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BELGIUM.

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en the Belgic Resolution; its Origin, Causes,
sad Consequences. Is. 6d.
inot agree with you in your opinion of the
. cause, and the political situation of the
trovinces of Flanders, Brabant, Helmuth,
Namur, Antwerp, Limbourg, and Luxem-
A long sojourn amongst them, during'
hare learnt to appreciate their activity
ir perseverance in the. useful :tits, their
patience, their intellectual progress in the
if oast ales thrown in their way to stop
rurse, has given me the opportunity of
from experience, of the cause of a country
generally speaking, we are but little ac-
with, and which the periodical press, sub-
the influence of I know not what politi-
'mimes, has contributed more especially
us regard in a fake light. l'hat there
whose state and position compel them to
upon truth, and systematically to orga-
isehoode end calumnies, cannot be denied.
have received a special order so to do, which
led with some pompous title ; but, that
who are disinterested as to the question,
serve, fora vile salary, and in cold blood,
mients and accomplices, and thus prosti-
teir talent and intelligence; is what can
be excused, and what every honest mind
:olt at.
The periodical press, whose office it should be
to propagate facts with truth and exactness, to de-
fend with justice and conscientiousness the inte-
rests of the people against the usurpations of
power, has failed in its trust as regards the Bel-
gians. It has falsified the principles of a Iwo-
Intim, which it has not understood. It has shown
an increditle eagerness, and a culpable joy in ga-
thering together all the facts calculated to repre-
sent the character of the Belgians in an odious
light, and to justify their oppressors and tyrants in
their designs. And it is upon the testimony of
journals, open to the lies 'of the enemies of Bel-
gium, and of every liberal cause, that you form
your opinion of a whole people ; it is upon their
rertlmity that you declare the Belgians ungrateful
to their benefactors, and discontented without
cause ; and that, not having any reason to revolt,
they have only obeyed their turbulent and restless
spirit ; that the government of Holland was gentle,
liberal, and paternal, and King William, the model
for Kings!
Do you think that a people revolts thus without
ause ? Do you think that, without strong and
powerful reasons, it breaks all the ties which unite
it to the existing order of things, that it interrupts
the market of industry, stops the course of com-
-Ir:free, that it puts its wealth, and its very exist-
-1.11(13 in jeopardy ? No, no, my friend. A partial
revolt, a local risint.r, may be referred to the pas-
sious of tie moment, and may not take its source
in natiorail excitement; but a revolution, a general
and instantamous revolution, is a remedy so vio-
lent and so extreme, that a people must have ex-
hausted ail means of gentleness and conciliation,
teal the state of things must have become insup-
pe taLle, before they have recourse to it.—
When a .whele nation rises as one man—when the
mechanic quits his loom, the rustic his plough, the '
student forsakes his study, the soldier his cockade,
the shopkeeper his business, the citizen his tran-
yid and inoffensive life, and all as if animated by
one soul join the deep cry of " Liberty"—all
affront danger and brave death to attain the prize
—it must needs be, that this nation has suffered
much and long, that the yoke bad become insup-
portable, and that the measure of its woes has been
f I:ed to the brim.
In 1814, when the Allied Powers rounded the
magnificent words of lndedendence and Liberty,
the Belgians were not deaf to the cry. When
victory was seemed, the monarchs forgot their '
et.gagements. The Diplomatists, who divided and '
allotted nations (cutting to the quick with the in-
sensibility of an anatomist dissecting a corpse),
heedless of the sufferings aid cries of the victim,
arranged by a treaty, without any regard to the
interest of the parties concerned, that Belgium
s! ould be separated front France, and annexed to
Holland. 1 hey had hoped for brethren, they
found oppressure ; and four millions of Belgians
became a prey to the avidity of two millions of
Dutchmen. Prophetic voices had predicted these
ca:amitiea ; bat they acre little heeded amidst
the illusions with which every one delighted his
huicy ; when violent commotions have just sub-
sided, a nation is pleased to he lulled with hopes,
however delusive, end piesent evils are thus for-
gotten.
The treaties guaranteed to the Belgians a con-
stitution, not as a gift, but one to which they had
a right. The project of this constitution, pre-
sented to the Belgian nobility (whom the King
himself, however, had taken the precaution to ap-
point) had been rejected by them. A majority of
the Dutch party—a factitious and fallacious ma-
jority—imposed this upon them. The Belgians
Lad a jury : the King, even before he was invested
v. ith royal authority, and in the quality of simple
commissioner of the powers deprived them
of it,- by an act of his own will and deed. He
abolished the publicity of judicial debates in its
most important branch—the examination of wit-
nesses. He kept the judicial order dependant
upon him ; and, by some premeditated delay in
his arrangements, the law by which it was pro-
vided that the judges should not be removed
was rendered merely a figure of speech. The in-
dependence of some of the magistrates was the
' signal for their disgrace ; the servility of others was
their title to reward from the crown ; so that, in-
stead of being impartial administrators of the law,
the magistrates became the mere tools of the despo-
tic will of the government. All liberty of the
press was destboyed, by the publication of an ordi-
nance, which threatened punishment to the writers,
from a year's imprisonment, and six hours wearing
the iron collar, to pain of death ; and such was the
vagueness of the expressions in these ordinances,
that the examination and censure of acts of go-
vernment (that invaluable right of a free people)
were treated as crimes. He imposed taxes without
consulting the people. He paralysed the effect of
the laws by his own interpretations, the execution
of which he insisted upon. lie expelled, by force,'
from Belgium any strangers who came under the
-"n¢ shade of a constitution that they be-
or to demand hospitality of a
this virtue in the rank of its
iympathy of other nations. Ho
I the most important branches
opposition to the-interests of his
ime by degrees merchant, mane

