The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-17 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

It was understood that Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr.
HALLS were yesterday to give their opinions as to
whether the statements of witnesses, with which
they had been furnished, respecting the mysterious
death of Mrs. Phillips, of Finchley, were sufficient in
their estimation to raise a presumption of guilt
against some party or parties, or whether the whole
bearing of that evidence was of too vague and in-
conclusive a nature to warrant their interference.
Several gentlemen were in attendance by twelve
o'clock, but from that time to the closing of the
office at three in the afternoon, neither Mr. Phil-
lips, of Finchley, nor any of that gentleman's
friends, appeared, to learn the determination to
which the Magistrates had come after a perusal of
the papers in question. Neither was Mr. Cox pre-
sent during the whole of the day, nor Messrs. Kerr
and Blissett, the trustees to the testamentary paper
which the deceased lady had left.
At one o'clock Mr. HALLS, who had been deeply
engaged in a private room in perusing the examina-
tions, entered the office, and was about to dispose of
some unimportant public business, when he fell
back suddenly in his chair, and appeared to labour
for some time under an alarming illness. Sir R.
Birnie directed that a surgeon should be called in.
Mr. Halls was with difficulty led from the office to
an apartment in the house of Mr. Stafford, where he
was recovered sufficiently to be enabled to resume
his public duties before the close of the day. Mr.
Wekley ascribed the cause of his illness to a too
close application to business, which Sir R. Birnie
explained, by stating that the whole weight of
official labour had for the last four or five weeks
fallen upon Mr. Halls, owing to his (Sir R.
,Birnie's) late indisposition, and the illness of Mr.
Minshull at the same time. The latter gentleman
has met with a domestic calamity in the death of his
wife, which may probably prolong his absence.
The clerk of Mr. Ashuret, finding that there was
no likelihood of the business upon which he attend-
ed, being brought to a conclusion, addressed Sir R.
Birnie at two o'clock, stating that he had been in
attendance since twelve, in expectation that the case of
Mrs. Phillips would be gone into. He attended
with the original statements, copies of which had
been forwarded.
Sir R. MIME asked if any of the other gentle-
men connected with the case were present.

Ashurst's clerk replied, that he had not seen
Mr. Phillips, of Finchley, during the whole of the
morning ; and what was still more singular, Mr.
Cox, the solicitor, who had seemed so urgent for
the inquiry, had not thought proper to appear, to
learn the result.
Sir R. BiIINIE observed, that both Mr. Halls and
himself were prepared to give their opinion upon
the statements, but they certainly should wish to do
so when all parties interested in the case were
present. The sudden illness of Mr. Halls, and the
non-arrival of the gentlemen whose presence would
be necessary, prevented the possibility of entering
on the business then. .

Ashurst's clerk hoped that copies of the ex-
aminations would be delivered up to no one but
himself when the Magistrates had given their de-
cision.
Sir R. BlRNits replied, that the papers should
certainly be given back to him (the clerk of Mr.
Ashurst), from %7Elona they had been received.
The clerk of Mr. Ashurst then withdrew.
In the course of the d‘ty Sir R. BIRNIE stated
that a very important documect had beep forwarded
that morning by Dr. Tweedie, which both himself
and Mr. Halls had attentively perused. The doctor•
had also forwarded six closely-written pages of
evidence.
From an early hour in the morning, the outer
door of the office was beset by several of the officers
in the employment of the Sheriff of Middlesex,—a
fact which might account for the non-appearance of
some of the gentlemen whose presence was looked
for.
Two young women, paupers, belonging to the
parish of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, were charged by
the assistant overseer of that parish with riotously
assembling in front of the workhouse, and demo-
lishing two panes of glass in the windows thereof.
The case was fully proved,-and the prisoners were
sent to hard labour in the House of Correction for
two months.

It is affirmed that a correspondence is at this
moment going on between our Government and the Di-
rectors of the Mint in Paris, with the view of determin-
ing low far it may be expedient to extend the silver cur-
rency, and t 3 make it a legal tender in this country.—

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1829.

The French Papers of Tuesday have been re-
ceived, by Express, but their contents are more
of a speculative nature than possessing any au-
thentic character. We are again told that the
Russian army is to be remodelled, and that the
Chief Generals of the Empire, with the Grand
Duke CONSTANTINE, are to be present at the
important discussions which are to take place at
St. Petersburgh on the subject.
With respect to France and the Ministry, we
find the same repetition of reports and contra-
dictions. One day the Monarchy—that is the
Ministry—is to be destroyed—and next day the
Charter is threatened. Time alone will settle
which, or if any :
(From the Constitutionnel of Tuesday.)

PETERSBURGI(, NOV. 28.

The greatest activity is observed in the Depart-
ments of Foreign Affairs and War. Couriers are
daily arriving, and others are despatched in all di-
rections to different parts of the Empire, and to

foreign countries.
It is reported that not only Field Marshals Die-
bitsch and Paskewitch, but other principal Gene-
rals of the Army, have received orders to come to
this capital, in order to be present at a grand Coun-
cil of State, in which several questions of the highest
importance will be discussed, especially relative to
the new organization which is to be given to the
army. The Grand Duke Constantine is also ex-
pected here before the end of the year. With the
exception of the regiments of the guards, which are
on their return to this city, we do not hear of any
movement of the troops to return to their usual can-
tonments in time of peace. All the corps which
have formed part of the army in the field, will, it is
said, take up their, winter quarters in the Turkish
Provinces, which are to remain for the present oc-
cupied by us ; and, it is affirmed, that these corps
will from time to time receive the reinforcements
necessary to keep them at their full complement.
(From the Messager des Chambres of Tuesday.
SECOND EDITION.
REPORTS OF THE JOURNALS.
PARIS, DEC. 15, NOON.

