The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-26 00:00:00

DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.

Nobody would think of comparing his Royal High.
ness the Duke of Cumberland to Clesar, especially
as the latter, if we recollect rightly, was bald, and
wore no moustacheos:, However, it is reported of
the old Roman that, Upon one occasion, he remark-
ed, with laconic vanity, Veni,vidi, vici ; words which
his Royal Highness may use, with a very slight va-
riation, descriptive of the achievement he has just
performed,—Veni, vidi, dixi ; which, being inter-
preted, would run thus : I have just arrived, looked
Arthur Duke of Wellington in the face, and" spoken
out." Yes, his Royal Highness has " spoken out"
on the (subject of the Catholic claims) " thinking it a
duty he owes to the country to let it know what his
feelings are." The country are certainly much in-
debted to his Royal Highness, considering the deep
interest it must necessarily take in the state of his
" feelings" in regard to a question which ought to
be decided on rational views of policy and expedi-
ency alone, and considering also, his Royal Highness
has declared that " it shall no longer be said I am
this thing or that, hut it shall he distinctly known
what I am." The Royal Duke is exceedingly oblig-
ing, but really this declaration was, perfectly unne-
cessary. The country knows perfectly what his
Royal Highness is—the patron saint of the Bruns-
wick, or rather Titus Oates' Clubs (as Lord Plun-
kett proposes to re-baptise them), the admired of
Lord Elden, the idol of the exclusionists, and the
very yink of Protestant Orangeism. His Royal High•
ness tells us that be cannot change a-0 opiaion whicl
he conscientiously entertains ; and we are far from
desiring that he should ; but, supposing his con-
science came to tell him that that opinion was erro-
neous, would his Royal 'Highness then change it ?
The question., in the present case, his Royal High-
ness thinks is, whether England is to be a Protest-
ant or a Popish country but,in our humble opi,
nion it is, whether we are to have a divided or 4
puited Empire. Oh?. but says the Royal title,
tho very moment you admit CgthOlie into this
House, or into the other House 'of Parliament, I
maintain that. this becomes not a Protestant Parlia-
ment :" which is just as much as if the Reis Effendi
or the Grand Multi, or some other bearded personage
of high note, were- to say to the Grand Seignor,
"the very moment you twp.oint a single Ginouf
Hospodar" of one of the 'Principalities, or admit him,
however faithful and attacliCd, into your Councils, I
maintain that thiS becomes a Mahomniedan Govern-
ment." It is usually said that one swallaW doe not
make a summer; but the received adage must be
wrong now that this great personage has " spoken
out," and that we have royal authority to the eon-
trary.--.k;diatirgis Paper.

On Tuesday last, tile wife of a labourinc, man,
at Wralmess, in this county, named Banks, committed
suicide under circumstances most extraordinary. She had
tier lysi:and lower room of their house, and went
into the beti,room above ; niter. her !;:..;aband near-
ing something heavy fall, went to ascertain the cause, and
found her with her throat cut, weltering in her blood,
and, lying close by her, a razor, a knife, and a sickle; which,
from the circumstance of their being all bloody, must have
h.?en used. It appears that the wretched woman, having
spread her apron upon .the fioor, eown; and placing
a look,ng-ghio opposite to her, an;, a cliiimber tztengil
ttveen them to catch the blood, deliberately cut her throat
while looking in the glass. Medical assistance was pre-
cured, but the wound was of that dreadful nature, that the
survived only about 24 hours,..-Essex Herald.

OLD BAILEY, FEB. 25.

The proclamation haring been made last night da
an adjournment until noon of this day, which will
intended for one o'clock precisely, the Court coase
not proceed for the want of an Alderman. At half•
past two Mr. Alderman VENABLE3 arrived, and the
business commenced; but it is just to observe, that
it was - not that worthy Alderman who ought to
have been in attendance. Immediately that the

RECORDER entered the Court,
Mr. HILL rose, and addressed the Court relatov
to the case of the prisoner Roebuck, whose caut f
he advocated yesterday, and in the absence of hs
friend Mr. Clarkson, he had also to make an appli-
cation respecting a person of the name of Byrne.
The RECORDER told the Learned Gentleman,
that it would be more convenient for him to confine
himself to the case which had already occupied the
attention of the Court in his commencement, and

having disposed of that, they would take the other
matter into consideration afterwards.

