The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-06-29 00:00:00

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CORM EXCI/APCGE, Juss 29.—1 n consequence of sa-
perabundant supplies of Wheat., and tie lavoarebi.,,,,,
of the weather, a very great depression in sales has taken
place, and what trilling quantity Arai gut oft to-.!ay was
at a decline of 2s. per quarter trout Munolay's prices in
the finest samples: but there was not the least e maw',
for the inferior qualities.—Barley supports Monday's
prices, haring but little at market.—Toe Oat trails was
very IseAvy, and rather lower, having but few bayers.—
In BEA:Stand Peas no alteration.
Sussavtr.t.n.lt.inaitT, JCSE 29.—There was a t
supply of Lausb and Sheep at market this morningl-11,te
in Beasts the supply was short, and the prices for good
Cattle was the same as last market day. The inferiot
sorts were lower in price.
(To sink the offal ; per Stone of Sibs.)
Beef ... . Ss. ed. to Is. gd. CATTLE AT ELAREET.
Winton.. 3s. el. to ti. 0.1. Beasts
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4,31
Veal .... 41. ed. to Is. id. Calves SW
Pork .... 4s. ed. to be. 4d. t Sheep and Lambs
Lamb— . 4s. ed, to is. ed. I Pills

NAT APP swaaw ism LOAD.
Hay —.II. 101. to 41. M. 1 Straw Os. to U. NI.
Clover —IL Os. to Si. Os. 1

