Star.
London, England, 1822-09-27 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held
at Guildhall,. for the purpose of receiving Reports
from various Committees, and also for the dispatch
of miscellaneous business. The Court was very
thinly attended.
On the reading the Report of the Committee for the
Bridge House E.tates,
Mr. FA Vg{. stated that they had already discharged
15,0001. of the Bridge House debt, at 44 per cent.
The Committee would have to propose another im-
portant measure, namely, the establishment of a
fund to pay cif the whole of the debt, which altoge-
ther amounted to about 100,0001.. This was to be
done by a Sinking Fund, which would enable them
to look the Public in the face, and to rn:tintain the
honour and credit of the Corporation. Another pro-
position would be made to allow no Committee to
' embarrass the funds of the City, without the consent
of the superior Finance Committee. These casual ex-
penses amounted to above 70,0001. He concluded by
moving that the Report be agreed to,which was carried.
Her also next presented the Report from the Jail Com-
mittee, respecting the continuing of the Sessions
Paper to be printed by the Corporation, and at its
expense. He said that this was a matter of vast im-
portance to the administration of justice and mercy,
that the whole of the evidence should be laid before
the Secretary of State and the Privy Council. The
short-hand writer had stated to the Committee that
he took down all the evidence, but riot the gossip of
Counsel. The Committee, therefore, regretteq the ex-
penses, but could not recommend any alteration in it.
Alderman WAITIMAN bore testimony to the ac-
curacy of these reports. The expense was great, and
the publication useless to the Members of that Court;
but it was.absolutely necessary. that the whole of the
evidence should be laid before the higher powers,
for the purpose of tempering justice with mercy.
Mr. Dow:roan highly approved of the recom:
mendation of the Committee.

Mr. TAYLOR wished the Old Bailey Reports to be,
still delivered to the Members of the Court, because
many persons borrowed his Piper who wished to in-
terest themselves in favour of condemned criminals.
Alderman WAITHMAN said he once hiid occasion
to commit a man on the oaths of Westminster Of-
ficers, who swore diametrically opposite at the Old
Bailey from what they hail stated before him at Guild-
hall. Before him they swore they saw a man snatch
a old chain on the Lord Mayor's Day; but at the
Old Bailey they swore they did not see him steal it.
The Sesions Paper informed-him of this, and he ob-
.taioed the dismissal of one of them.

The Report was agreed to.
A notice of motion was given, to consider of al•
fording some assistance to the Floating Hospital for.
Seamen, ar a future Court.

The Committee for General Purposes presented a
' Report, recommending sundry additional fees to be
taken in the Court of Requests, which was read; and,
after sotne'discussion, and a motion for adjourning
the consideration to a future Court, which was
ne-
gatived, was finally agreed to, and the fees ordered
to be increased accordingly, and to coanneuce from
die Ist of October next. . .
Tice same COmmittee delivered in a Report on °en-
sidering the Petition of the blasons Company for a
By-law, which they recommended to be complied
with under certain regulations; and on the question
being put to agree oath the Report, the same wasne.
getived bi A Alexided •tapjacity.

meL or PILAFF li4RTtt6LAbit Via tide raatoert•
LINT SEDUCTIow OF A YOUSO woliAr.
was, avernOO*ll4
number of interesting trials are to occupy the
Court during this Session. The sitting of toadly has
been occupied by an accusaikon of carrdng off
minor, the only daughter of a cabinet-quaker, posh
sessing some property. The accusel was a )otaig
man, author of several articles. who had no other
means of subsistence, though an Advocate, than his
recent employment by a Journal entitled the Paoli.:
Piet re B.trthelemy had met several times Miss Eliqq
zabeth Florence G—, daughter of a cabinet-wake.,
.aged 17 -years. He was eleven or twelve years olden
—He is far from being ugly. but he is short add
litre, and obliged to aid the shortness of one leg by a
highrheeled boot, and to support himself on a tam ,
Thb Act of Accusation and the Justificatory Papeth
make us acquainted with the menthe- in which the
acquaideance was established. Barthelemy I; equently
followed Miss Elizabeth in the street, whom a seo.
vant accompanied from school, home. He very
soon found mbians to speak to her, and offered td
lend her somelsooks. The first which he lent het
were, according to him, some works on Educations
'and a Treatise on Mythology. Some time afterwards
he put into her hands the first volume of La Nouvelle
lieloise, and refused to give her the _second. Ha
wished to shew her Julie guilty, but not Julie re.
pentant. Elizabeth, it is said, hesitated to &Ash the
first volume; she was stopped by this remarkable
passage of the preface;—" Whatever young woman,
in spite of the title, dares to read a single rage, is
for ever lost." She ad :ed. hrs.., ever, I have a:rived
at the 110th 'page, and I stou not yet lost. BartheA
lemy replied, that the danger was otul y to weak minds*
and that she might continue
In a letter written to the object of his arts, Barth&
leniy, developed his theory of seduction. Very soon
he menaced Elizabeth, that he should be driven td
deeds of the greatest despair. He dared to advance
that suicide was not a crime. He announced his-ap•
pouching departure for Barcelona, where he war
going to brave the yellow fever. Elizabeth was
alarmed ; Barthelemy changed his plan of a journer
into Spain for a trip to England, and by degrees led
her boo the abyss of seduction. At length the placlP
of her retreat was discovered, and she was conducted
to the convent of St. Michel, by virtue of the pater•
nal authority, and of the authority of the Pre,ident
of the Civil Court. Barthelemy wrote a menacing
letter to the Lather, in which he reproached him as a
tyrant and a jailer, and the executioner of his &nigh; _
ter, and went so far as to say, " you have lost your
rights iniebusing them." Barthelemy alleged for ex-
cuse the violent passion with which he was inspired
by his victim, and the project which he had always
entertained of marrying her ; but the father would
not accept of a reparation which only confirmed the
ravisher in the possession of the prey which he had
coveted. He appeared before the Court as a party
to a civil suit.