facturer, stock-jobber, printer, &c. He burthened
with exorbitant taxes all the national productions
' of Belgium ; and in a country principally agricul-
tural, taxes upon bread, grinding corn, cutting
wood, and distilleries, oppressed the southern pro-
vinces, while Holland, which scarcely felt the
weight of them, profited by it. He assumed the
right of nominating the magistrates of the towns,
and introduced into the municipal regulations what
WAS diametrically opposed to the constitution. He
altered according to his own fancy the constitution
of the provincial states, whose determinations he
subjected to the veto of a governor appointed by
himself. He took into his own hands the controul
of education, and deprived the heads of families of
the sacred right of bringing up their children in the
way that they thought best. It was no longer al
lowed that any one should give public instruction
without a permit. A license was necessary even
for teaching reading and writing in private fami-
lies; to become a master of the French, English,
Latin, or Greek languages, it was essential to have
a royal permit. Private schools were authoritatively
closed, and those masters who had vainly imagined
that nothing was needed but the requisite informa-
tion, and the confidence of the parents, were ba-
nished to the frontiers by the gendarmerie. Nor
was this all the infringement upon paternal rights ;
not only teachers, but particular methods of in-
struction, particular books and lectures even, were
authoritatively imposed ; and observe, my friend,
that all these books were printed in Holland, and
drawn up entirely on the Dutch system, and thus
was established a monopoly at once moral, intel-
lectual, and physical, all tending solely to the be-
nefit of the northern provinces, and infusing drop
by drop into the young minds of Belgium, political
and religious principles absolutely incompatible
with those of their fathers. From the dame school
to the highest classes in the University, every thing
was under government regulation.
The last stage of humiliation remained—a
species of humiliation which no nation ever forgets,,
and which it feels even after centuries of oppres-
sion and despotism—a degradation which affects
the most sacred property of man—the use of his
paternal tongue. This sacred right the King took
from the Belgians, and imposed upon them a
foreign idiom unknown in Europe. In a country
where French is the language of literature, of news,
of conversation, of the bar, a King was found
short-sighted enough in his policy, and tyrannical j
enough in his contempt of information and civiliza-
tion,l
to order, by a simple decree of his will, that
French should be no longer the national language,
that the Belgians were to unlearn their mother
tongue, and feline their organs and those of their
children to the use of the Dutch ! In many of the
provinces, the Belgians were no longer allowed to
defend their interests in the courts, except in
Dutch—to treat of national affairs, to hold com-
munion with government, to draw up public acts,
except in Dutch. The father of a family was com-
pelled to make his will in a language every word of
which required a translation. No man was ad-
mitted to any office (even in those provinces in
which French was universally spoken), until he
had served his apprenticeship to the Dutch. The
oldest statesmen, who had grown grey with honour
in the administration, were turned out of office.
Experienced barristers, notaries, formed by twenty
years' practice, church advocates, sergeants—all
were obliged to relinquish their situations, and seek
new means of earning their bread, or fall into
beggary ; Judges left the bench, government
officers their places, professors their chairs, and
' officers their epaulettes.
The partiality of King William towards his Dutch
subjects soon extended its influence from persons
to things. All the great national establishments
of the kingdom, the High Military Court, the Syn-
dicat of Mortmain, the Council of Catholic Wor-
ship, the Supreme Council of the Nobility, the
great Military- Schools, the Commercial Society,
were summoned in Holland. Even the institutions
which be'onged expressly to the mines and their
superintendance, were established in a country
where there is not a foot of ground containing a
mineral. The position of the High Court
of Justice was not yet determined, and offi-
cial memorials were laid before the King,
showing thar there were four times as many law-
suits in Belgium as in Holland; that the difference
was occasioned by the number of the inhabitants,
by the nature of their transactions, and by the
greater sub-division ef property ; and thnt it was
consequently only fair that the high court should
be established in the southern provinces; reason,
justice, calculation, memorials, all or none, it came
to the same thing ; the King had determined that
the Belgians should plead their causes, as a final
appeal, in his good town of the Hague.
I have not yet mentioned the grasping spirit of
the administration, nor the immoral laws which
were carried by a Dutch majority, nor the barba-
rous system of legislation which menaced Belgium,
and reminded one of the horrors of the 14th cen-
tury : nor of the infringements upon personal li-
berty, by a decree which authorised the imprison-
ment of a man of good family, upon the mere dic-
tum of a president of a tribunal ; nor of the in-
fringement upon property by Royal edicts, grant-
ing to debtors an twbitrary remission of the claims
of their creditors; nor of monopolies of certain
branches of trade (such, for instance, as the her-
ring fishery) granted to Dutchmen ; nor of the
Custom-house regulations, which were ruinous to
Belgium; nor of the annual increase of the taxes
in a time of profound peace, and with such a
frightful progression, that Belgium was then pay-
ing four times as much as she bad contributed to
the revenue of Napoleon, during twenty-five years
of war; nor of the increase of a debt already
enormous, and the repetition of a deficit whit h suc-
cessive loans never replaced ; nor of the disgusting
and ruinous partiality in paying off the anterior
debt— a partiality carried to such an extent, that
the Dutch debt was liquidated in 1815, while the
Belgic debt, which was comparatively trifling, re-
mains to this hour; nor of the scandalous appro.
prktion of a million of florins, which was voted by
the States General for the purpose of encouraging
national industry, and employed by the king for
the purposes of corruption, and the hire of foreign
agents; nor of the arbitrary methods by which the
,turnpike dues were withdrawn from the provinces,
though they were at the same time charged with
repairing the roads ; nor of the maintenance of a
standing army ; nor of the grievance of a militia of
five years sere ice, which robbed tire agricultural
• interests of its best hands ; nor of a guard called
the' Schutterye,. subject to the most vexatious ar-
rangements.

