The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-02-07 00:00:00

. THE STATESMAN.

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given the most serious consideration to the objections
of variance urged by the Traverser's Council. In.
(Iced, he said, the Judges had given the point refer-
red for their opinion, such long and serious delibe.
ration, it was that which had occupied their attention
until that hour. He did not think it necessary to
occupy their time further, than to inform them that
the Judges were unanimously against the objections
offered on behalf of the Traverser. He thought it
right to say, that Judge Mafea was not present, as
Is in the country.
The Arronmex-Ggxecte said, that he had some
,mportant matter to communicate to the Court, if.
it were not otherwise engaged. In the case of the
Kl4O Th KlawAN : as he found that the Court
wonld not sit on Wednesday, and that Thursday
Lad been appointed for the trial of Lord Fist:ate,
he would thee move, that the verdict, in his case,
should be set aside on the collateral issue, and that
Mr. KIRWAN should be brought up to-morrow for
judgment.
Judge Dae.--Is not the Traverser entitled to four
days, Mr. Arrotortx-GENERAL?-11e is, my Lord ;
but, as Wednesday is an idle day, and Thursday be.
iog appointed for my Lord Ft: wails trial, he said,
be believed when he offered what he had to say on
that point, that the Trave er himself would acquiesce
in his proposal. He did not intend to offer any ob-
servation which might appear an aggratation of the
Traverser's offence,or to call for any severe punishment;
he would go no further than the justice of the case.—
The Government of the ceuetry had taken into its con-
sideration all the merits of the business, and they were
stoi.tied that enough had been done to satisfy the
ends of justice and the public at jarge. It was the
earnest hope of Government, that enough had been
done to restore peace and public order in the country.
lie bad great pleasure, therefore, in stating, that as
it was not at an the intention of the Government
to act with any degree of severity, in the present in-
stance, and lie would net proceed with any other
trial for offences committed against the Convention
Act. It could not enter his mind, for a moment,
that all those Gentlemen who, he was persuaded had
honourable and legitimate objects in view, would
encourage proceedings which had an evident tenden-
cy to disturb the lower orders in society. The Go-
rernmeet was satisfied that every thing had been
done which was necessary to satisfy the suds of pub.
justice;lip and if any person, mistaking that spirit
of lenity and conciliation, which it than displayed,
for any other feeling, should be found hardy enough
to transgress the law, he would find the strength and
firmness of Government would be exerted for his
punishment. He concluded by observing, that the
Duke of Itacestorte's conduct had always been that
of conciliation, and that his Majesty's Government
felt that the object it had in view would be more
effectually accomplished by a lenient than a rigour.
ous conduct, more particularly as no malt could now
plead ignorance on the subject : both the law and
the fact having been established by a Jury.—Mr.
Gone asked him, would he enter a noli prosequl
in the different cases ? he answered in the affirmative,
and that he had not leisure to proceed In the At-
tachments against the different Printers until to-
morrow.

The great length of the Parliamentary Debates,
and other important matters, have hitherto prevented
m from adverting to the proceedings of the Meet-
ing, held last week at Lincoln, upon the subject of
National Education. it seems that it was matter of
astonishment at that place, that the Bishop of the
Diocese, who, in coajunetion with the Lord Lieu-
tenant, railed a Meeting of the County, did not
attend. But his absence was surety less a matter
of astonishment than that he should have been made
a Bishop. All Cambridge would probably laugh,
were we to assert that it was in consequence, either of
,ritraoidirtary piety or extraordinary talents, that
the mitre watt bestowed upon him. It is very
well know. that his benefactor, the late Mr.
Pirr, to whom this Bishop was first Tutor and
then Private Secretary, never pretended to piety ;
that he despised all talents but his own, and that his
science was confined entirely to the tactics of both
!louses of Parliament, the muster-roll of which he
"Ad perfectly at heart : Dr. PRETTYMAN, it is well
known, was the Private Secretary of the First Lord
of the Treasury ; and it is also well known, that
Private Secretaries arc to First Ministers what
Towyseao, and the other coafideutial gentlemen in
)low-street, are to the Police Magistrates, and'
know to a :tied), every gang, and every man in
ach gang. What pretensions this kind of know-
kdge can give to lawn sleeves, we are at a
Toss to conceive, though we are tolerably well
read in Church History. But that a man should
hare been made a Bishop for having officiated, first
as a preceptor, and afterwards as an amanuensis and
runner to a First Lord of the Treasury, is saying
little in favour of the established religion, and does
not appear to be the most orthodox way of support.
ing it. We know nothing of Lord Baowymow, who
opened the ball, and apologized for the absence of
Lis Colleague, who ought, as a Bishop, to have takes
the lead in a matter so intimately blended with the
duties of his profession, and that had for its mewed
object no less the salvation of his flock than the eel.'
tiration of their minds. The Lord Lieutenant of the
1O qty appears on this occasion to have been
a tool or instrument in the hands of this extra-
o.dilary Right Reverend Father in God ; and,
to repeat a melancholy truth well known to all of