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OtitTLINIIN.—Ie the last Sessions of Parliament.
. ronhernits Petitions on the part of die Agrieritturists of.
treat Britain, stating their diminished resources, and
yndiminished burdens, were placed on the table or the
lionse of Commons. To these no attention was time
aid. In the present they bate bees renewed; die nom-
• 1 er and respectability of the Petitioners, at length, saw
'riled attention to them ; they were referred to a Cow
tiny". but under most inauspicious demolitions;
:insisters declaring that they had no remedy to propose,
and protesting against any interference with the Re-
venue or the Currency.
Before that Committee, investigations have taken
p'see equally tedious and fruitless; and 1 now con-
ceive it my thirty to submit to my constituents, and to
Thom who confided their Petitions to my care, my
,aeons for dissenting from the Report of that Cpl.
":tee.
First, I most express my regret that so mach valu-
able time has been consumed in hearing evidence to es-
tablish that which no one bat his Majesty's Ministers
. appear,* to donht,—the degradation of every species of
produce, and the stagnation of the borne
enarket consequent on it. The general distress bein
admitted, indeed proved beyond controversy, it did
...cm, of course, that some remedial measures, either as
'to the present or future, would have been proposed by
the Committee, for the consideration of the logislatare;
and that Parliament would not have been suffered to se-
parate, without attempting some alleviation of, or future
-o-curity against, the sufferings of the Empire. Instead
tit this, it seems the country is to find consolation in an
ately prepared treatise en the alleged causes of this dis-
tress ; on the advantages of an approximation to a free
trade in corn. We are told too, of the existence of si-
milar distress on the Continent; of „the Farmer's corn-
pined of low prices elsewhere, and of farming to a loss.
rrom such statements I derive no consolation; on the
....meaty, they must inspire fresh alarm ; and, under
•lech circumstances, it is difficult to ascertain what
ought to be the amount of protecting duty which the
British farmer should require.
The unparalleled difficulties in which nor country is °
involved, his Majesty's Ministers have been pleased to
attribute to over production. advance of rents, change
of ramie/al, inadequate adjustment of price of wages
aritl Of materials, and to large importations in 1817 and
and in February. 1819, of foreign grain; en-
tirely overlooking the main and overwhelming source of
our distress—Taxation.
That an extraordinary supply of wheat from Ireland
of the crap 1820, has taken place, is indeed true.—llad
the prosperity of Ireland kept pace with this increased
export of grain, we must Weal! rejoiced; buil verily
Relieve, that this has been woe thQhmoseesults of her
distress, The decline in the price of live stock has
led to the ploughing up some of the prime pastures.—
instead of an indication of wealth., this must be viewed
as rather a proof of her increasing poverty, and of the
necessity of adopting measures for the protection of
her live stock as well u of corn.
In our own country, we see that the augmented dis-
tress of the working classes has driven numbers to a
!etaetitution of food of inferior quality, which checks
considerably the consumption of that and of animal
fi ue!. To the enormous importations of Brain during
tke periods when our ports remained open, 1 do indeed
e...crthe, in a considerable degree, the present dep d
mate of markets. At the time of the harvest. 1439,
we had on sale probably not laps than melee hundred
t ousted quarters of foreign grain,—not less than an
IP!, of our consumption for twelve months : though the
et essities of our country did not require, then or since,
a bushel of it. To this superabundance may justly be
eteributed a great part of the depreciation of corn, and
evr consequent misery. If effectual means be nortaken
to prevent the admission of such overwhelming quanti-
ties of foreign grain as have been accumulated by our
arts being closed,—if ever admission be given to
ft:reign grain, whilst our Agriculture remains burdened
a- it is nt present,—the British farmer must give np all
competition with the importer, even if our rents were
rut out of the question,—and our system of Finance
0.c.4 n..cessarily and speedily come to its end. I have
I:ttle doubt, six mouths' supply might at this moment
be It 141 trout the Continent, at less than half the
rt:ce nocessary to remunerate the British grower.—
ho, that has a knowledge of the state of our own
Agricidtc re, can contemplate the ports being unlimitedly
rTeneil in the introduction of foreign grain, without the
antaeleension of the total ruin of the British farmer—
s,: 3.witli I • of every other class of society ?
recurrence to cash payments has, I ilo not doubt,
lad great influence in augmenting our difficulties. 1
v however, that amongst those who have dedicated
to most attention to this difficult subject, anal who
Rase the reputation of understanding it best, there was
a rearer approach to agreement. Sonic estimate the
o'-ureciation at the moment of the highest issue of bank
v tder to have been 30 per cent., ',tilers •211, some lint
to That the sudden curtailment of the circulating
wits a precipitate measure. which ought not to
I era' preceded lint to have followed a reduction in taxa-
t:an, seems generally admitted by impartial persons.—
W ben t he ci renlati ng medium was th us reduced in m114)1111,,
nere,sity of providing for the-same weight of taxa-
tion is of itself sufficient to account for no small part of
err distresses. The money price of our Agricultural
• is reduced seventy millions annually ; the trans-
between all classes of society have been conse-
:quectly deranged. whilst the state continues to make the
te-c same, or even increased, exactions; and the gene-
t-• distress which Iris arisen, seems to have been the in-
n able
pinch are the bitter fruits of those wars in which this,
rt:•:niry was involved in the Lai quarter of the past ern-
ti.r.f.and in the beginning of the present ! For plunging us
to those wars, their authors hare received every species,
of adulation anal reward, whilst those who ante
va:.nly attempted. to ward off or terminate the evil, awe
tie, n assailed by every species of obloquy and abuse.—
hat let me ask the admirers of that system, so well insi-
wed in the present day, have they, indeed, "weathered
th storm Ph
The agricultural associations are by some persons
to udly condemned, and the country, it is said, has been
scisled by them. From these persons I completely
differ—as Ido from the Report of the Committee. In-
sti•ad of contemplating a regulated trade in grain as an
. e'dvantage, I consider it an object to be guarded against,
.rice evil only to be tolerated from dire necessity and
ss'ainst which every measure of prevention should be re-
sorted to render (heat Britais independent of foreign
simply of every article of internal produce—to the Agri-
:iultural Associations and to to the investigations set on
'Prot by these, associations we are indebted for the hi-
' qi,itic which has taken place. For the appointment of:.
taimaiittee, and the discussions which have ensued, the
ouentry is indebted to Mr. Webb Hall and his essoci-
s.ifs. trust they will not relax in their laudable en-
.-teiravonrs, but proceed with increased energy. To them
0 country owes much, and will, it is to be hoped, in-
c.ar fresh obligations. It would appear that the Peti-
t•oriersin behalf of the Agriculture interests, have been
viewed by the Committee rather as defendants than as
Ostia:Ms.—Before adequate relief and security are ob-
.;pelned by them, their auferingi will receive. I very
hs,.ech liar, not diminution ben increase. The people of
kagiatot will do well, therefore, to weigh these memo-

