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A Marseilles article, quo...
The Times, 1824-06-09T00:00:00

A Marseilles article, quoted in one of the F7ankfort papers, throws out some hints respecting the nature of Ge- neral GUILLEMISOT'S instructions on undertaking his mis- sion to Constantinople. I twould appear on this authority, that the new Ambassador is accomnpanied, net only by political, but by military engineers; and that among certain Asiatic missions which are to be thrown out as feelers from the main body of the Embassy, one is to take the direction of Teheran, and to push the French interests at the Coart of Persia. What those interests may be, we pretend not to describe; though we trust that the Mlinisters of ftis country are more specifically informed on the stbject. It is known that France, as well as Russia, entertains a deep, though ve are far from saying an unlawful jealousy, of the influ- ence exercised by the British empire over the East. This jealousy of British power is perhaps the only point in wvhich, apart from the immediate purposes of the Holy Alliance, any sympathy can be found between the two great rivals of Continental Europe. But France can have no de- signs in that quarter, except as an auxiliary to the sehemes of Russia. 'there are no territories, as it would seem, to be acquired by France on the side of the Persian Gulf. There is no temptation to obtain a footing for French troops on the soil of Persia, or to facilitate, through the friendship of the SCHAH, the march of an army of that naLion towards the Indus. But the work of France may be done as effec- tually by aiding the schemes of Russian aggtandizement in Asia, engagng 'the British Government there, and distract- ing its attention from other quarters, where France again may play principal, and Russia second. It may, indeed, be taken for granted. that the Court of the Tuileries is anxious, eithef to- einforce dlrecttl the intrigues of Russia against England, in so far as concerns the polities of the King of PE BSIA, or, in the shape of an anicus cariw, to gain the eat of his Majesty to the counsels of France, and thus determine the pretensions of the rivals, as may best square with the interests of her own ambilion. There is nothing illegitimnate in this,-nothing censurable in point of morals, noraffordingjust cause of enmity or irritation on the part of Great Britain towards the French Government. France has the tame right to try her influence over Persia that EnglandI herself possesses-the same right to prefer Rus- sian politics to British, as to make an opposite choice. lVe are anxious only to -put Mlinisters on their guard, that no advantage may be lost to this country through negligence or ignorance; that France and Russia, there and elsewhere, may, as Mr. PLUNKETT recommends with respect to the Catholic Associatioe, be vigilantly w atched; and above all, that men of repute and of ability may be employed to coun- teract at the Persian Court those machinations which men of the very highest talent have been long directing against the Eastern interests of Great Britain.
News in Brief
The Times, 1824-09-25T00:00:00

It appears by letters received yesterday from I-lavre, that the Frenchl Govcrnment aTe de58irous of throwing obstacles in thc way of corninunicatiol nith St. Domingo, as a vessel bound for Port-au-Prince had bceni refusedl clearances for that place, and the owvners had, in conisequenice, been com- pellet to clear out ior St. Tlhomyjas's. Mr. Greig, the edlitor of the Soulh Af,ricanr Advertixer, has arrived at 5t;.Helena, oni hi way to hngland, for the p ur- pose of seeking redress of the Governmcnt, or by law, of Lord Chlarles Sornerset, for the late surppression of that journal at the Cape of Good lHope. Extract of a letter frotu the A2ents to Lloyd's at Rio Janeiro, dated the 7th of August :-" [he Pedro Primeiro, of 74 guns, Admuiral Lord Cochrane, Captin Crosbic; Carioca corvette Mforankamn brig of war, Ikrmogic and Caridad transports, sailed fromn hence the 2d inst.,. and, after landing detachments of troops bout2,000 men' to reinforce the Iteperialista in the province of ernambuco, wii p-oceed to blockade the port. The following British men-of-war have arrived hete, viz.-July 19, His Majesty's ship Tweed, from Cork; July 23, His AMajesty's ship DoHri, from Bania, and August 2, HislMajesty"s ship Sparrowhawk, from
News in Brief
The Times, 1824-10-01T00:00:00