M. de Polignac and M. de Bourmont profited by
their leisure in the country to meditate on the vio-
lent measures with which they have been pleased to
threaten France fur the last four months. All had
been agreed en between them. The plan was to
dissolve the Chamber, to change by an ordonnance
the Electoral 'system, to declare the permanence
immovibilite) of the tribunals suspended for a
year, to suspend all the Journals which should not
appear without a licence from the Government, and
receiving from it a principal Editor, who should
have been ordered to repeat every morning to France
that the Ministry, by re-opening the career of revo-
lution, had saved the Monarchy.
The Council of yesterday was to decide upon
important questions. It was not till about half-past
eleven at night that reports were circulated respect-
ing what had passed in it. The following are those
which we have collected :

That M. de Polignac opened the sitting with a
report on the situation of France, in which, after re-
capitulating the arguments which have been repeated
for these ten years in the counter-revolutionary
speeches and writings, he endeavoured to prove that
the Monarchy was threatened—that its dangers
claimed a speedy remedy, and that the remedy was
the project, the principal points of which we have
mentioned. That immediately afterwards M. Cour-
voisier spoke with much energy and warmth against
the criminal projects which it was ventured to bring
forward as means of salvation for the monarchy,
and that in a vehement extemporary discourse he
showed the incalculable consequences of a mad
resolution, which would convulse France, and, per-
haps, Europe.
M. de Chabrol, it is said, spoke to the same
effect, but with less energy. He chiefly endea-
voured to show, that every measure of this de-
scription would be followed by the ruin of public
credit. M. d'Haussez coincided in this opinion.
The contrary opinion was maintained by Messrs.
De Bourmont and Guernon de Renville.
It is added that the august personages who were
present at this Council did not hesitate a moment to
declare their repugnance to every measure which
should deviate from the Charter. It even seems that
the Dauphin entered into some developments, re-
m4r/olile for a just appreciation of the situation of
France, and of its public spirit.
PAnis SToex ExenANGE, DEC. 15.—Five per Cents.
1081. 40c. 50c. 40c. 45c. 50c, ; Three per Cents. 83f.
90c. 84f. se. 84f. 84f. sc. 84f. 83f. 95e. 84f. sc. 10c. ;
Rentes de Naples, 91f. 35c. 40c. 30c. 15c. 25c.91f. 35c.
40c. 45c.; Sicilian Bonds, 93f. 50c. ; Royal. Spanish Loan,
; Rente Perp. d'Espagne, 6l ; Haytian Loan, 440 f.

450 f. 440 f. 450 f. 440 f. 450 f. 417 f. 50c. Exchange on
London—One month, 25f. 55c. ; three months, 25f. 40c.
VIENNA, DEC. s.—Metalliques 1021; Four per Cents.
91k; Bank Shares, 1,22 S .

The Prussian State Gazette of the 11th
December contains the following :

ST. PETERSBURGII, DEC. 2.

Accounts from Tiflis, of the 13th November, say
that Field-Marshal Count Paskewitsch had arrived
there on the 6th of that month.

On the 28th cf last month the Imperial Academy
of Sciences had an extraordinary meeting, in honour
of the illustrious traveller, Baron Alexander Von
Humboldt, on his happy return from his journey in
Lobeira. After the reading of several interesting
papers by different members of the Academy, Baron
Von Humboldt delighted the company by a most
animated account of the results of his scientific ex-
pedition, in which he also took a view of the pro-
gress of the study of the physical sciences in Russia,
under the protection of the Government. The nu-
merous audience, among whom were the Grand
Duchess Helena, Duke Alexander of \Vurtemburg,
most of the Foreign Ambassadors, the Ministers of
State, and the principal Clergy, and Civil and Mili-
tary Officers, listened with the most profound atten-
tion for above an hour to the instruction arid dis-
course of the great naturalist, and paid a just tribute
of admiration to his multifarious knowledge, his
acute spirit of investigation, and the eloquence of
the language that flowed from his lips.
The frost being now fully set in, the navigation
is closed. Commerce has been extremely active
this year, as appears from u comparison of the num-
ber of ships that have arrived and sailed from the
port of Cronstadt with that of former years:—

ARRIVED. SAILED.
1829... 1 507 1,488
1828 1,266 1,291
1827 1,257 1,244
1826 957 945
1825 1,263 1 289
1824 1,098 1,103

Brussels Papers inform us that the liberty of
the press is to be curtailed in that country :

BRUSSELS, DEC. 12.

Some Journals have again announced that the dia-
moods stolen from the Palace of the Princess of
Orange have been recovered. It is the object of
this false intelligence to cause the search after the
authors of the robbery to be relaxed or discontinued.
When the articles stolen shall really be discovered
we shall immediately acquaint the public.

BRUSSELS, DEC. 13.

