The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-12-23 00:00:00

NSW AAAAA II STAMP DVTIPA.

I.ord CARTLEHIRAOH mowed the Order of the
l!ar for the third reading of the Newrpaper Stamp Du-
tieti Bill.

Mr. fientrot. secontleil the Motion.

Mr.l.. LAMB animadverted on the arguments used is
Grout. of the Bill. Nu distinction could be drawls be-
ta izt the author and the publisher. and both would he
equally affected by the regulations of the Bill. The
whole of the argument of blinisters was sic veto. The
Lill would leave ele rich publisher under no restraint,
and ictuid only operate ou the poor. No young man of
promising talents would henceforth be ahle to undertake
o!lterary work, fr•um the want of proper securities; and
under such regulations, the genius of • Burke cold')
',ewer have emerged from oliscnrity. After the third
reading, he should move that the operation of the Bill
be for a limited time.

Mr. PRICE, mat (woe.. the Kill. thongh ready to
r.q.pot t any lIIPUSUIC calculated to preaerve the tranquil.
It of the country. 'lto the part '►lathe to the duty on
atAtops he did not °hint, but could not consent to the
rent of the enea.nres.

Mr. J. SMITH was decidedly averse to the present
r:easnre. Nothing. hot the greatest necessity could
leatify it. and no :inch necessity had been proved to
ea.tt. At one of thy Mertingt, held a few months
back, it had been proposed that no taxes sbonld be paid
after the Ist of January, with other resolutions of a si-
milar wore, and wet the irviividnal who had anovell
such resolutions had never hen taken into (moody.—
Any liuverentent that tol-rated .uch proceedings must
fm; into contempt.
Mr. COOPF.II supported the Bill as called for by the
state of the country. The acquittal of Hone bad ranted
innrh gloom in the room rv, and had engendered a horde
of treibblers, who tbmiyht they might in.ult, with ini.
imnity, both the established Law and Religion. It was
• too.t wise step to stop the progress of the itinerant
orators whom l'obbett, in his better days. bad characte-
rised as the parasites of the people.

Mr. CALCRAFT was of opinion, that the euisting
law had not been properly enforced. Its 161 r., there bad
been no prosecution on the part of the Law I/nicer, of
the Cr.swn, though at no time hail more seditious and
I.lasplienious piedliestions appeared ; and in the begin
sting of. Isl 9, the consietion of Caddo had taken
without the smallest hesitation on the part of
the Jury : and lie buped the measure would be but tem-
porary.
The Bill was then read a third time.

Mr. 111.3INAL, in the ah•enee of Mr. G. Lamb, moved
the addition of a Anise limiting the operation of the
Bill to the period of one year.

Lore. C.kSTLERP..ItiII defended the Rill, as only
affecting the eori opted part of the press, and leaving the
sound part wholly unaffeeted. Its object was to pro-
tect the legitimate press of the country. lie admitted,
that in this cotumereial country it would be most impo-
litic to put any Manton restraint on the employment of
tpital ; but that, like every thing else, mast to a cer-
tain degree depend upon the general interests of the
state, and must in souse instaners give way to them. Hot
ainiost the whole of our commercial transactions de-
pended on the system security. Besides capital by the
Distillers Laws was under restraint, to secure the mo-
rals of the people. He denied this was any restraint on
the general liberty of the press, bnt a mild and salutary
execution of the law as it already exists, to restrain,
nut the liberty, but the licentiousness of the press.—
fie thereto., saw no reason to make this a temper
vary measure. No one, on any side of the Hotter,
could doubt of the existence of the evil ; and be was
sure, that if they did mot provider an instant remedy,
they would be defeating the exertions of the moral and
peaceable part of the community. The law, however,
did not provide accumulative punishments. With re-
spect to the pupisliiiieut of kaishment, it was proper
that a man 0/geoid he separated form that society to '
whose moral and politic:: institutions be radii not re-'
;verde himself. • To say that a respectable bookseller
or printer would be liable through inadvertency to
this punishment, was to pat an extreme ease. He once
more contended, that none of these new in trenched '
upon the fair an•l well understood liberties of the press.
It required no pea sagacity to see that if the liberty of
the press was to he lost to this country it would be
thrdngh tbe abuse °fit, rather than by the act of any sr-
bitrary Ministers whatever.
Sir J. 31AUKINTOSH weeld not follow the example
of the Noble Loot, by going into i general examination
of the.whole of tile new measures. lie acknowledged,
nab shame and sorrow, the numerous publications in-
culcating the destruction of all religion, said good go-
verument; but hr insisted that these pablicatious did
not owe Their increase to the weakness of the rusting
laws. But they Lad not been tried, for no prosecutions
had taken plan; and if that arose from a 'opposition
that Juries mere indisposed to convict. would (bey he
wave likely ao do so whoa the riniabtoest *id be

