and Ledyard. The
will devises the whole estates, with the exception of
a few legacies, to Timbrell. The present action is
brought for a part of the property, the Chesterton
estate, worth 9,000/. -Within four short months,
he makes a deed of gift to Mr. Self of this estate.
What Ledyard received I cannot prove; but the in-
ference is, he did not Lind himself the worse for be-
ing the penman on this occasion. It I make out my
statement with adequate proof, I shall sit down with
perfect confidence that you will do justice, and re-
store the demandant to his rights.
Mrs. Curtis—My maiden name was Ann Smith.
I lived with Mr. Sandford seven years and three
months before his death. He had suffered much
from illness. He had an influenza 12 months befoi4
his death, and never from that time down to his
death had his proper senses for a long time together.

Sometimes he was in his senses, but for a very little
time, and then he used to let very particular friends
see him, such as Mr. Timbrell, Mr. Self,. and Mr.
Ledyard. They would come not very often once
or twice a week. At other times he was childish;
would ring his bell unnecessarily, put his snuff in
his tea, , and he would drink it
if we had not minded him. We could not leave
him when in that way for a minute together. I had
been with him five or six years before he was so bad
as that. He would ring the bell at night and ask
for his dinner, which he used to have at two. It
was Frances's business to go up. On the 12th of
March, 1804, I was called up at one o'clock in the
morning by a violent ringing of the bell. I got up
as fast as I could. He told me he was dying. I
thought he said dine ; so I said, " Dine ! it is one
o'clock in the morning." He said, "I am dying."
I then understood him. I asked him who I should
call. He said, "No one." He then said, " There
is some money in the drawer, you must give it to
me : I have never made a will, and never shall; and
I must give you something." I looked in the drawer,
found nine guineas, and took them to him, and said I
would call Fanny. He gaie me six guineas, and
three guineas for Fanny. I asked him several times
who I should call ; he said, "No one." I said;
" Shall I call Mr. Ledyard ?"—"No." " Mr. Tim-
brell ?"—" No." I pressed upon him to call some
one, and at last he said I might call Ledyard, and he
might call Timbrell. I went to Butter-row to Mr.
Ledyard, who kept a small stationer's shop there,and
called him. Mr. Sandford had not mentioned either
Ledyard or Timbrell's name befcre I did. In a quarter
of an hour Ledyard came alone, and went to his room,
I heard nothing pass between them, but left them
together. Mr. Timbrell came in half an hour, and
went up to his room, where he and Ledvard conti-
nued upwards of two hours. I and Fanny occa-
sionally went in. They seemed in very close con-
versation together, but Mr. Sandford appeared to
take no notice. At the end of the two hours Tim-
brell came down into the hail, and went home, :mei
left Le,lyard in the room with Mr. Sandford, where
he continued all night. About nine, Timbrell came
back with Mr. Self, and they went tip to Mr. Sand-
ford's room. Ledyard came down for a quarter of
an hour, and then Timbrell and Self came down.
Self said " We have been trying with Mr. Sandford
that he should make his will ; but we can make no-
thing at all of it; and, Nanny, it is you must do it.
You must put him forward; you must rouse him."
According to their orders, I went up to Mr. Sand-
ford's room. He was in a very stupid state, and I
went up and put my head on him to rouse him, and
I said " Here is Mr. Self, Ledyard, and Timbrell,
and you told me you had never made a will." He
said, " I never told any one but you and Ledyard ;
and what have Timbrell and Self to do with it ?"
I came down and told them the words. Self said,
" It's very true, Nanny." Ledyard then said " You
must put him forward, for I would not for a thou-
sand pounds but Mr. Sandford should make a will ;"
and he asked me who I could send for paper, pen,
and wax. I said " Martha Brown." He sent her
Ito Butter-row. He remained in the hall; she '
re-
turned, and Ledyatid, who had remained in the hall,
told me to take the paper, ink, pen, and wax, and
place them in the paper by the bed-side. Then Ledyard
came up to the room, and said it was not the
right paper, and he ran out for other paper. I re-
mained with Mr. Sandford. He was not fit to make
a will, he had no recollection at all that day. Led-
, yard soon returned with the paper. He went up. I
saw him sit it the table. Mr. Sandford took no
notice at all, and lay with his back to him. In a
quarter of an hour he came down in the hall, and
ordered a table to be put there, and he wrote.
about two hours, and then took what he had written
sip to Mr. Sandford's room, and came (limn and
asked me and Martha who we thought Mr. Sand-