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320-11611011. ha Petitiona, in aMr hat
.4iift 6r rsdietiei IVIAelt, if mach longer with-
milt kW to airmaltpleuub I dread to anticipate.
The i:isid to pima! weahb and prosperity in every
mashy ls,it, ditti ti useful employment every se-
tire and able ba es,ld. To throw set of cultivation amyl
titilgoer territory, capable of Improvement, mast
lenestly deprecated, as =rut with the danger of
more widely
and
the up of she meritorious
labourer, and of, augmenting pauperism. In cases of
dire necebeity alone, when grain, in unfortunate seasons,
attains, or is likely to attain, a price oppressive to the
consumer, would wish to see admission given to the
produce Of foreign loads, and they on payment of a
duty adequate to the ditfenraceof cost at which_ grain
can be produced on the Coadnont and in theist Britain.
—To such a duty it has been objected, that the consumer
would imagine the amount was paid by him, and not I
abstracted from the pocket of the Importer. This, I
apprehend to he an error. The price of foreign grain,
sold for internal consumptisa, goveraed, as far as
competition among the speculators will permit, not by
the cost of production or of importation, bat wholly by
that of oar honse.raised grain. At the time of our
greatest distress, in the commencement of the present
century, the King of Prussia imposed a duty of ten per
cent. on all grain exported from the territory under his
control--In contemplating a foreign supply of grain it
should never be lost sight of, that famine has so argu-
ments to combat extortion; neeessity in such a ease,
is imperious, and submission unavoidable. This ought
to make us anxious to encottrage oar own agriculture,
though oar rain may be prodateed at a oast greaser
i than, n ordinary years, it could be procnrid from the
Continent. Home produce will, I verily believe, be
found, on a succession of years, the cheapest supply,
if all circumstances be taken fairly into the account.
Dining the war we had the monopoly of trade; if we
required grain, there was no hesitation in taking our
manufactures in payment. Ciremostauces are changed ;
and it by no meanifollows, that those countries fr
which a supply ofcorn is obtained will now receive our
goods in exchange, if a cheaper or better market eau be
found.

Legislation, with regard to the aJtnission of foreign
grain, I should wished to be viewed as ut expedient
not to be resorted to except in cues of pressing necessity.
I cannot, therefore, concur in the views of the Coin
mince ; nor accede to such an automat of countervailing
duty as they seem to have in contemplation when the
prices arrive at a point requiring foreign aid. 1 should
require a protecting duty of an amount to w11;%li the
whole tenor of their reasoning leaves no room for hope.
I should also require protection for every article of do-
mestic produce.—Tallow, for rumple, pays no more on
importation than three guineas a ton ; whilst on expor-
tation from Russia it is charged with a duty of two
pounds and upwards. Russian Tallow is thus, to the
Injury of our own similar produce, admitted on terms so
inadequately low, as even to furnish, on export from the
place of produce, an article of revenue approaching in
amount to our duty of import. How Illinisters re-
concile the incongruity of charging butter with 10/.
a ton, and cheese with 2111., whilst an article of
still greater import comes in one third less duty
than the lowest of these. I know not. If the pro-
tection of one species of Agricultural production is
sanctioned, on what parity of reasoning can it be wit'i.
held from all the rest?