At the commencement of the trial, Elizabeth was
led forward by the son in-law of M. Lebon, her fa-
ther's advocate. Her steps trembled, she was evi-
dently confused, though a long black veil covered her
features, which are described as regular and hand-
some. Her eyes appeared to avoid those of M. Bar•
thelemy. After the act of accusation was read in the
presence of a numerous audience, M. de BROS, Ad-
vocate=General,required, in consequence of the nature
of some of the details, that the cause should be heard
with closed doors.

The Court agreed to this requisition, the audience
were ordered to depart, some persons, however, re,
mained ; we shalt not abuse this-favour in reporting
afilicting details, which the interest of morality re•
quires us not to submit to the eyes of our readers.
M. de Brunt 'supported the accusation with the
same talent that he has recently displayed in a num-
her of criminal prosecutions.
LEBON pleaded the father's cause, and U.
CARE defended Barthelemy.

The audience were again admitted, when the Judge
summed tap, and they then learnt that all the dal.
ficulty of the case turned on the Ss4th and 856th
articles of the Penal Code, and on a defect which the
Legi•lature seemed to have left in them. The de-
fence maintained that the minor being more than six*
teen years of age, and having voluntarily followed
her seducer, the charge of fraud provided for in the
854th article was nut applicable.
After a short deliberation, the Jury found Barthe.
lemy Not Guilty of having carried off the minor
Elizabeth Florence G— by fraud. In consequence the
.11RSIDEAT absolved him, and addressed him in the
following terms :
" Pierre Barthelemy, the silenced the law, rather
than your innocence, enables you to escape from this
accusation. You have been gulfy of the greatest
trespass that can be committed, not only against.the
rules of morality, but against the first principles of
an honest and virtuous man. You have tempted ft
young woman from her duty, knowing that the father
would never consent to give her to you in marriage.
You have not even asked the father's consent; yoli
began the seduction of this young person in the most
vile manner, and with a cleverness that has hitherto
been found only in novels, where the character of
Lovelace has been described with such odious features.
It will be said that you have learned your means r'
seduction from works which
this Bench. Remember the
been guilty-of your whole life,
piate at by better conduct. Adi
by, the lesson you have _received,
no other connections but that
Abnve all, dQ not abuse talents
given .you, and education has
which yea have made a most'

we dare not name co •
trespass you bare now
e, eod endeavour to es-
Imonished for the future
red, endeavour calories
are pure and vitteeep.
lens which nature be' 1
has cultivated, bus of
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LONI)ON.

Z.ngland—Lord SrZWART and Mr. Goanon.

THE 14NENING STAR.

FRIDAt, SEPTEMBER 27, -1522.
THE PONDS.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Littk or no business has been done in the market this morn-
fisg, and up to this hour Consols remain -stationary at 811 for
the Aceount, and 81k 1 for Money.—Tht Commisbioners have
just given 81i for Money.
Fcrastak Ftnins.—Owing to all foreign funds having risen on
the Continent, the market looked brisk this morning, particularly
Russian, Prussian, and Old Spanish Bonds, which seem to be on
the rise.—Chiliao 8i it, New Prussian 881 a, Old 90191, New
Spanish 643 to 65, Oid 70i, Russian 87k i, Danish 89, Neapo-
litan 77, Colombian 861, Scrip 861.
STOCK EXCLIANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
'Much business is doing, and the market looks exceedingly well.
Consols at Bta buyers for the Account.
FORICION Fesoc.—Chtlian Bonds have fallen within the last
hour, and are heavy at 841. There appea.rs to be a panic
sunongst the holders of ihese Bonds.
PItICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
2 per Ct. Cons. 81 SA 14.-4 per Ct. New 1001 A 5/$
Imp. 3 per Cents. 81—Exch. Pills of £l,OOO, 3s.
Exch. Bills small, ss. 7s. pr.—Bank for Acct. 252.1/2
Consols Account,Bls/3 1/g.

This forenooPi we received a Flanders Mail, bring-
ing German and Brussels Papers of a late date. An
article from Vienna, of the 10th instant, states that
the Foreign Ministers assembled in that capital have
already had very long conferences at the hotel of
Prince METTERNICa. The following are the prin-
cipal Foreign Ministers who were present:
For France—Messrs. de Pdoxxstosucit, CA WAN, and Fas-
ROM% YZ.

Prussia—Counts 13zativroarr and liarzrrt,e.
Rubsia—Counts NLSSELRODE, I'OZZO DI Bodo, and Goiow-
11N, And Senattr TATISCIIEFF.

The following are extracts:
BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 23. .
It is positively affirmed that the Austrian and Eng-
lish Ministers at Constantinople have again strongly
urged the Porte to send an Ambassador to some
frontier town to confer with a Russian Minister.
Letters from Frankfort say, that in consequence of
a request made to the King of Prussia by Prince.
Hardenberg, the Chancellor of State, his Majesty has
been pleased to dispense with the attendance of that
Minister at the Congress of Verona.
The accounts from Rome say that Cardinal Gon-
salvi, Secretary of State to his Holiness,, has lately
had several conferences; and that it is supposed he is
on the point of receiving his final instructions, pre-
vious to his departure to represent his Holiness at
the Congress at Verona.