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ON POLITICS, DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND THEATRICALs,

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PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY John HUNT, AT THE EXAMINER OFFICE,

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 I N ID E X.

[The Reader will be pleased to observe, that many names of articles in the following Inder, must be sought for
under the same general heads as those adopted in the Examiner. Thus the reviews of books he will find under the
head of “LITERARY Notices;” the remarks on works of art, exhibition of pictures, &c. under that of “FINE
ARTs:” the dramatic critiques under that of “Theatrical ExAMINER;” the chief political articles under that
of “Political ExAMINER,” or under the date of “London;” the foreign news either included in “Foreign
INTELLIGENCE,” or in the SUMMARY of News, headed “London” (where it is placed when it arrives very near
the time of publication); the occurrences in the country, including assizes, under the head of “PRovincial
HNtelligence;” the trials in the metropolitan courts under the head of “Law;” communications from corre
spondents included in the title of “Letters to the Editor;” the other heads lain themselves; and the
miscellaneous articles, which do not come under any general classification, will all be found according to the
initials of their titles. Still, when anything of special importance occurs (such as the Manchester affair), it is
frequently made a subject of itself, and taken the usual heads; which plan will be of course followed in the
Index.)
A

A. Criticisms upon THE BAR.—No. 20, and last: Messrs. Cullen,

Accidents Offences, &c.—Inquisition on Stephen Yates, a mi Horne, Heald, and Wingfield. 12
ser, p. 16... A dropped child, 31, 47... Hydrophobia, 48,480, Calendar of Nature—January, 13.. February, 95... March, 159,
528. Melancholy suicides, 176,608.. Executions, 48, 128, ... April, 223,... May, 303. June, 363. July, 431... August,
208,240,272, 416, 496, 502,720,768.. Dreadful fire 208.. 495... September, 574... October, 639... November, 718..
Shocking murders, 336, 591... Dreadful accidents, 432, December, (see the paper of January, 23, 1820).
... Mysterious case, 527. A human being suffered to die in Correa, Don Diego, continuation of documents relative to the
treatment of, 18 -

the street, 656

Ariosto, birth-day of, 604 Court AND FAshionAbles.—The Queen's Will, 23... Observa
tions on it, 60... Accouchements of the Duchesses of
Arbitrary imprisonment, 567
America and the Quarterly Reviewers, 403 Clarence and Cambridge, 236...Breaking of the Duke of
York's arm, 250... Persian Ambassador and the fair Circas
Automaton chess-player, description of the, 191
American affairs, 83 sian, 281, 315. Prince Leopold, 360... The Princess of
Atrocity of a gamekeeper, 155 Wales, 442, 520,685. Answer to the City Address, 602..
Opening of Parliament, 766. Movements of the Regent,
ſº 602
Cavanagh, John, a famous fives-player, account of, 94
Buonaparte, extracts from the “Letters from Count las Casas.” Cruelty arising from want of reflection, remarks on, 140
respecting, 162, 178, 243. Extract from Hazlitt's “Politi Court of Chancery, abuses in the, 434, 468,482,498,610, 723,
cal Essays,” containing remarks on his political career, 524 (continued in 1820)
Births, extraordinary, 16, 32, 96, 176,224 Country people, character of the, 450
Beau Brummell, the character of his jokes, 831 Cap of Liberty, 553
Brougham, speech of Mr. at Kendal,651 Case of distress, 655
Borough Reform 243
Breaking up of the Great School, 427 -
City. Mr. Williams and the Lord Mayor (Atkins), 44, 106,462
... Election in Wallbrook ward, 62. Common prostitutes,
Burdett, Sir Francis, his Letter to the Electors of Westminster, 105... State of London bridge, 106... Delay of business, 176..
on the Manchester atrocities, 551.. Indications of a prose
Conduct of the Lord Mayor (Atkins), 415.494. More plots,
cution against him on account of the letter, 551. His ac 478... Outrage at Manchester, 588. Alderman Waithnian
knowledgement of it, 57.1 accused of impropriety by the Lord Mayor (Atkins), 604..
C The (same) Lord Mayol's refusal to convene a Common
hall, 605. Ward-meetings respecting the Manchester out
Cobbett, Mr. Letters to and from, 3... Controversy respecting rage, 622,623,639... Dispute of the Sheriffs, 636... Election.
him, in consequence of those letters, 34, 50, 67,.. His re. of Mayor, 637, 655.. Disturbances in Guildhall, 655,733,.
turn to England and first proceedings, 766,782. His lecture Lord Mayor's day, 733. Right of the Livery to meet in.
on temperance at the Crown and Anchor tavern, 811. His Common hall, 748
attempted reconciliation with Sir F. Burdett, 826 Catholic claims, 268, 273
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Crook, case of George, 345, 354 Hunt, Mr Henry, his triumphant entry into London, and dinner
Causes of our Comestic dissensions, 627 at the Crown and Anchor tavern, 605. His attack on the
Correspondence, miscellaneous (being the substance of various Manchester subscription committee, 768
letters to the Editor); Clerical Magistrates—The oath and Hobhouse, John Cam. Esq. his commitment to Newgate for an
the shilling—Bon mot—Post-office, 702. Case of R. Mc. alleged breach of privilege, 815.. Meeting of the Westmin
Nicholl, 717. Persecution, 717,718. ster Electors respecting it, 815. His Reply to their address,
812.. [For the Debutes respecting the Breach of Privilege,
D see “Proceedings in Parliament;" and for this gentleman's
Dean, Robert, remarks on the execution of, 459 speeches, see the meetings of the Pºestminster Electors,
Deaths.-Of Peter Pindar, 48... Of Colonel O'Dogherty, an ec letter //J I
centric character, 96... Of John Sackhouse, an Eskimaux,
144. Of James Sandy, a remarkable mechanic, &c. 222.. Indicator; a new weekly literary publication, 665. Indicator
Professor Playfair, 496. The Prussian General Blucher, 640 and Examiner, 714
Dilemma of Persecutors, 691 Impostor at Taunton, 796
Death-beds of Voltaire, Luther, Calvin, &c. some accunt of the, K
585
Kinlock, Mr. of Kinlock, the speech of, at the Dundee radical
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reform meeting, 740. Banished the Kingdom for non-ap
Ellenborough, will of Lord, 45... Observations on it, 61 pearance in court, to defend himself from a charge of Se
East Indian atrocities, 125 dition, raised on that speech, 825
Excise proceedings, 207
Ex-officio informations, 767, 831 L
Letter to the Electors of Westminster, 2
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Love in criminal life, 412
Forms of Parliament, 127 Leitens to the Eurror.—An injury to tradesmen, 23. Sir
Foreign INTeLLIGExce.—Decrees of the French King, 6, 162.. Samual Romilly, 26. Character of the farmers, 27..
Arbuthnot and Ambrister, 39, 195. Debates on the Mr. Hobhouse and Morniug Post, 27... Major Rochefort,44,
Projets respecting the liberty of the Press in the French 61.. Report on Bank-note forgery, 107... Mr. Lamb, 123..
Chambers, 195, 245, 26.1, 274, 323. Cession of Florida, Nickname of Ferdinand VII, 155.. Petition of the London
195. Assassination of M. Kotzebue, treatment of his assas Clergy, 175. Miss O'Neil, 17 1... W. P. Rogers and the
sin Sandt, &c. 211, 227, 244, 245, 355, 754. Expulsion of Reverend W. Butler, 2.5. Horse-dealing extraordinary,
the Jews from Meiningen, 355.. French Finances, 371.. 271... Subscription for Mr. Rogers, 462. Insolvent debtors,
Amusing Debates in the French Chambers, 405, 786.. 466. The late R. J. Kirton, esq. 443. Adjournment of the
change in the Spanish Ministry. 419. Disturbances Manchester inquest, 686, 702 - 1)ilemma of persecutors
in the French Law School, 435. Attempted assassina 691... Extraordinary distress, 7 18.. Naval methodism, ††
tion of M. Ibel, by Leichning, 453. Political Discontent Price of worship, 732.
in Germany, 469, 484, 485, 500, 515, 678, 691, 692,.. [For various letters, given in an abridged form, see “Corre
Trial of M. Sarrazin, for bigamy, 484..Trial of Professor spondence, Miscellaneous,” letter C.
Bavoux, for sedition, 500. Excesses against the Jews in Legal Injustice, 818
Germany, &c. 572, 593. Elections of the French Deputies, Literary Notices.—Moore's Melodies, 11, 43... Mr. Hazlitt's
612. Intelligence from South America, 678... Anniversary letter to Mr. Gifford, 156, 17 l. Works of Charles Lamb,
of the deliverance of Germany celebrated in Switzerland, 137, 204.. Mr. Hazlitt's Lectures on the comic writers,
708. Dreadful earthquake in the East Indies, 725... German 250, 362. Peter Bell, a lyrical ballad, 270.. Mr. Words
censorship, 724. Change in the French Ministry, 754. worth's Peter Bell, 282... Rosalind and Helcn, a modern
New creation of French Peers, 754... Speech of the King of Eclogue, with other poems, by Percy Shelley, 302. Dram
France at the opening of the Chambers, 771. Debate in atic Scenes and other poems, by Barry Cornwali, 333, 345
the French Deputies respecting the Abbé Gregoire, 786. ... Original letters of Sir John Falstaff and his Friends, now
Another failure of Macgregor in South America, 819 first made public by a descendant of Dame Quickly, 569..
Fine Arts.—Case of Mr. Clennel, 11... British Institution, 92, Nuga Canorae, poems by Charles Lloyd, 685... Don Juan,
106, 124, 139, 156, 173,271,284. Drawings from the Cantos first and second, 700. A trifling mistake in Thomas
Cartoons, by Mr. Haydon's Pupils, 93, 140. Attacks on Mr. Lord Erskine's recent Preface, &c, 715.. The Duties of
Haydon, 157, 174. Sir J. Leicester's Gallery, 189,206,232, Christians towards Deists, a sermon, by W. J. Fox, 746..
253. Spring Gardens Exhibition, 284,300, 318, 335. Mr. Sketches of prevailing manners and opinions, by Hannah
Fawkes' Collection, 285... Description of the Cartoon of the More, 813.
Sacrifice, 285, 300. Royal Academy, 299, 318, 335, 348, Law, Ward v. Clement, for libel, 62. Bank prosecutions, 63
361, 382, 397, 413,429,444,461. Etching from Mr. Clen ... Temple v. Poulett, for crim, con—The King v. Bowditch
nel's picture, 430.. Mr. Mudie's grand series of medals, 476 and others, for abduction, 111.. Gambling, 128. Cruelty to
... Engraved views in Sussex, 508. Mr. Vandramini's large a child, 128. Detention of a forged bank-note—Ransom v.
engraving, 552... Mr. Mudie's pattern crown piece, 587. Fish, 142... Lord Howard v. Morris, for libel, 142... Butt v.
The late E. Bird, esq. R. A. 798. Embellished (or engrav Sir N. Conant and Mr. Newmam, for false imprisonment,
ed) literary publicatiations, No. 1, Peak Scenery, 829 144. Liability of surgeons, 160...Quack doctors, 160..
Thackaray v. Bignold, for libel, 160... Westminster election
G
192. Conviction of two brothel keepers, 255.. Mercantile
Grey, Earl, and Reform, 61 conspiracy, 272,287, 319, 336, 351.. Lady Herbert against
Galvanism, curious experiment with, 103 Lord Herbert, for restitution of conjugal rights, 287.. Steal
Glenn, Miss Maria, observation on the abduction of, 126. Pro ing money letters, 287.. Seduction, 287. Fraser v. Fraser;
ceedings relative to the persons convicted of carrying her for adultery, 319.. Spight v. Olivera, for seduction, 35"..
off, 141 Trial of Charles Rennett, for child-stealing, 352. . Morris v.
Gospel, impudent mode of propagating the, 510 Mackinnon, for slander, 364...Morris v. Hunt, to recover
German Universities, 730 one-third of the Westminster election expenses, 364..
Churchill v. The Eraminer, for libel, 364, 399... Blenheim
H
gold plate pawned by the Duke of Marlborough, 383,400,
“How to turn a penny;” or an ingenious contrivance of a 462, 479. Trial of J. Gutch, for libel, 383... Mr. Carlile, 399
Secretary of State, 621 ... Wright v. Dolby, for libel, 399.. Sullivan against Sullivan
Hazlitt, Mr. his character of Sheridan, 25. His Lectures at the 399. Iron coffins, 432. Peacock v. Derbyshire, for crim.
Surry Institution, 714, 728, 7.45, 782. His account of the con. 445... Jewell v. Belshaw, and Wishart, the Earl of Sef
Reformation, and character of Christ, 747. His character ton, &c. v. Sir F. Burdett and Place, for damage done by the
of Jeremy Taylor's writings, 814. His character of Lord Westminster election mob, 445.. Teasdale v. Clement, for
Bacon 830, libel, 446..Journeymen coachmakers' conspiracy, 446.
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Morgan v. Tomlyne, for debt, 446. Levy v. Roberts, for
trespass, 447. Bondermalle v. Bamfyle, for breach of
promise of marriage, 447. Hayes v. Reynolds, for libel, 447
Throwing rubbish into the Thames, 463. Grampound bri
bery, 463... Rhodes v. Leech, for an asault, 463 Spence v.
Cole, for breach of promise of marriage, 463. Adultery,
Proctor v. Proctor, 463. Right of a Rector to preside at
vestries, 465,.. Witte v. Arney, &c. for debt, 479..
Andros v. Amstice, for an assault, 480. Steam boats, 480. .
Seditious placards, 574. Iron coffins, 608..Trial of Mr.
Stent, 60.1 ... Indictments for seditious libels 624. Mrs. Rid
ding tried for child-stealing,624. The trial of Mr. Carlile for
re-publishing Paine's Age of Reason, 666. Do. for publish
ing Palmer's Principles of Nature,672. Horne v. Bentinck,
for libel, 628..Trial of John Homesby, for the murder of
his wife, 703... Manchester magistrates, 733.. Oldham In
quest, 734, 750, 784. Manchester outrage, 735, 751, 784,
Mr. Carlile's motion for a new trial, 735. Prosecutious
against the newsmen, 735..Sentence on Sir M. Lopes, &c.
for bribery and corruption, 749... Criminal information
against Mrs. Carlile, 749. The Bowditches, 750. Seutence
on Mr. Carlile,750... Sentence on Mr. Swann for bribery,751 PARLIAMENT, PRoceedings IN –Opening of Parliament and
Sentence of Mr. Russell, for libel, 751 Magisterial severity,
The King v. Thompson, 751.. Civic dispute 752.. Outrage
at Coventry, 752,766... Macironi v. Murray, for a libel in the ... Custody of the King's person 69... Convict ships—Dr.
Quarterly Review, 798. Wright v. Clement, for a libel in
Cobbett's Register, 7.99.. Stockdale v. the Examiner, for a
libel, 799. M 72, 73. Forgeries, 72. Bank of England, 71, 72,228, 229
Marriage ceremony, protest against the, 224.
Mercantile conspiracy and trial by jury, 298.
Manufacturing distresses, 415.
Manchester Magistrates and Yeomanry, thanks of the Prince
Regent to, 551..
Manchester reform meeting—its dispersal by the military, 539
..further accounts from Manchester, 556, 571. [See for the
rest Protincial Intelligence]
Mwaterial attempts upon the Press, 707.
Methodistical familiarity with Heaven, 556, 567.
Manchester executioners, Corporal Trim's opinion of the, 722.
N Wales, 119, 197, 420, 424. Cotton Factories, 134, 388..
Newcastle Fox dinner, 24.
New house that Jack built, 652.
o army in India, 149, 152... Slaves in the West Indies, 149..
Owen, Mr. his address to the working classes, 258. Meetings in *
favour of his plan, 418, 493. -
P Half-pay Officers, 153. Public or Bank balances, 164, 166,
Political ExAMINER.—State of the World, 1... Lord Ellenbo
rough, 17, 33... Opening of Parliament, Speech, &c. 49..
Crowding of convicts in prison-ships, 65. The case of Wil
liam Paul Rogers, a persecuted stationer at Chelsea, 81–
(See, letter R.J.. American affairs, 83. Lord Castlereagh,
and his answer to the Italian 1)eputies, 97... Westminster
Election, 1 13, 129, 145. East Indian atrocities, 125.
Treatment of Napoleon, with a notice of the new oligarchi
cal phrase—“Consent of an English minister,” 161.. Re
monstrance of Don Alvaro Florez Estrada, 177... Addition
of 10,000l. a year to the 60,000t. already received by the
Duke of York, 193. Church corruptions, with an outline
of Mr. Bentham's plan for Church Reform, 209...Assassi
nation of Kotzebue, 225. The Persian Ambassador and his
•ountrymen, 241. Burgh Reform, 243. Mr. Owen's plan
for villages of co-operation, 257, 417. Execution of Robert
Dean, 259... Catholic emancipation, 273... Case of M. de
Maubreuil, and alledged orders to assassinate Napoleon,
229...Sovereigns of the world,305,322. Ex-officio informa
tions filed against Richard Carlile, 321, 337, 401.. State of
the country, 323. Account of that remarkable politician
Mr. Parish Bull, 353. Case of George Crook, 354..The
new taxes, 369,385. Sir W. Burroughs—Taunton repre
sentation, 326. Insolvent Debtors, 433,466. Speech from
the Throne-Emigration,449. Reform meetings in various
§. of the country, 465. Imputed ignorance of the lower
rs, 481. Lamented irreligion of the Reformers, 497..
*reasing dispute between the Reformers and their Oppo
ments, 513. Disturbances at Manchester, &c. 529, 545..
Somersetshire Politics-A new Protestant Champion, 531..
Trials for bribery, 547. Liberation of Hunt, his examina
tion, &c. 361.. Arguments of the Reformers, how unet by
the Corrupt, 562. Reformers their own advocates, 577..
Lancaster grand juries, and Manchester Magistrates and
Coroners, 593. Special absurdities of the Courier on the
subject of the present public meetings, &c, 609... More ab
surdities of the Courier, respecting the trades of the Re
formers, &c., 625.. Clerical magistrates, 641. Trials of Mr.
Carlile 657. Late trials of Mr. Carlile, being an answer to
an article in the Times, point by point, 673. Reply of the
Times writer, 689.. State of the country and cause of it—
The Whigs 705. Ministerial attempts upon the Press, 707
... Illegal protests against pretended illegality, 721... Corpo
ral Trim's opinion of the Manchester executioners, 722.
Convictions for bribery, 737... Opening of Parliament, 753
... Proposed despotic measures, 769, 785. A specimen or
two of the intellectual faculties of my Lord Liverpool, 201
... An Euglish Christmas in 1819, 817. A legal injustice,
818.
choice of Speakers, 39...Regent's Speech and addresses on
it, 53. Prisons, 69, 134, 149... Criminal law, 69, 70,99, 149
O, Halloran, 70, 71. Bank Restriction and Cash Payments,
71, 85, 87, 228, 229, 230, 324, 339, 340... Price of silver,
... Licencing system, 72,214... Petition from Mr. Hunt, 72
... Repurt of the Commissioners appointed for inquiring into
the mode of preventing the forgery of Bank-notes, 73.
Supply, 85, 409... Westminster hustings bill, 85, 87, 98..
Insolvent debtors, 85, 181,329, 391, 436,438,808. Wind
sor establishment, and Grant to the Duke of York, 84, 82,.
134, 136, 196, 212.. Case of Dennis Sullivan, a poor sailor,
87. Holy Alliance, 98.. Finance State of the Country, 99,
356. Poor Laws, 100, 198, 310, 376, 436...Quarantine
Laws, 100. Climbing boys and chimney sweepers, 100, 119,
179, 215.. Slave trade, 119,438. High roads, 119... Appli
cation of Revenue without the authority of Parliament,
l 19, 438... Transportation of convicts, 119. New South
Breach of privilege, Hon. W. Quin and T. Grady, 135, 136,
149, 166, 199, 213.. Corruption at the borough of Penryn,
136, 163,311...Thanks to the Marquis of Hastings and the
Coal tax, 149, 328.. Scotch burghs, 149, 197. Laws res
pecting capital punishments, 150, 437. Assessed taxes, 152,
310, 356. Catholic emancipation, 152, 196, 291, 324..
181. Corruption at Barnstaple, 174, 218, 310, 326..Game
laws, 165, 182, 312.. Excise Informations, 165, 215, 328,
406, 437. Madhouses, 166, 406..City gaols, 166... Aliens'
bill, 180,217.. Mutiny bill and corporal punishments, 180,
... Judicial system in India, 180... Westminster election pe
tition, 181,216... Marriage act, 181,275, 391... Salt duties,
181,275. Junior Lords of the Admiralty, 182. Civil con
tingencies, 182.. Trial by battle, and law of appeal, 119,
183, 197.. Statute Law of Scotland 197, 215.. London cler
gy, 198,213, 230, 262, 311... Breach of privilege—the sol
dier Stynton, 199,215.. Petition of Mr. O'Hara, 199. De
lay in courts of equity, 215.. Burgh of Aberdeen, 216..
Cruelty at Ilchester, 216... General Gourgaud—Alien act,
217.. Bankrupt laws, 217, 296. Disease in Ireland, 231..
Female convicts, 231... Oxford election--Breach of privilege,
231...Bank of lreland, 230... Lead mines, 263.. Habeas Cor
pus suspension, 263. Fines for illicit distillation, 216, 296,
329, 420, 436. The lottery, 293. Publicans' licenses, 293,
436... Irish window tax, 294... Scotch Burghs, 295... Reports
of the Bank committees, and debates on them, 294, 309,
324, 339, 340... Army estimates, 295, 309... Florida—Ar
buthnot and Ambrister, 302. Cbarge of injustice, 310..
Ophthalmie establishment, 311... Exemption of the Royal
Family from turnpike tolls, 311... Riband and silk weavers,
31 1... Bill to prevent enlistments in Foreign service, 312,
356,376, 406, 419.. Sinking Fund, 312, 420.. Case of Cap
tain Hauchett, 325. State of the Nation, 326. Conveyan
cers, 328. Bankruptcy business, 328.. Article in the Cou
rier, 329, , Cession of Parga, 341, 389, 390... Navy and ord
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nance estimates, 355.. Test oaths’ abrogation bill, 372..
l)istress for taxes, 372. New taxes, 372, 374, 391... The
Budget, 374. Gaol delivery, 375.. Colonies, 375. The
Times newspaper—Breach of privilege, 388, 389, 390..
Charitable foundations, 389, 407... More breaches of privi
lege, 390. Frame-work knitters, 405. Peculation, 406..
Scotch courts, 408. Lord Selkirk and the North West Com
pany, 409. Bank notes, 420.. Corruption at Grampound,
420, 436. Parliamentary reform, 421. Duke of Kent's lot
tery, 423. Corruption at Camelford, 424, 436, 438. Vac
cination, 438. Emigration, 454... Finance—Napoleon Buo
naparte, 454... Storekeeper-General's department, 454...
Prorogation of Parliament, 453. Opening of Parliament in
- November, 755.. Great debates on the address—State of the
country—Proceedings at Manchester, &c. 756, 758, 760,
762. New despotic measures, 772, 773, 774, 777, 787,
738, 7.29, 790, 791, 792, 804, 805, 806, 808, 819, 820, 821,
822. Enquiry into the state of the nation, 772, 776.. Cash
Payments, 772, 823. Finance, 774, 822. Manchester peti
tion for inquiring into the Manchester outrages, 774. Ab
stract of the papers laid before both Houses relative to the
internal state of the country, 779. Protests against the Poetry Selected —A hint to the greater Criminals who de
new despotic measures, 789. Outrage at Coventry, 790.
Reform of Parliament, 790. Inquiry into the disturbed dis
tricts, 793. Breach of privilege by Mr. Hobhouse, 794, 804,
. Borough reform, 806. Relief of the Poor—Mr. Owen's.
plan, 809... Chelsea pensioners, 821. Specimens of Lan
ca-hire magistrates and juries, 821. London Merchants'
petition, 823.
Post-office, tricks of the, 509.
Parliament, character of the late session of, 47 l.
Parliamentary reform, 605.
Philosophical society of London, 61.
Pedestrian carriage, account of the, 239.
Paddington parish, 255.815, 827.
Shocking murder, 533. Bills of indictment presented to the
Chester Grand Jury,579. Conspiracy to excite tumult, 579
... Proceedings of the Lancaster Grand Jury, 579,-which
are illustrated in a letter from Mr. Pearson, 580. Assault
and false imprisonment, 595. -
Parga, desertion of, by its devoted inhabitants, 490.
PoETRY ORIGINAl:—Lines to J. W. Croker,90... Droggel verses;
by persons of distinction, 169. Ode on a distant prospect of
the Treasury Benches, 3.16... Sonnet on working on Sun
day, 396. Vansittart, a ballad, 396. The fair tobacconist
of Covent Garden, 459. Movements of the come-eat, 460
... Calvin's hymn, 526. A hate song, 537.. Sonnet written
at Cambridge, 552.. The Manchester yeoman, 567... The
Chary Manchester chairman, 567. The Lord-Mayor aud
the Butcher, 525. Lawyer's Lament, or the Fees in Dan
ger, 6.19.. Saint Crispin to Mr. Gifford, 635. Lines to the
Moon, 652... Reverend Magistracy, 684... Chopping Logic,
678. A new Chaunt for St. Stephen's Chapel, 715.. The
loyal Speech-maker te his Reporter, 731.. Macbeth Re
divivus, 765. The intelligence of the Debates vindicated,
797.
clare against the vices of the poor and uneducated, 90..
Extracts from Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress;-Intro
duction, 237. Account of the grand set-to between Long .
Sandy the Bear, and Georgy the Porpus, 253..The Jovial
Priest's confession, 383. Extracts from “Hero and Lean
der, by Leigh Hunt,” 429, 443. Lines written in Lancas
ter Castle, by S. Bamford, a weaver, 635. Ballade to a
fish of the Brooke, 731... The cession of Parga, 731.. Miss
Kelly as Edmond in the “Blind Boy,” 731.
PRAETERNATURAL. History.—No. 1, The Bicaud, or two-tailed
Gabbler. 491...No. 2, The (Esophagus, or Glutton, 506..
No. 3, The Fire-Threatene, Star-gazing Howler, &c. 521.
Parish Meetings, 703, 719. - -

Private correspondence from Paris, 380. Public Meetings, 477, 511, 525, 536, 548,558, 564, 565, 642,
Pulpit ORAtomy—Introduction, 460. Rev. Daniel Wilson, 474, 643, 644, 694, 719, 732. [See also “Provincial lntelli
Dr. Collyer, 492.. The Rev. William Gurney, 523, (discon gence,” and for the meetings in Westminster, see letter W.]
, tinued.)
Polics:—Juvenile depravity, 30... Gross fraud, 30... Disturbance Q
caused by the disciples of Joanna Southcott, 47... Great dis Quarterly Review—Its misrepresentations with regard to Ame
tress, 223. Shocking intenperance, 255.. Irish paupers and rica, 403. Its illiberal notice of Mr. Shelley, 620, 635, 632
the new poor act, 304. Frauds in the coal trade, 319:: Mi
litary outrage, 367. Iron coffins, 384...Outrages at West R
End fair, 495. Extensive forgery, 495... Attempted destruc Revenue, statements of the produce of, up to 5th Jan. 1819,
tion of an infant, 496, 512. Curious dialogue, 511... At 24, 106. Up to 5th April, 237. Up to 5th July, 443. Up
tempted murder, 511, 526. Robbery at Flint's, 512. Sum to 10th Oct. 665.
mons against the Lorl-Mayor, 527. Final examination Riot in Edinburgh, at the execution of Samuel Johnston, 29,46.
of Stent, 543. Post-office robbery, 527. Prosecutions Rogers, William Paul, the case of, and lists of subscriptions,
against political publications, 559, 591,.608. The Lord for, &c. 81, 86, 123, 158, 169, 170, 235, 954, 240, 315,
Mayor and the Butcher, 575.. The Bank keys, 575, 591 332, 412, 426, 442, 459, 462, 477.
... The lost child, 575... Mr. Waddington the placard-bearer, Remonstrance of Don Alvaro Florez Estrada, extracts from the,
656. Information for using types and presses without a 178.
license, 704.. Robbery of Messrs. Longman and Co. 720.. Regal character, from “Hazlitt's Political Essays," 554,
A strong resemblance, 735..Wending of Sunday papers, 736
... A pious insulter, 752 S
PRovincial INtelligence:—Punishment inflicted on a quack,
228. Shooting at Birch the constable, 486... Public meetings Stokoe, treatment of Mr. at St. Helena, 707.
Sheriffs for 1819, l l I.
(in the country), 548,564, b05, 566,595,613,614,627 628,
642, 643, 644, 659, 660, 680, 694,709, 710,725,739, 755, Skegg, case of Francis, 141.
803. Proeeedings against the Reformers, and other matters specimen, curious one, of a court circular, 155.
connected with the violencies at Manchester, 579,580, 581, Spanish caricature, description of a, 185.
596, 597, 615,632, 648, 663, 678,679,.693, 709,725,739, State of the country, 323.
... Inquest on John Lees, 628,644, 661. Riots at Glasgow Southwark election, 414.
and Paisley, 598, 616. Inquest on Dalton, 649. Riot at specimen of “a Noble Marquis," 510,
Newcastle, 620,694. Postponement of the proposed Man Sudden death of a Noble Lord, 514.
Smithfield meeting, 558.
chester meeting on November 1st. 803.
Assizes:–Trial of a reverend libeller, 195.. Crim. Con.— Seduction, curious case of, at Calcutta, 745.
Gwynne v. Gwynne, 211. Robert Dean tried for murder, Stockdale, J. J. his action against the Examiner, 799. Re
marks on its result, 796.
212. Curious case of a quack doctor, 227... Trial of Mr.
Taylor, for libel, 245...Trial respecting the contagion of Somersetshire politics—A new Protestant champion, 531.
Stent, case of Mr. and Mrs. 588.
putrefaction, 246. Murders, 246,485, 501, 516,517, 595. Southwark,
Seduction, 262,469,485, 50l., Cutting and maiming, 485, meeting of the inhabitants of, to consider the
Spring guns, 486. Breach of promise of marriage, 50l. Manchester atrocities, 623.
Crim Con.-Shortt v. Bell, 50l.. Slander, 501. A reverend Sub-Pulpit oratory, 539.
intruder (Drake v. Venables,) 501.. Deprivation of a clergy SUMMARy of, And ReMARKs upon, the INTelligence of the
man, for misbehaviour, 502. False imprisonment in a mad week:—Change in the French ministry—State of Spain,
house, 515.. Rex v. Lopez, for bribery, 516. Coining, 516.. 7,76, 171. Death of the young Queen of Spain, 20, 41.
Rex v, Swann, for bribery, 532. Manslaughter, b$3. | Private letter from Dusseldorf, 20.. Cash payments, 57.
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Death of the old Queen of Spain, 75. Prussian constitu
tion, 29... Death of Charles the 4th–Ferdinand, 101..
Westminster election, 101.. Cant of the Courier about
impiety, 121. French election law, 137, 183, 200,. Death
of M. de St. Aulaire, a young Frenchman—Grant to the
Duke of York, 137... Bernadotte and the Bourbons, 153..
New creation of Peers by Louis 18th, 167, 183... Death of
Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, 184...Cession of the Flori Taunton Reformers, 488.
das and acquittal of Gen. Jackson by the American Repre Theatrical Examines.—Miss Kelly at Bath, 91.. Miss O'Neil,
sentatives, 200... London clergy, 200, 234. Assassination
of M. Kotzebue—State of Sandt, 219, 233,247,264, 313,
343, 357, 392. Arrest of Gen. Gourgaud, 219. Hon. W.
Quin–Scotch burghs and Aberdeen, 220... Report of the
Bank committee, 233..The Revenue—Mr. Bennet's mo
tion respecting female convicts, 234. Trial for libel, 248
... Curious debates on the press in the French Chambers,
264, 272, 330. North, and South America, and Spain,
265... Report of the Finance committee, 279. Catholic
question—Lotteries-Irish window, tax and treatment of
Ireland–Scotch burghs—Report of the Bank committee,
297, 298. King of Sweden, 313, 330, 343. Refusal of
Ministers to interfere respecting Arbuthnot and Ambrister
—Riband-weavers—Sinking Fund—Treatment of Sir F.
Burdett by the Whigs and Tories, 314. Debate on the
state of the nation, 330. Bank reports, 331, 343. Recal
of the French exiles, 357. Treatment of the Jews at Mein
ingen, 357..The Foreign Enlistment bill, 358, 379. Ac
tion of Lord Churchill against the Examiner, 358. Impri
sonment of Col. ...! royalist sermons,
377. Papal prohibition of Bentham's works—Alexander
and Bernadotte, 378, 439, 456. Accounts from South
America, 378, 392, 487, 503, 599... Ministerial imbeci
\ty—The Sinking Fund, 378,379. Treatment of Parga,
39?..Mr. Canning and the Times Reporter, 393. Lively
debate in the French Chamber of Deputies—Abuses in
charities, 409... Excise informations, 4io... Mad-houses—
Strange exposition in the Times, 411... Change in the
Spanish ministry, 425, 439. Defeat of Gen. Macgregor,
435. Sir F. Burdett's motion on Parliamentary Reform,
425. Attack by the police on the press at Warsaw, 440.
Actions against Sir F. Burdett and Mr. Place, fer damage
done at they estminster election,440,457. Attempted assas
sination of Mr. Ibel by Leichning,456. The Prince Regent,
456. Irritation and arrests in Germany, 470, 487, 502,
517, 535, 549, 566, 726. Smithfield meeting, 470.. Mili
tary insurrection at Cadiz, 486,502. Spirited conduct of
the Chambers of Deputies in Baden and Bavaria, 487, 503
... Mr. Justice Bailey, 503. Horrible attempt to murder,
504.. Coroner's Inquest at Manchester, 535. Disturb.
ances among the manufacturers, 550. Behaviour of the
Reformers and the Anti-Reformers, 566. Persecution of
the Jews, 582, 616. Common Council to consider the
Manchester atrocities, 582. Other matters connected with
those atrocities, 583, 618, 634, 697. Ministerial Congress
at Carlsbad, 599, 633. Religion in France, 600. Regent's
answer to the City address. 600... Paisley Riots, 600.
French elections, 616. Torture in Spain—Cadiz expedi
tion,617.. Public meetings to consider the Manchester vio
lences, 617,712.. TheWhigs—The Revenue—LondonGrand
Jury, 613. Inquest on John Lees, 634, 664. Publication
of evidence, 649. Approaching trial of Mr. Carlile, 650.
Despotic measures of the German Governments, 664, 696,
... Addition to the standing army and dismissal of Earl Fitz
william, 682...Riot on the Tyne, 682. German students
celebrating the deliverance of their country in Switzerland
–Wurtemberg and Bavaria, 712. Ex-officio informations
filed against the newsvenders, 727... Outrage at Coventry
–Seizure of Mr. Carlile's goods in part payment of his
fine, 743. Atrocious case ºf Meagher, the Manchester
yeomanry trum r, 743. Change in the French ministry
—Victory of the Patriots in South America, 763. French
h. and state of France, 781, . Oldham Inquest, Whigs, the, and Reform, 201.
. #: º: French Deputies, concerning the Abbe Wilkinson, case of Mr. 348.
Gregoire, 795. Breach of Privilege by Mr. Hobhouse, 795,
811.. Mr. Lambton's notice of a reform motion, 795,. Lord
John Russell's motion for a borough reform, 810, . New
despotic measures, 811. The new libel bill, 824.
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171.. Mr. Kean and the author of the Italians, 202. Large.
and small Theatres contrasted, 381. Drury-lane, with its.
new manager, Mr. Elliston, 602. On the acting of Munden,
736. Comparison between Covent-garden and Drury-lane,
766. Reply to some remarks in the Champion on the above
comparison.
Drury-Lane-Pantomime of Harlequin and the Dandy
Club, 10...The Heroine, a tragedy, 139. First part of Henry
4th-Castle of Wouders, 170. The Dwarf of Naples, ſº
; : The Italians, 322, 238,251.. Abulah, a pantomime, 252
Tragedy of the Carib Chief, 217.. Opening of the Theatre
under Mr. Elliston's management—Mr. Elliston in Rover.
the new singer, Miss Povey, and the new comic actor, Mr.
Butler, 653, 654. A musical piece called the Fisher.
*an's Hut, by the late Mr. Tobin, 683. Afterpiece of the
Disagreeable Surprise, 783.
Covent-Garden-Pantomime of Harlequin Munchausen,
10.. Mr. Hunt, a new singer, as Macbeth—The Beggar's
Opera, 91... A new tragedy by Mr. Shiel, 105..The Marriage:
of Figaro, 186... Mr. Yates as Falstaff—New afterpiece, 252
... A Rowland for an Oliver, 283. Afterpiece of Swedish
Patriotism, 332. Miss Tree, a singer from Bath, and Mr.
Phillips returned from America, 603. Farce of the Gnome
King, 655. Mr. Macready's Richard the Third, and a com
parison of it with Mr. Kean's, 699. A Short Reign and a
Merry one, a comic piece, 745... Mr. Macready's Coriola
nus, 783. Mary Queen of Scots, a new tragedy, borrowed
from the German of Scheller, 812.. The comedy of Errors,
made a musical piece, 828.
Italian Opera—Rossini's opera of L'Italiana in Algieri
Mad. Bellochi,77. La Modista Raggiratrice, a comie opera,
124. La Nozze de Figaro, 185...Ballet of Telemaque, 302.
Don Giovanui-Ballet of the Slave Merchant, 221... ii Bar
biere di Siviglia, 268. Monsieur and Madame Duport,
new lancers, 298. Mozart's opera of Il Flauto Magico,343
... L'Inganno Felice, by Rossini, and Il Fanatico per la
Musica, 490... opening of the Opera in December; Le
Nozze Le Figaro-The new performer, Signor Albert, 827
... Ballet of the Generous Sultan, 828.
English Opera-Opening of the Theatre—Miss Kelly
The Duenna—An Operetta, 396. The Jovial Crew, or the
Merry Beggars. 429... My Own Rival—Self-Sacrifice, a
melo drama, 473. One, Two, Three, Four, Five, by ad
vertisement, a musical sketch, and the new mimic, Mr.
Reeve, 473. The Hypocrite, made into an Opera, 491.
Belles without Beaux,505. A Walk for a Wager, 505, 506,
522. The Brown Man, 537. Tailors; or a Tragedy for
warm weather, 552. A Cure for Romance, 568.
Haymarket-Wet Weather, a new farce, 474. Ladies at
Home, or Gentlemen we can do without you, 522.. Farce
of Belford and Minton, 522.. Pigeons and Crows, 568.
Farewel address, 603.
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Valentine's day (14th of February), 108.
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Westminster, meetings of the Electors of 28, 78, 109, 191, *
349, 570, 797.
Westminster Election, 103, 114, 130, 146. Declaration of
Mr. Hobhouse's committee respecting it, 154.
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THE POLITICAL EXAMINER. Power; for observe, they keep possession of foreign
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Pors. countries to which they have no more right that Bosarants -
had to his: they pray, they withhold, they grasp, they'de
No. 560. r
ceive, they trample, they preach, they regret, they laugh,
*. and they lie. It is the old joke come to court. Haven
STATE OF THE WORLD, you tied up the Poles? Have you deceived the Italians?
- * | Have you'hartered and trucked the Norwegians 4. Have"
Turs is the commencement, if we are not much mistaken, ou-cribbed the Saxons? Have you cheated the universe? a
of one of the most important years that have been seen 'hen come up to prayers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
for a long while. . It is quiet; it seems peaceable to us That some of these persons mean well notwithstanding, *
here in Europe; it may even continue so, as far as any and think the world would not do better-without their "
great warfare is concerned; but a spirit is abroad, stronger pretty little personal expediences, we can readily believe;” “
than kings, or armies, or all the most predominant shapes' but they have either been sº badly and selfishly brought:
of prejudice-and-force. It is like the interval described up, or the possession of inordinate wealth and power is I
by the poet:— . . . . . . .. . such an intoxicating excitement, that they'are in the worst
- Norwar, nor battle's sound, , , , i.
Was heard the world around; -
state in the world for even conceiving the general welfare."
The idle spear and shield were high up hung 5. . They cannot, in their ealoukations, leave out their acquired”
The hooked chariot stood ". "- and habitual selfishness. And yet the pregress of know->
tº: . .# med th
with - *
ledge has touched even them init's birculation: and this is
sº the reason why they present such anomalous figures to the
* As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. 2. world. They would be thought reformers, but they are
This spiritis knowledge. The “sovran Lord” is that instinctively afraid of the word, and would-continued
gigantic sense of the general good which has awaked for spots. Theywould
*:::::: wouldwillingly
do something for reputations
do nothing, .sake; sake.
the first time in the known history of the world, and is
stretëhing his earth-thrilling limbs from Caucasus to the stand fingering their notes; in an imposing atti
Andes. So completely do all classes feel that something,
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as the phrase is, must be done; or rather, that this know
ledge, and this sense of the general good, must go on in
creasing, in consequence of the diffusion of the press and
the enormous growth of scientifie power, that the kings
and their ministers would willingly persuade us of the
comm ñéht of a sort of millenium under their auspices.
Soñé of theºand their advocates, who have not yet re: ! Now the world at large are far
ght of their own success, are even inclined
give any away; but in the mean time, one after one goes
into their packets. For Ciſkist's sake they would have:
no arthies; but for security's sake, they eliuse toºkeep
them; and they also thuse to dress up little princes in
uniforms; and to make Holy Alliances, which armies only'
can maintain.” " * * = *...* * * * * * -** ~)
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By do not actually do so, in the approach quence of the progress, of knowledge itself...which the
itself, that is to say, the reign of the saints privileged orders are of necessity slow tº Ana
thousand years, a religious golden age. we repeat out firm ‘conviction, that if the leadersºn ... "
The Emperor ºxaspei is a known mystic, Madame continue to remain” at their head, sº much the betterför
Knudesra, a polite Joanna Southcote whose person he themselves; if not," the world will do withºtº them.”
is said to have admired formerly till converted by the more Divine Right, Loyalty; and other perverted terms, are.
seasonable beauties of her mysticism; openly préâches a found to have no meanićg separate from the general géod: .
new order of things, of which “kings are the nursing and having no such meaning, they have iolºger anyº
fathers.” . And even the Courier, sly but at the same time meaning tº serve the purposes of the few, tºilihăcy.
bare-faced rogne, announces an era which is to “realize stands them in mbig stead. It is merely ºbstitiing one'ſ
the atmost dreams of philanthropic"enthusiash” wº name for another; because the thing hamed by it'hās beehº
3uote from memory, but his words are quite as strong. found wantiñg;-ahd because it has been find wanting,"
The meaning of all this is:-first, that the * men o the hāthe will not do. When the pebpſe ask for for
dºes ºvereally been puriºſitiºfºpºious equal rights and enjoyments, and are answered with siſchi
wonder by their success and apparent re-establishment; words as Legitimacy, they might as well be told of that
secondly,
come,
that their
they dare en
notpromises
go to war
haveforlostsometime to sign of the Leg. The flingias nothingtó déºwiſh die.
them their hūestion. “It fisd; but it is done with aid if kings'.
momentary †ity; and thirdly, hit º not hise to discuss it with'éâth other, the world-will qita
lead ...'. something else will. They make Hbly F them; and gö'oh, as it is prepared to db” already: 1ſ all
Alliances; are willing nevertheless to be thought knowing the queens of all the kings that evet lived were as chaºtaº
in aſ liberal . and meanwhile, on theyery threshold asicieſes (which, it: appears, was not the case).--if theyº
of their Eden, betray the worldly effects ºf their religious ! had been dumb, deaffilind, and insensible to all the en
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 ticements of courts, times, manners, a - ; and in tative of the people; and it is not to the credit either of
continued meditations on the united virtues of Legitimacy his modesty, his-understanding, or his dignity of mind,
and Chastity, had even - that he should suffer himself to be made the cat's-paw of
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Made themselves marble with too much conceiving, ". . . corruption. "No naval or military officers in connection
the result would have been of no consequence to the spirit with and patronized by Government ought to sit-in-the
, and demands of the presentage. The last representatives House of Commons. - They must look for honour, rank,
and residuums of dynasties might have been twice the mor wealth, and even for opportunities of displaying their
tuum caputs they are (we beg pardon of Latin plurals), courags and talents, to the ruling powers. Some of the
and they would not have kept their ground. The purest, best feelings of our nature join with these powerful mo
ten-thousandtl, “’transmitter of a foolish face" would tives of ambition and interest to make them incapable of
really not have been worshipped. exercising an impartial judgment in cases where their su
The Methodists have a phrase of “sweet experiences.” periors are concerned. As husband, fathers, or relations,
The world has had it's “sweet experiences,” till it is sick; they must feel grateful to those who bestow on them the
and it is these which together with it's more happily ac means of supporting or advancing their families and help-"
quired knowledge will produce whatever millenium it is less or unfortunate friends. Even shining talents would
about to enjoy. In Spain, for instance, there is the sweet not counterbalance these objections, and their occupation
experience of King FERDtNAND, alias the Grateful, alias makes them in general unfit for any other pursuit. Sir
the Embroiderer, alias the Creatnre. In Poland, there is M. Maxwell is certainly not a clever man out of his pro-"
the very sweet experience of Russia, Austria, and Prussia. ſession ; nor has he any qualities that I can discover which
In France there is the experience of the IRevolution and would fit him for any thing but what he is;-to present
the Bournons. In South America, there is the experience him to you as a proper object of your choice is therefore.
of the Mother Country, who burned the very produce of an insult to your common sense, which I trust' you will
the soil lest it should make it's colonies independent for feel bound to resent. '
common comfort. As the Whigs have not ventured to put up one of them
In short, the world has now wº selves, you will at least not have the mortification of see
1st.: The experience of despots. - - - ing the cause of reform injured by the division of its
2d. The experience of French revolutions. supporters. Those of the liberal side who would refuse te
3d. A sense of it's wants. vote for Mr. Hobuouse, because he does not go quite so
: 4th. A knowledge of it's means. - -
far or farther than themselves, must be indeed little-minded .
5th. The examples of North and South America. and bigoted to their own particular notions. If reform is "
6th. An universal press, with a hundredth part of which necessary and desirable, let us not dispute about the ex
Loturn undid the despotism of Authority. ſtent to which it should go, until we have first put dowa
And 7th. The astonishing growth of that experimental those who are determined to oppose it in every shape.
philosophy, which has such an effect both on the produc Mr. Honuause is a man every way fitted for the honour
tion of means and the diffusion of knowledge; and which able office ſer which he is a candidate. He is young,
it's illustrious father, Lord Bacos, prophecied, would alter bold, active, and intelligent. Iłis principles are those
the world...
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(We shall returnto this subject in our 4th Number of tive... In choosing him, you do not entirely trust to pro
the present year.) . . ſessions, . The same writings, which are the ºvidences ºf
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It is proper that Westminster should send ºparliament
to the ELECTORs or westMINSTER | two men whose opinions on thesubject of Reform are per
Gestlawes, The battle, is again to be fought, and ſectly concordant. This will be effected, if Mr. Hobhouse
corruption, rallying from its recent defeat, is making all is united with Sir F. Bukoerr. His oraterical powers,
exertions to avoid, the disgrace of a second overthrow. which are so necessary a qualification for a Member of.
Although the cause of your being called upon must be la Parliament, and in which his opponent is deficient, are
mented fly all feeling men, it is in itself a good, as it pre considerable, as many of you have now seen. .
sents an opportunity of doing better perhaps than you did Among the persons presented to your consideration
before. Sir SAMuri Romilly was a virtuous and excel there is one, who, though he could have but little chance
lent man, both in public and private; an ornament to the of becoming your representative, might do some harm to
sqmate and to his country; but he did not possess those the cause to which he professes to wish well. This per
principles of reform that should belong to a representative son is Mr. Connett—a voluntary exile from his country,
of your city, which has so longasserted and maintained its because he ſeared to bear his share of the danger arising
independence against all the efforts of corruption and party from the power of those enemies whom he had assisted to
provoke. The life of this man presents a singular pieure
*; Ministers have again put forward Sir Munnay of the way in which great talents have been counterncted
Maxwels, either because they could find no other man to and rendered of comparatively little value by a devouring
serve their purposes, or that they wished to turn to their egotism. Mr. Consert has advocated so many opposite'
advantage the feelings of the public in favour of gallant opinions, that his assistance has done little for any of them.
naval officers. But this, like other paltry, artifices, when Whatever side he is of, he is equally violent and inveterate
détected, will operate against themselves. Sir M. Max against his adversaries for the time being...All security in
jºid by hiºinfº his constancy is out of the question. He will write ſet:
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one side just so long as he thinks he is looked up to as the trary; and though no part of it was ever made use of for me,
greatest man among his own party: but no sooner does and though the arbitrator determined against my being at all re
lie find out that others are preferred to himself, that any sponsible, I thought myself and still think myself bºund to pay
other notions are entertained besides his own, that all will you, you putting me in a condition to recover the money from
him, which -you can at once do, by indersing the nºte of hand.
not join in attacking what he attacks, and admiring what I am well aware the grounds of complaint and reproach to which
he praises, than he turns fiercely round, flies off to the debtors always expose themselves, and 1 nm not vain enough to
other side, and calls all those, who have the presumption expect to escape consequences to:which ałłothers are liable; but -

to retain his cast-off opinions, knaves or ſools. Yet, after if I finally pay to the last farthing, those grounds will be all
all his tergiversations, he ſancies, or at least says, that he is swept away; and as I am in no doubt of being able, in a short
quite consistent, and would be “exceeding wrath" against space of time, to pay every one fully, I anticipate with great sa
any one who might deny it! No political event happens tisfaction the day of my deliverance from this sort of thraldom.—
in England but which he thinks he has had a hand in I am, Sir, your most obedient and thost humbleW.M. servant,
Cobertr.
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on all sides). It was he alone, if we believe him, who North Ilampstead, Long Island, Nov. 20, 1817.
made the people sensible that they were oppressed; against MY DEAR SIR,-First let we acknowledge my deep sense of
him alone was the Habeas Corpus Suspension directed; the kind manner in which you have uniformly spoken to Mrs.
and he with his “ long arm, reaching across the Atlan Cobbett with regard to me; and then without further waste of.
tic,” almost caused Sir F. Bunderr to be thrown out by that time, of which I have so-little to spare, let me come to bu
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siness, and let me lay down, before 1 proceed wo our own parti
One of the very worst of Mr. Connett's acts is his be cular affair, some principles which I hold to be just to my con
haviour to Sir FRANcis. First, he was virulent in his duct towards my creditors in general. * - - -

If there be any man who can pretend, for one moment, that
abuse of him; next, he was as excessive in his praise, mine is an ordinary case, and that not having enough to pay every
and even called him the “God of his Idolatry;” now he body, I ought to be regarded as an insolvent debtor, in the usual
has again turned, and charges him (what a charge from acceptation of the words ; and if he does this after being ap
Mr. Conakrt') with having abandoned the cause he was prized that the whole force of an infamous tyranny was embodied
pledged to support. It should also be recollected, that at into the shape of despotic ordinances, intended for the sole pur
the time of the last charge he was under great personal pose of taking from me the real and certain and increasing means.
obligations to the Honourable Baronet; and he has thus of paying off every debt and mortgage in two years t—if there
be any mau whose prosperty and, whose means of profitably emº,
added ingratitude to the catalogue of his sins. It was no
ploying his own industry-ltave remained wholly untouched and
doubt a consciousness of the impropriety of this that made unaffected by these despotic and sudden acts of the Government,
Mr. Cobbert attempt an excuse by talking about the dif and who is yet so insensible to all feelings of humanity as: well
ſerence, between public and private conduct. But his so as so willingly blind to every principle of either moral or poli
phistry is in vain; however, wrong a man may be, the tical justice;—if there be any man who, wholly absorbed in his
public never like to see him attacked by one whom he has attachment to his own immediate interest, is ready to cast:blame
obliged; and they like it much less, when, in default of on a debtor, who has had his means of paying eut-off by an :
proper grºunds of accusation, the accuser is obliged to operation as decisive as that of an earthquake, which should sink
into eterual-nothing his lands, his houses, and his goods;-jf
exaggerate everyºtifling imperfection, and twist every there
doubtful meaning in support of his eharges. Mr. Cossert have be any man, who, if he had been a creditor of Job, would.
iusisted; that that celebrated object of malignant devils'
has not even stopped here; but was so far transported by wrath, which had swept away bis: flocks, his berds, his sons, '
his passion, as to rake up certain scandalous and incredible and his daughters, was an insolvent debtor and a bankrupt, and
stories rºspecting the man, whose public and private virtue ought ſo have been considered as such, spoken of as such, and
he had formerly held up to general admiration, One main as such provided against;-if there:be any such mºnas this, to,
cause of this excessive bitterness will be seen from the whom I owe any thing, to such man I first say that I despise
following singular Correspondence; nor is the effect pro him from the bottom of my soul; and then I say, that if he dare
duced by the severe truths in Sir FRANcis's letter at all, meet me before the world in open and written charge, I pledge.’
surprising, when it is considered how little Mr. Cobbert myself to cover him with as much shame and infamy, as that
is capable of bearing the smallest contradiction:- - world can be brought to deign to bestow upon so cºntemptible a
being. For such occasions as the one here suppºsed, if such'de
to siR FRANcis Burbett, BART. casiou should ever occur, I reserve the arguments and coheſi
- North Hampstead, Long Island, June 20, 1817." sion, which the subject would naturally suggest. To you’l.
SIR,--I enclose you the copy of a letter to Mr. Tipper, which trust no snclarguments are necessary, and therefore." I with,
I beg you to have the goodness to read, and to consider the con now proceed to state explicitly my intentions with regard tº
tents of it (as far as they relate to the liquidation of my debts ge-. what i shall endeavour to do in the way of paying, off debts... I
nerally) es addressed to yourself. In addition you will be pleased hold it to be perfectly just that I should never, in anyway.
to understand, that, as tº the debt due to you, no pains shall be whatever, give-up one single farthing of my future earnings P,
spared by me to obtain the means of paying it as soon nº possi the payment of any debt in England. - . • * :"
bie, and I beg that you will furnish Mr. White, my Attorney, When the society is too weak or unwilling to defend the pro
with your charge against me, including interest, that he may perty, whether mental or of a more ordinary and vulgar species,
transmif it to me. - - - and where there is not the will or the power in the society to
I now transmit to Mr. White Wright's note of hand. It must yield him protection, he becomes clearly absolved of all his en
be indorsed by you before I can proceed against Wright. This gagements of every sort to that society, because in every bar
rascal always contended that he borrowed the money on his, gain of every kind it is understood that both the parties are to
•rn accºunt. Your wºrd was quite ºftient to prove the con continue to esjoy the protection of the laws of property
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But from the great desire which I have not only to return to England and France, the sale will be much more considerable in
my native country, but also to prevent the infamous acts levelled those countries.
against me from injuring those persons with whom I have pecu In about two months, or less, I shall send to Mr. White, to be
niary engagements, and some of whom have become my credi delivered to you (if you will undertake the thing) the matter for
tors, from feelings of friendship and a desire to serve me, I these two works. You can secure the copyrights in England,
eagerly waive all claim to this principle, and I shall neglect no and also in France. It is inpossible for me to say what will be
means within my power fully to pay and satisfy every demand, their produce; and I know well that immediate produce is not to
as far as that can be done consistently with that duty, which be expected; yet it would be irrational not to believe, that these
calls on me to take care that my family have the means of fairly works must in a short time begin to be a source of real and sub
exerting their industry, and of leading that sort of life, to which stantial profit, the proceeds of which I should devote to the
they have a just claim. - liquidation of the debts due to you ; and if they exceeded that,
It is clear however that to do anything in the way of paying to other purposes. In the mean while there would be the foun
off must be a work of some little time. I place great dependence dation of profit, from the same source, laid in this country, from
on the produce of some literary labours of great and general uti which however I should for some time not expect nhy thing be
lity; and it is of these that I am now about more particularly yond what I should need here. I do not know that there would
to speak, and to make you, Sir, a distinct proposition. be any objection to the setting of this copyright in France; but #
First, I must beg you to read in a Register, which I now send should not approve of this being done in England, because time
liome, a letter to a French scoundrel, whom the Boroughmongers may make them a source of great profit, and further, because 1
of England, by a robbery of us for the restoration of the Bour should not like for me or my sons to be precluded from future
bens, have replaced in his title of Count. improvements of the works themselves. As to the particular
when you have read that letter, you will see a part of my de application of the money that may arise from this fair and :
signs, as to my present endeavonrs to pay my debts. “The honourable souree, after an equitable discharge of your demanda.
Mattre Anglois" has long been the sole work of this kind in rogue on me; and as to the precise mode of proceeding in the business.
on the Continent of Europe, in England, and in America. It these must be the subject of a letter to accompany the manu
was the only book of the sort admitted into the Prytanian scripts, which you will understand are now in a state of grea".
Schools of Bonaparte, where it was adopted by a direet ordi forwardness, so that as time is valuable, I hope that you, who
nance. * ". . understand such matters so well, and who have so much activity
You will see that it is sent from France to England, and in and intelligence, will, upon the receipt of this letter, and upon
this country it is imported from France. Both editions (separate the strength of what you will see addressed to the beggarly tool
and coevey) are sold at New York, and in all the towns here. of a French blackguard rascally Noble jean fortre, make some in
I have always been afraid to look into this book, from a consci quiry amongst the race who trade in the fruit of mens' minds.
ousness of its imperfections, owing to the circumstance of haste You know them pretty well, and I have perfect reliance on your
under which it was originally written. prudence, integrity, and industry. -

You know as well as any man what the probable extent of I am, you will perceive, getting ready a Grammar eſ the English
sale and durable profit of the exclusive right to print such a book language. This, which is a work whlch I have always desired to
are. I am now engaged in making this book quite complete, perform, I have put into the shape of a series of letters, addressed
under the title of “The English Master, by William Cobbett, to my beloved son James, as a mark of my approbation of his
corrected, improved, and greatly enlarged, by the Author him affectionate and dutiful conduct towards his mother during her
self”—if you understand French enough to read it with a per absence from me. ** *

feet understanding of its meaning, you will, if you read this In this work, which I have all my life, since I was nineteen
book, easily see the causes of its great celebrity. years old, had in my contemplation, I have assembled together
*Its clearness, its simplicity, its wonderful aptitude to its pur the fruits of all my observations on the construction of the Eng
poses, its engaging and eonvincing properties, make it so unlike fish language; and I have given them the form of a book, not
aſ the offspring of pedantry, that it is no wonder that it should merely with a view to profit, but with a view to fair fame, and
have made its way in general esteem. I will make the new edi with the still more agreeable view of instructing, in this founda
tiºn supplant all the old ones immediately; and to you 1 propose to dation of all literary knowledge, the great body of my ill-treated
cºnfide the care of securing the copyright both in England and and unjustly contemned countrymen.
France.” A second work, and one of still more importance as a "I believe it to be quite impossible that this work should not
source of profit, is also now under hand, namely, “The French have a very extensive circulation in England and America; and,
Master; or a Grammar to teach French to Fnglish Persons, by that it should not be of many years duration in point of profit.
william Cobbett." You will easily see that if I could twenty whatever part of this profit can, without endangering the well
two years ago actually write a book in the French language to being of my beloved and exemplary, affectionate and virtuous’
French persons, how able I must be to write a book in the Eng family, be allotted to the discharge of my debts or encumbrances,
lish language to teach French. Indeed my knowledge of the shall with scrupulous fidelity be so allotted; but as to this parti
whole matter is so complete, that the thing, complicated and ab cular object, and as to other sources of gain, I will first take care
stract as it is in its nature, is as easy to me as it is for me to walk that the acts of tyrannical confiscaſion, which have been put in
or sit. This work I will pledge my existence will sweep away force against me, shall not deprive this family of the means, not.
very speedily all competitors. My children (some of them) are only of comfortable existence, but that it shall not deprive this
now learning French by the principles and rules which will con family of the means of seeking fair and honourable distinction in
stitute this book, and this gives me every opportunity of per the world. It is impossible for me to say or to guess at what I
ceiving and removing all sorts of impediments aud embarrass may, with my constant bodily health, and with the aptitude and
ments. **
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industry which are now become a part of me, be able to do in

‘My son William wrote French at twelve years old better than the way of literary works productive of gain; but I can with cer
nine-tenths of the Frenchmen that I have ever known, or at least tainty declare, that beyond the purposes of safety to my family I
that I have ever seen write; and both John and he speak now will retain or expend nothing until no man shall say of me that I
Freach as well as the greater part of Frenchmen. owe him a farthing. With regard to any profits that may arise
I shall publish both these works, and secure the copyright of from the Register in England, 1 at present know scarcely any
them, in America, where there is a great sale for books of this de thing; and I have not any time to digest any regular plan rela
scription; but from the great intercourse now existing between tive to that matter: I shall'do this in the course of a short time.
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As I have fully apprized Mr. while of the coutents of this out infringing upon those new principles of moral obligation
letter, I beg you to communicate with him on the subject, and to you have adopted, and which for the first time since the com
tell him very freely your opinion relative to the whole of its con mencement of the world have, I believe, been, though frequent
tents; I have, all circumstances considered, a very strong desire ly acted on, openly promulgated. As to complaint or reproach,
to retain my real property in that country, which I so ardently they are the offspring of weakness and folly; disdain should
love, and to which I have preserved, through all circumstances, stifle them ; but nothing can or ought to stifle the expression of
so invariable a fidelity; and though I would abandon that object disgust every honest mind must feel at the want of integrity in
rather than do any act of real injustice, I will never, while the the principles you proclaim, and of feeling and generosity in the
present infamous abrogation of the laws of my forefathers exists, sentiments you express.-I am, Sir, your most obedient and most
set my hand to any deed, or give either expressly or tacitly my humble servant, - F. BurperT.
sanction to so infaunous a violation of my rights, as well as of the
rights of all. - -
This was too much for Mr. Cobb ETT's conceit; and he
We shall hardly be able to get the manuscript off before the seems to have immediately gone to work to revenge him
month of January next, but in the meau while I shall be glad to self. He first commenced by accusing Sir FRANcis of
hear from you, and to receive from you any suggestious that you having got connected with Whigs and Boroughmongers,
may think useful. • * *
and of being false to the people. Every conciliatory ex
I have the pleasure to tell you that we all enjoy excellent pression that the Honourable Baronet had made use of
health, and I assure you that it will give us all great pleasure to towards the Opposition,-even though
have the same sort of account from yourself, Mrs. T., and it was evidently
family.—I am, my dear Sir, your most obedient and mosthumble arising from feelings of friendship or a wish to be social
servant, - W.M. Cobrº Etºr. with those he was in company with, was laid hold cf.
That Sir FRANcis's son was in the army, was another
Now comes the Reply of Sir FRANcis. The difference handle Cobberr, who never stopped to enquire
between his manly declaration of his feelings, and the mix (so greatforwas
Mr.
his eagerness for matter of censure) whether
ture of consciousness that he is in the wrong, and bully it was with the father's consent; and whole Registers
ing and embarrassed attempts to conceal it, in Mr. Con were filled with comments on all the petty circumstances
BETT's letter, is worthy of remark:— which a good memory, sharpened by envy and hatred,
To Mr. WiLLIAM cobnett. -
could recal to the discredit of his ci-devant friend and
* - St. James's-place, Jan. 31, 1818.benefactor. But he could not long restrain his ill-con
Sin, I have just received your's of the 20th November, and
cealed malignity within such limits. His irritation was en
carefully, and according to your desire, perused the enclosed to
Mr. Tipper, - --"
creased by the sense of the injury which his own power ºf
** wot my intention to enter into any controversy respecting annoying had sustained by his flight from this country;
Whe honesty or dishanesty of paying or not paying debts accord his mind was gradually worked up into perfect rage; his
*g to the convenience of the party owing." It seems that if it writings became more and more virulent, and less and less
*hould ever suit your convenience, and take nothing from the reasonable, till at length he has openly charged Sir FRAncis
cumforts and enjoyments of yourself aud family, such comforts (but only charged, remember, Gentlemen) with bribery,
and enjoyments, and means too of distinguishing themselves, as meanness, hypocrisy, and basegess; with having endea
you think they are entitled to, all this being previously se voured to make Westminster a borough, and used every
cured,—then you think yourself bound to ray your debts:--if, contemptible expedient to keep Mr. Bristol Hust from
on the contrary, that cannot be effected without sacrifices on your
and their part, in that case your creditors have no claim to pre being elected; which catastrophe he is moreover repre
fer and you no duty to perform. You then stand absolved, sented to have greatly feared. With respect to the new
rectus in fore conscientiae, and for this singular reason, because principles in his letter, they evidently sit very uneasily on
those who lent you their money when you were in difficulty and him; he is not convinced by his own sophistry; why else
distress, in order to save you and your family from ruin, were would he be so loud in his threats against those whº shall
and are unable to protect you either against your own fears, or not be satisfied with his dictum ! If it was as plain a
the power of au arbitrary Government, under which they have case as he says it is, where was the necessity of such de
the misfortune-to-live, and to which they are equally exposed. nunciations of his particular vengeance?. Does not the
These principles, which are laughable in theory, are detestable
world punish by its ill opinion those who trangress any
in practice. That you should not only entertain and act upon, received maxims of “moral obligation?”
but openly avow them, and blind your own understanding, or
think to blind that of others, by such flimsy pretences, is one || Intolerance is another disagreeable and mischievous part
more melancholy proof of the facility with which self-interest of Mr. Cobbert's character. Although he has often taken
can assume the mask of hypoerisy, and by means of the weakest | the liberty to alter his sentiments, no such lätitude will he
sophistry, overpower the strongest understanding. How true allow to others.'. To differ with him in a slight degree is
is our common law maxim, that no man is an upright judge as offensive to him as to be a decided opponest.” When
in his own-eause:, how truly and prettily said by the French, he was for the extension of the right of voting to house
“La Nature se pipe;”*uor less truly, though more grossly in. holders, he called universal suffrage.foolish and imprac
English, “Nature's her own Bawd.”. ticable, but when—eight days aſterwards—he was for
In expressing my abhorrence of the principles you lay down universal suffrage, he would not hear of moderate reform;
for your conduct, and concerning which you challenge my assaulted, Mr. Waithstan, Mr. BENNET, and other cou
'opinion, a little unfairly considering the ridicule with which
you at the same time threaten to overwhelm the unfortu sistent and persevering reſormists; and deal out, uick
nate wight who presumes to differ from them, I do not de names instead of arguments. Even the venerable BEN
sire that you, should act upon any other with regard to me; thaxt, whose opinions respecting reform are quite as
I should be sorry your family were, put to any inconve extensive as his own, could not escape; for he had dared
nience on my account: should your circumstances ever prove to say, in order to show the respect of the people of rank
so prosperous as to euable you to discharge your debts with. and wealth, that they would not elect such men as Cot
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sett and Hust. Experience has shown this to be the except the character of that distinguished English Lawyer.
truth, and Mr. Copaert therefore vented his spleen against . Jury, the Liberty of the Press, the Law.6f
The Trial -

Elections, the Recall of the Exiles, the Champ d'Asile,

the writer by terming him the “antediluvian lawyer.” the work of Camille Jourdan, lastly, the situation of the
Selfishness of the grossest sort and cowardice may be Ministry, were the topics that successively excited, by the
charged against Mr. Cobherr without any fear of being allusions which he made to them, the plaudits of his
too severe. I shall only mention a few facts in proof of indulgent audience... These plaudits certainly were not
this:—his offering to give up his Register, if he might be wanting. . But if this discpurse is published, there will,
saved from going to prison; his running away to Ame changes perhaps, be observed in it a certain affectation of ringing
the writings since he has on the words liberty, country, glory, which made
rica; encreased violence of his it resemble a college amplification. Its publication will
been abroad and no longer in danger of suffering per perhaps enable us to see a contradiction in some of its
sonally; and the sentiments contained in his letter just rinciples. For instance, M. B. Constant says, that “Sir
quoted. § Romilly wished the English constitution in all its purity.
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It would be as unjust as impolitic to omit mention of that is, (adds he.) with all the improvements of which it S. is
Mr. Cobberr's extraordinary talents, after what has been susceptible, which was one of the greatest merits of Sir
Romilly.” A little farther on, M. Constant, thunders.
said in condemnaſion of him. He is a man of a strong and against those “ who, having recently covered themselves
acutemind; and the effect of his arguments is encreased by a with the cloak of the Gracchi, wish to improve our charter.”.
style, which, in point of clearness and energy, is perhaps “Far be from us,” cries he, “ these improvements.”
unequalled. He thoroughly understands all subjects con case How can the orator reconcile the eulogium in the ſonner
with the anathema in the latter? What still renders
nected with maſter of fact, and has rendered many of those the solution of this question more difficult, is the circulu
questions of political economy, which are considered so stance that M. Benjamin Constant himself, at an epoch
intricate, capable of being easily comprehended. His still in our remembrance, lent his hand to an improve
writings are equally calculated for the learned and the un ment of the charter-Journal des Debals. -

learned—the intellectual and the uninformed. But he is Dec. 30.-The Moniteur contains the following :
frequently coarse and vulgar, which arises from his utter Louis, by the Grace of God,
want of taste and imagilation. His comparison between To all those whom these presents may co"cern.-We have ºrº
dained, and do hereby ordain, as follows:- -

the admiration of Snakspean r and Milron, and the fond The Marquis Dessolles, Peer of France, Minister of State, is
mess for eating potatoes (both being vulgar prejudices) was nominated Minister Secretary of State for the Department of
another proof of his intolerance and egotism. Because he Foreigi Aſſairs, and President of our Council of Ministers.
The Sieur de Serre, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, is
had no feeling for the beauties of those authors himself, he appointed Keeper of the Seals, Minister Secretary of State for the
either could not conceive, or would not allow, that others Department of Justice. - - -

‘ihe Count de Cazes, Peer of France, is appointed Minister

could sincerely admire them. The effect produced by Secretary of State for the Department of the Inierior. " .
such talents as those of Mr. Conaert would have been Baron Portal, Member of .. Chamber of Deputies, is appointed
immense, had he possessed but the single quality of con Minister Secretary of State for the Department of the Marine.
Baron Louis, Member of the Chamber of Beputies, is appointed
sistency, But he has never continued long of one opinion, Minister-Secreta ry of State of the Finance Department.
and has at length by his frequent changes committed The Ministry of Police is suppressed, -

suicide on his own reputation. The most unequivocally Our Minister Secretary of State of the Department of Foreigº
useful period of his life was that from the commencement Affairs, President of our Council of Ministers, is charged wit
of the publication of his cheap Register to the time of his' the execution of the present ordinance, - -

" " Done in Paris, at the Castle of the Tuileries, in the year of
flight: his writings were then circulated among a class, Grace, 1818, and in the 24th of our reign,
who were before unused to political discussion. We may
(Signed) Lours.
The Minister Secretary of State of the Department of Fo
sce by this what might have been done, and the com reign Affairs, President of the Council of Ministers,
paring it with what has been, compels us to regret the loss Signed) The Marquis de Dºssoulss.
of so able an advocate which the cause of reform has sus - DECREE.
tained. It is impossible not to feel respect for Mr. Con Louis, &c. - -

The state of health of our cousin the Duke de Richelieu having

aerr as a writer, but we cannot so far separate his cha obliged us to accept his resignation, which he has effered, the
racter from his talents as to lose sight of his vices as a Duke de Richelieu is named Minister of State and Member of
Inau. - --
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I have said thus much, Gentlemen, respecting Mr. Con ANOTHER DECREE,
RETT, because it is most likely that he will attack Mr. Louis, &c. * ... .
In consequence of the resignations offered }{ Count Molé and
Hobhouse, if it is only on account of his connection with Messieurs Lainé and Roy, they are appointed Ministers of State
Sir FRANgus Burnett; and I thought that this summary and Members of our Privy Council. . . . . . . .; i."
of his qualities and recapitulation of his political sins might - ... " (Signed)
- Lopts.
assist you to determine what degree of confidence you (Countersigned) The Marquis de DFssolips,
would repose in the assertions, and opinions of a man, ---. . . . ...
who, in giving vent to his malignity and hatred, has so NORTH AMERICA. . ." . -
little respect either for truth or justice—I remain, Gentle - -

men, your well-wisher, REFonweſi. Mobile, Oct. 30.-fly letters, from Havannah of the
fill instant, we learn that on the day hefore advices from
Tº for EIGN INTELLIGENCE.T the Court of Spain were received there through Don Qais,
that the affairs of the Floridas are settled for the º
- - - FRANCE. - - - - - and Pensacola is to be restored d. to Spain. ... Hº
new, Governor, Dog Marians
... Ramis, DEQ. 28–Benjamin Constant pronounced yes consequence of which a
ºrday, eºning, at the Athenaeum, an eulogy upon Sir Calonja, is appointed; and will sail immediately with 200
amuel Romilly, in which he talked about every thing men to garrison the place. The persons who have speciº
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lated in real estates in and about Pensaeola, we are fearful, insincerity of Court proceedings, as having resigned from
will be much injured, if we are not mistaken, no person ill health; and is succeeded as Minister for Foreign
under the general law of Spain can legally hold a freehold, Affairs by the Marquis Dessottºs, a Bonapartist. Messrs.
• ank’ss he in some manner beeomes a Spanish subject.
Molt, Larse, and Roy, have also resigned; and are ré
placed by Baron Portal, a Bonapartist, Baron Louis, a
Tuesday's London Gazette. Bonapartist (who officiated as Archdeacon at the cele
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- BANKRUptcies ENLARGED. brated Revolutionary Mass), and M. de Serre, a friend
*W. Proaser. Hereford, grocer, from Jan. 12 to Jan. 15. of M. de Cazes, who still remains Minister. The change,
- 2. Ehrenstrom, Feh-court, Fenchurch-street, merchant, from some say, arose from a jealousy on the part of M. de
-- Dec. 26 to Feb. 19.
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BANKRUPTS. Cazes, at the nomination of M. Rawen to be President of
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J. Jenkins, whitehurck. Glamorganshire, timber-merchant. At the Deputies, instead of his friend M. de Senns; others,
termies, Mesºrº. Jenkins, James, and Abbott, New-inn. from a long concerted scheme between M. de Gazes and
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M. Salt, Lane-end, Staffordshire, flour-dealer. Attorney, Mr.

Tooke, Gray's-inn. & TAllrymann, one of whose particular friends (flouis)
T. Bennallack,
Carsºnven, Truro.
Truro, Cornwall, linen-draper.
t.
Attorney. Mr. is in power again; and others, from the discovery of a
* - secret design at Court in favour of that thinned and
. G. sºon, Mile Tºwn, Kent, baker. Attornies, Messrs. Milne saddened bédy of old monkies, yelept the Ultras,
and Parry. Terhple.
R. Cowens, Maidstone, dealer-in-hops. Attorney, Mr. Lindsey, The Journals particularly notice the presence of TAL
St. Thomas-street, Borough. . .
J. Stanbury, Glocester-terrace, Whitectuapel-road, grocerº-At Leynand at court this day week. It is probable, that all
torney, Mr. Hall, Coleman-street. these causes had a share in the business; but when we
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W. Simmon s, Lowestoft, Suffolk, merchant. Attºrney, Mr. consider the individuals now in power, and the particular
Bromley, Gray’s-inn . ."
J. Twyford, Portw itfiin-Brinnington, Cheshire, cotton season at which they have returned to it, we cannot but
spinner. Attornies, Messrs. Wright and Cole, Temple. , regard the change as a proof of the still surviving and pre
T.
Tot
*::::: Strand, brass founder.
use-yard, Luthbury.
Attorney, Mr. Mount, déminant influence of the Bonapartists, or at least of the
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men who were in authority, under the Imperial Govern
ment. And it is a good thing for France, and even for the
SATURDAY's -
LONDON GAzette. Bourbons themselves, who would tumble to pieces if left
BANKRUPTS. * to their own standing. At least, if their dynasty is not
F.Tally, Bristol, baker. Attornies, Messrs. Poole magreenfield, destined to last long, it will last longer under the cautious
º: \wa-square. - --- ** administration of men accustomed to government, -than
F. G. Leagman, Norwich, maltster. Attorney, Mr. Abbott,
Rºlf-yard, Chancery-lane. with the help of the obsolete extravagancies of the bigoted
W. Bedells, Knighton, Radnorshire, woolstapler. Attornies, and vindictive emigrants. At any rate, the existing insti
Messrs. Jenkins, James, and Abbott, New-Inn. tutions of France now remain untouched. The Bonapartists
J. Perry the elder, Stockport, muslim manufacturer. Attornies, do not like the Independents,but they like the Ultrasstill less;
jº wº".
R. Chambers, Market-Rasen, Lincolnshire, dealer. Attorney, and from old revolutionary associations, from a wish to coun
Mr. Eye, Grey's Hºsquare. terbalance the encroachments of “the legitimate,” and ' '
D. whºser, H. street; colouring-maker. Attornies, Messrs. doubtless from superiority of intellect alsº &nd a show
Grimaldi aad'stables, Copthall-court.
J. Quiet, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, jeweller. Attorney, of their own powers of Government against t of their -

Mr. Poole, Adam's-court, Old Broad-street. late Imperial Master, they are disposed, if not greatly to as
T.Jenkins, whitchurch, Glamorganshire, timber-merchant. At sist, at least not to hinder, the progress of the age towards.
tormies, Messrs. Jenkins, James, and Abbott, New-Inn: -

S. Cater and J. Home, Watling-street, warehousemen. Attor a better condition. In short, this alteration is the first
nies, Chapman and Co. Little St. Thomas Apostle, Queen effect of the departure of the Allied armies. --> <-t; -- -
street. -

W. Thomas, Cheapside, tailor. Attornies, Messrs. Amory and We may certainly expect to hear important news from *** * - .
Coles, Lothbury. - -" - Spain. A letter from Madrid, dated Decemberior, re.
T. Sumner, Preston, Lancashire, corn-merchant. Attorney, Mr. presents the alarms as having been very great within the
Blacklock, Serjeant's-inn, Fleet-street. previous week. They had subsided, adds the writer, in
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== some measure at the moment, “but the causes which gave

Panck or stocks on 8ATURDAY.
rise to them still exist, and induce us to apprehend some
3 per Cent. Red. ….. 78478.
dreadful and disastrous event... ... " --

W. G., Nox Ixiwicus Curiº. A en og Natung, S. HAN “It is now-very evident that the parties assembled in the
cock, NEwo, and other Correspondents, have been received. country, whether they are-called, banditti, rebels, or guerillas,
–The publication of several Letters is still delayed for want are in several parts, and very numerous; that they possess mi
of room. - -

The Lady who did us the pleasure of writing to us from Ireland litary discipline, and are well provided with arms and ammuni
will have seen before this that her wish has been attended to. tion. Further, they have plans' concerted with, each.9%her.
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their force considerably inereases by desertions from the army,
THE EXAMIN ER. more particularly from those carpe destined to embark against South
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America. Troops in the meantime have been called towards the
capital, but there is scarcely a regiment in the country that is
- London, JAwuany 3. not dissatisfied, nearly all contain both officers and itſeº ready tº
join in anything that may restore a new ºr ºf things; and stºre
Ir will he seen by a Decree of Louis XVIII. under the well aware that this can only be done is one way—for no amend
head of Foreign News, that the French Ministry have ex ments will take place which do notemseate from compulsion. A
perienced a great change. The Duke de Richelley, the general understanding and communication is organized through
invite of Russia, is recorded, with the usual and useless out the country, by means of secret marks and signs similar tº
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…those used in Freemasonry, which have hitherto baffled the ut The reply of the Marquis of Hasrings to a compli
most vigilance of the Government and the Confessional—The tary º: of the Iuhabitants ºf Çalcutta has been pu
lished. It is a statenent of the military operations of the
most rigorous measures have also been adopted to prevent the
late war, of the causes which led to it, of its consequences,
entry of all foreign prints and writings, but more particularly those and of the reasons why the British territory in India has
comingfrom England. been considerably encreased. . The suppression of the
… “ The King is fully aware of the situation into which the Pindarrees is said to have been the original intention of
Kingdºm is plunged, and by those who have access to Court, he the Company, but the Mahratta Princes, showed such a
- is said to be in a very melancholy state of mind. He is also disposition to protect, those robbers, and were 39-often
ºware, that the whole people of Europe have in some way or detected in forming designs against the British Govern
other pronounced on the question between him and his father, ment, that it was found necessary to use force in order to
*and his Minister not being admitted at the late Cougress, and prevent their co-operation with the enemy: this caused
, the little attention-paid to his claims formediation, and other them to resort to arms one after the other; the British
!pointsurged in a very stroug manner, have not tended to tran . however defeated their ill-organized and separated
tguillize his mind.” ---- - breas, and they were all reduced to submission: The
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original *; of the war was effected at the sawie time,
: The letter concludes with a mighty (-nonsensical) and the Pindarrees have disappeared. The PEishwa
was deposed, and .*. some of the other
plan of the Minister Irujo, for striking a great and gene Princes
ral blow in America, in order to put an end to the war greatly circumscribed. How far the right of
-at once: at a moment, too, when the troops destined to self-defence, has compelled these last measures depends
entirely on circumstances, . but it should be reeol
embark thither have a special habit of deserting to the lected that those circumstances are related only by one
Guerillas! If ever we could be certain of the ultimate and arty. ...The deposition of a Monarch, because he has
most richly-deserved independence of South America, it {...} plotting, and fighting against a Foreign Power, and
is at this moment, when her Leaders are victorious abroad has been faithless in regard to treaties and promises, is a
-and-modest at home, her population evincing a decided circumstance which requires more explanation than is here
iven, particularly from the advocates of Legitimacy and
tendency to republicanism, yet warning themselves of ex fl. Allies in Europe. The NobleMarquis says that he has
ºcesses by the recollection of France,—and the poor curtailed the power of the other Chiefs, “on the clear prin
wretched Creature at Madrid, beating at heart like a ciple of right to dispose of territory won in war.”, Now this
frightened toad, so that one cannot but pity him. '.' principle does not seem to us to be so clear, and we think
is something like those principles of aggrandizement,
* The notion about restoring Charles the 4th is better itagainst
worth attending to. The Ministerial" Papers here, by Bon which such an outcry was raised, when professed
APARte. At any rate, the dividing a-nation or
after reluctantly confessing, in the teeth of their late handing it over to any power without the consent of the
assertion" to the contrary, that a crisis was to be ex people, and merely because the Sovereign is a bad one, is
peeted, are now becoming more explicit upon the strength nothing less than a violation of all principles º and a
of this sppearance in favour of Charles. They even most gross infringement of the natural rights of men. ...Our
ithink it probable that the old King will be recalled. “Indian Empire contains within itself the seeds of its dissu
lution... The Marquis of Hastings allows that it has “a
The question has been a good deal agitated in Europe, tendency to expansion;” and, in answer to the argument
‘and nobody has ever heard a reason why CHARLEs was that an extended frontier would bring them in contact
set aside'hy his son, except that the people willed it be-, with more hostile powers, speaks of the compactness and
'cause he was such a bad king. It turns out, however, that consolidation aftlie British territory. But the danger is
his son is a worse; and then an enquiry is started whether not from external hostility: it is from the discontent and
the people, in fact, ever did wish his abdication. That incongruity of the people composing our vast possessions.
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they did so, we have to more doubt, than that they still
more ardently wish the abdicatios of his son, and for the A letter has been received in this town from St.
same reason. It is possible also, that many of the spanish Thomas's, of the date of Nov. 24, which says “that the
reformers may wish Chanies back again, because, aware campaign against the Spaniards is likely to open, with
of his imbecility, and of the freshwarning afforded him in great vigour, in consequence of the arrival of Lord Cociº
the person of his son, he will agree to all their constitutional RANE in the neighbourhood of Margaretta on the 14th inst.,
it is said with 3-ships and 2; brigs. This accession of
plans, and settle the matter without bloodshed. Perhaps he strength will give the Independents a decided superiority,
may for thenresent, perhaps for good; but in the meantime, and no doubt a blow has been already struck, either at La
where is something more than ridiculous in this alternate Guayra or Puerto Cavallo, or both.”—Liverpool paper. .
appearance of father and son, son and father, like the man . It is stated that the Buenos Ayres Government have
and woman in the weather-house; and the dynasty also contracted for the building of four large frigates, on the
is fairly worn out. However, it might be quietly dis *: of those constructed in the United States for the de
ºnce of harbours. These frigates are to be of the largest
placed at a future opportunity. The reason why the dimensions, with steam-engines on board, and furnaces for
Ministerial papers are so explicit on the subject, is obvious. the purpose of preparing red-hot -is to
The partizans of despotism all over the world will declare carry, 38 guns, of 36-pounders, and they are to be sta
for Charles, if the question is thus agitated, because they tioned in t .#.. Plate, where, on account of the cur
would rather see any kind of “legitimate” old. king on rents, ships of war, navigate the stream-with y.
These frigates are intended to counteract any force the
the throne, than none. Despairing of re-establishing Fen. Spaniards may send against that country from Cadiz.
*A*p, they will endeavour to neutralize the progress of They are to be manned by foreigners, previously natura:
liberty in Spain by the restoration of Charles, it is all ſº by the Government of Buenos Ayres. -- -

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One of the last acts of M. Lane, late Minister of the On Saturday-week, the Norfolk County Meeting took
: Interior, was to present to the King a report on the inter place for the purpose of voting an address of condôlence
mal condition of France, with respect to its various institu to the REGENT on the death of the Queen. After the
tions for the regulation of the poor, and for the punishment º:
had opened the business, Mr. PALMen rose
of criminals. The most important feature in it is, that and was about to speak, when he was interrupted by the
he recognizes the principle now so generally approved Hon. Colonel Wodehouse, who claimed precedence, it
in this country of the absolute necessity of classifi having been arranged, before he came thither, that he was
eation in prisons., . He states: the increase of crimes to move the address. The sense of the meeting, how
brought to trial in the years 1816 and 1817, to be 6,857 ever, being in favour of Mr. PALMER continuing, and se
in the first, and 9,185 in the last year—an increase consi veral voices exclaiming, “they had nothing to d6 but with
wderably less than appeared in the official statement to have what was agreed to in that Court,” Mr. PALMen pro
occurred in England, among a smaller population, during cºeded. He made some severe remarks ºn the impropºiety
the same period. of sending a Requisition to the High Sheriff signed by
The Paris journals contain the following statement only seven names, four Lords, one Honourable, and tº,
respecting the present strength of the Russian army. It 'Squires, all professed supporters of the Ministry. He
is said to consist of 880,000 men, divided into different concluded by moving an address, the last paragraph of
corps, 360,000 of which are infantry, 68,000 regular which alluded to the necessity of revising the Criminal
cavalry, 86,000 Cossacks, 49,600 artillery, 75,000 marines, Code.—Colonel Wodenouse next moved his address as
160,000 belonging to the first line of the reserve, and an amendment, and the High Sheriff took a show of
*50,000 to the second, and 75,000 veterans. hands; but the numbers for each appeared to him so equal,
When the Emperor Napoleon visited the marbles in that he was unable to decide which was carried.—A &on.
the Museum of the Louvre, along with Mr. West, he ob versation ensued; but as Colonel W. would not alter his
served, on looking at the bust of HANN1BAL, that he was motion, the meeting was dissolved, and the Hôn. Colonel
the test, man of all-antiquity—and turning briskly, retired with his friends, declaring that it was an absurdity
added, that Generał Wasim NGros was the greatest of the to suppose that the sense of the county could be taken at a
moderns! *º --
meeting in the Shire-hall.—[And how then was it that the
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We have received a letter, signed W. C. F., containing Hon. Colonel proposed an address, as ſtom the county,
the following query:-" I am informed, that if a soldier to an assembly which he did not think competent to repre:
deserts, and is º sentenced by a Court-Martial sent the inhabitants at large?]
for general service, he may purchase his discharge from The Committee appointed by the performers of the
the army for 20l. This seems an extraordinary compro Theatre François to consider the claims of Talma, have
mise, and I beg to ask from some of your military readers sent him a note, couched in the most courteous and affec
whether it is a fact; and if it is, I should be glad to learn tionate language, but, conveying a threat that unless he
what becomes of such monies.” * -
accedes to terms, which they knew he would reject,
• The late circumstance of a Chief-Justice threatening to they would prosecute him within, twenty-four hours.
adjourn the Court, because a tallow candle had been pro This sort of politeness is like Gibbet's in the Beau:
diced instead of a wax-light, reminds us of an anecdote Stratagem : “My-dearest Lady, do not be alarmed; I
ºrelated of the late Judge Gould, who, when going the have the greatest-regard for you, Madam; but please to
home circuit, once threatened to remove the Essex Assizes hand methose jewels, or I will blow your brains out.”
from Chelmsford to Colchester, because no good small TALMA, at least, seems to have understood their show of
beer could be found in the former town!—County Chron. affection in this way, for he, met it with a merely verbai
A Cor ndent, who lives in White Horse-yard, answer, expressive of profound contempt.—Times. --
Drury-lane, has sent us a letter, complaining of a horrid The manager of thenew
Edinburgh
cruelty practised in a court leading into Clare-court, where excitement ºr the farce"oftheatre, as acaused
X, Y, Z., preliminary
bills,
cats are frequently flayed alive at night. 'Fheir dreadful containing these three letters, of a glaring size, to be
-cries, he says, often disturb himself and his neighbours, posted about the city. These mysterious puffs so alarmed
and be intends, if possible, to get the place stopped up at the Magistrates, º they summoned the bill-stickers
". as it is only a shelter for bad characters. before them, when the latter luckily were able to prove,
opear Deas.--The following particulars respecting that there was no seditious or treasonable signal lürking
this unfortunate man have been sent to us by a person who under the whimsical placard! o

has visited him in prison:—He is rather above the middle A Correspondent submits to the great literary Cox
size, stout but well proportiºned, with a countenance in stable, the propriety of translating those extracts from
dicating any thing but a murderous propensity. His con
versation is serious and sensible. He is confined among OurFrench works so often given in the Edinburgh Review.
housebreakers and felons, which is very disagreeable to Correspondent says, he has heard the practice fºg.
him; and the visits of two reverend gentlemen to whom he quently condemned of giving page after page in a foreign
is very partial have been interdicted by the Ordinary, the tongue: and for his part, he says, he is too old to lear; a
new language, in order that he may peruse the Review
Rev. Mr. MANN. If this person can prevent their visits, with comfort. - -
adds our informant, he can also allow them, and which,
lie asks, would be most worthy of a Christian, Minister? WIFE Selling.—A fellow has the audacity to out
• Abstract of the United States Treasury Report, dated rage public decorum by publishing, in, a Hull papery
23d November, 1818, and the principal items calculated an advertisement announcing his having sold his wife, and
which he does in the following terms:– Benjamin
in pounds sterling:- -

..." Net Revenue of the United States for the Year Brown...of Fºxholes, hereby gives notice, that he sº d his
1816, amounted to - - -.- f6,267,304
- wife, Hannah Brown, to Röbert Turper, shoemakº, of
_Ditto Ditto Ditto for 1817, to -- - 5,487,298 Hull, and delivered her in a halter, at the eros, on Tues
The estimated Receipts for 1818, to - - - 6,378,107 day market, Nov.24, 1818.” - - -
The estimated Expenditure for ditto - - 5,902,950 --

1eaving a
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§:bt of 475,057l for the year 1818.
which was centracted before 1812, - THE QUESTION. .
amounted to - " -" " - " - - - 7,163,052
If what most f.” say be true,
: Ditto Ditto after 1812, to - - - - 15,316,189 - How treat a knave, Black Jack, are you;
But if it only slander proves, .
Tºlpublic P-watthewailed states -: - fºxii How God still chastems those beloves: ". J.”
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Mr. BANTING was appointed by command of the particular to notice, as far as the powers of the adapter are
PRINCE Resent to value and divide the private property, concerned; but the piece altogether is splendid-and-in
which is to be y distributed between the Princess teresting, and rich with music, and dancing, and spectacle,
AugustA, the Princess of Hesse-Hoxtbound, the Duchess and the stately stepping of processions; and from i. cir
of Glocester, and the Princess Sophia. The valuation cunstances, as well as the popularity of the story, we do
of the property at the Queen's-palace, Windsor-palace, not think the managers could have found a more attractive
. . and Frogmore-house, is nearly completed. Qn Monday, substitute for their Christinas entertainment. Mrs. Ongen
Lord Annex and General TAylon, the executors to the would make as pretty a singer as she is an unpresuming one,
late Qures's will, attended at the Queen's-palace to pro if she would contrive to put some of her upper notes
ceed with the prescribed arrangements; the chamber of into better tune. Mr. H. Johnston again surprised us
her late Majesty, which had been sealed upon her demise, with his happy and complete representation, of a homely
was opened. At two o'clock Mr. Sergeant VAuguan but not a vulgar Scotchman. His pronunciation is even
and Mr. HAnt, the late QUErx's Attorney and Solicitor somewhat too good, and rendered some of his good thin
'General, attended the Executors at the ºff. to
scareely intelligible to the audience. . But nothing can
make the necessary legal arrangements for the Executors in better keeping than his snuff-takings, his hums and
to act upon and prove the will. TYesterday the Executors haws of bye-pla , and the undulating emphasis of his dia
attended at the King's-mews, Charing-cross, to view the logue, alternăteſy softened with good nature and swelling
carriages and horses of the late Queen, previously to their with robust nationality.
being sold. . The Royal Arms, except the supporters, are corext-garden.
The performances at this theatre, which, besides its
obliterated from the carriages with paint the colour of the
panels. Yesterday inorning five of the horses were shot ortion ºf other merit has the reputation of being “a good
on account of their age, being between 30 and 40 years, touse," in the City sense of the words, have gone off with *
to prevent their falling to the work of dust-carts. We their usual superiority of success. And it is but fair to
‘ahould have thought that some better mode of disposing of say, what cannot always be said, that they deserve it. The
these old servants might have suggested itself: a spare Reader will see the goodness of the Pantonime by the *
meadow might somewhere have been found where these mere sketch of it in the Daily Papers. It is called Harle
animals might have had their former labours repaid by a quin Munchausen, or the Fountain of Love.
littlegratuitous enjoyment.—Times-Wednesday. “The title of this Pantomime, like that which was brought
A Ministerial paper states, that it is in the contemplation forward at the other house, prepared the audience in a great
of Ministers to propose a very considerable reduction in measure for the events by which they were to be exhilarated.
the Windsor establishment soon after the meeting of Par The name of the illustrious Baron of wondrous memory ope
rated as a sort of pledge that their amusement should be pro
liament. It is certain that the services of the greater part digious. Mr. Faniev, to whose skill the public are indebted for
of his MAjesty's present, retinue will be disponsed with this and many other' works of the same kind, has selected the
early in the month of April. They have already received most remarkable and dramatic pārts of this authentie history for
notices to that effect from Gen. Tavior and Gen. Stevens. his Pautomime. It commences with a scene in which the moun
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tains of snow are represented as in a thaw from the effects of
the lava of Mount Etna, which is seen at a distance. The
The ATRICAL ExAMINER: Barau's horse is then discovered hangingh º: bridle from a
steeple, but is soon released º the dexterity'ofit's master, who
"'No. 34s. "
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breaks the bridle that suspe º with a 'histol shot.
The glee with which he rides away, after performin; this feat,
*: nrºft tº-r... war.
º sº
gives rise to much laughter. In the next scène Sir Hilare Frosiſ:
A singular piece of ill-fortune has happened to this cus; afterwards Pantaloon (Mr. Nonstax), makes his appearance.
theatre. The Christmas Pantomime (Harlequin and the lie is about to force his daughter, Columbine, to marry Lord
Dandy Club) has been withdrawn in consequence ºf great whoHumpey Dandy. (afterwards clown), Mr. Gºrwaln!... The Baron,
has intimation of this intent, rides in at the window, relieves
opposition aid hubbub. The good-natured, well-fed, and the distressed
well-monied spectators, first got out of humour with some damseſ, and carries her to the forges of yulcal
from whence in a little time his restless' spirit breaks into the
supposed evidences ºf poverty in the machinery, as they boudoir of Venus. $he with her son Cupid favour Munchausen's
generally do at this theatre; illen a Scottish gentleman, love, and transform him into Harlequin,"Lord Humpey Dandy arid
who appears to be somewhat too primaeval in his notions, his filaro becoming Cloºn and Pántaleon. Then commences the
and wears his national plaid, is said. to have expressed pursuit of the loving pair by the Father and the Leper. They "…,
open offence at some allusions to his countrymen, though are hunted with infinitable perseverence.from the earth to the
he afterwards evinced a becoming º then moon, from the moon to the bottom of the sen, and again return
less magnanimous race of Daudies, who would do well to ing to dry land, they make a tour, of which the following scenes
introduced into the Pantomime will afford some idea;-Con
copy his dress, ventured to come forth with their hitherto stantinople, Dublin, France, Alexandria, a British ship of war;
repressed indignation; then offence was taken at some in the Pyramids, and the Fountain of 'Love, where' †: hud
degency (we know not what) which was said tº have been Columbine are united, with the concurrence of all the Heavehſy
offered to Miss Tage by Mr. BāAubury the Clown; and Powers who take an interest in their adventures. The tricks
in short, such prodigious offence was taken some how, or are numerous and sometimes very laughable, aud the scenery is
other by the said well-dressed and monied spectators, that splendid.” - - - - - * *

after a struggle of a night or two, the pieß was given up, It .#

a happy thought in Mr. Fanley, as far
and an ordinary after-piece substituted. This remarkable, as the mechanical nature of his task and chances of success
ill-timed, and iſl-natured opposition has roused the sympa were concerned, to select the Baron's travels for his Pan
thv of all men of sense, those aot º: whose criticism tomime. The fault of the piece is, that it does not apply to
is in general not very favourable to Drur -lane; and otir the times. For *...*.*.*. the only re
often-expressed º as tº the sordid dislike of his mains of the old comic ...i. this is one reason
which renders them not below “the dignity of criticism,”
there produced by it's acknowledged"pecuniary diffi evidently,
culties seems adopted as the only why of accounting for from the fate df the one # #.
and ve
this exceeding fit of pompous rage against poor unpresum far from below the indignation of the satirized. But of a
ing Harlequin. It is a sorry business, to be sur: the imitations of the celebrated True History of Lucian,
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"roºmeº at once this dignified pitch of intellect, and Münchausen, though the lowest in merit, is the highest
afford something shewy for the betterghildren who come with the multitude in popularity. The success of Gulliver
home. for the holidays, a new piece *...*. last year naturally foriold that of the German Baron; and
from Mr. Warrea Sãort's Marmion. There is nothing the surprising and monstrous turns in his adventures are
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most completely suited to the pleasant chaos of pantomime, sent number is that of Fague a Ballagh, to which the poet
in which probabilities are as usual given up as in dream has written the arch and sprightly words beginning “To
ing:-in which cause and effect, agent and instrument, all Ladies eyes a Round, boy,”—which is also our
dance about with an interchange of their several qualities; favourite song in it. The *. songs which, we like
and you may have change for your horse or your left leg, best, are “Wreath the Bowl,” and “They may rail
as easily as for half a crown. at this life:” and though we cannot tell whether we ara
making a lucky or unlucky remark, we cannot but observe
that all three of these songs are written to the only airs
Liter ARY Notices. which have pure Irish denominations. We may as well
add here—if we may trust our memory (for these Melodies
No. 46.
provoke a great deal of borrowing,and are like the Companion
in Martial,—whom there was no living with or without).
that onrarch-ſavourites in the former volumes, both for air
A Selection of Irish Melodies with Symphonies and Ac and song, were.” When through life,” “Love's Young
companiments by Sir John. Stevenson, Mus. Doc...and Dream,” “Lesbia hath a beaming Eye,” “She is far from
Characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Esq. . . Num the Land.”. The last Rose ºf Summer,” “The young May
ber the Serenth. Power, Strand. -
Moon.” “I'd mourn the Hopes that leave me,” “ St. Se
This is an unexpected pleasure. It was understood that nanus,” “Gh breathe not his Name,” “The Harp. that
the Irish Melodies concluded with number six ; and in once,” “When he who adores thee,” “Fly not yet;"
deed Mr. Moore informs us, in his advertisement to the “Though the last Glimpse of Erin,” “Rich and Rare.”
new one, that it would not have appeared had he consulted “How dear to me the Hour,”“While gazing on the Moon's
only his own judgment. The six numbers contain, he Light,” “When through Life,” “Fill the Bumper fair.”
thinks, “the flower” of his country's melodies, and have “Has Sorrow thy young Days shaded,” “Come rest on this
attained a rank in publie favour, of which he “ would not Bosom,” and “W #. in death Ishall calm recline,”—which
*. risk the forfeiture, by degenerating in any way last, by the bye, a wretched ribald in a publication almost
from those merits which were its source. Whatever trea. too infamous to mention appears to have denounced as im
sures of our music,” he continues, with his usual intermix piously profligate. It is, in façt, the very essence of cheer"
ture of wit and scholarship “ were still in reserve (and it ful affection and want of selfishness, worthy of the depth
will be seen, I trust, that they are numerous and vaſnable), of humanity which produced the noble song that we have
I would gladly have left to future poets to glean, and, mentioned just before it... We shall return to this subject
with the ritual words, “ tibi trado,” would have delivered next week, and enter a little into the general character of
up the torch into other hands, before it had lost much of Mr. Moore's poetry, which is i. misunderstood by
its light in my own. But the call ſor the continuance of the severe, the profligate, and the hypocritical.
the work has been, as I understand from the publisher, so
general, and we have received so, many contributions of ---, - …”
old and beautiful airs,” the suppression of which, for the
enhancement of those we have published, would resemble FINE ARTS.
too much the policy of the Dutch in burning their spices,
that I have been persuaded, though not without consider CASE OF MR. CLENNEL.
able diſlidence in my success, to commence a new series.” In laying the following pathetic case before our readers;
We are altogether of the opinion, upon which Mr. we round off in some degree the keen edge of concern, it
Moore has acted. Our first impulse, like his, would have produces, in the earnest hope, if not confidence, that the
been to have no more; our next, to have heard all argu rendering public so rare an union of misfortune and talent
ments in favour of the continuance, and to wish they might will ensure effective assistance to the sufferers, the condi
be good; and our final one, to have obtained as man tion of one of whoma may be ameliorated, and the infants
more as possible, . The reasons are obvious ; and wit saved from the ruin threatened by the loss of their parent's
regard to our conclusion, it might be urged in particular, reason. By subscribing to a large Print, to be engraved
that there is no knowing how many beautiful airs may yet by Mr. Baoxley, from a Painting by Mr. CENNeil, repre
£ome singing ſtom remote corners in Ireland. - Besides,
senting the decisive charge ºf the Life Guards at Waterloo,
the Reader has a great argument to advance, which the the subscribers will blend the pleasures of the imagination
writer's modesty will not allow him; and that is, that to with those of the heart. This will be ensured by the union
such a poet, Irish airs are never likely to come without of Mr. Clennel's animated graphic powers with the rare
their inspiration; and doubtless, this is one of the causes sculptural talent of Mr. BRoailey. The attestation of the
which persuaded him to go on. highly respected Members of the Committee is indeed suſ
Yet, after all, we shall plainly confess, that the present ficient to shew this, without referring to specimens of Mr.
Number, in our opinion, is not so good as the former Bromley's admirable works,
ones. The airs appear to be rather the remains of what
have already gone through the Publisher's hands, than Mr. Clennell, the painter, is a native of Morpeth, in the county
any accession of melodies; and we are among the objec of Nºrthumberland, and was originally pupil to Mr. Bewick, of
tors whom Mr. Moore anticipates, to the insertion of the Newcastle. Specimens of his talents, as an Engraver on Wood,
exquisite Scotch air lºckaber, though there is one pas will be found in some of the most elegant publications of the day.
sage in it, which resembles the still more striking and wail The beautiful illustrations of Rogers's Pleasures ºf Memory, from
ing sorrow of the Irish harp;—a superiority in the na the designs of Stothard ; and the diploma of the Highland
tional music but too real. Our favourite air in the pre Society, from a drawing by the venerable President of the Royal
Academy, (the º wood engraving of the age) are both the
** One Gentleman in particular, whose name l shall feel roductions of his hand. lºut his genius did not stop here. He
riuir allowed to mention,
happy- in being ** has not only
ruly sent us near and not been long in London before he was known to the public
frºy ancient airs, but has communicated many curious fragments as a painter, and one too of no ordinary character. Possessing
of itish pretry, and sºme interestiºg traditions, currets in the an active and ardent mind, he saw and estimated the advantages
country where he re-ides, illustrated by sketches of the romantic held out by the British Institution—he became one of its most
scenery to which they reſer; all of which, though too late for the assiduous students, and soon distinguished himself in its annual
present number, will be of infinite service to us in the prosecution exhibitions. Iłis rapid progress was marked by the admirers
ciour task." -
and lovers of art; and the Patrous of the Institution, ever ready
-
to fºster and ‘ehcourage excellence, early and munificently re unless I am much mistaken, the proportion of Barristers.
ºwarded his exertions. attending has of late been more considerable than for many
-

In the midst of this career of success, at the moment of com

previous years. The cause of this influx is not the crea
pleting a picture for the Earl of Bridgewater, representing the
fete given by the City of London to the assembled Sovereigns— tion of any new offices, to which their hopes may ascend,
a picture which had cost him unheard-of labour, and which he but the great increase of business; for the love of money
had execited in a way to command the admiration of all who as every body knows is a much more generally operative
saw it, even in its unfinished and imperfect state—he was af impellent than the desire of rank, unless indeed the rank
ficted with the most dreadful of all maladies—the loss of rea bring with it a proportionate pecuniary emolument. The
son! He has been now for nearly two years separated from his fact of the large increase of Barristers who devote their
family and from society. This is but half the melancholy tale: time to Chancery practice, where strictly speaking there
His wife, fondly attached to him, attending him day and night, are but three judicial situations open to them, establishes
fluctuating perpetually between the hope which the glimmering" what I have said. Sometimes indeed a common Lawyer
of returning reason still held out, and the almost despair, which
followed on his again sinking into confirmed Immacy—at the mo is advanced to the Woolsack and to the custody of the
ment, too, when she seemed to her friends to have overcome the Great Seal, as in the recent case of Lord ERskINE, but it
severity of the trial, and was preparing to enter on some busi more rarely happens, (and the instance of Sir JAMEs MANs
mess, by which she might support her children, deprived of their Firlu cannot be fairly quoted to the contrary) that a mere
father's aid—became herself the subject of the same malady, and Equity Lawyer is appointed Chief Justice “ither of the
the mental derangement, in this case accompanied with ſever, King's Bench or Common Pleas: they are made puisne
soon terminated in her death. The death of a young mother of Barons and sometimes, Chief-Barons of the Exchequer,
a young family, is always a most afflicting event. In the present but I cannot recollect that at any period the inferior judi
instance, the visitation is siugularly aggravated by the distress cial seat of the common-law %. bave been filled by
inº situation of the Father, whose disorder becomes every day
more decided, and whose recovery is now placed almost beyond individuals selected from the Chancery Bar.
Independent of the gentlemen in bºmbazeen who either
hº it is to prºvide for Three young Children, the eldest only eight practise or sit in this Court, it is provided with no less than
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years of age, that this Publication is undertaken; and though twelve King's Counsel, who all enjoy either more or less
the Committee who conduct it canuot but hope that the melan business. Six of these have already been under review in
choly circumstances in which these little creatures are left, will
anot fail to excite the consideration of the Public ; yet their main the course of these articles; gne I have cursorily noticed,
reliance is on the ercellence of the Publication as a Work of Art. another I have totally omitted, because little that was either
The picture selected is a spirited and splendid composition, good, bad, or indifferent, could be said of him, and the four
illustrative ..?'. great National Event; which, while it added remaining candidates for employment I am now about to
much to the military glory of the country, is still more endeared speak. - -

vo all our memories by its having given peace to a conflicting Mr. Culles, I apprehend, may lay claim to the first
world. --

mention on the ground of seniority if not of merit. " He

The reward conferred on this Picture by the British Institu examines the cases entrusted to him with great care, and
tion must be considered as especially ...ºf
the selection of
the Committee; and the well known talents of the Engraver are conducts them with much prudence: he seems faithfully to
the best guarantee th it can be offered to the public for the excel adhere to his instructions and never commits the interests
lence of the whole. - -
of his clients by indiscretion: he is a man perhaps of more
The Publication will be conducted by the following Gentlemen, labour than talent, who makes up for his deficiency in the
formed into a Committee for that purpose, whb will pay all latter by unabated industry, *".
from reading and
monies received into the lunds of Trustees, to be vested in the experience has acquired as much knowledge as most of
funds, for the use of the Childreu. those to whom he is usually opposed. His method is very
Brºs. AMIN WEst, President of the Royal Academy. systematic, and his manner somewhat laboured, with a
Robert BALMANNo, Esq. Morningtou-place. -

Ann Ari vyi Coopert, A. R. A., New Milman-street. mouthing kind of pronunciation that looks" a little like .
. R. H. Solºv, Esq. F.R.S., Great Ormond-street. pompous effort, where an exertion of the kind is totally
JAMEs VINE, Esq., Brunswick-square. unnecesarv : he affects to be oratorical in the wrong place,
DAvid Uwiss, M.D., Thavie's-Inn. or I should rather say that he is seldom oratoricaſ in the
--~~
right: he makes a common observation upon a matter of
form with quite as much, if not more ceremony than if it
cRiticisms Upon the BAR. were a remark upon the most pinching and important part
of the case. Yet do not let me be understood to say, that
he is by º means an exception to that gentlemanly de
No. 20,-Messas. Culles, Honne, IIEALD, AND portment which usually prevails in the Court of Chancery,
: WINGField.
excepting in a deficiency of ease: he is never frivolous in
There's nothing simply good, nor ill alone; his addresses to the ChâNcellor, he wastes but little time,
40fevery quality comparison -- but proceeds to the gist of the argument, and in combatting
The ouſy measure is, and judge opinion. it not "... evinces both readiness and ingenuity.
Dr. Donne's Progr. ºf the Soul, St. 52. He is a quicker man than his general appearance indicates:
..THE objects of ambition separated from, pecuniary con his small black eyeissharp and piercing, and it is extremely
sideration, are unuch less numerous in Chancery thim in difficult for anything to escape its scrutiny. His voice is
our Courts of Law, but those who aim at the highest not inharmonious, but it wants articulation and distinet
honours in the ſoruner are not by any means in proportion ness: perhaps the attempt to remedy this defect has occa
to the probability of attainment. Indeed the Barristers in sioned the mouthing aud too apparent exertion of the
Westminster Hall appear to have multiplied so rapidly muscles of the face to whieh I have referred.
within the last ten . fifteen years, that in none of the Of Mr. HoRNe I feel competent to say but little because
Courts are the seats assigned to them sufficient for the pur from various accidents, which it would not perhaps be
pose. In this respect in the Commón Pleas, during Term, very . and certainly not very necessary to explain, I
the Advocates are least incominoded, because none, but have seldom had an opportunity of listening to him while
Sergeants are allowed to practise; the dreary coldness and he has been employed in addressing either the CHAN
dullness of the Exchequer usually keeps away, nearly all crllor, the Vice-Châxcellon, or the Masten of the
but those who have actual business to transact. The Court Rolls. All that I have heard and seen however has
of King's Bench however, as I had occasion before to re pleased me, and if I have not heard more it did not arise
remark, is generally crowded to excess, and in Chancery, from the circumstance that he enjoys but little business, for

* **
 THE EXAMINER. lº
-
º:
º: havelhe attained
the fact is directly the reverse. He seems a man of a present can be : within the
acongratulated upon, :
even
Bar. Inth oug this
sound understanding and of a clear head, and conducts
himself without pretence of any kind. He is esteemed Gentleman often conducts himselfin Equity too much likea
a good Equity Lawyer and his appearance º:
the idea Nisi Prius Advocate, with much of the flippant confi
of a Chancery Advocate: his countenance is rather thought dence that might be very useful if he were so, but is of.
ſºul than bright: some men make their faces mere mirrors fensive in the situation where he usually displays it, and,
reflecting external impressions, operated upon by the where a calm decorum is preserved, sometimes carried to
cloudyness or clearness of the weather, by the presence of too great an extreme, but commonly well calculated for
rticular individuals, and a thousand other circumstances; the attainment of justice in a Court where “passion wears
nt the face of a thoughtful man is always much the same, the livery of thought,” and where it is vain to make an
when he is not particularly excited by what is passing attempt to play with the feelings or impose upon the un
within or without; this is the case with Mr. Honne, who detstanding. Mr. Wingfielp may be a better lawyer.
has guined the character with some on this account of than he is, I believe, ordinarily considered by those who
being a heavy man. In his practice I have remarked no take offence when they hear him address the Court with at
thing to warrant this opinion unless a tranquil sobriety of sort of assured air, and in a tone of voice that would in
deportment be mistaken for drowsy dulness. The tone of dicate that he is upon most excellent terms with himself,
his voice is something too deep, and may have a lulling and is acquainted with few individuals better entitled to be
sort of murmur to those who attend the Court for the mere heard at any length he may deem requisite. - º
purpose of gratifying useless curiosity. I think his manner
I have now brought to a close these Criticisms uppx
at times peculiarly forcible, and he has an earnestness tur BAR: the object I had in view I stated in the outset,
about his delivery that keeps up the attention. and how far that object has been attained it is not of much
Against the third gentleman on this list, Mr. Hrald, I importance for me to inquire; that is a point which can be
can say nothing, but that to a slighter degree he has the better settled by others.” Thus much I will say, that they
j noticed in Mr. Belt; viz. a strong northern dia have been dictated by a spirit of candid but libéralenquiry,
lect, but it is by no means of so vulgar and coarse a kind. and I have never intentionally wounded, individual feel
Yet, Mr. Healo invariably forgets the aspirate where it ings, nor intruded into the privacy of domestic life... I
ought to be sounded, if he do not sometimes insert it where have spoken of men only as I saw them in public, figuring
it ought to be omitted. He is a straight-forward speaker, on the open stage of our Courts of Justice, and whatever
and would most likely as soon think of returning to the other ambition I may have indulged, I shall be content if I
North as attempting anything approaching an oratorical have been useful. I have heard many objections stated toº
flourish. He is a man of very considerable learning in his these articles upon principle, but, none that could not be
profession, and his general attainments. I am told are highly answered: I am not called upon to answer themºkere;
respectable. He is a very distinct and intelligible stater of but to those who urge that Barristers are not-fit objects of
a long case, and has a great facility at seizing the leading public criticism—that their qualifications and conduct
Voints, and reducing the whole to as narrow a compass as ought to pass without remark, I reply in the stale quota
possible: I do not say that he equals the Solicitoa tion Quis tulerit Gracchos, &c.—Shall those who are so
GENERA. in this particular, for no man equals him; but little sparing of their censures, and so free in their observa
He is not behind Mr. HART in this sort of excellence. Mr. tions, complain because their merits and defects are 'at
Heato is also a very acute and clear reasoner—he has an tempted to be fairly canvassed and impartially ascertained.
eye for nice shades of distinction, and can evolve a subtle AMIcus Curtise,
fallacy with great shrewdness and dexterity. I have cause
to know that his opinions as a chamber counsel are highly
esteemed. -
cALENDAR of Nature.
-

I am sorry that the advancement of Mr. Wingfield to (From the Literary Pocket-Book.)
the rank of King's Counsel renders it in some degreene - JANUARY. -

cessary for me to make a few observations upon him. Then came old January, wrapped well
Had he continued behind the Bar, I should certainly have In many weeds to keep the cold away;
avoided saying anything about him, but he could not well Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell;
be omitted in an article devoted to Gentlemen who at the And blowe his nayles to warme them if hemay;
same time received the same distinction. Perhaps he For they were numb'd with holding all the day.
An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood,
would preſer notice at all events to entire exclusion under And from the trees did top the needlesse spray;
such circumstances. . As it is much mºre pleasant, to ad Upon a huge great earth-pot steane he stood,
vert to a man's good qualities, I will begin by admitting From whose wide mouth there flowed forth the Romane flood.
that Mr. WiNgfield's greatest, excellence is his quick Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book vii. Canto 7.
ness, but like many others destitute of sound judgment, January is so called from the Latin god Janus, the,
he thinks it is worth a great deal more than its real value, door-keeper of heaven, and presider over peace,—pro
and that the enjoyment of it will amply supply the place bably, because the earth is at leisure in this month, as well
even of nj. deficiencies. True it is, that there is a as from its being the gate of the year. The Greek months
certain class who, like him, prize it highly, and it is equally were named after different festivals in honour of the gods, as
true that there are certain situations where the possession the present one, for instance, Anthesterion or the Flowery,
of mere quickness is of considerable importance: an ad from the quantity of flowers displayed at the festival of,
vocate beſore a jury, for instance, is lost without it—no Bacchus. -

thing can compensate for its absence in examining a cun . The modern use of ancient terms on occasions of this
ning witness, or in making a reply to a case ingeniously kind produces some amusing inconsistencies, especially
andſartfully fabricated: under such circumstances a Coun among the Celtic nations. Thus, in our House of Com.
sel had much better be destitute of all knowledge of the mons, there shall be a call of the members for Wednesday,
principles and precedents of law than of quickness; but : or the day of the gothic deity. Wöden, which their Journai.
ific Court of Chancery is a very different ce, and re translates into Dies Martis, or the day of the Roman deity.
quin's very different talents ard attainments. On this ac Mars; and this day of Gothic and Roman divinity-ship is
count, if Mr. Wingfield had originally begun to practise commenced with the reading of Christian prayers. .
in any of our Courts of Law, I am not at all sure whe , January is the coldest month of the year, the winter
ther he would hot-have met with more success than at . having now strengthened by continuance, "...To those,
 14 THE EXAMINER,
however, who cultivate their health and imaginations, life But what was thought enchantment in old times, may:
has always enjoyments, and nature is full of §. "The be practised now by every body who chuses to force
frost sets our victorious fire-sides sparkling; and with our owers. These may be had all the winter-tine, though
feet upon a good warm rug, we may either doubly enjoy they are best in every respect where they can be taken care
the company of friends, or get into summer landscapes in of in a green-house, or seen through a glass partition at
eur books, or sit and hear the end of a large room, as in some of the houses, of the
- The excluded tempest idly rave along. rich. The truth is, that many flowers in a room are not
-" Thompson.
wholesome, unless they can have air and light to enable
Our wisest ancestors, those of Shakspeare's time, them to give out properly that oxygen or vital air, which
who understood mest things better than we, and whom they ..ii. in genial situations during the day-time. Dur
we begin to understand better than any of their posterity,+ ing the night, they are always unwholesome, as they
knew how to take the roughly kind hint of nature, and throw out hydrogen and absorb the oxygen. , And yet
‘kept up their Christmas festivities through, the whole of rhaps our excessively artificial and in-door habits, in
this month. They got a little, and enjoyed.every thing, relping to enervate us, render unwholesome what would
instead of getting everything and enjoying a little. In the he otherwise perceptible only as a pleasure. At all events,
day they made leisure ſor º sport out of doors, and a few flowers on a shelf, such as hyacinths, and jonquils,
in. evening they were at their books and pastines can do no harm, and are very beautiful with their curling
within. or down-looking buds, and 3. ivory roots seen through
* Even to observe nature is to enjoy her. He is infinitely the water. The rest of the flowers that may be forced in
mistaken, who thinks there is nothing worth seeing in winter are lilacs, lilies of the valley (an exquisite inter
winter-time out of doors, because the sun is not warm, and mixture of leaves and bells), mignonette or the little.
the streets are muddy. Let him get, by dint of good exer darling, pinks, polyanthès narcissus, roses, tulips, and
oise, out of the streets, and he shall find enough. In the violets;-in fact, a whole slimmer, anticipated. It is
warm neighbourhood of towns he may still watch the field worth adding, that artificial flowers were never, perhaps,
fares, thrushes, and blackbirds; the titmouse seeking its so well made as they are now, and that they might be put
food through the straw-thatch; the red-wings, field-fares, in pots and glasses like real ones, or hung up in wreaths
sky-larks, and tit-larks, upon the same errand, over wet and crowns over pictures, door-ways or the iniddle of a
meadows; the sparrows, and yellow-hammers, and chaf pier, where they form at once a summer picture of their
finches, still beautiful though mute, gleaning from the own, a memorial of classical times, and a beautiful con
straw and chaffin farm-yards; and the ring-dove, always trast to the squareness, of the compartment. It was
Isoetical, coming for her meal to the ". About pleasantly said by somebody on seeing a real, rose aſter,
rapid streams he may see the various habits and move one of these manufactured ones, “Very lovely, indeed!"
ments of herons, wood-cocºs. wild-ducks, and other water It is almost as good as artificial.” -

fowl, who are obliged to quit the frozen marshes to seek Those who cultivate a few flowers for their particular -
their food there. The read-breast cones to the windows, annuseulent Ş. do not of course address ourselves to
and often into the house itself, to be rewarded for its song, gardeners) should now occasionally take in their best
and for its far-famed “painſul” obsequies to the Children ranunculuses, and protect their choice caruations, hyacinths,
in the Wood. -
..] and tulips, with hoops, mats, or glasses. It is time also,
-

. The fruits still in season, which are the same also ſor in mild º
weather, to plant ranunculuses, anemones,
two months more, are almonds, apples, chesnuts, pears and tulips,” and bulbous ſlowers; and for early blowing,
walauts. In the gardens and hedges beautiful colours are crocuses and snow-drops. The bulbons flowers in glasses
still peeping for the eye that seeks them: among flowers— within doors, should lave their water kept clean; and it
the cyclamen, hazel-wort, the crocus or saffron flower that is better for all flowers in a house to have as much light
died the garments of Aurora and Hymen, the perriwinkle, and sunshine as possible, which some of them seem abso
the polyanthus, yellow-aconite, Alpine alysson, anemºne, lutely to yearn and strain aſter. -

hellebore, the fiery glow of the wall-flower, the snowdrop But the very frost itself is a world of pleasure and fairy
with its little hints of green, and the primrose or rose of beauty. The snow dances down to earth, filling all the
the prime:—among trees and shrubs, the Glastonbury: airy vacancy with a giddy whiteness; and minutely in
thorn, whose flourishing at Christmas used to be counted spected, every particle is a chrysal star, the delight perhaps
miraculous, laurustinus with its delicate clumps of white, of myriads of 'invisible eyes.” The ice (hereafter destined
laureola or spurge-laurel, Wºº arbutus, or straw to “femper dulcet creams" for us in the heat of summer)
berry-tree, a º. with Virgil, which looks like straw affords a new and rare pastime for the skaiter, almost next
berries growing on a bay, and the alaternus, which English to flying; or suddenly succeeding to rain, strikes the trees
men in gratitude should call the Evelyn, aſter that excel and the grasses into silver. But what can be more de
lent rural patriot who first “ had the honour," he says, licately beautiful than the spectacle which sometimes salutes
“tº bring
---
it into use and reputation in this kingdom, and the eye at the breakfast-room window, occasioned by the
- it from Cornwall even to Cumberland.” hoar-frost or frozen dew 2 If a jeweller had come to
ropagaw: is ºhat can be desired beyond the holly dress every plant over night to shrprise an Eastern sultan,
'I'hen, as to berries, yº." ": }; lev burst out int
alºn, which made this friend q. ess
‘"W") "...”.” he could not produce any thing like the “pearly drops.”
poetical rapture. "w,e still dress
- up both ºur churches
ſestival or the “silvery plumage.” An ordinary bed of greens,
in thouses” says he..." on Christmas ºld other ſesi ; to those who are hot at the mercy of their own vulgar asso
days, with its cheerful green, and rutilatil herries. Tº ciations, will sometimes look like crisp and corrugated .
lºunder heaven a more glorious and reſtºsling 9%iº emerald, powdered with diamonds. -

of the kind, than an imprºgnable hedge of about tour Under the apparent coldness of the snow, the herba
hundred foot iniength, nine ſoot high, and ſive in dialºteſ, ceous plants, which die down to the robt in autumn, lie
which I can now shew in my ruined gardens at Saw's nourishing id: shoots for the spring, Noris much done
Court (thanks to the Czar of Muscovy) at any time of the the animal creation, man included, during this period.
year,
iller glittering
standards with its armed
at orderly and warnished
distances, blushing leaves,the
with their
Many birds and reptiles make a long night-time of the
hard season, and are awake only in finer weather. The,
natural coral?t” domestic cattle are mostly lod in the homestead. The
* Evelyn's sylvia, book 2, chap. 5, sect. 7. fartner lops and cuts timber, mends thorn hedges, and
-

draws mature to his fields. Many trades, especially those.

+ ib. chap. 6. sect. 9,9.
 'FHE EXAMINER, 19?
connected with water, are at a stand during the frost. The On Wednesday the risoner was again brought u and dis
thresher's time is the merriest as well as most industrious, charged, as all proof of the forgery was prevented
swallowed the note.
t;"
is having .
for he works away his flail in the barn. In the merrier “. .
days of our ancestors, it was customary for every village John Williams, a fashionably dressed young man, describing -
and town-hall to have its great top, which the poorer inha himself as a clerk in St. Mary-axe, was charged by:liarrell, a
bitants emulated each other in lashing, a practice well watchman in Aldersgate-street, with violently assaulting him in
worth revival. *
the execution of his duty. The watchman said, he saw the pri--
For those of the wealthier classes, who can afford leisure soner about half an hour past twelve o'clock on Wednesday .
night, knocking at several doors in Maidenhead-court, and ou
(and all could if they were wise), walking or riding, ar his desiring him to desist he abused him most grossly, knocked,
cording as the surface of the earth permits, is so much him down, as well as another person who attempted to stop him
healthy wine to the blood. . . A good dinner, well earned, The prisoner, however, was at length secured, and taken to the . .
will then do no harm; and then again the long snug even wateh-house; there he beat the constable of the night and thei
ing returns, with the “sopha wheeled round,” and, the houseman, the latter of whom he knocked down, stampt upon
“curtains” down; or balls and theatres invite them to him, and injured him so much that he was confined to his bed,
hurry betwixt house and house—the one sending them and consequently unable to attend and give his testimony—The
prisoner said that he was intoxicated, and did not know what he
with perfect digestion to sleep, or the other helping to re was about.—The Magistrate observed, that this was a case he
mind them of the common rights of humanity, a lesson could by no means pass over, and suggested the prºpriety of his -

now peculiarly seasonable. If the farmer thinks it his giving two guineas to the charity school of the ward in whicle
duty, as well as interest, to take care of his very cattle and this outrage had been committed. The prisoner complied, and
see them well housed, how much more incumbent is it was discharged. - -

Mansiox-house.
upon the rich to look after their poor fellow-creatures, and - ! - " - .

sée what can be done to secure them the common neces A boy, about 15 years old, was charged with having uttered a
saries of “meat. clothes, and fire.”. Let those who give forged ft. note. Iſis guilt was clearly proved, but he declared
ao pleasure be assured, that their toils and possessions are he had picked it up in the street, and refused to give º."
in vain, for they can receive none;—no l—and least of all of himself, or of his employers. He was remanded and brought
up again several times, and on Friday he was committed, as he
from Nature, notwithstanding her ever-ready and exuberant still
treasures. - -
persisted in refusing to squeak a word. It was stated by a
-
decent person, that the name of Watson, which the boy had
represented himself to bear, was a fictitious name; his right
POLICE. name was Denison : ſix grandfather and father were both re
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spectable tradesmen, and had kept a cutler's shop in Smithfield
ºut, on ALt. -
for the last 50 years. The father had died, just after the boy'
On Monday Edwond Clifford, laud-surveyor, a persen of re had he returned from a boarding-school, in n state of insolvency;
spectable appearance, and particularly miſdin his speech and and was therefore obliged to carry cakes about the streets to
manners, appeared to answer the complaint of Mary Ann Bailey, obtain a livelihood. It was in that occupation that he had got
we wife etiºnauerney’s clerk in Bishop's-court, Chancery-lane.— connected with the gang whose names ho was so pertinaciously
determined to conceal. -

The complaiiant, a very decent young weman, said, she was

going up Fleet-street about half-past five o'clock on Thursday now-street. … -

week, when the defendant called her by an opprebrious name, On Friday, an atrocious wretch, named Joseph. Thomas
and struek her a violent blow with his fist on her left side. She Wakeman, a lighterman, was committed for a most savage assault
immediately seized him, and demanded why he struck her; he on a fellow-workman, named Cotton, whom, without any provoca
replied only by abuse, and in his struggle to get away from her tion, he had seized by the throat, and uearly strangled; and hay
ske received another blow; some gentlenen came tip, and insisted ing forced the tongue out of the mouth, bit off the end of it. He
on knowing who he was; he reſused to tell his name; but, on was not content with even this frightful cruelty, but proceeded to
being threatened to be given into custody, he at length gave a beat his almost insensible victim with his fists, and finally felled
card of his address, and was suſtered to depart. She hnd not him to the ground. ~ * -
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spoken a word to him, or offered the slightest provocation before -
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he struck her.-John Calpot, news-vender, and Edward Harland, - ***

of the Echo-office, Haydon-square, corrºborated the testimony of ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. **'. .
the complainant.—Mr. Clifford positively denied having struck --------
the complaimant, or in any manner interfered with her. He sus
pected this was a made up charge to obtain money, and he did Qn Saturday sennight, ºn inquisition was taken in Hunger:
ford-market oi the body of Samuel Boulter, a boy of two years of
not doubt but that, on inquiry, he should be able to trace a con
nexion between the complainant and witnesses.—A respectable age.-Mrs. Eliz. Boulter was mother of the deceased. Mr. Mor
gentleman said he knew Mr. Clifford, and thought him incapable ris, the surgeon, in Chandos-street, attended her at her lying-in."
of the gross outrage charged against him.—The sitting Alderman on the 8th July last, and since that time has occasionally visited
ºbserved—this-was-not a question of general character; if the
her º: he deceased was taken ill five weeks last Monday,
witnesses were to be believed, and he saw no reason to doubt and Mr. Morris was sent for ; he was out, but his shopman sent
their veracity, a gross and wanton assault had been committed some medicines, and a powder, was given to the child. Mr.
ºn a respectable and unoffending female.-Ordered to find bail, Morris called next day and said the powders were perfectly right.
for his appearance at the Sessions. As he only attended every other day, witness sent for irº,
On Tuesday Thomas Twigg, a lad about 18 years, old, was Mºkinnon, who came accordingly; and on examining the child,
brought up charged with having attempted to utter a forged 11. said it was murdered by mercury. He continued to visiºn;
Bank of England note—Walter Herdoe, apprentice to Mr. Mit prºfibe of the deceased, until Sturday ſaltnight when it died,
chell, woollen-draper, West Smithfield, stated, that the prisoner and he then repeated that the child was wilfully murdered.-Mrs.
same into his master's shop about seven o'clock on Monday even Hannah Law lodged in the house of the last witness. She cot
ing to purchase some velveret, and tendered in payment a ſt. roborated the testimony just given, excepting that she had not
Bank-aote. He ::: it was forged, and tºok it to his young heard Dr. M'Kinnon say anything respecting the child being
masterywhewas of the same opinion an officer was sent for, murdered--Dr. M'Kinnon, after mentioning the above particuº,
and the prisoner given in custody. Just at this period Mr. Mil. lº" deposed that he had not spoken any thing disrespectful of
chell returned, examined the note, and questioned the prisoner Mr. Morris, and was shocked to hear the evidence of the prº
as to what he was, and how he became possessed of the note. ºeding witnessa. He did not even know what medicines' the
He replied, he received it from his master, Mr. Hill, brushmaker, deceased had taken until he called at Mr. Morris's house, and he
Peartree-street, Goswell-street, in payment for work; and while then found they were just what, he himself would have given.
Mr. Mitchell was pointing out to some persons in the shop the He conceived that the deceased had died of a putrid sore throati
different marks of forgery on the note, the prisoner asked aſso to he had no appearance of measles upon him. The parants were
let him look at them. "Mr. Mitchell tru him with the note; always in. a state of intoxication when he called.--Mrs. Mgry.
but no sooner had he get possession ºf it... than he contrived tº rel, it Ann Robinson had ºursed the child; was present when #.
wrºti intº his mºuth, and **-Remanded. M'Kinuou said that the deceased was murdered by taking n:ſºn
 eliry. Both this witness and the landlord of the house where ceased, in a condition not to be described.—The Jury returned a
º the parents lived deposed to their sobriety.—Dr. Thomas, of verdict of -“Found dead.”
On Monday last, a lad about 13 years of age, of the name of :
Leicester-place, Leicester-square, and Mr. Jones, apothecary, in
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the Strand, had examined the body. The throat and lips were Adams, in the employment of Mr. James Nutter, was assisti -

ulcerated but the gums were sound, which could not have been
the case if mercury had been administered in any deleterious
quantity. They had also examined Mr. Morris's books, and
were perfectly satisfied that the medicines entered as having
been sent to the deceased were proper, for the complaint
Dr. Thomas said, that it was his knowledge of Mr. Morris's
his father to take the shaft-horse out of a cart, and was directe
by the futlier to place a prop under the back of the cart to pre- .
vent its tilting, when, before he had finished; the incalitious
parent released the shafts, and the contents of the cart fell upon."
the poor boy, and injured him in so dreadful a manner, that after
languishing about 3 hours, he expired. . -- - - -

respectability which induced him to interfere in the affair.—Mr. On the morning of Christmas-day, as the inhabitants were
Morris was next examined. He had practised in his present repairing to church, a gang of desperute ruffians brought a mad
house for 25 years. . He had not attended the child every day, bullock from Mile-end to Bethnal-green-road. Mr. James May,
because he was prevented by business; he would otherwise have the son of the vestry-clerk of that parish, proceeded º:
complied with the mother's request, although it would have been to muster the gentlemen, who have been sworn in as special
qnite useless: he had . sent medicines for two days. The constables, for the protection of the respectable inhabitant from -

calling in of Dr. M'Kinnon had given rise to a report that he had the attacks of those organized bands of robbers, who, tºnder the
murdered the child, which cndangered his life.-Mr. Gell had mask of bullock-hunting, commit every kind of depredation. r
issued his warrant to summon a Jury on Thursday week, but on Having mustered about a dozen of his brother officers, this littler
account of a letter from Dr. M'Kinnon, the Jury was not then band *ded to the scene of action, and made a determined
called. Mr. Morris however had applied to the parish officers to effort to regain the animal from their power. Upwards of 400
focureºfthis investigation.—The jury unanimously acquitted Mr. of the ruflkans made a desperate resistance, and attacked them .
R. all blame, and returned a verdict of Died by the yisi with stones, brickbats, and missiles of every description. Thr
tation of God. - ** * * - - butlock was... notwithstanding the disparity .# numbers, rescued
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An inquisition was taken on Tuesday at St. Thomas's fiospital, from the gamg, and placed in security. We are sorry to say that “
on the body of Rosetta French, aged 8 years. The deceased dreadful
Mr. May, jun. received a from a brick that was º
wound
resided with her aunt, in Marden-row, St. George's, Southwark, thrown at him, his nose being cut through, his eyes blackened, a
On Saturday week, during the absence of her aunt, she stood and his head shockingly bruised. One of the headboroughs was
near the fire; her clothes were drawn between the bars of the also tossed by the enraged animal, and narrowly escaped death. -
grate, she was immediately enveloped with flames, and ran out Several passengers were very seriously hurt by the bullock; a ,
afthehouse, screaming dreadſølly: Mrs. Gooch pulled the burn poor milk-woman was tºssed near Stepney church-yard, and so
ing garments from her body, and in so doing burnt her hands tnuch injured that her life is despaired of.
shockingly; the stays of the deceased having took fire, her pain On 8wnday avening a most lamentable occurehee took place at
was the most excruciating: a man passing by took hold of one the house of Mr. Stnckwood, in Red Lion-street:-A young
of her handa and dragged her into a pond: sſie was taken to St. Gentleman of the name of Richard Hallard, in a fit of despond
omns's Hospital, and died immediately. Verdict—Acciden ency, cut his throatin a most dreadful manner in four or five
th. laces. We understand be was uot twenty years of age. As
*Oh, Thursday an inquest was held in Gray's-inn-lane, on the |. affair is supposed-to be the cause. Mr. Hallard is still
º; at Mrs. Hannah Welling, an old ſady, 78 years of ... living, but no hopes, are entertained of his recovery, and the -
was found dead in her room, at 18, Pool's-buildings, Mount situation of the young Lady, the object of his attachment, is
pleasant-Ann Cole deposed, she ktiew the deceased many beyond description. - - - - -

years; she was always a remarkable healthy cheerful woman; Thursday morning, about a quarter before five, a dreadful.
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she resided about ten-years in the room adjoining witness; not fire broke out in the house of Messrs. Ruddy And-Co, oil and a
seeing her for twº days, witness became alarmed; the door being colour merchants, of Butclier-row, East Smithfield. The fire it is .
forced open, the deceased was found sitting with her head lean supposed originated from the chimney of ope of the coppers in
ing on the table, quite dead; there was some boiled pork and the back-part ºf the premises; the flames were discovered by a -
"pudding on the table, she had a fork in her left hand with a mau named Bryant, who was in a stable near the premises; he s
[. meat on it, ther right hand was slung down by her side, instantly alarmed the family, who were in bed; Mr. Ruddy gots
and a knife on the floor, which appeared to have fell out of it.-- up and awoke his ſamily, who made their escape down stairs---
The being of opiniºn, she died of an apoplectic fit, the just before the element bussy in to their apartment, a Soon after .
Jury returned a jº, by the visitation of God. 1.*** | engings arrived on the spot, but the flames having communicated: º
3. Friday an inquisition was taken at the White Swan, Rose to some pitch, tar, turpentine, and other destructive materials, º:
mary-lane, on the body of Stephen Kates.—It appeared from the the flames burst with great rapidity, and jur a short time four
evidence that the deceased was 50 years pf age, and by trad houses were burned to the ground, and others injured, - -

cooper; when he chose to work, he could earn at the rºte .# -

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er week. He occupied a wretched garret in Mr. Bºwry's house, &- - - - - BIRTHS. "... • is . ..... " - -

in Shorter's-rents, White's-yard, Rosemary-lane, for which he On Christmas eve, the wife of Mr. Saunders, shoemaker, Ball's
paid eighteen-pence, per week, and lind lived there upwards ºf Head-court, Snowbilt, of twins; she is in the 59th year of her:
six years, during which time he would not suffer an individua age, and had no children for 35 years before...” -

to eater his misèrable dwelling, and sometimes would not leave

--- Martiſtiage. *** . . ~d tº º - -
it himself for several weeks. It was utterly impºssible to tell in -

what manner he'lived during the time of his confinement, as he On the 31st ult., Thomas Prior, Esq. of the 18th Hussars, and
never suffered any one to take him victuals, to the knowledge of hephew to Viscount De Montmorency, to Elizabeth-Catherine, .
those in the house. At times, he would be seen sitting on the youngest daughter of William Augustus' Skynner, Esq., of
floor (there was no furniture), in a theughtful mood, without fire $º -- " - ..." ºr * ** - - -

or anything to keep him 'warm, even in the coldest weather.

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*...* formerly procured wºrk at his trade, and amassed - . . . . . . DEATHS. . . . - ". . -

a considerable sum of money; he then left work audiwandered : On the 28th of December, Mr. Edward Wakefield, of Northum-.
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eccentric getting intºxicated. rland-street, Srrand, in the 73d year of his age-r: ...
about the
when town inwas
his money a most
exhausted, he manner,
resorted to picking up bones On §ouday week, a Naval Officer entered ºr Putneycoach:
* and dirty things in the street. . For the last’ three years, his. at Purser's Cross, on his way to London, in good-health she was
habits became extremely penurious, and even drinking le partly in º
with a Gentieman when he ſell from his seat and
left off. He wºuld walk about the street in such a piñable state, expired...' ... --> -- " " .. . . - - - - - --- -

that charitable persons would often give him mºney; be fre rs. Jane Wright, aged 40. The deceased went to ked on.”
quently went out for the purpose of begging. About six weeks Tuesday night after eating a very heartwsupper, and at the time.
ago he came home and went to his apartment, and it was noticed being in the highest spirits. The follºwing morning the de
that he had nºt left it during that time. ºil. landlady, findin ceased not coming from her clumber at herºisash time, a black
the door hocked, had it broken open, and found the º smith, was tºº and the doºr was opened, when she was .
with a quantity of wet and dirty rags, papers, bpnes, ieces o ſound quite dead. . . . . . -
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stinking meat, and filth. A poor woman was hired to c e ===-Fa i

room, and on her removiñ some of the rags * §:
found a dead hody under them; it proved to be t *. the de
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 THE EXAMINER.
No. 576. SUNDAY, JAN. 10, 1819.
THE POLITICAL EXAMINER, the most worldly-minded of Judges, it might be thought,
Pope.
would take care now-a-days how he identified himself
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. . personally with the court, especially when it's character and .
No. 561. proceedings sometimes came before him in no very popu- .
lar way. Yet this was certainly done by Lord Eilen.
Borough. He not only motoriously leaned to the court on
LORD ELLENBOROUGH. . . those occasions, but seemed anxious to shew his contempt
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for public opinion on the subject, by becoming the Prince's
This Judge, who died the other day, was a son of Dr. visitor, and making one at his table both in town and .
Law, Bishop of Carlisle, well known for the liberality of country. Something of this wilful courtiership may doubt
his doctrines as a theologian. It is a pity that his son less be traced to his temper, and a good lump to his love
could not derive other advantages from such a father; but of good eating ; but as both of these habits of his Lord
be had the misfortune of being sent to a school where the ship were well-known, it became him to abstain the more.
tyrannical system of ſagging was in all it’s “glory;” and Neither worldliness nor unworldiness is likely to shew im
we think that a stronger addition to the influence of Sir partiality with respect to the man at whose table it enjoys
SaMuel Rosſilly's late protest against public schools in itself; but a worldly man, who is also ill-tempered, is the
his will could not be furnished than in our following ac last person breathing to shew himself impartial with re- .
count of him. .. spect to such a host, and on such occasions. With any -

The part of ford ELLENnorough's life, which is least other friend the case might be different; and even that is
known to the public, was like that of most lawyers who not likely; but a Prince and a Judge! What have they ..
succeed. He was industrious and politic. He knew how to do interchanging healths and jokes, and breathing mu-,
to make his way among the great and over the small. tual benevolence over basons of turtle soup ! Yet the
We \ad the early and suspicious lºy of being a PRINce's table was the only place perhaps which did not
favourite with successive Chief Justices, for whom he was witness the violent temper of the Chief Justice. The
sometimes employed in “hunting cases.” The brief which Law-Courts constantly growled with it; the very House
Mr. Erskixe declined in behalf of Governor Haslungs, of Peers, 9p one memorable occasion, flamed out with it; .
Mr. Law accepted; and any remantic interpretation of and if we guess at it's exercise elsewhere, we are compelled .
this incident was out of the question, not only upon the to do so by one of his Lordship's own observations from ,
nature of the case and the known principles of men of the the bench; when he said, that “Everybody knew what
world, among whom he would no doubt have laughed a nuisance children were, who came home from school for
loudest at such a motion; but from the circumstance of the holidays!"—a remark, which we chuse to criticise no
is having been introduced to “the connexion” through further. -

the medium of the well-known Sir Thostas Rumbold, Yet this paternal Judge is said, in some courtly or ;
who married his sister. From that time forth, he was ministerial paper, never to have got out of temper but on
seen to be where he had been always, -leaning by the great occasions, such, for instance, as when demagogues.
side of power ;—a tendency, to which his strange malle attempted to overthrow the government, or libellers made. -

able sort of Whiggism contrived to be no hindrance. If attacks which no man of spirit would make, upon those, .
he was a Whig in theory, he was a Tory in practice; who could not take personal notice of them. The passage,
and by degrees, after managing to unite himself with we think, was in the Courier. If the writer alludes to this,
government in a manner unprecedented for his situation, paper, he knows as much of courage as he does of any -
he presented the public with the spectacle of an extremely thing else. He seems to have no notion that any danger,
political judge who knew nothing of politics. In fact, he can be encountered but in duels, which by the way, is
was no politician, either in the ordinary or extraordinary mightily complimentary to said duels. Yet mere animal
sense of the word:—his temper and interest seemed to de courage is sufficient for these. It requires something else
termine him in all such matters. He was at one time to encounter loss of freedom and long deterioration of
Attorney-General,—as office instinctively avoided by some health; and a good deal more, we may add, to bearit
and as instinctively accepted by others; and it was reckoned well.—But enough of this., Lord ELLENBorough, oa,
a remarkable thing even by the initiated, that in the course thé occasion alluded to, gave another striking instance of,
of less than a year, he rose from the silk-gown which Judge the bad effects of courtiership as a Judge. Adultery was,
Buller obtained for him, to the ermine of Lord Chief brought up, and he called it a “venial offence,” or rather
Justice. - * . said, that it might be so. He said justly; for shades of
That he had a keen sense of his interest commonly so greater or less offence necessarily attend upon all offences,
eamed, all this shews clearly enough; and there is more which, abstractedly speaking, are rather offences against
remaining. He who is a plodder in youth and a courtier custom than humanity. An adulterer may doubtless be
in ge is not to be mistaken. It is possible however to one of the most pardonable, as well as most atrocious of
become a Judge, and to have brothers whd become Bi- men. But then what is to be thought of a Judge, who
shops, without taking any very extraordinary'steps. Bütºl shall be in the habit of giving damages for adultery, with
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THE EXAMINER.
out thinking it proper to philosophize in behalf of untitled passion in some others. There was something in him of
or uncourtly seducers, young ones not excepted, and sud human nature to change or to act well upon, as might
denly find out that it may be “venial,” in behalf of a happen. There was human warmth in the clay. But
grey-headed courtier, whose case was an excessive one? God deliver us from sheer, hard, inanimate tools in a hu
Out of the pale of his worldliness, Lord Ellenbo man shape, who pay him the impions compliment of tak
Rough had the reputation, and we doubt net with truth, ing themselves for his favourite instruments; and who
of being a good Judge; though his irritable temper must would be used to cut our throats, as soon as look at
often have endangered his impartiality. That he was a us, out of pure obedience. -

clever one, is universally acknowledged. His cleverness

was obvious to any one that happened to go into the
courts and hear him. His style of speaking had some CASE OF DON DIEGO CORRFA.
affectation in it perhaps of the sententious and antithetieal. We continue the publication of the documents relative
His natural dogmatism and love of power seem to have to the treatment of this Gentleman. The letter of Don
led him to imitate Jonsson. But he had ideas in his Correa to Lord Castlereagh seems to be translated by
some person not well acquainted with the English language,
head; and found language for them accordingly. Ife had perhaps one of his fellow-patriots; but the reader will
also a taste for humour, which agreeably to his character easily excuse such imperfections of style for the sake of the
in general, evinced itself chiefly in sarcasm. It affords a brave author. . We hope and trust, that the friends of
curious instance of his temper overcoming his better know liberty in England will not suffer the confidenee of these
ledge, that when he first ascended the bench, he announced noble-minded Spaniards in their hospitality and generosity
his intention of treating the junior counsel with a more to be disappointed, and will not see them perish from want,
or contpel them to seek in America that aid. and support
becoming indulgence than they had hitherto experienced. which they so well merit. It has been mentioned that a
His word and his temper were equally kept. We believe subseription was commenced...fer the Spanish Patriots.
there was no Chief Justice that lorded it more. Kex von We find that the house of Willians and Co., in Birchin
might have bounced more; but it must have been a fire lane, will receive what may be subscribed:—
of Christmas chesnuts to a large, continual, and intense Foreign Office, Dec. 18, 1816.
kitchen-roaster, which keeps every one at a distance but andMr.will[familton presents his compliments to Don Diego Correa,
be happy to see him at this Office, on Saturday next, at
the cook; and he, no doubt, must sometimes have been three o'clock.
“Scalded, for alle his long ladel." Chaucer.
Colonial Qſſice, Dorning-street, Dec. 24, 1816.
A man, who spoke as well as Lord EllesnoRough on Mr. Goulburn presents his compliments to Don Diego Correa,
the bench, must of course have been clever in private life. and has the houour to nequaint him, that Earl Bathurst has np
pointed Friday next, at one o'clock, as the time at which he
They say he was not destitute of scholarship as well as could receive Don Diego, at the Office of ilv. Coloaial Depart
wit, and could be an entertaining companion. "We be inely?. : a r
lieve also, that he shewed a liking for music, and had con - . . ~ * Colonial office, Pec. 26, 1816.
certs as well as more courtly parties at his house,_which Mr. Goulburm presents his compliments to bon Diego Correa,
and begs to acquaint him, that Earl Bathurst will not have it in
house, if we are not mistaken, was the one built by his power to see him sooner than five o'clock on Friday next.
Atilesias STUART in St. James's-square. It is an ele. - Doming-street, March 26, 1817.
gant building, with a stone front that at once announces Sin, I am direeted by Ehrl Bathurst to acknowledge the re
it's superiority over common houses; and if it was chosen ceipt of your Letter of the 24th instant, and to acquaini you that
the subject of Mr. Correa's Memorial appearing to his Lordship.
by his Lordship on this account, does honour to his taste. to come more properly under the cognizance of the Foreign
Upon the whole, Lord E LENBorough seems to have Office, it has been referred to Viseount Castlereagh.-I have the
been neither a map of genius, nor emphatically speaking, honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, H. Gourmurx.
The Hon. B. Paget, No. 7, Mount-street.
.ef virtue: he left the law not quite so good as he foundit,
Foreign Qiffice, April 10, kölj.
at least in point of reputation: he was worldly, passionate, Lord Castlereagh presents his compliments to M. Correa, and
and apparently gross in his appetites:—he was a flatterer having fully considered the statement which he received from
of those above him, and a dogmatist to those beneath; him in January last, is concerned to acquaint him, that his Ma
he-shook the sacrediudgment seat with the bad passions of jesty's Government cannot give him any remuneration for the
losses he has sustained, which do not appear to have been coca
the court. But he was unquestionably a man of talent:--- sioned by any act of the British Government.
if he was ill-tempered, and violent, and overbearing, and ; Certificate of Don Joachim Campazano, charge d'Affaires of
even servile, he was at least not miserly, nor hypocritical, his Catholic Majesty at the Court of his Britannic Ma
nor a bigot. We can imagine many of his faults to have jesty:
I certify,
arisen out of a wrong education and a foolish ill-opinion of of'. that to
passport DongoDiego
to use Correa, a Spaniard,
the waters of Baden,hath
and required
which I
human nature; so as to lead him to do what he thought have not been able to grant to him, as it hath been proved to me
the best for himself, as one out of a large pack of sad that he hath been claiined by the British Government from his
fellows who never meant any thing else. But at least he Catholic Majesty, and I therefore cannot consider him as under
Spanish protection. JoAchixt CA Mr.Azaxo.
would not have done the coldest-blooded things in the London, Sept, 8, 1817.
world, and talked of his tender nature at the conclusion. In the King's name.
He would not have whined, and canted, and believed We, Marquis of Osmond, Peer of France, Lieutenant-Generał
any thing to be virtue which bigotry called so, and of the King's Armies, and his Aanbassador at the Court of London,
request the Civil and Military Authorities charged with the in
twisted the blood out of people's hearts with a meek ternal police ºf the kingdom, and of all nations in friendship or
face, and mingled it with tears out of pure impotence. We alliance with France, to permit to pass freely M. Diego Correa,
would much rather have been at the mercy of his passions, formerly Captain in the Spanish Army, going from London to the
Baths of Baden, (by way of Calaisj, and to graut to him assist
bad as they were, than at the mercy of the total want of auce and protection in case of need. The present passport, de
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livered at London the 9th Sept. 1817, on a document which ments, of generous and enlightened nations, as the incomparable
proves that M. Correa has been claimed by the British Govern reward of virtue. , -

neut whilst he was in prison in Spain, he may be cousidered as Not to fatigde the ntiention of your Lordship, or obtrude on
a British subject by that act. -
your important occupations, I omit to make a circumstantial de
The Ambassador of France, tail of facts, which recommend me to the honourable Goveru
(Siºned) Osytowd.
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ment of the English natieu i and whenever your Lordship shall.
By his Excellency the Secretary of the Embassy, judge theiu worthy of your cognizance, I am ready to state them
(Signed) by authority, E. De Cazes. , {...} in order that your Lordship may perceive the deli
To Don Diego Correa, 25, Red Lion-square. acy with which I have conducted inyself, and which has been
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obscured by the influence of my ... adversaries. I believe.

- Foreign Qſice, Feb. 7, 1818. that this is a favour compatible with justice, and it is what t
, Lord Castlereagh presents his compliments to Don Diego implºre of your Lordship, that I may be enabled to destroy the
Corres, and in reference to his letter to the Earl of Liverpool, double punishment inflicted upon me, without being heard or
under date of the 26th January, detailing his present situation, placed on my defence. . . - - -

and containing a request of pecuniary assistance from his Royal - I have the honour, to reiterate my respects to your Lordship.
Highness's Government for the discharge of his debts, and for with submission and good will, persuaded that my observations.
a provision for his future subsistence, Lord Castlereagh begs to will meet with your approbation and indulgence, in consequence
assure Mr. Correa, that however he may regret the circum of the two notes which your Lordship deigned to communicate
stances which have occasioned his application, he ſeels it his to me on the 10th April-last, -and-on-the-7th inst.—I have the
duty to acquaint him at the same time, that it is out of his power honour to be, my Lord, your most obedient humble servant,
to comply with Mr. Correa's request. * * ** **
-
- *
- - - - - - * * Diego Confera.
* * * * * * **
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To the Right Hon. Lord Castlereagh.

London, Feb. 24, 1818–46, Leadenhall-street. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
My Lonn, If the imperious circumstances to which I have || —------

been unduly compelled were not insupportable, I-should not - ? - ?: -

rsist in submitting miyºsolicitudes to the Government of his - FRANCE.

º Highness. Under this impression, I entreat your Lord
ship to accord me your º as a gentlemſam, º I explain
to you my feelings with moderation and respect. . . . . .
i had conceived, illustrious Lord, the reasonable idea that my
presence in England would destroy any sinister prepossession M.J. Jäge: ''
::PARIs, JAN.-4–The third number of a pamphlet, en
titled “French Letters, or Correspondence, between a.
-
French Citizen and a Seuler of the Camp d'Asyle,” was
º
the authorities on the 31st. ult. The author is
-

which occasioned the Governor of Gibraltar, General Don, to

wnake the concluding intimation, which I quote:-". Hut his The bases of the Prussian constitution are—a national:
Lordship desires it to be clearly understood, that when you ar representation, which will co-operate in the formation of
rive in England you are not to expect to receive any other suc laws, and grant taxes according to a budget which will be.
cours, or assistance of any kind, on the part of his §. Go submitted to it; popular elections; the responsibility of
ºvernment.” . And ean it be possible that the Hon. Government Ministers; the liberiy of the press; and the of #.
of his Royal Highness, being satisfied by convincing proofs of judicial audiences, civil and criminal, The Hanoverian
my patriotic conduct, and of the injuries inflicted since the fatal constitution will be published before the 1st of February
moment when I was taken in. Gibraltar, those assistances will
be denied me that justice and humanity claim, when they are next, but it is generally thought that it will be less liberal.
lavished on the declared enemies of my country, of the general than the constitution of Prussia. Among the Governments.
cause of Europe, and especially of #. British nation : The of Germany which have hitherto achieved mothing towards.
single reflection produced of my sufferings, and patriotic ser the establishment of representative constitutions, are those
vices has excited the noble sensibility which characterizes the of the kingdom of Saxony, of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin,
Łaglish people :--there is not a subject of his Britannic Ma and Strelitz, of Hesse-Cassel and of Hesse-Darmstadt. ,
jesty, my Lord, who can regard with indifference a victim sacri
ficed to the impulses of a cruel and unjust revenge. General SPAIN. -

smith was involved (without being aware of it) in the intrigues MAntip, Dec. 27.-The 26th of December of this year
meditated by my unjust rivals. -

The injurious declaration of the Spanish Legation, which I wifl be a day of eternal sorrow for the Spanish Monarchy,
have the honour to transmit for your impartial consideration, is a in consequence of the loss of a Queen endowed with the
fiew incident which aggravates my sufferings. By the illegal most eminent qualities, and who was at the same time the
motives which it manifesis, I have been deprived of the indelible ornament of the Spanish throne, and the example of every
rights of a Spaniard, and of the power of restoring myself to the domestic virtue.—About nine o'clock in the evening, her
bosom of my country, in defence of which my blood has been Majesty the Queen being in bed, and conversing with some
shed, and that of my two only sous, by numerous wounds on persons in attendance on her, was suddenly seized by a
the field of battle, to save Ferdinand VII. from captivity, who convulsion which seemed to leave her in two or three
at the same time has declared as his good servant the nominated
General Toledo, whose incendiary libels I attacked and destroyed minutes. lier Majesty recovered her senses, but remaine-l
for the lionour of the Spanish nation, and of the British as i. in a state of anxiety. which was followed quickly by
friend and ally, in 1812. º -
another convulsion. From that moment the attacks co:
My Lord, the indigent, state to which yarious Spanish Pa tinued without interruption, in spite of the most proper
triots are reduced, who have taken refuge in this country (the remedies which were instantly administered to save her
generous asylum of hospitality), will determine them to pass Majesty's precious life. Every thing was in vain: the
over to the Americans, in order to avoid perishing for want in
the streets of London—a contingency so remarkable impels me convulsions having lasted about 22 minutes, the best of
to assure your Lordship, that those welf-deserving soldiers are Queens, expired.--The deplorable death of her, Majesty
worthy of a better fate, because, like myself, i. have solely having been certified, by the King's permission the Cºcºa
desired that Spain should be governed by a constitutional king, rian operation was performed. The child, which was that
in order nºt tº be a prey to an usurping tyrant; and this is the of an Infanta, was baptized, and every means were made
crime which is imputed to us. This, my’Noble Lord is the use of to preserve its life; they, however, proved ineffectual,
grand aim of our sacrifices directed to ſhouourable ends; the for in a few minutes it expired.—Gazette Ertraordinary. -

maxim" and prºjects ºf jaeobitºism are not cherished in the ". . . .:

breasts of Spaniards, he ourable, defenders of their ºppress;"
country. When the weak efforts ºf the nation and of Europe in º, Tuesday’s LONDON GAgette.
generał were concentrated within the impregnable swall--of t 'ºt - * -

Cadiz, the torch of liberty dissipated the frightful chaos in which s * BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED,
the Genius of Extermightion.w s º: to inº the J. Marshall, North-hull, Yorkshire, clownier, from Jan. 5 to
globe, if the true Patriots had yielded to its ideas"; this simple Feb. 23. "
consideration will be eternal in the memory of men, of goveru T. &ead, blackfriars-road, woollen-draper, from Jan. 2 to Jan. 9.
* ** r: *, * * * * * * * * * * : **** *-*. • * * : * : * * * . . . -
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BANKhUPTS. have hated her; the Court is full of them; and all modern
W. Bryant. Greenwich, coach-master. Attormies, Messrs. Clarke, history has told us but too well what they are capable of
Richards, and Medcalf, Chaucerv.lane. doing, when any thing is in their way. The assassin of
J. Flinders, Nottingham, hosier, Attorney, Mr. Farren, Thread
needle-street. - -
HENRY 4th had absolution before-hand; and the attempts
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W. Smith, Moffat-street, City-road, corn-dealer. Attorney, Mr. to re-establish the Jesuits have reminded Europe also of the -

Dobson. Chancery-lane. -

late tragedy which took place at Lisbon in the time of the

W. Blomerlev. Bolton, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturer. Attor
nev. Mr. Meddowcroft, Gray’s-lum. .
R. Gilson, Bawtry, Yorkshire, victualler. Attorney, Mr.
Knowles, New-inn. - -
R. Unwin. Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, timber-merchant.
Attormies, Messrs. Blagrave and Waſter, Symond's-inn.
R. Johnson, Plymouth, grocer. Attorney, Mr. Bowden, Alder
manbury. -
-
Marquis de Postgal. They who can dungeon and kill the
noblest of their countrymen, who can baptize unborn in
--
fants for fear the Divine BEING should damn them,--who
can scorch, thumb-screw, half-suffocate, and snap out of their.
joints the limbs of young women for differing with their

W. Peyton, Lincoln’s-inn-fields, wine-merchant. Attorney, Mr.

notions of Christianity-and who, in short, can not only
Hartley, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. -
get absolution at a moment's notice for the most atrocious
crimes, but think them acceptable in the eyes of God, whom
SATURDAY's LowdoN Gazette. they degrade into a daemon, may reasemably be suspected
- of making away with a gentle and persuasive female, the
- BANKRUPTS. unfortunate wife ofthat wretched Creatmetheir master. The
J. Perkins, Tiverton, Devonshire, timber-merchant. Attorney, result, be the cause what it may, cannot do them any good.
Mr. Birkett, Cloak-lane. - -

J. Rºgers. Qld Brºad-street, merchant. Attorney, Mr. Cottle, The Queen might bave had some little effect on the con
Aldermanbury. -
duct of her husband, though we hold him to be incapable
W. Stiff Rotherwick, Southampton, shopkeeper. Attorney, Mr.
Bridger. Angel-court, Throgmorton-street. of any great feelings of tenderness. He may, as he is
W. H. Thºmpson, Liverpool, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. said to do, weep at the loss; but iears prove nothing;
Lowe and Bower, ºf...; Attorgies, Messrs. he may weep out of pure impotence or fright, or stooping
Chancery-lane.
J. Robinson, Glossop, Derbyshire, butcher.
Lºwe and Bower, Southampton-buildings. too much over his embroidery, or the cant of a monk, or
T. Richmond, Bell-yard, Carey-street, plumber. Attorney, Mr. fifty selfish or ridiculous causes. He is too stupid, too un
Fisher, Inner-Temple-lane. grateful, too mean-minded, and can tear too many rela
J. E. Hogg, Bread-street, warehouseman. Attornies, Messrs.
Knight and Freeman, Basinghall-street. --
tionships asunder, for the sake of revenging himself on his
R. Chapman, Hammersmith, surgeon. Attornies, Messrs. Gutty own saviours, to have a depth of affection for any thing
and Haddam, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street. but his own supposed interest. It is the Guerillas and the
-
-
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people that will settle matters before long, whether she

- **ice of stocks-ox satuan ar.
promised to have any partial effect on him or not; and this
3 per Cent, Red.......78477; 78 || 3 percent. Cons............77434. new and sudden incident will only serve to exasperate
The Defence of Mr. Cohºrt will be given at length next week. them the more with a Court, in whose atmosphere nothing
We shall be happy to hear from Bacc. Arr. -- good seems able to exist. - -

Josephus will be inserted. -

We should not have minded the length of the Communication The Duke de Richelieu has set a good example to
respecting the behaviour of a Beadſe in St. Paul's Cathedral; Ministers. It was proposed on his late retirement from
but it has already appeared, we understand, in the papers.
An OEs Enver, P. BarraNNus, and INDEPENDENce, are received.
office, to give him a recompense in money; but though of
The Letter of an Unalterable Reader was very gratifying but a very “legitimate”
stock, he has not been ugacquainted
though the Editor was heartily inclined to renew the subject with adversity to as little purpose as certain others. He
in question at greater length, the holidays tempted him to has some imagination and wisdom out of the pale of poli
carry his theories a little too much into practice to allow him tics; and he thinks that disinterestedness and a good con
time enough ; and this must be his excuse for the absence of
some other articles in the present number. science are really worth something. He declined the offer
in a letter which will be found below. The late changes in
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evidently attributed by the most independent journalists to
the cause we assigned last week, -that is to say, to the na
Lowdow, 3ANUAay 10. tural course of things now that the foreign troops are with
drawn. The Duke de Richeltru nevertheless carries with
The young Queen of SPAIN has suddenly died. She
was conversing with her household the evening aſter him the esteem of all parties, as he ought. - - - -
Christmas day, when she was seized with a giddiness, and
in less than twelve minutes was a corpse. A female infant A Letter, dated Dusseldorf. Dec. 26, and sent for the
was extracted by the Caesarian operation, and baptized; of being inserted in this Paper, has been forward
but it expired in a few moments. Her Majesty's loss is ed to us. It relates to the system of Customs established
said to be much regretted; and making allowance for the by Prussia, which is described as irritating more and more
mode of talking on these occasions, and for her short ac the inhabitants of the countries lately acquired by that
quaintance with the Spaniards, we can believe it; for she Power. The writer says, that the duties on foreign mer
was a friend to the poor, encouraged the fine arts, and had chandize are most exorbitant; that an order has been
the reputation of endeaveuring to lead her husbang into issued, requiring the same duties for goods warehoused up
more patriotic and popular measures. It is on this last to last September; and that to carry this order into effect,
account, that her's ºldeh death will infallibly give rise to the gens d'armes add custom-house rs force the doors,
suspicion. Her Majesty was only 22, and not subject, and ransack not only the warehouses, but the houses of
we believe, to attacks of this sort; but the bigots mus merchants and private persons, “in a manner so scanda
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lous, that one is forced to do justice to the old French The Monarch, of 620 tons, sailed from the Downs on
revenue officers, who at least understood the duties of Thursday, full of picked men from the reduced British
regiments, being the 5th vessel which has been dispatched
their situation, and the respect due to oppressed humanity. to join the expedition to New Grenada, under the com
Even letters and books relative to trade are the objects of mand of General M*Gregon, Cowrier. -.
their impure inspection.” A report is then alluded to of Five vessels, the Blenheim, Duchess of Bedford, Anne,
open disputes among the different Members of Adminis George Canning, aud Monarch, ostensibly bound "for
tration. The only thing, observes the writer, which Cayenne, have arrived in the Downs from the River; each
could be urged in defence of these measures is, that the of these ships has 200 passengers on board, consisting of
officers, &c. bound to the coast of Guiana, with the inten
State, notwithstanding the loans effected in London at an tion of joining the Insurgents in South America, -
enormous interest, and the French contributions, is ex The following particulars are detailed in a letter sent us
tremely poor. Here, then, is a specimen of one of the from Mr. S. HAscqck:-The writer, being at Ostend in
consequences of the “consolidation of Europe” and the December 1817, had occasion to go to the office of the
re-establishment of “social order.” This is one of the British Consul, Major Rochfort, of whose oppressive
blessed effects of the long struggle with Bonapants. To conduct there were frequent complaints among, the mer
enable that whining hypocrite, the King %.
fo do chants. Another person was there at the time; being ask
ed his business, Mr. HANcock told it, and was desired to
such things as these, and to put down a $ystem compara withdraw, as only one person was admitted at once. He
tively good, thousands of human beings have been sacri. º: that, as it was a public office, he should remainl;, on
ficed, and millions of money spent. * |h the Consul ordered one of his clerks to turn him
out, and assisted himself. Mr. Haneock resisted all their
LETTER FROM THE DUKE BE Richflieu to Tite chAMsert attempts, until a police officer arrived, with whom he re
of Deputies. -
tired. Many representations respecting 'he conduct of the
- * Paris, Jan. 3, 1819. Consul had been made to the English Government, and a
statement of this transaction was sent to then among the
“SIR,-Informed of the proposition which has been made re rest. About the end of July last. Sir JAMrs GAMBIer, the
lative to myself in the Chamber of Deputies, I take the liberty of Consul General, went from the Hague to examine into the
addressing to you a few observations. -

charges against Major Rocafont. The examination was

* I should be too proud of a mark of esteem given by the
King, with the concurrence of the two Chambers, to entertain an
idea of declining it; but, Sir, I have learned from the public
journals, that it is in contemplation to assign me, at the expense
of the State, a national recompense; and I cannot consent, that
on my account, any addition should be made to the burdens
which press upon the nation. -
“If, in the course of my Ministry, I have had the happiness ered.
conducted privately, only one person being admitted at a
time. When Mr. Hancock was cºlled in and had stated
his complaint, Sir JAMEs expressed his opinion that there
was neither an assault nor false imprisonment. Nothing
resulting from this investigation has yet appeared, unless
the appointment of a Vice-Consul for the port, and Major
d ociifort's having hired a house at Bruges, be so consi"
- • . . . . .

to render services to France, and recently to contribute to the li All who have read the “Heart of Mid-Lothian" will
beration of her territory, my feelings are not less afflicted to know be struck with the similarity of some of the acts related
that my country is loaded with enormous debts. Too many ca there, respecting the execution of Wilso N, to those which
lamities have befallen her; too many citizens are sunk into mis occurred at the late Edinburgh riot. The place of exe
fortune; there are too many losses to repair, for me to allow my cution indeed design
premeditäted was nottotherescue
same, the
neither did there
culprit. Butseem any
the im
fortune to be exalted under such circumstances. The esteem of mense number of the multiſtide, their shouts, and the man
my country, the goodness of the King, and the approval of my jumping on the scaffold, were the same in both cases. It
conscience, are a sufficient reward. ' . . .. º
is too "a curious coincidence, that one of the Beverend
“I beg you, Sir, to communicate my sentinents to the Cham Gentlemen who were present was of the same name as the
ber, and to accept the ... consideration of your celebrated Porteous. The Scotch people in general are
very humble and very obedient servant, " * Richelieu.” better acquainted with books than their neighbours; and it
-
is not unlikely the very pleasant narratives of Mr. Jepºntail.
A morning paper of yesterday says—“A considerable - Cleisukoriram were partly the cause of the unanimity of
;: in the accounts of a person high in trust in the the Edinburgh mob, who could not stand in front of the
gallows, without being reininded of the resemblance which
Isle of France has rendered his recall necessary; and he
is on his passage home, to answer the heavy charges ex their situation bore to that of their fiercer ancestors in
hibited against him. His character, previous to his ap those memorable times. . . . . . . . -

pointment, stdod so high, that we understand it was not Some of the Edinburgh papers, with their usual loyal
• deemed necessary to require securities from him.” “If-th leaning to power, from the Loao Pitoyost down to the
above statement be true, we must say, that there woult Hangman, term the revolting scene which took place
have been gross and culpable negleet in not taking the re at the execution of the unhappy Johnston, who suf
quisite securities from men of the most unblemished-cha fered the agonies of death for nearly an 'hour, “a dis
racter; or, otherwise, it is a gross insult to take the secu graceſul outrage of the mobt". It was indeed, a dis.
rities of any; upon the presumption that their characters raceful outrage, but it was, an outragº, against every
need if, while others are to be exempted; but further, if ; of humanity, in the shocking and brutaſ manner
the person alluded to be one whom we suspect, we should in which the execution, was gonducted." What shall be
-say, that, on the score of prudence, his character was any said of the humanity of bleeding, the unfortunate man
thing but such as ought to have plended for his exemption. (affesſie was cut down from the gibbet) for the purpºse of
There is, however, an easy-method of putting this matter festoring life, that he might die a second death f Webe
to rights: those who ought to have taken the security, and lieve such an instance of barbarous clemency, never before
neglected to do it, ought to pay the money in default.— took place in any civilized country, and it will not be soon
Times–Friday. - - forgotten. - - - . .
A House of the first magnitude and respectability' in `i’he Earl of Miltown is the nobleman to whom, it is
the Citystopped payment yesterday formearly a million. said, Miss Sºrrhens is about to give her hand-Event
Sun–Saturday. - ing paper.
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Why do the Whigs dine together in celebration of the "Love or NATURE,--There was something which struck
memory of Fox? IIe advocated that very Reſorm in his cotemporaries aspeculiarly magnificent in Lord BAcos's
Parliament which they denounce as visionary and, even style of living. The secret was, that he did every thing in
dangerous—It is curious enough, that this contradictoty a high and natural taste. In compartments of his rooms,
conduct is also pursued by the Tories, the followers of the he had pictures painted on the wall from the stories of
“immortal Pitt :” they too dine together in grand stile, Grecian mythology. His garden most probably was laid
and vociferate in full chorus their horror of Catholic out after }. sº pattern in his essays, evergreens and
Emancipation—a demand which their dear, Master stre other shrubs to suit every month in the year. His feeling
jºiously supported.—What hopeful pupils... [How much indeed for nature was the main side on which his great
wiser than their “immortal.” Masters! These men we philosophy ran into poetry, and vented itself in a very
, like bad actors: they can do little more than imitate the, graceful as well as grand enthusiasm, befitting one of the
deſects of the great originals. . . . . . ...... . . high-priests of wisdöm. He was fond of meditating in his
The expected vacancy in the See ºf Winchester is pro groves after the custom of his predecessors of antiquity;
ducing great emotion along the line of a certain Rench. We and, when he sat down to biscºgitation; in doors, would
need scarcely inform our readers, that in regard to emolil often have music in the next roºm. He had the flowers
inent it is considered the richest clerical preſºrment in Eng and sweet herbs in season regularly set upon his table, “to
Jand. The bon inal of one of its bishops, when offered refresh his spirits;” and took such delight in being abroad
...the Primacy,
* * -.- is well known. “No,” said the sagacious among the elements, that, riding in an open carriage during
- - -

prelate, “although Canterbury is the higher rank, Win the rain, he would take of his hat to let the shower come
chester is the better manger.”. We believe the revenue of upon his head, and say that he seemed to feel the Spirit of
Turham is nominally higher, but then it is called upon to the Universe upon .4%; Pocket Book.
#. much more expensive establishments. The present Minolfsrx Hospital.—ACorrespondent writes—“The
Bishop of Wischestfit is very ancient, being brother to "Governors of this Hospital have began the year by opening
...that Lord North, whom the country will never torget as another Ward, which, with the Duke of Nontinuxiber
the conductor of the blessed. American war. Both the 1.xxp's permission, is called ‘The Northumberland Ward.'
brothers have merited the praise of great urbańity and good ~This namo. at the same time that it affords a respectful
itemper. A vacancy in the see of Winchester generally testimony of the gratitude of the Governors to their Presi.
implies three or four translations. We have heard the dent, likewise proves his Grace's continued protection of
Bishop of IJscºls named as the top-most expectant in an Hospital which has been honoured with the humane and
this case.—Chester Guardian. Sºº liberal support of the Noble House of Pency fron its
: PaortsTANT Petition is FAYour of THE CATIlo foundation.—The public will be gratified to hear, that the
Lics.-We understand (and we rejoice to hear it) that a Hospital at present can admit 179 in-patients. It is but a
most respectable deputation will immediately wait on his
Grace the Duke of }. Lord Cil ARLeMost, Lord
º s.”years ago,-
that the establishment was limited to 80
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.C. oscurity, and several other distinguished characters, One more omission of a Bank-note not being signed by
for the purpose of procuring their signatures to a Requisithe signing clerk, has occurred. On Satur ay week, a
tion to the Horn Mayor, requesting him to call an early sailor went to the shop of Mir, CollisDon, a salesman,
meeting of the Protestants of Dublin, and other friends of the corner of Goodman's-yard, in the Minories, and ten
civil and religious liberty, who are anxious at this critical dered a two pound note for some wearing apparel which
... noment to Petition the Imperial Parliament för the repeal he had bought; the shopman suspecting it to be a forged
of all Penal Laws which degrade and injure their Catholic one from its not being signed, said he must detain him till
countrymen.—Dublin Freeman's Journal. -
he got information from the Bank. On his presenting it,
REligióN supported by Law.—The Family Bible of the finspector said it was a good ope, tore off the corner,
a Gentleman of the Baptist persuasion was last week sold and gave and ther note of the same value, observing it was
at the whi º neighbouring town, by a constáble a mistake of the signing clerk. - -

who levied ngon it, to satisfy a tax ſaid by a Presbyterian Recorden's Report.—When the Recorder made his
society, to repair the meeting-house of said society, and to Report to the Princr Regest on Thursday, the follow
pay of old arreurages. The avails of the Bible were four ing persons were ordered for execution on Tuesday next:
doºlars 25 cents." We hope, for the hônotif of the State, PPilliam Tingy, ſorbuttock-stealing; Stephen Morris, for
never to hear a repetition of such an act, What! shall a a robbery at Camden-town; William Knight, for high
*inily in a Christian country be deprived of the book of way robbery; and Hilliam Leonard, for uttering forged
life, to pay a tax to a denomination to which the head of it notes, . They were all convicted at the last October Ses
does not belong? Heaven förbid it !—American Paper. -sions. The rest, 17 in number, were respited.—Since the -

F.vtract of a letter ſron Bavaria:-"We have wituessed | above Report was presented, Williani Leonard has died.
here a superb ſuneral of the Baron Hornstein, a courtier; He was advancel in life, and had been in ill health for
lºt the result is what induces me to méntion it in my letter. some time. An inquest was held on the body on Satur
. Two days after, the workinen entered the mattsoleum. day morning, and the verdict of the Jury was Died by
when they witnessed an object which petrified them. . At the visitation of God. - ***
! -
he door of tle sepulchre lay a body covered with blood
Gretna Green has never been more distinguished than
—it was the mortal remains of this favourite of Courts and within these last two or three weeks, having within that
Prince; The Baron was buried alive! On recovering time been visited by a very eminent legal Nobleman, in
from tº trance, he had forced the lid of the coffin, and en company with a ſemale, who has brought him several chil
deavoured to escape from the charnel-house—it was im dred out of the pale of wedlºck, which female, with the as
possible ... and therefore, in a ſit of desperation, as is +. sistance of the established joiner of the place, he immedi
posed, he dashed his brains out against the walk. The ately married. . It is said, that there was so great a solici
Royal Family, and indeed the whoſe city, are pluſged in
frief at the horrid catastrophe.” tude on the part of his Lordship not to be known on his
A statistical estimate has been published of the popula journey,
-
that he assumed the garb and head dress of a
female, until the very moment of the ceremony... The oh
tion of Prussia, with its incidental topics. . It thence ap ject of this very extraordinary step is to legitimate, the
pears, that the number of inhabitants was in 1817 above children of this connexion, who, according to Scottish law,
10,500,000, making 2,106 to each square league of terri cease to he bastards on the marriage of the parents at any
tory. The males betweea 15 and 60 years of age were time-Country Paper. ---
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upwards of 3,000,200, - - - - - - -
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Ma. Mosmo E.-JAMEs Mowror, the President of the Majesty gives to the Princess Augusta Sophia; but if she
United States, is a native of Virginia; he was born in should find keeping it up too expensive, it is to revert to
1759; and in 1776, though so young, he took part with the Crown, upon a valuation being given for it to the
his countrymen ia their resistance to the parent state. At Princess. Her Majesty gives the fixtures, articles ºf house
the battle of Trenton, Dec. 26, 1776, his shoulder-boae hold furniture, . live and dead stock in the house at
was broken by a musket-ball, and he was so dangerously Frogmore, or on the estates, to her daughter Augusta
wounded that his life was despaired of. His bravery and i. and the real estate in New Windsor, called the
gºod conduct caused General WAsur.N.Gros to promote Lower Lodge, with its appendages, to her youngest
him to a, Captaincy : he was aſterwards appointed Aid daughter Sophia.-Her books, plate, house-lineſſ, china,
de-camp to Major-General Lord StrnLINö, and subse pictures, drawings, prints, all articles of ornamental furni
quently a Colonel ºf a regiment. In 1782, he was elected ture, and all other valuables and personals, she directs to
to the legislature of Virginia; in 1783, we find him a be divided in equal shares, according to a valuation to be
Member of the old Congress. In 1787, he was again made, amongst her four younger daughters.-Various pro
elected to the legislature of Virginia. In 1788, he was a perty from Mecklenburg, as specified in a list, No. 1,
Member of the Virginia Convention, which ratified the to be annexed to her will, is to revert to the House
present Constitution of the United States. In 1790, he of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and to be sent back to the
was elected a Senator of the United States. He conti seaior branch of that House; and several legacies, as
nued in the United States Senate until 1794, when he was specified in a list, No. 2, to be annexed to her will,
selected by President, WAsiiisgros to represent the are to be paid out of her personal property, within six
United States as Minister to the French Republic. On momths after her death: but no such lists as these were
his return from France he was elected Governor of his annexed to her will or made out by her Majesty.—Her
native State, and in 1799 concluded the constitutional Majesty appoints Lord Arden and General Taylor trus
term for holding that office. In 1802, Mr. Monroe was tees for the property bequeathed to her daughters Elizabeth
sent, by President Jeffersox, to France to negotiate the and Mary; stating that property to be left to them for
purchase of Louisiana, which was accomplished entirely their sole benefit, and independent of any husbands they
to the satisfaction of the nation. . . Having succeeded in his have or may have, and she also appoints Lord Arden and
negociations at Paris, in 1803 he was appointed Minister General Taylor her Executors.--'The will is dated Nov.
to London, and in 1895 sent on a special mission to Ma 16, 1818, (the day before her Majesty's death.) . It is in
drid. On his return from Europe he was again elected to the hand-writing of General Taylor; and two of the at
the legislature of Virginia; and the same year, 1810, testing witnesses are Sir Francis Millman and Sir Menry
elected the Governor of that State. In 1811, he was ap Halford. -

pointed Secretary of State; and on the capture of Wash

ington, in 1814, he was bold and patriotic enough to ae The Duchess of Kext is fully expected in England in
cept the appointment (temporarily) of Secretary of War.— the month of April, in order to her accouchement, which
American r. - -

is expected to take place in about six weeks after.

GENERAL Jackson.—A letter from Huntsville, in the eunderstand that Mr. BRIDGE, of the firin of Rux
Alabaula territory, dated Nov. 6, mentions a curious in pell and BRIDGE, who has been for some time past ea
stance of respect paid to this hero of the United States. ged in valuing the jewels, &c. of the late QUEEN, at
At a sale of lands, the General bid for a section, which §º. on Wednesday afternoon discovered
was understood to be very valuable, when, with one con the missing jewels of the KING in a box covered by some
sent, the poor and the rich, the ſoreign speculator and the papers.--Globe. - - *

hardy cultivator of the ground, remained silent, and the We mentioned yesterday that the King's Jewels had
land was knocked off to him at two dollars per acre.— been ſound. We have since learned that the discover
Eighty-three dollars per acre had previously been given for was made by the PRINCE REGENT himself, who met his
second-rate land. Royal Sisters on Thursday, at Buckingham-house, for
the purpose of making some family arrangements. In
iooking over the articles contained in one offer Majesty's
court AND FASHIONABLEs. .
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private repositories, a locked box was found, for which

THE LATE QUEEN'S WILL. there was no key. Mr. BRidge, being in the Palace, was
On Friday, the Will of her late Majesty was proved in applied to, and having succeeded in opening the lock, the
Doctors' Commons, by Lord Arden and General Taylor, lost treasure was observed. There is no doubt that it ſad
the executors, the personal property is sworn to as being been deposited in this place of security by the King him
under-140,000l. It is in-substance as follows:— self, and probably her MAJESTY was the only other person
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Her Majesty directs her debts, and the legacies and an that was aware of the secret.—Daily Paper.
nuities given by her will, to be paid out of the personalty,
or out of the sale of personals, if there is not sufficient in - AN INJURY TO TRADESMEN.
her Majesty's treasury to provide for those payments— Amongst the many sufferings of the honest tradesman,
Her Majesty states her property to consist of a real estate and which frequently bring him to ruin, there is one of
in New Windscr, called the Lower Lodge, and of per much magnitude, deserving the greatest attention from
sonals of various descriptions; those of the greatest value that class of society designated “great.” This is their
being her jewels, which consist of those purchased by the criminal neglect in the payment of their just debts, or their
King for 50,000l. and presented to her, (supposed on her procrastination in those payments, which is frequently as
marriage); those presented to her by the Nabob of Arcot; destructive to the tradesman, as the injury received by him
those purchased by herself, or being presents made on from the common swindler. This may sometimes arise
birth-days or other occasions,—In the event of the King from the tradesman not applying in what is called the pro
surviving, and recovering, her Majesty bequeaths to him per manner, by treating with a character, who stands be
the jewels which he purchased and ..". but if he tween him and the great man, upon most occasions, in
should not survive, or recover, she then gives those jewels money affairs, and acting under the names of Treasurer,
to the House of Hanover as an heir-loom.—Her Majesty Auditor, Page, Steward or Valet. Here the great man
directs the jewels presented by the Nabob to be sold, and is highly blameable: he suffers his character to be injured
the produce, with the rest of the jewels, to be divided from his own negligence, and by men who have no other
amongst her four remaining daughters—The house and motive but their own selfish views. -

ground at Frogmore, and the Shawe gstablish:rient, her I have frequently, heard people say, when tradesmen
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have complained of the injury their credit has received by of influence is exercised in the election of the Representa
their being kept out of their money by the great, “Aye, tives by a meeting called a “Caucus.” It has been al
but you should have laid it on ; this is the only way to ready shewn, in an article on Mr. Fearos's work, that
act with them in your own defence:”—thereby recom this influexce amounts to nothing more than a recommen
$nending such dishonourable practices as no honest man dation of certain candidates by the leading, men of each
will resort to.--When we see great men taking the lead in party, and is merely an expedient to prevent disunion among
public charitable institutions and Bible societies, we expect those of the same political opinions. As to the alledged
them, to pay some attention to private integrity. Their corruption in the American executivº, it is hardly neces
practices frequently disappoint this expectation, and give sary to say much : it is simply the effect of human imper
the lie to their public professions. iss Hannah More fection; though it should be recollected, that even with
well expresses her opinion, on this subject:-" Newspa regard to this evil, there is one great difference between
‘pers extol’ them, sonnets deify them, a few ostentatious. the two countries, which is, that in America the pure state
charities are opposed as a large atonement for a few amia of the Representation is a constant check to bad practices,
*le weaknesses, while the unpaid tradesman is exposed to and will be the means of putting a stop to them, as soon
ruin by their vengeance, if he refuses to trust them, and to as the people chuse. But it is certainly very unfair in the
a jail, if he continues to do it.” A SUFFERER. Noble Lord to attempt to confound the two things, and
to speak of the recommendatio: at the American elec
tions, and the bribery and terrorism at the English, as
NEWCASTLE FOX. DINNER. equally lamentable and people's destructive of the liberty
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Ori . choice. There is no more comparison between the

º week, a numerous company dimed at the the two things, than between asking a friend, and com
Queen's Head Inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in commemo manding a servant:—the one may either refuse or ac
ration of the late Mr. Fox. —After dinner, Earl GREY
rose to propose the memory of Mr. Fox, and after an eu quiesce, but the other must obey.--Does Earl Glºry be
logy, on that celebrated person, entered into a review of lieve that a House of Commons really elected by the peo
would have sanctioned that system of misrule which
the foreign and domestic affairs of this country. He com jle
mented on the withdrawing of the Allied Armies, and re le hyself has been so strongly censuring for
the last 25
probated the shameful interference of foreign powers in the years? - - -

settlement of the French Government. He next spoke of THE REVENUE.

the effects of the war with respect to England, of the load --
of debt, the weight of taxation, the financial embarrass OFFICIAL STATEMENT. -

ments, the paper-money system, and all its dreadful con Abstract of the Net-Produce of the Revenue of Great
sequeñces—guilt, misery, and blood. He ridiculed those Britain for the Quarters ending 5th Jan. 1818 and 1819,
capting hypocrites, whº affect to say that all these evils respectively, exclusive of arrear of War Duties:- -

might be remedied by Bible Societies and the building of - - 1818.

- 1819.
churches, and exhorted his hearers to unite in their endea Customs - - £3,017,621 2.465,664
yºurs to put a stop tº the present system of extravagance. Excise - - 5,499,672 6.238,040
The success of the liberal party in the late elections af. Stamps - - 1,566.532 1,530,532
forded roºm for hope that much good would be done by Post Office - 319,000 319,000
Assessed Taxes - 2,260,017 2,303,778
the new Parliament. The Noble Earl then spoke of his Laud Taxes - 333,604 408,366
ºwn opinions. He was attached, he said, to Parliamentary Miscellaneous 255,318 - 133,381
Reform, under certain limitations; but he was a decided
enemy to violent projects, which he thought would be $18,271,764 13,398,161,
senseless, even if they were reduceable to practice. He
endeavoured to show that the worst practice had often ac We publish from an evening paper a comparative state
companied the best theory; and that it was both false and ment of the Revenue for the quarter just ended, and the
mischievous to assert that a reform in Parliament was the corresponding quarter of last year. By this it appears,
only measure by which the country could be saved. In that there is an increase during the last quarter, upon the
suppºrt ºf this argument, he quoted some passages from whole, of 126,997l. This, the Courier says, “ is a
Mr. Fox's History of the Reign of JAmes II. in which cheering statement, upon, which we take leave to con
the time of CHARLEs II, is called “the an of good laws ratulate the public.” He does right to take the leave;
and had government; and instanced the constitution of #. if he were to ask it, we do not think that the public
the United States, which, according to Mr. Fearon and would now grant that there was much ground for congra
Mr. Cobbett, was as bad, if not worse, than our's in its tulation; the said public having been before congratulated
practice, however excellent in its theory. The will of the upon the assurance, that the Revenue was increasing at the
people was not leſt to its own free operation, but the votes rate of 100,000l., per week, which was about ten times as
were directed by a body called “Caucus.” The evils of fast as the fact appears to bear out. Yet an increase,
America, however, he allowed, were transient and acci. however small, is better than mone, or than a diminution.
dental, and such as would be easily removed. The Noble But the last clause of the official statement deserves pecu
Earl then alluded to the loss º the country had sus liar notice: it is somewhat obscurely expressed. It is
tºined by the death of Sir SAMUEL Roºijlly, ...; con said of the last quarter, (though it is upon the whole
cluded §º..."; gradual and moderate Reform. greater than the corresponding one), that “ its deficiency
, Sir M.W. Ripley, Sir C. Monck, and Mr. Lampton, is about 1,279,000l., being much less than was ex
afterwards addressed the company. . . . . pected.” Its deficiency below what? We fear, we must
There is one part of Earl Grey's speech, which re add, below the expenditure. We fear, also, that some
quires, some notice: it is the allusion to the Ame may take leave to congratulate the new Parliament upon
rican, Government. His Lordship, takes Mr. FEAnon the prosperous state of our fittances, if, after three years of
for his guide, and draws the conclusion, that there peace, our income still falls short of our expenditure by
are similar, if uct worse abuses in the American only 5,000,000l. a-year. The result of such congratula
Government than in the English. Now what does tions, “ the end of such mirth, we much apprehend, ma
; Gentleman sºyº. That there is a great deal of bi
bery, peculation; and corruption, with respect to the pub
be heaviness.” ‘’The clause, however, if we misconstrue its
meaning, which is not improbable, certainly requires fur
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LETTER OF SIR FRANCIS BURDETT played the same boldness and originality of thinking; the
There were some mistakes in the letter of Sir F. Bur
same critical acuteness, eloquence, and felicity of expression
for which his Lectures on our Poets were so eminently
dett to Mr. Cobbett, published last week. The following distinguished. From the character which Mr. Hazlitt has
is a correct copy : by universal assent acquired, of being one of the ablest and
to Mr. Willi A.M Coppet.T. most eloquent critics of our nation, (we may say of any
St. James's place, Jan. 31, 1818. nation) much was of course expected from the employment
Sim, I have just received your's of the 20th November, of his talents on a branch of literature, in which the genius
and read carefully, and according to your desire, the en of our countrymen shines perhaps with more distinguished
closed to Mr. Tipper. lustre than in any other; but the warm applause which he
. It is not my intention to enter into any controversy re received throughout his course from his numerous and re
specting the honesty or dishonesty of paying or not paying spectable audiences, sufficiently proved that their expecta
debts according to ſhe convenience of the party owing. It tions were amply realized. -

seems that if it should ever suit your convenience, and
take nothing from the comforts and enjoyments of your
self and family, such comforts and enjoyments, and means
too of distinguishing themselves, as you think they are en
titled to, all this being previously, secured, then you
think yourself bound to pay your debts:–if, on the con
trary, that cannot be effected without sacrifices on your and
their part, in that case your creditors has no claim to prefer
With his concluding Lecture we were particularly
"pleased, and we regret that our limits will not allow us to
enter into any account of it. We cannot, however, deny
our readers the gratification which they must receive from
the following very happy account of Sheridan, in which he
does justice to the great poet, by whom his ſate was so
feelingly lamented, and who will soon erect a durable mo
nument to his memory :- *

and you no duty to perform. You then stand absolved, Mr. Sheridan has been justly called “a dramatic star of the
reclus in foro conscientiae and for this singular reason, first magnitude;” and indeed among the comic writers of the
because those who lent you their money when you last century, he shines “like Hesperus among the lesser lights.”
—He has left four several dramas behind him, all different
were in difficulty and distress, in order to save you and or of different kinds, and all excellent in their way—the School
your family from ruin, were and are unable to protect you for Scandal, the Bivals, the Duenna, and the Critic. The attrac
either against your own fears, or the power of an arbitrary tion of this last piece is however less in the mock-tragedy
Government, under which they have the misſortune to rehearsed, than in the dialogue of the introductory comic scenes,
live, and to which they are equally exposed. These prin and in the character of Sir Fretful Plagiary, which is supposed to
ciples, which are laughable in theory, are detestable in have been intended for Cumberland. If some of the characters
practice. That you should not only, entertain and act in the School for Scandal were contained in Murphy's Comedy of
ujon, but openly avow them, and blind your own under Know your own Mind (and certainly some of bishwºr. de
tached
standing, or think to ‘blind that of others, by such flimsy firm andspeeches and satirical sketches are written with quite as
masterly a hand as any of those given, to the members
pretenees, is one more melancholy proof of the facility of the Scandalous Club, Mrs. Candour or fady Sneer well) yet
with which self-interest can assume the mask of hypocrisy, they were buried in it for want of grouping and relieſ, like the
and by means of the weakest sophistry, overpower the colours of a well-drawn picture sunk in the canvass. Sheridan
strongest understanding. How true is our common law brought them out, and exhibited them in all their glory. 1f
maxim, that no man is an upright judge in his own cause: that gem, the character of Joseph Surface, was Murphy's, the
how truly and, prettily said by the #. “La Nature splendid and more valuable setting was Sheridan's. He took
sepipe;” nor less truly, though more grossly in English, Murphy's Maivil from his lurking place in the closet, and
“Nature's her own Bawd,” -
“ dragged the struggling monster into day,” upon the stage;--
that is, he gave interest, life, and action, or, in other words,
In expressing my abhorrence of the principles you lay its draumatic being, to the mero conception and written spe
down for your conduct, and concerning which you chal cimens of a character. This is the merit of Sheridan's Co
lenge my opinion, a little unfairly, considering the ridicule medies, that every thing in them tetts;-there is no labour
with which you at the same time threaten to overwhelm in vain. “They are lively, audible, and fall of vent.”—His
the unfortunate wight who presumes to differ from them, I Comic Muse does not go about prying into obscure corners
do not desire that you ...
act upon any other with re or collecting idle curiosities, but shews her laughing face and
oints to her rich treasure, the follies of mankind. She is gar
gard to me; I should be sorry your family were put to anded and crowned with roses and wine-leaves. Her eyes
any inconvenience on my account: I shall however ex sparkle with delight, and her heart runs over with good-natured
ceedingly rejoice, upon both our accounts, should your malice. Her step is firm and light, and her ornaments consum
circumstances ever prove so prosperous as to enable you to mate!. The School for Scandal is, if not the most original, per
discharge your debts without infringing upon those new haps the most finished and faultless Comedy, which we have.
principles of moral obligation, you have adopted, and When it is acted, you hear people all around you exclaiming,
which for the first time since the commencement of the “surely it is impossible for nmy thing to be cleverer.” The two
world have, I believe, been, though frequently acted on, scenes, in which Charles sells all the old family pictures but his
openly promulgated. As to complaint or reproach, they uncle's who is the purchaser in disguise, and of the discovery of
Lady Teazle, when the screen falls, are among the happiest and
are the offspring of weakness and folly; disdain should most highly wrought that Comedy, in its wide and brilliant range,
stifle them; but nothing can or ought to stifle the expres: can boast. Besides the wit and tugenuity of this play, there is a
sion of disgust every honest mind must feel at the want of genial spirit of frankness and generosity in it ū. relieves the
integrity in the principles you proclaim, and of feeling and heart, as well as clears ille lungs. It professes a ſaith in the
generosity in the sentinents you express.—I am, Sir, your natural goodness, as well as habitual depravity, of human nature.
most obedient and most humble servant, While it strips off the mask of hypocrisy, it inspires a confidence
between man and man. As often as it is acted, it must serve to
- - F. Bunnett, clear the air of that low creeping pestilent fog of cant ond mysti
MR. H.A3LITT cism, which threatens to confoundſ every native impulse or honest
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conviction, in the nauseous belief of a perpetual lie, and the
laudable profession of systematic hypocrisy. The character of
(From the Morning Chronicle.) Lady Teazle is not well made out by the author; nor has it been
well represented on the stage since the time of Miss Farren.—
On the evening of Tuesday last, Mr. Hazlitt closed The Rivals
his course of Lectures at the Surrey Institution, on the is a play of even more action and incident, but of less
Comic Genius of England. Mºis. reputation as wit and satire than the School for Scandal. It is as good as a
novel, in the reading, and has the broadest and most palpable
a critic stood already high with the public ; !. we are effect on the stage. If Joseph Surface and Charles have a smack
mistaken if these Lectures will not add to it. . He dis of Tom Jones and Blifil in their moral constitution, Sir Anthony
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Absolute and Mrs. Malaprop. remind us of hone. Matthew j." to me, that he applied his mind to the correction of
. Bramble and his sister Tabitha, in their tempers and dialect.| abuses with that judgment, temperance, and discretion,
Acres is a distant descendant of Sir Andrew Ague-cheek. It which would have insured the accomplishment of his bene
must be confessed of this muthor, as Fºſstaff says of some one, ficent wishes, had it not been for the hated principle of
that “he had damnable iteration in him?” “the Duenna is "a
perfect work of art. It has the utmost sweetness mrd point. The stigmatizing
all reſorm by the name of innovation; and
plot, the characters, the dialogue, are all complete in themselves, however we may regret, that he did not live to carry on
and they are all his own; and the songs are the best that ever his plans for the welfare of society, we may console our
, were written, except those in the Beggar's Opera. They have a selves with the reflection, that “being dead, he yet
joyons spirit ºf intoxication in them, and a spirit of the most melt speaketh,” and he will continue to speak by the force and
jug tenderness. Compare the softness of that beginning - Hadi ellicacy of his example. For my own part, I know no
a heart for falsehood framed” with the spirited defiance to fortune measure so likely to “assist the growth of human in
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provement," as that of preventing crimes, and softening the

“Half thy malice youth could bear; rigour of our barbarous penal statutes. I admit, that Sir
And the rest a bumper drown.” S. Romilly possessed more of the spirit of Erasmus than of
it won!d have been too much for the author of these elegant and
Luther; and yet in Inyopinion he contributed more to bene
‘classic productions not to have had some drawbacks on his feli fit the world, than if he had taken, as his model, the latter
city and fame. Burt the applause of nations ºud the favour of
. Prinses cannot always be enjoyed with impunity. Sheridan was intrepid Reformer. ... In connection with this subject, how
, not only an excellent dramatic writer, but a fir-t-rate parliamen appropriate are the lines of Milton—
tary speaker. * is characteristies as an oratºr were manly, un “Nor do i name of men the common rout,
perverted good sense, and keen irony. Wit, which has been That wandering loose about, -

thought a two-edged weapon, was bºy him always esployed ot
the same side of the question—I think, on the right oue. His
“t and more laboured speeches, as that on the 13eru:n's affairs,
were proportionably abortive and unimpressive; but nº one was
-qual to him in replying on the spur º the moment to pompon
absurdity, and unravelling the web of flimsy sophistry. He was
the last accomplished debater of the House of Commons. His
chnraeter, however, will soºn be drawn by one who has ałl the
Grow up and perish, as the summer flie,
llead, without wante nº more remembered,
But such as thou hast solemnly elected,
With gifts and graces eminently adorn'd,
To some great work, thy glory,
And people's safety, which in part they effect:
Yet toward these thus dignify'd thou oft
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ability and every inclination to do him justice; who knows how
to be tow praise and to deserve it; by one who is himself
an ornament of private and of public life; a satirist beloved by
his friends; a wit and a patriot, to boot; a poet and an honest
man:
SIR SAMUEL ROAIILLY.
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Changest thy countenance, and thy hand with no regard
Of highest favours past
From thee on them, or them to thee of service.”
What Sir S. Romilly would have done, had he lived
and been º to fill the chair in the Chancery Court.
must he left entirely to conjecture; but with at least equal
learning, and all i. gentlemanly manners of the present

: “If there be any instances upon record, as some there are un Chancellor, there is reason enough to believe, from his
quickness of comprehension, and from his mind not being
doubtedly, of genius and morality whited in a Lawyer, they are
so tortured with doubt, that he would have given his deci:
distinguished by their singularity, and operate as exceptions.”
Juxius-Letter to Lord Manyield. Sions with infinitely greater dispatch, though not perhaps
Srn,--To the masterly d, lineation of Sir Samuel Ro (one or two instances excepted), with more justice and in
milly's character, as a lawyer and senator, by Amicus tegrity, or satisfaction to the public. He would most pro
Curiae, inserted in your paper of the 8th instant, any addi vail in thathave
bably also corrected many of the abuses which pre
tion would be superfinous. He truly states, that “to be Court. His exertions in procuring the aboli
Chancellor would be less than to be Romilly.” There is tion of the Slave Trade, are too well known to require
being poticed here; and you must yourself allow, that the
a remarkable living instance of the loss of reputation by an biliſ. introduced into the House of Commons for making
advance to the Peerage. Hºrskine at the bar was the laost |
celebrated man of his day. He was no longer so, after he freehold property liable to the payment of simple contract
Hecame a member of what has been satirically called an
tlebts was, far from being of a “pruning or a negative
kind.” His attempt to procure our interference for the
“hospitat for incurables.” The title of knighthood con persecuted Protestants of France will not soon be for
. . ferred on Romilly, was no honour to him. His acceptance gotten; and his speeches on the Alien Bill, particularly his
oſit honoured the title. -

3ut my object at present is to point out one or two cir last memorable speech on Friday 5th June, 1818, were
the best of any that were delivered. His heart indeed
cºstances in the remarks, (many of which I deem excel always beat responsive to the cause of humanity. There
ºut) which you have yourself tºade on this illustrious in prºmºhºlikºs ºn }. would be
dividual, and in which you do not appear to me to have for all the misery that prevails. Sir S. Romilly
ºore justice to his name. You state, that “his exertions aſetpanacea
the importanee of the sºbject, and would I believe have
in the cause of legal and other reform, though sincere and supported such a measure, as far as would be compatible
useful, were of the negative or pruding kind, rather than of with the existing interests of the community,
any great original.character in assisting the growth of With regard to your assertion, that “he was not a great
human improvement;” and in the last paragraph you man,” it may be sufficient to ebserve, in the words of Sir
assert, that “he was not a great man.” If we reflect on Win. Jones,”—“If I am asked, who is the greatest man?
the cºnstant opposition Sir S. Romilly met with in the I answer—the best: and if I am required to say, who is
prosecution of what may be considered his darling object,
viz. the amendment of our bloody criminal code, (and a the best ? ...I reply—he that has deserted most of his fellow
creatures.” Adulation will co::fer uo benefit on the me
more noble pursuit could not have occupied the attention mory of the dead; still, de mortuis nil misi verum ; and 1
of a human being} we must be surprised at his accom cannot withhold iny conviction, that Sir S. Romilly pos.
plishing so much as he did. His plaus were opposed in sessed those qualities, which "dignify and adorn human
the Senate, and disregarded by the Bench. Had he laid nature; and that the various actions of his life form an
the axe at the root of the tree, and disordered the whole imperishable monument of human glory. Let it be reco
system of our criminal jurisprudence, he would have done lected, and in justice it must be, that the laborious duties
more harm than good; and the few instances, in which he man,
was successful in procuring an improvement of the criminal of his profession, which exceeded those of any other
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" * * Preſ:ce to life tº: "...ateries cu Asiatic Poetry.

law, woºd go: Hºw have been recorded to his honour. It
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were more than enough to overwhelm a common mind: Yet with all this.--to which there may be many honour
and our astonishment will be increased at the regularity of able exceptions,—they are a well-meaning honest people,
his attendance in the IHouse of Commons, and the interest hespitable and generous even to a fault. Nexto.
he uniformly took in every thing that regarded the liberties Dec. 27, 1818.
of his country, and the well-being of all the creatures of
God. In forming likewise a correct estimate of his cha MIR, HOBHOUSE AND THE MORNING POST.
racter and qualifications, we may be allowed to extend our * --- . .
ideas to what he probably would have endeavoured to ac to the Editoſt OF Tile ExAMINER.
complish, had he been less, occupied in his legal pursuits, SIR,--I wish through the medium of your paper to
many of which he sacrificed for the public advantage; and make one or two remarks upon some wise observations,
had we been blessed with an administration, of which he
which appeared in the columns of one of our journalists
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therefore, with all due politeness, negative your assertion, The public are there taught to consider the increasing
and pronounce Sir S. Ronilly to be a truly great man. crimes which terrify them from day to day, and furnish
Fuit iſle vir, patres conscripti. sicut scitis. differs clarus, the press with materials of horror, as the effect of some
tum domi ...i. neque rebus eclernis magis law
dandus, quam institutis domesticis. VINDEx. vile principles of liberty that demoralize the nation, and
Avv. 11, 1818.
are preached with such pernicious success as to make it
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An allusion is then made to some words used by the

CHARACTER OF THE FAIRMERS. new Candidate ſor Westminster, who, in addressing the
—u— -
inhabitants of Saint John's and Saint Margaret's parishes,
[We expect at least the whole County Militia to come seems to have classed the Church, the Court, and the Pri
forward against the follºwing fierce attack on the Far son under one head, as constituting a neighbourhood un
mers—Eram.] -
favourable to the friends of freedoń.
Now, Sir, as to the first remark, it may be sufficient to
To The Eniton of the ExAMINER. hint, that, besides the dissemination of speculative opinions
Let’s “ tell men freely of their foule- faults, on Government, there are some trifling causes which may
And “laugh at their vain deeds and vainer thoughts.” serve to account for the frightful increase of crimes and
DRY or N.
punishments. Did any nation come out of a twenty-five
No class of society exhibit less mental improvement ears war as virtuous as it entered into the contest ? Did
than the Farmers; in point of circumstances they are ma the debt of any nation ever increase a hundred ſold, with
terially improved, the cultivation of the soil, in conse out adding to the embarrassments of thousands of indivi
quence of the fictitious paper-money, having been a source duals? and did ever such embarrassments arise without
5f opulence and wealth. In politics they are just as their producing all those immoral expedients which are the
Landlords wish them, or as the provincial papers teach culiar characteristics of an age luxurious but indigent?
them; they go to church more out of fear, or as a compli No, Sir ; if the national character has degenerated, it is
ment to the Clergyman, than from any rational faith they owing to the national distress; it is owing, not to the
put in their creed ; they are not only ignorant of the his preaching of the liberal politician, but to the practice of
...tory of their country, but even of their own times: the tyrant patrons of war and slavery, who have exhausted
Poetry, the fine arts, jurisprudence, chemistry, natural the wealth, and undermined the happiness, of the most
history, the elements of commerce, and belles-lettres, are
glorious people that ever graced the earth. It is owing to
as much hidden mysteries to them, as the doctrines of the the taxation which has driven us from our fire-sides; and
Indian Vichenu. Their conversation seldom extends fur having unroofed the cottage, has given the expelled inha
ther than their own village, and then mostly confined to bitants a choice between the work-house and the jail. It is
village subjects— - -
owing to the false-moneyed circulation (increased to serve
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Such as, “Ducks and geese, and cocks and hens, the critel purposes of misgovernment beyond all imagina
Haystacks and dairies, cowhouses and pens; tion), which facilitates the means and adds to the tempta
Descent on dung-hills; ev'ry sort of kine, -
tion towards crime. It is owing to the acquiescence of
Even on the pretty article of swine.” PINDAR.
those miscalled the Representatives of the Péople, in the
Their sons ape the coxcomb and man of fashion ia the systein of oppression, which leaves the great bulk of the
most rustic degree; ºre therefore full of consequence, very nation without hopes of redress, and drives them into the
extravagant, fond of high living, swearing, low sports, excesses of despair. As to the allusion to the Church, the
and all sorts of gambling. Court, and the Prison, which has rendered the new Can
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Their daughters are showy, idle, and ignorant; the didate for Westminster so accessory to street robberies
dairy and the spinning-wheel beneath their attention; the and márders, I imagine that Mr. Hobhouse must have
domestic affairs not subliiné and romantic enough for their been fully, understood by his audience (at least if I may
comprehension. . Full of the high and unmeaning airs of judge by the report of his speech) to mean, that wherever
the boarding-school, '. assume too much to be go there happens to be an ºli. dependent upon the
verned, yet have too little information and experience to Government, there must necessarily be the means of ex
govern. ... ".
tending and exercising an influence prejudicial to the in
Their wives are very credulous and great egotists; terests of the people.
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dress in the best and most costly apparel; fond of dis The politician of the Morning Post appears to believe,
playing their plate, ſurniture, and finery; and, always that the multiplicity of prisons would be the diminution of
scoiding and complaining of their servants, º crime, although it generally has been thought an evidence
In truth, the whole family pay to their Landlords the of the increase of crime. -

most slavish submission—to their Parson, the most bi “A single jail, in Alfred's golden reign,
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gotted subjection--to their Stewards, the most cringing “Could all the nation's criminals courain.”
complaisance;—all which they exact again from their la But in fact the new Candidate does not appear to me to
bourers, servants, and domestics, exhibiting an unfortunate have expressed his content or discontent at the number of
reality of the poet's description— * -- .
Prisºns; he merely mentioned the notorious truth, that
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** “A meanness that scars, -

the Prison Establishment might be reckoned with that ºf

“And a pride that licks the dusi.” the Abbey and the Court of Westminster, as increasing the
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influence of the Treasury, in the parishes whose inhabitants
he was then addressing. It is clear enough that a turnkey's
place involves a duty of aiding the Court Candidate at an
Election, and that “pro modulo suo" as much dirty work
is expected of him as of a Beef-eater or a Bishop.–I am,
Sir, your obedient Servant,
Dec. 30, 1818. A PARIshion ER of St. John's.
WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
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gard to the interpretation, I can only say, that I wilt answer for
tny own words, but not for the words of another man. I con
ceive it necessary that pariinments should be as short as possible.
Does any man delegate an indefinite trust, in point either of ex
tent or of time, to his steward 2 What is it that makes so many
sinners, except it be that the day of account is so far distant It
is to remedy the security arising from this idea that religion re
commends to us confession—not that foolish and nonsensical con
fession which the liturgy of the church of Rome, on which you
and your forefathers have tramrled, enjoins to its professors; but
that weekly, and daily, and hourly confession which we ought to

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make to ourselves and to our own consciences. The Representa
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tives of the Commons in Parliament never think of settling at all
A meeting of the Electors of Westminster, residents of with their constituents; they never settle with any person ex
the parish of St. James, was held at seven o'clock on count their cept bankers, and with them they keep a regular ac
of their profit and loss by their parliamentary proceedings.
Monday evening, in the Long-room in Brewer-street, This circumstance, however, should make us complain of the
Piccadilly. Mr. Bowie was called to the chair; and length of these parliaments, which indeed is so very extended as
after the usual resolutions in favour of Mr. Hobhouse's to form a standing insult and reproach against the character of a
election had been submitted to the assembly, that gentle nation calling itself free. It was the saying of that great man
man rose and addressed it in a speech of an hour's ſength, Lord Boſingbroke, that a standing parliament is eve , werse
of which the following is an abstract:— than a standing army. As you have both, you have an opp - -
He began by stating that it was now the second time that he men nity of making a comparison between the two. When º' --e
with swords in their hands, we know what tº. v = ->
had had the pleasure of meeting the parishioners of St. James's: at; we may be terrified, we may be afraid. bº - ºt
The was always glad to see them, and he would do his best to make deceived, neither do we suffer any delusion ; * --e
thern always glad to see him. (Applause). “lt hecomes me, a set of well-dressed men walk in and out ." of
from a sense of what is due to my own character, to offer, and it Commons as if it were a mere coffee-house, an it. at
becomes you, from a sense of the importance of the trast you are their leisure, not mere'y of your money, but of yo ºr tº -

willing to repose in me, to demand, an éxplicit statement of my not merely of your property, but of your liberty—nºt tº y
sentiments on the movientous subject of Parliamentary Reform. of yºur liberty, but of your lives; truly we suffer a this won tº ºre
The worthy chairman has declared, that at a meeting of the dangerous than the sword or any other naked ruti, which can
General Committee a tile Clown and Auchor, I gave, in reply
to a question which he put to me on that subject, so fair and
possibly be imagined.” Mr. Hobhouse then combat-d tº argu
can'id an answer, as convinced him that I was an advocate for ment that short parliaments would render us, oftener 'lable to
those scenes of riot which now occur auly every seven years,
...that species ºf refºrm lately avowed by Sir Francis Burdett, at a This was making the point of abuse serve as an objectiºn ºatnst
public dinner in Liverpool. Though I do not say any thing the point of the improvement. Besides, such riots could, only
regarding that opinion, I do not mean by my sileuce either to
Sondemº or to approve it; all that the person whom you send to originate from the present -ystem ; and a proof of this position
was to be ſound in the fact, that since the electors ºf Westminster
Parliament ought to be pound to perform is, to fight the battles had vindicated their owu independence, none of those disgraceful
of the country fairly and manfully, by the side of your present affrays had taken place, which usually occurred between the
tried representative Sir Francis Burdett. As there have been butchers of one party and the chairmen of the other. In the
many calumnious reports spread abroad regarding the manner in last election, the only tumult which happened was raised, not b
which my nomination was effectºl, I think it may be serviceable the friends of reform, but by those of the Court candidate. It
to you that I should give you a history of that němination as far was the courtly ruffian, Caleb Baldwin, that began the flis
as I am myself personally concerned in it; for the truth of the turbance; and it was the courtly Magistrate that protected him
account which I shall now give you, I appeal to several gentle after it was commenced... He had himself gone to obtain justice
men who are now present, and ſlope that they will confirm my against these men; but though the person wounded was nearly
statement if it be correct, or contradict it if it should prove the in a state of inanition, and the surgeon insisted on the necessity
contrary. It was not till 30 hours before that nomination took of his deposition being taken immediately, what answer did the
place that I knew of such a measure being even in agitation, and so meeting think that he received from the Magistratei Why, that
far from its originating from any cabal of mine, it was totally and
entirely unknown to me till that period. The first proposal was he was at“And
diuner. It reminded him of Pope's line,
wretches hang that Jurymen may dine.”
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made to me nt half-past eight o'clock on the morning of nomi - -

nation. The gentlemen who waited upon me only asked me one Even if this violence were a necessary result of more frequent
question—“Will you consent to become a candidate in the elections, it were better to have it than a pure despotism, to
usual forms : We have been able to carry the election of Sir which we were tending. The people were entitled to have short
Francis Burdett without them, on account of his character being
parliaments by precedents preserved in their history, though,
universally known to the electors; but as you are not so well even if there had been no precedents, they would equally have
known to them, the Committee, though reluctant to depart from had a right to them. He showed that many of the patriots at the
a rule which they have established, that no canvassing should Revolution, notwithstanding the great nobles acquiesced in the
be employed by a candidate for Westminster, are desirous that longer term for parliaments, were for recurring to what the
you should make the electors acquainted with your principles called “ the legal course of annually chosen parliaments.
and talents. Are you willing to do so?” I answered, that I Hambden, a grandson of the man who died for liberty, wrote
should willingly do my best to make the electors of Westminster in 1692 a pamphlet on the manner and time of calling parlia
acquainted with my character. The gentlemen who applied to menis; “and,” says Lard Bolingbroke, in his Dissertation on
me knew that I was a radical Reformer, and nothing else; and, Parties, “ they who were called Whigs in those days distinº
consequently, made no inquiries on such a subject. When the guished themselves by the loudness of their complaints against
chairman, on the occasion to which he alluded, asked me what the jest of pretending to make a settlement of the nation, without
were my sentiments upon it, I replied, that though I was willing making good the assurances given at the Revolution, which had
to give a pledge as to the principles, I would not give any with led them to think that the above-mentioned ancient legal cours:
regard to the plans; and yet, if that gentleman or any other of annually chosen parliaments would be immediately restored.'
In 1745, a motion for restoring annual parliaments was made by
s'; uld ask me what plan of reform is best, I should refer to your
resolutions, which recommend Parliaments of short duration, Mr. Carew, and was lost by the small majority of 82, the num
and a full, free, and equal share in the choice of Representa bers being 145 against 113. It is singular enough; added Mr.
tives., I am implicated in this question personally I gave Hobhouse, that Mr. Carew brought foward his motion, as he
a pledge upon it by telling the electors of Westminster, and said, to try some professed friends of the people lately made
through them the country at large, at the Crown and Anchor Ministers; and it is more singular that such a test of patriotism,
Tavern, my genuine sentiments upon it; because, between giving which we should now call a tremendously radical reform in:
an opinion and a pledge, I see no difference which an honourable deed, was so far from bring thought absurd, ridiculous, and
ºan can act upon. I hope that I have made a satisfactory reply chimerical, that nearly half the House of Commons voted for it.
regarding the answer ... I am said to have given. With re Mr. H. asked to what could be attributed the great change of
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ºpinion in Parliament as to the necessity of a real radical re even when he makes his reſerence to his country, it is possible
form 2 Was it to the great advantages which the nation had de that he may find his motives mistaken, his conduct misconstrued.
rived from the Septenuial Act and the Borough System Such and be reduced to that last reseurce which I have hefore held out
a supposition shocked all common sense. No ; the evils pro for your mournful consolation—the appeal to an impartial pos
duced by that system had been exactly such as were seem to be terity. , I see the peril, but nevertheless I will cheerfully under
gathering, and proclaimed by one of the speakers, Mr. Syden take the trial. I am conteated to be called violent as long as I
ham, on Mr. Carew's motion: the higher classes had lost their am sure that I am the organ of your wishes, and the interpreter
“cºurage, their generosity, their hospitality; the lower classes of your wants;—and to cºnclude, in the words of the resolution,
their honesty. , their industry, their frugality.” Mere military I will do my best to support the just claims of the people to par.
courage we might have—it was nothing—for the most slavish liaments of a short duirtion, and to a full, free, and equal share
nations had often been exceedingly formidable abroad, whilst in the choice of their representatives.
perſectly despicable at home. One of the very effects of the One or two orators then essayed their powers upon the
vile system had been to make the nation blind to its ill effects;
but the principal agent in all times had been Fear—Fear, the same topics, thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the
basest of passions, which. as the poet tells us, meeting dispersed. - -

** First made devils.”

King william terrified the revolutionary Lords, by telling them RIOT IN EDINBURGII.
he would go back, and that either the Stuarts or the mob would -G
take their estates...The Duke of Devonshire, when he proposed
the Septennial Bill, tarrified the Parliament by talking of the On the 30th of December, preparations were made for the
hardly-quelled rebellion. Sir Wm. Yonge, when he defended execution of Robert Johnston, who had been convicted of the
Septennial Parliaments in 1745, terrified his hearers by owning robbery of Mr. John Charles, candle-maker, in October last. A
that he “still frenzöted at the mobs that had disturbed the last platform was erected at one of the windows of the New North
elections in the reign of Queen Anne.” And to come to our own Church, in the Lawn-market. On the platform was a quad
days, said Mr. H., who were the great opposers of reform: rangular table, on which the criminal was to stand, and which
why those who, fºr fear we should make any mistake as to their was to be lowered in order to leave him suspended. An immense
motive, actually consented to be handed down for ever to their crowd was assembled. The unfortunate culprit was brought
own disgrace, and to the instruction of all posterity as cowards– from the Lock-up-house to the place of execution about twenty
the alarmists?! But though the traitors to their country have minutes before three o'clock, attended by two of the magistrates,
been afraid to preserve the Constitution, let us not be afraid to the Rev. Mr. Tait, Mr. Porteous, Chaplain of the Gaol, several
restore it; and whenever we are taunted with being visionaries city officers, and the public executioner. After spending some
and so forth, as to our wish of reform, let us remind our igno time in prayer with the Clergymen, Johnston mounted the plat
rant, insolent adversaries, that there were once found in a Bri form with alacrity, looked boldly round him, and gave the
tish House of Commons 113 Senators, who thought a recurrence sigual. . But nearly a minute elapsed before the table could be
even to annually chosen Parliaments, a wise, a safe, a necessary forced down; and after it was got down, the perpendieular ſall
measure, and the best test of honest intentions. It is said you was so short, that the unlinppy man's toes were still touching
will never get a reform—perhaps not—neither for yourselves, the surface. so that he remained half-standing, half suspended,
nor your chºdren, nor your grand-children—but recollect that and struggling in the most dreadful manner. It is impossible to
these glorious men who came before you did something for you; find words to express the horror wkich pervaded, the crowd,
do you do therefore something for those who, at however distant while one or two persons were at work with axes beneath the
a period, may come after you...Your ancestors, so far from be scaffold, in tha vaia attempt to hew down a part of it beneath
nefitting themselves, often terminated a life of labour by a death the feet of the criminal. The cries of horror from the populace.
of violence and shame: consent, then, to some sacrifices, al continued to increase with indescribable vehemence; and it is
though you may never reap the benefit of them. The abettors hard to say how long this horrible scene might have lasted, had
of the present system will one day or the ºr. a con not a person near the scaffold, , who was struck by a policeman,
Yulsion in the state. Then will be your glory an your reward;" while pressing onward, cried out Murder! Those who were not
for the people, instead of resorting to the sword and the nxe, aware of this circumstance, imagiued that this cry proceeded
that have inundated with blood other revolutionized na from the unhappy Johnston. A shower of stones, taken from
tions, will learn, from the now disregarded lessons of the the loose pavement on the streets, compelled the Magistrates and
friends of reform, to look to a fair representative sys the police to retire in a moment. A cry of “Cut him down—he
tem as the ority means of present salvation and future is alive,” succeeded, and a person, genteekly dressed, sprung
happiness. The peaceful though steady course which you upon the platform, cut the rope, and the culprit fell down in a re
shalf have pursued towards the attainment of your nºble clining position upon the scaffold, after having bung about five
aim, will be a certain guarantee for your character and that of minutes. -

the cause. Mr. Hobhouse continued to exhort the friends of A number of the crowd broke through the railing, and took
reform not to be deterred, because accused of violence;—he pro possession of the platform, where they liſted up Johnston, took
mised to disregard such idle accusations himself. The improvers the ropes from his neck and arms, and the cap from off his face,
in all systems, the great benefactors of mankind, had always which they threw among the multitude below; they then loosened
been called violent. cke, as Mr. Fox had recorded, was ex a part of {. clothes, and finding him alive, deliterately carried
pelled from his studentship at Christ Church, for what Lord hin off towards the High-street; while another party tore the
Sanderland termed factious turbulence. Galileo, who had the coffin prepared fºr the criminal to pieces, and threw the frag
mi-fortune to demonstrate that the earth certainly revolved round ments against the windows of the church, endeavouring also to
the sun, was punished severely for his violent assertions, and demolish the fatal apparatus, which, however, was found too
compelled to recant. In short, history was full of such acnsola strong for them to accomplish their object. A Lieutenant of
tions. Mr. H. closed thus:–Nor shall I be angry, any more Police was severely cut on the head with a stone; about ten of
than I am surprized, at being charged with presumption, ambi the officers were more or less hurt by the gob ; and the execu
tion, and other similar vices. I would only É eg the accusers to. tioner, who was for some time in their hands, suffered severely.
reflect, that if the representation of Westminster be a pre In the mean time the police-officers rallied in angmented force,
eminence, it is is a painful pre-eminence—even the ascent is slip and retook the criminal from the mob at the head of Advocates'.
pery and dangerous, for how is a candidate first saluted What Close. The unhappy man half alive, stript of part of lis clothes,
encouragement does he receive Those whom he leaves behind and his shirt turned up, so that the whole of his naked back and
endeavour to impede his progress 'i
pointing to those who have upper part of his body was exhibited, lay extended on the ground
gone before:-the livid hatred ºf those who always praise the in the middle of the street, in front of the Police Office. At last,
dead for the sake of depressing the living, enumerates the virtues after a considerable interval, some of the police officers, laying
and abilities of his predecessors, and Inughs at the vauity of so hold of him, dragged him trailing along the ground, for about
feeble an imitation. Suppose him successful, his hed is not a bed twenty paces, into the office, where he remained p. of half
afroses, for if has not the ſoily to imagine such a post given to an hour, while he was attended by a surgeon, bled in both arms,
him as a reward, he must iº, commence a long incessant and in the temporal vein, by which suspended animation was re
course of painful duty ; and what wiſh he have to reward him for stored ; but the unfortunate man did not utter a word. In the
his watchful nights and his laborious days? The shrugs, the meantime a military force arrived from the Castle under the
smiles, the sneers, of those behind, and beside him—the open direction of a Magistrate. The soldiers were drawn up in the
clamour and geuace and persecution of those opposite t—and street surrounding the Police Office and place of execution.
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Johnston was then carried again to the scaffold. His clothes such situations they cenld be more conveniently attended by those
were thrown about him in such a way, that he seemed half whose depraved curiosity stimulates them to observe how a ſet
nukel, and while a number of men were about him, holding him low-creature placed in such dreadful circumstances will conduct
up on the table, and fastening the rope again about his neck, his himself, while they would not be forced on the uotice of those
ciothes fell down, in a manner shocking to decency. While they who loath such spectacles.—Scotsman. - -

were adjusting his clothes, the unhappy man was left vibrating,
upheld partly by the rope about his neck, and partly by his feel POLICE.
on the table. At last the table was removed from beneath him, -- - -

when, to the indescribable horror of every spectator, he was - - Maxsiox-house. - -

seen suspended, with his face uncovered, and one of his hands
broke loose from the cords with which it should have been tied, On Monday, William Thomson, a youth of 14 years of age, was
and with his fingers convulsively twisting in the noose. Dread brought up in the custody of the officers, on a charge of robbery.
ful cries were then heard from every quarter. A clair was He is the captain of a gang of juvenile depredators, who infest,
hrought, and the executioner having mounted upon it, disengaged the neighbourhood of Whitechnpel, not perely committing theſts
by force the hand of the dying man from the rope. He then and other petty offences, but assailing the ears of every female
descended, leaving the man's face still uncovered, and exhibit who passes them with the grossest abuse and obscenity. The
ing a dreadful spectacle. At length a napkin was thrown over officers know him by the name of Captain Thomson.—Mrs.
lis face. Shouts of “Murder,” and, “Shame, shame,” broke Susannah Pinhero, a respectable-looking womau, residing in
from the crowd: Johnston was observed to struggle very much; day Whitechapel High-street, stated, that on the afternoon of Thurs
but his sufferings were at an end in a few minutes. The soldiers week, she was walking in Aldgate, and her errand-boy, who
remained on the spot till the body was cut down; and, as it was was carrying a basket, was walking on before her. Being very.
then about dusk, the crowd gradually dispersed. -
much incommoded by some boys who were behind her, she turned
Johnston was a strong, stout, good-looking man, between 20 round to see what was the matter; whilst she was doing this,
and 30 years of age, and had conducted himself with much pro the captain aud one of his comrades inserted their hands into her
priety during the early part of his life; but of late years he had basket, and were making off, when she observed the theft, seized
given himself up to bad company, which brought on those evil the captain by the collar, and held him till he was secured by the
habits that hastened his untinely end. His father and mother proper officers. On his being searched by them, a paper full of
are decent people, who keep a shop in the Grass-market. They copper, value 5s., which he had stolen from her servant, was
visited their unhappy son for the last time on Tuesday, when he found in his possession ; his companion got off with a simixir.
bundle of copper.—Mrs. Pinhero had proceeded thus far in her
expressed himself fully resigned to his fate. The mother has evidence
since then been in a state almost bordering on distraction ; and when the Lord Mayor, who had observed three young
her feelings may be better judged of than described, when some lads peeping in a very suspicious manner through the windows of
the office,
part of the crowd on Wednesday ran off and informed her that entered the ordered the officers to seize them. They had no sooner.
her son had been rescued and escaped. justice-room than Mrs. Pinhero pointed out oue of
Two days after, the Magistrates issued a notice, offering a re them, whose name was Rose, as the lad who had escaped at the
ward of fifty pounds for the apprehension of the person or per time that Thompson was taken. He was therefore immediately
sons who cut down the body. The person, who appeared most placed at the bar.-The captain, with great promptitude, asked,
forward on the occasion, is described as having been dressed in a the lady whether she could positively swear that he was the wºn .
green surtout, and black neckcloth ; rather good looking, of a who took the money. She replied, that from the circumstances of
florid complexion, with large black whiskers. his apprehension it was impossible for her to mistake him.—Tite
Lond MAvon said, “you are a very clever fellow, but your
cleverness has for once overshot its mark. You seem to be well
It is not our wish to attempt to justify any act of outrage com
mitted on the Magistracy, especially wheu engaged in the per acquainted with all the rules of evidence; but they will uot serve
formance of a painful duty, and unaided, as in this instance they your turn upon this occasion.”—Mrs. Pinhero was bound over to
at first were, by any military force. It ought, however, to have prosecute, and the lads were both committed for trial.—The
been remembered, that this execution was the first after the re errand-boy said, that the two boys asked him the time of day,
moval of the Old Jail, and that the public attention had been and pressed so closely and so ingeniously upon him, that he did
roused by the petition of the inhabitants of the Lawn-market, notThefeel the basket lowered, or the lid of it taken up.
two other vagabonds, who were brought into the room
and by the paragraphs published in the Journal and other with Rose, were then put to the bar. It appeared that they were
papers, justly objecting to the execution taking place near the not known to the officers as thieves, though they were as children
Ö13 Cathedral.--An unusual crowd of spectatºrs, might, there
fore, have been expected; and it would certainly have been pru who talked the grossest obscenity to all º and especially,
dent to have called out the city constables. The improper con to those of tender years.-The Lord Mayor committed them for a
struction of the scaffold, or the awkward manner in which the short time to Bridewell. - -

executioner performed his duty, or both, were, however the real in On Wednesday a woman, with two young children, evidently
great distress, were put to the bar. She had been ſound
and sole cause of the outrages which occurred. The sufferings beggiug. She stated, that she had been driven to that step by.
witnessed by the multitude, who were allowed to approach much
too near the scaffold, were so abhorrent to the feelings of huma the most acute want; she had applied to her parish for relief,
nity, that the wonder is not that a disturbance ensued, but that but had failed in obtaiaing it.—The Lord Mayor ordered the offi
it was on the whole attended with so very little mischief. cers to go to the overseers of her parish; and if they refused to
We do not mean by this to insinuate that the populace were not give her the assistance which her necessities demanded, to take
her to the Magistrates of Worship-street office, (in whose dis
guilty of a breach of the law. They were so inquestionably; trict her parish lies.) and to obtain a summons for the attendance
but the best feelings of our nature plead strongly in mitigation of of the overseers. In the mean while, he would take rare that
their offence. We trust that this most lamentable affair will be
the means of for ever, putting an end to all executions in the she was properly relieved.—The Lord Mayor, in the course of
streets of this city. Why should the feelings of the inhabitants this case, inveighed in very strong terms against a shameful
practice which lias lately become common with overseers. They
of the continuous houses be tortured by such, spectacles? That either totally refuse to assist those who apply to them, or else
executions should be made in the most public manner, may, dismiss thein with a present of a few shillings, and an order not
although we have very great doubts on the subject, be sufficiently
proper, but why compet any individual to eitness them against his to come again. The consequence is, that many poor creatures,
inclination? Persons of delicate sensibilities must have been unable to procure work, are compelled to solicit charity to pre
shocked beyond all deseription by the tragedy of last Wednes vent themselves from starving; while the business of the police -
day. And yet, if any such happened tº reside in the Lawn offices has been increased in a most enormous degree by this
market, it was impossible for them to avoid beholding it: Exºcu system, so contrary to justice and humanity.
tions ought to take place without, and not within the city. The now-street. -

Grass-market W. certainly be a better place for carrying the A few days since, a female, whose manners and conduct evi
awful sentence of the law into effect than the High-street; but dently proved that she had seen better days, applied to Mr.
we are not compelled to have recourse to the Grass-market; Birnie, stating her name to be Biand, ſhe widow of an attorney
there is uo necessity to lacerate, and we will add to brutify: who died a few months since, and left her with five children, in
vitiate,
the city,and
by degrade, the feelings
such revolting of the inhabitants
exhibitions. of anythen
Why nºt make part at
of great distress. In a short time after she became acquainted with
a man who had the appearance of a gentleman, to whom she re
a distance,—in the King's Park, in Burntsfield Links, &c.? In ated her tale; he afterwards called upon her at her residence at
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Nº. 8, Bridge-road, ſ.ambettſ; and told her fle could get her measured the sacks with a measure he produced, and after a deal
eldest son, a youth about 19 years of age, provided for, if she of straining they were extended very near to the size directed by
cºuld procure the surn of 130l. for a place under Government; the Act.—The Magistrate said that the way the defendsnt had
she replied that -be would try among her friends. The man re theasured the sacks was not fair: and after a third measurement
presented his name to be John Lloyd, that he had been brought by the standard rule, he convicted the defendant in the penalty
up to the law, and trad meted as an attorney at Newark. A gen of 90s. upon each sack.-Mr. HARMER gave notice of appeal to
tleman very humanely promised her the sum of 1307.; the fellow the Sessious, and Mr. Fearon became his surety.
shortly after called and told her to have the money ready by the
morning of the 24th of December last; she went to the gentle
ran, her Riends who trad promised her the money, and he gave ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c.
a 100 and a 30t. Bank note, which she handed ever to Mr. , -º
Boyd, on the appointed morning, and accompanied him to the
Treasury, when he desired her to “toddle” about the passage An inquest was held on Wednesday, for the purpose of ascer
fºr a few minutes, and soon returned with some papers in his taining by what means a child found in Tash-street, and which
hand. She then accompanied him across the Park. On their afterwards died in the workhouse, had come to its death. The
arrival at the Palace he desired her to “kick her heels about for evidence went to prove, that the child, when first found, was
a short time, and he would return to her with the warrant from labouring under the effects of some soporific medicine; but it .
! the Lord Chamberlain's oſlice.” She waited between three and was the opinion of Dr. Dennison, that the quantity was neither
ſour hours, and their ventured to go to the Lord Chamberlain's sufficient, nor probably intended, to produce death.-Elizabeth,
office, and inquired for Mr. Lloyd, but neither he or any thing Winter sworn—“About two months ago, I applied to Mrs.
of the pretended transaction was known there. After many in Symons, midwife in Kirby-street, Hatton-garden, for a child te
quiries, she made her application to Mr. Birnie, who granted a nurse. Mrs. Symous said, I should have one to dry-nurse. The
warrant against Lloyd for a fraud. Mrs. Bland had fortunately .deceased was brought by Mrs. White, sister-in-law to Mrs.
got the numbers of the notes; and the payment of them has sinee Symons, to the house where I lodge, to be given to Mrs. Evans,
Mrs. Symous's sister; it was brought on Saturday, the 12th of
been stopped at the Bank. Mrs. Bland described, Lloyd to be
about 35 years of age, five feet five inelies high, bald head at the December last, between 12 and 1 o'clock, and as Mrs. Evans was
top, wearing powder, pale face, thin and very lowg nose, and not at home, I had the care of it until the Tuesday following.
§ressed in a blue, coat, black silk waistcoat, blue puntaleons, Mrs. White said she must take it back to Mrs. Symons, as it was
boots, and a mixed great coat. intended to be sent to wet-nurse on its father's estate in the
Martleaxtought-s’rſt EET. # eountry. The child, was perfectly healthy during the time it
was with me, and lived on milk and arrow-root; it was uot
William M'Glashan, a dancing-master, in Riding-house-lane, above three hours old when it was brought to me on Saturday.
was charged by Mr. Davies, a corn-chandler, near Fitzroy I dressed the child on Tuesday, and carried it to Mrs. Symons,
unre, with robbing him under the following circumstances: — in Nirby-street, and delivered it to her at 4 o'clock in the after
The prisoner had been engaged to attend in his professional noon. Whilst I had the elild Mrs. Symons advised me to get
ity. Mr. Davies was frequently from home; and the some poppies, and give them to the child, as it would keep it
prisoner, availing himself of the opportunity, took the children eonstantly quiet: . On Tuesday evening, the Isth of December,
who the countine-house, and, under pretence of showing thern I heard of a child being dropped in Tash-street; I went to see it
slight of hand tricks, contrived to send them into different parts at the workhouse, and knew it from two red pimples on oue
of the hou-e. In their absence, he opened the till. Mr. Davies shoulder, and the mark of red wine between its eyes. The dress
had nissed money; suspicion attached to the prisoner; and, on the child wore, when I delivered it into Mrs. Symons's hands,
proceeding to his lodgings, he ſonnd a buneh of keys, on which was new and beautiful; and that new produced is mean and
was a key particularly marked, belonging to the desk in his dirty, and not the same, except the shirt. I saw it again oa the
cruuting-house. Upon the prisoner were found duplicates of a following morning, and was sure that something had been given
time-piece gnd a diamond. Ilis servant also ſound the key ºf to it improperly ; it was so much altered in its appearance that I
the till concealed under the carpet.—Committed. ' should not have kaowa it but from the marks I have described.
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It was drowsy and stupified; and the nurse told me it had been
Last week an information was brought by the Excise against a so ever since she had it. I visited it six times in the workhouse,
grocer in Somers-town, for exposing for sale a quantity of imita and it got worse every time. It was a very piercing cold night
tion tea. After the examination of a number of witnesses, it when the deceased was dropped... I never learned from Mrs.
tºrned out that the parties who gave the information to the Symons who the mother of the child was.”—Sowe of the Jury
Excise had employed a person to go from the shop of ene grocer proposed to examiné Mrs. Symons, who was present, when some
to another, where, under some pretence of transacting business, of the Overseers stated, that it would be improper to examine
parcets of imitation tea were deposited. “It furtherºeppeared, her who was intended to be prosecuted as a party.—The Jury,
that a fellow named Bachelor was employed by the informers after a sitting of seven hours and a consultation of two hours,
tº prepare the imitation tea. These facts being fully established, in compliance with the opinions of the Doctors, returned a ver
the information was of course quashed, and we understand that dict—Died by the visitation of God.
it is the intention of the defendaal in this infamous case to prose An inquisition was taken on Saturday week, in High-street,
cute the informing parties for a conspireey, ... . . . Poplar, on the body of Jºaniel Carden, a young man, whose body
- usion-waii-, .....:... 3... . lay at the Parish Workhouse.—ſt appeared that on Tuesday
An inſormation was brought by the plaintiff, Harrison, against morning last, the deceased was walking close by the Post-office
the defendant, Mr. Thomas Eadley, coal-merchant, Essex-wharf, with some luggage; he staggered and almost fell down, but several
Siraud, for selling a quantity of coals in sacks not of the legal persons uear him ran to his assistance, and placed him on a
measurement, which were seized,—James, Huggins proved the step; he was taken to the workhouse, and on his arrival, was
fact of the seizure of the sacks; and stated that they were one, tlead ; he could not, speak the whole of the time. Prior to his
two, and three inches short of the legal length. Several other death, he was eompelled to marry a girl whom he had seduced.
persons proved the same facts. Mr. Harmer attended for Mr. He had since leſt her, and was going on board a ship, when he
Fadley, and upon the sacks being produced, said, that they were was attacked in the above unanner. Verdict—Died by the visita
in a wet condition, and had, in consequence, shortened very tion of God. . - -

much since their seizure.—J. Lockie, the officer, stated, that the Monday night, an inquisition was taken in Drury-court, on
sacks were not so wet as when they were seized.—Mr. Fearon, a the body of Thomas Wilcor.—The deceased, it appeared, was
coal-merchant, stated, that he had twelve sacks seized some time near 90 years of age, by trade a coachmaker; he had been for-.
ago by a constable, and taken to Union-Hail, and when he (Mr. merly in respectable circumstances, but from various misfortunes
Fearon) went to auswer the charge, he found his sacks under a was driven to the utmost distress. He had been out of employ:
pump in the yard.—Mr. Reeves, the clerk, stated, that for a for the lºst twelve months, and depended solely for his support
great number of years, there had not been a pump in the officeon a young daughter, apprentice to a milliner, and the trifling
ºrd—Mr. Fearon said, that he could point ont the spot to the 5.
of his landlady. He sometimes was compelled to eat cab
Magistrate. Mr. Chambers, who presided, accompanied Mr. age leaves and potatoes, &c. in the streets. He would frequently :
Fearon to the place, but no pump was found, and the Magistrate be heard crying, and walking about the room wringing his hands,
expressed his surprise at such a charge being made against on in consequenco of his distressed situation. His daughter, a short •
officer. The sacks were then measured by the officers, and found time prior to his putting an end to his existence, called on him
tº be only 40 and 41 instead of 42 inches i. Mr. Eadley then and made him a present of the last shilling she had. The de
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éeased was heard talking to himself, and shortly aſter was found On Monday morning, Mr. Humphries, a farrier, iu respectable
suspended by a cord from the bed-post. Verdict—Lunacy. circumstance, threw himself out of a window at his house in
Friday week, Mrs. Yeoman, who resides in Bell-alley, Gos Grantham-place, Park-lane, Piccadilly, and was so dreadfully
well-street, left her home to go to a neighbour's house on some injured by the fall that he expired shortly afterwards. The ºr
business, and imprudently left two children, one eighteen months fortunate man had two or three times previously been detected in
and the other three years old, in an apartment in which there. attempts to deprive himself of life. He had been subject to fits
was a fire. On her return she found the eldest child enveloped of derangement. -

in flames; before the fire could be extinguished every bit of his Friday se'unight, in the Borough-road, a female named Cathe
apparel was burnt of his back, and he died soon afterwards. An rine Wilson, returning to her residence alone, was raet by a
inquest was held on the body: the Jury censured the conduct of fellow, who insisted that she should shake hands with him ; she
Mrs. Y. in leaving her children unprotected, and returned a ver at length acceded; on which he laid hold of her, and robbed her
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of her purse, containing a trifling sum in silver, with which he
On Monday morning, a fine little boy, about five years of age, went away. The female courageously followed him, and was
whose parents reside in the Mile-end-rond, was left in an apart about to make an alarm, when he returned hastily, gave her a
ment with another child, while the mother went out for a short tremendous blow, laid hold of both her ear-rings and tore them
time, and on going near the fire to warm himself, his frock was from her ears, and beat her in such a manner, that she was left
drawn into the fire, and in an instant he was in a blaze. "the weltering in her blood.
other child had a narrow escape; she ran out, and at the instant Friday morning, as Susan Green, a fine young woman, ser
the mother returned, but not before the unfortunate child was vant of Thomas Derry, Esq. Lucas-place, Bethnal-green-road.
burned in a dreadful manner. The child was taken to the was cleaning the windows of the second floor, she got ent and
London Hospital, where he died in the utmost agony. Verdict stood upon a narrowledge, when, on looking round, her foot
of the Coroner's Jury–Accidental heath. - slipped, and she was precipitated on the pavement, aſter" failing
An inquisition was taken on Thursday in St. Olave's Poor on the railing; her scull was fractured and her body much in
house, Parish-street, on the body of Mr. Henry Grange.—Mr. iured; she was taken to the London Hospital, and expired some
Clark, an officer, belonging to the Court of Requests, Southwark, hours after in the greatest pain. -
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deposed, that on Tuesdav evening he went with an assistant to

the deceased's house, in Gray-street, and arrested him at the suit
of Mr. Perrymaur, builder, Windmill-street, for the sum of 31.4s. : BiRTHs.
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he accompanied them into the street; he was in a great passion, On the 7th inst., the Lady of John Thornton, Esq. of a daugh
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and said he was not the man; in turning the corner of the street
Friday week, the wife of John Bridgeman, cooper, of Broom
he escaped from them and ran off; they followed and retook him." field,
He persisted that the claim was unjust ; he walked on with them Essex, of three children, two boys and a girl, who, with
on the way to the compter. When he arrived in Union-street he the mother, are likely to do well. She had twins about threa
... ". Stop, for God's sake;” he fell upon his knees and years since, who survived but a short time. -

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immediately expired. Several surgeons immediately attended, MAltfri AGES.
but could render him no assistance. Witness was positive that I On Monday, the 4th instant, at the New Church, St. Mary-le
the deceased was uot treated with violence.—Two surgeons were bone, . Mr. Edward Barnard Deeble, of Norton-street, Portland
examined, who were of opinion that the deceased died in a fit of place, to Miss Louisa Elmsley, only daughter of George Elmsley,
apoplexy produced by the impression of his arrest upon his mind, E-q. of Stratford-lodge, Wilts.
which caused a determination of blood to the head. Verdict—
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Óli the 2d instant, at St. Mary's, Islington, Mr. Ratph Brown,
tinen-draper, to Lydia, widow of the late Mr. F. J. Sarjent,
Fine Asp Supposed Murtrº-On Thursday'se'umight about John-street, -

Fitz ilari".
cleven o'clock, a most alarming fire broke out in one the
On the 4th instant, at Hanwell Church, Mr. Samuel Brewer,
workshops of Mr. Knight, timber-merchant, Mile-end-road. The Clapham-common, to Wandsworth.
Sophio, second. daughter of -->George.”
fire bad been burning for sometime before it was discovered, and Owen, Esq. of West-hill, - . T_--

º the yard, when it burned. Ou-Thursday, tº stºry, Mr. T. Banbury, to Isabelli.

with great tºry. º º: after arrived, but the eldest daughter of I. Ross, Esq., District-Adjutant of the Staff
whole of the workshºps, &uiſting-hoºse, and sheds were com stationed in that city. , s , :
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Gh Saturday, at Lambeth Church, Thomas Wageman, Esq.

Phillips, Esq. of White-horse-street, a gentleman of considerable artist, to Miss Auna Susaunah Cox, daughter of Mr. Cox, of
property, being alarmed by the cries of fire, left his apartment Brentford. - -

and proceeded across the fields to view it. When the conflagra On the 6th iastant, at Greasly Church, the Rev. W. Tiflin,
tion was extinguished, his not returning home created consider Vicar of Mattersea and Hayton, Nottingham. to Miss Holleston,
able alarm, and every search was made for him to no effect, until daughter of the late Christopher Rolleston, t’sq., of Watnall.
Wednesday morning, when his body was found in a field quite
dead, by two persons coming by that way. He had no money in DEATI is.
his pockets.” He was in excellent health wheu he left home, and On the 29th ult., at his country-seat, near Paris, in the 32d
it was supposed he was knocked down and robbed in crossing the year of his age. Adrian Hope, Esq. second sou of the ſate John
fields.
Hope, Esq. of Harley-street, formerly of Amsterdam. . . .
On Wednesday morning, about nine o'clock, a person cf the On Sunday, the 3d inst., at her house, Aston-Clinton, Bucks;
* name of Long, in the employ af Mr. Buckland, brewer, at Dowager Lady Williams, relict of Sir David Williams, Bart. of
Hampstead, and lodging at a Mrs. Hartland's, in Church-lane. Sarrett, Herts. -

having oceasion to leave his room for a short time, left his two
children, a girl and a boy, in bed; a fire being in the room,
cammunicated to the bed, when the whole became enveloped in
flames. The sereams of the children brought up a constable,
who burst open the door, and discovered the girl, about 8 years
On Monday last, of the small-pºx, in Newman-street, Oxford
street, Miss Lydia Sturt, aged 17, after having been vacéinated,
when an inſant, by an emiueut surgeon. .
On the 31st ult, at Richmoud, in Surrey, Mrs. Bean, relict
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of age, burnt in a mºst shocking manger. Surgeons immediately On the 81st ult., at Sir James Alexander's, Epsom, Miss Fuller,
attended, and applied every means that skill could suggest, but in her 59th year.
without hopes ..". the life of the sufferer. The fire was
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On New Year's Day, in the 75th year of hor age, Mrs. Sarah.
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extinguished in the room where it commenced. Douglas, sister of the late William Douglas, of Newman-street,
On Saturday week, about six o'clock in the evening, as Mr. Marylebone. - -

Henry Lynn, an opulent farmer at Great Bookham-common, Gn the 2d instant, at Bath, Dame Sarah Gordon, relict of the
Surrey, was returning from Kingston-market, he was attacked by late Sir Wm. Gordon, Dart. of Embo, N. B. - -

three desperate villains; who, having stopped him, and de On the 5th instant, P. Hepburn, Esq., of Cheshum, Bucks, in
manded his money, beat him in a most horrid manner with the 91st year of his age. -

bludgeons, and laid him insensible on the ground; they then On the 7th instant, W m. Driver, of Smrrey-square, Kent-road, ,
rifled his person, and carried off considerable property which he aged 60 (one of the Society of Friends), after a lingering iſ mess. ,
had in his possession, and left him apparently dead; he was dis -
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Now we like this. We said in our last number, that
the PoliticAL EXAMINER, | Lord ELLENBorough had not to reckon hypocrisy among
Party is the madness of inany for the gain of a few... Por E.
his faults; and this proves it. He was worldy enough,
No. 562. and the rest of his will goes to prove that also ; for his
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great object seems to have been to aggrandize himself and
family. In other words, as we observed before, he had a
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LORD ELLENBOROUGH’s will...
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ſalse and bad opinion of human mature, and thought it was
There is a clause in this décument, which has induced us mothing but a business of “Get who can.” But this touch
to say a few more words respecting the Learned and of natural affection redeems it. It shews of what elements
Noble Writer. When the casual reader sees to what we fie was made, and to what purpose they might have beea
allude, he will be apt to think that we advert to the clause turned, in common with those of all mankind... We do
out of a spirit of hostility or personal resentment. The not allude to the fact of his having had a natural child.
babitual reader, we are sure, will have a different opinion. That may have been a very “venial” or a very vicious
We can pe hostile enough against enemies that are worth thing.—like the adultery of which he spoke. Neither do
eontending with ; but we will venture to say, that our we know, nor is it our business to know, anything respect
hostility, let it have been as warm as it may, has carried ing the young lady herself; except that she stands a chance
with it more openhess and hazard, and been less grounded of being a sprightlier and healthier human being, than
on personal matters, than any we have ever met with in thousands who will fancy themselves her betters. It is the
feturn; and for revenge, properly speaking, we have an mention of her, that we like. The Noble and Learned
infinite contempt. We hold it to be but a worse kind of Lord has toiled through a great deal of worldliness,
fºrce boys'-play-the wreaking of weak personal impa it, virtuous as well as vicious: he had earned too much by
to give it up: his seals, and crests, and peer's robes,
tience—the acknowledged soreness of wounded egotism,_ evidently
or at best, an absurd effort to obtain justice, by means glittered about him to the last, and hung their
which unust perpetuate every species of wrong. We say gaudy colours in the clouds that were gathering on his
then once for all, that we have no resentment whatsoever grave;—but it was a sorry and trite business after all:—it
*gainst Lord ElleNaorough, though we suspect that his had given him little pleasure; it was about to give him
ill-emper and courtliness aggravated the weight of our home; his nature resolved itself into the elements that first
punishment, when the adulation of the Morning Post composed it, before it had been made altogether artificial
provoked us into that tirade against a foolish man. Nor and uncomfortable by a crust of common-place ambition
do we wish to insinuate anything flattering of ourselves in and courtliness;' and in an hour, when the sullenness of
dºing saſh feelings. The feelings which always disappointment, and the shame of confessing it, may have
enabled us to despise them, led us at last into a train of given way befºre theºreakening of disease, one cati
thinking which carried us away from the common notions almost imagine that he shed tears of mingled remorse and
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of merit and demerit; and if we think that early circum sweetness, in writing that memorial of his “dear natural
stances apparently less favourable, and an ultimate condi daughter, Elizabeth Taokstos.”
tion of life apparently much inferior to that of the most “Oh yes!”, some sly rogues will exclaim ; “very
exalted worldly man, have made us happier and more at sweet and remorseſul indeed,” and then they will shrug §
our real ease than he, it is all the superiority we would their shoulders, and wink at each other. Much of
ever claim, and contains the ground of all the morals we kind of comment will take place privately at court and in
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The fact is, that on the present occasion we are going to thing but sheer impudence in a Judge to mention his
praise, as well as to pity, Lord ELLENeohough; and natural daughter in that-manner:/And the grave hypo
when the subject of our praise is seen, we suppose that all "crites, together with such of the sly rogues above men
the hypocrites who objected to us for not praising him for tioned as profess principle before strangers, will affect pub
his ſaults while living, will cry out against us for doing fiely to lament it. They will think at least that “it had
justice to what we found good in him when dead. But better been left alone.”—“Human nature is frail no
ºur writings have always a much greater object in view, doubt, even in the most exalted stations; and it is right
than anything personal, whether of praise or blame; and to be candid, extremely right to be candid; but for the
welook upon the following little item in a will, as suggest sake of example, such candour should be avoided.” So
ing reflections, that go a great way beyond those of mere saying, they take their several ways to their mistresse,
idleness and curiosity:- . - - their bottles, their bigºtries, their hypocrisies, their indi
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"Item,” says the Noble and Learned Judge, after gestions, their slaveries, their tyrannies, their peculations,
making proper meſition of his wife and his eldest son, and and their pluralities. . . . . . . . -

before he speaks of his other children, “Ifern, I give to Still we cannot but refresh ourselves with this little,
tºy dear natural daughter, Miss Elizabeth Thorntox, effusion of humanity on the part of the Noble Judge; not.
*900. with interest, fron my death, to the time of pay because we catch him napping, as the phrase is; for we
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ment.” might have told of such thing; before, on many occasions;

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neither have we any datural children of our own, to make are? The upshot is, that he thought vice and virtue, and
us set value on such an authority, if we thought it one; the judicial business to boot, to be what is called a hum;
but because, as we have already said, this is a proof of and this, with men of his general tendency, is the natural
some genuine feeling on the part of his Lordship; because, consequence of those eternal inconsistencies between prae
it is noble to see how a parents' love for a child, begotten tice and theory, which the predominance of false opinion
under an unequivocal impulse, becomes a finer thing at produces. With others, the dreary labour of false virtue
last, even with it's association of error, than all the ordiis substituted for the pleasant easiness of true;—despon
mary worldly notions of virtue; and because, if it was dency succeeds instead of hope;—then comes faith as a
right in the poet to say that -
substitute for practice;—and then, by an inevitable succes
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God made the country and man made the town, sion, comes every species of artificial and real guilt, fraud,
it is at least as certain that Nature made natural children, hypocrisy, and selfishness; and hopelessness, in some
while Law would have us imply that it makes then unna shape or other, ruins the world.
tural. Let us not be misunderstood. We do not mean But hope and practice are at last dawning together.
to say, that all the young gentlemen and ladies who may (+
read this paper, are to begin playing the Abelard and
Eloisa. We only mean, that a natural affection survives, MR. COBBETT DEFENDED.
let it have originated how it may; and that although cus I will have my bond.—SnakspeaRE.
tom may make an action vicious, and so very often pro MR. Fºx AMINER,-As your paper has been made the
duce real guilt out of artificial, it may also make artificial vehicle of a violent and combined attack, not on the poli
virtues and modes of prosperity, which are after all not tical principles, but on the moral character of Mr. Cobbett,
worth two-pence in the comparison. by the insertion of an address to the Electors of West
What is the deduction then It is this;–that society, minster, signed “A Reformer,” surely you are bound, in
ſairness and equity, to admit also a calm and disinterested
aye even by it's own confession, does not produce happi deſence of the person thus publicly criminated. Had the
ness, as it is now constituted; and that all movements of subject been one in which you are personally concerned,
natural affection ought to be watched, in order to see how as the Editor of a public journal, with Mr. Cobbett, also
far a reference to the elements of our being may improve in possession of similar means of communication, the con
it, and virtue be brought to make custom, not custom vir test ought, perhaps, to be left to yourselves, notwithstand
tue. Profligate persons will undoubtedly take advantage ing the serious inequality created between you by the great
distance of one party, and the presence, on the spot, of
of all changes in theory; but what infinite advantages do the other. But this is not the case; you are not personal
they not take already of things established, turning all the ly implicated; and the defence of the accused, till he can
bigoted forms of society into one mass of selfishness and speak for himself, ought to be conveyed to the world
unhappiness, and making virtue consist in the most ar through the channel of your highly interesting journal,
rant worldly-mindedness both here and hereafter If which the accuser has employed to publish his charge.
I am almost afraid, Sir, that you will deem it a reproach,
charity and not selfishness, that is to say, if a real and a tacit suspicion of your impartiality, and an ill compli
not a false notion of self-interest, and of the mutual reflec ment to your candour, thus to urge reasons to persuade
tion of general benevolence,—were to new-model the #. to a mere act of ordinary justice. Let this feeling,
forms of society, vice and not virtue would become the lowever, be decidedly repelled. There is no public jour
nalist to whom †. make this application with a confi
exception, because artificial guilt would be done away dence equal to that by which I am actuated in appealing to
with; and the old and absurd notions of the difficulty of
virtue vanish with the return of it's pleasantness. “If all your liberality. The motive which induces me to argue a
º clear applies to your readers, with whom it may
the world,” says Plato, “could see virtue in her own e desirable that you should stand fair, so to say, and
likeness, they would fall in love with it.” “Aye,” with whom I wish to stand fair myself.
say
those, who call, and make, this beautiful world a vale of It can not be justly objected that the defence of Mr.
tears, he meant our virtue, only you can't see it.”— Cobbett, now forwarded to you for publication, is anony
Why, truly, gentlemen, one's eyes are apt to be a little mous.it should
The charge was equally anonymous. , If, how
Alº
dim that way, and to mistake your charmer for a selfish ever, be still that the author of that charge
is known to you under his real name, which he may have
old harridan; but you will see your own mistake, if you furnished by private communication, I have removed that
will look in Plato himself.
To return to Lord Ellenborough.
plea by F." in possession also of my true designa
What is the de tion. This, at the same time, Sir, I must premise, that,
duction with regard to him 2 Is it this, -that he ought as I make no inquiry after the “Reformer's" appellation,
certainly not to have been a Judge, and that the contra you will leave me precisely, in the same state, holding in
diction between his official theories and his practice ac your own custody mine, which I will not have unneces
counts for his behaviour as one. Observe—he had a
sarily scattered * the people, and not until I have
reason to know that the same measure is meted out to the
natural child, loved her, and made particular mention of impugner of Mr. Cobbett, which, if I understand anything
her in his will. Now he must either have thought it wrong of the proper conduct of gentlemen, ought not to be with
or not wrong to have had such a child:—if he thought it out the consent of both parties.
wrong, he § not let the world into his opinion, and To justify, if justification be necessary, my own volun
nevertheless he undertook to be a judge over others:— tary services in favour of an absent person calumniated, I
iſ he thought it right, he must have repeatedly let it be sup might produce various general reasons, and even claim a
preference over the “Reformer,” in public estimation, on
posed that he thought otherwise:—and whether he thought the ground that to defend even the guilty, and much more
it right or wrong, what became of his example, seeing that the innocent, is a more generous and honourable function
the laws and opinions which he maintained are what they than to act the part of accuser of the innocent or guilty.
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THE EXAMINER,
But I prefer calling your attention to a passage of Hornce, to Major Cartwright,was such a tight thing for our forging
sufficiently ºić to the present case, to the accuser enemies, which is Mr. Cobbett's own expression, that the
and to the advocate, which is well worthy of the study of veil of obscurity was studiously thrown, over it... Be this,
a Christian age :-Absentem qui rodit amicum, says he, however, as it may, Sir Francis has not availed himself of
he who malignant tears an absent friend,-which I leave to Mr. Cobbett's call, by producing it as his justification for
be applied by those whom it describes. He adds, quinon divulging, and publishing a private correspondence; and
defendit alio culpante, or when attacked by others, dont that of which he has not availed himself shall not avail
defend,-which would apply, in a qualified sense, to your him. On which account, I shall treat the publication of
present correspondent, should he not attempt to parry the this private correspondence as the spontaneous act of the
thrust which has been made at the moral character of Mr. Baronet. - -

Cobbett in his absence. . . I say, in a qualified sense, for I 2. Had Sir Francis availed himself of this call, he had
have no friendship with Mr. &lº, having never seen no right to do so. Your readers should know what they
him on any occasion, which averment you will fully credit. probably have not heard, that these letters had been wide
Still friend Cobbett, when injured, must not be deserted. .ly divu !ged before Mr. Cobbett's call had made its appear
He is the friend of liberty ...? reform; he is, Sir, as I sin ance. That call, therefore, is a sorry pretext for the pub
cerely believe, “to virtue and her friends a friend,” al lication of a private correspondence, which publication
though he, like most others, is not incapable of error. He had preceded the call, if it were even true that publication
is my friend on higher ground than personal intimacy, for by printing was posterior to it. - -

he is the friend of man. After this, permit me to trans 3. It is not true that the most material part of this
cribe the whole passage of Horace, with Francis's transla private correspondence was divulged by printing subse
tion :- -
quently to the call in Cobbett's Register, If I am not
- Absentem qui rodit amicum, misinformed, Mr. Examiner, Sir Francis's answer to Mr.
Quinon defendit alio culpante; solutos Cobbett, an answer quite supererogatory, had been, previ
Qui captat risus hominum, formamque dicacis; ously to Mr. Cobbett's call, published in a Liverpool pa
Fingere quinon visa potest; commissa tacere
Qvinequit; hic niger est; hunc tu, Itomane, caveto. -
per, but whether with or without the other private, co
respondence, “this deponent sayeth, not.” This being
He, who malignant tears an absent friend, so, this must be considered as a prirate correspondence
Qr, when attacked by others, dont defend;. voluntarily divulged by Sir Francis Burdett.
Who trivial bursts of laughter strives to raise, 4. B sides, it must be very particularly observed by
And courts of Prating petulance the praise; the reader, that the call of Mr. Cobbett extended merely
Of things he never saw who tells his tale,
And friendship's secrets knows not to conceal : . to his letter, and a letter inclosed, addressed to Mr. Tipper
This man is vile; here, Roman, fix your mark; It does not appear that the Baronet's gratuitous answer
His soul is black, as his complexion's dark. -
has ever been sent to Mr. Cobbett. It was not received
To come at last to my more immediate subject:—To on the 10th of October last, according to the statement in
yards the conclusion of Mr. Cobbett's Letter X. to Major the Letter X. to Major Cartwright of that date. Indeed,
Çartwright, dated Oct. 10, 1818, he writes, "I hear a conditional liberty is given for its eventual publicatiºn
while yet unseen, and the condition is, that it should be
at there is an Unitarian Priest, at Liverpool, who is
tº: in telling what he has been shown (as he says) attended with the answer, and if publicity were right and
by hookes. . It is, he says, a letter from the Baronet to proper. And this is mentioned as the proper way, that
is, comparatively proper, preſerable to the disingenuous
º, in answer to one from ºne to him, touching a debt I owe
him. What a refined mode of spreading cahimny tº To mode adopted, of divulging clandestinely a ſ. cor
a man of common mind it would have occurred, that the respondence as a refined mode of spreading calumny. At
natural way. was to write to me, and send me the letter; the same time, Mr. Cobbett's real call on the Baronet to
and, if publicity trere right and proper, to publish my let." ublish, is not to publish this letter, which he had not seen,
ter along with the answer. But, to a maa of such ex |. to publish his letter to Sir Francis, and its enclosure, a
cessive purity, it occurred, that the best way was to write letter to Mr. Tipper. I therefore pronounce that the Ba
ºn answer, and to deposit it at the back-biting shop in the ronet has published a private cºrrespondence, as far as
Strand, to be read without the thing to which it pretended this letter is concerned, without legitimate authority.
to be an answer. Verily this is become a most foolish, as 5. I remark, with no ordinary emphasis, that the call of
well as a most mean and mahgnant man;—all which, if I Mr. Cobbett, whether more or less limited, was the effect
do not E." let me pass for the vile man that I declare of an injury previously cominiſted by the clandestine cir
him to be. In the meanwhile, I hereby call upon him to cºlntion of a part at least of this private correspondence.
publish my letter to him with its inclosure, which inclosure Every honourable man will pronounce that a call, under
is a copy of a letter from me to Mr. Tipper.” such circumstances, could warrant nothing of this kind.
This call of Mr. Cobbett appears to be the impulsewhich and least of all warrant an aggravation of the injury al
induced the publication of the letters contained in the ready done. A very different, conduct was required by
"Reformer's" address to the Electors of Westminster. . this call from a nan of the least elevation of sentime it, .
Now, of this call, Sir, the Baronet has no right what which I will state under a distinct head. -

ever to avail himself, as will be proved

reasons:- . .
by. the. . following 6. Sir Francis Burdett, instead of obeying the ºil
'o f Mr. Cobbett for a small reparation of a great in
t
1. The Baronet, or which is the same thin g, the “Re! [. ury, Qught to have done him, complete justice, by hum
fºrmer,” has not availed himself of it. To aſ the readers ling himself, before him, in deep contrition, and asking
of the Eraminer, who had not read Cobbett's Register of forgiveness for his 'offence already perpetrated. This the
the 20th December, the publication of these letters must Baronet has not done; and he does not appear to have
have appeared spontaneous on the part of Sir F. Burdett, mind of sufficient dignity to perform this most difficult,
What the feelings of honourable men must have been will h. the most essential duty of man to man, to repair
be easily guessed, when I come to $º. on the publica: an injury and make utonement for wrong. Sir Francis
tion itself of this private correspondemee. The reason wh Burdºttfastenly added to his former delinquency, by an
the call of Mr. Cobbett was not alleged is obvious; the accumulation of offence, in giving further extension to his
tenor of it was dreaded, and it was ſhöught most expe ungenerous conduct, and in decompanying it in a public
dient not to send the public to Cobbett's Register to form || rint with the criminatory observations of the “Re
n acquaintance with it. Indeed, the whoſe of Later x., f ner.” - - - - - * * -
 36. THE EXAMINER,
Fºr these reasons, I come now to comment on this saying much less than we had a right to expect from the
publication as a voluntary promulgation, on the part of honourable Baronet. At one time, he did not promise
the Baronet, of a private correspondence, on a subject ºf
the mo; delicate nature, a private obligation, as the tº Re
this. But a foul action is not to be glossed over, ont of
tenderness, to far greater merit. e cannot mince the
forºr" calls,pecuniary accommodation, on legal interest, matter. A base action is not to be pardoned because it
in this monied country. Before I go on, I will remark. trappens to be perpetrated by a person, whose fortune and
that it has been ever held, by honourable men, that the popularity, however, acquired, would, with respect to
moment an obligation, a real obligation, comes to be re. him, “cover a multitude of other sins.” Such a gross
Pºchéd, the vilgar word is, twitled, by the obliger, the outrage on gentleranly manners, and offence to the de
ºbligation is at once cancelled. This does no ºff to cencies and equities of society, are only aggravated by his
debt, but to obligation. Sir Francis, by the “fºrmer.” rank and by his estimation, with the public, and call for
having thus twitted Mr. Cobbert of obligation has com: exemplary and commensurate castigation. To introduce
pletely set him free as to obligation, whatever may be its and perpetuate svstems of despotism, they must necessarily
amount. This common maxim is funded on is instest be commenced, they must be sanctioned by, popular Mo
prºple, for the person obliged suffer in fieling, by the rarchs. In like manner, social intercourse, among the
twitting, more than all the obligation is worthº' and ſº, mi’dling or kºwer racks of society, who are the Baronet's
!nan is bound to repay both in person and in purse what support, cannot easilv be depraved but by the patronage
he has overpaid in person, ..". ready to pay fully in and example of generallvestimable characters, whose feel
puriºso far as purse is concerned. -
ing or whose foliº mov contribute to that depravation. Is
This being settled, I come to the letters. I am bound it to be endured, Sir, that Sir Francis Burdett should
to ondemn the publication of this private correspondence make such an inroad on the sanctitv ºf private conſidence 2
in the most unqualified terms. The reasons which f have But I an afraid to proceed, lest my feelings should give
stated prove it to be entirely voluntary on the Baroncºs an undue energy to my expressions; and I restrain my
Parº.ºnd a forced call on the part of Mr. Cobbert makes self, in pity to an erring friend of something like reform,
no difference, as the letters, or one of them, had been al and becanse no comme it can add colo ºr and effect ſo the
ready Published, and the partial and conditiºnaicaú was statement of the simple fact, that Sir Fancis Burlett's pri
merely in order...to obtain some reparation for an injury wate correspondence has, by himself been made public;
committed, while a very different" and more satisfactory that the letters of Mr. Cobbett, of private business with
reparation alone could be deemed sufficient. This prac two individuals, have made their appearance in your pub
ºice of divulging private Correspondence was begun at the lication, by his constrained and misinterpreted consent, as
Westminster Eiction. I do not allude to the ºnuni. the least of two evils.
cation. At that time, of this correspondence to the Unila But I must say something to the contents of the letters
ºfen. Priest, and probably to others: failude to the pro which you have been indecel to print as a part of the ad
‘uction: unprovoked, if anything can provoke so foul a dress of the “Reformer” to the electors of Westminster.
deed, of a private letter, as acknowledged, of a supposed
Drivate letter, of the same gentleman, at that election : of a
On reading these letters, thus divulged, a thought patu
rally suggests itself, that there must have been some cause
letter which all parties now know to be a forgery, though to induce Mr. Cobbett to write those to Mr. Tipper and to
it is still publicly shown. It is impossible to express the Sir Francis Burdett, on which the latter has so coldly aud
indignatio, which ought to be felt towards a cºnducts, severely animadverted. What was it that extorted from
**ically, so purely, so unmiredly base." In the prº him this declaration of his principles? Had he, in his exile,
sent case also, in an address to the Electors of west been harassed with demands ! If this was the fact, must
minster, there was not a shadow of justification, if in not a burst of indignation break from every generous
deºd any justifieation can be set up fºr a thing so essen heart? Was a confication of his property thrºatened?
tially mean and dishonourable. "The shuffling reason Probablv we must wait for the appearance of Mr. Wil
iyen, either for making public Mr. Cobbett’s letters to liam Cobbett's own account of this affair, for satisfaction.
Ir. Tipper, and Sir Francis Burden, or for attacking This fº, if it be one, is essential to a true estimate of the
more generally the character of Mr. Cobbett, viz. ... be: merit of this correspondence, so basely divulged. In the
*** * is most probable that he will attack Mr. Hob mean time, this suspicion, so naturally suggested, is cºr
house,” is, so shameful, that I would almost bºrn my roborated by Mr. Cobbett's words to Major Cartwright,
fingers for having transcribed it. It is unexampled in the Letter X. “I was hardly on ship-board,” says he, “as I
histºry of mºn claiming in society the rank or name of have since found (but which I did not find for months af
gº ºnen. Attack! Pray when?. On this subject ºrd, terwards), when he (Sir Francis) º to cause to be cir
**sary. Every generous feeling of every gene culated through all the newspapers, that the real cause of
º mind at once revolts at such a subterfuge to over my going away was my debts, and, in part my debts tº
malignity, which is too much honoured by applying to it him t I know this for fact; and, I promise the public, both
* epithet. . - .-- in America and in England, a fulſ and true account of the
! is impossible not to remark also on the publication of whole matter.” If this was one of the causes of Mr. Cob
the Baronet's answer to Mr. Cobbott, "i"j"it bett's expatriation, it would appear that he must have been
par
ticularly unjustifiable for the reasons already given and in danger of arrest or litigation; and is it unjust to sup
totally unjustified by the reason alleged, "bºnus, it is pose that, when he was safe from personal molestation, he
most likely that Mr. Colbeit will atº Mr. fishi.e., was pursued by no very gentle demands? If a true case
*.*.*.*.*hich I am in fairness allowed to apply to the has been assigned here for Mr. Cobbett's going away, this
º in your journal. Of the little man is the inſerence. If it be a fºlse one, the same inference
Mr. Hobhouse, I do not know much ºf can only º: equally follows, tºgether with another which is left to the
Press my sorrow that Westminster could find no letter reader to deduce. ".
ºnesºtative. Prúdence might have caution d the “R. There may be some difference of opinion respecting the
former" not to thrºw him dºwn to Mr. Cobber, by an soundness of the moral axiom advanced by Mr. Cobbett,
on his duty concerning the payment of his debts; in the ºx
-
unnecessary intermixture with the Barone, as amouse to, traordinary circumstances of his case. I might possibly
griºikº, to be devoured at a meal. --- indiced to take the
We are dispºsed to pass over a, thousand errors and subject
--- disagreeinto
withminute
him consideration.
myself, if I could Yet, I could not per
mistakes in Sir Francis Bur
half fiend, a qualified friend,it, because he which
is at least,
is saya
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of the people, mit myself roundly to condemn the principle, as demon

ing something of a man in these corrºp times, though it is strably false on º blush; much less could I set down
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Mr. Cobbett as unprincipled and prºfigate for drawing a my bord, I shall consider your principles ridiculous and
different conclusion from mine, on a subject of no common your conduct detestable. . } could not help your aggra
diſficulty. I should be long in pronouncing that it is a vated misfortunes; your family is nothing to me; give me
duty, in all case-, to pay the nominal amount of debt; such, my bond.” -

for instance, as that contracted at his period of unprece This leads me to consider briefly the Baronet's letter to
dented dºpreciation of what is called money; its nominal ac Mr. Wm. Cobbett. Fvery man, who allows himself a
count cannot. i. eqity, be demanded at that future period, moment to examine this document, so disingenuously di
so probable, when the Bank of England shall have met its vulged, must observe the cool begging of the question uni
fate, and movey shall have acquired three or four times its formly running through this very carefully written epistle;
present value. *ś. such a neriod. the fulfilment of contracts and indeed the deliberate misstatement of the gist of the
wºuld be equally impossible and unjust. Legal enact subject. , Sir Francis takes it for granted that Mr. Wm.
interst ºvatitu ome necessary, that contracts should be: Cobbett's principle is utterly groundless. and even pro
formed and debts discharged by payments equivalent to ſligate and detestable, either without adverting once to
ºf gasements, and not equal in arithmetical amount. circumstances, or by denying their admissibility. He
Mr. Cobrett's case may not be so strong and unequivocal assumes also, that his debtor means to act upon that
as this now stated; yet it is strong, very strong, and can principle, contrary to his express declaration. As this de
not be dismissed, at ºnce, as incapable of all rational sup claration rendered the whole of the Baronet's unfeeling
. It is not to be set down by a taunt; nay, the comment irrelevant, that comment, and especially its se
* reast that has any sense of humanity must contemplate it verity, must be assigned to a frightful malignity, prº
with sincere commisgration. Dark, indeed, must be the bably excited by the unmerciful castigation of Sir Francis's
heart of that man who should treat it with rudeness and political eonduct inflicted by the publications of his ad
scorn. If Air. Cobbett errs, there is no need for seeking ºversary. The Baronet's postulates can not be granted
the cause of his error in dishonesty of design. The pres: him till he has shewn the fallacy, in the circumstances, of
sure of difficulty, and just indignation against enormous the principle he ridicules, and the profligacy of the design,
injury, operating on a mind incanable of feeling slightly which Mr. Cobbett so expressly disavows. It was very
on any subject, are sufficient to account for the false § easy to charge on his castigatºr the influence of self-love.
if it be false, in which Mr. Cobbett has viewed the sulject. It is not equally easy to obtain emancipation from its
But it is quite unnecessary to dwell upon a hypotherical thraldom. If we wanted proof of this, and an example
principle, on which the assertor of it avows he has no de of the Baronet's vulgar proverb, that “Nature is her own
sign to act. Mr. Cobbett says, “I eagerly waive all claim Bawd,” the letter in discussion would suffice. Here self
to this principle, and I shall neglect no means within my love and self-interest are in full authority, notwithstanding
pºwer inly to pay and satisfy every demand, as far as that the easy permission of “do as you please.” “Pay me my
can be doñe consistently with that 3. which calls on me bond, whatever you and yours may suffer, or let it alone;
to takesare that my family have the means of fairly exert do as yºu please; but if you do not, by hook and by
ing their industry, and ºf leading that sort of life to which crook, I know what I i think of you; your conduct
they have a just claim.” That is, “I have two duties to will be detestable.” If Mr. Cobbett's maxims of con
perform; if I can, I will perform both; if I cannot, I will duct are reprehensible, this unfeeling demand of the ut
perfºrm jhat which appears to me of more absolute obliga termost farthing, far what is it else? is, in such a case,
tion.” The judgment formed by Mr. Cobbett on the far more reprehensible, not to say detestable. Mr. Cob-.
comparative obligation of the two duties may be disap bett's error, when his spirit was sick and his heart was
proved. Yet every man, who owes money, forms a si sore, when he was probably goaded and harassed by the
imilar judgment and constantly acts on it, even in ordinary demands of a rigorous creditor, might have excited sym
circuinstances, with universal consent and approbation. No pathy; it never could have merited this cold reprobation.
man has ever been required not to feed and clothe his chil Talk of justice! Is justice all, and feeling nothing? They
dren or to set them out in life, because he has contracted may be, in a money-loving age and in a money-loving
§ebts or till they are discharged. No man, on going into country. But give me no such moralists. Sr, if I saw a
business with borrowed capital, is called upon neither to: fellow-creature ready to perish, and wºre going to pay
º, fed ºr clothed himself, till he has replaced that capital. may creditors the last shilling I could expect ever to pos:
The only difference is, that Mr. Cobbett fairly states this sess, I would give that shilling to the gasping vagrant, and
as a rule of liis conduct, forced on him, mind, by the op let justice assert its own rights.
pression of a profiigate administration, unchecked by i. #. I must protest against forming an estimate of
country that owes prºtection to him and his property, character from confidential communications, divulged to
which has been diminished by that oppression; while other serve no very honourable turn ; or from hypothetical posi
men act upon the same principle, without avowal, but tions advanced by vanity and bravado, or wrung from
with the universal cousent ºf men in all ages and countries. vexation and resentment. No human being possesses a
Perhaps, indeed, the latitude of discretion which Mr. Cob. set of principles none of which admit of demur, and few
bett seeins to claim may be denied him. For this denial act on maxims which, in a moment of irritation, they may
there is little reason, because the same latitude, whether possibly advance. ” It is of little eonsequence which of
claimed or not, is granted to and taken by every person these combatants is more correct in the principles they ad
who is not tree from debts. Bewices, Mr. Cobbett has a vocate. Without much dauger of mistake, we may set
#.” ground of demand on the public to give him credit
at he will use the latitude he asserts with discretion and
both down as not invulnerable in all their data, or irrepre
hensible in all their acts. Let them both, or only one of .
§. What reason is there for thinking otherwise? them, be erroneous; we are sure that neither would heed:
urely, the minute statements which he has given of his lessly trangress, or expose himself, wantonly, to universal
prospects, arising from literary productions, are a proof of animadversion. -

the tinost anxiety to perform his engagements. Sir F. On these letters the “Reſormer" has made some stric
Burdett and he are at issue on the whoſe point. The lat tures, not in the spirit of a judge but of a partizan, whose
ter says, “I will pay you; I will neglect no means to value it is not diſficult to estimate. We may dismiss his
enable me to do so; but I will not starve my children; I introductory disquisition with little comment. By way
will not, circumstanced as I am, utterly demolish them, of masking his real purpose, he drags in Sir Murray Max
and cause them also to feel the last efforts of that oppres well, who has a gentle rebuke or two, and Mr. Hobhouse;
sion by which I am nearly overwhelmed.” The former But, soon forgetting that he was addressing the Electors of
terlies, “You may do as you please; but, if I have not Westminster, with whom these personages have something
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to do, he comes to his real object, to Mr. Cobbett, as it bett is, that he has accused Sir Francis Burdett of having
were reluctantly and by stealth, with whom the said elec got connected with the Whigs. Indeed! Did not Mr.
toral gentlemen have, at this time, no concern. . And, Hobhouse; at Pimlico, make the same accusation.?, but it.
having got hold of his prey, how he does belabor him : was no accusation from him. - Did he not avow that this:
how he repeats the vulgar slang of the Times touching and connection actually exists? Does not the party of the Ba
concerning Mr. Cobbett's various political changes! These ronet begin to call for union, on the ground that the dif
changes were not complained of while he continued to ad ference is trifling between Reformers of every class? Are
mire the Baronet, and rested at his half-way-house.— they not earnestly called upon to forget minor disagree
Change, then, only shewed his good sense, his openness to ments, and join the great cause of Reform, mark me !
conviction, his readiness to avow it. Could not this These minor disagreements consist in this trifle; whether,
mouth-piece of Sir Francis see that the very thing which by a certain ertension of suffrage, the whole people, the
he charges as a crime is, in truth, a virtue, a high honour, general population, shall be put out of the pale of the Con
of which every honest man ought to be proud! Indeed, stitution, left without hope, and thrown by, as a rag of no
the progress of Mr. Cobbett is a phenomenon that should value; or whether, by universal †. the º:of
excite universal admiration. He has proceeded, step by England shall have their Rights. Hear this, O ye People.
step, as light broke in upon a vigorous intellect without Sir Francis is no longer the Advocate of the People.
early cultivation. He has stopped no where but where he The “Reformer,” on ushering in these private letters,
thought he saw the truth. When he discovered his error, has this most sagacious observation: “One main cause of
he avowed it, without regard to the fool's idol—Con this excessive bitterness (that of Mr. Cobbett) will be seen
sistency. He halted not, however, by the way, till he has from the following correspondence: nor is the effect. pro
at last arrived at Radical Reform. There he has now duced by the severe truths in Sir Francis's letter at all sur
taken up his quarters, probably not long to abide. It is prising, when it is considered how little Mr. Cobbett is
not too much to expect that he will take up his staff, at capable of bearing contradiction.” At the end of the Let
no distant period, and walk on till he shall' arrive at Re ters, the “Reformer” taketh up his pen again, and, like a
publicanism, at Liberty, and Equality. Is this a crime? giant refreshed, sayeth, “ This was too much for Mr.
Q, yes, it is a crime against Sir Francis and his reformers. Cobbett, and he seems (aye, he seems) “to have imme
e it so. Vive Cobbett, quand ineme! diately gone to work to revenge himself.” This supposes
Egotism and vanity are also laid to Mr. Cobbett's all things past, present, and to come. Let the date of the
charge, and to support this accusation, the “Reformer,” Baronet's letter be inspected; the 31st of January, 1818.
or rather the Baronet, has deviated from fidelity in the Mr. Cokbett must have gone to work immediately indeed;
very printing of the privatecorrespondence, ushered through for he went to work in the spring of 1817. Then look at
your paper"to the world. You who well know the effect the date of his Letter X to the Major, the 10th of October
ºf Ilºids, immediately perceive this disingenuousness. . If last. This was his last attack on Sir Francis. Of Sir
Mr. Cobbett's call had justified publicatiºn, which it had Francis's letter, Mr. Cobbett at that time, Oct. 10, 1818,
º, ſhe call could not justify sich a mode of publication. knew nothing, except circuitously, through the Unitarium
Well, suppose we concede vanity. What then? Shew Priest, who spoke of it at Liverpool. The Unitarian Priest
me the men who has more reason to be vain. He is an was in London during the Westminster election in June
Archimedes, and he is more, for he does move the earth. or July last, when Mr. Brooks kindly submitted to him
But no. The “Reſoriner” has discovered that Mr. the epistle in question, committed for good purposes to his
Cºbbºlt pºssesses no such power: his writings have no custodv. It it was not received so late as J.
10th of Oc
effect!. The precious addresser of the Electºrs was be tober, 1818, how comes it to be dated Jan. 31, 1818 7
ginning to be alarmed, and grew anxious to soo!he the Was it composed for exhibition at Westminster, and ante
wrath of the mighty man whom he had ventured to in dated to throw suspicion off its guard | Has it ever been
Jure. He recollected his talents, and took up a handful of dispatched H.’s if ever been received 2. But to return to
incense to burn to them. They were a little compli the “Reformer.” One knows not which most to wonder,
mented, awkwardly, indeed, as fear had produced a disa ar, the folly of this advocate of the Baronet, or the Ba
greeable debility, of his nerves. But then, fright being ronet's own in suffering hin thus to expose him. The Ba
somewhat abated, he took courage again: he eat his ronet has something more to answer for. His advocate
words, he unsaid what he had been saying, and, by per from inere stupidity might thus ascribe an effect to a cause
ºverance, grew intº a belief of his own present words, that could not exist. He sees nºt through a millstone any
Talents' Fudge, they have no effect I They are misap more than another. But the Baronet's severe truths could
plied. Alas! it is not because they are inefficient they not, without being in the possession of Mr. Cobbett, have
are at ong time awkwardly complimented, and then, on been the caise of his bitterness, excessive or not excessive.
second though's, depreciated. They are too effectual for This the “Reformer” overlooked from folly. Sir Francis,
the comfort of Sir F. Burdett and his reformers. Hino however, knew well the true state of the case, and must
illt lacryinae. Hence arises this whole attack. The strong bave relied on the escape of the remark from detection, at
*rin, the long, arm, reaching, across the Atlantic, from least till it had produced its effect. He may have reinem
America to Westimuster, was felt at the last election, and bered the saying of a cunning Queen' of France, that a
nearly polled Sir Francis to the ground. Its touch para lie, undetected for three weeks, has the same effect as truth."
lized the population, and sad experience demonstrated that Short sighted man He has been disappointed, if he ex
it was an effort, a Herculean effort, after the other candi pected that detection would be quite so tardy. The “Re
dates on that side had withdrawn except Mr. Hunt, to re former” proceeds: “ he first commenced by accusing Sir
turn Sir Francis for that city of which he had been so Francis of having got connected with the Whigs, &c.”
often pronounced the Pride." The union of the Electors Such gross folly needs not to be further exposed by stating
in the interest of Major Cartwright, whom the ſriends of that Mr. Cobbett first commenced, to use the “ Refor
Sir Fraacis had so recently, and so obstinately opposed, tner's" elegant diction, to attack the Baronet in the spring
was searcely able to accomplish his success as second on of 1817, soon after his arrival in America, nearly a year be
the poll. Be assured that another attempt of the same kind fore this epistle had issued from Sir Francis's head ºr heart,
will never be made; nor, indeed, is it likely to be wanted; if the date be not falsified, and more than a year, if it was
for Sir Francis's zeal for the people, no doubt, cannot fail, manuſactured for the benefit of his election. He mert com
before that time, to be stimulated and rewarded by the pro menced and recominenced, occasionally, the same attack,
mise or the grant of A Peerage. * * * * till the 10th of Qctober, the date of his last onset, at which
* Hººd almost forgotten
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that one charge against
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Mr.
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Cob
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time the episºe, containing the sever, tryths, which was too
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wuch for Mr. Cobbett, had not been sent probably, and cer
tainlv not received.
Allow me to observe, before I conclude this letter to
ou, already too long, that disingenuous conduct seldom
is to confound, and cover with shame, those by whom
it is adopted. Indeed, its detection and exposure may
sometimes be slow, but the consequence is generally more rity known to the constitution, for its revision.
was he not entitled to the privileges of that character? If so,
did he become properly the subject of trial by a Court-martial?
“We are under the impression,
that the offences of both these
individuals were such as it would have been better uot to have
committed to the judgment of a military tribunal; but having
been so committed, that it would have been expedient to have
submitted the sentence, before execution, to the highest autho
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overwhelming when it arrives. º this a forged letter, “On the principle of retaliation, recognized by all nations,
produced on several occasions in Westminster, comes in these persons, we conceive, might have been lawſully put to
death. They had identified themselves with the Indians; and,
proof, the principals and accessaries in which forgery can no though claiming
longer, without shame, look at the face of an honest man, them elves to bethemselves to be British subjects, did not prove
such, and were, according to our doctrine on
or at any face but that of one another. Of this also, the the subject of allegiance, actually expatriated. The military
publication of this private correspondence comes in proof, practices of the lindians, contrary to the laws of war, the Com.
the exposure of which has not lingered so long. . . And, manding General had a clear right to retaliate. He did so in the
finally, it may not be inexpedient to put persons in this case of the Indian Chief Francis Hornathlemee, and he might
predicament in mind, that, to sustain a bad cause, no ordi have done so in the case of Arbuthnot and Aunbrister. In being
mary advocate should be employed, or bad will become brought to the bar of a Court-martial, however, did they not be
worse; as the cause of Sir Francis Burdett has experienced come subject to the operations of our laws applicable to their
in the hands of his “Reformer.” No PARTISAN. case? And is there any law on our statute-book which cm
braces it?
Jan. 6, 1819.
“The whole subject is full of difficulty. .

“In regard to the decision of the General with respect to the

sentence on Ambrister, which appears to have attracted much
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. notice, it is proper to observe, it was no doubt dictated by a re
FRANCE.
gard to the wishes of the prisoner, who preferred death to the
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ignominious punishment for which that fate was commuted by

PARIs, JAN. 11.-M. Juge, editor of “French Letters the Court. Whether this was a sufficient justification of the de
to the Champ d’Asile,” was arrested on the 9th instant, cision, we shall not undertake to pronounce.” *

and conducted to La Force prison, by virtue of a warrant *

from the Juge d’Instruction.

UNITED PAR LIAMENT,
AMERICA—UNITED STATES. . House of Lords.
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(From the National Intelligencer.) Thursday, Jan. 14. -

AEBUTRXor Axn AMBRIsrer.—“When we first heard of the OPENING OF PARLIAMEMT-AND CHOICE OF

execution of the sentence of death on these miserable men, we SPEAKERS. *

suggested the propriety of suspending our opinions on this sub This being the day fixed for the meeting of the new Parlia.
ject, until the facts should be officially before us. We have laid ment, a considerable number of Peers were assembled by two
them before our readers, and given time to make up their o'clock. - -

opinions, before we obtruded upon them any suggestions of ours The Earl of Liverpool informed their Lordships, that a Com
on this subject. - - -

mission had been issued under the Great Seal, appointing the
“An attentive perusal of the documents, and considerable Lord Chief Baron, Sir Richard Richards, to sit and officiate in
reflection on the subject, have confirmed the opinion we ex that House instead of the Lord Chancellor, to supply his Lord
pressed some months ago, that the case of these persons neither
ship's place ou all occasions when he may be absent.--The Com
required nor permitted the intervention of the British or any mission was read by the clerk.-The Earl them moved, that Sir
other foreign Government. It is then a question entirely between Richard Richards, Knight, the Lord Chief Baron, do take his seat
ourselves—between the officers of Goverument and the people. on the woolsack, and that the mace be borne before him as be
“We wish we could say with equal confidence, that we en fore the Lord Chancellor.--The motion being agreed to, the
tirely approve of the proceedings of the Court by which these Lord Chief Baron took his seat. -

men were éondemned. We mean not to palliate their offence, The Lord Chief B.Anon then stated, that he was directed to
but to express our doubts whether their punishment was properly acquaint the House," that the Regent had issued Letters Patent,
administered. We express our thoughts on this subject with appointing certain Lords to act as Commissioners for ºpenſing the
much diffidence. Being ignorant of the law martial, we are present Parliament: . Their Lordships would soon be ready to
guided to our decision by established principles of national and take their seats, and in the mean time he should propose that the
of civil law, applicable, we presume, to all criminal trials, by House adjourn during pleasure. . . - * * * * -

whatever court, in our country. After a short adjournment, the House was resumed, and the
“Arbuthnot merited ºnent, doubtless, for his officious Lords Commissieuers entered and took their seats. They were
intermeddling with the łº. and for having, under pretence the Earl of Harrowby, the Dúke of Wellington, the Éarl of
of trading with them, and counselling them to assert their rights, Liverpool, the Earl of Westmorland, and the Earl of Shaftesbury.
excited them to hostilities against us. It is another question, The Earl of HARRoway directed Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, Gentº
whether his offence was a military one, or properly cognizable man Usher of the Black Rod, to inform the House of Commons,
by a military tribunal. It is at least certain, that this person was that the Lords Commissioners had taken their seats, and desired?
completely in our power, and that there was no danger of his the attendance of the Members of that House at the bar. .
escape, or of his effecting any thing, while in confinement, In a few minutes the Black Rod returned, and was followed to
prejudicial to the operations of the army. To have held him in the bar by a number ef Members, at the head of whom were Mr.
confinement, therefore, subject to the directions of a higher Dyson and other clerks of that House. - -

authority, it appears to us, would have been, iſ an error at all, "The Earl of HARuowby said, that as it was riot convenient for
an error on the safe side of the question, -
the Prince Regent to attend, Letters Patent had been issued,
“With respect to the evidence before the Court in this case, commanding them to open the Parliament in the usual forms.
our respect for the character of the officers coungosing it, obliges … The Commission was read by the clerk; after which
us, littie conversant as we have professed to be (and may we The Earl of HArnoway said, that the Commissioners had it in
long be!) with military law, to presume it was such as the law command from the Prince Regent, to make known to their Lord
admits. And this is º: shall say of it. , * - ships and the Gentlemen of the House of Commons, that as soow,
“In the case of Ambrister, the evidence is conclusive enough. as a sufficient number of the Members should be sworu, the
He was found in arms against the United States, and pleaded causes of calling the present Parliament would be declared ta.
silty to the charge of leading the Lower Creeks to battle. He them, * - - * .. .
identified himself with the enemy, and subjected himself to their The Commons retired from the bar. - - .

fate. But when taken, did he not become a Frisoner tº war, and The Lords present then proceeded to tak 11 (usual oaths,
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which cecupied the time of the House until four o'clock.-Ad mitted to express to the House the deep sense of gratitade I feel
journed. - for this most distinguished mark of its confidence. I implore of
Friday, Jan. 15. the House its eonstant aud steady support, in enabling me to
At two o'clock the Lords Commissioners took their seats. muiutain strict attention to its established rules and orders.
The Earl of HARRowby ordered the Gentleman-Usher of the which are not more essential to the convenient despatch of busi
Black Rod to summon the Commons. ness, that they are to the dignity and independence of the House
I have now only further to submit to the House, that the
itself.
Soon after Mr. MANNERs Surrow came to the bar, attended by
a number of Members of the House of Commons. He stated, that first and only proceeding we can now enter upon, is taking the
his viajesty's faithful Cºmmons had proceeded to choose a . oaths of supremacy and allegiance, making and subscribing the
Speaker; and that the choice had fallen on him. He was well declaratiºn, and further taking the oath of abjuration.
aware of the diſficulties of this important office, and could not but The SPEARER then took the usual natus, and the Clerk pro
feel that he was deficient in the necessary qualifications for dis ceeded to read over the names of the several counties. Othe
cuarging its duties: and he was perfectly satisfied, that if it Member appeared from Bedfordshire, two from Berkshire, one
should please the Prince Regent to disapprove of the choice, ſron Cambridgeshire, and more than 30 from Cornwall-(Bo
it would afford an opportunity for the selection of a per roughinongering Cornwall). This disproportion excited some
son who might fill the office with more ability than he could taughter. -

hope to do. - * - - - A number of Members then took the oaths in the ordinary
The Earl of HAnnowby said, the Commissioners had it in forms.-Adjourned. - -

command from the Prince Regent to declare, that he was well

convinced of his (Mr. M. Sutton's) ability to discharge the im TUESDAY'S LONDON GA2 LTTE.
portant office of Speaker of ti - House of Commons ; that his -

Royal Highness, acting in the name and on the behalf of his -.

Majesty, did approve of the choice made by the Commons, and BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEIDED.
that they (the Commissioners) had it therefore in command to M. Ohren, jun., Broad-street, Ratcliffe, oilman. - -

confirm the election. -

bank RUPTs.
- - -

'The SPEAxER thcm stated, ti:at in the name of the Commons L., Ingram, Cheapside, hatter. Attorney, Mr. Birkett, Cloak
of Great Britain and 1 reland, he claimed, by humble petition, a lane.
full and ample confirmation ºf all their ancient rights and pri J. Jacob, Gravel-lane, Houndsditch, tobacconist. Attorney, Mr.
vileges. especially freedom of debate, freedom from arrest, and Norton, Minories.
from all personal molestation of themselves and their servants; T. Phillips, Bread-street-hill, merchant. Attorney, Mr. Clarke,
free access to the Throne on all just, necessary, and proper occa Bishopsgate-street-without.
sions; and that the most favourable construction might be put J. Venus, Lower Shadwell, vintner. Attornies, Messrs. Robin
upon all their proceedings. *. - -
son and Burrows, Austinfriars.
The Earl of HARRowev replied, that the Lords Commissioners J. Atkinson, Dalston, Cumberland, cotton-manufacturer. Attor
had it in cºmmand from the Prince Regent to declare, that he ney, Mr. Birkett, Cloak-lane.
grants and couñrms to his Majesty's faithful Commons, all the W. Everett, Cambridge, corn-merchant. Attorney, Mr. Croſt,
rights and privileges which they have enjoyed during his Ma Chancery-lane. - -

jesty's reign, or any of his predecessors, and that the most favour. M. Paterson, Halifax, Yorkshire, dyer. Attormies, Messrs.
able construction would be put on all their proceedings. Morton and Williamson, Gray’s-inn-square. -

- The Speaker then withdrew.—Adjourned till Monday, J. Kendrick, Bellington-mills, Worcestershire, miller. Atter
--- nies, Messrs, Lodington and Hall, Temple. -

- HOUSE of commons. R. Friday, jun., Isleworth, Middlesex, barge-master. Attornies,

Messrs. Noy and Hardstone, Mincing-laue.
--- . J. Blackborn, Witham, Essex, cornſactor. Attorney, Mr. Car
Thursday, Jan. 14. ter, Staple-inn, Holborn. . -

This House met at halfrast two o'clock. There were about

120 Members present. The four City Members attended in their SUPPLEMENT.
municipal robes, and took their seats in succession on the Trea
sury Bench. -
On Thursday was published a Supplement to the London
-

A Message was announced, summoning the House to the Gazette of the 12th instant, containing extracts of despatches from
Lords, to hear the Commission read. On their return, Mr. Lord Hastings, with others from subordinate officers. Each of
Peel addressed the House, ºn a speech of some length, in which the three Presidences, holding direct communication with the
he expatiated upon the importance of the duty for which they East India Hopse, and all being frequently anticipated by private
had met, and after an eulogium upon the public and private con letters, the same intelligence is, thus repeated from several dis
duct of the late Speaker, he moved, that Mr. Manners Sutton tinct sources, though under nearly similar forms. In the extract
should be elected to the Chair. - from the despatches of the Marquis of Hastings, Sir John Mal
-

The late Speaker was then called by acclamation to the Chair. colml receives the highest credit for the skill and ability and sub
On taking his place, supported by the Mover and Seconder, he sequent moderation of his conduct towards Bajee Row. The
addressed a speech to the House, expressing his feelings of gra troops remaining with this Chiefſain were, on the route towards
titude for the proud distinction with which they had honoured Gwalior, so entirely surrounded, that advance and retreat were
him. - - equally impossible : resistance to the combined force of Sir J.
Mr. CANNING congratulated the House upon the choice the Malcolm and General Doveton was an expedient no less des
had made. He spºke of the mild, able, and firm manner in ... perate than the effort to e-cape; so that the Ex-Peishwa had no
the Speaker had formerly exercised his right of controul and au alternative but that of unqualified submission ; and the terms
thority to protect their privileges, and concluded by moving an imposed upon him were, that he should reside in the city of
adjournment.-Adjourned. Benares as a private individual, with an income suited to a per
son of high birth, but without any other pretensions. The re
- Friday, Jan. I5. ports, from Colonel M’Dowell respect the siege of Mulligaum,
Mr. MANNERs Surros.-" I have to acquaint the House, that and the ultimate surrender of that fortress: the admiration ex
this House has been to the House of Peers, where the Lords have cited by the bravery of our troops is checkered with deep regret
declared the Prince Regent's approval and confirmation of the for the loss of so many valuable lives, as were sacrificed in the
election by this House of me as Speaker, and that I did there course of that service. The capture of the fort of Moolheir ter
upon lay claim, by humble petition, to all its ai, ient un minated the war in the dominions ºf the conquered Pºishwa.
doubted rights and privileges; more especially freedom of dis The Gazette concludes with an account of a successful actiºn, on
cussion and debate, freedom for the Members, their servants and the part of Brigadier-General Hardyman, at the head of the 17th
estates, frºm arrestº and molestation; free access to the Royal British infantry and the 8th regiment of native horse, against a
#. at all times when necessary 5 and that the most fa numerous body of the Nagpore Rajah's troops, in the vicinity of
urable construction should be put upon their proceedings; all Jubbulpore. After a short conflict, the enemy were beaten with
ºf which were granted and allowed in as ſall and ample a man considerable slaughter, and all the guns in their possession tºken.
her as they have been granted and allowed by his Majesty or The immediate occupation of Jubbulpore, together with its iteres
any of his Royal, predecessors, I may be now once more per
ºld caumon, was the consequence, -
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SATURDAY's LoNDON GAzette. Extract of a letter from Ceylon, of the 18th August
-tº ast :-" The unfortunate war in the Candian country is
BANKRUPTS. further than ever from a termination. Amongst the num
W. Flint, Giºi Bajicy, printer. Attornies, Messrs. Amory and ber of officers who have already died of the ſever are Capt.
Coles, Lºthburv.
Jones, Capt. LANgton, Dr. Hoper, Capt. Gray, Lieut.
J. C. Jennwn-, Caitrerine-street, Strand, dealer. Attornry, Mr. CRutwell, and Lieut. "I’Avlon, and many others; I dare
CºmmerRºrd, Coixth all-court, Throgmerton-strect. -

T. Yung, Paddington-street, St. Mary-le-bonue, grocer. At
torney; Mr. Shuter, Milibank-street, Weslminster,
H. Hayward, Great Portland-street, paper-hanger. Attorney,
Mr. Aycher, Sºuthampton-street, Bloomsbury-square.
J.H. witson, inn. Upper B-rrave-place, Pimlico, picture-dealer.
Attorney, Mr. Newcombe, Vine-street, Piccadilly.
W. Lumley, Jermyn-street, St. James's, wine-merchant. Attor
nev. Mr. bº. London-street, Fenchurch-street.
D. Gºrdiner. Chiswell-street, Finsbury-square, latter, Attor
ney, Mr. Clabon. Mark-lane.
W. Daniels, inn. Bi-hop-Stortford, Hertfordshire, malt-factor.
Attorney, Mr. Makinson, Elm-court, Temple. '
R. Cassels, St. Swithin's-lane, merchant. Attorney, Mr. Poole,
Adam's-coºrt. Cºld Proad-street. -
not venture to say how many more. Poor Mrs. GRAY,
Mrs. Jos Es, Mrs. TAylor, Mrs. CRUTwril, and Mrs.
GreeN, are widows; some of them with large families.
People say that military men of considerable experience
have declared that it will require 60,000 men to hold the
Candian country under the present system ; there are even
at present 20,000 men, including the sepoys of the Com
pany, and their coolies, &e., in the country.—The sick
ness has been, and is, melancholy; upwards, of 1,000
men are in hospitals; and the expense, including the re
-
inforcements that are expected from Bengal...is aſ most as
great as that of the English force in France.”

“We observe (says the Courier) by Sir Murray Max

E. Lush, Sherbourne, Dorsetshire, linen-draper. Attornies, well's advertisement, that he feels himself compelled to
Me-srs. King and Lukin, Gray’s-inn-square. decline offering himself as a Candidate for Westminster,
J. Davey, Fool-ham, Norfolk, ironmonger. Attornies, Messrs. because “those conditions have not been fulfilled in the
Tilson and Pre-ton, Coleman-street.
J. Power and R. Warwick, Finsbury-square, merchants. Attor degree which would hold out a reasonable prospect of suc
ney, Mr. Warne, Change-Alley. - cess.” The gallant Officer's private fortune does not jus
J. Cherchit!, Stanhope-street, Clare-Market, common-brewer. tify him in incurring the expense of a contest—And those
At:ot nev. Mr. Brown, London-Cºmmercial-Sale-Rooms. who pretend to wish to see Westminster rescued from the
3. J. Pidding, Hieh-Holborn, stock-broker. Attorney, Mr. Guy, little junto that kept it in thraldom decline giving anything ,
Howard-street, Strand.
S. Parsons, Hanover-street, Long Acre, coach-rilater and founder, more than their wishes–Silly short-sighted persons! They
Attornies, Messrs. Robins and Hill, Serjeant's Inn. “ would have all the benefits and blessings of the Constitu.
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w; Morgan, Bristol, victualler. Attorney, Mr. King, Serjeant's tion, but not a pound' will they subscribe in defence of
with. -
them—This is an omission which the revolutionists will.
chuckle to crow over—And indeed they have some rea
Price of stocks on satuan ar. son. Shall opposition to the Government and disaffection to
$ Wet Cent. Wed......... ..... 78.44 3 per Cent. Cons......... 773 78). the State be avowed, and pecuniary assistance be furnished?
Shall blasphemy and sedition be thriving occupations, but
love ſor the Constitution be a virtue that is to be its own
THE EXAMIN E R. reward? This lukewarmness is base, hateful and disgust
ing. But we trust it is yet time to rouse, a feeling that
shall rescue the capital from its threatened degradation.—
Low now, JANuary 17.
*— There is plenty of time if the hand and the heart be active.
Shall the capital exhibit to the rest of England an example
Then E is little news this week from abroad. An air was of criminal indifference? Whilst lesser cities and even
wished to be given to the sudden death of the young towns have shewn their attachment to the Constitution, is
Queen of Spais, as if it was not unknown, though not Westminster to manifest an utter carelessness and dere
common, in cases of child-bed. But it remains to be liction of it?—“Who is not for me is against me,” the
known whether child-bed really had any thing to do with Constitution may well exclaim—who will not bestir him
self in behalf of it, must care little or nothing whether it
it. The death was confessedly most sudden and unex stand or fall. And this will deservedly be said of the
pected; and it has since transpired, that on the same day capital, if it remain in its present state of supineness and
her Majesty was walking about at Court, and mirgling apathy.”—Poor Courier | Poor Sir Murray! . .
with others as usual. The advices which bring this ac WARD v. CLEMENt.—A verdict was obtained yester
count conclude with saying, “And nowadieu to all par day for the plaintiff, with 600ls. damages, for a political
dons and amnesties?” We are much mistaken, however, libel, in the Observer, on Mr. WARD, who was one of the
if the pardons and amnesties will not be needed on a very sufferers under the Suspension Act, and had been grossly
different side. The “banditti,” as they are called, in used by the Magistrates in the country.—Mr. WARD is re
presented as a man of good character, possessing great
crease every day, and with them the Creature's beat firmness. The friends of liberty, we are informed, mean
ing at heart, and apparently the savage stupidity of to give him a dinner on Tuesday next, to commemorate
the reptiles about him. There are some pretended inno his deserved victory over meanness and falselood.
centsia politics, who, because their next door neighbours At the Old Bailey, on Friday, several prisoners pleaded
do not poison ladies in childbed, will ask the public with guilty to the offence of having forged Bank-notes in their
an air of reprobating astonishment, whether such things possession ; and yesterday, John Adams was capitally
could be possible? Let history, we repeat, answer them. convicted of uttering five forged 5l. notes.
Mr. Hazlitt is going to repeat his most instructive and
Every thing is possible for a set of bigots and inquisitors, entertaining Lectures on the Comic Writers and Genius of
but Humanity. - -

Great Britain, at the Crown and Anchor. He commences

The Duke of Richeliru, it seems, is to decline the next Tuesday evening. This situation is more centrical
offer of a recompense in vain. His good-natured friends and convenient ſor such a purpose, not half so far for
will insist that he shall not excel them in delicacy for no many, and unattended with those tragic cuts of wind that
tling, or go out of office with an unequivocal reputation. come careering...at you through the ballustrades of Black
friars Bridge, like carving knives betwixt Aldermen's legs,
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The Jews.—The following extract of a letter will MR. Tokeley.—This excellent actor died suddenly the
£: some idea of the freedom enjoyed by the Jews in Hother day of such a fierce propulsion of blood to the head,
aubeck :— that for many hours it rendered him frantic. Mr. Tokely,
“with feelings of horror and indignation I take up my pen to though young, always appeared liable to something of this
communicate to you some of the particulars of a transaction sort, or a stroke of apóplexy. His system was over
which has taken place in the free city of Lubeck—a transactiºn:
more disgraceful or arbitrary, I will venture to say, is not to be
bloated, and his neck very short. Perhaps his very early
acquaintance with the stage (for many of our readers may
met with in the histery of any civilized country; aud, be it re recollect him as Master TokELY), may have led him into
membered, this city is under the immediate protection of the too free a style of wing for his habit of body. He is said.
Emperor of Austria....Will the world believe, when they read
the fameus Tecred of 1818, when they see the old.statutes of to have been a pleasant good-tempered man, as we can
$768, and the more famous one of 1788, are again to be put in easily imagine from his very pleasant and good-tempered
fall force? what must have been the feelings of persons, who style of performance. . He could evidently joke with his
have resided there for years, following their various occupations? own corporeal infirmities; and the stage has lost a repre
What must have been the feelings of fathers, sitting with their sentative of joviality, national manners, and even of homely
wives, enjoying the innocent sport of their children—what mºst pathos, which it may take a long time to replace.
have been their feelings, I say, when they read this famous de Pourt ET Contre, or who shall decide?—A question
cree, forbidding their carrying on business in any manner rehatever ?-- of vital importance to Bankers and Money-changers, &c.
to complete the ruin, the police officers were ordered to search
all Jews, openly in the streets, or to burst 5pen their houses, and came on a few months back in the Court of Exchequer.
take possession of their property-seal it up, even the common The outline is this:–In July, 1816, a cause was tried, in
necessaries of life!. To prevent the possibility of any evasive which the Crown was Plaintiff, and two Individuals were .
measures, the Senate decree that any person acting for or in any * Defendants, respecting the legality of buying and selling
słrape transacting business with a Jew, shall for the first offence Bills of Exchange at a rate over and above the legal per
be fined; for the second, fined and imprisoned, and lose his centage, while such Bills were in progress to maturity.—Ba
right of citizenship; and any clerk, porter, or menial servant, ron Ricrianos, after having summed up, was asked the fol
living with a Jew, shall be imprisoned, and expelled this free lowing question by the Foreman ...}. :—QUERY. Can
town : You may recollect, that before Bonaparte entered Ger
a Bill of Exchange be bought at a rate above five percent.
many, and declared the Jews citizens, and meribers of society, they before
were treated as common beasts; and on passing through several that Bill becomes due —ANswer. Certainly.—The
towns had to pay the same sum per head which was paid for verdict was accordingly given for the Crown—Ainsi wa la
sºcine! The war being ended, the Jews were led to expect that Loi Poun le Roi—On the 10th of May, 1817, a rule was
the Sovereigns would have redressed their grievances, and that obtained for a new trial, and the Barons of the Pxchequer.
they would have been allowed to enjoy those rights and liberties were unanimously of opinion—That the Bills upon which
enjoyed by their Christian neighbours; but, alas ! the Sovereigns the verdict was given, in 1816, for the Crown, were con
forgot their promises; they forgot that Jews were human—that cocted in usury-Ains; ra la Loi contre le Roi. -

they were the work ºf the same Almighty Creator. Are these . It is related, that an Eastern Prince, on being informed
the good things for which the people of Europe have fought and
bled * -
that one of his Judges had been guilty of an iniquitous
The Emperor of Austria, from this treatment of his judgment, ordered him to be flayed, and his skin to be
Jewish subjects, appears to be an admirer of the creed of the stuffed into the cushion of the seat of Justice. His succes
renowned Saschio: “I believe in all that our Holy sor, it was remarked, was one of the most upright Judges
Church prescribes, and I mortally hate all Jews and Here that ever existed; but it is added, that he was on many
tics.”—But Sascrio, however disfigured by ignorance and occasions observed to wriggle very much in his seat.
sensuality, had a heart in his breast; which is, more than COURT AND F4SHIONABLES.
can he affirmed of the Imperial Proscriber.—Box APARtf
indeed! Perhaps one of the heaviest sins of this celebrated Lord Enski NE–The marriage of this eminent Law
yuan, in the eyes of posterity, will be his having neglected to }. is not generally known, although it took place so far
entirely put down the vile inteachable set, who now, in the ack as October last, at Gretna-Green. It is certain that
drunkenness of unlooked-for prosperity, dare thus to dis little notice of this remarkable event has yet appeared in the
gust, denounce, and trample upon their fellow men. . * * public prints. . In October his Lordship arrived at Gretna,
* * * * * Aſter all, such doings may in fact be accompanied by Miss SanAm Buck, the present Lady
blessings in disguise—“Yet a little while, O iny soul.” Enski's r, by whom he had had several children out of the
pale of wedlock, He was dressed in ſashionable female
Tire Arts.-The Pºsce Regent has been graciously attire, with a large Leghorn bonnet and long veil. On the
#. to permit Mr. Munir to have the portrait of Lord
Hutchissos, from his collection, in order to take a copy
arrival of the officiating Priest of the Temple of Hymen,
his Lordship threw .#. dress, and appeared in propria
for the Medallic Series. This excellent picture is now in personae, and the usual ceremony being gone through, the
the possession of Mr. Wººd, of Longdon, near this city, parties were declared man and wife . His Lordship º:
whº executes the engraving-Lichfield Mercury. . . |. on his female vestments and was on the point of taking
. By an achievement beyond their former works, Artists, is departure, when his son, the IHon. Thost As ERskiNE,
and especially younger ones, sometimes appear tº give as made his appearance in a chaise and four ; but the knot
surance of their having reached, with the Old Alasſers, a was tied, and, shortly after, the new married couple drove
high and continued power of performance, but in their off. The bride is about 35 years old—the Noble bride
nºt works dash down our ºpectations. , Not so with groom nearly 70. The object of this very extraordinary
Şir. Hiltos. His Pictiºne of Unit, so justly admired in step is said to be for the purpose of legalizing the children
inst year's
ceeded by R.
hisA. Exhibition,
Europa, has been,
just, how w; think,
finished eye, ex
for Sir J. L.E.1 of this condexion, who, according to Scottish law, cease to
be illegitimate
- tº . . . . on
. . the
. . marriage of their
- ir parents
parent at an y
cºster, and forms a prominent work in the Gallery of time.—Aris's Birmingham Gazette.
that distinguished Patron. Hercaſter we shall “give it Apprehensions, we are sory to hear, begin to be enter
honour dee” by a particular nºtice, in compaº with some tained with respect to the duration of our good old KING's
masterly additions by, the President, the Professor of life, in consequence of an alteration in his digt and regimen.
Painting to the Royal Academy; and others. It is now some time since the K1sq met with an accident
Scrºonrºy to Ryvesar.—The illustrious Dºscantes from stumbling over a chair, in his daily perambulations
used to say, that when he received an injury, he seated through the five apartments. His Majesty's left leg was
himself so high above it, that it could not reach hi.m.—
much hurt, and he was confined for some time before be
Literary Pocket Book, ' ... • -
recovered the use of it. The only exercise the KING now
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takes is that of being wheeled about in one of Merlin's his wit for it's proper place, and deny himselt these re
chairs. We stated some time ago that the suite of rooms dundant similes and epigrammatic tail-pieces, his serious
cccupied by the KING were in a very dilapidated state, poetry would be as good as his humourous. It would
owing to the want of repairs in due time. We stated that present to us the grave aspect of pleasure in as good earnest
these apartments were shored up; scaffolding poles have as the laughing. . - *

since been introduced, and every other necessary precau We cannot but congratulate the publisher on the im
tion has been taken.—Morning paper. provement in his engravings. We do not allude to the
The lately proved will of her f. MAJESTY, has, as it
will be observed, some remarkable features. The Queen of musical and typographical part, which was always, excel
lent, but to the vignette in the title-page, which in the pre
WuRTEMBurgh seems only to be mentioned that it may be sent number is from the pencil of Stothard. It is Ireland
marked how completely she is slighted, or set aside. Not personified, looking mournfully at her harp. The face is
a pendant for her ear, or a cross ſor her bosom, from all one of those most exquisite human ones, full of goodness.
that immense store of jewels—not a ring, or a lock of and sincerity, which it seems the peculiar province of this
hair, as a dying memento of affection: Box APARTE amiable artist to delineate. The best thing we can say for
made her a Queen—she is provided for — she is re it, at least the best thing we can say to shew our own
minded of that, and that remembrance was her only opinion of ir, is that we mean to take it out, and have it
legacy. It was, as some of our readers know, some put in a frame.
years ago reported very generally, that this Princess, the And now a word or two respecting the moral character
then only married daughter of her MAJEsty, had been and tendency of Mr. Moore's writings. He is accused of
guilty of writing a letter, in which she spoke with grateful licentiousness; and the accusation, after gradually soften
admiration of NApoleon, who had made her husband a ing ..". before the evident amiableness of his poetry in
King, and consequently promoted her from the rank of general, has been suddenly and extravagantly bawled forth
Duchess to . Queen 1: ' Unpardonable sin of grati
by some Ministerial hireling, whose masters, have been
tude!!! Is it never to he forgiven, if it finds rare admis provoked by the poet's honesty and independence... We
sion into a royal bosom 7–Stamford News. can do no more than allude to the loathsome publication in
which the charge appeared. It is a work used by the
Quarterly Reviewers, and by the toad-eaters of toad-eaters,
LITERARY NOTICES, for venting the ribaldry and poison, which even they have
not the face to do in their more official character. The
No. 47. public know it well enough, for every species of infamy.
Now it is curious enough, and quite in character, that such
A Selection of Irish Melodies with Symphonies and Ac a charge should be extravagantly made by such a publication.
companiments by Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc., and They who can see the best things in a bad light, and have an
Characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Esq. Num instinctive fear that they should be thought to see all things in
ber the Serenth-(Concluded.) toe good a one, will affect the utmost excess of reprobation
The chief beauties of Mr. Moore's lyric writings consist against what they object to; always taking care however
to object, or pretend to be fierce, only out of personal feel
in their being the result of evident enjoyment, in their ings.
fancy, their national character, their exquisite adaptation The vehement accusers of Mr. Moore do not know
what they are talking about. They see only the ill or the
to the music, and in that mixture of a tendency to plea doubtful. They are too gross to discover i. sentiment,
sure with a sympathy for the stifferings of others, which
forms the most attractive part of the amiable. His pa and too conscious of their servility not to hate his pa
triotism is observable throughout his works, but is natu triotism. . He writes twenty passages full of the most ge
rally seen to most anvantage in the more serious composi nerous virtue, to one whose tendency can be called in
tions, equally to the poet's honour, and the disgrace of question; but they see, and wish to see, nothing but the
his country's ill-users. With respect to the adaptation, latter. In fact, they like it for its own sake; and then out
the words are written with such a strong sense of the mu of an over-consciousness, pretend that they abhor it. It is
sical, that they almost break out into singing of their own such men as these (or if they do not, they are worse than
accord; and his genius, in general, of which we shall say we think them) who take a writer like Boccaccio for a
more presently, is like April weather run into June,—the i mere retailer of licentious stories, till their betters inform
tears are so kindly, and the laughing warmth so complete. them otherwise. And such men as these, if they were not
The faults ...”. like the rest of all Mr. Moore's afraid, would represent Nature herself as a polluted and
writings, are a tendency to repeat the same images, and profligate thing; nay, they actually do their ºbsst with
now and then (arising perhaps from a consciousness of their ribaldry, to shew that such is their nature at any
this) an elaborate hunting after others. The former, rate. The specimen of Mr. Moore's licentiousness which
though apparently of a commoner nature, is not so un the publicatión above alluded to produced, was most un
fortiinately selected. It was the well-known song begin
Peasant, because it scems a part of luxury to dwell upon ning, . .
il's sensations, and repeat what has delighted it. . The -

- When in death I shall calm recline,

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later disturbs us, because it go s to the very opposite ex Oh take my heart to my mistress dear;
treme. You see the author disturbed himself, which is Tell her it lived upon smiles, and wine
the worst thing in the world for a bestower of enjoyment. Of the brightest hue, while it lingered here.
He gets up and toils in his sunshine, when he ought to be Bid her not shed one tear of sorrow, &c.
supereminently at his ease. This is the reason, why seve This was to be a horrid sample of a licentious poet, joking
ral, of the songs have so inferior a termination with on his death-bed; but in the first place, the poet was not
to beautiful a commencement. They are Syrens too on his deeth-bed:—and in the second, there is a sentiment
literally. . . . . . . . . . . in the song of a most affectionate and generous nature.
Desinit in piscºm mulier ſormosa superne. He does not wish his mistress to grieve, which would be
This is the result of the author's modesty, and of his sacrificing her comfort to his egotism; he wishes her to
lººking at his own writings too critically. He thinks he be happy still, and to think of him only as far as it will
shall not have said enough for our wisdom and our money; keep her so. The same sentiment, carried farther, is the
whereas we beg him to look on the former as a very poor soul of the most divine of Shakspeake's sonnets, the
siness compared with his genius, and the latter as better
one beginning
*1 by half handle whoſ." If Mr. Moore could kep. . . " No longer mourn for me when I am dead.
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The truth is, that when Mr. Moore was a young man, tº circulate the declaration of any rash or intemperate in
and lived much in what is called the town, he did write dividual as the general sentiment of the English Mer
some licentious songs, which are not to be found in the chants, or Traders to the port of Ostend, and I am sure
works that go under his name. But observe the spirit you will allow, upon due reflection, that Mr. S. Hancock's
with which he wrote them. There are people undoubtedly enmity may have induced him to ascribe unjustly to others
who are profiigate out of absolute wickedness, that is to the dissatisfaction and hostility with which . mind seems
say, out of a stupidity to virtue, and an appreciation of overcharged, and consequently, that you should have re
enly the worst side of every thing. These men carry the uired other, and ..º. representations, be
language of liberal opinion to an excess, out of cunning ore you allowed the Examiner to be used as the means
and selfishness; and show in all their actions and writings of circulating an unpleasant statement respecting an ab
that they do so. On the other hand, there are people who sent individual. Whether Major Rochefort may conde
are instinctive believers in goodness and amiableness, and scend to notice the paragraph to which I allude or not, is
who will occasionally cºrry, the same language to the to me quite doubtful; but I cannot resist a very natural
same excess out of a notion. that no harm will be desire to do justice to an Officer whose benevolence, phi
done; or from a feeling that the exceeders on that lanthropy, and urbanity, I have very repeatedly witnessed,
side of the question have more elements of the kindly and whose liberality and attention to the interest and hap
and social in them than ninety-nine out of a bundred of the piness of his countrymen is no where surpassed, and sel
worldly hypocrites whom they believed to be as good as doºn equalled.
every one else, till they found them at once possessing re Many an English subject has experienced from his
putation and not deserving it. That this was Mr. Moore's bounty and benignity that relief and assistance which pa
case is evident from his works at large. If he has former ternal feelings alone could dictate; and I have seen the
ly given opportunities to the profligate to mistake and mis Major bestow as much attention, kindness, and industry,
use him, it is as Nature herself has done: both he and she in serving a pauper, as others would have shewn in court
are full of sentiment and virtue, and could they give law ing the patronage and applause of a Prince " . His greatest
to the would, would make a finer thing of it with the least delight seemed to be in serving those unhappy bein
part of their qualities than others do with their greatest whose situation precluded every hope or prospect of mak
and gravest. Observe. He has railed against marriage, ing any other return for his favours, than the expression of
as Johnson has declaimed against it; and it is supposed an eternal gratitude for such ºf:
and disinterested
#. many to be a very improvable matter:—yet he married. É. At his hospitable board, I have met many in
He talked as if he had been the idiest fellow about dividuals, whose minds must ever be filled (as mine is)
town; yet he was a hard reading scholar. He made with the most exalted opinion of the excellence of his
Thumanity appear a light, and sometimes perhaps an heart, and a high admiration of his anxious, noble, and
unaffectionate thing ; yet no man has shewn also a generous efforts to soften the sufferings of the distressed,
warmer heart for his friends, a truer sympathy with his and to protect the interest and promote the welfare of
country, or a more generous and happy-making regård for every British subject.
his species at large. No man, in short, has ind arrier It sometimes happens, and it may be the case with re
contempt for the heartless; and this is his great offence. spect to Mr. S. Hancock, that the §: motives and ac
The women-haters, the eavious, the servile, the tyrannical, tiºns are misconceived and ill-received, where passion
the hypocritical, the sheer coxcombs and ribalds, all shew blinds the judgment. I will venture to assert, that a strict
what virtues he possesses, by hating him. Mr. Giffard, sense of duty, and a rigid regard to every sensation of
Mr. Croker, or Mr. Southey, may have exceeded in the justice, honour, and equity, have influenced Major Roche
same way as Mr. Moore, but there is more real fort upon the occasion alluded to, as well as upon all
virtue in the rest of his works than in all the writings others, since he has occupied the post he now holds at
of them and their friends put together. Their very Ostend, although Mr. S. Hancock's opinion and feelings
virtues, or what they call such, would render society have led him to circulate a statement, which the general
a dreary and bigoted intercourse of slaves and ty. conduct, upright disposition, and long-established charac
rants, egotistical, vindictive, and hopeless, affectedly tºr
placid and most intensely selfish:-but out of the very Sir, ofyour
Major
veryRocheſort are sufficient to
humble servant, falsily.—I am,
John Tucker.
tendencies of the least reputable part of his poetry, the
philosopher could gather suggestions of improvement, that P.S.—In expressing a just opinion of Major R., I feel
would help to sweep away all their artificial virtues at that he will be more disposed to blame than to approve,
once, and enable us to behold the world again in it's green what may be considered an “officious zeal;" but on this,
ness and gladsomeness. His is the natural piety of sym as on most occasions, I follow the impulse of ardent and
pathy and enjoyment:-theirs, the involuntary itapiºus enthusiastic feelings, resulting from personal observation.
Be assured, that Major lt. is not a common-place or
hess of compromises with worldliness, a contempt of their
fellow-creatures, and an ill opinion, which they are never ordinary character, and that few of this nation can justly
theless afraid to acknowledge, of God himself, ... boast of equal philanthropy, generosity, and disinterested
63r ..
zeal, with that which he possesses and puts in daily prac
fice, " ' - - J. G. P. T.
º * Fºit le droit - - -

MAJOR ROCHEFORT. - “A qui tu le dois.”

