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London, England, 1831-06-16 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE IN OTAHEITE ON

CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS.

unseal pleasant thoughts have been growing In my brew*,
and I wish you to hear them. Perhaps every thing good and
nary has been said already by the chit. ; yet. sa we are
sot met to adopt this law or that law. because ere great man or
another recommends It. but as we. the taati rut, just the same
as the chiefs, are to throw all oar thoughts together, that out
of the whole beep the meeting may maks those to stand up-
right which are best, witenesmwrer they crew—this is my
thought. All that Tad said was goad ; bee be did sot men.
don that one reason fw punishing—as a missionary told as,
when he was reading the law to as, in private—la to *take
the offender good again if passible. Now, If we kill a amr.
deter. how put we make his better P But if be be sent to a
desolate island, where he is all solitary, 'and compelled to
think for himself, it may plearo God to make the bad things
in his heart to die, and good things to grow there. But if
we kill bin, where will his eon, go r
of 0 hers spoke to the same purport. and, In the result, it
was unanimously determined tl:st banishment, not death,
should be inflicted on murderers.*

(Frew Me Ed&slowegit Literary joansate Review qf Tyre-
man mai Benowfs Missionary Pomo' wed Travels.)

We have been much interested with the account
given by the missionaries, of the debates in the
Parliament of Otaheite respecting the introduction
of capital punishment. For speeches to the pur-
pose, and strict attention to decorum, the Otheitian
legislators might read a useful lesson to some pro-
fessional brethren whom we could easily name.

" To show the spirit and candour, as well as good sense,
with which the disetssions were conducted, we shall furnish
a sketch of some of the principal speeches delivered on the
first and second day, in reference to death or banishment for
murder.

" On the question being proposed, Hitoti, the principal
chief of Papeete, stood up, and, bowing to the president and
the persons around him, said—' No doubt this is a good
law,'—the proposed punishment was exile foe life to • de-
solate island-6 but a thought has been growing In my bend
for several days, and when you have beard my little speech
you will understand what it is. The laws of England, from
which country we have received so much good of every kind
—mum not they be good ? And do not the laws of England
punish murderers by desth ? Now, my thought is, that as
England dies so, It would be well for us to do so. This is
my thought.'
" Perfect. silence followed :—and it may be observed here
that, during the whole eight dap' meeting of this parlia-
ment, in no instance were two speakers on their legs at the
same time there was rot an angry word uttered by one
against another; nor did any miaow the possession of more
knowledge than the rest. In fact, none controverted the
opinion of a preceding speaker, or even remarked upon it.
without some respectful commendations of what appeared
praiseworthy in it, while, for nations which he mo-
destly, but manfully aasigned. be deemed another send.
'Dent better.

"After looking round to see whether any body were al-
ready up before him, Utemi, the principal chief of Boma.'
ads, rose and thus addressed the president The chief of
Papeete has said well, that we have received a great many
good things from the kind Christian people of E.ngland.—
Indet.d, what have we not received from Borisov 1 Did
they not send us rum lCm gospel ? But does not Hi.
toti a speech go too far ? If we take the laws of Ragland
for our guide, then must we nut punish with death those
who break into a house?—those who write a wrong name?
—those who steal a sheep I—And will any man In Tahiti
say that death should grow for these ? No, not this goes
too far ;so I think we should stop. The law ar it is
written, I think is good ; perhaps I am wrong ; but that
is my thought.'
" After a moment or two of stillness, Cpuperu, a noble
intelligent, and stately chief stood forth. It was a plea-
sure to look upon his animated countenance and trans de.
meattour, without the smallest affectation either of rope,
riority or condescension. He paid several graceful cootplia
mem, to the former speakers, while, according to his thought,
in some things each was right, and each was wrong. '
ldy
brother. Hitoti, who proposed that we should punish mud.r
with daub, because England dues so, wait wrung, as has
been shown by [heath Fur they are not the laws df Eng-1
land which are to guide us, though they ark good i—the
Bible is our perfect geide. Now, Alitti Tru.o (the mis.
sionary Crook) ties preaching to us on (naming the cost)
hem the Scriptures, " He that sheddeth man's Mudd; by
man shall his blood be shed s" and be told us that this was
the lesson of the lee 4f Enfold—My thought • therefor,
is not with lima: but with Hitoti, (though not ;2/CAW the
law of England, but because the B.ble, orders it), that we
ought to punish with death every one found guilty of
murder.'

