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London, England, 1827-08-06 00:00:00

EDINBURGH REVIEW—No. XCI.

The chief article in the present Number, and
the one which will of course be looked to with
the deepest and most general interest, is entitled
" The present AdminiStration.". It is rapid and
sketchy in its character, careless,: though at
times energetic, in it's style, and tells some home
truths with an air of the greatest simplicity. We
know not who is its author, but there is an ap-
pearance of freshneSs about his turn of thought,
that would lead us to suppose that he is any`
thing but hackneyed with his pen. If so,
we congratulate Mr. Jeffrey on the acces-
sion of so much talent. The article resembles
in character that peculiar species of men whom
Doctor Johnson condescended to praise, namely,
" good haters." It sets out and concludes with
the acknowledgment of a most candid and un-
qualified detesiation of a Tory Government, and
does not hesitate to assert, that in the event of
such an Administration resuming the reins of
:office, the country would be revolutionised.—
Though our alarm does not carry us to so great
a length as this, yet there can be no doubt that
the public mind, which is now basking in the genial
sunshine of a liberal policy would, if the clouds
of bigotry and despotism were permitted again
to deform the day, become indignant, and per-
haps even rebellious by the change. From the
present ministry we have every thing to hope ;
from the Tories nothing. One are the friends
of the people ; the other the friends only of them-
selves, so -says the Edinburgh Review, nor lives
there a man who can conscientiously,and with an
unprejudiced' mind, deny the fact. The " Me-
moir of the Emperor' Baber" is an amusing and
instructive paper, but the subject has been fa-
miliarised to the public through the medium of
the Literary Gazette. It is, however, worth
reading. The " Constitution of Venice" is spi-
rited and elaborate ; and the " Essay on English
Law," penned by one who well understands
his subject, but never permits • the quirks
of the lawyet to narrow the more • enlarged views
of the philosopher. Our limits confine us
within a short' space at present; we cannot,
however, close the present cursory notice; without
an extract, in which the author alludes to the
Tory Administration. There is much truth and
energy about it.
A Government like that with which England would be
cursed, if the present Ministry should fall before the pre-
sent Opposition, would render such an alliance not only
inevitable, but permanent: ln less than ten years it would
goad every Reformer in the country into a Revolutionist.
It would place at the head of the multitude persons pos-
sessing all the education, all the -judgment, and all the
habits of co-operation, in which the multitude itself is de-
ficient. That great body is physically the most powerful
in the State. Like the Hebrew champion, it is yet held
in captivity by its blindness. But if once the eyeless giant
shall find a guide to put his hand on the props, of the
State—if once he shall how himself upon the pillars, woe to
all those who have made him their laughing-stock, or
ehained'him.to grind at their mill !
We do, therefore,. firmly believe that, even if no external
cause were to precipitate a fatal crisis, this country could
not be governed for a single generation by such men as
Lord Westmoreland and Lord Eldon, without extreme risk
'or revolution. But there are other. symptoms in the body
politic not less 'alarming than those which we have de-
scribed- In Ireland there are several millions of Catholics
who do not love our Government, and who detest, with
all their heart, with all their son], with all their amind, and
With ali their strength, the party now in Opposition. The
secession of that party. to power would be a death-blow to
their hopes of obtaining their demands by constitutional
means ; cod we may fairly expect that all the events which
followed the recall of Lord Titzwilliam will take place
again on a greater or more formidable scale. One thing,
indeed, we have no right to expeCt, that a second Hoche
will be as unfortunate as the former. A civil
war in Ireland will ' lead almost necessarily to 'a
war with France. Maritime hostilities with France, and
the clash of neutral and belligerent pretensions, will then
produce war with Amemica. Then come expeditions to
Canada and expeditions to Java. The Cape of Good Hope
must be garrisoned. Lisbon must be defended. Let us
suppose the best. That best must be a long conflict, a
dear-bought victory, a great addition to a debt already
roost burdensome, fresh taxes, and fresh discontents. All
these are events which may not improbably happen under
any Government—events which the next month may bring
forth—events'against which no Minister, however able and
honest, can with perfect safety provider—but which Minis-
ters, whose policy should exasperate the people of Ireland,
would almost unavoidably bring upon us. A Cabinet
formed by the ex-Ministers could scarcely exist for a year
without incensing the lower classes of the English to
frenzy, by giving thein,up to the selfish tyranny of its aris-
tocratical supporters, without driving Ireland into rebel-
lion, and without tempting France to. war.