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increased? In the Blasphemous Libels Bill it was his
lactation to propose a clause mom aosnArtely defiling
that Mime t sad ondearoar to spare the British press
generally from the blasphemous sod seditglos libellers.
lie would sow come to the vitalism wont immediately
ender diastole*, and is looting at it. he said he felt
the greatest alarm at the position of the Noble Lord.
that the Bill was in fact no infringement of the liberties
of the prem. It would seem that the Noble Lord would
hare the Home this Bill, without • -at all

wished to strip us of the °ornament. die Aritheertcy, edissitment of the Blaspheme
the Magistracy, the Clergy, and the Leaded Proprietors. posed to this due.
Stripped of these fair &egress, be would no more re- Adjourned at three o'clock.
cognise that which remained as a people, than I 6 We lamest to state. that Mr. Thorne, in the course
would moraine is Diogeoes's bird the mon of Are.- of his speech, became so much indisposed, that he was
tack. under the necessity of re ti r ing from the Douse. The
Mr. DENMAN said, that it appeared to him that if Illnessof the Right lion. Member excited a strong feeling
them measures passed the people of this country would 00 all win-
s() losger be • free people. Wises he said that, be al-
hided to all orders aid degrees of the State.

3xlit. 11l was post.

II

law-making. No man, however, in his senses,
would, or can believe, that proceedings of the
nature we have been speaking of from day to day,
of hate, weld have gone on se, were it not for that
expedient Minh the facetious Doi Deddingssis,
afterward' Lord Piramoisen, so truly described,
aed so sneesesAilly and reciprocally practised. This
expedient, the most analogous to the vile characters
of those on whom it operates, is BRIBERY ! The
Borough:worn, those pests to freedom, have
been as busy as Stockbrokers upon the doubtful ru-
mours of a war or a pose*. This is then the time
to execrate the infernal vatic in seats. ' But for
this degrading trade, would it be possible for such a
needier of persons to be kneed in the whole empire
to vote as the majority of the Homes of Parliament
have voted of late against tie liberty of the peer

linnex I He who bas bees mimed to beggary, by
_popperting an unjust and onneeeinary war, at the
igingstion of the betwitehing ornery of a Prrr,
.std a few of his followers, who have, in the most
. 411111bies. (it would not be too coarse an expres-
sion, br the mischief of the deed, to my fp-
kg) matioer, promised the impoverishing multi-

ode sere " Security io future, and fall hideous-
nay Tor the past" What can the House of
. Coursons be called now bat depeedents upon

the Minister I These Ministers must emloebtedly

have told the Prince, their Master; 'that they
. can keep the Legislature at their disposal, or he
fever would let them go on as be has acme ; since
in spite of those foibles which his Royal Highness
has largely shared with meaner persons, he has
always been credited for possessing an equal share
of commonsense with them. At all events he is
unconscious of the calamity his servants are brine
ing upon the country; which calamity will be of
that nature, that must inevitably involve his safety
ar.d his happiness. These weak, and yet arrogant
men, arc, in an oblique manner, establishing a Cen-
sorship on the Press, and by these measures Censors
will be stirred up against them, and against their
Prince. It seems as if the days of WALPOLE were
returned again, when his beating-up seejeants be'
Ministerial recruits, or a new Parliament, were uts•
disguisedly told, that " all those who chose to
eft( use the party of the Crown might have their
price." This Lind of prostitution we have too long II
seen—too severely felt ; and till some one Minister
is impeached, and, being found guilty, punished for
hetraying his country in this manner, we shall go
en :rein!: and surering by it. This language we