" There was a lively exchange of looks all through the
assembly, as if each bad been deeply struck with the senti-
ments of the speaker, especially when be placed the ground
of the punishment of death, not upon Lnglish precedent,
but Scripture authority.—Another chief followed, and • rir
lug, seemed a pillar of eta e,' one whose upset, and presence,
and costume of drug (richly native), made the spectators fur.
get even him who had just sat down.—His name was Tad;
and on him all eyes were immediately and intensely Bud,
while, with not less simplicity and deference to Other. than
those who had preceded him, he spoke thus : • Perhaps
some of you may be surprised that I, who am the first chief
I bete, and next to the royal family, should have held my
peace so long. I wished to bear what my brethren would
say, that I might gather 'nit thoughts had grown, In their
!struts on this great q.lestion. lam glad that I waited, be.
cause some thoughts arc now growing Li my own breast wisich
I did not bring with inc.—The chiefs, who have yokes be.
foie me, h ire spoken welt. But knot the speech of Upu-
paru like that of his brother, Wtod in this way ? It* we
cannot foll.sw the laws of England, in all things, as Hitoti's
thoughts would perhaps kad us, because they go tuo
far—must we not stop short of Cpupatu, because has tuought
goes too far lilrewies? The Bible, he says, Is out perfect
guide. It is. But what dal that Scripture Olean, •• Hr
that sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."
Dies not this go so far that we cannot follow it to the end,
! any more then we can follow the laws of England all the
1 way ? lam Tati ; lam a udge; a man is convicted be-
'lute me ;he has shed blood; I order him to be put to
death ; 1 shed Ms blood ; then who shall shed algae !
Here, because I cannot go so far, I must stop. This cannot
br the meaning of those twotds. But, perhaps, since many
of the laws of the Old Testament were thrown down by the
Loan Jews Cunt's, and only some kept standing up.
right—perhaps, I say, this is one of those which were dooms)
down. However, as lam ignorant, some owe else will show
me, that, in the New Testament, our Savtotra, or his
1 apostles, have said the same thing conlerning bins that
sheddeth maw's blood, uls said in the Old Testament.
Show me this in the New Testament, and then it must be

our guide.
" Much cordial approbation was evident at the coficluslion
of Tati's speech, sod its evangelicalappealtatedted to remove
lsome difficulty and doubt respecting the Vac scriptural sue
therity• applicable to the we.
" Next rose Pad, a chief and a judge of &mei,. farmed,
a highpriest of Oro, and the Snit who, at the baaard'ef his
life, had abjured idolatry. My beast.' he 'exclaimed, is
full of thought, and surprise, add delight; When I look
round at this fare burs no (house of God). in which we an
sssembled, and consider 'who we are that tale sweet.counwl
.eigether here, it is to me all seen karst 'e 'thing of moose.
tent), and mks /ea oats Sc awls (a thing that -makes glad
-sty heart). Tad has settled the question ; fur it is not the
gospel that is our guide; and who can find directions foe
putting to death? I knew many' pieueases which. forbid;
but I know not 'one which emuniandr; to kill. But theh
another thought hi growing in my livelier, and, if you
will hearken to my little speech, you shall know what it is.
Laws, to punish those that 'commit CTIITIO are gelbd fee us.
But tell me, why do Christians punish ? Is it became we
are angry. and have pleasure in causing pain ? Is it because
• we love tivetige.•as se did when We'viefelleadiefilr None
of these t C'hristishe d not 1 .ve•reveie,se Chris'ians 'must
not be angry.; they cannot have pleasure in causing pain.—
Phristimir do not, therefore, punish kw these. Is it not
hat, by the suffiring which is indicted, we way prvveni the
erindrilii from repeating his 'crime, and frighte, otherilreini
thsiottiraiithks dune'to deserve the' WeH dots
not every body !quo that it would be's greattr • punishment
Ho be banish 11 for ever from Tahiti. so a desobie island,
I ,ibaniust, in's Moment, to be put iii death ? And could the
iawlailNA rdaft bettiailttiiiirdet
Nitherd tietnore friShtened•by uochii septette. than-by °Wm
lake away his life ? So my thossht is that Tad is right,'
#od the law had best remain ap it has been written.'
(Inkof tlis /data di; or litiki'meti; a comiiiimisi, or 're.l
~lfnOiewpftrligittie sated" wattri;;;l•twerhil ar winefearteoliott is'bed iseentglveit to' the
'ordly personas., withhold preceded him. • fie said—' As
no ens else stauds lip. I will make say little speech, because

