Star.
London, England, 1823-06-21 00:00:00

HOW OF COMMONS.

A variety of Papers an d Returns were laid on the table frcom
ifferent public othces,in pursuance of the Orders of the I louse.
The Report-Of the Conunittee on Mr. M,Adam's Claim was
:nought up and laid on the tahle.
Pffr: MAXWELL presented a Petition from the Artificers
Mechanics of Ashford against the tkimbination Laws.

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Mr. DENMAN said, the artificers were now, he believed,
perfectly content. In Nottingham they felt so satisfied with
their situation, that they offered to raise a corps for the pirrpoie
of keeping cfcsen fhe disaffected farnters—(A laugh).—The Pe-
tition was ordered to lie on the tattle.
Petitions were presented from Bridgenorth, Brecon, and La-
nark, praying for the Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies.—
Ordered to lie on the table.
On the motion -of Mt. WILBERFOItCE, a copy was or-
dered of the Correspondence v: kith took place in March, I$C3,
between the British Government and foreign Powers, -relative

to the traffic ha Slaves.
On the motion cif Mr. W ILI.IAMS, several Returns relative.
to fhb Court of Chanccrr were orilertd.
htti *IC .%01E presented a Petition front Rohurt ourlay
dve to the Poor •Laws.—Ordered to lie r.n the table. •
VURWEN'presented a Petition trona the Spirit Dealers
of Carlisle, against the restrictieeus on-the Importation of- Scorch
Spirits into England.—Ordered to lie on the table.
Sir F. OM MAN EY rose to correct a misrepresentation Which
Aha 4 gone forth in the Newspapers of what he had *filet last
'4ghti.. What he had said of the individual to whom he then al-
hided was -itierely hypothetical. Ile divel timed the iotention.'
of sayir.g anything disrespectful t i that Li:ht.:A....lAl. Tlae Ho-

pourable Mendrer having corrected the statement, said he b
no intention of ,pressing the matter fur her. He theft
a -Return of the number of Private Vessels taken, from the Sl S:
ajitsuary, 180, to 18119.
L IAV. Secretary CA INN ING revested the Hociara7ll: Mem.
' ber to give-notice on the subject.
Sir F. Uhl MA YEY consented, and gave notice for Monday.
.Mr. S. RICE moved, that a Committee be aprolutcd to in.
quire into the situation of the labouring Poor is Ire Link lajd,
! a view to ascertain the best mode of directing the funds of pd.
j vete individuals, and of funning local As:ociatinns for the no.
I ployment of the poor in that country.—The nionua was ;gad.
to, and the Committee appointed.

a fit arid proper
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di of Itoial borititk, and anterits that place should be chosen,
• • - worthy pf beiugle
. lee mos
t mon' kelt o
of so splendid a eojlec-
'seine of books.• The. Report
ovit'sioit.g oreattle.cse .
with Iti on, . receptaclele would.leave the choice,however,
of a /eke, to those nersons
ittee, though drawn up. emulate- i Km. of books.
ifrie2C°lol°. 41, seasmen.it‘ely beneath the, wth-th of this
.;
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•who should •ae from their
a we time in witted was to be found everything ILi tool' osntstatereuspzescibole enrol stare of the arts. Ile
--et • h the mind of the scholar and the '
,alt enriC mierteee why he e as indieposed
,an. His late Majesty -devoted £2OOO a-year to piece any confidence in the persons Who hattehe
. ..,...
rs his life to this great colleetion - bat superristendenre oft)) Mitts. 'a Museeni. He begged'
zigleare. eneoet
,000 seOuld.notpercliase it no r,' et ! to
e ;tate, that he enterteained the great* respect for
hided, be a disgrace to this great. country of _b_c private characters of those Gentlereene The Hoe.