The outcry for the establishment of the promised
institutions was no longer confined to the writers
and representatives of the country; the whole na-
tion uttered their complaints in concert, and stated
their grievances; thus depriving the King of all
pretext of ignorance, which he always pleaded.
Petitions were addressed to him from all parts, as
well as to the national representation; from every
side they demanded the full and entire execution
of that Constitution which the Government had pre-
scribed, and whose liberal tendency it had carefully
eluded. The expression of discontent was general.
It was then that the people of Belgium were wit-
nesses to a novel phenomenon in the conduct of
representative governments.
The numerous petitions were made so many lists
of proscriptions for the citizens who had signed
them. The King even treated those Belgians who
had made use of their constitutional right, as sedi-
tious and infamous. Those who held public dices
were turned out, and those whose rink and fortune
placed them beyond the reach of royal displeasure,
and whose substantial interests he could not affect,
were banished the court. Presently after, a royal
message came to the National Assembly, in which
King William intimated thus his will and 'pleasure;
—that he derived his authority solely from God,
and from his ancestors; that the Constitution was
an act of his good pleasure, and not the realization
of a national right ; that his decisions were not to
be restrained by an idle ministerial responsibility ;
that ha would not re-establish the Trial by Jury, a
foreign innovation in our customs ; nor leave to
the press such supreme power over affairs ; that
he would govern by himself ; and that he knew
how justly to appreciate the pretended troubles
of the nation, or rather of a handful of mal-
contents, who insolently usurped the name of
nation, and whom he would soon bring to their
senses.