Mr. HILL then adverted to the trial which ap-
peared in the Times of yesterday, where the Court
had been occupied the while day, when the pro-
secutor brought his V, itheAses against his (Mr.
Hill's) client ; but the result was, that the Jury
declared her " not guilty" of the lie:jury with which
she had been charged. Last night he (Mr. Hill)
implored the Court to admit the prisoner(Roebuck)
to hail upon her own recognisance, as she bad to
appear hereafter to take her trial for conspiracy in
the Court of King's Bench. He (Mr. Hill) now
reiterated that prayer, ill the hope that it would be
entertained by the Court.
The RECORDER said that the Court could not
grant all which was prayed, yet it would not act
oppressively : something more than the recognizance
of the party accused, however, appeared to be ne-
cessary : he should therefore order Roebuck to be
bound in her own recognizances in the sum•of
and two sureties in the sum of 40/. .each, upon justi-
fication.

Mr. ALLEY—Do I understand your Lordship that
it is one eighty and two forties. Are we to have
notice ?

The RECORDER—Yes; twenty-four 'mural-notice
will be required, and granted.
M. HlLL—With respect to Byrne I have to
make the same application.
Mr. ALLEY—I have no instructions to oppose it,
nor have I any thing to feel for the prosecutor except
a‘ a client.

The RF.CORDBR—Let her be bound in the same-
recognizances as Roebuck, and find similar sureties.
Mr. ALLEY—Very well, Sir; I have done my
duty, and now Isbell beg pardon when I say that I
shall not (as we understood the learned gentleman)
any more appear for the prosecutor.
The RECORDER then proceeded to the ordinary
business, and passed sentence of death upon the
following individuals :—viz.
Bridget Sheridan, aged 35, for stealing in the
dwelling-house of Mr. John Efflend, a licensed vic-
tualler, 42/. his property; Charles Goodlad, 22,
for stealing in the dwelling-house of Arthur Geddes,
Esq. his master, plate to the amount of 1001. ; Riad.
Kenney, 30, for assaulting John Keeling, on the
King's highway, and taking from his person a gold
chain and seals, his property (this ptisonec com-
mitted the robbery on Wednesday the 18th instant,
was committed to Newgate the following day, and
tried and convicted on Saturduv, and within a week
from the commission of the offence, received sen-
tence of death) ; Thomas Birmingham, 21, Joseph
Redgard, 23, and William Kelly, 21, for a daring
highway robbery in Kirby-street, Batton-garden ;
William Ritchie alias John Smith, 36, for returning
from transportation; and David Daniels; 16, for a
burglary in the dwelling-house of Mr. Robert Tarr.
The first-named prisoner, Bridget Sheridan, pleaded
pregnancy in stay of her execution, and a Jury of
matrons were impannelled to examine whether she
was quick with child or not. They returned a ver-
dict that she was ; and her judgment was conse-
quently respited till next Sessions.
The following were sentenced to be transported
for life—John Wolf, aged 15, George Fowler, 14,
Thomas Jones, 14, three young pickpockets.
For 14 years.—James Wood, Thomas Hodgett,
23, ( whotpleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling.
150/. 13s. the property of his employer), Michael
Connor, William Edmonds, 35 (this prisoner pleaded
guilty to four indictments), Margaret Hollis, Mary
Prouter, John Bayley, Thos. Sinfield, John Briscoe,'
Isaac Hoare, George Denshire, James Williams,
David Connor, and Maurice Herring.
For seven years.—George Humphries, W. West,
J. Bratigwell, John Jones, John Holmes, Robert
Watson, Richard Pendegrass, Charles Bugbee,
Charles Cannon, Patrick Miles, E. Bullock, W.
Turner, Henry Bagnor, G. Bolter, W. Cremes.,
Mary Day, Wm. Francis, Mary-Ann King, Pheebe
Douglas, Ann Norris, Peter Welch, Wm. Davis,
John May, John :knee, Margaret Roach, Richard
'Alison, James Best, Benjamin Edwards, Charles
James Redhead, D. Elder, Mary Smith; William
Bates, William Peckett, John Weller, James Lloyd,
Elizabeth Buckland, John Edmonds, .Jehn Johnson,
Joseph Jones, John Welk, John Bolton, Edward
Atkinson, Maly Easden, William Huris, Mary
Ann Smith, James Sly, James Ward, John Clare
Eustace, and George King.
To be imprisoned twelve months in the House of
Correction and kept to hard labour.—Harriet Far-
rell, for concealing the birth of her illegitimate child.
For six months.—Mary Palmer,Elizabeth Owcna
James Maidman, Johanna Hagan, Mvy Jonas,
Henry Smith, Henry Vest, William Burn, and
John Bell.
Several others were sentenced to various terms of
imprisonment.
The judgment of tl e Court was respited PP"
the following prisoners -James Gallatin alias Gale
lowav, for receiving 6,0001. worth of stamps', know-
ing them to have been stolen, sted.William Jones.
• John Dover, aged 20, was convicted of pole
stealing; and sentenced to' be publicly whipped•
'I he instant the Judge left the bench, this sentence
was carried into effect by the new executioner; but,
although the punis.lannt was severe, on his return
from the stocks he lau ;hed heartily : he hag to freeci
,- the mill for three reentbs to complete Ids sentence.