sad litereture, that while Dresden, :led Floreece, Member, after noticing the origia of the British Mu-
the exception of an old house
1 triter petty Scares ha-I lihraties at_ i seem, said, that w
pine al-
tosth Vet our Kine.- •in Chaß'ety-la
e pAiacc tit the Prince, .. t 0s , , . ne,, oi ii is
lee .inhabited, by the celebrated'
.e.ld be without one; and any man ho ' ban Welton, tl t •
. •
'Ailce-- in Buckingham-houseare uas not in the Metropolis, a more,
combustible
, the sie noble room; would . edifice then the British Museum. listo
that th, were the proper places fur this great, insurance office in• the country would be bold n e ough•
T Kity the oetag,on. He would gore up his to enure it from fir
. (v fire ht any inducement. Yet under
as eee of tee peoele of England to the exemine- the roof qf that perilous building were lodged the;
. athis library ; but suppose that this very octagon most magnificent and most valuable collection of
etashould he cur ilea; tito some strange use, as a bath, mantucripts which this country could boast of. Any
, a
refectory ter the body iasteadeof being one for body who visited thcßritish Museum, and surveyed its
ate• Ile questioned the right of his Majesty to construction, would noeloubt be reminded of the Say-
:lean •
hese of P, ' which he courti-
er :lit with this library.under ,in of Lerd Nelson very anxious •
.circumstances.
• Majesty made
eta a; an heir loom. As his late
ii
till, thei should take the manifest intention of Cienrge vv• v -
of a cr, hea yen 1 for g. gement, the purpose of of-'
r an
waded
to this library, and they would find that he acting. armistice. On being sheen up stairs, ip
iceeded it should remain attached to a Royal Palace. I
a I °lox in the city, he turned round to Captain flurry,
ese his late Majesty di I give a valuable collection who accompanied him, and said, sigitificanly—
lepuphlets to the British Museum, and As he did I" Berry, these stairs will burn." He who set toot in
this libtary, they had a right to suppose thet j the British Museum must likewise say to himself,
seem
~e ever meant to part with it. He wished his Ma- t when he came to the stair's," these stairs, will burn."
• eonld allow the library to remain at Itnekieg. I However (continued the Hon'ourable 'Secretary) they
el
ree 'louse; and, if it was not toe much to ask him, ,do at last set about building an incombustible wing
--)ecould wish that at certain times it should be open to the Museum. Ilut what do you think they put into
tete Public. The first person who hinted at putting it.? The valuable menuscripts?—Nol They must be
&the British Museum was the Earl of` Liverpool, merbles-0 laugh).—So that it was satisfactory to
the he read the King's letter (giving the library to know, that whatever dangers attended the autographs
deflation) to the. other House. Several persons, such of Elizabeth, of JA mes, of Bacon, of Clarendon, at least
tie Jacob Briant, left their collections to be kept we could be certain that the Townley Venus welkin se-
2S• ' .
• Royal Palaces. Why was Westminster and the curity—(Larghter4.— But this WAS not all. Feeling as
court end of the town to be left without a library ? ibex gentlemen did that the preservation of theTownl
S, gift of George 11. all the books collected since the ley Venus was of all importance, they build a sort of a
tap of Henry VlLhad been sent to the British Mu. thifig not unlike *the shape of the Speaker's chair,
em; and he begged the House to take warning by which they, in their scientific-language, denominate,
elate; for though it sliewed the books collected in I believe„a vestibule, but which, I. am sure, people
gee,
reign at one view, yet now they were all usual- of or dinar capacities will call a eload--(Laegheer)—
peed together. The British Museum could not but, unfortunately, this closet is-not spacious enolgh,
µLein Sir J. Benkes'a library, and yet they. were to and what • do they do? ' They build another—(4
cis the King's collection, which, out of sixty- closet)
deposit there a pipingfaux I The secoed
. thousand volumes, contained twenty-one thou- enact is found too small, and to mend matters, they
sed duplicates of works already in Abe li•ltiseum.e- build another ! I very much fear, however, that, after
%s he conceived es be a fa-el ebjection to removing all, this is but a fair sPecimen (goer national taste!
is great library to the Museum. He had heard, I remember in an old satirical poem, intended to ex-
ixerer, that they were to have a third library, by hibit our notions of luxury.. aid refined living, the
iiing.these duplicates to the library of the British author thus proceeds:
hatitution, which was to, be dispOsed of. He had
•" So when some cit his dull invention racks,
• "To rival Boodle's dinners or Almack'
tAit his eye to the Banqueting-house at Whitehall, as
(for • • , i '
;proper receptacle for these books, which he under-- . ,
Gentlemen should remark, that in those days,
tool could -be fitted up for them at the -expense: of people dined as well as danced a; Almack's)—
MO; but if' it cost 1.;50,000 or glOO,OOO, they . " Three smoking legs of motton strike your eyes,
" Three smoking geel—three butter'd apple pits!
eght to place this library, if not. in one Royal ?et.. A larig4). So that the. Gentlemen of Use. Museum
i• e, at least in another. Supposing there was an ob- hiniiehed es with their receipes for magnificence in
talon to the Banqueting-house, there might he a three closets—three closetseetlttee closets—(A laugh).