A correspondent, o)i reading in The Times of yesterday morning the casc of a poor woman who complained sainst a pawn. broker, named Bayliss, with whom she had pledged a coat, ex- presses surprise that the lagistrates at 1.Uarylebone-office could neither afford her any relief themKelves, or direct her how to obtain redrers; and points out a case tried in the King's Bench in Hilary Term, 2d and 3d of Geerge IV., " Walton v. Smith," as bearing upon thih poor woman's easeu also as relates to the pow;ers of M1a. gistrates, 17th aec of S9th and 40th George IL., chap. 99; and also the 14th sec. 25th George Ill., chap. 48. Mr. Bayliss, who sends us a correction of what he terms a mistake in our report of bis case at sarylebone.office, will fid, on reperusal, that our statement is verbatim the ssaiew his proposed amendment. Great part of the new street opposite the Quadrant has bten enclosed with a high paling, previous to being blcdamized, ... , ;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.
The case of "DUNCAN V. TH...
The Times, 1824-12-02T00:00:00

The case of "DuNcA Y. THWA lTES," which was decidel in the King's Bench on Mf onday afternoon, is to be carried by the dlefendaut to the Hoase of Peers. We are glad that the proprietors of the Herald are going to make a stand, on the important priniciple invoIved in that doci- sion of the four Judges of the King's Bench. We shall see wlhether four learned persons, who from their isolated situation are necessarily far behind the spirit of the age, are the best judiges of a FACT, which from their seclu- sion never comes within the reach of their knowledge. They say that police reports are illegal, because they are injurioms. Wc allow the inference, but deny the fact; and not only do we deny the fact, but the Police Magistrates, who are tho3roughly coniversanit with the mat- ter-a Co:nmittee of, the House of Commorns, who heard numerous witnesses, and sifted the miatter to the bot- tomn;-all these persons, best acquainted with the sub.- ject, have gfven a clecided opinlioII that police-reporting is one of the most effcient auxiliaties of public justice. It is fit, thrrofore, that it should be decidedl by the highest trLbunul, whether those persons (wve do not wish to under- value theirlearning nor their integrity) who are by tlbe ear stitution made judges oiily of the laws of the coutntry, ar, the fittest to pronounce.a 4ecision ou a case which is one entirelyof fact, and of f;cts, as all must sce, peculiarly with- out the sphere and experience of secluded men dedicated to an abstract science.
Marriages
The Times, 1824-12-28T00:00:00

AIA RSi?). On the 2t4th inst., at Gosfortl, the Right Hon. George Harry Lord Grey, eldest son tf the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, to Lady Katherine Charceris, thiird daughter of the Earl of WVemyss an4 Mlarch. On Pllonday, the 20th inst., in St George's cburch, Dublin, byr the Rev. Archdeacon Langrishe, JaTes, onli son of Robert Lfmrtiri, of Ross-houae, county of Galway, Esq., to Anne, eldest daughterof 'I'homas Higinbotham, of Alouniooy-square, E-q. On the 27th inst., Charles Hfeard Beague. Esq., Royal Engi- neers, to Alary, eldest daLughter of the late Major-Generad Jameo Pringle, East India Company's service, and granddtugbter of the late Sir John Halkett, of Pitfarron. Z4rt.
The Usury Bill was thrown...
The Times, 1824-04-10T00:00:00

l h'Je Usury Bill was-thrown out on Tliursday nighPty a I yice of generalship. "We do not feel any particular regret I at this reslt, as- the m'asure has scaroely beicudisc:icsed enouigh, atnd as it is pretty sure to pass at no very distalit period. But there is one ludicrous circumstance connrcted with the- opposition to this bill which we cannot forbear to notice: which is, that the country.gentele n, iwhorI it is intended to serve, and whom1 in every body'sopinior but their ovwn, it cannot fail essentially tor server arj the loudest. and most pertinacious in. their oppositiontg it. We know lhow- to value that " vi: iiwerti o e preju- dice which resists the innovations of genius .anJ knowr- ledge, which are someaines too eager to get at a- sults without waiting forx;heconviction -of the genieral un- derstanding; but vwe or KehIao?t incliDed, to doubt the usc- fulness of this resisting medhri,wlern we see cleat ease of advantage, backed, t6o, by the 'authority of courts of law for more than a century, rejected wvith such abhorrence. If poor Lord I,oNioxDnRay had been alive,.he might, without any fear.of ridicule or off%ece, bave stamped the oppositi.l to this measure with his stigma -of CC ignorint " impatietim" e
News in Brief
The Times, 1824-04-15T00:00:00

LO-ATDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1824. The French papers of Monday, which arrived last night, colitain notlhing worth quoting, except the few extracts wrhiclh will be found in another column. The accounts which'they supply of the state of Spain,-containedl, be it remembered, in the Spanish journals themselves,-shows what the French Government must mean when it congra- tulates -Vurope on the pacification of Spain, and vaunts the results of the Spanish invasion. FRENC11 FUNDS;-PARrs, April 12.-Five per Cents. opened at 101. 75.; closed at 102. 15. for money; Bank Shares, 1,890.; 1,900.; Spanish, 16,17, 160; Neapolitar, in ducats, 96; in francs, 10. 50.-Cours Ant/ldiqure. After the Exchange, at fiye o'clock, the rentes were at 103. 25. 30. for the account.
Mr. Huskisson's Letter.
The Times, 1824-05-03T00:00:00