Insults were then heaped upon the national
representation. Its most sacred rights, and
most precious prerogatives, were contested. A
ministerial candidate having presented himself to
the Chambers, after an irregular election, and
the States having refused to admit him, the King
signified verify them, s
elect he did not recognize their
right of ing ions : that the candidate,
11 in consequence of the difficulty that had been
thrown in his way, had sent in his resignation as
deputy, and that he had chosen, not out of consi-
' deration for the chamber, but for tho deputy, to
accept it ; but that, if he had liked, he could have
forced them to admit him. The chamber being
over-ruled by a Dutch majority, submitted to this
last degree of humiliation. Gloomy discontent
and general despair agitated the nation, when it
considered the moral and political condition of the
neighbouring people. In France the ministry of
Puliguac, in England that of Wellington, the in-
fluence of the Holy Alliance in Germany, of Prince
Metternich framing new fetters, and preaching
another crusade against the liberties of the people ;
all combined to certify, that a vast system of op-
pression was every where organising itself, of which
King William was himself one of the most willing
agents, and that the crisis was approaching for the
people, or for their kings. Such, my friend, was
the moral and political situation of Belgium, when
the glorious revolution of July blazed forth in
France, and this brilliant spark set fire to the pow-
der in Belgium.
I say it with confidence, and without fear of
being contradicted by facts, that never king vio-
loted more openly sworn faith and established laws ;
or disregarded more impudently the rights of his
subjects ; showed a more profound contempt for
all that is good and sacred ; or displayed a more
brutal insensibility to the humblest remonstrances

that were addressed to him. But the lesson in
France was of no more avail than the past had
been. Despotism, often as it is taught by cruel
experience, has this peculiarity, that it remains
deaf to counsel, blind to example, and stupidly con-
fident in brute force, which has always been its ruin.
After the first popular effervescence was calmed,
all good citizens, the city notables, the members of
the states general, of the provincial states, and of
the municipal administration, were unanimous as
to the necessity of making a last appeal to the
King, who had hitherto been deaf to their prayers.
Respectful addresses were sent to him from all
quarters. Deputations of the most honourable
men were sent to him : they all demanded the
same thing—the removal of the ministry, and the
redress of grievances so often complained of, and
always neglected. Well, my friend, the ad-
dresses were disdainfully rejected ; and the King
persisted in his obstinacy, and closed his ears to all
these representations; but what put the finishing
stroke to his perfidy was this—he convoked at the
Hague, the second Chamber of the States General.
—While be amused the people with this ab-
surd convocation of the States General at the
Hague, and pretended to wish to treat seriously of
separatiog the governments of the two great divi-
sions of his kingdom, he ordered his troops to
march upon Brussels; and his second son, Frederic,
came to burn its beautiful houses, and to destroy
its inhabitants !

