The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-02-24 00:00:00

DR. O'MEARA.

I pever read the Doctor's book; nor any book, made
gp.of accounts of what took place at St. Helena. I newer,
upon any occasion, referred to any of these accounts.
thought that none, of them were to be relied ou I care
nothing about, or, rather, I greatly dislike, all the par-
ties that had any thing to do with the imprisonment of
Napoleon, wbo was, to all intents and purposes, a pri-
soner of war; and, I'do not forger, that, in order to
send him to, and keep. him in, St. Helena, two 4c16
Parliament were passed! No man can hold in greater
abhorrence the treatment of Napoleon, and all those
who had any hand in it, than I do. But, l never would
read the Doctor's book. I should now leave the tikc!o-
sure, made by the Quarterly Review, to find its way, or
not, through the world ; but, in an article in this paper,
ahoot three months ago, I said, that I heard it talk.el j
all over the country where I had been, which was ve. v
true; and, as this remark of mine, may have tenti,i, in
some small degree, to give comtenance to the book
(though I said that I had not read it), I think it an set
of josticn to the public to insert, in this paper, the article
of the Quarterly Review, to whiCh article I have jrt
alluded. I shall do this to•morow. Wm. C.

STOCK ESCHANGE, HALF•PAST TIVIILVII O'CLOCK
The revoking the order which prohibited the transporta-
tion of Arms and Atnnumition to Spain, has creates! a
lively sensation in the City this morning, and all parties
are now of opinion that war is certain between Prince
and Spain. In con•eynence of thin, Consols opened at
733, at which price they continue. A great deal f
business was done in the earlier part of the nanroing:—
The Expresses from Paris bring the. French, Feeds 79.,
89, and Spasish 37. Private letters from Palls seem
to treat the English interference with Spain as contemp -
ible.

Fulmar/ MARKET.—A great deal of business bas
been done here this morning ; mostuf the parties aching
Spanish Bonds.
MILK/I.—New Spanish, 3d—Old. 19—New Prussia.
74-01 d, 791—Danish, 75—Neapolitan scrip, 87—Coloui-
hien, tat—Spanish Scrip, 341.

French papers to the 221 instant bare arrived. These
of Friday do not repeat the account that appeared in the
Etoiie of Thursday evening, of Bessiere's being in f tree
within 10 leagues of Madrid, neither do they anoonnce
any change in the time appointed for the departureuf the
Duke of Angouleme to the army, though private letters
say that he would quit Paris sooner than was Lary Sx-
pected. The same letters assert, that the Frenchbech
ration of War against Spain would appear in a day or
two, and to this expectation .and the sailing of the Brest
Feet was ascribed the recent fall of nearly two per eent
in the French Funds. These Funds had 'risen oh Wed-
nesday to Sif. tic. and afterwards declined to 19f. 40
The Cortes and the Spanish Government are repre•ereed
in other., as having adopted measures whieli ccrild only
proceed from a consiction that hostilities were ruit
only inevitable, but- declared; for, after loosing a
I tor to authorize the issuing- of Letters of marque,
they are said to have instantly carried its provisions into
effect, and to have issued not less than forty of those Let-
ters io various individuals, who proved that they had the
means of fi.ting out one or more vessels as privateers.
The commanders of those vessels, it is added, were n t
merely authorized to captnie tliose. of Frame, but those
Irsaring the ti et! of one of the Powers wh, are in a 'tale
of hostility with Spain." This statement is increilib!e;
but another report by private letters respecting the deq-
filiation of the Brest Fleet, is much more probable. it
is said to be destined to idt.ttek.Cisdli, sorl.that that city
being unprepared for defenceolvild easily be taken by
a coup delnaia. •