the Ptemflactylus, or flying reptile, first make
their appearance ; animals, which, with the wings
of a bat, and the structure of a reptile, had jaws
furnished a ith sharp teeth, and claws with long
hooked nails.
The entire series of deposits. composing the
°alit. formation, of which the Liu is the inferior
or lower me' rnber, abounds with the remains of
the animals of this order, and these are associated
• with vast quantities of marine shells, principally
belonging to the ancient multitocular genera.
namely, Ammonites, Nautilites, Belemnites, &c.
the whole formation having manifestly been depo-
sited by an ocean. The only apparent exceptions
to this conclusion are the Stonesfield beds, com-
posed of thin strata of calcareous sandy slate,wbich
occur in the lower division of the (Mike, mild con
BY Gizmos /11swerta., A
THE AGE OF IM
F. it SPTILES.
S. Ike. /re. lain not only marine plants, shells, and bones o
.
meow idea
.annempecainternetins 'Teak
,ashieb reptiles, but also the outer cattle, or elytra of wing-
the researches of modern Geologists have brought to ed insects, and jaws of animals allied to the oppos-
sum (Didelphis). The occurrence of the tarrestrial
light, there is none more extraordinary and itu-
mammalia in beds of this ancient epoch has not
posing than the discovery that there was a period
been satisfactorily explained, and it would be fo-
when the earth was peopled by oviparous quadru-
reign to our present purpose to enter into any din-
pods of a most appalling magnitude, and that rep- reign
upon the subject ; the intermixture of ter-
tiles were the Lords of the Creation, before the
restrial remains with those of marine origin, may
existence of the human race ! These creatures of
of comae have been effected by the agency of a
the ancient world, many of which, from their ex-
river or current. In the Stonesfield slate we first
traordinary size and form, rival the fabled mon-
sters of antiquity, existed in immense numbers, meet with the remains of that gigantic reptile the
and in latitudes now too cold for the habitation of Megalosaurus, Great Lizard. This monster, whichlfrom the form of its teeth and skeleton, is evidently
modern oviparous quadrupeds. Their remains oc-
cur in strata far more ancient than those which
,allied to the Monitor, must have been nearly forty
contain the reliquite of viviparous animals, and are feet in length, and seven or eight in height, and
I was probably a terrestrial animal. The crocodiles
found in marine as well as in fresh water deposits.
. of this ancient epoch appear to have been exceed-
Seine of them, from their organization have been
evidently fitted to live in the sea only : while 'ingly numerous, and belonged to species distinct
:from those of the present period, a great proportion
others were terrestrial, and many were inhabitants
of the lakes and rivers. The animal and vegeta-
i being referable to the Gavials ; that division which
ble remains with which the fossil bones are use- I has long slender snouts. -
elated, belong also to a very different order of I In the fresh-water formations that intervene
ua-
be-
thi to that in which the modern oviparous tiveen the Oolite and the Chalk, namely, the Pur-
p
drupngseds are placed, and we are compelled to cqoo- bock, Hastings' sands and clays, and the Tilgate
grit, the remains of several of the nera of the
elude that the condition of the earth at the period
must have been ! reptiles we have before noticed, occur; but those
when it was peopled by reptiles,
which are strictly marine, such as the Ichthyosau-
wholly different to its present state; and that it
probably was then unfit fur the habitation of aui- rus, are either altogether wanting, or of very
male of a more perfect organization. It is, more-
rare occurrence. At the period of the forma-
over, interesting to remark, that some of these an• lion of these deposites, turtles, both marine and
fresh-waver, existed in great numbers, having for
dent and lost races are, as it were, the types of the
existing orders and genera ; and that in the pigmy ceatemporaritra the Megalosani, one or more
Measlier and Iguana of modern times, we perceive species of Plesiosaurus, several species of Gavials
and Crocodiles, aud .probably Pterodactylea. At
striking resemblances to the colossal lifegalosaurase
this epoch we have also an enormous herbivorous
and Ifearrodon of the ancient world. It is also
present reptile, essentially differing Com any of the ovi-
epochw.irthy of observation, that as iu the
percale quadrupeds now existing, and surpassing in
the herbivorous quadrupeds are those of the
magnitude even the Megaltsaurus. This is the
greatest magnitude, so at the period when reptiles
ut:e
were the principal inhabitants of our planet, the !g dam (so named from its teeth resembling
berbiverous were those of the most gigantic propor- those of the recent Iguana.) A thigh bone of this
creature, twenty-three inches in circumference, has
dons. The geological period when the Indigenes
been discovered to the grit of Tilgate Forest ; the
of reptiles commenced must, according to the Pie-
teeth are as large as the incisors of the rhinoceros,
sent state of our knowledge, be placed imam-
and the vettebres, claw-bones, and other parts of
diately after the formation of the coal measures;
the skeleton, bear the same relative propartLons. '
the remains of Monitors having been found in the
Mid creature, like some of the recent species of
bituminous schist of Thuringia ; and those of a
crocodile iu the gypseous, red sandstone of Eng- Iguanas,had warts or horns on its snout, and an
land : but it is not till we arrive at the Lies that appendage of this kind has been found of the size
and shape of the lesser born of the rhinoceros the remains of reptiles occur in any considerable
From the prevailing character of the form of the