Wilding erected at the King's Mews for the reception But this being their idea'of magnificence, where do
'this library ; and this place might 'also couetin you think they get their taste? All mankind would
worth of the kingdom, which are now scattered think of Greece br Rome. The 'Museum people have
het in mest insecure elaces, such as next door to h recourse to Eoypte--(PorgAte'r4. Inspired. by the
agar-baker's in Dectots'•Commons. . Butt perhaps, it work of illerodatus, thercestise Joie until they have at •
. intended to send these re:ords to the Museum length obtained the. head of Me•renciii. But, alai! the '
ito. He then moved that no giant should be inade head el Dlertinonie too large4of the *three closets—
for this purpose until it coald be seen whether the kLaugirier). Well; they bullit a .cube-Leandeltep.culte
Royal Library could not be placed in one of the-Roy-al the tithe until they haven double cube in succession
?daces, or smear them, and the Houses of Parlierreent. after the i f (ix Apo '
cease s— es . . Here, then, between
Sr C. LONG said, the Committee had considered closets apd eta*, the sordent has exhibited to. him,
tlatthe greettst advantage would arise to per,ons in regular eerlea, a course o
at-then mathematics
octagon -
-first a
wishing to refer to books, from finding the greatest squate—next a par co
an
pesible collection in one spot. The library of the and; lastly, a culie,---(Tourehtee)e Ahir Meennoe. a*
British Meseurn was a fifth or sixth-race library in I said' before, being too FArge for Ate closets or the
ment, which was about 150,000 volumes; whilithat cube, the Gentlemen of the Museum raise the roof
die Royal Library qf Paris chned •of fotir hue- for the especial purpose of accommodating it..• They
drat thousand. Besides; it was made up of private then build a gallery, which, lest it might be mire-
-Ibtaries purchased, which consisted of works oe the Mont for its length and width, they must divide into
several sciences which their owners most-cultivated; compartments. In shoit, you are surprised at alteiog
while the library of the late king was particularly one part until you come to inspect the other— .
IA in Geegrapliy *and Belles- Lewes, which the " Each seems quite monstrous till his fellow come,
tleseum collection was vet r deficient in. Heobjected "To match it 1"
to Whitehall becoming a ieceptacle for the Royal Li- The effect was too ludicrous, the total absence of tette
limy, because, being so public a place, he feared it and arrangement too striking in every apartmeet—
would become a place for lounging in. tleeideve if e Room nods to room, each fault reflects his brother,
0 And half the blunder just looks out in eother I"
Whitehall should become a library, it would be abso- . .
- (Loud laughter).-1 think, sir, said the Honourable
rutty necessary to build a chapel for the Guards
Gentleman. that a-great doubt should be entertained
Sir J. MACKINTOSH said, it was clear that the of the Architect in the employment of these Gentle-
British Museum was a bonding which must be re- men. if there be any of these Gentlemen who arc of
built, He differed, therefore, with the Hon' tienit- opinion that this pill-box style of architecture should
her for Westminster, who, nevertheless, bad not op. be continued, it is an additional reason why you
posed this vete on an illiberal view of useless eipen- should not leave this property under their Controul.
diture. His Majesty had acted noble -by his people •
nese are my reasons for not placing any coefidelice
ia reuoving ;leis )library from a Wisp, Olere Forafi in the Gentlemen of the British Museum. The Ha-
and ceremooy might rather deter than invite the re- nourable Member suggested that there ,should be
tired and laborious strident. The circumstances ()Mated in the Bill the inentioh of the place.
artier, the Member for Westminster had mentioned Mt. BANKES said he could not look on the speech. just de-,
arthe proofs of his late Majeity's inteotiOns, were limed is any other light than as an attack personally on him-
alicbtoo weak to build any thing upon. The fairest salt'. But the Hon. Member bradh, q.ogr‘ivnitt re‘!riennutos,hsois
fuariticroma-
way was, -to look Where this library could be placed,
beingrigid materially
o .du
pfrionma
nate:lse.
squaret ebox, wasraccommodated in a
to be of the greatest public utility. He could not 1
smau I),
boaduing certainly, but as different in shape from a square
*saying, that, in his opinion; Parliament had las a cube could be. A long room had soon after been erected
Aired and starved the British Museum; for, during for the reception of the sarcopilagAi presehntedTbhey tehe latehlKianegt.