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- 10, Park-street, Baker-street, Jan. 12. 1819. CITY.

SIR,-In your Examiner of yesterday, I read; with --
unſeigned regret and surprise, a long paragraph, purport The Lord MAYor, Mr. Deputy WILLIAMs, of Cannon-street,
ing to be the statement of a Mr. §. Hancock, and a re Mr. Thoxias Nathaniel Williams, and other Inhabitants of the
presentation of misconduct in the respectable British Con Ward of Walbrook.--A considerable degree of ferment has for
some time past prevailed in the City, of the particulars of which
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I do not mean to enter into the particular case of Mr. we have taken some pains to inform ourselves. Of the two
Gentlemen named Williams, one, Mr. De uty Williams, is for,
S. Hancock, with which I am perfectly unacquainted, but and the other, Mr. Thomas Nathaniel Wi. is against, the
I must observe, that it seems to me to have been rather Lord Mayºr....The origin of the dispute occurred in 1817, when
hasty in you, and contrary to your asual spirit of equity Mr. T. N. Williams first became a candidate to represent the
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ward of Walbrook in Common Council: at this time he lost his
election; but in a few months another contest took place, and he
would have had a majority, but the other Members for this
ward, eight in number, being averse from having him for a col
league, came to the poll, a dhe in consequence lost his electiou
a second time by three votes. On last St. Thomas's day. how
ever, he came in without opposition. The squabbles that arose
during these three contests were numerous, and are likely to
occupy the attention of our superior Courts; as a true bill of in
dictment was found on Thursday by the Grand Jury, against
Mr. Deputy Williams, for a misdemeanour in refusing to produce
the book of accounts of the said ward, pursuant to the Act of
Parliament.
Mr. Thomas Nathaniel Williams is one of the four Attornies of
the Lord Mayor's Court; and during the contests and at a ward
mote, the Lord Mayor, then Mr. Alderman Atkins, presiding
over the ward, observed, alluding to Mr. T. N. Williams, “You,
Gentlemen, may elect this lawyer, if you please; I will never
associate with him, or put my ſoot under the same table.”
The Lord Mayor not wishing, it is supposed, to forfeit his
word, and Mr. T. N. Williams being determined to support what
he conceives to be his just right, the following warfare between
them has been the result:
It was so long since as 1806, that Mr. T. N. Williams pur
chased at a public sale, of the Corporation of London, for 2000 200,000l. :-
in another room where he, Mr. Williams, durst not enter. The
Lºrd Mavor and Mr. Williams then entered into an altercation,
which ended in his Lordship ordering Mr. Williains to be turned
out a third time; and he was turned out accordingly, for which
assault Mr. Withams has brought another action.
On Thursday Mr. Williams again went to the Mansion-house,
being determined to take his seat at the Sword-Bearer's table,
notwithstanding what had passed, when he found every door
locked against him.–On Friday, he applied to the Sittinº Alder
man at Guildhall for a posse comitatus, to enter the Mansion
hºuse, which he still found locked against him.—The Alderman
(Mr. Cuntsvorner Syrith), however, considered it a question of
such great importance, that he refused to do so, until lie took
the ºpinion ºf the Court of Aldermen.—A petition from the
ward'of walbrook has been presented to the Court of Alder
men, complaining that the present members of that ward are
improperly returned by the Lord Mayor.—This question will
come en next Tuesday.--Times.
LORD ELLENBOROUGHTS WILL.
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The will of the late Lord Eilenborough is in sub
stance as follows; the personal property is sworn under
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guineas and upwards, his place, and all the rights, fees, and He gives to Lady Ellenborough 1360t, per annum, for her
advantages thereto belonging; and, among the rest, a privilege life, which, with the further sum of 740l. per annuin, secured to
of a seat at the table of the Sword-bearer, in rotation with the her by marriage settlement, will make an annuity of 2,000l. to
three other attornies of that Court. His rotation commenced on
her for life. He also gives her all the household furniture and
Saaday, the 10th inst. and will continue till to-morrow, the "7th. ictures in his house in St. James's-square, (except certain printº
On Monday last, the 11th, Mr.T. N. Williams accordingly pre in his dressing-room, and some others afterwards mentioned) all
sented himself: it happened to be Plough-Monday, which, at the his wines, household linen, wearing-apparel, and robes, (exeept
Mansion-house, has always been considered a gala-day, when as afterwards mentioned), all her own books, and one half of the
the household dine with the Lºrd Mayor and family in state, as plate. He directs the gold chain worn by him as Chief-Justice
a matter of course. Mr. Williams went to the Sword-bearer's of England, to be offered in sale to his successor, as it was to him.
room, and was soon informed that he would not be permitted to by direction of his predecessor, Lord Kenyon, at the sum of 100
dine with the household, and that if he did persist in doing so, he gaineas, the money to sink into the residue of his property:
would be turned out. Mr. Williams, however, considering him He gives his gold watch and chain' to his clerk, Mr. Richard
self entitled, as a matter of right, to a seat, went into the Lord Smith; and alsº 20t. for mourning, as a small mark of his re
Mayor's parlour, and took it at the table accord ngly. The Lord membrance of Mr. Smith's long and faithful services. -

Mayor soon afterwards entered, and having placed the Lady He gives to his eldest son, Edward, (now Lord Elleuborough,)
Mayoress in her seat, was prodieding to his own chair, when he all seals upon which his arms, &c. are engraved, and also his
dissovered Mr. Williams not far from him; to whom he instantly coat of arms, emblazoned by Sir Isaac Heard; he also gives him:
walked up, and said, “Sir, you are not invited.” He then ralled the remaining half of the plate, all the horses, cattle, live and
to his servants, exclaiming, “ Turn him out : six of you, for I am dead stock, &c., at Roehampton, (except such as are used
master of this house, and I will be obeyed. Turn him out!” Lady Ellenborough,) the remainder of the books, and all manu º º

Anyone cau better conceive than we can describe, what now

took place. It ended, however, in Mr. T. N. Williams being
scripts and papers, a gold medal which he obtained as a prize at
Cambridge, and the remainder of the pictures, particularly that
fºrcibly turned out; and, we are informed; the Lord Mayor as of his father, by Romney; the Bishop of Elphin, by Robinson;
sisted in this operation. the Bishop of Chester, by Hayter; Dr. Paley, by Romney; him
The next day (Tuesday) was also a regular dinner-day at the self, by Lawrence, &c.; painting of poultry, supposed by Hon:
Sword-bearer’s table; and at the appointed hour Mr. Williams dºcoeter. He also gives to his eldest son his Peer's robes, and
came to the Mansion-house, and was informed by the porter at letters patent of the Peerage for hſei, directing them afterwards
the gate that he was not to enter. He, however, took no notice, to accompany the title to his heirs male, as heir-lºom", ...
and passed on to the Sword-bearer's-room, where he soon received to a clause in the letters-patent. He gives to Lady Ellenboroug
a message from Mr. Dixon, the house-steward, by Blakesby, a 2001. for a present supply of cash, at his death. ...
servant, that the Lord Mayor would not suffer him (Mr. Wil iſe gives to his dear natural daughter, Miss Elizabeth Thorn
liams) to remain in the house. Mr. Williams, however, explained top, 2,000l. with interest, from his death, to the time of payment.
his right, and isformed them, that he should of course dine there. He devises the Manor of Thorby-ball, and all his other
as usual, and then seated himself; upon which the Lord Mayor hereditaments, to his son Edward, for life, with remainder to his
entered the room, with six or seven servants, and inid hold of heirs maie; and on failure of issue, to his second son and his
Mr. Williams's arm, saying, “Servants, put hiºn out imme issue; and so on in succession to all his other sons and their
giately—do as 1 bid you at the peril of your places.” . Mr. Wil issue, with remainder, on failure of issue of all of then, to his
liams endeavoured to explain bis right. The Lord Mayor an own right heirs. He grants a power to lease to each tenant for
swered, “I will abide by the consequences;” and Mr. Williams life, for any period not exceeding 21 years, and appoints the
was ogaia thrust out of i. Muusion-house. Puisne Judges of the Court of King's Beuch aud their heirs
On the following day (Wednesday) Mr. Williams caused writs trustees, to support contingent remainders, &c.
He devises FF estate at Roehampton, Surrey, purchased of the
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to be issued from the Court of King's-Bench, and served on the

Mayor and four of the servants who turned him out. The late Benjamin Goldsmid, Esq.'s trustees, with all the furniture,
same day he again took his place at the Sword-bearer's table, wines, five and dead stock, farming implements, &c. to his son
when the Lord Mayor gave orders that no dinner should be Edward, and 2,000l. in money.
served up while Mr. Williams was there. ... Mr. Williams how Ile directs the house in St. James's-square, with such furniture
ever waited, and in about half an hour after the usual time of as is fitted to it, to be sold, and gives the proceeds, with all his
dinner, the Lord Mayor, with his servants, came into the room remaining personal estate, to be equally diviſed amongst his
where Mr. Willians was, and addressed him thos:—“Sir, yon nine younger children, and such others as might be afterwards
have brought an action against me; that is enough to try the born in his life time, or with which Ludv Elieuborough might be
right; I am determined you shall not remain here, and you had ensient at his death, on their attaining 21 years of age, or being
better go quietly, one of my servants laying his hands on you.” married, with benefit of survivorship as usual. . . -

Mr. Williams answered, that he had been well advised, and that He requests Lady Ellenborough to execute the power of ap
he should resist by force. The Lord Mayor replied, that he pointment necessary under their narriage-settlement, for giving
would send for peace-officers, and that he would order the dinner effect to the provision thus made for the younger children; but
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if any considerations should arise to make it advisable in her were present upon the occasion ; and the person who did so,
estimation not to do so, his Lordship expresses his wish nºt to with the view of ascertaining whether he was dead or alive, re
limit their operation in her mind; but he leaves her, in that ceived no orders to do so from any of the Magistrates. His
case, at liberty to decline executing the power of appointment: Lordship, took this public opportunity of stating this, and as
He directs that Lady Ellenborough shall be paid a suitable sured their Lordships, that every information should be laid be
sum for the maintenance of such of the younger children as shall fore them. -

remain with her, out of their respective fortunes, at the discre The Lord Justice-Clerk.-The Court certainly expects, my
tion of his executors, Hugh Leycester, Esq., and his brother Lord Advocate, the fullest investigation on this painful sub
Ewan Law, Esq., with the advice of Lord Sidmouth, Chief ject–Einº Star.
Justice Gibbs, and Mr. Sergeant Lens; whose decision he directs
to be taken upon all differences that may arise under his will. “Strong doubts, we understand, are entertained as to the
In addition to the two executors just mentioned, his Lordship propriety or legality of the second hanging, not because John
appoints Lady Ellenborough, his son Edward, and his nephew ston, was not fairly and justly, according to the existing laws,
#. Henry Lushington, Esq., his executors likewise; and he condemned to suffer death, but because an attempt had, in the
gives to all his executors, and to Lord Sidmouth, 50l. each, for interim, been made to reanimate his half dead body, and be
their trouble in the discharge of the trusts confided to them. cause he had been exposed to suffering and torture not contem
. He observes, that as it might be painful to Lady Ellenborough plated by the law. The bleeding, though humanely intended on
to be disturbed in removing from St. James's-square immediately the part of the surgeon, was, considering that a second ºf
on his decease, he directs that she shall be permitted to remain took place, as far as regarded Johnston, a barbarous, cruel, and,
there, with a suitable allowance for housekeeping, for one mouth we presume, also an illegal species of torture. Not is it enough
afterwards. - -
to say that it was not ordered. It must also be shewn ichy it was
He appoints her guardian of all his younger children. not ºfficially prevented, and why there was no Magistrate present
. . He directs his funeral to be as plain and economical as pos to countermand it. We think the Magistrates would have done
sible.
better, if, after the attempts at resuscitation were known, they
He gives mourning rings to the Lord-Chancellor, Vice-Chan
cellor, Master of the Rolls, his successor, and all his brother had delayed proceeding farther until they had obtained a new
warrant from the Justiciary Court. The doubt which must
Judges, the Attorney, and Solicitor-General, Lord Sidmouth, surely have suggested itself, as to the legality of suspending
Mr. Nathaniel Bond, the Bishop of Chester, and to his executors the culprit a second time, would have tº: to protect
before-mentioned. them in thus leaning to the side of mercy.”—Scotsman.
The will is dated on the 20th of March, 1817. It is re-publish
ed on the 8th of June following, in order to passlands, subs
quently purchased at Shipley, in Northumberland; and again J, A JV.
on the 21st of August following, to pass lands at Oakley-green,
Bucks, since acquired by conveyance from Lady Ellenborough. COURT OF KING'S. Bſ2NCH.
There is also a codicil, dated May 11, 1818, by which his Lord
ship directs, that in case the shares of his younger children Saturday week, a case was tried in the Court of King's Bench,
should exceed 10,000l. each, his eldest son Edward is to partici which respected the liability of Surveyors to make good the
pate with them in the surplus; but this his Lordship says he injury sustained by any person in consequence of erroneous esti
does not consider likely to happen, at all events until after Lady mates. A lady had applied to a gentleman of property to pur
Ellenborough's death; when the º apropriated to make chase an annuity of her, and offered as a security an estate in
good her annuity will revert again to his Lordship's estate. Lincolnshire, which was then let to a tennut paying now inally
The will and codicil are proved by all the executors except 1720t. per annum. The gentlgran employed the Surveyor to
Mr. Ewan Law, to whom a power is reserved of doing so, if he survey this estate, and his report being that it was worth the
should think proper, at any time hereafter: * rent, the anuuity was bought. It seeins, however, that there was
The will and codicils are all in his Lordship's own hand-writ a sort of conspiracy between the lady and her tenant, the estate
ing, and they are attested by his tipstaff and two servants. The * not being really worth more than 4801. The tenant quitted the
hand-writing is much less neat and legible. than in general it farm and went abroad, and the lady went to prison. The action
used to be, and the papers have the appearance of having been was therefore brought to recover damages from the Surveyor,
written in illness or in great haste. The devises of the real and though the latter was acquitted by all parties of any impro
estates are expressed with as much brevity as is strictly con per design, the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff-Damages,
sistent with their being legally operative; and they conclude 6000l.—The Judge, in his charge, said, that any persons pro
with a clause stating his Lordship's wish to avoid prolixity, and fessing to exercise a calling must take the consequences of their
his desire that the several devises shall operate agreeably to his negligence or incapacity.
meaning, in as complete a manner as if more formally expressed.
Al)MIRALTY SESSIONS.
EXECU TION OF JOHNSTON. On Monday, James Clements and John Drake were arraigned
for the wilful murder of John M*Ardle on the 28th of April,
-
1817, on board the cenvict ship Chapman, in which Drake was
High Ceunt of Justician.Y.—On Thursday week the Court conmander, and Clements a marine. The evidence against the
met. The Lond Justice-CLERK addressed the Lord Advocate, prisoners consisted of three convicts and two of the marines; and
stating, that the Court had heard with horror the shocking and from their statements it appeared, that a disturbance teok place
disgraceful procedure which had taken place on the streets of this on board the ship on the 17th of April, and the soldiers'fired
city on W nesday the 30th of December last, on the occasion among the convicts on the supposition that they were going to
of the execution of Robert Johnston. The Court, before they murder then and run away with the ship. This happened again
felt themselves disposed to interfere, wished to know what was on the 28th, when sº. was shot in his bed. The convicts
the result of any investigation his Lordship had instituted in contradieted each other very much. They denied that any at
consequence. - teinpt was made by the convicts to get pºssession of the ship;
The Lord Advocate stated, that having heard of the proceed but it appeared from their admissions and the evidence of the
ing, next morning he had ordered the Procurator-Fiscal to up soldiers, that there had been. Ҽne threats thrown out by the
ply to the Sheriff of the county to investigate minutely into the maleſactors some days before, that many of them had broken
whole circumstances, and that investigation was going on, al their irons, and that on the night in question they had forced the
though not yet so complete as to enable him to ſay it before the bulk-head and intended to rush on deck in two places at once.
court. He had also applied to the Magistrates of Edinburgh for There was no particular circumstance against Drake, and the
a statement of the proceedings, which had been furnished, but only thing against Clements was a declaratton of one of the con
was not complete to be laid before the Court. His Lordship vists that he had conspired with an offiver to shoot them.—The
said he agreed entirely with the Court as to the shocking and Jury said, when the evidence for the prosecution was concluded,
disgraceful procedure which had taken place, upon reading the that there was uo occasion to put the prisoners on their defence,
account of which, in the public prints, he was very much hurt and they were therfore acquitted.
indeed. His Lordship, however, was happy to state, that the Thomas Macdonald was convicted of a most brutal assault on
Magistrates of Edinburgh had no concern with the step which Helen Breck, a female child of ten years of age, with intent to
was taken to bleed the unfortunate man—none of the Magistrates commit a rape. The girl was returning from Malta with her
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47

father, in his Majesty's sloop the Myrmidon, in October, lºst, the Magistrates directed, and desist from any further proclama
when the prisoner availed himself of the ºpportunity of her being tion, assuring him at the same time that nevertheless the Suiloh
in bed, but was prevented from º: his purpose. The was come.—The AlpenMAN said he would not rely on their pro
girl has since been suffering extremely from a disease communi mise, and should detain them all in custody till they could pro
rated to her on the occasion.—He was sentenced to two years cure him some better assurance than their own words for their
imprisonment. peaceable demeanour in future. . were accordingly con -

On Tuesday, John Drake, Alexander Descar, and Christopher veyed back to the Compter in two coaches to protect them from
the mob; one of the men en stepping into the coach unbuttoned
Bustead, were indicted for the murder of Daniel M'Cormick on
board the ship Chapman, on the 17th April, 1817. Dewar was his coat, displayed his yellow star; and placing his hand on it,
the surgeon and Bustead the lieutenant of the ship. The circum proclaimed aloud that it was God's colour.—The male prisoners
stances were similar to those of the case tried on the previous are journeymen mechanics, and appeared to be simple, deluded,
day; as it red that the conduct of the convicts was such as but peaceable men. Sibley, the leader, is a watehnan in Cole
man-street ward.
to justify the firing of the soldiers, the prisoners were acquitted.
On Thursday, Samuel Sibley, his wife, and the other poor de
luded men and children, were again brought up before the sitting
POLICE. Magistrate.—Sibley was again the spokesman, and, is reply to
the Magistrate, who inquired if he had ever been in Bedlam, said,
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GUILDuALL.
the gentlemen might laugh, but he was not mad, but had vestigated
A lamentable instance of the effects of infatuation and enthu the business thoroughly before he was convinced. He believed
the Bible from cover to cover, and could point out the prophesia's
siasm was exhited at this office on Wednesday. Samuel Sibley which were now fulfilling. He then went into a long rhapsody
and Maria Catherine Sibley his wife, Samuel Jones and his son, a
respecting the visions with which the boy had been favoured by
boy of ten years old, Thomas Jones, John Angel, Thomas Smith, God, and declared he had witnessed miracles performed by him.
James Dodd, and Educard Slater, a boy of 12 years of age, were in the course of his long address, he quoted the Scriptures very
brought up from the Compter, by Beatou jº. who had
fluently, and concluded by referring, in justification of his belief.
with great difficulty rescued the prisoners from the fury of an to the passage in which it is said, “iu the latter days your old
immense mob, in Budge-row, about ten o'clock on Wednesday men shall dream dreams, and your young men see visions."
morning–These deluded people were disciples of the late Being asked what place of worship he attended, he replied, his
Joanna Southcott, and conceived themselves directed by God to church was his own house, 3, Gooch-yard, ºr.Whiteeross
proclaim the coming of the Shiloli on earth: for this purpose street; there were about 30 of them who met there frequently,
they assembled at the west end of the town, in order to enter the to read the Bible and receive the commands of the Lord. He
only gate of the great city (Temple-bar), through which they had now received command from God to desist from any Rurther
marched in procession about nine o'clock in the morning; they proclamation; and if the Prince Regent were to collect all the
were each decorated with a white-cockade; and wore a small inoney in the world, and lay it at his feet, he dared not do it;
star of yellow riband on their left breasts; Sibley led the pro the Magistrate might therefore rely there would be no repetitivu
cessions bearing a brazen trumpet adorned with light blue of their previous conduct. In this declaration he was joined by
ºf the boys carried each a small flag of blue silk. In his wife and the rest of his associates, who all declared aloud,
this manner they proceeded through Fleet-street, up Ludgate
hill, and along St. Paul's Church-yard, to Budge-row, a great that they dared not now proceed any further in this business. Qu
this assurance on their parts, they were discharged with a suit
crowd following them. Having arrived, as they supposed, in able admonition from the worthy Alderman.
he middle of the great city, they halted, and began to perform
their ceremonies. Sibley sounded uhe ...trumpet, and proclaimed now-street.
the second coming of the Shiloh, the Prince of Peace, on earth; On Tuesday the Earl and Countess of Morton attended to ex
and his wife cried out aloud, “Wo! wo: to the inhabitants of hibit a complaint against Robert Grierson, from whom the Coun
the earth, because of the coming of the Shiloh.”. This ery was tess had received two threatening letters, to extort money-The
repeated several times, and joined. in with a loud voice by the Countess of Morton stated, that last Saturday she received a
others in company. The crowd was by this time immense, every letter by the twopenny post, signed “Robert Grierson;" and on
-avenue was stopped up, and the passage of earts and carriages Monday evening she received another signed “Robert Grierson.”
rendered impossible. “The mob began with laughter and shout From the threatening language used she considered herself to be
ing, and at length proceeded to pelt with every sort of missile in great danger from the prisoner.—The Magistrate called
they could procure:-the followers of the Prophetess being most upon Grierson to know what he had to say in answer to sending
efthem stout young men, resisted; the fight became tremendous; such letters; to which he replied, he could not give any answer
tags were torn down, and Sibley-aud his associates with great to them, except he saw and examined them to enable him to say
difficulty were fireserved, by the exertions of the officers, from fall whether he wrote them or not. The Magistrate, however did
ing victims to the rage of the mab, and conveyed to the Compter. not allow him to have the letters in his bands, and thereby give
Their appearance, when put to the bar, tº: the dangers they him an opportunity of destroying the written evidence against
had gone through the men had all been rolled in the mud, and him, but read them aloud. The first was dated from the Turk's
Sibley bore evident marks of violence in his face.—When asked Head, Ratcliffe-cross. It stated that he was about to publish an
tº give an account of their conduct, Sibley, with an air of autho Heroic Poem, in which he should introduce some unpleasant cir
rity, addressing the Alderman, said, he regretted there was not cumstance in which her late father, Sir Francis Buller, was
time for him to enter into the particulars of the mission of God to engaged, at the Isle of Man, which would be injurious to his cha
him. He had been commanded by a voice, through the boy, racter; but if 100l. was sent to him, he would suppress the pub
Slater, to announce that the Prince of Peace was come upon lication. The second and last letter was also dated from the
earth. He was commanded to proclaim the second coming of Turk's Ilead, Ratcliffe-cross, Ratcliffe-highway 5 in which he
Shiloh, in the same manner, and with the same authority, as John enclosed a specimen of the poem relative to the character of the
the Baptist had proclaimed his first coming. This proclamation late Sir Francis Buller, and again urging for a draft for 100t. to
he was to make three times in the midst of the great city, by the be sent him, using violent threatening language if his demand
wound of the trumpet lie and his companions were obeying was not complied with ; and concluded by advising the Countess
the commauds of God, and in so doing had conducted themselves “to recollect and keep in mind, that there had been a Belling
peaceably. and interfered with no one, when they were attacked ham, and that there now was a Grierson.” After the Magistrate
by the mob.-He was proceeding to explain the nature of the had finished readiug the letters the Prisoner wins again asked
visions with which the boy had been favoured, and his wife was what he had to say for himself: when he coolly admitted them
raising her voice to bear testimony to the fact of the Shiloh being to be his writing, and avowed the sentiments contained in them.—
on earth, whom she said she bad had in her arms four tiaºes, IIe was then ordered to be commited to the New Prison, Clerken
when the Magistrate interrupted-them, and observed, that it. well. The prisoner was understood to have acted some years
was evident, if they were not insane, that they were acting under since as a surgeou in the Isle of Man, but is now reduced.
a strong delusion, and pointed out to them how much better they
H.Atton-Galatorn.
would have been employed in pursuing their regular avocations,
then in being the cause of public riot, and endangering their On Tuesday evening, John Limbrick, of this office, appre
own persons, recommending them to desist from any repetitions hended the supposed mother of the child dropped in Tash
of their gross absurdities and delusions.—The men in reply said, street, (on whom a Caroner's Inquest has since been held
it was right they should dºey God; but they would do whatever in the Workhouse, in Little Gray's-ins-lane, where it died,)
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against whom, and Ann Symons, the midwife, a true bill was ment, in which there was a fire, by some info, ºnate circum
fºund on Monday at the Clerkenwell Sessions. Limbrick, the stance his clother car ght fire, and he was burnt in "tet, a deplº
officer, accommodated the mother that might in his own house, rable manner, before assistance arrived, as twº cause it is death it.
a few hºurs.
she being ordered to give twenty-four hours' notice of bail. Tues - * -

day night she was brought to the office, where she gave bail, her Last week a woman at Paris, who was in the habit of drinking
seſſ in 200, and two sureties in 100t. each. The case was brandy to excess, was found by her husband on his return hour,
managed with so much secrecy that no person in the office knew at the point of death. She died alumost immediately, and ori ex
any thing of the ºr atter; the gentlemen who were accepted as amination was found to be unuch burnt, although there was
bail having first come in, and given their names and address to neither fire nor candle in the apartment. The physicians who
the clerk, returned again with the lady, who, the better to con were consulted were of opinion, according to the Paris journals,
ccal herself, was dressed rather below her usual style. She that the accident arose from spontaneous combw-tion.
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wore black, with a thin' threadbare red cloak thrown over her --~~ --~~~~~
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a white straw bonnet, with ribands, and a bunch of artificial
flowers, with a thick black veil. She stepped up with her two On the 28th of Dec. Miss Charlotte-Norman sell, of Glouces
bail to the clerk, and in a low tone of ºpice merely consented to ter-street, Portman-square, to J. Woolfryes, Esq. of Saii-bory.
the terms of bail read in a very low.#. the clerk, and then On the 7th instant, at Yarmouth, Fuller Farr, Esq., of Lom
left the office unnoticed. She never raised her veil, or tooked bard-street, to Miss Lacon, daughter of Sir Edun. Lºcom Bart.
up; but from a passing glimpse, her face appeared pleasing: On the 7th inst., at Littleham, bevon, Charles Gifford, Esq.,
1.er age about 32. - of Parker's-well-hºuse, Exeter, to Mary, eldest danghief o
Fairfax Moresby, Esq., of Stafford-hire. -* *- : -

AccIDENTS, or FENCEs, &c. On the 9th inst., at Hampstead, John Spencer, Esq., of Bak.
Sºfº, Bucks, to Julia, only daughter of the fate James Lawrence,
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M.I). - -

Execurion.-On Tuesday morning, at 12 minutes after eight

o'clock, the three criminals, Knight, Morris, and Tingay, who ‘.Sir . At the Municipality, Paris, Miss Hammet, daughter ºf the late
Benjamin Hammet, of Lombard-street, to Monsieur lienry
were capitally convicted in October sessions, underwent the sen Montesquiet. - - - , - - -
tence of the law opposite Newgate, in the presence of a great ... On the 13th inst., at Stoke-Rochfºrd, Frederick, the eldest sen
erowd. Wm. Knight, who was not more than 17 years of age, of \Vm. Manning, Esq. M.P., of Coube-Bank, Kerr, to Elizabeth
was tried for a highway robbery and convicted. Morris was a Edmunda, eldest daughter of Edmund Turkisr, Esq., of Stoke
watchman of Camden-town, and in conjunction with the servants Rochford, Lincoln. - -

ef Edward Cºulow, Esq., robbed the house of a great quantity of On Thursday, at Highnam-court, Gloucestershire, Robert Har
pate. ‘l’ingay, atias Cripps, was convicted for stealing three
heifers. The Rev. Mr. Cotton administered the Sacrament to vey, Esq., eldest son of Sir Robert Bateson Hurvey, ſºrt.of Lang
gley-park, Bucks, to “Jesuina Jane, only daugiter of the late
then. When the unhappy men ascended the scaffold they were John Raw Callias, Esq. of if atch-court, Soumerset. -

remarkably penitent; but the ad Knight declared, that although Friday, at St. Pancras Church, Matthew Holmestºn. of
he had led a most dissolute and proſligate life, he was innocent Great Queen-street, Westminster, to Miss Eleutlor ºl is, cf
of the crime for which he was about to suffer.—After praying a Brunswick-square. -
few moments on the scaffold, he ejaculated—“I am i tr I - - -

*
an innocent! -Pºu see an innocent man suffer?” He then requested - DEATHS. ... .
- º
that a handkerchief-might be tied over his eyes, which being . Gu the 4th inst. Lord Hartland. . His Lordship was marries,
done, the ſatal signal was given, and the unfortunate malefactors in 1763, to the lion. Catherine Moore, daughter, of Lord Mount:
were plunged into eternity, and died almost without a struggle. Cashel, and is survived by Irer, Ladyship, by whom he has let
* Hyprophosis.-A third victim has fallen to the mysterious issue, Major General. Thdmas Mahon, now Lord Hartland;
malady called bydrophobia. About five weeks ago, it, was Major-General Stephen Mahou ; and the Rev. Maurice 'Mahon,
mentioned that a child, nine years of age, residing at the Perth out of the Prebendaries of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Road, hºt been bitten on the cheek by a dog, and that the bite On Fridey week, at Melburyłłouse, in Dorsetshire, the Coun
had been removed by a surgeon. “Seventy tours (says a tess of lichester. - -

respectable correspondent) had elapsed from the time of the bite

ba Sunday, at Paris, after a long and paiaful illness, the Couns
before the excision was accomplished. The recent wound made de Beauharmais. He was the sºn of Madame de Beauharnais.
by the knife was constantly bathed with epid water, for a full well known for her different amousing, literary productions, and
hour, and an emplient pontice was applied over it. Next da
the wound was washed with ºxymuriatic acid (liquid chlorine), was cousin of the Empress Josephrºw. " -
Oa the 6th inst., of a typhus ſever, Richard Langley, fourth
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and its edges drawn together by adhesive straps, with a view to sou of Marmaduke Dayrell, Esq., of Camps, Cautioridge.,
make the cicatrix as meat as possible. Two days aſter, a com On-the 4th inst., at his' house at Islington, in his 30th years
plete adhesion of the edges of the wound had liken place. The Sarnuel Charrington, Esq. . . - - - *.
girl took taxatives and thirty drops of liquid chlorine three times On Thurºay week, in Gower-street, in his 86th year, the Rev.
day. At first, there was more swelling in the face than was to I}r. William Morice, Rector of Allhallows, Bread-street. -

be expected from an ordinary wound of much larger dimensions; On Wednesday, in a fit of apoplexy, while transacting bust" .
after the excision, the pañ and swelling rapidly abated, and ness at the West-India Dock-house, Mr. Keatish, of Cornhil.
socia ceased. About a week after the wound was healed, the Dr. John Wolcot, so well known in the literary world under
cicatrix was destroyed by lunar caustic, and the eschar allowed the name of Pºren Prwear, on Wednesday night, at his apart:
to fall off spontaneously. The girl continued upperently well meutsim. Somers-town, after a lingering illies; which coeñued
and playful. It was observed, however, that her sleep was dis him to his bed, in the 81st year of his age. -

turbed; which excited the apprehensions of her medical at On Friday, E. H. Seymour, Esq., whe was many years ºpe"
tendant. Ou Saturday morning last, on attempting to swallow the provincial stage., ile was the author of “tremarks, Critica'i
tea, the characteristic symptoms of hydrophobia inauifested Conjectural and Explanatory, on the Plays of Shakespeure.”
themselves; pain was felt ºn the wound, and in the side of the At Woodhouse, in Scotiant!, on the 19th December, Mr*
head. The sympton's increased with occasional remissions, and Ballantine, of Sunny acres, in her winety-ninth year. She has
one complete intermission of about two hours, until Tuesday left afive 6 children, 27 grandehildren, 44 great-grandchildren."
morning at eight º'clock, when she died. In this case, neither and has buried 1 child, x0 grandchildren, and 4 great-grand
imagination for the medicine employed can be charged with children. The number of her remainingaleseeudants is 77 ; and,
having thwarted the natural course of the disease. Those who including the deceased, they amount to 102.
have seen all the cases which have occurred here ſately, have been Marguerite Reinaud, lately, at Thoulºuse, at the age of 117
struck with the exact similarity of the symptoms, notwithständ years, she was born in 1701, was married in 1791, and became
fºr the diversity of rank, age, and treatment ;--a circumstance a widow in 1735. She has lived free from infi inities, and
which,' while it shows most distinctly the specific nature of the preserved to the last moment the fuli use of her faeºlºie: t º: -

disease, also shows how launentably distant we are from . principal occupation was spinning at a distaff, which she evº
thing like a-cure; aud that the malady, when once established, tinued until the day before her death.
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On Friday, Aſred Ravenhill, aged º: the son of Mr. Printed and published by Jonx Higsº, at the Ex?” offe
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The pºrtſc AL ExAMIN ER:
the gain of a few. Pors; but the Nation: the §:. How can it º:chmity
Party is the madnesseſſmany for*-*-i
who are doubtless aſ groaning from mºrningſtiffni ght:
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afich,”—hºw ºff Divine Providence ‘bi 6 |-to” h;

... . . . . .'; T a-ºº-º-nº .. . .. . . .. | visit the nation with ºt &lamity" in .#* -
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does the fiatiºn shºw that a călimity is upºn it, by exhi.”

tº-isº
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:gasion las ºnacºrian REAgn. ºgºn atºmi of alteration in its proceſàſhàºd'
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would say) we paid our respects to what is j focks? What miai, in the nation is opejoſ iº. -

- called the Speech, that is, the utterance of a voice as dis the QºS isºad? Who looks the paler or the note:
... Hagished from the accompanimeat of a meaning. The downcast? Who eats, drinks, or sleep; the kiss, of tºen.
. Speech in our resent number is zealous in maintaining think ºf 3ng mºnent.
it's character; for it's confessed object is to avoid topies' perfect indiffrence?"My .iv.pkpool, in his ºbºe
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that may be discussed, or rather, in other words, to say as , shews himself conscious that this part of §.
little of anything as possible.—a mode, the most ingenious sentimint,
... that could be contrived, ºf shewing the talents of the sentiº
it wasexplanatioh.
he Speech wints hot a He said,º:
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we proceed any ſurther, we are obliged to triots person at the lead of he dºeigenſ: fºasio:
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loºk at the said Speech and the debates that follow it, and "a mere effusión #. but an important ºffic
cannºtºpica;ing a great sigh. Never did poor Tarr feeling, the éxistéfice of º:
he existéfice which they were bºund tºp- -
Wilkissos heave a greater, when tottering down in his |ſº particularly in tº like thée. We
herºus ºmitigation, of a moraing, he used to go, to the ºf ºgº Biºpºſed tº
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www.adiook up, and see tajn set in for the day, and private virtue afforded the most satisfactor gº *ar *5

.**urn anay with staring eyes and his mouth down at | public priñtiple. It obedience to the feeling suggested ... by
--the comes, exclaiming— “Qh Clinist "–Not that we this admission, the Speech was $8 famed as
denºtepsº a ſittle more fiveliness than listial from the scribed;”—that is to say, frameå #3 ºbt
** Parliament; but it is impossible, at the moment, to fertifice of opinion; which said differentº
gººd of ancient and almost desponding recollections aſ Loſdship, Atºthe yer; moméât.
ºf ºachelyaws of ſittle typº, which again; reverse; most anxiāº; #######ſis fººt * --

rains ºf the daily papers like a Scotch mist, find drives: #3: the hºſis ºf a dile:hina. :."ºr "wºx ºn 1.x. #ys.”
all out holiday chi-chat in doors. And oh this unlucky; & Spaffaii boy to no p
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º fº, ſº pubh pººgle §: , . - Fº
-hypochondriacal second sight does it not sadden us with!: ‘ānā isºthongº so; but by eone so in
* Cºming ºutts cast their shadºws before. " : sons to have tº $o' With the ghºſtićg of ºblite -
The clºud compelling-Speaker, shaking his awful but principle," whº are iſºtorious, in his fidrºipº; owie.
- Phèdºurls; “impregns the showers;” and down they 'sense of the word, for their deficiefty in private vitae,
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ºne taking ºthe dirt and cºmmonplaces about}: #es, lººmmissiº, ºniº Añº *gain,
fourt, and º;
one blot of all the airy newspapers.jpſi aféviſite may be the gºintº indº; ** *:::::::
There gº my toid Einos and others, clacking itsioſig iſ then it feinaiºs to be settled in what this ºf #evatºr "but -

Paten; Andilap; at that strangeset of Genºeſe, who consists; and high. I hºp may be ºf; that “ſ,
plash through thick-and-thia, as if they took an absolute. ºnes like these”, a ºrrible ºff reſcº ºf of ion ºtºdº
File in being dirty!: They seem to dimple, like the |.&ist . . . .the
tween yºnd tº -a-.
the very ºf & wor: * *
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F. Bººk
filler, fºr jºyº; Aid there comes that eterhal fellowethe. shipſet
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is the preseit.” We shall thröw forth a few remaiºs idiº 'a deſper mài studionºid gºing aſſ; thig Pºi
gºſsilen--The first piece of informatiºn wººde: cºlºr on the ºbject, but withhye they been in printº Ex
win the Speech is a sufficiag specimea ºf that ºrds: ceedingly col and figura. #ifº Rºſorines were not
-hli oſ insingerity, which . º has
so uh ticitºrſ, it was assuredly hººf ºrith;-their teeth
immerably pointed out as inſecting all our civil and re chaueréiſºr very icinº; + We are *:::::: this in
"lººs educinai. The death of the Quees is spoken of 'sificerity and eam, which at the same time, out of an over
is "the severe calamity with which it has 1. consciousness of itself, keeps insistiag upon it'ssiacerity and-

Prºct. I §§§ſº Tickººthº, it layºrale, ate hot for "times .

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guarantees most required by “times like these" are the knowledge of character. It was not so deep perhaps to
* , public exhibition of truth, liberality, and want of selfish assign to the particular defect of indecision and disunion
ºness. Other virtues cannot so readily be seen, and may the reason why such Ministers were unpopular notwith
. . . . . be much disputed: They may lie:hidden like her MA standing the climax to which the country's military glory
ºsesty's collection of shawls, cold winters not excepted; had been carried under their government, a glory, says
. . . . and be of house but to the moths.” º º Mr. Macboskid, “which it would be a most paltry spirit
-- *** Therest of the Speech, and of the Speeches of the Cour of party to underrate.” “Now we think we may venture
… is tiers and Ministerialists, is remarkable for nothing, but to say that we ourselves are not actuated by a paltry spirit
--~ common-places and omissions. The Earl of WAawick of party; neither do we care twopence for the Mini
ºpened them with a prodigiously inane, step by step re sters, or for their opponents as mere Anti-ministers:
- *::view of the former, the items of which he seems to have and here we may as well observé, that when Mr. Mac
: “ . . wequired to as drily as those of a bilſ. “It is with great posalp regrets the “malignity” which the “disinterested"
... ºegret he fºund that they had still to lament,” &c., and in this country occasionally evince (meaning, we presume,
“it was also with the deepest regret,he found himself Mr. Coagett and others), he might have alluded to the
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** º*** most fancy him saying—“My Lords, I was going to selves to be contented,—the hireling writers and toad-eaters
* , -º-speak of the East Hidies; but I find that matter a little who are so angrily satisfied, and somalignantly comfort
ºf ººlower down:-instead of this, my Lords, I find I have to able. Yet we are among those who think very fittle of
sº be very melancholy with respect to paragraph 2.”. His the country's military glory, or of those who cover us with
* ... ºf ordship began with the usual insificerity, by “regretting. it even to suffocation. And the reason is, first, because
... -- that the task of moving the Address should have devolved brute force is the meridian of all such glory; secondly, be
º, ºttpoſtone who had toiament his own insufficiency;" and cause military conquerors may be very foolish men, as
* -- then proceeded to shew that he did not think himself in “ times like these” havéparticular grounds for knowing;
: * ~ *sufficient, by going on with a task which he need not and thirdly, because the military glory he speaks of has
have undertaken, “Times like these” are too sharp-sighted been obtaified by the unworthy, descendants of inde
-- * : *; * for
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this kind of mutual egotism, that
uni egotism,
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under the pendent
goes on***
that g of thoseand uncorrupt
remaining old Englishmen,
liberties which the upon
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.*.*.* mask of modesty.º. º. cº-º-º-º-º: º-º-º-º-º-º:

*** A Mr. Bāowstow, who moved the Lower House on themselves could not dò away;-a cause of success, with
which Ministers have certainly nothing to do, and which, if
ºde. Addressi made ratheran ambitions outset in dullness,
* * : *d will doubtless settle at lastinto a mightypersonage. No. our memory does not deceive us, Mr. MacDonato him
… " : broad contented face ever exhibited a more easily satisfied self assigned as the eaúse in one of his speeches last year.
- “...expansion than the Honourable Gentleman's speech, beam The reason why the Ministers are thought little of by the
* - ºing as it did with every species of happy complacency, people is, because they are instinetively felt to be very
-
**- : * and delightiagºits, ears with repeated sounds of Royalcommon-place persons, whom nothing but luck and cor
. . . . . Highness, and Royal Authority, and his Royal Highness's ruption have put where they are: *
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… ...'Governor, and the Most Noble the Governor, and his Ma: ****, *, * tºº. tº
- ...º. Powers,
Ministers, and his Most Chàstian Majesty, a
and presiding wisdom, and every B.*
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º MR. COBBETT AND HIS DEFENDER.
-: heart.-ºbroad,” Mr. Brownlow informeth us, “we.
have an unexampled concord of nations: bound together sº. ºthkºpfron of run exaxissa.
Sik,+The+ºng defence of Mr. Cobbett in your paper
. . . . . . by the most holy ties of alliance, by their duties towards of last Sunday . some answer, because it contains
. Gob, and the people; whom they govern;–At home, many false assumptions, the contradiction of which will
* ** fieńce, affluence, and prosperity, and above all other bless render most of the writer's arguments inapplicable to the
“...ings, minds and dispositions calculated, to enjoy them.” subject...... .....' ... -.

Lord+lord'ſ with what bliss of mind this gentleman must No Pai sets out with asserting, that the author of
º “ent histcast! He certainly thinks that every man in Spital the letter to the Electors of Westminster is either Sir
* ... ." Fields keeps a coach as well as himself; and that the in Francis Burdett, ºr some one uttering his sentiments and
acting for him. The answer tº this rash assertion is, -
‘‘, ‘reasing numbers who are hung at the gallows, regard it that the authºr of that letter is as ignorant of the Honour
-- ... .only as a pleasing suspense… . . . . . . . . . . . able Baronet as his opponent declares himself to be of Mr.
. . . The only speechworth anything was Mr.MacDonald's, inct. Ah the comments of M "...º. defender on the Cobbett; that is, he knows him only by his public con
‘.ºs.
. ; He
the chief points of which will be found in out abridgment,
seems to be what he describes Mr. Baobahaw, in Alledged baseness of Sir F. Burdett in publishing the cor
which are ſounded on this false and º:
ºneticing the gross and self-betraying.9mission &f th# †espondence,
assumption, are therefore, so many-waste words. he
* atte‘s name in the Board of ºnqūrying Public Chari. correspºndence in question eame circuitously into m
. . . ties, a man of talent and in earnest…His description of i.; Sir Fº could know nothing ºt its pº
iministeriałindecision and in fact wanto perception in all lication until he saw it in the papers.”
ºatters connected with what may be called the intellectual º The next assertion is; that the correspondence was pri
administration of the country, was excellent and full of a ºvate, and confidential. Whethera letter be private or not,
depends entirely on the contents; and it is ridiculous to
* * “Her Mººre had an immense collection of beautiful and pretend that it would be improper in any man to make
-
- costly shawls, many of which at her death were found moth ublic whatever had been sent to him in the form of a
eaten.”—Daily Papersº-" Lay your treasure up, where moths tter. There is a distinction not easy to be described,
*-auaº cºrrupt”—Bible. - - - -- - -
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my betraying of confid
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kept secret and what may be disclosed I. The Defender
... Now the letterin.
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charges me with having falsely#g";
attribute
letter,
- contains º: which would alone fully justify which Mr. Cobbett speaks of as not having reached him so
its publication; besides which, the circumstances attending late as October 10th; 1818, Now I never said, nor can
it were such, as plainly showed that the writer did not my words be construed to mean, that Mr. Cºbbett had
twish concealment. It was sent to Sir Francis, to be first not attacked the Honoureble Baronet before; but I said,
-read º
and then transmitted to Mr. Tipper; it and still think, that the letter (whether it reached him, or
awººd certain principles, which ſhe writer challenged and whether he knew by report only the contents of it, is a
*iºcontroºr; and as those were the principles on matter of no consequence to the argument) was “one
which he intended to act with regard to all his créditors, it main cause" of his late excessive malignity. I am not
might-fairly be presumed that the writer intended that all perhaps so accurate in dates as my adversary, but I, was
of them should be, made acquainted with them. At any ||jºined with the principle facts mentioned by
rate the Editor of the Mºrning Chronicle thought so; for lun. ” -º-º-º: - sº º . .
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-ºn º: letter to Mr. Tipper and the answer of Sir Having answered (as I conceiva) all the main charges of
Francis before his readers, he said, that the former was ad Mr. Cobbett's deſeñder, I shall now point out the paltry
. . firessed by Mr. Cºbbett to his creditors generally; and I misrepresentations in his letter. In the first place, he ºys,
have little doubt that yºur readers, on pºusing the letter, that Sir F. Burdett hastwitted Mr. Cobbºt with his obſga
'ºohsidered it as such. With regard to º Cºbb tº cºil tions to him: if he uneans to say that Sir Francis has done
for the publication of the correspondence, the Defender so in his answer, the assertion is false; and if he means to
** a great deal of weak sophistry. If I allowed (which say that the Reformer and therefore the Baronet,(being
“I dº nºt) that Sir Francis was wrong insuffering copies of the same) has done so, it is equally false; and though he
the letter tº be circulated, still it could not but be right to did not know it to be so, he has merited the reputation of 4
ºthat which Mr. Gobbºtt called for as a fair and proper falsifier by asserting in this confident manner what he did
†. Mr. Cobbett did not complain of the circulation of uot know to be true.—Secondly, he has grossly misrepre:
the Baronet's answer: he complained only of its being cir. sented the meaning of Sir F. Burdett's answer, which is, he
ºulated without his letter; and demanded that they should says, in effect this:– “You may do as you please; but if
be pºlished together: How then, could it be mean and I have not my bond, I shall consider your principles ridi
*nfair to inake them public?, Really it appears a waste of culous and your ºld
not help your
time to refute such empty talking. aggravated misfortunes; yºur family iºnoſhing to me;
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that I at first intended to publish give me my bond.” Sir Francis, as No. Partizan well
†hat part of Mr. Cobbett’s letter to Mr. Tipper, in which { new, did not talk thos; whether he is paid orpot, could
*declares his opinions ting the obligation to pay his make no difference in his opinion of Mr. C.’s principles:
*** ***hought that the suppression of any part might he does not, besides, demand his money; on the contrary,
sºon that something qualifying was omitted, the worthy Baronet declares, that he will notiºnvenience -

- and the as there was nothing in it of a private nature Mr. Cobbett for it. Tiere is caudour.!-Thirdly, the
. ...ºf which the writer appeared to wish kept secret, the whole Defender insinuates that “the Reformer...or rather the
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Baronet,” has misplaced the Italics in the borrespondence.

: º sorrectness of Mr. Cobbett's first principle—that What I have said respecting the first accusatiºn, applies to
he has no moratobligation to pay his creditors, his advo. this also: it is not true, and he asserted it without know
cate expºses, some doubts, and attempts to confuse his ing whether it was or not—Fourthly, Láin said to have
“readers by talking-of-the-difference between the nominal spoken of Mr. Gobbett's inconsistenºy is a grime, whereas
and actual amount of the money to be returned; this has I only blamed his fierce intolerance, in sauſting ºthers for
nothing tº do with the question: Mr. Cobbett says, he is thinking as he himself formerly did
Bºhound to º: The 9ther declaration of Mr. cused of eating my own woºin firi *aking of his
I am ac iº
Qobbºspººfing the ample provision to be made for his talents, and afterwards of his faults. What is there con
... family before he pays his debts, is represented by his de tradictory in this? 'Cantot a writer beat once a clever
- º ºnedºt, having twº duties to perform, he wiłł and a bad man? . . .
ºn that w high seems to him the principal; and not
... tº: to lash ºver
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| the Defender, “is called upon neither to be fed himself into some :.
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it useful - *ś
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dºself.” till he has repaid borrowed money. to expose Mr. Cobbett's d
y said any such thing. The degree of enjoyment, equally deplorable want of h
able want of principle and
and thus render harm
ºh makes all the difference between the justice and in less any attacks bú might vetitºrs tº make on the new Can
justice of back the loan, is here studiously kept out didate for Westminster. *I askº-Is, it’so unreasonable to
ºf sight. Sir Francisłent Mr. Cobbett money, I suppose, suppose that Mr. Qobbett will assault Mr. Hobhouse, as
to preventhis being harassed ºr ruined. This was a posi soon as he learns that that gen
…tive good to the laſter, and therefore, had Sir Francis re is the friend of Sir-Francis
hiº by, and
º, Has not Mr. Cob
ºrived the money again, Mr. Cobbett would still have bett of late repeatedly endeavoured ºbºg into odium the
been benefitted for so º
it had been in his bands. Sir friends of Sir Francis, for no other reasºn, that could be
Francis a perfect
rºe, though it does nota r that
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payment at i. perceived, than that they were his friends? Did not Mr.
as done so. But. Cobbett the other day stigmatize. Mr. Douglas Kinnaird
º: in Mr. § bett to take advantage of the
-as a toad-eater of Sir Francis, without bringing forward
situatiºn ºf his creditors, and refuse payment, until itshah bne solitary fact in justification of such a scandalous im
be perfectly convenient; that is to say, to Émidy aſ the putation ?-To º: ionoxious such probable attack of
Thenefit; º:lent him, and º of lºº: Cobbett was certainly the principal motive which in
his tºmfºrts in order to repay it, although thºse comforts, duced me to address the Electors of Westminster: but
ºbserve, have? ped for him by this very money.* it was not my sole one. From an attentive observa
...This is less: to defen principles as: tion of Mr. Cobbett's conduct and writings, I was com
...these is: rººf bind infatuation or a depraved pelled to conelude, that in spite of his peculiar talents, he
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...-- ºrrº this obvious truth, $ºrous person. ... I knew that he was conceited, violent, in
: had act the Defender accused Sir Francis of assuming, without tolerant; changeful, revengeful, and ungrateful;-that he
..ºrºon, distºpsinºpies ºf Mi. Cobbett were unjustifiable. ºnes, men, and patronize the dishonest,
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sº #. Cobbett; his Advocate #. of the ºś li ;: but he is wavering
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Fair EIGN INTEEEIGENCE.T. others,
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5the death of the Queen of Würtelsulberg,
: after an. lenge was eviñted, Herºwāsº Öhat issult offered to
'only five days. The fat: di š was a violen any individdar whatever:*r "the principal cºttom-' - - - -

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of bdur earlie'this evening.” This kept maily fliousands from the
place ºf meetiág-[Andher ..., § that athéon at least.”
#5yaltwho
will be deeply lamented by her own Hustrious family,
can appreciate a well-informé i0,000 persons were presentº.”.”
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was the favoitite sister of the Emperº Šid, whö, ; UNITED PAR####|NT.
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… AMERICA-UNITED STATES... . . . . ... The Prince Regent º;;4di. *iot comé down to the House, at
| Commissioners the Itoya ! speech. The jº
TNºw York. Dec. 27-The affairs between Spain and Usher of the Black Rod was s int tº Commons to summon
that House. The fol ow .
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seat the basis of a Treaty, by which the owinges ºf East * “In announcing to you the sºvere culinity...w ſh which it has
pleased Divine Providence tº visit º the Royal
gº º jº. º:Hst the American |-accepted the terius, Family, and the nation, by the death ºf her Mºsty Jºe”.
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with some modifieations.
daries are nºt yet settled. : Commissioners to adjust
un to of the United Kingdom, his Royal Highngss Gascººded "*.
direct your Huention tº the consideratiººf
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*A*āngīzī; hºw been appºinted. * * 'wah respect to the cure of his Ainjesty's shºred ſetsº:
this melancholy, event has rendered, necessary and espºttie",
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| - “We are directed to inform you, that the negotiations which,
Phºtsci.ſi. INTELLIGENCE. have taken place at Aix-la-Chapelle have led to the evacuation
of the French territory by the allied armies. . . . . . . . . . .
...--> #:Fºotnikiºğlu,
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and Air; iiuut, whatever may have egºs errºrs
is the Prince Regent has given orders, that the conveuſion,
concluded for this purpose, as well as the ºther documents cº
* - ited liimself iu a.
conducted lººr. thly praise nected with this arrangement, shall be laid hetore yº; and he
tead ºf inciting the º ºck much pains to, is persuaded, that you will view with peculiar satisfactiºn the
worthy; instead
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near intimate unión which so happily subsists auangst the Powers
histºwn, in an open barouche. At this 'p ace he was inct by a whº were parties to these transactions, and the unvaried º:
isºlation of the Reformers from this town, who un º tion which has boeu manifested in aii their proceeding for the
hacks in his carriage, and themselves buckled to..., Å. Jalſ preservation of the peace and tranquility of Eurºpe. . . . . . . .
*alsº accompanied, all the way by repeated, hºzºs frºm “The Prince Regent has commanded us further to acquaint
**ſatiled thousands, the crowd reactiºd the arena (St. Peter's 'you, that a treaty has been congluded between lºs Rºyal High
*-Mr. Hunt first mounted the hastings, and after tº anking mess and the Government of the United States of Anjºrica, fºr
ºfeſſiliº iºnour they had conferred onlúm, in §. glection the renewal, for a further term of years, of the c Hercial
*** fill the chair, begged that no one would uttempt to in convention vow subsisting between the two natiºus, and fºr tº
*Hºſhe pºssedings of the Ålesting, by calling ºilºuceſ" amicable adjustment of several points of mulualºpºrtance tº
***hºd ever fºugd tº be the greatest anºyance, is theſisterests of both countries; wuxi, as soºn as tº ratifications
ºn alluded to the Boroughreave having refused a caſ, the shaft have been exchanged, his Royal Highuess will give direc
**ing on the requisitiºn which had been prescited to him; tious that a copy of this treaty shall be laid before you... . . . .
*ad rºarked, that they were galled together as fºly an * “Gºtemen of the mouse of Commons, " . * : * . . . .
*litutiºnally as if the municipai authorities ..". pr º
**Theyear
price
shallRegent
be li. has tirected that the estimates for the f, * * - *
*... “Sowe gºleºn (Mr. Hunt ºbserved) had proposed º id before you...'. - . . . . . .. . .
P*-a petition to that!!ouse of Coimmons, which, when ...;
*lei, had kicked their prayers ***** t ºf dºors: Fºtis Rºyal Highness feels assured, that you will learn with
W º submikazaiwº tº petitiºn, that Heiße; ºr ºild disfisti&n the extent of reduction ºliº.
present situation of - -
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they came forward as men—as Englishmen—and demand their nº urbse, "aid"the circumstances of the fish: Entire, have
"shºf. (Here the word Remonstrance, from the assembled litu- ; j, his Rºyal Highmäss to effect in the navarulid military
cuts of the Gun, . . . . . . . . . . .'; . . . .
**, drºwned the vºice of the orator; aſid it was agreed that *iſis ...? lighness has also the gratification of announcing
*remºnstruce to the Prince Regeht should supersed the peti to yºu; a considerable ..". emºtivº dº the
* hat had been prepared. A remonstraßee was quickly
ºught forward, and unanimous yed.) Seeing some of revenug, in its most importan* --isichº *** -* * *****,
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********ithe grºund, Mr. Hºur, begged, ific people . . . • “ . .”.”.e.

would not offer them any insult; they were their countryºnet • ‘Titº Rºdirected to be is: I befºre
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***Englishmen. “Wherever I go (said Mr. iiuul), ºvern
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operations undertaken by ſº Giºrºl. i. §§ ..º.º.º.º." -

guard." Mr. Hunt concluded by strenupas'yºuſorcing the against the Pi 'ºï the striciºtº Hºx t in the extºwed hºsitiºns which ſº
*y of a prompt and efficient muster of its fºe. of self-defence;
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(Native as well as European), rivalled each other in sustaining of opinion might arise. The Noble Marquis had enumerated
the reputation of the British arms. . . . .. - several other topics into which the speech might have entered;
“The Prince Regent has the greatest pleasure in being able to but the house must be aware, that many of them could not have
inform you, that the trade, commerce, and manufactures of the been introduced without provoking that kind of discussian which
cquntry are in a most flourishing condition. it is desirable at all times to avoid in addresses to the Throne.
.
“The favourable change which has so rapidly taken place inHe (Lord in the feelings which had been ex
Government had
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the internal circumstances of the United Kingdom, affords, the
ft out
respect g me evacuation of France,
mention of the negotiations
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regardiug the Slave Trade.

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strongest prºof of the solidity of its resources.

“To cultivate and improve the advantages of our present at Congress, from no desire to shun discussion, but from an opt ->
nion that the present was not the most-proper opportunity for
situation will be the object of your deliberations; and his Royal entering
Highness has ºed us to assure you of his disposition to #. wouldupon
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it. What had been done at Congress on this sub
concur and co-operaſe: in whatever ma beefits best calculated to be laid before their Lordships on a proper opportunity.
secure to his Majesty's subjects the full of that state of { He congratulated the House on the improvement in the revenue.
peace which, by the łº. Providence, has been sº happily It was the duty of the Administration to endeavour bring to effect such
re-established throughout Europe.” * : * ~ * reductions in the public establlishments as would the ex
penditure within the income. This was an object which had
At five o'clock the House again met. never been out of the view of Ministers.
- - The reductions since’
The Earl of WARwick moved the address, which was se the peace were unprecedented. It was not common for any taxes
conded by Lord Saltous. Both speakers went over the prin to be abolished during the first years of a peace; but since the
cipal topics in the usual complimentary manner. … last peace no less; than 17,500,000l. had been remitted. The
The Marquis of LANsnow N did not ſeel himself called upon to Noble Marquis had made some observations on our curreney.
offer any opposition, to the address, but he regarded himself There was no man in the country more anxious than himself to
bound to state a few considerations which it presented to his see our currency restored to coin; but at the same time he had
mind,in reference to topics which had been omitted. He would felt a difficulty with regard tº the most proper occasion of putting
first observe, however, that he entirely concurred in what was an end to the systein on which we had §: been acting, both
stated in reference to the evacuation of the French territory, and during war Another difficulty was, an unfavourable º:
relied for the continuance.of peace on the present state of France. state of the exchanges. Some maintained that the state of the
The communication from the throne would have much better exchanges might be altered by the Bank, and a favourable one
pleased him, if it had assured them of proper steps having been created. Hito the discussion of this opinion he would not now
taken to complete the abolition of the Slave #. The message euter, nor would he deny its justice; but, if attempted under
had spoken of the improving state of the revenue which afforded such circumstances, it º: produce much distress. He had no
him satisfaction ; but the prospect was by no means such as to hesitation in saying (as we understood the Noble Earl) that, son
relieve them from anxiety'respecting the state of the finances, or sidering the present state of the exchanges, and the progress of
to induce them to relax in their º: for economy. The the pecuniary operations alluded to in last Session, he thought it
improvement of the cofisolidated fund, as compared with former impossible that cash payments could with safety be restored on
years, had been stated at 8,000,000l.; but the Åctual surplus was the 5th of July next. If such should be found to be the ease, it
only between 290,000l. and soooool, and that was more than would be prudent to extend the Bank Restriction Act till the suc
eat up by preceding deficiencies, & Even calculating the improve ceeding Session. With regard to the Bank prosecutious for forgery,
xnent of the revenue to its fullest extent, it would not exceed 53 he had only to chserve, that a Committee had been appointed on
or at most 54,000,000l., while the expenditure amounted to the order of the other House; and that this Committee had pre
68,000,000l. Thus there would remain a deficiency of 14,000,000l., a report, stating that plans had been presented, by which
a sum equal to the amount of the Sinking #. He must ifared forgery could not be rendered impossible, it could at least be:
regret that the speech communicated nothing respecting the rendered extremely difficult. The Noble Marquis had alluded:
state of the currency, a subject of far more importance than to the execution of Arbuthnot and Ambrister. At present ke
any increase of revenue, inasmuch as there eould be no perma felt the impropriety of producing details which eould not be de
ment improvement of the revenue, without a revision of that sys liberately examined: he would, however, state that the execu
tem which had for years been the law of the country. It might tion took place without the authority of the American govera
be said that he had only to look at the Statute-book; there he ment, if. without their knowledge. - -

would see that the Restriction, Act would expire in the present The Earl of Ligdendale could not feel the extreme satis
§. In answer to this he had only to refer to the past. He faction proposed to be expressed in the address, at the flourishing
would ask, whether, after all that had happened, any one could state of the country. There had not been such pains taken to
rely on the resumption of cash payments? This was not a finan reduce our expenditure which it was the duty of Government to
cial question of an ordinary kind; it went to the foundation of have taken. We had now 30,000,000l. of taxes, withont in
all property; it embraced the consideration of the safety of all cluding those war taxes which had been rendered permanent.--
tlasses. Their Lordships would have also to take a view of that The Noble Earl deprecated the want of commercial treaties with
severe and dreadful pennt code (Hear, hear ), by which the the continental nations. He recollected the promises of the
system of paper currency, if it longer exist, must be upheld. Noble Lord opposite, that the Bank Restriction Act would ex
Any further uncertainty on this vital question would be attended [. on the 5th July next; but for his own part, he had never
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with dangerous consequences, and he therefºre felt himself now en taken in by those promises, knowing it was in vain to ex
bound to call for a distinct explanation ºf the views of Ministers, pect it, while the present mint regulations continued.
He could not sit down without adverting to the relations between The address was then carried mem. con.
this country and the United States of America—a nation, of Lord Livenpoor gave notice that he would down a .#
which he always wished to speak with respect. It was impossible message on Monday respecting the Windsor Establishments.
not to recollect transactions, which produced no slight sensation Adjourned, " " . . . . . - - - --

in this country, as they involved the sacrifice of the lives of two - -

British subjetis. He could only speak from what had been pub House of cox{MONs.
lished as the proceedings of the military commission by M. -

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who was a pretence

There might be taken for ap
Fº military law totried...
these persons were Ambrister, with arms in • * Thursday, Jan. 21. .
is hands; but none with regard to Arbuthnet. It appeared to On the return of the Speaker from the House of Lords, he
be one of those taked acts of violence which disgraced those by read the
wheth it was committed;—With respect to the war in India, it * SPEECH FROM THE THRONE.
appeared not to have been undertaken from a spirit of conquest, Mr. Brows low rose to move the address, and entered into the
ºf in resistance tº aggression; and the manner in which it had usual review of the various topics of the Speech. The address,
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#. conducted did honour to his Majesty's arms:“In conclu which was a mere echo of the Speech, was then read, and
sign, he could not help regretting that sºme important points of seconded by Mr. W. PEEi. -

iñternal" policy, which must necessarily soon conse under the “Mr. Macdonatowished the address to pass unanimously, be
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ween ºmited in the cause it was in someº respects an address of condolence; he
ºt-º-º-tº . . .
should however offer a few "remarks on it. The speech, with
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afesty's
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Marquis. It º naturally the desire travagant and exaggerated picture of the prosperity
West on which a difference
to avoid subjects
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in the navy and army. Those reductions, which some time ago ºter of decorum, was laid before his Royal Highness the Prince
were said to be wholly impracticable, were now alluded to as §: The opinion of the Privy Council had been taken, and
matters of necessary economy, but which he should contend, if the discretion of respiting or executing the sentence was after
not made, and to a considerable extent, would render Ministers: wards wested in one of the responsible advisers of the Crown.
deserving of as impeachment—(Hear, hear!)+Mr. Macdonald That Minister had seen no ground to justify a respite of the sen
censured the expensive mode of collecting the taxes, which only tence. It was from a perfect knowledge that the prayer of the
encreased the patronage of Government. It was welt to hear, application could not be complied, with, that the petition frºm
that this year there was more paid into the public treasury than i. had not been forwarded to his Royal Highness. He .
thought it his duty to transmit the petition to idnouth as }.
in the precediugi but it would be much better to learn, that
there was less paid out of it.—(IHear, hear ()—All the reductions he received it, and as if he had been entirely ignorant of the .
which had been so much vaunted of, when executed, were the subject. Some few hours were lost by his accidentally nºt ad-.
result of a disagreeable alternative to which Ministers had been ºverting to his post letters immediately on their arrival......
forced—“...that or go s"—(Hear, hear, )—an alternative which | Sir H x PARNet1 regretted that no prospect was held forth .
they never hesitated to comply with, to the preservation of their in the speech of a union of his Majesty's £º and Catholic ºr
places—(1/ear, hear !)—It might be true, that the public revenue. subjects throughout the empire. Inless this question should be
was last year greater by three millions and a half than in the pre settled, Ireland could never be restored to peace and prosperity, ,
vious one; but it was equally §. at it was less by two mil He trusted, therefore, that the House would regard. this subject :
lions and a half than that of the year 1803; and even with a as a question
sperity
sinking fund of fifteen millions neminal amount, there would still of the of the utmost importance to the‘.harmony
empire. . . .”
and pro- . • * ~ ** *

be a deficiency. But admitting the prospect to bºfavourable, . . Mr. TiERNry, after a few observations, gave notice that he
yet, while he saw it accompanied with such evils as existed in would on Tuesday, 2d of February, move for a Committee to in
the depressed state of some branches of our mamufacture, while #uire into the state of public credit as connected with the Bank-A
he witnessed such a dreadful increase of crime in every part of "paper system. . . *** - -

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the country, whilst he perceived what he might gall a ſegitima-. The questibu was then carried, * --
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nºt but think that $º. find something better to do : BANK FORGERIES.
Sir JAMEs MacIntosh wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentle- .
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than congratulating the House and each other on the prosperity

of the country.—f Hear, heart)—If a Noble Lord (Castlereagh) man, whether there was any report made by the Commission ap
had been in his place, he might be disposed to enquire into the pointed last Session to inquire into the means of diminishing
details of those national conferences said to be undertaken for the forgeries en Bank-notes. -

benefit of all, but where only the interests of a few were con The Chancellon of the Exchequen replied, that they had
suited. He might ask, whether a whole ustion had not been an made a report, that it had been laid before his Royal Highness,
nihilated by those high professors of religion, and "justice and that it would be laid before the House in a few days.--Ad
Whether a member of that Holy Association had not evided the journed. **
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execution of that principle in which almost every power in 'Friday, Jan. 22. * -

urope concurred, that the traffic in human flesh should cease? , Mr. Lawson said, that it was with considerable diffidence he
Whether Louis dir-huit bad done that in France which Spain her put himself forward on the present occasiºn. But still the im
self under Ferdinand himself had been brought or bought— portance of the trust which was confided to his hands, and the
[4 laugh)—to consent to He might ask whether he, who had conviction" that he was bound to use his best efforts to dischargé"
been the last lingering opponent to the abolition of the black it faithfully, gave him confidence ; and therefore he embraced
slave trade in his own country, had uot given to the Govern the opportunity of taking the sense of the House upon a Petition,
ment a reasonable cause to suspect the sincerity of his inten the first presented to this Parliament, which he held in his hand.
tion in advocating its total abolition in another The Honour “Nay,” continued Mr. Lawson, “start not, Mr. Speaker, at the
able Gentleman then alluded to the Commission appointed sight of parchment, nor imagine, from what I am now about to
to inquire into the abuses of charities, and censured the omission present, that you’ are about to have such an accumulatiºn of
of Mr. Brougham's name in the list. He spoke of the mischief Petitions as .daily poured in upon your table in the fast Parlia:
of the paper-system, the state of the Criminal Code, and the ment. This is the beginning of true and radical reform—(Hear,”
exils of the Poor Laws. On the subject of the Catholic claims, a réform—not, Sir, of the House over which you so honourably
Ministers affected a neutrality, resolving neither to come to any reside—but—of a Yorkshire turnpike-road.--(Ilear, and much
qughter.)—The petitioners, it is true, have, like other reſormers,
concert amongst themselves respecting it, nor to giye any decided
counsel to the Prince their master. Under a Government con gene upon a levelling system; but upon other grounds: they
ducted on such principles, the country must be constantly wish that the trustees, who form as well the representatives as
exposed to dissensions and internal danger, and the personal the executive power, may have an extension ºf their authority.
character of the Prince himself brought into odium and dis Their prayer; however, was not for economy and retrenchmeat—
repute. The Ministers of the Crown had never yet enabled they sought not to have their burdens lightened—no ; but,
their Royal master to appear in a popular light, but, on the auxious for the public, good, they wished to have their burdens
cºntrary, had even gone so far as to stand between him and the increased.—(Hear, and a laugh.)- Mr. Lawson went ousto show,
petitions of his people. They had on a recent occasion declared, that this, from its inportance, ought to be considered as a public
that their Royal master had delegated to them, the discretionary. question. It prayed for a Bill to improve the line of road leading
exercise of the best and most personal prerogative of the Crown to Harrowgate—the metropolis of a northern county i and to in
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that of mercy. - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '.. : crease the toll to deſray the expense to be incurred, It must be
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The Hon. Mr. Clive said he rose merely in consequence of an evident to all, that it was of advantage to the public, that there
allusion made by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Macdonald), to the . should be such a road leading to this place of resert for fashion
exercise of the prerogative of mercy. Lord Sidmouth had re as well as for health,’ as might prevent the delicate nerves of its
eeived directions to act as . should think proper, but not before visiters from being too much shaken in their pastºs teaudfºom
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the case had been fully examined by the Privy Council, aud, it—Referred to a committee. . . . .. . . ----- . .
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their advice sanctioned by the Prince Regent. Mr. M. A. Tavuot presented a 'Petition from several inha
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Mr. MA.coonald explained. A petition had been transmitted.

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bitants of London and Westminster, praying for leave tº bring in,

from Liverpool, 'signed by uine bankers, on behalf of an unfor."a Bill to establish'new water-wºrks, in oppositiºn to the mºno;',
tunate man, who was then under sentence of death. It was con poly of that necessary article which at present existed—Referred
veyed to Lord Sidinouth through the mediation of the Right Hon. io, committee.’’ ‘’’ ‘’’’ ‘’’ ‘’’ ‘’’ ‘‘ ". . .
Gentleman (Mr. Canning.) His Lordship's answer contained
these words;–"A similar petition has been already forwarded ... AGRICULTURAL PETITION: … . . .
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to his Royal Highness, and I have been bonaured by his com: Sir Graand Noel presented a petitiou from the landhºlders
roends to act in the mode most consonant to my own feelings and of the county of Rutland, setting forth that this cºunt ised.
judgment. It would be unnecessary therefore, even if fine per sufficient means of producing an abundant ºf
mitted, to forward this Petition to his Royal Highness.” ‘’’’ description, for all its inhabitants, . having recours eeo
Mr. CAxxisg was desirous of stating some of the circumstances the aid of other countries. They prayed that a selºt
attending this cases, with regard to which the Hon. Gentleman might be appointed to ºniº matter; and in ly
appeared to have fallen into a mistake. The case had undergone of their being able satisfactorily to establish the § that
an attentive investigation before a full Council. During the in: such protection-might be afforded to them.** was o y the : said
terval, several Petitious were presented, one
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of which, as a mats. manufacturers, merchants, aid traders. The Hon. -
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lie was table.
bn'the not p rt-Ordered
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to tie J. Bell, Church-street, Spitalfields, bombazeen manufacturer.
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Tſie subject was recurred to after some other business, when, H. Richards, Beaconsfield, carpenter. Attorney, Mr. Tuckcrº
in airswer tº a question from Mr. Cxicitºr, respecting the in Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn.
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tention of Government gh this point, " ". J. Bootli, Oxford-street, grocer. Attorney, Mr. Hindman, Ba
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Mr. Rohrsson said, he thought it proper to make a distinct T.singliall-street.. .” -

Fitzgerald, Saint
eyewal of the view in which the subject was considered by his merchant.” Attorney, ,
Catharine-street ship-owner and provision
Majesty's Ministers. They were decidedly of opinion, uaiſonly .J. Kerubt, Castle-street,Mr.Leicester-fields,
Pulley, Crown-court, Broad-street.
druggist. Attorney,
that it would be unadvisable to igitate suéh a question, but in - - - --

... Mr.
case of aliy proposition being brought fºrwärd, would meetit. 'I', Hindman,
Luíey, Basinghall-stree
Wapping, t. . Attornies,
naster-mariner * -------->
Messrs. Greg -------

with their most determined resistice, (hear, ſtaff). They son and Fotillereau, Angel-court; Throgmorton-street.
locked upon the lastineasure as one ºf sºund legislative policy; Gloucester-terrace, Whitechapel, merchant. Attorney, . .
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but they would consider it to be the height of imprudence to in: N.J.)avis,

Mr. Blandford, Burton-street, New Bond-street."
troduce any new measore. ". ! --- T.-------' " , -
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Mr. Baownlow brought up the report of the address to the T. Atherton, Liverpool, tanner. Attornies, ‘Messrs. Adlington --
Prince Regent, which was read, agreed to,” and ordered to be and Gregory, Bedford-row.
presented by such Members of the House-gs are Mcnibers of the J. Still, South Island-place, Brixton, merchant.
Attorney,.Mr. - - -- -

Privy Council. - " * -- * : *-

t.
Leachmān, Basinghall-sirec * : *- : * * :
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"The CHAxcellow of the Exchequen brought up the report of: º

the Cºmmission appointed to ruquire into the heans of prevent raics or stocks on saturpay. - - - -

ing the forgery of Bank-notes.-Ordered to lie on the table.-- s per Cent. Red. • 79; 3 per Cent. Cows. ........... isłit.
Adjourned till Monday. . . .
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w, R., Liber et Liger Alis, an Obsenver, and other Commu
nications, have been received. ...
TUESDAY's LoNDoN gaški TE. In the Defence of Mr. Cobb Err by No Partizan, instead of a
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letter inclosed to Mr. Tipper, read it's, inclosure;—for nominal

. . . . . . BANKRUPTs. account, nominal amount;—and for neither fed or clothed, nei
F. Collins, Xew Fishborne, Sussex, mealman. Attorney, Mr. ther fed nor clothed. -

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Huhne, liq}born-court, Gray's-inn. . . . . .” The Editor will enquire into the mistake. respecting Mr. B.'s
II. Lucy, Tupsley, Herufordshire, builder. Attoruey, Mr. Pew -Document. * - " .. - - --> - * -

triss, Gray's-ſlin. . . . . . . .
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We have received accounts of some straige threats, which the
R. Bradshaw, Maneliºster, check-manufacturer. Attorney, Mr. Surrey Magistrates have thrown out against the Venders of
Shaw, Ely-place, Holborn. Sunday Papers. The name of one of these Gentlemen sur
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J. David, 'I'liteaducedic-street, merchant. Attornies, Messrs...} prised us:--we thought he had been a man of more good sense..
, Kºight and frºm pºsiº. - - -
Of the rest we say nothing at present; but we happen to know
T. Riichic, Air-street, Piccadilly, merchant. Attoriies, Messrs. something of the officious movers of Surrey affairs, both latcal
Evans and Bārtrain, St. Mildred's-edurt, Poultry. and clerical; and if they persist in wishing to be made as ridi
J. Brunner, Birminghum, patiºn-manufacturer. Attorney, Mr. culouses some saiutly predecessors of theirs on this side of the
Bousfield, louverie-street, Fleet-street. . - - -

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BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. T.
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J. L. Bogea, Shooter's lii!!, Black Heath. -- -

- Londos, Jaxoany 24,
. BANKRUPT's. . . s. -
Connert will have a fine hearty laugh, when he hears of
J. Durliam, Lower Shadwell-street, Middlesex, butcher. At
tornies, Messrs. Bühl, Halles-street, Cavendish-square. the answer about the Résumption of Cash Payments given
J. Wanson, Gravesend; coach-maker. Attorney, A rºyatman, by that coy oracle Mr. Vassirrant. The air of affected
Arundell-street, Strand. . . . : * - -

non-chalance with which he slides it in, is very amusing. -

A. Hardie, Union-coºrt, Rroad-street, merchant. Attornics,
Messrs. Nind an . Cotterili, Throgmorton-street. Mr. GRENFell on Friday night “wished to ask the Right
S. Wertue, Mark-lane, corn-merchant. Attornius, Messrs. Sud Hon. Gentleman to what period it was his intention to
- low, Fºundis, arid ºº:: restriction.
- * propose the continuance of the The CHAN
N. and tâ. Gardner, Gºrcester, bakers. Atterney, Mr. Becke, cellor of the Exchequea replied,
Beyoºshire-street, Queen-square.” : ,, -
that it had been his
J. T. Oxenham, Oxford-street, mangle-maker. Attornies, Messrs. intention to bring the subject under the consideration
Kearsey atºspºrr, Bishopsgate-street-within, of the House on Thursday next, and to propose the
| D. Richards, Mann's-row, Baw. Common, manufacturing-chemist.
- ‘Attorney, Mr. Yeuner, Upper Thurnhaugh-street, he iſord. extension of the restriction to the 1st of March 1820;
but as the notice given by a Right Houourable Gentle
square." - º -º-º-º-º-º-º-º-º- -

T. M. Keats, Poirºtry, iº-manufacturer. Attorney, Mr. Bland man had induced him to postpone his own motion,
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H. Witſiºs, Duke's-street, Bloomsbury, wine-inerchant. At he thought it would perhaps be better to leave the ques-,
torney, Mr. Younger, Wellclose-square.º. tion of the period open for the present.” Now, thinks he
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R. Swis, Gainsbºrough, Lincºlshire, merchasiſ. Attorates,

. Messrs-Eicke and Evans, Aldermaubury. . ..." *
to himself, the ... is out; and I am a little easier. I
J. Brewººds, straw-hat-manufacturer. Attorney, Mr. Ash have fixed the time, and yºu done it, as it were, indiffer
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ley, Lord º Exchauge, . .. . ently, and appeared to unfix it again. The 1st of Marek,
J. Garver and W. Peº, Basinghaii-Street, mérchants, Attormies, 1820 ! That is to say, We will postpone it for such a
Messrs. Jacombia Hey, Basiughall-stree
w º son, Upper
- #º t; ra ſºn. time as shall cnable us to palter and pretend in the mean
Attornies,
N ºc, §. fash;hull-street. while, and ostpone it again.” In other words, the Bank
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s. fººts; + - - ºut. Attºries, Messrs. cannot, ºf never will resume their cash payinents; and;
jºir.º-3
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rsetshire; innkeeper. At
Consert will fairly enjoy the laugh which his repeated
cº-ººººº prophecies have so repeatedly made good. These post
... Attormies, Messrs, pohéméuts are like an eteriſal telescope: The gaping .
***** *-º-º-tº a
- spectators fondly imagine that bit aſſer bit is the last that.
is to be drawn out, and that they shall see their promised.
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prosperity through it; glittering like a golden planet:-- SLAveny.−From Dominica some painſul, documents
but bit after bit still comes forth, and when they catch a have arrived, relative to the treatment of the unfortunate
glimpse through it, the magnifying power appears to be slaves, The facts appear to have been printed by
of the House of Commons, on the authority of t for.
so exceedingly great, that they can see nothing at all. vernor of Dominica; and the publication of them. ms.”
We have nothing fresh to notice in the opening-of-the the subject of “much surprise" on the part of -->
new Parliament, except the debut (if the presentation of a nial House of Assembly, as also of a civil, though ra
Road Petition ean be so called) of the young Member for cool, correspondence between the Speaker of that,
Boroughbridge, Mr. Lawsos, of whose promising and and Governor Maxwell. When we read gºa.
15 years of age being tortured by a chain of irònºuñd. * *
entertaining speech to his constituents the reader may re the
collect our account. Mr. Lawsos has, kept his word; two neck, fastened by a padlock, and weighing. *. -

inſant girls, only 12-years old; much markt

and already cracked a few refreshing jokes by way of
cart-whip, fastened together with iron chains 7
specimen. We hope to hear him soon upon more im neck; of an old, man, 60 years of age, severe
portant subjects, on ways, which are much, dirtier, and and placed in the stocksunder a heavy chain; fina
rant a great deal more mending. ... -, . ... ** male child, about 12 years old, loaded with an ironc -

There is still no news of consequence from abroad, chains, and log of wood, weighing 261b. 1-when we read? .
of such abouminations as these, we must wish that eithers
The chiefs and monarchs on the stage of the world produce the accounts may be grossly exaggerated...or that thaia: .
as few novelties at present as those on our mimic ones. It flictors of such cruelties might, for a fººtime, befºrced.… -

is all Brutus in one hemisphere, and Baron Munchausen. to change-conditions with their slaves, if it wºo
in the other. * * * *- : . . . . teach them the use of power by making them feeliisab
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(ºr The Assembly of Dominiga have affe afted toºlbút the -
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accusation, thrown out against some of
Yesterday the Paris Papers of Monday, 'Tuesday, and licated in this charge of tyrannical treatment to the slaves,
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Wedn arrived. They ºommunicaſe another royal #;". to the bar the person complained of, and pnea.
death, that of the Queen Mother öf Spars, MARIA of the negroes, who had suffered. This
Themesa, -consort of CHARLEs IV. and the mother of not deny that he had chained the slave; but he says that,
-- º:
Frapisasp VIIth. Her Majesty expired on the 2d the chain weighed less than 4b.; and the poor negrº (who
instant. No public business-of any importance has been, still remained under his management) is represented - -
transacted in either of the French Chambers. The Funds. mitting that a chain, produced by Mr. Cross, r
have mainlaimed a steady price at about 68ſ. . . . * . that with which he was loaded. From this on
The Salisbury packet has reached the autport from the Assembly infer, that in all the cases specified, th9 -

Leeward Islands. She brings accounts frºm St.Thomas's, had seat home erroneous information to the King's Mini-, -, -
of the 34th ult, with intelligence from different parts of the sters. They seem desirous to have it understoºd, that…’
Spanish Main. They assert; as well as those by previous slaves in Donjiaica are as comfortably situated as those in
arrivals, that Lord Cogmas; had reached the West the other islands.-- .* :, . * .

Indies, and was at Testigos Island, with two 74's, two At a dinner on Tuesday, at which about 100 persous:
frigates, &c. A letter from Admiral BRio N, of the 16th were assembled, in the Crown and Anchor Tavern, to ce
Dec. does not, however, confirm this statement, and we are lebrate the triumph of WARD, Holmes, one of the per- -

still inclined to doubt its correctness. : Admiral Baton sons who had been imprisoned during the suspension, of . . . .
observes, that he hopes as the rainy season was over, sqme the Habeas Corpus Act, ascribed his imprisonment to his
decisive blow would be struck, and that the Roynlists efforts to detect-Oliver. On the 37th of May, Quivertº
would be obliged to evacuate that part of South America, was at Nottingham, and had frequent and langinterviews.
It does not appear, however, that any fresh victories had with Baax prºvii. On the 7th of June he appeared there:
been obtained either by one party br the other up to the again, called a meeting-of the Reformers, and told them;...' ...
middle of last November. . . . ' ' "... -- that the revolutiou-sa happily begun in Yorkshire had
***- :

Bonaparre-A report is said to have reached Bo been stopped by the interference of Government, and that
iminica, by the way of Martinique, that St. Helena had he had with difficulty escaped. Hoises, suspecting that
been attackell, for the purpose of rescuing Boxarxtºrt. he was a spy, contrived fo get him into another meeting,
from his captivity, and that the force thus employed had by alleging that he was suspected. He came to that meet:
succeeded in its attempt. Now, although we do not con ing, and having been hard pressed by Holyiºs, hedºclared
sider this to be entitled to any belief, it may not beautiss that he was roady at that moment to erect the standard ºf . . .
to notice the rumour, corresponding as it does with a freedom, and implored them to bestir themselves, or the ... .
project of this kind that was supposed to be in the tontem poor mea of York would be all murdered. When asketh
plation of some of the ex-Emperor's ſimily, aided by the why then he should hurry away from them, be replied,
exiled officers who had served under his cofirmand. At that if any person would go for him: he would stay, bºt.
any rate, we can state with certainty, that Bos APARTE was. none else could equally perform his duty in Fondon. He
at St. Heléna on the 17th of .
accounts of which had always deluded the peºple; by delivering to them, ai.
had reached England in the month of October last.—Bar pretended message from Sir Fºsqis Buhºtt, Major
badges paper, Dec. 8: ..., * : * ~ : " , ; . . . iCARTwangºr, and Sir Rogeºt. Wilson. Alr; Cºahº -

on Aristºre had his round tablé. It was made entirely PEARson, the solicitor for Mr. WABD, stated, that lºsing -
of porcelaine, with the exception of the leg, and its surface been much impressed by Lord Castkºłłąan's statement,
was nearly covered with portraits of Conquerors. This he had goneté Nottingham to ascertain, tobiºsis: . .
table, which he left eitheral the Tuileries of St. Cloud, has faction, the real reharacter of Wann. He found º -

been sent as a present by the King of Fraser to ſhe whose motives for halinghiniwere not obviºus and discrer .
Paisce Regenf: it is nºw at Carlſon house.—Evening iditable to them, loved and ..º.º. ºr . .
Paper. º-- - ºverality had been impºached by represeating that he
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A Correspondent says, that Sir War. Curtis, being in his petition, complained of his: hºst
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complimented the other da on his philosophical endurance in fact it was guite, an Elysism.º.e, ºxami ed: that . .
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of the loss of his seat in - §§ observed in reply, ling

dubgeen,
up the aciąally filled his hand with wate º:
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Casir PAYMENTs.-The important question respecting * Usury an No Usuay.—Qhe important question (says ---.
the resumption of cash payments will º be brought be a Cor ndent) to the community at large, grows out of."
fore Parliament. It has long engaged the public atten the two-fold verdict lately given in the Exchequer, whic
tion, and among other pamphlets on the subject, one has is simply this:–Are the persons, who upon the first opi
just appeared from the pen of Mr. Chambers the banker. nion given Baron Richands, ma ave bought Bills
º. contends that the speedy resumption of since proved to have been concocted in usury) liable to
payments in specie by the Bank would be a fatal ºi the penalties of usury? and if so, have they not a fair ac--
and he is also of opinion, that the country at large woul tion #. the erroneous propounders of the law? It is:
be greatly benefitted by a still greater restriction-on the manifest, that hundreds might have thought themselves .
importation of corn-We are very far indeed from being. justified in acting upon his first decision. . . . -

-convinced by the arguments of Mr. Chambrits; but as he FINEARTs.--We see that Mr. HAydon intends shortly
has had much experience in pecuniary transactions, and as to exhibit the drawings of his pupils, Messrs. Landsfer
his character for candour, disinterestedness, and generosity, and Bewick... The object of the exhibition, we under
appears to be unquestionable, his deliberate opinions on stand, is to impress the public mind with the nature and
such topics deserve a respectful attention. • principles of preparatory study, on which the old masters .
Bank Restruction Note—A Bank-paper note has proceeded. . -

just been issued by Mr. Hone; which ought to make the DR. Wolcot.—On Thursda the remains of this well
hearts of the Bank Directors (if they have hearts) ache at known character were deposit in a vault of St. Paul's, ,
the sight. It is altogether a curious publication. On one Covent-garden, and ...; to the desire of the deceased, <
side there is a check of fetters—aud the little old-ugly" .. as possible to those of Burlea, the author of Hu
Britannia of the real note is transformed into a mother § 20rus. - * - - - -

vouring her offspring—Underſhis fearful female are seen Mr. Rogers has a Poem immediately forthcoming; th
divers heads nearly encircled by a rope, in the place of the title is “ Human Life,” and we are assured that the pro
“4°1.”—The right side is taken up by a tremendous gal duction is worthy of the author of the “Pleasures of
Jows, to which eleven men and women are suspended;— Memory.”—Mr. GRAner has, it is said, closed his poetical
Over their heads these words appear:—“I promise to per career with a final Poem, entitled, “Recollections.” This -
form"—and under, “During the issue of Bank-notes new work has been purchased by one of our principal,
easily imitated, and until the resumption of cash pay publishers, with the intention of editing a complete collec
ments or the abolition of the punishment of death.”—Be tion of Mr. CRABRE's writings. The excellent bard has
neath the whole “For the Gov. and Company of the received the liberal price of 3000l. for the copyright.—
Bank of England: JACK KETCH.” Scotsman. - -

Biplº Mosoroty.—A numerous meeting of Publishers,
Booksellers, and Stationers, was held on Friday at the
Globe Tavern, Fleet-street, to take into consideration the
attack made on the trade with regard to the sale of Bibles,
Prayer-books, &c. There is a law, which forbids the
The boxes of the Opera-house are all newly painted.
The mouldings of the compartments in the pannels over
the first tier are richly gilt. The ground on the pannels:
over the second tier has been re-touched, so as to throw
the groups of figures more into the light. The 5. -

selling of any Bible, in any tongue, not printed at the of the pannels over the third and fourth tiers are aſternate
press of the King or the two Universities. For two or blue and pink; The cieling remains as before, but the
three years, bills have been filed in Chancery by a patentee gilding.pn its borders and on the proseenium has *
against persons (chiefly in the retail ...} selling Bibles refreshed. The tops of all the boxes are festgo an
and Common Prayer-books printed at Edinburgh, and we should º se that when the theatre is lighted, the
lately those also printed in England. One hundred in appearance of the house will be brilliant and cheerful. . .
junctions were obtained last term, and ninety are entered The terms, demanded by Madame CATALANI ſor her
for this. . It is contended, however, that such measures talents at the Opera-house for the ensuing season, were, a
are illegal, and the judgement of Lord CLARE, in the case sum of 5,000l. a benefit to produce 1,000l., a coach, a
of the King's printer at Dublin, is cited. He had said, dinner of 14 covers daily, if liberty to sing at Conperts,
that he did not know that the Crown could grant such a &c. as she pleased.
monopoly.—After, some discussion, a committee of 12' - HARTLANB: the Drury-lane Clown, met with a serious
was appointed, with full powers to do whatever was requi aceident on Thursday evening, whilst performing in the.
site to terminate the prosecutions, and a subscription was Silver Arrow, in consequence of which the run of the
entered into, to enable them to proceed with vigour. His antomime' is at present interrupted. It is but a few
conjectured, that the great body of booksellers will petition evenings ago, since ELLAR, the Harlequin, at Covent
Parliament, in order to obtain some modification' of the Garden, broke two of his fingers in taking a leap.
present patent—Various speeches were made in the course Miss Soxſenyiºls has resigned her articles at Covent--
of the business, but nothing remarkable occurred, except garden Theatre, in consequence of Miss O'Neill's refus
indeed Mr. MAwman's airs of impetuous dictation may be ing to perform *: in the new Tragedy of Mary
so considered by those who are not aware of that person's Stuart-Sun, - - - -
usual demeanour. * . . . . . . .-- i. The following is an accurate account of the late changes
* A Member of the Highland Society of London (who in the Police of the metropolis:–Mr. CoxANT, from
left his native #: at twelve years of age) has addressed Worship-street, succeeds the late Mr. BURRows at Marl
a letter to his friend in Edinburgh, inclosing a bill for 50 borough-street; Mr. Rogers, from Lambeth-street, suc
nds sterling, to be given by Messrs. MANNeRs aid ceeds. Mr. LeActſ at Hatton-garden; and Mr. Sergeant
ults, booksellers, Edinburgh, in prizes of 25l., 15l., Sellan, from Union-halſ, succeeds Mr. Turton at Hat
and 19t., for the best compositions, in verse or prose, on ton-garden. The new Magistrates are—Mr. Swaazy, at
the subject of Wallace's inviting Bauce to the Scottish Worship-street; Mr. Rawiissos at Lambeth-street; and
Throne, which he wishes to be so expressed as not to give Mr. Baugh Allen, at Union-hall. º -

&ffence to ºur brethren south ef the Tweed; and suggest e are authorized to, state, that the paragraph we
ing that there might probably be introduced into these noted in our paper from the Observer, “that one of th
compositions the propriety of erecting a tower or monu Members of Colchester, who was lately elected on the pa
ment to %. ...”. h tº: º: 5..." triotic interest of that borough, had accepted the Chiltern
i. Jor, which he would ieave a
thousan º: to assist it.--Scotsman,
y of a
hundreds ppon an understanding that he is to go out to
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Waan v. Cleari:Nr, Pºornieron of the Onserven.— .. Cannery is doing all in his power to prove, that none
lºis Hot a little curious, that the Observer, (the Proprietor but himself and Mr. Hgn:r, aided by a Parliament from
of which has just now been found guity of shamefully the labouring classes, especially manufacturers, caft manage
hºling a suffering and worthy man) is the identical paper the affairs of Great Britain, Like a Turk; he will bear he
which Mr. W.M. Coasert lately so deliberately advised brother near the throne, but as soon as the smallest show.
his own readers to take in, as a fit companion, to the Re of popularity attaches itself to any name, out comes the ',
fister. Now, as no one, will accuse. Mr. Consert of club to demolish it. Mr. BENTHAM, Alderman WArtil-t
ignorance as to the political bias of the Observer, is there May, and Sir Robertºr Wilson, have all been belaboured
not something suspicious in this his strange recommenda of late. The great fault of the two last is, that they are
tion? It is true, we believe, that Mr. CEEMENT himself vain men; as vanity and its companion egotism, Mr. Cop
has no political opinions—his object being merely to get bett peculiarly abhors! ...As to Mr. Benth AM, he has ab
a large sale for his paper: and this we infar from the ſol solutely said, that if the people at large possessed freedom.
lºwing among other facts:—that while he was scattering of choice, they would choose persons of fortune and in:
abroad, in the Observer, such al matters-of-fact as fluence rather than “such men as Hunt and Consert.”,
were most agreeable to Ministers, he was actually a prin It was a joke some years ago to call Mr. Cobbºtt, Jack'.
cipal agent of Mr. Cobberr for the sale of his Weekly Cade, ºdat that time it was a very poor joke; but, truly,
Registerº-Mr. CobhFTr's admirers would do well to there is aot a little of that renowned leader of the Com
reflect a little on these mysterious acts of their idol. There mons of Kent in his incessant attack of all other intention
were other papers, which Mr. Coppért might have re but his own. For instance— . . . . . . . . ".. .
commended to his readers, on the same plan as the Ob Cade–And now, henceforward, it shall be treason for any that
server, and selling at the same price, (the Englishman for calls me other than—Lord Mortimer... “ . . . . . . . . . . ." ..
one,—which, by the .."; is much better conducted than Enter a Soldier running. * * * - 9: “ 3
the Observer;) so that Mr. Cobbert, one must suppose, * Sold.—Jack Cade 1 Jack Cadel - **, * - - - … "

had some particular reason for wishing to give an addi Cade—Knock him down there. [They kill him.] ... ...a
tional circulation to his agent's publication.—That Mr. Lord Mortimer, in this case, signifies the only man who
ClexisNT might wish to turn his disposition to oblige both can govern this country, or some such modest assumption;
patrons,—Mr. Consert and the §.”. good ac and the running soldier, is any unfortunate pretender to
count, we cannot doubt; seeing what is before us:—each popularity who ventures a surmise to the contrary. Every.
might indeed be well able to gratify the Observing Man's Register cries “knock him down,” and all that is wanting,
well-known desire of “getting-on in the world.”—But is an attention on the part of the people to the pithy stage.
‘hough Ministers may not suffer him to be an immediate direction.—Chester Guardian. - *** . . . .
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oser by expensive trials and heavy damages, the goºse OUTRAge on Quakers AT CARLow.—As a number of
quences of putting forward slanderous matter, furnished, it females of the Society of Friends were lately coming out.
should-seein, . their own agents; yet, as Mr. Clement of their Meeting-house at Carlow, they were assailed by
may have heard, it is rather dangerous to put ones trust a vile rabble, who, not content with using such missiles as
even in Princes, much less in Ministers of State or their fell directly in their way, raked the very ketinels for filth
Runners; and he may in the end find himself a loser by this
double §. Even then, he would not be the first tool and ordure to heap on the persons of these respectable
ple... The Roman Catholic Priest of the town, the
É. WM. Fitzgerald, addressed his parishoners next
who had been left with a tarnished character and diminished
resources, to ponder on “the vanityof human wishes"— Sunday on the subject of this outrage, in the following
Qur readers must not mistake us. Though we do accuse terms:- - * - - - " - . - -

Mr. CLEMENT of having served two Masters, yet we are “My very soul is harrowed up at the recollection of such an .
*3. far from imagining that he wished to serve both : abomination 1 Some of those wretches are said to be Catholics;
* God and Mammon.” Nothing like it. . but I disown them. Christianity disclaims, and Catholicity abº
Mr. Bºrt yesterday moved the Court of King's Bench hors them—they are the excommunicate of civil society. Sneh
wretches, in Jerusalem, at the time of the Fº of the
against Mr. GRoss, the Barrister, who had been detected Messiah, were the first to cry out, “Crucify JEsus!" (an ex
in falsely stating, in his brief, delivered to Mr. Cope (Mr. clamation of horror ran through the congregation). Such wretches . º
Burr's solieitor), that he had defended a Rule for Mr. in Constantinople, would be the very dregs of Maisomethin
Burr, when that gentleman was in prison; whereas their fanaticism. I thank Gon their number is small, and I am sure
Lordship's own Rule of Court declares, that Mr. CRoss they are the vilest, the lowest, the foulest dregs of the people.”
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absolute against Mr. Butt, who had to pay the costs. on THE. curtailing the cARToons *... ." -
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—The Court said, that they could not proceed without of RAPHAEL, To FIT
The PANNELs in BUCKINGHAM-House. *.
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affidavits, which Mr. Burt promised to produce on Mon C. :

day, when the business would come on again. . * * * *(From the Morning Chronicle.) '
On Saturday se’nnight, an indictment was presented to The Ancients suck'd cruelty een to the dregs,
the Grand Jury, at the Old Bailey, against R. Carlile, ... “Their custom for ever accurst is— .
for publishing PAINE’s “Age of Reason;” and a true When men were too tall, why they out off their legs,
-* As witness the bed-of Precruites. . . - ----
bill was found.--The prosecution, says the New Times, - - -

is instituted at the suit of the Society for the Suppression But now, the whole world ºur humanity strikes, ’’
of Vice.—Here is a gratuitous piece of officiousness!—It For, shunning such terrible strictures. .
is not enough, it seems, that the Government (which is of We let the man grow just as tall as he likes,
course interested to do so) persecutes every body who º Confining refrenchment to Pictures. ---
flares to publish anything in opposition to established #. O' happy the nation, so wise and so chaste,
mas, but a self-created Society, affecting to be formed for ‘Whose Princes the Graces so nourish ; ; ;
the “Suppression of Vice,” is the first to endeavour to With them so abounding in exquisite taste,” “….
suppress free discussion: Will such men never understand, *No wonder our Painting should flourish tº . ~ ** :
that to fine and imprison the publishers of obnoxious * For what has Visto painted, built, and planted?
works, instead of convincing the public that such works Only to shew how tastes he wanted. . -

are injurious, creates at once a suspicion of the reverse, by what brought Sir Visio's ill-got wealth to waste?.
showing that they are afraid to leave them to their own Some demon whisper’d—Vistol have a taste t -

tºget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "• *
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Tar Queen's Will-The : hamy House, whe notimeſtioned

Courier, in
that the Queen's will has been proved, and that lie-MA-Hºog
*...º.º. in her MAusgrx's Will, and
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* Esix’sº wealth did not, after all, exceed 140,000. - the halland, staircase display spine of the finest works ºf
dulges in ºn angry philippie against the “slanderers,” who: .."
º: º,is
Ai:Tri, painted when, he was in
"#.
will probably now. to the .#
repºrted that she died º:* f the occasion called for a and.
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display of the Gaurier's eloquence, perhaps those who do. Pºlsº Regiº's Collection.; The celebrated. Cartoons
not kāppen!d think exactly as he does, slibuld not remain of Raphael, were formerly placed in Bucki House, . -

altogether silent. To .umble judgments, we confess, aand it will scarcel be believed some of them were actually. '
it appears that: 140,000l. is .."." round . abridged to #. paſſpels!...They have since been re
Queen to die-worth, who had not a human ill creature****, moved to Hampton-court, where they now remain
longing tºller wanting a legacy, or who was not aunply Chronicle. . . . . . . . . -

froyided for by the same state which bestowed upon her || Pessions, And Roxaſ. McNipicesce-A Corre
MAJESTY,thºptoſusion of the good things of the world, spondent observes, “It has been said, surely without
qut of which she was able to make her savings....To be ſoundation, that the Regent uever countenances men of
'sure it is far from what her Majesty was supposed to be letters, nor bestows ope, shilling upon authors.” A case
worth, but it is farther still ſtain the Courier's estimate of has lately occurred in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, which
her riches. It was often repeated in his pages that 4000l. |affords a flat contradiction to this gross calumny.-Mr. .
was thºutmost extent of her Mausstv's riches. . . Now she Thomas HAgue, the Attornºy, so well known for his
died worth; thirty-five times that sum, and no one ever mphlets and placards, particularly for his attacks upon
said that she was worth thirty-five times her actual posses º: Prinče of WALEs, 5. of York, the late-General
sions. “Besides, it has not been proved that her M.A., Esty Fox, and others, appears to have received, and to be still
had not gived away considerable property without the aid receiving, 200l. per annum, by way of Pension, from the
of any testamentary, paper. The general impression is, Regent.—Et poºrquoi?--In, the canine species, there
that slº was always determined, for obvious reasons, to is an animal—we med: the spaniel—whose attachment
leave little to be arranged by a will. Herintentions might becomes the more manifestin proportion as you beat-hiin
have been mistaken; but even so, we must repeat, that —Is this the case among the higher orders of mankind?
what she has left is a proof that money was no hurtliento. And are Princes actuated by this feeling instead of being
*.
her. ... lf not feel more comfortable in the posses excited to do good by rewarding honest virtue? Credite
sion than the non-possession of it, there were some recent posteriſ We knew, that a foreign Qutlaw had received a
occasiºns upon which a little of it might have been got i. pension for having grossly abused Bonapan tº 3 but we
of, with sºme advantage to members even of her own ſa did not know that a native insolvent libeller had been ho
imily. A few dozen thousands of it might, for instance. noured with the same reward for having abused his own.
have spared the Duke of Custaeru.Asp a very painful immediate Sovereign—Yet so it is
application to Parliament, and they would formed a º: -
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pretty and avºry timely portion for qiſe of her daughters. . .

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A Queen of Eugland. i. wever, accºrding to the Courier POST OFFICE. . . . . . . * -

hould passess something gonsiderable, when it is fºund -ie- . . . * ~ -- * *
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jº successful Lawyer" (this, we suppose, is a º: --Mr. ExAMºser, Knowing you to be a statinehehemy

Sir Saugºt. Itówrity) will amass great wealth in a few to all abusé, I take the liberty of troubling you with the
years...We deny tºw position. The Lawyer has a family following fact, relative to the conduct of t le Foreign Ge- .
to provide for, and by what exertions and toil does le. neral Post. These men of letters, if you'take a letter
work his way to dists etion!. A Queen is a person placed with an invoice on the same sheet, charge you double post
in every respect in a very different condition; and perhaps age, on the ground offs being quite a separate thing. By
tº botrow a sentimeſtºrom a London cotémporary, the the same mode of reasoning, why should not every letter
times) the best proof of solicitade flat we could “ince which has any friendly communication and an order for
for the future character of such a pºisonºgº is to wish that: gods of any kiid on the same-sheet be charged double?
she had died penny'ss-Dºlin Hºekli Register. hy.should these gentry have snch, inquisitorial power
• Weare requested by a correspondqui, who appears to vested in them. To what pitch, Sir, will things betºfo,
be extremely well informed on the subject, and who ex at last?—Yours, truly, A Constant REAbsa.
resses his disgust at the barefaced attempts which have
een finade to blińd Rud deceive the public as to theatriotiht
of the property left-iny-her-late Mºsty, to inquire,
}. it º: fact, that ..º.& #. RENewed Meetixas of the philoso.
oxisočing, before leaving this country for the Continent, phical society of LoNdox. ... •
received ..". Royal Mol . 3. §: the -
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- value-of-aggry 300,000l. i. Whether hur Mºssºv, in . On the 8th instant. Mr. Joswiss Bañpen gave his
order to renove the difficulties which the unexpected vote first Lºture
Leº ºn the Circulation He coin:
of the House of Ǻmmons had thrºwn in the w y;of the thenced by a clear * simple accºunt of the structure of
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marriage of the lººks ºf £iagºsº, did not advance to the heart; after which ſhe circulatiºn was ificed from the
his Royal Highness the sum of 100,000l. 2. Whether the venous capiſaries ºfigh agricle, and heuce, by th
Duke of York has not, during the lºst twelve months, pulmonary artery, thrºug #".
the changes yhic
Sartaken equally of his Mother's bºunty ...And whether the blood undergoes in Hºseº gans were explaine .
lº Royal H º ºº:: its course raced through the pºſitionary veinsigte the ſºft
tain memorable a
some present ſtamm
*. periºd, receive a very hand wº ºu.
lºssº, Qur-correspondent through the aortainºpf ary system aſ the arteries,
mentions, that it is ver generally stated in the first circles, where he blººd, in is prºgress oftwards, is ºf the
that her ſtºyal His
and the ºther p º -
º: s ºf Gºgºşeştea,
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--allº the
§º
firc}gap
igh it was
f
first eins,
tracedon its return, viz. by
yeins so as toQ complete tº
ceived tº ºff.§º. circle. ºngººser
of their lip
a prººf o
afeñº, -Scotsman, explaine !, § the Lecºurs; §§
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sion of black and red bloºded ârcilation, as keeping the Māºr Roºf ºffice was not owing to sh fiſſiºh
phenomena of º -º; . :—llºw º §f others ... * ight tº
lack b
namely; ºtherebrºversion ºf black Pinto red;—and inferred from tºxira;
the converse; the conversion ofted blood into black-their re ºncé only ºf
ilished from m
el
otees beißstinct from each ºther; red blood compos: grºom, ſaw high the Captain of a vesselladeſ
º ... §:
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#: § jºy,
•

iºd decominosing. "...º. *The composi lºº

.*.*.*::::::::
tº Bºdy fºr the red blood was timinătis! : : iºnºtº, affºrtinºur, Jan. 28, 1819.
**-*. ****"...ºn ºf...sº
plºméº and the absorbent, and chyliſerajis systems, |''
chºged with the new mattér and with the old, were traced Loßbelleyborough's irſt.…,
to the point, at which they meet the returning current of , , º, . . . . … -- :: *
venºus blood, fit the junction of the laſt jugular and sub , Mr.Exºneº-You have cºmmended a l.***
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injäi .--

cavºyeins. The new matter which the arteriestdepo Will of iº §§§

sited,” said the Lecterer, “and which constituted for a as inimical tº virtue, and good order. Uh º
title the ; the frame, having become useless and arental aff
parental and, º
iable, and
t all ti
aſlºetion is at all times amiable, -

wiſtfit the purposes of nature, falſº away at every in think, the display of it, on the occasion alluded to, *:::::
stanția-successive and infinifessimal portions, or rather, tended, to render its object estimable in the e
isimbibed by the absorbent vessels, to be transported by friends and relatives of the deceased. But there is
themiałotherefºrning current of the circulation, in its .view of the matter which rendershis.Lºrdship's conduct, in
‘flow back againºtöthé heart; a portion of what was car this instance valirable; and ºrthy imitation. How many
theirteries was of course dissipated in exhalation .illegitimate children of the Nobility, Gentry; anº;
and secreiðr, in the wear and tear of the system, and at have been placed from time to time in
the fairfi!gºlets of the body; but by an economy at and there abandoned and forgotten for ever! There is one,
§: . *
ongewise and beautiful, all was redeemed that could be well known. Institutign in this metropolis at receives .
amed, a large portion of the refuse of the body's illegitimates in their infancy from their mothers: no-one
stores, which would otherwise be useless material, was who has ever seen and observed these children believes . .
worked up again, and the new fabric-was then supplied to them to be all the offspring of poor paren's,
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paren's, and
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a considerable extent, from the waste of the eld.” This sy few of them are ever noticed or º
stehttfööhtiºnal renovation was dwelt upon with considerā parents, perhaps not que in five hundred, and what can all
befinitiatiºn, and the doctrines gſ materialism cºnsidered thºse yºung persons think; when they come tº maturity, of .
will refºreſce tº these physiological facts. The structure. the civilization or mºrality ºf the country they ſizeiger
of the veins and arteries, was next explained; the pheno: when they find, on theºrie, hand, that they were received. *

mena of the pulse exhibited: and the Lecturer concluded: by this. ristitution from the hands of their mothers, and yet -

by it gº the afteries any muscular powers by which that not a creature in the world takes any notice of them,
they âssist thełéart's action, which he considered or enquires into their welfare! What can they think of
asthésbºnifeſting power. “The heart then,” he said, their parents?. They may, perhaps, charitably think, that
“was thégreitengae, which carried the blood tº the ex their fathers had some family reasons for their seclusiionin --

tremities # ié agric system, and the inańer of its re a public charity—that some policy, unknown to *... .
turn was not sufficiently explained to enable § ...to give a yersal law of nature, dictated the first act of separation; ,
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eorrect theory on the sūbject,” This force of so suiall: a but can they think it a virtue in their parents to forget them .
quantity of flesh cóuld not fail to strike even an incurious for ever, living and dying? I have known such persons, e

observer;
coerced byaany
force which,
power of according
the humantohand,
Borelli, cannot bbe when they came to be parents themselves, sit weeping over.
or stº y their babes, lost in grief and wonder at the rayity.and.
Tany weight ºf it could be placed upon it; which off cFuelty of their own progenitors: our's, s §. • * . .”
gººfi action iſnassisted" and perpetual, in an organ --- - ---- - -

Norvatº
- hours withºut being tired, and which, recruited -- -

by no alternations of sleep or repose, performs its yearly EARL GREY ANbºrrorw.º •* *

task, at-the-rate of 4000 contractions in a single hour.” ". . . nº. 2 -
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†:ſº: …MA.jöR ROCHEFORT. | causes which i. led to the present most crit cal state of
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**o the Rºtor of rite exAMINER. - tioned the defective state of the Representation ;—that
Sta;-I feel much indebted to your Correspondent,” Representation, whose coeruptions he oncé so bly ex
• Mr. Tucker, fºr the ver º has addressed posed, and whose infamous state of vassalºe he so fally
tº yºu ºf Mºjº Itoſºfort's, angelic virtues, whereof. and unanswerably demonstrated; in *:::::::::::::::
doubteşāūefºice will be taken by others, who, like which he presented so inflny years ago in the House of
myself, have experienced their benign influence. In the Commons!—In the fice of these recºrded §: he has ... - - **

mean time, I wish to call your atteñtion to the main ob-. noy the hardihood to tell the people º and, that it is . .
ject of my farmer communication, viz. the general ques to bad Ministers, rail; that to a venal Hoſtsegſ Gom
tions-of-the- ince, and the conduct of British Consuls: moſis, that they owe º which they have en-.
solititiagºſºsolje oné of the many contributors to the dured; and with which they are threatened?--His Lordship
columns ºf the iºniner such information as may lead. brought forward the events of the reign ºf Charles the
º; Fºllend the duties of these gentlemen, as sº to show that thesiſ guards ºf the éºnstitutiºn
we! .# £irgóźernment; as towards the mercháñts, flyail nothing, when the tiation, is cursed with an uh
...
residing near them; tº duties of the merchants towards. principled Administration: he ridiºléd, the ideº, of the . - ** *

le can suls; inder what aiithority these officers are ap safety and salvation of the couſtry dépending on *Reform.
pointed and paidº-and-by what . and for what pur in Parliament; he adduced: the state of America, as des
pose they leſſy a tax, under, the name of fees, apparently ‘cribed in Mr. Fearon's late work, to shew that the fullest
figulated by their caprice, and frequently oppressive. Heijöyment of º rights and privi does not
Sich information is much wanted, and would prove of prevent the most flagrant corruption and the most gross
§§ the shipping, interest, and to British resi abuses; and he treated the maxim of regarding measures,
$ in foreign ports, as well as to coiàmerce in general. "not men, with utter contempt—in fact the whole of his
leave also to observe, that my expulsion from Lordship's reasoning in this part of his speech, goes to
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º LA JP. **.
we might do very well without any material alt lon. In -- - *-i-º-º
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the present state of the Representation;–that it is a than €OURT OF KING's BENCH."

of Ministry and not a Reformed Parliament, of which #. - Saturday, Jan. 16.-->
nation stands in need., We cannot, at present, enter fully|* – --- - - warnºw. cleMENT, . *-*
into the subject, which is of too much importance to be ... This was an action for a libel brought against the proprietor of
passed lightly over, and, therefore, we shall return to it. the Observer newspaper. The damages were laid at 5,000l.
again.--We would only observe at present, that Lord Mr. StARLErt stated the case. He should, he said, show a
Grey thinks wery differently from what Mr. Pitt once claim to a verdict upon the great principles of the constitution.
thought on this *}; he former tells us, in effect, The plaintiff was now a poor, a ruined man. He had commenced
that with a Whig Ministry the House of Commons as at man life in the towu of Nottingham, in an humble way—as a journey
present constituted will answer quite well enough:—the camemanufacturer of lace; and by his integrity and industry be
much respected. In a few years he £º. a master, and
latter declared, that with such a state of the Representa supported an aged mother, a wife, and cliildren. Temperate,
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; we could not be secured from bad; Ministers, and and retired, and frugal, he permitted the security he enjoyed in
*good ones could not serve us:-As the House of Com the bosom of his family to be disturbed by no political discord
mons is now constituted, it is the tool of every party that His integrity was thought so much of, that he was elected trea
- º may pºssess. ower. If the Whigs are not in office, it is surer of a sºciety for assessing the price of work. At the time of
ºuse the House of Commons supported the Tories— to the disputes between the masters and the journeyman with regard
wages, he took the part of the latter, and . not, like the
*At this same Fox dinner, Mr. i. in drawing the richer masters, reduce their wages. The political disturbances
º º: of the late Parliament, said, “he cou not. at length broke out, and the plaintiff exerted himself to check
speak of it but with the deepest horror and contempt, as their progress. Several individuals were apprehended, and a sub
being blindly devoted to the Minister, and never-voting 'scription was commenced to obtain for them the advantage of an
according to the wishes and petitions of the people, but in able defence. The plaintiff, being applied to, consented to re
one instance, in which the Honourable Members consulted ceive the subscriptions, which were made in the most open man
*the convenience of their own pockets.-Will Lord Grey ner, and hone of those who subscribed laboured under the
slightest imputation of disloyalty for the part they had taken.
. . . . .and the Whigs say that a House of Commons really Of all who had been accused but one was convicted—a proof that
elected by the people would have merited such a cha. the plaintiff was justified in his opinion that his own conduct was
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- er?–We have ever been opposed to the absurd and deserving of no reprehension. He, however, became an object
impracticable scheme of Universal Suffrage;—we have of suspicion. On the 10th of June, 1817, while with his family,
never called for Annual Parliaments;–but we ask, if ten or twelve constables entered his house, and without a war
* even stică ă mode of election prevailed in this country as rant proceeded to search it from top to bottom. They did not
is now established in France, where every man paying omit to examine every canister aud thimble, and to this day no
* 12t 10s annually, in direct tares, has a vote, would a motive was stated for so extraordinary a liberty. Indignant at
the insult, he applied to the Magistrates, for an explanation; he
Parliament blindly devoted to a profligate set of Ministers demanded the authority on which the security of his home and
eturned?—it is remarkable that at the Meeting of the the peace of liis family were assailed. He was advised to for
of Reform at Bodmin, on the 13th of April last, bear ; but he felt his own independence, and with a boldness in
shleigh, in his admirable speech, anticipated and spired by integrity, persevered in demanding the cause of such
ted the whole of the positions of Lord Grey—We strănge and wanton persecution. The event was such as might
shalleontrast their sentiments in our next.—West Briton. be imagined, where power was wielded by those who were un
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“qualified to use it with moderation. The ...;
was committed
: *-*…* * * * -- to prison. He lay captive, unprotected, and abandoned, for some
3. … . . . CITY. time. A warrant then came down for his removal from Notting
ham, and he was conducted to Coldbath-fields prison, ironed and
• Election in Walaaoos, WAap.--On Tuesday, a Cºurt of chained. JGHere Mr. Scarlett complimented Lord Sidmouth upon
his
Aldermen was held at Guildhall, when the petition of . Messrs. º;
and stated that his Lordship had intimated to the
Gibbons and Smith against the election in Walbrook Ward was plaintiff, that he should have every advantage a person in his
taken into consideration. After some debate, with closed doors, situation required.) From Coldbath-fields prison he was removed
the business was declared to be of a public nature, and strangers to the county gaol of Oxford, where be remained till the 13th of
were admitted. The petitioners took their places at the bar, and November, 1817, in-confinement, almost solitary tº and from
... Mr. Gibbons addressed the Court. . He contended, that the office thence, without being informed of the cause of so surprising a
... ºf Common Councilman, like those of Lord Mayor, Aldermen, change, was returned to the bosom of his family in his native
... Sheriffs, &c., was compulsory, and that it was therefore the dut town. But he returned-with a broken spirit, to a mother reduced
of the returning officer to put any man, regularly proposed an to extreme misery, to a wife broken-hearted. His conscience
seconded, in nomination, whether he was willing to serve or not. was, however, void of offence, and he looked forward to increased
-In-support of this position, he cited several cases.—Mr. James industry for the meaus of diminishing the calamities into which
IDaw, Mr. Stockford, and Mr. T. N. Williams were examined, he had been plunged. What then must have been his feelings.
all of whom concurred in stating, that after the names returned upon finding the paper nºw in court containing an attack upon
by the precincts had been put, and before the election had been him, which had been circulated while he was in prison, calcu
declared, Mr. Gibbons proposed Mr. Shuttleworth; that the lated to poison the mind of every one in whose ear the name of
Lord Mayor asked that gentleman whether he was willing to Ward was sounded, and published with such an appearance of
serve, and being answered that he was not a candidate, refused anthenticity as to render disbelief of all its circumstances impos
to put him in nomination, though Mr. Gibbons had requested it; sible. A considerable pumber of papers were issued from the
adding that, if returned he would make him serve: that imme observer office, each with a blank side, without any stamp, on
diately afterwards he (the Lord Mayor) asked whether any other the 10th of November, professing to give an accurate history of
person was to be proposed, and no other being offered, he declared the disturbances, and of all those scenes which led to the suspen
, the election to have fallen upon the eight gentlemen who were sion of the Habeas Corpus Act; as if the Observer had been made
seturned.—When the evidence was gone through, a debate ensued, the organ of Government. . This paper, which was published on
. . nº º: the Times, upon the mºré .. of the election, but the Mondey, did not contain in its Sunday edition, a title of the
upon the-e manner in which the entry should be placed upon the article which was the subject of the present action; and it was
.* records. The result was that the election was declared null and gratuitously circulated through all parts of the country without a
void.—The Loan MAvon, before this dicussion commenced, stamp, under the pretence of being a specimen of the type. Mr.
‘stated, that if there was any error on his part in making it, it Scarlett read parts of the libel, and asked why Mr. Clement had
arose only frºm his wish to save time, imagining it would be use not come forward with his boasted proofs that he was justified.
*
less to put agentleman-in nomination who was unwilling, to The article traced down a detailed series of circumstances upou
serve, and being at the time fully impressed with the belief that a regular system. It entered into a vindication of Government,
, he was no; bound to put the nomination under such circum and was, in fact, a Government manifesto. The plaintiff was
described as gradually advancing in sedition, until he came
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armed before them, vested with command, and actually about to sitting, composed of the most scientific persons, who were mak
. perform a signal act of treason, º:. the barracks. He ing every inquiry, and trying various experiments, in order that
was ºpovicted, by the Observer, of being connected with Oliver; some alteration might be made in the engraving of the Bank
of being one of the desperate Ned Luds; of making war against note. What the result of these inquiries would be, he did not
*the King and his Government, and of taking his station amon know; but he could assure the Jury, that the public would soon
the most decided enemies of his country? Aff this was attribute be in possession of it. -

...to a man who was wholly unconcerned with political matters, and 1. John Rey, grocer, in Gracechurch-street, proved having re
- whº was deprived of all means of remedy, except that of darin ceived the note from the prisoner. . . . . . . -

his acouser to being forward his authority, a defiance from ...; John Lees, inspector of Bank-notes, proved the note mentioned
Mr. Clement-shrunk. The personal lifferty of an Esglishman in the indictment to be a forgery. . . ". . . . . . .
was his chartered privilege: and if the Habeas Corpus Act was * The Foreman of the Jury handed to the witness all. Bank
at any time suspended in consequence of real or supposed danger, note, without a signature being attached to it, and asked, Have
it was a season of ºlamity: those who were exposed to it, were you ever known notes of that description to have been issued out
left to the discretiº of Mi and also subject to the crafty of the Bank —Undoubtedly. I have, Sir ; but it is usually oc
operation of private maligniºu such an extremity it : casioned by oversight or accident. Canyon inform me if that
. . every good man to look witſ"great jealousy to the er thus note (alluding to that just handed to witness) be a genuine one?—
added to the authority of Ministers. But what had Mr. Clement I have no doubt whatever of its being a good note.
done?. While the unhappy plaintiff, was within the walls of a * The wituess was then cross-examined. ... . - -
prison, in expectation of being brought faee to face with his ac Have you ever, in the course of your experience for the Hast
- cºsers, Mr. Clement had the audacity, the iuhumanity, to 20 years, known forged notes to have been so extremely welt
lish against the helpless and abandghed man, a calumuy of the executed as to deceive the Bank inspectors?--I have known
- most effective kind, which no one could read without saying the several of that kind come into the Bank, and passed by the
, whole matter had been fully investigated, and the assertion of inspectors. - . - - -

Ward's guilt was tºº? upon irresistible authority. With . In what state have such notes in general come into the Bank #
- respect to the damages, it was only necessary to say that the |-I have seen several come in quite new and clean, and others
- plaintiff had been traduced when he #.
no means of vindicating dirty and worn, all of which have escaped the notice of the in
--limself, and that the injury had gone into extended circulation by spºetors. * ... • -

the industry of him to whom he owed this outrage upon his feelings. How many forged notes have, do you think, been passed by
. Several witnesses then proved the facts stated by Mr. Scarlett, the inspectors —I have seen a calculation, from which it ap
which related to Mr. Ward. . . . - - -- pears that sirty or seventy forged notes wers taken at the Bank within
===George Goºdger is deputy publisher ºf the Observer. The sale three years. - - * * -

of the Monday edition was 2000, exclusive of the unstamped ones, The prisoner said in his defence, that he had received the note
of which he 3. nothing. The Monday Observer had twice, mentioned in the iudictment from a man of the name of Showell.
when ic interest was excited, published an additional im The Jury retired for about half an hour, and returned the fol
pression ºpen unstamped sheets with a blank ſeaſ, in the way of lowing verdict:-" Guilty; but recommend, the Prisoner to:
– ºne ºne produced, mercy on account of his youth; and as we believe him to have
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Rººtºvºitºr is a letter-carrier at Derby. On Monday the been the dupe of some designing villein.” -

The prisoner did not seem to be at all moved when the verdict
ºf Nºvember, sin, he received a great quantity of the ol was
ºr newspapers. They were delivered to him by Mrs. Eaton, pronounced, but left the bar with as little emotion as a boy
the wife of the fº at Derby, who desired him to distribute would leave a school-room to go to play. He is the same har
- …them gratuitous y; and she gave bin a shilling for so doing. doned boy who was so often remanded at the Mansion-house,
... **as cºok is a letter-carrier at Leicester. He received a and who so stubbornly refused to make any dºglosure of the iºdi
quantity ºf Monday observers in November, 1817; he thought as vidual by whom he was instigated to follow this trade. -- - - -
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many as 200. He was desired to distribute them gratuitously, and The London Jury were then requested to Jewethebes, when
sºcordingly he did so—some of them in the town, and others he the Foreman of the Jury rose, and holding.” in his hand,
ºve to the country carriers, to take into the country. There addressed the Bouch. He stated, that, with the leave ºf the
*Anºther letter-carrier at Leicester, and he also received the court, he would read a paper which has been ****Pºy
quantity of Monday observers to distribute in the same way. himself-and-his fellow Jurymen. The Cour. *ented, and it
mess received 2s. arºs. at the Post-office.for his trouble, was read, as follows :- * * * ... . .
fººtºxicº, for the defendant, observed, that the statements
ºf earned Friend respecting the treatment of the plaintiff “We, the London Jury, being on the eve of terºg
- ...had nºthing to do with the question, which simply was:-What our most painful duties, most respectfully wish to represemº
Tºjary had the plaintiff sustained from the defendaut? Did the your Lordships, that the verdicts which we have given on tº
§: that those who thought well of him before would evidence which has been submitted to us, will, when reported to
think worse of him on account ºf the alledged libel? If it was his Majesty's Privy Councº, be considered as auly the decision
**, why did not the plaintiff bring his actiºn among his neigh of fallible men. That we are convinced that all sanguinary pu
bours, whose gººd opinion he stated himself to have lost? He of nishments have not only a tendency to destroy those principles
might have tried his case at Nottingham in March or July last. humanity which it is our duty to cultivate, tº: that, by their
“The plaintiff was certainly entitled to a verdict, as the defendant offrequent occurrence, they render the heart callous: one instance
which has been tº: before us of a youth having picked a
had ºut no justification on the record; and the only question for
the Jury was, the amount of damages, which should be regulated gentleman's pocket, while the dreadful sentence of §: law was
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. . . The Camer-Justice, in charging the Jury, said, no man could “We disclaim all visionary ideas and principles. ‘weiiva
doubt that the matter contained in the alleged libel was calculated to improve, or we live in vain.” With these ſaelings and senti
ºoinjute the character of the plaintiff, and as no attempt had ments, we most earnestly request, that when these cases are re
been made to justify it, the necessary consequence was, that it and ported, you will ºrge this divine injunction—º I will have mercy,
not sacrifice.’”
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publications tending to prejudice the cases of persons merely

committed on suspicion of offences, because was in ore º: On Friday, Wm. M'Glashan, a young man, genteelly dressed,
was indicted for stealing a time-piece, value sº, the property of
likely to affect the interests of public justice. It had been very Thomas
properly observed upon, that the plaintiff had declined to bring tº attendDavis.--The prisoner, a dancing master, was ºccustomed
at the house of the prosecutor, on the evening of the
#: actiºn at Nottingham, where his character might be supposed 28th of December Mr. Day is went out, and the prisoner took this
to be best known; and the Jury would take that circumstance ºf...". of robbing him. Under pretence of showing the
into consideration in estimating the damages. children some tricks on cards, the prisoner took them into the
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The Jury-retired for about half an hour, and returned a verdict counting-house, sent them to differe: parts of the premises, and
- for the plaintiff-Damages, 600t. -*.*.* contrived, ; pick-lºck keys, to take a quantity ºf money ºut of
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GLD bailEY. º the desk, and till. He was at length fetected by one of the
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children looking through the key-hole.’’ in a box ºf the prisoner

*one Bank PRosscutions!
were found several pick-lock-keys, and a duplicate of the time
Monday, Thomas Watson, alias Williams, alias Dennison, a lad piece. - ---

*:::::: of age, was indicted for uttering a forged 11. note. The Prisoner addressed the Jury in a ve aintive tone of
, Bosáxquist observed, that there was a commission now voice, The time-riece he solemnly swore tº: found ºSt.
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John's-street. His wife was now º pregnaneyºſºtiff ºbservations as they mightwºpeurth-deserte, and retirn their
he was separated from her, God only knew what would be the vertiet; and it should-be-recoilected, that the consequence of a
consequence. He threw himself upon the mercy of the egºvt verdict of self-felony, hºweven disereditable ſo the tºw and ºff
Guitty, "… ... tº *— libresiſt tº the present state of society, most irot be here roastlered.
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------, - ? as we all ºwe obedienciº to the law, until it shall please the
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- ... p. Dandum was found guilty of biting of the nose of M. legislature to repent it.-Verdiet, Luracy, , , --, - tº - º
Donovan in a fight which they had, and was sentenced to two *Oºuesday last, Mrs. Less, who resided in the Nursery
grºwiidº-Surfey-read, went frºm her heiß, and ºther chiff,
months' imprisonment, the first fortnight in solitary confinement,
J. J. Wakeman was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, a girl about ten years of agealene; ºshort time after her absence
having been ſound guilty dºseizing R. Gouen by the throat, and the neighbºrhºod was alarmed by the cry of “Fire,” and the
daughter'sfºrs. Lees was seen running out of her mother's
“forgiug out histongue, half of which he bit off, and next day.
house enveloped in flames; the neighbºrs tendered every insist
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... * *nce in their power, and carriºr tºday hospital, where she
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* ...” ‘’’ ‘’’ j expired. Others went to :
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the ºther; riºtº the eart of
: ºv. POLICE. . . . . . . Blackfriars-rºid they met watcheneu carrying a woman
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Intox-half. '', itspot a shytter;
is Mrs. Ekes.” age
Atts.ofLees,
- the neighbours
it ºpprers, exclaimed,
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was crossing"ºoqqºod,
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blackfriar.
tion was given at this Office, of two females (sisters), read, when some fetlow, with litue predence, and tºss hāmunity,
ºatia tº ºther fºyears of age, having been seduced. 'rade full gallºp up the streets his hºrse knºcked Mrs. Lees down
Mouse of their relatives, in Oxford-street, by two and trampled upon her, and he rode on as if nothing, had hat
erºw
- º: s for Officers in his Majesty's service.’ An Offi pened, º,
disp § to search sºme houses where it was supposed veyed Mrs. Lees to her house, when a surgeon was sent ºr, who
called after to step. The watchmeiſcon

, the girlswºre conveyed to by their seducers. The Officer, upon’ såſdºthere was not the most reuſote chance of her recovery, and
. . searching notorious places, in Barron's-buildings, St of Wednesday evening she expired. An inquest was had at
George's-fields, in cºmpany with the girls’ brother, at last dise. Gay's hospital upon the child, and a verdict was returned by the
were ºthefugitives, whº were very willing to return home befºre, Jury—Accidental Beath, ----" -

but t º
abandoñed them. It appears that the youngest of the girls was:
to do so, as their base betrayers had
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A young than of the name of Busfield put an end to his exist
ence, by cutting his threat with a case-knife, at the house of his
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eisensible, by sºme ingredients being put into some late father, in the New-cut, Laubeth. The father of the young
noyeau, which she draiſk, and was put to bed to one of the vil man lies now dead in the house, and ºxeessive grief, it is suf
hat, situation. The officer and the brother -conveyed. posed, produce a temporar detirium is the unfortunate young
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inah's mind.” The moment his father's death was nanounced to
. him, in a state ºf despair he ſhrew himself on the º: and
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ACCH) FNTS, OFFENCES, &c.
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knife aid tommitted the deed. "... ." .
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; anºthebody of Isaac Hill. It appeared, that the deceased, MARRIAGFs. . . ." -- - - -
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on the Paesday evening preceding, called on-n relation; at On the 22d. inst., at St. Martin’s-in- the-Fields, Charlº Bººks, -

Ratcliff, and desired leave to pass the night there. He had left Wºº.
Esq., of whitehall,
all Westminster, to Mrs.-Susahnah
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: his family at Camberwell, where he followed the business of a

**baker, owing to sºme distresses. His relation got up at ſourin, On Thursday, the 21st instant St. Geºrge's church Sºftwark,
the morning of weddesday, deceased in bed. On º: . !.
Mr. Charles Pritchett Boisfield, of the Öid Jax t;, to Sºrah, opy.
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*::::::::: ight he found his chamber-door locked, and the key, daughter ºf Charles Holehouse, Esq. Borough." " ,
which he forced open. The deceased." º §3. sy, ſº insºn's icº's, Jarietº,
§.ofL.L.
ºbed; with his throat, cut from ear to ear, find. Eºgº ": Millbrook,
London, iºnºſº.
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ºtempted to kill himself, and witness thought him.
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At Hinton St. George, in Somersetshire, on
… Was a married man, aged 50, and embarrassed in wºrk, º
--- s.” The Jury expressed a wish for further evidence as: Earl , the §: Łord, on the preceding exºg-lia. º
tº the state of his milia at the time of his death—Conowen-th. directed the horses to be put to the post-chariot early ñº. next
cases of suicide, where the evidence is frequently obtained on day. At 5se o'clock in the morning, the Countess was alsº ed
• the spur of the occasion, and is therefore º. sy the sudden indisposition of the Earl; he was seized with nº.
and where the proceeding is in a great measure er-parte, it is. apoplectic fit and hºef spºke afterwards...itis Lordship jugº
proper, there shºuld be a leaning to that side of the question. litutit eleyen at tº: he expired, in the 634 yeaf § º
* which is most favourable to the memory of the deceased; for. agº. --- - - - - -ºt, ºr - - --- - -

*-independently; ºf the consideration that any stigma resulting. ...Qh Sunday last, at Brºmley, Kent, in the 74th year ºf biºf';
from the vetºet will attach itself chiefly on the surviving family, William Wººsley, Esq., º years
- it is unjust that a man after death should be exposed to imputa-, the House of º: prºtaged-liness, " . . . . . . .
º ºf:
tions he might have repelled during his life-time. , 1ſ the evidence. Qa i. 18th jºtº, in Cl yeláud-rºw, in the 55th year ºf his
thus hastily prºdueedºbe 6ften defective, so the nature ºf the age," jor-General John §. Cºlonel of the º
disease itself has not been very acturately defined by physicians regiment:, this pſºger succeeded 'Sir Thºmas sº tº the
or metaphysicians—a disease of the most horrible nature, which civil and #...". ºn in 1811, and at lie Hat”
can at once extinguisłr the strongest of human passions, that of end qf 1815 he was selected i. Vijesty's Ministerº ---
..self-preservatiºn: the progress of this fatal disease, and it. tº the civiºn inflitty gºrithvent ei Cº. in thºrº
operation on the human intellect, may, in manyiostances, be º
...traced as fºllºws:--Some heavy calyaily having ſºteuºd;itself, "... d . . . . d Já y
ºn the §º he animal spirits, which in time becomes. . Cavendish-square,
Gº the 5th inst...in Margaret-street, . Gºlfº - -

jºidicialºgºsorº’s Wealth. Bodily weakness affects the sº É. Ashby, sº.

. . ºrvºus system, and spreads a cloud over the imagination, until. Friday mºrning, in York-place. Portman-square, Mrs...}}".
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universe becºmes A.V.cid: the pleasure of society is the wife of General Kyd. , 's Sº.
ifºlies, and leºpair succeeds; . life
t. ...On Frijay impriming, 2 o'clock, at * tºtapº becomes an,
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. ºr of a late lamented character, q lºº º: lament his loss.
asº, and of liundreds beside. It is not a
to Mr.

time st, in ocester º: Pºrtman: gnarº, Martha

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... ºutrº violence, or total vacuity of intellect; but it Maria, widow of the late G. F. Chºrry, Esq., of Bºnares.
...is that ºf aminºiseased, officulties impaired and overpowere Bauvois. At Mous, the 15th November lasts) aged 108, a widow, named -

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No. 579. SUNDAY, JAN. 31. 1819. . ...

THE POLITICAL EXAMINER. himself acquainted with the Inspector of Convicts, said he
* Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Porr. happened to know that the Surgeons in these ships were
paid if they landed the convicts alive"—which creating a
* - • ‘No. 564. * * *
laugh of indignation, he added, “paid in proportion't
| the number of convicts landed in good health.” . . . "
- CROWDING OF CONVICTS IN PRISON Nor on this occasion had the Courier aty thing to say
SHIPS. to the particular case, notwithstanding all his demi-officiar
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knowledge of humanity, obtained from the demi-gods
The reader will find in our parliamentary abridgment a admitted to the board of Jupiter Dapatis. - -

dialogue respecting the transportation of convicts. Mr. Regales inter mensas laticemaue Lyaeum. ". . .
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Bºxset, who is as unceasing in running his warm round He said he should leave the question to be discussed by
pf humanity as is the blood from his heart, went down the the Goverhment, who intend, it seems, to take up the sub
other day to enquire into the state of a prison-ship which ject; that is to say, take up in the sense of arrest; for
was about to carry Dr. O'HALLoRAN to Botany Bay. He such is the usual result of their pretended adoption of such
found him crowded with twenty other human beings in a subjects. For the present, he contented himself with
cabin twelve feet square, and in cribs sir feel and a half shewing what his masters would do, by begging the ques
broadby five feet and a half long, into each of which were tion at once, and calling all those whimperers and whiners
stuffed sir ºf them The space thus allotted to each con who do not agree with him Thus my Lord Eldon, who
vict was one foot one inch by six feet, which is five inches thinks every thing right that is done by Government, and
less than the room afforded to a negro in an African slave weeps out of an excess of satisfaction at Pitt dinners, is
a proper specimen of your manly nature, as CANNixo and
The vessel contained altogether between two and CastleReagh are of your humace; but Capt. Besset,
three hundred human beings, all slowed in about fiſy who takes the trouble
tribs. The places of stowage were so dark, that although while others are feasting and loung
it was, only three o'clock in the day, it was necessary to ing and being mandijn, of visiting prisons and prison+
use candles; and “never,” Mr. Besset said, “should ships, and interests himself host actively in behalf of every
he forget the foathsome scene which the vessel exhibited,” kiud of suffering humanity, is “a whimperer and whiner,”
The vesseſ, a short time before, had got on a bank in a and has a “puliag sensibility :" ** * ** * - - -

gale of wind, and been nearly lost; the agitation of the -> xt night however Sir Thox's MARTIN, the head of
storm had occasioned a violent sea-sickness, and those who the Tiansport Board, eones forward with some infºrma
were lowest down were almost suffocated with the con-º-º: "and them the Courier is glad enough to forget his
sequences. In this state when sick, in a worse if possible general abuse hnd his pºtient impatience, and repeat the
when passing:the line, and in a torturing, angry-making, details afforded him. We will give the information in
and demoralizing one always, are these wretched men his own account of it. “What are the facts,” he cries,
shut down for fifteen hours out of the twenty-four ! “disclosed by Sir Triostas Pwas MAnºis First, that out
: How is this answered, when Mr. Bºxset makes the of 6,400 convicts, sent to fºotany. Bay, since the 1st of
representation?. Why, nobody present knows anything January, 1816, only 53 had died on she passage, being in
about the matter:—none of our humane, enquiring, intel the proportion of 1 to #12; secondly, that instead of sie
!gent, and all-sufficient Representatives can tell. All that persons being crammed into a space of 64 feet by 54, the
Mr. BaruuRst could say, was, that the ship was “fitted number of persons was only four; and thirdly, “that the
up in the way ships of that kind usually were fitted up.” space allowed to a convict was as great as that allowed to:
"It was impossible for him to state what the dimensions a British soldier, and greater than that allowed to a British
really were.”—“It was not for want of attention that he sailor.” Is it not disgusting, in the xery teeth" of these
had not noticed this eubject, but because he had not the facts, to read the maidſia details of bºndships to which
meats of knowing what the circumstances were:'' (not felons, forsooth, are exposed ?- They are provided with:
the means :) “He could not assert positively that this greater accommodations. than our brave geºmeti, and are
ship was fitted out as others were; but he had no reason placed upon an equal footing with our brfive soldiers: but
to thick atherwise:—it was cominanded by an officer in the inevitable privations ſo which those new are sºbjected.”
his Majesty's service:—that was all the general knowledge who go forth to fight the battles of their country... are in
he had:—he should endeavour to inform himself on the tolerable when endured by men, who are banished for their
subject.” A very good though rather dilatory resolution, crimes, from that country which they had disgraced and
for it would seem that the ship has sailed. While he is injured. We leave it to every reflecting individual in the
º it, the Right Honourable would do well also to in kingdom to draw his---.own conchisions from the compari
. .. . . . .. ;
form himself on a few other subjects, lest he should again son.” ". . .* * -

be taken unawares. Mr. Cuyr added, that the average of wel; these reflecting individuals (not the persons
deaths in prison-shipsis only two in six-hundred; and the whom the Cºurier means, when he flatters theº'with that"
only other Member who appeared in the shape of an advo title) will draw their own condušions, but they will be *
the for Government on this occasion, and who declared very different ones from his. In the fir t place, it is ob
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servable that Sir THQMAs gives a different account of the The plain truth, no doubt, is, that in some vessels at
deaths from the one which Mr. Clive ventured upon the least, owing to gradual carelessness on the part of the
night preceding. Mr. Clive reckoned the deaths as one authorities, more human beings are crowded together than -
in 300; Sir Thomas MARTIN says they are one in 112. the provision contemplates. 'The consequent duty of the
But more on the subject of deaths presently. In the authorities is obvious, notwithstanding the yelping of their
second place, Sir Trioxas asserts that four persons, and curs, who howl indiscriminately at the approach of bad
not six, are put into the space mentioned by Captain and good. -

BeNNET; and thirdly, he says that the room of a convict There can hardly indeed be a more odious sight than a
is as great as that of a soldier, and greater than that of a servile and interested adherent starting forward to advo
sailor. But what does he mean by both these assertions? cate the petty and particular conduct of his em:loyers, let
That such is actually the case? No, but that such is the the question be of never so much consequence to humani
provision authorized. Therefore, with the usual gra ty. He persuades himself, as a celebrated writer said of a
tuitousness of office, he insinuates that because such is the
dissipated prince, that everything goes on perfectly well,
because he has had a good dinner. He does more. The
law, it is of course acted upon; and the Courier, in the
same spirit exaggerated, follows him, and triumphantly least notion of being put to trouble for humanity at large,_
confounds a provision with a fact! * the remotest suspicion that a single luxury may be missed
* But what does Mr. BENNET say? He does not deny from his table,_ſills him with malignant indignation
that such is the provision; he says that the fact, as far as against the greatest claims of his fellow-creatures; and he
he came to the knowledge of it, is otherwise; and there would rather let them be suffocated by dozens, with heat,
fore, whether provided against or not, ought to be enquired sickness, and horror, than get up out of the easy chair of
into. If the Government, he argues, have not provided his egotism and selfishness. The Governor at Calcutta
against it, they ought, in common humanity:-if they was not to be waked when our stifled countrymen were
have, it is incumbent upon them, for the same reason, to expiring in the Black Hole, and shrieking out “Water!
see their provision acted upon. For God's sake!”
According to the Courier, when a charge is brought The excellent person, who brought forward this matter
against the Government for misconduct, one of the mini in Parliament, did not draw a picture a twentieth part
sters or ministerialists has nothing to do but to get up, and strong enough. Imagine a multitude of human beings,
say, that the law is not so, and therefore the conduct of all ages, descriptions, and varieties of criminality,
could not have been so. Upon this reasoning, we are all crowded together in dark, irritating, and noisome narrow
in a blissful state: there is no such thing as illegality and mess. They contemplate their long voyage and exile with
corruption; the Habeas Corpus is never suspended, be different ſeelings, but all of them, most likely, with more
cause Magna Charta is against it; Lord CastleREAgh or less bitterness. Some are hardened offenders, who
did not sell a seat in Parliament to QUINTIN Dick, because help to spoil the rest. Some are old and infirm, some
it was a crime against the Constitution; nor does - the young and stout, some young and delicate, some impu
Courier almost every day defend immorality, sedition, dent, some comparatively modest, some only foolish.
and ruin, under pretente of crying out against all three. Some speeulate with desperation on the country they are
Sir Thomas MARTIN says, that such and such a space is going to, some with induced callousness, some perhaps
allotted to only four men; Mr. BeNNet says, that on en with ardour, some with the most wretched recollections
quiry he found it occupied by six. What is the question of home. By degrees the hardened grow more angry,
for. “reflecting” men? The argument about the soldier and the comparatively virtuous more vicious; the melan
and sailor falls to nothing as easily. They are not stowed choly are made ashamed with taunts and bravadoes; but
so thickly together; and they can also relieve each other, let all of them pretend mirth as they may, wretchedness is
and go on deck. If they could not, enquiry would be at the bottom of it. They are squeezed and shut down in
equally necessary for them. ‘The statement respecting the their cribs; and here commences a Pandemonium of
deaths is as little to the purpose, granting of course that heat, and darkness, and irritability, and oaths, and obsce
it is true, which remains however to be proved on enquiry: nities, and loathsomeness, and ghastly laughter, and mi
A man may be in a state of anguish for months, aye, and sery. The first gale of wind and pitching of the vessel
for years," without dying; and he may recover his health sickens them, and produces a scene from which the ima
when the torture is removed. But how does this vindicate gination is quick to escape;—but they would do so in
the torture?" - Mr. BENNET does not complain that the vain. Conceive the loathing ideas produced of each other.
men were killed, but that they were agonized; and he is by infirmities which cannot be then treated with levity,
answered by a reference to the daaths. . The tortures of which levity itself only assists to give a degrading idea of
the Inquisition might be defended on the same principle; human nature, and which nothing but the most delicate
for the Inquisitors have surgeons to stand by and see that and affectionate spirit can afford, as it were, to surmount.
the agony does all but kill. As to the unlawful, foolish,
They come into the tropical regions, and here the heat
and vindictive notion, that criminals are to suffer punish
and loathsomeness are doubled, and the spirit of the most
ment, not contemplated by the law or by a due considera defying made weary. Fancy a crowd of human beings
tion of all that made them criminals, we disdain to answer put down in darkness, by sixes and sixes, in cribs of six
it further at present. Perhaps we shall one day have to feet and a half by five and a half, and panting upwards,
refute it in favour of the very slaves who now bring it’ſor under the hot boards, for fifteen hours out of the four and
ward, those greater criminals, who, as the Chronicle well twenty. Fancy the loathsomeness, the gasping suffoca
observed, “first pillage and then insult their country.” tion, the oaths, the execrations, the rage of the strong, the
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despair of the weak, the yearning impatience not only for To my no small comfort that defence has excited the
home, but for a little breath of fresh air, the half-mad wrath, though in a less degree, of “An Elector of West
dened wonder of the thinking, the confirmed disdain, minster,” as well as that of the “Reformer.” He also
hatred, and abandonment of the profligate. Punishment of has buckled on his armour, and threatens great things.
crimes! Such punishments tend to make the worst crimes slainBetween them they have slain ure outright, and “twice
the slain,” as far as Mr. Cobbett is concerned. The
in the world, by begetting that contempt of oae's ſellow defence is before the public, as well as the wrathful replies
creatures, which equally renders callous the felon and the of my opponents. Opposed to a legion. I am content
statesman;–and the callous statesmaå is infinitely the with what F. atchieved, and leave the public, in its own
worse of the two, for it is he that has the greatest hand time, to award me the palm of victory to grace my triumph,
in making the other. if triumph can follow such a combat. -

(ºr My assumptions are necessarily taken from the º:

and they are all either strictly founded, or their literal ac
DEFENCE OF MR. COBBETT.
curacy is of no manner of importance. How far even
such as must be confuted by means of secret information
London, Jan. 25, 1819. have been invalidated, will appear when I have given one
MR. ExAMINER,--I confess that the complete victory, specimen of the “Reformer's" attempt at such confuta
which it has been my good fortune to obtain over the tion. Ea uno disce omne.
“Reformer.” by my defence of Mr. Cobbett, affords me He says, that the correspondence published and printed
but little self-gratulation, for, under all the circumstances, is not a private correspondence 1 Then, recollecting him
it is attended with, feelings that tend to humble me. It is self, he qualifies the position by an alternative—ºr, it is
therefore with reluctance that I am induced to prolong my not such a private correspondence as might not be pub
triumph, by a short notice of his reply in your last Era lished, “because there is a distinction not easy to
miner. Had he rendered it necessary for me to acknow escribed”—but I will not transcribe a word more. No
ledge errors, my eagerness to trouble you once more would base action can want defence on such a ground. . It has
have been as prompt as it is now faint and forced, when been established by usage, the wisest of usages, that, to
no such thing is requisite, and I have to remark on such preclude the abuse of individual discretion, no private cor
all answeret.
respondence shall be published without the consent of the
In this ungrateful effort, I must first mention the cour parties, and especially on personal provocation. The Morn
teous terms in which he has spoken of me. He says that ing Chronicle felt the decency and the necessity of an ex
I adopted many false assumptions, which, with an increase cuse in publishing this private correspondence in question.
st courage, he soon exchanges for rash assertion. Then, But its very excuse is a confutation of the propriety of the
\ms cauſage still improving, he denominates, what was so thing, which, if proper, would have wanted no excuse.
aley arish assertion, a false and impudent assumption. This is not, then, a private correspondence!, Such is the
In the same strain, he accuses me of using a greal . of point which my two opponents labour to establish! It is
weak sophistry and empty talking. He attributes my de not such as ought not to be divulged without the consent
fence to blind infaluation or a depraved heart. I must of the parties! The “Reformer,” to excuse Sir Francis
not however transcribe the whole long list of urbanities Burdett, avows that he had the consent of neither party for
. by the “Reformer,” but must content myself his publication —But then Sir Francis did not publish
with giving a few of his epithets only. To shew their con this private correspondence; the “Reformer" his dºne
nection would nearly fill up all your paper. In any con it gratuitously, having obtained the doeument circuitously;
nection he is welcome to them, without my enry. They he has published it. This is the first time we, are tºld
are such as these—paltry misrepresentations; the assertion this, , But what does it avail? In this we see how, in
is false; equally false; he has merited the reputation of a possible it is to give wrong the claims of right; and the
falsifier; asserting in his confident manner what he did very means used to that purpose only cause wrong to ap
not know to be true ; it is not true. The following sen pear more wrong. The private correspondence cºme cir;
tences must be set down entire;—“By palliating, if not tuitously, did it? into the hands of the “, Reformer.”
§eſending, such principles as those avowed by Mr. Cob And this is to excuse Sir Francis Burdettſ A little dust
bett, his advocate has partaken of the disgrace attending may be thrown into men's eyes by confounding printing
that avowal; and, the indecent manner in which he has with publishing, and publishing with printing; by talking
done it encreases his offence. “Without the least hesita of circuits; and talking of anything, but the prºper sub
tion or scruple, and without offering or possessing the ject, which is simply,–Here is a private corre Roºdence
slightest proofs, he has advanced any assertions that he divulged, º, printed, and partly reprinted, without
thºught useful to his arguments.” “This is as foolish as the consent had of one of the parties, who is forced, on
it is unfair and unmanly.” In conclusion, he affects to not receiving the reparation due to call for an abatement,
suspect that Mr. Cobbett will take me for “a secret of the evil by another evil, which call is obeyed; yet not,
enemy.” as it appears, from contrition, which is the only pºp.
On this sort of language it is unnecessary to comment. motive, though itself, at last, an inadequate motive. et

As to my “secret enmity,” it is evident that the “Re Sir Francis É. friends, alone, and his enemies may
former” does not entertain such a fancy, or it is clear he look on in quiet. Has he interfered? A correct copy of
would not have been’so wrathful. It will be long before his letter, not known to have been sent, and certainly not
I shall be tempted to descend from the height, to which known to have been received, has been given to the world
this rage fully admits and proves that I am elevated, to by the “Reſormer,” who must not on any account he
place myself on a level with him by the use of the same identified with his protegé! I am answered, forsooth, by
terms. or do I affect to infer from his temper that he this sort of slight-of-hand!, No, Sir, I am not answered;
is a secret enemy to Sir Francis Burdett. The cause, my defence stands untouched. I will not describe this
however, that should need such patronage will easily be method of replying, in pity to the temper of the “Re
appreciated by just and honourable men. former,” and to prevent the effervescence of his wrath.
. It should seem that my defence of Mr. Cobbett is as Of other men with other manners I might ask, why so
impotent and ineffective as the “Reformer” has asserted much intemperance? Reliance could not be placed on
Mr. Cobbett's writings to be. ...Alas! his mighty fury the call of Mr. Cobbett. It was not felt as sufficient tº
affords a shrewd gues that the direct contrary is the faci. justify the publication of a private correspondence which
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had taken place widely before the call. To stop the breach, hood and mistatements. It is unfortunate for him that one
a denial is set up of the intervention of the Baronet. of them at most is founded fairly on any thing I have said.
Indigaant as I am at dishonourable actions. I am not As to twitting Mr. Cobbert of obligation, that is distinctly
eager to chastise pure folly, or to draw inferences for the sake done in the letter of Sir Francis Burdett and in the animad
merely of inflicting pain. Were it not for this, 1 night be versions of the “Reſormer." It may be seen with one
led to ask something respecting the sort of persons that eye.—The fair rheaning of the Baronet's severe letter is
surround, Sir Francis Burdett, and that gain possession, given. Glosses and quibbles can not erase it. In short, I
without his knowledge, of his private correspondence. have only to beg the reader to remember that wherever the
The “Reformer” has got by it circuitously, mark, which “Reformer” applies the word false to what I have said, he
implies that it has made a circle or a circuit. The extent should substitute the word true ; and that he is not bound
of the circuit makes but little difference, though I would to assent to what I have not said. Very little of what I
lay a small wager that the “Reformer" would give pre hare said is stated by the “Reformer" or the “West
fºrence to a long circuit. Whatever he may like best, I minster Elector,” and a great deal is set down as mine
should not be long in drawing some very natural conclu which I have not stated. For instance, it is said that I ac
sion from either admission. At all events, the circuit had cuse the “Reformer”, “ of eating his own words, in first
a commencement as well as a termination. But I must speaking of Mr. Cobbett's talents and afterwards of his
not dare to go back to the starting post, or I shall be over ſaults.” This is not so. The “Reformer” knew well
whelmed by charges of false assumption... impudent asser what I had said; perhaps he thought he might thus repre
tion, with similar terms of crimination. What am I to do? sent me circuitously. Indeed, the “Reſormer” has been
My good nature will not permit me to infer that Sir Francis eautious of giving my wards for all his charges. He had
Birdett's associates practise a ſittle quiet pick-pocketing on good reason. - -

occasion, and that some of them deal in stolen goods. Of On the whole, I conclude that my defence of Mr. Cob
such acts I am convinced they are innocent, and my rod is bett is unanswerable, for I must impudently assume that
not employed to chastise any but the guilty. . They are the best answer has been attempted which the case ad
only ignorant of good manners and the usages of cultivated mitted. Non tal; aurilio, mec defensoriinis istis veritus
society. , But if I acquit them, and declare that they have eget.
obtained possession of the property honestly, here comes I leave the Junius Füitor to his own self-complacency,
one who, from sheer folly, cries aloud that I must not dare on the comparison which his humility has instituted. If
to insinuate such a thing as respecting himself, or he will his foil, the wretched No Partizan, shall be the instrument
set me down as making an impudent assumption 1 Alas of the delectable erposures which he promises or threatens,
for me! I must make a circuit, alias, take a turn, to he will have reason to thank this Junius for taking an un
Well, without further cir pleasant office out of his hands. Nothing is fitter than
ruminate on my own plight.
*ity, I leave my argument with the public, and the that people of his description should turn their hands
“. Reformer" to settle how he can the question of the pub against themselves. -

fication, in various ways, of a private correspondence; This hand has never knowingly stated a false fact; but
while I will, hereafter, till he gives me further direction, it has neither chastised, nor will chastise, those who teme
aver and maintain, what no man could antecedently pre rariously charge it with a crime. On eridence produced,
dicate, that the private correspondence so published came it is ever ready to write the retractation of involuntary
to him circuitously, no matter how short or long the cir error. In the present controversy my facts are undisturbed
cuit; and that, by a small extension of the circuit, it was as far as I have stated them as facts; my assumptions
printed in the Eraminer and most other newspapers. necessarily suggested themselves; nor has the contradic
Such is the defence which the partizans of Sir Francis tion of them rested on any thing but what could not be
Burdett are able to furnish. It is too fatiguing to record known, or even presumed without new and private informa
the repetition of the folly, already so clearly exposod, of tion. Such new information has not invalidated any part
attributing an effect to a non-existing cause, so to say. of my argument, and only substitutes facts equally relevant
Can it be believed that this “Reformer" still advances and ºff. The Baronet's partizans have set down a
... that “one main cause” of Mr. Cobbett's attack on Sir great abundance of what are not my facts; and they have
Francis is the severity, (aye.) of a letter which was not re awkwardly demolished the fabric which they have reared
eeived at the date of the last attack, and of the receipt, and on that ſoundation. On such accounts, my complete vic
even mission, of which letter there is not an atom of tory affords me only a mixed and qualified oceasion for
proof. For this I shall, perhaps, be charged with in triumph and self-gratification. Yet, if they will choose to
£udent assumption, because there may be some secret evi "re-enter the field, with honour, and, I trust, with a few
dence, for my not presuming which, respecting the coming good feelings of as much value as their pretended idol, jus
of the private correspondence to him circuitously, I have tice, for my weapons, I will again try their temper. They
been hardily accused of such impudent assumption. I have never failed me." No PART1z AN.
shall expect that, if there be such secrét evidence, it will
prove as unavailing as that which upholds the circuitona
ness alleged; for that admission itself gives me my heart's
contefit.
FOREIGN INTE LLIGENCE.
FRANCF.
How can I wade again through the foolish reason given - -

for the unauthorised (for so he will now have it) publica PARTs, JAN. 25.-The new system of Customs esta
tion of this private correspondence, viz. that “...most pro blished in Prussia is enforced with a degree of rigour
bably Mr. Cobbett will attack Mr. Hobhouse?” Such is which is the cause of general complaint. For some weeks
one partizan of the present representative, and of the towards the end of last year, the gates of the city of Mun
would-be representative, of the city of Westminster! ster were shut ; and while extraordinary patroles traversed
No complaint was made of the misapplication of Italics. the city, geus-d'arines and douaniers occupied themselves
Cemplaint was made of their use; and perhaps capitals even in searching the merchants' stores, granaries, &c., and
would have been a more appropriate description. On this private houses, in order to make discoveries.
subject I ath inaccessible to conviction, except on ocular -SPAIN. º
investigation of the original documents. - -
Invn, JAN. 3–The couriers between Madrid and Ca
• ‘The “Reformer” has methodically strung together diz are escorted by stong detachments of cavalry, posted
gºast me, with first, sectind, third, &c., charges of false at different distances in La Mancha, and on the route.
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across La Sierra-Morena. Travellers proceeding to or The Bill was then read a first time, aud ordered to be printed.
arriving from Andalusia are compelled to unite in caravans Lord Sipxtourn laid on the table a copy of the report of the
in the difficult passages; these caravans are escorted by commission appointed to consider of the neaus of preventing the
small detachments of cavalry. The armed bands have re forgery of Bauk-uotes.—Adjourned. . . -

tired into the passes of the mountains, and seldom come rºadw.ºn.cº.
out: however, one of their hands had the audacity to ad CUSTODY OF THE RING's PERSON.
vauce as far as the cantoa of Val de Pegnas, so celebrated The second reading of this Bill being moved,
for its excellent wines. - -

lord Holt.axo wished to know what arrangements would be

MapRrd, JAN. 12–Letters from Valencia state, that made with respect to the patronage belonging to, the office of
a conspiracy having been formed there against General guardian of the King's person.
The Eary of Liverpoot said, that it was intended to propose
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Elio, the governor of the province, he went with a force n reduction in the establishment, but that the patronage belong
to arrest the conspirators, among whom were’some officers, ing to the office would be vested in the Duke of York.-A'l
when one of them drew a poniard, and striking at the jourued. --- - -

General, wounded him in the arm ; the General ran his - Wednesday, Jan. 27.
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assailant through the body with his sword, and he expired ChIMINAL LAW.
on the spot.—The General of Cordeliers, the Revereid -

Lord IIollawo called the attention of the House to the Peti-,

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Father Cyrille, has received orders to quit the capital. He

tion from the City, pruying for a revision of the Criminal Code,
fºne froin Brazil at the same time as the late Queen. which he held in his hand. From this Petition it appeared, that . .
There are several conjectures as to the causes of this dis tire application of the punishment of death to so unairy minor
ace. . There are upwards of 20,000 monks, of whom he offences outy increased the number of crimes, by causing an ui
is neatly the absolute, chief–Several monks are stated to withingness to prosecute and coavict. France was an example
of this fact. Before the revolution, the punishments of the rack .
have joined the arined bands in the Sierra Morena. and death were extremely commou ; and in consequense tre.
member of offenders, especially of thieves, was iminense. These .
UNITED PAR LIAMENT. punishments had been abolished by the Gode Napoleon, and ºneh .
crimes had become very uncommon in all the great towns. After .
House of Loºps. the considentition of these effects of the change of systeu in ano- .
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ther country, and of the facts stated in this l’etition, he was at a ,

loss to conceive what could possibly be said in the defence ºf a .
Monday, Jan. 25. code which no heart could be found hard enough to execute,
BANK RESTRICTION.—COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY. and no head had yet been foundingenious enough “...i. ex- -
The Farl of Liven poet, wished to advert to an observation cept by arguments which amounted only to this-that the ad
which he had made on Thursday last, on the subject of the vantages of the system consisted in its breach. lie moved that .
resumption of cask-payments. He had stated, that it was his the Petition should be laid on the table. - - -

**on wo bring in a Bill td renew the Act, and to continue the Lord Livekroot thought that the increase of crimes was in a
*::tion for a united time. In consequence of a communica great measure to be attributed to the change from war tº peace ; .
tion from a body of gentlemen, whom it was to be expected
and contended, that it was ouly similar to what had taken place .
Gºvernment would.comsuit on the affairs of the Bank, and who after the American war. -- - -

***d, that any renewal of the restriction should be preceded
by aninvestigation into the situation of the Sauk, he should on
*horrºw se’unight move for a Committee to inquire into the
state ºf the Bank, -
PRISONs.
The Marquis of Lawsoown had, last session, moved for some
Pºpers relative to the state of the prisons of the country. ...As few of those persons were committed to prison. One great cause
** as the papers should be laid oil the table, he would move
th;appointment of a Committee to take them into cousideration,
ºrd Slowouth wished to remind the Noble Marquis, that the
ºnformation he had moved for at the close of the last session
The Marquis of LANsdows observed, that,it appeared from the .
statement,. the increase had proceeded regularly without
being much influenced by peace or war. We were now in the
fourth year of peace and crimes were still increasing. The dis
charge of soldiers and sailors seened to have little effect on the ,
number of offenders. It was indeed matter of surprise that so
of the alarmingly increased number of jüvenile offenders was the
state of the prisons, which had become schools for vice. The
weight of taxation and the financial embarrassments of the coun
try were more likely causes of these lamentable facts. - -

*prehended the state of the prisons for the year 1818. The Lord King, in alſuding to the report relative to the preventisu ,
Fººterpart were already prepared, but the whole could not be of Bank-note forgery, observed, that if they wished to stop the
fished
ki.*ish before
to see the theensuing
end ofofthe
the state prisonsmonth. It had longand
fully investigated; beenit
effects of forgery, they must remove the cause. There were very ,
few instances of the imitation of country bank notes, because the
*** his intention, had he not been anticipated, to move that the
great competition made the country bankers very vigilaut. But ,
**uments should, when on the table, be referred to a Com the Bank of England had no competitors. To remedy this, he
mºttee. - proposed that the rººt of issuing one and two pound notes, to
The Marquis of LANspown was far froſo wishing to anticipate the monopoly of which the Bºmſ of England had no claim by *
the Noble secretary of State. If his Majesty's Ministers were their charter, should be given to other Loudou bankers.
:* of
--.
taking up the subject, he should not stand in their
-
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The Petition was laid on the table, -

CUSTODY OF THE King's PERSON. CUSTODY OF THE KING'S PFRSON.

The Earl of Livertrool moved the order of the day, and the The House resolved into a Committee on the Bill to provide
reading of that part of the speech of the Lords Commissioners for the custody of the
which relates to the death of the Queen, and the care of his Ma
*...
Lord Holländ was not satisfied with the mere assurance of
*y's person. Their Lºrdships had formerly judged it right the Noble Lord opposite, that the Windsor Establishment would
that he custody of his Majesty's person should H. wested in the not be increased and he therefore moved, that the clause
bºuds of one individual, and that that individual should not be giving the power of appointment, and removal tº the Duke of
the person at the head of the Government. In consequence of York he left out, with the view of its being included in another
the amented decease of her Majesty, their Lordships had now
Bill fixing the extent of the Windsor Establishment. -

* consider of the best means o supplying her place. It was, Lord invenpool, said, that there would be no increase in
therefore, his intention to introduce 'Bill É. placing the custody the establishment, but whatever might be its extent, he thought
ºf the King's person iu the hands of the Duke of York. The the whole patrouage should be vested in the Royal Puke. . .
trust he should p would, as it had hitherto been, be Lord Holland's motion was thea m Atived, and on the motion
*ided; but undoubtedly, as in the case of the Queen, subject of Lord Liverpool, the name of Lord Camdeu was iuserted in
* the advice of a Council. The Bill was confined to the object the place of that of Lord Eilenborough.
**ted, and the re-appointment of the Council, which acted under The Bill was then agreed to.—Adjourned. * * s -

* fºrmer Bill. Blinks would be left for this purpose, which |

would propose to fill up with the same names; but it would Friday, Jan. 29. . - - -

ºcessary to supply the place of one Member of the Council, the hill to provide for the custody of his Majesty's person **
* consequence of the death of the late Lord Chief-Justice, read a third line and passed—Adjourned to Munday,
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 THE EXAMINER,

HOUSE OF COMMONS. disgusting scenes took place, and an abomirable and shameful
------ vice was of two frequent occurrence. He himself had gone down
Monday, Jan. 25. alone; he had beheld from 200 to 300 human beings stowed into
- CRIMINAL LAW. these cribs. Loathsome fifth and disease were presented on every
The Sheriffs of London appeared at the bar, with a Petition side. Did not these miserable beings' tell him, that after they
from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, of the first sailed, (for the ship had been put back,) a stream of filth
city of London, praying the Hause to take into consideration the proceeding from sea sickness was constantly pouring down from
state of the Criminal Law. It was read, and contained the fol the uppermost on those who were stowed below * If the regula
lowing comparative statements:—The number of persons com tions adopted on board of ships employed in the slave trade were
mitted for trial in England and Wales in the years compared to those of the white-slave ship, (Hear, hear.) the
1805 . 4,605 1814 . . 6,390. 1816 . . 9,091 former would be found decidedly the more humane. la -lave.
1812 . . 6,576 1815 . . 7,818 1817 . . 13,932 ships, a space of a foot and a half was allotted to each negro;
1813 . . 7, 164 -- but only one foot was allowed to the white slave. They wond,
There were confined in Newgate, only of Boys, of 17 years and no doubt, on the present occasion, be told of the great humanity
under, in the years of the person at the head of this department (Hear, hear.) as was
1813 . . . . 123 1816 . . .247 1817. . . . .359 customary whenever an attack was made on any part of his con
The Petition also remarked on the refusal of individuals to duct: but when the House considered the simple account of the
prosecute, and of Jurymen to convict, the guilty, on account of state of that ship as she sailed, for the truth of which he would
1he disproportion between the crime and the punishment. pledge himself, he hoped they would not be satisfied till the pro
Mr. Alderman Wood, on rising to move that this Petition per inquiries were made. The ship Sally, which sailed last year
should lie upon the table, observed, that he was sure the subject with 200 convicts, lost 40 of them before she arrived at the place
zo which it referred must appear to the House to be of the of her destination. Where the penalties of law were inflicted,
Jighest importance.—(Hear, hear!)—Many learned and eminent the sufferer should experience every possible alleviation of his
xmen had contended that our Criminal Code was unnecessarily misery.
severe, and that imprisonment and hard labour might in many Mr. BRAGGE BATHunst would not eulogize the character of his
Scases be substituted for the punishment of death. He had visited Noble Friend (Lord Sidmouth) for humanity; but he would re
mind the House of the arduous duties º, that person had to
Newgate the day before, and had seen 40 persons under sentence
of death, hot one ºf whom had any apprehension of being exe perform. If the Hon. Gentleman had inquired into the character
and conduct of Dr. O'Halloran, he would have found that he was
cuted. The calculation was, he believed, that not more than one
in 13 suffered; and this constant extension of mercy prebably not a fit object of royal mercy. Did not the Hon. Gentleman
operated to encourage the commission of offences. He had ex know, that if proof had been brought of the forgery of the frank,
amined various prisons on the continent, and had met with other forgeries would have been brought to light; for the forged
frank contained forged recommendations in favour of himself?
instances of several hundreds confined to hard labour for dif He affirmed, that the Hon. Gentleman had stated the case falla
ferent periods, not one of whom returned to evil practices.
Mr. Alderman Warthwas rose to second the motion. It ap ciously, when he said that the punishment inflicted on that than
was not for the crime of which he was convicted, but for another.
peared by the statement, that crimes had increased to an alarm
ing degree within the last ten years. The number of prisoners In order to obtain correct information on the subject, the Noble
was, nearly quadrupled. He could state, from his own informa Lord had sent down the person intrusted with the superintend
tion, that, of the persons brought before the Magistrates in Lon ence of the hulks, who had reported that it was impossible the
don, a much larger number escaped with impunity than formerly, situation represented by Dr. O'Halloran could ever have oc
curred. Dr. O'Halloran had stated that his health was bad, but
from the difficulty of sending them to prisons already crowded, it appeared that this, was not the case. . (Hear, hear 1) The
and of bringing them ultimately to justice under the present seve master of the vessel, he knew, had been instructed to treat him
rity of the penal code. He held a paper in his hand, by which with all possible lenity. The ship was fitted up as well as ships
it appeared, that 600 of the persons confined in Newgate during of that description ever are. (Hear, hear!) . The comparison
the last year were under 21 years of age; and those acquitted drawn between the accommodation and discipline adopted in
and eonvicted under that age amounted to abount 1,000. -

Ordered to lie on the table. -

. . . EAST INDIES.
Mr. Hºwr rose to give notice of a motion on the subject of the
administration of justice in the East Indies. He requested to
know, whether it was intended to communicate any information
with regard to the conduct of Sir Thomas IIislop in hanging the
£overnor of a fort which had surrendered to the British arms.
Mr. CANNING said, that it was intended to lay before the House
ships employed to transport convicts and those of slave-ships,
was ridiculous. The question was a simple one, as he viewed
it—namely, whether Dr. O'Halloran was a fit object to be recom
mended to the royal mercy,
A MEMBER said that he could himself bear witness to the un
comfortable manner in which transports were fitted up. The
House would consider this cruel negligence as more unpardon
able, when they were informed that the transporting of each con
vict costs 801. -

all the information which Government possessed with regard to

the recent hºstilities in India. The present was not a proper The Hon. Mr. Clive could assure the House that great care
opportunity of entering upon any discussion of the subject. had been taken by the Navy Board to provide for the comfort of
CONVICT SHIPS.–DR. O'HALLORAN, the convicts. Of one ship which sailed last year with 300 con
. . Mr. Bessºr stated, that he held in his hand a Petition from victs, only two persons were sick during the voyage ; and in an
Dr. O'Halloran, complaining of cruelty in the treatment which other only three out of 150 had been sick. He believed that the
he had experienced during his imprisonment, both before and average number of deaths did not exceed six out of 100.
after his trial, and more particularly of his sufferings on board Sir JAMEs Mackistosh observed, that the most important fact
the transport in which he had been placed in order to be con stated by his Hon. Friend had not been answered. His Hon.
veyed to New South Wales. The public expected that some Friend had said, that Dr. O'Halloran had been punished for his
> *reason should be given for the infliction of a punishment so dis character, not for his crime, and this was not denied by the Right
proportionate to the offence of this unfortunate man. It was Hon. Gentleman. - -

said, that the character of Dr. O'Halloran was very questionable: Mr. Lawson said, that a parallel had been attempted between
but if he had committed more serious offences, he should have white and black slaves; but our sympathy for the slave was ex
been brought to trial for them. He appeared to be a man of de cited by his innocence and undeserved suffering. Confinement
cent deportment, certainly of toº. literary.acquirements, by land was a great inconvenience, how much greater must it be
much advanced in years, and with a wife and family. Accord by sea? But if the effects of saltwater was really injurious, why
ing to the representations of this Petition, he had been removed did many persons of the greatest affluence travel far, and with
frºm prison and put on board the Baring transport in a fit of much inconvenience, to watering-places? Why did lords of lofty
severe sickness. Ile was taken into a small cabin, where he was mansions lodge for months in small cabins, in order to enjoy
left-without nourishment or assistance of any kind for 19 hours. those waters? (4 feeble laugh, suppressed by manifest disapproba
He was afterwards thrown, with 19 others, into a sort of hold or tion.) I have been guilty of no crime; and yet in crossing over .
dungeon, which he (Mr. Bennet)" had himself measured, and tº Calais I have suffered distresses as disgusting as these met"
which was exactly twelve feet square—(Hear, hear !)—The cribs tioned by the Hon. Gentleman. (A laugh.) . Were convicts to
were six feet and a half wide by five feet and a half in length, be treated during the voyege by sea, as he had himself seen hº
and in each of these were six human beings stowed, for the pur treated when removed from one gaol to another, they would ſee
Fººt taking their rest. The consequence was, that the incst themselves far happier than paupers at home. As to the chars”
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THE EXAMINER. -
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against the Noble Secretary, he believed from the refutation of SUPPLY.
former charges, that the present charge was not true. The Chaxcellor of the Exchequen having moved that the
-

Mr. Buxton said, he could not censure with sufficient severity House should resolve itself into a Committee of Supply,
the indiscriminate levity with which the last speaker had treated Sir Robertr Wilson said he rose under, that anxious fear.
this subject. If the facts were true, could it be pretended that which every new member felt on addressing the House for the
they did not call for inquiry (Hear, hear !). If they were not first time. He was afraid the few observations he was about to .
true, gentlemen opposite should concur with the House in a most offer would not be approved of by some of his friends around
grave and serious inquiry. him, nud he was certain they wº condemned by those wins'
Mr. Lawson explained. -
were interested in the continuance of the present ruinous sys
Mr. F. Ronixson-admitted the importance of the subject, but tem, and who wished only to protract the evil day, a oonducts
he thought it was brought before the liouse in a manner ex the more criminal as they knew the catastrophe would be made
tremely inconvenient and extremely unlikely to lead to any use worse by protraction. He did not mean to discuss the question.
ful effect. as a regular professor of arithmetic or a political economist; but
Mr. BENNET begged to be allowed to explain. He had merely he had reag the most approved works on the subject; he had
alluded to the way in which the couvicts were crowded, for the looked at the books of ſhe poor-rates, to lists of bankrupts, of.
purpose of transportation. He did not stand up for the character fenders, to the aggregate catalogue of distress, crime, and dis
of Dr. O'Halloran, yet he would again say, that he, and others, content pervading the country, notwithstanding the assurances.
were treated with the most inhuman barbarity. This he re of Ministers that the country was in a state of joy and gladness—
peated, notwitlistanding the sneers which persons on the other assurances which were mere mocking. From these things, he
side threw out ngainst him, notwithstanding the sneers of a Go was convinced that the people ceuld no longer pay the expenses
vernment who never lent assistance to mend bad systems, or to of the Government and the interest of the debt—that interest for .
purge abuses (fear, heart); who, on the contrary, exerted all the payment of which their industry and that of their children's.
their power and influence to retard and frustrate every attempt children had been mortgaged. Every 30 years 1,390,000,000l. was
wo apply a remedy (Loud cheers), and who, he believed on his raised by taxes, and yet no debt was discharged. It was said that .
conscience, had reseived to take up the subject of prison disci the money returned to the people; but there was a great difference
pline for the special purpose of defeating the object of his Hou. between what flowed from natural sources, and what came through
friend. (Great and continued cheering.) Far be it from him to the strainers of Government. It might be said, that if the taxes
enter into discussion with one who thought such a fact a fit sub were made lighter, wages would fall; but the examples of France
ject for joke (flear, hear!); who held that a voyage, in such a con and America showed that the prosperity of a country advanced
dition, for six months, was to be compared to a trip to Calais. where fiscal laws did not interfere with the national prices. In the
He could not help feeling for those miserable wretches. . (Hear, one case, there was a healthy body with sound fimbs; in the
Rear!) They were capable of feeling pains, as well as the lion. other, a diseased body with unsound limbs. A country was
Members of that House. (Cheers.) The Right Hon. Gentleman, poor or rich in propertion as the community enjoyed the corn
anong all his observations, had "net at all spoken of the moral forts of life; how poor then must this country be, where the
abominations and turpitude in those convict-ships. poor could not command even subsistence. He thought that the
Mr. Baoucuax asked if the fact really were so, that each con question was not now whether the Bank could pay in specie cr
vict use only one foot one inch in width to lie on? This question not, but how the insolvency of the country could be met without
being repeated, ruit, to the capitalists, and danger to º existing institutions."
Mr. B. Baruvast said, he should be happy to answer the Hon. All capitalists must make great sacrifices, but God forbid that
Gentleman if he could; but the Hon. Gentleman saw how the they should make them while the present Ministers continued in
uestion came forward upon a petition from Dr. O'Halloran, and their places. If the Government could raise more loans, we
that he had therefore no means of knowing. should have one army sent to South America, not to repress in
Mr. F. DocGLAs remarked, that this was an example of the justice, but to enable Ferdinand to enslave a people; another to
pains taken by Government to know the state of prisons and of Indin, to seize all º
revenue and occupy all ille territory, from
the hulks—they were not able to give any answer to a question the Ganges to the Caspian Sea; and another to France to teach -
so dreadful as that put by his Hon. Friend. a mora) lesson to the Ministers who had baffled the pleas and re--
The Petition was laid on the table. -
jected the catechism of the Holy Alliance. Even if his Honour
Mr. BENNer said, he should in a week or two move for a able Friends, who, had they remained in office, would have
Committee on this subject. If the ship had not sailed, and he sawed the country from many millions of taxes, for which we had
had reason to believe it had not, since it had not moved on the got nothing but empty military glory—who would have saved
*d or 23d, he hoped it would not now sail. - - - - the country from Alieu, Suspension, and Indemnity Bills—who,
BANK RESTRICTION. in short, would have saved the sountry from all that Ministers.”
The ChâxcELLoR of the Exchequer said, that in consequence had criminally done and criminally left undone; even if these
of a communication with the Committee of Bank Directors, be men were in office, he would not give them the power of mort
thought that inquiry should precede any definite measure for gaging the people’s industry... Sacrifices, should ouly be made,
when there was the security of a reformed Parliament, the dura
extending the period of restriction. He should, therefore, when
the subject was brought forward, move for a Committee of Se tion of which should not exceed 3 years, which should not pre
crecy, to inquire into the ... of the measure. sent the serio-comic scene exhibited to the House when the Mem
-

Mr. Trekkey would certaiuly bring forward his motion, not

-
bers for a certain county §.were summoned to the table.’”
He wished to see a remedy applied to that paper system, which
withstanding the change of course announced by the Right Hon;
Geutleman." The course now proposed was aſ a trick ; it had impoverished the people, ºerime, aud was upheld by
been extorted from a weak Administration by those who felt sanguinary punishments. 'Ife, would not oppose the Supplies,
themselves their masters. (Hear, hear !)—Adjourned. because he had no wish to embarrass the Government; but he
hoped some abler persou would take up the subject. - -
Tursday, Jan. 26, The House having gone into a Committee, the supply was
BANK OF ENGLAND. voted of course, and the House resumed...
Mr. GRENFELL rose to move for the produetion of certain DR. O'HALLORAN AND CONVICT SHiPS. * *
apers relative to the affairs and conduct of the Bank of England. Sir T. B. Manxis felt anxious to counteract the impressions.
E. the last twenty-two years, the Bank of England had as made by an Hon. Gentlemanlast night...if there was any blame ºf
cumulated enormous wealth at the expense of the public, with:
out readering any public services that could entitle them to such lº. it ought, to be atte ed to the Board over which he
had the honourtoºreside. He had made a calculation upon the
advantages. This wealth was derived from two principal sources; reportion of deaths ..º. and found it to be one in
the first was the restriction of cash-payments, which had absolved ". The Hon. Gentleman had said, that six of them had bees. ,
the bank from all their pecuniary obligations. It morever placed crowded into the space of six-feet. This he atterly denied. They
in the hands of twenty-four merchants, the tremendeus power of had as great a space allºwed to them as a British soldier; as
issuing an inconvertible, and therefore a forced paper currency, great as he hººdºº board amañºſ war, and his sons now ºf
for their own exclusive benefit. The other great source of the Bad. º
gains of this corporation was the exorbitant rates exacted for the than 14 inches.” soldiers were allowed more."
arº, the very ship now in question, had :
managemeul of the public business. He concluded by moving formerly carried to Botany Bay 300 convicts, of whom only one
fºrms of the number of Bank-notes in circulation, the price died; she had had then the same officer as unaster, and the sam"
ºf bulliºn, overeigns, &c., which were ordered, surgeon
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as now. -
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 72. - -
THE EXAMIN ER.
Mr. BENNET said, that he had visited two ships, in one were was the proper place to resort to with complaints of this nature.”
300 tonvicts, in another 447. In the Boring he found 21 per Cases should not be brought under consideration in that House,
sons. Each crib was 6 feet by 5 and a half. He saw three laying which might be tried in a Court of competent jurisdiction.
in one of them, and the other 3 were shown him. It might be that Mr. BENNET observed, that the Court of King's Bench would
+he ºrders from the Admiralty were that ou!y four should lie in not interfere, except upon a prima facie case of corrupt motive in
agrib. He represented to the master the stºre of the convicts. the magistrate. I held that a magistrate had an arbitrary power
His ºp'.
that they were n! equally crowded, (Hear, hear, of ticensing or refusing to license. A very considerable amount
hear!) f soldiers were cruelly treated, that was no justification of property, extending throughout the country, was thus placed
for cruel treatment to convicts: but of the soldiers one-third in a condition unlike that of any other description of property,
were on deck during the night, while all the cºnvicts were shut and no legal remedy could be obtained against proceedings
up. The Right lion. Gentleman had said, that Dr. G'Halloran had which were ofteu harsh, unjust, and unwarrantable. They
not been ill. Not ill He bore on his countenance the proofs of might reject this Petit on, but it was his fixed determination to
his illness. The Surrey, which carried 200 convicts, of whom bring the whole subject into discussieu in the course of the pre
50 died, had sailed at this very season; and the reason stated for sent Session. - -

this nortality was, the season of the year. Those disused to a The Petition was withdrawn.
sea life must find such confinement horrible beyond conception. - * Forge RIE8.
It was a great act of cruelty to confide men in such a situation Sir Jaxtrs Mackintosm moved for returns connected with the
for a number of hours, at night, and under the line. (Hear, hear, forgery of Bank-notes; . It appeared from the report of the Com
hear !) ile was not surprised to find, that those wretches chose missioners, which had been laid on the table, that they held out
rather to perish in battle than not to attempt to effect their very little hope of success. . Of all the plans presented to their
..". In bringing those cruel afflictions under the attention of consideration, only one was thought good enough to be made the
the House, God knew that he had never proposed any other ob subject of further experiment. In his opinion, therefore, the
ject, than to diminish the sum of hutauq inistry. (Great and only questicit now was, whether a supposed ocmmercial ad
general cheering.) - -
vant-ge, he said supposed, for he did not believe it a real ad
- -

Sir T. B. Manºris explained. To make up for the want of vantage.--was to be preferred to security of roperty; and the
liberty to coine ou deek, the convicts had a ton more allowed to prevention of crime, and the miseries which that criºle repre
then in order to walk in.—Adjourned. scuted. In the beginning of 1816, after we had gone turoush
:: *, * :

}}'odnesday, Jan. 27. the shock and convulsion of a resumption by the Bauk of Eng
- PRICE OF SILVER. . land.withdrawing its issues, and the failure of the country banks,
Mr. GRENFELL said, that he had received information that day, the restriction was continued. After this experience, he hoped
that the price of slaudard silver had udvanced to 5s. 73d per the House would not agree to pretract the resumption of cº-h
ounce, or three halfpence above the price fixed by the Mint re payments, unless those Ministers who had formerly deceived the country would allow a full, impartial, and public investigation
gulations. Should the price therefore remain at its present of the reasous which might render such a measure expedient
aimount, the disappearance of the new silver currency night be (Iſcar, hear !) i. -

calculated on. He wished to know, whether any measure was

. cousideration for the purpose of checking i. evil already layMr.theCountsN4x said, that the Commissionets had hastened to .
result of their investigation before the Hºuse, partly be
gun. “ . . -

The CHANCELlor of the Excheques thought it must be evi cause opinions injurious to the Bank Directors had very generally
dent to the House, that to so important a question it was impos prevailed. Of itſ the plaus suggested, not one appeared to the
sible to return an immediate answer. He had reason to believe Bank to be perfect, and no paius had been spared in exºminiºg
all of them." His Hon. Friend had said more than the Coromis
that the present high price was not likely to continue. * .
sioners meant to say, when he alleged that they were anxious to
BANK OF ENGLAND. repress the hopes of the public, and themselves, despaired of
The CIAxcellor of the Exchequgh gave notice, that, on success. They did anticipate that a note would be produced, the
Tuesday, he should move for a Coſhmittee of secrecy to inquire introduction of which would answer the purpose desired. (Hear,
into the state of the Bauk, with reference to the question of the hear!), From among the specimens presented tº them, they had
Tºpu” of cash payments, and other matters
witH1, º-, *, * ,
cotiaeeted there selected one which they had every reason to believe would suc
..
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ceed. A gentleman of the commission was of opinion that a com

Mr. TierNEv wished to be informed, whether the Right Hon. bination of this design with paper of a particular fabric would
Gentleman's inotion would embrace the same objects as his own; render imitation almost impossible; and a respectable manu
for in that case, there would be no "becasiou for iwo separald" facturer was now employed in making paper for the experiment.
imotious. - *- - -
Mr. TIERNEY asked the Hon. Gentleman when the experiment -

'The CHANCELLon of the Excuratifa said, the collateral was to be made; because, when the question of the Bunk restric
matters referred to by the terms of his hiótion would include the tion came to bf discussed, it would be important to know, whether
state of the currency, and other questions; but the first point of by the power apdingenuity of man forgeries could be prevented.
inquiry would be the state of the uſtairs of the bank." ' " " ' Mr. Count Esay said, that the experiment was now, making,
"Mr. Tien NEY desired to know whether the Right Hon. Gentle and he had reason to believe that the result would be known in
man would be satisfied with a Secret Committee for iiiquiring the comise of a month.' - - -

into the state of the Bánk simply. * Mr. Manxixe said,'i that
-- - - it might be expected at rather an
- ... * * *

The Citancellon ºf the Exchequen was of opinion, that it earlier period. ' ...,

would be nor...expedient that the whole inquiry should be sub Sir Jaxºs, MAckintosh remarked, that the question was
initted to one Committee. ' '' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' - -
brought to this.--that there was hope of success from an exper -.

', 'Mr. TIERNEY then said, that he thought himself bound, after ment which was yet untried. in the event of the Bank resºining
the declaratioti of the "Right Hon. Geirtleman, to oppose the re cash payments, the forgery of Bank-notes would be a subject
ferring of this ipportant enquiry to a Committee chosen by ballot, of great importance." It would require all the perſection which
whose report wºuld be a miere echo of the opiuious ºf º: Hon, the execution of notes could possess, to protect thbse which would
Gentleman-adjourned. * * * * * : ". . . - - - - continue in circulation, for still Bank notes would be necessary.
" . Thursday Jan. 28. The motion was agreed to.-Adjourned. - -

A report was bronght up from the Committee of Privileges.” - Friday, Jan. 29.
when an applicatiº from Mr. Robert Burton, Member for PETITION FROM MR. iignt,
Reverley; iº kshire, then a prisonerii the Fleet-prison, pray
firſt to be discharged, had been referred. Gu the motion # Mr. theMr. Singian présented a Petition from Mr. ii. Hunt against
Westminºr Hustings Bill (a Bill for the protection of the
C. Wysº, it was resolved; tiſh the applicahi was entitled to pri. High Bailiff), which stated, that' the High'Bailiff had claimed
vilege of Parliament, and that he fiould be accordingly dis. of only three candidates the sum of 936l. as the amount of the
charged, , º, ... < *.*, *** **** * * * * * * expences of the election; and that on the Petitioner objecting to
-
* -

. . .'; . . . LICENSING SYSTEM.

. several items'of the Bill, and particularly to a lumping one of
- -

Mr. BE resented a Petitipi from a person named Brown 522t for sºcarpenter's bill, the said High Bailiff brought an
low; totiplaiºlºgºfthe improper cºduci of a magistrate ht actibu of debt against the Petitioner; and while ke was endea
Bristol, in refusiºr to rāh ºf: ºvietºaller, by which wouring to obtain the particulars of the charge, a judgment was
- -

the Petitiºnerºd been subject to snapt up against him, and he was obliged, in order to prevent an
-
“Mr. B. Baruvast
… --- **** * * *...*
app -> -- a------->
I - ºrker, ºne
execution, to obtain a rule nisi to set aside the judgment. The ** * w *... riº - . * - -- - - - -- -

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º THE EXAMINER.
Petitioner also complained of the enormous and unnecessary ex him." (A loud laugh,) he might perhaps be able to form a more.
pense attending the erection of the hustings, as the election decided opinion on this intricate subject. As the ouly resource
might be held in-Westminster Hall, or sease other place, as is of the Right Hen. Gentlemau in alt his difficulties was a Secret
Committee, he amight, perhaps, have his views on this difficult.
done in other cities. The Petitioner therefore prayed, that the
house would not press a Bili te throw more impediments in the question made clear by a coumittee of instruction elected by
way of free election ; or that if such Bill was passed, a clause ballot. (A loud laugh.) -

would be intreduced, preventing the High Bailiff from suing by Mr. wi Pole did not mean to complain of the ridicule thrown.
action of debt, which both deprives the party sued of the right of on him by the Right lion. Gentleman, for he liked it very well
disputing the charges, and prevents him from having a Jury to º taugh.) Hi Right Hon. Friend, if he might be allowed to
assess the damage-3 or else that the Ilouse would limit the sum tail him so, (Mr. Tierney bowed.) possessed a peculiar, art of
doing so, and used it to greater advantage than any man he ever
to be paid to the High Bailiff.-Laid on the table.
"knew. He was much obliged to the Right Hon. entleman for
BR:Pºny.
Mr. DEszrax presented a Petition from some inhabitants of his advice, and should endeavour to profit by it.--(4 laugh.)
-

Oxford, which was read. It alleged various acts of bribery on When he said that he had read all the pamphlets on the subject.
the part of the Duke of Marlborough, in fºrt,ishing entertain he only meant to say that he had read many of them.—Adjourned
ment, ciſts, and rewards to voters ºf the late election for the city to Monday. -

efºxford, in order to procure the return ºf Gen. St. John as one REPORT - - *
of its representatives in Parliament. The petitioners offered to of rn E coxſwimsston Ers AppointED FOR - INQUIRING INTo Thº
make good their charges before a Committee of Privileges, and *
xrope of rR rventing the Forgt.RY OF BANK-Norf.S. ,
prayed that the House would afford sºck relief as should seem
proper. It was ordered to be t-ked into consideration on Mon To his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, Regent of the
cay. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. . .
PRtcE of SILVER. In obedience to the directions contained in his Majesty's
Mr. Grexfelt called the attention of the Iſouse to this subject. Commission, we proceeded, in the latter end of the month of
He had exerted hiº-e:f to procure information from the best July last, to consider the important subject referred to us. “
sources, and had found that there was an excess of the market Gur'attention was first directed to the proposals for improve
price above that fixed by the Mint regulations of 1s. in every 66s. ment in the form of the notes issued by the Bank of England;
ºr pound weight of silver. They were: thus placed in the and it being known that many plaus had been submitted to that
hidicrous situation of declaring that 66s. were equivaleut to 67s. body which they had not thought it expedieut to adopt, we felt
The melter had merely to t-te 66 coined shillings, and place it proper, in the first instance, to obtain correct, information,
them in a crucible over a sharp fire, to procure a lump of bullion upon this point; and we, therefore, requested the Court of
worth 67s. The Right Hon. Gentleman had expressed his Directors to ſurnish us with an account of such plans. They
opinion, that the high price of silver would not be of long dura did accordingly furnish us, without delay, with a detailed aecount
tiºn: but, with great respect for his private character, he had no of 108 projects, regularly classed and arranged; together with
confidence in his predictions upon any subject of political the correspondeuce respecting them, a statement of the trials tº
economy. Perhaps he should be told, that it was illegal to melt which they had been subjected, and specimens of the proposed
.#
of export the coin of the country. . . He knew that there was an originals, and of the imitations executed order of the Bank.
ºbsurd and ridiculous law to that effect, but he defied any legis They also laid before as about 70 varieties of paper made at their
lature to prevent the melting of the coin, whenever a profit nanufactory in experiments for its improvement, in which al
could be obtained from it. If the price of silver should continue most every alteration recommended for adoption had been tried,
at its present rate, the country would be deprived of its silver aud, in some instances, anticipated by their own imanufacturer.
cºrrency in the same mauner in which it had lost its gold; and We have also received aud answered' communications from
what resource the Right IIon. Gentleinan would then discover, about 70 individuals, which have been arranged and cºnsidered;
except in giving the public. paper
; :
shilling", he was unable to and in some cases, a persoual interview has been requested and
*- - - -
conjecture. held. Several of these persons had previously in communi
Mr. W. Pole observed, that when the Act relative to the late cation with the Bank; and we find," that in the instance of some
coinage was passed, it was judged expedient, to prevent the gold projects of superior promise, the Directors had fºrnished to the
and silver coin from competing with each other, to ineke one the proposers the pecuniary means of .# their ideas into effect.
standard, and to consider the other as subservient. This was We have likewise sought and obtained information as to the
the only plan that could be adºpted for preserving the coin in state of paper currency in other countries; but this has proved
the country. He admitted that the law against the exporta of very little importance, with reference to the object of our pre
tion of the coin of the realm was worse than föplish; but what sent inquiry. From America, which affords the closest parallel
tould his Majesty's Ministers do?. The law had existed from to the state of England in this particular, no official return has
time immemorial. The present, high price of silver, he hoped, yet been received; but we have reason to think, that in several
would soon fall; but if it should still continue, he thought it fºrts of the United States, the crime of forgery is prevalent, and
would be proper to appoint a Committee. If it should appear that great efforts are now making to give to the notes such a
to that Committee that there was so great a rise in the price of character as may baffle the skilt of the American forger. Speci
bellion as to endanger the coin, the outy remedy was a legisla mens of these improved nates have been communicated to us by
tive measure. with regard to the question of our cºrrency, he the agent of the American patentee, and have received our part
*ways found it necessary to speak with great diffidence. He cular attention with re; wrd to the practicability of adopting the
had carefuſly read all the panphlets that professed to 'iscuss the invention, in whole or in part, so as to present a barrier to the
question, and he found that no two of then agreed; the two art and skill of the forger in this country. . . .
wides of the House could not agree in their views of the question, upon the general subject of the extent of forgery, we do nºt
and even on the same side no two Members could agree. think it necessary to recapitulate statements which are already
(4!augh.) * *. * * * * - -
before Parliament and the public. It appeared to us, however,
Mr.Wilson said, in answer to a question from an Hon. Mem proper to obtain more particular inſormation as to the course
ber, what was to be done; if all the silver should be melted down which has been hitherto pursued by the Bank, both with respect
that recourse should be had to tokens of a value that could not to the preveation, and with to the detection and punish
ºffer temptation to pelt or export. - -
ment of the crime. Upon the former of these points, we have
Mr. Trearrv remarked, that what had been said on the other received from the Directors, in addition to the accºunt before
side, had nothing to do with the question, as his IIon. Friend's alluded to, clear and circumstantial details; and it is but common
remarks were not connected with the Mint regulations. . The instice to those gentlemen to state, that in every instance our
Right Hon. Gentleman had said that he had taken great pains to inquiries have been met by then in the most prompt and satis
comprehend the questiop of curreury, and that he was unable to factory manner, and every sort of-useful information readily
understand it." #. was sorry for him. (A taugh.), Although furnished. We feel it also proper to add nur opinion, formed
the Right Hon. Gentleman had read all the pamphlet; on the after an examination of all the projects which have been formerly
subject, he would recommend one more to him. (4 laugh.) suumitted to the Bank for a º: in the form ºf their notes,
The work he meant was a letter nddressed to the Right Hon. that no one of these could have been adopted with such a prospert
Robert Peel, Member for Qxford. If the Right Hon. Gentleman of ºolid advantage to the public, as would compensate the evils
woºd study this work with all his powers of understanding, and necessarily attendant upon a change. -

“with the exercise of the best intellects that God had given. The inventiou to which we refer in the latter part of this re
 '74 - . .. THE EXAMINER.
port, and on which our attention is now principally engaged, one actual forger, we venture to recommend the adoption of this
was laid before the Directors a short time previous to the issuing measure, to be concurrent with such an improvement in the form
of his Majesty's commission, and so far entertainºd by them, that of the note as we hope to see effected.
they advanced a large sum of money to the author. The chief Having been furnished with such information as was within
merit of this invention consisting in the extreme accuracy of the our reach, relative to the subject of our ..". we, in the next
machinery requisite, time and application are necessary to bring place, proceeded to examine more in detail, the several projects
it to such a state of perfection as appears likely to answer the submitted to us. In pursuing this examination, we have notin
purpose desired. - dulged the vain expectation of finding any plan for a Bank-note
Upon the latter of the two points above referred to, we have which shall not be imitable by the skill of English artists; and
received from the chief inspector and chief investigator at the we have considered that it would be utterly unsafe to rely ſor
Bank, and also ſrom the solicitor, accounts of the course pursued security against forgery upon the employment of any process,
in their respective departments. For which purpose, we re the chief merit of which was to consist in its being kept secret ;
quested the personal attendance of each of those officers, and of which several have been communicated to us. Our object
entered into such an examination of them as appeared to us to has been to select some plan, of which the process, when the
be calculated to produce the necessary information. We have principles of it are understood, and the machinery, and imple
also been furnished by the Bank with the means of judging of the ments provided, should be simple enough to be applied without
actual state of forgery, and of the degree of skill which appears interruption to the extended operations of the Bank; and should,
sufficient to deceive the public, by the examination of forged at the same time, comprise so much of superior art, as may
notes of various kinds; and even of the tools and instruments oppose the greatest possible difficulties to the attempts of the
used by one forger, which were taken upon him. forger, and may present such points of accuracy and excellence
Whilst it is painful to observe the degree of talent thus per in workmanship to the eye of any individual using ordinary
verted, it is at the same time to be remarked, that in many caution, as shall enable him to detect a fraud by observing the
instances the public suffer themselves to be deceived by very absence of those points in a fabricated note. In the mass of the
miserable imitations; and it is to be feared that a ſimilar schemes before us, there are of course very various degrees of:
eare'essness, would very much lessen the good effects to be de merit; and we endeavour to class them as well as circumstances
rived from the employment of superior skill and workmanship in would permit, From a very large portion of them it was obvious,
the formation of a new note. Another fact appears proper to be upon a first inspection, that no beneficial result cºuld be expected.
noticed here, as forming an important ingredient in the considera Of the whole number we find about twelve of superior skill.and
• ‘ion of any proposed plan. The issue of small notes by the Bank ingenuity, but anticipated by others of higher merit; or merely
is necessarily very uncertain and irregular in its amºunt. We ingenious, but inapplicable in practice. And we consider nine
find, that to keep up the usual supply, not less than 50 plates are others tobe either of such originality or ingenious combination
requisite; and it is considered proper to have a much larger of existing means, as to have required our more particular atten
number in a state of preparation. Ånd as it is obviously neces. tion; and with respect to these much consideration has been
sary to preserve, as much as possible, identity in the notes, this had, and, in some instances, improvements aud experiments
circumstance alone precludes the application, for this purpose, of sugs ested and tried.
many ingenious plans, even if there did not exist other insuperable We have not considered, as decisive against the merit of any
objections to them. -
particular plan, the single fact, that it may be imitated by supe
Resulting from the above statements and examinations, some rior art and expensive means; but when we have found, in the
general ºbservations have occurred to us, which appear proper to case of specimens submitted to us, apparently of great excellence,
be introduced in this stage of the report. - -
and the result of a combination of talent or machinery, that a
It has been very commonly imagined, that, in consequence of very good imitation has been produced in a very short time,
the simplicity of execution in the present Bakk-notes, the actual without any peculiar expense, and º
the application of means
forgery of then was very generally and extensively practised, and only which are within the reach of very many artists and et:
that often y persons without money or talent; aid this idea has gravers in England; and when we reflect to how very few hands,
formed the basis of much of the reasoning used by many of the the business of forgery appears to be at present confined, we
projectors, whose plans have been under our view. The reverse cannot doubt that in the event of Bank-notes being-formed from
of this we believe to be the fact; and from the information before any of such specimens, an equal number at least of persous would
us, we feel ourselves warranied in stating our opinion, that the very soon indeed be found capable of fabricating those nºtes to
great quantity of forged small notes which have lately been found a considerable extent, end with a degree of skill quite sufficient
in circulation, have all issued from a very few plates only; and to deceive the public. Another consideration has also had weight
that the fabrication of them is chiefly confined to one particular in inducing us to hesitate much, before we venture to recommend .
part of the country, and carried on by men of skill and experience, any specific plan. The adoption of . new form of note pre
and possessed of a very considerable command of eapital. Upon senting peculiar hnd characteristic marks, but the imitation of
a cursory observation, it appeared remarkable, that while so which we could not confidently feel to be extremely difficult,
*nany utterers are constantly brought to justice, the actual would not only not do good, but would produce much evil;-and
forger shºuld very, rarely, indeed, be detected. But further would induce a false security, by accustoming the public to rely
investigation has led us to think, that this fact may be accounted upon the appearance of such marks and peculiar
for ; and without entering into details, which upon this point it rather than upon a cautious and general observation of character,
the whole
is better to avoid, we think that it results naturally frºm the incte. -- - -

lamentable perſection of system to which this fraudulent traffic
has been brought; and we have seen no reason to doubt that the
Pirectors of the Bank, and their officers, have used every exer
tion in their power to bring the actual forgers to justice, though
unfortunately without success, except in very few instances. We
cannot refrain, however, from adding to this statement our opi
nion, that there must be some culpable remissness in the local
police of those districts within which the actual fabricators of
Bank-notes are more than suspected to reside, and to carry on
their trade with impunity. And before we quit this part of the
subject... we wish to suggest, for the consideration of those by
whose judgment such a question may be properly decided,
whether it might not be expedient to offer a very large reward
for the apprehension and conviction of a person actually engaged
in forging Bank-notes. We are aware of the objections which
exist against the system of pecuniary rewards, and are fully im
pressed with a sense of the evils that may arise from a too general
adoption of it:-but the circumstances under which the crime of
forgery exists in this country are peculier; and it appears to us
hardly possible that those evils, which might be anticipated from
the offer of a reward in the case of some other crimes, could
follow from such an offer in this case; and knowing how many
individuals must be saved from punishment by the conviction ºf result; and we have every reason to know, that the Bank Direct
Our remarks, however, as to imitation, do not apply to all the
specimens which have been offered to us. There are a few of .
singular and superior merit produced by means which it is very
improbable should ever come within the reach of any single
forger, and the imitation of which, except by those means, ap- - -
pears in a high degree difficult,
Safety, or rather comparative safety, is to be sought, to a
excellence in various partſ: .
certain extent, in a combination of
culars; but chiefly, as we conceive, in the application of a .
principle beyond the reach of the art of the copperplate engraver,
which in its different processes is possessed of the most formi- .
dable power of imitation. One plan, before alluded to as .
apparently affording this advantage, has been, with the most
liberal assistance from the Bank, for some time past in a course .
of trial for its greater perfection, and with a view to combination
with other improvements, satisfactory experiments of which have -
already been effected. The result, if our expectations be not .
disappointed, will aford a specimen of great in enuity in the
fabric of the paper, of great . in the workmanship, and
of n very peculiar invention, and difficult machinery in §. art,.
of printing. We confidently hope, that no longtime will elaps;
before we are enabled tº lay before your Royal 11ighness that
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tºrs are sincerely anxious to adopt any plan, which shall be found, J. Jay, Old Jewry, wine-merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Taylor,
after patient examination, to be worthy of adoption. In the
mean time, we have thought it right not to delay informing your
Royal Highness of the course of our proceedings. The investi
ration in which we have been engaged, has strengthened, rather
than removed, our feeling of the difficulties with which the
whole subject is surrounded. We do not wish to represent
those difficulties as precluding the propriety of an attempt to re
move the existing evils, by a change in #. form of the notes
issued by the Bank of England; but we do feel them to be such,
Smith, and Gell, New Basinghall-street.
R. Greens'ade, Plymouth, builder. Attornies, Messrs. Darke,
Church, and Darke, Chancery-lane.
J. Ferrall, Birmingham, printer. Attornies, Messrs. Swain and
Co. Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
T. H. Macleod, Pinner's-hall, Winchester-street, wine-merchant.
Attorney, Mr. Hore, juu. Hatton-garden.
H. and G. Hudson, Liverpool, slopsellers. Attornies, Messrs.
Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row. -

as make it imperative upon those with whom the responsibility, T. Reddall, Liverpool, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Adlington
rests, to be fully satisfied that they shall produce an improvement, and Gregory, Bedford-row.
before they venture to effect a change. -
W. Reddall, Liverpool, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Adling
All which is humbly submitted to your Royal Highness's conton and Gregory, Bedford-row. S -

sideration and judgment. -

J. Jones, Liverpool, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Dacie and
Jos. BANKs, Williaxi CoNGREve, WM. Cotirren Ay, John, Palsgrave-place, Temple Bar.
DAvres Gilbert, Jer. HARMAN, WM. II. Wol I. Henn, Birmingham, screw-maker. Attornies, Messrs Hicks
1. As row, CHARLEs HATch ETT. and Braikenridge, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn.
Scho-square, Jan. 15, 1819. ... •
R. Walker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grocer. Attornies, Messrs.
Atkinson and Wildes, Chancery-lane.
T. Cooper, Kennet-wharf, Upper Thames-street, merchant. At
TUESDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE. torney, Mr. Crossley, Great James-street, Bedford-row.
-
E. Thompson, Globe-stairs, Rotherhithe, ship-builder. Attor
BANKRUPTS. nies, Messrs. Swain and Co., Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
R. Andrews, Bristol, baker. Attornies, Messrs. Poole and J. Gleeson, Cock-hill, Ratcliff, potatoe-merchant. Attorney, Mr.
Greenfield, Gray’s-inn-square. Sinith, Barnard's-inn. -

W. Hulme, Leek. Staffordshire, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. W. White, Chalford, Gloucestershire, liaen-draper. Attorney,
Dewbery and Haslewood, Conduit-street, Hanover-square. Mr. Chilton, Chancery-lane.
A. Russell, Tewkesbury, linen-draper. Attornies, Mcssrs. Car G. and F. Wardale, Allhallow's-wharf, Upper Thamas-street,
dale and Young, Gray’s-inn. oil-crushers. Attorniss, Messrs. Alliston and Hundleby, Free
G. Harman, Norwich, manufacturer, Attorney, Mr. Nelson, man's-court, Cornhill.
Barnard's-inn, Holborn, R. Phillips, Exeter, chemist. Attorney, Mr. Burton, Broad
S. Brocklebank, Liverpool, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Tay street.

lor and Roscoe, King's-Bench-walk, Temple.

E. Cole, Shrewsbury, hop-merchant. Attorney, Mr. Griffiths, SArunday—A Holiday.
Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane. *
1. Force, Walcot. Somersetshire, dealer. Attorney, Mr. Iſigh The Lines written at Margate in a week or two.
moor, Scott's-yard. BAcc. ARt. shall also have an early insertion.
C. Salter, jun., Portsea, baker. - Attornies, Messrs. Sweet, ANTI-CANT is received ; but we cannot but think he takes too
Stokes, and Carr, Basinghall-street.
M. Noble, Lancaster, chemist. Attornies, Messrs. Alexander much trouble with the subject of his letter. It is not worth
notice. - - -- - -

and Holme, New-inn.

A. Z. has some pleasant points in his Glossary; but it has too
N. B. Aubert, Lloyd's Coffee-house, insurance-broker. Attor much resenblance upon the whole to preceding ones.
nies, Messrs. Reardon and Davis, Corbet-court, Gracechurch Lines to J. W. Choken next week. -

street.
--- ---

E. Jones, Great Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, coal-merchant. At

torney, Mr. Castle, Cursitor-street.
J. Budden, Bristol, liquor-merchant., Attorney, Mr. Edmunds,
Exchequer-office of Pleas, Lincoln’s-inn.
THE EXAMINER,
W. Taylor, jun. Liverpool, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Hurd, Lowdow, JANUARY 31.
Johason, and Chester, King's-Bench-walks, Tempie. -

The death of the young Queen of SPAIN has been fol

SATURDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE. lowed by that of the old. She died the other day at
BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED, .*
Rome, in the bosom of the church, and after a pretty long
.C. Emery, Bromley-Wood-End, Staffordshire, dealer, ſrom Feb. life, the former part of which is said to have been passed
2 to March 23. in gallantries, the middle and greater in a kind of cicisbeo
BANKIRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
N. Walker, Dover, dealer. *
ship with the Prince of Peace, and the latter in strange
J. Taylor, Whitington, Lancashire, cotton-dealer. vicissitudes. Perhaps her death was hastened by an al
BANKRUPTS. ledged quarrel between her husband and that personage,
T. Lloyd and J. Winter, Blue-bah-Yard, St. James-street, West who is latterly understood to have lived apart from them.
minster, wine-merchants. Attornies, Messrs. Dennetts,
Greaves, Baxaudale, and Tatham, King's-Arms-Yard, Cole Her Majesty while in Spain was long supposed to have
ºnen-street. - . --
the chief influence in politics; but the Prince of the
R. Allam, Chatham, builder. Attorney, Mr. James, Earl-street, Peace, it is thought, was the real mover; and to him
Blackfriars. - . . . . . .
-

J. Burgis, Southampton-street, Covent-garden, ornamental paper is attributed the servile compromises with France, and
manufacturer. Attorney, Mr. Castle, Cursitor-street. all which led to the momentary popularity of FERDINAND,
J. Siniſh,
Barker,Fin-bury-square.
Stratford, Essex, common-brewer, Attorney, Mr. w and the important events connected with it. He is even
J. Bradley, Walsal, Staffordshire, coal-master. Attorney, Mr.
charged with wishing to sell his master and mistress, and
Bigg, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane. -
their succession, for the principality of the Algarves, which
J. Wadley, Coventry-street, Haymarket, cheesemonger. At he was to hold as a vassal under the NApoleon dynasty.
tºrney, Mr. Popkin, Dean-street, Soho. -

D. Baylis, Stroud, Gloucestershire, clothier. Attorney, Mr. But it is very doubtful to us, whether pure weakness, and
Young, Corn-Exchange, Mark-lane. - superstition, and wonderment at the times, and a total
C. Perkins, One Tun, Perkin's-rents, Peter-street, Westmins ter, ignorance of the proper mode of meeting their enlightened
victualler. Attorney, Mr. Jones, New-Inn, Strand. -

D. Price, Watford, Herts, lineu-draper, Attornies, Messrs. spirit, did not combine to hurry all three into the appall
Davies and Son, Lothbury. - ing fascination of Bonaparts. At any rate, the difference'
** * - -
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which they had with the son appears to be in their favour; to frighten him as a creature. One can almost fancy him,
for he has turned out the wretchedest despot of the age; at a Hish : from an Englishman, clapping his coat-tail
- “By this light, a very shallow monster.” between his legs, and sneaking off.
It is curious to see what droppings off there are among (ºr
the royal in many parts of Europe. A King of Sweden
is not long since dead, a Queen of Portugal, an Heiress Intelligence has been received from the Provisional
Presumptive of England, and petty German legitimates Government of New Grenada. It is said, that Coun
modore Auby, with a squadron of between 10 aud 15
we know not how many;-then departs a Queen of Eng vessels,
land, a Queen of Spain, a Queen of Wirtemberg, and men onofboard, from 150 to 600 tons burden each, with 500
had joined General M*GREGoR, with
now another Queen of Spain. Neither are their places whom he was on the best terms. Information having
supplied by any thing like a proportion of offspring. In been obtained that General Monillo had withdrawn all
deed we are not aware that any infant has lived, except his troops from New Grenada, with the exception of
the Prince of the Netherlands, even out of the ſew that Santa Martha, which was garrisoned only by militia, the
have been produced. The Duchess of Berri, we be expedition under General M'GREGoR would make a land
ing much earlier than was at first intended, in consequence
lieve, has twice failed in realising the hopes of the French of the very favourable aspect of affairs.
Bourbons. The Duchess of CUMBERLAND underwent a In letters received from St. Thomas's, dated the 20th
like misfortune in England. We all remember the touch December, we learn, that repºrts were in circulation at
ing disappointment of the Princess Citanto tre. Frapi that place, that Cumana had fallen into the hands of the
NAND's expected issue has perished also with its unfortu Insurgents; and that General Bolivan had been arrested
nate mother. And though all the English Princes but by the orders of General PAfz. -

Sussex are now married as well as the i) uke of Cuxiber County Cork MEETING.-At a recent meeting of the
Freeholders of the county of Cork, for the purpose of vot
LAND, we see nothing to warrant different expectations. ting an address of condolence to the REGENT, a curious
What does all this say for “legitimacy” and its eternal disturbance took place. Lord CARBERY proposed the
intermarriages 7 * -
address; which being seconded, Mr. Boyle moved an
We have spoken several times of the situation which the amendment. It recommended to his Royal Highness to
Creature must be in at Madrid. Take the following ex seek consolation for the losses he had sustained in the en
tract of a liter from Madrid, as an additional specimen:— dearments of his wife, and to imitate the example of con
“Every day the probability appears greater of an early over nubial affection set by his parents. The High Sheriff re
throw of the present order of things, or, more properly speaking, ſused more than once to put the address, on the ground of
of the present disorder. By one of those casualties which are its being insulting to the PRINCE REGExt; when Mr.
not unfrequent in a country where the Catholic religion is the Boyle rising up, said, “Sir, in the face of the country, I
only one allowed, discovery has just been made of a conspiracy, tender you the amendment.” The Sheriff then put for
--
at the very moment it was about to explode—a conspiracy which, ward his hand for it, but he was suddenly stopped by
necording to what is said in these noments of general consterna Lord CARnFRY, and then said, that he was going to accept
tion, will cover many distinguished families with mourning, as it it in a moment of inadvertence . The address was then
is said that the whole of the plans and channels of communica
tion have been seized. It is said that this conspiracy would have F. and a great uproar cominenced. The Sheriff said,
been extremely bloody if it had been carried into effect on the he thought the majority was in favour of it.—Constables
arrangements made. According to the result of the discover had been posted at the doors armed, to admit whom they
made, it would seem that the King cus to have been declared by the pleased to this loyal meeting.
conspirators the first traitor to the nation, and that a large reward Disruka ANcrº Ar MANchester.—On the 22d of
was to have been offered for his head. Such is the report of the January, Mr. Henry Huxt, accompanied by Mr. Wºrt
affair here among those who dare to speak about this tremendous worriſ, Mr. Charxı AN, and another respectable inha
affair. The Guerillas go on increasing, and the post from Anda
lusia is occasionally interrupted, not withstanding a strong escort. bitant of Manchester, went to the theatre aud sat in one of
This new conspiracy has entirely done away with the rogue but the stage-boxes. Soon after they entered, some loyal per
genered rumour of causes to which the death ºf the Queen has been sons called for God sare the King; and Mr. Husr and
ascribed. English newspapers are now the suºject of more persecu his friends not rising and taking off their hats as soon as
tion than any cork contuinea in the black ist ºf the Inquisition. was expected, they were insulted by some persons behind,
This writer, though evidently wishing for a change and Lºrd Uxbringf, Captain Frazier, officers of the 7th
like a good patriot, seems to partake of the general Hussars, and other persons, dragged them out ºf the house,
in doing which their clothes were torn, and Mr. CuApx: AN
consternation he speaks of. But we apprehend that the
families in question are very safe, at least from any
lost a valuable brooch. Mr. Hust ſº at the
Police-office, and returned to his place; and when he re
very bloody and public proceeding. We kaow not in tired. was loudly cheered and escorted to his inn by the
fleed how much ordinary blood the vampires of the In people. The next day, a placard was issued, offering
quisition might venture to suck in private; but they must fifty guineas reward for the apprehension of the person
be afraid by this time, as well as the King; and to touch who had taken the brooch. Application was also made
to a Magistrate, and a private letter says, a warrant was
“distinguished families" at such a juncture, would be to granted against one of the persons concerned. Mr. HUNT
bring the national crowd on him at once, and crush the has addressed a letter to the Duke of York, demanding
breath out of his miserable body. It is observable, that redress for this violent outrage. -
the rumours about the Queen's death have been as we The Lord Advocate of Scotland, who had been directed
suspected; and they must have been increased by the by the High Court Justiciary to make inquiry into the
death of one of her favourite attendants, which is said to cause of the late outrage at the execution of Johnston, re
have happened suddenly just after. The concluding com ported, on Monday last, that there was no ground for any
pliment paid to English Newspapers, it is impossible for 8. roceedings against the Magistrates. The Lord Justice
expressed a hope, that the most active measures
an English Editor not to feel. It is something to shake should be taken to prevent a recurrence of an event which
Feapixasp as a depot, though it would be little enough he said, was a disgrace to the metropolis of Scotland.
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Case of MR. CLENNell.—Our readers will be pleased BR111sti INst frtſtroN, ANn DRAwi Ngs FRoxt triº:
to learn, that the touching case of Mr. CLRsNeil has ex Cantoons Asp Et GIN MAmbles.—From the nature of
cited so general an attention, that there are well-founded the Pictures' we had the pleasure of a private inspec
hopes .#. in the object his friends have so much at tion of yesterday, we attgirr much gratification to the
heart, -the raising a sum of money, by the publication of Public. The advantage accruing to the Arts from the
a fine Print from a Painting by Mr. Cies Nºtt, sufficient plan adopted by the Directors, is here manifested in the
to support and educate his three infant children.—The af. progressive advances made by some of our native Ar
flicting details, which were published some weeks back in tists, and in the charming exhibition of Drawings by
the Erunniner, we are glad to see, have been copied at Mr. Havnos's pupils, and which have chiefly ema
length by the generous Conductors of various country nated from that plan. These Brawings from the Car
newspapers—for which we return them our best thanks : toons and the Figin Marbles, together with Mr. MAR
and they need not be told that every additional notice by ris's richly poetical picture of the Fall of Babylon.
them will much assist the good work so happily com. and beautiful pictures by Messrs. Wilkie, Collins.
menced.—Since our announcement, the Right Hon. Chas. Hoffl.AND...WINcrxt, STARR, Fºrty, Havrek, Leslie,
Loxg has consented to become one of the London Com Chalos, Stepii ANoff, Coopert, LANDszen, Hilton,
mittee of Management; and so has the excellent Baronet, Burn Et, NAs Myth, FRAprilr, Devis, &c., shew that
Sir Jorts Edwarn Sw1NBURNE, a Gentlemnn who is ever the British institution has afforded rick nourishment to our
active, both with purse, and person, to comfort the un Painters, in addition to that better nourishment they de
happy and “those who have none to help them.”—The rive from the bosom of Natnre herself. There was a
Sºbscription for the Print, therefore, proceeds well in the numerous collection of Patrons, and Lovers of Art, and
Metropolis. . At Glasgow another Committee"has been Artists, at the private view of the Institution and of the
formed, and is in full exertion: in Newcastle, the eminent Drawings. The latter are by Messrs. Bewick, T. and C.
engraver Bewick (who was Mr. Ct. ENNELL’s master), is LANnsºr, and are most beautiful evidences of exactness
taking every step to forward the general object; and pains of eye and feeling for the exquisite forms, character, and
are not spared in other places to the same end.—All this effect of their noble originals. 'These extraordinary Draw
indeed was to have been expected, for certainly a more ings, together with the pictures in the Institution Gallery,
distressing case could hardly have occurred to excite and we shall pay our critical respects to each sticcessive wee
justify the public sympathy. Here was an able artist, and The Gallery and the Exhibition of Drawings will be
an industrious and virtuous man. while labouring hard to opened to the public to-morrow.
support his family and add to his reputation, suddenly
overthrown by that heaviest of visitations, a distracted THEATRICAL EXAMINFR.
mind—His young and amiable wife, subdued at length
by the severity of her trials, became a victim to the same - No. 349.
ing lulºisorder—and ſound relief—where perhaps a ſond
wife and unhappy mother in such circumstances could - - 17.41:1.iw opra -
alone find it, in the grave. ‘Three children, the oldest This theatre opened for the season on Tuesday last. The
only eight years old, are thus left without their best sup boxes have been newly painted and draperied, but we can
ports; and it is for their benefit, reader, who, it may truly not say, with, taste, . A fierce struggle of blue, red, and
be said, are even worse off than if they were totally yellow colours, with drab and lead looking on in apathy,
orphans, that we thus repeat and dwell upon a tale of woe is one of the most inharmonious accompaniments of sight
almost too delicate and painſul for the public ear. “God to sound that can well be conceived; and while some of
tempers the wind to the shorn, lamb;” and these helpless the compartments are painted with bas-relief subjects from
Ettle ones, we are satisfied, will not want effectual comfort the antique (which is very proper), others stare at you
and protection. - - º
with large thick angular patterns, like a border to a Brob
Cºntoons of RAPHAEL-A Correspondent writes to dignagian drawing-room. The painting on the ceiling
contradict the statement, which we copied from the Morn remains as before. The best piece of novelty is a trans
ing Chronicle, respecting the cutting the Cartoons of arent shade which has been run round the everpowering
RAPHAEL, to fit the pannels in Blickingham-House. ... of the gas-light chandelier. Smaller chandeliers
Next Tuesday, making the proper fººteration on account have in consequence Teen hung round the lower tier of
of the change in the Calendar, is jord Bacos's birth-day, boxes; and the light altogether is certainly more pleasant
whose memory all our readers who are acquainted with . and bearable to mortal eyes. . To look up at the grent
him will no doubt be happy to drink. We are sorry we burning circle before, reminded one of the insufferable
fºrgot to give notice last week, that Wednesday was mystical ardours which DANTR saw in heaven.
Mozart's : though we have good reason to know, that The entertainments commenced with an opera new to
it was well kept by some. -

this country, from the pen of the celebrated living com

The avowed vengeance of Lady MongAN upon the oser Rosis I. The reader may remember our account of
Crcirleys has had it’s effect, as with such persons might ba . Barliere di Siviglia, some of the music of which has
expected. The Courier seems to §: her Ladyship's become familiarized to the public in an afterpiece of Co
movements with as much involuntary homage as those of vent Garden. The merits of L'Italiana in Algieri (The
a Boxarante. The cºher day he ... her, in his Fair Italian in Algiers) are, generally speaking, of a piece
leading political article, for publishing or suffering to be with those of Il Barbiere; that is to say, there is more
published an advertisement at Paris, in which, it seems, animal spirit than intellectual, and good compilation than
she is shocking enough to announce an edition of one of novelty. The author seems to delight in expressing a
her books (we forget whicº) with a portrait of herself at precipitate and multitudinous mirth; and sometimes works
the beginning. The Cowrier and his ſtiends may naturally up and ferments a passage, and pours in instrument upon
be alarmed at the thought of looking her in the face; but instrument, till orchestra and singers all appear drunk with
he will only render others the more anxious to do so. uproariousness, and ready to die on the spot. He carries
Miss O'Neill has publicly contradicted the report of this feeling, we think, to a pitch of genitis, and even to
her having refused the part of Mary Stuart, because Miss something exclusive, and peculiar to himself: nor does it
Sox frvii ºr was to act in the same piece. She refused it, hurt perhaps the general effect and character of this species
*he says, because she did not think slie should have been of talent, that nothing sems to come amiss to him, when
able to acquit herself properly in it. . . . .* * ** ** *-he gives way to it, old or new, masterly or indiſlºrent.
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He is like a wit fond of punning and intoxicated with opera,_Madame Bellochi as the heroine, who is a sort
social enjoyment. Old jokes and new, his neighbours, and of Roxalana, and Signor Placci. who is understood to
his own, all run merrily through his hands. His good stand in the place of Calvelli. Of the latter, it may be
things exalt the occasion; and the occasion, in return, as well perhaps not to speak at present, as an apology was
does as much for his bad. . made for him in consequence of his labouring under a cold.
Our memory may reasonably fail us after hearing such The personal appearance of the lady is not prepossesing.
music but once; but we remember being particularl She is not tall enough, nor of a good figure; and the ex
amused with passages in the finale of the first Act, wit pression of her face, when serious, is somewhat tart and
the terzetto beginning - scowling. But it is by no means deficient in intelli
Pappataci ſ. chemia sento! gence; and her smile, though not handsome, lights it
and the quintett beginning up altogether very pleasantly, She is also no mean per
Ti presento di mia man former, for a singer, especially in comic passages, which
Ser Tadded Kaimakan,— she appears to give with great relish and knowingness;
in which AMBR.ogetti's pertinacious repetition of Crepa and as a singer, we take her to be a great acquisition.
and Her voice is powerful, sweet, and of great compass; her ar
Ch'ei starnuti finché scoppia, ticulation clear; her divisions of extraordinary ease and flexi
-

is very ludicrous, and gives us an equal specimen of the bility; her expression distinct and to the purpose, though
humour of the author and the performer. leaning perhaps rathcr to the side of force than beauty,
But the beautiful passages in this opera are not con She may give a lesson in judgment to Signor Garcia,
fined to the sprightly ones: and so far from thinking with whom altogether however she suits admirably, and not
some of our contemporaries, that it is greatly inferior to the least in her evident enthusiasm for her art. She seems,
the Barbiere di Siviglia, we are inclined to regard it alto in her favourite passages, to nod and look her own relish
gether as containing more originality, though perhaps at of them at the audience, and in a manner to become one
the same time more obvious common-place. We agree, of themselves, -a sort of self-approbation and enjoyment
however, with the writer in the Times, that as the composer, which is far from unpleasant, and carries more sincerity
approaches the end of the last Act, he gets tired and tiresome. than pride with it. Under an appearance of thinking of
But we were going to speak of the serious passages. We herself, it shews that she thinks of her art still more. She
are much mistaken if in these, Signor Rosini has not received very great applause.
We have given but a hint of the story; and the less
shewn a greater musical talent, that is to say, a genius for
melody, than in any productions of his yet known in Eng that is said on that subject the better. It has been well
land. The pizzicato opening of the overture is very strik described as an united ill-usage of MARMontel's Roza
ing, and calculated to excite attention; though the over lana and Molºre's Bourgeois Gentilhomme; and this
ture falls terribly off at last, or rather bursts into mere Bourgeois Gentilhomme, , this cockney who is every one's
noise and hubbub. The trio at the beginning of the last butt, is a Bey of Algiers!
scene of the first Act, Qf the new dancers we find it difficult to speak by name,
Pria di dividerci da voi, Signore, as the characters are not added to the names of these per
formers in the opera bills. For the most part they seem
is full of graceful and cordial expression, suitable to the of
occasion; and the symphony to the cavatina, a middle kind, between the best dancers already on the
stage, and the ordinary ones; and we were mach grati
Languir per unabella, fied to see, in the new Divertisement (Re-Union Villa
announced a most beautiful melody, only Signor GARc1A, geoise) which is very pretty, that there was more group
with his superbundant flourishes, would not let it take place. ing and figure-making, and less tee-to-tum spinning then
We agree on this last matter with the writer in the Chronicle, usual. The female dancers appear the best. One of
who says that GARc1A's execution of it “operated upon them, we cannot tell whether Mlademoiselle Le Fen RE or
him as a burlesque of the florid or ornamental style of Mademoiselle Goss, a pleasant little brunette, acquits her
singing.”* Every crotchet was literally suffocated with self in a very sprightly and crisp sort of style, especially
uavers, like the flutterings of so many mosquitoes. It is in movements that indicate coquetry and skittishnesss, in
i. greater pity, inasmuch as Signor Gancia has all the which she gives sudden turns and whisks off, that must be
powers of a most accomplished singer, and is besides no as difficult as they are agreeable.
contemptible actor, especially in comedy. We wish some The beautiful bullet of Sephyr and Flora, in which
friend of his would translate §§. below for him, or take Baptiste and MilaiNE perform so well, concluded the
some other method of shewing the absurdity of this extrava first night of the season under auspices the most flattering.
ance, which, carried to such a pitch, is really like nothing º

j than so much stammering set to music;—La-a-a-a

a-a-a-a-a-an — gui-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ir– per u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u - WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
una be-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-ella. It is as ridiculous as if a Gen -

tleman, in asking a Lady how she did, were to say How— At a very numerous and respectable meeting of the in
and then take a scamper round about the pavement, do, habitant Electors of St. George's, St. Anne's, and St.
and then another scamper—you (scamper again);-and James's Parishes, who dined together on Tuesday last at
so on, to the astonishment of the gathering spectators. the Crown and Anchor, and invited Mr. Hobhouse to
Two new singers made their first appearance in this meet them, that Gentleman made a speech, of which the
* We take this opportunity of repeating, from a new publica following is the substance:–
tion, a joke which we marred in printing a few weeks ago, espe “GENTLEMEN,+I shall not venture to interrupt for any length
cially as it is of a kind which cannot afford marring. It was of time the conviviality of your meeting, and this for many
entitled, A Hint to Florid Singers, who were asked “what they reasons, of which the first may seem sufficing, namely, that since
would think of a beautiful passage in Twelfth Night delivered in my nomination in this room, I have already addressed the Electors
the following manner; from fifteen to twenty different times, Something, however,
If music be the food of—fally ral de riddle iddle, tum te iddle tour kindness will allow me to say, and I will proceed with the
love, play—tum, turn, riddle iddle ſal de rally—on. §. observations I shall presume to make. The hour is fast ap
Give me excess of tol lol de riddle fol, liddle toddle—it j that proaching which is to decide whether the Electors of West
surfeiting * minster are to have a man of their own choice; or whether they
are to send into Parliament one who shall represent that power of
The appetite may sicken, and so—titum de tiddle liddle, tiddle
loddle re-ri tolfal de riddle tum te iddle—die, the crown or that influence of the aristocracy, which, under the
But this is nothing to Signor GAncIA. present defective system, may, by open force or private intrºg”
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sºmetimes contrive to prevail even in this last retreat of British the other day boasted of the increasing power and influence of the
freedem. Hitherto appearances have been favourable, and it House of Commons. Increasing! God forbid; and how in
may be presumed, that the same bold attitude which has fright creasing? when we have already been told of the omnipotence of
eued one enemy, may deter ether adventurers. Hard, indeed, Parliament; beyond which onnipotence. I should humbly con
would it be if the voice of liberty were to be stifled in that place ceive not even the sagacity of Mr. Peel can suggest any actual
where and where alone it has of late years been heard. • Hard advance. However, strange as it may appear, the Ministers
would it be, if the last successful struggle against the encroach have really thought there was still something to be done towards
ments of despotism had been already witnessed in your city, and giving themselves a more complete command of Parliament.
was never to be renewed. It becomes you to be more than ever Amongst other innovations, I find that the patronage has been
on the watch for the preservation of your independence; for it taken out of the hands of the Lord Lieutenants and given to the
is but too evident that tyrauny is advancing upon us with giant county Members; in other words, taken from the representatives
strides, sometimes, visibly, sometimes stealing upon us like a of the King, and given to the representatives of the Minister.
thief in the night, but always with a constant progress. We are One would think then that the Ministers were not sufficiently
all old enough to have witnessed the change which has given to secure of the new Parliament.—Gentlemen! I speak not of this
out manners and oar institutions, as well as to our laws, the bent Parliament, but of Parliaments in the abstract; for I do not wish
of unconditional submission. We have witnessed, amongst other to have my intercourse with you interrupted by that which your
signs of the times, the creation of a new nobility, tied down by present great representative defined, if I may so, by no defini
snags and ribbons to the court. We have seen liberty com tion—calling it “a thing.” I mean a Speaker’s warrant, which is
pletely beaten from her ancient spacious quarters in Parliament, certainly not what Falstaff calls “a thing to thank God upon.” I
and forced to retreat into the smaller but we may hope the im speak therefore in the abstract, and say, that I cannot see what
pregnable circle of an English Jury. We have heard the most any Minister can fear or the people ever gain by any new elec
atrºcious acts ºf mis-government, and the indemnity of the tions made according to the present system. To me it seems like
authors of them, defended, not only from that part of the House shuffling with the same dirty pack of cards; or if the pack be new
of Commons from which such treason, as a matter of formality, and clean, we have the same sort of cards, the same kings, and
always proceeds, but from the very seat of your former great re honours, the same game, and what matters it to us which knave.
presentative-of Mr. Fox himself. And yet at this moment, is uppermost? We Reformers, Gentlemen, we radical Reformers,
when Westminster is obliged to strain every nerve to secure two are accused of vilifying a respectable body of men. Fºr other
real representatives of the people in an assembly of six hundred wise, we have the peculiar advantage of feeling none of these
and fifty—at this mºment, when that which Mr. Fox called “ the personal animosities which disgrace the debates of Parliament;
ºuted cºnfederacy of despots,” is renewed and rivetted by Eng for like that little great man Mr. Pitt, we attribute the evil to
land—when a system of general police has been contrived which the system only, and believe, with him, that which he proved by
will shortly convert the whole ..". to one large panoptical his own administration, that under that system it is impossible z
Prison-when the denunciations of a miscreant pensioner of for a Minister to be honest. If however we should at times be a
Austria against the liberty of the press are held up to the admi little harsh we need not fear, for,
ration of Englishmen—when an immense mass of armed men “Some rising genius sins up to our song,”
under the name of a peace establishment is retained to keep the and, justifies our utmost censures.--&ientlemen! It is time I
Peace, and because the Emperor of Russia crushes Poland with should conclude. Believe me that if I should be returned to
his soldiety, the King of Prussia Saxony, and the Emperor of Parliament, I will exert my humble voice to say the same thing
Austria covers italy with barracks, we also are to be oppressed, within the doors which you say without the doors of the House
ust by foreign bayonets, but by the arms of fellow-citizens.— of Commons. Your ancestors, 130 years ago, determined that
Thiº, Gentlemen, is the moment chosen to talk of the dangers to they would not bear a tyrant King : you seem to me to have de
**tended from the people; and absurd as these terms are, I termined that you will not bear a tyrant Parliament. The ex
dºubt not but that they will spread, and that we shall hear of the perience of every day convinces me that you have discovered the
gºality of our politicians rallying round the Throne, or round true source and origin of all your miseries, and I will join your
the Parliament, or round-the Constitution t—happy words! in cry: I will at all times answer to your watchword, and say of
vented to conceal the true phrase—self interest. In one sense the the corruptions of our representative system, that which the ſite
* are right: if fear is like hatred, and if they have learnt rary patriots of France exclaimed of the corruptions of Religion
ºn the maxims of ancient tyranny to be afraid of those they Ecraze: PInfame—Trample upon a mock Parliament.” s

ave injured, there is will enough in the people, but as to power Sir F. Bönberr, who was present, observed, that although
there is scarcely any left; and to talk of feating the people now, men might not agree upon this or that particular question, never
*to use an old sinile, like crying out “fire" in the days of the theless, that a radical reform was absolutely necessary was
deluge. Some there are, Geit einen, who derive consºlation acknowledged by all. Mr. Thelwall and Major Torreus were
from the weakness of Ministers, and their recorded incapacity : among the guests tº Major Cartwright had his healtb drunk in his
*itshould be recollected, that “weak masters though they are,” absence. -

they have the elements of state at their command:—it should be

*ollected, that a blind horse may turn that mill which now
i. us to powder. Others there are who bear being badly off, LAir. –
use they might be worse off; these patient persons remind
* of a certain people in Nubia, who, when they are devoured $HERIFFS COURT, BEDFORD-ROW,
by a cloud of locusts, thank God that they are better of than the
inhabitants of Cairo, and have not got i. plague. But, unless Friday, Jan. 22.
**warms of locusts are proved to be a dispensation of pro Text plk, t. Poule:TT.
vidence, I see not why we should not endeavour to brush them. This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the de
****, and free ourselves from a grievance which we have not fendant, to recover compensation for the seduction of his wife,
*served. Again! there are other honest folks who are like and the damages were laid at 20,000l. The defendant had suf. ,
* propagators of decent submission described by Rumbold in fered judgment to go by default.
the days of Charles II., and who believe that some men come Mr. Sergeant Corley stated the case to the Jury. The plain: .
into the world with saddles on their backs, and others came into tiff was Captain Temple, who was an officer in the Buckingham ,
the world º booted and spurred to ride them. But you think yeomanry, and also held a commission in the Buckingham
more nobly of your kind; you believe that the sole end of militia. He was married to his present wife in the year 1807.
government is the advantage and happiness of the governed; He was then 26 years of age, and she was 19. Mrs. Temple was
and you are perfectly aware, that even were there no encroach a lady of great personal beauty, and was mistress of many ac
ments now inade on your liberties, it would be advisable to make complishments. Soon after the marriage had been solemnized,
constant provisions in favour of those liberties; according to that the plaintiff joined his regiment; he was accompanied by his
maxim which a great statesman, Macchiavel, has laid down as wife., The defendant, an officer of dragoons, was introduced to
indispensably necessary for the preservation of popular rights in the plaintiff b some of his brother officers; he was a distant re
ºvery free state. But there are encroachments. The King's lation to the Marquis of Buckingham, and at the time of the in
Government ...? instinctive wisdom, or taught by Montes troduction, resided at . Addington-house, the seat of his late,
*u, has recognized the fatal truth that England may be ruined father. The plaintiff resided in part of a large mansion-house in
by her Parliament. This terrible engine they have set to work Buckingham, and on all occasions received the defendant at his
*śainst us, and their success has been proportionate to their in table upon the most friendly footing. In the beginning of 1817,
***tion to mischief. I see, indeed, that a government orator the defendant having become iny olyed in embarrassments, which
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prevented his
was invited º•upporting an establishment at Addington-house,
clared her intention of quitting her friends, if they persisted in
the plaintiff to occupy a part of the house in
their intentien. Her guardian confined her to her own room.
which he lived himself. The house was provided with a double She threatened that if she was not lot out it mediately, she would
staircase, and the only communication between the one side of never leave it alive. This threat was totally disregarded; but
the building and the other was by means of a door in the first unfortunately Miss Bouchier carried it into execution, by cutting
floor, which it was agreed should be kept locked. From this her throat from ear to ear. Surgical assistance was procured,
moment the intercourse between the family of the plaintiff and which, however, was of no ava I, as the wound had entirely
the defendant became more frequent. In Oct. 1817, the plaintiff severed the windpipe. She lived in great agony for an hour.
was summoned into Suffolk to attend the sick bed of his mother. The Jury brºught in a verdict ot-Tenporary Derangement.
During this absence, the defendant found means to seduce the An inquisition was taken on Wednesday on the body of a
affections of Mrs. Temple. Finding the stoppage of the com female infant which was thrown out of a backuey coach window,
munication between the two sections of the hºuse a considerable on Monday, in Mark-lane, by its nother, Mary Newton, and was
bar to his views, under the pretence of being obliged to break taken to St. George's Hospital.—Mr. John Kitchen, house-sur
open a door, he succeeded in obtaining the key. On two octa geon at the Hospital, proved that the child was brought into the
sions, at an early hour in the morning, he was seen coming from Hospital apparently dead, but he soon discovered that it breathed,
and going into Mrs. Temple's room, immediately after her and means were used to recover it. At three o'clock on Tuesday
husband had quitted it, and proceeded to his dressing-room, morning it died. The cause of death might have been the frac
which was on the ground floor. The wife of the plaintiff had for ture, but as the infaut was only between a six and seven months
ten years lived with her husband in the closest bonds of affection. child, it might have died a natural der'. ... it was impossible to
She was the mother of six children. The defendant was a man say what a woman in the state of sudden 8-livery of a child
upwards of 30 years of age. Some time before this business oc might feel, or what she would do.—Wm. Hiscow, “cºchtaan,
rurred, this unfortunate woman had been, and was at this mo took the female up at Mr. White's, 13, Upper Seymour-street. He
ment in a state of pregnancy. did not perceive that she was ill, but in about eight minutes
Several witnesses were called to prove the apparent happiness after he was told that a child was thrown from 1be couch; he did
of the plaintiff and his wife before this affair; and the maid-ser not believe it. The wonqn directed him to No. 3, New-street,
v.Ant deposed to the facts stated by Mr. Copſey. , , New-road. Here he stopped, and then discovered from the ºp.
Mr. Jervis, for the defendant, remarked on the absence of an pearance of the seats of the coach, what had happened. He
proof of deliberate seduction, and contended, that the ºš was alarmed, and drove the woman to Mariborougll-street Office.
was not injured by the loss of a woman, who had been so ready The Comox ºn observed, that there was no premeditated design
to receive the visits of the defendant directly her husband had of murder, but that it might have arisen without a knowledge on
left her room. * * * - -
the part of the woman in the agonies of sudden labºr... Wer
, Verdict for the plaintiff —Damages—5000l. - - * dict—The Jury are of opinion, that the child was not seven
months old; and as a child so born seldon lives, they would not
HNSOLVENT DEBTORs count. undertake to say that the child died of its bruises; and could not
Wednesday week, Thomas Hague was brought up to receive return a verdict of murder. , - - - -

the judgment of the Court. It appeared that he had been re Saturday week, between seven and eight o'clock, as Mr. Grant,
manded on a former day, for not having inserted in his schedule was passing along the Surrey side of Waterloo Bridge, he was
an aunuity of 2001, which for the last nine years he had received attacked by a gang of rºbbers, and tobbed of a gold watch had
from the Prince Regent. In reply to questions put to him, he seals; between two and three pounds in silver, nnel in 2. Bank
denied having any coneern with the management of certain note. The villains afterwards threw him over into one ºf the dºy
gambling-houses; allowed with considerable hesitation, that he arches, where he laid a considerable time in a most distressing
was acquainted with a proprietor of a gambling-house, but that state, till his cries reached the ears of a man who happened to
he had never been in one in his life. His debts due to him, and be passing, wha procured assistance, and he was got out, when
he presented a most shocking spectacle; his face was most
f. he said, amounted to about 6,000l. The debts against dreadfully
aim only to 500t. As to his ſaiare mode, of life, lie thought he broken, andcut and bruised, his collar bone was supposed to be
his left shoulder and ºrbſ were considern ty injured:
should, as before, follow his profession. (Mr. H. was formerly
an attorney.) On the night of Tuesday the #21b instant, a most during rab
bery was conmitted at Chipping, 1jerts, at the farm-house of Mr.
The Court decided, that as his profession how was as open to William
him as formerly, and as he had further allowed that his Royal Green, a quarter of a mile-frem the village. The
Highness the Prince Regent had allowed him for services, villains (two in number) were armed, one of whom entered by
whether meritorious or otherwise, an annuity of 200l. per annum, the window into the chamber of Mr. Green, dragged Mr. Green
Mr. H. should be discharged, on assigning"the half of that sum bar,out of bed, striking him a violent blow on the head with an irº
annually to the payment of his creditors, as long as the annuity scuffledand demanding the keys. of his drawers. “Mr. Green
should continue. - -
with the robber ſor some time, and at length succeeded in
forcing himself from his graspi escaped by a trap-door intº the
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löwer part of the house; and ran, with nºty his shirt on, into *
village to give the alarm. In the interim Mrs. Green was obliged
These Sessions ended on Saturday week, when sentence of to deliver up the cash in her possessiºn, and the vilºnias it!"
death was passed on F. Dent, T. Watson, J. Adams, ahd Dorºthy mediately devamped. The next day they were opprehended,
Greaves, for putting away counterfeit Bank-notes; I). Sharp, and cominitted to Hertford.
W. Pitt, J. Blanchard, and W. Jones, for stealing in dwelling --~~~~ - -

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houses; J. Willett, for sheep-stediing; T. Webb, . for stealing ** MARRIAGE. * -

two cows; J. Fleming, J. Dowding, and J. Alexander, for house

breaking in the day time; J. Wilkins. J. Baker, C. Hewitt, J. On the 26th inst., at St. Pancras, Sir John Maclean, Knt.,
Driscolſ, and P. Sullivan, for burglary; 18. Risſey, for horse Commander of the Military Order of the Bath, to sarish, ou ly
stealing; W. Martin, R. Selby, J. Lynch, 1°. Lynch, T. Lynch, child of Benjamin Price, Esq. of Highgate. . . -

W. Lynch (four brothers), and W. Murray, for highway rob * - I}EATHS.” " - . ..
beries. Ten other prisoners were senteuced to be transported
for life; 6 for 14 years; and 46 to 7 years; 71 other prisoners: On Wednesday, Jan. 13, suddenly, while transacting busiºs, -

at the West India-bock-house, in the 57th year of his age, Mr.

were sentenced to the Jesser punishments of fine, imprisonment, Kentish, of the house of Haynes and Kentish, goldsmids, Cor:
&c. - - -

hill. - - -

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. On the 23d inst., after a short illness, Miss Lewes, only daugh:
-esº
ter of Sir Watkin Lewes, Knt., senior Alderman of the city of.
London. - . . . . . . .. .
On Monday an Inquest was held at Camberwell, on the body Suddenly, in Dake-street, West Smithfield, aged 51, of a '.
tº Miss Jane Bouchier, an inlinbitant of that village. Miss Bou spasm in *he stomach, Mr. James Adlard, printer. -
“hier was a young lady of some property, and had been living - On the 234 inst., after a short illness, Mrs. June Robinsºn, of
for some time past under the guardianship of her uncle. During Slingsby, Yorkshire. ... . . .
the early part of the last fortuight, her uncle told her that it was -

-** a
his intention to plane her for some time, under the protection of a - - - -

dressmaker; the young lady, replied that her prospects in life did Printed and published by Jon N JHFNT, at the Examiner-oise,
not require her to submit to such degradation, and at last de 19, Catheriue-Street, Stränd.—Price 10d.
 THE EXAMINER.
No. 580. SUNDAY, FEB. 7, 1819. l_a_

THE POLITICAL EXAMINER. do well to transfer their custom. Such was actually the
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Por E.
case. These high-minded persons, for the first time, be
- gan to find fault with their foolscap. They gossiped, and
No. 565. compared cards; and none were like Mr. Murray's.
- Mr. Rogers, poor man, thought Reform a good thing,
THE CASE OF WILLIAM Pºuji, ROGERS, which shewed what a bad judgment he must have in copy
ratiºnsstly Recomixiew Ded to the considerAttox or paper. He evidently had an opinion of his own, and
AL1. LovERs of old ENGLISH HoNEsty, AND DEspisers acted conscientiously up to it; and how could there be.
or Petty WinDictiveness AND oppression. any marking with his pencils?–In short, he evinced a
- spirit of independence; and what right had he to be a
Our readers were informed some time ago of the case of a better man than his customers ? -

respectable tradesman at Chelsea, William Parl Rogers, But the reader naturally asks,—could the mere taking
who in consequence of taking an active part in a petition away of a letter-box have such an effect upon these per
for Reform was deprived of an office he held as Receiver sons?—they are apt to be sorry-minded enough, it is,
of Letters. With a spirit becoming his consciousness of true;—but could the mere transfer of the box affect them.
having done nothing wrong, and with the natural anxiety so much? Could it be thought of so inuch, or evea.
of a man in his situation to have his alleged offence speci known so much? • - - -

fied, Mr. Roseas delayed the resignation of his office in Alas, my deat breakfast-companion, you have no con
hopes of obtaining some more explanatory order than a ception of the inordinate appetite for gossiping among
mere announcement from the Comptroller of the Post those who have few ideas to excite them, or great offences.
office. He accordingly addressed the Comptroller in to sour. You should go into the Admiralty Bookseller's
seyeral letters, to all of which be only received a repetition shop, or to the Admiralty itself, or to court, or to a vestry-.
of thestler. He then addressed the Post-Masters General, dinner, or to a princely dinner, or to an old village tea-,
but to as little purpose: and at last, finding that the Post party, or to any stupid, envious, profligate, methodistical.
office did not send for the letters at his shop, and that he self-sufficient, and yet self-insufficient assembly. You woull.
s threatened with a ruinous process at law if he delayed be astonished at all that is talked of,"false and true, small
longer, he gave up the point unexplained. The charge as well as great. You would there see with what eager
the letters was taken from him without a single officially ness the commonest truth, as well as the most uncommon,
signed reason, and the letter-box transferred to the much falsehood, was received, which tended to the disadvantage
"less, but at the same time much more convenient shop of of another, the gratitude which conscious meanness feit"
MºMurray, a bookseller in Sloane-street—an off-set per at being told illofits betters, the mutuallocks of congra
haps from the flourishing tool-shop in Albemarle-street. Hulation which passed between the envions,—the affected
Mr. Rogens, be it observed, had not only held this doubts and pities;--theºréaſ enjoymentº–the glistening.
office for nearly three years, but had been a housekeeper eyes and expectant purring with which malignity watched .
in the place for six, and an inhabitant for twenty-five. the least movement from a corner-and the unequivocal
No fault in the taking care of the iaiters was attributed to grin of rapture with which it pounced upon its prey. No
him: nothing was alleged against his character as an thing is too trivial for them. Notting comes anies to the
Honest, man; he vindicated it as unexceptionable, and aching void of ignorance, and jealousy, and want of ex-"
nobody contradicted him: nobody could: the Post-office citement. If nobody can invent something against those
was in vain requested over and over again to explain it who most annoy their inſeriority, welcome a reverse of
self; it kept a silence apparently contemptuous, in reality
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fortune in the keeper of a letter-bºx! -
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flattering. --
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on the present occasion, the worthy and never-to-be

: The consequences however were more injurious to him forgiven offender was hououred with two inspectors of
than many persons would imagine. It may seem little to his conduct, who appear to have united all that is commº
them to be deprived of the mere charge of a letter-box: place in high life with all that is petty and vindictive in
but besides other profit, this letter-box implied a sort of middle; and that, no scandal might be wanting for the
confidence in the keeper of it, and served as an additional good of Church and State, these two enemies of Mr.
mark to his shop. People would know it for that reason Rogens were Clergymen. The common-place was no,
if ſor no other, and naturally come oftener there for sta less a personage than the Honourable and Reverend GE
tionery. And what is more, supposing that the posses Raid Valeaian Wellesley, brother to the Duke of
sion of the letter-box was of no great service, the having Whitixotos;–the petty and vindictive Christian was
it taken away was caleulated to be a great hurt. There the Reverend Werdos Buttºn. Some ºuhabitants of
are numbers of rich government people in that neighbour St. Luke's parish, Chelsea, had resolved to petition Par
hood; and these persons, who might not have thought it liament to take into its consideration the pauperism in that
worth their while to quarrel with a stationer on account of neighbourhood, the distress of the nation in general, and
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his politics, or rather have thoughtabout the matter at all," the necessity of Reform. A paper was drawn up accord
were informed by this transfer of the box that they would; ingly, and Mr. Rodens not only permitted signatures to be
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leſt at his house, but otherwise took a prominent part in the and my family of seven children. Ile replied, that he knew
matter. The Rector, who when he took orders doubtless : many of my customers, and would do all in his power to deprive
felt the holy call necessary on that occasion, and, rºaking me of them. I told him, that I would return his civility by
every editor of the newspapers acquainted with his un
did not enter the church because he was the younger soft charitable eondºct. He called me a Jacobin rascal, with much
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of a great family,–ſelt on the present occasion a political abuse.: freturned a just, but not so vulgar a compliment, by
call not quite so allowable." He drew up a counter-requi calling Irin a little mean supercilious ſellow; and said, that had
sition, and endeavoured to prevent the meeting of the advo he applied the epithet rascal to some hot-headed men, they would
cates of Reform. They persisted, and put his Reverence have knocked his brains out. 1 told him that I won!d also write
into a state of activity that might have done good to his to the Comptroller, that my conduet might be fairly canvassed.
digestion, had it been a chearful one. He applied, in the “Hodeed, Sir, I cannot suppose for a moment that such an act
height of his knowledge and Christian meakness, to Lord of illiberality will º by the Post-Masters General,
Sipatoctii; but was told that the meeting could not be Mr. Freeling, or yourself. Trusting to candour and my eause, 1
prevented, as it was commenced agreeably to the late Act. beg leave to subscribe myself your taost obedient
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servant,
“ W. P. Rogr:Rs,”
This was aukward; but it put the Master of the Mint's
brother upon considering, whether a Magistrate might not This propensity on the pºrt of men who have no busi
know more of the business than a Secretary of State; and | ness in the church to meddle with anything rather than
so in returning home, he called at the Police-office in their proper occupation, is one great cause why so much
Queen-square, where he was informed by Mr. Fielding sectarian injury is done to a religious establishment, whose
(who was perhaps reading his immortal father's account of general character is mild and tolerant. Here is a teacher
the Rev. Mr. Thirackiſm), that Lord Stoxſouth was in of children and a Clergyman openlº shewing the mastery
the right, but that he might have a few peace officers in which his passions have overhim, cºil g others by abusive
attendance, if he pleased. Fearfuſ, however, that this names, and proclaiming his determination to act in that
would be of no use, and that the peace would not be very spirit of revenge which the religion be preaches has
broken, the Minister of the Gospel of truth and meekness above all denounced. But it thay be observed with re
put an advertisement in the Newspapers, which on the gard to . Clergymen, that wheh once they throw off the
very day the Meeting was to take place announced proper character of their profeſsion, they are inclined to
that it would not, in cºnseqience of the dispprobation of go greater and more angry le. ths than other men;–and
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the Rector and Parish Officers! The advocates of Reform the reason is plain :-in a ition to the violation 3f.heir
were thus under the necessity of inserting a counter-adver duties as men, they are e scious that they are more par.
ticularly misbehaving smselves as men-teachers; an"
tisement, convening the meeting, as before mentioned, at a
House ... .*.*.*. Hind, and there it would this puts them mpon Aind of self-resenting and desperate
have accordingly taken place, but Christian charity was defiance of propriety. They feel instinctively that peo
before hand with them, and as it's last resource threat must be shocked; and so, regarding them as vehemen
ened the landlord icith the loss of his license. The disapprovers, they will shock them the more out of anges.
consequence was, that the meeting was obliged to be !:
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Hjure the example they ought to set; and by de

es, with the ſeelings common to those who injure, they
\
held in fe open air; and for this unyielding aid disi
terested pertinacity in what º thoſight honourable and come to hate it.' "
necessary, Mr. RöGERs was &priº of his office, his All this affords specimens of human nature—partly la
custom, and as we shall see presently,
his very subsistence mentable, partly contemptible, partly ludicrous; but to
and freedomn !, º --- . . . . . . Mr. Rogers, with the exception of his honest conscience,
These mere personal and vindictive measures, appear the consequences have been altogether deplorable. Mr,
to have been the work of the other Minister of C arity Werdos BUTI.ER has been better, or worse, than his
and meekness, the Reseºng, Weebos Burler. We word. Not only was the charge of the letters taken away
shall extract the account of this person's behaviour from from the object of his persecution; not only did his cus’
one of the letters writté-by Mr. Rogers to the Comp tomers (daily no doubt applied to and gössiped with),
troller of the Post-office. It w iſ at once give the best fall off, one after the other; but at last (the reader will hear
idea of the manners and Christian spirit of this priest, who it with indignation) his business was all but ruined; his wife
it appears also is a teacher of children ; and serve as a spe and seven children were gradually reduced to the utmost
eimen of the natural abilities and old English character of shifts for bread; and at the moment when the reader is
the object of His wisdictiveness:– . . .. .. . perusing this account, in the midst of comforts which such
- *** º, “June . 1817, Sºaneirºt honest and conscientious spirits, and such only, have pro
* “ Sir, In consequence of my atten ing a meeting regally cured and handed down to posterity for him, the subjeet
convened by the parishioners of St. Luke, Chelsea, to discuss of this pºper is lying in the Fleet Prison. He has been
the distress of the parish and the necessity of Parliamentary me. obliged to leave his wife far advanced in pregnancy; and
form, the Rev. Weedom Butler, of this parish, called atºmy: both have no dependence for support but on the exertions
house two or three days ago, (this was whilst the petitious hay of their little children.” . . . . -

at my house.); and said that he would have the post offee re

moved from my house. I asked him for what reason *; he replied, To such of our readers, as oligarchical tyranny and
“For this,” pointing to the petitions that lay on the compier for taxation have left in possession of the least means of shew’
the signatures of the parishioners. I rejoined, thet did he sup ing their sense of this scandalous meanness of their tool*:
pose that I was to possess no other, idea than he chose to point we are sure we need only mention that a Subscription.”
out? if that were the case, I had lived to very little purpose, and being raised for the benefit of Mr. Roccas's family. Hº
that it was not the act of a Christian to endeavour to distress-me industry as well as integrity was unimpeachable, as long
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his persecutors left him the power of exerting it; but his vernor of Pensacola to combine with him in repressing this
common nuisance, and the latter, in reply, acknowledged the
hands are tied up; his body, though not his spirit, is sub justice of the proposal, but stated his inability to comply with
dued and made captive; and his spirit itself, perhaps to the tieneral's request, from the want both of sufficient force and
the ultimate destruction of his body, must be gnawed of authority from the Governor-General of the llavannah. The
and eaten in upon by anxiety for his wife and family, fort was however destroyed, in July, 1816, by a guu-vessel of
the United States.. - - -

unless he is plucked up from under the feet of this In 1817, Alexander Arbuthnot, a British subject, of the island
vile oppressiou. If any rhetoric were wanting on such of New Providence, appeared in Florida, with the permission of
an occasion, beyond what is supplied by the case it the Spanish authorities, as an Indian trader. This permission
was coitrary to the usual policy of the Spanish Government,
self and the feelings of those who read it, it would be who were bound by treaty to restrain by force all hostilities on
found in the following names, which have already been the part of the Indians against the United States. Arbuthnot
put on the Subscription List, and which happen to sug was accompanied by Ilillis thadio, an Indian prophet, who had.
returned from England, whither he had been with Col. Nicholl-,
gest some of the most affecting recollections of English and who held the commission of a Rritisk officer; he immediate
freedom and generosity. The very dead seem to speak ly renewed the war, and revived the pretence respecting the
for him:— lands of the Creek nation. The American Goverunient fre
quently, during the summer and autumn of 1817, expostulated
Williant Petºr, Lower Cadogan-place . fš 5 0 with and threatened the Indians in vain; the outrages were
William Hexav Whiteitzan, 20, Sloane-street 2 2 0 continued, and a party of 40 men, under Lieutenant Scott, ac
T. T. C.Anke, 43, Upper Brook-street . . 2 0 0 companied by 7 women, were way-laid and murdered by them.
General Jackson was at length commissioned to terminate the
Earl Sefrox, 22, Arlington-street . . . . 5 0 0 war; and for that purpose, Suding that the Spanish force i.a.
("olone! Nxprer, 13, Cadogan-place . . . 4 0 0 Florida was not able to defend even its own territory, and that,
Sir Sasuki. Rouilly, 21, Bedford-square . . 2.- 0 0 the ludians could only be overtaken in that territory, wiere they
sought refuge after their devastations, the boundary line was,
Williºt Hoxe, Ludgate-hill . . . . . 5 5 0 crossed. When Gen. Jackson approached St. Mark’s, he was
The Eraminer Newspaper . . . . . . 2 0 0 informed by the Governor of Pensacola, that a party of indians
6+ were going to seize that fort, which the garrison were not strong"
enough to defend. S. Mark's was therefore taken possession ºf,
and in it Arbuthnot was found, an inmate of the Commandant's
[Mr. Galloway, 69, Holborn, near Red Lion-street, family. It was also discovered, that the Commandant had pen
and Mr. Appleyant, at the Examiner-Oſlice, will re mitted councils of war to be held by the savage chiefs, that ther
ceive Subscriptions for the Family of Mr. Rogens.] Spanish storehouses had been appropriated to their use; that,
there was an open market for the cattle robbed from the United,
A\l ERICAN AFFAIRS.
States, and that munitions of war had been supplied to the
Indians by the Spanish Commissary. At P, xsacola the sºme,
Among the doeuments transmitted to Congress by the things had been done; the Indians ãa been allowed to go in
President of the United States, relative to Spanish affairs, and out, and ammunition and provisions had been furnished
is a letter from Mr. ADAMs to the Araerican Minister at them. . Gen. Jackson consequently thought it his duty to occupy
l'ensacola and the fort of Barrancas, in order that the perfidy or,
Madrid, which may be considered, says the Nalianal In impotence of the Spanish authorities should not be a source of
telligencer, as the “replication of the American Govern inischief to the United States. The American Minister at the .
ment to the manifesto of the Government of Spain.” This Court of Madrid is instructed to demand of the Spanish Govern
letter is a very long exposition and justification of the in ment an inquiry into the conduct of the Governors of Pensacola
vasion of the Floridas, the seizure of St. Mark's and and St. Mark’s, in aiding the Indians.
Pensacolº, and the execution of ARBurrunor and Axt The guilt of Arbuthnot is proved by letters which he wrote to
Balstºn, which last affair the Spanish Minister had com Col. Nicholls, to the British Governor of New Providence, and
to the Spanish Governºrs of Pensacola and the Havannah, soli->
plained of as a “ sanguinary execution of subjects of citing assistance to carry on the war against the American Go
º in amity with his King.” The followisg will be vernmeut; as well as by a letter from anian named liaiubly; ions
ound, we believe, a pretty correct outline of the facts the part of the Creek Indians, advising him to withdraw from t
stated in this narrative:- - -
the negro bauditti, and warning him of his fate, if he should.
In August, 1814, while England and America were at war, a persist in the course he had adopted. A power of attorney was:
Riitish force, commanded by Col. Nicholls, and in which George given to him by 12 Indinus, authorising him to memorialize the
Woºdbine was a Captain ind Robert Ambrister a Lieutenant, British Government, which was produced on his trial to show'
landed in Florida (a neutral territory), took possession ºf Pensa his connection with the savages. - - *
eola and Barrancas, and jºy ited negroes, É. &c. Ambrister × as taken in arms, leading the Indians, and on his’
tº join them. The Cºlonel soon after abandoned those posts, trial pleaded guilty to that charge. His object, however, was.
blew up the fort of Barrancas, and establi-hed himself on the more hostile to Spain than to the United States. When M*Gregor,
Appalachicola river, where he erected a fort, for the purpose of was compelled to abandon Amelia island, he retired to New Pro-.
annºying the neighbouring borders of the United States. By vidence with Weodbine (the person before mentioned), who per
the 9th article of the treaty of Ghent, the American Government suaded him that Florida might still be conquered by means of
stipulated to put an end to aſ hostilities with the Indians; but recruits from the disbanded corps of Colonel Nicholls, uegrees at
this article did not apply to the Creek nation, with whom peace Tampa Bey, and 1500 Indians who were engaged to him (Wood
had been previously concluded. Col. Nicholls however still bime.) Three wituesses testified, on Ambrister's trial, that he had
continued his hostilities, and, persuaded the Seminoles and Red declared to them that he had come to Florida upon Woodbitte's
Sticks, whom he had induced to join him, that they were en business at Tampa Bay, and one stated, that he had said he pos
titled to all the lands of the Creek nation within the United sessed a commission in the Patrict army. He did come to Pºpa'
States, and that the British Government would support then in Bay, in March, 1818, the preeursor of M'Gregor and Woodbine,
their claim. He also concluded a treaty with them, on the part and proceeded towards St. Mark's at night with a body of armed
of the English Government, then quitted the fort and returned nºgrees for the purpose of taking that ſort. He also wrote letters
with his white companion” to England, leaving the negroes in to various persons urgently requesting supplies. - * -

pºssession. Remonstrances were made by the American to the The letter then gives some details of the atrocities pérpetrated
British Governmeat against these proceedings, in consequence by the Indians, and concludes by a justification of the measures
ºf whieh Lords Bathurst and Castlereagh disavowed the miscon of General Jackson, and an intimation, that if the Americans
duct of Nicholls, and assured the American Minister that the should be compelled, in self-defence, to occupy the Spanish towns
pretended treaty would not be ratified. The Negro fort conti and forts in Florida, another unconditional surrender must not be
nued to annoy both the Spranish and American States, by being expected. The execution of the two Englishmen is justified on
a place of retreat for its possessors and a receptacle for fugitive the ground that, “as accomplices of the savages, and, sinning
slaves and malefactors. General Jackson called upon the Go against their better knowledge, worse than savages, General
 84 THE EXAMINER.
Jackson, possessed of their persons and of the proofs of their escorted by the Marechaussee, to be brought to the French
guilt, might, by the lawful and ordinary usages of war, have
frontiers, with an injunction never to show himself again
bºng them both without the formality of a trial;" and that, when in this kingdom.
tried, the defence of one consisted of technical cavils at the nature -

of the evidence, and the other confessed his guilt.

POLA Nid.
This then is the point of view in which the American WARsaw, JAN. 18.-As Russia and Poland are now
Government place this business. As far as relates to the
under the sceptre of the same Monarch, it is said that at the
occupation of the Floridas, if the Hon. Secretary is borne next Polish Diet the union of the Russian Polish Provinces
out in his assertions by the numerous documents to which
he refers, we think there could not be a more complete variouswith the present kingdom of Poland will take place: as
justification of their conduct; and the restitution of the interests require that the members of our ancient
places seized has proved, as far at least as such things are great and brave nation, which have been politically severed,
capable of proof, the sincerity of their declarations at the should be again uaited in one whole.
time of the invasion. What a pretty figure the Spanish TURKEY.
Ministers cut on this occasion. As if they had not enough CoNst ANTINopir, DEc. 24.—The Chief of the Wecha
of their own business, they must be taking up the cause off bites, Abdallah, and his Iman, were brought here prisoners
their Allies. The haughty tone they assume is a fine con on the 16th of this month. After being led, in chains.
trast to their real imbecility, and well worthy of the ser through the principal streets, they were takes to prison and
vants of Ferot NAND the magnanimous.
|. to the torture. On the following morning, they were
The execution of the two Englishmen is another matter, rought before the Sultan and beheaded. Their naked
which we are afraid Mr. ADAMs cannot so easily defend. bodies were exposed during three days, and then delivered
They were seized by General JAckson and delivered to a to the populace. -

court-martial to take their trials, ARButnsor on the charge ---, ---

of instigating the Indians, and AMBR1stER on that of ac

túally commanding them. That Arnuth Not was con UNITED PARLIAMENT.
nected with the savages seems pretty clear, but why was
a court-martial to try him 2 Iſis offence was rather of a HOUSE OF LORDS.
-
civil nature; * he should have had a jury as his judges,
and not men exasperated (and with some reason) by º atto Monday, Feb. 1.
cities of the Indians, and heated by being actually engaged The Marquis of LANsnown moved for certain papers relative
in hostilities. to the disputes between Sir Thomas Raffles and the Dutch, re
Whether the law of nations would justify
the principle contended for by Mr. ADAMs—that Jacksos specting the island of Java. After the British had taken that
island from the Dutch, they made stipulations with the Sultan of
º have hung both his prisoners on the spot—is very Palembang, who agreed to give up to us the island of Banca. on,
.. doubtful; but this is clear-that by giving them up condition that we guaranteed the security of his other dominions.
to a court-martial, he surrendered all right to exercise At the peace of 1814, Java was restored to the Dutch, and
his own discretion with regard to their punishments; Banca was also given them in exchange for other territory. They
find his altering the sentence pronounced by that tri had attacked the Sultan, which Sir T. Raffles considered contrary
bunal is a mere unjustifiable violence. It is the act of to the treaty, as we could ouly give them the island of Banca on
a savage in authority—an act more criminal in him than the same condition as we held it, that of protecting the Sultan.
Sir Thomas, who was the chief officer nt Java, would therefore
the murders and scalpings of the Indians in them. JAck
sox indeed seems to be a stern and ferocious soldier. ! have delayed the surrender of that place; but having no instruc
tions to do so, he merely entered a protest against these proceed
There is a story told of his having displayed great cou ings, and quitted the island.—Ordered.—Adjourned." '
rage, when on the bench, in seizing a hardened culprit, Tuesday, Feb. 2.
who terrified and kept off the officers of justice; which The Earl of Livrn pool moved for a Secret Committee to en
certainly slowed great, inflexibility of mind and animal quire into the expediency of the resumption of cash phyinents by
courage. But it is highly necessary that the bad passions the Bank. The Committee was to be chosen by ballot, and to
of such men as these j be curbed; that they should have authority to report to the IHouse such information as might
be made sensible that Generals, have other duties to per with propriety be disclosed, with their own observations.
form besides that of fighting bravely; and that they are The Marquis of LAssisows thought, that with regard to the
not to set, justice at defiance with impunity, because they two principal questions—the state of the currency aud the foreign
exchanges, secrecy was the last thing necessary.
are at the head of so many hundred armed men. Public The motion was agreed to.—Adjourned.
opinion in America is said to be hostile to Jackson, so Thursday, Feb. 4.
that it is very likely that the Congress will not let him The Earl of Livkarool brought down a message from the
escape without some punishment. Indeed Mr. ADAMs Prince Regent, the same as that sent to the Commons.
avoids any mention of the execution of AMERIstra, which A Committee of Inquiry into the affairs of the Bank was ap
looks as if he could not venture to palliate it. The deter pointed by ballot, as in the other House.—Adjourned.
miastion of the American Government will be anxiously Friday, Feb. 5.
awaited by the people of this country, who are in some WINDSOR ESTABLISHMENT.
measure implicated in this affair. The Farl of Livrnrnot, moved an Address to the Prince Re
*1t is however a difficult thing to say to what extent the au gent, thanking him for the communication... that the 58,000l.
thority of courts-martial reaches, according to the present sys which had become disposable by his Royal Highness for the re
tem; and it forms one of the evils of these tribunals, that men, neral purposes of the Civil List, was placed by him at the dis
who have not the best chance of being impartial, are allowed a
very dangerous de free of discretion, and there are no fixed rules posal of Parliament; and assuring his Royal Highness that their
Lord-hips would pay due attention to the claims recommended
to regulate their decisions. The Americans will perhaps con to their notice. - -

pare Arbuthnot to the trumpeter in the fable, who was thought
as bad as his fighting companions, having encouraged them by plied in the Address, that the money allowed to the Queen was
lis warlike blasts. - -
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
NETHERIANDS.
Baussels, JAN. 30.-M. Denier, a Frenchman, editor
ºnd publisher of the journal called Le Constitutionel
d'Anvers, passed through here the day before yesterday,
*
The Marquis of LANspows disagreed with the principle im
disposable by the Prince Regent without coning to Parliament.
He thought it contrary to the spirit, if not to the letter, of the
Act passed for the regulation of the Civil List.
The Earl of Liverpool, contended, that it was contemplated by
the Act alluded to, that her Majesty's allowance should fall to
the Civil List; but Minister. had thought this mode of applying
it best. .. . . * . * * *
The Address was then carried.—Adjourned.
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IIOUSE OF COMMONS. now given to the Bank fer the use of it. He wished to know
--- therefore whether those balances would be couvertd to the bene
Monday, Feb. 1. .* fit of the country. -- -

- - LONDON NEw PRISON. The Chancellon of the Exchequer replied in the affirmative.
A Petition was presented frºm the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Wild beasts.
Common Council of London, for leave to bring in a Bill for raising Mr. Lawson moved for leave to bring in a Bill to make wild
****ditional sum of money, to carry into execution the Acts of animals reclaimed from their savage state property, and the
Parliament for building a new prison in London. stealing of them punishable. At a late trial at Hertford, a man
Mr. H. Suxxen said, that they ought to shew the insufficiency was indicted for stealing a number of tame ferrets. (A laugh.)
ef their own funds before they applied to Parliament. The ae The Jury found him guilty; but the Judges agreed, that ferrets
ecºts ºrdered last year had not been produced. being auimals fºre naturae, no property could be held in them,
Mr. Warrn MAN observed, that the City had to support not and the stealing of them was uot punishable. It was well known
cºy its own prisoners, but those of the county of Middlesex, that the rat itself, ferocious as it was, might be rendered tame,
which were five times as numerous as its own. and be so domesticated as to run from one side of the House to
Mr. Sergeaut Onslow said, that the Corporation wished to lay the other with the utmost docility. (A laugh.)
en additional tax on the coals brought into the Thames. He saw No one rose for some time to second the motion, which occa
no objection to Middlesex being compelled to assist in the sup sioned a lasgh in the House. At length, the Arronx Ex-GENERAL
Port ºf its own prisoners, but there was no reason why other came forward as seconder, when the motion was put and nega
counties should be burthened.—Laid on the telle. tived.—Adjourned.
-- HNSOLVENT DEGTORS ACT.
A Petition was presented from the Corpºration of London Tuesday, Feb. 2.
against the renewal of the Insolvent I)ebtors' Act. A Petition was presented from the Grand Jury of Norwich
Alderman WArrit MAN could say, from personal observation, relating to the administration of justice in the Northern counties.
that the City of £ondon was distinguished for humanity; but it Among other facts, it stated, that some time age a young man
did not view this Act as either humane or salutary. From the was committed to the Norwich gaol; and after remaining there a
passing ºf the Act to the 1st March, 1817, the debts of the per whole year, he was remanded on account of some error. At the
sons confined under the Act amounted to 15,000,000l. and the end of two-years he was tried and acquitted.—Laid on the table.
dividends were one farthing in the pound. Most of the insolvents Sir F. Burnett presented a Petition against the Westminster
were profligate people. . He moved that the Petition should lie Hustings Bill, the third reading of which Mr. Beuuet postpoued
on the table. till Wednesday. -

Mr. Broºgnax, thought the Act might perhaps be amended; - BANK reStriction. . . .
but objected to the colouring given to the statements made. The Mr. Tº Enney said, it would be recollected that Ministers had
worthy Alderman had said, that ºf 5,000,000l. had been taken deceived the people from time to time with respect to the resump
ºom honest dealers; and left it to be inferred, that this had been tion of cash payments. The preamble to the ſast Bill stated, that
done by the Insolvent Act; but he would say, that but for that unforeseen circumstances had rendered the continuance of the re
Act: the creditors would not have got even the dividend of a striction necessary, and a few days ago the same story had been
*arthing in the pound.--Laid on the table. told them. The question was not now one of exchanges, or the
WESTMINSTER HUSTINGS lull. danger to which the Bank might be exposed; but whether it was
A conversation took place on the motion for the adoption of expedient and just to keep up the amount of the present circula
certain amendments. Mr. Hexe said, that the expenses of the tion. A notion had gone abroad, that the safety of the country
election ought to be defrayed from the ample funds of the Dean depended on no diminution being made of the circulating mediun,
and Chapter of Westminster, whose deputy the High Bailiff and great alarm had been occasioned lest it should be diminished.
--- ſt was also contended that the candidates should not be There was a party actively employed in poisoning the public
made liable for the expenses, because they might be elected mind, and this party was composed partly of men of forture and
*gainst their will.–Mr. BENner urged the aecessity of making integrity, and partly of gamblers and speculators, men who had
sºme regulation before the election came on, aud said that the overtraded themselves and were of course auxious to keep a full
Bill was only to renew for a year a former Act which had ex circulation that they might fatten upon it: these latter he would
pired on the 1st January.—The motiou was agreed to. call the tail of the party. They had directed their operations
. A Petition was presented from Lecds praying for the cou with too much success against the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
tinuance of the Restriction Act: who had been an instrument in their hands, and whose under
Mr. Therwºv remarked, that such Petitions as this had been standing had been cowed into subserviency to their machina
mausfactured in great numbers in London, and sent into the tions. (Cheers and taughter.) His whole course of finance had
country for signatures, which had been obtained in a very sur rested solely upon paper. His system had been constantly to
reptitious manner, chiefly by the agency of the bankers. hold out the expectation that things would mend—that by and
GENERAL GOURGAUI). bye, if the House would but wait a little, it would find that the
Mr. F. Douglas wished for soue explanation relative to the income and expenditure would balance. While the sinking fund
treatment of a foreigner arrested under the Alieu Act, and the was cutting off a certain portion of debt at one end, he was
seizºre of his papers. -
adding to it in an equal proportion at the other. whenever the
Mr. 11. Clive said, that he would state the facts of the case as country was in any difficulties, he issued more Exchequer Bills,
well as he could recollect ſheni. The General had de-ired te which being discounted by the Bank, the paper circulation was
lºdge an appeal before a magistrate, to whom he was therefore encreased. If this paper system were suffered to proceed with
out inquiry after four years of peace, he begged the House to
*****, but who did act think it necessary to interfere in his be think
ºalſ. His papers were brought to the iſome Department, and how dreadful the consequences to the nation would be if a
were to intervene. What resources had we but paper piled
thence forwarded to his final destination; and on his complain war
upon paper? -The Right Hon. Gentleman had boasted of laving
iº; that the seals were broken, enquiry was made of the persons reduced the rate of interest, but that was net owing to a whole
through whose hands the papers had passed, but the breaking of
some cause. In 1817, the 3 per cents, were raised 20 per cent.
the seals was denied by them. - -

by a most extravagant issue of paper, and the Chancellor of the

BRIBERY. Exchequer boasted that he should pay off 5 per cents. They
The Oxford Petition against the Duke of Marlborough was had not been payed off, and he was glad ofthe
-

decided to be £ection Petition, and as such ordered to be con been committing a deliberate fraud upon it; for it would have
sidered on an appointed day.
the holders to have
-
forced up the prices of the stocks and provisious by an issue of
SUPPLY. paper, and then to have payed them less in fact, though the same
The House having resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, nominally, than they had leat. It was high time to take some
20,000 seamen, and 1,708,550l. were voted for the Navy Esti steps to put un gud to a systein which had been secretly destroy
****, one million on acconut of the Army Estimates, and ing the foundations of our national prosperity. The most obvious
£4954.300l. to provide for outstanding Exchequer Biſis. -
and rational course of proceeding was the appointment of a Com
Mr. Gaewfell wished to put a question to the Chancellor of mittee to report whether any and what objections there were to
the Exchequer. The Bank had lent 3,000,000l. without tuterest the resumption of cash payments; for it was not a question to be
to Government, as an equivalent for the public balances in their settled in a debate. One objection had been made from authº
hands which amounted to ten or eleven millions. That loan was rity—the extent of the loans negociated with France to enable
* be repaid last April, but as it was not paid, 4 per cent was her to pay the contributions to the Allies. The auount of uliosº
 THE EXAMINER, -

loans was 12 millions; and supposing that this country furnished Members; and if they consisted of different Members, f on the
half, it would be only 330,000 a month, and would it be said, intivate conuexion º subsisted among all these subjects, the
that such a drain would aſſect the circulation? The reason why object of their appointment would be in a great measure fru--
he (Mr. Tierney) troubled the House with this motion was, that trated. He concluded by moving as an amendment, that all the
the Chancellor of the Exchequer had objected to his mode of words after “appointed” be omitted, and that the following be
inquiry. He was not wedded to his motion: he had agreed to substituted:—“To consider the present state of the Bank, with
give the Chaucellor of the Exchequer precedence: he had offered. reference to the expediency of the resumption of casiº payments
any thing to accommodate him, even to change places if he at the period fixed by law, and into such other matters, as are
thought fit, (Continued cheers and taughter); of course only for the connected with it.”
ºccasion; he was not a place hunter; his thirst must be greedy Mr. F. Lewis said, it appeared from what the Chance!ºr of
indeed, if he could wish to be Chancellor of the Exchequer at the the Exchequer had said that the Bank were not prepared to re
present moment, when no man with the right use of his wits, but sume cash payments. (Iſcar, hear !) . It was argued, that until
the Right Hon. Gentleman, would be anxious to fill so painful the Bank reduced the circulation of their notes, cash phymºts
an office-(Irepeated cheers)—an office were the occupant was could not be expected; but they ºught, before they asked fºr fºr
first assailed by one party, then by another, and at last compelled ther indulgence, to show that they had done their best without
to submit to an inquiry, for which, until within the last few days, success. When the restriction was first laid en, it was done
he could perceive no tiecessity. (IIear, hear !) Under these cir on public grounds, because the Bank, had lent Government
cºmstances, had not the House reason to suspect the quarter from 10,000,000l. i but now it seemel that it was to be continued
whence the Chancellor of the Exchequer received his instruc solely for the benefit of the Bank, and those connected with the
tions: Was it not warranted in demanding an open investiga paper system. - -

*ion, in suspecting trick and contrivance, and the movement of !. CastleREAgu said, that he agreed with his Right II, n.
wires by some one behind the curtain : (Cheers.) What he Friend, that enquiry had better have been postpºned till next
wanted was, abroad and general enquiry, aid not one limited to Session. It appeared from facts communicated tº Ministers that
* mere examination of detail and temporary circumstances; but the Bauk could not open before March 1820. The Bank Diºc
if there were to be only a vague and loose reference to a Com tors however had wished inquiry and there was also a public
inittee, nominated in fact by the Right Hon. Gentleman himself, feeling in favour of it. Whatever, therefore, he felt, as to the
he would venture to predict, that the only result would be, that propriety of postponing inquiry, that was a sufficient reason ºf
an immense mass of matter would be brought forward, without going into it. In this free and liberal cºuntry, the public miud
enabling any individual to form a definite opinion respecting it. was not to be resisted. Ile thought the two Committee" prº
(Hear, hear!) There were many new Members in the present posed useless, as the questions were perſectly identified wºh
Parliament, who did not know the Chancellor of the Exchequer each other. The only question therefore was the secrecy ºf the
so well as the old oues did. (A taugh.) He could assure them, Committee. Public safety could alone justify an inquiry into the
that if he should succeed in carrying his present motion, the affairs of the Bank, and it was only to this point that secrecy was
Right Hon. Gentleman would not lose his place, but with the to be applied. (Hear hear!). The objection to the bailot, hed
best grace in the world immediately adopt the motion as his own. been often answered. The effect of payments in specie would ve
(4 laugh.) He was very skilful at a retreat, as was shown by to send all ºne gold out of the country, without doing the sºakest
his conduct when the income Tax was taken off and certain sine good. -

cures abolished, of both which measures he had taken the merit Mr. M'Apenly said, that the great cause which prevented tº e
tº himself. He should have no objection to a Secret Committee, return to cash payments was the unfunded debt, which enºut tº
if it was not chosen by ballot, but every one knew of whom those to 60,000,000l., of which he presumed the ižank lield 35 ºr 8.
Committees were always composed. He had a further objection Consequently before the metallic currency could be restored, ſhe
to the reference, as it was now proposed; satisfied that two Jis Government must discharge so much of this debt, which wººd
! net Committees were required. His own motion had for its ob occasion a gradual reduction of Bank-notes. A great part of the
Jºel to institute a general inquiry; if the Right Hon. Gentleman Exchequer Bills should have been funded last year, before the
wished also that the affairs of the Bank should be investigated, foreign loans were made. - - -

he had no objection whatever to the appointinent of a secret

Committee for that
siſ. CANNING had always considered the Bank Restriction as a
purpose; but if his determination was, that departare from that monetary system which ought to be observed,
because there was a small inquiry which eught to be made though temperary causes made its continuance necessary. The
secretly, a great inquiry ought to be conducted in the same man Hon. Gentleman their stated the circumstances which had in
ºer, and that because the Committee was one of secreey, there duced Ministers to concur in the propriety ºf inquiry. The Bººk
fore it ought to be chosen by ballot, he should certainly oppose Directors had told his Right lion. Friend, that it would be a deur
such a proposition. (Hear, hear 1) He therefore moved, “ihat sion to suppose that cash payments could be resumed at the tire
* Committee be appointed to inquire into the effects produced on appointed by law, and had offered to give evidence before a
the exchanges with foreign countries, and the state of the circu Secret Committee. With respect to the secrecy of the Commitºs.
lºting unedium, by the restriction on cash payinents; and to re it should be considered, unai to expose the private affairs cf. tº
port whether any and what reasons exist for continuing it beyond Bank against their will would be violating a private right. Gº!
the period now fixed by law for its termination.” - but then came the grand objection—the old, state, worn-out, and
-

The Cmaxcellon of the Exchequen observed, that he had ten-times-repeated one—to the bailot. (IHear, and a laug'.) Tº
been charged with a want of system in his financial arrangements. which had so often tired the old Parliament, they now broºkt
Since the conclusion of the peace, 50,000,000l. of taxes had been forward, to see what effect it would have upon the new. (Cheers
remitted, and between 20 and 30,000,000l. of debt paid off. He and laughter.) The difference between the two modes was ol.
idmitted, that he had thought on the first day of the Séssion that for the better. In prºposing the Members of a Committee ºn
the restriction should be continued for a year without inquiry; secutively, the floºse judged of each of them; but is a beliet, the
but a communication had been made to him and Lord Liverpoºl House was enabled to judge of the whole with the relation w!.ich
from the Bank Directors, announcing that they had come tº a each bore to the other in their capability of acting together.
resolution, that inquiry was preferable to an extension of the re º It was objected that Ministers sent round lists to their
striction for so short a period as had been preposed. (Hear, riends; but every man might strike out what names he liked
fear!) Under these circumstances but without abandoning the without its being known. There was an old joke (though nºt
hope that cash payments might be resumed in 1820, he had judged too old for the new Members) that would probably be played eff
it right to concur with the wishes of the Bank. He thought he if he did not anticipate it. (Laughter.) it was usual, when, a
could show that his mode of inquiry was a better one than the Committee was elected by ballot, for a Member, who had get a
Right Hon. Gentleman's. The first object of inquiry appeared to sight of one of the lists, to offer to lay a whger that he coºd ºne
him to be the state of the Bank, as to the extent of their prepara all the Members who would be returned: he would then read
tions for payments in cash. The state of the exchanges and of over the names in the list, and the coincidence between tº tº
the circulating medium were necessarily included in the terms of and those returned by the scrutineers aſſorded the old Panta
his motion. The inquiry to whiph it would lead was at once meat great amusement. A Seetet Committee ought to be tº me!
thore extensive, and the object ºf it more definitely explained. of those Members frºm both sides of the lieuse, who had atteº'ed
than that of the Right Hen. Gentleman; but as it was connected to the question, and of impartial and independent men, who
with an investigation of the aſſairs of the Bank, the Committee might prevent political disputes. He thought the Rizºt fict.
should be secret. The construction of this Commit:ee would Gentreman's (Mr. Tierney's) mode of inquiry very clerssy. If
possess all the advantages of the two Committees which had been his mºtion was agreed to, there would be, a necessº'y fºr two
suggested. These two Committees might consist of the same Committees; for the Bank
en
was most unaccountably lefººt
* * **
in the
* ** *
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inquiry of the Counaittee, which he proposed, though the con Mr. Laxtarox said, that since it was already determined who
cerns of the Bank would be for ever occurring in its investiga were to be the Committee, he would rather decline to take any
tions. . A Committee, therefºre, which should undertake to in part in picking up their names. - -

quire into the effects of the Bank Restriction, without having any Mr. Tisaxºv said, that since it was the only specimen of in
power
of Hamlet,
to look
withinto
thethe
partaffairs
of Hamlet
of theleft
Bunk, partiality shown by the other side, he thought it more satisfje
out. would be the tragedy tory
sº
they should appoint among themselves the Cºmmittee of
Mr. Maxxixg observed, that the Bank had showu an incliua examination as well as the Committee of secreey, (fear, hear,”
tion to return to cash payments by paying some of its notes in A Member said, that he had found a list on his table, but hill
gold in Isle; and its issues had also been decreased last year inserted in place of some of the names others from the opposite
with the same view. The Bauk were uow is the hauds of the bench. He felt insignaut at the imputation of having given in *
legislature; they offered no opinious and made no requests. prescribed list. -

Alderman Hergate preferred an open Committee to a secret Mr. Warrn was had found uo list on his table. (cheering and
one, as more satisfactory to the public mind. - langhter.) -

Mr. Tien Ney replied. The Baak to show its wish to fulfil its The Speaken thea named another Committee.
engagements had paid a part of its notes in cash, and then coul WESTMINSTEIR HUSTINGS BILL.
plained that this cash disappeared. He would tell them why. Mr. BENNET moved that this Bill be read a third time.
Had they reduced their issues at the time that they issued the gold, Sir Francis Bundºrr saw no reason or justice it, throwing
3'-e goldſ would have continued in circulation for the uotes with: the unrden ou shoulders which were the last that ofght to be
drawn; but while they withdrew notes of a certain date, they made to bear it. The High-bailiff had not only taken the cºlice
issued others to supply their place. The object of his motion voluntarily, but he understood that he had paid 4,000, ſº it. At
was to obtain distinct statements, of which every man could was impossible that this sum should have been paid for ºn office
judge for himself; and not a general report, from which the of only 2001. a-year. Benefit and burded should go together. iſ,
lieuse could get no specific points, on which to come to a con indeed, the benefit was divided among many, the High-bailiff
cºusien. Notwithstasiding all that had been urged in favour of might not have an adequate sum remaining; but they had noth
a ballot, he for one would not be satisfied with the nou.ination ing to do with that. The Iligh-bailif had made his bargain, and
cf the Committee by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, surrounded must bear, the consequence. As to the charges, they always
as he was, by day and uight, by Jew brokers and adventurers. appeared to him rather sources of emolument. Formerly, tile
(-i taugh.) He saw no possible objection to the resumption of iiigh-bailiff shared largely in the profits: The charges recently
cash payments, provided they would reduce their issues gra exibited appeared to hia, to merit no other name than extºrtºn
dually, between this and next July. The circulation should be An action had been brought against him, and he had resisted it.
reduced to the real wants of the country. Geutlemen must make Lord Eilenborough had found him liable as a candidate, although
up their minds to some inconvenience. He did not think that he had not been one. The office of High-bailiff ought not to be
* ºnvenience would be so great as was expected; but if the made a matter of emolument; but it had been tºade so; at least,
Bauk were to increase their issues till the restriction expired, the then, let the burden go with the emolument. The liou. Bart.
resumption of cash payments could not be brought about with concluded by moving, as an amendment, that the Bill should be
cal sque lifieulty. - ----to--- ~~~~

read a second time on this day fortnight.

Tº Right Hon. Gentlemen sat down amid loud cheers; and Sir horriºr wilsos seconded the motion principally on this
§ellows: then divided on the original motion –Ayes, 168– ground, that as the qualification for a Member was only 800i. a
Aces, 277—Majority for Ministers, 100.-The amendment was year, he ought not to be required to mortgage his iucome for
then carried without a division, and it was decided that the three years and a half to pay the expenses of tº hustiugs.
º
**urºtrº.
was to be secret, and to be formed by ballet.-Ad Mr. Lawsox supported the amendment: The difficulty was
to steer clear of injustice to the returning officer, as well as to
-- Wednesday, Feb. 8. - the constituents; but the first was only an act of private injus
BANK RESTRICTION.—SECRET COMMITTEE. tice; the other of public. * .

Mr. Harr Davis presented a Petition from several of the iulia Mir. BeNxer aressed upon the House the great hardship of the
bºasts of Bristol against the resumption of cash payments. situation of the High-bailiff, who was at this moment 3000'."
Mr. Catch ºr said that the Hou. Gentlemen opposite had of pocket by his office, and who, if this Bill were not carried,
been guity of a gross deviation from that caudour which they would be a still greater loser after the approaching election. .
had professed last might. In the list of names which had been A division then took place. For the amendmeat, 10-Against
ºculated, the proportion was 14 to 7 for the Minister. (Ilear, it, 32.-The Bill was read a third time and passed.
• *ear!). In a similar election by ballot, when he happened to be RESULT OF THE BALLOT.
* *

fºronted one of the scrutineers, there were 90 names in the The report of the scrutineers was read, and the following
"laadwriting of the treasury. (Iſcar, hear!). -
were
-
the names for which the majority of votes had been given:
Mr. Tisaxey should be glad if one of the names were with ford Castlereagh, the Chancellor of the Excheq" ºr, Mr. Tier
drawn, in order to introduce that of Mr. Brougham, for he was ney, Mr. Canning, Mr. Wellesley Pole; Mr. Lamb; Sir John
sure there was no one in this country better qualified. Newport, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Grenfell, Mr. Iłuskissou, Mr.
Mr. HAar Davis said, that whatever might be thought of the Abercromby, Mr. Baukes, Sir Janºs Mackintosh. Mr. Peel, Sir
pºlitical sentinents of those who had signed the Petition, he John Nicholi, Mr. Littleton, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Stuart Wortley,
had never presented one more respectably signed." . . . Mr. Manning, Mr. Frankland 'Lewis, and Mr. Ashurst.-Ad
Mr. Tienwev said he had no doubt of the respectability of the
sºnatures, but he objected to it on account of the manner in journed.
which ºt signatures had been obtained. Was it or was it Thursday, Feb. 4.
DENNIS SULLIVAN.
not a fact, that at a meeting of a club, of which Mr. Alderman Mr. BENNET presented a Petition from Dennis Sullivan, who
thaniel was chairman, that Petition was put into the hands of stated that he had served 12 years in the navy, and that hº
the Chairman, in order to obtain the signatures of the members? been disabled by a severe wound, had been discharged in 18i ,
(Ilear, hear !) He understood that all the signatures affixed to that he possessed certificates from the officer under whom he
ºt, except one, were obtained in that club ; and now it was had last served, showing that he had been wounded in the ser
brought forward as the petition of the inhabitants of Bristol. vice; that he was unable to work in consequence of his wound ;
Mr. H. pavis was entirely ignorant of the proceedings alledged but that he could not establish his claim to a pension because he
to have taken place.—Laid ou the table.
The Cmaxcetton of the Exciteques moved the order of the had neglected to get a smart ticket when he was discharged. . .
-

' A MEMBER on the Treasury Beuch said, that there were certatti
day for the ballot. º -
regulations observed by the Board of Admiralty, and that the
Sir F. Benner; thought that, to save the time of the House, case of the Petitioner did not come within these regulatiº
it would be much better to name the list at once, than to go Laid on the table. -

through the formality of a bailot. (Hear, hear!). BRIBERY.

- Lists of Members for the proposed Committee were thrown ----

Sir R. Wilson presented a Petition from Thomas william

into a large glass on the table. No Member of the Opposition Brady, charging Mr. W. Quin with having attempted to bribe
put in a list. him, by offering him 2001. a-year to vote for the said Mr. Quin.
* The Citascetton of the Excheque: moved, that a Committee
be appointed to examine the lists. The e incts the Fetitioner was willing to prove at the bºr.
The Speaker named Mr. Brogden, Mr. Calcraft, Mr. Ser Twº ordered, that Mr. Quin should be commanded.” atten"
grant Qaslow, Mr. Lambtoo, Mr. M'Donald, and Lord Binning. in his place in eight days. - - - -
 88 - The EXAMINER.
NORTHERN ASSIZES. laid out in a similar manner, for the support of eight poor scholars
On the motion of Mr. M. A. Taylor, it was resolved, that anat the University of Edinburgh; but the scholars to whom these
address should be presented to the Regent, requesting that some bursaries had been given for some time past, had been elected ºn
measures might be adopted to give the four northern counties the a very different principle from that which was laid down in the
benefit of an assize twice a-year. - devise.—Laid on the table. - -

WINDSOR ESTABLISHMENT. The Bill for the care of his Majesty's person was committed,
A message from the Prince Regent was brought down and and ordered to be read a third time on Saturday.—Adjourned. -
read. It stated, that the 58,000l. appropriated to the late Queen
was now at the disposal of Parliament; and left to the liberality
of the House the allowances to be granted to her Majesty's TUESDAY'S LONDON GA21.TTE.
* + -
servants, * -
--

An address of thanks for the message was then voted. . BANKRUPTS. -

Lord CastleREAgh stated the intentions of Ministers on the

proposed reductions in the establishment: In addition to the J. Attorney,
Towsey, jun. Blandford-Forum, Dorsetshire, stonemason.
Mr. Dean, Guildford-street: -

58,000l. reverting to the public by the death of the Queen, J. Towsey, juu. and S. Lloyd, Blandford-Forum, Dorsetshire.
50,000l. more was to be taken from the King's establishment; dealers. Attormies, Messrs. Wilson and Chisholme, Lincoln’s
• thus, in the first instance, making a saving of 108,000l. But out inn-fields, - - - - -

ºf this, it was proposed to grant allowances to the servants of

her late Majesty, to the amount of 25,000l. The sun of 10,000l. T. Norris,
Thompson, Hambledon, Lancashire, tamer. Attorney, Mr.
John-street, Bedford-row. - -

also, which had been granted to her Majesty (in addition to the J. M., G. M., and R. Morgan, Belle Sauvage-yard, Ludgate-hill,
58,000l.) under the head of travelling expenses, was to be transwholesale-stationers. Aftormies, ‘Messrs. J. and A. Smith,
ferred to the Duke of York. He feſt that some explanation was Dorset-street, Salisbury-square. , -

necessary as to why these reductions had not been proposed J. Foulerton, Upper Hedford-place, Blºomsbury-square, mer
earlier. The object of Ministers had been to take care, that in chant. Attormies, Messrs. Knight and Freemuu, Basinghall
case of the King's recovery, he should find himself surrounded by *treet. - - * -

those persons and that state to which he had been accustomed. J. H. Wilbean, Dock-head, Surrey, distiller. Attornies, Messrs.
ºfter going into some details, respecting the offices to be abo
Jished, the Noble Lord moved for the ºppointment of a Select G.Martin and Son, Vintner's-hall, Upper Thames-street.
Committee to take into consideration the whole of the "Windsor and J. M. Gilchrist, Liverpool, merchants. Attoruies, Messrs.
E-tablishment. . . . . . . . . .. *. 13|ackstock and Runce, King's Bench-walk, Temple. -

J. Hornby, Liverpool, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Adlington

Mr. Long WELLesley approved of the plans of Ministers, but and Gregory, Bedford-row. - -

wished to know why different reasons had been given, when the C. Mottram, Pinners's-hall, Winchester-street, merchant. At
10,000l. was given to the Queen, and now when it was given to tormies, Messrs. Stratton and Allport, Shoreditch.
the Duke of York; and also whether it was intended that his J. Pickman, Deptford, malster. Attornies, Messrs. Parnther and
Rºyal Highness should hold at ouee the offices of Commander-inTuruer, London-stree, Fenchurch-street.
Chief and Custos Personae. *. . . --

M. Hatteisley, Bilton-with-Harrowgate, Yorkshire, hotel-keeper.

Lord CastleREAgn said, that the 10,000l. had been allowed Attormies, Messrs. Alexander and Holme, New-uu. - -

the Queen for certain extraordinary expences whicſ, the care of

the King's person caused, and to the Duke of York for the same
reason. He did not think the two offices mentioned at all inter
fered with each other. * - - - t ". - SATURDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.
i " - - -

Mr. TierNEY protested against the claim which Ministers BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
made to have these reductions considered as a voluntary offer of
“conomy. It was the necessary consequence of circumstances. B. Sargeant, Kingston-upon-Thanºs, carpenter.
The Hon. Gentleman then noticed several particulars of the pro J. Twyford, Portswood within Briunington, Chester, cotton
posed, reductions. Four Lords and four Grooms of the Bed spinner. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . - -

chamber were now to be reduced; but why had they been con S, W. Chamberlayne, Leicester, hosier.
Bryce, Liverpool, baker. t
tinued in 1812, since there was no more necessity for them then
than now *. As to the sum of 10,000l. to be granted to the Duke BANKRUPTS. - -

of York, the House ought to be informed how it was to he ex C. Jackson, Upper-Thames-street, sugar-factor. Attornies,
pended. He thought that 50,000t. for the support of his Majesty Messrs. Smith and Henderson, Lemon-street, Goodman's-fields.
in his present unhappy state enormous. There wers to be six J. H. Wilkeam, Docklead, Southwark, distiller. Attornies,
equerries to attend at Windsor, but surely it did not require six Messrs. Martin and Son, Vintner's-hall, Upper Thames-street.
gentlemen, whose tables were to be supported, to give a bulletin R...Wilks, Chancery-lane, sprinter. ...Attorney, Mr, Arundell,
once a mouth. A nobleman was certainly necessary to see that Chancery-lune, - - * -

the sarvants did their duty, and he might ſinve one or two equer G. Powell, Little Trinity-lane, Queenhithe, baker. Attorney,
ries under him. A sum of 50,000l. had been granted to the King Mr. Holmes, Great James-street, Bedford-row. -

for his privy purse: ; and in 1812, a like sun had becn given to E. Sayer, Bath, tailor. Attornies, Messrs. Adlington and Gre
the Regent for the same purpose. Now he contended fi. this gory, Bedford-row.
noney was greated only to the King as a sovereign prince, and P. Caumont, Old Broad-street, merchant. Attoruies, Messrs.
directly he became incapable of acting as such, it should have : Bluut audºowman, Broad-street-buildings.
everted to the public, with the exception ºf 84,000l. granted to R. Blyth, Kin:ston-upou-Hull, corn-merchant. Attorney, Mr.
certain persons in pensions. The sum to be paid to the Duke of Ellis, Chancery-lane. is , ,
Yºrk should be defrayed out of it. The situation of the country W. Morgan and W. Matthews, Newport, Monmouthshire, com moil-brewers. Attorney, Mr. Platt, New Boswell-court, Lin
would admit of no superfluous burden. . - " .

The Committee was then appointed.—Adjourned. coln's Inn. . .. . .. . . . . . .

; : . Friday, Feb. 5. : * - -
P. Campbell, Mary-le-boue-street, Golden-square, wine-mer
chant, Attorney, Mr. Newcomb, Vine-street, Piecadilly.
New writs were moved for several places. The one for West E. Smyth, St. Martin's-court, St. Martin's-laue, shoe-maker.
minister was moved by Mr. Brougham, but without any notice of Attornies, Messrs. Mayhew, Price, and Siyan, Chancery-lane.
the late Sir S. Romilly. ..., ". . . . . . . . . . M. : Marchant, Poplar, cow-keeper. Attorney, Mr. liowell,
* .

ABUSE OF CHARITY, Symond’-inn." -> - ** * *

Mr. BRougnaxi presented a Petition from the Parish of Moffat, R. Jjealey, Lowerplace, Lancashire, woollen-manufacturer, At
in Scotland, which stated, that, in 1689, the Rev. Mr. Johnson torney, Mr. Chippendale, Crane-court, Fleet-street. . --

bequeated 1000l. to be laid out in land, and the profits of the J. Rothwell, Mortfield, Lancashire, whitster. Attorney, Mr.
land to be used for building and supporting a school. Certain , Meddowcroft, Gray's-int. . . . . . . .
salaries were named, to be paid to irschoolmaster, an usher, and T. Lloyd, Tibberton, lierefordshire, farmer. Attorney, Mr.
a writing-master; but the salary of the usher had been paid to Pewtriss, Gray’s-inn. - * * * * - * *

the master, and that of the writing-master never paid at all. The R. Whates, Wapping-street, anchor-smith. Attorney, Mr. Orme,
surplus of the rents was to be applied for the use of the poor, Stepney-church-yard. * * * - -

but it had never been soapplied, nor any account of it rendered. L. Levy, Great Prescott-street, merchant. Attorney, Mr. Lewis,
!"ie Rev. Mr. Johnson had devised another sum of 1000l. to be Crutched-friars, * . * * - - - - * ** * * - - - -- - - * - -

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the ExAMINER. 89
-tcº or strict a rºw ka-rººtnaw. -
The New York Papers, which arrived yesterday,
3 per Cent. Red................ 773; 3 per Cent. Cons......... 774477 bring very extraordinary intelligence from South America.
In the Defeuce of Mr. Conserr last week, for “Junius Editor,” It is said, in an article from Montevideo, dated Oct. 9, that
read “Junius Elector.” the Director and Congress of Buenos Ayres have agreed
We have received several Letters in answer to Mr. Cohn Err’s with O'Higgins, the person at the head of the Chilian
Defender; but want of room, and the alarming number of Republic, to offer the Crown of South America to an
them, compel- us to put an end to the controversy. Indeed, European. The National Intelligencer gives a brief out
nothing but our wi-h to let every thing be heard in extenuº line of the adjustment of the disputes between Spain and the
tion of an absent person who had been accused in this Paper, United States. In the first Article it is mentioned, that
would have induced us to insert as much as we have done.
The Ixpex for last year's Volune of the Eraminer is now ready the United States deeply regret the violation of the Spanish
for delivery.—The ANNUAL Voluxe is also ready. territory by the American forces under General Jackson,
T and that it, was without the authority of the Government.
The second Article refers to the cession of the Floridas to
THE ExAMINER, the United States... The third and fourth Articles give a
brief outline of the limits as to territory; the fifth and sixth
Lowdow, FEBRUARY 7. -
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regulate the navigation of the two countries, and the old
Treaty is referred to, where it was agreed that the flag
As important project has been brought forward in the should protect the carso; but in case of future wars, if
Chamber of Deputies, for giving reality to the responsibi any Belligerent should not acknowledge this principle,
lity of Ministers. It is justly said to resemble the English then the Treaty on this subject to be considered void. The
last article states, that the cession of the Floridas shall be
trial by impeachment. But actual responsibility, as we considered in full payment for all claims of America upon
have too much reason to know in this country, dogs not Spain; and as a great proportion of these claims have
depend upon forms or constitutional enactments. The arisen, from the confiscation of American property by
provision, however, is good, and may be useful, if the French officers while in the territory of Spain, these amonnts
lovers of liberty succeed in defending France against the to be specified by the United States, that the amount may
be claimed ſºom the Government of France.
evident and foolish spirit of the Bourbox family at large. Extract of a letter from Milan, dated Jan. 1:—“The
The King himself really seems to have been taught some Princess of WAles is making preparations for a trip to
thing by adversity. - -
the Holy Land. The Baron, and young AustiN (who is
The long promised constitution of Prussia is again always addressed by the title of Prince), accompany her
taked of; and an alleged draught of it has been given, full Iłoyal Highness, together with a vast suite. The Princess
of liberal assimilations to our own. “The men,” says an told the Marchioness of Dougi,As that it was her intention
account dated Frankfort, “ who have so courageously to be absent six months; and that she meant to visit all
the places of note in Egypt. During the Princess's ab
expressed the general wish, are the Chancellor Bevane, sence her new Palace will proceed. Two Gentlemen
Counsellor Eichioits, and the celebrated lawyer Savid Ny. lately arrived ſrom England, and had a long conference
Their plan is referred to the Council of State, to º: with her Royal Higüness.”—Morning paper. s

a thorough examination, and whatever be its fate, they Princess of Wales.—“We are informed, in a quar
ter to which we have often been indebted for important
will have deserved well of Prussia for what they suppose a intelligence,
benefit, and of the rest of Germany, to which they offer the Chancerythat a Gentleman, of very high character at
Bar, has visited a distinguished Female in
at once a model and a lesson.” Most true; and we are Italy, for the purpose of preparing her to expect a minute
delighted to repeat their names. What the sensations of investigation of her condnet. It must be evident that the
the King were when he came to look it over, it is not so reports which have long been in circulation, and which
easy to tell;-they are evidently thought doubtful on the recent events are said to render more striking, loudly call
continent; and this is the reason why the drawers up of for inquiry... If the Lady of any Nobleman in England
the plan are so much the more admired. The liberal turn continued flitting about the world with similar volatility,
would not the husband incur censure if he did not reso
which the remaining spirit of liberty in France has given lutely demand investigation.”—Sun. -

to things in that country, in spite of the foolish ultra-roya A singular circumstance is stated to have taken place in
lism and resentments of the emigrants, has had a conside the General Assembly of the States of Hanover. The
rable effect on Germany at large, and probably hastened Nobles began to retire from the Assembly, in order to
the renewal of this subject in Prussia. evade, the decision upon the question of their liability to
--

The Emperor Alexander, after a round of Congresses, contribute to the public service. It requires fifty-two to
constitute a sitting. That number only remained. One
levees, bows, smiles, snuff-boxes, dances, dinners, uniforms, Noble rose to follow the example of his predecessors. A
orders, rides, walks, postings, visits, shews, no-shews, po º
of the Third Estate placed himself at the door,
litics, polemics, promises, and non-performances, has got and would not let the fugitive Noble pass until the pro
home safe to Petersburgh. position was decided, of course, against him and his
There is nothing new about the Creature at Madrid, colleagues.
Puñity of PARLIAMENT-The following advertise
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whom Superstition, in her hideous old age, keeps like a ment appeared in the West Briton, a paper published at
pet toad. Yes; we have to return our thanks for the re Truro, in the “free and independent” county of Corn
ceipt of something new which has come out respecting wall:—“To GENTLEMEN of Fortune.—Any two Gen
him, a Spanish caricature. We shall give a description tlemen, who would wish to secure Seats at the next Par
of it next week. - - - - liament, may be accommodated at the Borough of Laun
ceston.—There are but 15 votes, majority 8.--All letters,
directed for A. B., to be left at the Exeter Post-office, wii
Advices have been received from Ceylon, communicat be duly attended to.—Jan. 24, 1819.”
ing the intelligence of the capture of the Malabar Chief, Canlillon and Marinet, charged with attempting to as
Pietender to the Crown of Candy, who is supposed to have sassinate the Duke of WellingtoN, have at last been put
been the chief cause of the insurrection in that islaud. in accusation by the Cour Royale of Paris.
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90 'THE- EXAMINER.
Sir T. IIision.—On Thursday, the proprietors of East
India Stock met at the India House tº consider the pro
priety of voting thanks to Sir Thomas Hislop for his ser
vices in the last Indian campaign.—Mr. Huxle wished the
vote to be postponed, until some explanation was given
respecting his conduct before the ſort of Talneir. . The
circumstances alluded to were these:—The Killedar or
Governor of the ſort refused, contrary to the orders of his
sovereign, to surrender the place; and returned no answer
to a summons seat him by Sir T. Histop. An attack
was commenced, which so alarmed the Killedar, that he
'solicited terms and promised to surrender unconditionally.
After some delay, the Europeans advanced to the gates,
Yassed through the first and second, and at the third the
}. surrendered himself. 'I’lle fifth gate, however,
was shut and the Arabs behind insisted on terms. Some
officers and men entered through a wicket which was
opened, and were immediately struck down with spears
and arrows. The storming party without, learing cf this,
attacked and carried the fort, and put the whole garrison
(300 men) to the sword. 'i'he Killedar was afterwards
hung by the order of Sir Thomas.-The proposition of
Mr. Hume was rejected; and after some debate, the vote
of thanks was carried, with an addition, stating, that the
Court forbear to express any opinion at present on his
conduct in this transaction. - -
Chimney-Sweeping.—The Report of Cºl. Strtmex
son, Surveyor-General of the Board of AWorks, as to the
practicability of the superscºling the practice of Climbing
Boys by use of machinery, is on the whoſe favourable to
the use of maclines, though the result of the experiment is,
that the three lioyal Architects concur in opinion that A HINT to the GREATER CRIMINALs who are so ſonal
Climbing Boys cannot be at present totally dispensed with. of declaiming against the crimes of the poor and uneda
Colonel Stern Essox directed Mr. Davis, to superintend cated, and in favour of the torments of prisons and prison
experiments, in order to ascertain the truth. Mr. Davis
reports, that the flues of the metropolis may be divided into
four classes. For the first class, the machines now in use
are quite efficient; for part of the second class, they are
also competent; and for the remainder of this class, the
ball and brush is perfectly efficient. In the third class,
where the ascent is at all preserved, the ball and brush act
eflectually, as they do even in the fourth class, where there
are no parts entirely level. . The proportions of the diſ
ferent classes he found to be as under:—Out of 1,000
fiues, 910 are
the third; andof10the firstfourth.
of the class; 50 of the second ; 30 of r
A premium of 50l. has been offered by the PRINCE
REGENT, as Duke of Cornwall and Lord of the Forest of
Dartmoor, to the person who, this year, shall cultivate the
greatest number of acres in #ax-34orning paper.
* As fonore.—When the late Sir Purimp FRANcts was,
not long before his death, at Holland-house, the Lady of
the mafision induced Mr. Rogers, the poet, to ask the
!ºnight if he was really the author of “Július's Letters.”
The bard, knowing the Knight's austeré" character, ad
dressed him with modest hesitation, asking iſ he might be
permitted to propose a question. The Knight, evidently
anticipating what was to come, exclaimed in a severe tone,
“At your peril, Sir.” Mr. Rogens immediately retired,
and returning to tell Lady Hottasp the success of his
mission, observed, that “if Sir Pirilip was really Juxius,
he was certainly Junius Brutus.”—Evening paper.
Liter any Notice.—In the press, and shortly will be
published, A Letter to W. Giffortu, Esq., by an Uiſt RA
CREpipARIAN Clitic.—Also, an Heroic Epistle to John . . [From the IWorks ºf Charles Lamb, lately published,
MURRAY, Esq. on the Kingdon of Cockey N.E. which will be the subject of our next Literary Notice.]
-
Sir Rich ARD STEELE, in one of his dedications, says
the only difference between our two churches in the Mr. Hazlitt's action against the Publishers of Huck
opinions of the certainty of their doctrine is, that the wood's Magazine has been withdrawn, they having agreed
Romish church is infallible, and the church of England is to pay him a certain sum as damages, and all expenses.—
never in the prong. - - - Scotsman,
- - - -
ORIGINAL POETRY.
s --
LINES TO J. W. CROKER, ESQ.
En E. Persia's vase the Attar's sweets distills,
Plucked are the roses of a thousand hills;
From distant realms the treasured bloom is bronght,
And with an empire's sweet each drop is fraught;
And, ere the master of the Grecian art
Could to his loveliest work its grace impart,
lſe, 'midst Ionia's nymphs, his search pursued,
Their smiles he treasured, and their loves he wooed:
blended their beauties for his Paphian throne, -
Where in one form the charms of thousands shoule.
—Dear Citor ºn, thus to grace thy wondrous mind,
Unnumbered merits the favouring Heaven combined
From various climes thy various merits come, * =
Some foreign grown, and some matured at home :
From France, that soul on moral reasoning beat; -
From Belgium, wit by bright Clascarry sent :
From the damp vallies of thy native shore,
Thy blushing mode-ty, thy classic lore;
Thy generous love of liberty from Spain;
Thy taste from realms beyond the western main;–
l'roin the bold sons of fair Italia's clime,
Thy manly strength and energy sublime:
Thy charity from Algiers' sandy vales;
Thy frankness, spirit, truth, from New South Wales.
*
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ships in this world, and worse in the next.
Such a one, says the poet,
“on his couch
Lolling, like one indifferent, fabricates .
A heaven of gold, where he, and such as he, -
Their heads encompassed with crowns, their hee's
With fine wings garlanded, shall tread the stars
Beneath their feet, heaven's pavement, fºr removed
From damned spirits, and the torturing cries
Of men, his brethrew fashioned of the earth,
As he was, nourish’d with the self-same bread,
Belike his kindred or companions once— . *
Through everlasting ages now divorced,
In chains and savage torments to repeat ,
Short years of ſolly on earth. Their groans unheard
In heav'n, the saint nor pity fee's, nor care,
For those thus sentenced—pity might disturb
The delicate sense and most divine repose
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of spirits angelical.-Blessed be God,
The measure of his judgments is not fixed
By man's erroneous standard. He discerns
lya such inordinale difference and vast - -
Beticial the sinner and the saint, to doom
Such disproportion'd ſates. Compared with him
No man on earth is holy called: they best
Stand in his sight approved, who at his feet
Their little crowns of virtue cast, and yield
To him of his own works the praise, his due.
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THEATRICAL ExAMINER, the iowest condition; and with the same penetrating
glance, has detected the disguises which rank and circum
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stance lend to exalted vice. Indeed it may be said that
the moral of this piece is to show the vulgarity ºf vice;
£or Ext or that the same violations of integrity and decorum, the
g-irºn rºw.