shall not long be allowed to one, as the contemp-
tible rnd Eberticide Utah of tyranny, after having

practised as traitor*, will all turn informer*, and

Aft Ote (the ifiag's Ikea,
"AtionNE TOOKE called him,) upon us. The per-
SOLIVC3 alluded to ought to remember the saying,
that to speak daggers is not so frightful u to use
thou. Volarns sal.

Still the dread work of legislating to extinguish
the liberty of the press goes on. The frightful
monster struggles for compleat existence. We will
not cease to look the ill-omened monster on with
a basilisk's eye. Would we could kill it with
the darting rays of indignation, for if we can-
not strangle it in the birth, it will destroy
our Itherties, and will make it a matter of
indifference to an Englishmen where he re-
sides: whether in Grand Cairo instead of Great
Britons, till the return of more Suspicious times.
Last night, some other important topics were dis-
cos...4Al in the House of Commons ; but the business
ended, with a very• serious question from Mr. W.
SMITH to Lord CASTLEREHGII, with respect to the
period of banishment for falling under the penalty
of the" Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Bill."
when his Lordship observed, very frankly (as we
understood under the gallery), that the banish-
ment was to be for life."

The Funds experienced a sudden rise yesterday,
inconsequence of some observations which kit from
Ministers, upon financial measures; the price of
Consols for the Account, wu quoted at 671, at
whidi they left off. This morning the Mar-
ket looked uncommonly brisk, Consoia were
done at 681, with every prospect of a further
rise ; but towards one sickeit the market as-
sumed a different feature, for the principal
jobbers finding themselves heavy bulls of Reduced
for the day, the price of Consols fell to 671.

The rise this morning was owing to some farther
observations made by Ministers last night, combined
with a great scarcity of money ; indeed m much so
that the continuation upon Redncod from now till
the Consol account is I 7-16, which pays near
71 per cent. for the time, while this continues
We may look for a still farther rise.

Yesterday Prince LEOPOLD, attended by Sir Ro-
MT GARDNER, left town for Claremont.
Yesterday the Dukes of York and Clarence vi-
sited the Prince Regent, at Carlton House.
The Duke and Duchess of Clarence walked in
Hyde Park yestcrdhy.
The cue of the prosecution against the Club at
Paris, called " The Friends of the Liberty of the
Press, has had another and a Sisal bearing before
the Tribunal of Oorreetioeal Police. The Court
aeateaced the defendants, Oeveaden and Simon,
UP a pity of 200 t each, sad ordered that the
Ckb Agar he dinelved.-

THE

TIES alum OF arassiz.
--...--

" Nevar did martyr, with Mn lovely peat.
" Pan from a world wniroway to imam id.." . .
Hawaii&
111* NOG. with mild ifilaikkr, Ilhawia'd the

And shod Impala valsaai Wine the dash lona;
The Mho was natalloil. the greed wind woo sM $
Thit wind of Hs west AM bristles to Mtttllhe-•
When, lo! how the sky. Ilk. an ingot
The geniis of Iris, is glory arrayed,
Casio—boss on a whits passing diM et So night.
And stood on the spot whore her Loosen wu laid.
The vole, of her harp, that to sorrow wu string.
_ _

Partook of the sego Ish that relp•d ha her swig
Aad while to Its plaletire railed umbers she Nei.
Tins. sad oa my ear, the sweet reehMy stoke :
" 0, Russell ! eatketwed with the sash of the breve,

Look dews with mild eye, from the regimes of day—
Ms listen that eons thee. that kneels by thy grave,
Aad kisses the tett that onelooss thy day!
The tsar of alhation, for thee does It OW,
And this, is the sigh that snap= from my breast—
Oh 1 amid they the strength of the mighty retell,
. . . _ . . .

