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valuable Piper, while, at the same time 110E0HOH.
s they were peeper, even at the enormous expellee of ROM— 'r
ii less inclined to do justice to the warmth and per. We there he irsce-CuAttcau.oa, on taking his seat this
w Were so other prospect of utility held out by morning said, that since the Covet bad last met, it
' tolerance that you have evinced in the cause of Mr. Owes's proposition, still the abolition of the had occurred to him there was an Act of Parliament
Freedom and Reform. Bet, without "wing et Poor Bates, which he advisee, would be a blessing in whit* had not been stated in
the pleadings at the
rower into a distession of the merits of hostile itself: the abolition of that grinding impott, which Her, but which, nevertheless, in his opinion, had a
. parties, it it °Woos, at least, that they have pr ea! endless. litigation, misery, end. 'nation, very strong bearing on the geestion now before the
and which irritates the man of wealth against his less
Geurt. The more he looked into the question
tie far a natpproximated to each other in political forte e countryman, wcold be a measure of great the
morello was convinced of Its very great importlance
SOilliMeat, as to acknowledge on all sides and efficient utility ; but wheo it would, by Mr
• Is every point of view, The Act he alluded to was
. that something must be done..--Seeh seems Owee's system, be a blessing to the paupers. them- that by which a passion of 50001. was settled on the
„ to be, at the present crisis, the prevailing opinion, selves, what benevolent mind would not hail its adop. successive Dukes of Marlborough out of the mo-
tion as a grand and comprehensive scheme ofgenuine
*end the general persuasion, which, its a greeter or . . nues of the Post-office. He had minutely read
charity and benevolence, which relieved the burden
less degree, mast influence the measures of Govern- every part of the Act, and he was convinced that it
on one side, while it conferred felicity on the other. had an important bearing on the question. His im.
bent. The stern champions of things as they are, If the philanthropic How.aau acquired well-earned preesion was, that the said pension was allowed not
will be soon compelled to relaa a little of the a. celebrity, by visiting prisons and dungeons; in foreign for the mere aupport of the title and dignity in an ab-
- goor of their principles, else they will be speedily climates end distant regions, and consoling the friend- street sense, but for its support in Bletsheinoloase.
I less captive and culprit in despair, what ought net if
left without either followers or support, or, what re that construction of the Act was accurate, then
he to expect, willwha make not our prisons, but our the
' 'worse to them, without the means of giving force or homes Public undoubtedly had a right to see the !lain-
and tire-sides happy, secure, and cheerful, by (ion of the Legislature carried into full effectf and
Currency to their opinions. In this view, the only providing Industry with its rewards, sobriety with
the Courts of Equity were bound to see that such
• -point at present for consideration is, what line of its blessings ; by removing apprehension, jealously, t was done. It might be objected that be was not at
'pehlkeoadect ought to be adopted, in order to re. and mistreat, on she -one side, and withdrawing liberty to state this Act, inasmuch as it bad not been
• Hese the Country Om ltis distresses, and heal the distention, enmity, and ill-will on the other. Such alluded to in the pleadings nor in the demurrer
i The Mr. Owen clearly demonstrates, by fair and learn.
i Wounds inflicted by a long end desperate war. _ which was put in to the bill, and that the effect of
trovertible statements, world be the result of ids
il his swing it would be to allow the Attorney-Gene.
' ossify in power will, no doubt, concede a little in the scheme of improvemetit ; a scheme which la justified i
i rat and the other Plaintiffs time to amend their bill.
, ~eductiots of en oppressive military establishment, and by close and accurate observation and reasoning, as t That objection could not stand, because unquestion.,
endeavour to produce some savings in the public ex. well's by actual ezperiment, successfully promoted by I ably the other side might amend their bill. The Act
pentlitore ; but, Slat ! a mere partial process of this him on a smaller scale, within his own vicinity, end igion this pension was a public Acts and therefore
1 proper to be noticed. The second ohjsction which
description, will be found totally inadequate to any s under his own eye and observance. The success of this.
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rational purpose of ' improvement or relief. The experiment affords ample room for anticipating, that - might be urged, thatthe here
1 was complaint was
Reformers, ou the other hand, have their penmen if tried on a grand, enlarged, and national scale, ' merely relative to the trees, and not to the mansion.