The Journal of Antwerp contains the following
article :—ln the sitting of the Second Chamber
yesterday a very long Royal message was read, with
a project of law to repress the abuses of the press.
The message observes, that in the m;dst of peace
abroad, and the prosperity of the several branches
of the national manufactures, some evil disposed
persons have abused the last law relative to the
press, the most liberal that exists in Europe, to sow
discord, dissension, religious hatred, and party
spirit ; that it has become an imperative duty to
repress these excesses by severe measures. His
Majesty recommends this subject to the wisdom of
the States-General. After entering into long de-
tails on the execution of the Concordat, the re-
sponsibility of Ministers, public instruction, and the
attributes of the provincial estates, his Majesty
concludes by hoping that his constant care for the
happiness of his subjects will never be over-
looked either by his contemporaries or poste-
rity. The project of the law recognises the
principle that all the acts of the Government
may be discussed with temper by all the Journals
and periodical publications; its proposed enactments
are, that whoever shall attack the authority of the
King, or the Members of the Royal Family, shall be
punished with imprisonment from two to five years.
Sentence of imprisonment, from one to three years,
shall be pronounced against him who shall attack
the heads of the Ministerial Departments, and the
Members of the States General, with a view to de-
preciate the existing laws, or the authority of the
Government. A repetition of the offence will be
punished by increasing the penalty by one-half.—
Prosecutions for the offences against this law must
be brought within three months.
BRUSSELS, DEC. 15..

The sinister project against the liberty of the
press has excited a general outcry of disapprobation.
The Journal; of the provinces are filled with re-
marks on this unhappy conception. It is reported
that the city of Amsterdam has offered to the King
a loan of 100 millions of florins, to meet the ex-
pellees of the Government if the budget should be
rejected.
A letter from Amsterdam, of the 13th, quoted
by the Courtier Universel, positively states that
the merchants of that city have offered the above
sum. Thus all difficulties are removed ; all fears
of the bad consequences of the refusal of the budget
vanish ; thus the Treasury overflows with resources
far beyond its demands, since the amount of the an-
nual and decennial budget together was less than
78 millions.

On the other hand, a Journal of the northern pro-
vinces says, the Government is nearly certain of a
majority in favour of the budget.

We received this morning the following from
our Paris Correspondent
:
" PARIS, DEC. 15.

The Parliamentary Session of the kingdom
of the Netherlands having now been for some
time in full activity, the interesting situation in
which that country is at present placed, with re-
ference to the Alinistry and the Government,
will excuse me for preferring it as the subject of
this day's communication to the tiresome topic
of changes in the French Ministry.
" Van Maanen, the Prime Minister of the
King of the Netherlands, has been engaged for
several years in a violent struggle with the libe-
ral party, whose supporters, among the conduc-
tors of the periodical press, have suffered
severely from the Minister's vindictive proceed-
ings. While other members of the Cabinet have
fallen around him under difficulties compara-
tively secondary, Van Maanen has been con-
stantly supported by the King, and has
hitherto triumphantly maintained himself in
power. There are, indeed, other reasons for
this distinction independent of the Royal
favour. The finances of the Netherlands are
difficult to manage, either from the impossibility
of making a uniform appointment of taxes,
which are to be levied from two countries so dif-
ferent in their nature as Holland and Belgium,
or because the debt, and the great financial con-
cerns of Amsterdam, have little analogy with the
purely agricultural interests of the inhabitants of
Brabant. The Minister of the Interior again has
great difficulties to encounter in the management
of the Provincial States ; and as to the Depart-
ment of the Marine and the Colunies, it is
known that the pride of possessing a great colony
like Batavia is an expensive fancy; but the recol-.
lection of what Holland once was, and her com-
mercial and maritime hopes for the future, might
justify some sacrifices, although it makes the
administration of this branch of the public ser-
vice a very difficult and ticklish matter.-
I,' The Department of the Minister, whose duty
it is 'to superintend the affairs of the Roman

