The Statesman.
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F The celebtatted, we beg pardon, the notorious
~, Bona; the toot of M. bt Vvraou.u, and lobster
of all his incendiary Ultra-Royalist •writings insist-
' kg oo the necessary sepretnacy of the Chetah, and
. en aristoiracy of Ilse old Nibility—the religirsee defy
of paying tithes, and the right of the Nobles and the
.., Clergy Wbe exempt from taxation—this RowitoT
I) as just published a new libel, under the title,
tr Cases, partly unknown, of Me prindpaiEvente whit*
"' have takes place its France for thirty-two Years,
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•;. Jt is am infirm end undigested sollection a: calamities,
j, , directed 411 against the Government. The only part
of the work whiCh Merits any attention, and which
• will certainly exCitt it, -is that in which the author
f ' treats of fhe affair of Lyons. lie boldly ascribes the
moubles there iu the month of June to the Minister
of Police, whom he metes as the principal author,
and asserts that he intended thereby to commence '
grind revolution, the object of which
the dynasty of the Bo v seam This
ad ea a multitude of aesectines, the greater
which rest as so proof whatever. -
. Jairlast ties stirstwy *la sot t
might then have amused whom be
Government, is possessed of all 4 the facts, and it bee
documents the most autism* which prove that this
infamous oonspiriapy was batched by the Priests sod
the Ultra-Royalists, who haring resolved to get rid
of their adrerstivies, the purchasers of national pro-
perty, and Protestants, lighted the flame of discon-
tent, and by their agents LE DAUS, PUIEURI &c.
got the people to revolt, havitig previously planted
troops wherever they bad instigated rebellion, who
fired on the poor misguided people. LE DAUX was
detected in his treason, awl killed in the streets by
one of his victims. Pascua being caught in the fact,
the Prevotal Court thirsting for the blood even of its
agents, would have condemned On to death as itdiff
the poor captain ONDIN, bet he told them they dared
not, that if they did be would unfold the whale : the
threat bad' its effect, and the infamous Mitsui was
taken from the bar of the colprit'te give evidence
in the box of the witnesses. ft is, therefore, a greet
imprudence in R0111:11T to call the attention of the
Public to these deplorable, acmes. lied he consulted
General CONNEL, and many others, all pure Royal-
ist:, they would have entreated him not to raise that
veil which covered this monstrous intrigue. The
scaffold has done justice on the poor miserable hire.
lingsithey employed, and the shafta of justice dew *co
geld. that it suffocated the voice of thin subaltern
egoist& ; but the great smog are ftee-aahey;strut
about with impunity—they fill the public places, and
boast of being good citizens, "spollessßooltrig,"ind
Moir illeprodest panegyrist aiiiiirsileGovernetent of
thicrlsee they alone committed; for our part, in-
demi, we rejoice at it—the truth will now assuredly
be elicited, and we shall see whether there be any
power, avowed or 'secret, strong enough to paralyse
the efforts of the Ministry, and protect Wise titled
assassins, who make the name of Royalist a title to
commit every crime, at which humanity shudders,
with impunity. Woo be to them when the official
revelation of their crimes shall be made public— it
will be the death-blow to the pretensions of the
Ultra-Royalists—it will then be seen that this
party, throwing off all sense of shame, feared
not to push forward the Jacobins, the Bona-
partials, and the Revolutionists of all classes, io order
to immolate them all at once to their tantalian third
of vengeance, by which means they hoped to resume
the ascendant; that this infernal intrigue having mise
carried, they employed the Judges and executioners to
cut short every revolution by their agents, and bury
the truth in the silence of the tomb.
Yesterday f attended the Sittings of the Chamber of
Deputies. The report on the Law for Recruiting the
Army was brought up and read by the Reporter,Count
D'AMBRUGEAC. The French really are children in
the science of Legislation, they have not in general
the least idea of fundamental laws and constitutional
rights, and all the efforts of the sound part cannot
make them conceive any thing so sacred as a Royal
Ordwinance—all La ws framed by the National Re-
presentatives, and saismianed by the KING himself,
they count as duct in the balance when compared
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with a Royal Ovionninre, which " may and can
abrogate any law whatever." We will ask after
this, are they in a situation, or do they merit to
be free ?