L'Oou pipets itaveltreiled this mottle?, tite-eentents
which stre''bigisly lisportint.- In the .sitting of *the Portu-
guese Cortes on the 10th, Sig. %lours rose to riale a mo-
tion, which. the Assembly revolted with acclamations Should
be immediately read, and which was thus prefaced: " Ac-
cording to the accounts which we hava.juat received from
England, it seems beyond a doubt that. the French Cuti•
net assumes a really hostile attitude towards Spain. The
speech of the King,at the opening of the Session,is very clear
Whatever meaning, mere or less extensive, may be given to
it. And can we suppose that this war, 'being made Realest
principles, it is cot made directly against Portugal, when
Portugal has adopted the same Principles, aml:ltbOsfeJ.
together with Spain, to destroy absolute poetrro.qd eon.
•solitlate the system of a moderate filouarcla wjeb a Con•
stitutiun and national representation? Whe cast !oppose
it! Unly he who Who purposely •rhUts hit
eyes. It is therefore necessary that the true Portuguese
patriot should consider as themes), to their itislitoLoss.
and Consequently of independence, the.tirst Frctleu
soldier "rho shall set his foot on the *Outh-,rids' of Mt
Pyrenees ; aid in this case itisimperlottilinteeseiry sot
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ink' to org-aviise the forces neeesiary four our defence, but
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• 11., netber the Cortescan,be informed bow far q
jrisw'oplefeusive alliance with Spain is adginced„.,and
141,490 Ka tt obataelesto its final cooransios.
Tbrei.otbev foists were submitted for cousideratlen,
atm the promotion of the mess vigorous system of de-
opera, sed the Committee was regigred to give its opinion
riLoieCortre on these (and any others which it might
Judge propel) in an Extraordinaty Sitting, within three
days at the farthest. r •
. The hoeoumble member, proposing that his wietieit
ihould.be considered as urgent, was supported by above
two thirds of the members, who rese at once : it was
therefore read a second time—and the mover supported
it in a speech, in which he observed, that though. the
•daneer seemed remote, yet it was proper to think of pre-
poring against it while we have time to consider ma-
turely. It being resolved by above two-thirds of the
Assembly, that the motion should be immediately die.
tuned, it was resolved to refer the motion to a Special
Committee.

In the same sitting it was proposed to suspend the ex-
pedition to Bahia. The Assembly resolved not to put
this proposal to the vote. A proposal for raising fresh
levies remained for the second reading. In the same
sitting M. Joao de Oliveira, after showing in a toil. ao4
animated discourse the impropriety of regarding the
Hessian provinces as in rebellion, read a long motion,
tending to the renewal of amicable and commercial rela-
tions without loss of time.
In the Sitting of the 121 h, hl. Manoel de Macedo
brinight forward a motion which was referred to the
Committee appointed to consider that of M. Morera, to
the effect that all commanders of the four military or-
ders, should give up to the public treasury three parts of
the net produce of their commanderies ; tbe ecclesiasti-
cal corporations three paets of their revenues; the Bi-
shops and Archbishops the excess of their revenue above
four contos of reel, &c.

,lew York papers to the 2d of February have been re_
ceited this morning, by which we learn that the British ship
of war Cybello from Jamaica had arrived at Currocoa on
the 22d of December, on her way to Maracaibo, to
claim the British property that had fallen into the
banes of Morales. Morales, it appears, bad on the 25th
of November, defeated the advanced posts of Torelles,
anti al the 2d of Dec. occupied Coro. General Bolivar
wai at Moorpax, with only 1000 men to defend it. The
Fort of San Juan de Clloa, had surrendered to Iturbide,
and tl.e Captals-Oeneral of the Fort had arrived at the

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Satcplay..ahout a quarter bo3fore one o'clock, his Ma
jesty kit Loarlaa.for Brighton.
On §itnriliy morning, Count Munster, the Llano.
Milan Ambassador, hid a long audience of the King.
`Sataidai, at half-past twelve o'clock, Mr. Jackson ar-
• rived 'ita • a thai.e and four at the Foreign Office from
Madrid t he petf.ormed the journey in between nine and
ten days : he lett England for Madrid about a month or
tiva weeks since, where it was said be went upon a rpe-
cis! mission.
The new Ambassador to Vienna, the lion. Sir Henry
Welletley, will appear in a style of unexampled splendour.
Twenty of the finest horses are to be taken, for whom the
. • must antoptuous housings are preparing. State liveries,
• nearly covered with gold laoe, are in a' state of forward-
ness.
Lord Amherst, the new Governor-General for Ii mdia,'
. ' left rutin on Wednesday morning for. Portsmouth, with