- seedy, their igniter& remedy for all complaints and scimitar success would attend its adoption, and a por- But this objection he was also persuaded must fail,
t . distempers in the. State, as well as for all the wants *inn of happidesa and prosperity would be realized for it *as difficult to distinguish between trees del-
and distresses of the People. They have Annual in the country even beyond the poet's ficti°lis n
g the taring the house end the house itself. Though the
- Parliaments' and Universal Suffrage at hand, pod imaginations of the visionary theorist and speculator. substance of the compliint was the Duke's impro.
with this their potent spell at their Gormand, they do LICCURtsOs.
. early cutting down trees, yet at the end of the bill
not scruple gravely to assert, that it would' remove a there was an allegation that he would commit most
load of grievances, and in the short spate of two or NAVAL !NTT L LIG ENCE. destructive waste, and its the demurrer which had
three years, restore the 'Nation to that degree of
___........-.._ been pet in to the bill, his Grace virtually contend.
. prosperity which it enjoyed before the commence- _ ed, that he had a right to do so. If it was the duty
• *tent of the French Revolution. Thus, in their of a Court of Equity to protect the timber and the
opinion, emote mechanical change, as I may call it, mansion-house, then of course the Court was equally
and indeed it is no more, io the mode of electing bound to protect all the trees which had been plant-
Representatives, or Members of Parliament, or ed for the purpose of sheltering the house. Such
. whatever new title these Delegates may happen to were the impressions which the reading of this Act
assume, and an alteration its the time of their sitting, had made upon his mind, and he must own the Act
and the duration of their power, ere to be the never. appeared very strongly to bear on the case. He
failing nostrums to regenerate the State, and revive would not, however, wish the Bar to understand
the juvenile health end vigour of the body politic.— bhp OS tither directly or indiActly insinuating that
. Sir, lam afraid that the here statement of the re. *Me impressions of his should have any weight on
merly, still be apt to excite suspicion and hesitation them. With pleasure, therefore, would he hear
its every reasonable mind, that it will strike every them argue this point, because he deemed it one of
. thinking • observer with an idea of the total in. the first importance'. With respect to the questioa
adequacy of such a mode of relief ; and that it would of equity waste, he would not hear that again, as it
ultimately prove within more than one of those far- had already been so fully gone into, and he had
famed paper Constitutions that issued from the given his judgment upon it ; but if the parties ima.
plgetwt.holes of the Abbe SIETEs; the fate of which gilled his judgment was wrong, it might be properly
has met with such melancholy elocidations in the mo- argued before another Judge. his present opinion
dery espetlence of France, Poland, Holland, the Ne. see, that this pension of 50001. a-year was granted
• therktids, Italy,and Spain. It would he another meta- r the dignity of the family of Blenheim-house, end
-4- physical Constitution, end not much better than an t for the dignity taken otherwise in on abstract
-i; ' arithmetical computation, or a geometrical admeasure- e. As the point was of superlative importance,
~ '. misfit of the coentry. Far different indeed isMr.Owen's ha would with much pleasure hear :t at the close of
' I it originates not in metaphysical specolation, in
ts: '' Pt 11 ; Cause Petitions, and be wits ansieus to have it
arithmetical numeration, nor in geometrical sea- ally disposed of before the hoitdays. He begged,
suremout. It is derived from real and actual as- s
floret that tbe Solicitor.flioseral and his Learn-
wriggle', and not from abstract theory ; it comes 'id-Coadjutors on the one side, and Mr. Bell and his
Immo to the bosoms of mess, as it has its foundation friend* on the other, would be so very kind as to
in their actual wants, habits, means, and resources. It prepare themselves for the discession. It was Dee of
is the great mass of the population that requires re- the greatest public interest.
form and improvement; it is there that the malady lies, Mr. Srocaoprow.—Then, Sir, the order for al-
and there Mr. OWEN, like a skilful physician, we. lowing the demurrer is suspended ?
ditates to operate the cure. This is the course of The VICE-CHANCELLOR.—fi is so, and lam told
• conduct that has been regularly adopted by all the by the Registrar that the Injunction cannot be dis-
great benefactors of mankind, in all ages : it is to the solved till a motion he made for that purpose. The
multitude they addressed themselves, and in the mul. order is suspended.