of seniority Wag Um law for military
that the King alone, as till! fountain of .1i

a right to select what Officers he pleased, to

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But, to return to the Reporter of the Committee :
be took a very singular and noconstitational attitude,
and appears rather as the champion of the King's
Prerogative, then Reporter of the Committee, which
disappro►ed a part of the proposed law. What in-
explicable inconsistency It would seem, that to
speak against the Project of a Law is only opposing
the Ministry,and this gains bursts of applause, while,
in fact, they propose to reform what the King him-
self (who has the initiation of all laws) proposes to
be done. The Reporter endeavoured first to esta-
blish the " loyalty and frankness" of the Commission,
composed, as he said, entirely of military men. In
several places he had the air of saying—such a Corn-
Intsion cannot tolerate the least attack on the Royal
Prerogative. The Project of Law intended, that
henceforth is the Army advancement should take
Place as in the English Army, according to seniority.
Against this article he vented a warlike indignation,
%%I in the name of the Commission - asserted, it
Ita a crime against the king's Prerogative; to think

promotion,

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ort them wkat raitit kb plefted.
Rh Report was do sooner finished, than *boat
forty Members inscribed their Doom to speak against
the Project of the Lew, all of them MIAs, and abated'
Moen inflamer of It; ernongst who are'DE Stang,
Stowov, R, crtra) COLLAkD, CAIIILLt Jouomt,
*c. #c. The discussion will begin op Wednesday
"int. tteßeporter, quite triumphant, wont after.,,
wards to tours:se with, the Peers, who were in their
Tribunes, where he received great tentage, sod
ahuodarten of compliments. I confess '1 could not
look upon @itch scenes Withellt pity and ineffable con-
tempt. The Doke de Ricataacu was present at the
Staines.

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ref Panwit
oat of Lancashire

• OAKS.
Toles 5 to 1 apt Loth by Wasp
12 to 1 mead' II may other.
RI DOLKSWOKTEI STAKES. •
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Taken 5i to 1 apt cob by Sorcerer, out of Hoorah, Lao.
Takeo 6 in 1 apt r4l by Muitoiisy out of Lam:unite
Witch.
Takeo 1 to 1 apt Brinker to Gerry.
8 to 1 apt colt by Wax y. on• of Mood!.

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109.4 11111614 ttl tLiltttaik Aritk Nee'! Mend In:
41,111.4pw at the signet debit which COrruptine his
incited by the energy and .perstiveronte of mt.
Hots: Having made this trelearit, I beitieere
.11111:that the case of Piasbas:WAan, sfr leper
is:yper Paper a few day. am r strengly estodaqui
'4,44wits the honestitirlignagnltEihery heritage mail
Arching mind. mind. 'te itta""eila rehd * plain In.
t:idehed tale of the arliltrati itrrest find Chid
ttesl-
ef on honest, Itidastritses sans who nppeirs to
hhte been guilty of no other trine than that of bit-
ing been reipeded by his neighboareni the friend of
Parliamentary Relents. Ho had-never 'needed any
•polifical Committee, nor had ever been
alt political Club whatever. Ile • we.
his neighboors, and be was a friend to Per.
Reform—unpardonable crimes in an Goof
ties ! for which FRANCIS WAND me