CaihoWeAtivotiliiii-, is no donbt, however
the. most difficult of all. It is not easy to
give satisfaction as the Minister of a Protestant
King, under a free Constitution, with such in-
tractible materials to manage as the Catholic
priesthood of the Netherlands, who are sup-
ported in all their proceedings by the Nobles and
the people of their faith. These are some of
the reasons which have created so many changes,
since the restoration of the House of Nassau,
in the offices of Minister of Finance, of the In-
terior, of the Marine, and the Colonies, and of
the Roman Catholic Church, each of which has
passed from hand to hand, as in France, but not
with the same frequency or rapidity.
" I have already hinted that Holland and Bel-
gium have interests not precisely identical ; but
the Ministry of the Netherlands are known to
have a decided leaning to the interests of Hol-
land as opposed to those of Belgium, and to
govern with the persons, the maxims, and the
jurisprudence of the French Imperial regime ;
by means of which they violate or elude the
Constitution voted by the States General in
1814, at the time of the restoration of the
House of Nassau.
" The Constitution of the Netherlands ad-
mits of two Chambers, the first being composed
of members named for life by the King, and
the second being elective. The first consisted
originally of such individuals as could be found,
with the usual distinctions of aristocracy, in
either of the two divisions of the country, such
as the Duke of Usel, the Duke de Loos, the
Count de Mercy-Argenteau, the Count de Mi-
rode, the Prince de Chimay, and the Duke de
Beaufort. But the majority of these individuals
were led into the opposition, either by the effect
of a natural sympathy between the Nobility and
the Clergy, or more probably by their personal
interests as proprietors of land, which were in-
consistent with the system of finance and taxa-
tion adopted by a Ministry wholly Dutch in
heart and ideas. Besides, there was no Court
influence to retain them in the ranks of the
Ministry. In the kingdom of the Nether-
land there can scarcely be said to be a Court in
the ordinary sense of the term. The Nobles
there are few and poor, especially as compared
with the capitalists, and the attendants on the
King may rather be said to be a sort of military
staff, than a Court, as it consists only of such as
are entrusted with the performance of some offi-
cial functions. In consequence of the inclina-
tion of the Nobles towards the opposition, the
Upper Chamber, which ought in theory to have
been perfectly aristocratical, has been recruited by
such members of the Lower House as have shown
themselves sufficiently dependent on the Ministry,
all, or almost all, being without pretension to per-
sonal consideration, and even without the in-
fluence of birth or fortune. In the Lower
House the opposition found itself for a long
while in the minority, because it was formed
partly of Catholics and partly of Liberals, which
the Ministry succeeded in putting against
each other. During the last two years,
however, the aspect of affairs has been ma-
terially changed. The Liberals, who had
allowed themselves to be seduced into very
illiberal measures, by means of which the
Ministry had been enabled to repel the Ca-
tholic influence, began to see their error when
the Minister's hostility to the liberty of the press,
and his taste for violent and arbitrary measures,
were manifested in the prosecution of Potter,
Ducpetiaux, and other editors and printers of
newspapers, who had pleaded the cause of free-
dom and philanthropy against the project of a
new and barbarous penal code. Hence, in the
Chamber and out of it, there arose a coalition
between the two opposite parties, which deprived
the Ministers of their majority.
" Out of the Chamber the strength of the
opposition was composed :-Ist. Of the Liberal
and Catholic press. The journals published in
the French language almost all support that
interest. 2d. Of the Catholic clergy, who,
although paid by the Treasury, take an active
and public part in the struggle against the Mi-
nistry, preaching against them from the pulpit,
and using their influence against them at elec-
tions and in soliciting petitions. 3d. Of the
principal proprietors in the provincial States,
most of whom arc at open war with the gover-
nors of the provinces, who are in the Nether-
lands what the prefects of departments are in
France, and of course something very different
from our Lords Lieutenants of counties.

t, The Liberal opposition is accused of a ten-
dency towards a re-union with France ; the Ca-
tholic opposition are also supposed, but in a diffe-
rent sense, to have a leaning to the House of
Bourbon, the eldest daughter of the Roman
Catholic Church.

The chief complaints of the coalition are
The subjection in which the Catholic clergy is
held to the Government, and the omission to
execute, or the complete execution of, the Con-
cordat with Rome of 1827. They require also
the freedom of education from the remains of the
University established by the Imperial Govern-
ment. They complain of the intolerance of the
present Government, with reference to the French
language, which it has attempted to extirpate by
violent means and by encroachments on the
liberty of the subject. They demand important
modifications as to the nature and assessment of
the taxes, especially those which arc levied on
the proprietors of land in the southern provinces ;
and finally, they complain of the enormous dis•
proportion in the division of public functions and
employments betwen the Dutch and the Belgians,
demonstrating by figures that the former are
favoured to the prejudice of the latter in the
proportion of ten to one.
The
Ministry have already made important
concessions :-Ist. In the Concordat of 1827,
which has been followed in the nominations to
the vacant Bishoprics of Liege and Tourney,
and in the modification of the rules as to the
issuing diplomas in the College of Louvain,
where the instruction of the superior Catholic
Clergywas formerly directed by royal decrees.
2l of a law on the liberty of the
(. In the passing

press, recalling the temporary and severe decrees
of 1825. The sanction of a jury is still a desi-
deratum ; but that guarantee, although offered
b 3 the Crown, was rejected by the Elective
Chamber, through the influence of the Dutch,
the declared enemies of trial by jury, which
interferes with their mercantile habits, and
offends their antiquated notions as to the neces-
sity of a knowledge of the law to the right ad-
ministration of justice. 3d. A law for the
organization of public education is at this mo-
ment submitted to the Elective Chamber ; but
whether they will be satisfied with it is sti 1
doubtful. 4th. Some places of importance have
lately been given to certain old Members of the
Liberal opposition, who, by their acceptance
of them, have lost their popularity, without
adding much to the strength of the Govern-
ment. sth. There has been some relaxation in
the severity, approaching to persecution, by means
of which it was expected to establish the supre-
macy of the Dutch idiom over the French ; and
6th. Some concessions have been made in the
chapter of taxation, although a law for equalizing
the land•tax was rejected by the Upper Chamber
in 1827.

" It is in this posture of affairs that the Go-
vernment now finds itself obliged, by the Con-
stitutional law of the land, to come to the
Chamber to ask a decennial budget for the per-
manent service of the State. It is doubtful whe-
ther it will be granted without a stipulation for
a change of Ministry, or at least without a bar-
gain with the present Ministry for a redress of
grievances.
" In the Parliament of the Netherlands the
Chambers have not the direct right of proposing
an amendment on a projected law. The Sec-
tions or Bureaux present their observations, and
if the Government does not exercise its right
to modify the projects presented, the Chambers
pronounce on their adoption or rejection as a
whole. This mode of proceeding, which was
no doubt intended to operate as a restraint on the
Chambers, has, in fact, only complicated the
difficulty.
" The Minister can count on a strong ma-
jority in Holland, and on the class of public
functionaries, still more numerous and propor-
tionably higher paid than in France. He has
also among the Liberal party the people
of the University, who tremble to see their
chairs deserted, and the clergy monopoliz-
ing the instruction of youth, under the system
proposed of freedom of education. The numerous
Professors of Louvain, Liege, and Gaud,are men in
general tolerably well informed, and peaceably in-
clined, but devoted to the philosophy of the 18th
century. Their notion of liberty is confined,
in fact, to mere freedom of thought in matters of
religion, and to the privilege of mutual instruc-
tion by whatever means it may be introduced and
propagated, and without any very serious objec-
tion to intrigue and even violence.
" Some collateral subjects I must reserve for
another opportunity."