quantity. At that period the earth must have teem-
bones, it is probable that this animal was shorter
ed with oviparous quadrupeds; and the enalio-
in proportion to its bulk than the recent lizards to
nisei, or those which inhabited the sea, appear
which it is most nearly allied, and marvellous as to have been equally numerous with those oo the
land and rivers. The prodigious quantity of the it may appear, we cannot but infer that some in-
remainsdividuals attained a height of nine or ten feet, and
of these animal' which has, within a com-
were from sixty to a hundred feet
.in length ! A
punitively short period, been found in England
alone, is truly astonishing ; and if to these we circumstance even more extraordinary than its mag
nitude, is that of its having performed mastication
add the immense numbers that have been discover-
like the herbivorous manium:ia ; its teeth, which
ed in France, Germany, &c. and reflect that for
one individual found in a fossil state, thousands are of a very peculiar form, being in general worn
down by the operation of grinding its food. The
must have been devoured or decomposed; and that
even of those that are fossilized, the number that vegetables associated with the remains of the Ig
uanodon, are all of a tropical character, and comes under the notice of the Naturalist must be
con-
trifling compared with the quantities unobserved, or sit of various kinds of ferns, and of large plants
destroyed by the labourers, we shall have a faint allied to the dragon-blood plant. The strata iu
which they are found, unlike those of the Oolite
idea of the myriads of " creeping things" which
inhabited the ancient world. which preceded, and of the Chalk which followed
these deposits., have clearly been formed in the
In England, the Lis contains more especially
bed of a river ; while those of Stonesfield, %bib'
the remains of two extinct marine genera, the
khayosaurus (fish-like lizard) and Plesiosaurus, contain a somewhat similar association of fossils,
(animal resembling a lizard) whose osteology is have as evidently been deposited by a current
which ran into the ocean of the Oolite, and carried
most extraordinary ; combining characters obser-
with it remains of terrestrial and fresh-water unli-
vable in the Cetacea, fishes, and spurians, but
mals, the shells in the last named strata being, as
yet decidedly belonging to the order of reptiles.—
before remarked, marine, and precisely similar to
The Ichthyosaurns, of which several species have
been discovered, had a large head, enormous eyes, those of the deposit.* above and below them ;
a short neck, and very long tail; it was furnished while the shells of the Hastings beds are decidedly
with four broad and flat paddles, and was evidently Iluriatile or lacustral. Besides the remains of
destined to live in the sea ; it sometimes attained a the reptiles above mentioned, teeth and bones of
length of from 20 to 30 feet. The Plesiosaures, other gigantic oviparous quadrupeds have been
Which in some respects rfeembled the Ichthyosau- found, but the characters and relations of the latter
' sus, being also furnished with four paddles, but is have not yet been accurately determined.
yet more nearly allied to.the Saurian', differs, how-
In the extensive. marine formation, the chalk
ever, from it, and from all other' afiinials, by the which covers the Hastings beds, reptiles are less
numerous, and the Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, and
extreme length of the neck, and the great number
other herbivorous genera, disappear altogether ;
of of cervical vertebrae. lhe neck of reptiles is in
general composed of from 3 to eight cervical ver- DO traces of their existence occurring after the
tebrie, and even birds (which have the maxi- last named strata were deposited. At the epoch
mum,) have but from nine to twenty-three; while of the chalk formation the ichthyosaurus, and one
one species of Plesiosaurus (P. dolichodeirus) has or more species of crocodile, and marine turtles
30 vertebrae. This extraordinary creature, unlike "late(' ; and another extraordinary reptile, the
tilt Ichthyoseutus, appears to have been but little Mososaures (lizard of the Meuse) or fossil animal
calculated to make rapid progress through the sea, of Maestricht, first appears. This creature, so ce-
and was still less fitted for progressive motion on lebrated in Oryctology since the first discovery of
the land; it• is, therefore, probable that it swain I its head and jaws by Hoffman, attained tLe size
on or near the surface of the water, carrying its I of the crocodile, and held an intermediate place
peck like a swan, and darting on its prey, its food' between the Monitors and Iguanas. it appears to
consisting of fishes, cuttle-fish, &c. Contemporary : hare beeu aquatic, swimming in the wooer of a
With' the' animals-above mentioned, were seierallcrncodile, and moving its vast tail from aide to side
hObil'ilidos reptiles, whose remains have been as an oar. ...
chalk the ..
'• Age of Reptiles ",mac be
found in the Liss at 8011, in Wurtemburg, also a With the
species 'of crocodile; and at Gundorf, a salamander , said to terminate--the greater part of the genera
pf etiornibus' size. The reniaini 'of tortoises and above noticed appears to.have become extinct-dur•
Pities occur also, but very sparingly, although iogaliechenges which took place on .the amities of
,from the foot-marks observable in the red sand- ti 4, earth at that period ; the crocodiles, turtles, Sm.
steno at Conl-Cockle Malt; in Domfrieistire, thil alone siarviveo, a new order of things commenced,
t mily of reptile* muitilave eiiistea at 'a owl oar., . and in :be tertiary tormetions which speceeded,
• ' " t 1 •
, - period. In this' bed also, novena opikieo of .we perceive an approach o tae modern condition
of the earth.