AM wia boob tilos soul iron lie reolias of the bleat:
For ever **torrent sioold streams from Woo oyoo,
Aod sibs. WS, mmilog. employ my food twooli.
Vail lip snot "irk, resoled ham the skim.
Sigrid mobilo moolosamihe slowborilnklill ;

1 saw thee the prospect of paha slespise.
Acrd Inn, mid destruction, thy progress panne;
lines oft would a tear at thy danger arise.
And hide thy strong efforts awhile from my view.—
Bat, shade of the mighty! thine efforts were vole,
To rouse In my eauseeach degenerate son:
Their spirits reeoird at the prospect of psis ;
They how'd to their fears, and the brave were soden' !
Foal Falsehood nrjoled, whoa II'D • bad treed
Ills name on the scroll thy destroyers enferi'd;
Truth wept o'er the word, that she would bare eru'd,
And Infamy peblish'd the tale to the world !
When Treachery's triumph at length wag complete,
And Death, the remain.* of the wretched was neer.
I beard thy bold accents—when. high oa his seat,
They shook the proud been of Injustice with fear
Collected and calm, In the soul-try lag hoer,
Firm, arm. was thy footstep, nor faelteed t"y breath;
Thou smil'dst at the utmost exertion of pewee,
Resigedst thy great spirit. and triampledst is death!
0. Russell! tho' high o'er thy mouldering dust
No seelptor has ehissell'd thy actioes ia stone,
Nor rear'd the tall column, nor moulded the bust,
To grace the green sod that embosoms my son ;
Yet there will the muse, is her sorrow, recline,
And cull sweetest Sow'rets, to strew on thy grave;
The bosom of friendship thy name shall seshrise.
And dwell with el..light on the deeds of the brave.
Farewell. blessed spirit! the linger of Fame
list twin'd her fair chaplet lb) brow to adorn :
In toes to come will she boast of thy name,
And tell thy sad story to millions unborn."
She ceased to complain--end her harp's silent strings
No longer were swept to the numbers of woe ;
lint, rising from earth on the cloud's Seery wings,
She hewed a fond sigh for her hero laid low !
ato Melee la flolam. hssmsrly to Intimate sernipealalP
of T. Russell's. but who afterwards basely joined in °Swiss
a reward for his apprebonston.
The following is an extract from Mr. Penece's
letter, on the subject of the probable existence of
/Rump Park :
•• I am obliged to trouble you with a story, an annual
of which I read ib The ilatea Ga:ette. It appears that
Captain Searwell wrote to his friend in Liverpool, in
which letter he said that he found me at Judd' ; that I
told him Moor, Park was still! alive, and that I was on
my road to Tombectoo to join him, Ike. I will give yen
some small account of our discourse at table on hoard
of his ship. We talked a great drat about Coffin, who
had been with me the last nine years in the country
f.thyssitsiaj. Ile asked me if there were any other white
men there: I told him ' One Ureek awl one Armenian.'
Did yon never hear of Mango Park? Is it possible
he can be alive ?' said he. •In all probability he may;
a friend of mine, woo trades from liondar to Tomhurtoo,
by way of Sauna, told me several times, that within six
years he had been four times to Tombuctoo, and had
*always seen a white man there, who was detained by the
I natives as a person able to write charms. Perhaps it
mar be 31ungto Park; it certainly ran he no other Es.
glitih traveller. Nothing else passed on the subject.
MADRAS, AUG. 10, 1810.—Accounts wire re-
ceived at the Presidency, on Friday, from Port
Louis, of the death of Sir Alexander Anstruther,
Recorder of Bombay. Sir Alexander had long been
ill of a dangerous complaint, and had proceeded to
the Isle of France for the benefit of his health;
but he expired on the lath ult. In consequence
of this event, Sir George Cooper, the junior Puisne
Judge on the Bench, is making immediate prepara-
tions
to proceed overland to Bombay by Tappet,
to fill the vacant seat of Justice. The Learned
Judge intends to leave the Presidency in the course
of the week.
Two new Judges have been appointed to Ceylon
in the room of the late Chief Justice, Sir Alexander
Johnstone, who has retired ; and the late Sir Wil-
liam Coke. Mr. Justice Giffkrd, the late Advocate
Fiscal at Colombo, is appointed to the Puisne Jos-
ticeship.
The Sheffield Iris contains several articles of melan-
choly interest on the subject of the Sheffield Manufac-
tures, and the dreadful disorganised state into which they
are fallen. It appears that a very great part of the Sta-
ple trade has lapsed out of the hands of the Master-Ma-
oufarturers into those of the numerous unemployed
journeymen; the consequence of which, in a majority
of instances, is, that the former are rapidly coming down
to poverty, and the latter to pauperism.
_The Princess Catherine of Wirternberg (wife of Je-
rattle Iluonaparte) has left the neighbourhood of Vienna.
with her family, for Trieste. pursuant to leave obtained
from the Emperor of Austria.
The battle between Oliver and Shelton for 100
guineas aside, will take place this morning 31 miles
from. London, so as to prevent intruders of dillsrent
descriptions who are obnoxious to the ring Sort be-
ing present. ATM nee are in fine trim, and betting
is even.
Two person. lamed Natal' and Mexicorsi, were lately
condemned to death at Rome for forgiug Papal teseripts.
The former has slate died is the Castle or St. Asgeim
The paaishmeat of Me:korai has bees coommted.
Last week. two Gelds, is the immediate neighbourhood
of Dumfries, pleasantly ghosted es the beaks of the
Nitb, were soil at the raw of SIOL pre me I