Ih: Lilt five years, only 1500 had
.been allowed for The stairez.. too was. of stone—( . -taus )..f
of
,
, now no accommodation for receiving the gi t his ajesty at
books, and £:56 fQr marmsctipts. Now,
his I Whitehall, but by blocking up all the windows in that part of
C.etrieud, the Member for Oxford, had told bins' the huildihp, except :hose on the attic story..
drat £5OO a year was necessary to keep up a private Sir C. LONG defended the conduct of the Trustees of the,
,etiettlemin's e,ollec..ion of classical literature—Wear. I Museum, and contended that his Hon. Friend (11r.Croker) had'
AO certainly lamented. the determination cf the Com- ‘, b.:e.n c7shoitzlicimt '..ixiiifi?airgedd. on the subject.
atittee to rebuild the British Museum on its piesent; 1
j Irti. 11. G. BEN NIT did not know who were his Majesty'sl
scut, since it was to be a building devoted to tWO , responsible advisers in matters of taste, but he hoped they would,
PlirPOKl—kMUseUin acle a Library. A library snouhi not.recummend the exeetiGn ofardany buildhting like that atlkiliktern
er). lle approve; 4
be retired mad fitted for study ; but a receptacle to ;in the nieuayolis--(Hear, . i
:laugh
andof 11 • ' • th
iiiv the itbrary in the Bra 31:x Juseum,
lae cericeities of Nature and Art should be placed in : Plac .. •
1 duplicates it contained to rm
a must public situation, as a lure to the idle, acid cer- near the 'louses of VAdiainent-
'-ilinly such a description would not attech to Basel- eseeoutte gy shlod coilcur is kb. T.,4K poopued by the
41-reet• The Mews be could rut approve of, it wouid , Ceancenor of the Re
Mt Iliard spec.e. for the efection oi stich a bui 15 . I ci‘ellier.the 'Motion should be negatived.
'lei to
I Mr. MA BERL thought. . . .
..
I Mr. fIOOIIOU z wbuldwithatawthe
as he wished to see erected ; but his fancy had wart- be tindeestood thee was a technical obi,okion.-
ii2red to the Green Park, •along Constitution Hill,
cnateeapleting that at no very dibeentpesiod he might of
!en a Royal Valace rise in its vicinity. Qp the whole,7 ,
however, he must eupport the Resolution, although he .
Must regret that any part yf the money was to be laid .arracruletent, to winch
Mr. W i LIJEAFORCE hoped MCP; Winald he Po dirrereece.
subject.
;dICI idtr thought that no money should be voted till al
Cosrsmutehad beila ap.. Anted to examine the subjeet.
proposed that a new b
oat oa the Kite of the present British elusettin. Idle-arr.
Mr. LENNARD and Me• RlDelliT• COLlfunet wished
to have a building erected worthy of its object: elides Edit ba eractal 11/4" AI gnyil
• at i
After some obseryatiOns (rum I<U.-% Sri
sorri, and Mr. 13nromr, the nonse.dividea—rsifithe
.o!iori
; --/igainst it 50—
Mr. CROKER retest say that he could never agree , ,euom
The- MANCELLOR of the CHQUER, - bad always
Majority for the Grant e 4; .
• n Man*.
el was
. voted for
tCertpurnrc„
"a _
.140..
sitol
*MIA
in any proposition for erecting a national gallery in '
a U:isison belatetkliar. 51)
isuch ,place as the British Miiseum. .He owned he the other orders were then dispoted el, and die House 21,-,
I was autious for one library only, but he was also journed .t Two o'Clock to Monday.

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bIS attack upop me Worn the Meetingtook place. As to the one
thousand poudd ehtcqoe, or bill; whkh seal lost out of the Irish
stibterlption, my remarks were not meant to redect nreity oft
the Conimittee, none of whom I knew, and I thought this el-
cf.tont Aldcrnt:n,wly is alwayiprowlitis about, was a vary pro-
per person to givo an account of. the circumstance. The public
may thank me tor th,edittle stir I made aboitt.i;,. although wd
had previotisly heard of the .-€lOOO that was fost, We did mot
until afterwards hear anything of the XlOOO !hat NV:i! found.