ford would like to have to sign his will besides Mr.
Lawrence. Martha said Strong end Mr. William-
son. Strong at that moment passed by ; Martha
said " There is Strong, I'll call him in," but Ledy-
' and went Wei her , sent her back, and said he would
call some one. He went out to Mr. Hoare's, and
returned, saying he was not at home. He then
went to Mr. Joseph Cripps and Mr. Roberts, who
shortly came and went up stairs. They did not re-
main above a quarter of an hour or ten minutes, and
he was in the same state in which I had seen him
before. He was in bed, but was 'mit when Mr.
Cripps came. Martha, Frances, and .Myself
w'-
the only servants in the house. I did not assist
out of his bed, and be could not get in or out of bed
himself. Afterwards he was in the same stupid state
as before. About four o'clock Mr. Musgrove called,
and went up stairs. It was an hour after the will
was made. I went up with him. Musgrove said,
" How do you do, Sir." Mr. Sandford looked at
him, but did not answer. Musgrove asked me if he
had made a will. I said " Yes. Musgrove said,
" When ?" I said Ledyard had gone out with the
will about an hour. Musgrove said, " Was he in
this state when the will was made ?" I said," Yes."
Frances Pincock—l was five years and three
quarters before his death servant to Mr. Sandford.
He was taken ill with an influenza, and from that
period he declined about a year till his death. It
was my particular business to attend on him. He
often put pepper in the tea, and would have drank
it if I had let him. He often knocked with his
stick, and rung the hell at night-time, and asked for
dinner. I used to tell him he had dined, and ac-
quainted him what the time was. He would strike
the table with his stick every five minutes, and when
I came he said he did not know what he wanted.
On the morning of the will, at one o'clock, the bell
rung; Ann went; returned with nine guineas. I
got up. Ann went back into Mr. Sandford's room,
and I followed. He said he should get out of his
bed; I assisted him. He asked me to put on his
coat; I did so. He ordered me to look up his
pocket handkerchiefs and napkins from off the bed,
and to tell them. I did so; he made me put them
all in his pocket ; he then laughed and said, he never
had so many pocket handkerchiefs in his life. After
that, he screamed out, and seemed in a very out-
rageous state. I went down, when Ledyard came
into the room. Curtis attended Mr. Sandford that
morning. I did not go in till after ten. He was in
bed; Ledyard was with him. I came in to him several
times, and spoke to him, but he made me no answer.
Timbrell left at three o'clock in the morning, and came
again between nine and ten. I heard Ledyard say,
that Sandford had said that Lawrence had gone into
the servants' room. At that time Lawrence had
not been in the house. I saw Mr. Timbrell and Mr.
Self come from his bed-room. They said they could
do nothing with him, and Mr. Self ordered Ann to
go up and rouse him to make the will. Ann came
down and said Mr. Sandford had put himself in a
passion, and said he had never told Timbrell and
Self he had not made a will, and what had they to
do with it ? Self said, "He never had." I was in
and out of his room all the day, and spoke to him,
but he never spoke to me.
Mrs. Crump—Was an out-door servant of Mr.
Sandford for three years before his death; he was
ill, and a year before his death he had the influenza
and a fever; he used to do many childish and foolish
tricks ; the witness detailed many things, which, if
true, would clearly have proved him to have been
in his dotage.
Mr. LUDLOW.—AII the criminal trials during these
assizes put together do not amount to a question of
so much importance as the question before you to-
day, for you are to sit in judgment not only on the
character of living respectable witnessess, but are
called upon by the demandant to stigmatize, awl
consign to irreparable infamy, the character of the
dead. I have heard of dead bodies taken up to have
an inquest sit upon them, but never heard of
an inquest before upon the characters of the dead.—
The learned counsel commented-with great acute-
ness upon the evidence of the witnesses, and before
he had finished hi; reply, the jury intimated that
they were satisfied upon "the case, and • without
giving Mr. Sergeant Bosanquet the trouble to sum
up the evidence, -they'fOund a verdict for the tenant,
thereby establitlling the will.
The trial lasted the whole of the day.

- To. _
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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1827.

We learn that Rear-Admiral Sir EDWARD
OWEN and Sir GEORGE CLERK are to succeed
Lord DOWNES and Sir HENRY HARDINGE,
at the Beard of Ordnance, and that Mr. DEN-
NISON is to be one of the Counsel of the Duke
Of CLARENCE, instead of Sir GEORGE CLERK.