res AT XZWCASTLS.

i Oo Saturday even*, about half-past tea o'clock,
`disturbance took place in this lowa, of which the
particulate, as stated io evidence, are subiaucd :
.. Roger Lamas evousimed.-1 am eighteen years of
oawl pin of Robert Lawson. painter. On the night
atarilay last (ltith Deceseher). about half-past tea
ealuak. I was coming down borthemberlan4l.street.
ftkaa I saw aa *lacer near Mr. Wawa's house ill-using a
Snag woman. He bad her against the wall, with his
arms shoat her. I went up and told bins to desist, when
hi gawk sue an the kft side of the face and knocked
'me elliipa. There were IC. officers, but only one was with
the fist After I was struck a watchman came op, and
they knocked bins down also. The girl was endeavour-
' lag SO get from the *dicer, and screamed. She is a modest
girl s her sense is Lacy,Saederison, and she is a milliner.
I lolow her, but woolsd have come to the person's as-
'admit.° though I bad been a stranger to her. The
asters were taken to the watch-bonne, sod they said
thit I bad Jong very right. The words I used were,
" I think yon are using that girl very badly, Sir;" when
zlin I
4mesa
knocked
down. I was 's. for near three
ant . When I recovered myself, I went down the
sir . cad saw three officers lighting with tome watch-
; one of these was the person who struck me; I
know two of them again; they were °Seers of
deepens, from their regimentals. I s.sw one of the
pikers ttrike a watchman; it wan not the one who