• .. ilia suite,
.Yemerday morning deepitches were received at the
Foreign Unice, which were forwarded to the King at
• Riigliton,
Sitorday, at two O'clock, a Cabinet Council was held
•et the Foreign 011iee, which sat till near half-past five
The Attorney-tieneral for Ireland wos in at.

sendooml- •
Devitt. &g tax EVENING.—This morning arrived
:at in early bow Mr. Jackson, the King's messenger,
• '-with 4esplitches from Madrid. He cause over in a small
• fishing vesttel hired for the purpose, and immediately set
„.:olf,in.aehaise and four for London. We understand that
at,she time of his departure from Madrid.tbat capital con-
.
tirfued to:anvil, and that he had orders to spare nu ex-
' • pintse in' facilitating his journey, as his despatches were
highly important.
• Mr. Canning entertained to dinner, on Saturday, the •
Spanish Minister Admiral Jabat, the Duke of San Le-
ila°, the Earl of Liverpool, the Doke of Wellington,
• Mr. fluskisson, and a distinguished party, At his resi-
dente, 'Gloucester Lodge.
• fVe bear that, in the House of Lords, this day, in addi-
tion to the questionsof the Marquess of Lansdown, touch-
, ing our-. foreign relations, another subject is likely to
attract the attention of thir Lordships—namely, the pre-
of the Hereford petition by Earl Somers, who
•thrl.ins to disclaim that part which reflects upon Ministers.
A warm debate isospected.—ln the Housed Commons,
. Mr. kl•awnlow is expected to present the remaining one
..91; Om two doses• petitions remitted to him from the
egoism of Armagh,. respecting the establishment of the
ideptuts in Ireland.
• iof a private letter from Madrid; Feb. 13.
• The -ClovernMent yesterday presented a memorial to
she Cortes on the relations of Spain with the other
'Powers of F:urope, stating that they had taken such
Jilts -sues as were in their power with the view to the
anpratehing invasion of France, which they deem inevi-
.l4le, and .submitting to the Cortes the expediency of
adepting'snehjurther measures as they might deem fit.
!fife Mitworlal has been referred to a commission, and it
is stippOseil that tbe !nether mrasnres will result in the
rensOvid if the King and Royal family to Seville. I t is
.soppased4bst Mr. Jackson is the bearer of the Conven-
tion ea the Btitish claims for the lessee of the ship-
,owne ra. , . -
Yam lbe sicasats in Madrid papers, which have ar-
rived le ;he 4th instant. it •is evident that the story in
tbe.Cltra Journals. of Hessieres having become more
fortnidabli, is altoeether Wray. It appears he had
• ahindened tinete, after spiking his artillery, and is still
eltrigitlvecclosely planned by the Constitutionalists.
• . thesi4etnens, we understand, have been handed to the

• _Mayor orthis Borough who has been requested to trans-
.snis.thetuto Mr. Peel, the Home Secretary, io answer
, .to this question—, What is the present state of trade and
inicolos roma of the Working damsel ?" it is proper to oh-
'
&brio, thsi this distress is produced more by the .preya-
lenet:ohtlarhinery than by any general deficieuey of la-
. yoar, thowly, within the last three months, there has
'beeo a number of other perions engaged in our mann-
, factories; is Bell a• ortizatut, out of employment.—(feeds
Mercury) • P • • . .
ph Mundiy 4iss,ltetr-Adsuiro/Siri. P. Deresferd, was

elected to represent the town of Berwick in Parlinntent, ye.•
• asslbtlits ileilovel of Loyd emulsion to the upper house,—
• 'At OA. 'wit as 'titer onclidair, the election wet tpu{u.
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%figslas, Feb. 22. 1E123.
Snt,—To doJostice toyottr peysevering efforts to cause
redaction o feaposditire antLto expose the jobbing be-
longing to that expenditure; to do justice to these efforts
no one has been more ready *au I have. Bin,Slr, fro.

