Star.
London, England, 1826-02-13 00:00:00

SESSIONS COURT, DUBLIN.

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Tn slay came on an intere,ting trial, in which a deaf
and dumb boy wat; plmecutor. Dr. C. o:pen, Secre-
tary to-the Deaf and Dumb Institution, was sworn to
inter p- et, an.l commuidcated the questions of the Coin,
of the Jail,. ,arid of the prisoner, partly by spelling the
words on his fingers, an 4 partly by writing. to which
the boy answered, both by >peaking atticalately and by
. signs. The.buy's name was T. Collints;, he was a pupil
of .41r. Humohrey„ master Aif the Deaf and Dumb
Sahuol. at Claremont,, ant is. now an apprentice to Mr
Goog.win, .a. printer, in Dublin. Hc: is totally deaf,
•and until taught to speak in . that . school, had been
totally /hunts. • His :evidence was confirmed by the
watchman, who apprehemicathe woman and found the
*watch in her:possession, and by the interpreter, who
proved that the watch Ilad been given by his brather to
she boy some years since. Dr. C. Orpen also proved
-that he. had known the boy ever since 1815; that he
war detaitted..at th? printing-face till late every even-.
ing;,that:bia,psiocrples and his conduct were excellent,
atid.Oat ,be. perfectly understood the nature of ati oath,
and the consequences of a false one.

• The prttorier stated, chit she was drunk, and that she Lad taken'
the *etch hi her room, and not in the sheer; but this was contra-
on-oath by the boy.
• ' 'Jar/ &duet 'bedtate a moment in finding her guilry ; and
tkr-..JuSgesutotented her to seven years' transportation.
• The gliewhig letter, which was handed by the boy to 'h.: Re-
ci,siltr, aft& iiii'elauitliation (not vim trace) was over, explains the
citct.rnstanorof Oto robbery. It Wl4 51111114 r CO the ACCOMIL which
be wrote on his slate.fur the Grand Jury :

•T, I MY JV DG 11.

I was stadding. leokbig at a shop window and things, list Mon-
day week night; it lifts nine o'clock in the evening, a wicked wo-•
man tint the, and Ate asked tale I said, .4 am de f 4„41.1
dumb," an 4 by'my signs, until she took *Way- my watch atil• my.
fob pocketand•ture ir off. She ran aw..y Mtn another street, into
a hoUse ; I followed her with my eyes ismnedlately, and ran atter
her. She ran firm a house dov:rt stairs into a
.little back kitchen—
cellar—Low: • She threw a Candle down, out, with ' her hand, tad
snake nit dark night, and she pushed me. I fell down. On tufl
back on the ugly ground ;lay elbow and back were paidfar anal
blue.. I got up dirty and Arnett her ; she is Very strong ; I calkel•!
a vesechntan ; I said," come, coine,"to take her to prison.. Stara!
pushed my watch under a bed and hid li—sitting on the bed; slat,
two watchmen found it by their se.rch It is -eery true—l swear;
• • true. I hope the Stodge will not bang her. Will he give use mr
• liver watch and my Ns, aid send her to lock up in prison, or stud
iter to ship ter Botany Bay. I am Thcnias (7ollins, a deaf rod'
dumb orphan boy. Fork:pelf alond fdinister avill:opeak to her
ifJelesthimp.about GOD and CH as will lie.repeastant, and will
beeome a pod woman, and a Alinister Avid be. hotter than a.
Judge.: tiut.if she will not h repentant, that :is...Judge will send,
her to hard work in the t0zu1ic.11,4„.,....5. suMlcrisaVelso-Later•
• r r 4 r ... • •
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•ID .the. foorteeftth century the shoK in P4Th, were
opened it four dcl6.ck in the tztornitig t. the King
Vr..tuce dipodraAa glit. 6.0 the mooning, 4u4.1c-ited to
t.rt at tl.e woe hour iu the etching.