UlilPErstri# zprriLLICENC P.
CAMBRIDGE, Jews 13
The Rev. William Otter, M.A. Sermaly Fellow of Jesus
College, has been appointed Principal of King's College,
London.
1113 Royal 11111/In.e• the Debt of Sion bas apted the
Rev. H. . Hamilton, MA. Fellow of Trinity Wkle, to
be one of Hid Royal Highness's Chaplains.
The Rev. Ctarie• Wadsworth, M A. Canon of St. Paul's
Cathedral, to be Chaplain to Lord Palmerston.
The Rev. E. R. Th ad, of Fietton. in the county of
Huntingi.e, ha* been promoted to the Vicarage of Selling,
in the e wily of K-nt, by the Right lion. Lewd Sondes,
and hoes also been appointed one of his bor 'ship'. I) nn.:stic
Caesium., Just B.—The Chancellor's 111.dal fur the
irt English poem wa • Oil Savartla) last sidjudgel to Oeortte
fitovin Venahles. Sit dar o' vi,--•• The
ittempts wide', have been male o late years by sea and land
to discover a Noe:h.wfatern Pausue."
4:HOLERA AtORBUS
The buds of the Privy Council have transmitted to the
Royal College of Physicians a RIMS of atatimleal retur a
' furnished to die Govannient by the f4ritish atylsoritim rest.
dent abroad, relative to the progress and present state of the
Russian cholera, top. her with instructions that a committee
of the members of the College do take the same into ronsi.
derarion. and report thereon, as well se on the que.tion of
:mound .e. This Wfrauttme. which it:dud a in he weat-
hers tie most eminent phyuicians in the metropolis, sits
from day to day, and their report is expected to be
made in a few days. and will be forwarded to the Government,
so that h.• Majesty's Ministe a may be ready to Ly it before
Parliament as soon as public boaineva aheil have cammeaced.
It stay be here at. tad with perfect truth, that the present
aplication of his Majesty's Government to the College of
Pu)steians does not warrant an appr h melon of the dleadtul
scourge of cholera appeari •g in this cosi ary. Toe
Goverentett uniformly refer to that leant,d body all
questions relative to d...te set the last application of •
character undue .0 the present, was in 1824, when the die.
Cue called Indian e mina was deviating the whole of the
East of &rope. to 1817 it first assumed a p:stilential
reefer, ant in the spit; of two ur three weeks it travelled 100
miles: end exhibited itself in Ctleutta, even amongst the
Earepamplations in two months of the following year, at
Baia es 16,000 persons peddled, and on bar h banks of the
Ganges a mortality equally g ea. prevailed. In the Bengal
ar:uy it appeared in the same year, and in a fortnight
0,01.0 s,kliers fell victims, and soon afterwards spiced
a nong all classes. The disease travelled with a rapidity
lipid to 21) miles a day, and In ut:e year traversed the
whole of the Indian peninsol.a. Finally, it spread to Cey.
lon, the Mauritius. the Ide of Bourbon, Java. Cochin
China, Arabia, where 80,000 perw.nedied. In the city of
Shwas 18.0110 died. It then travel' d along the Mediterm.
neap, and ultimately found its way to A.tracan in Russia.
lii 1820 it reached the frontiers of Siberia, shoeing thatcold
could nut arrest its progress. Since then it has raged with
more or I es violence in different places, until I sat year. when
it broke out with intvea•ed virulence in many places in Rua.
sia, and the disorder still to ;e4 in portions of the RUM ror's
dominions. The report of tto Committee of the College of
Physiciana upon the subject is expected to contain highly int.
portant inlet oil:anon.— Moraine yips,.
b —"
LAW HE