An elderly female residing in Chancery-lane,
imagining her death to b:s near, ordered her coffin a fevr
weeks since, which was brought home and placed in her
chamber ; a few days after which she woe found dead is
her bed.

A. few weeks ago a person in Lochwiunoch
had a great part of hi: body sevefely toalded, bir acci•
dentally upsetting a tea-kettle. The surgeon who was
called in immediately aplied a large sheet of finely-carded
cotton to the part affected, and the pain was almost in-
stantly relieved. On the ninth day part of the cotton fell
off, and discovered a firm new skin ; and by the fourteenth
a complete cure had been effected.—Glasgow Chronicle.

THE BIBLE.—A book which, to say not:
in; of its holiness or authority, conta:aa more spedineni
of genial and taste than any other volume in 'exisienee.---

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FALCON itY.—A race of Falconers have for
many years existed in the village of Falcw...F,viveti,
Bois-le-pnc, in 1 tollaud, whence 'the whole' of Ettiope' bits
been supplied ; for want of encouragement, however, the
race has become almost extinct, and the only one now living
is John Pella, in the PCIV;ee of John Dawson Downes, Esq.,
of Old Gun-Hill, Suffolk. .

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We ptiderstand that Sir Charles Wetherell Ito
ceased 'tdte Attorney-Cieheral. In the event of his retire..
went from offiee, which, flout the impracticability of his
character, has been for some time expected in the professions
Sir Nicholas Tindal, the present Solicitor-General; Succeeds
hint ; and Mr. Frederick PullorA, r)r- 'Jr. Spcd2n, Ku:;
bably occupy the place vacated by Sii'N.-firniiiilC. promo-
tion. The former gentleman is known as an eminent and
accomplished scholar, and as one of the most abler, judicious,
enlightened, and effective lawyc4s of the day. He has not
hitherto taken any part in politics. Mr. Sugden is sufs-
- distinguished by his eminence at the Chancery
bat his appi-,trance rayliamenthas notAstilineti his pre-
vious reputation. Whoever may be his successor, the re-
frement of Sir Ch tries Wetherell must b • regarded as a
very auspicious omen of the dispositions of .Ministers.--.
AtUrrning Paper.