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US) this is net the first babbled in *Neil a Layman.
has been made the catssepow of a Print' A meeting
summoned by the Lord Lieutenant of the county)
it was thought, would give it an eclat) and ensure it
a full attendance. The signature of the Bishop Could
not be pro forma, for his name is as unimportant as
it is in itself laughable. It can, therefore, be only
considered as an Episcopal Mandate to the Clergy
to attend, and those who are not deaf to their
interests, could not avoid hearing the Great TOM
lof Lincoln when he tolled ; the signature of
Lord BnowNLow was meant to assemble the
Laity. The whole of that' day's proceedings have
a curious complexion.—A hue and cry has gone
forth in the country that the Mother Church
in danger. In 1807, the clamour was levelled
solely at the Catholics, in complaisance to the
faction in power, who first raised the cry against
them. In 1812, it is against every description of Dis-
Senters; and, the Clergy of what we think is called
rather profanely, the National Religion, as if Eng-
land had a God of its owu! are all of them roused
from their love of titles and of the chace, and are
now wonderfully active in rallying round what they
have so long neglected. They have started
Doctor BELL, a. very deserving Clergyman in.
.Dersetshire, against JOSEPH Lancar.-ca.—..-116-
gotry, assovidear lise nano of oseheam, ftepplikk
the former. Liberality and benevolence sustalor
the latter. The Quaker, whose religion, stripe
of all the buffoonery as well as all the hypo-
crisy of priestcraft, is a voucher of his integrity,
has been accused by the clergy of having purloined
his plan from the Churchman BILL ; and really the
fate of this Dorsetshire Parson appears peculari!
hard, for Doctor Jvireen, it seems, also-stole thk
idea of Vaccine Inoeulation from him, trumpeted
forth its virtues, and bamboozled Parliament or
of X 30,000, for what never cost him any thin]
more than the mere writing of puffs and paragraphs
But to return to Lincoln, over which it is pretended
the Devil is taking a second peep. A meeting

publicly convened, at the instance of the Bishop
the Diocese, for the avowed purpose of protecting
the established religion of the country, by educatinf
the infant poor in its principles ; and it was fair to
expert that this Reverend Father in God, as he Is
kind of Field Officer in the hierarchy, would ban
been first at his pest, especially as it was peculiar!,
incumbent on him to take the lead, not only in thk
c...pacity of Bishop and Metropolitan of the Diocese,
but as the principal person at whose request
the county was assembled. Surely, if the fears of the
Bishop for his Cathedral and fat Deanery had been
real, he would have appeared armed with argument
without end in support of his Crosier. If his an aiet!
for the salvation of the infant generation had been

se tamer* as It ought to be, Ina man who is so *eV
paid for looking after it, he would have met his flock.
both old and young, ant explained to them the ob
jects for which they were convened, and not ha;
ntposPd his Right Honourable Colleague to the de-
Anon of the meeting, by making an excuse for the ab-
NOM of the Bishop, as crooked as his vision. This Right
Re►. Father in God, it seems, was prevented from
attending by the business of the Diocese !! ! Whats
will this mitred Gentleman pretend that any busi-
ama couldee more important than that of preserving
from heresy, Deism, and Atheism, the population
an entire Diocese, rearing the offspring of a nun*.
rotas peasantry and handicraft men in the Christian
religion, and training them to honesty. Long as this
Bishop was in the service of Mr. PITT, he will nc
have the effrontery to say, that any object connected
with his clerical functions, could rival this part
of his duty in importance, and especially as he
avows the necessity of such superintendance by
calling the County together. Why did he not
meet the county ? He is bound to answer this
question, or stand marked as a man far more at-
tached to the temporalities and immunities of his cle-
rical offices, than to the cure of souls. When "
has given his answer, it may not bb amiss to enquire
how it has happened, that none of our Clergy, from
an Archbishop down to a Welch Curate, ever thong'

it worth their while to establish schools for the insteue.—,
tion of the poor ? Is it the zeal modactieity of the Mir
seaters to propagate useful knowledge and piety, that
have alarmed the Established Clergy,who hitherto hat
confined their pursuits to their titles, and to runtki
ning after foxes, benefices, prebends, deaneries, slid
bisboprics ? If it be the laudable exertion, of the
Dissenters which have alarmed the Clergy of the,
Established Church, and stimolated them to follow
an example which they ought to have given, reli-
gion will owe as much to the Puritans in the reign
of Gaoanz HI. as liberty did to them in the very
exceptionable reigns of the STUART race.

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We understand that, in consequence of ill heal*
Mr. Yoaaa has tendered his resignation of the Pre-
sidency of the Board of Admiralty to the PRIDE*
Itzorwr ; and that Mr. RYDER has also tendered bb
of Secretary of State for the Home Departments tot
from what cause has not been declared.
An American Paper of the 30th Dec. says, that
certain Merckaots had presented petitions to Con.
gross, stating that their vessels and cargoes sent to
Naples, after the issuing of the President's Procla-
mation of Nov. 4, 11310, were there confiscated and
sold under the Berlin and Milan Decrees, and pray-
' ing relief. The same paper states, that Mr. POWERS
reported a Bills authorising the organisation of a
military corps of 50,000 men, which was' read a
second time, and referred to a Cetassittee of the
whole lions*.

