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Yesterday at three o'cloc...
The Times, 1824-06-21T00:00:00

Yesterday at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council wasl held at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, which only sat till a quarter past four. There were present the Lord Clhancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Westmor. land, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Bexley, Mr. Canning, &c. On Saturday the Chancellor of the Exchequer had a numerous dinner party. 1 i Gazettes from Sidney, New South Wales>-to the 2gth of January, and from Hobart'es-town, Van Dieman's Larud, to, the 9th of January, have been received, Both colonics ap. pear to be in a rapid state of improvement, of which, per- hlaps, there can be no better proof than the diversified con-' tents ot' the journals thlemnselves, which are nearly equal in size and importance to the English newspapers of 20 years since, and present nearly the Salne variety of subjects. One of the deficiencies under which both colonies seemi to suffier, is that of a good system of banking-a defect, however, lvhich is common to all rising countries. , Ihe French fri. gate Coquilke had arrivoe* at Sidney, having been out frozg home IS months, and expecting an equally long period tQ elapsebefore her return to France. The ob4ects of the voyage are the improvement of natural history' and geography. Lieutentnt Cutbbertson, of the 4Sth Regiment, Commnan. dant of the new settlement of Macquarrie-harbour, in Van Dieman's Land, was unfortunately drowpved"o the 29th of December, together with six men, in attemptingto.skye a new schooner which had driven.-from its moorinrl - 'Mr. Field, Judge of the Supreme Court, had embarked on board the Competitor for England. WVe have received papers from Antigua to the 4th ultimo. On the departure of Sir BI. d'TUrban for Demerara, the G,.. vernmnent had devolved on General Athill, the Commata.. dant of the troops. The Session of the Legislature of An. tigua had commenced on the 2.2d. of April.. By accounts from Dominica, it was stated that the: Earl of Hunting- don had issued writsfor the election of mnembers for a new House of Assembly in that island. In Antigua, as well ast in the other islands, the proceedings here relative to the state of the WVest Indies generally, excited the most intense interest. Charles Lebrunj Dake of Placentia, Peer of France, and Graud Corloni of the Legion of Honour, better knowvn as 'Third Consul during the time of the Consular Government, diedaTfew daysagoin France, at his countlry seat near Dourdan, at the advanced age of 86. He was successively member of the States-General, of the Constituent Assem- bly, and of the Council of Ancients. After being Buona- parte's colleague in the Consular'Govermment, lie e'ame one of his favoured servants during the empires occupying the place of. Prince Arch-Treasurer, Governor-General of Liguria, of Holand, and other high offices.
William Ramsden Robinson.
The Times, 1824-07-24T00:00:00

TO THE EDITOIt OF THE TI;UES. Sir,_In order to redeem the pledge sent forth to the public on the 22d instant, the undersigned embrace the earliestopportunity of handing toyouthe conplete listofjarymen on the late trial of WVil- liam Rainsden Robinson, on a charge against him by Nr. Samuel Dolby of Wardour-street, accompanied by M1r. John Wetherell's unqualified concurrence to every part of the paragraph inserted in your very respectabJe journal of that (ay, and whose signature was then, by unavoidable circumstances, omlitted. The undersigned cannot dismiss tbis business from their minds without expressing their warmoest acknowledgments for the verv prompt moanner their statement of facts has been laid before the nublic. RORERT MATTHEWS July 23, 1824. WrLLIAM BALDME PBTER THOOMPSON .TnOqpEPg{ S.9ARPE WILLIAM REID (lAVTN PARK GEORGE TAYLOR .TA Vf T.'. Q .Tt O-MONDWEr -FR. T.? JOHNq YouvNG TH(OMIAS JONRS I JOHN WETHERELL. WILLIAM Rd .f7SDF ROBINSON.
Marsh, Stracey, Fauntlero...
The Times, 1824-11-17T00:00:00