Lotto Mayolll. wish, Ali'. Hunt, you would avoid saying
anitbiiirthat ii•pinional. • • • -
Afg. 119.12%—1 submit I have an equal right with IR. Row-
crofttocxptess us parsonal feeling, arisitv, out of tha ficts that
have COW to My lunawledie. Your Dash' p knoVii chit 'l,f ha
had put its threat Of murder into execuiltin, and if My life bad
fallen tbeaacidict, he mist have answered that:lb:nee at the bar
of his country—Lif I had not been killed be wank! have bxn open
to an indictment under -Lord Seenborongh's Act, for cutting and
maiming with intent to kill.; "anti further; if he had thrown me
out of the window Of the three-pair-pf-stairs gfeatrootit of Mk
London Tavern, there is little doubt what would havibeen the
result. Aft-ar all these threats he conies to your Lordship, occu-
pying the seat of justice, and delibt-r ituly, and in cool blotid,
avows his intention tollareitwaisinsted me by sticking nte whit
a knife, if he could have had one. •As to !mato!, lln not the
slightest (ear of him, nor ten suck, if their attack WAS open and
manly; but I have strong and wed-justified -Ws of such as
would come behind ma lik&ais!ftthnt.; and, if thaWiservatoildf
the piabliepeace, tr.tst your Lordship will tee.the bloosAtY of
restraiining hinf front the executioe of his threats. As to the
threat of throwing Me dut of Ole iviitOW,l drve ii•witoessiortk.:
sent who is teadytoiabiitantlate that asioon oath, and there Its ago
a geoilentan'who wi4 deposero'the venially of his repott,
iw
which Mt. Roweroft is nude repeatedly to 14,11.11 CC blit;hreait

COURT OF ILIIMADENCH, JUlsit eth
haitar IC *Ant Ms. • • t
Mr. Sthrtieosroprituhithesplusidirigs, and damages,.
were laid at - • . - •
Mr. Pstit,tetisestated that this was an action brought'
by the father of a yoeng woman to recover. a com-
pensation for the foss' of her services. She is the
ditighter of poor parents at Gre'mwich, and under
twenty years of age; the defendantahe son of an opu-
lent tanner in London.. The Learned Counsel stated;
the case at considerable leagth, contending that the.
defendant had employed wealth, as ar. instrument of
deiusieh ; that he had told Ister lie had £19,000 in his
own right, which woulel enable him to many her;
but that since she had fallen a victim to seduction.
His family, however, were active iii their efforts to
defame her; they accused her of being a common
prostitute; on which she said, " If you deuht rue, I'
-will give you the most sacred pledge which one
human being can eive another. I will attest my
truth before BEAVEN—I will solemnly swear that
the child is your's before a Magistrate." She di so,
not with the desire o: obtaining parochial. assistance,
for she would never receive a shilling of the sum
which her seducer was compelled to deposit, but.with
the hope of coheincing_hira that She had only been
criminal for his sake. Mr. Phillips concluded an e:o-
-quent speech, by asking the Jury what tlarnvibes
would they think sufficient to repay them, if, like the
plaintiff, they found the blossom of their hopes, the
fair flower they had tended, trampled on by the ac-'I
cursed hoof ef ruffian sensuality, and , soiled and
blasted for ever? If the seducer possessed a mine,
would they deem it reparation ?.- He called 'on them
to slew the extent of their love to their own children,
by the damages they would give to this desolate father.
Jane Shaw, apparently not more than 19 years efl
age, deposed to the facts of seduction. She had been
at school with the defendant. In January or February,
1814, she kept company with him. He told me he
was possessed of £19,000, and he would marry me
when became of age. In January he met me by ap7
pointment, near the Lime kilns in the Greenwich-
road. He got off his horse, and made rne take hold'
of his arm—we went towards Lee Grove—he said,
so help bias GOD, when once he got the better of me,
he'd never leave me—he offered it we in writing, but
I said no, I'd trust to his honour—and then the. con-
nection
took place. I was pregnant in March, 1820,1,
and brought to bed the 19th of November. My fa-
ther did not know of it till the child was born.