The following letter has been published bv MIr. Gladlstone in 2X- planation of the manner in which Mr. lusnkisson's letter addresscd to him mist have found its way in a Jamaica paper. It is frocn his brethier-in-law, Alr. Robertson:- * Upper ffJarley-street, April 30, 1824. 'My dcar Sir.-E-er since you brought to my notice the unwar- rantable ancl unjustifiable publica:ion in the newspapers of the copy of .Mj r. Iluskisson's letter to you of the 2d of last November. I have been uncea%inaly occupied in discovering through what channel thzat could have happined. I now think it mnydudy to state, thiat fromn our near connexion_ from your kind fi-icnaship; for me, and vouir knowledge of the deep stake r hold in ihe islanti of Jamaic, -yot se!it me a copy of the above ietter. 'I'h s was done :xnost coitidentially but you gave rne permission, at the samie time, to communicate its contents to somne of imy friends, who were similarly circonmstanced with mynself$ but undler a sttong injunction that it shouldl be done conficdentnall, and 0:1 no account to permit ani cops' or extract to be taken, as appears by youir letter to me from Livernool of the GtEi of November. " I did av.il myself ot' this permission to a few of tmy friends, and to one of thim (with whom I iad soniie previous conversation re- specting it), I sent it conti.ientiaily, tundier cover, to his office, ex- pressly for perusal onl00; and it is Inost painful for me to atid, that tilts geetlernan adnits, that he most inmpro,,erly took a copy, which he sent ton particular frienl in Jarnaica. " It is distressing to me to think that anv frierd of mine should have been guilty of such conduct ; b it. in' your ow'n justification, y3o0 are at liberty to imiake whiatever use vou please of this commnu- nication. " 1 aln-ays am. my dcar Sir. yours sincerely, " To J. Gladstoise, Esqi .. C. ROBERTSON." MIR. fl USKISSO X'S LETTER.
News in Brief
The Times, 1824-06-17T00:00:00

WINDSOR, June 16.-His Majesty had a large party to dinner at the Castle yesterday, where the band of the Royal Horse Guards attended, and played some charming airs for the diversion of the company in the course of the evening. . In the evening, after dining with the King,' Mr. Se7mour Bathurst left the Royal Castle. 'The Cabinet Ministers dined with Earl.Bathurst yester- day, athis house iri Grest Stanhope.-steet.
To The Editor Of The Time...
The Times, 1824-12-04T00:00:00

bir.The remarks of " Erasmus" on the charita.le exertions of the rfligious and benevolent towards criminals under uentence of death, &c., require some tlight notice; and I hre yoI will permit your impurtialand exe ellentpaper to bc the chiW'rmel through which it is conveyed to the public. "Erasmus" is evidently not well-infarmed on the subject upoa lvwhich he has written, though in some of his views I coincile. 'l'he fact is, that the case of every poor crirstinal comnimited to Newgate, or doomed to stiffer, excites as much interest, and receives as muc't attention ftom the " religious and benerolent." as the case of the deeply..uilty Faunticroy; and there is an excellent maan, of the name of Baker, who passes most of his time with everv prisoner be- fore and after his trial, and whose cndeavours are unremittine to do good within the dreary wards of Nevgate. His attentionshae been continued for years; and thoasands of itc former inmates, here and abroad,could bear te.timony tothe utility of hislabours.He is cotader- gyinan, and hence no jealousy is excited in the breast of the " mnere frigid official formalist," as your torrespondeRt has, perhaps with trutlh, characterizedl the chaplains of gaols in general. The reason why one who has occupied a superior rank in the world has been attended bv other spiritual assastants, may easily be explained. From the sphere in which a criminal of this description has moved, it is not improbable that he has some connexions in the church, or that there is some prticular clergyman with whom he ar iis friends.areacquainted. Hence the crimina himself, orhisfriends, as was the case with AIr. Fauntlerov, would apply to that particular clergyman for his humane attenda!nce, and *'ghostly counsel antd advice ;" and to sucs applications the proper authorities, l believe, never send a refusal. From what I learn, little of that false and mnorbid feeling to whicl "Erasanus" adveTts,wna excited in the case of thc late culprii* nor does it appear that the rays o f an inten-er interest and syrnpathy were, in point of fact, converged to a tocus, and shed upon his bead, mnore than on the heads of the ninety and nine other condemned criminals. No person of any weighlt, either fron his intellect or station in the country, w;as concerned at alt about tbis grear critninal- none, in whose mindl any other conclusion was formzed, than that he richly l merited-more than the ninety and nine even of persons in the xanie contlemnltion-t,e ignominious f:ate to wvhich lie was doomed, of cndring on thc gallovs a lhfe of such dec moral stain and i CHASCOSO0R TO THfrE f5Df TORC OF THg TrMFS.
Insolvent Debtors' Court,...
The Times, 1824-12-21T00:00:00