titude, to their honour he it spoken, to the honour
of both parties, they have uniformly found their
Most faithful adherents, and their most docile disci-
ples. This leading circumstance, while it proves
osgacity and penetration in the one party, does, in
no less a degree, prove patience and docility its the
other. For if there is a stubbornness and an ob-
stinacy in the great mass of mankind, there is also a
wonderful docility, which Dever fails to display it.
self, when the master reined,
SON, that knows how to elicit it, touches the true
• springs of human energy and action. This spring lies
tliaain themselves, that is, within the breasts of the
multitude ; it is not to be found in shotruse specula-
: lions which are quite foreign to the homely senti-
ments that operate on the many. It has beets well,
said, that a man who could make two blades ofgrass
grow, where only one was raised before, would be a
greater benefactor to the world, than the greatest
conqueror or philosopher that ever existed ; conse-
quently, he that shall make millions of blades grow
where none were before, will, if hisplons be adopted,
be ranked -among the greatest benefactors of the
human species. Mr. OwEN's principal ground of im-
prevenient is verified, and almost literally stated in
• this celebrated dictum of the masculine mind of
Swirl ; since, according to the plan proposed, a
quantity of common, or uncultivated land, is to be
appropriated to the subsistence of these new colonies
of unity and improvement, as Mr. Owesi styles
.g' them, and which he earnestly recommends. From
the industrious cultivation of the earth, has every
' *melioration of the human race gradually and regu-
Is)larly proceeded ; and to the same unerring basis must
every plan of amendment tend, and be referred. It
is tint merely in inert and physical matter, but
also in the powers and elements of the human mind,
that every thing must of necessity gravitate to thecen-
tre of the. earth, as the common point of union.—
Sir, I have this day read in your Paper, a snost ex-
traordinary account of a working man and his fa-
mily, that has been shipped off for America at the Pa-
pence of his parish, to the amount of 2001., and that
the parish was a gainer by this new mode of proceed.'
ing, and had exhibited a notable instance of econo-
my in thus disposing of this pauper, who now earns
three dollars a day at his trade. Is not this fact a
striking illustration of the excellence of Mr. Owetes
system, and of the immense relief that it would at-
. ford from the burden of the oppressive Poor Rates ?
. Mr. Overe clearly states and proves, that the surd of
.::A. per agro. will, in a 'Wage founded flu his Piaor

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DEAL, Dec. 21.—Arrived and most of them sailed
for the River—the Ann, Reynolds from Bombay,
Isle of France, and Cape of Good Hope ; Electra,
Robinson, from Philadelphia ; Echo, Miller. from
Tenerife; Rolla, Simms, from Newfoundland; Wood -
barn, late Marsh, froei Galipoli ; Defera Anna Maria,
—, from Messina ; Betsey, E►ans, from Dublin;
Peter and John, —, from St. Michael's ; Richard,
Pleskitt, .--from Odessa; and Valiant, Taylor,
from Newry.—Carne down from the River and sailed
the Adamant, John end Robert, Asp. Orpheus,
and Marmion.—Arrived and sailed the tidy Ad•
venture, from Shields for Gibraltar; Commerce,
.--•, f►om Greenock t Rotterdam; Ibis, .---,
Ifrom Newcastle for Charente; Archimedes, --,
for Spain.- :rhe brig Effort, Baker of London, from
Cephalonia for (lull, got on shore this morning on
the Goodwin Sands, and it is feared will be wrecked;
the Mester and crew are on beard the North Send.
head Light vessel, under quarantine.—Also got oo
the Goodwin Sands this oterniag, the brig Mary,
Wilson, from Ireland ter Londe, I- both hes linty
are cut sway, audit is feared site gain lost—lf the
weather continues moderate, the chief part of her
cargo will he saved.
Fivs o'Cr.m.4.—The Effort is gone to pieces.
PORTSMOUTH. Dec. 21.—Came into harbour his
Majesty's brig Rosario, to be paid off.—Arrived the
Catharine Green, Holland, for Jamaica; end Am.'
stell, Atkins, from Amsterdam for Hasaanah, and
sailed on her voyage.
PENZANCE, DEC. 19.—Put back the Caroline,
Cock, from London fur Bury; and Ann and Eliza-
beth, from London for Bristol; the latter with sails
split.