Mr. BRQUGHAM cross-examined the witness at con-
alder able length; and she wasafterwards re-exantinedi
by Mr. PH.ILLIPS. . •
Mr. BROUGHAM addressed the Jury for the defen-
dant, and begged them to recollect every word of the
speech of his learr.ed friend, and see how far this ex-
tremely low case compounded with the flowery and
decorated narrative of his friend, -who in describing,
the plaintiff had left out the Rose and Crown, though,
being a flower, the rose might have bloomed hi his
periods—(,.4augh)—he left out the Duke of Yor k
public:house, and left it to.be proved that his client
and his wife kept a gin-shop, where they drew by day
and sugred by night, while they left the " sweet blos-
som of their liopes,". " the day-light of their eyes,"
"the joy of their 'hearts," to sleep in a house far from
them, where there were none but children. Here was.
a father, who allowed Isis daughter to go through her
pregnancy; and such was his watchful care that his
suspiclons were only awakened by the cry of her chile!
What was the for ruer character of this " fair victim?"
She presented that she wigs so nmocent as not to know
what "keeping company" meant—a phrase which
even an Earl's dadghter might learn from her maid,
and which the flower of Greenwich must have heard
a thousand times; and yet she, who was pore even
in heart—who did not even know what evil recent
—who preserves! an infantile purity in the /ears of
womanhood—gave up her priceless virtue on being
asked for it—not iu. some sequestered spot sacreeto
Nymphs and .Naiads, the creatures of a more
ethereal world, which we read of in die Poets and
Mr. Phillips's epee4hes, but in the plain highway !
There did they meet--the faithful horse held on one
arm of the seducer, and the " tender,flower" hanging
with all her tendrils on the other—(l 0741 s oflaughter).
Was not this the conduct of one of the most.aban-
doned of her sea?' Could any one believe that up
to this moment she was innocent even in deed?—
" Oh I hilt," said Mr. Phillips, " sate.could prove her
truth—she could give the defendant the most solemn
pledge one human being' could give another;' and
when they expected some awful abjuration—that she
would take the horns of some storied altar, or pro-
duce a Bible to swear ou—it turned out that this fine
and mystic aliusiou meant only that she went and
swore the child to the defendant before. a Justice—
(Great laughter).—He again asked them to compare
the address with the evidence, and he was sure they
would either find a verdict for the defendant, or if
they thought they must sive the plaintiff something,
would tender him the lowest and basest coin—sym-
bol of worthlessness and-impudence—ks the reward
of this most frivolous and brazen-faced action.
Mr.Justlce BUT commented on the conduct of the
plaintiff's daughter, and told the Jury that it they be-
lieved she was as ready as the defendant, and had
sltewn ati entire want of delicacy and feeling, they
should give only the smallest damages.
The. Jury, after consulting seine thee, asked what
di/stages would carry costs!
11l r. Justice Bur informed them, that any damages
would carry costs in this form of action.
The Jury found for the plaintiff—Demages4os. .
MR. uqo:r AND:\i R. IiOWCIXOFT. .
• Yesterday, Mf. Hunitppeared befor'e the Loan Mires, -at
the Mansion-House, and thus addressed bii Lordship :
Lord-I agendesi 4ers yegetday and, this morning to
prefers charge of assault at g threat o assassination against Mr.
ROWCYCItt, dist Gent)eussit in *black bandkereldellidr. Row-
ers& was standing is the opposite tide of the table), who, I an-
liekstand, one 41 this wess4 refereed e (hap against me, and
to Mr Lordship peessese, repeated 14,0 threat, ley deliberately'
ature, *this if lim'hia bid gitnife in his band he would hate
Stick um' The caisir'orclarratosiginated at this 'Spanish Meet-
'Re, at the Lando theirs; and Ibis parson, ma 70eaday let (as
hts wards hevetoes represented codas raWriouic cheep the daily
i2tfmakisiOhea,, st.