• There is one hope, and one hope only, for our country ;
that hope is in a liberal Administration—in an Adminis-
tration which will follow with cautious, hut with con-
stantly advancing steps, the progress of • the public mind;
which, by promptitude to redress practical grievances, will
enable itself`to oppose with authority and effect the proposi-
tions of turbulent theorists; which by kindness and fair-
Ress'in all its dealings with the people, will entitle itself to
their confidence and esteem,

The prosecutor, Mr. Stock, kept the. Gri:een Man
public-houSe, at Stebbing, in this county, and
also a licensed brewer, authorised by the 'statute of
GO. IV. to sell beer by retail. Bx that statute,
brewers are required to sign a declaration iiiwritrog,
containing a description:of the quantity and quality,
of the beer they.brew, 'before it is put into barrels
from the brewing vats. On the of March, the
prosecutor haVing brcived a quantity of beer, which
he intended that day to cleanse anciput into barrels,
gave notice to the defendant of hiS intention so to
do, and appointed the hour 'of ten o'clock„for the
purpose of enabling the defendant to see that the
transaction was conducted in a regular manner. The
defendant, however, did not come to his time, and
the prosecutor, before miming the beer, signed the
declaration required, by law. 'The declaration was
sighed at ten o'clock, and the prosecutor proceeded
to put the beer into casks. At one o'clock .thO de-
fendant-came to the premises, and then made no
complaint as to -the:
,regularity of the proceeding,
but made some objeCtion to the prosecutor's having
sent out a cask of beer: to a neighbour sooner than
he.ought to have done, but agreed to set that matter
right. The prosecutor afterwards had two other
brewings, one on the 2d of April, and the other on
the 11th of May,. and made the usual declarations,
without any 'objection on the part of the defendant.
On the 13th of May," however, the prosecutor was
summoned before two of. the JusticeS of the
Peace, to answer to an information for penalties
to the amount of tWo hundred pounds, for having
on the .preceding 23d of March, tunned the beer
of that day's brewing, without having signed the
declaration. reqUired by law. The information
Caine on for hearing on the 20th of May; when the
defendant swore 'positively that' the prosecutor had
tunned his beer without-signing the declaration, and
that when he'(the defendant) went to the prosecu-
tor's premises at one o'clock, the" ink upon the
paper was then wet. A lad in the prosecutor's ser-
vice:was called upon before tho Justices, and de,
posed, that the declaration bad been signed by the
prosecutor as early as, ten o'clock, sad'beilig then
proVided with no other witnesses, the Jut,tices acted
upon the evidence of the defendant, and convicted
the prosecutor in a penalty, of 50/. No appeal be-
ing alloWed from this deeiSion, the prosecutor.peti-
domed the Board of Pccise to mitigate the. penalty;
and after some cliffictilty and delay, it was mitigated
to 101., and that sum was paid by the prosecutor.
%jury was tiOw assigned upon the evidence given
by the defendant before the Magistrates, it being
alleged that he had falsely and corruptly sworn that
the prosecutor had twined, hi's-beer before signing
the declaration, and that the ink on the paper was
wet at one o'clock, whereas, in truth and in fact, the
beer was not tunned until after the declaration was
signed, and the ink on the paper was not wet, as
the defendant had sworn. The Jury found the
defendant Guilty.
The business of the Crown Side finished this after-
noon about two o'clock. None of th, capital con-
victs were left for execution.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.
BURY ST..EDMUND'S; AUGUST 4.

TAYLOR V. SIR ROBERT HARVEY, BART., CHARLES SAVILLE
ONLEY, Esq., AND EDWARD HUDSON, ESQ.
The defendants in this case are bankers of great
opulence and respectability at Norwich-. About the
year 1820 they opened a branch of their establiSh-
ment at Southwold, in this county, and appointed a
gentleman of the name of Grout their agent in that
place. The plaintiff was a respectable farmer re-
siding near. Rochester, who about the time of the
establishment of the branch of Southwold disposed
of his stock, &c. and, intending to support himself
for the remainder of his life upon'the interest of his
money,, he deposited the whole principal in the
hands of Grout, the manager of the bank at South-
wold. The action Was brought for the recovery of
the sum of 7,0001. 4s. 2d. paid by the plaintiff into
the hands of Grout.