that which is reported as your speech of Friday last, I
am satisfied, that you will much more than render those
efforts ofno nse tothe nation, if yen act upon the 'decla-
ration contained in that speech. I have looked at all the
morning papers, and they air agree in the substance.—

The words of the Chronicle are these:—
Mr. House—He could not sit down without stating, that
" nothing would occasion him greater regret than to find a
`• majority of that House assenting to any proposition
" which would rob the public creditor of earn a shilling of
" kir demand; and he thought that his Majesty's Ministers
" deserved Me thanks of the country for the firmness with
" which they had maintained its faith with the public ere-
" ditor. The cause of the rata of many Slates had been
" the violation of/aid& with their creditors and he trusted
" that we should never imitate such en example. He was
" as anxious as any man could he, to affor.i relief to that
"branch of the community which was now so much din-
" tressed, but he could never consent to it at the expense of
" the public faith."
Taking you to mean, by public faith, that paying of
three for one to the fandholders which is now going on,
and finding that you thank the Ministers for this confis-
cation of the property of the land owners, farmers, la-
bourers, and country tradesmen ; finding that you thank
the Minister: for this, I must conclude, that the money,

that you want to save, you intend for the Jews and job.
bars; and I, for my pact, would rather pee the labour of
the ploughman mortgaged even to Parsons and Sinecure
placemen than to the grasping, villainous Jews. The
farmer will,in all probability, spend in England what they
get. The other wretches rake it together to lend it to
any despots in foreign countries, that want it, even to
make war against England itself.
_

The funding-system is the great root of all the tor.
roptions, of all the loss of liberty and happiness in Eng.
land, and of all the English feebleness which is now about
to put Spain into the hands of our old and bitter enemy.
And, you being such s desperate supporter of this all cor-
rupting and now confiscating system, any thing that
you rosy do in the way of lopping off expences, 1 can
look upon as proceeding from no other motive, than
' that of taking from other branches to give to this
branch, which is already the most mischievous of the
whole.
In short, if the gold payments proceed, there mast be
an open division : the land and tabour against the Jews
and Jobbers. The ploughman's labour is now as much
a subject of confiscation as the estate of the Lord. 1, for
my part, am not only rot the friend, but am the enemy, of
those who would beggar the villages, in order to enrich
this Jewish Wen; and theme persons I regard as ten
thousand times more the enemies of the country even
than those who support the expences that you would
curtail: the latter may be profligate; but, the former are
bard-hearted and malignant as Shylock himself.
You are pleased, it seems, to assert, that you know of
many states which have been rained by what you call
robbery of Creditors," and what tee call an" equitable
adjustment of contracts." Would you be so kind as to
name to us any of those states! You may, to be sure,
call Julius Ccesar,Colbert, Charaillard, General Wash-
ington, and Count Metternich, a parcel of fools, and tell
them to " take their change out of that ;" but, I wait,
Sir, to hear you name one single state that has ever been
ruined, or even injured by a redaction of the interest of
its public debt.

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I am, Sir, your most humble
And most obedient servant,
Wm. COBBETT.

THE PETITION OF MR. THOMSON,

TO THE HONOURABLE TUB COMMONS OR THE UNITED
XINGDoM OP GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PAR-
LIAMENT ASSEMBLED.