1 noanui Xerry came up to be heard an his petition. * It appeared that of several creditors one alone anS Inserted in his schledule, and le also omitted to insert the only debtor he had. In explanation of these omissions, he stated that be knetr nothinp abaut the Court. The schedulc was, of course, ordered to be dismissed. Edward Iollis was opposed by ilr. HEATH( for S. Wright, nc- phcw ant executor of S. Wrighti deceAsed. The insolvent, who is ni auctioneer, was sucd for a portion of tiie testator'a property; but ne defeated the object of the action by wnaking over his property to his brother. He stated, however, that he had tound 30l. in checks and bills under the testator's pillow when he died, which he deliver- ed up to the executor. Tho COURT expressed their reprehension of the insolvent's con- duct with respect to the transfer of his property, and ordered him to be remantled within the prison walls for eight calendar months. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT I1fnSMA'V Dr- 9n.
An express from Paris yes...
The Times, 1824-04-10T00:00:00

An express froiiim Pan's yesterday brought letters of Wednesday evening. The rentes had fallen in the course of the day to 101. 25. for money, while the price for the end of the month was 102. 50. It appears that the depression has been principally caused by the large quantity of stock offered for sale by the holders of small amounts, among whom a species of panic existed from a prevalent impres- sion that the plan of the Finance Minister would necessarily reduce the value of the rentes to par, and the effect of these sales was rendered much greater than it otherwise would have been by the great scarcity of money. From about 15 to 18 per cent. could be obtained by lending on continua- tion. The leading capitalists, ton, ate -said to abstain ge- nerally. from large purchases, being desirous. before en- gaging too far,to learn the full development of the Mlinister's plan for the reduction of the interest, in order to form tbeir judgment of its practicability. In the London market, uhere monrey is more abundant, and wbere less distrust exists resnecting the ralue of the stock, French Stock is quoted full tuo per_eent. higher than in Paris.
News in Brief
The Times, 1824-08-25T00:00:00

[Adversisement. j-rThciariabe of the limate is said to- rc- duce, ia a great measure, the frequont cases of baldncss or tin hair, so nuchi observedr on by foreigniers in this cortntry. Ars uothing ai, more e.sentiDal to beauty than a srood head of hair, those wloar ntah likely to lo:s this embellishment are requested to try tbd &E_ t.1INY BEAR'S GStEASE, which is obtained 1rron thie aniimal prc- perly fatted, as it retains the moisture lnucch longer than any other oil or grease, and Protects it fr4m the dampness of the atrnospbere, or the perspiration in wrarm weather. For the above article, apply to Ross and Soxs. I11, Bisluopszate-street, who have constantly sold it pu re anti unadulterated for ihe last 30 yea.s jAdvertisernent.)_The humitiity of atmosphere, travelling, change of climate, study, anxiecy fevers, accoucllerncnts, A&c_ off-ell Cause the human hair to fall of' beame gray, and total bald_ neMI, which maybe prevented.by Ausing ROW%LAtD'S BlACAS'AAl I a vcgerable production: it restores in redundancy the tresses ravaged from the head of beauty by fever, arxiety, or acoachet. iient; and in all cases, from whatboever arising, Wtere tnis grace. ful ornament talls into decay,operates as ani infMible sperfic, and im. parts the utost fascinating antil delectableappearanee to the hairof La. dicis, gentlemenrand children. It aiso produces- _isker sevebrows&c
Old Bailey New Court, Fri...
The Times, 1824-09-28T00:00:00