Os Thursday a Mr. Hust came out at this Theatre as a same habitual sophistry in palliating their want of princi
singer, in the part ot-Macheath. He is a young man ple, are common to the great and powerful, with the
with a pleasing voice and taste; with little or no powers meanest and most contemptible of the species. Whet
of acting, as usual; and with what is very unusual, can be more convincing than the arguments used by
these would-be politicians, to shew that in hypocrisy,
a gentlemanly appearance. The fault of his voice is, selfishness, and treachery, they do not come up to many
that it has too greet a breath running through the of their betters? The exclamation of Mrs. Peachum, when
middle tones of it, amounting almost to huskiness;
neither is it powerſul enough ſor these large thea her daughter marries, Macheath, “Hussey, hussey, you
tres; though perhaps one deliciency might have been will be as ill used, and as much neglected, as if you had
married a lord,” is worth all Miss HANNAH Mohr's la
temporary, and the other owing to a first appearance.
The lower tones however are not waiting in strength, and ºlit”.
invectives on the laxity of the manners of high
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even make an incursion into the bass; while the tipper are This is a specimen of the author, whom Mr. Croken
extremely sweet and round. His powers of execution, we
guess, are very limited ; for though his good taste might or some other scribbling dependent in the Courier the
other day accused of writing nothing but unintelligible cir
well have taught him not to Brahamize in the simple and cumlocution
beautiful ballads of this opera, lie was not inclined to make and “ glib nonsense,”—a phrase indicrously
*ny slew where it tuight have been even proper;-as in inapplicable. Mr. Hazlurr's style in general is pithy and
the triumphalt and delying p-ssages, for instance, towards short, to a degree even of abruptness; especially when he
the conclusion. Such criments too as he did venture is exposing the follies, pretensions, and corruptions of such
men as his accusers. His sentences then are sure to re
upon were not in character, with Macheath, being little mind us of so many little iron balls, equally round, com
ºccasional droppings of semitones, more suited to a less
plete, and substantial; and they never fail in their mark;
hoisterous inationato. The truth is, he is a more pleasing as
than powerful singer, and more gentlemanly in his manners the hourling blockheads are sure to make known.
than jovial or slaing-like; and the charactor of Alacheath ſº
was therefore an ill thosen one. He shou'd take such parts
as that uſ Young Meadows in Love in a Village. His MISS RELLY AT BATII. *

£eºlºr ones are the best things in his singing; and his [The Reader, we are sure, will thank us for extracting
waking love the best part of his acting, the following observations on a favourite Actress from a
sºlºs Srevuess deſighted the audience as usual in Polly. Provincial Paper, the Bristol Journal. . We should have
he is grown still plumper than before; and seems, in guessed the masterly and cordial hand that wrote them,
this restºck as if she would go the way of all English had we met with it in the East Indies. 'i'here is but one
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praise belonging to Miss Kelly which it has omitted, and

We are happy to find that the audience on this occasion which it could not supply;-and that is, that she has had
relished the dialºgue, as well as the singing. This is ow finer criticism, written upon her, than any performer that
ing in good measure perhaps to a writer, whose criticisms ever trod the stage.]
lºve occasionally invigorated these columns, and who
thus speaks of the Beggar's Opera in his late Lectures on Extract
! of A Lctrzit to the Ediron, prox1 AN old comtespoxo
• *. pxt in Łoxidon.

the English Poets. “It is a vulgar error to call this a vulgar “DEAR G.—I was thinking yesterday of our old play-going
isy. So far from it, that I do not scruple to say that it ap days; of your and tºy partiality to Mrs. Jordan; of oar dispates
Pears to me one of the nºost refined productions in the lan as to the relative merits of Dodd and Parsons; and whether
guage. The elegance of the composition is in exact propor Smith or Jack Palater were the most of a Gentleman. The ric
ºnto the coarseness of the materials: by “happy filchemy casion of my falling into this train of thinking was my learning
ºfu.ind” the author has extracted an essence ºf refinement from the Newspapers that Miss Kelly is paying the Bath Theatre
from the dregs of human life, and turns its very dross into a visit. (Your own Theatre, I am sorry to find, is shut up, either
gºld. The scenes, characters, and incidents are, in them from par-imonious feelings, or through the influeuce of
principles.)” This Lady has long ranked among the most consi
*es, of the lowest and most disgusting kind; but, by derable of our London performers. If there are oue or two of
the intiments and reflections which are put into the moudis greater name, I must impute it to the circumstance, that she has
of Highwaynen, turnkeys, their mistresses, wives, and never burst upon the town at once in the maturity of her powers,
taughters, he has converted this motley group into a set of which is a great advantage to debutantes, who have passed their
fine Geulieuten and Ladies, -satirists, and philosophers— probationary years in Provincial Theatres. We do not hear
In fact, Gay has turned the tables on the critics; and by them tuning their instruments. But she has been winning her
patient way from the humblest gradations to the eminence which
the assºmed license of the mock-heroic style, has enabled she has now attained, on the self-same boards which suppºrted
limself to do justice to nature, that is, to give all the force, her first in the slender pretensions of chorus singer. I very much
truth, and ſocality, of real feeling to the thoughts and wish that you would go and see her. You will not see Mrs.
expressivus, without being called to the bar of false taste and Jordan, but something else; something on the whole very little,
ºted delicacy.--it has been said by a great authority, if at all, inſerior to that lady, in her best days. I cannot hope
'...There is some soul of goodness in things evil:” and the that you will think so; I do not even wish that you should.
ºrga's Operº is a good-natured but instructive comment Our longest remembrauces are the most sacred; and I shall re
* Lis text. . The poet has thrown aſ the gaiety and sun were the prejudice, that shall prevent you from thinking, quite
slide of the imagination, all the intoxication of pleasure,so favourably of her as I do.—I do not well know how to draw a
parallel between their distinct manners of acting. I seem to re
end the vanity of despair, reund the short-lived existence cognize
ºf his heroes; while Peachun and Lockitt are seen in the dan's wasthethesame peasanthess and nature in both : but Mrs. Jor
carelessness of a child: her child-like spirit shook
back-ground, parcelling out their months and weeks be of the load of years from her spectators; she seemed one whom
tween thein. The general view exhibited of human life care could not come ueur; a privileged being, sent to teach man
is}: of the most subfile and abstracted kind. The author
as
***, with great felicity, brought cut the good qua * The word here omitted by the Bristol Editor, we suppose, is
ties and iñterestig enotions almost iusepārable from methºdistical,
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kind what it most wants, joyousness. Itence, if we had more the capabilities of our countrymen in the superior walks of
unmixed pleasure from her performances, we had, perhaps, less Art. This subject includes every kind of object of which
sympathy with them than with those of her successor. This lat Historical and Poetical Landscape consists. It demandsac
ter indy’s is the joy of a freed spirit, escaping from care, as a
bird that had been limed; her smiles, if I may use the expres cumulated gifts of nature and study, a mind most industri
sion, seem saved out of the fire, relics which a good and inno ous and strong, to grapple with and overcome the difficul
cent heart had snatched up as most portable; her contents are ties and laborious attention such multitudinous and im
visitors, not inmates: she can lay then by altogether; and when portant events and scenes present. From its many masses
she dºes so, I am not sure that she is not greatest. She is, in of building of antique character, an intimacy with Archi
truth, no ordinary tragedian. Her Yarico is the most intense tecture and Perspective is required; for its groupes of
iece of acting which I ever, witnessed, the most heart-rend trees, its river, and sky, a knowledge of the appearances
ing spectacle. To see her leaning upon that wretchel reed, her of inanimate nature; from the time, place, and circum
lover—the very exhibition of whose character would be a mo stances represented, an acquaintance with real and fabulous
ral offence, but for her clinging nud noble credulity—to see
herlean upon that flirit, and by the strong workings of passion history, and of the costume of Asiatic antiquity; from the
imagine it a god—is one of the most afficting lessons of multitude of human and other figures, under a great diver
the yearnings of the human heart and its sad mistakes, that ever sity of action and passion, an acquaintance with the human
was read upon a stage. The whole performance is every where form and human feelings; from the unparalleled variety of
-ºfrican, fervid, glowing. Nor is this anything more than the object and circumstance, a rare power of attention to each
wonderſal force of imagination in this performer ; for turn but particular part and to the whole, and a mind nobly daring
the scene, and you shall have her come forward in some §. and confident in its resources; and above all, a lively and
home-drawn character of an English rustic, a Phoebe, or a Dinah
Cropley, where you would swear that her thoughts had never poetical imagination, that can apprehend scenes far more
strayed beyond the precincts of the dairy or the farm ; or her impressive than are usually seen in Nature and in Art, can
inind known less tranquil passions than she might have learned convey to the spectator a consciousness of something super
among the flock, her out-of-door companions. See her again in natural, at least of the sublime, and warm and expand his
parts of pure fun, such as the 11ouse-maid in the Merry Mourners, fancy, set his mind, thinking and his heart feeling with a
where the snspension of the broom in her hand, which she had deep and delightful intensity. , All these accomplishments
been delightfully twirling, on unexpectedly encountering her and energies are displayed in this picture, around which it
weetheart in the character of a fellow-servant, is quite equal to
3. Jordan's cordial inebriation in Nell.—I do not know whether would indeed be surprising if we did not see the specta
I am not speaking it to her honour, that she does not succeed in tors crowding, some with silent, others with exclamatory
what are called fine lady parts. Our friend C. ouce observed, that. admiration; sometimes very near, to look at the numerous
to man of genius ever figured as a gentleman: Neither did any small objects that cannot distinguished at a distance,
woman, gifted will Mrs. Jordan's or Miss Kelly's sensibilities, ever sometimes farther off, to feast upon the grandeur of the
take upon herself to shine as a fine lady, the very essence of whole; leaving it, but, still thrilling with the strange and
this character consisting in the entire repression of all genius and felicitous impression, coming back to it again after having
all feeling. To sustain a part of this kind to the life, a performer looked at most of the other pictures with an absent mind,
must be haunted by a perpetual self-reference; she must be like a lover who is but half attentive to other women, in a
always thinking of herself, and how she looks, and how she de
ports herself in the eyes of the spectators; whereas the delight of delicious reverie on the superior charms of her who has the
actresses of true feeling, and their chief power, is to elude the keeping of his heart. So exuberant is this noble work in
personal notice of an audience, to escape into their parts, and hide matter for gazing and description, that a very extended cri
themselves under the hood of their assumed character. Their ticism ought to be written upon it to do it justice. We
mºst, graceful self-possession is in fact a self-forgetfulness; an shall endeavour to describe it as far as our brief limit will
oblivion alike of ...}. of spectators. For this reason your most allow. -

approved epilogue-speakers have been always ladies who have The Picture, like superior and finished works in litera
pos-essed least of this self-forgetting quality ; and 1 think I
have seen the amiable actress in question suffering some embar ture, embraces, all the requisites of its subject, having a
rassment, when she has had an address of illis sort to deliver ; beginning, a middle, and an end, both in the composition
when she found the modest veil of personation, which had hal: hid or arrangement of the entire scene, and in the commence
her from the audience, suddenly withdrawn, and herself brought ment and conclusion of the story told ; for there is the al
without any such qualifying intervention before the public. tack on the Babylonians, their rout, the despair of the
“I would apologise for the length of this letter, if I did not Royal Family ... Chaldean Priests, and the consum
remember the lively interest you used to take in thentrical pºr mation of the Fall of Babylon, in its being fired by
formances—I am, &c. &c. * ***.”
lightning. In the fore part of the piece is pourtrayed the
attack by land and water, the retreat and the despair.
Ships are seen filled with armed men contending. Some
FINE ARTs. of the Babylonian vessels are on fire, some retreating up
- BRITISII INSTITUTION. the river from the combat. A huge host, that appear
“ like the sand of the sea ſor number,” are advancing in
Mr. MARTIN's Fall of Babylon.—Of Babylon, the re order of battle towards the palace. The foremost are
nowned capital of the once mighty Chaldean Frupire,
whatever is related can be regarded as little else than fiction, cngaged with and routing the Babylonian army. Here
as it was the earliest of the post-diluvian powers. Enough the ſervor of the Painter's mind glows in the representa:
however is stated in the Old Testament, and ky Hºrto tion of the fierce and dire struggle for existence, the exist:
notus the father of History, and subsequent ancient histo ence not only of the soldiers' life, but of empire over
nations, Horsemen and infantry are in a fierce commix:
rians, to afford sufficient materials to a Painter of gezius
ture and confusion of battle. W. almost fancy we haſ
for a work of magnificent object and effect; a work, such the clang of conflicting arms, the shouts of war, and the
as Mr. MARTIN here surprises us with, of mingled Poetry, groans of the wounded and dying. It is the severestº;
Fiction, and Fact. Of all the cities of antiquity, Babylon
is described as the most august for size, population, and of horrid war; and in reminding us of the following tº
of our sublime Milron, it is its own honours le
the grandeur and extent of its numerous ediſces, soine of eulogy:-
which were several miles in circumference. To give is -

“Now storming fury rose and clamour

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therefore a successful picture of such a city, and that under
the most solemn circumstances, a destructive visitation from
Heaven and from man, is evidence of a high order of inven
tive talent, and will, we think, now set at rest (if . it
Such as heard in Heav'n till now was never.
Arms on armour clashing, bray'd horrible
Discord, and the madding wheels
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Of brazen
of chariots rag'd.
conflict." - x *
Dire was the noise
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Some of the victors are destroying the images of Bel paints to the imagination; who assists in rescuing England
and the Dragon, others are already advancing within the from the charge of incapacity for high, Art, and whose
very gates of the palace, led on by a commander who is works do now, and will live to disprove it.
cheering them as they advance, and whose noble and con “ifis Art is Nhture, and his Picture thought.”
fident port gives assurance of their now being about to reap
the harvest of their sanguinary toils and dangers. The
Babylonian monarch seeing this, is in an attitude of despair DRAWINGS FROM THE CARTOONS BY MIR. II AYDON'S
. his priests and family. , Here are some most touch PUPILS,
ing instances of natural affliction and despair arising from To the British Instittition our Artists and the Public are
the successful advance of the Medes and Persians, among under much obligation. Since its foundation in 1805, at
which is a Princess, like another Andromache, vehemently a very considerable expense to the Patrons, they have been
and in vain entreating her husband not to meet the coming amused and improved by its two annual Exhibitions of the
ſoe. These last scenes are described as passing in the ce Old Masters and our Native Painters. The sale of a con
lebrated Hanging Gardens, beautifully enriching and sur siderable number of the works of the latter at each Exhibi
mounting massive columniated architecture. line of tion, has, in affording them the means of living, afforded
objects, partly of an immense Palace, and partly of the them one of the most indispensible means of prosecuting
river Euphraſes, whose waters have a beautiful touching their arduous studies; while their improvement has been ad
of the pencil, rises on the canvass immediately over the ditionally advanced by the loan every year granted to them
above mentioned agitated scenes in front, forming by its for studving during several months the standard pictures
calmness of look a soothing contrast to those scenes. The by the Old Masters. The Patrons of the Institution, and
mind reposes here, and also on the still sublimity of the the community of taste in general, have in return had
numerous structures which border the river in its winding reason to be gratified with the result; for besides the mani
course, till they become lost to the eye from their remote fest stimulus given to our established Professors, several
ness. Among these are the Temples of Venus and Belus, young and unconfirmed minds have been nurtured in a great
and the Toucer of Bubel, consisting of twelve" circular degree by the Institution into proficiency. Of this, Hil.”
stories, and lifting its proud summit above the region of Tos, Coilins, Hoffſ.AND, StARK, VinceNT, and others,
the clouds. We cannot suſiciently praise our. Poetical are honourable evidences; and HAYpos, who has assisted
Painter for this very difficult but grandly characterised in creating so strong a sensation for the loftier glºss of Art,
passage. Nothing is so difficult in a picture as to convey —an Alcides in the purification and practice of Painting,
even a tolerably adequate idea of extraordinary magnitude. is in himself an host of evidence, as he also, in the honour
We have never yet seen it so well done before on canvass. and reward the Institution held forth to persevering genius,
To assist him in doing it, our admirable Artist has not
has been much indebted for several years of that intense;
only passed a* midway across it, but has placed near devotion to Painting which has brought him so high up
it a tower which is not above half the height and breadth, the steep of fame, that devotion, which has proved the .
and yet is of a grand and towering size. He has also judi vigour of his mind, as much in his right onward course in
ciously planted it is a distant part of the city, so that it the pursuit of his object, in spite of adverse circumstances
shem's more loftily by its great altitude in that indistinct of personal opposition and pecuniary obstacles, as in the
aerial distance. From the tranquil grandeur of these huge vast difficulties to be conquered in the Art itself. . The
edifices, the mind is again roused by the awful burning of Drawings from the Cartoons are not only strong and very
the city, and from the still more awful discharge of the venge novel evidences of the beneficial effects resulting from the
ful artillery of the skies. Forked lightnings are darting in plan adopted by the D rectors of the Institution, but are so
every direction; the clouds open with terrific beauty of many fresh leaves added to the laurel crown which deco
mysterious, vivid light; and as “the Stars in their courses rates the brow of Mr. Havnan, inasmuch as they are per
:::::: inst Sisera,” so Heaven in frowns and fiery formed by his Pupils. They are, we believe, the first
glances fights against Babylon. We almost fancy (for it Exhibition of Pictures which has in England been ven
is one of the great peculiarities of superior Painting to ex tured upon without the powerful aid of colour; the first
cite trains of new ideas, as in Poetry, where Exhibition of form and character in mere black and
“More is meant than meets the ear,”) white. It is a pure unmixed homage o to public
we almost fancy we hear from the august and angry face taste in Painting. We joyfully hail it as a token of ad
of Heaven a voice reiterative the denunciation of the Provanced genuine feeling for the Arts among our country
het:—“ Babel is fallen, Bel is confounded, Merodach is men. The Directors cannot but consider it also as one of
ken in pieces. , Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the the most promising pledges their system of patronage has
beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God elicited, of the future eminence of their young aspirants in
overtürew Sodom and Gomorrah.” the Fine Arts; for superior taste and industry must have
These superiative beauties are not unalloyed with defect. combined in the creation of a power of mind and hand
Mr. MARTiN's pencilling and outline, though improved, competent to the production of such Drawings; and supe
are still somewhat hard. There is richness of colour; it rior taste and industry are of too noble an aim and cha
is varied and powerful; but he does not in colour yet reach racter to be likely to relax in the pursuit of eminence; and
the richness and power of Mr. TuRNrm. But our ob not relaxing, they can scarcely ſail of abundant success.
jection as candid critics, who, while in love with genius, Besides, two of the three excellent youths who have made
would wish not to be considered, like amorous lovers, blind these beautiful Chalk Copies, hitherto perhaps unequalled
to defect, is chiefly to a certain theatrical look in some of in England any other hands beside Mr. HAYoon's,
his figures, admirably expressive as they otherwise are. are of too intellectual a family, too conspicuously brilliant
We confess, that from the vehement character of his sub in the cultivation of the Fine Arts, not to make us more
ject, a Painter would be more likely than in any other to than commonly sanguine on this head. Their father is
fillinto this. There is a numerous class of different expres the admirable }. of the Antiquities ºf Daeca, now
“ons by which ...} may be displayed, and none more in a course of publication, and of other first rate Land
so than by an abstracted and inward retiring of the thoughts, scapes, and is the original, just, and elegant Lecturer on
and a quiescent state of the bodily frame. With these ex the Philosophy of Art, &c. Their brother, too, Edwin
ceptions, we eongratulate our country on the possession of LANDssrn, is, though still in his teens, one of our best
such a Painter; of one who paints to the judgment and Animal Painters, as is plain from his Paintings now exhi
the heart, the sound judgment and the ſeeing heart; who biting in the Gallery of the ibritish Institution, 108, the
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1 Parton Puppy, 105, the Cat disturbed.—188, New is the finest exercise for the body, and the best relaxation
joundland. Dºg, and Rabbit, and 218, Fighting Dogs for the mind. The Roman poet said that “Care mounted
getting Wind, the last purchased by Sir G. BRAGMost. behind the horseman and stick to his skirts.” But this re
Besides praising these Chalk Drawings by Messrs. T. and mark would not have applied to the fives-player. He
C. LAN pseen and W. Brwick, for the unconstrained and who takes to playing at fives is twice young. He feels
beautiful management of the chalk, we would enter into a neither the past nor future “in the instant.” Debts,
minute description of the different objects they represent, taxes, “domestic treason, foreign levy, nothing can touch
elegant and natural like their exquisite originals by IRAF him further.” He has no other wish, no other thought,
FAELLE, both in linear and in soul-impressed character, from the moment the game begins, but that of striking the
were our readers not already in possession of most feeling ball, of placing it, of making it! This Cavanagh was
and faithful descriptions of most of them by Mr. HAybox, sure to do. Whenever he touched the ball, there was an
inserted in former Eraminers; and that the Cartoons, of end of the chase. His eye was certain, his hand fatal, his’
all other works by the Old Masters, have been rendered, presence of mind complete. He could do what he pleased,
though deſectively, more familiar to the lovers of Art and he always knew exactly what to do. . He saw the
than perhaps º others, through the medium of Engrav whole game, and played it; took instant advantage of his
ings–Besides these six Drawings, all as large as the ori adversary's weakness, and recovered balls, as if by a mira
ginals, there are two others by Şfr. Brwick, charmingly cle and from sudden thought, that every one gave for lost.
executed, from groupes by the renowned and matchless He had equal power and skill, quickness and judgment.
Phidias, now in the British Museum, being part of the He could either outwit his antagonist by finesse, or beat
Sculptures denominated the Elgin Marbles. They are him by main strength. Sometimes, when he seened pre
Studies from the Fates, and the Ceres and Proserpine, that paring to send the ball with the full swing of his arm, he
were in the Pediment ºf the Parthenon. They enchant would by a flight turn of his wrist drop it within an iºh.
us by a mixture of the most select and natural forms and of the line. In general, the ball cºme from his hand, as ºf
attitudes, and the most beautiful disposition of drapery, from a racket, in a strait horizontal line; so that it was in
with the exception of a want of breadth in the ſolds. They vain to attempt to overtake or stop it. As it was said of
justify all the praises of the Greek Sculptors which we a great orator that he never was at a loss for a word, and,
read in the ancient histories; and while we hold a com for the properest word, so Cavanagh always could tell the
munion of ſeeing with them from their so exactly dis; degree of ſorce necessary to be given to a ball, and the pre
playing the essential properties of our species, we stand cise direction in which it should be sent. He did his work,
with a feeling of reverence before them, from their ap with the greatest ease; never took more pains than was
pearing, like superior beings to man, in consequence of ñecessary, and while others were ſagging themselves to
iheir being free from any of those induced defects which death, was as cool and collected as if he had just entered,
more or lºss attach to all human objects.-The Exhibi the court. His style of play was as remarkable as his power
tion contains also six other Drawings.--St.Paul striking of execution. He had no affectation, no trifling. . He did
Elymas blind, and the Delivery of the Keys, by Mr. not throw away the game to shew off an attitude, or try
Bewick; the Beautiful Gate, the Boats, and Paul preach an experiment. He was a fine, sensible, manly player, who
ing at Athens, by T. and C. LAN oser:R. Also some ex did what he could, but that was more than any one else
cellent Drawings of figures from the Temple of Theseus, could even affect to do. His blows were not undecided
&c. Dissection Studies by the Messrs. I, a Nosern, and six and inellectual—lumbering like Mr. Wordsworth's epic
beautiful Studies ºf Hands by Messrs. WEBB aud Char poetry, nor wavering like Mr. Coleridge's lyric prose, nor
FIELD.—There are likewise two numbers, as specimens, short of the mark like Mr. Brongham's speeches, nor wide,
of a Book, containing some faithful Engravings by Mr. of it like Mr. Canning's wit, nor ſoul like the Quarterly,
LANDsher, in imitation of Chalk Drawings from charm nor let balls, like the Edinburgh Review." Cobbett and
ing heads, hands, &c. by Mr. HAyoon, and superior for Junius together would have made a Cavanagh. He was
truth and beatity to any Drawing Book yet published in the best up-hill player in the world; even when his adver
England.—The youthful Artists have all shewn in these sary was fourteen, he would play on the same or better, and
Drawings every possible attainment in this class of Art as he never flung away the game through carelessness and
short of Invention, and the very best promise that with coaceit, he never gave it up through laziness or want of
that also we slal at no distant period be gratifica. heart. "I'ke only peculiarity of his play was that he never
rolleyed, but let the balis hop; but if they rose an inch from
the ground, he lever missed having them. There was not
- DEATH OF JOHN CAVA N.A.G.H. only no body equal, but nobody second to him. It is sup
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—“And is old Double dead? See, see, he drew a good

posed that he could give any other player half the game,
or beat them with his left hand. His service was tre
bow; and dead! he shot a fine shoot. John of Gaunt loved hiºn
well, and betted much money on his head. Dead!" he would mendous. He once played Woodward and Meredii, to
have clapt in the clout at twelve score, and carried you a fore gether (two of the best players in England) in the l’ives
court, St. Martin's-street, and made seven and twenty
hand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a halſ, that it would have
done a man's heart good to see.” aces following by services alone—a thing unheard of. He
Died at his house in Burbage-street, St. Giles's, John another time played Peru, who was considered a first-rate
Cavanagh, the famous hand fives-player. When a person fives-player, a match of the best out of live games, and in
dies, who does any one thing better than any one else in the three first games, which of course decided the match,
the world, which so many others are trying to do well, it Peru got only one ace. Cavanagh was an Irishman by
leaves a gap in society. It is not likely that any one will birth, and a house-painter by profession. Iie had once
now see the game of fives played in its perſection for many laid aside his working-dress, and walked up, in his smartest
years to come—ſor Cavanagh is dead, and has not left his clothes, to the Rosemary Branch to have an aſternoon's
peer behind him. . It may be said that there are things of pleasine. A person accosted him, and asked him iſ he
-

inore importance than striking a ball against a wall—there would have a game. So they agreed tº play for half a
are things indeed that make more noise and do as little crown a game, and a bottle of cider. The first game be
good, such as making war and peace, making speeches gan—it was seven, eight, ten, thirteen, fourteen, all. Cava
and answering them, making verses and blotting them, magh won it. The next was the same. They played on
making money and throwing it away. But the game of and each game was hardly contested. “There,” said the
fives is what no one despises who has ever played at it. It unconscious fives-player, “there was a stroke that Cava
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magh could not take: I never played better in my life, and so Jack Cavanagh was a zealous Catholic, and could not
yet I can't win a game. I don't know how it is.” How: be persuaded to eat meat on a Friday, the day on which
ever, they played on, Cavanagh winning every game, and he died. We have paid this willing tribute to his memory.
“ Let no rude hand deface it,
the by-standers drinking the cider and laughing all the -

And his forlorn * Hic Jaceſ.”

-

*
time." In the twelfth game, when Cavanagh was on! sº

four, and the stranger thirteen, a person came in, and said,
“What! are you here, Cavanagh.” The words were no CALEN DAIK OF NATURE.
sooner pronounced than the astonished...player let the ball. -º
drop from his hand, and saying, “ What! have I been (From the Literary Pocket-Book.)
Fear UARY.
breaking my heart all this time to beat Cavanagh,” refused *
*

to make another effort. “And yet, I give you my word." Then came cold February, sitting
said Cavanagh, tellins the story with some triumph, “ I Hu an old waggon, for he could not ride,
I}rawne of two fishes for the season fitting, .
played all the while with my clenched fist.”—He used fro which through the flood before did softly slyde
quently to play matches at Copenhagen-house for wagers And swim away; yet had he by his side
and dinners. The wall against which they play is the His plough and harnesse fit to fill the ground,
same that supports the kitchen-chimney, and when the wall And tooles te prune the trees, before the pride
resounded louder than usual, the cooks exclaimed, “Those Of hasting prime did make them burgeon round.
are the Irishman's balls,” and the joints trembled on the - SPENsert.
spit!—Goldsmith consoled himself that there were places February is so called from the Roman custom of burn
where he too was admired: and Cavanagh was the admi ing expiatory sacrifices, Februalia. Many of the observa
ration of all the fives-courts, where he ever played. tions applicable to January are so also to this month; but
Mr. Powell, when he played matches in the Court February is upon the whole, perhaps, November not ex
in St. Martin's-street, used to fill his gallery at half cepted, the least pleasant season of the year. The thaw:
a-crown a head, with amateurs and admirers of talent now take place; and a clammy mixture of moisture and
in whatever department it is shewn. He could not cold succeeds, which is the most disagreeable of wintery
have slewn himself in any ground in England, but sensations. There is nothing soft in the one, nor grand
he would have been immediately surrounded with in and, as it were, manky in the other. There is a sort of
quisitive gazers, trying to find out in what part of his clinging importunity in it, and a petty peevishness in the
frame his untivelled skill lay, as politicians wonder to little needle-like rains that occur on the temporary returns
see the balance of Europe suspended in Lord Castlereagh's of frost. The dreaſy feeling is completed by the hooting
face, and admire the trophies of the British Navy lurking of the wood-owl. §. now the first announcing voice of
under Mr. Croker's hanging brow. Now Cavanagh was spring is heard in the delightſul note of the woodlark;
as good-looking a man as the Nobie ford, and much bet and we have only to look about us and consider a little, to
ter looking than the Right Hon. Secretary. He had a feel almost assured that
clear, open countenance, and did not i. sideways or In nature there is nothing melancholy.
down, like Mr. Murray the bookseller. He was a young , Colºrface.
fºllow of sense, humour, and courage. He once had a Nature merer did betray
quarrel with a waterman at Ilungerford-stairs, and they The heart that lov’d her:-'tis her privilege
say, served him out in great style. In a word, there are Through all the years of this our life, to lead
hundreds at this day, who cannot mention his name with From joy to joy; for she can so info, in
out admiration, as the best fives-player that perhaps ever The mind that is within us, so impress
With quietness and beauty, and so feed
lived (the greatest excellence of which they lave any no With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues,
tion)—and the nºisy shout of the ring happily stood him Bash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish meu,
instead of the unheard voice of posterity.—The only per Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb
son who seems to have excelled as much in another way Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold
as Cavanagh did in his, was the late John Davies, the is full of blessings. Therefore let the moon
racket-player. It was remarked of him that he did not Shine on thee in thy solitary walk;
seem to follow the ball, but the ball seemed to follow him. And let the misty mountain winds be free
To blow against thee. Wondsworth.
Give him a foot of wall, and he was sure to make the
hill. The four best racket-players of that day were Jack These rains are softening the earth, and re-ascending
Spines, Jem. Harding, Armitage, and Church. Davies through the trees in sap, to bring us forth the leaves again.
ºuld give any one of these two hands a time, that is, half After the woodlark has opened the new concert of the
the game, and each of these, at their best, could give year, the thrush and chaffinch join in ; the rooks set about'
the best player now in London the same odds. Such are their domestic work in the old tree tops; and wherever a,
thesradations in all exertions of human skill and art. He warmer spot can be ſound under shelter, gnats and other
ºre played four capital players together, and beat them. insects are at their dizzy sport.
He was also a first-rate tennis-player, and an excellent As thick as motes in the sunny beams.
- CHAUcer.
five-player. In the Fleet or King's Bench, he would have -

stood against Powell, who was reckoned the best open In addition to the flowers of last month, we have the
ground player of his time. This last-mentioned player is daffodils, that make such delicate yellow bunches in white
at present the keeper of the Fives-court, and we might re baskets,<-daisies, or as they used to spell them of old,
tommend to him for a motto over his door, “Who en day’s-eyes, the favourite flower of Chaucer, lieart's-ease,
ºrs here, forgets himself, his country, and his ſriends.” the sparkler,--the Persian iris—hepatica, and the perennial
And the best of it is, that by the calculation of the odds, Adonis, an epithet that happens to be singularly applicable
ºne of the three are worth remembering ſ—Cavanagh to the annually revived favourite of Venus. In addition
ºrdſtom the bursting of a blood-vessel, which prevented to the shrubs, are the cherry-plum, the cornelian cherry,
him from playing for the last two or three years. This, mezereons, and philly reas. The elder-tree, that should
* was oſten heard to say, he thought hard upon him. be more admired both for its leafiness and flower, now also
He was fast recovering, however, when he was suddenly puts forth its buds; so do many other trees, if well ob
ºried off to the regret of all-who knew him. . As Mr. served; and towards the end of the month, the leaves of
ºr made it a qualification of the nt Speaker, Mr.
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º:gºsºry and currant bushes are peeping out of their
Minners Sutton, that he was an excellent merel character, *

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During mild weather this month sow ten-weeks stocks Somerfie ld suffered a young man also to pay attentions to her.
Sawyers was jealous, and threatened.herif'she went with him
and mignonette in slight hotbeds, warm borders, or pots again. On Sunday night he saw Mrs. Somerfield go to meetin.
where the sun can come. And about the latter end, for young man, and procured a hatchet; he met her on her return at
the purpose of early blowing, sow the hardy kind of the corner of Lion-street, and struck her n most violent blow
annuals, such as larkspur, flos Adonis, convolvulus, lupines, with the sharp edge of it on the side of her head, which memº:
sweat peas, lavatera, candytuſ, Venus's looking-glass, the skull; she reeled against the wall, and he struck her another
Venus's navel-wort, &c. &c. Particular attention should blow on the other side; she fell on the earth apparently lifeless,
always be paid to the stirring the earth of bulbous roots, Some person soon afterwards found her covered with gore, and
she was conveyed to her home; several medical men examined
and to watering plants of every description. Those who her wounds, but had not the most di-tant idea that she would
are not patient or attentive enough to give their time to it, recover. Sawyers, after he had committed the deed, carried the
must spend a little more in money; and if ever money is bloody hatchet in his hand along the street, and when he entered
well spent upon luxury, it is upon such as draws us on to Mrs. Somersfield's house, told those persºns who were there he
love the cheap kindness of nature... Those who pay a few had murdered Mrs. Somerfield with that instrument, he has
shillings for a flowering shrub, will learn how to enjoy the not yet been apprehended. --

lime-trees and the horse-chesnuts for nothing. A shocking accident cccurred at Llandidno, near Conway, on
The farmer now grapples with earth again, and renews Tuesday night, during the absence of a miner, and his wife, who
had gone to attend a methodist meeting, and locked the house
the friendly contest for her treasures. He ploughs up his door, leaving two children within; the house by some means
fallows, sows beans, pease, rye, and spring wheat, sets early took fire, and was, together with the unformmate children, con
s,
potatoes, drains wetland dresses and repairs hedges, lops sumed to ashes; the eldest only four years old 1–Bristol paper.
trees, and plants those kinds that love a wet soil, such as
plars, alders, and willows. , Here is the noblest putting i
in of stock for a nation,-the healthiest in its pursuit, and - BIRTHS. - - -

On the 5th instant, the wife of J. Schofield, of Winters, near

the most truly rich and returning in its interest. Hebden-Bridge, of three female children, who, with their mo
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ther, are all doing well. -

* LA IV. On the 21st instant, the wife of John Greenwood, woolcomber,

of White Abbey, near Bradford, of three children—two boys
'a- -
and one girl : the children are alive and well. The mother of
COURT OF KING's BeNChi. this poor family has had 17 children, eight born within the space
Wednesday, Feb. 3. of three years.
* - the ring v. Frencil and otherts.
MARRIAGE. * º
The defendants in this case were brought up to receive judg -

Monday week, Mr. John Jennings, to Mrs. Sarnh Wadsworth,

ment. The Jury had recommended A. # French to mercy, in both of Thornton, near Bradford: their united ages amount to
consequence of which the Court sentenced him and Matihew
Welch to be imprisoned in Cold-bath-fields prison for 18 months, 150 years.-Nottingham Reiew. -- -

aid J. F. Burke in Newgate for three years. - 1) EAT11S.

-

- Montrus v. Hunt. On Friday se’un”ght, Dowager Countess of Sefton, in the 71st

The defendant had obtained a rule to show cause why the year of her age. . . . - .
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judgment, obtained, against him for election, expenses by the Suddenly, on the 28th Jan, last, of the bursting of a blood
laintiff should not be set aside, on the ground that the plaintiff vessel, Mr. Bayly Silver, at his house at Langstone, near
i. not attended on a summous taken out to compel him to give Havant. . . " - ... * * .
further particulars of his demand. Mr. Hunt appeared in sup On the 4th instant, Mr. Harlow, the celebrated painters at
port of the rule, and Mr. Scarlett against it. It was decided his house, Dean-street, Sobo. ... .
* - -- - -

that the rule must be made absolute. Qn the 12th inst. at Barwell, Leicestershire, aged 104, and in
full possession of his faculties, George Litley, labourer. out ºf"
- “. . . . ARCHES COURT, - ------>
At Scafield, Mrs. E. Lett, in the 100th yeſr of her age."
ºf *. Thursday
*,HALFond , fº fifty-six children and grand-children, deceased was presen-st
. AGAINST HALnoRD. the birth of forty. In her fifty-ninth year she was alivereº
º Nicholl said, that this: was a suit of separation, her youngest child, Charles Leit, Esq.
On the 14th inst., at Osmaston-toll-gate, near Derby, Mr. John
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brought by a husband against his wife; by reason of adultery.

The Learned Judge then recapitulated the principal facts of this Warren, aged 35 i and the day following, Mr. James War",
his father, aged Mr. Warren, of been
the son,ng land linger";
case. Mr. Hufford and Sir Thomas Staines were first cousins; some months in 67.
a decline. At the beginni the week, his
therefore more than ordinary attentions on the part of Sir y ih: he exclaime d, “Lord have mºy
d
lomas, addresse to the lady, might very well escape observa father was suddenl taken
tion; still those attentions excited notice, and caused a good deal upon me, I shall tie before my son?" Ile soon became deliº
of talk in Canterbury and the parties seeined to have themselves ous, during which time the son died. The day following *
confessed that they had acted º: It appeared that father died also. -

Lately, at Notter, near Landrake, Lieutenant-Colonel O'Dº

, - -

during, a particular visit of Sir Thomas to the Halfords, at

Canterbury, Mr. Halford was in the habit of getting up at herty, of the Royal Marines, whot for more than 20 ye"
half-past eight o'clock, and immediately going to the Bank, occasionally visited Plymouth-marke ou an old while hº
from whence he returned at half-past nine; that on these oc whose lank appearance, combined with his own singular hab";
casions it was the custom of Mrs. Halford, dressed only in a short liments, tormed together a spectacle of wretchednessfully tº
ed
bed-gown and two under petticoats, to go into Sir Thomas's to anything described af the celebrat Elwes. In his la-t visit
chamber, where she remained upwards of a quarter of an hour to Plymouth, a few weeks since, he seated bimself on the *P*
enerally, and then returned to bef own room to dress. The of the Plymouth Telegraph office to eat an apple. His dress*
p ted by th:
Aearned Judge then adverted to the facts, which went to prove consisted of a dirty night-ca round his head, surmoun
the adulterous intercourse; and pronounced that the husband was poll of an old hat without a brim, a rough waistcoat patched"
thes, kept up by listing brace. out
over, greasy leather amallclo
entitled to the separation ou account of the wife's adultery. side the waistcoat, with wads of strºw round the bottom of h"
legs. In his hand he wielded a large hedge-stick. He posses tº
ACCfDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. some very excellent freehold estates; yet be chose to quit the
.# win:
- family-nansion, and lived in a small cottage in its
Oa Sunday night the neighbourhood of the Elephant and out a pane of glass in the windows. He hightly entered." º
-

Castle was alarmed by the cries of murder, caused by the follow ladder, which he drew after him, and slept in a corner of one"
it g occurrences:—A inan and his wife, named Somerfield, re the rooms upon a wretched pallet. . .” * -
side in Lion-street, New Kent-road, and a person named Thomas --
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Sawyers, between 40 and 50 years of age, lodged in the house

with them, and the husband had frequently complained of an
Printed and published by John Hunt, at the ºxastwº-oº:
imprºper intercourse'between his wife and Sawyers... Mrs. - 19, Catherine-Sureet, Strand.-Price Pod, ""
 THE EXAMINER,
No. 581. SUNDAY, FEB. 14, 1819.

the PoliticAL EXAMINER. in the government of such a man as Lord CAsti.EREAqil,-,

is, that he does not offend the egotism of mediocrity. He
few is the madness of many for the gain of a few. . Pope.
is a comfort to the conscious blunderer, and hope and joy
No. 566. to the unconscious. The dull talker reads his speeches,
and thinks to himself “I too am a speaker.” The dullest
gentleman going abroad to get an idea, thinks he should
LORD CASTLEREAGH AND HIS ANSWER have cut just such a figure at Congress. The dullest
* TO THE ITALIAN DEPUTIES.
-- rogue chuckles at his parliamentary tricks. But he is
We have often expressed our belief, that literary and especially great among the dull fashionable, who delight
scientific power will eventually alter the world. We do to see so polished a nothing arrived at so extraordinary a
not intend in this paper to repeat our reasons for thinking fortune. They feel that he would do the honours of a
so, or to discuss the operation itself, which is a subject drawing-room with infinite self-possession; but they never
we shall have many occasions of handling. Our object is before identified this talent with that of a great minister:
to point out to the reader one of those particular and tem we mean, they never before thought that no other kind of
porary abuses, which are the necessary results of all changes spirit was requisite for standing at the head of a people's
whatsoever, and which are so apt to alarm the timid. affairs, and giving oracular answers to foreign nations.
Thus, for instance, it is sometimes asked us, what we are Oracular answers to foreign nations! Yes, and worse.
to get by the diffusion of letters, seeing the number of At last the secret is out; at last we have got to that part
literary hirelings which power can always retain. If there of our subject, which, we affirm with the greatest sin
is the Edinburgh Review, there is also the Quarterly 1 if cerity, we absolutely blush to lay before the reader. We
there's the Chronicle, there is also the Courier; if there is were always aware that this man must have cut a ridicu
the Minerte, there is the Moniteur; for Cobb ETT, there lous figure in the eyes of the more intellectual politicians
is (was) Anti-Cobbett; for the Monthly Magazine, we on the continent. We always knew that they must have
have the Methodists; ſor the Espanol Constitucional, the seep through his jaunty ignorance, or rather his exquisite
*(*; and for the various journalists that have affectation of the simple gravity of wisdom. We knew
*Great Britain on the side of liberal opinion, very well that they must have involuntarily measured from
such as the writers in the Sheffield Iris, in the Sherborne head to foot this “Corinthian pillar of polished society;”
. Piper, the Chester. Guardian, the Stamford. News, in that they must have wondered how he got among them;
the new Dublin Paper, the Edinburgh Reflector, the that they must have admired his sentiments, style, and
Glasgow Herald, and the Scotsman, not to mention very grammar, much more than he suspected; that they
iſiother weekly production—(here the Editor bows), must have felt that they interchanged nothing with him
* is Mr. GENtz, Secretary to the Congress, who but their snuff; that they must have bowed doubly low
busin their teeth all the wretchedest common-places of in taking leave of him, out of mingled gratitude aud
own native abusers, and is himself a sad example of drollery; and that when he was gone, they must have sat
the license he deprecates. down and pondered with astonishment at all which Eng
It is very easy to answer and overwhelm any doubts of land can afford. But when we hear the words which
this sort. But to proceed.—The more visible shapes also were uttered by diplomatists who could not look upon
ºf scientific power, it will be said, have their disadvantages his folly with the same nonchalance as his brother mini
as well as advantages. The late extraordinary substitu sters, when we read the account, given by themselves, of
tions of mechanism for labour tend, for a while, to throw the interview which the Italian Deputies had with him,
the poor out of employment. The persons, in many in when we think upon all which the intellectual accomplish
stances, that watch and guide them, lose the only good ments most probably possessed by men so chosen at such
thing in employment in-doors, the necessity of action. a time, and from such a people, when we fancy what
And if magic horses have lately been produced, upon must have been thought of him by the countrymen
which we hope to see our beloved and beef-eating country of so many great patriots and politicians,—of Dante,
men scudding along the roads next summer, there have and PETRARch, and Macchiavelli, and Guicciar
*g been inventions which tend to keep people lazy, and DiN1, and FilicalA, and Beccania, and BonapaRTE,
tokug them into drowsy perdition in the arms of their and when, we say again, we hear the very words which
easy chairs. are still forced out of their mouths, half breathless with
But the most pernicious of the abuses attendant on the astonishment at his impudence, our ears tingle and burn
Progress of knowledge is the temporary ascendancy which at this gross committal of the whole character of our
wet can give to common-place. Unable to conquer the country, for good sense, modesty, and common hu
who are daily enlightening the many, they instinctively manity. Take the following passage from the account
thdeavour to enlist the self-love of the latter on the side of given by the Italian Deputies:— -

ºr instruments. A natural sympathy leads them to ad “These worthy men (the Italian Deputies) left nothing unat
Mancº to office the most ordinary minds; and one of the tempted in order to secure the independence of their cºuntrymen,
*ºns for that apparent phaenomenon—the continuance, but /first a Politician, with insolent coolness, and with a falsº

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98 - THE EXAMINER.
application, told them that all people were not fit for living Scarcely had this proposition been made, when the State
under Constitutional Laws; then one of the High Allies at first paper immediately rose, which proves the confidence
received them, far from lukewarmly, but soon changed his which the citizens entertain in their Representatives. The
behaviour, and did not even allow them an oppºrtunity States, it is said, have ordered the army, of which the
of opening their intentious; a third openly laughed at strength is at present 30,000, to be reduced to 17,000.
The Prince Regent wishes the numbers of the army should
them, and made them the subject of ridicule; and the fourth in
not be diminished, and now gives two-thirds of the re
answer to their demands of n native and independent Govern
ment, could only tell them that they must look for servile sub venues of his demesmes, as a contribution towards its
jection and foreign dependence, by virtue, as he said, of the right support; but he cannot give the men; these must be
of conquest, for the flattering promises in the sincere proclama furnished by the land, ... --

tions, which, according to Lord Castleneagh, were to be deem SPAIN.

ed works of imbecility, were now no longer regarded.”—From
IRUN, JAN, 22–It is certain that Andalusia, Estrema
the works of M. Angeloni. ** * * -

dura, New Castile, and particularly La Mancha, complain

The Italians, it seems, are not fit for a Constitution 1 a of being exposed to the excesses of robbers, who carry on
people full of science and literature, and that have so long their operations in a manner which seems to be the effect
yearned after one! But the Germans also, his Lord of a sort of general organization, . Accounts from Lower
ship doubts, in the wisdom of his haberdashery measure Estremadura say, that one half of the inhabitants is em
ments, whether the Germans are great enough to have ployed in guarding the other, and that patrols of burghers,
commanded by the local authorities, incessantly watch over
constitutions; and if general report and Madame ne the maintenance of tranquiſlity. On the high roads, private
Stael be not belied, he has said that liberty is nothing individuals who are travelling are pursued with less eager
hut “a usage of England,”—a thing respectable only as ness than those who are charged with the receipt of money
a custom l—Such is the scum tossed uppermost by corrup for the Government. -

tion. See how even good-breeding forsakes a man who TURKEY.

has nothing else, when he is put upon the pomp of his CoNsrANTINopir, Dec. 15.-The Pacha of Diarbech
ignorance, and obliged to answer his betters with an has sent to Constantinople a circumstantial report of his
ipse-dixit. . . .. . . . . expedition against the ºi, of Mardin. This report has
ſºr - ---
been accompanied by a thousand heads, severed from the
vanquished. These sanguinary trophies have been ex
posed, as usual, at the gate of the Seraglio. . The Tartar
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. who brought them has obtained a pelisse of honour; pre
sents have also been sent to the Pacha.
FRANCE. 'a ~.
Panis, FER. 4.—Letters from Vienna state, that the
Emperor of Austria is zealously interesting himself in fur UNITED PAR LIAMENT.
therance of the re-establishment of the Order of Malta, and
that he has made proposals on this subject to the Emperor House-º
of Lords.
Alexander and several other monarchs. It is confidently
said, that an important island in the Mediterranean or Monday, Feb. 8.
Adriatic will be granted to this illustrious Order, which - WESTMINSTER HUSTINGS BILL.
may accomplish a political view, by otecting those seas Lord Sinviouth moved the second reading of the Westminster
from the predatory cruizers of the Barbary Powers. Hustings Bill.
Feb. 7.—A French travelier now in Egypt has dis The Earl of LArdennale opposed the motion, on the ground
covered, at a distance of about nine hours' journey from that the proposed measure was an er post facto law, and that the
the Red Sea, an ancient city built in the mountains, be High Bailiff could indemnify himself by common law. He did
not see why the House should interfere.
tween the 24th and 25th degrees of latitude. There are Lord Sºrouth said, that the proposed Act was only a con
still 800 houses in existence. Among the ruins are found tinnation of the Act which had been in force for some years.
temples dedicated to various divinities. There are eleven Time Earl of LauperDALE said, that the only operation of this
statues, and various ruins of others. He has also dis Bill would be to raise the price obtained for the office by the
covered the ancient stations that were appointed on the Dean and Chapter. -

route through the Desert, going from the Red Sea to the The motion wes carried by a majority of 9.
Valley of the Nile: these stations are at regular distances COTTON MANUFACTORIES.
of nine hours between each. This route is undoubtedly Several Petitions were presented, praying for a limitation of
the hours of labour of the children in manufactºries.
one of those traversed by the commerce of India. a com Lord KEN won moved for a Committee to inquire into the sub
interce which was so flourishing at the time of the Lagides, ject, similar to that appointed last session, with a view to the li
and under the first Emperors. The situation is now mutation of the hours of labour. -

ascertained of the emerald mine, of which no certain Earl Grosvenon did nºt think legislative interference preper,
knowledge was had for several ages. . . . unless a system of cruelty and oppressiou could be made out
Private letters from Berlin mention. that Col. Massenbach against the master manufacturers. The agitation of the question
has been condemned for the rest of his life to imprisonment was calculated to produce disturbances. Some of the masters
in a fortress. - - º' had voluntarily reduced the hours of labour, and he thought it
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better that the good should be done in this way without auy new
tº east re. - -

GERMANY.
The discussion was postpened.—Adjourned.
HANower, JAN, 16.-Üür States have rendered their
#Pednesday, Feb. 10.
Sittings of considerable importance, Against the Royal The Westminster IIustings Bill was read a third time and
I}ecree, which interdicts suing for the payments of the ar passed.—Adjourned.
rears of interest of the Royal Treasury Debts, the States - Thursday, Feb. 11.
have given in a representation, in which they declare them HOLY ALLIANCE.
selves ready to pay the 34 millions of arrears, and there he Earl of Liverpool laid on the table papers relative to the
fore request the rescinding of that Decree, which has pro financial arrangements entered into with France, and other
duced so unfavourable an effect on the national paper.— papers counected with the treaties concluded at Aix-la-Chapelle.
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Lord Hollaxo wished to knºw" whether there were among that the increase of permanent taxes amounted to 5,300,000l. *
these papers any relative to what passed on the subject of the The expenditure would be less than the last Finance Committee
Slave Trade at Aix-la-Chapelle; and also whether what was had calculated, and would leave a balance of 3,558,000l. to be
celed the Holy Alliance formed one of them. Mention was . applied to reduce the debt. The decrease iu the number of
made in one of the documents of certain indissoluble bonds of soldiers this year was, including the disbanded army of occupa
Christian fraternity which the five powers had formed among tion, 31,563 rank and file. A general, but erroneous, notion
themselves; and he should like to know what those bonds were, had prevailed, that a great, reduction in the exports had taken
and whether they differed from those which bound them to other. flace: the returns showed that the last had been the most
states? And also whether this country was a party to the splendid your ever known in the history of British commerce.
treaty? (Hear, hear!) The value of the exports of 1818 exceeded by
The Earl of Liverpool was sorry he had not yet been able to 100,000l. that of those of 1815, a year in which the exports were
lay before their Lordships any of the papers relative to the Slave so high as to be attributed to fallacious and temporary causes.
Tade. With respect to the second question, he had to state, (Hear!) The prospect of the future was as cheering as the re
thet this country was no party to the treaty called the Holy trospect of the past was glorious. (Cheers.) The Committee
Alliance. The treaty was concluded at Paris in 1815, by the would be the same as the former one, with the exception of Sir
sovereigns who signed it, without the intervention of their Am T. Acland and Mr. C. Grant, who were not members of the pre
bassadors or Ministers. In point of form it could not be acceded sent Parliament; and instead of them, he would propose Sir G.
to by this country, as it would have been inconsistent with the Hill and Mr. Smyth of Cambridge.
constitution for the Prince Regent to sign it. It was however Mr. Tieltney thought, that if the Committee was to be only
distinctly explained, that the principles of the treaty fully coin of such a description as the last, if it were only to receive from
cided with the sentinents of this Government. -

the Government certain budgets, and send them back to the

Lºrd Holt. Awd wished to know from the Nolsle Earl, whether House as their reports, it was of very little consequence whether
the meant to tay it before the House. - -
it was continued or not. The others were in fact ſittle more than
The Earl of Liverpool, said, that it could not be regularly the echo of Ministers on all the accounts which were sent up to
ceiled for by their Lºrdships. them. The Right Hon. Gentleman then adverted to the state
Lord Hollawn was sorry the Noble Lord was not disposed to ments of the Noble Lord. IIe admitted the improvement in the
give this information. He was extremely anxious to, see the Revenue, but the total sum available for the reduction of the
bouds of Christian fraternity produced.—Adjourned. debt, he thought, was not 5,300,000l. but 2,300,000l. He would
Friday, Feb. 12. - take the surplus income of the consolidated fund to be 214,000l.
The royal assent was given by commission to the Bill for the above the charge on it; but then there was an old debt upon
custody of his Majesty's Person, and the Westminster Hustings that fund of 3,300,000l., which must be paid before any thing
Bill.—Adjourned. could be available for the current expenses of the year. The .
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Noble Lord had omitted all meation of the sinking fund. That
fund was stated at 14,000,000l, but it would be neces-ary, to sup
HOUSE OF COMMONS. borrow 13,500,000l. There was, in fact, only a sur
port it, to
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plus of about 260,000l.; and to talk of the advantages of the
Monday, Feb. 8. sinking fund was downright delusion. Ile conceived that, in
Excise LAWS.
stead of being in a prosperous, we were absolutely in a trightful
Mr. Harver gave notice of the following motion for the 22d situation. He believed that never at any period did we present
instan':—“That there be-laid before the House the number of such a melancholy picture of financial derangement—going on to
informations filed in the Court of Exchequer for penalties under borrow year after year, in time of peace—and flattering our
the Excise Laws, between the 1st of Jan. 18 he, and the 1st of selves that we had a sinking fund to bring us out of our difficul
Jan. 1819;-also a retirn of the result of each information, dis ties, when we were obliged to stºpport that by borrowing ! He
tinguishing those settled by compromise and by verdict ; and did not mean to deny, that if peace was of long continuance the
further, the costs received by the Solicitor for the prosecutions, country possessed resources; but suppose a war should arise—
particularizing the amount paid by the Crown and by the De what was then to be done? "The Chancellor of the Exchequer
fendants. -
might as well think of raising the dead as of raising another
The Bill for the custody of the King's person was read a third large loan. He would then only have recourse to excessive
time and passed. ' taxation, or to paper. We could not go on long without some
- MR. BROUGHAM, decisive measure, some complete remedy.
Mr, Calcraft moved that Mr. Brougham should be added to The CHANcellor of the Exchequrn was of opinion, that we
the Secret Committee chosen to inquire into the state of the must either submit to a slow reduction of the debt, or to an in
Bank. He thought the fitness of that Gentleman would not be, creased taxation. The reduction which had already taken place
disputed. - was surprising; and yet 17,000,000l. of taxes had been remitted.
-

A debate took place on this motion. It was argued by Mini Mr. Ellice attributed the amount of the exports in 1818 to
sters, that as the House had not thought fit to choose Mr. the enormous circulation of paper. As to the alleged prosperºy
Brougham when the Committee was balloted for, there was no of the country, the heavy Poor's-rates were no proof of it. lm
reason why the Committee should be extended for his sake; and the town that sent him to Parliament (Coventry), no man could
also that there was no precedent for an addition to stich Com earn more than 6 or 8s. a week, and the parish was therefore
mittees, when the individual proposed to be added was before compelled to contribute to the support of the labourers, even
the House at the time of the momiliation. On the other side, Mr. when they were in employ.
Wyxx mentiourd several instances of additions; and the em.inent Mr. MAcnox Alp said, that though the last Committee had done
qualifications of Mr. Brougham were in-i-ted on.—A division some good, they might have done much more. Committees of
then took place :-For the motion, 133–Against it, 175—Ma this description had also this evil connected with then-that
jority, 42. - . . - - - - - they operated as a screen to the Administration. Why had not
fixANCE–STATE of THE country. ... the inquiries of the former Committee been directed to the mºde
of collecting the revenue: An Hon. Member had calculated that
Lord Castlerzagh, in moving the appºintment of a Committee an annual saving of 2,000,000l., might be unade, and he had no.
of Fulance, said, that it was not to be considered as a matter of doubt the saving might be considerable. -

course every Session; but as the former Committee had aſſorded the motion was then carried, and the Committee appointed.
so much information on the state of the revenue and expenditure, Adjourned. . .
and as the Ministers would expºse themselves to just reproach, Tuesday, I'eh, 9.
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if the reduction of the Windsor Establishment was the only mea PENAH., CODE, -

sure of economy proposed by them, he thought the reviv. of the Mr. Wilberroncº presented a Petition from the Society ºf
Committee this year would be attended with great advantages, Friends against the present frequent application of the punish
with respect to pointing out useful reductions. His Lordship ment of death. He could not advert to this impºrtant question
then noticed those details which were to be submitted to the Com without expressing his regret that it was left for him to raise his
mittee. The ingrease of revenue in 1818 compared with 1817 was feeble voice in that cause which had been so often and so ably
2.397,000t.; but in 1817, above 2,000,000l. of arrears of malt and
property taxes had been received, and in 1818, only 566,000l. i * The Courier, though it copied. isºpºt from the Times,
and also in 1817 certain sugar duties had been antieipated, altered this sum, as given in the latter paper, to 4,802,000l.
which should have been reckoned in the receipts of 1818; so whether on official information crubſ, it does ust says
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advocated by one whose name would be recorded among the be tine were very severe in their enactments and penalties, and had
nefactors of mankind, and whose memory would be fondly che been established for more than two centuries, under an opiuion
rished by all who reverenced either º
or private virtue— that the plague was contagious. The ...'
of that doctrine
(Cheers from all sides)—a man whose general knowledge was only had lately been questioned, and great doubts had arisen upon it,
equalled by his professional attainments, and who brought to the owing to some recent investigations. The matter had been re
subject all the lights of the understanding, and all the advantages ferred to the College of Physicians, who returned for answer,
of experience. (Hear, hear !). However, it was to be hoped that the original doctrine was untouched by the doctrines brought
that many supporters of the cause yet remained who were not forward to shake it. The Committee which sat during the last
behind the distinguished individual he had mentioned in earnest Parliament, to examine into the nature of epidemic complaints in
ness and zeal. It was allowed that the uncertainty of the inflic London, seemed to share the doubts which he had before men
tion—the chance which every offender had at present of escap tioned regarding the validity of contagion,"
ing—the sort of gambling with life which was kept up, had a Mr. WYNN said, that with all due deference ts the wisdom of
great tendency to augment crime. Men in all situations were the Honse, he did wet conceive that they were as well qualified
disposed to calculate the chances in their own favour ; but this as the College of Physicians to undertake this investigation.
was peculintly the case with offenders, who were least of all Sir Joux Jacksox begged to state his reasons for troubling
open to reflection. The system of transportation was also a very the House with the present motion. He had been on the Com
pernicious one; for those comparatively innocent were mixed mittee which had inquired, in a former session, into the nature
with the most hardened criminals. of the epidemics prevalent in London. The testimony which
Read and ordered to be printed. Dr. Roberts gave perfectly astonished him. Dr. Roberts, had
- POOR LAWS. been for 94 years the principal medical attendant at Bartholo
Mr. Sturges Bounx E called the attention of the House to the mew Hospital, and declared, that in all that period of his prac
present state of the Poor Laws. The Committee appointed by tice, he had not known above one instance of a ſever being con
the last Parliament had not time to finish its labours. Its re tagious. - -

ports however had been printed and circulated throughout the The motion was then carried, and a Committee appointed.
country; and the result was, that many plans for improvement CLIMBING BOYS.
had been forwarded by various parishes." He therefore moved, Mr. BeNNET rose for the purpose of asking leave to bring in a
that a Committee should be appointed similar to the former one. Bill to prohibit the sweeping of chimnies by climbing boys. It
Mr. Curwen did not think that any good could be done by a was not requisite for him to enter into any detail of the miseries
Committee. Government, who had the means of acquiring the suffered by these wretched children; no man could take his daily
necessary information, could alone interfere effectually. The walk without seeing them. From the report made by the
poverty of the lower classes was owing to excessive taxation, the Surveyor-General of the office of Works, it. appeared, that there
depreciation of money, and the high price of the necessaries of was only one house in 100, to which lanchines could not be ap
life. The causes must be removed, before the effects would cease. plied. The house of Lord Spencer was said to have its chimnies
He disagreed with the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) who had con constructed in such a manner as to render it impossible that they
gratulated the House upon the state of the country. To him its should be swept by machines: by his advice, however, machines
finances appeared to be in a situation almost desperate. Nothing had been applied; and they had all been swept by them. . He
but seme general sacrifice by the possessors of property, from the would therefore affirm, that if there were any chimnies which
Crown downwards, could deliver us from that situation. It was could not be swept by machines, they were only found in the
absurd to represent the country was flourishing, when the mass large mansions of the rich. The expense, therefore, of altering
of its population was in want. (Hear!). He objected to the pre them could not be severely felt ; or even if it were, ought not to
sent mode of affording parochial relief to persons according to be set in competition . the auguish and misery suffered by
the number of their families: this was a bounty on improvident these climbing children. During the last month a chimney had
marriages and excess of population. If Ministers continued to been swept at the Tower with a machine in half an hour, which
treat the alarming evils of the present system of Poor-laws with a boy was five hours sweeping some time since. The only alte
•upineness and indifference, the mischief would go on till it had ration which he had made in the Bill was to allow two years in
destroyed the morals, industry, and prosperity of the country. stead of one, before he called for the total abolition of the pre
Lord CastleREAgu said, that any measure brought forward by sent practice. -

Government would always be viewed wit's jealousy, and it was Leave to bring in the Bill was granted.—Adjourned.
therefore better that Government should identify itself with the
House, and that steps should be taken with the concurrence of TUESDAY's LONDON GA&ETTE.,
all parties. He thought that the condition of the poor was ame
liorated since the commencement of the war. "... BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
Mr. W. Buttrell, could not agree with the Noble Lord. In
the parish of East Grinstead, in the county of Sussex, the quan J. Oulet, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, jeweller, from Feb. 13
-tity of arable land amounted to 5000 acres, the real rent of which to April 3. BANKRUPTS.
was 4,000l per annum, and the Poor-rates this year would
amount to 4,500t. There were from 50 to 60 men employed in E.. Chancerv-lane.
Robertson, Machester, cotton-spinner. Attorney, Mr. Ellis,
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stone-quarries; but as their wages were only fid. a-dºy, the

parish was obliged to give them is. He believed that this state J. Burroughs, Great Hermitage-street, spirit-merchant. Attor
night was applicable to nearly the whole county of Sussex. , ney, Mr. Pearson, St. Helen's-place, Bishopsgate-street.
Mr.P. Mºrnues said, it wis a delusion to suppose that a legis E. Mathews, College-hill, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Dawes
lative measure would do any good. While the taxes continued and Chatfield, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street.
unreduced, the Poor-rates would be unreduced. W. Brown, St. John-street, cheesemonger. Attornies, Messrs.
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Mr. Long Wellesley observed, that the state of the poor re Dacie and John, Palsgrave-place, Temple-bar,
quired some measure emanating from the executive, which would W. Burn, Exeter, draper. Attorney, Mr. Brutton, Broad-street.
not, as the Noble Lord had said, be regarded by the country J. Mather, Manchester, joiner. Attornies, Messrs. Adlington
with jealousy. - . and Gregory, Bedford-row. -

After some other observations, the motion was carried, and H. Wilkinson, Liverpool, merehant, and F. J. Humble, Waver
the Committee appointed. ' * **
tree, master mariner. Attornies, Messrs. Taylor and Roscoe,
The Arronney-GENERAL brought in a Bill to abolish trial by W.King's-Bench-walk, Temple.
Lloyd, Shrewsbury, tailor. , Attorney, Mr. Griffiths, South
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battle, which was read a first time.—Adjourned. - -

ampton-buildings, Cli ry-lane.

Wednesday, Feb. 10.
ºughtiq, a Bill for the repeal of the M.torney,
and G. Nayler, Darlington, Durham, leather-dressers. At
Mr. Se Mr. tº. Gray's-inn-square. - -

Csury La - sºtime.-Adjourned... R. Potts, Holborº-hil, haberdasher. Attorney, Mr. Hodgson,

Dyer's-court, Aldermanbury. - * .

... > LAws. R. Bacon, jun., Barkway, Hertfordshire, miller. Attorney, Mr.
Sir Jº #ºcommittee should be ap Gray, Tyson-place, Kingsland-road.
pointed tº ºf contagion and inſection in J. merchants.
Oliver and N. G. Ingraham, jun., Pinners'-ball, Broad-street,
epidemic 'comp * - - -
Attorney, Mr. Cranch, Union-court, Broad-street.
Mr. F. Ronixson th were sufficient grounds for the T. Callimore, Wick war, Gloucestºrshire, maltster. Attorusy,
House to institute such inquiry. The laws regarding quaran Mr. King, Serjeant's-inn. "... ." .. .
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101

J. Medlam, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. when we recollect what has been preached by monks
Fisher and Sudlow, Holborn.
J. Stansfeld, Ardwick, Lancashire, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. and jesuits respecting the merits of any thing that is
Wigle-worth and Crosley, Gray's-inn. perpetrated in behalf of the Catholic faith, when we
J. Longden, Peak-forest, Derbyshire, meal and flour-seller. At recollect also what has been perpetrated so often in
tornies, Messrs. Lowes and Cowburn, Temple. consequence, and when we recollect what attempts have
W. Lewis, Beak-street, Golden-square, woollen-draper. Attor
nies, Messrs. Davies and Son, Lothbury. been made at the Spanish Court to render that poi
R. Taylor, Witney, Oxfordshire, mealman. Attorney, Mr. Gre sonous race flourishing again, we cannot help suspect
gory, Wax-Chandlers’-hall, Maiden-lane. ing that there has been foul play in these two sudden
SATURDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. deaths as well as in the former one. It may be said that
- this is not the age for such things; nor is it in any other
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. part of the Continent: but fierce attempts to restore monks
W. Peet, Basinghall-street, merchant. and jesuits and inquisitors, imply that all their fierce prin
BANKRUP'ts.
J. Randall, Pancras-street, Tottenham-court-road, auctioneer. eiples are the same as ever; and in addition to all their
Attorney, Mr. Colingridge, Secondaries-Office, Colman-street. old readiness at atrocity, they may feel that they must
A. Crosse, Ellesmere, Salop, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. Rosser, strike their blows now or never. Ignorant bigots they
Sen, and Rosser, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn.
J. W. Atkinson, Morden, Surrey, farmer. Attorney, Mr. Nettle might as well attempt, with their daggers, to ſetch back
fold, Norfolk-street, Strand. departed time.
J. Gale, Paternoster-ow, wholesale stationer. Attorney, Mr. Ferdinand must be in a situation of sufficient alarm,
Hurst, Milk-street.
J. Ratfield, Edward-street, Cavendish-square, dealer. Attornies, notwithstanding these lucky family sorrows. Every day
Messrs. Draper and Bird, Exchauge-buildings. we hear of the increasing multitudes who revolt from his
G. Upton, Queen-street, oil and colour-merchant. Attornies, service into the mountains, and oblige the posts to travel
Messrs. Lee and Townshend, Three-crown-square, Southwark. with strong escorts. The death of Charles 4th will, in
R. Starbuck, Milton next Gravesend, boot and shoe-maker. At
torney, Mr. Ledgwich, College-hill. our opinion, only make the popular insurrection worse
C. Hopper, Little Trinity Lane, lace-dealer. Attorney, Mr. when it comes. His son will not be able to sneak so well
Unney, Clement's Inn. -
out of danger again, under the plea of abdication to ano
T. Reed and J. Middlemas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchants.
Attornies, Messrs. Knight and Freeman. ther. In South America, too, his measures begin pretty
C.Tricket the younger, Stoke Newington, merchant. Attorney, clearly to evince his hopelessness of doing any thing. He
Mr. Maugham, Great St. Helens. -

has gone so far, in his mingled rage and stupidity, to issue

J. Pitcher, Upper Thames-street, carpenter. Attornies, Messrs.
Godmond and Black, Earl-street, Blackfriars. a decree, announcing the punishment of death to every
H. Wilkinson, Liverpool, merchant. Attormies, Messrs. Taylor foreigner found in arms against him on the side of the
and Roscoe, King's-Bench-Walks, Temple. Patriots. But his emisaries in South America have already
D. Cawood, Newton, Yorkshire, merchant. Attornies, Messrs.
Foljambe, Wakefield. been acting in the spirit of this Proclamation, and what
W. Martin, Leadenhall-market, cheesemonger. Attorney, Mr. has it done? Only served to make the foreigners despise'
Russel, Lant-street. Southwark.
him and them the more, and subject his own men, when
G. Penny and R. Thompson, Mincing-lane, brokers. Attormies,
Messrs. Knight and Freeman, Basinghall-street. taken prisoners, to the chance and sometimes to the suffer
W. Watkinson, Strand, boot and shoemaker. Attorney, Mr. ance of reprisal. No sooner do we hear of this decree,
Jones, New Inn.
than we hear the good and important news of the taking
PRick of stocks on satuapay. . . of one of his 50 gun frigates by the Patriots. The cap
*Per Cent. Red.......77; 7776; I 3 per Cent. Cons....... 76#####. ture seems to laugh in his face. -

Kotzebue, the well known German dramatist, and the

THE EXAMIN E R. worst of those who are well known, is said to have been
recalled into Russia by his adopted master the Emperor
Lowdow, FEBRUARY 14. Alexander, in consequence of his having been found out .
to be a spy upon the politics of his countrymen! In the
Asother King is dead, CHARles the 4th, who was mean time we are entertained with an anecdote of his im
supplanted by the Creature at Madrid. And “thus,” perial employer, who while at Saxe Weimar, amused him
quoth the Courier, attempting to look pathetic, “in the self with killing an incredible quantity of hares! Such ap
short space of one month, Ferdinand VII. has been pear to be the political and personal movements of this
hereft of his father, mother, and wife.” He should have Imperial, Holy, and Sentimental Personage, who instead
added, neice; for his wife was also his niece, married to of keeping his promises and destroying vermin of any sort,
him by a dispensation of the Pope. Such are the pains adds to the number of informers, and breaks the legs
taken by the Legitimates to spoil their breed, as if it were and jaw-bones of the most harmless of animals. Yet this
not bad enough already. This is incest, if anything is, is a humane work, after all, for a superstitious man, who
the union of persons of the same blood; and yet the cant believes that the Divine Being damns nine-tenths of the
ing hypocrites in this country who treat it with respect, human race.
shall accuse a man of defending incest, who writes a tragic The Westminster Election commenced yesterday, when
Poem on the love between a prince and his sister-in-law . in addition to Mr. Hobhouse, Major CARTwRight was
But bereſt l Bereſt of his father and mother is a very put in nomination, and the Hon. GeoRGE LAMB also.
Pleasant phrase applied to Ferdinand, who ousted them For Major Cantwright, we have a high respect; but we
ºf their throne, kept them at a distance from him ever never could think that he would be as useful in the House
*ince, and has conveniently lost them both, just as they of Commons as a young and ardent Reformist, with all
were said to be likely to return to it. For our parts, | his powers in full vigour. Of Mr. LAMB we know no
s
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thing but that he is a son of Lord Melbourne, and Stºnscrition for the FAMILY of W.M. P. Rogers.
reckoned, we believe, a respectable intelligent man. But We have the pleasure of stating to our readers, that Sir
this sudden appearance does not seem to us to be very wise. F. Burpett and Mr. Hobhouse have sent 5gs, each to
Does he think that Mr. Hohhouse will not get into Par Two forward the Subscription for the Family of Mr. Rogers.
Pounds have also been sent by an unknown corre
liament with sufficient grace, unless he has a little opposi spendent
tion to set it off? -
of our's, who signs himself (as he well may) an
ſºr
Englishman, and for whose letter we return our personal
thanks.-Several other suins have likewise been received,—
which, with those that may be supplied before our next
Jamaica mails to the 12th December have arrived. Ac publication, sh ll then be announced. Mr. DRAKARD, of
ºunts have been received there from the Spanish Main, the Stamford News, we are happy to see, is doing his
!at sharp engagement had taken place'hetween the best to serve this persecuted family.
Royal and Insurgent armies, in which the Spanish Com On Thursday, Mr. CARLile, the bookseller, of Fleet
Fººdër in Chief, Morillo, was slain, but that the Patriots street, was taken from his shop and conveyed to Newgate
haº, also suffered severely. for continuing to sell PAINE’s Age of Reason.
Buenos-Ayres Gazettes to the 22d of November have We regret we have not time at present to take notice of
arrived. An Extraordinary Gazette of the latter date the prosecutions and arrest of Mr. CARLILE the bookseller
tales; that a Spanish vessel of 50 guns, La Reina Maria for publishing PAINE's Theological Works; but we shalt
Isabel, has been captured, in the port of Talcahuano, by do so next week. Mr. CARLile, we understand, is an
the Insurgent ships San Martin and Lantaro. The event honest and firm man, as indeed we should have guessed
; communicated in a despatch from O'Higgins, dated from his willingly encountering those penalties, which the
Santiagº de Chili, Nov. 9. The Spanish vessel was law substitutes in the room of argument. It was a cun
captured on the 28th of October. It appears that the ning substitution once; but it is such no longer. We un
Isabel was . the expedition which sailed from derstand that he means to plead his own cause.
MR. HAYDoN's Fºxhibition.—The Archduke MAxxi
Cadiz for Lima, and it was reported that four of the
transports of the expedition had also been taken; but this L1AN, attended by M. de Neu MANN (Chargé-d'Affaires
we believe to be without foundation. The Chili Gazette for Austria) yesterday inspected the masterly drawings
of the 8th mentions the capture of the Isabel only. from the Cartoons and Elgin Marbles by Mr. HAY Dow's
The following is an extract of a letter from Buenos pupils, and expressed himself highly gratified at such pro
Ayres, dated Nov. 22:—“On the 12th instant arrived ductions at so early an age. -

the Hortolio and Curazoa, new frigates, of 36 guns each, On Wednesday evening a General Assembly of Aca
was ... at the Royal Academy, to elect a
from New York. They were to be immediately manned, demicans
and to proceed round Cape Horn. Lord Cocinºne was Member, in the room of Mr. Trierd, the Sculptor, lately
'...} looked for at Valparaiso, when the expedition deceased,
would proceed at once against Lima.”
when Mr. Hiltox was chosen. This gentle
man is well known from his admirable picture of Una
The Quebec Papers state that the agitations which the with the Satyrs, in the last exhibition at the Royal Aca
exertions of Mr. Gourlay had produced in Canada are demy, at present in the British Gallery.
A journeyman stonemason of Liverpool has brought
rather increasing. The Delegates of the Eastern Town. writs
ship, had again been assembling. They have published which of right for the recovery of an estate in Ireland,
another statement of great length, arguing the weight of also anhas long been in abeyance, of 8000l. a year; and
accumulated personal property of more than half a
their burdens, and the grievances they suffer; this, it is
ºld, is intended as instructions for the Members of the million. His prospects of success have been pronounced
Provincial Parliament, which was soon to be assembled. to be very favourable, by several lawyers of the first
eminence.
The fact is actually as was stated, that the Ministerial JUNIUs.—M. Gentz, an aulic counseller, has been
ſºrty was out-voted in the Committee on the Windsor
ſ: stablishment, respecting the grant of pensions to all the amusing the honest Germans with a book to prove the
Equerries; two of these gentlemen being docked, on a extreme evil of the liberty of the press, and the injury it
has been to us, Britons. A previous censorship, he says,
division. This created so much alarm, that the subject of
º keeps every thing so snug and orderly, and is so comfort
to the great Officers was not even attempted.—
urtes, able to persons in office. He endeavours to alarm them
more especially with the example of the letters of Justus,
The manufacturers of Carlisle have been obliged to de
which kept innocent people in terror for so long a time.
duct from the wages of the poor distressed weavers is a
Now what was the fact in regard to Junius
cut on weaving gingham .. owing to the stagnation of strong, He was
because the men whom he attacked were many of
trade. The times have a very serious aspect; and we them weak, and several of them bise and contemptible.
have heard from respectable authority, that one-half of the Men who degraded the monarch by driving him into an
weavers, in this city and vicinity will, before a month
elapse, be out of employment. How does this tally with unpopular war with one of his owu subjects (Wilkes);
the absurd statement of Mr. Brownlow, who, on second who although no immaculate character, was illegally at
ing in Parliament the address to the Painch Regent, tacked, and the only triumph obtained over him, namely,
*serted that trade was never more flourishing, and that the his rejectionfrom
by the Commons, was finally expunged, as
mechanic was amply remunerated for his labour? Such untenable, the Journals of the House. Such men
alone could have been so attacked, and so defeated. We
gross ignorance in a Senator is a disgrace—it is disgustin have had much grosser attempts of late years; but is it not
to the people, and an affront to the nation. It was #.
by Junius," that a rapid decay of trade in any country clear that writers of this class, even when they possess
pronounced that the Government of that country is weak, strong talents, invariably write themselves down? No,
distracted, and corrupt.”—Carlisle Journal. Mr. GENtz: aided by muskets, do what you can with
Notwithstanding the late revival of trade, Birmingham your Germans, but we, with all its crying evils, will retain
the liberty of the press, and dispense with the blessing of
has to support, at this moment, no fewer man twenty-four censorship. Censorship indeed!—Chester Guardian.
theusand four hundred and forty-eight paupers! Out of the hundred and sixty-eight Members who voted
Miss Glenn's Case.—Some observations on this ex for Mr. Tien Ney's motion †. Bank Committee, 43
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ReconneR's Report-On Wednesday the Reconner this plain and explicit declaration, the electors, not only
at the Crown and Anchor, but at various Parochial Meet
made his Report to the PRINce Regent in Council of the
prisoners i.Sº. when John Corderoy, John Fellows, ings, had given him the most unqualified promise of their
and James Egerton, were ordered for execution on Tues suffrages. "Every measure which prudence could devise,
day next. - -
was resorted to, in order to insure his election—and he
hoped that they saw their own interest too clearly to suffer
The Magistrates of Edinburgh, after consulting the their
LoRD Advocate as to the result of the inquiry respecting causestrength to be divided, and thus to insure defeat,One
two other Candidates had ºl. be
the barbarous circumstances attending the execution of of them (Mr. Lamb) belonged to the Whig party—and
Jouxstow, have thought it prudent to withdraw their they were competent to judge whether the vital interests
proffered reward of 50 guineas for the discovery of the
person who cut down the body, suffering under the torture of the people had ever been boldly, and sincerely ad
vocated' by that party. , The other Gentleman, (Major
of the executioner; and they have suspended the surveyor, Cartwright)
of the apparatus, sine die. had, through a long life, endeavoured to save
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Galvaxism.—On the 4th November last, various gal vancedthe people—but, he asked, was it possible, that, at his al
age. he could be an efficient Representative in the
vanic experiments were made on the body of the murderer House of Commons? They had had an opportunity, fºr
Clydesdale. by Dr. URE of Glasgow, with a voltaic battery some months past, of judging of the sentiments and abili:
of 270 pairs of 4-inch plates. The results were truly ties of Mr. Hobhouse—they had declared themselves sa"
appalling. On moving ū. rod from the hip to the heel, tisfied with both—and it was not a little extraordinary,
the knee being previously bent, the leg was thrown out under such circumstances, that other gentlemen should be
with such violence as nearly to overturn one of the assist put in nomination. Such a proceedin tended to divide
ants, who in vain attempted to prevent its extension! In and weaken the popular interest; an he would not ven
the second experiment, the rod was applied to the phrenic ture to prophecy that a Court Candidate would not, in
nerve in the neck, when laborious breathing instantly com consequence, be set up, on Monday next. Now was the
menced; the chest heaved and fell; the belly was protruded time for a great exertion, and he hoped they would rally
and collapsed, with the relaxing and retiring diaphragm; round the man to whom they had given the most earnes:
and it is thought, that but from the complete evacuation assurances of their support, and who had pledged himself
of the blood, pulsation might have occurred! In the third to deserve their kindness. The Hon. Baronet concluded
experiment, the supra-orbital nerve was touched, when by proposing John Hobhouse, Esq. as a fit and Proper
every muscle in the murderer's face “was thrown into
Yeatſul action.” The scene was hideous—several of the person to represent the City of Westminster in Parlia
spectators left the room, and one gentleman actually ſainted ment—(Great applause.) -

The Hon. D. KINNAIRD, in seconding the proposition,

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from terror or sickness. In the fourth experiment, the observed, that Mr. Hobhouse, though known to the Elect:
transmitting of the electral power ſrom the spinal marrow tors but for a very short period, had evidently secured
to the ulnar nerve at the elbow, the fingers were instantly a very powerful interest in their affections; no lºan felt a
put in motion, and the agitation of the arm was so great, more sincere conviction of the necessity of a Reform in
that the corpse seemed to point to the different spectators,Parliament, and a better man, he believed, could not be
some of whom thought it had come to life! Dr. Une ap found to send into the House of Commons, in conjunction
ars to be of opinion, that had not incisions been made with his long-tried and highly-valued friend, who had just
in the blood-vessels of the neck, and the spinal marrow addressed them. Mr. Hobhouse would this day state.
been lacerated, the criminal might have been restored to clearly and fully, that none might misunderstand his sen
life!—Scotsman. - -

timents, what his political tenets were-and, whatever

Sry or InfoRMER.—Mouchard is the French word for political bond Mr. Hobhouse was pleased to enter into.
an informer or spy, derived from the word Mouche, a fly, he would be ready to subscribe, for he was convinced it
in the same language, because this insect will buzz round would be founded on principles which every independent
yon, sip out of your glass, feed on your plate, sting you, man must admire. He called on them not to be terrified
i and suck your blood the first opportunity. at the idea of a Court Candidate, should one be put in no
mination. They had only to be true to themselves, and
they would certainly defeat, as they had recently done, the
WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
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machinations of corruption. -

Mr. Homous; stood forward amidst loud cheering

The election of a Member to serve in Parliament for He said he came there to ſulfil the promise he had given
Westminster, in the room of Sir S. Romilly, commenced three months ago—he came to complete the work which
yesterday morning. the electors had commenced with so much spirit. He
Arthur MoRºis, Fºsq. High Bailiff, appeared on the said, when the time arrived, he would be at his post-and
hustings at ten o'clock, and the Precept, Proclamation, they found him true to his word. He would not appear
and Act of Parliament, were read. by proxy, but stood before the electors, in person, to dº."
Sir F. Bºnnett then stepped forward, amidst general clare what his principles were. He couceived that ever,
applause. He said, that he would not, on this occasion, now the victory was partially obtained—and he pledged
occupy much of their time, since he had very recently adhimself solemnly, if he were returned to Parliament, to de
dressed the Electors at a public Meeting, and no person fend those rights and privileges which were inherent in the
could doubt what his principles were, or what motives people. He had been foremost in the ranks to fight for
now urged him to appear before them. A few days since, those rights and privileges, and he never would abandºn
when he met the electors at the Crown and Anchor, an al his post, when they were to be defended or asserted. At
most unanimous determination to return Mr. Hobhouse to fifteen or sixteen Kºi. which he had attended, they
Parliament seemed to pervade the individuals assembled. had heard his sentiments, and were the best.judges of his
He was surprised, that determination having been strongly fitness to represent them. At the Crown and Anchor
expºsed, that any opposition was offered to the election Meeting, last Tuesday, about twelve hands were held up
of Mr. Hobhouse. They all felt that a Reform in Par against him, when there were 1,500 for him, which was a
liament was the º measure by which their property, pretty good proof of the feelings and sentinents of the
their liberties, and, he might add, their lives, could be electors. He came here, this day, supported by one who
in-safety—and that measure Mr. Hobhouse had had deserved and who had obtained the best wishes of the
pledged himself strenuously to support. In return for people of England; and to have secured his confidence
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ºd, approbation was a point of very great importance. he was led to believe they would have touched. There
He hoped, if a contest did ensue, that no unfair or foul appeared, he thought, rather too much of political tactics
play wºuld be resorted to by the other candidates—he in the speech and conduct of the Hon. Gentleman, to gain
pledged himself that, on his side, there should be none. As the confidence of plain, fair-dealing men.
a great deal of misrepresentation had gone forth with re Mr. MAcDoNALD, whose speech, a few nights since, in
spect to his principles, he had, to avoidſ misunderstanding, the House of Commons, attracted so much attention, pro
committed them to paper, and he now º: leave to osed the Hon. George Lamb (the second son of Lord
read them publicly. Mr. Hobhouse then read the follow º as a fit person to represent the city of West
ing summary of his principles i– f minster. . The Hon. mover paid many high compliments
to the private virtues and public principles of Mr. Lamb,
“I have been questioned, or rather to use the right whom he denominated the counterpart, in sentiment, of
Yord, tortured, upon the great question of Parliamentary their late revered Representative. ”
-Reform. Those who have been busy to injure me and Mr. Eva Ns seconded the nomination,
your cause, have . or rather misrepresented me
The Hon. G. LAMB stood forward to address the Meet
as having given a pledge to support Annual Parliaments
and Universal Suffrage. I gave no such pledge: I was ing. He was received with disapprobation. He trembled,
asked for no such pledge: the Gentlemen who nominated he said, when he recollected the great men who had formerly
uſe, proposed me as a man fit to advance “the just claims addressed the Electors on that spot; but, he confessed, when
of the people to parliaments of a short duration, and to a he looked at those who now opposed him, he felt no ap
prehension whatever. ...He avowed himself to be the de
fºll, free, and equal share in the choice of representatives.” cided
It may be necessary however to explain myself still further, which supporter of Whig principles—those, principles
Mr. Fox and other eminent individuals had main
and to be mºre précise, I have put my words upon paper. tained. The Hon. Baronet had reproached him, because
Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage have been
mixed, together for the sake of confounding the ques to he was a Whig ; for his part, he considered the observation
tion, but these are two distinct and separate subjects, werebe toa be panegyric—since among the Whigs of England
found those men who had most effectually
upon each of which I solicit, your separate attention.
Upon the latter of the two, I think it right to say, that I in combatted in the cause of the people. He had not yet been
consider the extension of suffrage to be not only of secon those Parliament—he was only known in private life. But
‘iary, but even of third rate importance. The first object felt who were acquainted with him would say, that he
for the people of England to obtain is equality of right of —and deeply and Tºy on every public subject.—(Hisses
suffrage, in other words, that there be one and the same cries of “No place-hunting Whigs—No Wolf in
qualification, be that what it may, for every elector in the Sheep's clothing—Baa I)
commonwealth. The second object is, that equality of On the shew of hands, the numbers were evidently in
mºmbers elect each representative. These objects attain. favour of Mr. Hobhouse.
Mr. Henny Host and Mr. GALE Jones, severally
ed, then, if I am, asked whether security for misgo addressed the electors in favour of Major Cartwright. Mr.
vernment by a real representation may be attained by Hunt, in the course of his speech, charged Sir F. Burnett
an extension of suffrage short of universal, I answer
yes; , by an extension far short of universal. How with much being a hypocrite, but did not give any proofs. He
on his making this assertion.
Jar short is a question for fair discussion and honest wasMr. hi
Thelwall, spoke in favour of Mr. Hobhouse.
difference of opinion. In such a discussion, the course of
ºny judgment, would be towards, the largest extension. day. A poll was demanded, which was adjourned till Mon
I have not hitherto been able to feel alarm at the notion of -

a free people being really the choosers of their own Re

presentatives. But I should think myself unfit to claim THEATRICAL EXAMINER,
the character of a man of sense, or your support, if I
denied that with equality of right of º ge, and equality No. 351. -

of number of constituents, there might be various limits corewit gartney.

inconsistent with, our object. With regard to Annual
Parliaments, I should think myself the greatest coxcomb A New Tragedy from the pen of Mr. Shell, was brought
that ever pretended to political knowledge, were I to forward at this Theatre on Wednesday. The following
say that, 12 months is the precise golden time, within very clear and complete account of the story is taken
which Elections must periodically recurin order to secure from the daily papers:— -

your liberties. Were Elections to take place every 13, Ludovico (Mr. MacReady), chief Minister and favourite of a
King of Naples (Mr. Abbott), conceives the design of destroying
14, 29, or 24 months, the object of keeping the Repre: his master's life, and raising himself to the Throne. With this
sentatives properly identified with their Constituents might view he begins by exciting in the King a guilty passion for
perhaps be sufficienty secured. But it is my opinion, that Evadne (Miss O'NEILL), sister of Colonna (Mr. Young), a noble
every Parliament is too long that can be usefully made man of Naples, and engages his promise that the brother himself
shall consent to the sister's shame. The traitor himself has no
shorter;, I own, that I see no well-founded objection to
Annual Parliaments, but I am very willing to admit, that intention of sacrificing Evadne, whom he secretly loves, to the
with Parliaments of a longer duration, you may be both King, but sets the plot in movement to destroy the King by
great and free."—(Much applause.) Colonna's hand. It is further necessary that, to obtain Buadne,
her lover, Vincentio (Mr. C. KEMRLE), should be disposed of, by
. Mr. Nicholson, dwelt on the eminent and long-con marriage, to Olivia (Mrs. Faucit), Ludovico's kinswoman, who
tinued exertions of Major Cartwright, in the popular loves him. Vincentio is recalled from a foreign embassy; and,
cause, and proposed that Gentleman as a fit person to re upon his return, is told by Ludovico that Evadne was faſse, and
present Westminster in Parliament. had become the mistress of the King. Vincentio is persuaded to
believe his mistress faithless, on the evidence of a letter written
Mr. Bowie seconded the romination. This gentle by Evadne, containing the most passionate avowal of tender
man, who presided at one of the parochial. Meetings in ness, really intended for Vincentio, but by the change of name,
favoºr of Mr. Hobhouse, was assailed by cries of º,. contrived by Ludovico, to appear addressed to the King. ... Win
goal!" He repelled the charge, observing, that Mr. Hob centio meets Evadne, reproaches her with her falsehood, is
house's ſº were not quite so explicitly stated, as half persuaded by her protestations of her innocence; but asks,
they ought to have been—and, as far as he could under as the last means of removing his suspicions, that she should
staid them, they did not come up to that point which let him see whether she still wore round her neck his picture,
which he had given her at his departure. She is overjoyed,
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produces the picture, and gives it to him; it is the picture of usurped influence in order to prevent the duel,-this truly
the King. Vincentie now becomes furious and inexorable.— feminine and noble character is a delightful relief from the
Colonna enters, insults, and challenges Vincentio, and they go selfish and extravagantly-virtuous wives, who have been
out to fight. Olivia comes in, and confesses to Evadne that she palmed upon us of late for women. The scene amidst the
had contrived the false letter, and substituted the picture of the statues of her ancestors, where she puts herself as it were
King for that of Vincentiel round Evadne's neck, at the instiga
tion of Ludovico, who engaged to reward her by making Vincen under the protection of the marble image of her father,
to her husband. Colonna and Vincentio fight; the latter is sup who had instructed the King and saved his life, and then
posed dead, and the former coufined in a dungeon. Ludovico asks him whether he can take her away, is very fine. If it
visits him, gives him his freedom, tells him that the King de does not come from Shimley, who is said to be Mr.Surel's
manded his sister's shame, and his own acquiescence, as the price original, it does great honour to that gentleman's invention,
ºf his pardon, and persuades him, by artfully working on his and is the best and perhaps the only novelty of incident
feelings, to give a seeming consent; to invite the King to his pa in living tragedy. We have not Shirley's play of the
lace, and at the moment when he expects the brother's base Traitor by us, of which Mr. Sheil is said to have made
sacrifice of the sister's honour, to murder him. The King is in
vited and feasted by Colonna. The hour of rest approaches and use; but either he has made great use of it indeed, or agree
the King retires to his chamber. Colonna enters an adjoining ably to the advice we gave him on a former occasion, he
spartment and proceeds to the door of that in which he was has set himself to think, as well to produce effect, and has
waiting the coming of Evadne. He unsheaths the dagger, and is thought to some purpose. He has felt, his own wa
about to open the door, when he hears a voice. It is Evadne; through the dialogue, and had a sense of things as oppose
she knew his purpose, and persuades him to let her meet the to words. We always thought he had a nice, delicate,
King. He consents, but suspecting her weakness, conceals him and ingenuous nature; and # is dialogue is his own, his
selfso as to overhear what passes. The King enters and finds
Evadne; she evades his dishonourable propositions, by calling powers of intellect are on a par with it. We are a little
his attention, with mysterious and solemn pathos, to the statues surprised however, that in the prologue he seems to value
of her family, which stood in the chamber. At length she comes himself in having avoided pomp, and vindicated the glory
to one statue, and asks the King if he knew it. It was her father's, of chastity, which he appears to think H. neces

who had been the King's tutor, and died by a stroke aimed at the sarv in these times. The vindieation would have been better
King in battle. She embraces the statue, and invokes the spirit in Shinley's time, when women were mere prostitutes;
of her father. The King is moyed—abandons his base wishes— but the play is full, if not of visible, of implied poup
Colonna comes forth, embraces his sister, and is reconciled to the kings, ministers, and a court; the prologue is succeeded
King. Ludovico is approaching—Colonna places the King behind by a king on his throne; and as to chastity, it is a mis
the statues, and Evadne retires. Ludovico enters, and is told k.
Colonna that the King is dead. His joy and ambitiou burst ;: take in philosophy to think that Eradne defends the cause
tumultuously. He tells Colonna he shall die the death of a murof chastity, abstractedly considered; she defends the old
derer, others the guards to advance and seize him, when sud reputation and opinions of her family; and has a lover
denly the King appears before him; Ludovico is coufounded—re besides, to whom she has devoted herself;-she defends
covers himself—and tries the success of hypocrisy. He is custom and her own devoted and satisfied heart, which
spurned by the King—is roused to the vengeance of despair— she has learnt to identify with it. She should have been
f
makes an attempt to kill the King, and is himself killed by Co
lºna, and the play concludes. The scene is at Naples, and the Teally tempted to part with her chastity, before she could
time, without any express historic fact in the text, appears to have been said to be an example in it's defence,
have been about the 16th century, from the tone of character and The performance of this play is very good throughout,
sentiment of the piece. but most excellent, as far as regards Miss Q'Neil. We
This story has some disagreeable common-places in it. never saw her to such advantage before, and have increased
We have long had enough of fierce and reckless gentle our opinion of her tenfold. The description we have
ivenfelt
of itEvadne's character is the description of her acting.
men who have a passion for thrones, and who stick at §. to the core, and made us feel it as º We
nothing, or rather at every thing, to come at them. There
... also a certain convenient blindness on the part of the regret that we happen not to have time to dwell longer
ill-used persons to the tricks that are played on them, upon her performance; but this hasty praise is as sincere
especially with regard to the substituted picture. If as it was unprepared for.
Braine had only said, as she infallibly would have done
in real life, that there must be some mistake, and that she CITY.
the minute before put the right picture into Olivia's -

hand at the latter's request, the whole business might easily COMMON PROSTITUTES,
have comeout. The personages therefore conspire as it were A Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall an Thurs
with the author in a certain dramatic wilfulness, and insist day, when Petitions were presented from several wards, com
plaining of the great number of common prostitutes, who infest
upon being suspected and tortured, with a disregard to the the
evidence in their own favour, that would astonish anystreets both day and night.—They were ordered to lie on
the table,
Gentleman at the Quarter Sessions. The sudden conver. Mr. Davies presented the report of the Committee appointed
sign too of a young, wilful, and amorous King, flushed to aonsider the subject, which was read. It stated, that one
with luxury, anticipation, and opportunity, is of the same cause of the increase of abandoned women was the unwilling,
gratuitous character; the unexpected announcement that ness of the Court of Aldermen to allow the City funds to be ap
Vincentio is still alive, comes lagging in very inartificially; plied to the prosecution of houses of ill-fame; and it contained
and there is this unpleasant aspect in the body of the the draught of a Petition to. Parliament, praying their inter
ſerence to put a stop to the evil,—Mr. Davies moved, that this
Piece,—that it's two plots, by the sudden disappearance Petition should be adopted.
and non-return of Vincentio, appear to be cut in halves; Alderman WAITuxAN could not concur in the implied consure
and instead of amalgamating, to follow each other liké on the Court of Aldermen; as he thought the City funds would
the two parts of a wasp. in most cases be only wasted, without any good resulting from
The play however has very interesting passages, of the prosecutions, on account of the difficulty of proof. He did
character, plot, and dialogue. The character of Evaine, not conceive that any good would result from application to Par,
who is so devoted to her lover that she cannot bear the liament, Inquiry should be made into the causes of the evil, It
idea of his being miserable or hurt even though he has for appeared, to him that one great cause was the want of employ.
ment, and indeed many instances of this had come within his own
saken her, who smiles and dries up her tears, and then knowledge. If employment could be provided, he had no doubt
Appeals to the staring gladness of her poor eyes, to per .. comparatively trifling,
the evil would be
suade her brother that he has not injured her, and who After some other gentlemen had spoken, the report was agreed
goes to her lover's supposed wife to get her to use her to and the Petition adopted,
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STATE OF LONDON BRIDGE. -

A Petition was presented from several owners of craft, and FINE ARTS. * -
others, complaining of the dangerous passage fºr small vessels
under London-bridge, in consequence of the narrow water-way,
and praying that the Court might adopt some measure by which BRITISH INSTITUTION."
a more extended water-way should be afforded.
Mr. FAvell said, that the loss of property annually occa 92, Magna Charta. A. W. Davis—Cardinal Langton
sioned by the present dangerous passage through the bridge, was is here shewing the Barons Henry the 1st's Charta, and
between 20,000l. and 3,000l., and that the loss of life was from * exhorting them to insist on the renewal and observance
six to ten persons. Of the durability of the bridge, various of it.” e consequences, resulting from this and some
opinions were entertained by several engineers; it was asserted; similar occurrences in the reign of John, render this one of
by some, that if with the severe frost which occurred about five the most important events to our feelings and interests that
years ago, there had been a strong wind, the bridge must have has occurred in history. Though
been swept away. Others, however, had said, that the bridge the particular bent of
would last 500 years longer. It was said, that three large arches, Mr. Dewis's talent is for the tender and graceful, it can
sufficient for safe navigation, might be made at an expense of accommodate itself in no small degree to loftier feelings.
of 100,000l. There were large estates to pay the expense which Thus the Barons are not without the port of men, who,
might be incurred. having a great object in view, are determined to obtain it
MANSION-HOUSE FRACAS. if possible through difficulties and death. Their swords
Mr. Davies presented a Petition from Mr. T. N. Williams, are in their hands, not for parade but use, not for threaten
complaining of the conduct of the Lord Mayor at the Mansion ings only but thrusts, not for ambition's sake but their fel
house, the particulars of which are known to our readers. Mr. low-beings' sakes. No threat of government power, no
Williams, who was present, entered into detail respecting his suspension of the constitution, can intimidate
them from
treatment at the Mansion-house. On one day, he said, instead their noble purpose, and their sentiment is—Death or
of the hospitable fare generally afforded at the sword-bearer's Freedom. Swords have been so seldom drawn but for
table, there were only two small joints; and at another time,
two fowls for 19 persons.—Laid on the table. the selfish purposes of the governing power, that this scene
is quite refreshing. Still we think that though it has a
portion of this vigorous character, the picture has more of
THE REVENUE. the elegance than the energy of its subject. The Barons,
--
in those mixed martial and court-dresses of King John's
Abstract of the net produce of the Revenue of the time, which united boldness, richness, and elegance, are
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the represented by the portraits of some of our present nobi
years ended 5th January, 1818, and 5th January, 1819; ‘lity, their immediate or direct descendants. "hough Mr.
as also the total produce including and excluding the Devis is ept to keep his lights and colour in rather too
arrears received upon the war duty on malt and property: low a key, . effect of the picture is lively and rich. The
Year-ended Year ended lover of painting and the ſover of liberty will be much
Jan. 5, 1818 Jan.5, 1819 gratified in viewing this able performance.
Customs—Great Britain - - £9,761,480 9,996,226
Ireland - 1,483,804
- 1,635,470
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Beside a large majority of original performances never
| before exhibited, the Directors very considerately admit,
Total Customs United Kingdom - 11,245,284 11,631,696 some which have been exhibited elsewhere, thus giving
our, Artists another, opportunity of disposing .# their
Fºxcise-Great Britain ... - - - 19,726,297 22,894,450 works among the public, and of shewing most of them
Ireland 1,687,941
Assessed Taxes
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- 442,708 in a better light than before, for the light is good in every
Excise—Ireland - - - - - 1,833,474
part of the Gallery. . Among these are the richly coloured
Assessed Taxes - - - - 342,615 and characterized pictures by Mr. Stoth ARD, of 6, the
Triumph ºf Britannia, and 163, Fête Champetre, where
Total Excise, United Kingdom, beauty and grace, and animal spirits, and happy emotion,
and Assessed Taxes, Ireland - 21,856,946 25,070,539 revel in their prime. In 23, Gil Blas, and Diego meet
ing with the Player, Mr.J. J. CuAlos, has infused good
Stamps—Great Britain - - - 6,337,421 6,391,270 comic feeling. . In 40, Fifth of November, Mr. Witten
Ireland - - - 520,266 509,039
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1NgtoN has given us the sportiveness and peculiarities of

the Gux-Faux scene to the life. 85, Scene on the Coast
Total Stamps, United Kingdom - 6,857,687 6,900,309 of Norfolk, W. Collins, A.R.A., has most clear light and
Post-office—Great Britain - - 1,338,000 1,839,000 natural scenery of sea, beach, fish-boys, &c. Few Painters
Ireland - - - 57,281 46,153 have given so true a look of peasantry, fish-boys, &c. as
Mr. Collins. His Departure of the Diligence from
Total Post-office, United Kingdom 1,895,831 1,385,153 Rauen, 11, is among the very richest pictures of candle
Miscellaneous—Great Britain 492,872 368,099
light colour, we have ever seen by any hand at any time.
Ireland - -
-

196,058 214,226 The French look and earnestness are also most admirably
exact. This Artist's works would tell well and would
Total Miscellaneous, United Kingdom 688,980 582,325
worthily mix with a collection of Dutch paintings. 191, Pa
terdale, at the head ºf Ulsteater, by T. C. Hoffland, has
Assessed Taxes—Great Britain - - 6,127,529 6,217,594 a most clear atmosphere, encompassing lawn, lake, broken
Land Taxes—Ditto - - " -- - 1,163,320 1,209,682 ground, hills and valleys, all varied with beautiful foliage,
Property Tax—Ditto - - - 1,268,458 481,539 with figures and villages seen
Unappropriated Duties—Ditto - - 1,062,078 85,100 “When meek-eyed morn appears, mother of dews.”
Total Revenue, including arrears of -
The feeling of a happy retirement, a sequestration from
war-duty on malt and property - 51,665,458 -53,563.937 the bustle of towns, a breathing of the salubrious breath
Deduct arrears of these duties • - 2,330,531 566,639
and an enjoyment of the vivifying sunshine of Ileaven,
Total Revenue, excluding arrears of -- accompanies, our inspection of Mr. Hofflanp's elegant
war-duty on malt and property - 49,834,927 52,997,298 pictures.-Una with the Satyrs, W. Hulton, A. R.A. is
C. Arbuthnor. inuch and justly admired for the joyous character of the
Whitehall Treasury-chambers, Fal. 1, 1819. Satyrs, and to which the animated colouring is so har
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monious an accompaniment. Mr. IIItton has retouched with great zeal and the best intentions, no man can for a
the face of Und with advantage.--In comparing Mr. mounent doubt. Neither can it be said, that the result of
Baeckebox with himself in last year's Exhibition, he ap their labours, if ineffectual, will disappoint the hopes and
pears to advantage in 1, Moses receiving the Tables of the expectations of the public, for these are slender indeed. In
Law; for though the fleshy tints are deficient in bright such an inquiry it might have been better had this Com
ness, they are notinky, as before, and though the Legis mittee been so appointed as to comprize within itself every
lator is unnecessarily huge and brawny, he is rot quite variety of knowledge, in science, and in arts, applicable to
common-place and insipid. He takes a lively interest in the prevention of forgery, more particularly in the Fine"
something, but then, what kind of interest is it? . Surely Arts. How then has it happened, that in a Board ap
not that of a high-wrought, rapt feeling, which a con pointed to judge of communications, chiefly on the subject
sciousness of the grandeur of his situation and office would of engraving, no individual conversant in Art hus been
induce while communing with God himself amidst thun added to their number, no Artist of eminence, nor any dis
dets, and lightnings, and fire. . As the aim here of this tinguished practical Amateur?
young Painter is so great, nothing less than a subject of With such a Board as the present, the opinion of the
colossal size, of Miltonic and Michael ANgelo-like Bank Engravers could not fail to become an oracle. It
sublimity, we have a right to expect some brighter, scin would at once be admitted; that all human ingenuity has
tillations of lofty conception than are here intermixed with been exhausted, that nothing has been left untried by them
baser matter. Whatever is good in the drawing of the in Copper-plate Engraving; and that being employed by
figure is spoilt by an overcharged weight of limb.. The the Bank it is obvious that they must be Artists of ability,
energy of the action, and whatever is expressive of deep while, if we may judge from their productions, it is not
feeling in the mind of the Jewish Leader, are impaired easy to imagine that any one of them would pretend to
and neutralized by the mean shrug of the head between call himself an Artist.
the shoulders; while the fire coming from below and be It being now discovered, after the experience of 100
hind his legs, is so badly placed as to make poor Moses years, that Copper-plate Engraving is endrely useless; that
look as if he was taking a leap from a sudden and unap mankind have been under an unfortunate delusion, and
prehended burst of volcanic fire. Mr. BRockroo N ought that the Bank Directors are highly culpable in trusting to
either to gratify taste better, or show what he has not yet, it so long, as well as Ministers in not sooner appointing
that he can well paint humbler subjects.-14, Shylock, has the Board which has made this notable discovery, it fol
Mr. Jacksos's admired power in colour and effect, but lows of course that all the Engravers to the Bank are forth
little of SwakspeaRE's power of mind. He is a Jew, but with to be dismissed. The disinterested conduct of these
not the Jew Shylock, the greedy usurer, yet even more last cannot, therefore be sufficiently admired. Probably.
greedy for blood. In 87, Ann Page and Slender, Mr. some new light may yet burst upon their minds, and they
Jºsie has painted what our Sitakspeare has so whim may discover, before their doom is sealed, that their art
sically and most naturally dramatized,—a booby in does possess considerable means of protection against
love. His back turned towards the “sweet Ann Page.” forgery.
whose invitation to dinner he so sheepishly refuses, while
* hero or a philosopher would be happy to unbend and That the present Board is highly qualified to judge of
be amused with her good humour, archness and beauty, Chemical and Mechanical inventions, perhaps of every
his simpering and vacantly-delighted countenance, his branch of knowledge, ercept Engraving and the Fine Arts,
sword between his crossed legs, his bent wrists, and his will be fully admitted. t might be unjust to assert that
entire awkwardness, in contrast with the playful grace of every man competent to judge of Art has been purposely:
* maid, constitute a picture most risibly amusing, excluded from the Commission; but it is nevertheless true,
that no such person is a member of that. Board; and their
decision, as to the merits of Engraving, is exactly such as
was predicted. Men are naturally inclined to attach ,
REPORT ON BANK-NOTE FORGERY. themselves to whatever comes within the scope of their "
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own particular knowledge, and to undervalue what they “

To THE EDITOR OF THE ExAMINER. -
do not comprehend.
Sir-The only means hitherto used to prevent the for It is the general opinion of Artists, that the Board does
of Bank-notes has been the Art of Engraving; and not possess such qualifications as would induce them to .
such notes as present any difficulty of execution, particu put any confidence in their judgment, or to turn their
larly if they contain Fine Art, have never been imitated. minds to the object in view. The notice, therefore, in-,
From the very inferior manner in which all spurious viting them to offer plans, has been almost entirely disre-.
notes of the Bank of England have been executed, it is garded, and the Board has very naturally decided that :
gratifying to observe, that no person bred to the Arts has Engraving is incapable of affording any protection agains t
ever prostituted his talents by any such misapplication of forgery, no effectual improvement in the Art having bee: 1
them. Having had many opportunities of examining forged suggested. , Had however but one person conversant in
notes, I do not hesitate to assert, that they are executed Art been added to the Board, many Artists would have
by the lowest description of mechanical engravers. been induced to employ their minds on the subject; and P
The Report of the Commissioners however states, am enabled to state, from my own knowledge, thrit
“That these notes have all issued from a very few plates; valuable communications have actually been withheld fºr
no other reason.
that the fabrication of them is carried on by men of skill
and experience?” and laments to observe the degree of The conduct of Government to the Arts, on a recent
talent thus perverted . That Copper-plate Engraving occasion, will be remembered and felt while the present
possesses “the most formidable power of imitation” is race of Artists exists. It is now four years since they were
true; but not to such an extent as would have induced a invited to prepare designs and models for the national
Xommittee judiciously selected, to dismiss as useless the monuments, to commemorate the victories of Waterloo and
ºnly means hitherto known to prevent forgery: means, let Trafalgar. Those only who are acquainted with the laud
it be remembered, never fairly tried by the Bank, but at able ambition of Artists in the pursuit of fame, can fortn
tended with ample success wherever its value has been any conception of the enthusiasm felt on this occasion, in
jºlly appreciated. - the hopes of being handed down to posterity associated
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That the Commissioners have entered upon the inquiry with the names of Wellington and Nelson.
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Nearly two hundred models and designs were prepared Had the Bank appropriated a trifle of 1000l. a year, to
and submitted to the Committee of Taste. To produce be awarded in prizes, to the most ingenious plan, whether
these many Artists devoted almost their whole time for º or not, to be adjudged by a competent tribunal, it
many months. . Some were known to sit up all night at might have savel thousands from crime, and hundreds
work, several times in a week, as the appointed time ap from an ignominious death. For I will venture to say,
proached., 1 speak from knowledge ºf the fact. Not that this small sum would have ealled into action all the
only did they devote their own time, and neglect the means genius and ingenuity of the country. The Board might
of providing for their families, but they employed others, not, in that case, have had to decide so hastily on the
to assist them, workmen to execute models, &c. On merits of Engraving, and on the folly of mankind in trust
which last some expended 100l. in money! others 200l., ing to this alone for upwards of 100 years as a preventa
300l. ; some as much as 1000l., and I have heard that one tive of forgery. AN ARtist.
person, laid out nearly 2000l.!!, Many have not yet re
covered the injury thus done to their families. VALENTINE'S DAY-(14th of February.)
Whilst the pulse of genius thus beat high in the ſeverish -

!. of success, little did these Artists suspect, that long HAIL to thy returning festival, old Bishop VALENTINE 2
great is thy name in the rubric, thou venerable Arch
before the appointed day it was well known to many that
no Monument could be erected in the present situation of flamen of Hymen. Immortal Go-between who and
the country. . The day arrived, the designs and models what manner of person art thou?, art thou but a name, .
were delivered, but § three members of the Committee typifying the restless principle which impels poor humans
were in town, including the venerable President of the to seek perfection in finion? or wert thou indeed a mortal
Royal Academy. The others feeling, deeply, as I reall prelate, with they ippº and thyrochet, thy apron on, and
believe, the painful situation in which they were º decent lawn sleeves? Mysterious personage like unto
remained in the country, and in order to get over the pre thee, assuredly, there is no other mitred father in the
sent difficulty for a time. . These three, instead of deciding calendar; not Jerome, nor Ambrose, nor Cyril; nor the .
on the merits of the works offered, determined to extend consigner of undipt infants to eternal torments, Austin,
the period for six months, “several Artists having applied whom all mothers hate; nor he who hated all mothers,
to this effect to enable them to complete their designs.” Qrigen; nor. Bishop Bull, nor Archbishop Parker, nor
Thus did this destructive occupation employ the minds of Whitgift. Thou comest attended with thousands and ten
Artists during the most valuable period of another year, thousands of little Loves, and the air is
from January till May. Brush'd with the hiss of rustling wings.
At the expiration of this period the drawings were again Singing Cupids are thy choristers and thy precentors; and
required to be presented, and the models remained at the instead of the crosier, the mystical arrow is borne before
houses of the respective Artists, to be there inspected by thee.
she Committee. This farce,—I mean no offence to those In other words, this is the day on which those charmi
highly respectable and distinguished individuals, for I am little missives, yel Valentines, cross and intercross ea
convinced that they felt as good men ever will,—this other at every street and turning. . The weary, and all
farce, was performed on the day and at the very hour that for-spent twopenny postman sinks beneath a load of deli
the Exhibition of the Royal Academy opened, the Com cate embarrassments, not his own. It is scarcely credible
amittee well knowing that every Artist would then be at to what an extent this ephemeral courtship is carried on in
Somerset-house. They had to call at no less than 30, this loving town, to the great, enrichment of porters, and
perhaps 40 different places. This duty was gone through detriment of knockers and bell-wires. In these little visual
in considerably less than two hours; so that allowing #. interpretations, no emblem is so common, as the heart, L
least possible time for their conveyance, this could not leave that little three-cornered exponent of all our hopes and
more than a very few seconds to inquire into the merits of fears, the bestuck and bºſſ. heart; it is twisted and
each work, the study of which, and the execution of the tortured into more allegories and affectations than an opera
details, had probably occupied intensely the mind of the hat. What authority we have in history or mythology for
Artist for a year and a half. But this was not the purpose placing the head-quarters and metropolis of God Cupid in
of their visit, which was merely to get over a difficulty, this anatomical seat rather than in any other, is not very
and to mitigate the feelings of individuals. clear; but we have got it, and it will serve as well as any
No remuneration whatever has been offered to these other thing. Else, we might easily imagine, upon some
Artists, neither has any one of them ever breathed a com other system which might have prevailed for any thin
.plaint, and Ministers are probably to this hour ignorant of which our pathology knows to the contrary, a lover ad
i;he cruelty they have been guilty of I have, it is true, dressing his mistress, in perfect simplicity of feeling,
1%eard several condemn themselves, and bitterly lament their “Madam, my liver and fortune are entirely at your dis
on ºn folly in listening to any invitation from Government. posal;” or putting a delicate question, “Amanda, have
Ministers may again. call on Artists to exert themselves, you a midriff to bestow º' But custom has settled these
but as in the present instance of the improvement of Bank things, and awarded the seat of sentiment to the aforesaid
notes, they will call in vain. Men in public life do not triangle, while its less fortunate neighbours wait at animal
seem to be aware of the distinction to be made between and anatomical distance.
tenders for a contract, to supply the Navy with beef or Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and
pork, and roodels or designs for works of Art to comme all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. It
morate its victories. The one may be written in five “ gives a very echo to the throne where Hope is seated.”
minutes, the other may require six months hard labour, But its issues seldom answer to this oracle within. It is
and intense study night and day: ºf. with an ex so seldom that just the person we want to see comes. But
penditure of money, ruinous to men, who depend solely on of all the clamorous visitations the welcomest in expecta
their labour and time to support their families. tion is the sound that ushers in, or seems to usher in, a
These are the grounds, added to the incompetency of Valentine. As the raven himself was hoarse, that an
the Board, on , which I rest the conviction, with actual nounced the fatal entrance of Duncan, so the knock of
knowledge of the fact in several instances, that Artists have the postman on this day is light, airy, confident, and be
not generally paid the least attention to the invitation from fitting one that “bringeth good tidings.” It is less mecha
the Commissioners for Bank-notes, and that communica nical than on other days; you will say, “That is not the
tions have actually been withheld. Post, I am sure.” Wisions of Love, of &pi; of Hymens,
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and all those delightful eternal common-places, which º: to the meeting

vened.
the object for which it had been con
“having been will always be;” which no school-boy nor Mr. Richten then read the report. Among other things of
school-man can write away; having their irreversible which it complained was the apathy of the Whigs to the question
throne in the fancy and affections; what are your trans of Reform and the election of Mr. Hobhouse. It mentioned as
ports, when the happy maiden, opening with careful finger, remarkable, that the only morning paper which took no notice of
careful not to break the emblematic seal, bursts upon the their meetings (although its reporters attended at some of them).
sight of some well-designed allegory, some type, some was the Morning Chronicle, the accredited organ of the Whigs.
youthful fancy, not without verses— So great was the impatience of the meeting before the report was
Lovers all, concluded, that Sir F. Burdett proposed that it be printed.—The
motion was carried, and
A madrigal, -

Mr. Hobhouse came forward amidst loud and repeated cheers,

or some such device, not over abundant in sense—young and addressed the meeting. It was them nearly three months
Love disclaims it, and not quite silly—something be: since he last had the pleasure ºf meeting the electors of West
tween wind and, water, a chorus where the sheep might minster in that room. The three months he had spent in taking
almost join the shepherd, as they did, or as I apprehend every opportunity of knowing the electors, and at the same time
of giving them every opportunity of knowing him. (Hear, hear!)
thev did. in Arcadia.
He was somewhat embarrassed at his first address to them, but
º Valentines are not foolish, and I shall not easily for he conceived he had greater reason to be so on the present occa
get thine, my kind friend (if I may have leave to calſ you sion. On the former occasion he had come forward end pro
so) E. B.-E. B. lived opposite a young maiden, whom mised that he would exert every means in his power to deserve
he had often seen, unseen, from his parlour window in their favour; at present he came back to ask whether, and how
C—e-street. She was all joyousness and innocence, and far, he had answered their expectations. (Loud applause, and
just of an age to enjoy receiving a Valentine, and just of cries of “you have hitherto.") He was not so much gratified on
a temper to bear the disappointment of missing one with this occasion at his being the subject of their choice, as at finding
that the principles which he advocated were the object of their
good humour. E. B. is an artist of no common powers; attachment.
in the fancy, parts of designing, perhaps inferior to none: advocated. ItIthad was not the man, but the principles which they
been often said, that an independent man
his name is known at the bottom of many a well-executed was that kind of being whom nobody could depend upon. To
vignette in the way of his profession, but no further; for those amphibious bats, who held themselves midway between
E. B. is modest, and, the world meets, nobody half-way. the pampered beasts on the one side, and the ravenous birds of
E. B. meditated how he could repay this young maiden prey on the other, and could be either when occasion required,
for many a favour which she had done him unknown; for, this argument might be applicable; but it could not be with the
when a kindly face greets us, though but passing by, and man who was separated from every party, and would only vote
where his conscience led him. The time was, however, now
never knows us again, nor we it, we should feel it as an arrived, when the country would no longer be dazzled with
obligation; and E. B., did. This good artist set himself
at work to please the dansel. . It was just before Valen names instead of things—with men instead of principles. If they
looked only to men who professed their willinguess to sacrifice
tine's day three years since. He wrought unseen and un every thing for party, they would find themselves deceived, for
suspected a wondrous work. We need not say it was on the object of such men was only deception. They might talk of
the º, paper with borders—full, not of common heir intended co-operation—a word invented for the purposes of
hearts and heartless allegory, but all the prettiest stories of deception; for it seemed, and did, in fact, preclude the very idea
love from Ovid, and older poets than Ovid (for E. B. is a of active operation altogether. This kind of party co-operation
scholar). There was Pyramus and Thisbe, and besure rendered any man completely dependent, and degraded him from
the ... character of a steward of the people, to that of
Dido was not forgot, nor Hero and Leander, and swans the pupil of an individual. Such a man could do nothing of
more than sang in Cayster, with mottoes and fanciful de himself; he could not even be the originator of any question, how
vices, such as Reseemed,—a work in short of magic. Iris ever beneficial, unless he got previous leave from those with
dipt the woof. This on Valentine's eve he commended whom he acted. In fact, this co-operation was with the opposi
to the all-swallowing indiscriminate orifice—(O ignoble tion what coalition was with Ministers—it deprived every man
trust')—of the common Post; but the humble medium did of his own opinion, and obliged him, whether right or wrong, to
its duty, and from his watchful stand, the next morning, conform
like the
his action to that of those with whom he acted. It was
cºnduct
he saw the cheerful messenger knock, and by and by the own friends to beofsacrificed,
the three tyrants of Rome—each suffered his
provided he could in turn sacrifice
precious charge delivered. He saw, unseen, the happy the friends of the other; and he might coupmre it to those bar
girl unfold the Valentine, dance about, clap her hands, barous factions which existed in Italy in the middle ages, who,
as one after one the pretty emblems unfolded them whenever they made peace with each other, had a particular
selves. She danced about, not with light love, or clause inserted, by which either was allowed to plunder and
foolish expectations, for she had no lover; or, if she destroy the monuments of ancient art. It was just so at present
ad, none she knew "that could have created those with coalitions and co-operations—whatever difference might
fight images which delighted her. arise between them individually, they all agreed in destroying
It was more or defacing the ancient monuments ... constitutional liberty.
like some fairy present; a God-send, as our familiarly This was the effect which an union in one party had upon every
pious ancestors termed a benefit received, where the bene member; see then what was its effect upon the leader. The
factor was unknown. It would do her no harm. It leader of such a party was obliged constantly to give up his own
would do her good for ever after. It is good to love the opinion. He was obliged to bring ...} . that measure
unknown. I dily give this as a specimen of E. B. and his which he conceived most likely to be productive of good, but
modest way of doing a concealed kindness. which was likely to gain most proselytes. He was obliged not so
-morrow, to my Valentine, sings poor Ophelia; with much to consult the dispositions of those whom he knew thought
and no better wish, but with better auspices, we wish to degreehim, as to conciliate those who, though of his party, in some
differed from him. There was nothing like facts; and to
all faithful lovers, who are not too wise to despise old le: prove that party, not principle, was the leading object with such
gends, but are content to rank themselves humble dioce men, he need only to mention the minority which the opposition
sans with old Bishop Walentine, and his true church.+++
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had some time back. It was, he believed, not less than 168, and
that upon a question where, as far as he could see, no principle
was concerned. But on another question, a day or two after,
IVEST11 INSTER ELECTION. of vital importance, at least to the electers of Westminster, there
-
could be found only forty-two persons to vote. The opposition
of a party might be good, if it turned out Ministry; but unless a
On Tuesday, a meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster was change
held at the Crown and Anchor, for the purpose of receiving the change atwere for the better, it would be worse than having no
fport of the General Committee, all. To a member deputed from some small borough—the
At one o'clock, Sir Francis Dunpert took the chair, and representative of a sheep-ºot-attachment to a party might be
–4.
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desirable, because it would add to his respectability. It might Mr. Hobmouse said, that his allusions to the orange flag at the
be necessary to tie the rotten faggots of Parliament together, in Gun-tavern were never meant to apply to Mr. Hunt, but to the
order to make something like a substantial faggot; but the case Court ruflian, Caleb Baldwin. He could not, and did not, mean
was quite different with the man who represented such a body Mr. Hunt in anything else which he had said. It was true, he
as the electors of Westminster; it was not necessary for him tº said, that the individual who had put Caleb Baldwin on, had
look to one party or the other for respectability, if indeed either sunk knee-deep in blood in the kennels of Dublin, and would
party could give it; he had known those who sent him, and no doubt be willing to do the same in England; but that did not
it was his duty to do that which he conceived to be the best apply to Mr. Hunt; it was meant for another quarter. (Hear.)
for his constituents and the public, without looking to the right Mr. Wooler disavowed the assertion, that Sir F. Burdett had
or left, to see who it was who did or neglected theirs. If refused to hear him on the last occasion. He did not at that time
the Electors of Westminster should return him to Parliament, intend to propose Major Cartwright, because he thought it was
he pledged himself not to attach himself to any party. He impossible the electors of Westminster could have forgot the
would not coalesce with any; though he should feel it his duty, gratitude they owed to that venerable patriot. He conceived
undoubtedly, on many questions where he agreed, to co-operate that great injustice was done to him on the last election, as well
with those who thought with him. One reason why he should as on the present occasion.
inot belong to a party was, that he conceived it would be impossi Major Tortress contended, that if it was injustice, which he
ble in that case to be a radical reformer; the party in opposition, denied, to have preferred Mr. Hobhouse to Major Cartwright at
as it was called, seemed to have lost all notions of that question. the late meeting, it would be injustice and ingratitude to reject
They lately stated as their opinion of reform, that they were not Mr. Hobhouse on the present occasion. He had driven the
without hope that they might have at some future day a part of euemy from the field º firing a shot; and it would be as
a plan of constitutional reform, when almost all the modern re unjust to deprive him of his well-earned reward, as it would to
formers should have openly renounced their opinions upon that give to one general who had not been in the field, the laurels of
subject. This was indeed adjourning their good intentions sine the other who had gained the victory,
die. But it ought to be recollected that the very party, from one Mr. G \le Joxes next presented himself, and was received
Sf which this opinion of reform was quoted, had at one period with the most marked disapprobation. Sir Francis Burdett
been themselves the advocates for radical reform. The word tried in vain several times to restore order, and at length Mr.
radical reform was of their own invention. It was used by a Jones retired.
great leader not more than 20 years ago, whe said, that without Mr. Castrºnett, then nddressed the meeting; after which
a radical reform of Parliament, and of the abuses which had crept Mr. Watson advanced, but was received with shouts of “No
into the practice of the constitution, he would never accept of Spa Fields,” and cries of “Off, Off.” He read a letter from
any office of responsibility under the government; and yét the some person in support of Major Cartwright, at the conclusion of
very followers of that leader, they who now so numerously which he added his own opinion to the same effect.
assembled to celebrate his memory, were amongst the most for Sir Charles Wolseley conceived that Major Cartwright was
ward in sneering at the very mestion of radical reform in the very badly treated; that the letter which he had written called
present day, and took every opportinuity of turning it into ridicule. for an answer from Sir F. Burdett and the Committee.
(Hear, hear.) Mr. Hobhouse concluded by expressing his firm Sir F. Burnett first inquired whether any other gentleman
determination never, under any circumstances to swerve from wished to address the meeting. He asked this question, that he
the principles which he had avowed; and with respect to his might not give reon for such unfounded assertions as had that
election, he declared, that if the inhabitants of Westminster, day been made of his partiality. . The Hon. Baronet then went on
however favourable to him they had been, had found or should to defend himself from the attacks and insinuations made against
think any other individual likely to serve them better, he would him by Mr. Hunt. The first had been already answered º Mr.
be most happy to retire, and give in to one who might be more Wooler. But it seemed strange, that with this complaint bang
efficient. (Loud applause.) ing in his (Mr. Hunt's) mind, he should at the last meeting have
Mr. Roundthwaite moved that the exertions of the several have expressed himself satisfied with his (Sir F. Burdett's) con
parochial committees should be continued, until their great ob duct; that he should not have dissented, if he was not so satis
ject should be attained. , fied, from a motion of thanks which had been proposed to him,
This was seconded by Mr. Thelwall, who, in a speech of and carried unanimously. . With respect to the understanding
some length, dwelt upon the rising talents of Mr. Hobhouse. He which it was said existed between him and Major Cartwright,
gave every credit to the great merit of Major Cartwright, but as about the return of the latter, he denied that any such ever
Mr. Hobhouse had been proposed, and that proposal met the existed. (Here Mr. Hunt said, that he had only supposed such
general approbation of the electors, he trusted ne differences of understanding to have existed, but that he did not state it posi
. . opinion would arise now upon the subject. tively.) Sir F. Burdett replied, that though he might have been
Mr. Hunt then presented himself to the notice of the meeting, accused of opinions which he had never held, and condemned for
t and was received with disapprobation. He said he was deter sentiments which he had never uttered, yet it was too much to
mined to be heard, and nothing but absolute force should pre make him accountable for the supppositions of Mr. Hunt. (Loud
vent him. He spoke of the meri is of Mr. Hobhouse, and allud laughter.) There wever was any understanding between him and
ing to a meeting at the Gun-lave n, Pimlico, asked Mr. Hobhouse, Major Cartwright, on the subject of his (Major Cartwright's)
whether he had not there made strong personal allusions to him election; for he (Sir F. Burdett) had never believed that it was
as a late candidate 2 -
his intention to become a candidate. He had been always simple
Mr. Hobhouse—“No, Sir, I nºver did.” enough to believe that the worthy Major's patriotic exertiºns
Mr. Huxt said it must have b. en an error of the newspapers. had arisen from better motives, than from a desire to get a seat
It would ask Mr. Hobhouse whether he had not alluded to an in Parliament. Ile (Sir F, Burdett) had nºten said to him, that
individual as having mounted the orange-flag, and raised over it it was the worst-place he could be in, for his own sake, and that
the cap of liberty, the emblem of revolution ? (Loud hisses, and of the country; for that it would ruin his health, and that he
considerable uproar.) This might also be an error of the news could perform more efficient services to the public out of than in
paper editors; for iſ Mr. Hobhou is did not state it, it was stated Parliament. He would have supported Major Cartwright if he
i.
for him, that he (Mr. Hunt) would ready to wade up to his knees wished to stand, if he thought his election was practicable; but
in blood in a civil war. He then went on a considerable length, it had ever been his opinion, that such a thing could not be
though interrupted, several times by the strong disapprobation effected. He was sorry that the worthy Major should have any
of the meeting, which the frequent interference of the chairman supposed ground for anger. But the head and front of his
on his behalf did not effectually suppress. . He accused Sir F. offence was having given his opinion that his election was a
Bºrdett of partiality, in having on the last day of meeting inter thing which could not take place. The Major talked of tricks
rupted Mr. Wooler, who was about to propose Major Cartwright, and cabals; but where was the proof, where was the ground for
and in having, from the chair, advocated the cause of Mr. Hob supposing any such There was none, except what originated
house. In conclusion, he moved an amendment, to the effect in the irritated vanity of the worthy Major himself. His letter
that, as the proceedings at the lºst meeting were all partially gave currency to some of the slauders of Cobbett, and sºme
cruducted, there should be called a general meeting to decide which the Major himself knew to be unfounded. As to what
whether Riº Cartwright or Mr. Ilobhouse was the choice of was said of himself besides this, of what he might become, he
the electors. In the course of his speech he dwelt much on the should only observe, that he could not answer or that ; it was
merits of Major Cartwright, and insinuated that Sir F. Burdett possible he might betray the people as so many others bad un
had not acted fairly towards him in giving his support to ano fortunately done: but this he heped, that if he continued to have
ther, - - - any command over his own faculties, he was confident he weald
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never be found separated from a warm advocacy of the liberties that he should find it necessary to urge any thing against them
of the people. (Applause.) The Hon. Baronet concluded by ex on this day, and, therefore, with the permission of the Court,
pressing his epinion, that the Committees ougºt to follow up the they might withdraw. (Mr. and Mrs. Paul retired.) It was
stand they had made. - -
impossible, he thought, that the Court could be induced to grant
He then put Mr. Hunt's amendment, which was negatived. a new trial on the principle that the defendants were taken by
The original motion was then carried. surprise. Twelve months had elapsed between the time of the
Thanks were afterwards voted to Sir F. Burſlett, for his con conspiracy and the trial; the case had made a great noise in the
duet in the chair, and his continued advocacy of the rights of the neighbourhood, and every part of the proof given on the prosecu
people; and the meeting broke up at nearly half-past five o'clock. tion was perfectly understood long before. According to the
terms of º indictment, and the law of the land, it would be a
SHERIFFS FOR 1819. conspiracy even if Miss Glenn were a participator in it. The de
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fendants made themselves out to be conspirators. . But every
thing would rest upon the character of this young lady. Her
Bedfºrd–The Hon. Samuel Ongley, of Sandy. behaviour in this instance might be thought extraordinary, but it
Berks-John º of Heywood-lodge, Esq. was produced by terror, ill treatment, and threats. The Learned
Bucks—John Grubb, of Horsenden, Esq. -

Judge who presided at the trial, declared that she gave her evi
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Cambridge and Huntingdon—John Hall, of West Wratting, Esq. dence in a modest, respectful, and collected manner. He should
Cheshire–John Smith Barry, of Merbury, Esq.
Cumberland—Thomas Salkeld, of Carlisle, Esq.
Derby—Edward Coke, of Longford, Esq.
Devon–Treby Hele Hays, of Delamore, Esq.
Porset–George Purling. of Bradford, Esq.
Essex—John Wilks, of Wendon Lofts, Esq.
Gloucester—Edward Sheppard, of the Ridge, Esq.
Hereford—William Hanbury, of Shobden, Esq.
Hertford—Samuel Unwin Heathcote, of Shephalbury, Esq.
Kent—The Hon. John Wingfield Stratford, of Addington-place, had not been guilty of any familiarities with James Bowditch,
Leicester—Thomas Sansome, of Hinckley, Esq.
lineein–Ayscough Boucherett, of Willinghain, Esq.
Monmouth—George Buckle, of Chepstow, Esq.
Norfolk—Sir William Windham Dalling, of Earsman, Bart.
Northampton—Sir J. Henry Palmer, of Carlton Curlieu, Bart. bed, and carried off; but, on that occasion, terror deprived her
Nerūhumberland—William Ord, of Nunney Kirk, Esq.
Nottingham—Henry Gally Knight, of Langold, Esq.
Oxford–John Houghton Langston, of Sarsden, Esq.
Hatland–James Tiptaſ, of Braunston, Esq.
Salop—Edward William Smythe Owen, of Condover-park, Esq.
Somerset—William Spike, of Ashill, Esq.
Stafford–Jesse Watts Russell, of Ilam, Esq.
County Southamp.–H.C. Compton, Manor-house, Minstead, Esq.
Suffolk—Andrew Archdeckne, of Glenham, E-q.
Surrey—withiam Speer, of Thames Ditton, Esq.
Sussex—John Wood, of Chestham, Esq.
Warwick—John Eardley Eardley Wilmot, of Berkswell, Esq.
wilts—John Long, of Monkton Farleigh, Esq.
Worcester—John Jeffreys, of Blakebrook, Esq.
York—William Wrightson, of Cusworth, Esq.
WALES.
Carmarthen—David Heron Pugh, of Greenhill, Esq.
Pembroke—John Edw. Philipps Laugharne, of Pontvane, Esq.
Cardigan–George Jeffrys, of Glandorey, Esq.
Glamorgan—Josiah John Guest, of Dowlais, Esq.
Brecen-John Gwynne, of Gweruvale-house, Esq.
confine himself to that part of the case which related to her
general character, and her being present at the christening of
Mrs. Mulrain's child. The affidavits of her uncle and aunt, with
whom she had resided, of Miss Hutton, a teacher at Mrs.
Trenchard's school, of Dr. Thompson, and others, declared that
she was a most modest and virtuous girl; that she would have
been one of the last to elope with any person, particularly a man
so inferior in life to j.
that she was a girl of veracity, and
easily to be worked upon. He then went on to show that she
and produced the affidavits of Long, the parish clerk, and others,
to prove that she was not the person who was present at the
christening. The other side might rely on the circumstance that
she had not alarmed her uncle, when she was taken out of her
of the use of her voice; and, overcome as she was by the sur
prise of the moment, he might say with the poet, por faucibus.
harsit.
Mr. GAselee produced affidavits to show that the letters
ascribed to Miss Glenn were forged.
Mr. Moone contended that Miss Glenn's evidence with respect
to Mr. Oxenham, the attorney, was perfectly true; and that the
alihi set up by that gentleman could not be supported by facts,
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Mr. Williams argued, that the person who was seen with
James, Bowditch on several occasions was not Miss Glenn, and
that she was not the person who was present at the christening.
Mr. Scanlºrr, in support of the rºle, contended, that the
letters in question were written by Miss Glenn, and that the
personation set up on the other side could not be established.
Her conduct would be easily understood, if the Court should find
that she really desired to marry James Bowditch, but that she
was disappointed before the consummation, and then turned
round on the deſendants, with a view to preserve her character.
The arguments for the defendants not being over at nine
o'clock, the Court desired that further proceedings should be
postponed. - -

Radnor—Morgan John Evans, of Llwynberried-house, Esq. Tuesday, Feb. 9.

Merioneth—Edward Owen, of Garthynghaved, Esq. This morning the Court resumed this case, and Mr. CAshgan
Carnarvon—G. Hay Dawkins Pennant, of Pearyn-castle, Esq. continued the argument for the defendants. He was followed
Angle-ey—william Pritchard Lhoyd, of Llwydiart, Esq. by Mr. SElwin and Mr. Jenexiv. These gentlemen went over
Montgomery—John Davies, of Machynlleth, Esq. the several facts adduced at the trial, and contended, that the
Denbigh—Edward Corbett, of Lloran, Esq. defendants were not guilty of the conspiracy. They argued that
Flint—Ralph Richardson, of Kinsall, Esq. it was the object of Miss Glenn to be married to J. Bowditch;
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and that when she found herself disappointed, she invented this
story, with a view to preserve her own reputation, and recover
LAW. the gord opinion of her uncle and aunt. They endeavoured to
show that she had written the letters in question ; that she had
COURT OF KING'S BENCH. been present at the christening; and that she had shown her
partiality for Bowditch, by entering into many familiarities with
Monday, Feb. 8. him. They then defended the character of Mr. Oxenham, and
THE RING U. Bowditch AND orth Ers. contended that the alibi was sufficiently ſº
There was not.
It will be remembered, that this was an indictment charging such inequality between the station in life of Miss Glenn and
the defendants with a conspiracy to drag Miss Maria Glenn, an lłowditch. Mr. Tucket, the uncle of Miss Glenn, resided abºut
infant, from her family, at Taunton, Somersetshire, in order to half a mile from Taunton; he kept no man-servant; he lived in
get her married to James Bowditch, cne of the defendants. The neat retirement; and, when he sent her to lodge with Mrs.
cause was tried before Mr. Justice Park, at the last Dorset Bowditch, it was part of the arrangement that he should send
assizes, and the Jury returned n verdict of guilty against all the provisions to her. Mrs. Bowditch was the owuer of the farm in
defendants. In the last term Mr. Scarlett obtained a rule to show which she lived; Mrs. Gibbons, one of her daughters, (who had
cause why a new trial should not be granted. Cause was now died since the trial,) was married to an officer in the army; and
shown against the rule. - -- Mr. Paul, who married another daughter, was a most respectable
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TMr. Sergeant Pett said, that the question was now what it man. Mrs. Mulrain had been well educated, and she taught Miss
was at the trial—Was Miss Glenn to be believed on her oath Glenn to paint on velvet.. These perseus, then, though not
The affidavits, which tended to show that she had sworn falsely, affluent, were not in a situation to entitle Miss Glenn, or even
contained nothing more than was stated by the wituesses at the Mr. Tucket, to look down upon them with contempt. As to the
trial. with respect to Mr. and Mrs. Paul, he was not certain pretence of terror on the part of Miss Glenn, it was argued, that
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the operation of fear on the human mind would have been ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c.
, directly the reverse. If the lady had been cerried away against On Thursday an inquest was held on the body of Miss Mary
her will, she would have alarmed her uncle, who slept in the
Ann Mott, who was found drowned near Brighton.—From the
next room. The great question was, the probability of the story examination of Mr. R. Mott, uncle to the deceased, it appeared,
which she had told. It was a story supported by her own evi that the young lady betrayed no particular features of a disordered
dence alone; and it was by no means uncommon for a young
lady to form an attachment unknown to her friends, and after mind on Sunday last, that she complained of n pain in her head
before dinner, and retired to her chamber. She sat down to
wards, when she was discovered before the consummation of the dinner with the family, and at three o'clock in the afternoon the
marriage, to make up a story, in the hope of preserving her deceased left home with an intent to go to church. Witness was
character."
The four Judges in succession took a review of the arguments
surprised at the absence of his niece, and made inquiries the
same morning at the coach-offices, and among the friends of the
on both sides, and all declared they were of opinion that there
deceased, without gaining any information. Between nine and
was no sort of pretence for a new trial. The foul conspiracy had
ten o'clock, a loose piece of paper was found on the staircase,
been clearly proved, even by the defendants themselves. evidently the handwriting of the deceased, containing several
The rule was accordingly discharged. incoherent sentences; part of which were writen with a pencil,
Mr. Justice BAYLEY, in an impressive manner, dwelt on the
and obliterated. Witness thought her mind was disordered.
enormity of the offence of which the defendants had been con The deceased had lived with him 12 months.-Richard Briggs
victed, and told them, that if they had succeeded in their met the deceased on Sunday afternoon, about five o'clock, walk
object, they would have been § of a capital crime. The evi ing near the Crescent. Witness addressed her, but received no
dence against Susannah Bowditch was but slight, and as the answer; she walked on with her eyes fixed on the ground, and
Counsel for the prosecution had consented to enter a Nolle appeared very dejected.— Mr. Sutton, surgeon, examined the
Prosegui as to her and Mr. and Mrs. Paul, no punishment would body, and had no doubt but that she died by suffocation.—The
be inflicted on them. It could not be denied, however, that the º: of Mr. George Mott, cousin of the deceased, was con
conduct of Mr. and Mrs. Paul was very blameable. The sentenceclusive as to the manifestation of a disordered mind. Verdict—
of the Court was, that Joan Bowditch and Wm. Bowditch should Insanitw.
be imprisoned in the gaol of Dorchester for 21 months; Susan On Wednesday morning, Mrs. Blunt, of William-street, St
nah Mulrain for two years; and James Bowditch for 18 months. George's, went out to get some coals, leaving two children in
bed, and a candle lighted upon the table. During her absence,
POLICE. the eldest, about five years of age, got out of bed, and set fire to
--- a piece of wood in the grate, when her bed-gown caught fire,
Guilditall. and in a moment she was enveloped in flames: her mother short
Coxntexcentext of Cobbert's PuFF-out PLAN.—On Saturday ly returned, and put them out by throwing water over her, and
week, Theophilus Brown, a labouring man, was charged with ut immediately took her to the London Hospital, High-street, White
tering forged notes.—It appeared, that the prisoner had bought chapel, but she was burnt in so dreadful a manner from the
several articles of wearing apparel at the shop of Mr. Blackett, knees upwards, that she died soon afterwards in great pain.
clothes-salesman, West-Smithfield, and tendered a one-pound As Colin Macinnes, an old man, his daughter, and grandson,
note in payment, which being thought bad, he was asked for a child of about 6 years of age, were crossing the river Leven, in
another, when he produced three more, all of which however Invernesshire, on the morning of the 13th ult. in a small coble,
the river being much swollen, they were unable to-effect tº
were suspected to be forged. An officer was sent for, and the landing,
prisoner questioned as to $ow *.*.* by the notes. He re and were driven down the river; they, however, landed
plied, that he had got them of his uncle, but immediately after on a small island not many yards from the land. Their situation
acknowledged that he had found them. He said, that as he was was discerned by a young man, who immediately set out to their
passing along Rose-street, Covent-Garden, at six in the morn assistance with two horses. The girl he got up on one of them
behind him, and saw the old man and the boy on the other,
ing, he saw a bit of rag lying on a ledge, and on picking it up, Scarcely had he and the young woman got on shore, when they
found in it six one-peund notes. A stranger passing by claimed
half the money, and he agreed to treat him with some liquor. saw the horse behind them fall, and precipitate his riders in the
They went to a public-house in the Strand and changed one of as he hºwater. The young lad could only call to them to keep fast hold,
could not leave the almost-distracted girl, who
the notes. He afterwards bought some hosiery in Fleet-street,
which was found on him when searched at Mr. ãº. The wished to be out to her parent. The old man, however, in a few
officer took the prisoner to the places he had mentioned, and moments, let go the hold, and grasping the child, both were
found that his story was true.—The prisoner repeated his former instantly carried down by the foaming stream. A young gentie
statement before the Magistrate ... any embarrassment.— man who has a cottage near the banks of the river, swam out
for some time in search of the sufferers, but without effect. A
Remanded,
On Thursday, John Birkett, a man of miserable appearance, boat was got, and the bodies were taken out in about twenty
who gets his living by hawking about painphlets, &c. was minutes, but the vital spark had fled.—Country paper. -

charged with having received property, knowing it to be stolen.

Mr. Hone, of Ludgate-hill, had lately published a certain Note, ' ' MARRIAGES.
which he termed a Bank Restriction Note. With this was pub On Thursday morning, Wiscount Anson, to Louisa Catherine,
lished, as a companion, a Barometer, the scale of which repre oungest daughter of the late Nathaniel Phillips, Esq. of Slebees
sented the different effects likely to be produced on the prosperity #. Pembrokeshire. " -

of the country, by the continuance or removal of the Bank Re At Abthorpe, Northamptonshire, Mr. W. Sheen, of London,
striction. The Note and the Barometer were only to be pur to Miss Greaves, of the former place.
chased together. On Monday the prisoner offered for sale to Mr. DeATHS.
Shorter, bookseller, Wych-street, Strand, six notes, without the
barometers, of which he said he had noue. Shorter purchased º: Wedneday, the 10th instant, Thomas Yarnold, Esq., of
ames-house, Worcester. - -

the six for 2s. ; but suspecting them to be forgeries, gave informa
tion at Mr. Hone's bank. Mr. Hone, on this occasion, became On the 12th instant, in Lower Grosvenor-place, Capt. Francis
his own inspector, and after minute examination, pronounced Mount Keith, of the Royal Artillery - -

them to be forgeries in no respect; they were on his Bank-post In Brownlow-street, Holborn, on the 7th instant, in the 74th
paper, and impressions from his plate; he could hot, indeed, year of her age, Mrs. Mary Erwºod, relict of the late Solomon
Erwood.
swear to the hand-writing of his signing clerk, though he had On the 6th inst., Sir Henry Harper Crewe, Bart. He was
frequently seen him make his mark; but he had no doubt that driving a pair of young full-blood horses in a carriage constructed
the name was executed by the same hand as all his other notes like a break, near his residence, Boreham-wood, near Elstree.
were ! It was discovered that a great number of said notes had The horses became restive, and the wheel coming in contact with
illegally issued from the printing-office of Mr. Dewick, Barbican,
and an errand boy of Mr. Dewick's, who had absconded, was the posts at the gateway of a cottage, the concussion threw Sir
suspected to be the utterer, and the prisoner was found to Henry with great force from his seat on his head, and occasioned
his instantaneous death.
be the receiver. After this explanation, the prisoner was set -
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at liberty, engaging that both himself and his son would be
forthcoming to give evidence against Mr. Dewick's boy, when Printed and published by John Hext, at the Examinen-Office
Fºr he shall be apprehended. - ** -- - 19, catherius-street, Strand.—Price P0d. .. .

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No. 582. SUNDAY, FEB. 21, 1819.

the politicAL ExAMINER. Do they prefer the political conduct of Sir SAM tel, who
made few or no exertions in the cause of what they em
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Por E.
phatically understand by Reform, or the political con
duct of Sir FRANcis, who, whatever may have been his
* No. 567.
imattentions, has made many 2 If they do not, how can
they affect to consider Sir SAMUEL's follower as a greater
WESTMINSTER ELECTION. reformer than the Friend of Sir FRANcis? If they do,
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what is any longer the meaning of this insincere chattering
Thists, it must be confessed, appear to be taking a sin about Reform, on the side of either Whigs or Electors?
gular turn in Westminster. The events of last week have The Electors are bound to state that they no longer
much enlightened us on this subject. We thought, at any thought as they used.
rate, that Reform was the uppermost thing in the minds of But again, Mr. Hobhouse, it is said, does not speak
the majority; but we now more than doubt it. The elec straight forward, and Sir FRANcis wishes to thrust him up
tion of Sir SAMUEL Roxſilly did not persuade us to the on us whether we will or no. It is certainly to be regret
contrary; for although that eminent person was un ted, that Mr. Hobhouse put forth that strange Sybilline
doubtedly a party Whig, by habit and connexion, yet in leaf on Saturday week. It looked as if he had opinions
his own nature he was an abstract reformer and philan which he wished to conceal, and must have given the
thropist; and his character, to that effect, may reasonably Electors a disadvantageous idea of his turn of mind. . It
have superseded his other one. He at least did what he undoubtedly has done him great harm. And the fact
could towards areformation of the laws; and his exertions, seems to be, what must have done additional injury both
though they felt their way somewhat timidly, tended to the to him and Sir FRANcis, -that he distrusted the present
general progress of the human intellect. popularity of the latter's opinions, and did not chuse to
But this, with the exception of one or two men such as say expressly that he thought expressly like him. Yet if
Mr. Brougnax, cannot be said of the Whigs in general; Mr. Hobhouse was disingenuous, the Electors are disin
and when we see the Westminster Electors ready to take genuous too. Do they, or do they not, prefer a greater
upon trust a professed Whig Candidate like Mr. Laxn, or less portion of reforming opinions? If they preſer a
we only seein it more of resentment arising out of their greater, who doubts that the opinions of Sir FRANcis go
own party divisions, than of attachment to any thing like further that way than Mr. LAME's If they prefer a less,
consistency, or even opinion. -
let them say at once that they are no longer what they used
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“Mr. Lawn, it is true, grounds. his pretensions upon to be when they insisted upon returning two. Reformers
being a disciple or follower of Sir Saxtuel Romitly, and instead of one; let them say that they prefer one Reformer
treading with veneration in his steps; and it must be al and one Whig; or that they will have two Whigs as soon
\owed that he seems a frank and intelligent man, and of a as they can ; or that they are a divided, jealous set, who
hºurs well enough qualified to appreciate such a person. never so much cared for Reform itself, as ſor annoying
But how fºr he would practically imitate him, and how those whom they quarrelled with.
firie #. carry on Sir SAMUEL's improvements, And this, after all, wºld seem to be the case. It is.
isºmºrºguestion. Electioneering is like love-making, said that Mr. Hophouse does not speak strait-forward;
Eseunknown Gentlemen practise it. ''They grow as that Sir FRANcis is not so stanch a Reformer as he was,
famissary as so many bank-notes. The deal board of and that he has not been zealous enough in Parliament.
iſe hºstings makes them as enthusiastic as any leaſy. Well; but in God's name, what has this to do with Mr.
bower; and till they s , they not only vow and I,\xi : What has all this to do with a person, however
protest they will dºevery ng in the world that is pro pleasant and respectable, who, to balance even a doubtful
per, but sometimes, no doubt, persuade themselves, as well profession in favour of reform, is of a great Whig family,
as the foud hearts of the butchers' wives, that they really and has a brother already in Parliament, who is a Whig
will. - * well known?. In short, if this is their quarrel with Mr.
But Mr. Hoeriouse, it will be said, promises as much Hobhouse and Sir FRANcis, why not elect Major Cart
*Mr. Laxe, and is as little known. Neither one nor the wright? Why not elect him, the tried, the long-tried,
other can be taken but upon trust. Good:—but Mr. the inflexible, the entire, strait-forward, and unwearied
Hoehouse at least professes himself to be a Reforuer, as advocate of Reform, of which he has been emphatically
distinguished from either of the State Parties. Mr. LaMa called the Father?
reſets to the memory of Sir SAMUEL Rosſilly, which at t is impossible for the Electors to get out of this
any rate campot answer for him. Mr. Hobhouse refers to dilemma. There is but one way, which it is evident at
Sir Frascis Burderr, who can and does answer for present that they will not try. They caunot extricate
him. Do the Electors then mean to say that they preſer themselves any other, but at the expense of their con
theF. opinions of Sir SAMUEL to those of Sir FRAN sistency; and the more they triumph against their old
** They are not perhaps in very good humour with Sir friends, the more, they may depend upon it, their new
Fusci; but that is not, or ought not to be, the question. fellow-conquerors will laughin their sleeves, and the work
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the cause of Reſorm will be injured throughout England. of the town. So let him stand and dare the contest; since I shall
The Major is old. True; and the remark may hold good not refuse to bear the title of a determined Jacobin, so long as he
remains unmasked to you all as the Coalition Candidate.”—Mr.
against his sitting in Parliament, as long as a Reſormer is Hobhouse then retired amid loud and vociferous cheerings.
to be found, who seems likely to be equally zealous with Lord W. Russell now began to speak; but the cry for Mr.
greater strength. But iſ Mr. Hohhouse is not this man, Lamb was so great, that he retired,—and
Mr. LAMB came
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still less is Mr. LAMB. Granting even that Major CART for their efforts inforward, and returned thanks to the electors
his favour. After all the boasting of his
wright is too old to speak with effect in Parliament, or opponents, and their previous canvass, their majority of 76 must
that the Members would contrive not to listen to him, be considered a complete failure. He denied that he was elected
still, if an active Reformer unconnected with party is by a cabal....Mr. Hoohouse said, that his name was coupled with
Sir S. Romilly's: with whose name was Mr. Hobhouse's con
not to be sent there, his very presence in Parliament, nected? Was he not the nominee of Sir F. Burdett: Mr. H.
merely considered as a presence and an example, would had said, that he was no party man; neither was he (Mr. Lamb);
do more good then the nomination of a hundred doubt but it was necessary in Parliament that honest men should assist
one another, and Mr. Hobhouse himself would be found voting in
ful Whigs. It is impossible for the Electors to get the ranks of the Whigs, and conducting, himself, in respect to
rid of this dilemma. And be it observed, that although politics, in the same way as himself. He had been called by Mr.
the Candidates on these occasions bear all the imme Hobhouse the Court Candidate, though Sir F. Burdett had on the
first day called him the Whig Candidate, and he did not wish to
diate brunt of doubts, and inquiries, and cross-ques be new christened every day. (Cheers.) It lind been said, that
tions, and taunts, and Memento Moris of old princi people of his name had voted for the Suspension: the cry of the
ple, and all sorts of jokes, practical and symbolical, good, crowd—“Make no family reflections"—should be recoilected ;
et he would not blink the question, and would therefore avow
had, and indifferent, yet Electors, in a few parts of the § opinion,--that the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act was
country, have characters to lose as well as Candidates; a measure which ever had had, and ever would have, his most
and Westminster's Pride may be pulled down in more decided reprobation. (Loud cheers). The Hon. Candidate had
read his political creed, which was however unintelligible; for
senses than one. With what altered feelings, what gen himself he had merely to state, that he was a friend to refera, to
teel but triumphant superciliousness,what delicately-breath economy, and to civil and religious liberty; and that he deemed
himself entitled to the name of a Whig, end of a sincere and
ing disdain, may not Lord CastleReagh carry his visage honest friend of the people.—Mr. Lamb retired amid a confused
in future through the streets! murmur of applause and disapprobation.
ſºr Mr. Hunt said, that Mr. Lamb had manfully avowed himself
the friend of a moderate Parliamentary Reform; whereas Mr.
Hobhouse had told them, not what he meant, but what he did
- WESTMINSTER ELECTION. not mean on the subject. (Applause.) Mr. Hobhouse had come.
-
forward under the wing of Sir F. Burdett. Against such pro
second DAY. ceedings he must utter his most decided protest, as he must
At the close of the poll on Monday, the numbers were de always be adverse to any man's design of converting Westminster
clared to be— into a rotten borough.-He then begged to introduce to their
For Mr. Hobhouse - -
24, notice Sir Charles Wolseley, a respectable country gentleman
Mr. Lamb - - - 171 and the friend of Major Cartwright.
Major Cartwright - 21 Sir C. Wolseley, Mr. Thelwall... and Mr. Evaxs, advanced
This intelligence was received by the persons assembled with at the same time. The latter was compelled to retire by hisses
repeated cheers. - -
and mud, and the two former went on at the same time. Sir
Mr. Hobhouse, after thanking the electors for placing him at Charles said, that Mr. Hobhouse was a political humbug, and
the head ºf the poli, proceeded to remark on the speeches of Mr. Sir F. Burdett another! he accused Sir F. Burdett of incon
.amb and his supporters at the commencement of the election sistency on the subject of Universal Suffrage, and called his con
on Saturday week. The proposer of the Hon. Gentleman had duct and that of Mr. Hobhouse and “the Rump” disgraceful. '
coupled his name with that of Sir S. Romiliy; but that was only Mr. Woolen spoke in favour of Major Cartwright. It was
a paltry artifice; it was not a sufficient introduction to the elec. utterly impossible, he said, to make out the real sentiments of Mr.
tors. The seconder had called him a revolutionist, because he Hobhouse from the mystical creed he had read. Iſe ght that
had, in 1845, written a book to prove that it was not either the Sir F. Burdett's conduct to Major Cartw right wa lly inde
duty or the business of Fnglishmen to force a despised and re fensible. -

jected sovereign on France. He had never called the battle of The meeting broke up about six o'clock. -
º
Waterloo the “carpage ef Mont St. Jean;” the words were Third DAY.
quoted as his by the Quarterly Review—a compilation of essays The polling commenced at nine o'cloc
published eyery three months, to tell lies for the advantage of Burdett advanced to the hustings at t º sº
ºp et. f St.
the Ministry, but they had been used by another writer: yet James's parish. Among the gontr ºf the pºſs of the
he would not scruple to say, that British soldiers had never been different candidates was a
employed on a more unfortunate occasion than the battle of Hobhouse was attached, ng in &
- º of Mr.
This poor joke,
al
Waterloo. (Huzzas and cries ºf shame!) Mr. Lamb, in telling however, was succeeded by"ſnother frºm the other side; a
them that he was a Whig, told them nothing; for several Whiº | lamb's head was mounted on a pole, decorated west fantastically.
had voted for the Suspension and Indemnity Bills, and spoken It had one cheek white and the other black, with two small horns
strenuously against Reform. He had been accused of having of gold contiguous to its ears; through its tongue a large book
been nominated by a cabal; he thought that accusation applied was placed, and round its neck were hung three labels, one
more to his opponent; he had been nominated in a public room marked “Whig” looking one way, another marked “Tory”
by 1500 persons, while Mr. Lamb was elected by a ca looking another, and a third pendant in the middle, marked
vate rocm. it was objected that he was put in nom a! in a pri “Carlton-house-fed.” There were added to it the two tails of a
Sir F. Burdett, as if that was a thin ination by
g unexampled;
Cochrane had come forward under similar but Lord lawyer's wig, as also the fragments of a lawyer's gown, in order
auspices, and there to render the caricature as intelligible as possible. The appear.
was no objection to that nomination, Mr. Hobhouse then read ance of this curious non-descript was hailed with shouts of
passages from the Cºurier and Morning Post, which advised the ladghter by both parties. At the close of the poil the numbers
ºriends of Government to vote for Mr. Lamb. This showed that wert
!!! was the coalition candidate. He had heard also, that Sir Wi. Mr. Hobhouse - - 469
Maxwell's canvassers were all busy for Mr. Lamb. “There Mr. Lamb - 350 -
- -

then,” said Mr. Hobhouse, pointing to Mr. Lamb, “he stands, Major Cartwright - 26 -
**HPºrted by the Courier and the friends of Sir Murray Max!
Mr. Hodnovse came forward amid loud applause... He snid,
. Wºº's phºy as their representative, and partly as the re;presen that he held in his hand the proof of a very extraordinary arti
“free; the aristocratical sentiments prevalen
valent at the west end fice resorted to by his opponents among others. This was a
---, 1
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placard, which he supposed issued from Mr. Lamb's Committee, vote last time, because he (Sir F.) had changed his principles,
containing comments on his opinions. If this had not come from and had become a snake in the grass. This man was candid,
that quarter, the Learned Gentleman should disavow it. It though mistaken. He had not changed his principles and was
stated, that the electors of Westminster had a right of suffrage not a snake in the grass—(“No, you are not".) He did not see
almost universal; and that he (Mr. H.) wished to extend the why he should be blamed for not proposing Major Cartwright;
right of suffrage in some places and abridge it in others; that if and he would repeat, that he did not think that gentleman's
he was returned to Parliament; he would disfranchise the majo 'election could have been carried. He had never said anything
rity of his electors. The first assertion was as false as it could to disparage Major Cartwright; yet he had reason to complain
be: Westminster contained 168,000 inhabitants, but not more of the Major's writings, in which Mr. Cobbett’s lies were in
than 14,000 electors, not above one-tenth part of its population. seried, and sanctioned by not being contradicted. The Hon.
lie defied his enemies to show that he had ever uttered such Baronet then alluded to ū. ridiculous calumny about his wish
sentiments as those imputed to him. He had been told that ing to make Westminster a rotten borough. It was true, thet he
James Macdonald, the chairman, was present at the time when wished to have a colleague of the same principles as himself, and
the placards were issued.—“Did this placard issue from your he therefore wished for the success of Mr. Hobhouse; for he
room or not, Mr. Macdonaldº" (Mr. Macdonald replied, “I would ask them what benefit that mau was likely to confer upon
shall answer you, Sir, at a convenient opportunity.”) Mr. Hob them, who was a reformer of such a nature, that he might be
house then said, that he had also to complain of rumours in considered at one and the same time as a reformer and no re
dustriously circulated, which asserted that he intended treachery. former. A reformer of such a stamp was like the sheep’s head
He had, in order to prevent misconception and misrepresentation, which had been exhibited to them that morning—(£oud taughter)
cºmmitted his political creed to writing; yet notwithstanding his —on one side white, on the other black. Let the outs be in and
caution, he ..". misrepresented. Indeed it appeared to him the ims out, all that he will have to do will be to change the side
that the chief power of his opponents (he did not speak of their of the sheep's heal. (Laughter continued.) Mr. Lamb gloried
private character) consisted in their readiness to tell falsehoods. in being a Whig, but he could not see what the Whigs had dome
(Great tumult.). The proceedings, of which he complained, were that he should glory in. He then mentioned several arbitrary
not mere electioneering tricks, but calculated to fix a lasting and injurious measures which had emanated from the Whigs;
stigma on his character. It was said by his enemies, that he among them were the Septennial Act and the introduction of a
would not extend the right of suffrage to the “honest mechanic, standing army. He could recollect when only two sentinels
the ingenious artisan, and the humble labourer;” but they knew. were to be found at the Herse Guards, and as many at St. James's
that it was Mr. Lamb, who would oppose such an extension, and palace; but now we could not walk along the streets without .
that he was a warm advocate for it. After some other remarks being hustled off the flags by men armed with bayonets, or ride
cathe objections made to him, Mr. Hobhouse retired, and along the roads without being trampled under foot by dragoons.
Sir F. Busbert, Mr. LAMB, and Mr. HUNT, presented them He also attributed the system of Bank paper to the same quarter.
selves at once, which created great confusiou. At length Mr. The electors of Westminster had now only to contend with the
hunt got to be heard. He accused Sir F. Burdett of hypocrisy, Whig, but also with the Tory faction—two thieves, between
and apostacy, attacked the principles of Mr. Hobhouse, which he whom the Constitution had been crucified. (Applause.) He
cave; ºsterious, and concluded by putting three questions to implored them not to be made the dupe of either party, and
Sir F. Burdett, respecting Major Cartwright. much less of any individual.—(The applause which attended the
Mr. Laws then addressed the people, and was received with Ilon. Baronet's address was mixed with a good deal of disappro
applause mixed with disapprobation. He said, that though Mr. bation at times, and there was a great uproar at the conclusion.)
Hobhoºse had a majority on that day's poll, yet it was less than Mr. MA cooxAld, in answer to Mr. Hobhouse's question,
that of the day before, which showed he was going back. He denied all knowledge of the placard. -

then spoke of the declining popularity of Sir F. Burdett, who, he After some remarks from Mr. GALE Joxes in favour of Major
said, was once the popular idol, but could now scarcely obtain a Cartwright, the crowd dispersed.
hearing. As to the placard which had been mentioned, he would
ouly observe, that, be it ever so bad, it was exceeded by the re FourTH DAY.
ſº of the Westminster Committee, which had lost Mr. Hob At the close of the poll, the numbers were—
autºse uns seat. He would repeat the assertion in the placard, For Mr. Hobhouse - 622 -

Mr. Lamb - - - 615

that he electors of Westminster had almost universal suffrage,
as all those voted who paid scot and lot; and it was this kind of Major Cartwright - 29-

**ge that he wished to see generalty extended.—(The Learned Mr. Hobhouse said, that the advance of Mr. Lamb &n the poll
Gentleman was interrupted several times in the course of his was, owing to the extraordinary exertions of the other party.
speech. and some mud was thrown at him by the crowd.) Their canvassers had misrepresented his character. One nobie
Sir F. BunpErr then came forward, but it was some time be. man had told some of his tradesmen that he (Mr. H.) was a Tory.
fore he could be beard. He said, that he had felt it his duty, on Members of the Opposition, Secretaries from the Public Offices,
account of the gross calumnies put forth respecting his political and even gentlemen of the party at the other end of the poll, had
conduct, to show that he had never deserted their cause, or any united to oppose him. A Commissioner of the Navy had that
ºther with which he had been connected. He knew too, that the morning voted for Mr. Lamb. , Among other misrepresentations,
He ºf the day frequently served the purpose of the day, and it was said that he was too little of a Reformer, which very much
might injure the glorious cause of Parliamentary Reform, for surprised him. The Whigs were formerly radical Reformers,
which he had lived and was now living. (Applause.) Before though it had been denied that Mr. Fox ever used the phrase
he answered the accusations against him, he would congratulate “ Radical Reform.” He would however prove that he had. In
them, that the Whig or coalition candidate (for he was supported a debate on the 4th of February, 1798, he said, that without a
both by Whigs and Tories) did not dare to present himself to Radical Reform in Parliament and in the practice of the Constitu
their notice, except in the disguise of a Reformer, Coucessions tion, he for one would take no share in the administration.
had been obtained from him, as to the necessity of Reform, Having thus shown them what the Whigs’ were in 1798, he'
which had never been before obtained from the Whigs. It had would show what they were in 1819. He then quoted a passage
been said, that the principles of Reform professed by Mr. Lamb from the Edinburgh Review, in which the writer said, that iu case
were the same as those of Sir S. Romilly; but he did not know the administration of affairs were offered to the Whigs, Catholic
what those were; he had never seen them written, nor did he Emancipation and a Reform in l’arliament should be asked for,
know, where to look for them. Mr. Hobhouse and himself had but not insisted on as a sine qua non. He would ask them, after
purposely avoided using the phrase Universal Suffrage, because it this exposition whether there was not a wide difference between
**: an absurdity: for, he knew but one man who really wished the Whigs of 1798 and the Whigs of 1819. (“There is, there is.”)
suffrage to be universal. Sir C. Wolseley had said, that the re The Whigs can talk of reduction, they can talk of economy, they
sºlutions he had last proposed in Parliament, embraced the can talk of abuses generally, but they will net drink Nº.
glass
ºcheme of Universal Suffrage; but he differed with him, and of wine to their ancient mistress—Parliamentary Reform. (Ap
thought they did not. He did not see any inconsistency in pro plauses.) Mr. Lamb was not a Radical Reforming Whig, or else
Pºsing one plan of reform at one time, and another at another. the Court would not have supported him, a Commissioner of the
He had supported all the propositions of reform which had been Navy would not have voted for him, the Secretary of War would
made during the last twenty three years. He was the same now not have canvassed for him. (Hisses.) . He was a pliant, plastic,
“when he was first presented to their notice, and he should con Whig, who could be moulded ºrny way." (Hisses.) He (Mr. H.)
tºe the same to the very end of his career. (Applauses.) One had been, accused of being the advocate of Bonaparte. He had a
ºf the electors had said, that he repented of having given him his never advocated the tyranny of Bonaparte, though he iad advo:
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**ted the right of the French to choose their sovereign. The remember that promise. When questioned, he described it as
time too which he had taken to praise him, and which the being put to the torture. It most have been a torture to any man
Learned Gentleman had takeu to dispraise him, was when he whose principles were hollow, or rather who had no fixed prin
was in misfortune and distress. (Applause.) It was said that he ciples, to be questioned about them. But to a man whose prin
(Mr. H.) was on Atheist and an Infidel, which he denied, ex ciples were fair and honourable, the candid avowal or explana
cepting that he was an infidel with respect to the Whigs. He tion of them would be not a torture but a gratification. . . Mr.
was come now to the last charge which had been exhibited Hobhouse had alluded to his imprisonment by order of the
against him—that he was the protegée of Sir Francis Burdett. House of Commons. They knew that it was for an alleged
He would put it to any man of common sense to say what dis breach of the privilege of that House; but he could positively
grace there could be in being esteemed by the man who was assert, that were it not for the puerile conduct and contemptible
esteemed by his country? To his own mind there appeared none: interference of Sir F. Burdett on that occasion, he (Mr. Jones)
on the contrary, it seemed as if a ray of that bright blaze of would uot have been detained in prison three days. (Loud dis
glory which encircled Sir F. Bardett would devolve upon him, approbation, mingled with some applause.) Sir F. Burdett deemed
who was favoured with his sanction and his esteem. (Applause.) himself the lord of the political ascendant: he would ask,
He must say a few words to Mr. Gale Jones, who had accused whether they had any reason to be satisfied with, the great
that worthy Baronet, whose character would rise superior to all Goliath himself? During the 12 years which he had been in the
inputation, of the basest ingratitude. He bade the electors to House of Commons, he had not made the slightest impression on
recollect from whom the charge proceeded—it proceeded from Parliament; and yet what man, with his advantages, ought to
the very man, to get whom out of prison, Sir F. Burdett had got have made more?' He had riches, popularity, friends, and de
himself it. Did Mr. Jones remember the time when Sir F. Bur pendants; and yet had done nothing. . After an attack on the
dett was the butt of the whole Parliament, when he was deserted speech of Mr. Mobhouse, Mr. Jones concluded by saying, that as
by all who called themselves his friends, because he came for Sir F, Burdett had discarded all his former ſriends, i. was cer

ward to protect that very Gale Jones, who talked of ingratitude, tain that Mr. Hobhouse would be his victim at last. (Hear.)
as an injured individual? (Applause and some hissing.) He could Mr. Liuxt then came forward amidst conflicting clumour. Iſe
repel the other insinuations wiich had been circulated against said, that he had yesterday put three questions to Sir F. Burdett.
Sir F. Burdett, with the same ease as he had refuted this: but which had not been answered. The Baronet had said, however,
he would leave it for them to say, whether this conspiracy that never in any one instance had he deserted a public or a pri
against his charactor would receive Amy support from them, who vate friend. Did they remember the honourable Mr. Bligh, who
had seen the whole tenour of his public and private life. Mr. was once the intimate friend of Sir Francis Burdett, and who on
Lamb was for . the right of suffrage to all who paid scot one occasion lent him the sum of 30,000l. He had thrown bim
and lot. Although that did not come up to his idea of the proper off. Did they remember Mr. Gawler, who went out as the friend
extension of the elective franchise, he would *tate, thet if Mr. of Sir F. Burdett to fight with poor Mr. Paul ? He too was given
Harab would come up to the hustings with a written paper signed up. Did they remember Colonel Wardle—at one time the inti
by his party—(Roars of laughter); nay, if Mr. Lamb would pledge mate friend of the Baronet, whose subsequent abandonment of
his own honourable word for his party, that they would never him obliged him to fly his country i (“That's false.") Did they
take ºffice without effecting a reform in Parliament to that ex remember Mr. Jennings, who had exerted himself so strenuously
tent, he would retire from the contest, if it seemed good to the for the worthy Baronet on the hustings? He too had been neg
party who proposed him." tº Mr. Lamb could not subscribe to lected. Who were the iutimate friends of Sir Francis Burdett,
the declaration of Mr. Fox in 1798, he t” uuworthy of the aame for seven years? Major Cartwright, Mr. Cobbett, and himsel:
of a Reformer. He had abandoned Major Cartwright, and Mr. Cobbett; “but,”
-Mr. Laxºn congratulated his friends onwie favourable state of said Mr. Hunt, “he has not abandened me; I have aban
the Pºll. His opponent had uow but a small majority, and that doned him.”—(Loud disapprobation followed this, and continued
would soon be done away. “The Hon. Gentieman had coin duriug the rest of Mr. Hunt's speech ; he retired soon after.)
plained, that a Nobleman, in canvassing for him (Mr. Lamb) on
FIFTH DAY.
that day,
became thenhad saidaccusation
of the that he (Mr. Hobhouse)
against him (Mr.was a Tory;
Lamb) what
of being The numbers at the close of the pell were--
a court candidate 2 In some of Abe quotations which Mr. Hob For Mr. Lamb - - - 1
house had made, he had talkéJ'of i. Whigs and radical Mr. Hobhouse - - 826
reforn; but to those words he had given, not the ºleaning of Major Cartwright - 38.
that day, but the interpretatiºn of the present: but even taking Mr. Honitovsk, said, that the Whigs and Tories united had
it upon the latter, the argument would so rather against his own been too much for the independents rhat day, and might be so
claims to the representation of Westminster. Hiſ tie advocacy of to-morrow; but he was confident that he whomld fetch up again
radical reform, such as it was now interpreted, gave any claiº, to next week. The voters for his opponent were pressed men, who
public support, that support was due to no man more than to could be brought up at any time. Ile did not know whether
Major Cartwright. Hat such reform was not the kind of which Lord Castlereagh had voted for Mr. Lamb, but the benches of
former Whigs liad spoken, it was not that kind of which he had the House of Commons had been very empty lately, as the nem
spoken, when he mentioued voting by seat and lot. He had bers attended at the hustings. After some remarks on the prin
explained, what he understood by Purliamentury Reform. He ciples of his ºpponent, Mr. H. said he could read a paper, the
considered it ought to be by an extension of the right of truth of which a respectable e'ector was ready to prove. He
suffrage, such as he had before mentioned, and by shortening would first ca: Mr. Samuel Clarke forward. (Mr. Clarke then
* duratiºn of Parliaments—he would say to three years. As to
what Mr. Hobhouse had said about resigning, he hod only to re
presented himself in front of the hustings; his appearance and al
titude excited mueh taughter.) Mr. Hobhouse then read the
Pty. that he did not come in pinned to the tail of any man or any paper, which stated, that at a meeting of Mr. Lamb's friends, Mr.
party, but stood upon-independent grounds. “As to the Hon. Clarke, an elector of the parish of St. James, asked Mr. Lamb,
Gentleman's offer, f cannot thank him for it; for whether he will whether he would pledge himself to abolish the choosing, of
it ºr not, he shall retire from the contest.” (Eoud applause.) members of Parliament by a few individuals in certain boroughs,
Mr. Noºrhºons next presented himself, but was frequently and transfer that right to populous towns and counties To
interrupted by conflicting shouts of disapprobatios and applause. which, Mr. Lamb º, that he was a friend to an exten
He said, that if the eleve of Sir F. Burdett should succeed in the sion of suffrage and a shorter duration of Parliaments; but that
present contest, it would be necessary, in the next editiºn of he had not studied the question of boroughs so much as the per
“Oldfield's Boroughs,” to mention, under the head of west son who put the question.— Mr. Hobhouse soon after withdrew.
*inster, “a close borough—14,000 electors—patrom, Sir Francis Mr. Laxm then came forward amidst a great tumult. He
Bºrdett." (Laud applause.) In reply to the objection made to thought that he had more right to be confident of success than
Majºr Cartwright's age, he observed, that Bincher, who had Mr. Hobhouse, if it was only for the singular speech of that gen
fought so brevely, was older: Count Coloredo, the Austrian tleman, and the curious exposition he had read. . It was true,
iainster, was older; and a member of Parliament (the Duke of that he had been asked the questions mentioned in the paper,
Roxburgh) was three years elder. - * - and he had answered, that he was a friend to Reform on the
*Mr. Gale Joses now stood forward, and his appearance pro principies of Fox and Romilly, and that if the boroughs were as
duced a most tremendous uproar. At length his perseverance Mr. Clarke stated them to be, they ought to be corrected. He
prevailed, and he was heard. When Mr. Hobhouse was pro did not fear any thing that could be said or written by Mr. John
posed, he premised that he would, when he came to the hustings, Hobbon-e, or iis new friend and cºadjutor, Mr. Samuel Clarke.
be nest willing to answer any questions; but he had ceased to (Laughter.) ... . . . . . . . .” -- * * * *
** *- : * * * * ~ * . .. . * * *
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Mr. HUNT next presented himself and was received with tre
mendous yells. Some mud was thrown at him from the crowd
in the course of his speech. After he had done, Mr. Gale Jones
and Mr. Walker addressed the meeting. Mr. Hunt then came
ii.7
minster should be reduced to its ancient state of vassalage, and
should be divided and governed by the two factions who were
rulers of the nation.—Mr. Hobhouse then withdrew amidst the
loudest applauses. -

forward again, and said, that Sir F. Burdett had determined to Mr. Lawn presented himself amidst a tumult of disapprobation.
retire from Parliament, if Mr. Hobhouse did not succeed. He said, he hoped they would hear him; he had been so much
exhausted by his previous exertions, that, if they would not, he
SIXTH DAY. must wait till another º The state of the poll was
At a quarter before four Mr. Hobhouse came to the hustings, very satisfactory, but yet they had a hard battle to fight, and
accompanied by Sir F. Burdett, and was greeted with the loudest must not be too secure of victory. As to the public breakfast at
acclamations of applause. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Lamb made Devonshire House, he would ask, whether Mr. Hobhouse’s
his appearance, and was hissed and hooted to such a degree as friends had given nothing to the electors Music was playing
none can conceive who did not witness the fact. When the num and flags exhibiting to attract volunteers to his opponent's cause.
bers were declared to be
For the Hon. G. Lamb - - - 1542 [The uoise had increased to such a pitch by this time, that it
was quite inpossible for Mr. Lamb to render himself audible.
John Hobhouse, Esq. - - 1016 He therefore, after making some feeble attempts to gain an audi
John Cartwright, Esq. - - 36 ence, bowed and retired, amid execrations deep ift. After
the hissing, if possible, increased, though it was turned into he had withdrawn, 1
applause, when Mr. Hobhouse came forward.
He began by saying that the coalition had not been so success Mr. Hunt appeared on the stage, amid the most discordant
ful that day as it had been the day before. He could easily ac yells. . He stated, that he was determined to be heard before any
count for this; the day before a public breakfast had been given other person addressed them, if he stayed till midnight. He in
at Devonshire-house to the friends of Mr. Lamb, and that day no and weighed against Sir F. Burdett's non-attendance in Parliament,
such thing had as yet been offered. (Long and loud applause.) Sir repeated his assertion, that he (Mr. Hunt) had abandoned
At the same time, the coalition had not relaxed in their efforts to F. Bardett, because Sir F. Burdett had abandoned the people.’
secure votes. Pairs of Whigs and Tories were abroad as before, (Loud disapprobation.) As Sir F. Burdett was very fond of mak
and those measures which at one time were only used by the ing long speeches, he would allow them to feast their ears with
Tories, were now used and adopted by the Whigs. (Applause.) the houied words in which that arch humbug woud address
them. -

One Nobleman had gone about all that day with the steward of Sir Francis Burnett then came forward, amid the most rap
another nobleman, canvassing the different electors; and he was
told that they had even gone to the renters of one of the parties, turous exclamations of applause, which lasted two or three
with a view to intimidate, he would not say to persuade them, to minutes. He congratulated the Electors on the state of that
votein favour of the Hon. G. Lamb, the coalition candidate. He day's poll, and said that he was uot at all surprised at the place
would ask whether the electors were to be fed in this manner out which Mr. Hobhouse held upon ir, when he recollected that
of their votes; he would ask whether they were to be duped out every delusion which artifice could furnish, and every exertion
of their suffrages, by being handed by noble lords into superb which power could make, had been employed to drag up the
rooms ornamented ier-glasses and Turkey-carpets? For his minions of Government to the Hustings. They had no reason.
ºwn part, he thought them superior to such artifices; and there to despair of success in the cause in which they were engaged.
for he would say, that if the Whigs went on any longer in that because it was the cause of their country, and that was the cause
*tyle, the electors would not accept their invitations, though they of which no freeman should ever despair. Fnthusiasm, which
should not ask for votes, but would treat them in such a manner was the result of collision and opposition, had at length been ex
*would convince the Whigs that they (the electors) deemed cited in Westminster; and as that was inspired, he looked for
ºf n very bad company. , The Hon. Gentleman then contrasted said ward with confidence to the result of the struggle. It had been
by some of the members of the venal press,” that the ass had
the conduct of the Whig leaders with that of the party who had
brayed the lion from the field; but this was incorrect—the lion.
been styled by Mr. Lamb's friends, the disgraceful junta of had
tradesmen, who were desirous of lording it over Westminster. at last roused himself, had shaken the dewdrops from hit
His opponent had told the electors, that he (Mr. Hobhouse) was mane, and shown to his enemies that he had not quitted the
* retailer of state jokes: it was curious to observe that he could field. In spite of the coalition between the sham friends and the
not please Mr. Lamb whatever he did: first of all, he was not declared enemies of the people—in spite of the still more unna
witty enough 5 and then, when he exercised his wit, he was too tural alliance between the Whigs and the friends of the other
Jºe, and Mr. Lamb did not admire it. (Laughter.) Mr. Lamb Candidate on the poll—in spite of all the artifice, wickedness.
had first told then that he was of the party of Sir S. Romilly, and and malignity marshalled in array against them, they would see
then that he came without a certificate signed by any party. As their catse victorions, and all the difficulties which surrounded
*on as the absurdity of two such adverse declarations was seen, it vanquished and overcome-(Applanse.)—tle was sorry that
he called himself a friend of the glorious revolution. The as attention had not been paid to those who endeavoured to obtain.
sumption of this title he (Mr. Hobhouse) asserted to be as arrant a heaving before them: he was sorry, because the Honourable
*heat and delusion as ever proceeded from the ingenuity of Candidate might state that he had not fair play. Besides, the
Whiggery. His Hon. Opponent, not finding that title sufi best time to unmask delusion, was to unmask it on the spot.—
cently attractive, christened himself the friend of Parliamentary With regard to the sneer which had been thrown out agains' the
Reform, and then confessed he had not studied the borough sys respectable man brought forward the day beſore, he did not
tem. When this confession became public, Mr. Lamb became very know ou what ground it rested, except it were that Mr. Lamb,
angry at the very man who had made it, and called him several thought that because he was a Whig, the barber most be his
hard names. The Whigs had most shamefully misrepresented his enemy.—(Laughter.)—lie must, however, say, that the barber
political principles—they said that he was for limiting the elective had haved the lamb's hend very close—(laughter):—and if it
suffrage, when, in fact, he was for extending it. The Whigs had were often presented to him, he was likely to cut off its ears.
said, that they would extend the right of suffrage to house (#.aughter—A voice from the crowd—" He serious, Sir Francis.”)—
holders only; he would extend it further 5 would they do as To be serious, then, the question was hot whether Mr. Lamb or
much?' He was for annual parliaments, would they promise to Mr. Hobhouse, the Whig or the Tory faction, should prevail.
grant them He was for stopping corruption, though the Whigs but whether the grand principle of Reform ºn Parliament should
said he had given no plan for doing it; were they for eradicating be abandoned or supported by the Electors of Westminster. On
the rotten boroughs, and cutting up the influence of the great that point he must say that Mr. Lamb had intended to delude
them; he had come in the disguise of a Reformer, though iu
families in elections? (Loud cries of “No, they are not.”) After reality he was no such thing; he had said that Mr. Hobhouse's
the exposition which he had made of the principles of the Whigs,
it was unuecessary for their candidate to say a word about re Reform was unintelligible, and yet, when asked regarding his
form, especially as he had said that he did not understand the own, had replied that he had not studied the history of rotten
borough system. Every body saw that the Court was more borough",—(fleur, hear!) -

active than the Opposition in resisting their exertions: he should, Mr. LaMu here came forward, and said that he had replied no
therefore, advise them to be true to themselves, and to rally such thing. Ife said that he had not studied the Constitution of
round their own cause, if they wished to preserve to themselves the borough system so accurately as the Gentleman who put the
the nomination of their own representatives. The great families qnestion.
wi-hed to deprive them of that privilege; and he therefore urged *. The Times, -
them to tenew their exertions, as it was not proper that West -
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Sir F. BurperT resumed. If Mr. Lamb never made use of proportioned parts—a sort of hydra with a lamb's head,
such expressions as had been attributed to him, let him come which was sheltered by a wig, out of which appeared two
forward and say so... It required no time to inquire; it was un faces. (Shouts of Laughier.) This strange monster was
fortunately a matter of record placed on the table of the House of
Commons, that 150 proprietors return the majority in that full of promises, and did not scruple to hug infamy,and
House. Did it require more than common sense and common take up the filth and scum of the town. (Cries of “ Hunt,
integrity to see, that such an infamy ought no louger to be en hear this?") Such doings promised no good for West
dured: He was sorry to observe, that the representations of minster. But the Electors, in the end, would see the mon
what passed at those hustings were very incorr given, and ster sprawling at their feet. (Applause.) Sir Francis then
the impressions propagated in consequence º, erroneous. alluded (as we believe) to the conduct of Ald. Wood, who
He had particularly to complain of one paper, the organ of the had been canvassing for Mr. Lamb. , (Hear!) Whatever
Whigs, which he should denominate the lying Chronicle. The might be the arts resorted to, he had no doubt of ultimate
Editor of that paper had embodied into his report an election success. The Electors would do their dury;—and as
squib, about a splendid triumphal car, and had appended a actions were always better than words, and this was the
note to it, stating that it had its foundation in fact. It had
not its foundation in fact. It was also stated that there were time for action, each Elector should call on his neighbour
persons hired to make a noise and create a disturbance ; to exert himself in the great cause of Reform, and show
this was as untrue as the former assertion. their opponents that they disdained to accept of treats
Notwithstand
ing, therefore, the compassion of the Courier, and the rest which were only the prelude to slavery. (Applause.) Sir
of the venal [..." at the manner in which the electors F. Burdett ...' a short speech amidst shouts of ap
were said to have deserted him—notwithstanding that the robation and waving of hats, which were renewed when
n

Courier was excessively shocked at his quotation from Ralph the le left the hustings with Mr. Hobhouse: , .
historian, “that the Whig and Tory factions were the two Mr. Hunt, who had stepped forward during the speech
thieves between whom the Constitution had been crucified,” a
quotation, which, in its stupidity and falsehood, the Courier had of Sir Francis, again offered to speak; but the yells were
mistaken for a remark of his—notwithstanding all their pity, piety, renewed with such violence, and were continued with such
and ignorance, he trusted that, as long as he maintained the effect, that hardly a word he said could be heard. . He
grand principles of English liberty, for which he had toiled and was again pelted and spit upon. He at length retired,
was willing to toil to the end of his life, he should continue to pointing at the poll-board. -

meet the support of the independent electors of Westminster, Mr. Wooleń then came forward, but the people would
and, along with theirs, the support of the people of Eugland at not listen to him, and he soon stepped back.
...large.—(Applause.) -

Mr. P. Walker was the last person who attempted to

-

Mr. Gate Jones then addressed the audience; but such was
the tumult prevailing, that it was impossible to hear a syllable get a hearing. He spoke for some time, but nothing he
said could be collected.
he said.
- SEVENTH DAY. The multitude was equally numerous and º except
when Sir F. Burdett addressed them. They, however,
On the close of the poll yesterday at four o'clock, the quietly separated.
following numbers were soon after exposed to the eager
eyes of the multitude:—
Lamb - - - - 1824

-
Hobhouse
Cartwright
-

-
-

-
-

-
1133
37
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The noise upon the exhibition of the board was great, and GERMANY.
it was continued with so little interruption, that the brief Munich, Feb. 4.—The King yesterday opened the
speech made by Mr. Hophouse could not be heard by any first Assembly of the States-General, with a speech from
-

but those immediately about him. He spoke of the artful the throne. He told them, that in opening the first session
and unfair practices of the friends of the Coalition Candi of the States of the kingdom, he had arriºed at the object
date, but he was confident those arts would not succeed into which, for a long time, the wishes of his heart tended.
, deluding the friends of Reform. -
He informed them, that he had now reigned 20 years
Mr. LAMs now attempted to address the multitude; but over the faithful Bavarians, and that the establishment of a
constitution to promote their happiness had been the
he could not succeed, either by smiles or bows, in obtain constant
ing a |..."; The groans, and hisses were redoubled; aim of his exertions, though the execution of his
and aſtergaily pointing to the poll-board, he bowed and design had been so long opposed by invincible obstacles.
retired. The restoration of a general peace, and the union of the
Mr. Hunt now stepped forward, and though the tumult Germans in a general confederation, re-animated his uopes,
which had hitherto prevailed seemed excessive, yet it was and enabled him to realize them in a durable manner, by
almost nothing to that which, now prevailed. The din the constitutional charter of May 26, 1818.
was tremendous. Groans, hisses, yells, were uttered in
every direction. Mr. Hunt for some time stood his UNITED
ground, and spoke to those around him. Dirt was soon PA R LIAMENT.
thrown; and he was also assailed by quantities of spittle, hiOUSE OF LORDS.
some of which bespattered his clothes. IHe at length gave --
way., -

Friday, Feb. 19.

The storm, however, was quelled when Sir F. Ben SLAVE TRAI) e.
pert took off his hat and advanced in front to address the -

people. He was heard with much attention. He spoke The Marquis of LANspown moved for copies of the instruc
tions to the members of the mixed commission appointed agree
of the propriety of hearing every man on such an occa ably to the treaties concluded with Spain and Portugal; ºf.
sion—their maxim should be, “a clear stage, and no of the instructions to the commanders of his Majesty's ships,
favour." (Bravo.). He said that the Whigs were endea which were to carry those treaties into effect. The Noble Mar
Youring to carry their point both by terror and corruption. quis spoke of the unnecessary delay which had occurred in the
Not content with mere delusive arts, they also bestowed appointment of the Commissioners, and in the sending out vessels
the more substantial blessing of a breakfast., (Laughter.) to check the atrocious commerce in slaves, which was known to
Some persons might be duped by such doings, but he be carried ou with increased activity on the African coast.
hoped and believed that †. majority of the Electors Lord Melvills said, that the Act of Parliament, sauctioning
would not be bought by a miserable breakfast. (Applause) the necessary measures, had not passed before June last, and the
-They were now threatened by an animal of most dis. commissioners could not be appointed before that Act; neither
could particulariustructions be issued to the commanders of ship
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THE EXAMINER. 119
mutil the Commission was named. Besides, it was not an easy Mr. GRENFELL could not avoid expressing his admiration of
thing to find persons willing to become Commissioners. the humanity of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Bennet) in exerting himself
Lord Hollawn observed, that Purliament could have been so assiduously to alleviate the sufferings of his fellow-creatures.
applied to sooner; and, if Ministers were so scrupulous, that they . He had made some inquiries at a fire-office in town, and the
would do nothing till they had so applied, they might at any rate secretary had informed him, that the average uvumber of fires in
have been looking out for the Commissioners. Ministers were chimnies swept in the usual manner was 60 or 70 per month: in
guilty of great indifference, if not of culpable neglect. those cases in which machines had been used in sweeping
The motion was agreed to.—Adjourned. chimmies, the average number did not exceed 2 per month.
Mr. Brough Axi was as much against interfering between
HOUSE OF COMMONS. m:sters and apprentices as any person could be ; but he consi
--- dered the present Bill as intended to regulate the labour of
Monday, Feb. 15. persons who were not masters of themselves. The whole ques
SLAVE TRADE. tion resolved itself into this—whether the periods fixed by the
Lord Castler EAGH brought up a mass of papers relative to the Bill were the proper periods; and he certainly could see no
negotiatious on the subject of the Slave-trade. -
objection to this part of the Bill, as his Ilou. Friend had fixed the
Mr. Sww.rh observed, that the House was aware that conven time below the age of 21 years, when a boy could be said to be
tions had been signed between this country and Spain and suijuris.
Portugal, for the establishment of commissions for the adjudica Mr. DENMAN thought, that interference with established regu
tion of captured slave ships; and at the expiration of 12 months latious might be carried too far. If machines were better adapted
the commissions were to be established. He wished to know to the purpose, he could not conceive that the public would be
whether that desirable object had yet been accomplished. so cruel and so blind, to their own interest as not to adopt them.
Lord CastleReagh stated that, with the utmost anxiety on the He had read the Bill, and he understood it to apply to boys un
part of Ministers to complete the object in view, they had ex der the age of 21. But surely parents were the fittest persons to
perienced great difficulty in filling up the list of the Commis be entrusted with the guardianship of their own children. As to
stºners. -
the hardships of this employment, he would ask, if they were
Mr. Wilsenforce complained that a strange delay had oc not preferable to a workhouse, and those habits of idleness and
curred in sending out the Commissioners. Every day which was vice which so many other boys acquire? His great objection to.
suffered to pass before they went out, signed the death-warrant the Bill was, that it º a single Magistrate with power to
of hundreds of their fellow-creatures. . (Ifear, hear.) determine the penalty. - -

LAW OF APPEAL. Mr. Wilberforce said, that the argument of interest did not
On the motion of the Attorney-General, that the Bill for the always furnish an incentive to action : in many cases men, acted
repeal of the law of appeal by wager of battle should be com of directin opposition both to their own interest and to the dictates
humanity. (Hear, hear!) It was well known, that in geue
mitted, -

Sir F. Bunpert said, that he wished to save the appeal in ral improvements and discoveries were long in being adopted,
cases of murder, which he considered necessary, as a protection and no proof of this could be stronger than the history of Vacci
for the subject against an undue exercise of the power ºf the nation. The Hon. Gentleman had said, that machines would of
Crown in pardoning murderers. themselves supersede the practice of employing climbing º:
The #. passed through the Committee.—Adjourned. in a long course of years machines might get the better, but
Tuesday, Feb. 16. what numbers of poor wretched boys would suffer in the mean
The SPEAKER informed the House that he had received a let time. (Hear.) He felt obliged to the Hon. Author of this Bill,
who acted in this as on all occasions from that principle of hu
terſrom Mr. Windham Quin (who had been ordered to attend
in his place to answer a cºarge of bribery], stating that he was manity which was well known to distinguish him. (Hear, hear !)
The House resolved itself into the Committee; and it was
ill and could not attend at the appointed time. The order was
therefore discharged and another day appointed. agreed that the age below which climbing boys could not be ep
Mr. GRENFELL moved for certain accounts relative to the prenticed should be 14, and that the penalty for each violation of
-

Bank of Ireland. That establishment paid the divulends of the this clause, proved before 2 magistrates, should not exceed 50l.,
nor be less than 101. It was also agreed, that the Act should
public debt gratuitously, and he (Mr. Grenfell) thought their begin to operate on the 1st of May, 1821.
conduct displayed a liberality worthy of imitation.—Ordered. Mr. DENMAN objected to fixing the age of 14 years at present.
Sir J. N.F. wroRr moved for leave to bring in a Bill for better What if the expense of sweeping chimnies in certain places by
securing the lives of shipwrecked seamen wid passengers. He machines should exceed the annual rents?
proposed that a reward should be given to those who preserved Mr. BENNET said, that the question was whether the practice
the lives of persons in danger, which should consist of part of was to be stopt or not. Masters would evade every other regu
the cargo, if any was saved, and otherwise be paid by the pub lation. When the limit was eight, they employed boys of six
Hic.—Leave given.—Adjourned. -

years of age; if ten were the limit, they would employ boys of
Wednesday, Feb. 17. eight; if twelve, often. The only means of putting a stop to the
Sir W. Cunris took the oaths and his seat for the borough confessed evil was by fixiwg upon an age at which boys could not
of Bletchingly, amid the cheers and laughter of the Members climb into chimmies. -

present. The Bill was then passed by the Committee.—Adjourned.

Sir F. Burperr presented a Petition from an Inhabitant of
Marylebone, complaining of the rise in the price of water made Thursday, Feb. 18.
by the new Companies, which they were enabled to do by means APPLICATION RITY
OF REveNUE witHouT THE AUTHO
of the "... vested in them by recent Acts of Parliament.— OF PARLIAMENT.
-

Laid on the table. Mr. TIERxey remarked, that he had lately been made ac
HIGH ROADS, quainted, that certain duties on various articles were levied at
Mr. Phora ERoe moved for the appointment of a Committee to Gibraltar, and added to the revenue of the Crown. He wished
to know under what authority such duties were levied, and how
inquire into the expediency of better regulating the repairs of applied.
high road, in England and Wales. The roads originally soº! P. CHAirceutoR of the Exchequent was aware of the exist
7,000,000l., and were maintained at an annual expense of
1,200,000l. The report of the former Committee stated, that ence of the duties alluded to, and believed that the revenue aris
the advantage which would be derived from improved ronds, ing from this source had belonged to the Crown ever since the
with respect to commercial intercourse and the saving in horses, capture of the place.
ceuld not be less than 5,000,000l. a-year. TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS-NEW SOUTH
Colonel Wood observad, that in the course of last year, 15,000l. WALES.
had been laid out on the highways, while so many poor, for Mr. BENNET called the attention of the House to this subject.
whom that sum would have provided, were left without . He adverted to the state of the transports, and the indiscrimi
ment. If young single men, instead of being locked wy in work nate mixture in them of old and young, bardened, and inex
houses, were employed on the highways, it would be a great perienced criminals. The blame certainly rested with Mr. Ca
advantage to themselves, if not to the public. per, but Mr. Capper was but the instrument of Lord Sidmouth.
The motion was agreed to, and the Committee named. What he had said on a former night respecting the state of con:
CHIMNEY.SWEEPERS’ REGULATION BILL, viet ships had been doubted; but he had conversed with several
Mr. Benner moved that the House should go into a Committee officers; who had unanimously declared, that a greater scene of
on this Bill,
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THE EXAMINER.
misery, filth, and horror, could scarcely be imagined. The state
of New South Wales demanded investigation. That colony had
cost since its establishment 4,000,000l. and the annual expense
was still increasing. The defects in its government were nume
rous. One of them was the arbitrary authority of the Governor,
who regulated the price of labour; opened and shut the stores
at his pleasure, which occasioned great fluctation, and incon
venienced the colonists; appointed judges from among the con
victs; and sentenced free people arbitrarily to be flogged, or
WAirHMAN contended, that trade could not exist without credit;
and that creditors in general acted most humanely towards their
debtors.-Mr. Gonpox said, that the Worthy Aſderman seemed
to forget that the situation of the debtors was to be considered as
well as that of the creditors. Trade would be more morally con
ducted without any credit.—Laid on the table.
On the motion of Mr. Dawsox, a Committee was appointed to
inquire into the state of the law for regulating the presentments
of Irish Grand Juries. -

ordered them nut of the country. The Hon. Gentleman then CLAIMS OF BRITISH SUBJECTS ON FRANCE.
tioned several instances of the misconduct and oppression of the Lord CastleREAgn entered into a statement respecting the
Governor. He had appointed two attornies, named Laud and claims of British subjects on the French government, arising
Johnson, who had been sent out as convicts, to be magistrates. from the island of St. Lucie, the Mauritius, and the Ionian
The fountain of justice should be pure; and it was the duty of islands, and on account of the subsistence of French prisoners.
Lord Bathurst to have reprimanded the Governor for this con The insuperable difficulty of determining the amount of the latter
duct. : 'This Laud was an auctioneer; and according to the cus claim, on account of the difficulty of deciding who were to be
tom of that country, as soon as he came down from the seat of considered French prisoners, rendered it necessary to accept a
justice, he got into a cart and sold blankets. (A laugh.) The certain sum frem the French as a general indemnity. This go
same Governor ordered three men to be publicly flogged, for vernment would make the necessary advances to the creditors,
going through a hole in a wall, into what he º his park. and endeavour to render the ... of the whole money
One of these persons was a free man, an artist of great ingenuity, paid by France as equal as possible. The Noble Lord concluded
and the inventor of a machine by which Government had put by moving for leave to bring in a Bill to ratify the couventious
10,000l. into their pockets; and he received 45 lashes by the with France on this subject.—Leave given.
hand of the public executioner! Taxes were levied in the colony Mr. SMyrm moved for the instructions (the same as those mov
to the amount of 20,000l. a year by the government alone. He ed for in the Lords) given to the commissioners appointed to carry
thought that Parliament should not allow its privilege to be thus into execution the treaties respecting the Slave Trade.—Agreed
violated. The state of religion and the instruction of children to.—Adjourned,
were points to which he should allude. In many places, there
were no churches and no clergymen; and out of 4000 children, TUESDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE.
only 1000 had received . sort of moral or religious education. -
The only appearance of religion among the convicts was the cus
tom of being marched to church on Sunday. A Catholic clergy - BANKRUPTCY ENLARGEP).
man had gone out voluntarily from i. with the view of in F. Tully, Bristol, baker, from Feb. 13 to April 3.
BANKRUPTCIES SU1°ErsedED.
structing convicts of that persuasion. This clergyman went from
house to house, and exerted himself in the most laudable manner J. Jºb, Ivy-lane, Newgate-street, merchant.
in promoting the comfort and correcting the morals of the people. R. James, Bristol, cabinet-maker.
But the Governor shut him up in a gaol, and afterwards sent BANKRUPTS.
bim home ! The power of licencing public-houses was exercised G. B. and C. Highfield, Liverpool, merchants. Attornies, Messrs.
by the Governor; he had licensed 52, many of which were in Blackstock and Bunce, King's Bench-walk, Temple.
famous and notorious brothels. The Hon. Gentleman then enter C. Fricker, jun., Stoke-Newington, merchant. Attorney, Mr.
ed into a comparative statement of the expenses of penitentiaries Maugham, Great St. Helens.
in this country, and transportation to Botany Bay. The convicts W. Dodsworth, York, ship-carpenter. Attorney, Mr. Smith,
transported to New South Wales were proved by the accounts to Pump-court, Middle Temple. -

be far more expensive. It was then a question, whether the T. Fish, Bridport, victualler. Attorney, Mr. Allen, Clifford's.
outlas of the country were to be thus sent out of it. If the ob littit.

ject was to support the colonies, let industrious settlers been W. Cobbe", jun. Kingsland-road, common-brewer. Attornies,
couraged. . He concluded by moving, that a Committee be ap Messrs. .amb and Hawke, Princes’-street, Bank.
ointed to inquire into the system of transportation, and the state J. Johnson, Lucas-street, Commercial-road, merchant. Attor
of New South Wales. ney, Mr. Willey, Wellclose-square. -

Lord CastLEREAGA coucurred with the Hon. Gentleman as to F. Wright, Budge-row, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Stratton
the propriety of inquiry, but thought it better that the Committee and Aliport, Shºreditch.
which he should move for to inquire into the state of the pri J. Lomas, White Horse-inn, Fetter-lane, tavern-keeper. Attor
sons should also have this question referred to them. It would nies, Messrs. Mayhew, Price, and Swan, Chancery-lane.
not distract the attention ºf Parliament so much. He knew the M.Q'Hara, Watford, Hertfordshire, innkeeper. Attorney, Mr.
hitmanity of the Hon. Gentleman, and that all his exertious were Williams, Blackman-street.
prompted by humanity, and an honest desire to relieve the mi W. Woods, Haughton-street, Clare-market, coal-merchant. At
serable-(Cheers)—but on that very account, he received infor tormies, Messrs. Thomas and Kaye, Barnard's-inn.
mation too hastily, and with too much confidence. He should
therefore move the previous question. SATURDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE.
Mr. Wilperrorcº, Sir J. MackINTosa, Mr. TrekNer, Mr. -
- Buxton, and Mr. WYNN contended, that it was utterly impos BANKRUPTS.
sible that one Committee could ay the necessary attention to
J. Hardman, Manchester, warehouseman. Attorney, Mr. Kay,
all the questions which the Noble Lord wished to refer to them, Essex-street, Manchester.
each of which involved so much attention and labour; and that
therefore, by propºsing such a mode of proceeding; Ministers R.Messrs.
W. Fox and W. P. Smith, Plymouth, merchants. Attornies,
Amstice and Wright, Inner-Temple.
only wished to evade inquiry altogether.
Mr. Goulburn and Mr. CANNING argued, that the different J. Wheeler,
Peers. Liverpool, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Evison and
Hanover-street.
subjects of inquiry were so connected as to render it necessary W. Garuer, . Poulton-eum-Sencome, Chester, dealer-in-coals.
that they should be considered by the same persons, and at the
same time. As to the statements respecting New South Wales, Attºrnies, Messrs. Lowes and Cowburn, Temple.
it was unreasonable to expect the people there to be moral, or G.andE.Phillips, Plymouth, saddler. Attornies, Messrs. Anstice
that they were fit to enjoy the blessings of the British consti J. Kent,Wright, loner-Temple.
Stowmarket Suffolk, beer-brewer. Attorney, Mr. Chil
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tution. - - - "
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The House then divided upon the original question—Ayes, E. ton, Chancery-lane.
Cooper, Blandford-Forum, Dorsetshire, linen-draper. Attor
-

95—Noes, 139—Majority, 46.-Adjourned. ney, Mr. Dean, Guildford-street.

- Friday, Feb. 19. - -

J. Revett the younger, Tolleshunt Darcy, Essex, butcher. Attor

. On a Petition being presented from Bristol against the insol nigs, Messrs. Milne and Parry, Temple. -

... went Debtors' Act, Mr. An Encroxºny begged the House to reco J. Green, Maddox-street, coach-maker. Attorney, Mr. Rey- -

lect the enermity of the evil which that Act was intended to nolds, Hertford-street, Fitzroy-square,
remedy; and observed, that tradesmen had the remedy in their W.,
Rowland
Ncate, and silversmith. Attornics.
Young, Litºclaſs-Inn-Fields.
Sweeting's-alley, sy M
Messrs.
own hands by refusing to trust to so great an extent.—Alderman
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E. Bourne, Austin-Friars, merchant. Attormies, Messrs. Kearsey mises were never made; and that the Inquisitor-General's
and Spurr. Bishopsgate-street Within.
W. Jones, Shoreditch, earthenware and chinaman. Attorney, Proclamation against political writings was forged by the
Mr. Sutcliffe, Far!-street, Blackfriars. Madrid Gazette. We know not whether the Creature
W. Broadv, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, mercer. Attornies, ever “crawls at evening in the public path"; if he does, it
Messrs. Fladgate and Neeld, Essex-street, Strand.
W.T. Dunderdale. Manchester, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. is a moot point certainly whether people would soonest
Hard, Johnson, and Chester, Temple. avoid or tread on him; but his character and measures, and
J. Clarke, Stagbatch, Hereford, farmer. Attornies, Messrs. those of his works, we do know. Their own papers, pro
Jenkins, James, and Abbott, New Inn.
J. Dºnely, Peopleton, Worcestershire, cond-merchant. Attorney, clamations, notorious public conduct, aye, and their very
Mr. Blake, Devonshire-street, Queen-square. panegyrics of each other, inform us. It is from his own
W. Prest and J. Woolner, Lawrence-Ponntney-lane, corn ſac documents, which he dare not contradict, that we are ac
tors. Attoruies, Messrs. Druce and Son, Billiter-square. quainted with his petitions to Bonaparre for a family alli
J. and M. Woodhouse, Mincing-lane, West India brokers. Attor
nies, Messrs. Weston, Teesdale and Symes, Fenchurch-street. ance; with his congratulations in the success of the French
armsinSpain; with his covertletters to the Spaniards entreat
Paice or storics on Ratunday.
$per Cent. Red................. 7734 || 3 per Cent. Cons.............76#.
ing them nevertheless to fight; and promising them the Cortes
and a Constitutional Government; with his breaking of
Creature, next week. these sacred and successful promises, when they had got
Spanish Caricature at the same time.
The Letter headed Question 1 Question f was omitted by mistake. back his throne for him; and with his driving the patriots,
We shall at all times be very glad to hear from the writer. who still demanded them, to desperation, to exile, to death.
It is from the publications of the Inquisition, that we know
THE EXAMIN E R. it's re-establishment, it's blood thirsty warrants obtained
from the Pope, and it's direct meddling with political mat
London, FEBRUARY 21. ters, including the journals in this country which put it
into such an impotent frenzy, and carry dread into the
The Report of the Committee of Representatives on the hearts of it's executioners. Finally, it was from a pane
case cf AmbuTHNot and AMBRIster has arrived in the gyric openly pronounced upon the Creature by one of his
American Papers, and with the exception of the protest of monks in his own Chapel Royal, that we learnt his prema
one Member, decidedly condemns the conduct of General ture drivelling, and the fact of his embroidering petticoats
Jackson. This is another evidence of the real dignity for the Virgin MARY-So much at present for this most
and moral riches of the American Government, which admirable and most exemplary of personages, and for
can distinguish firmness from obstinacy, and afford to own the veracity of those who undertake the negro-washing
a ſault on the part of it's servants. task of defending him.
An extract of a private letter from Madrid has appeared . An earnest and ſorcible comparison of Sir FRANcis
in the Courier, in order to do something, if possible, for Purprit's, in which he described the Whig and Tory
the character of Ferdinand and his measures. It riots in factions as “the two thieves between whom the Constitu
loyal superlatives, and is evidently got up for the occasion. tion has been crucified,” has roused the Tory paper that
“We continue,” says the writer, “in complete tranquilli praises CANNING to a most exemplary pitch of Christian
ty. They have begun to pay, from the Treasury, the fury. The Whigs treat it with more calmness; but the
interest upon our public funds, called vales reales, and this Tories cannot help showing how well it has described
promises to reanimate confidence. They continue the them. The Courier cannot find words to express his
preparations for the expedition against Buenos Ayres, “feelings of unmingled detestation” at this “monstrous
with great activity. From all parts bodies of troops are sally of impiety.” The Courier : The Courier, who is
marching towards Cadiz, to join the army which is to in the habit of panegyrizing CANNING, who never says a
embark there.—The KING has received the most affec word about his famous parodies, and who sinks, on this
tionate manifestations of love and condolence from all his very occasion, the fact of a parody's having appeared on
subjects, on account of the melancholy and unexpected the Trinity from the pen of the electioneering Whigs . It
death of our Sovereign the Queen. He applies himself is as follows; and however unjust, is pleasant and crisp
to public business in a most admirable and exemplary enough :—
manner. Notwithstanding that he is of an age when the *Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, a Place-holder, and his Son, John,
passions are powerful, his life is a model of virtue; and, a Place-hunter.
GLong A Hophorise!!!
fortunately, none of the gross misrepresentations with To the Father and Son,
which the English Papers have assailed the personal cha All glory be given,
racter of Ferdix Axo, are true.”
The spirit is one,
The letter-proceeds to deny a charge which some paper And their ratting is even.
has made, intending to deceive “the illustrious English The Father rats well,
nation,” that FERDINAND cannot venture out of his palace The Son rats as clever,
without a troop of horse; and it specially asserts that the - They've rated, they do rat,
Court and Cabinet are not governed by Monks. It says And will rat for ever.”

that, on the contrary, Ferdinand is in the habit of “walk Now if there is any profaneness at all on either side,
ing on foot" (not on hoof), attended by a single officer; (which we do not believe) it is rather on the joking than
* that the Monks have no influence whatever on public on the serious side; and it shews a lamentable ignorance, not
ºf its—It is a pity it did not conclude with saying, only of what has been done in a similar way by the greatest
* the Creature's avowed, recorded, and broken prºland most religious men, including Fathers and Reformers of
*
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the Church, but of the graver and sincerer part of human Whig Hypocrisy—At the late contest for Lincolnshire’
nature itself. The most religious of men might speak as (says a Correspondent) for which two Members were to be
returned, there were three Candidates. Sir Robert Heros
Sir FRANcis Burdett did, out of the very intenseness of
was the Reformer, Mr. Pethan the Whig, and Mr.
his grave conviction on both subjects, -the subject illus Chaplin the Tory. Pelnau pretended to be uncon
trated and the subject illustrating. But certainly jokes nected with either of the others, and consequently would
are more suspicious things. Luther himself made not coalesce with HeroN ; but in the end it was discovered
use of such metaphors. You find the parodying that the Whig, and the Court, Candidate were secretly
spirit in Voltairs and (we beg the Frenchmºn's allied, and that the agents of both were employed mutual
pardon) in CANNING. The profanest joke we ever out ly to gain them votes, and thus Sir Robert was jostled
veracious friend as
of a seat!, The supporters of Sir Robert also gave
heard of was told us by a most their votes to the Whig Candidate, not suspecting the un
having been uttered by one of our present holy-altar Sub natural coalition between the Whig and Tory, and wish
Statesmen. Did the Courier ever hear it? It is a sort of ing to return the former in preference to the latter. The
metaphorical bill of fare; and if certain persons with their eformers mean to repay Pelliam, by leaving him to the
revival of blackguard magazines do not take care, will be protection of his court friend on a future occasion, when
they feel confident of Sir Robert's success, Precious
blurted out one of these days by somebody who stands Whigs! So much for hypocrisy .
upon less ceremony in these matters then we. A PRopen Representative.--"We want the man
wh9.will fight for the Constitution step by step—who
will, like Sir FRANcis Burdett, take up the cause of an
There was a rumour afloat on Friday, and Saturday oppressed individual, as he would that of a whole town or
morning, that the King of FRANce was in great danger county, and justly reason, that the successful oppression
from a mortification in his legs. The Paris Papers of of one will be followed by that of the million; but how
Wednesday, however, which arrived yesterday morning, often have we seen the worthy Baronet, and a few others
are silent on the subject. This does not prove that Louis of the same cast, left unsupported in their efforts for indi
is not ill; for unless his danger was very imminent, the vidual liberty, and their complaints against minor abuses,
eensorship might prevent any mention of it. The sudden while the systematic opposition (Tie Whigs), unau
death of a man so bloated and corpulent, from eating more thorised by their leader, have sat ºly by, or perhaps
than an ordinary quantity of oysters, or being to eager been nearly all absent from their places? W. have long
with his capon, would be nothing astonishing. Indeed the enough tried what this systematic opposition can effect;
great probability is, that he will die from some such cause. we must try what can now be done without it, and wé
The Committee appointed by the House of Representa
tives of the United States to investigate the conduct of look with confidence to the men of no party to support
rights of the people in time to come. "These will
General Jackson, with respect to our countrymen AR the watch over small innovations in every step of their pro
Burn Not and Axibrister, have made a report. The gress; and if any grand measure come forward, injurious
following is their final Resolution:—“Resolved, that the to the country, they will need no leader's beck to resist
House of Representatives of the United States, disapproves it.”—Extracted from Srrictures on an Article in the
the proceedings in the trial and execution of A. Aabutii Edinburgh Review on the State of Parties, and a Letter
Not and R. C. AMERIstER.” A counter-report was moved to the Electors of Westminster.
in the Committee, but rejected by a single voice. “The Stafford theatre closed last week. Miss Booth
£Arnolic EMANcipation.—On the 13th instant, a
was the only novelty of the campaign. We regret to
meeting of the Protestants of Dublin, took place, for the hear, that on the occasion of this accomplished actess
purpose of petitioning Parliament in favour of their Ca going to the church of that town, during her stay, the Cº
tholic brethren. There were nearly three thousand per
sons, present, among whom were several distinguished rate commenced a very unjust and indecorous attack on
the theatre, from the pulpit; and turning the eyes of the
Noblemen and Gentlemen—the Duke of Leinster, Earls whole congregarion on this interesting female, she burs:
of CHARLeMont and MEATH, Lord Cloncurry, Mr. into tears!”–Litchfield Mercury—We have said, that
GRATTAN, Mr. PARNell, &c. Some few of the “old this clergyman was not a geatleman: was he a man? and
intolerant faction” also attended, and after the first resolu could worse have been expected from a furious
monk, or
tion was put, Lord FRANkfont moved that the meeting a puritan in the days of Cromwell? Would this pusilla
should adjourn. This proposition was seconded by Mr. nimous creature have preached against the stage in the
Ellis, . speech was received with strong disappro presence of the whole d. Room, if his sovereign had
bation. It was then resolved to divide, and that those been present? No, he would not have dared thus to out
who were for the adiournment should retire. This how
rage decency, by finding the least fault with an amusement,
ever they refused to do, and the Lord MAYon (who pre of which the sensible old man used to be so fond, and to
sided) put the question on the original motion, which he which he so frequently conducted his wife and daughters.
declared tº be carried—upon which the faction called out But seeing an unprotected female among his auditors—
for a division!—The Duke of Leinster read the draft of
a Petition to Parliament, and it was resolved that similar
faugh! the cowardly act stinks in our nostrils . These are
the men, who, by over acting their parts, do an essential
petitions should be circulated, for the purpose of obtaining disservice to the cause of true religion, and to the dignity
*he signatures of Protestants.-Mr. William HENRY of their sacred functions.—Stamford News.
CURRAN (son of the celebrated CURRAN) made an elo
TRUE LOVE.
quent speech, which was much applauded. -

There has been a counter-meeting of the intolerant shakespear.

Protestants of Dublin, at which a petition against the
Catholic claims was agreed to. What a contrast!
here was a very judicious letter, in the Statesman
Evening Paper of yesterday, respecting the Westminster
Election,--but we had not time to make an extract
from it.
Friday week, Mr. Tyler, bookseller, of Cow-cross-street,
West Smithfield, was arrested on a Judge's warrant, for
selling Paine's Age ºf Reason.
Love is a constant, ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's foolt though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come,
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out e'en to the edge of doom.
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HARD Case.—The Petition of a man named MARK A sly Hint, from the Two-penny Register to the º

TANNER has been sent us. The Petitioner states, that as Two-penny Tyrants, to remind them that they
are unable, and dare not attempt, to answer a
he was travelling between Melksham and Bradford, in plain and honest statement. (34, Wardour
Wiltshire, with one WiLLIAM Moore, whom he had hired street) , - - - - - - - - - -

to assist him in his occupation of selling mats, they over Rev. T. B. Morris - - - er

took a servant girl, who entered into conversation with R. S. Hoggins, Brompton
Moore, and walked some distance with him; that on the J. B. - - - - -

next day they were º and charged before a T. K. - - - -

.. on the oath of the servant girl, with having

robbed her of a shilling on the previous day; that they
were committed on this charge, and remained in prison ten
weeks, when they were tried and honourably acquitted at
r T. B."
W.T.
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the Wilts assizes, the prosecutrix being very inconsistent in Mr. Smith - - - - l
her statements; that, in consequence of the expence of his Rev. Thos. Pearson
W. Barker
defence and of his maintenance in prison (160l.), together E. W., Chelsea
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with his loss of business and connexions, the Petitioner is
No Jesuit - - - - -
totally ruined; and therefore, being unable to recover any E. C. - - - -
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thing by law from the prosecutrix, on account of her low C. and T. B. - - - - - - - l

condition, he is compelled to solicit the donations of the By a Friend to the Oppressed, one flimsy, alias a
charitable.—The Petition is followed by several testimo One Pound Note - - - - - - - - - -

nials of character.—If this statement is true (and we see C. T. C. - - - - - - - - - - - - -.

no reason to doubt it), this poor man is a most deserving Hudibras, although no Admirer of the Principles
of Butler - - - - - - -
object of charity. This case, among hundreds of similar No Friends to political Parsons
ones, shews the great injustice of making the innocent J. Sermon, Islesworth - -
suffer punishment along with the guilty, merely on suspi G. H. and C. - - - -
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cion. "We know that it is for the º, of society, #. Mr. H. Smith - - - -

people should be committed on suspicion; but if the nation

reaps the advantage of this system, why should it not also
compensate innocent individuals as much as possible for
Mr. Martin, Reigate -
An Admirer - -
An Enemy to Oppression (W.)
Mrs. G. and Miss G.
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the injury they sustain by it? If pecuniary reparation Geo. Miller - - - - - -

(by means perhaps of a county rate) were made to the Wm. Carr, Askham Hall, Yorkshire - -
innocent, it would prevent a great deal of distress and suf
fering; and it surely could not be a matter of complaint (From the Stamford News of Friday.)
with the º that they had the burden along with the “Subscription Fort The FAMily of William PAwl: Rogers.--
benefit. We will answer for them, that they would rather We
this
have much pleasure in informing our readers, that we have
week received 21. from Sir John Thorold, it from Lady
contribute to recompense those who are unfortunate enough Thorold, and 21. from Sir Robert Heron, towards the subscription
to be unjustly suspected, than to support a set of placemen for the family of Mr. Rogers, whose peculiarly distressing case
andsinecurists in unmerited enjoyments.
There are two very amusing exhibitions now in town,
was published in our last paper.”
[Subscriptions continue to be received by Mr. Gallºway, 69,
which show the important progress of mechanism. One is Holborn—and by Mr. Appleyard, at the Examiner-Office-l
that of the PedestriaN CARRIAge, by which people may
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run along the road, with light touches of their feet, at the To The EDITOR of The examiner. -

rate of eight or even ten miles an hour. It is to be seen.’

at Mr. Joixson's, the Coachmaker's, in Long Acre. The Sin,_The Anti-christian, and persecuting spirit shewn
other is the Chess-playing AutoMAtos in Spring Gar by a noxious Weed of the Church to an industrious trades
man is a disgrace to any man entering a pulpit. I shall
dens. We shall give an account of both of them in a week only say, I hope his conscience will smite him quickly,
or two; and in the mean time refer our readers to the
account of one in Ackerman's Magazine, and of the other and that, as far as lays in his power, he will make repara
tion to the injured individual he has been the means of
in a pamphlet just published, which is translated from the
French, and which enters in a minute and incarcerating in a jail.
lively manner Should he not, I beg leave to recommend to his serious
into all the particulars. -

consideration two practical texts of scripture, viz. part of

the 23d verse of 17th chapter of 2d Book of Samuel, and
CASE OF W. P. IROGERS. the last sentence of the 37th verse of 10th chapter of St.
- Luke.—For Mr. Rogers, of whom I know nothing but
PRESENT STATE OF THE SUBSCRIPTION. your report, I am sorry, and beg, Sir, you will give him
William Peter, Lowqr Cadogan-place - - - £5 the enclosed two pounds,--I am, Sir, your constant reader,
William Henry Whitbread, 20, Sloane-street - Hudibras, Although No ADMIRER of the
T.T. Clarke, 43, Upper Brook-street - - - Painciples of Butler, - - -

Earl Seften, 22, Arlington-street - - - Feb. 15, 1819.

Colonel Napier, 13, Cadogan-place - -
Sir Samuel Romilly, 21, Bedford-square P.S.—I have just sent to my Medical Friend never to
William Hone, Ludgate-hill - - - send me any Valerian—it stinketh in my nostrils.
The Eraminer Newspaper - - -
A Friend to Honour and Honesty MR, L.AMH. -

Alexander Galloway, Holborn - -

George Butler - - - - - - - - TO THE EDITott or The ExAMINER.
Sir Francis Burdett - - - - -
John C. Hobhouse - - - - - - SIR,-As a subscriber for the last four years to your
S. Perry, Proprietor and Editor of the atesman paper, I might claim some portion of your attention; as
and Constitution - - - - - a lover of impartiality, I do claim it.
A Friend to Parliamentary Reform I own, Sir, I was much disappointed, when I epened
An Enemy to Oppression - - -
Qh.ſie, Parson Butler! i your last Sunday's paper, not to find, if not glowin
praises, at lear tº cºnid arowai, tº you ºš .#
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some information to the Electors of Westminster as to the ley Polº, whom they kneaded up into the compound
public character of the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Lamb) appellation of Milord Westevrneror. -

opposed to Mr. Hobhouse. But a word of the opera, for we have but a word to
I must now suppose, Sir, that you were unacquainted say this time. It seems to have been written in Parsieu
with the fact, that this is the same Mr. Lamb, who, but a Lo's youth, for the aceompaniments are more than usually
short time previous to your writing that excellent letter to light, and there is a want of abundance in it altogether
the Electors of Westmoreland, had been strenuous in his amounting to the bald. The finale in particular, is dis
oxertions, in conjunction with Sir F. F. Vane, to defeat missed with singular haste and indifference;—all which
the Ministerial interest of the Lowthers, (the Borough has a double effect of poverty after the exuberant harmo
mongering Lowthers, I mean), in the broad principle that nies of the German school, and the lavish gaieties of Ros
the right of voting lay in the inhabitant paying scot and sini. Still however there are evidences of the future great
int, which tailies with the manly avowal of Mr. Lamb at composer in it, especially in the melodies, a part of cem
the Hustings in Covent-Garden. Trusting, Sir, to your pºsition which he afterwards carried to such perfection.
candour and liberality in giving publicity to this fact in The air of
your columns, with many thanks ſor your manly and in Dipiacer mibalza il cor, -

dependant ketter of July 5, with the sentiments of which is full of delighted anticipation; and the change of the
Imostcordially agree—I remain, Sir, your's, much obliged measure into
Lover of Justice, AND A FReetioldeR of Tutto soridere
WestMoRELAND. Mi veggo intorno,
P.S.. I cannot help thinking, Sir, that the following pa produces a melody still more beautiful, especially in the
ragraph applies with as much force to Mr. L. as to Mr. joyous and most graceful leap upwards in the line
B., § I cede it the latter to the fullest extent:—“He Brillar nonpuo.
The plot of the piece also is not destitute of humour,
has sides enough in his brilliant talents to reflect you all. especially in a scene where three lovers are successively
He has industry to represent the industrious, spirit to re
present the spirited, kindness for the kind, wit for the made to conceal themselves by personating three barber
iriſty, scholarship for the learned, matter of fact for the shop busts on the top of boxes. They are left together,
the last one unconscious that the others are there : and the
F. knowledge of the country for the country people.
gradual turning round of his eye, and their dumb recogni
nowledge of the town for townsmen, gravity for the se
rious, hilarity for the gay, family for the gentry, liberality tion of each other, is very ludicrons. Madame Brillochi's
for the commonalty, sympathy for all.” singing and acting in the principal character, are both very
eflective.
[We were certainly not aware of the fact mentioned in arturtrº-Lawr.
this letter, the writer of which knows how to interest our What shall we say of the failure of the new tragedy at
self-love very agreeably in behalf of the candidate whom this house? It was a woman's, and a clever woman's
he admires. We had already expressed a liking for the too, and one who has the reputation of being as amiable
evident talents and good temper of Mr. Lamb; and his
interesting himself so warmly on the occasion alluded to as she is clever, -Miss Pok'rer; and yet with all this,
has increased our opinion of his natural zeal for inde with,our
and yearning to think it undeserving of the fate it wet
we could not. It is not that there is no talent in
pendence;—but we cannot but think him more implicated it, or no passages here and there which a vulgar writer
in direct party-matters and connexions than, Mr. Hob could not produce, but it was totally destitute of the
house; and this is the reason why we prefer the latter for dramatic. -

a representative of Westminster.—Eram.] -

THEATRICAL EXAMINER. FINE ARTs.

No. 352,
BRITISH INSTITUTION.
To know that there is a picture of any familiar scene at an
Iran.r.twº optra.
A Comic Opera of Parsiello's, which is said to have Exhibition by Mr. Wilkie, is of itself sufficiently inviting
been written by him when young, was produced here on to it, , We are sure of enjoying from it that rarest perhaps
Tuesday night. It is called La Modista #.. (the of all beauties in every species of art and literature, a total
Intriguing Milliner), a title which seems to have been absence of affectation, as well as the most striking situation
spelt every possible way in the Newspapers; and what in which the objects painted are seen in Nature. Such is,
is curious enough, it is spelt two ways in the very book of 13, China Menders, D. Wilkie R.A. We do not mean
the opera. This is no very grand subject of criticism; to insinuate that his pictures are faultless, though we think
but it reminds one, of those amusing and apparently that they are as much so as any of the Dutch Masters, those
wilſul misnomers, which we had hitherto supposed to be pryers into and close copyers of ſapniliar nature. In his
confined to the French nation and maid-servants. We early works, he had greater opposition, and variety of
should think it a Frenchman who made these mistakes in colour. In his latter, and especially in this, he has greater
the advertisements, did he not describe his own fair and delicacy. Both kinds are beautiful, but this we think
saltatory countrywomen in the ballets as so many Mad most so, because to sufficient richness of colour he
inoisellés, -Madmoiselle Gros, and Madmoiselle Le adds an extraordinary lightness of touch, which always
Fevre. This propensity of the French to overlook poor pleases, because it conveys, more than the flatter and heavier
foreign names has been ſately noticed ; but the objectors pencil, the idea of the picture being struck off with greater
to it would perhaps think it equally beneath their dignity ease and intelligence. He has also got rid of an over
to be aware of the misdemeanours of servants in this way. wrought degree of yellownessia some of his latter works.
A, country-girl, a cook, or even an old footman, after Here there is just that portion of it which makes us, in re
asking your name, will sometimes utterly refuse to know called idea, feel the sun's warmth, and see its brightness.
what it is, and persist in going away with any appellation In the uniformity of tint and yellow sunny light of his
but the fight one. The most portentous mistake, by the latter style, he is not unlike Ost ADE, though with less
bye, which we ever met with on the part of the French, partion of shade. He is as charming as ever in the power
was in noticing the arrival on their shores of Mr. Welles of bringing the scene before you as you recollect to have
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seen it, whether in a room or in the sunny and open air. in many of our species. They heliº us to forget, that if we
In remarking on his pictures as we stand before them, we are stilſ the freest people in Europe, we are the most taxed,
have none of that reserve in our opinions, and none of that our liberties have been deteriorated, and that the Re
those ºliºs fluts which follow the praises of most public of North America is still freer. They help us to for
paintings. *We give him our warmest approbation in re get that for Ministers we have a convicted seat-seller, and
turn fºr his giving us the scarce and high pleasure of see a circulator of arbitrary mandates to our magistrates. They
ing Nature not only not misrepresented, but represented give us, in fine, a most rare and a cheaply purchased plea
with the best energy in which she appears in her familiar sure, and in return, we give to their producers the homage
lite character. of our thankfulness and applause.
Mr.DEAN, in his 144. Coast Scene. Morning, has shewn
much improvement. The air is breathing, the water Sir J. Leicester intends to indulge the lovers of the
buoyant.the ships, &c. well massed. Fine Arts, by re-opening to them his English Gallery on
26, The Return of Louis 18th. E. Bºnn, R.A.—This the 15th of next month, when we shall renew our remarks
picture represents a crowd of persons round Louis 18th, upon it, further enriched as it has been with new and ad
congratulating him on his royal return to France. As mirable works by our native Painters.
things are morestriking by contrast, would not Mr. Young,
who, in the main; hangs the pictures with just discrimina EAST INDIAN ATROCITIES.
tiºn, have done better in placing this work right against --
Mr. Davis's Magna Charta, which picture related to the
compelling a King to do what was right, whereas this re The last Edinburgh Review contains an excellent article
preseats one of those incidents in which a King, the re on Mr. Mill's History of British India. It gives a clear
jected of his people, had been thrust back upon that
and concise view of the rise and ſº. of British
ple, and thus assisted in doing what was wrong. power and influence; of the conduct and plans of
he contrast too would have been interesting and strong the different governors, and the Company's agents; of
in the costume, the personal look, and moral character of the dreadful state of the country; the ruinous conse
the individuals displayed on each canvass. The sly, quences of heavy taxation; the oppressive and destructive,
time-serving turncoat, Talleyrand, for instance, the mode of collecting the revenue; and the delays and other
obstacles to the administration of justice. e shall ex
poor, bigotted Princess, the Duchess D'Angoulene, the tract a few passages, to show of what kind those “bless
worshipper of the Divine Right of Kings; Mrs. Corver, ings” are, which our dominion is said to have obtained
who, on her knees, is presenting Louis a sprig of the lily: for the natives. The following is the account of the first
and a large group of vacant-faced emigrant lords and interſerence of the Company in the affairs of the native
courtiers, would have been striking foils to the manly in princes in 1719:-
dependent port of the king-correcting English Barons. - -

* A pretender to the throne of Tanjore, who, according to the

Hampered however as the Painter has thus been with an ordinary rules of succession, had a better claim to the throne
historical incident, which was part of a great insult to a than its actual possessor, applied to the Madras Government for
great nation and the common rights of mankind—hamr an army to support him in his quarrel; and offered, as a reward
pered with a set of portraits of persons, most of whom are for their assistance, the possession of a port called ljevi-cottab,
the worn-out old French nobility, slaves in politics and which it was considered convenient for the Company to obtair
bigots in religion, he has, we confess, accomplished a dif With the ruling prince, Pretaupa-Sing, the ºy had cor
ficult task, especially if he has any of the true old British responded for years, with the fullest recognitions of his title;
and in India, the course of succession is in fact so uncertain,
blood in his veins, of giving the subject its intended inte that seldom is a sovereign to be found who can make good his
rest, and has bestowed on the figures that varied look of ea title according to our notions of legitimacy. But the promise
Erness to see and pay homage to the lately and long exiled of Devi-cottah inspired the Company with a flaming zeal for
King, so natural to the characters represented. To this the jus divinum; nad they despatched an army to desolate Tan
praise and that of a well managed diversity of action in jore, and to dethrone its sovereign. This was bad enough; but
jects of great sameness, we wish we could add that of this was tonottheall.bargain;
The army got possession of Devi-cottah, de
good colour. . As in former pictures by this justly admired cording but then it was found, that the esta
blishment of the Company's protegé would be rather a difficult
Artist, the colouring ºf the flesh is very deficient in clear task, and therefore they made peace with Prºtaupa-Sing, who
ness; but the light is beautifully distributed, which,with the agreed to concede to º the port in question, and territory
picture's display of character, makes it come out on the eye worth 9000 pagodas a year; and, in return, these champions
and the mind with a deeply felt power. of legitimacy stipulated, not only that they would ºbstain from
In Mr. Nasmyra's 246, View between Gravesend and hostilities, but that they would secure the person of the pre
Northfiret, 22, Cottage Scene, &c. we admire the close tender, the rightfulness of whose claim had been the sole justi
copying and neat peucilling of the objects. and the sober fication of this appeal to artns, that he might give no further
and ruly English grey colour. In 163, Collage and F molestation to their new ally—who was to allow them 400l. for
gures, there is a rich, Cuypish sunshine. the yearly expenses of their state prisoner. He escaped from
his betrayers: but his uncle, the leader of his party, was impri
Our remarks npon the Landscapes by Messrs. VINCENT soned by the English for nine years, till he was released by the
and STAnk, 206, Cottage Scene, 210, Sailing Match, French when they took Fort St. David, in 1758. -

171, View on the Yare, &c. can be little else but eulogy. Did Bonaparte ever commit a more atrocious and ſaith
In 71, the lustre of light and colour is truly golden on the less, deed than this? Did he ever do so bad? And yet
noble masses of cloud, hills, cattle, large boats, &c. he is now confined in St. Helena for having oppressed
This Exhibition may be compared to a beautiful garden, and broken his faith with other nations and princes, and
in which, among many usual flowers, are some of choicest he is confined by those very sovereigns, whose whole lives
beauty, which have been planted there by those young have been past in oppressing and breaking promises; and
hnnds and others which we have mentioned, and will men. among those governments who have dethroned him for
tioned hereafter. They have that freshness and beauty, his crimes is the English, who have sanctioned for the last
that fancy-delighting charm, with which Nature, we had 50 years a system of misrule, oppression, treachery, and
almost said, enlivens this goodly frame of earth for our plunder, in this one part of their conquests!
enjoyment. They refresh our spirits, and give a new sti In the mode of collecting the taxes, avarice and ignº
mulus of satisfaction, if not of delight, to our day's grati rance of true policy seem to have contended for the mas
fication. They help us to forget for a time our bodily tery. The British, on gaining possession of the country,
ailments, and our chagrin at what is ungratious and bad made the native bereditary collectors of revenue, called
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Zemindars, proprietors ºf land, and imposed on them a the aid of her guardian's servants, waked her at half-past
certain fixed tax. These men underlet their property to twelve at night, liſted her out of bed, dressed her, forced
others, who exacted without limit from the cultivators of her down stairs from her guardian's house, compelled her
the soil. The difficulty, however, which the Zemindars. to take some sleepy mixture, and finally carried her nearly
experienced in getting their rents, owing to the delay of 40 miles off... for the purpose of getting her married to
the law, and the necessity of making punctual payments James Bowditch, which marriage was frustrated by her
to the Company, caused their ruin and destruction. Their declaring her true age (between 16 and 17.)
land was put up to sale to pay the arrears, which were so The Defendants and their supporters maintain, that so
great, that one-tenth of the whole British possessions was far from having conveyed Miss Glenn away by force, the
sold to discharge them. whole affair was planned by the lady herself, who had long
The administration of justice was another of the “bless evinced her attachment to the young man in a very open an
ings” afforded the Hindoos. . The former mode was unequivocal manner; and that the marriage was not solemn
“simple, rational, and entirely free from technical impedi ized, after the elopement, owing to the alarm which Wm.
ments.” Instead of this, the complicated and tedious Bowditch felt on learning the consequences which might :
forms of the English courts were introduced, and the con arise from her being married when under age. They
sequence was, the accumulation of an immense number of dwellin particular on the improbability of their having been
undecided causes. “In the district of Burdwan alone, capable of forging letters, which when carefully examined
the suits pending at pne time exceeded 30,000; and, by by three Bank Inspectors, are pronounced not to differ from
computation upon the established pace of the court, it ap Miss G.'s admitted hand-writing.
peared that no new candidate for justice could expect to It is urged by those who believe Miss Glenn's story,
obtain a decision during the ordinary period, of life.” To that a timid young creature might very uaturally be so
remedy this evil, taxes were laid upon the institution of much worked upon by threats upon her life, as to be in
every suit, and upon the proceedings in the course of it. duced to hide the matter from her friends. They contend,
Mr. Mill well observes upon this uotable expedient, that it too, that on the conspirators’ lifting her from her bed, the
would have been as just and reasonable to denyiustice tº previous as well as immediate.terror might easily operate
every one who was not six feet high. “A man's stature,” to deprive her of her voice, as she says it did, and thus
he says, “is surely as good a test to judge by, whether he prevent her calling out for the aid of her guardian, who
has received an injury, as his purse.” This true and for slept in the next room. And this continued terror, *

cible remark would apply to more systems than that to when she found herself in the hands of the conspirators,
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with the effects of the potion administered to her, naturally

The able Reviewer then goes on to speak of the system of accounts for the subjugation of both mind and body. .
police and the prodigious number of criminals. In the ''There are not wanting persons, on the contrary, who in
following . the effects of the change from the sist that Miss Glenn's story is altogether an improbable
former to the present mode of government are completely one. They assert, it is not at all likely that a female be
summed up:— - - * *
tween 16 and 17, in good health and spirits, should be
Such are the melancholy results of the attempts to improve
the conditiºn of Bengal, described not by inimical observers or so much alarmed by the alleged threats, as to refrain for weeks
severe judges, but by the magistrates, who, from the prejudices from seeking by a simple disclosure the protection of her
of their situation, would be inclined to behold every indication friends. Miss ū. they say, could not so quietly have
of improvement, under the auspices of a British adminstration, been lifted out of the next room to her uncle by a single
with a favourable eye. Every person of rank and prºperty re female, dressed, pushed down stairs, and finally dragged
'duced to the lowest coudition,-the cultivator exposed to into off; and that her alledged inability to call for aid, by rea
lerable exaction,-the Courts of Justice virtually closed against son of her loss of voice, is a story equally if not still more
suitors, the most terrible of crimes increased to that extent that
nº security for person or property can be said to exist,-minor unlikely. -

cffences not diminished,—dissoluteness of morals become more
general, and a police, of which the vices render it, instead of a
benefit, a pest to the country;-these, according to the highest
authorities, are the characteristics of that part of India, where
cur reforms have had the longest time to operate. -
Now, without laying any stress on the affidavits of per
sons in any way interested in this singular business, there
are statements on the part of many credible persons, which
appear clearly to prove, that Miss Glenn could not have

spoken the truth in more than one instance. She swears,

that she always kept young Bowditch at a distance, and
ABDUCTION OF MISS GLENN. did not give him the slightest encouragement. It is how
-º ever satisfactorily shown, that she repeatedly and familiarly
“There is scarce Truth enough alive in the world to make walked with and talked to and about him. She swears.
Societies secure.” Snaks. -

that on a certain evening, after a shristening had taken

“What is meant fairly may aloud be spoken.” Shaks. place, she was not present at its celebration By the Bow
The readers of the Examiner will recollect that various ditches and others at the farm-house. Whereas, Mr.
legal proceedings have taken place on this extraordinary Turle, a teacher of music, who well knew Miss Glenn, and
case, which have ended in the imprisonment ºf four indi several other impartial witnesses, affirm on their oaths, that
viduals in Dorchester jail. Mrs. Bowditch, the mother, is she was actually present on the occasion and that she
to be confined for 21 months; and so is her son William; joined in the music.—Mr. Turle swears also, that he and
while James, the young man who was to have married others present kissed Miss Glenn, and on young Bowditch
Miss Glenn, is to be shut up for 18 months only; and, looking grave at this piece of familiarity, i. placed herself
what seems very singular, Mrs. Mulrain, who was merely at his side, observing, “Pooh pooh, nonsense! that’s
a visitor of the Bowditches, is sentenced to a heavier nothing.”— Then again, in corroboration of evidence
punishment than all, for her, term of imprisonment is ex not quite so unquestionable, a lady of undoubted respect
tended to two years!—Why this is, it is hard even to ability in Taunton swears, that Miss Glenn had on one oc
guess. Miss Glenn and her friends affirm, that lodging at casion complained to her of the “dull, moping" life she led
the farm-house of Mrs. Bowditch, a plot was laid to com at home, and wished the time was come that she could get
pel Miss Glenn to marry James Bowditch; that her life away.—As to the letters produced, one was admitſºd on
was threatened if she did not consent; that being of a very all hands to be written by Miss Glenn, which was as ill
timid and gentle disposition, these threats had great effect; spelt as those which she and her friends say were forged.
on her mind, and caused her to hide the fact from Mr. and | Some of the Judges, it is true, were of opinion that they
Mrs. Tuckett, her guardians; that the conspirators, with were forgeries; but no less than three ank Inspectors
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aver, that in their opinion they are all written by one hand; alleged conspiracy, with whomsoever it originated, was
and the writer of this notice adds his full belief, after a care aided in its progress by the voluntary and active co-opera
ful inspection of them, that those said to be forged are tion of Miss Glenn:-and another recommended a general
written by the same person that wrote the letter admitted Subscription for the relief of the Bowditches and their de
by all to be Miss Glenn's. pendants—The subscription was immediately commenced,
his in proof ſha, Miss Glenn was, for her alleged high and nearly 80's. were subscribed on the spot.
evecrations, indifferently fed, plainly clad, and negligent
lyinstructed; and when too it is remembered, that she led FORMS OF PARLIAMENT.
a “dulland moping” life with her uncle and aunt—(elder -ºr

ly people who confessedly lived in great retirement)—is it PARLIAMENtAmy Petitios.-As many vague *. in
very wonderful that such a girl should be desirous of distinct ideas are afloat on this subject, at present ºf
5f so
c her mode of life, or that she should be hasty much local interest, we give a few particulars for thain
andºfudging in her selection of a husband 2 Those formation of such ºf our readers as are unacquainted with
who know any thing of human nature are aware, that the subject; and, first, as to the appointment of the Com
many young persons, have naade what they themselves mittee. On the day appointed for its consideration, means
were satisfied was an injudieious choice, merely because are taken to secure the attendance of one hundred Mem
they wished to escape from what they believed to be a bers, as a Committee cannot be formed out of a less num
greater evil. If comfort, at home be wanting, it will be bor. When the hundred Members are assembled, the Pe
sought for elsewhere. There was a part of Mr. Tuckett's titioner or his Agent is ordered to attend, and if not forth
evi ,-apparently of a trifling nature, which struck coming in one hour, the whole business is at an end, and
some as being not a little explanatory. At the Trial be the recognizances entered into for the due prosecution of
fore Mr. Justice Park, Mr. Tuckett says, “ on turning the Petition (two of 2 each) are forfeited. If the Pe
round. I saw Miss Gienn playing at chess. She appeared titioner attend, the door of the House is locked, and no
so delighted and in such spirits, that I did not think it Member is suffered either to enter or depart, and all
right to check her; but I beg to state, that I never saw strangers are directed to withdraw. AAs soon as the door .
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her do so before nor since.”—Mr. Justice Park (with is locked, the order of the day for taking the Petition into
much gravity) “You never saw it before ?”—Mr. consideration is read, and the names of all the Members
Tuckett (with equal gravity), "I never saw it before nor being written on distinct pieces of paper or parchment of
since!"—Now what was this fearful proceeding, that the the same size, and rolled up in a similar manner, are, in
fond guardian, under other circumstances, would have equal numbers, put into six glasses placed on the table.
thou º bis duty to have checked in his ward—that is, The glasses are then shaken, and the Clerk of the House
jorbºlen? Why, the playing a harmless game of chess §
draws out and delivers them alternately to the
on a Sunday evening with her little cousin!--Pah! Whe peaker, who reads the names until forty-nine are drawn.'
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ther this denouncement of an innocent recreation proceeded But, if among these names is that of a Member who has
from artifice or austerity, it is equally revolting, and be given a vote in the election complained of, or who is him
longs to that set of sad absurdities which assist to alienate self a Petitioner, or against whose return, a Peition is
young people from those who ought to be their best friends depending, or of a Member who is sixty years of age,
and confidants. - -
(suppose he wishes to be excused), such name is set aside,
That some of the Bowditches and Mrs. Mulrain united and another is drawn to supply his place until forty-nine
be selected. When the forty-nine are complete, the Pe
to get Miss Glenn married to James Bowditch, there cannot titioner Agent names a Member, and the sitting
beamydoubt, and that they deserve punishment for such of. Memberororhis Members, another from the Members present, .
ſenteisequally clear; but, on a careful examination of the
evidence and documents, the Writer of these remarks,who is to be added to those who are selected by lot, and these
wholly unconnected with the parties, is compelled to be Members, so expressly chosen, are called nominees. The
ſorty-nine, and the two Members being then selected, the
lieve that Miss G. was a willing and contriving principal respective
in the elopement. The fact seems to him to be, that this the Houseparties, with their Agents, &c. withdraw from
into one of the Committee-rooms, where the
unhappy girl, on being questioned by her Guardian on the Clerk Election, beginning with the first name, calls over
subject, had not wisdom enough to confess the truth; and the list,of and when he comes to a name which the Peti
having thus unfortunately in the first instance said the tioner's Counsel wishes to be out, he desires the Clerk to
things which were not, she became afterwards so entangled, strike it out, and then goes on calling the remaining names;
that nothing but a resolute perseverance, in the wrong when he comes to one whom the Counsel of the
course appeared possible to her. Her case (if this be a andsitting Member wishes to strike out, it is taken out ac
just view of it) is a pitiable one; and her youth and in cordingly, and this is proceeded in until the 49 are reduced
experience must form some excuse. At the same time, the to 13. When this is effected, the Clerk returns to the
Penishment which has fallen upon the Bowditch party, House with the reduced list, which, with the two nomi
appears * disprºportioned to their crime, particularly
as it touches. Mrs. Mulrain. Her offence, #. seems nees, are called over by the Clerk at the table, and sworn
º be rather a venial one, and yet, in the opinion of the “Well and truly to try the matter of the Petition referred
Judges, she has merited the severest punishment. Really, to them, and a true judgment to give according to the er:
inexplicable. can be little hope,
There dence.” The Committee are then ordered to meet forth
the thing is quite
with, which they do, choose a Chairman, and adjourn to
ºver, of a revision of their sentence by the Judges of the
he King's Bench: hey must rest satisfied with appealing As next day.
to the “old Justice TIME, that detects all offenders.” much misconception prevails as to the result of cer
tain Petitions, we may here observe, that when the Petition
As “con as the decision of the Judges reached Taunton, complains majority obtained by illegal votes, and they
ºne of the most respectable inhabitants resolved on calling are provedoftoabe so, or that a scrutiny takes away a majo-.
*Public meeting, to take the case of the Bowditches intº rity from the sitting Member, the Petitioner is declared
*ideration; The meeting was held on Wednesday. It duly elected without another Election. The same thing
** attended by Colonel Alcock, Dr. Kinglake, Mr. also takes place if the returned Member is on any account
Woodroaps, &c. &c. Several resolutions were adopted— unqualified, either by being under age, being deficient in
ºne of which was that a Petition for a mitigation of the
Punishment should be presented to the PRince Regent, property, or having previously treated or bribed, &c. &c.
*companied by, documents tending to show that the as Such person not being a legal candidate, is not considered
a candidate at all, and his opponent, however small his
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number of votes, is declared the sitting Member. But - CLD BAILEY.

for bribery or treating, such is not the case; in that event . On Friday, George Page, late a silk-mercer and haberdasher.
the election is only declared void, and another takes place, in Cranbourne-street, Leicester-fields, was placed at the bar,
in which he who has bribed or treated, cannot be again a upon an indictment which charged him with the capital offences
of not having made a full disclosure of his effects, before the
candidate. A Southwark Election, about 22 years ago,
settled all this matter. Mr. Thelluson was returned Mem. Commissioners of Bankrupts, in his several examinations before
the Commissioners, after a Commission of Bankruptcy had been
ber for that Borough, by a majority over Mr. Tierney; awarded against him.—The Jury having retired for ten miuutes,
but as he had notoriously treated, the latter petitioned, and returned and found the prisoner Guilly—Death. The trial
the election was declared void. Another election took lasted from eleven in the morning until six.
place, in which Mr. Thelluson, and Mr. Tierney were MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
again candidates, and Mr. Thelluson was once more re
turned by a considerable majority." Mr. Tierney, who On Tuesday, Charlotte Hill was indicted for having dreadfully
abused her niece, a child not five years of age. The evidence
knew his ground, immediately petitioned the House against detailed a series ºf shocking cruelties. It appeared that the
the return, in consequence of the ineligibility of Mr. prisener caused the child to stand with her feet wet on the flags
Thelluson to become a candidate after being convicted of in the kitchen, while she rubbed her with a flannel dreuched in
treating; and his petition was successful. Mr. "I'belluson cold water; after which she threw a pail of water over her, while
not being a legal candidate, Mr. Tierney was declared the she stood naked in the yard, upon which she seemed convulsed;
sitting Member, and sat accordingly. she frequently beat her violently ; and once placed her in a
If a Petition be declared frivolous and vexatious, the washing-tub, and turned the cock upon her for ten minutes;
sitting Member's costs are borne by the Petitioner; if the then took her out and put her into the coal-hole.
©pposition be declared frivolous, †. Petitioner's costs are It was urged for the defendant, that the Surgeon had not been
produced, which threw a general discredit upon the evidence of
borne by the sitting Member; if neither be declared so, the witnesses. -

each bears his own costs. Witnesses are allowed rea

The CHAIRMAN said, that if the Surgeon could have con
sonable expenses, as assessed by a Committee. Witnesses tradicted any thing, he should have been called by the prisoner.
prevaricating, are committed to the custody of the Serjeant The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty immediately. -

at Arms during pleasure, and sometimes to Newgate. A

committal to the Serjeant at Arms implies a heavy fine, ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c.
the ſees amounting to several pounds per day. A Mem -º

ber declining to defend his return, must give notice within Execurion.—The two unfortunate young men, Corderoy and
a certain time, or he will be saddled with the Petitioner's Fettoires, one of them being only 20, and the other 22 years of
cosis.-Chester Guardian. age, underwent the law's last mandate on Tuesday morning, be
fore Newgate, in the presence of a very numerous assemblage.
Another young man, named James Egerton, who was tried on 9he
LA JW. 11th of December, for obtaining a coat, and ls. 6d., from James
Randall, under a threat of making a vile accusation against him,
and who was also ordered for execution, was respited until
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Tuesday next. Corderoy was convicted of a burglary in the
Tuesday, Feb. 16. house of Mr. Thorley, of Shoreditch. Fellowes was convicted
- GAxist.ING.-chrisTTE v. Jon Es. fer stealing in the house of Mr. Thomas Morgan, of Catheriue
This was an action brought by Mr. Christie, the auctioneer, to street, Straud, to whºm he had been many years a porter, a
recover from the defendant 509t, which, he alleged, being money quantity of printed furniture. Fellowes was so affected, as tº
helonging to him, was wou by the defendant at cards, of his render it becessary that he should be supported to the scaffold.
clerk. At 8 o'clock, every arrangement being, complete, Mr. Cotton
William Rickards, Clerk to Mr. Christie, stated, that he was gave the fatal signal, and they were launched into eternity,
in the habit of receiving various sums of money, on account of Great chre (says a Ministerial paper) is taken not to buoy Eger
property sold by the plaintiff. The defendant kept a billiard ton up with the hope, that there is anything in the circumstances
table in Pall Mail, and he had played with him frequently at of his case so peculiarly favouravle as to convert the respite
cards, when he lost different sums of money, belonging to his into a pardon. - -

employer. On one occasion, witness played with a friend of

Jolies', who pretended to have come from the country, and to be * - BłikTHS. - -

ignorant of the game, and he then won 60l. i but when he played On Tuesday last, the Lady of Mr. Want, surgeon, Russell
with the same person several times afterwards, he lost very large place, Fitzroy-square, of a son. º

sums of Mr. Christie's money. On the 16th inst., in Keppel-street, Russell-square, the Lady
Çther witnesses eorroborated this statement. of Col. Aspinwall, Consul of the United States of America, of a
it was contended, for the defendant, that no credit ought to be soil. " . .

giyen to such person as Rickards, who came into Court as a MARRIAGE.

* ºness; tº avoid a prosecution for felony. On Tuesday, the 9th inst., Mr. John Pooley, of Newington
ſºle Crfiri-Justice said, that it would be dangerous to the butts, to Isabella, youngest daughter of Air, John Dawson, Bauk
public interest to hold that a person who had been decoyed into
is gaining-house was not to be received as a witness. Transac house, Kendal. * -

tions of this sort in general took place at midnight, and persons ÞEATHS.
who became dupes of the designing gamester were, perhaps, the on wednesday, the 9th instant, in College-street, Brompton,
lºst wittu'sses to bring offenders to justice. Mary Henderson, the wife of Thomas Barrow, Esq. of the Geuer
Verdict for the plaintiſ-Damages 509t. ral Post-office. Her amnable disposition (says our Correspondent)
endeared her to all who knew her, and has caused her to be sin
coxsistory count, DOCTORS-COMMONS. cerely lamented. .. . . . . .. . * -

'riday, Feb. 19. of Monday, the 8th inst., at Queen's Elm, near Brompton, in
zonxstox tº. PARKER, raisely cALLING RERSE::f Jon Nston. the 51st year of his age, Sydenham Edwards; Esq., F. L. S. .
This was a ſuit instituted to set aside the marriage of the on the 12th inst. at Cuckfield, Henry Bowles, Esq.
parties, who are both of theatrical celebrity, as null, on the On wednesday last, of a brain ſever, Charles, second son oš.
Charles Sewell,
ground that the applicant, Mr. Henry Erskine, Johnston, was a 29th year of his age.Esq. of Clarendon-square, Somers' Town, in the
minor, at the time the marriage was solemnized, and that it was - - -

without the knowledge and consent of his father, Mr. Robert father was a labourer, and lived to tie age of ill, 109.
Lately at Strabane, John Dorman, or Diermott, aged His
and his
Johnston. After hearing arguments on both side", the Court mother lived to be nearly 113 years old.
*Sir w. Scorr) observed that it could not proceed to sentence, -

uutil the family bible, containing the register of the applicant's

birth, had been produced, duly verified. The ºppºieaut's family priºd and published by Jews Huxt, at the Exaxtºn-office
are Scºtch dissenters: -- - **
19, Cathetiae-Street, Strand-Püre 108.
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THE EXAMINER.
No. 583. SUNDAY, FEB. 28, 1819.
The PoliticAL EXAMINER. the original leader is then awakened as well as theirs. He
does not like their advice; sometimes he does not follow
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Pop E.
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it, even though good; sometimes good advice may even
be given in such a manner as purposely to defeat it's ac
No. 568.
ceptance; and then all this is to be set down to the leader's
change of principle; and the cause is threatened with con
WESTMINSTER ELECTION. fusion.
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Fourthly, it may happen, that among these new-comers,

This is a strange business. It seems to be the oddest there may be some personally and reasonably distasteful to
election that Westminster ever saw. In the first place, the leader. He does not like the injurious as well as dis
there is Sir FRANcis BURDETT in very doubtful favour agreeable vulgarity of their manners. They see it, and
with his old acquaintances, who say he does not go far force them upon him the more. He cannot avoid them
enough. Then, secondly, there is Mr. Hobhouse, who is but by avoiding in some measure the very cause more than
accused by the Tories of being revolutionary; and yet he he otherwise would; and this, which is a want of power
is suspected of not even going so far. Then comes Mr. or address in him, serves to magnify the imputations on
Lamb, who does not go so far as either; and he keeps a his principle, perhaps even in some measure to turn him
head of both, in this race-ground of Reform. The friends from it. He seeks a dangerous respite in better society,
of Major CARTwaight, (a Reformer, one should sup perhaps of different opinions; and the men who disgusted
pose, after Westminster's own heart) get 30 or 40 votes and drove him into it, are the first to charge him with
for him, to the others' thousands. Then the speakers, who voluntary desertion. -

are not candidates;–they form not the least remarkable Fifthly, the leader himself, though fitted to grace a
- part of the ceremony. What is very singular, not one of cause, and even to do it active service up to a certain
them but Mr. Thelwall, speaks for Sir FRANcis or his time, may be by nature of an indolent temperament; it
friend—a circumstance which tells very much either for ormay grow upon him at a certain time of life, especially
against them;-either for their ability to do without them,
under circumstances of disgust; and as long as he keeps
and for the jealousy they have excited,—or for the dis his nominal post, the good as well as bad, among the active
esteem into which the Baronet is fallen. . . Reformers, may find reasonable cause of discontent with
People who do not attend much to this part of politics, him for not battling with this. It may injure him also in
or read Corbert, cannot well account for that diminution another respect, not so reasonable. Such a maa is oſten
of Sir Fascis's popularity, which is to a certain extent thought to require many attentions, though they are given
evident, Perhaps we can inform them. “ *
him because he is a favourite. If he does not seem consci-, .
-

We conceive, in the first place, that Sir FRAycis at

ous of them every one,—which he may really not be, from
tracted a good deal of jealousy and envy in consequence want of pride as well as alertness, it may be fancied that he
of ſhe undivided popularity which he once held in West despises them : and a favourite often finds, that the very
minster. Such men as assisted to raise him, more out of qualities which rendered him one, are the ruin of him.
dislike to superiors of any kind then real sympathy with All these causes, we suspect, more or less, have contri
his love of freedom, would join in making an idol of him, buted to the decrease of Sir FRANcis Burpett's popu
as long as the attempt to raise him on his pedestal implied larity. The more immediate one is undoubtedly the writ
a consequence and a strength on their own parts, and gave ings of Mr. Cobbert ; who influenced perhaps partly by
activity to their egotism. But once there, they found a rivalry, partly by the aversion shewn for his apparent in
superior in him, which they wanted in nobody. They strument Bristol Hunt, partly by his dislike of Sir FRAN
began to think that being so high above them, he must cis's inactivity, by his impatience of being in America, and
look down upon them, in spirit as well as attitude. by what he may think the right and honest view of the
In the second place, Sir FRANcis, perceiving this incli question (we cannot think that a vile resentment of pecu
nation to doubt and dislike him for this inevitable trespass niary obligation has any thing to do with it), has burst
on their self-love, may naturally, have given way to his ontinto fiery invectives, which have shaken the very earth
doubts and dislikes in return, and from a sentiment of here in Westminster. - --

pride avoided giving them even the ordinary notice. It must be allowed also, that besides his indolence, Sir
Thirdly, shrewd and active men from other places got FRANcis appears to have given way to some weakim
among the leading persons in Westminster, and Sir pulses, which have hampered him in this election. He
Faascis was to be advised. Now it has been well ob still commands attention, upon the whole, by his manners,
served by a living philosopher, that the great reason why and his power of speaking. But he talks too much ac
advice meets with soºbad a reception, is, not that it is un cording to the pressure of the very moment, when he
pleasanti, itself, but that the adviser does not know how speaks of Major CARTwRight in all the language of re
to give it." On occasions like the present, it is twenty to spect and even reverence, and yet a little afterwards ac
one that the advisers would like not only to be the leaders, cuses him of sanctioning what he knows to be false. Mr
but to be ſell and acknowledged to be so. The pride of Bristol Hunt, whom he now describes as of a contami
 130 THE EXAMINER.
nating presence, asserts, that when the Editor of this paper WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
-
once disavowed being a Hunt of his family, he (the
EIGHTH DAY.
Editor) was said by Sir FRANcts Burnett to be unfit to
wipe the Bristowan's shoes. Was it at the time when the State of the poll at four o'clock:— .
Mr. Lamb - - - 2088
Editor found himself compelled to make some such okser Mr. Hobhouse - - - 1702
vations as he has done in the present number? They were Major Cartwright, - 37 -

Mr. Hosmouse congratulated the electors on the state of the

a solitary exception, and hardly that, to years of panegyric, poll, which he attributed to the daily dissipation of his enemy's
both before and aſter; and Sir FRANcis must have been delusions. As his opponents had found out that they could no
as spoilt as any of his rivals to resent it, and in such a longer persuade people that he was a Tory º they
manner! If his comparison was a random piece of flat charged him with being a leveller;-a charge once made against
the Whigs, though he thought without reason: for they were in
tery to Mr. HUNT, to whom the style was undoubtedly deed inclined to level all above thcm, but would never sink to
suited, what must he now think of it? We do not mean. the level of those below--(Applause): they were a proud aris
to insinuate in the slightest degree that Sir FRANcis is tocratical party, who, if they sometimes attacked the prerogative
of the Crown, also opposed the rights of the people—(Applause.)
under obligation to us, or we to him;-there is none upon He might be a leveller in one sense, for he was for levelling the
either side;—but he must know very well, that our praises arrogant pretensions of the Whig Candidate. (Cheers.) The
of him are as disinterested, as our objections must be pain power of the Crown was very little to be dreaded, for it was re
gulated by the Constitution; it was the boroughmongers who
ful—Again, his personal attack on Mr. Penay exhibited were formidable, being under at controul. Did the Whigs ever
inore soreness than wisdom. Mr. Perry is undoubtedly seriously attack that party 2 Did they ever perform any real
a party-man, and we differ with him in many things as that service to the people 2 Mr. Fox, in one of his speeches, had said,
all party feuds and distinctions should be forgotten, in order
well as Sir FRANCIS does; but then he is avowedly a party that all might unite their endeavours to obtain the great object—
man, and has been a consistent and liberal one, risking Parliamentary Refºrm. The Whigs and Tories had now for
his liberty more than once in favour of the freer side of gotten their distinctions, and united their efforts—not however
to assist, but to retard Reform., &ne of the artifices of his oppo
opinion. If Sir FRANcis, who is himself the leader of ments was their having reported, that the various meetings of his
a party, that is to say, of a political body in personal in friends would take place two hours later than had been ap
tercourse with each other, can quarrel so warmly with pointed, by which some of his voters had been preveuted coming
io the poll. He would therefore caution them against any
another man for being one of a party, at least he should tricks which might in future be attempted.—[Mr. H. tilen retired
never have gone to dine with him. He says indeed that amid loud and reiterated cheerings.] -

he repents of it, as the only thing of which he was ever Mr. Lawn in vain attempted to obtain a hearing. After saying
a few words respecting the triumph of his adversaries, which he
ashamed; but he says it in such a way as to make it promised would be short-lived, he bowed to she people and
merely personal to the individual; and this appears to us retired. - -

to be quite unwarrantable. The fact seems to be, that he Mr. livnT then came forward, and the clamour increased. He
was hissed, hooted, pelted, and insulted. A man in the opposite
was angry that the circumstance had transpired, as if it booth used the grossest language to him, and kept swinging a
corroborated the rumours about his intended junction with rope in his hand, by means of which, he said, Mr. Hunt was
the Whigs. Now in proportion as he meets such ru destined to make his exit from the world. Finding it impossible
to obtain a hearing, he withdrew. When he finally left the hust
mours with irritability, he will inevitably increase this ings, he was placed under the protection of eight or ten con
suspicion of his having wished to subject the lèeformers to stables; and even then, was scarcely secured from personal in
the Whigs; but in proportion as he met them with good jury. The multitude followed, abused, hooted, an spit upon
temper, he might vindicate to himself the credit of his him. He seemed to be considerably alarmed.
Sir FRANcts Buntpetr then catne forward, in compliance with
having wished to incline the Whigs to the Reformers. the repeated calls of the multitude; and was greeted by three
§3" . . . long and loud cheers. He said, that it was in vain to enforce the
necessity of giving a patient hearing to every individual, on an
occasion when the ardent feelings of the heart were called forth
To THE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER. so strongly. Though it was unfair not to hear all parties, yet the
TixtE Flies! Three ºft more... and you must be victo present was an occasion when discussion was not necessary; all
rious, or your cºncuies will hate triumphed. If they tram that was wanted was an expression of the public sentiment on a
ple down your Liberties and Independence, to what will great public question. He had before spoken of the unceasing
they owe their success? patriotism, and the independent spirit of the electors. The poll
of that day bore testimony to the correctness of his assertions, and
Not to the justice of their principles, but to your pusil showed the absurd nonsense of the venal daily press, and the
laninity! - - - vile falsehoods of the Morning Chronicle. That Chronicle of false
For shame, men of Westminster! Why require can hood had said that he had applied the term “venal” to the press
vassing? What can render it necessary, that those who in general:" he had done no such thing; he had confined it to
are no more interested in the event than yourselves, should the Morning Chronicle, the Morning Post, and the lying Courier.
be compelled repeatedly to solicit you to do your duty 2 They had to glory in the exertions which the weekly papers had
made on their behalf. Sir Francis then took the opportunity of
Let not any Elector, imagine that he can find an apo paying some compliments to the Times, and afterwards proceeded
logy for the misuse of his vote, or for his aeutrality, in to state,that it was infinitely beyond all the other daily papers; that
the debasing influence and corrupt example that prevail it was not less remarkable for the independence of its principles
around him. - - *
than for the talent and ability with which it was conducted; and
that between it and the Morning Chronicle there was no more
Whether this contest terminate in your glory, or in comparison, than there was between the venal electors who had
your disgrace, depends upon yourselves, and decides whe polled for the coalition candidate, and those independent electors
tler you are willing to live free men or die slaves!
Arouse then immediately from your torpor, and let no * In our account of the speech of Sir Francis, last week, we
man incur, the reproach, that when, the liberties of his named the Times as the paper to which the Hon. Baronet ap
cºgntry were threatened, he, by his apathy and idleness, plied the epithet “venal,” on the authority of that journal,
ded the cause of Corruption, and checked the progress of which understood it to be so, and defended itself from the sup
#. orm. * - -* ~ *. JAN Elector.
s - - - - -
osed attack. The mistake must have arisen, we should think,
rom same misapprehension of the reporter.

**
* *
~ **,2,
lºº Yº
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whom he was then addressing. It was with great satisfaction he not aver the fact, that there were not so many honest men as
had to inform them, that Alderman Wood pleaded not guilty of would have saved Sodom and Gomorral, from destruction) they
dereliction of his duty, in canvassing for Mr. Lamb. It appeared, must see that they had every rational prospect of victory. Still
however, that somebody must have been personating him, and that he must beg every elector to recollect his oath before he gave his
the mistake had arisen from their great similarity. It had been vote. The man who voted contrary to his opinion was offendiug
said by the venal press, that the electors of Westminster were a against the dictates of that unerring monitor—his own conscience.
hired set of people—mere mercenaries paid by his money. He On the other hand, those who compelled an elector to do so.
was not surprised that those who could not themselves act with were guilty of the most cruel and hateful tyranny—were guilty of º

out some sordid motive, should assert that the electors of West an act, which the law considered as a most detestable crline.
minster were actuated by unworthy motives; their own want of The Whigs practised a great many tricks and delusions, and
principle led them to attribute a similar deficiency to others. If gave their voters the solid satisfaction of a breakfast, but the in
the use of influence and compulsion could have carried an elec dependent o'ectors of Westminster preferred following the ban
tion, there would have been no chance of success left to the in ners of freedom without fee or hope of reward. There was solid
habitants of Westminster. Many, whose hearts were with them, satisfaction in a place at Court; but it was not the solid satisfac
had been obliged to vote against them, in order not to sacrifice tion of a pure conscience, which the electors enjoyed. Though
fle interests of their families. He could not look without com he who voted for them late did well, he did not so well as he
passion on the situation of the other candidate. His situation who came up early; and he therefore begged of each and all the
was most unhappy, in speaking on the same plank with a man unpolled electors to hasten to the poll as sºon as possible. [The
who had just met with the marked indignation of the multitude. IIon. Baronet then retired, accompanied by the loud huzzas of
[Mr. Hunt had just been pelted with mud and the garbage of the the meeting.] -

market.] It was so unlappy; that he declared to God, that he Mr. Thelwall then addressed the multitude. During his
would sooner stand in the pillory than stand in contact with that speech, one of the spectators displayed a picture, in which Mr.
wretched and coutemptible individual. The exertions which Hunt was represented as arm in arm with two devils, who were
had that day been made in the cause of reform, proved to him quietly conveying him to the pit of destructiou, which was .
that the ancient spirit of the country was once more up in argis; yawning to receive him. At the foot of the picture was written,
if it remained so, they might contend even against º: “Such is the ſate of Hunt and -Co.” The multitude hailed the
armies, those natural foes of liberty. Sir F. Burdett concluded appearance of this picture with loud shouts of applause.
by desiring then not to relax, their exertions in behalf of Mr.
* TENTH DAY.
Hobhouse... [The whole of this speech was received by the
audience with the most ºf satisſnction; and we have The numbers were—
For Mr. Lamb 2658
omitted the usual phrases of loud applause, reiterated cheerings, be - - -

Mr. Hobhouse - " - 2297

cause we should have had to insert them almost in every other
line.] After Sir F. Burdett had finished speaking, no other Major Cartwright 37
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orator offered himself to the meeting. - -

Mr. Honmouse came forward amid loud and reiterated cheer
NINTH DAY.
ings. It had been, he said, a bad day for them, both on account
of the weather, and from its being a holiday at the public
The numbers at the close of the poll were— offices, which enabled all the persons employed by Government
For Mr. Lamb - - - - 2268 to vote for his opponent. He had not before known that the
Mr. Hobhouse - - 2036 coalition between the Whigs and Tories was so complete, that
Major Cartwright - 87 the powerfol interest exerted in favour of Sir M. Maxwell at the
Mr. Hosmoose was welcomed by three hearty cheers. He last election was to be used against him this time. These voters
said, that the prospect of their success was very flattering, in were, he supposed, the independent men whom Mr. Lamb had
spite of the unremitting exertions of his opponents. They had called upon to support him. The chief merit of the Whigs was
compelled their voters to come up to the º by various threats. their opposition to the encroachments of Government. Why thea
In many cases, the renters of the great landliolders had been did they come forward on this occasion, when Westminster was
warned that the expiration of their leases was near, and very in about to send two members to Parliament who would oppose the
*lligible hints were given them. Many of the electors were Minis'ry Instead of assisting to drive away the Ministerial
afraid to come up, because they were afraid of losing the custom that.
Candidate, they had waited till the Reformers bad done
of the great families—(“True, true" from the crowd). The and then treecherously endeavoured to rob them of the fruits of
Whigs had conducted themselves during this election in a man their victory. Was this not the fact (“I’es, it is very true.")
ner which showed what they really were, and he trusted that the Their efforts were not directed against so insignificant an object
sense of the electors would instigate them to treat that party as as himself; they were directed against the paramount question
it deserved. Their example would have great weight with the of Parliamentary Reform, and intended to depreciate the character
country, and would teach it more forcibly than any words could of Sir F. Burdett—(“That's their object.”). They had employed
do, that Parliamentary Reform was that paramount object, with the intemperate ruſhan on the other side of the hustings to assist
out which they could effect nothing, and with which they could them in this infatuous purpose. It was not surprising, that Mr.
effect everything. {Mr. Hobhouse then retired, amid the loudest Lamb should, in a tone of unock condolence, aftect to lament that
acclamations of applause..] .. Sir F. Burdett was losing his influence. He would say nothing -

Mr. LAxis then attempted to obtain a hearing, but finding that of the modesty or the propriety of this in a man so young as the
*hey were not inclined to listen to him, he bade them good-night, Whig Candidate; but he regretted that he (Mr. L.) should have
and retired. - -
degraded himself by becoming a tool for others to try to twin a
Mr. Bowie then came forward to read a letter of Major Cart character which had been fairly earned by 23 years of hot our
wright to the electors; but after bearing the scoſings and hoot able exertion. The Whigs however would rue the attempt to
ings of the mob for ten minutes, he withdrew. injure the character of a man justly distinguished by the title of
Sir FRANcts Bunpert presented himself amid the loudest the Man of the People. (Great applause.) Mr. Hobliouse then
plaudits. He again expressed his regret that they had not noticed the decision of the iligh Bailiff with respect to those elec
heard the Court Candidate, both because it was unfair to deny tors who had not paid their taxes, and who were on that account
him a hearing, and because he (Sir F.) wished to have heard prevented from voting. He contended, that this decision was
what might be said in oppºsition to his friend. If they would neither legal nor just. If the Poor-rates were not regularly pºid.
hot hear Mr. Lamb on his recommendation, he hoped that they the proper method of proceeding was to distrain for them but
would do it for their own entertainment; because he could as now the defaulters are disfranchised at a blow. The effect ºf
sure them that the gentleman who was brought ſorward to repre this system was most lamentable ; taxation bad increased tº .
sent the coalition-monster was a very facetious gentleman, and proverty of the nation, and the poverty of the nation had disui,
was chiefly brought forward on account of his entertaining nished the franchisement, so that their povery was convexed
powers. He congratulated them on the state of the poll. The into an engine to support the present weight of taxation. The
polling of their adversary was now more languid, while their votes which they had lost by this decision were equal to the
own was stronger than ever. When they recollected that their majority which their adversaries possessed on the ºrps* poll.
ºpponent had nothing on which to rely except compulsion; when (Hisses.) Before he retired from the hu-tings, he had one re
they recollected that he had lashed up to the hustings every quest to make of the persons assembled, that they would hear his
slave over whom he and his friends, had any influence ; when antagonist. He had been deterred Iron making it earlier by the
they recollected that he had polled all the constables and all the imputation of arrogant presumptieu, which had been cast tº u
Pall-mall voters, (among whom, he had been told, though he did friend of his in the last election, who made a similar request
 132 THE EXAMINER.
behalf of Sir M. Maxwell. [Mr. Hobhouse then retired amid too common. Mr. Hobhouse then defended himself and Sir F.
loud "...º. Burdett from the attacks of Mr. Lamb, and the misrepresenta
. Mr. LAxth afterwards stepped forward, when the cheerings tions of the Chronicle. His rrent-offence was having said that
were immediately converted into the strongest hootings. He, Mr. Fox had advocated a Radical Reform, which the Whigs at
however, persisted in attempting to gain a hearing. He said, first attempted to deny; but which he had clearly proved, by
that he had a few comments to make upon the conduct of their producing that illustrious statesman's speech. ... He then alluded
adversaries. (Off off.). The Hon Baronet had, the day before, to a letter in the Chronicle, signed “A Whig,” which charged
said, that as he (Mr. Lamb) was not allowed to answer Mr. Hob him with having falsely represented, that Mr. Fox had expressed
house's speeches, he was placed in a very disagreeable situation— his pleasure that the distinctions of Whig and Tory no longer
he would beseech them to release the Baronet from this disagree existed. Mr. H. then read part of a speech of Mr. Fox, to show
able situation, and to permit him (Mr. Lamb) to say a few words that what he had said was correct. He then pointed out some
to release him. [The clamour here became so universal, that it other misrepresentations which the Chronicle had given of his
was impossible for either Mr. Lamb or any other person to hear speeches and actions. That paper made use of every weapon
what he said: he therefore bowed to the multitude, and was re that was unfair and ungenerous to stab his reputation. He had
firing, when he was hit on the mouth by a snow-ball. This told the electors that he should be assailed; but he did not ex
brought him on the platform a second time to return thanks for pect that the attack would be so cruel and deadly as he had lat
the favour. He wished the electors good night, and retired.]. . . terly found it. He, therefore, threw himself on the impartial
Sir F. Burpert then stepped forward, and was received with part of the press for protection, and appealed to the candour of
even more than the usual cathusiasm. He should be very sorry Englishmen, to rescue him from the daily malignity, vented
to detain them above a few moments in the present state of the against him. He did not feel indifference to public opinion; for
weather. (“Oh, we don't mind the suow,” from the multitude.) IIe he knew the value of an unsullied, reputation. He felt affected
could not congratulate them on the state of the poll that day; by the misrepresentations propagated regarding him, because if
but he congratulated the Hon. Candidate on his no longer being they had been true, he should have been an unfit person to join
seen in the unseemly company in which he had stood the day be in the society of honest men. After some other remarks, deli
fore. He offered these congratulations in return for the condo verºd with great feeling, he said that he saw no reason for des
lence offered him for having lost, as was said, the good opinion pondence in the state of the poll—they were only 400 behind—
of his countrymen. (Hear.) One of his great reasons for pre an inconsiderable majority, considering the number who were
•enting himself to their notice, was to ascertain whether he had yet unpolled. IIe concluded by predicting, that, if they would
lost their good opinion : another was to show them that he was only .. themselves in earnest, their antagonists would be
not afraid to face his enemies, or to avow and vindicate any part routed in their attempts to trample on the independence of
of his public conduct. Mr. Bowie had brought certain charges Westminster.
against him the day before, which at that time they would not After the cheers, by which this speech on its conclusion was
allow him to read. The first subject was, how he knew that Major , hailed, had subsided, Mr. LAMB came forward to address the
Cartwright did not wish to be returned for Westminster? The meeting amid great hooting. He commented on the altered tone
second, why he would not support the Major's return ? and the of their adversaries. The other day they were very mighty in
third, what were the false charges brought forward by Cobbett, their promises; but now their language, so far from talking of
and knowingly sanctioned by Major Cartwright? ł, the first exultation, only seemed to endeavour to guard against despond
two cases he had acted as any other man who had the good of ence. [Here the tumutt became so excessive, that, after some
his country at heart would have acted. As to the latter, Major futile attempts to obtain a hearing, Mr. Lamb withdrew.]
Cartwright had sanctioned the lies which Cobbett had spread re Mr. Hunt then came forward, and was greeted in the usual
garding the expenses incurred during the last election, "Cobbett uproarious and insulting manner. He wished to know what Mr.
had stated, that he (Sir F.) had paid large sums of money to his Hobhouse meant by being offended at his standing on the same
different Committees, and had paid Cleary for coming to the plank with Mr. Lamb. #. wished also to ask the Hon. Baronet
hºstings and insulting Hunt. Now, Cleary was the agent and one or two questions. He (Sir F. Burdett) had said, that he was
private secretary of Major Cartwright, and, therefore, that he only ashamed of one action in his life, and that was having dined
must have known that this part of Cobbett’s accusation was with Mr. Perry. If his information were correct, he had gone to
false, and ought to have exposed the falsehood to the electors. that gentleman in order to make terms with the Whigs, and
The Hon. Baronet then proceeded to inveigh against the Morn secure his re-election last summer. He would ask too, whether
ing Chronicle. Out of the many accusations which that paper had he had not been twice a candidate for admission into the Whig
brought against him, there was one to whicn he must plead Club, and whether he had not been twice blackballed : For him
guilty. The Editor of the Morning Chronicle says, “We have self he had only to say, that he was glad that they were in a
eat salt together.”, This meant that there was some degree of better humour than they were the last time; he intended to have
intimacy between them. There was, however, none—he had in the pleasure of seeing them again during the contest.—[Mr.
deed once dined with that gentleman, but he could assure them Hunt, having found that Sir Francis Burdett had left the hustings,
that it was the only act in his life of which he was ashamed. He no longer withstood the storms of hisses which roared around
wished to impress on their attention the necessity of coming him. -

early to the poll; and he entreated them to do everything they - § P. Walker immediately afterwards stepped forward.
cºuld to forward their cause, that they might compel even their He was received with nearly as great a cry of disapprobation as
adversaries to say, that if they did not obtain success, at least that which saluted Mr. Hunt, which continued during his speech.
they deserved it. [Sir Francis then retired amid the loudest He concluded by saying that it was quite clear that no such thing
chevrs. t * .
as liberty of speech was allowed at those hustings. When he
Mr. Cleary came forward to corroborate the testimony of Sir recollected the violent clamour which had arrayed itself against
F. Burdett as far as he (Mr. Cleary) was personally concerned. such a man as the late Sir S. Romilly, on his presenting himself
The crºwd then dispersed. It is generally thought that Major on those hustings—when he recollected the incessant Thootings
Cartwright's friends have withdrawn his name from the poll. now directed against a gentleman who came forward on the prin
ciples of Charles James Fox, he felt convinced, that the clamour
- ELEVENTH DAY.
was a mercenary clamour, well paid for by those individuals in
The numbers at the close of the poll were— whose favour it was raised, so often, so long, and so loudly.
For Mr. Lamb - - - 2950 When Mr. Hunt left the hustings, he was followed by an im
Mr. Hobhouse - - 25.45 mense crowd, who expressed their indignation at his conduct in
Mr. Hobhouse said, that he had only lost forty-four that day, the most forcible manner, - *

end that was owing to the extraordinary exertions of Mr. Lamb's

* party, which would however have less and less effect every day. TWELFTH DAY.
fe had been assured by a respectable elector, that he had in For Mr. Lamb ... - - - - 325i
tended to vote for him (Mr. H.), but was called on by a member Mr. Hobhouse - 2827 -

of Parliament, who did not leave him, until he had forced him Mr. Hobmouse, amid loud cheers, commenced his speech by
into his carriage and dragged him to the poll—(Cries of shame? observing, that from the small majority of his opponent on that
and name him.) He could not name him without ruining him— day's poll, he felt confident as to the result of the contest. He
(Name the member then.) The naming the member would equally then spoke of the coalition, and asked, whether it was probable
discºver the other. He would however pledge his honour as a that Mr. Lamb, supported as he was by the great families, would
gentleman for the truth of his statement. It was besides un turn round to his noble friends, and declare that he would do
necessary to name individuals, as instances of this terrorism were his best to destroy their borough influence? (Loud cheers.)
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And yet he could be no reformer, unless he was willing the advantage of being close to the speaker. Cries of “off,
to destroy the rotten boroughs. Was it prºbable that he, off.” prevailed during the whole speech. Mr. H. was not
who was supported by ministerial influence, would vote in long.
Parliament against those who sent him there Either he - -

must be ungrateful to those who returned him, or he must Mr. LAME then came forward amidst the usual clamour,
betray the interests of the Electors of Westminster; for it which he seemed resolved to overcome. I le stood for some,
was impossible that he could, at one and the same time, comply time quite calm to wait for its termination, but finding that
with their wishes and sentiments, and obey the orders of those his patience would probably be exhausted, he addressed
great people who were endeavouring to force him down their the Electors who were near him. One of the crowd threw
throats. (Cheers.) Mr. Hobhouse commented on the impropriety a dirty rag at him, which he took up, and with much good
ºf Mr. Lamb arrogating to himself the title of friend to the poor. humour returned at the assailant, which caused some mirth.
It was passing strange that the poor man's friend should have
hired the rate-collectors as his agents, who stopped and delayed among the spectators. At length he hastily made his bow
every individual that appeared ill-dressed. He repeated his con and retired.
fident expectations, that he should, in the course of the ensuing Sir F. Bunpert being called for, came forward, and
week, toually annihilate the small superiority of numbers which was heard with more patience. His speech was brief; he
his opponent at present possessed over him. (Applause.)
Mr. Laxta said a few words amid a violent uproar. He ob upbraided the arrogance of the Whigs, who would dare.
to dictate to the Electors of Westminster. r -

served, that his majority continued to increase slowly but regu

larly. . were determined to hear nothing but the hollow Mr. LAM hton, Member for Durham, spoke at some
assertions and flimsy arguments of Mr. liobhouse, he must sub length in behalf of his friend LAMB, and in the course of
mit to their decision. . his speech, accused Mr. Hobhouse with misrepresenting
Sir FRAxcis Burpett was received with loud acclamations. the sentiments of Mr. Fox on a former occasion, relative to
I had been siggested, he said, that he should have called upon the subject of reform.
them tº hear Mr. Lamb, before that gentleman had spoken, by Mr. Hobhouse now got a quiet hearing in reply, and
which he would have obtaiwed a hearing for him. In his opinion,
if he had put himself so forward, he should not only have vio. stated that Fox did make use of the expression attributed
lated the usual etiquette, but should have justly subjected him to him ; that he wrote the speech in question, so that there
self to the charge of arrogance and folly. He could only express could be no mistake respecting his sentiments; that (as we
his sincere wish that the Hon. Candidate might in future be per understand) Sir F. Buñortr had seen the written copy;
mºtted to say what be had to say in defence of his own cause; and that in all the editions which he had seen of it, the
end as a proof of it; he would now make room for that gentleman, same sentiment was stated. He charged the Whigs with
if he chose to address, them. (Lamb's gone—Do’nt you go.) deserting the sentiments of Mr. Fox on Reform, and de
After some remarks on their prospect of success, and the objec
tions which Mr. Lamb, who called himself the poor man's friend, clared that such a Reform as Mr. Fox had prºposed, was
had made to the votes of poor electors, the Honourable Baronet that which lie (Mr. Hobhouse) approved. The Whigs
alluded to the charges of the Morning Chronicle against him. had had a Meeting to determine whether or not fie
The Editor of that Paper had said, that in the Middlesex Elec (Mr. Hobhouse) should receive their support, , but
tion, in 1802, he had come forward as a Candidate on Whig he was not deemed a man of the convenient kind.
principles. He had never been able to discover what Whig These men were exerting all their energies to tram
principles were. Were they the principles of Charles Fox; or ple the liberties of Westminster under their feet:
were they the principles of Lord Grenville, which were as dif
ferent from the former as light from darkness? He was ready to they were an overbearing and impudent. party. Mr.
admit, that among the Whigs there were many virtuous and H. entered into several charges º the Whigs, and de
honourable men, who had the interest of the country seriously fended himself against a number of accusations made
at heart, and were the best friends of public liberty. Therefore, against him, and concluded by calling upon his opponent
in speaking of unprincipled Whigs, he applied the term gene. to come forward manſully and reply to him. It is for
rally, as it was impossible to stop on every occasion to make the our interest (said Mr.
distinction ; should any of them therefore be offended by it, he
#3
to the electors, and for my
onour, that he should come forth and justify himself.
had no objection; if the cap fitted, he hoped they would wear
*-(Laughter.)—There were also many honest men among the No reply was offered to this spirited speech, and the
Tories; but allowing this to be the case, it did appear to him crowd dispersed. There were several fights before the
hustings, blowing of horns, whistles, and other discordant
wonderful, that when the country was ground to death by Whig
and Tory taxation, and when it was of little importance which sounds, as if Bedlam had emptied its contents into Covent
of the two parties was in, any honest man could help seeing that garden, -

there was something rotten in the system, and principally in the

House of Coinmons. It was not of importance so far as men, not
measures, were concerned, that Mr. Hºbhouse should be returned Ixipontant Decision.—The Royal Court of Paris has
to Parliament; it was only as the Candidate of Reform that he lately given a decision of much importance to English emi
had recommended him.—After some further remarks on the
odious nature of the coalition against their liberties, and the grants and their creditors. The circumstances of the case,
glory they would acquire in defeating it, the Baronet concluded
which led to this decision, were as follow:—Mr. HENRy,
i. tº. very general cheerings. -
"had assigned over to trustees estates in Ireland, to pay-off
his incumbrances, and came over to France, with his fa
THIRTEENTH DAY., mily, to live º Mr. Boylon, a paper-manu
facturer of Dublin, who had entered |
ment on a bond
Close of the poll this day (Saturday)—
For Mr. Lamb - - - 3693 of Mr. HENRy’s for 400l., sued Mr. HeNRY before the
Mr. Hobhouse - 3.077
- -

Judges at Versailles; obtained a judgment, and procured

The state of the º being announced, it was received
an execution against both the person and, effects of Mr.
#. both parties with the usual clamour. The calls for house,
HeNRY... A party of gendarines entered Mr. Hesay's
and persons remained in it for nearly seven months.
Hoanouse were repeated loudly and for some time. The
multitude imitated the bleat of the Lamb very admirably. Mr. iienny withdrew himself to Switzerland; the Judges
There was much warmth displayed by both parties, and of Versailles and Mr. Boy LoN persisted in theP. : an
the Whigs, who were numerous on the Hustings, were as appeal was entered before the Royal Court of Paris, who
vociferous as any of the crowd beneath. . At length, Mr. röuounced, “that judgments awarded by foreign Courts
Hobhouse appeared, and was received with loud and en . foreigners have no execution in France, annihi;
thusiastic cheers, which were again drowned by the oppo lated the appellation and judgment appealed for, and freed
site party, who seemed resolved that Mr. H. should not be Mr. Henry from the sentence pronounced against him ;
heard. We were so situated as to be unable to catch a and further, condemned Boylón to the payment of all
single word, nor was it possible, except by those who had costs.”
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134 -

Lord KFNYox observed, that the question was ene of greatiºn

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. portance, and 50,000 persons at Manchester were concerned in
its decision. It had been stated, that the master spinners were
Fir ANCE.
willing to diminish the hours of labour of their own accord
Paris, Frb. 18.—M. de Saint-Aulaire, author of a This he had found was not correct generally. In Lancashire not
amphlet against the memory of Marshal the Duc de a fourth of the factories had made any change, more than three
º was killed on Tuesday by M. de Lartigues, an fourths of them working the children 14 hours and a-half a-day.
officer of the Royal Guard, and a relation of the late With respect to the heat to which these children were exposed,
Marshal. They ſought with swords, in the Bois de a Magistrate who had particularly examined the factories.
Boulogne.—The young man had gallantly answered the reported that it usually ran between 76 and 80 degrees of
Fahrenheit, and sometimes amounted to 85. The children could
successive challenges of General Montesquieu, nephew, not be considered as free labourers, from the early age at which
and M. de Feltre, son of the late Minister of War. He they entered the factories; uor yet could they be protected by
had the generosity to change places with his adversary, ob: common law against the severity of their masters, on account of
serving that the sun was in his eyes. The first wound the similarity betwen their situation and that of free labourers,
was mortal, and he expired immediately. in their not being bound for any definite period. Nothing but a
Feb. 22.-A proposition was made by the Marquis de legislative enactment could afford them any effectual protection.
Barthelemy, to the Chamber of Peers, in Saturday's He moved that a Committee be appointed to inquire into the state
Sitting; the object of which was to beseech the King that of children employed in the cotton manufactories.
he would be pleased to present a projet de loi for making It was contended, in opposition to this motion, that it was not
only improper to interfere between the children and their em
such a change in the organization of the electoral colleges, ployers, but that the misery and poverty of the children there
as might appear to be indispensably necessary. This being selves would be increased by the reduction of wages, which
the first formal attack made by the Ultra-Royalists in the would be the consequence of the reduction of labour. An
legislature, upon the election law, gave rise to a fierce amendment was moved by the Earl of Lauderdale, to empower
discussion. The Ministers in the Chamber earnestly the Committee to inquire iato the state of the labourers in all
opposed the motion of M. Barthelemy. M. de Cazes other manufactories; but was rejected by a majority of 19 against
declared that it was the most fatal measure which could 8. The original question was then carried, and the House ad
proceed from the Chamber The result, however, journed.
of Peers. -

was that on a division, the Chamber decided in favour of

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
entertaining the proposal, by a majority of 89 to 49, thus ---
leaving the Government in a minority. , Ministers are
busied in consultation upon the means of defeating this Monday, Feb. 22.
Mr. WarrnwAN presented a Petition from Richard Carlile, the
attempt in is future stages. In the mean time petitions, bookseller,
ji. dissertations in the periodical works, are coming which stated, that having been proceeded against by
Attorney-General for a libel, he had been unjustly and vexa
forth against the plan of M. Barthelºmy, of whom the very the tiously arrested on the authority of a warrant from the Chief
ridiculous story is told, that immediately after he left the Justice, and committed to prison. He prayed for some altera
tribune, he became so terrified at the audacity of his own tion of the law in this respect.—Laid on the table. -

motion, that he could not bring himself to vote for it ! The Chimney Sweepers' Regulation Bill was read a third time
and passed.
UNITED PAR LIAMENT. WiNDSOR ESTABLIS.ii.MENT.
The House having resolved itself into
a Committee,
HOUSE OF LORDS. Lord CastleREAgh stated, that he should not bring in any
-
- new Bill to alter former laws on this subject, but should move
-
-

Thursday, Feb. 25. resolutions; that for the Windsor Establishment, instead of
- STATE OF PRISONS. 100,000l., 50,000l. be appropriated ; that annuities be given to
the servants of her late Majesty, to the amount recommended by
* Lord Sipstourn moved that the papers which he had before the Committee; that 10,000l. be given to the Duke of York for
laid on the table, relative to the state of prisons and crimes the expenses attending the care of his Majesty's person, not
in the United Kingdom, should be referred to a Select Com payable out of the privy purse. He should not enter into detail
mittee, who were to consider and report thereon. The Noble with respect to the first resolution, as there was no difference of
Lord contended, that the increase of crimes was not to be attri
opinion in the Committee respecting the propriety of it. The
buted chiefly to the state of the prisons, but to the high prices Noble Lord then alluded to the pensions proposed to be allowed
of provisions, the disbanding of the soldiers and sailors, &c.; to the servants of the Queen, which he said were both agreeable
though he could not deny that much good might be done by a to precedent and to justice. As to the 10,000l. for the Duke of
proper system of prison discipline. The great thing would be York, he understood that the Rightiion. Gentleman (Mr. Tier
to find out the real causes of crime.
: The Marquis of LANspown was glad that the Noble Lord had ney) intended to propose that that sum should be paid out of tie
taken up the subject. He considered, however, that the range tied privy purse; but he contended, that the privy purse had been
of inquiry proposed for the Committee was too wide, and that up by Parliament for the private use of his Majesty, whose
private property it was ; and that although Parliament was able
the inquiry would be too tedious to produce that prompt remedy to dispose of it, on account of his Majesty's disorder, there was a
which the case required. The Noble Marquis then spoke of the great difference between this case and that of a private person.
forms which ought to take place in prison discipline, of the pro The privy purse was not available for any but private purposes;
priety of classification, of the distinctions to be made between and this charge could uot be considered private. He put it to
the untried and the convicted, and of the advantages of esta House whether they would, at a time when his Majesty was
blishing a general system of labour, which would both support the
the gaols, and reform the prisoners. This advantage would be in his present lamentable condition, violate the rights of private
seen from a comparison of the state of the prisons at Glasgow property. The House had yet to gain a character, and he hoped
and at Mauchester. The circumstances of the population of they would not act so basely. He confidently expected, that the
each of these places was as similar as possible. Yet such was Rigºt Hon. Gentleman would not offer his intended amendment;
the effect of a regular system of labour in the gaol of Glasgow,he gave hitn credit for too much good feeling, too much English
that not above one-third of the prisoners were ever fºund to re spirit, too high a regard to public principle, andbring
too great a
before
turn: whereas, in Manchester, the number which returned was respect for public feeling to expect that he would
more than two-thirds. -
the House the intended propositiou–a proposition that would, if
The motion was then agreed to, and the Committee appointed. carried, he believed in his couscience, consign their names to
COTTON FACTORIES. infamy! The Noble Lord then said, that he would state n cir
cumstance to the Iſouse, which he had omitted to mention be
on the motion of Lord Kesyon, various Petitions, praying He was authorised by the Duke of York to declare, that
that Parliament would regulate the hours of labour for children fore.
nothing could induce him to take, directly or indirectly, the sa
in cotton factories, were read.
cred property of his Majesty. -
 the ExAMINER, 135
Mr. Tisaxey said, that he had certainly gone into the Com
mittee with a different view of the subject from that which he Wednesday, Feb. 24.
now took of it; but having found that the keeping Windsor BREACH OF PRIVILEGF.—HON. W. WINDIIAM QUIN.
Castle in repair would alone cost 18 or 20,000l., he did not think The order of the day for the attendance of Mr. Quin in his
50,000l. too unuch for the establishment. With respect to the place being read,
second proposition, the Noble Lord at first wanted all the upper Sir R. Wilson recapitulated the facts which he had before
as well as the more humble servants to be pensioned; but he stated respecting the Hon. Member. Mr. Quin had been ap
afterwards, with surprising facility, gave up the Marquises and pointed custos rotulorum of the county of Limerick, which sent
Dukes—(Cheering and laughter.) The communication made to him to Parliament, and had in his patronage the office of clerk
the House by the Noble Lord at the conclusion of his speech of the peace. The emoluments of this office were 800l. a year.
was very ill advised. (Great cheering.) The Minister must have and it had been held by the petitioner, T. W. Grady, 15 years :
told the Royal Duke, that if the House of Commons would be he first had it when he was very young, and had performed its
infamous by giving the money out of the privy purse, he would duties by deputy. Mr. Quin informed the Petitioner, that he
be infamous by receiving it. But whatever sum of money that should remove him from his office, and offered him as a recom
House might offer, he begged to say that the proudest Royal pence 200l. a year out of its emoluments: this was rejected by
Duke must feel an honour to receive. (Repeated cheering.) The Mr. Grady. Mr. Quin then went to England; and on his return
Right Hon. Gentleman them entered into a statement of the dif in September, had an interview at Dublin with Mr. Carew
ferent modes of regulating the privy purse. At first, Ministers Smith, a barrister, to whom he announced his intention of be
allowed the Sovereign a certain sum out of the civil list on their stowing the clerkship on Mr. Richard Smith, to be held during
own responsibility; but it had been since provided, by the 51st his pleasure, in order that he might secure the payment of the
of the King, that 60,000l. should be paid to the keeper of the annuity to Mr. Grady. He added, that Mr. Grady would only
privy purse, and that the surplus, after paying the necessary ex receive the annuity on condition that (and as long as) he gave
penses, should be vested in proper funds, to be forthcoming on him his own vote at elections, and procured him the votes of
his Majesty's recovery. The 52d was passed when there was no 100 freeholders. Mr. Carew Smith said, that he thought the
hope of that event, and provided, that the physicians and other offer illegal; and at a subsequent interview, made a minute of
expenses should be paid out of the privy purse, adding, that it the conversation, and gave it to Mr. Quin, who returned it next
was reasonable that that fund should bear those expenses. day, with an approval of its correctness, except as to a few ini
(Cheers.) He therefore argued, that it was the intention of Par mnterial words. He also expressed his willingness to sign it,
liament, in passing the Acts alluded to, that all the private ex but was persuaded not by Mr. Gould, his legal adviser, who
penses of the King should be paid out of the privy purse; and said, that it might be construed into a breach of Parliamentary
that the care of his person was completely a private expense. privilege. , Mr. Smith transmitted the minute to Mr. Grady, who
He (Mr.T.) thought it very proper that the Duke of York should determined to bring it under the cognizance of the House. The
be paid every penny of expense that he would be put to ; but the subject being soon after much agitated in Limerick, Mr. Gibbit,
privy purse was the proper fund to take it from. Suppose a the law-agent of the Hon. Member, took a note to Mr. Grady,
younger son were to have the care of his father, who was a luna which contained these words,--- Mr. Grady may vote as he
vie, would not a court of equity grant the expense of his custody [...; and if he should vote against me, I shall not deprive
out of the father's property? The Right Hon. Gentleman then him of his annuity.” The Petitioner returned no answer at the
read his amendment; and called on the House to do their duty, by . time, but soon after gave notice to Mr. Quin that he should
making the saving he proposed. He spoke of the aukward situa bring the affair before the House.—These were the circuin
tion in which Ministers had placed the Princes by this and the stances into which the Petitioner called upon them to inquire.
former propositions respecting increase of income. Though the The Petition was then brought up and read.
sum in dispute here was small, the question which it involved Mr. WINDhA.M. Quin then addressed the IHouse. He was
was one of the utmost importance: it was connected closely with anxious to prove that this charge was unfounded and malignant;
the constitutional law of the country, and it came home to the and would state facts which should show its falsity. He had
most powerful feelings of a people, who, while labouring under certainly removed the Petitioner from his office, because he
their burdens, were insulted by such expressions as those to thought that another person was better calculated for it; but his
which the Noble Lord had resorted. (Loud cheering.) conduct could not have been regulated by political motives, as
Mr. Pret, Mr. Huskisson, and the Solicitor-Genen AL; both the parties had always supported him. If the Petitioner
argued in support of the motion, on the ground that taking the had been lºng a public servant, the case would have been dif
10,000l. from the privy purse would be an infringement on the ferent; he had however been appointed to the office at eight
rights of private property, and contrary to the intention of former years of age, and had acted by deputy; and he (Mr. Q.) wished
Acts of Parlinment. to appoint some one who would do it in person. The Petitioner
Mr. PaormeRoe said, that the communication from the was much distressed when he was told of his intended removals
Duke of York was most extraordinary. It had always and in consequence he (Mr. Q.), having taken legal advice,
been considered a gross breach of privilege in any Mem offered him 2001. a year, which was half the emoluments of the
ber to attempt to influence the votes of the House, by em office. The Petitioner said, that he had refused this allowance:
ploying the name of the Sovereign; and surely the threat held but having understood from his friends that he was perfectly
out by the Duke of York could be held scarcely less a breach of satisfied, fie (Mr. Quin) left Ireland. On his return, he discussed
privilege, if indeed it eught not to be viewed in the light of an the matter with Mr. Carew Smith, who afterwards sent him a
insult. (Hear, hear!), Had the Duke of York possessed a single minute, which he returned, after looking it over, and said to Mr.
friend, this debate would never have occurred. (Cheers.) Most Smith, in presence of a third petson, that Mr. Grady might vºte
certainly the House and the country had till now felt that the as he pleased. The Hon. Gentleman could not say whether the
Duke of York would have looked for his reward in the discharge minute was correct or not. He afterwards told Mr. Grady, id
of his pious filial duties. Little had it been expected, that his presence of another person, that if Mr. Smith had said that he
Royal Highness would have converted his bounden duty as a son had made any stipulations w ith regard to his (Grady's) voting,
into a source of mercenary profit... (Cheers.) . -
he had said what was wrong. The Petitioner wrote a note to
Mr. Alderman Warthstan could not suppress the indignation bin, saying that he would accept the offer, but must first consult
with which he had heard it stated, that the Duke of York was his couſin, Mr. Smith.-The Hon. Gentlemnn then said, that he
ready to take 10,000l. a-year, provided the money should come would let the House into the true history of the affair; and read
out of the pockets of an impoverished people, but that he would some letters from Mr. Grady's father, who lived at Boulogne, in
not accept it if taken frem the privy purse. (Hear, hear.) which the writer threatened to expose him in Parliament, if his
Mr. ScamLerr contended, that there was no former Act by son was not restored to his office; and said that a celebrated
which Parliament gave up its controul generally over the privy member of Parliament had come to him, and brought him en
purse; and that there was no difference in the nature of the sums couragement from a great body of the Opposition—The Hon
paid to the physicians, and the sum now proposed to be granted Gentleman said, be º now leave the case to the considera
w the Royai Duke. tion of the Ilouse. - - - -

The House then divided—For the motion, 281—Against it, Sir R. Wilsox observed, that he could not be the opposition
186—Majority for Ministers, 95-Adjourned. Member alluded to, as he knew nothing of the question will a
Tuesday, Feb. 28. week before the Petition was presented. - -

The House resolved itself into a Committee, and the resolu

-

After some conversation as to the mode of proceeding, it was

tions for granting the sums proposed by Lord Castlereagh for resolved, that evidence should be heard at the bºr of the House
tº Windsor Establishment, &c. were carried.—Adjourned. respecting the matter of the Petition on Monday se'unight.
136 THE EXAMINER. –

• The sending the threatening letters to Mr. Quin was then a laugh in the House the other night, when Mr. Grady declared
voted to be a high breach of privilege on the part of Thomas that he could not read the letter º him; but he eould bring
Grady; and he was called to the bar, and asked by the Speaker evidence to prove, that Mr. Grady had been for 15 years ºnly
wº, he had written or sent the letters in question He re unable to read at night. He should move, that Mr. Grady should
plied, that he could not see the characters by candle-light suffi be brought up and discharged.
ciently to say whether it was his handwriting; and denied, in a This motion was opposed, on the ground that Mr. Grady had
very prevaricating manner, having sent any letters to Mr. Quin, disrespectfully complained in his petition of wrong, done him by
although he allowed that he had written much speculative mat the House; and the petition was withdrawn, in order to be pre
ter on the subject. - sented in another shape.—Adjourned.
It was then moved and ordered, that Thomas Grady should be
committed to Newgate; and it was also resolved that the Speaker TUESDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE.
should issue his warrant for the attendance of the parties con -
cerned.—Adjourned. *- BANKIRUPTS. .
Thursday, Feb. 25. J. Cox and J. Morgan, Gutter-lane, glovers. Attorney, Mr.
. A number of Petitions for further Restrictions on the Importa Oldham, Earl-street, Blackfriars.
tion of Corn were presented. -
J. F. Street, Budge-row, stationer. Attornies, Messrs. Street
BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.-HON. W. QUIN. and Co. Philpot-lane. -

Sir R. Wilson presented a Petition from Thomas Grady, who F. Shotter, Steyning, auctioneer. Attornies, Messrs. Palmet
had been committed to Newgate the day before, praying the in and Co. Bedford-row. -

dulgent consideration of the House. The Petition contained a T. R. Smith, Oxford, lineu-draper. Attorney, Mr. Steel, Buck
letter, which the Petitioner stated that he had received from Mr. hersbury. - - -

Quin, and in which were many expressions of kindness, and of G. ham, Harris, Birmingham,
japanners. and J. Messrs.
Attornies, Edmonds, Aston, near
Alexander Birming.
and Co. New
sorrow at the disputes between the Writer and the Petitioner.
Mr. Grady also denied that the letter attributed to him by the inth.
Hon. Meuiber was his ; and remarked that he had been com w. Gregson, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant. Attorney, Mr.
mitted without its being proved to be his, as it had neither post Ellis, Chancery-lane.
mark nor address, and the lion. Member's name was not men T. Cushon, Minories, hat manufacturer. Attorney, Mr. Mau
tioned in it. The Petitioner was 60 years of age, and in ill gean, Great St. Heleu's.
health ; and stated, that his son, who was only 28 years of age, P.Powell, Knightsbridge, broker.-Attorney, Mr. Pember, Char
required his advice and assistance in the approaching inquiry. lotte-street, Blackfriars-road. -

Mr. QUIN avowed, that he had written the letter in the Peti T. Hope, Blakeley, Manchester, bleacher- Attornies, Messrs.
tion, of which he hoped he had no reason to be ashamed.—Laid Hurd and Co. Temple.
on the table. , J. Parker, Totton, Hants, dealer. Attornies, Messrs. Young
"WINDSOR ESTABLISHMENT.--DUKE OF YORK. and Co. St. Mildred's-court.
Attornics,
The Report of the Committee on the Windsor Establishment T. Mitchell, Cowick, Yorkshire, linen-draper.
Messrs. Egerton and Co. Gray's-inn-square.
being read, the two first resolutions were put and carried. On S. Peake, jun. and J. Rothwell, Halliwell, Lancashire, calicº. - -

the third resolution, for granting 10,000t. to the Duke of York, a printers. Attorney, Mr. Meddowcroft, Gray's-inn.
long debate took place. It was moved, as an amendment, that W. French, Heaton Norris, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturer.
the sum granted should be 5,000t. instead of 10,000l.; and the . Attornies, Messrs. Lowe and Co. Southampton-building',
supporters of this amendment argued, that that sum was more
than sufficient to cover any travelling expenses of the Duke. C. Chancery-lane.
Boniface, jun. Chichester, mealman. Attorney, Mr. Hume,
The question agitated on a former night was also debated,—
Gray's-inn.
whether the money should be paid out of the civil list or the T. Greathead and W. Outhwaite, Lamb-street, Christ church, -

privy purse.—Mr. Tienney said, that if the Duke of York

realſy wanted money, why did not Ministers say so at once, and Attornies, Messrs. Thompson and Co. Leumon-street, Gº"
man's-fields.
not come to the House in this sneaking, paltry manner, to shuffle
them out of their money under false pretences?—(Loud cheering.) SATURDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE.
The Right. Hon. Gentleman argued, that the office of custos was
not a public office, as it had been held by a Queen consort, who BANKRUPTS. -- -

could not hold any public and responsible situation. The coun J. Churcher, Bristol, hair-preparer. Attorney, Mr. King, Ser
cil had no remuneration for their services, although they must R.jeant's Inn. Farington, Lancashire, tanner. Attorney, Mr.
Fairclough,
necessarily incursome expense in the discharge of their duties:
and yet they were told that the Duke could not visit his own J. Blakelock,
Worsley, Serjeant's
Liverpool,Inn.
wine-merchant. Attornies, Messrs.
- -

father without 10,000l. a year!—Mr. CANNING contended, on the

other side, that Queens having, sometimes been made Regents, Leigh, Mason, and Housman, New Bridge-street. d
were capable of holding public offices.—On a division there S. Sons,
Leigh,Bartlett's
Strand, bookseller.
Buildings. Attornies, Messrs. Langham *t
were—For the resolution, 247—Against it, 137.-Majority, 110.
Adjourued. . J. Hatton, Warrington, Lancashire, buteher. Attornies, Messrs.
- Friday, Feb. 26. Hurd, Johnson, and Chester, Temple.
. . . .. . PENRYN ELECTION.
J. Kidd, Castle Coomb, Wiltshire, butcher. Attormies, Messrs.
Mr. Atkyns WRight, Chairman of the Committee appointed R. Dax, Son, aud
Stewart, Meredith,
Liverpool, Doughty-street.
merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Hurd,
to try the inerits of a Petition complaining of an undue return for Johnson, and Chester, Temple.
the Borough of Penryn, appeared at the bar with a special re J. Bates, Stockport, dealer. Attorney, Mr. Meadowcroſ',
port, representing that Henry Swan, Esq. was not duly elected; Gray's Inn. -

ihat it had appeared that he had been guilty of bribery, and was G. Loft, Woodbridge, Suffolk, corn-merchant. Attorney, Mr.
therefore incapacitated to serve in Parliament; that evidence had Hine, Temple. - -

been produced sufficient to convict three persons of using corrupt C. R. H. Bailey, Swallowfield, Wiltshire, dealer. Attermies,
influence, and eight others of receiving bribes. Messrs. Fisher and Sudlow, Holborn.
The Report was laid on the table; and some discussion took E. R. Woods, Kelvedon, Essex, shopkeeper. Attorney, Mr.
place as to whether the House should not order the disſranchise Lewis, Clement's Inn. - -

ment of the borough, on the ground of the general corruption of J.W. and J. Horner, Brockbottom, Lancashire, dealers. A*
the voters.--The consideration of the subject was adjourned to
Monday. - B. ney, Mr. Blakelock,
Stanley, Woolwich,Serjeant's
miller. Inn. |
Attorney, Mr. Chinn, Charles - -

- BREACH, OF PRIVILEGE–TIHOMAS GRADY.

. . Mr. C. Hutchinson contended, that the House had been too R. street, City-road.
S. Hall, lunt
Bank-buildings, merchant. (Attornies, Messrs. blun
-

hasty in committing Mr. Grady, both because there was no proof and Bowman, Broad-street-buildings. d -

that the letter, for writing which he was committed, was his, and W. Sayer, Bristol, cornfactor. Attornies, Messrs. Richards an
because even admitting that it was, the expressions in it were writ Medcalfe, Chancery-lane.
ten in a moment of irritation and were no breach of the privileges J. Paul, Circus, Minories, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. S".
of the ligüse. The Hon. Gentleman observed, that there had been Stokes, and Carr, Basinghall-street.
- * - - *
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S. Adams, and J.J. Wattleworth, Walsall, Staffordshire, factors. wrote a sarcastic eulogy,
Attornies, Messrs. Price, Williams, and White, Lincoln’s-inn. or some such thing, on the late
J. Cousins, Long-acre, cheesemonger. Attorney, Mr. Rose, East CLARKE, Duke of FeltRE, one of NApoleon's turn-coat
street, Red-Lion-square. . Marshals; and for this he was challenged successively by
J. Barfoot, Arundel-street, Strand, ornamental-stationer. . Attor
nies, Messrs. Paterson and Peile, Old Broad-street. two of the deceased's relations, and bravely fought with
W. Bass, Woodford, Essex, victualler. Attorney, Mr. Hobler, them. His two hazards and escapes did not satisfy an
Walbrook. -
other relation, a M. LARTIgue, who insisted upon being
G. Grey, Hammersmith, carpenter. Attorney, Mr. Knight, Ken the third to proclaim how little the Duke's memory could
singten.
M.J. Davies, Maidstone, Kent, dealer. Attorney, Mr. Norton, bear to be called in question. M. De St. Aulaire,
Commercial Chambers, Minories. though exceedingly averse, and earnestly advised by his
J.Thick, Lombard-street, broker. Attorney, Mr. Beckett, Noble friends not to attend to this third challenge, which became
street.
T. Heaford, John-street, Stepney, dealer. Attorney, Mr. Bous
-

pure extravagance, finally however did so; and he

a

field, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street. actually fell the victim ºf a generosity of which his
rRice of Stocks on saturuday. * - -
antagonist was little worthy: Observing that the latter
had the sun in his eyes, he voluntarily changed po
3 per Cent. Red............... 74}#} | 3 per Cent. Cons...... 747833.
sitions with him. The º was his death. IIe is

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exceedingly regretted by all who knew him, includ
-

ing his two former challengers, whose esteem he had won

London, FEBRUARY 28. -- by his gallant behaviour. That M. LaRtrane will regret
--- him, is not quite so clear. M. de St. Aulaine was young
The attention of all Paris has been roused by an at and accomplished. He had the manners as well as the
tempt on the part of the French House of Peers to alter courage of a true cavalier; and his very name of Beau
the Law of Election, and shake the security of national poil (Fine-hair) assists in giving us a certain rotnantic
property;-for such is evidently the final object, whatever idea of him. -... " .
else it may pretend. The public mind may well be agi The following remarks of the Times upon the first mo
tated by such a circumstance. The upshot of success in dest proceeding of the maiden Parliament, so completely
the scheme would infallibly be before long another bitter speak our own sentiments, that we quote them at once
and bloody struggle between the advocates of the old without further preface. We only wish that the paper,
regime and the new, terminating as infallibly in the victory which can shew so much good taste respecting an afflicted
of the latter, who are implicated with everything that is old age in the person of the KING, had not deviated into
young, stable, and liberal in France. Should such a an unhappy levity the other day on the old age of a man
struggle take place, and Boxarante happen to die in the venerable for retaining the virtues and enthusiasm of his
course of it, young Napoleon might be whistled over youth and the most powerful faculties of his manhood;
from Austria, and placed on the throne in the twinkling of Jeremy BENTHAM. . . . . . . .
an eye. The Allies would sanction such a termination of “The grant to the Duke of York, if we were to deem
it, out of sheer necessity, and a wish to prevent principles the matter ended, has had an issue different from that
more republican. But it is supposed, that should the plan which the exigencies of the country required. We are
be adopted in the Peers, it will certainly be put an end to sorry for it. We should not ourselves have thought an
in the Lower House. afflicted father a good subject for Ministers to propose
The French KING is now understood to be recovered; that a son should make a job out of." However, all men
but it is plain he has been ill, and that he continues una are not of the same taste. But it is said that the custody
ble to come abroad. Indeed it is not at all probable that of the King's person is a “public officº." "Good God!
he can live long. He is old, and of a gross habit of body; of what horror are we to hear next? The care of a dis
and when he does go abroad, can take exercise to little tracted parent's person by his son a public office: What
purpose, being too unwieldy to walk or to ride on horse gives it then publicity ? The parent's situation? Shame
back. He seems to have indulged himself so much when forbid it. The son's 7 What are the insignia, then,
in exile, with his fireside, his Horace, and his table,_ of his new appointment with which the Duke will
“Epicuri de grege porcus,” -
appear? The wand, the key, the ribband? His Royal
that all the necessity of bustling for his new throne cannot Highness had his share of these embellishments before;
recover him—perhaps must rather shorten his life. as many as were compatible with his high station,
We forgot to mention last week, that a new princely No; there is no publicity in the office, except that itserves
death had happened in the person of an Aunt of the King as a pretext for taking the public money-We observe
of Saxosy. Another petty Prince is now to be added to that the term “Custos” has been generally used by those
the list, Hononius the 4th, Prince of Monaco in Italy. who have upheld the grant, when speaking of the new
He was drowned the other day in the Seine. It is the character of the Duke: now, if this term is derived from
first time we ever heard his name mentioned. We believe he the Courts of Equity, the proceeding ought to follow the
was the Prince who had an aukward interview with Bo course adopted in those Courts; but there the pro
*APARTE on the latter's way back from Elba, and did not perty of the lunatic is always made answerable for his
know well how to behave himself. Perhaps he was too expences: nor can any human reason be assigned
civil, as his little territory appears to have been incorporated why the same course should not be adopted
with the dominions of the King of SARD1N1A. here. The personal property of the King goes to
A resentment scandalously sanguinary against M. his children: it is theirs on his decease: are they robbed
Beatroll be St. Aulaine has terminated fatally. He because the venerable owner is maintained out of it dure
138 THE EXAMINER.
ing the few last years of his protracted life? We speak The Brazils mail which arrived on Monday brings a
Chili Gazette Extraordinary, containing a despatch from
warmly, because the language is not only ours, but that the Commander of the Independent squadron, dated
also of every one whom we hear and meet—of every man Valparaiso, Nov. 17. . In this despatch he informs the
in the City yesterday, who in his conversation coupled the Supreme Director of the arrival of the ships under his
sinking of the funds, (for they also declined below 75), command at that port, with his prize, the Reyna Maria
with the resolution to add 10,000l. a year to the Duke of Isabel frigate, already mentioned to have been captured:
York's present income, under the pretext of taking care together with her, he has brought into port 3 other tran
of the KING's person. We beseech Ministers to attend to sports, belonging to the expedition from Cadiz, taken off
the island of St. Mary's. It appears that, on their depar
these cotemporaneous facts, that as they waste the public ture from Cadiz, they had 606 soldiers and 36 officers on
money, public credit declines. But with respect to the board; of the former 213 had died on the passage, 277
term applied to the Duke of York in his new capacity, were on the sick list, and the small º: were in a
be it observed, that if we are to use Latia words, the starving condition. The wretched state of these vessels
whole phrase is “ Custos personae;” for the persona had given rise to the supposition, that the remaining tran
is all now that remains of the King; the regal functions sports not yet accounted for had perished at sea. The
corvette Chacabuca was, however, left to cruise cff St.
are of necessity gone to another. The person, the ani Mary's till the 30th November, to intercept such of the
mated body, is preserved in the bosom of his family; of transports as might still make their appearance.
that they naturally have the guardianship and care; the An official return of the strength of the British army
whole man is functus officio. How can publicity, and on the 25th of Jan. 1819, laid before the House of Com
how can public dignity, belong to such an office or duty mons, states the general total at 109,810 non-commis
as this?” sioned officers and privates, and 5,852 officers: of which
amount there are serving in Great Britain 15,248, exclu
. It has much delighted us to see in the Dublin papers an sive of 5,516 Foot Guards: Ireland 18,923; East In
account of a Protestant Meeting in favour of the Catho dies 18,281; troop horses 11,276.
lics, at which the sons of both Curran and GRATTAN took From official returns, printed by order of the IIouse of
prominent parts. Their speeches were deservedly ap Commons, it appears that the aggregate amount of gold
plauded, not merely on account of their youthful sincerity coin issued ſtom the Mint, in the course of the year 1818,
and enthusiasm, but for the natural manliness of their in was, in sovereigns, 2,347,230l. 7s.6d. In half sovereigns,
515,1431. 9s. 6d. Amount of silver coin issued from the
tellect. What added greatly to the interest was the pre Mint in ditto, total aggregate, 576, 180l.
sence of Mr. GRATTAN, senior. These indeed are heredi
tary honours worth something, and throwing a lustre on Licensing System.–On Tuesday, a meeting took
place at the Crown and Anchor, to consider how the pre
ancestry as well as offspring. sent Candidates for Westminster stood affected with re
spect to the present arbitrary licensing system; Mr. BAR
BER BRAUMont was in the chair. Mr. Honilouse and
The Baltimore Papers, which arrived yesterday, con Sir F. Bundett attended, and Mr. LAMB sent a letter of
tain a Proclamation of the AMeRican Pae-ink Nºr, whi
recites the Articles of a Convention concluded betwee. apology for his absence. The two former gentlemen de
clared their willingness to assist in the overturning of the
this country and the United States. The right of fishing system; and it was resolved that Mr. Hobhouse should
on certain parts of the coast of Newfoundland is given to be supported by the meeting.
the Americans; the boundary line in the North is marked -

out: and the existing Commercial Treaties between the Code:TT has been employing himself, not without uti
two Powers are to coi:tinue in force or ten years longer. lity, in shewing the fallacy of certaiſi agricultural state
These papers also recite the recent proceedings in Congress. ments of Mr. Birkbeck, in regard to settlements in the
A Resolution was proposed by one of the Members, to Hlinois. . By this explanation we learn, that the country
make the notes of the United States Bank, in the affairs in question is for the present decidedly advantageous
of which the Representatives have lately interſered, on ac only to labourers or to those holders of small capital with
count of some misconduct, no longer receivable in any families, who can join with it great manual exertion
payment to the United States; and also to compel the on their own part. Mr. Birkbeck's estimates, which
Corporation to shew cause why their charter should not be surprised every body, Cobbett has pulled to pieces,
with his usual rough ability at that sort of work.
forſeited, unless before the next session they assent to certain
propositions which will place the Bank completely under the They are indisputably fallacious. It is amusing to see
control of Congress.--This is very different from the conduct the manner in which the Man of Hampshire treats
of our Parliament, where the Bank Directors have so much his dear friend, for so he calls him, at the very time
influence through the medium of Ministers, that they can he states in plain terms, that none but a fool or a mad
cause an enquiry on a public and important question to be man could write as he has done. BIRR deck was becom
referred to a Secret Committee, in order that nobody may ing too popular, and that was not to be borne, “although,”
know any thing about their affairs, and that they may go as Dangle says, “he is my friend.” Cobberr pronises a
on issuing their lying notes, and plunging the country into book on Gardening, and observes with great sang froid,
a still more artificial and dangerous state. that the last seven years of his life exceeds, for efficient
Time Colonies.—There is a third Minister of State ex exertion, the labours of any other individual past or pre
pressly for colonial matters, and yet complaints reach our sent. “Cobbett's pigs and turnips” alone will secure his
immortality. We are afraid a little gasconade has for
ear from almost all quarters. Some of the alleged facts some time become a part of our "...". but indi
are of the most offensive nature, such as gross violations of
the laws, by arbitrary imprisonments, partial condemnations, vidually it is unusual among Englishmen. Men of talent
and scandalous acquittals of the most enormous criminals. are very often vain—wise men, never.—Chester Guardian.
These doings are to be brought before Parliament, and ColNaghi has published a beautiful portrait of General'
therefore a time will shortly arrive for detail and comment. Bolivan, the Venezuelean Chief, considered as an asto
Don WALENTINE Gomez, Deputy from the United nishing likeness. Uuderneath are the arms of the repub
Provinces of Buenos Ayres to this country, has arrived at lic of Venezuela. -

Falmouth.
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The Dublin Corporation has passed a vote of censure some consolation to think that such neglect does not arise
on the Lord Mayor, for calling the late meeting of Pro among tis English people from want of respect for genius
testants—a vote of censure on a Magistrate for calling a and a love of art, for an Institution has been established
meeting to petition Parliament, a requisition for which, to make up in some degree at least for the neglect of the
was signed by at least three-fourths of the rank, property, state, by taking cognizance of, rewarding and recom
talent, and population of the city, over which he pre meading to general patronage, those whom Nature, has
sided.—Excellen!! The Worshipful Corporation, to prove gifted with finer sensibilities to her works, and of which
itself Hibernian in one respect at least, would confine the one kind of evidence is delightfully held up to our view in
fight of petitioning to one side. The Lord Mayor, it Painting. Such is the British Institution, and such an ob
seems, received this terrible disapprobation , with great ject of their notice, is, or will be, we deferentially trust, .
dignity—dignified #. doubtless, with a dash of its Mr. An RAHAM Cooper, who in his picture now in this
first cousin. To add to the Joke, these censurers have Gallery, of 219, Skirmishers, fairly rivals the works of
petitioned themselves, and would have done so in any some of the best Dutch Painters, Wouvenxians for in
case-Impartial personages—but such has been Irish his stance,—in the composition, colour, drawing, finishing,
tory from the primitive happy times of a “within and and character, and especially the latter, for in these hired
without the pale,” to the last week's freak of the Corpora slaughterers, here so delicately called Skirmishers, he has
tion of Dublin. Happily it seems likely to be Irish no given what Fletcher says
losger. The Sunday Freeman's }.}is publishing the “They re tire
names and places of abode of those who signed the popu Of Heaven, the hearts of lions,i. reath of tigers,
lar petition, in order, using its own words, “to shew us on Yea; and the fierceness too.”
which side the balance of unbiassed and disinterested cha The lively Poet might probably have used the word Helf
. talent, and property
tart.
lies.”—Good.—Chester Guar here more properly than Heaven, in a juster reference to
the origin and purposes of most wars. In the neatness of
his execution, and more particularly his touch, this Artist
THEATRICAL EXAMINER. has very rapidly improved. He does indeed aſ that he
essays to do more than well—excellently. As a friend
No. 353. whom you do not see in passing along in a crowd takes
gratifying hold of and detains you, so Mr. Coopert, in
- Drtºrr-lane. this picture, as you advance along the Gallery, takes hold
We have miscalculated our time this week, and have only of your attention and regard, and you do not leave him
inst time to allude to the new melodrama at Drury-lane. till you have greeted him heartily on the sound and most
It is called the Heroine, or a Daughter's Courage, and is unusual strength of his intellectual constitution. We pay
said to be taken from a novel by Madame GEN Lis, which these merited compliments to this new Associate of the
we never read. It's main interest turns upon a young Royal Academy the more cheerfully, on account of the
lady, who sees her supposed father accessory to a murder, very extraordinary eircumstances under which the Artist
is found in a suspicious situation, and persists in encounter. has advanced upon the public notice, and with which per
ing all hazards and ignominies rather then give him up, haps some of our readers are not acquainted. He was but
even the hate of the man she doats upon, the death of a few years since a groom to Mr. Meaux, during which
whose child was the murderer's object. It was performed time, from the strong bias and tasteful temperament of his
with more than usual credit to the talents of Mr. Ben mind, he luckily tried the use of the pencil as well as the
Gough and Mr. H. Kemblr, to say nothing of some curry-comb, and discovered to some discriminating friends
excellent acting on the part of RAE and Mrs. West. of his master, that the former was his proper instrument of
The hesitating half-betrayal of the former's agitation leactice, and that his rightful employer, in whose service
ought to enter, was the Genius of Painti He did so,
in the part of the . murderer, , was worthy of
Reas himself. . Neither is the piece destitute of talent, and at once proved that Englishmen, though breathing an
though a singular mixture of common-place end some. uncongenial at:mosphere, can in spite of its changes, its
- ºing better. It seems got up in a hurry, so that as the fogs, and chills, light up the pure and intense flame of Art
Chronicle has justly observed, the occurrences are accumu to warm and delight our minds. *

lated upon each other without connexion or order, situa

tions are brought into contact, which, in the novel, are GRAND SERIES OF MEDALS.
connected by distant intervals, and the necessary result is, Since the last notice we gave of this very novel publica
a mass of passions for which there is no preparation, and tion, several beautiful additions have been made by Mr.
of actions for which there appears no motive. It is how Mupie, from the hands of English and French Engravers,
ever greatly applauded. -
the last of which has the Head of Earl St. Vincent by Mr.
ſº - Mills for the Obrerse, and the destruction of the French
Fleet off Cape St. Vincent's for the Reverse. The Obrerse,
FINE ARTS. taken from a bust by our celebrated CHANTRY, is a speci
men of advancement in an English Medal Engraver. The
Reverse is a specimen of such finished ability in a long
BRITISH INSTITUTION. experienced French Engraver, BRENET, that it even sur
Whes the Republican States of Greece, in their public passes the one our readers may recollect we mentioned as
games and shows, or in more private situations, noticed extraordinary, representing Napoleon standing on the deck
any works of more than ordinary intelligence, or of what of the Bellerophon at Portsmouth. It is certainly the
is meant by the term genius, they did not suffer the pro best nautical Medal extant. We shall do this, and the
ducers of them to depend upon private liberality for en other Medals more justice in an ample review of the whole
couragement, but took them immediately under their own work when it reaches its fortieth Number, as it shortly
protection, and secured to their country the talents and in will, for it is highly honourable to all engaged in it.
-
dustry of the new candidate for fame. If modern Euro -

pean Governments, in their attention to the Jacobite inte

rests of the Divine Right of Kings, the securing of unde Mr. Mantis's Joshua commanding the Sun to stand
served places and ions, and a majority of votes in still.—Most of our Readers doubtless recollect this Pic
their legislatures, neglect to copy this wise example, it is ture, which excited such general approbation when on
 140 THE EXAMINER:
exhibition. We find, to our surprise, that it still remains in UNREFLECTING CRUELTY.
the Artist's hands. This is the more singular, as the modest -
F. put upon it, as well as its striking merits, one should We have an old tradition that we are creatures of
ave imagined would have brought an eager purchaser. But
so it is: and though it was universally admired by the Public, reason! Vain of our spirituality, and enrolling ourselves
by the most eminent Artists (Messrs. West and Haydox very modestly in the ranks of good spirits, we try j.
among them) and by distinguished connoisseurs, though subterfuge to escape the degrading stigma of cruelty, which
Mr. MARTIN's extraordinary powers were noticed by the we term brutality. We affect to consider the most glaring
tasteful of all ranks,—still he has as yet derived no other instances of it as effects of overruling accidents, of which
advantage from the work than an increase of reputation;– our reason is the sport from age to age, though the prin
a high one, no doubt, in such an Artist's estimation, yet, ciple is in ourselves. Bad forms of government, erroneous
as this world goes, not the only thing necessary to a modes of faith, backwardness in science or civilization, are
Painter's comfort. ample fields where white-robed mercy is not expected to
come. . But we, the civilized and enlightened modern
English, the declaimers against the slave trade, the de
DRAWINGS BY MR HAYDON's PUPILS. nouncers and punishers of slave merchants, have exceeded
On the private days at the British Gallery, these draw their inhumanity, have cribbed a few inches from the
- ings made a great and decided impression on all classes; stowage allotted by these callous wretches to their panting
and a powerful writer in one of the public journals, in cargo, and surcharged upon the heat and suffocation of the
speaking of the general look of this Institution on those dark hold of a slave ship. ... At the same time, with ridicu
days, says, “For one copy of Rubens we saw a dozen lous gravity, the Times attributes the recent barbarity of the
of RAFFAELLE: for one of VANDERiley DeN, a dozen of Turkish government to the religion of Mahome. Now
Cuyp. This affords a pleasing evidence, that the relish for the Founder of the religion professed in England preached
the noblest style of excellence #. an essential part of the blessedness to the merciful, and as his own special com
national character; and that the same ſearlessness arising mand, bade us love one another, and taught us to pray to
from conscious worth, which animates the English in the be forgiven only as we forgive such as trespass against us.
field of battle, leads them, in the pacific arena of art and Be the government of England good or bad, torture is
science, to grapple at once with the severest diſfigulties, against the letter and spirit of the laws enacted by it; nor
and will, we have no doubt, ensure them success in this no would a bill to punish the most atrocious crime by months
less than in the other kind of conflict. If this view of the of suffocation be suffered, one should think, even to lie on
taste and capacity of our countrymen be correct, the great the table. Arrived as we are at an high point of civiliza
use of such an Institution as that now referred to must at tion, our refinement, elegance, and delicacy, is nevertheless
once appear; and that our theory is correct, we would able to endure the idea of other men breathing already
require no more convincing proof than those exquisite overbreathed and spoiled air, which can hardly Beinhaled
copies from RAFFAELLE's Cartoons. . Here are no cold by their most flagging lungs, and still more corrupted by
drawings, no merely correct translations of the figures and the poisonous effluvia. As to our science, which ought to
draperies of the great originals; but the intellectual dignity, perfect the creature of reason, what are we to hope from
the moral beauty, all those noble graces of expression that When we find it, at this stage of its advancement,
which have justly conferred on RAFFAELLE the epithet of offering the horrible sight of strangulation as amusement
“divine,” are copied with a kindred feeling, and with a for our wives and daughters? What are we to hope from
power of execution worthy of men who É,
appreciate science that would, recover the spirit of bird, fish, or frog,
to endure a thousand tormenting deaths? And the gentle
ihe excellencies of their grand archetype.”
This was spoken of them when the drawings were in an dames hope the dear little bird or fish will survive! It
unfinished state; they are now exhibited to the public is such want of reflection that makes these pretty phi
finished, and iº, improved by the union of all the losophers cover over their childrens' mouths, when they
parts. Thomas LANdsEFr's St. Peter, and the woman put them to *†.
Every living creature destroys the
air it breathes; the most tenacious of life can exist but a
with the child in her arms; CIIARLEs LANDseeR's St.
John and the woman with the basket on her head; little while without a renewal of this all-vivifying prin
Bewick's Christ and St. John too, are really compre: ciple. A splendid cradle may be a dungeon of torture
hended, entered into, and translated as it were, with as equally with the dark hold of a slave or convict-ship.
much feeling, delicacy, and power, as we ever remember have seen a child, after fighting his way out, shew signs
to have seen in chalk drawings; and it is earnestly hoped, of absolute horror at being again committed to the con
that his feeling, delicacy, and power will not end with finement of a wrapping cloak, in which the poor little
wretch was but wrapped up the closer for security, less
their chelk drawings, but be visible in their first original than
productions. The public naturally expect something from
to |. his obstimacy: I wished I could have sent
them, and it is hoped they will not be disappointed. As his mother to Bedlam. Sometimes the good women are
far as preparation goes for painting, their studies are com surprised to find the infant dead, after all their care 1 so
that the truth is, although we partake of a spirit of cruelty
pleted; the rest is yet to be proved. For the completion in common with other animals that kill for sport as well
of their preparatory studies every gratitude is due to the
Directors of the #. Gallery and the Trustees of the as food, our want of sense is chargeable with much of it.
British Museum, whose liberal regulations have been so Reason would correct it; but our reason, such as it is, is
alºniated to leave talent free. The foundation of the not troublesomely excursive. So imperfect is the human
understanding, that except in immediate apprekension for
British Institution and the purchase of the Elgin marbles ourselves, no idea of evils is presented to the mind that
have produced a complete aera in English taste. But two bears the least resemblance to the painful reality.
things more are wanting, A NATIoxAI. GALLERY AND
Public encounagement; and then all that can be done
for the assistance of genius will have been done by the P. S.—I since have had from an officer of a ship that
Government and his #. Highness the Prince Regent; carried out a regiment destined to America a dreadful his
and a few years will prove whether England is destined tory of the sufferings of the soldiers when they reached the
to shriak from comparison with Italy or Greece, or whether hot latitudes, though all the airing possible was allowed
she has power to force her own way, and take her seat them: many a fine young man was seized by an enemy,
beside them, . B. R. H. to which ºcourage was vainly opposed,—a fever,
 THE EXAMINER. 14|

which carried them off in the short space of three or four living; I am now so ill, as to be hardly able to crawl
days, through their insufferably crowded state, and a short about. - -

supply of water, inevitable with such a multitude. , What I shall trouble your Lordship no more on this subject;
then will be the condition of the convicts, if, as is very but to slew how little I fear contradiction, I shall publish
probable, they should be “long becalmed on Southern the whole of the Correspondence between the official per
Brine?” Some regulation as to the room to be allotted sons, I have mentioned and myself; and it may be ‘my
for our troops should unquestionably be fixed by Parlia good fortune to find some patriotic member of Parliament,
ment, instead of its Members citing the usage of our gal who will endeavour to see that justice done to an humble
lant defenders as an excuse for the utmost barbarity. man, which has hitherto been denied him.
- - FRAs. Skegg.
Late Fifth Clerk in the Office for Stores.
case of FRANCIS skegg. No. 26, Cross-street, Hatton-Garden.