COURT 01141N0'1BENC4.—Juxe lb.
oxi.eT v. PIT MAN.
This was an action to recover damages fa breach of con.
tract. The Plaintiff is a wine.merchant, and the Defendant,
who ha pit the Hamburgh coffee house, had enured into a
contract to take all his wine of the Plaintiff during thirteen
years at the market pace. The breach assigned was the
marches: of wine from other dealers. The defence was that
the Plaintiff bad supplied bad sherry, and that the Defend-
ant was obliged to purchase other wine to keep his custom-
ers. It was also alleged that the contract was usurious.
The Jury found a verdict for the Defendant.
ARCHES' COUR r, JUNII IS.
The Court sat this morning fur about twenty minutes,
and disposed of several motions of course; after which Sir
J. Nichol, Dr. Arnold, and neatly the whole of the learned
doctors of the Ecclesiastical Courts, attended by the Proctors
and Registrars. all in full coe.utue, prone did to join a con.
vocation of the B.shope at the Chapter House. as usual on
the comnsencentent of t w Ps. lisment ; from wi.erns;
they proceeded in rocessioo to St. Paul's Cathedral to attend
divine service. The solemnity of the procession attracted a
peat crowd.
COVRT OF COMMON PLEAS. Just 14
PLAMCHL T. COLBURN .•NO NAN rum.
Mr. 0,1 an Wii.i (with whom was Mr. KILLT)Mated
that the platatiC a literary geed. man of attainments, was
engaged by Messrs. Galloon and Henley, the defcadants, to
write a volume on Costume and Ancient Armour, for the
Juvenile Library. a work which they commenced hat year.
He Wollto receive 10G gt-1 teas for the volume. for. Jordan was
the editor of the J.,venile Li ?erg and made the engagement.
Three v.4umes oully of the.l.rvewik Librwrd appeared, sod in
November it was discontimied. The plaintiff had bestowed
considerable time and exerciou r. 'he work : he bad visited
Dr. Aleyrick, in 11.refordshire, io consult has library, and
to make some drawings front his collection of armour, and it
was a great hardship to be told that the work was discunti.
sued, and his preparation to go for nothing.
William Jerdan, Esq, it ito.ll that he was employed by the
defendants as editor of the Juerniat Library. lie engaged
Mr. PIANCI/C to furnish the e lily history of anti. nt armour
and costume, and fur this be was to receive 1001. Mr.
Phoebe, from his dramatic trent and knosl, dgeof armour,
was thought to be well qua/ ford to pt rtorm this part of the
undertaking, and no objection was made by Messrs. Culturn
and Bentley to the terms of his engagement. Eight or ten
gentlemen were engaged to furnish the die rant portions of
the woik. Only three v lumee of the weak were published,
when it was abandoned in 8 prrmtbrr. Nome was sent to
Mr. Planche of the abandotanent of the work. He had 1141
then completed hit. article i but he had bestowed an much of
his time and abilities upon it as in emitk him to a routine.
ration of 601. He (the witnesa) would nut have odd less to
a gentlest= for such OCITICIN.