In a different state of things the principles of a free
trade are no doubt theoretisally preferable but situ-
ated as we are, whilst every tiovernment in Enrope and
in ttnerica, will, whom we are connected in commerce.

fence themselves with restrictive laws, it seems prepos-
terous to refer to principles by which none abide. In
the period between 1774 anti Ist 1. we bail something
resembling a free intercourse in grain: during this time
certainly, our Agricultore made rapid advances, and It
has been inferred, therefore, that onr country received
no injury by it. lint this may be accounted for by the
general state of Europe, anti the consequences of the
wars, which, during that period, precluded our receiving
a quantity exceeding our real wants. Since the peace of
Europe has b”coine more Agricultural, and has
augmented her product of all kinds from the soil.
If our markets were, under any circumstances, ore to
the importation of foreign pails without limitation, I
should not doubt that, rather than not find a market, ,
wheat *mild tie dirpot,rd uj• at 25.5. e re crier. When I
the tax on foreign wool was proposed, I objected to it.
conceiving, as I then did, that our manufacturers were
able to deal with all the surplus wool in Europe without
injury to our own produce. I am now satisfied that
Spain and other countries have so greatly augnien:rd
their flocks, that they could furnish us their wool at
prices lower than the home grower could possibly afford,)
and thus leave British fine wool wholly without a
market.
I ask for no measures lint sorb as are calculated to
promote the general welfare anti prosperity of the com-
munity at large. lam ready to sacrifice any individual
interest that can he proved for the general hens tit. To
attribute our miseries to our internal increased
is prattle-
lion, to controvert one of the best established
;prin-
ciples of political economy,—for it is abundance rof
food which gives importance to every other description
of wealth.

Rents have certainly risen since 1;96: in tirany cases,
competition may have carried them intinitely too high ;
hut it is invidious, as it is unfounded, to represent this
as the principal source of our distress ; great deductions
have been made since Hl4. and are daily making. What
was the state of the country at the period of this rise ?
Our National Debt, in Dull, was undet 300
total expenditure, 15 millions ; amount of poor duty,
little above •2 millions. in IM2I, the Debt exceeds b6O
millions ; ex twittlitnre, Ignorer', 60 and 70 anillious ; poor
rates, S millions and a half. If rents and farmer's profits
are to be reduced, so as to aupport our Agriculture with
present prices, itarnmenaii sanguine enough to imagine
that faith can be kept with the public caeditorl One
third, nay, not notch short of (Mahal!, stater strhole pre.
duce is now absorbed bZ 1 fur, tyiliesennti taxation.
Um it be iniagineel that iy.any amens II& mote than a
third can be permanently exacted.
The price of materials employed by the farmers, and
the amount of wages paid to the labisurer and the me-
chanic, may not yet hr reduced to the standard which
his profits will enable him to pay ;—wben that reduction
takes place, it will not he of less than one-fourth on the
war prices. Such an arrangement will break in still
.more on the comforts of the labotuing, and middling
classes, whilst it angmeists, relatively,. the advantages
enjoyed by the Fundliolder anti the Servants of the
State;—their dividends and salaries being received with-
out deducti..a.
From the Censmittee which Las just finished i fa-
it •
boors, I did indeed tApect a recommendation of the
immediate measnres to obviate the evils that might by
possibility arise from an inundation if foreignirrain, an
case the misfortune of had seasons shook ! olive' us to
open our ports. I diet look also fur protection of aU
other articles of domestic produce.
The repeal of the Agricultural Horse Tax is not a
boos to which the country has any ohligatioas to the
Committee: they owe it to the feelings of Panituornt
fur the distresses of agriculture to which Ministers hare
the credit, after being beaten, of yielding with a good
grace. Hisappointe4 as the farmers %sill he in their ex-
, pection of relief and protection for agricultural pro-
tium—all classes of the community are deeply inter-
ested in the prosperity of agriculture. On this, is my
view, depends the comfort and happiness of all persons
in the United Empire.
If protectissu to all agricultural produce is Dot to '.w

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meted, the t.otty most then direst its views to dot
only alternative,lihiele is, N eat dome nor establish)
meats; coorrart the seals of expense nt home sad
abroad ; dentolbdt all useless pieces; rodese the asessent
of salary paid, from the Cr... to the karat dicer of
the State; and mill on the hided Proprietor for his
contribution of a fair propordos to the exigencies of
the State. These sources of relief seem Dot to have
hen hitherto. In the very least, is the contemplation of
Ministers. Pertinaeionsly they have clung to the esti-
mates for the year, made under a completely different
aspect of our public affairs.—To one or other of these
alternatives we most resort.