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,oltDPlts IN coulica,
4...irdis._

SHEMEiId, FEB. 4.—ln compliance siith a Akin&
sition, signed by Merchants and other respectable
persons of this town, a public Meeting of the Inha-
bitants was called by Mr, Eadon, the Master Cutler,
to take into consideration the propriety of 66 Petis
tioning Government, on the• subject of the British
Orders in Council respecting Neutrals, and the East
India Company's Monopoly."—That Meeting was
accordingly held at the Town Hall, yesterday, in
the forenoon. At an early hour, howeter, the Hall
and the passages leading to it, were so crowded with
company,. that it was found necessary for the Master
Cutler, as Chairman, to adjourn into the lower
Room and the people assembled in front of the
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X. Wit 4 wee the Trade of the Bast India Company limited
to Ns sap.l7 tithe United Kingdoms with the prodacts datum,
Dowel, -NI the Indian Pesin.ula, and certain existing restric-
'lofts and privileges abolished or insdilled,_the vast Sellof Asiofa,

NAVAL iN7`BGLi6iENCB.
PcittismduTni Pic 6:
tailed die PoLaden, 74 gum; Captain Jackie,' (Carotid,'
resford, M. P. being at the Masai df Callismons) ; and the Ye:
'mashie, 74, Lieutenant Jeremy (Sii fildm6 Popham, M. P;
being at the Home of Cciniotous); to illtiCkade Cheiburgh;
Arrived the Peacock sloop, Captain Peale, fain a crude
and the Camden; Captain Stevenson, frdwi Seaford:
Salkd the Yeagenr; Captain Thant MOH** Ilitieria, 38
guns, Captain Ilawkiw, for Plymouth ; and die Crane sidupi
Captain Hayden; on a cruise.
Went out of harbour the Aveaget, and Nimble dater;
FALMOUTH; FLII. 41
Atrited the DOtterell sloop 6( War troll 1J tad, with dig=
patches; she sailed pridr to the lierritig schooner, which arrived
yesterday, erinseqiientiy brings no firsts meal.
Sailed the Darlington packet, Capts Hartey, itidi Mails tat

Other hand thereare several not namjd Who assuredly
would have voted with them, if they had been pre-
sent.
Major-General MACKINNON, who lately fell at the
' Ciudad