To THE RIGHT Hon. Lord Melville, FiRST Lond of The A BDUCTION OF MISS GLENN.
ADMIRALTY, &c. -

My Lord, Necessity and not inclination compels me (From the Taunton Courier.)
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to address your Lordship publicly. The private letter I The meeting of the friends of Mrs. Joan Bowditch for
wrote to your Lordship on the 11th of July last, as well the purposes stated in our last, was held on the 17th inst.,
as the letters I sent to the Committee of Stores and the Mr. John White having been called to the chair, ad.
Navy Board, have not been attended to. In those let verted to the events connected with the late proceedings,
ters, I complained of the injustice of my discharge from a and submitted Miss Glenn's original letters to the inspec
situation in the Store Office, where I obtained 160l. a year, tion of the company—Col. Alcock said, if any proof were
after nine years' service. I have endeavoured to convince wanting of the intimacy of Miss G. with James Bowditch,
your Lordship and the persons at the head of that de in addition to the aſlidavit made by his son of that fact, his
partment of the justice of my claims; but instead of re three daughters, who were well acquainted with Miss G.
dress, I have been unfortunate enough to meet only with were ready to make oath that she had been repeatedly seen
repulses. Your Lordship's final answer through Mr. by them walking with James Bowditch, Col. A. also
Hayes, on the 15th of July last, refers me to the official stated, that Mrs, and Miss Clapp had offered to make an
one of Mr. Barrow, written some months before, wherein affidavit that they heard the late Mr. Clapp say that Miss
I was informed that their Lordships, having considered Glenn was at the christening, and that he, Mr. Clapp, in
my case, declared that nothing more could be done, and formed Mr. Leigh of the same.—Dr. Kinglake deprecated
desired me to cease writing to them on the subject. . I the recent conviction, as founded on Miss Glenn's evidence,
hope, my Lord, you do not think that I can comply with opposed as it had been by such a number of respectablé
this desire. Shall an individual, who is armed with truth, persons. He also stated to the meeting, that he had been
who has been a faithful servant of his country, and who called to attend Mrs. Gibbºns, one of the defendants, who
has been made a solitary instance of disgrace among all lately died in child-bed, and expressed his firm opinion,
the clerks in Somerset-House, cease to complain of un that but for the dreadful agitation of mind excited'by the
warrantable injustice? I can never cease but when I prosecution, she would at this moment have been living.—
cease to breathe. . . I have remonstrated against the report Mr. J. Buncombe read that part of Miss Glenn's affidavit,
respecting me; I have requested the Committee of Stores which stated that the affidavits made (56 in number) were
. Navy Board to be just enough to inform me what wholly untrue—Mr. Wilkinson said he was wholly un
complaint they had against me. To my remonstrance connected with any of the parties, but seeing a mother and
they answered, that the Board had determined to recom her whole family overwhelmed with destruction under such
mend me for superannuation ; and in reply to the other extraordinary circumstances, he thought it his duty to
request, they recommended me for a pension from motives contribute his humble services on this occasion.—The
of humanity I Was it humane to deprive an individual Resolutions appear in another part of this paper. A peti
of his bread; to recommend him for superannuation, who tion to the Regent was determined on, and a subscription
had no claim to it from length of service : Was it hu entered into in the room, amounting to 80l. which is since
many to superannuate a man of thirty-nine years of age, increased to upwards of 200l. The Petition has obtained
in order that a greater favourite might be promoted out of the signatures of upwards of 500 persons.—We are desired
his turn? to state, that in consequence of the attempt lately made to
My discharge was said to have taken place from motives traduce the character and reputation of Mr. Oxenham, the
of economy on the part of the Government, and on ac attorney for the defendants, an action has been commenced
count of my infirmities and ill health. How could it be by him against Mr. Tuckett, in order that Mr. Oxenham's
any gain to the country to remove, an established clerk, conduct may undergo, the strictest scrutiny. -

who had entered on his duty at 80l., per annum, and put James Long (the clerk,) is so far convinced of his mis
another in his place, who commenced at 100l. As to my take, (he said Miss G. was not at the christening) that he
ill health, as long as I did my duty, that could be no has signed the petition to the Prince Regent on . part of
excuse for my removal; it was entirely an affair of my the defendants, and joined in the subscription for them.—
own. Sir T. B. Martin, in his letter of the 5th of April In addition to the evidence of eighteen persons who were
lºst, says, that it is “the wish and duty of the Navy examined at the trial on the part of the defendants, they
Board to to justice to every individual.” Can this decla filed the number of affidavits under-mentioned, (exclusive
ration be reconciled to the condemning me unheard, and of the affidavits of the defendants themselves):—
refusing to examine into my case? No man is wise at all To prove Miss Glenn's walking with James Bowditch, in
North Town and ºther places, - - • - - - 48
times. The only wrong thing I have done was the ac Her being at the christening of Mrs. Mulraine's child, - 17
cepting a years’ salary as remiuteration: but what was I Her familiarities at Holway and Thornford with James
to .# Right or wrong, I was to be discharged, and had
Bowditch, - - - •
- , -- - 17
I reſused that. I should have been cast destitute into the Her being on the wheat mow with Mr. Puddy, - - 5
streets, and my next situation would have been a work Her writing the letters in question, - - - - 6
ouse. As it is, the consequences of my discharge have (All which were denied by Miss Glenn.)
been dreadful; I have been three times distrained for rent; And to prove Mr. Oxenham's alibi, - - - - 8
I have been three times dispossessed of the means of The defendants also procured affidavits, in addition to
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the above, from 24 respectable persons, after the motion nearest legitimate relations, were found among the Puke's papers
for a new trial had been made, to shew that Miss Glenn Lord Henry Howard did not interfere to widen differences; on
was a willing and contriving principal in the elopement. the contrary, he always treated Mr. and Mrs. Morris with great
kindness, and endeavoured to prevent misunderstanding between
the Duke and them. In 1815, the Duke died, having first made
his will, by which he bequeathed a very considerable portion of
LA W. his property to Lord Henry, but made no mention of his natural
children. Lord Henry had always been a great ſavºurite; he was
COURT OF KING'S DENCH, educated in the Catholic religion; but, in 1786, his father died,
and in 1789, he abjured that faith, and conformed to the Esta
Monday, Feb. 22. blished church. He was the secºnd person for Whe title, and,
Forged baxk-Notes.—RANSox t. rºsti.
from the time of his leaving school, the Duke had paid particular
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, an engraver, attention to him. By the will of the Duke, he was entitled to
against the defendant, an inspector of the Bauk, to recover four-tenths of the residue of the personal property, subject to the
damages for the injury sustained by the former, under a false payment of the legacies; Lord Howard, of Ethngham, was also
imprisonment, upon the charge of the latter. It appeared that entitled to four tenths; and Henr Howard, Esq., of Corby, was
Mr. Ranson had paid a 11. Bank of England note to Mr. Mitche entitled to the remaining two-tenths. Lord Henry married Miss
ner, who keeps the Hole-in-the-Waſl in Fleet-street, which note Long ; he then resided in a house, called Park-house, belonging
was afterwards detained by the Bank on the ground of its being to the Duke. He was also member for the city of Gloce-ter, and
forged. Mitchener applied to Ranson to repay him the amount; had been returned on popular principles. Soon after the death
but Ranson refused, unless the mote were returned to him. Mit of the Duke, Mr. Morris published a letter in the Eraminer, im
chemer then summoned him to the Court of Conscience, where puting to Lord Henry, that he had been hitherto supported in his
the defendant attended, and produced the note. Rºnson asked election by the Duke's influence; that, on the occasion of the
to look at it, put it in his pocket, and went to Mitchener's house proposed grant to the Duke of Clarence, he had voted in the
and paid the 20s. A few days afterwards Ranson was summoned minority with Ministers, and that he had no more chance of
before Mr. Baker, one of the Magistrates at Marlborough-street, being returned at the next election, than he had of being Prime
when Fish made a clarge in writing against him, for having the Minister. He then alleged that Lord Henry had been permitted
note in his possession, knowing it to be forged. Mr. Baker com by the Duke to occupy the house from which his Grace had in
mitted him to Cold Bath-fields, where he remained from the 23d tended to remove him, but had suffered him to remain at his
to the 27th of January, 1818, when he was again brought up, earnest entreaty. He also ascribed to him that he had used
and Fish offered to discharge him, if he would give up the note. undue means, by servility and otherwise, to procure the greater
IIe said he wished the question to be tried, whether it were forged part of his Grace's property, while the whole of his natural chil
or not, and he would give it up to Mr. Baker. On a following day, dren were left in a state of poverty. The deſendant had described
he was asked to give up the note, but refused. It was settled, him as n legacy-hunter, a character that must be despised by
that he should give bail, himself in 200l., and two sureties in 100t. every honourable man. Soon after tire Duke's death he ad
each, to appear on a future day. dressed a letter to Lord Henry, desiring to know what provision
Witnesses were called to prove the case on the part of the was to be made for Mrs. Morrís, and was informed that no mention
plaintiff; others to prove, that the note was genuine. The lat of Mrs. Morris was made in the will. It appeared, however, that
ter were—Mr. Warren the engraver, Mr. Le Maitre, a watch there was a clause giving a discretionary power to the executors
maker, nud Mr. º an auctioneer.
to continue such payments as the Duke had been used to make,
Mr. Gun New said, that the defendant was taken by surprise, or as they themselves might think expedient. , Lord Henry's
with respect to this evidence, and therefore no person was pre answer was couched in friendly terms, aud a few days afterwards
sent on the part of the Bank to prove that the note was forged." his Lordship went to Arundel, and called upon Mr. Morris, who
He contended, that the defendant had not acted maliciously, but refused to take his offered hand, and locked the door upon him,
from the best and purest motives. threatening to detain him till he should give some explanation.
The Chief-Justice said, the only question was, what damages Mr. Morris was, however, afterwards sensible of the impropriety
the plaintić was entitled to, if the defendant had acted in of his contluct, and wrote an apology to his Lordship, at the
properly. After the character that had been given of the same time stating, that he had not aſtered his opinion that his
plaintiff to the Magistrates, it would have been a more prudent Lordship had interfered between the Duke and Mrs. Morris. In
course not to have committed him. It was also to be observed, fact, he imputed generally to Lord Henry, that he bad acted
that there was an offer of letting him go, if he would give up the most dishonourably in order to obtain a large portion cf his
note. Now the act of committing a man under a capital charge, Grace's property, to the exclusion of his reputed children.
for the purpose of getting the note, was very much to be repro The following witnesses were then called on the part of the
bated. plaintifſ:–IIenry IIoward, Esq. of Corby ; the Rev. James Dalla
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff-Damages 100l. tray, formerly Secretary to the Duke as Earl Marshal; Mr.
* Mr. Lees, an inspector, on whose evidence many persons Charles Philpot, solicitor, of Gloucester; and Mr. Charles Lane,
have been convicted, was then sitting in Court, as was another surgeon, at Arundel. All these persons deposed, that the Duke
engraver employed by the Bank. had always treated Lord Henry with the utmost affection—that
his Lordship was the last man in the world to whom the charac
Wednesday, Feb. 24. ter of toad-eater could attach—that he was in the habit of
nowARD v. Morris. |...} kindly of Mr. Morris and his wife, and had treated
them with kindness and attention, when other persons neglected
This was an action brought by Lord Henry Howard against them—that instead of being servile to the Duke (who, indeed,
the defendant, a clergyman, to recover compensation in damages, was a man of too acute an understanding not to see through
for the publication of a slanderous statement respecting his cha such artifice), he had so conducted himself as rather to make the
racter. The defendant had pleaded, first, that he was not guilty; Duke complain of his neglect than of any over-obsequious at
and secondly, he pleaded, in justification, that the matter con tention. They also stated, that the Puke entertained very scrº
tained, in the alleged libel was true.—The plaintiff's case was pulous opiuions with respect to legitimacy and illegitimacy, and
conducted by Messrs. Scarlett, Gurney, and Denman. had been offended with Mr. Morris from his remonstrance and
Mr. ScARLErr stated the facts. The defendant had married complaints on account of supposed neglect. That the Duke, so
Miss Irwin, a natural daughter of the late Duke of Norfolk. His far from neglecting Mr. Morris, had pre-ented him with the
Grace had given him a living in Norfolk, and aſterwards one at living near Arundel, that he might enjoy the society of him and
Arundel, where he went to reside. His Grace showed great at his wife, of the latter of whom, and of her sister, Miss Irwin,
tention and kindness to Mrs. Morris; but when persons of high he had been heard to say, that his heart expanded when they
rank visited him, he did not choose to put her at the end of his entered the room. He had, however, been so displeased with
table. Mr. Morris differed from the Duke on this point, and the importunities of Mr. Morris, that alluding to the pleasure
thought himself personally wronged, unless his Grece allowed which he had anticipated from seeing them at Arundel, he said
himself and his wife to be avowed relations, and to be the best to Mr. Howard, C'est une affairc mangnee. The case for the plain
company who visited Arundel-castle. , That noble person kept a tiff being closed, , *

diary of almost every conversation he had with Mr. Morris; and Mr. Morris entered on his defence, of which the following is
many letters, written by the latter, demanding, as a right, that not even an outline:–After assigning his reasons for pleading
be and his wiſe should be received with the same attentiou as thehis own cause, he stated that the plaintiff having published an
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electioneering address to the people of Gloucester, he felt him great surprize of the plaintiff-a feeling in which the worthy
self at liberty to comment upon that address. He then detailed Arundelians will perhaps join.)
the cireumstances which had led to his quarrel with the plaintiff. Mr. ScARLErr replied at great length, and the Chief-Justice
From the narrative it appeared, that Mr. Morris had been invited (Abbott) summed up. His Lordship observed, that the justifica
by the late Duke of Norfolk to reside at Arundel, and that he tion had failed, and therefore the Jury were to consider the
had acerpted the invitation under the idea that his Grace in degree of damages accruing from the allegations charged to be
tended to treat his children in future with the affection of a pa libellous; at the same time, due allowances were to be made for
rent. In support of which opinion, he quoted some expressions expressions used in the heat of family altercations.—We also un
of the Duke, who had said that he had formerly entertained sen derstood the Judge to say, that it might have been better had the
timents respecting natural children, which he would not attempt personal property of the Duke of Norfolk been left to his children.
to defend; but that they were wenkened; and that he had per The Jury retired for nearly three quarters of an hour, and
sons about him who reminded him of his former opinion, and returned with a verdict for the plaintiff-Damages fifty pounds.
that he was departing from them. It was true, the Duke said, he The case occupied the Court from half-past 12 till 11 at night.
was doing so; but that his prejudices were melting away before
the feelings of nature. In this Mr. M. was disappointed, and he
attributed the occasional coldness of the Duke towards Mrs. [Note.—In the course of the above trial, a paragraph,
Morris and her sister to the pertinacity with which the plaintiff which appeared nearly two years ago in the Earaminer,
and his wife hung about him; and to slow by his conduct that was intrºduced to the notice of the Court and ve emently.
Mr. M.'s opinion was, that Mrs. M. had strong claims upon the commented upon by Mr. ScARLEtt, as if it had been
Duke, and therefore refused to let her appear at Arundel Castle, published, if not indeed written, by Mr. MoRRIs. . The
merely upon the footing of a rommon acquaintance. Various Solicitor of Lord Howard knew well who the writer of
differences and reconciliations took place between the Duke and
Mr. Morris, but at the time of his Grace's death they were upon that paragraph was, and he doubtless had informed Mr.
friendly terms. When Mr. Morris found that the Duke had be ScAulett of the fact; but that learned person, it appears,
queathed property to the value of about 300,000l. tº the plaintiff deemed it neither uncandid, nor ungentlemanlike, nor un
end his son, while he gave his own children only trifling annui just, to persist in considering it as the roduction of the
ties, he told the plaintiff his opinion of the part he had for years Defendant. The Writer of this Note, º deems it
been acting in order to obtain the Duke's property, to the preju proper to state, that he was the author of the paragraph in
dice of his children. Mr. Morris then showed that there were
question; and he adds, further his belief, that there were
different degrees of legacy hunting, and that he accused the passages in it, particularly that noticing the late Duke
paintiff of the minor degree. He contended, that the plaintiff’s
wish to obtain a legacy, together with the fact of his having ac of Norfolk as “the deceased Sensualist,” of a description
cepted and retained one, coustituted him a legacy hunter;--that which Mr. MoRR1s would never have put forth... Mr.
legacy hunting was a vice, which could be restrained only by Mornis may or may not agree in opinion with the Writer
public opinion, and that greater indulgence should therefore be as to the character of the late Duke—or if he does agree
extended to a nun charging another with legacy hunting than iu with him, he may have many reasons for not publicly ex
other cases of alleged libel; that any expectations which the pressing them. "The Writer believes that Mr. Moºnis
Duke might have held out to the plaintiff, could not alter the has too much respect for the freedom of opinion, and finds
character of the plaintiff's views with regard to his property. too ample a satisfaction in the enjoyment of it himself, to
If ever those expectations were held out, it was when the Duke
had shown no inclination for the society of his children; but wish to limit the right in others.-But Mr. Scarlett,
when he afterwards drow them about him, every honourable though among the most eminent of the present Counsel,
man would have kept aloof, whereas the plaintiff clung more condescends to resort to a petty trick like this; yet he is
closely to him.—Mr. Morris observed, that Mr. Scarlett had at roused into the uttering a miserable puff upon the whole
tributed his conduct to the disappointment of his own views; Bar, the moment a Defendant avows that he pleads his
but he had stated, and offered to prove by the production of his own case because he is not fortunate enough to be person
own letters to his Grace, which Mr. Scarlett had refused, that he ally acquainted with a Pleader who is at once able and
had always advocated the cause of the Duke's children gene disinterested. Mr. Scanlett doubtless has other reasons,
rally.—Mr. Morris concluded by leaving his cause in the hands
ºf the Jury, only intreating them to bear in mind those plain besides that of wishing “to save the valuable time of the
broad facts, which no argument could controvert, that the plain Court,” for being anxious to put down the practice of self
tiff and his son had immense legacies out of the late Duke’s property, defence; but there is now a pretty general conviction, that
while his Grace's children were left in poverſy, a Defendant in certain cases has little chance of success
Mr. Morris occupied two hours and a half in his address; and unless he is his own Advocate. And though in the pre
“he evinced” (says the Morning Herald in its report of the pro sent instance a verdict was given against Mr. Monnis, in
reedings)" all through this prolonged trial, a firſhness and ease, consequence of his inability to furnish sufficient legal evi
which nothing but superior acquirements and an enlightened dence of the alleged facts, yet there can hardly be a doubt,
mind could he we given him.” -
Witnesses were now called for the defendant. that, but for his own emergetic, manly, and feeling address
Miss Irwin (Mrs. M.'s sister) deposed, that on an interview with to the Jury, the damages awarded would have been ten;
the late Duke of Norfolk, he said he had formerly entertained fold.—So much for Mr. ScARLETr's disinterestedness and
opinions respecting his natural children which he would not at delicacy; now for his high-bred morality. In the course
tempt to deſend; but they were much weakened. He had per of his second speech, he informed the Court, that the De:
sºns about him who reminded him that he was departing from his fendant was altogether wrong in supposing that a father of
former opinions,—that he formerly said he would never publicly natural children ought to bestow upon then his full protec
'notice his natural cluildren, and that he now had Henry Stepheu tion and regard . The poor mother, he indeed admitted,
son constantly with him.—in answer to a question by the de
fendant, inquiring what the Duke said with regard to the truth might cherish a strong affection for such, offspring; but
cf those observations, the Witness replied, his Grace said, “It the father—oh it was neither according to custom, to
was true he was doing so; but his former opinions had insensibly law, to philosophy, or to nature, that he should par
diminished, and were melting away before the ſeclings ºf nature.” take of such sentiaient.—[The exact words in which Mr.
Mr. Morris called several other witnesses, to show that he had S. clothed his opinions may not be stated, but this was
been deprived of their acquaintance by the interference of Lad general bearing.]—Now does the learned Counsel.
Howard, the wife of the plaintiff; and a letter was read ... their
really imagine it for the benefit of morality; that mºn
proved the fact in one instance: but most of the witnesses, and a
Mr. Laves in particular, said, that it was more in consequence should thus be gravely told they are freed from all the
of the quarrel between the parties.—An apothecary at Arundel higher duties of a parent, provided they take care not to
tamed Lane deposed that he had long known the plaintiff; he make themselves responsible by legal forms Does he
thought him a very honourable man, and the last man in the suppose that such doctrines will decrease the number ºf
wºrld who would ever endeavour to get a legacy. Such was his profligate fathers, ºr unhappy mothers, or suffering chil
amiable character, that he was universally beloved and esteemed by dron Y Surely Mr. ScARLErr’s vaunted intimacy with
the peºple of Arundel-(This evidence appeared to excite the the “Noble” Plaintiff and his “Noble Relatives,” or what
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 14 - THE EXAMINER.
is termed his “duty to his Client,” must have contributed had visited Newgate whilst Mr. Butt was in confinement, aud
to perplex his judgment when he prated after this strange found him in the situation described. He mentioned it to Mr.
fashion. If there be truth in general report, or any thing Newman, the keeper, who said, from the state of the prison, Mr.
Butt could have no better accommodation.
in physiognomy, Mr. S. is a man of humanity; and some Mr. Sergeant LENs, for the defendant, contended, that Sir
thing stronger than this special pleading of his must be Nathaniel had in this case only acted as custom authorized him
oroduced, before it will be believed that he himself would
to do; but if the Jury should }. a verdict for the plaintiff, the
|. acted as his Noble Client and his Relatives have damages ought to be nominal, since there was no proof whatever
acted. No, Mr. ScARLeTr: your aspect and your repu that Sir N. Conant had acted from corrupt or vindictive motives.
tation are at variance with your expressions: you are inIf Mr. Butt had been improperly or hardly treated in-Newgate,
fact too well thought of to be thus taken at your word. he had his remedy against Mr. Newman, who was at that time
You may think it right, on such an occasion, to exert keeper of the prison.
Chief-Justice DAllAs declared his opinion to be, that the
your eloquence for your employer; but no paid-for pane plaintiff had no cau-e of action in this case against the defendant,
gyrics on the deceased Duke, who abandoned his off who had only acted in the discharge of his duty as he was legally
spring to poverty, or on the living Lord and his Relatives, authorized to do.
who refuse to relinquish to them even a moderate por The Jury, after some time, brought in a verdict for the plaintiff
tion of this ill-disposed wealth, can ever induce one liberal —Damages 1s. ; subject to the future consideration of the Court.
man to believe that your arguments are sound, or that their Monday, Feb. 22.
tº: is worthy of imitation.—The Learned Judge who put r v. Nºrwºvi AN.
presided, evidently thought that injustice had been done;— This was an action brought by Mr. Gaythorne But, against
ihe paltry sum so hesitatingly given to the “Noble Lord,” the late gaoler of Newgate, for false imprisonment. The plain
as ample reparation for his wounded character, has evi tiff was committed to the custody of Mr. Newman, under the war
dently marked the opinion of the Jury;-many of the rant of Sir Nathaniel Conant, which formed the subject of the
hearers who crowded the Court sympathised with the last action.—The Judges held, that the gaoler was bound to obey
the warrant of the Magistrate, and the plaintiff was nonsuited—
Deſendant;-out of doors, there is a strong feeling of [We must refer our Readers for an account of these trials, which
disgust;—and the humble individual, who now avows his involve some curious legal questions, to the full report of then,
hearly participation in that feeling, would deeply blush for which we understand Mr. Butt will publish in a few days.]
lis friends, if he believed there was one man autong
them, who would not have disdained to keep wealth so. Told BAILeY. - -

scandalously bequeathed,without first making some amends
to those whose just claims liad been so unnaturally ne
fl. It is true, these friends are chiefly in middle life;
they are certainly not. lords or dukes, or even fiftieth
cousins of lords or dukes, and they perhaps do not think
On Saturday week, Phillippe Caday alias Philibert, Josipſ:
Amand Tregrosse, and Louis Amand Cleransac, were convicted of
having brought from Mosambique, in Africa, to the island of.
Mauritius, certain persons, to be sold as slaves; and sentenced
to three years imprisonment and hard labour in the IHouse of
Correction. - * - - * -

there must necessarily be infinite virtue in the bearer of a

ebat of arms. It is very possible, too, that they may not
- - BlPTHS.
be sufficiently orthodox to admire Mr. ScARLett's fa On Saturday, in Hamilton-place, the Duchess of Bedford, of a
shionable doctrine, that it is the duty of fathers to neglect ston. - -

their natural children. But then they have gothearts in their Qn Wednesday week, at Egham-park, Surrey, the Lady of
breasts: they have tasted of affliction; therefore they can Thomas M'Kenzie, Esq., of a daughter, - - -

* feel for others; for he who best knew the human heart. - MARRIAGES.
lońg since declared, that “sweet are the uses of adver On the 20th, inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Wm.
sity:” and more than one of them would probably Frauks, Esq., of Woodside, 1ſerts, to Caroline, daughter of the
agree with the Writer, that under all the circumstances of late Christopher Tower, Esq., of Wealdhall, Essex.
this case, (when it is remembered alsº that some of the On Tuesday, Thomas Broadwood, Esq., ef Juniper-hall,
late Duke of Norfolk's children are females, sensible, Mickleham, to Anne Augusta, eldest daughtor of Alexander
accomplished, and elegant women)—it would be far more Mundell, Esq., oſ Parliament-street,
desirable to be the very humblest honest mechanic, with DEATHS. -

out three hundred pence, than the successful Plaintiff in On Tuesday week, at his seat, Ashton Hall, Lancashire, the
this action, Lord HENRy Molineux. HowARD, with three Duke of Hamilton hind Branden, &c. &c. He is succeeded in
hundred thousand additional pounds fast in his pocket.— his titles and estates by his son the Marquis of Douglass and
“It may be remarked” (says the Spectagº) “for the com Clydesdale. -

fort'of honest poverty, that the desire of hoarding money In Glocester-place, St, Marylebone, the Lady of William Hugh
Burgess, Esq., and youngest daughter of the late Sir Charles
reigns most in those who have but few good qualities to Burdett, Bart. - - -

recommend them. This is a weed that will grow in a . On the 16th inst., Mr. William Toovey, of King's Langley.
barren soil. It is strange to see” (continues this old Herts, aged 26; and on the same day his niece, Ann Sophia,
fashioned moralist) “ how suddenly this abject passion second daughter of Mr. Corbett, of Guildförd-street."
kills all the noble sentiments and generous ambitions that On the 14th inst., John Sackhouse, aged 22, a native of the
adora human nature.”] : .
- . . . .. . west coast of Greenland. This Eskimaux had rendered important
service to the country in the late expedition of discovery, and
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. great expectations were naturally formed of the utility which he
- Saturday, Feb. 20. . . would prove on the expedition about to sail for Baffin's-bay. The
- nuTT v. Sir N. conANT. Admiralty had directed the greatest pains to be taken in his
This was an action to recover compensation for an illegal arrest farther education; and he had been several months in Edinburgh
with this view, when he was seized with a violent inflammation
and false imprisonment for forty days, in Newgate, upon a charge in the chest, which carried him off in a few days. He was ex
of libel - - -

Mr. Sergeant VAughan commented, at considerable length, on tremely docile, and though rather slow in the attainment of
knowledge, he was industrious, zealous, and cheerful, and was
the hardship of Mr. Butt's case, and the injustice which he has always
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grateful for the kindness and attention shown to him.
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Just before his death, he said he knew he was going to die; that
The officer who arrested Mr. Butt on Sir Nathaniel's warrant his father and mother had died in the same way 5 and that his
proved having taken him into custody at Somerset-house, and sister had just appeared to him and called him away!
conveyed him to Newgate, where he remained in custody for 40 ------- ---
days. It was also proved, that during that time he was under
the tiecessity of associating with felons, and other prisoners of a Printed and published by John Hunt, at the ExAMINER-Office
similar description—Mr. Bennet, the Member, of Parliament,*
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THE EXAMINER.
No. 584, SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1819.
1such alone we address ourselves) they would have gone to
the politicAL ExAMINER, the Major, who undoubtedly in this pretended metropolis
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Pore.
of Reform ought to have been the returned member, when
Mr. Hobhouse was not. It is quite impossible for the
No. 569.
electors to get out of this dilemma. We do not wonder
CLOSE of the west MINSTER ELECTION.
at Mr. LaMa's Whig friends voting for him, nor many of .
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those who are links between the Whigs and Reſormers.
This business has at length terminated; and a very strange He is not only a pleasant good-tempered man, but an in
business it has been. There were four things perhaps atelligent one, and a man of wit;-we dare say also, he is
lover of freedom to a certain extent;-and if no more
which tended to defeat Mr. Hobhouse;—the provocation
he gave to the Whigs, the ambiguous creed he put forth, decided Reformer were to be had, we would vote for him
the notion that Sir FRANcis BURDETT wished to lord it ourselves, almost as soon as for any man. But for West
over Westminster, and the dissatisfaction with that gen minster men to do this, -men, calling themselves Reformers
tleman, arising from the inattention of which Cobbett has by way of excellence,—men, who have set themselves up
said so much. And here we may as well notice a miscon in the eyes of all England to be an example of thorough in
struction which some persons, we understand, have put dependence,—and men, above all things in the world,
upon our last week's article on this subject. They fan quarrelling with Sir FRANcis Burdett because they began
cied, it seems, that the writer took an opportunity of re to doubt his zeal in behalf of a Reform inflexi-radical,—
this indeed is a sorry specimen of politics, and of all that
venging himself upon Sir FRANcis for the compliment he is so often said to be at the bottom of them. They quar
paid at his expense to that well-booted Grecian,” Mr.
Huxt of Bristol. If we did not do this, at least the per relled with a Reformer, and so they must send in a Whig
sons think that it looked very like it; and that our stric It is as ridiculous as the conduct of the idiot mentioned by
tures on the causes of Sir FRANcis BURDETT's diminished Johnson, who when his relations displeased him, used to
popularity, were ill-timed, and likely to hurt his cause at a say he would go and lie all night upon the bridge.
moment so critical. Now as to revenge, we scarcely Notwithstanding the defeat however of Mr. Hobhouse,
need disclaim it on this occasion. We have a right to say we are of opinion with Sir FRANcis Burdett that he
so; because we might have revenged ourselves often would succeed on another occasion. The manifest junc-,
enough where we have abstained. Those indeed upon tion of the Tory with the Whig interest must have an
whom we might have revenged ourselves only know how noyed the same self-love which induced so many of the
much! - Sometimes it becomes necessary to expose a Reformers to join the latter. They were willing enough
person, especially one who only takes, advantage of perhaps to read Sir FRANcts a lesson by themselves, for
forbearance in others to assail and lie about them the his having somehow or other annoyed them; but when
more. But Sir FR 4.Ncis was no such person; and an they found that they were not strong enough to help the
idle thing said upon impulse to please a coarse under Whigs in returning their member without the assistance of
standing is not to affect us at this time of day. "We great their old antagonists the Tories, and when they see the
indignation manifested at the result by the people at
only noticed it among other instances of this sort of weak
ness in Sir FRANcis, to whose better qualities we have large, they will be cautious how they suffer their personal
ever wished well, and do still. So far was everything piques to carry them such a length another time. The
like resentment out of our thoughts; that had we'fancied Courier has a passage, which though it's object is to give
our remarks calculated to do his cause any harin, we would aassisted
splenetic cut to the returned Member, whom it's friends
against their will, must, give this irritable rºdy of
most undoubtedly have postponed them till the close of
the contest. But other persons did not see any thing in conquerors a grievous slice by the way:
jurious in their nature; and to confess the truth, we * The election for Westminster-terminated yesterday in a way
suspect we have very little Westminster-election in not very consolatory to the party whose political principles were
identified with the triumph. Mr. LAxia's majority was secured,
fluence now, whatever we may seem to have had gnce.
We are too sincere in, our love of Reform. … We do not by the aid of those who supported him as the minor evil. With
out that aid, ice do not believe his own friends could have returned
like freedom as the new Anti-Burdettites do, merely be him. However, he is in the House, and we say now, as we did
cause they dislike somebody who differs with them in an at the commencement, we prefer to see him there, rather than a
opinion. If we are accused of having ran a chance of man who holds in equal contempt the political institutions and
diminishing the number of voters for Mr. Hobhouse, we the moral feelings of his country. Mr. Honitouse may now go
refer to the 37 voters for Major CARTwRight. Those back to his studies, and illustrate with Jacobin erudition the
pretended Reformers who left Sir FRANcis Burdett to gloomy railings of his self-banished friend and bard. -

vote against his friend for Mr. Lamu, have nothing to do What this writer means by a violation of moral feelings
with us. All our panegyrics on Sir FRANcis have been appeats to be some ill names which Mr. Horhouse has
the consequence of his zeal for reform:r-all our objections, given somewhere to the Duchess d’ANsouleMe, a per
such as they are, result from what appears calculated to sonage, who might have found sympathy in the natural
hºrt it. Had any sincere Reformers left him, (and to feelings of all mankind, if she had not been quick to slew
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herself officious and vindictive. The “self-banished friend he had undergone the least outrage, what paragraphs,
and bard” is Lord ByRoN. What! Master MURRAIN's preachings, and, hangings would have been sufficient to
favourite paper is quarrelling with his Lordship at last, is shew the ministerial sense of the abomination : Now
it? We thought such a union was not likely to hold long. let the reader take the following little anecdote of the
The “gloomy railings,” we suspect, could inform us of a famous Middlesex election in the year 1777. “ This
great deal,—if they were all printed. The gloomiest rail County,” says the writer, “has experienced the most pro
ings, in a bookseller's eye, are those through which he can fligate and unprincipled exertions of the Court to destroy
see no profit to himself or his employers. As to self it's right of election. At the election in 1777, a number
banished, it is certainly a crime of which several very well of miscreants hired by the Government Candidates, as con
known persons, all friends of the Treasury, the Ordnance," stables, mounted the hustings and attempted to seize the poll
and the Courier, have not been guilty. Lord Byron be books, the popular candidate having at that time polled a
takes himself, at his will, to a fine climate and a lively considerable majority. A Mr. CLARK, a young gentle
capital, in which you may look through some of the man, who was standing at the hustings, was murdered by
pleasantest railings in the world. This is self-banishment! these miscreants. Lawrence Ball and Edward M. Quirk
Self-condemnation to better health and spirits! A dread were apprehended for the murder and tried at the Old
ful voluntary penance inflicted upon one's self to breath an Bailey, when it appeared, that every thing went on with
atmosphere at once warm and invigorating, to eat fish and the greatest regularity, until the prisoners and others, who
delicious fruit at a tenth part of the taxense” (expense) in were hired before the clection for the pretended purpose of
England, skim about rivers of sea-water in gondolas, keeping the peace, began in a most outrageous manner to
and gaze, under the skies, upon the marble pictures of knock down all that came in their way. They were found
PALI.ADio. | guilty of the murder in the clearest evidence, These men
When we find a sorry writer in a hireling government however received his MA, Esty's free pardon "-(An
journal going out of his way to attack a living ornament Account of the State of the Right of Election of Members
of his country's literature, who has nothing to do with the of Parliament, &c. Printed for Thomas Granav, 1818)
foul common-places of Treasury and Admiralty Scribes, See the story of the whole proceedings, both ministerial
and Gentlemen Pensioners, we may safely attribute it, and legal, in Junius, who wrote some of his bitterest
partly to fear of the “railings” for himself or friends, papers on the subject.
and partly to their jealous impossibility of being as emi
ment and independent: and we may say to him, in
answer to his nonsense about self-banishment, -
WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
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“Thou naughty variet, thou art to continue.” Til IRTEEN ſli iDAY. . .

A word of the disturbances, of which the Contrier The numbers at the close of the poll were—
For Mr. Lamb 3059
makes so much noise. It is very well for men sitting w
Mr. Hobhouse 3.472
snugly in their tax-enriched houses, to talk of inflamed Mr. Hobhouse came forward amid great applause thixed with
passions and violence; but among a popular multitude on loud yelling from those in front of that part of the hustings,
such an occasion there must be every species of indigna where Mr. Lamb generally stands. After speaking of the majo
rity he had obtained that day, he proceeded tº complain of the
tion, justifiable as well as otherwise; and a tendency disgraceful means which his opponent had employed to obstruct
to violence is not to be charged as an atrocious crimé, his voters from coming to the poll. He (Mr. H.) had left two
upon men whose bodies as well as minds are ſevered with men in his Committee-room bleeding profusely from the wounds
all sorts of privations. At any rate, they alone are not to they had received. Their only ºffence was having called out—
“Hobhouse for ever,”—when they were immediately assailed
be charged as criminals. Well-paid government birelings by some ruffians—(Shame, shame!)—He could prove in a court
are the true offenders in violence. The Courier makes a of law who committed these outrages, and who employed the
mighty stir about the riotous close of this election, in which ruffians; though he would not affirm that Mr. Lamb knew of the
regular organization which had taken place. Mr. Hobhouse
people might have been murdered. Some Whig Gen then noticed some insinuations in the Chronicle, respecting his
tlemen, who were not very wise in coming among the communications with some of the Whigs, and declared them to
be unfounded and malicious.
populace, might have been murdered; but they were not; Mr. LAME then attempted to address the people, but so great a
they were only covered with mud. Lord CASTLEReAgh tumult, prevailed, that those immediately around him could
also might have been murdered; but he was not, and for scarcely hear his words, He said, that Mr. Hobhouse had
“a more than sufficing reason, namely, because he was not talked much about hired ruffians, as iſ he was guiltless of employ
ing such persons. The absurdity of such charges was the best
there. His house was only rendered tâninhabitable. If refutation of them. If they would hear his reply to his opponent's
accusations, the applauses which, Mr. Hobhouse now enjoyed
* A Correspondent has complimented us on our Anti-Welles would be turned into groans and hisses.
leian talent" at coinage. We know not what this involuntary Sir F. Burdett was received with general applause. He ob
teuch of our mint is worth; but it would save a great deal of served, that although Mr. Lamb could not obtain a hearing from
false talking and ideas to make use of it. Thus in considering them, he was enabled, through the daily press, to disseminate
whether we should enter into any new expenditure, we might charges against them, which he should notice. It had been
ask ourselves—What would be the taxense of it, the taxing brought as a matter of serious accusation against Mr. Hobhouse's
part being reasonably put for the whole actual burden. Thus a Committee, that they had charged Mr. Fox with having-em
inan who indulged himself in too many superfluities of any sort ployed violence, and with having actually occasioned murder, in
(all commodities being taxed) would be held a man of shockingly one of the Westminster contests. It was motorious, that falsehood,
"taxensive habits; and instead of the words public expenditure, bribery, and violence, were formerly the only roads, by which
the country would be edified in continually hearing from the gentlemen attempted to gain the honour ºf representing West
ge, tiew ºn ºf the House of Commons the exact yet voluminous minster. Mr. Lamb had sºld that he (Sir F.) had originally
;"race
a ºf pu'º' taxenditºre. The genius of the idiom is no listed under the Whig party; but 'lough he might assert, the
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fºr: - * * * Cºst: far, cit could vouch for us, country would not befieve it., ( Loud cheering.) Mr. Lamb had
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also said, that he had professed himself the supporter of Whig It having been determined that the chairing of Mr. Lamb
principles at Brentford. This showed such total ignorance of should take place immediately after the close of the poll, those of
the daily newspaper-reading information of the º:
that it was his friends who were inclined to accompany the precession on
unnecessary to commeº upon it, and he should, therefore, pro horseback were invited by a hand-bill to assemble at the south
ceed to the next charge—that of having deserted Mr. Fox, and side of Covent-garden at half-past two. Lord Nugent, Lord
of depreciating his talents. He denied that he had come into Molyneux, Lords W. and J. Russell, Sir R. Ferguson, Mr.
pablic life *i; the wing of Mr. Fox, though he had joined him Lambton, and other gentlemen, came to the field of action,
in advocating free principles. He had disapproved of Mr. Fox's headed by the Earl of Sefton, and decorated with colours and
coalition with the Grenvilles, and if Mr. Fox had abandoned the cockades. As soon as the cavalcade appeared, the mob con
principles which he once professed, it should not be said that he menced a furious attack on it, pulled down their colours, and
(Sir F.) deserted Mr. Fox, but that Mr. Fox deserted him. He poured upon them a continued shower of mud, stones, and filth.
had never wished to depreciate the character of that illustrious The hats, cockades, and coats of the horsemen were soon be
statesman. He always said, that in private life his temper and spattered; and the faces of Lord Seſton and Lord W. Russell in
disposition were excellent, and that he was the most profound particular covered with large º of dirt. Lord J. Rus' elſ
and accomplished orator ever produced by this country. He had and Mr. Lambton drove their horses forward among the assail
been asked whether he was the same Sir F. Burdett, who at the ants, and dealt out several.heavy blows with their wirips. Their
Concentric Society in Liverpool had declared his willingness to efforts, however, were ineffectual against the enormous crowd.
co-operate with #. Whigs. He was the same, and he would They were at length obliged to retreat, with the mob at their
support the Whigs as disinterestedly as he had ever done before, heels. Some of them were pursued as far as the Hayamarket,
if they would only give a pledge that they would support a sub and even to Grosvenor-square. In the Haymarket one of the
stantive efficient reform in the Commons House. He had heard fºrman was thrown from his horse, which ran off without
with his own ears Mr. Fox assert, that he was convinced that no im.

good could be done withºut a Reform, and that he would not take The poll finally closed at three o'clock, and a short time be
place in any administration who would not take Parliamentary fore four, the numbers on the poll were declared to be for
Reform as the basis of their proceedings. He had no doubt that Mr. Lamb - - - 4,465 •
if the Whigs were again in power, he should be found on the Mr. Hobhouse ." - - 3,861 -
same bench with Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Canning, in opposi Major Cartwright - 38
tion to them. (A laugh.). He concluded by exhorting the elec The High BAILIFF then came forward, and amid a mixture of
tors to come up with alacrity to the poll. -

applause and dissatisfaction, declared Mr. Lamb to be dul

FOURTEENTH-DAY. elected.—Mr. LAME in consequence presented himself to return
Mr. Lamb - 4289
- - thanks for the honour conferred on him, but was not able to ob
Mr. Hobhouse " - 3681 - tain silence. After making some ineffectual attempts to be heard,
Mr. Hobuouse said, that the coalition between the Whigs and he withdrew from the hustings, and retired to his Committee
Tories had been doubted; but he held in his hand a paper that room in Henrietta-street, as quietly as possible. At five o'clock
would prove it. Mr. Dennis O'Bryen, who was an active friend he drove from thence amid a similar shower of dirt and mud as
ºf Sir Murray Maxwell in the late contest, had now come on in had been previously bestowed on his friends. -

favour of Mr. Lamb, and had shewn, by giving breakfasts to Mr. Honhouse then came forward amid loud cheerings. He
those who voted for Mr. Lamb, that Mr. i.amb came forward on said, that he came to bid them farewell, as they had lost the eleg
the principles of Sir Murray Maxwell. Mr. Hobhouse then re tion, though he trusted that they had not, by so doing, lost their
º: his conviction, that violent measures had been resorted to honour. (Cheers.) . In his opinion they ought to derive more
y Mr. Lamb's friends. The voters for that gentleman however consolation from such a defeat than their antagonists could receive
never experienced any obstacle in their approach to the poll. glory from such a victory. The conspiracy into which the whole
Mr. LAMB addressed the meeting amid great tumult. He said, aristocracy of Great Britain had entered against their privileges,
that his friends had been accused of using mean tricks and com had proved too strong for the independence of Westminster. The
[...; means to obtain voters. They would find however that number of those electors, who had either taken a false view of
is opponent's supporters did not disdain to trick and threaten. the state of things, or else had been deterred by threats or de
A Mr. Manby had written to Mr. Baker, a tailor, in Covent luded by promisas, from pursuing the path of rectitude, had been
fº. refusing to have any more dealings with him, because he greater than the number of those who, understanding their duty,
d supported the Whig candidate. As they would not hear had exhibited courage enough to perform it... (Cheers.) On one
him, he would retire. side there was a candidate nominated by the people, who had
Mr. Hux-r came forward and was received with the most vio been using his utmost exertions to make himself known to the
lent disapprobation. Though he could not congratulate them, as people, and who had so far succeeded, as to make the people
he had hoped, on the success of Major Cartwright, he could con inclined to suppose his cause: their own; on the other side was
gratulate them on a much finer thing, that they had overthrown a candidate nominated by a powerful political body, whose vanity
the machinations of the Rump. The failure of his protegé showed had been so wounded, and whose resentment had been so roused
that Sir F. Burdett had lost his influence, and the Baronet him by the judicious report of their Committee, that they had come
self would not be again elected. -
forward to attack the people with all their violence, and had
Sir Francis Bunderr said, that Mr. Lamb, in his published forgotten in their rage, that the people whom they so attacked
speech, had retorted the accusation of employing hired rutfians were the very people whose miseries they were daily professing
upon them. He denied, on his honour, that they hired any man to lament and alleviate. Though his Honourable Orponent
even for legal purposes, all their services being performed by isight carry off the idle triumph of victory, to them would belong
volunteers. It seemed, that Westminster was likely to become a the real profit of it. They had achieved much good by the con
prize for contending factions, to be placed, not like an ass be test; they had shown to the country that there were 4,000
tween two bundles of hay, but like a bundle of hay between two radical reformers in Westminster, who, with a total disregard of
asses. (Laughter.) He should not despair till the last moment. every selfish feeling, had come forward in the cause of freedom,
FIFTEENTH DAY. in opposition to a most unparalleled coalitiºn ; they had showu to
the country that nothing further was to be expected from the
Wednesday being the last day of the Westminster election, Whigs; that their only motives were, the aggrandizement of
great numbers flocked to the hustings to see what was going on. their great families, and the gratification of their own selfish
They kept perpetually crying out “Hobhouse for ever,” and passiºns. They had aſso shaken off from their party those who
expressing their detestation of Mr. Lamb and the Whigs. Addi were a disgrace to any party, and an assistance to none. Those
tional constables were posted in the different avenues to the hust individuals had attached themselves like loose straw, to the first
ings; small bands were skirmishing either with the constables or thing which they had met, and that thing had been the Whigs:
with one another. A great number of Mr. Lamb's friends Coach'd, carted, trod upon, now loose, now ſast,
paraded Henrietta-street, with ribands of light blue and yellow,
intertwined, in their hats. By half-past two, the crowd in the They're carried offin a Whig's tail at last.
market had become excessive. Every window was filled, and They had gained too that satisfaction of conscience which always
all the booths loaded with customers. Even the tops of the dif attended those who performed their duty like men: , The Hon.
ferent sheds in the market were completely covered. It appeared Gentleman then expressed his gratitude for the confidence which
** if the whole of the population of London had left their homes, so large a portion of the electors had placed in him, which he con
sidered a sufficient repayment for any exertions which he had
in order to see into how narrow a compass they could contract
themselves, - * *
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entering his name upon the list not only of public but social withdrawn. Before the arrival of the military, the constables
proscription; but still he repented not of the system which he succeeded in taking a few of the principal rioters into custedy.
had adopted, but would, like the girl in Dean Swift, do it After the mob had broken the windows of Mr. Lamb's Committee
willingly, were it to be done again. Mr. Hobhouse then took a room, a detachment from the great body p. along
grateful farewell of the electors; he said that he should again York-street, Catherine-street, the Strana, and Newcastle-street.
retire into the ranks in which he had moved before º where they broke the windows of a coffee-house in which one of
galled him from them, and it depended upon themselves whether Mr. Lamb's Committees had sat. They hustled and knºcked
he was ever again found in the van of the battle. He would down such passengers as would not join their cry of “ Hobhouse
never be ſound in the rear, when the great cause of public liberty for ever.” An elderly gentleman who persisted in wearing
demanded his exertions. Mr. Hobhouse then retired, amid the Lamb's colours was so beat as to be obliged to be carried aw ºx.
loud applause of the multitude. They attacked the residences of several Noblemen in Mr. Lamb's
Sir F. Bunnerr was received with the most vehement excla interest, and demolished their windows. They also destroyed
mations of delight. He always came forward, he said, with plen the windows of Lord Castlveagh's house in St. James's-square;
sure to address so large and enlightened a bedy of men (4 laugh) of the British Hotel, Cockspur-street; Mr. Wishart's, Coventry
as those whom he then saw before him ; and he hoped that the street; the George public-house, Clare-market. Advancing up
connexion between them had been drawn closer by the events the Strand, they visited the Courier Office; showers of stones
which had recently happened. He was not disheartened by the were thrown, which principally took effect, by breaking the
coalition between the Ins and the Outs; he was not disheartened windows of such rooms as had lights in them. Several of the
by the hired rufliams, whom the peºple drove like sheep before men emplºyed narrowly escaped from the missiles, which en
them; lie was not disheartened by any of the difficulties lately tered at the first volley. They then proceeded to the Office of
tier8wn in the way of the friends of freedom, because he saw such the Morning Chronicle, and committed the same destruction.—
: entiments disseminated throngh the country as could not fail to Advice of these outrages had by this time reached the Police
be belieficial in their result. Mr. Hobhouse had just bade them offices, and constables were detached in quest of the ruñaus, on
farewell; he trusted that it would not be long before that gentle the news of which they dispersed in various directions:
man would again be placed in a situation to solicit their suf Thirty of the mob most active in the riots were on Wednesday
frages. On another occasion he thought that his success would ni.ht night taken to Bow-street; five were committed; and the
be certain, in spite of all the artifices which could be employed rest discharged, no decisive evidence, appearing against them.
against him. The coalition against him could never again be so Amongst the residences attacked were those of Sir Philip Francis,
complete as the one whose triumph they had just witnessed; St. James's-square; Lord Sefton, Arlington-street, Lord Dun
neither could the disunion of the friends of liberty ever be so gannon, Hill-street, Berkley-square; Dowager Lady Mexbo
fatºl as that over which he (Sir Francis Burden) had at present rough, pº, tº a Gentleman's (one of Mr.
to lament: for he was sorry to say that there had been a sad Lamb's Committee), Park-place ; another in Grafton-street; St.
falling off among the stoutest reformers and the staunchest adhe Anne's Coffee-house, Dean-street; and various others.-On
rents of independence in Westminster. (Cries of “ Kou mean Thursday, Thomas Hole and Wm. May, two young men about 20,
Mr. Wisharf; he is a turncoat.”)—He did not mean his ob were taken to Marlborough-street, and committed for being coº
servations to apply to Mr. Wishart, because Mr. wishart was a cerned in an attack on Mr. Lamb's house at Whitehall. The
Whig, and had always acted consistently with Whig principles. mob at that place consisted of at least 5,000 persons, men and
(“It is Mr. Sturch yeu mane,” said an Hibernian.) As his name boys, and seemed to have provided themselves with stones and
was mentioned... be must say, that to him Mr. Sturch appeared bricks for the occasion: however, as the attack was naturally
uilty of a dereliction of public duty. Though the whigs had so anticipated, proper measures were taken to prevent the outrage.
triumphed as to seat Mr. Lamb in the House of Commons, The servant of Colonel Ponsonby had his skull dreadfully
they had unseated themselves as a party from the hearts of the fractured in Covent-garden, in consequence of his refusal to strike
people of England. That triumph was a hollow, fallacious, and the colours of Mr. Lamb, which he wore in his hat. The
transient triumph ; whereas their triumph was always secure and Colonel, upon witnessing the ill-treatment his servant had ex
substantial. It was a triumph which lionest men, not divested perienced, and having a large stick in his hand, instantly, with *
of feeling, would not resign for any consideration; and he was two cuts to his right and left, laid about six of the mob.
certain they would wot resign it for the paltry result of a con
tested election (Hear, hear); and more particularly where that sprawling, when therest near him ran away. When the mob
attacked the Committee-room, in Henrietta-street; after the close
result was obtained by such means as had been resorted to in of the poll, they made an attempt to force their way into the
º favour of the coalition candidate. They (the people) had seen house. Mr. Lamb and Mr. Macdonald were, it is asserted,
the influence of power and persuasion exercised against them, and obliged to consult their personal safety by flight. They were let
with all those means, a partial success only had been obtained. out of the first floor windows º the rear) by a rope, into the
He would now take his leave, assuring them that he did so with church-yard, the gates of which have been kept uniformly closed
increased esteem for their powerful exertions in the endeavour to during the whole election. General Fergusson has been the
Proºre the restoration of the constitutional rights of the p-ople greatest sufferer from the attack made on the Earl of Señou's
of England. [Loud applause followed the conclusion of this party, in Henrietta-street, on Wednesday: his head was con
speecli.] siderably swelled. -

Aſter Sir Francis had retired, the hustings lost their attraction,
and the crowd began to disperse. A large group had followed FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Mr. Lamb and some of his friends to the Committee-room in
Henrietta-street, which in a short time became impassable. The FRANCE.
shouls, of “Hobhouse for ever,” “Burdett fºr ever,” “No PARIs, Feb. 26.-M. Lafitte, with a view to counteract
Lamb,” were now set up. Mud was cast towards the Com the intentions of the majority of the Chamber of Peers,
*rooº; and upon the constables stationed there for its pro respecting the law of election, deposited on the bureau of
tection. After it was known that Mr. Lamb'had departed, stones
supplied the place of mud, and a great number of panes were the Deputies, in the sitting of the 25th ult., a proposition
brºken to pieces. At length the constables, in great number, for an address to the King, praying “ that the election law
sallied forth, and drove the crowd into Bedford street. Some should be preserved such as it now is—as the
persons were much hurt, and bled profusely, from blows on the foundation of public peace, and of a constitutional Mo
º
head and, face; and others suffered still not severely from narchy.”—From the Committee of Petitions, a report was
having fallen in their retreat, and being trampted on by those made of an application on the part of a Colonel Salel, agent
who, pressed behind. The sight of their injured comrades stimu of a great number of half-pay officers, who had received
lated the crowd to a renewal of their attack; and the constabies
and some private individuals were partly driven back. Again, dotations from Bonaparte of lands in foreign countries
however, they rushed forward, and again the crowd retreated, overrun by the French armies under his command. The
and in this manner they continued advancing and retreating, object of this application was to obtain, through the inter
until about six o'clock, when a party of the Horse-gunrös ference of the French Government, either a restitution of
arrived. Their appearance had an instantaneous effect, and the the said military donatives, or an indemnity for their loss.
crowd, for the greater part, began to fly. After remaining there The petition was favourably listened to by the Chamber,
for about half an hour, order being testored, the troops were
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Marciº-The Public, Minister is now-proceeding The Earl of LºvEaroot observed, that if the House were to
against M. Harty de Pierrebourg, the antagonist of M. qualify the vote of thanks to General Hislop, it would expose him.
Beaupoil de St. Aulaire, in the duel in which the latter to The the suspicion of the whole army.
Duke of WELLINgrow thought, that the prima facie impres
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officer lost his fife. The motive for the interference of au sion was favourable tº the gallant General. By acknowledging
thority appears to be, that the general rules, consecrated the merits of Sir T. Hislop generally in the war, there was no
for the regulation ºf equal weapºns in single combats, have approval implied of the act in question, into which enquiries
violated to the prejudice of M. de St. Aulaire." wenld be made. - ..." -

The Bourdeaux Journal confirms the report circulated The latter part of the Marquis of Lansdown's amendment was
relative to the donation made by the Duke Richelieu to. therefore withdrawn, and then, with the other resolutions of ---

the hospitals of that city of the endowment which has been thanks, agreed to.—Adjourned. - -

assigned him. The Duke, in the first instance, announced Thursday, March 4. .
that he would refuse any recompense which might add to slAves in THE west INDffs.
the burdens of the state; nevertheless, a law created in his Lord Holland moved an address for an account of the mea
favour a majorat of 50,000 francs annually. It was cer sures adopted by the colonial legislatures, with respect to ame
tainly not becoming in the Duke to refuse a recompense liorating the state of the slaves, in consequence of their Lord
assigned him the King and the two Chambers; but ships' recommendations in 1816. The Noble Lord expressed his
faithful to the principles of disinterestedness which he has satisfaction at the readiness evinced by those legislatures to com
ply with the wishes of Parliament. With respect to the moral
always professed, he entertained the generous idea of be and religious instruction of the negroes, he thought more might
stowing his endowment upon some establishment destined be done. A sum of about 150t. sterling had been offered by the
for the relief of humanity, and it is in the city of Bordeaux Jamaica legislature to any clergyman of the Established Church.
that so noble a use will be made of these funds. Such at who would undertake the office of curate; but as this had not
least is the intention which the Duke de Richelieu has ma been ſºund a sufficient temporal inducement, he recommended
nifested in a letter addressed to the Chief Magistrate of the employment of the Moravian brethren, and of ministers of
other sects, who might also perform the duties of schoolmasters
the Department. He censured the Acts passed to prevent the influx of missionaries
to the islands, as inconsistent with the sacred principles of reli
SPAIN. : gious liberty. - - -

A letter from Madrid contradicts the rumour of General The Bishop of London said, that the salary offered had been
Elio, having been disgraced by the Spanish Government, increased to 250t., by which he hoped the difficulty would be *
which is said, on the other hand, to have loaded him with obviated.—The motion was agreed to.
COAL TAX.
honours; Ferdinand himself acknowledging to this Gene ---

tal, that he has been twice indebted to him for his Crown. The Marquis of LANspown presented a Petition against the
equalization of the coal duties; and some conversation took
Eighty individuals, many of them distinguished by rank place, at the couchusion of which, the Petition was laid on the
and services, had been seized at Valencia, when the post table. -

game away; and the number liable to arrest throughout Lord GRENville had great satisfaction in learning that it was
Spain, from a supposed connexion with the same plot, not the intention of Ministers to support any proposition for the
equalization of the duties on coal. É. was certain that the infor
amounted to the alarming number of 4,700 persons. "
mation would give great satisfaction to the petitioners, and to all
persons in the maritime districts.--Adjourned.
UNITED PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.
HOUSE OF LORDS. -->
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Monday, March 1.
Tuesday, March 2. - - - - SCOTCH BURGHS, &c.
THANKS TO THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS AND THE Mr. Bixie presented a petition from Edinburgh, praying for a
ARMY IN INDIA. -
more liberal and constitutional system of burgh government to
The Earl of Liverpool moved the thanks of the House to the Edinburgh, and the other Scotch burghs.
Governor-General of India, and the officers and troops under his Mr. Maxwell observed, that the Magistrates of the Scotch
command, for their conduct in the last campaign. The Noble burghs had the power of contracting debus to any amount on the
Lord eutered into a detail of the origin and progress of the war, fands of the burgesses, while the corporation had no control over
and eulogized the gallantry and discipline of the European and the funds, nor any slate in the administration of the bargh. .
I-at-ve troops. The Lord Advocate had announced his intention of bringing in a
The Marquis of LANsdown gave his full approbation to the Bill, suel, as he had proposed last year; but such a measure was
motion, though he was compelled to notice a transaction, which inadequate, and did not extend to that part of the subject which
could not be approved of along with the other transactions of the was of the greatest importance.—The petition was ordered to be
war. He alluded to the execution of the Killedar of the fort of p rinted.
The debate on the Penryn election was adjourned to Monday, -

Talnier. It appeared, that after a vigorous resistance made by

the fort this commander had come out and surrendered. The and the issuing a new writ for the borough farther suspended.—
garrison left in the fort, however, resisted. The fort was then Mr. Denison said, that one fact would prove the gross bribery in
attacked by the British army, and taken; and the whole of the the borough: the electors were assembled at a public breakfast,
garrison was put to the sword. The Killedar, who had remained and each of them received 241, for his vote. . -

in the possession of the British commander, was deliberately put
to death. There was no ground for concluding that this nntor
tunate commander had any concert with the garrison in their
treachery. As to the assertion, that he was guilty of rebellion
in holding out after his master had submitted, that was an offence
Mr. Hutchnsox presented a Petition from Thomas Grady, ex
pressing his sorrow for having offended the House, and praying
to be released from custody. It was ordered, that the Petitioner
should be brought up to-morrow (Tuesday), to be reprimanded,
and discharged. - *

over which a British autherity could have no legal cognizance. - STATE OF THE PRISONS-CRIMINAL LAW,
But how was he to know that he was in rebellion ? Would their Lord CastleReaga moved for a Committee to enq'uire into the ,
Lordships say that upon information received from an enemy the state of the gaols and other plates of confinement; and also into
commander of a fortress was bound to surrender, and that he was the means of improving them, and of preventing, crime; The
liable to the punishment of death if he refused? If therefore, Noble Lord argued, that this motion was preferable to that, of
their Lordships were to be called upon to vote unqualified thanks, which Sir J. Mackintosh had given notice, on the Criminal Law
w Sir Thomas Hislop, that vote must doubtless be denied. He only, as the two questions were so intimately connected, that it
concluded with moving as an amendment, “That this House, in was impossible to consider one without the other. To appoint
voting thanks to the army in India, does not express any opinion two distinct Committees would not even save time: the inquiry
on the execution of the Killedar of the fort of Talnier, but re now proposed would be conducted on the broadest principle, and
quires fuller information on that subject.” the lion. Gentleman would have an opportunity of commu
 150 THE EXAMINER. -- ~.
nicating his information to the Corhmittee. If division of labour First, that it was physically impossible to produce any effect
were necessary, it could be accomplished by assigning particular from the inquiry, if so included. Mr. Buxton and Mr. Bennet
duties to particular individuals, whose information might be sub had said, that the most laborious Committee would require a
sequently collected. His Lordship then took a review of the whole Session to inquire into the state of gaols only; and yet the
causes of the increase of crime. That increase was certain! Noble Lord would add the state of the criminal law, transporta
very great within the last three or four years. He attributed it tation, and the hulks! Seeondly, he objected, to the expedient
hewever to temporary causes. The country had, within the last also proposed,—of sub-dividing the Committee into smaller Com
20 years increased very much in population, and particularly in mittees: this would be an unconstitutional and unparliamentar
manufacturing population. Between 800 and 400,000 soldiers course, while his would be the regular and usual one. It woul
and sailors has also been disbanded.
At the same time, it was to . indeed be a monstrous thing, that in an inquiry into the state of
be observed that, although crimes against property had increased, gaols, the criminal law of England should skulk in under a vague:
offences against nature were in a small degree decreased. There and equivocal word. It was said, that his separate motion re
was a dimiliution in the number of capital punishments, although flected on the laws and magistracy of the country; but how did
the capital convictions had increased. In 1805, the capital con it more than the Noble Lord's, which equally admitted the neces
victions were 350, in one-fifth of which had the law taken its sity of inquiry: The Hon. Gentleman, in order to show that he
course; but in 1818, 1250 persons were sentenced to death, of ãº. rely entirely on his own judgment and experience, then
whom one-twelfth only had been executed. The growth of crime mentioned some examples of former inquiries, in which dis
was to be attributed (among other causes) to the increase of tinguished individuals had taken part, who had thought that
wealth, and the diffusion of a taste for luxury. Good might be the punishment of death should be changed for lesser penalties.
done by devising a secondary punishment, which should still be He then explained his intentions on the subjeet. He did not
accompanied with salutary terror. The House would observe wish to abolish the punishment of death, which society, he
with what mercy the laws had been administered during the ad thought, had a right to, and required for its defence; or to frame
ministration of the present Ministers. (Hear!) A great part of a new criminal code. His object was to bring the letter of the
the evils they were now called upon to remedy arose entirely law nearer to its practice. Ile was not so idle as to expect, that
from the humanity with which the laws were administered. The it would be possible to obtain a system where execution must in
notion of going to Botany Bay, so far from impressing criminals evitably follow the sentence; but the country had great reason
with terrºr, had a completely different effect. It was objected to to complain of the existing system, where the remission of
the present system, that the punishment of death was attached to punishment was the rule, and the enforcing of it the exception
so many diſſerent crimes; but it was impossible for the law to (Hear, hear!) His hope was to attain a state of things where a
visit every shade of crime with a distinct punishment. If the regular and steady system of punishment was established. . He
Committee should be thought too small, it could be added to at agreed with the statement of the Noble Lord, that crimes of the
any time. -
blackest hue were not increased, but only these against property,’
Mr. WYNN said, that an inquiry into the prisons of the metro which were the result of the distresses and not of the criminalty
polis alone had occupied a whole Session, and considering that of the community. He could not hºwever think that the causes
the objects included in the motion were so various as well as im of the increase were temporary. The growth of manufactures
portant, he concluded that it would be beyond the power of one was surely not a temporary cause. Many causes of criminality
Parliament satisfactorily to execute such an inquiry. Even ad were owing to mistakes in policy and legislation, which had fos
mitting that two adequate Committees could not be formed at the tered contraband trade. Poachers and smugglers were the great
same time. it might be better to postpone one inquiry, than to sources from which maleſactors were recruited. He thought it
prosecute both in the manner suggested by the Noble Lord. remarkable that, in peace, no inquiry had taken place respecting
Alderman Wood observed, that as to the observation with re those prohibitory duties, which caused the most ferocious crimes.
spect to discharged soldiers, he could assure the House, that not The rapid increase of crimes commenced in the year 1808: after
above one in a hundred had been convicted of a crime within the 'that date, they had varied, but had never decreased; and it was
jurisdiction of the city. He had visited all the gaols in the coun a most alarming fact, that in that very year, the great issues of the
try, and was convinced that it would take six or seven years to Bank of England began. (Hear, hear!) Pauperism and crimi
make an efficient parliamentary inquiry. º mality went hand in hand in this country; aud, they were both
Mr. F. Buxton said, that he had never asserted that the state propelled by the immense issues of Bauk, paper. Soon after
of the penal code, and the want of prison discipline was the ex 1808, these issues reduced the value of the pound-note to 14s,
clusive cause of crime, but only that it was a principal cause. and the labourer found his wages diminished at least in the pro
The Hon. Gentleman entered into a description of the means by portion of one-third. Was it possible to suppose that such a
which inexperienced boys are turned into hardened offenders diminution of income among all classes had not produced a great
from association with older criminals. increase of crime?. The chief ground on which he objected to
The question was then carried. The following are the leading the practice of the criminal law was, that it was at variance with
names on the Committee:– - -
the letter. . About 200 capital felonies were to be found in the
Lord Castlereagh, Mr. Brougham, Mr. S. Wortley, Mr. Hol law of England; but within the last 70 years executions had
ford, Sir J. Mackintosh, Mr. V. Fitzgerald, Mr. F. Buxton, Mr. been enforced on only 25 of them. . In England and Wales con
Wilberforce, Mr. Canning, Mr. Bennet, and Lord Clive. victions, setting aside executions, had only proceeded upon 30 ;
BANK OF ENGLAND. - so that there were no less than 170 felonies upon which no con
Mr. CALL AGHAN moved for accounts of the daily circulation of viction ever had been had. The glorious revolution of 1688 had
Bank-notes up to the 25th of January. been attended with one important inconvenience—the unhappy
The CHANcellor of the Exchequer, in seconding the motion, facility afforded to legislation; the ense with which every mem.
denied that the issues of the Bank had been reduced, as was said. ber of Parliament could indulge his whims and caprices. (Hear!),
They were as high or higher than at the beginning of the year.— An anecdote, confirmatory of this statement, was told by Mr.
Ordered.—Adjourned. -
Burke in the early part of his public career: he was about to
leave the House, when he was detained by a gentleman who
Tuesday, March 2. wished him to remain. Mr. Burke pleaded urgent business, and
• A Petition, was presented from Welverhampton against any the reply of the individual was, that the subject on which the
alteration in the duties on coals. - House was engaged would very soon be dismissed, as it was only
Alderman WAlth MAN remarked, that those who advocated the upon the subject of a capital felony, without benefit of clergy.
equalization of the duties, wished for the repeal of the tax alto (Laughter.) With an augmentation in the severity of the laws,
gether, but if the Government could not afford that, they wished the humanity of the nation has also advanced, º naturally
it to be more equally levied.—Laid on the table. revolted from the enforcement of barbarous punishments. A di.
On the motion of Sir R. Wilson, Mr. Thomas Grady was tinguished person (we believe Sir W. Grant) had said, that it was
brought up, reprimanded by the Speaker, and ordered to be dis impossible that the law and the practice could both be right;
charged on payment ºf the fees. and as the law might be brought to an accordance with the
LAWS” RESPECTING CAPITAI, PUNISH MentS. practice, but the practice could never be compelled to join in the
severity of the law, the law ought to be altered for a wiser and
Sir JAMEs MAcknrosh said, that the Neble Lord (Castlereagh) more humane system. The same individual had well observed,
had admitted the necessity of inquiring into this subject; and that there was a confederacy between judges, juries, counsel,
the only difference between them respected the mode of inquiry.
prosecutors, witnesses, and the advisers of the Crown, to prevent
Th; Noble Lord included this investigation among the objects of
the execution of the criminal laws. Was it then fit that that
º but he had two objections against this mode. system should continue, which the whole body of the intelligent
! lºº
Lºk º
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 THE EXAMINER, 151
community conspired to oppose as a disgrace to our nature and system. The practice resorted to by-one of the wisest Institutions
aation ? (Cheers.) It was not fair to throw together all the of the country, so clearly indicative as it was of public feeling,
capital felonies, and to deduce a general average: for it would be afforded an instructive lesson to a wise statesman.” The Hon.
found, that for some crimes there was no diminution of executions Gentleman then noticed the Petitions in favour of his view of
as compared to convictions, and for others, executions never took the question, particularly those from the City of London, and
place. He would separate the numerous felonies, into three the Society of Friends; the morality and exertions of the latter
classes: the first would consist of murder and murderous oſ in the cause of humanity he greatly commended. He concluded
fences—those that attacked life and limb, or put the former to by moving that a Committee should be appointed to inquire into
imminent hazard: the second would be composed of arson, high that part of the criminal law which related to capital offences.
way-robbery, piracy, &c. upon which at present the law was Lord CastleREAgn agreed with the Hon. Gentleman as to
carried into execution in a great many cases. Upon those two the necessity of inquiry, but thought that the Committee ap
divisions, he would admit for the present, that it would be unsafe pointed to consider the state of the gaols would view the subject
to propose any alteration. But there was still a third class, some in a more practical way, and not be led away by the abstract
connected with frauds of various kinds, but others, nearly to the principles of the Hon. Mover. As a proof that the infletion of
amount of 150, of a most frivolous and fantastic kind, which were the punishment of death on lesser offences did not always in
never carried into execution. Even the Noble Lord, he ap crease the number of offenders, he would state, that after the .
prehended, would not dispute, that they ought to be expunged late Sir S. Romilly had got an act passed to take away the capi
from the statüte book as a disgrace to our law. Would any man tal punishment for stealing privately from the person, the num
now think of punishing with death the offence of cutting a hop ber of such thefts had enorincusly increased. If the punishment
vine, or destroying an ornamental tree ? (Hear!) The Black-act of death was taken away in certain cases, some secondary pu
created about 20 felonies, some of them of the most absurd des nishment should be adopted, which would possess an efficient
cription... Bearing particular weapons, having the face blacked, terror. .
or being found disguised upon the high road, was a capital crime; Mr. Buxton made some forcible observations on the alarming
so that if a gentleman was going to a masquerade, and was and impolitic increase of capital felonies. Under the Planta
obliged to pass along a highway, he was liable to be hanged genets, only six offences were first declared to be capital, in ad
without benefit of clergy. It ought to be recollected also, that dition to those already declared so. Under the Tudors, only
for such offences as these, punishments quite adequate and suffi sixteen ; under the Stuarts, only thirty; and under the Bruns
ciently numerous remained. The debateable ground was aſ wicks, up to the present day, 156 (Hear, heart); so that more
forded by some offences of a more middling class; and respect offences had been made capital under the Brunswicks alone, than
ing those there was much room for discussion, although he under all the houses of Plantagenet, Tudor, and Stuart, together!
thought that they might be easily distinguished from the crimes The Hon. Gentleman then adverted to the conspiracy entered
he had mentioned. He doubted whether judges should be al into by the whole public to defeat the operation of sauguinary
lowed, at their discretion, to superadd n capital punishment to laws. He showed that juries frequently violate 1 their oaths, as
an offence not capital, in aggravated cases: that discretion would in the prosecutions for forgery, and related the fellowing curious
do more harm than good. . It had been argued, that if only one story, as a case in point:—A man going to bed at an inn, depo
execution took place out of 60 convictions, that one would ope sited his money in the pocket of his breeches, which he put under
rate as a dreadful example. He contended, on the other hand, his pillow. A robber insinuated himself into his room, and ex
that the effect of such a system was completely the reverse, tracting the money, left the breeches in their former position.
and that tra sportation was deprived of its terrors in the The man was discovered, and the Jury found him guilty of
mind of a man who had escaped death. . In support of this stealing, but not in a dwelling-honse! In order to make sense of
opiniod, he would quble the authority of one whom, if he this verdict, one must suppose the breeches to have got up in the
could not describe him as an emiuent lawyer, all would middle of the night, with a disposition to be robbed; that having
agree to have been deeply skilled in human nature, as well quitted the apartment, and effected their purpose, they returned
as a most experienced magistrate—the celebrated Henry Fielding. to their former position, where they were discovered by their
In his “Treatise on the Causes of Crime,” there would be found owner, who little suspected their midnight truancy. (Continued
this observation—“ A single pardon excites a greater degree of laughter.) Was it not better that the law should be altered, thau
hope in the minds of criminals than twenty executions do of fear.” that men should be obliged absolutely to perjure themselves to
Another effect of such laws was to deter witnesses from coming correct this glaring defect in the penal code? He had documents
forward with their evidence, and the injured from commencing to show that a prisoner in a capital case had double the chance
prosecutions. These chances of escape discouraged the prose of escape to that of a prisoner charged with a minor offence.
cutor, and increased the temptations of the offender. The act of Every individual had certain natural chances of escape; and for
George II. for preserving bleaching grounds, had been, from its his argument, it was of no consequence whether the chances
excessive severity, seldom proceeded on. Such was the case with were two to one, or two thousand to one; but considering them
several other acts, and especially with the acts relating to bank only as five to one, these chances were multiplied tenfold by the
rupts and offences against the revenue laws. It had become reluctance of the prosecutors to prosecute, making it fifty to one:
manifest, as Lord Bacoli had observed, that great penalties the chance against the conviction of the Jury was double, makin
always deadeued the operations of the laws. Another point of it one hundred to one; and it was a thousand to one that the ºf:
great importance, was the effect which was produced by so minal was not executed after all. (Hear, hear !) The effect of
frequently pronouncing the judgment. (Hear, hear!) . Of what this on the minds of the criminals was dreadful; they were urged
possible advantage could it be to pronounce a sentence which on to commit the most enormous crimes as it were by the love of
every one who heard it was satisfied would not be carried into hazard. The criminal law had become an inverted lottery—de
execution ? (Hear!) To him it appeared to be so much wanton tection, the blank, was almost impossible; and escape, the prize,
subtraction fron those terrors which formed the chief protection was nearly a matter of course. The Hon. Gentleman then spoke
of society. How could those terrors be sustained, if murder and of the callous indifference with which ºxecutions were regarded
burglary were levelled with offences deserving and receiving a by criminals. The common expression, when any one was hung,
much slighter punishment? He entirely concurred in the opinion among his companions was, “We cannot pity him, he is gone
of Sir W. Grant, that the great utility of the punishment of deaſh to Heaven;” and there was not an exccotion at which some rob
consisted in the horror which it was naturally calculated to beries did not happen. On these grounds he should support the
excite; but that, to produce this end effectually, all criminal motion. - - -

laws, should be in unison with public feeling. Amongst all Mr. Lawson spoke for the space of half an hour, in the mid-t
people an agreement between the laws and the general feeling of of the most vehement coughing, and the most incessant symptoms
those whº were subject to them was essential to their effiency. of impatience. The Hon. Gentleman seemed to proceed with the
k was with these views and opinions that he had been induced to utmost indifference, and showed none of that sensibility which is
propose a full inquiry into the state of the penal code, not for the generally a characteristic of young and new members. We un
purpose of throwing new impediments in the way of our civil derstood that he opposed the motion.
vernment, but to remove those already existing, before they Mr. Wilberforce counplimented the Honourable Mover on
[... insuperable. His object was to make the laws popular, his talents. He could say with truth, that in his long experience
and to reclaim an habitual reverence for their administration. of that House, he never had heard a more able address, a more
Sir William Blackstone bad pointed out the indispensable neces splendid display of profound knowledge of the swbject, with such
sity under which juries often laboured of committing what he forcible reasoning from the facts which that knowledge had called
called a pious perjury, in estimating the value of stolen property. forth. The Hon. Gentleman went over the arguments against
This was allotier lamentable irregularity springing from the the frequency of the punishment of death. He thought that a
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the examiner. – T rº
solitary confinement should be substituted, which would leave a CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION.
man to his own reflections, and would be particularly dreadful Lord Nugenir presented a Petition from the English Catholics.
to criminals. He remembered very well the mode suggested by praying for relief from certain grievº. civil disabilities. The
Mr. Bentham, for whose able opinions on this subject the coun petition was signed by upwards of 10,300 tº." many of whom
try was so much indebted; and he could not omit to notice represented families of the highest rank and antiquity in the
another gentleman who had also written upon the subject—Mr. kingdom. (Hear, hear, hear!) At the head of this list, which
Basil Mentague. . When he found such men, in the present day, contained elevan Peers and thirteen Baronets, was the Duke
supported by such authorities as Sir Thomas Moore, Erasmus, of Norfolk. (Ilear !)—the Noble Lord entered into a detait
Bacon, and Lord Coke—when he found all these condemning the of the severe penal laws against the Catholics, and recapitulated
system of severe punishment, he could not but think, that instead the powerful arguments in favour of their emancipation. The
of being considered hasty in their desire for a Committee on this Petitioners complained of Political disqualifications on amºunt
subject, they ought rather to be accused of being tardy in not of certain
God alone.religious
They tenets, for which they
were Englishmen were education.
by birth, atcountableand
tº .
having called for it before. º: hear !) -

Mr. CANNING considered the enlarged mode of inquiry pro feeling; and yet, becausewhich
they professed
posed by his Noble Friend (Castlereagh) the best. With respect tain religious principles, to them an attachment
appeared tº betº
right,
to what had been said as to the punishment of death, he con they were insulted, debased, and rendered aliens in their native
tended, that the fear of that punishment was the greatest moral lané. (hear, hear?)—From the uniformly loyal and patriotic
sanction that could be applied to the human mind. He depre conduct of the Roman Catholics, while deprived of many of the
cated, the appointment of the Committee proposed by Sir J. blessings of the Constitution which they were called upon to
Mackintosh, as it was an implied censure on the system, and snpport, might be fairly drawn the conclusion, that the enjºy
would cause people to be discontented with it. ment
Mr. ScARLErr spoke strongly in favour of the motion. In re tachedoftothose
theirblessings would
country and its not tend to make
government. Thethem lºss al.
jºiatiºn of
ply to what. Lord Castlereagh said respecting Sir S. Romilly's the English Catholics was worse §. that of their Irish brethren:
Act, he contended, that nobody had expected that the crime of they were debarred from many privileges enjoyed by the latter.
privately stealing would immediately be lessened by the enact he did not however wish to separate their interests: conciliatory
ment; and yet it would be found that, if the comparative in measures should be adopted towards all, by which he was confi
crease of crimes were taken into consideration, it had suffered dent the strength of the empire would be consolidated. -

cºnsiderable diminution. It was urged, that the repeal of some - Mr. W. Smirn remarked, that it had been said that no other
of the laws inflicting capital punishments would destroy the ap portion of his Majesty's subjects were subject to the same politi
prehension of death; but the House was not called on to repeal the &al disabilities as the Roman Catholics; but it should be reco-.
terror of death, which was too firmly fixed in the human mind; lected, that the Protestant Dissenters, of which he had ever
but the dead letter of the law, º was no punishment at all. been a member, were exposed to the same disabilities, and, witk
As the grand object of punishment was example, every convic the of
exception
ble
tion ought to be a lesson of instruction to those who witnessed it; hºldingofany
elegibility
situation,to civil
a seatorinmilitary;
Parliameº, wereº.
He was anxious
whereas in 99 cases out of 100, the sentence which the Judge that the Catholics should be emancipated; but he, hºped the
passed upon the criminal was a mockery of law, was a mockery House would not omit the Claims of the Protestant Dissenters,
of religion, was a mockery of all the best feelings of human which were equally founded injustice.
nature. º, The Petition was laid on the table.
Sir JAMEs MAckINTosh replied at some length. If he were but
to read the names of his Committee, it would be admitted that it THANKS TO THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS AND THE
Was as fair a selection of all parties and denominations as could ARMY IN INDIA. .
be made. (Cries of “Read, read.") Mr. Bathurst, Mr. Scarlett, Mr. CANNING said, that the motion he was about to make was
the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Wilberforce, purely of a military and not of a political nature. The Hon.
Lºrd Nugent, Mr. Abercromby, Hon. G. J. Vernon, Mr. Alder
Gentleman, after giving a general history of the Jºe waſ in,";
man Wood, Mr. Finlay, Mr. Buxton, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Benuet, dia, alluded to the particular act, in which Sir T. Hislºp tº
Mr. Courtenay, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Macdonald, Dr. Phillimore, Mr. been implicated—the execution of the Killedar of Talnier. He
Lyttelton, Lord Althorp, and Mr. Howorth. observed, that the conduct of the General had received two dis
The House then divided—For the motion, 147—Against it, tinct approvals by the Marquis of Hastings, whº knºw well the
188—Majority against Ministers, 19. The result was received circumstances of the transaction, and who would not have gºve”
with successive cheers.-Adjourned. his approbation without a complete convictiºn of the propriety
of so doing. He concluded by moving the thanks of the House
Wednesday, March 3. -

to the Marquis of Hastings—The motion was agreed to; and

ASSESSED TAXES. :
other resolutions of thanks to the generals, officers, and soldiers
Sir W. of CREspigny called the attention of the House to the of the Indian army were afterwards carried, ...
On the motion of Lord MoRPETH, a resolution was agreed to,
defalcations in the assessed taxes, and the frauds of the collectors,
surveyors, commissioners, clerks, &c. which extended, he said, to the effect that the House did not, by the previous resolution-,
to a degree unknown before. In the little parish of Westerham, express any opinion respecting the conduct of Gen. liisiop at the
in the district of Seven Oaks, the gross assessment in 1816, was fort of Talnier.—Adjourned.
14381., but the returns amounted only to 858t., leaving a defalca- |
. tion of 580t. One gentleman in that neighbourhood paid 150l. a - Friday, March 5.
A great many Petitions against any alteration
in the duties on
year, but for two years this sum had not been returned, at all,
but put into the pockets of these persons. The whole defalca: coals were presented from various inland towns and counties.
the report of the Committee on the Chester election petition
tion in that parish amounted to 1,968l. One of the collectors had
been allowed to collect arrears, and to retain them for 15 months was brºught up. It stated, that the sitting members, Lºrd Bel
in his own hands, at the end of which time it was found necessary grave, and Thomas Grosvenor, Esq. had been duly elected.
to sell his furniture to pay his debts. The Hon, Baronet moved.| a'he report of the Committee on the Fºwey election was
for returns respecting the collection of assessed taxes, &c. in the brought up.. We understood it to state, that both the sitting
district of Seven Oaks. -
members had been unduly elected.
The motion was however withdrawn, as the Chancellor of the
LIMERICK ELECTION.
Exehequer wished that the matter should be privately inquired
into, and that the motion, if the mover should think it necessary Mr. Anencu.owny presented a Petition from Thomas Rice, (the
after communicating with him, should be brought forward in Petitioner against the return for the city of Limerick), praying
another shape.—Adjourned. for the amendment of the act of the 38th of the King... .
Sir Joux Newport knew not whether redress could be given
Thursday, March 4. to the Petitioner; but provision should be made tº prevent *
d A petition was presented against any alteration in the coal
recurrence of such a case in future. The act said, th?, a cºpy of
- * ***. the poll, verified by the clerk of the peace, and deposited among
... Mr. Brxner said, that the alarm of a tax on coals had spread the records, should be considered sufficient evidence. “But the
like wild-fire through the towns; and it was no wonder, cousi committee inad ordered the poll-clerk to be brought over- What
dering would be the consequence of such a precedent? 30 or 40 pe'l
vºte forthattaking
they were
awayliterally
the taxin to-morrow,
a state of beggary. He would
but he would not clerks would have to be called over from Ireland on every future
vote fºr imposingit on others.-Laid on the table. - Petition against an election!–Laid on the table.
- _the examish
FINANCE COMMITTEE-HALF-PAY OFFICERS.
In answer to an observation from Mr. CALchart, the CHAN
cellor of the Exchequer said, that the appointment of the
Finance Committee had been delayed on account of the absence
of active Members, and the number of Committees now sitting.
Mr. Then New observed, that the “most active Members” of
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M. Hendry, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant. Attornies, Messrs.
Rosser, Son, and A. Rosser, Bartlett's-buildings.
J. Chant, Walsall, Staffordshire, flour-seller. Attornies, Messrs.
Avison, and Wheelcr; Castle-street, Holborn.
J. H. Cross, Bristol, cornfactor. Attorney, Mr. Edmunds, Ex
chequer-Office, Lincoln’s-inn. -

the Committee meant, in the understanding of the Chancellor of J. Knowles, Stroud, innholder. Attorney, Mr. Nix, Cook's
the Exchequer, official gentlemen, who would give him a majo court, Lincoln’s-inn. -

rity of voices. (Hear!) It was a mere mockery to call this an H. Norris, Bolton-le-Moors, confectioner. Attorney, Mr. Ellis,
effective finance Committee: the contrary was established by the Chancery-lane.
fact that the Noble Lord 'who had moved it some time ago had W. Carlile and T. Hodgson, Bolton-le-Moors, dealers in cotton
act named a single Member. It was a monstrous mockery to say yarn. Attorneys, Messrs. Milne and Parry, Temple.
that any thing would be accomplished if Ministers were left to E. Cheppett, Walcot, Somersetshire, cabinet-maker. Attorney,
themselves. The Noble Lord had come down with a fine Mr. Williams, Red Lion-square. -

flourishing speech to make a false impression on the country, but T. Taylor, Lendenhall-street, master-mariner. Attornies, Messrs.
not with a view that one beneficial step should be taken : the Taylor and Reeves, Great James's-street, Bedford-row.
whole proceedings of the Finance Committee had been proved to J. Stein, Butcher-row, East Smithfield, rectifier. Attormies,
be a mockery and an insult; its appointment meant nothing, had Messrs. Lane and Bennett, Lawrence-Pountney-hill. -

meant nothing, and always would mean nothing, until a body J. Cox and J. Morgan, Gutter-lane, wholesale-glovers. Attor
was selected willing to enter heartily into the real interests of the , ney, Mr. Oldham, Earl-street, Blackfriars. -

country. (Cheers.) R. Cole, Friday-street, warehouseman. Attorney, Mr. Steel,

The Casscellor of the Exchequer said, that his only object Bucklersbury.
in rising was to protest against and distinctly to disavow, deny, J. Blake, Parson's-green, Fulham, brewer. Attorney, Mr. Buckle,
and reject, what had been just said regarding the Finance Com Size-lape. -

mittee: it had done, and would continue to do, much good. D. Campbell, B. Harper, and A. Baillie, Old Jewry, merchants.
(Cheers and laughter.) - Attornies, Messrs: Kaye and Co. New Bank-buildings.
Mr. Lyrrlerox asked, whether any alteration had been made J. White and W. French, Devºnshire-street, Kennington, dyers.
in the terms of the affidavit required }. Half-pay Officers. Attorney, Mr. Younger, Wellclose-square. -

Lord PALM ERsroN replied, that an alteration had been made A. Leslie, Size-lane, Bucklersbury, provision-merchant. Attor
which would enable Officers to receive, together with their half nies, Messrs. Gregson and Fonnereau, Angel-eourt, Throg
º emolumet,ts from other sources, te three times its amount. morton-street. . - - -

regulation only applied to Officers in the service of the W. Starkey, Bethnal-green-road, bricklayer. Attornies, Messrs.
Crown. -
May, Norton, and May, Bethnal-green-road. .
- SUPPLY. T. Herbert, Chequer-yard, Dowgate-hill, cotton merchant. At
The House resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, and torney, Mr. Lewis, Crutched-friars.
various miscellaneous sums were voted. A Resolution for grant W. Pigot, Ratcliff Highway, grocer. Attorney, Mr. Heard
ing a large sum to make up deficiencies of the Fee Fund was Hooper's-square, Goodman's-fields. * --

withdrawn, it being objected that no account of the application -

of that Fund was before the House.—Mr. Hutchinson observed, rRick of stocks on satunday.
that no less than 20,000l. had been demanded for snuff-boxes to 8 per Cent. Cons....................... 734; 74%.
Foreign Ministers.-Adjourned. -

- There is a Manuscript Tragedy in our hands, (Ag—o), the

TUESDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE. Author of which would oblige us, by calling upon us. We
have not known where to address him.
- -

BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.
No Panty came too late for insertion this week; but shall ap
ar next.
J. Booth, Oxford-street, grocer, from March 6 to April 34. We shall be glad, of course, to see the Communications of
E. Rebertson, Manchester, cotton-spinner, from March 23 to
April 5. -- - -
We wish VERitas and a Puntic Acceux'ran"r would furnish us
p BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
with their names, for our private satisfaction.
J. Trastrum, King-street, Goswell-street, carpenter. "
- - BANKRUPTS. -

M. Mial, Portsea, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Alexander and

Holme, New-inn. - -
THE EXAMINER.
D. Crickett, Hougham, Kent, timber-merchant. Attornies, London, MAnch 7.
Messrs. Stocker, Dawson, and Herringham, New Boswell
court, Liucoln’s-inn.
W. R. Vigers, Austinfriars, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Knight The King of FRANes has not yet appeared in public. He
and Freeman, Basinghall-street. still receives the Ministers and others in his apartments.
-

C.F. Bell, Castle-street, Bethnal-green, victualler. Attorney,

On Sunday the Swedish Ambassador Irad a private au
Mr. Parnell, Church-street, Spital-fields.
A. Kent, Deptford, baker. Attorney, Mr. Williams, Cursitor dience of him, and delivered a letter from his Sovereign
street, Chancery-lane. .. (BERNApotte.) There is something very curious in the
A. Dobie, Liverpool, master-mariner. Attorney, Mr. Rowlinsom, present intercourse between the Bourbon and BeRNA
Liverpool. -

T. Pinkerton, Birchin-lane, merchant.

-

Attornies, Messrs. Ro Dorre dynasties. The jealousy against the latter was soon
gers and Son, Machester-buildings, Westminster. manifested; but he had been made a good constable's staff
B. Dyson, Doneaster, corn-dealer. Attorney, Mr. Lever, Hol of against his old master; the Allies, at present, would not
, born-court, Gray's-inn. -- *
W. Beer, Plymouth-dock, ironmonger. Attornies, Messrs. have him disturbed; and he was allowed to top his staff
Darke, Church, and Darke, Prince’s-treet, Bedford-row. with a crown. Louis was accordingly obliged to receive
C. Westwood, Bristol, merchant. Attorney, Mr. King, Ser an Ambassador. In the mean time, however, the Bour
geant's-inn. Bon, we believe, had not scrupled at an interview with
º

SATURDAY's LoNDON GAzETTE. BERNAporre's wife, who ever since his Swedish elevation
-
-
has remained in Paris under the title of the Countess of
BANKRUPTcy SUPERSED&D. Gothland. We mean to insinuate nothing soft against the
S. Sausum, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, clothier. executioner of Ney and LABEDoyette ; but all this looked
-BANKRUPTS. -

W. Harvey, jun. Clifton, Gloucestershire, boarding-house odd, and was thought so in Sweden. However, the revo
keeper. Attornies, Messrs. Adlington and Co. Bedford-row. lutionary pair having become royal, it was peremptorily
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THE EXAMINER, - - -
ordered of course, that nothing should be said about them. WESTMINSTER ELEction.—We have received a letter
The innkeeper's son and the washerwoman's daughter (for from the Committee for managing the election of Mr. Hoß
such the emigrants used to call them, and such the GIF house, stating, that they have distinct evidence of the fol
Forps and CRokens still delight to call other revolutionary lowing facts:–That on Sunday night several gangs of
watermen, prize-fighters, &c. were hired by persons act
personages who have not earned a title to legitimacy by de ing on behalf of Mr. LAMB, for the purpose of obstructing
sertion of their friends) were no longer to be made subjects the approach of Mr. Hobhouse's voters to the poll, and of
for profane guessing, because their proceedings, now more preventing that gentleman and his friends from being heard;
than ever, concerned the public. If they had remained that Mr. MAcDon ALD, Chairman of Mr. LAMB's Com
comparatively private, then you might not only have mittee, and Capt. Prescott, disbursed money to others for
guessed about them, but told all the lies in your power.— the payment of the men hired; that the hired bands, arranged
in order, paraded the streets, calling out “LAMB for ever,”
The Queen of Sweden is said to be an amiable and ac and assaulting all who were supposed to be favourable to
complished woman. She is the daughter of the late M. Mr. Hobhouse, and took their respective stations in front of
CLERY, the Banker, and is sister to Joseph BüoNA the hustings with the regularity of organized military bo
PARTE's wife. dies; that Mr. Hobhouse gave notice of these transactions
The Duke Dr. Richelieu insists upon not being bribed to the High Bailiff and at Bow-street, and several of his
friends offered to be sworn in as special constables
into indelicacy by the flatteries of those who insist upon to keep the peace, but the magistrates declined all inter
voting him money. He devotes it to the foundation of a ference; that the crowd before the hustings had become
hospital at Bourdeaux. “This” says the Courier, “was exceedingly irritated at the ill-treatment they received from
either a magnanimous or a splenetic act.” Well, if there these ruffians, when the gentlemen, who came to attend
is a doubt, (which we see no reason for making), why Mr. LAMI's chairing, approached the hustings, flourishing
not let it be a magnanimous act? The answer is obvious. heavy sticks, striking at the populace, and aſ last making a
Because those who are not so delicate as he are splenetic charge with their horses, and dealing out blows in every
direction; and lastly, that the above proceedings appear
at it themselves. to be the true cause of the succeading tumul's on Wednes
day.—The Committee further declare, that they never,
directly or indirectly, employed any person, on the part of
The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived yesterday. Mr. Hobhouse, to make any noise at the hustings, or to
They announce, that the proposition of M. BARTHE obstruct or annoy Mr. LAME, his friends, or any other
LEMY, respecting the modifications of the Election Law, persons.—Of course the truth of the above statement rests
was adopted in the Chamber of Peers by a majority of entirely on the authority of the Committee, who may be
43. Various speculations, prevail in Paris respecting the supposed to be a little warm on the occasion. Whatever
course which the French Ministers will take to prevent the may lave been done by some ill-advised persons, we can
Ultra-Royalists from carrying this point. The question not believe that Mr. LAMB is implicated in such doings.
is important, not perhaps so much in itself, as that it is the Law of APPEAL.-At a Court of Common Council
ground on which the wretched emigrant party have chosen held on the 25th of last month (the proceedings of which
to make a stand, and, which, if they failin it, as they are were not reported in the Daily papers) Mr.Taylor moved
almost sure to do, will probably send them back to their that a petition should be presented to Parliament, praying
proper obscurity. - -
that the right of Appeal should not be abolished along
ur Private Correspondence from Paris confirms the with the Wager of Battle, as the Attorney-General pro
opinions which have already prevailed respecting the de posed. Mr. TAYLoR made an acute and forcible speech
termination of the Ministry to put down the assailants of in support of his motion. He showed, that the two things,
the Election Law. One writer says, that 50 new Peers now confounded with each other, were perfectly distinct,
would be created on or before last Thursday. Another and that the right of Appeal had existed, in London and
states, that a Royal ordinance, addiug 54 members to the other places, where the inhabitants were exempted from
upper Chamber, had been actually signed on the 28th battle. It was a mistake, he said, to suppose that the
ult., and would speedily make its appearance.—Times— appeal must be from an inferior to a superior Court. It
Saturday. -

was foriginally a first proceeding, and might be so now ;

Advices have been received from the Commander-in but a Statute of HENRY VII. allowed an indictment
Chief of the expedition against New Grenada, dated the to be preferred first, in order to prevent delay, as the
11th January, from New Providence. It appears that he Appeal could not be made within a year. The ob
was to leave Nassau on the following day, with Colonel jection, therefore, to subjecting a man to be twice tried,
O'HARA and his personal Staff: they were to rendezvous could be easily done away by amending the Statute of
at Old Providence. . It is asserted that a part of his force HeNRY ; and at the same time this proper and eonstitu
must have by this time been in the occupation of Santa tional check against the undue exercise of the power of
Martha, as Gen. MoRILLo had withdrawn his troops from the Crown to pardon, in cases of murder, would be pre
the place; and the militia, it was expected, would make served. In support of his opinions, Mr. T. cited Kord
no resistance. -
Coke and Mr. DuNNING ; and also remarked, that the
Among the extraordinary expences of last year's civil House of Lords, at the Revolution, had expressly excepted
list, as laid before parliament, are 23,500l. for gold snuff this right of appeal, when they declared that they could
jokes to foreign ministers, 1200I. to three German Barons only be tried by their Peers—The motion was carried;
who attended the Prince of Hesse Hombourg, and 500l. aud the Petition was presented to the House of Commons
to Prince Castricicala, the Sicilian Ambassador, on on Monday. -

taking leave to return home! The exportation of paintings, statues, antiques, collec
The Hon. Mr. LAMB, the new Member for Westmin tions of coins and prints, rare manuscripts, first editions,
ster, took his seat on Thursday in the House of Commons. and in general all articles of literature or the arts, which
We are told by an anonymous Correspondent, that the tend to the ornament of a State, is prohibited throughout
Prologue of Bertram, a 'Tragedy, by the Rev. R. C. the whole Austrian Empire, upon pain of confiscation, or
Mattaix, was written by J. Hobhouse...Esq. and the a fine of double the value, with the exception of the works
Epilogue by the Hon, Geónge Lamb.-Times. of living artists.
 The EXAMINER, _155
The Catholics are meeting all over Ireland to thank the Curious AND SufficiNG Specimen of A Court CIR
Protestants for their liberality, and the Protestants are cular.—RETUnn of Tire Duke of Gloucester.—“The
• meeting to deserve the thanks of the Catholics. Trinity Royal Duke having arrived at Dover after sunset, on
Çollege has determined upon an Anti-catholic Petition, Friday evening, he was irot received by military ho
four against three: The junior Fellows were not allowed to nours, agreeably to his exalted rank; but yesterday
vote, young men being fond of novelty. The general pe morning a Royal Salute was fired there in honour of
tition to Parliament will come with a tremendous weight the presence of his Royal Highness. The Colonel.com
this Session. We should not wonder if it were to annihil manding the military breakfasted with the Royal Duke,
ate one half of the Administration. Which half we can and afterwards his Royal Highness proceeded to view
not tell; but we shall either have the felicity of a WEL the heights and other parts of Dover, and about twelve
LINGron and Peel Cabinet, with the CastleREAgii and the o'clock his Royal Highness left Dover in his travelling
Cassing on the Opposition Benches,or a CASTLEREAGH and carriage, attended by Sir ARchibald MURRay and Major
Cassing Administration, with all the aid it can muster b CurzoNs, to proceed to London. During the stay of the
signals of distress and blue lights. A third alternative, º Royal Duke, he received every possible attention from Col.
by no means the most unlikely, is a conquest of both par Foad, commanding the military, who stationed a Guard of
ties by the Opposition; which, as we are ultras in this re Honour at the Ship Inn during the stay of his Royal High
#. and preſer the radical, we trust will be the case. ness there, and had the military drawn out yesterday morn
hat an administration composed like the present can long ing to receive the Duke with military honours. The Offi
exist, it is absurd to suppose, so that, as CATo (Appi cial Gentlemen of the place attended the Royal Duke also,
son's) observes, a little “variety of untried being” is cer and he was received with the most marked attention and
tainly before us.-Chester Guardian. - respect by all ranks, to hail his return to England. The
ATRocity of A GAMEREEPER.—A labouring man Royal Duke and Suite arrived at Gloucester-house last
named James Jacob, residing in the vicinity of Lord West night, at a quarter past ten o'clobk, in his carriage and six.
moreland's seat at Apethorpe, near this place, having re His Royal Highness was received by Colonel Higgins,
cently had the good fortune to become a suspected Mr. Cukaev, the Royal Duke's Secretary, and most of the
poacher, it was the pleasure of a gamekeeper in the em Royal Household, to congratulate their Royal and beloved
Fº of his Lordship to search the cottage of the poor fel happy
Master upon his safe return home. We are extremely
to say his Royal Highness appeared in most excel
ow a few weeks back, for snares or other proofs of his
supposed guilt, in the following wanton and illegal man lect health; it is scarcely necessary to add the meeting of
ner:—Without the authority of a magistrate's war the Royal Duke and Duchess was most affectionate.” T.
rant-which we have been told (it would seem falsely) ! We shall publish next week the names added to the list
is necessary in such cases, and even without a con of the subscription for the family of Mr. Rogers since our
stable-anºther necessary appendage we should have last notice, in the mean time, we would wish to give a
thought-this guardian of his master's game pro fillip to the memories of those persons, who may have in
ceeded. to the dwelling of Jacob, which he enter tended to assist in this work of humanity, and have been
ed, followed by three men, whom he had engaged prevented by accident or forgetſulness. -

as assistants. A strict search immediately commenced, Ennatum.—ſn our report last week of the trialºg,
and continued for some time, without effect—it was as Howard v. Morris, it was said, at the conellion ºf the
fruitless as the countryman's who sought for a ‘fore evidence of Mr. Lane, the apothecary, that." This evidence
appeared to excite the great surprise of the plaintiff;”.it
waggon wheel” in the rinket-box of a travelling Jew.— should
In the vexation of his º the ringleader sent have been the defendant, as the plaintiff was not in
for ale to regale his attendants, and the whole party sat Court during the trial.
down for a while, only to rise, “like giants refreshed,’
and pursue, their unhallowed purpose with increased NICKNAME OF FERDINAND VII.
activity. The bed had yet to be examined ; but to be -º

able to see upon the top of it, the upper part of the Mr. Examin ER,--Calling, nicknames is such a happy
hangings must be cut to pieces, and this act of device for concentrating all the arguments to be alledged.
spoliation was soon performed,—but still nothing sus against a particular person, or a particular set of opinions,—
picious could be ſound. The bed itself was then cut it saves so much trouble to both parties, to those who hear,
open, but without avail, the prohibited goods were not as well as to those who make an accusation,--that one does
in it. The wife of the cottager became the next object of not wonder at its general adoption; although it is “a game
Igistrust, and she was brutally and indecently ordered to which two can play at,” ahd one in which the rubs are apt
strip and “stand search,' or, on refusal, to have her clothes to be reciprocal.
cut from her. Intimidated by their threats, she unclothed You have generally been pretty successful in the use of
herself till the gamekeeper was satisfied that what he sought this powerful engine; and I am one of those who much
for was not concealed about her person. To add, if possible, admire your late happy coinage of “otherworldliness.”
to the wantonness thus exercised, the poor woman was in an But in endeavouring to condense all your indignation and
advanced state of pregnancy! These are the plain facts contempt for the present King of Spain, I think you have
of the case; and not a declamatory word, we should not been so successful. “‘The Creature” does not reces
think, is necessary to call up the proper feelings of our sarily convey all the vituperative meaning which you seem
countrymen against such a gross violation of law, justice, to wish to give it; for although it is sometimes used in
3ecency, and morality. , Talk of the ravages and plunder: that sense, it is also often used in the opposite, with an
#. in foreign countries by Bonaparte's soldiers, indeed!! adjective of praise or approval prefixed. Thus we say, a
ere is a menial servant of a high officer in the state, in good creature, an honest creature, a fine or a gentle crea
the state of England, too, -whose atrocity will bear com ture, &c. &c.
º with the deeds of the rudest military barbarian.— I think the compound of ignorance, ingratitude, and
We understand that the offending !. has compromised misrule in question, might, more gº; by way of
with JAcob, and that the affair will not therefore undergo pre-eminence, be called "The Wretch.” But you under:
a linvestigation. We nevertheless think it our duty to stand the force of a particular expression better than I
publish the above statement; for it has been well observed, do; and I have so little gall in my composition, that
that “when the libery, of one subject is invaded, it is an I am willing to leave all abuse to those who have the
offence to all England.”—Stamford News, best right to use it. Like Cowslip, “I does’nt love curs,
 156 ––––1-------— THE EXAMINER:
ing and swearing;" and for this some of your readers will too petty and cowardly to strike the imagination atádis.
perhaps think me but a poor CREATURE. tance; but the Roman Senate tolerated them, addressed
|º. Correspondent, whose opinion we shall, always their perpetrators, exalted them into gods, the Fathers of
be happy to hear, on any subject, is, notwithstanding his their people; they had pimps and scribblers of all sorts in
good temper, really, more severe than we are in the pre their pay, their Senecas, &c, till a turbulent rabble think-.
sent instance., “The wretch” is a phrase which implies ing that there were no injuries to society greater than the
unmingled abhorrence; whereas the Creature, in the endurance of unlimited and wanton oppression, put an end
midst of all it's contempt, is not unmixed with commisera to the farce, and abated the nuisance as well as they could.
tion, and serves to remind us, as it has done our Corres Had you and I lived in those times, we should have been
pondent, that we are all created beings of some sort or what we are now, I “a sour mal-content;” and you “a
other. . The Creature is to the Wretch, what the most sweet courtier.”—P. 49. - - - -- –

loathsome of unreasoning animals is to the most wicked The following prose epigram contains half the secret of
of reasoning.] -
all Mr. Gifford's abuse. The other half is political. . .
“You say that it is impossible to remember what I
LTTERARY NOTICEs. write after reading it:—One remembers to have read what
you write—before ”—P. 35. .
But we must reserve another extract or two for next.
No. 48. week. Master Murrain, we find, has, taken his name
MR. Hazlitt's LETTER to MR. GIFFORD. away from the publication, emphatically called Black
$º Edinburgh Magazine. "We thought the other
WE said a little while since, that if the creature yelept ay, that he would. Óñf how these fºllºws might be
:Gifford did not take care, he would be picked up by †. made to tremble and put to flight in all their quarters, if,
fingers of some person indignant at his perpetual creeping as Mr. Hazlitt says, there were not a difficulty in conquer
malice, and held out to the loathing eyes of the com ing one's contempt for them;-aye, and even one's pity.
munity, sprawling and shrieking. Here he is. Mr. Haz
litt has got him fast by the ribs, forcing him, with various –
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ingenuity of grip, to display unwillingly all the deformities

of his moral structure. They may now see “the nature FINE ARTS.
of the beast.” -

Mr. Hazlitt had already written a character of this

BRITISH INSTITUTION.
miserable little being, which he has repeated at the be
ginning of his letter; but it was in a newspaper, and If in 72, JManlius hurled from the Rock, Mr. Erty has
though calculated to make the miserable object of it groan not given all the quivering terror that must have thrilled
with rage, something more public was wanting to expose in the veins and muscles on so convulsive an occasion, he
him completely and finally. “Such, Sir,” observes Mr. has much raised himself in our estimation, by the colour.
Hazlitt, “is the picture of which you have sat for the out and diſficult drawing of so **ś.figure. In 111,
line:—all that remains is to fill up the little mean, crooked, The Ezposure of Moses, Mr. H. P. Bone's manner is ex
dirty details. The task to me is no very pleasant one; for tremely rigid. He is much better in 91, Moses breaking
'I can feel very little ambition to follow you through your the Tables, which is forcible in colour and character. In
ordinary routine of pettifogging objections and barefaced FRAbsºle's Moliere consulting his Servant, we recognise
assertions, the only difficulty of making which is to throw the self-approving and expectant look of the Author, as he
aside all regard to truth and decency, and the only diffi turns his eyes on the servant while reading the passages in
'culty in answering them is to overcome one's contempt for his play which excited her laughter, and which afterwards
the writer.” Oh, how true is this! . “But you are a invariablv told as well on the hearts and muscles of the
nuisance,” continues Mr. Hazlitt, “and should be abated.” ſº. The Painter has well manifested the
The letter which consists of 87 closely printed pages, delight of the Servant as she leans on her broom to hear.
then proceeds to expose the wretched cavilings, wilful false The Author is not so well described in the same subject
loods and omissions, and servilemalignity of the well-known sketched by Mr. A. E. Chalon, but the feelings of the
articles in the Quarterly Review upon the Round Table, Housekeeper are, as she leaves off knitting, and gives her.
the Characters of Shakspeare's Plays, and the Lectures on, self up to an entire joyousness. There is firm painting in
the English Poets:–and such an exposure! Readers 248, St. Peter paying Tribule, by Mr. Hayten. His
look at each other involuntarily in the midst of it; and at Italian Peasant Boy has much richness. The colour is
once wonder, and do not wonder, how it is, that they feel perhaps a little too particular on part of the boy. To stop
no more pity for the wretched object of it. at the exact key in the harmony of colour is a very nice
“Your employers, Mr. Gifford, do not pay their hire and uncommon talent. The flesh of 134, an Italian Con
lings for nothing. ... They want your invincible pertness, tadina is very dingy in parts, but the action and drapery
our mercenary malice, your impenetrable dullness, your are the result of taste. "Is not 82, Dance at St. Cloud, a
grefaced impudence, your pragmatical self-sufficiency, little exaggerated by Mr. J. J. CuAlon But perhaps not;
your hypocritical zeal, your pious frauds to stand in the for it is the heyday of the animal spirits of Europe, on an
gap of their prejudices and pretensions, to fly-blow and taint occasion when the motto is—“twist ye, twirl ye.”. W.
public opinion, to defeat independent efforts, to apply not preſer him in 86, The Boulevards, for its bing so fºllºf
the sting of the scorpion, but the touch of the torpedo to the gallantry, gaiety, and peculiarity of the French. This
youthful hopes, to crawl and leave the slimy track of so Picture is bought by Mr. T. Hope, as is Mr. Leslie,
phistry and lies over every work that does not “dedicate Ann Page, by Mr. Richardson. We are glad to find
it's sweet leaves” to some luminary of the Treasury that the tasteful discrimination of Mr. Watts Russell
Bench, or is not fostered in the hot-bed of corruption.— has purchased, Mr. Hilton's admirable picture of Una
This is your office; “this is what is looked for at your with the Satyrs for 280 guineas; Mr. Ogle that ºf Mr.
hands, and this you do not baulk.”—You are, by appoint Cooper's Standard Bearers; the Marquis, of Iº
ment, literary toad-eater to greatness, and taster to the powN, Mr. WITHERINGto.N's Guy Faur; and the Colºr
Court.”—P. 41. tess De Grey, Mr.Vincent's View on the Yare-In ºl,
“Your reasoning is ill put together; it wants sincerity, Mother and Child, Mrs. W. Carpenter pain's with the
it wants ingenuity.”—“You ask, “are we gratified by the feelings of Nature, and of course with much genuinº Art.
cruelties of Nero and Domitian?” No, not we—they were For a near approach to true tints we admire Mr. Davi"
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sos's, T6, Boy's Head; and his picture of The Prophet, by stigmatizing the most respectable charaeters, and, viper-like,
by endeavouring to wound the Institution where he was fostered,
for its masterly, touching throughout, which is not unlike and to which he is indebted for his education in art; who has
some of Güibo's heads. The pencil of Mr. Hoffland is got himself puffed and quacked in all the public prints where his
honoured in 166, Goodrich Castle, for its luminous Even servile adulation could introduce him; whose falsehoods impu
ing, just as she is about to spread her “gradual dusk dently promulgated, have become too. barefaced for the com
veil” over the high foreground and horizon, between monest understanding; aud whose selfishness and want of
which her more twilight aspect is beautifully anticipated honourable principle have become proverbial; has just an
in a deep leafy valley. His fine, fresh, Thames }. nounced an exhibition of what he calls “his pupil's drawings.”
and Perch, 196, deserves to be brought to a good market. Finding that the bubble he has tried to inflate is upon the point
Mr. F. P. Stephanoff grows upon our admiration in of bursting, he has adopted this new species of quacking, but it
202, Gil Blas seizing the key from Dame Leonora to |. will be our business to inquire how far he is entitled to call these
young men his pupils, who were distinguished for their ability
ject his escape from the Cave of the Robbers. The whole, in drawing, lon ſº he urged them, and that they foolishly
beautifully coloured and pencilled, especially the Dame complied to lend themselves to be made his cat-paws. His great
Leonora, is marked with true decision of character. The object has been, not to advance art, or to elevate himself by his
trembling pale Lady, the resolute gallantry of Gil Blas, professional abilities, but to gain notoriety by the low ambition
and the breathless, frightened Leonora, with the beautiful of making himself the head of a cabal. Tm the pursuit of this
execution in parts, place this little work in a superior class end, he has not been very choice in the means of its attainment.
of Art, for it is fulf of an impassioned, a true, and an his Low and scurrilous abuse, servility and time-servingness, bully
torical feeling. Mr. Stepnasoff is evidently endued with ing assumption, and base ingratitude have hitherto marked his
progress,
an uncommon share of sensibility, or what is perhaps, speak -

ing more correctly, genius; for an . to express and
awaken strong feeling, does not necessarily imply intensity
of feeling. Mr. B.BARKER's Scene from Nature, and 146,
Scene at a Cottage Door, have his neat energy of pencil. But
why, when the very best Masters, and their great teacher
Nature, are so profuse, so enliveningly profuse, does this
able Artist continue so niggardly, of ſight. We beg to as
sure him that our opinion on this point, is that of every
judge of Art, we have heard respecting his pictures, and
therefore we hope that an opinion so generally seconded,
will induce Mr. BARRER in future “to throw fresh light
These young meu, whose powers he wishes to absorb, and by
whose taleuts he is now seeking to aggrandize himself, (as we
suppose he has given up painting) had shown their abilities in
the Royal Academy before he cajoled them to call themselves his
pupils. This, we are informed, has been his uniform plan: where
he has seen a youth exhibit ability, he has tried, every means '
which flattery could suggest to induce him to join his party and
rail against the Royal Establishment. This accomplished, his
next scheme was to secure to himself the efforts ...] labours of . ,
the young men, and he demanded possession of all their draw
ings, many of which had taken months in the execution. One
º geutleman, who had been drawn in by him, though abso
itely the pupil of another, resisted this tyranny, saying he
t

on his subjects.” -
wanted his studies for his own advantage; the consequince was,
R. H. * that he was abused, reviled, proscribed, and positively threatened
[To be concluded next week.] with punishment and the direst vengeance of so tremendous an
eilemw. -

ATTACKS ON MR, HAYDON.

I º hardly guess what may be the ultimate object of this per
“Iffaculties,
I am traduced of tongues, which neither know son iu his exhibition, but we may rest assured he has some
My nor person, yet will be *t
sinister end." - -

The chronicles of my doing—let me say, . . .

I advise young men to shake off the trammels of this impostor;
Tis - the rough brake * - and, instead of exhibiting their drawings, which, although highly
promising, are but copies, begin to paint, show their powers of
That virtue must go through. We must not stint invention, which alone denotes superiority of intellect, and thus
Our necessary actions, in the fear -
establish their fame. - - CAstigator.
To cope malicious censurers ; which ever,
As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow With respect to the assertion that the young men who
That is new trimmed, but benefit no further
Than rainly longing. what we of do best, are my pupils had shewn their abilities in the Royal Aca
By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is demy long before they came to me, this is a mistake.
Not curs or not allowed; what worst as oft -
Bewick came to town in 1816, with a determination to
Hitting a grosser quality, is cried u become my pupil; I met him at Burlington House; he
For gur best act. If we shall stand still, was so six months before he ever attempted to get into
In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at, the Academy, or was admitted to draw there, and has
We should take root here where we sit, or sit never drawn but two figures in it. Webb, who has
Like statues only. - SHAREspeaR. made those fifle drawings of hands, - never drew in
One would have imagined, that men who had com the Academy in his life; §ºr: never drew in the
plained of the violence and warmth of my writings, would, Academy in his life; T. LANdseer, who made the right
in common consistency, have set me an example, when side of the large drawing from the Cartoon of the beauti
they wrote in return, of that decent forbearance and self ful Gate, never was a student in his life; but C. LANDseeR
command—of that philosophic sedateness and love of was a student, when Mr. LANdseen put his sons under
truth, which prove i. intellects clear from the clouds of my instructions, and he brought with him all the blessed
passion that obscure its operations, and blunt the edge of effects of an academical education: he drew square and
is perspicuity. How far the following attacks on me are mannered, and it required all his constant attention, and
illustrations of the principle so often field up for my imi my constant advice, tº get him out of this manner, and he
lation, perhaps your readers will be better able to explain is entirely got out of it, as his beautiful drawing of the left
than eitheir I can or º friends; how far their meek and side of the beautiful Gate decidedly proves.—Thus far as
mild expostulations exhibit symptoms of self-command; to the truth of the first assertion. With regard to the
ow far their intentions are kind, their appellations ele second, that I made a demand of their drawings, &c. I
gau, their language attic, and their writers tranquil, nei beg, your readers' attention a moment longer: I never
ther you, Sir, or the public will require any develope made any demand of their drawings in my life. Bewick
ment; but how far their º: are laid in truth, for drew the large figure of Paul for me at a price agreed on
tunately I am able most decidedly to explain myself. between us; I finding him chalk, paper, and canvas. T.
j at once to lay the first attack before you, and then
will examine its assertions:—
and C. LANoseen were to make the beautiful Gate for
me also on the same terms. When the drawing was
Sinº-A foolish and vain, young man, who has sought to dis finished, I called on Mr. LAspseen to inform him I
tinguish himself, by the abuse of all contemporary excellence, would shortly pay him for the drawings; and within a
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few days received the following letter, which I publish by Diatribe. We ſancied as a matter of course that a.Mas
his permission:— -
* *. - ter of Arts knew something of Greek; but it would seem,
* Christmas, 1818. by this characteristic vagary, that somebody has accused
* DeAn SIR,-We were in hopes that the Cartoon drawings, so him of not knowing a word of it, which certainly he has
long the objects of our common solicitude, would have been now amply refuted.—Eram.] - * - - -
finished ere now, so as to have been more worthy of your accept
ance. As it has turned out, we must beg of you to receive them MR. WEEDEN BUTLER'S DEFENCE.
as they are, though perhaps what is wanting to their completion
may still be added from the prints, under your direction. Audi alteram partem.
We bear in mind your offer of payment, but we bear in mind Siſt,--I here put your claim to the merit of candour to
the instructions, &c. which our family have received at your
the test, by sending you a plain statement of facts, and
hands; of which we request you to accept these drawings as an
submitting to your common sense of right and wrong the
acknowledgment, not a compensation.—We have the pleasure to
remain, very faithfully, your’s, option between manly publication and mean suppresssion
J. LANDscent.
... • - JANE LANDsfer.
- of my letter, which, if you reject, other editors º accept.
You are a public writer of talent, undertaking the un
With respect to the other young Gentleman whom I sound cause of Mr. William Paul Rogers against the
proscribed and threatened with punishment, this assevera Hon; and Rev. Gerald Valerian Wellesley, i).5. Rector
tion ſtom one who seems so indignant at my moral viola of this Parish, and myself. Your weekly paper I have
tions, shall also be shewn to be equally just and impartial. seldom seen; but your 31zrpión, in the number for 7th
I offered to buy his drawing of Elymas: he did not want February, was rather more than officiously thrust into my
to part with it: I asked him to lend it me to hang up for hand. Leaving to Dr. Wellesley, of course, the preference
a short time with the others, as by shewing it to my friends of easy defence, or of silence and contemptuous defiance,
I might do him some good; and that by hanging the I, Sir, shall advert to that part alone of your invective
drawings all, together, we might study the principles of which is aimed at a far humblar mark, your present un
composition by comparing one with another: he was dis willing correspondent.
inclined to part, with it; and there the affair rested, as I "... Now, surely, you will admit this .
can in no pos
did not press him; and so far from being proscribed, he sible way impede the success of your labour at a subscrip
drank tea with me many times after that, borrowed books tion: be pleased, therefore, to accept a succinct narrative,
of prints, and asked my advice as usual. I never heard and, in justice, print it. º

he was another's pupil till now. - -

Taking upon trust the correctness of dates in your first
That I have endeavoured to wound the Academy viper attack many months ago, I beg to state, that soon after
like is rather singular; but it should be remembered, that Messrs. Rogers and Newman, the Chelsea leaders of Rºr
the Academy, tiger-like, endeavoured to bite off my head form, had uttered their harangues to the rabble in Slogne
when I first shºwed symptoms of having benefitted by square, I was walking towards Knightsbridge, and in
educating myself in it: surely I cannot be blamed for Sloane-street my curiosity became excited by a kind of
leaving the suspicious suckling of a mother so liable to
lottery-office board, fixed to a pole, stuck up in front of
mistake her offspring for her food. My object has the Post-office, at the shop of Mr. William Paul Rogers.
always been the Art, and never to injure the Academy as Meeting a neighbour of Mr. W. P. R., I pointed her al
an Institution, but to develope the proceedings of those tention to the board, and asked the purport of that exhi
who misdirected it. What sort of an Academy must bition at the Post-office over the way. . The lady in
that be which is wounded by an exhibition of Chalk I)raw formed me that the master of the shop, who was encum
ings? . . Is it my fault, or the fault of the Academy that it
is not invulnerable to injury from such matters? W. I bered with a numerous family, had turned an orator for
Reform, and solicited signatures to his petition: she
attacked the Academy at first, then I was a thoughtless, added, “It was a pity, as hence the poor man might lose
unsteady young man, without object or firmness; now his appointment.”—I had never seen Mr. William Paul
my opposition begins to wear the appearance of con Rogers, and could estimate his conduct from report alone,
sistency—I am a deep, Fº abominable fellow; yes, º considered there was much of humanity in my friend's
yes; they begin to perceive at last, reply. -•
The baby figure of the giant mass,
Of things to come at large. -Sh Aks. On my final return homewards, I walked into the shop
or Post-office, told Mr. Rogers what I had heard, and
- - B. R. HAydoN,
urged the probabie result. Mr. R. said, the appointment
was no source of emolument; and to my further remark
CASE OF WILLIAM PAUL ROGERS that it brought customers to his shop, answered bluntly, he
-
-º-
--- could not see the drift of advice thus coming from a per
[The Reverend Member of the Church Militant, in ſect stranger. I instantly gave him my name and address,
writing us the following letter, seemeth to think it possible and observed, that his growing º, and his situation
to make “mean suppressions” in favour of one party in a might suggest to him the rashness of receiving at his office
cause. It may be so; but not for us. He asketh us or shop subscriptions to a disputable paper, that Fºr
whether we ...} retain our opinion of him. The question would cause offence, and provoke animadversion. If he
is delicate; and we must really refer him for an answer to so pleased, I continued, his co-adjutor, Mr. Newman,
his own letter and the tone of it, including his acknow could just as well keep the Petition open for signatures;
ledgment of interference, his Hon. and Rev. Gerald Vale and since, as an Englishman, he himself possessed an un
rian Wellesley, D.D. (printed with pen), and his compli doubted and undisputed right both to express and tº ſº.
ment to the efficacy of the laws, a thing of which we cord his sentiments, let him, Mr. Rogers, do this still, by
know as little as we did of the Reverend and Christian signing the Petition, at Mr. Newman's shop; for hereby,
threatener. It is the public, not we, who are the arbiters; I presumed, he would avoid the odium of intending a di
and they now have the letters of the two parties to judge rect insult to his employers by the parade of his prº
from. They will see which of the two looks the sincerer dure. “You mean fºllowſ do you suppose I shalſalloy
and more disinterested; and will judge accordingly.— my private interest to interfere with my public prinº;
We ought not to omit mentioning, in honour to our Re ples?”. was the energetic retort to charitable advice.
verend and Learned Theban, and for the benefit of the forthwith abruptly quitted Mr. William Paul Rogers.
country gentlemen, that the mystic word 3.27.3% is the The liberal public will pardon a Clergyman of the Estº:
game as is usually written in illiterate English characters blishment for taking leave to decline the war of word= |

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most solemnly deny, Sir, the two-fold menace you record for though it effects to be very rough, it is one of the best
as issuing then from my lips; I most solemnly deny, also, natured months in the year, drying up the super-abundant
that in the whole course of my life I ever held to that man moisture of winter with its fierce . and thus restoring
cr to any other person the gross language, which, on his us our paths through the fields, and piping before the
representation and testimony, you persist in imputing to flowers like a bacchanal.
me. I certainly approve of his removal from an official He sometimes, it must be confessed, as if in a fit of the
situation for obvious reasons; but, to the best of my be spleen, hinders the buds which he has dried from blowing;
lieſ, I have spoken to none of his customers and em and it is allowable in the less robust part of his friends out
ployers, for I know mone such, personally. of doors, to object to the fancy he has for coming in such
'orbearance and patience are Christian virtues. On a cutting manner from the east. But it may be truly said,
the present trying occasion, in despite of your taſin's and that the oftener you meet him firmly, the less he will shake
i. placards, I trust they have been exhibited you; and the more smiles you will have from the fair
y your correspondent; but I am fully aware, Sir, legal months that follow him.
self-protection against a writer like yourself is a deed not The animal creation now exhibit unequivocal signs of
inconsistent with strict observance of Christian duty...I activity. The farmer in March extends the exercise of his
stoop not yet to notice your followers in the dispute. Do plough ; and, if fair weather continues, begins sowing
you still affirm that I have caused the imprisonment of barley and oats. Bats and reptiles break up their winter
your client? You ought by this time to know the effi sleep: the little smelts or sparlings run up the softened
cacy of the laws of England: those laws will afford him rivers to spawn: the field-fare and woodcock return to
*justice. Permit me to assure you likewise, that if, their northern quarters; the rooks are all in motion with
with an apparent pertinacity of malevolence after this fair building and repairing their nests; hens sit; geese and
warning, your yourselfshall determine to act by system with ducks lay; pheasants crow; the ring-dove cooes; young
views decidedly hostile to my name and character, then, lambs come tattering forth in mild weather; the throstle
Sir, to those same powerful and impaitial laws (however warbles on the top of some naked tree, as if he triumphed
reluctant I may be), I am advised I may eventually with over the last lingering of barrenness; and, lastly, forth
confidence appeal from the virulence of the Eraminer's issues the bee with his vernal trumpet, to tell us that there
jurisdiction. | is news of sunshine and the flowers.
Unjustly and vilely assailed, I remain, Sir, your's, In addition to the last month's flowers, we now have
- - Weeben BUILER.
Chelsea, March 1, 1819. " the crown-imperial, the dogs-tooth violet, fritillaries, the
hyacinth, narcissus (bending its face like its namesake),
P.S.—Although I declined the distinguished honour of pilewort, scarletranunculus, greatsnow-drop, tulips, (which
his Lordship's offer, yet upon mature consideration I deem turned evea the Dutch to enthusiasts) and violets, pro
it an act of justice to the Right Hon. the Earl of Grosve verbial for their odour, which were perhaps the favourite
nor to communicate to the friends of Mr. William Paul flowers of Shakspeare. The passage at the beginning of
Rogers the following copy of that illustrious Nobleman's Twelfth Night, in which he compares their scent with the
note, in reply to my letter to his Lordship:— passing sweetness of music is well known, and probably
“Grosuenor House, March 22, 1818. suggested the beautiful one in Lord Bacon's Essays, about
“Sim, Conceiving that the doors of Parliament should be the superiority of flowers in the open air, “where the
thrown as widely open as possible to the petitions and remon scent comes and goes,” says he, “like the warbling of
strances of the people, I lately presented among others the Peti music.” In a passage of the Winter's Tale, Shakspeare
tion you mention, but I by no means consider myself as respon iso describes the downward idol of the violet, y a
sible for its gontents, unless I had undertaken to vindicate its comparison full of the sentiment of beauty;-the whole of
accuracy. -

“When Petitions are couched in decent language, and com it must be copied, as it applies particularly to the month
plain of injury on public grounds, I can hardly reconcile it to before us:— -

myself, with the vicv I take of this important subject, to refuse O Proserpina
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presenting them. For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall
“On the remonstrance in question I made no comment; and From Dis's waggon! daffodils,
fully to prove to you my impartiality in the affair, I shall be That come before the swallow dares, and take
guite ready to present a Counter-Petition from yourself to the The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,
House of Lords, if you should wish me to do so.-I am, Sir, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes,
yºur most obedient servant, -- - “Grosvenor. Or Cytherea’s breath; pale primroses
“The Rev. Weeden Butler, Cheyne-walk, Chelsea.” - -
That die unmarried, ere they can behold
Private.—Certified by me, a faithful transcript, Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady
Chelsea, March 1, 1819. WEEDEN BUTLER. Most incident to maids; bold ox-lips, and
The crown-imperial; lilies of all kinds,
The flower-de-luce being one ! O, these I lack
CALENDAR OF NATURE. "To make you garlands of; and my sweet friend,
To strow him o'er and o’er. -

-º
(From the Literary Pocket-Book.)
- March.
—Sturdy March, with brows full sternly bent
Aud armed strongly, rode upon a ram;
The same which over Hellespontus swam;
Yet in his hand a spade he also hent,
And in a bag all sorts of seeds ysame,
Which on the earth he strewed as he went,
And fil’d her womb with fruitfull hope of mourishment.
Florizel. What? like a corse!
Perdita. No, like a bank, for love to lie and play on ;
Not like a corse: or if-not to be buried, ,
But quick, and in mine arms. f
The trees and shrubs now in flower, in addition to
those of last month, are larches, manna ash, laurel, com
monly so called, Portugal laurel, the peach-tree, the scarlet
flowering maple, sea-buckthorn, and Spanish traveller's
Joy. - -

SPENSER,
Mignonettesown last month should now be transplanted;
March, which was the first month in antiquity, was ranunculuses, planted; carnations potted the first week at
*med so by the Romans, after Mars the god of war, farthest; and anemones and hyacinths defended against the
use he was the father of their first prince. . This, at wind and rain.
ºt, is the reason given by Ovid. . As to the deity's In the latter part of this month is the vernal equinox,
nature, March has certainly nothing in common with it; when, as in the case of the autumnal equinox in September,
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the day and night are of equal length; and the plougher ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. --
of “the fruitless sea,” as Homer calls it, has to H. for Sunday forenoon, during Divine Service, at Quebec Chapel,
terrible storms. - Mothers and wives then lie awake in Upper Seymour-street, a serious accident occurred. Just as the
their beds, thinking of their far-distant sons and husbands, Rev. Dr. Busfield began his sermon, a Gentleman, who sat nearly
underneath the pulpit, was seized with an apoplectic fit, which
and perhaps looking through the windows, as the lady in alarmed
the old poet says, the people sitting near him so mueh, that they attempted
- To see how the clouds flee:–
a sudden, retreat. This movement caused great aſarm to the
Lo! what a mariner love hath made of mee. congregation, who did not know the cause. Suddenly some per
- SunREY. son gave the alarm of fire, and the whole congregation began to
rush precipitately towards the doors., Numbers of Ladies and
Gentlemen were thrown down and trampled over, and some
7, A IV. were seriously hurt. The life of one female, who suffered, is
despaired of.-Merning Paper.
On Wednesday week, at Holehouse, near Fishburn, Durham,
COURT OF KING’S BENCH. a young man, named Pearson, returning from a crow-shooting
Saturday, Feb. 27. ºxcursion, gave his gun to his sister with directions to put it up.
LIABILITY of surg-Eoxs.--NEAte tº. PETrign Ew. In the act of getting on a chair to hang it up, the trigger by
Jhis was au action against the defendant, a surgeon, to re some means was drawn, and the contents ...” the piece passed
cover damages for his negligence and watt of skill in the care of through the heart of her mother, who instantly expired: An
the plaintiff, who having dislocated his shoulder, employed the inquest was held on the body. Verdict—Accidental Death.
defendant to reduce the dislocatien; but wholly lost the use of An inquest was taken on Friday on the body of Mr. Richard
his arm.—lt appeared, that when the accident happened, the de Haynes.--It appeared from the evidence, that the deceased had
fendant was sent for, but being in bed, his assistant attended the fought in the street with a gentleman, named Pearse, with whom
plaintiff, and after putting him to great pain, said that the dis he had quarrelled some time before ; and after giving up the
location was reduced, and went away. he defendant himself contest, went to the house of a friend, and sent for a surgeon,
visited the plaintiff two days afterwards, and expressed himself who bled him. He soon after died from suffocation produced by
satisfied, with what had been 'done. Some eminent surgeons a rupture of a blood-vessel in the lungs.-Verdict—“Died from
were however called in, and an operation was performed, which ducedsudden exertion in a scuffle, and extreme agitation, which pro
suffocation.” : • -

did not succeed; the plaintiff’s arm withered, and he now only
had the use of the elbow joint in underhand motions. He had
º BIRTHS. - -

in consequence lost a situation, in which he earned four guineas

a week, and was reduced almost to beggary.—Verdict for the Charles On Wednesday evening, in Connaught-place, the Lady of Sir
Heur te, Bart. of a deughter. -
plaintiff-Damages 800i. -
On the 3d instant, at Porkington, the Lady of Wm. Ormsby
* Friday, March 5. Gore, Esq. of a son. ** - º
QUAck doctors.-HUB E v. PHELPs. On Thursday morning, in Thayer-street. Manchester-square,
This was an action against a warehouseman of Crown-court, the Countess Lusi, of a son and heir. - -
1–

Cheapside, to recover the sum of 121.10s. for medicines furnish MARRIAGES. -

ed to the wife of the defendant, and the sum of 4!. 10s. for at On the 21st of February, at Capel, Mr. Joseph Carrington
tendances. -

Mr. Gun NEY said, that the plaintiff was mot a regular practi Ridgway, of Piccadilly, to Elizabeth Balling all, only daughter of
the Rev. Patrick Ballingall Beath, of Cap-el, Surrey, and St.
tioner, but was possessed of a very valuable recipe for curing Maygaret's, Ilketshall, Suffolk. * - -

the cancer. * - - -- * -

Mr. Scan LErr submitted, that the plaintiff was not entitled by
3. Saturday week, at James's Church, ahe Right Hon. Lºrd
law to practise either as a physician or apothecary, and there Rodney, to Charlotte Georgiawa, second daughter of Sir Charles
fore had no claim on the defendant.—The Chief-Justice, how Morgan, Bart. of Trodegar, Monmouth. -

Tuesday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, John Ashley

ever, after consulting the Acts, was of ºpinion, that the Plaintiff Warre, Esq. of Stratford-place and Cheddon Fitz-Paine, Sºñet.
was entitled to administer external applications, as he had done setshire, to Susan, eldest daughter of the late John Cornwall, of
in this case.—Mr. ScARLErr then proceeded to speak of the in Grosvenor-place, and niece to the late Lord Gardner. -

jury done to society by the tricks and lying, impudence of quack • On the 3d instant, at the Friends' Meeting House, Kingston,
doctors, and the indecency of their advertisements, which indeed
be wondered any respectable Journalist would insert, Mrs. Surrey, Mr. Thomas Ashby, brewer, of Staines, to Mrs. Crowley,
of Camomile-street, Bishopsgate. Mr. A. has been twice ſhar
Phelps had been taken in by the plaintiff's advertisements, but ried before, and has fourteen children living.
had become so much worse under his hands, that she was com -*

- DEATHS. - - -

pelled to have her breast taken off. The learned Gentleman

eaned witnesses to prove, that several persons had been killed by
the medicines of the plaintiff. -
The CHIEF JUsrice told the Jury, that the only question for
their consideration was, whether the defendant had been in
duced to allow the plaintiff to attend his wife, on the false and
fraudulent representation that he would cure her. This was the
case of a man, not a regular practitioner, who held forth that he
would cure a particular disease, and then referred to other cases
which he had treated with great success. It appeared, however, Oct. 1792.
Suddenly sincerely lamented by her husband and six children:
at seven o'clock on the 24th ult., Mrs. Elizabeth Love Ashley,
. wife of Mr. James Ashley, army agent, Queen-street, Pimlico.
On Friday morning, in Hertford-streqt, Lady Eilenborough.'
She was the youngest daughter of Lord Londoiderry, by his ºf
cond wife, the sister of the first Lord Camden; the halſº
of Lord Castlereagh, and was married to the present Lord Elº.
borough, then Mr. Law, in 1813. Her Ladyship was borº "
~ * -

onSir
that in the instances to which he had referred, the patients, in age, theRobert
21st ult, at Lotton-park,
Leighton, Salop,
Bart. The in the 66th
baronetage and year of de"
estates
stead of being cured, had died under his hands-The Jury im
mediately returned a verdict for the defendant. volve on his first cousin, Major-Gen. Leighton. -

At Chichester, on the 28th ult, in his 50th year, vice-Admir:

Sir George Marray, lately Captain of the Fleet under Lord Nel
court of comMON PLEAs, son.
Tuesday, March 2. On the 3d instant, Joseph Hardcastle, Esq., of Hatcham-hou"
LIBEL.--THACKERAY u. IsiGNOLD. New Cross, in the 67th year of his age.
- .
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a respectable cot On Saturday week, aged 27, Mr. Meggeson, solicitor, Darling
ton-spinner, of Oldham, near Manchester, against the defendant, ton, Durham. This gentleman had ridden'to Midrige, a sº;
the recently dismissed Secretary to the Norwich Union Society, distance from Darlington, to inform his father of his intºn",
for a libel, contained in a pamphlet published by the defendant, nuptials, which
On mounting hiswere
horsetotohave taken
return theplace
windonblew second
the his laidºfover
Marsh.
his
which charged the plaintiff with having insured his cotton-mill head, the horse took fright, and he was unfortunately thrown offs
for a sum three times its real value, immediately after which the
mill was burnt down; and the libel further insinuated, that the and received a fatak contusion on his temples. ------
-

fire was purposely caused by the plaintiff. The defendant's

counsel admitted that the plaintiff must have a verdict; and the Printed and published by John Hunt, at the Examinen-Off"
Fry gave him 300!, damages: . . . . - - 19, Catherine-Street, Strand-Price 194,
 THE EXAMINER.
No 585 suspa Y. MARCH A, isio.
the PoliticAL ExAMINER, pose, is an ingenious imitation of the “Mister Bowa
Pante” of Alister CANNING, that conscious, and it must
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few, Porz. be allowed, alarming mode of degradation, by which the
-- - - - - - -
- No. 570. . fallen chief was pulled down to a level with the uprisen
secretary. The writer in the Cowrier signs himself in any
ON THE TREATMENT OF NAPOLEON, quittance, -warrant, or obligation, Gent. Therefore Bo
Wiru A Notice of rue New Olio Anchical. Purase, NAPARTE must be no more than a Gentleman. Alas! We
“Coxsent of AN ENGLisa Misisrea.” " may answer, as Voltaire answered the foppery of Cox
arevs:—if he had been no more than a Gentleman, all
A New publication of evident authenticity has just ap the world would not have gone out in boats to see him.
peared on this subject. In addition to some documents | “Before the meeting of Parliament,” continueth Mr.
which have already transpired, and a copious Introduction CANNING's Gentleman, “we were threatened with the
from the Editor-it contains a Second Letter from the most alarming hints of what was to be done: Parliament
Count De las Casas to Lucies Boxarante respecting has been assembled nearly two months, and not one Mem
the Count's arrest and removal, and “as Letter to Sir ber of either House seems disposed to trouble his head
Hudsos Lowr: comprising an Historical Belait of the about the matter. This must really be very provoking to
whoſe of that officer's government at St. Helena, and his that select circle who call themselves the pitying friends of
oppressive condúct towards NAronson and his Suite.” Napoleon.” - -
From this last article and the Introduction we have made We know not who made these alarming threats. Bit
some interesting extracts, part of which the reader will it must have been somebody, who, according to the Cow
find at the close of the preseat observations. Therest rier, knew very little about Parliament, the said Courier,
will fºllow in continuation, week by week. The publica we shall see presently, explaining what he means by this,
tion has this very apposite motio from Hume's History ºf and giving us to understand that Parliament means Mini
England chap. 16:— . . . . . . . ster:— . . ..
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ºn, in captivity, receive? the honours of a King, which “ft is nôt impossible, indeed, that something may be said yet;
were refused him when seated on the thrºne: his misfortunes, but we suppose the case is not considered urgent, because it is
nothis title, were respected; and the French prisoners, cen now nearly eighteen months agº since Mr. O’MEAR.A. informed
quered by this elevation of mind; more than by their late dis the world that his patient was dying, and certainly would die, if
cºnifilufe, burst into lears of admiratiott #3, which were only he had not change of air; while General flºatiaso doubted,
º: theºreflection, that such genuine and unaltered whether even that would be ºf any service unless it was inited
fººt in an enemy, must certainly, in the issue, prove but the with the use ºf ille medicinal waters of the South of France.”
ferºus tº their native country” - " " . … The reader should beinformed, that this is meant to be
:* - the admiration oa one side was a match for pleasanº with:
* an ille other. In the opposite instance before
º:
*the assertion respecting Mr.
*s, the captors revenge themselves on the captive in A.
º be sufficient to say that that gentleman
has flatly cºntradicted it in a morning paper. Yet a man
psºn to the superiority which, affronts their egotism; may be dying for eighteen months, or fºr two years, or
precisely the same proportion, they ſcar him and four, or five; and thisis, uo reason why his case should
-
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him down. - - - . . . . not be attended to. What writers the government have
kave said a good deal at different times in this busi
is, and shall have to say more.' Events, we have no -on“Thetheir side, that we are obliged to notice such nonsense:
recent appointinents in Paris, however, seem tº have
ºbt, wilt bring it more into notice; but we should re -revived the º the London Bonapartists. In the
Morning: Chronicle of to-day (Thursday), we are menaced with
#ºtoit, whether they did or no, whenever it was brought some fresh letters from St. Helena by Count LAs Casas, the ob
to our notice. "We have already said 'why; and if we ject of which; it appears, is to prove, that, “Bow apartr's
had not, we believe the readers of this paper would ſecl detention, if found necessary!” º tuark the phrase—“may be
the reason. At present we shall content, ourselves with guaranteed without the exercise of cruelty or injustice.”. This is
a targe stride; and the question we suppose will be deliberately
the extracts alluded to, and with noticing the remarks of a argued, as tº the expediency of any longer detaining the prisoner.
sorry merry-andrew of a writer, who seems incapable of It is not perhaps, altogetheritiexplicabſe; that tile attempt should
-presenting tellis mind the possibility of gºaliuman being's be renewed at this mouneut to excite some sympathy in behalf of
#. the master, when samany ºf his ageuts have been forgiven and
another out of the pale of common-place. rewarded. Unfortuiately for Bos APARte, he cannºt be restºred
to what he was, without the consent of an English Minister.”
*we have had.” says the Courier, “a läng respite “AN ENélish Ministed tº Pray mark the phrase.
from the maudlin appeals of the friends ºf Banaparte, The Parliament is nothing; the Sovereign is nothing;
about the cruelties and hardships” (exquisite clinax) Box APARTE cannot be released without the consent of an
. . . .. ." - - - - - - - --- - --

“inflicted upon that unfortunate ſientlenian.” . . . ." English Minister!—For the reason of the sore and mis
This person affects to suppose that a maa cannot resent giving feelings about certain recent appointments in France,
the unworthy treatment of Bonapaare in his adversity, we refer the Reader to an article under the head of Lom
without having been his friend in prosperity. Our readers don. But, pray, let him mark this phrase of the consent of
know the coutrary. ... But it is natural to stich an enginy to an English Minister." It is a phrase paramount. It shews
entertain such a notion. The word Gentleman, we sup | us why the Courier thinks nothing of the matter's coming .
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162 THE EXAMINER.

before Parliament. Formerly consent of Parliament was valent in such latitudes. To these incontrovertible proofs may
be added the various accounts, written and verbally communi
a phrase in request:—formerly also, the Sovereign's opi cated, by many respectable individuals, long resident on the
nion had something to do with these matters. But these island ; and when it is considered, that rain, combined with
now are mere modes of circumlocution, not suited to olidense fogs, and a vertical sum, prevails nearly-eight months out
of the twelve, is it in the nature of probability, that such a spot,
garchical predominance, and its exceeding hurry of busi within fourteen degrees of the equator, can be called healthy, in
ness. Le Roi le veut:—the English Minister consents. the European acceptation of the word?
They used to have an odd phrase on the Continent, which As to the restrictions imposed by Sir Hudson Lowe, and of
which a copy will be found in the Appendix, they require little
they are now however rapidly leaving off;—they used to comment. In these, Napoleon was prohibited from speaking to
say, “England did such a thing—England makes war—. any persons he met; while the few, who obtained a pass to visit
England makes peace—England consents to a measure so Longwood, were interdicted from communicating with anyand of
his suite; so that, if a stranger arrived at the scene of exile,
worthy of her ancient renown.” No such thing:—it is could not speak French, he was not allowed to call upon any of
the Alinister who consents, the Minister;-one Oligarch the prisoners, not even Madame Bertrand, to interpret for him;
is enough to represent his own governing party, and all nor could the individuals of Napoleon's suite introduce a visitor
to their master. The Emperor's walk was also limited to a
the branches of the State beside. The Minister is all in single athway; and in the event of his wandering only a few
ałł,--the polar star, and all that moves round it; all the yards from this, the nearest centinel would be fully justified in
old fanciful music of King, Lords, and Commons, is swal shooting him. Fokan ATTEMPT to ESCAPE. - -

Whence arises the malignant necessity of selecting the parti

lowed up in him; his is * * , "- -

cular newspapers destined for the Emperor's perusal * or of with:

- That undisturbed song of pure consent,. holding all those, that contain, any thing, which the Governor.
Ay sung before the crimson-coloured throne thinks calculated to shed a ray of hope on, or contribute to lighten
To him that sits therean: – the fetters of, his illustrious captive? What motive can Sir Hud
From him, and not merely to him, flow all the hrmoni son Lowe have, in purchasing all the copies of interesting works,
that reach the island, for his own specific use, thus leaving no
eus divisions of Parliament, and the music of all the spheres chance of Napoleon's procuring a sight of them : Who could
of life, -Lords, Commons, Clergy, and all:— have prompted the Lieutenant-General and Geveruor, to deprive
Hinc ille avium concentus in agris, a father of his son's pºrtrait, by purchasing the said portrait rein
Etlette pecules, et ovantes gutture corvi. a person recently arrived at St, Helena, for the alledged and ex
Hence the consent of all your birds that prattle press purpose, as he said, of presenting it to the Emperor;
though, he must have known, such an act of kindness and dell
In Upper Houses, near the fields call'd Tuthill's;
Hence the glad lowings of the servile cattle; cacy was not in his contemplation, for the picture never reached
And the black crows, rejoicing in their guttles. . Longwood? What could have prompted a want of common de
corum, and violation of all decency, towards the female sex, tº
“Therefore,” concludeth the Courier, “it will be a causing the wearing apparel of the French ladies to be inspected
thriftless labour, to talk about “the restless and impolitic by Mes; and, amongst others, the Adjutant-General, sir Thºma"
Reade, by whom that of Countess Bertrand was held up to view,
tyranny of Sir Hudsos Lowe,” or the “ignoble and un while remarks, degrading to her lovely sex, and revolting to the
generous purpose of oppressing a single individual, who feelings of a man, were made upon it! -

sought our protection in the hour of adversity.” A higher ... Ministers have said a great deal about their willingness tº
tribute to the zeal, the fidelity, and the unshaken firmness allow general Bonaparte, as they are pleased to style him, all
possible indulgence, that may be consistent with his safe,".
of Sir Hupsos Lowe cannot be imagined than the ran tody; how is the fact in this case? On the 1st of January, 1818,
cofous revilings of those whom it is his duty to secure, and Lord Bathurst writes a letter to Sir Hudson Lowe, in which the
Lordship very plausibly suggests some emeliorations, at le."
whose countless machinations it is his perilous task to de according to his ideas; and on the 16th of May following, tle
ſeat." Every fresh abuse levelled against him, furnishes an: latter, meaning no doubt to secoud the Right Hou. Secretary."
benevolent intentions, at the same moment that he sent liis Lord
additional reason why he, and he alone, should be respon ship's letter to Longwood, issues a Paoclaxatiox, of which a
sible for the safe custody of Bos APARTE.” " copy will also be found in the present publication, absoluºy
What a miserable standard of panegyrie The man forbidding all the officers, inhabitants, or other persons at St.
judges from the persons wholn he and his friends abuse, Helena, from holding any correspondence or communica'!"
He feels that the ahuses levelled at them are in direct pro whatever, with the “foreign persons” detained there. And tº
it has been on every occasion, that when the Ministers wished.”
portion to the qualities that do not deserve them; and so assume an appearance of moderation at home, their repreº
he thinks that even reproach must confer an honour! tive abroad ſº taken special care to counteract their phila"
- Pray mark: this.--Therefore, in proportion as a jailor thropic design by measures of his own. -

fºrced, his frisoners to cry out against his tyranny, he

would be worthy of his office! Every new ill name be FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
stowed upon lin, would be a recommendation in the eyes -- FRANCE.
of his ministerial appointers; and did the whole but them -

MARch 6–The Moniteur contains the follow

selves agree to call him the most infamous of mankind, ingPARIs,
Royal Ordinance;—
they would say to him, in a transport of gratitude and ... Louis, &c. -

affection, “Gome to our arms!” -

*...; tº the 27th article of the Constitutional Charter,
we have ordained, and do ordain, as follows:–
-
Art. 1. The following are appointed members of the Chamber
of Peers:--~ : his d'An
...ExtraºTs Frost the LETTERs of coust LAs casAs. Our consin,
gosse; the Marshal
Count d'Argout, Duke d'Albufera;
Counsellor the Marquiº.
of State; the Marquis d’Ar
In the first place, then, and with respect to the climate of St.
fielgua, nºt only the Ministers and other mercenary Swiss of ragon; the Marquis d'Aramon; Baron de Barente, gº.
state, but their hirelings of the press, have-laboured to comvince of State; Count.
del'Etang, Becker, Lieutenant-General; Baron-Bºº"
Chief-President of the Royal Court of Lyons; Count
...the whole country, that it is remarkably salubrious. The best
àsible reply to all their arguments and assertions will Belliart; Count Raymond de Berenger; our cousin, tue Maºh.
- ºcial returns of the medical departments, by ; Duke
a; several hundreds of the garrison and Chaptai: the Marquis
de Claparede,
de Copegiano; CountCatelin; our Lieut.-General ; Go"
cousin, the Pºt de
ady perished, from diseases usually pre Cadore; Count Colchen; Count Cornudet; our cousin, the Mar
i
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shal Duke de Dantsie; Count Daru; Lieut.-General fºubreton : On Mouday, a dreadful accident oecurred at Langford. Bad
Viscount Dijeon, Lieut.-General; Count d’Arjuzon; Count De ville, wear Wellington, Somersetshire. --Several persons, ameng
jean; the Marquis de Bampierre; our consin, the Marshal whom were Mr. and Mrs. Haneock, went on that day to view the
Prince d'Eckmuhl; our cousin, the Duke d'Esclignac; Count housekold furniture of Mr. Wale, which was to be sold ou the
; Count Germain, prefect of the department of the Seine 9th.-Mr. Wale arrived in his carriage, which he left with his
ºd. Marne; Count de Germiny, prefect of the department of servant, and went into a neighbour's house. The servant took
L'Oise; Count de Grammont d'Aster, Colonel of the Legion of from the sword-case a brace of pistols, which Mr. W. kept loaded
the Lower Pyrenees; Count Felix d’Hunolstein 5 Viscount in his carriage, carried them into his master's house, and laid
d'Houdetot; on r cousin, the Marshal Count Jourdan; Count, them on the dresser. Mr. Hancock unfortunately discovered
Laforest; Count Lacépède; Count Latour-Maubourg; Count de them, and took one down to examine it. The bolt %. some tithe
Moutalembert, eur Minister Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the prevented his snapping it, but that having at length, given way
King of Wurtemberg; Count Maurice Mathieu, Lieut.-General; to force, he succeeded in doing so. This did the º
Baron Mounier, Counsellor of State; Count Mollieu ; Count de pistol, but a second attempt unhappily succeeded, and the con
Montalivets Count Marescol, Lieut.-General; Count ; tents took effect in the side of his wife, who was standing with
Count de Pontécoulant; our eousin, the Duke de Plaisance; the several other ladies in the room. The ball has not at present
Marquis de Pange, Major-General; Count Pelet de la Lozere, been extracted, and no hopes are entertained of Mrs. H.’s life.
Counsellor of State; Count Portalis, Counsellor of State, Mini
ster Plenipotentiary at the Holy See; Count Reille, Lieutenant
General; Count Rutty, Lieut.-General; Count Rapp, Lieut.
General; "Count Ramponi. Count de Sparre, Lieut.-General;
UNITED PARLIAMENT.
our cousin, the Marquis de St. Sinion, Major-Geueral; Count de House of LoRDs. . . ... .~
Sussy ; our cousin, the Marshal Duke de Trévise; the Marquis * , * -": ". º
-

. . . . * ,
de Talhouet Major-General, Colonel of the 2d regiment of .
Horse G renadier, of une Guards; Count Truguet, Vice-Admiral; - - . . . Monday, March 8. - - - . -

Count Verhuel, Vice-Admiral. . ---. - The Chimney-sweepers' Regulatiºn Bill was read a second
Art. 2. The terms of the 1st article of our ordinance of the 25th time. It was opposed by Lords Lauderdale and Melville, but on
August, 1817, are specially dispensed with in favour of the 'a division there appeared—For the second reading, 17–Against
above-named Peers. In consequence whereof, the said Peers it, 14–Majority, 3–Adjourned. -

will immediately take their seats in the Chamber of Peers, Tuesday, March 9.
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although they may uot previously have established the majorat The Marquis of Downshire presented a Petition against the
required by the act above-mentioned.—Nevertheless, the said window-tax, signed by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, several of the
Peers, to enjoy the privileges of our ordinance of the 19th of nobility of Ireland, and about 1,600 of the other principal inhabi
August, 1815, and render the dignity of Peerage hereditary in tants. This tak had occasioned the shººting up of windows in a
their families, must establish a majorat annexed to the title, way that prevented free ventilation... If a single individual lived
which will be conferred upon them by our letters patent. in a house, it became liable to the window-tax; and the owners
, Given at our Castle of the Tuileries, the 5th day of the month therefore crowded great numbers into oue, and shut up others, to
of March, in the year of grace 1819, and the 24th of our reign. avoid paying the taxes. His Lordship presented; two other
By the King, . (Signed) Louis. Petitions. for the same object, from Belfast and Londonderry.—
. The Minister Secretary of State for the department of Foreign Adjourned, . . . . .
Affairs, President of the Council of Ministers. -

- ** *
(Signed) : The Marquis Dessors. * : HOUSE OF COMMONS. . ..
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- - -
. NETHERLANDS. . . . * , Monday, March 8...". ‘. . .
Brussels, Manch 6.-M. Regnault de St. Jean d'An to Sir I. Coffix, whether the relief to half-pay officers, as
the amount ºf, e from other sources, was to extend to
ely has received permission to return to his native country. naval officers? . . . . . . . . . . . .
esterday, he left this city to F. to Paris." §. The ſº
Chancelion of the £ºrquet replied, that whatever
from Paris, that M. Maret, Duke of Bassano, has alsº indulgence should be given to the army would also be extended
been authorized to return to Paris. M. Doulect de Pontº." to the navy... ." ". - - - -

coulant, whom the King of France has recalled to the * The hearing of the charge against Mr. W.Quin was post
Chamber of Peers, from which he was excluded by the poned till Thursday. . . . . . : -

ordinance of the 24th of July, was for five years Prefect qf – '' PENRYN ELECTION.—REFORM. . . .
the department of the Dyle, and will be ever remembered, ... The debate on the issuing of a new writ for the borough of
Penryn was resumed. ***. "...it . . ." . .
to his honour, at Brussels. "His administration was also . Sir C. BURRELL, after reading the minutes of evidence-taken
just and equitable; and if he did not do all the good that before the Election Committee, moved that's Committee should
he desired, it was because it was not in his power, -" " be appointed to inquire into the corrupt practices at the borough
- of Penryn at and before the last election. The House he said
-
should show, that, though it was averse to a vague and vision
PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE. ary reform, it was not opposed to a real and tangible one. *.
At the suggestion of the Speaker, the Hon. Baronet substituted
ASSIZES. -
instead º is motion an amendmºt, merely deferring the issue
CHELMsroRn, MARch 10.—William Bush, James Westwood, of the writ for one month: --> - ... •

George Westwood, Joseph Chessum, Robert. Wolfe, James Jeffery, The CHAscellon of the Excheqerit opposed the amendment.
and Robert Litchfield, were indicted for burglariously breaking He saw nothing in the statements made that ought lead theto
into the dwelling-house of John Chapman, at Waltham Cross, House to alter the constitution of Pariiament. . (Hear! and
and stealing a variety of articles. The facts were clearly proved laughter.), Bribery had only been proved in somc instances, and
by an accomplice, and Mr. Chapman's servants; and the Jury it would be unjust to punish both the inuocent tº the guilty by
returned a verdict of Guilty-Death.-The prisoners composed: disfranchising the borough. He deprecated a second Committee
the waltham gang, who have committed many depredations in to. Sir try over the proceedings of the first. . ."
the county. --- + . . . .
J. Mackintosh argued, that the minutes of evidence elearly -
showed a complexion o bribery throughout the business, and he
Winchester Assizes ended on Saturday week. There were 4 thought that §.
sufficient ground, for enquiry, especially
prisoners for trial: 16 were sentenced to die. The only case of when it was remembered, that in the last Parliament the election
atrocity was that of Sarah Huntingford, for the murder of her for the borough had been voided on account of bribery. The
r

husband. She was sentenced to suffer the punishment of petit Committee now proposed was quite distinct from the former one,
treason, which was put in execution on ... be
which merely had to consider whether the sitting Members were:
tween eight and nine o'clock, and her body was afterwards sent duly elected or not; whereas this would view, the general-cha
tº the County Hospitat to be dissected. When brought out of racter of the borough.
the gaol, she stepped on the sledge with firmness, and did not || The Hon. F. Douglas was for merging the right of suffrage in
appear otherwise even when the cart was removed.
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victed ofthe practices imputed to it. There had been several Mr. Wyss thought the circumstances demanded investigation.
frecedents of boroughs being disfranchised, where bribery, was. The arguments of the Hou. Baronet were very strange. Because
only proved on part of the electors. - - - the House liad passed over, a flagrant breach of privilege, in
. Sir F. Buho Err could nºt join in the virtuous indignation dis 1812, was it not now to vindicate its honour and dignity . The
played by the House on this occasion, when he recollected, that Iſon. Baronet had said, that Mr. Swann was as much entitled to
when *Rºle; was accused of trafficking in seats of Parliament, a seat as any of the other Members. He did not know how far
the accusation was not by a declaration, that the practice was as that declaration applied to the Hon. Baronet, but speaking for
notorious as the sum at noon-day. It would be hard to get any himself and his valued friends round him, he would say that it
man in that IIouse to believe, that the other boroughs were more. was a false and unfounded calumny. (Hear, hear!) . He should
immaculate than the borough of Penryn and, therefore, when move that be writ be deferred only for a ſortnight, in order that
he heard such loud vaunts about purity of election, privileges of the discussion might come on sooner. . . - . -

Parliament, breaches of those privileges, and so forth, he looked Sir FRANús Bukpºrt rose to correct a misstatement of the
upon them as nothing more than gaudy topics of declamation— Hon. Member who had just sat down: what he had said wes in
“speciosauerbis, reinania.” He did not see that Mr. Swann was allusion to borough. Members only (Cries of no, no.5) and he
at all more, to blame than a great many gentlemen who were, would repeat, that the individual in question was equally wełł
fortunate enough to retaia their seats. Iſe might say to some of qualified with every borough Memberiu that House. The im
those who now censured him so severely, “ Mutato nomine, the putation of having said otherwise was false. (ſIear, and cries ºf
ease appliès to yourselvés; yºu"have bećh guilty of bribéry as order. * * - -

well as I.” (Iſsar, hear; no, no; or kr.) It was perfectly nott º,
some other observations, Mr. WYNN's aneudment. was
rious that 4,000l. or 5,000l. were taken" for seats by great agreed to, aud, the discussion respecting the Committee. post
proprietors of boroughs; and , why should indignation be so lponed.
The Poor. Laws'
. Billº was read a first and second
3. time. . . . .
vehement against a body ºf men, who having their living to get,
Had accepted a paltry 20t, a piece? On the contrary, these indi The House resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, and
viduals had been remarkāb y mºderate in their demands, and 80.841 men were voted as the ſand forces, for the year, exclusive
had set an example to the rest of the tribe that night be followed of the army in Illdia. - -

to advantage, for they had gived a seat for the comparatively

*mall sum of 2,500l. It was ridiculous to talk of an inquiry like -
Exchequeſt, Čonsotºpyrign
BALANCES.
ACTs—PUBLIC
- i
this; it was a mere mockery to stºppose that it would ascomplish The House having resolved itself into a Committee on the
one good end: the honour of the House, or if that were begging
the question, (Hear, hear), at all events the sense of the country, Exchequer Consolidation Acts,
The CHANCEllor of the Exchººvek stated to the House his
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demanded a general and immediate investigation of the º:

subject. In truth, the character of the House, and the respect plan for rendering the public balances in the hands of the Bank
that ought to be felt for it out of doors, bad been iost by idle rp available for the public service. According to the practice of
position to it. (Order, order). He could not therefore agree to the Exchequer, the reventie received, applicable to the Consch
the disfranchisement of Penryu, or to any step that might lead to -dated Fand, accumulated till the end of the quarter, till which
it; it would be a gross act of injustice to punish an individual time it had not been made applicable to the public service, and
who had not signed more than a great many others who were the Bank had, till now, drawn the balance out of the Exchequer,
untouched, and a borough which was not wºrse, and probably and received the benefit of the interest. The proposition was,
not so corrupt as a great number of others that could be men that the advantage of the sum so accumulated should be trans
tioned. No gentleman–could venture to deny, that bribery had ferred from the Bank to the publie, to the amount of six milliens;
been committed in a thousand, other instances, (Order,’ hear, and that Exchequer Bills should be deposited in the Exchequer
Acár); and the punishment of it in the particular case, instead as a security. Of these six millions, a sum of rather more thaa
of correcting the evil (if Hon. Gentlemen could persuade them half would be appropriated to the liquidation of the deficiency
in the Consolidated Fuud—the remainder would be assigned to
selves that it was one), would have directly a coºrary effect: it the
would be considered in the country as a fºceeeding where in Hon.liquidation of the public debt due to the Bauk. The Right
Gentleman declared, at the conclusion of his speech, that
justice was backed by hypocrisy, The folly of it also was his financial statement would not be given till the Report of the
apparent, for no man would be ºposed upol, out of doors; no
man;with his eyes open would believe that it was anything but Secret Committee had been presented. He would up, entaugle
a trick and contrivance-sºpretence to induce the 'weak and limself by any pledges which might prejudice the public service.
childish to imagine that Parliament was desirous to porge itself Mr.inHuskissos concurred with the Chancellor of the Exche
of corruptiºn; when in truth it was only anxious speciously to quer the statement of the impossibility of bringing forward his
cover its iniquity. (Cheers, and cries of order!) For his own part, fromised statement for the year till tire Committee had concluded
ire would mºth rather that boroughs were at ; once rendered their labours, because upon their report the financial arrange
legally sałeable: qs at ºn auction, because-he knew that there ments might materia My depend. - - - -- - - - -
Mr. TrekNEy, commented on the iniserable shifts and con
were many houest and independent men in the kingdom who
would wilingly give 4,000l. or 3,000, for a seat in the ſºuse, if ºrivances of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Right iron.
they could do it fairly aud properly, thet they might bring for Gentlegian had relied on Exchequer Bills, and they were now at
ward schemes which they thought would beggit and, illustrate a disconº!... if they were at a discount of 3s. in April, it would
*heir country.--(tfear, hear.) They wished, and he wished, that be impossible to prevent their being paid in to the revenue; and
the system of secret uqtaination and secret intrigue should be what was to be doſe them? Nothing cºtt be expected from the
totally abolislred, and that the morals of the country should no ſłank, as the balances would be withdrawn...Why did not the
longer be underatined, and the character of the Horse-invaded, Chancellór of the Exchequer give his financial statement now :
by such nefarious practices. - , 's ' It did not suit his conveniffice i he hoped to make up some
flaming statements : but he wºulē try in vain, for he was now
Mr. Bºxpºroºsted against the view just taken of this ques
.iion. (Hear!). He was ºuasi anxious to witness the annend wett understood. Such stenes of gainbt; g, stock-jobbing; and
** ºf the existing system of representation; and he bed-in desperate-speculation in the funds were now going on, as never
dulged a sanguine expectation. hat ºuch an amendment would befºre disgraced the country. (Hear!) . . . º. ºº
have been accomplished, u niſih, liope was checked aqd blasted The resºlution was carried.—Adjourned.
by will and visionary schelºes, like those which had now been
noticed. (Cheers frºm all sides 2: All those who had. sincerely . . . . . . " Tuesday, March 3. . .
and strenuºusly, discreetly and constantly, jooked forward tº #ſoft; cottfruption—BARNSTAPLE Electios, &c.
this object, lad been repelled, at least for a time, by the violence Lord Clive brought up the report of the Committee appointel
and exiravagance of the doctrines of a certain body of parliamen to try the Barnstaple election." It stated, that Sir Manasseh
tary reformers. Even if a general revision of the system could Masseh Lopes, Bari. was nºt duly elected; that Francis Melineux
nºt be obtained, such ſlugitious practices should be punished. He Othmanney, Esq. was duly elected. " . - -

wished to see the right of election taken wholly from such places A speetal-report was alsº brought up, which stated, that Sir
and given to populous towns or counties...} : M. M. Lopes had been guilty of such acts of bribery as to be in
Sir J. Newroar remarked, that if the House fused to exe capable to serve in the present Parliament; and it appeared to
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miue, further, a precedent would be established for not inves the Committee that a general system of bribery and corruption
rigating the grossest corruption. had prevailed at the last election in the borºugh of Barnstaple,
iºdMr. CARsw
been given(as oue of the
of general Committee}ºbserved
corruption.” of r that proof to stich an extent, as to make it necessary for the Committee to
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report the same to the Hºuse—The issuing a new writ was post
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noned in eonsequence for a fortnight, in order that time might be verted to the charge respecting the number of counsel amplbyed
given for the House to consider the case. ... < -
in these cases. There were five! the Autorney, and Salicitor
on a Petition against the insolvent Debtors' Act being pre -General, twº-King's eonnsel, and one junior counsal. Ramesake"
sented, the Sotºrctfor-GENERAf, said, that he wished it to be un did not require much time, but in others the time and labout re
derstood that the Attorney-General did not intend to move for quired were as great as in the most laborious cases before ather
the repeal of the Aet, but only that sqme remedy should be ap Courts. Sometimes, he, and sometimes the Solicitor-General
plied to certain-existing abuses.—Qūher Petitions, in favour of was obliged to be absent on other duties; and on suck occasioſi.”
the Act were also presented. - - - -
it was necessary that other persons should officiate for them... it
--- GAME LAWS. -
had been often said, that juries received ſoare pay when they
Mr. BRAND, after noticing the absurdities of the present system
of Garne Laws, as well as, their tendency.to immltiply offenders,
gave a verdict for the Crown, .." when they gave a verſic fºr
the defendant; but he took the liberty of saying, that this was
and demoralize the country, moved for leave to bring in a Bill to an unfaunded slander. (ſºar, hear !) . .. . * -- *
amend them. He thought, that game should be made-like other Mr. WArthwAN regretted that the Learned Attorney-General
property qu land, excepting that as it was not stationary, it had said nothing of the expense attending these informations
should belong to the -person on whose land it might happen to If the alleged abuses existed, no. an.co.uſd have face to oppose
be. . This plan would give the lessor an interest in the preserva the production of the accounts º if il y did nºt
tian of the game, because his land would be rendered, more exist, ſet the accounts be shown, in arder that the Gºvernment
valuable; it would give the lessee also an interest in its preserva night be windicated. (Hedºſ)... . . . - --------

tion, because he wonld thereby be enabled to supply the opulent Mr. Turn Ney made same observations on the enormous amount
at a less price than the poacher; and it would do away with the of the costs, which added tº the sum fºr which the prosecutiºn
encouragement given to poachers by small occupiers of land and was compromined, generally equalled the ſufi ºnaſty. tle
people of personal property. The poachers themselves too would could not conceive what harm, the motiºn coul, de: it was
have less notives for stealing game, when the price was lowered. merely intended to prºcure information, and nºt tº fix blame on
The qualifications for shooting game he did not wish to abolish: any one; yet the gentlemen appºsite had cºme down tº resistº;
they night even be extended; and he thought the penalties for provided, with everything bit reasons for their resistance. (4
stealing game should be 5t. and upwards, payable to the owner. laugh.) In the minds of reasonable men there could be nº pººr
Mr. BANK Es-thought the new measure would cause ten times bie objection to grant complete information in a case where such
more demoralization than the old system. The breeder of game hardships occurred, as might lay grºunds for the interference of
would never be able to sell it as cheap as the stealer. To lega Parliament. (Hear.) - - - -

lize the sale of game would drive ºf. country gentlemen to the sourcrº-Gºnth wi. opposed the motion; on the ground
London, which would be an incalculable mischief." Game.could that the Honourable Moyer impºſed blameº the Board of
never be a sonrce of livelihood to the lower classes; and it was customs and Excise, and the law officers of the Crown, while he
therefºre better to limit the pursuit of it to the higher. Habits roved the existence of none. In 99 instances out of 100 the in
of order and indnstry among the labourious class were destroyed É. were prosecuted to a successful issue for the Crown:
by a fondness far poaching, which would be encouraged by this and because the hundredth failed from the impossibility ºf
tne-a-t-t-. ----- - " .
knowing the strength of the evidence before cºming into *
Mr. Cºnwew objected-to the Game faws for the very reason therefore the whole system was now-to-be condemned a viciou"
mentioned by the Hon. Gentleman—that they were made for the and uninst. . . - - " *.
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higher classist they were neither just nor general, They were º \ i. syrin stated three cases in which he had been ap
sº much disliked by the people, that offences against them were plied to. The first was that ºf a house ºngº. which
thought lightly of; but if the proposed measure were carried, was charged with a penalty of between 1500i, and 2000ſ. They
game would have the same protection as other property, and the set the silicitor of Excise at defianee: he thea offered to com
moral sense of the people would assist to prevent theftºº, . . promise it on payment of costs; this offer was refixed, and the
Mr. F. Lewis observed, that although stolen tommodities prosecuinn was entirely drop!. The nextºe related to a small
might be sometimes cheap, the penalties made them in general 'ſealer, who had paid 36!, penalty, and 90i. eastºponº.
exorbitantly dear...To sell a pheasant was no more guilty than, case he had seen the briefs, and large sums had been charged.”
to sett a chicken : tºut, notwithstanding, the seller would be four or five counset. (Irear, tearººver fees, febº against
guilty of a crime in a legal sense... It was clearly unadvisable to an individus), were cruel; if against the public, *y, *** *
make out crimes, where neither nature nor marality had defined scandalous waste of public money. The last case yº: that ºf *
them to be sº. By adopting the proposition, they won!d consi very ingenious manufacturer in Yºrkshire, who had: scovered --
derably diminish the amount of crimes—Leave given. new mode qf manufacturing sºnalſ: º
- - - EXCHSE INFORMATIONS.,..., * , arrived at a certain degree of perfection, the officers of Exciſe
Mr. D. W. Harvey rose to move for certain returns relative to seized neon it. He entreated that, they wº. º remove the
Excise Informations filed in the Conrt of Exchequer. His obiect mºnº, but tº carried them allºy. The Treºty, ºr
was to show, that large and unwarrantable expenses were in vinced of his innogence, ordered all P. be returº ; but they
curred and charged on the country, as well as that those who were returned incalculably diminished in value. He died ºf.”
were brought into Coºrt were burdened with the most enormous broken-heart, having in vain solicited restitution of his property.
charges. The Hon. Gentleman then related several cases, which The officers were justified in law, bºt it wº a cruel hºuse. -

he said were exactly similar to hundreds of others, and, which ºfhe cºxcºtton of the £xcitrºuett said, that the Hast cºe
prayed, that informations were often filed at the instigation of ..º.º." been an .º
had not been in the
informer-i that they were frequently ... when, the Excise officers order of the Treasury, ºn cºnsequence 9,
::::::::::: *:: the º the revenue. His
party accused was innºcent, on account of the dreadful expence,
and that defendants, even when acquitled, were severely punished ruin had been ºccasiºned by his not having attained a legal prº
by costs. Ig, one small case, as in most others, where, ſhe ques tection ſpr his manuftº. . - -

tion at issue was extremely simple, five counsel were retained on Mr. Harvey replied. The Attorney-General had said, that
the part of the Crºwn, at an expease of at least 50l.; and there not one ºn 106 terminated favourably for the defendant, he
was also a special jury, when a common one would have done as ºpuld nºt ºpptº this, but he was ready to H. twenty vet
well, and then ºnly three counsel would have been employed. §. for ...; within the last year, and therefore here must
prosecutions ! (cheeri)
He would venture to state, that in every cause, however simple, have been the enormous. npmber of 2,000
use cºsts were not less than 150l. He believed, that the mass of The expenses were enorrhoas, and quite unnecessary, for one
prosecutions arose ºut of malicious motives and base conspiracies "half of the cases were romised. When the proof was clear and
against particular individuals. The Hon. Gentleman concluded complete, why ::::::: counsel?. (Hear, heart) Cambrºſ
by moving, for an account of the informations.filed last year, &c. miºs, tºo, were generally entered into solely in order to avºid
the certain ruin to a man's credit that attended his prºsecution tº
. The Arrºw-Gºnºr AL said, that if the Hour Gentleman the Exchequer. º
...
meant to insiºnale haſ he had ever regarded the object of costs, • "The troºse divided—For - - -

the motion, 54-Against it, 79

*rely. either for his own sake or that of any other person, he
would tell him in the face of the country, and Gail Gºd howitness Majºrity, 18—Adjourneº, “. * * * - - -

what he said, that the insiauation was most false. (Hear!) Mis
takes might be sometimes made in originating these informations; Several Petitions, were prºviſed gainst the hyalºtion ºf
lºt in the course of five-years, not more than one verdict out of the coal flities, of
* * * *igº for tº revision of the Criminal
lſo had been given against the Crown. After some remarks on º, anººr, ºatºst bºth solveut rebtºrs' Act. On one of
ue cases adduced by Mr. Harvey, the Learned Gentleman ad ūšiiąśākā, Stºrtuns" remarked, that he had al
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tended to the operation of thc:Art in Stºssex, and had observed, Hoffences, were, from want of room, crowded into -one apart
that though magistrates had the power to remand a fraudulent ment!—Mr. Bhough Ax said, that uothing but the most impe
debtor for three or four years, only two eases of that sort had oc rious necessity and a total inability on the part of the city of Ion
curred since the passig of the Act. In the same. time, there don to apply any remedy themselves, could justify them in fore
were º eight oppositions to the discharge of debtors, and of ing such a disgusting subject on the House.
, these on y three had susceeded. He mentioned this as a friend
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BREACH OF PRIVHLEGE-MR. W. QUIN.
to the measure, - - - - - - -
The House proceeded with the examination of witnesses in this
* - '-'. . . . . MADHouses. base. The course of the proceedings was interrupted at one time
Mr. WYNN said, that the House had before expressed its opi by a question of a breach of privilege on the part of Mr. T. W.
, nion on this subject, when an inquiry by a Committee developed Grady, the petitioner against Mr. Quin: , H appeared, that this
the grossest abuses; but to legislative enactment had followed, young man had threatened Mr. Goold, one of the witnesses:
the measures having been thrown out in the Lords, though with when they were retired into the witnesses’ room, to kick him, if
out any public objection being made to them. Qne object of the he repeated such expressions of disrespect regarding him (Grady)
Bill which he wished to bring in was, to appoint aboard of in as he had uttered the night before. Mr. Grady, being called to
spectors, with power tº inspect all the madhouses in the king the bar, avowed having used this threat, and was in consequence
dom, at different and uncertain periods. Individuals were fre -committed to the custody of the Serjeant at Arms.-Adjourned
quently confined longer that was necessary; in order therefore to Monday,
to prevent this abuse, he proposed, that a certificate of lunacy.
should be given by the person delivering up a lunatic, also stating TUESDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE.
the degree of relationship, in which that person stood, which --
certificate should be preserved by a registrar, in order that the -

É. of confinement might be known, and the lunatic visitod by BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. -

he inspectors. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving for J. Mather, Manchester, builder, from March 23 to April 5.
leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the Acts of the 14th and 55th . . -- ..BANKRUPTS.
of his preseut. Majesty, and for making such other alterations as: J. and C. J. Fourdrinier, Rickmansworth, paper-makers. Attor
might be necessary for the better regulation of madhouses.— ney, Mr. Richardson, Clement's-lane, Lombard-street.
Leave given. - . - -
J. Mercer, Heath-street, Commercial-road, mariner. Attorney,
PUBLIC-BALANCES. . Mr. Charsley, Mark-lane.
' ' Mr. GRENFELL was anxious to do away the erroneous impres "J. Jammieson, Globe-street, Wapping, master-mariner. Attor
sion made by the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, ney, Mr. Hatchison, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street.
respecting the balances in the Bank. That Right Hon. Gentle J. and E. H. Tuckett, Bristol, grocers. Attorney, Mr. Thom
mau had said, that 6,000,000 would be available for the public son, Field-court, Gray's-inn. . . . .
service; but the fact was, that the public could not have the T. F. Power, London-street, merchant. Attorney, Mr. Osbal
benefit of half that sum. The balances were fifty-six in number, 3. deston, London-street.
but the public would only reeeive benefit from one; and nothing Bamforth, jun. Y. Yorkshire, butcher. At
but a deposit of Exchequer Bills would be applied to their tormies, Messrs. Alexander and Holme, New-inn.
service. -- - - - - J. Stephens, Dublin, merchaut. Attornies, Messrs. Adlington
- .** . …
Mr. LusningtoN had no doubt that the fact would turn out to and Gregory, Bedford-row.
be as the Chancellor of the Exchequer had stated it.
-
R.11eath, Cheltenham, carrier. Attorney, Mr. Bridger, Angel
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Mr. MAdenly thought the whole subject was misstated or court, Throgmorton-street. -

mistaken, and that out of the 6,000,000, there would be an

arrear, of the Consolidated Fund, 3,300,000l., to be made up,
and 3,000,000t, the loan that was to be paid back to the Bank; SATURDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE.
so that instead of the public deriving benefit, it would be neces
sary to take 300,000l. out of the ways and means of the year. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEBET).

, conyicts UNDER SENTENCE of DEATH. . . J. Barfoot, Arundel-street, Strand, ornamental-stationer.

18ANKiruptS. -

Mr. BENNET said, that it was the third year in which he had J. Barfoºt, Arundel-street, Strand, ornamental-stationer. Attor
occasion to make the same kind of statement to the House, and he nies, Messrs. Paterson and Peile, Old Broad-street.
was sorry:that ground'was still left for renewing it. He wished
to know when the report of the convicts under sentence of death S. Bouveric-street,
White, Turnham-green, victualler. Attorney, Mr. Henson,
Fleet-street.
would be made to the Crown. There were 54 of those unfortu -

mate persons in Newgate, in 15 small cells, some three in one cell, T. Bedford-street.
Guy, Lancaster, broker. Attorney, Mr. Norris, John-street,
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and others were placed wherever room could be found for them.
These wretched beings should not be kept thus long in suspense T. Lawes, Amesbury, Wiltshire, corn-dealer. Attornies, Messrs.
upon the most awful of all subjects. Sandys, IIorton, and Co. Crane-court, Fleet-street.
Mr. Clive said, that the report of the Recorder took some time G. Cottam, Manchester, plasterer. Attornics, Messrs. Adlington
to draw up tº as soen, as it was ready, it would be presented.— J. and Gregory, Bedford-row.
Adjourned. * — 4 - -
Masters, Dartford, Kent, grocer. Attormies, Messrs. Pownall,
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. . Thursday, March 11.

- - and Fairthorne, Copthall-court.
The matter of complaint against Mr. Wyndham Quin was W.andBurton, Cornhill, auctioneer. Attormies, Messrs. Collins
Waller, Spital-square. -

, taken into consideration, and witnesses examined by Sir R. W. S. Evans, Chapel-street, Lamb's-Conduit-street, bricklayer.
Wilson ; but the proceeding will not be published until the
affair is concluded, as Mr. Sru.ART Woºtley declared that, if .T.Attorney, Mr. Blakelock, Serjeant's-inn, Fleet-street.
Trahair, Newlyn West, Cornwall, baker. Attorney, Mr.
, they were, he should bring the persons publishing them before Rivington, Fenchurch-street. ... •
, the Ilouse for a breach of privilege.
The Poor Laws' Amendment 13ill was read a third time and J. R. Lamb, Unsworth Lodge, Lancashire, calico-printer. At
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passed:—Adjourned. *
torney, Mr. Kay, Essex-street, Manchester.
J. Grime, Bolton, Lancashire, upholsterer, Attornies, Messrs.
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- Friday, March 12. Appleby and Sergeant, Gray's-inn-square, -

A great many petitions were presented, some praying for a J. Howe. Finsbury-place, livery-stable-keeper. Attornies, Messrs.
Reſorm of the Scotch burghs, others against the equalization of Longdill and Butterfield, Gray’s-inn-square.
the coal duties, and others against the reaewal of the Insolvent T. Price, Asless-Mills, Denbighshire; bread-maker. Attornies,
IJebtors.” Act. - *
Messrs. Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row.
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- . . CITY GAOLS. .
T. Nelson and E. Smith, Bolton, Lancashire, bed-quilt-manufac
* . -

- A petition was presented by the Sueriffs of London from the turers. Attorney, Mr. Meddoweroft, Gray's—inn.
Lord Mayor and Corporation, praying that Parliament would J. Morton, Ainsworth, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturer. Attor
assist then in remedying the evils occasionéd by the crowded nies, Messrs. Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row.
state of the gaols.-Mr. Alderman Wood observed, that the pri J. Booth, Gloucester, china and earthenwäreman. Attorney,
sons were so full that it was impossible to attempt any classifi: Mr. Walston, Hatton-garden. -
cation. In Newgate there were now 47 individuals, condemned iſ. Mycock, Mauchester, provision-dealer. Attornies, Messrs.
to death, and 15 of those, convicted of abouninable and infamous Appleby and Sergeant, G ray's-inn-square.
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-- ... . . . .. . . . * .
 THE EXAMINER. 167
J. Cameron, Manchester, merchant. Attorney, Mr. Makinson, slaves are adaptedless; and the soldiers of the Revolution
Middle Temple. . have an interestin keeping up some changes at least, which
W. Hayhurst, Rimmington, Yorkshire, cotton-manufacturer.
Attornies, Messrs. Hurd, Johnson, and Chester, Temple. are much better for liberty and the progress of knowledge
than a return to feudality and superstition. Louis has
PRice of stocks on sarutunay. now fairly compromised matters with the Revolution, and
3 per Cent. Cons................................. 74}}. must govern like a Revolutionary King; and his successors . . .
must do the same, or it is all over with them. A Republic,
The promised description of the Spanish Caricature was mislaid,
but it has been found again and will appear next week, or young NApoleoN with Austria to back him, would
Our friend D. C. H. has obliged and aunused us with his commu
rtication. - - take their place in the twinkling of a sword. -

There was a notice to Correspondeuts in our last number respect The new Peers go in a body next Tuesday, to take
ing a M.S. tragedy (Aq-0) which we refer to, in case the their seats in the Chamber. - - -

Gentleman to whom it was directed has not yet seen it. -

Next week an extract from the lately published Memorial of

that powerful hand. Mr. Thomas Cribb.
The lines written at Margate our first leisure day. And on our By the brig Orange, which arrived at Liverpool on
second, those from our excellent Correspondent, “a Wife, a Saturday, intelligence has been received from Buenos
Mother, and an Englishwoman.” - Ayres to the 9th Dec., and from Chili a few days later
We were happy to hear from W. H., whose letter headed Ques than by the Brazil packet. The patriots in that quarter
tion Question 1 was omitted by mistake. His verses shall be have captured the Rosalia and Carlotta, two more of the
inserted.
Reyna Maria, Isabel's convoy from Cadiz.: the Rosalia
The sonnet suggested to a Young Lady by that of Shakspeare is transport carried 166 troops, and the Carlotta had a rich
not correct euough for publication, and yet it does real honour
to her taste, which seems only to want a greater habit of cargo for Lima on board. The Chacabuco corvette carried
writing. -
these two prizes into Valparaiso, and left the Galverino
Other communications are delayed by the press of matter. brig of war cruising for the remainder of the convoy:
when it sailed from Cadiz, it consisted of 12 ships, includ
ing the frigate, all of which had been captured except four.
THE EXAMINER. Duke of WellingtoN.—It would appear from a pa
ragraph, in a Flemish paper, that the people of the Cofiti
Londos, Manch 14. nent are beginning to discourse about the Duke of Wel
LINgton's Anti-Catholic operations in the House of Lords.
A grear sensation has been excited by an ordinance of They seem to consider it rather extraordinary, that as ail
Louis 18th, creating and re-creating Peers to the number Irishman he should be an enemy to Emancipation. His
of sixty, two-and-thirty of whom were officers of high Grace, perhaps, will appear less inconsistent in their eyes,
when we . them them that he happens to acknow
rank under Bonaparte, and some suspended for their ad ledge very little love for Ireland, and that he never did one
herence to him during the Hundred Days. All the Mar gratuitous or disinterested act in his life, to advance her
shals, for instance, are now Peers of France, and sit in the interests or reputation. Indeed he has been more than
Upper House. Among the others are ChampAGNY, Duke once openly charged with disowning his country; and his
de CADome (Bos APARTE's well-known Minister for Fo biographer, intending no doubt to say what would be
reign Affairs); and Le BRUN, Duke de PLAIs ANce, for very grateful to his Grace, has made it quite a point to
merly one of the Three Consuls. In short, the list con notify, that though his birth happened to take place in
Ireland, he is in all other respects—in education, habits,
tains the most distinguished, rich, and powerful adherents feelings and so forth—an Englishman. It may appear to
of Box APARTE, some of them remarkable for their per the foreign acquaintances of his Graee, that his conduct to
sonal attachment to him, and all so implicated in the Re the Catholics is unbefitting his character as a hero; but if
volution, last as well as first, as to have been latterly they were well read in all his history, they would see
under a great cloud with the King. This cloud the nothing in it incompatible with any thing he has ever said
beams of royal favour have at length thought proper
}; º relative to his native country.--Dublin, Weekly
egister. º * - * ~ *

to pierce, doubtless ſor-fear lest it should burst into The Report of the Commissioners for the Herring
thunder at this critical moment. Yet Louis has been Fishery, of their proceedings for the year ending the 5tſ,
much reprobated in this country for the measure. The April, 'isis, has been printed by order of the House of
simple fact is, that he could not help it. With all his re Commons. It concludes with stating, “the Commis
Putation for liberality, he gave pretty good proofs as long sioners think it is apparent that the character of the British
as he could of being as staunch an ultra-royalist as his Fishery is rising both at home, and abroad; for while the
family and kingship could make him; but he is a shrewder
. of herrings cured gutted is annually increasing:
the quantity cured ungutted º year diminishing, and
man of the world than the rest: and rather than pull the that the demand has kept pace with the quantity they gut.
house of Bourbon over his head as they would do, he They have also to mention, that while the exportation to
would make a virtue of necessity, and endeavour to esta the Continent of Europe has nearly equalled that of the
blish himself in a new system of things which he sees receding year, and the exportation to Ireland and the
W. Iºdies has increased, a new market has opened in
is not to be altered. A regiment of monkies might the East Indies, to which different shipments of herrings .
as well march against an army of hnman beings, grinning have been made both from Greenock and London; from
and chattering, and brandishing their own tails, as the old the former with great success, but the result of the latter is
emigrant ultra-royalists pretend to make head against the not yet known, and they trust that India will soon become
revolutionists. The necessity, however, it must be con a permanent and valuable market for the consumption of
ſessed, does not look well for the Bourbons; and in any British herrings.”
other state of things, it weuld look very ill for liberty. But . . We are sorry to announce the failure of that "old and
respectable; concern the Tamworth Old Bank, of , the
though military men, abstractedly speaking, are very little firm of HARDING, OAREs, and Wellington, which
adapted for guardians of public freedom, old hereditary stopped payment on Wednesday last—Coventry Herald.
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}63 –4. THE EXAMINER.
WestMINstem. REPREsſextatiox. — At a numerous
Mr. BENTHAM's PANopricos —The following passage
is extracted from the speech of Mr. Wribºfonºr on the meeting of the Electors of Westminster at the Crown and
motion of Sir J. Mackintosh respecting capital punish Anchor Tavern, it was resolved, that letters should be
ments. It alludes to a plan of Mr. Bºstmast's for the addressed to Sir F. Bunnett and Mr. Hophouse, request
construction of a penitentary in such a manner, that a per ing their company to dinner next Tuesday. To these
son placed in the centre could see the whole place, and letters, signed by about 100 electors, the Hon. Baronet
thus prºvent the prisoners from putting by or being dila and his worthy friend have returned answers, expressing
the pleasure they feel in accepting the invitation.—This is
tory with their work. We are glad to see that the saintly
jū. notions of the Honourable Member for Bram as it shºuld be: it is in this way that the cause of Reform
ber, in politics and religion, do not run into every other is benefitted, by keeping up an intimate connection be
subject; and that he can afford to speak in such high tween the º and their leaders. .. -

terms ºf a man, who is continually abused as an ultra Drep AND UNMERITED DisrRess.-On Monday even
h fami'y in Lambeth was discovered in circumstances
by both parties, and laughed at for his obscurity by ing,
those who never tried to understand him:—“He was of extreme distress. A man whe had carried a peck of
old enough to remember the discussions on this sub coals to the house, had his request for payment answered
ject, when Mr. Benth AM's plan was first proposed,— her by the woman's bursting into tears, and confessing that
a man who, with respect to this subject, could not be family was starving. The man, ſrom motives of com
passion, followed her into the room, where, he saw he
spoken of in too high terms. He chly regretted that he hasland,
had not made his principles as popular as they were un sunk in despair, and five emaciated children, with
answerably sound. He was sure that he, for one, regret no clothing but ragged night-gowns, sitting upon some
ted this very much. They were all under, the greatest straw, theprocuredonly furniture in the room. Some relief was
from persons in the neighbourhood,
obligations to him for his works on the subject. "It was instantly
to be recollected, too, that the principle on which this who visited the family, and learned the following account
system, went had been advanced by the greatest names of their misfortunes:—The poor man had been a clerk,
in our history—by Sir Thomas MoRE, by ERAsyrus, Lord but having had no employment for sixteen months, had
Bacos, and Lord Coxe. But to return to Mr. BENTmax : been compelled to, sell almost all, his clothes and fur
It was one of the conditions of the agreement made with niture. On the 24th of February., the day of which the
him, (and, be it remembered, this was an agreement snow fell so heavily, followed by a severe ſºost, his
sanctioned by Mr. Pitt and Mr. DUNDAs, and it was landlord seized literalliſ all that remained of his furni.
only not carried into execution, because a place could not ture. The broker, who earecuted the distress, did not
be found for a building, but never were men more leare them even a cooking or drinking vessel. The mºn
delighted than they were with the plan of Mr. Bax was erposed, with his wife, in the seventh month of hºr
thant);-it was one of the conditions of the agreement, regnancy, and fºre infant children, half clothed, on th:
that if any person who had ever been under him, was again ; floor, to the inclémency of the night. ... He had sold
|. Mr. BeNTILAM) should forfeit a considerable his last waistcoat to get a trºss ºf strarjor then to lie on.
convicted,
sum. And Mr. BENTHAM did not enter into this agree. In expectation of the arrival and assistance of some peſ.
ment rashly. , He had enquired carefully into the subject, sons from France, he indulged the decent pride of conceal.
ing his distress, and not applying to the parish for relief;
ascertained what had been the results in different countries
where the experiment had been tried, and made his calcu and continued in this state till Monday, when, as has been
lations accordingly.” - stated, his wretched condition was discovered by acciden',
“There is one thing in the Americans, which, though This relation is made public, in the hope that it may le."
its proper place was further back, I have reserved, or rather the humane to contribute to procure this unhappy family
kept back, to the last moment. It has presented itself a bed, and some other necessary furniture, and raise."
several times; but I have turned from the thought, as men small sum for their subsistence, till the father can get em
do from thinking of any mortal disease that is at work in loyment, and again support them himself. Mr. SAVAG:
their frames. It is not covetousness; it is not niggardli inir-dresser, Cloisters, Temple, will receive any dona
ness; it is not insincerity; it is not enviousness: it is not tions, and assure inquirers of the truth of this statement
cowardice: above all things—it is drinking. Aye, and Daily Papers. -

AN ANrcoote for the Nervogs.-The late Dr. Iir

that, too, amongst but too many men, who, one would
Hennen
think, would loath it. You can go into hardly any man's Blake, “who used frequently to speak ºf the case of a Cup.
house, without being asked to drink wine or spirits, even, little was a hypochondriac, attentive to, evº
in the morning. To see this beastly vice in young men is state feeling, and anxious about its consequences. . In hi.
he continued for several years, and was during that
socking." At one of the taverns at irº there were
several fineygung men—well dressed, well editated, polite, time seldom more than a week or two without consulting
Doctor, who had tried not only all the medicinº
and, everything but sober. What a squalid, dropping, the
sickly set, they looked in the morningſ "Even little boy. which he thought likely to correct any cause of dise”
at, or under, twelve years of age, go into stores, and tip off arising from bodily infirmity, but every argument which hi.
humanity and good sense could suggest for the comfoº!"
their drams. However, I must not be understood as his mind, but in vain. At length Dr. HEBEmprx heard no
meaning that this tipling is universal amongst gentlemen: more of his patient, till after a considerable interval he
ºld, God be thanked, the women of any figure in life do found that Captain Biake had formed a project of º:
by no means give into the practice, but abhor.it as much. veying fish to London from some of the sea-ports !" t d
as well-bred women in England, who, in general, no more
west, by means of little carts adapted for expeditious #:
think of drinking strong liquors, than they dº of drinking carriage. The arrangement and various occupation . º
poison.”—Mr. Copper-r's American Joºnzi, -

One of the Members of the House of Cömmons ob. supersedemind in forwarding his object were sufficient º t
all sense of his former malady, which from "
served, that chimney ..p. were not in general the chil time, as far as is known, never returned.” ight
ºn of poor parents, but of rich meſſ improperly begotten. A letter from Oxford announces the death of º:
..What an eulogium upon riches!—Chester Guardiº. -
Rev. Jonx Parisons, I). D. Lord Bishop of Peterborog.
Next Thursday, according to the New Style, is the ºthiºlºdgings in Bahiol College. His ºrdship...
birth-day of Michael Angºlo— . . -- * . . | the 58th year of his age, and had suffered for some “fe
-

"
... Michet piº, chemorial, Angel diving.—Agiosro.
Michael, the more than man,—Angel divine.
º tº his decease under the rheumatic gout.
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reathed his last on Friday morning.

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 THE EXAMINER. 169

Issolvrxt Dentons.—The petitions with respect to Sir Philip FRAxcis.--For the information of thos: --

the Insolvent Debtors’ Bill are very numerous, and no readers who have perused the various publications which
doubt come from very respectable persons concerned in have attempted to establish the identity of this well-known
trade. We are certainly enemies to fraudulent debtors: character with the secret and mysterious Junius, we have
but we are inimical also to any system which allows of to state, that the will of Sir Pitri.rp, dated the 28th of
the confinement of the human body, when no good is ob April, 1818, contains no allusion whatever to those cele
tained or can be obtained by that act. Incarceration for brated letters. -

the purpose of recovering our debt, where the object is a: The controversy respecting the authenticity of the Let
tainable, may be allowed, but vindictive incarceration is ters of Junius still remainstitisettled. "A Tract is now in
wicked and cruel. The creditor, if he is a trader, will be the course of publication at Edinburgh, from the pub of C.
pleased to recollect, that it is generally optional with him, M. Ciſalsters, Esq, the object of which is to refute
in the first instance, to trust his goods out of his possession: the pretensions of the late Sir P. Frascis, K. B. to
and we do not think, having so trusted them, that he has a be considered the Author of those far-famed compositions,
right to call upon the legislature for outrageous penalties and to establish the claims of another eminent character,
against those who have taken that which the owner has hitherto unsuspeeted.
voluntarily consigned to them. So ſar as the country is By an account of the amount of Bank-notes and Bank
concerned, it would be much better that the credit should post-hills in circulation, from the 25th January, 1819, to
never have been granted; for by the refusal., a shifty dis the 1st instant, it appears. that on the 27th January,
tressed man might have been driven into habits of active the amount was 27, 176.580l., and on the 1st March
industry. The creditor trusts for his own personal ad 24,991,410l., being 2,185,170l. less at the latter period
vantage, and not for the sake of benefitting the State or the than at the former. -

debtor: and in this respect all the petitions are imperſect—

that they take up the connexion between the debtor and CASE OF WILLIAM PAUL ROGERS.
creditor in an advanced stage, when the one has received --
and the other has parted with the property: but how did Mr. Rogers has sent us a Reply to the Reverend
the relation originate?—ſrom necessity, or apparent ne Weeden Butler's Letter. Pressed as we are for room at
cessity, on one side, and the hope of gain on the other. this parliamentary season, it is not possible to give it inser
And we cannot allow that that man has any great right to tion, as Mr. Rogers goes into various details respecting the
complain, who voluntarily transfers the articles in which Reform Meeting in Chelsea, his own political conduct, and
le deals to another, and knows d priori what his means
are of regaining their value, should the recipient ſail in his
theºi. sustained in consequence, which has ter
minated in the ruin of his business and his imprisonment
engagements. The creditor has a much, more easy in the Fleet. : We shall however notice that part of his
method of preventing the mischief complained of than the reply which more immediately refers to the treatment he
Government of redressing it: let him not trust his goods. received from the Reverend Gentleman, for on this topic
Suppose it were made death for any man to contract a the parties are directly opposed.
debt which he could not pay necording to the terms of his Mr. Rogers expressly denies that Mr. Weeden Butler
agreement; then few, it might be thought, would run in entered inis house in a manner the least friendly. He
debt. But the good-will of two parties is necessary to the affirms, on the contrary, that the Christian Minister came
contraction of a debt: and would it not be very unfair to
into his shop like a madman—absolutely frightening his
deter one from the commission of that oftence by the fear wife and children—and pointing to the ń. Petitions
of so severe a penalty as that just imagined; and to leave lying on his counter for signatures, said he would write to
it ontional with the j to join in committing it or not?— Mr. Freeling, and get the Post-office taken from him: at
Times. - -

the same time calling Mr. Rogers a Jacobin Rascal, and

It is at length determined, that a Commission of Oyer remarking, that he knew many of his customers, and would
and Terminer and General Gao! Delivery, shall issue into do all in his power to deprive him of them. So far from
the four northern counties, and Mr. RAINE, the King's Mr. Rogers saying that the office was no source of emolu
Counsel, is to preside on the occasion. ment to him, he avers, that on being thus threatened and
• --
abused, he replied, “You must be a pretty kind of Chris
DOGGREL VERSFS, BY PERSONS OF DISTINCTION. tian-like person to be the means of depriving me and my
[for the ExAMINER.] -
family of bread;” adding, “..}Did you suppose I was to
Spoken by William Bl–ckie—d. possess no other ideas than those you chose to point out—
Jonx Murray won't let his name be seen if that was the case, I had lived to very little purpose.”—
with minenny longer in the Magazine. Mr. R. denies that Mr. W. B. recommended him to let
But I don't find the cawtious elf Mr. Newman manage the business: Mr. Newman's name,
1ías yet dropped his connection with himself. he asserts, was never even mentioned during the interview
The Post-office was shortly removed, without any com
By William G–ff—rd. (Aside.) plaint being heard or charge made; and to Mr. Rogers's
At that rate, if the fellow goes on to refine, earnest and repeated requests for the reason of this harsh
He soon won't let his name appear with mine. treatment, not a word could be obtained from the Public
By William Bl—ckw—d to John M-rr—y. Officers. His customers gradually dropped off, and he was
How could you smoke our in consequence, with his wife, and seven young children,
Joax Grasox and John Wrlsox, and stick to your own Joux reduced from a comfortable and respectable condition to
Wilsox Caoker * , one of great difficulty and distress.--That political feelings
John M-rr—y to William Bl-cº-d. were in strong operation against Mr. Rogers appears from
the fact he states, that of two of his creditors who first
My dear fellow, troubled him, one was a retired Contractor for Meat to the
if Canzºr, and Davies to close with you boggle,
or to pay down their thousand *, I'd offer te—Oole. Life Guards, and the other was the Clerk to Brompton
Chapel, of which Mr. Weeden Butler is the Minister.
—Orº.uppose you try HoNE;—nny, now I insist on't, Mr. Rogers says he is willing to make an affidavit as to
For it's just what Bob Sournev will swear is consistent! the truth of everything he has alleged against Mr. Weeden
* The sum said to be paid by a certain Bookseller for the Butler; and he calls upon the Reverend Gentleikan in
privilege of setting his name to a damaged Number of Black common. delicacy to publish the “sti”ging”. Letter he
wood's Edinburgh Magazine. -
wrote to Earl Grosvenor, as well as his Lordship's reply, a character of decided, intentional, and excessive vehe
which he has thought proper to print. mence; sometimes indeed working himself up into extra
Among other questions put to the Reverend Gentleman, vagance, as in that famous passage of which honest Major
Mr. Rogers asks whether he did not send for his coal-mer Bath was so fond–
chant, who had signed the Reform Petition, and tell him, * By heavens! I think it were an easy leap
that he should no longer deal with him unless he scratched To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced Moon, &c.
his name out, and put it to the counter-petition;–which, He is the Mars of the play, as contrasted with the serener
says Mr. R. “the poor miserable creature did,” making and
all the apologies possible for having signed the offensive hapsmore Jove-like greatness of the young prince.—Per
however, Mr. KEAN was really unwell, for he was
document :
Mr. Rogers, in conclusion, observes, that unless he is excessively hoarse. The play has been repeated, and he
may since have acted differently. Tire fighting scene
upheld by the virtuous and liberal part of the public, in roused
evitable ruin will follow his imprisonment; for such has vehemence him up. He fought with his usual mixture of
and grace,—amabile fierezza. Some of our
been the political rancour and malignant spirit of his perse brother-critics
cutors, that he has been under the necessity of disposing of “fondness forseem inclined to object to what they call his
his goods, to meet the pressing necessities occasioned by exhibitions are gladiatorial exhibitions.” But gladiatorial
fine things when managed in this way,+
the loss of business. He alludes to the difficulty of speak with all their grace and nothing of their cruelty. The
ing of himself, but defies any mortal to impeach his cha
racter for sobriety, industry, and honesty. His political cruelty was a bad Roman taste enough : the grace is from
conduct, he says, has ever been legal though zealous, for the Greeks. The beauty of Mr. Kgas's attitudes would
he sincerely believed that the people of England could be have adorned the palestra, where the Grecians at once
alone rendered prosperous and happy by a constitutional cultivated health and elegance, and where their sculptors
Reform in the Commons House of Parliament. got those vital impressions of form and motion, which are
The wife of Mr. Rogers was brought to bed yesterday almost the only things left us Papalangis of modern
times to show us what masculine beauty is. Nor did they
morning of a girl. This is the eighth child Mr. Rogers make their combats and wrestlings a low thing, as we con
has now living.] *
trive to do by confining them to the vulgar, or vulgarizing
FURTHIER SUBSCRIPTIONS. our notions of the things themselves. They elevated all
Mr. Phipps (Proprietor of the News) - - - 0 0 they did, instead of degrading it. . They recognized in
I had rather be a Good Samaritan than a Pelitieal Priest 1 0 0 the human figure the great hand of the intellectual spirit of
Rev. J. Brown, Tiverton, Devon - - - 1 0 0 beauty: and saw Gods and Goddesses. where we, in the
Mr. Coulson - - - - - - - 1 0 0 sad and prouder humility of our superstitions, behold no
Old Tom of Kennington - - - - - - 1 0 0 thing but despicable clay. One of the very greatest of
G. More, Chelsea - - - - - - - 2 2 0 their poets, Sophocles, was equally distinguished for the
John Childs r - - - - - - 1 0 0
The Mite of Three Young Ladies and their Little
elegance of his person, his accomplishments in music, and
Brother, from Chelsea - - - - - 0 3 6
his vigour and address in gymmastic exercises. -

A Member of the Established Church and an Enemy Of Mr. KEMBLE's Falstaff, which he performs without
to Persecution - - - - - - - 0. 5 0 the usual aid of stuffing, we would rather say nothing. This
Mr. Isaac Cox and a few other Enemies to Oppression, - fact is sufficient to show that it is as little pleasant to the
at Honiton, Devon - - - - - - 2 15 0 audience, as it can be easy to himself. As to the dialogue,
R. S. N. - - - - - - - - 0. 5 0
E. W. D. - - - - - - - - 0 is 0
he gives it like a sensible reader; –that is all.
T. J. Wooler, 58, Sun-street, Bishopsgate-street - 2 2 ()
We would willingly say a little of the new melo-drama
Mr. Leaf, jun. - -- - - - - 1 0 0 called the Castle of Wonders. We think we never in our
Mr. Lucas, 12, Upper Cadogan-place, Chelsea - 2 0 0 lives were present at a more remarkable specimen of dis
W. Harris, 27, Norton-street - - - - 1 0 0 jointed , and unaccountable common-place. . The lines
Mr. George Fletcher, Worksop, Nottinghamshire 1 0 0 would have done for a tragic burlesqūe, had the actors
A. Rielli - - - - - - - - 2 0 0
not been too evidently sad ; and the incidents more re
George Welch - - - - - - - 1 0 0
sembled a dream than any thing else. A young gentle
(From the Stamford News.) . man (Mr. H. KEMBLE) puts up with his bride (Mrs.
John Milnes, Esq. of Beckingham - - - 2 0 0
West) at an inn, and is invited by one of the inhabitants
Colonel Johnson, Witham-on-the-Hill - - - 1 0 0
Ex - - - - - - - - - 0 10 6 of the village to go and disenchant an old castle for them.
---
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-- He goes accordingly with a frightened servant (Hanley),
- and encounters a succession of wonders and luxurious
THEATRICAL EXAMINER, temptations, which a lady, calling herself the Queen of the
Fairies, offers in order to seduce him from his wiſe.
No. 354.
-
Scenes appear and disappear in this ruined old casiº,
Drtyrr-Lane.
as on a regular stage; festal boards and couches rise
from the ground; choral music is heard; and canopies
The first part of Henry the 4th has been produced here are twirled over his head by dancing nymphs, who
in the course of the week, -Hotspur by Mr. KFAN, run them round with , hanging strings of flowſ:
Falstaff by the manager, Mr. Stephen Kexiblr. The a pretty conceit enough, we suppose of the ſº
disappointment in Mr. Kean's perſormance has, we be presider over this department, Miss TREs. Amids!
lieve, been . general. The character was naturally all this unearthly work, Banditti come in and oil,
supposed to be one in which he would excel; but whether waiting upon the Queen of the Fairies;–towards tº
it was that he was hoarse with a bad cold, or whether close of it, the sufferer is threatened with tortures an
something yet hidden in the mysteries of green rooms and death, if he does not forsake his wife, who has in the
management made him dislike the part, or whether actors mean time come to find him; and at last it turns out, tº
preſer having a doubtful part which they can have the all has been a trick on the part of some relations or friend":
credit of giving ideas to and elevating, rather than one in order to try whether he ioves the lady to such an exº
completely filled as well as marked out for them, certain as to warrant their approbation of the marriage! We
it is that #. Hotspur was comparatively tame and indiſ -**

ferent. If he was less vehement than usual, for fear of * Papalangis—clothy People—the name given to Eurºp"
being too much so, this was a great mistake. Hotspuris by the inhabitants of the Tonga Islands.
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know not what SELDEN, the friend of our old poets, would to the truth with which those passions are depicted: but
have thought of this, who says, that “ of all actions of a when she has to invest herself with the more terrific work
man's life, his marriage does least, concern other people; ings of the soul, since few ladies commonly partake of
3. 3. all actions it is most meddled with by other peo them, the judges must still be fewer; and of the other sex
pie. - - -* they can hardly be equal. , Hence it is, that it is a more
How could they think of putting Mrs. West into such difficult task to represent Mrs. Beverley on Juliet, than to
a child’s coach The chief burden of the declamation falls personify Lady Macbeth or Queen Katharine; hence it is,
on poor HENRY KEMBLE, and he cried out, it must be that it is a less easy task to express with exact truth the
confessed, long and lustify under the infliction. The best tender passions of a Desdemona, than the violent agonies
thing in it is Miss Tige's dancini , and her’s alone. The of a Constance. - -

others, but they are young, .# is not their faults that Thus having shewn that it is more difficult to excel in
they are brought forward. There is some music by LANGA, tenderness than majesty. I trust I may be considered as
occasionally pleasing enough, but generally common-place, having proved, that superiority in the former alone does
and always feeble. not preclude a performer of the female sex from deserving
(Next week Figaro at the Opera, and its imitation at to be ranked as an actress of the “highest order.” Wit
Covent-garden.) * respect to the inconsistency of which the public are guilty,
in not thinking equally of Miss Q'Nerº, in the closet as on
* The celebrated little work containing this passage, Setors's the stage, I think it may be wholly referred to the charac
Table Talk, has lately been republished by TripHook, with ters, in which she performs, not affording equal room for
the usual care and elegance of its Editor, Mr. SINGER. “ reflection with those in which the deservedly celebrated
Mrs. Sippons so greatly excelled.
MISS O'NEILL.
Should I be permitted, l intend hereafter to attempt to
to the editoR of the ExAMINER, shew the absurdity into which those fall, who consider the
Soft, modest, melancholy, female, fair. YouNg. Stranger an immoral play, and to offer a few remarks on
Compared with woman's eye and syren's tongue, that truly inimitable performer Mr. KEYN ;—in doing
Gems lese their lustre and its grace the song. Hughes. which I sincerely promise that I will
“Nothing extenuate
SIR,--It is perhaps not altogether unworthy of remark, “Nor set down aught in malice.”
that however highly this lady's qualifications may have BAcc. ART.
been generally estimated by an enthusiastic audience dur
ing the actual period of her performance on the stage, her
merits have rarely, if ever, been sufficiently appreciated by LITERARY NOTICES.
the cold and reflecting critic in the closet. An attempt to
explain the causes of this apparent inconsistency, as well No. 49.
as to refute the inference, which has been somewhere drawn
from it, viz. “that she is not an actress of the highest
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order,” will not, I trust, be deemed wholly impertinent, We proceed to give a few more extracts from this quint
as well by all who are true lovers of the drama, as by those essential salt of an epistle. The greater part of the fol
who maintain that freedom and liberty of the press, which lowing passage, if our memory does not deceive us, has
is one of the boasted privileges of every Englishman. • been added to Mr. Hazlitt's former account of the Gif- "
But before I proceed further, it may perhaps be proper ford:—
to inquire, what are the qualifications necessary to consti In comparing yourself with others, you make a considerable
tute a performer of the highest order? or, to come more mistake. You suppose the common advantages of a liberal
immediately to the point in question, whether they depend education to be something peculiar to yourself, and calculate
on the manner of performing, or on the matter performed? your progress beyond the rest of the world from the obscure
I am not now entering into any discussion about comedy, point, at which you first set out. Yet your overweeuing self
and therefore it is needless to investigate the comparative complacency is never easy but in the expression of your contempt
merits of the sock and buskin; although I am perfectly for others; like a conceited mechanic in a village ale-house, you
would set down every one who differs from you as an ignorant
ready to allow that I should give to the latter a decided blockhead; and very fairly infer that any one who is beneath
ference. The question which I am anxious to decide
yourself must be nothing. You have been well called an Ultra
is, whether the º: passions of the soul are, or are not, Crepidarian critic. From the difficulty you yourself have in con
equal to its more terrible, but less pleasing agitation; or, structing a sentence of common granmar, and your frequent
if I must explain, whether an O'Neill may not be coa failures, you instinctively presume that no author who comes
sidered as equal to a SIDDons, if she executes the parts under the lash of your pen can understand his mother-tongue:
in which she excels with equal success? and again, you suspect every one who is not your “very good
Now the chief excellence in every performer is nature, friend” of knowing nothing of the Greek or Latin, because you
are surprised to think how you came by your own knowledge of
hy which I would wish to be understöod the art of ap them. There is an inmate littleness and vulgarity in all you do.
ring to be the very character represented: by this art In comba'ing an opinion, you never take a broad, and liberal
it was that GARRick attained to so deserved a pitch of po ground, state it fairly, allow what there is of truth or an ap
pularity; and it is by this art of “not o'erstepping the pearance of truth, and then assert your own judgment by exposing
modesty of Nature,” that Mr. KrAx has, in most cha what is deficient in it, and giving a more unasterly view of the
racters at least, maintained so decided a superiority over subject. Not this would be committing your powers and pre
Mr. KEMBLE. From this definition of Nature, our in tensions where you dare not trust them. You know yourself
better. You deny the meaning altogether, misquote or misapply,
quiry is resolved into the following: Whether it is more and then plume yourself on your own superiority to the absurdity
easy to play natural or unnatural characters most accord you have created. Your triumph over your antagonists is the
ing to truth? And I have no hesitation in affirming, that triumph of your cunning and mean-spiritedness over some
the former are the most difficult, if it is oaly from this nonentity of your own, making; and your wary self-knowledge
single circumstance: that the latter afford more room for shrinks from a comparison with any but the most puny preted
study and application, and that faults in them are less sions, as the spider retreats from the caterpillar into its web.
liable to discovery, and almost incapable of actual proof. We cannot venture to extract Mr. Hazlitt's triumphant
If an actress has to express (the softer emotions of the exposure of the inconsistencies, partly wilful and partly
mind, and those therefore most common to the sqfter sex, ignorant, of Mr. Gifford's criticisms on his works. They
every female is, or considers herself, a judge with respect would lead us into two great a length; and besides, wo
*
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have no right to make so much use of the Letter. We which ushered in your wretched verbal criticism, (it is the
must content ourselves with one or two of the smaller spe more disgusting to see such gross and impudent prevari–
cimens.—The following one shews what sort cº a com cation combined with such petty captiousness) you were
mentator on great poets Mr. Gifford is fitted to be, a guided not by a regard to truth, but to your own ends:
task by the bye, which he would never have thought of and yet you say.somewhere, very oracularly, out of con
had it not been for predecessors whom he abuses, and for tradiction to me, that “not to prefer the true to the agree
those “Jacobinical” events and speculations which set the able, where they are inconsistent, is folly.' You have
world thinking again, and made it look about it for intel mistaken the word; it is not folly, but knavery*.”—Pages
lectual food. It is curious too to observe to what sort of 26, 27. - -

authors his inclination has led him, to Pecker (Massin We must leave the reader (and well may) to supply
ger's coadjutor) the filthiest of all the old writers, and to his own comments upon the feelings detected in the for
Ben Johnson, the most caustic and discontented:— lowing passages. ... Allading to the late Mr. Hoppner the
You assert roundly that there is no such persoa as the black painter, Mr. Hazlitt remisds Mr. Gifford of a confession
Prince Morocchius,” in the Merchant of Penice. “He, (Mr. with regard to that gentleman, and says, “You discreet
Hazlitt,) objects entirely to a personage of whom he never heard ly said nothing of him while he was struggling with obscu
before, the black Prince Marocchius. With this piece of blunder rity, lest it should be imputed to the partiality of private
ing ignorance, which, with a thousnnd similar instances of his inti friendship; but you praised and dedicated to him, as soon
mate acquaintance with the poet, clearly prove that his cnthu as he became popular, to shew your disinterestedness and
siasm for Shakespear is all affected, we conclude what we have
to say of his folly; it remains to say a few words of his mischief.” deference to public opiniont.”—P. 29.-The man's friend
Vol. xxxiv. p. 463. I could not at first, Sir, comprehend your ship seems of a piece with his enmity.—both at the mercy
drift in this passage, and I can scarcely believe it yet. But I of his native meanness and of his servility to authority.
perceive that in Chalmers's edition, the tawny suitor of Portia, We must add a passage to the one we quoted last Sun
who is called Morocchius in my common edition, goes by the day about kings and tyrants:— -

style and title of Morocco. This important discovery proves,
according to you, that my admiration of Shakespear is all
affected, and i. I can know nothing of the poet or his charac
ters. So that the only title to admiration in Shakespear, not
only in the Merchant of Venice, but in his other plays, all know
ledge of his beauties, or proof of an intimate acquaintance with
his genius, is confined to the alteration which Mr. Chalmers has
adopted in the termination of the two last syllables of the name
of this blackamoor, and his reading Morocco for Morocchius.
Admirable grammarian, excellent critic? I do not wonder you
think nothing of my Characters of Shakespear's plays, when I
see what it is that you really admire and think worth the study
in them.
You observe, that “Some lines I have quoted from Chaucer,
are very pleasing—
“Emelie that fayrer was to sene
Then is the lilie upon his stalke grene,
And fresher than the May with floures new e :
For with the rose-colour-trove hire he we ;
I n'ot which was the finer of hem too.”
I\o you mean to say, (asks Mr. Hazlitt) that the circumstances
of external pomp and unbridled, power, which I have pointed
out in “the gabble you will not answer” as determining the cha
racter of kings, do not make them what for the most part they
nre, feared in their life-time, and scorned by after ages? If sº,
you must think Quevedo a libeller and incendiary, who makes
his guide to the infernal regions, on being asked, “if there were
no more kings,” answer emphatically—“Here are all that ever
lived!”. You say that “the mentiºn of a court or of a king al
ways throws me into a fit of raving.” Do you then really admire
those plague-spots of history, and scourges of human mature.
Richard II. Richard Ill. King John, and Henry VIII. Do you
with Mr. Coleridge, in his late Lectures, contend that not to fall
down in prostration of soul before the abstract majesty of kings
as it is seen in the diminished perspective of centuries, argues an
inherent littleness of mind? . . Or do you extend the moral of your
maxim—“Speak not of the imputed weaknesses of the Great"—
beyond the living to the dead, thus passing an attainder on has
tory, and proving “truth to be a liar” from the beginning :
“Speak out, Grildrig" *- - *

- “But snrely the beauty does not lie in the last line, though it This is nm exquisite adaptation of a name. It was
is with this that Mr. Hazlitt is chiefly struck. “This scrupu the one given to Gulliver at Brobdingnag, and occurs with
housness he observes, ‘about the literal preference, as if some great emphasis in the celebrated answer made to hin by
question of matter of fact were at issue, is remarkable.’” the King of that powerful people, ending with the words
That is, I am not chiefly struck with the beauty of the last “most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature
line, but with its peculiarity as characteristic of Chaucer. The ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.” -
beauty of the former lines might be in Spenser:, the serupulous “You should never,” says Mr. Gifford's Monitor, “put yout
exactness of the latter could be found no where but in Chaucer.
I had said just before, that this poet “introduces a rentiment or thoughts in Italics. If I were to attempt a character of verbal
a simile, as if it were given in upon evidence. I bring this
simile as an instance in point, and you say I have not brought it * In the Quarterly criticism here alluded to, (not to mention
it's bad grammar) words were actually substituted for thºse in
to prove something else. the original text, passages brought close to each other so as to
Mr. Hazlitt, in detecting the malignant cunning with make a ridiculous context, other plurases separated from the
which Gifford would confound the characters of the two context for the same purpose, and a sentence put into marks of
writers in the Round #.
so as to make the confusion quotation, which existed no where but in the critic's imagine
of both have a ridiculous result to each, has, done the tion, and appeared to be the only thing in it except maligaty.
Editor of this paper the honour of noticing the wilful mean But the whole article was a compound of malignity and menu
ness, almost too loathsome to touch.
ness practised by the same person towards his productions + The passage here alluded to by Mr. Hazlitt is alone enough to
in verse. He jºstly quotes a passage in the Feast of the account for Mr. Gifford's sick aid shuddering antipathy to ºtt
Poets as the Editor's old original sin against this literary verses that have a smack of originality about them,--not to men
Regis Diabolus (Attorney-General), and says upon a tion his hatred of seeing any friendship unlike his own. -

note on that passage, “It is no wonder that for this note “I too, whose voice no claims but truth’s cler mov’d,”,
you put the author--of Rimini, in Newgate, without the (What a line! and what a truth!)
Sheriff's warrant. In order to give as favourable an im “Who long have seen thy merit”, long have lov’d;"
pression of that poem as you could, you began your ac (What a love! and what a youth I)
Fount of it by saying that it had been composed in New “Yet lov’d in sileuce, jest the taut should say” :
gate, though you É. that it had not; but you also (What a bashful, brazen face :) -

knew that the name of Newgate would sound more grate “Too partial friendship tund th’ applausive lay;” . .
ful to certain ears, to pour Hattering poison into which, is {w}. an exquisite common-place!) *

the height of your abject ambition. In this courtlyinuendo, “Now, now, that all conspire thy name to raise,” º

(What prodigious friendly help!) :

- You have "pelt it wrong (Marocchius) on purpose fºr “May join the shout of unjuspected praise.”
what I know.” - -
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crities, I should be apt to say, that their habits of unind disqua a laughing) alone shews of what good and sincere stuff
lify them for generai reasoning or fair discussion: that they are his mind is made; and his insertion of a summary of
faieus about rifles, because they have nothing else to interest the question at the end of a letter, like the present is an
them ; that they have no way of giving dignity to their insigui other, amounting to the romantic. Few will take the
ficant discoveries, but by treating those who have ini-sed them
trouble, after i. ready excitement afforded them by
while coutempt; that they are dogmatical and conceited, in pro
portien as they have little else to guide them in their quaint such an exposure, to explore a deep metaphysical ab
researches but caprice and accident; that the want of intellectual stract, and discover how much - more “ sorrow than
excitement gives birth to increasing personal irritability, and anger,” is at the bottom of all his invectives. As to
endless petty altercation. You, Sir, would make all this self poor miserable Gifford, he will recoil from it, out of
evident, by the help of Italics, and say, that the cause lies not in a double instinct, of inability to understand it, and im
any thing in the nature of nerbal criticism, but the crolusive appro
priation ºf their time to it.” patience at the least notion of thinking well of the author.
The conclusion of the Letter is n-hered in thus:–
Yet we are far from wishing it not to be where it is. We
would not have missed it for a great deal. The trenchant
I have done what I promised. You complain of the diffi metaphysician, "who cuts
culty of remembering what l write; po-sibly this Letter will
º
the disguises of others,
prove an exception. There is a train of thought iu your owu ſlimsy or coarse, is here “fairly caught in the web of his
own” simplicity. But how well can he afford to commit
mind, which will connect the links together: and before you himself
again undertake to run down a writer, fºr no other reason than . -

that he is of an opposite party to yourself, you will perhaps re
collect that your wilful artifices and shallow cunning, though
undetected, will hardly screen you ſrom your own contempt,
mor, when once exposed, will the gratitude of your employers
save you from public scorn.
Your conduct to me is no new thing: it is part of a system
which has been regularly followed up for many years. Mr.
Coleridge, in his Literary Life, has the followin: passage, to
shew the treatment which he and his friends received from your
predecessor, the Editor of the Anti-Jacobia Review.—“I subjoin
part of a note from the Beauties of the Anti-Jacobin, in which,
having previously informed the public that I had been dishc every one) copied without acknowledgment.
We rise ſtom the perusal of this letter with great con
tempt for Mr. Gifford, not unmixed with pity; and with
increased regard for what we always believed uppermost
º: Hazlitt's mind;—his zeal in behalf of his species.
* Yet this gentleman, besides being calumniated, has been
plundered by the Anti-Jacobin enemy. We are much mistaken,
if the opinions now prevalent respecting the merits of the old
English dramatists did not almost entirely originate with his un
ostentatious criticisms, which reviewers and editors (though not
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moured at Cambridge for preaching Deism, at a time when, for F

my youthful ardour in defence of Christianity, I was decried as
a biget by the proselytes of French philosophy, the writer con
cludes with these words—“Since this time lie has left his native fine Arts.
cºuntry, commenced citizen of the world, left his poor children father
less, and his wife destitute. Er hoc disce his friends, Lamb and BRITISH INSTITUTION.
&eitkºy. With severest truth,” continues Mr. Coleridge, “it
may be asserted, that it would not be easy to select two men 31, Landscape, Çattle, and Figures. R. Westall, R.A.—
more exemplary in their domestic affectious than those whose To say merely that a picture is agreeable in its colour and
usines were thus printed at full length, as in the same rank of figures, is beneath what an R.A. will expect, and what the
morals with a denounced infidel and fugitive, who had left his graphically enlightened visitor to a picture gallery ought to
children fatherless, and his wife destitute: Is it surprising that expect from an eminent Artist; it is however all we can
ñany good men remained longer than perhaps they otherwise would
have dºne, adverse to a party which encouraged and openly rewarded
#: this work, or indeed of any of Mr. West All's rustic
the authors of such atrocious caluminies?”. subjects. GAINsporough and MoRLAND formerly, and
With trie, I confess, the wonder does not lie there:-all I am Mr. Colliss and Mr. T. BARKER now, have directed our
surprised at is, that the objects of these atrocious calumnies were attention so closely to this part of Nature, and Messrs.
ever recºnciled to the authors of them and their patrons. Doubt WARD, Coopra, and LANDseen, have brought forward so
less, they had powerful arts of conversion in their hands, who genuine a breed of Animals, that we cannot with justice to
could witu inpunity and in triumph take away, by atrocious ca them praise this performance, especially as its Painter can
lºuntries, the characters of all who disdained to be their tools; so well afford to pay this tax of opinion from the wealth
aid rewarded with honours, places, ant pensions, all those who of applause he has so well earned for his labours in a
were. It is in this manner, Sir, that some of my old frieuds have
become your new allies and associates.—They have changed higher order of Art, History, and Poetry.—32, The Town
{
Saltash, early lºvening, P. Rogers, has a natural and
sides, not;1; and the proof that I have been true to the original therefore beautiful minºſing with the blue sky, of the
ground of quarrel is, that I have you against me. Your consist
ency is the undeniable pledge of their tergiversetion. The in yellow complexion of the great regent of day, just as he is
stinct of self-interest and meanness of servility are infallible and about tº depart. It has a well, arranged missing of trees,
safe; it is specidative euthusiasm and disinterested love of pub river, ships, &c., of the broad evening shadows, and the
lie good, that being the highest sirhill of huntanity, are apt to mild evening sunshine.--In Portraiture, the qualilies ex
filter, and “dying, make a swan-like erº.” -

pected and admired are, first, truth of individual likeness,

Mr. Hazlitt gives us to understand, that in the persons including complexion, shape, and air; secondly, pleasing
alluded to, as having become apostates, he does not in and interesting choice of attitude, out of the many that can
clude all the persons here mentioned. In fact, Mr. Lamb, be taken ; thirdly, good general effect of light and shade
we believe, is the only one of the more well-known Lake. according to the place the figure is in ; fourthly, that
writers and their friends, who never ineddled with poli species of execution which, while particulars are attended
tics;" and Mr. Hazlitt is the only one of all the rest, who tº, does not shew an equal anxiety to paint a button or a
has remained faithful to his first opinions, . The reason is feather as it does the personal form and the wonderful
thał, he loved them. ... *
principle galled mind; which is its animation and its glory,
. The cºnclusion of the pamphlet is taken up with ex ind which is the highest quality of Portraiture, and offi
flaining a favourite theory of Mr. Hazlitt's respecting other painting. All these, to a considerable extent, Mr.
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ihe Natüral Disinterestedness ºf Huº. Action,-upon LANE has given to us in 69, A Javanese.—109, The Lºnd
‘which º he wrote a masterly treatise some time
ºf Nod, is a bad pun, but a good picture, by Mr. W. S.
agö, entitled, “An Essay on the Principles ºf Hu Watson. The Painter would have given perhaps a hap
rian Action, being an Argument to show the Natural pier agreement of title and picture, had he, in addition tº
Disinterestedness of the Human Mind. ' His ardour to young man, sleeping in a room, represented a garden of
establish such a position (the very, thention of which pºppies and the river Lethe creeping through it; Srinstead
Will get all the conscious knaves aăd unconscious ſºols 9f these, a common bag-pipe; or were the person who is
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the ExAMINER,
asleep one of our keenly intellectual and tasteful Opposi other friends, and refused “”, who earnestly wished it,
tionists, after listening to a long speech of common-places admission as a writer in that publication.
and sophistications from the ministerial traitor to the British But to the argument. The Editor says (in vol. 2, An
Constitution, because trafficker in the seats of the great nals, p. 89.), I “had by writing at so early an age settled
Council of the Nation.—There is a pleasing looseness of for ever, the question as to the capability of Painters to
pencil among the brambles, dock-leaves, &c., and a clear write, their thoughts.”, “ ” says, delicately, it is a
diffusion of fight, in Mr. CRANMER's 227, The Hay-cart, notorious downright falsehood; taking it for granted that
Evening.—Great praise is due to the son of the Royal he meant that I was the first that ever wrote in English
Academician, Mr. M. T. WARd, for his Group of Catile, Art; so that not comprehending what is said, he asserts
909. Iłe is full of attainment.—122, Dead Game. If Mr. what is not said, and calls what he himself infers, a down
Blake is here not quite so successful a competitor of his right falsehood l “A foreigner might suppose from this
rivals the Dutch as his namesake in Oliver Cróinwell's time passage,” says he, “ that no English *ainter had attempted
was, he at least makes it a drawn battle. Mr. A LLNut to write before Mr. Haydon;” and then he goes on
has purchased this exquisite morse!, also Mr. Stank's gravely to assert, that Sir Joshua Rey Nolds wrote before,
bright Cuypish picture, Interior of a Cow-house, and 5, BARRY, Hoane, QPie, and others. This passage clearly
Grove Scene.—if Mr. G. S. Newton pursues such sub means, that as all other, Paiuters had not written their
jects as 143, Falstaff escaping in the Buck-basket, there thoughts in early life, but had spent it in painting, and did
can be little doubt of his being eminently successful. With not begin to write till rather advanced, it had always been
glowing colour, light, and shade, it lias genuine comic ap suspected, even eight or nine years ago, as writing requires
prehension. It is the tasteful purchase of Mr. Coies. It practice to do it well like other things, that when Painters
wants only a better pencilling, especially in the flesh.-Sir did do it well, and had not given proofs of previous prac
W. M. Ripley will have a treat from his purchase of Mr. tice, that they did not do it without assistance from their
HoFFLAND's Sheffield. This picture strikes us to look best literary friends: on the same principle, should a literary
towards the close of each day's Exhibition, a proof, we man all of a sudden produce a picture, who never had be:
th.nk, that it is rather too distinct for a moonlight scene, fore painted, and who had always been intimate will
which it pourtrays.-Mr. WARD, R.A., really ought not several Painters, it might naturally be suspected he had
to shock our critical feelings by representing as he has, in not painted the | ". though he might have conceived
190, The Tired Model; not that an inſant, jaded into de it, but that he had got assistance from those who had
formity of look by the fatigue of sitting to be painted, may spent their lives in painting. Now, as I had written
not be a proper, though not a very choice subject, but that almost as soon as I began to paint, when practice had
he has no right when we are invited to the pleasurable pur enabled me to write pretty well, it would follow I had
suit which a picture exhibition implies, and which this so roved the capability of Painters to write their thoughts.
largely affords, to dash at our feelings with so unexpected º, not this clear to any body ? -

a stroke of deformity; for the miserable object before us, Because the Editor has said, “We are convinced,
(it still haunts our istrugination), looks as if it was such that one page written by an Artist does more goºd tº
a sleeping brut as might be conceived to be begotten b public taste than huge volumes written by technical
Caliban and some nightly hºg, and then smeared wit amateurs.” . * * quotes this as if it was the mere unsup
blood, and its inherited energies paralized with liquor. ported opinion of the writer; but he takes care to supprº
the extract from Sir Joshua Reynolds, with which the
[A notice of some masterly Engravings next week.] opinion is supported. “I am convinced,” says Reysºlº,
“that one short essay, written by a Painter, will contribulº
ATTACKS ON M R. HAY DON. more to advance the theory of our Art than a thousan;
volumes such as wesometimes see–Discourse xv. p. 188:
º Iron the FXAMINER.] And * * proceeds to call the Editor a charlatan, ſº
It is perfectly indifferent to me, who wrote the letter interdicting the nobility to write on the Art; when if that
quoted last week; I have to do with what has been as sentence be an interdiction, which it is not, Sir Joshua,
serted, and not with what others may be suspected to have who was loved by all of the nobility, had passed the same
done. . - - interdiction before. - -

. . All these attacks on me from my enemies are the result He then infers, that I have attempted to rob England of
of nothing but severe mortification, because they find the honour of their Artists in what I wrote on Reysolº
that no notice was taken of their attempts to hinder the and signed my name to it in the last number, when I said,
Cartoons from coming; because I always set my face *Sir jºux's mind was not qualified to understandº
against the Catalogue Raisonné, and used all the influence antique, find that he knew very little of it; and tº
I might possess, in literature and art, to put it down and was astonishing to see how all men wrote in the dark tº
expose its vile principles; because I have established a fore the appearance of the Elgin Marbles.” Here he nº
more rigid method of early study; because I have se takes the inherent power of the intellect of Reynolds, for
conded, by my own and my pupils' efforts, the plan of the qualification .# that intellect by education. He
exhibiting the Cartoons, and assisted to render it effectual not see the difference between a deficiency of intellect.”
to the enlightening of the public mind; and because I nature, and a defect of qualification ſrom accident; tº:
have met at last with public sanction, and the sanction of Nolds's mind was not incapable of understanding tle
the highest authorities in the kingdom. antique; it was only not qualified by previous educat"
These are my unpardonable." Anti-British" errors;– to unders;and it. * , -

no doubt it was very Anti-British to make young men Åſſmen did write in the dark, till the appearance of"
Craw two years before they painted it was shockingly Elgin Marbles, who wrote on the Art and the Grº.
Anti-British to make them dissect' it was horribly Anti Till the Elgin Marbles came, no man had any idea, frºm
British to make them study the expressions of RAFFAELLE! the antiques in existence, that the ancients had such knº:
and most infamously Anti-British to exhibit them to the ledge of picturesque composition; or that the tºmº."
public, and to succeed! - - - - - - principles of nature could
without detracting be somingled
from it; or, that thewith ideal had
Apollo bºy in
These being my unpardonable Anti-British crimes in
the eyes of my enemies, it behoves me to point out the herent defects of form, &c.; and these things being
men who wrote, on the Art and the Greeks beloſ” the $9.
crimes of the Editor of the Annals of the Fine Arts,
on whom such a delicate assault has been made. The appearance of the Elgin Marbles of course wrotein.
Editor has always supported my principles of Art, with dark, because the knowledge of these things is so very "
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porant. The Editor asserted, I “was the first to affirm tomb! who was born in the same delightful country,
the excellence of the Elgin Marbles.” “ , says, this is finished my education at the same school, and wept wit
an Anti-British and empirical falsehood; that in point of enthusiasm when I first saw the Academy on my arrival
fact it is an audacious ſalsehood; and lastly, that it is an in London, where he delivered his Lectures'
impudent falsehood, because Mr. West affirmed the ex I shall continue to write, while I conceive that by writing
cellence of the Elgin Marbles in the presence of the Bishop I can at all conduce to the advance of public feeling. I
of Duanianſ, within a fortnight or three weeks after the shall not ſaint till my eyes can bear the fatigue, for I can
cases were opened in Park-ſane; and that he began to not afford to lose them. I shall not exhibit my Picture,
draw from them immediately, “at that time (in 1806) till it be in a state to bear public criticism; and if any men
being almost nearly two years before HAYpon saw them, stand in the road, and will neither advance the Art them
with he did not until after he had began his Dentatus in selves nor let others do it, it shall be my struggle to make
18, 8." - -
them. É. R. HAYDoN.
Lord ElGIN had no house in Park-lane until he *

returned to England from Paris, after being released by PETITION OF THE LONDON CLERGY.
Box APARTE from his detention, previous to Lord LAUDER -º

palº's negociation: this was in June 1806. In October Fallit le incautumn Pietas tua. -

the 8th, 1806, the deed assigning the house in Park-lane Mr. Examiser, Perusing the Examiner at my Sun
from Lord Cholmondeley to Lord ELGIN was signed; day morning's breakfast, as has been my custom for 10
and it was some months before the house was fit for Lord
ears past, the case of Rogers and the attack on Miss
Elgix’s habitation, and a place was built for the reception Booth, contrasted with the Petition of the London Clergy
ºf the Marbles, and the Marbles unpacked or arranged. laying before me, awakened that indignation resulting frºm
Thus I was not the first to affirm the excellence of these the detection of avarice, intolerance, and hypocrisy. To
tlivine things, because Mr. West affirmed them in the the no small gratification of the Sectarians, the London
presence of the Bishop of DURHAM, in Park-lane, in 1806, Clergy have presented their Petition, for leave to bring in
immediately after the cases were unpacked, and because a Bill to augment their Tithes, and, on looking at the sig
he began to draw from them there directly. Mr. West Batures, to my surprise I observed the name of our worthy
never drew from them in 1806, for this simple reason, Pastor. Publicity ought to be given as to the situation
because they were not unpacked to draw from, and the and conduct of every individual making the application ;
place was full of workmen till June 1807; nor did he ever the Gentleman above alluded to either volunteering his
make detached drawings; he only made compositions ſrom services in the good old cause, ſrom an innate propensity
them at any time. to mingle in the fray, or on behalf of his distressed bre
Lord Elºis's cases were removed from Privy-gardens to Pak thren in canonicals, to whom no doubt he is º to coh
lane in the year H806, from the 25th October to 8th November cede part of his revenue, as he for himself can have no
inclusive. -

thing to ask, possessing as he does the good things of this

Began to unpack and, arrange for inspection 1807, Feb. 21, to
June 29, inclusive. -
life in abundance, 500l. per annum for attending his flock
.##erſ, 10th March, 1819. ... GEorge BUCKHAM, one hour and a quarter on every seventh day, three valu
Abingdon-street, Westminster. able Lectureships, an appointment as Master of a Public
School, the joint emoluments of which exceed 1200l. per
In the interim, the place was built to cover them in, annum. Now, let a Petitioner present himself, who, from
(viz. between 8th Nov. 1806, till 21st Feb. 1807), and the first week of his induction to his living, scattered the
the Marbles remained packed up and piled on each other seeds of discord amongst his Parishioners, collectively and
in the stable and stable-yard; and Mr. H says individually, pursuing some of his victims to the Coºrt of
nothing could be seen but a few horses' legs, as they Conscience (a Court rarely appealed to by 'im) for ºr
were all in cases during that time. And again: be rears of those oblations, of which in former times he was "
cause Mr. Harrison, whom I know and respect, was but the Steward, and instituting a suit against the Parish
the indirect cause of inducing Lord ELGIN to bring for recovery of estates of 800l. per annum, which for 300
them to England, for he only advised Casts at first, I years have been appropriated to the poor, and such
am not the first to affirm the excellence of the sculpture proceeding engendering hatred amongst his Parishioners
after the Marbles came! Here again * * cannot see the for half a century to come. . . - *

differences of things. In spite of all assertions to the con
trary, I was the first to affirm, in the most distinct manner,
their certain influence on the Art of the world: I was the
first to draw from them: I was the first to carry their
principles to canvass; and I will enter into every explana
tion very shortly, if of any consequence.
This is the man to accuse me of calumniating the race
of modern Artists, and of defaming the illustrious Rey
Nouns in his tomb : I defame Rey Nolps in his tomb,
Behold the Petitioner again at the jingling of the vestry .
bell enter the sacred edifice, a perfect Churchman Militant,"
armed not with folios of scriptural law, but the let gon
scripta, yelept law reports, in gilt octavos, denouncing
vengeance against those who should dispute his right to
recedence, aetually driving his flock to the deil's house
#. by, to finish their evening's business, with doors bar- .
ricadoed against this Preacher, not practiser, of the mild
precepts of Christianity, - -

who have conscientiously struggled all my life to speak the If such Petitioner should be found among the fist of
tººth of him, whenever I mentioned his name! who, in signatures, it becomes the duty of the Legislature to note
this very same paper, said, he painted children better than him well, and give him the redress he deserves. It is to be
Raphael, Titias, or Rubens ! who said, that the noble hoped each Parish will pourtray the merijs of the respec
tandour of his mind, in publicly condemning his own tive applicants (incumbents-I beg, their pardon, in the
practice, in his Discourses, and pointing out to the younger literal sense of the word), and stop the encroachment on
men the sound and true path to excellence in the higher private property. - -

walk of Art, at the risk of his own eminence, was a et it be known how they are compensated for their
sufficienſ refutation of this assertion, (viz. that he was drowsy discourses to the echoing walls of the City Churches:
meenly political during life); and that his conduct the few, persons attending divine service in most of them
in this instance was grand, and proved his love for his hardly amount to a number entitling them to be digiti
Art, and the greatness of his comprehension.—(Annals of fied by the name of congregation. -

the Fine Arts, p. 540). H., who said these things (which Our Shepherds seem to have but one object in view,
this man has suppressed) to defame Reysolds in his viz, shearing their small flocks, their labours being directed
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to anything but spiritual matters : . if in their discourses the engines arrived, nud the flames were completely subdued—
animation is observable, it originates in some political Two men who lived in one of the houses are missing, and it is
believed have fallen victims to the fire.
broil or selfish squabble with their Parishioners.
Our enemy is subtle and enterprising ; therefore I must On Tuesday week, between four and five o'clock, a fire broke
out in the bed-room occupied by the Rev. Mr. Hazell, No. 4,
tonclude by recommending energy and caution in our Stanhope-place, Bath, in consequence of the clothes falling upon
mode of resisting the manoeuvres of ºur arch antagonist.— a rush-lantern, flaced too near the bedstead. Mr. Hazell, who
I believe I may entitle nyself your oldest Subscriber, is aged and paralytic, was so dreadfully burnt, that he lingered
FiN URL, a short time, in the greatest agonies, and expired.
Vestryman of St. Thomas the Ap—stle.
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On Saturday week, about 11 o'clock at night, a most destruc.
- ** * * * tive fire broke out in the extensive water corn mills at Chester,
* * * º CITY. which, notwithstanding every exertičn of men and engines, raged
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with such impetuosity, that in the short space of three hours
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scarce a vestige remained to mark the site of the building. One

A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday ſor the mâu, in endeavouring to save some property, was literally burnt
dispatch of general business. The Court was suummoned for to a cinder. The fire is conjectured to have originated in the
twelve precisely, but no Aldermen being present to constitute a kilu used for drying oats. A great part of the prºperty is in
Court, nothing was done until near half-past one. Messengers sured; the total foss of which is estimated at 30,000l.
were despatched it, the mean time, but no Allerman could be Eirly on Sunday morning, Thomas Fletcher, a carpenter, re
found. During this delay, Mr. Garryrrus addressed the Lord siding in Helmet-court, Straud, having had some words with his
Mayor, and suggested that his Lordshiº should send his inace to wife, in a fit of violent passion, stabbed him-elf to the heart with
such Aldermen as could be found and have them taken into cus a large case-kitife, and expired withiu an hour. º
tody.—The Leitn MAvon replied, that, as there was no court, -
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he could not attend to any thing that was said, -Mr. G. rejoined,
illat he knew what he said had no effeit on the Lord Mayºr, but BIRTHS. -

be threw out the suggestion for the consideration of the Court.— On Monday last, at Tunbridge Wells, the Marchioness of Ely,
‘the Lond MAxon appealed rather warmly to the Court for pro of a daughter. -

tection against being thus insulted.—About half-past out; two , Murch 8, Mrs. Briºgloe, Nelson-street, Edinburgh, of a
Aldermen were in attendance, aud the business commenced. daughter. *
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Mr. JAxiºs, after a few comments on the inconvenience conse On Saturday fortnight, Elizabeth, the wife of Robert Wells, of
quent on the non-attendance of the Aldermen, moved that the Gre-seuhall, Norfolk, of four living children, viz. three boys and
Lord Mayor be requested to represent the circumstances to the one girl, two of whom are still living, . . . -
Court of Aldermen, iu order that some measures might be adopted
which would prevent a recurrence of such a circumstance. MARRHAGES.
The resolution was carried. On Thursday, Jöln Sutherland, Esq. of Liverpool , to Margaret,
. . Mr. Fay Ell preseated a report from the Committee on the only daughter of John Mackie, £sq. of Watling-street.”
several gaols, setting forth the great inconvenience to which the Ga Thursday, Mr. H. Iles, of St. John's-street, to Miss Restall,
city was put by the increased expenditure, incurred in the only daughter of J. Restall, Esq. of Leman-street.
qmaintenance of the Middlesex prisoners aud, the couvicts in
Newgate, and also the evils arising from the impracticability of - DEATHS.
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any classification of the prisoners in consequence of the present On Saturday morning, the 27th alt., Benjamin, the infant son
£rowded state of the gaols. The report recoalmended a Petition of Benjamin and Caroline Hadley; and on Friday, the 5th inst,
to Parliament on the subject. 4.
Caroline, wife of the said Benjamin Hadley, of Bay Cottage, ºr
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The motion was carried, and the Petition agreed to. the Crescent, Birmingham. The late possessor of this ineumable
-

In reply to some observations of Mr. Favºlt, respecting the £easure may well say, “’ſ ne'er shell look upºn her hike again."
delay in making the Recorder's report, the Reconourt said, that The sweetness of her disposition, her alińsble mannets, hº
the report was ready up to January, and he was unaking up the genuine, piety, attd. ber universal benevolence, (contiuºsº
rest as fast as possible. It was very voluminous, and he hud a Correspondent) endeared her to all who knew her, and its nº
great many other avocations; but he devoted all. His spare time small satisfaction to her disconsolate husband, aid her weep";
friends, that she left behind her, a few days previºus tº her
to it. . -

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death, a most ºnequivocal testimony that she is now in the poºr
AccIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. : session of a blissful immortality. -

Ou the 7th of February, at his house in Foley-street, Caven"

MELANcholy Sticipz.—A Coroner's Inquest was held on dish-square, in the 27th year of his age, Mr. Edward Pay”
:Thursday afterwoon, at St. Olave's workhouse, Southwark, ou after a painful illness of several months. He was a young.”
the body tsays our Correspondent) of promising abilities, and taugh tº
‘eid to fisofexistence
John Paul,
by Esq., a merchant
drowning himself.in the
TheCity, who put
deceased wasana spected by all who knew him.
a the 3d instant, after a severe illness; Julia Kennedy, ſourth
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, brother of James Paül, E-q, formerly a candidate for West daughter of Mrs. Kennedy, of the Theatre Royal, bublin. . .
rainster, who fought a due; with Sir Francis Burdeſt, and who Lately, at Eton, where he was for his education, the sºn ºf
same months afterwards shot himself. Another brother, T. Paul, the late Major Snook, of the 18th. He was a boy º: a ('oſ
Esq., a merchant of Birmingham, poisoned himself a short time. respoudent) of distinguished talents, respected by his mas"
agº.—h appeared from the evidence, that the deceased had been and beloved by all who knew him.
absent from home five weeks last Tuesday, and that prior to his At Chilwell, on Thursday fortnight, aged 56, Mr. John Hope"
absence, he was in a dreadful state of irritation and despair, weil. He was buried at Aſſembarrow church du Sunday, hay";
owing to the embarrassment of his affairs. Frequently be left his outy five weeks before followed one of his sons, Jason, aged 16,
bed at aight, and walked about the room in a distracted way : to the same place of intermeat, and a week after that, another”
sometimes he beat his forehead violently, and showed other John, aged 18'
signs of a disordered mind. . On the Saturday before he left On the 7th inst., at Bath, aged 88, Mrs. Western,* widow
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of
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home, he took a large quantity of laudanum; but an antidote the late Thomas Western, Esq. of Abington, Cambridgeshire.
being administered, he recovered. He was 38 years of age; and On the 8th inst., at Hanwell, Middlesex, in the 72d yeº's
has icft four children: his wife died 12 months ago. The body liis age, the Rev. Herbert Randolph, “B. D., Precentor of St.
was in such a state, that, but for his clothes, his identity would Paul's, Itector of Hanwell, and perpetual Curate of Wimbledon,
have been doubtful. Verdict—Insanity. -
Surrey.
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on Monday, a fire broke out in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, in "ºwedneſday

- which four persons were burn,--The flames were discovered Briggs, son of Mr. week, at Leicester fair, aged 26, Mº Jº"
Briggs, horse-dealer, Belton, near Lough
: bursting through the shutters of a house by the watchman, who borough. He had slept at the Nº.
Head, Leicester, the Pº.
gave an instant alarm; but before *y assistance could be pro ceeding might; and at six o'clock, he was seized with the º
cured, tire a jºining house, a chandler s-shop, was also inflames at his stomach, which terminated his existence in about **"
and female cries could be distinctly heard from the upper pºrt *
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of the house, occupied by Mrs. Salmond, aged 70, and a young priated and published by John Hunr, at the Examixen-Office,
- woman, named Elizabeth Hockliu, both si k-winsters, who pe.
“rished before any assistance could be afforded them. At length 19; Catherine'street, Straud-Price 194.
 THE EXAMINER. . * , “ . .. . . . . .
No. 586. SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1819.

‘the politicAL ExAMINER, his thousand-guinea snuff-box, sees in it all that royal
patriotism amounts to, sixpenn'orth of dust, and aljitle
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Pope. tickling to the senses, which serves to open one's eyes, As .
* > . No. 571. to the box itself, it was paid for by the people of England;
and it's possessor may considerit as received from them,
and be proud of it. It was a lure that meant nothing but
REMONSTRANCE OF DON ALVARO FLOREZ Anti-Bonapartism, from the hands of it's nominal givers;
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but considering what originally enabled this country to :
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bestow such presents, and the hānds into which it went, it
At length we have the pleasure of laying before our became a memorial of Anti-Despotism, in every shape; .
readers a continuation of the letter addressed to Ferdi and my Lord CastleReagh would doubless be now un
Naxo the 7th by Don Alvaro Florez Estrapa. It has willing, if not ashamed, to take a pinch out of it.* - -

just been translated" from the author's manuscript by Mr. Florez however must have the high satisfaction of
CHARLEs Toplis, Esq., and published in the shape of a knowing that things in Spain cannot last long in their pre
pamphlet; but in order to extend a knowledge of it as sent state. Every arrival of fresh intelligence, and even
much as possible (which we conceive to be the great ob every non-arrival, affords additional proof of it; for people.
ject of the writer), we shall continue to give extracts from are forbidden to speak of many matters on pain of impri
it occasionally. Our readers already know and respect sonment and death itself; and when they are not forbid
this sound thinker and excellent patriot. It was he, who den to speak, their opinions are in danger of being with
holding the chief official situation in one of the Spanish held by the insurrectionary armed bands, who traverse the
provinces, was the only person in authority to be before country at no great distance from the capital, and force the
hand with the people in proclaiming resistance to French post to go with an escort. . . - -- -

intrusion. The British Government were so sensible of It may be worth while noticing to the reader, as one
the value of his services, that they presented him, in the of those curious coincidences which can only happen
name of their sovereign, with a snuff-box of the value of a through the "medium of the press, the singular contrast
thousand pounds. After that long and fierce struggle furnished by the two different extracts which follow this. .
maintained by his brother patriots, and maintained, be it article; the one, from a pamphlet written by an indignant :
never forgotten, for Ferdinand himself on the strength of restorer of the ungrateful and half-witted FERDiNAND;
his constitutional promises and most earnest intreaties, he the other, from a publication in behalf of the once great
had the pleasure of seeing that person restored, who was Napoleon, lately his flattered master and Europe's, and
to be the MAacellus of the new Spanish monarchy. now a captive on a rock in the Southern ocean. One,
Alas! the poor-fººthless Creature, was already dead to thougha-ſool, seems restored to absolute power by his ,
every proper sentiment, or father had never been alive to very insensibility to good ſeelings of every sort as well as '
any. Drunk with his restoration, accompanied as it was to freedom; while the other is overthrown, partly by .
with a half-conscious want of every thing like merit, he faithlessness to the cause of liberty, and partly by the con- ,
saw nothing is it but sºme extraordinary favouritism on fidence of a better spirit. Self-will, and miscalculation of . .
the part of the intolerant and sanguinary phantasin whom existing apinions, have in fact ruined them both, Napo- “ .
he mistakes for the SUPREME Bei Ng; and disregarding all iroN as a sovereign, Feroix AND as a fellow-creature. In
his promises at once with a dull and unconscious looking such different 'shapes do extremes meet ! Napoleon
impudence, oſ, which none but the stupid are capable, he would have forced some good upon Spain; and this, for .
thought of nothing but re-establishing the united horrors the sake of a better principle, was not to be allowed, :
of civil and religiºus tyranny. But the patriots had been Ferdin AND would not let good be done to Spain, though
in earnest, though he had not; and Don Alvaro, among he solemnly promised it, and though it would have re
others, firmly but respectfully reminded him of what he dounded to his infinite glory and security. He, before
had promised. He frowned and threatened; but they long, will be allowed still less. To say nothing however
who had successfully struggled with genius in power, we e of his own approaching ruin as a sovereign, what spirit,
not to be brow-beaten out of their purpose by a foolish endued with the least power of judging or aspiring, would.
face. Signor Florez wrote and demanded; others out hesitate which to prefer being, Feudis And the mean
of patience began to demand with their swords'; the Crea
* By a curious computation which was made the other day, it
ture was at once too awgry, too much in the wrong, and appears that the value of the snuff-boxes given away by eur
tºo impotent, to alter his conduct; the prisons were Munisters tº persons of distinction during the lute Congress,
filled with the preservers ðf his throne; others were exiled, amounted to as great a sum as suffices for all the embassies -ettº
tortured, hung: others-by a refinement of malignity, and out by the North American Republig. Here is a remarkable
proof of the celebrated assertion of Miuros.--that “the trap
from unbearable hate of their real courage, were shot through pings of a monarchy would suffice to set-up an ordinary commo
the back as it cowards. Don. Alvaro, with some others,' weath.” And what would he have said of such trappings,
escaped to England, where he still exerts his powerful snuff-boxes, and plate, and pagodas The expenses o it’m ARLes:
the 1st were at least in better taste,_as Bºx Jonson, VANuwkº,
fºn in behalf of his country; and iſ ever he makes use of and INigo Jones bear immortal witness,
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geance,ofmakes
hearted on his throne, or NApoleon the glory-perverted cuted, of all Spain a nation of informers and of perse
jailors and of prisoners, of hangmen and of victims.”
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A monarch, who united with those who had sold the country, in
order to annihilate those who had effected its salvation, his coun:
sailors fearing lest means and variety of extermination shºuld fail
(From the Representation of Don Attuaro Florer Estrada.) him, on their suggestion re-establishes the torture, the gel
if, considered in the rank of a nation, the parallel betwixt the lows, and the confiscation of property, all of which had been
Spain of Ferdinand and the Spain of the Cortes, presents a con abolished by the Cortes. A monarch, who notwithstanding his
trast most mortifying to the national dignity of the former; con profession of governing as a good king and the father of his peo
sidering these two Spains in their internal government, that ple, and according to the enlightened view. and cultivation of
offers a contrast the most revolting to humanity and to reason. the nations of Europe, under the dictation of bigoted priests from
Happily I do not consider rhyself fitted to give º picture in all the first moment of his installation, rebuilds that tribunal of hor
its real colouring. Happily, Sire, I say, for who could with ror and of blood, the object of which is to assassinate whosoever
stand the horror or the pity it would provoke On the other shall dare to differ in opinion from the dictates of its inexorable
hand, from the little that will be seem, it will not be difficult to ministers, who impose it as a religious duty for the son to betray
imagine the true image. - * - - his father, and the wife her husband. A government in whose
What are the means, asked a wise prince of a foreign ambas courts of justice, sentence of death is decreed for actions that are
sador, which your king has of knowing the truth, and I shall be not interdicted but by laws passed subse uently, and (even with
acquainted with the character of his government In fact the out having committed these same ...) on him who may have
errors and iniquities of public administration can be ill avoided been invited to participate in them.* A government whose
when individuals have no facility of making them known. The theory is falsehood and treachery, and whose practice is oppres
Spain of the Cortes by means of the liberty of the press enjoyed sion and immorality. A government that to obstruct the spread
this great advantage, the only one perhaps which is known, to of information, and to complete its ruin, permits no other publi
shun and to correct the faults inseparable from all governments, cations, than such as
cution, eulogising as justify andsocial
the chief promote such scandalous perse:
virtues, impeachments and
so long as we have not one composed of men without passions.
i. Sire, if the proverb be true, that “a good paymaster vengeance; that considers as dangerous and criminal all men of
has no concern for pledges,” I know not how we can blame the merit and of intellect; and that gives no reception but to those
structure of a government which affords to the subjects every who have purchased a name at the price of honour. A govern
possible facility of exposing its errors and deviations. “The ment, all of whose measures fluctuate in the extremes of the most
very perfection of laws, says a philosopher, would be to make furious violence and the most degraded pusillaninity. A natiºn,
imprisonments unnecessary. How much more glorious would it whose rights and charter reduce themselves to the knowledge
be, in place of some vain monuments of art, to shew to strangers that the king is absolute master
our prisons empty} . What better testimony could be afforded of even to suggest or to think the of lives and
contrary is aproperty; and that
crime of sedition.
our virtue, and of the wisdom and justice of our legislation and A nation but where am I allowing myself to be hurried
government!”. Here, Sire, is another circumstance which can along My silence ought to º more than it is possible
not fail to mark the character of a government. That of Spain for my pen to express. The slightest pause of reflection on this,
under the Cortes was so mild and so rational, that notwithstand unhappily too faithful picture, what bitter feelings, Sire, will it
ing the storms inherent in all political revolutions, during the uot excite in you, cautiously as your sycopliants may dress their
four years of its existence, capital punishment has not been de language, artfully prepared to stifle or to appease them! Ah!
creed against a single individual for having contravened the new who is he that listens with complacence to that importunate voice
establishments. Those imprisoned for offences of this kind, did which torments us without ceasing, holding º in secret the
not, I believe, amount to four persons, and those who had expa faithful mirror of our crimes and deviations? I doubt not but
triated “themselves on the same grounds did not exceed other my language will seem to you harsh; but, Sire, it is that of my
four. Those taken up on the arbitrary will of the judges, whose bearſ, and it was not in my power to correct it, nor. shºuld I
number in Spain was very considerable, were no known }. have found a style less severe, that might have assorted with
after the establishment of the constitution; and aſter the passing what is due to !. cause which I defend. Besides, what other
of the law which abolished the multitude of prohibited goods, the antidate could re-establish your political safety, and your honour,
prisons were presently freed from a host of smagglers with whom were it not the firm and sincere exposition of the causes and ten
they had been always infested, from the ill understood preceding dencies of your measures?
legislation, of wishing to make a government rich, and preventing * Notwithstanding the numerous prisons with which Spain
at the same time the subjects from becoming so. If then the least abounds, (like all countries, under an absolute government,
equivocal and the most valuable enlogium' that can be made on where fear is the only bond that keeps the people in a sepulchrei
a goverument, in what regards its internal economy, be the dis quiet) on the entranče of your Majesty into Madrid, all the pri
play of empty prisons, this meed of praise cannot be withheld sons being insufficient for the reception of the crowds of prisoners,
from that of Spain under the Cortes. Finally, when there pre several of the great couyents were converted into prisons; and
vails a spirit of unanimity and concord in the general body of the the same has taken place in most of the provincial capitals. What
people; when they have a perfect confidence in the security of a dreadful'evideuce, Sire, of the virtues of the Spaniards, or of
their persons and property; when the government opposes no the perfection and justice of your government: Delays aid pre
obstacle to the progress º. cultivation and of indus
texts for non-performance when it might afford a kindness aud
try; and when the nation is respected by other powers; then
we may inſer withºut fear of deceiving ourselves, that the inter consolation to humanity, and precipitancy with facility of mean:
wherever it can contribute to the aggravation of oppression and
mal administration is conducted by men of experience, of talent, of punishment, according to the most accurate painter of the
and of probity. Your counsellers themselves, notwithstanding butnan heari, is the policy which constantly guides those princes
their little deficacy in casting obloquy on the Spain of the Cortes, who abuse their power. - -

have never made a charge which went to she with at their govern + I have been sentenced to death, with confiscation of all my
ment had offended by any of the opposite vices; and this tacit roperty. One of the principal reasons on which the indges
cºnfession is the least equivocal testimony of what Spain under . the sentence, a circumstänce very extraordinary in those
the Cortes was with regard to its internal government. of the tribunals of Spain, is for “having been elected president
But what a contrastis presented in the Spain of Ferdinand: A of the assembly at the Café de Apolo in Cadiz; and, (they add)
monarch reseued from captivity at the cost of torrents of blood,
and of the most painful sacrifices, but so forgetful of himself and although it is not proved that I had accepted this appointment,
of the past, that without having taken any part in the evils and however, the election alone proves very clearly what were my
dangers of his rescue, and of the independence of the nation, and sentiments since I enjoyed such consideration with those whe
thinking it a crime that he alone should not reap all |. fruits of were present at the said meeting.” This assembly was not pro
so much constancy and heroism, and considering himself to bein hibited by any anterior law.
inted because the representatives of the nation had defined by
wise laws the limits of his powers, and the indubitable rights of BONAPARTE,
all the people; on such erroneous sentiments he dooms for his Extracts FRoxy THE "Letters of count LAs casAs.”
first victins those very men who just before had given him a If the Writer did not feel satisfied, that enough has been ad
throne, had broken asunder his bonds, and hat! wrought the sal dueed, in the way of incontrovertible fact, to convince the
vation of their country. A monarch, who ruled by abandoned country, that inquiry has now become an act of necessity, many
eu, and giving ear to none but who breathe blood and ven more could be subjoined of nearly equal importance. That the
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Ministers dread any inquiry into the transactions at St. Helena general and permanent policy. “A temporary embarrass.
is most amply proved by the severe pains and penalties denounced ment,” it says, “is often the indication of a want in social
against those officers, or other individuals resident on the island, order, which had been long foreseen. The present cir
who have the tenerity to communicate or divulge any circum cumstances, therefore, are not the cause of what is done,
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stance, no matter how trifling, connected with its internal'history.

but they become the symptoms of what ought to be
When this fact is coupled with the many false reports so in done.”—The
dustriously circulated by the hireling editors of certain well memoirs of Las Casas have been seized.
knºwn journals, and grave accounts of plots planned and executed MARch 12,-Count Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely,
in Downing-Street; while the exiles of Longwood, and all those a new made Peer of France, arrived on the 10th inst. at
who arº jealous for the character of our country, not only chal nine in the .
and died yesterday morning of the
lenge their accusers to come forward, but earnestly solicit in gout in his stomach.
vestigation; it is left for a candid public to decide, which party MARcn 14.—Yesterday, at 10 o'clock, the funeral ser
is most likely to have justice on its side 1
Whatever the peace of Europe may seem to require, or state vice for M. Regnault de St. Jean, d'Angely, ci-devant
pºlicy suggest, let us not lose sight of Napoleon's detention, Minister of State, grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour,
either as it regards the people of France, or the immediate per&c., was celebrated in the church of St. Thomas Aquinas,
—The 17th number of the Nouvel Homme Gris, by M.
sonal interests of all present and future sovereigns. With respect
to the former, it will be quite as well to remember, that they Cugnet de Montarlot, was seized yesterday morning.
called Napoleon Bonaparte to the throne; that by the fortune of Risºrs, Manch 8–The public has been
war, and force of arms, they have had captive kings in their troubled in this town. . During several days past consi
º
power, and may again. Should this, by no means improbable, derable agitation was evident; this was attributed to the
twent take place, what course would the ignominious treatment
*perienced by their late ruler lead to on their part iſ, imitat proposition to modify the law of elections. Yesterday
ºg the ferocity of Tamerlane, we shut up a sovereign" who (the 7th inst.) a numerous assemblage was formed in front
throws himself on eur generosity (for Bajazet was taken in of the theatre; vociferations and menacing language were
battle), will not the French be more than justified in following heard. The authorities endeavoured to disperse the popu
our example? * .
lace; but their efforts during a long time were ineffectual.
Reflecting, on the case of our history nearest in point to the The patrols, sent to restore order, were insulted and as
Present, should
it be recollected, that the avowed cause of the sailed with showers of stones. Various provocations took
*nguimary war carried on by Edward the Third against John of lace in different quarters of the town: happily no person
France was for the crown of that kingdom, and of which our i. been grievously wounded. ...Very strict search is mak
monarch pretended to be the sale legitimate possessor. This
great question having been tried by the fate of arms, and proving ing to discover the authors of this tumuli. - -

favourable to us, the conqueror might then have profite by the MARcn 9.-Lieut.-General de Briche is arrived with
occasion thus afforded, to refuse acknowledging as king, when in 500 military. Tranquillity is entirely re-established.
his power, the person whom he had considered aud even declared
an usurper, while actually seated on the throne, The relations SPAIN.
of our Government with Napoleon were totally differeul: it is Accounts from Spain state, that proceedings had lately
true, we had not recognized him as the sovereign of France by a been followed up, and sentence of death pronounced, by
fºrmal.act! But did we recognize any other? Certainly not! the High Tribunals in Barcelona, on no less than fifty
His rights to the throne were so far from being the true cause of
Spanish Officers, implicated in the conspiracy of the unior
the war, that in all the overtures for negotiations, which were tnnate
made on our part, the acknowledgment of his rights to sovereignty General Lacy... The sentence had been referred to
was never included, or even so much as questioned in any of the a consultation with the King. From the period of the
articles proposed, to such a degree had this acknowledgment been discovery of the conspiracy up to the present time, these
already tacitly admitted. The difference is, that King John, a unhappy victims have been immured in dungeons.
prisºner, was treated as a king, by the person who pretended to
be himself the legitimate sovereign of France, thus proving, that NORTH AMERICA.
he was neither insensible to the calls of humanity or a short The New York papers, of the 11th ult., contain a
sighted politician; whilst Napoleon, a prisouer, is treated as a message addressed by Mr. Monroe to the Senate, recom
subject by those, who, while he was on the throne of France, did mending the claims of certain British subjects to indem
not recognize any other sovereign in that country.'. *
nity, on account of various injuries, sustained by them
As this subject regards the reigning monarchs of Europe, is it
their interest to establish a precedent fºr the exile and imprisonment through the proceedings of military and judicial officers in
ºf kings? or of exposing them, when in adversity, to the distressing the service of the United States. The debates of the House
alternative of being under the charge of subjects like Sir Hudson Lower of Representatives on the Seminole war, and the execu
A letter from Count. Bertrand to his friend the Count de Las tion of Arbuthnot and Ambrister, were still in full acti.
C*as closes the official papers, which it has been thought neces vity. The speakers were few, because the speeches were
*ary to publish in the present volume; so that the mation is now inordinately long; two of them, for the most part, consti
in full possession of every material fact connected with this im
pºrtant question; while its representatives have a Jody of tuting each day's diseussion, -

evidence in their hands, which defies refutation. It therefore Quebec papers have arrived to the 28th of January.
remains for this once great, and generous country, either to A paragraph in one of them says, that Mr. Gourlay, the
retrieve the national character, so shamefully abandoned ever person who had made himself so conspicuous as a leader
*ice the period of Napoleon Bonaparte's voluntary appeal to our and mover of the popular assemblies in Upper Canada,
magnanimity, or to seaſ its eternal disgrace, by suffering his has been committed to the public gaol, “there to remain
ignominious treatment to proceed, for no other earthly purpose, without bail or mainprise.” Houd complaints are made
than that of gratifying personal hatred and perpetuating legitimate of this proceeding in the Canadian journals.
depotism in Europe! -: , ;-------------- - -- - --
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* The reader need not be reminded of the iron cage, to which
St. Helena is so justly compared. - - UNITED PAR LIAMEN T.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Monday, March 15.

CHIMNEY SWEEPERS' BILL,
FRANCE. Lord Auckland moved the commitment of this Bill. He
, Panis, MARch 11–The Moniteur has an article on should relate two facts to show that whatever prejudice there
was against machinery, was owing to a want of *xperienties its
the late creation of Peers, which it defends, not so much advantages. The inhabitants of the parish of Christchurch inct
tº the ground of present necessity, or as a measure calcu to Petition against the Bill. In the course of the proceedings it
*d to answer a temporary purpose, as on the grounds of was suggested that it would be proper, in the first place, to try
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how far it was practicable to sweep chimnies by machinery. A General, brought to the bar, reprimanded by the Spenker, and
machine was produced, and experiments made 3 and the result discharged on payment of the ſees. - -

was so satisfactory, that the very persons who assembled for the The House then proceeded in the examination of witnesses in
purpose of petitioning against the Bill, actually signed a Petition the case of Mr. Quin.
for it. The other fact had occurred in making the experiments MUTINY BILL.-CORPORAL PUNISHMENTS.
on the chinnies of the House of Commons. In consequence of On the motion for the third reading of this Bill,
the directions of the Speaker, a person had proceeded to sweep Mr. H. Gunney objected to that part of it which sanctioned
with a machine, and he could only sweep 19 chimnies out of 61. enlistments for life, a practice, which made many soldiers dis
"the housekeeper however, determined to continue the experi
contented, and enabled a boy of 17, who could not sell a korse,
ment, and under his superintendence no less than 60 of the 61 to sell himself for life. .* - -

were swept. Lord PALMERs'Fox said, that enlistment for liſe was not com
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The Earl of LauperDALE opposed the Bill, on the ground pulsory, and that there was only 16s. difference between the
that it would increase the danger of fire, and that Col. Stevenson, bounty for a limited service and service for life. -

a man particularly capable of forming a judgement, had stated, in Sir R. Wilsox wished that some alteration should take place in
his report, that no machine, able to supply the place of climbing the practice of the army respecting corporal punishments. He
boys, had yet been invented. When . a machine should be knew that great improvements had been effected in the system,
invented, he should be very happy to give his support to a Bill but he thought it should be entirely done away, except as a miti
like the present : but he thought that, in its present shape, it gation.of the punishment of death. . He would put it to the
would be sacrificing the general interests of society to a false experience of every military officer in the House, whether crime
motion of humanity. He would relate a story he had heard in did not increase in proportion to severity. He would mention
illustration of this view of it. In some parts of Ireland it had
one instance of an illustrious personage (the Duke of Giocester),
been the practice, to tie, a rope round the ueck of a goose, and who had set the example, by the adoption of mild regulations;
thus drag the bird up the chimney, which was cleaned by the and with such success, that the same corps, in which it had been
fluttering of its wings. A man having one day n vailed himself found necessary to resort frequently to corporal punishments
of the aid of a goose, was eccused by his neighbour of imbu before, had afterwards become an example to the army by the
manity. He replied, that he must have his chimney swept. propriety of its conduct. It was, he could say, the same in all
“Yes, (replied the humane friend of the goose,) to be sure you cases where, the same salutary change of system had been re
must sweep your chimney; but, you cruel baist you, why do'nt sorted to,
ou take two ducks, they will do the job as well ?” (Laughing.)
#. moved as an amendment, that the Bill be committed this day. theMr.numberBeckett contended, that a comparison of the returns of
of men punished would show, that crime had in
six months. º - ..
creased during the two last years.
The Earl of HARRowby observed, that the best argument for The Bill was read a third-time and passed.
the Bill was that, as it would not come into operation before two On the motion of Mr, MANsfield, a Committee was appointed
years, time would be given for making experiments, which un to inquire into the grievances complained of by the frame-work
ess the Bill passed would be upglected. ' ' -- knitters of Leicestershire.—Adjourned.
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The House divided—Contents, 20–Non-Contents, 37–Majo

rity, 17.-The Bill is therefore lost.—Adjourned. . ." Tuesday, March 16.
Dr. PhII listore brought up the report of the Committee on the
Tuesday, March 16. Reading Election Petition. It stated, that Charles Fyshe Palmer
A Petition being presented against the equalization of the was duly elected. - -

coal duties, and an explanation of the intentions of Ministers Sir C. Burnell brought in a Bill to prevent bribery and eor
being demand;3, - -
ruption in the borough of Penryn, which was read a first time.
The Earl of Liverpool assured the House, that any proposi 'JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN INDIA, -

tion, to equalize the tax would meet with the decided opposition Mr. Huxle observed, that the British public were now, and had
of his Majesty's Ministers. - -
been for 20 years, entirely ignorant of the deplorable state of juris
ALIENS" AND DENIZENS, BILL. prudence and the police in India, though it was indeed dreadful.
Lord Sinxiourh moved the second reading of this Bill, the ob Civiljustice was virtually denied to suitors; those very suitors were
ject of which was to suspend for another year the rights of natu ºbliged to pay the Government, on the amounts claimed by them,
ralization supposed to be granted, by an Act of the Scottish Par from 50 dºwn to 7 and 6 per cent. Every document requisite to
lament, tº aliens who became proprietors in the Scotland Bank. the progress of a suit, the citations, examinations, and depositions :
The question was now before the Court of Session, which would of witnesses, &c. was obliged to be written upon stamped paper;
decide whether the Act did or did not confer such rights. He thereby increasing these heavy expenses to an enoria.ous total :
therefore wished that the House would not, by allowing the sus those expenses, under the native princes, never exeeeded 25 per
pension to expire, declare by inſerence that to be the law, which cent. on the amount claimed. The consequence of these unrea
was at present in question. - -
sonable disbursements was, that for years together suitors were
Lord Hoºp exfºressed his surprise at hearing a motion for unable to obtain justice; and it was stated in the documents
the second reading of this Bill before it was printed. If their already on the table, that in the course of a long life a man could
Lordships refrained from legislating, they would leave the ques scarcely expect to see any determination of suits commenced in
tion just where it stood last year, before any Bill on the subject Asia. The consequence had been an enormous increase of crimc.
was introduced. . The passing in so hasty a manner a Bill for (Hear.) He blamed no individual; it was the system under
suspending an existing law, was more like prejudging the ques which such abuses existed of which he complained. . He con
tion. -
cluded by moving for certain papers relative to the administra
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On a division, the second reading was carried by a majority of tion of justice in India since i. year 1810. -

j4 against 6–Adjourned. * . Mr. CANNING did not object to the motion, but thought that it
* . .

would be better to order only four of the returns, moved for, as

even those four would be so voluminous, that the discussion of .
- HOUSE OF COMMONS. the subject must be postponed to a distant day. . . .
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nday, March 15. adºpting any system to the habits and prejudices of the natives.
--
Mr. HuME, in reply, called the attention of the House parti
A muthber of Petitions were presented, chiefly against the cularly to the police of India. Persons were frequently taken
equalization of the coal-dºvies, and the Insolvent ſebtors' Act. up, and months elapsed before any information was exhibited
Mr. Aserchowry preserted a "Petition for a reform in the against them. In the interval, they were confined in crowded
Scotch boroughs from the Guidry of Edinburg!, and cam ind unhealthy prisons, where death not unfrequently overtook
mented on the evils and injustice stiffered by the inhabitants in them; or, after enduring the aggravated misery ºf imprisoament,
rousequence of the seſſelection of the members of the different nothing whatever appeared against them, and they were Tibe
€rrporations, who contracted debts, for which all the burgesses rated. The whole system of police at fengal was conducted by
were individually responsible.—Laid on the table. a set of spies, who were generally composed of bands of robbers;
$ºir, R. Wilsox presented a Petition from Mr. T. w. Grady, these, when once discharged, were let loose to ravage the sur
then in custºdy of the Sergeant at Arms, expressing his sorrow rounding country. . Much had been said as to the economy ob
fºr having ºf inded the House:-The Petition having been ſaid served in the appointinent of legal men in India, but the whole
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on the tabler the* : Petitioner
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was, on the motion of the gallant of Europe together
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India alone. (Hear.). The whole revenue of India was esti marriage of a minor by license, without consent, was at all times
. . mated at 11,000,000l; the charges of the law were 1,785,000l. absolutely void, even after the lapse of many years, and where
sterling, about oue--leventh of that revenue. (Hear.) parties sought to avail themselves of their own perjury, to free
• Certain papers were then ordered. themselves from the connexion they had formed. The remedy
- - INsolveNT DEBroRS' Act. for this was to limit the period for the avoidance of the warriage
The Attorn Ev-Gex ERAL observed, that it was not his inten by parents or guardians to the minority of the party, and where
tion to move for the abrogirtion of the Insolvent i)ebtors' Act, the party himself sought relief, to one year after the celebratiºn
but only to recommend the expediency of enquiring whether it of the marriage: after this time had elapsed, it ought uot to ke
was not susceptible of some improvement. The Learned Gentle disturbed. With respect to marriage by bans, it was in possible
man, after a short histºry of the former provisions respecting in that the formality of publication could be effectual in so large a
solvent debtors, moved for a Committee on this subjeet. city as London, and therefore the same limitat on shºuld apply
Alderman WArrawas expressed his surprise that, after he had in this case as in the former, and an actual residence of owe fort
intimated his intention of bringing this subject forward, it should uight should be necessary in the parish where the bans were
have been thus taken out of his fi. The Worthy Alderman published.—Leave given. - - - -

commented at some length on the frauds committed under the * - SALE OF ORDNANCE STORES.
present system, as well as on the impossibility of one man's Alderman Wood moved for an account of all stores sold to
doing justice to creditors, when there were three thousand cases Mr. Samuels by the Board of Ordnance.during the last year.
of insolvents before him at once. | In a conversation which arose on this motion, Mr. GRENFELt.
The motion was agreed to. - * -- -- asked, why the Board of Ordnance depared from the fair prin
Sir G. WARRENdett obtained leave to bring in a Bill to ex ciple observed by all other public boards,--of giving an oppor
tead qualifications for representing English boroughs to persons tnuity of general competition,-and contracted secretly with an
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possessed of landed property in Scotland. individual —Mr. R. WARD replied, that the Board always found
ROCHESTER E1.ECTION PETITION. that certain-persons combined to purchase the stores publicly
A conversation took place on a motion of Mr. WYNN's, that sold, and by excluding others from the sales, obtained them at a
the order for priuting the minutes of evidence of the Rechesterprice not more advantageous for the public than that given by
Electiºn Committee, which had been obtained by Mr. Beuuet, private contractors; while, by the latter mode, money was im
should be discharged.—It was contended by Mr. BENNET a d mediately raised by articles, which could have taken six or seven
Mr. TIERNEY, that the decision of the Committee,_that the Peti years to get rid of in the usual course of proceeding.
tion was frivolous and vexatious, was very extraordinary and The motion was agreed to.—Adjourned.
demanded investigation. A general meeting of the electors had - Thursday, March 18.
been called, and they had given their sanction to the Petition, - - - SALT I).UTIES. - -

Two most emainent Counsel had been consulted, and their advice Mr. CALchart, in moving for certain returns respecting these
had not only authorized the Petition, but promised a favourable duties, stated, that, however desirable it might be to relieve the
issue. The decision of the Committee had been opposed by country from this burden, he did not think that the Government
seven out of the 15 members, and yet the Petition was declared could afford to relinquish so large a part of the revenue at pre
frivolous and vexatibus.-On the other hand, it was argued, that sent, and therefore should not propose any measure this Session:
the word “vexations” did not apply to the motives of the Peti he thought, however, that relief might be afforded by some im;
tioners, but to the trouble unnecessarily given; and that it was provements in the mode of levying the tax, which he trusted
very improper for the House to interfere with the decisions of would be adopted. . . - -

its Election Committees.—The motion was agreed to. -

Mr. Curwen remarked on the oppressive mafure of the tax,
- - WINDSOR ESTABLISHMENT. and said, that he had no doubt that it might be reduced from 344.
Sir Alexanden Hore moved, that the six equerries, making to 5tperton, without injury to the revenue, as it would be more
part of his Majesty's establishment, should be continued, instead used in agriculture, and thus produce immense advantage to the
of the four proposed by the Committee. He contended, that the country. - -- .* -

saving by this reduction would be a mere trifle, while it would Dr. Hauntone said, that the effects of this tax were severely
be a cruel piece of parsimony to deprive the King of those faith felt (where they could least of all be borne) among the poor. As
ful attendants, whom he was accustomed to see about him. its reduction would not injure, but would perhaps benefit, the
This notion was opposed by Lord CastleREAgu as well as the revenue, he should very likely introduce some proposition this
Qpposition Members, and was uegatived on a division by a majo Session.—Ordered. - - -

rity of 193.—Adjourned. BANK BALANCES.

Some conversation arose on the motion of the Chancrºon of
. . Wednesday, March 17. -

the Exchequer, that the House should resolve itself into a

On-the motion of Mr. Alderman Warrhytan, several names
were added to the Committee on the Insolvent Act. committee on the Bill for rendering the Bank balances available
WESTMiNSTER ELECTION. for the public service.—Mr. GRENFeltsnid, that, the statement
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the public would have
Sir F. Bundert presented a Petition from four of the Electors the benefit of 6,000,000l., was completely fallacious; as the ul
ºf Westminster, complaining of awfundue return of the Hon. Geo. most would be three. There were besides 56 balances in the
Lamb. It asserted, that Mr. Lamb, by his friefds, managers, Bank, and this Bill only tonched one; sº that the country had
and agents, did give money, drink, entertainment, &c., to various been totally misled by the flattering expectations held ºut-Thº
voters, in order to procure his election;–that Peers and Lords chancellon of the Exchequen admitted that his Bill left 55 of
of Parliament had interfered and solicited votes, often employing the public balances untouched; but he insisted that in all of
threats; and thereby infringing upon the rights of the electors;-- them most material reductions had been effected. He would
that on the 27th, and 28th February, and afterward-, several assert, that the Bill would render 6,000,000l. applicable to pub
hºudred persons had been hired by Mr. Lamb and his friends to lic purposes, though it was true that a part of that suº would be
obstruct the approach of the voters for Mr. Hobhouse to the poll, devoted to the reduction of the debt due to the Bank. --Mr
more particularly on the last day of the election; which persons TierNev said, that the inconsisteney was, that the Right Hoti.
had been guilty of several riotous attacks, and had assaulted Gentleman had brought in a Bill to take only one of the balances,
several of the electors, by which, and other means, several while he professed that it would take all: of the 6,000,000t.
hundred persons who would have voted for Mr. Hobhouse had
said to be obtained for the public, 3,300,000l. must go to defray
been prevented from polling 3–that the High Bailiff had acted the deficiences in the Consolidated Fuad : and he contended, that
Partially in his capecity of returning officer, and had rejected the other 3,000,000l., inteuded to discharge, the debt due to the
vote. for Mr. Hobhouse that he ºught to have received, and had Bank, existed only in the imagination of the Chancellºr of the
received votes for Mr. Lamb that he ought to have rejected;— Exchequer; for though the balances might amount to that sum
that by all the e means Mr. Lamb had obtained an apparent ma particular quarters, the average would be much below it.--9a
jority, and had been returned to the prejudice of the electors, aatdivision, there were for the motion, 164—Against it, 80-Ma
and in open defiance of the law of election.
It was ordered that it should be taken into consideration on jority, 84."
the House then went into the Committee.-Mr. Grenfell.
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asked, why the Bill was confined to 6,000,000l., when the grow
MARſtiaGE ACT. ing º of the Consolidated Fund was between ten and
Dr. PnLliwoke asked leave to bring in a Bill to amend the eleven 3-The Cuancellor of the Exchequen replied, that the
Marriage Act. . The proposed measure related to the marriages present measure, might be hereafter extended.-The Bill then
ºf infants by license and by bans. By the existing law, the passed through the Committee.
 182 THE EXAMINER.
- JUNIOR LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY. while the fact was, that it had been granted for travelling ex
as was stated in th Act for granting it., The Noble Lord
Sir M4trºew Ripler made some remarks on the unwillingness pences, an amendment to alter this clause, which was rejected
ºf Ministers to relinquish any of their patronage, howev. moved
*ary to eeonomy. He did not complain that no reductions had on a division, by a majority of 156 against 97.
been made for the Admiralty had dismissed half their clerks; GAME LAWS.
but that *; citing with stich tenacity to ever part of, their
-

Mr. BRAND moved the second reading of the Game Laws'

Patronage. . The diminution of the business of the Board was
Amendment Bill.
proved by that very reduction of the elerks, as well as by this
Sir John Shelley thought, that the proposed measure would
circumstance,—that the number of days on which the Board used
increase the temptation to poaching, by allowing persons to have
tº sit was altered from five te three per week. In 1797, we had a
*and ships in commission ; at present we had isi, and yet game in their possession. -

Mr. Wilberronce observed, that this question was not merely

there wºre the same number of Eords of the Admiralty. As a question of gain, but a question of human punishments. In
there were no º: at that time that the Junior E. were reply to the objection of the last speaker, he would ask, whether
ºfew; it was a fair inference, that they were now too many. a clause might not be introduced, to prevent any person from
The Admiralty had made great reductions: indeed they had cº selling game without a licence from a Magistrate, which would
fied, them too far. He deprecated the preference shown for make it the interest of those authorized to keep poachers from
another service. It would be a difficult thing, on an emergency,
to tollect together the vast number of brave men scattered up supplyi ng the market. -

Mr. Coke considered that a man with a single acre of land

and down the country; but the case was very different with re had just as natural a right to that which was on it, as he himself
ºpec; to thºse usefuf and indispensable characters, the junior had to what was on his own ; why, then, should not he have
Lords-(4 taugh)—who could be procured whenever they were also an equal power to destroy it? He was not sent there to
wanted. As another instance of the care which Ministers took, consider his own amusement and interest-(cheering) ;
when they made any retrenchment, not to diminish their parlia if so, hemerely
should most likely have gone to the other side of the
liamentary or other influence, he would mention, that, when a House—(continu ed cheers);-but he had to look to the protection
ºductiºn of the Ghaplains of the Navy was talked of three of of those whom he represented from the operation, of cruel and
** senior Chaplains were recommended to be kept on the estab tyrannical laws. Last shooting season, in Norfolk, a poor old
Jºhnent for harbour duty; and if he was not much misinformed, woman, in crossing a Gentleman's plantation, was cruelly shot.—
* Rev. Gentleman who was appointed at Portsmouth had been (Hear!)—Application was then made to the Magistrate, who
Promoted from no regard to his public service. the interest of proved to be the owner of the soil, and he gave her an order on
the Rev. Gentleman, he was told, had contributed much to the
return of one of the present Members. He supposed, that some the parish for the weekly payment of 1s.I Was this to be en
Hon. Gentleman opposite would show how necessary the Admi dured?—(ſIear!)
Mr. Baskes said there was no º of finding a number of
-

:*y was, as a nursery for young seamen. that assertion had cases of persons accidentally hurt, not by the operation of the
been often refuted. Oue argument against the reduction was, game laws, but by the wantonness of gamekeepers.--(Hear !)—
that it was necessary that three Lords should affix their names
to documents; but the number could easil be altered to two. It The present Bill would not prevent such cases. The existing
had been said too that it was necessary to have a board for going state of society had taken away what was called the natural right
**d to the out-ports, and that therefore a sufficient number to kill game. It would be º imprudent to disgust the Coun
**t exist to allow of such a detachment. In time of peace, try Gentlemen, and take away their fonduess for a country life.
d
when we were not cºnstructing a navy, such an ambulatory The propose measure left all the odious provisio of the Geme
ns
board was unnecessary; and, supposing it were, it should not be Laws in statu quo; and would increase the nnmber of poachers,
*posed of those who were sent for the benefit of their edu. by legalizing the sale of game. -

cacation to this nurser for young statesmen. (Henr, heart)

Colonel Wood remarked, that though there would still be
stealers of game, as there were stealers of poultry, the poulterers
He thought, that the . oard ought to consist of the First Lord in town would be able by this Bill to proeure game legally, and
and two sea-Lords, to transact the business out of doors, and one therefore would not encourage poaching.
lay-Lord, to be present in parliament. The Hon. Baronet,
-

On a division, there were-For the motion, 110;-Against it,

*** cheers, concluded by proposing, that an address be
presented to the Regent, praying that he might give directions 83;-Majority for the second reading, 27.
that the commissioners of the 5. of Admiralty may be re CIVIL CONTINGENCIES.
duced tº such number as the exigencies of the public service It was moved that the Report of the Committee of Supply
required. .. - should be taken into consideration.
Sir G. Cocknurn denied, that the Rev. Gentleman alluded to Mr. C. Hutchinson objected to several of the items as extra
had been recommended as Chaplain on an political grounds. vagant, and scándalous in the present state of the country. The
He then proceeded to contend, that the º business of the Hon. Gentleman then mentioned some of the charges:–3,000t.
* Board was not so much reduced as might at first appear, be for furniture of the Royal George yacht, which he supposed wes
cause, in time of war, a great part of its business was transacted not for the ship generally, but for one room; 8,432. as the ex
- ºrough the medium of 12 Admirals, who now did no such duty. pences of Lords Castlereagh and Wellington at Aix-la-Chapelle ;
The professional Lords were fully employed, and though he º 13,000l. for tºe Grand Duke Nicholas, for which he could see
mitted that the lay-Lords were not, yet they were necessary to no reason; for if we were to pay the expences of one Royal vi
assist in the business, and to lessen the responsibility of their sitant, we could not refuse to pay the expenses of fifty: 28,500t.
colleagues. - - for snuff-boxes to Foreign Ministers. He objected most to this
Mr. Cºlchart, thought that, according to Sir G. Cockburn's last extravagant waste of public money, for which the Noble
- own statement; the business-of the Board must be decreased, as Lord, who participated in the returns for these presents, would
it had diminished the number and services of those whom it'su. find it difficult to give any reason. He coneluded by a moving a
Perintended.' If the other side should use their former argument, Resolution, that the sum of 22,500l. for presents to Foreign Mi
that it was a nursery for statesmen, he would repſy, that the misters was extravagant, and ought not to be again incurred.
• Government had already too tºtany places for such education. Lord CAsti.E REAGs
defended the charges. He could not enter
After sºme remarks from Mr. Graham and iord John Rus into explanation respecting the Royal George; but would not re
sºlt, in favour of the motion, the House divided—For the m fuse it, if desired, with regard to the expenses at Congress,
tion, 164–Against it, 245–Majority, 81.-Adjourned. which were less than on such occasions formerly. The charge
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Friday, March 19. for the Grand Duke was incurred out of that courtesy which pre
The Chairman of the Committee on the Bristol Election re vailed between governments: at the Congress of V. the
- - -

prºted, that the Sitting Members, Mr. Hart Davis and Mr. Pro Emperor of Austria entertained all the princes and ministers
theroe, were duly elected, but the Petition-against the Return there. It was usual, after the ratification of treaties, to make
was not frivolous or vexaticus. -
ºf
presents to the ministers them, and the charge for these
GRANT TO THE DUKE OF YORK. presents was not more than in former years. The United States
9m the notion that the House should take the Royal House certainl y never gave or received present", but all the European
governments did. Diplomatists were not paid so well as other
hold Billiuto consideration, - ‘.
public servants , and he could not consent to withdraw this ad
Lord Fotºstone objected to the clause granting 10,000l. to
the Duke of York, because it stated, that the same sum had been vantage. Some of them indeed turned these presents into money;
granted to the Queen, “for the care of his Majesty's person;" but for the most part, they kept them as memorials of the trans
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183
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actions they had been engaged in, and transmitted them to their J. Murray, Bishopsgate-street, cordwainer. Attorney, Mr. Redit,
descendants. " King's-road, Bedford-row. . . .
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.. . . . -

Mr. Hutchinson's resolution was withdrawn. J. Needes, Briek-lanes Spitalfields, coal-merchant. Attorney,
ABOLITION OF TRIAL BY BATTLE. Mr. Lang, Fenchurch-street. . .. . . ... "

Sir F. Borbert said, that the Attorney-General's bill pro R. Mr. Ellis, Dean-street, Southwark, provision-broker. Attorney,
fessed to do away the trial by battle, but it also abolished the Richardson, Clement's-inn. º -

right of appeal, two things which were perfectly distinct. He H. Watson, Stepney-green, merchant. Attorney, Mr. Wright,
Fenchurch-street. . -
was aware of the objection which would be made to the appeal, -

that it exposed persons to a second trial for the same offence; J. Peel, C. Harding, and W. Willeck, Fazeley, Staffordshire,
but he conceived, that in the case of murder, the appeal ought manufacturers. Attorney, Mr. Eastham, Lawrence-lane;
to be allowed, because it went to check the illegal exercise of the Cheapside. - * . --- --- -

power of the crown in pardoning criminals. The Hon. Baronet G. Fisher, Liverpool, merchant. Attorney, Messrs. Clarke, Ri
then cited several instances of scandalous abuse of the preroga chards, and Medcalf, Châucery-lane. -

tive of mercy in the present reign, which he contended ought to D. Williams, Green-street, Bath, harness-maker. Attorhies,
be guarded against. He moved the re-commitment of the bill. Messrs. Dax, Sou, and Meredith, Doughty-street. - *

Mr. Serjeant Corley argued, that the appeal of murder might J. and J. Sykes, and W. Redfearn, Almondbury, fancy-manu
be used for purposes of private malice; that it took away the facturers. Attorney, Mr. Batye, Chancery-lane. -

claim of a peer to a trial by his peers; and that the prerogative
of pardoning ought not to be touched.
ir F. Burperr, in reply, maintained, that the power of the
Crown to pardon had been expressly taken away by statute in
certain cases, on account of some abuses in its exercise.
The A-rrorNey-GENERAL must confess his total ignorance of
any statute taking away the power of the Crown to pardon; he R. and H. Barter, Bishop's Waſtham, grocers. Attornies,
was sure it did not exist.
W. Pearse, Oat-lane, Plackwell-hall-factor. Attorney, Mr. Ste
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... vens, Sion-college-fºrdens, Aldermanbury., . . . . .
H. Brodie, Liverpool, linen-draper. Attornies, Messrs. Húrd,
Johnson, and Chester, Inner Temple.
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R. Fenner, Paternoster-row, bookseller.
Attornies, Messrs.
Sweet, Stokes, and Cafr, basinghall-street.
Messrs. Amory and Coles, Lothbury.
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Sir F. Burnett read the words of a statute, which expressly

provided that the King shall only grant pardons“ in cases where rnick or stocks on saturday.
the King may do it by his oath.” He hoped that the learned 3 per Cent. Cons............................... 74
gentleman would be a little more cautious in his contradictions
in future. -
The wishes of the anonymous and truly, philanthropic benefactor
A division took place—For the re-commitment, 4–Against it, of the Distressed Family at Lambeth have been attended to.—
86—Majority, 82–Adjourned. We have also the pleasure of informing him, that the Subscrip
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tions received already amount to nearly one hundred pounds.

TUESDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE.
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BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. "The ExAMINER,
J. Gunn, Eton, Buckinghamshire, coach-maker.
- BANKRUPTS. London, March 21.
G. F. Jones, Bedford, bookseller. Attornies, Messrs. Swain and
Co. Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. Petitions against any alteration in the Election Law
H. H. Whitmarsh, Wingham, Kent, maltster. Attorney, Mr.
Starr, Canterbury. . are said to have been agreed to in almost every part of
J. E. Houghton, Fetter-lane, builder. Attorney, Mr. Deykes, France, Paris, in particular, having prepared upwards of
Thavies-inn.
a hundred, all numerously signed. This is no wonder,
G. Chaster, Gomersal; J. Chaster, Knottingley; and T. Chaster,
Dewsbury, Yorkshire, corn-dealers. Attorney, Mr. Evans, considering the blow which it would strike at the security
Hatton-garden. of national property. It is, in short, nothing but a despe
T. A. Coc ge, Woolpit, Suffolk, merchant. Attorney, Mr. rate attempt on the part of the Emigrants to give a blow
Toms, Copthall-court, Throgmorton-street. to Revolutionary Ascendancy, which from the mature of
W. Lea, Birmingham, victualler. Attornies, Messrs. Long and
Austen, Holborn-court, Gray’s-inn. -
things, has established itself beyond all ordinary hopes
W. Burraston, Worcester, hop-merchant. Attormies, Messrs. of subversion, and takes a solid and contemptuous aspect
Cardale and Young, Holborn-court, Gray's-inn. in proportion to their doting hostility. So now, because
T. Williamson, . Lancashire, provision-dealer. Attorney,
Mr. Shaw, Ely-place, Holborn. -: they find it is not to be converted and barlequinaded by
W. P. Cook, Plymouth, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Alliston
and Hundleby, Freeman's-court, Cornhill. * - sº
the stroke of an old court-stick into the ancient jumble of
B. Fenner, Fenchurch-street-chambers, flour-factor. Attornies,
palaces, chapels, and bastiles, they would fairly run their
Messrs. Parnther and Turner, London-street, Fenchurch-street. heads against it in despair; and if not prevented, probably
II. Newton, Marshal-street, St. George's-in-the-fields, tailor. will,—to the utter demolition of those precious snuff
Attorney, Mr. Goodall, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-laue. boxes, their heads. - - -

SATURDAY's LONDON GAZETTE. The new Peers have taken their seats to the great fior
-º
ror of the above gentlemen, who will not find them so
BANKRUPTS.
T. Ratcliffe, Ewood-bridge, Lancashire, J. Ratcliffe, Manchester, ready to adopt the aristocratical notions of the rest of the
J. Ratcliffe, Ewood-bridge, and R. Ratcliffe, Manchester, ca Upper House, and run the chance of a new civil war.
lico-printers. Attorney, Mr. Kay, Essex-street, Manchester. They are too much identified, not only with the Revolu
A. Emanuel, Plymouth-dock, navy agent. Attornies; Messrs. tion in general, but with the particular and vital necessi
Rodd and Bone, Plymouth-dock. . ties of it. If a civil war is still to ensue (and the excellent
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R. Burchall, Ashton-within-Mackerfield, Lancashire, dealer.