Thwarted by popular enthusiasm in this diaboli-
cal stratagem (which history will stigmatise with
words of fire), the King had recourse to a second
mancenvre, in which the Prince of Orange was
either his accomplice or his dupe. The King
despatched him to Antwerp, and there the Prince,
professing himself to be fully authorised by his
father, voluntarily proposed the separation of the
Northern and Southern Provinces. When the
Government in return, after replying to the Prince's
Proclamation, by asserting that there was no ex-
isting authority but their own, required to know
the extent of his powers to treat of exchange, and
how far the troops at Antwerp were under his or-
ders; it forthwith appeared, that he had no power
whatever—that this show of authority was only
another snare for the easy faith of the Bel-
gians, and that it was either a stratagem altoge-
ther, or the result of a supreme incapacity for
every thing like political arrangement. Thus,
when the hour of dauger arrived ; when one of
the most flourishing commercial towns in Europe
ought to have found in this Prince a patron and
friend ; when honour, humanity, personal interest
even, should have urged him to save the place from
the incendiaries of Brussels, he secretly quitted the
town, and left • the command of. the military to
Frederic the incendiary, and to General Chasse,
who poured upon Autwep, upon its magazines, its
warehouses, and its superb Gothic buildings, an
uninterrupted shower of bombe, balls, and Congreve
rockets, for twelve hours together !
Can you wonder, after• this, theta Royal fatally-

who have broken their oaths, given houses and
towns to the flames in cold blood, shed the blood
of thousands of citizens, tolerated and encouraged
atrocities at which a savage would shudder—can
you wonder, I say, that such men should be for
ever excluded from reigning in Belgium ?
I wish, my friend, that the limits of this letter
(which is insensibly growing under my hand)would
permit me to describe to you the reverse of the
medal shish has been held up as the type of our
revolution. I could show you a Provisional Go-
vernment, establishing itself on .the 25th of Sep-
tember, amidst the turmoil of cannon and bombs,
without finances, without archives ; with no mate-
rials for governing a people, who were even then
at open war, but pens, ink, and paper, and that
courage which patriotic devotion alone can inspire.
Five days after its establishment, its authority is
recognised in most of the towns of Belgium ; on
the Ist of October it forms a new magistracy, and
justice resumes its usual and regular course ; it
restores the freedom of the press, establishes the
right of association, abolishes lotteries, annuls
those decrees which infringed upon personal liber-
ty ; establishes an uniformity of operations through-
out the interior ; organizes an army ; creates finan-
cial resources, by continuing the ordinary taxation;
and, full of confidence in the wisdom of the people,
it convokes a National Congress, directs that the
elections shall be held on the moat popular• footing
which Belgium has ever enjoyed ; and these elec-
tions take place throughout the Provinces with a
regularity, an order, and a harmony, which excites
the admiration even of the enemies of national
freedom.

Never was there more security in the towns, or
on the high roads, which were covered with mili-
tary ; and never revolutionary government showed
a more profound respect for persons and property.
During the six months that its authority lasted,
there was not a single arbitrary arrest, not a single
government prosecution not an act of violence
against any individual. No scaffold was reared,
and no blond shed in the public places ; the
Belgic Revolution is innocent of this transgression.
It is in such cases as this, my friend, that the peo-
ple are truly sublime !
The Plenipotentiaries of five European Powers,
assembled in London, proposed to the Belgians,
that there should be a suspension of arms, in order
to prevent an useless effusion of blood, and to
facilitate a definitive arrangement with Holland,
on the basis of a separation Letween the two
countries. For this purpose, it was arranged
that every thing relating to boundaries was to re-
main as it had been in 1814. Belgium, though
victorious, and able at that moment to have carried
her arms into the heart of panic-struck Holland,
accepted the proposition.
This, my friend, was the origin of the negocia-
tions, which are still pending, as to the boundaries
of the different states. Belgium, relying upon the
basis laid down by the Powers themselves (the
state of things in 1814), refused to consent to any
dismemberment, and resolutely resisted the propo-
sitions offered in the protocols. How, indeed,
could she consent to part with Luxembourg, which
has been a part of Belgium for ages, and to place
its inhabitants (who, like the rest of the nation,
had thrown off the yoke of the oppressor, and
fought for the common independence) again in the
power of King William ? How could she give upl
Limbourg, and the claim that she had asserted to a
part of Maestricht, in 1790, or before, even when
it was in the hands of the Dutch ? Surely there
is neither senseless obstinacy, nor encroachment,
nor the desire of aggrandisement at the expense of
others, in demanding what history establishes as,
your own, and what the identity of manners, cus-
toms, language, and political changes, binds yet
more strongly to your own lot.
We have always considered the Belgians an in-
teresting, industrious, and virtuous people, but
unfortunate in the compliment of being contested
kr as a prize by powerful neighbours. They were
basely compromised by the black Congress of Vi-
enna, and enslaved, abused, and insulted, for fif-
teen years, by the House of Orange. At length
they displayed an energy worthy of success ; but,
instead of establishing a Republic, and choosing a
president, they have deferred to King-craft, and
chosen two sovereigns without success. Whatever
be the result of these foreign intrigues, Belgium
must continue the most flourishing of countries ;
but if driven on a Republican Government, these
provinces will become the envy of all nations, and
the focus of European civilization. Their cause Is
a righteous one, and we ardently hope they will
succeed in establishing their independence, and in
setting an example of well-regulated Liberty to all
Europe.