Cromexamined by Mr. Sagiant Srautss —The work
was not stucceseful. He never, to. his. reeolleve a, said to
Messes. Colburn and Bentley that 2M. would be felt re-
, muneratioa for Mr. Planche's trouble. (A patter was handed
' to the witne•a, in which he had inserted Mr. Puinche's tante
in a list of the contributors who might be settled with toe
261.) lo explanation of this the witness 'AI he had esti-
mated that sum as one for which he himself might perhaps
have prevailed oo them to forego their claims, because tie
was on terms of intimacy with them and could cooler fa-
vours upon them. Twenty.five pounds each he thought a
fair sum to stop them with—that was, if he had given it ;
but between she authors and publishers be thought 601. lair
and memorable.
Mr. B..rjeant SvasrEtE (who was misted by Mr. Dodd)
adthestied the jury in a very humorous speech foe the de.
fendanta. Far from complaining of Mr. Planche's labours,
the defendants only wished they bad been completed; for,
although the Juvenile Liltrary had been gives up, Maws.
Colburn and Bentley time pe fre.ly ready to take the plain-
tiff's book when written, and pay him tne 100 guineas; and
this they had tiffired to him. And he would show that the
plaintiff had admiral that costume and ancient armour were
very embarrassing subjects to write about fix little masters
and misses, in an abridged shape, and much better &slag/Led
for a full grown volume for full grown readers. Costume
was a peculiarly imeretiting topic, almost, though not
quite, as old as the world ; and all its vastirties,...whetuer
the Highlander's kilt, or the tine ladieu brucade,—were
only expansions of the renowned lig.leaf, the Bret effort at
costume. Mr. Planche had no doubt studied Aber-his
Martel de re eestiaries veteran and Seteumies, and all the
other authorities collected is the chapter on dress in Tristram
Shand,; and that all this intermting learnitig should be
lost to the world, on account of this unhappy misunder-
standing with the booksellers, was much to be regretted.
Ile trusted, however, it would still appear, to delight the
jury and the adult public.
ills. B•rjeant WILDS replied, contending that the defen.
dants' offer to take the book and publish it separately was
no performance of their contract. The plaintiff bad cur tun
a work for children, and it was impossible ft could be pub.
halted as a separate work without injuring his fame.
The LORD Cuter JUSTICE summed up the evidence,
and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages bOl.
Leave was given to the deferdam's Counsel to move the
Court, on a point reserved on the pleading..
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