Attorney, Mr. Makinson, Middle Temple. .. LANJurnals has expressed his conviction that the proposed
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W. Wright, Kirkdale, Liverpool, victºraller. Attormies, Messrs.
Dacie and John, Palsgrave-place, Temple-bar.
J. Garland, Austin-friars, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Bour
dillon and Hewitt, Bread-street, Cheapside.
J. Hoffman, Mile-end-road, brewer. Attorney, Mr. Thomas,
Fen-court, Fenchurch-street.
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violation of the Charter would occasion one), the Peers
at least would now divide as surely against each other, as
- ** * the majority of the nation would be against the producers
of it. Yet one of the emigrants, or their friend, M.
* * * ~*

J. Bennet, A.Tabberer, and C. Scudamore, Manchester, woollen de LeMoignon, would fain make a sensation against
cord-manufacturers. Attornies, Messrs. Adlington and Gre these new Peers, by proposing to discuss the impro
gory, Bedford-row. - priety of their creation,--a measure which has also pro
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the ExAMINER,
duced considerable ferment, and promises to excite more. Cadiz Gazettes to the 24th ult, and others from Mad-.
The plain, obvious fact is, that the Revolution has been rid to the 4th inst., have reached town. . The former con
too strong for the Emigrants; and nobody thinks of dis tain an account of a very desperate engagement between a
puting the point but a part of the Chamber of Peers, who Spanish ship, called the Jupiter, with a very valuable cargo
would fain have interested the aristocratical tendency of of specie, &c., from Havannah, and an Insurgent schooner
privateer, within two leagues of the port of Cadiz. The
the others in being as blind as themselves. There is Circumstances of the action were given by Captain MAR
quite enough of the esprit du corps in the new powers, Quez, of the Jupiter, in a deposition, on oath, before the
and in all such governments, without returning to wal Intendant of Marines at Cadiz, on the 21st ult. It ap
law in- all the fade corruptions of the old system. pears from this statement, that the Jupiter, on the 19th of
It is discovered, that the new Ministers, like all other the same month, came up with the Insurgent privateer.
Ministers, have inserted in their batch of Peers some and as the former carried the Spanish
colours, an attack
immediately made by the latter, which frequently at
of the ordinary leaven, --the old family kissing-crust, was
tempted to make a boarding on the Spanish ship, without,
of friends and relations. The press, that new and however, succeeding in his purpose. After keeping up a
only preservative against utter degeneracy, has al brisk fire on either side within pistol-shqt, the slaughter in
ready evinced it's jealousy of such proceedings; and consequence was very great. The crew of the Jupiter.
how do the emigrants and old court-corruptionists think finding that the schooner was much longer, three or four
to revive them in all their extravagance, and in the teeth times requested Capt. MARquez to haul down the Spanish
and hoist English colours: this, however, was refused by
of all that France feels...necessary. for it's peace and se him with great spirit, exhorting the people on board to dº
curity? The press reminds them that it is not going to their best endeavours. The privateer was in the end
put up with systems, in which it might be sufficient to..] obliged to sheer off, as her mainmast was carried away.
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establish a person's claim to patronage, to be able to. The loss of the Jupiter was six killed and seven wounded;
say, as in the comedy, “Sir, I am the bastard of your that of the schooner was not known, but it must have been
apothecary.” -
very great. The Jupiter was one of, a fleet, which sailed
from the Havannah, under convoy of the Sabine frigate,
Poor Regnault pe Sr. JRAN d'ANGrly, of whose which reached Cadiz some weeks previous, but had been
madness during his exile in America the Papers used to separated from the rest of the vessels in bad weather.
say so much, has no sooner, obtained permission to return We understand (says a Correspondent) that whenever
to France, and arrived at his country-house, than he is Mr. CARLILR's trial . place, for publishing PANE's
even
dead. It now appears certain, that his reverses of fortune Age of Reason, it is likely to gecupy as much time,Hardy,
took away his senses for a time. He came back, went the most protracted of the State Trials, when
Tooke, and Thelwall, were tried at the Qld Bailey. In
directly to bed, and died the very next morning, probably the selection and arrangement of his materials, Mr. CAR
from the nervous agitation of his joy. He used to figure lile is voluntarily assisted by some of the first legal cha
in the Imperial Journals as one of the most adulatory of racters and literary men in this country. His papers are
Bonaparte's Orators; yet the French Papers give a good very voluminous, from the multiplicity and variety of his
account both of his comparative independence of opi authorities, both ancient and modern, to support opinions. the right
nion as an Imperial adviser, and his natural goodness of of publication and a free press upon religious
And as he has very wisely resolved to be his own advocate,
heart. He was habitually perhaps what is called a the Court is likely to be kept sitting much longer than the
nervous man. At any rate, his agitation of mind appears most disinterested Counsel would venture to detain it. "
to have been very strong at the commencement of his A meeting was held at St. Bride's on Thursday, to
master's downfall. We have heard a gentleman who was petition Parliament for the removal of the duty upon coals
a prisoner in France say, that on the breaking up of his brought into the port of London. This isspeakerscertainly a fair
for Petition;
subjectwith and one of the chief depre
it prisonment at that time, he had occasion to apply at the cated, great justice and propriety, the idea of º:
ministerial offices, and on going among them happened by the tax upon others, as has been attempted by some of the
mistake to open the door of a private room where Red sagacious bustlers on this subject. We have now there:
ºn AULt was sitting; upon which the Count started up, de fore brought the question into a more compressed and
manding vehemently, and with evident trepidation, who it comprehensible shape; and the inquiry is simply his–Is
was, as if he dreaded an assassin. - the day upon freighted coal one of those by which the
public is most oppressed? Might not ingenuity, or even
ºr . . . . . . -

feeling without ingenuity, find out others of more recent

imposition which bear liarder on the community?, If we
. . Letters were received on Friday from Buenos A res, have an interest on the subject, it is for the repeal of the
dated 2d January, which state, that an express from Chili duty; but we are nevertheless sorry to see our fºllow
had brought the news of the arrival of Lörd Cochra NE on citizens waste their time, and money toos. in an ill-con
4th l]ecember, at Valparaiso. His Lordship was re certed effort that must fail offrom its object.—Times.
ceived in a manner the most enthusiatic and flattering, and Manchester.—Letters º: state, that
:as Admiral, would immediately proceed to take the com more than 500 young poplars have recently been cut from
mand of the Chili squadron, consisting of one 70 gun a single plantation near Stockport, fºr the purpºse, as is
slip and, two fifties, with a proportionate number of supposed, of being employed to form the handles for pikes.
frigates, brigs, &c., in all amounting to 13 sail, besides Great fears are entertained throughout this important
gun-boats,. : manufacturing district, that the sufferings of the labouring
Dr. MARSH is to be translated from the See of Landaff classes will lead to some act of a desperate nature; but
to that of Peterborough; and is to be succeeded at Lan the Magistrates, who are well aware of the existing state
of things, will be prepared, it is believed, with efficient
daff by Dr. VANMilnent, the Regius Professor of Diviz measures for preserving the public peace. ..
nity at Oxford, and Preacher at Lincoln’s-inn.-Ministe The Bank of Sir Paul Bagliott and Sons, at Chel
rial paper.
tenham, has stopped payment-Worcester Journal.
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ReMoval of PAUPERs.-On Monday last, between London Clergy.—The Committee of the House of
two and three o'clock in the morning, a poor woman, Commons, to whom the Petition of the London Clergy,
named MARY CHALMers, expired in the coach within two under the Fire-Act, for an increase of tithes, was referred,
miles of Kendal. The circumstances attending her death came to a resolution on Friday week, that the Petitioners
are painful to the feeling heart. Under a suspended order had failed to prove the allegations in their Petitions.—
of removal as a pauper to's place of settlement, she was Daily paper. - -

put into the coach at Carlisle, and accompanied by an SPANish Caricature.—The central spot is occupied
overseer, for the purpose of being conducted to Warton, a by FerdiNAND, seated upon a box of fetters, with one
distance of nearly 60 miles; but her strength proved un foot trampling on the constitution, while the other rests
equal to the fatigues of such a journey, during a cold and upon a foot-stool, supported by daggers and death's-heads,
inclement night, and the result was what we have stated inscribed with the names of the several useless battles fought
above. If (as we understat d was the fact) a medical gen to maintain his throne. On the front of the foot-stool is
tleman gave an opinion that there was no danger in the re the word “Tyranny.” He wears, a collar of death's
moval, the parish officers are not to blame; but, surely, in heads and bones, finished by two crossed daggers and a
doubtful cases, humanity dictates that the last moments of chain, to which another cross is suspended; his head is
ebbing life, even in a wretched pauper, should be spent in adorned with a fool's-cap issuing from his royal crown';
all possible peace and comfort.—Kendal Chronicle. beyond which are seen a pair of ass's ears. He holds in
Subscription for the FAMILY of Mr. Rogers.-Mr. his left hand a human skull, inscribed, “Spain;” in his
APPLEY ARn, at the Examiner-Office, and Mr. GALLow Ay, right, an iron seeptre. His attention is divided between
Holborn, near Red Lion-street, continue to receive Sub the devil on one side, and an inquisitor on the other,
scriptions for this persecuted family; which may also be whose hands are crossed over his shoulders. The devil is
forwarded to Mr. Canuac, 53, Blackman-street, Borough; holding up to him, a hatchet and some ropes; and de
Mr. WoolER, British Gazette Office, Sun-street, Bishops nouncing prisons, chains, tortures, &c. to whoever shall
gate; and Mr. Bhooks, bookseller, 421, Oxford-street. dare to demand liberty. . The inquisitor, in whose hood
Mr. PHILLIPs brings to the hammer to-morrow or next is seated a devil holding instruments of torture, is pointin
day, a splendid collection of Pictures which we have had out to him two celebrated patriots hanging, Porlier ...;
the pleasure of seeing ; and it is fit that, we should make Richard ; and others suffering the various torments of
this announcement, as sometimes, partly from the facts the inquisition, and bidding him behold the torments of
not being known, and partly perhaps from so much pa those who oppose arbitrary power. “The Holy Inquisi
negyric having been wasted on inferior occasions, justice tion,” cries º: “is the firm support of absolute kings.”
is not done to a sale of really fine productions. The col His hands, as well as those of Ferdi NAND, are stained
lection was made by Mr. KNight, of Portland-place, and with human blood. Before, the inquisitor runs a stream
contains many specimens of the old masters, as any body of human blood; and behind the inquisitor is a devil
will recognize at the first glance, who has ever been in burning the Spanish Constitution, the Morning Chronicle.
their society. -
the Minerra, and the Eraminer" in the back ground of
We are extremely glad to see that Signor Bugni, an the other side are soldiers assassinating Lacy, who ex
eminent Italian Teacher in this Metropolis, has commenced claims, “Tremble, slaves! From the ashes of Portlifft,
a series of readings and recitations in that delightful lan Richand, and Lacy, will arise the liberty of their coun
guage, at the Argyle Rooms. We are sorry that we were try. - -

compelled; to miss the first Lecture, which took place on

Friday: but we understand it gave great satisfaction.
Among other persons of rank and taste, there were pre
court ANd fashionables.
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sent Lady ANNE Culling SMrrn, Lady SAY and Sæle, Royal FREAK.—We are assured that, a ſew nights ago,
Lady CirARLotte PINDAR, Lord GleNEERwis, and Lord the PRINCE Regent, in a merry mood, determined to sup
Aamuriixot. - in the kitchen of the Pavilion. A scarlet cloth was
The noted HENRY HUNT had an action, some time thrown over the pavement, a splendid repast was provided,
since, brought against him by his landlord, the Rev. L. and the good-humoured Prince sat down, with a select
Williams, of Whitchurch, for breaches of covenant, in party of his friends, and spent a joyous hour. The whole
not leaving the premises in sufficient repair; for not keep of the servants, particularly the female part, were of course
ing any, instead of 200 sheep; for cross-cropping, selling delighted with this mark of Royal condescension,--
Brighton Herald.—“Kings,” says Burke, “are fond of
the straw, not manure, &c. &c. He had suffered judg
ment to go by default, and the damages were assessed be low company.” -

fore the Sheriff at the Winchester Assizes; when, after a On Friday, the Recorden made a report to the Re
very patient hearing of about 14 hours, the Jury awarded GENT of the prisoners under sentence of death, when PVnt.
1521. 10s. against Mr. Hunt. Mr. HUNT was his own Adams, Lynch, for highway-robbery; Edward Dent and John
counsel.—Taunton Courier. for uttering counterfeit Bank-notes; and John
Willett, for sheep-stealing, were ordered for execution on
We are gratified to find that the patent machine of Mr. Wednesday next; the others were respited during plea
EveRARD, for cleansing chimnies, is now getting into gene sure.—Those convicted in February Session were not re
ral use. and experiments, ſrequently made, have testified ed.
is utility. . It sweeps a chimney as clean as any boy can *= - I
do it, and in one third the time; consequently this un THEATRICAL EXAMINER,
fortunate race of beings, who are half starved with cold and
hunger, will no longer suffer cruelties, and annoy the No. 355.. - t

. citizens with their cries. Humanity required some inven

tion of this kind, and the same feeling should dictate its 17talia w 0nsha.
encouragement. The master sweeps make a great clamour, MozART's masterpiece, La Nozze de Figaro was re-pro
but it is useless; the machine answers every purpose, con duced here on Saturday week, and has been repeated
sequently no boys should be permitted to ascend chimmies. Tuesday and yesterday. Madame Bellochi takes the
—New York paper. place of FonoR, and ANGR1san1 of NALDI, the other cha
Some documents next week; relative to the Plan of Mr. racters remaining nearly as before. Our readers may judge
Owen of New Lanark, - -

from our former account of the lady, how capable she is

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of sustaining an animated part, both as singer and actress. and Italian singing. At the first view of the matter, great
In her Susanna, it is true, we miss something of a certain credit seems due to those who adapt MozART's music to
cordial tone of voice which used to breathe forth in Madame English words, and endeavour to forward the intimacy of
Fodor; and any performer coming after another good the public with him. People, too, augured highly of his
one in whose hands we have first become acquainted with adapter, Mr. Bishop, some of whose earlier productions
a favourite character, has the disadvantage of succeeding displayed a good deal of real feeling for his art. But, not
to a sort of first-love, Still however, the “linked sweet to dwell upon the unsuitableness of the actors and singers
ness” of Madame Bellochi's notes, all beautifully strun for characters like those in Figaro, of Miss STEPHENs,
together, yet all separate, the evident enjoyment .# notwithstanding all her sweet warbling, in Susanna, of
which she enters into the stage-business as well as the Mrs. Dickons and her bravura faculties, in the gentle
singing, and indeed her manifest superiority to Madame and refined Countess, and of Liston, with the utter
Foook as an actress altogether, render her an excellent nothingness in his voice, in Figaro, +(Miss Beaumont
representative of this brilliant, queen, of ladies' maids, as the Page, acted the best,)—what are we to say to
“Adrqite et rieuse.” . A brother-critic in the Morning an adopter of MozART, who for some of his pieces substi
Chronicle thinks that she overdoes the part, is too boister tutes the airs about the street, and in others º: passages
ous, -in short, not well-bred enough for the original as to suit the voice of the performer ? Those passages were
drawn in the comedy of BEAUMARchAis. But we doubt written to suit particular passions or emotions, not to be
whether he does not reason too much from English pre at the mercy of this or that incapacity. Their beauty also,
mises on this occasion. BEAUMARchAis undoubtedly says, and that of the context itself, depends upon preserving the
in his account of the Dramatis Personae, that with all her context entire. You can no more alter it with impunity,
adroit and tricksome nature she is not to have “the gaiety than you can put common-places into the songs of Comus
bordering on effrontery too common to the ladies' maids of or the Faithful Shepherdess. Either the orchestra too was
these degenerate times;” but after the cold tea of the ordi very deficient on this occasion, or the accompaniments
nary English character, the winy vivacity of a French were clipped, and deprived of their richness; so that alto
soubrette, may appear somewhat extravagant, even in it's ether, though the exquisite powers of MozArt could not
most reasonable state of fermentation. That BEAUMAR ut surmount all this ill-treatment in some measure, it was
chais, at any rate, did not mean by it what our brother a wretched introduction of him to the public.
critic supposes is plain from one circumstance, which cer - Drtºrr-Lan
tainly appears carrying the non-effrontery to a little excess. A new tra called the Dwarf of Naples was pro
The latter protests against “the rude slap of the face given
to Figaro, before many persons, when she suspects his
duced here º: and received with º: jº:
fidelity.” Yet this is expressly enjoined by the French It is a story of a deformed younger brother of a noble
author: “Suzanne lui donne un soilſflet;”—a plain, un family (Mr. KEAN), who partly on account of a lady he
sophisticated box on the ear. has loved in vain, but chiefly from the neglect to which
ANGRisasi in Figaro is a good substitute for NALDI, his personal inferiority subjects him, envies his brother, a
who latterly grew more and more careless. He attends victorious General, to a pitch of madness, and at last re
solves on his destruction. He contrives accordingly to
in a lively manner to the business of the scene; sings the substitute a treasonable letter in the room of one which the
basser parts in an admirable manner with that deep metal General puts into a casket, and then going with intelligence
lic voice of his, which sometimes seems to issue from a
cauldron; and if his reported age be true, is altogether a of it to the King, contrives to have his brother thought
guilty for a while, prevented from marrying the lady, and
wonderful performer, both in voice, spirit, and looks.
His eyes are among the finest we ever saw. We doubt banished. The real circumstances however are brought to
- however whether he has so much natural humour as light; the Dwarf is sent, for to Court, under pretence of
NALDI; he certainly has not so much self-possession: great favours that are to be lavished on him, but in reality
to shew him his brother about to be united to the object of -
nor can we at all agree that nothing is lost in his execu
tion of the songs. The upper notes sometimes fail him; his affections; the doors are thrown open accordingly,
so much so, that he occasionally avoids them out of a while the King is talking to him; he beholds the marriage,
consciousness to that effect. His voice is decidedly and which is a very striking scene, and falls into convulsions of
exclusively a bass, the noblest we ever heard. envy, hatred, and madness, which kill him on the spot.
AMBRogetTI in the Count performs with his usual This catastrophe is boldly and well conceived; there are
spirit; and perhaps, now he has got Madame Bellochi to also some other situations with an air of originality about
act with him, with more than his usual enjoyment. There them; the language occasionally takes a start much above
seems a great sympathy in their turn for humour. A the ordinary pitch of dramatic writing; and altogether the
Signor RomeRoi, who made an unfortunate first appear piece does great credit to Mr. So ANE, who seems to have
ance as Leporello in Don Giovanni, took ANGRisa Nr's a strong dramatic talent, which he hardly yet knows how
to turn to it's best advantage. To shew the nature
part of Bartolo in this opera, and acquitted himself re of the character represented by Mr. KEAN, is to pronounce
spectably. We were not present on that 9:casion, having the panegyric on his performance of it. . It is evidently
too hastily made up our minds that Don Giovanni would
be repeated. He is said to be a countryman of GARCIA's, adapted purposely to his genius, as indeed the whole play
but partakes none of the powers of that accomplished seems exclusively to be, and he appears to patronize it
singer, whom we here seize an opportunity of congratu accordingly.
lating on the late judicious repression of his tendency to be We say this, in the midst of our praise, because cer
too lavish of his notes. . It belongs to the wealth of real tainly appearances in those matters are against Mr. KEAN
genius to afford concession. . - a little at present, in more than one quarter; though it
We also take this opportunity of saying, that the beau is hardly possible to suppose that, with respect to his
tiful song of Mi balza il cornel petto, which Madame quarrel with the author of the Italians, he has wilfully
Prºtoctiſ sings in La Modista Raggiratrice, and, which uttered what is not true. We must defer, from want of
we attributed to PAbsiello, is by Rossini, who gives us room, any further notice of this business till next week.
every day more proofs of his genius. -
and we shall then give an extract ſrom the preface of the
corºnt Gardnx. play, together with the letters which it has produced from
Mr. Kean and the author.
But what shall we say of Figaro here? Never, we be -

Jiere, was there a sadder metamorphosis of French vivacity. ſºr

 THE EXAMINER. 187
LITERARY NOTICES. mouth like a favourite tune, we must indulge ourselves in a
few extracts. It opens in this pleasant manner, agitato:
No. 50. - *MAY the Babylonish curse - -

Strait confound my stammering verse,

If I can a passage see
The Works of Charles Lamb. Two Volumes. In this word-perplexity,
C. and J. Ollier. Or a fit expression find,
We must fairly sit down to these delightful volumes to Or a language to my mind, -

(Still the phrase is wide or scant)

say what shall come first to us, or we find we shall never To take leave of thee, great PLANT'
criticise them at all. We fear indeed, that by every body Or in any terms relate -

but the author, we have been thought culpably negligent, lialf my love, or half my hate:
in not noticing them before; but will ... be given to For I bate, yet love, thee so,
us when we say, (wel who have been hardy critics for a That, whichever thing I shew,
number of years, man and boy), that we felt diffident in The plain truth will seem to be
writing upon the subject? Yes; those will believe us, - ' A constrain’d hyperbole,
And the passion to proceed
who know, that great liking is often as hesitating a thing More from a mistress than a weed.
as delay itself; and that there are subjects, before which the
stoutest encounterer of all the rougher topics of life, feels Mr. Lamb, we see, has altered a couple of rhymes here
himself taken with a bland and enjoying stillness, which from what they were in the Reflector. There is some
he is almost afraid to break by expressing his sense of it. thing, we allow, of a thunder-like vastness of admiration in
If these are refinements, they are such as the work be the words “Great Plant,” which are very properly set
forth in capitals; but still we prefer the old straitforward
fore us is well calculated to produce. There is a spirit in carelessness of
Mr. Lamb's productions, which is in itself so anti-critical, Still the phrase is wide an acre
and tends so much to reconcile us to all that is in the
To take leave of thee, Tobacco. -

world, that the effect is almost neutralizing to every thing There was a royal disdain of the rhyme in it, befitting a
but complacency and a quiet admiration. We must even vegetable, superior to all considerations.—But to proceed
plainly confess, that one thing which gave a Laputan fla with another extract: — -

to our recollections on this occasion, was the meeting wit Thou in such a cloud dost bind us, .
a flimsy criticism in an orthodox review, which mistook That our worst foes cannot find us,
the exquisite simplicity and apprehensiveness of Mr. And ill fortune, that would thwart us,
Lamb's genius for want of power; , and went vainly Shoots at rovers, shooting at us;
brushing away at some of the solidest things in his work, White each man, thro' thy height'ning steam,
under the notion of it's being chaff. Does like a smoking Etna'seem,
That the poetical part of Mr. Lamb's volumes (and as And all about us does express
this comes first, we will make the first half of our criti (Fancy and wit in richest dress)
A Sicilian fruitfulness.
cism upon it) is not so striking as the critical, we allow, * +. * + + + º

And t are several reasons for it ;—first, because criti Brother of Bacchus, later born,
cism inevitably explains itself more to the reader; whereas The old world was sure forlorn,
poetry, especially such as Mr. Lamb's, often gives him Wanting thee, that aidest more
too much credit ſor the apprehensiveness in which it deals The god's victories than before
itself;-second, because Mr. Lamb's criticism is obviously All his panthers, and the brawls
Of his piping Bacchanals.
of a most original cast, and directly informs the reader of a These, as stale, we disallow,
number of things which he did not know before; whereas Or judge of thee meant: only thou
the poetry, for the reason justmentioned, leaves him rather Liis true Indian conquest art;
to gather them :—third, because the authors's genius, And, for ivy round his dart, .
though in fact of an anti-critical nature (his very criticisms . The reformed god now weaves
chiefly tending to overthrow the critical spirit) is also less A finer thyrsus of thy leaves.
busied with creating new things, which is the business of We must fairly go on to the end. We cannot help it.
poetry, than with inculcating a charitable and patient con The verse carries us along... Observe in particular the
tent with old, which is a part of humanity:-fourth and happy wording of the conclusion:
last, because from an excess of this content, of love for the -Scent to match tly rich perfume
old poets, and of diffidence in recommending to others Chemic art did ne'er presume
what has such infinite recommendations of it's own, he Through her quaint alembic strain,
None so sov’reign to the brain.
has really, in three or four instances, written pure com Nature, that did in thee excell, - -

mon-places on subjects deeply seated in our common hu Fram'd again no second smell. .. •
manity, such as the recollections of childhood (vol. 1. p. Roses, violets, but toys
71.), the that follows it, and one or two of the For the smaller sort of boys,
sonnets. But he who cannot see, that the extreme old Or for greener damsels meant;
simplicity of style in The Three Friends is a part and con Thou art the only manly scent.
stituent recommendation of the very virtue of the subject; Stinking'st of the stinking kind,"
that the homely versification, of the Ballad noticing the Filth of the mouth and fog of the mind,
P. of Rich and Poor has the same spirit of inward Africa, that brags her foyson,
Breeds no such prodigious poison, .
reference,—that the little Robert Burton-like effusion,
called Hypochondriacus, has all the quick mixture of jest lfenbane, nightshade, both together,
Hemlock, aconite
and earnest belonging to such melancholy,–and that the
Farewell to Tobacco is a piece of exuberant º - Nay, rather,
Plant divine, of rarest virtue;
equally witty and poetical, in which the style of the old Blisters on the tongue would hurt you,
-

poets mes proper to a wit overflowing as theirs, 'Twas but in a sort I blam'd thee;
such a man may be fit enough to set up for a critic once a None e'er prosper'd who defam'd thee;
month, but we are sure he has not an idea in his head once Irony all, and ſeign'd abuse,
ter. - -
Such as perplex lovers use,
**. this last poem, which is an old friend of ours, and At a need, when, in despair
To paint forth their fairest fair,
passages ºf which used to be, and are still, often in out
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Of in part but to express
That exceeding comeliness
-- Which their fancies doth so strike,
They borrow language of dislike;
And, instead of Dearest Miss,
Jewel, Honey, Sweetheart, Bliss,
And those forms of old admiring,
Call her Cockatrice and Siren,
13asilisk, and all that's evil,
Witch, Hyena, Mermaid, Devil,
Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor,
Monkey, Ape, and twenty more;
Friendly Trait’ress, loving Foe,
Not that she is truly so,
*... But no other way they know
A contentment to express,
Borders so upon excess,
That they do not rightly wot
Whether it be pain or not.
r Or, as men, constrain'd to part
With what’s nearest to their heart,
º: While their sorrow's at the height,
Lose discrimination quite,
And their hasty wrath let fall,
"toº their frantic gall,
On the darling thing whatever,
Whence they feel it death to sever,
Though it be, as they, perforce,
Guiltless of the sad divorce.
For I must (nor let it grieve thee;
Friendliest of plants, that I must) leave thee.
For thy sake, tobacco, I
- W. any thing but die,
And but seek to extend my days
Long enough to sing thy praise.
but, as she, who once hath been
A king's consort, is a queen
Ever after, nor will bate
* Any title of her state,
Though a widow, or divorced,
So I, from thy converse forced,
The old name and style retain,
A right Katherine of Spain;
And a seat, too, 'mongst the joys
of the blest Tobacco Boys;
Where, though I, by sour physician,
Am debarr'd the full fruition
Of thy favours, I may catch
Some collateral sweets, and snatch
: Sidelöng odours, that give life
Like glances from a neighbour's wife;
And still live in the by-places
And the suburbs of thy graces;
And in thy borders take delight,
An unconquer’d Canaanite.
There is something very touching as well as vivid in
the poem that stands first, entitled Hester. "The object of
it is a female Quaker who died . and who appears to
have been of a spirit that broke through the cold shell of
her sect. She was of a nature so ;".
and strong,
that the poet, for some time, says he could not
- By force be led
To think upon the wormy bed,
And her together.
* - + - + + - , An intuition,
My sprightly neighbour, gone before
To that unknown and silent shore,
8hall we not meet, as heretofore,
Some summer morning,
When from thy chearful eyes a ray
Hath struck a bliss upon the day,
A bliss that would not go away,
w A sweet fore-warning?
If the Quakers appear to be the only real Christians ex
tant, they are such only in a negative sense. . We allude
to them, of course, in general. They deny themselves a
good deal, but they allow others little; and, this, we tunate objection from the critics on it's first appearance.
suspect, is Christianity wrong side outwards. A Quaker People were not acquainted then as they are now with
will not be outrageous, and will not get drunk; he will
also prevent his wife from copying the beauties of God's
creation in the colours of her }: and God's gift of
music he holds to be very small; but next to a hypocrite
(and we by no means intend to confound the twe), he
would be the last man in the world to forgive a woman
takea in adultery, or to be present at an avowed feast, or
to refer a money-getter to “the ſilies of the valley which
toil not,” or to patronize the waste of a box of precious
ointment for the sake of a sentiment.
- If a true Christian
means any thing, it means, we suspect, something which
would startle all the commonly received notions and esta
blishments out of their wits; and is made up of a mixture
of Platonism in speculation, and a community of good in
practice, equally calculated to baffle, the despisers of the
ancient world, and the sharers of the present. When a
Quaker, or a Methodist, or an indifferent Churchman,
talks of Christianity, we see in it nothing but vain nega
tion, or fanaticism, or worldliness. All these men send
those who differ with them to the devil, and know no more
about the finer aspirations of one's nature than any bad
passion or selfishness can. It is difficult, from his works,
to collect whether Mr. [..amb is a professed Christian or
not. The Calvinist would surely pronounce against him,
because he decries eternal punishment; the Quaker, be
cause he finds out something more than pardonable in the
vehement passions; and all other Protestants, because at
the sight of a picture by Leonardo da Vinci, he wishes to
be a Catholic, that he may worship the Madonna. All
this must be caveare to the Christian multitude. It is an
other version of the sentiment about the box of ointment,
Yet the less Christian he may be thought to be in these
matters, the finer spirit of religious feeling is there in the
following liaes on the same picture. They are a recogni
tion, not of Catholic bigotry, but of the diviner aspirations
of our being, under whatever devout shape they appear,
and which always appear finest and most probable when
connected with ideas of child-like innocence and joy. Fi
licaia, or Tasso might have been proud of writing them;
and, by the way, it would have done both Filicaia and
Tasso good, and made them less perturbed Christians,
had they possessed what they would have called the Anti
christian tolerance in the rest of our Author's works:–
LINEs on the celebrated Picture. By LEoNARDo DA visci,
called the virgin or THE recks.
While young John runs to greet
The greater Infant's feet,
The Mother standing by, with trembling passion
Of devout admiration,
Beholds the engaging mystic play, and pretty adoration;
Nor knows as yet the full event
Of those so low beginnings,
From whence we date our winnings,
But wonders at the intent
Of those new rites, and what that strange child-worship
meant.
But at her side
-
An angel doth abide,
With such a perfect joy
As no dim doubts alloy,
A glory, an amenity,
Passing the dark condition
Of blind humanity,
As if he surely knew
All the blest wouders should ensue,
Or he had lately left the upper sphere,
And º read all the sovran schemes and divine riddles
there.
The tragedy of John Woodvil, which we think liable
in some measure to Mr. Colredge's objection mentioned
in the Dedication, of it's being a little too over-antique in
the style, gave rise, partly on that account, to less for
 THE EXAMINER. 189,
the older dramatists; and the critics, finding it a new graceful palfrey before the slow and asinine mule. Your hu- .
production which was like none of their select common mour goes to confound all qualities. -- -

places, confounded the oldness of the style and the manly What sports do you use in the forest ?—
sixion. *
and womanly simplicity of the sentiments with something Not many; some few, as thus:–
hitherto unheard of, equally barbarous and mawkish. To see the sun to bed, and to arise,
They have since learnt better, partly, perhaps chiefly. from Like some hot amourist with glowing eyes,
the inſormation of this very author; and it is §: a Bursting the lazy bands of sleep that bound him,
good deal owing to this circumstance, that some of them' With all his fires and travelling glories round him.
chuse to abstain from noticing this publication, the better Sometimes the moon on soft night clouds to rest,
natured from a feeling of aukwardness, and the malignant Like beauty nestling in a young man's breast,
from having since turned commentators on old plays them And all the winking stars, her handmaids, keep
Admiring silence, while those lovers sleep,
selves. The tragedy of John Woodvil has this pecu Sometimes outstretcht, in very idleness,
liarity,+that it is founded on a frailty of a very unheroic
Nought doing, saying little, thinking less,
nature, and ends with no punishment to the offender but To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, -

repentance. Yet so finely and humanly is it managed, Go eddying round; and small birds, how they fare,
with such attractions of pleasantry and of pathos, that When mother Autumn fills their beaks with corn,
these circumstaeces become distinguishing features of it's Flch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn; ".
excellence; and the reader begins to regret that other And how the woods berries and worms provide
s have not known how to reconcile moral lessons, so To Without their pains, when earth, has nought beside
answer their small wants, - -

}. and lºseſul, with the dignity of dramatic poetry.To view the graceful deer come tripping by,
Sir Walter Woodvil, a gentleman of an ancient family, Then stop, and gaze, then turn, they know not why,
who had taken part, against Charles the First, is ob Like bashful younkers in society, - -

liged to hide himself at the IRestoration. His son, To mark the structure of a plant or tree,
left in possession of the family mansion, grows in the And nil fair things of earth, how fair they be.
mean time riotous and dissipated, after the court fashion; The pathetic of this tragedy is after all inſerior to that ".
and partly from his natural frankness, is excited during of the story of Rosamund Gray, which follows;–but this
the ſever of drunkenness to intrust the secret of his father's commences the prose part of the works, and this must
hiding-place with, one. Lorel, a bottle-companion and sup form the subject of our next.
posed friend. ... Sir IWalter is in consequence sought out *

in Sherwood Forest by Lovel and another drinking asso

ciate, and during a violent parley between the two intra FINE A RTs.
ders and his faithſul younger son Simon, breaks his heart
without a word. This is as true a piece of pathos as we SIR. J. F. LEICESTER’s GALLERY.
remember in tragedy. John Woodvil, after great wretched As it is not titles which are mere sounds, or rank which is
ness of mind, leaves the reader to suppose that he is re
stered to comparative peace, partly by the force of repent seldom little else but accident, or wealth which is equally
possessed by the worthy and the worthless, that can obtain
ance, and partly by the attentions of Margaret, an orphan genuine
ward of his late father, and a most noble creature, whose esteem, but only the proper uses which are made
of them, we again have the satisfaction of adding our ex
character alone would serve to shew the generous delicacy pression
of the author's genius. During his unhappy and noisy Arts, for of esteem to that of all the Lovers of the Fine
the distinguished Patron who has afforded another
prosperity, John, though avowedly her lover, treats her with
unceasing neglect, and under the peculiar circumstances of opportunity ºf enjoying the unique and elegant treat of a
visit every. Monday for six weeks annually to his English
her situation she thinks it...becomisg a proper pride in her Gallery. This esteem, with that which we cordially also .
to go and seek out Sir Walter, and to unite her help
ing fortunes with him and his younger son. She does so, entertain ſor the diversified talents with which the Gallery
and only shews that John has treated her unhandsomely by is filled, shall render us an observant visitor to it this sea
turning away with a tear when the question is asked her, son, and we shall carry on from last season our remarks
and then restiming her kindly aspect of society. Aſter the upon the pictures, inclºding those which have been added
catastrophe which happens to Sir Walter, she excuses since that time by Mr. West, Mr. Fuseli, Mr. Hriton, .
John as well as she may, resolves at all events not Mr. Collins, &c. We shall commence with the venerable
— tº join the clamour of the world President, and as a token of respectful remembrance also
Against her friend, of departed excellence, will | Mr. GAinsborough and Sir
J. Rey Nolds.
and again appears, before him to shew hin that sympathy
in adversity, which he refused to cultivate in her, during Nº.26. B. West, P. R. A. Angels conducting Lot
prosperity. The best passages in this play are the pa. and his Daughters from the burning of Sodam and Go
thetic ones; but as these depend a good deal on the con morrah. . A very high degree of the grace and beauty of
text, and are more pervading than the others, we must youth and the º of age, accompanied with a
content ourselves with selecting some lines of beautiful de movement of haste, is demanded y this subject; and the
scription. Simon Woodvil says that he. loves all things demand is answered with an intelligence that is expected
that live - -from powers so high and admired as those of the Presi
From the crook'd worm to man's imperial form, pºst, who has given a visual display of the biblical text *

And God-resembling likeness. The poor fly, with the exactness of a pictorial divine. The Angelsap. .
That makes -hºrt holyday in the sun beam, pear Solicitous to expedite Lot and his Daughters from the
And dies by some chlid's hand. The feeble bird awful combustion and danger behind them, and to which
With little wings, yet greatly venturous , -

the Patriarch is shudderingly alive. He is impelled by the

lathe upper sky. The fish in th' other element, inward terror which has sized him. But' beside this .
That knows no touch of eloquence. What else?
Yan tail and elegant stag, -
* * .
|Personal expression, a strange and tramendous effect of
Who paints a dancing shadow of his horns t fire, is to be shown, for the scene is in a place and at a time
ñ the water, where fle drinks. * * of Tarfarean horrors. The cool and pale morning air was,
* * * … "MARGARET. -
according tº Scripture, changed into the heat of a ſurnace,
I myself love all these things, yet so as with a difference:– and a rºd glare; for Nature was reversed; the sky rained
for example, some animals better than others, some men rather fire, and covered the earth with “a mad sulphureous title,”
than other men; the nightingale before the cuekoo, the swift and in which vegetation and “ the cities of le plain" perished.
- -i.
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In this part of his subject we think that the Painter has not tender, affectionate, disposition of infancy, expressed in the
carried that fervour of feeling which so delightfully moves ſamiliar circumstance of the child fondling the kittens, and
our minds in the figures. The representation of a common holding them up to view with that juvenile satisfaction, so
house on fire has in it no small degree of the sublime, but jº. the value of the newly obtained object,
here are cities on fire, and that too by a sulphureous cata and yet so natural to children on such occasions. In the
ract from Heaven, one of the most awful circumstances felicitous smile of the girl, and the shrugging of her body,
that can be imagined. The ſugitives are certainly out of what a happy result does there appear to be of sound
the reach of the danger, and the fire is therefore properly health, pure, unbroken, animal spirits, and innocence. Sir
represented as somewhat distant, but still we think that Joshua appears to have founded his principles of light
there ought to be more intensity of colour and ſlaming and shade nearly on the examples of Itembnanor,
light on so tremendous an occasion. But we give this though without the excess of shade adopted by that great
opinion with diffidence, especially as the light of the sun, Master. He gave a more equable counterpoise of light to
which is seen just above tke horizon, and pale, as if the different parts of his canvass. Thus the light on the
changed with a conscious amazement at the supernatural face does not as in ReMan ANDT so partially predominate,
visitation, necessarily diminishes the glowing hues of fire. but is checked by others, so that the effect is more tender
3, GAINsborough. Sea-shore, with Boys and Net. and harmonious. Richness, mellowness, and warmth, are
A sketch from the hand of a Master, though less pleasing the main objects in his colouring. Hence a luminous
because less perfected than his finished works, will not glow like that of TITIAN, by which even the white dresses
only always please as containing much of the sced and receive a lambent tinge, while cold colour is very sparingly
element of Art and of his subject, but because it has often introduced, irradiates all his works. Bright reds, yellows,
more genuiné feeling than the work which is completed and browns, alternately blend into and relieve from the
from it, and because it is curious to observe the first sober masses of shade of the same colours till they nearly
thoughts of an Artist on his subject. The observer of and sometimes entirely vanish into black, so that the ima
Nature cannot but here recognize the flowing air which is gination is charmed with the variation in the ligths and
imitatively communicated to the canvass, as seen in the strengths of these colours, which mingle and contrast the
movement of the clouds, water, &c. This, with the natu fervour of sunshine, the milder tints of evening, and the
ral action of the boys, and the pleasing way in which the 'solemn abstraction of night.
objects are put together, makes an agreeable picture of a 6, Sir J. REYNoLps. Boy reading. A piece of deli
very few materials, and such as is expected from one who cious colouring and studious character. We can scarcely
did not take any particular Master for his exemplar, and conceive it possible to give more interest to such scanty
therefore at second hand, but wrought from the dictates of materials. É. it is in Painting as in Music, where a few
the great teacher Nature. GAINsborough described her touches from the Master's hand call up and fix attention;
beauties with sincerity and with ardour, for there is a fer or as a short production does in Poetry, such as a genuine
voth of colour, and a force of light and shade, an adhe ode or sonnet. Deep attention was the idea to be con
rence to her actual look, and a peculiar freedom of land veyed here, and everything in the picture is well calcu
in her display, which shew his heart and his imagination lated for that purpose; the bent head, the fixed form, the
to have received pure and strong impressions of her beau intent look, the monotonous but rich colour, of only reds
ties. One of his prominent excellences is his display of the and subdued yellows, which, in thus preserving a sameness
any coarse of effect, prevents that too great vivacity which a greater
simplicities of Nature, so as not to deviate into
ness of character. . Like a genuine lover, his passion for variety of tint would occasion, and which would inter
Nature refined while it inflamed his feelings, and he fere with the quiet sentiment of the subject. , 'There are
honoured best the mistress of his affections by the delicacy bright colour and lights only on the face and top of the
of his regard. There is a beautiful evidence of this deli coat. They are carried pleasantly, off the sight by the
cate taste in 40, Cottage Door, in the Tent-room. Here light on the book. These small bright parts are just
the rºstic character is complete. It has nothing of the enough to fix our attention with distinctness on the boy
and on his avocation.
clumsy or vulgar. The attitudes are elegant, such as are
ven in Nature's simplest offspring. They are half a dozen 27, Sir J. REYNolps. Original Design for the Snake
children with their mother all in health, and health ir in the Grass. This is a genuine touch of the Comedy of
ducing ease, pliability, and vigour, must in well formed Painting. It is the express soul and form of a wily beauty.
children produce grace. . GAINsborough was truly a From the flash of that eye, resolution and prudence melt
sylvan Painter, for there is such a woody aſluence, as away. Temptation sits on the bosom. The throw of the
fairly to embower your fancy in umbrageousness. He did head sideways is a lure of gracefulness. Her vivacity and
not paint such a leafy exactness of character as Homista, look of good temper are baits to the imagination, and the
Ruysdael, and other Dutch Painters, but still there was hand thrown across her face, and accompanied with a side
a strong characteristic look in his trees, and an easy play long look and half smile, shew the consciousness of her
of the pencil, which with depth of chiaro-scuro, and power, and her seductive intention. The voluptuousness
autumnal warmth of colour, filled and satisfied the mind of this picture is appropriately aided by the blending mel.
of the lover of pictures and of nature. lowness of the tints. - -

21, Sir J. REYNolps. Girl and Kittens. Sir Joshua Boy and Grapes. To the interest which is here given
Reysolds had considerable taste for Historical Painting, by Sir Joshua's rich style of colour, is added a striking
but he was great only in Portraiture. In this lie, was in significance of countenance in the boy. -

deed so great, that he soared from the personal likeness of

an individual, through all the degrees of his art, up to its
Mr.a VENDRAMIN1
highest reach of poetical character. Such is his portrait of from hasbynearly
beautiful picture PAULfinished a fine Engraving
VERoNess. When the
Mrs. Sioboss as the Tragic Muse. He gave the cha
rººteristic features of each age and sex ; he gave then the Print is published, we shall feel it a duty to notice it *
physiognomical stamp of mind. But his feelings and his some length, for this is a class of Art, which, we,” .
taste appear "to be most vividly perceptive of the qualities sorry to hear, is by no means adequately encouraged."
th” belong to the earlier stages of life, and he was espe England.
[A. Notice of Mr. Fawkes's Collection of ºf. shali
ciºłly apt in selecting the looks and circumstances most
prominently descriptive of them. Of this we have a pleas ..";
appear. That of various ENGRAvings is delay till our
next.
ing instance in the picture before us. How well is the - -
 THE AUTOMATON CHESS-PLAYER. | (if he chose) to play himself. Yet he is evidently (if we
-
can be so positive on such a puzzling subject) not the in
There are two pamphlets lately published on this sub mediate agent in setting the machinery in motion, as he
ject, a translation of some letters written by a German does not the same thing regularly before each move, which
author to his friend, describing the machine at the time of would be necessary, if he were. A child, it is true, might
its first exhibition by its inventor, and “Observations” be introduced into the hollow space mentioned above, from
on it, by an Oxford Graduate; the latter is evidently underneath; but in the first place there is no appearance of
made up from the former. The German letters give some any communication with the room below, through which
account of Mr. Kempelen, the inventor, who seems to the child could come; and in the next, the difficulty is
have been an extraordinary machinist. Besides this Chess not got rid of by this supposition, as it is absolutely neces
player (if we may believe this account), he was the author sary that the mover of the mechanism should see, or know
of many other ingenious inventions, and actually con by some means, the moves of the person playing with the
structed a machine that could utter several simple words figure. It has been suggested that the loadstone might be
and phrases in various languages 1 - The author of the the guiding power; but we are told by the Oxford Gra
letters, as may be supposed, speaks very enthusiastically duate that M. Maelzel will allow the strongest loadstone
of his friend and his inventions, and appears to have fallen to be applied to any part of the figure. Some other con
into the same common mistake, as the inventor of a certain jectures have been excited by a mysterious casket, which is
patent corkscrew, entitled the “Ne plus ultra,” who placed on a stand a few paces from the figure, and into
doubtless, lost in the contemplation of this important re which the exhibitor frequently looks, almost every move.
sult of his own sagacity, could not possibly conceive how This however does not help us to a conclusion : there is
it could ever be outdone by posterity. Something better too little apparent connection. Some 4..." have sup
is however found out, and then, and not till then, these posed this to be a mere contrivance to divert the attention
people discover that they are not the greatest geniuses in of the company : the author of the German pamphlet,
their line of art. , -
however, states, that Mr. Kempelen declared, that he could
We do not mean to give a scientific account of the not make the figure play without having recourse con
curious piece of mechanism exhibited at Spring Gardens; tinually to the casket.
but shall merely describe it from our impressions at the It would he tedious to notice all the possible means by
time, before . read any of the pamphlets. It is cer which thesecret mover of the mechanism could set the wheels
tainly a remarkable specimen of the progress of science, in motion: the reader may easily guess at some. At all
and one that seems to defy any reasonable conjecture as to events, it is very well worth going to see; and its visitors
the cause of its action. It consists of a large sort of square will also be afterwards entertained with a trumpeter of the
box, on the surface of which a chess board is fixed. In same species, who flourishes away with a noisy gaiety, that
the interior, which is shewn to the spectators by liſting up forms quite a contrast to the silent gravity of his perplex
the sides, there is some mechanism, like clock-work; but ing Rºº. ... "

rather a large cavity is observable on one side. The [Next week, some account of the Pedestrian Car
Automaton is seated by the machine on the same stand, riage,” or the “Accelerator,” or the “Walking Expedi
and his body is also full of mechanism. The whole is tion,” or the but we must reserve its volume of
wheeled on to a part of the floor (which we observed to names.]
be new planked) between the folding doors that divide the
room, where the spectators sit, from that whence the Auto WEST MINSTER ELECTION.
maton is brought out; and then the game commences On Tuesday a numerous body of the Electors of Westminster
with any person who chooses to play. The man of wood dined in the Crown and Anchor. At five o'clock Sir F. Burdett.
is habited like a Turk, and by the help of a turban and a came into the room, accompanied by Mr. liobhouse, Mr. Clarke
plume of feathers, leoks very grave and stately. His face (the Chairman), and others.
The Chain MAN, after dinner, said, he was well aware of their
would have a more natural look, if the quantity of red in it cordial sentiments in favour of Reform, and he was persuaded
was lessened, which at present has a disagreeable effect. he only spoke their heart-felt opinion when he said their warmest
In his motions he is not very various, but appears to have thanks were due to Sir F. Burdett, the long-tried, indefatigable,
a predilection for the slow and regular, and a determina and startnch friend of Reform. He con'essed he had at first been
tion not to be put out of his way. His intention to move opposed to Mr. Hobhouse, because he felt that the City of West
is announced, not by a flourish of trumpets, but by a minster ought to have brought forward the venerable Major ;
whizzing of wheels, which continnes till the conclusion of but since their decision was against him, he with pleasura bowed
the operation. It is his left hand that moves the pieces; in to it, and hoped they would give him credit when he stated that,
his opinion, Mr. Hobhouse was the next and the only most
rising from the side of the board where it reclines, bending eligible character. He had witnessed that Gentleman's conduct
over to the particular square till his descending fingers during the late Election, and he admired the firmness, integrity,
environ the top of the piece which he is about to take hold and wisdom with which he conducted himself. Though he had
of; then clasping and rising with it, and either bearing it not succeeded in securing his seat, there was no doubt of his
off the board, if his adversary's, or moving it, if his own, final triumph, and he (the Chairman) could assure the Meeting
to any other square. When he gives check, he liſts his that his feeble services should not be wanting on any future oc
head up and down again in a prodigiously dignified man casion. As to Sir F. Burdett, he must say, that that Hon. Ba
ner; and on check-inating his opponent, his head moves ronet was above any praise he could bestow, and all the calum
nies which had been thrown against him had only recoiled on
from side to side and concludes with the same nod, with his opponents. He was the firm friend of Annual Parliaments
some appearance of triumph and self-satisfaction. With and Universal Suffrage, but he still must protest against that
the exception however of this concluding expression, his system which went at once to load with infamy and reproach
beaten adversaries (and they say he has none other) are such as were of a different opinion. The Worthy Gentleman
saved the mortification of seeing their conqueror exult over then, at some length, eulogized the Whigs, º: could not
He declared
their misfortune; though it must be confessed, on the other but reprehend their conduct in several instances.
-hand, that it is not very flattering to the dignity of us crea himself the friend of religious liberty, aud sincerely;wished
that the word “toleration” was totally expunged from the vo
tures of reason to be excelled in an intellectual excercise by cabulary, as no man was responsible for his religious tenets but
a compound of clock-work!—But to come to the probable to his God. -

causes of the motion of this ingenious imposition. -

The following were among the toasts given :
Maelzel, the exhibitor, generally stands by the side of his “The People—the only source of legitimate power.”
machine while the game proceeds, occasionally walking “The Prince Regent, and may he always remember his old
away alid returning, but observing sufficiently to be able declaration, that the Crown is held in trust for the people.”
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192 THE EXAMINER

“May the exposure of Boroughmongers not be confined to -- court of REQUESTs.
Teuryn, aud may Electors be taught to abhor guilt more than
detection.” Thursday, March 18.
“Sir F. Burdett, and thanks to him for his efforts during the westwinstER electrox. - ".

date Election to return a Friend of the People.” A person of the name of Bond was summoned by three indivi.
Sir FRANcis Burpert, in returning thanks, said, he was well duals—Wheeler, Millwood, and Moore—for certain sums of
ºnware of the high honour the Electors had conferred on him on money, which the plaintiffs alledged were due to them, they
several occasions, and he meed not assure them that his services having been hired by the defendant, a Bow-street officer, during
would be always at their disposal. They had placed in him the last days ºf the Westminster Election, to make a disturbance
such confidence as to allow him to act with full liberty in his at the hustings, and prevent Mr. Hobhouse from being heard,
character as their Member; and though others had said this co - and if struck to hit again. The defendant, they also stated, had
fidence was withdrawn, the late election had shewn him that it paid them part of the money, but put them of with respect to the
was not. He had no doubt of a decided victory on a future occa rest, saying, that Mr. Lamb's Committee-man, who had mºney
sion, recollecting, as he did, that the parties who, on the late to pay them, was out of town. The summons obtained by
election, had coalesced, might never do so again. With respect Wheeler was discharged, from want of evidence to prove the his
allegations; but the Court ordered Bond, who admitted
to the Whigs, he complained of them as a body because by |. (ransactions in the two latter cases, to pay 18s, to Millwood, and
party views and Frinciples they neutralized the efforts of the 10s, to Möore, with costs. - -

good men amºng them. It was also high time that the country
*hould get rid of the distinction between Whigs and Tories. In
some of the papers he saw lately a letter from a most worthy.
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elector, Mr. Sturch, complaining of his (Sir P.'s) having de

nounced him from the bustings. He denied having ever doue
so, beeause there was not a man living for whom he had more - GUILDr. ALL. - -

*steem and respect than Mr. Sturch. But those who were at the On Wednesday, a very decent-looking man, who stated him.
hustings must remember, that when he addressed them he said self to be an agent in the Insolveut Debtors' Court, and at present
*he could not but lament that there had been a falling off of some
of their friends. Some person named Mr. Wishart, but he re
in great
his housedistress, was charged
on Tuesday by and
evening, drinkingwith
a publican three half cºme
having tº
pints of
Muted that charge, because Mr. Wishart had always been a faith
porter and two glasses of rum and water, without a single farth
ful conscientious member of the whig. body; and indeed there ing in his pocket to pay for them. The prisoner handed up a
letter to the Magistrate (Sir W. Curris), which he read, and
was nºt a man for whom he could possibly have a higher regard
than that Gentleman, who had uniformly being distinguished by. after a pause, said, “I am very sorry for your distress; but you
his integrity, candour, and fidelity. Mr. Sturch's name happened should not do these things. IN it had been for something to eat,
**n to be mentioned, and he must own th she had accused him I should not have minded it; but all this drink was not neces:
9f a dereliction of principle, because he was tºtally ignorant that sary. Never let distress drive you to be dishonest. Go, Yoº
*Mr. Sturch was a Whig, as beiad always viewed him to be one ways. 'I’ll-pay the man for you this once " and he accordingy
called the publican to him for that purpose.
2, themselves, and a friend of Radical ſtoform. In the Marning -----
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‘Chronicle, which by the bye used, very properly, from the hust
ing" to be called the lying Chronicle, he saw a Å.w days ago an
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article by which he was bani-hed from all society; that is, from
aſ the sºciety of Whigs." He equid only say, that in his great Tuesday morning, in Portman-square, the Countess Manver,
strugglé for Parliaºntary itéform, he had borne greater evils of a daughter. . . . . . . . . . . . . -
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than this. The Devil, it was said, was the father of lies, but
he must ºwn, that when he read the Chronicle for an account of MARRIAGPs. '
On the 1st ins, a Glasgow, Win. Poitock, Esq. of Whitehall,
at had passed ºr the hºstings, he thought the Tevil in danger || to Margaret Bartop, eldest daughter of John Black, Esq., ºf
º tºpulation, because the reports in that paper were
mere in entiº, ºngºlained an accºunt of everything but Claremotii. .
Andrew spottiswoode, Esº- :
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what actually took place. He found also in the same paper, - Quºruesday, at Hampstead,
that he was hºld up to public ºbloquy, because he was courteous Bedford-square, to Miss Legiãº, daughter ºf Thomas lºgº
to the Whigs in private, while he abused them in public. iiad man, On Esq.
of
the 13thHampstead.”
“. . . . . . . . .
in ant, Mr. Edward west, of Morning!” acer s
this been the cºntrary, and had he been accused of being a pub to Charlotte Augu-a, daughter of Mr. Abram, of the Teppº. d
lie applauder, but a private enemy, then there might have been On Tuesday, at Wandsworth, the lion. James Šine; if, sectº
sºme grounds for the charge ; but it was certainly most ºxtraor of the Eaſt of Caithness, to Elizabeth, youngest dawg”
dinary that a man should be blamed for being civil a home, for son Géo. Tritton, Esq. of West Hºl."
leaving party animosities out of the question, and yet for doing
his public duty right. Instead, therefore, of calling the Chronicle - -

the lying paper, he would henceforth call it the foolish Chronicle. - DEATHS.
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Lately, at Iligham-on-the-Hºf, of a lingering and incurable

The Hon. Baronet then stated the circumstances of the late elec. illness, occasioned by drinking cold water on one of the º:
tion, and contended that the conduct of the Whigs had justly for hot days of last summer, Miss Reeve, youngest daughter of the
feited the favour of the people.. - -

Mr. Richten presented an Address to Sir F. Burdett, from the late Mr. Nobie Reeve, formery of Leicester. ---

224 year of his agº,

Concentric Society at Liverpool : and said it was the intention of At Rome, on the 18th of February, in theViscount -

the Committee of Electors to Petition Parliament against the aud the Hou. Brownlow Charles Colyear, sou of M.
grandson of the late Duke of Ancaster. The premº -

late return fºr Westminster. - -- - - -

death of this young man was occasioned ºy a fever

Mr. Hobhouse, Mr. Thelwall, and several other Gentlemen from the º: and subsequent ill-treatment of a bºndit?"'
jº
afterwards addressed the meeting, • . * -

F 4th of February, when on is return from Naples to Rº: -

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Vice-ChancELLOR'S COUrt.
Wednesday, March 17.
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lane, in his 67th year, Mr. Wilham Beaumont, knºwn . ad
literary world for his translations of several classical Fren"."
German works, particularly the Travels of Anaclºsis. Es
Qn Thursday, in the Clapham-road, Edward Parratt, tº
Clerk of the Journals of the House of Peers, aged 7. William
On Friday, in Dean's-yard, Westminster, the º º º

In a case that occurred on Thursday, the Vice-Chancellor laid Douglas, Prebendary of Westminster, and Canºn of Salis º *
it down that a foreign Monarch, Gºvernment, or Cºrporation, At Southgate, last week, five children of A. R. *::::::
has no political or independent character here; but in the Courts
of Law are the same as private individuals, and can sue and be Esq.; their ages were 13, 10, 9, 8, and 24 ...hº. cm
sued as such. The property of a foreign Monarch, Government, | died, in ten days, of ulcerated sore throats, an
or Corporation, stands likewise in the same relation. The only.
privileged characters in England are the Ambassador, Envoy,
** –––
and Suite." But should any person of the Suite engage in busi Printed and published by John Hunt, at the Exaxiwan-Ohiº
kees, iſ eauses a forfeiture of the diplomatic privilege. . . . .” ‘. . . . 19, Cătherine Street, Strand.—Price 10d. --- - -
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of appealing to it?" The Duke has already 60,000l. a

the politicAL ExAMINER, -

year; and it is paying him a compliment, foreign to his

Party is theºdness of many for the gain of a few, Porz. nature, to present him with an additional 10,000l. in or
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der that he may do what any affectionate son would be

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No. 572.
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Annition of teNºtiiousAND A-YEAR to
THE spºty - THOUSAND ALREADY RE.
CEIVED BY THE DUKE OF YORK.
This has been a curious business, not only in it's success,
but in the opposition to it. Not that we supposed a diſ
ſerent result possible in the House of Commons. We all
know the constitution of that House too well; and when
the Reformers are told that they shew too great a levity
and a tendency to be amused on this occasion, the ob
servation itself warraits all which it really means to de
precale: that is to say, it warrants, and shews the in
creasing conviction, voluntary and involuntary, of the ne public in these times of trouble, and the more so, because
expected to do without such an addition. If it is to be
supposed for the sake of argument that he cannot, the
money surely ought to come out of the privy purse, which
you in vain call his Majesty's own. ... It is royalty's, not
his; it is the public's, granted by them for the purposes of
that royalty; and of course it is applicable to the present
situation of the Royal Person. God forbid we should
any of us touch the King's own purse, if such a thing there
be. It is what none of us would like ourselves in a si
milar case, however we might be forced, in private life,
to disburse. If the Duke will not accept 10,000l. a year.
out of the privy purse, we cannot help it; but if 10,000'.
a year is worth a Prince's acceptance on such an occasion,
it is worth while to consider the importance of it to the º
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cºsity of a Reform in that House. . - 2. the times are times of trouble. ...What? Do you chuse.
But it is curious to see how all parties but the Re this moment above all others, when there are riots in
formers have fought shy of the real nature of the busi some parts of the country, and when these riots are no
nes. The pleaders for the grant, both in and out of doors, toriously attributed to the pecuniary distresses of the lower
urged every thing but the true reason; the opposers of it orders? (Here a shudder from the Courier at the malig
everything bat an exposure of that reason. The former, nity of this ungenteel argument.). If the Duke wants.
bºth Tory and Whig, consented for their mutthal accom money, as he has not unfrequently done, why does he not
mºdation to suppress the one; the latter, afraid also of come forward at once, and say so, instead of getting it un
ºssingers it their interests, and unwilling to think der such a pretence? How his claim is to be made out.
* - the Reformers tight, acquiesced in the suppression. The by his merits as a Commander-in-Chief, much less as a -
Prince, and infinitely much less as a son, we cannot con
former wention arguing for the grant, agd the latter against ceive.
it, upon all sorts of grounds and appeals that looked very As a son! Good God, as a son!
grave and genteel, but were really totally foreign to the This exclamation alone is doubtless a great argument,
spirit of the thing. . . . -
But though much of the reasoning here alluded to holds
The advocate said, --Gentlemen, consider delicacy, good in a general point of view, the particular nature of
Would you violate delicacy even for the love of it? this grant would yet remain a secret, if the ordinary advo-..
Would jou have the Duke take care of his father for no cates and opponents of such measures could blind the *

thing, merely because delicacies can be urged on that side common sense of mankind. º -

of the question ? If not, would you have the grant come The whole truth, with regard to the Duke of York, is
but of his Majesty's own purse? What! Would you this. Here was an opportunity, no matter whether deli
cuch that sacred accumulation, when the possessor, so far cate or indelicate, to get some more money; and he got
ſºn being able to take cure of it and preserve it from rob it. We do not incan to say that his Royal Highness is
hery, is even unconscious of possessing it? Is that your particularly fond of money; far from it; but he may like
#elicacy? The Duke tells you, he will not accept a grant it or want it without being a miser; and it is the com
out of the privy purse... Would you diminish even the monest thing in the world for men connected with the
splendours of royalty at such a period? Is that your deli management of affairs, high or low, notwithstanding all
cacy 2. Gentlemen, consider the Duke's merits as a son, as their affectation to the contrary, to get what they can on
a prince, and as a commander-in-chief; and then you can every possible occasion. A statesman, here and there,
have no doubts on the subject. Consider what he has who has power or genius enough not to want such excite
done for the soldiers. " Thé delicacies are on our side of ments, may do without them; but in nine hundred and
the question. What is 10,000l. a year compared with ninety-nine instances out of a thousand, the case is just as
the bad spirit of questioning the grant for a moment, espe we say. We are aware of the storm of pret něod-indig
tisly in these times of trouble? Honourable Gentlemen nation and contempt which comes whistling over every
will be infamous if they refuse it. (Such was the amount one's head, that dares to make such an observation. It
of the advºcate's reasonſing. . If an abridgment of it in bows no heads but the weakest; and there is Aa end of
voluntarify assumes a judicrous air, it is not our fault). that. Read Memoirs; read Histories; read Letters pub
9a the other hand the opponent said, -Gentlemen, con lished after a statesman's death; read Corſessions, In
*fler delicacy. Would you defeat delicacy itself by diut vestigations, Impeachments, aye, or Panegyrics; rººt
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THE EXAMINER. . . . * . .
Pamphlets, Parliamentary Debates, Newspapers; read the enemies, and no chance of neutralizing his future royalty
Lives of Ministers, Dependants, Courtiers, Oppositions, can be devised but that of making a churchman of him
Coalitions, Judges and Bishops; and if the love of power (which would be of no use either), it is idle to apprehend
in it's more disinterested-looking shape, actuates a few, any possibility of danger now-a-days in entrusting a fa
and vanity as a concomitant feeling almost all, you will ther to the care of a son, even though the latter does
find the infinite majority eternally hunting aſter something accept money for repaying him his care and affection.
to be gotten. It is literally a struggle for dividing the spoil. But the Duke is now Heir-Presumptive to the throne:–
Places, pensions, appointments, ſees, reversions, provisions, the KING can hardly live long;-the Regent is not likely
expectancies, and preſerments, are the soul and body of to outlive his younger brother;-and the Ministers, ac
intrigues, interests, levees, applications, bowings to, speak cording to the old ministerial nature, seize the first oppor
jags with, votings for, preachings at. The patron wants tunity of shewing how useful they can be to him, and of
places for all his friends and relations;–the servant, high or shewing it too at the expense of those, who feel them
low, his increase of wages;–the new comer something— selves compelled to oppose them. Their loyalty has a
the nert thing that turns up—whatever is to be got ;-and prodigious grasp, a three-headed vigilance: and their
the spiritual, as well as temporal lord, a translation into a cry is not simply Vivat Rer, but
richer style and title. Even Sir WALTER RALEigh, with all Vivat praeteritus Rex, praesens, atque futurus.
his genius, was so continually requesting new favours of There is a line for Mr CRokea's Latin Grammar, if ever
Elizabetii, that she at last asked him when hemeant to cease he thinks fit to oblige the prostrate generation with one, as
being a beggar. “When your Majesty ceases to begenerous,” he has done with a history.
was the reply of the cunning wit. What is to be expected (ºr -

of lesser minds under governments so constituted as to en

courage such passions? It is the common saying when a
courtier or politician would voluntarily proclaim his dis FOREIGN INTE LLIGENCE.
interestedness, that by such and such a transaction he FRANCE. –
“never got a farthing.” -
PARts, MAReh 20–In the Chamber of Deputies, on
So much for the business, as far as it concerns the Duke the 18th, the report of the commission on the resolution
himself. It is worse than idle to lay it to any other ac of the Peers, respecting the law of elections, was presented.
count, or to waste time on the old nineteen reasons for not It defended the present mode of managing the elections,
and denied that there was any proof of the existence ºf the
ringing the bells, when the first was sufficient, viz., that evils complained of, which were said to require modifica:
there were no bells. The Duke, like almost every other tions. It referred to the peaceable manner of conducting
politician connected with office, gets what he can, when the elections in France, while those in England caused
ever he can. That is sufficient. The public surely do scandalous and violent scenes In conclusion. it earnestly
recommended to the Chamber to hear the public voice, so
not want experience in these matters. As to the filial part strongly expressed against the proposition of the Peers,
of the subject, we should certainly feel a great deal of sur The accounts from Nismes mention the consternation of
prise not unmixed with much more serious feelings, had the inhabitants of that town, caused by the fear that the
we a greater opinion of his Royal Highness's turn for re disturbances of 1815 and 1816, and the attacks on th:
flection: fºr sºfar from being insensible to the calamitous Protestants would be renewed. Some wretches paraded
situation' of the Krºg, it has often, perhaps always, made the streets, assaulted many persons, and were loud in their
us abstain from alluding to the errors of his Majesty's threats against the Protestants. Fire-arms were prepared
Government, as far as his personal character was con in some parts of the city. - -

cerned: and we were the first to notice that apparent in MARch 21.—The Finance Minister opened to the
difference to it manifested by the silence of the Ministerial Chamber of Deputies the ways and means for the current
journals, till the latter had the effrontery, after a judicious year; which he said would be sufficient to meet the Expº.
diture, without recurring to fresh taxes. The following
lapse of time from our notice, to wonder all of a sudden are the principal items:– *- -

at the indifference of the publigſ—But the Duke's defi - #. sterling.

ciency of understanding relièves him, in our opinion, from Direct Contributions or Land-tax, about - - - 15,148%.
The Domains, Registry, and Stamp Duties - - 6,815,250
any grave responsibility of châracterion this head. Forests - " - .. -
- - - - - 733,333
Ministers cannot see the ſhtelicacy of the application to Customs - - - - " - - - - - 4,738.8:
Indirecteontributions, including sale of Tabacco
Párliament, for a reason which we shall mention pre Post-Duties º
-
• * -- - - - - - ! 935,833
sently; ºft a son who catinot see it, must either be one of . Lottery (“more necessary in its produce, than desirable in
its º y - -
*- " - " --- 520.8% - ---
the most"cá!!ous or the least-wise of mătățind; and the
220,770
Duke-kºgood-natured inthinking"person, whose pro. . Sait - - -- - - - - - - - -
Rents not yet negotiated. .
foundeºideas are thosa of the reatifieſ of an office. .” - - - - 315,833
*.*A* to the Ministers, the whºle secret is," that the Duke Deduction from Salaries, &c. - - - - - 466,666
“cfºr hºstbecome a much ºr simportant person than
* - --- º -
*.
About 437,050,000
-- he was, ºsb-much solihdeed, that had not the prºgress of ... A projet délyi was presented on the above estimº,
knowledge ańd humanity prodiced better habits and cus: reparatºry t3 its being referred to a Commission.—Th;
- “toins ºver the world, especially in great nations like Shamber then formed itself-into a Secret Committee; "
...this, we should figree with some in the impropriety of entered upon theMartin
when Messrs. discussion of the Message
de Gray, fromSt.theAulaire,
Boin, and Fºº
-
putting the care of the Kise’s person into his hands. But spoke against the resolution; Messrs. De Labourdoñº
this has surely become an obsolete fear. It even young audºvišče in support of it; but great disturbancº arº º
Napoleon thrives in the hands of one of his ſather's old the course of the debate—the President vainly endeavou"
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to restore order, and the Assembly broke up in great New York, Feb. 26.-The correspondent of the
confusion. -
Evening Post nuder the date of Washington, Feb. 22,
Manch 23.--The projets de lot concerning the liberty says—" The Spanish Treaty was laid before the Senate
and abuses of the press have been, presented to the Cham this day. The Floridas are ceded to the United States.
her of Deputies. They are three in number, containing no All the grants of land in the Floridas made by the King
less than 65 separate articles. The first enumerates the of Spain, prior to the 1st of January, 1818, are confirmed.
several species of literary offences, with the penalties to be The Western boundary of Louisiana commences at the
an exed to each of them; the second regulates the mode river Sabine, and runs up that river to the north-western
of judicial proceeding to be observed towards per corner of the State of Louisiana; thence North to the Red
sons charged with such offences;–while tha third re River; thence up that river to the 100th degree of West
lates to the journals and periodical publications, which, longitude; thence North to the river Arkansaw ; thence
as being for the future withdrawn from the censor up that river to its source; thence to the 42d degree of
ship, will require some special provisions of law.— North latitude, and on that parallel of latitude West to the
The class of offenders placed foremost on the list Pacific Ocean. The United States pays her own citizens
are those who by “writings, pictures, emblems, or pla 5,000,000 of dollars for the spoliations. -

cards,” shall instigate others to the perpetration of crimes, Feb. 27.-The Southern mail has just arrived, and has
in which the said instigators are also declared to be brought us the following important intelligence;—The
accomplices. Should such criminal practices consist of Senate has ratified the Spanish treaty. . The question for
imputations or allegations injurious to the King's person, repealing the United States Bank Charter was decided in
they subject the author to an imprisonment of not less the negative at five o'clock on the 24th.-The Committee
than 6 months, nor exceeding 5 years, and to a fine of of the Senate. has reported against the conduct of General
from 500 to 10,000 francs. Various kinds, degrees, and Jackson, in relation to the Seminole war.
objects of defamation, public and individual, are laid down |
with elaborate minuteness; and the punishments, which
consist in all cases of fine and imprisonment, are graduated PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
according to the offence. Speeches in the Chambers, 1. -

however, and reports or papers printed under their autho ASSIZES.

rity, are exempt from the operation of the new projet.— CAMBRidge, MArch 17.-BEALEs v. Witkinsox. —This was
With respect to the jouraals, daily and periodical, the chief an action brought by a respectable merchant in Cambridge
provisions of the law are, that a declaration shall be made against a clergyman of the Church of England, for a libel, writ
of the names and places of abode of two of the Editors, ten by him, and inserted in the Anti-jacobin Review, of September
with that of the Office duly authorized where the paper the ast, of which he is said to be the Editor. The libel impated to
is printed. 2d. That bail shall be given to the amount of himselfplaintiff, in very gross language, that he had appropriated to
the whole of a lottery ticket, half of which belonged to a
10,000 francs in rentes fºr the daily journals, and 5,000 person, who had been a partuer with him in the purchase of it.—
rentes for those periodically published. -
The defendant did not attempt to justify himself, but expressed
his contrition, through his Counsel, for having made so un
* GERMANY. fºunded and wanton an attack on the plaintiff; and the Jury,
Hanover, March 11.—The establishment of our under the direction of the Judge, who observed that the libel
was a most gross one, found, by the consent of the plaintiff, a
army is now ordered from 30,000 to 20,000 men, though verdict for nominal damages. ---
an unequivocal wish had been expressed ſrom £ngland, -

that the standing force might not be reduced; but as the Exeten, MARch 18.-Bainery AND Corruptiox. —Sir Ma
budget is published, we know not how the sum of half a masseh Lopez, Bart. was charged with having, by himself, and
million of dollars per annum, to be saved by the reduction certain agents, bribed several of the electors of the borough of
of the army, will be applied to the advantages of the Grampound.-It was proved by the evidence, that the Baronet
had given money to 45 electors (there were only 60 in all) by his
kingdom. - --

agent and confidential solicitor, Mr. Hunt; that, Mr. Hoare, an

alderman of the borough, was also concerned in the business
North AMERICA.
--
and had received a bribe; and that 2000l. was the sym, which, it
was calculated, would secure, the majority.—The defendent's
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FEB. 9. Counsel did not deny the giving the money, but said it was
The discussion in respect to the incidents of the Semi givendistressed!—The
for charitable purposes, the inhabitants of Grampound being
nole war is at length brought to a close. After considera very
Guiltv.
Jury immediately returned a verdict of -
- - - - - -

ble debate, thequestion was taken on the resolution reported - †. of the electors of Grampound, named Allen and Symons,
by the Committee on Military Affairs, disapproving the were afterwards found guilty of having received alºa of 35l.
proceedings in the trial and execution of Arbüthnot and each from Sir M. Lopez., • * - *…** *
Ambrister, and decided in the negative. The amendment Mary Woodman was indicted for the wiltal murder. of her
moved by Mr. Cobb to the resolution reported by the husband.—It appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner had
Committee of Military Affairs, having been modified, was been separated' from her husband two years, and was goin:
then rejected. On the question to concur in disagreeing about the country with another man. She occasionally came .
to so much of the report as relates to the case of Arbuthnot, home, aud was always received very kindly by hip the last
the vote was -For concurrence in disagreeing to it, 108– time she couseuted to remain, but was heard to says that she
Against it, 62.-On the question to concur in disagreeing should soon get rid of him. She, procured ame arseuse from 4
to so much of the report as relates to Ambrister–For con chemist's, and gave it her husbandºn somecider; Jº ºfts obliged
to take to his bed, and she administered more iſ brº. which
currence in disagreement, 107—Againstit, 63.—A motion killed him. The poison was found. iu, his stomachs-She was
was then made by Mr. Cobb, that the house do come to found Guilty, and the Judge prºceeded to pass senºn * of death,
the following resolution—That the late seizure of º:
during which she ieaned her head on bºr arms and jºked him
steadily in-the-face; at its conclusiºn, she exclaimed: o the hor
Spanish posts, at Pensacola and Barancas, by the army
the United States, was contrary to the constitution; and ror ºf the whºle Court, in a mostgating attitude, “Well, will
the vote was–For agreeing to it,70—Against it, 100 never forgive any of º
Thus has this knotty question been settled, after a debate: and the devil will drag theºlo he ºf Gºi
was taken away by ſorºfºgº º iſſºr: º,
-

of three weeks. It is worthy of remark, that the house she º

impregatious—The exeggiº tºº -
- The un
-

has never been known to have been more fully att - ºwomanºined ºpenitºba; jºbs;
-
----------- the
than when the above-votes were taken, * * *: *
- º false tº the º: ... * * **
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York, Mauch 17.-Crist. Con.—Mr. Winter, the plaintiff in
this case, was a timber-merchant at Hull, and had been married in
1810. The defendant, Mr. Walton, was a handsome young man,
and had been for some time visiting at the plaintiff's house. He
very often accompanied Mrs. Winter to the theatre, and was ob
served to be very familiar with her. Two particular acts of
adultery were sworn to by a female servant, For the defendant
it was contended, that the husband must have known or suspected
an improper intercourse between his wife and the defendant, and
therefore, by his earelessness, had forfeited any claim to large
damages.—Verdict for the plaintiff–Damages 1500t.
-
were such as affection and delicacy would render bim anxious
to perform. They were, besides, connected with no circumstances
that called forº expense. The bringing forward this
proposition was nothing else than making application to Parlia
inent for money on false pretences. The first mention of it hat
made the whoſe country ring with counplaints at the injustice of
a proposal, which was alike hostile to the interests and insulting
to the understanding of the people. In bringing forward this
measure Ministers had neither considered what was due to the
character of the illustrious Duke, nor to that respect for his
family which it was their duty to inculcate. When such grants

were once conceded, they were sure to be held up as precedents

for future denvands, no less unjustifiable and extravagant. The
UNITED PAR LIAMENT, Noble Lord had inferred, that if the grant was proper to the
Queen, it must be proper to the Duke: . He denied its propriety
either to the Queen or the Duke. If he or any other of their
HOUSE OF LOrds. Lordships had not fulfilled their duty in opposing the grºut on a
* - former occasion, they were the more bound to resist it nºw.
Monday, March 22. This objection did not apply to the principle of the Bill, which
PROTESTANT PETITIONS IN FAVOUR OF THE was good, as far as it went.
CATHOLICS. -
The Bill was reud a second time.—Adjourned. ..
The Marquis of Downshine presented a Petition from the
Protestants ºf Dublin, and another from the Protestant nobility, 1IOUSE OF COMMONS.
-->
gentry, freeholders, &c., resident in Ireland, in favour of the
Catholic Claims. The Noble Marquis observed, that among the A great many Petitions were presented, during the week,
names were those of persons most distinguished for rank, pro against the Insolveut Debtors’ Act and any alterations in the
perty, and talent. Catholics, and Protestants seemed to be Coal Duties.
guided by the same conciliatory spirit. Looking at the general Monday, March 22.
state of the country, at the situation of our foreign relations, at Mr. Tavlon hrought up the report of the Committee appointed
the state of the Papal See, and the temper of the Catholies to consider the Petition against the monopoly of the watercom.
*hemselves, no fitter time could be chosen for calling their Lord panies. The Hon. Gentleman complained of the inconvenience
, ships' attention to this subject, - arising from the present system of having the metropolis carved
The Earl of ExxiskilleN could not consider the Petition as into three divisions one of which was to be served by the New
coming from the great body of the Protestant interest of Ireland. River Company, another by the Graud Junction Company, and a
Not a single landholder in the county in which he lived, one of third by the West Middlesex Company. They each raised their
the most Protestant counties in Ireland, had signed it. rates at pleasure, and if any person refused to pay their price,
The Marquis of Lawsoown, not being a resident proprietor, immediately left him without water, -

had not signed the Petition, though he fully participated in the
sentinents expressed in it. If any body of Petitioners were ever
entitled to respect, it was those who had signed this Petition—
men who cane not to claim filly privilege, but to pray that others
inight be relieved from disabilities, the existence of which might,
WPon a narrow view of the question, be regarded as advantageous
io themselves. They came now to give evidence that their neigh.
bours were, in their opinion, worthy of being invested with the
A new writ was ordered for Boroughbridge in the roºm of
Marmaduke Lawson, Esq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hun.
dreds. (J.aughter.)
Mr. Lawnron presented a Petition from the booksellers of the
metropºlis, praying for a repeal of the Copyright Act. It was
signed by the principal persons in the trade, and mentioned
several large sums lost by some houses in consequence of being
compelled to furnish eleven copies of every work published by º

same political rights as themselves: They prayed that their them to various public bodies.—H.nid on the table. -

countrymen should not continue to be the only Catholics in the On the motion of Mr. A. Wright, resolutions were carried,
civilized world excluded from their rights. If there were any declaring, that certain persons in the borough of Penryn had
persons who still seriously believed that the admission of a been guity of taking bribes, and that the Attorney-General
imited number of Roman Catholics to seats in the legislature, should be directed to prosecute Henry Swann, Esq. for having
and to a limited number of civil and military places, to be given committed various acts of bribery during the late election, and
at the discretion of a Protestant government, would threiten the also three of the voters for selling their votes.
establishments of this country in Church and State, those per Mr. Howon rit had scen an advertisement in some of the news
rous must acknowledge, ſhut it was upon the Petitioners the first papers, containing a copy of some resolutions entered into by *
danger would fall. * - **** -º- - - - - . . . Court of Proprietors, at the East India-house, voting a sum of
The Marquis of BuckixonAM rose to declare, on his own be. no less than 100,000l. for the purchase of an annuity of 5600.
halt, that if it had been thought advisable for non-resident land to be given to the Marquis of ſlastings for 20 years. He begged
owners to sign the Petition, he should have readily subscribed it. leave to ask the President of the lioard of Control, whether that
The Marquis of Downshire presented another Petition in measure, so far as it had proceeded, had received his sanctiºn?
favour of the Roman Catholic claims, signed by the principal tle asked this question, because he thought any measure of that
Protestants and Protestant Dissenters of Belfast. . kind extremely premature. -

... 'The Earl of Danxiev cencurred in the observations made by Mr. CANNING could not give the Hou. Gentleman any answer,
the Marquisses of Lansdºwn and Buckingham, respecting the as the matter had not yet come before the Board of Control. He
non-resident landed proprietors:-Adjourned, .." did not think questions of this sort, asked in order to extract pre
:- - -- - - Friday, March 96. nature opinious from him, were in general proper.
ford Holland presented a Petition from Perth. stating, that - SU'PPLY."
the magistracy consisted of twenty-six persons; that, anciently. The House resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, and
they were chosen by a poll of the whole of the burgesses, but several sumº were voted for contiugent expenses of Government:
wbwa since the Act of Parliament of 1469, the old council had al Qu a resºlution for granting 60,000i, towards the completion."
ways chosen the new; that the burgh was 40,000l. in debt, though the Millbank penitentiary, Aldermau Wood observed, that the
its funds were ample, &c. - - - entire estimate was 400,000l., of which 300,000t had been already
-

: other Petitious to the same effect were presented by the Noble voted." He could uot see the necessity of so large a sum. He sl:
Lord from Elgin and Ayr. . . . .” * - served one charge for a steam-engine, to raise water and stinº
- - WINDSOR ESTABLISHMENT. corn. . It appeared to him singular, that in a place where iſ "º
... Lord Livrnroulºmoved the second reading of the Bill for re so desirable to find work for the persons confined there, it should
gºaling the Windsor Establishment, : have been deemed necessary to resort to artificial labour.
-- - -

Earl Gnev would not oppose the Bill, as he approved of the Mr. Lowq said, that the steam-engine had been much unrer
principle of reduction. But he could not but object to the grant the consideration of the Committee. It did not appear th: the
ºf 10:000t a year to the Duke of York, as unnecessary and ºup prisoners could have been employed in throwing up a sufficient
Perted ºn failagious gratands. The duties which the Puke of quantity of water for the rom-umption of 1,200 persons, withvut
York would have to perform were doubtless important; but they detriment to their oſher work. - ** *
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Alderman Wood said, that he could point out a prison (it was ployer to order him to be turned out of the office. On these a2
in the vicinity of Paris), where twenty persons, most of whom counts the Petitioners solicited redress. This was a fit time for
had loºt a li: b, raised sufficient water for 5,000 persons.—After inquiry, when the Governor appeared to be entering into a wrºng
some other observations, the resolution was passed. course. Ile thought, that charges which would justify a parlia
A resolutiou, grant ng 50,000l. for the completion of the Cale mentary inquiry, wºuld justify his recall. The individual com
deaiau canal, being put, Lord CARRAMrrow asked how much plained of, it might be said, was absent: that was his misfortune.
had been granted since the first calculation? They ought to be As long as he continued tº be Governor or remained in the
told at once how much was wanted.-Lord Bt.NNunc said, that island, the Petitiouers could not bring their action: their only
that the original estimate in 1803 was 500,000t.; but it had means of obtaining redress was therefore to apply to Parliament.
already cost 700,000l. The question now was, whether they He moved that the Petition should be brought up.–The Petitiou
should withhold 50,000t., which were necessary for the comple. was brought up and ordered to be printed. -

tion of a work that gave employment to so many people, and
was so beneficial to trade?—The resolution was passed.
TRIAL BY BATTLE AND LAW OF APPEAL.
The Arronx Ev-Genenal moved the third reading of the Bill
for the abolition of Trial by Battle and the Law of Appeal.
-Sir R. Wilson objected to the taking away the protection
afforded to the subject by the Law of Appeal against the undue
4xercise of the prerogative of mercy. He moved, as an amend
ment, that the § should be read again in three months.
On a division, the original inotien was carried by a majority
of 64 against 2–Adjourned.
Tuesday, March 23.
The Report of the Committee on the Worcester Election Peti
Mr. Moxey expressed his surprize at hearing such charge
against General M*Quarrie, to whose former good character he
bore testimony. The friends of the Governor, as well as the
lovers of justiec, must be anxious for the strictest inquiry.
Mr. Forbes joined in the wish for inquiry. . The Hon. Gentle
man mentioned an instance of the Governor's impartiality. A
vessel, entirely laden with spirits, had come into port, and was
obliged to return without unloading; though it was partly owned
by persons very intimate with the Governor. when General
§§. first went out, there was a regulation prohibiting all
persons who had been convicts from practising as barrister- or
attornies: he abolished this regulation, and the measure was nº
proved of by Ministers. -

tion was brought up. It declared, that Mr. Davies and Lord Mr. Wilnerforce had known General M*Quarrie before he
Deerhurst were º duly elected; that the Petition against the went nut, and had thought very highly of him. At the same
former was not frivolous or vexatious, but that against the latter time, he must be almost more than human, if he could be in pos
was both. A_Special Report also stated, that the Petitioners session of an absolute authority without being influenced by that
against Lord Deerhurst had not come forward before the Com dangerous gift. The commission about to be sent out consisted
mittee to support their allegations. of one person only: he thought it would be almost an impossible
SCOTCH BURGHS. task for that person, after being received by the authorities in
Petitions were presented from Dundee, and other places in New South Wales with proper respect, to decide at once on the
Seotland, praying for a Reform in the Scotch Burghs. That from real state of the case, in matters about which different statements
l]undee was signed by 9-10ths of the inhabitants, and stated, were made. The House would be shocked to hear of the statº
of the female convicts in the island, who were wandering about
that sº account of not being able to controul the magistracy, the literally without food or shelter, and compelled to subsist by
town lands had been let out to the magistrates at half, the fair
price; and it complained of the misapplication of the burgh prostitution! They actually applied to the magistrates, express
funds.--Some conversation arose on these Petitions. Lord A. ing their detestation of their mode of life. The call for investiga
ILawlrow contended, that the number of Petitions presented to tion was urgent and irresistible. -

the Hºuse proved that the Scotch were not satisfied with the im Mr. Goulburn said, that they were all agreed as to the neces
provements made by the Bill of the Lord Advocate, as that Noble sity of inquiry, aud the only j was respecting the mode
Lord had said.—The Lond Advocate repeated his former asser and of conducting it. As to the distinction made between conviets
tion, that the bulk of the people interested had not complained of free settlers, it must be obvious, that the restrictions on the
grievances. , tie would prove it by referring to the case of the latter, in such a state of society, must be greater than in other
city of Edinburgh; there were more than 100,000 inhabitants in settlements: they could not be allowed to excite the passions or
that place, and of these only 1,200 were Petitioners to Parlia administer to the vices of the former. With respect to the in
ment.-General FERGusson bore testimony that it was the unani fliction of corporal punishments, that practice had been stated in
mous wish of every borough to be emancipated from its present a Repºrt to the House some time ago, and not having been then
thraldom, and it was for Ministers to answer why they had re reprobated, the Governor had thought himself justified io coo
fused the demand of Aberdeen.—Laid on the table. tinuing it. The system of taxation rested upon acknowledged
New South WALes. - -
custom, and had been sanctioned by the opinion of the law of.
ficers. - -

Mr. Brough AM said, that he had been requested to present a Mr. Brºwner declared, that the Committee had heard of the
Petition from two individuals named Blake and Willians, com
plaining of the couduct of General M*Quarrie, the Governor of Crdinance allowing the infliction of 500 lashes with the feeling
which became them. No power but that of an Act ºf Parlia
New South Wales. He had made enquiries respecting the Peti ment could confer such an authority. The system of tºxariou
tiouers, and believed them to be worthy of credit. For his own was most illegal. He approved on spirit", but why was
part, he thought the offences charged against Gen. M'Quarrie not a proper authority procuredof a tax
were to be attributed in a great measure to the system and pecu been a council in New South Wales, for levying it? If there had
none of these accºsation
liar circumstances of the colony. The Petitioners charged the worthd have been made. - --

governor with having arbitrarily administered the law, particu Mr. iºnouaitaw, in reply, observed, that it was indi*putable
larly in levying taxes to the amount of 24,000l. a year without that the common law of Eagland was the common law of her
any warrant. Indeed the Crown could give no authority to levy colonies.—The Petition was laid on the table.
taxes except in a conquered country. The chief ground of com
plaint, however, was that the Governor had granted exemptions STATUTE LAW OF SCOTLAND.
Sir J. Newport said, that it was a practice with the Lords of
io his friends and dependants. . Blake had petitioned two years session
ago: and he stated, that he, a free settler, and two convicts, had and other Scotch Judges, to declare that certain statutes
been handed over to the common hangman to receive 25 lashes or parts of statutes had fallen into desuetude, and were no longer
for passing over a piece of ground which the Governor had en inforce, thus assuming a legislative power. By this meanº, the
closed with a fence. This was a mere trespass by the laws of people were ignorant whº was and what was not the law. He
this country, and it was difficult to see how Governor M'Quarrie therefore moved an address to the Prince Regent, praying him tº
made it otherwise by the laws of Botany Bay. This accusation direct an inquiry into the nature aud extent of this power, and
was brought to the knowledge of Ministers ivo years ago, and also for copies of the statutes ſellen into deanetude. -

they had had time to inquire whether the statement was or The Lomp Advocłº, ºppºsed the motion. The Courts of
was not exaggerated; if no contradiction was given, it would go Judicature did not dººrs what statute' law, and what was
far in confirmation." Williams, the other Petitioner, had been a not law; but they decided on cases befºre tºen, on those funda
printer at the Cape of Good liope, but being desirous of quitting mental principles which were coeval with the laws themselve-.
it, he had obtained permissión from Lord Bathurst, with a pro the learned Lord then cited some authºrities to show that a
mise of a grant of land in New South Wales; and on his arrival statute may be repealed by long disuse. Que ºf the grounds fºr
in New Sºuth Wales, obtained employment in the Government deposing James 3.1 was that,he revived obsolete laws; and yet
printing office. ‘He was one of those who signed Blake's former the practice of rejecting such laws was said tº be vexatiºns.
Petitiou, in consequence of which, the Governor sent to his em Mr. Boswell remarked, that while
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*—— The ExAMINER.
no man could know what was or was not an Act of Parliament, enough not to bring their emoluments before the public, or per
unless he could afford to have the question argued before the haps felt how unreasonable, it was to throw fresh burdens on the
Court of Session. citizens. Those who had claimed increased stipends were well
The House divided—For the motion, 15–Against it, 33– provided for both in and out of the city: the Clergyman of St.
-Majority, 18.-Adjourned. Peter's, Cornhill, received 6321. per annum; he was non-resi
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Wednesday, March 24.
Lord Howard brought up the report of the Hedon Election
Committee. It stated, that Edmund Turton and Robert Far
rand, Esqrs. had been duly elected; and that the opposition to
their return was uot frivolous or vexatious.
- LONDON CLERGY.
Sir J. Grahaw said, that the Committee on the Petition of the
London Clergy had reported, that the Petitioners had
prove theiri.
allegations.the This Petition was signed by the Clergy
men of 50 City, and prayed for further increase of
stipend. In the reign of Henry VII. the Clergy were entitled to
2s. 9d in the pound; but this was taken from them by an Act,
dent, and was also vicar of Tottenham; another was paid 4911,
another 450l., another 386l., another 376l., and another 600l.
per annum, besides emoluments derived from other benefices
and situations : for instance, the Clergyman of Allhallows had
also the living of Stonesfield, and a staſi in a cathedral; another
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had preferment at Stoke-Newington, and a seedud at Shrews
bury ; while several were minor canons of St. Paul's, to whom
one parish only paid 17,000l. per annum. Nevertheless, most
º: to of these revereud gentlemen employed curates at salaries as low
as possible; and because they would not pay enou h for men cf
talent to discharge the duties of the pulpit, many of the congre
f. were put to the heavy expense of paying for evening
ectures. (Hear.) -

called the Fire Act, and it was found, that in 1804 they only re Sir T. BARING was sure that not one of the Clergy let their
seived 4d. or 5d. in the pound. Parliament in consequence re houses for profit. - -

lieved them, but that relief was found insufficient. Ont of fifty Mr. Wyss thought the main allegation of the Petitioners
Clergymen, who had signed the present Petition, 30 performed was proved by the acquiescence of two centuries.
their respective duties without curates; 16 of them were even Alderman Waith MAN remarked, that the Ministers of St.
without personage-houses: and under these circumstances they Anne's, Blackfriars, and of Aldgate, had made great exertions to
had come forward, not to claim 2s. 8d. in the pound, but merely
such au increase of stipend as Parliament should say they ought
be elected by the parishioners, and then turned-round on their
friends and demanded a double salarv. What conscience could
to have. Their Petition referred to a decree (enrolled in the these gentlemen have? It was º that when the clergy
Sourt of Chancery by Commissioners appointed under it) enabling applied to Parliament in 1804, though they obtained an increase
the Clergy to receive the 2s. 9d. The existence of this decree of stipend, their present claim was not admitted. * *
Yºº Prºved by a reference to the statute book, by more than ido. Mr. PEEL and Mr. Wilberforce thought the Committee had
determinations ſºunded upon it, and by a recognition of it in the exceeded their powers in stating whether the allegations were or
ºrchives of the City. - He could not therefore conceive how the were not made out, and thus debarring the House from discuss:
Committee eould resolve that the Petitioners had not proved ing the claims of the Petitioners. The lattergentleman considered
their allegations. Iſe meyed for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the argument, that the Petitioners were otherwise provided for,
the former àe; for the relief of the London Clergy.
as indirectly patronizing the system of plurality.
... Mr. P.W. Harvey contended, that the degree referred too The SPEAKER was of opinion, that the Committee had not
had no; the fºrce of a law. A commission had been appointed been authorized to give any opinion respecting the truth of the
º * As of Henry VIII., whose decisions were to have the force allegation. - *

ºf lºw, if enrºlled before a certain time, but if nºnrºlled to Leave was given to bring in the Bill.
be of no authºrity: This enrolment had never taken place, though
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the ºperee might be produced; and consequently the Petitioners

lºad ſºilºdºrove their allegations. In a lot tº Tomlin and
Raithby's edition of the statutes, it was stated,
had neither been enrolled, nor was it to be foundin any old edi
ºn ºf the statutes. The Committee had been of this opinion in
* Prºpºrtion ºften to three. The Hon. Gentleman then blamed
therapacious spirit of the Clergy, who wanted to obtain nothing
In answer to a question by Mr. G. Lawn, the Chºwcetion ºf .
the Exchequent stated, that he had no immediate intention of
that the decree
proposing a tax upon finy article whatever; but he did not mean
to preclude himself from proposing any measures, in the course
of the Session, which might be deemed most expedient, with a
view to the budget of the year. - -

less than one-sixth of the rack-rental of the city of London The Game Laws’ Amendment Bill went through a
and the further consideration of it was postponed to the 30th of
‘...".
They ha§ forced into their Petition the Act of #!. 3. with which April.—Adjourned.
they had nºthing tº dº, except it were to exhibit the craving -

spirit which actuated them. º, Hon. Baronet had endeavoured Thursday, March 25.
to exºſe the compassion of the House for these five and thirty - POOR LAWS. - - -

pºor Cºſgymen; but would the House believe that they were Mr. S. Bourse said, that the evils of the present system of
lºne of then, ** ºverage, receiving less than 500i. a-year 2 Poor Laws were threefold:-1. The enormous expenses incur
Twenty-five ºut of 35 were pluralists, and not a tº red by parishes, in prosecuting or defending appeals, and in
smºglºttest pluralists of that reverend profession. (Hear, removing paupers; 3. The injustice under which parishes,”
hear!). These Pºor Clergymen were, perhaps, the best calcu boured, to which old paupers were sent-back, after they had
. . lººrs in the metropolis; their care fºr the souls of the pa spent their youth and strength elsewhere. 3. The hard-hip upº
rishioners did not at all interfere with uite as great a care for
the paupers,
at awho, having
wereresided manyandyears, and frºm
form.
.
$ºnselves; and a fordingly, instead occupying the houses connexions distance, sent home, separated all
belºng tº their livings, they found it anºther purposes
intºch better to let them. out to merchants, and manufacturers, their friends, to die in a remote poor-house. He proposed, that
who could ºfford tº pay them exorbitant rents. settlement should be acquired now by residenee alone, say *
(Cheers.) Not
a few of the ideurºbenis received annually 1,200l. and even three years, which would simplify the whole subject; and hº
an absence of less than 90 days should not be allowed to dº."
ºyº
tºn 60l.,º
707,6F
what did they lº. -- urates? Not more the settlement. One of his objects was to remove some of the
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were sh : º; and sºme in fill excess offiberality

s
restrictions on the free circulatiou of labour. He should ther"
gºthrow in the surplice fees, amounting fore move for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the seuleme"
to the enºus sum of perhaps 7t. of 81. peranium! For these of the poor.-Leave given. .
Revereºgétitlemen,
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to come to Parliament with the -

Leave was also given to Mr. Beutne to bring in a Bill to pro

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*ary ºf distrº was heither bāsistent with truth nor with vide for placing out and sustaining children. that could not
ºfesnered
{{#3 He character
º whithº: theywºuld
were sºinkwell
thatpaid to sustain. supported by their parents, instead of the present mode of gº"
the committee
lººd cºme to a correct decision, and t ! -----
ing allowances
plied; and also to the parents,
to prevent whichbeing
any relief wereafforded
frequently.”
to able-bo
forthºmotion.º.º. ". 1 the there *ne pretence
. Aftermittnº observed, that twº ns had been died labourers in employment: . . ; :
- - -- - - - - - e Mr. r. counresº ºbtained leave to bring in a Bill fºr.”
Plººmººth tº search in the city, bººt tº º further encouragement of Friendly societies; and alsº a Bill to
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is tº the dº **estion. The ority evidence of its exist.
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establish Benefit Societies in every Parish.-Adjourned.
:ee ºtha *inºded in a modern copy of the stature.
*ºssertefiliatthey were entiº. - - - Friday, March 26.’. * -. ---
pºund by this deereºt as they had not prºved it, the Com Sir JAMss. MacIntosh presented a Petition from Dumfrie",
mittee stated that, they had ſhiled to prove this allegation. All complaining of the manner in which the magistra"; of that
the Clergy had not come forward; some had been prudent borough were elected. He would state one circumstance, to
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convince the House, how prevalent the cry for Reform whe the evidence of two individual-, Carew Smyth, Esq. (the friend of
throughout Scotland. The population of the royal burghs Mr. Grady) and Thomas Goold, Esq. (the friend of Mr. Quin.)— .
amounted in 1811 to 480,000 inhabitants. Now the population Our Readers know that Mr. Grady, juu. held the office of Clerk
of the burghs who had presented Petitions against the present of the Peace for Limerick, which was in the gift of Mr. Quin.
system, amounted to 410,000 inhabitants, so that the number of The office was suddenly taken from the junior, Mr. Grady, and
tàose who had not petitioned was reduced to 70,000. From given to Mr. Richard Smith; but half the salary (2001. a year)
these persons not one single Petition had come iu.favour of the was offered to Mr. Grady by Mr. Quin, coupled, however, with
present systern, nor had so much as one single resolution in sup the condition, as Mr. Carew Smyth affirms, that the Gradys
port of it been entered into by those most interested in the cou should support Mr. Quin with their freeholders at the Election..."
tinuance of the present grievances. , This Mr. Carew Smyth expressly asserts; and he says, he made .
*
BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. a minute of the whole conversation that passed between him and
Lord Althoap called the attention of the House to a flagrant Mr. Quin on the subject, which minute was approved by Mr.
breach of privilege. A soldier of the first regiment of Guards, Quin. The offer was rejected by Mr. Grady, and his father
named William Stynton, had been summoned to give evidence wrote an angry letter to Mr. Quin, demanding that his son
before the Worcester Election Committee. He had attended at should be restored to the office.—Mr. Goold, on the contrary,
the House of Commous, and had been examined on Saturday positively affirms, that the offer made by Mr. Quinto Mr. Gra y
last. As he was retiring from the room in which the Committee of 2001. a year, was not coupled with any politiead condition
sat, and was crossing the lobby of the House, he was arrested by whatever, Mr. Goold, however, allows, that his memory is
a serjeant in the Guards, for absence from Parade, in consequence not good—of which, indeed, he gave an example while on éxa
of his attendance at the House of Commons. Since that time, mination ; for he first positively denied that he called twice at a
the man had been tried by a Court-Martial, though sentence had certain-house, but two days afterwards he admitted that he had
not, he believed; been passed upon him. It was a most flagrant so done. Several other witnesses were examined, but they
breach of privilege to arrest, in the precincts of the Ilouse, any threw little light on the business. -

witness in attendance. -

Afterto some conversation,

broughtthe
up. Serjeant and Stytton were or
dered be forthwith r -
TUESDAY's LoNDON GA2ETTE. . ." ---
PETITION FROM MR. O'HAIRA. ---

BANKRUPTS. - * *
Mr. BEx:er presented a Petition from Edward O'Hara, com
plaining of the hardships which he had suffered from the con T. Parkinson, sen., T. Parkinson, jun., and J. Lilley, Sculcoated,
dºct of the Tux Collectors. He had owed 31. for King's taxes, Yorkshire, raff merchants. Attornies, Messrs. Rosser, Son,
which he could not pay, and had.been committed to Newgate, and Rosser, Bartlett's-buildings. . ".
where he was confined ten days among felons of the vilest de W. Tatum and E. Palmer, Fish-street-hill, paper-stainers. At
scription; of whom some had since been transported, and one torney, Mr. llodson, Old Jewry. . .. . . . . -

executed. A Habeas Corpus was obtained, and the individual T. Fleming, Limehouse, sugar-refiner. Attornies, Messrs. Pa
terson and Peill, Old Broad-street. --
being brought before Mr. Justice Bayley, he was discharged,
the Learned Judge being disgusted with the scandalous miscon R. Stanley, Horridge-end, Derbyshire, flour-dealer. Attornie
duct of the persons who had placed him in custody. It was true Messrs. Willis, Clarke, and Co. Warnford-court. . ...
that Mr. O'Hara, a mail of unblemished character, had what was S. Wood, Bolton, Lancashire, banker. Attorney, Mr. Med
called a legal remedy; but the only remedy that would set him dowcroft, Gray's—inu.
right with the world was to be found in the ſlouse of Commons. R. Groning, Broad-street-buildings, merchant. Attornies, Messrs.
—Laid on the table. Blunt and Bowman, Broad-street-buildings.
* BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.. - J. Haward, Liverpool, flour-dealer. Attorney, Mr. Smith, Hol
Sergeant Harvey, who had arrested Stynton, was now brought born-court, Gray's inn.
up and examined. He stated, that he had taken the soldier, in H. Moule, ºath, baker. Attornie, Messrs. Adlington andºGre
consequence of orders from Sergeant-Major Sutton, because he gory, Bedford-row. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . --- -

was absent from the drill in the morning; that he took him on R. Brumwell, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, hatter. Attorney, Mr. -

the lobby steps, the soldier telling him that his wwamination was Brooksbank, Gray's-inn-square. . . -

concluded; that he conveyed him to the Sergeant-Major, and J. inn.Rugg, Bristol, -visualler.
- - -- - * *
... Attorney, Mr.- Edmunds,
*** - - - - - --
Lincoln't ****** * * **
was afterwards taking him to the barracks, when he ran off, but
was re-taken; that Stynton was tried by a Court-martial for ab I. Haut, Cheltenham, brandy merchant: “Attorney; Mr. Bridget,”
senting himself from drill, for running away from him, and for" Angel-court, Throgmerton-street, … º.º. º.º.º.º.
stealing a piece of cloth; and that he pleaded in defence his F-_º_se, , , , ,
being obliged to attend at the House.
The Sergeaut-Major was then examined; and confirmed the
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above statements, adding, that Stynton behaved very insolently BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEthen. . . . . * * * *
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both to him, and to be Adjutant, refusing to answer any ques R. Starbuck, Miltop, Kent, boot and st maker. :: *: • ‘s' . . , -

tions; aud that the Court-martial found him guilty of one or two . . . BANKRUPTS... ... . . . .º.º. raw
of the charges, but forgave him on account of his attendance on T. C. Harmºn, Wisbeach, ſiden:graper. Attorates §:
the House of Commons. * - -
sweet, stºkes, and Carr, Basingham'street.” $****
. Lord ALTHowe was happy to find that in point of fact no breach. S. Baker, Bºeinºne, liºn draper Astonias; Messrs.”
of privilege had been committed; he considered, however that Lamberts, Taylor, and Deatue, Gray's lun: * -- *** *** ***
the subject should be prosecuted to an end; and in ºrder that it P. Daſgnirts §§§. 'St.'" Hº:
might be fully recorded in their journals, he moved that the mi |-- Attornies, Messrs Clarke and Faulkner, cheapsidé: ******
nutes of the Court-martial should be produced. . . . ** T, Buckland, Langleys, Bubkingbárºdaire, brick-ºakèr, ºttérº.
Mr. Beckett, thought there was no reason for the motion, as nies, Messrs. Her eley, Lingpin': lan...; * : *.* --- *** *.*, *
, there was no evidence that the man had been tried upon any E. Dampier, Primrºse-siréet, Bishºpsga Withºseº-ºry.
charge coanected with his attendance at the house. * * .. ...Antorujes, Messes. Drice and Sonºſtiter-square, *******
The Hon. Col. Townshend (Colonel ºf the Regiment) stated W. Barton, St. §avisºr's *:::::::: ** Wºlster&N
that having found that the man had brokeas away from the Ser
jeant, and had in other respects misconducted himself, he di
*::::::: Missºrs.
estminster.”.
Rºgers and Son, Maughester-bºdings;
... … … ***** ***** *-r
reeted that he should be preceeded with in the wsual why. He
did not know, whether absence from drill was one of the charges
J. whitºchester; hoºker. Alſółºś
and Sans, Bermond ryºtreet;southwº gº ºf “
against Stynton on the Court-Martial.... . . . . . . . .
Lord Aliadar thought that point should be ascertained.
, iſ N. -
§: Pº
'Attördies; Messrs. r nu"
's-iaw: shoe-manufacturers
ty- ** * * -

H. Dannage, Colehester, 3. § § §iaº,

g

colonel wood said," that as the Hen. Member had distinctly

said that Synton was not-confined for absence from drill, the A.
ºriºnºiºiºsº" ºr
.*.*. ºr. is Oxford-street, glaas-dealet.ºr Attº:
motion was unnecessary. r:. .” - “ , ” ". . . . . . * * *
the motion was negºtived.-Agiosºned. *
www.res or evºniºcrin Tut
: * . . .” -ºº º
..º.º.". º -ºśwº.
ºº:::::::::: §. ºr . .
pel-en- t life, At
or retºok writºnºtºrs. -

These Minutes have idiºt dººgh:tº they coulain :Liverpoºl, º:e-dealer.” Attornies, flustri: Dáče.
little to interest the general # The ease chiefly resis on
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ace, Temple-bar. º: ; : * > . “ •:
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 209 THE EXAMINER. . ---

W. Tatum and E. Palmer, Fish-street-hill, paper-stainers and dom, which however, beit observed, stands a good chance of
manufacturers. Attorney, Mr. Hodgson, Old Jewry. being encreased by the experience of the folly of their own
M. Goddard, Stannylands, Cheshire, tunner. Attornies, Messrs.
, Rosser, Son, and Rosser, Bartlett's-buildings. acts. We cannot allow that what is the result of ignorance
W. Dickinson, Scalby, Yorkshire, coal-merchant. Attornies, or temporary delusion, on the part of the people, is any
Messrs. Fisher and Sudlow, Ilolworn. argument against the adoption of a form of Government
J. Sibley, Abchurch-lane, drysalter. Attorney, Mr. Birkett,
which would tend to remedy both, by infusing into the
Cloak-lane. ." -

W. Turner, Lombard-street, stationer. Attornies, Messrs. Jones many a greater desire to become acquainted with what
and Itoche, Charles-street, Covent-gardem. politically concerns them. -

T. Hornshaw, Halifax, Yorkshire, grocer. Attorney, Mr. Battye, The cession of the Floridas may have been hastened by
Chancery-lane. -

J. Johnson, Sheffield, Yorkshire, draper. Attorney, Mr. Dun the weakness of Spain, but it was evedient that the Ame
can, Holborn-court, Gray's-inn. ricans would never have rested till they had obtained them,
W. Chamberlain, Bristol, corn-factor. Attorney, Mr. King, Ser
jeant's-inn, Fleet-street.
which they certainly would have done sooner or later. A
H. Bush, Wick and Abson, Gloucestershire, dealer. Attorney, question is raised, we see, whether this country has not a
, Mr. King, Serjeant's-inn; Fleet-street. right to interfere and prevent the retention of these pro
T. and J. Hellicºr, Bristol, merchants. Attornies, Messrs. Lam vinces by the Americans, on account of the danger which
berts, Taylor, and Deane, Gray's-inn.
R. Miller, Old Fish-street, bookseller. Attornies, Messrs. Lane will arise from their proximity to our West Indian
and bennett, Lawrence Pountney-hill. islands; but we do not see how this could be done with
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. It. Macdonald, Frant, Sussex, shopkeeper. Attornies, Messrs.
Rowland and Young, Lincoln’s-inn-fields. .
G. Thistlewood, Muscovy-court, Tower-hill, flour-factor. At
tormies, Messrs. Druce aud. Son, Billiter-square.
J.W. Burmester, and C. L. Vidal, New London-street, merchants.
Attornies, Messrs. Barrows and Vincent, Basinghall-street.
N. Constat, Upper East-Smithfield, chemist. Attorney, Mr.
Hssacs, Bury-street, St. Mary-axe.
*::...}}}. Ilanwell Nursery, Ealing, seedsman.
- Messrs. Hooke and Cºe; Armourers-hall, Coleman-street.
A. Webb, Hammersmith, coach-proprietor.
by the Deputies of the proposition of the Peers. Nearly
- Gºren, Orchnºd-street; Portman-square.
any show of justice: if the cession was a matter so dan
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gerous to our interests, we should not have allowed FER
dinand to give them up. We have certainly more reason
to complain of the ingratitude of the Beloved than of the
rapacity of the Americans, who have done no more than
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any other nation would have done in similar circumstances.
Attornies, The Paris papers of Wednesday, received yesterday
Attorney, Mr. morning, bring the expected intelligence of the rejection
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12, and A. D. Welch, Lendentiall-street, stopsellers. Attornies,

the whole of the members were present, and the proposi
Messrs. Kearsey and Spurr, Bishopsgate-street-within.
tion was rejected by a majority of 150 against 94. Tº
*- - vote-will very much calm the agitation of the pubº
. . . farce of stocks on saturday. .
: . 3 per cent. Cons............ 74;#3. mind in France, which agitation, we may remark by.
the way, was a most convincing proof of the horrºr
felt by the French nation at the idea of the me"
the ExAMINER. possibility of the revival of the old Bourbon barbar
isms. It is curious to observe how the good effect"
Lawnon, March 28. of the Revolution force themselves into notice, not only
in spite of all the endeavours to deny them, but even
Two most important articles of intelligence have arrived
this week from the United States;–that Spain has ceded through the medium of the very writers that have been *
*be Floridas tº the Americans, and that the House of Re long crying it down as one of the most dreadful visitatiº
presentatives has, contrary to the Report of its Commit of Providºnes. Dr. Sronpant, in the New Times, it *
tees, sanctioned the conduct of General Jackson, both true, continues to overload his daily columns with dº
pairing abuse of all the moderate measures, by which
with tegard to the execution of the two Englishmen and
the seizure of the Spanish towns. This has certainly dis alone Louis has kept himself upon his throne: "
the Courier, finding now that the consequences of the Re
appointed us;: more particularly as the said Report en
volution have so engrafted themselves on the resigned
couraged usin a belief that the Legislature would not, from government, as to render hopeless all attempts to root them
any false notion of national glory.orindependence, givecoun
*aaance to conduct, not only cruel in itself, but dangerous, out, begins to come out with cautious admissions, that
inasmuch as it jºist fies military violence, to the political liberty has certainly gained some advantages during tº
fiberty of the American people. We are sorry fºr his ge. late storms, though (of course) they have been purchased
*ision on another account, namely, that it gives occasion to at a dear rate; and that the only thing now left is to make.
the enemies of freedom to declaim with some appearance the best (as the happy and turtle-fed Aldermen say) of
of truth against the haugitives and violence of popular things as they are—This is however something.
governments:--Bat: this is not fair. Nobody but a
qºck pretends, ſtatº real representation of the people The London Clergy, it seems, are not easily to be stop:
will immediately lead to wise and politic mºl ped, when in the pursuit of the “loaves and fishes," and
and a sort of constitutional perfection : the friends of the “vanities of this sinful world.” The grasping impº
such a form ºf 89** say simply, that such a
dence of these Reverend Gentlemen has brought upon
system will prºheisterests of the few from Fredomi. themselves a proper punishment: they have provoked in
ºating over those of the anny. If the people, when they quiry...by their importunity and a pretty exposition hº
-hold the power of doing what they please, chºse to do sº, come out. All their snug benefices, their pluralities, thºr
.*** *** is to be said?' It is their business and prebends, their canonries, and their sinecures of all sorº,
they will suffer for it, if there is any truthin our old maxim have been held up for the public inspection; and accom
about honesty : we caä onlylathem their want of that wis. panied as the exposure is with complaints of their porº,
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one does not know whether to laugh, or to be indig Titº Wºngs AND REForst-On referring, to the
nant. It may be very true, that some of them have small |Speeches formerly made by the Whigs on the subject of
salaries; but have not they enormous sinecures? If they Parliamentary
º j.
Reform, and comparing them with their
and printed opinions, no one can doubt
would first use their own misapplied funds to render their or a moment that they have almost entirely changed their
poorer brethren more comfortable, and should then show sentiments on this most vital question. #."
eed still
that they had not enough, there would be some grounds assert that they tread in the steps of Mr. Fox, and they
for application to Parliament. But it is disgusting to see call themselves his followers. Now that Statesman, to
men, who employ curates to discharge those duties, which the last, held the same high tone as to the necessity of a
on their ordination they profess such a zeal to execute, great change in the composition of the House of Com
mons, which House (in his Speech on Mr. now Lord
come begging that their beloved flocks may be compelled Gary's motion for Reform) he deseribed as being “vicious
to increase the sinecures of their shepherds. We are not in all its parts.”—The Representation, he said, was “a
surprised to see Mr. Wilmenroacs advocating the cause mockery and a shadow :”—“it was a system,” he con
of these gentry: that Honourable Member may be led by tended, “that ought to be put an end to, spreading as it
the nose by any body, who is dressed in a surpliee and sets did degeneracy, hypocrisy, and sordid fraud, over the
whole country.”—So far from thinking, as the present
up a claim to superior sanctity. But how can he seriously Whigs affect to think, that a Parliamentary Reform was
assert, that those, who say that the London Clergy are not a vital but a secondary question, Mr. Fox expressly
provided for by other means, indirectly justify plurality ? affirmed that “it would remºdy all the abuses which had
Are the pluralists to have the benefit of sinecures and other crept into our Government.” He treated the motion of
sources of emolument, and yet, when an increase of their virtual representation with great contempt, observing that
salary cornes to be debated, are we to be told that those “he was no advocate for these mice subtilties and special
things must be kept out of sight, lest we should be sup pleadings, as much depended on appearances as well as
realities;” and he urged, that “there was a lumping con
posed to justify them? The Reformists would sweep away. sideration (if he might be allowed the phrase) which ought
all these abuses; but while they exist, they must surely be to make every man a convert to Parliamentary Reform."
taken into consideration, when men are demanding more, What, reader, was this “lumping” consideration, which
who already possess too much. in Mr. Fox's opinion should have made every man a Re:
former? Why, it was this.--that there was an annual
Revenue of Trentſ-three Millions sterling, collected from
Amongst a variety of communications from India, a the people by the Executive. And now, when this annual
Ceylon paper has arrived of the 12th September; at which sum is more than doubled, and by consequenee the in
period, it states the hostile movements of the Candians fluence of the FXecutive has equally increased, the present
were drawing to a close. The native who had assumed Whigs, still calling themselves the followers of Mr. Fox,
the office of King is said to have been taken prisoner, as think that any Refºrm in the Representative is a secondary
also his principal adviser; and the people of the country matter, and publicly avow that they are not friendly eveu
were in nany places tendering their submission. to that cautious Réform, which their leader so warmly
The For packet, arrived at Falmouth, from the Lee advocated, and which Hord GREY himself repeatedly pro
ward Islands, spoke on the 16th inst the American ship posed in Parliament!—Seeing these unhappy vagaries, is
Union, from Batavia, last from St. Heleza. She reports it at all surprizing that the people cry out against all public
that a very bad fever had broken out at St. Helena, which men, or that the warmer spirits among the Reformists make
was very fatal; the Admiral's ship lost a great many of harsh observations, and apply the strong epithets of
her crew. Box APARTE was well.–Cornish Gazette.
“apostates” and “traitors to liberty?”—What indeed are
An article from Berlin states, that M. HuMboint has the people to think? The Whigs denounce the plans of
been authorized to prepare the details of the new Prussian the |. as wild and visionary; they admit they
constitution. Each province is to have its assembly of have even changed their sentiments as to the moderate
local representatives, whence are to be selected a higher Reform they advocated in the days of Fox;-they talk
order of representatives, who are to attend the general Par indeed about Reform in general terms; but—(and mark
liment or Diet of the kingdom. this, reader.), they take especial care never to recommend
The Persian Ambassador, now at Paris, on his way to any plan of their own, or even say how far they are in
England, is the same who was in London some years ago. clined to go on the question.—What sort of a lover is he,
The beautiful Circassian who accompanies him has been who, when his mistress is attacked, speaks coolly in her
so closely confined since her arrival aſ Paris, that not a praise; and never takes occasion to boast of her beauty or
has been able to obtain a sight of her, though thou eulogize her virtue?—Still the Whigs are . at their
saads daily crowd round his i. in the vain hope of a loss of popularity, vainly expecting, as it sho fº. to
limpse.—(Courier.)—The minds of all the Parisian obtain the same applause for abandoning as for support
dauds are in a ferinent of curiosity, and crossed with all ing that which the people at large are firmly persuaded is
sorts of conceptions of the Fatimas and Selimas of the the chief Remedy for their numberless grievances.
Pastern Tales. It will be the same with the London Governor MºJuarrie is not the only British Governor
dandies: Pall-mall will be in an uproar. , Apropos, it is that has levied taxes without the authority of Parliament.
said, that the Houri in question, is intended for a present. There is now a strong remonstrance to Lord BATHuast,
Quere, what is the style and title of the Sultan ſor whom on the part of the Planters and other inhabitants of one of
this Eastern rose is designed?—(Chester Guardian.)—The our Colonies, complaining of the conduct of their Gover
report on the Continent is, that this lady is intended to nor, in demanding and levying taxes without the sanction
of Parliameut-or the consent of the internal Legislature of
make up to an Illustrious Personage, for the loss of those the
domestie pleasures, which the matrimonial state should Colony. . . • *

alone bestow.—Stamford News. The Canadian Courant, of the 18th ult. says, that the
* i. ... of º: -

is celebrated Reformist, Mr. Gourlay, has been. removed

about to publish a genealogy of his family, for the purpose from Niagara by a writ of Habeas Corpus, to the gaol of
of proving that he is descended from the ancient family of York; in Upper Canada, in consequence of an apprehen
that name in Rome, sion that the populace would break open the prisófi to li.
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LADyExtrºv Tempest.-In the Court of Chancery] of the Theatre, that it should be accepted.”—(From the
on Wednesday the Lond CHAncellow gave judgment on Author's Preface.) - - *

a petition, which had been presented by Mrs. Taylor,

praying that his Lordship would revise his judgment con to The EDITOR of the ExAMINER.
firming the Mäster's report, that a marriage with the de A lie—an odious damned lie ;
fendañt, Lord Stewart, was fit and proper, as new facts Upon my soul a lie—a wicked lie. SMAks.
had come to her knowledge since his Lordship's decisión. SIR,-My hours are at this moment too much, and, I
His Lordship declared, that he saw nothing in the petition, am proud to say, too well occupied to be devoted to such
which should induce him to alter his former opinion. unworthy subjects as the Italian and its author; but to
confute the malicious propagations emanating only from a
corrupt heart and little mind, I think it necessary to state,
THEATRICAL EXAMINER. through the medium of your paper, that no such conver
sation ever passed between Mr. Burke and myself as the
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public prints have specified; and that Miss Keſſly (whose
talents I look on with enthusiastic admiration) never was
- --- * - . 1141.14N orrā4. ..] to my knowledge allotted any character in the play.—Mr.
Tiit new ballet of Telemaque is excellent, in spite of the Peter MooRE, one of the Drury-lane Committee, excited,
tendencies of the Nymphs and the young Hero to spin ...with some ability, my personal compassion for Mr. Busks,
about on one ill-used leg. It is the story of Telemachus's in consequence of which I undertook to act in his play;
love for Eucharis, over which the timid though amiable and had it been produced, should have done my utmost to
genius of Fenelon has thrown a coldness, like the binding have fulfilled my duty to that public, whose name I teach
of the school copies of his prose epic. In the ballet, my child to bless—to whose protection my gratitude alone
where we have the lover and his ministers, and the jealous is due, and over whose unprejudiced mind malevolence
-Calypso, and the Nymphs, and Venus, and Cupid, all in can never have an influence.
motion, visibly, we are really more affected by the story, On reading the tragedy of Deranged Intellect, (for that
in spite of the inferiority of such a medium. The action was the name it was known by in the Green-Room) to
is very grâceful throughout; and the scene where all the my professional brethren, the only feelings it excited were
Nymphs come careering in with torches to burn the vessel, uncontroulable laughter and pity for the author. From
extremely vivid and Bacchanalian. Would it not be as this criterion, I took the liberty of suggesting to the ma
well however to substitute a false pigeon for a real one, in nagement the impossibility of producing a play, which
the scene where it appears to be shot at like a target ! The must have been attended with considerable expense, when
-bird is evidently frightened, and has to remain so a good there was not in it one gleam of hope for its success.
ºwhile; and iſ a pigeºn ever has wit enough to be pit out There is certainly some pretty poetry in the character
of his wits, one would think that the sight and bustle of which was to have been sustained by Miss Cubitt; and
all these lights, spectators, and other marvels, would do it. after that I will say, in good set terms, Mr. Bunke's tra:
How would a dancer feel, if suddenly transported by some gedy is the worst of the bad. In this opinion Iain join
mysterious power into a place full ...} unaccountable spec by the whole of the dramatic corps that was to have been
tacles and noises, and tied to a stake to wait the pleasure concerned in it, and particularly by the present Acting
of the grim unaccountables assembled to witness them 2 Manager, whose judgment as an artist, and conduct as a
He would expect to be pigeoned with a vengeance. man, form an impregnable bulwark in my defence.
publication of Deranged Intellect is all the answer neces:
MR. KEAN AND THE AUTHOR OF THE ITALIANS. sary for the author's attack upon my judgment; and for
his inventive fabrications, I publicly tell in that he has
The following is the correspondence that has appeared not uttered one word of truth in the whole of his asper
in the papers on this subject. We shall make remarks at sions; and I thus, leave him to his contemplations, with
some length upon it; but for obvious reasons, we abstain disgust for his falsehood and pity for his folly.—I have the
from saying anything of the tragedy, which after all, it honour to be, your most obedient servant,
seems, is to appear:-- Edmund Kras.
“Orders were now, given for preparing this tragedy.— P.S.-I shall enter into no further public contentions:
The composer had directions relative to the music; the if Mr. Deranged Intellect wishes to indulge his malice ſur
scenery was put in hand, and all was going on to my en ther, he knows where I am to be found. -

tire satisfaction, when, one evening that I chanced to be 12, Clarges-street, March 17, 1819.
in the Green Room, it was hinted to me by Mr. Kean,
that “the character of Manfredi was too much in his to the Editor of THE MoRNING cruroNicle.
line;” “that the blind man was too good;” “that the Sin-Observing a Letter in your Paper of this day,
page would excite too much interest;” and, “that no signed EDMUND KEAN, I beg leave to state, that I shall
man should write a tragedy,for that house, without making wait a short time, in order to see whether that Letter was
the entire interest centre in the character he should perform.” written by him or not. I have still too good an opinion of
I listened to all this in silent astonishment. I related this Mr. Kean to suppose that it was ; it is impossible that
curious conversation to, a person connected with the ma such language can have proceeded from the first Tragedian
nagement, who replied, “ that he and most of the per of the day. If, after the expiration of two or three days,
formers were well aware of the unfortunate jealousy of Mr. Mr. Kea's does not disown'it, I shall naturally .
Kean; and that if Miss Kelly were to perform the that he did write it, and answer it in a manner, at least,
character of Scipio, as I wished, such was the interest hope, º
a gentleman to write, and a gentleman to
she would excite, that he was certain Mr. Kean would read.—I am, Sir, {. &c.
immediately throw up his part.” I mentioned this con The Author of the Philosophy of NATURE.
versation º: a literary friend of mine, who told me To the Editor of the mortxixg canonicle.
in reply," that he himself sent a tragedy to the Commit
Sir, Mr. Kean has not disowned the letter; I am, therefore,
tee, of which Mr. LAMR was the leading Member, and a reluctantly
letter to Mr. KFAN, who had returned for answer, that obliged to believe, that it emanated from himself;
unless the entire interest centred in the character designed rather than from one of those enemies, who, conscious of their
for him, it would neither suit his reputation, nor the interest own insignificance, are ever active in their malice against tele:
brated characters. In fact, I really thought that some one had
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assumed Mr. Kean's name, for the purpose of doing him the cule, were I not so far advanced in the knowledge of humanna
short and little injury of a day; instead of which it appears to be ture to know that ridicule is the teeapon of degenerate minds.…
his own, and the injury must last for years! -
By the more active portion of the Committee, I, of
Circumstantial evidence, Mr. Editor, is, sometimes, far better mean Peter Moore, Esq. Member for Coventry, and Col.
than positive. Mr. Kean knows, and every one must know, that las, of York-place, Baker-street; these gentlemen are of high -

I cannot, by any association, have positive proof of what passed, consideration in the country, and I call upon them, as men, and
:
many months ago, in private conversation... But the following as gentlemen, to do that justice to Mr. Kean, which I should - “.
extract from a newspaper, of this day, furnishes such a fortunate wish, were I placed in Mr. Kean's situation, to have administereſt
cºmmentary on my text, that I think, no argument will be to myself. Should they be silent, their silence must, of course, - .
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esteemed necessary to prove, at least, the probability of my state be construed to my benefit. *--- ... ººº
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ment. - - --- Mr. Kean states, in his unfortunate letter, that when he read
I have stated in the Preface to The Italians, that a Gentleman my worst of all bad Tragedies, the only feelings it excited amoi
having sent a letter, relative to a Tragedy he had written, to Mr. the performers were uncontrollable laughter, and pity for the ºther.
Kean, Mr. Kean retºrned for answer, that unless the entire in Now, this is either a curious fact, or an alarming .*.*.* -

terest centered in the character designed for him, it would neither am, therefore, resolved that the public shalf know the actual
suit his reputation nor the interests of the Theatre that it should be truth or untruth of this assertion; and I call upon Mr. Rae, Mr.
accepted. This assertion Mr. Kean denies; and yet it does most Pope, and Mrs. Głover * to state publicly, in a body, and with as -
unfortunately happen, that the vely gentlemán who told me little delay its possible, whether they did or did not commit that: .
this, has, in the Champion of this day, given the following state most disgraceful outrage on private feeling, of which Ms. Kean so
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roundly has accused them: If they did, the work, will have a
*The letter sent to Mr. Kean indicated that there were two sure criterion by which to judge of them ; if they did not, some
characters in the piece, as it then stood, either of which might be thing better than my assertions will be afforded to the world, by. *
so written up as to render it the principal; and Mr. Kean was which they may judge the veracity of Mr. Kean. -º-º-,

requested to say which of the two he would prefer, that it might - The Auritor or rife Philosophy of NATURE. F.
be altered accordingly. Mr. Kean, without waiting to see the MS, - March 21, 1819. - . . .--> * *...*.*

wrote back, “unless the character allotted to me is the chief object * The excellent Mrs. Bartley and Mr. Wallack are in Ame
ºf the Play, it will not be consistent with my reputation, or the in rica; but I request, them tº take the earliest opportunity of
terest of Drury Lane Theatre, to accept it'. Now the chief object ſayouring me with their testimony likewise.
was to make a good Play; and the story required that the three
female and two of the male characters, should be such as would We think there can be but one impression in the public
require gºod acting, though the author was prepared to give
conspicuous prominence to which ever of the latter Mr. Kean mind after reading this correspondence. . Mr. KrAN has
might most affect." If, after this confirmation of what I have evidently been detected in feelings which he does not like
asserted in one instance, Mr. Kean should still deny the sub to acknowledge; nay, he expressed them himself in pri
stance of our conversations, I shall think myself justified, much wate, but does not seem to have reckoned upon the chance
against my will, in putting him to a test, from which his better of their being made known, or at least upon the effect:
judgment must recoil. And yet surely the man, who is not to which they would have to his disadvantage:—they were: .
be selieved upon his word, is not to be believed upon his eath 1 made known; he denies them; he seems fairly confuted; .
Hitherto, in the midst of many difficulties and injuries, I have and the aukward result to his reputation is obvious. -

been fortunate enough to command a considerable portion of It is possible, that his better feelings may have been ex
rsonal respect; and I am proud to say, that, to the best of my
elief, I have never lost a single Friend. But I give public cited towards the author of the play in question, without
notice to all my friends, numerous. and respectable as they are, the exact accompaniment of his judgment. We can easily.
that I shall have a contempt for-any one of them, who may, conceive that part of the business. His good-nature may
hereafter, shake me by the hand, if I do not come successfully have had a greater hand in it, than his critical approba
out of this controversy. And I now call upon the more active tion. But then (supposing, for the sake of argument,
portiºn of the Seb-Committee of last year, not only to lose all that he had any right to exercise a critical jurisdiction to
friendship for me, as a man; , but for the sake of public justice, any such extent) he would have done much better to state
for the interests of the Proprietors of the Theatre, and out of his opinion of the tragedy at once, than let the author be
respect to the acknowledged talents of Mr. Kean, I call upon
them instantly to come forward and convict me publicly of a lured on, not only with the hope of it's performance, but
falsehood, if I am wrong in stating, that Mr. Kean, previous to with actual and elaborate promises, and even with the
his journey into Scotland, gave a distinct and positive pledge, preparations now confessed in the play-bills. At last, if we
that nothing on his part should prevent my Tragedy from suc are to believe the author's statement, which Mr. KEAN indeed
ceeding The Jew of Malta, and that too, without any reference to denies, but which a subsequent account of the treatment ex
compassion”. - * .
perienced by another-author:tends to confirm, the tragedian
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That Mr. Moore, when he found the conduct of Mr. Kean, was threw out hints to him, that there was a second character in
operating to any disadvantage, might, two or three months after the play too much like the one intended for himself—that the
wards, plead the great expcnces I had been put to. and the loss in
time aud money I should sustain, if after the solemn pledges that Page would excite too much interest,--and that “no one
had been given, my tragedy should not be performed, is very 'should write a tragedy for that house without making the . .
possible. For having long been in the habit of reading Seneca ‘entire interest centre in the character he should perform.”
and Boethius, I felt no shame in confessing to Mr. Moore;— "The other writer alluded to states a similar case from his
nor do I now in publicly confessing to the world,—that, from ‘own experience,—with this remarkable addition;-that
several persons not keeping their engagements with me, thy truly Mr. KEAN did not even look at his manuscript;-and .
excellent wife, my children, and myself, were, for the time, in doubtless, theré are dramatic writers not before the public
..great comparative want! . --
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Frem the second month of my marriage, up to the momeutin %.

least we know one odrselves) who will be apt to attri-.
which i am writing, I have been visited with such a series of bute the same disiniclination to the same-causes. --All this:
afflictions, as are, I think, scarcely to be paralleled in the animals too has naturally given rise to a suspicion, that the porten-'.
of private life!. But I am too proud to excite even the sympathy tous inferiority of Mr. KEAN's fellow-actors at Drury-lane
of the public; much less the compassion of Mr. Kean. "I am also theatre is a part of his system of exclusiveness.” If so, it
too sensible of the beautiful advantages of adversity to repine ; ºrna well be said of him that while “he is serving that es
though it would be miraculous, did ;: sometimes, feeliopa º
ſºlinent with his-right hand, he is ruining it with his
tience and disgust. Mr. Kean, I understand, is oscasionally, in :left.” “. . -* * . • *-* ... -------.
the habit of doing generous actions to persons of his ºwn profes The spirit evinced by Mr. Kess: throughout the busi
sisn; but for him to presume to the consequence of exercising
eompassion towards me, would have been a subject for my ridia ºness has not been in good-taste....We thought him a gee
nerous man; and very-likely he is so -in some respects.
* Mr. Kean modestiy says, “Mr. P. Moore &cited with somer We can still easily enough imagine him to have a contempt: ..
ability my personal compassion for Mr. Burke;in cºnsequence of for anything sordid or selfish, in it's commoner aspeit.
whicſ. I undertook to act in his play.” But if he were wiser, he would know, that so small a
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sphere as a stage renders this exclusive cast of ambition not
9nly somewhat ludicrous and mock-heroical, but involves, ! LITERARY Notices.
in it's subjection to the public, a more habitual appeal to
their patronage and superiority than he is aware of. It No. 51.
makes a mighty thing of a pit and gallery. We have seen
Mr. Keas look very angry and sullen, when called for The Works of Charles Lamb. Two Volumes.
wards to receive the special approbation of the audience.
‘This was putting their superiority somewhat too plainly (Concluded from our last.)
to him; and yet a recognition of it is at the bottom of The story of Rosamund Gray, which very properly stands
his other haughty vagaries; and it is observable, that at the head of the prose part of Mr. Lamb's Works, is
when the audience the other night persisted in call one of the most painful yet delightful in the world. There
ing for an apology, he came forward and made one,— is one part of it, in which, to be sure, the pain greatly pre
adding, that he owed them every thing, and that dominates; but this is told very briefly, and with some
he must be understood as making it to no one else.
thing beyond delicacy: and we have here to make a re
mark which has often struck, us;—namely, that in te
He also confined his apology to the score of temper
and irritability. But why make such a distinction between most painful, most humiliating, and even most overwhelm.
a body of men who would have an apology, and an indivi ing and stupiſying death of a virtuous person, there is a
dual to whom he really appears to have owed one? This, something still which conquers the conqueror. The mere
surely, is but a sorry and a suspicious pride. If Mr. KEAN fact that the virtue; the good-heartedness, the sentiment
would play the great man properly, he should know that (in whatever shape it may be), of the sufferer survives to
an actor really owes no more to the public, than any other the last, leaves º: happy-making faculty victorious over
person with whom they interchange goods; but that ever the temporary misfortune however dreadful; so that good.
true spirit owes modesty and sincerity to all the ...] ness in it's most passive shape is greater and more power
But he had not the courage to confess that he had held ful than vice is in it's most active. Rosamund, like Clarissa
any of the opinions attributed to him; of the proper de IIarlowe, is violated; but good God what a difference
in the management of the two stories. Mr. Lamb need
ference to say that he found himself playing the critic too
much, right or wrong. This would have been a piece of not be alarmed: we are not going to say that Richardson
real magnaniumity, and have kept him where he wished to is not a very extraordinary person. He was the more ex
be, superior to the persons before him. But as it was, traordinary inasmuch as he writes the most affecting books,
his apology was nothing more than an unwilling and in in a spirit, which to us at least appears one of the most
terested piece of deference to a º of men, º: con unfeeling imaginable. He writes seven or eight thick vo:
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ac ºthe Itfirstwastimeonly
he thought himself obliged to
flattering the self-love of an
lumes on the tortures of a young woman; and seems at
the end as if he could have written seven or eight more,
* y the sight of their haughty favourite, cap in
allCl."
had it been politic as a matter of trade. There is wonder
ful ability in his books, wonderful knowledge of all sorts
- At the same time, it ought to be said, that an actor has of petty proceedings, wonderful variety of character; and
an excuse for being vain and wilful, which no other man with all this one cannot help being interested at a first
has upon earth. It is this.--that he stands, night after reading. . But in all the finer as well as larger meaning of
night, in the personal and visible receipt of a multitudinous the word, he wants humanity. He neither knows what
applause, such as no other person realizes. No other per vice nor what virtue is, properly speaking. He even, not
son realizes it even once in a way, except a candidate at unfrequently, makes them change sides, -his vice being oc
the top of a poll, or a General entering a conquered city; cupied at any rate in some kind of sympathy with othº,
and no person realizes any thing like the spirit of it, but a while his virtue at bottom thinks of nothing but itself. He
king or a prince. We wish it could be added, that it was does not, like the author before us, hurry over an agonizing
the best-acting princes alone, that like actors got the incident, or touch it with some sweet, unaffected, uncon
greatest applause.—But we must, conclude: We shall scious superiority to its situation, like a dying flower;
only add that Mr. GARRick was quite as bad in these mat neither does he, like Shakspeare, bring about it all the
ters as Mr. KEAN seems to be." Hear what is said of redeeming graces of poetry and humanity, like so many
him by a living-author, full of fine knowledge of his winged and deep-thoughted angels;–but there is a pºſt
species, in a passage deprecating the preposterous habit ness and detail of preparation,--a pedantry and ostentatiºn
of comparing great actors with. SuakspeaRe-a flat: of virtue, even in it's retirements, and a cool neer-end
tery as ridiculous as if the reflection of a star in a pond ing surgical anatomy of suffering, equally destructive. "
were confounded with the star itself. “Who can read,” our minds, of the real dignity of the subject, and the tº
says Mr. LAME, alluding to one of the poet's sonnets, spectability of the writer.” He put forth his thorns º'
“these instances of jealous self-watchfulness in our sweet burrs, with as vegetable an indifference as a thistle. He
Sºtasspeare, and dream of any congeniality between him, wrote like a sentimental familiar of the Inquisition, ſº
and Sue that, by every tradition of him, appears to have been resembled one of his own printing presses—furnished wº
as mere a player as ever existed; to have had his mind formal layers of literal knowledge, squeezing and grind";
fainted with the lowest players' vices” (we really feel here it down with a wooden and metallic want j remorse, and
for our celebrated living actor), “envy and jealousy, and giving off so many sheets an hour with as little wear aud
miserable cravings after applause; one who in the exercise tear as a mangle. -

of his profession was jealºus even of the women-perfor But to return.—Rosamund Gray is the story of a loº
mers that stood in his way. young girl, a perfect picture of intelligent innocence, whose
It is often attempted to be guessed at, whether Mr.
family
up withhave beenold
a blind brought low in the that
grandmother, world, andand
doats whores"
gº". all
kfax is as line an actor as Mr. Garrick, or a finer. For
our-parts, we gºn. imagine Mr. GARRick to have been her being upon her. There grows a love between er and
a fine frank-hearted youth, Allan Clare, which is described
more universal, and in some lighter tragic parts finer, but
in other deeper ones we fuspect Mr. Keas, to have ex or rather constantly implied and felt, with a world of defi
celled all modern times. He now sees how he, may sur cacy and young devotedness. Allan had a sister, * aiw
pass Mr. Ganhich in another respect, unluckily more the
learnt
twotofriends
love Rosamund as he did;
had had a happy and one
long walk night,
about the fields
daubtful, -

†" and green places near the village, Rosamund, unable”5"

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out of her head the scenes which were now endeared to we extract the following passage, both as givi !g a general -

hºr by Allan's sister as well as himself, played her grand character, and as the best written in the piece. Many per
mother for the ſirst time in her life a little tick, and in the sons in the metropolis, though not bred up in the school,
irrepressible and innocent enthusiasin of her heart stole out will doubtless recognize the truth of it:—
of the cottage to go over them again. Matravis, a villain, The Christ's Hospital or Blue-coat boy, has a distinctive
met her—“ Late at night he met her, alonely, unprotected character of his own, as far removed from the abject qualities of
virgin—no ſriend at hand—no place near of refuge.”—We a common charity-boy as it is from the disgusting forwardness of
thank the author for making this scoundrel sallow and a lad brought up at some other of the public schools. There is
j I looks as if his physical faculties were perturbed pride in it, accumulated from the circumstances which I have
and had by nature, like a mistake; and that these had in described as differencing him from the former; and there is a
ſected the humanity common to us all. Rosamund “pol restraining modesty, from a sense of obligation and 4ependence,
which must ever keep his deportment from assimilating to that of
luted and disgraced, wandered, an abandoned thing, about the latter. His very garb, as it is antique and venerable, ſeeds
the fields and meadows till day-break.” She then did not his self-respect; as it is a badge of dependenee, it restrains the
go hºme, but laid herself down stupified at Elinor Clare's natural petulance of that age from hreaking out into over-acts of
gate; and in her friend's house she soon died, having first insolence. This produces silence and a reserve before strangers,
heard that her grandmother had died in the mean while. yet not that cowardly shyness which boys mewed-up at home
he blind old woman—her death is thus related:— - will feel; he will speak tip when spoken to, but the stranger
An old man, that lay sick in a small house adjoining to must begin the conversation with him. Within his bounds he is
Margaret's, testified the next morning, that he had plainly heard all fire and play; but in the streets he steals along with all the
the old creature calling for her grandaughter. All the night long self-concentration of a young monk. He is never known to mix
with other boys, they are a sort of laity to him. All this prºceeds,
she made her moan, and ceased not to call upon the name of I have no doubt, from the continual consciousness' which he
Rºsamund. But no Rosamund was there—the voice died away, but carries about him of the difference of his dress from that of the
not till near day-break.
When the neighbours came to search in the morning, Margaret rest of the world; with a modest jealousy over himself, lest, b
was missing ! She had straggled out of bed, and made her way over-hastily mixing with common and secular playfellows, he
inth Rosnmund's room—worn out with fatigue and fright, when should commit the dignity of his cloth. Nor let any one laugh
she found the girl not there, she had laid herself down to die— at this: for, considering the propensity of the multitude, and
and, it is thought, she died praying—for she was discovered in a especially of the small multitude, to ridicule any thing wausual
kneeling posture-, her arms and face exteuded on the pillow, in dress—above all, where such peculiarity may be construed by ,
where Rosamund had slept the night before—a smile was on her malice into a mark of dispara inent—this reserve will appear to
lace in death. - be nothing more than a wise instinct in the Blue-coat-boy. That
it is neither pride nor rusticity, at least that it has mone of the
As to Rosamund, she scarcely uttered a word thence offensive qualities of either, a stranger may soon satisfy himself
forward. “She expired in the arms of Elinor—quiet, by putting a question to any of these boys: he may be sure of an
genile, as she lived—thankful, that she died not among answer couched in terms of plain civility, neither ioquacious nºr
strangers—and expressing by signs rather than words, a embarrassed. Let him put the same question to a parish-boy,
gratitude for the most rifling services, the common offices or to one of the trencher-caps in the cloisters, and the in
pudent reply of the one shall uot fail to exasperate, ". more than
of humanity. She died uncomplaining.” - -
the certain servility, and mercenary eye to reward, which he will
Allan's sister, to whom Matravis had once paid his ad meet with in the other, can ſail to depress and sadden him.
dresses though in vain, dies of a frenzy-ſever; and the In coming to the Essays and 'their masterly criticism,
young blighted lover himself is missed for a long, while we must repress our tendency to make extracts, or we shall
afterwards, till recognized sitting on his sister's tombstone never have done. We must content ourselves with birt
in the village by his friend the surgeon, whe is the sup one noble passage; and with expressing our firm conviction,
posed author of the book. His goodness, his sympathy that to these Essays, including remarks on the performance
with his ſellow-creatures had survived his happiness; and of Shakspeare's tragedies, and the little notice of his con
he was still the same gentle yet manly creature as ever, temporaries originally published in the well-known Speci
His great enjoyment, his “ wayward pleasure, for he re mens of the Old English Dramatists, the public are origi
fused to name it a virtue,” was in visiting hospitals, and nally indebted for that keener perception and more poetical
unostentatiously contriving to do personal and pecuniary apprehension of the genius of those illustrious men, which
services to the most wretched. The surgeon was called has become so distinguishing a feature among the literary
ºne night to attend the dying bed of a man of the name of opinions of the day. There was a relish of it in Seward,
Matraris. Allan went with him, to give the miserable but a small one, nor did his contemporaries sympathize
wretch what comfort he could ; but he talked deliriously, even with that. The French revolution, which for a time
bidding them “not tell Allan Clare,” who stood shedding took away attention from every thing but politics, had a
over him his long-repressed tears.--The paper before us great and new effect in rousing up the thinking faculties
gliminers through our own. in every respect; and, the mind, strengthened by unusual
The piece that follows (but we find we have got into action, soon pierced through the flimsy common-places of
the long criticisin we were afraid of, and must take care of the last half century. ... By degrees, they were all broken
ºr heldon adal pen) is entitled Recallections ºf Christ's up; and though some lively critics, who saw only the more
iſospital, and is a favourite with us on inauy accounts, no eccentric part of the new genius and confounded it with
theieast of which is, that we had the honour of being the genius itself, re-edified them, they were too late, as
brought up in that excellent foundation as well as Mr. now begins to be pretty generally ſelf. Mr. Lamb, whose
Lamb himself. Our l'ecollections of the school were
resemblance to the old poets in his tragedy was ludicrously
somewhat later then his ; but with the exception of a little taken for imbecility, had sown his criticisms as well as his
less gratitude to one individual, and of a single cha example against a genial day; it came; and lo and be
racteristic, which his friend Mr. Coleridge had the chief hold! the very critics, who cried out the most disdainfully
hand, we suspect, in altering, (and we trust not essentially against him, adopted these very criticisms, most of then,
ºr for the worse), we can give cordial testimony, ºp tº that we are ashamed to say, without any acknowledgment.
later period, of the fidelity of his descriptions. We know But he is now beginning to receive his proper praise, after
not how co:apletely or otherwise they may remain ; but waiting for it in the most quiet, and unassuming manner
from what we see of the Christ Hospital boys in the streets, perhaps of any writer living. The following is the pas
*pecially of the older and unore learned part of them, and sage we alluded to :— -
from the share which some of our old school-fellows have so to see Lear acted,—to see an old man tottering about the
in the presea: tuition, we should guess that they still apply. stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters
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in a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is painful and dis his species, and partly from a wish to make the best of all
gusting. We want to take him into shelter, and relieve him: which they do or suffer; and it leads him into the only il
“. Phat is all the feeling which the acting of Lear ever produced consistency that we can trace to him. As an admirer ſo!
in me. But the Lear of Shakspeare cannot be acted. The con instance of Christianity, and perhaps as a Christian himself
temptible machinery by which they mimic the storm which he in the truest sense of the word, he sympathizes exceedingly
goes out in, is not more imadequate to represent the horrors of with patience and gentleness and the forgiveness of wrongs.
the real elements, than finy actor can be to represent Lear: they
might more easily propose tº persquate the Satan of Milton upon This also appears to be his own temper; but then he
‘. . . a stage, or one of Michael Añgeto's terrible figures. The great seems fearful fest this should be construed into a weakness
--->
ness df Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual: the instead of a strength; and so from turning his sympathy
explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano; they are to another side of human nature, he palliates some of the
is orms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that sea, his mind, most vehement and doubtful passions, and has a gººd
with all its vast riches." It is his mind which is laid bare. This word to say now and then in behalf of revenge itself. The
case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on;
even as he himself neglects it. On the stage we see nothing but consequence of this exceeding wish to make the best of
corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage; while things as they are (we do.not speak politically, but philo
we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear.—we are in his sophically), is, that his writings tend rather to prepare
mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of others for doing good wisely, than to help the progress of
daughters, and storms; in the aberrations of his reason, we the species themselves. It is this sympathy also, which
discover a mighty irregular power of reasoning, immethodized. tends to give his criticism, a more prominent effect, than
£rom the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting its powers, as his poetry. He seems to think that poetry as well as prose
the wind blows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and has done enough, when it reconciles men to each other as
*-abuses of mankind. What have looks, or tones, to do with that
sublime identification.cf his age with that of the heavens themselves, they are; and that after Shakspeare and others, it is use.
when in his reprofiches to them for conniving at the injustice of less to say much on this subject; so that he deals little in
his children, he reminds them that “they themselves are old.” the abstractions of fancy . imagination. He desires no
What gesture shall we appropriate to this? What has the voice better Arcadia than Fleet-street; or at least pretends as
or the eye to do with such things? But the play is beyond all much, for fear of not finding it.—Mr. Lamb's style is
art, as the tamperings with it shews it is too hard and stony; it sound, idiomatic English, equally ſee.from the foreign
must have love-scenes, and a happy ending. It is not enough
that Cordelia is a daughter, she mºs' shine as a lover too. Tate invasions
* of the pedantic, and the freaks of us prose coineſs,
--
has put lis hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick
who dabble in a light mint of our own for lawless put
and his fºllowers, the showmen of the scene, to draw the mightyposes. It is variously adapted to the occasion. If he is
beast about more easily. A happy ending!—as if the living mar somewhat too antiquated in his verse, he is familiar, short,
tyrdom that Lear had gone through, the flaying of his feelings and striking in his more passionate prose narrative; and
alive, did not make a fair dismissal from the stage of life the in his-criticisms, flowing and eloquent.
-
only decorous thing for him. If he is to live and be happy after, Among the poems we ought not to forget two or three
. . if he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this pudder by the author's sister, who is the main writer, if we mistake
and preparation,--why torment us with all .. unnecessary not, in some excellent little publications for schools. There
sympathy As if the childish pleasure of getting his gilt robes
aid sceptre again cºuld tempt him to act over again his misused is a delightful family likeness in the turn of her genius,
station,--as if at his years, and with his experience, anything One of these little pieces in particular, (on a Picture ºf
was left but to die, -- - - - - Two Females by Leonardo Da Vinci) looks like an epitome
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of his whole philosophy, -full of sympathies with this

With the Letters under assumed signatures, some of world, yet with a thoughtſul eye to the world unknowl.
which are in an exquisite taste of humour and wisdom It sets out in a fine º,
manner, like the noble
united, many of our readers are acquainted through the young beauty of which it speaks.-Mr. Lamb has addressed
‘medium of the Reflector. Some of the pleasantries are a sonnet to his sister, full of a charining deference an
among what may be called our prose tunes, things which gratitude.
... we repeat almost involuntarily when we are in the humour,
;I-as the one for instance about the coffin handles “with
wrought gripes,” and the drawn battle between Death and
the ornamental drops, at p. 145; vol. 2. FINE ARTs.
The undramatic mistake of the Farce at the conclusion
of the volumes is, that the humour is really too entertain SIR. J. F. LEICESTER'S GALLERY..
ing and the interest too much excited not to lead to in 19, J. M. W. Tun NER, R.A., Blacksmith's Shºp.
evitable disappointment when the mysterious Mr. H–., Butcher disputing about the price charged for shoeing his
who has such a genteel horror of disclosing his name, turns poney. . Of all our Painters Mr. Tunner has the greates:
out to have no worse a patronymic than Hogsflesh. . It is proportion of warm colour and of light, a luminous yellow,
- too desperate an appeal to the nominal infirmities common as in this piece, prevailing almost throughout his canº.
to great numbers of people. Had it being Mr. Horridface, In these respects his style resembles the sunny Cuyp.
or Mr. Hangman, or Mr. Highwayman, or Mr. Horn principle, so charmingly vivacious in its effect, is almos.”
owl, Hag-laugh, or Mr. Hellish, it might have been a little
better; É. then these would not have been so natural; in strikingly obvious when the eye passes on to his from.9"
pictures, as when we step from shade into sunshine. In!"
short, nothing would have done to meet so much ex ehiaro-scuro he reverses the system of Remarannt, whº
pectation. . . . .. . -
gave a small quantity of light, the smallest possible, though
º

If we were to make a summary of Mr. Lamb's merits its clearness and intensity served instead of size, for it.”
as a writer, we should say that there was not a deeper or like the moon glowing in Autumn on the forehead of high.
more charitable observer existing. He has none of the As light is of all materiaſ things the most cheerful, tº
abhorrent, self-loves that belong to lesser understandings. great source of visual vivacity, Mr. Tunner, by giving."
He takes little, and grants much. He sees through all the much greater a proportion of it, and in union with º
causes or circumstances that modify the human character; ellow tone of colour, is one of the most cheerſ' º:
and while hé likes from sympathy, he dislikes with gene #. He seems to be fully aware of his effect.”
posity and sincerity, and differs, rather than pretends to be powers in this respect, or he would be often glad to Cº.
better. If there is any thing indeed that looks like affecta ceal some ill drawn objects in shade. But though, as in
tion in the most sincere and unaffected temper of his writ all the objects in this picture, he draws loosely and º
ings, it arises partly from the excess of his sympathy with scientifically, the action of his figures and their gº”
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aspect convey their intent strongly to the mind. It is throughout the picture, dashed and centralized by the blue
thus with those before us, especially the brawny smith, and grey in the sky and water, the noble animal crowned
in the act of shoeing the horse. The blue aproned immo with roses, into which Jupiter has transformed himself to
lator of the sheep and ox, too, is not more indicated by bear away the unsuspecting Europa, with the pomp of al
his garb, than by that healthy and portly look which im tendant Tritons, Sea Nymphs, and hovering Cúpids; the
plies a successful business, a constant breathing of an out chief of whom is borne on the sacred eagle, altogether
door air, and an eating of the best. -- burst on our sight with a gaiety and elegance of feeling,
" . . .

J. M. W. TenNER, R.A. 42, Lake and Tower. like that produced by the sudded play of brisk and elegant
Tººley Park. A Calm; Morning. This scene is high music in a mixture of amatory and martial sounds. With
the airy and floating movement given to the clotids, figures,
ly favourable to Mr. TURNER's display of the golden glow and
of light and colour, in which he is so exceſſent, and of water, fancy is awakened to the sound of the air
which he and Nature make us, in their affluent exhibitions rustling in the dresses, and of the water rippling against
of them, so partial; for the almost cloudless sky, where the sides of the Nymphs and Tritons, and dashed up b
- “Aurora’s white and vermeil tinctur'd cheek e. the strong limbs and breast of the Bull. It haars the full
- ‘to orange turn'd, as she in age increases,” blown Tritons' shells. It is responsive to the lively and
duplicates her glowing face in the glassy lake, and reflects harmonious strokes of genius on the canvass, and ex
the glow on the other objects; so that this yellow profu: W. a soft and yet exulting impression of delight;
sion being in Nature, and the §. also which produced We give the Painter joy for having so well kept up and
this beautiful work being from Nature,
1. we cannot but con improved the professional character obtained by his Ung;
and his generous. Patron for having originated this beauti
ſess that -

“The Art itself is Nature.” ful work. It is a sterling increase of the graphic wealth of
|England. .* -
7, J. M. W. TuRNrr, R.A. Dutch Fishing-boats, The visitors will be in future gratified by a beautiful
‘rāh sun rising through vapour, would of itself settle the Enamel Miniature, painted from GAINsborough's charm
question respecting the capabilities of our Artists in com ing picture of the Cottage Girl, and “presented to Sir J.
parison with those of the Continent, in relation at least to F. Leicester, Bart., as a mark of high respect for his
atmospheric colour. The golden diffusion of sunshine, early, zealous, and continued patronage of British Art, by
cooled by the grey hues of water and low clouds, is addi H. Boxe, Enamel Painter to his Royal Highness the
tionally diminished by the grey vapour, which hangs like a Prince Regent.”. It is a present every way worthy of the
very delicate gauze over every object, giving especially a Patron and the Paiuter.
pale aspect to the middle and ſº distances, and mak-, R. H. - - - . .
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ing even the refulgent sun himself look sickly—

- “Seen through the horizontal misty air, The British Institution Patrons deserve more than
“Shorn of his beams.”
usually well of their country and of its genius in Art this
The observer of Nature cannot here but immediately re year for their many handsome purchases, among which
cºgnize her doubtful look between sunshine and vapour, was Mr. MARTIN's Babylon for 300 guineas by Mr. P.
like a young widow between tears at the loss of her hus Hope. It is diſficult here to refrain from violating one
band, and smiles at the expectancy of another. * -
of the Ten Commandments. .--
2, W. Hiltos, R. A., Europa. To choose a sub
§: which has been, like this, painted by many of the great If we had not TO, CORRESPONDENTS.
been informed, that not only “shabby
Masters, is a very pointed challenge to criticism, as it in
Wites comparisons with them, and shews that the Artist is looking fellows,” but even persons above the middle class

very ignorant of or very justly confident in his powers. of Society, have attempted to obtrude themselves into Sir
The latter idea is raised on seeing this charming picture, J. Leicest ER's Gallery on the day of Exhibition, we
and we did not relish it less for having been treated with should scarcely have thºught it necessary to reply to our
the same subject even from the hand of Titi AN ; for Correspondent's complaint, about his not being admitted
though that Prince of Colourists has illustrated it with his there, on merely presenting himself at the door, by saying,
broad and harmonized brilliancy of pure colour, and with that the necessity of admittance by Tickets must be o
suitable sensibility in the action and look of Europa, he vious to the least, reflecting. A member of the “privi
has not drawn her figure better-than in most of his other leged orders,” who has so exorbitant a wish to extend
ictures. Here the concordant spread of colours, each those privileges, by forcibly entering a private residence,
utifully tinted, the earnestness of feeling, and the beauty forgets that the courtesy of its proprietor, in affording by
ºf the figures, are seen with double pleasure from their tickets a view of the Pictures, ought to have been a new
king correctly drawn. TitiaN and the other great Vene motive for holding it sacred from assault, beside the uni
tians were eminent for a ſree and dextrous º of the versally acknowledged one, that “every man's house is
pencil, and º, on of the tints and touches. In this his castle.” A friend, in speaking of this absurd attempt
respect too, our Painter has acquitted himself ably, and to walk into a private abode as he would into a Coffee
given, as he did in his energetic picture of - Una with the house, says, “he had better call for tea and toast while he
Satyrs, a beautiful bravura of hand, only tempered by a ten is about it.” - - -

derer touch, such as the difference of sºbject here demands The immediate notice of some exquisite Engravings by
rom the greater number of gentler objects." The triumph Messrs. Cook, &c. will be readily excused for that of Sir
ant character of the Tritons, who precede the floating J. Leicester's Gallery, when the temporary nature of its
throng, and whose full blown cheeks and eager action, exhibition is considered. - - - -

as they sound their shells, shew their delight at es

corting so beauteous and Deity-beloved a Nymph; EXCISE PROCEEDINGS.
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the sºothing attentions and supporting assistance of the -º

delicate Sea Nymphs, the agitation of her friends on Sir Samuel Shepherd, in the late debate, took occasion
the shore, the fearfulness of her look, the airy play-of to contradict some assertions respecting the mode of pay
the dresses, the onward movement of all, the figures, ing the Special Jurors in Excisé Cases. He says the re
the agitation, flow, and foam of the sea, the broad and port that Special Jurors are paid a larger sum when their
bright central light so ably composed of the two chief verdict is for the Crown, is a slauder. It may be so; but
figures and a white cloud, the warm lucid light and colour were they never paid a larger sum in such circumstances—
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and is it equally a slander, that Common Jurors now re Gunter put the poker into the fire, and when it was quite red he,
ceive more pay when their verdict is in favour of the proposed to Steele to commit suicidr, offering to become the first
victim himself. The other, thinking he could not be serious,
Crown?–Is it a slander, too, that in every, even in the seemed to acquiesce; upon which ſhe lunatic suddenly seized
most petty, case, five Counsel for the Crown are em
the poker, and put it into his mouth, by which he burnt his
ployed, one receiving five guineas, -two, eight—and two throat, his lips, and tongue. Steele sprung to disarm him, upon’
(the Attorney and Solicitors General) ten guineas each which he attacked him most furiously with the poker, which he
Is this costly and overwhelming, array against a poor wanted to force into his month, and struck at him with it with.
IXeſendant, a slander 3–Is it a slander, that the very two-handed sway, by which he broke his hat, and would in all
natural fear, of being opposed, by such strength, and probability have killed him, had he not warded the blows off
of being liable to "such heavy charges, frequently with the chair. In his rage the unfortunate man hurt himself
severely, broke several parts of the wall, and shivered the chair
induce persons to compromise, and pay large costs, and
rather than venture into the Court of Exchequer 2– door,thetheytea-board to pieces; so that when the people opened the ,
found him quite exhausted, and apparently dead. It
Is it a slander to say that such a system amounts to a is not supposed that he will live long. Steele is out of danger.
denial of Justice?—Is it a slander, that the Solicitor of the ** An accident of an appalling nature has occurred at the vil
Excise, owing to the way the business is now managed, lage of Winterborne Stoke, about eight miles from Salisbury.
puts annually into his pocket an income larger than the 'A fire broke out between one and two o'clock on Thursday week,
Prime Minister himself—that is, from ten to fourteen in a large house belonging to Mr. G. Kellow, in one end of which
a shopkeeper and his family resided, consisting of nine poor".
.
thousand pounds ! And if so, is it a slander to think, that
the system must be a bad one, which drags such an enor persons, seven of whom were burnt to death. The fire was not º
mous sum from the pockets of people in trade, to put it discovered till the whole of the latter part of the building was tº
enveloped in flames; and it appears that it was occasioned by
into those of an attorney?—is it a slander, that. Special Mary Adlem (one of the sufferers) having, previously to going to
Jurors are often called in cases of the most-insignificant bed, placed some ashes, nent to a bundle of heath, in a butlery
nature; and that among the Special Jurors are frequently not far from the fire-place. The names of the sufferers were, !
to be seen individuals (such as musicians, players, and men Christinna Adlem, aged 80 years; Mary Adlem, aged 40, and
in public offices) who can hardly be supposed to be chosen her daughter Eliza, aged 8 years; Jane Target, aged 63; Ann
Davis, aged 22, and her infant daughter Jane, aged 10 months;
i
on account of their peculiar knowledge of Excise matters?
Is it a slander, that the same faces are very often seen in and Elizabeth Wilkins, aged 17 years. James bavis (the hus:
the Special Jury box, and that smell a practice is liable to band of Ann Davis) escaped with great difficulty, saving one of
his children three years old. This poor man, in the fright of the
abuse fir various reasons !—Are these slanders, Mr. moment, leapt from the window to the ground; but recollecting
Attorney-General And if not, why should all inquiry the dinger to which his wife and children were exposed, he re
be stifled, and the system be extolled and perpetuated? ascended into the chamber; caught his eldest child' witſ, his teſt
“ Gentle Shepherd, tell me why.” hand, and with his right dragged the mother, clasping herinſant
* : * * * * to her bosem, down the staircase; but by some meats the wife
became disengaged from his grasp, and was lost with herinfant
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in the flames which surrounded them. The father, burst ºf
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through the door which was on fire, again reached the outside
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with his child, but both were dreadfull v burnt. The roof at
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'60. Thesday Sir Nathaniel Conant, Mr. Birnir, and Mr. Hicks, this moment ſet in, burying in the mass of fire, in addition to the
nssembled at the office to investigate the conduct of Thomas mother and her infant, the feur ºwnmen and the child who re
fond, a man employed as a patrol, respecting his conduct nºt the unained behind...The family of the shopkeeper, occupying the
late Westminster Effection, in procuring and employing a certain other part of the house, and consisting of seven persons, fºrt.
partmber of men to attend near the husting-, &c. whem, after a full nately escaped unhart. The fire then communicated with a barn,
“xamination of Bend's conduct in the transaction, the Magistrates stable, granary, nud out-houses, the whole of which were cºu
suspeuded him from his employment. sumed, together with about 380 fleeces of wool. - *

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ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. MARRIAGES. . - **

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On the 16th inst., Frederick, second son of Rober; Shaw,
rºxecurios.-At an early hour on Wednesday morning, there. M. P. of Busby Park, to Thomasine Emily, youngest daughter tf
was a vast assemblage of persons opposite Newgate, to witness the late Hon. George Jocelyn, grand-daughter to the late and
the exceution of Adams, Dent, Lynch, and Willett. John Adams, niece to the present Earl of Roden. -

* fire young man, only 25 years of age, was convicted in January Lately, in Genoa, at the house of the British Consul, the
res-ions, of having passed forged notes. Edward Dent, who Count Pio Cavelli de St. Germain, only son of the Count Camilio
was only 18 years of age, was convicted at the same Sessions, ſor Cavalli, of St. Salvadore, Piemont, to Mary Ann, younges
the same offence. Wm. Lynch (one of three brothers now under daughter of the late lieury Addis, Esq. formerly of London,
seatence) had been found guilty of a highway robbery. John At Wanstead, on Thursday last, David Duval, Esq. of the
Willett was convicted of stealing nineteen live sheep. He had 81st regiment, to Mary, eldest daughter of Charles Danvers, Esq.
rented a farm of 300l. a-year, and aſterwards became a publican. of Waustead.
They were ushered to the scaffold by the sheriffs, a few minutes
before eight o'clock, praying fervently, and at seven minutes DEATHs. -

after eight, every preparation being complete, Mr. Cotton gave At Castle Fogarty, near Thurles, on the 19th inst, the Hon.
the fatal signal. They died almost without a struggle. Great Moutague Mathew, Representative in Parliament for the county
exertions it appears wºre made to save Willett, the person exe of ‘l’ipperary. - º -

•uted for robbery. The Jury had recommended him to mercy, 3. 16th inst. Mr. Robert Tindal, of Chatton. He was ſound
ºn delivering their verdict, being of opinion that he was guiſt dend on the road near Lilburn House. It appears he had been
Jews of any other offence, except that for which he had been diuing with a friend, and on returning home had missed his way,
roudemned. On Tuesday morning they obtained permission and fallen from his horse, -

"from the Governor to visit the condemned inan, having previously On Thursday, the 18th inst., Mrs. Swift, wife of Mr. Swift,
presented a petition to Lord Sidmouth. The answer of his Lord sen., of the Poultry. Oxford, Francis Townsend, Esq., JP'indsor
ship led to no expectatiºn. -
On the 25th, at
About five o'clock on Tuesday evening, Thomas Foster Gunter IIerald. -

was brought to the King's bench prison, charged on five or six on the 30th Nov. last, of a dechine, at Vera Cruz, in the 18th
different suits; he had behaved whilst in custody very incon year of his age, Hoine Popham, second son of Rear-Admiral Sir
sistently, but it was imagined he was only pretending mindness. liome Popham. -

soon after it was evident his malady was increasing, and lie was ---_

ordered into a strong room, nud anºther prisoner, named Steele, Printed and published by Jons Husr, at the Exºusin-office,
was placed with him. At the furniture in the room consisted ºf
an old table and chair, a tea-board, and a heavy irou poker; * 19, gatherine-Sureet, Sirand-Prite 104. -
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. No. 588. SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1819. . . .
THE POLITICAL EXAMINER. guage, amounts to this:– “We wish to get all the money
we can, and would compel it from those luke-warm and
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Pore.
sordid individuals who can receive no benefit from our
No. 573. ~ *
instructions.” The orthodox may indeed pretend to say,
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with their usual begging of the question, that such people
would be rendered better by attending public worship,
CHURCH CORRUPTIONS. . .
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even though it was metely because they should think that .
they ought to get something for their money.—Then,
The Bill for augmenting the salaries of the pluralist Gentlemen, you would do a manifest and great injustice,
Clergy of the City of London has been read a second time in order to prevent the defection of the most contemptible
| in the House of Commons; but the chief arguments both and worthless of mankind 2–If those who use such argu
for and against it will be reserved till it is committed after ments were to live in Turkey, would they submit with
Easter. If it should pass, which is doubtful, it will be out murmuring to pay their quotas to the ministers of the
in spite of considerable opposition, and accompanied with Mahometan faith, which they consider little better than
an exposure that will perhaps make the Petitioners repent idolatry? prwould they be satisfied, if the aforesaid
of their greediness. The puklic will be disgusted by this priests were to say to them,-‘‘We cannot allow you
exhibition of impudence and rapacity, and will be more Christians to be exempt, lest we should lose the valuable
t willing to join in any future attempt to reform the whole support of some of our indifferent religionists, who would
system *. *
profess to be converted to your belief, in order to save
. . We shall take this opportunity of offering a few remarks their money.” * - *

on the general question of the ecclesiastical establishment. The pecuniary question is indeed of little importance
The system of taxation by which the Clergy are supported' compared with the political one; but the public are now
is of all others the most partial and unjust. The whole pretty well acquainted with the chief arguments against .
nation is compelled to pay for the maintenance of the reli the oppressive and impolitic system of excluding from their
gious teachers of a part; and those who dissent from the
orthodox opinions have to bear the double burden of sup civil rights all who do not assent or pretend to assent to
porting their own ministers, and of contributing to the certain religious dogmas. -

We do not think that justice will be fully done to all

support of the preachers of doctrines which they consider
injurious to society. The arguments (if such they can be parties, until the example of America,—where there is no
called) for this system are, we believe, two: first, that an state religion, though there is no want of religious feelings,
and the ministers are well paid by their followers, be
established church being a national benefit, it should be followed, until that unnatural and interested alliance be-,
paid for by the whole people; and secondly, that if all tween church and state be done away; for as long as it .
thºse were exempted from paying towards the mainte
mance of the Clergy, who chose to declare their disagree lasts, as long as the Clergy have to look to the powers
that be, and not to the people, for their livelihood, so
ment with any prevailing religiotis opinions, many, who
really believed in the truth of religion, would be deterred long will that body be servile and haughty, corrupt and
by sordid notives from attending places of worship. Now. intriguing, occupied more in seeking preferment than it,'
this sophiºry first assumes (what cannot reasonably be attending to their religious duties, and addicted to all those
assumed) that the national morals are more benefitted by vices, the effects of which are less glaring though not less
the propagation of the opinions of one sect than those of pernicious to sound morality—Such a reform is most de
sirable; but it may be as well to point out a minor one
another: but even allowing this, why should not the esta which would still be highly useful. The Clergy are at
bishment be paid for by that part of the people who ima
gine that they derive good from it, since a discrimination present paid in a most unequal manner, and though this
can be made? The second assertion, if put in other lan may be a very useful means of extending the influence and
patronage of the Crown, it is equally dangerous to the
* The advocates for increasing the stipends of these Reverend Hiberty of the people and to the independence of the clerical
Gentlemen feel conscious of tile ankward effect produced by any order. The practice of giving two or three livings to one
discoveries of large incomes. When Mr. Rourkts, the Rector
of St. Peter's, Cornhill, was mentioned in the House as being man, who in coasequence keeps curates to attend to the
passessed of a living worth Gºt a year, his brother-in-iaw, Sir duties of them, and either passes an idle life, or busiesliim
Witu Aºi Couris, took upon himself to assert that it was only self with political matters, is as scandalous as it is con
3001. #. it is possible, by deducting the profits arising from
letting his house, aud all other, matters that do not form his trary to the spirit of the religion for which its pretended
directificome, to reduce it to that sum: but we are informed, on admirers profess such veneration. Paul, the Apostle
gºod authority, that this convenient declaraticn of the Baronet worked at his trade to procure his bread, and yet found
excited great surprize among those connected with the parish
affairs, who always considered that the emoluments of the Rector time to propagate his opinions; but his followers, not con
were at teast between 500t, aud 600l. a year. He also enjoys tent with enough to enable them to devote their time ex
*xother confortable living, at Tottenham, by which he gets, clusively to their professed object (which would be wil
we understand, about 1. or 16091. per atrºuin. This latter lingly granted them) must have wherewith to ride in car
circumstance the politic Alderman kept out of sight as incon
vºlent for his statements, * riages, to go to court, and to keep a good table. This
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they tell us, is to make the multitude respect their office : cafe at the same time not to disturb too violently estab
that is, that they may gain a reputation for something else lished habits and expectations.—1. With regard to Doc
than what they undertake as their sole object, T-something trine, all recorded declarations of belief should be abo
which is neither the consequence of virtue or talent, but lished.—2. Service and Pay. In cases where there is both
often possessed by those who have neither, and some an Incumbent and a Curate, if the former dies first, his
thing particularly pointed out as corrupting the morals and share of profit to lapse into a fund called the Church Re
hardening the heart, by the philosophic founder of their form Fund, and the latter to continue to discharge the
faith. We deny that wealth, rank, or power, will cause a duty for his former salary; if the latter die first, the duty
priest to be more respected as a priest; and he surely ean to be performed by the parish clerk, as will be explained
not, consistently with his oaths, or his professions, desire presently. On the death of an Incumbent whe has no
to be respected for any thing else. Will people attend Curate, three modes of executing his duties are pointed
more to a charity sermon, because they know that the out :-either a competent Parish Clerk to read the service
preacher enjoys an income which could support several and the Ilomily Serimons *, half as much as his former
poor families : Will they be more convinced by a decla pay being given him for this additional labour out of the
mation against intemperance, because the declaimer is going Poor Rates; or the Vestry to be allowed to appoint a boy
home to a fine house, to feast with Lords or Aldermen who could read well for this purpose, with the same payas
It is as impossibleto encrease a man's reputation for one the clerk; or, if the Vestry pleased, to appoint an ordained
thing by giving him something else, as it would be to make Minister, as at present, but with this condition,--that only
any one more admired as a painter, because he could those who chose should contribute to his pay–3. Dis
write doggrel verses, or to render ShakspeaRe's plays cipline. On death or removal of an Archbishop, a Bi
more prized by proving that the author was a rich man, shop or Archdeacon to be nominated by the Crown, to
or a lord, or a prince, or a Right Reverend Father in exercise, for a proper salary, the powers of the office,with
God; * overy one knows that there have been foolish out a sent in the House of Lords; and the substitute
Jords and idiot princes; but the writer of Lear must have for a Bishop to be an Archdeacon (entitled Vice-Bishop),
been a great man. to have an adequate remuneration for his labour. The
Riches then cannot render a preacher more respected as Vice-Bishop's Sees to be consolidated, as Incumbents die
such: they generally have the contrary effect. Every pound off–4. Church Reform Fund. This fund to be composed
above what is necessary to his decent support must in some of the produce of the sale of the Church lands and other
degree distract his attention. Much money brings with property, belonging to Bishops, Deans, Canons, and
it habits and pursuits foreign to and at variance with his other sinecurists, on the death of the several occupants,
proper occupation; it gets him connected with other rich with power for them, while living, to join in the sale of
men, and brings him to dinners, and to Court. The the property and to purchase with the produce govern
spiritual Lords in the House of Peers arº there, we are ment annuities, instead of present incomes, by which
told, to take care of the ecclesiastical interests: if therefore means many would increase their revenues. The same to
those interests were regulated according to the wishes of be done with regard to Fellows of Universities and other
the people, they would be no ſonger in danger, and we Colleges, adequate compensation being made to those en
should be saved the disgusting sight of a score of priests titled to succeed to such offices. Glebes also to be dis
voting grants to their corrupt patrons, and writing books 'posed of in this manner on the death of the Incumbents:
and spouting orations at the same time on the advantages where the patronage is in the hands of individuals, an
of being weaned from the concerns of this unimportant allowance to be made to them, as compensation, out of
work!! Thus is hypocrisy generated by superstition: the produce of the sales; but where the Crown is patron,
corrupt rulers, from a hatred of innovation, allow the no such allowance. To a Patron, who has a son, above
bigoted institutions of former times to remain unaltered, 14 years old, bred up for the Church and for the purpose
when the progress of knowledge has made them ridiculous, of being presented to the living, an extra compensation to
till at length the theory and practice become ludicrously be given. Of pecuniary dues, the Easter offerings to
and perniciously opposed. . cease: others to be paid into the Reform Fund. No
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It is a principle of that venerable Reformist, Mr. BRN tythes in kind to be paid in future: in lieu of them an as:
sessment to be mate on the occupant in the manner of the
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thau, whose wisdom and unremitting exertions for the I and Tax, "Lastly, to prevent the Universities from going
good of lis ſellow-creatures have called forth. expressions
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of respect even from those who think his projects chime ** It is necessary to explain here, that Mr. Brºwnmaw, in g
foregoing part of his wrºk, had propºsed, that a selections hould
rical,—never to point out the evils of any system, without
be made of all discourses delivered from the pulpit that the or
at the same time proposing a remedy for them, ... In the
thodox might think proper, which would amount to an º:
Appendix to his last work on Church-of-Englandism, he number, and be applicable to every religious subject, from wº
has therefore described a plan for a Church Reſorm, with alone one should be selected—say by the Churchwardens-an.
a short account of which we shall conclude these remarks. read aſter the service, instead of the sermon new-manufactured,
or pretending to be new-manufactured, according to the present
Mr. Best HAM considers that, in forming a plan for the mode, . To this collection, additions might be trade from * .
proposed reform, two objects should be kept in view;-to time of any new published sermons that the ruling power" mº"
render, the system of religious instruction as conformable approve of . In ilie reign of Elizabeth, certain ..
collected together in a volume, to be occasionally substitº" !
as possible to piety, morality, and eeonomy; and to take the ministers for their own customary discourses; and º .
—i

• * is this ph rase more aid to ºpºmy or to hºpe; or is argues Mr. Bestuasi, iſ that could be partially done º º
time, it can be wholly done now, considering the iamensely . .
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to decay, the Crown to have power to nominate to the situa inscribed himself at the iun under the name of Heinrich.
tions of a certain number of Fellowships, on the death of A billet was also found upon him, with another poniard, con
the Fellows, wounded or superannuated naval and military \taining the following words:—“The sentence of death of
Augustus de Kotzebue, executed the 23d of March, 1819.”
officers, who should give up other emoluments. It is said that this young man is a native of Winziedel, in
The effect of this plan would be both to make the Saxony. Other accounts, on the authority of private letters
Church itself more respectable, by clearing away the received in Paris, state his name to be Charles Sander, a .
drones, and causing its duties to be better executed, and to theological student of the university of Wurtzburg, and
create a fund, which could be applied to supersede the ne that.." he arrived post the same morning at Manheim. One
asserts, that M. de Kotzebue survived half an
cessity of the most oppressive taxes, or to the benefit of Our. - -

the nation in any other manner: at the same time, the only
injury done to individuals would be to destroy any hope PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
they might have of future preferments or appointments. -

ASSIZES.
This Mr. BENTHA-1 allows to be matter of regret, but no -

Hereforn, MARcm 25.-Gwyxx E v. Gwynne.—This was on

more an objection to the execution of the proposed plan, action for criminal conversation, and the damages were laid at
than the individual suffering always caused by the conclu 20,000l. The plaintiff, Mr. Thynne IIowe Gwynne, was the son
sion of a war would be an objection to the signature of of a gentleman of property, who resided at Buckland, in Breck
peace; because, to avoid that suffering, it would be neces nockshire. He married his present wife, the sister of Lord Here
ford, and a beautiful and accomplished woman, in June 1809, he
sary to carry on war to all eternity. being 30 years of age and his wife 23; and after residing several
T rears near the plaintiff's father, they removed to a place called
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. landovery, in order to be near to Lord Herefºrd. The de;
fendant, Mr. Sackville Gwynne, was the plaintiff's cousin, and
on the death of his father, which happened during his minority.
Gervi Anw". he was received into the house of the plaintiff's father, and of
course
Wu RTEuBERG, MAncil, 14.—The political situation of sessed lived on intimate terms with the plaintiff. He was pos:
pur country is at present of such a nature, that it may per of the of an estate worth 5,000l. a year, and was also Colonel
haps lead to a more favourable result for the rights of dovery,Caermarthen Militia. When the plaintiff lived at Llan
he and his wife frequently visited the defendant, who re
citizens, than will be the case in the German States. By sided at Glanbran, about 30 miles distant, and was then married
our disputes respecting the Constitution since 1815, and and had nine children: these visits were also returned by the
by the freedom of the press, which for the last year has defendant and his wife. During one of these visits a very pain
been constantly protected by the King, a mass of informa ful occurrence tºok place. Mrs. Thynne Gwynne had been
tion on public affairs has been spread among all ranks of staying at the defendant’s house in April 1816, while lier liusband
people, which can be no more suppressed, but will shew was in London on business. On the morning fixed for her de
parture, Colonel Gwynne came into the room where his wife and
itself with the more energy in the next Assembly of the
States, as we have become sensible what it is that is neces . T. Gwynne were sitting, and handed to the latter a news
paper: Mrs. S. Gwynne thought that he also gave her a note,
sary. Only a few days ago, the King himself suppressed which she immediately demanded, and on Mrs. T. Gwynne's
a new ebullition of military despotism. The Editor of the denying that she had received any, struck her a blow and called
new Stuttgard Gazette (Captain Saybold) had expressed her an adultress! An investigation took place in consequence of
limself with lunch freedom respecting the military system. this affair, and Mrs. Sackville Gwynne signed a declaration, ex
This incensed in any individuals in the army, and several pressing her sorrow for having cast on the plaintiff's wife such
Generals took the Jead. In an address to the King they an unwarrantable aspersion. The direct intercourse between the
two families was put an end to by this occurrence, though they
tlemanded no less than a Censorship for the Journals, at still occasionally met at tke houses of their friends. In October
least with respect to articles concerning the military; and of the same year, a fellow was observed lurking, about, Llan
that the Editor of the new Stuttgard Gazette should be dovery. and enquiring at the shops where he could speak with
deprived of his rank as Captain. To this the King re Mrs. Gwynne. He came to the plaintiff's house; Mr. Gwynne
lied, that in his kingdom Liberty of the Press was esta was out, and he was detained by the servants till Mr. Gwynne,
•blished; that if reimarks were made upon any class of per who had been shooting, came home: he was then interrogated --

sons in the state, they must, if they were false, have the by that gentlemau, and first said, that he was sent there from
courage to overlook or to despise them ; and if they were Glanbrun-park, but afterwards declared that he had called there
of his own accord, in hopes of getting some refreshment. The
true, have the justice to profit by them; but his tribunals "plaintiff wrote to the defendant, demanding, explanation; alsº
only took cognizance of defamation of individuals. This the defendant, in reply, denied having sent the messenger, and
truly, royal answer disarmed the enemies of the Liberty of enclosed an affidavit made by the man himself, in which he re
tl:e Press. - - -

peated his declaration, that fie was not sent by Colonel Gwynne.
Masurist, Manch 24.—Our town was yesterday the | Soon after this, the plaintiff intercepted a letter of the defendant's,
theatre of a horrid scene of ſanaticism, M. Augustus de | which confirmed his suspicious that an improper correspondence
was carried on between
Kotzebue, whose literary celebrity had even penetrated to also the defendant aud his wife, though it
Japan, has been assassinated: satisfied him, thut no criminal act had taken place. In con
'. student, or at least an sequence of this discovery, the plaintiſºconsulted his friend", and
individual who had inscribed himself as such, entered the went to Glanbran-park to ask the defendant whether, or not he
apartment of 'M. de Koºzebue, attacked him relative to had written that letter. The defendant refused to reply, which
his opinions and conduct, and after a short delay, and pro refusal the plaintiff understood as an acknowledgment, and imulc
posals for a duel, which M. de Kotzebue probably refused, diately deniamdéd, honourable satisfaction. This the defendant
stabbed him four times with a poniard. M. de K. : declined, saying that his life—was insured for $0.000l., The geº
ſell dead in the arms of his eldest daughter, who ran into tleman whose advice Mr. Gwynne had asked in this ºffſir, mäde
the room on hearing the cries of her father. The assassin. a report of their opinion, in which they stated, that if Mr.
quietly walked out of the house, knelt down in the street, "he Gwynne was satisfied with the peniteuce expressed by his wife,
might, they thought, safely receive her back to his confidence
and raising his clasped hands to Heaven, exclaimed, Vival and affection. This report was aceompanied by a solemn drcle
Teutonia. Afterwards rising, he stabbed himself on the iration of Mrs. Gwynne, that she would give up all future le”rs
spot. Tire assistance which was administered to the which she might receive from Colonel Gwymie to her husband
assassin leaves even to-day some signs of life, but it is not unopeued; and the plaintiff was again reconciled to her. They
thought that he can recover. The '...",
ll
diploma lived happily together till January followin;..Q., the 28:l ºf
that month, while at breakfast at the house of Mr. Cheston, at
fºund upon him states his name to be Saud; but lie had -
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Głocester, two letters were brought into the room by the servant,
directed to A. Z., post-office, Worcester, from whence Mrs.
Gwynne said she had directed all letters to be forwarded to her
at Grocester. This excited suspicion; Mr. Gwynne left the
room to consult with Mr. Cheston, and soon returned to demand
, them of his wife; but she had then, after looking at the contents,
thrown them into the fire. The plaintiff then determined to part
from his wife; and placed her in the hands of her brother Lord
Hereford, who assigned her a residence in his own neighbour
hood. She continued there till the 3d of June, when she went to
an inn at a place called the Devil's bridge, where the defendant
was waiting to receive her. They ordered two bed-rooms on the
case of insanity ; aud the tendency of their evidence was to show
that the prisoner, a few weeks recently to the transaction ºn
guestion, had been flighty and low-spirited, in colisequence of
his want of employment, and having been forbid the continuance
of his addresses to the young woman, Miss Longman.-The case
went to the Jury under the Learned Judge's direction, and the
prisoner was fºund Guilty.—Mr. Justice PARK pronounced sea
tence of death, and the prisoner was ordered for execution ºn
Monday.--During this last awful stage of the proceediugs, .the
prisoner exhibited a maniac apathy to the doom that awaited
him, and he was removed from the bar in a state of mental at
straction. - -

same floor, and wished to pass for uncle end niece: some person Corv wall, March 24.—Sir M. Lopes was found guilty of
bowever at the intº, who knew them, informed the laudiady of
the truth. The defendant and the lady retired to separate rooms, bribery at Grampound on another indictment, as well as #3 of
the electors of that borough, who were all proved to have re
but the landlady heard two voices in the lady's room, and sub ceived 35l. each for their votes from Mr. Hunt, the agent of the
sequent appearances prºved that they had slept together two Baronet. Robert Ford was acquitted, in consequence of the ab
mights successively.—These facts were proved iny many wit sence of a witness. The Judgé said he was the more willing to
tºesses, and the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff
give this man the benefit of the absence of the witness, as he ar.
Damages, 1000l. peared to be the only person that showed a conscience at Grim.
. Iſokshaw, MArct. 27.—Lydia Asteſt was indicted for having pound; he having contrived to make off when the bribery oath
in her possession a forged 5l. nate, This case excited an un was tendered to liim.
Sºmmon degree of interest, from the celebrity of the prisoner– -º
her youth, beauty, and singular fate. She had pleaded not
guilty. This morning she was brought to the bar in full dress; UNITED PAR LIAMENT.
her liair in the first style of fashion, covered with a handsºme
black veil. Her Counsel applied to the Court on her behalf, to HOUSE OF LORDS.
be permitted to plead ºff; to the minor offence, which was - -

granted, and she was sentenced to be transported for 14 years.-- Tuesday, March 30. -
he prisoner retired from the bar in a pitiable state of wretched Petitions were presented from Norwich, and another piece,
ress. We understand that this unlappy creature was the praying for a revision of the Criminal Laws.
daughter of respectable parents in this town ; that during the Lord Holt.asp presented a Petition from the Corporation of
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residence of the military in this neighbourhood, she had been Nottingham against the Bill before the House of Commous for
seduced and taken up to London, where she lived in a state of establishing a court of requests in that city. ---

concubiuage with her seducer, by whose means she acquired a wispson EsrABlisiiMENT-GRANT TO THE DUKE
knowledge of music, and, after she had been abandoñed, got - OF YORK. :
an engagement as a singer at Astley's Amphitheatre, where slic The House went into a Committee on the Windsºr Establº"
performed for a considerable time with applause. Since then she ment Bill.
had fallet, into a more discreditable mode of livelihood, and lat Enri Grey made various observations on the Bill, the prº"
terly had been living under the protection of a profligate horse ple of which met his "fºº". With respec', however, tº
jockey, at whose instigation, in the prime of youth and personni the proposed grant to the Duke of York, he deemed tºº
attractions, she subjected herself to this ignominious pubishment. way objectionable. What, he asked, were the extº: to
KINGsrox, Aparl. 2.-Murprin.-Robert Dean was put to the which his Royal Highness was likely to be put When his
bar this morning, clarged with the murder of Mary Ann Alpert, royal Highness went was
to provided
windsor, fordidhim.
he ineur
y little girl, between four and five years old. The trial of this there No. A table The anyRoyalºDuke
case attracted immense crowds, but not one-twentieth of the resided within ten miles of Windsor, when at his coulº se-t
anxious throng could find accommodation.—The circumstances and therefore the necessary journies which, as custos, he would
of this singular transaction having been fully laid before the be obliged to make to the palace, cºuld not be very expº.
gºblie in the publication of the Coroner's Hiquest, &c., it is not Even when his Royal Highuess resided in towa; his tº:
ow necessary to enter into much detail.—#ſrs. Albert, the mo expenses to Windsor would not amount to much; and whº
tner of the little girl, was examined. When she beheld the was considered that he held an office not usually cºntinued la
prisoner, she burst into an hysteric scream of horror, and was time of peace, yielding him great emoluments, and º
4or a toºg ſime incapable of giving her evidence. The prisoner did provision for a considerable number of horses, he (Lord .
not see that there could be any hard-hip in expect”; him t
seemed ºvidently affected by the agony in which she appeared
Aote:-She gave a very favourable representation of the temper visit his Royal father at certain intervals without any ſº.
and isposition of the prisoner, and that he was extremely ſoud tion. - The plea of dignity could not be urged, unles: it *:::
archildren, and particularly of the unfortunate infant. On the tended, that a Prince of the blood could not undertake any º;
evening in question, she observed the prisoner to be very uneasy however imperative from family attachment, or howevº *.
--- asºn: 6flºis want of cºsployment, but he spoke in a rational from fikal piety, unless he received a salary for its performs “.
ºnner-Joseph Williams said he had been fellow-appren Fredrº
tice with the prisoner, who had always condupted himself ( The ła of Liverpool justified the proceedings sº
in the most friendly manner towards him and his family.— and took occasion to allude to what he termed the false º
The stateinent already given by the prisoner was then read. It malignant libels which had been propagated durin; the .."
her Majesty. It was not, he observed, until the veil whic *
spoke of his despair ºf mind, on account of the rupture of the cealed
cºnnexion with Sarah Longman, who refused to liaten to his ad her from the public eye was torn asunder by death, º:
dresses. This made him resolve to kill fier, and he got a knife every body knew how paltry and contemptible the sum .
for that purpose: on his taking out the little girl, he says, “a which she was possessed. He could speak, fºom a corrº".
sudden thatght came over my mind, that if I murdered the child, in which he had been lately engaged, of the numerous º:
'who was innocent, I should not commit so great a crime as in benevolence which she, had performed, and could say ... *
* murdering Sarah Longman, who was older, and as I imagined, utmost truth, that there were many, pery many, who deplº him
had sins tº answer for. In a moment I pulled the knife out of loss on account of the charity they had received. Hº,” msts
jºy pocket, put the child down out of my arms; held her head self justified in saying, that there were great incidental º: the
tºº, and ºther little throat. In an instant I imagined that I to be supported by the custos, though he cºuld neither "...º.
was in the aidst of flaming fire, and the court appeared to me extent of them, or distinctly point out of what wat" ...º.
live the entre+ce of hell. I ran away, not knowing where t be. He knew that the Royal Duke was willing to **** .
went or what I did; I wandered about in a state of distraction duties of his office without either fee or reward; but “” ...sº
until 1 surrendered hysetſ up at the watch-house.”—The Pri ness was, in his opinion, an additional reason why they
soner, whº, during the course of the evideuce appeared to be in a not let him do it. -

kiad of idiotic stupor, being called upon to make his defence The Marquis of Bucknamax supported the Biłł. ible to
lid, is a wild manner, that he was not guilty.-A great The Earl of Laudekdale observed, that it was .
then examined on his behalf to prove a make the Royal Duke custos persona without subj"9" -
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certain extraordinary expenses—expenses of generosity, which, fair course, as he had given notice of his intention, and it was
though they could not be defined, oùght certainly to be provided usual to read private Hills (and this was one) at any time after
for. An assertion had fallen from some gentleman in another four.—The House divided, and the second reading was carried
Fº tº at the grant was not improper, if taken from a certain by a majºrity of S2 to 34–The commitment of the Bill is post
ind. Now it was his opinion, that it would be impossible to ºponed till after Easter. - -

take it frºn the privy purse, without violating the private pro CORRUPTION AT BARNSTAPLE. : -

perty of the Crown. - -

Two Petitions were presented from the borough of Barnstaple,

The Earl oft)anslev opposed the grant in the present dis one ſº. that the elective franchise might be extended to the
tressed state of the country, and thought that his Royal High
neighbºuring hundred, on account of the corruption of the free
ness would best consult both his honour and interest in coming men, and another praying that the exercise of the right of elec
down to the liouse and withdrawing every claim to the pro tion might not be prejudiced by the late proceedings in the
posed sum. - - -
House. The issue of a new writ ſor the borough was further
. The Marquis of LANspown was of the same opinion, with re postponed.
speet to the grant to the Duke; and he could not consider the LONDON CLERGY. -

Privy purse as private property, for by the common law, the Mr. Alderman Wartist AN presented a Petition from the Parish
King could not hold any property whatever. (Hear!) . . of St. Michael Bassishaw, in the city of Loudon, which stated,
The Lord Cnancelºt said that the privy purse was as much
the private property of the King, as the property of any of their that this small parish, which did not contain above 100 houses,
paid 220l., per annum to their rector in lieu of titles: (Hear!)
Lordships night be said to belong to them. His declaration that he had besides a parsonage-house at 30l. per annum; that
might surprise some of their Lordships, but he declared, that iſ he had also a living in St. Sepulchre's ; and was a senior minor
his Royal Ilightless were to perform the office of custos’ grani canon of St.-Paul's. But what was still more extraordinary,
tonsty, it would appear to him an ºbjection to his holding it: this Rev. Gentleman was the very person who conducted the
The consideration was not what is the expense of travelling, but late application of the London Fire-act Clergy to Parliament for
what was required for the diguity of the Royal Family. The further relief, as their secretary. (Ilear.) lie was also non
10,000. was in this view as necessary as the 50,000l. was for re-ident.
the maintenance of the King's trousehold. His Royal Highness This Petition, and two others to a similar effect from some
required too to be at a great expense, as succeeding in this office other city parishes, were laid on the table.
a persºn of so much Mounty, (the late Queen!) lest the comparison BREACII OF PRIVII.EGF.—HON. W. QUIN.
*ould ſessen the dignity and respect which he was bound to
maintain on account of the person on whom he attended. The order of the day for the further consideration of this
J-ord Kixg considered this a most odious measure, and most question being tead, - _

injurious to the Royal Family. Ministers felt not the odium, Mr. WyxonAw Quix entered into a statement of the whole
although they alone were in fault; the 15 Cabinet Ministers transaction on his part. He asserted, that he had offered the
Mr. T. W. Grady, merely from a wish to serves
divided the blame, and each thought little of 1-15th of it; and 2001. a year tothought
hence º were, on subjects like the present, the most pliable him, nºd he it hard that this offer should now be
Phalanx that could be conceived. The grant now asked was charged upon him as a crime bywith that very person. He admitted,
most of ous in all its circumstances. It was unnecessary to the that in his first conversation Mr. Carew Smith, he had
cºtes; it was in every public view unnecessary; and it was of stated, that he hoped and expected the political support of Mr.
*!!!hings mºst iºvidious to call for an unnecessary sum to any Grady; unt he denied that he had, either then ºr at the subse
to his
of the Royal Family in the present distressed state of the country. quent interview with Mr. Smyth, affixed any condition
Earl Grey briefly replied. He asked, were their Lordships offer: it was because he would assent to no bargain, that he had
thus to vote a sum of noney on the imagination of a Minister refused to sign the paper purporting to be a minute of the former
At all, events, as he could neither imagine, nor explain it, he conversation. He had even undertaken should not to deprive Mr.
should oppose the grant. -
Grady of the allowance, though he vote against
The Bill went through the Committee. On putting the clause him. Had he done what was imputed to him, it would have
for allowing 10,000l. to the Duke of York as custos, the non con been the most sity and gratuitous corruption possible; for Mr.
tents were pretty numerous, but it was carried without a divi Grady had too little to give, to make up the quid pro quo: he had
sion.—Adjourned. -
no ſee-simple, and his tenants consisted of leaseholders on ſout
Wednesday, March 31. farms. A more prudent nan would perhaps have never declared
The Windsor Establishment Bill was read a third time and his expectation of political support from Air. Grady, which was
the foundation of the whole accusation. He thought it a strong
Passed at a few minutes past five-Lord Gnosvexor coming in presumption in favour of his innocence, that he had not pre
afterwards, expre-ed his surprize at its being passed so early, as vented the matter from coming before the liouse, as he might
he had intended to make some remarks on it.—Adjourned. | have dowe by restoring young Grady tº the office. 11e thréW
Thursday, April 1, himself on the indulgent consideration of the mouse—The Hon.
Lord Hott and withdrew the Petition he had presented against Gentleman then bowed and withdrew.
the establishinent of a Court of Requests at Nottinghain, as it was Sir R. Witsox began by disclaiming any windictive motive for -

informal to present any Petition against a private Bill, (which entering on his present course of proceeding. He thea-proceeded
this was said to be) not before the House. He considered how to recipitºlate and comment upon the evidence of the several
witnesses. The story of the petitioner was consistent, and given
ºver this practice extremely inconvenient, particularly to per
.." sons residing in Ireland who might wish to oppose a private Bill. at the bar of the Hoºse with ºvery appearance of truth. The
Clithere's Divorce Bill was read a third time and passed.— circumstance of young Grady's having supported Mr. Quin at
Adjourned. the last election went very much to confirm the allegations of the
Petition. The principal witness against Mr. Quin was Mr. Ca
- - HOUSE OF COMMONS. rew's myth, a gentieman of the highest character, who had per
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severed in one uniform consistent account. An attempt had been

The Petitions presented daring the week were chiefly against made to throw discredit on this gentleman, founded on spara
the Insolvent Dettors' Act, in favour of a revision of the Criminal graph in nºter to him from the fº, in which the latter
Laws, and a reform of the Scotch burghs, and against the complimented him on his success
in deluding Mr. Quini but to
London Clergy Bill. One of the latter, rom the parish of St. that paragraph he would oppose all the letters of Mr. Q. Smyth.
Andrew Wardrobe, was signed by all the parishioners except that With respect to another witness, Mr. Goold, he was of opinion,
three. his evidence should be erased from the case—it was so
twisted, so cºntradictory and so contradicted. It appeared that
Monday, March 29. he had been visited with a severe illness since the transaction in
LONDON CLERGY. question, which had so injured his memºry, that he not only
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Sir J. Granax: moved the second reading of the London forgot what had happened, but rewmembered what had not :
Clergy Bill. (ifear 1) Mr. Richard Smyth had accepted the office, which had
It was objected by Mr. Benner and other Members, that the item promised without deduction, aſid gave wººool, a year,
bringing on a measure of such importance at such an early hour without even asking Mr. Quin the reason of the gift, which was
(a few minutes pºst four) was most it fair, as few of the gentle very extraordinary. The gallant General concluded by moving
men who had before "pºken of the subject were present.—Sir resºlutions, declaring, that Mr. Quin had stipulated, in a conyer
J. Ghanaw denied, with some heat, that he had pèrsued an on sation with Mr. C. Smyth, that Mr. Grady should enjoy the 2001.
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* year so long as and no longer than he continued to give him man did not exist. He was fully satised, that the proposal of
(Mr. Q.) his political support; and that Mr. Quin, by such sti parliamentary support originated with Mr. Grady, not will, Mr.
pulation, had acted inconsistently with the duty of custos rotulo Quin. At the same time, lie thought Mr. Quin's conduct was
* um, had violated the ſreedom of election, and committed a highly censurable in having entered on any conversation relative
breach of the privileges of that 11ouse. --
to the conditions on which the 200l. a-year were to be given :
Mr. B. Wilprah Axt observed, that the whole case rested on still it was hateful to see the tricks that had been practised on.
the evidence of Mr. Smyth and Mr. Goold. The latter gentle him. (Hear!) The proposed resolutions were too severe; for
ran had been 18 years King's Counsel, and was now at the head if Mr. Quin was voted guilty of corruption, he must lose his seat
of the Munster circuit, which was sufficient to disprove the im in the House. -- -

putation of loss of memory. The evidence was such, that he Mr. WYNN differed with the Hon. Member; for the evidence of
º: W.) could see no ground either for approval or for convic Mr. Carew Smyth had been confirmed by Mr. Quin himself, who
ion. He had no hesitation in saying, that there had been the had distinctly stated, that he expected Mr. Grady's support,
intention of making conditions on the part of the Hon. Member though he denied having made any'stipulation. The offence was
for a fortnight, and he should therefore move, That on the 21st a high breach of privilege, which called for a severe vote : for
of September Mr. W. Quin admitted to Mr. C. Smyth his ex he was convinced that a corrupt attempt had been made, though
pectation of political support from T. W. Grady, but on the 11th it was not completed. -

of October disclaimed such an expectation; that the intention Mr. John Smitu spoke in high terms of the character of Mr.
of procuring political support in this manner appears to the -Carew Smyth. lie was quite satisfied that the charge against
House improper, and, if acted upon, weuld call for severe re Mr. Quin was but too well founded. As for Mr. Goold's testi
prehension. - -
mony, it was liable to strong suspicion; and it was remarkable.
Mr. F. Douglas Annde some remarks on the different conduct that his memory was altogether defective as to anything that
of Mr. Smyth and Mr. Goold in giving evidence; the former told-ogninst Mr. Quin, whilst it was quite competent to the rela
never contradicting himself, even, when strictly cross-examined, tion of the minutes incident when it operated in his favour! It
*hile the latter was allowed to have misrecollected important was in fact fortunate for Mr. C. Smyth, that his evidence had not
fucts. I le conceived the conduct of the lion. Member was, in a been given in the manner Mr. Goold gave his, for if it had, he
considerable degree, reprehensible, though he did not go the would doubtless at this moment have been in Newgrºte!
“hole length of agreeing with his gallant friend (Sir R. Wilson) Mr. Gn ATTAN said, he had been intimately connected with Mr.
on the subject. He thought that the circumstance of the Hon. Goold for 20 years, and his conduct in public had been honour
Member's having retracted his pledge before any intimation was able, and in private admirable. There was not an honest, man
tiven of a parliamentary inquiry, was one Wii. showed his in that IIouse, if Mr. G. was not an honest man. He had mis
ºwn sense of the impropriety of his previous conduct. He taken much, and forgotten more; but there was not the slightest
hoped that the House would by its decision show its attachment ground to impeach his integrity. On the general question, he
to its privileges, and that they would not omit to censure that in agreed with his Right Hºn. Friend Mr. Plunket!: . -

* Ligh situation which would meet with punishment in a more * Mr. Brough AM entered at some length into the question. . It
Lºmble sphere. was true, he said in conclusion, that the transaction was but it:
Mr. Prel remarked at great length on all the particular choate; that an offer made had been withdrawn; that there hed
ſº in the Petition and the evidence; and finally expressed been a negociation merely, and no treaty. The effence was
is conviction, that Mr. Quin was wrong in dividing the office, therefore incomplete; by none who valued the freedom of election
and prºposing any conditions, but that he had never bargained and the privileges of Parliament could deem it a light one. The
for political support; and had he not had the unfortunate inter offence committed by Ferguson in the last Parliament was as in
view with Mr. C. Smyth, the matter might have rested on that complete as the present; he was an obscure person, who had
fair understanding which no, one could strongly censure. Ilis been disowned by those whose patronage, he affected to enjoy;
inctives at first, for dividing the office, were a friendly regard yet he had been sent to Newgate. They had uow to deal with
10 the family, and sympathy with the situation of the Petitioner. an individual in a very different station; but they were bound to
Yetween July and September much diſſerence had taken place mete out impartial justice. He should himself come to a vote cu
between him and the friends of Mr. Grady. It was not likely, this question with regret, but without pain. . It gave him pain
therefore, that he would expose himself to their vengeance, ly to consider that the course pursued by some of the parties before
naking an illegal leargain. He had, in an interview with Mr. the liousa had not been so strait-forward as was desirable ; but
C. Smyth, admitted the mention of conditions; but the transac it never ought to be painful to firm men to discharge what they
won not being finally arranged, the proposal was quickly re knew to be a public duty..." - -

perted of. (Iſear!) In these circumstances, the miſder censure Sir J. Newport expressed his conviction that a case had been
would be severe enough. -
made out which showed that a place Lad been offered on con
Sir J. M.Ackinrosm concurred with Sir R. Wilson in thinking dition of political support. - - -

that Mr. Goold's evidence might as well have been struck out of Mr. Tienvey thought the amendment proposed did not state
the minutes. Ha did not impute any want of principle to that the fact, and was contrary to the evidence; for Mr. Quin himself
£entleman, for he believed that it arose from extraordinary for admitted that there was a virtual stipulation. -

refulness; but that forgetfulness was such as invalidated his The House divided–For the original resolution—Ayes, 73–
viole evidence. He had said, that he recollected sending his Noes, 102—Majority against the resolution, 89. . .
servant to rap at a door, and, yet had totally forgotten that he The House then divided on the amendment—Ayes, 154
“ver entered the house. What did the 1ſouse think of Mr. Noes, 81–Majority in favour of the amendment, 73. *

Goold's forgetting the important correspondence which he car - MR. GOOLD. -

»ied on with Mr. Carew Smyth.” On the other hand, Mr. Smyth's Mr. LAMBrox moved, that Mr. Goold, for prevaricating in
restimony was not only consistent, but corroborated by collateral giving his evidence at the bar of the Ilouse, be taken into cu
circumstances. In his letters, at the time of the transaction, to . tody by the Serjeant-at-Arms. * -- -

the Gradys, to whom he of course wished to give an accurate This motion produced some warm observations from the friends
account of what was, going on, he had stated; that Mr. Quin of Mr. Goold; and it was finally rejected, there being only 8 for
would give the 2001, a year, ºn condition of political support. and 134 against it.—Adjourned.
Under all these circumstances, he thought that the 1ſouse could
not avoid passing the resolution—that the 200l. n-year had been Tuesday, March 30.
offered on conditions. . Ile conceived that the subsequent effer of LiceNSING SYSTEM.
this annuity, without conditions, to young Grady, ought to lead Sir FRANÇis Bunderl. said, he was about to present n Petition
to a mitigation of punishment: he should be sºrry to vote for the from a very poor but very honest man, who was one of a widely
Honourable Gentleman's expulsion, though he fertainly should extended class of people, whose case deserved the gravest const
vote for some severe censure being passed upon him; because, if deration. The Petitioner had a 'public-house, which he lºt;
n_public servant were allowed to abuse the patronage of his another person coming into the premises ran in debt with a
office to parliamentary purposes, without suffering the slightest
brewer, who was a principal magistrate of the town (Plymouth),
punishment, one of the most dangerous wounds that it would be. to a large amount, and e5uld not pay him; in consequence of
possible to inflict would be inflicted on the character of the which the brewer refused to renew his (the Petitioner's) license,
fouse, and the constitution of the country. (Hear, hear !)
unless he paid the debt, which he had uothing to do with, and
Mr. Piuskerr had known Mr. Goold from boyhood, and he did not possess the means of defraying. (Hear.) The Ilou.
would pledge his life that it was mere forgetfulness which had Bart. said that he should not now enlarge-upuu, the slaxieſui and
occasioned the variauce in his testimony, fºr a more honourable
arbitrary power exercised by licensing magistrates: all he should
 . . . the EXAMINER,
at present move was, that this. Petition be brought up, and that, without leave, though he admitted thafhad he asked leave and
the evidence of the Brewers’ Committee, which sat on a former been refused, he would have done right to obey the Orders of
occasion, be now printed, and hid before the House. the House.—Mr. Brough AM, contended, that a summons from
The i'etition was then brought up and read; it was from a the House was imperative, whether a servant under his master,
person of the name of Hoeper, who stated himself to have for or a soldier under his officer; and that there was no occasion for
inerty kept the Rising Sun, Plymouth; that the transaction took him to ask leave, though it was proper that he should mention,
lace in 1813, and that the debt which was incurred by the other the circumstance.—Mr. WYNN, Sir J. MAckintosh, and other
individual was so incurred duriug his absence in Cork. It con Members, concurred in this opiuion, and the motion, was
cluded by stating, that the Petitioner had not the money to enable agreed to. ,” - - -

him to undertake a suit against a bench of justices, and praying x - CHIMNEY SWEEPER'S BiLL. -

that his case, and the grievances occasioned by the licensing

system, might be taken into consideration. Mr. BENNET moved for leave to bring in a Bilt for the better
regulation of the trade of Chimney sweepers. As his former pro
Mr. WYNN said, that he really thought the proper place to position
have applied to, in this basiness, was a court of law. (Hear.) has failed, he now wished to bring forward some mea
If the facts stated in the Petition were proved, a court of law sure that would be useful in a less degree. His object was to
could not lesitate for one moment to grant an information against preveut journeymen chimney-sweepers about Loudou from ob
taining small boys for small flues. They might be taken from
the magistrate. º
Mr. Howe said he should call upon the House some time or eight to ten,given. and continue with their masters till about 16 or
other, he hoped very soon, to prevent various shameful occur 18–Leave On the motion of Mr. Brough AM, it was ordered, that the
-

rences, which, however, daily took place under that system. digest of the returns made to the circular letter of the Committee
(Hear.) - -

Sir FRAN.crs Bunortt said, the object for the House's consi on the Education of the Poor should be laid before the House.
deration was the ellain of circumstances connected with that STATUTE LAWS OF SCOTLAND. ".
grievance, arising from a power which the House had very un Mr. Boswell made some remarks on the power of the Court of
wisely confided to the magistrates: and surely this involved an Session to declare that certain statutes had fallen into desuétude, .
object of the greatest importance to the comfort of the great body which he thought very proper and necessary, as long as Parlia
of the people. A tax of 1%d. was levied upon every pot of beer ment would not interfere. Ile wished it however to be gradually
that was consumed.by them, arising euirely from this nrbitrary done away 5 and he therefore moved for-leave to bring in a Biſt
system of licensing. (Hear.) He hoped, therefore, there would to begin . work, by repealing certain parts of the Scotch law
be nd objection to receiving that Petition. He was informed that relative to duels. - " - .

the amount of the tax .#. upon the community was no less Lord A. HAMilton considered the course now pursued as ex
than 850,000l., without any benefit to that community, but that tremely inconvenient. The Hon. Gentleman proposed to repeal
it went into the pockets of the great monopolizing brewers. It one or two particular statutes, and leave to any other Hon.
was calculated that the total value of the consumption of that Member the task of proposing the repeal of others equally
article (beef) was 4,000,000l. annually. The tax was felt there obnoxious. The effect must in the mean time be, to give new
fore among all classes ºf people, but affected one class above all validity to all those which, though faller into desuetude, had
others, whom it was mauifestly desirable it should least operate not hitherto been repealed.—Leave given. : .
upon. (Hear.) - : . EXCISE in FORMATIONS-WV. WEAVER.
After some further conversation, strangers were ordered to Alderman WArthyian moved for an account of the expenses
withdraw, but no division took place, aud the debate was ad incurred, and the penalties received, under the prosecution of
journed. -

W. Weaver. He had inquired respecting the man's character.

DELAY IN COURTS OF EQUITY, &c. and he believed that the statements in his Petition, which he
Mr. M. A. TAYLott moved for a return of the amount of
had presented on a former night, were correct. ilis object was.
suitors' effects in the hands of the Accountant-General of the artſy, to open the yes of the House to the system of Exciss
Court of Chancery in the year 1756, of their amount at the end w8. - - - - - - --

of every subsequent ten years, and in the year 1818. The House Mr. Lushington said, that the Petition of Weaver stated, that
would then be enabled to compare this amount with the number he had been prosecuted for selling a quantity of Spanish juices
of suits, and to infer the importance and extent of the business and that that was his first offence. Now this man had forinery
transacted in that Court. It appeared by the report of the Com been twice convicted by the Board of Excise for smuggling, and
mittee, that in June, 1811, there were in arrear in the Court of five times by the Police; and since his Petition was presented.
Chancery, 114 causes, 59 demurrers, 35 appeals, and 5 re-hear smuggled tobacco had been found in his house. The officers of
ings, together with 303 bankrupt petitions. At the present Excise had only done their duty. . . . . . .
moment the number of causes was 289, the re-hearings 101, Mr. D. W. HARVEY was sure that the . Alderman had - - -

whilst the pleas and demurrers were diminished. He regretted been imposed upon. Such Petitions prejudiced the general priº
the failure which had attended the institution of a new eſtice, but ciples, and prejudiced those who were really aggrieved. This
had never anticipated much advantage from it. The true and man might fairly have paid 1000l. instead of 2001, the sum taken
efficacious remedy, and the reinedy which be should exert him-- as a compromise. He had formerly stated, that the Solicitor
self to induce the House to apply, was the separation of bank knew in the infancy of a case, what sum would be taken. lie
ruptcy from the jurisdiction of the Great Seal. .” he indisposition, could give a negative or affirmative to a proposition for compro
of the Lord-Chancellor ought doubtless to be taken into the aise, and hence arose expenses most, injutrious and grievous to
account, but the list of bankrupt petitions remained with little the ceuntry. The solicitor came into Court with two columns:
alteration the same in number as in 1811.-Agreed to. one containing the full charge, the other the mitigated sum that
The Solicitor-GEkrºn AL believed the Hon. Gentleman was could be taken. The principle of mitigation was not character,
mistaken, when lie represented the arrears of business in Chan as was manifest from the present case. -- - - - ... "
cery to have increased. The-number of appeals, indeed, had The ArrorNey-GENERAL denied, with great warmth, that the
º, from the institution of an inferior Court. The arrear. solicitor came into the Court with two lists, and tºok what com
of ennkrupt petitions"had, however, been considerably reduced. promise he pleased. The Learned Gentlemarſ; in receiving a
The number of cases determined by the Lord-Chancellor during compromise, never took into consideration the expenses of the
the last three years exceeded all precedent, and was to be at prosecution, but the capacity of the party º: 7: - - -
tributed to the practice, which was before unusual, of deciding Mr. HARVEY said, that three cases, the details of whicſ he
important questions upon motion merely, instead of a formal suit. would lay before the House, and which had come under his ob
Mr. D. Gilbear obtained leave to bring in a lill to abolish the servation, had been disposed of as he had stated.
offee of Lord Justice General of Scotland. ... wº", *." Mr. WAithwax replied. Whatever might have been the num
Mr. KENN Fow obtained leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the ber and character of Weaver's former offences, they had no right
provision for the poor in Scotland-Adjourned. -- to punish but for this offence.—The motion was agreed to.-- -

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Lord Airmoºr moved, that the minutes of the Côurt-martial Alderman Woop presented a Petition from the merchants,
on stinton, the man tried for attending a-Committee of the . bankers, &c. of London, praying that the Commissioners of Bank
itouse, should be printed.—Cºlonel Banaveonsidered, that the rupts might continue to bold their sittings at or in the neighbour
man had been guilty of a military offence by absenting himself hood of Guildhall, The City had offered a piece of ground, the
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present scite of Blackwell-hall, for the purpºse of erecting a the elections open, and six for crown-warrants. He should con
building: but Furnival’s-inn, a very inconvenient situation for clude by moving for a copy of the warrant of the Crown in the
elſ but the Commissioners, had been named.—Laid on the table. case of Aberdeen, and also of the Petition on which that warrant
Mr. WestERN made some observations on the inconveniences was founded. - -

resulting from the want of more frequent gaol deliveries, which . The Loºp-Advocate contended, that the whole body of the
doubled the number of prisoners in the country. The returns for burgesses had never had any share in the election of magi
the years 1817 and and 1818, showed that the number of persons strates ; and he justified the decision of the Privy Council in the
confined thronghout, the kingdom was 13,000. Of that number case of Aberdeen, as founded on the precedents of twelve cases
2,000 in each year viere not prosecuted, and 2,000 were ac since 1789, in which the same course had been followed. No
quitted. In the period between July and the Lent Assizes, many charge had been preferred before the Court. of Session against
persons had been confined who had remained in prison perhaps the Aberdeen magistrates for lavish expenditure; from which he
14 or 15 months before they had been tried—(Hear)—an enor unight presume that, no foundation existed for such a charge.
mous evil; besides which, it was to be considered, that the He wished for a moderate reform in these burghs, which
he
wngraſs of those who were never brought to trial were seriously thought would be effected by appointing auditors of the burgh
injured by-imprisonment. The Hon. Gentleman, concluded by accounts. He thought the motion quite unnecessary. (The ar
moving foreertain returns connected with this subjected, which gliments of the Learned Lord were received by repeated bursts
were ordered. -
of laughter.) . . .
The speaken informed the House, that Mr. Stephen Acker Mr. Huxle observed, that the Learned Lord had endeavoured
mann and otters, who had petitioned against the return made in to elude the arguments of the Hon. Mover. Theilon. Gentº
the last Westminster election, had failed to enter into their recog man then remarked at some length on the gross misapplication
misances, according to the regulations of the Act.—The order in of the funds of Aberdeen, in reply to the Lord Advocate; and
this case was therefore discharged. on the strange inconsistency of Ministers, as exemplified in the
• In answer to a question from Sir W. DE Carspigsy, respect different trentment of the two cases of Montrose and Aberdeen.
ing the transports teken up by the Spanish Government to act The petition for a change in the system at Aberdeen was signed
against the South American patriots, which he understood were by 1400 independent people, and that on the other side by 45
cominanded by British officers, Lord CastleREAch said, that (Loud Cheers)—and these 45 were all in the houses of individuals
Gºvernment could not interfere, as he supposed the officers had of the old council; such was the injustice done to the majority
engaged in this as a private mercantile speculation. of the citizens; Ministers attended to the prayers of 45 indivi.
ºf -, - BURGH OF ABERDEEN. duals, against those of 2,000.-(Hear!) . . . --

Sir George CLERK justified by .*.*. the authority ºf

Lord Arctiisaid IIAMILton premised, that the motion he was Government in granting warrants for the re-election of magi
about to make was not connected with Parliamentary Reform, in strates. -

any sense of the word. The Scotch burghs were governed by Mr. Maxwell was of opinion that the warrant was illegal, and
magistrates, appointed for one year only, who at the end of that that the inhabitants of Aberdeen were much better jºdges ºf
periºd elected their successors; and thus, whatever wrong they their own interests than the Lord-Advocate or his Majesty's
tnight chuse to inflict, there was no redress for the sufferers. Ministers. . . . . -
when the magistrates were found to be ..º.º.º. the Mr. willnenforce felt that enough had been brought forward
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election was reducible by the Court of Session; but that Court in the course of the debate to show that it was ſhe duty of the
!cºld no mething on the complaint of the inhabitants; the com House not to stifle inquiry into this subject. The authenticity
plainailſsºnſist be some of the magistrates themselves! In the of that most important déclaration
of the magistrates, that ſh;
particular case of Aberdeen, two of the magistrates had com system had been the source of the evils com lained of had
‘plained, and the election'vas declared void. Petitions were then old
uot been denied by any member, and that of itself was sufficient
prºuted tº the Privy Council, one from the corporation heritors ground for the motion. - . . .
and householders, praying that their ancient right of electing the -

Mr. Finlay said, that the Learned Lord had

in agistracy tright be restored; and another from the magistrates speech upon the law, but he had not touched the made a lºng
*Their fatañers, in favour of the existing system. The ques he had preved that a practice existed, lie had failed facts; and if
to show that
ſign was referred to the Law Officers; and it was upon their it ought to exist. (Cheers.) If his law were as bad as his facts
advice and the recommendation of the Learned Lord Advocate, were defective, his case had not a leg to stand upon. (Hear)
be presumed, that the Privy Council had annihilated the decree Lord CastleREAGR was quite willing to rest the whole case
of ſhe comfºr Session, and granted awarrant for the old dis upon the admirable and lucid speech ºf his Learned Friend
Yºssed magistrates to elect the new ches. The Noble Lord then (Laughter); that speech, lied been treated by the other side of
described the details of grºss abuses in the case of this borough. the House in a manner which sufficiently proved that they wer.
A few months previous to this transaction, the burgh had been incompetent to reply to it. (Continued tºughter.)—Nº one **
declared bankrupt for the sum of 280,000l., to pay only the inte
rest of which ‘5%,000l. had been Horrowed, and there was now criminality had been established against the burgh of Aberde.
there was not even an allegation of mal-administration. Tº
a deficiency ºf 2000l. annual interest. At the annual meetings Noble Lord (A. Hamilton) had done his utmost tº persuade the
aſ the burgesses, appointed for the special purpose of hearing the House that lie asked very little; but, in fict, his object wº."
burgh accºunts staied, nºt a º about the tiebt was ever ut thicg else than to introduce into i. Pariſsmentary ſº.
erºd; but the birgesses wefe constantly deleded on this sub form, whicl the other side of the fouse could not obtain for
ject. Indeed lie ºft."...# that the greater Eugland. (Hear.) . .
'part of the ºnnéealed debt was contracted by means ºf forged - - - -

Lord A. HAMILTON replied, contending that no answer had

ºnutes. The burghs had before complaimed of the evils under vy the Learned Lºrd
been given to his statement of facts, either -

which they suffeted; and a Committee had been appointed tº Advocate, the Noble Lord opposite (Castlereagh), or, by ";
consider the complaints, who had reported, that the alleged yeung Lord of the Admiralty—the sucking statesman—the
of the Noble Lord, who having now for the first time le"pupil
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abuses were proved to exist. One document alone would suffice the
to show the cºrrupt state ºf Aberdeen, the declaration ºf six nursery of Whitehall, had given so excellent a proof of his ºpt
genºmen, whº gºretiring from the magistrary ſº the wicked ness under so able a tutor. (Cheers.) ----- -- - - *
mess ºf the system so. º: that they, the guilty people, ex The House then divided:—For the motion, 105–Agains."
pressed their conviction that the evils in the burgh were owing 110—Majority, 5. The announcement of the numbers. was ""
to the self-electiºn of the magistrates, and recommended their ceived with continued cheers from the opposition.—Adjºurne".
successors to endeavour to alter it. The Noble Lord then pro ---
ceeded to point out the inconsistenºy of Ministers, in granting a Friday, April 2.
nºw constitution to the burgh af'ºïontrose, where the abuses the Committee on the Northampion election reported, that.”
were comparatively small, and refusiºg it in such a case as the sitting Members had been dely returned, but that the Petition
prºsen..."ºfit find teen intended to hoſt the Learned Ford up to was not frivolcus or vexitious. . . .
the ridicule and indignation of Scotland, a more effectual course;The-Lancaster election Committee reported, that the "5
coºd not have been pursued. The Repºrt of the Learned Lord! Members had been duly returned, snd that the Petition *
on the case of Montrºse was, that he believed it would be a mea frivolous and vexatious. - -------
sure of public utility, that such change should take place. Would CIRUFLTY-AT-II, ClicSTER.
not it also be of public utility that the more corrupt system at Mr. Basrar rose ºnes are ºn from the Doreys'."
aberdeen should be changed? Out offorty cases which had oc Ilchester, cosplaining of a serians grievance. It stated, tº the
curred since the Union, there were 34 precedents for rendering Proprietor of this Borough, considering a small number of Cou
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stituents most advantageous, had pulled down a number of: Sir R. Wilson hoped, that the General had not caused the
houses, and turned out about 100 families, who at first took displeasure of Ministers by his publication in vindication of the
shelter in a temporary poor-house, but an ejectment was served honour of the French arms. Count Forbin Janson, a distin
on them, and 163 men, women, and children, of all ages, were guished foreigner, had applied to be allowed to communicate
turned out into the streets in an inclement season of the year. with the General; but was refused. Was it directed by the
Numbers of both sexes, decrepit old peºple, and pregnant women, Alien Act, that a foreigner should be debarred all, intercourse
were crowded into the Town-hall, and others compelled to find with his friends, and that his private property should be at the
casual shelter. The unroofing of houses had been heard of as mercy of government officers : There was a Dr. May, who
an expedient of exclusion; but it remained for the agents of this ... once or twice on the General, and offered to be a medium
proprietor to drive a man, his wife, and five children from their for him to communicate with his friends abroad. Was. this per
dwelling, by filling up the upper floors with dung and filth, son one of those infamous characters who went about to entrap
which oczed and dripped through the cielings. He moved, that innocent persons? The ill-treatinent of the Petitioner when
the Petition be received. -

arrested could be proved by the servant-maid and many other

Mr. WYNN objected to receiving the Petition, as it only con witnesses. The seizure and breaking open the portfolio was con
tained charges against a man's moral character, who had a legal trary to the Atien Act. 1ſe hoped his Hon. Friend would move
right to eject the poor people. -
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The Petition was withdrawn. Lord Castler each repeated the assertions of Mr. Clive, and
GENERAL GOURGAUD.—ALIEN ACT. said, that Mr. Capper was not a person likely to sanction the
usage complained of. -
Mr. Laxerox presented a Petition from General Gourgand, Mr. F. Douglas, and Mr. C. Hutcritxsox made some, remarks
camp'aining of the illegal conduct of the Government towards on the cruelty and injhstice of the General's treatment; they
him, and of cruel treatment. The Honourable Gentleman stated
the facts of the case.—On the 14th November, fourteen or fifteen deemed the whole system a national disgrace. -

men, armed with pistols and bludgeons, rushed into the bed Mr. BeNN fºr said, that he was as ready to believe the testi
mony of the oppressed, as the testimony of those who stood
room of General Gourgaud, early in the morning, and Mr. Cap charged as criminals. There was the evidence of two Fnglish
per ordered him to accompany him instantly to Lord Sidmouth. servants, not servants of Gen. Gourgaud, who bore testimony,
The General requested time to make some arrangements, which one to a part, and another to the whole of the transaction; and
was refused. ' Mr. Capper told him that if he did not instantly
ri-e, they wºuld carry him, naked as he was ; and the General he did believe the statement given upon this evidence to be
correct. - -

(hen demanded to be taken before the Council, which was also

refased. He at length got down into the sitting-room, and con Mr. The conversation was prolonged fºr some time: after which,
trived to put some papers of a private nature, in spite of the been LAxintox replied, denying that any thing like an answer had
efforts ºf Mr. Capper, into his portſolio, and locked it in their stated,inade to the complaint. Alluding to Mr. Benj. Capper, he
that some time ago he entered a gaming-house with a
º. Some others be also locked up, and attempted to seal. drawn sword, in company with a foreigner, and carried away a
tr. Capper tried to snatch the key and seal out of his hand, so large sum of money, which he had never accounted for.—The
that he was not able to put more than one seal... Two of the men Noble Lord had said that the General had ill-used the officers.
then struck him with their bludgeons. They only ceased on his How could one man, unarmed, give ill usage to the number of
setting up cries of “murder.” Mr. Capper told the assembled officers employed? At Ilford, on the road to Harwich, the Go
crowd, that the General was a madman, a foreigner, and guilty neral endeavoured to obtain redress from a magistrate; he was
of high treason ; and threatened to fire on them. In getting into struck on the head till he bled, and in that state he was con
the carriage, he nearly 1. nke his leg by shutting to the door veyed to Harwich. He now moved, that the petition be laid ou
upon it; and they drove off from the ſcdgings at full gallop. the table: he should subsequently toove that it be printed, in
The main points complained of were the refusal to take the
Petitioner before the Council; the seizure of his paper-; and the order that all the members might be fully aware of its contents.
Mr. Beckerr stated, that several complaints had been made
injury done to a foreigner, an officer, and a gentleman.—(IIcart) against a very irregular house in Pall-Mall. The whole conduct
The Hon. Gentleman then detailed the various grievances ex of the business had been committed to Mr. Graham, and by him
perienced by the General at Capper's house at Vauxhali, whence had Capper been employed.
he was conducted to Harwich, and embarked there for Ham
Mr.
burgh. From these places, he addressed remonstrances to Lord Capper, but whatBrxNrr said, that Mr. Graham might have employed
had Capper to do with a foreigner? Why
Sidmouth, and in vain demanded to be taken before a magistrate ! was he in uniforn ? Why with a drawn sword : Upon the
or the Privy Council. His portfolio, pistols, and a bundle of
statement in the police report he would not trust Capper in asy
tº:apers relating to business, were returned to him at Hamburgh,
the partfolie having been opened, he would only receive it transaction. (The Hon. Member read from the police report Mr.
in presence of a Hamburgh, magistrate, from the master of the Nares's answer to his question—“Would you commit Capper if
he were brought before you upon this charge 2 I am not certain
t-office. On his complaining of this, Mr. Hobhouse, on the that there is evidance sºcient for that [much cheering from the
part of Lord Sidmouth, stated, that no enquiry could be insti ministerial side, on which the Hon. Meinber entreated them to
inted, as the General had not particularized all the articles suspend their cheers till they should hear the whole]; but I
missing: to which he replied, that it was impossible for him to should have run the risk most undoubtedly.” (Pełement cheering
- make out a list, of the papers without seeing them. The Peti from the Opposition side of the 11ouse.)
tioner prayed, that he might be allowed to come to England, for On the motion that it be printed,
the purpose of prosecuting his persecutors: he did not question Mr. C. Hercussos put it to the Noble Lord whether he would
the right of Ministers to put the Alien Act in force, but the just consent to have it go abroad, that this officer had been treated
exercise of it. The meagre security afforded by a single cause with such gross indignity as the Petition described, without
had been taken away from a friendless foreigner. He should afterwards consenting to go into an inquiry.
move, that the Petition be brought up. Lord CastleREAgn was unwiiling to say any thing which
Mr. H. Clive justified the conduct of the Home Department. could wound the feelings of General Gourgaud; but if the matter
Circumstances came to the knowledge of government, which should come for discussion, he should feel it his duty to state
made them think it necessary to remove Gen. Gourgaud ; but his opinions upon it. -
there was no wish to accompany the removal with unnecessary The question was then put, and the Petitiºn ordered to be
severity. If the General had behaved with ordinary, patience, printed.
there would have been no ground for complaint ; but he as
saulted the Officers on many orensions, and they were more hurt BANKRUPTCY LAWS AMENDMENT BULL. -
than he. The assertion that he had been refused to be taken be Sir R. Wilsox presented a Petition from Mr. Dufrene against
fore the Privy Council rested entirely on the authority of the the proposed Bill, which the Petitioner believed would be highly
petitioner. He (Mr. Clive) had directed the Agent at Harwich injuricus both to debtor aud creditor.—Received agd ordered to
to permit Gen. Gourgaud to be cºrried before a magistrate, lie on the table. - -

which was done; and the magistrate thought the warrant defi Mr. J. SMITH moved the second reading in a speech of some
cient, as being contrary to a permission the petitioner had re length, which our limits will not allow us to detail. One of his
ceived to reside in this coantry; but the Mayor considered that, new enactments was, in his opinion, much called for by the
being in the hands of the King's messengers, they could not in defects in the present system. It declared, that any person liable
terfere. His letters and portfolio had been sent to him in an en to the bankrupt laws, who- after the passing of the present act, ,
velop, carefully sealed. should, for seven successive days, stop payment, not being dis
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abled through severe illness from attending to business, or who TUESDAY'S LONDON GA21.TTE.
during that time generally refused or were unable to pay his or - -

her debts, or whº during 80 sucessive days should be absent from - BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. -

his usual place ºf b is ess without having made provision for his T. Reed and J. Middlemas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchants,
bills, notes, or any other demands at the time of their becoming due, from Mareh 27 to May 15. -

or who, having any writs of action for debt issued against him, and - BANKRUPTS. . . - -

notice of such left at his usual dwelling-place, and who in nine W. Stubbs, Lerk, Staffordshire, -innholder. Attornies, Messrs.
days after such notice, should not put in sufficient bail for such - Long and Austen, Holborn-court, Gray’s-inn.
action; or who, being arrested for a debt, should remain in pri S. T. Harding, C. Oakes, aud.T.Willington, Tamworth, bankers.
son for 14 days or more; such person should have committed an Attornies, Messrs. Hicks and Braikenridge, Bartlett's-build
act of bankruptcy, and be liable to have a commission issued ings, Holborn. -

against him, provided such commission be issued within twelve F. Simpson, Huddersfield, woolstapler. Attorney, Mr. Beckett,
calendar months. Another clause which he had inserted in his
Noble-street, Foster-lane. -

new Act was to punish unwarrantable extravagance, by entitling J. and T. Gaunt, Armley, Yorkshire, woollen-manufacturers.
the Commissioners to enquire into the past life of the bankrupt, Attornies, Messrs. Few, Ashmore, and Hamilton, Henrietta
and by empowering them to grant or withhold his certificate, as street, Covent-garden.
might to them seem just and proper. He was also inclined to J. Barnes, Portsea, builder. Attornies, Messrs. Alexander and
propose clauses, that it should be requisite that four-fifths, and Holme, New-inn.
inot three-fifths only, of the creditors, should sign the certificate; J. Pearson, Portsmouth, mercer. Attornies, Messrs. Alexander
that an honest Bankrupt should be allowed a per centage on the and Holme, New-inn.
dividends to the Creditºr- up to a certain sum ; that the punish J. and C. Biºg, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, common-brewers, At
ment of death, under the Bankrupt Law, should be abolished", tormies, Messrs, Nicholson and Platt, Hertford.
&c. &c. - - -

E. M. and C. G. Cotterill, Vine-street, Liquorpond-street, bacon

After some conversation, the Bill was read a second time, re merchants. Attornies, Messrs. Nind and Co., Throgmorton
ferred to a Committee of the whole House, and ordered to be fur street. - - - -

ther considered on the 23d of April. -

W. Relph, Lewknor, Oxfordshire, farmer. Attornies, Messrs.
- - BARNSTAPLE FLECTION. Rose and Slater, Gray's-inn. -

Lord Clive moved that the Report of the Committee on the M.Walker, and J. Pegron, Artillery-street, dealers. Attorney, Mr.
Lincoln’s-inn-fields. - -

Election for Barnstaple be taken into forther cousideration. The

Moble Lord read the two special resolutions to which the Com T. Messrs.
R. Moore, Denmark-court, Strand, paper-stainer. Attornies,
Alexander and Holme, New-inn.
mittee had coine. “I. That Sir Manassel, Masseh Lopes, Bart., H. W. An lerson, Cushion-court, Broad-street, merchant. At
was by his agents guilty of bribery and treating, at the last elec tormies, Messrs. Willis, Clarke, Coates, and Watson, Warn
tion for the borough of Barustaple, and is thereby incapacitated
to serve in Parliament at such election.”—“2. That such a ge ford-court, Throgmorton-street. - -

neral system of corruption was practised at the last election for

Barnstaple, as to render it incumbent on the Committee to sub SATURDAY's Lowdow Gazette.
mit the same to the most serious consideration of the House, in
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order that such proceediugs may be instituted as the House may BANKRUPTCHES SUPFRSEDED.
think proper to adopt.” -

The testimony of the witnesses, he said, completely justified J. Revett, jun. Tolleshunt Darcy, Fºssex, butcher.
these resolutions. Of the number of resident voters (which did H. Brodie, Liverpool, linen-draper."
bANKirUPTS. • .
not exceed 3°0) 66 had received bribes from Sir M. Lopes, who
had expended 3000ls, in bribery and treating, through a banker, D. Buchanan; S. M. Smith, and F. Ashley, Liverpool, merchants.
Mr. J. Gribble. The out-voters, who amounted to about 140, Attornies, Messrs. Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row.
received 20ts. a-piece; the resident electors 51s., Mr. Gribble J. Dixon, Ivybridge, Devonshire, merchant. Attornies, Messrs.
stated, that the London voters in Sir M. Lopes's interest claim Darke and Co. Princes-street, Bedford-row.
ed and received £ls, more a-piece, because Mr. Oumaney's said B. Nayler, Sykehouse, Fishlake, Yorkshire, tanner. Attorney
they had been so paid. Mr. King, Castle-street, Holborn. -

A long conversation ensued; after which Lord Clive moved J. and H. D. Owen, Great St. Helens, Bishopsgate-street, met
for leave to bring in a Bill for the prevention of bribery and cor chants. Attorney, Mr. Crosiey, Great James-street, Bedford.
row.
ruption in the election of Members for the borough of Barnsteple. - -

Mr. WYNN recommended the adoption of p resolution as a A. Gonpertz, Lombard-street, merchant. Attorney, Mr. Elliott,
foundation for the Bill to be introduced, and the following re-f. Fenchurch-street. -

solution was agreed to—“That it appears to the House that a W. Gilpin, Villiers-street, Strand, army-clothier. Attorney,
general system of corruption was practised at the last election Mr. Teasdale, Merchant-Taylor's-Ilºil, Threadueedle-street.
for the borough of Barnstable.” W. Hancock, Bury St. Edmonds, cabinet-maker. Attorules,
Leave was then given to bring in the Bill, and it was ordered Messrs. Amory and Coles, Lothbury.
that the Speaker do not issue his warrant for making out a new W. Lewis and J. A. Henderson. Little Tower-street, wine-mer
writ for the borough of Pornstaple until this day month. chants. Attornies, Messrs. Kearsey and Spurr, Lishopsgate:
Mr. WYNN thought that when it had been proved that any in withiu.
dividual had sorgrossly violated the privileges of the House, it W. Fisher, Union-place, Lambeth, master-mariner. Attorney,
was the duty of that iiouse either to inflict that punishment Mr. Hayward, Took's-court, Cursitor street.
which was in its power, or to take care that the punishment pre J. Pickbourn, North-street, City-road, drug-grinder. Attorney,
scribed by the laws should be inflicted. He, therefore, moved Mr. Hutchison, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street.
that the Attorney-General be directed to prosecute bir M. M. J. Isaac, Farehan, Southampton, cnrrier. Attornies, Messrs.
Lºpez for his said offence.—Agreed to. Dyne and Sou, Lincoln’s-inn-fields. -

W. Summers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, flour-dealer. Attornies,

NEW POST-OFFICE. Messrs. Bell and Brodrick, Bow-church-yard.
!Mr. R. Gonnox wished to "... informed why certains accounts C. Wathen, Salter's-hall-court, merchant- Attornies, Messrs.
relatug to the New Post-Office, moved for more than a mouth Clarke and Clarke, Little St. Thomas Apostle. -

ago, had not yet been laid before the House. They related to a
jol, which seemed to be compromised between the City and the
Government, by which the publić would suffer to the amount of
500,000t.—The unaccountable delay looked like the concoction
of a new job: 50,000L would have rendered the old Post-office
adequate to all purposes of public convenience.
Mr. Lusming row stated some reasons why the plans were net
upon the table.
After a few words from Mr. Fornrs, the Gallery was cleared
for a division; but Mr. Lushington consented to the presenting
of the rapers ſortuwith.-Adjourned till Monday.
An Injunction was yesterday obtained in the Vice:
Chancellor's Court for restraining James Duncower, and
DEAN and Mgn pay, from selling any more copies of twº
Works, called the Actor's Itegallo, and Mr. Matthew's
Trip to Paris, in both of which books, parts of the Fºr
tertainment as delivered by Mr. Mathews at the English
Opera House, are printed without that Performer's ſer
finission. r"
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2}9.
ratce of stocks on sarunday. | he had thought it would be in itself a mockery, yet he hi
3 per Cent. Cons................................ 74; 75. hoped it would have the effect of checking the exercise of
We are sorry to sy, that nothing can be done with the Papers power, by subjecting it to some publicity.—The evidence
mensioned by Mr. D., at least in the way he spoke of. 'We that this appeal had been refused was very strong. It was
beg his pardon for not noticing this sooner.
The Tragedy of 4––0 will be forwarded in a few days, allowed that the General desired to be taken before a Ma
Fix E ARTs in our mext. - - gistrate. A Magistrate! was it on such qiſibbles that the
provisions in favour of liberty were to be frustrated — -
the ExAMINERT (Hear, hear!)—When General Gourgaub was taken,”
was it not the duty of the officer to have explaided what
Low Dow, APRIL 4, the tribunal was to which he had a right to apply, and
even the form of application ?—(IIear !)—If in Paris an
Kotzebue, the well-known author, has been assassinated. Englishman made a mistake in the name of the Magis
A stranger, it is said, entered his apartment at Manheim trate he mentioned, as for instance, the Prefect instead of
on the 23d of last month, and aſter a short dispute with the Minister of Police, what would be thought, if on that
him on his conduct and opinions, gave him four stabs with: account, he was deprived of any advantage the law allowed
a poignard. Ile then went out of the house, and failing him º'? - - -

on his knees in the street, raised his hands to heaven ex This is excellently put. With respect to the other com
claiming “Gop be praised,”—or as another account says, plaint, the seizure of the papers and the personal scuffle
which the General attributes solely to that circumstance.
“Germany, Germany " after which he rose, and with the
same poignard stabbed himself. M. Von Kotzebur, it there is no law warranting such a measure when an Alien
is added, ſell dead into the arms of his eldest son, whom his is to be sent out of the kingdom; and as to the violence,
tries had drawn to the spot. The assassin was not dead General Gourg Aud has a right on that account to charge it
when the accounts came away; but it was thought he all on the side of the Police Agents, even had he commenced
could not recover. He is said to be a native of Winziedel it himself, as they assert. “A Member under the Gallery,
in Saxony, and a student of the University of Wurtzburg. whose name,” says the Reporter, “we could not learn” (it
He inscribed himself at the Inn under the name of Heis will remain a secret, we doubt not, between the Member
Rictor Hessy; but one account says his name is Chanles and the Ministers) “expressed his conviction that it was
Sasoºm, and another that a University Diploma was impossible for any Englishman to be guilty of such harsh
found upon him calling him Sasp. With the diploma treatment towards a prisoner as this Petitioner had al
there was also found another poignard, and a piece of leged.” What egotistical nonsense! This person, we dare
paper containing the following words:–" Seatence of say, thinks every thing villainous and hang-able which the
Beath upon Auguste De Kotzeets, executed the 23d Ministers have ever thought so. Was nothing of all this
March, 1819.” This looks like one of the documents Fnglish, not to mention all those who thought it? Is the
we read of in novels and mysterious histories, as written by Honourable Member himself no Englishman, because he
the societies of Illuminati. It is certainly possible, and has made a vain and silly remark: An English Police
probable, that such societies may still exist, and that the Agent too, the arbitrary servant of arbitrary Alien-Bill
spirit of some of them may be in a great state of ferment at makers! Oh the taking angel of an offieer! The General
present. An assassin however does not want authority to had a scuffle with these agents, because he protested
set him in motion. It appears by the different accounts, against their seizing his papers, and taking away his port
and by one of the exclamations above mentioned, that the folio unsealed. The scuſtle was renewed on the road; and
death of Kotzebue is attributed to his political opinions, at Ilford a blow covered him with blood. All this forces
which are said to be slavish and anti-national. He is enquiry, even under a system like the present. The present
one of the Aulic Counsellors of the Emperor of Russia, House is not quite so submissive as the last. In the course
and formerly passed many years in that country. The Ger of the debate, Gen. Gourg AUD's fidelity to NApoleon was
mans are known to regard him with graat general indigna talked of, when Sir G. CockBURN got up, and undertook
tion; and it is probable that this feeling, catching hold of to do away any favourable impression on that head by
sºle morbid mind, impelled it to the present catastrophe. shewing that he was one of those who gave in their ad
herence to Louis, and afterwards deserted him for his for
The subject of General Gourg Avo's arrest under the mer master. Sir George says, that upon the General's
disguisting Alied Bill, was brought forward in the House being appointed to the ordnance by NApoleoN on the
of Commons on Friday, aud is to be discussed again. latter's return from Elba, he called upon Marshal Ber
‘ibe first debate was only the result of a petition, which TRAND to thank him, supposing that the appointment was
was presented by Mr. LaMaros. It certainly appears owing to his recommendation. The Marshal howeverim
hitherto, that both the complaints of the petition are but mediately undeceived him, saying, he had no notion of re
too well founded, viz., that the General was denied or eommending such Weathereocks; and this gave rise to ill
tricked out of his right of appeal to the Privy Council; will between the two, which manifested itself at St. He
and that this papers were illegally and violently seized. lena. Now Britta AND is undoubtedly a most honourable
The General indeed expressly says that he demanded to exception to the tergiversations too common among all
be taken before the Council. This is denied; but how ! political descriptions of people, illegitimate and legitimate;
Mr. F. Douglas, in a brief and powerful state of the but at any rate it was his old master to whom Gen. Gour
case, observed that “on this appeal much stress had GAUD chose finally to adhere, and to his old master when
been laid when the Alian Bill was passed, and though in adversity;-not as JAMEs's favourite Manihonorch did
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to King William, nor as CANNING, Soothry, and others in corruption. We do not mean to say, that the majority
have done to less men in our own times.—But all this has no on Monday night voted against their clear conviction; but
we know łº easily men reconcile what they wish to do
thing to do with the main question. By the way, it does to their consciences, in any case where a doubt may be
not appear that there was any worse cause for the General's
raised; and in this instance they may, without having
arrest than the one commonly suspected,—viz., his having many predilections, have eonsidered the charges at any
written a book to prove that the victory of Waterloo was rate not legally proved. Ministers, we observe, abstained
owing to other things than the talents of the Duke of from joining in the debate, probably from a conscious.
WELLINGrox. His having written letters to the sovereigns 'ness of the aukwardness of voting for a man, accused of
of Furope may have been a cause too; but either would “practices at which our ancestors would have startled with
indignation.” " * -
do, with persons who could expel a man upon any such The number of Petitions from Scotland in favour of a
grounds. The consequence is however, that many per Reſorm in the Royal Burghs there, caused last week some
sons will begin to doubt the nature of that victory, who conversations in Parliament. The abuses in them are in
would never have had the least inkling of doubt on the deed so glaring, that the Lord-Advocate found it neces
matter, had the General been leſt alone. sary to bring in some Bill last Session, which pretended
to improve their condition; and the Learned Lord as
serted, that the majority of those interested are satisfied
The decision of the House of Commons on the case of with the existing system, hecause the majority have not
Mr. WYNDhA.M. Quin was accompanied by a very long, petitioned against it. The fallacy of this assertion
but not an important debate. Mir. Quis cuts a sorry (which is also advanced on other occasions) may be
figure aſter his valiant protestations of innocence: yet he easily shown, even granting its truth, which is however
. think himself lucky that he has got out of this affair denied by the friends of the reform demanded. It is to,
with no worse consequences than a slight censure. The be recollected, that many inhabitants of these burghs,
whole business, as far as we can understand it, is shortly though they may be convinced cf the injustice of the pre
this:–Mr. Quis, wishes to increase his political power, sent system, do not feel sufficiently interested in political
and therefore divides an office in his patronage, in order to matters to be induced to take the trouble of petitioning:
make two persons, instead of one, interested to support or they may be prevented by business, or accident: many
him. Mr. CAREw SMytil, as the friend of the GRAbys, are connected with the Magistrates, who would be
who are of course displeased with this new arrangement, turned ont, if the people gained their point; and many
endeavours, adroitly enough, to get from Mr. Quin more more are deterred from stirring against the autho’
direct explanations of the conditions on which he grants rities, however earnestly they may wish it, by the fear of
young GRApy the pension, and by that means to obtain a being injured in their pecuniary interests. In small places
power of exposure, from the fear of which he might corn in particular, this last cause always operates to a great
pel Mr. Quis to re-instate young Grady in his former si extent. . It will always happen, that coinparatively few of
tuation of clerk of the peºce. His eagerness however to those who wish for any public measure, will take any ac:
induce the Honourable Member to commit himself b tive part in procuring it, particularly if that measure would
- ji". minute of the conversation in which he had overturn any existing system; and therefore to assume that
stated his expectations of support from GRApy, defeated all who are not active in favour of a proposition are against
itself, by exciting a suspicion in Mr. Quin of his inten it, is obviously unfair. The only proper means of ascer
tion; and the latter in consequence took care not to allow taining the public feeling on such a question as this, is to
any repetition of his former declaration to escape him. The compare the number of petitions on both sides: for we
case is then brought before Parliament with the only evi have a right to assume that the active of both parties bear
dence the accusers of Mr. QUIN could get-that of Mr. an equal proportion to the inactive. To show how readily
CARew SMyth. The witness opposed to that gentleman, people will come forward to oppose any measure which
Mr. Goold, has however not only ſailed in doing the they think contrary to their interests, we need only reſet
smallest good to the Hon. Gentleman, but has also ble to the proceedings in Parliament: no sooner was it known
Inished his own character, and given rise to some awk that it was intended to attempt to relieve London from
ward conjectures respecting the probability of an understand part of the coal tax, by making it heavier on the rest ºf
ing between the accused and his witness. Thus Mr. Carew the country, than meetings were called all over England,
SMyrti's testimony is not only valuable as being perfectly and petitions immediately prepared against the proposition.
consistent (and there are few men who can persevere in a The abuses in the Scotch burghs arise entirely from this
false account, without betraying themselves through long one-thing, -the self-election of the magistrates, * who in
and repeated cross-examinations), but as there is in fact no consequence bestow places of profit on themselves, and go
credible statement to the contrary, his assertions must be on in a sort of jobbing circle, in spite of the people whos”
taken as true. Whether Mr. Goold's remarkable contra money they are misusing. The case of Aberdeen, one of
dictions are owing to forgetfulness, or to anything else, is the most atrocious, has been the subject of a very instructive
of no importance, as far as concerns the main question: debate this week. In that borough, each set of magistrates,
his evidence cannot weigh a jot in any reasonable mind.— on quitting their office annually, elected their successor",
The vote of the House, we dare say, surprised many who of course did them the same favour again the next time,
wº who had previously read the minutes of evidence. hy which the people were totally deprived of any chºicº.
We think that the two following causes had a share in This respectable junto however, carried their tricks a hºle
producing it: first, the knowledge of Mr. C. SMyth's in too far, and were dismissed by the Court of Session ſo:
triguing, which was shown both by admitted circum corruption. Application was then made to the Priº,
stances, and by the unfortunate compliments paid him by Council for a new constitution for the place: instead ºf
the elder GRAby for managing Mr. Quix so well; and which, an order from the Recºst was seat back, that the
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secondly, by the circumstance of Mr. Quis's sitting on the * This is the virtual representation, which the corrupt tellº
Treasury bench-on the same bench with nºtorious stands ns in stead of actual; meaning, that because the legisla
borough-traffickers, who cannot think much of any at ture is composed of men of various classes and pur-ºut", earh
tempt to procure undue influence, and would be unwilling class will be represented by those men, though it has no powº
to dismiss them, if it is not. The discontent of the Scotch
to concur in any measure, which would necessarily lead to
the infliction of aheavy punishment on an imprudent brother burghers is an ankward fact for this reasoning.
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convicted corruptionists should meet again, and appoint, as cannot say much ſor the improvement of his voice, now
usual, the new set! - Never did Ministers make a more he has grown wariner. It is weak and trivial: and for
sºutemptible appearance than on Thursday night in the Leporello it is specially unfit, as it has no base in it. His
House of Commons. Unable to reply to the overwhelm acting however pleased the audience better than that of >
ing proofs of shameful misgovernment adduced by Lord his unfortunate precursor; and this, no doubt, saved him
A. HAMILtos, the Loan Apvocate attempted to blink from a like catastrophe. He is not altogether destitute of
the question, and to confuse the House by long legal argu humour. But why does he cultivate such a prodigious
ments, which were so completely irrelevant, as to excite exuberance of whisker : His ſace is already long and
continual laughter. Lord HAMilton states a particular thin; yet he brings it to a still narrower point by this
case of corruption and wrong done; and the Learned capillary fraine, which together with that of his head, hooks
Lord replies by shewing that the .." had existed like a great, hairy helmet, with clasps of ditto meeting
a great while, and tº: the same wrong had been done in under the chin.
mºst other cases! This is the eternal argument in favour We do not like Madame Bellocut so well in 2erlinſ,
of all existing abuses. Lord CAstlers AGH wanted to as in Susanna, Susanna though lively is more dispas
alarm the less decided Opposition men by assuring them, sionate, and has never to assume the enamoured or pathe
with a kaowing air, that the motion was a covert plan for tic-at least they ounit, the only song of the former kind
a general Parliamentary Reform; with which it has about which is given to her (the delightful one of Deh vieni, non
as much to do as the late convictions for borough-mon tardar); and her coquettish share in Crudel perchè ean
gering have. The Whigs, we see, cheered when the hardly be said to have any thing amatory in it. But &er
result of the division was announced; but it presents a lina is a creature of impulse, to an excess. . Her faculties
lanentable proof of the predominance of corruption over are borne away by the sudden addresses of the splendid
truth. Can there be a stronger argument for Réform than Don Giovanni; and she has to intreat her husband's par
this fact, that in a pretty full House, a majority should don in a song beginning, with exquisite pathos and sini
be found in favour of stifling all enquiry into a case so plicity—Batti, batti, bel Masetto. Now in these matters
flagrant, that, as was truly observed, twelve ordinary men we do not think Madame Bellocal so much at home as
would not take a moment to decide upon it; and when, in sheer vivacity. There she revels and enjoys herself at
too, the wretched attempts to reply to the charges of cor will; and recommends a face and person not naturally
ruption so completely failed. “Oh! Iteform it altoge pleasing, by the strength and sincerity of her animal spirits.
ther!” But .. she is grave, she is undone; and when she
would be pathetic-slie tumbles to pieces. ...There is
Mancºis of Hastises.—A Court of Proprietors was something strangely sour in he gravity; an apalling inten
sity of frown, a kind of thickset sulky maliciousness, as
held on Wednesday at the India House, to consider the
propriety of granting an annuity of 5000l. from the terri
if she meditated sideways, on “fetching” you a thump.
tºrial revenues of India for twenty years to the Marquis of Judge of her pathetic. Her amatory is overwroughi;
Hastiscs, in such manner as the Directors might chise.— and without growing cold, loses all real tenderness by the
The Cualaxi.AN informed the meeting that a letter had way. Thus in Balli, butti, she shrugs her, shoulders and
been received from the President of the Board of Control, our own, rather than moves any one's heart; and in
stating that he had forwarded the opinion of the Attorney Vedrai, carino, she makes a superabundance of comments
and Sºlicitor-General, respecting the legality of this grant. upon a text rather too plain already. How nicely Madame
The opinion was then read, and declared the proposed Fonor managed this delightful air!. It was a doubtful
grant to be illegal, as the Company's charter only extend case which of these ladies to preſer in Susanna, though
ed to the year 1831, and might expire three years after upon the whole we thought Madame Bellochi more to
that period, if the Government gave them notice to that the purpose; but in 26rlina, we have no hesitation in
effect:-Mr. R. JAckson then moved the adoption of an giving the palm, º way, to Madame Fodor. . How
o:her proposition, which had been submitted to the Direc charming were her cofdial tones, that used to coine forth
tors, to grant 60,000l. to the Noble, Marquis, to be with all the strength imaginable, and yet as if her heart, as
vested in Trustees for his benefit. He thought this plan the phrase is, was in her mouth ! It was the triumph of
would be more acceptable to the Marquis than an annuity. the most triumphant thing in the world,—a woman's
This motion was objected to as irregular, and Mr. JAck voice. -

ses therefore moved an adjournment, which was carried. There is a new ballet here, the Slave-Merchant, made
Lord SrewART and Lady VANE TEMPEST were mar out of an opera by GRETRY. There is something revolt
ried yesterday in St. James's-square. ing in the subject, which, as the reader may guess by the
Korzebug has left a widow and 14 children, the title, is that of an Eastern dealer in beauties, bringing them
ycºges; only a few months ºld. before a Sultan for his choice. Women are unfairly treated
Shortiv after the trial of Mr. Gwyssf, Lord Here all over the world, in the division of privileges; but in the
roan, the brother of the seduced Lady, sent a challenge to ‘Fast, from the time of Solomon downwards, (unless that
Colonel Gwyn Ne, which he first accepted, but subse iſſustrious person allowed them a more poetical justice than
quently declined. -
appears upon record) their rights have been treated by the
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Mr. Lawsox is re-elected for Boroughbridge, the elec stronger sex with the most sovereign contempt. However,
tors not choosing that so witty a man should be lost. a ballet is not remarkable for thrusting upon one's feelings
the more philosophical part of it's subject. If the fair
slaves dance, the sultan dances too; and they all scem.
THEATRICAL EXAMIN ER. quite as happy as he is. The first act of this piece is the
pleasantest we have yet seen at the Opera; for it consists
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No. 357. of specimens of national dancing, and we were relieved for
the first time from the mechanical spinning-jenutes of the
- nºr-in-1-ray a pºrnºa. modern French school. The dances appeared to consist
Yºstenray week Don Giovanni was brought forward chiefly of a Spanish one, a Swiss, a French, an English,
again, with a new Lºpaſſello in the person ºf Signor a Russian, and perhaps a Polouese; but of one or two we
º; who made his first appearañce as the idey in
EItaliana in Algieri. On that occasion an †".
were not certain. The English dance is a horºpipe, which
was
Mademoiselle MILANre performes so lº. to pro
made for hin, on the score of his having a cold; but we duce an encorv, That boldness in it's citaracter, of which
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vulgar dancers make sheer impudence and defiance, was power but by means of some new and masterly stroke
turned by her graceful spirit into an air of sportive wilful he. resolves upon giving, Albanio the key, of Naple,
ness, `-a º assumption of something, bold. The bargaining with him ſor the destruction of Fontano, and
Spanish dance, which is of a class always delightful, seemed the gift of the latter's daughter, and then, we suppose,
to want the eastanets, as well as something of enthusiasm in stabbing him, and making his peace with the King. Upon
the performer. The Russian is extremely naive and striking, his mentioning those terms however to the Chieftain, the
and admirably performed by Mademoiselle HULLIN. It con latter is disgusted; and upon his refusing to return the
sists of movements at once strangely confined in their range dagger, Manfredi, as he turns round, attempts to stub
of action, more quaint than elegant, and yet very pleas him, but the other is too quick, and turning back again
ling by dint of the character and passion in them. They suddenly, stabs the villaim instead. He then discovers and
... seem to express a love that pretends to be coquettish in exults over him.—The scene now reverts to Angelo and
the midst of it's warmth-alternately seeking and avoid Angelina, the latter of whom in pleading for ſºr lover
ing. One of the favourite gestures is a couple of shrugs happens to touch a favourable chord in Albani's hear!
of the shoulders, which keeping time with the music, the respecting his wife; and he consents that the youth shall
performe; suddenly standing still, look extremely helpless live. A noise of arms is heard; the King, who has dis
and piteous. But why not give us also the Scotch reel, covered Albanio's haunts, enters with his troops, who
the Gleek Romeca, and a specimen of the dancing of the master the rebel with their numbers. Albanio, despairing
Hindoos ? We should like even to see the Otaheiteans of success, asks and obtains pardon for his followers; and
bringing their presents, -in short, specimens of as many then struck at once with remorse for the crime he was
dances as possible, which exhibit the peculiarities of na about to commit, and with all his whole storm of ſeizy at
, tional character in their pleasantest and liveliest aspect, finding that the bye-standers still thought him guily, ſº
We think a ballet entirely made up of them would succeed treats to the top of the precipice, stabs himself, and falls
to admiration; for how unequivocally the spectators are into the sea beneath.
leased with the first act of this piece, and what a ſalling off There are some good materials in this play; but it can
is there in the second, when the French vaults and twirls hardly be said, that the Author well knows how tom
come back again : We really wonder that the French, nage them. He claims, in his Preface, the merit of Ҽn
who are the most vivácious people in Europe, and have tire originality” for the characters of Albanio and the ſº
good national dances of their own, should have got into provvisatore. The claim is in same measure just; but the
this format and mechanical-nonsense, which is not at all goodness of the painting, as well as the “entireness" of the
the abstract and ideal grace it pretends to be. . All those design will be discussed in proportion to the boldness with
stiffjumpings up, those ludicrous solemnities of face, those which the claim is made. §. we know not that the
elaborate offerings of a leg, those sudden and quick shakes character of Albanio, who turns rebel from ill-treatment,
of it as if a smake had accepted it, and then those unac is original, except inasmuch as the ill-treatment consists
countable twirlings with the rapidity of a catherine-wheel, in attributing to ſin the death of his wife; and how fºr
as if the patient had lost his senses with pain,_what have it is probable that a noble mind would be ruined by a false
all these absurdities to do with the easy self-possessions, accusation even of such a nature, is more than proble.
the natural and comfortwble movements, and the cordial matical, The little Improvvisatore is, we believe, quite
sprightliness of grace? No more than a wooden image in original; and the character is very engaging; but then
a ſit. - - -
we doubt whether a reverse fault will not be ſound with
- - - - - Drt riº-Law E. - him, in the two great probability of his effusions, which to
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, The Italians.—This Tragedy, which has given rise to so say the truth are as poor as extempore verses are apt tº be.
much discussion respecting the treatment of the Author by Take the following as a specimen. The triplet is pleº
ingly and lyrically tºrned; but what are we to say to or
Mr. Kean, was brought out here last night, agreeably to dreary old acquaintances love and rove, heart and impºrt.
the unexpected announcement in the bills. The story
chiefly concerns a Neapolitan Nobleman, Albanio, who In yonder wild and rºcky grove,
The maidcn and her lov ºr rove.
having been charged with the murder of a beloved wife,
which was really perpetrated by another, loses his patriot. Oh—do—my sovereign lord, in part
Some comfort to my master's heart. .
ism and almost his senses, and flies into open rebellion, He ne'er can sleep, till they are found:
threatening, in his mad resentment against human credu
lity, to level his native city with the ground. The real
assassin (Manfredi), leagues in the meanwhile with an
- Then let us search the woºds around:
Come ! let us search each dale and hill!
I, too, can never sleep, until,
:
unworthy mistress of the King to ruin another excellent My noble master's heart is still.
person, Fontano, who has avoided her love, and advised The other characters we may leave, as the author hailſ
the King to supersede her natural son in a command. His them.—Upon the whole, thºre are evidences of an amiº
eyes are put out; but escaping from the city, he meets mind in this play, not unvisited with shapes of intellectual
with a . improvvisatore, who attaches himself to him,
as well as moral beauty. Who indeed that knows any
and astonishes and soothes him with little affectionate thing of the latter, will be altogether unacquainted with their
ebuilitions in verse. Fontano's daughter, Angelina, is divine companions? But the Author seems more cº
at the same, time conveyed to a castle by Masfredi, culated to receive impressions, than to express, them;
from whom she is rescued by her lover Angelo; and these be has quite sensibility enough for the one; b, he
two, wandering away, happen to come upon the tents of seems to be deficient in power for the other. There
Albanio, who is at first inclined to exercise towards them is, in short, something like weakness in his writing. Tº
the nobleness that his natural to him, but finding they are want of knowing what to say and what to omit, and d
from Naples, and that on hearing his name they also feeling of nature and originality perpetually recurrin; 19
shudder at him as the murderer of i. wife, he orders the commonplaces for assistance to hear the fiurden. jº
lover to be thrown into the sea. While this catastrophe this that turns the indignant chieftain Albanio, who thinks
is in preparation, and Albania is also meditating his as that the destruction of a whole city is not too great."
sault upon Naples, Manfredi, his old enemy, comes to him his revenge, into the martyr of a feeble notion; an that
in disguist. He had found that the King had.been made makes our little friend the Improvvisatore somewhat 'º'
acquainted with Fontano's innocence by means of a re lackadaisical and chamber-maid-like. The author, ""
Pentant confederate, and despairing of restoring himself to suppose, was aſsaid of hurting the crigipality of li: sh
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racter by making a female of him; yet this is what the a glowing light and centre to twenty of the white vernal .
audience must expect. - . -
flowers. Shakspeare seeins to have observed the singular.
By this sketch of the piece, and all the circumstanees beauty of this contrast, when he speaks of
attending it's bringing out, the reader will guess that there Banks with pioned and lilied brims. - - -

may have b n a considerable struggle attending the re

- If the season is fine, and the places, where they are
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presentation. It was one of the most curious, in ſact, that planted favourable, and taken care of, the delicate sprouting.
we ever witnessed. When we first went in, we found the green of the trees and shrubs is now interspersed with the
pit all waving their hats in an uproar, and, looking like -hlossoms of the barbery, of the cherry-plum, of the double
he railing billows in Daxte's sea of pitch. This was ſor flowering cherry, the bird-cherry, the sweet-scented and
a victory they had gained over the manager in compelling sweet-named honey-suckle, hypericums, the black-thorn
him to begin the performance over again, their own tendency or sloe, laburnum or gold-chain (truly so called), the
tº a struggle having they found prevented them litherto of service or sorb-apple, scorpion-senna, privet (the ligtſstrum’
hearing a word of what they came to judge. The chief of Virgil), the apricot, peach, and nectarine, lilacs, lau
feeling at first seemed to be sympathy with the Author; rustinuses, the laurel-vulgary so called, more properly the
but as his language came to be heard, and those self-com lauro-cerasus, and iastly, the real laurel of old, or buy
mittals into which his simplicity has led him to be felt, the tree, which the Greeks, associated with every species of
opposing party became very strong. ... The Improvvisatore victory; which Sophocles and Epaminondas thought of
was turned into ridicule; and the audience, as we expected, with reverence, which Caesar wore day by day, and with
shewed little inclination to agree with the hero of the which Petrarch was crowned in the capitol. - -

piece in thinking the false accusation against him a sufficient The swallow, whom the Greeks used to welcome with
ground for him to grow so wild and anti-national upon, a popular song, re-appears at the beginning of this month.
Mr. Rae, who performed the character, and who was The other birds of passage follow by degrees; and all the
obviously in a very attkward situation, at length came for singing birds are now in full life, and saturate the trees
ward, and in a very modest speech said he would do the with music. The nightingale is recognized towards even
utmost to perform his duty, if they would condescend to ing, keeping up his inexhaustible song; and, about the
hear. This generally insured him a more favourable hear middle of the mouth, the lover of nature who ventures.
ing afterwards than the other performers; but there was among the hedges and fields to see how the wild flowers . ..
an evident inclination to a tumult very speedily, and get forward, is happily startled with the voice of thein
the latter acts assed in the midst of little better than . visible cuckoo, repeating at intervals its two fluty notes.
noise and dumb show. After the play, letters were The Greeks had songs also for the cuckoo; and now that
handed up to Mr. RAE, Mr. CARR, and to Mr. HARLEy, our days of poetry have returned, we too have a song for
but to little purpose of explanation, the papers dif it, as genuine as any of theirs:— . . . -

leting in expressing the sense of the house. At last O blithe new-comer! I have heard, .. - - -

a board was put forth fairly asking for permission to I hear thee and rejoice:
repeat the play—“Be pleased, to hear the play once O Cuckoo! shali I call thee bird,
more;” but this only produced a greater tumult. The Or but a wandering voice 3 - - s

farce was hurried over in dumb show; and we came away While I am lying on the grass, --
at twelve, leaving not above a fourth part of the pit pre Thy loud note smites my ear: - -

sent, so that nothing further could be done to collect From hill to hill it seems to pass,
At once far off and near !
what might be called the real, sense of the house.—
In fact, whether the play is repeated or not, it will The same which in my school-boy days -

hot be easy to decide upon the public sense of it, as far as I listened to ; that cry - -

regards itself; for if Mr. KEAN's friends may say that Which made me look a thousand ways; *

‘It bush, and tree, and sky.

the majority seemed to be against it, Mr, Bucke's may And I can listen to thee yet;
answer that with the exception of Mr. RAE's and Mrs. Can lie upon the plain
West's performance, it was wretchedly ačted; and how And listen, till I do beget -
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indeed could it be otherwise, considering what the majo That golden time again. Wondswortit. .
ſity of the Performers at this theatre are : , Here lies an
evil which is certainly now felt to be too.glaring, not to be April however is proverbial for its ſickleness. - All its
torrected !. may sometimes be retarded, sometimes blighted, ,
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y the return of frosty winds; and the agriculturist, the

C.4LENDAR OF NATURE. more exuberant the season is, thinks with greater anxiety
APRIL. of the next that depends upon it. The domestic cultivator
April is so called from the Latin Aprilis, which is de of flowers should still take particular care of them, Hardy
rived from the word Aperire; to open. The allusión is annuals may still be planted; anemone, ranunculus, and
obvious. April is the moist and budding month, nourished hyacinth roots, past flowering, should be taken up to be
with alternate rains and sunshine. Nature, after the less preserved; and utumnal flowering bulbs be taken up and
.. rigour of winter, seems to take delight; in transplanted. Shrubs on very time days may now be
tendering herself more evident in this operation than in any brought into the balconies, in order to refresh, the eyes
other. Winter rains and summer suns may appear to the with the sight of the spring-green; but the balconies sº odid
superficial observer to bring him bothing but cold and be defended from cutting winds. The more the light is
heat; but the watering the vegetation with light showers, seen through the leaves of plants, the finer and more vivid
then warming it, and Then watering it again, seem to shew they lºok, . They seem to shew the amber sunshine that
nourished them. - - a. * *
to our very eyes her “ own sweet hand,”. divested of -
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jis "cunning.” She dresses her plants visibly, like a lady * • HATTox-ºak pr:N.
at her window. -- - - - * * - - . . . . - Great Disrness—Mary Sullivan was examined on a charge of
...This is truly the spring and youthfulness of the year. robbing her furnished lºdging-. A pawnbroker attended, and
March was ſke an honest blustering servant, bringing home produced a blanket which he had taken in pledge for is.’ The
buds and flowers for his young mistress. April is she case of this poor woman was peculiarly distressing, as stated by
herself, issuing forth adorned with them. To these she two gentlemen, (Mr. Hall, of Old-street, and Mr. Fawcett, of
ºdds, of her own rearing, celumbines, jonquils, *lady. Hºxton-square.) who attended solely from motives of charity. ` - -

smocks, “all silver white,”hlies of the val . lyclinis, About 18 months back her husband’sold out 1,500m from the
ſumitory, alysson crétan, gentianellas, pulsatillas, inoth public funds, ºd shipped the prºduce of it, with other prºperty,’
ºn board the Zodiac, to proceed to America, wirh his wife and
hullein, orithogalun, saxifrage, stocks, and the large family. When they arrived at Liverpool the ship had sailed
timson parony, or piony, one of which is enough to give about two hours, and imciſigence soon after arrived that the
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Zodiac was lost. Tire lºbstad, having prospects in America, . On the 31st ult, the ſtev. i. W. Trevor, Vicar of Carnarvon,
obtained-grassage for that country; and his wife and children to Frances Althea, eldest daughter of Archdeacon Wollaston.
returned to London, in the hope of supporting tucºmselves until
On Friday, the 12th ult, at Westham, Essex, by Mr. Jones,
he could send for them; but no lºngs have been received. At Rector of that Parish, Mr. 11enry Bradshaw Fearon, of Loudou,
length an a single article was left in her possession to purchase to Miss Thompson, daughter of Samuel Thumpsou, Esq. of
a meal of bread for herself, a five girl, aged 16, who had been Plaistow, Essex ; when the following Protest against the Marriage
educated at a boarding-school," and a child about 2 years old. Ceremony was delivered (previous to its performance) intº the
with to prospect buſ death from starvation, not having tasted hands of the Minister by Mr. Fearon:—Pitorest.—to Mr. Jours
foed for 2 days, was this wretched woman and her family found (of the Parish of Westham. Essex), usually entitled the Rev.
by a clergyman residing in Somerstown, who afforded immediate Mr. Jones.--Tite undersigned being Protestant Disseuters, pre
relief, and through his means a subscription was commenced, by sent to you the following Protest against the Marriage Ceremony
which the woman and daughter were clothed, and support ** at present performed, and to which, according to the laws of
afforded for these few weeks past. Under the hope of placing England, they are compelled to subscribe. They disclaim allin
her in a school, by which she might support herselſ, her i. tention of acting disrespectfully either to the Legislature or to its
were active in collecting subscriptions, when this charge was Civil Officer, before whom º
stand; they lament that they
preferred, and the sufferings of the wretched womau were are placed in a situation so unnatural, as that even forbearance
further increased by Her being committed to prison. As the fact towards what they esteem an established error would be a ſor
was proved that she did pledge the blanket, though in the height mal recantation º opinions which they received on convictiºn,
of her distress to procure food, the magistrate was obliged to and which they can &nly renounce on similar grounds. Against
inflirt the penalty, which amounted to 26s. : this sum was paid by the Marriage Ceremony they most olemnly protest-Because it
her humane friends, to prevent lier being re-committed to prison makes Marriage a religious instead of a civil act:-Because parts
for a mouth. - - -

of the ceremony are highly indelicate, and most be to every cor

rectly constituted mind exiremely offensive:–Because the man is
--
Accidexts,—-
offewcks, &c.
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required to worship the woman, though the founder of Christ
anity has declared that God is the only object for the Christian
Gunter, the unfortunate maniac who dreadfully lacerated him. to worship :-Because it requires the recognition of the doctrine
self in the King's Bench prison last week, died of his wounds on of the Trinity, than which nothing can be more oppressive to
tho-e who disbelieve conscientiously, and after patient investiga
Monday, but death was accelerated by dreadful mental affliction. tion,
Öi, Sunday he became quite mad, previously to which he sent that doctrine, conceiving that the whole of Revelation fully
fºr two Clergythen, who attended, and to whoſt he gave a sanctions their joining the Apostle Paul in declaring, that “To
lamentable story of his depraved cºnduct. He last resided in us there is but one God and one Mediator between God and men,
Red Lion-square, and passed as a merchart. (ºn Tuesday al the man Christ Jesus:”—Because, as Christians and Protestant
inquest was taken on the body. Verdict-Lied by the visitation “Dissenters, it is impossible that they can sanction the interference
of God. - - of any human institution with matters whicl, concern their faith
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Tuesday night the neighbourhood of Mill-pond-street, Dock and consciences:–Because, as knowing nothing of a Priesthºod
head, was alarmed by loud screams of “ R. from the in Christianity, the submission to a ceremony performed by:
apartments of an Irishman, named Lacey, at the house of Mr. person in “holy orders or pretended holy orders” is paiufolan
Shears, shocumaker. It was known that Lacey often beat bis wife humiliating to their feelings:-Because, as warm and firm be
cruelly. Mrs. Shears went up stairs, and found the poºr woman lievers in the truth of Christianity, they disbelieve aud, abomi
on the floor, weltering in her blood, her husband stauding over nate the doctrine of the Trinity, in the name of which the Mºr
her with a heavy iron instrument, with which fie liad beat her riage Ceremony is performed:-And because, as servants of Jº
over the inead till she was insensible. Two ºurgeons immediately sus, they worship the one living and true Gºd, his Gºd and their
attended, and applied proper remedies, and their scut her to the od, his Father and their Fºther.—March 12, 1819.--(signed)
hospital. Lacey locked his door and did not come out all the iv. B. Feawos, Jonasra Thostesos, Members of the Church ºf
evening. . During the night unusual moises were heard in the God, meeting at the Crescent, Jewin-street, Lºndon.--The Pate
room, and about hatſ past five in the morning, ode of ſhe lodgers of the ceremony omitted by the Minister upon this occasion **
discovered that 'Lacey's rcoºn was on fire, and the house filled the chief of the introduction, which is peculiarly indelica"; tº
with smoke. He gave an alarm, and the dºor was burst open. the º wholetheof ring on the Bible;
the blessings the kneeling
and prayers of the4Priest
the sileſiº
after the
The fire was extinguished, but not before it had burnt the room
and ºf the furniture. Lacey was found stretched on a pattiassé, words, “I pronounce them to be man àod wife, in the name ºf
in a conner of the room, with his throat cut from ear to ear. A the father, the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." - -

Targe rusty clasp knife lay near him on the floor, and there was
a candle ºunder the bed. * . . .. . . DEATHs.... . . . . . . . .
- Taesday maining, a perſy of Gentlemen, consisting of Mr. J. At Paris, on the 24th ult, in the #0th year of her age, Eº:
Pes n- º the firm of Messrs. Clifderaud Co., tº: bett, Coastess of ſucan, youngest daughter of the late Fº
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Smithfield, Mr. H. Childer, jun., and another, set out, about Fauconberg. , r. :
on the ºth ult, in Eaton-street, Pimlico, in the 35th year'ſ º
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ºwelve o'clock, from Wapping, in a sailing bput. . On their

firrival in Long Reach, about the middle of the thames, a sud his age, Mr. Anwyll. He had not been married above a for"
'den gºist of wind twisted the sºil on the contrary-side of the boat, night. - --

which overturned it; and the whole of the party were thrown On the 283 ult, at Hesley-hall, in the county of Nottingham, .
ºnto the water.—They clung to the sides of the boat for a length Anna Main, the wiſe of George Greaves, Esq. of Kingston”
of time... Mr. Childer was obliged, at length, to let go, and sunk Berkshire, aged 27.
on Tuesday .
afternoon, at his house in Couduit-street, Sir
to rive no more, Mr. Pesmau and the waterman kept their hold,
hanging im, the water for near an hour and a haſ after Mr. Chil walter Farquhar, Bart. in the 81st year of his age.
der was drowned, when the boat began to drift towards the shore. *On the ºth uit., in the 66th year of her age, Dowag”
The waterman, then endeavoured to gain the shore, and suc | Marchioness Townshend, of Rainham Hall, Norfolk:
ceeded in saving Mr. Pesman. A Perºn, on the 19th ult, aged 62, Mr. Walter Miller, ºft”t
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place, merchant. He was one of the most zealous. Parºº
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reform in Scotland, in the early part of the war against Republi.

* - ". BiRTHS. -
can france, and was arrested at the same time with M*
o, rºday last, of a girl, the wiſé of Mr. Webster, Upper Bel Gerald, Fyscle Palmer, and other sufferers in the cause.
gºve-place, Pimlico. -
On tile 37th ult., at Chilcombe, near Bidport, Dorse!, aged
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on #. , the wife of a labouring man of the name of Jo 80, Jºhw-Strome, Esq.. He was (says our Correspondent)*
- *eph Rrachidson, of Coaksey, near Bromsgrove, of four girls. hospitable, liberal in his opinions, generous in all his dealing
They are all likely to live, and the mother is going on well º the zealous in the services of others, with a heart ever ready”
poor man's
addition wages
to the are 10s. per week;• he . has three children in hand ever open to relieve distress. His death will be sincerely
above.
lamented by his affectiºnate family, his friends, and **
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class of poor, to whom he was a kind and fiberalbenefactor.
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bathe 30th ult, at Little Bookham, Surrey, John Haviland,

F-q. Mt., to Louisa, youngest daughter of the late Rev. George Pianº adºlined by Jon Husr, at the Exºve"
Foſen, of Little Böckham, .. .. . -

tº Catherine Sirect, Strand–Pºise 104. -

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the politicAL ExAMINER, dependence which still influence their more consistent
brethren, they were satisfied with seeing the French hun
Party is the madness of many for th. gain of a few. Pors.
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bled and themselves personally flattered; and the people
º
whom they had helped to fill with enthusiasm for the pro
No. 574. gress of light and liberty, saw them, with indignation and
astonishment, turning scribes and servants to despotism,
ASSASSINATION OF KOTZEBUE.
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and concentering their diminished rays even in foreign-or
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ders and appointments. It almost seemed as if their ob

Tue extracts from the foreign papers contain further and ject was to sport with the public mind, and to twist it as
more particular accounts of this extraordinary business. It they pleased;—to say to it, We have argued you into
seems beyond a doubt that the assassin is dead. It appears one side of the question, and got fame:—we will now
certain that he was a morbidenthusiast, whose brain had been argue you into the other, and get money. But they had
'heated with politics. The slips of paper found upon his per shewn it it's strength too well. - *

son, his triumphant exclamations after the deed, the inscrip . Now imagine among the multitude of German students,
tion which he held up together with his poniard, his thanks one of a vehement turn of mind, rendered more excitable
to God, his suicide, and above all, the singular and ghastly by disease. . He broods over this state of his country. He
notbn he had got in his head of a daemon's inhabiting has read and treasured up in his memory the former writ
Korzeuve's body, and giving his expeller a horrible grin ings of these men, encouraging him to all sorts of enthu
at parting, all this shews him to have been a fanatic siastic, absorbing, and devoting ideas. He hears one ºf
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amounting to the madman. - - these very men denounced as a traitor and a spy. He
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Our readers may easily conceive the circumstances, po sees him actually in the service of an overgrown foreign
litical and personal, that led such a person to the commis despotism, a most suspicious situation undoubtedly. He
ision of such a deed. They know the great ferment which reads of a correspondence' which transpires between this
there’s in Gerinany on political matters. The Germans renegade German and his master, and which contains the
had a main band in freeing Europe from that ambitious most servile and arbitrary opinions. He is of a morbid
domination of Bonaparts, which the Sovereigns had so temperament, with a tendency to be haunted with gloomy
ºnealed, flattered, hated, and striven against in vain. ſancies... His fancies gradually condense into one occupy
They were promiised constitutional freedom if they would ing, intolerable thouglit, with a vein of madness on it. He
. . ſee the ºld despots from the new. They did so; and is young and simple, and instead of going to his physician
the promises have been, for the most part, broken. But or to his amusements, mistakes his madness for the height
the Germans bear them in mind with an intense feeling of of reason. His brain is pressed and confused with thoughts
resentinent audimpatience. Even the military, the Prus of BRUrus, the Bible, VIRGIL, Luther, and German :
sºns not excepted, after revenging themselves in turn upon stories. A demon, has got possession of the animated
France, are understood to have been drawn away from corpse of M. Kotzebue, and it must be driven out,
the late occupation of that country with less unwillingness fugiens indignata sub umbras. He travels accordingly to .
on the part of their masters, from having become “in find him, increasing his ſever and his love of martyrdom
ſected,” as the phrase is, with jacobinical notions. In all the way;-and thus you have the whole secret of a
cher words, they got notions of the preference of the catastrophe, which is quite as fit for the Medical Journals
many to the few. The Gerulan university students.in as for any others, - 1 . "
particular, many of whom were among the most enthusi-. The reader, knows our opinion of assassination. We
asic of the patriot levies, returned with a zeal for freedom have often expressed it. We look upon it under it's worst
redoubled by success in it's cause. The delay of their ſeatures as a thing diabolical, and under it's best and
promised liberties called forth their demands under a-va 'rarest as one of those ſeverish mistakes which never can
ſiety of shapes, some respectful, some at last violent and supply the want of a proper elementary reform in the
insurrectionary. There are still occasional tumults re nature of governments and society. There is a wide
sulting from this spirit. In Prussia itself, the constitution. difference assuredly between. Pompey's assassin, and
has been demanded from the pulpit. It has also been C.EsaR's, between JAMEs CleMent and CuARLortz
directly petitioned for from the King, who returned a Compe. But as we are aware of such differences, and as
weak and angry answer, that shewed at once his inability we have always allowed to every species of human infir
to deny it, and his disiaclination to grant. mity the excuses which circumstances can make for it, we
What has rendered the almost universal feeling on this are not to be talked by the canting partizans of Inquisi
subject still more angry of late, is, that some of those very tions and Infernal Machines, into a notion, that this in *

ºn of letters who were the most ardent in encouraging same youth from a German university is as great a villain.
the spirit of hlerty against French despotism, have become as ever stabbed, "No, no. . The fate...of M. Katzebue is . ,
ºters to their first principles, or rather have shewn the pitiable, we allow, although he was a renegado and a spy;... ... .
*I'y and caprice that always actuated them. Mistaking but so is that of the victim of his tergiversation and of the
*ir own egotism for the philosophy and real love of in. *broken promises of kings, although he was an assassin,
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It is naturally suppºsed by many that Ffesny SAND F BONAPARTE.
(for such appears to have been his name) was a member (From a Portsmouth paper.) -

of one of those secret societies, which were formerly en On Tuesday week arrived the Trincomalee, new frigate, Capt.
couraged when French despotism was to be opposed, but on Bridges, from Bombay, last from St. Helena, whence she sailed
the 30th of January. By her came passenger, Mr. Stokee, .
have since been regarded with dislike because they are surgeon of the Conqueror, and latterly the medical attendent on
thought to oppose all despotisin. It is very probable, the person of Bonaparte. The cause of the sudden return of this
especially if the threat is true which he is said to have officer to England is stated in the following letter:—
“ St., Helena, Jan. 29, 1819.
thrown out against all that resemble Koraesoe. Other -

“There has been no occurrence here of any interest to our

parts of the account however seein as if he had been the friends at home for some time; all has been ns vapid and
only person in the secret; and his turn of unind is sufficient monotonous as the harbour duty on a home station, only with
to have acted upon it's own inpulse, But no doubt, this far greater privation-, - But at length, a buz has been created—
Mr. Stokoe, the surgeon of the flag-ship, whom Bonaparte ee
supposition will be much insisted upon, and turned to as cepted as his medical attendant, after the return home of Mr.
great account as possible against the German Liberals, O'Meara, has incurred the displeasure of the Governor, and
returns to England itſ the Trincomalee. The facts are.
who will all be ageused of resembling this deceased young understand:—When Mr. Stokoe cousented to succeed Mr.
Iran, not indeed in his disease, but in his wickedness. O'Meara, and before he had made any visit to Bonaparte, he
Already, we see, “it is fºred, that the Emperor of made it the sine qua non of his accepting the situation, with Sir
Russia, already much displeased with the Ultra-Liberals #Ind-on Lowe, that he should not be required to detail any
familiar conversations into which he might be drawn, ºr eny
of Germany, may demand from the governments of the circumstances which he might overhear at Longwood; tıut
country new measures against Anarchical Association.” pledging himself, as a British officer, that if any thing should
Anarchical Associations! come to his knowledge in which his allegiance to his King and
Oh yes, the old Anti-Gallican country would be compromised by his :*: he would then
Associations are manifestly Anarchical, now that a morbid instantly give information to the Governor. This has passed ºn
young man has been driven mad by the wrongs of his until a º days since, when Bonaparte was suddenly seized with
country. What an Ultra-Liberal means in the opinion of serious illness, in the middle of the night. Mr. Stokoe, as soon
an Autocrat, is easily understood. It means any body as the necessary, forms were gone, through, visited him, and
found that he had had a slight apoplectic fit. After a few hours
who sees farther than the admirers of the IJoly Alliance, he appeared free from the attack, but it had left a eonsiderable
and thinks that kings ought to keep their promises. If degree of indispositien. Mr. Stokoe made official reports of the
circumstances to Sir Hudson Lowe and the Admiral (Plampiºn),
any thing can tend to make the Ultras more firm in their aud gave copies of them to Bonaparte. Whether it was this
opiaions, we trust it will be this most disgraceful threat,latter circumstance, or whether Mr. S. had represented Bonaparte
which holds ont to all Germany the fearful consequences :as being in a worse state of health than suited the predispºsed
motions of Sir Hudson, is not known; but he was iustautly forbid
of the anger of one man,-and that man a foreigner and a to go to Longwood—was threatened to be tried by a Court
ninny. Why, -what was it that allowed these Associa martial—or, as an act of mitigation of his offence, lie was to'd he
tions to exist : The pretended encouragement of a love of might invalid home. Of course he preferred the latter, as the
least incommodious to him, and he sails to-morrow in the
freedom. And what is it that keeps them existing, if they Trincomalee. The reports were drawn up, of course, with
do? The pretence found out. conscientious accuracy; and were such as the case demanded.
One would think, from this pretended horror of one I understand Bonaparte is really in a serious state of health. His
assassination, perpetrated at least in a spirit of self-devoted. dwelling is sealed against all visiters.”
ness, that almost all the assassinations in the world had not Dr. Stokoe came to England from St. Helena, in consequence
of a difference of opinion between him and Sir Hudson Lowe, as
beca on the side of established power, regal or religious! to his duty respecting the reports of couversations had with
One would think that there had been no such things as the Bonaparte. This gentleman, we understand, was on Tuesday
princely poisonings in Italy, the priestly torturings in Spain, examined by ministers, and the result has been, that he is in
the wholesale massacres in France, and the special court mediately to resume his functions at St. Helena. The inference
assassinations in Russia, the memory of which it would from this is, that his conduct has been fully approved of. We
understand that it had been required of him to report every
be as well not to disturb;-to say nothing of Infernal | word communicated by Bonaparte, even in confidence, and that
Machines, the famous anathema against Bonaparte, and whether it could have any relation to the political condition of
the prisoner or not; and that he had refused to accede to this
the agitimate mission of M. De MAUBRepui, whose late requisition of Sir Hudson Lowe.—Evening paper. --
extraordinary publication we are now going through.
We need not say anything of the writings of the late FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
unfortunate Aulic Councillor. The amount of his talent
is well known and appreciated in this country. He at-l.
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FRANCE.
tained to a kind of bad political eminence as the servant of Paſus, APRIL 2.-We receive daily very curious de
a foreign despot, whose father once sent him to Siberia; tails relative to the assassination of M. de Kötzebue. All
but neither in Germany nor elsewhere, is his literature re agree as to the sort of fanaticism which was the cause of
it... The following is an extract of a letter written on the
garded as of a rank equal to its motoriety. It had let it. H26th March; it contains very positive facts, which leave
self loose from old principles, rather than obtained new no longer any doubts on the subject:— -

omer; and was of a very vain, talking, and affected cast. “On the 18th of March last, the students of ‘Eranged as
See his Strºnger, Pizarre, and his Travels in Italy. He sembled in a house of recreation, situated without the town, and
appears to have understood little else but dramatic effect. deliberated, with closed doors, upon the fate to which th
Even the selection of such a map for assassination throws should subject M. de Kotzebue for having attacked the licentious
, mess which existed in the Universities, and the novel doctºries
an additional air of absurdity and madness over the per which, since the events of Wartbourg and Gottingen, have made
Petrator, so much progress amongst the youth of Germany. At this secret
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meeting the death of the writer, whose remarks they so much
ºr * dreaded, was cou"Fired; the students who pronourced the
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horrid sentence then cast dice for one who should be charged to hearing the ladies exclaim from the windows—“There is
execute it. Chance at first designated five, who threw between the assassin!” he returned, cast a wild look towards them,
thèmselves until the lot fell upon one; it was the young Sand, and liſting up the poniard with one hand, and a piece of
son of a judicial counsellor, born at wuldºgs, in Saxony, on paper in the other, exclaimed—“Yes, I am the mtirderer!
the borders of Lower Bohemia, who found himself charged with
what they called, in true revolutionary style, the nuateriel of the It is thus that all traitors ought to perish '" On the paper
crime. Sand set off post from Erlangen on the 21st of March, was written, “The death-blow of Augustus de Kotzebue,
aud, arrived at Munbeilu on the 23d, at seven o'clock in the in the name of virtue!” He then knelt down amidst the
morning: he took a bath, breakſasted at the table'd kote, visited the assºpmblage, which increased ºvery moment, and raising
magnificent church, the castle, and the promenades. At 4 o'clock his fiands and eyes to Heaven, he exclaimed, in an inspired
he called upon M. de Kotzebue, who was dressing himself to re tone, “God, I thank thee, for having permitted me to ac
ceive company. The valet-de-chambre told him that his master
could not be seen. “Inform him, (said Saud), that a deputy from complish this act!”. After this, he opened his bosom,
the Mºses of Erlangan is come to visit him.” M. de Kotzebue plunged the poniard in his heart, and fell without any signs
of life. Having recovered the use of his senses in the
begged him to wait, and gave orders to serve him with coffee,
&c., and sent him a pipe filled with Virginia tobacco. Kotzebue, hospital to which he was conveyed, he only spoke of the
when outy half dressed, caused this pretended deputy of the Muses assassination with a kind of exstacy:—“He is then dead,”
to be introduced, went to meet him at the door, received him he explaimed, “that lºussian spy!". It was a daemon of
with distinction, took from him a paper which he presented to Hell that inhabited the body of Kotzebue; it would not
him, and whilst he was perusiug it, ſell, pierced with a stiletto. uit him; he gave me a terrible grin at parting.”—All
The billet contained the following sentence: “Seutence of death . circumstances now indicate that the assassin was one
pronounced ºn the 18th of March, by the University of Erlangen,
and carried into execution on the 231 of March, by the present of the highest Qrder of the Illuminati, and that he
bearer; Sand having seen his victim fall, went tranquilly out had meditated the crime for a long time. past. His
of the house; and scarcely was he in the strºet, when he stopped, father is a respectable man, and has a large family. This
and lifting up his hands to Heaven, exclaimed several times— assassination will perhaps, lead to very serious political
GFus cºnsummatum est! and plunged the poniard twice in his own consequences. It is feared that the Emperor of Russia,
breast. There was found upon a large blue riband this device who is already very much irritated against the Ultra
Vita et Mors. . He was taken to the civil hospital, and two liberaur of Germany, will require from the Governments
sentinels posted at his bed. This event, it is said, will be followed
new measures against anarchical associations.
by very important cºnsequences, and may lead to eoufessions of
the highest interest.” -
PRUSSIA. -

Apart 3–The assassin of M. de Kotzebue, Henry Jesa, March, 26.-This forenoon a letter was received
Ralph Sand, died at Manheim in the night of the 25th from Manheim to the Procurator, with the news that M.
and 26th ult., of the several wounds which he had inflicted Augustus Von Kotzebue had been murdered in his cham
upon himself. The lungs, which were pierced by the her, and not far from him a student, expiring, who was
stabs, were in a state of mortification, and it was therefore found to be Sandt, from Bavaria, student of theology at
impºssible to prelong the life of the murderer, to endeavour Jena. The Senate immediately caused Sandt's room to
to obtaia from him any confessions, . . be opened, and found, among other things, a letter to a
-

- GERMANY. student of this place, which he was to read to the students.

The Procurator broke it open. Sandt declares in it “that
FRANKFont, Manch 30.—The assassin of M. de Kot he felt indeed that it was dreadful to murder a man, but
zebue died yesterday, without having made any confession, that he could not possibly longer withstand the voice
constantly persisting that he had no accomplices. . There within him, which incessantly urged him to destroy the
were found upon him many papers filled with reflections betrayer of his country: that he had long brooded over
on the country, kumanity, and liberty; in these he styles
his victim the slave of Kings, and a Russian spy: he said, this plan, which originated with himself, and would now
that all the partisans of M. de Kotzebue ought to perish procłed to the execution of it: that they should not be
uneasy about hiºn, for that he knew a safe place to which
in a similar way.—Very inaccurate details have been cir he could escape.” *-
culated relative to the circumstances of the assassination. -

He presented himself about five o'clock at the residence of

M. de Kotzebue, and some ladies coming up to the door provincial-- INTELLIGENCE. -

at which he had just knocked, he let them enter before him. - -

The servant showed him into a room, where M. de Kotze lawMainstone.—On Thursday week, the awful sentel.ce of the
was executed on James Morgan, aged 39, and Wm. Bºwra,
bue shortly joined him. It does not appear true that he aged 19, both º convicted at the late Kent Assizes: Mor
proposed a duel to M. de Kotzebue, or that he read his gan for stealing to sheep, and Bowra for a highway robbery.
senience of death, written on a shett of paper. He must Morgan was the first to ascend the platform. He walked up tie
have struck bis, victim at the very instant that he ap board from the waggon with a tirth step and a resigned arr.
proached towards him; for scarcely had M. de Kotzebue while the dreadful preparations were performing for Morgau,
entered the room, when the servant heard a loud shriek, Bowra sat in the waggon, a most pitiable object. 119 was alº.ost
and a noise of something which fell; he entered, and saw overwhelmed with the horror of his situation. At length, with ,
weak and treubling step, be ascended the scaffold... Tsey view
his master and the student stretchºd on the floor.—It ap shook hands with each other, and prayed very ſerveatly.—After
pears that the assassin, on M. de Kotzebue's entering, had the criminals had hung some time, the usual disgusting sceni:
immediately stabbed him with a poniard, which pene took place of persons afflicted with wens applying to the execu
trated his heart; that having been dragged to the floor }.
tioner for the purpose of haviºgº the awellings rubbed with a
M. de Kotzebue, he stabbed him a second time throught hand of the declased. On this accasion, , many persons of bºttº
the lungs; a wound was likewise reçetved in his face. sexes, and of various ages, tituderwent the operatiou. One de
The º, ran to the room, opened the windows, and cent pretty-looking girl, about 17 years of age, presented herself ,
called for help. Miss Emily Kotzebue, with the agsistance at the moment when the body of Morgan was about tº be cut
of the servants, bore the body of her father to an adjoining down, and she actually got upon his cotfix to stand sufcently
high for the hand of the corpse to be drawu-several tºes ove,
apartment, where he expired a few minutes afterwards. her neck. -

The assassin rose up with a composed air, and flourishing At the Stafford Assizes a cause was brought on at tº suit ºf
the blo poinard, he descended the door steps, exclaim: the apothecaries' campany against the sou of a man, whº fº
ing—“The traitor is dead! the country, is saved long ł been originally a gardener, but who had dong exercised tº busi
live Germany" A crowd had assembled in front of the 1 ness of a cow-leech aud quack doctor; the Hou claiming a rººt of
house; he violently forced his way through them; but ! following the profession of an apothecary, through, having
22s, THE EXAMINER.
*tudied under his renowned father. In cross-examination the a day be taken into consideration to-morrow for the purpose o'
father was asked if he had always been a surgeon The witness being suspended. - - - - -

*ppealed to the Judge if this was a proper answer, and whether Earl Grºy expressed his surprise at this motion, as well as st
he mºst reply to it; and at last suit, " i amº Surgent.” Mr., the extraordinary communication just read. What were the
Pºuncey asked h m to spell this word, which he did at several House to think of the prudence of those who had originated their
**; viz. “Syurgunt,” “Surgend,” “ Surgunt,” “ sergund.”.
Mr. Dauncey smid, “I am afraiſi, sir, you do not oſten take so partial-payment-, when they were now told that such payments'
"much time to study the cases which come before you as you do to
retarded the complete restoration of the metalſie currency? After
fixing various periods, ever since the first restriction, for the re
**wer my question.”—“I do not, Sir.” Witness said, he sever sumption of cash payments, and as often putting off the promised
**ployed himself as a gardener, but was a farmer till he learnt measure, Ministers had this sessiou proposed inquiry into the
his Pºsent lºsiness. Mr. Dauncey said, “who did you learn state of the Bank, with the understanding, that such inquiry
it of "-" I learnt it of Dr. Holme, my brother-in-law ; he prac would terminate, in the bringing forward some proposition tº
tised the same as the Whitworth doctors, and they were regular aceelerate the desired object. But they had hitherto experienced
physicianº". Mr. Dauncey, “where did they take their de nothing but disappointment. Did the conduct of Ministers pro
grees #" Witness, “I don't’t believe they ever took a degree.” ceed from not being able to comprehend what they ought to de
“Then were they regular physicians?”—“No! I believe they or from a combination to cheat the public -The measure co
were not, they were only doctºrs.” “ Only doctors! were they templated could only be recommended on the supposition that."
doctors in law, physic, or divinity #"—“ They doctered cows and
other things, and humans as well.” “Did you ever make up any the Bank was nºt able to pay the notes issued previousy to the
year 1817, though they have of their own accord promised so to
medicine by the prescription of a physician?”—“Never.” “Do do. The proposition could only be justified on one ground,
Yºu understand the characters they use for ounces, scruples, and namely, that the Bank was in so desperate a state, that unle's
drachms ?” “I do not.”—“Then you cannot make up their Parliament interfered in a summary and irregular manner, in
prescriptions from reading them "-" I cannot, kut I can make mediate ruin must ensue. Was it reasonable at this time to call.
"p as gºod medicines in my way, as they can in theirs.” “What upon their Lordships to place confidence in the measures of the
Prºpºrtion does an ounce bear to a pound P'_[A pause.]— Bank, and the Ministers who have already so grossly abused the
“There are sixteen ounces to the pound, but we do not go by public? It was proposed to revoke that measure to which the
tºy regular weight, we mix ours by the hand.” “ D& you Bank had resorted as a gradual approximation to the system ºf
bleed?”—“Yes.” “With a fleam or with a ſancel — with , cash payments. How was it possible to suppose it necessary tº
langet.” “Do you bleed from the vein or from the artery " suspend this measure of safety, with a view to attain the very
... Frºm the vein”. “There is an artery somewhere about the object its operation was to accelerate? Ministers had boasted of
*Ples; what is the name of that artery.” “I do not pretend the ability of the Bank and the prudence of its measure", but
to have so much learning as seme have.”’ “Can you tell me the they now came forward to deny the one and condemn the other.
name of that artery f"—“I do not know which you mean.” On the ground of the toual want of information in support of the
“Suppose then I was to direc: you to bleed-my servant, or my extraordinary proposition now made, he entered his solemn pro
horse (which God forbid!) in a vein, say, for instance, in the test against it. iſ the object were a proper one, there wº
ingular vein, where should you bleed him?”—“ in the neck, to another mode by which it could be attained, namely, that adopted
be sure.”—Verdict for the plaintiffs—Damages, 20t. in 1797, when Ministers, ou their own responsibility, suspended
A Dr. John Bird (of the quack fraternity) was publicly flogged, cash payments, by an Order of Council. Ministers; hºwever,
*Saturday week, opposite the Court House at Leeds, fºr aºan. always appeared desirous of interposing a vote of Parliaº
dy!ous fraud. An industrious couple of that town, whose son was between them and their constitutional responsibility. This
*uſºring in the last stage of a consumption, was induced to apply
to the doctor, who assured them that the young man, was not in
practice tended to introduce a novel and pernicious principle. ,
a gecline, but was labouring under the effects of witchcraft, from
The Earl of HARRowby observed, that the arguments of the
Noble Earl were founded on the assumption that the propositiºn
which he could readily free him, if he was first paid 30s. for his in the Report originated with his Majesty's Ministers. .Now he
ºnçantations, 6s. for two bottles of physic, and 34 for the heart of had presented the Report simply as chairman of the Committee,
a black hen. The poor creatures, with the greatest difficulty, not as a Minister of the Crºwn; and therefore his Lordship” ºf
raised the money, the doctor commenced his operations, and marks were inapplicable to the motion before the House. Tº
obtained “everal other sums of money from time to time. At was a great distinction between the course pursued in 1791;
length it was evident that the poor ſº. could not exist many when cash payments were restrained by Order in Council, and
*Y*!onger. Even the learned doctor said he knew he would die, the course which ought to be now adopted. Parliament was"
and that if he departed this life with the spell on him, he would sitting at the former period, and the Order in Council was"
Inost assuredly go to hell, º: that if they would procure him 31. matter of necessity; but what would be thought of such a prº
he could charm away the spell, and assure him of reaſe reception ceeding while Parliament was not only sittiug, but actually *
in, Heaven. This was too much: the poor folk, having mentioned vestigating the matter? . . * -- - - -- -

all the circumstauces to some more intelligent neighbours, they The Earl of Lauderdale expressed his dissent from the prº
caused the doctor to be apprehended, and he was sentenced to: posed measure, although as one of the Committee, he was bound
be Publicly and severely flogged, which sentence was executed by his oath of secrecy not to state the grounds of that dissent.
!" the great satisfaction of many thousands. The doctor had Lord Holland remarked, that the Noble Earl (Harrowby)
bitherto lived in apparent respectability in Leeds; and such was was bound to have given due notice of his intention of mºvº
his fame,
of the that patients contiuually flocked to him from all parts the suspension of the standing orders, in order that the ilº
country. t -

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might be summoned to corsider the motion on a previºus dº;
as well as to explain the grounds of his proposition. He cou"
-say nothing on the merits of the question, as he could not know
UNITED" PAR LIAMENT. on what ground the measure was proposed. Neither Mini*
nor the Committee could tell them anything of their reason".
HOUSE OF LORDS. They said that it was aecessary; why did they not act then tº
- ' their own
serted that responsibility,
that course wasas innot-adopted
1797. Theduring
Noblethe
Earthºds".
sitting ut
Monday, April 5. . Parliament; now the fact was, the Order of Council for *
BANK RESTRicrion COMMITTEE. pending cash payments was issued on a Saturday, and Parº.
The Earl of Hanhowev laid on the table a Rºport from the ment sat either ou the Monday or Tuesday, following;
there was
Bank Committee, which was read.—it stated, that, in conse therefore no difficulty in following this example. It was ce;
ºtence of having for nd that there was a great drain upon the tainly impossible for Parliament to know whether the proposed
Bank, occasioned by the payinent of notes of a certain date, the measure was necessary or not. It followed, that if the measure
Committee recommended tº the 11ouse to suspend immediately could not be adopted by others, who were convinced of, it ".
by legislative enactments ſuch partial payments, as they consi. cessity, that by them it ought not to be adopted. Why"
dered them as rather calculated to impede than to assist the re
Parliament this called on to make laws blindfold: For the “
sumption of cash payinents. The Committee also Legged the
House to allow thrm 'rine to prepare a full report of the whole
reascus, he protested ngainst the proposivion. :
The Earſ of Liverpool maintained, that the Governm"
result of their inquiries.
Lord HARRowev then moved, that the standing orders of the would have been censured as unconstitutional, had they fºllº"
the course adopted in 1797. At that time Ministers, being?"
House against tlie passing a Bill through more thaw one stage in formed of the situation of the Bank, had acted on their respon.
*
 the ExAMINER. _

sibility and trusted to Parliament ſo sanction their proceedings. BANK RESTRICTION COMMITTEE.
But now the House was prosecuting an enquiry, and its Cem Mr. PEEL presented the Report of the Secret Committee,
mittee had reported that a preliminary measure was necessary. which was to the same effect as that of the Lords, except that it
Ministers could know nothing of that. . It would have been most expressed their “confident hope” of devising a plan for the re
irregular and unconstitutional for the Comunittee to have com sumption of cash payments at no very distant period. -

municated with them, and they could not do any thing without Mr. Peel then moved for leave to bring in a Bill to restrain
information. In 1797, Mr. Fox declared that Ministers should the Bank from paying, notes under 5l. It would be seen from
not have restrained cash payments without the sanction of Parlia the accounts on the table, that the Bank had issued 5,200,000
ment; but for his own part he thought the Crown at that time sovereigns since 1816, without any good to the nation. Indeed,
the only competent authority, because Parliament was totally un he thought it might have been foreseen that unless the issue had
acquainted with the state of the Bank. -
been accompanied by a simultaneous reduction of notes, the gold
The Marquis of LANspown thought the motion quite regular. would find its way to where there was a greater demand for it.
lie wished it to be understood, that the present proposition had (Heart) This Bill would only be in force till the end of the
no reference to any principle of necessity arising out of the Session; and by that time the #. would have taken its men
situation of the º, or to any call for it by that body. sures on this subject. When the restriction was removed, the
Earl Gary asked what objection there could be to wait until Bank would need a large sum in cash,_a sum much larger than
result of the investigations of the Comunittee could be known they at present possessed; to diminish that sum was therefore
t was true, that Mr. Fox had said that he would not have joined manifestly to postpone the period for the termination of the re
in such a measure as that of the restriction without first obtain striction. He was convinced that the restoration of a metallic
ing tha sanction of Parliament: but he never said that he would currency would not be attended with the inconveniences appre
apply for that sanction before any inquiry had taken place. He hended by many persons. He hoped the House would allow the
moved an adjournment. -
Bill to pnºs in one day. - -

This notion was negatived and the original one carried.— Mr. Brough AM said, that they were called upon, without any
Adjourned. - -
discussion, to pass a measure, founded only on the partial know
- -

Tuesday, April 6. ledge acquired by the Right Hon. Gentleman from his connexion
Mr. Peel brought from the Commons the Bill for preventing with the Committee. The Learned Gentleman urged the same
+he payment of certain small notes by the Bank.-It was read a arguments respecting the precedent of 1797, as Earl Grey had
first time. - - done in the Upper llouse. (See Lords—Monday). If the Bank
The Earl of HARRowev stated the object of this Bill, which had only issued five millions of gold in two or three years, what
was to prevent a drawing of specie from the Bank, which might therewas to fear from the issue continuing for a few days: Why was
retard the complete resumption of cash payments. He moved Bank any occasiºn for such haste? A communication from the
had been the ground of the Order in Council in 1797; and
the suspension of the standing order, in order that the Bill might
be forth with passed. -
if Ministers had founded an Order in Council now on the Report
- -

Earl Grey considered this measure a renunciation of the sys of the Committee, he could see no real difference between the
tem of finnnce hitherto pursued .
Ministers and the Bank. two cases, except that Mr. Pitt's information came from certain
The Earl of Liverpool would pledge himself, when the gene gentlemen as Bank Directors, and that of the Right Hon. Gentle
ral discussion took place, to prove that this measure did not at man from the same men as members of the Cornmittee.
Lord CastleReagm defended the present mode of proceding, on
-

all contradict the principles that the Government had formerly

aeted on. " .. the ground of the difference between the circumstances of the
- * -

- The Marquis of Lasspown supported the Bill, because he period when the restriction was first imposed and the present
knew that the majority of the Committee were disposed to re time. The necessity of suspending the standing orders arose
from the circumstance of the ºf ºf
payment of the quar
commend some means for the final return to specie payments,
and this measure was necessary to facilitate that return." This terly dividends by the Bank, when all the fractional payments'
was a vote of confidence, to which he thought the Committee would be made in gold, unless this Bill passed directly. Ile ad
were entitled. ' - .. - mitted, that this partial resumption of cash payments had not
~

The motion was then agreed to, and the Bill read a first and turned out favourably, the exchanges, which were at the con
second time.—The House then adjourned for about half an hour, mencement of the plan expected to alter, having continued
and when it agai'i met, the royal assent was given by commission against us. -

Mr. TIERNEY remarked, that people considered certain notes

- -

to the Bill.—Adjourned.
valuable because the Bank had promised, and Parliament had
- Wednesday, April 7. sanctioned that promise, to pay them in specie; and this Bill was
The Earl of Liverpool moved that the standing orders be therefore a violation of good faith. The drain had continued
taken into consideration to-morrow, for the purpose of being since July twelvemonths and the Directors had continued it witle
suspended, in order that the Bank of Ireland Restriction Bill their eyes open. He did not know when they had taken the
(which was brought from the Commous) should be passed at atarm; he believed not before twelve o'clock that morning (“No”
ouce.—Adjourned. - from the Treasury bench); at any rate nothing was heard about it
on Saturday. If this drain on the Bank should continue, when
- Thursday, April 8. -

the period of resuming cash payments arrived, the demand upou

- The Irish Bank Restriction Bill passed through all its stages, the Bank must be diminished precisely to the extent of the pre
and the royal assent was given to it by Conmission.—The House vious drain. The only effect of the proposed Bill would be to
then adjourned to this day fortaight. save a little expense to the Bank. The difference between hold
ing the fractional notes and the gold which must be given for
them, was the difference between Sl. 17s.6d. and 41.1s. This
HIOUSE OF COMMONS. was very insignificant to the Bauk: . But if the Bank chose with
--º-> the one hand to issue gold, and with the other hand paper, they
Monday, April 5. - ought to pay for their own folly, and the payment, after alſ,
Two Petitions were presented against the London Clergy Act would be but very small. There was no occasion for being in
from Queenhithe and East-Cheap, the rectors of both which such a hurry with the Bill, even according to the calculations of
parishes were stated to be non-resident. The Minister of the the Hon. Mover. The exporters of gold had quite exhausted
former place had 300l. per annum, and after, deducting 50l. for themselves, and the fractional notes payable in gold were now
a curate, who performed all his duty, and other sums, 220l. re mostly in the hands of the bankers. If the Bank felt the neces
mained to him as a sinecure. The rector of the latter parish sity of restricting their issue of notes, they would restrict those
had a living at Stoke Newington and other preferments; and the issues; but let the House pass this Bill, and there was no induce
inhabitants of the parish were heavily burdened with poor rates. ment for the Bank to restrict its issues. This Bill would make
The Darlington Railway Bill was thrown out on the second the Bank not liable for its own folly.
reading. Mr. Ricanpo thought the proposed measure necessary to the
Mr. Holme SuxNER presented a Petition from the county of ſuture resumption of cash payments; though he agreed with Mr.
Surrey in ſaveur of a further extension of the Corn Laws: Tierney, that some check onght to be provided against the im
Mr. A. Ellis withdrew a motion, of which he had given provident conduct of the Bank, which ought to reduce its issues.
notice on a former night, for an address to the Prince Regent, Mr. MANNING said, that what was called the stupid conduct of
praying him to remove Mr. W. Quin from the office of custos the Bank was in conformity to the wishes of Parliament.
rotulorum of the county of Limerick. '. Mr. Gnexpell could not recollect the expression of any such
 230. THE EXAMINER:
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-wish. If an excessive issue of paper had enhanced the price of (17,000 souls); that nearly all the labouring class were out of
É. and occasioned a loss to the Bank, that loss should be employment; and that they must all be thrown upon the parish,
orne by that establishment. unless some speedy relief was afforded.—Laid on the table.
Sir J. Newport was in favour of the proposition. He thought . Mr. Bºnnºr presented a Petition from St. Peter's, Cornhill,
the passing of the Bill a proper mark of the eonfidence of the against the London Clergy Bill. It stated that the Rector er-,
Iłouse in its Committee. *
joyed, besides some lucrative benefices, a stipend of 600t. a year,
Mr. Calcraft observed, that the Bank could, if it pleased, by and that he had not performed duty above six or seven times for a
regulating its issues, reduce the rate of exchange and the price long tºº...". the Committee. .. -

of bullion. - - -

Mr. CANNING said, that to state the grounds of the measure

Mr. Bensºr presented a Petition from william Berry, an
Englishman, complaining of the hardships suffered by Fnglish
would only be to aggravate the evil which it was intended to men frºm the local laws of Guernsey, and praying for relief. In
evoid. A proper confidence in their Cornmittee was a sufficient 1816 a Report had been made on the state of the laws, and a
reason fºr the House, to pass the Biłł. The Committee were plan had been devised to assimilate them to those cf England:
unanimous in thinking the removal of the restriction proper, but not one step had yet been taken to produce the salutary
whenever it could be done safely. -
effects. Among many other privileges enjoyed by the natives of
After some other remarks, the Bill was brought in, and passed that island, from which Englishmen were totally excluded, was
through all its stages. the protection from arrests. A native of Guernsey or Jersey
* BRITIS11 CLAIMS ON FRANCE. might bid defiance to his creditors, but an Englishman was liable
Mr. Huskissox presented a Petition from two gentlemen, who to be arrested for even so small a surn as ºd. , and when
had been excluded from the benefit of the Commission appointed arrested, was geºerally imprisoned among felons and murderers.
to settle the British Claims on France, praying that they might –Laid on the table.
be heard before the Privy Council or the Commissioners.-Laid BANKS OF IRELAND AND ENGLAND.
on the table. - -

Lord CAstirazAgn denied that any favour had been shown by Mr. C. GaANT stated, that the Bank of Ireland had issued
the Commissioners. They had adopted a plan of adjusting the notices, like those of the Bank of England, promising totay cer
tain small notes. . It was desirable that a measure similar to the
frost simple (i.e. the funded) claims first: those of the merchants one adopted last night should be extended to the Bank of Ireland,
were more complicated and difficult to be proved. The Privy
Council could not be burdened with appeals of this nature, both because of the uniformity of Hegislation by which both estab
neither could the Commissioners, unless the claims were plainly lishments were geverned and because the drain might continue
on, and be transferred to, the Irish Bank, and thus retard the
made out without entering into much detail.—Adjourned.
final resumption. He moved for leave to bring in a Bill for this
- Tuesday, April 6. object, which he trusted would be passed as quickly as the
The Report of the Camelford Election Committee stated, that other. -

John Evelyn, one of the witnesses, had been guilty of giving Mr. Brough AM protested against this proposition. It had not
false evidence; wherefore the Committee had thought proper to even the same pretence as the other, not being recommended by
commit him to the custody of the Sergeant-at-arms. a Committee, nor any particular necessity for it being shown.
The SPEAKER then put the question, that John Evelyn be Some further conversation took place on this motion, in the
committed to Newgate, which was agreed to. course of which it was asked, whether the applications for Pay
Mr. M. A. TAylor brought up the Report on the West ment at the Bank, between the notice and the passing of the BiH,
Middlesex and Grand Junctisn Canal Companics'-water-works had been so numerous as to justify the haste with which it was
Bill: also the Report of a Bill to enable the vestry of the parish hurried through the House * The CIIANcellor of the Excar
of St. Marylebone, in the county of Middlesex, to fix certain rates quER had not any information on this subject; but he thought
for the supply of water to that parish. The bill was then read a that persons might have been deterred from applying from the
first and second time. - -

idea that their applications would have been ineffectual, on ec

-

CITY CLERGY, &c. count of the first proceedings in the Ifouse.—Mr. CALcra Fr
*

Mr. Lampton presented a Petition from the inlºabitants of the wondered that the Right Hon. Gentleman should imagine that
parish of St. Gregory by St. Paul, against the Bill for the further the speculators in bullion should le ignorant eneugh to take the
relief of the London Clergy. The Petitioners stated that they debate of last night for an Act of Parliament. He took it for
were obliged to pay the minor canons of St. Paul's an annual granted, that the drain on the Bank had not been considerable:
sum of not less than 1.500l.-Laid on the table. for if it had, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would certain'y
Sir Robert Wilsos presented a similar Petition from the have known of it. He (Mr. C.) believed that there were very
united parishes of St. Mary, Southwark, and St. Matthew in the few outstanding notes that could have been presented. No argu
West; it stated that their rector was non-resident, and that they ments had been urged in favour of the present proposition: they
were already assessed at. 12s. in the pound, in addition to the had not been told what notes the Irish Bank was liable to pay.
poor-rates.—Laid on the table. -
Leave was then given, and the Bill was brought in and read a
The Hon. G. LAxis said, that the Petition he held in his hand , first time.—The second reading being moved, Mr. Brougnant
was most numerously and respectably signed by a great number said, that, the holders of notes payable in specie in Dublin would
of the inhabitants of Westminster, praying for the removal of the have two days' nºtice, and consequently the measure would be
Haymarket from its present situation; to some part of Portland mugatory.—The Bill was then passed.
road. Notice of this proposition had been already given to the Leave was given to Sir J. Newport to bring in a Bill to assi
residents in the neighbourhood of the Haymarket, and to the milate the law of Ireland to that of England, with respect to the
magistrates counected with it, who did not make any opposition. office of Clerk of the Peace; and to provide against the buying
Mr. By Ng would resist any proceeding in contrariety to the of that office.
standing orders of the House. He should decidedly oppose any - DISEASE IN, IRELAND.
application to remove a market which had been established for so Sir J. Newront entered into some details respecting the dread
many years. - " * -
ful state of the fever in Ireland. He was ready to admit, that
Mr. LaMa thought Parliament would see the reasonableness of the former legislative enactment had been productive of good;
removing the market aſter the great improvements recently made but as the ravages of disease still continued, he thought another
in that quarter. He boped the House would permit the Petition Committee should be granted. In the counties of Dublin, Cork,
to be brought up, and the standing order of the House to be Limerick, and Waterford, 48,000 persons had been admitted into
suspended. ' -
the Fever 14ospitals in the space of 15 months. If the Committee
The House divided—For the motion, 97–Against it, 91– should be appointed, it should be instructed to examine, not only
Majority, 6. - --
respecting the disease, but into the means of providing for the
Mr. J. Smith presented a Petities from St. Margaret, Leaden employment of labouring poor, not out of the public purse, but
hall, against the London Clergy Bill. It, stated, that their by enabling the proprietors of waste lands to employ them, either
rector received 368l. a year from the parish, but resided in. individually or in associations. The misery out of doors made
Somerset. They had not had a resident rector for 70 years. the poor people wish to become inmates of the Hospitals. The
Referred to the Committee. " . . . .
Hon. Gentleman concluded by movieg for a Committee on the
A Petition was presented from some parish in the County of subject. - . - -

Glamorgan, stating, that for some time . the poor rates had. Wr. C. Grant was happy to second the motion. It appeared,
t to support the paupets, but lately that had been however, that the disease had for the most part is ºf during.
gº the enormous increase of pºpulation the winter months. The Hon. Gentleman fore testimony to the
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patience evinced by the poor Irish under their afflictions, as well tween the small and the great offender; the girl whose passion
as to the landable exertions of the other classes to relieve them, for finery had prompted her to commit a petty theft, was placed
particularly those of the eatholic Clergy, who were constantly, in the same bed with the shameless prostitute who robbed on
from the nature of their profession, attending the bed of sickness. system. lie held in his hand a letter written by Mr. Marsden,
Not a single instance had occurred of a Catholic Clergyman chaplain general in New South Wales, stating titat promiscuous
shrinklipg from that holy duty, notwithstanding the malignity of intercourse between the senmen and the female convicts had pre
the fever. (Hºar, hear !). Nay, he had heard of a Catholic vailed on board a ship which had earried out a great number of
Clergyman, who had visited a cottage, in which six persons lay women, previously trained under the care of Mrs. Fry and others,
afflicted with the fever, and so closely did they lie, that the to habits of morality and decorum. When they arrived at their
Clergyman was under the necessity of İying on the same pallet destination, some were lodged in a factory at Paramatta, and the
with a dying man, in order to receive his last conmunications. rest were obliged to wander in the streets, and to have recourse
The Clergy of all persuasions were emulous to discharge their to prostitution in order to procure the means of subsistence. Mr.…
duties. #. Hon. Gentleman also praised the conduct of the Marsden, in a letter which he held in his hand, said, “ The ho
medical body, and the wealthy classes. He would support any pital of Paranhatta is divided into two wards, one for the recep
pian for removing obstacles to the employment of the poor, but tion of men, and the other for women; but as there are no lockſ
he was decidedly hostile to a proposition which soºne had ad on the doors, the men and the women have easy access to each
vanced for extending the English Poor Laws to Ireland. [The other, in consequence of which the grossest debaucheries take
Hon. Gentleman sat down amid long and loud cheering.] place. I have remonstrated again and again, but no remedy has
After some more remarks, the motion was agreed to, and the yet been provided. What can be worse than for a Clergyman
Committee named. coming to visit the sick, and finding men and women lying pro
- SCOTCH RURGHS, miscuously in the same beds . . . . . . . . There has not,
Leave was given to the Lown Abvbcate to bring in a Pill for for a considerable time back, been either a lamp or a candle in
better regutating the mode of accounting in the Royal Burghs of the hospital, nor can either be procured even to watch a dying
- Scºtland. . person.” º: letter was dated on the 6th of February, 1818.
Mr. Huxt was sure that the Petitioners for Burgh Reform He could not see why the female convicts at present under set
would not be satisfied with this trifling pretence of amelioration.— tence of transportation in England and Ireland might not be kept
Adjourned. at the several houses of correctiou. After giving this picture, he
Wednesday, April 7. would ask whether it would be humane to send out any more of
Mr. M. A. TAylon brought in a Bill for regulating the supply these wretched women He should conclude by moving an ad
of water by the West Middlesex, and Grand Junction. Water dress to the Prince Regeat, praying that his Royal Highness
would suspend the order for the
companies, the object of which was to raise the rate paid by the convict *i. of the Lord Wellington
public a fittie, in order that a certain and tâxed rate might be ship,
named, beyond which they could not advance it. The Bill was Mt. Witbenfonct seconded the motion. It was not neces
read a first tirne. - •ºry that the House should decide finally against sending out
Two Petitions was presented against the London Clergy Act, female convicts; but since these evils attendant on the passage
from St. Michael, Cornhill, and the united parishes of St. Au to the colony and their subsequent mode of life had been pointed
Eustºn and St. Faith. The Ciergyman of the latter parishes en out, it surely was not too much to ask, that the sailing of a ship
ioyed one or two other livings, was a Sub-Dean of St. Paul's, and should be delayed until the Committee on the gaols could devise
non-resident; and let the parsonage-house as a warehouse ! some remedy, and better accommodation for these poor creature:
(Herr, Aear 1). Similar Petitions were also presented from St. could be provided. The mischief would certainly be increased
Stephen, Walbrook, St. Margaret, Lothbury, and St. Swithin, by sending out fresh convicts.
London. Only four of all the parishioners refused to sign the Mr. Bathurst contended, that it would be a less evil that the
latter.—Referred to the Committee on the IBiłł. - §: ºl. women should continue, than that they
s ould be placed in prisons already so crowded as to prevent any
Mr. LAxtB brought up the report of the Committee on the Hay
market Petition aud-moved for leave to bring in a Bill to remove proper classification, the want of which caused an increase of
the market.—The liouse divided, and Mr. Lamb’s motion was crime. As to the evils complained of on board the ships, he
agreed to by a majority of 87 against 33. r
must observe, that most of the women were previously very pro- .
Mr. H. SUMNER moved that the Camberwell Enclosure Bill' fligate. -

should be re-committed." (The Committee had reported against º: F. Buxton remarked, that one of the witnesses before the
it.) Committee had stated that when the women in one manufactory
Alderman woop opposed the notion. This piece of ground were turned out at night, nine out of ten were compelled to resort
was frequented by the children of poor people and other inha to prostitution in order to procure the necessaries of life. `
bitants in the neighbourhood, and ought not to be enclosed for Sir BY AM MARtis would not follow the Hon. Gentleman
private advantage. (Bennet) in his rambles to New South Wales. Notwithstanding
Mr. Mankwan said, that the late Mr. Wyndham, speaking of all they had heard about vice and prostitution, he believed it was,
the few places of this description in the neighbourhood of the not worse than in London., if the ships were to wait for the
metropolis, called then the lungs of London. If such places were Report of the Committee, they would be compelled to encounter
to be enclosed in compliance with the selfish views of hidividuals, the equinoctint gales. He gave credit to the Hon. Gentlenen
the inhabitants of London would have no grounds to walk in for humane thotives, but he thought that, on such principles, it
without being choked with dust. -
wnuld be better to have at once an Act to reform human nature.
The mºtion was negatived on a division. Mr. BENNEr' replied. Upon the observation respecting his
FF.VIALE CONWICTS. rambles to New South Wales, he should only say, that he was
not ashārned of them. (Hear 1) He felt it his duty to bring the
Mr. Bºxwer described the evils attendant on the transporta subject thus frequently before the House, and he would not be
tion of females to New South Wales, and the miseries they after deterred from it by the sneers of any Hon. Metmber. So far from
wards endared in that colony. It had hitherto been ſound im its being required to pass a law to regulate human nature, it
possible to prevent a sexual intercomrse with the seamen. An
puber objection against this mode of puntshment was its in stantly was only necessary to repeal some of those laws which were con
iending to deprave it...ſ Hear.) He had no high opinion
equality. . Those who had families to be separated from, might of the tender
couterºplate it with dread; but to the friendless or deserted cri sympathies of Ministers on those subjects: in the
rear 1787, when eonvicts were first sent out, (the House would
minal, it presented the idea of a desirable asylum. It offered no scarcely believe it) it was pr d and discussed in the Privy
example; the punishinent was not seen, and did not therefore Council, whether the convicts at that time should not be sold to
ºperate in deterring others from the commission of *nilar oſ
fences. Of 220 women sent from the year 1816 to 1818, 121 the Bey of Tripoli as slaves | . -

were sentenced to the limited term of seven years' transporta The motion was negatived without a division.
tiºn. Few of them over returned: the only means of returning OXFORD ELECTION.—BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.
were prostitution. Women were brought fron coentry gaolº to Mr. TENNYsow held in his hand a Petition from some inha
one spot, for the purpose of being put on board the convict “hips. bitants of Oxford, complaining of a breach of privilege on the
Qºre unfortunate girl had been brought frcin Cambridge, so part of the Duke of Martborough, who had used his money and
bound in charns that it was necessary to saw them asander, An power to influence the electors at the last election. He had be
ºther had been brought in a state of torture all the way from sides two Petitions from the same place confirming these allega
Carlisle. When once on board, tio distinction was ebserved be tions. Ile moved that the Petition be brought up.–Mr. Bar
232 THE EXAMINER,
frcast opposed the motion, on the ground that the Petitioners of Clarence, in this city, where it was born-His Royal
had had an opportunity of proving their statements before an Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Earl of Mayo, and
election Committe, if they had chosen to Petition against the re
turn.—Mr. Dr.NMAN said, that the Petitioners had not taken suffi myself attended her Royal Highness's confinement, and
cient interest in the success of the other Candidate to induce have signed a formal deelaration to the above effect.
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them to go to the expense of opposing the return of the sitting -*

Member; but he did not think that this specific complaint of a BANKRUPTCIEs ENLARGED.
breach of privilege should be neglected on that account.—Mr. C. R. H. Bailey, Swallowfield, Wiltshire, dealer, from April 10
TENNyson said. that if Petitions of this nature were to be got to May 22. - - - -

rid of in this way, the House had better rescind the standing T. Pinkertou, Birchin-lane, merchant, from April 13 to April 27.
orders against the interference of Peers in elections.—The Peti
... BANKRUPTS.
tion was rejected without a division.—Adjourned.
J. Travers, Lambeth, coal-merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Braee
- Thursday, April 8. -
and Selby, Surrey-street, Strand. -

Mr. GRENFELL, presented a Petition from the parish of St. .C. Carr, Bridge-street, Westminster, jeweller. Attorney, Mr.
Bennett and St. Peter, against the London Clergy Bill. The Upsdell, Fenchurch-street.
Petition stated, that the rector of the parish received a stipend J. Pearse, Plymouth-dock, saddler. Attornies, Messrs. Anstice
from it of 200l., per annum, enjoyed other benefices, was an and Wright, Inner Temple.
Archdeacon, and Chaplain to a regiment, and to the Ecclesiasti J. R. Saxby, Hawkhurst, Kent, hop-merchant. Attornies, Messrs.
cal Courts.-Referred to the Committee. , Gregson and Foanereau, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street.
CAMELFORD ELECTION, &c. R. Jones, Cheapside, woollen-draper. Attorney, Mr. Farren,
Threadneedle-street. -

Mr. MANNING brought up the report of the Camelford Election

Gommittee. It stated, that “the Committee felt it their duty D. Wroath, Truro, Cornwall, smith. Attornies, Messrs. Price,
Williams, and White, Lincoln’s-inn. • *
further to report, that practices the most corrupt have existed in J. Swainston, Kendal, Westmorland, morocco leather manufac
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the borough of Camelford; but distinct acts of bribéry could not turer, . Attorhies, Messrs. Hurd and Johnson, Inner Temple.
be sufficiently established to justify them in asking the inter
ference of the House.” - -
S., Hawkins, Milton, Southampton, dealer. Attorney, Mr.
Mr. MANNINé then moved the issue of a new writ for the Langton, Hare-court, Temple.
borough, of Camelford, Mark Milbank, Esq. and John Bushby W. Gallimºre, Norbury, Derbyshire, tanner. Attorney, Mr.
Barbor, Fetter-lane. ~ - -

Maitland, Esq. having been declared not duly elected. S. Thornley, Levensbulme, Lancashire, and J. Beckton, Man
Mr. Suwser declared, that this report was extremely unsatis chester, manufacturers. Attorney, Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane.
factory. The Committee had reported, that cohrupt practices: S. Panton, Miſton next Sittingbourne, Kent, miller. Attornies,
existed in the borough; and yet, illey had made out no case of Messrs. Bruce and Mouins, Essex-court, Temple.
bribery. He should therefore move, that the Speaker do not
issue his writ until thc 26th day of April; and that the minutes W.Chancery-lane.
Wainwright, Liverpool, merchant. Attorney, Mr. Ellis,
of evidence taken before the Committee be printed, in order to W. Clancy, Cornhill, provision-merchant.• *.Attorney, Mr. Cros
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put the House in possessiºn of the circumstances which had led

to this singular resolution. - . .
ley, Great James-street, Bedford-row. . . . " --.