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, ---- - - i muleu sue ii.hon whom ir.n.c4-1, a_ npu riarvey, was POO LB lOr
1
ne building. A series Of Resolatiotis on the two subjects in- ! the 'Windward Islands: Prince Ernest paeket, Petre, with
is cluded in the Requisition,together ts ith a Petition to the Mails for the Mediterranean ; Lady Arabella packet, Pdteitsi
ed Prince Regent,were proposed by Mr. T. A.Ward, sup,', and Duke of Kent paCket, C.mtesworth, with Mails fof tisbon ; , ,/
be ported in an able speech by Mr. J. Bailey, and Car- I Orion, Rowe, for London ; Severe, Truett, for Watetfeld t
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lit vied with acclamation by the audience. Two amend. 1 Adventure, Amos, for Biddeford; Henna, Mooting, for user
meats, contained in an anonymous letters which was , sey ; and a Sett of colliers for Wales:
is-take appointed The Speedy packets Capt. Sutherland, is to I
.., handed to the Chairman,being read to the Meeting,were I
so moved and seconded by two gentlemen present, but , the dell Mails to the Mediterranean' and witi bd rnadY far sea '4l 1
about the 7th Inst. -
g- rejected. These Amendments, as far as we could
YARMCIfiTit, Fri. d.
ed 1 understand them, proposed an adjoernment of the p
re discussion of the 66 Orders in Council," on the "lid die
"66
sloe
" war' CaPtaia 'fildatPidas ad a
cruise. 'le • '
ground that Mr.given notice a mo- Brougham had of
lt' .Affived the Hearty gen-brig firdra ditto; and females in Bid ' • -
Lion concerning them in Parliament; and of the disc Roads his hiejesty'l ships Soiebay, Starling, and Thrailser: ' b
a cnssion respecting the East India Company's Mono.. !YEA L, Fee: 6: ~ g
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in poly, on the ground that the Company were now Came dews ffom the River the Tale 'relate, tort, foe • i: : 1
ii- making arrangements With Government for the sure Naidlas and **main' with his Majesty's MP, East add Welt Ins
its I render of some of the powers exercised by them in I diameai mailers' Ilad_.
_aillici" The .__ .natintli bduud age. :" Pre-
ss 1 their territories. With regardTo the tatter we have 1/".64°'411 bi1t..:1"7 *VP's` aliaamait "'ell 1.4164' alai°
.ow fair, looks as a it would back la &psi* ffebs the *estward.
Ipt !nothing to sa having no knowledge of the arrange-/ COWES, Jan. 6: ,
ments alluded ; but as to the first, a more urgent
A- reason for present public discussion of the Orders in Tbe clutward.bouad maim for Portugal and the klediteria,
mean, have made the signal feYtr 'anise. , , •
1, Council could not have been Produced, than that TORBAY, dee. s. . • 1 '
.ed those Orders were speedily to, be discussed in Parlia- Sailed yesterday the Loire frigate tae Pittway& t Said thb ' '. • :
he went, for thus alone can the Members of the House morning his Majesty's ships Aboukir, cootheriaass and Fawn,
rie of Commons be truly informed of the sense of their , k .
for their station of the Bass Isles • I
Constituents, on a subject extensively affecting their - - .
he .
ed interests. It is indeed very probable that the majo• Disc maRKE7S. . 1
rity of the People and the majority of their Repree . lk
CORN EXCHANGE, taw/. ' '
tut sentatives may decide in direct contradiction of each Ilse motet this day he, bet thoet Nth mayhem or Wheat. eat v . ' '
tig other on the wisdom and efficacy of those measures ; not mach of remaining suliplket all (*Mete** a small is- .
hs, 'but this only furnishes an additional argument why 1 vizstee 1 price-BarieLlikewise,asel in short sup itrais-Mread
eas nearly at t quotation-Grey aad
.itthe former should appeal to the Prince Regent for sort rather dearer-We have also scanty supplies a Oats, and '
1 i
-- relief from a grievance, which, by his single word, 1 saki la this trade readily obtain the Prices quoted-Phase MY j I 1
is at Meader* advauce.
might be redressed to-morrow. Wheat 661 90i 108 s I Tick do. (new) . • iti S 4 ##, •
of The following are the Resolutions which were Finediuo ll2 118 Do. (Flat Old) .. 55 55
ng passed almost unanimously :- Rye 5O 56 1 Oats 9O 94 38 ;
Barley 42 52 Poland do.
74 8682 rrp:otredz.::...,
.€8040„8849 • ?
ng I. That the vast wealth, power, and prosperity of kind mak
doss have been owing, is a great degree, to the enterprising ' White Pees (boilers)
to spirit and persevering filmdom of the British Merchant, which . Gre„ 40.
aby establishing valuable foreign markets for our Manufactures, kea'ai i . 5853 "88 I keeFillealaFkl"!..,.... "La 95190. 1.1
- have called into action the native talent and Industry, improved ' ••'• • " • •
re the coaditioti, and 'screwed the motivation of the people. '
11. That we cannot bat contemplate with the deepest concern SMITHFIELD MARK E7'.-Fes. 1.
ly the present state ottbe United Kia~um, the unusual number of , To sink the Offal, per slime of 816.
he Bankruptcies, the depreciation of tie Currency, the rapid : Beef ....3s. 2d. to 65. 2d. I Head of Cattle this iley I
decrease of the prosperity erne Manefacturing Teens, the great I Mout a ..5.. 0.1. to 64. 94. Beasts
e, number of workmen now destitute of employuseat, the continual Veal ....7s. (id. to 4. Ud. I /beep .......s;..••• 3,720 • ' I
, increase of paupers, the miserable conditi lon of the lower classes Pork ....6s. OA. to 7s. 4d. Calves ••. • ,: ~ lOO