All I have asked on the part of the Landed Proprietor,
Palmer, and Labourer, is that equal justice be dealt to
all. If our respective incomes are to be reduced or an-
nihilated, if we are to descend in our rank in society, if
we are to sacrifice respectively out comforts, let not this
depression nor these sufferings be confined tu this or that
peculiar class, but let it be common to all.
Whether the views I have taken of these important
subjects are just or erroneous. you and the public must
decide; of the honesty of the intention, I trust all who
know one will not doubt.

1 hare the houonr to be, Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obedient servant,
Cavendish-square. London, J. C. Cuawax.
June IS, le.l.

CITY BCS [NESS.

A Court of Common Council was held yesterday at
Guildhall, in consequence of a Requisition to consider
the propriety of rescinding the Order of insc►i`ing the
Resolution of eh. lady of July last, respecting &WHI-
M:Bg a military force during the meeting of a
Common Hall, under the statue of Mr. Alderman
Beckford.

In consequence of the continued indisposition of the
Lord Mayor, Sir Claudius Hunter was appointed [wine
trisrms, and presided accordingly. The Court was fully
attended.

After some usual business had been gone throuzh,
and Petitions for Leases referred for eiatuination, the
Requisition was read.

Sir C. licx-rEst laid before the Coma a Letter from
Alderman Bridges, addressed to the Lord Mayor,
upon the subject of the Requisition, which was read.
In tbis letter lie solemnly asserted, that it never en-
tered his mind that the livery of London conhl he in-
duced to encourage or promote a breach of the public
peace; but he believed that a large body of ill-disposed
people would have-assembled without the Ilall. This
motive, and this alone, had induced him to take this
step. Whether thisrotirse was ju.licions or injtolietott,
he would not now discuss, hut he contented !aims..ll
with declaring, that he bad no intention whatever to
overawe the livery, or to do any thing repugnant to
their feelings. His only object was to prevent ti'
peace of the city cram being disturbed, and to guard
against violence and toinnit.
The resolutions of the lilth of July, 1!12.0, and the
10t11 of May, were then read, after which,

Mr. Ohtot.im opened the business in a speed. of
cousiderahle length, in which he called to mind a few
of the circutustauces of the case. On the 30th of
June, 1920, a Common Hall was held, and on that
day the offence imputed to the Alderman, of exiling
in the Military, was committed. On the 13th of
July the Court pissed an unanimous Vote of Censure
on the Aldermen, which he (Mr. Oldham) bad the
honour to second. The subject slept until the 19th
of October following, when the notice of a motion
was put on the paper for inscribing the vote under the
statue of Alderusau lleckford, and on the 29th of No-
comber following, with this notice of • motion in
their face, a Vote of Thanks was passed to Alderman
Bridges, for the firmness, zeal, fidelity, and assiduity
' with which lie had discharged the duties of his office.
No opposition was offered to this motion by Mr.
Foveli, who had therefore acceded to it, and it passed
almost unanimously. This ought to have been the
time, if anv, for making any farther objections to the
Iconduct of the Alderman. It was trying him twice,
anal punishing him twice for the same offence, to bang
up his nag • • the hail as a mark for posterity. He
concluded thing upon the Court to rescind the
lorder of the -.tort of May last that had been obtained
by surprise from a thin Court, and by so doing they
would not sacrifice one iota of public principle.
Mr. Jeer seconded the motion.
Mr. Alderman C. SMITH implored the Court to pay
sonic respect to their own Vote of Thanks.
Mr. SLAPE opposed the motion, and said that Al-
derman Bridget' friends were obliged to admit that
he had shown himself unequal to the occasion. He
had in fart betrayed a degree of timidity and cowardice.
—(Cries of No, no: and Order!)-11e meant Consti-
tutional cowardice. The speaker proceeded to con-
trast the conduct of Alderman Bridges, with that of
the present Lord Mayor, who rejected the offer of a
military force on the occasion of the Queen going to
St. Paul's, and protested against their introduction,
sating that he conceived the civil power sufficiently
competent to keep the peace, anal so it had proved.
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Mr. litxoN justified ti:e conduct of Alderman
Bridaes on the °coition.