.itajated nso down. I did not stop there, but went to the
.2011.1ps the Flesh Market. and got myself washed.—
) liffifr.tit see Lucy Massderson again that night. Af-
ter I ow washed, I cause into Mosley-street, when I
as. told the officers had been taken to the watch-
Loam. I went there, and saw a tumult in the theta-
market about the watch-house. The captain of the
watch called for the person the officer had knocked down.
I went in, and saw the two officers, Captain Bastard, of
the artillery, and one Richardson, a musician. W.
Turnbull, the captain of the watch, then asked what
dosage I had to make. When I charged ore of the of-
ficers with the assault, Captain Bastard asked if I would
swear to the man, and I said I would. The other officer
(mot the one that struck me) then took out a If. note,
and cold, " are we to be bowslooosled here all night by
these raggamuffins them a poisml note to drink,
and also give that young loan (meaning me) something
to drink. ' I come here to get the offi
cer punished.—
l'pon our hods refusing to take any thing to drink,
Captain Bastard took the note, and told the captain of
the watch, that he would be bail for the appearance of
the officers on Monday morning. Turnbull agreeing to
this, the Arius came out, and I was desired to remain,
till the captain of dui watch took down my name. I do
not know what the officers did after this; did not strike
the officer lint who knocked me down ; can't tell his
name, hut can swear to his person.
James Atkin, sergeant at mace.—On Saturday night
last, between the hours of 19 and I I o'clock, I was in the
Green Market on duty, when the officers were in the
watch-house. There were a great many people about
the watch-house, and I went to inquire the cause, alien
I saw two officers of dragoons and Captain Bastard
speaking to the captain of the watch. Captain Bastard
was offering himself as bail for the officers, and the hail
being accepted, he (Captain B.) desired site to clear a
way through the crowd for them to pass. I saw Arthur
Richardson in the crowd at the minor, and I desired them
to disperse; but instead of doing so, they shouted and
called me ill I then laid hold of a young man
name .I William Bong, in the employment or Mr. Mitchell,
time printer. lie said he had not shouted, and I liberated
him in oonseipience, and did not me him again.— I as-
sisted the watchmen in getting the officers througli the
oessosestAllempobe so the people in the tireen•Marliet 011
the impropriety of their conduct, whrn a stone from the
nigh swirl use on the back of the head. I weut into
Te:.olale's, the Ship Inn, for a few moments, being stnn-
nest. When I m aume oat, I met Capt. dastard, who told
me the officer, hail gone into Doilsworth's, and could
not proceed ally' further. I then went to the Castle,
and brought a serjeaat and six soldiers of the 4Uth regi-
ment who were on guard, to escort them. When
I got there, a milltitiole of people were ittrutiltuouily
assembled ;shoat Mr. lhelsworth's, the Queen's Bead
Inn. They were shouting, but I did not then hear
any improper language. (In our arrival the door of time
house was shot, hut opened when we appeared ; and the
officers came out and put themselves under the protec-
tion of the serjeant and his men. At that time .V. Rich-
ardson was in custody at Dodsworth's, and I identified
him as being at the watchbouse, and behaving impro-
perly. While I was in the act of potting him within the
rails in front of the house for protection, I heard a great
shout, and looking round, saw one the soldiers of
the fortieth regiment striking with his musket; he
bent his bayonet against the wall or the rails, and
some of the people cried out that a man was stabbed by
the bayonet ; I slid not see the cause of the ss:ldier's
striking. then went with the officers and the guard up
to Friar-street, and then left them to proceed by
themselves, returning with the guard to Bodsworth's.
They still continued so tninultunits, that I comedown
to the Mansion-house to Acquaint the Mayor with the
state of the town. There might be from three to four
handfed people, and they said, they were determined
to have blood for blmol. The mayor came up, with four
soldiers of the 40th rect. They went to the watchhouse,
where there were from 3 to 4lllt persons tuniultuousir as-
sembled. Oa the approach of the mayor and soldiers,
they hissed very mach. I was a little behind the mayor
and laid hold of one who seemed very active; he is not
now is custody. The mayor advised them to disperse,
sad told them it was a very improper hour to assemble in
such a m . They then began to sing "Scots rAa
As' Walluee bled." Not one, but the whole did
this. They then destmoded the mayor would liberate
the !my, when his worship stept forward, and said be
won not liberate any person by force, bat if any of
them had been injured, and world come forward oh
Monday, they should hare redress. They still eon-
Unwed to use scurrilous language;—do not remember
the words, but think they criesi out once " This is
Manchester over again.' —The mayor several times
advised them to disperse, and told theta more force
was coining. They seemed to hold him at defiance.
Salle more foot soldiers having come from the castle
into the Greenodarket, I seized a man pointed
out by the Mayor.—[Witness then identified Thomu
Todd, as • leader in the mob ]—Todd pressed to the
front, and seemed to encourage them. I took a die-
pods to the Mansion-house, accompanied by four rol-
-1 dears, whom I left there; did nut know the cause. I
tilled on Forsyth, and we c•itie up the street together.
Horse soldiers were then parading in Mosley-street, and
the people hissing them. I foto' I the Mayor nor the
Breen-market, where the mob had then nearly all dispers-
ed. Finding we could not get them to go away, Forsyth
went to Col. -French, and immediately the cavalry came
upon the flags, and dispersed the people in Mosley-street.
Saabs of them then betook themselves to Drury-lame, and
threw turnips at the civil officers. On being requested by
Wham, Col. French sent the cavalry, and dispened theta
there also. A number of people at that time comedown
Mosley-streets saying, " Let's go to Batesbead two and
two." I apprehended one of them, Michael Reaaell. I
bad not seen bins iti the Green-market. Whams took
bias to the Home of Correction, and ea his Mum found
the mob dispersed. In answer to a pastime witness said,
that previous to his going to the Castle, be aoesaapanionl