Buenos Ayres Papers, up to Sept. 19 inclu-
sive, which is six days later than the date of
the last arrival, have been received. It appears
that the new Government is acting with much
vigour, though several of the newly-appointed
Members of the Senate have, under various pre-
tences, declined to serve. The Minister refuses
to accept the excuses of some, and allows those
of others, but iw both cases his answers appear to
argue firmness and resolution. DE ROSAS has
expressed his adhesion. The exchange on
England is pretty much the same as that quoted
in the last arrivals, being from Bd. to 84d. per
dollar. The highest price of doubloons during
the week had been 92 dollars—the lowest 87 to
88 dollars. Measures had been taken to remedy
the interruption of the mails mentioned in the
former accounts.

Though England be justly admired for its
general liberty, yet there is no country on earth
where more frequent cases of individual oppres-
sion occur, and that too under the mask of that
very law which we are told deals justice to all
alike. Though wealth be the real standard of
worth in England, yet its possession is not al-
ways a protection to personal liberty, as may be
inferred from the daily cases of alleged lunacy
which are got up at the instance of interested
parties, who conspire to send a relative to a
Lunatic Asylum for the remainder of his life
that they may live upon his property. As nothing
is more easy than to impute madness to an eccentric
or nervous individual, it seems that the process is
as easy of being put into practice, for the certi-
ficate of a medical man, obtained upon mere
representation, is conclusive proof of insanity,
and the wretch is deprived of personal liberty
forthwith. If his mind was before sensitive, he
soon gets melancholy cause fur rousing his
temperament into all the irritating symptoms of
confirmed insanity—the world closes upon the
unhappy victim—and the task is done.
Nor is it in presumptive charges of madness
that a man's liberty is at the mercy of interested
conspirators—it is equally so in cases of mali-
cious arrest. Upon the mere affidavit of a
swindler, who swears that any individual named
owes him a debt of any amount over twenty
pounds, a person may be dragged from the bosom
of his family and lodged in a common sponging-
house, till bail is procured to answer the fictitious
charge of debt. In fact, we have now before us
a case of this description, where the party has
been sponged through the instrumentality of
an action,—
s
against
attornies upon a fictitious claim of debt
Anda
in
st
Iwhere'sho m the?— remedy 1: ea (1y
o ?f
straw—and n i3arwin-tand have to
pay your own costs. Poverty secures the culprit,
and his attorney laughs you to scorn at the escape,
or even imprisonment of his accotnialice-client.
Really the state of the laws is deplorably de-

fective in both these cases of imputable luusgf
and malicious 'or extortionate arrest. It c 3115
loudly for the interference of Parliament, and
ine
will no doubt attract attention in the enst.„°
Session. For our parts, we shall endeavour t°
press it upon the Legislature.
It is the curse of the law in this country that
honesty has no real protection—while wealth}'
roguery or swindling pauperism may hold justice
at defiance—or render the expence of the suit
and the chance of conviction so great as to de.
ter a man of discretion from risking the vindie3'
tion of his character, or " throwing good money
after bad," by appealing to " the glorious tin'
certainty of the law."
And will it be contended by sticklers ftit
" things as they are," that common honesty
entitled to no more protection than what tbe
law now affords ? None but knaves or partici/
interested in perpetuating present abuses, gill
maintain such position. The many difficulties
and harassing impediments thrown in the way cif
justice, are sad proofs how much the chicanery
of the " craft " has had to do with the e°ll.
struction of the statutes at large. Indeed, W
such a pitch of notoriety has this been carried,
that it is now a bye-word of exultation among.
lawyers, while it ought rather to be matter 01
reproach, that in every Act of Faith'mem there
are so many flaws that a coach and four could
be driven through it whenever occasion needs-

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eo,ceci ;Ledo cairibe
North and South American Coffee-house, to the
19th of November. The Sl. Janes (N. 8.) Gael'
of the 28th of October, mentions the arrival of t,";,
Islam, Capt. Campbell, at that port, all well.
is the vessel concerning which a horrible pirli,%
story was got up some time since, by the Janlai)
Chronicle, on the authority of a person %%Awl's'
been on board, anal witnessed the whole transaction.
THE CROPS.—We have very little doubt that tbe
average crop of Cotton will be 1,000 lbs. per achy
throughout the western district. This fall both net
Cotton and Corn will be better than at any forne
season : from the 14 counties west of Tennebse_
river, we should suppose 30,000 bales of cotton
would be shipped. in
The Courrier of Bayonne speaks of a les'Y
timAis ofP
Spain of 50,000 men.
Government have come to a deci,ion on the con
di:
artihsepnapeewr straeyast,ythwaittlitt
theisnorewpcnerit,ain that
bona.:
bl. nt. 11°44
known,
but the particulars are not as yet made
is said to he favourable to the holders of the loan
contracted in France.
During the nights of the 21st and 22d of Nov
a most violent storm was experienced at Gibraltso
ri
and the coast was strewed with the remains
wrecks. A soldier on the rock was blown into the
sea and drowned; and on the 26th the bad weather
still continued.