.01M+3 Mnisgoet p `3l ,hoods.
artditoccaumf to watchl_ilitz• alluded came up to where I
lieu 41d, r,efona sbd woken a word, giving nu a blow
on the shmilder, said, that II attemptedus interrupt that Meet-
INN Witiftesitititi oat mbeiiilßMiii go &Pt a dim iaaciotor•—
AilgAgfcairhalpPlN I pd boupd.over in
IIE
9111.0)9 - with ;we suedes of Ave hundred pounds
mem; ta at? Peace, or be would not larvertisird to pet his
huger upon me." WI ssiatiaisidsoetio festehlsee.
hthitesx.—The anis& a vbicit I complaiit origwated with

in the presence of your Lordship. •
. His do not think I can hold. Mr. Rowetoft so
bail for threats of doiag that which is now gone t,y. •
Mr. limer.—Threats! Actual ass ,ul', and a dellbetate rue-
tition,of his threats in your Lordship's presence. •I ant n7ttiF in
fear of my life from Mr. ale:croft from private usassivaiien.
'His Lsrestim—There is a wide -direrence bzrere;tri'lierion
saying he would have dote so and so if he had such and such a
weapon in his hand, and that he do so when be has.
•Rowcaorr.—lt is 'true that I was at the London Tavern,
and is a familiar manner put my L1a..1 on his shoulder; and this
is all of the great, LE;;, htavj slap on the shoulder which Mr.
,Hutt would make your Lordship hellev,p I gave hint. I have
carried a sword for twenty years, but never used a carving-knife
excepting at the City•of*London Tavern, in cutting up a haunch
of venison, which I have clone pretty frequently ; and it so hap-
pens that at the City of• London Tavern the carviag.knives are
nearly of the size of broad swords; and, after the stopid,..eiles,
and beastly insinuations of Mr. Hunt, as to my having found the
£I,COO that bad been lost, I dare say if we ha:. been in a ~rivate
rutint where there had be..o two such weapons as those I have
named, something might have been dune. When Mr. Hunt
asked me about the All,ooo, I realiy had forgotten all the cir-
cumstances of such a sum having been lost and found, and I cer-
tainly did say, in reply to his ia:,inuation, that tt was a
lie. During a period of at least thirty-five years, 1 have never
broken the peace; but s\ hen an insult is offered me, r will al-
irays give the person, whoever he may he; an answer upon the
nail, whether it be with a ',road isvord, which I had the honest!
of wearing for years, or a knife, or perh ens with a stout stick.
Ills Loxnume.—Really, Mr. Rowcroft, you •arigiving addi-
tional weight to what you have before said, and which was
stronger than you cou'd be justified in isin.••• •If
Mr. Hunt wid
'swear that he goes in bodily fear of Mr. Re:ay:croft, I must hold
you to bail.
Mr. Amer.—Understand me, my Lord, I only ha: Lim as a
private assassin.
Mr. Rowcaore.—There! lie caUed t=ee a thief .before ; and
your Lordship now hears him call me an assassin!
Ills LORDSIIIII%. do not think there' has been much lost on
either side. And, Mr. Itowcroft, I must hold you to hail in
your eecognizince of £5OO.
Mr. 1113117.4 hope your Lordship will hold him in two attire.
ties besides isis permnaal recognizance? Your Lordship knows
that I am so bound. '
flis LoasoustrA—Yours, Mr. Hunt; it a different case.
Mr. Husr.—lt is, my Lord, I diduca thrLaten to stick it man
with a tnife.
'Slut may do not recollect the cir-
cumstances.
Mr. II was only for being Chairman at a Meeting at
Manchester. • . •• • • • •
"is Lic'gmfti--7.You will understand, Mr. Hunt, that this re-
cognizance only binds Mr. Rovecroft until the Sessions, which
commeace on •aVedneeoy; and you must apply there if yea
wish its extension for alliger period. Mind, there must be t.a
mach threats for the funny. I expect, Mr. Ruatcroft, thrt year
will give sue your word othonoar.
' My threat, my Lord, was only conditional—
. Mr. Iluter.—,Titatiti 'Said one word be sestuathrow me out
of the window i to which 1 answered, that if he made the alto
I
he would be the first to try the experiMent ; and that if
I had' bilitaie' the tharietel he'tiad; I would have saved Gentle-
men /be trouble; and have slitown myself out.
Mr;ROVICROFT.—IIe ter, my Lord ; he sill no such thing.
His Lottosiaar.—W:ll;.Gentlemen, yon have both had a fie*
opportunity of attacking each other, and defending yourselves,
at all events.
Mr. Rimeczovr then entered into a recognizance in .£soo_ and
the partite left the Justice doom separately, in company with
:heir friends. •

' MIL O'TOOLE AND MR. IIARICS! ..