s'. in general, and the numerous difilculties Yet maaarramments Lamb ....os. ud. to os. od. Pie.
he which impede the operations of the me ead manufacturer. it A Y-M Alt K ET.
i
111. That these alarming evils have ari •,, great micas* Hay
en from the lon of some important branches • :ell port tide, Straw ...
!
particularly Met with the (Tilted States of cs„ the larszt Clover -51. Os. Od. to 61. 0.. Od. 1
its and most valuable market.or British in, $ -
ty Country seer ponemed, a whic • ..., . •,• 11 ett hat the Island of Java Is fobs/ i
- prived by certain regulationells. , . • ,
to rally known by the naase :• i -"-- ' placed ou tint matatintlO7 '-
1.1 li
...i,
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fit eaeace of whieb,tho . ; -
.. • , .
%e imponatioa of British • .
IL, iv. Yttampre these Orders evea se - /11111 Letters y. y from Gibraltar, of the 16th Ilk. ~• .i ,i 0 0
y wool dlipy depriving her of a mar . , - , turn tate, that ch had entirely disappeared from 1 *
,b ' onsideraile proportion of her capital Agri- that neigh. , . ,
! t• ,
,
iv culture to Manufactures, cut of a most • . of
, British commerce, and groduall.• create rival By the Eh sehtioner, arrived at ratan:l4i ,
! 1
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le- to this Country, in the great maims now .. • Co.. from St. Mjcha we learn ;hat the Island of 916.
Lb- it :f South America.
it v n.eThat thestierlin Decree did not materially . brine had disap .1 leasing depth of water sullia
Olt with tbe United States, which was never more cleat for any yes a pan over, the place where it •i
when the Orders in Council were issued; and it abed. •
om our naval superiority would not oily have secur , ad.
vantages of that trade, but that a considerable , ' Some accounts represent MARWOWE as advancleg,
it
' tinental commerce might inve bees Fest ed, , . ' laR and the private adtices from Oporto of the 24th, , . I
Si- the Enemy's Decrees,isy the activity mid e rri . trait, corroborate this statement. " Msammer (say they) •
: assisted by British capital, and protected ; rit • i
Lllg VI. That the Orders in Comma. so far ace - la.- is coming up by forced marches; General Don.. l
of tended objects, have been productive of 1°- sums has left Salamanca to join Miassorn, and
smad of forcing a trade to die Continent o ~ rope, e
ISO- aided the operation debt French Decrees soled • „ great events are on the eve of taking place.-
:,.., it-they have, by Varian arm+, draws ,
... Coin • lion General Hsu. has been ordered to join Lord War.-
this country to the Coatiocat, induced cry
ext r_Y, LINGTON immediately, and a general battle is shortly
his and unfavourable sines ef exchange, sad - h es ui
sot British
the License systero, a panne injurious . . rah in of expected."
24n British Commerce, sad &lefty crass 1 hectic • The statement that eleven Areericau vessels have .
ni ; •
tad venkoce of the enemy. been sequestrated in the pores of France, by way of . 7
VI I . That manikins ef the Decrees , the 1,
art of the British (Mumma ought to ' to retaliatiog for a decision of Judge WASHINGVON., is
I._ and particplar laterals et thh swestry . and that eentradicetd by the intelligence we have received he tinuaace oT pernicieuesed dleinsetive should ,
by peed upon die will mid )nneee at the ; and as the . through the medium of the Americas Gentlemen, •f ; '
1 ;perky slam Revalue fslatimately_
_ thine • ho left Paris on Thursday last. It is, we believe,
j
sot mere., a conelderable dimisides Or the lie Income may .
pected sleuld sloe Orden le Council . numbed. orrect, that six American ships, which had been . l ,
• .l
his e: led,
'That as many valuable markets been lately WA t I oder process, in the French Courts of Admiralty
.1
as- as, it becomes more peculis.rly lin porta to pieserve that . - -
rriliyo tawndo
Milan Decrees.
Dhaecvereebse.en condemned, under the 74'' '
, America; and the revocation el the Ordst. in Council, by .
l. l
:le- Trade to the United Stated/ and theirs with .
inarke it would promote the ymere of American •• In our List of the Minority on Lord Moaerrit's I
he debts to Merchants, facilitate ov cofuutunicatioa with . . tion, there were several important mistakes, which
Ire the Cesehteet of Europe, to Mate to Ili Al s.mount of coin l' ; , • ;
awl be im rove the rate of foreiga we gee, revive our 1,: . . our duty to correct. Mr. GEORGE PONSONBYII,
,I 1
onl deellendesmeds res, sad glee employteen . and cola- ether for Cork County, and Mr. FREDERICK Pon. ,: ~.II 1,
3be feet le Illatinstes. who now languish. ~
i-- teas a of Wenre, poverty, distms ' ' Ts Member for Galway, were by mistake both , X '!.1! ;
• o
uc- U. net Awl various doepesee d hefo rliament, it 0•,.. • • though in the House clarinet'. wheiedebate,
,i
M. atibilatda"ellitil if
6b6.
clirdieica"l:thenalitergungiei aFno4' ev"tinti'tigs notin
heretoforetheMi 1 1
hat sad valuable partnovr Minority.
foThrtheeliCaontlioAliNctlClßtiEeS7
merican, ,mg tinderlkit Ts theefore tion, and we cannot, therefore, include his name
rii.,.,
are dessaded lofts( mid , that if his Majesty's sub- ' 1 I '
jects cannot haves derided they shield at mast pos. with confidence among the absentees, who w uuld
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un" equal advent A _ _ .
__ . ._.,_•*_______.._.._, Peobhbly bare joined the Minority ; but on the 1