The Ultras are still said to delude themselves
with the phantom of expectation, which confirms
the old saying, " that while there is life there is
hope." Their theories upon the subject of Mr.
CANNING'S finding it impossible to get on, are
very beautiful and ingenious superstructures, and
want little but a foundation in fact. They build a
great deal on the idea that the KING told some
Archbishop or other, that notwithstanding Mr.
CANNING'S appointment, his MAJESTY was
going to maintain a balance in the Government,
by having an Anti-Catholic Chancellor, an Anti-
Catholic Home Secretary, an Anti-Catholic
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and an Anti-Ca-
tholic Secretary for Ireland. Some conversation
between his MAJESTYand the Archbishop may
have taken place, but we should require stronger
testimony to convince us that the Sovereign had
unfolded the secrets of his Royal mind to his
Grace, of CANirityesyttlr, The poor fellows
who are out, persist in fancying that Mr. CAN-
NING meant to form a Catholic Administra-
tion ; and they derive most unwarrantable sa-
tisfaction fnam, ,ev'ary circumstance which
contradict* tliiA gratuitous impression. We every
day hear fartherproofs that, notwithstanding, their
solemn asseveration to the contrary, the Ex-Party
looked on the last Cabinet as decidedly Anti-Ca-
tholic, and not as really neutral on that subject.
Judging from. themselves, they thought that Mr.
CANNING would act as unfairly on his side of the
question, and having once taken up this notion,
they cannot get rid of it, and fancy they see vascil-
lation and weakness in every introduction to the
Cabinet of an Anti-Catholic member. But they
had no grounds for supposing that Mr.CANNING
meant to force this measure on the nation. He
thinks, with all the greatest statesmen of
latter times, that Emancipation will alone re-
medy the wrongs of Ireland ; but he knows
that bigotry and obstinacy strengthen by in-
judicious and violent measures, and that mat-
ters are not yet ripe for making it a Cabinet
question. We can tell the Ultras, however,
that it will now have fair play, and that is all it
wants.

The LORD CIIANCELLOR, at the last rising
of the Court, said that be would sit this day and
Saturday, to give judgment upon a few of the
many cases waiting his Lordship's decision.—
The appointed day has arrived, but not so the
promised judgment, nor is there any day posi-
tively fixed for that important consummation,
so devoutly wished, but seldom realised at his
Lordship's doubtful hands. The question now
ix, will Lord ELDON ever give judgment ? and
the answer certainly inclines less to yes than no.
If he do not, Sir JOAN COPLEY will have
a precious legacy in the accumulated treasure of
his predecessor's briefs, savouring so largely of
dust and doubt ! The evils of a Chancery suit have
become proverbial, but the miseries of the " law's
delay " have never before been so fully realised
as in the present instance, when cases which have
danced attendance before the CHANCELLOR
for upwards of a quarter of a century are
in a fair way of being sent back to Coventry,
to begin their career de novo with " hope that
sickens" before a new Chancellor ! Upon
what principle of justice or common honesty
can such a course be defended ; is it not enough
that the greater part of the property in many
cases has been devoured during the creeping
progress of our Equity jurisdiction, which-L

Like a wounded snake drags its slow length along"
but the remainder is doomed to be swallowed
up expences of a re-hearing, consequent
upon the
dilatory nature of Lord ELDON'S pro-
ceedings,—

" Never ending—still beginning,
" Speaking still, and still destroying !
Should his Lordship sit in Court again,
we can
promise him a full attendance—not altogether
of disappointed suitors, but of those whO will
thank their stars that they were too late to be
disappointed. Men, after an age of labour retire
from. the world with the satisfaction of surveying
the good they have done either in public Or
private life, and saying in honest pride-t-
" .this is the...work of my hands." NoW
we doubt very much if .Lord ELDON woulii
find much complacency in making any boast
of the kind—we are sure his suitors would

hear him with little sympathy. But if, looking
to the mass of undecided causes left on the
hands of his successor, he were to say " all these
I have not disposed of," how sincere would be
their burst of regret that they ever came under
his consideration. Let us hope that the new
CHANCELLOR will take warning by the doubts
of the old, and learn to attempt less if he cannot
perform more. In any case the public must
be gainers, and the interests of justice pro-
moted.

