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London, England, 1828-08-08 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

FROM THE MONIT ROA OF TUESDAY, AUGUST 5.
NON-OFFICIAL PART.
PARIS, AUGUST 4.
For some weeks past the health of the Count de la
Fe'ronnays was a subject of uneasiness to his numerous
friends. The King, who takes a lively interest in this
fa thful and loyal servant, has been pleased to grant him
leave of absence to take the mineral' waters of Carlsbad,
in Bohemia. His Eziellenci will set out on the 7th,
and return towards the end of September.
The official part ( f the Monileur contains two Ordi-
nances of the King; the first gives to M. de Rayneval,
.Imbassador of France to the Swiss Confederation. the
rerk of Minister of State, and Member of the Privy
(.:ncil. The second appoints him to perform the
ftlections of Minister of Foreign Affairs during the ab-
tt:ice r f Count de la Fertemays.
FftrYClf Fix s, AUGUST 5. —Five per Cents. 100. SOe. Three
?rt. Cents. 72f. .55r.

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r (Allow Ftonss.—Neapolitan Renter:, Falc. Cer. 76f. 25c. Ditto
ur.o French Cert. 76f. Royal Spanish Loan. T2if. Spanish Poe-
Aunuities, 484 f. Harian Loan, 625 f.

GM(MAN PAPERS.

BERLIN. Auaorr 1.
ACCOUNTS FROM THE THEATRE OF WAR.

BULLETIN OF THE ACTIVE ARMY, DATED JULY 14.
The advanced posts of Lieutenant-General Ruttiger
o t Bziircijik on the 3d July, and proceeded on the'
!cad to Couzlidjeh, as far as the little river Uszenlia.
9r, that day they perceived a corps of the enemy's
cavalry. 6,UDO strong, which on the Ist was before
liazaidjik, and on the approach of the Cossacks had
vet sated to Couzlidjeh. On the 11 tbJuly our advances
proceeded to Couzlidjeh, and occupied that town. The
ei'erny.rcried, partly towards Schurnla, and part by
Pravadi. Our advanced posts. consisting of two squa•
thous of hussars of the Regiment Alexander, and a
of the Regixnent Prince of Orange (the latter
was just going to relieve the two squadrons), met, on
the 12th July. with the. enemy's cutpusts, drove them
back, and pursued them to the village of lissitepe, tea

Mr.WILIIRAHAM, on behalf of the proprietors of the
Bristol Packet, moved for an injunction to retrain the
plaintiff. from proceeding in an action at law. Some
time since, as the Moderator was on her passage in the
Avon, she was run against by the Bri.tel Packet, owing
to the alleged misconduct of the Cadtain of that ves-
,el, whereby she sustained consideruoie damage, for
which an action was brought to recover compensation.
He made this application (which he believed was rather
a novel one) under the provisions of an Act c.f Parlia-
ment, passed in the 53d year of the late King, which
enacts, that in all cases where an action is brought to
recover the amount of damage sustained by one vessel
being run against by another whilst at sea, by the de-
fendants paying into the Court of Chancery the value
of the vessel damaged, with tie amount to which she
would be entitled for freight, the Court wa. empowered
to grant an injunction to restrain all proceedings at law,
and to direct other means of ascertaining the amount
of loss sustained. In this case the value of the vessel
was estimated at 3201. and the freight 251. which the
Idefendants were ready to pay into Dour t; and the only
question effiether or not they were er titled to an injunc-
tion was, that this accident did not happen on the sea,
but on the river Avon.

Mr. TIERNEY, who appeared hr the plaintiffs, would
not object to the motion, if they would take it without
prejudice to any question that might hereafter arise;
but he did not think the Act apflied to navigable rivers.
It being agreed to take the injunction without pre-
judice.
IbeVICS-CHANCELLOR ordered it to issue accordingly.

LONDON SESSIONS, AVG. 7. '

LICENSING HOTELS IN THE CITY.

A Special Sessions of the City of London was sum-
moned this day, to take into consideration the applica-
tions for licensing different hotels in the City, under the
new Act of Parliament.

The first applicant was Mr. Hillary, of the Poultry,
whose case bad been on a former occasion partly gone
into, and was adjourned till this day. When the case
was called on,

Mr. 7-Ilion, his Solicitor, said he was quite taken by
b u r pi i se, as he conceived he had, on the former occa-
sion, satisfied the two Magistrates ; and if he was now