The Petition of Charles Andrew Thomson, of
Chiswick, in the County of Mi
Most humbly showeth,
That your Petitioner has, for many years past, paid
large sums of money, out of the produce of his industry,
for the support of the government and laws of the country;
that he has always been taught to believe, that, in return
for this support, he had a right to expect from the Go-
vernmentand laws protection in the rightly enjoyment
of his property ; but, that, he has, by that government
awl by those laws, been despoiled of his property, and
that, from a state of opulence, he has, by the unjust effects
and irresistible force of Acts of Parliament, been reduced
to a state of ruin and bankruptcy.
That your Petitioner imputes no intentional wrong-do-
ing to your Honourable horse or to any branch of the
government; that to err is not to be criminal that it is
not given to man to be free from error; that from error
wrong may innocently be committed ; and that of that
obstinate perseverance in error, which converts nnin-
tentional wrong into premeditated injustirc,your Peti,ion-
er confidently hopes that, he is not doomed to witness
at instance, in' the conduct of your Honourable Hone.
That your Honourable House has not now to be in-
formed ot the mighty mischiefs resulting frait the mea-
sures for returning to caSh-payments, unaccompanied
as they unhappily were with israsnres for rectifying con-
tracts ; that the cries of thousands- upon thousands of
families, suddenly plant .:d into penury and want, from a
state of ease and of plenty, cannot fail to have reached
the ears and to have awakened the compassion of your
Honourable House • lint that, amongst the thousands
upon thousands of sUff,rers,your Petitioner believes, that
the case of few can exceed, in hardship and injustice,
that to which he now most earnestly begs the attention of
your Honourable House. ' •
That your Petitioner and his Father (now deceased)
were Oporto-mercbants for thirty tears, and in the most
extensive trade; that, in this trade, and in that of Wine
merchant, in which your Petitioner's Father had been:
for many years previous to those thirty. they gained a
large fortune; and that in 1811 and 1812 tliey; with a
pa:t of their capital, made divers purchases of land. •
That they purchased the-estate of Northaw, iva Hert•
fordshire, for which they paid, id ready money, 82,1100/.
on which estate they both two excallent new boosts and•
xis cottages, anf broke op 200 acres of land which they
broughtinto a state of fiee•enltivation; that the whole
of these improvements cost them 10,0001.; .and that the
estate, therefore, has cost them 72,000/.
That in 1812 your Petitiorier,and his Father bargained
for the estate of Ponrryla; in Herefordshire for £60,0001
the proprietor of which estate -was John Ashfordby
Teen bard, Doctor of Divinity, of Higlaworth, in dal
county of Wilts, and paid £5,545 loom!' as a dos
posit. That the title was by the I,w adviser of your P..
titioner deemed not good, sod that your Petiti-
oner accordingly rotated •to templet, the purchase,
itstlinonght aft action- lot. the iefbsit.- 'That the render

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lopfdird tor flowehart of Clishoaty *la? theist •
That the question remained undweided in thatPourtialltil
411§. during which tinte_eour Petitioner had .'not the
power to sell the estate. That at the end of that period
the Vice Chaseellord►cidd against your Petitioner. That
there was then doe to Trinchard for purchase money and
interests thereon, £71,957. 19s. 541. and from Tread).
It'd to your Petitioner for rents received .C 6,939, 1.. 9d.
making a balance against your Petitioner of .C 65,119.
17e. Si.'
That in the mean time your Petitioner bad experi•
enced great reverses in his commercial affairs, in cintse-
Tient* of the fume all-ruinous cause, and, being tumble
to pay the sum of X 65,118. 17s. rid. gave to Treachard a
mortgage for .C 65,9191 on the estates of Ponttylu and
Northaw.