ENGLAN,D THE SOIL OF LIBERTY.
• .
LIBERATIOSt OF AFRICAN NRORORS.
• Saturday evening, the five p"or Negroes, tobsihaup
whont from the coast of Cornwall a writ of Habeas
Corpus was issued fi.e weeks ago by Lord Chief Justice
Bess, were brought before his Lordship, at hi. house
Bedford-square, in compliance with. the. order 9f the
writ. No similar process of law had been issued siov
the celebrated case of the Negro, Sornerser, fifty years
ago, which established the indefeasible right of liberty
for every human being who touebes the soil of Engler's)!
It will be recollected, that the poor negroes, whose
caw was on Saturday decided, were found in the month
of October on board the French-ship*Pearl (the mastees
name Legue), which was driven by stress of weather
into St. Ives, Cotowall, whete the situation of these
poor men attracted the attention of Mr. Kingston, a
Gentleman resident rn the spot, who communicated the
particulars to Mr. Wilberforce, who, with a humane
promptness consistent with his generous devotion to the
cans* of the wretched Africans, directed Mr. George
Stephen, the Solicitor, to issue out the writ of Habeas
Corpus.; but the state of the late severe weather. 'and
illness of the Negroes' prevented their arrival in town,
till a few days ago. The Pearl, armed with 20 guns,
and having heated furnaces, was bound to France; and
as she had all the necessary chains and implements of
coercive restraint, used in carrying on the Slave 'trade,
together with the living portion of her cargo which the
Habeas Corpus returned, no doubt can be rationally en-
tertained of the purpose of her voyage. Of these- five
Negthes, two appear about 18 years of age, two about
30, and one, an intelligent looking boy, under 12.
They are from different districts of Attica ; two of them
either speak the same language, or can undet stand each
other, some of their words resembling the sound of the
Bullom vocabulary, as it is given by some African
travellers. Two others also can converse together, but
neither of these couples can hold any conversation
mutually, and the fifth is neither understood by any of the
other four, nor does he understand any of their dialects.
When this French ship was driven on the coast of
Cornwall, so ignorant was the Master, that neither he
nor his crew knew their bearings, nor even whether the
land they saw belonged to England, America, or Africa.
Two of these pour people described themselves to have
been married,one of them having two children, and his
wife dead.; the other with a wife living and bur
children, From their communications there can be no
doubt that this vessel was homeward bound from St.
John's River, where she took in a cargo of 244 slaves,
of whieb, fro* their description, 70 were women, and
about 20 or 30 children. That all these (except the
five now in ,town and two boys) were trans-shipped at
sea, into a consort of the Pearl, who sailed with her.
That the two boys were constantly flogged with ropes,
which made them bleed from their mouths; that they
died and were then flung into the sea. The poor fellow
who does not understand his four fellow-sufferers, is of
a more copper coloured complexion ; he wore a wooden
collar, was severely- maltreated on board, and often
hauled up by a rope to the yard;arm, and then, let to
Idrop on the deck. The Negroes chewed, by two ex.
pressive and unerring signs, the way in which they had
been chained together at seal and so accustomed were
they to their iron manacles, that they can put them on
and off themselves. It was the custom to manacle the
men ; but the women and boys were under less restralnt.
The barbarity of this treatment was also marked by the
most profligate indecency on the part of the slave-ship
crew ; for that portion of female covering which, even
among the rude tribes of Africa an innate sense of
natural shame suggested, was brutally torn off by the
sailors and flung into the sea, leaving these wretched
females exposed to the severity of the weather, and the
grossest maltreatment.
They were, as we have mentioned. brought in a
hackney-coach to Lord thief Justice BEST':, in Bed-
ford-squit e, where Mr. Stephen attended as solicitor, in
support of the writ of Habeas Corpus, and Mr. Welstead
for the master of the ship. There were also present Major
Denham, the enterprising African traveller, and his
servant, an African boy. The costume of the latter ex-
cited much of the attention of his poor fellow-country-
men io plainer garb—he wore a dashing turban, and
under a loose and flowing cloak he was dressed in a
rich hussar uniform, of the kind usually worn by
foreign pages. Major Denham brought this servant'
{who was about 17 or 18 years of age) in the expecta-
tion that from his knowledge of many of the vernacular
languages of Africa, he might be able to interpret the
diatects of the Negroes. The youth proceeded with a
:good
deal of liveliness and address to interrogate each
•of .the five Negroes—A spoke to them successively in.
three or four of the languages most osually known in
central. ica ;he also distinctly .utterei the, names of
a number of towns, accompanying the utterance with
lestures well calculated to, rivet the attention of the
Negroes, blit in vain ; they replied to him in languages
:of which he declared his own ignorance. When it was
found that every practicable.mode of seeking iaterpreta-
:tion had failed, all the patties were before, the Lord
.Chief Justice in his study, and his Lordship demanded
the return of the writ, which was immediately handed
id by Mr. Welstead,.but without any iNclOrsed return.
The Loan Cams Justice said, that this return mutt be made
in due form—it could not be verbally taken.
Atter some conversation between the solicitors they
;cared (at the suggestion of his Lordship) to consider of
the mode of complying with the terms of the writ, but
soon after returned, when Mr. Wehtead said, that he
was at a loss how to act in the absence of his client.
_ •