THE FUNDS.
The Consol Market appears this morning to bed
heav• and may be called in a dwindling state, an

.y,
to the present time not the least speculation of coati
sequence is going forward. Consols, which lea
yesterday at for the Account, opened at it i
same price, since which they have receded toull for
The week before Christmas is generally
speculations. The Foreign Market is is: the 5-yet
state as that of the British Market ; Pr'ces as
-

nominal.

ENGLISH
Bank Stock, 216 17
India Stock, --
3 per Cent. CHIII. shut
Do., for Account, 944
Ditto Reduced, 933
k'ORIBIG

FUNDS.
31 per Cent. 991-I,_
New 4 per Cent, sul",
C
I4aprGFn
Exchequer:dl,
erururi:xuatNE
ka
ita0e55,i2_41051:4.0,81ii5462.811.277259;576473031
7.3 14
g
Spanish, 104
TWO O'CLOCI
The Funds were very heavy in the early P13141,°,1
the morning, and Consols were done at 94} for to
Account, owing to some sales of stock, but 10t
great extent, since which a reaction has tokehe
place, and Consols got up again to 944 I for •
Account, at which price they remain steady at Prr-0
sent, with little business doing. Money i°,lllfi-,/
plentiful to-day, and the bankers discounting fredi
It is also expected that 200,000!. or 300,0001'
be discounted by the Bank. In the Stock P"0
change the money was given at the rate of VII

Brazilian, 67
Buenos ♦yres, 26 28
Cisiliar, 26 28
Colrmilian, 23i 3
Danish, 74
Frensh, 1 per Coot. 109 10
Ditto, 11 per Cent. Si -4-

per cent.
By private letters from Holland this day ,'t
reported at Amsterdam that the negociations for •
tiji
Greek Loan had failed, because they would not of
present recognze the old Loans : in consequanLe'l e
the above report, Greek Bonds declined in the auv
ca pital.
Private letters from Hamburg state that the
Funds have improved there.
The Dutch Funds are rather heavy. 'll

Foreign Market nothing doing.
nCI4
THRUE O'CL
Consols for Account, 94} f.

ot.
Ysteerday, a Court of Directors was be.--,
64
the East India House, when the following Captain'
sworn in to the command of their respective ships,;os
Capt. Tuotaas LARKINS, Marquis Camden, St. 0:0;
Prince of Wales's Island, and China ; and Capt. ~e
BAYLIS, Canning, China direct.
/O f
CITY ELECTIONS.—Monday will be -" ,
day in the City, as the election of citizens to serve to
Common Council commences on that day. There,„Athith
be an opposition in the Ward of Farringdou
which, from recent events, is expected to be elorP to.
severe. In the Ward of Cripplegate Within there :0.0
vacancies to fill, in consequence of members reaig-lor
for which there will be a smart struggle among the ne'etial
didates, but the members remaining after the resigntor
are not expected to be disturbed in their seats. lußieltootli
gate Ward, Mr. Czaatzs Psiasow presents fin%
again as a candidate, having received the most flat'',loo
attention in his canvass. In other Wards contests ortfiD
expected, where the parties interested are also 14'
preparing for the day of election.
ELOPEMENT.—Last week Mrs.
d •
the mother of three children, residing with her hor :fp/
Clifton, eloped trona her husband's house. The o'ol
excited the greatest interest in Clifton and Bristol : oe/oit
gentlemen, both relations and friends, are gone in Pefiroct
of the fugitives, in the hopes of preserving the ladY
further disgrace.—Bath Chronicle. cis!
Some large sums have been obtained t° to(
at the Bahk, under the new arrangement for grePotta
loans on Exchequer-bills, &c , at three per eerit,,;e
from the aspect of things at the Stock Exchange, t"-beeti
mand in that quarter is likely to continue. It ble bse
estimated, that since the measure first took effect there,
been issued under it about 1,000,0001. sterling, bUSiisble
calculations, it need not be observed, are exceedingly
'
to error.— Times.
last, 1)1

A woodcock was shot on Wednesday - yep
a gentleman of this town, which, when killed, oglis
15+ oz. A snipe was also shut a few days before tviho.
same gentleman, of the weight of 5i oz.--Clidi °
Chronicle. ! oce
SINGULAR FISH !—A short tune --." vo.o
celebrated Journal stated, that in dragging a cert6inoge
in 'Warwickshire, a turnpike was -caught weigbiug, •,
—Cheltenham Chronicle.

,:,COMMISSION OF,LUNACY.
(FOURTH DAY.)