(Freme a Correspondent.) Conformable to the resolutions passed at a meeting of the unfor- tanate creditors of the above firn, held at the Freemrasons' Tavern o01 Friday last, the gentlemen wlho were ther chosen for the commit- tee met on Monday night for the first time, and as the meeting was intended to be stnctly private, it was 6o much so, that the people of the taVern did not know that such a meeting was contemplated, until the gentlemen arrived there about 7 o'clock. Al r. Rnight. the solicitor, and hig clerk with a bundle of papers, arrived frst, and soon after nearly the whole of the committee. They waited some time fer their fornner chairman, mir. Parkins, w ho, however, made his apnearance very shortly after 7 o'clock, ac- companied by a gentleman of the commtn.tee and his clerk, With a bag con tainmng tile resolutiotis, and vras immuediately voted-to the ehair. It was resolved unanimously, that Mr. Knight (of tbe irxm of Knight an'i Tyson, solicitors, of BasinghaU.street) should be ap- pointed honorary secretaxy to the committee; after which, the names of eight different gentlenien were put in nomination for assiglee.; and three of the committee were appointed to wait upon thein to obtain their consent to act as at,signces. Air. Knight, the Honorary Secrctary, was directed to prepare an advertisement, to call a meeting of the whole of the creditors, to submit to them some very important information, relative to various improper claims set up apainst the bankrupts' estate, amounting to at least 150,001. ; after which, we understand, some irnportant cnmmunications werc made to the committee by persons in the secret of some of those connected witb the late firm in Berners-trecet. All that we could afterwards learn was, that the comnmittee is ap- pointed to mect again on Friday next, to receive thereport of the s tb. committee, whlo were appointed to call upon the different gentlemen recommended as assignees; znd then it is to b- determined in what papers to advertise thte general meeting of creditors, which iscontem- plated for the 29th inst. MARSXI,STRACEY, FAUArTLERQ0, AND GRAIfAMf.
Marriages
The Times, 1824-12-03T00:00:00

AIARRIED. Yesterday, at St. Pancras Church by :tle Rev. Evan Nepean, Fredcrick WVood, Esq., Lieutenant ky4l Navy, nephew of Mr. Justice Bavley, to Aliss Farrar, only.daugbter of Thomas Farr, Esq., of Mlecklernburgh-bquare. ONn the Ist inst., at Lee, iln Kent, Tbomas Pnlavsoni Esq., nf Demerara, to Maryanne, eldest daughter of Thomas Penne1l,. ?q., of the former place: aftcr the ceremony, thebride and bridegroomn set off for Parns and Italy _
A letter from Mr. HUSKISS...
The Times, 1824-04-27T00:00:00

A letter from Mr. HusKIssoN to Mr. GLADSTONE, on the occasion of returning to thie latter some papers relative to the insurrection at Demerara, has, by some strange breach of propriety, found its way to the public press. At the same time, wve really cannot detect in that letter, al- though written manifestly under the strictest confidence to a friend, and that friend an extensive proprietor of land and slaves at Demerara, any expression upon the general subject of slavery which can be considered, if fairly con- strued, as discreditable to Mr. Husmsso-N's reputation. Ile undoubtedly affirms, as do most sober men, that if the slaves are to be eiimancipated, they must be so gradually, after a religious, moral, and intellectual discipline, fitting them for thc important office of free agents. Mr. HusKIs- SON admits-as who must not ?-that the existenec of " a " lar,e population, in a state of chattel possession and per- "sonal slavery, is a great evil," of wvhich every good mats must wish for, and medlitate, the final termination ; but he speaks very freely, antd perhaps not unjustly, of the in- discreet and precipitate eagerness with which that party vho assume the exclusive title of Abolitionists, push on- vards by a path of their own selecting, regardless of seasons, difflclties, or dangers-as if but a single interest were to be consulted; or as if all conse- quences, beyond the simple one of nominal emanci- pation, were by rational mitids to be overlooked. Mr. HUSKISSON's opinion respecting the poor Missionary, Mr. SMlTH, has not certainly been borne out by the facts which have since transpired; but his information was fur- nished to him by the Planters of Demerara, and his letter was wvritten above five months ago. We are rather pleased that the sentiments of MNIr. HusKIssoN upon this subject appear to be such as will bear. examination-since otber- wise we shoultl have hesitated long, before we applied any cenisure to a document, composed in confidence, aid we presume surreptitiously promulgated. Mr. HIBBERT has been excludedl from any furtber per- sonal interviews with Lord BATIHURST ; Iils Lordship hav- ing taken umbrage at the reports of his private convarsa- tions being made public at Jamaica.
London, Monday, May 24, 1...
The Times, 1824-05-24T00:00:00