LAW RKPORTS.
COUR r OF KING'S BENCH, Juwz W.
DOYLE Y. POWELL.

This was an action brought to recover 1,550 L insured on
goods which were lost by perils of the sea. The plaintiff was
muter and owner of the ship Triton, which mailed in May,
1828, from Liverpool for Buenos Ayres, if open, of to any
other port in the River Plate. By the terms of the policy
the ship was allowed to remain for two months at Monte
Video. She arrived there on the Ist of August, when Buenos
Apes was still blockaded. At Monte Video, he discharged
a great part of his cargo, and took in other articles for Buns
nus Ayres, is a report prevailed that peace was about to be
ratified between the Brazilians and the republic of Buenos
Ayres. The news of the ratification reached Monte Video
on the 4th of October, on which day the blockade was raised.
The plaintiff sailed on the sth of October for Buenos Ayres,
and cast anchor in the roads, where the ship was by accident
sunk, the goods partly lost, and the pore= saved so much
damaged as to beg( littlewonh.
For the platotiffjt was contended that, although he had
remained at IWodleVideo fur more than the two months,
yet, as it was by restraint, the underwriter was still liable,
under the policy.
For the defendant it was contended, that the policy was at
an end when the vessel had remained more than two months
at Monte Video.

The parties at the suggestion of the Judge, arid to
make this a cue for the opinion of the Court.

WESTMINSTER SESSEONS, Juaa 25.
Joseph Ilaussll, only eleven years of age, was indicted
foe stealing a waistcoat from the shop of Mt. G. Ravenero
pawnbroker in Tothill-street.
The article in question was hanging outside the prosecu-
tor's shop-door for sale, and the prisoner watching an oppor-
tunity, ran off with it. As soon as it was missed, informs.
tion was given to Timbrill, au officer, who keeps a sale-shop
in the neighbourhood, to whom it happened that the prisoner
shortly afterwards offered it for sale. He was then detained.
The father of the prisoner, every decent-looking man,
said this was his son's first offence I the prisoner's mother
was dead, anti he (the father) and his only other child were
attacked with fever, so that at the period of the robbery
there was no one to take care of him, and it was probable
that his being thus exposed to the world without protection
impelled him to commit the offence.
The Chairman said he was very sorry for the prisoner's
family, but the property of the public must be protected.
The primmer was found Guilty, and in consideration of
the circumstances sssted by his taffies, **Court only sea-
winced him to one month's imptrisonsamt,and to be print*
wEippeg.