•
• Thtettqltirras to. the sanity.of Mr. E. Davies was this
Slay again resumed at eleven o'clock.
lir. Hands, surgeon, examination continued by Mr.
spoke of.the dog being-his most faith-
ful friend, he had one arm round the dog. He was then
in a more excited state than witness had ever observed
he m•
Waircince in company with Messrs. Day, Lawrence,
anti Heirless at Mr. Davies's- house, when he was not pre-
t, Thought be was in an unfit state to have the
:nansgeMent of his affairs. Mr. Davies told me that
re h'"l'bten writing letters to me all night. (Wit-
-ea here handed in some letters. The hand-writing
hares'
been duly proved to be that of Mr. E. Davies, they
Pere accordingly ordered to be read. The substance of
44an
ci appeared incoherent, and evidently written under
rcumstances of present excitement. A number of them
eentained invectives against Dr. Burrows, of whom in one
Plies) he writes, that his first step would be, when he re-
rete4 his liberty, s• to go into a Court of Law and corn-
''enee au action, Davies v. Burrows and others").
-".l'
CPsisexansined byMr. A DOLPH us—Betweeu the 1 st and
.I.latitariew with Mr. Davies in August, a period of nine
'lll 14- elapsed ;
.had no previous acquaintance, and
therefore could not say whether his usual behaviour was
13,414iinisiY More polite than during the interview;
,are,tsaavitness-of his physicians, and observed that those
LuMa he, had considered his friends had failed to prove
i."7ll"ie Shed the expression that he had been confined un-
b lad to find some one to his
i"-harlTijot t;eeengMr. Forbes before witnessbe went
himi- the reason witness went was because he had
-eeeiveci a letter from Doctor Burrows, who expressed
Irish that he could see him. At the interview he cons-
14* aids head, and requested witness to feel his pulse.
*at all that passed in his medical capacity. Mr. E.
bavies fnquently talked of ill-treatment he had received.
e
-amplained ,of two persons who were put into his
ttse to viatch over him. As a medical man, witness did
mathink, such conduct calculated to soothe an irritated
a°••••-(Cireat difficulty was experienced by the Counsel in
tatmng this admission. )—Certainly thought it was
;14'444 -to exasperate an irritated mind. The men
a were in the house ; always received witness at the
1:01' of the house. Mr. Davies never said, with respect to
vizatelfs that he could not help being witty. Witness
e.l'onglit that he had observed a propensity for joking in
'11.• Davie,. Was only once at mid-day in his bed-room,
Yhett he had been writing all night ; he was then caress-
-1.1_; hie dog; and said he thought his dog was the only friend
bid ; was nut surprised at this observation; did not
,„'eeo,llect Lord Byron's lines upon the same subject. When
hh Saw Mr. Davies at Portland-terrace, he could not
stV ,Ilether - laboured to convince those around him
be TrAe-in.his perfect senses, and that he ought not to
FU; Until! restraint. Recollects now that-he did make
168e*ftbe tame expression, and witness had made use of
aane words in an affidavit.
,4lr. Commissioner PIIILLIMOKE—Mr.- Davies's bo-
-iaaealth was tolerably good. In witness's judgment he
;as. of so unsound mind, that he was incapable of ma-
-111iting his person or affairs ; but he had no apprehension
at 111 r. Davies would do himself any personal mischief.
137 another COMMISSIONER—RecoIIected a circumstance
leliVecting the purchase of a horse, in which Mr. Davies
I.he meant to give 2001.
'lr. Piper examined by Sir C. WETHERELL—Had
c
:Win Mr. Davies four or five years. Lived in East-
nee.taP• Went to his uncle to learn the plumbing busi-
Jlt The management chiefly devolved upon me. In
P 'imas"..'t% made observations on Mr. Davies's de-
visietaf-"Cy
sett Saw a material difference in it. Ge-
Mr. Davies on business, and also pur-
21ed ..tea of him at his warehouse. In July he
-" med labouring under very excited feelings. He told
me.,he had been to Kensington-gardens and seen Ludy Gor-
ien (or
.some such name,) who had taken a great deal of
iir"ee Of him. He said that she was very elegantly
lilhltl4ed,_ I Ad' 41- that he had seen her likeness in the ex-
de.7l4", Which he -meant to purchase for several bun-
-4,lsnands. .He intended to visit the lady. Recollected
nsg him at Crouch-hill on business, to do several re-
tlirs at the top of the house. Whilst I was down there
e read out of a book in a very incoherent way ; could not
seY whether it was poetry or prose tun mad. There was
tottle prose an it. After having fastened the library door,
ask" me' to sit down, and he would read the
"mx to me. Witness felt rather afraid of his manner,
tti.r. quested him not- to shut the drawing-room door, was
!rt id of his manner on account of his looks and actions.
:7Cthrew himatlf about in a very strange way, brought a
4r and put it opposite to him. The witness hardly
:tier
whether he read or not, it seemed a mixture of
ettuntng and spouting. This sort of lecture lasted
and -:° hour and a half. The witness became uneasy,
tow„ ",,P;'n stating that he had an engagement in
I 4ur, Dashes said he would not detain him much
°
°%;'..• Kept him upwards of an hour and a half. -At
line me
I'e requested me to load a large pocket pistol.
eieue°llteted the name of Belcher, the boxer, being men-
-I;jtnileti• He said he had been taking lessons in boxing of
if• A little powder was put in the pistol at the request
liavies- He also requssted shots to be put in, but
~fin-8 Only put in paper, being apprehensive of danger,
~teitrinf observe whet Mr. Davies did with the pistol after
,
a nitti—siongave it-to him. Mr. Davies complained of a corn-
against him with the tea brokers at the India
of The brokers were jealous of him in consequence
the „S-Z syceess in business. He also said he met one of
tahirsiters in Philpot-lane, who sneered at Lim, upon
100,"'s he stopped him, looked at him, and his (Davies's),
t• 'so were sufficient. He had learnt boxing to guard himself
ifeltinst the tea brokers. He exhibited to witness some of
exploits in that art ; told the witness where Belcher
ie ; not recollect his saying 1:e had any other deal-
tog. with Beicher ; recollected riding from Cruch-hill
54,t°a with Mr. Davies, who appeared exceedingly agitat-
1° 'consequence of observing a horse and cart behind
bins at
appst. a great distance. He told witness he was
• —"live the man would do him some injury.
terhe:ed, on witness to ride faster. The man (he said)
he , °rove the cart had followed him several times,- and
1.041e1t afraid of him. The cart was coming down a cross
4. Mr. Davies did not state to witm as the name of
h e 'Person driving the cart ; he mere:y described the
ja as being grey, and the cart as a light one.—
faeCitsequenee of Mr. Davies being so pressing to ride
tLeceirs they put their horses into a gallop, and stopped near
tide.`olllseY-road, in consequence of wittless saying lie could
40,10tex .this rate no longer. Recollected strawberries and
being Produced at Crouch-hill. Mr. Davies was
~
ineT, in consequence of witness not eating any more, say-
WeTe 'thought it unkind. Witness would not trust Mr.
" with
his property.
pl'uuer
Apor.PHils objected to Sir C. Wetherell asking a
. medical question.
tielr Wrraixaxat. observed, that a lawyer of emi-
diZe was examined yesterday an hour and a half on me-
-sa, questions.
t'eklarnlnation resumed-Witness did not think it safe
tib2,l•• Davies to be permitted to use -fire-arms: at the
tics
4e spoke of defending himself against tke combina-
_ -'2l the tea-brokers. In Cie judgment of witness Mr.
has was not fit at that time to have the management of
fttoper ty,
ts ,"i'examined I,v Mr. BRODERICK.—WI/11M4 meant
1
that, Mr. D ,vies was nut fit to carry on liikbu-
-11,47 ;--the ground of the jadgment of witness on this
Isktowas his deranged state of mind. At the time I
an rim the Pistol I handed it to him, thinking there could be
sae„langer, as witness bad not put any shot in it ;
tele—'44,... Was on good terms with Mr. Davies ; Mr. Davies's
LiZnite were with him at Cr .uch-I ill, but no one visited
Dashes
Witness could nut form any idea of the book
th-4 "Wes read. Was well acquan t d with Shakspeare,
1-1etb,..,40 the best of witness's belief it was not Shakspeare.
taia-Z good deal of action, but witness never heard
t • 'Pout in such a manner.
111'5C 401/ERICK—Did you ever hear Sir Charles
Niettell speak, Sir ?--(Much laughter.)
b, l‘nss---Yes, Sir, I have.
*ittlAir• Commissioner PHILLINIORE—Mr. Davies told
tied I,Q: tO Put a good charge into the pistol. Mr. Davies
, °hserve witness keep out the shots.
-e of the Jury wished to put a quest-on to Mr. Hob-
don At the corner of the cheque for 2001. a memoran-
ist t„W's made in short-hand by Mr. Davies. Mr. Hob-
ksr.' °te the same system. Some people used vowels.
ale motes had done so, but he (Mr. Hob!er) did not.
hy WRIGIIIT here proposed to put in a letter written
14ty.r.1101.11er to Mr. Lowden, the Chancellor's Seere-
)V 13f anaties, showing the state and condition of
11.4,4,,r'e5s to which
--nstouCHAM took an objection.
111: lstter was ultimately read.
%tier. Nobler, examined by Sir C. WerirriterL—Was
4%4 solicitor in a commission of lunacy before, and
ries, weever should be ain. Ilad never said he did not
becamet of this Commission, so as be had his
flaleler's letter to the Lord Chancellor requesting
btrie;‘,:in to see Mr. Davies having been denied by Mr.
111„ 140ther, that perm ssion was read.
rieLezinsioation of this..witnees was gcrirg on when
rr.vrent to press.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