That between the year 1819 when the Chancery suit
was decided, and July, 1821, your Petitioner paid in part
of the Debt of £65,000 the sum of £5,000; and £B,OOO
interest on the same up to July, 1821.
That on the decision of the Chancery suit your Peti-
tioner was put into possession of the estate and continued
in possession until he treatise Bankrupt, during which
time your Petitioner received on account of rent and tim-
ber, £3,410.
That lu July 1821 your Petitioner ()Semi the two
estates for sale, but could not obtain for them a price at
all equal to his expectations or theamount of the stun for
which they were mortgaged.
That iii October 1821 your Petitioner became a Back-
rupt.
That Teeneherd thereon took the proper legal steps to
retain the profits of the estate, and has since given noice
of fore-closing the mortgage.
That thus your Petitioner has actually paid to Trench-
ard 18,5551., while he has received from the estate
3,4101., and is in danger of losing both this estate and
his estate at Norther, which cost your Petitioner
72,000/.
That, on the other hand, Dr. Trenchard has received
in cash from your Petitioner 18,555/.; together with the
whole rents of the estate from the time of sale up to the
year 1819; and that he has nor applied to the assigne. s
of your Petitioner for leave to take the two estates, to-
paler with all arrears of rent, which are due from
February 4820 (and which, together with timber felled,
your petitioner estimates at about 3,5001.) in lieu of the
debt of 60,0601.
That the Assignees of your Petitioner are now praying
the Court of Chaneery to agree to the above proposal, and
that if the prayer should he granted, Trenchaid will
have received the whole rents and profit of the estate ex-
cept for two years, and £1,470 fur timber; that he will
have been paid £18,555 by your Petitioner, and that in
addition to his own estate be will have acquired the
estate of Northsw, which cost your Petitioner .C 72,000.
That your Petitioner Ind his deceeiedF. fier pa chased
other estates, in 1811, io the counties of Middlesex, Es-
sex, and Hants, for .£33,166, which have now been ac-
tually sold for £12,000; that your Petitioner and his
Father, owing to the depression-in the price of land, and
to a like depression in that of their stock in trade, were
in 1821, reduced to a sta'e of bankruptcy; that seven
children of your Petitioner. ten children of his broths-It,
and seven children of his sister, will now be left wholly
destitute, while your Petitioner's Father, with a heart
broken by these calamities. died io the year 1822.
It is to prevent this act Of crying injustice and cruelty
that your Petitioner humbly implores your Honourable
House to interpose the exercise of that power which you
possess, for the purpose of protecting Lis Majesty's peo-
ple against Oppression. Your Petitioner thinks it wholly
unnecessary to take up the time of your Honourable
House in chewing, that this threatened coufiseation of
his property has arisen wholly from those legislative
measures, Which have produced that change in the value
let money, which has taken two-thirds from the price of
'agricultural produce, and which has, of course, lessened,
in the same degree, the price of land. His case is so
plain that it cannot be misunderstood ; and, therefore,
begging leave to remind yonr Honourable. House of the.
Bank-Suspension Act in 1797, of the Suspension of
Actions against the non-resident Clergy in 1800 (which
actions were afterwards quashed by an Act of your
Honourable House) and of the suspension of the land-
lord's power of distress against tenante, in 1812; yotsr
Petitioner begging leave to remind your Numerable
House of these precedents, most humbly prays your Ho-
nourable 'Lome to snepend the power by which the
mortgagee above-mentioned may be enabled to take from
him his estate; and he further prays your Honourable
Howie to cause such equitable adjustment of contracts
between man and man, as may prevent the utter ruin of
your Petitioner, and ai. numerous persons dependant
for their bread on Isis pecuniary means.
And your Petitioner will evet pray,
CHARLES ANDREW THOMSON.