We lastnightreceived theFr.nchpspersof Thursday and Friday, and letters from Paris of the same dates. The joarnals. contain no news of the slightest interest to the English publc. We bave as yet no report of the discussions in the Chamber of Peers on the KinanCial project for the reduction of the renics. The commiss:on appointed to examine it consisted of Gount MOLLIE,N . Who was Minister of the Treasury under the Einperor, of Al. Row, late mi- nister of Finance, of the Duke deL'Evis, of the Duke de FITZ- JAS3ES, and three other members hostile to M. de VILLELE'S plan. There was thereforeevery reason to apprehend that the report drawn up by such a.commission would be uufavourable, and aecord. ingly no effort was spared to gain over its m'embers. Four of them have already beenconverted; and as they will form the majority the Apinioidothi thrediefractory Peers will beeof little. consequencee Ni d's6glg "*ib these noble persons had to sustain-betwieensheir love for popularity aud thelr regard to their own interes,nayeuily be conceived from the fact mentioned in one of our private letters, that the Archbishop of PARIS, when cormaendcd by the KnrG to Vote for the project, assared his Majesty, that by doing so he should lose all respect in the eyes of his cleigy, who held the reduc- tion of the rentes in such horror, that several priests had solicit,ed him ,for pernission to offer up public prayer in the churches for the'in-' terposition of [eavea to avertsuch a calamity. il1. DE l1AnTiG-.Ac has been appointed reporter to the commission on the project of law for the septennialitvyofthe Chamber. An absurd repord is stated by the Qzrtidicnne, oir the' authority of letters from Constantinople, that Lord BmoxN had- been suspected there of being poisoned by somerival Greek Chic&-jealous of the aseendent which his Lordship was gaining in the management of Greek affairs. FUEN CH FUNDD.-PAUIS Diay 21._Five per Cents. opened at 104. 65.; closed it 104: 65.;' Loan of 1823, 18k - Bank Stock, 2,000.; Neapolitan Five per Cents., 95k; Wnte d'Esp., 19i; Royal Spainish Loan, 1823, 654. Excehiange on London, one month, 25. 30.; three ditto, 25. 1uthent lee. LONDON, MONDAY, NWAY 24, 1824.
Old Bailey, New Court, Fr...
The Times, 1824-07-17T00:00:00

Gteorge Bint was chargea witlh stealing a sovereign ffom Charlotte 'Wood, widow. The prosecutrix keens a shoe-shop at Hounslow, and on the daystated, the prisoner, who was a neighbour of hers, went into her shop, andl tunder pretence of examining a mackerel on the counter, he took up a sovereign as if In joke. The prosecutrix said, " You are tond of sovereigns, Blnt ;" to which he answered, " Rather so," and went away with the sovereign. On his going out, the prosecutrix asked him to return the sovereign ; he said he was conaing back to dinner, and would bring it with him. He did not return to dinner, end therefore, at six o'clock, the prosecutnrix called upon him for it, when he assured her he would restore it to lier in half an hour. Ie did not do so, however, and the prosectutrix finally had him talken into cutstody, he having spent the money, and being unable to repay it. The REcoRDngt said, that it was clearly a'felony, and thejitry, therefore, found him guitty, but recommended him to mercy, The REconnEn observed, that it was a dirty trick, and a dis. honest trick; btit still it was not a case that calledl for any seve- ritv and tberefore the recommendation of the jury should be at- tended to. Amelid ,avaoe was charged witli stealing a frock and pinafbre from the person of Caroline WVinch, a chil1 4 years of age. The child was found in a court in the Temple cr'ing, and strip. petl of the artices in question. She said a lady, who had given her apenny, desired her to wait for her there. The child's pareats lived in Roxe.street, dCvent-garden ; andit ias while passing through Drury-lane with her mother that sbh vas seduced awvay. The pri- soner was detected in Drury.lane with the stolen articles in her pus. session, afterbavingoffered to pawn tlem. Shesaid shc had bought thenm a week before for 4s 1in her defence, she said she 1ad found them in a court near Drury-lahe. The Jury found the prisoner Gui)llu. The REconiE;n observed, that this wvas a shoeking effence. and unless he learned somethlinlg in favour of the prisoner, she should be a !nt out of the country. The prisoner was a decenrltookag woman,and wept very mnuch. OLI) BAILEY, NEW COURT. FnMAY, JULY 16.
Marriages
The Times, 1824-10-08T00:00:00

hlARRIED. On the 7th inst., at Edmonton, by the Rev. Dawson Warren, A. M., William Luddingwn, Esq., Ot Verulam-buildingt, Gray'si- inn, te Frances Elizmbet , eldest daughter of F. Lec, Bsq., of the former place. At Lambeth, on the 7th inst., Joseph Wilron, Esq., of Char- mioutb, Dorset, to Mary Ann, younge^t daughter ef the late John Colas, E.sq., of Trinity-lane. At Bow Church, Middlesex, on Thursday, the 7th it%L, Mr. Thomas NVardlc. of Lad-lane, to MSirs Alrwha Newbery, third daughter of Richard Newbery, E-aq., of Bowr. On the 7th il5t., at St. Andrew ? Church, by the Rev. Robert Black. John Gtrnner, Esq-, to Julia, second daughter of the late John Toulkes, Esq., of Elstead, SEurrey. On the 7th inst., at Rickmansworth, W- Wells, };sq., ^o Ann 5 eldest daughter of Richard Pinder, Etq.
Court Of Common Pleas, Gu...
The Times, 1824-12-14T00:00:00