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LAW INTELLIdENCk.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Fza. 6.

THE XING •• VIGON.
ThP Defendant in. this caw was called on to re-
ceiv the judgment of the Court, having been con-
victed at •tne last assizes for the County of Keat,
under the -following circumstances :—The Defendant
is a butcl:er at Maidstone., and he had entered into ai
contract to supply the troops in that district, withn
good and wholesome meat, from 2:,th of Sept. 1810,
to 21th March, 1811. Within this period, it an-
peared, that he had ()nee supplied the troops wilt
bed and unwholesome meat, and for this cd...tze he
was indicted, and found guilty.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL said, it would not he
necebEi ry for his Lordship to read his Notes of the
case. The Commander of the District had found. it.

to be his duty to institute the. prosecution in question;.'
and, by the verdict which had been obtained, and the
effects of it. he was happy to think the end of the
prosecution had already been answered. The ex-
pence of such a prosecution, their Lordships mug be
aware, fell heavily upon the IMendant, so much as
to amount to a punishment fully adequate to the
offence. The end of the prosecution was to satisfy
the soldiers that every attention, should be paid to I
their comfort 'and accommodation, and the*.Corn,
ma ding Officer of the District was satisfied that this j
end had been attained.
Lord ELLENsoooveit said the Court could hot
know what punishment would be adequate to,the of-
fence, or to the protection of the public against
similar offences in future,
,if the notes of the trial
were not read. .
Mr. GuatiEv, for the Defendant, submitted that
his Client having been chaiged with one solitary of-
fence,
.the eapences already incurred were punish-
, 11161111suffitieut for that of uhich he had been guilty.
Ile trusted, therefore, the Court won'd fall in with
the humane iodination of file Learned Fliend, the
Attorney-General, by allowing -the Defendant to

remain at large on his birn recognizance.
. The Arrownwt-Crsow. agreed that the justice
of the case would be best answered by this arrange-
ment.
The Defendant was accordingly liberated on his
own recognizance, to come tip for judgment when
upon.

PARISH CHILDREN.
Mr. PARK moved for a writ of Habeas Corpus to
be directed to a person of the name•Of ditch, cop-
inanding him to bring up the brills* of- nitre poor
children- hek-igint, to the pwrish of St. peorge?,
llanover-square. he moved -this under a special
Act of Parliament of the Wilt of the King, by
which certain trustees for the pool of that parish
were empowered to bind out the pariah childrro. sp.
preutices to various trades, kc. The rule c:.irdreti
In qnestion were sent upon trial for six months to a
manufacturer at blanches- r; but this. ierson be-
coming insolvent in the interim, the chi:- en bec.nre
chargeable on the parish, and the pari h officers,
without any previous intimation t ) the parish o¢ St.
George's, Hanover-square,
coming a burden on the
them off their hands. ..r.
present application was 11131
facturer, residing in Westm
srtisement, went to M;
b I the children to his
same length of time the pm
not discover what had beck
gentlemen of the parish very
their services, and went dor
their own expeace, and there
bad carried them into Westm,
they proceeded to Mr. Birr'
children, but he refused to
•return to town, the Solicitor
order of the Trustees, wrote
demanding the children haul
taking any notice of this ale
was sent, to which he returns
Yenning to give them up, on .
special vestry was held, snd
go and demand restitution of .
Birch, iu person. The messengt
but his application was as
former, Mr. Birch still persist
it was sworn by this person.
too hard worked, being ern!
tory 15 hours out of the 24 ; tl
and, worse clothed; and,
stances, the parish were compel
sent application.
Lord ELLesatonouen observed, that cei
:1‘ the work was too severe for children of that
the eldest being represented as only about 14
P 14.4 std .1416.44905bii) asked, whether
had made any claim for any expenses he _
incurred, or whether he detained them upon that
pretence ?
Mr. PARK replied, he had made no such claims •
observing, that the better course to take would be
to grant him a Rule to show cause, in the first in-
stance, to be heard before a Judge, at Chambers •
as, from the period at which a return could be ob-
tained to the Writ of Habeas Corpus, the Term would
be expired, and the matter .must stand over Until the
next Term.
Lord ELtiononounit observed, that the best cause
this gentleman could show would be, to send up the
children, and that would preclude-the necessity of his
coming up in person.
Mr. VAR& said, the object of this gentleman was
to have these children bound apprentices to him ; but
to this the perish would net consent ; and if the Court
would think proper to grant the Rule, they would un-
dertake to send down a special messenger to see it
properly seised:
A Rule to shim cause *is accordingly granted in
the terms required.
Mr. Serjeaut Laws moved for a B.sle,'calling upon
the Corporatiowof Abingdou, in Suffolk, to show
cause why a Court should not be held for thcpur-
pose of nominating and swearing in two Bailiffs for
that Corporation for rho ensuing year. The charter
under which the Corporation was formed, required
that the Corporation should consist of two Bailiffs,
ten capital, ensUasenty-four inferior Burgesses. that
• they .q...ruld psoceed to the election of the two Bai.
•This cm the 10th of September in every year,
.and'
that those Bailiffs should be sworn in before; their

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predecessors, or last Bailiffs, on the' 29th of Sep.'
tember. In the presetirtitsti•the election was held,
as true', on the 10th of September, bat no meeting
of the Corporation took pla. until the Bth day of
October following. when they proceeded to swear
in the Bailiffs, against whom this application was
made; and the Learned Serjeant contended, that
by the terms of the Charter the Corporation was
bound to swear in-the Bailiffs on the 29th of Sep-
tember, and at no other period, otherwise, as the
.Bailiffs were to serve the office for twelve months
Ifiem the term of their being sworn in, they could
not pr .“reed to swear in um Bailiffs for the next year
until the Sib of October. This therefore being
contrary to terms of the Charter, he contended
the election was wholly void, and they must proceed
to a new nomination. But ; •
! Lord ELLEN ROROUGII observing, that the words
were " to be sworn in lrfore their predecessors or
last Bailiffs," they might still be sworn into office
before the last Bailiffs, and the rest of- the Court
acquiescing in his Lordship's opinion, the Rule was
refused.