. Some conversation arose on this motion, in the course of which B. Smith, Birmingham, steel-toymaker. Attornies, Messrs.
it was stated by some of the Committee, that the voters of this Clarke, Richards, and Metcalf, Chancery-lane,
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borough were 27 in number, and so managed their bribery, that
they could not be legally laid hold of.-The motion was negatived
‘by a large majority. - -
SATURDAY's LONDON GA2ETTE. --
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Petitions were presented from John Evelyn and John Chap
man, who had been committed to Newgate for giving false evi- | ... ... BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED,
dence before the Camelford Election Committee, praying the in A. Kent, Deptford, baker, from April 13 to April 17,
dulgent consideration of the House. The Petitioners were in J. Thick, Lombard-street, broker, from April 10 to April 24.
consequence brought up, reprimanded by the Speaker, and dis W. R. Vigers, Austin-friars, dealer, from April 13 to April 24.
charged on payment of the fees. :,-- - * BANKRUPTS.
Mr. G. LAMs obtained leave to bring in a ‘Bill for the removal
of the hay-market to the east side of the Regent's Párk.—Ad J. Bartlett, Frome Selwood, Somersetshire, clothier. Attorney,
journed to Wednesday se’nnight. - -
Mr, Edmunds, Lincoln’s-inn.
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| M. J. Gowland, Whitby, porter-merchant: Attorney, Mr. Ed

munds, Lincoln’s-inn. - - - -

C. Bensly, Stroud, Gloucestershire, mercer. Attorniés, Messrs.

Tuesday's LoNDoN gazette.
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Price, Williams, and White, Lincoln’s-inn. .
S. Bentley, Horton, Yorkshire, worsted-manufacturer. Attorney,
- Foreign office, April 6, 1819. - "Mr. Nettlefold, Norfolk-street, Strand. . -

Fxtracts of Despatches from the Right Hon. George Henry Rose, J. Kilby, York, common-brewer. Attorney, Mr. Eyre, Gray’s
his Majesty's Envoy at the Court of Berlin, dated Hanover, in n-square. - - -

March 26, 1819: — - -

R. IIoward, junior, Woolwich, brewer. Attornies, Messrs.
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Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge was M.Wiltshire, Bolton, and Cole, Old Broad-street.
J. and R. Griffiths, Bristol, masons. Attorney, Mr. Edmunds,
safely delivered of a male child, at ten minutes past two Lincoln's Inn.
º'clock this morning, at Cambridge-house, in this city. 3. Cooper, Scholes, Rotherham, Yorkshire, slate-merchant. At
His Royal Highness-the Duke of Clarence, the Earl of torney, Mr. Bigg, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane.
Mayo, and myself attended her Royal Highness's confine G. Davies, Tenby, pembrokeshire, merchant. Attormies, Messrs.
ment, and have signed a formal declaration to the above Alexander aud Holme, New-inn
effect.—Her Royal IIighness and her child have past the T. Cruse, Chatham, brewer.” Attorney, Mr. James, Bucklers
burv.
night quite *. He appears to be healthy and well -

grown. - - -
J. J. Watt, Ratcliffe-Highway, surgeon. Attsrnies, Messrs.
- Ficke and Evans, Aldermanbury.
H. Buckley, Junction, Yorkshire, inn-keeper. Attornies, Messrs.
It is my duty to apprise your Lordship, that her Royal Milne and Parry, Temple. -

Highness the Duchess of Clarence was delivered a §

S. Hurrell, Minories, corn-dealer. Attornies, Messrs. Clutton
and
female child this ſhorning, atten minutes past seven o'clock; Wood, Carter, High-street, Southwark.
Bolton, Lancashire, brazier. Attorney, Mr. Meddow
that the child was born alive, and was baptized at 'nine E.croft, Gray's-inn-square.
o'clock this morning, according to the rites of the Church M. Jackson, Bolton, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturer. Attorney,
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of England, by the names of Charlotte‘August.Louis.;

Mr. Meddowcroft, Gray's-inn-square.
and that it expired at one o'clock this aſternoon, at the S. Peake, Pendleton, Lancashire, wine-merchant. Attorney, Mr.
Fustenhof, the residence of his Royal Highness the Duke Meddowcroft, Gray's-inn-square.
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- * PRice or stocks on saturo Ay, - -

venge, as in that of the fierce and gloomy, or fear

.3 per Cent. Red..….......: 733i: 13 percent. Cous........ 7443; #. and slavishness, as in that of the religious. Bºgotry, how
- A Literary Notice of Mr. HAzurrr's New Work, the Lectures on ever, may have had something to do with it, in one re
the Comic Writers of England, is unavoidably delayed till spect; for a great part of the Germans mix up religious
next week, on account of the press of matter. The Parlia
mentary, in particular, is centinually elbowing out our best with political fanaticism; and SANDT, as well as a Patriot,
things. Next week, however, we shall have a respite, and was a Student in Theology. He may have been reading
enjoy our pleasanter society accordingly. the history of Ehud, or of Judith. At all events, the
Next week an Article on-the Persian Ambassador.
The Article sent us by Mr. Owen shall appear, if not next circumstance shews how intensely political matters are
week, the week after, with an Introduction by the Editor. felt in Germany; and what it is in that country, which
Some further observations shortly, on the case of Robert DEAN, drives morbid people out of their senses.
whº was executed the other day, and - whom bigotry stuck ||
close to, and manoeuvred with, as we expected it would. There is no other news of importance from abroad.
We have not seen the Article referred to by G. F. -
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE has had a son born to him in
Hanover. A daughter, born to the Duke of CLARENce,
did not survive. His Royal Highness, with his fair Ger
THE EXAMINER. man kinswoman (for almost all these Royal Personages,
London, Arnii. 11. we believe, are allied by means of family intermarriages),
does not seem likely to add to the number of his offspring,
Sisce writing our first article, the foreign papers have the rest of whom were brought him by our delightful
brought further intelligence respecting Kotzebue's assas countrywoman, Mrs. Jordan, who used to bathe or
sia, which confirm more and more the notion of his having brighten all our features at will.
been under a morbid or rather insane influence. The first The Duke and Duchess of Kent, with a policy and
account, dated Jena, March 26, will be found under the English feeling becoming their nearer prospect of the
foreign head. The second is from Frankfort, dated throne, are coming home again, in expectation of her Royal
April 1:— - - Highness's lying-in. She is said to be of a temper and
“The public mind, at this moment, is exclusively occupied manners worthy of her amiable brother, Prince Leopold.
felative to the information obtained from the assassin of M. de
Kºtzebue before his death, and the private motives which
could actuate him to commit the crime. At that is positively
known is, that the assassin, according to his own statement, The Bank Committee came forth on Monday with a
uitted Jena, early on the morniug of the 9th March ; that most unexpected Report, in consequence of which the
?. thence he proceeded to Erlangen, where he requested a ayment of certain small notes, which had been going on
passport from the borders of the Main. He set off from Erlan or some time, at the Bank, is suspended, in order, as is
gen on the 18th, and arrived post on the evening of the 22d argued by the supporters of this measure, to prevent the
at Lorch, five leagues frem. Manheim, on the other side of the Bank from being drained of the gold with which it must
Rhine. At Lorch, he hired a peasant's cart, and arrived at be provided for the grand opening—the final, return to a
Manheim. on the 23d, at ten o'clock in the morning. The metallic currency, that desirable object, which is held up
wretch displayed much composure, even after committing the to our view that we may be amused with the pursuit of it,
deed; he has shewn no symptoms of repentance whatever. His
answers, which he has been permitted to make in writing, as but which is continually flitting away from our sight like a
Will'o'th'wisp. , But how is it, that the Bank will be less
far as was consistent with his enfeebled condition, state, M. de
able to pay all their notes at any future time, because they
Kotzebue deserved death;, that he had no private revenge against
him; but that for a long time he had resolved upon his death ..º. part of them now The specie leaves the
on account of the crimes of which he had been guilty against country, though it is asserted by many men conversant
Germany ; that he was tranquil because he had º: that
he had no accomplice. and that his crime could only be imputed with the subject, that the Bank may turn the exchanges in
our favour, so as to retain the precious metals, by limiting
to himself. This fanatic appeared to feel no other regret than
for the relatives of his victim. Yesterday his attendants were its issues. But this would not suit the convenience of the
compelled to tie his hands, to prevent him from tearing off the Bank; it would curtail their discounts and consequently
bandages and opening his wounds. His exterior is agreeable, their profits; and so necessary are they to the present
aud all the informatian which has been collected with respect to Ministry, that faith is to be broken with the public, and a
his conduct before the assassination is very favourable. -
Bill to be hurried through Parliament in a very suspicious
The body of M. de Kotzebue has been opened; all the organs manner, rather than reduce ever so little their mercantike
were found in as sound a state as those of a young man ; it is concerns. This business is one more proof of the dilemma
therefore presumed that he might have lived to an advanced age. into which the Government have brought themselves by
He was 57 years old, and professed the Lutheran religion. their eagerness to put down the effects .# the French revo.
These accounts tend to do away the suspicion that the lution. Their attempt to repel the charge of inconsistency
assassin acted under any other impulse than that of his made by Earl GREY was about as lame as their argument
own diseased entirusiasm. A sickly idea pressed upon his about the precedent of Orders in Council. The connec
mind; and not knowing how to get rid of it, or not sus tion between them and the Bank Directors is notorious,
pecting that it could be got rid of, it grew into an insane and we have a right to consider any measure relating to
that establishment as emanating from the united wisdom of
gae. Had he been among his unhappy family, the elder both. Mr. MANNING, one of the latter, tells us, that the
part of them might have known better, and a physician Bank began to issue gold, because they hoped the ex
have displaced these false notions respecting the necessity changes, then unfavourable, would alter. Some people
of a murder. It is thus that ill-health and ignorance sport are deterred from doing any thing, which would at present
with virtue itself; for the unſortunate creature's turn of be advantageous, lest circumstances should change: but
admire the i. here:—The Bank Directors, assisted
mind appears to have been amiable; and it was a pur
by the sagacity of Mr. VANsitrant, issue gold when they
pose entirely social that drove him through his mor know the state of the exchanges will carry it off, in hopes
bidity to the commission of the deed, not interest, that that state will be turned in their favour ! This is anti.
as in that of the mercenary assassin, jealousy or re cipation with a vengeance. The passing of this Bill is
 234 THE EXAMINER. *_

called a vote of confidence, that is, a vote which the House own case. Mr. Townshtxo, whose case we have before
are to assent to without knowing why. Is not this an noticed, could also show them, that a man may waste a con
ºbvious occasion for the éxercise of that responsibility of siderable portion of his life in attending on Commis
Ministers, of which so much is said ' ' But we are told, sioners without ever having his case settled.
that it would be very unconstitutionalin Ministers to know
that this measure was necessary by communicating with City The Reverend and Very Reverend Mendicants of the
must be a little sore when they see the petitions from
the Cemmittee, and very impertinent for them to interfere their beloved
in a matter under the consideration of Parliament. To flocks, who come forward in such numbers
what miserable shifts are they reduced that they must ex to show how little they deserve what they are begging.
cuse themselves thus Ministers assert that this restriction We would recommend these gentlemen to study the three
is necessary; and yet will not undertake to order it: Par following verses from the Psalms, in which, if we are
liament does not know the necessity; and yet is to be not mistaken, they will see themselves reflected as in a
mirror:—
asked to sanction it. -

The accounts of the Revenue have been presented to ... “Theylike are not in trouble as are other men; neither are they
the public, and great pairs taken by the hireling prints to plagued other men. . . . . . . . Their eyes stand out
with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. They are
trumpet forth an excess of income over that of the last two º speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak
years. It has been well observed by the Times, that the y. otti

existence of prosperity is not proved by a large revenue,

but by an excess of income above expenditure; which they arethese
Will Sinecurists he more able, if they get what
asking, to despise the “pomps and vanities of
is not the case iust now. It is the same with nations as
with i. the question is one of good or ill ma this wicked world,” as that catechism, which they put into
the months of little children, directs all inent "What do
nagement; for JAMEs 3. has enough and to spare, they say to the statements of Mr. C. Grast, the Irish
when master of only a few hundreds a year—while GroReſ:
PRINcf., though in the possession of many thousands, is Secretary, respecting the active benevolence of the Catholie
in debt and disgrace. #. may remark here on the very Clergy, *-of men who are paid for what they do, and not
unsatisfactory and mistiſying mode in which these official for employing others to aci for then?'. A long list of the
financial statements are put forth. They give us the total vices of “ Fºxcellent Church" may be found by the curious
income, but not the total expenditure; and then again we in Mr. BENTHAM's Church-of-Englandism; and in the
have certain parts of the income picked out ani newly mean time we think the following list of some of the Re
dressed up, under the title of “Consolidated Fund.” We werend Pluralists will give the reader at one glance a view
of two, -impudence, and hypocrisy. It is sent us by a
cannot see any convenience resulting even to the Exche gentleman as the result of his own information:
quer ſram this division, and the only effect of submitting St. Alban, Wood-street—Mr. BEckwitH-is one of the Priests at
such statements to the nation, is to keep them ignorant of the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
their true financial condition: this formidable crust of
Mihallows, Bread-street—Dr. Morºce—holds the Rectory of
mystery frightens them away. Thackley, Oxon.
Mr. Rex.net's motion to prevent the devoting a number St. Austin's, Watling-street—Dr. Flºr—is Rector of Trinity, vii
of wretched women to certain misery was negatived without norie", and holds two situations at the Chapel Royal, St.
James's.
a division; and the reason assigned for persisting in this St. Andrew, Wardrobe—Mr. SAUNDr.Rs—is also Minister of the
dreadſul system is the crowded state of the gaols in Eng Broadway Church, Westminster. -

land. But such complaints are not made of the vice and St. Andrew, Undershaft—Mr. Astrosus-holds the valuable
misery in prisons as of that in prison-ships and colonial hos Rectory of Acton, Middlesex.
pitals, and the lesser evil should be preferred. And how Alhallows, London Wall–Mr. NARts—is Archdeacon of Stafford.
comes it that the gaolsarecrowded, Mr. Baagge Bathurst, St. Bennett, Gracechurch-street—Dr. Gaskis—has also the Living
when you and your colleagues have been at the head of of Stoke Newington.
affairs for so many years, and might have got as many St. Edmund, the King–Mr. Lewbox—is a Prebendary of St.
Paul's. -

Acts of Parliament passed as you pleased ? The Courier St. Bennett, Paul's Wharf–Yºr. Owen-has an Archdeaconry.
has issued another tirade against “spurious commiseration St. Dionis, Back Church--Dr. Hobart-is n!wo Dean of Wrndsor.
for felons and pickpockets,” and Sir Byax, MARtis tries
- to turn Mr. BENNET's noble exertions in favour of his St. Dunstan's in the West—Mr. Lloyd—has likewise the Living
of Midhurst, Sussex.
species into ridicule, by talking of his “rambles to New St. George, Botolph-lane—Mr. Prºppen—has a Living in Bºd
South Wales.” What are we to think of the Hon. Gen fordshire, is a Minor Canon of St. Paul's, and a Preat of
tleman's course of life, who thus openly avows his opi the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
nion, that any endeavour to lessen the misery of others is St. Michael, Bassishaw—Mr. Moore—holds a Living in the coan
an out-of-the-way “ramble,” and a good subject for a try, is a Minor Canon of St. Paul’s, and Lectarer of St.
joke? This same large-minded knight repeats the all-de Sepulchre.
fending argument of the “depravity of human nature,” St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish-street—Mr. Wres—is a Minor ce
which is in fact the very reason why pains should be taken non of St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, and a Priest of
the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
to avoid every means which that depravity may be St. Michael, Crooked-lane—Dr. DAEINº-ja a Minor Cannºn and
increased. Mr. BENNET’s rebuke was doubtless thrown
Precentor of Westminster Abbey; also Assistant Chap
away on this hardy and contented gentleman. lain General to the Army, Chaplain to the London Dix
The amendments proposed by Mr. J. SMITH to the pre trict, and Librarian to the Duke of York.
sent Bankrupt Laws contain some alarming clauses, which St. Margaret, Lothbury—Mr. Hotlingsworth—has also the Rec
we suppose will not be allowed to pass unaltered. The tory of St. Botolph, Aldgate. -

esent Laws are confessedly iniquitous; but when the St. Mary, Somerset—Mr. Jos Es—has an Archdeaconry.
jº. tindertakes to improve them, would it not be ex St. Mary Le Boic—Dr. WAN Milpent-holds, a valuable Profes
pedient to examine before then persons, who have suf sorship at Oxford, and is Preacher at Lincoln’s-Inn.
fered under them, in order that they might see where the St. Peter, Cornhill—Mr. Roncºrn—has also the Living of Totten
articular evils lie? Such a man, for instance, as Mr. ham, Middlesex.
E. a merchant of character, who has been in prison St. Vedast, Foster-lane—Mr. WALMsley—has likewise the very
for several years under the operation of these Laws, would valuable Rectory of Hanwell, Middlesex.
be capable of giving information on the general question, St. Michael, Queenhithe-Dr. Cooxins—is a Prebendary of Can
or at least of º; the hardship of the system in his terbury, and Minister of Curzon-stree: Chapel.
 THE EXAMINER: 233
- St. James. Garlick ill-Mr. Stevens-is. Lecturer of sº Marga
ret's, Westminster, and joint Minister of Halkin-street Case of W. P. Rogers.-Earl GrosvenoR has sent
Chapel, Grosvenor-place. five pounds in aid of the subscription now on foot for the
St Michart, ºood-street–Dr. Wilgress—is Reader at the Temple
Church.
family of Mr. Rogens. A complete List of the Sub
-*
scribers shall shortly appear in this Paper. In the mean
time the Public should know, that the money hitherto
Letters from Italy state, that a conspiracy has been raised will be barely sufficient to supply the composition
entered into at Mantia to terminate the days of an august of 5s. in the pound, entered into with his creditors; so
traveller, who is at F. in that quarter, by poison. that, unless further aid is afforded, this persecuted man,
Numerous persons, of the sect of the Carbonari, have been with his wife and large young family, must, it is feared,
arrested in consequence of this affair. It appears, by these at last sink under the inflictions he has been so long en
letters, that the plot was only denounced half an hour be during, chiefly on account of his exertions in the cause of
fore the attempt was to have been made. This intelli Reform. This would indeed be a triumph to the venal
are assuredly wants, confirmation; nevertheless it has and persecuting of all denominations, and more particu
already acquired a certain consistency.-Gazette de France. larly to those Clerical Politicians, who, for good reasons
A private letter ftom Ceylon gives an account of the of their own, are ever foremost in opposing everything.
state of affairs there very different from the official ones. in the shape of Reformation, whether political or eccle
According to the former, sickness prevails among the siastical.-The Subscriptions hitherto procured have been
troops to a very great extent. -
chiefly absorbed in freeing Mr. Rogers from debt, in
Friday being the anniversary of the crucifixion of Jests, order that he may be at liberty to exert himselfin his busi
the day was marked by the Isual characteristics of grief. ness; but as in his distresses he was obliged to part, with
The shops were shut, as on days of public mourning, and all his little stock, &c. though he now regains his liberty,
the bakers, with their customary zeal for the public wel he is destitute of all pecuniary means of turning his indus
fare, provided the people with buns marked with the sign try to account, or in fact of obtaining the common neces
of the instrument of torture, in order that the said people, 'saries required by a large family. These facts, we are
who were to eat them fasting (eating such crossed buns satisfied, will have their die weight with all those whom
being by an ingenious fiction ºf religion made equivalent to the pressure of the times has not totally disabled from
eating fothing) should be visited with a proper guantity of helping the oppressed.
melaúcholy reflections. This end seemed to have been A New Nation Al DREss-We are told, that a Gentle
answered as far as appearances in the street went; not man appeared at the Opera the other night in the ancient .
withstanding, some ill-disposed persons endeavoured to dress of a Scotch Laird. Perhaps it was his proper ap
create a misplaced levity by going about, calling the day parel, or he might have ventured upon it as an ex riment
* Goºd Friday,” and exhibiting other tokens of mirth. It to see whether a change in the national dress would be ac
is understoºd, however, that these persons were taken in ceptable.— Mr. Eustace, in his “Classical Tour through
charge by the police. . Italy,” thus recommends this very attire:– “Princes can
Grzassey Laws.—After two ineffectual efforts, in the by example every-where, and in their own courts as well
Jast and preceding Sessions of Parliament, to rouse the as in all public meetings by command, establish whatever
Privy Council, to a sense of their duty, the Hon. Mr. dress they may please to adopt; and it is not a little ex
Brx's ET on Tuesday presented a Petition to the House traordinary that they have so seldom exerted this controul
from a Mr. W.M. Brºny, who was lately, and for several which they have over fashion in favour of taste, of grace,
years, a resident in the Island of Guernsey, and through or of convenience. Yet a Sovereign of Britain need not
whose persºvering exertions for the public good, a Com go beyond the bounds of his own empire for a national
mission of Inquiry into the Jurisprudence of that Island dress both graceful and manly, that displays at once the
was issued in 1815; but although nearly three years have symmetry of the form, and furnishes drapery enough to
elapsed since the Commissioners made their Report, strong veil it with majesty. The reader will perhaps smile when
ly recommending many salutary regulations and amend I mention the Highland Dress, not as disfigured in the
ments, nothing has yet been done to improve the defective army, but as worn once, it is said, by Highland Chiefs,
system. The Petition was ordered to be printed, and it and perhaps occasionally even now by some remote Lairds.
is the intention of Mr. BºxNet soon after the recess to This raiment borders nearer upon the Roman, and, like it,
move for the production of the Report, in order that the is better calculated both for action, and for dignity, than
object of the Commission may be attained. A similar any modern dress I have ever beheld. A few improve
Commission issued to Jersey about 30 years ago, to in ments might make it perfect, and qualify it admirably for,
quire into the expediency of introducing the 'Frial by Jury all the purposes of a national Habit, and would very soon,
into that island, but although a Report, supposed favour by its intrinsic, merit and beauty, supersede the monkey
able to its introduction, was made by the Commissioners, attire of France, not in the British Empire only, but even.
it has been suffered to die away entirely. The late Com on the Continent, still partial to the taste and the fashions
Irission to Guernsey cost the cºuntry about 5000l. ; but of England.”
from the fate attending these kind of Commissions, it A new clarionet-player has appeared at the Philhar.
seems that the little patronage they afford Ministers in monic Society, who is said by good judges to enjoy de
putting into the pockets of some favourites a thousand servedly the reputation of being the first in Europe. His
lineas as a Commissioner, and five hundred as Secretary, name is BAER::ANN. The Chronicle says “he pays a
or a very pretty aquatic summer trip, free of every ex short visit only to this country, but was anxious to display
pense, is the principal, if not, the only inducement for his talents before the connoisseurs who frequent so dis
their appointment. Mr. Benny, however, has not been tinguished a Concert. He has a perfect command of the
allowed even his expences in attending the Commissioners instrument, and executes, with astonishing neatness, the
and other costs incidental to his appearing before Council, most rapid passages: but the more pleasing part of his
though he has of course had infinitely more trouble performance consists in the softness rather than in the ſul
throughout this business than the whole of the Commis ness of his tones, in the “dying fall” that he produces,
sioners put together, and but for him the Commission which is sweet and tender, and if employed in the per
would never have issued. . formance of passionate music, would yield, we are per
It is stated to us upon such authority as we cannot sºaded, a delicious effect.” "
doubt, that Mr. Yates, who is to play Falstaff on Tuesday | . The Paris Papers inform us that the King of France is
text, at Covent-garden, is not yet 22 years of age, . ‘. . g . ag to live at St. Cloud. -
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AlpenMan Woop—We could not last Sunday get in Modern SeaMons.—There is no species of composi.
even a short notice of the dinner to celebrate the election of|tion that seems to stand more in need of an infusion of
this honest Representative on the Tuesday previous; fresh vigour than sermons. Many of our preachets seem
although it was worth notice, if it was only on account of|| to think that the intrinsic charms of the truth are so obvious
this circumstance,—that the Paisce Regent received the as to supersede the necessity of any outward display of
same compliment from the company that is usually paid them; and however much, as Swift observed in his day,
to his father, “the good old KING,”—his health º they may fall short of the Apostles in working miracles,
drank in solemn silence, notwithstanding the Chairman ha they greatly surpass them in the art of setting men asleep.
announced that it would be accompanied with “three —Scotsman, -

times three. The Duke of Sussex had been invited to A Correspondent states the following as a fact:—Some
take the chair, but *:::: himself on account of a severe the printed statements were dispersed among the labourers in
house of BARcLAY, Perkins, and Co.,
cold, at the same time expressing his regret at the circum advantages of laying by money in the
º tha
stance. This, together with the unfortunate, though pro consequence of which several of the men
..". nks, in
ine con
found, “silence,” has called forth the indignation of the
tributors, and among them a young single man, who paid
Courier, who is sorry to discover that his former repri in for some weeks four. º: a week. This
, mands have not been successful in keeping the Royal Duke known to one of the principals, and that sum was deducted
ine

out of such unfit company; and wonders that his Royal from his weekly earnings. “If it is the intention of these
Highness will degrade himself by a fondness for “tavern
popularity, praises which the fumes of wine inspire, publications,” observes our Correspondent, “to allure the
drunken, riotous, applause, stammered from the tongue in poor to scrape their little pittances together for this fund,
of intemperance, mingled with epithets of coarse familiari motive order to ascertain how little they can exist on, it is a
ty.” How is it that we hear nothing of all this at Pitt benevolence, as base, as it is hypocriticaſ: under the cloak of
dinners and loyal meetings? h no Gn such occasions they would defraud the labourer of his hire."
there is nothing but “sociality,” and “hilarity,” and COURT AND FASHIONABLES.
“good humour;” and the company are always equally -
dull and genteeſ. It would be curious to compare a list
of the gentlemen with whom the Duke of Sussex was On Tuesday morning, Lieut-Colonel Prott, the Duke
willing to have dined on Tuesday, with a list of the fa of CAMBRIDGE's Equerry, and Lieut. Edwamp Hall,
voured companions of his Illustrious Brother, whose name R. N., arrived in town with despatches from Mr. Rose,
the British Minister at Berlin, announcing the accouche
excites so much still reverence.
ments of the Duchesses of CLARExcs and CAMBRIDGE.
Duke of WellingtoN.—A correspondent informs us, The accouchement of the Duchess of CAMBRidge toºk
in reference to what we said about a fortnight ago, re lace at the principal Palace at Hanover, on the 26th of
specting the Duke of WellingtoN's unwillingness to be || K. at three o'clock, when her Royal Highness was
considered, an Irishman, of one instance in particular, safely delivered of a fine boy by Dr. Keine; the Royal
wherein his Grace actually disowned his country. It Duke, the Duke of CLARENce, Lord MAYo, and Mr. Ross,
seems that after he had risen to the top of his glory, the the British Minister at Berlin, being in attendance. The
gentlemen of the Queen's County (the Duke's birth place) Duchess and the .. Prince were doing well—Ales
entered into a subscription, for the purpose of erecting a #.h. report has been brought respecting the Duchess
testimonial in honour of his achievments, and addressed of CLARENce, who was attacked with an indsposition Oil
his Grace, in the most complimentary terms, on the subject, the 22d of March, which continued during the whole of
with some allusions to the land that “first cradled his the week, for which it was deemed necessary to bleed her
fame.” The reply which he vouchsafed, they considered several times: this caused a premature accouchement, and
to be strongly tinged with hauteur and thanklessness; in on the 27th, at half-past six, her Royal Highness, attendel
consequence of which, and its containing a direct intima by Dr. Andrew Halliday, gave birth to a female child.
tion that he did not wish to be thought an Irishman, the
subscriptions were instantly withdrawn, and all idea of a The infant only lived till one o'clock... The Duchess was
very unwell after the birth of the child, and in that sale
testimonial relinquished:—Dublin Weekly Register. she continued several hours to such a degree that consider
Frauds iN The CoAL TRADE.-On Monday after able danger was apprehended. When Lieut. Hall was
noon, a re-measurement of some Coals took place at the sent of, it was lº. Duchess would do well.
house of a Noble Earl in Grosvenor-squaré, some suspi The FAIR Cincassian-ACorrespondent writes, “As
cions having arisen that all was not right. All indeed was a certain Personage has been moving from Rome into
not right, for out of 25 sacks measured, there was an Turkey, from thence into Egypt, may she not have tra’
actual deficiency of fire. These coals were supplied by velled into Persia? And as we are aware that Royalty can
Jos AthAN SAMPson, coal-merchant, in South-street, from be facetious at times, it may be that the King of Persia,
Hungerford-wharf. Proceedings will of course be insti out of regard for the Regent, has sent his wile home un
tured against the offending parties, for it is high time an der the charge of an Embassy; and being desirous of suſ
effectual stop was put to such infamous practices.
Our Correspondent informs us that the self-created
[...;
tity.
him, has given out the expectancy of a Circassian
Society for the Suppression of Vice has it in contemplation }. Gazette de France contradicts the un llant obser- .
to prefer indictments against Mr. CARLisle, of Fleet vations of the other Paris papers, as to the beauty of the
street, for his weekly publication entitled the Deist or fair stranger who has been brought to Europe by the Per
Moral Philosopher, in the same manner as what they have sian Ambassador. It describes her as possessing a very
done for his publication of PAINr's Age of Reason. We white skin and cheerful temper. Her uty, says the
should not be surprised to learn, that these same suppressors journal, appears to us, according to the accounts we have
of free discussion had commenced prosecutions against received,
think thatofbeauty
a nature to beinprized
consists amongº
the perfect all people,ofwho
fea
Mr. CARs 11.E for his present cheap publication of the
Bishop of LLANDAff's Apology for the Bible, which some tures, and the exactness of proportions. Large blue eyes.
of it's readers think is no very satisfactory answer to long black
with whichhair, a slender
no one can beyouthful
deemed figure,
ugly in are "dvant t
France.
Parse's work—The Deist is a pamphlet published
weekly, at 6d. a number, in which all the scarce phi still, she assuredly must excite a strong interest amongs:
losophical tracts are reprinted, in order that the subscribers us." A slave, without any family, without a country; ºr
may afterwards bind them up. life, in our capital, as every where else, is passed in
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most profound seclusion. Exiled to her chamber, inac POETRY. -

TOM CRIBB'S MEMORIAL.

cessible to all the world, she does not even appear at her ||
window, without being covered with a large veil; and [We believe, agreeably to a maxim lately quoted from
she is not relieved from this restraint except when her Castiglione, respecting persons in masks, that we are bound
master is out with his people. She then walks about in her not to know the author of the work here mentioned;
apartment without meeting any one save the females of which is very hard upon us; especially as the said author,
the hotel, or the two persons charged to watch her. If in his own despite, has an equal talent at making himself
she chance to meet the females, she becomes quite joyous known and admired. If he would remain quite concealed,
with spirits—she plays with them—romps with them— he should diminish his Greek and his wit, and not handle
caresses them; but on the least noise she disappears, and the most subjects in such a manner as to turn ºf
shuts herself up in her cabinet. Some ladies, among them them to grace as well as utility.—Eram.] -

Lady Soxterset, solicited the Ambassador to permit thein Most Holy, and High, and Legitimate squad,
teresting stranger to pass an evening at their houses; but First Swells (a) of the world, since Boney's in quod, (b)
their entreaties were all to no purpose. Who have every thing now, as Bill Gibbons would say,
“Like the bull in the china shop, all your own way”—
THE REVENUE. Whatsoever employs your magnificent nobs, (c)
- -
Whether diddling your subjects, and gutting their fobs,-(d)
Assra Act of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, [. (While you hum the poor spoonics (e) with speeches, so pretty,
in the years ended 5th April, 1818, and 5th April, 1819 – 'Bout Freedom, and Order, and—all my eye, Betty),
coxsolidated Fuxid, - 1818. 1819.
Customs - - - - £7,162.379 £7,580,038 Whether praying, or dressing, or dancing the hays, .
Excise - - - - 16.799,725 19,058,925 Or lapping your congo (f) at Lord C–stl-R-gh's, (g)
Stamps - - - - * 6,433,569 6,373,268 (While his Lordship, as usual, that very great dab (h)
Post-Office - - - 1,332,000 1,358,000 At the flowers of rhet'ric, is flashing his gab (i),
Assessed Taxes - - - b,176,839 6,185,426 Or holding State Dinners, to talk cf the weather,
Land Taxes - - - 1,187,065 1,179,827 |
Miscellaneous - * - - 467,547 370,058 And cut up your mutton and Europe together!
Unappropriated War Duties - 39,068 180,184 Whatever your gammon, whatever your talk,
--
-
- -
Oh deign, ye illustrious Cocks of the Walk,
Total Consolidated Fund - £39,598,192 fº,285,726 To attend for a moment, and if the Fine Arts
Annual Duties to pay off Bills - 2,941,841 3,154,937 Offibbing (k) and boring (k) be dear to your hearts;
wart taxes.
Excise - - - - " " - 3,184,950 - 3,438,551 If to level, (k) to punish, (k) to ruffian (k) mankind,
- And to darken their daylights, (t) be pleasures refin'd
Property - -

* - Total .
"- -

- *
1,522,648
f {,707,598
227,349
fº,665,900
(As they must be) for every legitimate mind,
Oh listen to one, who, both able and willing
.
To spread through creation the myst'ries of milling,
Total Revenue. -- £47,247,631 &A9,056,563 (And, as to whose politics, search the world round,
Ixcave and Change on the coxsotipated Fund, in Quarter Not a sturdier Pit-tite (m) e'er liv'd—under ground)
- ended 5th April, 1819. -
Has thought of a plan, which—excuse his presumption—
--- 1Néo Mr. -
He hereby submits to your Royal rumgumption. (n)
Customs - - - - - - ſ1,685.340 - It being now settled that emp'rors and kings, . . *
Excise - - - - - - - - - -- - - 4,358,557
Like kites made of foolscap, are high-flying things,
Stamps - -
Post-Office
Assessed Taxes.
- - --
-

-
-
-

-
-**
-

-
-
-

-
-
-

-
1,570,757
355,000
835,246
To whose tails a few millions of subjects or so,
Have been tied in a string, to be whisk’d to and fro,
; **

Land Taxe- - - - - - ... 148,440 Just wherever it suits the said foolscap to go—
Miscelſaneons -_ " - - - - 75.245
This being all settled, and Freedom all gammon, (o)
Uuappropriated War Duties - - - 95,797 And nought but your Honours worth wasting a d-n on ;
* - * - £9,124,882 While snug and secure you may now run your rigs, (p)
To be brought from the Consolidated Fund of Ireland 497,318 Without fear that old Boney will bother your gigs—
. As your Honors, too, bless you ! though all of a trade,
Total Income ' -- - £9,621,700 Yet agreeing like new ones, have lately been made
- - charge. - -
Special constables o'er us, for keeping the peace,—
Exchequer, South Sea, and Bank Annuities - £266,330 Let us hope now that wars and rumbustions will cease;
Dividends' ... - - - - - - --- 5,734,686 That soldiers and guns, like “the Dev'I and his works,”
National-Debt - - - - - - 2,954,699
Civil List - - - - - 257,000 - Will henceforward be left to Jews, Negers, and Turks;
Peasions - - - - - - 116,000 Till Brown Bess (q) shall soon, like Miss Tabitha Fusty
limperial Annuities - - - - 9,173 For want of a spark to go off eith, grow rusty, *

Other Charges - - - - - 142,588 (a) Sicell, a great man. (b) In prison. The dab's in quod;
Bank Management - - - - 252,552 (c) Heads. the rogue is in prison.
Saiaries and Allowances - - - 36,972 (d) Taking out the contents. Thus gutting a quart pot, (or
taking out the lining of it) i.e. drinking it off. - *

fº,770,000 (e) Simpletoils, alias Innocents. (f) Drinking your tea.

income, as above - - 9,621,700 (g) See the Appendix, No. 3. (h) An adept.
(i) Showing off his talk—Better expressed, perhaps, by a late
Deficiency - .ſ 148,300 wit, who, upon being asked what was going on in the House of
-

Deºriency at 5th January, 1819, made good by issue Common", answered, “only Lord C., airing his vocabulary.”
of bill... paid off out of the growing produce of the (k) All terms of the Fancy, and familiar to those who read the
-April Quarter - T. 3,364,866.
- - Transactions of the Pugislistic Society.
" - -

B. : depºsited in the Tellers' Chest, to answer a like (l) To close up their eyes—alias, to some up their sees.
amount, issued out of the growing produce of the (m) Toxt received his first education in a Coal Pit; from whenee
same Quarter - 2,637,000 he has been honoured with the name of “the Black Diamond.” "
- -

(n) Gumption or Rumgumption, comprehension, capacity.

Total amount to be provided for by Bills charged on (o). Nonsense or humbug. (p) Play your tricks,
the growing produce of the July Quarter, isio £6,150,166 (4) A soldier's tº-cº. *
-

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And lobsters (r) will lie such a drug upon hand,
That our do-nothing Captains must all get japann'd? (s)
My ryes, how delightful!-the rabble well gagg'd,
The Surells in high feather, and old Boney lagg'd' (t)
But, though we must hope for such good times as these,
Yet as something may happen to kick up a breers—
Sour quarrel, reserv'd for your own private picking
Some grudge, even now in your great gizzards sticking
(God know about what—about money, mayhap,
Or the Papists, or Dutch, or that Kid, (u) Master Nap.)
pearances in his personal history, inclined us in the first
instance to regard his weaknesses on the more amiable
side, his subsequent conduct has disposed us to a less
favourable view of then. His suffering the actors to stand
it out as they did, and beg and pray for the repetition of
the piece, was a suspicious matter; yet this might in cha
rity be traced to his alleged wants, and even to their own
zeal; but what is to be said to the quacking and puffing
manner in which the editions of the Play are prefaced an
ſ. forth 7 and above all, what is to be ãº
of the ſol

And, setting in case there should come such a rumpus,

owing Advertisement in the Newspapers?— -

“Sin, -i beg laave, through the medium of your Journe', to

As some mode of settling the chet we must compass,
with which the tag-rag (v) will have nothing to do—
What think you, great Swells, of a Royal Scr-ro? (+)
A Ring and fair fist-work at Aix-la-Chapelle,
Or at old Moulsey-Hurst, if you like it as well—
returu my ardent and most respectful thanks to the Nobility,
§: and all the more respectable portion of the audience of last
Saturday, for their warm and active suppºrt, during the uupre
cedented attack made upon may Tragedy of The Italians.—Hoping
you will not deny ºne this opportunity of signalizing my grati
tude, I remain, Sir, your very obedient servant, º

Avºdahat all may be fair as to trind, weight, and science, “London, April 4, 1819.” * CHARLEs Buckſ.
1'il answer to train the whole Holy Alliance!
Now this is too gross. . This little bit of paper is abun
(r) Soldiers, from the colour of their clothes. “To boil one's dant in its's efforts at weak and servile delusion. In the
Jobster means for a churchman to turn soldier; lobsters, which first place, it affects to be a letter addressed to the feelings
'are of a bluish black, being made red by boiling,"—Grose. Buſ and left to the discretion of the respective Editors; whereas
łer's ingenious simile will occur to the reader:- - -

it is an advertisement, self-puffing and paid for, as their

When, like a lobster boiled, the Morn
From black to red began to turu." ' treatment of it, little expected by Mr. Bucke, evinced;
(s) Ordained—i.e. become clergymen. for among their advertisements they put it. This alone,
(i) Transported. especially under ail the circumstances, would settle our
(n) Child.—Hence our useful word, kidnapper—to nab a kid motions of Mr. Bucke.—In the next place, his meation
being to steal a child. of “the Nobility,” is very significant to the same effect;
Indeed, we need but recollect the many
excellent and necessarv words to which Johnson lius affixed the
and in the third, what does be mean by the words “all
stigma of “cant term,” to be aware how considerably the Eng the more respectable portion of the audience?”. Is he
łish language has been enriched by the contributions of the Flash really feeble enough to suppose that this can deceive any
fraternity. - - -

body, or be placed to any other account than mortified

- .

(*) The common people, the mobility. vanity ? Three-fourths, at least, of the audience, perhaps
(a) A boxing-match. -

-
-
we sſould more truly say five-sixths, were loud and de
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EXAMINER, cided against his play; and it was a great doubt with per
THEATRICAL sons well enough inclined to see justice done him, whether.
the feelings of the remainder were not rather directed
No. 358. Against Mr. KCAN than in favour of the author.
Irrºwitz”-L-in e.
The upshot of all this is, that Mr. KEAs certainly ap
ears inore justified than the town thought him, in his
Such of our readers as were served with the earlier shall opinion of Mr. Buckc ; though his manner was too
copies of the Eriminer last Sunday; must have been sur arrogant, and the suspicions remain the same as before ſº
prised at seeing an analysis of the Italians, and a mention specting his dislike to having good actors about him. The
of its performance the preceding evening, followed by no ublic have now fixed their eye strongly on that part of the
account of the manner in which it was received. We [... and whether he is chiefly, or wholly answerable,
ought to have explained this at the time. The fact is, or neither, for the intolerable deficiency of rury-lane in
we are obliged to go to press early on the Saturday even this respect, it must certainly be removed. The very best
ing; so that any account of the reception of a Play on the friends of the theatre will have to insist upon it.
same night can only be inserted after a number of the
Papers have been struck off. A portion of the types is
displaced accordingly for that purpose; and this is the FINE ARTS.
reason why those who received the earlier copies missed
what others found, and vice versit. A curious wager once
came to our knowledge, originating in this art and mys: SIR. J. F. LEICESTER’s GALLERY. .
tery of Newspaper º:
and resembling the fable of 8, H.Thomson, R.A. Girl grossing the Brook—Nothing
but the inost confirmed melancholy, or downright de
the two knights with the shield of brass and silver. Ouel
Gentleman was vehement in maintaining that such and ravity of heart, could prevent every spectator from *.
such a series of observations had been made in a theatri joying this display of the sprightly beings in life's livehº
cal article; the other was as vehement to the contrary, and season, a time when every object, from its being new,”
insisted that there were several observations in the very like an inspiring instrument of sweet music, to which the
same part of the Paper, on a totally different subject. The heart beats with hope and joy. To the valetudinarian in
dispute, though amicable, was strong, and mixed with a body and“Adejected in-mind, the objects on this canvas
momentary bliss bestow.
"-- -

dué portion of mutual astonishment; when a reference to The weary soul they seen to soothe,
a person in the secret settled it at once. . And redolent of joy and youth,
All our Readers, however, by this time must be well -"

To breattle a second spring.” - *

informed how the play went off; or rather how it stood These feelings arise from the brisk movements, fºr
it's ground in spite of hisses, yells, groans, º: shortenings, and buxom character, of the girl and child,
beatings of sticks, and slapping of benches; and hºw it painted from the following naturally told ideas, written by
threatens to shew us again it's gentle but brazen face. This the Artist himself:— -

is a severer tone of objection than we adopted in our last; “but one step more, be not in haste;
i. really we must say, that if a sense of Mr. Bucke's This stone's as slippery as the fast;
awkward treatment by Mr. KEAN, and of some other ap step cautiously—the danger's past.
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Now we'll trudge homeward cheerily: racter, one of caution, the other of pleasantry, but the child
You'll telk your brothers where you've been, is fear caricatured:
And what-you've done and what you've seed, “He grims horribly a ghastly” cry.
How gey the fair was on the green,
And how the day past merrily.” " The picture has force as a whole, but several, parts want
perspective relief. The admirable Artist will, we trust,
Though there is neither capital drawing nor colouring, rectify these errors.
the shadows of the flesh are sooty,+yet it has sufficiently R. H. —
of both in connexion with the bright out-of-door light, the We stated two weeks back that Mr. MARTIN had received
sisterly and admonitory caution of the girl, the timidity of three hundred guineas from Mr. P. Hope for his excellent
the child, and the expression of their
“Lively cheer of vigour born," -
picture of the Fall of Babylon: this was a mistake, as the .
price was four hundred, which it well merited.
to give it a more than ordinary charm as a representation
of juvenility. This is the best picture the Artist ever
painted. It was done in his most felicitous hours. Its THE FEDESTRIAN CARRIAGE.
touches ºf character are struck from the heart, and rever
berated on our own. But Mr. Thomson must do some We shall introduce a few remarks on this curious and
other subjects as well, or we must continue to place him most useful machine with the account of it published in
with the commod-place in painting, or at least with that Ackermann's Magazine :- . * ,

species of character among the many which make up the of Baron von Drais, a gentleman at the Court of the Grand Duke
Baden, is the juventor of this ingenious machine, called Drats
mass of society, where brisk animal spirits, rather than in Laufmashin by the Germans, and Draisena by the French.
tellectual emotion, give effect to some lively and fluent, but Under the direction of the same individual, some years since,
no original or acute vein of thinking. Thus, for instance, a carriage was constructed to go without horses; but as it re
there is nothing of this vein in 48, Children and Dead quired two servants to work it, and was a very complicated piece
Robin, but only the common, we had nearly said, vulgar of workmanship, besides being heavy and expensive, the Barou
expression of grief in the child, who sobs with cleached after having brought it to some degree of perfection, relinquished
hands pressed to the eyes. Our opinion will, we think, and the design altogether in favour of the maching here presented,
be obvious when this subject is compared to a like sub now introduced into this country by Mr. Johnson of 75,
Long-acre: it is a most simple, cheap, and ſight machine, and is
iect--but how differently expressed—by Sir J. REYNolps, likely te become useful and generally emplºyed in England, as
where Lesbiu is weeping over her sparrow. Lesbia’s well as in Germany and France; particularly in the country, in
hands lying on each other, and her look inly and quietly gentlemens' pleasure-grounds and parks. By medical men on
intent on the deceasod favourite, depict the sorrow of an the continent it is esteemed a discovery of much importance, as
elegantly thinking, and truly feeling mind, and not that it affords the best exercise for the benefit of health. -

grief which like a loud and sudden gust of wind and rain, . The swiftness with which a person well practised can travel,
ºš. succeeded by a bright sunshine and the laughter ispassed
of Nature. -
.*
almost beyond belief; eight, nine, and even ten miles, may be
-
over within the hour, on good and level ground. The
- •* *.
*
inventor, Baron Von Drais, travelled last summer, previously to
#3. W. Cottiss, A., Sea-shore; Stºise.—For clásiº his last improvement, from Manheim to the Swiss eley-house
and direct copying of objects, a registry of the features of and back agºiu, a distance of four hours' journey by the posts, in
Nature, just as she appears before us without any beauti one short hour; and he has lately, with the improved machine,
filly and sublimely, inventive, or, poetical combinations, ascended the steep hill from Gernsbach to Baden, which gene
the old Dutch Masters have till lately, and still are by rally requires two hours, in about half an hour, and convinced a
number of scientific anateurs, assembled on the occasion, of the
many, considered the ablest Artists. In our judgments great swiftness of this very interesting species of carriage. The
McRELAND and HEAPuy nearly, and Collins and Wilkie principle of this invention is taking from the art of skating, and
quite, equalied tiſſen. They may have been surpassed consists in the simple idea of a seat upon two wheels, propelled
ferhaps in some respect by the Dutch, just as they sur by the feet acting on the ground. The riding-seat, or saddle, is
passed each othcr in their own peculiar excellences; but ſized on a perch upon two double-shod, wheels, running after
no one possessed a greater portion of collective ability. each other, so that they can go upon the footways, which in
The picture before us is one proof of the truth of this opi summer are almost always good. To preserve the balanee, a
small board, covered and stuffed, is placed before, on which the
niºn. It has atmospheric afid local truth; it has truth of arms are laid, and in front of which is the little guiding-pole,"
individual character. The Fisher-boys are as completely which is held in the hand to direct the route. These machines
of their peculiar class as the peasantry of Osº Adº or 'TE. will answer very well for messengers and other purposes, and
Niens. And who that has enjoyed the day-break on the even for long journies: they do not weigh 50 pounds, and may
sea-shore, on the sight of this picture does not feel his be made with travelling pockets, &c., in a very handsome and
nºrmory refreshed by the quiet and coolness and clearness durable form. The price, as we are informed, is from eight to
*f scene, by the long line of beach, by the basket and large ten pounds.
buoy idly lying there, by the cliff whose upright or pro Pedestrian wagers, against time, have of late been much the
jecting position opposes so square a form to the horizontal hobby of the English people, and this new invention will give
new scope for sport of that sort. -

or the slanting beach, by the pier running out on the sea

as if in defiance of its rage, by the brownish grey gra There is a strange foolish tendency in most people to
dually reliowing into a yellower hue on the shore, by the consider any thing which has an aspect of delightfulness
more silvery sparkings on the water, and by the great as a trifle, or at least as a very secondary matter com
diffuser of light, the glorious sun himself— pared with many grave-looking things which are really
“Best image here below of the Creator,” trifles. They call, it an entertainment-a-pleasure, &c.,
-
and contrast it with what they call utility; as if delight
inst emerging from below the horizon, to give a renewed were not utility, and the end of all their gravest endea
Yisual birth to Nature lying under the pall of night. Here yours. These owl-headed philosophers would look amaz
altogether pleases us; but in his FWater-mill, 29, he ingly profound and contemptuous, if they, heard us call
eases is much with some mixture of disappointment. this newly invented Wooden Horse an excellent discovery,
The landscape is akogether striking, from the harmony of and one of the many fresh instances of the progress of ex
tone and richness of touch; but the objects, except the perimental philosophy. Yet such it is. Like Sir Hum
thildren, are common-place, and have been painted again phry Davy's safety-lamp for mines, of which every body
and again. The two girls º an infaat, who is on a can understand the utility because it saves people's lives,
donkey, and frightened, down a kill, have neatness of cha it is one of the results of that experimental philosophy,
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which Bacon first opposed to the bigotries of authority,+ of whom prayed with him. He expressed much gratitude at
bigotries, which would have kept the world for ever at a their kindness. regretted that as he was going to a place
stand, and at as bad a stand too, as that of so many hack where there was no gnashing of teeth, he had it not in his power
ney-coach horses in a street. ... Try every thing, said to take with him his beloved Sarah, “’No doubt,” said he,
Bacon—make experiments on all you know and do—in “Christ, who is now saving my soul, is waiting forme; but am
crease your knowledge of rational life, of human power, of sorry for poor Sarah, she is in a dangerous world." Mr. Mann ".
the use which nature has allowed you of all her myste wish told bin with what happiness his friends would lear that not a
of escape from punishment had passed his lips, nor a
ries, of health, of delight. Philosophers, therefore, in murmur of complaint. “Why should º complaim,” said he,
later times, have not only made experiments of a more “knowing as I do that the change I an-going to make is for the
..º.º. they have also taken to handle, the better? Where is Voltaire now?—in hell: where is Tom Paire?
common-place s of life, and the ordinary means of enjoy —in hell: God have mercy upon them as he has upon me." His
ment; and the result is only so much the greater and general appearance was that of a maniac, but on all subjects he,
more useful, when the object is a familiar one, and the spoke rationally, although often incoherently. After the sacra
means at every body's command. - .
ment had been administered to him, he appeared-impatient tº
It must be confessed that if written Wisdom makes slow leave the world, and asked whether every thing was tot in read-"
ness for his journey; on being told by Mann that sºme time
progress with the world, it's child Experiment takes ample was to be allowed for preparation, “Preparation!" said he,
K.
strides. Experiment may do in a day, what. Literature “who can say I want preparation?—never was may more really
shall not effect for centuries; but then the latter must pre to die.” Mr. Mann having observed that the preparation of the
cede the former;-the mind must go before the bodily body, not of the soul, was what he meant, Dean smiled—“Oh!"
motion, if numbers of persons were to adopt the use of said he, “I shall then soon be going.” He refused to stand up
this new invention, it would make a considerable change at while any part of the ceremony in the Chapel was performing,
once in the health of the community; and six or seven and he frequently prayed aloud, tad with the greatest fervour.
When the officers were striking of his irons, he looked wildly
such inventions, ecting upon their other daily habits, might about, and at last fixing his eyes on the gallows, he bent towards
alter, their whole appearance as a people. Only think of it, and then gazed at the sky. The name of God, was in his
uumbers flying backwards and forwards in summer time mouth when he reached the platform. He then said, “God
upon these light and elegant machines, and almost realiz bless you all !” and prayed in so loud a tone as to be heard by . -
ing the old stories of Pacolet and his Wooden Horse. the crowd around the prison. At nine o'clock the drop fell, and
Many seemed inclined to do so the moment they saw it: he died after a severe struggle. - -

but then the question was, as usual, who shall begin An inquisition was taken on Thursday, on the body of Mr.
Will it not be want of modesty —The question should John Beveridge, a hosier in Thornton-street, Southwark, who
had shot himself through the head with a pistol, on Tuesday
have been, Will it not be a very exemplary want of morning, while in his shop alone. There was evidence to show
pride;—for the fact is, it is egotism and not nodesty that that the deceased had been robbed about 10 mouths ago of all
prevents people from being the first, on such occasions. his stock, and had not been so cheerful ever since. iſe talked
They think that others williaugh at them; and no doubt very much on religious subjects, and seemed, from certain sell.
all the fools would do so; for their own egotism would tenees written in his Bible, to have been tortured with dreadful
be hurt at seeing another venture upon an example which appreheusions about a future state, which however he some.
they have not courage and understanding enough to set. times was disposed not tº believe in: Upon one leaf was wrº.
ten, “What a bother about a future state—it is all nonsense;"
However, this difficulty is done away; for it seems that on another, “I have read the Bible till I am quite wearied, aud
there have already been individuals sensible and modest I find it to be all a farce, and nonsense;” ...} on the last page,
enough to make no fuss about the matter, but mount and which was wet when first discovered, “Beverºgº, Godſ as ,
set off at once,—with a sease, not of themselves and what deterºined your fate from the beginning-Awſakº dreadful:
others shall think of them, but of the utility and pleasure There is no mercy theº, none. Bat there is a Gedad Bevil
of so cheap, lasting, and desirable an invention. A friend ‘doubtful ?—There must be a God, look at Nature's works. *
of ours saw a gentleman dart upon one of them across the all mankind-The Bible will not do, but I will go and preveiſ.
Strand,-we think, into Somerset-Honse. Others have Verdict—Lunacy. - - - -* :
- -- " .
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been stem in Hyde Park, and others gliding by Vauxhall. —

We hope, in the course of the summer, to see them seudd *. ** - Biłł'ths. .

ing about in all directions, to the great discomfiture of in On Wednesday
Craven-street, thea Lady
last, of
Strand, of Frederick George Syms, Esq.
daughter. w
digestion, bad spirits, paleness, Jeanness, and corpulence.
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On Tuesday week, in Rutland-square, Dúblin, of a son, the
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Duchess of Leinster. The infant takes the title of Marquis cº

Kildare. ,
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ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c.
- -
Exrcurioxs.-Wednesday morning, Macvey, aged 24, and
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- - in EA'ttis. -

Green, 46, were executed at the Old Bailey. They were both , Monday, last, Frances, the wife of Mr. George Reynell, et
faund guilty the sessions before last, the former of having rºbbed | Chancery-lane. -

his master, and the latter of having stolen u wards of 250l., the On Thursday morning, in the Queen's-parade, Bath, Mary,
property of a benefit society. Green had dressed himself with the wife of George Calver, Esq.
*gainess, not, he said, with a view of shºwing how well he could On Sunday evening, at Teunple-Cloud, in the county of Somer
die, but to prove his humble submission to the laws of his set, Mr. James Dudden, of that place. -

offended country. He spoke of the man who assisted him in the On the 30th March, at Lewisham, Kent, Mr. James Grieve, ,
robbery, and seemed to feel greatly at the want of compºssion aged 69. - - -

which that person testified in never having sent to him during . On Saturday, the 3d inst., at Hastings, after a short illness,
his confinement. “But it is thus,” said he, “with the guilty : he Colonel Herries, of the Light 11orse Volunteers, aged 74. ...
has had all the plunder, and has left me all the bitterness; but I Lately, at Lane-end, Staffordshire, John Barmmer, h collier,
forgive him, and hope his conscience will whisper something aged 83 years, for the last twenty of which he had received pay
which I now feel.” At a few minutes after eight the drop ſelf. from the benefit society; he was of penurious habits, and re
Maevey struggled a little; Green was not observed to move. sided alone; on his sou visiting him previous to his death, he
creen i. left behind him a wife and three childreu. -
told him he would find a treasure concealed beneath a brick, nºt
on Thursday morning, Robert Dean, convicted for the murder the door. On removing it, upwards of two hundred guiueus tº
of Mary-Anne Albert, was executed on the top of Horsemonger gold were discovered, tea of which he bequeatined to each "
laue ºne'. an immeuse multitude was collected to witness the
nine grandchildren, and the remainder to his sou.
executionſ. The unfortunate man had been at prayer, with slight
intermission, from the period of his apprehension. He was on Printed and published by Jonx Henr, at the Exaris-n-offs'.
well...day visited by Lord Becksay-ge and Mr. Sinclair, both }9, Cathºriue Street, Strand, Price. 10d.
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No. 590. SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1819.
THE POLITICAL EXAMINER. remain unaltered, compared with those of Europe. The
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— - Chinese is still the same, because he is dull and cunning;

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
. No. 575.
PERSIAN AMBASSADOR, AND HIS COUN
. . . . . . . . . TRYMEN. . .
Pors.
but the Persian is the same, because he is sprightly and
satisfied. He overflowed with love and wine, in the time
of Damius; and he still overflows. The men were then .
famous for their majestic beards, and the women for their
black eyes; and they are still so. He wears the same
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softening and cooling turban, which the Greek unrolled

" ..º- " - - * * --

As the approach of the Persian Ambassador with his fair from his head on the plains of Marathon. His body is
Circassian has excited a good deal of curiosity, it may be folded in the same graceful vest, a medium betwixt the
as well to take the opportunity of calling some little atten scantiness of the sultry Indian and the cumbrous robes of
tion to certain inillions of men, yelept the Persians in ge the pompous Turk. Accused of indolence and effemi
.
*neral... . . . . .
- * * nacy, his marches still astonish the traveller, who had not -
- -

.This nation, which as a fixed and important commu yet learnt to reconcile the theories of virtue and enjoyment. .
mily, has lasted longer perhaps than any other in the world, Accused of insincerity and hyperbole, like the French, he .
shares in the general indifference with which the people of takes a thousand little pains to please, where the blunt
Asia are regarded in our country, notwithstanding their self-estimator takes none. Accused, in short, of being -

neighbourhood to our Indian-possessions. Intelligent immersed in vices, he doats on his scanty little stream of *
Englishmen resident in India have undoubtedly paid at Rocnabad, as the Greek did on his Ilissus, as every body
tention to it; but the subject cannot be said to be at all in love with nature doats on the veriest brook in a meadow, "
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and as nobody can doat who is not in love with nature,

pºpular among us. The only people we think worthy of and with the best kind of virtue besides.”
our natiee are the Chinese, who interest us with their
liads and their dullness. ...Of their customs and manuers | The Persians have their vices, as well as other nations.
we late ſull and perfect accounts, as dreary as the music Who could suppose otherwise, when they live under #”
of Hum-Foeg. With their little: eyes, chuckle-heads, despotism? Upon an impartial consideration of the various
bºoſtumed petitoes, crowning buttons, long nails and histories that have been written of them, it may be fairly
shortºroids, we are as well acquainted as with the ele | prouounced, as indeed it has been, that their greatest num- ' *-

gauries of our own couri. Finally, to them we send re r of vices are owing to their government. To this may
sºlet embassies, which gothrough every species of humi be added the personal example of their rulers, both civil
but the one that might be of service, and which and religious; and how do these rulers suffer for it?." The *
sitºgºlarly bow out again, ºr . . . . . ;-- kings of Persia have been remarkable for the wretched.
those among as who reflect at all on the political hess and the reverses of fortune which have begiſ brought
º:ions,
# Aations
and are interested in the history and manners, upon them by their tyranny and ſcentiousness;' and to
Persianust hate like a Persian priest, has become proverbial of the
that make a figure in burhooks,
climax of the worst passion in the world. When we fied"
says bean object worth attention. It is associated with:the
*progress of our intellect, and with the most entertain people who live under such men, brave, kind, hospi
ing and pediapswise period of it's developement. The table, nay even tolerantin'religion, and spirited in political :
Persinus, at one period of ancient history, even divide our discourse, excellent masters and servants, and with an in
attention with the Greeks; and their popular stories, full. veterate love of nature and a tendency to enjoyment, what .
ºf elegance, ſaucy, and gallantry, are hailed by our boy must we not think of dispositions which, generally pésk
hood with transport, as helping to satisfy the new and ing, cat, throw off the contagion of these perpetuatplagues !.
delicious appetite created by the Arabian Nights. There Their very beauty, which is universally striking, and et an
we meet with friendships, warm and trusting as our own ; amiable character, is no mean evidence of the natural hat
there are loves, that appear to *Is as real as they are lovely, - * Valºr AIRE (Art. Solomon, Dictionnaire Philosophique), was a
for they are like what we believe in at that time;—there Pleasant-joke on the brook Cedron, which he says was in a
are all sights and sounds, fit for the world in a young charming spot, only it was dry nine months in the year, and tº e
a little stony. This is good; but an exalting sectin-ut
ſºnry, aye, and realizing it too—ſor what the minā seas.ifisround
better. Some of the most celebrated Grecian rivers, as tº .
*ists enough so to be scen. Even the tyranny of the on Ilissus and Cephissus, are scarcely larger than brooks, and dry is:
nipotent caliphs and sultans comes to us...rather in a poeti anminer-time; but huw gloriously do they not run down from
glancing with divine shapes, and murmuring in ºr:
cal than actual shape, at that healthy and imaginative sea antiquity,
reverent ears with an averlasting freshness. Wolrats f.e.-,
*; and when we grow older and find how bitter a thing. count has been denied; but be this as it *}ſ we dare say that
all tyranny is, the brighter impressions of these stories SolomoN himself would have told us of it's moral beauty,
would
or at
least, of the clear pebbles over which it ran. He
ought to be more vivid to us, in shewing us what a noble fornd have
a charm in it, as he did in the eye of his mistress. (Yes
*ld it must be, which even tyranny cannot deprive of think this would have been some argument with a Frenchuan.)
delight. * ... " - - - - - -
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---. - ºut it belong" to the exceeding cunning of the boilsens to fining
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There is this peculiar circumstance attending the nations thing in a poor stream but its poverty. The French:4.ave been
excellent sºldiers against Superstition; but they are not leaders,
Pſ the East-that their habits, manners, aid languages, who know how to settle the regions which she had usurpeg. *…*
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mony of their minds. They have such a regard for genius, nication with Persia. It has again had Ambassadors from
that the most popular action of the most popular of their ‘Europe; and we agree in the opinion that it is destined
monarchs, the excellent KURREEM Khas, was the build to have them a long while, or at least to continue a long
ing tombs near Shiraz for Hafiz and Sadi, and endow while independent, and perhaps to augment it's import
ing them with gardens and other grounds, which are kept ance. The great reason of this will be obvious to any
in order by persons appointed for that especial purpose. one who casts his eye on a map of Asia. Persia stands
At the tomb of HAfiz, who is their Anacreon and favourite between Russia and India. In exclusive alliance with
poet, and out of whom the graver part of their voluptuaries Russia, it might hurt our Indian possessions, both by en
ingeniously contrive to get a religious double meaning, as couraging the hostilities of other people on our borders,
the Christian church has out of SolomoN's Song, it is a and of the discontented native chiefs. In exclusive alli
custom with the Persians to assemble in spring and summer, ance with England, it would risk it's own safety on the
and pass their time about the place in diversions, the prin side of Russia, whom it has reason to fear most, and who
cipal of which are reading his works and pouring libations wrenched Georgia from it in the present reign. With the
to his memory. By the way, it would be a curious matter friendship of each, it is a barrier against both.
of enquiry to consider how many of the Persian customs It is doubtless in reference to this policy, that the new
and opinions originate with the Greeks. The above, if an embassy is coming over; and perhaps it is to quiet some
Eastern, was also a very favourite Greek custom. The apprehensions of ours respecting Russia, or to propose
Persians are familiar with the works of AR1stotle and some mutual guarantee against her merchants, that the
Plato; and from the latter perhaps came that fondness Ambassador, who was over here before in the same capa
for the union of mysticism and liberal opinion, which dis city, is understood to be coming in a very special manner.
tinguishes a great and increasing sect, who are called He is said to bring presents, or overtures of presents, of
Soofees. It would appear from late writers (see, in par rather a remarkable nature. These however, aſter all.
ticular, the Persian History of Sir John Malcolm) that may only constitute part of his property, which he may
this sect, which has branched off into a multitude of others, not be Makaheah enough to share”. His Excellency is
is extending as rapidly in Persia, as infidelity has been for said to be an intelligent man, and a great favourite with
the last fifty years over Europe. One of the sects, called the King his master. He is remarkably accomplished for
the Nooreen, or the Enlightened, have a very noble doc an Asiatic in the languages of Europe; and having been
tribe for their foundation,--that men should not suffer in England, Turkey, and Russia, in which last country be
themselves to be influenced either by the hopp of reward or was also an Ambassador, he has written a long account of
the fear of punishment, but by the love of virtue for it's his travels, to which his Persian Majesty, they say, has
own sake. Another maintain the doctrine of the power of given the admiring title of the Wonderful Book. Persons,
absorption into Gop; another, the Mahabeak, or Revered,who profess to be in all his Excellency's secrets, the fair
that of a community of property and women; and almost Circassian excepted, inform us further, that he intends to
all have for their professed objects, universal benevolence enlarge it by his observations in France and Germany.
and a love of the beauty and kindliness of the Great Spirit The present King of Persia, whose name is variously
of Nature. All these opinious seem clearly of Platonic given, according to the ear or the caprice of travellers
origin. One of the means by which they increase so (Farh Ali Sciian, Furth ALEE Shah, FUTTEE Aly
rapidly, and is spite of all the efforts of the orthodox Shah), is now about forty years of age, and has reigned
church, who hate them with a proverbial hatred, is of a above half of that period. He has the reputation of being
very curious nature, and more resembling modern German a lover of letters, and is said to have given a man a Go
mysticism than the said mysticism would be willing to ac vernment for being a fine poet;-a proceeding, perhaps,
knowledge. This is, a profession of agreement, in the which may be ridiculed, but which is at any rate better
first instance, with the established doctrines; which the than giving a man an office for being a great fool, as
initiated, according to their progress in philosophy, are sometimes happens in polite countries. His Majesty is
allowed to explain away into partial inspiration and even a poet himself, which is a very rare thing in a Prince.
theism. -
Major Scott WARING, in his tour to Shiraz, has given a
in short, the whole consideration of the Persian charac specimen of his composition, which gives us an advanta
ièr, whether in it's virtues or vices, it's wisdom or it's folly, geous idea of his talents. It is the favourite Persian sub
it's aspirations or contentedness, it's simplicities or it's sub ject, a love-song. “When I yielded my heart,” says the
tieties, shews what a very superior thing it is to that of the royal lover, “she began her cruelty, yet she terms this ty
nations around it. Even if there were no other evidences ranny faithfulness.” This is very deep and Soofeenical;
of their natural importance, that people cannot be a vulgar yet his Majesty is said to have been very severe on the
tº common one, who, with a language little understood, Soofees, and to have let two of them be put to death by
have contrived to make the names of their favourite poets the priests, the last and best means, by the way, of add
phnost as familiar to the literary work as those of Hoxten, ing to the rapidity of their increase. Perhaps though he
Pindar, and Anacreos; and whose individuals can ne may wish to like them as a philosopher, he cannot find it
wer appear in other countries, without exciting attention. in his royal taste to relish them as a king. His Majesty
to the elegance of their appearance and the noble beauty however, in one respect, seems anxious to see fair play
of their countenances. -
hetween natural and monarchical right. As far back as
. . For the last twenty years the circumstances of the poli 1% he had upwards of 50 children. --

-ºcal world and the growing acquaintance with Asiatic * what if some Englishman, inclined to be a little two free,
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jetters have opened a greater and more interesting commu were to move for a writ of Habeas Corpus on the fair Cireessian?
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there as a reason why the thing which it suits the miserable
The speech of the Loap Advocate on Lord A. HAMIL shift of any political charlatan so to nickname, should at
once be denounced as dangerous and bad."—The Lorr
ros's motion for inquiry into the corruptions of Aberdeen Advocate is member for five Scotch burghs; and these
has been handled somewhat roughly by the Scotch Re
formist Editors, who, being more particularly acquainted º do not say much for the principle and candour
with the question, are very indignant at the astounding of a man, who will pass the limits of truth and even of
assertions of the Learned Lord. The Dundee Adverlizer probability for the sake of blackening the character of his
has dissected it at some length, and by so doing has pre constituents and others in the same situation, who are cry
seated us with a most amusing picture of this extraor ing out for relief from notorious oppression and mis
dinary jumble of contradiction, ignorance, and misrepre government.
sentation. , The writer says indeed that the Learned Lord BONAPARTE.
nust have been misrepresented by some malicious reporter,
and that therefore, when he mentions the speech or the We have before given our readers the principal passages
speaker, he means neither Iſle one nor the other: He says in the Introduction to the “Letters of Count Las Casas,”
that it has “ two fundamental (..." and lying.” which related chiefly to the general question of the justice.
The Learned Lord wanted to show, in spite of almost all of confining the Emperor in St. #. The following
the legal authorities, that the burgesses had not the right extracts are taken from the Count's letter to Sir liudson
of suffrage before the year 1469, which is asserted in all Lowe, describing the continual petty vexations, which
the petitions for a reformation; and his reasons are thus that wretched creature, “cloath'd in a little brief autho
stated:—“1. Because, according to BRApy, an English tity,” delighteth to force upon a great man in adversity.
lawyer who wrote about 1661, “probi homines did not His “ Lilliputian” soul cannot forego the pleasure of
signify all the cives” of London, that is, because all the teazing the gigantic mind of the once º
conqueror;
citizens of London were not then honest men. 2. Because, and, conscious that he is utterly despised by his prisoner,
in the Leges Burgorum, “the common servants of the be exerts his low cunning, in order to engage him in little
town were ordered to be elected by the whole Burgesses.” disputes about his harrassing restrictions and studied in
3. A minute of the Council of Å. dated 1591 sulis. No one, who knows or can imagine the pain of a
says that the ancient custom was “to continue a council descent from rank or power to a state of dependance, wiłł
to the day of its death.”. This is powerſul reasoning; tead these accounts without partaking of the Count's in
and by it anyman might prove that “he is an ass, although dignation at seeing a man like Bonaparte inade dependal.t
it be not written down.” If, indeed, the Learned Lord, on a man-like Sir H. Lowe:– -

who can chop old Latin with any scholiast who ever lifted extracts FROM The “LETTERs of count LAs casAs.” -
a cleaver, would descend a little toward English, he º Until the above period, visitors had been allowed to cºer
find out, that “the day of a Council's death" is the last Longwood, with a pass from the Grand Marshal. This was a
day of its annual service: To continue it to that day, was concession of mere courtesy, as those who commanded and regiº
no doubt the “ ancient custom.:” but the “modern lated, the police might at any time quietly prevent every, Gae
custom" is to continue it till it be both dead and rotten. from approaching, the above named officer, and thus, annul tºs
º Upon which custom the Learned Lord would improve, by nominal prerogative. However, you suppressed it altogether ;
and in signing all future permissions to visit Longwood, reserved
turning.'" resurrection-man,” and digging, as has been to yourself, in a most offensive manner, according to your view
done with that of Aberdeen, a rotten Council out of its of the subject, the privilege of showing your illustrious captive
grave.” The arguments about precedent are shown to be at your own good will and pleasure, and as a mere object of
about as good (for nothing) as the rest of the law. It ap curiosity. You were informed, by letter, that, if matters were
wears that since the Revolution there have been forty in not restored to their former footing in this respect, the Emperot
stances of election by poll-warrauts (warrants for the elec would resolve to see no one; and you were particularly requested
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to spare him from the importunities of those who came frºm
tion of magistrates by the burgesses) and only six for the yourself.
re-election of the old Council. The case of Montrose is a What was your reply? “That you were much dis
tressed to hear Geaeral Bonaparte had been importuned with
proof that “expediency” is no reason for refusing the poll
any visit, and about to take the most prompt measures to pre
warrant to Aberdeen, as the expediency would have been vent that incouvenience from being renewed.” troºn this
the same in both cases.—The second or false part of the moment we ware, in effect, almost entirely excluded from ex
Learned Lord's arguments consists chiefly of two asser ternal communication. As might be naturally expected, we
tions; that Radical Reform and Universal Suffrage were. were shocked at the new arrangement, and above a', by the
the objects of the petitioners, and Borough Reform the more ironical way in which it was announced. Feeling that the mea
pretence; and that the burgesses who had petitioned sure was one of the utmost cruelty, no wonder if it excited a
“were not the most respectable part of the towns they in generaſ burst of indignation from all these whom it was ºended
to secludv, But this was not to be the end of cur sufferings.
habited; they were distinctly and directly the reverse. The Some of your, agents," or others, of whom I am ignorant, but
most respectable persons were in the Councils.” On the whose zeit, doubtless, exceeded your intentions, caused it to be
first of these statements the writer observes that “every everywhere circulated, that the “General would no longer see
word of it is false: however necessary a Reform in Par any person, and had even º: cf his having been in
portúned by several people.” This report was current at the
liament may be, to the burgesses of Scotland, we suspeet, ramp and in the town; but I undeceived three prºfour individuals,
that object is distant and *: seen, compared with the who were made to believe in its ºorrectness. * Yet yon arº
abominations of their own Town Councils, which meet
surprised, nay, offended, at certain doubts and jealoºses ever
them at all times and in all places. Can a man not desire tained with regard to your conduct at Longwood. . Now, Sºir,
comfort and safety in the streets, or wish to see education, will you, who so often repeated to mºvlat you loved to examine
and improvement attended to, without being branded as a both sides of a q estion, be. º is pºps on aur side, and
* Radical Reformer?” Yet why should that be a brand? pronounce ..º. on the foregoing facts *
If Parliament needs no reform, there can be no danger in i now coine to a subject, which involves a coasiderable share
the name: if it does, the name should be an honour. But * The Adjutant-General, Sir Thomºeade, aud other conti
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the Opposition, the self-styled Whigs of Parliament, may ‘dential persons of the Governor's staff.
thank themselves for the turning of this weapon, against + Sir Hudson Lowe threatened to turn the Count.off the
them; for it was th; who first preached, then deserted, island, for having presumed to give this explanation ; and to.
and at last decried l’arliamentary Reform; till the ver make such a report, of those who liad listened to it, ,to Łord
name has become a term of reproach in St, Stephew's, an Bathurst,
life.
as would materially injure
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of delicacy; that of our disbursements at-Longwood. It was The celebrated defender of the liberty of the press,
one day signified to us, that, from above twenty thousand poºnds, Mallinkrodt, who was condemned by the Criminal Tri
hitherto devoted to the above purpose, orders from a superior bunal of Cleves to two months' imprisonment, for having
authority were about to bring it down to eight thousand pounds. published that the military exercises disturb the devotion
That, if the Emperor liked to furnish you with the surplus, of persons assembled in the churches, has been absolved
things would go on as they were; but, in default of this, con
siderable reductions became indispensable. The Emperor had by the superior Court of Nº.
which has annulled
no money, aud he was interdicted from any communication with he entence of the Tribunal of Cleves. The friends of
Europe. However, you proceeded to make the reduction*, the liberty of the pressin Germany exult sº much the more
*. you were well known to consider the sum of eight in this event, as an express order of the King of Prussia
thousand pounds absolutely insufficient.* You told me, that you had declared that no writer shall be punished for treating.
could take it uponjº. add four thousand pounds, inaking, of that which refers to the abuses that may take, place in
in all, twelve thousand pounds, and expressed great astonishment the administration. In consequence of this, the liberty of
at our not showing some gratitude for this piece of condescension
on your part. But I now tell you, Sir, a general feeling of in the press is supposed to be legally recognized in the
sligaation, and that carried to its utmost height, was the only Prussian States. . . . - -

sentiment to which your previous treatment of us could possibly The following biographical sketch is extracted from the
give rise. If hatred and contempt were all that could be ex Journal des Debats:- - -

pected from persons thus treated, they were not less called for M. Auguste de Kotzebue was the son of a Counsellor of
towards those who employed you, than yourself. What other Legation of the Duke of Weimar. Being appointed at the *ge
sentiments could be entertained by captives, who, at that moment, of 20 private Secretary to General Banr, one of the best informed
experienced the remembrance, and in all its bitterness, of the military officers in the service of Russia, he gained the good will
violated good faith, which followed the renniale mospitality of the Empress Catharine, who employed him to compo'º sºme
or rise BeLLEaophow! justly regarded by them all as an act of pieces for her theatre of The Hermitage. A rºmºte affection
perfidy, which had insidiously stripped them of liberty and united him to a lºussian young lady of noble family. He rose
fortune; that, after having shut them up in the closest seclusion,
rapidly to the post of President of the Civil Gºvernment of Revel.
was now bargaining about their subsistence, as if it had been in Esthouia, and to the rank of Lieutenaut-Colouel. The inde
the result of a mendicated favour, or solicited asylum! What pendence of his mind caused him to give in his resignation in
could men feel, with whom it was attempted to discuss objects, 1795. iie accep ed in 1796 the functions of Director of the
which, in the midst of their deep Inisfortunes, were totally un Theatre of Vienna; but he soon became disgusted with an office
worthy of a single consideration? Men, who, if loaded with such surrounded with difficulties and disagreements. On his return
gifts, could only think of the paramount blessings of which they to Russia, in the spring of 1800, he was arrested on the frontier
had been so inhumanly deprived. What could their feelings be, of the empire, and conducted is Kurgan, a handºm" little towa
when it was deemed necessary to calculate the expense of three in Siberia, where he enjoyed his full liberty, and had his piece:
or four places, which it was said the Emperor might fill at hisplayed by the inhabitants. His numerous friend.” removed
own table; that of a dinner, he was permitted to give once a the erroneous opinion entertained of him by the Emperor Paul;
week, and similar trifles? Ought not this contrast between the and that monarch having called him to his Court; foaded hina
frigid calculations of a purveyor, and that tempest, which
unavoidedly pervaded our passions, to have forcibly struck your
with marks of kindness. During the first 33: the reign of
Alexander, he travelled in France, Italy, and Germany. Ile ºp
selſ, at the idea of such details being obtruded upon him, who peared to settle at Berlin, where he undertook a ournal; but
had so lately governed an empire and made kings? To suppose having offended Bonaparte, he withdrew for several year" tº his
that he could patiently descend to hear them, is enough to make small'estate in Esthonia. Kotzebue took a share in the maſs
the bleod boil within me. The recollection of the scene-, to festoes and diplomatic notes of Russia in 1811 and 1813. The
which I am alluding, scarcely admits of my going on . . . . . | Emperor Alexander rewarded him by naming him Consul
+jere let me address myself to every noble and generous mind in General at Konigsberg; and by attaching him afterwards tº *.
the United Kingdom, may, to the whole British nation, and the department of Foreign Affairs, with the title of Counsellor of
Regent, by whom it is represented. It is not you I accuse; I State-rhe climate of Russia being unsuited tº his delice”
know, that you would yourselves become the severest judges, health, the Emperor Alexander pive him leave; in fºl?' 'º travel
were all that happeued at St. Helena made known to you. You in Germany as long as he thought proper, and continued all his
would, doubtless, be indignant at seeing the national character appointments, without imposing any condition but the honourable
thus compromised; and that where higher interests were to be one of making him reports on the stute, literary, politieal, and
considered, those delegated to serve you had disputed about a moral, of that country. Being informed of the fannical ****
ew pounds, where they were called upon to sustain the honour that was excited against him in the Universitie", he had demanded
of their country? Is this the generosity, the pomp, and grandeur, his passports to return to Russia, when assassinatiºn terminated
of which on boast 2 Are these your sentiments; could these be
his iife." He was only 58 years of age, but the public considered
your wishes? Is it thus that a great enemy, of twenty years, him to have been very old, because he had commenced his
ought to be treated in your name? A man, who, in the hour of literary career very young, and during 40 years his numerous
adversity, had such a high opinion of your virtue, that he sought. writings formed subjects of conversation. He was twice marrier',
a refuge amongst §. in preference to addressing Sovereigns, and has left 14 children. The eldest is a Captain in the Austrian
one of whom was ſuis declared friend, and the other a father-in service. M. Otto de Kotzebue, a Lieutenant-of a vessel in the
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* On the 17th of August, 1816, Sir Hudson Lowe wrote a round the world. - -

letter to General Möntholon, in which he stated his conviction April 19–Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
ºf the total inadequacy of the above-mentioned sum, and con has entered the 5th month of pregnancy. The healt #.
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eładed with demanding that twelve thousaud pounds per annum
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The Monitºur contains an ordinance approving and

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. authorizing the institution of a “Royal Society, fºr the
amelioration of Prisons.” . The King declares himself
--France. Protector of this Society, and the Duc d'Angouleine be
PARrs, APaii. 9.—We are authorized to announce that comes its President. The ordinancé consists of 23 article",
the certain situation of her Royal Highness the Duchess ef designed to regulate the manner in which this establishment
H-rry promises a new scion to the august dynasty of the shall carry into effect throughout the kingdom the purposes
‘Bourbons—The ceremony of the Lord's Supper was for which it was created. The statutes and regulations
Cºlebrated at the Palace yesterday morning atten o'clock. are to be submitted to the Royal pleasure; all candidate:
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Angoulême, the for admission must be presented by four members, and
#:
as it.
of Berry, and the Duke of Bourbon, were present after being admitted by the Society, must be approved of
His Rºyal Highness Monsieur performed the cere by the King. The funds which arise from the contribº
inchy of washing the feet, " ' " . . .. . |tiºns of the members mºst be dedicated exclusively to the
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improvement of the prisons. A council of 24 bns doctrines ; and finally, to separate crime from error, to inflict
(already elected and their names published) is to form the justice upon the former, and to submit the latter to the judg
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executive branch of the institution: at the head of this
council are the Ducs de la Rochefoucault. D'Albufera,
and de Broglie. The peculiar business of the body in
question, is to transmit to the Minister of the Interior their
sentiments upon every subject which concerns the grand
purposes of the institution—namely, the classification, em
The reporter concluded by stating some points of the projets:
upon which the commission were divided in opinion, one of
which was, whether the journals should be liable to prosecution
for publishing whatever was uttered in the Chambers. The
reporter himself was of opinion, that, if the report was correct,
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ployment, health, religious and moral instruction, of the

prisoners; as also the enlargement or more commodious * GERMANY. . -

adaptation of the buildings wherein they are confined; Augsburg, APRIL 3.-The Carbonari arrested in
and the proper means and fit opportunities of applying to §: Italy are imprisoned in the Venetian island of St.
ichael, where the preparatory investigations for their
each individual prison the general principles of improve
ment agreed upon by the Society, and sanctioned by Royal trials are making.
MANueim, April 6–The death of the assassin of M.
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judgment.
APRIL 11.-The confirmation of the intelligence which Kotzebue has been erroneously announced in the journals.
has been announced, of the conspiracy against his Majesty The wretch was removed, at ten o'clock last night, from
the Emperor of Austria, has been received: the plot was the civil hospital to a neighbouring prison, known under
to have been carried into execution at Rovigo, in Italy, the appellation of a house of correction. He ſainted whilst
and was only discovered a very short time previously to being conveyed thither. The physicians have declared
the hour appointed by the conspirators. ; fletters from that it was impossible he could recover. . It is even pro
Italy state, that more than two hundred persons have been bable that he will not live above a few days.-The
indispensable necessity of procuring thore material informa
arrested. . It will be curious to see how the Ultra-Liberals tion relative to the motives which induced Sandt to commit
will explain this event. We shall soon learn to what party, the crime, was strongly felt. The preliminary depositions
ko what class of political reasoners, the Carbonari belong. not appearing sufficient, a special commission on the part
APR11. 13.-Notwithstanding the obstinate denials of of our Court has been appointed, composed of Judges of
Sandt, it appears more and more established that he had the first rank, and presided by the chancellor of the superior.
accomplices. An innkeeper of Weimberg has deposed Aulic tribunal, M. de Hohenhorts. They have already
that when Sandt lodged at his house, he was accompanied commenced pr ings—Notwithstanding the pain of
by another young man. Other persons have given evi his wounds, Sandt is very calm, and continues to rejoice
dence to the same effect; but the unknown disappeared at at having succeeded in his enterprise. -

the town-gate of Manheim; leaving to his fanatic comrade

all the perils of the blow fate had consigned to its execu
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Journal des Debats, does not speak of any arrest, and LAxcAstºn.—Libet.—Mr. J. Edward Taylor, a respectable
affords no new motive for believing the reality of a con
*.*.*.*. his Majesty the Emperor of Austria. The cotton broker of Mauchester, was indicted by Mr. J. Greenwood.
boroughreeve of Salford, for having libelled his character, is
journals of Florence, Genoa, and Milan, do not notice writing him a letter, in which the terms liar, slanderer, and
any disquieting circumstance. scoundrel, were applied to him.
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Mr. Scarlet having stated to the Jury the malignity of the

ºf AMBER of DEPUTies, Arail. 10. offence,
M. Cºnvotsten, reporter of the commission charged to exa Mr. Taylor rose, (being attended by his attorney,) and de
mine the three projets of law relative to the press, ascended the livered a most eloquent speech to the Jury, in which he protested
tribune, and entered into an analysis of the various enactments against the mode of conducting criminal prosecutious in cases of
comprised in those laws.’ He observed, that in releasing the libel, charged the Jury to make themselves judges both of the
journals from a censorship, and thus removing the last obstacle law and the faet, and proved the following facts in justification
with which the Liberty of the Press was shackled, the Govern of the epithets applied to Greenwood:—In July last a public
ment had proposed, penal inflictions to restrain abuses which meeting was called in Salford, for the purpose of choosing four
might be sºbversive of public order or private interests. Some assessors, and Mr. Taylor's name was one of the number; when
Partisans of a restrictive system had accused the projet, as afford his name was called over, Greenwood said "I think I heard
ing too extensive a latitude to the licentiousness of publications; some one object to Taylor; some person said, “who is Taylor?"
but it was founded upon the author ty of the Charter, which de Greenwood replied, 'O, one of those reformers who go about
slared, that all Frenchmen have a right to publish their opinions, the country making long speeches,’ adding, “I understand he
in conforming to the laws which were enacted to repress the was the author of a hand bill in 1812, headed “Now or Never”.
abuses of this liberty. The commission, therefore, in recom which caused the mob to set fire to the Exchange.' . . Mr. Taylor's.
mending the adoption, had to observe, that as abuses of the press name was struck off the list at this assertion, and another sub
were to be determined by a Jury, the interests of society were re stituted in his place. In a day or two. Mr. T. beard of the
stored to their proper safeguard, and the severity of the law was calumny Greenwood had thrown upon him, and sent a polite
a sufficient guarantee against outrages to morality or public note, requesting to know the author, or person who had informed
order. “The Liberty .. Press,” he observed, “ is the great him of such a rumour: to this note no reply was sent: a second
moving principle of a Representative Government; it is also its met the same silent contempt; when,Taylor thought, proper to
ºpport. One object is to consolidate this form of government; cause a respectable friend to wait on Greenwood and demandau,
and we must consent to endure its inconveniences, if we would explanation, whom he thought proper to insult by advising him
enjoy its advantages. The government may be embarrassed; to mind his own business, and not to interfere in politica; treated
is plans may be traversed, and its intentions aspersed; but its Taylor's name with great disrespect; said he wished to have
justification will be, in its proceedings. The people may be nothing to do with him; and added, “you may tell him what
told that they are oppressed; they may be told of their fiber you like.'. These circumstances led Taylor to write and tell
ties; their rights may be exaggerated; but they will become Greenwood, that, as he refused to give his authority for having
familiar with these sailies; the habit of observatian will be used such expressions, he should consider him the author of the
calumny; that he was "a liar, a r}anderer, and an scoundrel,' and
a check against them; they will be gradually instructed, and
they will perceive, that in order to mislead them, similar that he should take the earliest opportunity of telling him so.
language has been on-former occasions employed.”—The de personally. In his defence, Mr. Taylor took an ºf...".
sign of the law, before them was not to spare what public ridiculing the technicals of the indictment, which charged him
interest required should be suppressed; its º was to protect with being of a wicked, malicious, and evil disposition, and
“efal controversy ; to encourage the dissemination of honesi apologised to the bar for invading their province. --
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Mr. SeaRLet, in his reply, delivered an apology for the gen water by the wind, after being seen near it by the witness.-The
tlemen of the robe, something in the spirit º the silversmith of Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Ephesus—onr. craft is in danger—great is the integrity of the Soxtenset.—Cooke v. Domvs.-This was an action brought
bar! He reminded the defendant of his temerity, and said, if he by Mr. Cooke, upholder, of Bath, against the defendant, for
had employed any of the learned gentlemen around him, it seducing his daughter, Harriet Cocke.-Mr. G. F. Williams, on
would have saved much time to the court; they would have the part of the plaintiff, started, that Mr. Cooke was a respretable
Fº for a mitigation of punishment, and the sentence would tradesman of Bath, and Miss Cooke was an actress of sºme
have been so much more lenient than it could possibly be ex celebrity at the Bath theatre. The defendant became acquainted. -
pected now, seeing how the defendant had indulged in tiew and with the plaintiff's daughter by attending behind the scenes, in
reiterated calumnies on the prosecutor.
January, 1818, and succeeded in accomplishing his designs.—The
Bason Woop, in summing up, told the Jury he thought Counsel for the defendant offered 300l. an’ſ costs, which the
Greenwood's advice to Mr. %,..., friend respecting politics, plaintiff's Counsel accepted. -

very good; that he did not knºw whether Taylor did go about
making long speeches, bat that he had made one there that day Giocesrºn.--William Burton was charged with the wilful
long enough ; and that it was the regular course for such de murder of William Syms. The deceased and the prisouer set
fendants as this to go to London to receive sentence; and if they out in a boat from Woollaston on the 3d of November to go to
had any recommendation to make, when they delivered, their Bristol, and having transacted some business, put into a place
verdict, it would be considered in mitigation of punishment, called Pyle on the 7th, where they were seen together at a public
jouse. Deceased showed three 5t. bills to the lan and
when sentence came to be passed upon him. .
The Jury retired at a quarter past eleven, and were confined some small notes. Prisoner and deceased slept together that
without fire, candle, &c. &c., during eleven hours and five night, and next morning embarked to return to Woollasten.
minutes, having deliberated until 20 minutes past ten at night. They were seen on the first part of their voyage by several
They were escorted to the Judge's bed-rosm door, where they people, but the prisoner arrived alone at Woollaston. Being
delivered their verdict of Not Guitty. asked where he had left his companion, he gave very contradic
tory answers; the boat was examined and marks of blood, which
Soxrnsrr.—JENEINs v. PALMER.—This was rather a curious seemed to have been partly rubbed out with a mop; were dis
case. The parties were farmers. In June 1818, a cow belong discovered. At the same time, the prisoner, who had left Wool
irg to the defendant having died of some disease, it was thrown laston very poor, was observed tº live very extravagantly; fºe
into the river Yeo by the defendant's order. In a short time, I. away two bills of 5l. of the Chepstow Bank; and a hand
owing to the putrefaction, the nuisance was so great, that the ierchief, marked W. S., which had belonged to the deceased,
body was obliged to be removed piecemeal. The plaintiff's was seen in the prisoner's possession. Ou the 27th the body of
cattle drank-of the water, and as several of them died of the same.
di-esse as the deſendant's cow, it was contended that they were Syms was found floating in the Severn, dreadfully disfigured,
with two fractures in the head, each sufficient to cause death:
lost in consequence of the infected state of the water—and there the pocket too, into which he had been seen to put the bilis at
fºre the plaintiff was entitled to recover their value, fºr whº h Pyle, was turned inside out.—The Jury returned a verdict of
the action was brought.—The defence was well conducted by Guilly, and sentence of death was passed, which was carried
Mr. C. F. WILLIAxis, who contended that the plaintiff's cattle into execution on Thursday week : the prisons, denied his guilt
had died of the same disease as the defendant's; that the effects to the last.
inferred to have happened from the dead carcase corrupting the
water were altogether erroneous; that contagion ended when an |
animal was dead, and that putridity exuding from a corrupt car- || * TUESDAY'S LONDON G42 LTTE.
-
case, when diluted by a running stream, would not, even if car- |
red into the stomach of a cow, destroy life.—Many witnesses | BANKitt 'I’TS. . "
were brought forward, and several medical gentlemen (among. J. Pritchard, Bristol, grocer. Attormies, Messrs. Poole and --
them,. Mr. Standert, an able surgeon of Taunton) testified, that Greenfield, Gray’s-inn-square. -

animal matter in a state of putrefactien will not communicate . R. B. Fletcher. Blackburn, Lancashire, manufacturer. Attar
contagion; that the efºvia thrown off by contagious or infec nies, Messrs. Bennell and Dixon, St. Swither's-lane. Lo
vious diseases are perfectly distinct from thºse which are the pro-fc. E. Jones, Kentish-town, tanner. Attorney, Mr. Carter, rd
duets of putrefaction; that the former are generated and thrown | Mayor's-Court-office, Royal Exchange."
off by diseased living bodies, the latter the product only of dead J. Pearson, Leicester, commission-agent. Attorney, Mr. Bever
animal or vegetable substances, and that hi *...". animal key, Garden-court, Temple.. - -

matter may be received into the stomach with perfect safety—(a e. t lphin, cheadie, Staffordshire, plumber. Attorney, Mr.
ſect which most Corporate Bodies have long since ascertained.) Barbor, Feuer-lane, Fleet-street. - -

To all, this Mr. Sergeant Pelt, had nothing to answer: but he R. Cope, woreester, victualler. Attornies, Messrs. Price, wii
sported some vulgar sneers against speculatiºn and philosophy; 'liams, and White, Lincoln’s-inr. - ---

which the Jury ſhowever seemed to treat with cºntempt, for they E. and E. Glaver, Warrington, Lancashire, brewers. Attorney,
found a werdict for the defendant, withºut ºbling Mr. Justică 'Mr. Chester, Staple-int. -

Best to sum up, . -- - - º: * * * * R. Abram, Liverpool, merchant. "Attorney, Mr. Chester, Staple
William Burge was indicted for the wilful murder of his father, inn. -

Thomas Burge, on the P8th of March last. The grisoner and p. Young and R. Anderson, Wapping, snil-makers. Attornies,
his ſhther, an infirm old man of 81, it eppeared, from the evi Messrs. Blunt and Bowman, Broad-street buildings.
dence, left their home on that day at nine o'clºckiip the morn J. Gunton, St. James's-street, Westminster, picture-dealer. At
inºr, and were out the whole day, during which they both got torney, Mr. Turner, Percy-street, Rathbone-place.' "
tipsy; was proved, that they went towards, bome together W. Splitt, Dawlish, Devonshire, house-builder. Attorney, Mr.
from a friend's honse; after dark, and two witnesses, who live ... [fore; jun. Hatton-garder. .
near their house, deposed, that they hasrd two. vºices, near a G. H. Bendall, Bristol; cornfector. Attorries, Messrs. Bour
well in the prisoner's garden and a noise likºw scuſſling. The diſon and Hewitt, Bread-street, Cheapside.
risoner went intº a public-house between eighs and nine, where.
; drank some liquor, and appeared as cheerful as usual; and
afterwards going home between eleven; and twelve, asked the
servant if-his father had returned; and said, he suppºsed he had
saturday's LoNilox G-48ETTE.
fallen into the well. Search was made next morning, and the BANkruptcy enlarged.
clé man was drawn out of the well: there were very few marks R. colt, Friday-street, warehouseman, from April 17 to April 24.
ºf violence on histody. . At the time aſ this discs wery, his hai - - BANKRUP'rcy-supersepºt).
was in the water, and as it had been seen by a witness early the R. and H. Barter, Bishop's wattham, Hampshire, &cers.
same morning about three feet from the water, a suspicion was --- . . . BANKRIPTS. -

excited, that the prisoner had subsequently thrown in the hat, J. Hoyland, Kºttingſøy, Yorkshire, grocer. Attorney, Mr.
in order to make it seem more likely that the old taan had falten - Blakelock, Serjeant's-ſnu, Flee-street. -

in by accident:+The Judge observed; that it, was pretty clear W. Heal, Bradford, Wiltshire, inăkeeper. Atternies, Messrs.
that the father had been violently thrown into the well; although ... Bºx, Son, and Meredith, Lºnghºyºsureet.
the evidence was not conclusive that the prisoner had done it i C. Brammer, Handsworth, orkshire, man-mercer. Attorney,
tº that it was possible that the hat had been blowu into the , Mr. Battyr; Chancery-lane. - -
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24;
s. Doutha', Liverpool, merchant. Attornles, Messrs. Blackstoc in astonishment and horror that any body shonki be driven
and Bunce, Ki-g’s-bench-walk, Temple. . . -

mad by sympathy with his fellow-creatures; but it is they

G. Fliner, Miºticº, Essex, therchant. Attorney, Mr. Cocker,
Nassau-street, Sohn, . ..
R. Milnes, Mirfield, Yorkshire, coal-merchant. Attorney, Mr.
Lake, Dowgate-hill.
J. Martin, St. Philip and Jacob, Gloucestershire, druggist. At
terries, Messrs. Poole and Greenfield, Gray's-inn-square.
A. R. Forbes. Bristol, draper. Attornies, Messrs. Price, Wil
liams, and White, Lincoln’s-inn Old-buildings.
J. R. Perkins, Carpenter's-hall, London-walk, ironmonger. A :
tornies, Messrs. Richards, and Medcalf, Chancery-lane.
T. Burcher, Mitchel-Dean, Gloucestershire, timber-dealer. At
tº rary, Mr. King, Serjeant's-ºwn, Fleet-street.
J. Rothwell, Arnold, Notting'amshire, hosier. Attorney, Mr.
sykes, New-inn. .
A. Áslat, Lambeth, victualler. Attorney, Mr. Popkin, Dean
street, Soho. -
must alter, not the Germans. If they are ineorrigible.
people will learn, from their own example, how to avoid
the name of assassin, and draw thousands of daggets
against them instead of one. Idle heads ! they thought
they were making use of a temporary and courtly thing.
when they succeeded in rousing nations against another and
a nobler despotism. Not they. They only put arms into
the hands of a new and mighty spirit, which is no more to
be laid by their canting exorcisms, than the vital spirit of .
the universe.
- By an extract which follows this article, it appears cef

F. Collinson, Cronkºd-lane, oil-merchant. Attornies, Messrs. tain that SAND was an estimable young man, whose en
Allison and Hundleby. Frºeman's-court, Cornhill. thusiastic freedom from the vices he abhorred had long led
C. Fluk, Silver-street, Wood-street, ribbon-manufactºrer. At him to brood over some means of stopping them. Ofie
termies, Messrs. Knight and Freeman, Basinghall-street. trait in his character is exceedingly amiable;—viz. that
rºtice of stocks on * *tcrºp at. "
“it was as easy to prepossess him in favour of a man, as
5 per Cent. Red................. ... 72; 3 per Cent. Cons...... 72:373. it was diſfieult to prepossess him against.” His friends do
Mr. S. C. does not seem to be aware that the Attorney-General is right to shew their friendship for him at an hour sº dread
not quite so tolerant as himself. - *
ful; but they are mistaken in their knowledge of human na-.”
Lyn A shall be inserted. ture, when they describe him as a young man subject to no
--
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impulses of mind, and having no tendency to melancholy.
His quietness and his gaiety are no proofs of the contrary,
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... THE EXA MIN F. R. -----------------
considering the avowed turn of his mind and imagination.
Howpox, April 18. The quietest of mankind are those who feel the necessity
of repressing their feelings; and the gayest are often those
By the last accounts from Manheim, dated April the 6th, who are able to feel strongly the reverse of gaiety. The
it appears that the assassin of Kotzebue was not dead. wrongs of his country at last drove him mad.” He lost his
# was surposed that he might live a few days, but not finer reason; and did not see, in the midst of all his pa
onger. He is represented as being very tranquil, and triotic logic and his aspirations after benevolence and
still congratulating himself on the deed. The sensation it virtue, that he was going to do a special act of vio
has made may well be imagined. The advocates of des lence which generally tends only to perpetuate vio
potism threaten Germany with consequences which were lence, and produce etermal re-actions of the most haté
not foreseen by “the infuriºted wreklies who armed his ful impulses of self-love. It is true, a re-action against
hand;" and the Cºurier hopes that “the wretch” may the deceivers of the Continent might read them a great
live, in the hope that he may be induced, “in some mo and useful lesson; but this is only because they are so no
ment of compunction for the enormity of his crime, to toriously and ungratefully in the wrong, that supposing
make disclosures that will explain its origin.” It is stated, even the necessity of assassination at any time, there is none
that “several writers, who are supposed to entertain the now ; and it is one thing to rise generally from under the
sºme sentiments as KorzExup, have received anonymous sense of an intolerable nuisance, and another to kill and
letters, in which they are warned not to be traitors to the slay at the pleasure of arbitrary feelings, as despºts and
cause of Germany;” that is, says the Contrier, “not to pre assassins do., .. . -

sume to think differently from their assassins, whose logic is • There is no other news worth mention from the Conti
the dagger.”. This is about as foolish as it is bare-faced. ºnent. There was a rumour, perhaps arising out of news
If the a-sassin's logic is the dagger, it is a mode of rea from Manheim, of a conspiracy in Italy to assassinate the
soning which he has been taught by kings and excommu Emperor of Austria, the man who told the Italian De
nicaters. The “last argument of kings” is a proverbial puties, whom he professed to deliver from the power of
expression for the sword; and millions of men, who have Buonapwat R, that he had conquered their country; and
had no better means of avoiding war than Kotzebus the they had no longer any right to choose a Constitution.
dagger, have been assassinated to settle their infamous gºr, - * - * - - -

- - * Jena, March 30.

and selfish disputes. The origin of the deed of SAND “The news, that the wen known Kotzebue was murdered by
is explainable in a moment, even should he never open Sund, and that the later innediately afterwards attempted tº
his lips again. It is the arbitrary selfish conditct, and put an end to his own life, caused the greatest astonishinent here,
and excited the next general sympathy. For Charles Sana wº
broken promises of those “infuriated wretches,”—no, - universally beloved as *.*. and sincere man, who writed a
not inſuriated wretches, but the exceedingly polished and ºld and cool presente of mind with ardent love of countº:
well-bred gentlemen, the men of “custom and consecrat from his honour and strict love of truth, which would not alſº,
| him to utter the slightest fatehood even injest, it used fo be snid
ed elegance,” who bow and smirk, and tyrannize, and proverbially—as honest and true as Sand He was by no meats
count thousands of the bodies of those whom they have a fºrtatic, and hated nothing more than all exalteå and high
dºceived, as no more than the steps to their old thrones. sounding language. He was pure and unspotted in the highest
sense of the ...; and spotless as his liſe was his inngination:"
The Russian employer of German spies may threaten as he In society he was very gay and lively, and fond of railery and *
Pleases, and the ether despots liſt up their hands and eyes bantering, and frolic.
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“Not the slightest trace of a melancholy and dark disposition would thus make the Jury a mere vehicle for their own
was ever perceived in him. ... It was as easy to prepossess him in judgments in all cases where they are interested to preserve
favour of a man, as it was difficult to prepossess him against a existing abuses.
- man; a certain invincible hatred, however, to every thiug base,
.tell people who publicly complain
and "...º. contempt for worthriess men, constituted a prin of wrong, and retort slanders on the slanderer, that they
cipal feature it, his character. He never manifested any parti ought to have redressed themselves by law, though they
cular hatred towards M. Von Kotzebae, of whose ... he know at the same time that such persons are often unable
was even remarkably fond. In the grent Liberation War, he to endure the expense and delay attendant on that course;
distinguished, himself in the battles of his country, and more and they know to that a man's character may be grievously
than once shed his blood for it. It appears, however, from a injured by another, whom nevertheless he cannot *.
more minute examination, that the deed had been long deli punish. They do not altogether refuse to let the trut
berated ou ; for the letters which were found here, and which have its effect, but they say it may be pleaded in mitiga
, were taken possession of by the Magistracy, prove this. Above
his door he had written in liebrew characters the words, “I shall tion of punishment; that is, they want to throw more
wake the morning dawn.” For a long time he had frequented the ower into their own hands at the expense of the Juries.
Anatomy School, and considered accurately the situation of the !. short, the present Libel law is a compound of arbitra
heart and the nobler parts, the injury of which was mortal; but finess, inconsistency and obscurity; under which no man'
which then excited no suspicion. Towards even his nearest knows whether he is doing what is legal or not; and it is
friends he was as much at ease on taking leave of them as ever. kept in this state by the interested ſeelings of lawyers, for
The act is hated here as well as every where else, but we can whom more employment is created by this obscurity than
*ot abhor the actor here, where we were acquainted with his there would be by any plain rule. Such men as Mr.Tayloit,
former life.” - -

“'Stuttgard, March 31. however, who justify themselves by means of truth, in

• *On Sand a sort of proclamation was
found, from which we spite of all the sneers of the learned profession, and the
difficulties maliciously thrown in their way, help to acce
shall bere communicate a few extracts t—“Half-formed fools, and
lane sciolists, always treat with contempt the truth which haslerate its overthrow, and deserve by so doing the thanks
its throne in the human mind. Many in the great German people of all the liberal, and more particularly of that Press, for
may precede me; but i also bate nothing so much as the the freedom of which they are struggling.
cowardice and vileness of these days. A sign must I give you ºf
this, I must declare myself against this inertuess;–I know no
thing more noble for me to do than to cut down the arch slave, HANovem.—The German Papers have lately been talk
and the symbol of this vile term, Augustus Von Kotzebue. . ing about a new and liberal Constitution for Hanover, and
. Thou corrupter and traitor of my nation—thou my the proceedings of the Assembly of the States there, in
German . . . . . . . . . hate, murder all those who dis reducing the standing army, and acting in a manner, some
tinguish themselves for their insolent and impudent sentiments what opposed to the understood, wishes of the Priscº
so much, that they forget the divine in thee, and consider the
nad multitude as a mere piece of mechanism in their wise hands, RegRNF, seemed likely to make the Government feel that
which they may turn at pieasure. The reformation must be comsomething must be done. Something, it seems, will be
pleted . . . . . . Brethren, forsake not one another in the done; but, as is usual in such cases, it will be as little as
exigencies of the times; laziness and treachery furnish a people can be helped. His Royal Highness has addressed a cºm:
munication
not the plantotothemake
States,
greatin changes
with slavery.” -> -
which heinsays, “That it is
- - + the Constitution.
r

The reader will see among the accounts of the provin according to which the States have the right to grant taxes.
cini trials that of Mr. Robert Taylor, for libel, which and to share in the legislation—partly because experience
affords another instance of the growing sense of Juries re has shewn the utility of this, ancient Constitution ºf the
‘specting the injustice of the present law of libel, or at least country, and partly because Constitutions introduced upon
of what is pronounced by the Judges to be such. A few merely theoretical principles will never be $o advantageous
unore such verdicts will compel, the interference of the as those which have been gradually formed according to
Legislature; and then perhaps the ATToñNEY-General the wants of the State.” ... " * - -

will come forward with some proposition a little more con The first part of an expedition, under Colonel Ext;.
destined sailed
formable to the feeling of the community than the present America, to join Sir Gregon.
on Friday M'Gregon
week from the port ofin,Dubliń.
Seºh.
regulations, which not only tend to the suppression of
trúth, but are in themselves contradictory. or instance, Wessels are now on their way from England to Galway.
..in cases of private prosecutions, a man may either bring an to receive another portion of Colonel Eyre's corps, ready
action for damages or he may indict: # he adopts the to embark at that port; and another vessel will be im
former mode, the defendant is allowed to plead the truth mediately taken up at Dublin for a similar purpose
of his statement as a defence; but if the latter, the proving Courier.
the truth will be, according to the doctrines inculcated by A City Correspondent, adverting to, the boast of Lord
Judges and time-serving Lawyers, of no avail. It is the Castlerºach and the Courier, as to the improvement of
same in ex-officio informations, when the alledged libel is oar commerce, observes, that at Lloyd's Coffee-house.
true; although, when it is otherwise, the falsehood is where the Underwriters could at this season scarcely sub
charged as an aggravation. The effect of all this—the scribe all the policies presented to them during those
riods when trade was really prosperous, it now not unfre
real object of the enacters of these laws—is two-fold;—to quently
prevent as much as possible appeals to public opinion happens, that only one policy º: in the course
through the medium of the Press, and to curtail the of a day. The long room, of the Custom-house, too,
authority and jurisdiction of Juries. Trial by Jury is which was usually crowded while trade was active, is now.
one of the ..I. of Englishmen, and one of with the exception of the Clerks, nearly as deserted, dur
the advantages which are coutinually held up by the advo ing office hours, as after those hours have clºsed.—
cates for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, as suf Chronicle. " - -

ficient to counterbalance the other trivial inconveriences In the Court Almanack, published at Berlin, Bona
of which we counglain. Yet, these very people are afraid panth is designated as a Knight of the Order of the Black
of it, and are continually endeavouring to lessen its bene Eagle. : -

fits. They dare not openly avow their opinion; but they §: the last Anniversary Dinner of the Royal Humane
would silently take it away. The Judges frequently go Society, the honorary Medallion was presented wo. Mr.
great lengths in expressing their opinions: they lay down Edwaan Dixos, Surgeon, of Wardour-street, Soho; for
whe-law to the Jury; they talk of their oaths to give a his prompt and able exertions, in recovering a lad appa
verdict according to the law, and nothing else; and they º drowned, by bathing in the Thames. . .
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Extigration.—The spirit of emigration from Ports Imsil BAR.—The gentlemen of the Irish Bar are con
mouth continues unabated. Every packet for Havre tinually giving specimens of their independence and a pro
conveys numerous passengers destined for America; and º: of resistance to the undue interference of the
nºt less than 500 Englishmen are supposed to he now at Bench in the mode of defending their clients. This spirit
Havre, waiting for a fair wind, manv of whom have been seems to be pretty nearly extinct in their English brethren,
there upwards of a month. About 70 persons, chiefly ar who are lamentably behind hand, in this respect in com:
tisans and mechanics, with women and children, amount parison with the ſearned profession both in º
and
ing in the whale to at least 200, have embarked during Scotland. At the Monaghan Assizes, the other day, some .
last week, intending to proceed from Havre in an Ameri: Orangemen were tried for the murder of two Catholics in
can brig belonging to Baltimore, which has been taken up an affray at Aughnacloy, and Mr. O'HANLoN had to ad
expressly ſor the purpose. . The expenses of the voyage dress the Jury on the part of the prosecution. Aſter
are to be defrayed out of a fund which has been accumulat stating the circumstances of the case, he remarked on the
ing for some time past by a small weekly subscription, probable prejudices of the Jury, who, as Protestants, and
and the toºl charge for each passenger is said to be less also, as he understood, as Orangemen themselves, might be
than 4l. -
disposed to extenuate the conduct of the defendants. At
Royal Foresight-A new cast iron bridge is, it is this period, he was interrupted by the Judge (Baron
said, in preparation at Woolwich, to re-place the Pagoda M'Cºrt.I.A.N.D) who told him that he could not allow any
º in St. James's-park, the timbers of which are so allusion to the religious or political opinions of the Jury:
much worn and decayed. : - to which Mr. O'Hanlon replied thus:—“My Lord, I
ºaily papers some
t
Poor FAMILY AT ... tºº. from trust. I never shall be wanting in all due respect to the judi
weeks ago a paragraph respecting cial character. And sure Ham. I never will allow the pri
the lamentable distress of this family º: . º: will vileges belonging to the Bar, to be curtailed through me. I
be pleased to learn that the liberality of the public was not will not o'erleap their linits; but I will not forego an iota
appealed to in vain, a sum of money having been raised, of my right. I here prosecute for the Crown; I am re
not only sufficient to alleviate their present distress, but sponsible; I alone am responsible for the course I take in
also to allow part of it to be laid by for the use of the this Address, and I. beg to say, F will pursue to the end
mother and children. The total subs riptions amounted my own view of what I deem to be proper for me to say
to 1491. 13s., of which 321. 2s. have been applied to the on this occasion. I am much mistaken if I shall give any
payment of their debts, the redemption of necessary arti just grounds for animadversion.”—Baron M'CLEit.And–
cles of furniture, and their immediate wants; 171. 1 is are “Then proceed, Mr. O'Hawton.”—The Learned Gentle
man, having thus succeeded in obtaining permission to
reserved for their maintenance until the husband can pro state
sure some employment, and 100l. have been placed in a whatever he thought necessary for his case, went on
Savings Bank, to be laid out at some future period for the in the same manly strain of observation relative to the opi
advantage of the wife and children. … A list of the sub nions of the Jury.—The prisoners were acquitted.
scribers, we are informed, will not be published, as the On Monday, at the Mayo Assizes, the case of Fitz
number of them would make the advertizing too expen grfalo v. KERR, for seduction of the plaintiff's wife, was
sive; but a complete account both of the sums subscribed tried. The whole day, was occupied with the speeches of
add the application of them may be seen at the shop of Counsel and the evidence, the Jury retired late at night,
Mr. Savage, hair-dresser, in the Temple. and remained shut up till 10, the next morning, when they
The trials of Baguley, Dausſmoso, and Jonsston, returned a verdict for the plaintiff-Damages 1500l. The
for sedition, in having harangued the mob near Stockport, damages were laid at 20,000l., but it being admitted by
telling them that they must demand their rights, and use the plaintiff's sister, that the lady had been equally con- .
force to obtain them, if that demand were not complied descending to other gentlemen besides the defendant, the
with, came on at Chester on Thursday, morning. The Jury did not think that the plaintiff had suffered much loss.
trial lasted till near seven at night, when the Jury, without RfAcn of PRIvilege.—A letter (too long to be in
retiring, found the prisoners-Guilty. They intended to serted) has been sent us, pointing out a circumstance which
have conducted their own defence; and it was only a few the writer considers a breach of the privil of Parlia
minutes before the trial, according to an account in the ment. Mr. Leslie Foster, M.P., holds the situation ºf
Courier, that they requested Mr. Williams and Mr. Jones Counsel to the Revenue Commissioners in Ireland, and
to kecome their Advocates. - ... * receives a salary paid out of the Customs; and our Cor
Mashi Age Cerewoxy.—“In our journal,” says the respondent contends, that he is therefore incapacitated
Times, “is a protest upon a marriage, which we insert from sitting in Parliament by an Act, which declares, that
only because the bridegroom is known from another work, all those are incapacitated, who are “concerned, either
which has obtained some motoriety. We know not whe directly, or indirectly, in the farming, collecting, or ma
ther the protest, when offered to the Clergyman, was ac naging" the revenue: and that this principle has been
cepted by him. The whole affair, however, is amusing proved in the case of Mr. Fosten himself, a new writ hav
enough. Wüo obliged the parties to go to church? If ing been moved in Parliament for Yarmouth, Isle of
Mr. FEARox and the fair Johanna objected to making a Wight, when he first accepted the situation. “It is how
religious ceremony of their marriage, they might have co ever alleged,” says our Correspondent, “that he has relin
habited, as they seem to preſer, upon a simple contract.”— quished the salary (100l. a-year) attached to his situation,
So that, accor ing to this new logie, no one ought to com and has therefore removed the disqualifications. But the
plain of any oppression, if he could avoid it by incurring enfoluments of his office, arising from fees for business,
a greater evil! part of which he does not perform, exceed 6000l. a year.
Monument to Burns.—A Meeting is to take place
paid out of the Revenue, and allowed to the Commis
next Sathrday, at the Freemasons' Tavern, respecting the sioners in their accounts with the public.” The giving
erection of a Monument at Edinburgh to the Memory of up a trifling salary, and retaining the chief profits, if it be
Buans. The measure originated with a few Gentlemen at true that Mr. Fosten has done so, would therefore be a
, who deserve infinite credit. ... We are sorry the mere pretence, and does not at all affect the question
information came to us so late as to allow us neither time whether a man holding such a situation is entitled to sit in
Parliament. -
For room for saying some more words on the subject; Yesterday, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucestes wi
but it is abundantly eloquent of itself, to avery genuine sited the Spring Gardens Exhibition, previous to its open
lower of Patriotism and poetry. *
jag to the public. . . .. - -
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The Rev. W. Butler.—Our readers will find, in an will be pleased and even bettered to see, how much more
other part of our paper, some observations on the shuffling harmless as well as entertaining are those modish varieties
defence of this meek Christian. Another Correspondent, of character, which they have been accustomed to read, or
under, the signature of “ a Constant Reader,” urges the to meet on the stage, with a sort of half-doubt whether
ropriety of the publication of the Reverend Gentleman's they were not countenancing something wrong. here is
etter to Earl GRósvenor, as the reply of the Noble Earl nothing that does more harm in the world than this kind of
has been printed. He thinks that reply contains expres false conscience acting upon natural and kindly inclination,
tions, which justify a presumption that the other letter was and nothing which it is more the business of a philosopher
not free from insinuations or charges against Mr. Rogers' to remove.—The following passage, in which Mr. Hazlitt
character; and if so, we should know what to think of gives an account of the nature and superior claims of the
Mr. Butler's assertion, that he had never tried to injure prose comedy of England, is perhaps the most masterly in
Mr. R.'s reputation. the hook:—

COURTAND FASHIONABLES. The Way of the World was the author's (Congrere'-) last and
- - - | most carefully finished performance. It is an essence a 'rhost top
Letters from the Duke of Cºrrscr give very un fine; and the sense of pleasure evaporates in an aspiration after
favourable accounts of the state of Hanover, as far as relates something that seems too exquisite ever to have been realised.
to domestic comfort. House-rent his Royal Highness re After inhaling the spirit of Congreve's wit, and tasting “love's
presents, as equally high as in London; and the expenses thrice reputed nectar” in his works, the head grows giddy in
turning from the highest point of rapture to the ordinary busi
in food, and raiment, in some respects still greater. ness of life; an we can with difficulty recal the trunnt Fancy to
“Hanover,” his Royal Highness adds, “is no longer the those objects which we are ſain to take up with here, for better
same Hanover it was before the entre of the Freach troops.” for icorse. What can be more enchanting than Millainant and
His Royal Highness concludes by declaring, that nothing her morning thoughts, her dour summei's? What more pre
shº! prevent his return to Old England–Morning paper. early, voking than her reproach to her lover, who proposes to rise
On Monday aſternoon, at the time the Duke of York “Ah! idle creature!”. The meeting of these two lovers
after
was in attendance upon the King, at Windsor, as his and voluptuous the abrupt dismissal of Sir Wilful, is the height of careless
elegance, as if they moved in air, and drank a
Royal Highness was in the act of opening a door of a finer spirit of humanity. -

Footn in the Castle, one of his spurs canght the loop at the “Mittamant. Like Phoebus sung the no less amorous boy.
bottom of his pantaloons, which caused him to ſali, when Mirabell. Like Daphne she, as lovely and as coy.”
he unfortunately broke his right arm. An alarm was Millamant is the perfect model of the accomplished fine lady:
spread through the Castle: the Duke and Duchess of | “Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare,
Gloucester, the Princess August A, the Princess Sophia, Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air;
the Members of the Duke's Council, the Physicians in at Choose a firm cloud, before it falls, and in it
tendance on the King, and several others hastened to the Catchere she change, the Cynthia of a minute."
spot: when it being ascertained by the medical gentlemen She is the ideal heroine of the comedy of high life, who arrives
that the arm of his Royal Highness . .a tinessen
at the height of indifference to every thing from the height of
satisfaction; to whom pleasure is as familiar as the air she
ger was sent to procure a surgeon with a sible speed, draws; elegance worn as a part of her dress; wit the habitual
and Mr. O'Reilly, of windsor, soon ...
and set the language which she hears and speaks; love, a matter of course ;
fractured limb. This being accomplished, his Royal. ºf who has nothing to hope or to fear, her own caprice being
Highness felt himself as comfortable as possible under the only law to herself, and rule to these about her. Her words
such ºi!Cºnstances, and ate his dinner very heartily. seem composed of amorous sighs—her locks are gianced at pro
His strate admirers or envious rivals, -

Royal Highness is fast recovering.

- “If there's delight in love’tis when I see
* - º

Thnt heart that others bleed for, bleed for me.” -

LITERARY NOTICES. She refines on her pleasures to satiety; and is almost stified in
the incense that is offered to her person, her wit, her beauty, and
her fortune. Secure of triumph, her slaves tremble at her frown:
No. 52. her charms are so irresistible, that her conquests give her neither
surprise nor concern. “Beauty the lover's gift”—she exclaims,
in answer to Mirabell—“Dear me, what is a lover that it can
Lectures on the English Comic Poets. By William
giye * Why one makes lovers as fast as one pleases, and they
- Hazlitt, 1sq. .
live as long as one pleases, and they die as soon as one pleases:
Wr take the opportunity of a favourite author and an at and then if one pleases, one makes more.” We are not sorry to
tractive book to return to the original object of our Lite see her tamed down at last, from her pride of love and beauty,
rary Notices, which was merely to give a general charac into a wiſe. She is good-natured and generous, with all her
ter of a work, and as occasion might allow, an extract or temptations to the contrary; and her behaviour to Mirabell re
conciles us to her treatment of Witwoud and Petulant, and of
so. If we can do it with a book from which we are her country admirer, Sir Wilful.-Congreve bas described all
tempted to make a great many extracts, we shall the more this in his character of Millamant, but he has done no more; and
easily excuse ourselves to our consciences, when we come if he had, he would have dome wrong. He ifs given us the
to others. But in fact, it will be better for every body. finest iden of an artificial character of this kind; but it is still
The reader will find in this book the usual characteris the reflection of an artificial character. The springs of nature,
tics of Mr. Hazlitt's criticism,-the same knowledge of passion, or imagination are but feebly touched. The impressions
human nature, the same contempt of prudery and, self-love appealed to, and with masterly address, are habitaal, external,
and conventional advantages: the ideas of birth, of fortune, of
in displaying it, the same readiness to he pleased with connexions, of dress, accomplishment, fashion, the opinion of the
what is reconciling and kind, the same metaphysical nicety, world, of crowds of admirers, continually come into play, flatter
the same apparent love of paradox in his zoºl to see fair onr vahity, bribe our interest, soothe our indolence, fall in with
play, and the same abrupt and powerful style, which hike our prejudices—it is these that support the goddess of our idols
an oak-tree throws out its branches in short and pithy di try, with which she is every thing, and without which she
visions,
ical oftenand
verdure, terminating however
blossoming in a profusion of poet
into floridity. • *
would be nothing. The mere fine lady of comedy, compared
with the heroine of romance or poetry, when stripped of her ad
ventitious ornaments and advantages, is too much like the doll
We guess that this book will rank next in popularity to stripped of its finery. In thinking of Miliamant, we think almost
the Leº's on Shakspeare. , it's subject, being artificial as much of her dress as of her person: it is not so with respect
life, will find a more general reflection in people's expe to Rosalind or Perdita. The poet has painted them differently;
rience, that that of mere poetry; and beside; this, they in colours which “nature's own sweet and cuuning hand laid
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on,” with health, with innocence, with gaiety, “wild wit, in perished, and, what is worse, has perished ingloriously, since
vention ever new ;" with pure red and white, like the wilding's its final doom was on Monday night pronounced by an audience
blossoms; with warbled wood-notes, like the feathered choir's; which did not fill half the benches of the theatre. Thus even'
with thoughts fluttering on the wings of imagination, and hearts the wretched play-house tactics, that could descend to administer
panting and breathless with eager delight. The interest we feel to the spirit of tumult, and sport with the feelings of the per
is in themselves; the admiration they excite is for themselves. formers, by making them its first object, for the sake, apparently,
They do not depend upon the drapery of circumstances. It is of drawing another crowded house to condemn the play, have
nature that “blazous herself” in them. Imogen is the same in been disappointed of their object. We are unable to assign mily
a lonely cave as in a court; nay more, for she there seems some other expanation to this conduct, for the manager must have
thing heavenly—a spirit or a vision; and, as it were, shames been convinced, if the proceedings of the first night were faith
her destiny, brighter for the ſoil of circumstances. Millamant is fully reported to him, that his absence alone, whether real or
uothing but a fine lady; and all her airs and affectation would pretended, arrested the full career of justice. On the rising ot
be blown away with the first breath of misfortube. Enviable in the curtain on Monday evening, it was evident that the play
drawing-rooms, adorable at her toilette, fashion, like a witch, would not be suffered to proceed, unless some device were
has thrºwn its spell around her; but if that spell were broken, adopted to change the temper of the audience. When the first
her power of fascination would be gone. scene, therefore, perfectly unheard, had proceeded about half
* -

=-tº-Ri. way, the manager himself, Mr. S. Kemble, appeared in propria

persona. He began his mixed deprecation and apology, by as
The AtricAL EXAMINER, suring his hearers, that he was not only in reality absent on the
night the play was originally brought forward, but that he had
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octually received the permission of the Committee for that pur
-

pose, Why the important functions of manager were suffered to

* arturer---ºn r. remain in abeyance at a time they were so peculiarly called for,
Tur Italians. This piece, which has produced a great Mr. Kexble did not explain. After he had thus disposed of that
part of the question which related to himself, he proceeded, by
deal inore talk than it deserves, and given occasion to the
the aid of a car taper, to recite a sort of address to the public.
betrayal of vanities and palerings to which it is extremely
This entious document, new at least in the mode of delivery, in
unpleasant to refer, was exhibited again on Monday, and formed the house that the play had been brought out to satisfy
ui to a most unwilling death. We have taken the fol the expectation and curiosity generally excited by it. An humble
fº. account from the Times, for we were not present entreaty was then set forth, to obtain indulgence and forbearance
ourselves. We had had quite enough the first night; and for the performers; urging, with suſlicient propriety, the distress
it required no great *#
it to see how the matter would they were exposed to, and the impossibility under such circum
turn out on repetition. The only unexpected circumstance stances of doing themselves or the author justice; concluding
with an assurance, that the tragedy, if judged unworthy, should
was the thinness of the pit. The town had become ſully that evening be withdrawn. This intimation was received with
acquainted with the subject; and were not to be induced considerable applause, and the play, in comparative tranquility,
to till the house even by all the spirit of holiday, and the was now suffered to proceed. There was something highly ludi
infinite pains-taking, at once coy and gross, which is na crons in the turn uow taken in the disposition of the spectators :
turally tributed to the author himself. The reader re. as they had debarred themselves, by a sort of mutual consent,
members his advertisement quoted in our last. Here is the unruly expression of their displeasure, they took refuge in a
another, which appeared on Monday, and is written, if mock applause which was liberally and carefully bestowed on
the worst passages. In this spirit, a song, introduced in the
not by the same hand, in the same spirit. . It would will character
ingly have had it supposed that the Editor of the paper narrowly ofescaped
Scipio, and miserably performed, was encored, and
wrote it; but the unlucky insertion of the words “ f. been made in the piece, and considerable care has been exercised
a third hearing. Some curtailments have
a Correspondent,” which is the mark set upon a puff to remove all the stumbling-blocks out of the way, that on the
turns the phrases “we must say” and “we underständ” first night proved so fatal. The characters of Fontano and Scipio
into a precious commentary upon the “caſin though have been shortened by one half. There was still, however,
manly sense of injury.” -
ample matter left to work upon; the ſanits could not all be re
“The Italians—(From a Correspondent).--It is but justice to moved without destroying the fabric. At the end of the third
Mr. Bucke to state a few of the obstacles his Tragedy will have act, when the half price brought in an accession of strength, a
to encounter during this evening's performance.—1st. It will be party of malcontents who were not aware of the original contract,
represented on a night proverbially noisy and clamorous—Easter the ſittle disposition to Peace and order that existed in the house
Monday, 2dly. The principal tharacters will be supported by was extinguished; the fourth and fifth acts hurried on with
persons for whom they were never intended. Sdly. It will have rapidity to their conclusion amidst unceasing clamour. The
to encounter the active hostility of the partizans of Mr. Kean; pittites turned their backs on the performers, amused themselves
the enemies of the Committee; the enemies of the Establishment; by repeated cheers, (some we understood to be for Keas, and
the enemies of the Performers; and, “though last, not least,” others for the probable fate of the play); and when tired of that
the ignorance and vulgarity of that numerous order of persons, amusement, by calling on Mr. GALE Jones, who was in the boxes,
who, without possessing one single idea of their own, go to a for an oration. When the descent of the green curtain, rather
Theatre for the express purpºse of making a riot. Indeed we than what could be collected from the stage-action, announced
must sev, that tec farent that this Tragedy should have been the conclºsion of the play. Mr. KEMBLE came to “collect the
performed at all, under circhm-tºuces so decidedly unfavourable. suffrages.” He received so little attention, that he was compelled
The Author has prºtested against it from the beginning; and to withdraw upheard; when, after a-few moments of clamour, i
among his private friends, we understand, frequently gives way to large board was exhibited in front of the stage, and was received
a calm though ".”y sense of injury, at the tranger in which has with u'shout of triumph, when discovered to announce that
literary interests have been si orted with." - -
“The Italians” is withdrawn. Tranquillity was not, however,
-
- -

very speedily restored; and the after-piece, which was The

And what of the support which the piece was to re Castle of Wonders, was treated with very little more ceremony
ceive from the opposite of all these hostilities 4–from the than the tragedy. . A large party even kept possession of the pit
enemies of Mr. KrAs –the friends of the Committee (if after the end of the second piece, and, though their object did
indeed they cared about the matter) 2–the friends of the not appear very definite even to themselves, were not to be ex
establishment 2—the friends of the performers?—and pelied even by showers of water from the gallery, or the more
“ though iast not least,” according to Mr. Bucke's former formidable irruption of the peace officers. Both these º:
evidently prolonged the disposition to be unruly, which was
advertisement, the mobility and gentry, and all that more gradãally
numercus and respectable portion of an audience who ad able enough, subsiding. The effect of the first shower was laugh
as at least 50 umbrellas were immediately elevated
mire his production?--Büt enough—enough!—The fol as a future protection, while the discordant sounds, dancing and
•ºwing is the account from the Times:– flapping the benckes, were renewed with a greater violence than
“The tragedy of The Italians, if we * y trust the declaration of ever. One bench was broken, and the fragments thrown on, the,
the nanager, is withdrawn from the stage. The piece has stage. We left a small party at 12 o'clock, but their vigour was
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diminishing, and there appeared no tendency to further mis has. We even preſer it to any other we have yet seen;
chiel." - -

and there are touches in it, which will induce us to pay

The holiday aſſerpiece produced here this week is called! attention to the next character he performs.
Abudah, or the Talisman of Oromanes. It is founded on The holiday aſterpiece here is entitled a grand dramatic
one of the stories of that pleasing though somewhat bi spectacle. Fortunatus and his Sons, or the Magic Purse
good imitation of the Eastern Tales, caiſed the Tales of and Wishing Cap, founded on Decker's play of Old For º:
the Gewii. Abudah (Mr. H. KeMhle) is tormented by tunatus. Old Fortunatus! what antiquity does this
the nightly visits of an old hag, who says she will never word, applied to the story in Elizabeth's time, show for
-let him rest till he has procured the Talisman of Oro our old boyish acquaintance! We have met with Deck
manes. . He is warned by the visit of a good genius not en's performance in the collections of old plays; but we
to !. her attention; but he is too restless to obey him; cannot say we have read it. . It was the allegorical per
and accordingly he goes with great bribes to the Genius of sonages, we suppose, that frightened us off; for they were
Riches, who gives Wim a box, which he in vain attempts not suited to Decken's genius; and if not well treated, they
to open. The hag tells him to go for the keys to the Ge are very alarming. We thought however that we could
nius presiding over Pleasure; he does so; and after some discern something of the old thoughtful cast in passages of.
dances and a feast, which are to represent Pleasure, he the new piece, especially in Fortunatus's language, and that
gets the box open, and finds it empty. . The good Genius ed of his true old half-starved servant, who is excellently perform
then appears to him in his despair, and tells him that the which byBLANchard.The tremulous ſondness and wariness with
Talisman is Content. The moral is somewhat musty, as he cherishes his unaccustomed gold in his breeches
well as servile and desponding. It proves nothing to self pocket, keeping his hand ever upon it so as to give him
shew a man the abuses of enjoyment, and then tell him a hitch in the gait, must be intensely felt by any un
that whatever his lot is he must be content. It remiuds usual money-holder who has been through the streets with
us of the recommendation of the Freiich prisoner, who, in a banker's check about him. 'The scenery is splendid ;
a book written on the subject of his captivity, says, that and the way in which Fortunatus, mounts away in the
there is a secret which can overcome all such misfortunes— Dey's chair with his Highness's wishing cap on his head.
c'est la gaieté. Content, which in fact means patience, is and the guards liſting their pikes aſter him, very com
a very good thing, when, nothing else will do; and la plete (ºr
and satisfactory.
gaieté is a better, if a man in poverty and the jaundice can - --_-_

command it. But there is no reason upon earth, why

things should go on as they do, with all their monstrous FINE ARTS.
inequalities, bigotries, and absurdities, purely because con
tent is better than despair. The doctrines of submission - SIR. J. F. LEICESTER'S GALLERY.
and obedience, and the pedantic part of virtue, are not the The Gallery is not yet closed, but as there is a great and
best things to be copied from Eastern stories, nor by any ificreasing demand on our attention ſtom Publications of
means constitute the charm of them; yet these are what Art and Exhibitions, we must from this day postpone our
the Author of the Tales of the Genii is continually perking remarks till the season it will be next opened by its pa
in one's face. He was a Clergyman. triotic Proprietor. We shall finish with a name deser
corext cartner. vedly pronounced by Fame, H. Fuseli, Professor of, or
A new performer, Mr. YATEs, anpeared here on Tues more properly, Lecturer on Painting to the Royal Aca
env.
day in the character of Falstaff. We some how or other
missed him in a previous performance, that of Iago. His There are perhaps few Painters whose works giye so great
Falstaff has some good points about it, if we may use a portion of novelty to a Collection of modern Pictures, as
such an Hibernianism in speaking of that walking round those of Mr. Fusrii, because while his style, as it regards
house of jollity;—but they are not of the highest kind; form, colour, and execution, is very peculiar to himself, so
and we fear that, altogether, it must be added to the long is also his class of subject. His fancy most delights in
list of failures in the representation of this character. Mr. visions of ideal existênce. It seems to be impatient of
Yates was very good, for instance, in what may be called the impressions derived from the actualities of life, from scenes
animal part of his performance,—in a certain luxuriant cut that are familiarised to our thoughts by the established
of . in the gander-like carriage of his body, and in laws of Nature, and the almost unvarying currents of hu
imitating the breathless chuckes of corpulent ok! age. But man motive and passion. ... His imagination receives and
in the dialogue, in the genuine easy humour, in the con communicates a greater relish from fictitious spiritualities,
tinuous flow of wit and drollery, there was the usual de and rejecting objects and occurrences that are moulded by
ficiency. He was only striking by snatches, and then la the visible and acknowledged hand of Nature, and that fill
boriously. He aimed at too exclusive an intercourse with up the allotted time of the “fretful ſever of life;” takes an
...! also had
the audience. His the usual defect of ardent spring beyond this
not being genteel enough. ...This is a common mistake “Visible diarnal sphere,” .
perhaps in the general apprehension of the character. or remaining there, makes, it the theatre of beings and
Falstaff is undoubtedly a gross liver given up to his tavern transactions, bred by a wild and vigorous fancy from the
..". and bearing unequivocal marks of his having various, modifications of territic feeling. , Hence if Mr.
moulded both mind and body according to the sphere he Fuseli's peculiarities of colour, form, action, &c., are de
rolled in. But a certain superiority of the gentleman never viations from the purity of Nature, they are deviations
forsakes him. It looks forth in the turn of his wit, in the less to he regretted than in almost every other class of sub
ease with which he can play off fine words to foul pur ject, his design in general being not to impress our minds
poses, in his masterly .# over his followers, and with what is or has been actually seen or acted, but with
in the iafinite self-possession of his encounters with the actions and objects created under, and influenced by,
great. Add to all this (though we allow, it would be another destiny beside that of common mortals. In a
eacugh, without it), that he was well educated, was word, Romance, whether of superstition, or poetical inven
page when a boy to the Duke of Norfolk, and afterwards tion, is his forte. If his subjects then, and his manner of
a Templar. Justice Shallow was proud to recollect him. executing them, are in-some degree out of Nature, the
We cannot think, therefore, that Mr. Yates bas suc uliar 'bent of his genius renders them in effect natural
ceeded in his Falstaff; but then nobody else now living y communicating from them one prime feeling in nature
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error, in doing which, he is great and original; so much
so, that his best works live in our memories and imagina
tions through the long lapse of years. We never forget
them as we do works of mediocrity. . Such is our recol
lection since boyhood of his Hamlet's Ghost, the Warrior
brooding over his Wife ºrhom he has just murdered, the
Lazar House, &c. &c. Such solemn character he has im
parted to the picture in this Gallery of 31, Theodore and
Honoria, from Boccacio, where an astonished observer in
the picture starts at the sight of a beautiful woman endea
vouring to fly from two gaunt mastiffs who are cheered to
the horrid pursuit by a Knight on horseback.
The extremes of stillness and violence, of an entire sub
jugation to evil producing calmness, prostration, and
death, and of a vehement exercise of physical power, ex
by impetuous action and fierceness of aspect, are
two of the chief means in Art and Nature, of exciting
terror. Mr. Fusell is highly effective in both. Of the
latter we have here a remarkable instance in the headlong
retreat of the piteous female victim, and in the hideous
look and rapid advance of the dogs, the cruel knight, and
his horse, all of whose º with infernal malignity,
coming out from the dark and mysterious objects they be
long to, upon the sight and feelings of the distracted lady,
like destructive lightnings from the gloom of night.
POETRY.
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TOM CRIBB'S MEMORIAL.
The following facetious and scientific account of the
“Grand Set-To between Long Sandy the Bear and
the Porpus” is what was referred to in the intro
ductory stanzas of this celebrated Memorial which we ex
tracted last week. As the account is somewhat long, we
are compelled to omit the description of the company, who
resorted to Moulsey, the field of battle, merely mentioning,
that of course all the fashionable world attended, and were
curiously mixed up with the plebeians, as appears from the
fact, that -
Every tower of life, that had rhino to spare,
... From sly little Moses to B-R-G was there.
We should also state, that the great Northern Combatant
had for his second the celebrated diplomatist—“Old
thingumnce Porrso," alias M. Pozzo di Bongo, and
that
Geongy's was Pat C-srt.—n-68,-he, who lives
At the sign of the King's Arms a-kimbo, and gives
His small beer about, with the air of a chap
Who believed it himself a prodigious strong tap.
The ropes being then prepared, and the ring formed, the
fight proceeds in the manner thus described:–
. At length, the two swells, having entered the Ring
To the tune the cow died of, called “Ged save the King,”
Each threw up his castor(a) 'inid general huzzas—
And, if dres.ing would do, never yet, since the days
When Huw Purſes stood up to the Israelite's thumps,
In gold-spangled stockings and touch-me-not pumps, (b)
Has there anything equall'd the ful-lals and tricks
That bedizen'd old Grongy's bank-up tag and kicks! (c).
a) Hat,
§
“The fine manly form of Humphries was seen to great ad
vantage; he had on a pair of fine flannel drawers, white silk
stockings, the clocks of which were spangled with gold, and
pumps tied with ribbon.”—(Account of the First Battle between
Humphries and Mendoza.)- The epistle which Humphries wrote
to a friend, communicating the result of this fight, is worthy of a
monian.—“Sir, i. done the Jew, and am in good
health. Rich. Humphries.” - e
(c) Tog and kicks, coat and breeches.--Tog is one of the cant
words, which Dekker cites, as "retaining a certain salt and,
*iaggf some wit and learning,” being derived from the Latin,
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Having first shaken daddles (d) (to show, Jackson said,
It was “pro bono Pimlico" (e) chiefly they bled)
Both peerd (f)—but, on laying his Dandy-belt by,
Old Georgy went floush, and his backers look'd shy;
For they saw, notwithstanding CRIB's honest endeavour
To train down the crummy, (g) twas monstrous as ever!
Not so with Long SANdy—prime meat every inch–
Which, of course, made the Gnostics(h)on t'other side flinch;
And Bob W-Ls—N from Southwark, the games chap there,
Was now heard to sing out, “Ten to one on the Bear !”
Finst Round. Very cautious—the kiddies both sparr'd
As if shy of the scratch—while the Porpus kept guard
O'er his beautiful mug, (i) as if ſearing to hazard -
One damaging touch in so dandy a mazzard.
Which t'other observing put in his One-Two (k)
Between Geongy's left ribs, with a knuckle so true,
That had his heart lain in the right place, no doubt
But the Bear's double knock would have rummag'd it out—
As it was, Master Georgy came souse with the whack,
And there sprawl'd, like a turtle turu'd queer on its back.
Second Round. Rather sprightly—the Bear, in high gig,
Took a fancy to flirt with the Porpus's wig; -
And, had it been either a loose tye or bob, w
He'd have clair'd it clean off, but 'twas glued to his nob.
So he tipp'd him a settler they call “a spoil-Dandy”
Full plump in the whisker.—High betting on Sandy.
Third Round. Somewhat slack—Georgy tried to make
play,
But his own victualling-office (1) stood much in the way;
While SANdy's long arms—leng enough for a douse
All the way from Kamschatka to Johnny Groat's liouse—
Kept paddling about the poor Porpus's muns, (m)
Till they made him as hot and as cross as Lent buns! (n)
Fountn Rotno. Geongy's backers look'd blank at the lad,
When they saw what a rum knack of shifting (0) he had–
An old trick of his youth—but the Bear, up to slum, (p)
Follow'd close on my gentleman, kneading his crum
As expertly as any Dead Man about town, -
All the way to the ropes—where, as Georgy went down,
SANow tipp'd him a dose of that kind, that, when taken,"
It is n’t the stuff, but the patient that's shaken.
FIFrn Round. Georgy tried for his customer's licad–
(The part of Lons Sandy, that's softest, 'tis said;
: And the chat is that Nar, when he had him in tow,
Found his knowledge-bar (q) always the first thing to go)–
Neat milling this ltound—what with clouts on the nob,
Home-hits in the bread-basket, (r) clicks in the gob, (s)
And plumps in the daylights, (t) a prettier treat
Between two Johnny Raws (u) 'tis not easy to meet.
• (d) Hands.
(e) Mr. Jackson's residence is in Pimlico.-This gentleman (as
he well deserves to be called, from the correctness of his conduct
and the peculiar urbanity of his manners) forms that useful link
between the amateurs and the professors of pugilism, which,
. broken, it will be difficult, if not wholly impossible, to re
a ce.
P (f) Stripped. - - -
(g) Fat. (h) Knowing ones. (f) Face.
(k) Two blows succeeding each other rapidly.—Thus (speak
; of Randall) “his one-rwo are put in with the sharpness of
ightning.”
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"tº the stomach or paunch. -
(m) Mouth. (n) Hot cross buns. -
(o) “Seme have censured shifting as an unmanly custom.”--
Boxiana.
(p.) Humbug or gammon.
(g) The head. .
(r). The stomach, (*) The mouth. . . * *
(*) The eyes, ts) Novices. .. .
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Srx rh Round. GeoRGy's friends: iu high flourish, and,
hopes; - - - That they call B-R-G's stock-dove) with word “to sell
JAck Elp—N, with others, came close to the ropes—
And when GEorgy, one time, got the head of the Bear
"Into Chancery, (v) Eld—N sung out “keep him there ".
But the cutt broke away, as he wºuld from Lob's-pound,
And after a rum sort of riffaning Round,
Like cronics they hugg’d, and came smack to the ground;
Poor Sandv the undermost, smothered and spread
Like a German, tuck'd under his huge feather bed! (y)
All pitied the patient—and load exclamations,
“My eyes!” and “my wigſ” spoke the general sensations—
'Twas thought SANdv's soul was squeezed out of his carpus,
So heavy the crush.--Two to one on the Porpus!
Seventh Round. Though hot-press'd, and as flat as a
crumpet,
Long Sandy show'd game again, scorning to rump it;
And, fixing his eye on the Porpus's snout, (3)
Which he knew that Adonis felt peery (a) about,
By a feint, truly elegant, tipp'd him a punch in .
, The critical place, where he cupboards his luncheon,
Which knock'd all the rich Curaçoa into cruds,
And doubled him up, like a bag of old duds! (b)
There he lay, almost frummagem'd (c)—every one said
'Twas all Dicky with Grongy, his mug hung so dead:
And 'twas only by calling “your wiſe, Sir, your wife?”
(As a man would cry “fire!") they could startilium to life.
- Up he rose in a funk, (d) lapp'd a toothful of brandy,
And to it again.—Any odds upou SANDY.
Frgittu Rouwn. SANny work'd like a first-rate demolisher:
Bear as lie is, yet his lick is no polisher;
And, take him at ruffaning work, (though, in common, he
Hunts about Pence and all that, like a Domine (c)
SANov's the boy, if once to it they fall, .
That will play up old gooseberry soon with them all.
This Round was but short—after humouring awhile,
He proceeded to serve an ºectment, in style,
Upon Georgy's front grinders, (f) which damag'd hi.
smile
So completely, that bets ran a hundred to ten
The Adonis would ne'er flash his ivory (g) again–
And 'twas pretty to see him roll'd round with the shock,
1.ike a cask of fresh blubber in old Greenland Dock
NINrn
On the Rouxd.
bankruptcyOne
list,ofwith
Geongy's bright oglesshut;
its shop-windows (h) wast"put
While the other soon made quite as tag-rag a show,
• All, rimm'd round with black, like the Courier in woe."
Much alarm was new seen 'mong the Israelite Kids,
And B-R-G,--the devil's own boy for the quids, (i)—
(v) Getting the head under the arm, for the purpose of fibbing.
(r) A prison.—See Dr. Grey's explanation of this phrase in
his notes upon Hudibras.
(y) The Germans sleep between two beds; and it is related
that an Irish traveller, upon finding a feather bed thus laid over case, and Mr. Weeden Butler's answer to it, and having
him, took it into his head that the people slept in strata, one upon done so, I feel that 1 should be guilty of “a mean sup
4 the other, and said to the attendant, “will you be good enough pression" of my feelings were I not to point out to yºu
to tell the gentleman or lady, that is to lie over me, to make
laste, as I want to go asleep?”
(:) Nose. (a) Suspicions. (b) Clothes.
(c) Choaked. (d) Fright.
(e) A Parson.—Thus in that truly classical song, the Christen actuated in his interference in the matter in question, and
ing of Little Joey:
- “When Domine had nam'd the Kid
Then home again they pik'd it;
A flash of lightning was prepared
For every one that lik'd it.”
(f) Teeth. . (g) Show his teeth. (*) Eyes.
(i) Money. -
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Dispatch'd off a pigeon (the species, no doubt,
out.”
From this to the finish, 'twas all fiddle ſaddle—
Poor Georgy, at last, could scarce hold up his daddle
º - With grinders dislodg'd, and with peepers both poach'd, (k)
'Twas not till the Tenth Round his claret (!) was broach'd;
As the collarage lay so deep down in the fat,
Like his old M a's purse, 'twas curs'd hard to get at.
Bat a pelt in the smellers (m) (too pretty to shun,
- If the lad even could) set it going like fun;
And this being the first Royal Claret let flow,
Since Tow took the Holy Alliance in tow,
The uncorking produced much sensation about,
As bets had been flush on the first painted snout.
Nota bene.—A note was wing'd off to the Square
Just to hint of this awful phlebotomy there ;
Bob Gregson, whose wit at such things is exceeding, (n)
Inclosing a large sprig of “Love lies a bleeding!”
In short, not to dwell on each facer and fall,
Poor Geongy was done up in no time at all, -
;
Aud his spunkiest backers were forc'd to sing small. (2)
In vain did they try to fig up the old lad,
'Twas like using persuaders (p) upon a dead prad; (q)
In vain (r) Bogy-B-ce—on-M fondly besought him,
To show like himself, if not game, at least bottom;
While M-RL-Y, that very great Count, stood deploring
He had u’t taught Geongy his new modes of boring; (3)
All useless-no art can transmogrify truth—
It was plain the conceit was mill'd out of the youth.
In the Twelth and Last Round SANDY ſetch'd him a dottnºr,
That left him all's one as cold meat for the Crowner; (4)
On which the whole Populace flash'd the white grin
Like a blasket of chips, and poor GeoRev gave in :
While the fiddlers (old Porrs having tipp'd them a bandy)(u)
Play'd “Green grow the rushes," (r) in honour of Sandy!
(k) French cant; Les yeux pochés au beurre noir.-See the Dic
tionnaire Comique. -
(1) Blood. - (::). The nose.
(n) Some specimens of Mr. Gregson's lyrical talents are given
in the Appendix, No. 4.
(c) To be humbled or abashed. (p) Spurs. ,(q) Horse.
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(r) For the meaning of this term, see Grose. -
(s) “The ponderosity of Crib, when in close quarters with his
opponent, evidently bored in upon bim, &c.” -
(t) The Coroner.
(u) A bandy or cripple, a sixpence; that piece being commonly
much bent and distorted."—Grose. -
(r) The well-known compliment paid to the Emperor of all the
Russias by some Irish musicians.” -
W. * P.
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ROGERS
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AND THE REP. py. BUTLER,
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To THE emiton of the Exaxi rºck.
Sir, –The perusal of your observations in last Sunday's
Examiner, relative to the above unfortunate individual,
induced me to look back to the original statement of his
what (in my humble judgment) upon the very face of Mr.
Butler's letter renders his defence no way creditable to
him. In the first place, he takes great pains to convince
his readers of the charitable motives by which he was
as a proof thereoſ, he recites the arguments he made use
of to convince Mr. Rogers of the impolicy of permitting
the Petition for Parliamentary Reform to lie at his house,
| namely, that such conduct “would cause offence and pro
voke animadversion;" that it was “rash, and mightin'
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ljure his growing family;" and he concludes, by endea
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merely said, that the Office was not to be courted b any one,
vouring to persuade Mr. R. to transfer the Petition, &c. to
the “ shop of his &oadjutor, Mr. Newman, as be (Mr. N.) Officers
and that he intended to have resigned last year, but lºis brother
were so well satisfied with him, and so desirous of his
could just as well keep it open for signatures.”—Now, assistance, that they declared they would not serve uuless he did.
Mr. Editor, as Mr. Newman (the friend and neighbour Messrs. Thatcher and Caley were then proposed as Candidate",
of Mr. R.) was a tradesman equally as dependant as Mr. when Mr. Thatcher declared he would not stand, and scratched
R. himself, and not perhaps in a better situation to bear eut his name; but, at the request of several persons in the Ves
loss, I put it to you, and to your numerous readers, whe try, it was replaced, and the polling commenced. Many respect
ther or not this was “charitable advice " Is it not ra able persons who came to vote for Mr. Thatcher were rejected:
ther as if Mr. W. B. had said, “Mr. Rogers, I perceive on the score of not having paid their rates ; whilst the votes of
you have a mad dog in your house; pray put him out, or many others, quite the reverse of respectable, whº came for
Mr. §ºl. were admitted, because they had not been called
yourself and family will certainly be hitten by him. There's upon.—The following is an instance of this, and also shows that
your friend Newman hard by, send the animal to him ; he Mr. S. Bourne's Act gives too thuch power to the Overseers,
can just as well expose himself and his family to the disas who had enough before:–One of the Overseers said, that he
trots, consequences of a bite as you.”—But, above all, had marked out persons who would vote for Mr. Stockdale, and
why has Mr. Weeden Butler altogether evaded the most who were not in a condition to pay, and would not call upon
material charge against him IHe is expressly accused of them, and others that would not vote for him, he had called
having not only threatened to procure the removal of the upon twice, in order to be assured that they shsuld not come to
Post-office from Mr. R.'s house, but of having actually the vestry without having paid their rates. A Gentleman gaine
to the table to tender his vote; he was suffered to enter his
accomplished that object. Now, Mr. Butler denies merely name, and then was asked who he voted for: “For Mr. Thatcher,”
the threat, and leaves the fact of his applications at the was the answer. “Oh but,” said Mr. King, one of the Over
Post-office not only totally uncontradicted, but even un seers, “you have been called upon, and have not paid yºur
noticed. This inportant omission, added to the declara rates?” The Gentleman, however, having sufficient in his pocket
tion that he approves of such removal, certainly raises a to pay them, laid it down, and gave his vote-At, the close of
strong presumption that he stands justly cluarged with this the poli, Messrs. Bisney and Stockdale were declared duly
unchristian-like and truly vindictive conduct, and serves eleered ; the latter having a majority of fifteen votes over Mr.
Thatcher. - -

strongly to corroborate:Mr. R.'s statement. I would next Note —Forty of Mr. Stockdale's voters had not paid their last
wish, Sir, to draw your attention, to his flimsy and special
sº answer to the charge of his endeavours to deprive poor rates, and 22 had been lowered in their assessments by him
and his colleagues. The Collectors, Assessors of the King's
Mr. R. and his family of bread. He says, “to the best of taxes, and the Parish-Officers, had been in motion a week be
his belief,” he has spoken to none of Mr. R.'s customers fore, canvassing the Parish for Messrs. Stockdale and bisney :
and employers, for he knows none such personally; so. and during the coutiquance of the poll, finding the day likely to
that although he may have strained every nerve to attain go against them, were very active in sending people in all di
the objectin question, he thinks he is to creep out of the rectious to bring iu voters for Mr. Stockdale..
accusation altogether, by saying that he did not take the
precaution to inforin himself a priori whether his hearers LA IV.
were or were not customers of Mr. R.; just as if his pur
pose might not have been as effectually accomplished with WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.
but the Knowledge of that fact as with it.
Lastly, I would ask how is the dignity, the candour, George Francis and Martha Francis, alias Mary Coxiray, were
indicted for a misdemeanour, in keeping a notorious brothel in
and the consistency of Mr. Weeden Buller displayed, Lisle-street, Leicester-square. The prosecution was instituted
when, after making a pompous parade about “manly by a respectable tradesman in East-street, Manchester-square,
ublication” and “mean suppression of letters,” he pub whose child, only 16 years of age, had been harboured by the
ishes the answer of Lord Grosvenor to what, for aught defendants. The girl was the oldest of eight children, and ab
myself or your other readers know to the contrary, was sconded from her father in November, 1817; he discovered in
any thing but a “plain statement of facts.”—I ain, Sir, March following that she was at the house kept by defendants,
your constant reader, L. Thompson. and at leugth found her at St. Bartholomaw’s-hospital, in a
South Molton-strect, Grosvenor-square, April 14, 1819. shocking state of disease; he brought her home. The girl her
self was examined. She went by the advice of another female
P.S.—I beg you will have the goodness to add the in to Mrs. Conway's, lodged, and boarded there, and frequently
clºsed two guideas to the subscription for the benefit of saw gentlemen, who gave her money, all oº which she gave to
Mr. Rogers and his family. Mrs. Conway, who did not let her have a halfpenny pocket
money. George Francis used to be there at nights, and was con
sidered the master of the house.—The Jury found both defend
PARISH OF PADDINGTON. ants Guilty and the Bench sentenced George Francis to pay a
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fine of 100l., and both to be committed to the House of Correc
A Vestry was held in the Vestry Room of this Parish on Tues tion for 12 months, and then find sureties for their behavour for
day last, for the election of Churchwardens, and other Officers three years; themselves in 800l. each, and the sureties in 150l.
for the year ensuing.—Mr. Stoekdale (bookseller. of Pall Mall), An instantaneous shout burst forth throughout the whole Court.
and Mr. Bisney being proposed for Churchwardens, Mr.
Thartiten asked Mr. Stockdale, whether he intended his name
should stand? and, if elected, whether he should serve the Oſ POLICE. -

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fee He said, Certainly. Then, said Mr.T., it is my painful
dety to tell this Vestry, that the money is not safe in your hands. GUILD HALL.
The Parish has been robbed of £2,500 already; and as you have Smockixg EFFECrs of INTEMPERANCE –Hannah Nicholson, a
now two sets of creditors to whom you have a dividend to pay young girl about 23 years of age, of good figure and countenance,
shortly, it will not be advisable for the Parish to trust so but shockingly emaciated through intemperance, was brought up
reach money in your hauds. Mr. Srocktale— it’s false, Mr. from the Compter for the purpose of ºbtaining the Magistrate's
Thatcher.”—Mr. Butter said, that a respectable creditor of direction how to dispose of her.—Charles Howells stated, that he
, Mr. Stockdale's had told him last week, that Mr. S. owed him was on Blackfriars-bridge at half an hour past four on Tuesday
and many others a considerable sum of money, and that about morning, when he observed the yº. leaning over the rail in
twº years since he, with other creditors, had been called toge such a manner that he laid hold of her, fearing she would ſalt
ther, and a time fixed for the payment of a dividend, which time over; she said that she had dropped her bonnet; she then, after
had expired, and he had nºt received a single shilling. Since walking backwards and forwards for a minute or two, threw her
then, Mr. S. had contracted uew debts, and both the old and the self into the water; with the assistance of a young man, who got
Wey creditors were called together, and a future time fixed for into a boat and caught her just as she was sinking, she was
the peyment of an instalment.-Mr. S. did not reply to this, but fortunately preserved.—This unfortunate girl is well known te
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all the officers, having been frequently committed for disorderly was resorted to, in order to strike terror by a dreadful example:
conduct. While in Bridewell, or the Compter, where she is kept the two offenders were ordered for execution at night, at the new
from liquor, her conduct is respectable, and hcr conversation drop in front of Clonmel gaol, by toreh light. This manner of
above the common order; but no sooner is she released, than execution has not, we believe, been praetised since the days of
she gets drunk, and becomes a uuisance. When placed at the the White-hoys.-On, the 30th ult. the assizes of Lifford ended.
bar she was in tears; she hid her face, and said wothing; but the
Wm. M'Guinness is to be executed on Wednesday, and ºw.
head keeper at the Compter stated, that she had desired him toM“Ithony on Thursday, for the murder of George Balfour; and
beg the Magistrate would commit her to Bridewell, that she' Polcatte Barrowe, a French dancing-master, is to be hauged on
would stay with the matron nnd assist her, and never come out Tuesday, April 20, ſor a rape on a child of 11 years old. When
*... º. request was acceded to. the Judge pronounced sentence of transportation on a woman,
ALANsiox-notise. for picking of pockets, she replied, in a violent passion—“You
on the 30th of March, a basket was stolen from the bar of the have done your worst to me—you and your Jury, and all bflye,
Bull-and-Mouth Hun, containing a parcel of Bank of Eugland may go to hell.”—Irish papers. - -

notes, local notes, and bills, to the amount of 11,000l. Soon A murder was committed in the neighbourhood of Scariff, a
after the robbery the bills were found in an area in Shcrborn short tilue since, under the following circumstances:-A young.
lane, into which they had been dropped. None of the notes married couple had some disagreement, and the quarrel was es:
have been traced.—A middle-aged man, named William Crowder, poused by the father and brother of the young woman, and all
was on Wednesday charged on suspicion of having participated three effected the murder of the young man. The parties have
in the robbery.—It appeared, that the guard, on the arrivni of been committed to prison.—Limerick Journal. -

the coach, had given ihe basket, containing the money, to the Saturday week, a person went into the shop of Mrs. Wilkinson,
landlord of the inn, mentioning at the same time that it must be gun-smith, St. Thomas-street, Bristol, to purchase a pair of:
taken care of. Two men were then sitting bear the bar, one of second-hand pistols, and in trying the surength of the trigger and
whom the landlord believed to be the prisoner. The landlord lock it proved to be loaded, and unfortunately shot Mrs. Wilkin
left the basket at the bar for a few minutes, and on his return, it son through the body, who died a few minutes after. The pistols
was gone, as well as the two men, who had previously paid for had been in the shop some time, and had not been examined
their beer. The prisoner had been observed loitering about the when purchased by Mrs. Wilkinson. ... * -

neighbourhood in a very suspicious manner before the coach
came in. dressed in a blue great coat, the same dress as the man was at the public-house of that town, in a state of intoxication,
in the inn had on.—Remanded.
untox-Italr.
Coat-sacks showr IN MEAsunr-On Tuesday, Messrs. Devey
and Co., coal-merchants, attended for the purpose of entering
into recognizance to appeal at the next quarter-sessions against a
conviction which took place at this office on Saturday week, when
13 sacks, belonging to the above firm, which had been seized,
were found deficient in length, and for which the coal-merchants
were convicted in tºe sum of 20s. for each sack.
Wednesday evening, Charles Cryer, of wick, Głoucestershire,
when, hearing that a man was in the house with whom he had
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previously had some words, he declared he would gº out and cut:
his throat from ear to ear; he then immediately went to the
rootn where Ashley, the man alluded tº, was sitting, deliberately:
put out the lights, and drawing a knife from his poekel, began ºn.
execute his intention, which he would have effected but for the
interposing of a person who had followed him; he suteeded, .
however, in inflicting a very serious wound across the leſ, side of
the head of Ashley, which bled profosely; he also bit one ºf
Ashley's fingers in a dreadful manner." Ashley's recovery is
very doubtful: Cryer escaped. .. . . .. ** a

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c.

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n
On Tuesday an inquest, was held on the body of John Meekins,
boy about 14 yearwöſage, win me! his nth ot, Monday night,
º ºffºrt.
On the 11th inst., at Castle Bear-hill, near Actorſ, -

*hnn, wife of Captain lintºman, 28th regiment of itſ ºf a

-- a
by excessive, crushing, going into the gatºry ºf Sadler's wººl.d-l. daughter.
Theatre. The deceased was the -
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man, a weaver, residing in spitaláelds. The deceased was the XI.R.Tº...Tº

chief support of his parents; he was close at work all day on on wednesday, as the Fºng troº, gº
Monday, and in the evening his mother (at his request) gave him street, Henry Gold, grocer, of the *::::: to Phºebe Mogg.
ls, 9d. to go to Sadler's Wells Theatre-Verdict, Died from ridge, youngest daughter of Edward MoggRdge, Esq. oftemple.
suffºcatiºn. - - - - - place, Surry-road.
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A shocking occurrence happened on Saturday last, at Heston On Tuesday, at Islington, Gustavus, son of G. A. Smith, Esq.
Barracks, near Hounslow; one of the 19th lancers, a fine young of Highbury-grove, to Jane, third daughwer of Joseph Travers,
fellow, came into the barrack-room; he seemed low and de Esq. of Highbury-grove. . . -. - -

jected; his comrades joked with him for being so low spirited;
On Tuesday, at Marylebone, Ynyr Burgess, Esq. of Welbeck.
he made no reply, but removed to the bed. The others drew street, to Anita Eliza, eldest daughter of Joseph Mee, Esq., aſ
round the fire, and &ere conversing, when they were alarmed at Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-square. -- .
the report of a pistol; pn turning round they saw him fall back On the 8th inst., Itobert Hedger, Esq. of West-square, tº
on the bed, the blood issuing from his side; he died almost im Isabella Rebecca, seventh dunghter of the late Timothy Davis,
mediately. He had been low spirited for some time. An inquest Esq. - - -

has beetſ since held on the body-Verdict—Lunacy. - -

Inis ATlls.
On Monday morning. Richard Messenger, a lakouring man, -

and Mary Sooper, a ºuiserable woman who had long cohabited theOn the 28th nº., at Woolwich, Lieut. Thomas Pritchard, 6
with him, were found in their beds in a house in Glocester-street, lºgº Artillery, aged 88.
Cheltenham, writhing in all the horrors of agony and death, On Sunday, in the 4th year of her age, Sophia Maria, the
from the effects bf univeral poison, administered, as it seen's, by youngest daughter of Mr. George Reynell, of Chancery-lane :
Mary sooper, from feelings of jealousy. The man soon breathed she was taken ill on the 5th inst., audſ survived her mother only
his last; but the wretched woman, from the incessant efforts of six days. - - -

the faculty, was restored; and after an investigation of the affair On the 15th inst., at Peckham, Mrs. Sarah Blackwood, relirt
before a Coroner's Jury, she was fully committed for trial, to of Shovel Blackwood, Esq. of Petreavie, North Britain, aud Cray
Glocester assizes, upon a charge of murder. ford, Kent, in the 90th year of her age. - -- º

Monday week, O'Hara and Brennan, º convicted at On Thursday, at Tottenham-green, Mary, the wiſe of Edward
Roscolnmon, underwent the awful sentence of the law at that Wm. Windus, Esq., .
place. On Sunday night, about six in the evening, the under On Tuesday, at the Virarage, Northfleet, Kent, aged 34, Char
gaoler went as usual to lock them up. They murdered him in a lotte, wife of the Rev. T. G. Durham, curate of that place. . .
eruel manner, by strangulation, and took his key-, by which At Bruton, Mr. Saunders, surgeou and apothecary, aged 33.
means they got to the top of the prison, when the sentinel gave After cating a hearty dinner, he rose up to walk about the room. -

the alarm, and they were secured. They confessed their guilt.— wherſ, complaining of a violeut pain iu his face, he ſell down •
John Power and Wittian Brien, for the murder of Michael Fle corpse. -

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ming, steward of Mr. Grubb, at Clogheen, were hanged at Clon

meſ on the 26th nit. This murder was a case of the greatest Printed and published by John Hext, at the Examnes-Office,
strechy, and a mode of punishment of the most appalling nature 19, Catherine:Street, Strand. Price 104.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
No. 576.
: VILLAGES OF CO-OPERATION.
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goes, one square is as good as another, only Portman
square with the idea of it's trees, and it's music, and it's
Pop E.
young ladies, is a pleasurable one; and that of a barrack or
a workhouse, which has nothing of all these, a painful one.
Now as to the young women, it depends upon the condi
tion of those who might chuse to live in one of Mr.
Owen's squares, whether they were ladies or not; but
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there would be both trees and music, and these help to

We lay before our readers (for though it is addressed to make very charming girls. * ,
aparticular class, it is interesting to all) another paper by (Very charming girls! Good God, Mr. Examiner, what
Mr. Owen of Lanark. We are glad to find from an in words for a politician and philosopherſ -

telligent and amiable writer on this subject”, that “the Why, Madam, your titles flatter me; but I should be
Penevolent Society lately established in Holland, and now still less of either than I am, if I ran countër in these
in active operation, has for it's object the formation of co matters to such men as Lycurgus, and Plato, and Sir
lonies in the northern provinces, upon a principle closely Thomas MoRE. . .” " *. -

resembling that of Mr. Owen's plan.” By an extract But, Sir, the phrase! - - -

which follows from a Dutch paper, of November last, it The phrase, Madam, cannot be better, I think. It is
appears that lands had been purchased near the Overyssel, sincere, and expresses what it means, and what it means
and materials collected for building fifty houses, twenty of cannot possibly be better. . -

which indeed were in a state of forwardness. Sub-com But, Sir, how are the trees and the music to make us
mittees had been appointed in 80 different towns; and charming 2"
the society already consisted of 17,000 members. You could best explain that, Madam, if you would tell
s
Those who think Mr. Owen's plans calculated to cramp me how it is you lookso smiling and good-tempered even
and formalize human nature, will perhaps smile to see
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H imitated by the Dutch. But not to mention that
in your objections. Trees are the best representatives of
solitary nature, and music is one of the greatest links of
Dutch are not the cold people they were before their social; and the habitual taste for these two things tends,
teintimacy with the French, there is M. Fellenberg's even unconsciously, to that union of the thinking and ther.
stablishment at Hofwyl, of which an account was given enjoying faculties, which reflects upon each it's greatest
**in the last Edinburgh Review, and Mr. Owen's own charm, and renders them both irresistible.). - -
place at Lanark, both of which, though not in the same • Mr. Owen should get some plans sketched of his vil
manner, serve to shew the difference between forming and lages in a completer style than those he has printed. The
formalizing. . Mr. Owen's projects in particular tend to squares filled up as he designs them, with trees and turf,
make people too well acquainted with their own nature, to would then never be mistaken for barracks, And after all,
run a chance of rendering them stiff and narrow-minded. these squares, of course, will not always be necessary.
His catechism is self-knowledge. Now knowledge of They are proposed, in the first instance, out of economy;
every species is power; and the knowledge of our own and be this as it may, to fancy that every body must have
natures and wants is the power of all others that cannot a tendency to grow formal, who looks out of front win
be contented with the evils here anticipated, If Mr. dows upon a rural square, and out of the back upon fields,
Owen's plans were found to be too-formal in their opera is to suppose a geometrical consciousness of a very extra
tion, they would alter themselves of their own accord. ordinary nature. Mr. Owen's plan is mutual co-opera
This is the inevitable nature of the elements, with which tion; and if this brings people into closer contact, it brings
they set out; and this is a sufficient answer to all the ob them also into a more mutual system of enjoyment; for it
jections on such a score. The only actual objection is neighbourhood without co-operation, that produces at
which we ever heard against New Lanark from those who those unneighbourly vices which Christians profess to hate
had visited it, was one certainly of no cramping nature. at the very moment they practice them most. People get
Some persons thought that the esprit du corps was a little uneasy, aud dissatisfied with themselves, and then they
too social. But it may be said that New Lanark, by want the excitement of discovering others to be as bad
Mr. Owes's own confession, is not altogether what he and uneasy as themselves... Those make the worst neigh
should wish it to be. He had not the complete forming bours, who have the least self-knowledge. To know
of the materials. Granted:—how far this deficiency one's own nature, is to know every body's in its ele
ments; and then, the next thing is to assist, and to teach
Pºints to a more or a less social plan, we know not; but every body to enjoy, as well as ourselves; for all become .
the great outcry against his Villages, such as they are so many reflections of the same idea, not in it's selfish
drawn upon paper is, “Why they are all squares! ness, but in it's identity; and being identified, and, as it
So the people are to live in squares, are they, were, one, we wish it to realize the largest possible sum
like barracks or workhouses f". Aye, or suppose of happiness. Thus sociality has become another word
for enjoyment. -Let it also become, for the same purpose,
we say like Portman-square; for as far as mere shape another word for utility.
We shall return to this subject.
* * Remarks on the Practicability of Mr. Owen's Plan.”
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the ExAMINER. .
AN ADDRESS TO THE working CLASSES. ' which have surrounded them from birth, to become mere irra
tional and localized animals, and who in consequence have been
The truly intelligent in Europe and America, by their silence compelled to think and act on data directly opposed to facts, aud
when publicly called upon, now admit the truth of those prin of course to pursue measures destructive alike of their own hap
ciples,' which I have advocated as preliminary to the introduc piness and of the happiness of human nature.” ‘ I am well aware
tiºn of a New System for the government of mankind. Hitherto, of the feelings which the development of this truth will at first
no individual, either in this country or abroad, who possesses excite in those who are now deemed rich, learned, and powerſuſ,
any knowledge of the theory and practice of governing men, or and in all those who have been taught to imagine that they pos
of forming their character, has attempted to prove error in any
one of the principles developed in the “New View of Society.” sess soule knowledge. The truth however is not thus declared
to inflict unnecessary pain, on a single human being. On the
On close examination they are all found to be nature's laws, and coutrary, it is held up to the light of the world, solely to shew
therefore unassailable. - -

mankind the first step of knewledge which can lead, them to

Yet all men have from infancy been forced to think and act as rationality, and out of the ignorance and misery in which they
if other notions were true; and, as they have never seen any have hitherto existed. The pain which the developemeiſt of this
part of mankind placed under circumstances in which they could all important truti, must create will be transient, ºud pass away
act on those principles which, they are now obliged to edmit, are without real injury to any one; while the substantial benefits
true in theory, they very naturally from past experience, con which it will produce will be perpetually experienced by the
clude that, although the principles of the “New System” ore whole of human nature through all succeeding generations. It
capable of the most evident demonstration, they cannot be ap is from a thorough knowledge of this truth, and of the infinite
plied to practice; all this however means no more than that they beneficial consequences which will result to mankind from its
who come to this conclusion, are incompetent to reduce erected being universally known, that I now bring it before 1. minds,
principies into beneficial practice; and the persons who thus not as an abstract theory to amuse speculative mea, but to shew
hostily decide, without having sufficient data on which to form any you the source of all the errors which afflict society, and which
accurate judgment, would have made the same random assertions must be removed, before your condition can be ameliorated.
respecting any of the great improvements in science, prior to their There is no knowledge except this, which can make human
introduction. Such individuals forget that it is a modern inven uature truly benevolent and kind to the whole of the “recies, and,
tion to enable one man, with the aid of a little steam, to perform the with the certainty of a mathematical demonstration, render all
Jabour of 1000 men: What would these unbelievers in human mea charitable, in the most enlarged and best sense of the term:
improvement say, if the truths of the Copernican System were It will force on the human mind the conviction, that to blame and
now, for the first-time, to be introduced to their notice But we to be angry with our fellow-men, for the evils which exist, is the
will leave them to brood over their melancholy fancied wisdom very essence of ſoily and irrationality, and that notions, which
until facts shall overcome their disbelief; for the time is at hand
can give rise to such feelings, never could enter into the composi
when they wilf, behold with astonishment the simplicity and tion of any human being that had been once made rational.
beautiful order of those movements, the combination of which Are you then prepared to look upon all your fellow-creatures
they now deem' to be impossible. Yet before this change, so in power, and out of power, rich and poor, learned and un
nuëh to be desired by you and every other class, from the learned, good and bad, as beings formed solely by the circuin
highest to the lowest, can be permitted to take place, one for stances .*. birth, and who have been made as they are.
midable obstacle must be removed. From infancy you, like whatever they may be, from causes which exclude the possibility
others, have been made to despise and to hate those who differ of the smallest controul, on their parts, in the formatiºn of those
frnan you in manners, language, and sentiments. You have been faculties and qualities they may happen to possess? If you ca--
tilled with all uncharitableness, and in consequence cherish not see and comprehend this truth, then is the time not yet come
feelings of anger towards your fellow-men who have been placed for your deliverance from the depths of mental darkness and
in opposition to your interests. Those feelings of anger must be physical misery. But I trust the light is not now too strong for
withdrawn before, any being who has your real interest at heart you to receive without injury ; ſor I have been radually pre
cap place power in your hands. You must be made to know paring you for years for its reception, and if the experience
yourselves, by which means alone you can discover what other which I have been permitted to acquire of human nature does
men are. You will then distinetly perceive that no rational not very much deceive me, it is not now a F. disclosure.
ground for anger exists, even against those who by the errors of If you then can bear to be told that human beings, possessing the
the present system have been inade your greatest oppressors and most attractive form, and the highest intellectual attainments,
your most bitter enemies. An eudless multiplicity of circum which the world has yet seen, can justly claim no other appella
stances, over which you had not the smallest controul, placed you tion than that of localized animals, peculiar to some of the innº
where you are, and as you are. In the same manner, others of merable districts into which irrationality has divided the world;
your feſiow-men have been formed by circumstances, equally un *
and if your minds can now compreſ.end the principles, which
coutroulable by them, to become your enemies and grievous place this truth among those which are capable of the easiest de;
oppressors. In strict justice they are no more to be blamed for monstration, them is the time of your deliverance frem mental
these results than you are, nor you than they and splendid as slavery come, and the period is approaching when you may ac
their exterior may be, this state of matters often causes them to quire some title to be considered rational creatures. -

suffer even more poignantly than you. They have therefore an
interest, strong as yours, in the change which is about to com
mence for the equal benefit of all, provided you do not create a
thore formidable counteracting interest on their parts; of which
the result must be, to prolong the existing misery of both classes,
and to retard the public good. -
If you are in this advanced mental state, so much to be desired *
for your happiness, their you will at once cease to blame others
for the evils which you suffer; anger, revenge, and hatred,
almost to the very recollection of them, will be withdrawn frcm
your feelings; you will not longer dissipate all your energies in

attempting to find the cause of your miseries among any of your

The existiug order of things has placed some of your fellow fellow-men, and thus destroy your miuds and happiness by
men in situations of power and emolument, and in the possession creating unceasing, useless irritation. -

of privileges on which they] have been taught to set a value.
while you shew by your conduct any desire violently to dis
ossess them of this power, these emofuments and privileges, is
t not evident that they must continue to regard you with jealous
and hostile feelings, that the contention between the rich and the
poor will never have an end, and that whatever relative changes
may take place among you, there will ever be the same oppressiou
of the weak by the party who has attained to power Befºre
your condition can be aneliorated, this irraticial and useless
&outest must cease, and measures must be adopted in which both
parties may have a substantial interest. Then wiil anger and
opposition subside, and those arrangements which uow appear
impracticable to the inexperienced, be carried most easily into
practice. And these changes are at hand, for a crisis has arrived,
new in the history of mankind.
* The experience of ages has now developed trnths, which de
monstrate,
*** * * * * *
“That all men have been forced by the circumstances the future; and having discovered the light of true kuowledge'
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No. In all respects your conduct will become the very re
verse of this, You will regard all your fellow-men, without dis
tinction, as beings who are soon to become your friends and active
co-operators in the attainment of the º happiness to
which human nature is evidently destined. You will say to these
who are now in possession of riches, houours, power and privi.
leges, which they have been taught to value, “Retain these in
perfect security as long as you can hold then in estimation; our
whole conduct and proceedings shall be a pledge to you that we
will never attempt to dispossess you of any part of them ; nay,
while you can derive pleasure from additional wealth, we will add
to that which you uow possess. The cause of contest between us
will heueefortſ, cease. "We have discovered its irrationality and
utter uselessness. We will not, except to acquire experience
froth it, recur to the past, in which aii have been compelled to
act an irrational part; but we will earnestly apply ourselves to
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we will henceforward walk by it.” . All this you may with con vision. Unless the most salutary truths, when they are opposed
fidence say to the higher classes, whose supposed privileges you to centuries of prejudice, are introduced with due care to those
will soon cease to envy. For, without eutering into contest with whose minds have wandered in a labyrinth of error from their
them, without infringing on any of the imaginary privileges birth, the tender germ of rationality would likewise perish, and
which prior circumstances have placed in their hands, a new ignorance and misery must continue to revail over knowledge
view of your interests shall be speedily opened to you, by which, and happiness. As you become acquainted with these truths,
withºut interfering with the rights of any class, without exciting one after the other, your long injured minds will acquire strength,
any feeling of opposition to your proceedings, you shall be ena and your rational powers gradually expand, until the knowledge
bled to relieve yourselves and your descendants from poverty, of human nature, which now appears so incomprehensible to you,
from ignorauce, and from the innumerable causes of misery to will discover itself to be as simple as any of the other facts which
which you have hitherto been viatims. When you shall thus be surround you, and with which you are now the most firmiliar.
...i to understand-your real interests, you will have no What Nº. now stated is intended to prepare the public
desire for any of the fancied advantages now possessed by mind for the following conclusions:— -

the higher classes. Had those who are of this order in the 1st. That the rich and the poor, the governors and the go
civilized world been permitted to discover what human na verned, have really but one interest.
ture really is, they would have distinctly known long ago 2d. That the notions and arrangements, which at present pre
that, by being raised, as it is termed, to the privileged vail throughout society, are necessarily destructive of the happi
fanks, they are placed under circumstances which reſider their ness of all ranks.
successors, except by some extraordinary chance, increasingly 3d. That a correct knowledge of human nature will destroy
useless to themselves and to society. They are taught from in all animosity and anger º men, and prepare the way for
fancy to set an inordinate value on themselves, because they new arrangements, which will be introduced without violence,
possess, what are miscalled, privileges, the only real effect of and without injury to any party, and which will effectually re
which is to surround them by circumstances, which must inevi move the cause frºm whic: all the errors and evils of society
tably make them more helpless and dependent than other men. now proceed. - -

They are trained from the cradle (and therefore call for our pity, 4th. That the higher classes in general"no longer wish to
not blame) to take pride to themselves for pursuing measures degrade you, but in any change that may be proposed for your
which deprive the great mass of mankind of the most essential benefit, d. demand only that advantages should be secured to
benefits that belong to human nature, in order that they, a most them, at least equal to those which they now possess; and this
insignificant part in point of numbers, may be distinguished by feeling is quite natural; it would be yours if you were in their
advantages over their fellows. The feelings which this absurd situation.
conduct generates throughout society, keep the whole population 5th. That you now possess all the means which are necessary
of the world in a lower degree of enjoyment and rationality than to relieve yourselves and your desceudants to the latest period,
most of the animal creation. They are the very essence of ig from the sufferings which you have hitherto experienced, except
morant selfishness. You will uow soon pass this error. You the knowledge how to direct those means. -

will diseover that there is no comparison between the result of 6th. That this knowledge is withheld from you only until the
such conduct and the P. to be derived from the most active violence of your irritation against your fellow-men shall cease;
exertions to give to all your fellow-creatures the same privileges that is, until you thoroughly understand and are influenced in all
and benefits which you yourselves possess, and, by this means, our conduct by the principle, “That it is the circumstances of
so far increase the aggregate of human enjoyment, that the §. with subsequent surrounding circumstances, all formed for
least gifted member of society will experience a larger share of the individual (and over which society has now a complete con
continued ºnd permanent happiness than has hitherto fallen toº troul) that have hitherto made the past generations of mankind
the lot of the most fortunate. The motives which lead to the into the irrational creatures exhibited in history, aud'ſashioned
former conduct are altogether irrational, and will not bear the them, up to the present hour, into those localized beings of
glance of an enlightened mind; while those which will compel country, sect, class and party, who now compose the populatiou
you to adopt the latter are in unison with every sound principle of the earth.” - - -

and just feeling, and defy the most rigid scrutiny to detect in 7th and lastly. That the past ages of the world present the
them any error. Let me however guard you against a mistake history of human irrationality only, and that we are but now ad
which exists to a great extent among the unprivileged orders. vancing towards the dawn of reason, and to the period when the
The privileged classes of the present day, throughout Europe, mind of man shall be born again.
are not, as this mistake supposes, influenced so much by a desire New Lanark, March 29, 1819. Robert Owek.
to keep you down, as by an anxiety to retain the means of secur
ing to themselves a comfortable and respectable enjoyment of #ife.
Let them distinctly perceive, that the ameliorations which you -EXECUTION OF DEAN.
are about to experience are not intended or calculated to inflict
any real injury on them or their posterity, but, on the contrary, The unfortunate Robert Dean ended his days as might
that the same measures which will improve you, must, as theyhave been expected, after he fell into the hands of the Rev.
Mr. Mann. He died in real agony, which however he
assuredly will, essentially benefit them, aud raise them in the
scale of happiness and intellectual enjoyment, and you will attempted to keep from him by at affected confidence
speedily have their co-operation to carry the coutemplated ar
rangements into effect. It must be º to you to learn, with respect to his future destiny. When a man like
that I have had the most evident proofs from many individuals, this has committed, in a fit of mad despair, an act, so
high in these classes, that they have now a ... to im dreadful as the slaughter of an individual that he loved, his
prove your condition, but from the unfortunate situation in subsequent reflections on the deed, united with the prospet
which they have been placed by birth, they cannot, of them of a disgraceful punishment, naturally ºompel him to seek
selves, devise measures by which you can be benefited, and refuge in some other thoughts; he will fly to any tº:
their own circumstauces improved. Such changes must proceed that will divert his mind from the one painful idea, and the
from practical men. – . stronger and more exciting it is, the more welcome to him.
What has been said is sufficient for your minds to digest at The treatment of these unfortunate individuals is gene
ºne time. When you are prepared to receive more, it shall be
given to you. rally as bad for themselves as for society; Falsº ideas ºf
Heed not what men, with ſanciful theories, and without prac duty, of the proper “ vengeance of the law,” of the
tical knowledge, may say to you. . Many of them, I have no example to society, and above all of the necessity of pre;
doubt, mean well. But be assured, that whatever tends to irri paring the unfortunate creature for repentarce; have raised
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tation and violence, proceeds from the most gross ignorance of tip a contrary custom. . The wound is prºbed to the bot
human nature, and evinces an utter inexperience in those prac tom, and lai º again and again by torturing questions
tical measures by which alone society can be relieved from the and remarks; the unhappy man is told of the enormity of
evils which it has so long suffered. My fixed intention has long his crime and the .# punishment that awaits signers
been to develop truths which it is of the utmost importance to in the world to come; then on the other hand he is told of
the well being of mankind, to make publicly known at this the saving power of repentance, if he will believe in the
period; and I have been gradually preparing the public mind to
receive them. Where great darkness has ever existed, a sudden doctrines of his tutors. So that, what with. this driving
admission of strong light would destroy the infant powers of and leading, this terror on the one side and this enticeuleuk
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9n, the other, added to the poor fellow's eagerness to catch their crimes and consequently to increase, the agony of
hold of something to relieve him from the pressure of one their last moments; but we do not agree with him in this
painful idea, it is no wonder that he runs into the arms of opinion. Pain should be always avoided, if possible, and
this pretended comfort, and eagerly swallows the contents here there is luckily no occasion to inflict it. "Avoid both
of the deceitful "| ;—but it is poison that he drinks! It extremes: tell the unhappy creatures themselves, as well as
society, the true nature º their offence; do not tell thern
is impossible that he can firmly believe in the notions thus
taught him. Probably he never attended to them before, either of reward or punishment, but merely that they have,
and they have the additional effect of novelty, which from ignorance .. diseased feelings, put themselves into
always tend to create incredulity. Can be then be con the condition of wild beasts, who must be destroyed for
fident of happiness, feeling a consciousness of his crime the sake of their fellow-creatures. But how to destroy
and not having even the indispensible article of faith? the ignorance and the diseased feelings themselves, is the
Does he not rather think of the flames that he may be grand question. After giving the account from the daily
plunged into ? He is told that faith is sufficient, but ſell papers, the writer thus remarks on it:—
ing him so cannot give him faith. Faith is to save him,
hºwever guilty; but the sense of his guilt is too strong to this“We know not whether our readers will have perused
relation with the same sensations that we have felt,
allow his believing this absurdity. Then again come the mamely, disgust and indignation. It is too much the
contradictions: in order to force his belief, he is told of the custom in England, to grace the dying moments of the
punishments of infidelity, whatever virtues have accom most sanguinary wretches with descriptions such as this,
panied it; and he naturally infers (if indeed it is not ac calculated rather to make them objects of imitation, if not
tually, asserted by his tormentors) that such as Voltaire of envy, rather than of abhorrence, as criminals of the
and Paine, of whom he knows no harm except that they
did not believe in what he feels that he himself cannot deepest dye.—Obscure wretches are thus suddenly ele
vated into personages of great importance—all their in
Place implicit confidence in, are eternally damned for their coherencies—all
. What is the effect of all this? He has not time, their revolting ejaculations, are collected
or perhaps he is too ingentions, to be initiated in all the with avidity, and published with ostentation—Lords and
Commoners, aye, reader, and Ladies sometimes, wait upon
sophistries of theologians; and he finds that he has only them in their cells, to commune with them, whilst the
ºvolved himself in a labyrinth of doubt and inconsistency. gallows waits? We can conceive nothing more mis
But then he is told, after being worried by some meddling
priest into a º declaration of his “comfortable feelings,” chievous—nothing which can tend to produce more
dangerous effects upon a too numerous portion of the
that God will assuredly make him happy, if he continues English people, who are afflicted, even at this period of
in that same “pious frame of mind.” He does not—he the
“annot, think so; but what is he to do? He dies with a stillworld, with a fanatical mania, the offspring of doctrines
preached up in various religious societies, of placing
He in his mouth, either trying to appear composed, while
his soul is racked with doubt and despair, or, if his feelings istheir sole reliance for salvation upon faith alone. “Where
Voltaire now,” said Dean,—“ IN HELL!” Where is
force him into violence, raving furious against those
whom he is taught to think will be his icº. to Tom Paine,”—“ IN HELL!” whilst Christ was “ in
all etermity. -
waiting,” to take himself to Heaven! and the Chaplain
The great argiment for the infliction, and more particu promised, that the little girl, the victim of his inhuman bar
cularly, the public infliction of death, is the example—the barity, should “meet him in a better world!”
deterring . on other men. . But is not this practice the“What is all this but holding out a high reward for
commission of murder? What reward can be greater
most opposed to the professed principle?—does it not than Heaven? It is to hold out the greatest possible in
complete },..."; and even, in some cases, reverse the
effect? eith, in his last moments, declared his convic ducement to wretches sunk in degradation and crime, or
tioſ; that Christ was “waiting for him”—for him, who actuated by the phrenzy, of despair, to procure their
had, however circumstances might extenuate his fault, com triumphant removal to “a better world!”
mitted one of the most dreadful deeds possible—for him, “It was in this light that: Dean viewed the matter, he
who had, after his apprehension, exhibited signs of the congratulated himself on going to that place “where there
shall be no gnashing .# teeth.” He lamented that he
2ngst despairing remorse! ... And yet he consoled himself
(if such, raving can be called consolation) with the idea should leave Sarah “in a dangerous world!” Who can
"at Voltaire, the wise and benevolent philosopher, and doubt if Sarah was within his reach, but that he would
Paine, the sensible and ardent friend of liberty, were suffer. take the most certain and speedy mode of taking her to
ing in everlasting torments. He was talked and teazed Heaven along with him; believing that Christ was waiting
into an appearance of Comfort, nay, of enthusiastic and for him ' What could be more natural than his regret for
pious confidence; and whatever he really felt, many of not having cut Sarah's throat, as he had that of little Mary
those who witnessed his execution, were no doubt per Anne Albert, whom he expected to meet according to the
Sºaded that he was exulting in the prospect of future joys. Chaplain's promise. If he was sure to meet the little girl
What then is their impression aſter such a º It in that “better world” to which he was going, he must
have the same reason to believe that he should also meet
must be this 3–that a man may go and commit any sort
of wickedness, and when laid hold of, to be sacrificed for his beloved Sarah there, had he treated her in the same
unanner.
the safety ºf society, he has nothing to do but to repent, - -

and all, will be right: he will not only enjoy eternal hap: “Instead of these imposing paraphernalia, which now
piness, but even the paing of death, will be lessened, if not constantly attend the ceremony, of ushering into “a better
quite ºverpowered, by other sensations. At any rate, the world” the most hardened of the ruffians who are con
natural, dread of death must be counteracted to a certain demned to the galloys—which exalt the culprit, for the
will not*
degree be these pious exhibitions, and the proposed end moment, to an enviable degree of notoriety, we should be
answered. • *

inclined to think it a preferable mode to dismiss him with

We observe, that Carrick's Morning Post has noticed a few words expressive of the justice of his sentence, and
the account of this execution with reference to its effect, as of abhorrence for his crime. We are not desirous to in
an example, on the public mind, as well as being the result terfere between the wretched being and his religious
aſ certain perpiciºus and exclusive doctrines now unbappily attendant, in his last moments, but we cannot help thinking
too prevalent. ... The writer seems to imply that it would it would be better that their conversations should not
be useful to talk to men in this situation of the enormity of transpire, even to a third person. The motives which
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should prevent the publication of such discourses are too hesitation, and others that the petitioners threatened to ap
obvious to need further explanation. - - - pear again, to the number of 30,000 men. The Gazette
, “It is not long ago that another wretch of this descrip of Augsburg finally considers the whole account. as apo
tion was executed for the murder of a young woman, to cryphaſ, or at least as very much exaggerated,—Journal
whom he was paying his addresses. . He called on her of des Debats. - -, *
an evening after dusk—she came to him to the door, and cussiºn OF DEPUTIES. . .
he stepped inside, as if to speak to her;—he grasped her There have been several debates on the proposed law respect.
by the neck, held her fast against the wall, drew a knife, ing the Liberty of the Press. On the 15th, the first five articles
and almost severed her head from her body! Having done of the law were passed: the 5th article contains a curious clause,
his business completely he escaped. But he was known which punishes seditious cries, all attempts to carry off or de
face the ensigns of royal authority, and all public display about
to be a constant attendant at a Methodist Meeting-house; the
and there the Officers of Justice soon found him praying M. de person of symbols aot sanctioned by the King.—On the 17th
CAiss Aignoles made a report in the name of the commis
most devoutly. , Being questioned as to his motive for sion charged to examine the mode of taking cognizance of of
committing the shocking act, he declared it was to remove fences of the press. The 13th article enacted that such offences
the girl to a better world, where he should be happy with should be determined by a Jury. The authors of this project
her hereafter ſ—He had some cause to apprehend that the were not ignorant of the present imperfect organization of Juries,
girl was not very desirous to he happy with him here, and but they still considered them infinitely preferable to Police
this was the mode he took to have her to himself-Dean Gourts.--M. CHABRoN DE Solilhac proposed to amend the arti
cle respecting outrages against public morals, by adding the
seems to have been incited by the example of this ruffian—
he º: first of murdering his sweetheart, Sarah; but word “religion.”—M. Ribaud insisted that the religion of the
fearing she had sins to answer for, he murdered the inſant State, professed by 28 millions of Frenchmen, demanded special
protection. If the law, he exclaimed, be not made of sufficignt
child of his benefactor... that he should not go to Heaven force to arrest the prevailing rebellion of blasphemers against
without company. We should not wonder, after the religion, it will be a phantom to establish the creed of that im:
triumphal exit of Robert Dean, the murderer, if the next mense majority who still desire their God and King. (Cries of
mail should bring us accounts of other little children brave! from the right side.)—M. LAIN E supported the amend
having their throats cut. Unfortunately, Dean's horrible ment for inserting the word religion.—The KEEPER of the
delusion has not died with him.” -
Seals said, that the conflicting opinions which had been elicited
by those who wished to amend the law, and the difficulty they
. Methodism has to do with these matters in two ways: themselves found in endeavouring to introduce those amend
it first removes, by its frightful and threatening dogmas, ments, were a complete justification of the principles upon which
the mental barriers which nature has raised against the the law had been digested. “Religions,” he observed, “assº
commission of crime, destroying and confounding our in ciate peaceably with each other; and what is the cause of this
nate sense of right and w rong, and then, when the mischief harmºdy? It is the liberty that they enjoy. But the moment
is done, it completes its evil effect, by forcing from its you impose limits on them, you destroy this liberty; you become
wretched victims declarations of comfort which § cannot tyrannicaſ, and you do not attain your aim i you cannot prevent
the ministers of one religion from attacking the dogmas of
feel, and of expectations of future happiness which they another, of traducing them as odious, monstrous, and infamous:
cannot hope for. this is the language which each minister has a right to hold
..If this doctrine of the efficacy of repentance is to be in when he desires to establish his faith; it is doubtless the lan
stilled into criminals in their last moments, if, because guage, he will use. You may drag them to prison! you may
they earnestly declare their remorse for their past deeds, foad them with chains! they will preach the same gospel. What
their faith as to their future happiness, they are to be told crimes had the first Christians committed, who under Diocletian
that their safety is insured and they are to be sent out of expiredtheinreligion
the agony of a thousand, tortures? They had out
the world with an appearance calculated to deceive and raged of the empire! The penalties which are pro
posed to us are doubtless milder; but between the principle of
tempt the spectators, -if this course, we say, is to be suf the amendment and the laws of the Roman tyrant I see uo diſ
ſered, the punishment of deah had better be altogether ference.”—M. BENJAMIN Constant observed, that the explana
abolished, and some other substituted, which would at tion given by the Keeper of the Seals induced him to withdraw
least be an actual suffering in this world, and not run a his amendment.—The amendment for adding the word “reli
risk of being considered a mere stepping stone for the vi gion,” was rejected by a majority of 110 against 92.
The discussion was resumed on the 19th. . . de Hautefaille
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lest or most dangerous of mankind to ascend to a glorious proposed to amend the article, by the words “outrages ngainst
immortality, which virtue alone cannot attain.
public ‘and religious morals.” This amendment was supported
iy M. de Puynaurin, on the grounds of the impiety which pre
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. váiled in Europe. He observed, that the fanatics of Germany,
and the Carbonari of Italy, had thrown aside the mask; they
desired neither God nor King; and they could only succeed in
- FRANCE. subverting thrones by the wreck of the altar. “I look at the
PARIs, April 19.-The rumours respecting an attempt preamble of the project of law,” observed ºwther speaker, (M.
de Marcellus) “and I see these words—“Lotºs, by the grace of
at violence against the person of the King of Prussia, ap God.' Oh! you who would exclude religion from the laws of
pear to have had some foundation. A letter, inserted in France, complete your work; erase—But no, I will proceed no
ille Gazette d’Augsburg, of the 12th, says, that early in further; the aame of God and that of the Son of St. Louis are for
April, a crowd of persons, about 1,500 in number, sur ever inseparable. God will always protect the King of France,
rounded the King's carriage in the Park, and presented to and our Monarch will protect the religion of the true God;
him petitions signed by each person, all having for their religion will ever promote the glory of France.”—The Keeper of
the Seals contended, that the words “public morality” included
object to demand a Constitution. His Majesty patiently the
read a great number of these petitions, but seeing that there everreligious
communion
sentiments entertained by all Frenchmen, to what
they might belong; he therefore opposed the
was no end of them, the King wished to proceed on his amendment, because
way:- The petitioners threw iº before the horses was put to the vote, itafter was a mere pleonasm.—The amendment
a few words from M. Courvoisier, and
of the carriage. The King then sent an order to a adopted by a great majority of the right and centre, and a con
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neighbouring post of the Landwehr to disperse this crowd, siderable number of the left side.
which was done without difficulty, the petitioners retiring
peaceably, and protesting that they entertained no bad in NETHERLANDS. -

tentions. The circumstances of this event are varied, some Brussels, APR11, 14.—M. Vilsals (doctor of medicine),
making it to have taken place on the 2d of April, others Antomiorchi (professor of surgery), the Abbé Bonavita,
on the 3d; * affirm that the Landwehr evinced some and two servants, coming from Rome, and going to Eng
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land, where they are to embark for St. Helena, who lately
arrived here, have set out for Antwerp. Our readers know
that, ';
the intercession of the Pope, and the permission
of the Fnglish Government, they are authorized to dedicate
themselves to the service of Bonaparte, and that they have
engaged not to quit him till his death, unless, from causes
which it is impossible to foresee, the English Governor
should think proper to remove them.
narch was preparing to show him this mark of respect.
He then conducted his Majesty to the "p. re
ared for him, and remained with this Prince half an
jour.—The members of the Bonaparte family now in
Rome have not been presented to the Emperor.
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PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
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GEirm ANY. ASSIZES.

BAREurri, April 7–Sandt, the murderer of Kotzebue, Plymouth, April 15.-Srbuction.—This was an “action
was born in the town of Wunsiedel, and after receiving brought by Mr. Peter Cross, of Torpoint, against the defendant.
part of his education at Ratisbon, went to the University John Budge, of Callington, to recover compensation for the seduc
tion of his daughter, Tabitha Cross-It appeared, that in 1813.
of Tubingen. He served in a corps of volunteer chasseurs the defendant, then 25 years of age, came to lodge at the house
in the army of Marshal Wrede, against Bonaparte. When of the plaintiff, with whose family he was in the habits of inti
peace was concluded, he went to Erlangen to continue his macy; he had previohsly shown attention to Miss Cross, at that
studies. His conduct there was exemplary, but is ideas time only 15 years of age, and, availing himself, of the facilities
were somewhat extravagant, with a tendency to mysticism. which the situation afforded him, effected her seduction; the re
sult of which was the birth of a child in 1814. He was detected
His dearest friend was drowned while bathing, and from
that time he became extremely melancholy. He went to in an extensive traffic in King's stores, for which he was tried.
received sentence of transportation, and was sent to the Hulks at
Jena in 1817, and assisted at the fete of Wartbourg: a Portsmouth. In 1817, he was relieved from the sentence by a
circumstance, which tends to explain his opinions. The pardon ; and during his whole imprisonment he kept up a cor
death of one of his relations, by whom he was brought up, respondence with the young woman, promising every repara
added considerably to his melancholy. Shortly after this tion ; but though his business of a ropemaker, was still carried
he went to Manheim. on for him at Torpoint, he had not contributed any thing to the
MAN neix, APRIL 9.-The proceedings resulting from support of Miss Cross, or the child, which died at the age of five
the unhappy death of M. de Kotzebue continue to occupy months. When pardoned, he basely attempted to repeat the in
the authorities. Sandt has been much better for two or tercourse, impressing upon her the belief that he intended to
three days past, though his wound is still considered mortal. marry her, up to October last; when she found he had become
the husband of another woman. Both before and after her con
There are, however, persons who think that he may suffi nexion with the defendant, her conduct had been irreproachable,
ciently recover to be interrogated before our Criminal as a proof of which, her father being unable to support her, a
Court. The preliminary proceedings now carrying on are subscription had been raised in the neighbourhood for her re
kept secret, and no person can obtain the least information lief.-Verdict for the plaintiff-Damages 2001.
relative to them. . . . -

Chester, Apnil 20.-Johnston, Drummond, and Baguely, found

April 12–Not only does Sandt still live, but according guilty of sedition, were yesterday placed at the bar to receive
sentence. Each of them addressed the Court at considerable
to the assertions of professional persons, it is even possible
that he may recover of the wounds he has inflicted on length. They all declared that they did not sue for mercy.--
himself. . The point of the poniard passed betweed the The sentence of the Court was, that they be imprisoned for two
years; that at the expiration of that period, they find sureties.
heart and the lungs. * *

thenselves for two years, in 500i. each, and two sureties in 1904.
HAMBungii, APRIL 7-The proprietor of the German each.
Ohserver, which is published here twice a week, has just *

received an anonymous letter, threatening him with the fate

of Kotzebue, if he dares to publish any thing offensive to UNITED PAR LIAMENT.
the students in general. - -

Frankfort, APRIL 11.—It is affirmed that all the HOUSE OF COMMONS:

you Russians who are now studying in German Univer -º

sities have received orders to leave them, and to finish their Wednesday, April 21. *

studies in France, the Netherlands, or Switzerland. The House re-assembled this day.
APRIL 14.—The Grand Duke of Weimar has signified The Milborn-Port Election Committee reported, that the sit
...to all the Courts of Germany the resolution he has taken, ting Members, Sir Edward Paget and R. M. Casberd, Esq. were
that from Easter this year no foreigner shall be allowed to duly elected; that neither the Petition against their return nor
study at the University of Jena, unless he produces a for- . their opposition to it was frivolous or vexatious.
Alderman Wood presented a Petition from John Dufrene, late
mal recommendation from his Government. It is in con of Leeds, in Yorkshire, and at present confined by order of the
sequence of this that the King of Prussia has recalled all Commissioners of Bankruptcy, praying that he might be allowed
his subjects studwing at Jena. to give evidence at the bar of the House on the subject of the
Bankrupt Law generally, and more particularly with reference.
PRUSSIA. -
to that part of it which relates to his own case; and praying
Benlix, APRIL 10.-His Majesty has issued the fol also that the House would take into its consideration, whether,
kºwing cabinet order:—“ In consequence of the regula as the law now stood, areasonable ground for refusing to answer
tions made by the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, respect questions put by the Commissioners enght not to protect a bank
rupt from their arbitrary power of imprisonment.-Laid on the
ing foreigners studying at the University of Jena, I have table. -

resolved that the youth belonging to my dominions who Mr. Brxxer moved, on the ground of a certificate of ill
are studyisg there, shall be immediately recalled, to con health, that Sir F. Burdett have leave of absence for a fortnight.
tinue their studies, at some university in my kingdom: any —Ordered. -

of them who shall not immediately conform to this order Mr. Wilson presented a Petition from the Parish of St. Bar
shall never obtain any office in my dominions.”
-
tholomew in the Exchange against the Fire-Act Clergy Biłł,
* . -
which was laid on the table.—Adjourned.
ITALY. - a
Thursday, April 22.
MILAN, APRIL 11.—The journals and letters from -- LONDON CLERGY..
Rome speak of nothing but the magnificent reception of Mr. Calvent presented a Petition from the Parish of All
lis Majesty the Emperºr of Austria in the capital of the hallows against the Fire-Act Ciergy Bill. “The Hon. Member
Christian world. . The Pope did not permit the Emperorobserved, that it was signed by 63 out of 68 parishioners, and it
to kiss his hand, but embraced him the moment this Mo certainly appeared to him that the incumbent came with a y

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bad grace to ask for an addition upon 500l. a year, when he him: TUESDAY'S LONDON GA 312T TE.
self thought 50l. a year sufficient ſor his curate 1 (Hear).-Lnid - BANKIKUPTCY SUPERSEDEL).
on the table. -

B. Smith, Birmingham, steel-toy-maker.

A similar Petition from St. Michael, Wood-street, was pre BANKRUFTS. -

sented, stating that the incumbent received 500t, a year, paid a S. Bentley, Horton, Yorkshire, worsted-manufacturer. Attorney,
curate 50l., and had uever yet read prayers in the parish church. Mr. Nettlefold, Norfolk-street, Strand. -

This, as well as two others presented in the course of the even W. Farmer, Walsall, Stafforthshire, innholder. Attornies, Messrs.
ing, was laid on the table. -
Turner and Ilolmes, Bloomsbury-square.
-

HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION. * W. Turner, Llangollen, Denbighshire, and A. Comber, Man

Sir Robert Wrlsox said, he held in his hand the Petition of chester, cottou-spinners. . Attorney, Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane
a person of whom he knew nothing more than was set forth in B. Fletcher, Burnley, Lancashire, plumber. Attornies, Messrs.
this statement, but of the correctness of which he had no reason Stocker, Dawson, and Herringham, New Boswell-court. -

to entertain a doubt. The Petitioner, John Buchanan, described J, Dixon, Wellington, Shropshire, mercer. Attornies, Messrs.
himself as having been a weaver at Glasgow, and that having | Baxter and Bowker, Gray's-inn-place.
met with 19 others on the 22d of January, 1817, to consider of T. Booth, Newark-upon-Trent, and A. Booth, Nottingham, tal
the best means of obtaining parochial .. they were interrupted low-chandlers. Attorney, Mr. Knowles, New-inn. -

by the Sheriff's officers, who threw him into gaol, where he was W. Jarinan, jun. Knightsbridge, paper-hauger. Attorney, Mr.
chained to a table for two or three days, and during the rest of Hudson, Winkworth-place, City-road.
his confinement was allowed only 8d. a day for procuring him P. Messent, Quaker-street, Spitalfields, silk-weaver. Attorney,
self all the necessaries of life. On the 1st of March following, his Mr. James, Bucklersbury. -

house was broken open, and papers taken away which had not E. I. Samuels, Great Prescot-street, Goodman's-fields, lapidary.
been since restored. The Hon. Member added, that the House || Attorney, Mr. Isaacs, Mansell-street, Goodman's-fields.
having, º the interference with the regular course of law, been J. Campbell, White Lion-courrt, Cornhill, merchant. Attorney,
in some egree the author of the Petitioner's misfortunes, was || Mr. Rivington, Fenchurch-street-buildings. '
bound to provide him compensation.—Laid on the table. J. Whitton, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant. Attornies, Messrs.
ESTABLISHED CHURCH IN IRELAND. Rosser, Son, and Rosser, Bartlett's-buidings, Holborn.
Sir J. Newport called the attention of the House to the sub
J. Slade, Frome Selwood, Somersetshire, clothier. Attorney,
Mr. Williams, Red Lion-square. - - -
ject of the unions of parishes and non-residence in lºeland. The J. French, jun., Bristol, clothier. Attorney, Mr. Williams, Red
Privy Council had been empowered to make such unions as they Lion-square. - - -

thought proper, and there had been 34 since 1807. He had T. Wood, Nottingham, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. Hurd and
heard latnentable accounts of the want of means of attending Johnson, Temple. *
ublic worship experienced by the Protestants. A letter in his
and, from a most respectable person, stated that many parishes | SATURDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE. -
were never visited by their clergy, exeept for the purpose of col BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
- .
lecting the tithes, and that the writer and his family had been W. Watkinson, Strand, boot-maker. -
obliged to intrude upon the church of another parish, five miles - BANKRUPTS. . .
distant from their residence, in order to attend religious worship. J. Penfold, Watling-street, warehouseman. Attorney, Mr. Bir
In many parts of Ireland, 10 or 11 vicarages had been formed kett, Cloak-lar e. - - -

into one; and there were benefices which comprehended a space J. Folder, Savage-gardens, Tower-hill, merchant. Attorney,
af20 square miles. He concluded by moving an address to the Mr. Wilde, College-hill. -

Prince Regent, requesting his Royal Highness to direct an in

quiry into the state of the Church .#...". motion was C. Laing, Garford-street, Limehouse-hole, ship-chandler. At
- tornies, Messrs. Dennetts, Greaves, Baxandale, and Tatham,
agreed to.—Adjourned. - - **
King's-Arms-yard, Coleman-street. -

Friday, April 23, J. Bradshaw, Carlisle-street, Solro, tailor. Attornies, Messrs.

The Lanarkshire Election Committee reported, that Lord R. Lowe and Bower, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane.
H. Self, Whitecross-street, grocer. Attorney, Mr. Willett,
Archibald Hamilton had been duly elected, but that the Petition
of Sir Alexander Cochrane was not frivolous or vexatious. Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury. - ** * * -

J. Moon, Acres-Barn, Manchester, cotton-merchant. Attornies,

TOWN AND FORTRESS OF PARGA.” Messrs. Milne and Parry; Temple. -

Sir Charles Monck asked Lord Castlereagh whether any J. Wart, Preston; Lancashire, manufacturer. Attorney, Mr.
treaty bad been concluded with this country for the cession of the Ellis, Chancery-lane. * .
town of Parga to the Turks. T. Robinson, T.H. Robinson, and R. Hancook, Manchester, cot
Lord CastºreAgu said a few words in reply, but in a tone so ton-merchants. Attorney, Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane.
low as to render it difficult to ascertain their import. He was R. Harris, Wood-street, Spitalfields, stationer. Attorney, Mr.
understood in the gallery to state, that no treaty had been signed Isaaes, Bºry-street, St. Mary-axe. , -

by this country; but that, as circumstances had occurred which J. Lloyd, Carnarvon, shopkeeper. Attornies, Messrs. Adling
rendered the evacuation of the place desirable, some negotiations.ton and Gregory, Bedford-row.
were in progress to that effect. J. Palmer, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, wine-merchant. .
LEAD MINES. Attornies, Messrs. Forster and Warner, Lime-street. -

Mr. Mortarr moved the second reading of the Bill to render G. Holbrook, Fleet-market, Poulterer. Attorney, Mr. Kiss,
lead mines liable to assessment for the poor rates. They had Clifford's Inn. . - - - -

been exempted by a decision of the Court of King's Beach, and J. Nightingale and T. Byrne, George-street, Portman-square,
that exemption had been attended with serious consequences to tailor. Attornies, Messrs. Fielder and Bartley, Duke-street,
the neighbouring farmers and householders, whose assessments Grosvenor-square. - *

were trebled by it. . He did not think that iron mines should be J. Hunter and J. Orr, Buckersbury, merchants. Attorney, Mr.
made liable, as their rents had never been reserved in ore; and || Parton, Bowchurch-yard. -

a clause would be introduced to exempt them. T. Turk, Rose-street, Newgate-market, butcher. Attorney, Mr.
Colonel Wood said, that the same principle applied to one Lewis, Clement's-inn. -

sort of mines as to another; and indeed if there were any mines E. Radford, Strand, tailor. Attorney, Mr. Lewis, Clement's-inn.
that ought to be exempted, they were the lead, which were very W. Cooke, Birmingham, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Long
difficult to work and the profits of which were precarious. and Austen, Holborn-court, Gray's-inn. -

Lord Lascelles and Mr. Curwes thought the occupiers of T. Taylor, Bristol, tobacco and snuff-seller. Attornies, Messrs.
houses in the neighbourhood of all mines should be relieved from Lambert, Taylor, and Deane, Gray's-inn.
the pressure of this intolerable burden. R. Jordan ºnd J. Smith, Suratford, and J. Litchfield, Leadenhall
On a division the second reading was carried by 77 against street, coach-proprietors. Attorney, Mr. Wilkinsen, Cornhill.
43–Adjourned. º T. Ellerby, Poole, linen-draper. Atternies, Messrs. Sweet, Stokes,
and Carr, Basinghall-street..
* This town, which is on the coast of Greece, belonged to the J, Atherton, Warrington, cabinet-maker. Attornics, Messrs.
Ionian Islands, whose independence the English Government is . Mason and Housman, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
bound by two engagements to protect. It is said that this people H. Harris, Bradford, Wiltshire, baker. Attornies, Messrs. King
have been given up to their most dreaded enemies, the Turks. and Lukin, Gray's-inn-square.
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raics or rocks on saronpay. - Even the Courier suspects shere is “more petulance than
policy” in this measure, and calls it arbitrary. We suspect
3 per Cent. Red........... 713; 72; 13 per Cent. Cons....... 72}{#.

N. H. is received, to say nothing of the rogue's queries. there is more policy than any thing else in the remark; for
The criticism on the performance of PAER's Camilla next week, the Allied Despots have done much worse things than this
or the week after. -

Some remarks next week on the extraordinary case of M. de

MAUBREUIL, as detailed in his late publication.
THE EXAMINER.
London, April 25.
Private Correspondence, dated Paris, April 17, corrobo
rates our opinion of the circumstances which led to the
catastrophe at Manheim. The rising generation in Ger
many, and particularly the students at the Universities,
who represented as it were their intellect and character,
have naturally been just as disgusted at the faithless con
duct of the Allied Despots, as they were eager in helping
them to get rid of the despotism of France. They brooded
over their country's wrongs; all were in a ferment; and
at other times, and met with the Courier's entire approba
tion. The Emperor Alexander, it seems, has gone
still farther, and ordered that no Russian shall study at any
German University; but this is laid to the account of the
representations transmitted to him through Kotzebue; as if
this made any difference. So much for the sincerity of the
Despots in their love of those qualities and opinions, which
they did all they could to excite against Bonaparte, even
to his assassination. As for no Russian's going to a Ger
man University, so much the worse for the Russians,
and so much the better, chance for German ascendancy,
These measures will do no good to the cause of the Pro
mise Breakers. They only serve to shew their fears and
their littleness. Knowledge has grown too much for them.
—When the last accounts came away, SANDr was in the
same situation,-not dead, but not expected to live.
t *-

one of the most exemplary of them, as we have seen, lost A curious and interesting dilemma took place the other
his senses. He had been a volunteer against the French. day in the French Chrmber of Deputies. In the project
Previously, however, to this circumstance, the tendency to respecting the liberty of the press, an article was proposed
join together, and to form devoted communities, which against outrages upon public morals and religion. This
had been so much encouraged as long as it helped the was opposed as far it concerned the latter, and among
Despots against the French, was now looked upon with others, warmly and successfully by the Keeper of the Seals,
an evil eye, and for a very obvious reason, in fact, for who protested against the sectarian animosities which it
the same reason. For it was not the French alone, as the would let loose. The word was in consequence given
Despots hoped, against whom the German youth had been up; but on the resumption of the debate, an amendment
so patriotic, but Despotism itself; and this Despotism re was -proposed M. HANTEFeuille and warmly supported
mained, in the teeth of all its promises. The Emperor of by M. Puy MauriN, substituting the words “religious
Austria contented himself with looking dull, and giving an morals;” and this substitution, though disapproved by the
insulting answer to the Italian Deputies. The King of Keeper of the Seals, was ultimately adopted as a sort of
PRussia looked" equally dull and unsatisfactory, did not compromise. The compromise is by no means as good as
keep his promises, and was angry at being told of them. the total omission of anything on the subject; though it
The Emperor Alexander, in his brisker officiousness, set is better than the original proposition. A liberal Mi
people upon giving him intelligence respecting these Ger nistry may make use of the words to a liberal pur
man Universities and their combinations. Kotzebue, a pose; but then they may be translated into a great deal
German, was his chief telegraph for this purpose. The of bigotry by an illiberal one. However, such bigotries
Universities were denounced; the Emperor's displeasure are not at all likely to get uppermost. Let us hope that,
transpired; the united sense of the broken promises of the altogether, the substitution was intended as a compromise
Despots, the meddling of foreigners, and the subserviency with appearances rather than with any thing else. The
of native apostates, only made matters worse; and they words themselves certainly mean nothing. What are we to
will continue to make them worse, as long as the Despots understand by religious morals? Aré there other morals
are at once thoughtless and.angry, and the Germans have which have nothing to do with them Is it going to
an idea in their heads. The Duke of Saxe Wei MAR, church?. Or faith? Or what? If it is respect for other
who is understood to be one of the most intelligent and person's opinions, are the “religious morals” of the Turks
liberal Princes in Germany, worthy of the House of and Persians to be handled with reverence? or the “reli
Saxony, has now signified to all the other Courts, that no gious morals” of some part of India, which enjoin prostitu
foreigner shall be allowed to study at Jena, unless he pro tion ? or of others, which inculcate the necessity of human
duces a formal recommendation from his Government. sacrifices? or of the Jews, which order a man to marry
This seems only an accommodation to all parties, and the his brother's widows, one after the other? or of all the
best way of smoothing the late business as much as pos nations in the world, who so contradict each other in their
sible; but the King of PRussia, who required, we suppose, religious notions of vice and virtue, and shew how absurd
that Jena should be visited with some singular mark of it is to make religion and morality have anything to do
the Duke's displeasure, and be made too disreputable a with each other. Religion, or rather, what calls itself so,
place for any Prussian to come to, instead of it's honour has in all ages made morality just what it pleases. It
being thus kept up, and it's advantages made of import usurps the voice of God, and tells a father to kill his own
ance, not only refuses to recognise any such accommoda child, and human beings at once to love, believe, threaten,
tion, or to say a word about it, but peremptorily and sulkily and damn one another. Whereas there is but one real
orders all the Prussian students to come away from Jena morality, which tells people to love one another, and nei
on pain of being declared ineligible to any office hereafter. ther to kill, believe, threaten, nor damn.

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Arrivals from America during the week have brought tion of all Spanish America. For Old Spain she has no
the outline of the treaty by which the Floridas were ceded bly done a thousand times more than mere duty demanded.
by Spain to the United States, and also the intelligence She has conferred upon that kingdom a series of services
that a law has been approved by the President for pro which no time can obliterate or repay. If age has not
tecting American merchants from the piracies of vessels taught the Spanish Government wisdom—nor the highest
sailing under the flag of the South American Patriots. obligation impressed it with gratitude—but if, on the other
This law contains very severe enactments, and is supposed hand, the only return it makes us be the sale of our safety
by the Times to be connected with the cession of the Flo to a public rival, it is time that we should make the ex
ridas and one of the acts by which America repays Spain periment of what wisdom or gratitude may be found
for that cessien.” We do not see the necessary connection among those whose friendship Spain compels us to eul
between these two things: the law may be simply what tivate, as the only indemnification for those avils to which
it professes to be, a protection for the merchants; for it she has herself deliberately exposed the British Empire.
is known that the flag of the Patriots is made use of by The Ministers of this country, we are wiłłing to hope,
marine banditti, who attack any vessels that fall in their have ere now resorted to a policy so urgent and so na
way. tural; and they may be well assured that Parliament and
The same journal has been reproving the conduct of the nation will cordially join them in carrying it into exe
America, in first offering to England to acknowledge cutio.º--This is very good adviee; but it is doubtful
jointly with her the independence of the Spanish colonies, whether it will be taken. “Legitimacy,” however it may
and then accepting a bribe from Spain to assist that coun have assisted Lord CASTLEREAgn and his colleagues in
try against them. We confess, that we should have pre other matters, stands in their way here. They are almost
ferred a more strait-forward conduct on the part of the too much pledged to support the doctrine. If any inten
United States: it would have been more consonant to tion to be liberal were manifested, what remonstrances
their own principles of liberty, and perhaps quite as ad would pour in from all the “Divine Right” Monarchs
vantageous for them in the end, to have at once declared in Europe! “Good God! my Lord CastleReagh,
the Patriots their Allies, aud have set the imbecile govern are you going to help a set of rebellious fellows, who
are impudent enough to want to separate themselves -
ment of FERDINAND at defiance. But this is perhaps too
much to expect from any government in these times of from their rightful masters? Will you encourage
political selfishness. Nor is the Republican government the very notions that we have all been struggling for
without excuse. A war with Spain would at least be in 20 years to repress? - What a shocking example to your
jurious to their trade; and it is, besides, a matter of little own subjects in the East and West Indies! and what a
doubt that the Spanish Provinces will ultimately free them dangerous precedent for those countries who think they have
selves, in spite of the long-talked of, but never-appearing, a right to govern themselves—for Italy, Poland, and Nor
Cadiz Expeditions. The American diplomatists have way!”—The polite and smiling Foreign Secretary would be
in constant dread of a visit from the º and indignant
indeed managed the matter in a very clever manner. By Spanish Ambassador, and would tremble on *..."; a
sending out Commissioners to report on the state of the dispatch from any of the Christian Members of the Holy
South American Colonies, and by also proposing to us to
acknowledge their independence, they created a very na Alſº -
tural alarm on the part of the Spanish Ministry, who knew
that it would be all over with them, if such an acknow Monday evening the following persons, destined for the ,
ledgment took place. The cession of Florida was the service of Bo NAPARTE in St. Helena, arrived in Lon
consequence, and that at a much less price than would don:—The Abbé BonaviTA, an aged Priest; Doctor
have been taken by Spain, but for these appearances of an Vigliola ; and Professor Antom ARchi; with a Maitre
intention to jpin the revolted Colonies. But how does d'Hotel and Cook; and, notwithstanding the insinuations to
the contrary, contained in The Courier of Monday night,
this show any inordinate ambition or grasping on the part it happens that a Minister of Religion was demanded b
of the Republicans? Is it singular or surprising that a Benth AND upwards of twelve months back.-Chronicle.
young and powerful State should become possessed of a The Rev. Mr. QRMsby, in his visit to Aix-la-Chapelle,
contiguous province, held by a distant and impotent Go gives us the following anecdote:—“On my return from
vernment? Perhaps it would be more fair, after such ex the splendid sight (the grand review of the Allied troops at
Wº..." was accompanied by an old Frenchman,
amples as those of Poland, Saxony, &c. to say that the After expressing his admiration and astonishment, he re
singularity consists, not in their having obtained it by marked, with a sardonic smile, that this was a proud day
negociation and for an equivalent, but in their not having for Bonaparte. I was at a loss to understand his mean.
seized it by force, seeing the perfect facility with which ing, when he continued—The Sovereigns are magnani
they might have done so. -
mous-your General the greatest Captain of the age—the
The English government is not an unconcerned specta Armies the finest the world ever saw—and yet they are so
much afraid of that one man, that they chain him upon a
tor in this business: every step taken by America must be barren rock, lest he should defeat them all.”
of importance to us; and the proximity of these new pos ..We hear from Naples (says a Correspondent), that his
sessions of such a rising nation to our West India islands Sicilian Majesty has issued a special Order to his Minis.
makes us particularly interested in the present. The Times ters, for the immediate formation of a new Table of Laws,
has very clearly shewn the propriety of an immediate ac in which the whole Legislature of the country will be
knowledgment of the South American Patriots simply as E.g united into one complete and extensive compilation, com
a measure of policy. “Great Britain,” says the writer, ode for civil, criminal, and commercial laws, entitled, “A
the Regulation of the Kingdom of the Two
“obviously holds in her hand the instantaneous emancipa Sicilies.”—Chronicle, * -- - -
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The Allgemeine 3eitung has denied the truth of the state : From a return of the amount of the effects of Chancery
ment respecting the tumuſtuary presenting of petitions to Suitors at different periods, it appears that there is a great
the King of PRussia, inserted in our foreign intelligence, increase of the sums thus locked up.–In 1756, they were
The Courier extracts the following from the Hamburgh under three millions, and had scarcely exceeded four
Correspondent, as a serious thing. He says, with an air millions at the end often years (1766).-In the next ten,
of annoyance, that foreigners imagine we really put our the increase was above two millions and a half (1776.)
selves to death in this way for “slight causes.”. Numbers In the next, above two millions (1786).-Thus in thirt
of us certainly do put ourselves to death, though the causes: years the total amount rose from 2,800,000l. to sº
are apt to be far from slight-to wit, corrupt government, The increase in the next ten years, from 1786 to 1796,
and the dissemination of bigotry, bankruptcies, and bâd was nearly six millions. From 1796 to 1806, above
opinions of God and man. The exaggeration of the ſol seven millions. . But from 1806 to 1816, above ten
lowing account, and the clipped way in which our sup millions. The increase in the two years 1817 and
posed national oath, is given, shew it to be what it is : 1818 is above one million and a half. The total amount
“Two houses opposite each other, at a small lane in is now above thirty-three millions and a half. -

London, being in a very decayed state, they were secured A Correspondent calculates, that a labouring man might
by a post reaching across the lane. This was considered secure to himself an annuity of 15l. 12s. after 60 years of
by disappointed Reformers, &c. as a very rétired and com age, by laying by a sum, according to the following ratio,
fortable place to hang themselves, and almost ever to accumulate at compound interest:-3ſ. 4s. in the first
morning there were found two or three of these miserable year of life, 6l. 16s. in the 10th year, 111.13s. Gd. in the
subjects hanging; till, at last, it became a nuisance, and 20th, 191. 1 1s. in the 30th, or 47 l. 1s. 6d. in the 45th.
the Police being very attentive, placed a constable The Londonderry Newspapers advertise no less than
on the spot for preventing the like amusements. Scarcely fifteen ships to take out passengers to America, whose
had this guardian taken his station, when a gentleman, tonnage amounts to eight thousand two hundred tons; and
with a string in his hand, appeared, and was deliberately the Belfast Papers nearly as many more. . By the returns
oing to dispatch himself out of this world of trouble; but of the latter port, it appears, that about eleven thousand
É. told by the constable he must look for another place, persons emigrated thence last season, amongst whom were
as hanging was prohibited there, “G-d d-n, he ex upwards of seven hundred families. Two families, con
claimed, "what is become of our liberty?’” sisting of seventeen persons, passed through this town on
Mr. Paotitero, Member for Bristol, has published a Tuesday, on their route to the United States.—Leeds
circular letter, addressed to the electors of Bristol #. Mercury. -

rally, in which he says, “I have the pain to acknowledge Extraordinary Legacy.— A very singular cause is
the receipt of 6000 letters and upwards from you, dated now depending before the Court of Session, in Scotland,
April 1, complaining of my late parting address, which respecting a ſegacy to the amount of upwards of fifty
has caused you all so much uneasiness. But your letters thousand pounds, bequeathed by the late Earl of F. (who
have put me to an expense in postage (the letters being died at Berlin) to a foreigner, who was one of his do
charged double) of 800ls, and upwards, in addition to º mestic servants. The payment of the legacy is disputed
former uneaſpected expenses. I hope, therefore, you will by the heir at law of the late Earl, on the ground that it
repay me 1s 8d each, otherwise I shall find myself justi was given for a highly immoral consideration; and from
fied in returning each elector's letter to the writer.” its novelty the case is, of course, the subject of much con
The Bristol election, it is said, cost. Mr. Protheror versation in the Northern Metropolis. The arguments
and pleadings in this extraordinary suit, in which the most
3,500l., exclusive of 2,100l. subscribed by his family, and
the 700l. mustered by his constituents. eminent Counsel of the Edinburgh Bar are engaged, dis
The PRINce Regent is confined to his bed at Brighton play much classical as well as legal learning; but no
by the gout. He is getting better however. judgment has yet been pronounced by the Court. From
“The House of Commons has been base enough to ſeed the magnitude of the sum in dispute, it will probably be
the INFLUENCE that enslaves its Members, and was thus at finally determined by an appeal to the House of Lords.
once the parent and offspring of CoRRuption.”—From a ORIGIN of The Worn “DANDY.”—This term, which
Speech of Wm. Pitt, delivered May 7, 1783. - has recently been applied to a species of reptile very com
As a curious instance of the advance of nublic feeling mon, in the metropolis, appears to have arisen from a
for Painting in England, the memory of MICHAEL AN small silver coin, struck by King Henry VII., of little
cero and RAPHAri, was drank at the Artists’ Dinner, ſor value, called a dandy pratt; and hence Bishop FLEET
the first time perhaps in this country. wood observes, the term is applied to worthless and
The late HARVEY Christian Coxipe, Esq. leſt a widow contemptible persons.
and ten children, four sons and six daughters. To Mrs. Cow with A wooden Leg.—On the 13th ult. was
Compe he left 3000l. a-year for her life, issuing out of his killed at Old Berwick farm, a quey. About seventeen
landed estates, and to revert on her decease to his eldest months ago she broke one of her hinder legs, and amputa
son; to the other sons, 20,000l. each; and to the six tion was deemed necessary, by which the poor animal was
daughters, 10,000l. each. reduced to a skeleton. The defect was at length supplied
... "A most dextrous adept in this art has by a wooden leg, with which she walked about and gazed.
been examined at Guildhall during the week. His name and became the astonishment of all who beheld her.
is Antonio Gallini; and he is an Italian. It appeared Weight of the carcase, exclusive of 4st. of tallow, 43st. 5ib.
from his passport, that he, arrived at Dover from Calais Charles Rennett was brought to town yesterday from
on Wednesday, the 14th instant; he then made the best Ipswich, and was immediately taken to Bow-street.
of his way to town, and commenced his operations or Extract from the late Doctor FRANKLIN’s journal:—
the next day, with so much diligence and , activity, “Governing by a parliament which must be bribed, is
that there is scarcely a retail shop in Cheapside which employing ºvery expensive machine; and the people of
he did not visit in the course of the three succeeding days. England will in time find out, though they have not yet,
When apprehended, there were ſound upon him 12 new silk that since the parliament must always do the will of the
handkerchieſs, several gold pins, and other articles of minister, and be paid for doing it, and the people must find
jewellery, the produce of that morning's exertion alone. the money to pay them, it would be the same thing in
Tiis lodgings were a complete magazine of stolen goods, effect, but much cheaper, to be governed by the minister at
He was remanded, in order that the property might be first hand, without a parliament.”
identified.

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Messrs. BARcLAY AND Co.—The week before last, we Fr.MAlp Anniination of Genius–Women, under the
gave a statement from a Correspondent respecting the dis influence of mental enthusiasm, display more of tender and
tribution of papers on the advantages of Savings Banks affectionate disinterestedness than men. Not that the male
anong the men employed by this firin, and the consequent is less ardent in his literary admiration, but because in the
reduction of the wages of some of them according to the one sex it is generally an affair of the head only, in the
amount subscribed. The Solicitor of Messrs. BARclay other of the head, and heart conjointly. Every great
has called at our office, and completely denies. on tie part genius is attended by masculine satellites, without doubt,
of the principals or their agents, the truth of this statement, and sometimes even by those who join affection to esteem;
and also declares, that the house have no connection with but in no instance are we aware of such self-devotion to
any Savings Bank. - - intellectual superiority on the part of man as of woman.
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Hvrocaisy.—The dity of getting a good example is Look at the feminine adorers º Richardson, for instance,
no doubt a most important duty; but the example is good or rather, (for it was a more genuine worship,) to those
or bad, necessary of unnecessary, according as the action of Cowper. . It is scarcely possible to imagine a higher
may be which has a chance of being imitated... I once degree of anxiety for the well-being of an admired object
knew a small, but (in outward circumstances at least) re than was felt for that amiable bard by the Ladies Auster,
º: Congregation, four-fifths of whom professed that and Hesketh, Mrs. UNwiN, and indeed almost every fe
they went to church entirely for the example's sake: in male who came within the sphere of his attraction. Many
other words, to cheat each other and act a common lie! of the ladies of France have distinguished themselves by
These rational Christians had not considered, that example similar sacrifices; and it is said that D'AlrMBERT, in the
may increase the good or evil of an action, but can never bustle of Paris, was nearly as much attended to as Cowpert
constitute either. If it was a foolish thing to kneel when in his retirement at Olney or Weston. Volumes of coarse
they were not inwardly praying, or to sit and listento a dis -satire have been written in the character of ladies' favou
course of which they believed ń. and said nothing, the rites; but we really believe that, to the majority, no men
were setting a É. example. Persons in their respectable are so truly fascinating as those who combine genius with
circumstances do not think it necessary to clean shoes, that by simplicity, and artlessness with humour. Such favoured
their example they may encourage the shoeblack in con mortals are the divinities of parlours, drawing-rooms, and
tinuing his occupation; and Christianity does not think fire-sides, and receive the best of all...; homage—
so meanly of herself, as to fear that the poor and afflicted that which tinges the courtesies of life, with pure regard
will be a whit the less pious, though they should see and innocent affection.—Chester Guardian. *

reason to believe that those who possessed the good things Case of John Hegg.—Some of our readers may gos
of the at life were determined to leave all the sibly recollect a notice of the death of John Hegg, a sol
blessings of the future for their more humble inſeriors: dier in the 3d regiment of Guards, which occurred in April,
lf I have spoken with bitterness, let it be recollected that 1816. At that time, his sister, and Trio MAs WEBB, his
my subject is Hypocrisy—Coleridge—The Friend: intimate friend, both urged ...'. their opinions that he
P. ShakspeaR.—Every
379. writer on Shakspean hath ex had been most improperly treated in his illness, for which
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they gave apparently good reasons. Not obtaining a sa

pressed his astonishment, that this author was not soli tisfactory reply to their remonstrances, the Dukes of York
citous to secure his fame by a correct edition of his per and Gloucester were subsequently applied to, inquiries
formances. This matter is not understood. When a were set on foot by their orders, and their Royal High
Poet was connected with a particular playhouse, he con nesses finally caused it to be intiumated to Thomas Wrap,
stantly sold his works to the Company, and it was their in that they were perfectly satisfied with the conduct of the
terest to keep them from a number of rivals. A favourite Medical Officers.--Two Reports, it seems, were made on
piece, as Heywood informs us, only got into print when it the subject; and, according to the information we have
was copied by the ear..." for a double sale would bring on received from Wrph, these Reports entirely differ as to
a suspicion of honestie.” Shakspeak therefore himself the cause of Hegg's death—one of them stating that he
ublished nothing in the Drama: when he left the stage, died from an inflammation in his bowels—the other, that
É. copies remained with his fellow-managers, HeMiNge his death was caused by a deep-seated abscess in his
and Cospell, who, at their own retirement, about seven arm.—The strength of the complaint appears to lie in
years after the death of the Author, gave the world the edi this;–that during the inquiries said to have taken place,
tion now known by the name of the first folio; and call neither the Sister nor the Friend of the deceased Soldier
the previous publications “stolne and surreptitious, maimed (the complainants) were examined on the subject, or con
and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious im fronted with persons whom they accused of having impro
postors.” But this was printed from the playhouse copies, perly treated the deceased; . that they were not even
which in a series of years had been frequently altered, allowed to take copies of the Surgeon-Major's Reports on
through convenience, caprice, or ignorance. We have a the subject.—If WEBE's statement be correct, that opposite
sufficient instance of the liberties taken by the actors, in an causes for the death are assigned in the Reports, this alone
old pamphlet by NAsh, called Lenten Stuffe, with the would prove, that the matter has not been sufficiently
Prºse ºf the Red Herring—4to...1599; where hº, as looked into.
sures us, that in a play of his called the Isle of º:
“four acts, without his consent, or the least gues of his • CourT AND FASHIONABLES.
drift or scope, were supplied by the players.”—Farmer's -
Essay on the Learning ºf 8hakspear. -
Roy A1, AMUs FM exts.--In the “olden time,” courts
On Monday week, at fifteen minutes after five o'clock, ised to divert themselves with fools and dwarfs. They
the Steam Tug started from the basin of the new Dock, still retain an attachment, it would seem, for natural curio
Hull, for Gainsborough, where she arrived at a quarter sities, whether great or small. The following modest de
before nine o'clock, a distance of 52 miles, in three hours
and a half. The first 16 miles were done in one hour scription of a “celebrated giantess" is taken from the
exactly.—Rockingham paper. Dundee Advertiser, being part of one of the advertise
::::::::: r. Matthew Moyle, of Chase ments of the said extraordinary female, who has evidently
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A §r.
water, was taken ill and died a few days since: as no cause studied the well-known maxim of mosce teipsum :— Mrs.
could be assigned for its illness, the carcass was opened, Cook had the honour of exhibiting herself at the Earl of
when an adder nearly two feet and a half long was found YARMouth's, Seymour-place, May-ſair, London, on the
in the stomach. - -
15th of April, 1818, before the PRInce ResENT, Duke
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and-Duchess of York, Duke and Duchess of CUMBER bable effect that Emancipation would have on the mind,
LAND, and other branches of the Royal Family. Upwards of the Catholics in the way of exciting in them a feeling of
of one hundred of the principal nobility were also present fº. and good-will towards their Protestant brethren.
on this occasion; who pronounced her to be the greatest However bigoted they may be as religionists, yet as men,
living curiosity the world ever produced. This incom and especially as warm-hearted Irishmen, they could notbnt
arable giantess was born at Merriot, in the county of be conciliated by such a gracious concession, and would
omerset, and only completed her eighteenth year on the be most unlikely to set about acquiring political power as
1st of October 1818. She is nearly seven feet high; is a body. Some of their priests (who, by the bye, have got
remarkably stout and well-proportioned; possesses a pleas: an excellent character for the most amiable qualities from
ing and interesting countenance; and is allowed by all the Irish Secretary) might make some such silly attempt; but
visitors to be, ſhe tallest, largest, and strongest woman in the influence of priests is mºtoriously lessened everywhere,
the world. , Mrs. Cook, while in Edinburgh last winter, and the very attempt, when tolerant principles were ac.
was visited by upwards of thirty thousand persons; who knowledged and practised, would lessen their power of
were highly gratified with her interesting and gigantic delusion, by disgusting their followers.

appearance.” It seems pretty clear, that as long as the majority of the

The Duke of BrproRn met with a very serious accident Parliament continued Protestant, there could be no danger
at Woburn-abbey on Wednesday week. His Grace rode of the predominance of the Catholics in any way; and it
out in the forendon, but he had not proceeded far into is equally evident that, according to all reasonable calcula
Woburn-park, when his horse, which was going at a tion, such must ever be the case. Suppose that the mem
bers returned by Ireland, in case of Parliament being
llop, tripped before, and ſell. His Grace was thrown thrown open to the Catholics, would be all of that faith.
orward with great violence, and falling on his head and They would then form less than one-third of the House of
shoulder, received a severe contusion in both, and was
stunned by the fall. No time was lost to convey him to Commons; and it is not to be believed, that the Protestant
the abbey, where medical assistance was procured, and he majority would remain quiet, if they saw the Catholics
was bled. . The nights of Wednesday and Thursday were aiming at an undue ascendancy, and when they could, by
E. without sleep, and in #. pain. On Friday his their paramount authority, quash at once all such at
race was brought to Hamilton-place, where he is now tempts.-But it seems almost waste of time to answer such
confined, and continues to amend. ridiculous assertions. . The whole case attempted to be
made out by the intolerants rests on two unfounded as
sumptions;–first, that the Catholics, when their rights
: THE CATHOLIC CLAIMS. were restord, would be equally hostile to the Protestants,
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- as they were when oppressed by them; and next, that the
The Courier is continually firing alarm guns to excite Protestants—the many—would i. blind and stupid enough
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all the illiberal and timid to an active opposition of the to allow the Catholics—the few—first to wrest from them
Catholic Claims. This wise and candid journalist tells its the executive or legislative authority, and then oppress and
readers, that the question is not one of..." religious, tolera persecute them. -

tion,” but entirely of “political power;” that the Rheimish This exclusive system is one of the “blessings" of an
notes to the Catholic Bible º prove that the Ca Established Church. Look at America, where there is
tholics would never be content until they had turned the none, and where every body is allowed to express his reli
tables upon the Established Church, and become the op ; opinions without injury to his civil qualifications.
pressors instead of the oppressed; and that their ability to n that country, there, is no squabbling about particular
do this, if once entrusted with important offices, is proved creeds, no contention between one party that has got ex
by their former acts when in power.—If a set of bigoted clusive power and another that is endeavouring to obtain
and intolerant priests have drawn up a profession of faith, its fair share of it: nobody ever interferes with another's
religion, but is content to enjºy his own; there is nºt on
it does not follow that the Catholics acknowledge it, or
would follow its instructions. [How many members of the one hand a haughty ...Y clergy kept up in spite of
Church of England would subscribe to the thirty-nine the people from whom they drag their subsistence, pam:
articles?] But if they did, what then? It does not de pered with luxuries which they pretend to despise, and
Bºnd upon what they wish, but upon what they can do. mingling with politics from which they declare themselves
To suppose that, even if all sects were reduced to the same estranged; and on other a body of sectarians compelled to
political level, the Catholics would ever F. a predomi pay towards the support of the men whose doctrines they
nating influence in any one department of government is abhor, and whose practices they consider scandalous and
... and unfair; and all oppressions must be per immoral. The American Revolutionists were too fond of
retuated, if, when aiody i. their civil rights, they liberty, as well as too prudent, to preserve a system which
they #. by experience had caused nothing but oppres
He to be answered by being told, that there is a distant and sion, hatred, “jars and jealouses,” wherever it had been
aim.t invisible danger that they will ºf º th; suffered. ++
upper hand, restore." the bloody days of Queen MARY,
º. it over an immense majority of their fellow
THEATRICAL EXAMINER,
*ºmnia ºr. º: º King of
on an
No. 360.
e other night, the Courier spoke of, it as cºn
º: §: modern principles of liberality. With what
ºthen can this journalist argue that the Catholics of 1ralian orrri.
1319 would, ifin power, repeat the intolerant acts of their Rossini's opera of the Barbiere di Siviglia has been again
ancestors of 1562? Is not this “...ºnodern liberality” ex brought forward, Madame Bellocchi taking the place
jed to them as well as to us? Do not all men begin to of Madame Fomon in Rºsina, and Signor Placci, that of
rceive now the folly and neeessary, re-action against NALDI in Figaro. The more we hear this opera, the motº
themselves of intolerance in general, and more particularly highly we think of it. , All works of genius require, as "
were, to be read with attention,-painting and music as
violent persecution? -".
of: .* or pretended alarmists, who are raising the well as poetry. At the first hearing of a fine opera; one
“No Popery” cry again, always take care to sink one misses nine out of twenty parts of it, from the mere º:
view of the subject in their arguments; that is, the Pro of it's passage. It is like dashing in a post-chaise throug
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a finelandscape. We must hear it again and again; and
then we get acquainted with all those varieties of expres
sign, those intentions, and overflowing meanings, with
which a man of genius abounds. We catch all the glances
of his mind's eye; and these, especially in a lively writer
like Rossini, are often worth more than his most deter
mined looks. -
was the most agreeable evening I passed in Italy. Rossini has
all the vivacity of a happy man; it was not without a feeling of
melancholy that I separated myself from him. In CANova and
him, thanks to the ruling powers, is centered all the art pos
sessed by this land of genius. I repeat to myself, with a mourn
ful kin of gaiety, the exclamation of Falstaff from Shake
speaRE:—“There live not three great men in England, and one

of them is poor and grows old.”—Count Stendhal's Tour to Rome

Generally speaking, however, we still think of Rossini and Naples, &c. - -

as we did, that is to say, as to the quality of his music. This is a picture of a true man of genius drawn by one
He has a greater quantity of beautiful things than we sup who understands it, unaffected, sincere, with resources
sed at first,--of melodies as well as accompaniments. of happiness in his talent, not to be destroyed even by
ut upon the whole, he strikes us as having less originality bad governments and poverty, as long as there is a charm
than animal spirit. You can trace him oftener to f. pre in nature or a healthy sensation in his veins.
decessors than any other great modern composer. Perhaps We take this opportunity of regretting an error of criti
this is owing to indolence or to necessity, or both. It is cism into which we ran when we first heard the Barbiere
hinted in a very amusing work lately published, (the author in Siviglia. PAesiello had written one on the same sub
of which, by the way, is a deeper man than his enjoyers are ject; and we thought it hardly modest in a * coin
apt to suppose) that this excellent musician is sometimes poser to enter the lists with him so decidedly. But we
obliged to compose an opera in a fortnight:—bht we will ought to have remembered that something like this was an
extract the whole passage, which gives one an exceedingly old Italian custom, at least in books. The old sonnetteers
leasant impression both of the author and his new-old thought it a compliment to a man to write upon the same
riend:— -
rhymes after him; and the Pastor Fido of GUARIN1, -be
January 9, 1817.-At Terraeina, at the magnificent inn built sides following it's footsteps, otherwise, almost parodies
by Pius 6th, a proposal was made me to sup with some travellers some of the finest passages in the Aminta of TAsso.” When
just arrived from Naples. Among seven or eight persons, my TAsso saw the Pastor Fido, he said it was a finer work
attention was more particularly attracted by a very handsome than his own, but that his own had make it so. This was
man, fair and rather bald, appearing about thirty or two and very generous in him to . and we think not true. Per
thirty. I asked him news of Naples, and particularly of the haps, ſtoms passages which we have seen of PAEsiello's
music; his answers displayed clear and brilliant ideas. I en Harbiere, the compliment would be truer from the musi
quired whether there were any hopes of hearing at Naples, the cian to his follower; but still the honour of original
othelio of Rossix : he answered by a smile. I said that accord
ing to my ideas, Rossini was the great hope of the present Italian thoughts might remain with him. That exquisite canting
school; that he appeared to me the ouly mau born with true passage for instance, in which the pretended singing-master
genius, and that his success was not so much owing to the rich tires out the patience of the old gliardian with bowing, and
mess of his accompaniments, as to the beauty of the airs. I per singing Pace e Gioia, has it's evident prototype in PAE
ceived something like embarrassment about my man, and saw a siello, though it is altogether finer in Rossini.
smile upon the countenances of his fellow-travellers; it was Ros
six himself:-fortunately, and the chances were very much The performance is excellent. It was said in one of the
against me, I had not touched upon the idleness of this great daily papers that GARcta in the Count was languid, com.
genius. - -
pared with his former representation; but he did not ap
He said that Naples required a very different stile of music pear so to us. He has thinned indeed some of his exu
from what pleased at Rome, and that the ta-te of Rome again berance both in gesture and singing; but his laurels, on
was very different from that of Milan. “We are badly paid,” this account, only seem to us the stouter and fresher.
he said, “we must be constantly running from one end ..! Italy Signor PLAcci also has “brought his super-abundant
to the other, and the most successful opera, will not bring us whiskers under the sheers; and we hereby inform, the
more than a thousand livres.” He said that his Othello had met
with but partial success, that he was going to Rome to compose
public, that he possesses a chin, and even cheeks. . We
a Cinderrella, and then to Milan, to compose the Maid and the cannot say much more than usual for his singing; but it
Magpie for LA ScALA. has improved upon us altogether; he has also some notion
This poor man of genius interests me much. Not that he does
of humour; and the failure of another person who lately ap
not appear gay and happy, but what pity it is that this unfortu peared was so great, as to have rendered Signor Placci, by
nate country is not blessed with a sovereign who has taste contrast, almost a favourite with this most trusting operatic
enough to give him a pension of two thousand crowns, that he audience, Madame Bellocchi takes º bd deal of pains,
may not be under the necessity of writing except at the moment we suspect, to repress the less genteel part of her de
of inspiration. Who can, under his present circumstances, make meanour in Rosina; and accordingly she does not make
it a reproach to him that he composes an opera in a fortnight. the same disadvantageous comparison in it with Madame
He is obliged sometimes to write upon a wretched table at an Fodor as in another character. Her singing is as excel
inn, in the midst of all the noise of the kitchen, with muddy ink, lent as usual.
brought to him in an old pomatum pot. Of all men whom I
have seen in Italy, he appears to me to have the largest share of We again witnessed with great delight the first act of
general talent: of this he certainly is not conscious himself, for the ballet of the Slave Merchant. We missed however
the race of pedants are still in full feather here. I mentioned my the Russian dance of little Miss Hullin, who we were
enthusiastic admiration of the Italian in ‘Algiers, and asked sorry to hear was ill; and on coming nearer to MILANIE,
whether he himself preferred that or Tancredi 2–He answered we wished she would not look so prodigiously grave and
that he preferred Il Matrimonio Secreto" to either; yet this opera formal. Her face looked minuets, while her feet were:
is almost as much forgotten in Italy us the tragedies of MARyton dancing a hornpipe.
Tel are at Paris. Why might he not be alſowed te levy a tax
upon the companies who play his thirty operas?—I suggested prºRr-taxe AND corent-gardew.
this to him but he demonstrated to me that in the present dis We are relieved from the necessity of giving an account
ordered state of the country, it was impossible even to propose
of the new piece which appeared at Drury-lane yesterday
such a thing. week, by it's withdrawal. For our deficiency in giving
we remained together drinking tea till past midnight: this no account of the one at Covent-garden we have to apolo
gize; but we had understood it was to be repeated every
* An opera of Cixi.A.Rosa's. The Count's notion of levying a
tax upon companies who make use of Rossini's works, appears * Is is the same with the Acco of Tasso's promising imitator
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to us excellent. -

ONGARo, who died young. - * -

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day until further notice, and found the case otherwise. three parts sorry that any one who has any appearance of
The play-bills have fairly dodged us this week. The appreciating Wornswortrij, should show so much temper
hº however are well acquainted with º: novel, at this really provoking name of Peter Bell.
º of Mid Lothian, from which it is ta ell.
The following are specimens of the Preſace and the
Poetry:
It is now a period of one-and twenty years since I first wrote
Mrss ByRNE.—This lady has been acting for some some of the most perfect compositions (except certain piecesſ
time at the Crow-street Theatre, Dublin, much to the sa have written in my later days) that ever dropped from poetical
tisfaction of the public. as the following circumstance pen. My heart hath been right and powerful, all its years. I
shews. It seems that Miss ByRNE had undertaken, in never thought an evil or a weak thought in my life. It has been
her engagement with the proprietor, not to sing any where my aim and my achievement to deduce moral thunder from
but at the theatre; but it is also asserted, that there was buttercups, daisies”, celandines, and (as a poet, scarcely inferior
to myself, hath it) “such small deer.” Out of sparrows' egg-l
an understanding at the time, that this condition would have hatched great truths, and with sextons’ barrows have I
not be strictly insisted on. The other day she attended a wheeled into human hearts, piles of the weightiest philosophy.
+ - + + + + +
concert, which so offended Mr. Joses, the proprietor of the + + + +

theatre, that he dismissed her from her employment. The My Ballads are the noblest pieces of verse in the whole range
audience, on the succeeding night, when the first piece was of English poetry: and I take this opportunity of telling the
concluded, testified their disapprobation of his conduct by world I am a great man. Milton was also a great man. Ossian
loud cries of “Miss ByRNe and an opera;" the manager was a blind old fool. Copies of my previous works may be had
came forward; but as he could not deny the occurrence, in any numbers, by application
-
at my publisher.
+ +
* + + + +
the spectators grew more incensed, and, like hot Irishmen,
tore up the gallery seats, and injured other parts of the He hath a noticeable look t,
house. The performers, after some unavailing attempts This old man hath—this grey plº man;
to go on with the piece, were compelled to abandon the He gazes at the graves, and seems,
With over waiting, over wan,
stage; and it was not till the manager had declared that Like Susan Harvey's f pan of crearms.
the difference with Miss ByRNE was in a way of being
adjusted, that order was restored. A placard was aſter. 'Tis Peter Bell—'tis Peter Bell,
wards exhibited, stating that Miss ByRNe's former en Who never stirreth in the day;
His hand is wither'd—he is old :
gagement was offered to her, and the audience were ad.
On Sundays he is us’d to pray,
dressed by Sheriff Wood, who appeared on the stage with In winter he is very cold $.
a drawn sword, but threw it down on the expression of
dissatisfaction from the people. He requested them to re I've seen him in the month of August,
tire, which they did—This is right: the public are not to At the wheat-field, hour by hour,
be deprived with impunity of the pleasure afforded them Picking ear, --by ear, by ear,
Through wind,-and rain,-and sun, -and shower,
by a favourite performer, on account of the private quar From year, to year, to year, to year.
rels of managers or people who hector it in green-rooms. You never saw a wiser man,
2.

He knows his Numeration Table:

IIe counts the sheep of Harry Gill J,
LITERARY NOTICES. Every might that he is able,
When the sheep are on the hill,
No. 53.
Betty Foy–My Betty Foy,
Is the aunt of Peter Beli ;
Paer Ball, a lyrical Ballad. And credit me, as I would have you,
Simon Lee was once his nevhew,
Turke have been lately advertised two books, both Peter And his niece is Alice Fell ||
Hell by name: what stuff one of them was made of may
be seen by the motto, “I am the real Simon Pure.”— He is rurally related;
This false Florimel has hurried from the press, and ob Peter Bell hath country cousins,
truded herself into public notice, while, for ought we know, (He had once a worthy mother)
Bells and Peters by the dozens,
the real one may be still wandering about woods and wil But Peter Bell he liath no brother.
dernesses. , Let us hope she may soon appear, and make
Not a brother owneth he, , -
good her right to the Magic Girdle, Peter Bell be hath no brother;
The pamphleteering Archimage, we can perceive, has 11 is mother had no other son,
rather a splenetic love, than a downright hatred, to real No other son e'er call'd her mother;
Florimels; but he has, it seems, a fixed aversion to those Peter Bell bath brother mone.
three rising Graces, Alice Fell, Susan Gale, and Betty * A favourite flower of mine. It was a favourite with Chaucer,
Foy; and now especially to Peter Bell, the fit Apollo. but he did uot understand its moral mystery as I do.
It is plainly seen by one or two passages in this little “Little Cyclops, with one eye.”
skit, that the writer of it has felt the finer arts of Mr. - Poems by Me.
Wordsworth's poetry, and perhaps expatiated with his it “A noticeable man with large º
crew eves.” Ballads.
more remote and sublimer Muse. #. as far as it re
ge g

lates to Peter Bell, is unlucky: the more he may love the t Dairy-maid to Mr. Gill.
sad embroidery of the Ercursion, the more will he hate § Peter Bell resembleth Harry Gill in this particular:
the coarse samples of Betty Foy and Alice Fell; and, as “His teeth they chatter, chatter, chatter." -

they come from the same hand, the better will he be able I should have introduced this fact in the text, but that Harry Gill
to i\tate that which we see can be imitated, to wit, Peter would not rhyme. I reserve this for my blank verse.
Bell, as far as that hero can be imagined from his obstinate | Harry Gill was the original propriet.* ºf Barbara Lest.
name. We º it is very unlucky: this Simon Pure waite's pet-lamb; and he also bred Betty Foy's celebrate powey.
is in points the very man: there is such a pernicious rot originally out of a Night-mare, by a descendant of the great
likeness in the scenery, such a pestilent humour in the Trojan horse. t

rhymes, and such an inveterate cadence in some of the | Mr. Sheridan, in his sweet poem of the Critic, supplies ºut
stanzas. If we are one part amused with this, we are of his heroes with as singularly clustering a relationship.
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FINEARts. VeRoNEse upon an outline of RAffaelle, at least so says

the cataloge, and its charms of figure, dress, and cºlour,
seem to corroborate the statement. It is the Earl of YAR
BRITISH INSTITUTION. Mouri's.—21, St. Thomas distributing his Garments to
Duniss the barren wintry season the lovers of Nature the Poor, Mr. BARING proprietor, is as close to nature as
look forward with delight to a renewed exhibition of her the Dutch pictures are. Even the higher class of Mu
works in spri In like manner during the time barren millo's works, though fraught with delicacy of sentiment,
of Exhibitions, the lovers of Art, the kinswoman and are mixed with common nature, as is evident in 89, The
upil of Nature, anticipate that spring-time of intellectual Assumption of the Virgin, Mr. HAMLET proprietor. Some
leasure, the annual return of the Exhibitions of Art. In of Muñillo's pictures are ratherinky in the flesh. It was
§ a renewed freshness, a refinement and beauty, an en a common defect in his early ones.—Mr. É. 154, St.
livened spirit, attract our curiosity, and strike on our senses Francis with the iſ: esus, has beautiful carnations,
and our fancy. The light and warmth of the material such as are of pure health and spirits.-AN. CARRAcci's
sun in the one instance, and the light and warmth of Coronation of the Virgin, Mr. DAY proprietor, has select
the inmaterial sun—mind—in the other, raise before us form, composition, and colour, and rises to the grand. . It
the duplicated creation with an almost ravishing effect; is rather to be regretted that its great Painter has mistaken
for them - --

the character of the light, so as not to let its full blaze fall
“In earth or air, the meadow's purple stores, from above, instead of sideways, on the highest order of
The moon's mild radiance or the virgin's form the celestial Intelligences.—145, Roman Charity, the pro
Blooming with rosy smiles, they see pourtrayed perty of Mr. Taylon, is like all Rubens's Pictures, deeply
That uncreated beauty which deſights interesting in forceful feeling, and colour, though often in
The mind supreme; they also feel her charms
Enamour'd; they partake th' eternal joy.” spite of ºncouth forms, especially of women. The look of
With such feelings we at this time observe the regene tenderness and of listening concern in the young woman,
rated and vernal face of Nature. With similar ones the to hear if the “steeled jailor” approaches the door, while
ublic is now led by the liberal invitation of Sir John she gives a mother's nourishment to her old, imprisoned
father, was struck warmly from the Painter's heart, and
#: into the place consecrated by him to his coun touches that of the spectator, like those with which Nature
try's graphic genius, and with such vivid impressions we
are visiting another consecrated scene of Art, the British inspired Srenne, or HANDEL, in those exquisite melancholy
Gallery, where genius, elder and foreign born, shews her airs which he sometimes mixed with his sublime in music,
dignified and beautiful features of imagination, of action, such as Angels ever bright and fair, and He was despised
and passion, of animate and inanimate Nature, for the de and rejected of men. :
R. H.
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[To be continued.]
light and the inspiring study of the public, and of our pic
torial aspiratits. Our native genius in Art also beckons ARtists' Brx evolent Society.—The ſriends to this
us again to her own walks, where we shall carry our laudable institution celebrated its ninth anniversary on
readers with us in description, to see her annual display in
the Spring Gardens Exhibition, which opened last Mon Tuesday,object of
by a dinner at the Freemasons’ tavern. The
the Society is to grant relief to Artists, or to the
day, and to the Royal Academy, which will open on the widows and orphans of Artists, who may stand in need of
3dſ of May : also to Mr. Fawkes's Collection of Water
Colour Drawings, with a view of which he is kindly in aid. Upwards of 200gentlemen assembled. Sir B.Hortiouse
took the chair in the absence of Sir J. Sw1NBua NE, who was
dulging the public every Tuesday. detained in the country. The worthy Baronet, however,
There are no less than 155 pictures in the British Gal with his usual liberality, transmitted 25ls. in aid of the
lery, from highly finished cabinet pictures up to a large funds of the Society. The honorary secretary, Mr. Bar
and larger than life, such as 1, The Vision of St. Jerome, MANNo, read a most gratifying report; and the subscrip- .
by PARMiGIANo, belonging to Mr. TAYLon. It has a large tions were extremely liberal; not less than 400ls, being
portion of the beauties and faults of its famous painter. Its announced as the collection of the evening.
gracefulness assimilates it with RAFFAELLE and Conreg
Gio, whom he closely studied, though it has a great draw HORSE-DEALING EXTRAORDINARY.
back in the want of Rafraeria's unaffected aess of air and -
correctness of form.—The noblest of the large pictures, ApventisextENT.-(Copy.)—To be sold, A Chesnut Horse.
and one indeed of the noblest in the world, is 124, The To be seen at Child's Livery Stables.—There will be no lies
Sacrifice"; Cartoon by RAFFAELLE, the property of his told on the occasion. He is a very nice good tempered Horse.
MAJ Esty, so various and vigorous is it in human action The Advertiser is not “going abroad,” but parts with him be
and character, in anatomical drawing, and in beauty of cause he dislikes the expence of a Horse. He is fit only for a
costume. Here are gratitude, religious enthusiasm, won (like very light weight; therefore none need apply but such as are
der, grief, &c., RAFFAsile's, like Sitakspeare's, are al the Advertiser) sparely and genteely proportioned.
ways fine displays of the heart, under every impression, SIR,--The above Advertisement appeared in a Mora
though he most delights in those which are refined. On ing Paper a few days since, and on reading it, my eyes
these accounts we are surprised at the assertion of Sir J. sparkled with joy, for you must know, Mr. Examiner, I
Reysolds, that he was not at first much struck with their have the honour to be one of those “genteely propor
superior excellence, and that he passed over them to look tioned” persons, invited by the Advertiser to buy his horse.
at others in a large collection.—RAFFArille's Virgin, with I accordingly went to the stables with one of my spare
the infant Christ and St. John, Lord GARVAgn proprietor, friends, much prepossessed in the horse's favour, and I
is one of those delicious works of his which recommend certainly would have bought it, but I was told it had been
and make us in love with innocence of heart and beauty. down, although there was no appearance of it. I hinted
The mother looks, so placid and pure, that she reminds is the circumstance in a short note to the unknown Adver
of Christ's moral aphori-m, “Blessed are the pure in tiser, and the following mnorning brought this laconic
heart,” and the inſauts of his eulogistic character of little answer, which, however true elsewhere, does not, I con
children, “Of such is the kingdom of Heaven.” Superior ſess, satisfy mejn this case. It was as follows:— -

grace and delicate harmony of warm colour, being almost “Sir, De non apparentibus, et de non existentibus,
entirely in a yellow hue, distinguishes 30, The Vision & eadem est Legs.-I cannot take less-Your's, C.”
St. Helena, and it is no wonder, for it is painted by P. If you think this letter will amuse any of your numercis
T-TWe haſ insert, if possible, next week a description of this readers, it is much at your service, I am, Sir, your
cartoon from the pew of our Correspondent Mr. IIAYuox, obedient servant, - B. S.
 ..THE EXAMINER.
LA W. teous. The last shocking duty was then performed by the Glas.
gow executioner, and in a Å. minutes he was launched into
COURT OF KING’S BeNCh. eternity. When the executioner descended from the drop, the
Tuesday, April 21. unhappy sufferer fainted. and swung upon the rope, while the
The King tº. Meyert and others. handkerchief, unperceived for an instant, fell from his hand. A
This was an indictment against John Meyer, John Kinnear, loud cry of “Let down the drop!” issued from those close by;
Morely Woolf, Lewis Lery, Thomas Keyse, Montague Le Voy, John while others, alarmed by the shout, ran away in different direc.
Levett, David Levey, Joseph Josephs, Samuel Jacobs, Michael Levy, tions. . In a moment, however, the drop felſ; and in less than
Sampson Samuels, Henry Weiller, Henry Lee, Joseph Leigh, and two minutes Warden's sufferings were at an end.—He was only
Wm. Talbot, for a conspiracy. , 21 years of age, and appears to have borne an unblemished cha.
Mr. GURNEY stated the situation in which the defendants racter, and to have been much respected. He has left a widowed
stood. John Meyer had absconded; Henry Weiller and Joseph mother and two sisters. The day before his execution, Warden
Leigh were not present; John Kimuear, Lewis Levy, Montague signed a declaration, in which he averred, that he only received
Le Voy, and Mozely Woolf, had pleaded not guilty; Joseph 40l. a year, and that had he received the salary allowed by Go.
vernment, he should not have been tempted to commit the crime,
Josephs had entered a plea of misnomer, which could not be
answered; Thomas. Keyse, Henry Lee, John Levett, Sampson He also declared, that the money stolen by him only amounted
to 5l. -

Samuels, and William Talbot, had not pleaded; and against

David Levy, Michael Levy, and Samuel Jacobs, the prosecutors On Friday week, a boat, with four men, belonging to Walmer.
did not intend to offer any evidence.—The three last were then road, put .# from thence to the assistance of a brig grounded on
Sands; when, from too great a press of sail, she
acquitted, and the trial of John Kinnear, Lewis Levy, Montague the Godwinwent
Le Voy, and Mozely Woolf, proceeded. upset, and down in an instant in the sight of the spectators
It appeared from the evidence for the prosecution, that three from the shore, who immediately put off to the assistance of the
crew, but were not able to save one of them; the sufferers were
ersons, before in a state of poverty, namely, Wººller and
four in number.
º. two Germans, and Reeves, had been set up in business by
Lewis Levy, Woolf, and Kinnear, took counting-houses, and On Tuesday week, at the Medway Navigation Lock, near
bought goods from various persons, paying for part with money Maidstone; a barge laden with stone was in the act of having its
given them by the conspirators, º giving bills for the rest. freight weighed, when an immense stone of upwards of a ton
was precipitated from the crane, in consequence of a
Levy seemed to have been the most apparent agent in the busi weight breaking, and, falling on a waterman of the name of
mess. He introduced Reeves to his brother-in-law, Joseph Leigh, swivel
and they entered into partnership, Levy supplying Leigh with Mecoy, literally dashed his head to pieces. A man named Har
1000l. which was paid into a banker's. Reeves was sent to man stood close to the deceased at the time, and the stonestruck
Manchester and other parts of the country, and bought goods, him on the arm and leg and injured him materially. º
which he remitted to his partuer, and most of which Levy took
of him, but paid him very little money. At length, in about six - Birth.
months, they failed for 18,000l., of which Levy owed them On Saturday week, at the Admiralty, Lady Osborne, of a son.
13,000l. About the same time Meyer failed for 25,000l. and ran
away to the continent. Weiller also failed; but, as Levy was MARRIAGES. -
his assignee, the amount is not known. The goods obtained by Tuesday, Ph. Morris, Esq. o urst, Shropshire, to Eliza,
eldest
Levy, Woolf, and Kinnear, from these two sources, were chiefly mainster. daughter of George Field, Esq. of Duke-street, West.
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sent to India, and William Leigh, the brother of Joseph, and Le

Voy, took them. Le Voy was proved to have been connected On Monday, at Edgworth, Glocestér, Robert Smirke, jun.,
with Levy and the others, though it was not known whether be Esq., of Albany, Piccadilly, to Laura, fifth daughter of the Rev.
was in the secret, or, like Leigh and Reeves, one of their dupes.— Anthony Freston. . . . . -

This evidence took up the whole day, and the Court adjourued On Tuesday, at Tottenham, James Howard, Esq., of west
at eleven o'clock at night. fields, Hertfordshire, to Ann Maria, eldest daughter of Robt.
Harry Sparks, Esq., of Tottenham.
Wednesday, April 22. On Tuesday, at Chester, George Spence, Esq., of Queen
The Counsel for the defendants addressed the Jury, and endea square, Barrister, to Caroline, second daughter of James Kelsall,
voured to exculpate their respective clients from any share in the Esq., of Chester.
conspiracy, #. dwelling on the bad character of some of the wit Thursday, Sandford Graham, Esq. M. P. only son of Sir James
messes for tthe prosecution.—The only witness called was a Graham, Bart, to Caroline Langston, third daughter of the late
tradesmaa to speak to the character of Lewis Levy, but he could John Langston, Esq. of Sarsden House, in the county of Oxford.
say nothing of him generally. -

On the 20th inst., Charles Finch, Esq., of Kentish-town, to

The Cuter Justice then summed up, and the Jury returned a Miss Sarah Barnett, of Hasely, Warwickshire.
verdict of Acquittal for Montague Le Voy, and of Guilty against
Woolf, Levy, and Kinnear. - - -
DEATHS.
On the 2d instant, at Rome, Charles Duncombe, Esq., eldest
OLD BAILEY. son of Charles Duncombe, Esq. M. P., in the 23d year of his age.
On Friday, 16 prisoners were placed at the bar, charged with On the 17th inst. in Baker-street, Sarah Maynadier Rush,
uttering forged notes. George Wilson, William Rogers, D. Daley, eldest daughter of Richard Rush, Envoy Extraordinary and
T. Corntrell, W. Clark, John Noon, Eliz. Burt, Eliz. Rhodes, and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States.
Julia George, pleaded guilty to the minor charge of having forged On the 18th instant, Mrs. Wm. King, of St. Albans, aged 80,
notes in their possession; and T. Bradbury, J. Murphy, J. Branch, On Sunday, the 18th instant, Mr. Thomas Leffler, a musician
and G. Price, pleaded not guilty to the eapital as well as minor (says our Correspondent) of considerable talent, belonging to the
charge, and will take their trials accordingly; and W. Taverner, Opera House: he was the younger brother of Mr. James Henry
Susannah Taverner, and J. Clark, not guilty to the minor charge; Leffler, also a musician of respectability, who died suddenly on
they will also take their trials. his way to the concert of ancient music on the 10th of March.
On Sunday, Mr. W. Chickley, carpenter, attended at Kingsten
ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. Church to be married, and, the religious rites having been cºm
- - pleted, he was putting his hand into his pocket to pay the ſees,
Execution.—On Wednesday week, George Warden, late clerk when he was seized with apoplexy, sunk down and shortly after:
in the Aberdeen Post-office, was executed at Edinburgh for ab wards expired. He was in the 44th year of his age. He had
stracting letters containing money from the mail bags. The cir been married twice before.—Leeds Mercury.
cumstances under which this unfortuuate young man was con Lately, at Lantagros, Cornwall, J. Busking, alias Brocon, a
victed excited an extraordinary degree of º in his be noted miser, whose avarice was such as to deprive his wife of the
half, and many indulged hopes of a commutation of his sentence common necessaries of life. On searching the premises, after
till the latest possible period. The general hterest operated, his death, there were found, in an old box, within the pig-stye,
probably along with a recollection of the last spectacle of the old penny-pieces amounting in number to 2,879, accumulated, it
kind in Edinburgh, to draw an immense multitude te the Lawn appears, from the sale of eggs.
market. There could not be fewer than 20,000 spectators. A
quarter before three, Warden shook hands cordially with all Printed and published by John Hunt, at the ExAMINER-Office,
around him, and walked up to the drop, assisted by Mr. Por 19, Catherine-Street, Strand. Price 10d.
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has not two ideas in his head out of the pale of office; yet
the PoliticALEXAMINER... he feels himself a statesman of great importance, and ac
Party is the madness ofmany for the gain of a few. Pore. tually is so, as the world goes. Is he likely to change his
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CATHotič BiſāscipATION. º —
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doubt, and very successful, but not at all intellectual to

The more the Catholia ºuestion is agitated, the more are any purpose properly so-called. This General is a great
liberal people apt tº stonished that the Ministers will conqueror. He feels, doubtless, if he does not know, that
not concede it. | he has a kind of dispensing power with intellectual reputa
they look at it gener tion. Can'we suppose that he is likely to change?
With these and other persons, we have not the smallest
wonder how any intel doubt that Catholic Emancipation is a sort of bugbear.
ments which they bring to Not that they think much about the matter in a religious
the harmlessness of Ema; point of view; but that if they do, they have not yet got
beyond For's Book of Martyrs and the old grandam pre
great point. They think that the e judices. They do, in their speeches, refer us to the old
capable of understanding the arguments; and this is a Catholic times, and argue from those to the present; and
great mistake. We are not joking. It may have an in yet the next minute, with the usual inconsistency of short
voluntary air of jesting, and undoubtedly has, to insinuate sighted minds who see nothing but the subject they are
that the leading men in a hation are so shallow-headed. upon (and only a square yard of that), they will tell you of
But England presents a phenomenon in this respect. Men the French Revolution, and Deism, and Atheism, and how
so common-place could not rule a nation less old and it has shaken the opinions of the whole world. The truth
grearinit's institutions. The work of government has, in is, that there is as much difference between ancient Catho
the first place, been made easy and secure td their hands licism and modern, as between great power and none; and
fayery different description; and what not only so, but between great power increasing or likely
personal impºrtance they want, is supplied to them by the to increase, and weakness incapable of recovering itself.
very corr of those institutions, and by that unna Luther pelted the plá one down with a few books. Does
tural wealth, which stands people instead of any one, but a person incapable to the last degree of gene **
an id They can work the machine, because ralizing his thoughts, fancy that it can come to life again.
ginally put into such excellent order; and work from beneath all the libraries and hard-working presses of
ing is a different thing from making or from deeply under modern times, presses which are grinding their irou teeth
standing. They are the WALRERs of another's orrery. against superstition almost all over the civilized world,
They talk, in the same manner, at Congresses, of Liberty; and working away equally in pace and war ! .
because the use of the word Liberty has been handed Besides, there is this great delusion among the Anti
down to them; not because they feel the thing. And in Catholic alarmists;–they suppose that the Catholic faith.'
the same manner they won the battle of Waterloo, not is in it's nature-exclusively bigoted or intolerant; whereas
because they deserved to win it any more than Bon A it is not the Catholic faith that is so, but (to speak plainly)
PARTE, but because the institutions handed down to them, all faith in possession. of power. All faith is at least so
and the public spirit resulting from them, have survived inclined. . People in general hate to be opposed in argu
even their own corruptions. It was in spite of those cor ment at all; but in religious argument, there is something
ruptions, in spite of the Ministers themselves, and of at bottom which makes them particularly sore at opposi
shallow heads resembling them, that the battle was won. tion, and they wreak their impatience according to their
But to win battles is a physical as well as moral thing, and condition in spciety and the state of the world. But it
belongs to the national character. It enables Ministers to will be said, that the Catholics burned people. Yes, they
knock out brains, but does not help them to any better. . . did so; and why?.. Because they were the first in pos
Now the Ministers really do not understand the age session of power, and had long had it all to themselves.
they live in : and how should they? They feel themselves Cºxºn shewed what the Calvinists would have done had
at the head of a great nation; their vanity leads them to they been in a similar situation, when he burnt Sesverus.
...think that they are there, hot because of what may be Neither Catholics nor Calvinists could do such things fiow,
called heneditary facilities coupled with new corruptions, even were they to get the establishment into their hands;
but because they are clever, and are at the top of the age's first, because they have both learnt better; and chiefly.
intellect. Men under such circumstances are the most because the great power of opinion is against them. .
impenetrable of all foolish egotists. There is Lord Cas *But the doctrines of the Catholics, it is said, are still
Tiereagh, a man whose talent lies in this very impene what they were. Why, to be sure, they have hot held a
ºrability; he cannot make a decent speech, and evidently Synod, and āltered the articles of their faith, Ther:
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are also bigots among them, as among other sects, who of the line and a frigate to cruise in the Pacific Ocean, to
Jay a stress upon particulars. But look at the doctrines oppose the forces of Lord Cochrane. The naval officers,
in the Methodist publications:—nay, if you come to doc it appears, have objected to repair on board these ships,
trines, look at your own in the Thirty-nine Articles of the alleging their unfit state. - Two commanders have been
Church of England. There are doctrines as bigoted as cashiered for this opinion.
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any in the Catholic faith, those, for instance, of reproba A Report was read by M, Itoy, from the Commission appointed
tion and election, which even ninety-nine clergymen out to examine the aregauſs presented by the Ministers. The Re
of a hundred would be ashamed to preach. If the Church porter condemned in severe language the unauthorized practice
of advancing money from public Treasury on account of ser
of England, with all it's power and rationality, has not vices not yet provided for. theThese advances had recently amounted
thought fit to alter it's articles in such respects, how are we to 139,000,000ſ. The Reporter uttered a pretty sharp remon
to expect that the Catholics, with the united feelings upon strance to the French Chaucellor of the Exchequer, on the mis
chievous improvidence of the several treaties which he had con
them of former power and present humiliation, would alwr cluded, for the sake of alleviating the embarrassments of Govern
theirs? Their religion appears to them an old friend suffer ment, and particularly for his treaty with the Bank of France,
ing adversity, whom it is not fit, at such a time, to re the most oppressive º them all. ( ror was for a long time
proach even with his oftences.
very ...'. viz. that the liq loan had been given
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We are far from despairing of this concession to the port, that of 35,000,000l. sterling, 25. ,000l. had been nego
Jong-injured and most foolishly treated feelings of Ireland; tiated by Frenchmen. The excess of expenditure beyond
the sums voted, f 17 and 1818, was only 2,300,000
but it will not come through anything like a conviction on ſrancs.
the part of it's opponents with regard to the religious The Chamber ha
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part of the question. The Ministerial Papers indeed pre
tend, that the question is not a religious, but a political one.
If it is not a religious one however, it is not a political.
The Ministers and their servants evidently think it both,
whether consciously or not; but that the political feeling
is uppermost, we can well conceive. Besides general
politics, there are politics which may be called personal;
and these have a great influence on common understand
ings. The motives which induce the chief Anti-Catholics
to hold out as they do, may be summed up as ſollow:—
1. Further difference of opinion on matters purely
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2. Conscious ill-treatment of Ireland, during the ex
tremes to which that difference ran. It is well known
that the most implacable haters are those who have done
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4. Inability to confess their ignorance, even if they
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On Monday, M. Savoye Rollin re
prº, wººl specifically concerned the jour
ºil writº. The principal amendments which?
º"...i required from
ad of 10,000fr., as designated by the
projet; that th or periodical works should be reduced
to 2,500fr., from 5,000fr. : and that for gazettes of the provincial
towns to 1,500fr.—The 13th article of the second projet was then
adopted; and with respect to the 14th article, an amendment,
referring all cases of calumny against individuals to the correº
tional tribunals, was carried by a majority of eleven voices—98
to $7; with which alteration the 14th article passed.
NETHERLANDS.
Count of Assizes, Brussels, Apnir. 24.—Of the
eleven persons arrested as accomplices in the plot against
the Emperor Alexander, five were set at liberty on the 33d
of last month, and the sixth, Laborde, formerly an officer
in the French service, has either fled or concealed himself.
The five others appeared this morning at the bar of the
Court; they were Claude Andre Piger, aged 26; Curvier
Francois Xavier Bersh, aged 41, a wine-merchant: Fran
cois Dierukx, aged 35, coal factor; Adolphe Pouillot

(alias La Croix) aged 33, ex-officer in the French service;

5. Jealousy of the talents of the Catholics, if they were and Louis Buchoz, aged thirty, vinegar manufacturer:
Jeſt ſree. .. . . Dierukx is by birth a Belgian, the others are Frenchmer.
C. A lurking suspicion, that although they could not It appears, that about the beginning, of August, 1818;
possibly outvote the Lords and Commons, they might too upon the news of the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle, and
well succeed in pleasing the Prince. the approaching arrival of the Sovereigns in that city, a
French officer, Alexander Laborde, calling himself
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to quit France on political grounds, conceived the project
| of seizing the Enneror Alexander during his journey, and
For EIGN INTEL LIGENCE. ----------- compelling that Sovereign to sign an address to the French,
... . . FRANCE.
tending to proclaim Francis Charles Napoleon Emperor of
French, and the Archduchess Maria Louisa, his nother,
Panus, Apart. 23.- The Chancelerie of the Germanic the
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Regent; and to make Napoleon Bonaparte return from

Piet has received, it is said, a great number of documents re the place qf his exile. In case the Emperor Alexander
lative to the assassiliation of M. Kotzebue. There is, how had refused to sºbscribe to this demand, they would have
ever, as yet no proof of an actual conspiracy. M. de Hen. done violence to his person. If the Emperor signed the
ºrich, the Minister of Saxe-Weimar at the Biet, has affirm i proclamation, it was to be taken to France, and an insur
ed his belief that a great number of the students at Jean rection excited by the conspiracy—ſ,aborde communicated
were apprized of the project formed to assassinate M. Kot the plot successively to Piger, Bersh, and Dierukx, but not
zebue, and that Sandt had been appointed by lºt to accom hº able to raise money, it was abandoned for a time
plish this horridenterprize. Several of the Governments of In October, it was restiºnel, wheu Lacroix, a French
Germany have addressed to the Diet complaints relative officer, and Buchoz, were let into the secret: they de
* to the bad spirit that reigns among the students at Jena.
Arari. 35.-Accounts from Cadiz still continue to an nounced the plot, and were ordered to watch the conspºr
rators. They were not content, however, to act so passivº,
nounce the great activity that prevails in that port to complete a part, but pretended
t'e grand expedition, whose teparture for the river Piața furnishing money, encouraging to forward the execution of the play” t
.* now ſixed for the month of September next: but it is length, on the 9th of November, the conspirators, &c. A
in the absencesſ. Liborº
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of a person of distinction, to the King of the Netherlands,
and an order was issued for the arrest of the parties:-The
Court examined witnesses with closed doors, and the fur
ther hearing was postponed to another sitting.
Irish factories. This Bill would appoint certain visiters, with
power to investigate the internal state of the factories, and to re
port on the state of the education and inoruls of the children.
One of those reports should be made to the Secretary of State for
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the liome Department, another to the Society for the Suppres

GERMANY. sion of Vice, another to the Society for the Education of the
Poor, and a fourth to the Bible Society; and wherever these re
FRANkroar, Arnul 17–Sandt, the assassin of Kotze ports gave a satisfactory account of the attention paid to by any
hue, has undergone a painful operation, which it is thought proprietor to the moral improvement of the children, that pro
will prolong his life. prietor should be exempted from the assessed taxes.—Leave
given.-Adjourned. º -

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UNITED PARLIAMENT. Mr. Cunwks presented a Petition from the parish of Aitha'
lows, Bread-street, against the Loudon Fire-act Clergy Bill,
HOUSE OF LORDS. stating that the Rector had not been a resident in the parish
----- within the memory of nau, and that the Petitioners had to pay
Monday, April 26. a lecturer besides.—Heferred to the Committee.
The Marquis of Lawsnown presented a Petition ſtom certain Petitious were presented from the Roman Catholics of the
Unitarians of Liverpool, complaining of the . which the county and city of Cork, and from Mallow, praying for relief
Petitioners experienced, in consequence of being ob iged, it-or from certain disabilities. Also one from the Protestants of Cork,
der to be legally married, to acknowledge doctrines which they to the same effect. Several more Petitions were presented in
considered profane. The Petitioners hoped, that the same pri favour of the Catholic Claims, and others against them.
vilege, now enjoyed by the Quakers add Jews, with respect to The St. Ives Election Committee reported, that Sir Walter
stae celebration of marriage, would also be extended to them.– Stirling was duly elected, and that the Petition against him was
Laid on the table.—Adjourned. not frivolous or vexatious.
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HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. DExxtAN moved for leave to bring in a Bill for facilitating
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the despatch of business in the Court of King's Bench. The first
Monday, April 26. object of the Bill was to allow one of the Judges to sit at Nisi
Petitions were presented against the Loudon Fire-act Ciergy prius, while the three others were sitting in banco. The second
Błº, from St. Alban, Wood-street, St. Mary, Aldermanbury, St. was to empower the Judges to pass seutence at the assizes on
Thomas the Apostle, St. Nicholas, St. Mary-Axe, and several certain cases, instead of in term. The third was to allow the
other parishes.—Referred to the Committee. Court to sit on the 30th of January. The Judges approved of
The chimney Sweepers' Regulation Bill was passed. the measure.—Leave given.
MARRIAGE-ACT, - SINKING FUNI).
Tr. Pauluxton E moved the further consideration of the Re Mr. Grenfell moved that there be laid before the House cer
port on the Marriage Act Amendment Bill. -
tain accounts to enable it to judge how far it might be expedient
Sir C. Ronixson opposed the measure, though he admitted to º the Sinking Fund of . year, towards any loan that
that there were some defects in the present law. He particular might be raised.—Ordered.—Adjourned. -

ly objected to those provisions that related to the period within

which it should be permitted to those who had married during Thursday, April 29.
their minority lºse aside the union; as well as those that referred CATHOLIC CLAIMs.
to the residence of the parties in the parish where the bans were Sir F. Burperr presented two Petitions—the first from the
published, for a certain time before such publication. Roman Cathotic Inhabitants of Lºndon, signed by 4,000; the
Sir J. Mackix rost observed, that the present law was most second from the Roman Catholics of Liverpool, signed by 2,000
tyrannical: it made the children of an imprudent marriage the persons, praying for total emancipation.-Laid on the table.
first sufferers by it, and it inflicted a stigma upon the female who A number of other Petitions were presented both for and
had contracted it, who was the very person who ought to be against the Catholics, which gave rise to some conversation.—
deſ-mded against the caprice of a profligate husband. General ARcmdall said, that the majority of the Irish Pro
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Dr. Puttumone, in reply, said that there were many persons, testaurs were opposed to the Catholic Claims, although in some
even in high life, who had the bans for their marriage publisked instances threats had been used to procure signatures to Petitions
in parishes, where they were utterly unknown, which facilitated in favour of them.—This was denied by several Irish Members on
claudestine marriages; and it was the object of his Bill to pre behalf of their constituents.-On the other hand, Mr. Hutcrux
vent this, by reudering a certain period of residence in the pa sox said, that he held in his hand a document, which proved
rish necessary to such publication of bans. a
that the soldiers in the barracks at Dubliu had been induced to
On a division, the motion was carried by 97 against 33. sign the Petition. This document was an order from the Com
Mr. F. Ronrnson obtained leave to bring in a Bill to enable manding Officer, stating that he was informed that rolitical
the Government to enforce the provisions of the tate Convention papers had been introduced into the barracks, and expressing his
with America, relating to fishing on certain parts of Newfound disapprobation of the circumstance. The Hon. Gentleman said.
laud.—Adjourned. - that he also understood that the boys in the Blue Coat Ho-pital
Tucsilay, April 27. had affixed their signatures to the Petition.-Mr. Peru, in reply,
Mr. Mawrvst presented a Petition from the parish of St. stated, that inquiries had been made respectiug these allegations;
Botolph against the London ºlergy Bill, which was referred to the charge respecting the school-bºy" was declared by a meeting
the Committee on the said Bill, of the Governors of the school to be false; and the respectable
Lord Enningros obtained leave to bring in a Bill to enable committee appointed to procure signatures denied the trail ºf
magistrates to settle disputes concerning the wages of merchant the other, it did not appeat, from the orders 390ted, whether
seamen, and to preveut that distress frequently occasioned by the attempt had been to obtain the signatures ºf soldiers far or
the lardiness with which their masters paid them. against the Catholic Claims.-The Hon. Gentleman the pre
IRISH CLERGY, sented a Petition from certiu Protestants, chiefly in Dublin,
Sir Jonv Newront lead a memorial, which he had received (5,600 in number) against the Claims. The Pºon asserted
that morning from Ireland, oomplaining of the non-residence of ºnal the majority of the Irish Protestants were of the shºe opi
the Irish clergy on their benefices. The memorial came from hion as the Petitioners-This was denied by Mr. Grºs,
5?? heads of families in the diocese of Cork, and stated, that SAIT DUTIES. - - -

their clergyuren derived a considerable income ont of their

The Report of a former Committee on the Salt Duties, dºar
*kets, bºt did uothing for it. He moved at address to the ing than to be very oppressive and impolitic, and that the state
#. tegeat, for returns of the humber of resident clergy of the finances alone prevented their repeal, being read,
Ruen in tº-ſand. &c.—Ordered, - -
Dr. Philºwoute observed, that the financial conditºr of the
EiyūcArtox CF Tiff, Pook IN TRELANI). country was the only reasºn, why the Connittee of as year had
Mr. Williºt Pauw sit, asked leave to bring in a Biſi to pro not recommended the abºlition of the duties, and that ren-on was . .
wide fºr the better education of the poor childreu employs in aow removed by the increase of the income sitce it.a. tag
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and was very heavy on them, a bushel of salt being taxed at forty - Friday, April 30. . . . . "
times its value. For that reason also, it operated most inju the Ilchester Election Committee repºrted, that the sitting
riously on their morals, the temptation to sell untaxed salt being Members were duly returned and the Petition neither frivolous
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so great. Another effect was the discouragement of the fisheries,

as the tax required so much capital that the trade was thrown The Grampound Election Committee, reported to the same
into the hands of a few great monopolizers, besides enabling the effect; and in answer to some remarks on the notorious corrup
Dutch to undersell us in our own markets. One of the Secreta tion of the place, the chairman (Lord PALM Enston) sawd, that
ries of the Admiralty had declared, that 20,000 more seamen there had been grounds for presenting the Petition, but upºn
would be employed, iſ these duties were removed. He wished further inquiry, the Petitioner thought it imprudent to proceed,
to place on the journals a record of the opinious of the House, on account of the expense. There was therefore no evidence
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should therefore move a resolution, declaring that, considering Generº Han't presented a Petition from a person named
the severe pressure of the salt duties on the lower orders, and Maconeluagh, complaining that the Petitioner's father had been
the advantages to be derived from a more extensive use of that taken into castody by an officer of excise, excessively ill treated,
article, the gradual reduction and total repeal of those duties, removed without warrant ſrom the county of Donegal to the gaol
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Mr. Davenporº ceacurred in the opinion of the Learned consequence of harsh usuage in inclement weather. The cast
Doctor. Foreigners were enriching themselves from the greatest had beenbutrepresented to the Grand Jury, and to the Board of
source of wealth that Providence had bestowed upon us. By an Excise, no redress had been obtained.—Laid on the table.
Sir
enormous and impolitic duty of 3000t, per cent, on an article of form, F.FF.Rguson, in ..". soline Petitions for Burgh Re

necessary subsisteuce, we at once deprived ourselves of a nursery took occasion to reply to the assertion of the Lord Advº
for seamen, and held out an irresistible temptation to fraudulent cate, that such Petitioners,were not the respectable class of the
practices. - --
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Yery oppressive by the people, as not a single Petition had been A great number of Petitions were presented both for and
the Catholic Claims. Two of them were frnia Live:
*resented for its repeal, although the people were always ready againstone, signed by 11,000 persons, was against, and the other,
to petition for any thing in which they were interestes. He ad pool;
mitted the facility of evading the duties, but thought that evil signed by 3000, in favour of the Catholics. ...
was lessened by the greater profit that could be derived from the TOWN-LAND FINES.
evasion of other duties. It produced a revenue of 1,500,000l. a General HART moved that the House should resolve itself into
year, with very little expense for collecting, and its principle a committee on the laws relating to illicit distillation in Ire
was very equivable, as, being a tax on a commodity, it fell land. - - - - - - -

equally on all classes. The fisheries had been improving under Mr. Dawson made some observations on the oppressive and
these duties; and indeed so great was the quantity of fish cured evil effects of the system of iroposing fines ºn town-lands, in
last year, that the market price did not, pay the curers. The which illicit distillation was carried on. The fine for the first
Dutch fish was not sold lower, but higher than ours. He might offence was 20t., for the second 40l. and 60l. for the third. The
appeal to the state of the salt-mine districts and the small number districts of the town-lands on ºn average might be taken at
of convictions for evading the tax, to show that its effect was not 1,000 acres, and if the worm of a still, or any more minute article
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Mr. Curwen denied that the tax was equally borne by all were liable to the payment of the fine. The mode of executing
classes. A large quantity of salt was used in the composition of the law was still worse. In England it was a legal maxim, that
bread, an article so much consumed by the poor. From the in no one should be a witness in his own cause; but in these erº,
ceme of the rich the tax did not take, more than a thousandth the revenue officers, who were to profit by the conviction, were
part, while from the wages of ſabour it cut off a twenty allowed to be witnesses, and in nine cases out of ten, the convic
sixth. The tax was now more oppressive that formerly, because tion rested solely on their testimony. Illicit distilleries were
the wages of the poor had not risen in proportion to the increase. usually set up in places not ascertained to belong wºº
of taxes, but were regulated by the demand for abour. The ship, or in the suburb of a town; so that, if the head of a still
small number of convictions proved nothing, for were not thou were ſound in an obscure part of Dublin, tº ſat capital would be
sands of cases compromised, which had become a source of mon called upon to pay a portion of the fine; which was imposed,
strous profit to sothe parties lu, the †:
ear, we had paid even if a cask were found, and an officer hardy enough tº swº"
10,000l. to foreigners far food, which º
the propriety of that from the smell he believed that it had contained iſlegal spirit"
granting every facility to a species ºf labour, which both pro The present Act passed in 1814, and was made retrospective"
vided food, and employed numbers of people. He knew that the 1810. It was an Act to protect the guilty, and punish theinnocent.
produce of the tax was necessary, but some better substitute The Hon. Gent, then cited several cases, which proved that tº
might readily be found. . . . . - “... . . . . inferior officers of Excise had been guity of mal-practices anº
The Chancellow of the Excheqven contended, that the tax increase collusiou with the illicit distillers themselves. It appeared from
cºuld not be considered excessive, in proportion to the the Report of one of the Excise Commissioners, the º
in monºctures, agriculture, &c.; §§ the fisheries had not 10,000l. of penalties, the expences amounted to 20,000l.-The
been inºred by it. law was a vain, and useless attempt to overcome that characte
The thouse divided—for the motion, 50–Against it, iži-] ristic of the Irish—an unwillingness to become informers: and
Majority; 77. ---------------- - - -
its effect was to eause periury among all parties, even the '*
CHARGE AGAINSTAN IBISH JupóE. returning verdicts contrary to the evidence, on account of thºſ
Mr. MARTIN moved for the copy of the indictment found in
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dislike of the law. An Irish Judge had declared, that by this

law, not only civil º but perjuries, conspiraciºs, and
Sept. 1814, against Edmºnd Burke, an attorney, for perjury, and assassinations, were multiplied to a frightful degree; and in the
lº ** &c. His charge again tBarou M'Clel county of Donnegatinearly the whole of the business, public and
land was that he hat ºf postponed the º Burke, on affi
davits by himse f(Mr. § and others, stating the impossi private, arose from this source.-(Iſcar!)-Why the system ºf
bility ºf the gºdance of certain necessary, witnesses, on the small stills, sº advantageous in Scouand, should not be equally
part º prºsecutiºn instituted by him. . . . . . . . . . . beneficial in Ireland, surpassed his comprehension. If Pºpe;
inspecters were appointed, and a sever, punishment inflicted
| Sir G. Hº défended Baron M'Clelland, and read a written
upon the illicit disillºr himself, the inhabitants at large wºuld
statement ºf the Learned Judge, giving a flat contradiction to exert
every circumstancementioned by Mr. Martin, and also charging themselves to bring him to justice. Unless the chancellor
ºgºnfirman with;-------
having-offered him the most grass personal. of the Exchequer should apply some remedy tº this enor”:
evil, he would'be responsible, in the eyes of God and man, ºr
insults. . . -- . .
Mr. Msirin made a lºng, reply, which threw the House into the consequences.— (Hear 13 .. !---. -
- º º º a-hº extraordinary detaiſ of his Mr. Leslie Fosten observed, that -1,300.0%i-one fººth
ºthe course of which he compared Baron. part of the Irish Revenue—was at stake by this allestion. Under
ihe system of small suits, which was ubw proposed to be revº
º timidity; and a tiger ſºr his fero mare
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by the Speaker. stills had been destroyed, and the d.º.º. was accoºn
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THE EXAMINER.
Ireland, except Donegali and Tyrone. Both the expense of the T. Deakin and T. 1)yer, Birmingham, dealers. Attornie's
Military and of Excise Officers, and the quantity of perjary, were Messrs. Clarke, Richards, and Medcalfe, Chancery-lane.
lessened by the present system. The Board of Excise had the W. and J. Wharton, Leominster, common carriers. Attorney,
power of remitting fines, and he was sure they would do it, Mr. Becke, Devonshire-street, Queen-square.
when the parties could prove that they had not counived at the
illicit distiſlation, which however was generally the case.
Sir H. PARNELL said, that the small still system had never SATURDAY's LONDON GA2ETTE.”
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been fairly tried; when it was in practice before, the excise
officers º
power to grant licenses, by which coungetition was BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGET). ,
destroyed. Had it not been for this restriction, numerous small N. Brooke, Duke-street, Lincoln's lun-fields, shoe-maker, from
stills would have been employed, which would have prevented May 8, to June 26. -

illicit distillers from obtaining any profit. T. Fleming, Limehouse, sugar-refiner, from May 4, to June 22.
Mr. Peel, thought, that on considering the two systems, both BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
of which were seconpanied with great evils, the one which re W. Dixon, Jun. Liverpool, wine-merchant. • *.* -- -

strained illicit distiliation, though it might be aceompanied with T. Fleming, Limehouse, sugar-refiner. . .. .
some severity, was the less evil of the two. BANKLUPTS. -
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The CuANcellon of the Exchequer agreed with Sir A. Par P. and J. Statham, Ardwick, Lancashire, dyers. Attorney, Mr.
nell, that the eficouragement of small stills would have the effeat Ellis, Chancery-lane. * ** - s
of gradually driving out the snuggler; and should therefore E. Rossiter, Warminster, clothier. Attorney, Mr. Edmunds,
support the motion. - • *---
Symond's ſun. -

Sir J. Newport and Mr. BENNEr remarked on the inconsistent J., H., and J. Gorton, and W. Roberts, Tottington, Lancashf".e;
conduct of Ministers. The Member for Armagh, an official per cotton-spinners. Attornies, Messrs. Ciake, Hichards, and
son, had opposed the motion, and it was evident that Ministers Medcalfe, Chancery-lane. * , , ºr -
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intended then to oppose it; but, finding they should be is a mino W. Dyer, Aldersgate-streat, goldsmith. Attorney, Mr. Wººl,
rity, they hººd whanged their course of proceeding. Church-passage, Feuchurch-street. . * * *.*.*.*.*.
The motion was agreed to, and the Committee appointed.— J. Chapman, Margate, baker. Attornies, Messrs. Bell rand
Adjourned. -

Brodrick, Bow-church-yard, Cheapside. . . ." ..."

Tuesday's LoNDON gazette. D.hew,
Davis, Newand
Price, Bond-street, jeweller. Attornies, Messrs. May-,
Styan, Chancery-lane. a - *- .

- -º-º- - R. Wood, Hart-street, Bloomsbury-square, paper-hanger." At

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. torney, Mr. Hudson, Winckworth-place, City-road.
S. Wood, Bolton, Lancashire, banker, from May 4 to May 12. T. Fisher, Liverpool, master-mariner. Altorules, Messrs. Daciº,
BANKirui"I'CHES supplitSEDEL). -

and John, Palsgrave-place, Temple-bar. -

J. Mott, Hadleigh, Saffolk, miller.
J. Simpson and'ſ. Fleming, Mark-lane, merchants.
BANKRUPTS.
M. Daniell, Warren-street, Fitzroy-square, coach-maker. At
tºwey. Mr. Abraham, Great Marlborough-street.
T. Hepke and H. O. V. Post, St. Mary-hill, merchants. Attor
nies, Messrs. Smith and Rickards, Basinghall-street.
T. Ackland, sen. Greenwich, butcher. Attorney, Mr. Suter,
R. Lawrence, Minety, Wiltshire, grocer. Attornies, Messrs."
Blake and Sou, Cook's-court, Carey-slºt. .*.* ...
T. Steemson, Kingston-upon-Hull, ship-builder. Attorniº
Messrs. Rosser, Son, and A. Rosser, Bartlett's-buildings. * *
J. Illingworth, Leeds, Yorkshire, merchant. Attºrney, Mr.”
Wilson, Gravel-street, Hatton-garden. ! --!. . . .
R. Bound, Sopley, Southamptºn, miller, Attoruſſes,. Mcssrs.
Bremridges and Barnes, Dyer's-buildings, lighbpro. *

Greenwich. . ... - -
J. Ainsworth, Bolholt, Lancashire, whitster. Attornies, Messrs.”
II, and W. T., Dunderdale, London, merchants. Attornics, Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row.
Messrs. Hard and Holrason, King's-bench-walk, Temple. R. Hodgson, Fleet-street, oilinan. Attorney, Mr. guy, Howań. -

R. Peers, Warrington, Lancashire, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. street, Norfolk-street. - - - * - -f º

Mason and Hodsman, New-Bridge-street, Blackfriars. T. Earl, Kingston-upon-Thames, dealer in corm and coals. At
W. Edwards, Mauchester, manufacturer. Attornies, Messrs. tormies, Messrs. Clare and Co., Pancras-lane, Bucklersbury. .
Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row. R. Ridley, Basing-lane, carpenter. Attorney, Air. 11udsºn
J. Holroyde, Halifax, Yorkshire, factor. Attornies, Messrs. 1." Winckworth-place, : ** *::::::: -

Benvell and Dixon, Sº Swithin's-lane. W. Meadeu, Bath, coach-maker. Attornies, Messrs. Bennell -
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R. M. Morren, Shepton-Mallet, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. King and Dixon, Saint Swithin's-lane. . . . . -

and Lukin, Gray’s-inn-square. J. Hunter, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, merchant. Attorney, Mr. * * * *

R. Pierce, Exeter, stoneywason. Attornies, Messrs. Darke, Parton, Bow Church-yard. .* - -

Charch, airi Darke,. Princes-street, Bedford-row. J. Orr, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, merchant. Attorney, Mr.
Parton, Bow-church-yard. . -: wa
T. Wilson, John-street, Clerkenwell, carpenter. Attorney, Mr.
Jones, Brunswick-square. -
A. Parsous, Montagu-Mews, South, horse-dealer. Attornics,
R. Messiter, Bristol, cloth and wool-dealer. Attorney, Mr. Messrs. Fielder and Bartley, Duke-street, Grosvenor-square.' "
Edmunds, Symond's-ina, Chancery-lane. W. Rees, Lougher Bul, Glamorganshire, copper-stnelter. At -

T. Smith, York, buuer-factor. Attorney, Mr. Eyre, Gray's-inn torney, Mr. Price, New-square, Lincoln’s-Inu. -

square. * * - - -
Eºliº, Hoddesdon, Lièrtfordshire, cºach-proprietor. At
E.Williams, Birmingham, victualler. Attorney, Mr. Edmunds, torney, Mr. Gray, Tyson-place, Kingland-road. ... • * -

Exchequer-office, Lincoln’s-inn. - - - -
W. G. "Williams, Throgmorton-street, auctioneer. Attornies,
W. Parker, Bridgewater, maltster. Attornies, Messrs. Alexander Messrs. Alliston and lian Heby, Freeman's-court, Cornhill.
and Holme, New-jun. - - -
S. O. Jones, Princes-street, Lambeth, potter. Attornes, Messrs. :
J. Marks, Bath-place, New-road, chinaman. Attorney, Mr. Evitt and Rixon, Haydon-square, Minories.
Lewis, Clement’s inn. * J. Bates, Leybourn, Kent, miller. Attoruies, Messrs. Brace ana'
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J. Lavell, Lewer-row, Lambeth, grocer. Attorney, Mr. Wright, Selby, Surrey-street, Strand. . ... ... " :
Fenchurch-spregt.,* *-- - - - * . J. Paxley, Aldermanbury, Carpenter. Attorney, Mt.:Gray, t
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J. Tupman, Great Russell-street, *...";

watchmaker. At- | Tyson-place, Kingsland-road.
J. Kitchºgman, Cateaton-street, merehaut. Attorney, A..."
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torties, Messrs. Jones and Bland, Great M arylebone-street.

S. Richardson, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, merchant. At Gylby, Berners-street, Oxford-street. * : * > *. * *
torney, Mr. Smith, Bedford-row. . W. Ramsay, North Shields, ship-ºwner: * Attorhies, ‘Messrs. .
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Lough, Upper Ground-street, Blackfriars-rºad, brass-founder. J. Mitchell and Francis, Suu-court, Cornhill. - " * *
Tuson, Cannon-street-road, builder. Attorney, Mr. Lewis,
Attornies, Messrs. Bleasdale, Lowless, and Crosse, Hatton
court, Threadneedle-street. . . . -
Crutched-friars. -* * - - - - -

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S. Thomson, Redcrºss-street, Cripplegate, calenderer. Attor
nies, Messrs. Palmer and France, Bedford-row. Mr. Owen, of Lanark, has offered himself as a Candi-"
W. Levet, Shadwell, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. Amory aud
Cºles, Lothbury. *
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date for the representation of some Scotchburghs, of which
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*ºny, Drury-lºne, •ommission-agent. Attorney, Mr. Willett, Lanark is one; and, it is said, has a good chance of.
Tokuhouse-yard, Lothbury. success.
 Sarwaday—A Holiday. - --
English Government (!) against the French Government.
We received the Paper mentioned by Antiatricus, and thank And, if possible more miraculous, they were ſound guilty
him for it, - -

of having made proposals against their country, to the

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A Fellow-Labourer is received, and under consideration. same English Government, which proposals were not ac
The Letters of IAMnos shall be inserted. cepted. So, first, these conspirators are acquitted of the
e case of M. MAusnevilis deferred till next week. . " conspiracy; next, England and they together are found
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guilty of the conspiracy; thirdly, they are convicted ; and
THE EXAMINER, England is acquitted of so much as listening to their trai
torous proposals. Now, what the meaning of all this can
Lowdon, MAY 2. be, would puzzle a man of plain sense to find otit; unless
he were to relieve his perplexity, by taking for granted.
There is very littleforeign news worth mention. SANDT what we hope is altogether impossible, that any public
has undergone an operation, for the purpose of increasing functionaries, or other people of station and influence in
the chances of his existence. This is equally cruel and ab French society, should wish to raise a wanton clamour
surd. Any one may see, that a man like this, who has against the name of England.” - -

done a foolish thing from a morbid excess of the best These objections, it must be allowed, have a great ap
feelings, will never betray his companions, if he has any, pearance of reason; nor is any thing more probable. than
even though the tortures of the Inquisition were to be re that two knaves on the look-out for a purse, or two foolish
vived for the purpose of extracting any confessions. The desperadoes discontented on other accounts, should trump
attempt to keep him alive can only arise from the most up such a story. But on the other hand, the Englis', Mi
petty and vindictive ſeelings. nisters are by no means exempted from a tendency to
The French Chamber of Deputies has nearly done with shallow artifices and resentments; and it is possible, if not
the laws respecting the Liberty of the Press; and they so probable, that although they might refuse to give direct
have done something towards the advancement of know countenance to emissaries for the Ultras, they might let it
ledge and free discussion. It is pretty clear that, at least be understood that they were not averse to see what might
while the present men continue at the head of affairs in turn up, as the phraseis, in case of certain decisive measures
France, there will be none of those arbitrary and impolitic against the present more liberal French Ministry. It is obvi
endeavours to prevent the expression of opinions hostile to ous that they differ with theiatter in almost every point, civil
certain established notions on Religion; and the next and religious; and when to this difference are added all
change may not be for the worse, or even if it is, it may the old differences, republican and Bonapartean, there is
be too late to revive old and neglected intolerance.—One 'something like surviving triumph in these place-maintain
of the articles of the hew law decrees, that the correctional ing leaders of Louis XVIII., which must make the Pittite,
police is to take cognizance of calumnious attacks on the Antigallican, infernal-machine-inventing, Europe-subsidiz
characters of individuals. If the distinction between private ing, lucky, and half-witted jailors of Napoleox, exceed
ahd public slander was indisputably clear,justice would per ingly savage. -
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haps be done by the judges; but in the first place it is not

easily discriminated, and in the next, this plan leaves so much | The most striking Parliamentary subject this week is
reon, ſoríampering with persons, who are not always (as we the motion for a Committee on the subject of imposing
all know) fortified against temptation, especially such as can fines on certain small districts, in Areland, where illicit
be held out by those who possess the means of bestowing stills, or the smallest signs of them, are found. 'The case
on them rank, power, and wealth. Trial by Jury is of all inade out is indeed one of such a dreadful character, that
institutions the least liable to be perverted from its proper i.enquiry at any rate could not be refused. The practice is
uses; and the same principle which has induced the so directly opposed to justice and decency, as well as to
French legislators to use it in cases of assaults on public the boasted law maxim, that the guilty had better escape
men, would apply, though in a minor degree, to individual than the innocent suffer, that some alteration will be no
disputes. . . " * º ‘doubt made. If it is true (and it was not contradicted),
• Another French trial has taken place, very singular at that the law was made to punish the Irish for their unwil
least ia its result.
The Times calls the offence which was lingness to become inſortners, it is another proof how
the object of it “an ill-contrived story got up, to all ap readily our Legislators will assent, for the sake of some
.”
pearance, by two arrant knaves;" and says, “that their financial advantage, to a measure which would tend to
case is brought forward in the French papers by way of idestroy one of the most amiable characteristics of a nation.
illustrating the speech of M. l'Anguinals, who, on the de Poor Ireland is the sufferer from all these ſoolish or inte
bate on M. Barruelemy's motion, alleged that a grand rested experiments: the morals of her people are under
conspiracy was then in progress against the Government, mined, and their peace and prosperity destroyed, by Itulers
and that many thousand stands of English arms had been who neither understand their character, nor care what
collected in the western provinces, for promoting the ob mischief they do; but having made a good thing of their
jects of the plot." - - -. . . . | employment, return to England to enjoy their fortunes, or
“These two fellows," proceeds the Times, “were ae to be promoted for their servility. -

quitted, at the trial, of having been ‘authors or accomplices “It is as true as it seems paradoxical, that “2 and 2 do
in a conspiracy to overthrow the established Governineut." not always inaka four at the custom-house,”—that is, -
Yet, wonderſul to be said, they were found guilty ba the that by doubling any tax, the proceeds arising from it are
second count, of having been accomplices, and with the not only not doubled, but sometimes much decreased b
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low the previous amount. Mr. VANsirtant does not payer and the receiver of that interest; and that the only
seem to understand this, or he would have taken advan real consequence was the incurring the expense of paying
tage of it the other night and have supported the resolu Commissioners, and the additional price paid by those
tions moved by Dr. Pnillmore respecting the impolicy Commissioners, for stock, which was raised in value by
of the tax on salt. This was a fine opportunity too for their purchases and the delusion itself. These truths were
doing something towards making the present administra unpleasant, but appealed too much to common sense and
tion popular, without lessening their own influence, or common arithmetic to be resisted; the consequence is,
giving up any thing essential to their existence; and it is a that Ministers find it necessary to let the thing drop as
proof of remarkable weakness or dulness that they did not quietly as possible, and their tools now rest their asser
take advantage of it. For ourselves, we are almost indif tions of prosperity upon the ground of a real excess of
ſerent about the repeal 'or imposition of any particular income. -

taxes, except so far as their conduct on these occasions But what a dreary prospect does this state of things
makes the unfitness of our rulers more striking: unless present | Now:is the time, when (if ever) the debt should
something complete is done, there would be no security be reduced; and yet, when all the reductions in our ex
against bad government in future; and besides, we think penditure have been made that the Ministerial love of
the time is not very distant, when that something will be power and profit will allow, and when the taxation is kept
effected, and there will be no necessity to debate for seve up to a height unprecedented in time of peace, only a small
ral hours respecting the repeal of an impost—inost op surplus can be obtained,—so small indeed, that it could
presive to the labouring class—injurious to commerce, not be taken into any general view of the subject, if it were
and consequently, whatever might be the temporary or to continue for several years. And is the state of Eu
apparent effect, equally prejudicial to the general revenue rope, or indeed of the world in general, such, as to afford
of the country. any ground for supposing that peace will continue long
The Government of France is such a neutral and trin
The Finance Committee—that convenient locum tenens ming one, that it mºy perhaps contrive to keep things
of Mr. Wassirr ART, who save him all the trouble of mak quiet as long as Louis lives, but as soon as his death.
ing up accounts, and stand so well between him and the happens, a crisis will arrive, and either the Ultras' will
Public-have made a Report on the Revenue and Expen establish his brother and heir on the throne (which is not
diture of the country, from which it appears that, in the at all likely), or the dynasty will be completely discarded,
5th year of peace, and with an oppressive taxation still and the Bonapartists or Republicans will get uppermost.
continuing, we paid off the sum of 1,600,000l., a sum Germany is in a ſerment, the people demanding constitu
which, if things continued as they are for 500 years, with tions, and the sovereigns resisting and evading their de
out war or decrease of commerce, would at the end of that mands; Austria is poor, and perhaps not disinclined to
time, and not before, liquidate the national debt. Yet this assist to put Young Napoleon on the French throne;
is the prospect upon which the hireling prints congratulate Italy is discontented; Russia seems lying in wait to take
the nation, and affect to think a triumphant refutation of advantage of any German disturbances, and to slice off
the "gloomy” assertions made during the war respecting another piece of Austrian or Prussian Poland; and such
the ruinous course then pursuing! is the state of Spain, that no-one would be surprised to
The juggle of the Sinking Fund is at last given up, hear of any sudden, explosion there. Then again, there
though tacitly. The delusion had become teo manifest to is America, untrammeled by debts, growing greater every
be persisted in, even with the help of Mr. CANNina's face, year, strengthening herself by the addition of large bo
and Mr. Barºunir's prosing mystification. It would dies of emigrants from the distressed countries of Europe,
have been exploded long ago, had it been connected with and able to be as haughty as she pleases, knowing what a
anything but finance; but figures are so alarming to most war would be to Aus. Thus the probability is, that we
people, and the public accounts are generally so obscurely shall be plunged into a new contest before we have got
voluminous, that nobody would look into the matter. Be rid of the effects of the list, with an enormous debt and
sides they wished to remain in their former delusion: they taxation as additional clogs; unless indeed the financial
had been told of the wondrous results of compound inte system was to break down first by its own weight, or to
res, of a penny accumulating in the course of some hun be tripped up by one of those accidents to which it is so
dºdyears to a number of globes of gold; and they were extremely liable. In either case, a Government Bankruptcy
deſighted with beating the French, and being assured at stares us full in the face. **

the same time that this remarkable invention would cover

all consequences. Some writers, however, saw through ...Notwithstanding all the Ministerial denials for months,
the delusion and explained it. They showed, that it was,
impossible that any good could be done by laying by past, it seems there is to be a Loan at last. A Loan in
the 6th year of peace, and that no small one, for they say
money when we could not meet our yearly expenditure *; it will amount to Twenty-two Millions?" The stºking
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that nothing could be more fallacious than to suppose that Fund (as it is jocosely called) is likewise to be invaded."
the sum so kid by went on of itself, as it were, increasing It is stated in the Journal du Commerce, that Kotzebur
by the addition of interest, since the nation was both the had an annual salary of 15,000 roubles from Russia, for
which he was to transmit to Petersburgh extracts from all
i
.* Even when the Revenue exceeds the Expenditure, the sº- the publications which had any reference to the political
* Fund is an annecessary awd expensive machine: for whether
**ay of pºrt of the debist once with the overplus, or leave it evºis offrom the day, and where the opinions of any anthor
those professed by the Russian Cabinets, he
tº accumulate *wes eausing the aeeamslation by paying the !
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interest to the Cºmmissioners) is amounts we the same thing. was to combat then in his Weekly Literary Journal.
 BANK Restriction.—The much-expec ed Report of Case of MR. Rogers.-The subscriptions received for
the Committee on the Bank Restriction will, there is t
Mr. Rogers havāńg'enabled him to regain his liberty and
reason to believe; be presented on Monday. The princi resume his professiºn of Cupper, &c., his friends are now
ple, as to the return to cash payments, recommended by endeavouring to raise such additional sums as will stock
, the Committee, will, we suspect, be essentially the same as his shop, with stationary, and enable him to redeem the
that which we have before mentioned." Whoever takes lease of his house.—This would be doing a double good:
their notes to the Bank, may receive gold for them in it would place Mr. R, in a condition to support his nume
bars, “the full weight;" but in the first instance" at rous family in future with the same credit in which he has
the rate of 4l: 1s. per ba." After that, it is conceived the lived in Chelsea for the last 25 years; and it would serve
price of gold may decline till: it reaches the stand to convince all pelitieal oppressors, that an honest and in
ard price of 31.17s. 10d. ; the º:
continuing to ad dustrious Englishman and his are not to be ruined, º
vance gold, for, its notes, according to the declining merely because he has excited the hatred of certain mini
price—that is, gradually giving .#, (their own p le.) steriaſ tools. We are happy to announce, that his Grace
money. The receiver of the gold bars º then, if he the Duke of BeproRp has sent 10ls, which will be devoted
Rº: as is the case in Hj. take his billion to the to these objects, and Mr. Alderman Wood has subscribed
int to be goined.” It is supposed that this preparatory 5ls,for the same purpºse. ...
course will not.commence before the termination of this The Boyal Academy Exhibition opens on Monday:
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gar; pºp- not even till Lady-day, 1820–Times— We already hear of complaints respecting the hanging, of
aturday. . . * * * * ! ... w 2. 2.
the country is going the Pictures. Why, it is asked, is Coopra's admirable
º, * -:

Emigration from various parts of Battle-piece placed so low, that if can scarcely be seen 2.
on with great rapidity; the almost universal destination, the An 3. is Constahib's fine Landscape not in the best
United States.” We are sérry to “thdāstānd, however, room?—Due notice shall be taken in our next. . . . . .
that the bulk of these emigrants are hat the poor and des The Farr Circassify.—The reader may remember a
titute, but peeple of industry and small property, whé fear hint we threw out the other day réspecting the fair Cir
to become so... Sad facts; for although such sort of people cassian, and her new English rights. It is now asserted
çºnnot subscribe to kºans, they are very useful. ~Chester in a daily paper, that a writ of Habeas Corpus is actually
Guardian. " .. - - , , ----" " to be served on the body of the fair stranger, a phrase
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An inforthation,ºr officiº, has been filed by the Attor unfortunately more applicable than law terms are apt to
Ney-Generatº against Mr. WARBiH, the Proprietor of be; for these ladies are generally treated as if they hadne
the Mianchester 6bserver, for an allegedºñbel upon both minds of their own. #. loungers have in vain besieged
HousesofParliament ºf he trialis is take place at the the house for a glimpse qf her. *ś. it is said, in one
*iº: ºf his tºo...! . . .
Inext |
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of the back apartments, the door of which is guarded all

MºssRs...}{A}{HAY AND ‘. call upon the day by two black ennachs with swords, who are her only
º
Correspondent'W furnished us with hºstatement respect: attendants, and dress and undress her. At least, so says the
ing this house, tº send us his name and his reasons for 'ourier. Heaven and the Habeas Corpus help them,
making such statement. We defer any further observation that is to say, if they wish it. It does not seem very clear.
till next weekhava i. * - ºr ºne ** *
where the lady is to go, if set free;
. Gibb ERT WARE FIELD AND, MR. Fox-The extreme person, in love with the Persian, Tales and the beauties of.
romantig º
inaccessibility ºf certain constitutions to humour is very all Circassian favourites, should offerber his hand without
remarkable. Mr. {. in a letter to GILBERT WARE
seeing her face: for, of course, she need not unveil, if
Field, alludes to Cow PER's, Task, particularly the fine brought up.. There were strange rumours of the destina
passage beginning." O' for sonie"vast wilderness,” an tion of this Eastern beauty; but the nºst probablathing is,
highly praises it.” Mr. Witkertºp replies, that he had that she is the favourite mistress of the Persian Ambassador, .
seen the poeminiquestion, but rather regarded it as a bur Who is a mign of taste,and might not be able, as the phrase is:
lesque, and more ſhane insinuates is unworthiness of seri to live without her. “If so, with the natural gratitude of.
ous attentign, a Such an opinion, labil so light a mention her sex, especially when tºnder circłmstances where he
i. d #. . $º º a man of lit re, and a schon might command her, she may return his affection; and
ar, strikingly exhibit, the engrossingiºture of particular then she would only get a little English constitutional
pursuits. There are º º'. º:
İknowledge, and return to her room. As far as this view.
fulness of fancy or of humour appears a spéciés ofim . łof the subject is concerned, we are half sorry we mentioned.
nence—persons who see things strongly in themselves; anything calculated to alarm his Exqellency, of whose
but seldom in their combinations.” Many of Mr. Wakeſ personal character and nation we are admirers; but every
FIEin's letters, as well as his whole life, furnish instances people have it's customs; 'ours at least pay a compliment
of this mental ºn's ºf vision...While on a shooting to the sex in this instance, beyond all the ordinary hyper
É. at Mr. Coºk's ºf Norfolk, Mr. Fox, wounded, his. bolds of Eastern poetry; and if a Persian Gentleman,’
and, and, Mr. W. with peculiár simplicity, after con: when he visits us, should complain that we will not let.
doling" with him of the accident; seriously addresses him him lock up his mistresses in peace, the English who visit,
º

cq the cruſty and injustice of killing game. The easy ersia may more reasbnably §: up so
urbanity of the statesman's reply, and the good temperº many so well." *** *...* . º - ºg º - -

jºi. he eludes the discussion, are admirable. Mr.