LWe have to apologize for the ornlssion-of the following report it tvas entirely accidental.3 iIsr. Tisur.Low. TV. Thtusrlorv was inlicted for stealing in the dwvelling-house of lr;il.Manncl, a watchl, thiree rings, chain, seals, &c., the property of Enmilie St. Ange. Th1'olanss Robinson said he receive(d a lettcr from the prisoner on the 16th July, andI was directed to take it to a house in Taunton^ place; he deliveredlit to a femalc therc,and was directed by the prtsoner to bring back a goldi chain, but he could not obtain it; he rcturned to ihc watclihotise whlere tlhe prisoncr was confined, and having ob- tained another lciter from th e prisoner, he tookit back to the house, anni got the gold chain, whicv lie prodlacel at .larlbnrough-strect. Robert iloward, a constable, said, on the 15th of Julv, the prosecatrix applied at St. Ann's watch-houxe, and through the me- dium of an interpreter said she had lost her watch * on that day, the prisoner ws brought in, accompanied by some Frenel wominz. *rs. St. A.nge saidl, 8be had lost the watch, chains, seals, andi key. Shle said he had been to see lier, and hacl taken them fron lier apart. Inents at 44, Frith.street, St. Ann's. She said she wished to liave them back again l he told her flie had not gotthcm about him, but that if she waited she could have them ; she said lie had taken them out of her room. Mir. PErnLLIPs suggested, that the witness should be asked vhe- ther some pronmise was not held out to the prisoner upon making this disclosure ? COMMrON SEaGEAa'T.-Pray, did the interpreter say, that if the proVerty was priven up, they would not pioceed against him ? The witness said, the interpreter did not mnake such promise something was saul as the interpreter walked up and down, and Mr. Thurlow threw the seal, &c.,on the table. Mr. PHTILLIps._Did Mliss St. Ange talk to the prisoner in French ?-U itness.-Yes. she did ; and they talked together, and I (lid not know what was said. The prosecutrix merely said what r.he had lost. Whern the interpreter addressed him, did he say how he had pos. 8essed ilhmself of the property ? I diit not hear that: it eidied by the charge, and I took it down in the clharge book. CoMrMtoN SERGEANT.-There is a complete failure of evidence as to the owner of the property ; of course suspicions will not do. liet the recognizance of such as do not appear be esrrcated. EmiHie St. Ange vras then called on her recognizance, but not aPprcarnz, it was ordered to be estreated. ap aiJury, as a mnatter of course, acquitted MvIr. Thurlow. OLD BAILEY NEW COURA7, PnZDAY, Sspr. 24.
Peru.
The Times, 1824-11-12T00:00:00

A mail arrived yesterday from Brazil, bringing letters from Rio de Janeiro to the 19th of September. The packet had been detained about a fortrnight, in consequence of the absence of the Emnperor on a visit into the interior, but brings no political intelligence relative to Brazil. A Spa- nish officer had arrived at Rio de Janeiro, who left Are- quipa, in Pern, on the 9th of July, at which date, though nearly a month later than the last accounts from the same quarter, no tidines had been eained of the arrival of the Spanish ships Asia and Achilles in the Pacific. The re- ports of this officer on the situation of Peru are not more recent, but confirn all wlicl was state(d in the last papers from Buenos Ayres. On the subject of the retreat ot' Ola- neta froin Potosi, it is stated that all the ecclesiastics and the principal inhabitants attended him to 'rarifa on that occasion. Valdez, who was pursuing him, was deserted by his troops in such nunibers, that it was not expneted he would have Inen enough left, when he came up, to make an attack on Olaneta. The regiment of Gerona hadl had its rinks thinned in one niglit by the deser- tion of 300 men, and nearly thc same had occur- red in the other corps of Valdez's army. Of La Serna, who, by the last accounts from Arequipa. was on the point of abandoning th- cause and embarking for Europe, no mention is matle; but the contest between Valdez and Olaneta in Upper Peru is represented as an event entirely fatal to Cantarac. who, when last heard of, which was the 22d of June, was at Huancayo, in the V'alley of Jauja, waiting thc advance of Bolivar. It was fully ex- pected the Spanish General would retreat, being utterly unable, in point of force, to contend with Bolivar's army. His reinforcements,whlichl were to have been sent on to him by Valdez, having failed himn, his whole plan of operations was frustrated, and he could neither hope to attack nor to defend with advantage. The troops of Cantarac and Valdez were on half-pay only, while those of Bolivar and of Olaneta were receiving full pay. At Callao two con- spiracies had occurred in favour of the Patriots, the last of which was discovered under the seal of confession,and 80 of those concerntedi in it were slhot. " IT the tlhird," says the writer of a letter from the place, " we shall be more cau- tious, and less religious." PERU.