Mr. Lawson gave similar testimony.
Several letters to Mr. Hillary, from his customers in
different parts of the country, certifying, on the part of
the writers, that they had used his premises iv the
Poultry, in November and December last, and declaring
that they would use the house again, were read.
The recommendation from the Rector, Churchwar-
dens, Overseers, &c. of St. Mildred, in the Poultry,
were here read, certifying the good character Of Mr.
Hillary and of his house. The list c f names appended
contained those of the most respectable persons in the
parish. There was a farther recommendation to the
Court of Aldermen, of the strongest nature, signed •by
upwards of 150 of the first-rate houses in London.
Mr. Atsotrovs appeared in support -of a Pet tion
from a number of individuals in the ward against the
license. He read the preamble of the late Act, and
read the definition in Todd's Johnson of an hotel, and
said the question was, whether, horn the testimony of
the witnesses examined, this house could be considered
as an hotel, that is, " a place for the residence of Gen-
try ?" Was it enough that the word " hotel" should be
written over these houses to entitle them to claim under
this Act? If so, every coffee and chop-house in the
country would have recourse to this simple device.
The counter-certificate was then read. It stated that
the former one was signed under the opinion that Mr.
Hiliary only intended to renew his application for a
wine license. The Magistrates decided against the license.
Mr. Balm appeared in support of the application
for a license on the part c•f the European Hotel, in
Mansion House-street. The decision in the last case
was on the ground that the applicant had not proved
that his house was an hotel previous to the Ist ofJanu-
ary. But he contended that it was not required by the
Act that such proof should be obtained. Mr. Barry then
read the Act, which laid the words in the disjunctive,.
" eh° shall have kept such houses before the Ist of
January or the passing of this Act." Ile did not deny
that the Magistrates had the right to refuse these
licenses; there were certain cases—for example, wine
shades—in which such refusals might be made; but
this was not the case in the present instance.
Mr. Francis, one of the proprietors of tha hrtuse, stated,
that he had taken the house expressly for the purpose
of an hotel; he had fitted up lour beds for the accom-
modation of the customers, and had applied to the
owners of the next house to purchase their apartments
for bedrooms.

la answer to a question from Mr. ADOLPHUS, the
witness stated that the house was not opened until May.
Mr. ADOLPHUS then read a section from the Act,
which enacted that the house, on account of which such
license shall be applied for, shall be continuously used
as such from the Ist of January.
The Court decided at once unanimously against the
application.
Mr. Oakes, the proprietor of the Portugal Hotel, in
Fleet-street, was examined in support of a similar ap-
plication. This house had been fitted up as an' hotel
for four years past. They had thitty beds, and several
private rooms. The house had not undergone any
change within the last few months.

The chambermaid of the house was examined to prove
that the house was an orderly and regular hotel.
Some of the customers of the house proved having
frequented the house as an hotel.
Mfr ADOLPHUS did not deny that the house had been
for years an hotel, but the Common Council had refused
to make the regular recommendation in favour ct the
house, on the ground that a new house was not wanted ;
it was therefore for the Magistrate to determine if a
new licenced house were wanted.

Alderman WOOD said proof sufficient existed in the
evidence adduced this day.
The LORD MAYOR declared that the Court were una-
nimously of opinion that this was one of the cases con-
templated bytheAct,and granted the license accordingly.
A similar application on behalf of the Colonial Coffee
House came on next lot consideration. Application
refused.

4$ It is, Gentlemen of the Jury (said the Learned Gen-
tleman), my most painful duty, as • Counsel for the
Crown, to lay before you the facts and circumstances
connected with the case, upon which hereafter you wi;l
be called upon to decide on the guilt or Innocence of
the prisoner at the bar. It has always appeared to me
to be the duty of Counsel, v. here so grave a charge,and
one attended with such fetal results, occurs, neither to
enlarge upon or aggravate it by appealing to the pas-
sions, or calling in the ,aid of fictitious elcqtiente.—
Acting upon this principle, in a case of so notch im-
portance, I shall content myself with laying before you
a plain narrative, and a distinct detail of the fact., such
as, 1 am instructed, will be proved in evidence, and
thus supply you with a general slew of the ca:e,
which you will be enabled to judge of the importance
of the investigation upon which you are about to enter.
The prisoner, William Corder, was t e son r f respect-
able parents, living in the parish of Polsread, in this
county ; his f4thtr has been some time dead ; while he
was living he carried on the business of a farmer; horn
the time of his death his mother conducted the agricul-
tural affairs, with the asskance of his elder br‘ther—
when he died the prisoner aided her, and continued
doing so until the latter end of September, 1827. Ma-
ria Marten, the young woman with whose murder the
prisoner stands charged, was the daughter of parents its
an humbler state of life; the prisoner and Maria Mar-
ten were formerly known to each other, a circumstance
naturally accounted for, as they lived in the same vil-
lage; they did not, however, become intimate until
shortly previous to the month rf May, 1826 ; they then
had an intercourse, and an illegitimate child was the
fruit of their illicit commerce; Maria Marten was not
delivered at her father's house, but at some distance
from her house, and at nearly six weeks before the May
of 1827: she then returned home to her father's with
an infant, and the prisoner Corder acknowledged it to
be his ; some weeks alter her return the child suddenly
expired, but during the time of its arrival and its de-
cease, the prisoner Corder, Upon more than one occa-
sion, had been heard to say, that he had been told that
the parish officers were about to take the .deceased,
Maria Marten, up, for having born bastard children,
gad to this feature in the case I would wish, Gentle
men, particularly to direct your attention; but besides
this, the mother and others have frequently heard them
quarrelling, particularly as to a five pound note, and if
1 am instructed rightly, that in one of their quarrels on
that subject, Maria Martin, in reference to a transac-
tion connected with the five pounds, of which you shall
hear more in the course of this investigation, said to
him, li Well, Corder, if I go to gaol you shall also go
with rte." During this time, I mean up to the period I
have to speak of, Corder told her, perhaps for the pus-
poses of pacification, that he would make her his wife;