A paragraph, which we are sorry we have mislaid, has
Fox'éould easily anticipate the thousand arguments, full of sent us for insertibn; respecting the Artist's Binner. .
győry sense but common sense, which a mind...like Mr. We can, however, state at the substance of it. It was merely .
Akºrigid's would suggest on so delectable a subject-sº contradiction of what was said, respecting Sinbessamis.
º!, unanswerable, and all not worth a sous-Chester, in Hobhouse's having taken, the chair in Sir John Swis
Gºiardian. " . . . º
".
- . . . . . . ;
RNE’s.absence. The fact was, that Sir Besſaxus had
"Fisheates—It appears almost incredible, but it is un been regularly ºpplied to in the first instânce, and kindly
doubtedly true, that in the comparatively short space of consented to take it; but the mistakö was fiatural to those
three centuries, the enormous sum of three hundred millions |wlſo are in the hirbit of seeing Sir John Swinburse:
sterling
the coastworth of fish has
of Scotland, whilstbeen
thecaught the Dutch'on
natives during grºofthetasie
this time: taking lead iº ****
andin so many things connected with theeppro -

have been doi g little or nothing, although the fish wer ne Leeds and other Yorkshire papers, notice the
The
almost at º: * nº sh were alarming decrease of upwards of 240,000 pieces of cloth
- - -
- * * * * ** : * * *- : * * * * *
in the manufacture of this year, ºf with last. -
 Lond Erskine–Some smart attacks have recently M. DuPont, the celebrated dancer, whose first ap
been made upon the Whigs, which Lord Easkine has pearance in this country was at the Opera last night, al
replied to in two pamphlets. He pleads guilty to vari though a young man, is said to have realized by his pro
eds, changes in opinion on subjects of importance. He fession an income approaching to nearly 3,000l. per
thinks, with Earl GREY, the House of Commons, with all annum, the greater part of which he allots to the support
its imperfections, one of the best seeurities the people ever
of his parents, a brother, and a sister. M. DuPont's last
had for the preservation of their freedom.—He would not engagement at Naples was for 5,000l., independent of a
now adopt the whole of the Plan for Reform of the benefit, which was the most lucrative ever, known.
“Friends of the People,” (a plan very far short of what Madame Dupont, is very young, and considered very
is termed radical.)—He justifies the Coalition with the handsome.—We shall give an ascount of their perform
GRENvities, the appointment of Lord Gaesville as ance next week. -
auditor of his own accounts, and that of Lord Flie NBo ----
Rougui to a seat in the Cabinet.—He disapproves entirely
of the abolition of Sinecures; and justifies the use made COURT AND FASHIONABLES.
of the Admiralty Droits, which, }. says, “belong to --
the King.”—-Wà must confess, that, owever honest.
-
-

‘... his Lordship” may be in those sentiments, we think ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIAN AMBASSADOR AND THE
FAIR CHRCASSIAN. - -
those he held when plain “Mr. Easkink” infinitely better. -

The renowned Master Bottom was sadly disfigured by Dover, APRIL 25.-About three this afternoon the
being “translated,” and my Lord Enskine's patriotic schooner Pioneer arrived in the roads, and very shortly
features may possibly not have been greatly improved by a after the boat belonging to the Customs put off from her
change from hard labour behind the bar to a seat in the under a salute. She had on board the Persian Ambassa
House of Lords and a Pension.—We have not now be dor and suite, who on landing were greeted with another
fore us any of Lord EEskişr's former writings; but we salute from the guns at the heights. 'There was an amaz
think we may venture to assert, that they contain nothing ing concourse of people assembled on the beach, whose
at all like the following passages, which, in point of courtly curiosity had been raised to the bighest pitch by the
air and deprecating complafāt, might pass very well for different accounts of the beauty of the fair Circassian. A
extracts from any Treasury speech of the last century:-- coach had been provided at the water's edge, which re
* I do not know what money his Majesty possesses in ceived his Exeellency and suite, who proceeded to Wright's
the funds: but this I know, that it is not a proper style, to hotel. In about half an hour a second boat came into the
express it to have been “unnecessarily wrang from the harbour, and landed the Circassian beauty! She was at
tº.
urt
No man laments inore than I do the immense tended from the schooner by Lieut. GRAHAM, of the pre
ventive service, and two black eunuchs. She was scarcel
bens of taxation; but they have not been imposed, in
any proportion for complaint, to support the Moñarchy at seen; for the instant she landed she was put into a coach,
home, but on the account of unfortunate wars, more or which conveyed her to the inn. She had on a hood,
less incident to all gren empires.” . * * * * * * which covered the upper part of her head, and a large
That it should come to this - • . silk shawl screened the lower part of her face, across the
BANKRUPT Laws.--Mºr. Townshend has sent us a nose, from Čbservation: therefore her eyes, which are truly
letter to Lord Eldos on this subject, for the whole of which beautiful, and part of her forehead, were the only parts
we have not foom. This gentſeman has been himself for. that could be seen. She is of the middle stature, and ap
14 years involved in a still undecided bankrupt case, and peared very interesting. Her look was languid from illneſs,
has therefore bad great opportunities of seeing the practical arising from a rough passage. She was condutted to a
defects of the present system. . His opinion therefore, - bed-room on reaching the inn, but no one was allowed to
that a systein, from which he has personally suffered, is, attend her but the eunuchs. - - --

founded on a sound principle, however bad the practice, is The Persian Abassador, his fair Circassian and suite,
º
of some importance. The following are his objections to rrived on Tuesday afternoon, at their new residence in
Mr. J. Syria's Bill now going through the House of Com harles-street, Berkeley-square. . The cavalcade consisted
: mons:—“Because the Bill is founded upon the particular f four carriages. They entered town by Westminster
evidence of Solisitors, Bankrupt Messengers, and persons ridge. . His Éxcellency and his fair companion rode in
immediately interested in the continuance and extension qf he first carriage, the blinds to the side-windows of which
the present system; and some persons who were desirous were down, and most maliciously obstructed the curious
of being examined, and had presented Petitions to Parlia ye, of the passenger. The last carriage was an open.
ment (myself for one) were not heard before the Com landau, in .. were seated the black eunuchs." -*

mittee;—because every witness concerned in trade (I be Lord CAsti.EREAgii, Lord WALPole, and Sir GoRE
lieve without one exception) gave his testimony decidedly. Ousley, Bari. were among the distinguished characters.
against the multiplying of Bankruptcies, and declared his who visited on Wednesday the Persian Ambassador, at,
preference to a composition (if at all reasonable) with per his house, Charles-street, Berkeley-square. We do not how
sons in embarrassed circumstances, and the testimony of ever, find that tiny of them were gratified with a peep at.
some members of the law was to the same effect: ause
the Circassian. She occupies
the Bill, is calculated to multiply erime, by making addi the Persian Ambassador's house, the apartments, in the rear of .
and been equally in
tional Acts of Bankruptcy, arising but of accident and
trifling inattentions, and not attributable to any fraudulent ers, eagerly, directed to 3. windows in front. ofShe
ccessible to the inquiring eyes of the hundreds loun
is
designs; and whore calculated to transfer the property of aid to possess a cultivated mind, and to be a perfect mis
Insolvents into the possession of the Lawyers, than to ress of music...The door of her room - is constantly
cause a fair distributiºn of it amongst Creditors;–because guarded by two black eunuchs, who have sabres by their
the present law, which is founded in wisdom, justice, and
humanity, affords no reason for such additional penal pro ides. and
#: They are her only attendants, being selected to
undress her.--Couriar. ... . . . .
ceedings, but if faithfully and justly administered (with
some alterations necessary from changes in trade and in tº Qa'l'hursday his Excellency, with Sir GoRE Ousley,
crease of ... is fully capable of affording justice nd Mr.Willock, his Secretary, mounted upon three of
to the creditors, by a prompt and fair distribution of the he Persian horses, took a ride through Hyde-park. His:
property, and to the bankrupt, either-in-encou ment xcalleney rode a beautiful grey horse, with a Persian
and reward of good condect, or punishment of the reverse.” ride and saddle, and was dressed in his national costume,
 ** *** * * * *-s ava -
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in rich crimson satin, and a fine large sash of the same co ples of horrid sights, by way of help to their memories.
lour, with a highly finished dirk, with a large diamond in Of course they cannot answer him; but it turns out, that
the centre of the hilt. -

one thing at least which Peter did see, was the corpse of a
maº newly drowned, the owner of the jack-ass., The ani
The Duke and Duchess of KFNT landed at Dover on mal's attachment makes the first impression on Peter's
the 23d ult. from Calais. On Saturday morning they leſt, imagination; he sees him inclined to shew him the way
Dover and proceeded to Cobham-hall, the seat of Earl to the deceased's house, and accordingly rides him thither,
DARNLEY, to remain there during that night. The Princess, where he finds the widow and children bitterly lamenting.
daughter of the Duchess, did not stop at Cobham-hall, For the final impression resulting from this scene he is also
but proceeded with the suite on to Kensington palace. prepared, as he rode along, by the sound of a Damnation
On Sunday the Duke and Duchess proceeded to Kensing $ºrmon, which a Methodist is vociferating, from a chapel.
ton-palace. The consequence is, that after a melancholy of eleven
months, he is thoroughly reſormed, and has a proper united
ABSTRAct of the Report of the FINANCE CoMMITTEE. sense of hare-bells and hell-fire.
--º
Now all this, we conceive, is as weak and vulgar in
The total amount of the Revenue of Great Britain and philosophy as can be. . It is the philosophy of violence
Ireland, in the year 1818, was 53.563,937l... being and hopelessness. It is not teaching ignorance, but
1,658,573l more than the estimated produce. If, from scourging it. If Mr. Wordsworth means to say that fear
this excess, there be deducted, the amount of unappro may ºccasionally do good, we grant it; but we say that
priated war duties as stated, (viz. 566,6391.) then the nine times out of ten, it does harin, and is likely to make
roduce of the permanent Revenue for the last year will a.man's aſſer-thoughts desperate and resentful, and still
F. exceeded the estimate by 1,091,934. By adding oftºner, selfish and servile. The very hope of such things
to the aforementioned sum of 53,563,9371. the sum of as Methodism is founded in hopelessness, and that too of
240,000l. as the profit of the Lottery, and 250,000l. as the very worst sort, namely, hopelessness of others.
the produce of Old Naval Stores, the public revenue of the and, salvation, ſor itself. Peter Bell is an ill-taught
country for the year 1818 will have amounted to backguard. There is his whole history. The growth
54,053937l.—The next point of comparrison instituted of such persons must be prevented by good and kind
by the Committee, relates to the aggregate produce of the teaching... If they are suffered to grow up with
Revenue, in the two years ended 5th January, 1818, and out it, and are then to be dosed with horrors proportioned
5th January, 1819. From this it appears, that the total to the strength of the disease inflicted on thein, they have
Revenue of Great Britain for the latter period, exceeded as much right to complain as any that suffer from them.
the total Revenue for the former, by the sum of 1,705,510l. It is no more incumbent on them to think themselves ob
The Revenue of Ireland for the same period shews an jects of God's anger (thus giving them a bad idea of God.
increase in favour of the last year of 192,969l, which, as well as man) than it is on the most didactic of the Lake
added to the sum of 1,705,510l., makes a total improve Pºets tº think himself wise and virtuous. The good old
ment of the Revenue of the United Kingdom, of ſable of the son who bit off his mother's ear at the gal
1,898,4791—The probable expenditure of the United lows, is, and will ever remain, worth a thousand such
Kingdom for the current year is estimated at 67,779,882l. stories. - -

The Committee have not taken into their consideration We are really and most unaffectedly sorry to see an ex
any increased expence which may arise, out of the manner cellent poet like Mr. Wordsworth returning, in vulgar
in which provision may be made for meeting the supplies despair, to such half-witted prejudices; especially whes
of the present year, or for the expence which may attend we meet with such masterly descriptions as the ºff.
any measure which may be taken with a view of reducing+It is, a, portrait as true in, the colouring as any of Mk
any part of the unfunded debt. Crabbe's, and deeper thoughted.
-------------------------------
- A savage wildness round him hung
As of a dweller out of doors;
LITERARY Notices. In his whole figure and his mien
A savage character was seen,
f No. 54. of mountains and of dreary moors.
To all the unshºp'd-half human thoughts
Peter Bell, a Lyrical Ballad, by Wm. Wordsworth. Which solitary Nature feeds
"Midsummer storms or winter's ice,
This is another didactic little horror of Mr. Wordsworth's, IT Hnd Peter join'd whatever vice
founded on the bewitching principles of fear, bigotry, and The cruel city b -

diseased impulse. Peter Bell is a potter, who has rambled His face was keen as is the wind
about the country, and been as wilful, after his fashion, as That cuts along the hawthorn fence;
any Lake poet. His tastes indeed are different. He sees Of courage you saw little there,
no beauty in mere solitariness, and is not alive to the ab But, in its stead, a medley air
stract sentiment of a ditch: neither does he dance with ! Of cunning and of impudence.
daffodils. He is, in fact, a little over social, chusing rather He had a dark and sidelong walk,
to dance with gypsies, and having had no less than a dozen And long and slouching was his gait;
wives. He is like the Friar in Chaucer; he Beneath his looks so bare and boid,
—— Will drinke the liquor of the vine, You might perceive, his spirit cold
And have a ioly wenche in everie towne. Was playing with some inward bait.
His forehead wrinkled was and furr'd;
One day, however, losing himself in a wood, he mects A work one half of which was done
with a ay jack-ass, who lies upon the ground by a By thinking of his whens and hows;
river's º: and looks mysterious, Peter has a royal And half by knitting of his brows
contempt for inſerior animals (not that the Poet so words Beneath the glaring sun.
it, but such is the fact), and belabours the poorjack-ass There was a hardness in his cheek,
in a dreadful manner, till it groans and then looks into thei There was a hardness in his eye,
water, and then at Peter. He looks in his turn, and in I As if the man had fix'd his face,
the water what does he see? 'i'his is a question which the F In many a solitary place, -

Poet himself asks his Readers, putting a number of sam Against the wind and open sky. -
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But what is to be said to the following Methodistical losophers —We happen to write this article on the First
nightmare It is part of the questions of which we spoke, of May; and thanks to greater poets than Mr. Words
when Peter sees the spectacle in the water. worth, and to the nature whom he so strangely recon
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Is it a fiend that to a stake mends, can enjoy the beautiful season on earth, without
Of fire his de-perate self is tethering? thinking the less hopefully of heaven.
Or stubborn spirit doom'd to yel -

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Ten thousand miles from all his brethren?:
ls it a party in a parlour? the ATRICAL ExAMINER,
Crammi’d just as they on earth were cramm’d—
Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, No. 361.
Hat, as you by their faces see,
All silent and all damn"d!
- - cºrrrr cartorr.
What pretty little hopeſul imaginations for a reforming
hilosopher? Is Mr. Wordsworth in earnest or is he not. A new farce, called A Rowland for an Oliver, was pro
in thinking that his fellow-creatures are to be damned” . If duced here on Thursday. It is said to be from the French;
he is, who is to be made really better or more comfortable and we can readily imagine so, the characters, language.
in this world, by having such notions of another ' If not, and incidents being of that lively and bustling character.
how wretched is this hypocrisy 7 which the town have lately been accustomed to at the
Mr. Wordsworth, in the course of his mystic musings (Mr. Haymarket and especially the Lyceum. Sir Mark Chace
on Peter, has the following passage on a jackass's grin: tleman, Fawcett) a robust hypochondrical old country gen
who is always killing game and thinking he is dy
Let them whose voice can stop the clouds— ing, sends off one day in a great hurry for his nephew (Mr.
Whose cunning eye can see the wind— Annott) to whom he announces himself on his death-bed,
Tell to a curious world the cause
Why, making here a sudden pause, and whom he invites to come down and take possession.
The Ass turn'd round his head—and grinn'd. This nephew he has destined for a niece of his, Maria
Darlington (Miss Foºts); but the young man has se
Appalling precrºs!—I have mark’d cretly inarried Miss Tiverton (Miss BeauxtonT), and
The like on heath—in lonely wood,
And, verily, have seldom met: thinking his uncle must be dead, goes down with the latter
A spectacle more hideous—yet accordingly. After a pleasant equivoque, with the old
It suited Peter's present mood. footman (Exteny), who to his great astonishment comes in
singing and roaring, he finds that the letter was only one
Pray admire the way, in which the poet first begs the of his uncle's hypochondriacal frcaks; and then the di
question about a meaning in the ass's grin, and then calis lemma is, how to conceal his marriage. Luckily in the
upon those who “can see the wind” to disprove it. Surely mean while, Marin Darlington has come on a visit;
the burlºn of the proof lies upon the ass's worthy specta and she consents to personate the married lady, while
tor. - We reſer him however, if he still makes his call, to the latter is to act her bride-maid. Some annus
the Learned Pig. ing equivoques are the consequence, the gentleman be
Yet it is in this morbid spirit that Mr. Wordsworth ing soon caught under suspicious circumstances with
writes, for the beaefit of the world !
The is dedicated in an odd shy way, that has the bride-maid, while the wife evinces a laughing, care
lessness on the subject, both equally shocking to the old
aſy thing but the look of sincerity, to “...itobert Southey, gentleman, who groans over the vices of the town. Still
Esq. P. L.", that is to say. (for Mr. Wordsworth has the parties do not well know what to do; when the Hon.
left it unexplained) not Precious Looby, but Poet Laureat. Mr. Highflyer (Jones) a former lover of Miss Darling
It has a Proem also, which the author thinks it necessary to ton, whose passion, to her great regret, she had trifled
inform us was written some years back,-about an aerial with, arrives in the neighbourhood, in order to soothe the
living Boat which he can ride if he chuses about the upper melancholy which he fancies devouring him, with inspecting
regions, but declines so doing for the benefit of the lower. of a neighbouring mad-house! Selborne, the nephew.
There are fine passages in it, but Mr. Wordsworth should hears of it, and instantly conceives and executes the pro
should never affect vivacity. It leads him to expose him ject of inviting him into Sir Mark's house as the
self in such unwieldy levities as these— Lunatic Asylum, and shewing him . Maria Darling
There's something in a flying horse, ton who is to pretend to be one of the inmates run
And something in a huge balloon : mad for love. The project succeeds to her satisfac
But throngh the clouds I'll never float tion; and some more ludicrous mistakes occur, especially
Until I have a little bout.
Whose shape is like the crescent-moon.
between Sir Mark and Mr. Highflyer, who is told to
consider him as an unfortunate gentleman that ſancies the
And now I have a little boat, - house to be his own, and amuses himself with the idea of
In shape a very crescent-inoon, &c. spotting, and an unloaded gun-Among others, Sir Mark
The pamphlet concludes with three sonnets on some of lends him his gun, to have a shot with it; and Highflyer,
Mr. Westall's landscapes. The first is a fine one, though thinking to humour him, and that the gun is only charged
running off into the old vein. The conclusion of one of with powder, lets it off, and to their mutual consternation,
the others is very melancholy, and would let us into the kills the old gentleman's favourite macaw. He now finds
secret of Mr.Wordsworth's philosophy, if nothing else did. ſ out the trick that has been played him, and turns the table
He ſcrsakes the real cause of the world, and then abuses | upon them lay feigning madness himself. This brings
what he has injured. ...And yet this is he who would make Maria into his arms; and the old gentleman coming in
us in love with the visible creation! while the two pair of lovers are embracing, is relieved from
Wain earth!—false world! Foundations must be laid a series of perplexities which were almost begaining to
In Ileav'n; for, mid the wreck of is and was, turn his mind really, and in the joy of his escape from
Things incomplete and purposes betrayed them consents to both the marriages. -

Make sadder trausits o'er truth's mystic glass . . The Author who has adapted this piece for the stage
Than noblest objects utterly decayed. has done it very skilfully. The Reader can guess, from
*** Alas for the ci-derant patriots, and soi-disant phi out account of the plot, the amusing nature of the inci
 zor. I Il tº Jº AA IVII IN tº it.

dents; and the language is worthy of them, amounting, and an insect. His has been the only pictorial mind that
in some passages, to a very terse and elegant humour. from its comprehensive ken saw ...Y understood all ob
It is worthy, fºr instance, of Mr. Kenney; but we are jects, and with his all-executive and rapid hand gave them
not aware who the Writer is. to the canvass. He was the most learned ahegorist in
To the performances of the Actors we can give an un Art; the great mythologist. He had a greater compass
qualified approbation, . We bave rarely seen Fawcett, of action and thought, and more vivid feelings than any
or Jones, or EMeRy himself, to better º: :—AB other Painter; for though RAFFAgile felt more truly re
Borr seemed inspired with a new talent for pleasantry; fined and elevated subjects, and M. Angelo severe ones,
and Miss Foote, with her singing, and waltzing, and and displayed them in more beautiful forms, yet none ven
beautiful arched eyes, was perfectly charming. The sud tured to engage and to overcome so many difficulties, or
den altération in her manner, at the close of each stanza of wrought upon our feelings with such a union of variety
her song, from affectionate earnestness to utter indifference with force of subject. The works of his that are in this
and want of thought, picking up at the same time a piece Gallery alone would go a great way to establish the truth,
of her frock, and turning off into a dance, is in the truest of these opinions, so diverse are they in their classes of sub- .
style of humour. - -
ject and yet so equally effective in each. In 86, Land
There is one thing unpleasant in this farce, the same as scape with Market People, an extensive and richly filled,
there was in the very pleasant one at the Lyceum, in scene, and in 91, A Farm-yard, Cattle and Figures, an:
which the superannuated charity-boy flourished :-we effect of Snow, he gives as familiar scenery in humble life,
mean, that a great deal of it has to do with supposed in animal and vegetable nature. In 71, Landscape, Earl
madness. We cannot help thinking that nothing resem of CARLISLE proprietor, he gives us the rustic and philo
bling this awful infirmity should be exhibited in the way: sophic retirement of a woodland and water scene, in as
of jesting. We never see any body get up and go away graceful foliage and exquisite pencilling as ever were con
during such a production (as some are sure to do) without mitted to canvass. In 69, A Storm, Mr. 'i'. HoPE pro
fancying that they have felt or witnessed it in real life. prietor, we have the majesty of mountains, woods, walleys,
and ocean, amidst the tumuſt of the elements. . In 75,
. . We have just heard that this farce is by Mr. MoRtoN. Death of Abel, Duke of Bedford proprietor, we have the
ſºr -- -

--- dark moral features of human nature, hatred and envy seen
in their destructive effects on its corporeal being, and dis
FINE ARTS. played in beautiful foreshortening and a centralized light,
glowing amidst the “darkness visible” with an effect ver
like REMBRANDT's, only broader. Rubens, with all his.
- BRITISH INSTITUTION. heaviness of female form, has often touched off with a
Suppenly transported to an eminenee which, like Wind lover's sensibility the heart-enthralling graces of woman,
sor, Box-hill, or Clifton, commands a rich and immense and though his genius most frequently displays itself,
prospect, the mind for a time scarcely knows where to fix luxuriates and triumphs, in subjects of a stronger character,
its attention, but wanders rapidly with a sort of deligious with contrasts of vehement action and passion, he not un
delirium from hill to valley, thicket, lawn, river, farm, frequently also melts into the variously pathetic; of which
town, curling smoke, mist. over every object between the we have here a specimen in the tear-dimmed and anxious
vision and the far off horizon, enjoying one of those gifts eye of the young woman in 145, Roman Charity, who
of Providence which in spite of all that is º the sustains with ſhe nectar of a nursing mother her almost
gloomy, we had almost said, impious deplorers of the evils famished father in his second age of infancy. RAFFAELLE
of human life, is worthcoming into the world to enjoy; in himself could not give a truer or stronger expression to the
dependently of those numerous links of happiness which eagerness of the draught-delighted and venerable parent.
hourly and momentarily fasten the heart to life in almost
every condition. So it is on out going into the midst of
the noble spectacle now Fº to our view by its Pro SPRING GARDENS EXHIBITION.
prietors, the Governors of the British Institution, and other There are a few excellent pictures here, many good, and
members of the rich Republic of Taste. The pictures here more bad, and though the Exhibition has been preceded
are aſso commanding upon our attention, and so abundant by some inferior ones, there have been better. Some of
in matter of Relicitous contemplation, that it requires some the Artists have greatly advanced, such as Mr. Richten,
, effort of mind to dwell with any due sedateness on either, Mr. PRout, Mr. #. Mr. C. Frelping, Mr. CAwse,
or fix upon any ºbject of descriptive commencement... We Mr. NASH, Mr. Scott, &c.; but the majority have been
decide upon a ... of Rubens, the Prince, as he is long since stationary, and our pº eelings are
called, of the Flemish Painters, though he ought rather to lessened by not observing any pictures as formerly from
be designated the President of the Flemish Painters, espe the admired hands of LANDsfrit and HAYpon. But if
cially as a genuine Republic, among which are all intellec there was only 13, Falstaff acting the King, H. RicuTeR.
tual fraternities, whether of Art, Letters, or Science, dis it would be well worth the visiting; and were there in
avows, any personal allegiance, but pays obedience only that work only its bright, forceful, thoroughly studied, and
to the laws of reason, of truth, and of nature. extraordinary constellation of colour and chiaro-scuro, we
After Raffaelle—the Chief of Painters-RUBENs is would go more than once or twice to see it, and, as we
the greatest among the great men whose works are now stood before it, would pay our homage to that ability,
exhibited in this Gallery. For though many of them ex which, from a studious observance of the works of Art
celled him.in particular gifts, none—not even RAFFArlie and of Nature, can rise to such excellence, can acquire
himself-equalled him in diversity of excellence, and none and display for our delight such an accumulation of
but RAFFAELLE and M. Angelo in the condensed effect science, of principle and practice, in two great sources of
of his powers. He was the universal Painter, the “Admi the pleasures of our being, light and colour. But our esti
rable Catchton” of his Art. He treated of all subjects: mation of the powers of the Painter rises still higher, when
“from the Cedar of Lebanon to the Hyssop on the wall;” we feel, added to these fancy-thrilling charms, the more
from the terribly sublime Fall of the Damned to the de valuable impression of earnest character; for we partake
struction of a deer; from man in his noblest engagements to of the gladsome feelings, the hilarity of heart, that shake
animals in their meanest; from the widest extension of the sides and glisten in the looks of the jovial Falstaff and
visible space to the minutest works of Nature, an apple his companions. In such company, it is a shining out of
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the continued sunshine of wit and drollery, and constitu sions of the main part of a man, of war. He has adopted
tional vivacity and animal spirits, the saine plan in 4, ºf. on the St.-Gotherd,
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“Sobuxom ºblithe, and debonair. where but part of a lofty elevation is seen on one-side of
Sport that wrinkled care derides, the fore-ground, while the fancy, in the contrast of entire
And Laughter holding both his sides.” mountains seen beyond, may form to itself its huge dimen
The general look and port of Falstaff on this occasion is sions, 'Tis thus that the powers of a great genius over
the assumed, mock heroic, but his face wants some of it, come great difficulties.
and a lowering of its entire risibility. º'ſ was almost - -

always in a Bright mood of feeling as well as wit, and [Mr. B. Cooke's noble Publication of Views in Sussex,
often laughed, but he was more the occasion of laughter in and other fine Engravings, will be noticed shortly.]
others by his lively sallies and satiric humour and vain
boasting. On this occasion he is assuming a very grave ON THE CARTOON OF THE SACRIFICE AT LYSTRA.
character; he has got the dagger for a “sceptre” in his My countrymen and countrywomen will require henceforth
hand; is seated in a chair as his “state,” and under a very little inoculation for the Fine Arts; they seem to be taking
cushion as his crown; the exterior badges of judicial and the “Pictorum Furor” in the natural way –it is certainly
spreading with great vigour in every class of society, benefitting
royal gravity and authority, and of which a countenance of Constitution by its very virulence, and refining the taste by
sedateness, mixed with archaess, would have been more the its strength. The Gallery is again opened with a collection that
significant. The laughing looks of the rest are excellent, dwells on one's remembrance after seeing it, like some dream of
but it is rather overdone in the otherwise “inimitable early youth!—what a little Raphaet is there!—what a Claude!
Falstaff.” —what a WANDyke, like a rose after a spring shower!—what a "
[To be continued.] PARMeqlaxo (though full of dangerous grace!)--what Gaspan
Poussins!—what a PAUL VEnoxEsz'—what a WELAsquez!—
MR. FAWKES'S COLLECTION. and then there is the last of the Cartoons, which is complete,
equally beautiful with the rest in composition; equally intense
This Collection of Water Colour Drawings, by some in expression, equally deep in knowledge, though more injured
of our best Artists, oceupying a suite of light and elegant from Time in its appearance. -

rooms, well arranged, and in a clear light, has ſiveliness,
unity, and beauty of general effect. In the West Draw:
ing-room a pleasing interestis excited by Views and Ani
mals, executed ºy Messrs. Atkinson, Dawiste, GAR
Ramp, Gilpis, Glover, HEAphy, Hills, Prout, Rop
The subject is “ The Lycaonians bringing a heifer to sacrifice
to Paul and Barnabas, believing them to be Mercury and Jupi
ter, in consequence of St. Paul having cured a lame man.”
“8. And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his
feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who had never
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sos, SMITH, VARLEY, J. IEEETson; and by E. Swinburne, “9. The same heard Paul speak; who stedfastly beholding
Esq. . . The small Bow Drawing-room sparkles with a him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, -

Set of rigorous Sketches made in Wharfdale, Yorkshire, “10. Said, with a loud voice, stand upright on thy feet, and
by J. M. W. Turner, R. A. The Bow Drawing-room he leaped and walked. -

is ornamented by a View of Raby Castle by Mr. #. “11. And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lift
ING, and five Piews in Rome and Switzerland by Mr. up their voices, saying, in the speech of Lycaonia, the Gods are
come down to us in the likeness of men.
$virº. The East Drawing-room may be called Fancy's “13. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter, and Paul, Mer
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Feasting-room, or the Amateurs' Banqueting-room, so curius, because kewy, the chief speaker.
rich a feast is spread there by J. M. W. Turşar, R.A., “13. Then the Priest of Jupiter, which was before the city. -

inforty subjects, taken in the most glorious parts of York. brought bulls and garlands to the gates, and would have done
fºre, Switzerland, &c. Our whole paper might be justly sacrifice with the people.
fled with a º of the principles and visual luxu. “14. Which when the Apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard,
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res which Art and Nature have combined here to furnish. they rent their clothes, and rau in among the people, crying out,
The mind by turns is intent on the profusion and the bar “15. And saying, men, why do ye these things? We also are
like you, and subject to the same infirmities, and preach unto
Fenness, the ſrowns and the smiles, of Nature; her ardent yeu, that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God,
ºgh; and her solemn shade, her profound retirements, and who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things
:*: her wildness and the cultivation
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ºf Art. The grandeurºf mountainous masses of light are “18. And with these sayings scarce restrained they the
ºpºd to those pf shade, in 29, Bonneville, Satº. in people, that they had done sacrifice unto them.”—Acts, c. is.
33. Mºnt Blanc, is a magnificent gradation of mountains The story is evident at once; all can instantly perceive and
ſing, from a verdºt basement up to snow-capt sterility. comprehend at first sight what is passing, if they have never
even read a line of the event. It is clear that a buki is about to
35. The Town of Brientz is seen by a delicious moonlight.
“wide the pale deluge floats, and streaming mild be killed as a mark of adoration to a superior person, who is
Øer the sky’d mountain to the shadowy vale, standing upon the steps of a temple, and who by his air and
While rocks and floods reflect the quiv'ring gream, motion seems displeased at it. At the opposite: corner is a man
The whole air whitems with a boundless tide full of gratitude, with his hands up, and crutches at-his feet;
Of silver radiance trembling round the world.” somebody is looking at his leg with wonder, and associations
immediately dart into the mind of what has happened. . . .
In these and the other pictures are a great variety of tonings In the centre is the white bull, with gilt horns and a garland,
And tintings; some glowing with summer's mid-day yellow and without spot or blemish,” stooping his head with the vacant
ſerºſ, others coºled by a lowering sky, or evening, or * In sacrifices it was requisite that those who'offered them
‘the bleak atmosphere of Alpine heights. 'We have ºften shoºtd come chaste and pure; that they shouldbathe themselves,
remarked that in a picture it is difficult to display very
be dressed in white robes, and crowned with the lºaves of that tree
ºnsiderable magnitide. It is seldom done efficiently.
which were thought most acceptable to the God whom they corshipped.
Mr. Tunner has most ably obviated this difficulty, by Sometimes also; in the garb of suppliants, with diskerelled hair,
avoiding to give the entire object, which, from the smail
loose robes, and barefºoted. Vows and prayers were always made
and distant part of the picture it would occupy, wºuld before the sacrifice.—it was necessary that the animals to be
necessarily be diminished in"tinportance. In 30, First sacrificed (hostia, ve! victima-Ovid, Fast. I. 335.) should be
Rºſe taking in Stºres, he has painted only the hººk or without spot and blemish, (decara, et †. intactae, never
*ody of that grand object. This has affordvä him the op yoked in the plough, ibid. 1.83) and therefore they were chosen
from a flock or herd, approved by the priests, and marked with
Hººſity of placing the entire body and mast of a sloop'at chaik-(Juvenal, x.66.) whence they were called egregiae, eximiae,
** side, so that the comparative size of the vessels, the lectar. They were adorned with fillets and ribbons, (inſulis et pittis)
Tº of the sloop reaching scarcely as high as the gunwale Liv. ii. 54. and crowns; and their horns were gilt.—The sacri.
of the ship, shews with due effect the stupendous dimen fices offered to the celestial gods, differed from those offered to
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•lare ºf an unconscious animal; steady, simple, and unaffected, Now comes the Beggar—the grateful beggar? with his new
though the blow that is to bring him to the earth is levelling at and invigorated limb, his uplifted hands, his sparkling coun
his head, and in an instant will be dashed upon his temple. He tenance, and his rapid motion to get near and pour out his brim
***lightly held by a kneeling Culrnarius at the nostril and ming soul! He seems as if he had wings at his ankles, and ether
horn; for it was a bad omen if the animal was obliged to be held in his limbs; and he explains by his expression the reason of all
tightly at the altar. The expression of this man is full of devo that is doing. On the ground lie his useless crutches, and by his
tional warmth; on the other side of the bull is another Culras side stoops a man of some rank, who is cautiously lifting the
Rius, who has lifted the axe, and seems fully occupied in driving garment off the thigh with one hand, and expressing by the
it into the skull of the bull with all his power. The two Priests motion of the other and his attentive look, his wonder and con
stand next, considering the sacrifice as a sacred duty: a female viction Two heads above are looking at the limb as well as
head is looking at St. Paul, who is directly opposite, rending his they can; one with a clenched enquiry of feature, because he has
garment, and turning away his face with grief and displeasure, just got a sight of it; the other with more indifference. Behind
in an attitude full of grace and beauty. That St. Paul is not is another bull leading in by the peºple and crowned sacrificers;
pleased is perceived by a young man in the crowd, and one of and close to a female head is an old woman with a violent con
the kneeling sacrificers: the different effect on each is a fine in trast of expression, to set off the other; a bearded face, and part
stance of deep expression: the young man eagerly leans forward of a turban, carries the compositiºn out of the picture.
to stop the executioner, as if he saw that St. Paul did not like it; In expression, composition, drapery, and hair, in mnaffected
the kneeling sacrificer regards St. Paul with an expression of simplicity of action, and beauty of background, this Cartoon
$onfused astonishment and horror, as not comprehending what keeps its place by the side of the rest. It will perhaps be useless
he meets, and fearing St. Paul may be displeased. Between this to enter into detail after having endeavoured to lay down the
grºwned sacrificer and the kneeling Culia Aains who holds the principles of composition in the describing the Cartoon of the
bull's nostril, is another kneeling sacrificer, and though his eye Keys last year; but there are one or two points in this Cartoon
only is seen, it expresses simple wonder, Behind St. Paul is very essential, on which it may be useful to remark.
Barnaba", who liſts his eyes and clasps his hands as if ejaculating
for mercy on the jº simplicity of the people. Close to St. In the first place, it will be very beneficial to think a little
Paul, another sacrificer is bringing in a goat. In the middle, how man,
finely RAPaael has prevented the bare uaked arms of the
who is going to strike the bull, from coming meagrely
between the bull's head and St. Paul, are placed a beautiful altar
and two interesting boys, one holding the incense-box, the other against a flat sky and back-ground: a pedestal, on which stands
a figure of Mercury, goes right athwart them; a man in º
Playing the double flutes used at sacrifices: the feeling in these comes ont exactly behind his hands, and a head appears above
childrens' faces is most naturally varied; the boy who holds the his off-shoulder, between his own hand and the side of the
box seems quite careless of the importance of his office; he knows pedestal, the bottom of the pedestal comes Lelow his arms; and
nothing of Mercury or Jupiter, and thinks only of the goat, or
longs tº have him with his companious in an open uneadow and then, to prevent the aukwardness of an architectural squareſſes,
worry him with his frolics and activity: the other graceful little the left angle of the pedestal is cut off by the beautiful hair of the
crºture is wholly absorbed in the harmony of his own music. little boy who holds the box. Again, the figure of Mercury."
For part of the group about the bull, RArm AEL is certainly in prevented coming bare upon the sky by some houses and a hºl,
which go irregularly behind him at the knees, and by the cal:
debted to two Bas-reliefs, which have been since etched in the ceus in his hand. Now begin the buildings in the back-ground,
Apxtin ANdA. He has looked at both, and composed a third which coming down, in different quantities and heights and
''etter than either. The last, Nurtze, has the boy-flute-player ;
the first, Vorarvelica, has not; RAeas et has added the other shapes on the heads of the figures, and which by pillars, pilasrº,
niches, doorways, statues, bases of cºlumns, pedestals, archi
bºy holding the box, and infinitely improved the kneeling figure
who holds the bull. * traves, and balustrades, make the back-ground rich and orne
mental. Three statues in three miches carry the composition up
the infernal deities in several particulars. The victims sacri to that part of the picture, and a man leaning over a balustrade
ticed to the former were white, brought chiefly from the river takes it out at the top. A feinale figure in the coruer, in a
Clºtumnus-Juvenal, xii. 13. Virg. Georg. 11.1:6.–(An Ants, p. niche, takes it up at that part, and the figure of Mercury refull
323. 325.)—The animals most commonly sacrificed were, the attention at another. Thus the crowd is prevented from looking
too much in a line, by the attention being recalled at different
bull, ox, cow, sheep, lamb, &c. and amongst the birds, the cock,
hen, &c. Some were more acceptable at one age than another. parts by figures above their heads. Again, between one of the
For example, an heifer a year old, which had never been put to priests and the female head is the back of a head, and between
the yoke, was most grateful to the Gods. And the Jews were the two priests one eye and part of a head and tâce. Take out
cominanded to sacrifice an heifer without spot, wherein is no these two parts, and immediately it is seen that the architecture
blennish, and upon which never came yoke; such as had been behind would come down upon the two priests' heads and the
employed in the service of men being unworthy to be made vic female head, nearly equal in height to the pilastre behind the
tims to God. - 'l'he ou!y animal most unlawful to he sacrificed woman's head, and on the young man's which would be dº
was the ploughing and labouring ox.--The ornaments used in agreeable in shape, because equat: whereas the instant thºse bits
time of sacrifice were such as follow:—The priests were richly at are put in, the architecture is rendered unequal in height; ºne
tired, their garments being usually the same as, at least not much part predominates, and the mind is at rest. Again, see with
differing from, royal robes. At Athens, they sometimes used the what taste he has varied the three kneeling figures, viz. the Cui'
costly, and magnificent garment invented by Eseuv Lus, for the Ta Anius and two sacrificers crowned and with dishevelied hair;
**gedians, as we learn from Atheseus. At Sparta, their gar the figure of the Cvtrº Arrts is seen clear and full with hº
wnents were suitable to the other parts of their worship, being naked body; the nex, a sacrificer, is not so much seen, but mºre
"either costly nor "plendid, and they always prayed and sacri. than the innermost one, by a piece of his drapery which lies ºn
ficed with their feet bare. In all holy worship, their clothes the extremity of his shoulder, i.rºjecting upon ſhe back of the
were to be without spots or stains, loose and unbound. If they other; and thus by increasing the shape and quantity of the fir"
had been touched by a dead body, or struck by thunder, or any sacrificer, the two backs are varied ugaia: the iunermºt our "
other way polluted, it was unlawful for the prie-t to officiate in prevented from being inst, by having his whole are full o ºx!
them. The viytius had the iufuka and ribbands tied to their pression exposed. Thus Raru Art keeps him back as a mater."
horns, the crowas and garlands upon their necks. On solem": ec of composition in quantity and size, yet prevents him allº:
into insignificance by the powerful expression of his whole side
casions, as the reception of and petition for any signal benefit, they face.
overlaid the victim's horns with gold.—The larger sacrifices were -

often brought by the horus. . In one of ARistoriº's epigrams, an number Invention is equally proved by varying nne expression asky
old woman leads a bull to the awar by his ear to shew his coin of different ones ; the eager gratitude of the beggar, anſ
pºintice. Sometimes they played upon musical instruments in devotional warmth of gratitude, more piva, than personal, ol the
the time of sacrifice, thinking thereby to charm the God into a kneeling Cultharitis, are fine instances., . -

wropitious humour. Of all musical instruments the flute seems to It will be useful also to observe how finely Raphart. has wrart
Inuve been most used at sacrifice.—Potter, 217. 231. a piece of draisery over the man of rank who bends forward ; it
* Poussix is reported to have said, that RAru Ael was an comes round his shoulder broad and full, hangs dow" over hi
angel in conparison with the moderns; but an ass in comparison right arm, then falls strait by his leg, preventing it looking **!!;
with the ancients. If R Aphael. was an ass in comparison with the leg is of a wretchºd shape. . It may be fancy, but there ".
the “icient-, which is false, what was Poussix by the side of tainly is in the look of the timb of the lieggar a naked new "... aw
HAritxeſ -just worthy to be a hair at the end cf the ass's tail. if freshly created; the arm of the Culrnaries is too large for his
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size, but had it been smaller, it would have had a weak look in tiff, a very interesting English girl, of 19 years of age...The
the centre of the picture. The figure who brings in the goat, following were the leading facts of the case :-The plaintiff was
Raphael certainly never touched, it is miserable in form and the proprietor of an hotel in Broadstairs, England, within half a
mile ºp which his daughter Sarah resided, at the house of her
miserable in execution. There is also a want of female beauty in
the composition. Surely RAPHAEL would have been justified in aunt. In August, 1815, the defendant, a young Irish gentle
putting more; for in a city where Mercury and Jupiter were re man, under age, who had lately become the owner of an estate
ported to be, and all classes were crowding to sacrifice, female of 4 or 5,000l. a year, arrived at the plaintiff's hotel, and having
beauty would not have been wanting! B. R. H.seen the plaintiff's daughter, then but 15 years old, at her fa
ther's, and being struck with her personal attractions, he soon
(We are compelled to defer the conclusion of this article, effected
which treats of Raphael and Michael Angelo, and the general to take an acquaintance with her. He induced her one evening
a drive in his barouche, but she finding he was taking
principles of Art, till next week.) advantage of her inexperience, got alarmed, and asked him.
where he was taking her. He gave her an evasive answer; re
LA IV. newed promises of marriage he had made to her before, and
continued driving on until they arrived at 11 o'clock at night at
COURT OF KING"S. BENCH. a town 30 miles from Broadstairs: after supping they retired to
their respective rooms. White the young lady was in the act of
Wednesday, April 28 locking her door, the defendant made his way in; and in spite of
Mr. Carlile, bookseller, of Fleet-street, appeared at the bar, her remonstrances, completed her rain. After taking her to diſ
when two indictments were read to him, for publishing certain ferent places in E. they went to Batt's hotel, Dover-street,
blasphemous writings, Paine's Age of Reason, &c. iie pleaded London, where they were pursued by her brother. The de
not guilly, and was then informed that the indictuments would be fendant made his protegee disguise herself in the dress of a
tried at the sittings after this term. - housemaid, and contrived to avoid being taken up by the police
officers. He then came over to Ireland, and took a house for her
Friday, April 30. at Ranelagh, where she was confined in ''. 1816, of a boy.
articles of Tire react.
John Bligh, Eart of Darnley, came into Court, and exhibited
For some time longer, the defendant treated her with kindness.
although so jealous that for sixteen months, she was never per
articles of the peace against Mr. Bligh. They contained charges mitted to cross the threshold. At length his conduct changed;
against the latter, of having followed the Noble Earl in France, and she stated that he even bent her cruelly. He sent a friend
kaly, and England, always carrying pistols in his poeket, and to tell her that he must part with her, as he was going to get
**ing language, aud conducting himself in a way which en married, and had therefore taken lodgings in town for her, and
dangered the personal safety of his Lordship. As his Lordship would settle an annuity of 200l. a year upon her. She removed
did not wish to press for a warrant, the Court ordered that Mr. to her new abode with no more than 5s, in her pocket. Here she
Blish should give security, himselfin 6,000t., and twe sureties in remained for several months, without his coming near her or
3,000l. each, for five years. giving her any money, except on one occasion a pound note;
The king v. MEYER, KINNEAtt, woolf, Levy, &c. and on another 21. She was consequently compelled to pawn
Mr. ScaRurtr who was counsel for Woolf, one of the de even to her child's frocks. The witness, in stating this, pulled
fendants in this case, moved to set aside the verdiet. The trial the duplicates out of her purse, at which the Learned Cºunsel
had lasted two days. On the first night, the Jury were dis who was examining her (Mr. Goold) was so much affected as to
Persed, and slept at home, which was supposed to be an irre be unable to refrain from shedding tears. The wretched girl
gularity. }.<rself wept bitterly. Verdict—2,000l. damages.
Mr. Conwon-Sengsawr, counsel for Levy, made a similar
rtinfront,
OLD BAILEY.
The Counsel then entered into arguments respecting precedent;
after which the Court decided, that the mere separation of the stealtwº nion Ex Lettelts.
Jary was no ground for setting aside the verdict, unless some im On Saturdav week, Nicholas Benigne Albin, late a clerk in the
Proper tampering with them could be shown.—The Court had a Post-office, was indicted for stealing from a letter going from
discretion to allow the Jury to disperse. The application was
therefore refused, and the defendants were committed to New York to Paris a 20t. note. It was the prisoner's duty to open the
York bag on the morning when the letter arrived. The note
gate, to be brought up for judgment on Thursday. was paid away by a woman, who lived with the prisoner, at a
tradesman's iu Hounsditch, was changed at the Bank, and some
CONSISTORY COURT, DOCTORS'-COMMONS, of the small notes given in change were afterwards paid away by
Friday, April 30. the prisoner.—Guilty—Death.
- Lady neithert against Loftio Renner T. J. Jeffcot, also a late clerk in the Post-office, was indicted for
This was a suit for restitution of conjugal rights, instituted by stealing from a letter, ºping from the General Post-office to Bury,
the lion. Octavia Spinelli, Princess Dowager of Butari, in Sicily, in Lincolnshire, a Bank post-bill for 30l. and two 10l. notes, the
commonly called Lady Herbert, against Lord Herbert, son of property of E. Whitely or of J. Hurst.—It was proved, that the
Earl Pembroke. The parties contracted a clandestine marriage notes were put into a letter by Mr. Hurst, one of the partners in
st Palermo, on the 17th of August, 1814, and the Lady arrived the house of Longman aud-Co., and given, with the other letters
il, London in the month of March, 1817. of the house, to the postman, who conveyed them to the General
Sir W.M. Scorr observed, that the parties in this cause were Post-office. The prisoner was employed to charge the Norwich
neither of them minors, and therefore eompetent to take the step letters, but he was in the same office where the Bury letters
they had decided upon. It appeared that Lord Herbert, being were charged, and had an opportunity to take from the general
in the year 1814 in Sicily, was introduced by Lady Bentinck into mass. There was a Bary in Suffolk, and the letter might have
the family of the Prince de Butari, whose palace was the great been mis-sorted. It never reached its destination. Adkins, the
resort of the English nobility. , Lord Herbert endeavoured to officer, searched the prisoner's lodgings, and found one of the 10t.
gain the favourable opinion of the Princess, whose husband notes, besides a considerable sum of money, plate, &c.—The pri
'ying in June, 1814, she shortly after clandestinely married soner put in a written defence, in which he accounted for his
his Lordship. It was established by law, that if a marriage
being possessed of so much property (though his salary was only
*** valid in the country where it took place, according to the 2001. a year) from having been very long in the Post-office, and
ne, and usages ef that country, it was a good one here. The possessing economical habits. Several witnesses gave him a
ºurt therefore thought the fady entitled to her prayer; and character for integrity and frugality.—The Jury returned a ver
*lore decreed Lord Herbert tº receive her as his wife with dict of Not Guilty.
*j"gal affection. - -
The prisoner was again indicted on Monday for a similar of
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fence, in having taken a lot. “ote from a letter sent by Mr. W.
COURT OF COMMON PI.EAS, DUBLIN. Tassy, frºm London, to Mr. Richard Vernon, at Little Stone
ham, Suffolk. The delivery of the letter at the General Post
Wednesday, April 21. offiee was proved, as well as that the prisoner had an opportu
seduction.—atnca v. Menenyrm. nity of taking the letter from the mass, though it would not come
Mº Branowº !.
aid the plaintiff's case before the There to him in the regular course. The schicitor to the Post-office and
* but one witness, called Sarah Birch, daughter to the plain auctiler clerk deposed, that they accompanied Adkins to sºurch,
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the prisoner's lodgings, where the note was found, and that he .. . . MARRIAGES. --

confessed his guilt—the prisoner again put in a written de

fence, in which he denied the truth of this statement.—After a At the English Ambassador's at Paris, Colone Arthur Onslow,
short deliberation, the Jury ſound him Guilty.—After the trial nephew tº the Earl of Onslow, to Miss Wetherall, daughter of
Wetherall, Esq. and grand-daughter of Mrs. Serjeant Running
there was a fierce scrambling among the officers for the plate be-, ton. - - - - -

longing to the prisoner, which had been produced in Court. The

WJrder-Sheriff applied to the Judge for an order for the Sheriff to At Stirling, on the 20th ult, the Rev. Benjamin Binley, to
*ake it, but the judge (PARR) would make no order; and Adkins' Hamilton, ºnly daughter of the Right Rev. George Gleig, Premier
succeeded in collecting the greatest part of it, with which he Bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church. ºr
made off through the barrister’s door. O, the 21st ult. Samuel Emly, of Upper Park-place, Black
heath, to Miss Jane Young, of Lewisham.
: Charles. Rennett was put to the bar, but his trial was postponed
till next Session, an application to that effect being made by his On the 28th ult. James Manson, Esq., of Lambeth-terrace, to
Counsel, and acceded to on the part of the prosecutor, on the Henrietta, third daughter of the late R. F. Suft, Esq., of the
ground that he was not prepared with his defence. same place.
At St. George's,. Hanover-square, Lieut.-Colonel Thomas
On Friday, Bartholomew Broughton was indicted for entering George. Fitzgerald, of Thurlough, county Mayo, to Elizabeth,
into a certain room in the White Horse Inn, Fetter-lane, and only child of James Crowther, M.D. -

stealing one Bank-note for 100l. four for 10t. and five for 51. the
property of George Shufflebotham. The prisoner is a young - DEATHS.
man, about 25 years of age, of a very genteel appearance. Dur At Walthamstow, on the 24th ult. inconsequence of a fall
ing his trial, he was in so weak a state as to be unable to stand.
It was proved, that the prisoner slept in the same gallery as the from a gig, Richard, ninth son of Sir Robert Wigram, Bart.
prosecutor on the 31st of December, and made off the next morn 70Thursday week, at Mountsorrel, Mr. Brown; he was about
ing: the Notes were completely traced. The Jury found him— years of age, went tº bed the preceding uight, and was
Guilty, but joined with the prosecutor in recommending him to found a corpse in the morning.
Suddenly, on Sunday/week, George Moore, of the House of
mercy, on account of the excellent character given him by many Industry at Shardlow, Derbyshire, whilst eating his breakfast.
respectable witnesses.—After the trial the same sarambling for
the º of the prisoner, which was considerable, took place At the advanced age of 106 years, Mr. Duncan Macrae, in
as on Monday. The Sheriff applied for it, but the Recorder Bogbain, near Inverness.
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of Lead Lately, aged 65, Lieut.-Col. John Wardell, half-pay 66th regi
would make no order, and it remained in the possession ment of foot.
beater the officer, who had it in his hand. On Tuesday last, in the 63d year of her age, Mrs. Grove,
Watling-street. . . - -

Police. We regret to learn that James Sandy, the celebrated Alyth

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mechanic, died at Alyth on the 3d uit, . The originality of
- - Guilda ALL. genius and eccentricity of character which distinguished this
Tuesday, Antonio Gallini, alias Matteo Muggioli, underwent a remarkable person were, perhaps, never surpassed. Deprived at
fine" examination. Twe other charges, in addition to three al an early period of life of the use of his legs, he contrived, by 3int
ready proved against him, were substantiated by Mr. Morris, of ingenuity, not only to pass his time agreeably, but to render
linen-draper, Fleet-market, and Mr. Clark, haberdasher, Cheap himself an useful member of society. He soon displayed a taste
side; from each of whom he had stolen two silk ... | for mechanical pursuits," and contrived as a work-shop for his
...”
The prisoner, who cºnducted himself with perfect indifference, a sort ºf circular bed, the sides of which being raised
said, that he bought all the property in Paris, and brought it about 18 inches above the clothes, were employed as a platform
here to sell. He went to the shops to match his handkerchiefs. for turning lathes, table vices, and cases of tools of ºil kinds.
He expected to be hanged when he came here, and proceeded His genius fºr practical mechanics was usixersal. He was .
with a viºlent tirade against the vascally English.--He was fully skilled in at kinds of turning; and constructed several very
cºmmitted on five separate charges. *citrious, lathes, as well as clocks and musical instruments ºf
every description, no less admired for the sweetness of their
tone, than the elegance of their execution.—He excelled, too, in .
ACCIDENTS, of FENCEs, &c. the construction of optical instruments; and made some reflect
ing telescopes, the spectria of which were not inferior to those
On Tuesday evening, about six o'clock, the borough of finished by the most eminent London artists. He suggested
Southwerk was very much alarmed by the explosion of a steam some important improvements in the machinery for spinningflax:
engine on the premises of Mr. Smitherman, sawyer, in White and we believe he was the first who made the wooden-jointed
snuff-boxes, generally called Laurence-kirk boxes, some of
street. The copper was blown the distance of 800 yards, upon
the roof of awarehouse 4 stories high, which it damaged consi which, fabricated by this self-taught artist, were purchased, and
derably; the engine-house, and some of the premises adjoining, sent as presents to the Royal Family. To his other endowments,
were completely blown down. . Mr. Smitherman was taken out he added an accurate knowledge of drawing and engraving, and
of the ruins, in a dangerous state, and conveyed to St. Thomas's in both these arts produced specimens of the highest excellence.
hospita"; and shortly after, his son, a youth about 15 years of For upwards of 30 years he quitted his bed only three times, and
age was carried to Guy's-hospital, dreadfully scalded. The ruins on these occasions his house was either inuudated with water, or
took fire. A stout young fellow, named Strachan, was also taken threatened with danger from fire. His curiosity, which was
out: his head was shattered and his body scalded; he died while unbounded, prompted him to hatch different kinds of birds eggs
being removed. One of the St. George's school-boys was injured by the natural warmth of his body, and he afterwards reared the
dreadfully, and died soon after. A man named Stone was also motley broods with all the tenderness of a parent; so that ºn
severely injured: his life is despaired of Part of Mr. Smither visiting him it was no unusual thing to see various singing birds,
man's house was completely blown down, and the adjoining one to which he may be said to have given birth, perched on his
very materially injured. - - head, and warbling the artificial notes he had taught them.
. An inquisition was held on Thursday, on view of the bodies of Naturally possessed of a good constitution, and an active, cheer
Wm. Smith and Samuel Strachan, two of the persons who ful turn of mind, his house was the general coffee-room of the
perished by the above accident. No new fact came out in evidence, village, where the affairs both of church and state were discussed
but two engineers agreed that the engine was one not only de with the utmost freedom.–In consequence of long confinement
featiye and decayed, but one of the worst and most dangerous lis countenance had rather a sickly cast, but it was remarkably
Cºscriptiºn, being a high pressure engine. The Coroner said expressive, and would have afforded a fine subject for the pencil
such engings were subjects of indictment. Verdict—Died by the of Wilkie, particularly when he was surrounded by his country,
karsting of a high pressure steam engine. friends. This singular mau had acquired by his ingenuity and
Two young men lately called at Greenfield after night, for the industry an hºnourable independence, and died possessed of con
- purpose of seeing the female servants, and, while in the kitchen, . property. He was married only about three weeks
ºne of them lified a fowling-piece, and after using various before his death.-Glasgow Chrºnicle.
resticulations, presented it at J. breast of one of the females,
drew tie trigger, and shot her dead on the spot. They are in Printed and published by John Hunt, at the Examixwn-Office.
custody.—Glasgow paper, -
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THE EXAMINER,
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No. 593. sunday, MAY 9, 1810.
visional government established, with Tallevaasp,
The politicAL ExAMINER. D'Angles, &c. at their head. Notwithstanding the occu
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Pors. pation of Paris, great apprehensions were entertained of
* the failure of, the attempt to restore the Bouneens, as
No. 578. Napoleon was still at Fontainbleau, with a fine army
strongly attached to him; and it was therefore resolved to
CASE OF M. DE MAUBREUIL-ALLEGED endeavour to secure themselves against all chances, if pos
ORDERS TO ASSASSINATE NAPOLEON. sible, by his death acd that of his son, the young King of
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Rome. M. de MAubreuil was sent for by the Provisional
We gather the following particulars from a very strange Government, his sentiments being known to be in favour
book, published by this person, which has been translated of the Bourboxs, and his family having suffered much in
into English. A French copy we have seen professes to the Wendean war in the loyal cause. They told him
be one of the third edition, and indeed the title is very their intentions, after securing him by oaths of secrecy;
well calculated to make one look into the contents. It is they offered him a dukedom, the government of a province,
this:– “An Address to the Congress and to all the &c.; he was astonished, but he saw that they were deter
Powers of Europe, concerning the assassination of Naro mined to have the attempt made, and he therefore accepted
Leon and his Son; in which are exposed the chief means the commission, for the purpose of frustrating their de
employed by the Bournoss to ruin those who prevented signs, and with the condition that he was to have the com
the execution of that political atrocity; the pretexts suc plete and uncontrouled direction of the undertaking. Some
cessively adopted to coocealit from the knowledge of the members of the Hoyal family joined in the attempt. Orders
world; and the different intrigues of a great number of were consequently made out by the Russian and Prussian
personages.”—The book is however written in so wild commanders and the French Ministers, dated April 16 or
and unconnected a manner that it would be impossible to 17, 1814, giving him unlimited, authority over the Allied
give a regular and detailed account of all the circumstances troops, and power to order, any number of post-horses,
withe case. M. or Mauan Euu feels so strongly all that has &c. With these he proceeded to Nemours on the 10th
been done in this business that he does not sufficiently-ex of April; ascertained, by sending qut spies, what direction
- plain minor parts of his narrative, and is besides conti Napoleon would traverse; tınd drew off his detachment
bually breaking out into vehement rhapsodies respecting his along a road seven leagues distant in a different line.
alleged ill-treatment, and fierce attacks on different indivi Napoleon passed along the forest of Fontainbleau on the
duals whom heyhinksguilty of base and ive con
20th, alone in his carriage, preceding his escort, and thus
duct towards him, which set at defiance all order and escaped.--M. ps. Maunkeuil, arriving at Montereau,
chronology. ” - * - -
thought himself-gbliged, “for form's sake,” to appear to
Marie-Anntasp Gusmay. Dr Maunaeuil, Marquis do something. He therefore organized a military detach
D'Oavault, (for such is his stile and title) is one of the ment by means of his orders, and returning towards Fon
ancient gentry or noblesse of France and the representa tainbleau, met the Queen of Westphalia, who was pass
tive, according to his own account, of the three noble fami ing with 14 waggons of gold, silver, and other treasures.
lies of the Gurrays, the Mauanruits, and the D'On He had been charged to get hold of all the property of the
vaults. By means of the famous M. De Cauvaincount, Bonapartes that he could, and was also in hopes, that by
he got the situation of equerry and “Captain of the hunts” so doing he should minister to the avarice of his en
to Prince Jenowe Bonaparre. He possessed the estates ployers and induce them not to inquire very strictly into
of Maubreuil, Orvault, Naye, and Capicure, which he his supposed neglect of duty. Eleven cases were therefore
says were worth 1,410,000 francs, (about 58,700l.) as well taken from her Majesty, though she was allowed to retain
as an hotel in Paris, worth 270,000 (about 11,000l.) He the most valuable articles, *, 'The last affair was with the
was concerned in some military contracts, as he charges | Empress MARIA Lovisa and her son; and this he managed
the French Government with owing him half a million of inadifferent manner from the one with Napoleon,because he
francs (25,000l.) for disbursement on that account. He wished to make it appear that the non-performance of his en
served as an officer in Bonaparte's army in Spain, and gagement was owing to some accidental circumstances, and
produces testimonials of his courage and military conduct. thus escape the indignation of the Bauanons and the Mi
He says, that he was much injured by NApoleon's govern mistry. He therefore sent on his detachment in ano
inent, for whom he made great pecuniary sacrifices; and
that being disgusted by their treatment of hin, he anxiously * There is something comically simple in the manner in which
desired the restoration of the Royal government, and was Macnaeuil, denies the j having ill-treated the Queen.
It is true, he says, that she was plundered, but “it was done
one of those, who made a disturbance on the Boulevards with all the respect and attentions imaginable." This reminds us
at Paris, and threw down the statue of Napoleon, a short of a less equivocal plunderer, who graced (we must not say, in
time before his abdication. But here couinences his story, fested) the fouds in Englaudiu the time of Chanlas the 24,--the
celebrated. Freuch highwayunau, Du VAL, who used to make a
which is this:- -

pointof restoring favourite triukets and keep-sakes; and it is

At the line of Bosaraare's first abdication, in 1814, ever, said, would take out a kit, and occasionally prevail at
and the entry of ille Allies into Paris, there was a pro lady to wiep a minuet with him ou a green. -

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ther direction, and put himself in the way of the Empress, rupted him several times, but at length he obtained an at
accompanied only by a M. Dasies, who was his confi tentive and silent hearing, while he related the circum
dant, and to whom orders had been given similar to his stances. (Some account of the trial appeared in the news
papers of the time.) The Court declared its incompetence,
own...in case it might be necessary for them to separate.
The Empress' and her son passed by this means in safety,and the affair was referred to the Court of Douay, which,
and M. de MAubreuilthought he should have the excuse of on the 6th of May, 1818, found him guilty and sentenced
having mistaken the road, and not being able to attack the him to five years imprisonment, and to be placed under
Empress and her suite without his men. This was on the the inspection of the Police for ten years more. About
22d of April. He went to Paris, and the property taken four months before however, having escaped from the
from Madame. Bon APARTE * was divided among certain Douay prison, by means of the facilities furnished by De
great personages, who were not however satisfied, and CAze, the Minister of Police, he had arrived in England;
therefore, partly alarmed at the clamour raised by the plun and he sent a protest against the sentence to the French
dered lady, and partly indignant at being disappointed, Ambassador and to the Lord Mayor. As soon as he
they threw M. DE MAubaguil into prison, where he was heard of the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle, he began to
kept till the 18th of March, 1815, when the landing of prepare this address, and published it, as well as a transla
NapoleoN induced them to set him free, kest he should tion, in spite of the efforts of the French Ambassador and
betray their secret to the Emperor. Confinement had French Police in London, one of whose agents exhibited
rendered him so weak, that he was not able to proceed articles of the peace against him at Queen-square, and re
to Gand (in the Netherlands) with his royalist relation, quired him to be bound over in a sun which he knew he
M. pe LA Rocue Jacquelin, and therefore went to St. could not furnish. Agentleman unexpectedly and gene
Germain, where he was arrested by the Imperial police, rously offered to become his security, and he thus obtained
who endeavoured to extort from him a statement unfavour time to procure what was necessary.... -

able to the Royal cause. His sense of honour, and his affec This is the statement of M. de MAVERFurt. We shall
tion for his friend LA Rocue, who requested his silence, for now notice the different circumstances connected with it,
bade him to confess any thing while the Bournons were in which make either for or against its truth. - -

adversity, and he therefore remained silent, until he contrived. It must be eonſessed, that the first prestinption is against
to escape out of their hands. He then proceeded to Gand, a man,who, according to his own account, was thought likely
while Louis was there. His enemies, on his arrival, to do such a deed as that for which he says he was em
spread a report that he came to assassinate the King, and ployed, and who, in order to screen himself from the ven
he was again put in confinement; then ordered to be re geance of his employers, seized on the property of a woman
leased by the King of the Netherlands, but given up, by crime to whom he was a stranger, and who was innocent of any
means of an order forged by his enemics, to the Prus towards him. ...Yet it should be recollected, that the
sians; and lastly, sent back to France, where he remained fknown sentiments of his family, and his own discontent on
in various prisons, (though occasionally released and again account of his treatment by Bonaparre's ministry, might
seized) for several yearst. During this period, various perhaps have been sufficient to cause him to be looked
tribunals considered his affair; and "no less than thirty upon as a likely man for the purpose in view.—The reason
three decrees were pronounced, one court declaring its in he gives for his not disclosing the matter to NApoleos,
competency, and sending the case to another, which sent it while in confinement at Paris, is most insatisfactory and
back again; sometimes it was transferred to the courts of incredible. It was almost impossible that he could feel
lłouen, Rennes, an Nantes, and again sent back to aily delicacy towards the family by whom he had been
Paris; some decrees liberated him, while others annulled imprisoned and made to suffer so much. His friendship,
that liberation. On the 17th of April, 1817, he was too, for La Roctºr Jacquelin was not likely to be great
brought up before the Tribunal of Correctional Police, enough to prevent his gratifying his revenge. We cannot,
and charged with the robbery of the Queen of West after reading his book, have a sense of his high minded
vitalia. After the King's Attorney had addressed the ness and delicacy sufficient to make us believe these things.
Court, he rose, and spoke for sometime in defence of him Besides, what delicacy could he feel towards the Bourboss;
self, alleging that what he had done was in consequence the directors of an āct, the very proposal to commit which
... of orders from the Bounsons and the Provisional Govern astonished and shocked him? We have no doubt that
there was some other motive for cencealment, which he
‘inen, who ought to be accused instead of himself. He
declared in a vehement manner the real objects for which does not chuseto confess: and this of course invalidates
he was employed.' The gens d'armes:seized and inter the authority of his other statements. ***
His story is however, with this exception, eonsistent
... “The jewels, according to Maubasvil, were afterwards pulled and probable. The book seems written in earnest and as
up out of the Seine, as if by accident. The-Queen however an injured and passionate man would' write. He is be
£ould not obtain them, though she repeatedly demanded their sides not attached td any party, but on the contrary attacks
restitution, until her husband went to the place where they were
}º and took possesion of them, at the time of Louis's flight to alike Bonapartists and Bourbouites. He produces such a
Gºnt. ---* * -" º: ºf-º'-' . * quantity of letters and documents, and relates so many
-** His sufferings, during º which were minute and curious particulars, that it is difficult to believe
"mostly solitary, he describes as very § * When arrested in they could be invented by himself." That the circumstances
*he Netherlands, he remained at ºf hiº dungeon for four are exaggerated, we believe; though perhaps his temper
hears, ballied in his blood. At thistºryttäºtòo; his father was
would dispose
fighting for tire Royalists in the fields of La Vendée: he died tention him to think more of them, without any in
to deceive." • * * * - ** ** ---
there in their cause. “ * , . . " -
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- But tººterial evidºgee of the boºtheleast ºłeast evi
evi Piger and Dierickx, to one year's imprisonment; Pouillo:
àences ºf its truth. There are other: attendant circum .. La Croix) and Berth, to three years' imprisonment;
Büchoz, to orie-year's imprisonment, to stand on the
stances, which at least give his narration an appearange of billory two hours, and to be brand-marked ; and all the
prêbability.” The orders given him by the Russian and prisoners, tà pay fle costs. ~. *- -

Prussian Commanders and the French Miſſisters fête not, --- -, *

denied, though it was afterwards asserted, that they were.

given for another purpose, to empower the bearer to . Nuisanská, Apriºg.-Theco
26, jurse which the inter
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nal affairs of France seem to take attracts more and more

search the treasury for certain papers. Now these orders, the attention of our Government. . It is said, that, as a
- as MAURREull observes, imply an extraprdinary degree measure of security, all the fortresses on the Rhine shall
of confidefice in the person entrusted with them; and the in future be provisioned for a whole year. Orders have
- presumption is, that they were 6nly givén for a very great also been dispatched tâ complete the fortresses and works
object. - Why else should force be necessary 7. It may now erecting as speedily as possible. * - - -

perhaps be said that it is unfair to suppose the Bourboss,

or the other persons accused of acting with them in this UNITED PARLIAMENT,
affair, to be capable of procuring the commission of such * * * -.. -.

an atrocity. §e answer by referring to history-even to || - " - º House of LORDs. -

late events; to the notorious want of principle among ' ' . . . . ... —
* Tuesday, May 4. .
cunning and second-rate politicians; and to the véry procla: The… Bill
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to empower the Magistrates at the Quarter Sessions

mation of the Congress at the time of NApoleoN's return to divide themselves into two bodies, in order to facilitate the
from Elba, which contained: *::::::::: hint, that dispatch of business, was read a third time and passed.—Ad
his assassination, would be acceptable to t e high powers, journed. - -

Wednesday, May 5. . . … t "..

and perhaps rewarded by them. *. . Several Petitions were presented against the Cathol ic Claims,
Matºuil sayi, that the French pólice endeavoured and a great number in favour of them, -

The Earl of Donough More, on presenting a number of Catho

to get the Alien Act put in ſorce against him. Why did lic Petitions, observed, that applications to Parliament, in fa
they not succeed?—This is very strange: it looks as if vour of the Catholics, were now more numerous than ever, while
the English Government, believing the alleged facts, were tliose against them, were few and weak, notwithstanding the ex
traordinary endeavours made to procure ...
to them,
unwilling to do anything which might connect them with even from the soldiers in Dublin. The Noble Lord also pre
- the oppressors of a man, who had something of a criminal sented a Petition from the Protestants of Cork in favour of Ca
nature to disclose respecting: them. This circumstance, tholic Ematicipation: " . . . . -

becomes more remarkablé, when we consider the readi Earl Gary presented a Petition from a great number of the
Roman Catholies of England, praying for relief. The Peti
ness with which they send any individuals out of the tioners, he observed, still remained subject to the operation of
country withiwhom they are displeased, even when they laws from which their Irish brethren were exempt. This was
can assign no other reasons than pretended suspicions or certainly the best time to grant their request, and it would now
imaginary dangers..... .". . . . . ." .*
be a gracious concession. Besides, with France on tke one side,
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and Arberica on the other, would it be wise to expose ourselves

On the whole, though we cannot feel certain of the to all the evils of internal discontent, pºong with the chances of .
truth of the statements of M. ne MAubreuii, yet we think war with either of these, Powers?, Who could be certain that
the refusal to listen to just demands might not some time or
the circumstantial evidence so much in his favour, that un other produce movements of despair : Such a result was con
less those who are affected by them give some explanation, gistent with human nature, - º -

the public will be justified. in, believing at least the main, The Duke of WELLING'ron, stated, in reference to what had
fallen from Lord Donoughmore, that it was not impossible that
facts. He is now, we believe, in London, ready, and he soldiers in the Dublin depôt might have been asked to sign peti
says anxious, to be callèd-upon to justify what he has ad tions as individuals, but he was assured, on good authority, that
vanced, in an English court of justice. " no sºmeºn or influence on the part of the , officers had been
++ - * . . . . • ‘º used. * -

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The Earl of Chattle Mont said, that the application to the
soldiers was proved by an order of the commanding officer; pro
hibiting the introduction of political papers into the barracks.
For EIGN INTELLIGENCE. * The Petitious were laid on the table.—Adjourned. " " -
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The Claims on France Bill was passed.
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PARts, May 2–The Journals bein g from yesterday | The Report of the Bank Committee was presented by: Earl
freed from all, previous Censorship, they remain only HARRoway, who stated his intention of moving some proposi
legally responsible for, the articles inserted in them, and tions on the subject on Thursday se’nnight.—Adjourned. * - --
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Under the law of the 30th Dec. 1817, no new Journal can: House -º-
of commoss,
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be published without the authority of Government, Monday, May 3.
- CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES: .. . . . . CATHOLIC CLAIMS. -

On Friday week, the debate was revived on the second projet A great number of Petitions were presented against the Ca
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concerning ſhe press t and the remaining articles were agreed tholics, and some others in their favour. - -

to. The Chamber then divided on the whole projet, when the Mr. GRATTAN, after presenting some Petitions from certain
numbers appeared—For it, 125–Against it, 87—Majority, 38.
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inhabitants of Dublin in favour of the Catholic Claims, expressed
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his hope that their prayer wohld be granted, and the Caustitu
NETHERLANDs. . . tion strengthened by the extension of the common rights of sub
w
jects,
BRussels, MAY 1.--This morning the Court of Assizes ing from to a portion of the people who professed a religienigliſſer
that of the rest only in outward forms and oºremonies.
met and proceeded with the trial of the persons accused of The Petitioners asked for; equal privileges with their fellow
poſſing to size and carry off the person of the Emperor subjects’;-they asked for their rights; and it was it cºmbent on
of Russia. The Court finally condemned all the prisoners; the House to show their anworthiness, before it ri fºsed them
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‘the Legislature had certainly a right of disqualification ; but it make a monopoly of God. The conduct of the Roman Catholies,
had no right to interfere with the religion of any class of people. in times of danger and political intrigues, had been most praise
The ºpponents of the Catholics did not deny this; but they'ob worthy. The Right Hen, Gentleman concluded by moving for
jected to certain principles, of which the Catholic Religion was a Committee to consider the laws relating to the Roman Ca
*aid to be an evidence, viz. –a contempt for the moral obligation tholics.
of an oath, and an allegiance to a foreign power, which would Mr. CRoken seconded the motion.. It had fallen to his lot to
interfere with their allegiance to the Government. The first consider those laws by the operation of which the Catholics
*ertion was an argument against the diyinity of the Christian were aggrieved, and to trace their character from former to pre
Religion, for to say that the religion did not extend to France, sent times; and he found it always growing less harsh in propor
. and a great part of Germany, was to render its divinity tion to the progress of civilization. The Hon. Gentlemen then
doubtful. This jealousy was contrary to the spirit of all reli entered into a review of the different Acts on this subject, in
gºnº-it was too much like the animosities of those disputants, order to show, that Catholics were qualified to hold certain
who forget the great principles of religion—charity and mutual offices (among them that of Lord Chancellor) and to sit in that
benevolence-and dispute about particular tenets—who forget House, because the lademnity Bill, passed annually, allowed six
God, and think only of their antagonists. In answer to the months for persons elected to such offices, and for members of
charge of the want of allegiance on the part of the Catholics, he Parliament, to take the oaths. The oaths of supremacy, &c.
would say, that those who made it did not believe it, were very useful in times where the Catholics were struggling
and had contradicted it by their acts. They had, contra against the established government, but their use had now
3icted it, when, they passed an act, declaring the Catho ceased. He contended for Emancipation as a measure of policy,
lies good and loyaſ subjects; when they admitted them to and as useful to the Church of England itself. He was not caſi
the right of voting, and gave them commands in the army aud ing for new laws; he only wished to have that made permanent
navy i. when they restored the House of Bourbon, and ºl. the which was now temporary, and the law which was at present
Catholic Religiontheformidable
They *:::: º Catholic by
faithsecuring it pand
to a rueful a powerful nation.
desperate phi
precarious to be definitive. He did not insist on the loyalty of
Josc º were then to be supported in the exercise the Catholics; but what had made them disloyal, if they were so?
It was the nature of persecution to make its objects pursue their
of their religion, while those who practised it among our own own way with greater vigour. A system of severity towards the
Founty, wºre to be persecuted and punished were the Catho
lics of !" to be encouraged, and those of Ireland to be re
Roman Catholics would naturally produce disaffection; conce
sion would be accompanied with mutual confidence and united
pressed?, It was said, that if the Catholics obtained any power, attachment to our happy Constitution. (Loud theers.)
they would use it at all hazards to revive Popery and extermi. Mr. Lesur. Fosten argued, in answer to the last speaker, that
nate Protestanism; that against his love of life . his sense of ne. Catholic cowld sit as a Member of that liouse, as every men
morality, the Catholic would unite himself to the Clergy in a ber was compelled to take the oaths before he could occupy his
hopeless rebellion, and incur the certainty of being hanged in seat; and that the Indemnity Act did not refer at all to Catho
this world and damned in the next. It must be argued, on the lics.” Public opinion in *::::
and Scotland, as manifested by
6ther side, that such a man as Dr. Poynter would go to the Duke the Petitious on the table, was decided] *:
the Claims, and
of Norfolk (who having obtained aſ the privileges his heart he maintained also, that the majority of the Protestants in Ire
could desire, would of course be hatching treasou), and would land were of the same opinion. He contended, that the Catholic
teſ him, that being now invested with political power, he would Clergy had been is irritated by the veto and similar measures,
be naturally inclined to attempt to subvert the Government, and that it was ridiculous to go into a Committee to discuss projects
use his influence to make him (Dr. Poynter) Bishop of Londoli. or conciliating º: by granting them additional means of in
Q'ºrse every man of sense and discárnment must see the pro juring'our establishments, "If the power of electing Cathofie
ability that the Duke would immediately concur in a suggestion Members was given them, religious animosity-the-worst ingre
which was inevitably to end in his ruin." This was a monstrous dient in a popular election—would be toy-ed. 1; their demands
were :::::::: three fourths of the ºrial, Members of. Parlia
and absurd proposition.—The Hon. Gentlemati then proceeded to
Sontend, that those who attacked and would destroy the Catholic ment, three-fourths of the magistrates, &c. would be Catholice;
Religion, would assist"the progress of infidelity." It was said, and:two events might then be expected,—the overthrow of the
that the principles of the Revolution rendered the Catholics in Protestant and the Establishment of the Catholic Church in Ire
capable of belonging to the Legislature. But this was not the land, and the separation of that country from the Empire. The
care; the House of Lords at the time of the Scottish Union de union of Church and State had always been productive of peace
Clared the disqualification only provisional; and so also did the and internal tranquility, while their separation led wometimes to
Act of Union itself. The British Constitution was not neces war, and always threatened strife and confusion. .
sarily Protestant. The Lords were not necessarily Protestant. Lord Nonmanby thought that if no better arguments than
The Commons were the third estate of the realin, the electors of a those they had just heard, could be brought against the motion,
great portion of whom were Irish Catholics. It was however a the House ought to go into a Committee. It was said that we
common practice among the Protestants to represent the Constitu had restored the Pope and rendered his spiritual influence for
tion as founded exclusively on Protestant principles, and thus to midable: we had indeed restored him to his temporal authority,
excite feelings, hostile to the Catholics. Hſ the principles ad but it was out of our power to restore the system over which he
vauded in the Anti-Catholic Petitions were admitted, they would had formerly presided. The opponefits pf the Catholics asserted,
not only exclude the Catholics from Parliament, but from that if eligibility were extended to them, they would exclusively
society ; yet no one, he believed, wished to go so far as that. It fill important º: He denied this; but if it were true, it
was most fallacious to estimate the character of the Catholics by would only show how confident the House were in their inte
transactions in former times, which were peculiar to the cha rity. The Roman Catholics, it was said, were never content:
racter of those times. The Act of Supremacy, which required ow should they be so, deprived as they were of Power and in
the abjuration of any foreign jurisdiction should be repealed; fluence, though the descendants of men who had enjoyed those
*nd the Catholice would find no difficulty, from the jº.; privileges? The certainty, and not the fear, of danger, could
had already taken, in taking the oath of abjuration, with certain alone justify their exclusion. - ---- -

explanations. One ºr. against the Catholics was, that Mr. Brownlow opposed the motion, on the ground that there
they would not be attached to the Constitution. He should de was no modification ºf the Catholic Religion which would justify
sire those who held such an opiuion to examine the signatures Emancipation.
annexed to Magna Charta. There were two families that traced Mr. Waixon Bechen considered that the reason why the pea
themselves to ancestors who had signed that Act, and they now santry of Ireland were not so well disposed to the Constitutiºn
petitioned the House to grant them arshare of that liberty which as their English brethren, was, that they had not been admived
their ancestors had given to the members of that House." (Loud to share its benefits equally i, that they had been governed for
thers.) As a proof that Catholics were capable of allegiance, he 700 years by the English without any conciliation of their feel
might refer to the example of Catholic countries. 5. returns ings. The Irish, who were so quick and intelligent in other
inade in December last, it appeared that the proportion of Pro points, would not be so stupid as not to see the benefit and evince
tº-lants to Catholics of the British population was as six to one— their feeling of a similar mode of treatment with the people o
is prºportion amply sufficient ever to secure the Protestant reli England. The Catholic Religion was certainly increasing with
ºn.' Besides, additional security was indicated in the growing the increase of population; but if the persecution of their reir
É. of knowledge, and liberal opinion. The o ents of gion were to cease, a great cause of that increase would also bº
ºnancipation would make the Deity the minister of temporal taken away. The continuance of the present penal code tended
ºwngraser; they wºuld disquality one-fiſh of the nation and 1 to keep
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next in favour of a church, that, in order to support it, necessity of selling the moral of the people for 300,000l. 2 (Hear!)
º of people must be kept in a state of political degra He then described the dreadful effects of the system in small
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villages, where Lottery clubs were established, and the poor in
Sir R. Wilsox said a few words in favour of the motion, when duced to squander their hard-earned pittances, which they before
the calls for strangers to withdraw became extremely loud and entrusted to the care of Benefit Societies or placed in Saving
frequent. The strangers however, expecting that the discussion Banks. It was notorious that the poor were the chief pntchasers
would not be cut short in this way, did not stir for some time. of tick-ts. Confidential clerks were often great speculators a
At length, after some clamour, the gallery was cleared. Great the Lottery, and many persons rebbed their º to gratify
roufusion prevailed in the House, and Mr. Peel was loudly the passion for gambling which it created. He called on the
called for, but he kept his place, as Mr. Plunkett was also pre Right, Hon. Gentleman to make an allowance for the paupers
pared to speak. The Speaker then put the question, and the caused by the Lottery, before he stated the sum producedChancel by it.
answer Aye or No was given, when Mr. Plunkett rose, but it Mr. W. PARNELL observed, that the character of the
was observed that the debate could not after that be renewed.— lor of the Exchequer stood high for integrity to perceive there
Several Members came in after the question was put, and di fore in such a character a blot like that of encouraging gambling
vided; when the numbers appeared to be-For the motion, excited a surprive similar to that felt by the readers of Fielding's
24?–Against it; 248 –but those being truck off who came in Amelia, who, after taking a great interest in the heroine, find out
tº late, the majority was reduced to 243 and the minority to The in the iniddle of the novel, that she had lost her nose. (4 laugh.)
character of the Right Hon. Gentleman was worth inore to
241.-Adjourned.
the country than 200,000l.
Tuesday, May 4. Alderman Wood said, that little-goes, instead of being kept
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Mr. Lyrtletox began by observing, that to bring forward a the streets where the Lottery was drawn. -

propºsition so often ºnegatived might be thought unwise per Mr. Wilsenforce decidedly condemned the Lottery system,
*verance; but it should be remembered that the discussion of and thought any other mode of ..". prefarable;
the ºbject had a great and useful effect on the public mind. He but that other mode should be named, before tilis was taken
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º: CANNING said, that the same principle which would

tie-in a moral view, as gambling (and this was gambling com
bined with fraud) was universally condemned. The argument abolish Lotteries would also do away with unany other taxes (the
in ſºvour of then was, that there being a certain quantity of vice Salt, Leather, Irish Window, taxes, &c.), which would increase
in the community, it was right to turn it to account. Bat was it the difficulties of the country tenfold, and render more severe
not probable that the vicious spirit of gambling was often excited taxes necessary. This tax was a fair, because a voluntary, one.
by the villainoº", artifices of the lottery?, with respect to the Mr. Plunkerr supported the motion.
flºaneia" part of the question, he should observe, that what was Lord CAs rusteafin did not mean to panegyrize the Lottery;
morally wrong could not be politically advantageous. It was but it was kept up, as in other countries, from general usage. He
ºatiary to the nature of thing. It was well known that the cautioned the House against a spurious and false morality.
Exchequers of arbitrary Governments, which were supplied by Mr. F. Douglas compared the Lottery to a public gaming
violent measures were never so well filled as those which de. table, of which the Chancellor of the Exchequer was keeper.
-Pended for their support on legal means. The power given to Mr. TIERNEY said, that a person who felt a tax to be mis
* Perºn (the Secretary of the Lottery) was also unconstitu chievous, and yet refused to give it up, because it produced
tiºnal: he had from 12 to 40 common informers in his pay, upon 250,000l., was not fit to be Chancellor of the Exchequer. Those
whº evidence persons were convicted, unless they could prove who wished to abolish this source of revenue were not bºud to
*** The Hon. Gentleman then went into a description of find another, but only not to oppose any fair means of filling up
* of the flawda and delusions practised by the Lottery-office the gap. He congratulated the Right Hon. Gentleman on hav
*Perº-. It was a common practice to pretend that two-thirds of ing, among his other lottery transactions, drawn that great
prize—the admiration and commendation of the Right Hon. Pre
the tickets were drawn on the two first days, though frequently sident of the Board of Controul; but he would not advise him to
****-ºnth had been really drawn; and thus the price was insure himself on the continuance of that good luck, as he might
*d: Notwithstanding the prohibition of the Governors of
Christ's Hospital, boys in the dress of that institution were em live bitterly to repent having ventured in such a little-go.—
Pºyed fºr the purpose of giving respectability to the delusion. (Laughter.) -

The House divided—For the motion, 84-Against it, 133–

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Goºd and wine were sometimes made part of the prizes, in order
to draw in the sots *nd the hoarders of the precious metal. An Majority, 49.-Adjourned. - --
other artifice was having prizes of 101, which in fact were not Wednesday, May 5. -

prizes, as the holders lost half their money; but which had, the
effect of making the proportion between the blanks and the prizes B Three Petitions were presented against the London Clergy
*** fairer. In the last Lottery there were fourteen thousand ill. -

The Truro Election Committee. reported, that Lord Somerset

ticket', and 2,865 prizes. But of those, 2,810 were prizes of and W. E. Tomline, Esq. were duly elected; but that the Peti
10t. The fact was, that it was above 253 to 1 that the purchaser
of a ticket obtained a bona ſide prize. the effect of the Lottery tionMr.against their return was not frivolous or vexatious.
Hux; presented a Petition from Mr. Barber, Beaumont,
* the ignorant was most injurious; the occasional obtaining ofagainst the licensing system. The Petition stated, that the pre
*Prize frequent ruined a man, and the industrious habits of a •ent system promoted an unjust monopoly, augmented the price
**ntry, town were often broken up by the visitation of a of beer, and materially encouraged vice and drunkenness.-Laid
sixteenth. The Lottery was a most expensive mode of raising on the table. - * *
*Y; for he pººl, paid 6 or 700,000i, while the Exchequer Mr. Hume presented a Petition from the weavers of Perth.
did not receive 300,000l. He concluded with moving a Resolu complaining of the lowness of wages. The Petitioners asserted,
*That the establishment of a State Lottery injured the morals that though they worked for 14 hours a day, their wages did not
** People...by exciting a spirit ºf gambling; and that such a exceed 5s. a week, so that they and their families were reduced
rit, . diminishing the industry and impairing the means of
†. f". ...} impaired the sources of revenue. te a state of absolute starvation.—Laid upon the table.
Mr. BRANn pre-ented a Petition from the poulterers of London
*C*cºlon of the Exchequen was astonished that, in the in favour of *. Game Laws’ Amendment Bill.—Laid on the
Pºnt state of the country, any one could think of cutting off a table. - *
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Halford's Divorce Bill was passed, after an attempt on the

gambling existed independent of any state Louiry,
:fºri,ºf
*ed was rather checked by it, as it kept down the number part of Captain Peltºw to introduce a clause securing to Mrs.
Halford an annuity of 300l. a year out of her father's property
ºf little-goes, which were ruinous to the lower classes. The pro on his demise, on the ground of the smallness of her allowance.
i. for insuring in the State Lottery had deereased, while
º:* private joueries had increased, within the last three PUBLICANS LICENSES.. " -

Mr. Bexwer moved for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the

*Pe*row aid, that the evils of state Lotteries were on! granting of licenses to publicans. According to the present law,
E.". º: º: Gentlemen; and the †.
b the licenses were renewed every year, and the magistrates might
Fºlved itself into this;–whether they set most value refuse licenses without assigning any reason. It was necessary,
. **lity
on surrendered for the money, or º, money gained when an application for a license was made, that the Petitiºn
* immorality? (Hear!) Whether they were under the should be signed by the clergymau and Church Wardeus, and
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where they refused to sign, there were no-public-houses. This Fently treated with regard to taxation, and this country had borne
system threw an immense power into the lauds of the magi part of the expences et her government. He did not think there- . .
strates, whicſ, it was notoribus, was often abused, to the great fore that she had a right to claim the re. º of the Window.ºx. . .
injury of public morals. He could prove that houses, kept as rer. ... Mr. iſ vrchrysox denied that Ireland had ever flourished since
ceptacles forthieves and prostitutes had been licensed. Anather. the passing of that diabolical measure, the Union Act. The ex
evil consequent on this system was, that many public-houses fall. pense created by the forge kept up in lºeland had been made nº
into the hands of brewers, who had interest with the magistrates, *essary by the 'disaffection generated by the Jiae of condict that
aud'who were titus enabled to force bad beer on the public, To. *had been pursued towards Ireland, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
remedy these evits; hé proposed, that the certificate necessary on Mr. Gnarran, Mr. CalAgnès, and Mr. Forges, said a few
application fºr a license.meed only besigned by twelve respect words in support of the motion, and the Höuse. ivided–Ayes,
able inhabitatits; that the licenses “should not be taken away. 73—Noes, 150–Majority,77—Adjourned. . . . . . . . . .
until the regognizances were forfeited, or till the house was put 1. --> -

down as a common nuisance; that there should be a small fine, . . . . . Thursday, May 6. , , *- --

for the first forfeiture of recognizance, 50l. for the second, and 4 A Petition was presented from the incorporation ºf Tailors of
1001. or the loss of license for the third; and that ºthere should. Edinburgh against the Lord Advocate's Bill. It nºticed hiso the
be an appeal from the magistrates to the quarter sessions.-Leave ssertion of the Lord"Advocate réspecting the Petitioners for
urgh Reform not being so respectable as the other inhibitants
* given.
Leave. was .giveh
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. .Alderman
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late the contracting of partnerships in Ireland. The chief feature, the Lord'Advocate disclaimed all intention of throwing any
of this measure was, that it enabled those who invested their. disgraceful reflections on the Burgesses of Scotland. He had
motºy in trade to appoint an active partner and keep the direc merely meant to say, that they were hot of greater weight or
respectability than the other º: .
tion of the whole in their own hands." - - " - -

‘ihe Petition was withdrawn, it being informal to allude Wa

- IRISH, WINDOW.T.A.X., ... ... ." what had been said in the House. . . . . . . . . .
Mr. Shaw observed, that this tax had always been considered REPORT OF THE BANk committee. . . . . -*

as a war tax, and that, when it was imposed in the Irish Parlia Mr. Perl brought up the Report of the Secret Committee on .
'mett, Mr. Corry, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, had said, the affairs of the º of England, which was read. The ſol
that “it should last for three years, provided the war lasted so lowing is an abstract of its contents:– - - - -

long,"—a pledge which ought to be now redeemed, or the con-.

fidence of the country w: be forfeited. He then took a view ... The Report commences by declaring the thorough convictiºn
felt by the committee of the solvency and flºurishing ºte of hº
of the effects of the tax on the health of the people. In the part Bank. It appeared that the total sum the Bank could be called
of Dublin called the Liberties, the houses.were large º to upon to pay on the 30th January last was 33,894,589;;...in
be subject to the tax, and were inhabited by the poor. The Go ossession of government securities to the amºunt of 39,096,900ſ::
vernment had felt that so deeply, that it had announced, that so that the balance in its favour was 5,202,320t., exclusive of the
wherever windows had been opened to prevent infection, the tax debt due to it by Government (14,000,000t.) repayable at the expi
would be remitted. . Few had availed themselves of this offer, be ration of the charter. The Report goes into details to show that the
cause they had too little confidence in the Government...They balances in the hands of the Bank must have been an advantage of
did uot possess, besides, the means of opening those windows. greatimportance to it,without any corresponding benefit to the nº
"The number of windows closed-for the last three-years, was tion; and expresses its satisfaction that these balance: henceforth
thirty-two thousand four lundred and tweaty-four. The pro would be made available for the public service. It takes occasion
duce of the tax during the last four years, had fallen off 137,908t. from the mention of the sum of upwards of 6,000,000. of specie
‘He would also remind the House that England had been relieved issued by the Bank in the last two years, to express****Prºse;
of fourteen millions of taxes since the peace, whilst in Ireland no that when the Bank had seen º as fast as issued going out
kind of local taxation had been removed. He moved that a of the country, in consequence of the difference of exchange, rt
Select
peatingCommittee
the tax: be appointed to consider the propriety of re and had not takensome
the proper’means of checking the evil by close
reducing
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putting-

limit to its issues. The Committee, this

The Chancellor of the Excheqver argued, that, admitting branëh of the Repart, by an earnest request to, the Hºuse, tº
the tax to have been a war tax, it should become permanent, make immediate provision for the repayment to the Bank of that.
suce a permanent debt had been founded on it. Ireland had ex portion of the debt which that body had required-Respecting
perienced relief from taxation in proportion to her revenue as the expediency of resuming cash payments in '''. next, the
inuch as England. The English Window. Tax might as well be committee, referring to the opinions of Mr. Baring; Mr. Harman,
taken off as the Irish, for it was heavier... As to the health of Mr. Haldimand, and other commercial gentlemen, conceive"
the peºple, an answer had been afforded by the fact, that the that such resumption cannot be effected without, serious injury
§: Government allowed windows to be opened without taxing to the Bank and to the commercial world; aud this for two
tiletn. * * - - ** * - - - reasons: first, the Bank, in order to procure bullion for its cash
Mr. Plºnkºr thought it clear, that the way in which the tax ayments, must of course purchase it with its actual capital; and
was introduced, and the wording of the statute; made it a war tax. In the present state of the exchanges the purchase ººº
. He therefore thºught the Clancellor of the Exchequer would tended with great loss, as according to one witness 20,000,000l.,
only be justified in proposing a window tax in Irelaud as he, according to another 45,000,000l. of cash would be necessary for
would propose a new tax; and ought to show that Ireland was a general circulating medium. *::::::: the Bank, as a pre
in a stage to pay it. The tax was fast declining ; and it would be: paratory step to the resumption, would e compelled suddenly
policy to substitute another for it. It might be inferred that the and immediately to reduce its issues so considerably as to create
distress was great, which would drive men to deny themselves embarrassment" among commercial men, thereby . weakening
the light of heaven, and a free circulation of air. credit, and impeding the channels of home and foreign trade
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Mr. Gnant could not see that any pledge had been given for the resumption, therefore, in July next, being out of the ques
the discontinuance of the ſax on the return of peace. If this were tion, the Committee turn their attention as to when and how a
resumption may take place at all; and here the Report under
declared merely a war duty, other duties would stand in the
sume predicament. When the tax was renewed in 1803, Mr. takes to recommend to the House a plan, which, after the ex
torry denied having given any pledge and was supported in that amination of eminent commercial when, and upon mature deli
denial by many members present. #. ed: the distress of Ire beration, it conceives may tend to the return of that standard ºf
land could be relieved, but the general interests of the Empire currency which existed before the restriction act, and which it is
must be considered, and no surer way of destroying the finances decidedly of opinion ought to be restored as soon as possible, and
could be devised, that thus attacking tax after tax, by making
out a case of distress. Of 440,000l. raised by this tax, 235,000l.
.# with safety. The plan is as follows:–That not later
than the 1st of February, 1830, the Bank shall begin to pay, in
hed been given up, on account of the ſever in Ireland. portions of not less than the value of 60 ounce" ºf gºld, their own
, Sir J. Newport said, that the total inability of Irela § to notes; in bars assayed and stamped at the rate of 4t is the ounce:
bear her burdens was proved by this circumstance, that, in } 17, that the next payment, which is to take place before the 1st ºf
new duties were proposed, which were expected to produce a October, 1820, ºall be in bars similarly assayed and stamped, at
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large sum, but which only produced 50,000. The taxes in Ire the rate of 31.19s. 6d.; and the third after the 1st of May, 1821,
land fell on a small class of people, who had been lessened by in bars, at the Mint price, of:3t. 17s. 10%d the ounes. A fºr
these preliminary steps, the Committee have a &onfidence, º
the Union, which brought much of its wealth to England. -

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safely be resumed. In this part of the Report, the Conimittee. - - - Friday, May 7. -

reconnend, the repeal of all the penſil laws relative, to the The Taunton Election Committee reported, that Sir William
melting-and-exporting of the cºin.-On, the subject oi Bank Burroughs was not duly elected ; that — Collins, Esq.. ought
forgeries, the Committee: does not conceive, that the plan just to have been returned; and that the opposition to the Petition
recommended wavºld so far lessen the issue of small uotes as to mas neither frivolous nor vexatious. ... ...
sensibly diminish the temptation to forgery; but it confidently The Galway Flection Committee reported, that Valentine
expects, on the declaration of Sir Joseph Bauks and Dr. Woolāş Blake, Esq. was duly elected; and that the Petition was not fri
ton, that a note will be issued in three months, of such exceedingly volous or vexatious. - - -

difficultimitation, as to secure the public against the inundation Mr. W., Williants moved the second reading of the Electors'
of fabricated paper. As to the country banks, it does little eſse. Caths Bill. The object of this Bill was to extend to the Boroughs
than state the difficulty of ascertaiping the exact quantity of their the principle found so salutary in County Elections, by prevent
issues: on an average of three years it estimates them at about ing the splitting of freeholds. It would be made necessary that
29,000,000l.; and, without suggesting...any positive-remedy for the party voting should have actually had the freehold in his
an excessive issue, recommends the subject to the most serious possession. - ... . . -

consideration of the House.—The Report was laid on the table. . Mr. D. Gilherit said, that, this Bill would annihilate one of
the most valuable parts of the Constitution,-the burgage te
, , scorch. BURGHs. nures...The House of Commons was not delegated by, but vir
Several Petitions were presented, praying for a Reform of the tually represented the people. It was one of its greatest merits
present system in the Royal Burghs of Scotland. -
that it was not a direct delegation from the people; for if it
Lord A. HAwit row said, that when he brought forward his . it could never exist without the interference of a military
motion respecting Aberdeen, lie had stated distinctly what it was orce. -

and what it was not. This however had not saved him from On a division, the Bill was thrown out by 127 against 46.
the insinuations of the Gentlemen opposite, who would have it, Mr. Gordox remarked on the enormous expense (238,000l.)
that it was merely a cloak for Parſiamentary Reform. He posi incurred by the mere providing a site for the New Post Office:
tively denied this... The only connection it had with that subject and asked whether it was true that plaus had been presented to
was this, that where the #. Magistrates were self-elected, the Treasury by the Post Office Architects, and how that wa
they returned Members to Parliament; and the Burgesses, by a consistent with the declaration that there was to be a fair coin
change in the system, would share the etective franchise.” The petition of Architects? - -

Noble. Lord then replied to the objections made by the Lord Ad Mr. Lusatswºrron said, that, as the New Post Oſfice was to
vocate on a former night, respecting the evils not being import accommodate 6 or 700 persons, it was proper that-those at the
ant enough to require the attention of the House, the Petitioners head of that department should state what they considered ne
not being the persons interested, &c. Would the Learned Lord cessary for their accommodation; but that there would still be a
say, that if the allegations in the Petitions were true, they ought competition.
not to be taken into immediate consideration? The ji.
ARMY ESTIMATES.
power of the Councils over the pockets and persons of the Bur The House wentiuto a Committee of Supply. *
gesses was alone an evil that would demand the most prompt in
Lord PALMERsvox then stated: the estimates for the year.
quiry. No Burgesses could complain to a court of justice as long There would be a total diminution in the number of men of
as their Council continued unanimous. The very reformation 26,000, as compared, with last year; but the expense would not
which he wished to effect and the principle with which he was
taxed were the same as the reformation effected and the principle: be diminished in proportion, as the number of half-pay officer
acknowledged by the Learned Lord in the case of Montrose. He returned, home from France (who, were before paid out of the
should move for a Committee to inquire into the allegations of French contributions) had increased that branch of the expendi
the Petitions on the table, and the could not think, after what ture 250,000l.—The Noble Lord then entered into a varie;y of
they had heard, and after perceiving the general feeling on the details respecting the different; branches of the establishment.
subject in Scotland, that they would refuse it. . frºm which it appeared, that the general expense was less by
Mr. W. Douglas reminded the Hlouse of what had been done 733,000l. than that of last year... . -

in the cases of Stirling and Montrose. The same advantage Colonel Davies said, that a saving o 120,000'. might be
could not be justly refused to other places. effected in the estimates, by reducing, certain regiºnents and re
Mr. J. P. GRANT ridiculed the doctrine, that notorious griev taining the inen reduced in ethers, without cºssening the eſſee
ances were not to be remedied, because a small part of the repre tive force. He objected also to the number of cadets at the Miſi
sentation might be touched. -
tary College, who were kept there at a considerable expense to
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themselves, since the half-pay officers had a prior claim to be
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Lord Bixxixg contended, that the only object of the motion employed.
was to effect a complete revolution in the system of Scotch Mr. Huyte complained that the Finance Committee, in forming
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Burghs, and as far as the election of members depended on them the estimates for our pence establishment, had compared the ex
in the whole representation, and that many of the Petitiouers'
were desirous of Reform. He admitted that there were defects penditure of the present year with that of 1818, instead of cº
paring it with the estimates of 1792, to which he thought it ought
in the present system, but those would be remedied by the Bill to approximate. The Military College night have been were--
of the Lord Advocate, which created an audit of the accounts of
the Council. He called, upon all those who opposed Parliamen
sary in time of war, but now it was a heavy burden. The Hon.
Gentleman then made a calculation, to shew that every officer
tary Reform to oppose this motion. educated in the College for the last three years cost the country
Mr. WYNN noticed an assertion that had been made, that the 1063t. per annum. Was, this reasonable? In the same three
Act of Union would be violated by any change in the Scotch years too, 294 officers had been put into the army without fºr
- Burghs. He argued, that if that assertion was correct, the Act *hase, while a similar number had been put upon half-pay, thº
had already been violated in the cases of Penryn and Barustaple. wantonly throwing away 16,000l. . . - -

It was impossible for one Parliament to bind its successor: the Mr. Bºwner thought the force kept up in Great Britain (29.353
Constitution of this country was one system of progressive im men) quite unnecessary, while the country was tranquil, and po
provement. - - invasion could be expected. There were also 20,560 men for Ire
Mr. CANNING maintained, that the Act of Union declared, land. What reason could be assigued for this he knew not, unless
that the rights and privileges of the Scotch Burghs should re it was that it had been agreed at the Congress of Vienna to assi
main entire, but that it did not contain any corresponding stipu milate our Government to the crael despotisms of the Continent,
lation with regard to England. In the present case, the existence and to substitute.ºhilitary parade; and military terror, for the
of evils was proved, and two remedies were proposed, the one people's love, and the people's happiness-(ifear, hear. Hall
(the Lord Advocate's Bill) operating on the funds alone, and the the gaols in Ireland were kept by a thifitary guard, which was
other both on the funds and the representation: it was their daty most unconstitutional.-The Hon." Gentleman them adverted to
to take that remedy which would cure the evil without touching the distribution of the money voted by that House for the sur
the election: he hoped that those who viewed Parliamentary viving sufferets at Waterloº, which was semismanaged, thax
Refºrm in its coarse, broad, gross, tyrannical, and insulting while corps who defended the flanks of the army got nothing of
shape, would detectiºunder its disguise, probe it with the spear the bounty, officers, who had not landed till the battle was
ºf. , who were walking in St. James's during the fight,
of truth, and make it start op in alſits native tidepúsness. -

, and who afterwards' to Pâris, in barouches, received

The liouse divided-For the motion, 149—Against it, 144– part of the bounty.due tº the wounded. It was notorious that
Majºrity against Ministers, 5–Adjourned. ~~~~ French servants in many instances partook of the donation-de
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signed for the brave conquerors of French ambition. The Mc G. Cooper, Walton-upon-Thahies, brewer. Attornies, Messrs.
dical Officers, to the number of 10,000, who had performed a must Rogers and Son, Manchester-buildings, Westminster.
arduous duty at Brussels, were also cut off from all whare of the T. Wyatt, St. John's-street, Smithfield, stage-coach-master. At
prize-money, although officers of a foreign corps, who rau away torney, Mr. Williams, Blackman-street. .
when danger appeared, and joined the army again before Paris, R. Fox, jun. Norwich, silk-mercer. Attornies, Messrs. Taylor
had shared it. and Roscoe, King's-Bench-walk, Temple. .
Lord PALMERsroN contended, in reply, that the establishment S. Bourne, Leek, Sinfordshire, ironmonger. Attornies, Messrs.
was less than in 1792. If the regiments were to be reduced, as Long and Austen, Gray's-inn, -

suggested by Colonel Davies, there would be grent inconvenience J. Ewbank, Little Bush-lane, Canton-street, bottle-merchant.
and expense incurred in raising a military force in case of war. Attorney, Mr. Harrison, Bucklersbury. - -

The same .."; applied to the officers brought up at the W. Hºjº, victualler. Attorney, Mr. Howell, Symond's
inn.
Military College. With respect to the appointment of half-pay
officers, he could say, that the Commander-in-Chief always gave w. J. W. Lindsey and A. Hewer, Bath, silk-mercera. Attorney,
them a fair proportion of commissions. With respect to the Mr. Hodgson, Old Jewry. - - -

medical officers not having shared the prize-money, he should W. warne, Great Queen-street, Lincoln’s-inn-fields, bootmaker.
state, that they could not have been included without also in Attorney, Mr. Jones, New-inn. - -

At
cluding the corps at Brussels and all the allied troops. Prize J. Henderson and J. Morley, Ludgate-hill, linen-drapers.
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money, in fact, was a sort of windfall, which every officer should torney, Mr. Hartley, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
rejoice if he got, but which he had no reason to complain if he W. P. Watts, Gosport, victualler. Attorney, Mr. Flashman,
did not share. The corps, said to have protected the flanks of J. Ely-place, Holborn. .
B. Grimsby, Kingston-upon-Hull, haberdasher. Attornies,
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the army, had in fact no connection with it. ngs.
Messrs. Rosser, son, and Rosser, Bartlett's-buildi
Mr. Besser contended that this was the single solitary instance G. Brooke, Lockwood, Yorkshire, woollen-ºnenoſaerurer. At
in which the medical-staff had not shared in prize-money, as
matter of course. They shared with the army for Badajos, torney, Mr. Battye, Chancery-lane
Salamanca, and Vittoria. The medical officers in garrison at T. Goode, Leominster, rierefordshire, draper. Attorney, Mr.
Lisbon lºad received prize-money on the retreat of the French Pearson, Pump-court, Temple.
from before Torres-Vedras, though at a great distance from the J. Sling-by, §º. calico-printer. Attorney, Mr. Kay,
scene of action. -
Manchester. - -

The resolutions were then agreed to, and 8,000,000l. of Exche D. and T. Mallinson,
Lepton, Yorkshire, clothiers. Attornies,
quer Bills were also voted for the service of the year. The W.Messrs. Jacomb and Bentley, Basinghall-street. -

House then resumed. - -

Dixon, jun. Liverpool, wine-merchant. Attornies, Messrs.
- BANKirup T Law S. Lowe and Bower, Southampton-bu ildings, Chancery-lane.
Mr. J. Surru moved the commitment of the Bankrupt Laws, W. Jopson and C. Wignalſ, Liverpool, turpentine-distillers.
Amendment Bill. He had communicated with many enlinent" Attornies, Messrs. Adlingtou aud Gregory, Bedford-row.
persons on the subject, and by their advice he had divided his M. Wotherspoon, Liverpool, merchaut. Attornies, Messrs.
Bill into two parts; the first was the regulative part, and re Lowe and hower, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane. .
lated chiefly to the new administration of a bankrupt's effects, G. Pyer, Newport, Monmouthshire, shºpkeeper. Attornies,
the appointment of assignees, the receipt of dividends, and the Messrs. Poole and Greenfield, Gray's-inn-square. .
recovery of debts; the second was that which contained the al E. Wilsou, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchaut. Attoruies, Messrs.
terations which he wished to make upon the existing law. The Atkinson and Wildes, Chaucery-lane.
lfill then went through the Committee, and the Report of the
two Bills was brought up. saturday's London Gazetts.
TOWN-LAND FINES. -
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General Harr presented a petition from Jeremiah Laughlin, BANKRUPTcy supensEpen.

complaining of the hardships which he had suffered under the J. Bennet, A. Tabberer, and C. Scudamore, Mauchester, woollen
illicit distillation laws. cord manufacturers. .
Sir J. Newport took this opportunity of noticing a report in - BANKRUPTs.
circulation that morning (which he believed) that a body of G. Lowe, Manchester, merchant. Attoraies, Messrs. Willis,
Irish Members had waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer Clarke, and Co. Warnford-court. -

and Lord Castlereagh, and had declared, that unless the Town R. Langston, Manchester, cottou-merchant. Attorney; Mr.
land Fines were abandoned, they would withdraw their support Ellis, Chancery-lane. -- --- -

from the Ministry. The Hon. Gentleman commented on the J. Watt, Preston, lineu-draper. Attorney, Mr. Eilis, Chancery
weakness and vacillation of an administration, who would give lane.
up one-fourth part of the Revenue, not from a conviction of the J. Levor, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, draper. Attornies.
impropriety of the mode of raising it, but because they were Messrs. Long and Austen, Gray's-inn.
threatened by certain individuals. R. W. Jackson, Melksham, Wiltshire, grocer. Attorney, Mr.
Lord CAstleREAgn expressed his surprise at the haste and Hannam, Covent-garden.
warmth with which the Hon. Baronet repeated any idle tale he J. Ball, Poole, shoemaker. Attornies, Messrs. Alexander and
had picked up. He could, however, assure the House, that his Holme, New-inn. -

Majesty's Ministers were not intimidated by any threats, but
were solely influenced by a wish to relieve Ireland from the op
pression she had suffered under the system. He had himself
attended the meeting alluded to that morning, and could assert
that nothiug of the kind described had taken place. -
After some other conversation, the petition was laid on the
table, and the House adjourued. -
TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.
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- BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEI) Ed.
T. A Cocksedge, Woolpit, Suffolk, merchant.
- ºbANKRUPTS.
W. Manning, Bristol, dealer. Attorney, Mr. King, Sergeant's M.Mr.
M. Shepherd, Fareham, Southampton, dealer-in-hops. Attor
nies, Messrs. Alexander and Holmes, New-inn.
T. Rhoades, jun. Queen-street, Hoxton, glass-mounter. Attorney:
Mr. Bennett, Tokenhouse-yard.
G. Lowe and B. Cohen, Manchester, fustian-manufacturers. At
torties, Messrs, Hurd and Johnson, Inner-Temple.
B. Foot, Gracechurch-street, tavern-keeper. Attornie", Messrs.
Reardon and Davis, Corbett-court, Gracechurch-street. .
I. Beckett and J. Roberts, Silver-street, Wood-street, trimming
manufacturers. Attorney, Mr. Butler, Cornhill.
H. W. W. Kleft, Narrow-Wall. Lambeth, oil-merchant. Attor
nies, Messrs. Bourdillon and Hewitt, lirend-street.
J. Thompson, Joiner-street, Southwark, victualler. Attorney.
Martin,Harper-street,
D. Pratt, Kent-road.
Burlington-arca de. jeweller. Attornies, Messrs. -

inn, Fleet-street. "

. . W. Blackburn and P.C.S. Rousseau, City-road, Finsbury-square, Cardale and Young, Holborn-court, Gray's Inn.
carn-dealers. Attornies, Messrs. Sinitli and Son, Dorset-street, T. Bevis, Oxford-street, coach-maker. Attorney, Mr. Carlow,
Salisbury-square. High-street, Mary-le-bone. - -

- R. Wild, Craven-street, Strand, tailor. Attorney, Mr. Pas M. Firth, Cooper-Gridge, Yorkshire, lime-burner. Attorney.
Nºmorºwaruford-court, throgmorton-street. Mr. Battye, Chancery-lane. -

ºs. Hºle: e-street, tavern-keeper. Attornies, Messrs. W. and A. L. Prattinion, Bewdley, wºrrestershire, grocers

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“ Allistèſ| Hºndleby, Freemau's-court, Cornhill.
ºwº, ""
Attornies, Messrs. Benbow and Aiban, Lincoln’s-inu. " '
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E. Smith, Tothiº-street, chinaman. Attormies, Messrs. Alexanvour of the Catholics twenty times over? As it was,
der and Holme, New-inu. there was a most unexpected minority, only two less than
J. Appleyard, Kingston-upon-Hull, bricklayer. Attorney, Mr. the majority; and although this appears to have thrown
Hicks, Gray's-inn-square.
J. Gottreux, Mincing-lane, broker. Attoruies, Messrs. Blunt the question back again, there can be little doubt that the
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and Bowman, Broad-street-buildings. next effort of the wave will land the still unexhausted,
R. Blachford, Little Tower-hill, stationer. Attorney, Mr. Ab question upon triumphant ground. -

bott, Mark-lane. - The other business in Parliament this week is amusing,

B. Walker, West Smithfield, tailor, Attorney, Mr. Carpenter, though not important. It is curious to see the shifts and
Church-Fassage, Old Jewry. cohtrivances of Ministers, who have been pressed rather
W. Smith, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. hard, and on one occasion defeated. They are taxed
Amory and Coles, Lothbury. with encouraging immorality by patronizing lotteries; and
J. Laasdell, Northampton-square, victualler. Attornies, Messrs.
Robinson and Hine, Charter-house-square. they tell you, with an air of affected sorrow, that they
C. Basham, Norwich, coach-maker. Attornies, Messrs. Tilbury found the vicious disposition, and only raised a little mo
and Langdale. Falcon-street, ney by it, they did not of course, make it any worse
huge lottery bills staring in your face at every turn, and
PRfce or stocks on saronn Ar. reat lying advertisements in the newspapers, have no ef
3 per Cent. Red................... 71} || 3 per Cent. Cons, ------ 71; 72. #. on the readers of them, especially the ignorant and
distressed! Besides, oaly think of the money raised by it—
Legal Argument with which a Correspondent has favoured its almost three hundred thousand pounds! And then it is so
respecting the Circassian Slate and the Privileges of Ambassa fair, as Mr. Canning says, because nobody need buy
dors in general, will be inserted, or at least parts of it. that does not hike. True; and so may any impudent
Odeon a Distant Prospect of the Treasury Benches the first oppor rogue say, who first cheats, and then laughs at his dupe.
tunitv.
We . attend to our friend J. P. next week. There is some similarity between this question and that
of the Irish Window Tax, on which Ministers also obtain
Caſein's Hymn shall appear.—Those Correspondents, whose
Communications are of a general nature, must uot suppose we ed a large majority. An immediate sacrifice of revenue
dº
in both cases, for the sake of the public
have forgotten them because the press of temporary matter was
sometimes excludes them for a while. ' morals in one, and of the health and comfort of the Irish
- people in the other. We give credit to Ministers for sin
cerity in both these matters; that is, --we believe that they
THE EXAMIN ER. really think it is a question between the suffering or the in
jury done to the morals of the people, and the complete
Alox pox, MAY 9. 3. of a part of the income; and they choose the former
alternative. This does not say much for their feeling, and
still less for their wisdom. They are incapable of con
Tarnº is no foreign news work mentioning except an sidering any question of political economy in a broad
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agreeable circumstance which has taken place in conse: light; they cannot understand that what ſessens the in
quence of the cessation of the restrictions on the French
§: It is the appearance of articles copied fism the dustry or the comfort of the people cannot cause a real
gain to the Revenue. They are afraid of º:
Ingfish newspapers. Thus English, as well as Frênel. principle contended for by those who would abºlish?
thinking, is set free again among our neighbours; and we modes of raising money, lest, as they say, it should also
know what it has done for them already.
The want of foreign news is made up for by the interest be applied, tº other taxes equally objectionable...Tº be
sure it would; but not all at once, CŞ until the good effects
ing nature of the last week's Parliamentary debates. The
Ministers were very hard run on the Catholic Question, of giving up some of them began to be fºr -. -

and nearly tripped up notwithstanding their old trick of It is impossible not to feel disgusted at the way in
taking refuge among the byestanders. We received a note which Ireland is treated and spoken of in Parliament
on Monday asking us whether we were not aware that That wretahed country has been so misgoverned all along
Lord Castleneagh was in favour of the Question, and by the English Governments, that when a long war anºt
telling us to observe the debates of that night and we :onsequent heavy taxation arrive, it cannot pay what is
should see. We looked out and listened accordingly, and called its preportion of it; and º: the strength of its
lo! Mr. Caoken was speaking in favour of the said ques utter inability to do so, my Lord CastleReagh gets up
tion, but not a word from Lord CAsti. Earagii, ". it and tells his countrymen, that they have been yery leniently
meant to be insinuated that this was the same, thing? treated, and not having borne their part of the burdens of
The Catholics know the contrary too well. We always the Empire during the war, have no right to demand the
supposed it possible that his Lordship might affect to repeal of an impost that cuts of many of them from the
compromise matters for his purposes, or even be able enjoyment of common air! Thus is Ireland squeezed to
to give up the point without being convinced of it's the greatest possible extent, and to the ruin of a great num
propriety, if he, thought it about to come too fiercely ber of persons, and because they cannot get as much from
against i. He may also consider it in a less bigoted it as they want, they inform us that it is kindly dealt with !
light thea Lord Liverpool, and Mr. BATHuast; for What is meant by suffering in proportion to England?
worldliness is not quite so ... a thing as super Should it not be rather in proportion to its ability?—The
stition; but has he not been of another opinion; and will distress in England is great enough, to be sure; but it is
a common mind give up an argument if it can possibly not so great as in the sister kingdom, and to talk therefore
help it? The Catholics remember too well the tricks that of any proportion, while it is so, is worse than absurd. We
were certainly surprised, that Mr. Croken should be
Pitt used to play, and his allowing himself to speak
against the Slave Trade, while his tº: did the *f; courageous enough the other night to avow this truth,
trary in an affected incapability of agreeing with him, that if the peºple of Ireland were disloyal, the House
Lord Castleue agit had a proper sense of the merits of should recollect what made them so.--This was said in re
the question... why did he not come forward and ſerence to the religious question, but it applies just as well
speak himself?' - Does any body suppose, that if to the political and financial ones. - -

underlings and masters were all º 3.

on the "... With respect to the Scotch Burghs, Ministers have been
fºr: Cºokra, Canning, an AstleRRAgni, defeated by a majority of 5,-the same number that car
all spoken, the majority would not have been, in far ried the question in their favour last time, - The
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unanswer
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able and indeed almost-uncontradicted-exposition of the any officer attending them, and went to their respective
monstrous abuses in these boroughs was too plain to be dwellings, some in the city, some in the west end of the
evaded, and oo barefaced to be supported, at least by a | town, and one as "far as Peckham in Surrey. In the
majority., . nable to deny the alleged facts, Ministers. Evening Panets of the day of this trial, and in the Morn:
endeavoured to brig in the bugbear-Parliamentary Re ing Papers of the succeeding morning, and while the trial
form—to their support; and to array the Anti-Reformers, was pending, was published an account which might be
against the motion for enquiry: but it would not do, not called inflammatory, inasmuch as it was entitled “Great
withstanding the grave assurances of Lord BINNING, that Mercantile Conspiracy,” and contained only the opening
JReform was lurking under the other question, and the speech and the, evidence for the prosecution, which was
fierce call of Mr. CANNING upon all those, who. oppose not finished till Wednesday forenoon, the 21st inst. No
Reform in its “gross, broad, insulting, tyrannical, shape,” evidence was gone into on the part of the defendants; and
to detect it in its isguise, &c.—What does the Right #. on the evening of Wednesday, a verdict of Guilly was
Gentleman think of huge sinecures and an immense stand pronounced against Woolſ, Levy, and Kinnear, and a
ing army?" Does he fiot know that these, things appear. verdict of acquittal of Levoi. -

somewhat “broad, gross and tyrannical,” to a people ..] On Friday, the 30th April, a motion was made in Court
ground down with taxation to support them?—The Lord for a rule to shew cause why a new trial should not be
Advocate was silent on this occasion, probabl because granted, when, as is necessary on such an occasion, the
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he had the fear of God and the Scotch Editors before his three defendants personally appeared in Court, which they
eyes, and remembered the pitiable dissection that his did voluntarily. This motion for a new trial was sup
former speech underwent by their hands. . . . . . ." ported by aſfidavits of the facts, as to the separation of the
The most grave pretence that has been offered” to the }.}}|
we have now detailed; and two additional
public for some time is the Report of the Bank Committee, facts came out on the hearing of this motion: by an affi
who, after informing us that the Bank is in a yety flourish davit from the son of one of the Jurymen who came home
ing, condition, and could pay their notes, if the Govern on the night of Tuesday the 20th, and remained at home
ment would pay them their debt, proceed to put off the until Wednesday morning, the 21st, it was stated...that the
time of the mere commencement of cash payments till after merits of the pending trial became the subject of discussion
the Parliament shall have met next .."; when we shall no, in the family; and another affidavit from the nephew of
doubt have another Committee, who will discover, as in another Juryman stated also his eqning home, remain
duty bound, the inexpediency of the immediate resump all night, and the merits of this trial becoming the subject
tion, and postpone it a little longer! In the mean time, of conversation. No doubt was entertained by almost all
the Ministers will praise the wisdom of the Committee, the Counsel at the Bar, that a new trial would be granted
and the Bank Directors, with a deep sigh, regret that they on the disclosure of such facts. Tus Court, Howeyer,
are compelled to acquiesce in its determination!' The Refused it. The defendants were eommitted to New
farce will then be complete on all sides. gate, to be brought up for judgment the 6th May, when
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(+++ several affidavits were put in, in mitigation of punishment,

Various paragraphs are delayed owing to the press of matter. and the Court once more remanded the defendants into
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-*custody, to be brought up again on the 1Qth May, to give
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an opportunity to the prosecutors to make an affidavit;
GREAT'MERC4NTILE CONSPIRACY AND which they had hastily drawn up and sworn in Court, and
. . . . . . . . . . TRIAL BY JURY.
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tendered; but which the Court refused to read.
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| Hºfri, the grand Palladium of our Liberty, “Trial
, * . . . [From a Correspondent.] . . . . . .
riſe KING v. Jous kinnean, INdicted with Joux-Meyer byWeJury,” affected by this decision ?
understand that this grand question is to be imme
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... ". . . . And others. diately taken up to the House of Peers, for decision.
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This affair, so important to the defendants, if finally

brought home to them, has agitated a particular class
of persons in the City for the last fortnight, but now | THEATRICAL EXAMINER,
begins to assume a character of much more general
interest than , we anticipated, and ... we think is likely No. 362. -

to become as much a matter of public importance as our

most interesting Sate Trials. We have been at pains to 17" fºr twº oprena. *

collect the facts of this case, as regards the ground on YEstEnday week, after the Barbiere di Siniglia, which
which the defendants moved the Gourt of King's Bench ºwe enjoy more and more at every hearing, Mſ. Buronſ,
for a N. º r: º º: . . on the
; aS the most celebrated dancer on the French stage, and there
fore supposed to be the finest in Europe, made his first ap
general principle of an irregularity, and illegality, as regards
our grand national bulwark, the Trial }; #. “we
pearance in this country. The ballet, which is called
it a matter interesting to the whole community, and a Adolphus and Matilda, or the Power of Love, and which has
º, when agitated, to which every Englishman is
allºwe. “, *
been repeated every evening since, is one of his own in
vention; and shews us how the hero, who is represented
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This trial commenced in the morning of the 20th April, by himself, learnt to dance in a manner surpassing any one
at Guildhall, before Lord Chief Justice Abbott and a Spe else, by the force of affection for his mistress, who teaches
cial Jury, and continued until half-past 11 o'clock the him. The lady is performed by Madame Duport, who
same evening, when an adjournment took place. No re made her first appearance at the same time. It is pleasant
cord of this adjournment was made in any official shape. to see husband and wife uniting thus in tastes, talent, and
It was done by a verbal understanding between the j.
reputation; but perhaps there is a little deficiency of no
and the Jury, that they should break off the proceedings, desty in the ballet-master's thus making himself the hero
and meet again next morning, at half-past nine o'clock. of such a story, and appropriating perfections to himself,
The Ju after some complimentary observations to the even when allowed. In one of the scenes, where the or
Jury, and regretting the inconvenience which it put them dinary dancing-master is teaching him, and getting aste
to, immediately-left the Court. No officer was sworn to nished at his wonderful progress, which outsteps himself.
keep the Jury together, or prevent their intermixing (to the delighted Podagogue dashes down his hat'in a trans
use Lord Ellenborough's phrase) with the multitude. They port of admiration, and rushes into his pupil's arms. Now
accordingly departed from the Court one by one, without this is a very unequivocal note upon a text somewhat dis
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putable. Mr. Duront; it is true; is a very clever dancer, ſ fection of dancing lies;” that is to say, the Frenchman has
and we have no doubtstands with equal justice and muscle the mechanical power, and the fair Italian the sentinent. .
at the head of the French ...?'. ;—his twirl, ‘We wish, Mr. Waters would enable us to coppare -: *
perhaps, is not so continuoils as that of Westºrs or Bap-. them.*—By the bye, what would the Greeks, the arbiters
tiste; neither does. He treat us with any specimen of such of all legance, have thought of such dancers; as the
grace as the litter does in his performance of 3rphyr; but French'?. They would have infallibly have taken them for ...
the muscles of his calf and face are º ; he a parcel of unacconntable quiet-faced men and women,
comes dewn upon his foot, after a spring, like a leaden sta who had scalded their legs.
tue of: Mercury; , and the rapid mannet in which he Madame purprisºn pretty-looking woman, and *
'twinkles and jerks his leg ºl. astonishing. Nothing good, dancer of her husband's school. M. Duppitt is
“under the a º: :of twenty bodkins, we should sup rather short though well made, and has an earnest and
se, could make even another dancer shiver his precious not unpleasing though not handsome face. . His quickness
imb about with so dazzling a vibration;–But where is of execution is certainly astonishing, that is to say, when
f. Where is an ease truly elegant? Where is the he fauours us with it; for after all, he does not lavish even
ikeness of any ºthing pleasing and natural 2- . In short, that; and the ballet, which is altogether one of the most
where is the meaning?' Anºt without a meaning is a tiresome we ever saw, is chiefly occupied with movements .
strange: business. Dancing, like every other’art, should not at all uncommon in any way. Some of the female -
have a reſerence to nature; and it has, wherever it is pro groupings at the end are pleasing. -

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ºperly performed.--The Romans, like some of the islanders
in the Eastern ocean, had war-dances. Barbarous nations : . (The new Comedy which was announced for repeti- .
have also dances expressive of their various occupatiens, tion.every evening but only performed again last
particularly hunting. We are not recommending finita and the new tragedy, the first performance of which is
º:
tions of these, which are hardly proper for so cheerful and delayed till next Wednesday, will be criticised next week.)
gentle an art;, but there is one custom prevalent all over, * The Count adds, speaking of a ballet which he witnessed at *

the world, and full of meaning, which is the usual subject Naples, “I plainly saw this evening the great difference between .
of dancing, and which professes to be that of the piece be the French'and Italian schools. ' The Italians readily admit the
foreus. It is making love. Now what has this vaulting, and superiority of ours, yet, without suspecting it, have a much
-twirling, and above all, this insipidity of countenance and’ stronger feeling of the perfection of their own. Duport was
rapidity of leg to do with love?. All dancing has passages in enthusiasticatly applauded, but it was plain that MARIANNE
common; it cannot help it; but the peculiar marks and even £oxt was the person who inspired the truest transports.”—He
plainly confesses, in another passage, that “the French school
boasts of a French dancer are things which have no re goes no farther then to exhibit the perfection in the execution :---
ference whatever to anything either courteous or natural; dancing,” he says, “is now in the situation of perishing when
he balances himself, he hangs his arms like incumbrances, MAs Accio appeared.”
he moves them about merely to make the best of the in -
cumbrance, he plants his face stifly, he fixes his body like
a statue, he sways it about on his centre like a pivot, he
stops, he quivers his foot about his other ancle with the
FINE ARTs. . . .
most ridicufous no-meaning, he stops again, he begins lift- |
ing up his I as slowly and delicately as if it was
Royal Academy Exhibition.”
!...","...in es it a little from his knee-pan, and then It is usual and natural for visitors to the Exhibition to .
lookin grand and conclusive, he lets it out at full length make comparisons of the existing with former Exhibitions.
-from his side, º if º lº. making some i. in order not only to ascertain the comparative valuation of
each in talent, but also what degree of retrogradation or
rson a present of it; finally, he spins about as if he were advancement, or whether neither cf these has been evinced
R. and alf of a sudden stops ſº butt in ſront of you,
upon one leg, as if his foot were nailed to the ground. by the great portion of our native Artists, who annually.
send their works to Somerset-House. Upon the whole
In the name of common taste and sense, what º all: we think the present quite as good as former Exhibi
this to do with grace and nature? Again we ask, what tions; and that if many of our essors are stationary,
is the::::::. To us, it appears only a substitution of
º
activity for feeling, of physical strength for intellectual ele sell appears to have judiciously taken though
others are advancing. Thus, Mr. Fº:
a hint from old.
nce, nay, even of pain for pleasure. Some of the French "Time, (who is in one particular no respecter of genius) to
i. would undoubtedly do better, were they taught a retire from public notice, though public notice will never .
better style. Milange is often extremely graceful and retire from him, especially as public taste is increasing, and
touching; and little Lefevre,” with her smile, appears though we are not gratified this year with any of the ad
to have a proper sense of the nature of dancing, in spite mirable portraits of Sir T. Lawrence, we have, in lieu of .
of her teachers. But our description, and it is not an ex them, more of Mr. Jackson's than usual, with his exqui
aggerated one, is true of the Fréuch school of dancing in site carnation tints, and many excellent works by the rest
general, which at present stands at the head of all of our admired Portrait Painters, Sir W. Beectry, Messrs.
others, not because it is best, but because it is a fashion. Phillips, Owen, RAFBURN, EDRinge, Reinagle, CHA
We suspect that the Italian is the true, one. Count LoN, Clist, Pickersgill, Davis, Davison, &e. &c.
‘Sresonal, in the very entertaining work from which While we miss Mr. Fusela's poetical painting the less in
we lately quoted a passage about Rossisi, speaks very the treat of Jacob's Dream, which Mr. Alston has left us
handsomely of M. Duport, but rather as an old acquaint on his return to his native country, America; also in a set
ance whom he had had a habit of admiring, then as a of as deliciously coloured and characterised pictures in
daneer whom he could approve on reflection. His pre small by Mr. Stotharp, from Boccaccio, as have ever
ſerence is eyjdently for the style of MARIANNA Conti, an enriched canvass, and in an animated painting by Mr.
Italian, between whom and Duport, he says, “the per Hiltos representing Gan de. If Mr. WArb too has
*.. we believe this is the lady's name. She is a little, dark, given us but one animal, Mr. Cooper has not only sup
good-tempered looking girl, and may be known from all the rest plied several, but has enriched the large room, with an im:
of he opera dancers, being the only person with a countenance roved proof of his extraordinary powers in. The Battle ºf
| Marston-moor, where the men areas admirably drawn, ps-"
suitable to the occasion. Such is the spirit of the French school.
They seem to'think, that in their merriest moments, they are | ressed, and finished, as the Animals. The class of Fami
bound to be as graye as tragedians. . .. . . .
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of Mr.Wilkie's best, if not his best picture. The Penny sented by Apollo himself. They arise also out of the ex
Iſedºing, but we have the young American, Mr. Leslie's, traordinary number of drawings of all sizes, to the amount
Sir Roger de Coverly going to Church, accompanied by of 46, in this Exhibition, by Mr. Corley Firinuxg, whose
the Spectator, a work of exquisite sentiment. With what talents are too considerable not to make us interested in
our venerable, President has done, and these younger the most eligible mode of employing them. In his pro
transatlantic Artists, are doing, the Americans make us duction of so many Views, since last year, some of
look about us as well in Arts as in Arms. These three highly finished, it is impossible but that Nature and think
Painters are worthy of their countrymen, who, in the war ing must in a great degree be sacrificed to expedition,
before last, when they fought for a Representative Legisla prettiness of effect, and receipt or mannerism. But there are
tion, set the last example of a grand and successful struggle among these 46 drawings some pledges of the high rank
for political liberty which the world has witnessed. There to which Mr. Fislning would probably arrive were he to
is, too, Mr. Mulagaby's Lending a Bite, in which he adopt Mr. HAYDox's system of studying intensely every
ratifies a keen relish for pictorial and natural humour; part of his subject, so as to produce what is admirable in
Ir. BRigg's Calamdrino, a work “ of infinite jest;” and 3.and comprehensive in principle, though not so con
Mr. Rippingill's Post-office:—the news of this new siderable in quantity. We refer to paintings, to which,
Painter's genius will, we are convinced, reach most of the with those by Messrs. Ronsos, Linnell, Stank, Ban
Post-offices in the kingdom. His work is brim full of talent. Rert, Hastings, Citristmas, Stepuanoff, WARLRY,
In Landscape we are delightfully led round our beautiful PRour, Wilp, Nash, Scott. Cox, Pugin, Hawsll,
country and elsewhere by Turn ER, GANDY, Collins, Ron Earsos, Cawse, Miss E. Joxes, Miss Gouldsmirii,
CALLcott, Constable, Hoffland, Nasmyth, Sir G. &c. we shall devote another article.
Beauxtont, ARNALp, GLoveR, &c. &c. The Model
Academy is visited by the Muse of Sculpture, with several
works by some of her favourite British Sons, in Poetical ON THE CARTOON OF THE SACRIFICE. At LYSTRA.
Statuary and Busts, &c. by Chantity, FLAxMAN, BAILY, - (Continued.)
Behines, WestMacott, KENDR1ck, Wyatt, GARRARD, Paipias and RAPHAEt. have one great decided beauty in their
Rossi, HefferMAN, TurneRelli, Joseph, Nicoli, works;–their figures, whether in action or expressio", always
Physick, Lady BELL, &c. &c., There are some beauti look as the whoonscious agents of an impulsion they cannot help:
ful Architectural Pictures, at the head of which is the you are never drawn aside from what they are doing by any ap
tical GANDY. These and others, with beautiful Draw arance in them, as if they wished to make you consider
ings, Miniatures, and Flowers, &c., by many accomplished º very grand they were, or how very gracefully they were
Artists we shall detail in our future numbers. moving 5–they seem impelled, irresistibly impelled, by some
thing they cannot controul; their heads, hands, ſeet, and bodies.
immediately put themselves into positions the best adapted wo
SPRING GARDENS EXHIBITION. execute the intentions wanted; whereas, often in Micrºast Ax
" Rapidity of performance is, we think, always attendant gelo, and always in his imitators, there is a consciousness, as it
were, in their arms and limbs, which takes away all "idea that
on the highest genius, and is then evidence of distinctness
of thought, andfulness and fervour of imagination. Day the figures are the mere unconscious agents of a superior predo
DEN's on St. Cecilia, one of the finest in our language, minating idea, which acts by means of the will upon the muscu
was the production of a few hours, and it is evident that our larThe
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moment these limbs and body appear to have been moved

noblest genius SHAR, PRARE must, from the great number for any other purpose whatever, not connected with the inten
of his plays, have written with “the pen of a ready tion for which they were first called into action, all “feeling
writer.” º is, however, as often the accompaniment of vanishes of their being in that position the best adapted to
every other degree of ability as slowness of execution is. execute it; and the effect of the action or expression is
Dr. Johnson was a rapid writer, and Addison a slow one. weakened by an air of uncalled for affectation. It must be so,
RAFFAELLE, M. Angelo, and RUBENs, dispatched their for it is the great principle of Nature, whether in action or re
pose, never to disturb itself for grace, or for any other purpose
works quickly, as is evident from their multiplicity; but
so did "Conto.NA, a fifth-rate genius, and WERRio, a fa notStyle
immediately the consequence of either.
in design is a result, and not a cause; whatever object is
vourite Painter of CHARLes II. who had little or no ge represented, the intentions of Nature in its bodily formation should
nius. None, however, but the greatest Artists are entitled be ascertained; the means which Nature has bestowed on that
to this privilege of promptitude, because any degree of object, to enable it to execute its own will or gratify its own in
ability below theirs is sure insipidly to repeat itself, or to stincts, should be investigated; and then the aberrations pro
duced by time, accident, disease, or other causes, will be clearly
multiply mediocrity by haste, while mediocrity itself, if known; so that he who takes upon himself to represcot any ob
connected with close study and pains-taking, may achieve ject in paintiug, will be able to reject accident from essence by
É.reat things, such as will not attract only for a season and this thorough investigation, and shew the object in all its essen
then forgotten. ...The works of GRAY, who wrote cau tial properties of body, as God first created it. The forms of
tiously, elaborately, and little, promise to outlive their that body will thus be essential, and the result of its imitation in
century. Doxºnical No's powers were above mediocrity, Art will be style in design. Every thing can then have a style
, though not of the highest class. His modest conviction peculiar to itself; that is, it can be represented with its essential
of defect, mixed with hearty emulation, made him at first properties of body bestowed on it by God at its birth, while
proceed warily, and with more intentness of study than manner is to represent every thing in Nature in one way, totally
zelerity and quantity of work, he was therefore disdained thoughtless of the separate intentions of Ged in each separate
CARAcci, all of thing represented.
by his fellow pupils in the School of the There are certain inherent principles belonging to all bodies
whom, however, he afterwards excelled, and attained to a
which can never be varied; such as, that the form of a part in
rank next aſter RAFFAELLE, But as blotting a profusion action is different from one in repose; that the opposite contours
of paper among many Authorº, so the covering with oil of a trunk or limb can never be the same in external shape, be
..a great many canvasses by Painters; arises often more cause they are never, so, from internal formation; that head,
hands, feet, limbs, or bodies, which by their motº or positior
from indolence than industry. They perform much, be do not tend to illustrate the passion or intention for which they
-cause they think little. These remarks arise out of the are called into action, are ñº. aud affected, &c. &c. When any
—consideration that a great part of our Painters, after havº of these great and inherent principles are broken, it argues tha
ing acquired a certain portion of character,, are too proud the Artist did not know them, and that he was ignorant of the
.#. slender attainments to think that they are in need leading principles of life. No doubt the conception of a charne
of more, and either from incorrigible indolence or incor ter may be so grand, the novelty of an idea may be so beautiful.
rigible vanity, fancy their twigs full-blown laurels pre the pathos of an expression may be so deep, that the errors or
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inadequacy in the means of representation may be forgiven; they MicrºAEL ANGELo, as it were in disdain of this world, often vio
may be forgiven, but in order to bring Art to the perfection the lated the inherent principles of things; the fury of his determi
Ancients brought it, or to approach the perfection we hourly see 'nation, at times ºf. the soundness of his intellect. This
in Nature, there must be nothing to forgive. An idea or con was an error; for whatever worlds we imagine, and whatever
•eption being the nobler part of the Art, we may in our convic beings we people them with, we can never imagine any world
tion of human frailty overlook any inadequacy in the means of where malleable matter is not influenced by action or repose,
representation; but to feel it as requisite to overlook anything, gravitation, extension, or compression, the common principles of
proves there is something to be overlooked, and something our system. . He thus often overstepped simplicity and truth,
which we have a motion has not been adequately represented. and gave what may be termed a swaggering air. The simple
An Art, whose modes of conveying intellectual associations bend of Hoxier's Jupiter, that makes Olympus shake, and his
are the imitation of natural objects, which are capable of exciting own Jeremiah, are instances of the sublimity of simplicity, and
beauty of feeling in their mere imitation, independently of any its superiority over violent contrast; because in this immove
idea, ought surely to have its intellectual feelings expressed in able simplicity there is a look of consciousness that no ef
all the truth and purity of which its language is capable. Poets fort is requisite to create awe. Many of the old Gothic
are not endured, if their grammar is i. or their language ob monumental figures, with both their hands across their
scure, or their versification ignorant; and why should bad gram breasts and lying on their backs, are iufinitely more subline
mar or obscurity of language be borne in our Art? Of course, than all the works of John Di Bologna, Baccio BANDINElli,
the languages are different in their essence; the language of with the rest of Michael ANGELo's imitators, or his own twisted
Poets, with reference to visible objects, is an artificial assemblage male figures at the Medici tombs. There is in this immoveable
of words, agreed on by the respective nation to which each Poet stillness a look as if the figures were above the troubles of life,
belongs, to mean the things to which they are applied, although and saw through the imbecility of appetite or passion. Of course
they have very ſew natural claims to such associations, and all this depends greatly upon the characters represented. A
although the neighbouring nations to which they might be read Prophet, a Lawgiver, and a Philosopher, should not be repre
would be perfectly ignorant of their reference; while our lan sented in the way that a hero or a warrior must. There is in
guage is the imitation of the things themselves, and the most im Nature no fixed law to which all characters must submit in
rfect representation of the thing intended is at once compre Art; every character has a style and a law of its own. Character
!. yet this facility of comprehending the thing imitated, must not be made to bend to system, but system must yield to
the Greeks never suffered, like M. ANGELo, to act as an excuse character: yet, there are general principles, to which every
for any affectated violation of principles, or imperfection of form; tking may be referred from their immutable influence on human
and why should the moderns? Michael Asgelo was a tremen feelings. There ought to be in Art no manner in colour, drapery,
dous genius, and a great moral being, with a vast power of intel form, or expression. The story, the period, the country, the
lect, as displayed in the conceptiºn and arrangement of the Capella character, should regulate everything. In the finest periods of Art
Sistina, to shew the empire of Theocracy. Michael Angelo's and Poetry, the highest characters of imagination have been only
effect upon the Art was and has been indeed vital, but he did not Nature grandly rendered, with none of her laws and characteristics
allow, like the Greeks, the unalternble principles of life to keep violated, none of her immutable truths forgotten; while in the
sufficiently in checkjisanatomical knowledge ofthehuman figure, periods of decay, tired of Nature and her simple grandeur, the
as the Moses proves, and as the figure of Łazarus in Proxpo's pic genius of the time has always endeavoured to attract by novelty
ture has long since proved. The character of Raphael as a and artifice, what their great predecessors were content to do by
Painter was the representation of man influenced by passion, embellishing truth. Nature is thus forgotten, and a system sub
appetite, or circums’ance. Michael Angelo seemed to disdain stituted in her stead, which being always easier to imitate from
to imitate creatures who are weak enough to yield to passion, its palpable qualities, is looked upon as Nature elevated, when it’
and took refuge from the poverty of this world's materials in the is only violated; and the words system, ideality, grandeur, and
sublime and sºlitary feeling of imagining a higher order of beings style, are but cant terms to cloak its untruth. irresistibly im
and a world ºf his ºwn. iii, Prophets and Sybils look as if they pressive are the works of God! so pure is their simplicity! se
were above the influence of time; they seem as if they would overpowering is their expression, that it argues an ordinary nerve
never grow old, and had never been young. It may be as diſfi to stand unshaken in their presence: the attempts of human
cult to dive, as RAPHAEL did, into the secrets of human hearts, beings, by the side of Nature, look so inefficient, that it is not."
to shew the different effects the same event has upon the same till her impressions wear off from a man's remembrance, that
species, differently adapted to receive its impression, from educa such efforts are at all tolerable; it is not till men forget what
tion, habit, or inherent organization, as to burst at once from this they wanted to do, that they find out what they have done is
world into regions of one's own creation, and to people them not so insignificant; the limits of human capacity, and the
with vast creatures, who, though the elements ef their physical bounded checks of this life, depress at times the conqueror and the
and intellectual nature are laid in the world, are so elevated peasant. Alexander, after subduing the earth, wept in bitter
above it, as to be beyond human powers to put them into action mess of heart at having his ungratified desires confined by its
or expression, from ignorance or incapacity to imagine any event wretched limits; and ñº. and TITIAN, after painting their
that would arouse them from their eternal self-possession. Perhaps finest pictures, both felt that inexpressible void at the miserablein
Raruasi was the greatest Painter, and Michael Angelo may he adequacy of their attempts in comparison with their burning im
the greatest being!, Raruart's genius certainly only expanded, pressions-lt seems as if men kad all fallen from a brighter
and would have only expanded, as opportunities were given or world, and that they passed this life in futile struggles to realize
wºuld permit-, Michart. Angelo had a moral feeling of duty, their dreaming remembrances of it!
which would have made his genius “burst its cerements” in - B. R. HAybox.
spite of circumstances, or have forced circumstances to assist its P.S.--The exhibition of the Cartoons will now conclude, and
expansion... Rarnasl was a lovely flower, that opened its with them my critical labours... My inducement to begin and to
blossom in full beauty only in the sunshine. Michael Angelo go through them was principally a conviction, that the public
was a towering pine, that would have shot up to meet a thunder might be rendered more familiar with their principles, if an Artist
cloud, end. prºudly remained invigorated and unsinged by the gave them as clearly as he could the result of his own reflec
convulsion! Rapuael was a gentle river, that expanded only tions, whatever they might be, as the Cartoons did not contain
as its channel widened, with Graces and Angels hovering over any superficial attractions. If i have succeeded in doing this,
its surface. Michael ANGELo was a torrent, that would have my end will be answered.
ploughed up a passage for itself and spread out into a mighty *
ºcean: Rarººst was a tender spirit, that reposed upon the
affection", and loved this world. Michael Angºlo was a crea ARTIsts' GENERAL Benevolent Institution.—On
tare, who seemed mostly to controut them, that he might prepare Monday, this charitable society, having for its object the
himself for the other! Rapua el was at the mercy of Pleasure,
relief of decayed artists, their widows, and orphans, dined
from his sensibility to Beauty. Michaku. Angelo disdained it, together at Fréemasons'-tavern. The Duke of Sussex
from his intense awe of Immortality: Such were Mica Aer.
Awarlo and Raphael, as painters and as men, by their works, was in the chair, and was supported by Earl Pomfret
for in their work- their characters in both instances are illus. and Mr. Douglas KINNAIRp. A great number of dis
trated; and though our affections perpetually urge us to think tinguished artists were present, , but there was not so
Raymast the greatent, Michart. Asario presses on one's imagi fulf an attendance as might'have been wished. The sub
nation with an overwhelming influence and divides the throne. scriptions raised in the course of the evening amounted to
Their genuises were equal, but their temperaments were different. 754; and among the subscribers were the Earl of
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- Baioanwaren, io guineas; the Marquis of Lasswows, than Peter Bell. The object of Mr. Wordsworth's admi
- 25 güideas; the Earl of Abendeen, 10 guineas; Earlnistralioſis of melancholy isi to make men timid, servile, -

Boyfrter, 10l; the Lord-Advocate of Scotland, 10 and (considering his rel;flºº. 5–that of Mr. Shel
* ... guineas. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . * ... ley's, to render them fear ess, independent, affectionate, in
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finitely social. You might be made to worship a devil by
PENsylvania Hospital, AMERICA.—The Governors the process of Mr. Wordsworth's philosophy; by that of
and Directors of this Hospital (after reimbursing them Mr. Shelley, you might re-seat a dethron goodness.
selves for the expences of building a suitable room, &c.), The Poet of the Lakes, always carries his egotism and
have been enabled to add 30 Members to that Establish “saving knowledge” about ..
and unless he has
ment-from the ſunds produced by the Exhibition of the the settlement of the matter, will go in a pet, and plant
Picture of Christ Healing in the Temple, painted by Mr. our himself by the side of the oldest tyrannies and slaveries;–
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º and presented by him in aid of that most excellent
ºwould evidently die with pleasure to
institution. all personal identity, could he but see his fellow-creatures
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reasonable and happy. He has no sort of respect, real or
sullen, for mere power and success. . It does not affect him
LITERARY NOTICEs. in it's most powerful shapes; and he is inclined to come
to no compromise, with it; hé wants others happy, not
- - ºf No. 55. ºf himself privileged.—But comparisons are never so odious,
as when they serve tº contrast two spirits who, ought to
Rosalind, and Helen, a Modern, Eclogue; with other have agreed. Mr. Wordsworth has become hopeless of
this world, and therefore would make everybody else so ;—
- Poems, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1819.
This is another poem in behalf of liberality of sentiment Mr. Shelley is 'superior, to hopelessness itself; and does
and the deification of love, by the author of the Revolt of not see why all happiness and all strength is to be bounded
Islam. It is “not an attempt,” says the writer, “in the by what he himself can ſpel or can effect.
highest style of poetry. . It is in no. degree calculated to ... But we shall again be tempted to transgress the limits of
excite profound meditation; and if, by interesting the our Literary Notices...We must give some further speci
hflections and amusing the imagination, it awaken a cer mens of the poetry. The following is a passage which
fain'ideal melancholy favourable to the reception of more will go to every true woman's heart:
important impressions, it will produce in the reader all When flowers were dead, and grass was green
*** that the writef experienced in the composition, ... I resigned Upon my mother's grave, that mother -

Whom to outlive, and cheer, and make

myself, as I wrote, to the impulse of the feelings which
moulded the conception of the story; and this impulse
determined the pauses of a measure, which only pretends
to be regular iſ asmuch as it corresponds with, and ex
presses, the irregularity of the imaginations which inspired
lt
... Mr. Shelley has eminently succeeded in all that he thus
wished to do. The speakers, who tell each other their
stories, are two fine-hearted women, who have been un
happy in their loves-the one having seen her partner in
life die of a disappointed sympathy with mankind in con
sequence of the late great political changes; and the other,
having for the sake of her reduced family accepted a hard,
cold-blooded man for her husband, after she had been on
the eve of marrying a beloyed friend, who turned out at
My wan eyes glitter for her sake, .
Was my vowed task, the single care
Which once gave life to my despair,
When she was a thing that did not stir,
And the crawling worms were cradling her
To a sleep more deep and so more sweet
Than a baby's rocked on its nurse's knee,
I lived: a living pulse then beat
Beneath my heart that awakened me.
What was this pulse so warm and free?
Alas! I knew it could not be
My own dull blood'; 'twas like a thought
Of liquid love, that spread and wrought
Under my bosom and in my brain,
And crept with the blood through every vein 3
And hour by hour, day after day, -

the altar to be her hrother. 'The father.
* -- Came from a distant land
And with a loud and fearful cry
Rushed between us suddenly.
I saw the stream of his thin grey hair,
1 sate his lean and tifted hand,
And heard his words,-and live : Oh God!
º
Wherefore do I live?—“Hold, hold !” r”
He cried, -“I tell thee 'tis her brother
-- The couplet marked in Italics, especially the first line, is
very striking and fearful. He comes between them like a
spirit grown old—There is something very beautiful in
the way in which the two heroines meet. It is in Italy,
whither they have both gone, like solitary birds of passage, Of Helen's lover Lionel, in his happier times, it is said that
from a climate every way colder; and Rosalind, who it
The wonder could not charm a way,
But laid in sleep my wakeful pain,
. Until I knew it was a ch?ld,
And then I wept. For long, long years
These frozen eyes had shed no tears:
But now—'twas the season fair and mild
When April has wept itself to May:
I sate through the sweet sunny day
By m window bowered round with leaves,
Aid down my cheeks the quick tears ran
Like twinkling rain-drops from the eaves,
When warm spring showers are passing o'er:
O Helen, none can ever tell
The joy it was to weep once more!
A winged band
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seems, is a legitimate *:::: turns away from her old Of bright persuasions, which had fed
On his sweet lips and liquid eyes,
friend, who had adopted Mary Woolstonecraft's opinion
in those matters. This fortune however, coming in aid of Kept their sleift pinions half outspread
To do on men his least command.
her former tenderness, melted her heart; and it again ran
into that of Helen with tears. They unite their fortunes, The gentle noise arising from the earth during a still sum
and have the pleasure of seeing their children, a girl and mer evening is thus delightfully described:—but we must
boy, grow up in love with each other, till in their union go back, and make a larger extract than we intended.
they saw -
Lionel comes out of a prison, into which he had been cast
- The shadow of the peace denied to them. for his opinions; and so, says his fond survivor,
... This little publication, in form and appearance, re We travelled on
-

sembling the one we criticised last week, presents a curious By woods, and fields of yellow flowers, -

contrast with it in every other respect. It is in as finer a And fowns, and villages, and towers,
moral taste, as Rosalind and Ilelen are pleasauter names pay after day of happy hours.
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THE ExAMfººt. º
==
It was the azure,ti ºne, theydarº May is ſhe month spokenº with the greatest
-

when the skies are despin ſhe stainless noons rar in all the polite countries of Európe, th the
Anºthe warm º reezes shake
Englishman issºtimes at a loss to perceive why.” The
The fresh green-leaves of the hedge-row.briar, stanza at the head of our chapter is a beautiful specimen
And there were odours then to make --
The very breath we did respire, of this.enthusiasm, which in fact, is partly owing to the
happy and happy-making . of poets in general,
-

A liquid element, whereon ---

Our spirits, like delighted things.-- ---
. . That walk-the air on subtle wings;
- Floated and mingled ſar away.
* --
*Mid-the-warm-winds of the sunny day.
and when the eveningstar came forth.
-Above the curve of the new beat moon,
And light and sound ebbed from the earth,
Like the tide of the full and weary sea
To the depths of its tranquillity,
Our natures to its own repore
Did the earths' breathless sleep attune:
Like flowers, which on each other close
-
Their languiº leaves whenºlay-light's gone.
A picture follows, which we were going to say would be §. and encounter the dewy leaves, Hear
appreciated by none but the most delicate minded; but what is said by the most rural of puy lyric poets, who
sincerity
Mr. Shelley can makéhis infinite earnesthess and
understood even by critics ºf a very different cast, who.
happen to have no personal pique with him; though we
understand also that they take care to abuse him enough,
in order to s!lew the time-serving bigotry of their opinions
--
inteneral. ---
- -
To the chief poem succeeds a smaller one entitled
and partly to their ſavourites the southern poets, who find.
------ all that they speak of in their summiet countries. It is to
- - -
be recollected however, that by the alteration of the style,
. "the first of May, so renowned in the poetical º
. was thrown back twelve days into April; and it may be
added, that the climate of this country may really have
been finer in the times of our ancestors, and more resem
bling, for instance, what it was last year. Either this must
- have been the case, or they must have: an infinitely
-
robuster people from their out-of-door liabits, and not so
- sensitive to early chills; otherwise they could not have
- -
agreed with one accord to go forth, as they usedto do on
passed his life iike a bird in singing and making love:–
Get up, get up! for shame; the blººming morn. "
Upon her wings, presents the Godiansborn: * *
See how Aurora throws her fair.
Fresh-quilted colours through the air:
--- Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and sea º -
: The dewbespangling herbandºree; - -

“Lines written among the Euganean Hills.” Some of Each flow'r has wept, and bow’d toward the east,
Above an hour sidce; yet you not-drest;
them are among the grandest if not the deepest that Mr.
Shelley has produced, with a stately stepping in the mea - Nay, not so much as out ºf bed, tº
sure. But we have not space to quote any, not even a When all the birds have matins said, . . . - - -

noble compliment which he introduces to his friend Lord --. And sung their thankful hymns; his sin,
Byron. We must also abstain from many other passages Nay, profanation to keep in ; -

which tempt us in the poem we have criticised. When as a thousand, virgins 6n this day -

Spring sooner than the ſº, to fetch in May 1..

. Upon the whole, with all our admiration of the Revolt
of Islam, we think that Rosalind and Helen contains, for The poets, of Elizabeth's time abound with similar
the size, a still finer and more various, as well as a more instances. The door-keeper in Shakspeare's Henry the
popular style of poetry. The humanity is brought nearer VIIIth, at the christening of Elizabeth, says of his ina.
to us, while the abstractions, remain as lofty, and noble. bility to keep out the crowd, - --

Mr. Shelley seems to look at Nature with such an earnest - - - 'Tis as much impossible, .
and intense love, that at last if she does not break her an (Unless, we sweep them from the door with cannons)
cient silence, she returns him look for look. She seems to To scatter them, as 'tis to make them sleep. -- .

say to him, “You know me, if others do not.” For him, On May-day morning, which will never be.
if for any poet that ever lived, the beauty of the external , Alas! the honest porter knew nothing of what would
world has an answering heart, and the very whispers of become of his country's sportiveness. Bank notes and
the wind a meaning. Things, with mankind in general, sordid cares are not to be found in the fields; and so the
are mere words: they have only a few paltry, common F. fication of May-day is left to the chimney-sweeper,
laces about them, and see only the surface of those. To ike the smoke on the lamps, after the 'bright festival is
1r. Shelley, all that exists, exists indeed,—colour, sound, over. . However, now that our poetry is come back,
the lofty and the humble,
motion, thought, sentiment,generality,+f something like a love of nature must return with it; and
great and mº, detail and rom the ‘beauties every one who contributes a word of admiration towards
of a blade of grass or the most evanescent tint of a cloud, it, helps to restore England its generosity, health, and
to the heart of man which he would elevate, and the enjoyment. - - -- -
mysterious spirit of the universe which he would seat Milton, by a happy allegory, makes fresh air and the
above worship itself. - -
love of nature, the parents of cheerfulness. Some; he tells
ſºr - -
her, say that your parents were Venus and Bacchus, or
Love and Wine; but, * - - - -,
CALENDAR OF NATURE.
- ... As some sager sing,
-
-

(From the Literary Pocket-Book.) The frolick wind that breathes the spring,
-
Zephyr, with Aurora playing, -

- - --
-- - - -MAY. . º -
As he met her once a-maying. -

Then came faire May, the fayrest Mayd on ground, There on beds of violets blue, -

neek’t all with dainties of her season's pryde, And fresh-blown roses wash’d in dew, .
And throwing flaw res-ontº of her lap around: Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair,
Upon two brethren's shorlders she did ride, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. .. ---

The twinnes of Leda; which on either side

- Supported her like to their soveraine queene : Her love is made too; but it is the consequence of
Lord! how all creatures laught when her they spide, health and rural enjoyment, not the partner of intem
And leapt and daune’t as they had ravisht beene! . ºperance... .. . --
- " * - . --

And capid self about her fluttred all in greene.

- - SPENSER..
*. It is said that Virgil had a sister named Main, which serves
May is so called from the goddess Maia, a name under to give us an idea of the very probable attachment felt towards
which the earth was worshipped at this dedal season of rural things by the poet's fatſier.
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The reader should recollect then that May does not POLICE.
-
-
properly commence till the day marked in the calendar as -Arron-GARDEN.
Old May Day. This throws the latter part of the month
into June, and singularly warrants the ideal season chosen Inisw Pavrens Asn rus. New Poon Act.—An application was
on Friday made to the Magistrate, by Mr. Bodkin, one of the
by Thomson as the proper one for his Castle of Indolence, -Overseers of Clerkenwell, under Mr. Sturges Bourne's new Act
A season atireen June and May, -
for Amending the Poor Laws.-A wretched-looking Iri-hwoman,
Half prank'd with spring, with summer half embrown'd and three young children, almost naked, were brought into the
Towards the end of the month, indeed, as it stands at office by the beadle. It appeared that the husband, unable.”
procure work, had some time since deserted his family, and that
present, if a very great blight does not occur, the treasures although they had lived in this country upwards of 20 years, and
of summer are almost all laid open. The grass is in its all the children were born in the parish, by the new Act the
greenest º: the young corn has covered the more were liable to be immediately sent to Ireland as vagrants—Mr.
naked fields; the hedges are powdered with the snowy Bodkin proceeded to remark upon the cruelty of the provisions
and sweet-scented blossoms of the hawthorn, as beautiful of this Act, which for the first time in this country regarded pe.
as myrtle-flowers; the orchards gives us trees, and the verty as a crime.—Masterkarg—Sir, whatever opinion may
be entertained upon this Act, I have no discretion; if you de.
most lovely flowers at once; and the hedge-banks, woods, mand it, I am ready to grant the order.—Mr. Books.-Sir, I
and the meadows, are sprinkled in profusion with the do not demand it, but f'. feel myself most unpleasantly situ
cowslip, the wood-roof, the orchis, the bluegermander, the ated. Whilst other Lºndon parishes are availing tº...".
white anemone, the lily of the valley, the marsh-marygold, the powers of this Act, if ours abstain from doing so, the conse:
and the children's favourites, daisies and butter-cups, whose uence will be to avtract to us the whole of the burden.- The
colours start in an instant to one's mind. The dragon-fly I. of an Overseer now calls upon him to do that which every
carries his long purple-shining body along the air; the man's feelings must surely most strongly condemn. My only
butterflies enjoy their merry days; the bees send out their object in bringing these miserable objects before you is to arouse
colonies; the birds sing with tinwearied love, while their the public to a sense of the inhumanity and impolicy of the Act.
—The poor woman wept bitterly at the idea of being sent to
partners are sitting; the later birds of passage arrive; the starve
cattle enjoy the ripe and juicy herbage, and overflow with known,upon the coast of Ireland, where she was altogether un
and expressed the utmost gratitude on being informed it
imilk; most of the trees complete their foliage, filling the would not be the case. The Magistrates appeared strongly in
landscape with clumps and crowning woods, that “bosom" pressed with the severity of this enactment. -

the village steeples; the distance echoes with the cheerful -

bank of the dog; the ladies are abroad in their spring - BiRTHS. - -

dresses; the farmer does little, but leisurely weed his On Wednesday, in Lower Brook-street, the Lady of the Hon.
garden, and enjoy the sight of his flowering industry; the Thomas Erskiue, of a daughter, which survived her birth only a
sun stops long, and begins to let us feel him warmly; and few hours, - --

when the vital sparkle of the day is over, in sight and sound,On Saturday, the 8th instant, at the Manor House, Wands
the nightingale still continues to tell us its joy; and the worth; the Lady ef Alderman Magnay, of a son,
little glow-worm lights up her trusting lamp, to shew her Qn Monday, at Burgate House, Haits, the Lady of J. Green
loverwhere she is. Wilkinsou, º of a daughter. * ** ~ *
-

In addition to several flowers of the last month, we

MAltRLAGES.
have now candy-tuft, Canterbury bells, Venus's catchfly, Thursday, Mr. Wm. Brown, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of
bachelor's-buttons, American cowslip, ſeverſew, fox-gloves, Thomas Jameson, Esq. ºf Few cowri.- .
fraxinellas, honesty, globe-flower, gentianella, hyacinths, Wednesday, the Rev. Thos. Fuller, Fellow of St. John's
London-pride, (so called from its flourishing in town College, Cambridge, tasophia Mary, fourth daughter of the late
lychnidens, monk's hood, narcissus, pinks, poppies, (which *William Paterson, of Reyanshire-plage. ".......
Wednesday, Joseph Sills, Esq. io Catharine,widºw of the late
-

get among the cornlike --

- Sleep, William Poulton, Esq. aid youngest daughter of James Payn,

Chief nourisher in life's feast, Esq. of Maidenhead. " -

- - - - ShakspeaRE.) On the 7th instant, the Rev. James Stratten, of Maida Vale,
the favourite odour of pinks, their rival the scabious, of Paddington, to Rebecca, eldest daughter of Thos. Wilson, Esq.
Highbury-place. - - ----
rockets, scarlet lychnis, sea-pink, spiderwort, Solomon's
seal, with its lovely bells and leaves, sweet-peas that look S. -

hike butterflies turned to flowers, and tall and fair above April 30, at Cheltenham, aged 11 years, Charlotte, youngest
them all, - - daughter of Mr. Ryland, of Savage-gardens."
- The lily, lady of the flow'ring field. On the 5th iusi. of a deep decline, Miss Harriett Owen, De
SPENsek.
-

vonshire-street, Portland-place. ... : -

Among the trees and shrubs in flower, we have already In the middle of April, at Lisbon, the Duke of Buccleuch,
mentio the hawthorn, with which our ancestors de where he had gone for the reeovery of his health. He had been
corated their houses. . Then there is the elder-tree, the for a considerable time in a declining state. His Grace was Lºrd
Lieutenant of the counties of Edinburgh and Dumfries. "He
delicate jessamine or jasmin, the judas-tree, kalmias, the married, in 1745, the youngest daughter of Viscount Sydney, and
ledam, the graceful and favourite lilac, the rhododendron by her, who died in 1814, he had three sons and r daughters.
will all its purple coronets, the crisp and elegant syringa, Lately, at Glendoick, Scotland, Lord Reston. He had break
the most odorous sweet-briar, the guelder rose with its fasted in good health, and then retired to his studies. A servant
dropping
queen balls, and lastly,“.blushing
#..." . . . . at. her own beauty, the
r
eutering the room a few hours afterwards, found him lying
-
lifeless. - - -

Amorosa, gentil, lodata resa. On the Sd inst., after a few days' illness, in St. James's-place,
- - * * AI.AMANNI. Richard Lyster, Esq., of Rowton-castle, Shropshire, one of the
The amorous, genteel, applauded rose.' " ' representatives for Shrewsbury. * .

At Paris, on the 27th ult., Lady Charlotte Frances Webb, wife

Our ancestors gave themselves up on May-day, and of Sir Thos, Webb, Bart, sister of Wiseount Dillon, and niece to
sometimes on other days in the course of the month; to all the Earl of Mulgrave. - - -

the healthy intoxication of the season. It was nothing At Chilworth Lodge, near Southampton, on Wednesday,
but mirth, flowers, foliage, dancing, .# and playing Frances, the wife of Major-General Stourie. -

Robin Hood, from the court to the country-villages. Their

eordial spirits ran up, like the sap in the boughs, and Printed and published by Jonn Hunr, at the Examrwur-Office,
blossomed into joy and love, ' " 19, Catherint-Street, Straud. Price 10d.
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 THE EXAMINER,
No. 594. SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1819.

THE Politic Alex AMINER. FRANcis the 2d, Emperor of Austria, King of Huu
Pope.
gary, &c.—a common-place stiff plain-looking person, not
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. naturally ill-tempered, but as mere a prince as can be
No. 579. v . imagined. The best thing about him seems to be his
fondness for music,+which is the pleasant vein that runs
throughout the German character, sprightly or dull. The
soverEIGNS OF THE won LD. Saxons appear fond of it from inclination;–the Austrians
-e- -

As our readers are constantly hearing just now of the Al from their connexion with Italy. It must have been a
lied Powers and the Legitimate, some of them may wish dreadful mortification to this common-place German mo
to have a list of these Gentlemen before them, a little more narch with his five hundred quarterings, to be obliged to
elaborate than that of a Court Calendar. marry his daughter to Bonapaltre, who was only a gen
We will begin with a Prince, whose ancestors not long tleman. That he had no other objection to him (always:
ago were barbarians, but who is now without doubt the excepting his conquests, which however gave him a sort of
leading individual in Europe, whatever he may continue legitimate eclat) is clear from his own conduct, which is
to be. - - just of a piece with all the other royal canters against
Alexandra, Emperor of All the Russias, was born ambition. When the Italian deputies waited on him to
December 23, 1777, and is married to the Princess say that now their country was set free, they should like
Louisa of Baden.—This phrase of All the Russias seems to have a constitution, he answered that “he had con
incorrect, as applied to territory, unleas it is an idiom like quered them, and therefore there could be no talk of con
that of the French and Italian, who say all the two. The stitutions now.” This alone is a sufficing specimen of
word all however, conveys a just idea of the enormous “legitimacy" and all it's promises. We cannot say Er
..extent of dominion belonging to this Prince, who has pede Herculem; but we may fairly say Er capite corpus,
upwards of 40 millions of subjects;-and most of them His Austrian Majesty has had three wives; and would
too now civilized. His reign lies over the greatest northern doubtless have had only one, had the priesthood threateſ.ed
part of Europe and Asia; so that, to compare great things him with punishment for it hereafter. Perhaps he would
with small, he has, as it were, a whole suite of rooms, also have had three at a time, if it had been the custom ;
while his brother potentates live in single ones under him. but this is by no means so certain. It must be allowed
And under him unay apply in other senses, if political ob that he has no sympathies, contrary to the rost regular
servers are justified in attributing to him the old ambitios of and decorous precedent, not even for whole nations. His
his house. He is indeed precisely the person to carry it on, Italian Government is the very second childhood of Legi
*
-

being at once experienced, successful, and just of that mo -timacy."

ral and intellectual pitch, which is halfway between vice Frederick WiLLIAM the 4th, Kirg of Prºssia, Mar
and virtue, -
grava of Brandenburgh, &c, born August 3, 1770. This
Content to dwell in decencies for ever. |prince is chiefly famous for three things, for being the
There is no sort of spirit which can so easily reconcile it greatest complainer against Bosapanºr, when in adver
self to the worst things in the world, provided there is old sity, taking possession of parts of Poland and Saxony
precedent and custom for them, and it can smooth over when in prosperity, and trying how long be can avoid
the matter to it's ºwn conscience. It would never pick. giving the long-promised constitution to the subjects who
one pocket; but it would appropriate some millions of were his saviours, a task which he is still practising. He
purses. It would scorn to break it's word about a dinser; is another stiff formal person in his appearance, but is un
but it would break as many political promises as were derstood to have been somewhat enamoured of the French
“necessary.” It would never cease going to church, and belies; to please whom perhaps, and to shew, how he
professing, and even thinking itself a christian of the first could descend from his height, he mingled with the festi
water; but it would not the more on that account cease vities of round-abouts, and flew down the toy-mountains.
going to war for the sake of aggrandizement, and turning This is all very well;--the Parisian superiority caught
religion to purposes against the liberties of mankind. him in spite of himself, and much, no doubt, to the dis.
Alexander, after protesting against the ambition of Bona satisfaction of his Prussians, who while their master was
PARTE, whom he flattered during it's progress, crowned dulcifying himself to no purpose in the eyes of the ladies,
himself king of the unhappy country which his grand began to be making love, in spite of themselves, to the
mother helped to dismember. He wishes to be thought a
reforther, and to stand at the intellectual head of his age; * See the extraordinary accounts it in the Letters from the
but he has neither head nor heart enough for it. He “is North ºf Italy, just published by Mr. William Srkwaar Rose.
Mr. Rose's book is very pleasant and intelligent; and it would
chief member” of the Holy Alliance, thinks all charity bad deserve the character note in both respects, were it a little less
that has not the “incompatibility of faith" in it, has a restless after jokes, and especially a little less coarse. The wor
certain odd mixture, in his temperament and appearance, of thy author, who appears to be an aminbie man, and is sometimes
highly entertaining, has a sºrt of nervous propeusity to/awi.t
the robust Tartar and what we emphatically call “the everything into a griu. This is harmless; but there arºleeper
Molly,” is very devout, keeps spies in Germany, and is objections to coarseness, if he would think about them.
- food of tight pantaloons, - -

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French theories of liberty. Mere condescension will do melancholy to look unon. They seem the last swell of
nothing, now-a-days for kings.... We repeat a hundred the expiring bloat of the bubble, they are so round,
times, they cannot afford it. The world do not care a so weak, and so empty. His eyes look surprised at their
straw whether they condescend or no. They must per own want of percention. This prince, though he was not
form their promises. . frightened like his Spanish brother to such an excess as to
Louis (STANIslaus-Xavier) the 18th, King of France make him run into Box APARTE's mouth, was horrified
and Navarre, was born November 17, 1755, is the wi enough to be the first to run away at the approach of the
dower of MARIA Louisa of Sardinia, and has no issue. French, and leave his countrymen to fight the matter out
Hº! is very unwieldy, so that he can scarcely walk; for him. They did so, by the help of the drilling and
his face goodnattired, and sprightly in spite of it's size, fighting of the English; and then the magnanimous Prince
but of an insincere and ...; air. He is a favour of Portugal (for such was the epithet which our ministerial
able specimen of a lºrench prince of the old school, and papers bestowed on him), had thoughts of returning ; but
would like to be at the head of a voluptuous and despotic some fears perhaps as to his reception, and many more of
court; but seeing that there is not the smallest prospect of English objection to the measure, prevented him; and
compassing that, he has more good sense than all the rest Portugal is still as it used to be, only a little more osten
of his family put together, and endeavours to retain them sibly, a kind of English colony, with an English Com
at the head of the nation as constitutional princes. Pro mander-in-chief, as well as the mansions of English mer
bably he sees that this will be impossible ultimately, and chants overlooking the once proud stream of the Tagus. ,
so would cut a liberal figure as the last of his dynasty;--a Ferdinand the 4th, King of Naples and Sicily, uncle
sort of old French flashing ere the candle goes out. He to Frani NAND of Spain, was born Jan. 12, 1751. He
had not an unsullied reputation as an intriguer, during the was ſamous at Naples for nothing but being popular with
reign of his brother. He is said to be ambitious of saying the vagabond Lazzaroni, and shooting a prodigious quan
good things, and now and then to succeed in them. It is tity of game, on which subject couriers were constantly
certain, that he is fond gf what are called good things of passing between him and his rival brother the late King of
another sort; and perhaps it was in consoling himself Spain. When he was reduced to Sicily, he shewed as ill
with these during his exile, that he became so unwieldy. and careless talents for governing as at Naples... Soºne of
Is there no hope Alas, then bring the joul. his English supporters would ſain have done a little to
His next passion is said to be for Honace,—which, as wards ameliorating the state of the Sicilians; and the
Mr. Wattrº Scott with a somewhat more disputable French in Naples confessedly did a good deal for the
aristocracy of relish, saith of tarts, is “no inelegant Neapolitans; but in regaining his divided throne, French
Pleasure.” Most likely, Louis the 18th is an old man of improvements were to be discontenanced, notwithstand
the world, who has sense enough to make the best of a ing the visible dissatisfaction of a people, who had again
bad thing, though not wisdom enough to alter it. begun to have their native talent and happiness appre
FERDIN AND the 7th, King of Spain. The size of this ciated. The goodnatured sunshiny Neapolitans have
kingdom, it's ancient name, and º: respectability which been appeased for the pre-ent with a magnificent new
it's people regained in their late ill-rewarded efforts against theatre; and there the matter rests. Any European con
the French, render it necessary to mention this con vulsion would toss his Majesty off his throne in common
temptible prince.—All the world knows him for a nauseous with a number of others. -

“ompound of cowardly meanness in adversity, tyrannous EMANuel the 5th, King of Sardinia, Piedmont, and by
ingratitude in prosperity, and bigoted impotence at all the Grace of the free-born English, of Genoa, is notwith
times. He was born Oct. 14, 1784, and lately lost his standing his possessions, the most insignificant king in
inſant son and his hapless amiable wife, who died under Europe. He was born July 24, 1759, and married the
circumstances which it is impossible not to regard as sus daughter of an Austrian Archduke. He resembles the
picious. She was the gentle remonstrator with his mea Ultra-princes of the House of Bourbos, in his bigotry.
sūres, and an object of dislike to the monks and slaves imbecility, and passion for restoring despolism. He ha
about him. She was his niece, married to him by a dis been said to be goodnatured, and he may be so in one
pensation from the Pope; as if, provided it were right, sense of the word ;-but what is to be said for any true
such a dispensation were necessary, and provided it were fineness of nature in a prince, who would do away the
wrong, such a dispensation could make it natural:—as if, in noblest improvements merely because an enemy had set
short, there had not been enough ways already of spoiling him the example? There is not a want as well as preju
the breed of royalty!—FERDINAND's face is a good like dice which this person would not willingly restore in his
ness of the old age of his father; and his manners, in any dominions. He has threatened to destroy the passage of
case of emergency, embarrassed, helpless, and owl-like. He the Simplon, because Box APARTE made it; and has ac
eringed at the feet of Box Aparte, begged one of his sisters tually re-introduced the most ºcknowledged abuses of su
in marriage, joined with his father in ceding Spain to him, perstition, down to the very begging friars.--The King
recommended his countrymen to submit like good subjects, of Sardinia is Catholic heir to the throne of these king
secretly hinted to them his wish that they should do other doms, being next in family succession to the extinguished
wise, promised them the Cortes and the right constitution, line of the STuARts.
publicly congratulated NApolfoN on his Spanish victories, FREDEric the 6th, King of Denmark. He governed
was rescued nevertheless º his trusting countrymen, re
ceived his throae at their hands, then refused them the
that country along while during the mental imbecility ºf
his father Curtistian the 7th ; and having been sensibly
Cortes and the Constitution, threatened, imprisoned, tor brought up, and witnessed many affecting lessons of ad
tured, and killed bis preservers, and is now vainly threaten
versity in his own family, shewed an extraordinary jūdg
ing the fºrmer Spanish colonies, and beginning to tremble ment and prudence, which induced him to abstain as
agáin'in his palace at the symptoms of an explosion at much as possible from taking part in the Antigallican wars.
home, which appears inevitable. I’ven his legitimate England shewed her re-entment of this by committing the
brothers the Holy Allies are shy of him. He goes too well-known outrage upon, Cºpenhagen, under thº, pre
far for any modern despot that knows his alphabet. tended right of securing the ‘Danish ships from Boxa
Jous the Sixth, King of Portugal, was born May 13, PARTE,--an action, which warranted all that he or any
1767; is the son of his grand-uncle, who married the late body else might do for his own success. At the general
Queen his neice; and is married we believe, like FERDI peace, FREbraic was more roughly treated for being
Nanp, to some such relation himself. His portraits are : wiser but not so lucky as his brother potentates; and Deu
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mark was jº. of Norway. The Danish Monarch
has not been happy in his wiſe, though he is said to be
estimable, and she amiable. At least, she was detected in
an intrigue; and has lived away from him since, though
he does not appear to have visited her with any other se
verity.
Chantº the 14th (Bºnsaporte) King of Sweden and our memory is correct in this name), King of Wirtemberg."
Norway. He was one of Bon APARTE's Marshals, and being:
stationed in the neighbourhood of Sweden, when the suc
cession to the Swedish Crown was going a begging, was
offered it on account of his good conduct (some say riches),
and obtained Bonaparte's permission to accept it.
Gustavus Apolphus the 4th, the King then deposed, was
set aside on account of his stubborn and absurd conduct
in waging war without means, ability, or even courage;
to which was added his “illegitimacy.”—an allegation of
which the world are certainly in possession of no proofs. It
was perhaps in delicacy to him that they did not say any
Charles Tineodorr, King of Bavaria, is the oldest
reigning Prince in Europe, having been born in 1726.
He has the reputation of being a shrewd politican and a
patron of the arts. His daughter is married to the gallaat
Eugese BEAuharnois, late Viceroy of Italy.
CHARLEs William FREDERick (we are not sure that
He presents the extraordinary spectacle of a prince whose
fi.". opinions are more liberal than those of his subjects.
He wishes to give them a better constitution; and they
dispute the matter with him. . The mystery however is
not so great, if it be only the privileged classes that oppose
him. It is his sister who is married to JeroMs Bon A
PARTE, whose son by this means stands in succession to
the English throne next before the Princess of WALRs.
Her Royal Highness, we dare say, is not jealous; but this
circumstance no doubt gave an additional impulse an
God-bless-me to all the late marriages, -

thing of a real and very evident infirmity, his derange. Farorrick Augustus, King of Saxony, was born
ment. He used to play the King with a swelling and Dec. 3, 1750, and married a sister of the King of Bavaria
puffing air, that amounted to the ludicrous; and thought This is the prince who was so scandalously imprisoned,
that he had a religious call to put down Bonaparre, and despoiled of nearly half his dominions, by the King of
whom he believed to be the Beast in the Revelations. His 'Prussia, at the conclusion of the war in 1813. He ha
conduct has peen of a piece with this since his expulsion. the same reputation for intellect, and integrity, for whi
His Uncle the Duke of Sudermania, an intelligent but the Saxon houses are more celebrated than any other in
†: man, who had formerly discharged the ãuties of Europe, a circumstance which may make us prouder here
egent, ascended the throne; and “dying without issue,” in England, as we are of the same origin ourselves, and are
was succeeded by his adopted son, the French Marshal. still called Saxons by the Welsh and Scotch. Our natura
BERNApotte (if we are to judge by his portraits) is a sly lized countryman (for we may call him so), the Prince Leg:
looking fellow; with a long nose and thin retreating mouth, pold, is of a Saxon branch; and so is the Grand Duke of
like a fox. . He joined the coalition against Bo NAPARTE, SAxe Weim AR, who inherits the enlightened character of
merely, as he would most probably say, by the force of his mother, the patroness of Wieland, §. and Goethe.
circumstances; but circumstances of this kind are edge Napoleon distinguished her with his respect. -

tools, as well as tools of base metal; and we still think, Gaecony BARNAbAs Chian AMonte, Pope Pius, the
that that action of his will only enable the Allied Princes 7th, was born Aug. 14, 1742. He is described as a ami
to unthrone him with the less odium, if ever they find a able man, bowed down, not so much with age, as with
safe opportunity.Indeed, the rumour of a positive an | mortification at what he has seen of the fallen state of the
nouncement to that effect has just been circulated. There church.Misfortune coming on such a spirit, joined with
appear (as we have already stated) no just grounds for his residence in France, and the general progress of ideas,
alleging Gustavus to be illegitimate. Even if there were has probably given a more liberal turn to his papal feelings,
any, the proofs might go near to waken suspicions of bas than he would willingly acknowledge. If he thinks by
tardy upon more Princes than one, especially as the plain meekness and patience to lay the foundation of anythin
fact must be, that there are few or no legitimate Princes, like a lasting rebuilding of the faith, his knowledge is not
in the sense alluded to... Is any body who knows the º to his good nature. If he is content to dwindle into
history of Courts so foolish, for instance, as to suppose what the Popes were originally, and what he is in fact
that the French, Bourbons are actual descendants of hus already, the #iº of Rome, he shews a rare example of
band and wife, husband and wiſe, up to the first wedding the meekness exclusively called Christian; but even this
of the dynasty? No, nor the Spanish Bourbons, nor the will do nothing for the faith. Princely and intellectual
Danes, nor the Swedes, nor perhaps any royal house in ower now-a-days will alike take him at his wºrd, and
the world,—the present cºmpany'always excepted. . In et the papacy and the faith dwindle, together. Some of
the third place. Gustavus has a son who must now be a the Allies are indeed bigoted; but the bi otry is all on
youth, and, this son is a nephew of the Emperor Alex their own accounts, and no longer identified with a secta
ANDER's. The “legitimaté” hate a Prince who is not at rian clieſ, who is at once a spiritual and temporal sove
all so; but for that very reason, they would not choose
to see a Prince set aside merely because he shares their reign. The present Pope, likéhis predecessor, though nºt
with such ostentation, is a patron of the arts, has made
own doubtful pretensions to an entire legitimacy. Lastly, CANova a Marquis, and the other day allowed him to set
BERNADoTTE was one of Box Apantº's conquering Ge up the busts §§º, and PAesiello in the Pantheon.
nerals; and the Allies, though they have at last got the
This patronage of profane opera musicians also, looks.
victory themselves, have a never-forgetting and instinctive liberal—more liberal certainly than a church which pre-,
hatred to these shrewd-headed persons. tended to be less superstitious, the Gallican ; for among
FitEoenick-Will:1AM 1st, King of the Netherlands, a the madettempts to re-establish bigotry in France by the ..
Prince set up a la Bonaparte by the Allies, in order to Ultra-royalists was an endeavour they made to prevent an
fºº', houses, as he did illegitimate ones. actress from having Christian burial. Pope CHIARAMontº
He is heir of the late Stadtholder of eyer-blinking me is of an ancient and noble family, perhaps the same to
mory ; and though he may not be always going to sleep which Pulci pays a compliment in the person of his good
like that personage, seems to hea negation, of whom nothing Abbot Charºoste, who makes that affecting speech to :
is known. He might as well fking of the North Pole, ORLAN no in the first book of the Mºrgante. T.' . * ---
to all purposes of celebrity. ... If this is only the quietness Of ManoMet, the reigning Grand Signior, we have no--
of judg:ent, it may-suit º Dutch very well: but if it is
weakness, and the same character is to continue in the thing to say but that he is reported to carry on with greater
family, the Russian IIouse, who have connected themselves gº. eli M.
the reforming schemes of his worthy predecessor
with his son, may find it of use in their designs upon Eu
rope. But this Dutch subject unmbs one like a torpedo, The Emperor of Cuisa (we forge his name) 'ollows
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the older customs of his predecessors, and will suffer no COURT of AS$1zES, May 16. -

Europeans to know him, whether they would or not. It | The trial of Cautillon and Marinet for an alleged atterhpt te
assassinate the Duke of Wellington, came on this morning.
is certainly a cunning policy in the Chinese to keep, stran Cantillon,
gers out of their territories, especially after the Jessons soldier, waswho united the profession of a jeweller to that of a
they have had and are having in the East Indies; mild, and appearance dressed plainly. Marinet, whose physiognomy i.
composed and decent, was in a sin; of
but they scarcely seem the better for their security, not black. He had exercised the profession of a barrister at Dijº".
resembling in the goodness of their character some of their and was Auditeur au Conseil d'Etat during the hundred days. After
neighbours, such as the Loo Choo Islanders, and the Ja the prisoners had been interrogated by the Presideſ,t, spire
panese, the latter of whom are a very amiable as well as witnesses were called to prove the firing of the pistol. The
shrewd people, and since their exclusion of Christianity, footman of the Duke gave testimony in direct ºpposition tº the
have not had wars among them for two hundred years. statement of the indictment as to i. effect of the bail. The
They tolerate all religions but that, and indeed tolérated soldiers on guard at the house heard the report but saw nothi.g.
The Court adjourned.
that also, till they found its own intolerance brought dis
order among them. -
GEIrMANY.
The Goyensatests of Souri, AMFRica are at present FRANKFortr, May 4.—A letter from Manheim of 35th
unsettled; but we shall no doubt have to record the names April says, that Charles Sandt died there the same day,
of their chiefs shortly. and that the last word he spoke was Germania.
The Parscr Hegest of England we all know.
To the list of the Heads of States we have only to add SOUTH AMERICA.
fhe plain old English name of JAMrs Madisos, Presideut --
of the great Anglo-American Republic. Poºr Spaix, April 2–The Frances and Eliza,
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tr Duncombe, Jupiter, and Plutus, have arrived in the Gulf

|of Paria, having on board the remainder of the Brish
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. | volunteers under Colonel English. They will instantly
| proceed to Margarita, to join those already arrived there,
- . FIRANCE. -
and form part of the expedition preparing agains the Maia.
PAR is, MAy 9.-The third aud fourth numbers of the it is supposed that a combined expedition of 3,000 men,
Liberal were seized yesterday. of whom 1,500 are British, two brigades of artillery, under
... It may be º Colonels Gilmore and Woodberry, and 800 native troops
that the English papers spoke and
some like ago of a French hairdresser, named Courtois, sailors, protectºd with a considerable naval armameº,
who died at. London, leaving property to the ambiſºr of will land on the Main, and possibly push for the very
capital,
4,800,000 ſtancs. An heir to this immense property has body of which Morillo has left unprotected... The main
Spanish troops is at least 500 miles from t-e
been found in the person of a Sieur Fretin, who was living sea-coast.theMorillo
in humble circumstances at Nogent-sur-Seine. He is of attacking Angostura. had actually formed the mad project
º to proceed to England to take possession of his Arauca on Feb. 5, whereFor this purpose, he crossed the
wealth. -
he found himself in the midst
of a desert, and unable to collect in a head of cattle.
MAY 10–Certain prosecutions have been instituted Gen. Paez has cut off his communications with Calabcze,
against the press, for an alleged libel on the Swiss troops
in the service of France. Count de Courten, Colonel of and operates in his rear, having already given a good ac
count of most of his cavalry. As Admiral Brion has now
one of the Swiss regiments, had presented a complaint on sufficient vessels to cover the landing, it is expected tºe
the subject to the Keeper of the Seals. His Excellency blow will be decisive, and the Spaniards prevented from
answered, that the Courts of Justice were open to the
parties aggrieved. A General Assembly of the Chambers evacuating with their property. ºn . . . .
of Correctional Police was convoked on the 26th of April, Intelligence has been received from Trinidad to the 3is:
when the President denounced three periodical works,— March. The accounts of the blockade of Carupano and
the Liberal, the Bibliºtheque Historique, and Nouvelle Cumana are confirmed by this source; and it was thous it
3fomme Grie, -as guilty of a calumnious attack on the that they would both speedily fall into the hands of the
Swiss regiments in the $º service, and he therefore. Patriots.
moved that the Attorney-General should be enjoined to
institute prosecutions against them. The proposition was UNITED PA R LIAMENT '.
ulipately adopted. On the 1st May and following days,
M. Cassini interrogated the parties concerned in the pub. HOUSE OF LORi.) S.
jication. . The Chamber of Accusation pronounced an or --

der for the prosecution of the .."parties before the - Tucstay, May 11. -

Tribunal of Correctional Police. -

"FLORIDA—ARBUTHNOT AND AMDRISTER.
- - - CHAMBER OF DEPUTEs. . The Marquis of Lawsoows called the attention of the Hºuse
to these subjects, and described the well-know a circum-tences
At the sittings of the 4th and 5th of May, the discussion on of the trial and execution of our countrymen in Florida. The
the law respecting the journals was resumed. The principle proceedings he considered to be as contrary to the laws of natiºns
that the journals must give security was agreed to by a large, as to justice and decency. Ambrister was found with arms ºn
majority, and the amount was fixed for the daily jºurnals in: his hands; and he did not know whether Jacksonhad or had net
Paris, and the two neighbouring departments, at 16,000 francs a right
treat him as a prisoner of war aud deuy him sºarter;
of reute; for periodical publications, 5,000 francs; for daily but if hetohad,
journals in towns of upwards of 50,000 population, it was a cruel and impolitic principle. With re
1,250francs. spect to Arbuthnot, however, who was not found in arms, the
ºnd in towns below 50,000, for daily journals, 1,500 francs; .# only connection he had with the Indians was in having ºf cd
for periodical publications, 750 francs. - -
them with merchandize, and among other things, with sºie
On the 5th article, which enacts that a journal shall be bound powder and lead. This was common in war, at d the prºperty of
to insert, without deley, official publications addressed to it by the neitral merchant was gene aily forfeited, if taken : bºttle
government, on the payment of the expense of insertion, M. li. punishment of death for such a transaction was neve: heard of
Censtant proposed an amendment, that for the words without before. The subsequent conduct of the American Geuers', in
delay should be, substituted, “the day following the receipt of attering and aggravating the sentence of the Court-ruartiei on
he documents.” A part of the amendment was agreed to. Arbuthnot, was still more revolting: he must have knºwn, that
...The law as a whole was then put to the vote, and adopted b
Yº. "" , the laws of the United States only inflicted a fine of 1000 dolls-s,
and adopted by and one month's imprisonment, on their own citizens who shººd

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carry on correspondence with a foreign enemy. In defiance, House of comyons,

tºe, of the American military code, which renders it necessary - -

that the sentence of a Court-martial should be sanctioned by the Monday, May 10. -

President, before it can be executed, he proceeded to put the pri
soners to death. These things made it imperative on the Minis
try to demand explanation from America, both for the honour of
that country and our own.—The Noble Marquis then adverted to
the cession of Florida by Spain, which he characterized as an
event most injurious to the interests of the nation. It placed our
Mr. Hºyte presented six Petitions against the lord Advocate's
Bill for regulating the accounts of Scotch Burghs. Three of
them came from a complete burgh, that is, from the magi
stracy, gildry, and incorporated trades of Montrose—a re
formed burgh, where the Council is elected by the Burgesses.—
Laid on the table. - - ---

west Indian commerce at the mercy of the United States; and Mr. W.M. SMITH presented a Petition from some inhabitants of
the suffering it to take place was strangely inconsistent with ourNorwich, stating, that the Petitioners were neither directly nor
supposed continental influence. why had not this cession bern indirectly represented in that House, where measures affecting
provided against at the treaty of Vienna, as it was by the treaty their lives, fortunes, and characters, were daily enacted, and
of Utrecht : . It was not too much to expect, from our relations praying for Reform.
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with Spain, that Ministers would have averted so fatal an event.
He concluded by moving for the official documents on these sub SUPPLY-ARMY ESTIMATES.
ºctºr. - - The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up, and
3. Far! BAtire Rsr observed, that, with regard to the cession of the different resolutions successively put. - - -

the Floridas, it would be a most dangerous principle to establish, Sir H. PARs eit, insisted that no case had been made out to
that one government had any right to interfere with others and justify so large a force as 29,000 men for Great Britain, 20,000
dictate to them what course they should pursue. The treaty of for Ireland, and 30,000 for the Colonies. . It was particulatky
Cºrecht was signed before Spain possessed Florida. On the necessary to enforce a strict economy at this time, when, al
other pºint, it appeared to him, that there were not sufficient though the fifth year of peace, the Revenue, taking the Sinking
grounds fºr this country to demand reparation; and if repara fund into calculation, only exceeded the income by 1,900,000l.
tion was demanded, the demand must be supported to the utmost With universal peace abroad, and no sympton of disturbance at
extremity : he put it to the House, therefore, whether it would home, it was most unreasonable that 29,000 men should be voted
be right to plunge the two countries into a war on this account for Great Britain; but for Ireland the proportion was extrava
No doubt was entertained as to the violence and cruelty of the gant. If a military force was necessary, why were not the
act in question, but it was notorious, that it had not been done 40,000 yeomanry, a body more calculated to secure tranquillity,
by the order of the American Government, and it was therefore called upon *"º.
too, was there a separate War Secretary,
a matter between them and their General. He maintained that with a high salary, kept for Ireland? Why was there a distinct
no interference was called for, because it was doubtful whether Accountant's Office The Staff of Scotland only cost 19001,
the two Euglishmen had not forfeited their claim to our protec while that of Ireland cost as many thousands. -

tion by entering into foreign service. His Lordship then endea Colonel Davies argued, that, by the reduction of three regi
voured to show, that Arbuthnot had acted more in the character ments of cavalry and 25 battalions of infantry. 120,000l. would be
of a political agent of the Indians, than in that of a merchant, and saved. The plan would be, to draft the disbanded men tuto
was so considered by them. He was an agent of the Indian other regiments, and to put the officers on half-pay, thus saying
tribes for the purpose of making communications between them the difference between that and the full pay. In 1787, there
and the #. Government, and not of the British Government were only 35,818 men, and the expense was no more than
for communicating with the Indian tribes. He was also the 1,039,800. He moved that 1,138.766, be substituted for
channel of communication between these tribes and Spain. Here, 2,258,766l., the sum named in the resºlution. -

therefore, the British character was entirely thrown off. He re Lord Palºmstos coutended, that the adoption of Colonel
*rred to his correspondence for proof of these facts; in one of Davies plan would only save 31,953, and that, in case of a
bi-letters he distinctly called himself the political agent of the war, the difference between filling up the present regiments:
Indians. He should only add, that, if considered in that cha and raising new ones, which would be necessary on the plan of
racter, he had only shared the fate of those with whom he acted: the Hon. Gentleman, would be 308,000l. per annum lost to the
two lndian chief, taken with him at St. Mark's were also exe country. When it was recollected, that our present establish
cuted. He disclaimed all intention of defending the conduct of ment included the forces in the East and West Indies and Cey
Jackson, which was most atrocious and unjustifiable. lon, he thought the
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not consider it too high, even
The Marquis of Lawsoown had not said, that a war would be coinpared with that of 1787, when our territory was much less."
justifiable. His object was, to get some official declaration of Mr. J. P. GRANT said, that the establishment in 1792 was
the Government of America, that they had not given Jaekson 11,000 men in all, while 30,000 were now asked for Great Bri
any instructions to warrant his proceedings, in order that they tain alonet-These arguments had been often repeated, he knew,
might hot be drawn intº precedent. He did not see how ſhe con but they had been never replied to.
The sums originally proposed for En land and Ireland were
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duct of Arbuthnot rendered him responsible to the American

Government: the utmost proved against him wins, that he had then voted, and
negociated between Spain and the Indians; he had done nothinr. ºf India.
lº.
were propose for the Staff, exclusive
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in a miſſitary capacity. He had received no satisfactory answer -

Mr. ilure wished for explanation with respect to the practice

respecting the cession of Florida; the doctrine of the Noble Eart of supporting the civil and military establishments ºf certain
*f non-interference would destray the principle on which the colonies, whose revenues might prove, on enquiry, sufficient, to
balance of power had hitherto rested.
Lord Liverpool stated, that the British Government had not : bear their own burdens. He understood the revenues ºf Sººn
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were about 540,000l., those of the Cape of Good Hope 329,000l.,

**rlooked the acts in question; communications had passed on
the subject, and the result was the determination ou the
Ministers to follow their present course. He thought thatpart of .
there
was no doubt that Arbuthnot had assisted the Indians, and by above
...that means. had forfeited all claim to the protection of this
country. -
hose of the Mauritius 206,000l., of Malta 114,000l., of the lºnian
!.
120,000l. There was no account of the appropriation of
these revenues, and he was informed that there was a surplus
the charges on them. Ministers might bestow
...”them, or otherwise employ them places or
for their ow

purposes.
The motion was uegatived without a division.—Ajourned. - -

Mr. Goutnurs said, that the rinciple acted on with respect

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to the colonies mentioned was, -that this country was to support
REPORT OF THE BANK COMMITTEE.
their civil and military establishments, in return for a mºnºpºly
of commerce. The Ionian Islands were now completely inde
This Report differs little from that of the Commons. It recom pendent, and possessed the sole management of their finances;
meads, like the other, the conversion of notes into bullion, at but on account of their distressed state; this country for a time,
nearly the same periods; but it also recommends, that before bore the expense of the staff. He (Mr. G.) was ready to produce
the Bank attempt to give any bullion for its notes, it shall receive accounts of the application of colonial reveuue, whenever they
a portion of its debts from Government; as well as that after the were called for. - - - -

price of bullion has fallen, in the intervals between the different Sir J. Mackintosa thought this a subject which
demanded
rates of payment, it shall never be suffered by the Bauk to re strict investigation. Ministers, were bound to shºw that the
mount: and, lastly, it obliges the Bank to make weekly returns colonial revenues were not applicable to this purpose, before they
of the quantity of its notes in circulation to the Privy Council, asked for thesºsums.
aad to publish quarterly ones in the Gazette, - - - - - Mr. Hume said, that it appeared by a return before the Hous",

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that in 1815 the revenues of Malta were 114,000l., and the whole stitute an inquiry. Crooke had been punished for an offence cf
charge upon them but 60,000l.; that there was a clear balauce the most heinous nature.
of 20,000l. in the Ionian Islands; and that in the Mauritius the Alderman Wood said, that the man might obtain legal redress,
amount of revenue was 266,000l. ; that of the expenditure on the return of the gallant officer. .
219,000l. -
Sir G. Cockburn stated, that the seamau had applied to the
Mr. Goulbum N. said, that there were charges not included in Admiralty for his wages, who had in consequence asked the
those returns. Captain why the letter R (which meant run, or deserted, aud
The other sums then voted in the Committee were agreed to. caused wages to be forfeited) had been affixed to his name. Sir
- : BARNSTAlple briberry BILL. W. Hoste replied, that to the best of his recollection, the man had
Mr. Clive moved the second reading of this Bill. deserted either at Malta or Naples. At another time, the Lieu
Mr. Ben NAL, though an enemy to corruption, thought that it tenant had been applied to, and he recollected the man's leaving
would not be just to disſranchise the majority of the electors of the ship, but not the manner in which he left it. The Admiralty
the borough without better evidence. In those cases where the was waiting for further explanations from Sir W. Hoste. The
House had before interfered, the most enormous corruption had character of the gallant Officer was very high, while that of the
been proved; but in this case there was no positive evidence sailor was infamous; and he put it to the House whether the
that more than 5 voters had received bribes. A number of voters Petition should be received.
resided in London, and had received 10l. for a single vote, and Sir F. Bunderr said, that the Petitioner should have been
20t. for a plumper; but that might fairly be considered as pay punished by law, if he had been guilty of the offences imputed tº
ium, but not arbitrarily put on shore. The Hon. Baronet had
ment for travelling expenses. .
Mr. BENNET said, that owing to some compromise between the uot contradicted his statement regarding the illegality of inflict
parties, the full details of bribery had uot come to light, and it ing six dozen lashes on the Petitioner; nor had be replied to his
was not traced to Mr. Ommaney, though his agent was proved to argument, that the R placed opposite the name of the Petitioner
had cheated him out of 560i. The circumstance of Crooke's
be guilty. A majority of the electors were however convicted of
having taken money for their votes, and he should therefore having been silent for seventeen years, certainly was suspicions.
Mr. Lyrtleton asked, whether the man's running away might
support the Bill. -

not have prevented his being tried for his offences; lie was
Mr. BARttaM thought the liouse ought to act on an uniform
- principle, and not be rigid at one time and lax at another,indignant at the aspersious on the character of the galant
otſicer.
Would they punish 100 persons, because one had been guilty Sir F. BURD mentioned several testimonials of the good
Mr. B. Bathurst said it was impossible to establish any pre character of Crooke, prior to 1801. The subject could no where
cise principle to º
to all cases. Systematic corruption was be taken into consideration so well as before a Committee; if it
clearly proved to have existed at Barnstaple. The Bill would were there discerned that the Petitioner had no claim, the
not take away the privileges of the electors, though it would decision would be satisfactory to the country; but at present the
diminish them by the extension of the right of voting.
Lord Milton and Mr. WArrhwan supported the Bill. Shortly House had no information on which it could act in Putting *
after the latter gentleman began to speak, he was interrupted by negative upon the demand. -

The House then divided upon the question, whether the Peti
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loud coughing in several parts of the House. He waited a little

till silence was restored, and then protested against this mode of tion should be received—Ayes, 2–Noes, 206.
preventing a member of that House from expressing his opinion ASSESSED TAXES.
on any point under discussion. He appealed to the Chair for Mr. Sruant Worrley had been charged with the presenta
protection, against these attempts to destroy that freedom of tion of several petitions from various parts of the country, signed
speech, which was one of their boasted privileges. The Hon. by shopkeepers, praying that the laws for collecting the assessed
Úentleman then proceeded and was heard without the slightest taxes might be
*†.
§
executed or amended. They complained,
of impatience. . -
that although a shop-tax had been rejected some time since in
The Bill was then read a second time. Parliament, yet that it was in fact virtually imposed, inasmuch as
- OOR LAWS. shopkeepers. were charged for shop-windows. Another pºint
Mr. S. Bounxe moved that the Report of the Committee on the
urged was, that a father, who kept a small shop, was obliged to
Poor Settlement Bill should be taken into consideration. -
pay for the assistance of his own son, a boy, as a shopman.
Some conversation arose on this motion, and some objections Sir M. W. Ridley had received letters from many quarters,
were made to the limited time (three years) by which a settle complaining that merchants and bankers were obliged to pay for
ment cou’d be obtained. On a division, an amendment was car their counting houses in the same way. He wished to know
ried, that the Report should be further considered that day six when the Chancellor of the Exchequer intended to bring forward
months. The Bill is therefore lost.—Adjourned. his proposition on the assessed taxes. -

The Chancellon of the Excheques said. that in London

Tuesday, May 11. shops had always been assessed as part of the house, though a
- CHARGE OF INJUSTICE. contrary practice prevailed in the country. He should shortly
| Sir FRANcis Burpett held in his hand a Petition from a sea bring forward a general proposition on the subject. +

man named George Crooke complaining of injustice, which he had The Petitions were laid on the table. .
suffered while in the service. He stated himself to have been a Alderman Woop withdrew the Parish Clerks’ Bill, on account
seaman in the Mutine brig, under the command of Sir William of some informality in bringing it in.
Iſoste; and that, whilst there, contrary to the rules of the ser GRAMPOUND ELECTION, &c.
vice, he had first of all been put in irons, and then conducted to Lord John Russell moved for a copy of the record of the con
Malta, without any court-martial. There he received six dozen viction of Sir M. Lopes, at the Deven Assizes, for bribery. The
lashes. Now he (Sir F.) understood that an officer could not in Noble Lord detailed some of the corrupt transactious in the
fict more than one dozen lashes upon any sailor without a court borough, where the electors were so guilty... that they assaulted
martial. After this, he and another saiſor were put on sliore atone of the candidates who had proposed to them to take the bri
Matta, he was forbidden to return to the ship, after arrears of hery oath. He described Sir M. Lopes as going about from
wages and prize-money were due to him to the amount of 560l., borough to borough, carrying on an organized and extensive
and entered upon the log-book as a deserter. He then went into the
campaign against the Constitution.
service of a Mr. Dodwell, a gentleman travelling on the Continent, The motion, with a little alteration, was agreed to.
and afterwards into the service of another rentleman; and with The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated, that the Bill nu
both, he conducted himself admirably. On his return to England thorizing the Exchequer to receive and appropiate the sum given
he had claimed in vain the arrears due to him. He (Sir F. Bur up by the Marquis Camden for the public service had now ex
dett) could see no justifiable reason for such a proceeding; for, pired, and he should therefore move for leave to bring in another
even supposing that he had quitted the service without leave, for the same purpose. The salary devoted to the public benefit
snrely he was entitled to those wages which he had earned in the by the Noble Marquis was 18,000l. a year during war, and
service. He should. therefore move to bring up two Petitions; 9,000l. in time of peace.
one from George Crooke, and another from certain individuals Leava was given, after some compliments to the noble disin
who knew. Crooke, desiring a redress of the grievances of which terestedness of the Marquis from both sides of the House.
he complained. - -

Sir W. de Carspioxy moved for a copy of General Brown

Sir Isaac Corris said, that it was 17 years since the punish rigg's proclamation in 1815, and the treaty of the same year,be
meat had been inflicted, and the individual had not dared to in tween the General and the Candian Chiefs. It was “greed in
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that treaty that the English were to hold offices; but people from meetings to “Tº the election of Mr. Swann, because he had
the coast of Coromandel had been procured, who were abhorred not paid the bills given at the last election, and had omitted tº
by the natives. The latter were consequently disgusted, and a give breakfasts.-The witnesses were obliged to be very sharply
war was now raging, which caused great misery in the island.— questioned, to get out these facts.-Adjourned.
Ordered.
OPHTHALMIC ESTABLISHMENT. Thirsday, May 13. ---

RIBAND AND SILK-WEAVERS.

Mr. J. P. GRANT observed, that during the war, from the time -

of the expedition to Egypt, ophthalmic patients had been the sub Mr. Peter Moore presented two Petitions, one from the
ject of a separate case in the hospitals; but it was rather singular Mayor and Corporation of Coventry, stating the distresses under
that now, when the complaint must be diminished, a new estab which the riband-weavers of that place were now suffering; and
lishment had been formed. He wished also to know, why Sir another from the employers of the riband-weavers; correborating
William Adams, and not an army surgeon, had been placed at the statements of the former Petition. These distresses originated.
the head of it, as it was for the benefit of the army. He therefore in the reduced wages of the weavers; and the Petitioners de
moved for the correspondence between the Commander-in-Chief, clared that they were obliged to pay in poor-rates; by which the
the Medical Board, and the War Secretary respecting the estab weavers are almost eatirely supported, 45s. per acre on landed
lishment, and for the medical reports on the same subject. property, and 19s, in the pound upon house-rent. Unless some
Lord PALwen-row opposed the motion on the ground, that the relief were granted them, they should all perish in one common:
correspondence and reports alluded to would only be giving a ruin. The Mayor and Corporation also state, that during these
statement on one side. A great difference of opinion existed scenes of unparalleled misery, no inclination to disorder had ever
exhibited itself. The Bill which he wished to introduce was
upon the subject among the medical men of the army, and the
parties on both sides had committed their thoughts upon it to the tounded on the Report of a Committee appointed last year. In
1816, when the distress was very great, the master-manufac
ress. To that appeal he thought they had best be left. The
Noble Lord then expatiated on the talents of Sir W. Adams, and turers had agreed to pay their men, not by the week, but accord
the great benefit received by the patients in the hospital. It ing to the value of the work done; but this agreement was gra
only cost 1500t. a year. dually abandoned. The riband-weavers wanted to make their.
Sir J. Mackintosh remarked, that a very different opinion employers stand to this agreement, and his Bill would compel
was generally entertained of Sir W. Adams's mode of treatment. them to do so. The distress in Coventry rendered some legisla
If that gentleman had a secret which he would not divulge, it tive enactment necessary. In that town, there were five elasses.
looked suspicious, and was not like the conduct of a liberal man of manufacturers, each working 16 hours a day. The first class
of science. -
º earned 10s. a week, or twopence-halfpenuy an hour; the second.
The motion was negatived without a division.—Adjourned. 5s. 6d. a week ; the third 2s. 9d. and two remaining classes re
ceive 2s. and ls. 6d. a week, which is working at the rate of sevea
Wednesday, May 12. and, nine hours for a single halfpenny. In consequence, the
The Inverkeithing Election Committee reported, that the Hon. funds of the friendly societies and saving banks were exhausted.
F. W. Primrose was duly elected, and that the Petition was not If the same system had been in force at Coventry as in Spital
frivolous or vexatious. fields and Dublin, the distress would not have been greater than,
ExEMPTION of the Royal FAMILY FROMTURNPike at those places. All the manufacturers concurred in the prin
"tolls. tiple of the Bill. He concluded by moving for leave to bring
Qº a motion that the Report of the Committee on the Glasgow it in.
and Carlisle Road Bill should be taken into consideration, Mr. Ronnson sympathized with the distresses of the poor
Mr. Curwen wished to call the attention of the House to a cir people, but thought that to interfere would be to oppose an ac
cumstance which he conceived to be a violation of the principles knowledged principle of political economy, namely—that the
of the Constitution. In a Committee upon a Turnpike Bill, a wages of labourers should only be regulated by the demand for
eau-e was introduced into it exempting the members of the labour. No peculiar circumstances had been shown, which
Royal Family from payment of toll. About thirty years ago such should exempt this class of persons from the operations of the
an exemption was first granted to the Crown; and to this he did general principle. If this measure were acceded to, all other
not object. During the last three years a clause granting a simi manufacturers would be applying for similar ones, and there
har exemption to *. member of the Royal Family had been in would be an end to free labour.
troduced into the different Turnpike Bills, and so worded, that || Mr. Ellice observed, that it was very well to argue on general
it extended even to the earts of the servants and farmers. In principles, but Ministers had violated them in many cases—in
some parishes the turnpike toils had even been increased, owing imposing duties which occasioned the distress. They had
this exemption. He should therefore move that this Bill be re adopted expedients to raise money, and now other expedients
•ommitted: in the Committee he should move that the clause of were necessary to correct the evils of the former. There were
exemption for the Royal Family should be struck out of the Bill; peculiar circumstances in this case: an excessive duty had been.
if that motion were not acceded to, he should then move the laid on the raw material. Was it-conformable to “general prin
striking ºut of that part which exempted the carts, waggons, &c. ciples of political economy” to do so? Some expedient was ,
even of their most menial domestics. -
necessary to prevent the Petitioners from starving; and Parlia
The Bill was ordered to be recommitted. ment had adopted an expedient in favour of the agricultural in
LONDON CLERGY. terest. Both the masters and journeymen wished for legislative
Alderman WAirRMAN moved for an account of the income and interference. . All the increase of wages asked for by the weavers
emoluments of the various incumbents of the out-parishes of was the eighth of a penny on every yard of riband, which would
London, the parishes in Southwark, and in the liberties of West produce a sum exceeding the present poor-rates; and he wished ,
minster. . The object of the motion was to show, that though the to know with what justice the landholders could be burthened,
parishes in London were much smaller than those in Southwark in order to save a small expense to the consumers of a luxury.
and Westminster, they afforded greater emoluments to their in In the Poor Rates Regulation Bill, there was a clause forbidding
cumbents... If, therefore, the claims of the London Clergy were the granting of parish aid to able-bodied labourers in employ .
•llowed, the claims of the Clergy in Westminster, and other parts would assistance be denied to one of these weavers, earning only
of the kingdom, ought certainly to be taken into consideration. 5s. a week with all his exertions . The proposed Bill contained
8ir J. GRAHAM objected to the motion. The emoluments of regulations similar to those by which *. cloth trade was re
the Westminster Clergy had nothing to do with the London g ulated.
Mr. Dust Ale, Member for Warwickshire, said, having acted
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Clergy. The Committee had already an account of the incomes

of the latter. as a Magistrate in the neighbourhood in question, he must de
Alderman Wirrawan withdrew his motion for the present, clare that the distress was now arrived at such a pitch, that he
seeing it likely to be strongly opposed. really believed the most alarming consequences would infallibly
ensue, if some steps were not immediately taken.
PENRYN ELECTION.
Mr. F. Buxton said, that general principles might apply very
, The House resolved itself into a Committee on the Penryn well to a whºlesome state of things, but this state was altoge
Election Bill, and some witnesses were examined, from whose ther unnatural and artificial, and required some immediate re
evidence it appeared, that the electors of the borough regularly medy. One cause of the evil was the paying workmen half out
expected a bribe of 24!., which was called, in the cant of corrup of the master's pocket, and half out of the poor-rates. Another
tion, a breakfast, as the money was distributed to them, when was the system of having apprentices, who were only paid at
they were assembled at an election breakfast. There had been half the usual rate. Young persons were by this means congre

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gated together in the day-time, and dispersed at night, which Mr. J. P. Grast remarked, that by our present financial sys
Produced dreadful debauchery. The system adopted with re tem the debt was annually augmented by the profits made by ibe
rard to 8pital-fields had produced great benefit. The principle loan-contractors.
of that system was, that the disputes between masters and work Mr. Grenfell explained, that he did not wish to do away
men as to wages should be settled by Magistrates. Spital-fields, with the machinery of the Sinking Fund, but merely to apply it
which was previously tumultuous, had been since perſectly to save the public à certain sum. As for the steadſness of the
quiet. - - -
Funds, the price of the 3 per cents. had varied from 6tt. to §:
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Mr. Philips denied, that the Spitalfields Act had been at in three wears.
tended with beneficial results. The magistrate knew nothing of The House divided—For the motion, 39–Against it, 117–
the quality of the work, of which he was to judge. The quiet Majority, 78. , - - -

said to be produced was the quiet of death; the manufacture had Mr. Wallace obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the
been driven to Cheshire. He allowed that the Poor-laws were Salt &evenue Laws. One of the provisions of this Bill was,
the root of the evil, aud nothing could be done withoutbreaking that depôts should be established in different parts of the coun
down the whole system. try, where salt might be had at a moderate price, for agricul
Mr. P. Moone, in reply, remarked, that when goods were ex tural purposes.
potted at a cheap rate by means of paying workmen out of the ENLISTMENTS IN FOREIGN SERVICE.
poor-rates, we were only making the people of the Continent a ... The Arronney-GENERAL said, that by an existing law, all
present of all that was taken from the poor-rates. Leaving, it topersens enlisting in the service of any foreign Prince or Poten
the responsible Ministers of the Crown, to take some measures to tate, without the permission of the King, were guilty of felony,
save Coventry from starvation, he should, as such was the sense and punishable with death. Now there could be no doubt, that
of the House, withdraw his motion for the present." the intention of this law was to prevent enlistments in the ser
º - SINKING FUND, vice of any foreign Goverúment, whether regal or not, and that
Mr. Gnexpell, whatever he might say of the thing now called the Common Law would take it so ; but in order to have the
a sinking Fund, wished to express his opinion of the great uti law made explicit, he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to
lity of the first measure of the sort adopted in 1786 by Mr. Pitt, extend the operation of the statute to all “colonies, districts, or
At that time there was an excess of income above expendi'ure of other places;" and at the same, to make the infringement of the
one million; but when the war commenced in 1792, and loans law n misdemeanour, and not a felony. The Bill would also
were rendered necessary, a new principle was adopted, and it provide against the fitting out vessels for warlike purposes with
was provided, that, whenever money was borrowed, the revenue j. out the license of Government. He thought it would be evident,
should be increased by taxation sufficiently to provide for a Sink that such a measure was new ssary to preserve our neutrality.
ing Fund of one per cent, on the capital of all the new debt in Sir J. Mackintosa contended, that the Act of George II. was
curred. This system continued till 1818, when it was interrupted made for a temporary purpose—not to prevent British subjects
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Right Hon. Gentle from engaging in the service of one foreigu state against an
man had certainly sent commissioners into the market four times other, while this country was at peace with both but to pre
each week, for the purpose of purchasing stock; but this notable vent them from entering into the service of any foreign Govern
operation was carried *...'. money. We were there ment that for jacobite purposes was likely to employ them
fore creating a new debt for the discharge of an old debt-sell against England. The real purpose of this measure, however,
ing new stock cheap for the purpose of buying old stock dear, was to preveat the English from assisting the South Americans.
borrowing money at a high rate of interest for the purpose of (near, heart) No doubt any State had a right to prevent its
paying off debt sº a proportionately low rate of interest., There sabjects from breaking its neutrality, by engaging in the service
was a clause in the original Act (called Mr. Fox's clause) which of belligerent powers with which that State was at peace; but
enabled the Commissioners to become subscribers to the loan, such right being recognised by the Common Law of England.
and if that had been done, the country would have been saved where was the necessity of any new law —This Bill implied a
20,000,0001. He knew it was contended, that the effect of this purpose which it was notorious the people of this empire dis
system was to keep up the price of stock. He would not discuss claimed, detested, and disdained. • Were Parliament then dis
the question, how the keeping up the price affected n°, now that posed to manifest a sentiment which an immense majority of the
we were redeeming debt, ſor he denied that such was the effect. British people would be forward to disown, or could they be re
The price was just as much affected one way as the other; creat conciled to any proceeding calculated to re-impose tyranny
ing 15,000,000; of new stock tended to lower it, as much as buy and superstition upon the gallant people of South America 3–
ing up 15,000,000l. tended to raise it, that is, it did neither one (Hear, hear!) -

nortfie other. The only persons who benefitted were the loan Lord CastleREAgn said, that the object of this measure was to
jobbers, who gained whatever the country, lost. He should establish an equality between authorized and unauthorized go
therefore simply move for a Committee on the subject, which vernments, and in furtherance of the Order in Council issued
would hot pledge the House to any thing. eighteen months ago, to which no objection had been made.
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The CHANcellon of the Exchequen approved of the clause Why then should a measure, calculated to enſorce the provisions
enabling the Commissioners to become subscribers to the loan, of that Order, be opposed The Spanish Government had often
bat thought that a discretion should be left to them to take ad remonstrated against.'the organization of troops for the Sonth
vantage of it or not. Even supposing that 20,000,000l. had been Americans in this . and Parliament was therefore called
lost by the low price at , which the Contractors obtained stock, upon to maintain an Honestneutrality. - * -

that was only 2 per cent. on the amount borrowed, and they Some animated conversation followed about the Patriots. In
had always declared, that they would give less, if the Sinking answer to a question from Mr. Ellice, Lord Castle Rrkcm
Fund was not employed in the iſsual way. The operation of that stated, that the measure was not retrospective, and would not
Fund too produced great steadiness in the market, and was a affect the English now in South America.-Leave given.—Ad
check upon jobbers. journed. -

Mr. Ricanpo understood his Honourable Friend (Mr. Grenfell) Friday, May 14. -

to have argued, that the Commissioners, if subscribers for the In a Committee of Supply, 100,000ts, were voted ſor the erec
loans, would have retained for the public that regular premium tion of Churches in Scotland.
which the contractors obtained for undertaking the risk of such A considerable conversation took place on the motion that the
extensive undertakings. In that opinion he heartly concurred, Game Laws’ Amendment Bill should be recommitted. It was
as he could not conceive the advantage which couſd arise from centended by the advocates of the Bill, that, as a number of
giving the Commissioners sums to layott in the purchase of stock,
persons would have game, it was politic to enable then to ob
while sellers were sent by the Government to supply them with iain it legally; that the sale of game being legalized, the poul
the stočk which they were to buy. If the process of the Sinking terers would cease to buy it of the poacher, and so knock up the
Fund had an effect ºn the Stock-market, it must be contendet. trade; that there was no reason to suppose that, after this Bill
that the Ciancellor of the Exchequer could produce an effect"
had past, the stealing of game would be more frequent than the
on the Corn-market, by sending a commissioner to buy a quarter stealing of poultry 3 and that the tenant would in future have an
of wheat, while he sent a contractor to sell the same quantity. interest in its preservation.—The opponents ºf the Bill argued,
Mr. Iluskusson said, that great difference of opinion existed, that the Biłł would cause twenty destroyers of gaine where there
as to whether the Commissioners should or should not become was now only one, and cause great danger by putting ºrms into
subscribers; and it would be very impolitic to compel them to the bands of all classes; and that its tendency would to de
pursue one course. - -
stroy the game and drive the country gentlemen away from their

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313.
seats. Sir J. Saettev moved, as an Amendment, that the Re C. Hartley, Whitehaven, i. and cabinet-maker.
Messrs. Lewden and Helder, Clement's-inn.
Attarpies,.
port should be further considered that day six months, on which
the House divided–Ayes 119—Noes 59–Majority 60.—The T. Blake, Cowes, brewer. Attorney, Mr. Bogue, Clement's-int.
Bill was thus lost.—Adjourned. W. Birt, Bristol, broker. Attormies, Messrs. Poole and Green
- field, Gray’s-inn-square.
C. Scudamore, Newton, Lancashire, woollen-cord-manufacturer.
TUESDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE. Attornies, Messrs. Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row.
-
BANKRUPTCY ENLARGEd.
R. Smithson, Whalley, Lancashire, butter-factor. Attorney,
T. R. Moore, Denmark-court, Strand, paper-stainer, from May T.Mr. Makinson, Temple. -

Taylor, Guildford, liquor-merchant. -Attorney, Mr. Child,

11 to May 18. - -
Upper Thames-street.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
J. Halmshaw and J. Swallow, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, carpet
J. Q. Parr, Liverpool, merchant. manufacturers. Attorney, Mr. Evans, Hatton-garden.
- BANKRUPTS.
T. Norris, white Hart-yard, Drury-ſane, victualler. - * PRice or stocks on saturday. - -

W. Elliott, jun. Tunbridge-wells, cheese-monger. Attorney, 3 per

Mr. Osbaldestou, London-street, Fenchurch-street. Cent. Red................... 71} || 3 per Cent. Cons. 71; 72.714;.
J. Bromley, jun. Stafford, shoe-manufacturer. Attornies, Messrs.
Price,§. and White, Lincoln’s-inn. The Communication respecting the Parks shall be attended to.
B. Wood, Narborotºh, Leicestershire, hosier. Attorney, Mr. We gopied the paragraph alluded to by J. P. for the sake of the
Taylor, John-street, Bedford-row. çºirious specimen of particular feeling contained in it, and not
F. Flaction, Berwick-street, Soho, jeweller. Attornies, Mes re. from any wish to disparage Mr. Wakefield, whose memory
as a patriot we honour, in common with every lover of inde.
Mayhew, Price, and Styan, Chancery-lane. -

J. Read and J. Hellyer, St. Mary-hiſ, Eastcheap, merchants. pendence. We like, however, the friendly zeal of J.P., and
Attornies, Messrs. Montriou and Locock, King's Arms-yard, peed not add, that we are much flattered by the circumstance
Coleman-street. - -
he mentions in his postscript. Should he ever feel any incli
T. Ball, Keyford, Somersetshire, woolstapler. Attornies, Messrs. nation to compare faces, we shall be happy to afford him an
opportunity. - -

Bridges and Quilter, Red Lion-square.

J. Gocae, Liverpool, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Avison and -- I
===Tºrr
Wheeler, Castle-street, Holborn.
J. Barlow, Bolton-le-moors, Lancashire, druggist. Attorries, - _ THE EXAMINER,fºr:
Messrs. Adiington and Gregory, Bedford-row.
D. Dorning, Worsley, Lancashire, innkeeper. Attornies, Messrs. Londox, MAY 16. --

Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row. -

J. Golding, Colchester, tanner. Attorney, Mr.Nelson, Barnard's

it n, tºolborn. -
We have to record this week a “Modest request of two
E. Holder, Yº, Herefordshire, auctioneer. Attorney, Mr. absent” Legitimates.—There are strong rumours that
Bach, Furnival's-inn-court, Holborn.
3. Higton and J. Brewer, Broadway, Blackfriars, warehousemen. Ben NApotte has at last been plainly requested by the
Attornies, Messrs. Swain, Stevens, Maples, Pearse, and Hunt, Emperor Alexanden and the King of PRussia “to
Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. - descend from his throne.” The pretended ground of ob
J. Austin, Aldersgate-street, corn-dealer. Attorney, Mr. Bar jection is supposed to be his non-performance of the stipu
ber, Chancery-lane.
lations respecting the debts of Norway in the Treaty of
Kiel; but this, as it has been justly observed, eould at -
SATURDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.
-- most only forfeit Norway, and not the Swedish throne,
- " - BANKRUPTS. according to all the usages in such cases. If such a de
T. Richardson, King-street, Spitalfields, silk-weaver. Attornies,
mand however has been made, the real ground of it is
Messrs. Few, Ashmore, and tiamiiton, Henrietta-street. obvious. BERNADotte is an illegitimate prince, a French
cº, Kensington, draper. Attorney, Mr. Wilde, Col
man, and a republican conqueror. But we have already
ege-hill.
S. George and R. Webb, Bristol, sugar-refiners. Attornies, touched upon this matter in our first article. -

Messrs. Clarke, Richards, and Medcaſt, Chancery-lane, SANDT, the assassin of Kotzrete, is dead. In the
D. Mountague, West-street, West Smithfield, soap-manufacturer.
Attornies, Messrs. Alliston and Hundleby, Freeman's-court. Private Correspondence with the daily papers from Paris,
G. Dawson and W. Longden, Silver-street, Wood-street, colour there is the following good and unanswerable passage
manufacturers. Attorney, Mr. Fisher, Staple-inn.
R. Kain, Curtain-road, Shoreditch, and W. H. Cath, New Union upon the anathemas pronounced against French philo
street, Moorfields, merchants. Attornics, Messrs. Stratton and sophy by those vindicators of Inquisitions and Infernal Ma
Ajiport, Shoreditch. - chines, who profess to hold the assassination in such ab
G. Yates, Tottenham-court-road, plumber. Attorney, Mr. Tur horrence. “Letters worthy of credit from Germany,”
ner, Percy-street, Bedford-square:
B. Moss, Camber-street, Goodman's-fields, watch-maker. At says the writer, “declare that SANot had alone conceived
termies, Messrs. Mayhew, Price, and Styan, Chancery-lane. the idea of the assassination of Kotzebue, and that, if he
G. H. Cohen, St. Swithin's-lane, merchant. Attorques, Messrs. had imbibed dangerous principles in the secret societies, it
Bennell and Dixon, St. Swithin's-lane.
L. and A. Abrahams, Camomile-street, oil-merchants. Attor was neither these principles nor his former associates
ney, Mr. Lewis, Crutched-friars. that armed his hand, as was at first spread abroad. He was
T. Peke, Great Coggeshall, Essex, corn-factor. Attornies, known to be a young man of austere manners, and reli
Messrs. Clarke and Clarke, Littles. Thomas Apostle.
R. Sowden, Canterbury, linen-draper. Attornies, Messrs. Wat-, gious even to enthusiasm. It is, therefore, dishonest in
ker and Rankin, Old Jewry. some journals, both of Paris and of London, to connect
G. Hornby, Liverpool, brewer. Attornies, Messrs. Blackstock this horrible assassination with French doctrines, while at
and Bunee, Temple.
W. George, otherwise Hunt, Frome Selwood, Somerset, clothier. the same time they are unceasingly imputing to them.im
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Attorney, Mr. Williams, Red Lion-square. piety and atheism. They ought to choose between these
P. G. Wifiams, Princes-street, Mary-le-bone, painter and imputations, and not to launch contradictory anathemas. If
glazier. Attorney, Mr. Righey, Goſden-square. SANDT was religious, they ought not to ascºibe his resolu
R. Brown and G. H. Harris, Botolph-lane, wholesale iron
rongers. Attornies, Messrs. Oakley and Birch, Martin's-lune, tion to the principles of our philosophers, which they de
Caution-street. nominate atheistical: if SANDT was not religious, they ab
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solve from all participation in his crime those secret socie: account in our abridgment, as a great part of it consisted
ties, which they all agree are profoundly impressed with of a history of this precious contrivance which our readers
those mystical notions which inflame the heads of youth. will willingly spare. We know not whether it was in
This danger is not, at any rate, that of our schools, where sincerity, real delusion, or attachment to mere party prin
the feelings are rather chilled than kindled." ciples, that induced this gentleman to bestow his approba
- tion on the original plan of the Sinking Fund, which Mr.
Ministers have been making a claim this week on two Fox had a hand in producing. The course he has adopted
occasions, which we are disposed to deny. They wish to however, acknowledging the general principle to be good,
be thought friends to general principles; and accordingly, and objecting only to the details, creates a great deal of
when they are asked why they did not prevent Spain from unnecessary confusion of the subject. We can scarcely
ceding Florida to the Americans, to the great danger of suppose that so acute a person does not see through
our West India Islands and the trade carried on with: the flimsy disguise which makes any Sinking Fund appear
them, they affirm that any interference with the concerns in the least degree beneficial. The delusion has been ex
-of another Government would be contrary to the general plained in this as well as other publications; but as the sub
principles which actuate them in their relations with other ject is now again being discussed, we may as well en
nations,—to that sort of State morals which they profess.
deavour, by a brief illustration, to make it understood.
Now we cannot see what reluctance should be felt in Suppose then a private person had involved himself in a
endeavouring to prevent an Ally from concluding a cession heavy debt by borrowing money on redeemable annuities,
of territory which is injurious to us. Does not the man which were held by different persons. Having a little ex
ner in which we are affected by the act give us a title to cess of income at the end of the year, after paying the in
oppose it, at least by negociation? The policy of retain terest of his debt, he does not pay off any of the principal,
in the west Indies has been questioned by many but puts it into the hands of an agent, who buys some of
people; but it is clear that our Government do not ques-. the annuities with it, receives the interest from his em
tion it; and they are therefore bound to exert them ployer, and again purchases more of the capital, the amount
selves to provide for their own security. These “ge in his hands thus annually increasing on the well-known
neral principles" would therefore justify no Ministry in principle of compound interest. The simple effect of this
adopting their present course, and for this set of men to set process is, that the individual loses whatever he pays his
them up as a defence is particularly ridiculous and imper. agent; for if he had paid off his annuities with his surplus
timent. How often have they interfered to stifle liberty income, the interest would have been saved and appropri
Could they not then interfere to advance what they con ated to the further redemption of his debt by himself, just
sider the national interests? They interfered with IRepub as well as it could have been done by any one employed
lican France to force on it a regal government; they in for the purpose.—Now this calculation goes upon the
volved us in a war by interfering with the commercial assumption of a real excess of incorne above expen
rights of America; they have lately been interfering with diture, and hows tha even in that case there would
Italy, and again with France, by force, and in spite too of be no real advantage: it follows therefore that nº
promises which they participated in making. Did they thing can be more absurd -than to imagine any good
not most unjustifiably interfere with and overawe Nor can be derived from any such plan, when, instead
way, when that country objected to be transferred to a of a surplus, there is a deficiency;-when, in order
foreign Power, in order to suit the convenience of the to make a Sinking Fund of-say 10,000,000l., we are
Allied Despots? Why then all this delicacy about inter: compelled to borrow 20,000,000l., the other ten being
ſerence? Because they are afraid that the Americans would what we want to make up our deficiency. In the above
cut their fingers. example, the individual represents the Government, the
The other occasion chosen by Ministers to advance a agent the Commissioners for the redemption of the debt,
pretence to something infinitely above them, was e de and the annuities the National Stock. There is this diſ
bate on the propriety of granting relieſt o the riband and ſerence, however, in the two cases, that the money bor
silk-weavers of Coventry, some of whom on yearn 2s. 6d. rowed to make the National Sinking Fund is obtained at
a-day, though working for 16 hours! Mr. VANsitTART a rate 2 per cert. higher than that at which the Stock is
objected to the proposition, because it was inconsistent with bought up: the loss to the nation by this operation is cal
“an acknowledged principle of political economy," there culated by Mr. GREN fell at 20 millions, and the cor
by implying that he and his colleagues generally acted in rectness of this calculation has not been denied by the
conformity to such principles. These are the men who other side of the House. This matter is so clear to our
impose such taxes as the Irish Window Tax, the Salt own minds, that we repeat our astonishment that any in
Duties, &c., and raise money by such means as the Hot telligent man should help to keep up the delusion, by only
tery, contrivances totally opposed to all the notions ad objecting to some of its less important parts.
vanced by the celebrated writers on this subject, who unite It is curious to see what delight both sides of the
in declaring, that what particularly depresses any branch House seem to take in thwarting all the attempts of the
of trade or manufactures, or lessens the industry of the Parliamentary leader of the Reformists, Sir Frascis
people, must also be really injurious to the revenue, Our
Bundett. He presented a Petition on Wednesday from
common sense, however, could tell us the same. a sailor, complaining of ill-treatment from his former Cap
Mr. Grºspell introduced his motion for the appro tain,_Sir W. Hoste; and although there was no poºl
priation of the Fund, commonly called. Sinking, by a tive denial of the allegations, the Tories, who consistently
speech of some length, of which we have given but a short enough opposed any enquiry, and the Whigs, who call**

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much for enquiry in other matters, proceeded, after some Case of W. P. Rogers.-We have the pleasure of
general assertions of the Petitioner's bad character, to pre stating, that the Marquis of TAvfstock has sent five’
vent the petition even from lying on their table, by a ma pounds, and the Hon. Douglas KINNAIRB, five guineas,
jority of 206 against 2. So much for consistency. We to this intended victim of political corruption. His effe
must pay Sir FRANcis the compliment of saying, that he mies, as great, unfortunately, in their means of ruining, as
they are petty in the mode of it, have already done him
is always ready to take up the cause of the poor and the and his family deplorable mischieſ; and the lovers of old.
oppressed, in spite of these ungenerous attempts to put English manliness will surely not fail, by as active a coun
him down. **
- teraction, to enable him to recover it's effects.
fºr ++ -
FRAUDs 1N Tiir CoAL TRADE.-The reader will see,
under the head of Police, an account of the conviction of a
Bank Stock ſell suddenly on Tuesday 8 per cent. and coal-merchant, who has sold coals of short measure. This
again on.Thursday 5 more. This is owing to the sensa is an injury to which the public are so particularly exposed,
tion oreated by the Reports of the Bank Committees, and that any attempt to deter the coal-merchants from fraudu
shews the opinion of the monied men respecting the fiery lent practices by the fear of exposure, is very laudable.
ordeal that must be gone through before the desideratum Qne of the means by which housekeepers are deceived is
of cash payments can be obtained: the appearance of correctness and provision against fraud,
Previous to Saturday se’nnight, English subjects proceed given by the apparatus of meters' and venders’ tickets,
ing to the Netherlands, made application by ſetter address which put them off their guard against roguery. We
ed to his Excellency Baron §. (the Dutch Ambas trust these public exposures will make them look more
sador), which letter was required to be signed by a re narrowly into the matter. - -

spectable housekeeper, stating the destination, and that the A new pedestrian carriage has been constructed on the
applicant was personally known to the writer. By calling principle of the velocipede or accelerator, only much en
s: the office, 14, Buckingham-street, on the following day, larged. It seems to be to the first invention what a horse
the passport was ready free of any charge. Now notice is and gig is to a horse alone, and at any rate has the ad
given at the Dutch Ambassador's, that British subjects vantage of being a more social machine. “It is calculated
must apply for passports to the Netherlands at Lord CAs to accommodate three persons: the front compartment is
TLEREAGu's office, who modestly charges two pounds constructed in the same manner as the common velocipede;
seven shillings for what before was had gratis.-Chronicle. the centre consists of a convenient seat, like the seat of a
On Monday week, the 24th instant, the twelfth anni gig; and the third is behind, in the |.
of a dicky. It
versary of “the Triumph of Westminster and Purity of is worked by the person in front and the person behind;
Election” will be celebrated at the Crown and Anchor the person in the middle, who may be a lady, sitting per
Tavern. Sir FRANcis BURDETT will as usual preside. ſectly easy... The man in front has work of the same kind
Messrs. BARcLAY AND PERKINs.-As our Corres to do as the rider of the volocipede; the one behind has
- E. has not answered our call upon him the week be his foot supported by a footboard, and turns with each hand
the wheels beside him: for this purpose a handle is fixed
ore last, we must conclude that he is one of those unworthy
persons, who endeavour to take a mean advantage of the to the axis of each wheel. The inventor is Mr. Binch,
unsuspecting confidence of others, and shall therefore leave of Great Queen-street, Lincoln’s-inn-fields.”—(Daily Pa
him to the consciousness of his own meanness and con per.)—It is called a Velocimanipede, to denote the double
temptible nature. With respect to the other part of the action of the hands and feet. - -

iness, we can state, that we certainly put in the para . In consequence of a manufacturer of this city.having
graph in question with an impression, from the tone of it, lowered the price of weaving ginghams 2s. per cut, a con
in favour of its truth, and a wish on that account to draw siderable number of weavers assembled in a tumultuous
forth some explanation. . What has followed has of course manner on Wednesday afternoon, broke some of his
one away any impression of the sort either in our minds windows, and exhibited other tokens of their displeasure."
or those of our readers. The end is therefore answered. They also held a kind of meeting upon the sands, at which
FIELDING's AMELIA—In the debates of last week, Mr. they resolved to petition the PRINce Regent to send then
PARNELL is said to have compared the sudden discovery all to America.--Carlisle paper. - -

of a moral infirmity in the CHANcellon of the Exche

quER to the feelings we have when we find that Field count AND--> FASHIONABLES.
ING's heroine Amelia had lost her nose. This is a slip of
the Honourable Gentleman's memory, for “twisted” or A Correspondent tells us that not only the Fair Circas
“injured;” for the truth is, Amelia's nose was not quite sian is immured by the Persian Ambassador, but two ne
gone, like the Right Honourable Gentleman's financial phews of his Excellency, who have never been introduced
. *irtue, but only a little crooked or so. We used once to to any body, or suffered to breathe the air abroad. We
feel as the Honourable Gentleman does about the Mem should think however that he is mistaken. There is no
ber in question (not the Chancellor, who is not worth even thing in the Persian customs, we believe, to warrant such
re-membering); but we afterwards found out that it was extraordinary conduct; and even the lady, with, an ac
a piquancy, with which the admirable novelist knew how uiescence in English feelings which does honour, to his
to set off his otherwise perfect heroine. xcellency's liberality, has 'been introduced to several of
The Story of the Vampyre, which has made so much our fair countrywomen,
noise, and, according to the general opinion, a noise so Friday, week, Lady MARY LoNspale, of Gharles
very unlike the usual triumph of Lord ByRoN's genius, is street, and Mrs. ANDERson, had an interview for some
now declared by Dr. Poliboni, in a letter to the publisher time with the Circassian lady, in the drawing-room of the
of it, te be a sort of rifaeimento of his own ſrom his Persian Ambassador's house. They found her particularly
Lordship's ideas. This is just what we suspected; but affable and communicative; her person is remarkably slim,
how could the Doctor delay this information so long? or of low stature, rather swarthy, but her features are very
how is it that the Bookseller did not contrive to obtain it handsome. She constantly sits in the front room, and
sooner? Did thev never talk with each other on the sub enerally wears a scarlet dress, the shadow of which may
ject? The Publisher, we believe, is the same person who * seen through the blinds, which are so placed that she
used to put forth novels by Mrs. Edgeworth. can see what passes in the streat, and not be seen herself,
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Qn **. when the chimney-sweepers were dancing
before the house, she threw back the curtain, and was
plainly seen by a number of persons.—Evening paper.
. The fair Circassian turns out to be a brunette, if the
following account in one of the evening papers be true;
what is also rather remarkable, it appears that in the interval
between Friday and Monday she increased considerably
in height and embonpoint; for on the first day she was
said to be short and very slim:—“The fair Circassian
was introduced on Monday last to upwards of twenty
ladies of fashionable distinction, at his Excellency's resi
dence in Berkeley-square. She was elegantly attired in a
dress of rich white satin, fringed with gold, with a bandean
round her head, and wreaths of diamonds.
stranger received her visiters with great affitbility.
of the middle stature, of exquisite symmetry, rather lusty,
complexion of a brownish cast, hair jet black, handsome
black penetrating eyes, with beautiful arched eye-brows,
and strikingly handsome. . Among the ladies there were
f. Lady August A MURRAY and daughter, Iady
RAostock, Lady ARDEN, Countess of WestMFAtri, the
Misses WALDeer Ave, Mrs. Malcolyt, Mrs. MARJon 1
BANks, &c., Lady August A MURRAY presented the fair
Circassian with a beautiful nosegay, with which she seemed
highly pleased.”
ORIGINAL POETRY.
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QDE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF THE TREASURY
--- BENCHES.
Facilis descensus Averni.
Ye Benches, fraught with Treasury lore,
which VAN and Bathurst bear,”
Where LEY and DYsox still adore
The Speaker's gilded chair;
And ye, that from the massive brow
Of gallery vast, the expanse below
Of leather, oak, and mat, survey :
where Tlacemen, Courtiers, rats atmong,
Wanders sly CastleREAgu along
His snuff-box sparkling way.
Ah! Benches snug all ! pillar shade :
Ah! seats beloved in vais !
Where once a young M.P. I strayed,
A stranger yet to gain.
The smiles which gild the foremost row
A calm official joy bestow,
As beaming bright on treasury men,
They seem to bid Pitt's days return,
Dux Das to burst his funeral urn,
And Rose to bloom again.
Say, father Ley, for thou hast seen
Full many a simple race,
- Disporting on those cushions green,
The paths of error trace;—
Who now is foremost to deceive :
Whose hands the webs of falshood weave *
The County Members who enthral
What jobbing progeny succeed
To bid a dull Committee speed,
Orloud for papers call
Whilst some on Home-ward business Leut
Assume the garb of spy,
Move Gagging Bills, which bring constraint
Te banish Liberty;
* A singular kindness on the part of the Benches, worthy of
their long habit of toleration.
Some few, like MABfRLY, disdaiu
The limits of VAN's little reign,
And dare financial projects try:
Still as they speak they lock behind,
They hear Pat Holytes in every wind,
And snatch a Whiggish joy.
Yet bills are theirs at Whitehall paid,
How pleasing when possest -**
The contract broken soon as made,
The plunder of the chest. -
Their's bales of cloth of every hue,
Canvas and blankets old and new,
The fair And Treasury love of Boroughs born;
She is The jobbing day, the venal night,
The spirit mean, the virtue light,
That loves a levee morn.
Alas! unconscious of their doom
The unfledged Members play,
Heedless of contests yet to come,
They sell their votes to-day.
And see how in yon passage wait
The knaves and pandars of the state,
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And rank corruption's baleful train;–
Ah! shew them where the Treasury band
Stretch o'er their prey a grasping hand,
And point to future gain
These shall the Home Department buy,
The men of leaden mind–
Wrra. * Bragge, the strange dog, with sheepish eye,
And Clive who lurks behind;
Or saintly GRANT shall gull their youth,
Or WARRENDER, with rat-ſtke tooth,
That gnaws all patriot ties apart,
Or WHART.ox wan, or chattering Porr,
Grim-visaged IIolxies, who jobs by rule,
Or Choken vain and Pert.
VAxsºrtant this shall tempt to rise,
Then drop the wretch from high,
To Jekyll's wit a sacrifice,
Or quizzing Arvantey.
The Foreign Office those shall try,
Whence Castler exam's uncertain eye
Has seen the wealth of England ſlow ;
Dukes empty heads with laurels pil'd,
And heartless CANNING laughing wild
Amidst severest woe.
Lº in the vale of future years
A dissolution's seen,
And Britain's patriot band appears
To guard the island Queen.
This moves the North, this fircs the West,
Those shall the Cornish seats contest.
*
These in the midland counties rage:
º The Lowthers fly from Westmoreland,
Whilst every voice on Erin's stratid *
Hails GRATTAN's patriot age.
To each his sufferings; all are men,
Condemned alike to groan,
Poor Beauront for his Worcester's pain,
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Poor Odell for his own
Yet, ah! why should they know their fate,
Elections never come too late,
And purchased Fowey from Lucy flies,
Reason would mar the worldly race:
No more—when duiness leads to place,
'Tis felly to be wise 1
An ETIN Juxzok.
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agitation orders the death to be delayed. It is too late.
THEATRICAL ExAMINER. The virtuous, unfortunate, and dying girl is brought for
ward, only to relate with faltering ɺth how she had
No. 363.
worn that necklace from her infancy as a mark for her
- DRt. RI-L-tre. parents, if ever, she should meet them; and the violent
down from all the fierce, unhallowed joy
Ös Thursday a new tragedy was brought out here with chieftain, dashedmelts
his revenge,
great success. It is entitled the Carib Chief, and is from of into useless tears of despair and re
morse over his expiring child. She dies on the ground,
the pen of Mr. Horace Twiss, a gantleman with whose underneath
name the public were already acquainted. We will not his vain embrace and his weeping eyes. The
utidertake to go through the whole detail of the plot; but arrival of the English accompanied by *:::::::: only
we think we can recollect the particulars. The scene lies serves to let the Chieftain die happier. After a vain at
at Guadaloupe in the time of Queen Elizabeth. The tempt to stab the Frenchman, he kills himself; and while
iece opens with the lamentations of a young British offi expiring on the ground, bequeaths him his curse and a
cer,Tºi (H. KEMBLE), who has been thrown into more miserable life.
prison by Montalbert (BENGough), the French com The reader will imagine from this sketch of the plot
inander at Guadaloupe. A Carib priest (D. Fisiicy) en how interesting it must be. . It is exceedingly so; and we
ters out of humanity, and sets him free. He flies, and in have been necessarily forced to omit noticing a variety of
his road sºes his beloved mistress Claudina, a girl of Carib little incidents, which shew Mr. Twiss's i in this de
ºrigin (Mrs. West) weeping over his supposed grave. partment of stage-writing... It is here, in truth, that his
After the transports of their meeting, she informs him with chief talent seems to lie. "The tragedy is not remarkable for
horror and renorse, that concluding him dead, she had genius in the writing. There is occasionally a metaphor and
been induced out of motives of gratitude to marry the a simile above ordinary dramatists; but from the general
French commander; and is informed in return, that cast of the ianguage, we should not suppose that he was
Montalbert was the author of the report, and had kept her ambitious of doing any thing more than putting together a
lover in prison to colour it. They part in despair; she to striking set of incidents. And they do houour not only
perform what she thinks her duty, and he to join with the to his skill, but his feelings. Nothing is either timid
native islanders against the French. avoided, or callously dwelt upon. They follow eac
. Meanwhile, Omrech, (KEAs), son of the late king of other naturally, exciting our interest, never disap
the natives, re-appears after a wretched absence of eighteen ointing it, and always involving something of the agital
ears, which had been caused by the success of the French. ing without uselessness, and the humane without affecta
e comes back however, strong, active, popular, and with tion. If the story is the author's own, it also does him
an ardour for revenge that has not grown a day older; for great credit. We are not aware of it's being in any of the
Montclbert had rained his family and killed his young histories of the West India islands. We cannot give a
wife; and at the same time, he had lost his only child, a better proof of the interest it excited in us, than the
httle, daughter. The Caribs are quickly roused; and fact of our coming into the theatre exceedingly tired,
Jickily for them, at this juncture, Montálbert, for some and having ourselves completely awakened in the eourse
meditated treachery, had condemned to death the son of of it. During the first act, we must own, our weariness
a Carib woman, his foster-mother (Miss Boyce), who increased ; but KEAN's appearance at the close of it saved
naturally giving way to her maternal in preference to her us, and, we suspect, the act together. We doubt whether
other feelings, though with great distress of mind, yields the audience would have been good-tempered at the be
to the suggestions of Omreah who has encountered fier in ginning of the second without him. The third act how
a lonely spºt, and agrees to open the citadel to her coun ever justified the impression he had begun to Inake; and
trymen. Omreak, thirsting to a degree of agony for re the fourth and fifth lield us in complete attention.
º has vowed to sacrifice Montalbert and his young KEAN's acting was vehement from the very first; but
bride to the glºss of his bride and child; and Trºfits; perhaps this was necesary to be in keeping with the cha
the Englishman, whom he hates also as a white, and has racter. Nothing could be finer than his last scene, where
against his will adrifted to be a sharer in the contest, thus he suroked the arm of his dying child up and down, T-and
unwittingly helps him to the possessian of the victim he his voice bubbled up, as it were, into tones of mingled
adores. fondness and agony in the midst of his gushing tears- it is
The citadel is taken; and with it Omreah concludes he of a piece with the most touching parts of his Othello.
has taken Montalbert and his bride. The former bowever
Mrs. West also gave us, some passages in a style
has been nobly set at fiberty by Trefºsis, and she is likel worthy of her Desdemona; but since her promising ap
to be got of also ; and the Carib Chief, finding i.; pearance in that character, which led as to think her a rival
disappointed of his prey, turns his fury upon the young of Miss O'Neill, she has almost degenerated into a regu
Englishman, whom he condems to death. He is about to lar monthing tragedy actress. full of a loud and monoto
be executed, when Claudina to the horror of him and her notis dolefulness. W. are really sorry for this, for we
other friend, comes forward, and demands any favour slie have a liking for Mrs. West's looks and other manners as
may chºse to ask upon condition of delivering up the bride. a wolnau. - -

real consents; she discovers herself, and is accordingly The aſterpiece of the Jew of Lubeck, with it's appa
devoted to the sacrifice instead. The priest, who had set rently horrors, is a mystification to us. Why
Trºfusis free, and got at least some less sanguinary notions is Mr.gratuitous
thrust into such things, and left out of those
of things in the present life by his intercourse with the parts inRAEtragedy to which he has an indisputable right, as
Christians, vainly tries to delay the blow, in monentary
expectation of the arrival of English succouis. Aſer a the second best men in the House? If he is displaced in
suspense of great anguish, Onreah insists upof his orders those to make way for Mr. H. KEMBLE, (and it would
so), this new appearance of managerial favouritism
being obliged; the other women close about the victim seem
can only serve to make the town call out more loudly for
(an incident extremely well imagined), ss if to hide her
with affectionate decency in the i. of death; and an the ... of that very insipid and bad actor. We were
ºther pause takes place, during which the awful work is tender with Mr. H. Kexible at first, as our readers- will
supposed to be concluded. At this moment, Onireah's eyes, witness; but if the manager will not let us or the town
with sudden horror, light upon a necklace which had fallen be so any longer, it is not our fault. -

pathe ground; he thinks he recognizes it, and in violent The failure of Mr. MATURIN's tragedy at Covent-Gar
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den relieves us from the necessity of saying any thing pocket of one of the Politicians is Coesfºrt's HRegister. .
about it. The Politican stands with a firmness of attitude more ex
6+ pressive of Messis. Hon E and Wooler, than of his able
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but runaway author. A Barber peeps at the paper during

the discourse, and a Youth who waves his laurel-drest hat,
* FINE ARTs. is calling their attention to the driving Mail and the
ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION.
triumphant appearance of its passengers. Contrasted
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with these grave personages is a Dandy in an extacy

From deſerence to the upper classes of Art, it has hitherto at receiving by post money in notes; a Countryman
been our practice to commence with the Poetical and His and his Wä, are listening to the Parish Schoolmaster who
torical Pictures of the public Exhibitions. We deviate reads the letter sent to them, not being able to read it
from this custom for once to introduce to the regard of our themselves, while a Boy from curiosity peeps into a letter
readers a young Artist, who has suddenly burst upon our he is carrying into his master's house. Apart from the
notice from the south—Bristol—as Mr. Wilkie did from rest, a time and way-worn Letter-carrier rests himself on
the north—Scotland,-and with a blaze of genius, that a curb-stone aſter having emptied his letter-bag. Near to
shines on the same region of Art; warms our feelings with him the Post-boy is unpacking a hamper of provisions,
a power equal to Mr.Wilkie's at that time. This noble, into which a ragged starveling Boy is longingly staring:
we had nearly said illustrious, stranger, ſor why should These and other suitable objects, all carefuſly painted, fill
these epithets be monopolized by the mere accidental in the canvass and the spectator's mind with every variety of
heritors of nominal and external greatness to the rejection circumstance that has occurred, or might naturally occur at
of untitled possessors of real intellectual greatness, this the delivery of letters. This picture is alone worth going
noble stranger does high how our to his master, BiRD, the to the Exhibition to see.
Roval Academician. IHe has an equally strong and very
similar cast of thought and feeling for the º
of the every day emotions and transactions of his fellow SPRING GARDENS EXHIBITION.
men, but especially of domestic tenderness and deep sor A young woman's abashment and concern in being de
row. He tells to our hearts -

tected in receiving love-letters, and surprise and resent

“Ilow Chance or hard involving Fate ment in her parents, with a deeply-ſelt display of all the
O'er mortal bliss prevail.”
strengths of light and shade and tints of colour, tempt to a
But while he has been listening to the lessons of Art, he lengthened looking at of 89, The Discovery, by Mr. F. P.
has learned also from Nature. This is so true, that Stephanoff. Mr. Hastings's pictures, 58, The Brae
we are confident that every one that sees his picture, 269, Side, and 131, The Burn Side, would tell more effec
The Post-Office, will entirely agree with us. In fact, this tively in their well touched and graceſul foliage, and deep
was the case during the time, -and it was not a short abstraction of scene, if we could think that the gamboge
time.—that we stood before it. “How natural” was the and leaden hues which prevail were natural,—There is a
continual exclamation. But as Mr. Rippi NG11.1, possesses fascination in Mr. Ronson's Landscapes that arises from
his tutor's excellencies, so he has his defects. He colours the warin and soft hues and serenity of atmosphere, but
flesh badly. It is opaque, and uncarnation. His aerial we should be glad to see more variety of feeling in his
perspective is defective. There is no true retiring and ad works. His soft hues would be more pleasing, if he dis
vancing of objects. They are not disconnected enough in turbed them with a little sharpness of outline, and distinct
light, shade, and colour, . He wants too that essential ness of object. His pictures mostly seem as if looked at
quality in composition, which agreeably separates many through a gauze at the scenes, and his colouring has a cer
objects into masses. He subdivides rather tºo much al tain bloom, which is not in Nature. His pictures are as
most all his individual objects, and especially his dresses; if they were made of coloured wool. They resemble the
they want breadth, and his pencil wants lightness. But too blending keys of a piano-ſorte that has no sharpness.
notwithstanding these errors, the work is so touching, true, They are rich in tone, but ineffective. It is not pre
and extensive in the personal character, kas so much more cisely in nature that we see that ordered arrangement
of active genius than acquired science, and is carried so of parts, that bloom of colour, and softness of tone,
far beyond common-place; that there are not half a dozen which render Mr. Robson's pictures mannered, but which
works in the Exhibition, the possession of which we would are however enough mixed up with what is natural in near
* preſer, . It will be unaccountable indeed, if, with such a and distant scenery, to stop us as we advance round the
tapital in genius and industry, as is seen in this picture, room with no ordinarw charm.—Militox is said to have
its painter dºes not soon join those who are at the top of preferred his Paradise Regained, a flat poem, to his renown
his class of Art. The subject is—the delivery of Letters ed Paradise Lost, the sublimest poem in our language., , if
and Newspapers at a Post-Office, and the various impres therefore this is true, and so great a mind should have been
sions on the minds of those who peruse them. The ſol so egregiously mistaken, it is no wonder that Mr. Liss F1.
lowing are the chief incidents:— should fancy himself a Portrait Painter, and hang four
A Gentleman, followed by his Daughter, and who has things he calls Portraits in the same room with his Land
just received a letter from the Letter-deliverer, is lookin scapes, which are copies of their realities, vigorously felt
at it suspiciously, seeing it impressed by a heart pierce and executed. We admire all of them here, for their
by an arrow. His Daughter is peeping at it over his similarity to the effects produced by the Dutch Masters
shoulder. A pale, thin, Lady is looking on the ground and Nature. They only want a little more of their neat
as she goes from the Office, with a ſeeble . and prema ness of finishing. We are very agreeably affected by 71.
turely bent down form. . Hope has forsa en her look, Evening—Storm clearing ºff, where the golden glows of
º as she has just been in having no letter, no an evening sun are lighting up the sky, surcharged with
tidings of the father ºf her little one, who (and the con retiring clouds, over a waterºd landscape, and tenderly
trast of emotion is here most beautiful and natural) is tinting its sedateness, like an interesting face in sorrow and
laughing and pointing to a Mail-coach just moving off tears, enlivened by the glimmerings of hope. We should
with its load; the Guard's signal-horn has excited the like Miss Gorpsmith's freely pencilled Ländscapes better,
Child's pleasure. A number of persons are conversing if they had some more finishing. They have a chaste and
about the contents of the Times Newspaper, which is wet, sparkling harmony of colour, and a general look of Nature.
and which one of them has just been reading. In the She proposes to publish Elchings of her four l'iews ºf
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Claremont. They have a: bright relief from her light: of the houses, where the deponents on the part of the defendants
stated themselves to reside, stating that no such persons lived
cloud-floating skies. The union of shady masses, and a ºthere; whence they were supposed to be fictitious names.
touchiness of sunny sparkling is excellent in 70, 85, and The sentence of the Court was, that John Kinnear should be
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102. Mr. StARR's Grove Scenes, 119, &c. are correct imprisoned in the gnol of Ilchester, for 2 years: that Lewis
transcripts of rural nature, lighted by a genial sun. They Levy should be imprisoned in the gaol of Gloucester for 2 years,
have a delicate decision of touch and of colour, most har and pay a fine of 5,000l.: that Mosely Woelf should be impri
moniously mixed up of grey, vellów, and blue tints.-Mr. soned in the House of Correction, Cold-bath-fields, for 2 years,
J. WARLEy's Burial of Saul is not without pathos and and pay a fine of 10,000l.: and that Levy and Woolf should be
elevated feeling, to which the simplicity of the composi farther imprisoned till, those fines were paid. Levy had sent
tion, after the manner of N. Poussts, consisting mainly large quantities of goods to India, obtained by this conspiracy,
and the Court considered that from the sale of those goods he
of borizontal and perpendicular lines, chiefly contribute: might obtain remittances to pay his fine. . - " .
so do also the long line of hooded and head-depressed
monrners, and the leaden hue of the landscape, and the
buildings tinged with the last rays of the setting sun-a coxsistofty court, Doctors-CoMMONs.
‘noble emblem of departed power and of mortal life. Will Friday, May 14.
Fraser tº. Fraser.
it be contended that this picture has not poetry in -

it!—A neat power of pencil and silvery harmony dis This was a suit of divorce, instituted on the part of Simon
tinguish 237, Cottage at Pulborough, &c. by Mr. Scort.— Fraser, Esq. of the island of Berbice, by reason of .
against his wife, the daughter of— Brittlebank, Esq.-formerly
Day-light, out-door, linear and aerial perspective, prevail governor of that place. The marriage took place in 1801, at
ing grey tints, delicately enriched with Siennn, Ochre, Berbice, and they had subsequently three children. In 1814
Lake, &c., give high value to 209; View of the Southwark they came to England. Mr. Fraser, in 1815, went out to Batavia.
Bridge and London, by Mr. F. Nasii. It is one of the The lady returned to Berbice, under protection of Mr. Thomas
truest effects of Nature we have ever seen. So is his oil
Brittlebank, with whom the adultery was committed. They
painting 81, An Old Crypt, with Cattle. , Sunshine and revisited England, and in various parts of the country lived
shade, cool and glowing tints, mingle with a sweet and together as man and wife; they had one child born at Lichfield,
forceful melody.—Day-light and the dun atmosphere in 1815, and another in the New-road, in 1816, both of whom
crer smoky London, contrasted with the clearness else they acknowledged on various occasions. The defendant seſ:
fered judgment to go by default, and the damages were assessed
where in the water, &c. is beantiſully seen in Mr. Firln at 1,250l.—Sentence in favour of the husband.
ing's View on the Thames. He has many insipid and
mannered drawings, and others of singular vigour. Of OLD BAILEY. • *
the latter are, 251, Two Subjects on the St. Gothard -

Roue; 280. Chepstow Castle; 286, Scenes near Sand On Saturday these Sessions terminated, after a heavy calendar,
gate; 297, Stone-boats at Folkestone; 304, Sun-set at which occupied the Court 17 days: 32 prisoners received
sentence of death: 1 1 were sentenced to transportation for life:
Folkestone before a stormy Night; 9, 10, and 18, Sun 1 to 14 years' transportation: 74 to transportation for 7 years:
sets, glow yigorously on air, ocean, and earth, &c.—In 2 to 1 year's confinement in the House of Correction, and to be
moonlight, all objects on land are completely neutralized. kept to hard labour; 22 to 6 months, of which five are to be well
They have no colour, but are merely chiaro-scuro. Ex whipped in the gaol; 9 to be imprisoned 3 months, and of them
cepting a little of this, Mr. B. BARKER's Moonlight, 100, 5 to be well whipped in the gaol; 8 to be confined 9 months to
is beautiful, laces the clouds with silver, and, as our hard labour, 5 of them also to be well whipped; 3 to be im
prisoned 1 month, and then discharged; 5 to be well whipped in
Shakespeanº says, “sleeps upon the bank.”—Mr. CAwse the gaol, and discharged; I to be publicly whipped; 5 to pay a
has much improved, especially in the concord and vigour fine of 1s., and be discharged; and the iudgments on J. Williams,
of his colour. A little more gravity and a less bluff air in J. Short, J. Hamley, and J. Morgau, were respited till next
some of his figures and features, would remove that degree sessions.
of the exaggerated which connects his subjects with carica
ture. He is the link between the grave and the grotesque. POLICE.
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and suavity of band. QUEEN-squart E.

[To be concluded nert treek.]
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FRAUDS IN THE COAL TRADE.
The Magistrates at this office were on Monday and Tuesda
Among the immense advantages that accrue to the of engaged in hearing informations filed by Mr. Thomas b.
Derby-street, Parliament-street, coal-merchant, against Jona
fountry from the lengthened fineness of the weather, may than Sampson, of South-street, Berkeley-square, for a violation
be included the additional inducement and gratification it of the Act, respecting the sale and delivery of coals. By this Act,
affords to the tasteful part of the public to attend our Ex all coal-merchants are required to deliver a ticket with their
hibitions and Collections of Art. It has seconded the coals, specifying the amount and quality of the coals so delivered,
generous effort of Sir J. LeicesTER to benefit the Arts, by and distinctly enumerating the number of sacks of each sort of
shewing his Gallery weekly. The attendance has been coal. The reason of this is to protect the public against the im
numerous among all classes of distinguished rank, intel position of having an inferior coal mixed up with any other in
leet, and beauty. The treat will be repeated to them the delivery of a general order; each-sort of coal must be dis
tinctly specified. -
to-morrow.
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Mr. Bradfield had filed three informations, which led to con
siderable discussion and excited much interest. The circum
stances were briefly as follows:–On the 5th April, the de
LA JV. fendant, Mr. Sampson. had sent three waggon loads of coals
(nine chaldron) to Earl Verulam, in Grosvenor-square. Mr.
- COURT OF KING"S BENCH. Bradfield having accidentally observed one of these waggons in
the Strand, and suspecting the measurement, followed the waggon
- Friday, May 14. to its destination, and intimated to his Lordship's butler his sas
Kinnear, Woolf, and Levy, were brought mp to receive sentence. picions. The butler had one sack remeasured, which proved to
-Two affidavits put in on the part of the defendants stated, that be but two bushe's instead of three bushels. Notice was imme
the deponents had seen two of the Jurymen, on the first night of diately given to the Meters Office and vender, to have the re
the trial, conversing with Mr. Harmer and Mr. Adams, the soli ...! meesmred; and out of 25 sacks so remeasured, there
citors for the prosecution. In answer t these, affidavits, of the were 15 bushels short, which led to the examination of the coal
Jury, he above Gentlemen, &c. were put in, denying that any such tickets by Mr. Heritage, the inspector, who found them not made
intercºurse had taken place; also two affidavits of the owners out as required by the Act; for instead of "pecifying 18 sacks
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wallsend and 19 Hartley's, the tickets merely stated 37 sheks ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c.
wallsend and Hartley's. The tickets still remained in the hands
of Earl Verulam's butler, and were subsequently shewn to Mr. §aturday semight, at Bromsgrove; Worcestershire, a currier
Bradfield on application to his Lordship, when Mr. B. ſound that and another man quarrelled ..f.i. but afterwards made up
an erasure bad taken place, and that the specification was ren their differences: shortly after, as they were sitting side by side,
*ered correct according to the Aet, which induced him to briug the currier stabbed his antagonist, so that he died. The mur
the whole subject before the Magistrates. - . derer is in custody. º -

Mr. Heritage swore positively as to the alteration having been- Wº. Sage and John Watkins, convicted of aheap stealing st
made in the tickets: when he saw them, they were informal, and the late assizes for Somerset, were executed on Wednesday
now, by what lie had no doubt was an erasure, an attempt bad se'anight, at the new drop in Ilchester. Sage was a native of
been made to rectify the error. Wells, aged 32, and has left a small family in a wretched condi
Fras. Simkins, Lord Verulam's butler, swore with equal perti tion. The poor fellow appeared very penitent, and repeatedly
macity that no alteration had been made in the tickets between expressed a hope that his “dear wife and his little ones might
their delivery to him in the 1st instance, and their present state. be taken care of.”—Watkins to the last moment persisted in
The Maatsra Arks were of opinion, that as a doubt prevailed denying his crime. Although only 29 years of age, he is said to
on the point at issue, the defendant ought to have the benefit of have committed no less than 150 crimes.
it. The 1st and 2d informations were therefore quashed. Lately, near Liumerick, a man, named John Kett, who was em
Mr. Ann Rrws was about to proceed upon the 3d information, loyed to purchase feathers , called at a farmer's house, and
wineu Mr. REYNolps rose and said, that in this case he had no ſº. agreed for the feathers of his geese; commenced the
hesitation to admit that the 3d tieket had been altered, and he operation of plucking, by placing the gander's head under his
*hoºd therefore recommend Mr. Sampson to plead guilty to the left arm: the bird bit the man so desperately, as to cause a
information. The question then would arise as to the amount of mortification in a day or two, of which he died in the most ex
penalty, which was discretionary with the Magistrate, and where cruciating ngony. . - *

no fraud was intended, he thought the lowest coin in the ceuatry On Friday morning, a fine girl, 10 years of age, was run over
would be as much as ought to be awarded. by a waggon at the cower of Duke-street, Mauchester-square.
Mr. ANDREws, on the 6ther side, contended, that this was a She was endeavouring to reach at something in the waggon,
case in which the full penalty onght to be inflicted. The fate of when her foot slipping, she fell under the wheel, which going
“he two other informations strongly shewed the impossibility, by over her neck, caused her instant death.
ºny legislative measure, of effectually evading the ingenuity of
fraud. He should be very sorry to press upon any man for a ISIRTHS. º,
*Asty error committed in the hurry of business, but here the of. On the 7th instant, Mrs. D'Almaine, of Upper Dalston, ºf:
fence was deliberately concocted; for Sampson, after the deli daughter. - -

very of the ticket, contrived to get it out of the butler's, hands instant,inLady
and make the erasure and alteration. The Learned Gentleman d On the 9th
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evening, Charles Bentinck,
Conduit-street, of a son.
Lady James Stuart, of a ºal

strongly enforced the necessity of protecting the public from alterhter. -

such frauds, and complimented Mr. Bradfield upon his perse º Copenhagen, on the 26th ult, the Lady of Augustus John
verance, in the midst of so much obloquy, in detecting and ex Foster, Esq. Minister at the Court of Denmark, of a son.
posing those practices in the coal trade. - On the 10th iust, Mrs. Samuel Rowsell, of Cheapside, of her
Mr. White, the sitting Magistrate, observed, that in this case eighteenth child. - -

he and his brother Magistrates were relieved from the doubts ºf —

which they had given the defendant the benefit in the two pre MARRIAGES.
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celling informations, for here the offence, charged upon the de On Tuesday, I. W. Bell, . . of Bernard-street, Russell
fendant was admitted by himself. Whatever opinion might have square, to Auna Maria, you ugest daughter of W. B. Lutty, Esq.
, prevailed respecting the alteration in the two other tickets, no of Waudsworth. - * . -

questiºn could arise as to this, for the defendant confessed he Tuesday, the Rev. John Peter Chambers, Reeton of Hedenham,
had obtained the ticket after its delivery to his customer, and Norfolk, to Anna Maria, eldest daughter of J. P. Maxwell, Esq.
then altered it in the manner in which it now appeared. The of Harley-street. - - . . . .” -->
Act of Parliament required that on the face of, the višket should On Thursday, Lient. Colonel Wemyss, 50th regiment, to Mºss'
be specified the quantity and quality of the coals delivered, that Ball, only daughter of the late Herbert P. Betſ, Esq. of Cir
each kind should be specifically mentigned. Instead of comply marthen. . - - - º

ing with the Act the defendant stated in lump the two kinds of Thursday morning, at St. George's church, Earl Temple, to -
coal, without marking the separate quantity of each. That in Ledy Campbell, eldest daughter of the Earl of Breadalbase. ...
the hurry of business such an error might be committed, and Same day, at St. James's church, the lion. Richard Neville,
that that circumstance might render it a venial ene too, could be
son ºf Lord Braybrooke, to £ady Jane Coruwallis, daughter of
readily admitted. Had the vender on discovering his error at the Marquis Cornwallis. . - -

once confessed it, and stated how it had inadvertently or neg Sqaxpalovs Manºrage.—Lately, at ºs
ligently ariseu, then indeed the penalty incurred night be esti shire, Thomas Evans, aged 82, to Catherine Jones, aged 18:
mated at a small rate. But, in this case, there was no candid
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effort made to amend the mistake;—on the coutrary, the de
tenſtädt had manifested a bad intention by procuring back the On Tuesday week, at Gain's Hall, Huntingdonshire, Emily,
ticket, and endeavouring to erase the errár he had committed, the infant daughter of Sir James Duberly."
At the advanced age of 100 years, Mr. Duncan Macrae, in
and make the figures conformable to the provisions of the Act. Bogbai'i,
It was to be inferred that the customer had not been defrauded, near Inverness. • * -

or he would have come forward as, the prosecutor on this qeea On the 9th instant, Mrs. Turner, wife of the Rev. George
sion: but, it was due to public justice to state, that thºse who Turner, Vicar of spelsbury, Oxfordshire. --

assisted the defendant in making the alteration which he con Lately, Mr. Goodacre, ºf Saitäeet, Lincolnshire, in the 104*.
fessed he had raade on the ticket, had acted mºst improperly, year of his age: he retained all his faculties to the last, and
and were highly blameable. On the whole, neither he nor his walked about ten days before his death to Louth, a distance of
brother Magistrate were of opiniou that this was a case in which fourteen miles, and returned back the next day.
the penalty ought to be mitigated, and the information considered Sunday week, aged 83, Mr. Webster, of Cropson, near Mount
invidious; they therefore inflicted upon the defendant the Pay sorrel. On the preceding day he set out on foot to ree his
ment of the full penalty of twenty pounds. daughter at Loughborough, but when he arrived at Woodhouse
Mr. ANDREws, as Counsel for Mr. Bradfield, said that as that he was suddenly taken ill, and carried to a neighbouring public
gentleman was only actuated by a sense of public duty, in coming house, where he expired. ,
forward, to enforce the provisions of this Act, he did not mean to At Greenfield, near Ampthill, Wm. Burridge, labourer, afeel
avail himself of his claim upon the penalty inflicted, and he there 30 years, who had regularly for $2 years walked from his cottage
fore requested the Magistrates would be so good as to present to Ampthill-park, averaging about 7 miles a-day; in all nearly
it to some public charity. 70,000 milies, almost three times the circumference of the globe."
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The share of the penalty to which the prosecutor was entitled,

was ordered to be given to the Fever Institution and to the Royal Printed and published by John Hunt, at the Examinen-offee.
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THE POLITICAL EXAMINER, man of education. He does not dispute the truth and .
| virtue of the Christian faith, because he has gone through
Party is the madness ofmany for the gain of a few, Pope. all the learning of the subject, like Gibbos; or the huma
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nity of it, like DiDEnor, D'AleMBERT, and Voltaire; or
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He judges it as Chubb, PAINE, and Cobbert, and thou
Ex-officio INFORMATIONs AGAINST sands of other intelligent and uneducated men have judged,"
, , , RICHARD CARLILE. . . . . . it, by the help of his reason and his conscience,—as Luthea ..."
Wr earnestly request, that all persons who may take up told his followers to judge the Catholic. sect—as Sr. *

this number of our paper, whatever may be their opinion PAUL himself told us to “prove all things.” This is the
in matters of religion, will give it an attentive.perusal. way in which he has judged; this is what induced him to
We do not pretend to have written any thing on the sub publish the works in which others had reasoned like him. . .
ject elaborate or new ; neither do we beg the question, in self; and the celebrated men before mentioned only serve
favour.of any opinions. On the contrary, whº little we to shew him that learning and metaphysics can think on
the matter as he does. . ... •
have to say is diametrically opposed to the begging of
questions ;..and all that we wish to impress is, that truths Again, as another proof of his candour and love of ~
old as the sunshine, and common to every, one that wishes truth, it is to be noticed, that he has published the cele
to be heard in support of his conscientious opinion, should brated counter-argument of the late Bishop Watson, en
be allowed to be common to every one. We will put titled an Apology for the Bible. He has shewn no dis-,
them as plainly and straitforward as it is possible for sin position to have all the talk to himself. We may say, in .
cerity to do; and the reader, whoever, he may be, may be summing up the feelings and arguments of a man so
assured, that in proportion as he can read the items atten situated, that all he wishes is to have the matter at once
tively, and give them a calm consideration, he does honour fairly discussed;—that the question is, and has long, in
to his opinions, whatever those may be. . . . . . . . deed always been, a very great, question;–that all the
Our readers are aware that Mr. Candile, a bookseller, arguments against the discussion might have been turned, “
for publishing Dipritor's, PAine's, PACMER's, and other and sometimes were so, against the primitive Christians,
argumentative works in opposition to the Christian faith, when they were opposed to authority:—that authority is no
has bad a variety of prosecutions instituted against him by argumeñt either for or against a question;–that to forbid
the Arrottsey-Gesenat. In the meanwhile, he his gone reasoning on any question, is at once the very worst com-º:
on-selling the works. He has also let it be understood, pliment paid to the forbidding side of it; and might be, , .
that he means to be his own advocate, and to defend to and is, used in upholding superstitions which, Christians , ,
the last letter, and with all the powers he possesses his hold in the greatest contempt;--that Lutheranism, which ..., ---
right to investigate the question, as a matter of notorious is now the predominant belief in this country, was once
doubt and controversy. . . . . . . . . . . .. held in as "unlawful, odious, and punishable-a light as
To persons who are in the habit of thinking the question Deism, and defiounced both here and hereafter;-that ... •
settled, or of implicitly believing it, ºr of making a mask habitual assent upon no real principle or enquiry, may be -

of it for worldly purposes, or of getting angry, on any of made use of, and has been through all ages of the world,
these accounts, at having arguments proposed to them in behalf of any dogmas, however inconsistent with reason
which they are afraid to encounter, this resolute conduct or even themselves;–that this mere habit of assent, as the *
on the part of the accused will only be an aggravation of venerable BeNTHAM has shewn in his late unanswered .
his offence; and we shall doubtless hear the old official work on the Church-Catechism, is notwitstanding all it's .
cant about “regretting” and “being disgusted,” and so habitual claims to respect and moral reputation, productive
forth. But to persons who discuss matters with more can
dour, honesty, and manliness-who are not such deplo
of that equally habitual insincerity and pliancy, which is
the root of the most worldly selfishness; that the opinions,
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rable egötists as to demand a right of thinking for them which are charged against him as criminal, are so noto
selves which they deny to others, who are not merehabitual riously the opinions of a great part of the civilized world,
slaves to any opinion,--who are not hypocritical for world that a counsellor pleading the other day before a judge
ly purposes, nor have any other egotistical, servile, or appealed to the common knowledge of all who heard him
misgiving or unprincipled reason for refusing to hear two (and who gave him no contradiction) whether they might
sides of a question, such conduct will be a presumptive not be regarded as the faith of almost all the literati of
proof that Mr. CARLile at least feels the honesty of his Europe;—that these opinions are so common, that they
intentions and the sincerity of his way of thinking. most probably constitute the opinions of at least two thirds
The proof will be a great deal the stronger also, if it is of the very court, in the midst of which he is to be tried;— -
considered how much he risks on the success of his de finally (although these are not half the arguments which
fence,—hberty, may be brought
property, and perhaps (ſhe is of a consti guestion),
y, pro forward
that the
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belief which
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differs to disown the
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Proof, of it's Evidences, &c. and of asserting that it “never º both in its ordinary forms as well as it's deepest sym
ºfeed fear discussion,” but that arguments in behalf of it are Dúthies, We lament this error the more, because itin -

... constantly being put forth by it's professors in the shape of !. a certain Hook of the scandalous, which is foreign
º: such Proofs, Evidences, &c., often too by the special sanc to our habits, and held by usin exceeding contempt; and
to complete our regret, nothing can be more polite- and
• tion of authority, so that if the question after all is not to be just than the manner in which the vindicator of his Danish
discussed, two things are tacitly acknowledged;—First, Majesty has performed his very becoming task. We were
that it need fear discussion;––and second, that feeling the led into it by the recollection of a circumstance which was
... impossibility of altogether escaping it, it will resort openly made public in the year 1809, and which we associated
to the use of the weapons which it denies, and tie up the with the present King, theu Prince liegent, instead of
mouths of these very reasoners to whose sincerity and un another Prince of the same family. -

: derstanding it pretends to appeal. -

We leave our readers for the present to turn over these The PROTEST of four LEGirimate soveme:GN5.
To thiſ, FDI tort of ºth E. EXAMINER.
reflections for themselves; and shall resume the subject
next week. The trials of Mr. CARLile are to come on -we, he undersigned four Mighty Monarchs, considering our
selves not fairly dealt with, by your not condescending to n**
during the sittings after the present term, which closes to us amongst the other Sovereigns of the World, in your paper ºf
Imorrow. *
Sunday last, beg to approach your Examinership with a solet”
protest, to shew, that, though unuoticed, we possess the usuad
power of tegitimate Sovereiðuty i and knowing full well-yº, r
SOWEREIGNS OF THE WORLD. Pretensions to appreciate that power justly, we cut further pre
fice, and protest in form and manner following:-To wit, -We
... To render our article on this subject last week complete, each possess a Queen; oar Prime Minister is a Knave, and he
we ought to have added the Emperor of Morocco and has a Pack of insignificant followers...We profess, to acknow
the Deys his neighbours; and our lteaders are hereby ledge no particºſºr country. We hold our, Congress, at a
requested to take up the said Emperor and Deys, and add * Board of Green Cloth,” where shuffling is familiar to us, sº J
thein accordingly. We are not at all acquainted with “Beggar my Neighbour"a principal pastine; and where, ºx
other mighty-Potentates, we manage to keep ourselves out of
then, even with their names, except, we believe, that the disputes, though we continually involve thºse who deal with us
Jºmperor is a goodish sort of timid man, and the Deys in bitter, and often sanguinary, conflicts. We have no state re
are bold as long as their houses are not being battered. ligion, Sonday leing a “Bice mon,” but we have a Pope
The only persons that seem to have any respect for them. Joan-reverenced by all the juvenile part of our populatiºn, titi
the age of “Vingtºun.”—Like some other Kings we have bera
and their piracies are the Ministers of the greatest naval present
people in the world. -
at many dºp Games, where the chicanery of the one has
Öur forgetſultiess was less excusable in omitting the &heated and drºppied the many. In War only we are pecuier:
the Trump proclaims the cominencement of the fight, and we are
Rhg of Persia, Futten Ali Sonait, of whom, however, opnosed but for a few minutes; then packed together in gºl
we gave an account a few weeks back. He flourishes in fellowship. We have, our Courts of Law:—“Hoyle and Ma
... seenrity between two great Powers, the IRussian Empire ºtliew” ar: our great legal'uminaries, and there is no appeal frozº
and the Anglo-Orientals, who are mutually civil to him, the decision of these great Judges. Commerce we are unwise
because jealous of each other. He is said to be a hand .dom eag age) in ; but this is a minor coasideratiou, and, writu
pome and accomplished Prince, who writes verses, and us, mere child's play. Our Habits, though in strict coufariatty
with legitimary, are (tº speak diplomatically) tire worst of our
has several scores of children, -

We forget the names and pretensions of the other Eastern fundamental features. We are ever to be seen in the Clubs and
haunts of the profligate i, we keep shameful hours ; set decenry
... or Mahouetan princes, even those of the descendant of the at defiance; add are too often found under the table in Tav
- Tartar Chief, who after his meal of horse-flesh used to Palaces, and Bagnios. But here we might plead an excuse whic:
have a cow's horn blown, in order to jet all the other poten brother Potentntes cannot—it is the intemperance of others, not
rates of the world know that they might go to dinner. our own, that places as there. In the “Fine Hearts" we have
There is one-yery extraordinary sovereign, however, who attained a perfection rarely known ; and we are patronised ºn
generally, that our Portraits are to be found in almost every
deserves mention if only as a curiosity. It is the GRAND
:*MA of Tibet, who may be called the Pope of the East. house in Eorope. -

or personification, not of | Our “Circulating Mediuin"

He is a sort of abstract specimen is similar to yours-a devastat
ing paper currepeyi Coin is seldom seem : but we possess a
- Megitimacy in the ordinary sease of the word (for nobody profision of Diamonds. Our Pastimes are uot worth eru
r knows where he comes fron), but of Legitimacy in every merating, although we have some odd Tricks, performed by
... ºther sense, gratuitous and wilful, especially, of Divine Conjurers whose attainments would astonish the opaque optics
- Right. He is a God upon earth, and is supposed never of your great Financier. It fine, we conclude, begging to state
to die, -nøt ºi... our kings, but literally. it as our firm belief, that we possess in commºn all the usual
* As soon as the old Lama pretends to breathe his last, the 'appendages of legitimate power, and that we are therefore er
titled to have the ounission of last Sunday supplied by the ed
priests find him in the body of some young child, as those mission of this our soleian protest into your paper of the next.
, ºf Egypt found the soul of the Bull Apis in some obvious Given at the Court of the Greet Mogul, this 17.1 day of May,
- 4'alf. On the first levee day the p5or little fellow is ac * 1819, (Signed) Clºss-Rex. Hearts-Rex.
cordingly discovered by his subjects sitting on the throne f 1914x10xps-Rºx. SPADEA-Rºx.
with ail the gravity of an old gentietnam. When the last - W. H. Principal Secretary.
" Raglish traveller, went to court there (we forget exaptly.
**hen, or, whom), the reigning Man-God was a little boy, º STATE.OF THE COUNTRY.
who acted his part with infinite decorum and seriousness, ... The papers in the manufacturing districts have lately
- but looked very dull and pale. -

contained most distressing accounts of the aumber of unſ;

. . A Correspondent has pointed out to us, in our passage temployed workinen, and the consequent wretchedness, and
ºn the King of Denmark, an important error, which we increase of pauperism, which give the lie direct to all tº
*ment with a sincerity proportioned to our known respect ministerial assertions of the prosperity of the country. At
for that excellent persºn. He says that so far from there Leeds a short time back the journeyinea manufacturers out
- º 2 any account between of employ paraded the strees in a body... and violence was
**ś §
raony :
º º: te of remark. apprehended. From the Petitions to Parliament, it ap
§§ngal affee. pears that some classes of manufacturers can only earn $3.
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a week, thºugh in full employ, and working sirteen hours necessary wants of the state—but in paying the mere in
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- out of the º: The parish rates are almost every terest of the debt—a debt incurred chiefly during a war,
where enormously high, and the degrading pauper systein' which was begun from fear of and hatred to the popular
taking its firſt swing. An instance, and we believe it is. ascendancy in France, and carried on in resistance to the
not a solitary one, of the condition of the parishes in the hostile spirit excited º
our impolitic interference in the
..country, is afforded by a statement respecting the parish concerns of our neighbours. This debt is in effect lika
of Wigton Magna, in Leicestershire, from which it ap an immense pauper system: a large body of unproductive
pears. that the poor rates have more than doubled since labourers are supported by the rest of the community, and
1814; that the filimber of inhabitants is 2,100, and the hang like a dead weight on their shoulders. The follow
number of pauper families receiving relief 248; which, ing account of one result of the folly and obstinacy of our
computing five individuals in each family, will leave 1,240 rulers is taken from official papers:–
persons, to be wholly or partly supported by 860–The Unredeemed funded debt, 5th January,
agriculturists are not much better off, as the low rate of 1819 - - - - - 4791,867,sig is 3:
wages proves; and trade; notwithstanding the late appear Ditto unfunded, in Exchequer Bills, - * *
ance º excessive speculation, is certainly much outstandiug - 43,655,400 0 0
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depressed. The state of the finds may be cited as a proof

of this: for even at this time, when there is no war excite We are uow redeemingtotal - essssºis is st
annually not quite 2,000,000l.;
ment, when the finances are embarrassed and there is no
:::::. their getting better, and when there is consi this, which is the only real Sinking Fund, is all we have to
!e alarm respecting the course that Parliament will apply to the reduction of the above alarming total. What
edopt towards the Bank; even now, we say, they kee is then our prospect? The best thing we can hope for is
- up at a price which affords purchasers but a very small the continuance of peace for several years, suppose it
interest for their money; and it follows; that if they could even to last for as long a period as the war did, which
invest it elsewhere, with more prºfit and tolerable security, Lord CASTLEReagh's settlement of Europe does not ren
** it would not remain where it is: it is in fact a last resource der very likely,–and then we shall have lessened-our-load
for capitalists, who prefer that to keeping it idle. in a small, comparatively a very small, degree. The most
The comparative excess of the value of exports over sanguise cannot hope for more than this; but what is
there on the other side? We fear a war in India; we
that of imports is, the constant theme of the Treasury. fear a war with America; we fear another change in France,
Journals, whereby they (pretend to) prove the “flourish. in which our Ministers would be implicated by their
ing state” of commeree; but, unluckily for their arguments, pledges to support legitimacy, or any convulsions in Ger
this circumstance at once proves directly the reverse. The
many, with which our Hanoverian dominions connect us;
Scotsman, a paper very clever in these matters, has put this
we dread any improvements of machinery on-the Conti
question, in a gear light: we shall therefore quote a pasnent, which would injure our manufactures: at home we
sage:– It will not be disputed, that the proper business of
are alarined lest the inonied men should be panic-struck
the merchant consists in carrying the various products of the
by the state of the º:
; we tremble at the idea of the -
different countries of the world from those places where effect of the resumption of cash-payments, and the corse
their exchangeable value is least to those where it is - limitation ºthe issues of Bank-notes, on the com
greatest. “It is obvious, however, that there could be no quent
mercial body; we dread lºst the distress in some parts of
motive to export any commodity unless the commodity the country should drive the people into violence; and in
which it was designed to import in its stad was cf greater short we are as sensitive as the Bulls and Bears of 'Cha,
value. When an English merchant imports 100,000 Alley to every breath of wind, because we know on what
quarters of Pºlish wheat, he calculates on its selling for so a slight foundation our present calin is built.
much more than its price in Poland, as will be sufficient ++
to pay thetheexpense
besides, of freight, itsurance, &c.; and to yield.
common .# ordinary rate of profit on the
capital employed in the transfer. If the wheat did not sell For EIGN INTELLIGENce.
for this sum, its importation would obviously occasion's FRANCE. -

loss to the importer. No merchant ever did or ever will

export, but with the view of importing a greater value in PAhrs., May 18.--The #. respecting the recal of
return."-A much better criterich of the state of a country the French Bonapartial and Revolutionary Exiſes came on
if the dispositiºn of the people with regard tº emigratiºn. yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies, in a Report from
Çonsidering all the obstacles to leaving clie's country the Committee of Petitions. The Report proposed to re
the attachments that must be broken, the frietids that must ject the Petition, which was agreed to by a large majority,
be abandoned, the old habits that must be given up and among whom were the Ministers.
the new cnes that must be adopted, as well as the natural - .. CHAMBER OF PEERs. . . . . . . . .
unwillingness to embark in a new course of life, and to i The Chamber met on Friday week to resume the debate on the
run the risk of encountering “ills we know not of;” Duke de Fitz-James's motion #: substituting the words, “ Chris
tian Religion," in place of “Public Morals," w the eighth, ºr:
considering also ºn how many cases individuals and ſani. ticle of the law respecting offeuces of the press. The Kaeber of
lies are prevented from moving by a sheer want of pecu the Seals was heard in defence of the article. The amendinºat
niary means, we may fairly conclude, that the distress and
was negatived by a º, of nine, there being—For the
misgovernment in a country must be great, when hundreds amendment, 94–Against it, tºº.—ºn Saturday week the remain
and thousands are leaving it for a distant place of refuge, ing articles were gone through of the first project respecting the
the mere voyage to which is perilous aud painful. . . . press, and a scrutiny taken upon the whole, when there ep
These things might be borne with patience, if there was peared—For the project, 130—Against it, 50. The project was
a prºspect of speedy or gradual relief. But the only re therefore agree; ic. " " - " -

lief that can beauticipated must come hiº. - -- COURT CF ASSºzº.

of a very disagreeable, perhaps a violent, catastrophe.
Even now, we scarcely breathe after the exertions duri
the war. The taxation continues at a great ...;
yet barely covers the reduced expenditure. The greater
part of the revenue, too, raised with difficulty from the
suffering community, is coustined—ºot in *::::::
tha
--
... The Court proceeded with the triat ºf Castilist and Maºet.
There was no evidence that either of the prisoners had weev
seen about the Duke's horse at the time of the supposed pilºt
shot. It appeared that Marinet had been º:
by a French Court, and was a&aid tº cºme tº Nººre: Lºrd
Kinnaird, however, vºwhem he is said to have disclosed shºw
at Bè. undertook tº answer for his safety, and took ºve
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_THE EXAMINER:
-- Wellington at Paris.-During the trial, there were disavowed. Had they not been disclaimed in the oath-taken by
the Catholics, the
by the diguitaries of their
expressions of approbation whenever the Duke was blamed, but
violent murmurs when any thing was said in compliment to him. versities?–If argument respecting theChurch andallegiance
want of their Utºof .
Aſter all the |...}}
were gone through, the Jury deli the Catholics was correct, it was of more force with regard to
-berated for an
lour; and then agreed unanimously in a verdict of Catholic countries. Yet it was not found that the allegiance of
*çquittal. The audience testified their satisfaction by loud plau: | the Austrians and French to the Pope interfered with their alle
Jits. ...The Attorney-General, addressing Marinet, said, that ince to their Sovereigns. The §. Earl then referred to
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flord Kinnaird had eceived him with respect to the safe cou former periods of English history. In the time of Edward the
‘duct; by that the French Government had very liberally offered 1st, when the Pope applied to the Barons against the King, they
to give him a passport to any part of Europe. Marinet expressed entered into a spirited resolution to protect their master from
a wish to retire to Switzerland, and his sense of his liberal treat papal ..". Several Acts too had passed against that tyranny,
ment.-Marinet and Cantillon were immediately afterwards set when the English were Catholic, and they were not objected to.
*t large, and on leaving the Conciergerie, were warmly greeted The Catholics were faithful to Queen Elizabeth, eved though a
by the multitude, - -- - - a spanish Armament was sent to dethrone her; and they had
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opportunities of deserting her capse. In short, the history even
of 'that bigoted period showed that the people always preferreº
UNITED PARLIAMENT, their temporal to their spiritual allegiance. Those who argued
for exclusion were bound to show that the danger of Emancipa
tion was more than merely surnised, before they refused a body
. . . House of Lombs. of men their civil rights. If the Committee was granted, he
slould certainly vote for a complete relief; but other Notale
Monday, May 17. Lords, who would not go so far; should at least vote, for the
- - -- - CATHOLIC CLAIMS. committee. . Now, when we were in a state of profound pence.
- The Earl of Donougumore observed, that the objections to was the time for enquiry. Considering the rapid grºwth of
Catholic Emancipation were, he believed, reduced to two-the American power, the prosperous and vigorous eondition of
"unwillingness of the Catholics to subscribe to the declaration France, and our own embarrassed situation with respect to
*gainst transubstantiation, and to take the oath of supremacy. finance, it would be madness to continue an irritating system,
With regard to the former, it was strange that so very harmless and to pass over so good an opportunity ºf cºnsolidaling the
a tenet could have been so long an obstacle to granting their de strength of the Empire, by conciliating the affection of all clus-e
mands. . Nobody uow clarged the Catholics with believing in
1He lawfulness of murdering kings deposed b
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the Pope, and it The Earl of Livrarool argued, that all history showed the
was too much to exclude them from civil offices, because they necessity of the connexion between Church and State, and the
admitted aspiritual and abstract papal supremacy.” Sºme altera. disastrous consequences that had happened, when that cºn
tions therefore in the oath of supremacy would beatſ that was
nexion was broken. Concession would not produce harmºny in
necessary to enable a loyal body of men, to º the privileges ireland, because the Catholics would not be content, till hey
*f British subjects. His Lordship was about to take a more en shared at least the emoluments of the Church, and because there
a

larged view of the question, but finding that ill-health rendered would be great contentions between the Protestant and Catholic
him gºable to proceed, he merely moved for a Committee to con candidate; at elections. “The condition of foreign Catholie eeuw
ºidºſ the ſaws atfecting the Catholics, and than sat down. ---
i., was no argumeñº, because the local sovereigns, having the
The Pishop ºf Norwich said, that all the danger to be appre: disposal of the churel, possessions, could guard against foreign :
hended from the Roman Catholics arose from. fº. up that jurisdiction, but the Velo was not a sufficient protection for Eng
jºritation and disturion at present existing. Other Slasses of his fand, the Çatholics wanted the evjoyment ºf political privileges :
Majesty's subjects (who were nevertheles; º: not acknow without assenting to the conditious under which they ought only
Hedge, the supremacy of the Crown. The Kirk of Scotland be to possess them. . . . . . … ." * - - *-* * *
lieved the supremacy to exist in the General Assembly of their The Marquis of LANspowN. and the Earls of CARNARwox and
Kirk; and the Moravians acknowledged the foreign supremacy DARNLEY supported the motion, and JLord Westmorlaxu and
of their Bishop. The Popg, was now diyesied of all power ex the Duke of Wellingron opposed it. The House then Alivided–
cept as the spiritual head of the Church..."'". " " '' . contents, 106—Non-Contents, 147—Majority 41.-Adjourned
The Bishops of Worcester and Perekhonough opposed the
motion, on the ground that the Catholics, by their allegiance td * ... Friday, May 21. *- : *. ** *

** Pºpe, were incapable of such allegiance to the King as was “… . *. .: * ,. ,. . BANK REPORT, ...
held by their Protestant fellow-subjects; and that if they ob. The Earl of Laudeauale presented a Petition, si ned by 4 or -

*almed their claims, they would strive to raise their Church to the 500 of the principal Merchanis and Bankº of the City, stating
º ****** very * able *** in the evils which the Petitioners apprehended from a forced end
precipitate contraction of the circulating medium, and praying
, *The Lord CHAsceticrºentered, into a long º m argumeñº, }. a longer extension of the Bank Restriction than that recem
to show, that the Cºnstitution was essentially*] fº. and mended by the Bank Committe‘. The Noble Earl, after reuerk
aviagbeen established so at the Revolution'&f 1688, could not ing on the confision occasioned at the meeting where this Peti
†) was agreed to, table.
by Messrs.
HisPfärsºll,
Lord-hipWºolerºe;
be all;tº without endangering its existence. . . . ºt
s Earl Gºey, in reply to the arguments of the last speaker, con
it should lie on the theº †. whether
a dommunication had not passed between the Ban Directors and
ºrded, that the securities formed at the Revolution against the Ministers that morning, and Lord Liverpool ...; that there
ºathºliº were entirely ºperary, being enacted when there
was an ºarsm. respecting the claims of the º He had, he moved for its production..., lt, wäs. according y brought
named tº any Acts of Parliament to show also, that severa of the upºnd read. It slºted, that the Bauk were the lºst belºns to
measures adºpted at the Revºlution had been altered since that object to paying their notes, but it was incumbeit oh them to
time, on account of the change of circumstances; and that conse consider i. commercial situation of the country ; that they co
queñº tºe was no objection ºn that score to Catholic Eman sidered the proposed measures' would be attended. * f".
ºpatº. *he laws of disquaſification were not to be found in riski and that, though willing to supply buſion sufficieß for
the Biłło. Itſghts or the Agt ºf settlement. Loake had been commercial purposes at the market frige, , st beyºnd'iº ſimut
*iotés as an authority against Emancipation by the ſearned they cººlently gº. . . . ....."...r.º.,...; º
foºt (Chancello); but that opiniºn of Iacke's was cºntrary to "fººl of Hºngoway expresigº his shºguing lº tº that the
ºf his other liberal ideas, and was the ºnseque; ºf the pre plan recomineſſed by the Bººk, ºnlimitºniº effºrty cer
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jºdices of his time against the Catholics, whº'lºned. ºiſe reduction of the cºulsº
Łºrd concur in those prejudices? Did he believe that the Cathº
!ics maintained those mºstpous dºctrines of which they were º
Rºſatºdes
ºpºrt **{º}~...…a…: strictić §§
ºrºgºsº Hg did not : and it was not thereforeſaif in ...: Thaſiſ is º ſūrſheſ to § pon
him to gue Locke's opinion on the subject as an 8-gument in his cash payments by the Bank for bººtsºlºiºch
favºiage he did nºt agree with the prejudices of that great manner, and on such conditions, as shall be provided by Parlia
ºwn ºsºbie: It cºld, not be doubted that, had. Locke º, with a view to ensure its final termination at the period so
*ś ºne his ºpinion ºperting Emancipation would not º, tº fixº~That previously to the resumption ºf cash ſ".
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tº an exceptiº, ºthis ºther principles of toleration. ments by the Bank, it is expedient that the Bank should be
* tearded Lord said," that those doctrines had not been required, at a time to tº fixed by Parliameh, tº give” exchange
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for its notes gold duly assayed and stathped at his Majesty's medium was of the same amount as in 1797, while commerce had
Mint, (if demanded to an amount not less than a number of perhaps quadrupled, and that therefore it was insufficients, But
ounces to be limited), valuing the same in such exchange at a the number of country Bank notes, the amazingly increased faciº
lities for rapid circulation afforded by a paper currency, and
price not exceeding 4t. 1s. per ounce;—That at the expiration of above all tº: amount of private bilis, notes, &c., rendered 50
a further period, to be also fixed by Parliament, the Bank should
be required to give in-exchange for its notes gold so assayed and millions of paper now able to do the work of 200 millions in 1792.
stamped, (iſ demanded to an amount of not less than a certain Ingenuity would always invent modes to supply the real want"
number of ounces to be limited), valuing the same in such ex of commerce, and there was no danger of the want of 4.eurrency
change at the Mint price;—That at some time between the two sufficient to represent the real property of the peºple. He trusted
periods above mentioned, the Bank should be required to give in that the Resolutions would be adopted. - *** - - -

exchange for its notes gold so assayed and stamped, valuing the
same sº a price between 4t. Is. and the Mint price; and that
after the price' at which gold shall be valued in such exchanges
shall have been once, lowered, it should not again be raised 3–
"that sfer the period shall have arrived at which the Bank shall
-
. The Earl of Laupendale observed, that when the Noble Lord
talked of the propriety of a fixed standard, it was what he and
his friends had been contending for during the last 12 years, and
what the Noble Lord had been controverting during the whole of
that time. The Noble Lord had supported a Bill, denying the

be required to give gold in exchange for its notes, at the Mint
price; a further period to be fixed by Parliament_should be al
ſowed, and a certain notice given, before the Bank shall be
required to pay its motes in cash 5–That it is expedient that all
lºws which prohibit the meltive or exportation of the gold or
silver coin, of the realm, and tº exportation of gold or silver
bellion made of such coin, should be repealed.”
£he Earl of Lavoetpale then moved a series of Counter-Re
depreciation of Bank paper. He congratulated the country on
the conversion of the Noble Lord.—His Lordship illen proceeded
to justifyoftheanassertions
evidence over-issueinof his resolutions:-that
Bankinotes; there was nº
that the contraction of
those issues would not give the Bank any command, over the
state of the exchanges, whick were unfavourable owing, to the
depreciation of the silver currency 61 per cent.; and would con
tinue so until the Mint'Regulations were altered. -

Lords Kna, Reprabait, and Gūknvittle supported the Reso

solutions to the following effect:—That during 1816 and the be
ginning of 1817, the exchanges were in our favour, and bullion lutions, which were agred to.-Adjourued. - * ,
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was, imported; that it would have been perfectly safe for the - -

Bank to have resumed Cash Payments at that time; that since HOUSE OF COMMONS. ** * , ,
.*
the introduction of the new silver coinage in 1817, the exchanges *
bad been against us, gold bullion had been exported, and silver - Monday, May 17. - -
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imported; that as an over-issue of paper is always attended with The London Gas Light Bill was thrown out by 184 to 31.
a rise of both gold and silver, it does not appear that there has On the Report on the Ordnance Estimates being brought up,
been any such over-issue; that therefore, if the Mint Regula Sir R. FEwauseok expressed a hope that some arrangement would
tions had assimilated the prices of the two metals to their market be made for the relief of the troops in the West Indies. Many
prices, the exchanges would have been uniformly favourable; regiments went out with the tertainty that they should never
*at such assimilation is necessary, as a preliminary step, to the return. Some regiments had four times their number of dead
Resumption of Cash Payments, which may take piece with per before their return, - * ** *
tecºaſty as soon as it is effected. - ** ***

The Earl of Liverpoot explained, at very great length, the CASE OF CAPTAIN-HANCHETT. *

*easures recommended in the Report, and the reasons for them, Mr. Bºwrer held in his hand a Petition from Captain Hanchett,
Under the extraordinary circumstances of the late war, the en a Companion of the Order of the Bath, and late Comptroller of
*ed paper currency was a most important advantage; but the Naval Watch for the prevention of smuggling. He com
that was an exception io the rule, as Parliament had shown by plained of having been deprived of his situation, without any
limiting the continuance of the Restriction to six months after adequate cause, by Mr. Lushington. This Officer, after under
the peace. Nobody of men had ever been entrusted with no #. great fatigues in this office, by which, in addition to his
much power as the Bank, and had less abused it; but still it ormer professional services, he was very much worn out, had
was better, if possible, never to trust such a power. It was ne signified a wish to retire on a superannuation allowance, whers
se"yºhave a fixed standard of values we country had ever the Secretary of the Treasury abruptly removed him and placed
been without one; and that standard, he thought, should be the another officer in his stead, to serve his election purposes. He
old-one, because the eontracts, both of Government and of pri
moved that the Petition be brought up. . . ." . " -: , ,
Yate Pºrº having been made in that standard, it was just that The Chawcrlton of the Exchequer said that he had advised
they shºuld be performed in it. A sudden contraction of the everything done by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Lashington) in
circulation might produce inconvenience, but the present was a this case, and must ºtherefore bear the responsibility. , Captain
inost favourab e time, when the difference between the market
Henchett was employed for having proposed a very ingenious
and the mºnt priees was only 8 per cent. The operation of the plan for the preventſon of smuggling as well as having distin
p •ed, measure would not commence till February, and he guished himself in the navy.
*rºs unable to understand how that could be called º and - - º -

Mr. Lushngron stated, that when the Petitioner had applied

Precipºte, it was pretty generally admitted, that the contrac to be allowed to retire on a pension, it was stated to him, that he
tion of the Bank issues would lower the price of bullion. He had no claim to it, having been only 24 years connected with the
believed that if the Bank were to
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to pay in gold to-morrow, the revenue. In the mean time it was discovered that he had entered
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would need little to begin with; but it ...:necessary to tº ;

into a negociation with a gentleman, whom he wished to be his
vided; and the particular advantage of the bullion plan was, successor, and who was to pay him 500l. a year or 6000ſ, at once
that they might open with a smaller amount, as caprice or
alarm wºuldereate no additional demand, as for coin. The object *This occasioned his dismissal. The Law öſſicers had been ap
plied to, to ascertain, whether such a negociation was not tog
of the plan was to arrest the evil of a depreciated paper, and nizable by Mr. Perceval's Aet, but it was found that it wesºnot.
raise it gradually to its proper height. Indeed the only reason He only blamed himself for having tealt too leniently with him.
xby his excellent plan was not put in action immediately was, Sir º Burperr did not-think the transaction; which was a
that it zas Previºusly necessary to repay the Bank part ºf their frequent one, could be railed immeral or eorrupt, if the person
advances,<he thought five or six, and not ten millions; for named by the Captain-was a fit person and not objected tºt by
though he did not think any repayment necessary, he wished to Government. - - sº
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remove all excuse for delay; and it would also enable the Bank
The Petition being brought up and read,
tº purehºe Bullion to supply the place of the paper with Mr. Lösunoton proceeded to contradict the allegations in it.
drawi. He did not consider, that a reduction of er issues He could prove that the Petitioner had bargained to receive
would be necessary to lower the price of bullion; it had fallen 6000l., from Lieutenant Dumblain who was to succeed him, by
*ince the Committee began to sit, from 41.8s, to 4!. 0s. 6d. per the evidence of that person and his father. Captain Knight, the
ounce, withºut any ºth reduction. He admitted that a paper
currency, which could be suddenly extended, was occasionally a officer who was put in the place of Captain Haschett, was not
connected with his (Mr. L.'s) election interest in Canterbury.
great convenience; but the good was more than cousterbalanced He put it to the Hon. Baronet, whether a gross breach of eon
by the evils of the encouragement of speculation and the accumu
'fidence was not sufficient ground for dismissal. - - - -

lation of fictitions capital; and if it limited mercantile transac Mr. Bennerhad been commissioned by Captain H. to state,
tion", it would place them on a secure and honourable founda that it was not true that he had bargained to receive 6000l., and
*ion. Iseºnvenience there certainly would be, but there would that though he had been by the contrivances of the elder Đum
**********Year. It was asserted that the circulating blais induced to enterinto a consultation for securing an allow -
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**to be paid ºut of his successor's salary, yet he had always. not discuss that point; but he well remembered the signer when
*Pressly said that he would take no º: ..
theiapprobation of Mr. Lushington. It had been agreed, on his.
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tamely... (Cheers.).…We should satisfy the world that our object
this Government would not have put up with such an act so
appointment, that he should receive a certain share of the
was peace; but that our love of peace did notatise from a dread
seritres; be found it-amount to a much greater Runn than was of war and our inability to sustain it. (Hear!) One of the
- Fººt a year), and he “unway ºn i up. charges against Ministers was that they had. lected cvery
thing that would improve the interual situation, of the country.
The Petition was laid on the table; and Mr. Lusmsgrox en The most inielligent inerchants, as appeared from the evidence
*ged to ſºy before the House all the documents necessary to before the Bauk Committee, had declared that there was a general
illustrate the transaction. -
stagnation of trade; and che of the causes of this was, that no
BRIBERY BILL, &c. . | commercial treaties had been inade. The only treaty of the sort
The RepºrtBARNSTAPLE
of this Riji being brought up, t wits that of Newfoundland, which occasioned a serious less to

R. Wilson
Sir from
Jet in
said, that the number of voters proposed to be the nation. There was one opening, which he had hºped the
the adjoining hundreds (8 for 900) would be too few: Government would have taken advantage of Independently of
tº present corruption. As all the effectors but one had been struggling.for liberty, Ministers should have looked towards the wish the English.people must feel to succoura bravension
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--- prº to be coirºt, he could nºt see what cºinction there South America, as a vent for our trade, on mere mercantile con
º be to taking away the elective franchise, and bestowing it. But they ling done worse than, nothing: A Bill was
gººme Forulous unrepresented town. He moved, as an amend sideratiºns.
peading tº exasperate the Patriols and Westroyſall, hape tſ
*ht, ºat the Report ºr considered that day six months, with a now
commercial advantage—(Lºnd, from all sides)—which
ºw ºf mºving for leave to bring in a'Biff to transfer the elee would brow.all the trade,intº the hands of our rival, when ºur
tive franchise tº Leeds. *- : * . . . . . .-,
own manufacturers were starving. The Right, Hon. Gentleman
... Mr. Wyss objested, that this plan would be hard on some of then reviewed the filiancial operations from 1845, to show that
...the flºctors, as all had not taken bribes." * : : * * * *. . . ‘Ministers bad gontinually had recourse to temporary shifts and
Alderman Wairºs argued, thhat the elective franchise wes' | contrivances. They respºdall their hope at one-time upon the
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not a private right, but a pºſic trust; and that if there were: continuauce ºf the Income Tax; but the Hotserºjº that pro
some uncorrupt voters, they were overpowered by the cºrrupt, positiºn. What followed i\id the Ministers resign? Of course,
and it was for the publicadvantage, that it should we forfeited.
Mr. G. Laxs supported the amendment, which was lost, onia: nobody expreted that-(Laughter.) Did they produce any other
Pro |project instead? No; but like angry boys, because the
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º*Mr. Š-Bourne moved the second reading of the Poor Rates' perty-tax had been taken away, they threw the Malt-tax after it. -

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(Laughtrr.) Fron,that hour to this, he defied anybody to shºw.

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*Pºnd, ºſhers, on the ground that it would increase.pap bounty imaginations. They resolved, that they
crossed their ill faird
opposed by Mr. Cunxes, Mr.Päiºrs, Mr. RI that any Abing like a financial plan had, would live upon the .
perism, b taking away the bar to improvident marriages—the familiar:to of the Bank of England, or trust to what was ºil more
supporto º; ; would. ..". ties of pn-, them, the chapter of accidents, (Mushkºshtº.)
rental an lial a ection; and would bring spºilew generalrºm They held forth, in 1817, he most flattering hopes of prºverty. which was to remove all their 'difficulties and enable them tº re
of paupers. -

Mr. Brann and Mr. Cockroºn thought the Bill would do: pay the Bank their 9,000,000l. They were repeated in 1848, but
‘good" by taking away from improvident parents; the power of they still coulinued unrealized. The Chancellor of -the-Excht.
ºnisapplying parish aid; and would keep many cluidren from quer was, tiemouth-piece on these qccasions; but it was really
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very, hard that he should be thrust forward so tº public, re
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time, ause divided—A
-'Adjourned. yes, 57–Noes
94-ºxoes, *- Read ~.
- a second proach. Aylwen, he (Mº...T.) moved for a Committee on th:
:#aukºlast year, it was refused, though it had utenºppointed
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this year; and the circumstances equally demanded it st
- Tuesday, May 18." . . . . . -
- - -- ºt both times. This was the history of three years ºf peace,
- - -The Barns taple Bribery. Hiſ was passed. * -
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during which only iº90,000l. of our enormous debthºd tº • -

STATÉ of THE NATION, ºpaid ºff. The Cºnsulidated Fund was now in arrear 3,300,000l. -

observed, that had he ested ºnly as a party man audiº.700,000l. were wanted to pay the Bank; ºthat the pº
- *
& ºi.
wi, *e always avowed: himself to be) he should have ab incut of the dividends depended on the good-will of the Bank
ed from ſº forward this The present, Directors, Was this a proper security to the public greditor:
º
Administration was more I ered in the estination of the coun ſlie expected another ioan of 22 or 30 milliens. He had heard
, ºrthºny one everexhibited to public view (Cheers); they jtovote that new taxes were to be imposed; but he would sever consent
**ere dead º hy;ng principle, and at a single haſſpeony; until the finances were placed ºn
tºglied to no system, but that ºf vigorºusly maintaining their, some sound and intelligible footing. The effect ºf the prºut
places; they had become therefore objects ºf compassiºn and system was to £aiºus the reputation of being a nation of gamble:
, - cºntempt. (Cheers and laughter.) brought-forward. andjobbers. iie begged the House to reflect, if any jar shºuld
nothing of impºrtance, but had resi e-measures, pro ilappenin our foreign relations, what would
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be the situation ºf
ºposed by his friends far the public. iſsº had oppºsed, the stock-holder? Could they suppose that all this was not we!
- - isy respecting iliº Penal Laws, understood by foreigners? (Hear.) To sufferswch a state ºf
Burghs, &c. and
- * has been º
feated: yet they kept, t - places. --As a party,’ sult. to exist was
things(Hear.) to invite
He did sitaek,
not wish to allowhisa premium
to disguise ºn in
ºpinion with re
ºpositiºn stood
---gain nºthing-by this
º
ſº.
-ground,” that they could.
but he ºdiºther duties, besides apest to the effect of his motiºn, which certainly went to produce
ºf ºmegetatiya to perform, ºilºff therefore undertaken. aºvernmentchange of Administration...It must be obvious, that the Gº:
*this task, in thesºjimº, it would not dº to º: time. He was incapable of meeting the pressing exigencies of the
ºbººked at: if they did nºt maintain the dignity ºf the country, might refer ‘g the Poor Laws, respecting which ſhree
- the House was º to interpose. He wished to slew that the kills had been prepared by the Committee, but nºthing had tº
respresent state of publicºſairs was fºliº di º and, danger, done, Ministers would take no partin-the-mater. The
Bank because
Committee would never have been appointed, º it not
and remaired proma! and vigºrºuhºungs. Frºſand was nºw. been for his motion, and when it was found that it could not be
Aſ novel .."; * º: to. lº. *:::::: ###.
iance was but tº frail security for peace. Directly after the helped, the inquiry was made secret. Some persous were dº.
• fºur pºwers had "dmitted. France to an equality, § º, de: posed to think, that a motion.]ike the present was ally intended
*Richelieu, with whom he treniy had been cºluded, was dis :lis to drive one party out and put anotherin. Forillis.ows: part:
-- missed-and, the French, connºis that ..". that health and time of Jiſe prevented his desiring official labeur”
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-but
ºuth reliance could nºt beaplaced, ºn; the cont nuange of any because he should feelinoishamein avowing that othee was his object:
diplomatic system. We wºn is war will, France, tº destroy to serve that was a legitimate object foreverymah who wished
that prºpoliderauce by...which she was able to convulse hú riucipleshisand country; and if an opening were made upon hiº.
Eurºpe; but her present situation was formidable; º: º: º, terms, he would subunitºuy Fºrsonal sacrifice:
were well arranged. and her cºmmerge, reviving. There was that this was manifesº-that the security
another º: merica) out of the pale of the :: ºf the country depended upon a strong-administratiºn, whichº#:
wards whom
jºtºhad been execute
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ºf.. º il this was not. It had been said ibathis motion shºuld have beer
mandey."...There postponed till the report of the Bank'ſºothſhitteethadºnndergoner
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... might be girsun *** jºst **i; ittee anals state ºf the nation; hºwever,”
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would afford the best occasion for embracing the consideration }Sir F. Bunpert said, that the Right Hon. Gentleman had.
of the report.-Ministers had given two contrary otinibus on the disclaimed any feeling in favour of Parliamentary Reform—(No,
carrency; They had a resolation on their table which declared from Mr. Tierney). He was glad to bear his statement contra-,
that Bauk-notes were equivalent to gºld, whilst the reports of dicted; and should more willingly vote for the motion. Coupled,
both Committee", declared that they neither were, not should be then, with Parliamentary Reform, they might expect ifoportant.
. . so. (Hear.) ºf his motion was carried, it would do good, by benefits from a change of Administration; and the country”
eithet compelling the Ministers to adopt some more vigorous might be disposed to bear its burdens more willingly. The fºre. .
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treasures, or by opening the Prſhee Regent's eyes to their de sent Administration could not conduct the government of the
fects, mud-procuring their removal. That removal was neces country with effect, because they were unpopular, both on acrº ,
sary to conciliate the affections of the people, not by any sub count of their financial measures, and their attacks on the liber-".
serviency to popular clamour, or by indulging in any visionary ties of the people. He must also add, that this was an unpopu-º
Reſorta, but by showing a disposition to do practical good. His lar Parliament. When the Noble Lord harangued about troops,
wbject was therefore the restoration of the finances and the con of the ºpposition, had he made any bargain with his own
cºllation of the people. He cencladed by moving for a Com forces—his Swiss troops? - -

mittee to consider the State of the Nation. (Lond cheering.) Mr. CANNixg allowed that the Right Horſ. Gentleman hałº
Lord Gastirresai complimented the Chancellor of the Exche. been frank in stating the object of bis motion; but he complained
-quer on his financial exertions, greater than which, he said, had of the time and circumstances chosen for it. He defended the
bever been made to meet such pressing difficulties. The Right eanduct of Ministers with respect to Florida, Arbuthnot and .
fion. Gentleman, had said, that he wished to open the Prince Ambrister, and South America, on the ground that our inter-,
Regent's eyes; but if that was necessary why had he not done ference in those cases, would have been both-impertinent and
*o before ? On the eve of two great questions, he had come for
watd to as tate the question of the capability of Ministers. (.4 impolitic. It was said, that this was a Government of Coº
laidh.) The motion appeared to him to be entirely useless: *:: mittees: when the House was overloaded with Conmittees, the
Bank Reports would have a full discussion on Mondav. It Opposition added two more. The Hon. Gentleman, then de
was hºw 4oo late wo consider, whether the Administration was fit scribed the arduous and fatiguing task performed by Ministers,
ºf not. He would place himself and colleagues fairly before the who, after three or four hours of wearisome debate, were *** .
House. At no period of history was the appearance of Europe. preted to go through the business of the day. Ministers were
blamed for their conduct with respect to the Poor Laws: they
tnote peaceable. He denied that we had...gone to war to curtail were declared to be incompetent fools, and yet were expected to
the power of France; it was to check the desolation caused by carry measures, which Mr. Pitt and Mr. Whitbread could not
the Revolution. The commerce of the country for the last four carry! Ministers were said to be divided ; but suppose the ºp
§. never before equalled. He was surprised to hear the position were in place, were there no questions, like the Catbº
Newfoundland treaty, held so cheap, as the commerce with Arne lic Question, on which they would be divided ? -8appose a non
*** was most valuable. . It was unpleasant for him to defend an lition administration, consisting of Whigs and Reformers...wº
administration in which he was personally concerned: the Han. formed, would they ubt be divided on the lion. Baronet's (Sir F.,
Gentleman ought to have mentioned some specific ºrt, in which Burdett) plan of Parliamentary Reform, and be liable to the same.
they had dºne wrong. The Hon. Gentleman said, they had no represeh which they so anmercifully cast upon their unºfºte.
pºinciple: he should like to know what principle the Hon. Gen
tlernan could be shown to be attached to. (Cheers.) The Poor predecessors. (taighter.) It was said, that if the Mini****..
Law*, the Criminal Code, the Charities, the affairs of the bank, were popular in the House, the Whigs were popular in the , ,
hºld al received great attention from Ministers; and financial country.' He should have thought that popularity was the last.
In eastºres had been discussed in that House in detail. The Noble topic that the whigs would haveºlluded to, as one of their prº.
tensions to come into power. He did not cºnceive that Miniºr" '
Lºd then went on with a long-cºntinued jöke respecting the ex were particularly popular, nor himself wºre than the rest of his
ce!!eºt marshalling of the Opposition troops, whom he com colleagues; but he had gone through the ordeal,bf a public -

[. tº a Mahratta confederacy, before Mr. Tierney toºk the election without the º tº: #.". ..( 4. -

ead, which excited ºnceasing cheers and immense taughter from laugh.) He had not been subjected to ºch ºking Pººl
his ºwn side of the House, ile called upºn them nºt to suffer. º as those idols of the people.--th? Whigs—whº with
the Government to be overthrown by dexterity and discipline, jºin their hats and brickbats at their heels, bedºbº with .
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and sat down amidst continued applanse. • * :

ribºnds and rubbish, were forced to be rescued ºn their over-,
The Hon. W. Lawn remarkeſ, that Althoºr", the private powering popularity by a Metachment of his º º:
haracter of the Ministry was very good, yet they were unfit to ºuards. (Sãouts of liaighter.) Suppose thºse tº -bºgatºred
be at the head of affairs, because they were without the ecº Whiº, weresaid
tº come into office instead of the present Ministry,
fidence of the country. The whole executive had devolved ...] who is were were so disliked throughgº; the cºº where, .
the ºcmmittees
tional. . . .
of that House, which was most unconstitu -

after all. was the advantage wºrth contending for? Was it fºr
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the trifling difference between an impopular * * elted ad
... Mr. R. Manits drew forth the Janghuer of both sides of the miniºn; (Aliangh). The Rightºn, Gentººd.
Castlere *.*hºuld oppose each other manfº-fce to fade. 4hat the *...*** have to review the transactiºns of ...
Hºe ſºme time. He thought that Mr. Tierney and Lordſ
. It owed ho ºfaſiºn to Government; though he tright meh years: yes, they would have to contempº a.º. of splenºid s
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o triumphs and unparalleled successes: ..º. of obtaining"

tion; as a proof of their popularity, that he had canvassed 12,000 which
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freeholders with the standard of Goverument unfurled,—ſyche would see had almost always been resisted by the pposition; they
theories reinted by facts, and prºphº of defeat faſ.
ºf lºgiter)-and had ovetcaine the mighty minion of Opposi sified by successful eyents. (Cherº, Jºe: º House take & Re
tion—ºntpe Bºse Day,' ' ' ' ' " º
, Mr. Wyss should give no vote on this hºb, bºtange he tity, cided course, and either dismiss the Ministry.*** ...'. -

or support them so eminently, as to enable them to toºdºrt

thºught the bººk question should have been first tiscasseå.
Lºrd Jºss Ryºti denied that this motion anticipated the the business of ºdoubtry. (Continu. cheers.) -- -

" consideration of the Bank Report, as Mr. Tierney had not at ałł. Mr. Treºry replied. As to the charge ºf unpopularity, he
disetwº-ed that Report. He was surprised ºn hear that the late would say “give'ºhe patrº ºf the ºrch ºººh.
war was not to fessen the Frºnth pºwer. If, however, the ºr away, ºftews he influenes of the Crown, and we will wrefut:
was only intended to crish revolution, it had completiáy tº4;" ºffiliarers' inºflveºlimates; their friewels, would be top flºw
tor the dortrines denounced in Mr. Barke's book were nºw more 'und insignificant to be counted.” Let the public lºck at the list
prevaleat than ºver. It seemed as if, at the peake of Paris, all of thºgºntlemen whé would ºakiºnigh; let it observe the
interest, but those ºf £;&land had been aven&eats. As fºr of: pºisºwen one side; and he tºdependent Meshersºn the sººt,
domestic interests, what the Poºr laws;-Haws whitº, had ind theasay, which party spºke the real start of the eawºry. . .
changed the character of the tº enting class, ... were disressed, (itar.) wºn the whig stºod ºn their ºwn fºanº, there
, Ministers attented rheºselves. Accidents hat given thºsemi *ºne marthuring ºr pâtings but joy and acclamation; atº."
advantages over'Bonaparte, which they hair well ºth fast by was only when joined by ºne Tories, encuitbered with miniº.
their own extravagant evadºtt. The behaviºr ºf the Rºver: terial hºp, *that they lost the popular favour. (Hear), *:
ment reminded him of an old story of a scene shiftet in the ºne ºurs ºthe Miºsº ºngº, h;
theatre, whe, whenever ºtº folled ºpen theºge, cried thºught that it would nºt do nºrth credia to the House if their
out, “That is my thunder” (trighter.) & the Motie Laºd votºstrºithis nightshaw that they had more cºnfideº ºn ...
and bisfriends no soover heard esºwiń Rawā, thºw wº the present welders ºf affire than ºpathy with the ºverwhelm.--
they ge; and ºried, “That is servasw." (cºntinued taughter) ing
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The House divided–Ayes, 178–Noes, 857—Majority for Mi - , - * BANKRUPTCY BUSINESS, ... * *
nisters, 179—Adjourned. - -- - Mr. M. A. TAYLoa, after remarking on the ruinous expense -
Wednesday, May 19. and delay of the Chancery Court, proceeded to state some pro
Alderman Wood presented a petition from certain Jews positions for lessening the evil. . It had been found, that the esta
against the Poor Rates' Misapplication
*p Bill, stating, that if that blishment of the Vice-Chancellor's Court had not relieved the
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Bill became a law, the children ºf Jewish paupers would be Lord Chancellor as much as was expeeted, as many cases came
taken from their parents and brought up in a different religioã to him through that Court #. e ºf appeals, which more- . over increased the delay. h
Laid on the table. ethºngſt that ifié object would be -- .
- EXCISE PROSECty'TIONS. - effected by taking the bankrupt cases from the jurisdiction of the
Lord HENRY Howamp presented a Petition from. Heñty, Great Seal, and appointing ºn Judge for the special purpose of..."
Esq. and others, complaining of the unwarrantable protection by determining them.'"the busine was proper for a legely not anº. --
the Board of Excise of witnesses convicted of beriury and other equity judge. There was a sinecure connected with bankrupt
crimes, and praying that the House would º: some steps to cases:-that of Patentee of Bankrupts; +whose emotorments (4 ºr
remedy the evil. A prosecution for perjury had been instituted 5000l. a year) might be devoted to this purpose. At present-it
by Mr. Henty against a number of witnesses, on whose evidence was morally impossible for auyaman to get through the chanisel
he had been found guilty, and Government had not only re lor's business that Judge was therefore paid for business which
lieved him from all fines, but repaid him his expences. he could not attend to. Many causes were set down in; the ſº
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Mr. W. Burnell bore testimony to the high character of the per two years before they were heard. The mouer-lodged iſ -

Petitioner. . . - - ... . . .-the Bank of England, beſonging to ‘Chancery suitors, amounted

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The Chancellon of the Exchequen objected to receiving a to 34 millions; in 1752 it was only three millions, 35pmetimes
Petitºbn of so general a nature. He was informed, top, that the the expense of taking money out .# .º. was greater than
Excisé employed no informers, though they necessarily reeeived its amount. He concluded by nišving, that: the House should "
informations. . - ; :
resolve itself into a Committeeté consider the laws on this sub- .
Mr. Renner said the whole case was clearly proved. Mr. J ects. , - - - -" * * *- "... " -

Henty had been charged with beiug concerned in smuggling; The Soliciton-Gesenal contended, that the proposed altera
and althdugh information had been given to the Solicitor of Ex tion was unnecessary... The average number of Bankrupt Peti
cise of the infamous character of the witnesses and the good cha tions was about 570 a year. At this time only 170 (he believed) *
racter of Mr. Henty, that officer chose to proceed. - When an remained to be heard, of which 100 had been set down since last
indictment for perjury was preferred against the witnesses, the Hilary Term; the others had chiefly been put off for some special.
Excise offered §: for them; but in order to thwart this attempt, cause. There were about,200 causes pending, of which isohed
an information was laid against them for felony, on which they been set down since Hilary"Term. He thought that the bank.
were committed, and took their trial. The Solicitor of the Ex ruptcy business ought to be transacted by an Equity Judge; and
* eise had prosecuted individuals on the evidence of persons, whose indeed it was not enough for a separate Court. . -

oaths no Magistrate in the kingdom would have taken. Was an Mr. Taylon replied, that he should not give up his statement,
innocent'man to be brought before a Jury, and convicted on the until a Committee was granted to enquire into the facts, and in
evidence of felons, outcasts, and paupers? Was the country to that case he pledged himself to prove their correctness. -

pay 1400t, or 1500l. because the Solicitor of the Excise thought The House divided–Ayes, 49–Noes, 77—Majority against .the
er to employ such miscreants? .
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Mr. H. Suwsen urged the particular hardship of these duties,
BöRotigh ÖF CAMELFORD-conveyANCERs, &c. which were levied on a necessary of life, and the injustice, if
A. Pétition was presented from Mr. Charles Pitt, who had be. they existed, of letting them press only on one part of the oom
*fºre petitioned against tiſe return for Camelford, and now stated, munity. Such taxes had been declared by Adam Smith and other
...that when he fittended ºn ſhe day fixed for the examination of political economists to be very impolitic. He did not wish to
his recognizances, it was found to be a day later than the Act touch that portion of the Con! Tax, which was pledged to the
allowed. iſe had thereforé refused to have his recognizances Orphan's Fund in London. It was said that the repeal of this
exãmined, thinking it useless, and being determined to present, tax would injure the health of the metropolis by encouraging the
another Petition: in consequence, his recognizance was declared erection of manufactories in its neighbourhood. But that objec
tº be fºrfeited: tion might be wholly obviated, if Gount Rumford's plan for cau
A conversation arose on the mode of proceeding; and the de suming smoke was adopted. Four counties, including Middle
ºjournet.
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sex and Surrey, with a population of 44 millions, paid $70,000
. The House, resolved itself into a Committee to consider the four-fifths of the tax,−while four other counties paid only 20,000l.
laws respecting Conveyancers, and Mr. Lyrtleron stated the and twelve others nothing. After correcting an ºrroneous re
"amendments which he wished to make. At present, any man, port, that he meant to propose an equalization of the tax, the
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by paying 40l., could act as a Conveyanter: he proposed, that Hon. Gentleman moved for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the
none should be allowed so to act except Serjeants, Barristers, duties on coal and cuſm. ..." ‘. . . " .