Mr. 4; 4 I.LowAr, iii a long speech. defended the order
that had been made. _

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Mr. Alderman SCIIOLET supported the tuotisin.
Mr. a ttotrav explained. r
AL- TillL YLO It thought the court ought to consider
rti
that 'a tri public principle was at stake. lle con-
tended that Mr. Alderman Bridges hail been guilty of
a crest Folitical offence in calling in the military, and
he conceived the revolution which had been passed
was not too severe a isikaishment. In considering this
question, be could nut bit recollect the dreadful scene
of slanghter at Manc?)estei, ilea lie was fearful that,
unless a firm and resoltfte line of conduct was now pur-
sued, the country n:ust be again disgraced by such an-
other exhibition.
Mr. Alderman °ARRA'r supported the motion. It
was inconsitent after a vote of thanks had been passed,
to propose that a previous Resolution to censure the
Worthy Alderman should be posted in Guildhall. He
thought enough hail been dune by ',lacing the vote of
censure on the Journals.

dlr. PATTEN apposed the motion. No reason had
been gi►•en fur its support though many appeals hail
been made to their feelings. lie opposed it on the
ground of pubic prinriele: he felt that unless he did
so, lee should not be doing his duty to his consti-
tuents.
Mr. Ham' ruts asked, whether the Court would take
away the reputation of a man whose private character
could nJt be Impeached ? lie shop nisch regret
Any pet...imam ist the execution of the resolution
which be w►a tem 1. shy bad been adop•ed. He

thought onsegb boil boa ammo and farther lie snow
set go. .What were they ahem ? Why to Alai,.
respectable man of the pod nano hi merited.
• Mr. FAVILL replied, is ♦ keg attd erg
feetothie
speech. to the observation of those wise sapper tie
Emotion. He disclaimed say other motive is prossia.
the order than those of public principle. He tma
there was a growing disposition of a met dangsvek
nature, to erect a military police, which might to be
resisted with firmness.

Mr. CLaan then spoke in favour of the shotias,
Mr. CROOK against it.
Mr. Alderman WAITIIMAN considered the email
of Mr. Alderman Bridges to have been • gross is,*
upon the Livery of London, and the resolution which
bad been adopted was the only proper coarse which
could have been panned.
Mr. BROWN and Mr. CROKE* supported the motion,
and Mr. Huarost■ spoke against it.
Mr. HANIIARD opposed the motion at some kook
Mr. Etct► having said a few words, and Mr. the.
HAW having replied, a division took place. The ave.
bees were as follow :

12 Alliermen, ti 4 Commoners, 2 Tellers, I /.assns
tenena-99 for the motion...-1 Alderman, 39 ema,
wooers, 2 Tellers—ll Against it.—The %Is
therefore carried by a majority of 57.
WARD or Basersunv.—The Election fir •
Cots.
son Councilman of this Ward finished eel Weilnrstfav,
after a spirited contest, an event which has ma
curved before in this Ward for half • century.
numbers were equal until within a few minutes of the
appointed hour, when it was decided in Emmet' al r.
Lister, by a vote of one of the Co:emun Council, and
the rejection of a voter who had presented
for Mr. Hughes, in respect for who's qualification tar.
Hughes's friends expressed • decided confidence and
opinion. A protest was made on the comelasien
the part of Mr. Hughes, on the score of the illegality
of holding the Warilmote the sante day with the cow.
mon Ilail far the Election of Sheriffs; and the refuml
by the presiding officer to receive some vines which
ire contended to be good, and we understand that an
appeal on these grounds is intended to be made is the
Court of Aldermen.