It was at length agreed between the Solicitors and.
the Lord Chief ,Instice, that Mr. Welstead, on cornmu-.
nicuting iu the course of tl.e evening with. the ship,'s
Abet, should frame such a retuin as be proposed ; and
that in the mear.tinre Mr. Stephen. who has the citreot
.tie pisor Africans at liArapstead, should give an under*
taking •hir their ,satery till his Majesty's Gum nmeut
„should,otluarwise•divo.eof.tbetn., . ,
This arrangement being agreed to, the patsies andsthe _
withlitew— ..The latter have lucked up random frorclakof the French
language front the ibip's crew at sea, and are in course of instruc-
.tion in a few gosh* words; they ran, at present, nearly repeat
the alphabet, and a suonosyllabk word or two.

1 . • #•••.--. z
In. May. last • year,,A,44Avings )3aok jeep
.ppene4 at.
M.l4lll..arnrierl.the patio/one ul the Earl pt 1111114111,11,0!tD,
Forl.4)4Rivuarrifia 4p4 oAtift slistinstristVeci charatter3;
A.td theile_posits. Already -erediunt t0.,;70004.r-thu4 pre-
senting a practical illustration of :the great utility of
,such institutions.:lad fortii,hialg a gsatitpag proof coat
Ilse se.rson of plospesity with the working elasses
s~lwa~s onacc, tripented by prudent piovision tut Ones
.
of exigency and distress. I r c 3 •
The late Ali :Pacha Mined a Irawiee-to, bit Ipin
movaieti honours, auk! seared on,u.barrel of gun-
powder, which may be blown up with a seal k.