DARTMOUTH, DEC. 19. Arrived the Helena,
Scbelling, from Haveirnah for Bremen, in a leaky
state ; and the Telemschos, Kieyu, from Antwerp for
Calcutta...sails split.
Coax, Dec 17.—The Undaunted, Carlton, from
Bristol to New Brunswick, has put bark much
strained and leaky, hiving been twelve weeks at
sea.
BRIDLINGTON, DEC• t 9.—The Albion, of Perth,
struck against the North Pier, yesterday, in entering
, this harbour during a gale of wind, and stove in her
starboard.how, and shortly afterwards sunk. She
has been weighed with casks, and got iuto the bar-
, boar to be repaired.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dic. Sl.

CRIM. CON.
♦AUGHAN V. SMITH.

Mr. Pttiwes opened this case. The declaration
stated, that the Defendant made an assault *pot' the 1
wife of the Plaintiff, and debauched her; thereby
depriving the Plaintiff of the comfort of her society.
The damages were laid at 10,0001.
Mr. Serjesut COrt.IT stated the circumstances of
the case to the Jury. The Plaintiff, Mr. Vaughan,
he said, brought this action for the purpose of reco-
tering reparation in demagog, as far as damages could
go in repairing such au injury, for the seduction of
his wife by the Defendant. Cases of this nature had
been of such frequent occurrence, and had so often
been the subjects of consideration in Courts of Jus-
tice, that he thought it unnecessary to make any ge.
neral observations on their character; convinced, as
he was, that the feelings and understandings of the
Jury would soggest every thing which be could urge
in introducing such a case to their notice. He thought
he should best discharge his duty to his Client, by
confining himself to a plain and simple statement of
the case, laying before them the situation of the
parties, and the circumstances under which the of.
fence was committed. ile was quite save that the
facts which he should lay before them in evidence
would be conclusive. The Learned Serjeant then pro-
ceeded to state, that the Plaintiff, Mr. Vaughan,
wale Gentleman very well known in the musical
world, and of great talents. So far back as the
lyear 1805, he was introduced, for the first time, to
a young Lady of the name of Tetuan'. She was
then 17 years of age, of great personal beauty and
accomplishments; added to which, she was possessed,
in an eminent degree, of the same description of ta-
lent for which Mr. Vaughan had been so eminently
distinguished. At the latter end of 1805 a marriage
took place. From that period down to the time
when their happiness was broken in upon by the
present Defendant, they lived together in the greatest
possible degree of harmony and affection. Mrs.
Vaughan assisted her husband in the discharge of his
professional engagements.; and this they mu-
tually contributed to the support of their com-
mon offspring. They, had had
,several children,
of whom sis were now alive ; the eldest not
above 10 years of age. The Defendant was the
sou of a Dr. Smith, residing st Richmond, and held
an office under the Goesernatens of the country.—

The transports for the reception of the 41st regi-
ment, actually at Portsmouth, and the 4th, s'h, and
9th now at Winchesters are expected to be ready in
about a week. These regiments are all destined for
the West Indies.
Yesterday a private soldier, discharged a week or
ten days ago from the second battalion of the Cold-
stream Regiment of Guards, gave the following im•
portant information ■t the Police Office, Iletton
garden :—lle stated, that about ten or twelve days
ago he received his discharge and some money, and
meeting with two other soldiers discharged from the
18th Light Dragoons, who were bound to Notting.
barn, their native place; as it was likewise his, they
agreed to travel together, but remained a couple of
nights in town, until their money was nearly spent in
drinking, when they agreed to set oat on their jour.
ney at dusk, to disguise themselves, end rob the first
traveller that they met with, and, it necessary, to mur.
der him: they accordingly set out with that intent,
in a state of inebriety, but after going three miles
from town, it was then determined to stop the first
person they met with ; but informant having some-
what recovered from the state of drunkenness t4ey
kept him in, and the horror of what they intended to
do staring him in the face, he remonstrated with
them, and strove to dissuade them from their par-
pose; but finding they were determined, he expressed'
his full determination to have no hand in it. They
finding they could not prevail on him to' join them,
attacked him with their stick., and left him for dead,
in which state he was shortly afterwards found by a
carter, who brought him to town ; the others pro-
ceeded. The names of the offenders ere kept secret.
We understand this happened on the night Mr. lay.
lor was robbed and murdered, Limbrick the acer
is gone in pursuit.