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his wife and children, and a mother 00
ail depeodent on his let support, and tr..
'lootkerno dose.% *bent aims het. !learn,
ssfocated with smoke, foi fbree "oaths,
being permitted to see any person nit that
siept the Governor with. turnkey. This is bet a
small part of his sufferings, and otbess have suffered
still more. I admire his courage and self-possession
—ltis.manly spirit and noble sense of independence.
What e contrast this bumble manufacturer presents
to his contemptible persecotors, and the pious and
humane Secretary of State, Lord SIDMOUTII, before
whom he declared his innocence, and boldly chat.
lenged his Lordship to produce proof of his guilt in
any action of his life. Did this just, pious, and
compassionate Lord produce his proofs? No—none
at all, but thrust him into a dismal dungeon, a cell
for condemned criminals. I shall conclude fey let-
ter in the words of FRANCIS WARD himself:—
" After losing my seat of work—after having been
torn away from an affectionate wife, beloved child.
ren, and a poor helpless mother, all dependaut
me for support—after having been deprived of my
liberty, shut up in a dungeon, my health impaired,
and my character traduced by a vile wretch, a hire-
ling Journalist, I ask, in the name of reason and
common honesty, whether there is not some redress
for such • complication of grievances, for such mul-
tiplied evils? or whether a Bill of Indemnity, ob-
tained by a corrupt majority, is to be all the satis-
faction which I and my suffering family are to receive
for sock unmerited persecutions, and the losses we
have sustained ?"

hope, Sir, that every person who has been
imprisoned under the Suspension of_ the Habeas
Comes will publish all the i►articufars of his arrest
sad subsequent treatment, like FRANCIS WARD, that
just and general indignation may he excited against
the tyrimuical measures of his Majesty's Ministers.
Your's, &c.

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FIRE IN 'SHEERNESS DOCK-YARD.

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JUSTICE&

On Friday night, about half-past nine o'clock,
this place was thrown into the greatest consternation
by the ringing of the alarm bells in the dock-yard,
the beating of drums, end the firing of the men of
war's guns. It was occasioned by a fire having
broken out in the house belonging to the steam-
engine erected for carrying on the new works, si-
tuated in the southern part-of the dock-yard, near
the kilns used for burning cement stone. The most
serious apprehensions were entertained for the safety
of the arsenal; and what was more distressing to the•
feelings of the spectators, was its contiguity to the
work-house, which, from the pressure of the times
and want of employment, is crowded with many un-
fortunate individuals. Providenre, however, averted
the impendiuf danger, and about 12 o'clock we had
the pleasure of seeing the raging flames subdued, with
only the loss of the engine-house. No NM, it is
oodrrstoed, have been lost, but one poor man is se-
ierely hitt. •
Captain Walker, of the Northumberland, and the
Officers of that ship, Lieutenant Griffin, of the
Swan cutter, and Captain Brown and the Officers of
the Ordinary, with the military officers and soldiers
of the garrisou, assembled on Cie first alarm. The
latter were under arms the whole time, and were of
great service in keeping off the spectators. The in.
habitants of the town were at one time under serious
apprehensions, es the fire was not far from the Fours.
tain Tavern, and the residence of Mr. Miller, in
High-street. At the former, the landlady of the
house had but recently lain-in, and was removed on
the first alarm being given.
Sir Robert Barlow, from Chatham, who super-
intends during the absence of Commissioner Boyle,
was here.ostesslay., to investigate into the cause,
which it is suspected arose from carelessness. The
-damage, however, has not been so great as tray at first
expected, and which might have been but foil the
prompt and effectual assistance that was given.—
(Skeane°, Jan. 11.)