ELECTION OF SIIERIFFS.-At the Blow of the Pell
vesterdar, the numbers were declared to be as follow:
For Alderman llarratt . . .
For Mr. Alderman Vrnahles . . 1311
For Mr. Crook . • 381

Abler:tan UARRATT and Alderman Vensm.cs n•
turned thanks; and after a speech from Mr. Moak:, the
flail adjourned.

COURT OF KING'S Juxc

TOE kINO r. JANE CAPI,II.E.

This morning a female who %vas inflicted last Wm%
by the name of Jane Curiae, and who then obtained
time to emparle, stated to the Court that her real name
was Susannah Wright, and that she had never passes
lay the slime of rarlile. The prosecution was for the
publication of libel : the party in question is not the
wife, bat has been understood, we believe, to be the
sister of Mr. Carlile.

Mr. Justice BAYLES' said that the het ni:itht be put
upon aGassit, and pleaded in abatement: the deft*.
dant might come up %titbit' three day,.
THE. KING P. W. H. C. MOYER, ESQ.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved the sentence of the
(-sort upon the above defendant for certain libels pub-
liaised in a paper called the Lirkttiehl Merrt.ry, on the
3d and 19th November, 1%19, Nom Sir Robert Peel,
Bart. The articles complained of arose out of woe
differences at the general election of ISIS, when Mr.
Floyer espoused the inter'? of Lord Charles Townsend
for the borongh of Tamtvorth, in opposition to that
of Sir Robert Peel and his son: and a challenge, pro-
ceeding from the same fcrtile source of dispute, passed
from Air. Peel to the present defendant, and was the
subject, some time back, of application to the Court of
King's Bench. Ju+lgnien!. in the present adieu, was
suffered to go by default.
Affidavits were put in un both sides.
The Soutrroa-flexe.:ab, in aggravation, adverted
to the rank and character of the party aggrieved.
Mr. SCARLFIr spoke in mitigation.
Mr. J. WlLLtams was about to follow on the nee
side, when
The Loop elllrr JUSTfer, beine obliged to qnit
the court, directed that the matter should sized over
until Monday next.

BOW•STREET.--Yesterday Hcury Jeffery, the Coach-
man to Ronald George AltDonahl, Esq. of Charles-
street, Berkeley-square, seas brought to the office, el a
warrant, charging him with a breach of the peace aad
a violent assault upon James Whitehead, coachman
to Mr. Butler Danvers, who stated that he afedled
up and was proceeding in the rank to enter the gate to
the court-yard of Devonshire-house, at the grand en-
tertainment given by his Grace yesterday se'saight,
when the prisoner, who was not in the rank, lowa
leis carriage to break it, to enter the Court-card lII'
We Mtn, and in ende:tvlsoring to do so, both car-
riages got locked logether that they could Got move,
sad one of Mr. Danvers' Isorsws rearing np and Wing,
he fell on some spikes, and they entered his body ender
his shoulders. His screams and cries were most dis-
tressing. He gave another spring to extricate hew-
self from the spikes, which be accomplishes!, bat OIL
and shortly after expired. lie was himself knocked
otf his box under the coach, and had the rarrialre
been able to proceed, in all probability he would have
been killed on the spot. The prisoner Sogre.l
bu
horses must desperately, and persisted to do so..altboork
he was called to and informed of the consesteetter•
In this statement he was confirmed by a helper in lb@
Duke of Devonshire's stable, the :coachman aid feet'
man of the Dowager Countess of elonntell sad Lid!
Charlotte Pindar. "I he prisoner found bail to take
Isis trial at the Westminster Sessions. His tracer.
Mr. M•Donald, war one of the bail, and W. Baxter'
the coachwaker, the wiser.

MARRIED.
Oa the 48th inst. et Camberwell, John Jolly, }Ng- If
Upper Delgrate-place. Pimlico, to Miss Rraysiser. of Dl'

DIED.
At Rosehall. N. U. ,n the 10th curt., William Mear)4o`
dener there ever since 1747. lie attained et lean t 104: yi.l
in spite of this extraordinary longevity, he reserved th
ut tie N"ll
till
use of all the faculties. and was able to silk abo
within a very short period of his death.

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