1:110f I.I.OYO'S.

PORTSMOUTH, DEt. 16.—Wind .N.E.--Sailed
the. Mary, Jameson, for
,New South Wales.
FALMOUTH, DEC. U.—Wind N. to E.—Off
Port, the Rebecca, Shears, from Lisbon.
• BRISTOL, DEC. 16.—Arrived the Hero, Moor-
son, from Quebec.

tIVERPOoL, DEC. 15.—Arrived the Elizabeth,
Colleder, from Charleston.

CLYDE, DEC. I.s.—Arrived the Broke, Hardie,
and Janet, Finlay, from Demerara ; and Rebecca,
Lawrie, from Quebec.

JERSEY, DEC. I'h—Arrived the Anley, Fate,
from Rio Janeiro ; and Augustin, Bourdon, from
Charente.

GUERNSEY, DEC. 13.--Arlived the Unity,
Towne, from Demerara.

The Acton, Wright, from New South Wales
sailed on the 16th.

The Harriet, late Young, from Batavia, has ar-
rived at Dartmouth, sailed the 2d of August.

BANK OF ENGLAND-(THIS DAY.)

A Quarterly General Court of the Proprietors of Bank
Stock was held this morning, in the Court-room of the
Bank of England.

SAMUEL DREWE, Esq., Governor, in the Chair.
The minutes of the last Court, at which the usual divi-
dend was declared, were read,
The GOVERNOR informed the Court that this was a
Quarterly General Meeting, held in pursuance of the terms
of the Bank Charter.

There being no motion before the Court, an adjourn-
ment was moved and carried.

There were but few Proprietors present at the meeting
held this morning, it being the custom at the Bank of
England not to enter upon any discussions except at the
Courts when dividends are declared. At the next Court
some important discussions are expected to arise on the
cnrrency, and other matters of great interest.