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. . sHiPPitt INTsweitiLiek.
from
'he Rehecia,' Tl;ornSon, :,Liveipool 40 Como* an I
Leghorn, was totally lost on Wrdelfiday in Nos Steep Helot
,••• DEAL, FEE. 113.--Censis damn from dieriver last MOS,
the Hopewell, Smith, for Jamaica ; put back from baler
Duneeness. the Thetis. Tonbridge, for Milts, d:c. and 're-
main-4a the Downs with the Bridgewater, Ilytts, Windsor,
East.lndiaman, Asia, kairni, and Pytenees,.free trideri,
Ind rest of :the outward 1)0614, apparently all well; Use
Windsor Castle, homeward boned iodiaman,,
aad has bean Aupplled with another anchor and cable to-day..
22. W.S.W. Sailed this morning fir the river, the Weiltiit-
ton, Hoare, from South Seas pot,back the - Moss, Terkel.
for Philadelphia ; Ruby, Coward„ for St. Michael's ; eau)e
down this afternoon, the Glory,Pragnell, from Sierra Leon.',
and Jiisio. Pritchard, from Jaundice • the ‘Viintaor Cesre,
from Madras, lost an anchor and.crila.—Wind .
Powesmoura, Fee. 22.—Sailed the John* Roberts, Co
London.-n 23. S.W, Arrived his. Majesty's shiy
from the Downs. and his Majesty's ships Canielion, fetus- a.
crulee.—Wind 14. W.
Puvisohrif, fen. 21.—Arrlieri the Elizabeth and Mary,
from Norway to Trieste ; Cntltngirood Surrey. 12 ills s
from Terceira ; Three Friends. Head, front St. Michael .s
Seger, Hersh], and Recovery, from London; 22d. W. Ar-
;feed the Sylph, Murray, from London, with diniage.—
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OLD BAILEY.—(TuIa MORNING.)• 1 •
ROBIItRY AF TIIC 'METER SUBC3BIPTION Colcll. •
William Baker, the ivard of the Exeter Sub!aniption
Coach, am! IVUliam tkentaa4 were placed at the ha,,
charged n ith stealitta monies to the amount of 1,040,
the property of Messrs. Specks, bankt•rs, at Excir..
Messrs. HOLLAND and Astoacwii were for the proiecn-
lion, and Messrs. ALLOW, OittlDßik and Law tur tit!
prisoners. The trial commenced at ten o'clock, and nil:
proceeding when our paper went to press.

EXECUTION—tan MoitinNis
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This morning ;SriWait North. upwards of (fil years o'
age, who was convicted of an unnatural •offence, suffered
the awful sentence of the law at the usual place of execu-
tion in the Old Bailey.—lt will be recollected that this
wretched man was convicted in the September Sessions, and
was to have suffered with two other persons, who were eNe-
euted for the same offence, but was respited fir the purpose
' of enquiry being made irito the truth of an 'Hedged itury
he had received in the head by a splinter from the mainmast
of his Majesty's ship Superb, on board of which ship he
served as an assistant-surgeon, and which injery, he said in
his defence, frequeally caused a temporary derangement,
The falsehood of this assertion was fully proved, a d his
nee was considered of too atrocious a nature to entitle tom
to mercy in this world. .
The Rev. Ordinary and Me. Baker were yesterday with
him for a considerable tiine,endeavouring to remove from his
mind prejudices which he urfortunately entertained against
the truth of Christianity ; but we lament to say without ef-
fect. He believed, he said, in a future state, of rewards
and punishments, but denied the doctrine of the atonement
and expiatory sacrifice by Jesus Christ. This morning.
when brougit into the press-roont, he exhibited every ap-
pearance of a disordered mind. His step vies quick, short,
and feeble, his countenance vacant, and his eyes rapid y
glancing at the surrounding objects. When a momentary
gleam of reason appeared to shoot across his mind, he turn-
ed his eyes and hands towards liesien, and muttered out a
prayer for mercy from his Creator. The awful preparations
being completed, the mournful procession moved towardi
the scaffold; lie ascended with a trembling step, and cast his
eyes wildly around at the assembled multitude. After a
short time spent in prayer, the fatal signal was given, the
drop fell, and the world closed on the wretched man for elm