Captain Bastard up Moeley-street. and requested ti •
watrhnian to sr mg Isis rattlr, there 211 Mint a
eendbled near . r.

Thomas Itrown, a watchman, was in the Gre-n-Mar.
bet after twelve o'clock on Satnrday night last, when
there was a tumultuous assemblage of the peo:de.—
Witness saw the Mavor arrive, and the mod continued
to shout and hiss. His Worship advised them to dis-
perse, and then they began to sing. Witness identined
[hams. Todd as slender in the molt. Me put on' lii•
hat as if he wished to speak to the Mayor, hut cannot
tell whether he 'lid or not. The crowd set up an
" beam." Todd said to the soldiers, " rear rant: tiik.•
dose order," but the soldiers did net obey. Witness
heard a soldier say, if be had orders he would mar':
Todd.
The Mayor said Todd must he hound himself in VI.
and find two sureties in 251. each, to appear at the tett.tr-
' ter Sessions, or he would be committed.
Michael Hensel!, Thomas Thompson, and Jones,
were discharged fUr want of evidence, after a suitable
ladmonitioa from his Worship.
I 'aptain Kington then came forward, and was identi-
fied by Roger Lawson as the person who assaulted him.
Wm. IMnglas, a watchman, deposed, that in eonse-
muses of an alarm, he rime to lkissetirth's about halt
past twelve o'clock on Saturday night list, where there
was a trintultaous assemblage of people shouting and
hussaing. They were using a sdkrier in the crowd very
ill, and witness went to rescoe him. lie took him down
to the w atcb-horse, and the mob followed. Witness ob-
served Win. Hunter very active in the rrontl. and re-
quested the soldiers to mark him. He heard Itimsay.
" If all the Radicals would stand trite to me, I would
talce every b—r's gun from hint."—" Witte for ever."
—" Death or glory." Hunter followed down to the
watch-house, and still continued very active* they at-
tonipted to force the watch.house. Thee sang " gcot•
who hae wi' Wallace bled." Witeess took floater into
custody about two o'clock.
Julio Landnon !Arsine, Esq. recognised Wm. Howe •
as one of the most active in the tool,. Heard him thou:
" Hunt for erer," " Liberty," &c.
Arthur Richardson and William !rooter then entered
into recognizance' to appear at the Quarter Sessions to
answer the charges against them, themselves in :AN. eAsch,
lad twd sureties itt t3l. each.--( Tyne Mereary.)

NAVAL INTELUGEXCE.