Sunday, between twelve and nue o'clock, while
the family wire at church, the dwelling-house of Mr.
B. Lancaster, No. 9, Chester-piece, Kennington,
was entered at the kitchen-door in the area, and
robbed of a quantity of plate, and other articles.
Sunday evening, between nine and ten o'clock, as
Mr. Cocks, artist, of Amelia- place, Baker-street,,
was returning home with a friend, after dining with
another friend in Alpha-row, Lord's New Cricket
Ground, they were attacked by three ruffians, one
of whom knocked Mr. C. down by a violent blow
with the fist. They robbed him of his watch sod
about" 1. and repeated their violence *hen be was on
the ground. There being no person within' hearing,
the villains unfortunately escaped towards the Re-
gent's Park. Mr. C's friend found him bilpiess on
the ground, after going to the nearest house for ase

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Mkt? file CHARCIIRY, Jae. it
'The Lord Chancellor at half. past ten this Morning,
came sate Court, end %Ostler' his pitting:. There
were s considerable nombor of Counsel and Solicitors
plants
COMIDtiOT O> foLiCiTOns.
The LOW) Cuantasmia, in the cast of Tremors!,
a Solicitor, felt Wessell iudispensibly hosed to make
tome obvereatioes, though the case had been fixed
for the first Seat. It was necessaty he should do k
no*, its order ill -oriirect any Mistekes *filch might
mist oe the question..' It was simply this—whether
a Solicitor, lo the amidst of a lawsuit, Om refuse to
Ito on, and at the same tint! not deliver op the papers
entrusted to blm for his client, merely because the
client Indebted to him. . thia point was of mouse
-lir to Solititors bat to Wt.* and
dot, - Overt to see that the
plst into hazard by the
field it therefore to be
Court could,. on any
jien on the papers,
ap nor proceed with
ter thy interests of his
it spiliner,
*Oise jaaloggavi the
(ndiapensibly bound so show
lolicitor iu the caeseF and
to show tbeth at every litsst they were reqeited. It
an enquiry was found necessary Witte the. Master,
the said Solicitor was boutsd, if le did not give op
the papers, to attend every meeting before such
Master with the papers at his own 'speech but he
could never be
.presunied to have a lien of
such a kind as was alleged. This was the rill* of the
Court, and to it he email peremptorily adhere.
Mir S. Roariu.Y.—My Lord, no !slime call in this
case attach to my Client, he having no such intention
The LORD Camecsr.t.ots.—Certainly not. 1 don't
say one word *spina him, nor should I be justified
in so doing. What I Mean is. that the practice at
the Court should be understood both tor the betsefit
.of Solicitors and suitors.
COURT 01' ft ifir'S 13F.NcH. J4Le. 14.
JAMES BEVERIDGE V. JAMES COLLINS, Tudiroki Pettus,.
LEY, &SALES PUGIISLEY, AND - It.%HMT.
An action for • prosecution for perjury malicious-
ly instituterli and without reasonable or probable
came. The declaration set out the indictment, upon
which the Plaintiff had been acquitted its April last.
Mr. SCARLET; in stating the case far the Philos ifft
said that his Client, a most respectable surgeon in
Neogate.street, complained of one of the most
grievous injuries it was possible for a man le.society
to sustain ; his character, hitherto unitspeached, had
been assailed, his personal liberty put I. jeopardy*
and his peace of mind destroyed by a pending prose'
cution, for which prosecution there eziited neither
reasonable nor probable cone, and for which' the
malice of his enemies was the ouly foundation. The
case was complicated, and might occupy mach time
both in the opening aud.the proof. The Gilt Defoldaht,
Collins, was an attorney; Mr. T. Pughsley was
also in the profession; Mr. Charles Pughsley had hems
a surgeon in the country until his bossiness *as one
prosperous; Mr. Hardy was their intimate friend
and warm coadjutor in this tong:kW* the object of
which was no less, than by attacking the respectable
character of the Plaintiff, to defeat his claim upon
the estate of Charles Pughsley on his bankruptcy to
the amount of more than 50001.: they hoped by
threatening to hold him up to the world as infamous
and perjured, to frighten him into en abadonment,