In consequence of the Festival of Easter,
none of the rvlorning Papers were published in
Paris on Monday.

German Papers have been received this morn-
ing to the 13th inst., but they only echo the
reports of matters which have already been laid
before the public with respect to Greece. The
Russian Government means to introduce a sys-
tem of improvement into its naval and mercan-
tile departments

STUTTGARD, APRIL 9.

It is well known that for these nine years past endea-
vours have been made in several parts of Germany, and
for these four years in Wirtemburg, to unite the two Pro-
testant Churches. The Calvinists, whose number is very
small here, have at length, as was long desired, joined the
Lutherans ; and this event was yesterday announced from
the pulpit. On Easter Sunday the Calvinists will for the
first time celebrate the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in
our Hospital Church, and they will retain the piece of
bread according to the usage of their Church.
WIESBADEN, APRIL 9.

The Session of the Estates of the Duchy of Nassau,
which was opened on the 12th of last month, was closed
to-day. The assembly was chiefly occupied with the re-
gulation of the public receipt and expenditure for 1827,
and the examination of the accounts of last year. The
whole sum required for the public expenditure was esti-
mated at not quite a million and •a half of florins. The
surplus of last year's revenue, and the increased produc-
tiveness of the indirect taxes, made it possible to reduce the
direct taxes by one-eighth of last year's grant, with the ex-
pectation of a similar reduction next year. But as it ap-
peared that even if these direct taxes were reduced by a
fourth part, the revenue would still be equal to the expen-
diture of the current year, the State resolved on this greater
reduction, which, however, of course cannot be considered
as permanent.

CONSTANTINOrLZ, MARCH 18.
(By way of Bucharest.)
All the Ministers of the European Courts, residing in
Pera, have made representations to the Reis Effendi, con-
cerning the pacification of Greece, and advised the accept-
ance of the proposals of the Ambassadors of England and
Russia. Many eonsider this step as a complete accession to
the terms of the conference of the 4th of April, 1826,
though others find a difference between the threatening
tone of the Russian and English Ministers, and that of the
other Ambassadors who merely advised the acceptance of
their proposals. The unexpected answers of the Porte will
probably determine the farther course of these important
negotiations. M. Von Testa, the first Dragoman of the
Austrian Legation, and who has been forty years in the
Austrian service, died lately at a very advanced age. No
accounts have lately been published from the theatre of war
in the Morea.

TRIESTE, APRIL IS.

As all ships from the Levant must sail with convoy,
they arrive here late, and many together, so that we are
often for a long time without news.
The letters, received to-day from Constantinople of the
10th, and from Smyrna of the 2d March, bring nothing
worth notice, except that great exertions are making to
equip the Turkish fleet, that it may put to sea as soon as
possible. At Smyrna, Lord Cochrane's arrival in the
Archipelago was .pokers of, but there were no positive ac-
counts. A French brig which sailed from Marseilles with-
out convoy, was robbed by the pirates of a large sum
of money.
_ _

P. TETVISBURON, MAICH 28.

Not only in the Imperial Navy, but also in the mercan-
tile marine, we may shortly expect a very improved sys-
tem to be introduced in the constitution. and equipment of
the yeailelle, the Government ,hegintring with great judg-
ment and 'activity to organize this branch of the public ser-
vice, with which the prosperity of the inland trade and
manufactures is so intimately connected. His Majesty has
approved a representation of the Minister of Finance, re-
commending the formation of a special Committee for this
purpose.

VIENNA, APRIL 7.
Metalliques B9i
Bank Shares 1069

Account.) have been received from Gibraltar,
of the 29th of Maroh, which mention that the
evening before a corvette and a brig schooner,
supposed Colombian, passed up the 'Straits, said
to be with the intention of cruizing against the
Spanish flag. To what a state must the Spanish
Navy be reduced thus to allow a repetition of so
small a force to prey upon their Commerce even
at the mouth of their own harbours.

By letters from Zante of the 7th ult. we learn
that the Greek Pirates have become so numerous
in the Archipelago that it has become more dan-
gerous than ever for vessels to sail in those seas
without convoy. The British cruisers have
captured and destroyed several of this lawless
set of desperadoes, but they still continue, and
in such numbers, as to occasion great difficulty
in clearing the sea of them. A
after being boarded by
vessel (the Ram-
bler,Constantinople,
KNIGHT,) has arrived from
a Greek cruiser, almost
in sight of the Island.