Margaret Jahnson was indicted for stealing a snub-b.,x
from the person of a young man named Edward Fanning,
who had been induced to accompany her to a house of in.
fame. She was found guilty, and sentenced to three months'
hard labour.
Mary Price was convicted for keeping a brothel in Little
Dean-street, Soho, and ordered to be imprisoned until the
adjournment day, and then brought judgment

up .
ri.ICE REPORTS.
GUILDHALL.—One of the partners in the firm of Stan.
doge and Price, auctioneers, Chancery-lane, attended on
summons, for making clictssice charges in respect to levying
a dimes, tar rent on the property of a young woman named
Black.
The charge was regular as far as regarded the levy, ap-
praisetnent, and condemnation. The tenant not liking them
at the appropriated value, the goods became at once the pro-
perty of the landlord ; and the charges for appraising and
condemning were, when made, the only lawful charges upon
the tenant for the sale of her goods ; but in this case the
broker proceeded to put them up to sale by auction, and
charged the tenant 12s. Cid. for this second sale, which, it am
contended, should have fallen on the landlord.
The broker urged that he did not hand the goods over to
the landlord upon their being appraised and condemned,
because he had seen many flagrant cases of oppression co;
I wand up in that. way ; and, secondly, because it was noto.
clans that the costs which would be legally chargeable, with.
out proceeding to sell by auction, would be too insignificant
to remunerate any respectable broker who would do the bu.
shim creditably.
Mr. Alderman WitICRESTIR said it was a bad defence to
say the Act did not allow adequate charges to be made, for it
was an indirect admission that Illegal charges had been de.
signedly made. He should therefore convict the defendant
in treble the amount of the overcharge.
Defendant said he had acted according to the universal
custom of the trade, and he should appeal against the eon-
'lei ion.
BOW.STREET.—CaroIine Rooth Harrington and Miss
Harrington, sisters, were charged, on Saturday, with being
concerned with another sister, not in custody, named Mori
Anis, (who was stabbed with a knife, by Margaret Hughes,
sometime ago, in Shire-lane, during a quarrel, and who is
now in Newga,e to take her trial fur the offence), in robbing
Elias White of fifteen sovereigns, three 51. Bank notes, and
a silk purse. The father of the prisoners was charged
with befit,' a confederate with his daughters in the robbery.
He has been living by their prostitution for some time, but
tare discharged for want of evidence. The prosecutor was
sobbed by the prisoners In a house in Phcanix.alley, near
Covent.garden Theatre. He had been induced to take
some gin and-water with the prisoners, and, some nar-
cotic being put into it, he became stupified, and was
plundered.
Stilwell, a gaslight-man, proved that, on the morning of
the robbery, be saw the three sisters in Lincoln's Inn-
fields. Caroline threw something over the wall. He
climbed over, and found a silk purse, which he produced.
The prosecutor Identified it as his property, and the rri•
toners were committed.

William Henry, and George Duncan, were charged with
having stolen a quantity of hats, the property of Mr. Per.
ring.
A witness, named Pattenden, employed for the purpose,
proved thot the prisoner Henry had sold him several
guinea hats, at ss. each.
file. Halls remanded the prisoner.
Friday, after the public business was disposed of at this
office, a gentleman in a half military, half naval, uniform.
with a wreath of laurel round his cap, and a marshal's staff
in his right hand, was brought in custody before Mr.
by police superintendents' Thomas and Dowling. who
charged the defendant with having, about half an hour be.
fore, attempted improperly to obtain admission to her 31a.
jesty's Drawing-room. The defendant wore a blue coat
with red facings, which were ornamented with a profusion
of gold lace. Two large stars, representing the arms ot
France under the dynasty of Napoleon, and those of Eng.
land, were affixed to his left breast. Mr. Thomas carried
his sword, which he had willingly given up. He is a re.
markably fine-lookiug man, apparently about thirty years ot
T;and his name, as stated by Mr. Thomas, is Charles
Gossett, of No. 18, George-street, Portman-square, Lieute.
ant in his Majesty's Navy.
Mr. Thomas stated that he charged the defendant whh
having attempted to present himself in the dress which he
then wore at her Majesty's D.awing-room. He (Mr. Thu.
man ) had received instructions at the Palace not to permit
the defendant to pass in, and in compliance with those in-
s ructions he had stopped him.
Mr. Dowling stated that orders had been given to him to
the same effect.