Tne KING V. WOOD AND °VIERS.
These Defendants were brought up for judg-
ment, having been convicted the Sittings after last
Term, before Lord Ellenhorough, upon an indict,
men instituted by the Corporation of the City of
London, for a nuisance, in obstructing the naviga-
tion of the River Thames at Northumberland Wharf,
by mooring a number of coal-barges beyond the usual
limits, the partice!frrs of which case we have given
given in our report of the trial.
After hearing the ArroneeY-GemenAt. for the
prosecution, and Me. PAUK for the Defendants,
'rho urged the right of his clients under a grant from .
rlhe Duke of .Northumberland, to moor their craft
outside certain boundaries. 1•
Lord ELLENBOROUGH asked, whether there wis
any objection to try that right upon an issue? .
The ATTOIOIEY-GENERAL answered, that the
Corporation of London denied the existence of such
a right altogether, and, therefore, on their part, he
could not consent to an issue.
After a few other observations, the Defendants
were discharged upon their own recognizance in
5001. each, upon the understanding that they were
to abate the nuisance forthwith, or abide the future
judgment of the Court.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Fes. 6.

SiUlags al Nisi Frills, bef,re Lord Chief Justice
MANSFIELD, Westminster.
SMITH V. PINCH.
This was an actiou to recover compensation for
damages done to, and fixtures removed from, a
Louse la••• `v rented by the Defendant.
, Mr. Seriettut VAUGHAN, on the part of the Plain-
,tiff, represented him to be the proprietor of a range of
houses lately erected at Chelsea ; and the Defend-
ant, he said, was a lady who leased one of them
Lrom the The latter was a Lady of fa-
shion lident, and had altered part of
the rposely WI accommodate her taste.
.ith a brick wall when thy

a . _w. when
is she had injured, by
fence, with which she
, she had also erected
iso by veling bricks
Ise at thiarther ei
.all likewise, all tend,
le Lady had likewise
Inds, lest " the sun
too striegly." These
)), iron clamps, which,
leaving the tenement,
led appearance. The
;lied that the marble
Ind the floors damaged,
tement. The. Learned
iient had a right to da-
itted on the premises,
;ngs in the garden. lie
of new materials, but
my might deem a suf-
;ed by improper wear
ims on the customary
the removal of fixtures,
iges ; and also on a co-
between the parties,
:essly stipulated that
should remain on her quit-

iposed that the amount
ascertained by a Gentleman
Me.Serjeant VAUGHAN IMMedi-
de Jury returned a verdict for
to die award.
P. EAGAN.
-ri bed this to be an ac-
of an account due to

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the Ant _ was a master tailor ;
Brennan was formerly ~and had been
discharged without a pi . sett it, therefore he
commencer/4h° present action for recovery of what
he claimed as due to him.
Bridget Eagan, sister of the Defendant, deposed,
that Brennan had been in her brother's employ up-
wards of two years, during which period he had an
engagement weekly, at the rate of oue pound thir-
been paid
On her
she was
on ac-
(he Plain-
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receipt of wages, a journeyman might commence
an action for the whole amount of all that he had ever
wrought for. The sum, instead of being only five
pounds, in this case, might have been as properly
twenty or thirty pounds, or for the sum total of tm ()
years' wages ; a master would be placed in a most
uncomfortable situation were he to become liable
for every sum for which he had not a written dis-
charge.to produce.
The Jury returned a verdict for the Plaintiff—
damages 51.
The LORD CUIRF Jurrice said the Jury 'night
have returned a verdict for 201. with equal proprety.

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EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE..----DOW SHAM (Norfolk),
JAN. 30. Never was the interposition of a Special
Providence more particularly exemplified than in an
occurrence on the afternoon of Monday last, in this i
town. The circumstances of the accident are as fol-
low :—A. pig., the property of a poor person, had '
fallen into a well twenty feet deep, and a person of
the name of Samuel Ilall, a chimney-sweeper, of-
feted his services to extricate the animal, and reso-
httely descended into the well, by means of the cre-
-1 vices and intetstkes of the surrounding brick-work,
when the whole ponderous mass of bricks and rub-
! bi-h gave way at once, and immured him. This
awful catastrophe took place about held-past four,
and no sooner was it known, than a vast concourse
hastened to the spot. By the assiduous and energy
getir endeavours of about twenty, actively employ-
ed, humanity was gratified, about sine o'clock, by
witnessing the object of their search extricated from
his subterranean prison, and, except some slight
bruises (the consequence of the pressure which
. hedged him in), unhurt. He was found in an erect
posture, inclined to the side, and so slight was the
injsry, that the attendant surgeon deemed it even
unnecessary to let blood ! The man was so far reco-
vered as to be able to repair to the spot the next
morning, to eye the horrid chasm. He relateP that
the sound of the several workmen above was dis-
tinctly audible; his respiration was not so embar-
rassed as might naturally be expected; and that he
was able to release one of his hands to adjust his
nectcloth, which would have strangled him, and
clear away part of the sand and dust from his few.,
which would otherwise have suffocated him. With
the exception of a short lapse of that period spent in
a kind of stupor, he was perfectly sensible. The
height of the superincumbent earth was abocit ten
feet, ay( his safety can only he phi ;featly attributed
to his upright attitude, thus lessening thi surface ex-
posed, and the loose nature of the soil al;owing, in
some measure, the escape of the air ; to v, iticia might
be added, the concave tendency the whole super-
: stratum.