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 21.—The Seafortli, Davies,
from Madras, sided 29th Angled ; on 15th Sept.
in lal. 23, 41. long. 91. E. spoke the ship Bombay.
from Trincomalee, for Port Jaeloon.—On the 11th
Nov. in let. 8, A. long. spoke the Aso an 1
Elizabeth), from Batavia. for Amsterdam, out it
days.—The Bengal, Woodward, from this rrt is
arrived at Calcutta.—The Calcutta, Stroyan, Theo-
dosia, hfinniken, and Marv, Kneel), sidled for Cal-
cntta, for Liverpool, on the '27th July. The Demera-
ra, M'Cluue, for liemer are, is supposed to belt near
the Seltees, as a letter, addressed to Messrs. Bolto;)
and Litticdale, marked " Demerara" Oct. 9tl:.
Igl9, per Demerara, was found in the Bannow,
Ballybague Bev, also, three hales of totton, several
pieces of wreck, and the body of a sailor.
Da tt, Dec. 22.—Put beck the whole uf the
outward-boned that sailed sesterdar, among-it
whom ale the Ida. Knits, Atieona, Ajninflnt, A!-
eyone, Ceres, Faith, Saratea, Tobago, Vansittart,
Ocean, NOrtissispiusi. St. George, Cotoniat,
Harvey, Beitaissia, !Wilshire!, Ddrt, and Atlas.—
Came ofitern from the River the Wootton, Rayne,
for Sierra-Lenne.--Arrived the Katherine Stuart

rothes, Lamb, frnm Bombay, and E7&•nfv Cori;
It.ettmirgh, from Quebec ; the latter has sailed ft):
the River.

PoitTsmouitt, lit:c. 22.—Arrivod the \antilip,
Peedless, from Mt. John's, New Brunswick ; Royal
Sovereign, Smith, from Fiume; Thomas Coutis,
llajoribanks, from the Downs, fur China: John,
Jackson, from Newcastle, for Jamaica; and Rum-
bler, Knight, for f 'epludonia.
PaNashe►:, DEC. 20.—The brig Bresies. Potter-
back, from Smyrna, for Amsterdam, came to an
anchor yesterday, near Prayer Sands, the eastern
part of this bay, in a ♦ery dangerous situation.
Sonic passengers landed at Pussia's Cave, and aro
tinder quarantine. The vessel rode with two an-
chors. and this morning some pilots having got on
board, they cut and stood to sal, supposed for
Falmouth. One of our bay boats, in attempting
to get alongside a vessel yesterday, shipped a
heavy sea, when two men were unfortunately
drowned.

RtMIIGATE, DEC. 22. -Arrived tho Voyager.
Richards, froni London, for Malta, with loss of
bowsprit, bower anchor broken, and bow stove,
having been run foul of by a vessel this morning
off Dungeness.

The John, Wright, got on shore near Flam-
borough Head on the 18th inst., and it was feared
would be wrecked.

A canons case occurred before the Edinburgh Police
Magistrate on Monday lasts—Two poetic tailors, who
had carried home a waistcoat late on Saturday night to
one of their employers, bad been so well plied with
drink by him, that on returning up the Canongete, at
four o'clock in the morning, one of the brothers of the
bodkin, more enthusiastic than the other, insisted upon
leaping over the railing of the Cattongate church-hard.
in order to prostrate himself at the tomb of Hobert Fer-
guson. the celebrated Scots poet. He actually leaped
over the railing, and pr omsuW to the vase, and had
laid himself down upon it. when he was dist °erred by
the police watchman (who is stationed in the burying-
ground, armed with a loaded blunderbuss), and appre-
hended. When before the Magistrate, poor Snip de-
clared that the whole was a drunken frolic, and
ms rely oecasionesi by Isis enthusiastic regard for the
memory of the deceased poet. The watchman, on
the other hand, declared that the prisoner might be
thankful that no one had accompanied him in entering
the eburchlard, as, under all the circumstances of the
cue, Ise would most assuredly hare fired his blunder-
buss at,them. The Magistrate advised the tailor to de-
sist from such dangerous and enthusiastic proceedings
in time comong ; and, in respect of his having been in a -
state of intoxication, ordered him to find security for his
good heloaviunr ter twelve mouths, under a penalty of •
forty shillings.--Same morning, the church-yard was
surrounded by about nine men, some of then well known
to be resurrection turn, but the watchman cocked his
blunderbuss, and declared that he would blow out Hsu
brains of the first nun who mitered, epos which thy
made off. It is understood that two or Three bodies hail
been buried there tie preceding dav ; and it is a fact,
hist the watchman was some nights before offered three
guineas to allow access to the ebafth-yard, which bt,
rained.