Theplaintirs case was conducted by Mr. Sergeant
STORKS, and the defendants' by Mr. KELLY.
The case occupied the whole day, but th 6 question
at issue lay in a very narrow compass. The circum;
stances, as they can be collected from, a mass' of do-
cumentary evidence, were as follows :—The plaintiff
having, as above stated, opened an account with
Mr. Grout in 1820, continued his dealing without
interruption until 1.825, when, sharing in the general
panic, he' expressed a desire to draw out his
money, and vest it in a mortgage, both for better
security, and with 'a view to obtain larger interest
for his money than the bank afforded. Grou t' as-
sured him that his money was as safe in the hands of
Messrs. Harvey, Saville Onley, and Hudson, as if
deposited in the Bank of England.' He undertook,
however, to lay out the money on'mortgage for him,
and promised, until that could be effected, to allow
the plaintiff 21 per cent.'interest fOr the money, in
addition to the 2i per cent. allowed by the Bank,
making the whole interest 5 per cent. When the
plaintiff's pass-hook was made up in January of the
present year, there appeared a balance in his favour of
7,0001.45. 2d. Soon after that period, Mr. G. fellfrom
his gig, and was killed. A short time after his death
the plaintiff-applied to his widow, who Was also his
executrix, for payment of half-year's interest, which
had been for some time due. He subsequently made
a similar application to the executor. Not receiving
the money from either, he then made an application
to the firm'at Norwich for the payment of principal
and interest. The Norwich bankers refused com-
pliance with the demand, alleging that although
Grout was,their agent for the issue of their notes
and other banking business, yet he possessed no au-
thority whatever to make the bank chargeable with
the consequences of such transactions as had taken
place, between him and Taylor. The whole ques-
tion, therefore, in the case was—what was the ex-
tent of Grout's authority as agent of the Norwich
firm ? There was only one witness calledon each side.
Verdict fOr the plaintiff.
The business to-day bef9re the. Lord Chief Baron
in the Crown Court was wholly devoid of interest.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT—NOTTINGHAM, Auc. 2.

Lord TENTERDEN opened the commission here
last night ; the Assizes for the county of Notting-
ham commenced this morning. The Crown calen-
dar contained the names of 23 prisoners; and in the
cause-list there were 17 cases entered for trial.

Henry Stavely, George Hopkinson, and Catherine
Foster, were indicted for robbing Samuel Wass, on
the King's highway.
The prosecutor was at Newark on the 18th of
April, and was about returning to Southwell at nine
o'clock in the evening, when Catherine Foster came
up to, him, near the Ram inn, and asked him how
he did ? He bad never seen her before to his know-
ledge, but told her he was very well. She next
inquired if he wanted a sweetheart ? He told her
to pass on, he had his business to attend to, and
was going to Southvvell ; she went 'on about 30
yards, and then joined him again. They entered
into conversation, and talked as they walked along,
about the badness of the times. She said she was,

in great distress, and he offered to give her a glass •o
gin, or other liquor, to refresh her. She replied, than
her circumstances would-not admit of her drinkiq
such things," upon which • he gave her a sixpence.
Whilst they were thus talking together, near th.
Trent-bridge, the two male prisoners came up, atu
Stavely told prosecutor they wanted money, 'y
shilling, or a half crown, or something. The pro-
secutor replied, that he • would give them no mo•
ney, unless he was obliged; upon which Stavel
collared hint, saying, " Now, George, -- you;
eyes; if you are good for any thing, do your best.'
The prosecutor- seized Stavely by the collar, ant:
while they struggled together Hopkinson struck at
the prosecutor. The latter, however, threw Stavel,
down, and fell upon him, and while down the other
two prisoners were on his back. . Feeling a pull at
his breeches pocket, in which he had two sovereigns.
some 'silver, and two keys, he let go Stavely and
seized the woman by the wrist. She let fall what-
ever she had in her hand,' but whether it was money
or keys he could not say. His pocket was turned
inside out. When trying to retain the woman in hi!.
Custody, Stavely again seized him, and the proseCu•
tor, saying he was determined- to secure one of theth,
let the woman go,. and held Stavely. The woman
and Hopkinson then picked tip what had fallen on
the ground, and Stavely calling out to them to get
away, they did so, carrying off .the prosecutor's hat,
which had fallen 'from his head: The prosecutor,
with.sone dilliculty,•-condUcted Stavely through the
town of Newark, in search of a-constable, but when
passing through the beast-market, where a mob was
collected, his .prisoner was rescued from him. He
purstied him, however, until he was stopped by the
constable's son, when he again seized him. They
afterwards met the constable himself, who said there
was no occasion to take the prisoner ihto custody,
as he knew him, and he would be forthcoming in the
morning. The prosecutor, however, would not let
him go, but he was ultimately again rescued from
his hold, and. escaped. He and the woman were
apprehended next day, and lodged in gaol; and it
appeared from the evidence of the gaoler that while
there they told him that it was Hopkinson who had
got all the prosecutor's money.
The three prisoners were' found guilty, and judg-
ment of death was recorded against them.