IA hoax has been tdayed off -:;;.tinst a worthy Di-
vine of Plymouth, the ._:rcamstances of which are
said to he as follow : - 1 letter was received by the
141. Gent. dated fro.a London, importing to be
written by a friend of a Lady of rank, at the point
of death, who had ^ran struck with the religious
writings of the Divine, and much to have him
to attend her. It enclosed a check on a banker in
town for fifty pounds. The Rev. Gent. set off in a
post-chaise, and, on his arrival in London, drove to
tha house to which he was directed, but no ouch par-
son as the writer lived there, nor any where near;
he then drove to the banker's, who disowned keep-
ng any account, or knowing the writer. Upon this
he sent to the NobLman whose name was on •the
frank, but his Lordship had no reCollection of bar-
b'',' franked the letter. The Rev. Gent. returned to
Plymouth minas the expenses of his journey.
Jews.—A Humburgh Paper; received by the last
Anholt Mall, contains the following article :--
« We, Charles, xe. Prince Primate of Frankfort,
&c.—Whereas the Jewish Community in Frankfort
have, by oar former Decree of the 7th of February,
1811, and by our subsequent Declaration of the fith
of November, 1811, been released from the peculiar
imposts and taxations, &c.: Whereas since that time
our Constitution Patent of 1810 and 1811, relative
to the total Equalization of Rights of the Jews,
have been completed : the said Nation is henceforth
to enjoy equal privileges and rights of citltenship in
common with the Christian Citizens. All former
restrictions anti disqualifications are b 7 this Da-
cree declared null and void ; and it is decreed,
that the Israelite Nation shall have, in judicial pro-
ceeding and administration of justice, the same
rights its common with all other Burghers of this
city."
A boat belonging to his Majesty's ship Tremen-
dous, lying in Gawsand Ray, in attempting to cross
the bridge between the Island and Mount Edgecumbe,
on Tuesday Morning, was upset during a squall, and
we lament to state, that three of the boat's crew pe-
rished; the remainder, with Captain Campbell, of
the Tremendous, who was in the boat at the time the i
aosidestt 4toppessell, •woe* picked up, after remainingi

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interim, the chi',', en bec.nte
s ion and . . plishlitent, and had alt
risk, and the parr h officers,
itimation t ) the parish I St. th' . emi: =rposely tckt accommodt
, in lo .. d with a brick v
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• this she hat
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Mr. . . , =menial fence, wi
- sen behind ; she had
s made, •- -. ottwi-man i '
,an tof s Asio :, fixing it also by rell
Vestmortan.-.. ad seeing t •
... sd a wash-house at th
•n Manch. and' c 7• ;ie from
ed into the wall likew
his own factory. For I, had
• premises. The Lady
lie pans t. Veorge could mg
I fix es for Venetia! less
i beco . them, until tvroi blinds,
sh very atit•ly volunteered 'of should visit her face too stri
lit dow o Manchester, at w ted with the wall by iron ell
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1 there learned that Mr. Birch w ved on the Lady s leaving t
' 1 Westmorland ; from thence , hole front a mutilated apps
!fa .e t also complained that
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r. Birch's, aml demanded the I -e„
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dto give them up. Ott their' eth .labs re chipped, and the tit
aC 'tt Plaintiff's stateent.
solicitor r Sec St. George's, by
coot ed, that his Cl ant had
wrote a letter to Mr. Birch,
or th -injuries committed on
it back ; but Mr. Birch, not m
as the re vat of the railines in th
r
its application, a second letter
ed no e total value of new n
aturned a peremptory answer, '
r verdi such as the Jury migh
p oss an a
y terms. Upon this a
t price for materials damaged by it
Is sod a person authorised to
ear. He fotintled his claims on t
ion of the children frotn.Mr.
slating laws venous of the remov
messenger accordingly went,
ordering a r air of damages ; and
s as fruitless as any of the
ant express! ' ntered into between
persisting in his refusal; an
herein the Pla iff had expressly sti
erica, that the children we
11 improvements -hatever should remai
g employed in the manufa
ling the premis
24 ;that they were badly ft
Mr. Serjeant • Ernesto proposed tha
nd, under all these circu
of the damages mild be ascertained by
e compelled to make the p
of the Court.
at observed, that cerfa To this prep 1 Mr. Serjeant VAUG
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were for children of that
. atelyconsenlikl nd the Jury returned
lit,od as only about 14 . ..'slthe Plainti • subject to the award.
p asked, whether Mr. :; t ! DBE NO. E.tGAN.
. any expenses he might ate! Mr. Sestraat Su described thi
he detained them upon that tion to recover 51. balance of an at
1 the Plaintiff.. The fendant was a a
to had made no such claims • I Brennan was formerly his journeyman,
tter course to take would be discharged without a proper settlement,