not merely of his legal claim, but of his reputstion
and his honour. the Plaintiff was the owner of cer.
bin premises in Islington, which had been let to a
person of the name of Weaver, a floorscloth Wino.
facturer, who deposited the lease in the hands of the
Plaintiff, as a security for certain advances. At
this period Charles Pughsley entered into partnership
with Weaver, who bad pretioesly bees connected
wish a Mr. Lerner, and in order to enable Weaver
to continue the concern independent of the debts cot
tracted by him and Lamer, the Plaintiff bed gives Vs
Looser a guarantee. Soon afterwards the *hole con-
cern clime into the heeds of C. Pugbsley, end the
debts affecting the premises were transfered to his.
Weiver was declared a tank, opt, and Mr. Beveridge
of course was celled upon to prose his debt against
the estate ; and it then became a question what se-
cuticles for it he had in his hands. Medical meth of
all others, Were lent acquainted with law proceed-
ings, especially of this kind ; end a Mr. Coote, by
whom the Plaintiff was professionally assisted. ad.
vised him to prove to the amount of 3871. 17s. stating
certain securities ia his, possession, consisting of an
assignment and certain bills of exchange; but he did
riot include in that file k bill of eschew for 2001.,
d awn by Weaver pits, a Mr. Chistily, and endorsed .
to the Plaintiff. Vietnams for the omission wait.,
obvioes and pro"' since the Plaintiff did not held
it as a security for a debt due from Weaver, but in
consideration of the gusrantee given to Looser against
the claims 'of the joint creditors. Mr. Coote prep
pared Oki deposition of debt by the. Plaintiff accord..
jingly, and bl'airore to it before the Commissioners
on the 23d of Decembx„, 1915. It was upon this
deposition that therperjlity upon which the Plaintiff
had been acquitted *as assigned. Pugbsley was not
more successfef at ihe floor-cloth-moo.
factory than Weaver, his predecessor, nod the whale
amount of the deiri interred by him to the Plaintiff,
by he/ own admission, was mere than 60001. He
was art-reed at the suit of the Plaintiff in September,
1816, and a Cimmission of Bankroptcy was bleed
agaisat him on the 25th of the following month. The
first meeting was on the 2d November, and there Mr.
Col!iiis, the Defendant, appeared as the attorney of
certain creditors, and resisted warmly the chiles of
the Plaintiff, and Gaily succeeded in indecing the
Commissioners to refuse the proof of the debt. Mn..
Beveridge in consequence declared his resoletiewto
present a Petition to the fiord Chancellor. To defeat
the effect of this application was the thief 'object of
the prosecution, the drat hint of which was given.
(though not ofiderstood till afterwards) in a letter
from Conine, who had prevailed in the appeintment
of assignees, and of himself as Solicitor under the
Comnsitsioo, to Mr. Coots, who .had acted as the
Attornwy for the Plaintiff. It contained this sentence
We now, for that and other weighty reasons,
muss' to kite* whether year client would be will.
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ne to the Minister SPORTING INTHLLIGENGE.
e principal author,
thy to comatose. a ATATEMENT OF THE ODDS ON THE DERBY AND
which was to expel OAKS'STAKES. 113113.—J•ts. 14.
DERBY.
romance is fouud• Tette; to 1 art seittyllrvihe, nes of Allegretto. .
rob by Waxy, not of Nlibfraia.
the greater paw *Comex 1,411:: ft*► wearer. eat ..( ifornhY Lass.
la tha mpg* • 15 tit I art colt he Wits%, oat uf Ringtnol.
Waco 111 la 1 atsc aflutter to every.
fffettid, and he: to 1 oxst vat by Selita. out of Parasol'.
Takes 17 to 1 test cull by blaratiaa, oat of Lancashire
pleased, bet now Witch.
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anefuna ell client eas Indebted to hint. . Thi
i b member of importbaomis *pt only to goileitor
„vested by It *se dia beauties d.ty of the
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P C"r•P'cl i Itet
,bo Sollettor •r this (
dragged from piiiibst lied '4o\:
years of age, tips! 4ro To
thrust into • the 0. toatici.nelri
to 6e trille(Ell
avant need;. -••
to diet'
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that time, ea- every pipet to ' thb