The defendant complained of having been improperly
Interrupted by the police, and declared that the insignias
which he carried about him were rewards for put services,
and that they had been approved of by his late Majesty, who
had been graciously pleased to say that he might appear in
them at Court.
Mr. HALLS said that the defendant appeared to be labour-
ing under some delusion, and diree ed Mr. Thomas to take
him to the station until his mends should be sent for.
At the evening sitting the defendant appeared again be-
fore the Magistrate, his sword having been given up to
him in eon%equence of his appearing more calm and col-
lected.

The defendant complained of his having been hopropuly
stopped when about to enter the Palace. lie bad often met
his present Majesty when Duke of Clarence, and he was
gybe certain that had he seen Mot at the drawing-room he
would, as he had often done before, give him a hearty shake
of the hand. The defendant then went on to say, that he
had submitted his t' insignia" to the Duke of Norfolk and
Sir G. hayler, " the latter of whom was pleased (con.
tinned the defendant, raising his yoke) to put a negative on
my claims, whereupon 1 did as the king's champion had
done before, I threw down my gauntlet thus—(throwing his
gloves with violence on the Boor)—and challenging Sir
George to single combat on the spot, I drew my sword as I
do now (flourishing it over the heads of those around him);
but (throwing his weapon violently from him on the magi*
trates' table) since 1 have been dishonoured to-day, that It
my sword, do what you like with it."
Mr. Hem.* directed an officer to secure the stood,
and told the defendant that after this unequivocal proot
of the state of his mind, he should not consider it sore
either to himself or the public that he should be suffered to
go at brge.
The defendant was then ordered to be taken back to the
station. The opinion of a medical gentleman who was pre.
sent was, that he exhibited symptoms of insanity.
111A111.101101Mall-STIMET.,—John Rhodes, the driver of
Powell's Omnibus, running flow St. Paul's to Fulham, was
fined 101. or in default to stand committed for six months,
fur furiously driving on the 18th Inst. A gentleman named
Franks attended, and stated that the defendant endeavoured
to keep up with a four-horse coach, and although he several
times called to him to stop, be continued at a violent rate.
A man named Robert Whatley was on Friday brought
before the presiding Magistrate, F. A. Roe, Esq. charga
with a most shameful and violent assault on his wife. Tbc
parties are separated, notwithstanding which the defendant
knocked at her residence at about ten o'clock at night, and
on her opening the door be immediately struck her three or
four times In the face successively, and also knocked her
servant down. The complainant's fact presented a dreadful
appearance.
The worthy magistrate ordered him to find good bail for
the ensuing three months.

BIRTH.

Saturday last, in Easex•atveet, Strand, Mrs. Thorns M.
Ding, of a daughter.

ARRIED.

The 23d Inst. at Newington, near Hythe, the Rev. lier.
nett C. Bayley, second son of the Hon. Baron Bayley. to
Charlotte, eldest daughter of James Brockman, aci. of
Bcachborough, county of Kent.--The 20th inst. at Ly.
mington, Lieut.-Col. Hughes, of the Bombay army, to
Bliss Luther. youngest daughter of J. Taylor, Esq. )1.
D.—The 25th inst. J. T. Marshall, Req. of Nottingham.
to Mrs. Ludwig., of ths same place.—The 23d inst. dte
Rev. W. Pearl, M. A. of Riling, to Isabella Dunlap. of
Baktr.strcet, Portman-square, 'mood daughter of the law
3. Dunlap, Esq. M. D. of Sydenham, Kent--1 he.l6th of
February last, at St. Thome, Madras, Capt. It. M. Hum.
Preys, 2d regt. Native Infantry, to Maria Mary, eldest dough.
daughter of Thomas C. Milan, surgeon, Abingdon-street.
Westminster.

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The 24th hist% in Upper Norton.street, after a few hi ttT'
illness, Mrs. Hyde, aged lia—&nte day, Mrs. Elisstnth
Martin Leak; wife of R. Martin Lege...Esq. of Goscr•
street, liedford-square.--Theirid inst. Eliza, second sun le-
ing daughter of Me. L. Babas, aged 14.—The 26:11 not.
Mr. W. Twinch, Clutter-lane, Cheapeide, in his 50th year.

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