CONSISTORY COURT, FIBRUARY 11.
•

THE MOT .WOBLE Twp 34411C11110311111g etV WESTMEATH
E. THE MAEQUIS 6lt WESTMEATIL
, The evgnments in, thisucese mere resumed on the sit-
ting of the Court. Dr. Phillimore, on the part of the
Marquis of Westmeath, followed Dr. Jenner, whose
arguments on the same side had occupied the Court
during the last sitting.
Dr. PHILLIMOtti entered at
,great length into the
details of the evidence, He adverted particularly to
those charges of cruelty and adukery against the Mar.
quis, which had not. • betn relied upon by the Mar-
chioness's Counsel, !seduce. they were aware that tle
testimony upon which those charges were founded was
corrupt, and could not be depended upon in a Court of
Justice. The same witnesses, however, who had sup-
ported the charges which had been abandoned, because
they were confessedly unfoundoi, were relied on, to
support those charges of cruelty upon which the Mar-
chioness of Westmeath now came forward to demand
a divorce. But could any weight be given to testimony
which, when it was applied to other charges, had been
demonstrated to be false ? The whole mass of evidence
adduced to support the charge of cruelty against the
Marquis was of so roiled a character, that he, con.
tended no Court ought to be influenced by; it. The
witness Sarah M'Xenzie, uppn whose. testimony so
much depended, was clearly identified with the persons
who bad been found guilty of perjury: they were
proved to have been ender her immesiale care and sur-
veillance, and he contended that this fact was sufficient
to throw a rational suspicion upon the testimony of
that witness. In short, the case abounded with fraud,
perjury, and conspiracy. Many of the witnesses were
sunk knee-deep in perjury, and it was impossible, undtt
such circumstances, not to scrutinise the evidence which
remained with great severity and caution. Charges
upheld by such testimony should be examii.ed with the
most critical accucary. One charge had been imported
into the case, which, he must say, he did not think his
Learned Friend (Dr. Lushington) was jo tified in com-
menting union in the manner in which he furd done. Lord
%%Testi-swath, it seemed, had taken his daughter, a child
seven years old, under his own care, and this was held to
be a monstrous act of cruelty. His Learned Friend said
he was sorry to• find that persons of high rank were base
enough to countenance such conduct. Now this was step.
ping out of his way, stepping out of Court, and bringing
the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham to the bar of the
Court, nseiely because Lady Rosa, the Marquis of
Westmeath's daughter, had been removed to Avington,
the Duke of buckingham's seat, when • her father
thought proper, as he was fully Warranted in doing. to
take his infant child under his own. management. This
really seemed an insufficient reason for attacking the
character of the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham,
and he certainly thought his reamed Friend should ex-
plain the expressions which fell from him on this sub-
ject.- There was no question of law arising out of this
case. Lord Westmeath appeared for the purpose of
enforcing cohabitation with his wife, and there was no
vestige of that description of cruelty in the case which
could jsstify the Court in coming to any other decision
than that prayed for by Lord Westmeath. The rank of
the parties had been pressed upon the Court; but he
was confident that no immunities or indulgence would
be granted to the parties in this case which would not
also be granted to panics in the middle class of life, if
they came before the Court under similar circumstances.
The Marchioness of Westmeath, like every other mar-
ried woman, bad solemnly bound herself to live with
her husband until death did them part,.and unless she
showed good grounds for breaking that contract, unless
she showed that there was actual danger of life or limb,
the Court was bound to enforce the contract. It would
never set so bad a precedent as that because a woman
was of high rank she may quarrel with her htisb Ind,
and remove herself from those restraints which every
other married woman was under. He trusted the
case with confidence to the Court. He kit that
the noble person for whom he appeared needed only
to have his case fairly stated, to have the calumnious
aspersions, which were net essarily thrown upon tim is
the proge ess of that suit, completely answered. The. Mar-
quis of Westmeath's conduct was dictated by over-
anxious feeelingstowards,his-wife. There was evidently
a submission, a prostration towards her, which clearly
evinced the kiadness of the Matquis'sfeelings. In short,
he•was a fond and over-indulgent husband, who had
the misfortune to be united to a person, to say the least
of it, of very unhappy temper, and one who was perpe-
tually straggling for that dominion and management,
which, as it would have degraded the husband, ought
never to have been intrusted to the wife. Under all the
circumstances of the case, he submitted that the charge
otadultery was altogether untrue, that the charge of
,cruelty was not supported upon testimony which could
be relied on, and that the Court was bound to decide
in favour of the Mat qois of Westmeath, and to enforce
the Marchioness to return to that cohabitation from
whit!) she had unjustifiably withdrawn herself.
' Dr. Luslintsros rose to reply on behalf of the Marchioness of
Westmeath, when •
.Eur. C. Romusou tuggestei,.that as the reply could not be con-
eluded this day, it might be deferred to the next Court day.
• Dr. Lnsnnoarcix acquiesced in the suggestion that fell from the
•Court. lie felt, be said, that be would come to the subject more
let ease on the nest Court •day, as his spirits were a little flattered
by what had Wien from Dr. Phillimore—(A laugh).

MI. Secretary Pau . tas, in the most handsome man-
ner, contented to become a Vice Patron of the "Western Literary

•and Scientific Institution; and the Right Hon. Gentleman, farther
'ro testify his approbation of tke objects of the Institution, has given
tSOI.-to the Library Fun•l, to,be expended in the purchase of scien-
tific works. Mr. -FARQUHAR, the rich possessor of Foinhill, has
also consented to
_become an honorary officer of the institution,
together with the Most Noble the Marquises of LANSDOWDI and
lip-rues, and other noble and scientific individuals.

. The law of Maryland which disqualified the Jews
:from holding offices on account& their religious opinions
.has been abolished liy legislature. They are now
;:placed upon the game tooting, and posses the same
civil rights, as every other religious denomination.
The introduction of the Trial by Jury among the
Natives of Ceylon, has, it is said been attended with
consequences of unmixed advantage.
The Syst.txtx!—Soine time since, a writer in the
Richntood Enquirer, said Mr. Tazcwrr.t., one of the Senators of
the United States front Virginia, h,41 41 a triad as pure as ether,
and as vast as infinitutle,"—Fitii.Gas.
• .NO Public Medicine ever attained so high a repu-
tation for the cure of Scrofulous and Scorbutic Complaints, as Mr.
Lasespit AKTIWORIINTIC Danes; acd this. will not he wondered
leitowsliett it is considered that his preparations have stood the test
I 4wsperitnce. upwards of dainty years, and that be anntial:y pub-
!lisisestit gs'eater nunther of respectaitte and wsll-autbenticated Cures,
than All other Medicine Propetefors together. ,Ir. I.IONUA, bow-
everovrelsesita retie never to'7uLliesiat case without giving parti-
' 'trier .directions by %slickest individuals referred to tn.iy be lona.
I e, our first page.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBaTna FnutuAßT 10:

At a congregation on Wydneaday last the following degrees
were conferred: _ _ _

Micros IN Divinity—The Rey. William Moore, or S:. John's
College, Perpetual Curate of SPILIcIIt,g, Lincolnshire.
Docroa tx Putsic--John Wilson. Fsq. of Christ College.
Raceme/it tx DIVINITT— Rev. John Smith, of St. John's Collier.
BActutt.olts or Aurs —J. Williams, of Trinity College; N.
*ley& of Trinity College; R. W. Simpson, of S. Jfibn Coi-
lege ; Henry Alington, of St. Peters Coliege; John 6r;o2g.
Corpus Christi College; H. C. Duckle, of Queen's College; J. P.
Sill, of Christ Cull,,' .

Passim Penr—Tl.e passage fixed upon fnr the present year is—
Sh..ksprare, Hata Joule, Act tn. *Ems tn. beginning wick
Km Joust. 4, Come hither, Hubert."
And ending with
ICino Atm I think thou lowest me well."
The metre to be Tragicom lantbicum Trimitrum Acaralecticust.

OXFORD, FEBRUARY 28.

Saturday, the following degrees were conferred :
Docros is DIVINITY-11CV. Robert Marratt Miller, Wadbar.
College, and Vicar of Dedham, Pssex.
Dooms Le Cmi. Law—Rev. Henry Worsley, St. Mary Hall.
DOCTOR as Mements—Juba Wootten, Balliol College.
BACIIRLOII IN CIVIL Law—Hon. Edwin 'Ascetics, Fellow of AD
Souls' College.
MASTRS or Arms Robert Irvine, Magdalen Hall; Rev, Joseph
West, Chaplain of New College.
BACHELORS or Atm—Samuel Parr, Exeter College, Grand
Compounder; Edward Trueman, Worcester College; Henry
Parker, Worcester College ; William George Lambert, Scleitar of
Corpus Christi College; Nathaniel Pomfret Small, St. Mary Hall;
William George Lambert, Scholar of Corpus Christi College;
Nathaniel Pomfret Small, St. Mary Hall ; William Latimer Ne-
vilk, Queen's College ; John Antes La ['robe, Sr. Etlinfind flail ;
Daniel Wheeler, St. Edmund Hall; Charles Seagram, Scholar of
Brasennose College; John Roblnspn;Braiennese College; Charles
Wool's, Pembroke College; Hon. Arthur Chetwynd Talbot,
Christ Church; Charles Terry, Jesus College; James Pardoe
Matthews, Wadbam College; John Freeman, Bark' College;
Thomas Walpole, 'Panic' College; Henry Ferdinand Bosanguet,
Balliol College; William Percy, Exeter College: Henry Vere
'lodge, Exeter College.
AL an Ordination held by the Lord Bishop of Worcester, in the
Chapel at Hartlebury Castle, on Thursday, the 2d instant, the
following Gentlemen were ordained :
Hueco:is—Henry Pruon, B.A. Oriel College, Oxford ; Charles
Rodwell Roper, B.A. St. John's College, Oxford; Willi-au Byrd,
B.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford; John Lane Meer, B.A. Trinity
College, Cambridge; John Vernon, B.A. Emmanuel College,
Cambaidge. _

Warren Hayes, M.A. Wadham!lege, Oxford;
James William Hatherell, B.A. St. Alban Hail, Oxford ; Jobs
Marshall, B.A. Worcester College, Oxford; Robert Sandersll.l.
lilagdalen Hall, Oxford; Leonard Fletcher, B.A. All Sours Col-
lege, Oxford; Charles Edward Caries, B.A. Catherine h ill, Cani-
bridge ; William Dunn, B.A. Queen's College, Cambridge.