DREADFUL CALAMITY AT TUE THEATRISi NEWCAATLF
neon Trsg.—On Wednesday last, while the perform-
mance of Tom and Jerry, which had attracted a large
audience in the Gallery, was proceeding, a Gas Light in
the lower pact of the circus came in contract with a
piece of board, and set fire to it. Though the Are was
as trifling in its event as can be well imagined, and very
quickly extinguished, yeti the alarm having taken place
a general rush to get out eusued, and the consetptences
that followed most calattiitotts. '' The extent of ca-
lamity," says the Newcastle Chronicle of. Saturday, is
not yet known, as those who were bruised were canied
away to their respective. homes, and it is thus not easy to
ascertain the number, whilst the fate of many of thou is
yet uncertain. We regret, however, to state, that the
lumber of those killed amounts to seven, as will bs seen
by the following melancholy list :
Mrs. Robson, wife of Mr. Rid fell Robson, &tiller,
Wrs'gate-street.—John Edwards; of Gateshead, cellar-
man to Messrs Johnson and Cn., wine merchants, of this
town.—Miss Dorothy Heaton, aged 17, daughter of Mr.
George Heaton, tailor, of Gateshead.—Miss Mary John-
son, aged 16, milliner, of the Manor Chare.—lsabctta
Patkinson, aged 11, adopted child of Mrs .Green, Pil-
grim-street.—Thomas Handvside, aged 211, son of Mr. C.
liaadyside, bookhinder—atil John Jonathan Wilkinson,
son of Mr. IVilkinsoo, veterinary surgeon, Tilg,rint-
street. Of those seriously hart we have been. Ode to
procure the following names, though we fear.that'there
may be many more :—Mr. Riddell Robson, bailie/Aims-
band of Mrs Robson), very much bruised ; ani'li t:ounti
in his heal—Mrs Edwards, daughter-in-law. of the de-
ceased, John Edwards' and wife of John Edwards, boast-
carpenter, very much bruised.—Thotnas Brown, second
son of Mr. John- BtoWn, builder, Vine-lane, four ribs
broken front the backbone, and other Wise mach bruised.
—Roger Lawson, painter, Percy-street, severely braise I.
—Mr. Gallon, flour-dealer, Gateshead; a Toivh; a mphew
of Mrs.Nril, publican, Mantarchare; Thouras Scott, joiner
on the Windmill Hills; and Ralph Graham, 'cicrk to
Welch and Co.'s waggons, ail severely bruised, princi-
pally about the breast anti side.—Henry, aged le,, wit of
H•ns.Sloan, painter, was taken to the Infirmavy much
hurt, and is not expected to recover; he.bas boned-14i-
.ous ever' since. Ann. Fawcett, niece. qf Illrf, Askew,
Flesh-market, melt bruised, .1111t1 biptl,lll Oitaro Awe.
—A youth, named Liddelloanch bruised, sad lireOless
id
on Wednesday night,
.but was
,rather recover on
. Thursday. Besides these, we have heard' of a',," o in 4
woman, in Gateshead ; who has teceived, a viqliut raise
on her breast; and of another in Albion4treits wbo has
received some violent injury, us she appeared from .her
cries to be iq extreme pain. Many others who were se-
dourly ill on Wednesday night haye greatly, recovere i.
The number of minor cases. is very great, al not traped
without some injury.
A Coroner's Impel': has beensheld on the audits of the
persons killed. No blame, it,appearg, attached Co the
' persons belonging to •the,,Theatre. Ir. De Cadap. the
Manager; appears to hase.egarted himself atiibee.rawfal
occasion, iu the most praiseworthy meow.... , ~
CORN-EXCHANIAZ, F..24.—The arrival Of all kiosk of
Grain last week was uncommonly large, tint the first
supply of this morning was tot consideeablet: .4.Verheat
of fine quality sold freely, and has obtained lea. pet:quarter
advance on the currency of this day seem :tight,. Barter
also further advanced is. per quarter.; and Iteatigof to f
quality sell freely, and --- - -
finite without altercate
obtained rather mote
trade this morning forl
terms than :ast ciliated,
SstrrarteLn dlaattt
supply of ox-it rt-mart
were not qdire to high'
so nitinerous as on sot
motto° has gr tidy adt

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