Yesterday Mr. Abraham Marie, a dapper IL:brew frnit-sales
man, of Covent-Garden lAlark..,t, appeared at Dnv-strzet CMce,
charged by a tall, red-whiskered, ragged Irishman, calling him-
self Mr. Lawrence O• 'rook, with having picked his (Mr. 0' l'ooles)
pOcket, of eight shiilbagi.
Mr. Lawrence O'Toole made a similar charge some mcopths
ago against a respectable lad employed by a trades:llan In the
market, which charge tamed out to be a false one.
However " be came to the fore" boldly—" An' pie* your
Worchlp," said he, " meself was buying me little 'bits o' stiga.4-
berries an' things i' th' raarket handy by, last Sathurdiy rrsorn•
ing, an' daling wi' th' woman a'arit the price of 'em, bek:.te
they waunot all full to the bottom, your Worchip-:' An what
does ye as for 'cm?' aays I, ' Fourteen shillings,' says she tO
me. • Gad's blood!' says Ito mese% •• but ye re after axing
a jontleman's price of a poor man ; but I shall just let ye get a
sight of the ten shillings, says I to niesclf again, ' and then 4.4
'rice ye, may be' "
" What ha' all this to do with your charge against the prisoner,
Mr. Marks?" asked the Magistrate. .
" Just everything in the world, your Worship," replie4 Mr.
Lawrence O'Toole; "for at that time hr Caine behind. de..-.
that's Misther Marks, an' Lawrence,' lys. he, ' am ye aft( e
buying these stiawberries?' says he. ' Faith an I am, fifistiate
Markt,' says 1-4 irwe can dale at all;' an then. Mist 11,arks,
had hick to him for ne-, shoves one hand into me LiAkii-litar. ~l
breecian pocket, an :'other into. me left hand bret chef pock....r,
an•t'other into me jacket pocket, and when I looked for the tea
shillings, your NVG: chip, it was all cane gone hut two, le fi in the
bottom. ' (kh ! bad luck to ye for that, 'Mather larks!' 'says
I; au he eras runn'd away dare out of the square—that's ti.t
gar,len ; '. an I'll catch ye again sn.n.2 other day, sa:s T; e may
i be;' an here lie is t o the fore by that same token, your Werchig."
" Have yoa any witnesses i" asked the Magistrate. .
" What for would I have witnesses, your henoiar?" repll•al
Mr.. Lawrence O'Toole--" lure intielf's the belt witness ;bat
knows all about me own concerns, an never got the. better of er
since—Wkat for would Ibe bothering myself with•witiVit,sesr
- His .Woiship observed that probably ibe should requite some.
further evidence; and asked Mr. 1....:1Wre.11CC OToule whether be
did not cry'" Stop thief!" when be found he was robbed r'.e.,
which honest-Lawrence replied by atkirg what would W tbel
91 his "
i ruakitlg a phillulixt when Zlisehet Marks runte4l.away
out rif tso fist r • •
• Mr. Marks was Mai called upon for his defence, and he *nide
very srailiug.mae,„ lie began with detcrittioe his worldly pqs.
sessions, Statinglitimseno keep two !sautes, etc. horn which he
inferred that if was haws:mak h; should be guilty of the paltry
crime laid to Ilia clam.. 11e had known Lawrence 0 Tonle
many years, rut bad frecne tay add fruit to ham; and, c0nA,...,•••-
deg hina A fair aubjeerfor a joke, het's% often joked with bi'riii—
_On the morning i.L. rießtio sia fittp,Al..nat he picked up }
jag In the niarkee, grad.4.lelilYt--nireta.e.(rl'oole very limy ril-.0 tit
his *cowherd bargain, }rich hi cent iineliettstandAf iniiirbtly •
ppen. he poppeel theiug Oatct,otapog.t:le,rtriu4 triv2/_?f #4,
and then ran away towar,is his own goeds. Lawrence O'foole ran
after him, and, .taking .the log frets kis pocket *Are* WO laian
! • • 44
10 be ran—thereby. giving mina. the torniegyoul ca iv on the
sore of the neck what woold"haveitooeked "dovin ;.fideptOr.t fr''
' . gs.s, Mir. Merle at:et:tied, • was-. sulk :lair .pissed ; • jtJ :,-,34cii4
eorre'aorated -by • Lost tai witneaacs, the charge wo cr..isinias-1.