(Before Lgrd Chief Jnstice BEST and a Common Jurui. J l-ls was an action tar an assault alleged to have been committed by the defendant on the plaintiff. The plaintiff, Joseph Cohen. is a cabinet-maker; the defendant, Phineas Davies, is a sheriff's officer, residing in Fetter-lane. It appeared from the evidence of two wit- nesses, that the plaintiff on the 26th of August last was walking in Duke's-place, and was met by the defendant, who struck him a blow which broke the bridge of his nose. The plaintiff ran away, and in running fell. Defendant then came up with him, and notwithstand- ing that plaintift called out that he could not and would not fight, kicked him while on lhe ground. A surgeon proved the extent of the injury whtich plaintiff had sufFered. For the defence. a witness was callcd who swore that the plaintiff began by using Tery irritating language to defendant; had asked"what had become of his perjured brother-in-law," and atlength spatin his fice; and that it was in consequence of this the defendant had struck him. It should be mentioned that one of the plaintiff's witnesses spoke of this witness as having been present at the transaction, and that he heard him. call out to defendant, "O lve it him well, Davies; it will all go in the same expense." The Jury, af'ter heatring his Lordship'st summning up, consulted together forashorttime,andstated that they were unanimous in not believing the defendant's witnes8; they therefore found a verdict for the plaintiff-Damages 201. 'Ihe court was crowded with Jews during the trial. No other case wrorth notice came on during the dav. COURT OF' COMnhnN PT.V .,, .- ...i . ... r _.. 19 COHEN V. DlAVIP.S.
House Of Lords, Wednesday...
The Times, 1824-05-06T00:00:00

I PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. .Mr. B]io GDEw, accompanied by severaI other gentlemen of the House of Commons, brought up the following bills, which were laid upon the table,and subsequently read a first time :-The sugar bous- ties bill, the rum iniportation bill, the county courts bill, the mili- tia pay bill, and the British Aluseum bill. The M1arquis of IsANSDOWN presented a petition from a class of persons in Dublin called " Separatista," who embraced a great number of the religioos tenets of Quakers, and praying to be relieved from the disabilities under which they laboured. The Earl of GOSFORD presented a similar petition from the same elass of persons residing in Belfast, Armagh, and E?ortadown. Both petitions were ordered to be laid on the table. ENOILISH CATHOLICS. The AMarquis of li,ANSDOWN brought in a bill to render the English Roman Catholics eligible to certain offices. The effect of the bill, his lordship said, was (togetler with the bill which he had laid on their lordslhps' table before the recess, both of which formed but one measure) to place the Roman Catholics of Great Britain on the same footing as the Roman Catholics oflreland. As soon as they were printed, it was his intention to move the second reading of boh the bills on the same day, for which purpose he moved that the house should be sumzmoned for Menday se'nnight, The bill was then read the first dime.-Adjourned. I TNOTT.R. OF LORDS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 5.
Deaths
The Times, 1824-09-16T00:00:00

DIED. On Monday last. at Brough-Hall, after a few days' mrness, Catha- rine, ladv Lawson, aged 54, wife of Sir l3enri' Lawavn, ef Brough- H all, in the county of York, art., and daugbter of the Ur 6Hmery Fermor, of Worcester, Esq. On the 6th inst., Anmeliat Catherine Carpur, eldest daughfLr of Joseph Constantine Carpue, Esq.. of Dcaa. street, Soho. On the 33th inst., at Ipswich, Liettenant-(eneral John Prince, aged ,4. On Taesdla. the 14th inst., at Newington*place, Kenunirgton, I 9arah. wife of h2r. William Dawson.
Covent-Garden Theatre.
The Times, 1824-10-04T00:00:00