ICC LESIASTICAL raowovioate.
Tuesday, Mr. William Drake, Commoner of Lincoln College,
was elected an Exhibitioner of that Society.
The Venerable Charles Abel Moyeey, D.D. of Christ Church,
and Archdeacon of Bath, was on Thursday se'unight collated, by
the Bishop of Bath and Welts, to the Prebend or Canonry of
Combe, the thirteenth in the Cathedral Church of Wells.
Rev. W. Birch, M.A. has been collated to the Vicarage of 8.. r.
ford, Oxfordshire. by the Hon. and Rev. the Bishop of Oxford.
Rev. Edward Vincent, M.A. to the Vicarage of Chirktoa,
Wilts' void by the death of the Rev. S. Clarke.
Rev. Samuel Punter, D.D. Rector of Shelley, to the Vicarage
of Rushmore, near Ipswich.
Rev. R.B.Bagshawe, B.A. to the Rectory of Eyant Derby,
void by the cession of the Hon. and Rev. Robert John Ellin.
Rev, T. Allies, to the Rectory of Wormington, Gloucistershire.
Rev. Aaron Foster, B.A. to the Vicarage of Winscombe, and
the Rev. G. Johnson, M.A. to the Rectory of Hinton Bitiet.

Rev. Iknry Pepy•' 13. D. Rector of Asieden And Nloreton, to
the Prebend or Canonry of Barton David, in the Oath:4ll.4i
Church of Wells.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

DoW-s'CREET.

Ames Rosenberg Tucker, apparently about 18 years of age, wls
charged with sending a threateniog kttes to estop inot:t y.

Tate prosecutor, a respectable farmer at Laytonsteme, stated An
the prisoner, who was his trot cousin, came-to tint &boot ewe
months ago in great distress; that be took him into his house,
clothed and supported him, and he appeared very co:.tented
Sunday last, when he said he wished to come to London to get
employment; whereon he give him 51. On Tuesday he quittri
laytonstone, and on Thursday evening the letter in question came
from him by the post, containing insinuations et the . atrociwus
nature against the prosecutor's character; but still containing the
prisoner's request to he taken hack, and requiring a lo.n of 51. fur
which he said he would give his I 0 U,
_ _

The letter went on to threaten exposere unless his demands were
complied with, aufi reminded the prosecutor th.ir he had ruin ail/
beggary on the one side, and wealth and happiness on the other;
and that if he were obstinate, it would cult hint his all; b,tt if he
did as he (the writer) wished, it would cost him nothing.
In the prisoner's pocket were found a memorandum and a card,
by which it appeared that he wss about to assume the title of
" Baron Rosenberg," and an item of 50s. set against the name el
Mrs. Evans. On being questioned as to who this Mrs. Reins was,
►e said it had nothing to do with the present inquiry; and when
the Magistrate inquired if he wished to say any thing in answer to
the charge, he with great volubility commenced an abusive harangue
against his prosecutor.—He was folly committed.

hf A RLBOROUG H.STREET.
Saturday, Rickard' William Britt, shopntan to Mr: Tk.uw
Thwaites, tailor and clothier of ikoatl.street, St. Gilces •um
brought before H. M. OTIS, Esq. charged with having robbed' las

employer.. • .
Mr. Thwaites deposed that the prisoner had lived with him 35 a
shoproan between three and four yeats. On Tuesday last, Mr.
Phillips, a elothes.dealer, resident in Ilolywell-street, came and
asked him if he had not been robbed ? To this question he 0111:4
not give a decisive answer, as be had always a large stock of clothes
on Land, and did all his business fur reedy money, on which Mr.
Phillips produced a great coat and a youth's suit of clothes, which
he ipstantly recognised to be his property ; Mr. Phillips :hen in.
forthed him of whom. ho had bought them, and also stated that lie
had bought previous to this two great coat; and a• suit of ;lathes
which he had sold. In consignence of this information, on Friday
night he gave the prisoner into custody. The- articles sow ;nu-
duced were worth about 41. Ifs. _ _ .

The prisoner, who stood crying, at the bsr during the whole
time; said nothing in his defence, and was fully committed to take
his trial.
• Several publicans residing In the neighbourhood of the Seven
Dials appeared before H. M. Drat and J. ft CONANT, Esqrs. to
answer to the Inform ItICOIS of Johnson, the informer, and his luau.
They were charged with keeping open their houses to late hours
permitting gambling and other offences. Two of the publsears
proved that Johnson and his nun bad made some mistakes, whirs
-gave them the victory. The remainder, however, were not es
fortunate, who, although they made very lengthy defences, weir
hued in mitigated penalties and costa.