PARIS, Jima 14.
Si m—You sill perceive in the pans I transmit
by this post. that the Poles and Lithuahians, under
( ;cue; al Ch!opowst i, have obtaided some important
ailvantiges.
l'ioni private account; 'which I have perused,
the fury with which the Poles fought at the battle'
11-trolinka. is pan all belief. When their
iinin.unition was exhausted they fought with the
hayonet ; and at last, wearied out with that, the
kght terminated in a complete personal wrestling
*!r•iggle between the Poles and Russians, where the
trengest became the victor.

P..ris never had ro ti•w British visitors since the
peace as at the present moment. I hear from an
authentic source, that the preparations making for
celebrating the three grand days of the " great
week," are on the most extensive scale, and that;
the tete will be unequalled in the annals of France.
The Parisians anticipate an influx of foreigners
upon the occasion, and hope that, amongst others,
the English will patronize liberally the nation of
liberals. There can he little doubt the fete will be
well worthy a trip across the Channel.
The King pursues his journey even with more
eclat than he made his journey into Normandy :
every where he is received with enthusiasm, and
the Moniteur is wholly occupied with recounting
the addresses and replies. On Saturday the King
arrived at Metz.

Accounts are various from Belgium. From a pri-
vate letter which I saw to day, the Belgian patriots
have resolved to wait peaceably until the 30th of
June, the delay fixed by the decree of Congress,
for the definitive decision of the conference of Lon-
don. Lord Ponsonbv and Gen. Belliard left Br►m-
eels on the 11th, and nearly every one with them;
Mr. White remains almost alone. Before the de-
parture of General Belliard, he had long and seri-
ous interviews with the Regent and the Minister
of War. The trial of Earnest Gregoire and his
associates, has terminated, after eight days of dis-
cussion. Col. Ernest G•egoire is condemned to
ten year+ confinement, and what is termed expo-
sition ; Capt. Bast, to five years imprisonment ; the
others were acquitted. After his condemnation,
rapt. Bast protested his innocence; Col. Gregoire
was pale, and the condemnation to exposition
staggered him. Gregoire will be degraded, but the
general opinion at Brussels is, be will be pardoned ;
the punishment of exposition, which is analogous
to the pillory.
The Duke of Modena narrowly escaped with his
life on the day of the Fête Dieu. At the moment
when the Don Miguel of Italy (as the French jour-
nals style the Duke), placed under a canopy, was
entering the church, a ball discharged from a gun
grazed his shoulder, and struck one of the pillars
which supported the canopy. As the ball must
have been discharged from one of the neighbouring
houses, a strict search was made ; but although
many persons have been arrested, nothing has been
discovered. These tyrants, great and small, should
be on their guard ; they should remember the
words of Lord Byron, just before his death, pro-
phecying the grand drama that, I fear, will
soon be played in Furope : it was the Song of
the Swan. " Kings," said he, " will league to
make war against the people; so much the better,
their time will pass quicker : tl ey will, perhaps,
cause much blood to flow, and many tears, hut, in
the end, the people will remain conquerers." Ge-
neral Sebastiani the other evening was overturned
in his carriage upon the Pont Royale. The wits of
Paris, who never lose an opportunity of letting fly
their darts at the Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
blame his coachman for not leaving him in his pe-
rilous situation, in order to give him a p-actical
lesson upon non intervention. By the bye, we
have had another revolution. Do not start, it has
only been between the prodrietors of the omnibusses
and the cabriolets. The latter, thinking that the
former interfered with their privileges by traversing
Paris in all directions, and carrying passengers for
six sous, complained against them, but without ef-
fect. They therefore resolved to lower their prices,
hich they have done from '25 to 15 sous a
course. So two persons can now go from one
barrier of Paris to another, a distance of nearly
four miles for seven and a half English ! All the
cabriolets have hoisted in front flags, with the in-
scription, 15 sous the course ; and on the back they
are placarded with a Gas les omnibus! The fiacres,
sot to lose ground, have lowered their prices in
the same proportion ; and they all expect to make
more money by an increased demand. Here is a
hint for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce
taxation.-1 forward the Journals of the day, and
I remain, yours, &c.

J. L.

They occupy themselves much on 'Change with
the destination of the two strong squadrons which
quit nearly simultaneously the ports of England
and France. The choice of Admiral Codrington,
to command the English squadron, strengthen the
conjt.• tares of those who pretend that these two
errand naval masses hare a common destination :
they speak of the Baltic and the Black Sea, and of
demonstrations which have for object the support-
ing a diplomatic intervention in the affairs of Po-
land. The protestations of friendship nod good
intelligence between France and England, serves
as a text for the the declamation of the Courier
against Russia : it says, that it is not likely that
such great forces would be sent to the Tagus ; that
they have a higher and more important destination.
In all this, one single point is incontestible; it is the
harmony of the Cabinet of France and England, and
the desire which the Cabinet of Lord Grey has to put
An end to the war of Poland: We may add, that
nothing would he more popular in England than an
intervention which would have for its object the
to of the influence of Russia upon the Con-
inent. Coorrier Francais.
I's u t s. J N E 12. Scandalous disorders yes-
terday disturbed the proceedings of the Court of
Assize of the department of the Seine, which was
'•ttgaged in trying five individuals accused of re-
sisting and assaulting the public force. On occa-
t.ion of the deposition of a witness, a tumult arose
in the Hall. The Advocate-General requiring that
it should be cleared, several jurymen rose with in
digs ttion ; it is even said they threatened the ac-
cused. The Court considering that, under these
circumstances, it would be difficult to examine the
affair with the necessary calmness, adjourned the
cause to another sitting.
E 13. Several journal,' have stated
that the Ministry had intimated the day before yes.
terday to M. Le Hon, that they no longer recog-

pitted him as Ambassador for Belgium. This state-
ment is wholly incorrect. M. Le Hon has not
ceased to communicate with the French Govern-
ment, and yesterday morning be had a pretty long
conference with M. Sebastiani. The fears which
the events at St. Pierre, have caused the Govern-
ment to conceive, have induced Admiral de Rigny
to give orders to the squadron at Martinique to re-
main at Fort Royal during the critical season of
winter, which is always looked forward to with alarm
at St. Pierre.