The lively comedy of Tle Isnconstaut was acted at this house on Saturday evesing. With a little pruning of the original dialogue, the characters and incider7ts are fair and free from objection, and we have not, as in The Bate's Stratagem all the author's wit and wilfularrangement of circumstance appliea tomake a very (lisrespect- able woman show very attractive and fit for imitation. A disposi- tion to shun such entertainments as have this tendency, however is decidedly a feature in the dramatic taste of the present dak'. Wycherley is quite laid aside-C-onareve appears but seldorm, and still more rarety atUracts money. The Inronstatt was well acted en Saturday night; Ml r. Charles Kemoble's comedy certainly g-ts more freedom than it h.sd. The d'fficult point in his acting used alwvays to be, that he couild not descend; but he got over that in his Charles the Sscond, where he made the sailor's disguise as good aS any thing we ever saw. A great deal of his Afirabel deserves equally to be commended. The early scenes were verv light and elegant- the serious part lie always played extremely well; and the busincss in the last act-the ring-the recovery of the watch-and the episode of the bravo's nose-was less svlemn, but as whimsical and viva- cious as our friend Biliston in iiis best day. Airs. Chatterley played Bizanrre: there seems to be no reason why liss Chester should not try what she can do with it. Jones, in Duretete. was smart and pleasant, as he always is. IHis points always readv and exact, and his " business" executed to the brea.dth of a hair. It is quite a relief, after such people as we have been poisoned with all the sum- nier at the Haymarket, to see an actor upon the stage who can look and mriove a little like a gentleman. COVENT.GARDEN THEATRE.
To The Editor Of The Time...
The Times, 1824-12-31T00:00:00

Stir,-I rcad in yoiur estimable paper, ptbllshed to-day, a letter signcd " A Man," suggesting the idea of dividing the subsoription amnongst the SPanirh and Italian refugees according to their rank,' or, which is the xame thing, the pav they received when under the colouzw of their respective country. At the firat examnination,, tihat suggestion seenis very equitabic but on considering the matter n mofe carefully, I beg leave to say that I am quite of a conttrary opinion: my reasons to think so are the following-viz., Igt, Mlis. fortune weighs equally upon the head of petit-officer or private, and the General; 2d, the Colonel ig no moTe obliged in thia country to keep his horses, to wear expensive uniforms, invite his officers at dinner, &c. ; 3d-and I think the beat of all- that while the Colonel, the Licutenant.Colonel, and even the Cap- tain shiall have more than is strictl7 necessary to live upon, the Lieutenant. the Alf'crez (the lowest rank amongst the offices). and the petit-officer shall starve. I am almost sure, Sir, that should the proscribed Generals, Colonels, &c., be consulted upon the fact, thev would answer immediately, " Let us divide equally with otiu brethren) in arms: here we are nobody btit reftgees." Could I be permitted, Sir, to make anQtheg remark ? Why the French should not be entitled, as well as the Spanish and Italian refugees, to share the relief granted by the British generosity ? If they are less in number, if their voice,the groans of' misery, have not been heard. they (lo not suffer less, they do not rant less to be pitied and helped. I am. Sir. vour gob nfirnt,v .nf Dec. --. A PROSCRIBED COLONEL. "..1uguatg,e ex our 4cerrespontueRwt- ietter,4tFi~ogh e de'tir'e&di't: for, wbeni the meaning is suffciently cIeiur.-the expression isof eompaiatively little CORsequence. TO TIBE EDITOR OP THE TIAPES. ..
High Court Of Admiralty, ...
The Times, 1824-05-12T00:00:00

r Lord STOW ?.L gave sentence in this- cue O-wday . and after com- meuting upon the desecriptiqn of the voyage for which thc Vartiei I claimiiig wates bad engaged-as that description appeared in the heading Qf the artiudes-he expressed his opinion, that the men were by no means bound, after their arrival in the Downs, to proceed to Holland, that if the Master persisted in iailing for a Dutch port, when tdie aareemner.t with the mariners was expressly for a voyage " from London to.New South Wales, viaCoik, and elsewhere, and back to the port of London," the men were justified in declining to continue with himi tfer that which was, in fact; a new trip; and that their ieaving the vessel under snch circumstan3es Was not ajdeser- ton, nor any thing tbat- could, in fair constrtction, be: said to resemble z desertion. If the.refusal ofthe seamen to preceed to Holland were to-be considered a desertiDn, it woluld be difficult to .define the understanding of any terms that affected -to inmpose any lnitatiisns -wlatever upon voyages. If theone-party was tobebound by rhelanguage-of the agreement, soshould the other prty be ant that 6iheryartty had stipulated with the men, that from the port at which tbeir outward voyage might terminate, they should :returm. not to Rotterdam,-or elsewhere, and LUndonrbut to the port of Lori- don. Under the circmistances . of-the -case, -the C{oort pronouriced- the wages clWitnediby the mariners to- be due; and condemnned the master and iwners ll all the cost3Af the-proceedizngs in this Corrt. HIGH COURT OF AD,IIRALTY:. TvirnAm- lt,- if THE COIwTFrRS fF ----