Conveyancers at the time of passing of the Act, rsons having : Lord Ebrington described the pressure of this tax on Devon.
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kept eight terms, and done exercises at an Inn of Court, Attor and Cornwall; # and argued, that no extent of financial difficulty
º seys, Soheiſtºrs,Proctors, and Notaries. He did not mean that: could justify its continuance, if any substitute tould be found.
this Act shºuld prevent any steward who was a member of one of From the ministerial decºrations about prosperity, &c., he had
the Inns of Court, from drawing any lease or conveyance of pro hoped that the country would have been relieved ºf some of the
perty, or to prevent, public officers from drawing official instru-, | most ºppressive taxes. . . . -- -

ments, or any individual from drawing wills gratuitously. The Mr. Evºtlºrox was surprised at the bringing forward this
iſou. Gentleman dwell upon the hardship of the present system motion now, when coals were much cheaper, and the finances
with regard to Attornies, who had to pay vety heavy snins on were so embarrassed. He contended, that the tax was not so
-earnmencing a business, the most profitable part of which was, unfair as it appeared to be, beeause the inland counties paid -
taken away by a number of Conveyancers, who ºnly paid40l.— much" for the more expensive carriage of coals as the Lo
The House resumed, und-leave was givents firing in a Bill.— + doliers did to the revenue, when the difference between the value
Adjourned,” “...” -- - -- ".
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‘I duties were repealed, the inland coal trade would be destroyed.
A Petitjen was presented from Mr. Dufrene against the new . Alderman Wood wished the duty tº be equalized: a tax of ts.
Bankrupt Bills: It stated, that the evidenée taken before...the per chaldron on coals at the pit, would produce 100,000t, incre
- Gommittee had been ertirely on one sider namely, that of the ſo the revenue than the present system did. , iſ the inland trade
&reditºr, no person in favour of the debtors having been exa-. was checked, at any raie, the manufacturers wºuld get coals
mined ; and the Petitioner" prayed to be heard at the bar of the cheaper; and no part of the country ought to claim exeuiption.
House on the Bankrupt Laws generally, and particularly in that The sufferings ºf the London poor, in consequence of this tax,
part of them, which had caused.him to suffer a long and ruinous were very great. . . . . . . ... " -

• ‘imprisonmentº–Laid on the takle.- . *... " , ...'s

... Colonel Wood said, that Mr. Sumner ought to have named a
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The debate on the Petition of Mr. Pitt being. resumed, Mr. substiture; he doubted not that he had one, which he kept back
wºns gave it as his ºpinion, that the House-had not power to:
graat its prayer, and it was rejected. . .. .. .
from a fear that the º: the Exchequet would coutinee
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were many other taxes, which it would be equally just to take could be no degradation in subjecting the Magistrates to an ap
: off, but they could not he spared. He opposed the motiën. peal, for Courts of law were subject to that. To the disgtace of
The CHAxckllow of the Exchequen would oppose any motion the Lords Lieutenants, the Bench in the counties near the me
for a diminution of the revenue, which indeed it would be his tropolis was most improperly filled.—The Bill was read a se
... duty shortly to propose a means of increasing. . . * cond time. - - - -

veral ºther Members briefly delivered their opinions. Mr. A Resolution of thanks was voted to the Marquis of Camden,
Maxwell contended that London was fully compensated for this and the Bill enabling the Treasury to receive his salary was read -

bºrden by being the seat of government, and containing so many a second time. - -

- public bºdies and wealthy individuals. On a division, the mo Mr. Caitºtient, after pointing out the abuses in the adminis
... tion was legatived by 151 to 49. . - - -
tration of justice in Wales, moved a series of Resolutions, ex
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INSOLVENT DEBTORS... . pressive of the necessity of assimitating it to that of England.—
Lord-CastleREAgh wished some specific proposition had been
Ҽrd Airwarp said, that the Committee on the Insolvent Laws brought
had been so unanimous in their approval of the measure he was forward; he objected to sueh sweeping Resolutions.—
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of bringing forward so important a proposition on merely his own: º * = - -

ºpinion.- The Noble Lord then described the evils of the pre-" "
, set system, the principle of which however was most iust, and 4. - -
Tuesday's LoNDoN GAzette. - -

stated the proposed amendments. These were, that an exami. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
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nation of accounts shºuld take place before they were examined R. L. Fletcher, Blackburn, Lancashire, manufacturer. -

open Court, as that frequently caused incorrectness; that

there should be three Commissioners in the Insolvent Court, in BANKRUPrs. . . . . . " -
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...º.º.º. Aston, Warwickshire, manufacturer.

stead of one;" that one of them should preside at the meeting of J. Attorney,
the creditor-, and no creditor who did not prové his debt at that || S. Mr. Hall, Great James-street, Bedford-row.
*eting, should have any claim upon the property; that.the * Greenfield, Evans, Bristol, victualler. Attornies, Messrs. Posle and
.debtor should be obliged to make his option whether he would J. Cummings,Gray's-inn-squa re. - -

take the benefit of the Act within fourteen days after his arrest, Osborn-street, Whitechapel, brewer. Attorney,
and if he did not do so within that time, he should be eonsidered. E. Mr. Argill, Whitechapel-ro ad. -

tº have forfeited his claim to be released under it; but the cre
dºor should still be enabled to oblige the debtor to
release, in order to come at his property. This provision was
not intended to apply to persons contined in mesne process, as
they might not have been arrested for just debts. Fees were to
be generally abolished, though exceptions might be made. With
respect to *rs in the country, the Magistrates of the Quarter
Mumford, Liverpool, silversmith. Attornies, Messrs. Bacie
apply for his and John, Palsgrave-place, Temple-bar.
T. Goldney, Chippenham, Wiltshire, clothier. Attornies, Messrs.
Few, Ashmore, and Hamilton, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.
R. Midgley, Harden, Yorkshire, worsted-manufacturer. Attor
nies, Messrs. Few, Ashmore, and Hamilton, Henrietta-street,
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Sessions should appoint Examiners to investigate the accounts, R. A. Clunie, Berwick-upon-Tweed, corn-merchant. Attornies,
and report to the Court in London. As great abuses had oc. Messrs. Swain and Co. Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
curred from the removal of debtors to parts of the country, where I. Lewis, Mincing-lane, merchant. Attorties, Messrs. Noy and
ºreditors could not attend to oppose them, the Bill ...i. the Hardstbne, Mincing-lane. ""- -

Court to select that place for the examination, where most of the A. Hirst, Beverley, Yorkshire, worsted-manufacturer. Attor
•reditors resided. He concluded by moving for leave to bring in W.nies, Messrs. Lamberts, Taylor, and Deane, Gray's-inin-square.
a Hill for the Relief of Iusolvent Debtors.—Leave was given, the Lee, Bolton, Yorkshire, cloth-manufacturer; 'Attorney, Mr.
iiſ was brought in, and read a first time. . . - -
Battye, Chancery-lane.
ARTICLE IN THE COURIER.:
H. J. Beardsworth and J. Bealey, Blackburn, Lancashire, cotton
Attornies, Messrs. Milne and Parry, Temple.
Mr. CaitaenaN asked the Chaucellor of the Exchequer, whe J. manufacturers.
and E. Powell, Holborn-hill, oil and colourmen. Attorney,
ther a pºrºgraph in the Courier of that night-which appeared Mr. Mott, Essex-street, Strand. --
tº be official, and stated that it was intended to repay the Bank Duffi!, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, grocer. Attornies, Masers.
of England ten millions before the 1st of February next, was J. Fladgate Neeld, Essex-street, Strand.
authºrized? Such a paragraph, being thought official, would R.: Langton,and London, merchaut. Attorney, Mr. Chester, Staple
produce great alarm. - - - * -
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* Several Members objected to such a question as most unpar J. inn, º

Cox, St. John-street, linen-draper. Attorney, Mr. Dobson,
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liamentary-The CHANcellor of the Exchequen hoped the

Hon. Gentleman would never hereafter consider any article in jun. Chancery-lane. -

Dickinson, Manchester, dealer. Attornies, Messrs. Hurd and

any newspaper as official. With respect to the paper in ques J. Johnson, ** -: ,
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tion, he could not help saying, that he had seen.nuch in that | J. E. C. andTemple.
J. Richards, Martin's-lane, Cannon-street, wher
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paper that he entirely disapproved of: - chants. Attorney, Mr. Wright, Fenchurch-street.
Town-LAND FINEs. S. Williams, Brighthelmston, Sussex, carpenter. Attornies,
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...The House went into a Committee on the laws respecting Messrs. Palmer and France, Bedford-row.
illicit distillation, and the CHANGELlor of the Exchequke stated C. W. and J. Tittensor, Foster-lane, button-sellers. Attorney,
the provisions of his new measure. An armed force was to be “Mr. Jones, New-inn.
stationed in each district, after ille summer assizes; any county J.Swanzy, Austin-friars, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Dennetts
hºwever might apply for the cºttºnnance of the present system and Co. King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street. * * ,
of Still Fines; aud . fines not, inflicted within three years pre Zimmer, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square, merchante At
- S.; would not be levied. The regulation of small stills J. tornies, Messrs. Oakley and Birch, Martin's-lane, Cannon-street.
would be the object of a separate measure. He moved for leave |.
to bring in the BiH., . : , ,
Sir J. Nºwroar thought the measure extremely complicated,
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The Marriage-Act Amendment Bill was passed. J. Pearson, Leicester, dealer, from May 25 to June 8.
* Heave was given to Lord CastleReagu to bring in a Bill to - BANKRUPrs. .
extend the powers of the Commissioners for inquiring into cha N. Burch and W. Smith, Birtles, Lancashire, calico-printers,
ritable abuses. - - - J. Woodward, Banbury, Oxfordshire, upholsterer.
On the motion ºf Mr. BENNET, that the Pubficans Licenses J. Rossiter,
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Somersetshire, clothier, º,
Regulation Bill should be read a second time, it was objected, W. Coleman, Gosport, baker, - -

that it was not right to campel the Magistrates to give a written C. Pettitt, Birmingham, glover,
reason for refusing licenses, or to allow an appeal to the Quarter R. Poyner, Shareshill, Stafford-hire, butcher.
Seasicns.—Mr. G. Laws said, he could not see why the Magis B. Smith, Bristol, coal-merchant.
trates should refuse to give their reasons, unless, like Falstaff, *W. Parkin, Naſſerton, Yorkshire, miller.
they were unwilling tº give reasons an compulsion. If any thing E. J., Ikius,..Rochead in Mirfield,
Roberts, Cobourg-road, Yorkshire,
Surrey, merchánmerchant, •.
tº
coºd fix a stigma on them, it was their shrinking from enquiry. - *** -- -

--Mr. Rºswer, in an eloqueat speech, deſeñded the Bill, itere c. Poyuor, Doncaster, woolleu-draper.
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R. Finch, Cooper's-row, Crutched-friars, wine-merchant.
J. R. Bells:{}{d-Broad-street, ship-broker. . .
Paine, Junior, Lawrence-Pontney-Hill, merchant.
R. Macdonald and J. Waring, Liverpool, merchants.
W. Brooker, Eaton-street, New-cut, timber merchant.*.*
J. Qutram and W. Welsh, Liverpool, common-brewers.
J. Baylis and T.Thompson, Piccadilly, ironmongers.
J. #. Woolwich, innkeeper.
T. Schofield, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. maltster.
. S. Tolley, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, corn-dealer.
J. Shaw, Stonehouse, Devonshire, pawnbroker.
given up to Sweden. We can even assert without affec
tation-(Great God! what is affectation worth in such
matters as these?)--that when this transfer was made—
... -- ºr (we were in prisoa-at-the time), -the enorinity of it...in
the then state of the world, used to take away our rest at
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nights, and make us tremble with agitation before we west
to sleep. We could then never hear the national Norwe
gian air, which a friend brought us, without an internal
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W. S. Horton, Rochdale, Lancashire, woollen-manufacturer. convulsion, which sent the unwilling tears in our eyes,
. I and R. Corney, East India chambers, merchants. But still, what has all this to do with a plain subordi
# Waddington, Blackburn, Lancaster, factor. .. ºx, C, "' >
nate matter of fact, to which the question, by the mu
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===Gº-F tual consent of parties, is reduced BERNApotte, we

-- rarcrow stocks on saturday. should think, would hardly provoke a war for nothing.
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sper Cent. Red. 683:# 67368+ 3 per Cent. Cons.693++ 63469. knowing, as he must do, that in spite of all their cant,
Qur.Correspondent who writes to us on the subject of Theatrical whatever it may be, the legitimate would gladly see bis
Bad Management is quite mistaken, as he will see in a week downfall; and that the Swedish Nobility, accustomed to
prºtwo. , their own wilfulness and to a change of Sovereigns, are
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ing the Fair Circassian, but it is not forgotten.

Another attempt has been made in France to render
... * religious opinion slavish, and we rejoice to see has failed.
º HE EXAMINER. It was proposed to punish what were called offences
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Lowdow, Mav 83. against the Christian faith, that is to say, difference of opi
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. ." dion with it, reducing Christian faith to the state of an
It is now said that the King of Swept N has not been r angry and feeble old gentleman, who cooki not bear con
tradiction. What shall we say to those Christians, who
quested by the modest and Holy Allies to “descend from
His throne.” It is only demanded of him, that he should supported it?—However, they failed:—the proposition
fulfil the Treaty of Kiel, and discharge the debt of Nor was thrown out; and what are we now to say to the pro
way. Conferences on the subject have taken place in this secutions against Mr. CARLilk?
Metropolis; and it is understood, that in case he does not Many of the old republicans exiled from France have
accede to the demand, he will be regularly summoned to been allowed to return, always however with the excep
do so on pain of the consequences. Qm the other hand, tion of the Regicides, to whom it is held out nevertheless
the King of Swedes is said to be stubborn on this point, that sickness or other infirmity may possibly be allowed the
and to be forming a camp in Scania for the purpose of privilege. This, we think, is really all that can be expected
intimidating the Danes. . . -
by the ſtagicides, however respectable some of them be, as
. The question is simply this. You, say the Danes and CARNot, &c. it could hardly be hooked for, that the Boua
the Alliés to the King of Swedes, engaged to phy the Box Dynasty would treat them otherwise, especially as the
debt, of Norway upon being put into possession of it. Ministers of Lours the 18th are already thought to go
You refuse to do so, and therefore you do not fulfil the quite far enough on the liberal side of things, and might
Fromises you made in the Treaty of Kiel–Good;—says injure the cause of liberality itself, by such an excess of it's
the King of SwepEN; I wits to be put in possession of prerogative. -

Norway, but I was not; I had to fight for it, and there
fore the treatyrannot be binding on me. Besides, the The Debate on the State of the Nation is very amusing,
debt is greater then I took it for. both with respect to the specimen it affords of the contest
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The reply to this is, that his Majesty onght to have between the Opposition and the Ministry, and the really
had his eyes about him when he undertook to pay the good things said on the occasion. Mr. Tierrey described
debt;—which is trug—especially when it is difficult to the subject with great clearness, especially the financial
conceive that he was so blind as he pretends to be. If he imbecility and contrivances of the Cinascetion of the
lays claim to anyimocencies of this sort, Exchequet, which he is so competent to expose. One
* ... }.ook in his face, and you'll forget them all. cannot but regret to see how a man like the Honourable
It is added, that if the Sovereigns on their own parts op Mover is trammelled by party connexioms, which even
posed Bernadotte, the Danes could not help it; and prevented his making out so good a case against the Mi
here the question, by mutual agreement, stops—But we nistry, as he otherwise might. Ile said nothing, for in
must ask, was Sweden put into possession of Norway with stance, respecting the Habeas Corpus Suspension and the
out any counter-attempts from Denmark : If so, what was Indemnity Bill. No; that would have offended some of
the meaning of that sudden appearance in Norway of the the trimming Gentlemen on the cross beaches, who voted
Crown Prince of Denmark, of the enthusiastic reception for those measures, and his object was to muster as many
of him, of his speeches, his conduct, &c. &c.? It may be supporters as possible, to get a considerable minority, for
rejoined, that the Court disapproved of his proceeding be could expect nothing more. He was also very cau
that it was youthful, romantic, &c. Bit we know of no tious about condemning the war, knowing that some of
disapprobation to that effect. Now how is this fact got over? his friends had joined in the Anti-Gallican war-whoop,
There cannot be greater enemies than ourselves' to the He was silent about the treatment of Bonapatite, and the
way and the circumstances under which Norway was violation of all the promises of the Allies ºnot to force a
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 King on France, and out 6 wa particular promises of prº Tººlºº.
werion to the:North of Italy. These omissions would. he is a Noble Lord or not we leave our readers to judge).
lºad us to think, if we knew of no less obvious gauss. contrives to excite a great deal of laughter at the least
for them, that the Right Hon. Gentleman thought the possible expense of wit. No wonder Mr. Manrºn (of ~
moral character of an administration was of no-conse Galway) is one of his supporters; the two ſlen
quence,—that knaves would govern as well as hotest. are so similar in their manner of entertaining the House,
men, provided only that they were not also fools. Mr. and the quantum of applause bastowed on each is so
Transky was particularly careful too to say nothing about, equal-'As for Mr. Canning, he certainly managed
Reform in his speech, and though Sir Frascis Bürbett, his mode of defence, or rather offence, with touch
drew from hia-a denial that he was unfavourable to that: skill. He did not go much into a defence of the mea
canºe, there can be but little doubt that the declaration. sures of Ministers in detail, and was candidand prudent"
was a reluctant one, but for which perhaps he thinks be enough to conſess, their unpopularity. But herstorted .
might have obtained a vote or two more. But?arlia-- that charge on the Whigs; and, as they had made it a
mentary Reform is the great thorn in theside of the Whigs. question between the two parties, “which was the better
They do not know what to do with it; the landing part, party?” he drew a comparison on those points iwhate his
iſ not all of them, have given pledges to support soºne, opponents were weakest,--to wit, Popularity and Reform.
Refern; their fear of being charged with incansistency, #. are sore points; and whatever advantages ºf talent
and their desire of popularity, prevent them from entirely. and character that party possess over the other, they must
disowning it, however willingly they would do soºn, be allowed to be wanting with respect to those essentials. ,
gher grounds. On the other hand, they cannot join with —By the bye, how was it that Mr. Tisanry was almost
the Reformers without giving up their rotten boroughs, unsupported on this occasion, and had to perform the “
and abandoning other party advantages; besides which, Kean, of the Parliamentary stage? Where were “fill the .
many ate honestly afraid that the Reform, if once begun, talents?” Perhaps they were disheartened at the cheering :
would go too far. The consequence of these opposing of Lord Castieaeacii, or thrown;out of their :
feelings is, that they neither support nor oppºse it entire the sharp and facetious retort of Mr. Canning. What
ly, affecting to consider it a subject of “minor import was become too of the Reformist Whig, Mr. Geonor
ance.” And yet they are always calling for economy, and LAM? : Can he not muster a joke on so pressing an emer
... the alteration of particular abuses, though they aikºw ºnes: without the stimulus of an election bustle? t.
that without a Reſorm, there would be nosecurity either was he unwilling to notice the phrase of “mud:
for the continuance of that economy, or against the ré-, spºttered Whigs?”. Does he intend to confine his sana-,
• ‘storation of those abuses. Their tactics on this scoreſa torial exertions to the refloyal of the hay-market, or will
now, however, pretty well understood out of doºrs, and the, in the course of his seven years, extend his views to
they will find in time that such a course is every way in the momentous situation of Smithfield It is to be hoped.
jurious to their real interests; and for this reason :-They that he did not think his brother's speech sufficient for the
are not strong enough, as a mere party, to overpower family reputation. Lord John Tºussell was the only qme.
their opponents: they can only overtbrew them by the of the Opposition, besides the mover, who said anything :
warm support of a people confiding in their integrity and elevar: his pleasantry about the accident of the Russian
patriotism, by being what they professed to be, the Peo snow, which fell at a point of time so extremely conve
ple's leaders. ' " .. . . * nient for our Ministers, was very happy.
The Courier calls the speeches of Lord Castiansapº, It cannot be denied, that our Ministers have the advan
and Mr. CAxxiing two of the most eloquent ever uttered tage of being very easy with respect to consistency,of opi
in the House. The latter gentleman has certainly lost no. nion. After disputing for years all the statements made
reputation for wit by this effort, but the only circumstance by the Oppositicin on the subject of the depreciation of the
that distinguished Lord CAsti.ERRAgii's cration on Tues paper currency, they now come forward with a measure.
day from the uniform delugss of his speeches in general, founded on those positions, and introduce it as a novel.
was an attempt to be pleasant for a quarter of an hour on idea of their own, or at least of their Committee. Batº
the strength of an oitem repeated joke that would not have luckily, the change is for the better. Indeed the acknow-.
lasted him in any other assembly for "quarter of a tribute. ledgment of such principles as those of Mr. Ricarbo, by :
Certainly, if we were to judge of the comparative merita the Committee and the Ministers, is a greatistride towards
of two speeches-delivered in that House by the rumber of the proper settlement of the subjeet, and shows too that.
marks of cheers, laughter, &c. by which the reportsià...the when these matters-of-fact come to be carefuſly considered,”
newspapers are intersected, we might make a grand mis even prejudiced men cannot help being driven into some
take: for whether it is, that the gentlemen on the Trei reasonable conclusions. These Bank Committees have
sury Benches realy think this staff witty, or whether they examined all sorts of persons who have wituassed the
are set beside themselves with the delightful discovery of practical effects of different parts of the system, and
even an approach to unaccustomed merfiinent on the part being directed by some of the cleverest members of
of his Lordship; or whether they are resolved to bestow a the Legislature, brought together a mass of facts on
certain portign of applause on the Noble i.ord, without. the subject, which could not fail to produce some
much regard to the opportunity; to which, of these causes gºod. It would be as well, if these practical men,
it is owing, we cannot exactly say; but it is evident that it as they are called, would not make so much display of
is something else than wit, which puts the aforesaid,obli -
their opinions:-they are very well-qualified to give useful
ing gentlemen into so good an humour, wheeeyer º, information, but least of aii. others are they capable of
:: ... - . . .'; . . - - -
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-viewing the subject in a broad and comprehensive: light;"| ...BANK CoMMITTERs' Reports.--Last week, a meeting
ºf Their minds are so accustomed to dwell or particular parts. gf Merchants, Bankers, and Traders, was held at the Lon
don Tāvern to consider the propriety of petitioning Par
“ofit, they are so constantly involved in a cloud:eſ detail, 'liament against the Reports. A Committee was then
that, unless men of particularly strong and enlarged minds, appointed, and another meeting arranged for Tuesday.
i-they cannot abstract themselves sufficiently from these de On that day, it accordingly took place, and was nume
tails, to be able to contemplate the other parts of the ques rously attended, but a considerable number of persons at
~tion sufficiently. They are generally strongly impressed tended (among them Major CARTwaight, Messrs. Präs
: with a sense of a particular point, and leave all the other: son, Wooleń, and Hunt), who came to oppose the
... points totally out of their consideration. It must have been avowed object of the former meeting. Sir Ronent Peel,
a curious and instructive task for the Committee to hear who was
frequently interrupted by hissing, spoke for some
time on the danger of restricting the circulation, and the
- the different opinions of men of this sort, and observe the folly of putting an end to that paper system, by which we
• pertinacity with which they invariably cling to their ºwn: had been carried through all our difficulties. #. proposed
views of the subject, on account of their dwelling con a resolution; that the limitation of the circulating medium
*-stantlv upon them. * - -- * would cause general distress. Other resolutions respect
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**** ing, a Petition to Parliament were also proposed, after

+
which, Mr. C. PEARson addressed the meeting in opposi
. . . Before the end of the summer, it is eomputed that tion-to the resolutions. He dwelt on the evils of a fluc
upwards ºf ten thousand troops will be shipped from Ire :tuating currency, which threw into the hands of the Bank
land to fight against the cause of depostism in South a most injurious power over all property; and moved, as
America. The major portion of these are veterans, who an amendment, another series of resolutions, expressive of
: have seen much active service in various parts of the globe. these opinions. Mr. Woolea and Mr. Hunt supported
In one brigade alone there are upwards of 1,500. Waterloo the amendment, which was opposed by Major Torrens
Túen... -
Owes and Mr. show of hands was then
of Lanark.-The
taken, and it was in favour of the amendment in the pro
* Only those who have been in the habit of watching the portion
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“tricks, of the Courier would believe, that that journal, of about three to two.—Mr. BAINBRIDGE, the
though it copied its Parliamentary Report from the Times, Ghairman, nevertheless declared that the original resolu
omitted the marks of applause bestowed on Mr. Tikaney, tions were carried, and left the room, while they were call
while it retained those bestowed on Lord CastLEReagu ing for a division, alleging that persons were t who
and Mr. CANNING. - - -
had no right to be there.—Major CARTwRigir then took
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a vote of censure was passed on the former

. It ought to be generally known, that Petitions, if put up the Chair, and
in a cover, open at both ends, and marked “Petition to Chairman, the amendment was declared to be carried.
House of Commons,” or “Parliamentary Proceedings,” It was asserted by some, that the advertisement called a
may be sent by post, and will be received by the Member meeting of merchants, bankers, traders, and others; and
to whom they are addressed, Free of Postage. Major CARTwaight observed, that whether it was so or
º
The Prasian AMnssanoR went to the PRINce Re not, the question concerned all of them, and he had there
to attend.—The meeting then dis
ment's Court on Thursday, and, together with the Am-- fore.." it his duty
bassador for Algiers, was, as the Court Newsman informs IRox Boar—There is now building at Glasgow
'us, “graciously received.” He viewed some of the state vessel
apartments before he †. Nothing further has trans of malleable iron, intended as a passage-boat for
the Great Canal Company. This boat, though composed
-
red respecting the Fair Circassian. . -- - -
will be, it is computed, from four to five tons
. . Ms. Mostãowgny-It was stated the other night by of iron,
-. Mr. Lytrleton, in the House of Commons, that this lighter than one of the same dimensions in wood, as wel
as much superior in strength.
entleman, who is known to the public as the author of Mr. M. A.TAYLoR's Paving Act.—(From a Corres
the Wanderer of Switzerland, and who is also the Pro
prietor and Editor of the Sheffield Iris, most honourably pondent)—That in bringing forward this Act, Mr. Tay
relinquished the profit arising from the lottery advertise LoR had the public good in view, none who know him wi.
mérits, in order that he might not be instrumental in spread doubt. It has been however a fruitful source of petty
ing a ruinous delusion. it would be well if other'news vexation,
trouble, expence, and even oppression. st

week, a baker in Westminster emptied a pail of water,

paper proprietors would follow this praiseworthy example, which had been used in the bakehouse, into the common
as that might perhaps be a means of supplying the want of sewer. This, one would have supposed, could not possi
the same disinterested ...; in certain other people of
bly have given offence to any person, or violated any law
higher rank but smaller minds.
Case of W. P. Rogens.—We have to add to the list human or divine; but so it was, for the Westry Clerk
of those who have generously stepped forward to rescue happening to pass by, observed it, and summoned the
this suffering man from the consequences of his opposition to baker before the Magistrates, who were obliged, contrary
their wishes, to fine him under this Act in the penalty
to the tyrannical exercise of a “little brief authority,” the of five
venerable name of Mr. BeNTHAM, -a person who can pounds. - -

reckon, among his other useful and admirable works, the

complete exposure of the mischiefs of a clerical establish. THENTRICRTX, TNFR.
ment and the vices of its members. A donation from . ...--" No. 364.
such a man as this is indeed valuable. : We shall publish,
at the close of the subscription, an account of all the per co-ext g-Res -

sons who have subscribed since our last list. Subscriptions Weihave nothing ſresh to notice this week but an after
are still received by Mr. APPLEYard, at this office, as piece here, called Swedish Patriotisºn, or the Signal Fire:
well as at the other places formerly mentioned. and our notice of it shall amount to much more than it is
-

* Lºser, Law.—A Correspondent wishes to know whe worth, 4that is to say, to a few words. At least, we will
ther, as truth is a libel, if it hurts the .* of any indi try, for the very recollection makes us yawn. Oh, here
viduals, or tends to a breach of the peace, the “ diadies”. is the Times will speak for us, titl our mouth recoversit
might not obtain damages in a Court of law, from those self. Blessings on the heads o ſ.these attentive
who should call them by their proper, though auaoying, daily-critics, for they surely deserve then. (Here the
naſuſº,
 THE EXAMINEn;
Editor literally gave a most-wearisome yawn.) : “The :tion, and threw the mere party critics into all their flatter i
leading incidents,” says the Times, “are a storm. two ing convulsions of rage. hen the indeed comesi.
battles, three escapes from the pursuit of soldiers, and two to be between real poetry and false, the former has a natu
from military execution.after the musket had been levelled at ral tendency to make it's way among a rising generation,
the breast of the culprit.” And again," it closel resembles because it's pleasures,
p like those of youth, are among the,
numerous other pieces of the same class, j by a best affections of the heart and the beauties of out-of-door
custom for some time in regular observance, are brought enjoyment. . . - - f

out every season. By the force of good acting, and fingly

executed scenery, they totter through a few nights of feeble it is among both of these united that Mr. Cornwall is
existence, and are then consigned to some storehouse almost invariably to be found; and very delightful com
for raw dramatic materials, until total oblivion qualifies panions he has with him, -the nymphs and goddesses of
them to be cut up, and to form part of the novelties of the mythology, the earthly and festive deityship of Antonys"
year. The melo-dramá of last night lias greater faults. and Cleopatras; and what comes nearer and more delight-, -,
ful than all, the young and trusti ng lovers out of Boccaccio.
than want of originality: it has no interest; the scenes ‘the bºok consists of Dramatic Scenes, followed by some
succeed each other in cheerless dulness; and the hope at
every change that the prospect will brighten is continually Miscellaneous Poems. The author tells us that one of the *.
disappointed.”—The scale on which the play was got up, objects of the former “ was to try the effect of a more
however, is magnificent, and it was given out on the first natural style than that which has for a long time prevailed
might with applause. When we saw it, it dragged with in our dramatic literature.” The extract which we shalſº
others as well as ourselves; but its dullness had i. a make will shew that he has amply succeeded; and both in
prescriptive right, and we suppose it finished with applause this respect, and in the idea of writing a set of Scenes, in
as before. The truth is, that the taste of the many is first which the most touching point, as it were, of a supposed
entire drama is put before us, the work, may be º
dulled, if not spoilt, with scenery and shew; and not hav as a novelty. It is like Dramatic Specimens of an indi
-

ing seen these things as often as the critics, they put up. Perha .
with them out of mingled bad taste, hopelessness, and vidual poet. it was suggested in some measure
good-humour. Venerable incidents and ºf: by Mr. Lamb's celebrated selection of that name. Mr.
e deserve a notice at least, if only for your old age! The Cornwall is evidently well acquainted with it, as well as
andicraft, we suppose, is the workinanship of some of those with our old dramatists at large; but he writes after then
retainers to the theatre, the Itev Nolpses and others, who like a true disciple, not at all like a servile imitator. He
after having done their best to spoil the place, clog up the speaks in the style of their ſimiliarity, but it is because he
feels and takes a part in it, not out of affectation.” Affecta
*: against all chance of improvement from others. |tion is fond of going to the unſamiliar rather then the fami
liar side of style, as the least slippery part for it's preten
sions to strut upon. For the same reason, our authoris fond
LITERARY Notices. . | of the same beauties; not because those poets were fond of
them, but because the beauties are the same. His homage:
is to their mistress, not to them; though, like a true lover,
. 2. - No. 50. -

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...
* he can admire her admirers, and be prouder of her for the
Dramatič"Scenes and other Poems, by Barry Cornwall.
authority of their taste. , -- *,- *

- .. * - London, 1810. But we must take care, as usual, of the limits to which
we are confined. The dramatic sketches, with the excep
The time is now commletely gone by for the French school tion of one which is a pastoral, of another entitled the Re-.
of poetry., . One or two writers º feel interested in turn of Mark Anthony, and a third which seems to owe
wishing us to call it back; and Mr. Mathias, we believe, and to acknowledge it's hint to Mr. Godwin's St. Leon, .
(a gentleman who has the oddest knack of recommending are ſounded on popular histories, or tales, chiefly of the ,
the study of Italian poetry with success, without having a middle ages.—Three of them have got their seed from the
real feeling for it) has lately put forth strong vituperativeDecameron; but the flowers are the author's own, and,
injunctions against letting go our old common-places and very delicate ones they are. Here is the story of the young.
their versification. He would wish us to prove it and lover, (the Two Dreams) who relating a dream to his mis
lore it, and heart it and in part it— . . . . . . . tress in order to shew her the fallacy of one of her's, falls
---... . . To the last syllable of recorded rhyme. , º
-----,
dead. Here also (Love Cured by Kindness) is the story"
It cannot be. The thing has gone by, and better things of the young King, who goes to speak kindly to a damsel
coineºn it's stead. Nobody denies Mr. Pope and other that had fallen sick for love of him; an incident, which Mr.
writers of the French school their wit and terseness; but Cornwall has improved, and shaped for a happy ending,
almost every body has discovered that wit does not con by making her secret lover generóirsly become the medium. '
stitute poetry; nor pithy thoughts, set to unonotonous mu liof letting the king know it. This is a noble piece of mora
sic, versification. - - -
ity. Lastly, here is the exquisite º of the youth who
The book beforeusis a very pleasant evidence of the great h;d been kept at Paris and tricked by his l friends out of a
and popular revolution which opinion has undergone in niarriage with the girl he loved, and then returning home,
this respect." The author is evidently not quick to follow finds her wedded to another, and steals into her house at ,
innovation, or court hostility; but Nature has furnished
him with a 'fanciful and sensitive mind; and he is dis
º
and dies by her side upon the bed. Our poet has.
called i t
- the Broken Heart, and it has the right of a true
posed-to-ſall in with everything that does her honour, and sister-sorrow to that honoured name. It would seem, by . .
that tends tö restore her long-forgotten wºrship. Such his putting this piece' and the Return of Mark Anthony.
persons turn instinctively to the hew side of the question; Płºskin his series, (for authors are fond of a climax) that he
and when to this naturally poetic temperament is added a * upon, them as the two best in his book. The latter's º
dring enthusiasm, which is apt to accompany'it in youth,” ſº without doubt a ſavourite story with him, as he alludes
"jiwiſ easily be conceived that the younger part of societysłºtó-it in several other pieces. He has strikingly, and eer-, *
will fall of more and more from the old system. . A re tainly not at all indecently managed it;-but the mere in-...
markable instañce of this was witnessed by the public the stercourse-of-the famous Triumvirand-his-Triumvira, taken
oſher day in the young poet Keats, who burst suddenly by itself, as it were, from out of the numerous comments,
upon then like a shape out of the old world of imagina. mitigatious, intense excuses, fatalities, and other infinite
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humanities which have been poured about it by Shakspeare, Died like the 6tst-Saturn alone (he was
‘like redeeming spirits, has something in it to our minds, too. Your natal star) blazed sullenly aloof: .
ºrianº. We are no prudes, Heaven knows; At last he stagger'd with a hideous noise,
As though a glºbe were cracking, and his rings
and do-net pretend, that we dislike the voluptuous part of Shook,
genius, ethink, that in subordination to sentiment, it and lock'd white about him, and a light
might do the world a great deal of good, and has done; Came streaming from his sphere.—But why tell this?
He died with the rest, at last 1-Then 1–
... but separated from that it conspires with unfeelingness it: Gabr. Awoke M
“self to reduce the sexual intercourse to selfishness in all it's And Ne, no:—Would that I had: Now listee, love!
... shapes, legitimate as well as illegitimate.—However, it is Attentive too. -

• ‘‘‘, alltover
over with
wi our brevity, if we get upon theories. We Gabr. I rest upon your words:
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have so many favourite passages in the little work before us, You tell a dream so prettily. . .
...that we really do not know which to extract as a specimen. ThatAnd I thought
when the last star died, a thundering sound
... We like for instance exceedingly the account of the Tuº Was heard i' the air, – ike groans. and horrid laughs,
... ſhears in the scene of that name;—the closing scene in And shrieks and syllables—in an unknown tongue:
Ludovicº Sforza, where the wronged woman who poi And over us, vastºwings that might have borne
soned the Duke sits taſking to him and asking him ques: The lost archangelii, his wanderings,
tions; after he is dead in his chair;-the air of wilful Floated—and once they touched me, (but you lay
. . grandeur, suitable to the Spanish voluptuousness of the Beside me, so I felt no fear.) At last
imagery, with which Juan perpetrates the murder of his There rose a shadowy thing from out your body
And stood in silence by you. It was not
supposed faithless wife, a catastrophe, by the way, in Flesh, no, nor vapour; but it seem'd to be
which the author has had the rare good fortune to remind A dismal compound of the elements,
---
us not unpleasantly of Shakespeare;—the whole gentle Huddled by ... together, ere the form
ness and geuerosity of Love Cured by Kindness;–the Of man was fashioned into beauty, and
fierce landscape and it's solitary human contrast in The Like a most lonthsome and unfinished thing.
Way to Conquer; and almost every s ñº. Flung aside for ever.
e liked the Return jº : Antony at our first
##### Gabr. So, what happened then? - -

And Why then the thing hung over you; You, screamed
perusal more than since. . It seems also less like an origi And -

mal to us, the oftener we look at it. But what are we to struggled painfully, but it laugh'd, and flapp'd
do with all the rest? We must discontent ourselves with Its chilling wings, and breathed on you—Theu you
Lay still
two specimens, and even one of these we find we must abr. Proceed. -.

keep till next week”. The first is a specimen of his
powers of grandeur, and the other of his tenderness;
though the latter quality indeed, pervades whatever be
writes. Our extract is from the Tico Dreams:—
Gabr. Andreana:
Last uight, 'tis said (the only night when I,
And...And then the dark earth yawned, ".
"And there came out blue fires, and sounds of torture,
Curses and shrieks-then solitary laughs;
. The creature seized you roughly in its arms,
(I could not hold you, deer Gabriello,) and
Sprung with you into the gulf—and then I'woke.
Gabr. And is this all? - -

Since our sweet marriage, have been barred from yeu) And Is’t not enough? alas!
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The young Count Strozzi visited—yºur father: Gabr. Shame, siliy girl look up, and kiss me.-So;
Was’t not so? - -

, And... Yes. -
Gabr. And why was I excluded?
# I had a silly trouble on me; you
Will laugh when I shall tell you of 'ti (I hope
You trill laugh) I have had—a dream; sit closer,
And press your palm 'gainst mine—that's well; but
Have quite forgot your usaal kiss.
• Gºr. There.
...And, Oh! .
You;press my lip too hard.
Guðr, I'll fry again. -
And Pshaw! but laugh at me now, dear.
A horrid dream: methought we lay together,
Beside this splashing fountain: it was night,
A suitry night, and over head the stars:
: Went rolling 'round and 'round the moonless skies:
The noise they uttered in their rushing course
Was like a serpent's hiss-Look there, Gabriello,
Orion's centre star mov’d them.
Gabr. Away, -
You idle girl.
3. Keep your eye ſix’d.
abr. Go on.
And Well!—I was lying then, as I im now,
within yºur arins. How sweet Love's pillowis!.
- I'looked at you and snailed: I spoke, but you
Were silent as [rom fear, and now and then
Heaved a deep sigh and trembled: Still the stars
Went 'round and 'round, their circles lessening .
At each revolve:–At last one reached the porºt
Right o'er your head, and sank—Another came
And'sank in darkness—then another died.
Orb after orb came rolling in its round,
As though impelled within your influence, and
* in doing this, too, we gº out of the usual pianofour Li sensibility to impressions, rather than the ſatellectual fa
terary-Notices; but it would not be fair to the author to give
but a sample of one species of his style, when he possesses two.
The ghost you see has never harmed my lip, -
And your's grows sweeter-daily.
Of the Miscellaneous Poems we have only room to º
that we prefer the account of an actual Dream, whic
shews as much as anything the poetical habits of this
writer's mind; and the two sonaels, one dated 1817, and
the other entitled Imagination.
In summing up the qualities of this new candidate for
the laurel, we should say that his faults consisted in too
I have had. frequent or rather unse’sonable a use of the beauties of
mythology;-in shewing too great a subjection occasionally
to the sense of mere power and worldly authority (a charge
- too often made against poetry), in sundry attempts to
dandle ordinary ideas into notice by means of dashes and
parentheses; and in a two easy admission of common
places in general, elegant enough certainly, but not
worthy of the passages they associate with, and owing:
perhaps to the same indolence of mind which hindered the
at thor from writing entire dramas instead of scenes. We
certainly caumot but think him qualified for that greater
task; and being at once uncritical and unpolitical, as well
as urbane, he might gain admittance to those mysterious
tradesmen the managers, and help to reſorm the stage.
The good qualities jº. writing consistin a very interest
ing mixture of fancy and feeling; in being able to hint a
variety of feelings and situations with colloquial yet graceful
brevity (a very dramatic qualification); in very unequi
vocal though delicate evidences of natural generosity of
temper; in a certain instinctive fine taste; and to be brief.
in all that gentler part of genius, which supposes a ready
culty which commands ideas,
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Jacob's Ladder, wº Austbn.—As the representation of a

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seene where light is disclosed amidst the blackness of night.
- and emanates from “heaven-gate,” whence issue mystic
- ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. beings, walking and winged angels, that come into our
G:ymade, W. Hitron, R.A.. It is perhaps one of the mether sphere to visit a mortal, whom they gaze upon with
deep interest as he lies entranced in his observance of them,
evidences of the highest genius that it reaches an early ma
this picture shines upon our minds with a power that is
torily of its powers, and that its best performances are
ofess among its first. Sri AkºsºpARE, who is universally poetical. The glowing source from which the light issues,
admitted to be the brightest English, or even perhaps hu that-breaks like a bright and serene summer morning on
'man example of poetic invention, wrote early some of his the deep midnight, appears to Fancy's eye like an ethereal
best and most wonderful plays. The powers of Mrtron, region seen beyond the immensity of intervening space,
on the contrary, appear to have gradually unfolded, and and from whence its pure inhabitants, (for their coun
his noblest work, his Paradise Lost, was one of his last, tenances and deportment display purity and exaltation of
was written nt rather an advanced age, and when he had nature) have come to earth on some beneficent grand, that
become blind. Michael. ANGELo, at an early period of regards the object of their contemplation... These, vivid.
liſe, astonished by the sublimity of his conceptiºns, and conceptions, so vividly painted, may very fairly embellish
tha highest attainments of anatomical science. His cele the simple narration in the text, from which the piece is
brated marble of the Pieta was executed before he was professed to be painted. ... But the Artist has omitted, to
25 years old; his equally celebrated Cartoon of Pisa be. convey with sufficient distinctness, a circumstance dis- -

fore he was 28, and about the middle of his professional timetly told in the text, and that the only circumstance in
career. This achievement, in a work of immerse size, and the account of the Dream, except the appearance of the
of almost unequalled, perhaps, u malled immensity of “ladder reaching to Heaven, and the Lord above it,”
talent, cost him only the short time of 20 months. RAF namely, “the Angels of God ascending and descending
Fattle's genitis was of slower developement. Michael upon it,” Nearly all the Angels are moving in any other
Axcelo performed from the first with ease and correctness, direction, or standing still upon platforms that intervene
between the flights of steps. An arm and leg of the sleep
but RAFFAEL Lig, like his master PERUgrwo, was in no small
degree, and for some time, stiff and incorrect. Our own ing. Patriarch being painted as in action, well denote i.
native Painter now before us, and indeed the greater part wºkeſulness of the mind by dreaming. The grouping of
of the votaries of Art and Science, are of this gradually the figures, &c. is so .# that it reminds us of the
progressive class. But what is wanting in original vigour beautiful ordering of the parts of his pictures, for which
and a quick perception of mind, that contiprºhetids at a RAFFArli.e. was pre-eminent. - -

glance what a few others require long and steadfast atten 97, Sabrina listening to the Invocation of the attendant
tion to discern, is made up by such an earnest love of Spirit. ... The class of subject to which this picture belongs
knowledge, as induces a well formed and uninterrupted is peculiarly adapted to Mr. WestAli's talents, which
system ºf study and practice, that is eventually rewarded mºve our imaginations and touch onr hearts by their dis
by excellence and by fame. We have watched the pro play of the amiable and the beautiful among females, and
gress from year to year of Mr. Hiltos's practice, and have the refined among men, as both are displayed by our
observed that slow bºt sure growth of his powers to a Poets. This picture is for its subject the most complete
degree which surprised us last year in his pictºre of Uſha, that has issued from this elegant Artist's hand. The out
: delights this year in his pictures ºf Europa, in Sir J. lines are distinct, without the hardness of many of his
Leicestra's Gallery, and Ganymede in this Exhibition, former works, and an intelligent touchiness, and a loose
"esch luxuriant in beauty, like tºe prolific fruit tree, which ness of ſold in the dress, and bend of limb, bestow the
once but a seed, is now of large dimensions, and grateful charms of ease and grace. It is also free from a certain
to eye and ta-te. The Gułymiede, like the Eurºpe, exobodies, overcharging of warm colour seen in some of his works;
we may venture to say, almost every requisite of the sub for the red drapery is sufficiently subdued to allow the flesh
ject, and the feeling throughout is ſervid. The Bird ex to have its proper and superior value, and the tone of the
pands his wings; and sustains Gairymede in his talons and picture throughout is a duly tempered power, a sweetly
ºn his back, with a strength and grace becoming the trans powerful gradation of light that goes of gradually from
fººd
las
God, and Jupiter even in the shape of an Eagle, the face and bosom of Sabrina, to the siladed shells,
bank, tree, &c. around her, throwing the whole out upon
- “Not lºst all his original brightness.” our vision, with mingled softness and force. The flesh
The Phrygian youth, too, appears well deserving of the would be worthy of the figure, were she painted for
choice which the King of the Gods has made of him as his Hygeia or Venus. The actign of the limbs and body
Cupbearer. , His highly intelligent face and elegant limbs are beautifully explanatory of the listening look of the face.
must grace the festive assenblies of the Gods, even though The work is a bright ornament to the Exhibition, and if
the beauteous Hebe has been his predecessor in office; Mr. West All proceeds to paint with such an increased
His countenance is full of the surprize that fills his mind at and charming intelligence of mind and hand, we shall i
the strange situation he is in of being liſted suddenly up remarking on his peſormances, in future, having lit.
from tending his flocks, above the summit of mount Ida, else to do but to panegyrise. . -

and into the ethereai regions. It is dashed with but a

little apprehension, as the celestial air which he is already SPRING GARDENS EXHIBITION.
beginning to inhaie, and the real though unapparent pre Ulysses in search of Eumaus—Morning, G, Bahn Err.
sence of the God be embraces, prevent the impression of —There is a romantic and almost savage wildness in the
positive ſear: The fluency of pencil, the clearness of the deep shaded wood of firs, &c., seen over a grºggy fore
carnations by which Ganymede, beautifully relieves, in a ground, and into which a stream fil's das'ingly from the
bright mass of colour, frcin the rich minging of dark intes lofty hills which nearly environ the wood; the far-winding
that form the surrounding shade on the Eagle, the uncon chffs and sea viewed beyond, aq. whose air and blue
strained § of the boy's limbs, and his deeply impressed | tinted forms convey the eye from the greenish-grey, land
upward look, the nobly spread wings of the majestic bird, !scape to the sky. Tºut does not this classical picture suffer
and the vigorous effect of the whole, piece, coustitute a from the two positive, blue of those forms and the sky?
novel and lively invitation to the Exhibition, and display | Would not the bright morning light that gives such
talents that, render the fainter a high oraanent to the solemnity to the landscape, by its contrast with its yet early
Royal Academy and to his country. 'shades, be more true and effective if more-warinº. This
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picture would make a beauti mipria. It has hºspirit of ** Accide:NTs, of FENCEs...Tº
the following lines:– - - - - * -- * - - -
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“But he deep musing o'er the mountains stray'd ... A shocking murder was committed lately near Godmanchester.
Thro' many thickets of the woodland shade, A man named Weems, had been compelled to marry a woman,
And cavern'd ways the shaggy &oast along, who had swdrn a child to him, though it afterwards:
With cliffs and nodding forests overhung.” :
that she was not pregnant; he left her directly after Tº:
the cere ‘. .
th
54, Study of a Dog, is a bright effect, and a close imita mony, and returned to Edmonton, where he had a situation. Ife
tion of nature, by Mr. CitalsTMAs.-123, Dover Back became fond of a girl there, and wishiug to marry her, set cut
fºr the purpose of destroying his wife; and plainly hinted his in
water, is a rich effect of massive shipping, &c. though with: tention
a little too much of a Sienna colour in the sky and water. manchester.to a man in the return chaise, which took him to God
We prefer 278, Dismasted Indianan, where the yellow to live together He induced his wife to go with him, as she thonght,
and reddish brown hues are varied and made more efficient at Edmonton; and they were seen by a young
woman in the fields near Arrington. The same young woman
by an intermixing of blue, &c. His Fishing-boat, 260, afterwards met. Weems alone, with a buudle, and asked him
* has a highly natural effect of wind and water as it liſts up about the woman'that was with him. He replied, that she was
the boat, and whitens ripplingly along the sides of the exhau-led and could not go on. Suspecting that allºwas not
- Frigate seen in solemn shadow, and relieving from a mixed right, she returned to the place, where she had seen them to
dark and fight sky. It is a masterly performance. Mr. gether, and discovered the young woman lying in the ditch, her
BARRETT's "Hammersmith, 319, and his other pictures face covered with her bonnét and shaw!; her body was covered
all over with grass; there were marks on the grass as if there.
have thuch merit, especially 291, 292, 293, 348. There. had been great struggling, and the trace of a nuan's foot from the
is beauty, sweetness, and chasſity of tone in 331, Fisher-, place where the grass was tumbled to the body; her garter
man's Child, by Mr. Hot MEs. There are heautiful' and was ſound round her neck tied very tight, and she was black ºn
correct drawings of the Ancient' Kitchen, PP indsor Caste, the face: Pursuit was immediately made after the murderer,
the Queen's Breakfast-room, &c. by Mr. J. Sreen ANope. who was apprehended. The Coroner's Jury returned a verdict
His Interior ºf the Picture Gallery of Sir J. Leicester, af Wilful Murder, and he was committed to the county gaol.
Sunday night, a woman of the name of Egerton, residing in
Barf, is exact, and richly and tastefully sparkling in effect.
Witton-street, Northwich, having put her infant tº bed, went
In various pictures the visitor will º,
the gratification , out and locked the door after her; the neighbours being sº
derived from this Exhibition swelled by Messrs. Curtis, at the screams of the child, informed the mother of it, who im- -
Pugis, ''YTlem, Wºn, &c.; beautiful Miniatures by mediately hastened home, when she found a ferret which wer
Messrs, Ropertsos, Hot Mrs, &c. also by Miss E:Joses; husband kept in the act of gnawing the face and hands ºf the
by a ričh, Composition of Flowers from the light-delicate poor creature, who was covered with blood. The claird still
j of Mr. Hºwlarº; and by two very natural and survives, but without the smallest hopes of recovery.
Another accident in cºnsequence of leaving lººd fire-arms
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roadly painted Fruit Pieces by Miss SrewART, Miss

(§ourrisºiri's St. John's Wood Farm has a little more within the reach of children, occurred at North Berwick on the º
ist inst. As person having charged his gun, left it for a short
care bestowed on the finishing than most of her other time, when it was taken up by a boy, wboat seven years of age,
pictures, whose true look of Nature in her general effect and presented at a child a year and a half old; it went off, and
deserves to be associated with the neatest execution. the contents lodged in the head of the infant, who instantly ex
pired. * -t. -

Cabinet size nictures ought always to be pencilled with - -

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mice détáil. ‘Our Painter of rural Nature, Mr. Cottºns,
shines in this respect. , Hobºts, and most of the Dutch ---º-biºtiis, ºr ºf --
*Aredinburgh, Countess Flahaut, of a daughter,
Masters are exquisite examples
- r —
of it.” ‘’ ” .
: . . .
* -
On the 12th just, the Lady Charlotte Macgregor Murray, of a
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son. "
Things indifferent in themselves derive interest from On the 17th inst. the Lady of Sir John. Gordon similair, of a
their connection with an illustrious character. Pºut the re daughter. * -

sidence of such a character; seen in a beautiful Land-dape, . . .. . MARRIAGF.s. . . . . . ."

has a more than ordinary interest. This pleasure is afforded
On Tuesday, Henry Sorby, Esq., of Hall Carr, second son of
the visitors to Runess's Gallery, in a powerful painting John Sørby, Esq., of Orgrave-hall, near Sheffield, to Miss
there by Wilpens. But the main gratification from the Amelia Lambert, second daughter qf the late Won. Lambert, Esq.
pictures in this Gallery is Fº by two large Copies of Queen-square, Bloomsbury. ...;
from Rupens by the able hand of Mr. Reinagiº. They On Wednesday tast, at Great Walthnm, John Tysson Tyrell,
are the Crucifixion and the Adoration of the Magi. Esq. eldest son of Sir John Tyrell, Bart. of, Borehan Hºuse,
R - - - -- - Essex, to Miss Pilkington, daughter of the late sir Thomas Piłk
---4----- ---
ington, Bart, of cheve, Yorkshire. - -

On the 19th inst., William Fitch Arnold, F-q., to Elizabeth

J, A JW. Cecilia, only daughter of the late Alexander Ruddacti, Esq., ºf
the island of Tobago. - - . . .
COURT OF KING'S BENCH. - * - . IDEATHS. . -

-- - Saturday, May 15. On Tuesday, Miss Mary Griffin, eldest datighter of Mr.
. MencANTILE conspiracy.--Mosely woolf. Samuel Griffin, of Palsgrave-place, Temple-bar,
Mr: Chirry moved for a writ of levari facias, for levying upon In Piccadilly, on Monday last, aged 15 unonths, Frederick,
this defendant's goods the amount of the fine of 10,000l., on an only son of the Hon. Mr. Drummond Borrell. --

affidavit, which stated that persons on his behalf were benployed On the 15th of May, the Rev. Henry Rigby, of Salisbury, .
in clandestinely removing property to a considerabla amount aged 77.
from his house. The Lord Mayor had sent his officers to prevent On the 7th inst., at the Ordnance House, weedon, Major
theºremoval of the property, part of which had been actually Alexander Campbelſ, Royal Artillery. * * * -

carried to the river side, to be conveyed on board a ship for On Tuesday Jast, at Bath, after a lingering illness of eighteen
Holland. - - months, Miss James, sister of the late Charles James, Esq.
. . The Court asked whether any precedent could be mentioned Qn the 19th inst., Eliza, third daughter of the late Thounas
for the issue of a writ for such a purpose, and, as Mr. Chitty Bigge, E-q., of Benton-house, Northumberland.
could adduce no instances, declined to give any directions, but On the 14th inst, at Dublin, Edward Byrne, Esq. late of Liver
said, that if the ſaw authorized such a proceeding, the Sheriffs pool, father of Miss Byrne, of the Theatre Royal. -

(for whºm the application was made, and who are entitled to the On the 19th inst., at Leyton, Mrs. James Minehin, the wife of
fine) might have recourse to it. - James Miiichin, Esq., barrister-at-law, Great Coram-street, Rus
**
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[It'is said, that the Learned Counsel has since found, after a -sell-square. . ------------------------------
minute search (6)h the “glorious uncertainty of the law"), a
precedent for a proceeding of this sort, and that writs have there Printed and published by John Hunt. at the Exarrxed-offices -

fore beer issued, and a Part of the prºperty seized.) . . . ...!** 19,
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Catherine-Street,
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Strand-Price 104. - *- - - -
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THE EXAMINER,
No. 596. SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1819.

the politicAL EXAMINER. it's pretensions to devote difference of opinion to the

Pope.
flames—that horror, against which every other sect of the
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
º Christian faith cries out with indignation! Observe how
—

No. 581. the old Papists contrived to melt down the recommenda
tion of charity, and coin it anew for their own pur
PROSECUTIONS OF MR. CARLILE.
poses. They made it consist, as the Mahometaz's do,
in alms-giving; and the first to take advantage of the
[continued rRoºf last week.]
interpretations, were the priests, some of whom formed
Punisintrºsts on account of religion exhibit, through all themselves even into a body called. Begging Friars, which
history, nothing but a series of deplorable egotistus and the King of SARDIN is has lately attempted to revive. The
mistakes;–so much so, that erery faith sees the injustice Papists then gave alms, and burnt people alive. We give
of then on the part of every other faith. The Christian, alms, and (it is true) do not burn people alive, thanks to
is shocked if he happens to be in any country where his the Carliles and others among the Protestants. The same
opinions are threatened by a Mahonetan. He asks with spirit of honest difference of opinion which brings Mr.
-
bitterness, if this is a proof of the soundness of his reli CARLILE before a Protestant Bench, brought the Pro
gion, and triumphantly appeals to certain mild and philo testant Retoriners before a Catholic one; but the Prêtes
sophical theories contained in his own. The Deist again, tants at last, partly upon the very strength of this persecu-º
if threatened by the Christian, asks with bitterness if tuis tion, atchieved their object; and we are no longer threat
is a proof of the soundness of his.religion, and triumphalit ened with the flames. But what then?: Are we to be
ly appeals to those very doctrines which are common to threatened by these very: Protestants with all other penal
Christianity and Deism. There is something, however, ties, except those which their persecutors wreaked upon
not common to them. Are we to conclude, that it is this them 2 Is this Charity? Is this “doing unto others as
which leads the Christian to exercise that very intolerance ye would they should do unto you?" Would a Christian
towards the Deist, against which he exclaims so loudly in think a Deist justified in bringing him before a bench of
the Mahomelan! We must, if intolerance is practised. Deists, and making him responsible for his belief that
What can we do else? And what good can this do to the Clinist is “equal with God!” The Deist may be
Christian religion ? All people will gradually begin to shocked with this opinion, and is; but would that justify *

suspect, as some have asserted, that “faith and charity him in bringing the Christian to an account which he
... are incompatible,” seeing that all faiths agree in the want would protest against being brought to himself? Would
of charity in this instance, while charity is so often desti that be Charity? No, certainly not; it would be mere
tute of faith. St. Paul, who suffered whipping, imprison worldliness, impatience, or rage;-worldliness, if he
ment, and a variety of other persecutions which he pathe ivere in possession of worldly power, rage at being.
tically enumerates, ſelt the great necessity as well as right jº. most likely, both. Charity
is not confined to almsgiving, however the rules of an un
of charity, and in speaking of the companions whom he charitable
assigned it, l'aith and Hope, he says—“But the greatest sect or the mercenary habits of a cominercial
of these is Charity.” Nay, he went a great deal further, people way gradually tend to confine it to that meaning:
Look at Sr. Paul's own account of it. It is a thing of”
and said that without Charity, he could not reckon upon various and infinite kindness; it is the whole gracefulness
his Faith and IIope as being worth any thing at all;-he
might speak with the tongue of an angel, and yet without of moral feeling; it is the patience and infinite allowance
Charity, he should but tinkle like a cymbal, or utter the making of modesty and knowledge;—it is (and without
hollow-hearted sound of brass. Now St. Paul, the great a paradox) the best goodness of wisdom, and the wisdom
advocate of Charity, is also regarded as the great apostle of of goodness. To take a familiar instance;—it is a part,
and no mean because no easy part of charity, to bear to be
tie Faith: ind the fact is so ; he is the great preacher of
differed with in an earnest argument, quietly and uncon
belief, the great insister upon the necessity, of certain
opinions as well as practices; and for this reason he is the temptuously; and he who can so bear, is either modest
favourite apostle of the severest Christians, such as the enough
or wise
to suppose the possibility of his being in the wrong,
enough to know that the right of difference is a ,
rigid Papists, the Calvinists, and other especial believers in
reprobation and eternal punishment.' Will those then sible good and universal thing, and human certainty an impos
one. Now Christianity itself, says Mr. Carlile, is
who insist most upon the faith, take all the pains in the a question, as Popery is a question. Will you discuss it
world to prove that St. Paula in this instance (as he con with Charity, or will you not? If some Deists themselves
ſesses he does in others) spoke as an erring man; and that
have been uneharitable in their mode of conducting the
he was inconsistent, and a bad reasoner, and would shew argument, will you shew than their error by being more -
himself so through all Christian history, in maintaining the º
so, and by subjecting the question to penalties, all agajust .
compatibility of Faith and Charity ? Nay, that he shewed the side which they take 3 -

it himself when he attributed such severe and, inexorable Here some Christian may interrupt ū8, and say—Good! . .
qualities to the Supherie Being?—qualities, upon which, All that you say applies extremely well to any other spe--
the Inqºsition originally ſounded and has lately revived
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cies of argument, but not to Christianity, which in fact is punity in other works, many of which, such as those of
no argument. Christianity is true; we know it to be so ; Mr. Gibbon and Mr. HuMe, are in almost every good
we have God's own word for it; and therefore it is impi library in the kingdom. It is also to be considered in
ows to doubt it. -
what numberless instances the law has become a dead let
Eram. Alas! my friend, this is precisely what every ter, where the spirit of it has been found wanting;
other religion says. -
not to mention numberless other instances, in which the
C. What? I)0 you mean to speak of the Christian re legislators violate enactments of a very different sort. But
ligion just as you do of others? leaving these and other counter-arguments to their obvi
E. Alas, my friend | This again is precisely what ousness, we would ask, at present, but one thing.
There are societies in this country called Bible So
other religions ask about themselves. We are not dis cieties. There are also societies for the dissemination
puting the truth of any religion at present; we are advo
eating neither one side of the question nor the other; we of these Bibles, and the Propagation of the Gospel,
are only saying that it is a question, which every body has in foreign countries. Finally, almost all the legisla
as much right to discuss, as you had a right to discuss the tive and other established authorities in the kingdom aid
Popish or any other division of it. and abet these societies in some way or other. Some of
C. But there are many Christians, (and I have the hap the Judges, who will most likely try Mr. CARLile, -are
members of them; and so are the members of the sus
piness of being one of them myself) who know, who picious and self-erected Society calling itself the Society
feel instinctively,–who have a sweet experience that what
they believe is true. It is the voice of God speaking to for the Suppression of Vice,—which said Society, as we
their hearts, and would you have them impiously confound ought to have mentioned last week, is the originator of
it with other voices? -
four out of five of the prosecutions which have been insti
E. Alas, alas, my friend! again we must say, that this tuted against Mr. Carlile. (These persons, by the way,
is precisely the way in which the Mahometan Methodist, have played their doating antics long enough, and wig
the Hindoo Methodist, and every other claimant of a most likely meet with investigation themselves before long.)
special religious illumination, talks as well as you. His Now we would ask, with what face can these men, irlo
claims and his speech are as identically the same, as his associate for the purpose of preaching doctrines among
faith is diametrically opposite. foreign nations contrary to the Establisher, Religion
C. But we know it, and they deceive themselves. of those Natross, bring another man to account for pub
E. I would rather not repeat what I have said so often. lishing his differeuce of opinion with the established religion
What would you have a man do, supposing him thrown of their own 2
into company with a Christian Doctor, a Jewish Doctor, • We leave this plain question for the impartial render to
a Mahometan Doctor, and a Hindoo Doctor, all of whom turn over in his mind, and shall return to it another tine,
used this very expression? . Mr. CARLILE's trials may still come on during the present
{X. I would have him. examine for himself. Let him, sittings after term; but it is thought that they will be de
as St. Paul says, “Prove all things, and hold fast that layed
(ºr
till the next.
*
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which is good.” -

£. Well, but would you punish him, after he has gone

through his proof, for holding fast that which he thinks to FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
be good, or even for recommending it as you do? France. - -

* “….C.: No, certainly mot; but then if he were sincere and PARIs, May 24.—Yesterday his Royal Highness Prince
honest in his examination, he would become a Christian. Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, accompanied by the English
* E. And what would you say if you were a Maho dience. Ambassador, was received by the King in a private au
metan'? ... ' * * *
Sandt still exists, but is extremely weak. The German
*C.. I cannot regard the question as being at all the same. journals complain loudly of the inviolable silence which is
... E. But again, you must allow me to say, that this is maintained respecting the unhappy wretch, for whose fate
precisely what-the-conscientiously-convinced Mahometan they entertain a singular regret, by continually expressing
would arge in favour of the exclusive divinity of his be the most tender interest in behalf of this ſerocious mur
derer.
- lieſ.' . .” ºr :*::, - … . . -
- -

** 6. Sir; all his urging in the world, or his conscientious de May 25–The contradiction we gave, says the Journal
Paris, on the authority of our private correspondent at
conviction (as your callºit) would not alter the state of the Stockholm, to reports circulated by certain journals, re
case, óp-flake'his pretensions the less absurd. . lative to an abdication demanded of the k'."º.
--E. Siryaſthave done: ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . º,
. Jºhn, is confirmed by the following official article, insert:
“Here histher species of Christian interfires, with a ed in the papers of the Swedish capital:—“We have
-
perused with astonishment some articles in the foreign
tºile; and tells us, that the question is not merely a ques journals
ºfferſºof divinity, but of law; and that whether Mr. º: concerning Sweden. The news they convey is
too absurd to merit the honour of a serious contradiction.”
'rºte is coñscientious or not in his opinions, he violates the
..The law relating to offences of the press was finally
* 'lºv tº putting them forth. “He violates the established re adopted by the Chamber of Peers—133 voting for i:
Jºen."
ge Therefore he must be pu
punished. … 34 against it. .. º -

A number of arguments are ready at hand in answer to ..... *

" ".
*
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GERMANY.
.
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. . . . .
There is, for instante, the motori Brexts, May 18—We are again assured that Sandt
is yet-alisk. According tº report, A proposal had actually
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been made to put him to the torture, but was rejected with Petitioners were the most proper men to judge of the effects of any
measures connected with the currency, and expressed his sur
indignation by the Grand Duke, Letters have also prize that such men had not been examined by the Committee in
. London, stating, that the Grand Duke of Baden preference to others who had given evidence. The Hon.
had been so enraged at the proposal; that he discharged the Baronet also ridiculed the junction of Ministers with such men as
Commission for investigating the affair. Messrs. Pearson, Wooler, and Hunt, to put an end to the glorious
+

FRANKFont, May 18.—A private letter from Rome, of system which had brought us through the perils of the war. .
the 10th inst., gives some melancholy details of the ravages Mr. GRENFELL denied that the Petition expressed the senji
of the plague in Tunis. The town of Tunis has lost half ments of the merchants of London: only one-fourth of them had
its inhabitants; the terrors of the sword will, shortly be signed it.—Laid on the table.
The House having resolved itself into a Committee to consider
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added to this dreadful scourge; news has arrived of an in- | the Bank . -- - -

surrection among the Arabs in the interior, and they are Mr. PEEL began by acknowledging that he had changed his
about to march against the capital, to the number of opinions on this subject since the Report of the Bullion Com
15,000 horsemen, commanded by a Tripolitan, named mittee, which he then opposed, but with which he now entirely
Califer-el-Haver. The Tunisian Minister had put him agreed. The Committee, with the exception of Mir. Tierney,
self at the head of a body of troops, and marched to repel had been unanimous in their approval of the Resolutions he
the invasion. - ‘s should submit to the House. The great question was, whether
- - we should return to a fixed standard, and what that standard
DENMARK.. should be. The experience of our own and all other civilized
CoPENHAGEN, MAY 11.-We observe, that all the countries was in favour of such a standard; and alrthe witnesses,
but one, who were examined by the Committee, were agreed on
journals of Europe are deeply occupied with our secret its expediency. It was ridiculous to pretend to disguise our
discussions with Sweden. , Most of them indulge in con financial difficulties, which were known to every Jew pedlar;
jectures which are carried to such, extravagance, that a but a return to a metallic currency would lessen those diſlicul
throne is compromised in the quarrel. We think we may ties. If... also save the country the interest (34 percent.)
affirm, that, not one of the guaranteeing Courts of the on the Bank advances to Government. This interest might in
treaty of Kiel has proposed to the King, Charles XIV., deed be saved by the issue of Government paper; but no power
to establish himself in less northern climates; but we also ought to be allowed to issue paper at its discretion. The dread
ful distress in 1816 was owing to over-speculation in 1815, and
think we can assert, that he is strongly invited to pay the that over-speculation was caused by an excessive issue of paper,
debts acknowledged by the said treaty. The affair will which could only be checked by having a metallic standard. It
be regulated at Tondón by the Ministers of the great was no use to promise a resumption of cash payments at an inde
Powers. It has been said, that Charles XIV. has ad finite time: that promise had been broken five times; and it was
dressed a letter to the Prince Regent, in which he for therefore necessary to resolve on some decisive measure. It
cibly complains of the oppression of certain Courts. would not do to leave the execution of the proposed plan to the
discretion of the Bank, because that body had declared against
the plan altogether, and would be placed in an awkward situa
UNITED PAR LIAMENT.. tion. Neither was it possible to secure to the Bauk a power
over the foreign exchanges by a fixed limitation of paper issues,
HOUSE OF LORDS. because the amount of the circulation required was so diſ
--- ferent at a period of confidence from what it was at a pe
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Monday, May 24. riod of alarm. The Committee had found the Bank pay
-

ing a certain description of its notes at a loss, and greatly in ad

The Chimney Sweepers' Regulation Bill was thrown out by vance to Government. As this advance could not be in
to 12. It was opposed by the Lord Chancellor and Lord
Lauderdale.—Adjourned. mediately repaid without injury to trade, they resolved upon
postponing cash payments for four years, providing ſhow
Tuesday, May 25. ever that certain intermediate measures should be taken by the
Earl Grey obtained leave to bring in a Bill to repeal certain Bank to prevent disappointment, and show the public that they
declarations required to be taken by the Roman Catholics were in earnest. They had also, as a preliminary measure, re
against transubstantiation and the invocation of saints.--Ad commended the repayment of the Bank advances. “That recon
journed. mendation had excited great alarm, it being thought that the sum
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Wednesday, May 26. , repaid would.be abstructed from circulation. But the money
Earl Batmunsr brought in a Bill respecting the ordination of would, be repaid gradually. The sum demanded by the Bank
Clergymen for the Colonies. At present, persons were ordained was greater than the Corpºmittee thought necessary, but they
by the Bishop of London ; and there was no security that they wished to remove all obstacles, and had therefºre recommended
would go abroad. This Bill would yest the ordination in the the repayment. Indeed it was impossible to advert to the com
Archbishops of York and Canterbury, the Bishop of London, or munication from the Bank, without feeling that the relations
any other Bishop appointed by them; and would eflect, that between the Government and that body ought to be changed.
they should not be eligible to any preferment at home, without (Cheers.) The Directors should be limited to the consideration of
producing a certificate of good couduct from the, Governor of the their proper duties. , (Hear.)—[The Ilon. Gentleman they read
Colony where they had resided, and of the consent of the Arch part of the communication, in which the Directors talked of the
bishops, and the Bishop of the Diocese where such pieferment commercial interests of the nation having beeu confided, in a
should be situated. The Bill would also provide against the in great measure, to their discretion.]-He did not mean to cast any
trusion into the Church of England of persons ordained by Colg imputation upon the Bank, but the House had too long confided
nial Bishops.-Read a first time.—Adjourned. its powers, and ought to velieve that body. From so incompa
-* *

Thursday, May 27. . tible a duty. . With respect to the repayment of the 19 millious,
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The House adjourned, after some unimportant basiness, to he did not think so much necessary, unless the Bank demanded
Monday se’unight. - - - - *
tt... But so far from its causing a reductien of the circulation,
he thought it might even enable the Bank to increase its issues.

IIOUSE OF COMMONS. ' .. The money gradually repaid might be partly devoted to the pur
chase of bullion and partly to an increase of discounts, it was
said, that the Bank must contract their issues, if compelled to
Monday, May 24.- :* * - ... .# them by the price of gold; but from 1774 to 1797, when
Mr. Conwes presented a Petition from the weayers of Carlºſe, compelled to pay in gold, they conformed their issues to the
stating, that though they worked 17 hours a day, they could not. market price, aud.that price, never rose above 31-17s. 6d.s Ang
earn more than from 5 to 7s. A week.". They'prayed, that if they ther objection was, that a great increase of revenue and cer.
could not obtain bread, some meani might be afforded to tran merce rendered an increase of the circulating medium necessary.
sport them to Canada or some other colony.—Laid on the table. But so far from this being the ease, the circulation in 1792 was
- BANK REPORT, , , , , , . ." 25,000,000l., while, in 1899, it was only 19,000,000l., though
, Sir Robertr Prez, in presenting the Petition of the London the interest of the debt and our commerce had more than º
merchants, agreed to at the Loudon Tavern, observed, that the bled between those periods. ... Huigun, ingenuity had deciseſ
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means tº make a certain quantity of money answer for three it to Paris, get so many pounds of silver there, and by bringing
times the quantity of transfers which iſ formerly did. Some then hone, gain a difference of 74 per cent. But the expense
pºons had proposed that the Bank should regulatº the payment of coiniuk would reduce that profit immediately to l; per cent. ;
of its uotes by the variable market price of gold,--in other words,
and if this practice did not prevail when the coiu was depreciated
*ºraise paper to the value of gold, but to depress gold to an 30 per cent, how could it now, when it was only 6; per cent 2
*quality with paper. The Hon. Gentleman then referred to those The amount of silver coiu should keep pace with the demands of
periºd of our history at which the value of the debased coin the country.
had been restored, to show what advantages the nation had de Mr. TierNºv expressed his satisfaction at hearing the lion.
rived from such restorations. It had been said by n Noble Earl Mover ndvocate those general principles for which he and lº
{{lauderdale) that the Mint Regulations had driven gold out of friends had been so long contending. He fully agreed as to the
the cºlºry; but, he thought its disappearance might be ac. necessity of returuing as soon as possible to a metallic currency ,
cº"ted for in another way--(we suppose by the excessive ºne but he thought that there was a danger, that when the builiou
of paper.) It had been proposed that the Bank should pay at plan had been in execution some time, and its good effects found,
the market price of gold: that plan however would leave the Ministers should continue it, without pushing it on to the re
currency in the hands of that body, and would eamble them to sumption of cash pay neuts, and in case of a time of difficulty,
depreciate their notes by an over-issue, and then pay them in should return to the present system. It was allowable to look to
‘’ininished quantities of gold. The Hou. Member, fºr repeat Miuisters with extreme jealousy: they were now gºing against
ing his conſessiºn, that he was a convert from his former opi all their former plans, and there was uo security that they
ºious the
from on Opposition.
this subject, sat down amid loud cheering, particularly
- c would not chance again. He objected to the condemnation of
the Bank contained in the original resolutious, because he
. The first, second, and third Resolutions, respecting the expe thought Ministers were to blame : indeed it was very extraordi
diency of deferring the resumption of cash payment, ſº a defiºre wnry that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, aſter sanctioning the
period, of taking preparatory steps to ſeeißtate the resumption, neasures of the Bauk, and preventing cash payments by not pay
and of repaying ten millions to the Bank, then passed ment con. ing them their mouey, should turn round upon them and demand
ºn the fourth, which declared the propriety of commending the security for the resumption. The Government should pay the
*ullion payments at the rate ºf 41.'s. per ounce next February Bank their 10,000,000l. before they east imputeticus ou linem.
being put, - -
The bullion plan was very unjust in this respect, that it offered
Mr. Ellite rose and ºpposed it. He agreed with the general a security to rich men who possessed 2431, but not to those who
Principles of the Right Hon. Gentleman, and could confirm his only possessed 10t. The public mind was now, in a state of
statements with respect to the depreciation of the curreney, which alarm, as was evident from the depres-ion of the fund-i aud
was so great in 1817, and caused such immense overtruding, that some other plan ought to be adopted to quiet it, ºud to limit the
not even 50 per cent, of the value of exported goods had been resumption to a less period than the one proposed of four years.
ºbtained. But he did not think it right that pºrtiament hould IIe supported the amendment. -

declare that we had been acting all along on such a depreciated The Chancellon of the Exchequer denied that he had acted
turrency; and should therefore propose another Resolution ineonsistently with respect to the resumption ºf cash payments,
**tead of this: . It was necessary to fix some definite time for which he always wished for, whenever it could take place with
the payment of the Bank debt, as the Chancellor of the Fxchequer safety. The Government were censured for not repaying the
had disappointed them with regard to the last payment of
Bank in 1817, but the Bank dud not expect to be repaid then. iie
9,000,000t, which he had promised. It was also right to calm knew the jutegrity of the Bank Directors, but it was necessary
the Pºlic mind with respect to the apprehensions of , sudden that the public should be assured of the intentious of Parlia
withdrawal of a part of the circulation, with these views, he ment. - -

rººf"ed ºn ºne!ºment, that the sum of 10,000,000. should be Mr. MANNING contended, that the calculations that had been
paid to the Bººk by monthly instalinents of 500,000l. Another made of the quick return of 13ank-notes to the Bank, in order to
ºne"dment which he thought necessary was, "that the bank show that a certain currency now performed a much greater
should be prohibited frºm making any advances to Government, quantity of work, than formerly, were very fallucious. The
*** *** was paid. He also proposed other resolution." reason of the quick return was, that the private bunkers sent in
that the Bank should have it at its ºptiºn to pay either in coin or all the notes they received to tire Bank, and paid all their checks
bullion at the Mint price on the ist of May, 1821, and that after in new uotes. If the Hou-e should withdraw their confide uce
the 1st of May, 1822, the Bank should pay its notes in the coin of from the Bank, they would be answerable for the consequeirces.
the realm. - , - " ' ". . . He did not know that there was any ground for alarm, bat the
Mr. J. P. Gnarr cºngratulated the country on the conversion tendency of the resolutions was to compel the Rank to contract
of the Ministry from their former principles. He contended, that the circulation. The issues of paper did not entirely govern the
there could be no safe return to cash payments, while the pre price of bullion; it rºse and fell, when the paper surrency was
sent Mint Regulations continued, Gold was now exported at a stationary. The Bank made great sacrifices during the war to
profit, and silver imported also at a profit. The two metals support the Government. The original Resolutions inp;ied a
could not, by the present system, etculate together, some want of confidence in the Bank and he had rather agree to fix
witnesses.examinel before the Lords' committe. (Mr. Baring
and Mr. Haldimand), were of opinion, that if silver had circº. the resumption for May, 1821. He should vote for the amend
unrººf.
lated instead ºf Hºnk-notes, at the present depreciatiºn ºf 6: ... Mr. Ricarno observed, that the Bank Directors had declared
P*reen'... it would have produced the same effect as those notes, in evideºute that the nmount of their issues had no effect ºn the
in driving gold out of the kingdom. Gold find been exported price of gold. Parlin neſt would therefore be very invºi-ereet
ºver sº the issue of the new silver coinage; and iſ appeared not to take out of their hands the preparatious for the resump
from official papers that the exchanges had been most favºurable tion of cash payinents. The only thug how to be doue" was to
when the issue º wn" increased and unfavourable when it raise the vulue ºf puper 3 per cent., in order to make it of eqral
had decreased, which showed that no over-issue of aper had
value with bullion. That could be doirº by withdrawing paper.
**used the disappearance of gold. It was asserte , that the The amendment of Mr. Filice would create a great demand for
Governººnt could keep up the vatue of silverhy restraining the bullion for the purpose of getting it cºined, which would enhance
issue of it; but could they re-train its fabrication by foreign its value 3 or 4 per cent. in addition to its present enhancernent.
mints, when any coiner could gain a profit of 64 per cent the lſe could not agree to the amended resolution, that the Batak
cheek of silver only being a legal tender fººd. ...'a very should be repaid a certain sum: it was sufficieut for the House to
small ºf for one half of the currency was under that minoum. provide against the depreciation of the paper, and they should
Mr. w. Popº deſended the policy of the Mint Regulations. By not juterſere with the concern- of the Directors. If that resołº
making silver a legal tender for only 40s...she twº metal, wº tion passed, the Bunk might find it, dilicult to keep up the requi
prevented from competing. Between jºid ſ?83, the silver site amount of £ºrºpcy. The ºrpsent flºw was the most seatie
coin "deterior-led 30 per cent, and yet neither drºve the gold one possible. , Till 6ctober, 1835, the Bank need not make any
º of the country, nºr set the foreign mints to work to send coin reduction, and then only a slight one. He should advise thern
into this country. It the theory was correct, that the seignorage not to board buſion, buſ to sell all they could; for every sate
of the ºver caused the gold ballion to rise'is' variº, ºf: would lower the price of it, and help to turn the exchanges in
rice of these metals should be to one another in the same pro our favour; and till it ſell to 3t. 17s. Cd. there would be no occa
Pºrtion as 60 to 62. This wºuld make the gold 4.5s, sº "ºut sian for them to buy. He wished there had been a resolution to
the gold was now only 4. 0s. 6d. the ounce, it was said, that compel the Bank to purchase all the bullion offered to it at St.
yºu could buy gold here with the depreciated silver coin, take 17s.6d, test by an exees of caution, they “hould starve the cir
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culation. He could only attribute the alarin felt respecting thissaid that it would be issued in discounts, but that would only in
plan to the indiscreet language of the Bank. The Bank had had crease the over speculation complained of. On the, whole, i.e.
simple time to lower their issues, but had never done so. They should support the original resolutions. º

had nothing to do with the interests of the public; and when the Lord CastleReaga rerelled the charge of inconsistency made
Hon. Director (Mr. M.) spoke of their sacrifices for the Govern against his Majesty's Ministers. People might differ theoreti
alent, he asked, why had they made thºn? They were answer-, cally and yet agree as to the practical results. He still thought
able to the Proprietors for such a misapplication of their funds. that the paper currency could not be propetly called depre
The Bank said, that they were ready to pay, when their advances ciated, that is, ineonparison with any other standard that might
have been used instead in the difficult time of the war. He
to Government were repaid: but why had they made those
advances without being sure of repayment at a fixed time? A praised the conduct of the Bank, who had uniformly volunteered
redundant currency ºlways rendered the exchanges unfavourt their assistance, when the public interest was in danger. They
able, which was not effected by the Mint regulations wit", re were not to be considered as a mere private trading company.−
gard to silver-(The llon. Gentleman sat down aniu loud and The Noble Lord then reviewed the details of the proposed plan
continued cheering.] and pointed out their advantages in unuch the same way as Mr.
The House then adjourned the debate. Peel had done in the opening speeeh.
Mr. Eltice shortly re-stafed the objects of his resolutions. As
Tuesday, May 25. to that one, which forbade the Bank to make advances to the
BANK REPORT. - Government, his Hon. Friend (Mr. Ricardo) had said, that the
The House went into a Countnittee, and the Debate on the Bank should not be restrained from the employment of their
Bank Report was resumed. capital as they pleased. In this he perfectly agreed ; but he
Alderman II sycats argued, that gold might be influenced by would say, let them first satisfy their debts. As the Committee
paper, but was not entirely regulated by it, as it often fluctuated however seemed so nearly agreed in opinion, he was unwilling
when the issue of paper was neither increased nor decreased. to disturb their unanimity by pressing his amendment. The
He objected to the regulation of the currency by a fanciful general principles of the resolutions were so good, that he should
theory and not according to the wants of the country. Any be glad to see them acknowledged.
alarm wºuld cause a run on the Bank, people would hoard their Mr. CRipps also consented to withdraw his amendment, and
gold, and the country would be dreadfully embarrassed. The the original resolutions were then passed nem. diss. The 5th,
value of money would be raised, and consequently more taxes 6th, and 7th, detailed the gradeally decreasing prices at which
would really be paid by the people. If the present circulation the Bank wes to furnish bullion for its notes. The 8th provided,
--- *g. with that of 1792, the wonder was that it was so that from the 1st of May, 1823, the Bank should pay its notes h
*nall. Experience had showu that a small reduction of notes the legal coin of the realin; and the 9th declared the expediency
would not decrease the rrice of gold. A large reduction would of repeating the laws which prohibited the melting or exporta
therefore be necessary, and that would occasion ruin to thou tion of the coin.-Adjourned.
*and. Parliament ought to allow the country time to prepare, Wednesday, May 26.
and dimini-h their concerns, which had been created by over
trading. That might be done by leaving out the grduated scule, The West Middle-ex Water Works Bill was passed.
and beginning; t the Mint pries in May, 1821. º
Sir R. Wrison presented a Petition from Chorley, in Lanca
Sir H. Passett said, that those gentlemen who still main shire, praying that the principle adopted by the House with re
tained that the paper money was not depreciated, in spite of spect to }. and Barnstaple should be extended to other
motoriou" facts and convincing arguments, would be little likely corrupt boroughs. -

tº attend to further proofs. It was necessary to give some pledge Mr. Catchestra, after pointing out the unequal manner in
of an intention to bring back a metallic currency; and the re which the assessments under Irish Grand Jury Presentment
*Inption could not be left to the discretion of the Bank. The were levied on counties, moved for leave to bring in a Bill to
effect ofthe proposed plan could not be injurious to the real in provide for a more equal assessment by means of a general sur
**** of trade; it would only reduce that fictitious capital, vey.—f cave given. -

which produced over-trading. CESSION OF PARGA.

Lord. Folkestons fully concurred in the principles laid down Sir C. Moxçit called the attention of the House to this subject.
by the Hon. Mover, and liked the plan of ... bullion for The town of Parga was one of the dependencies of the Ionian
soin but he disapproved of what he considered the positive in 1-lands, and had been in the possession of the French in 1797.
justice of returning to the ancient standard of value. ile thought As soon however an Admiral Collingwood arrived in those parts,
that, instead of reverting to that standard, the present rate of de the inhabitants hoisted the English and lonian flag, and co
preciation shot"d be taken, and the standard fixed at 4.0s. 6d., operated against the French. By this act, they put themselves
**tead of Sl. 17s. 104d. Almost all contracts had been made under the protection of England; and always considered that
within the last 22 years, during which ensh payments had been this country would take care of their liberty aud integrity. [The
sº-pended. , it was unjust to compel a man to pay in a restored, Hon. Baronet referred to several conmunications bêtween British
what he had borrowed in a depreciated, currency. It would be , Oſhcers and this people, to show that they had received the
al”, very hard that the country should be obliged to pay the most satisfactory assurances of our protection.] The Porte had
public creditor, in a standard currency, as the money lent was laid claim to this town, it having been ceded to that power by
at one time depreciated 25 per cent. He objected to the gradually Russia in 1800; and the Congress of Vienna settled that the
decreasing price of bullion by the present plan, because it Turks should, possess it. In consequence, Ali Pacha, the fero
would disturb pecuniary arrangemen.ºs : a man who borrowed cious Governor of Albania, attempted to take possession of the
1000t. now, would have 1040t, to re-pay in four years. No con place, but was repulsed, though he had an army of 20,000 men.
, fidence should be placed in the Bank, łº they had an inte He had offered to transfer them to other places, if they would
rest in the fluctuation of the value of their notes. The plau he give him up their town, which was a strong ºrtress, and essen
*hould wish tº be adopted was, that the Bank should be bound tial to the defence of the Ionian Islands against the Turks. But
to pay in bullion at a certain time and be allowed in the mean they could not bear to leave their homes, and become the slaves
time to pay in gold, which would have the effect of reducing the of their detested enemie. It depended on us therefore, either to
market prices." He did not think the Bank need ever pay in suffer this generous and noble people, who had relied, with good
cºin; the persºns who took the bulliou could get it coined at the reason, on our protection, and who formed part of the people
Miºt for a snail seignorage. -
whom—we had erected into an independent state (belonian
Mr. Cºrps thought it necessary to allay the ferment with re | Islands); to be massacred or enslaved by their cruel enemies, or
gard to the bullion plan. He moved, as an †". the ornia to interfere and make them independent and happy. The lion.
“ion of the 4th and 5th resolutions, which declared the expe Baronet, after dwelling with much animation ow the eruelty and
diency of that plan. injustice of abandoning the Parganese, moved for the production
Mr. J. Swirit objected to the withdrawal of confidence in the of the correspondence between Sir G. Gordon and Gen. Camp
Bank inplied by the re-olutions. The Directors had acted with bell, respecting Parga.
great public spirit, and contributed to save the country. He was Lord Carrierraun bad no objection to the production of the
in favour ºf Lord Folkestone's plan. All alarm however, respect correspondence, but he must state, though with regret, that
ing the bullion payinent", was groundless: there was no chance since the Treaty of 1814, it was held that this country could not
of the Bank being called upon to advance any bullion at the rate retain Parga against the claims of the Turkish Government, and
aſ 41. is. If the ko,000,000t. were paid by Government to the that opinion was known to the Parganese. The town belonged
Bank, so much would be taken out of circulation, it might be ' to the Porte and all we could do was to use our good vices in its
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343 THE EXAMINER.
half. This country could never be bound by any incautious J. Willan, jun., Kenswick, Worcestershire, farmer, Attornies,
pledges of its military officers. Messrs. Cardale and Young, Holborn-court, Gray's-inn.
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Mr. ScARLETT thought the surrender of this fortress one of the T. Winstänley and W. C. Crole, Liverpool, auctioneers. “Attor
greatest and most gratuitous pieces of impolicy and cruelty that nies, Messrs. Blackstock and Bunce, King's-Bench-walks,
ever disgraced a nation. (Heart). How was the treaty between Temple.
Rºssia and the Porte, in 1800, binding on this country in 1815? M. Penny, Shepton-Mallett, Somersetshire, cornfactor. Attor
Sir J. M.Ackixtosh wanted to know where the Noble Lord utes, Messrs. King and Lukin, Gray's-inn-square.
learned that the Russian treaty could bind us? That treaty had J. Heginbottom, Ashton-under-line, Lancashire, roper. Attor
been broken by the subsequent war, and had never been re ney, Mr. Battye, Chancery-lane.
new ed." The ce-sion was a wanton and barbarous sacrifice of A. Holmes and H. White, Chesterfield, and T. Tindal!, Chester
the liberties of a free and brave people to the will of a Maho le-street, Durham, hat-manufacturers. Attornies, Messrs.
metan tyrant. But if the treaty .# 1800 was revived by that of lowes and Cowburn, Tanfield-court, Temple.
1815, §. whole ought to be revived; and the former treaty eon J. Willmott, Manchester, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. Perkins
tained provisions to guarantee certain privileges and secutrities to and Frampton, Holborn-court, Gray's-inn.
tie Parganese. . . . . - B. Wrigley. Manchester, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Adling
The motion was agreed to.—Adjourned." ton and Gregory, Bedford-row.
- Thursday, May 27. J. Critchley, Liverpool, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Dacie
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Mr. Jonx Saira presented a Petition from Mr. Henry Rrown, and John, Palsgrave-place, Temple. -

late of Windsor, banker, who had been imprisoned for some time .
under a warrant from the Commissioners of Bankrupts, by reason
SATURDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.
of not being able to give satisfactory answers to certain ques ---
tions.—Laid on the table. BANKRUPTCHES ENLARGET).
Mr. G. LAMB rose for the purpose of moving for leave to bring
in a Bill to facilitate proceedings in v cation time, against the N. Brooke, Duke-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, shoe-maker, from
Warden of the Fleet prison, for escapes. As the law now stood it May 8 to June 26.
was possible for a person to get out of prison on the first day of S. Douthat, Liverpool, merchant, from May 29 to June 19.
the vacation; and if he did not get back in the proper custody, BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
by the first . of the next term, the creditor had no action J. Knowles, Stroud, Gloucestershire, innholder.
BANKRUPTS.
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against the gaoler.—Leave given. - * - *

The House resolved itself into a Committee, and examined J. Broomhend, Sheffield, merchant. Attormies, Messrs. Blagrave
witnesses respecting the Grampound election. It appeared from and Walter, Symond's Iun. -

ti.e. evidence titat the bribery was so universal, that the electors M. Peake, Handsworth, Staffordshire, merchant. Attornies,
had threatened to pelt any candidate who should propose the Messrs. Hicks and Braikenridge, Bartlett's-buildings.
bribery oath, which was omitted, on account of the perjury H. Webb, Bristol, pump-maker. Attornies, Messrs. Hicks and
which it would occasion. - --

Braikenridge, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn. -

Mr. Lyrtleton, withdrew the Conveyancers' Bill, stating his E. Wood and R. Bellwood, Sculcoates, Yorkshire, timber-mer
iriention to bring in a similar Bill next session. chants. Attornies, Messrs. Rosser, Son, and A. Rosser, Bart
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The Cmaxcellor of the Excurquer brought in a Bill to con lett's-buildings, Holborn. - -

tinue the Bank Restriction, and to provide for the Resumption of W. H. Marshall, Holme, Yorkshire, miller. Attornies, Messrs.
Cash Payments at a particular period; also a Bill to extend the Rosser, Sou, and A. Rosser, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn.
powers of the Commissioners for enquiring into public chari T. Stunt, Allen-street, Goswell-street, carpet-manufacturer. Al
ties.—Adjourned. torney, Mr. Whitton, Great James-street, Bedford-row.
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.T. S. Coldwell, Norwich, coach-master. Attornies, Messrs.

TUESDAY'S LONDON GA3LTTE. ... Alexander and Holme, New-inn. -

- W. Izod, Redditch, Worcestershire, tailor. Attornies, Messrs.

J. Meyrick
~. - , Kensington Palace, May 24. - and Broderip, Red-Lion-square.
Smith, Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road, horse-dealer. At
This morning, at a quarter past four o'clock, the Duchess
of Kent was happily delivered of a Princess. The Duke J. torney, Mr. Bassett, Nelson-square, Blackfriars-road
and J. Bulmer, South Shields, Durham, ship-builders. Atter
of Sussex, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of nies, Messrs. Bell and Brodrick, Bow Church-yard, Cheapside
llington, Master-General of the Ordnance, the Marquis W. Simms, Swinborn, Stafford, coal-dealer. Attornies, Messrs.
of Lansdowne, Earl Bathurst, the Bishop of London, the Price, Williams, and White, Lincoln’s-inn.
Chancellor of the *...*
the Right Hon. George S. Fletcher, Doncaster, haberdasher. Attornies, Messrs. Rosser,
Son, and Rosser, Bartlett's-buildings, liolborn.
Çanning, were in attendance.—Her Royal Highness is,
God be praised, as well as can be expected, and the young J. and J. Binns, Looe, Cornwall, merchants. Attorney, Mr.
Princess is in perfect health. Burfoot, King's Bench-walks, Temple.
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---> M. Stead, Ludlow, Salop, stone-mason. Attornies, Messrs. Jen
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BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. kins, James, and Abbott, New-inn.

J. Hunter and J. Orr, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, merchants. M. Pearey, Lime-street-square, merchant. Attorney, Mr. Pogle,
H. Lloyd, Llanasa, Flintshire, &lerk. . . . . Adam's-court, Old Broad-street.
Yºr.º *en., Aldersgate-sireet, goldsmith. J. Lund and J. Walsh, Blackburn, Lancaster, cotton-manufac
J. Radcliffe, Swansea, grocer. . . . - • turers. Attornies, Messrs. Milne and Parry, Temple.
* - ... BANKRUPTS. . . . . J. S. Jorden, Birmingham, dealer. Attornies, Messrs. Clarke,
P. J. Gaugain, Church-street, Sobo-square, jeweller. Attorney, Richards, and Metcalf, Chancery-lane. -

Mr. Hutchinson, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street. J. B. Hayton, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant. Attornies, Messrs.

P-Simpson, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street, merchant. At C. Rosser and Co. Bartlett's Buildings.
Hawkins, Gosport, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. Alexander and
tornies, Messrs. Oakley and Birch, Martin's-lane, Cannon-street.
S. Johnson, Skinner-street, Finsbury-market, cabinet-maker. H.,Holme, New-inn.
G., and W. Lang, Ackerington, Lancashire, calico-printers.
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Attorney, Mr. Gillibrand, Austin-friars.

K. Ord, Deptford, butcher. Attornies, Messrs. Price, and Co., Attornies, Messrs. Avisou and Wheeler, Castle-street, Hol
Deptford. -
born.
W. Marshall, South-street, Spitalfields, cheesemonger. At G. Kershaw, Romford, Essex, shopkeeper. Attorney, Mr. Bad
termey, Mr. Hutchison, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street. deley, Leman-street, Goodman's-fields. .
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J. Shyºn, Malden, Essex, coal and wine-merchant. Attorney,
Mr. Faithfull, Little Winchester-street, Broad-street. Law AT PRIME Cost.—The bill of the Solicitor of the
Tº Piadley, Birmingham, merchant. Attoraies, Messrs. Jenings
*nd Bºitou, Eim-court, Temple. *
Excise, in the prosecution of Weaven, for the offence of
W. Hall, Windmill-street, Haymarket, upholsterer. Attornies, selling a certain drug to a brewer, amounted to nearly
Messrs. Courteen and Robinson, Walbrook. 250l. In this case, ñº. were five Counsel employed for
F. Heatlı, Islington-road, picture-dealer. Attornies, Messrs. the Crown, and the penalty ultimately recovered from the
* and time, Charterhouse-square. delinquent was 200l.
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Saruroax-A Holiday. vice of the paper-money during the war, and of gratitude
The extraordinary case of Mr. L., meationed in the Letter of our to the Bank for their generous and patriotic assistance (for
fair Correspondent S. W., had strongly interested us already. which they only charged 34 per cent, and got a further
We shall attend to it. license to delay the payment of their debts). There are
two curious circumstances connected with this new plan.
R. One is, the complete and sudden conversion of the Mi
nisters, who are now flying in the face of all their old,
Lowdon, MAv 30. obstinately-maintained, arguments. Lord CastleReagh,
indeed, made a bungling attempt to reconcile his former
Tus writer of an official paper in Sweden alludes, with with his present opinions. He had always contended,
brief contempt, to rumours respecting the projected de that Bank-notes were not depreciated; and now he main
thronement of Charles XIV., and says they are not worth tains that he is not inconsistent, because he still thinks that
the honour of a serious notice. An article in a Danish they are not depreciated in comparison with what any
paper tends to corroborate the spirit of the Swedish para other war standard would have been. His Lordship might
graph, and says it thinks it may affirm, that not one of better have imitated the candid conſession of Mr. Peel
tho Courts which guaranteed the Treaty of Kiel, have respecting his change of opinion, and have reserved his
made any such proposition. It adds however, that the talents ſor cquivocation for some cºasion on which they
Founder of the new Dynasty has been strongly “invited” would have been more likely to have been of use to him.
to pay his debts; and that his Majesty, for his part, has —The other remarkable circumstance is the little fracas
complained of being oppressively treated. All Sovereigns, between the government and the Bank. The appendices
we fear, are apt to find the politeness of these “invita to the Reports throw some light on this matter. The
tions” oppressive. Chancellor of the Exchroukh, it seems, lately made
Articles both from Paris and Germany repeat the con several applications to the Bank for money for the divi
tradiction to the report of SANDT's death. The French dends, &c., which were unsuccessſ-l. Now it is not un
Royalist Papers express their astonishment at the interest likely that these rebuffs put Ministers upon contriving some
taken by the Germans “in behalf of this ferocious mur means to dispense with the assistance of the Bank, and of
derer.” But the fact is, he is not a “ferocious murderer.” giving them up also, by way of retaliation, to their Parlia
He is a young man, of a naturally gentle disposition, and mentary opponents, who have been so long demanding
of enthusiastic principles, driven mad by the gross politi Cash Payments. It is reported, however, that the paper
cal vices and broken promises of the Bourbons' brother making faculty has got the victory over the speech-mak
Potentates, of those very men, in behalf of whom he ing, that is, that the rebellious Statesmen, after failing in
once fought against the French. Assassination is a very this effort to throw off their harness, have again yoked
shocking thing, especially when it is recommended by the themselves to the vehicle of the Bank Directors.
worldly-minded and the powerful, -by Priests and If the Chancellor of the Excheques had not given
Princes, and the advocates of Infernal Machines; but such a deadly thrust at the official character of the Courier,
it is a still more shocking thing to drive an universally we might have drawn some conclusions respecting the
esteemed and good-hearted person out of his senses, want of determination of our Administration from the
and make virtue itself the foundation of crime. Ac fickleness of its supposed organ; for that incomprehensible
cording to a report mentioned in an article dated Bre journal was cavilling against Mr. Ricardo's plan about a
men, a proposal had actually been made to put this fortnight ago so much, that it was thought Ministers were
unfortunate victim of political falsehood to the tor going to desert their Committees and oppose the plan.
ture, which made the Grand Duke of BADEN - so in There is indeed no knowing, even now, what their neces
dignant, that he discharged the Committee of Investiga sities will lead them to do, in order to oblige the Bank.
tion. This Prince and the King of BAvARIA are the only The objects of the bullion plan, having been detailed
two Sovereigns who have kept their word about consti twice in Parliament, need little explanation. The main
tutions with their subjects, and therefore need have no bad one is to prevent any further depresiation of paper, and to
consciences in this business. This report however will tend provide fºr gradually raising its value to that of gold; the
still further to excite the curiosity of the European public, difference now being about 3 per cent. To bring this
who must all think it strange that they hear so little of the about, it seems necessary that the Bank should be repaid
proceedings in so important a matter. a part of the notes they have issued on Government secu
rities, in order that they may be provided against the
The Reports of the Bank Committees have received an chance of a demand for bullion. This repayment alarms
other discussion in Parliament; and perhaps there never many people: they say, that it will cause the circulation to
were so many speakers and such long speeches, from which so be contracted, and distress the merchants and manufactu
little information was obtained. Excepting the statements rers. But, in the first place, there does not seem any ne
of Mr. Peel, which are of course the result of the labours cessity that the money repaid the Bank should be with
of the Committee, and the speeches of Mr. Ricardo and drawn from circulation, as it may be laid out in the pur
Lord Folkestowe, the debate was supported upon the chase of bullion; and in the next, if such withdrawal is
often-refuted, narrow-minded, notions of the Stock-Ex partially necessary, it does not follow that it will do any
change; or ideas borrowed. (without acknowledgment) harm. If the circulation is lessened in quantity, its value
from the orations of Sir R, Peel, and Co. at the London will be increased, and where then is the loss? This posi
Tavern. We had the usual cant about the immense ser tion may be illustrated by an extreme case:—If the Bank
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were to treble the quantity of paper in circulation, would Pitt Club.-Qn Fridav, a meeting of the Pitt Club
the country be richer? No; because a 1l. note would took place at the London Tavern. About 300 persons
only then be worth 6s. 8d. How then can a small dimi were prºsent, and the Duke of WellingtoN took the
nution in quantity, and a proportionate encrease of value, chair. The usual loyal toasts were given, and the Lord
hurt us? CuANcelton made a solemn speech, in which he was (as
usual on such occasions) almost overpowered by his feel
There are many other of these sort of objections to the ings. The Times thus characterizes this meeting :—
plan, but they chiefly turn upon the alleged injury which a “Upon the whole this meeting was the dullest that we
contraction of the circulation would occasion. There is ever attended, the only symptom of energy being that
however another and a more serious objection founded burst of animated vociferation with which they hailed the
anti-Pittite toast and song about the “Protestant Ascen
upon the artificial state in which we have been so long dency; " and the only incitement to pleasantry arising out
immersed. Contracts have been made, and taxes paid in of the recitati on of some solemn verses by Mr. Swift : we
this depreci ated currency. The restoration would there believe, composed by himself. . It must be allowed, how
fore benefit all creditors at the expense of debtors, as money ever, that the Chairman exerted himself to promote one of
would be increased in real amount, though the nominal the º sources of mirth, by pushing about the toasts
sums remained: the same. There would be no counter very freely.”
acting advantage on the cther side: the prices of commo
Mºi, of HAstiscs.--A dubate took place at a
Court of Proprietors at the India House on Wednesday,
modities would of course be lowered in proportion to respecting a proposed grant of 60,000l., to be vested in
the encreased value of the currency. The same objection trustees, and laid out in the purchase of estates for the he
applies with still more force to the question of taxation; nefit of the Marquis of Hasrings and his family. The
for, to leave the justice of the thing out of the question, it grant was opposed by several proprietors, on the ground
that public servants should be rewarded when their ser
is not very clear that tho people are actually able to bear vices
any addition to their bºrdens; and we doubt whether the were concluded, and not when they were still ac
Chancellon of the Exchequer would not catch at this Proprieemploye
tively d, as the Noble Marquis was ; that the
tors had not at present before them documents sa
opportunity to encrease the revenue by an operation so tisfactorily explaining the reason of the late war; that it
passive on his part. -
was doubtful whether the Company could grant so large a
Even the most strenuous advocates for the resumption sum from their territorial reventies, out of which there was
no surplus; and that to reward individuals for purely mi
of Gash Payments, admit the necessity of going through a litary services was to stimulate all other Governor-Gene
certain painful process in order to arrive at that desired rals to enter into unnecessary wars.--An amendment was
point. The question thereſore is, whether the remedy or moved, to reject the proposition for the present, but it was
the disease is worse;—whether the constant fluctuation of negatived, and a ballot fixed for the 10th of June on the
the value of property, and the dangerous power given question.
Norick of A New RAT.—An accession to the breed of
to an interested body of men, are to be removed at the
expense of deranging present calculations, and incurring this mischievous Creature, -already so numerous in Eng
land,--has recently taken place. This Animal, it seems,
the chance of an encreased taxation. We are inclined to though originally from Ireland, had contrived to get to
think that an effort should be made to restore a whole India, where it thrived exceedingly on certain artificial
some circulation at almost any risk; and it is also to be productions called rupees. Having gratified its rapacity
recollected, with respect to that part of the question which to the full, the Creature returned to Europe in one of the
applies to existing contracts, that persons who have enter Company's ships, and, after some occasional appearances,
ed into them since the Suspension, must at the same time it finally attempted to BURRougii in Taunton. F. simple
inhabitants of that town, pleased at first with its blue and
have contemplated, or at least known the possibility of the buff coat and apparent good qualities, (for it had not then
Resumption. This at least lessens the injustice. the usual appearance of a Rat) took great notice of it; but |
fºr 4 + the Animal soon exhibited various sly and ugly tricks,
such as changing its coat, turning upon those that cherished
Cºllection of Assessed Taxes—It will be recollect. it, and other unseenly vagaries, which compelled the good
º, that some motions have been made in the House of eople to abandon the Creature altogether. It has accord
‘’orºnons, for papers relative to the collection of taxes in ingly fled the town; but, whether from its natural habits
* division ºf Seven Oaks, in the county of Ken. A or its high state of irritation, it has left behind it a very ill
selection of these papers has been presented, which detects odour!–Just before its quitting Somerset, it was seen
system of fraud hitherto unheard of, practised in the col. sneaking towards the enclosures of Mr. Col.1.1Ns and Sir
lection of the pr ſº and, assessed taxes by the surveyor T. Letiaridge; but, they say, it was finally observed
and others. iplock and Rogers are names that chiefly endeavouring to take shelter in the Wellesley grounds.
figure in the report: neither does the detection of the di. The Creature, though it occasionally looks fierce, and
honest practice s appear to have sprung from the most
motives
threatening, is a mere coward at bottom; and this notice is
disinter ested , or to have been co-extensive with the not given from any fear of its prowess, but only to warn
knowledge of the informer. The methodofº". the unwary of its disagreeable and dirty habits. -

twofold-first, by inserting less sums in the grand dupli EMIGRAtion.—The Asoph with ninety-three passengers
** than were received; and next, by making the j. on board, and the Mary Anne, with 75, dropped down
nary charges in the supplementary assessments apper us our river, and several other vessels are receiving passengers
*urcharges, from ºl. the surveyor and inspeciór were at this port for America. On quitting the Pool, the
ºtled
1 tºnes,
to a per-centage, as the reward of their tijo.” passengers of both vessels gave three cheers: how sad the
-

reflection, to observe the bold peasantry, and enterprizing

The bulletins of the health of the Duches of Krst
and her Inſant during the week have been verysfavoura
talent of our country, rejoice at quitting the land of their
ble. fºr hers!-Limerick Evening Posi. . .
Prince Lºcrole landed at Doyer on Friday afternoon. 3. On Friday, the Persian Ambassador dined with Sir
- Goag Ousley, in Brulon-street. . . .
 THE EXAMINER. 845
a-rºtº
Law Paoxotross—The following arrangement, says Case of GeoRGE CRook.-The reader may recollect
thl Chronicle, it is confidently stated at Edinburgh, is the case of a seaman named CRook, as related by Sir
about to take place in the Supreme Courts of Scotland. FRANcis Burdett, on presenting his petition to the House
It is the most extensive promotion that has occurred there of Commons. That petition charged Sir William IIost,
for many years:–The º. Baron Norton to be Chief the Captain of the ship in which Caook served, with hav
Baron of the Exchequer, in the room of the Right Hon. ing punished him for an offence of which he was innocent,
Ronent DuNDAs, who retires on a pension. The Lord and having forcibly put him on shore at Malta. The let
Chief Commissioner, An...M, resigns his gown as a Baron ter R, it appeared also, was placed against his name, as if
of the Exchequer, and his salary is to be raised to a sum he was a deserter, and this caused him to forfeit his wages
ual to the chiefs cf the other Courts, viz. 4,000l. a-year. and prize-money to the amount of 560t. After many
Sir Patrick Mun RAY is said to be the new Baron of the futile applications to the Admiralty for redress, he applied
Exchequer. The Lord Advocate, Macowocity, succeeds to Parliament. When Sir FRANÇis moved that the peti
the late Lord Reston as one of the Judges of the Court tion should be brought up, some Honourable Gentleinen
of Session, and also as a Lord of Justiciary. Sir William got up, and threw out various general assertions and insi
RAF, the present Sheriſt of the county of Edinburgh, is to quations against the man's character, but no direct contra
fill the important office of Lord Advocate. Mir. Wepper diction of the fact was offered. What then was the natu
Burn, the Solicitor-General, promoted to the Bench, in ral course for the House to take? To investigate the mat
the room of Lord BANNAtynk, who retires on the pension. ter at least;--to entertain the complaint, and wait the vin
Mr. Howr Daum Mond to be the new §§...}. dication of the officer complained of, who is now abroad.
Mr. Bon Triwick to be Remembrancer of the Exchequer, But no: after the aforesaid vague assertions, and a little
vice Sir Perfrt Murray; and Mr. An Ast Duff to be speechifying about the impropriety of receiving charges
Sheriff of Edinburgh, in the room of Sir W. Rae. against absent individuals, they threw out the petition al
A return was lately made to the House of Commons, most unanimously. ... If his story was true, “the law was
showing, that in the year 1816, if the amount of the open,” said these self-styled Representatives of the people.
Sinking Fund had been appropriated in part of the loan Oh, how convenient is this law, this last resort for the
for that year, there would have been a saving to the coun oppressed Did not these innocent Gentlemen know the
, try of 2,135,923!. 6s. 10d.; a similar return has sixce notorious expense and delay attendant on seeking legal
been made from the National Debt-office, with respect to redress? Did they not know that a man, however mush
the three loans preceding that of 1816. In 1814, the loss in the right, inay not be able, especially after the lapse of a
attending the existing system of buying up old debt with long period (as in this case), to prove those things legally,
the Sinking Fund, while we are incurring a greater pro of the truth of which he could nevertheless convince any
portion of new debt to meet our current expenses, was, on reasonable man? Besides, is it not one of the duties of the
the first loan of that year, 1,108,951. 18s. 6d. ; on the Commons ſlouse to enquire into these matters? If they
2d, 3.529,836.l.,7s. 2d. Total loss for 1814, 4,738,7881. thought to keep of any suspicion in the public mind un
5s. 8d. favourable to Sir W. Host by this proceeding, they were
We are sorry to state, that no material improvement has completely mistaken:" a man's character inevitably suflers
yet taken place in the state of the manufactures and trade by such endeavours to shield it from enquiry. As a proof
of this district, and that great numbers of persons connected that no satisfaction was given by this proceeding, a public
with different branches of the woollen manufacture still meeting was to have been held this week, respecting this
remain unemployed. The Mayor, we understand referred case, but it was prevented by an accident: it will, how
the cloth-dressers, who, some time ago, applied for assist ever, take place du Saturday. George Crook has got an
ance to enable them to go to British America, to the immense number of testimonials of his good conduct and
Committee of the Workhouse, who have declined furnish character, and, we understand, can procure the evidence of
ing any funds for this purpose, on the ground that the the Second Lieutenant and three Petty Officers on board
proposed plan did not appear likely to promote the object the vessel at the time, to prove that he was ordered, and
the applicants had in view, and that the execution of it did not go voluntarily, on shore; for upon this point turns
was likely to be attended with insuperable diſficulty.— the whole question whether he is or is not entitled to his
Leeds Mercary. - wages.
Major Cantwright has addressed the following letter A Concert, of which we shall make further mention
to the Editor of the Statesman: – next Sunday, will take place on Tuesday week, in behalf
. Sut, -According to your paper of yesterday, Mr. Hobhouse, in of the Widow add four Female Children of the late excel
a speech on Monday at the Crown and Anchor, is reported to lent organist and amiable man, Mr. WILLIAMs.
- -- - - -

ilave said—“He held in his hand an Adjress of Majºr Cart --~~~

wright, which he must declare told absolute falsehoods.”—Per LITERARY NOTICES. . . .
haps the gettleman is of opinion that 4 ºn “too old” for being
inclined to terminate a discussion on public questions as younger No. 57.
men frequently decide private disagreements. And perhaps
such an opinion may have caused this coarse language'; but I Dramatic Scenes and other Poems, by Barry Cornwall.
would beg leave to suggest to him, that there are cases in which - (Concluded from our last.)
a gentleman's wishes are mºre characteristically communicated ONE or two persons appear to have mistaken the meaning
by private invitation, than in the way of tavern valour.—l re of our last sentence, when we summed up the merits of the
main, Sir, your obedient servant, Jotix CARTwittght. author of this beautiful extract. We are far from meanin
Thursday morning, May 27. -

to say that he was of a class of genius which could origi

Mr. Hoatiouse also sent a letter to the same paper, stating, mate no ideas. It is impossible that a great sensitiveness
that there were many inaccuracies in the report of his to impressions.should be so confined; for what are im
speech, for which of course he could not be answerable. pressions themselves, when united with genius, but the ima
hat Mr. H. really did say will be seen from our ac printing of ideas? What we meant was, that the poet
Cotiat. -

excelled rather in giving the results of the impressions that

PROSE TUINNEID POETRY.
Mr. Giffºrd to Mr. Hazlitt.
What we read from your pen, we remember no more.
Mr. Hazlitt to Mr. Giffºrd.
What we read from your pen, we reneinber before.
came upon him from without, than in the power of com
manding a variety of thoughts and reflections at will, or
such ideas as are not connected with the first impulses of
sensibility. Mr. Cornwall's Muse is rather an Imogen
than a Rºsalind.
We subjoin the other extrao, for which we had not room

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last Sunday. The comparison about the green leaves is
particularly touching and sensitive:—
Sylv. Oh you will live
Long, aye, and happily: will wed perhaps—
Jeron. Nay, º Sylvestral you and I
Were children here some few short springs ago,
And lov’d like children: I the elder; you
The loveliest girl that ever tied her hair
Across a sunny brow of Italy.
I still remember how your delicate foot
Tripped on the lawn, at vintage-time, and how,
When others ask'd you, you would only give
Your hand to me.
Sylv. Alas! Jeronymo.
- -
Jeron. Aye, that's the name: you had forgot.
Sylv. Oh! no. -- -
Can I forget the many hours we've spent,
When care had scarce began to trouble us?
How we were wont, on Autumn nights, to stray,
Counting the clouds that pass'd across the moon—
Jeron. Go on. …'
Sylv. And figuring many a shape grotesque;
Camels and caravans, and mighty beasts,
Hot prancing steeds, and warriors plum'd and helm’d;
All in the blue sky floating.
Jeron. What is this?
Sylv. I thought you lik'd to hear of it.
Jeron. I do.
Sylv. Then wherefore look so sadly
Jeron. Fair Sylvestra!
Can I do aught to comfort you?
Sylv. Away, -
You do forget yourself.
Jeron. Not so. Can I
Do aught to serve you? Speak! my time is short,
For death has º ºne.
Sylv. Now you're jesting.
Jeron. Girl!
Now, I am—dying. Oh! I feel my blood
Ebb slowly; and before the morning sum
Visits your chamber through those trailing vines,
I shall lie here, (here in your chamber,) dead.
Dead, dead, dead, dead: Nay, shrink not.
Sylv. Prythee go.
You fright me.
Jeron. Yet I’d not do so, Sylvestra:
I will but tell you, you have used me harshly,
(.. is not much,) and—die:
would not chilk, with this decaying touch,
nay, fear me not.
That bosom where the blue veins wander 'round,
As if enamoured and loth to leave their homes
Of beauty: nor should this thy white cheek fade
From fear at me, a poor heart-broken wretch:
Look at me. Why, the winds sing through my bones,
And children jeer me, and the boughs that wave
And whisper !. in the summer air,
Shake their green leaves in mockery: as to say
“These are the long livers.”
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Sylv. Jeronymo!
Break not my heart thus: They—they did deceive me.
They told me that the girls of France were fair,
And you had scorn'd your poor and childish love;
Threaten'd, and vow'd, cajol’d, and then—I married.
Jeron. Oh! - -
$ylv. What's the matter?
Jeron. Soft! The night wind sounds f
A funeral dirge for me, sweet! Let me lie
Upon thy breast; I will not chillºt, my love.
It is a shrine where innocence might die:
Nay, let me lie there once; for once, Sylvestra!
Oh!
Sylv. Pity me! .
Jeron. So I do.
Sylv. Then talk not thus:
Though but a jest, it makes me tremble.
Jeron. Jest ? - -
Lºok in my eye, and mark how true the tale
I've told you: On its glassy surface lies
Death, my Sylvestra. It is Nature's last
And beautiful effort to bequeath a fire
THE EXAMINER,
To that bright ball on which the spirit sate
Through life; and look'd out, in its various moods,
Of gentleness and joy and love and hope,
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And gain'd this frail flesh credit in the world.
It is the channel of the soul. Its glance
Draws and reveals that subtle power, that doth
Redeem us from our gross mortality.
Syle. Why, now you're cheerful.
Jeron. Yes; 'tis thus I'd die.
Sylv. Now I must smile.
Jeron. Do so, and I'll smile too.
I do; albeit—ah! now my parting words
Lie heavy on my tongue; my lips obey not,
And—speech—comes difficuſt from me. While I can,
Farewell. Sylvestral where's your hand?
Sylv. Ah! cold.
Jeron. Tis so; but scorn it not, my own poor girl:
They've used us hardly: Bless 'em though. Thou wilt
Forgive them? One's a mother, and may feel,
When that she knows me dead. Some air—more air:
Where are you?—I am blind—my hands numb'd :
This is a wintry night. So, cover me.
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THEATRICAL EXAMINER,
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No. 365.
- 1T41.14 w or Era.
This house is the only theatre, now, at which you are
sure of hearing something both modern and masterly.
There is occasionally something good at the English Wii
fer Theatres, but the general run of pieces is deplorable,
and reminds one of nothing but the stage itself. It is a
melancholy round of stage repetitions, as old and dreary as
the jog of a mill-horse.
At the Opern, on the other hand, you are almost sure
of hearing a work not only masterly, but of the first kind
of masterliness in the art of music,+some production from
the first-rate composers, such as Parsiello, MozAar,
Wister, CIMARosa, and Rossini; who, though of va
rious ranks, are as great in their way as the great poets of
England or painters of Italy. And it is to be observed,
that the insurmountable objection to the English winter
theatres,-their enormous size,_does not apply to a large
musical house; because singing is naturally of a louder
and more distinct utterance than talking; the instrumental
accompaniment would fill any place; and if an objection
remains as to countenances, an º variety of distinct
ness of expression is not demanded of them, nor even
wanted, the vocal expression being clear and just, and
supplying the feeling to the spectator. . We venture to
prophecy, that at no great distance of time, the English
winter ić. will either be totally ruined by their size
+ + - and bad management, or turned into mere places of spec
tacle; while, on the other hand, the smaller houses will
every day grow richer as well as more respectable.
On Tuesday last the Managers, greatly to the credit of
their taste and spirit, brought forward another of the mas
terpieces of MozART, Il Fºrm, Magico (the Magic Flute),
better known and long admired in private circles under its
German name of the 3awber Flöte. We like to mention
objections first, as the little boys bite off the hard edges of
their tartlets, in order that they may fall unobstructedly on
the body of sweetness within. The opera then, as per
formed on Tuesday, is justly accused of being a third too
long. It was not over, for instance, till nearly 12 o'clock.
Now the music is, throughout, excellent; but setting
*
aside other considerations, the most excellent music in the
world will not bear a theatrical performance so continued.
It's very excellence, unmingled with intervals of other en
joyment as in private society, would tend to overstretch
and exhaust attention, just as it strains the faculties to
look for hours together at a variety of fine pictures. But
- when it comes to be considered, that this excellent musie
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is divided among a variety of singers, some of them almost gives rise to the delicious air of O Cara Armonia, to which
inevitably poor and unequal to it, the discrepancy and all their assailants suddenly begin treading a delighted
confusion become perfectly wearisome; and on Tuesday
evening for the first time in our lives, and not without
some shame, we found ourselves dropping and shutting
our eyes in the company of MozArt, not in order to listen
with the greater luxury, but to catch a willing unwilling
slumber. The remedy of this however is obvious, and we
suppose was put in practice on the second night.—With
regard to the other objections, the new and younger per
formers whom it was necessary to add to the Dramatis
Personae, are to be treated with tenderness; the most pro
mising young singers may reasonably be allowed to be
deficient in giving such compositions their proper effect.
We have to find fault however with an agreeable singer,
M. Begnez, who whether from negligence, or from not
having his voice in the best order, gave the sprightly and
triumphant air of Regna Amore in ogni loco feebly and in
efficiently. There is surely, on the other hand, no neces
sity for the extreme vivacity of the two whirling globes in
the scene where the Queen of Night comes down from her
throne. They emulated her singing and the orchestra,
with a noise, of which none but tin heads could have been
capable. -
measure. We were going to say that the public are inti
mate with this air, under the name of Away with Melan
choly; but we should rather say they are on speaking
terms with it. The original, with its accompaniments,
and with its appendix of another air, is a great deal finer.
And what divine, music is there besides? There is,
first of all, the finest ôverture in the world; then there is
bird-like hilarity of Gente equil'uccellatore; the prophecy
about the three youths (Tre bei Jargon) who are to de
scend from heaven on golden wings; (the very music
comes stepping down, like a ladder from heaven);
the magnificent air, Te guida, palma mobile, which the
youths sing when , they do descend, and which an
swers so completely to the character of their mis
sion;–all the various and delightful composition, com
prising almost every species º emotion, in Scenes 15
and 16 of Act the First;-the abundant pomp and
solemnity of all the grand melodies and harmonies con
nected with the Priests and their worship;-the placid
depth and dignity of Sarestro's description of his earthly
paradise, Quisdegno non s'accende; and then again, the

delicate and tricksome stepping of the return of the Genii,

Such are our objections, all of which are removable. Gia fan ritorno, with a quick and dimpled smilingness run
Now to the pleasanter task of approbation. And in the ºf throughout it. But the whole opera is one continued
first place, we do not participate in the objection made to and deep river of music, breaking into every possible turn
the nature of the story, which because it is a fairy tale is of course and variety of surface, and exhibiting every
thought frivolous. Alas, how frivolous are most of the aspect of the heavens that iie above it, MozART's genius
ave realities of life? We own we have a special is here in it's most romantic and passionate character, un
iking for a fairy tale; and if we are not greatly doubtedly. We can hardly sayit is in his best, for no
mistaken, MozArt himself was of our opinion, and thing can be better than Figaro; neither do we conceive
got his wife to read one to him before he sat down to it will be so popular as that opera and Don Giovanni.
write that divine overture to Don Giovanni. Thus his
It is, we suspect, too poetical to be so;—too much re
pleasurable, and fanciful mind made a fairy tale even a ferring to indefinable sentiments and sensations out of
medium of inspiration. And it has a right to be so... It is the pale of common' experience;—but numberless pas
full of some of the pleasantest associations of one's life. It
has “eyes of youth.” It is even more; it anticipates for sages will delight the genuine lovers of music as much
us ºf of the good, which the human mind, as long perhaps as any in either of those works. It may
as it is worth any thing, is so anxious to realize, -some give gic
a complete idea of what we think of the Mā
Flute in general, it's peculiarities, it's chances, &c.
thing of a brighter and more innocent world, in which the when we say, that it is to MozART's other works what
good-natured and flowery will is gratified; , and the evil the Tempesi is to the most popular of ShakspeaRE's co
spirit, only furnishing a few more anxieties and occupations medies. We are not sure, for our own parts, that we do
by the way, is always felt to be the weaker of the two, and
sure to be found so at last. But we must take care of our not admire it more than any of his operas, if we could can
limits. The story of the Magic Flute is made up of a mixture didly rid ourselves of a preconceived notion that Mo
zant's powers were chiefly confined to the gayer part of
of Fairyism and Egyptian mythology. The Queen of enjoyment, a misconception to which all men of various
Night (Miss Corri), who is a malignant being, has a genius seem to have been liable, in return for their be
daughter, (Madame BRELochi) who is withdrawn from stowing gladness. :
her by the Priests of Isis, (suspicious persons it must be
owned) in order to be saved from her influence. A young We ought pot to omit that what Madame Bellocchi
Prince (GARcia) falls in love with the daughter from hav has to sing (for it is not much, considering she is the
ing seen her picture, which is put in his way by her heroine), is sung excellently. Miss CoRRI also gives some
mother, and the latter induces him with false representa passages in alto with so much neatness and truth as to
tions to try and rescue her out of their hands. A bird roduce an encore; but we cannot say we are ever moved
catcher (AMERogetti) who is a sort of clown to the piece, y this inexorably frigid performer. We were disap
is made to accompany him as servant. The Prince ac pointed, upon the whole, in AMERogerti. His comedy,
cordingly gets admittance into the temple of Isis, and F. is naturally of as unpastoral a character as can well
e imagined. He looks too beef-eating for a bird-catcher.
makes the 5. impression on the heart of the lady, who
ANgais ANI's depth of voice is .."; suited to the
endeavours to escape with him. They are detected, and
by degrees brought to have a different opinion of the part of Sarestro'; and GARc1A, since he has clipped his
riests, who after subjecting them to a variety of trials with exuberance, continues to be equally full of power, judg
that Freemasonry of theirs which was once so celebrated, ment, and taste. The whole piece is got up with great
unite them in marriage. The piece, which, by the way spirit and magnificence; and when shortened, (as we con
has the double title of the Magic Flute or the Mysle clude effect.
it was, on the second night), will have double the
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ries of Isis, receives its first name from a flute given to

the Prince, which, upon being played, has the power of There is a new ballet here, called Rose d'Amour, in
averting dangers, and which he makes use of in going which M. and Madame DuPont appear with less of the
throu f the fiery vaults and other apparent horrors of the French twirling and a good deal more sentiment. . The
said Mysteries. Papagemo, the bird catcher, is also gifted spectators therefore, have reason to enjoy themselves a
with a dulcimer, which has the privilege of setting people little, and not merely to stare. They fiud a little heart in
a dancing. It is his resort to this charm, when his master the business, as well as a quantity of legs.
and he are about to be seized and made prisoners, that
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FINE ARTS. For a display of the exterior polish of manners, as in
duced by education, health of mind and body, and graceful
ROYAL ACADEMY EXAIBITION. forms, these charming little paintings rival the celebrated
Watteau, except in finishing.
Wenus Anadyomene, H. Howamp, R.A.—This is a sub The Battle of Marston-moor, near York, A. Coopra,
ject of peculiar difficulty, and requires a master's hand to A.—We really are surprised at the immense strides that
ºxecute and a poet's fire to feel its requisite beauties, for it Mr. Coopra has made towards the top of his Art... We
is nothing less than a display of the most lovely form of have not known in all our critical experience so rapid and
the lovely: sex, the Queen of Beauty herself—Vesus—:
surrounded by the presiding deities of whatever is refined so praiseworthy an improvement in painting as the vigorous
genius displayed in this picture evinces. But a few years
and elegantly impressive in personal movement, of what
ever is cheerful, delicate, sincere, and correct, in moral in since he begin to paint, and we have marked that every
successive year he has produced works considerably supe
tercourse--the Graces; by the Hours and Zephyrs; by rior to the preceding, till he has reached a degree of talent
the juvenile deity and inspirer of love—Cupid; by Tri that nearly, if not quite, places him on the high station of
tons and Nereides, Neptune's musicians and companions; the Dutch Masters. Iſis delicate execution of-all the in
in fine, by an assemblage of immortal beings, glowing with dividual parts in a picture of numerous figures, the well
admiration of “Beauty's living image,” and an active and understood effect of the whole, sparkling throughout as it
elegant expression from the inspiring preseace of Venus, does with the beauties of colour, light, and shade, and.
who has just started into existence— what is of infinitely bigher importance, the fine energies of
* “Effulgent on the pearly car, smiling
Fresh from the deep, and conscious of her form,
a just and intense łºś. for character, will, we are conſi
‘. . To see the Tritons tune their vocal shells,
dent, render this, picture one of the nºost popular in the
And each cerulean sister of the flood Exhibition; fix the attention as well of the common and
With loud acclaim attend her o'er the waves unenlightened as of the critical and finished observer. This
To seek th' Idalian bow'r.” is the test of genius, 'The subject of his admirable work
is a Battle between Fnglishmen on their own native land.—
But has the Painter here performed all this? It is no O horrid, horrid war, occasioned by the pertinacious
small praise of him to answer, that he has in a consider determination of the second Prince of the arbitrary Stu ART
able degree. The sunny light which bursts upon them race on the English throne, to compel the English people
from the region of the sky, where is seen the Idalian to do what the vile Administration in the earlier part of
Mount, the various actions and looks with which they all the present reign tried unavailingly to force their brethren
exhibit their astonishment and delight, the felicitous look in North America to do, to sºbmit to the degrading and
of Venus, the softly-blending minor shades and lights by unconstitutional principle of Taxation without Represen
which the stronges; keys of the chiard-scuro are connected tation. We give Mr. Coopra, the Royal Academy, and
in concert, the well-adjusted arrangement of all the parts, the tasteful part of the public, joy of the possession of sc
and the strong impression from them as a whole, raises valuable an increase to its pictorial character.—We sha
that classical pleasure which Mr. Howard had before notice this picture again next week, and as we cannot, for
so successfully awakened. But there is a drawback want of room, dwell on all the performances of merit a
to this approval in the main figure, where the mind ought the Fºxhibition, we shall next week give the numbers as
to rest with most satisfaction. The Venus does not justify marked in the Catalogue of all the works worthy of uctice.
the prominent situation she is in, glowingly apparent as
she properly is in the prime light, and with the eyes and We's now it impossible for the Hanging Committee
. adipiration of the numerous figures upon her. Mr. to please the numerous Artists who exhibit in the Roya
. How ARD's pencil is particularly defective in that touchiness Academy. Discontent must prevail, when stirred up as it
- which is essential to the character of flesh and most other is by the the murmerer, Vanity. Still we really think that
objects. This makes his bodies look as iſ they were inert such an Artist as Drwixt ought not to have had his paint
mnasses, unfurnished with the vital stream that so beauti ing hung up in the very worst place in the Exhibition.*
fully shines through and varies the human skin. His dark corner ; and that Mr. Hoff. AND, whose industry
Venus is pretty, not beautiful. Her stiffness of limbs, and talents for many years have embellished the annua.
were they even more nicely proportioned, and her simpli Exhibition, should have nost of his works this year placed
city of countenance, otherwise handsome as it is, bar in a low situation. -

beauty, to which inental intelligence is indispensible. Ve

nus—the gaze and love of the Gods, the captivater of in
Inortal minds, the praise of Poets, and the inspirer of that CASE OF MIR, JWILKINSON.
delicious passion, whose origin and existence have more of ---
intellect than sense, moves and enthrals the inagination
mainly as it sees in her loveliness the outward signs of an The ſollowing case, of which we can at present only
internal, unearthly, and more exalted beauty. Such is the give a simple stateinent, is highly worthy of the considera
Venus of the Poets, such was the Venus of Guido, Titi AN, tion of every lover of justice, and of the IReformers in
and RAffaelle. particular, as affording a fresh and strong example of that
From the 1st and 2d parts of the Decameron of Boc corruption and selfishness, which charºtterises the spirit
cacio, Mr. Sroth ARD has painted subjects where groupes of the greater part of the administrators of British affairs.
of persons, of warm imagination and heart, and refinement, Mr. Wilkinson, it appears, was a merchan in the East
are luxuriating in a mixed enjoyment of social intercourse Indies, largely engaged in the saltpetre trade. 'File Ben
and sense. Parties of youth of both sexes are seasoning gal Government in 1810–11, declared this trade to be
the pleasure that is derived from a serene atmosphere, from free, and thereby encouraged individuals to engage in it.
leafy and flowery retirements, from bubbling runnels and No sooner, Lowever, had Mr. Wilkinson done so, than,
fountains, with amusing conversation and affectionate at in 1812, the same Government, in their capacity of Mer
tentions; others are exhilarating their spirits with social chants, and consequently with a view, not to the we'lare
repasts, music, dancing, and other happy pastines. The of the State, but solely to commercial profit, erected a
poetical Artist has most appropriately ºxhibited ese most rigorous monopoly, from whence they derived in
scenes in colour and chiaro-sciro rich, and lively, partaking mense profits beyond their usual gains,—profits which in
of the gaiety and mellifluency of the Yeactiºn nºd I'lenish. strict justice belonged to Mr. Wilkinson; thus at once
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sweeping away, by an er post facto law, the fruits of that see any inconsistency in supporting what he thought beueficial,
foresight, time, and industry, which are the legitimate although it might be far short of what he thought best. (Great
sources of a merchant's wealth. Thus: dealt with, Mr. applause). He had not brought forward any motion for Reform
Wilkinson, after great turmoil, by the consent of the Go this session, because he wished the public to see what depend
ence was to be placed in this supposed improved Parliament.
vernment at Calcutta, had his case referred to a Commit The-division on the State of the Nation showed what little
tee of persons high in office, and most competent to judge chance the Whigs had, when separated fuom the people. The
of it. After many months' deliberation, it was decided Hon. Baronet then ridiculed the attemps to restore a metallie
in his favour. The Marquis of iiastings, acting in Coun currency. , it was impossible that the patient should not die.
cil, reported, that Mr. W. had a just claim to compensa while the doctors were preparing a remedy. They acted like other
tion from Government, but referred the case for the con quack" : instead of applying a remedy to the disease (heavy
sideration of the Honourable the Court of Directors, a taxation imposed by a corrupt Parliament), they applied it to
cruel prolongation : . Now mark, readers, the honour of the symptom (a paper currency). They should ail limite in the
this #. Court. At a Meeting of Proprietors, one great cause—the cause which he had advocated, and would ad
of the largest and most respectable ever known, it was de vocate, as long as he lived. He felt “arined so strong in he
nesty,” that all the remarks made upon him by his enemies he
cided that Mr. Wilkinson was cmtitled to compensation. *hould leave to time and the good sense of the people to refute–
Oh ho! say the Honourables, we'll bring this business to a they passed by him “as the idle wind which he regarded not.”
ballot. They therefore appoint another meeting of Pro (Long and continued applause.)
prietors; but, fearful that the decision might be as before, Sir Francis then give “ Lord Cochrane, and success to the
they, in the interim, circulate a hand-bill addressed to the patriot cause of South America.” - -

Proprietors, in which they endeavour to prejudice them “John Cam Hobhouse, Esq. and the 3861 Electors who sup
against the rightful claims of the individual in question, in ported him.” -- **
Mr. Hoswoose then addressed the Electors in a speech, of
order, we suppose, consistently to continue that system of which
the administration of East India aſſairs, of which the con his the following is the substance;—He began by expressing
strong sense of the honour conferred ou him by having his
tinual bloodshed of the poor natives, and enormous terri name inserted in the records of that triumphant day, and assuring
torial acquisitions, a la Napoleon, are the ſruits.--This them that their kindness should stimulate him to further exer.
just reparation too, it is worthy of remark, is refused by tions.—“It has long been n saying,” he continued, “trans
the same body of men who wish to vote 60,000ls. to planted I know not why from despotic monarchies to this country,
the Marquis of Hastings: , so that they can say nothing that the King is the fountain of honour, and so he may be of that
on the score of economy. Should they not discharge their honour which is registered in the history not of our glories, but
of our grievances—not in the annals of the nation, but the
obligations, (for this, in honour and justice, is an obliga calendar of the Court: he may be the fountain of that honour
tion as much as any debt), before they proceed to give a which slaines, like the impartial sun, upon the just and the un
large sum of money as a reward for military services ! just, and which prompts as not unfrequently to throw off that
mantle of virtue, which we have wrapt resolutely round us
WESTM INSTER ELECTION. during all the hardest storms of adversity. The King may be the
source of that honour which the absolute sovereign bestows to
On Monday nearly 300 Electors of Westminster celebrated the dignify his slave, and whipli, in less happy regions, serve, like
Twelfth Anniversary of the Triumph of Independence and Purity the gingling of the bells hud the flappings of gaudy traces, to
of Election, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern.--Sir F. Burdett encourage the lakorious duties of servitude. But the honour to
entered the roor, amidst loud applauses, accompanied by Mr. C. which a free-born Englishman (for. Iny fellow-citizens, we were
F. Putiner. Mr. Hobhouse, Mr. Evans, Mr. Scroope Davis, &c. born free, though we may not die free) the honour to which he
After dinner, the following toasts were given:— should aspire, is far different: it tends towards another course,
“The only source of legitimate power, The People.” it springs from another fountain,_from that pure and sparkling
“The Prince Regent; and may he remember his own de fountain which as you have well designated it, is the only source
claration, that the Crown is held in trust for the benefit of the of legitimate power.-the people. They only can fairly under
People.” Time, “Hope told a flattering tale.” stand and fully reward that species of merit, which, in a free
“May the United Kingdom speedily be enabled to follow the state, is the most distinguished merit, a perseverance in the be
example set to her by the People of Westminster, and elect her half of the people against the encroachinents of power. The re
own Representatives.” -
ward, indeed, which the people can be-tow is no less simple than
The health of the Chairman being proposed, hononrable: it has no intrinsic value independent of time giver
Sir F. Burnett, whose appearance on the table was hailed and of the occasion. They have nothing but their praise, but
with loud applauses, said, that though it was not long since he this praise is the most glorious and pure. It is not the golden
had met his friends in that room, matters of the utmost impor crown which the enslaved provinces decreed to their Roman
tance had come to light siuee that time, or rather those thing. conquerors: it is the oaken wreath given by one freeman to
which had been anticipated by every thinking man were now another. To obtain this praise, Gentlemen, it is my settled pur
publicly, acknowledºed to exist. The monstrous coalition to pose to devote iny life, and I know not where I can bring myself
which the return of the other candidate was owing, had done to the test more surely than here in Westmiuster; for your ap
irreparable mischief to the public, who now consid: red the Whig plauses as well as your disapprobation find respousive seatiments
party, as more odious than that of the State, inasmuch as they throughout the empire. This object, though so noble, and that
were apostates. The people of Westminster should provide which in ancient times alone animated the patriot to every
as ainst a future struggle with Government. It was probable virtuous and painful eudeavour, -this object which prompted the
that the assistance rendered at the last election would not be chief spirits that have ennobled our nature to endure all labour,
very ready on another occasion, but the influenec of n corrupt to despise all sharne, to bear bondage with patience, to submit to
Admini-tration required a powerful effort to its counteraction. death with cheerfulness;—this glorious aim and reward, it is the
His co!eague had acted, since he cºme into l’arliament, with vicious fashion of this age openly to despise and to set at naught.
every regard to the interest of the people, and upon the great Every puny whipster, who willingly passes a whole life of
question of Reform, that liepresentative might be expected to do sneaking subserviency to obtain a smile from soae great lady, or
his duty.—(Applause).-There was some little comfort too in a mod from some great man, manfully declares his contempt for "
finding the leader ºf the Whigs deny that the idea of Reform was popular favour; whilst the more sapient politician makes it his
given up in their vºes of a remedy for the diseases of the nation. boast, not only that he never obtained, but that he never de
All expectations, however, from the new Parliament were gone, served, the applauses of the giddy multitude. If he aspires to
ºnd the people must now see that their only hope consisted in a a niche in the temple of faune, it is in that temple, of which the
Reſorm. All the rest of Europe, even the inhabitants of coun chief priestess is the poetic justice of the Dunciad
tries where despotism prevailed, saw the necessity of Represen Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,
1stion ; und ought this country to be less anxious for it than And solid pudding against empty praise.
others? He did not think Annual Parliaments indispensable, Thus, Gentlemea, it seems that I do not prepose for myself a
though he considered those times of our history the best when career in which I shall have many counpetitors since the leading
they had been even more frequent than annual. He would sun characters of the day are kind enough to tell you that they do
port every measure tending to public advantage, fºr he did not not direct their actious towards any of the vulgar ends of popu
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larity, and that they willingly leave open the people's highway ‘do at least place our confidence in something which has not
for such as may still foolishly condescend to trudge in that old hitherto been proved to be ineffectual; but our sapient statesmen
and beaten track. It was, I presume, some such magnanimous still wish to prolong a dream which they have for years felt to be
feeling that made the Leader of Opposition, when he made a so painful, and which seems likely to end in the sleep of death.
motion in order to put his friends in the seats of the present Those whose incapacity is recorded and daily proved, those who
Ministers, roundly declare,' that his plan of conciliating the move in a system of self-delusion, ought to be in truth candid
affections of the people was “not by any subserview.cy to popular enough to refrain from arguing against your interference, as if
clamour, or indulging in idle schemes of visionary and impracticable ou had equally with themselves been tried in the balance and
Reform.” This is sufficiently candidand contemptuous: it is as ound wanting. But the same objections are always found against
much as to say that your clamour, that is your cries, are raised that plan which is ths only plan now remaining to be tried; and
when you are not hurt, that they mean nothing, and therefore rather than attempt to infuse any portion of democratic spirit
should affect nobody. ; Indeed these natural leaders of ours, or into our decayed institutious, our great men are still resolved to
(to use a metaphor lately applied by Lord Erskine) these natural try over again all the old nostrums which have not only failed to
physicians, who are so kind now and then as to watch the pro cure, but are by common consent allowed to have cherished the
gress of our insanity, will not allow us to have any feeling: they disease. They are still resolved to hug to their arms the loath
remind me of the surgeon who was angry with the man, whose some, putrid, scarce animated mass of corruption, and, against
tooth he was pulling out, for saying he was hurt.—“Zounds! the evidences of their senses, pretend to fancy, and dare to call
Sir,” said the Doctor, “I’m of the profession; don't you think I it, that once fair and blooming mistress of our hearts, the British
-know when I hurt you better than you?” Thus, Gentlemen, it Constitution.—Gentlemen, we cannot conceal from ourselves that
is with our great politicians—they are of the profession; you are at no time did such a determination against Reform of Parliament
nothing but patients; you do not know even when you are really prevail in Parliament as at the present moment. It was indeed
in pain; you may cry out as much as you please, but your Oppo some consolation to hear the Leader of Opposition exclaim the
sition Doctor cares no more for the crying than the regular other night that he was as much for Reform as ever, a declara
doctor. “No,” says he, with noble dignity, “I do not judge tion, however, which it must be observed was elicited from him
by vulgar symptoms: I shall cure you my own way: you cry by a remark of your worthy º: But what is this re
out in the wrong-place; but your cries are nothing to me: I teill
luctant confession of the party leader, if he cannot, and he owned
not be “subservient to popular clamour.” It is however something
he could not, carry his party along with him. It is clear that
gained that the politicians, who wish to form a new Administra
the great art in parliamentary tactics now, is to affix the odium of
tion, do own that something should be done, although in their an inclination for Reform upon whatever measure it is the object
own way, for “conciliating the affections of the people;” and it to hold up to detestation; and the whole art of the opponent
is to be hoped that, in no very distant period of time, the same party seems directed to ward off the damning, suspicion. This
individuals will discover that there is only one way by which the feeling has proceeded at last to a length so ridiculous, that al
affections of the people can be conciliated, and that is by our though the honourable House is, historically, the oldest strum
statesmen becoming “subservient to the popular clamour,” or, pet in the universe, and, like Quartilſa in Petronius, cannot even
in other words, by obeying the general voice, by listening to the recollect when she was a maid, yet, by a sort of tacit consent, the
loud cries of the people who cali for Reform. Gentlemen, every slightest imputation on her virgin purity is become a blasphemy
system of government by different persons and sets of men has worse than all the seven deadly sins; and there are actually two
iº, been tried; we have had statesmen from the right side or three regular parliamentary bullies ready almost to knock any
in power, and statesmen from the left side in power. But what one down, who dares to sully the fair fame and credit of the
has been the consequence? Ministry has succeeded Ministry,
House. Aud yet in spite ... discreet exterior—in spite of
Parliament has come after Parliament: still no correction ; still every attempt to keep up the farce, the House is as well known
no amendment; error has multiplied upon error, and instead of as if the Society for the Suppression of Vice had hung a lantern
acquiring any positive merit, he has been the best man, who has at the door; and this wilful blindness is but a counterpart ef the
committed the fewest blunders. At last we are come to such a wisdom of the ostrich, who thrusts his head in the saud, and
pass, that our governors are acknowledged to be the most de then boldly exposing his wail, thinks nobody can see him, be
spised men in the nation; and we might think we lived in Turkey cause he cannot see himself. But we see enough—we do see
where they always give the wall to an ideot; or we might ina what Mr. Burke called the shameful parts of the Constitution ;
gine ourselves to be Russian boors condemned to lose all our and the only difference made by all this farcical pretension to
“aneient habits, and when we make some little struggle to save virtue, is, that the abettors of corruption are not only hated as
our beards, obliged, not only to be shaved, but to be shaved, as traitors, but despised and laughed at as hypocrites.—The miore
the Czar Peter ordered his refractory subjects to be shaved, with the resolution against Reform prevails in the House, the more,
a blunt razor; for surely it would be difficult to find a more dull surely, will the determination to have Reform prevail out of the
edged tool than his Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer: he House;—the more decided the combination against the people,
strips us of every thing, but does it so clumsily that our skin the closer should be the union of the people. We should recol
comes off with our cloaths. Perhaps then, Gentlemen, it may be lect that selfishuess gives a principle of adherence to our adver
as well to recur now to those to whom we must recur at last– saries— -

namely the People themselves. They have hitherto been totally Devil with devil damned
º from any controul over their own affairs. It is the uni
Strong concord holds;
versal cry against such an experiment, that the People are in
capable. At the least they are no worse than their betters, who whereas we are as it were a rope of sand, which cannot hold to
have been proved to be what we are only said to be. With re gether without having ſrequently recourse to the cement of pa
spect to them, it is no matter of speculation: it is a matter of re triotism and public principle. And here, in exhorting, you to
cord, that they can do nothing. At least all confidence has been unanimity, let me remark upon a pamphlet which I hold in m
exhausted, and it is seen, that all who have hitherto attempted land, ºis. contains absolute false statements, originating,
: to rule have proceeded upon some mistaken principle. It is the no doubt, from some extraordinary misconceptions, and by
fashion of the day to call the People “wild and visionary,” but which I am concerned to see that the worthy Major Cart
to my mind the madmen of the day are those who will not suffer wright still resolves to keep open our wounds. If there
themselves to be taught by the great teacher time, who, when be any man here who has the ear of that gentleman, I hope he
they see the deception, still favour the deceit, who, in spite of will tell the Major that he is doing infinite mischief to the cause,
experience, in defiance of the cries of their companions and of and no little injury to his own character. As for his animad
the warnings of their own consciences, still pursue the same fatal versions upon myself, I can appeal to all Westminster whether
career which has already led them to the verge of destruction. the charge of disuniting the Reformers can be applicable to me.
But visionary The People visionary: No. The people alone I can ask any man whether or not I was not the sole reform
see things, as they are; and mark from whom the accusation. candidate labouring and successfully labouring, in common with
comes: it comes from thosevery statesmen, who live, as it were, my fellow-citizens, to drive the ministerial candidate from the
in a world of delusions. All around them is unreal: here they field. I can appeal to all Westminster, whether at the nomina
have the phantom of public credit: there they are beset with ten tion, on the ſith of November, in this room, there was the
thousand legal fictions; on one side they fancy they behold slightest movement made, which could make me suppose the
virtue, strength, capacity, and patriotism presiding at the helm Major would be put forward: yet several of his friends were
of the state; and, more extraordinary still, there they gaze with. present, and two of them, as I understood, acquiesced in
credulous complacency ou that shadow of a shade,--the mock my nomination, and promised, one on the spot, and the other
Representation of the People.- If we are wild and visionary, we aficrwards in writing, their co-operation. The first intimatiou I
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received of the intention of the Major's friends was, by an invi government by King, Lords, and Commons, is “a government
tation from the Black Dicarf, to purchase immortality at an easy in which the power of the people is nothing.” . Are times mended?
rate, and to remove the crown, then imagined to be upon my Are the people stronger than they were then They are not;
-brows, to those of the Major. My correspondent forgot that I the usurpation has been strengthened; there is no such thing as
could not transfer your suffrages º one to another, and that a National Representation. Where we should look for a national
such an āttempt on my part, merely upon his recommendation, representation, we find nothing but a national grievance. And
would have covered me with . and ridicule. Besides who are they that thus lord it over us? Is it the King whom
which, it would have been of no earthly use; for, after the we have promised to obey? No, they are those who have pro
double experiment, no man can now be mad enough to say that mised to obey us. The tyranny under which we groan is the
any recommendation whatever would have mede the Major worst and most disgraceful in its usture, it is the tyranny of the
Member for Westminster. And here, Gentlemen, allow me servant over the master: for, Gentlemen, your representatives
most sincerely to express my regrets that I should have been the should be your servants, they should glory in the title; but what
occasion,-the innocent occasion,--of drawing down obloquy is the case now * We hear our statesmen proud of calling them
and abuse upon the “noblest man that ever lived in the tide of selves the servants of the Crown, the servants of a single indivi
times.” I trust that I have no feelings of petty selfish nmbition, dual; but disdain all dependance upon a great and glorious
which would reconcile me to having given rise to such attacks nation, whose interests it should be not only their duty, but their
upon your representative, merely because the same opportunity pride, to promote. But we are their masters, and they shall find
gave me so flattering a testimony of the regard of the Electors of it so : the day will come when we shall break their unnatural
Westminster.—Gentlemen, you will all do me the credit to say bondage with as much ease - - * ,
that, during the election, assailed as I was on all sides, and with “As Sampson his green writhes;”
any support except that of him, who indeed stood me in the and let us recollect, in our Petitions, the words of the same great
place of all others, I never uttered n disrespectful word of Major man, whose patriotism was as sublime as his poetry, that a pe
Cartwright. Indeed, I felt concerning him as the Irishman did tition from the people is not the asking of a favour, but the de
for his wife; it did not become me to say any thing bad of him, manding of a due. Nor does the day now seem to be far dis
and I could not say any thing good of him on that individual tant;-the bloated carcase, whose enormous size has filled a
occasion, without telling a falsehood. But the truth is to be space which no healthy body could occupy, seems about to
told, and since he forces me to tell it, I must repeat, that there are burst;-the system is dividing and falling to pieces on all sides;–
many, statements in this pamphlet which, from my personal the vessel is manifestly going down—some of those aboard are
knowledge, I can assert to be unfounded. As the Major is not scrambling to save their own—some are breaking open the chests
here, I will merely content myself with saying, as to the supposed of others; and no small portion of the crew seem nobly resolved
management of my nomination by Sir Francis Burdett, that your not to see the inevitable fate that awaits them, and to die gal
worthy representative did not know that I was to be proposed lantly drunk.-It is true, Gentlemen, that many of our goods are
until eight o'clock of the very morning of the nomination. I embarked on board this vessel, but it is equally true, that we
could assert from my own knowledge, as far as one man may pre have the consolation of contemplating the tempest from the
sume to know another, how totally mistaken the Major is in sup shore. The people are on dry land, and the sooner the catas
posing that there was originally, before the election in 1818, the trophe arrives, the better for them. They will count no more
slightest disinclination on the part of Sir Francis against his upon the imaginary treasures and benefits connected with cor
being brought forward. I am most concerned to see that the Iruption, but will henceforward see, that it is by their own exer
Major should appear to fancy, that the whole success of the tions solely that they can obtain, those advantages which God
great cause, in which we are engaged, should depend upon the and Nature intended to be the imalienable portion of freemen.”
choice of any individual as member for Westminster; and I do Other gentlemen afterwards addressed the meeting, and the
think he would consult his own dignity better, if he discontinued evening was passed most socially. a
to hint that he believes that individual to be himself. Thank God,
your cause depends upon no single man, and even if your worthy
representative were to fall dead before you, your bitter regrets LA JW.
would not prevent you from seeing that the same principle winich
ha- animated him, would still survive him, and find advocates, • COURT OF KING'S tº ENCH.
not so able indeed, but perhaps equally persevering. Gentlemen, ---
I would here close this unpleasant topic, and dismiss it for ever, 4. . . .* * Friday, May 24, -- -

were it nºt necessary that I should express my surprise that the A motion was made on the part of a Bank of England proprie
author of this pamphlet should give his sanction to the cry raised tor for a mandamus, calling upon the Directors to lay before the
against me as not being sufficiently explicit as to my opinions on proprietors, at their next general meeting, an account of the
Reform. I was too explicit; my declaration, which I needed not state of their finances. The applicant had previously called on
have made; furnished my adversaries with arms against me, the Directors to render this account, but without success. .
which, if I had only said, in general terms, that I was for The Court decided, that they had no authority to interfere;
" Radical Reform,” they would never have been able to find. that if they did, they would be called upon to become auditors
One consolation I have, that, whereas my opponents, at the be to all the trading companies in England; that the Court of Pro
Finning of the election, asserted I wished to curtail the suffrage, prietors was alone competent to settle the dispute; and that, as
so at the end of the election they said I was for Universal Suffrage. a matter of partnership, the Court of Chaicery was the only
That declaration laid down no absolute plan, nor do I learn that place to which a dissatisfied partner could resort for redress.
the Electors of Westminster ever wished me to give any pledge, Saturday, May 22. .”
except of agreeing with them on the paramount importance of MERJANTILE coxspita Acy.–Mozerly woolf E. "
Reform:-This remark brings me back tº that great question,--
when Shall we have a Reform —That which Lord Grey foretold . Mr. F. Pollock moved, for a rule to show cause why two
in 1794, has unfortunately been proved by the experience of write of lewari facias, which had been issued against the property
three and twenty year-,---. The House of Commons witt never re ºf Mºzely Woolfe should not be set aside. All the property ºf
form itself.” When then shall we have a Reform I will answer the defendant in London and Middlesex had been seized under
ºn a phrase used by the same Nobleman in 1793,--when “the these writs. The only case that could be cited as a precedent
eaple resolve for themselves” that there shall be a Reform. The was one in which the owner of the property had consented to
House of Commons is at this moment the only assºciated body, the levy, which this defendant had not.
pretending to represent the interests of others, that holds no sort The Court refused the application, on the ground that the
of communion, or has no kind of sympathy, with its presumed common law authorised the King to take “ body, land, and
constituents. The Bank Directors act for, and refer to, the Bank goods;" and on Mr. Pollock observing, that the King at some
Stock-holders; every petty company appeals to and is directed future time might remit the fine, said, that the present decision
of º: Court would not hinder the defendant of his future re
º: the persons for whose benefit they act; but the Commons
medy.
House sits and acts alone and apart: it has no sympathy, no - -

£ommunion with the Commons: it is a body acting fºr and re Friday, May 28.
ferring to itself solely ; it appeals to no tribunal. When it con seductiox.-sprent v. oliver A.
dºctº itself in couformity with natural feeling, it is a mere coin This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a carpenter, re
cideuce, not a cºnseq’renee'; but it most usually proceeds with sident at Chelsea, against the defendant, for the seduction of the
an avowed scorn and contempt of the general inclinations of the plaintiff’s daughter.
yeaple. Gentlemen, Mr. Fºx' proclaimed, in 1798, that this Mr. Scarlert stated the case as follows:–The daughter of
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!he plaintiff, a very pretty young girl, put an advertisement into apparently being strangled; a persºn in company with witness
"he Times, for a situation as Lady's-maid. The advertisement was assisted to the top of the park wail, to see if he could ascer
was answered by a note, desiring the advertiser to call at the tain from whence the noise came. A gate-keeper belonging to
honse of Mr. Olivera, near Russell-square. Upon going to the Kensington-gardens then came up, and they went round the ear
house she saw Mr. Olivera, who said his sister wished to hire a dens, but did not find any oue. The scream" appeared as if from
girl, and desired her to call again. She saw the defendant upon a female ; the first was very loud, the second not so lond, nnd
her second visit to the house, but was told by him, it being his the third and last very low indeed,—The body was discovered on
sister's intention to go abroad, he apprehended the applicant's Tuesday week, floating in the water, and brought out. There
aversion to leave this country would prevent her being engaged. were in her pocket 5s. 6d. in silver, and some halfpenee; the for
He, however, weuld took about for a place, and during the in mer were tied up in one corner of her pocket handkerchief,
terval proposed to the poor girl to take care of a house, of which which was marked with the letter W. Site mud also a penknife.—
he was proprietor. She conserted, and before long Mr. Olivern Mr. Campbell, surgeon, Edgeware-rºad, was of opinion the body
called and told her that he would rather see her in some respect of the deceased had received no marks of violence : nud as it
able business than in service, and would advance 2001. He took was in so bad a state of putrefaction, it would be highly impro
her to walk with him, and conducted her to a house which she per to open it.—The Jury returned a verdict of “ Found
soon found was laid out for evil purposes. She wished to leave Drowned.”
it, but he prevailed upon her to stay, and succeeded in accom Early on Monday morning, as ºf man employed in the erection
plishing her ruin. She became pregnant, was delivered of a of the new gaol was going to work, he observed a bundle in the
child, and had now returned to her father's house. river, near the iron bridge, at Bedminster; he pulled it a-hºre,
This account was given by the plaintiff's daughter with great and it was found to contain the body of a new-born male child.
coolness, and was confirmed in parts by the evidence of her Part of a man's shirt, and a towel marked W. C. M. 21, were
sister. -
wrapped round the body. The body was taken to a public
Mr. Gurwev, for the defendant, said. the virtue of a girl who house, and a Coroner's Jury summoned. A gentleman, from the
had resigned it without reluctanee, and even gone into a brothel initials on the towel, recognized to whom it belonged: Mary
for the purpose of doing so, could not be of much value to her Eastmºnt, the servent of a family ºn Redcliff Hill, had been seen
failier. -
to throw something into the water in the morning, and was
Verdict for the plaintiſſ–Damages, 200l. taken intº custºdy. Circumstances appearing strongly to crimi
nate the girl, the Jury, after an investigatin of five heurs, re
- OLD BAILFY. turned a verdict of Wilful Murder. She has since been som
mitted to Newgate.--Bristel Paper.
on Friday morning, before the Judges came into Court, Mr.
Sheriff Roberts entered the Students' box, where two Rºporters - T

were sitting, and, after some remarks about when he called a mis BIRTHS. -

representation in the Times, declared, that he wanted that box On the 27th instant, Mrs. Edward Dixon, of Wardour-street,
for his friends, and that the disposal of it rested with him. Some Soho, of a daughter.
conversation ensued, at the close of which, the Sheriff said, he On the 22d inst., in Weymouth-street, the Lady of Joseph
must try to accommodate his friends elsewhere. . As soon as Browne Wilks, Esq. of Tandridge-hall, Surrey, of a still-born
Alderman Wood entered the Court, he applied to him to know child. . -

what right the Reporters had to the box. The Worthy Alder At Stoke Newingten, on the 25th, the Lady of T. P. Smith,
man, in reply, advised him to drop the matter, sº, from long Esq., of n daughter. -

wºuge, the Reporters had an uudoubted right to sit there. This . A few days since a fºrmer's wiſe, at Bally dine, county ºf Chon
. ice was followed. -
mell, was delivered of five fine female children, three of whom,
Charles Rennett was then arraigned for stealing the two children with the mother, are likely to do well.—Clonmell Herald.
of Mr. Horsley. The particulars of this case are well known to -

the public. Mr. Horsely, who was examined, stated, that in MAtrftſ'AGES.
cousequence of information, he set off for France, attended by a on the 22d inst. at Taunton, Richard Harcourt Symons, F-7.
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friend and an officer, and then weat to I tolland, where he saw Meend Park, Herefordshire, to Jane Dequis Tolson, daughter of
the prisoner aud the British Consul, Mr. Macnamara. Prisoner R. H. Tolson, Esq. Woodland Lodge, Somersetshire.
was than in custody, and en seeing witness, he exclaimed, “Oh On the 25th inst, at West Ham, R. Kerrison, Esq., of Panx
God 1 oh God!” and then threw himself on the ground hind ein word, Norfolk, to Miss A.M. Qawson, of Stratford, Essex. -

braced the legs of witness, who made no reply, but left the room...]. on the 25th inst., Robert Tyser, Esq. M.D., &f Tiverton; Dr.
ennet confessed, without solicitation, that the child was Mr.
vonshire, to Arnheila Marin Bayley, ºnly daughter of the late
& Hºrsley's. Held out no hopes to him of making the case favour Peter Bayley, Esq. ºf Nantwich, Cheshire. . * . . -

'ab'e for him at the Old Bailey., . On Friday, Mr. Vincent Setis, of Bauk-side, Sºuthwark, to
The other facts being proved, the prisoner read his defence Elizabeth, ſird daughter of Andrew Forster, Esq. of Łanbeth. "
from a paper. Aſter detailing many private circumstances, in
order to show how much he had been injured, he endeavºured. - - - DEATHS. -

to mitigate his offence by saying that these things had drivew him.On Tuesday morning, et Chuíſowt House, Bucks, Thomas
to counit it. Ile denied that he had abandowed the female IIibbert, Esq. - - * - -

child; ſhe waited acress the road, he said, till he saw her laken on the day last, at Upper Edmºnto, in hºrsth year, Mº
care of by three respectable persons. He stated, that he had garet, the relict of the late Rev. Dr. David Ltoyd, of [..ynn, ia
suffered six months' imprisonment, and had been highly useful Norfolk. - *** -

to the father in recovering the child, for which he had promised -On the 18th inst., at St. Bris, near Auxerre, in France, Euphe
himºnetcy. , - - , “ min Jane, daughter of the late Jolºr Hanster, M.D. and F.R.S.,"
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Mr. Justice DAvlev, in swimming up, said, that no private pro and niece to the late Lieut.-Gen. Hunter, Governor and Com
mise could interfere with the duty of the Jury; and that no mander-in-Chief in Upper Canada. - - -- -

provocal on would justify such an act. - -

At the Royal Military College, Janet, the wife of Col. Butler,
The jury instantly found the prisoner Guilty ; and his Lord the Lieutenant-Governer. - - -

ship inſignated to him, that he could expect uo mitigation of the On the 25th inst., in Upper Brook-street, aged 21, Norris John
usual púuislinent for such crimes, seven years' trawsportation,-- Wodehouse, Esq., eldest son of the Hon. Col. Wodehouse.
While heaſad his defence, and during the address of the Judge, On the 25th inst , at Edmonten, Mr. Jonathan Bugg, solicitor.
the prisoner wept very mach. -

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On Wednesday week, an inquest was held at the Black Horse, K.B.her age, Lady Pitt, relict of the late General Sir William Pitt,
and sister to the late Admiral Earl liowe, and General Vis
Bayswater, on the body of an elegantly dressed fºunsle, about 24 count Howe. ‘. * - : -

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mirrºres before ten at night, he was near the Dun Cºw, Kensing Printed and published by Joan Hunt, at the Exaxºn &R-Office,.
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worse than all, especially the latter, which is said to be taken
the PoliticAL EXAMINER. from a living poor one. The name which he prefers is plain
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Pop E.
Bull, or affecting that of his illustrious ancestor, Jon N
No. 582.
Bell. His kinsman Mr. MiddleGENT died about twenty
| years back, in decayed circumstances, a clerk in the War
Poli. Office. He does not like to be reminded of him; but no -

ACCOUNT OF THAT REMAIRKABLE

thing annoys him so much as being called PARisii. The
TICIAN, MR. PARISH BULL. country people, who hate him for a certain foolish pride.
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OUR readers have heard of various individuals, who by he has in disliking to live among them, though it would be.
some mystery attached to their persons or mode of life, the best thing in the world for his health, delight to call
have at different times excited much curiosity and specu him by it. “Look at him!” they cry; “there goes Mr.”
lation. There was the Man with the Iron Mask, for in PARisit Bull.” and then he always looks at his legs,
stance, in the time of Louis the 14th, the Reformer of .which are prodigiously thin, -
Messina, the Chevaliere D'EoN, the Count Sr. GERMAIN, This reminds us that it is time to speak of his person.
Schroepfer the Sorcerer, George PsALMANAzAR, Dr. We have already mentioned the Matthews-like talent he
Def, Count Cagliostmo, with a great many others too. has at changing the look of his face. All that can be as
numerous to mention, including Prophets, Pretenders, and certained therefore of that part of him is, that it is very
Wandering Jews. bloated; so much so, that having sense enough to find it
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There is at present, living in England, a more singular out by his glass, but not to see that his flatterers have found.
personage than any of these, who with other remarkable it out too, nothing pleases him better then being told he
properties which we shall proceed to describe, possesses looks thin. Whenever he hears this information, he is,
that of being invisible to great numbers of people, or ra struck with a happy air of surprise, feels his bibs about his
chin, and then suddenly looking grave, pretends to lamen
ther of appearing under a totally different aspect. Though
not a wandering Jew, many consider him as a kind of that it is too true, and that he is growing out of flesh. Mr.
stationary one both in character and age, and assert Bull's Head, it must be allowed, is very vacant. One
that he is no other than the identical Jonn Bull of anecdote about it we must not forget. He leſt off hair
whom Dr. ARuttiisor wrote that classical piece of powder, because it was too expensive; and yet he then
biography. We have good reason however for know went and managed to get a tax. laid upon shoe-leather,
ing him to be only a descendant. His ‘real name, which his legs, he said, could afford, being weakly and
which is as long as a German Prince's, is George Count requiring help about the ancles. This is one of the many,
PLAct: Bumroughs MinoLegent Parish Bull. He freaks, which have induced people to suppose him out of
has an odd fancy for going by one or two of these his senses. . . . . . . . ... . . .. .
names in different places; and it is one of the most sin His shoulders, which, though really as weak as his
gular things about him, that together with his name he head are very broad and grand-looking, he values himself
can change the look of his face, a privilege however con upon exceedingly. He has an extraordinary power of
fined to that part of his aspect. Among the fashionable stooping with them; and exercises it at the risk of bring
for instance he delights to be known as Mr. George ing all the blood up in his head and dying of apoplexy.
Count Boll, and puts on the strangest coxcombical ap And here we may mention.another strange circumstance ;
which is, that he is ſond of appearing in the livery of the
pearance in the world for an elderly man. His character
hºwever is not good in that quarter, ſor he breaks his pro Buraougris family, with great golden tags to his shoul
mises in the most delicate points, ſorsakes his old friends, ders. When he has put this full dress on, he facetiously
and though famous for taking liberties himself, will allow calls it being Parliamentary, that is to say, “ in order.”
none to be taken with him. Among political people he is He will strut in it half the hight long, talking all sors, ºf.
known by the appellation of Mr. Place Burrouglas Bell, nonsense. A friend of ours, who has the patieucºto.
and with these he is more stai' in his manners though attend to him, sometimes brings away his soliloquies for
quite as hollow in his principles. In both instances he is, our amusement (of which, by the way, the old fellow,
remarked for being dull-headed, and even for speaking bad though really proud, makes a prodigious favour.) They
have latterly consisted of a strange, farrago about Bank-.
grammar, which in a person of education is unaccount
able. He has not gone by the name of Mrpplegent ever notes, Clergymen, and Chimney-sweepers. But what,he
since he was a youth; at which period of life, he pro particularly enjoys is his appearance in his livery before a
ulised to be a very different person ſtom what he is now, looking glass, making the most absurd cringing gesticula
But in consequence of vicious courses, he was seized with a .tions, trying how he can put things in-his pockets, and at
kind of decay of his lower half, after which he never re every practice ofGentleman.
the Honourable servility or slight-of-hand, calling himself
. …. •
covered his intellect or temper. Though proud of four of
the above nºmes in different circles, he cannot bear them.in E. So much for the head and shoulders, and the mãìº.
general, albeit they are taken from rich relations; and what ‘connected with them... Our readers are aware that therºis.
is #9te curious he hates those of Mippurgest and Psalsii, a gºat’sympathy between the slottagland the head, sº
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that it is no wonder that Mr. Court Burrougus Bull is from the Honourable House, and at least listen to a man
bloated in the former as well as latter. In these and his who makes a serious complaint of ill-treatment, and de
shoulders he looks large, if not flourishing; but in every mands an inquiry, which, if it turned out unfavourable to
other respect he is so thin, as to be shocking to look at. lin, would overwhelm him with disgrace, if it did not
His upper props of his body, or thighs, used to be re draw upon him punishment, for his daring malignity. A
presumption may naturally be raised in favour of any one
markable in his youth for a firm and elegant roundness. who seeks for investigation, especially when the truth or
It was at that period he used to be fond of calling himself falsehood of the alleged circumstances are as easily ascer
Mr. MiddleGENT Bull. Lord! How he used to sit a tainable as in this case. There were insinuations thrown
horse then, dashing through the green lanes at five o'clock out in Parliament respecting the atrocious conduct of this
in a summer's morniag! He would slap his thigh at the sailor; but we never thought them likely to be well
founded, because it is most improable that a man so guilty
jokes of the country squires, till the hall they all stood in as he was asserted to be would be mad enough to render
rang again. When he planted it with his fine leg (that
then was) in the path in one of his fields, and stood look
ºf
ight.
liable to exposure. Crime always avoids the
ing at his happy peasants with his hand on his hip, it was The following is a condensed account of Crook's case,
as stout, as hard, and as finely turned to boot as Robin taken from his own statement:—He went on board the
Hoop's bow. At present, both thighs and legs are no brig La Mutine in 1797, when he was only 13 years old.
thicker than a pair of stilts; or rather his legs; for the The year after, Sir W. Hoste took the command. In
November, 1801, the circumstance that caused all his sub
thighs have so shrunk up that they have almost vanished. sequent misfortunes happened. . A man named Grimaldy,
Mr. Parish Bull is so sore on this point, that he will the ward-room steward, came down one night intoxicated
sometimes dress himself in a strange manner, and pretend to his hammock, where he was lying asleep, and, by sud
that he has as good thighs and legs as any man. Some Genly letting it down, caused his head to fall on an iron
fitnes you may see him strutting in a Bishop's apron and bar, by which it was fractured. Grimaldy then went on
boots, sometimes in a Peer's or Judge's gown, sometimes deck, replying only by abuse to the complaints of the poor
lad. N. morning, when taxed with it by Crook, he de
in great fashionable trowsers and Wellington boots. He clared he had been drunk and recollected nothing of the
with even pretend a call from heaven, and get up in a matter. Crook, however informed the Captain of it through
church-pulpit for the mere pleasure of haranguing on the the medium of the Surgeon. , Sir W. Hoste then sent for
inerits and happiness of his invisible lower extremities. and questioned him, after which, to his great astonishinent,
But it is all in vain; and he has been known to be so Sir William ordered him to be put in irons. When they
angry at finding the real state of those limbs understood, arrived at Malta, he received six dozen lashes and was for
that in a fit of passion he will even do them wilful injury, cibly put on shore, by the Captain's command. . Grimaldy
also received a similar punishinent at the same time. After
at one time stripping them to the cold air, at another fairly subsisting for some weeks at Malta on alºns, he obtained a
kicking them, at another torturing them with burning spy situation as valet to a Mr. Dodwell, a gentleman then
glasses, and all the while calling them by the most vil tnaking a tour in company with a Mr. Gell and Lord
lainous names, such as traitors, and rebels, low rascals, Acton. The latter, on learning his case, wrote to Sir W.
Hoste, asking for Crook's papers, in order that he might
understrappers, and lean Jacks (which last, God knows, obtain
is true enough). He is sure however to suffer for these The his pay and prize-money, amounting to about 560l.
answer was, §. the impropriety of Crook's conduct
unnatural cruelties; for the rest of him cannot help sym prevented the delivery of his papers, but nothing was said
pathizing in some way or other; and after heaving un about his having deserted the . Crook, after leaving
willing groans, he will sit looking at them with a fearful the service of Mr. D., who gave him a very good character,
was hired, on his recommendation, by a Polish Prineess,
inelancholy, as if he almost expected they should get up of travelling
their own accord, and kick his bloated body corporate in to Hamburgh. On his arrival at that place, he
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sailed for England, arrived here in 1804, and immediately
applied for his dues at the Admiralty and at Somerset
He is in this condition at present, and indeed more House. He was told, in answer, that he had forfeited all
inelancholy than usual, having lately discovered that a claim to them, by having an R against his name in the
plaster of thin paper which he used to consider an infal. ship's books, . On hearing this, he wrote to Sir W. Hoste,
lable mostrum for his bruises, will no longer take hold. He then in the Mediterranean, to request him to remove the
is sometimes visited with a horror lest a mortification. | R, but received no answer. He was obliged, from poverty.
should ensue; and when he is ja these fits, he is sure to atosurgeon
accept the first situation that offered, and went out with
to Antigua, where he stayed two years. After
Inake himself worse by eating and drinking, always taking his return to England, applications were again made both
an opportunity of the dinner-table to conceal his legs under bw himself and his friends to the Admiralty and to Sir
it, so that at least he may not see them himself. W. Hoste. The first answer obtained fron the latter de
For a further account of the habits of this extraordinary clared, that if Crook was noted “Run” on the books, he
(Sir W.) presumed he had run, and any attempt to remove
person, and his connexions with foreign countries, we re. the
serve ourselves till another time. R would be unsuccessful; and in another letter he said
that “upon reflection” he had “ some remembrance” that
Crook “ did actually desert from her (the ship) at
CASE OF GEORGE CROOK. Naples.”—At last, after endeavouring for several years,
without the smallest glimpse of success, to obtain his
Since our notice of this case last week, we have read a money, he applied for legal assistance to Mr. Harner, the
full statement of the particulars, drawn up from Crook. solicitor, who wrote a letter to Sir William, then at home,
narrative, as well as some corroborating documents, and dated January 24, 1818, informing him that, unless, he
iºtirmonials of his good character. His story is brief and interfered to have the R removed, he would be proceeded
simple, and as no facts have been even alleged in contra against. The Captain shortly after left England without
*ive of it, we think the public will decil, differently returning any answer;
'g any answer; and Crook at length got •re
agº go a petition.
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presented to Parliament by Sir Francis Burdett, which ported shall pay, independently of the permanent duty, a supple
was rejected by a large majority of the members present. mentary duty of one franc per hectolitre. Art. 6 ordains, that
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when the price of the home roduce shall have fallen in the
It now only remains to mention the testimonials and
circumstances in his favour. He has, as we mentioned departments aforesaid to 20fr. 18fr. and 16ſ, all importation of
last week, a very great number of the former, and the foreign grain and flower shall be prohibited.
The assassin of Kotzebue still lived on the 24th of May, by
following fact may be taken as a strong proof of his private letters from Manheim, but he was in a deplorable condi
honesty:—When the ship was at Gibraltar, he was sent tion. The mortification of his wounds had reached such a
on shore with the linen and other property of the officers, height that nobody could endure to be near him. He did not
and the ship suddenly sailing, was left behind in possession show any sigu of repertance.
of it. He immediately delivered the property to the
Lieutenant of the gun-boats there, and coutinued in active GERMANY. -

service until he rejoined the Mutine. . The narrative, how From the MAINE, MAY HQ.--Accounts from the frontiers of
ever, furnishes many presumptions in his favour, which JewsSaxony give the following particulars of the expulsion of the
from Meiningen:—From ancient times the town had the
we need not repeat. It has been objected that the circum privilege that no Jew should reside there; latterly several Jews
stance of the man not having made his case, public for 18 had established themselves there, without any opposition from
years is much against him. We think however that this the Government. Some time since, circumstances being changed,
may be easily explained...One can very well imagine how the magistrates thought it advisable to enforce the old regula
a man may go on year after year, in the hope of establish tions, and all Jew beggars and petty dealers received orders
ing a claim which he considers so just and undeniable. to quit the town, which they did. Some rich Jewish faulilies
Until he despairs of succeeding by any other means, he is remained; and the magistrates were asked whether they should
unwilling to destroy all hope §t success by taking hostile be further tolerated 2 The magistrates thought themselves not
and compulsory measures. Besides it was necessary in competent to decide this question, and called an assembly of the
citizens. This assembly had scarcely heard what was }. mat
this case, to have evidence of the facts, and it was not till ter in-debate, when some of them, resolved to cut the knot at
1817, that he could meet with any of his officers or com once, collected some empty waggons standing in the market,
rades. He then procured a certificate from Mr. Antrim, obliged the Jews still reinashing to pack up their goods, and to
the second lieutenant, and an affidavit of two petty officers, put themselves with them in the vehicles, which stood ready to
declaring that he was forcibly put on shore. Now these convey them over the frontiers. The immediate cause of the
event is said to have been, thit a Jew, contrary to the ancieut
declarations on oath from impartial men are, we think, custom, which did not ...?
somewhat more satisfactory than the suppositious and real property, had purchased a º: of his nation to acquire.
house in the town of Meiningen,
“recollections upon reflection” of Sir W. Hoste, who had and desired to have his name registered as the proprietcr.
committed himself by setting the R against Crook's fame, The Duke of Oldenburg has resºlved to give his states a repre
and was therefore not impartial. sentative coustitutiou, according to the 13th articie of the act of
However, Crook's statement is now before the public. vulon.
who will not be satisfied before they know more about its
truth: nor will they, we suspect, be much influenced by UNITED PA R LIAMENT.
the example of the Honourable Gentlemen who took ad
vantage of a few vague insinuations to get rid of an inves
isiºn, which the case most peremtorily demanded. ..., House of commons.
-*--
- - Widnesday, June 2.
SUPPLY-NAVY AND ORBSANCE ESTIMATES, Ex
- CHEQUER BiLLs, &c.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Sir G. warresper, after observing that the Reports of the
Finance Committee removed the º of his going into any
-

- - FIRANCE. details on this subject, moved that 2, 483,000t. should be granted

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Paris, May 27.-Yesterday the King in Council authorised for the service of the Navy for the present year. -

the recal of five exiles out of the list of the 38 banished by the 'Mr. Calcratt was surprised at this reliance upon the Fiº ance
ordinance of July 24, 1815. These five are, Marshal Soult, who Committee. The Committee had recommended the reduction of
lived in retirement at Dusseldorf; General Pise, who was at Pe the Naval Asyluum. Would Miaisters adopt that recomtneuda
tersburgh; Colonel Mellinet, who was in Belgium; Real, who tiou ? He could uot contemplate without pain aud surprize such,
resides at Philadelphia ; and the ex-deputy Durbach, who is at a proposal. The Military Asylum was liberally provided (or,
Prague. and it would not be a proper economy, but a resºr-imory; to
MAv 29.-In the Chamber of Peers, on Friday, the project of: suppress the Naval one. Indeed Miuisters showed a grea' dis
law relative to the journals and periodical publicatious passed position to cut away in every direction with respect to the Navy.
without any discussion or amendments (except a speech on the The Hon. Gentleman then contrasted the different course tºur
whole law by the Duke de Rochefoucault), by a majority of 149. sued with respect to the two services, as shown by voiet;
acaiust 14. 100,000 soldiers, and only 20,000 sailors, whereas, in former.
"News from Manheim, dated the 18th inst., asserts that Sandt times, the latter generally exceeded the formef. º
is still in existence: several-persons had recently been permitted Sir G. warresper said there was to inted ºn tº sºppre
to see him. ---, - … -

the Naval Asylum, whatever modifications tºight be trade with

Jrwr. 1.-10 the Chamber ºf peputies yesterday, the Minister regard to its management or expense. The avy was in a very - - -
.
ef the Interior presented from the King a projet of law upon the floºrishing state. It was less than formerly, compared with the
importation of grain. He observed, that to leave the commerce Army, because the Courtinental Navies had been so reduced by
entirely free, though it was the easiest course, was incompatible orir own. estáes, it could be speedily raised to avy amount re
with the security of a great people, whose principal subsistence uired in case of a war, while it was with great iſfieulty that
consists in grain. An absolute prohibition would be attended i. army could be recruited and disciplined.
with too easily inconveniencies. The establishment of a duty. Sir W. Ripley said, that in the present errbarrassed state-nt
wisely graduated to that point when the price of grain shall have the coutitry, he wauld not vote at unuecessary shilling...The
y*
fallen to a rate fixed by law, had the double advantage of plac two Lay fords of the Admiralty were totally useless, an as Mr. -

ing importation under certain restraints, and at the same time Croker was uot wanted in the House, ore of the Admirijty Secre-.
favouring the formation in the ports of magazines of foreigngrain, taries might also be spared. He thought that by these and other
which may serve as a resource when a time of scarcity arrives. means, 200,000. might be saved, and he therefore nuawed, that
Art. 1 imposes, in place of all former duties, a permanent duty that sun should be deducted from the 2,483,000;
of ifr, 25c per hectolitre of grain, aud. 26. 50e. per metrical Mr. F. Douglas swpported the amendment. It had been said,
quintal of flour, on all foreign produce. Art.2 enacts, that when on a fortrer occasion, that the Junior Lords were necessary to
the price of home produce slall have failew to 23r, in certain relieve the other Lords from constant lºbour; but it was moto
departments, aid to 21fr. aud. 19:1. in ctlers, foreign grain im rious that one of them spent five months of tast year in Bedford
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356, THE EXAMINER,
shire, and the other was nearly half the year among his cºnst: The cash payments' Bill, founded upon the Reports of the
tuents. But Ministers never made reductions which interfred Bank Committees, was read a second time-Adjourned. -

with their Parliamentary influence; any place, however useles", Thursday, June 3.
which was held by a member of that iſouse, or his immediate 'Mr. W. Swirm presented Petitions from the Dissenting Con
connections, was kept sacred. The Army was raised to an º gregations º Unitarians) of the following !. praying
paralleled height in peace, while the Navy was comparatively for liberty to perform the marriage, ceremony." temselves, like
overlooked. When he heard an attempt made to justify this the Jews and Quakers, or that a part ef the present ritual should
novel system, on the ground that all the Continental powers also be omitted :-Tenterden in Kent; Gloucester; Parliament
maintained large afmies in peace, he would say, let us maintain court, Artillery-lane, London ; Bristol; Hackney; Jewin-street,.
our Navy in its due rank as the best means of defence against London; Chichester; Norwich; Lincoln; Liverpool; Newport,
such armies. (Hear!) But this attempt he regarded as a Isle of Wight; and Exeter.
maxim drawn from that Continental school into which this coun Lord cºaxhorne obtained leave, after some opposition, to
try had been degraded by the principles and proceedings of the bring in a Bill for authorizing the sale of Game, by enabling
Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs. (Hear!) Lords of Mauors, or their deputations, to obtaia certificates fºr
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The House divided—For the original Resolution, 164—Against such sale. -

it, 97—Majority, 67. - -

FINANCE. -

The sum of 1.600,628. was then voted for repairs in the Dock The chancellon of the Exchequen laid on the table a series
yards: Naval works, &c.; 761.321 were voted for the Trans of resolutions, the discussion on which was postponed till Mon
port Service; and 850,235l. for the Ordnance Department. A day.—They state, that since the peace, 18,000,000l. of taxes
little conversation arose on the details, but the Resºlutions were have been reduced ; that the supplies voted for the present year
agreed to without opposition. may be stated at 20,500,000l. i and the existing revenue, appli
The Châxcellor of the Exchequen moved, that 8,395,600l. cable to those supplies, at 7,000,000l., leaving a balance unpro
be granted to pay of Exchequer Bills to that amount. vided for of 13,500,000l.; thet the Sinking Fund applicable to
Mr. Gnesſelſ, again called the attention of the House to the the reduction of the National Debt, this year, be is about
advantage that the country would have derived, if the Commis 15,500,000l. i. exceeding the above sum, necessary tº raised
*inners for the reduction of the debt had become subscribers to for the service of the year, by about 2,000,000l. only. These
the longs. It appeared from a paper on the table, that if this two millions are to be increased to five millions, º
additiouai
course had been adopted with respect to the last four loans, there taxes of three millions per annum; thus making a clear surplus
would have been a saving of 6,000,000l. A new loan was now beyond the expenditure of five millions.
about to be negociated, and he left it to the House to consider FOREIGN ENLISTMENT BIf.f.
Several Petitions were presented against this Bill, frºm Mer
the injurious effect of the junction of loan-contractors, the public
being excluded from competition; which effect might be avoidedchants and Ship-owners, stating the injurious effect they const
by appropriating the Sinking Fund. It was rumoured? that the dered it would have ou commerce. A debate afterwards took
Chancellor of the Exchequer had communicated to certain Cou place on the second reading. The Bill was supported by the
*actors the amount of the intended loan. If that was true, it Attorney-General, Mr. Wynn, Sir C. Robinson: aud Lord Cas
was giving them a very unfair advantage. thereagh; and opposed by Sir R.Wilson, Mr. Denman, Mr. F:
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The Chaxcellon of the Exciſequett observed, that the Hon. Doughs, Mr. Marryatt, and Mr. Macdonald. The point, felisa”
Gentheman had no right to assume that, if the Sinking Fund had on by the advocates of the bill was this: By Act" passed in the
been taken in aid of the four last loºns, the terms on which the reign of George H. and directed against the supporters of ther
other loans were raised would have been so advantageous as Jacºbites, British subjects are prohibited from eutering inte the
they had been. He had not entered into any stipulation, which service of any “foreign State, Power, or Potentate.” Uuder
would prevent the appropriation of the Sinking Fund, if that this law any one entering into the service of Spain without
should be thought useful. Ite had of course spoken with many the King's license would be punishable, while no punish
}. respecting his financial plaus, but be denied that he ment could attach to those who enter into the service of
led made any private communication of his intentious, of which the Independents, who could not be described in law as a
airy unfair advantage could be taken, - - - - - as a “state power or potentate."—The Bill would put an end
'Some conversation followed, the Chascetton of the Exche to this anomaly, and was therefore necessary to the maintenance
Quequent asserting that he had only asked the “persons with of a bond ſide “eutrality. The opponents of the Bill contended
whom he had spoken what was the best plan fºr the loan, and, that if by the law as it stood the Independents derived an ad
Mr. Gºesyet.", and other members conteilding, that such persons vantage from the sympathy of the people of England, Spain had
were very unfit to be consified on such otºions, as they were no right to demand from us an alteration of our law to deprive
interested in advising large loans; and that if the Right Hon. then of this advantage. The character of his government and
Gemtºman had expressed his own optition to the Coutractors, ir his cession of the Floridas to America without our consent, and
ºve them an undſto advantage. . . -- - -- -
in eontrediction to our interests, were brought forward to
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The Resolution was agreed to, as were some others for the strengthen this argument. The Bill was most hostile to our
same purposes. -- - -

commercial intereºf it would irritate the South Americans.

" _ " IRISH COURT OF CHANCERY, &c., who were certain of ultimately. liberating themselves, aad lose
Mr. GRAxt moved for ſeave to bring in a Bill tº regulate the us the fine ºppºniº of securing an immense, market for our
the fees in the Court of Chaucery in Ireland. Cºmmissioners ‘ihis ºpportunity would besides be offered to our
had been appointed to inquire into these fees, and had pointed manufactures.
dreaded rival–North America. The true principle of neutrality
out several abuses, which were chiefly ºasiºned by the iasters was to leave time iwertºº law of the neutral state as it was before
in Chancéry and ºther officers aſ the Court Jiaying the power to: the quarte, between the belligerents was contemplated.—An
--

regulatºfºsi, which º participated. He proposed, that Amendment was moved that the Bill be read a second time this
ºir salaries sheuſd be fixed, which would take away their in day six months. … . . .. ..
direment to enhance the costs. Compensation however shºuld be. * . The House divided on the Amendment—142 to 155—Majority
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made to the officers

wheſees.-Lease * fºr the loss they
- º wºuld
**in sustain by
ºy cutting
cutting of:
aff for the Bill, 13–(Loud cheering frºm the Oppositiºn.)
. ." " '' . . . Assessèi) TºxES. ºf .
Mr. C. Gºast, in a Committee ºf the House, nºved a series of , the Citaxçetton of the Exchequen, in a Committee of the
Re-olutions on the subject ºf iſºe Bestuptiºn of Cash Payments whole House, submitted Resolutious with respººfto a voluntary
by the Bººk.ºf Ir: Fº r to those which had been agreed &mposition of the Assessed Taxes, for a periºd of three years.
tº in the fºe of ºf Bank ºr. were greed ſo, The principle of this plan is, irst persons may be tºy tº
Mr. R. Afantry, laid on the takle sque charges against Baron pay 4 compositiouſ for three years, of five per cent, additiºnal
N:-cleſiand, an ºsſi.Jädge, whom hº ºf ſavingº upºn the present amount of their Assessed Taxes, fºr lioºses and
i!!egally on a trºl in which he (Mr. M.) was ºvernº; but windows; and often percent, for their household establishments.
withdrew theim ºff. Lórd Castlereagh's saying...ihat he thought: Having douest; they wiłł, thea be exempt from any additional
the question not one for the consideration of the House, as ho Assessinent, for that perica, to whieh they might ‘otherwise be
4ecific act of corruptiºn was alleged. . . . . . . .'; ..." liable, if they increased the number of articles included in the
Mr. Matrix said it was impossible for the Nable Lord to ap: $chedule of Assessed Taxes, but they must not make ºuy additiºus
to hiſh in vain on any ºccasion, "...' ... . . . . . o erºſcles not previously assessed.at all. • If, for example, a nºn
jºrbe Hºolvent Debtors' Bill was read a second time, and Al ept horses, but no carriage, he must pay for this carriage, if her
º pºſſessed his full concurrence in its principlc, sets one up.–The resolatious were agreed tº-Adjourned to
- ºg the present Act. - - Moºdsy. . ***. -

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TUESI)AY'S LONDON GA2ETT'i', “ . + ... . rRicº or stocks on satuan AY.
3 per Cent. Red. 69?? 70; 693 || 3 per Cent. Cons............. shut.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. - - º

J. Nishtingale
* tailors.
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and T., Byrne, George-street, Portman-square,
BANKRUPTS. -
| THE EXAMINER, --------------

R. H. Hunt, Thrighy, Norfolk, wine-merchant. Attormies, Londos, Jise 6.

Messrs. Swnia and Co. Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
J. Newell, Redbridge, Southampton, timber-merchant. Attor THE of FRANce has authorized the return of five King
ney, Mr. Hutchinsei, Crowni-court, Threadneedle-street. more exiles, among whom is Marshal Soult. We do
J. Hederle, Leicester-square, tailor. Attornies, Messrs. Nay
lors, Great Newport-street. not mean to undervalne this conduct on the part of his
J. Gibbs, Bridgewater, Somersetshire, maltster. . Attornies, Majesty, who we really believe is a much wiser and more
Messrs. Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row. liberal man than any other of his family; but now that he
S. Bradley, Sandwich, Kent, brewer. Attorni es, Messrs. Lod has openly declared for the only line of conduct which
ington and Hall, Temple. --
W. Moss, Tadley, Southampton, carpenter. “Attorney, Mr. can stand a chance of preserving the Bourbons in pos
Eyre, Gray’s-in-square, . session, it is his obvious interest to recal the most
- - -

J. Walker, Harp-aſley, ironmonger. Attornies, Messrs. Draper

and Bird, Exchange-building. * : powerful and popular of the old authorities; not to men
*

T. D. Bowket, Warmsworth-house, Yorkshire, merchant. At tion, that the Allied Powers, must be uneasy at the resi
torney, Mr. º re, Temple. dence of these active and sceptical Frenchmen among
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W. Frears, jun. Liverpool, merchant. Attorney, Mr. Battye, them. The projet of law relative to the Journals and
rancery-fame: --- - -

R. Lankester, Blackman-street, Newington, lineh-draper. At Periodical Publications has passed by a majority of 142
a tornies, Messrs. Young and Co. St. Mildred's-court, Poultry. against i+. . . . . . ." - -.
S. W. Moates, Birmingham, tobacconist. Attornies, Messrs.
Swain and Co. Frederick's place, Old Jewry. SANDT, it is said, was living on the 24th, but in such a
J. Strafford, Serooby, Nottinghamshire, miller, Attornies; deplorable state, owing to the putrescence of his wounds,
... Messrs. Wriglesworth and Crosley, Gray's-inn-square, that nobody could remain near him. It is added how
T. Smith, Târdebigg, Worcestershire,’ butcher. Attornies, ever, that persons had been admitted to converse with him,
- Messrs. Fladgate aud. Neild, Essex-street, Strand.
-- * * and that he does not evince the least sign of repentance.
Now is it likely that he should A young man of his
SATURDAY's LONDON GAZETTE. habits must have anticipated all the arguments that could
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
been used on the other side of the question; and his en- -
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J. Powell; Presteign, Radnorshire, farmer. thusiasm, intellectual as well as morbid, and supposing
BANKRUPTS. -
itself ſounded in virtue, is not likely to give way at such
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M. Salter, Salter-street, St. George in the East, glass-blower. a moment. All the modes of education, both religious and
Attorney, Mr. Townson, Ratcliffe-Highway. . classical, help to confirm such a mind rather than shake it. -

G. Tadman, New Kent Road, straw-hat-manufacturer. Attor A merely ignorant man may be frightened by being rea
nies, Messrs. Courteen and Robinson, Walbrook.
F. Millichamp, Aston, Warwickshire, maltster. Attornies, soned with ; and a merely intellectual man, like Roches
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Messrs. Baxter and Bowker, Gray's Inn Place. TER, may be frightened in consequence of physical weak -

R. Kilvert, Bath,” lineu-draper. Attornies, Messrs. Jenkins, ness; but if Sasot is remonstrated with by a scholar, he
James, and Abbot, New Inn. -

J. Murch, Banwell, Somersetshire, tanner. Attorney, Mr. Pear will reſer to Bautus, -if by a theologian, to Euud and
son, Temple..., x -- - - - - - , , - -
Judith, and if by a courtier, to the Infernal Machines
J. Browning, Manchester, calenderer. Attornies, Messrs. Hurd and Broken Promises,--besides reading him a great
and Johnson, Temple. -

lecture on servility and effeminacy, and the assassina

J. Reddall, Liverpool, merchant. Attories, Messrs. Clarke,
Richards, and Medealf, Chancerytlane. , | tion of whole countries. The Allied Powers with
T. Perkins, Chorlton-row, Lancaster, cotton-spinner. Attor their political vices have driven the young man mad;--
nies, Messrs. Hurd and Johnson, Temple. there's the whole secret;-and if he were brought back
T. Bond, Armitage, Stafford, maltster." Attormies, Messrs.
Stocker and Co., New Boswell-court, Cary-street. to reason, it would still be with infinite contempt for them
J. Musgrave, New Laiths, York, cloth-manufacturer, . Attorney, and their pretended virtues. . .
Mr. Wilson, Gréville-street, f{atton-garden.
- -

W. Morgan, Bristol, wool-broker. Attormies, Messrs. Hicks and

There is an extraordinary article from the Maine, dated
Baikenridge, Bartſett's-buildings, Holborn. - - -
May 19. It says that all the Jews have been expelled
J. Clayton, Stockport, cotton-spinner. Attornies, Messrs. Milne from Meiningen, and this too in consequence of an old
and Parry, Temple: . ---. -

privilege, the town having a right to hinder any Jew

W. Chapman, Liverpool, hosier. Attornies, Messrs. Long and
Austen, Gra 'sinu...' - ." - from residing there, and one of them having lately pur
J. Bond, Lichfield, maltster. Attormies, Messrs. Stocker, Daw chased a house, and desired to have his name registered as
son, and Herringham, New Boswell-court. . .
E. Frears, Little Pulteney-street, silversmith. Attornies, Messrs. proprietor. We hope, that the account of this savage
-

: Gregson and Fonnereau, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street. puerility is not true, Raking up old laws against the Jews
W. Kerr, Sherborne-lane, wine-merchant. Attornies, Messrs. now-a-days, or ill-treating them in any way, is behaving like
Sweet, Stokes, and Carr, Basinghall-street.
J. Jones, Lipper Brook-street, Grösvenor-square, tailor. Attor a greata special
dolt-headed boy; Fromhaving
Saxony,
the too, it comes
- -

nies, Messrs. Fielder and Bartley, Duke-street, Grosvenor

with ill-grace, Saxony of º
square. -- -

R. and R. Sutherland, irºningham, gun-makers. Attornies

being the most liberal quarter of Germany. We hope
* * * . * * * * * *

Messrs. Clarke, Richards, and Medcalfehancery-lane.

there are no mortifying sympathies on this occasion ber --

F. Deakin and J.Qughten, beretend-Mills, Warwickshire, wire tween Saxe-Meinengen:and Hanover.

drawers. Attornies, Messrs. Boardillon and Hewitt, Bread: . The Duke of Oingspungii is said to have resolved to
street. -
a
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give his states a representative constitution, agreeably to

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the 13th article of the Act of Union. We hope it will Cruz, after being convoyed by his Majesty's frigate Pique.
turn out true, especially as the Emperor Alexander, a Moreover, 100 of the 1000 stand of arms were taken
kidsman of the Duke's, has lately seen one of his spies from the custom-house at Kingston, with the knowledge
assassinated in Germany, owing to a maddened spirit of and consent of the Government officers.-Now Governors
disappointment in such matters. But the King of PRussia of Colonies understand pretty well what is acceptable to
has been said to be going to give his subjects a constitu the authorities at home, and those authorities take care to
tion over and over again; and the saying continues, but disavow any act which might expose them to imputations
the deed never comes. they do not deserve. No notice has been taken by Mini
sters of this contrivance, and we may therefore consider it
The Foreign Enlistment Bill was read a second time as showing which way their inclinations tend.—So much
in the House of Commons on Thursday night. This Bill for their great principle of neutrality.
is intended to oblige the beloved Ferdinand, by depriving
the South Americans of the advantages of the sympathy The reader will see, under the Law head, an account
which their struggles in a gloriocs cause naturally excite of the action against this paper for attributing furious and
among the English admirers of freedom; and what is careless driving to Lord Churcirill, and following up
more extraordinary, to do this at the risk, and almost the the imputation by comments on his proceedings. As ſar
certainty, of debarring ourselves from the vent for our ma as the principle of the matter goes, the Plaintiff is defeat
nufactures, which the great Continent of South America ed; but two trifling points of law have saddled us with
would afford. This is propping up Legitimacy with a the expenses. His Lordship has not benefited from re
vengeance. The shrewd Diplomatists of the United sorting to this vindictive course: on the contrary, he has
States will no doubt seize the opportunity which our not only had the imputation of having caused the death of
Government has so heroically abandoned, and by espous a fellow-creature by his wanton carelessness fixed still
ing the cause of the Patriots, as we have done that of more decidedly upon him, but all his reiterated protesta
Spain, obtain a preference over us as to the supply of their tions of innocence, and bis affected eagerness for investi
commercial and manufacturing wants. In the mean time, gation have been made to recoil on him. Our case was
the Courier is very loud in his commendations of the mag proved more by the circumstantial than by the verbal evi
nanimity and disinterestedness of his masters, and affects to dence; and it is another circumstance against our prose
scorn such mean considerations as a little trading profit, cutor, or those who act for him, that had not that circum
&c. Now we like magnanimity and disinterestedness stantial evidence been so strong, the conflicting testimony
very well, but then they should be consistent; and we are of the witnesses would have left it doubtful whether he
inclined to suspect that they are but pretences, when they was in fault or not. It was not the ſault of his evidence,
are affected by persons whose general conduct is any that he failed to establish his case.
thing but magnanimous. Besides, where is the disinte It is obvious, that the Jury, by giving his Lordship
restedness of giving up an advantage, especially in our fifty pounds, either did not think his character much
present depressed state, for the sake of a Creature, whose affected by the articles in question, or thought it not worth
very advocates are ashamed of him, and who has just more. They seemed to feel, that the law required them to
been endangering our foreign possessions for the sake of give him a verdict on two points, and perhaps the very
a little money? * - positive direction of the Learned Judge, had some effect
But we are told, that our neutrality must be preserved. in producing the verdict.
Is it not preserved as long as our Government are neutral 2 The paragraph about Lord Churchill's going to
If individuals cluse to embark in a war between foreign AlMack's, was one of those pieces of intelligence, the truth
powers, it does not involve us nationally in the quarrel: of which newspapers are compelled to take for granted. It
such individuals should be treated as the party with whom is impossible for the conductors of a journal to ascertain
they are engaged are. They do not fight as British the truth of every account of a common occurrence that
subjects. . - comes in their way. We do not mean to say that they
A respectable merchant of the city has given us the fol. should not give compensation to persons whom these acci
lowing information, and is ready to give up his name, if dents may injure, but there is no malignity in the case.
necessary to substantiate its truth. In the early part of This also should be recollected,—that the same vehicle
1817, while he was in Jamaica, a Spaniard, named Don which conveys the unfounded statement, can also convey
ProRo Pando Velez, a Colonel in the Royal army, ar the contradiction. Lord Churchill did not chuse to
rived in that island, and applied to him to purchase 1000 adopt this course: he perhaps thought it too condescend
stand of arms, to be sent to the Royalists in Mexico. ing, though others may think that his preference of the
There was a proclamation in force at the time, prohibiting legal course seems not to result from a wish to have the
the exportation of all warlike stores, but it was about matter set right, which he might have done by simply in
to expire. Don Pedro applied to the Governor, the serting a contradiction, but from an angry desire to punish
Duke of Manchester, for a license to export the those who had told the unpleasant truth respecting his
arms, which the Duke declined granting, but managed impetuosity and carelessness. -

the matter to the satisfaction of the applicant in this The third charge was the imputing to the Plaintiff un
way:—When the Proclamation expired, the expected worthy motives for proceeding in this manner. We can
renewal was delayed, until the Don had negociated the not see how any damages could be asked for on this
purchase, and shipped the muskets. This was in June, ground. Aſter informing the render that Lord Church Lt.
1847, and they were safely landed soon after at Wera had gone to law, the article went on to say, that this
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THE EXAMINER,
looked as if he wanted to turn the accident to good ac nuate his fault by the heedlessness and ostentation of
count. But observe the difference between this and a posi youth, and enable him, some time or other, to regard us
tive assertion. If it did not look so, the observation with as much charity, as, after all, we are inclined to regard
would only be thought absurd.: if it did, it would be so him.
considered, whether the observation was made or not. (ºr ++
We did not assert any thing, of the truth of which the
reader could not judge, but might believe on our asser New Loan.-The Loan, which is found necessary in
the present “prosperous state of the finances,” is at length
tion; but we made a remark on a fact already known to decided to be 12,000,000l. This is not money bor
the reader, and left him to judge of its relevancy, rowed with one hand and paid off with the other, but to
We certainly think that, if the Jury thought his Lord supply the actual deficiencies of the year; for 134 millions
ship wrong in the main point, they might, without run of the Sinking Fund are also to be taken. Three millions
of additional taxes are to be raised, in order to make alto
ning counter either to law, or common sense, have given gether an annual surplus of 5 millions.
us a complete verdict. Every count of the plaintiff's de A letter from Boston, dated May 1, speaks of the cap
claration set out with affirming, that the accident happen ture of Lima as an acknowledged fact, but there has been
ed without any, “negligence or default” on his part. It no regular announcement of this event, though it has been
was evident too that Mr. ScARLETT, his Advocate, rested often reported. The well-known activity and nautical
the whole case upon that. Lord Churchill, he said, did talent of Lord Cochrane, who commands the Patriot
fleet, which was to attack Lima, has no doubt assisted
not want damages, but he wanted to have the impression— these rumours.
that his carelessness caused the calamity—removed from
Major M*DERMott, of the county of Galway, is raising
the public mind. We think all this should have entirely there a regiment, of which he is to be Colonel, which is
sunk the coasideration of the other points, and that the to join the forces under the command of Sir GREgon
Jury, having decided against the plaintiff on that point M'Grraon in South America.--Evening paper.
which alone his Counsel declared that he was anxious to Don ANTowno Jose prº Rissarni has arrived in town
settle in his favour, might, with very safe consciences, have as Representative of the Government of Chili in this coun
wholly acquitted the defendant. try. Don Yrissarn, was formerly Chilian Minister of
Now what is the amount of all this, for and against? .State for Foreign Affairs, and is the same who is men
It is simply thus much:—a foolish young man wants, as tioned in the report made to the Government of the Unit
the phrase is, to cut a dash on the road, and occasions by ed States by Mr. BLAND, sent to Chili as their Commis
sioner. - -

his wanton carelessness the death of a lady;-the Editor's An American ship has recently arrived at Bourdeaux from
brother, in common with other writers, says so;-the New York. Among the passengers are Cornelius SA
young man threatens them all, and we say that his threats LAroxtA, King of the Indian nation of Oneida, and seven
look suspicious, -adding, with some astonishment, a news persons of his Court, who propose to travel in Europe.
paper report about his being g present
p ORDNANCE
at a ball:—thee lEstimates Economy.—It
in the appears
year 1780, when Lordfrom the Ordnance
Townsenp held
newspaper report turns out not to be true;—the suspicious
look is found wanting by the Jury;-but what is said of the office of Master-General, that the salary of his Private
Secretary (the late Mr. Courtsey) was 230l. a-year. In
the wanton carelessness? Upon that point, the great point the time of Lord Mulgrave, the salary of Colonel Chap
of all, the young man is found guilty. The costs indeed MAN, the Private Secretary, was 2,000l.; in consequence
(thanks to the odd, and yet perhaps complimentary notions of the recommendation of the Committee of Finance, it is
of the law about distributive justice) fall upon the man reduced to the half-pay establishment of only 1,000l. per
who has proved his case; but though money is made annum, with an official suit of apartments.-Morning
paper.
a sufficiently serious business now-a-days, it is impossible 'PHE Catlisle Weavers.—These poor people, driven
in this instance not to consider the gain as far greater than to an intolerable extremity, have published an “Appeal to
the loss. The money, compared with the other part of public feeling,” which contains some eloquent passages,
the verdict, is as the sordid and corruptible body com notwithstanding it is written, we suppose, by one of the
“lower orders.” The following is one of them :
pared with the spirit. The baggage is lost, but the victory
won. “We are now arrived at a pitch of wretchedness and
misery, such, we jºy
believe, as never existed in
We may also mention another thing in our favour-the any country in time of profound peace, except vi
final opinion of Mr. Justice Baylay, who, however he sited by a natural famine. We are a powerful people,
seemed to lean against us in the charge, thought proper to and yet we want strength. . We are an industrions
follºw up the verdict of the Jury by saying, that it would people, and yet we want bread; whatever the cause may
tend to “prevent impetuous driving in future.” In con be, we will not at this moment pretend to determine.
clusion, we must not omit to thank Mr. WiLLIAMs, the but the effects are dreadful to he contemplated, and still
Barrister, for his very spirited, argumentative, and cordial more horrible to experience.”—They have marched
defence. through the neighbouring villages, exhibiting a melan
Neither, we confess, can we leave Lord Chanles choly spectacle, but have luckily not been betrayed into
Churculli, without hoping that he is more sorry for the any violences. º

fatal accident which his negligence occasioned, than his We have received a letter from Mr. CARLita very grº
wilful mode of proceeding would imply. He may wish tifying to us, and extremely honourable to himself. We
to salve the matter over to his conscience by endeavouring are quite sure that the cause of religious freedom wiltºna
to get other people pronounced in the wrong instead der any circuinstances, find the same sincere advocate
of himself; but it will be much better for him, if he can to him which it has found hitherto; and we need not add
we wish him every success. We shall resume the subject
have the courage, to own to himself thereal state of the case. of his prosecution next term, till the Sittings after which,
It will give him a right, with a manly penitence, to exte: it appears to be postponed. * * : * tº.”
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. Gase of MR. Wilkinson.—On Wednesday a ballot ConveyANcens.—A Correspondent, calling himself an
was taken at the least India-house, for the determination “Enemy to monopoly,” has sent us a very long letter re
of the following question, viz.:-"That a sum of money, specting the º Bill ſor preventing persons not At
£qual to sicca rupees 180,000, be paid to Mr. JAMEs tormies or otherwise qualified from practising as Convey
Wilkinson, at the exchange of 2s. 6d. per sicca rupee, in ancers. This Bill was brought in on the ground that, as
consequence of the losses sustained §º
the en Attornies paid a very heavy sum on entering the profes
actment cf a monopoly of saltpetre by the Bengal Govern sion, it was not fair on them that they should be compelled
ment, in the year ###". scrutineers reported the to share the most profitable part of their business with a
numbers to be;-For the question, 269–Against it, 482— great number of others, who might get certificates at a cost
Majority, 213. . . . . -comparatively small. Our Correspondent, relates a great
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In one of the ships belonging to the Hudson's-bay many instances of the ignorance and knavery of Attornies
Company, which recently left the river for their settle. in drawing up leases, &c., IHe urges three reasons against
yments, Lieut. FRANKLYN, late Commandar of the Trent, the present limitation of the business:—that Attornies are
in the expedition. to reach the North Pole, has taken interested in making the papers very long and ambiguous,
his passage for the purpose of exploring, that part of which both increases their pay, and gives them the chance
America to the northward of Hudson's-bay. The of future litigation; that the expense is obviously enhanced
foute this officer is to take will be nearly the same as that by the monopoly; and that clever and deserving members
pursued by Mr. HearNE, in 1770, who stated that he of the profession would naturally get most business without
reached the sea at the entrance of Copper Mine River.— any arbitrary measure. These are very good arguments
Liettenant FRANKLYN will be accompanied by about five against the abstract question, no doubt: yet we cannot
Europeans, one of whom is a surgeon; and on their ar but think it hard that the lawyers who havé, as it were, pur
rival at the Copper Mine River, they are to pursue. such chased the monopoly, should be deprived of its advantages.
further course as may appear proper. - However the interests of individuals must give way to
-

• A number of agricultural families arrived in Carlisle those of the public; and the continuance of the system is a
during the week on their way to the coast, to embark for greater evil than the individual suffering which the alteration
America. . . They all of them carry with them a consider would occasion. Still the alteration should be as gentle as
able capital. possible. The Bill of Mr. Lyttleton howeverisintended
The Concert we spoke of last week, as about to take to increase and secure the monopoly, and will, we have no
place for the benefit of Mr. Williams's Widow and Four doubt, tend to add to the notorious bad effects of the law.
Temale Children, will be performed on Tuesday next, as It is one of the gradual advances, by which it has con
sisted by some of the most eminent performers, vocal and stantly gone on increasing in expense-and delay. .
instrumental. . With great and unpardonable negligence, Mr. WALHER, who shews the Eidouranion, has sent to
we have mislaid the printed copy of the ...
remonstrate with us for having said a week' or two back,
have looked about us in vain, at a short notice, for in allusion, we believe, to the Ministers, that they were
ancther; but such of our readers as love good music “the WALKERs of another's Orrery.” . He says that his
--
and good actions (and the two things are apt to go to father was the inventor of the Eidouranion, and that it is
gether) will help to take something off our consciences, if | wrong to allude to him in this way. ... But whatever may
#hey seek out what we are unable to afford them, and at be the merits of the Eidouranion, either, as a popular ex
tend a meeting which is every way calculated to give them; hibition of the Orrery, or an improvement of it. we are
pleasure. - . . . . . " not “aware what of complaint the Exhibitor Fº
Instead of a theatrical article this week, we inform our has for being likened to his Majesty's Ministers. If he
readers that the benefit of a great favourite of ours (and complains out of a notion that his father's memory re--
we have the vanity to think, of theirs also) Miss Kelly, quires such a vindication, we are sorry for his mistake:
1akes place at the Lyceum to-morrow evening. ... if out of any other feeling, especially of an erhibiting sort,
A Correspondent says, -“I should be glad to learn (ańd wé, are willing to think otherwise, unless he should
, from some of your legal readers, whether I have a right compel us) we will speak further.
to pay as for two windows for the window, in my shop. Hº GREAT"ExperiMENT.1-A new steam-vessel, called the
It is a common Venetian window.8 feet-4 inches high, Savannah packet, of 300 tons burden, has been built at
and 7 feet 4 inches wide, and opens with casements, two. New York, for the express purpose of conveying pas
§uares wide in the centre, one square wide each side, sengers agross the Atlantic. She is to come to Liverpool
The whole of the frame, with pilasters between the glass, direct. A trial had been made with her from New York
7 inches broad. I appealed twice before the Commis to Savannah: she went to Staten-harbour and back in one
‘sioners, and, on the second appeal, was relieved, lift the hour and fifty minutes. She is calculated to bear 20
Surveyor still insists.on my paying as before... F, have inches of steam, and will pass any steam-boat in the
sent an affidavit and a letter since to the Tax-Office, but American riversiº Her interior is furnished in a most
the answer to both is—that I must pay-Thus any ap elegant style; there are 32 state-rooms. . -

peals to the Commissioners, will be useless, if Surveyors : A Commentator is of opinion,that Jon was an Irish
ºan, set their decisions aside...at his pleasure. --JoiiN an, from his º of one “who stripped the naked of
Thusseltos,
Chelsea.” paper-hanger,
.-
King's-road, Sloane-square,
- ... " - - -* T
their clothing"—
** *
-
hap. 32."
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. . .
-

-
- ... . " --, ºf . - :
Lunatics.--It appears. from a return laid before Par-d " . . . . courT AND--"
FASHIONABLES.
liament, that there are 1156 lunatics £onfined in the differ: - - . " -

ent ois, º and lunatiº asylums

eth
º - - PRINCE LEOPOLD.
Wales. Of these, 655 are miles, 501 females. In Bet Prince fronolo arrived at Claremont on Saturday
lem: Hospital the number actually confined is 193, viz. week. Since his return he has inspected; some of the al
197 males and 86 feniales. This retirnſdoes not include: terations and repairs which have been proceeded with
private madhouses. By another paper it appears there arº during his absence. #. is scarcely a road or a path
88 licensed houses for the reception of lunatics in º:
•but what were obliged to be thoroughly repaired, or new
and Wales, which contain 2345 ſumatics, making a tot |-made, the gardens having been occupied by a market
of 3701. If to this number brºadded those who remain gardener; the paths were grown, over : the pleasure
in the custody ºf their friends, the aggregate amount must rounds, which had also been much neglected, have em
exceed 4000," - ... .º . .3: º - ----
played a number of labourers. Several, new buildings
 THE EXAMINER. 361
have also been erected. Every thing that had been or ments, as the men of most armies are, but the battle"of
dered, or even suggested, by his late beloved Princess, is deeply interested and warm-hearted men of principle, who
to be completed agreeably to her plans. Among the fight from conviction of the justice of their cause, and from
works now finished, which the Princess had planned, is hatred of their adversaries. Every sword, is therefore
the Temple in the pleasure grounds where her Royal wielded with the energies not only of body but of mind,
Highness first rested when she arrived at Claremont, which not only with a mere regard to the taking and preserving
was to have been a fanciſul Gothic building for her Royal of life, but to the destruction of a hated and the establish
Highness to retire to ; but which is now converted into a ment of a darling, principle. Such a battle is here pic
mausoleum to her memory. The conservatory, planned tured, and the Painter's imagination has been warmed as
also by her Royal Highness, is nearly finished: in the with the impulses of a partizan. “ The baleful Eris" is
middle is a room for study, which will be surrounded by in the midst. Slaughter unfurls his bloody Streamer, and
trees and plants, so that the person or persons in it will be “Swells the red horrors of the direful plain.”
entirely concealed.—The attendants and domestics of the
peath, quiescent on the palled face and shut eyes of the
iate Princess have been retained in the service of Prince fallen soldier, shews a horrid silence and contrast to the
Leopold, and the same expenditure and tables have been passion-distorted faces of some, and the steadily-resolved
kept up at Claremont, as if the Prince had been in Eng looks of others, to the glaring eyes, brandished arms, and
land...His Royal Highness only took two servants abroad fevered life, stimulated to its strongest activity of feeling
with him. - - - - - : * :
and action. The light in the picture glistens martially,
as from Bellona's fires—the flashing eyes and polished arms
of the warriors. Such a picture where the figures are of a
FINE ARTs. miniature size, ought to º the finishing of the Dutch
Painters, and it has. It is carefully wrought, though in
ROYAI, ACADEMY EXHIBITION. his pencilling Mr. Cooper wants much to equal the Dutch
Last week we briefly mentioned the striking excellence of Artists and our Wilkie, who stands alone in this respect
of Mr. Cooper's Battle of Marston-moor; but a brief among our living Painters. The dresses, the armour, and
mention is inadequate to convey any just conception of its all the other objects, come out vigorously upon the eye,
character. We shall therefore go somewhat into detail and there is a fluttering force of varied tints that increases
upon it, especially as the subject comes more immediately the impression of a furious conflict. The impression is
home to those Englishmen W. are lovers of freedom than awful.--When we hear, as we continually do, weak com
most that have employed the pencil. . It is an example of plaints about the number of Portraits in the Exhibition,
the heroic resolution with which death itself was faced by which Portraits must be expected in a country rich as
our ancestors in the resistance of arbitrary power, and the England is, and where affectionate feeling ought to have
insolent,º and pernicious claims of Legitimacy and its indulgence in this way, though vanity often rocures it,
the Divine Right of Kings. : Besides this, the picture con and where too, it supports a number of able Artists, we
tains so much of the portraiture of the leading individuals would refer the disconiented to this picture, and to those of
who signalized themselves at the awful period of our civil Stotharp, Alstos, Leslie, West Ali, TurneR, CALL
wars, that we think our readers, and especially those of cott, Collins,Constable, Hopfland,GANDY, NASMYºrii,
them who visit the Exhibition, will like to ſº them Wilkis, Rippi Ngille, Mulready, Briggs, ARNALD, &c.;
Pointed out. . -
the Sculpture of Messrs. FLAxMAN, Chastax, WestMA
The chief tug of the battle is seen in the centre group. cort, Băily, Wyatt, &c. Before such ºlarge and genius
It is the taking of Prince Rupert's Standard, which has gifted assemblage in one Exhibition, Taste will spon
the motto and device as described by Rushworth. Capt. taneously pronounce its approval, and Ignorance aloue its
Salmon, one of the bravest of. Lambert's warriors, and who dissatisfaction.
is without his helmet, has seized it. Below on a white 153, The Penny Wedding, is, in our judgment,
horse, is the republican General Lambert, bareheaded, and Mr. Wilkie's best work, because, to his former most
tallying his troops... To the leſt in the middle distance, is natural display of the looks and feelings of every de;
Cromwell bringing up his reserve, after having chased the scription of persons in familiar life, and to his exquisite and
wing opposed to him off the field. The sword in his hand, unequalled lightness and beauty in the pencilling, he adds
and which he himself used in the civil wars, is painted more intelligence and beauty in the colouring, which as
from one in the possession of his descendant Mr. Frank we have before remarked, was in his first pictures some
land, M.P. His countenance exhibits that shrewdness, and what heavy and cold, and in his latter, rather of a mono
designing, and courage, which eventually procured him tonous yellow. The present picture has just enough of his
the supreme power in a way that disappointed the hopes former colour to give substance and variety to the yellow
of the genuine patriots. In the foreground is a Royal and hue which agreeably pervades the canvass. , Mr. Wºr
broken Cavalry Standard, fallen from a Dragoon, who is has been perhaps surpassed by TENIFRs and others of the
struggling on his back with his horse down in the water. Dutch Painters in the vigour of their tones, and in their
Near to these is a Drum, now possessed by Lord Ribbes identification of still-life objects, but in the beauty of the
dale. It was used by General Fairfax, and bears his pencilling, in the management of groupes, and in that most
family arms. A little to the right of the centre is Sir C. essential quality, the giving those very gestures and looks
Lucas shooting a Parliamentarian, and from whom he has which in actual life best denote the thoughts and feelings
retaken one of the King's Infantry Standards. Sir Charles he intends to express, he is unsurpassed, and these high
was captured in the battle. , Lower on the right is Sir T. qualities give him a rank among the first of the Dutch
Fairfax on 3,0ark horse, ordering his reserve to be brought Masters. He never omits any circumstance necessary to
up. Over Fairfax and in the distance, is the Marquis of the completion of His subject, or adds any thing that is
Newcastle's brave regiment, who determined to conqueror, unnecessary. The longer we look at his works the more
perish, and in consequence, every man was found dead on we like them, because they are stºch-faithful images of our
the spot he engaged in On a pie-bald horse is Captain species, and because they reflect back upon us our own
Lister. He has overthrown Sir C. Slingsby, over whom, emotions and actions. They are not deceptions, but reali
in the middle ground is the Standard of General Porter, ties; not sophistications, but truths. They are Nature.
an intrepid Royalist. The battles of a civil war are the The Penny Wedding “is a marriage festival once common
most fiercely contested, for they are not those of the cold in Scotland, at which each of the guests paid a subscrip
blooded and unconcerned hitelings of interested govern-ſtion to defray the expences of the feast, and by the over
502 THE EXAMIN ER.
‘plus to enable the new-married couple to commence house the drama, the fine arts, works of fancy and fiction, and
keeping.” The picture exhibits it in all its felicity. The other departments of polite literature, taken severally, may
fore part and centre of a large barn is occupied by dancers, not equal that of some other persons, but, taken altogether;
by a woman bringing refreshments, by lookers on, by mu is certainly unrivalled. His writings are full of spirit and
sicians, and by the young Bride, Bridegroom, and Brides vivacity; he has the ease and gaiety of a man of the world;
maid, advancing to join the dance. Behind are a large party and there is, at the same time, an intensity in his conceptions
feasting. Graceſul movements, joy, and agility, are seen in which embodies ideas that are so volatile and fugitive as to
two couple who appear, by their pains-taking, to be con escape the grasp of a slower but profounder intellect. He
scious of the gaze of the lookers on. The handsome professes to throw aside the formality and prudery of au
young man, as he leads his beloved forward, looks at her thorship, and to give his best though's to the world with
with a smile of ineffable happiness, esteera, and love. Her the freedom and frankness of old Montaigne, without sub
happy countenance has an expression of diffidence and mitting to assume the mask of current opinions or conven
beauty amiably feminine. . The buxom Bridesmaid is tional morality. In discussing any subject, he disregards
stooping to . up the heel of her shoe. Behind these a logical methods, but pursues the tract that leads him into
the most interesting vein of thinking, and concludes when
young woman who is tying on a girls sash, is laughingly
accosting an elderly one who is carrying in part of the re all his best things are said, at whatever stage that may be.
past. The girl's ear is whispered into by a lively young He feels sure that every fault will be pardoned but dulness;
fellow who looks at her with a partiality and a joyousness, and providing he can bear the reader along with him, he is
not * scrupulous about the means he employs, or the
naturally inspired by so lovely a companion, and the plea
sure he is about to have in dancing with her. Raised above course he steers. His beauties are procurred by a great
the company are seated the country Musicians. One of expenditure of thinking; and some of his single strokes or
them with downward look, works away with his arm as flashes reveal more to the reader's understanding than
unobservant of the lively throng as if he was alone... A whole pages of an ordinary writer. The great fault of
Lady and Gentleman of “the olden time” are looking his works arises from a surcharge of excellence. He is
with much social as well as self-satisfaction at the brisk too uniformly emphatic and dazzling... and fatigues us by
limbed group, as if inly exulting at the feats they also placing all objects in the strongest lights, without any
could once boast of. At the dinner party is seen a very space for shade or repose. His love of effect betrays him
original feature of character in a picture. It is a man who, into paradox and caricature; but his thoughts are crowded
reverentially holding his hat, before his face, says grace be together rather than grouped; and though they please
fore he partakes of the blessings of Providence. The rest individually by their poignancy, it often happens that we
shew that their renewed animal spirits are bursting forth lay down the book with a sense of satiety and ex
haustion.
into conviviality. There is a lightsomeness of touch ex
*..." pleasing throughout this picture, and the light
shines. In it with a solar brightness that increases the
This is rather a more miscellaneous work than the title
indicates. It consists of eight Lectures; the first on Wit
sprigtliness of the scene, affording beautiful and brisk con and Humour; the second, third, and fourth, on the Comic
trasts to the dark and deep-coloured objects. It most Writers from Shakspeare to Farquhar; the fifth on perio
agreeably loses itself in shade as it advances upwards to dical Essayists; the sixth on the English Novelists; the
the beam-supported roof, on which, and on the sides of the seventh on the works of Hogarth; and the eighth on the
rustic rºom, is suspended and piled up its various furni Comic Writers of the last century. The article on Novels
ture. This picture is effective on the hearts of all kinds of had previously appeared in the Edinburgh Review, but it
spectators. - is well worthy of being republished, ſ: gives a masterly
The following numbers in the three upper rooms belong view of the character of the most celebrated novel writer-.
to pictures, which have talent of various degrees. We shali The Essay on Wit and Humour, though placed in the front
give the numbers of the best works in the lower rooms of the volume, is by no means the best part of its content".
next week:— -
It abounds in acute and refined remarks, and, like all the
2, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 37, 38,39, author's works, it glistens with perpetual beauties of
47, 48, 57, 60, 66, 68, 69,74, 75, 76, 83, 84, '85, 86, thought and expression; but the principle is neither steadily
S7, 91.92, 93, 94, 96.97, 104,105,109, 110, 114, 117, pursued nor well brought out, and the train of reasoning
123, 124, 129, 130, 131, 136, 137, 138, 142, 143, 144, is rather obscured by the number, variety and brilliancy
152, 153, 163, 164, 165, 166, 169, 170, 173, 174, 175, of the illustrations. The interest, indeed, never flags,
176, 177, 182, 184, 185, 189, 191, 192, 193, 194, 196, because the author's vivacity and force of thinking bears
201, 205, 206, 207,208,209, 216, 223, 232, 233,234, us along; but though he strikes out some new lights, he
237,239, 244, 245, 246,251, 263,204, 266, 269, 274, does not succeed in giving us a full and comprehensive
275,277,278, 283,285, 286, 288, 289, 200, 293,298, view of the subject. In the second Lecture he has the
‘.99, 301, 305, 308, 309, 311, 312, 313, 314, 317, 32.2, hardihood to allow that Shakspeare, though matchless in
.323, 324, 332, 333, 340, 341, 342, 343, 351, 352, 353, tragedy, is not quite so great in comedy as Moliere. We
368, 369,371, 379,387, 391, 399, 402,404, 405, 407, prize the honesty of this remark at a time when there is so
408,409, 410, 411, 412,418, 429, 430, 438, 440, 452, much quackish admiration of the great poet, and when
*; º 402,468, 469. would-be-critics are evincing their taste and discernment
------------------------------------
by praising him for qualities that are inconsistent with one
another. The reason he assigns for the inferiority of
LITERARY NOTICES. Shakspeare's comedies, that this species of drama “does
not find its richest harvest till individual infirmities have
No. 58. passed into general manners,” “ppears to us not quite ºw
solid as the opinion it is brought to support. Perhaps it
Lectures on the English Comic Writers, by Wm. Hazliu. of would be nearer the truth to say, that in an early period
sºciety, when prominent characters abound, men have
[From the Scotsman.] not refinement enough to be moved, or delighted by the
If Mr. IIazlitt is not the most popular writer of the day, exhibition of their own follies or peculiarities; and it is not
he yields only to some of the great s and novelists, till a latter period, when a sense of propriety, and a sense
and he is at the head of a class in which our most ambi of ridicule, have grown up, that they make a treat of their
*ous wits are anxious to be enrolled. His knowledge of own absurdities or those of their predecessors. The im
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mediate humours of the day are seldom served up but in The allusion at the end is supposed to be aimed at the Puritans,
who were then just beginning to poison all our natural enjºy
farce, and the most striking and effective characters in ments: but it seems obviously to point to the description of the
comedy are generally taken from times before our own, hypocritical pretenders to prophecy in Dante, whose faces look
or from classes of society where the manners of former ed behind instead of before them.
times still linger. The oddity of antique fashions, and The name of June, and indeed that of May, gave rise to
the rusticity of clownish manners, are played off to enter various etymologies; but the most probable, one derives it froth
tain those who think themselves more knowing and ac Juno, in honour of whom a festival was celebrated at the begit
complished. To Ben Jonson, who has too little fancy ning of the month. " -

to please Mr. Hazlitt, justice has not been done; but It is now complete summer.
Wycherly, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, are cha Summer is yeomen in,
racterised with admirable skill and felicity. His account of Loud sing cuckoo;
these celebrated writers discovers profound views of the Groweth seed,
And bloweth mead.
nature of dramatic excellence, and his comparisons, allu
sions, and illustrations, give us new ideas of the capabilities And springeth the weed new.
of prose composition. We may remark, that the good Thus sings the oldest English song extant, in a measure which
things he scatters in his course by random, hits and bye is it's own music.—The temperature of the air however is still
play as it were, are of more value than his formal judg mild, and in our climate sometimes too chilly; but when the
inefits. g.
season is fine, this is the most delightful month of the
i." The hopes of Spring are realized, '. the enjoyment is
His lecture on the Periodical Essayists is chiefly occu tit commenced : we have all summer before us; the cuckoo's
pied with Montaigne, Steele, Addison, and Johnson. By two notes are now at what may be called their ripest,-deep
what appears to us a singular perversity of judgment, he and loud; so is the hum of the bee; little clouds lie in lumps of
ranks the Tatler above the Spectator, and Steele above silver ubout the sky, and sometimes fall to complete the growth
Addisow. Steele has, in some degree, the faults and ex of the herbage; yet we may now lie down on the grass or the
cellencies of Mr. Hazlitt himself. Though he is more flowering banks to read or write; the grasshoppers click about
its in the warming verdure; and the fields and hedges are in full
unconstrained than Addison, and throws out his thoughts blossom with the clover, the still more exquisite bean, the pea,
with less reserve, and less deference to existing opinions, the blue and yellow nightshade, the fox-glove, the mallow,
his papers, upon the whole, are crude, hasty, and ill put white briony, wild honeysuckle, and the flower of the hip of
together. His conceptions are often but half made out; wild rese, which blushes through all the gradations of delicate
his thoughts are piled together rather than arranged; while red and white. The leaves of the hip, especially the young ones,
their brilliancy does not always compensate for their want are as beautiful as those of any garden rose. 'fowards evening
of order. His diction is often harsh and abrupt; and his the bat and the owt venture forth, flitting through the glimmer
efforts in general are rather careless than felicitous. Addi ing quiet; and at night, the moon looks silveriest, the sky at
once darkest and clearest; and when the nightingale as well as
son wrote perhaps as rapidly as Steele, but he retouched the other birds have done ºf you may hear the undried
carefully; and if his labour is sometimes visible to a nice brooks of the spring running and panting through their leafy
observer, we reap too many advantages from it, in perspi channels. “It ceased,” says the poet, speaking of a sound of
cuity and completeness of effect, to quarrel with it, or to heavenly voices about a ship, - -

wish to exchange it for the blundering frankness of his It ceased; yet still the sails made on
associate. Addison's papers are not . more finished on A pleasant noise till noon,
the whole, but they contain more good thoughts and happy A noise like of a hidden brook
strokes than those of Steele, and it is pure fastidiousness In the leafy month of June,
to maintain that the value of his matter is lessened by being That to the sleeping woods all night
more artſilly disposed. But if we dispute our author's Singeth a quiet tune. Colcºregrº.
opinion of Steele and Addison, we concur entirely in his There is a greater accession of flowers in this month than in
estimate of Johnson ; and we cannot sufficiently express any other. In addition to those of the last, the garden sparkles
our admiration of the skill, truth, and felicity, with which with marygolds, golden-road, larkspur, sun-flowers, amaranths,
he is characterised. His Essays on Hogarth, and on the (which Milton intermingles with sub-benms for his angel's hair),
lupins, carnations, Chinese pinks, holyhocks, ladies slipper,
Comic Writers of the last century, are also excellent. But annual stocks, campanulas or 'little bells, martagons, periwin
both here, and in other parts of the volume, he now and kles, wall-flower, snap-dragon, orchis, nasturtium, apocynum,
then discovers Horhething like the over-refinement of a con chrysanthemum, cornflower, gladiolus, and convelvulus. The
noisseur, who sees initnitable beauties in works, which to reader who is fond of poetry, and of the Greek fables, and does
ordinary eyes, are mere daubs, and scratches. He has not kappen to be acquainted with Professor Martyn's notes upon
dweſt àpon the works of comic writers till every casual Virgil, should here be informed, that the species of red lily,
stroke seems pregnant with meaning; and his mind, like called tile martagon- or turk's-cap, has been proved by that
that of a lover, ascribes to the object of its admiration writer, at least to our satisfaction, to be the real ancient hya
beauties which exist only in itself. cinth, into which the youth of that name was turned by Apollo.
The hyacinth, commonly so called, has nothing to shew É. its
being the ancient one, which should be of a blood-colour, and
was said to be inscribed with the Greek exclamation of sorrow
CALENDAR OF NATURE.
-º
AI, Al. Now we were struck with the sort of literal black
marks with which the turk's-cap is speckled, and on reading the
(From the Literary Pocket-Book.) Professor's notes and turning to the flower again, we could
Junr. plainly see, thet with some allowance quite pardonable in a su.
And after her came jolly June, array'd perstition, the marks rhight now and then fail together, so as to
All in green leaves, as he a player were; indicate those characters. It is a most beautiful, glowing
Yet, in his time he wrought as well as play'd, flower; and shoots gracefully forth in a vase or glass from
That by his plough-irons mote right well appeare. anong white'lilies and the double narcissus.
Upon a crab he rode, that him did bare Nvy, taxi,0s, Maxt, ra ax ypassara, xx, ºsa, A. As
With crooked crawling steps an uncouth pase, Azºëays acts trera-otat. -

And backward-yode, as bargemen wont to fare Moscius.

Bending their force contrary to their face;
Like that urgracious crew which faines demurest grace. Now tell your story, hyacinth ; and shew
w SPExsert. Ai Ai the more amidst your sanguine woe.
Spºnser is not so happy as usual in his description of this The rural business of this month is made up of two employ
zonth, but has wasted his stanza on the sign of the Zodiac. ments, as beautiful to look at as they are usefull-sheap-shea.
)
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#ind fiymaking something like a holiday is still made of nestle to it in our fancy, and with half-shut eyes rest from our
-the former, and in the south-west of England, the custom we own pleasant work. -

Jelieve, is still kept up -f throwing flowers into the streams, an

• evident relic of paganism ; but altogether, the holiday is but a
gleam of the same merry period in the cheap and rural time of
our ancestors. Poverty, discontent, the progress of a gloomy LA IV.
..fanaticism; and a mechanical and mercenary spirit that cannot COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
lºsse beyond what is falsely called matter-of fact, (for things, with
•respect to our perception, are just as little or as much as we can Saturday, May 29,
make of them) have rendered many people unable to get pleasure, - newitt v. GRAY AND or hers.
others too sullen for it, others too superstitious, and others ridi
This was an action to recover a compensation from the pro
culously ashamed of setting about what is graceful and happy! prietors of “The Qld Original windsor and Eton Coach,” for
O wise and unconscious heads, "that are ashamed, not of them an injury sustained in consequence of the overturning of that
selves, but of all the best things in the world! O successful and coach.-The coach, it appeared, was overturned near Crawford
world-knowing heads, that after they have used their common bridge, not by immoderate driving, but by the heavy luggage on
#. and ignorant, passions, to no real purpose, piously or the top, º sustained 16 persons. As this over-loading
opelessly call it a wiſe world and a vale of tears, having done was illegal, the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages
- their utmost, no doubt, to make it so! The sweetest sensation 300l. She was stated to have been put to an expense of more
perhaps which even they can get, if they would conſess it, is than 200l. for medical attendance.
--when they “snatch a fearful joy” now and then, and get out Morris tº. MackINNow.
ºf the clutches ºf town and its passions;–but “business must This was an action for slander. The plaintiff, a surgeon in
be attended to,” reasonable or unreasonable, already possessing
ºr wanting more; so must suspicion, scandal, envy, jealousy, Chandos-street, Covent-garden, had attended the child of a Mrs.
self-love, worldliness, and other-worldliness of all sorts. The Bolter, in Hungerford-market, in 1817. The child, who had the
treat is great, but let us get back to our poison the happiness measles, was supplied with medicines by the plaintiff. It grew
... is deſigºt, but then we must go and enable ourselves to com worse, and Dr. Mackinnon was sent for, wiid declared, on see
º of the want of it! The advice is good, nay even pleasant, ing it, that it had been murdered by mercury. It died in a few
but then who made the adviser think himself wiser than we!— days afterwards. The defendant often used such violent ex
But, my good friends, he may not think himself very wise after pressions injurious to the character of Mr. Morris. On a similar
- alſ.-wei but still he thinks himself wiser than ice-wiser than occasion, when the plaintiff attended the family of a Mr. Deſce,
**-And so this tee, in all the shapes of it's selfishness, ruins the defendant had asserted that he was totally ignorant of his
, the world, - -
business. He had however stated to the Coroner's Jury, which
But the world is not ruined; for is there not hope, and sat on the body of the child, that there was no blame imputable
perseverance, and returning imagination? And are not the
to the .
this circumstance was urged in mitigation of
3 smallest things that persevere, stronger than the largest which damages.—Verdict for the plaintiff–Damages, 500t.
are fretted away?, And is not June now before us waiting Wednesday, June 2.
like a sparkling mistress to bless and encourage the lover that. MoRRist'. Huxt. -
journeys to see her?. * *
This was an action by the plaintiff, the iIigh Bailiff of Wes'
“, Qurancestors took advantage, as it were, of every natural minster, against Mr. Heury Hunt, one of the Candidates for
holiday, to keep it long and gladly. Rural plays, or as Shak Westminster at the time of the general election, to recover one
speare caks them; Whitsun pastorals, succeeded, after a little third share of the expenses of the hustings, poll-clerks, &c. The
interval, the games of May 5 and now in June, a ſeast exclu question chiefly turned upon this, whether Sir F. Burdett, Ma
sively rural and popular took place at the time of sheep-shear jor Cartwright, and Mr. Kinnaird, were candidates, and ought
ing: , See the Winter's Tale, and Drayton's Pastorals, eclogue 9, to bear a portion of the expenses.—The Jury, found a verdict for
and his Polyolbion, song 14, where he tells how the plaintiff-Damages, 2741. 10s. 8d., thus deciding that those
gentlemen were not candidates, and consequently not liable to
- . . The shepherd's king
Whose fleck haſh chanc'd that year the earliest lamb to bring, HBear any of the expenses.—Mr. Hunt pleaded his own cause.
In his gay baldric sits at his low grassy board, Thursday, June 3.
Willi flawns; curds, clouted cream, and country dainties stor'd; Libel-chunchill tº, nunt.
And whilst the bagpipe plays, each lusty jocund swain This was an action bronght by the Hon. Charles Spencer
Quaffs sillabubs in cans, to allºupon the plain,
Añd to their country girls, whose nosegays they do wear, Churchill, commonly called Lord Churchill, against Mr. Hunt.
Some roundelays do sing; the rest the birthen bear. the publisher and proprietor of the Eraminer newspaper, for
libellous publications against him, in three several numbers ºf
The white fleeces of the sheep on these cecasious, the brown that journal. The declaration set torth, that the defendant had,
hue of the shearers, the blue of the sky, the running silver of in the three publications, charged the plaintiff with having occa
the waters, the green of the grass, the various colours of the sioned the death efMiss Sherwin, by furious and negligent driv
flowers, and the straw-hatted damsels that wear them, makeup ing, on the 20th of May, 1818. - --

a delightful picture tº the imagination. Mr. Scarlºtt stated the case to the Jury. The noble plaintiff
Haymaking is more toilsome, and is performed in modern had been obliged to resort to the present mode of vescuing his
times by less happy labourers, who chiefly come over from character from the gross and unjust aspersions which had been
Ireland for that purpose. But they have at least fine weather cast upon it by the defendant. The defendant, who sent those
and a secure pay. The ladies may practise haymaking on a gross charges before the public, so far from ...;any regret
small scale upon lawns aud paddocks; and if they are not afraid for the injury which the first of them was calculated to do to the
of giving their fair skins a still finertinge of the sunny, nothing Noble Lord's character, followed it up by others ºf a still more
makes tiem look better. Allan Ramsay makes his lover become injurious tendency. No doubt it would be said, that the de
enamoured of the Lass of Patie's Mill, while helping to make fendant had only inserted the aecount as an article of intelligence;
--- -
lia *:- - - - - --
that in his capacity as a public journalist, he had a right to insert
ne, A tedding of the hay
every thinghewhich
knew that might
had no suchappear
right, ofwhen
interest;
what but the defendant
he might think of
13arehended on the green,
Love 'mid her locks did play, interest unjustly attacked the character of others. The Noble
And wanton'd in here’en. Lord who brought the action had no other object in it than to
clear his character from the load of obloquy which had been
Nothing is more lovely than a female head uncovered out of heaped upon it. Pecuniary consideration he disclaimed, and ali
deers. It looks nymph-like, and a part of the fertile-land he desired by his present proceeding was, that the public should:
scape. .-----
by a correct account of the transaction in question, be disabused
As to a seat against a hay-cock, on the side farthest from the of the impression which unjust and unlounded charges had made
sun, with the odour of the new mown grass perfuming all the upon them. The charges of which the Noble Lord had to cont
nir, and a sense of slumberous beauty breathing from the warm plain, arose out of an unfortunate accident, which the Noble
sky above and the green earth below, it is a luxury which has Lord regretted, though it could not, in even the most re
still survived for the lover of the fields; and we accordingly note degree, be attributed to any neglect on his part
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The first paragraph that appeared in the parers, attributed the offered to represent the good people of St. Albans in the next
accident to the hard driving of Lord C., and was no doubt writ Parliament, and a contest arose—for some of the Electors were
ten by some political enemy of his Lordship's, in order to preju of opinion, that a wiser person could have been found for the office.
dice him, at the time of the General Election, when he had Now, at such a crisis, to be charged with being unable to guide
offered himself as a Candidate for St.Alban's.-Mr. S. then a tilbury, when his Lordship wished to § deemed capable of
read, from the Examiner, the first article charged as libellous:-- assisting to conduct the vehicle of the state, was a very fearful
thing. Then again, how could the Electors be expected to raise:
“FURioUs DRiving. their voices in favour of a young Gentleman, whose mame had •
“A reader of the Examiner trusts that the Editor of that paper, reached them only in ugly connexiou with “Hard-driving”
will not fail to notice, in his next publication, the very melan anecdotes and details of “ Accidents and Offences?” - The
choly accident which occurred in the King's-Road on Wednesday. matter, therefore must have a different turn given to it; and,
in the last week, occasioned by the furious and careless driving above all, the press must be silenced for a time.
.
of a certain young Nobleman ord Charles Spencer Churchill), “All this is possible; but áthers are inclined to suspect, that his
- -

by which two persons were much hurt, and a female hurried Lordship does not happen to be blessed with a discreet adviser;
suddenly into etermity. - -
and they imagine that he may have therefore consulted his groom."
“The evidence given before the Coroner having fully proved on this occasion; or peradventure, in the confusion of the mo
that this accident was caused entirely by the misconduct of this Noble ment, may have resºrted to some amateur lawyer or wrangling:
man, (a son of the Duke of Marlborough), it was with the utmost Marquis. Hºwever this may be, the young Gentleman, it is
disgust that the writer read a paragraph in the Morning Post of clear, has followed very shalfow counsels; for he may rest satis-"
yesterday, which, with reference to some observations on this fied, that in the end he will chtain nothing from the law but a
case, which have appeared in the Morning. Chronicle and Times, Solicitor's bill of at least a yard long-(to us a fearful object)—
states, that they are desired from authority to say, that those ob and probably the loss of a Seat in the ilouse of Commons;
servations are infamous and calumnious falsehoods, and that steps which Seat, as his Lordship's Noble Father may have informed:
are taken to punish the author, &c. &c. Now, as the evidence, him, possesses, among other advantages of a more dignified
taken on oath bears out the remarks made in these papers, it nature, this peculiar one, that it shields its Honourable Holder
cannot but be considered as an impudent attempt of the autho from all arrests for debt. ** :

rity to stifle inquiry in this nº. case. “Whatever trifling errors may have crept into the newspaper
“The writer begs to call the Editor's attention to the subject, reports of the accident, this, we are informed, will be proved to
feeling assured that the conduct of those patricians, who, to have been the fact—that his Lordship was not, as he affirms,
attract the attention of pedestrians, exercise their talent as coach driving at a moderate pace, but that it was his inmoderate course,
men, to the imminent peril of the more prudent but humble part and his wanton determination to pass Mr. Tooke's chaise, which
of the community, deserves public reprobation. “T. S.
was moving gently before his Lordship's tilbury, that caused the
“ May 29, 1818.” - -
accident, and occasioned the Death of Miss Sherwin. Upon Mr.”
The Learned Counsel said, that this article renewed the false Tooke's claise being overthrown, this unfortunate Lady got en
accusation. He then read the second article, which appeared intangled in the reins, when she was dragged nearly 200 yards—
the Eruntiner of June 7:— -
the consequence was, that her body was frightfully lacerated,
“We lately noticed the dreadful death of Miss Sherwin, who
and her head was absolutely beaten to pieces ! - *

“As for the Lawyers' artful talk about accusing his Lordship of
was thrown from a chaise, owing to the hard driving of Lord S. the crime of murder—which of the newspapers said any thing of:
Churchill. We are informed, but can hardly believe the rela the sort? Who could suppose that any human being would
tion, that though this young Nobleman was fally aware of the satly forth with a determination, to occasion the death of an
shocking death ofathe
trophe, attended lady,ball!”
public he, on the very evening of the catas entire stranger ? No; what he is charged with is this: that
w -

owing to his impetuous driving, one Lady has been much terri
This was as indecent as it was false. Lord Churchill not fled; a Gentleman has been a good deal hurt; and a third indi
willing to suffer such charges as had appeared against him in vidual, Miss Sherwin, has lost her life under the most shocking
some of the morning papers to pass without taking steps to cor circumstances. And now, instead of appearing touched and
rect them, had recourse to legal proceedings. This was the softened by the catastrophe, his Lordship assumes a threatening
only remedy in his power: and it was a step which, if the parties attitude, and even seems inclined, by bringing actions for
giving circulation to those slanderous fabrications believed them damages, to turn the fatal occurrence to good account!—Really,
true, they ought most to desire, because it would afford an op the whole business, as it strikes us, is of a very disgusting de
F. of ascertaining whether those charges were well scription, and one which, we cannot but believe, when his Lord
ounded or not. But even this could not secure his Lordship ship arrives at years of discretion, he will look back-upon with
from a repetition of unjust aspersions. His appeal to the justice mortification and sorrow.” , -

of his country was the ground not only of a repetition of the He would not, he observed, stop to admire the taste and deli
charge, but of the addition of others which, though not so grave
in their nature, were not less indelicate in their manner of being: cacy of endeavouring to wound the feelings of a young noble
put. He then read the next article, which was this:— man, with whom the writer might have differed upon another
subject, by bringing against him the embarrassments of a rela:
; : LoRD c, s, churchill's LEGAL PRoceedings. tive. . He would submit it to the consideration of the Jury,
“The Right. Hou. Charles Spencer Churchill, commonly called whether an individual who sought redress for one injury, in the
Lord Charles Spencer Churchill, a son of the Duke of Marlbo way pointed out by the law, should be met by the inflićtion of
rough, has thought proper to commence various actions against another. If the power of the press was above that of the law
the Newspapers, for having, in their account of the late cala what security could any man have in an appeal to that law . I
mitous accident in the King's-road, attributed it to the hard while writhing under the lash of calumny, and looking to the
driving of this young Gentleman. This is their offence, and such laws of his country for redress, he was to be attacked week after
is the mode adopted by his Lordship to clear himself from the week in the grossest manner, to what could he again look for pro
charge I - . . . - - * . - - - tection? The evidence would show that there was not the least
-- i. renowned Ancestor, as our readers well know, took a dif. justification for any one of the libels. It might be said, that the
ſerent method to distinguish himself. He did indeed commence defendant did not assert that the plaintiff had gone to the baſſ;
many actions, ... they were public and glorious ones; and but there was a mode of insinuation worse than an assertion, and
he obtained large damages, which, we venture tº predict, will this was a specimen of it. If the defendant did not believe the
not be this yºupg gentleman's fortune. Our King's Bench Hero, fact, why did he say anything about it The truth was, that
too, differs with the Confluerºr at Blenheim in this—that where he did his best to prºpagate a falsehood he did not believe...The
as the victorious fighter's practice was to bridg his enemies at third libel attributed to the plaintiff base and unworthy motives
once to close quarters, while, on the contrary, our, legal om for the action, which he had no right to do, as the profer find
batant prefers following the discreet example of Mr. 4tres, who legal course for the plaintiff was the one he had adopted: "The
delighted to bring his opponents down “at a long slºt:”—for plaintiff did not want damages, as was asserted in the libel; he
it appears that three out of four of the Newspapers selected, ſor wanted an investigation, and the only mode of obtaining it was
punishment have been served, with processes, which gannot be by bringing the case into a Court of Justice. He wanted tº re
boticed even for these five months. . . . . . ºº::::: *. move from the public mind the impression, that the accident wifs
caused by his furious and negligent conduct. The question-tor
w “There are some indeed who attribute these fively prºceedings
the General Election, This young Geºg ń gaciºusly the Jury were—whether the plaintiff's driving was furious and

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£areless?—whether he had exhibited want of feeling?—whether Mr. Manning (solicitor for the plaintiff) and his son assisted
he had gone to Almack's 2–and whether he had been actuated
by unworthy motives?—The publication, he would say, was most at the measuring of the road. It was measured by Daniel Mar
gate, and exceeded 21 feet.
wanton and unprovoked. He then called the following wit.
resses:- º
Mr. Wiltiaxis, then addressed the Jury for the defendant.
Robert Toole (the groom of Lord Churchill) was in a dennet When they should hear the evidence, there would not, he was .
with Lord C. on the 20th of May, 1818. His Lordship was certain, rest a doubt on their minds that the conduct of Lord
driving at a very moderate pace towards Fulham. Mr. Tooke's Churchill was highly blameable. He wished it might be dis
chnise was going before them. They kept behind him some dis tinctly understood, that when he attributed a great degree of
tence. When near, Lord C. called out “hoy ;” Mr. Tooke did blame to Lord, Churchill, he did not mean even to impute any
not seem to hear; Lord C. and witness called out again. Mr. T. intentional guilt to his Lordship. The Noble Lord had done
lººked round, and seemed to wish to give room; he pulled the that which was consistent with his rank and character. He had
Pºſt hand rein, and his horse went wearer the path. Lord openly met the question, and upon the record he had averred
Churchill then attempted to pass, when Mr. Tooke struck his that there had not on the occasion in question been any evidence
horse on the left side; the horse swayed over to the right and of the slightest neglect on his part. Upon that, issue was joined,
brought Mr. T.'s right wheel against the left wheel of Lord c.; and there he would meet him. His Learned Friend had acted
fairly in stating, that no damages were sought for, but that the
the wheels went round together a little way. He first heard the R.
shafts break; the body of the gig fell; the persons in it seemed Lord had only sought to establish his character with the
to fall out all together; and the horse ran away. witness and public. To show that to no other cause than the carelessness
Lºrd C. jumped out. His Lordship carried the elderly lady into of Lord Churchill could the accident be attributed, he would first
Mr. Rowe's, the surgeon's, and remained there some time. The show, by incontrovertible testimony, that that part of the road
accident happened at six o'clock on the Thursday evening. wit. where .. accident happened was only 19 ft. 6 in. wide. The
iness remained on the road for about an hour and a half. He and Jury had already heard that carriages were in general from 5
his master then drove off. Lord C. called at his mother's (the feet (0 to 11, inches wide. They had also heard that the
IPuchess of Marlborough's) and witness took the chaise home. three were abreast at the time the accident occurred; so
He remained at home the next day, in expectation of being sun that by both these admissions, this appeared,—that seventeen
imoned to attend the Coroner's inquest. Could not say whether feet and a half of the road were occupied by the mere fabric
he was sent to the surgeon's on the following day (Friday) or the of the carriages. Now Mr. Harris said, that between him and
day after (Saturday) to enquire about the lady that was killed the paling there was a space of a foot and a half. Adding that
(Miss Sherwin). Being again asked, he said he did not know to the 174 feet, and 19 feet were taken up, out of 19 feet 6 or 10
whether it was on Thursday evening or Friday morning. The inches. This set all reasoning at defiance. There was only a
carriages were more than a feot asunder, when Mr. Tooke struck space, which it was almost impossible to pass through withºut
the horse. There was room for the gig to pass, and to spare. imminent risk. ... Was he to be told, that a man was to place the
{le was certain that the accident would not have happened, if lives of his fellow-creatures in jeopardy, by attempting such
Mr. Tooke had not struck his horse. Lord C.’s wheel had only risks, which depended upon the breadth of a hair, or even an .
a little paint grazed off. Witness felt not the shock by the cou. inclu, merely because he was impatient, or perhaps depended
tact of the carriages. upon his skill 2 If, as was said, there was so much room to
Cross-eramined—Mr. Tooke might be driving more than six spare, why did Lord Churchill call out for it? Uu'ess it ºp
miles an hour. . Another chaise was coming on the other side of peared that Lord Churchill called out for room at a time when
the road towards London. If Lord Churchill had delayed at he saw he did not want it, it would be impossible to exculpate
tempting to pass for many moments, he thought the accident him from the charge of neglect.—Great industry had been exert
would nevertheless have happened. There was so much room, ed to show that Mr. Tooke was not skilled in driving. That
that he thinks four chaises might have gone abreast: each chaise might be true; but were the jury te be told that they should not
five feet, ten or eleven inches wide. Lord C. was driving be be in a carriage with their families, without being exposed to
tween seven and eight miles an hour. At the time of the acci constant risks, merely because they had not the same skill in
dent, the chaise of a Mr. Harris was nearly opposite: Lord driving which was possessed by some persons who had nothing
Churchill's was in the centre. The horse was considered a safe else to do, and who spent a great part of their lives in acquiring
one, and his Lordship was used to drive him. The naves of the that skill 2 The averment of the Noble Lord stated, that the
wheels came together and they went round together about once accident had occurred without neglect of default of his. Now,
and a half. he charged him with both. He grounded his assertion upon
what the Learned Judge who presided, and the Chief Justice,
Charles Harriº, Esq, was driving in the King's-road on the day had
in question. ... When he came nearly abreast of Mr. Tooke's car. delivered as their opinions,—that not only ought the driver
riage, Lord Churchill attempted to pass, and he did not think of a coach to refrain from stempting to pass where there was
that attempt improper. Witness had plenty of room and thought real, but where, there was probable danger—[The Learned.
Lord C. had too. Mr. Tooke pulled the left rein; his wheel Counsel quoted the Speech of the Chief Justice, as delivered on
the arguing of this point ou the 20th of November, 1818.
then seemed to witness to strike against a post or the bank; he See
then pulled the right rein, which brought him more into the the Volume of the Examiner for that year, page 747.]—
rentre of the road. The three chaises were then abreast, and This was not only the language of the law, but of common sense;
Mr. Tookº's wheel running against Lord C.'s, the accident hap. and if the Jury even were satisfied that there was room for the
pened. If Mr. T. had not pulled either way, witness did not carriage of the plaintiff to pass, but that still it would be at
think the accident would have occurred. He saw no furious tended with danger, the attempt would be sufficieut to justify
driving. There was about a foot and a half between his wheel their verdict against him. If the plaintiff, let it be recollected,
and the paling on the right-hand side of the road. If he had had stopped but a single moment, until the two carriages had
thought that there was any danger, he should have pulled up. passed, he might have gone by without the least danger. As to
the wheels only coming in contact at the naves, he maintained
John Welsh was the only foot passenger near at the time." He that it was improbable; but even supposing that to have been
heard Lord C. call out. Saw no furious driving. The accident
happened in consequence of Mr. Tooke's striking the horse on the the case, every body who knew anything of driving, must be
left side. , tſe did not think that Mr. Tooke inclined his horse aware, that nothing was more easy than for a good driver, such
towards the batik. Did not see any post. as Lord Churchill was, to have pulled up his horse at once. The
Noble Lord was iu this situation-either he could have turned
Mrs. Maughan saw the accident very indistinctly, and could the rein to the offside, and thereby avoided the concussion; or
give no positive evidence.
he could not, without coming upon Mr. Harris's wheel, which
Mr. Rowe (surgeon), corroborated the account given by the was on his right. Let the Noble Lord take the argument either
groom respecting Lord Churchill's bringing in the elderly lady. way, and it would be an equal proof of his negligence. He
His Lordship evinced great feeling. His Lordship sent several should not have gone into a situation which left no alternative
times to inquire about the lady.
but one pregudut with danger. Mr. Tooke's horse was seid to :
Thomas Stirling, (the Coroiter) presided at the inquest on Miss be a spirited one. Now everybody knew that no spirited horse,_
Sherwin. Lord C. was not summoned. Only three wituesses no horse that had teen commonly well trained,—would swerve
were examined.
ºn one side on being struck on the other, even supposing that
Three witnesses deposed, that Mr. Tooke was a bad driver. Mr. T. had no struck his horse. A horse always started forward,
One of them said Mr. T.'s horse was obstimate, aud another that when struck ou either side.—He admitted that the alleged heels
'it was spirited. contained other matters which eught not to be applied to his
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Lordship. The part which mentioned his Lordship being at a legal proceedings from improper motives. On the two counts
ball on the evening on which the accident occurred, was copied therefore relative to these charges, the plaintiff was entitled to a .
frem the Morning Herald, which set down his name as one of the verdict, with such sober damages as under the circumstances of
party at Almack's on that evening. It was copied through error, the case were suitable to his rank in life. As to the third count,
which the defendant was happy to have the opportunity to con relative to the charge of furious and careless driving, the de
tradict. In conclusion, he appealed to the Jury to put an end, ſendant had put a justification on the record, and the question
by their verdict, to a system by which the lives of thousands was, whether he had proved it or not. To make out the justifi
were endangered—to, respect º value of the liberty of the cat on, it was not sufficient to show that the driving had been
press. The press was at all times liable to some disadvantage; careless; it must also be proved to be furious. A man might drive
nº great blºsing was free from it; but to the press public mora carelessly, though he drive no faster than half a mile an hour;
lity and public security had owed more in modern times than toat the same time he might be said to drive furiously, though at
any other blessing we enjoyed. no quicker rate than five iniles an hour, if a mau driving before
Mr. James Bradshaw, a bottle-dealer, was returning on the him at a slower rate had not the means of getting out of his way.
20th of May from the funeral of one of his children. The fu The deſendant had asserted that the evidence given before the
neral procession was returning in order. Mr. Tooke's chaise Coroner fully proved the furious driving of Lord Churchill.
passed him, driving very moderately. His attention was at Whether that evidence was true or not, was mething to the pur
tracted by Lord Churchill calling out “boy;” he turned round, pose: it did impute furious driving to his Lordship, and that
and saw Lord C.'s chaise strike against Mr. Tooke's. Another part of the justification was therefore made out. He certainly
chaise was passing Mr. "Tooke's in a contrarv direction. Believes thought, that if a man attempted to pass through two chaises at
that if Lord C. had waited till the two chaises had passed one a quick rate without sufficient room, it was what might fairly
another, no accident could have happened, be called furious driviug; aud it was for the Jury to say, whe
Mr. Isaac Tooke, a wine-merchant, related the circumstances ther there was sufficient room or not. -

ºf the ense, as before stated. He heard a cry from Lord The Jury retired for nearly two hours. On their return, the
Churchil's chaise, and kept as close to the side of the road as Foreman declared, that their verdict was for the plaintiff on the
possible. Lºrd C. dashed between his chaise and Mr. Harris's, two first counts, with 50l. damages; but on the third count their
which was then abreast, and drove his near wheel against a verdict was for the defendant.
post, which caused both shaſts to break. He was already as Mr. Justice Bavley.—I understand you, Gentlemen. You
near the road as he could be with safety. He had driven that find for the plaintiff on the two first counts; but you think the
horse and chaise for three years, without any accident; and had justification on the third point proved ; that is, you find that
also often driven horses at an earlier period of his life. He con Lord C. Churchill's driving was furious and careless.
sidered himself a tolerably fair driver. Lord Churchill never Foreman.—That is our opinion. -

called at or sent to his house to inquire after the other lady, Mr. Justice Bayley then said, that he would take that oppor
who was confined for a month in consequence of her fall. He tunity of expressing his approbation of that part of the verdict
himself was injured; the wheel passed over his loins. which was for the defendant. . He thought it a very useful ver
Mary. Smith was one of the funeral procession. On seeing dict, and that it would tend to prevent impetuous driving in
Iord Churchill's carriage driving so fast, she remarked that future.
some accident would occur. She was then 10 yards distant, and Friday, June 4.
s w the accident. ciruttettitt, ty. WALter.
Baniel Margate was the servant of Mr. Evans, a gardiner. He This was an action against the proprietor of the Times news
was mainting his master's palings, when the chaises cane up. paper, for charging the plaintiff with having caused the acci
He did not see Mr. Harris's. Lord C. was driving 13 or 14 dent in the King's-road by his furiºus and careless driving.
miles an hour. He measured the road: it was 19 feet 10 inches
There were not a sufficient number of Special Jurors to form a
wide. Notody was with him when he measured the road. Jury, and, as Mr. Scarlett did not pray a tales, the cause went off.
Mr. George Gill, clerk to Mr. Platt, assisted Margate in mea Tooke u, cutºrtcaill.
suring the road. From the base of the nond of eartlı which
“pported the post, to the base of the mound which supported In this case, the plaintiff sought to recover damages for the
the palings on the other side, was 19 feet 6 inche. injury sustained by him from the furious and careless driving of
Mr. Treke called again.—was present at the measurement. the defendant, as above detailed. The record was withdrawn.
The rºad in all was nearly 20 feet wide, aud, as Mr. Gill reckon
e.!. 10 feet 6 inches OLD BAILEY.
Mr. Peoman, house steward to the Medical and Chirurgical On Wednesday, the following 13 prisoners (among whom only
Society, had known Mr. Tooke five years, and had been driven one had been convicted of forgervº were sentenced to deatli:--
by him. The horse was a very quiet one. - John Sumith alias Canlon, Sarall Blakeley, Jane Brown, Samuel
Mr. ScAkut, rt then called Mr. Fulbrook, the undertaker and Solomons, Matio Muzziotti, Patrick Mc Court, Robert Rhodes,
his son, to prove that the procession was 80 or 40 yards from the John Burgess, Hannah Dowley, Edward Shribbs, Julia Bryan,
place of the accident; and he also called Mr. Manning, and his John Sheering, and John Green.—Charles Rennet was broºght
son, to prove that they had been present with Margate, when he up among the other prisoners to receive the sentence of the law.
measured the road. The two last witnesses alsº stated, that He was the very picture of wretchedness: his hollow eyes, and
Margate had told them previously that Lord Churchill was only emaeiated countenance, evidently showed the dreadful sufferings
driving four or five miles an hour, he had undergone during his confinement in Newgate, even for
Mr. WILLIAxis then rose, and admitted that Margate's testi the short space of time which had elapsed since his trial and
mony could not be wholly relied on, but contended, that his case conviction on Friday week. When brought into the dock, and
was sufficiently made out without him, and even by the plaintifi's while sentence of 7 years' transportation was passing mpon him,
own witnesses. he held down his head and was silent; but as soon as the sen
Mr. ScARLErr then made a very inzenious reply. He com tence was pronounced, he became dreadfally agitated and burst
mented upon the defendant's evide ee, which he urged was into a flood of tears. In this state he was led out of Court. A
neither so positive, so clear, nor so probable as the plaintifi's. determined thief, who stood by the side of Rennet, and who re
He argued, that the old womanish doctrine of Mr. Wilſiams was ceived a similar sentence, to show how little he cared for the
not reasonable: . Every man who drove a chaise, ought to under punishment, addressing the Recorder, vociferated with an oath,
stand how to drive, and no one could be expected to calculate “I hope you may remain there till 1 come buck.”—the whole
on another's want of skill. He differed with his Learned Friend number of prisoners brought up for sentence was 136. ---
about the course which a spirited horse would take, when struck
on one side with the whip. He thought he would eaturally
swerve to the other side, and was trained to do so. A carman's POLICE.
horse was guided in that why entirely. He trusted that the ver -
diet would acquit Lord Churchill of all blame with respect to Quºx-square.
furnus or careless driving. -
Militany Qutrage—uatthew Redound, a private in the first
Mr. Justice Bavlev summed up the case to the Jury, and ob regiment of Foot Guards, was “a Saturday week charged with
served, that ou two points the defendant had offered no justificn wounding P. Pearson desperately. Ou Friday, Pearson, a jour
tion, namely...that part of the libel, which imputed cruelty to meyºnon baker, passed through Spring-garden-gate with his
Lord Churchill, in going to Amack's ball on the night of the bucket, without the sentiºc' there taking notice; but when he
accident; and that part charging him with having cºmmenced cume to Buckingham-gate, he was gºing through on the ear
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riage-road, when he heard the sentinel call out. He understood miles from Abergavenny. It appeared, on the confession of
him to say, he must not pass that way, but through the wicket Chugg and Jones, that Owen, about two years ago, had stolen a
at the side; and he complied. The sentinel followed, and with game cock from the deceased, who caused him to pay a guinea
out saying a word, stabbed him in the back. Some people took to make it up ; when Owen observed, “that he would be sure
him to the Westminster Infirmary, where the wound was dressed, to fetch it out of him, - ven if it were twenty years afterwards ;”
and information given at this office. The Magistrate granted a and on Monday week he put his dreadful threat into execution, .
warrant, and an officer went to Portland Barracks, where he by going with the other two prisoners to Guater's house, about
took the prisoner into custody. In defence, the prisoner said he twelve o'clock at night, first pulliug off their ciothes in a field.
had orders from his Captain to prevent any person going through adjoining the house, and blacking their faces. - Immediately ou
the gate with a load: he told the baker he could not pass with breaking in, they dragged the deceased out of bed, put a rope
his bucket, but he became abusive ; in consequence of which he round his neck, and endeavoured to hang him, but the room
felt it his duty to compel him to stop. The Magistrate directed was too low for that purpose. Owen then struck him on tire
the baker to indict him at the present sessions. He was then de head with an axe, and cut him across the head, until he had
livered over to the sergeant, who attended, in order to be tried killed him. Owen has been a bad character for some years;
by military law. Chugg, is about 18, and appears to have been drawn in from
giving way to bad company; and Jones is a travelling tinker.
ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. At Greenwich, on Monday aſleruoon, a young woman, who
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- had imprudently got into a swing, was seized with a giddiness
Sticides.—The wife of a tradesman, at Birmingham, on in her head when the machine was at its height : she fell out
Thursday week, having a dispute with her husband at breakfast, head foremost, and was killed on the spot.—A man standing
seized a knife, and after stabbing herself in the throat, cut a deep near one of the swings on Tuesday, when it was in ſull motion,
incision in one side of her neck, which divided the wind-pipe: it struck against the upper part of his face, and tore off the flesh
she died the following day.—Saturday week, the body of a re of one of his cheeks and his jaw-boue: he was taken to a sur
spectable looking young man was found in the River Thames, geon in most dreadful agony. - - -

near Woolwich: there was a rope tied round his wrist with a A girl, eleven years of age, named Emma King, daughter to a
seven-pound weight attached to it. In his pockets he had two man who keeps a coal-shed in Edward-street, itotherhithe, hung
handkerchiefs, a pair of gloves, thirteen shillings in silver, and herself on Friday morning, and was not discovered till apparent
a razor with the name of Collins scraped on the handle of it.— ly dead. A surgeon was sent for, and by persisting for nearly
Tuesday, a young man, named Winden, who resided at, the two hours in the meaſus recommended in cases of suspended ani
Shears Tavern, Wood-street, Cheapside, put an end to his exist mºtion, she was restored to life. -

ence by taking poison. The deceased had formed an attachment

to the servant of a chemist in Wood-street; she did not at first
discourage his addresses. Within the last few weeks he grew - - Birtlis. . -

malancholy, and could not attend to his business. On Tuesday On Monday night, at Chevening, the Countess Stanhope, of a
he called at a wine vaults, and drank an excessive quantity of daughter. --
spirits; went home in a state of intoxication to Wood-street; On the 2d inst., at Doctors' Commons, the Lady of Charles
then went to a chemist's and purchased an ounce of sugar of lead Edward Fenton, Esq. of a son. -

which he swallowed, having mixed it in some water. He soon

was in the most excruciating pain, and running over to the che - • MARRIAGES. . . .
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mist's, told him what he had done. The chemist administered a On the 31st ult., Benjamin Burton, Esq., second son of the
most powerful antidote, but the coat of his stomach was almost late Sir Charles Burton, Bart., of Pallerton, Carlow? Ireland, to
entirely destroyed, and he died in the shop in a few minutes.— Ann Grace, only daughter of William Roberts, Esq., of Glouces
His mistress had been inconstant. -
ter-place. ... " ... • -

...On Friday se’unight, about midnight, as Mr. John Elsworth, On the 31st ult., Ambrose Hope Perkins, Esq. of Thriplow
of Eccleshill, near Bradford, was returnius home, he was at place, county of Cambridge, to Harriet, the second daughter of
tacked near his own house, by a villain, who knocked him down, the Rev. Wm. Erratt, of Welford-house, Berks. : -

- and beat him on the head and face until he had made him insen On-Tuesday, Capt. While Melville, of the Royal Lancers. to
sible; he then rifled his pockets, *aking from him about 13, in Lady Catherine Osborne, only daughter of the Duchess Dowager
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of Leeds. .
notes, and left him apparently lifeless. After some time, Mr. - - -

Elsworth so far recovered as to be able to crawl home; when he On the 2d inst., David Carruthers, Esq. Assistant Commis
became sufficiently cóllected, he recognized in the features of his sary-General to the Forces, to Sarah, only, daughter of John
assailant a near neighbour; the suspected person was appre Proctor, Esq. of Grandra-house, Monmouthshire.
hended early the same morning, in bed; his breeches and
stockings were found to be bloody. Ile directed the constable to peATHS. . - -

the place where he had deposited the booty, where the money On Sunday night, the 30th ult, in York-street, St. James's
was found. The prisoner's name is John Hall, a shoemaker. square, Lady Asgill, wite of General Sir Charles A-gū, Bart.
He charged Hºm. Mortimer, of Stanningley, and W. Burley, of On Sunday, the 30th ult, aged 79, the Rev. Richard Caddick,
Jºccleshill, as his accomplices: they were apprehended, and com D. D. late of Whitehall, and of Caddick-lodge, Fulham.
mitted to York-castle. Mr. Elsworth is in a fair way of re At Bath, on the 21st ult, the well-known. Dr. S. Solomºn, ºf
covery-Leeds Mercury. Liverpool, proprietor of the Baim of Gilead, &c. . . . . -

Qu`the evening of the 7th of May, Mr. Rodway, an inn On the 20th ult, at Greenwich, aged 30, Smith Child, Esq. of
keeper of Crickdale, was robbed and murdered as he was return the Navy Pay-office, Somerset-house, second son of the late Ad
ing home on horse-back. It is supposed he was shot on his miral Cliild, of Newfield, in the county of Stafford.
horse, and that he instantly expired. His breast-buckle was shot on the 25th ult, in South Molten-street, aged 29, Edward.
into his stomach, and the pistol with which he had been shot, Chibnall-Smith, Esq. of the Navy Pay-office.
wns ascertained to have been loaded with one ball and five heads On the 31st ult, at Clapham-common, in his 26th year
dº nails, which were found in him. His pockets were emptied Charles Adams Kemble, Esq. -

of Bank notes to the amount of 16 or 17t. The report àf the On the 31-t ult, at Paris, M. de Barentin, formerly the
pistºl had been heard a short distance off, and a man was seen Keeper of the Seals of France, and Honorary Chancellor ot tº
to ride off on the horse of the deceased. Robert Watkins, who | Orders of St. Michael, St. Esprit, and St. Louis, at the advanced
answered to the description of the man, has been apprehended. It age of 82. - - •. -

is supposed that the deceased was not the person intended to be Qu Friday week, ºpwards of 80 years, cf age, – Stoº
robbed, but that it was the agent of Mr. Pitt, M. P., who was ex Esq. of Queenborough, whº had been Mayor of that borough
pected to pass that road on that day in the possession of several several times; he is reported to have died worth 30,000l. but
hºred pounds. A 5l. and a 21. flank note were found in the his appearance indicated ºbject poverty : he has left no issue:
pºssession of Waſkins, which were in the possession of the de and is said to have left his sister (the inmate of a neighbouring
ºnsed.". At his "final examination it being proved that his poor-house) the interest of only 500t.; the rest to persons of n°
brother buried the pistol, they were both committed. - kin.' . . . " - - -- -

... On Friday week were committed to Monmouth gaol William

*ren. Edward Jones, and Richard Chugg, charged with the mor Printed and published by Joſis Hºst, it the Ex tºxgå-office,
ºr of Johu Gunter, a poor shoemaker, who'lived about three
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millions! Now even “the last feather breaks the horse's

the PoliticALEXAMINER. back;” but this is a lumping weight; and though not
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Popº.
laid upon a back loaded with all it's former burden, is laid
upon a back sore and tired with bearing that burden, and
No. 583. God knows still loaded almost beyond endurance. Sup
pose any body were to kick a Minister 18 times; and
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* THE NEW TAxEs.
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then propose, that as he had had the patience to put up with
We think we have got pretty well used to Ministers by those twice nine gentilities, three more could do him no
this time, their witless arguments and heartless proceed harm.” The argument might be good in one respect, but it
ings; yet we must confess we have been fairly astonished would at least be insulting; and such is the way in which
at their new proposals of taxation. At the moment when Ministers insult the country that bears with them.
Then comes Mr. Huskisson, who because Mr. Tier
the people are absolutely lying down and panting "under Nry and Mr. Bnough AM” very justly and unanswerably
their burdens,—when the partial relieſs from the war reminded Ministers of the necessity of strict retrenchment
incumbrances have not given them time enough to recover
from their galling soreness, when in order to soothe them. before they proceeded to new taxation, delicately informs.
they have been told over and over again how much ſighter
the House that he “had hoped to hear the case argued
their situation would become every day,+and when the upon it's own merits, without reference to the question of
who was the Minister, or whether there were five or seven
manufacturing districts, one after the qther, are roused al
most to madness-at such a moment the placemen, pen Lords at the Board of Admirally; but in this, hope he
mioners, and sinecurists, come forward to saddle them with was disappointed.” Poor, rich man! It is of little con
a permanent peace taxation of three millions of money! isequence who is Minister if he acts like a constitutional
‘Englishman and a ſellow-creature; but that it should be
. This undeed is a specimen of the lengths to which people
will go, who kave had a long security o corruption, and of no consequence to a question of ſresh impositions on
an exhausted people, whether or not there are no unne
who as far as Parliament are concerned present us only cessary
placemen, is a piece of logic, of which no one but
with a nominal responsibility 1. Well, may they maintain, a hardened placeman could be guilty. -

together with their,sinecures, corruptions, and luxuries, a . It is of the very last importance to such a question.
standing-army Well may they keep up that unconstitu And here we utterly deny the right of the servants of the
tional instrument to deſend therest of their unconstitutional Boroughmongers to come forward with their monstrous.
establishmeuts! Well may they alone, in fact, remain at proposition of this new burden of three millions. They
war with us, whes every other power in the world is at talk of the country's necessity for it, and of public credi
peace! .. tors; bit granting that the couptry sends it's own repre
The CHAscr1Lort of the Exchequeſt has the face to
**ow the real ground on which these new taxes are pro sentatives to Parliament, and has incurred the burden:
posed. He cannot help it indeed, if he and his fellow (which we deny), the Ministers and their friends, and de
corruptionists must go on lording it and hoarding it over pendants, and masters, are at least a part of the country,
us; but then where is the necessity? The Ministers have however they may seem to he otherwise by their treatment
hampered themselves with the Stock-holders; and con of it; and if the governed, the middle classes, and the
trary to their repeated assertions about the Sinking Fund, poor, must retrench, as God knows they have, the gover
nors and the placemen should at least set the example, as
they find themſelves unable to pay their debts, and so they God
tell us they must come upon the public in order to pay the knows they have not. They may answer they have,
public creditor, Mr. Pitt's famous schemes are found in such and such matters; but we answer, they have not,
wanting; and the excuse now assigned for it by those dis to any purpose, and mol, in any proportion. If the
ciples who always asserted their perſection, and pinned all lower orders are pulled down in their cheeks and health.
their future-credit upon adhering to them, is, that that and deprived of their commonest comfort, what righ:
provident and all-seeing personage could not have con haye the rulers to their round faces and numberless luxu
templated the possibility of the enormous drain upon the ries? What right have they, under a calamity, which, it
it ought to be at all, ought to be common, to their buge
public purse! Now this is the very thing which his op
ponents, all said, both Whigs and Reformers; they all establishments, their precious wines, their balls, their
said, that he did not see what he was driving to ; and so feasts, and their infinite contentments of all sorts? They
the accompli-himent of their prophecy is to be the apology * We thought that Mr. Baouanax had been making holiday,
for his want of foresight! - - - - - --
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The other Ministers argue, the propriety of this mon he fairly exhausts himself in his public duties), when we unſor.
strous proposal in the same callous way. Mr. CANNisg, twº ately learnt, that he had been visited with a severe illness.
We heartily congratulate the lion. Gentleman and his country st
whose very common sense is overturned by his want of large on his being able to return to his duties, only adding a
feeling, tells his weary and disgusted countrymen that be hope that he will not allow himself to injure his own usefulness
by pushing. his activity too far. It is impossible not to regard
entise they have born upwards of 18 millions' load of taxa with affectionate admiration a man, who, brought up in party
tion, they surely cannot object to so small a load as three habits, acts nevertheless with so much candour and public spirit.
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may shake their heads, and say they are not content; but serve. The Malt-Tax, saith the Courier, is to “the amount
their bad consciences will not alleviate the public burdens. of one-half the duty which was paid upon this article during
Before you proceed to new taxes, said Mr. BRough AM the war, or 9s. 4d. per bushel. This is estimated to produce
(and it was a powerful and home thrust) your pensioners 1,400,000l. The Chancellor of the Exchequen ob
and sinecurists ought to be taxed in their proportion;– served, however, and indeed proved from positive calcula
your placemen of four thousand ought to give up one tions, that this tax ought not to have the effect of occasion
thousand; your placemen of seven hundred pounds three ing any increase in the price of Beer—that important
hundred pounds; and so on. Aye;—this indeed would beverage of the working classes, The total repeal of the
be something like retrenchment; and resemble, in a re war duty had produced no corresponding diminution, as
note degree, the sacrifices which the poor are compelled to was expected, in the price of beer.—The brewing of a
finake on pain of being imprisoned or hung. But lord! quarter of Malt, which in May last year cost 91. 16s. 8d.
the corruptionists privately laugh at all this, and shake for would now cost only 6l. 17s. 4d. The Government pro
very mirth their knowing and worldly heads. They may posed to take 9s. 4d. for the public, leaving a balance, in
laugh, and may have standing armies; and they may also, favour of the Brewers, upon the difference of the two
in the insanity of their callousness, absolutely make the prices above quoted, of 21. 10s. We do hope, therefore,
necessity of these standing armies a ground for the pur that no attempt will be made to increase the price of beer.
posed taxation, as Mr. VANsittant did the other night; upon the pretext of this tax. The remaining articles
but the people have fixed their hollow eyes upon them. are,” he continues, “ British spirits, 500,000l.; 'Tobacco,
Let them take care. ' - 500,000l.; Coffee and Cocoa, 130,000l.; Tea, 130,000l.
Even supposing for an instant their right to impose the (to be raised from 96 to 100 per cent. duty); Pepper,
new taxes, another inost serious question arises as to the 30,000l. In looking at this list, it is pleasing to observe,
nature of those taxes. What are they ! They are as that none of the commodities are among the prime necessi
follow :— - -
ties of life, if we ercept beer, and that, as we have shown,
A Consolidation of the Customs, including a duty on ought not to be at all affected by the proposed duty.”
Foreign Wool— Ought not to be affected! Oh the moral duties of malt
' A Tax on British Spirits— liquor; and above all, of the brewers! And oh! the
A Táx on Pepper— exquisite innocence of Ministers and the Courier! Yes;
A Tax on Coffee and Cocoa this barefaced nonsense is not confined to the demi-official
A Tax on Mall— journalist;-it is also gravely advanced by the CHAs
A Tax on Tobacco– cellor of the Excheques. He undertakes to prove to
A Tax on Tea. the House, that the repeal of duties. on Malt did no
Of these taxes, it is calculated that the one on British good to the poor, and yet that the imposition of more
spirits is to produce 500,000l.;—the Pepper 30,000l.; ought to do otherwise It seems incredible; but let
the Coffee and Cocoa 130,000l. ;—the Malt 1,400,000l. ; the reader judge for himself. “Nor was the third
—the Tobacco 500,000l. ; – and the one on Tea, reason assigned for the repeal of the duty, namely,
130,000l.;-making on ...the whole, three millions one that it would give the poor the advantage of having
hundred and ninety thousand pounds. The odd hundred their beer at a more moderate rate, proved by expe
and ninety thousand it is not thought worth mentioning, rience to be better founded than the others. The price
in the gentility of debate. of beer certainly ſell for a short time after the repeal of the
Now to the proposed tax on British Spirits, we shall duty; but then it again rose; and it was at the present
say nothing but this;–that the consumer has at least as moment as high as it was at the highest period both ºf the
much right to get drunk, and drown his cares, and be a duty and of the materials. He thought he should be able
vagabond, as his rulers have to make him one. It reminds to prove that the additional duty which he meant to pro
us of the old couplet on the Gin Act: pose, namely, half the existing duty, or one shilling
Why will you make us cooliy, think 2 and two-pence a bushel, making the whole duty three
If you must govern, we must drink. shillings and sixpence a bushel, not only would not call
The tax on Pepper seems added merely to make a shew on the brewers to raise the price of beer, but that under its
of something imposed exclusively on the rich; yet Pep operation, they would still be enabled to lower the price to
per enters, we believe, into numberless varieties of cookery, the public. (Hear! and a laugh.)”—And then he goes
high and ſow; only it can be dispensed with by the poor, on to quote the statements of the Brewers themselves, as
whereas the rich would not relish their fourth bottle with if the profits still proveable by those statements would in
out a devil. “Every inordinate cup is unbrssed; and duce them voluntarily to forego greater, or incur the least
the ingredient is a devil.” Then there's the undercrust of avoidable expense! He also, in the course of the debate,
veal pasties. - professed it as his opinion, that “it was a matter of com
The tax on Coffee and Cocoa also seems to fall on the parative unimportance, whether the new resources were to
rich; that is to say, full, in the sense of a feather falling, be raised by one lar or another, although he allowed
or slumber falling on their eye-lids. But more of Coffee that care should be taken in the selection of such imposts
presently. - - as might be least injurious to the country.”—To the
Malt.—The word is a small word, but eloquent and country . To the Boroughmongers, he means; or what
loud. Let us see what Ministers and their hirelings say was the meaning of this gross assertion, followed up by
to this. And first for the last,-upon the Christian prin this apparently contradictory acknowledgment? -

ciple of exaltation, which it must be owned they richlyde Heavy announcements are these for all you, who can
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of a hundred who are regular drinkers of tea instead bf

still afford to get the refreshment of a little malt liquor after eaters
your daily-toils and yexations! The Ministers are to of dinner-if tea it can be called. Some, of a more
raise more money on your few remaining refreshments, daring expenditure, may arrive at a little bad coffee, iñ
and you are to rely on the abstract virtues of Brewers for order to give a colour to their beverage; but the greater
having it taken out of their own pockets instead of yours! part tea; and what will they say to the tax? - They will
But what does the Courier mean by saying that the say as much as their long habits of patience and their fee
proposed Malt-Tax is the only one that falls on the lower ble voices will allow them; and the great men in the
orders : Writers who make such assertions as these have manors will say— - - -

no choice left them, but to be charged, either with gross “Work and get more. -

impudence or gross ignorance. On whom, we should . Sir, we can get no more work.
like to know, is the tax upon Tobacco to fall? and on Then go to the parish,
whom, above all, the tax upon Tea? One would think, Sir, the parish says it has no more money for us.
Neither have I.”
by the Courier's talking, that the use of Tobacco was - -

what it was at it's first introduction when Spensen ranked And yet these are to have the money for the lords of
it with Nepenthe, quite a fashionable and poetical thing, - the manor —Oh shame! shame! shame!' -

the very bredth of gallantry, and rolling cloud of heaven ſº- -,

descending wit. Unfortunately it is now almost confined to

cyder-cellars, and a few good old country Parson Adamses, FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,
and to labourers and others of the lower orders at their FRANCE,
evening refreshment. Let him take a vulgar walk into PARIs, June 6.-Accounts from Stockholm, dated the 24th
instant, state, that the regiments destined to form the camp at
the suburbs one of these delightſul evenings, and on the Scania are on their route thither. - ---

benches outside of every alehouse he will see dozens of Cilam BER OF DEPUTIES. - "

carters, waggoners, bricklayers, and carpenters, soothing The Deputies were occupied on Monday last in hearing the
the toils of the day by inhaling this pleasant herb. These report of M. Beugnot, from the Coumittee of Ways and Means
are the men on whom the Tobacco-Tax will fall. As to for the current year 1819.
The deporter presented to his colleagues the satisfactory as
Snuff, which we suppose is included, that part of the tax surance that the revenue of France now exceeds her expenditure
will indeed fall, like the feathers before mentioned, upon by such a sum as will admit of an immediate reduction of taxes, i.
to the amount of 16,000,000 francs, or 666,666l. The chief
wealthier people; though their other luxuries would en branches of revenue between which the proposed diminution of
able them to leave it off better than the good old Gentlé charge is to be divided, are the land and window-tax. This
women and play-goers who survive the last generation, excess is altogether exclusive of a sinking-fund of 40,000,000ſ.
not to mention the old Scotch and Irish of the lower It exists, says M. Beugnot, in spite of many large additions to the
national expenditure, which have necessarily taken place during
order. Your Diplomatists, however, will certainly have the present year—of augmented charges for the repair and
to contribute a mite or so on this head, out of their large maintenance of the great routes of communication throughout
the monarchy—for the works of those fortresses which the
possessions; for how could they dispense with those very foreign troops had evacuated—for an increase to the list of mili
argumentative pinches, which outweigh all that they ob tary pensions—and for a heavy addition to the funded debt.
serve in the intervalsº - -
Among the principal heads of revenue, the customs were esti
But does the Courier know, or pretend to know, so mated by Ministers at 113,000,000ſ, but the commission pro
posed to reduce them to 90,000,000!.; the indirect contributions
little of the petty resources, to which his Masters have were calculated at a gross produce of nearly 175,000,000f.; the
driven the poor, in order to get a coulſortable sensation, Commission take them (after deducting all expenses) at a net
that he considers the tax on Tea as not affecting the lower amount of 138,000,000ſ. The postes are estimated at a gross simir
orders? It affects the poorest of the poor, and those of upwards of 22,000,000ſ., yielding net above 12,000,000ſ. The
lottery; of which the reporter speaks with shame, is taken at
too of the most respectable kind,-the domestic poor. 8,000,000f. of revenue to the government, while it costs the
With great numbers of these, who rarely touch meat, public more than 40,000,000ſ. The sum total of the floating,
the day is broken into bearable portions with bread debt is 355,000,000ſ, -

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and tea. They take it, chiefly because they can afford PRUSSIA.
nothing better, and partly, as Dr. Johnson, took it, BERLIN, June 1.-The accident which happened to the King:
to quiet their spirits. “With tea,”—to use his words, or in the Pfauen Insil (Island of Peacocks) is stated to have occurred
in the following manner:—Among other diversions, a Russian
something like them,-" with tea they welcome the morn. mountain, as it is called, was erected, and before dinner the
ing, with tea they solaca the noon, and with tea they en company amused themselves with this pastime. The King's
dure the night.” Does not the Courier know this?, fet sledge overturned, and in falling his Majesty had the mis
fortune not only to wound his face, but even to break the lower:
him get an invitation from a brother of the Chanceſſion part of the bridge of his uose; happily the broken pieces of bone;
of the Exchequer, who has a unanor, and a large wood were extracted the first day, and the wound is going on as well-
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near the poverty-smitten town of Marlow, and the more as possible.
squalid village of Bissom, his own Bissom. Let him go
there; and peep into the huts, and hear toiling families, UNITED PAR LIAMENT: .
hopeless of this earth, singing Methodist Psalms, and see
fathers of families sitting on their last miserable bed House of Lords.
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stead, cutting line-pegs, for which they are obliged to - Thursday, June 10. -: , . r

pilfer sticks out of the fine Bissom wood, and hear of The Earl of Liverpool, in moving the seconº reading of the ,
Marquis Camden's Teilership Appropriation bºlt, mentioned'
another who has drowned himself opposite the great that the late Marquis of Buckingham had generously, though it
house,_and of another who has been shot by the game. was unknown to the pablic, sacrificed a sum of 42,000l. to the
keeper; and out of these families, he will find ninety out ! public purse,
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STATE OF THE NAVY. * .
impropriety of taking onths against doctrines which those whe
Lord Darnley moved that certain returns of the present state took them did not understand. These oaths were taken before
of the Navy should be printed. He admitted that"it was in a Justices of the Peace, and at the custom-house. He protested
very efficient state, but he wished to throw out a few hints on against this trifling with a solemn appeal to the Deity.
the subject. Two-decked ships of 60 guns were now building to The Lord Cuancellor and Lord Bathurst opposed the
ºppose the large frigates of the Americans. He thought it motion;...On a division, there, were-Contents, se-Non-coa
would be better to build ships of the line, instead of these, and tents, 141—Majority against the Bill, 59–Adjourned.
also some 50 gun ships, not so large as the Americans, but larger
than our present frigates. He trusted, also, that some other
*ans ºf manning our ships instead of impressment, might be
House of commons. . . .
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adopted, in case of a new war, Monday, June 7. . . . . *

Lord Melville could not concur in the expediency of build Distress for TAXFs. . . .
*ng an intermediate class of 50 gun ships, because they would Sir R. Wilson presented a Petition from an individual of the
*ot have a fair chance against the American large frigates.—The harne of Bressingtou, residing lately in Whitechapel, containing.
motion was agreed to. -

a most affecting narrative of distress, one among the thousand

TEST OATIIS' ABROGATION BILL. appalling effects of ruinous taxation. . The Petitioner stated, that
-

Earl Grey observed, that he had not at first expected any his house had been entered by three officers—that he rehuested
ºpposition to the passing of a Bill to relieve the catholics from the delay of the execution until the evening. The officers brº-.
the ºcessily of taking oaths against Transubstantiation, the in tally answered, “Not for a moment"—his property wa- seized—
vºcation of Saints, and the Invocation of the Virgin Mary. It a pregnant wife was frightened into premature’ labour, and
had been admitted by the opponents of the Catholics and by brought forth a dead child: the Petitioner desired to see the au-.
various Acts passed for their relief, that dogmatic opinions with thority under which these executioners of the Laws acted, but,
*pect to religious tenets were no bar to their admission to civil was refused: when he threatened to appeal to the law for re
effices, but that that admission was prevented by their inability dress, he was told that the man who could not pay his taxe-,
tº give the King an entire allegiance. Now he contended that could have no money to go to law; and though the whole of his
the Oath of Supremacy, which renounced both the temporal and property, save one bed, was sold, he had wever been able to pro-,
º authority of the Pope, was quite sufficient to exclude cure an account of the proceeds. He therefore prayed, that the
The Catholics both from Parliament and civil offices, the Noble taxes should be reduced. The Hon. Baronet said that, knowing
Earl then reſerred to former periods of English History, to show as he did the excess of suffering endured by the people, he
that, before the passing of the declarations against the doctrines would rather iny his head upon the block, thau conseat to tes.
of the Church of Rome, Catholics had been always incapacitated imposition of fresh burdens.—Laid on the table. -

by the Oath of Supremacy from holding any office, or a seat in NEw tAxEs! . -
Parliament; and that those declaration were enacted at a time The House resolved itself into a Committee to consider the
•f excessive alarm on account of the supposed political influence Reports of the Finance Committee. * -
•f the Catholics, when Charles ii. was suspected of being at The Chancellon of the Exchequen stated the substance of
tached to their tenets, and the heir apparent was known to be. the Resolutions he had laid on the table last week. The sixth of
What prevented Catholics formerly from being called to the bar? those Resolutions declared, that it was necessary to provide a
The Oath of Supremacy. What now prevented the English real Sinking Fund, in order to support public credit, and *
Catholic from voting at elections? The *ame Oath of Supre afford future relief to the country. It was impossible to affirm.
macy. Why should we stigmatize another religiou as supersti that the revenue was placed on a proper footing, until it afforded -
tious and idolatrous, when the very tenets, against which the a considerable surplus above the expenditure. The object of the
enths were taken, differed very º, from some of our own 2 present plan was to place it, on the footing on which it, woºd
Many ºf their Lordships, he would venture to say, would be have stood, had a modified income 'Fax been continued. The
Puzzled, if they were called upon to explain what was meant by estimates for the current year might, according 16 'he Report ºf
the adoration of the Virgin and the sºuts. The Cathºlics bº. the Finance Committee, be estimated thus : —the Income at
lieved in ransubstantiation. The Lutheran. believed in the 54,000,000.: the expenditure, 52,018,800t., affording a surpºse
*me thing, under the name of consubstantiation ; and the Cal •f 1,981,200l. Now this surplus was not sufficient to satisfy the
winists believed in the mystical presence. The Protestant Cate public creditor, by holding out a prospect of the eveutual re
•hism said “We receive the body and blood of Christ in the demption of the debt. But that could be done by a real and
*crament of the Lord's Supper.” The doctrine of transubstan. effective surplus of 5,000,000l.; though he though it desirable,
early periods of our history. and in
fiation was believed in the as soon as circumstances would admit, to carry up that sum “
this day many of the High Churc' Party believed it. The ques 8,000,000l. The last Resolution declared, that to effect this, ths.
tion was too high for human faculties to embrace, and it was pre revenue must be increased three millions by taxation. whether
*mption in us to make a charge of idolatry against those who this should be done by one tax or another appeared to lim coal
*aintained a different opinion." All we had to do was to nº paratively unimportant, though it should be doue in the mode
*pon our own conviction, and to forbear from reviling any per least injurious to the country. He proposed to raise this ºwn by,
*** whose conviction might lead them to different cºnclusions. taxes on the following articles, which he calculated would pro
Whether Parliament was disposed to grant further concessions duce the sums stated:— - - -

afterwards or not, this measure would do good. it was impos A new Consolidation of the Customs, including 200,000l. of in
able that the Catholics could hear their religion stigmatized, or creased duty on Foreign Wool - - - - £500,000
that the Protestants should continue to stigmatize it, without Malt - - - - - - - - - 1.400.00"
hostile feelings being engendered. If Parſiament resolved to British Spirits, near. - -- - - - - 500,000 .
*op, it was not necessary to add insult to injury. If they deter Tobacco - - - - - - - 500,000
*ined to go on, it was desirable to take every step of previous Coffee and Cocoa - - - - - - - º
•onciliation. He moved that the Bill should be read a second Tea - - - -- - - - - 130,000 .
time, -

Pepper, near - -
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The Bishop of Nogwich seconded the motion. He had often The tax on Malt was not a revival of the War Duty, though he
felt a strong sensation of self-reproach after taking the oaths in
estion, and had no doubt that other Nable Lord would have never, saw any reason in the clamour against timul duty, and ne
ood had arisºn from its repeal. He thought he could prove that
it the same, if it were not for the legal ambiguity of the terms #. new Malt Duty would not only not comp; a rise in the prics
in which they were expressed, of beer, but would enable the brewers to lower it. (4 langkº
The Archbishop of CANterbury contended, that the oaths The price of Malt was now so low, that the additional duty (93.
wished to be repealed were the greatest securities for the Consti and 4d. per quarter) would still leave the brewers a profit of 21,
*tion, because they were intaiſible tests of whether a man was or 10s. per quarter greater than that of last year. The venders of
was not a Catholic. - -

tobacco, too, he considered, might for some ºne sºil. that article
The Earl of Livenpool argued, that the abrogation of the cheaper than they did at present, in spite of the additional duty.
**** would do no good, as it would not conſer any benefit on (A. laugh.) All these taxes would produce 3,190, Wººl, and
*he £atholics. The alteration of existing laws was always dau - - **

allowiug the odd 190,000l. for deficiencie-, he calculated ºn a

ºf rous; and this measure was only intended to pave the way for clear inerease of revenue to the amount of three millions. For .
ºthers which he thought impolitic. -

the last three years, temporary plaus of finawee had been resorted
Fºr Garnville dwelt with great force and animation on the to, and it was now necessary to fix on a permanent pºst rºles
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kshment. The knowledge of our circumstances which had got mates, because he had found that attacks on particular details of
*broad demanded this. Much more retrenchment could not be the expenditure were always fruitless, and one of the reasons
effected one great source ºf expence—the army—was at its urged in defence of each was the smallness of the sum it cost.
howest seale. He did not think there was any ground for anti Nothing could be done but by an economical Administration,
eipating any material falling off of the revenue. . It had increased and the knowlege of that was the motive for his motion on the
30,000l. in the last April quarter, as compared with that of 1818, State of the Nation. The army was too great, not snly for the
aad though it had fallen. 107,000l. iii the quarter ending the 4th safety of the country, but for the safety of the Canstitution.
ef June, he did not think it was being too sanguine to expect that (Hear !). A consolidation of offices might be effected. For in
the revenue of the present year would be nearly equal to that of stance, the office of third Secretary of State ought to be abo
the tast. As he was sensible of the great responsibility which lished. There was no more occasion for a third Secretary of
Ministers incurred in proposing fresh taxes, he should prºpose State than there was for a third Archbishop. (A laugh.) Would
another Resolution, calling upon the executive to exercise the any man tell him, too, that there was any occasion for a Secre
most rigid economy in the expenditure. (A laugh and hear!) It tary of War in a time of peace. (Hear!) Every expedient
was too late in the Session to propose any alteration in the mode should be tried, before they had recourse to new taxes.. He
of collecting the revenue, but, as he was convinced that much should therefore conclude with moving the previous question.
benefit would be derived from some alteration, the Resolution Lord CAstleREAGH protested against the course pursued by
would also pledge the House to an inquiry into the subject. He the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Tierney). Ministers had only
been restrained in their reductions by ūr. sense of what was
concluded by moving the first Resolution.
Mr. Tien New did not object to the particular taxes proposed : necessary for the safety of the country. The Right Hon. Gentle
his objection was to the abstract proposition—that it was expe man had been trying to show, that the Sinking Fund was to be
dient to lay an additional burden of three millions on the people: entirely abandoned, while the fact was, that there was to be a
He had to thank Ministers for having, after being so often urged real Sinking Fund, to reduce the debt on Mr. Pitt's plan; and
and so often refusing, distinctly stated the actual, situation of this endeavour was more surprising, as the plan was founded on
the country. The Sinking Fund was now abolished, and we the statements of Mr. Grenfell a #. nights back, though the
were to start with a fresh oue. (Hear !) The real surplus ap motion of that Hon. Gentleman was opposed by him (Lord C.),
peared to be now only two millions, after all the flourishing ac because it tended prematurely to bring on finaucial disclosures.
sounts with which our ears had been stunned for three years. It was said, that we should break our faith with the public cre
But this was a breach of faith to the public creditor; for Mr. ditor; but the result of the accumulation of the Sinking Fund, in
Pitt in 1806, and Lord Sidmouth in 1812, had promised that the its great amount would be destructive of all property: it.was
whole of the Sinking Fund should remain as a security for the necessary to put a stop to its accumulation. He conjured the
Rudholders. The Right. Hon. Gentleman had assured the House to consider this question dispassionately. If they were
iłause in 1813, that if his plan were only allowed to operate for not satisfied with his Majesty's Ministers, if they had not
ten years, it would effect so great a reduction of the public debt, conſidence in them, they owed it to themselves, they owed it to
that God knows what would happen to this devoted country, so the people, to carry their complaints to the foot of the Throne,
rapid would be the fall of the interest of money. (A laugh.) and pray that they (Ministers) be removed from their situatious.
But now the Right Hon. Gentleman said, there was an end of the (IIear !). There was no just ground of complaint against the pro
matter, and that three millions more taxes were necessary to give posed measure. It was necessary to place the country in a con
security to the public creditor. This would place the stock dition to meet any future war; we could not be safe unless efforts
holder in the odious light of being the cause of the new hurdens. were made in peace to reduce a debt incurred in war. When
(Hear!) It was a mockery to pretend, that a debt of 8,600,000l. the permanent Sinking Fund of 5,000,000l. rose to 8,000,000l.,
•ould be redeemed by a Sinking Fund of 5,000,000l. in any probable the House would have the option of applying the additional
period of peace. He admitted that the Sinking Fund ought to be 3,000,000l. either to reduce the debt, or to relieve the country.
given up to the exigencies of the country; but it was too much This would show our enemies what our resources were. The
to hear the proposal from the Right Hon. Gentlemau, who made nation had born a weight of 18,000,000l. of taxes, from which
rt without the least sense of shame, after all his boasting and ex
they had been relieved, and he was sure it would not object to a
aggeration; who, after having brought the country to such a tax of three millions. In answer to any questions, as to why these
state, was still vapouring and prancing in the old way— difficulties were not pointed out before, he would say, because
(Laughter)—and asking for three millions, with the usual air of no proper period had before offered itself. Extrinsic causes had
assurance, as that which was infallibly to set us right again. now ceased to operate on the country, and this was therefore the
(Herr () People were disposed already to throw unjust odium proper period. The Right Hon. Gentleman could very well un
on the fundholders, and this would increase it. On behalf of the derstand the advantages of the present plan; but all that he
•ountry, he protested against the new taxes : if our present wanted was to turn Ministers out of their places, that he and his
state did not forbid the imposition of fresh burdens, he knew no friends might step into them. -.
state that did. The very increase in the value of money, which Mr. Bitough AM was not averse to increase of taxation at all
would be the consequence of the bullion payments, would be in times in peace : he thought a period might arrive, when the
effect an additional taxation. There was at the present moment people had recovered from their distress, and were enjoying a
a general stagnation in trade and manufactures: their table was peaceful and well-earned repose, when an increase of reveuue
loaded with Petitions from agriculturists and others, complaining might be a provident ineasure : but he conceived that it was not
of the intolerable weight of the poor-rates: and the answer to only indecent but atrocious, to attempt at this time, to increase
these Petitions was a proposal to impose new taxes! . The the burdens of a people so patient and so suffering. (Hear, hear!)
awswer to these Petitioners, whº complained that they and their He contended, with his Hon. Friend, that the reduction of the
families could not subsist, was, “The only sound remedy Sinking Fund was a breach of faith to the public creditor ; but
is to tax you still more—we grieve only that you have not been that was no reason that we should also be guilty of a breach of
taxed enough (a laugh); in reſieving you from 18 millions of faith to the nation, who had a right to expect, after their un
taxes we acted wrong; but we will retrieve our error, and by exampled patience under their burdens, that no new taxes should
way of a beginning, we will now impose on you the sixth part be levied. This was the most unfit time possible for such an im
of the taxes from which we relieved yon. (Henr, hear 1)?” position: the distressed state of agriculture and manufactures
why, this was nothing less than an insult on the whole country. was admitted on all sides; the proposed alteration of the cur
As a stockholder himself, and he believed he spoke the senti rency would lessen the income of the subject; and the very three
ments of the inajority of stockholders, he would rather have a millious about to be raised might amount to a great deal more
surplus of two millions without, than five millions with, new than that sum in reality, from the probable increased value of the
taxes. Before asking for more taxes, Ministers ought to prove currency. Indeed these reasons showed that the circumstances
to the country that everything had been done in the way of eco of the country demanded that taxation should be lightened rather
•omy. And here he was disposed to put first what the Right than made heavier. Upwards of a million might be saved; und
lion. Gentleman had put last,-Reform and Retrenchment. that, added to the two tuillions of surplus, would give a Sinking
( İHear!) . From his own knowledge and the information he had Fund (3,300,000l.) equal, in proportion to the increase of debt, to
received from others, he was convinced, that reductions might that of Mr. Pitt (1,000,000l.) when he first proposed the Sinking
still be made to the amount of one million a year. ( Ilear.) The Fund. With respect to the collection of the revenue, the Beard
Finance Committee had only made Reports on the estimates sub of Excise had offered to collect the customs for 5% instead of the
mitted to them by Ministers, whose echo they were. Had they 13 per cent. which it now cost : that would save half a million.
inquired into any one public office He had not opposed the There were, too, many sinecures (such us receivers of Laud and
amount of the army, on the brºugºng forward the Army Esti Assessed Taxes, distributers vſ Siamps) the holders of wilisir
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pºrºrmed their duties by deputy, and which might be at least Mr. Huws thought the proposed taxes fell exclusively on the
reduced. Nºthing had been urged in support of the present pro | lower orders. (Ilear !) For his own part, he would rather have
ºsitiºn but that it was necessary to have five millions of Sinking : agreed to a property tax: that tax differed from the others in
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----------- ºr the. finances of the country must be put in a state this respect;-that the collection of it cost very little, while a
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tº provide agãinst a new war. Now T. maintained that the great part of the money taken out of the pockets of the people on
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wealth ºf the people and their consequent ability to pay taxes account of the others never came into the Exchequer. He could
wbu'd be intº greater if the money now proposed to be fevied show how 1,090,000l. might be saved by: various reductions.
were left in ſher pockets: the resources of the country would be The Colonies were a great drain on the country, throºgh the
|º and the country would be really stronger º Finanee Committee had recommended, in 1817, that Ministers
financial point of view.by this plan, in case of a war, than should consider the means of rendering the newly-required Coºr
having a few more millions on the public books. nies capable of maintaining themselves. . A Convention made in
Mr. Hösktsson"defended the principle of the Sinking Fund, 1817, respecting the Ionian Islands, declared that the military
whith was the same as that estai'ished by Mr. Pitt. The Hon. expenditure should be paid by those islands, yet we had to ray
Gentleman (Mr. Brougham) had stated that the Excise had of. for 3000 men for them. There was, an item of 67,000l. to Go
fered to cºllect the customs in a way that would save half a mil vernor Brownrigg, in the Ceylon expenditure, and 48.000; to
lion, but upon enquiry he (Mr. H.) found that it was a mere idle Governor Farquhar, in that of the Mauritius. The Civil List
report: there we nº such offer made. The 4 or 5000t. a year too was enormous. Why should the Commander-in-Chief re
rečeived by the distributers of Stamps were divided among them ceive a war salary of 16 guineas a day in peace, for performing
ºnd their deputies, and the principals received no more than was duties, which were much lessened since the war.? -

dºſe for their trouble and responsibility. - Mr. HARwey named another mode of reduction, with regard
... Mr. CALVERT was anxious to refute the imputations cast on the to the enormous, expence incurred by Excise prosecutions. At
brewers by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but he deferred present, five barristers were engaged on the part of the Crown in
his arguinents to the period for the discussion of the details. each case. Taking this expence at an average of 40l., it would
Mr. CANNING ridiculed the course pursued by the Opposition, amount to about 24,000l. a year, which sum might be saved.
whe, after all their clamour for an exposition of the true state of Alderman WArrhyt AN observed, that if what the Chancellor of
*he country, now, when ſhe financial embarrassments were laid the Exchequer said respecting the new Malt Duty was true, viz.,
before the public, would not consent to provide a remedy, but in that the price of beer would not be rsised by it, he should rather
a cowardly, evasive, and shirking manner, wanted to leave the have instituted an inquiry into the frauds of the brewers, thºu
difficulties to alarm the people, by moving the previous ques have endeavoured to participate in their extortions; but all
tion.--IMr. Calcraft called the Right Hon. Gentleman to order seemed fair to the Chanaellor of the Exchequer, and he was
for applying those terms to the conduct of his Hon. Friends; but ready to share in the profits either of a lottery or an overcharge.
Mr. CANNING said, that he would not retract them, until the (Hear, and a laugh.) They were now about to deprive the
words “indecent and atrocious,” which had been applied to the wretched labourers of their beer. As to the tax on wool, a Peti
conduct of Ministers, were also withdrawn.] tion from the clothiers of Leeds stated that nine millions worth
Mr. Macdox ALD supported the Amendment in an animated of cloth was now exported, not half of which was paid for the
speech. Adverting to the neglect which the Chancellor of the imported wool, so that 4% millions were paid by foreign countries
Exchequer had shewn in not attending to the gross abuses in the for the labour of our starving manufacturers, who in their pre
collection of the Revenue, he contended, that the Right Hon. sent state of distress were to be deprived, as far as taxes would do
Gentleman deserved impeachment for his conduct. it. of this source of employment. The consequence would be,
A division then took place—For the original motion, 329– that our manufacturers would fly to some more favourable place;
Against it, 142—Majority, 197. and that would indeed be only acting on the principle of the
The other Resolutions were then agreed to, and the House ad higher classes, who were flying from taxes imposed *} thern
joerned. seives. * . - -

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Sir M. Ripley said, that these three millions of taxes were to
Sir F. Burperr said that Crook, the sailor, whose Petition he be laid on articles consumed by the peor. The Chamrellor of the
had formerly presented, wished to bring his case before a Court Exchequer had contrived it so well, that the poor could not evade
of Law. He wished to know whether the Admiralty would per him; lest those whose beer was taxed should resort to spirit-,
mi: the Solicitor of Sir W. Hoste, who was now abroad, to enter spirits were taxed; lest they should fly to tea, tea was taxed:
an appearance for that officer - and even the last enjoyment of a quiºſ of tobacco was denied
r. Caoken thought it would be a most indecent interference them. (A laugh.) It was very doubtful whether, if the country
on the part of the Admiralty to act without the authority of Sir could bear it, it would be desirable to take three mºlirns from
W. Hoste. , That officer's leave of absence had nearly expired, the pockets of the people, where it would be productive, that it
and he might be expected in England shortly. might lie dormant in the Sinking Fund. He proposed an amend
On the motion of Mr. M. A. TAylor, a Committee was ap ment:—“That with such an estimated surplus, it is not expe
p. to enquire into the practibility of Steam-engines and dient, in the depressed state of the country, and till every prac
ticable retrenchment has been effected, to add to the burthens of
tºrnaces being so constructed as to consume their own smoke.
Mr. Goulburn moved for leave to bring in a Bill to establish the people.” - --

a begistry of Colonial Slaves in this country, and to regulate the The Chancellor of the Exchequer opposed the amendment,
removal of slries from British Colonies. The object of this Bill because he thought no part of the House could agree that the
was only to establish an office where duplicates of the Colonial country was in a satisfactory state. ... .
registers might be kept for the purpose of reference. The second reading was carried by 186 to 76.—Adjourned.
Leave was given, after some observations from Mr. Gordox Wednesday, June 9.
on the extravagance of having a separate office for this purpose, Mr. Stunges Bouw NE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
when one additional clerk in the Third Secretary of State's amend the Parish Westry Act of last Session: also a Bill to Re
Office would do all that was wanted.
peal the Law under which Settlements were obtained by Renting
- NEW TAXES. Tenements of 101. value for 40 days. -

The Report of the Committee of yesterday being brought up, Mr. Sergeant Onslow postponed the discussion on the Usury
the CHAncellon of the Exchequer moved the second reading of Laws until next Session, on acconut of the incertainty respecting
the Resolutions. the value of the currency and the rate of interest.
Mr. Curwen opposed the projected new taxes: they would NEW TAXES-THE BUDGET-THE LOAN.
increase the dreadful pressure every where felt. They were, Two Petitions were presented against the proposed tax on
too, partieularly ... and oppressive. The tax on Malt foreign imported wool—one from the manufactures of Bradford.
would force the population to have recourse to spirits. He was and the other from those of Leeds. Some couversation arose on
convinced that this country could never grow fine wool; and to this subject, and Lord MILºron and Mr. Curwen, strongly cen
laya tax on an article indispensibly necessary for our manu sured the tax. The price of coarse wool was 5d. a pound, and
factures was most impolitic. the new duty of 6d. would entirely put a stop to its importation.
Sir H. PARNELL said, that much retrenchment might be The average price of all foreigõ woot was only 1s. 9d., a pound,
effected by altering the old tedious forms of keeping the public and the duty was therefore out of all proportion. This country
accounts, which occasioned a great deak of unnecessary expense; could not produce the fine wool, and 4 hpuuty would be given
and by consolidating various public Boards. He objected to the by this measure to the French, manufacturer. It would be
imposition of taxes at present. equally injurious to the agriculturist and the manufaeturer, and
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it would mºst likely not produce the sum calculated upon, be had better have been delayed till next year. The Hon. Gentle
cause it would check importation.—Laid on the table. -
man then adverted to the conduct of the Bank, who had refused
A Petition against the Malt Duty was presented from St. to afford the usual necommodation to the public and the co--
George's, Haugwer-square. . . . . . . . .. tracters, by advancing the different instalments of the loan. He
The House having resolved itself into a Committee of Ways was not sorry for this, as it would show the Bank in their true
and Means, - - - - -
light. This conduct was mean and pitiſal : it seemed as if they
-The Crawcellon of the Fºxch-Qurn stated the financial resented the end put by Government to their dependance on and
arrangements for the year, which were as follows:– subserviency to the Bank. Hadeed, after the cringing cenrse
* *- - SUPPLIES. adopted by Ministers to the Bank, it was no wonder that 24
Army - - - - - - 8.900.000 Directors should be intoxicated with their power: they had
• Naey - " - - - - - - - - 6,436,000 been consulted by Government on all the financial-plans: x ~ *
Ordnance - - -- "- -- - - - 1,191,000 Mr. MANNIxa defended the eonduct of the Bank. If the IBank
Miscellaneous - - - - - 1,950,000 were to issue notes to accommodate the contractors, and the
price of gold were to rise to 4!. 5s. or 4. Hos., when the time
Total Sapplies - - - 18,477,000 came for bullion payments, they would be blamed for having
Hºlterest nn Fºxchequer Bills - - - 1,570,000 issued notes improvidently. The Bank felt no pique against
Ministers. " . • ** -

- Sinking Fund on Ditto * - - - - 430,000 -

Mr. Erxxft, Sir R. Wilsox, nnd Alderman Wood, spoke

- 20,477,000 against the new taxes, which they contended would augment
By reduction of Unfunded Debt 10,597,000 the crime and misery now existing. -

Mr. Ricardo objected to the increase of the Sinking Fund, on

431,074,000 account of the temptation to extravagance which it would affort
- WAYS AND MEANS. the Government. He was happy, however, to hear it honestly
Annual Malt .- " - - - - 3,000,000 confessed at last, that there was not a Sinkhg Fund of 15 but
Fxcise Duties continued - -- - - 3,500,000 of two millions. - - -

Lottery - - - - - - Resolutions, declaring the expediency of raising the supplies,

- - -240,000
Old Stores - - - "- -. 334,000
were successively put and carried. On the one for the Lottery,
a division took place–Ayes, 117–Noes, 49—Majority, 68.
- 7,074,000 Mr. Buxton, Mr. Gooch, Mr. BroughAM, and Mr. J. P. GRAxºr,
Lona . , - - - - 12,000,000
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| objected to the new taxes as impolitic, and particularly oppres
Loan from the Sinking Fund -
- * - 12,000,000 s:ve on the poor. The Malt resolution was carried by 1984e
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97.-A motion for adjournment was twice negatived by a large

4:31,074,000 majority.—When all the resolutions were agreed to, the House
The Lonn for which he had contracted that morning was pro adjourned.
cored on very advantageous terms. They were, that for every . Thursday, June 10.
100t. of the 12,000,000l. subscribed, the subscribers should re. Petitions from the Common Council of London, from South
ceive 80l. steak in the three per cent. consols, and 621, 18s. 8d. wark, and from a great many other places, against the Foreign
stock in the three per cent. reduced. The two loans were to Enlistment Bill, were presented. -

make up a deficiency of 133 millions between the income and ex GAOL DELIVERY.
penditure, to provide for repaying the Bank 5,000,000t. and to
reduce the unfunded debt, 5,597,000l. With respect to the ingMr. Westrºn, after some observations on the injustice of keep
persons in prison six or eight months before they could be
charge of management, he thought the Bank had no right to any brought to trial, and the particular inconvenience of the practice
allowance for that part of the loan derived from the Sinking in
Fund. The total charge to the public was 1,442,005. The rate thethePrince present crowded state of the gaols, moved an address to
Regent, praying that he would be pleased to issue
of interest to the subscribers was 47.5s. 8d. The amount to be
raised next yet" would not exceed 11 millions for the different Commissions of Gaol Delivery three times a year or oftener.
The ArrorNey-GrºsrAl
branches of the public service, and five millions to complete the proposed plan could be carried said, that it was impossible that the
repayment of the 10 millions due to the Bank, in all 16 millions. into effect by the present twelve
After taking 12 millions from the Sinking Fund, there would re Judges. A great alleviation of the evils complained of would be
main four millions to be raised in the money market. And he effected, if the Magistrates of the Quarter Sessions would hold
their sittings eight instead of four times a year. moved the
trusted, that this world be the last time of applying to the money previous question.
market for a loan. The three millions of new taxes would be
Mr. BeNNET said, that the evils of the present system were
applied to make up a deficiency of 1,600,000t. in the Consolidated admitted, but it was not shown that an encrease of the number
Fund, and to meet the above charge for the loan. The details of
the alterations in the intreased duties were these:—The duty on of Judges would do any harm. . . . --

foreign tobacco would be made 6s, per ponnd, and on tobacco The previous question was carried without a division.
from the Plantations 4s. All foreign snuff would be also 6s. NEW COLONIES.
The present duty upon the coffee of the plantations (73d.) would Mr. Huitz moved for a variety of returns relative to the newly
be raised to 1s. per pound; that upon East India coffee (11d.) to acquired Colonies of Ceylon, the Mauritius, the Cape of Good
Iº. 6d.; that on foreign coffee (1s 4d.) to 2s. 6d. The duty on Hope, Malta, and the Ionian Islands. All the old Colonies were
tea would be raised from 96 to 100 per cent. Much expense governed by Colouial Assemblies; but in the new Colonies, the
would be saved and inconvenience to merchants prevented by Government was carried on under the Secretary for the Colonial
placing all the duties, which came both under the heads of Cus. Department. These Colonies possessed large revenues, amount
toms and Excise, under the Excise only by this plan some ing altogether to 1,311,225l., which Parliament had no account
officers of Customs would be dispensed with. All the proposed of, and which was º the individual who filled the
duties would be extended to Ireland, except that on spirits. The office of Colonial Secretary. as this constitutional When
tax on Malt would not cause any rise in the price of beer; for Ceylon, the Cape, and the Mauritius, were under the Dutch,
though Malt was dearer now than it was last year, the price of that nation obtained a large surplus income from them. But he
hops had so taſten, that both together were cheaper by 10s. 8d. could name sums amounting to 900,000l. a year, which we had
per quarter of malt; and as the proposed duty was only 9s. 4d., paid for their military and other establishments. He thought
the public might expect a reduction in the price of beer propor this a sufficient ground for inquiry. He coneluded by ...
tionate to the difference of 1s. 4d. The duty on British spirits the returns separately. . -"

would be is. 9d per gallon; and he thought it desirable that the Mr. Goulbumn acceded to the motion as far as regarded our
consumption of spirits should decrease, while that of malt liquor colonies, but he could not accede to such an inquiry into the
should increase. financial situation of the Ionian Islands. Those islands had a
Mr. Grenfelt concurred in the position that it was necessary legislature of their own, totally independent of this eountry;
to raise the surplus income to five inillions to secure a real Sink and the Crown had no more right to call upon the Senate to
ing Fund; for there was no real Sinking Fund but the surplus of furnish an necount of their income and expenditure, than it had
income over expendilure. It should be afterwards increased to to call upon any other State to do so. - *

eight millions. . He agreed also with those who thought that the Mr. Huwe urged, that as we were declared protectors of the
increase should be effected by a reduction of the expenditure Islands, and as we supported 3000 troops for them, we had a
and an increase of taxes, ºn:
he thought the latter expedient! right to require an account of the expenditure of our money;
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All the Resolutions were carried, except that respecting the enthusiastic cheering from all parts of the House, which lasted
Ionian Islands. for several º -

The Report of the Committee of Ways and Means was re Mr. CANNing felt deeply the difficulty of endeavouring to re
ceived, the Resolutions were passed, and leave was given to bring move the splendid impediment which the Hon, and Learned Get
in Bills founded ou them. -
tleman had raised in the way of the straight-forward and ho
- FOREIGN ENLISTMENT BILL. nourable course. The Right ii. Gentleman proceeded to argue
The ArrorNry-General moved the committinent of this Bill. that it was not incompatible with , liberty that Government
Colonel Davies detailed a series of injuries received by our should have the power of restraining its subjects frown violating
merchants from the orders of the King of Spain, and a number of neutrality ;, that such restraint could not be imposed without
acts directed by him against our commerce, in order to show, this act, as the Proclamation of 1811 proved, that proclamation
that Spain was not eutitled to any ſavour from us. The Acts not having prevented the raising of troops for the Patriots; and
against enlisting in the service of foreign princes had always that any interference on the part of subjects of England was a
been a dead letter. There were but three persons serving in the violation of the law of natious, while we were at peace with
§. army under the King's license, while there were 50 or both powers. -

Mr. ScARLETT and Mr. Bhough AM spoke strongly against the

officers serving in that army, chiefly against the Independents,
and these officers, according to those Acts, were all guilty of Bill, and Mr. Sergeaut Corlsy in its favour. On a division,
felouy. (Hear!) But who thought of enforcing the law No there were—For the motion, 248—Against it, 174—Majority, 74.
longer ago than Thursday last, three of these officers, in their Adjourned.
full Spanish uniform. attended at the Prince Regent's Levee to Friday, June 1 1.
take their leave. (...) A Petition was presented from the Common Council of Loudaa
Mr. Rosinson allowed that the feelings in favour of the Inde against the new taxes. -

pendents were natural, and that a regard for our mercautile Mr. G. LAMs wished to know whether the New Duty ºn To
i-terests would incline the mercantile world to support the bacco was to be paid by the dealers on their stock in haud.
oause; but he implored the House not to substitute feeling and Mr. LushingtoN ...}. doubt that it would.
interest for how our and good faith. Some conversation arose on receiving the leport of the Gom
Sir James Mackintosh opposed the Bill in a brilliant and mistee on the Foreign Enlistment Bul, which was found to have
animated speech. He insisted that the measure, so far from sup so many new clauses, that it was almost a new Bill. One Mem
porting neutrality, was a direct attempt to injure one party for
ber ..., that from the number of erasures, he presumed it was
, the benefit of the other, the feeling of this people being entirely translated from a Spanish manuscript—(a laugh);-and Sir M.
on the side of the Patriots. By the common law the means Ridley suggested, that it had better be printed in Spanish, for
existed of punishing a breach of neutrality; and to enact a mea the benefit of those for whom it was intended. It was again ob
sure favourable in its tendency to one party alone, was, in itself, jected, that there was no provision against allowing the importa
time grossest violation of neutrality. In what did neutrality con tion of arms into Spain, for the use of that Power against the
sist First, in the abstinence of a Government from affording Colonies. Lord Castlsaragh said, that such importation could
wid to either of two belligerent parties. Secondly, in the impar. not be prevented, without putting a stop to the trade in arms to
trality of the laws as respecting two belligerent parties. If all Europe. The Report is to be further considered ou Wednes
the two laws against subjects entering into the service of dav. y POOR LAWS. -

any foreign Prince were repealed, that would at once put

*.*.into a complete state of neutrality. Until the present Mr. S. BounNE moved the third reading of the Poor Ratea'
period, no belligerent trad ever ventured to request the favour Misapplication Bill. - -

which England was now called upon to grant to Ferdi This Bill was opposed by several Members, because they coa:
rand—a Sovereign on whom he would bestow no epithets, sidered that the taking children away from their pareuts would
because it was impossible by any epithets which the Eng injure the natural ties of affection; that improvident marriages
lish language could afford, to add to the feeling which the Imere would be encouraged, when the parents were relieved from the
“tterance of his name excited. (Hear, heart)—The Hon. Gentle necessity of supporting their children; that those poor parents,
mºn described a variety of instances in our history, in which who, from parental affection, should keep their £hildren at home.
this country had strictly preserved her neutrality, between belli would have to struggle hardest to support them ; and that it
gerents, but had uot cousidered a recruiting for those belli would increase the evils of the present Poor Laws, by perpetu
t-grºnts as any to reach of that neutrality; especially in 1he reign ating that bad system of paying labourers in part from the Poºr
of James I. when an application on the part of Spain to prevent Rates, and countenance the masters in giving such low wages--
sºh a practice, was rejected by the emightened Ministers of The ºilſ was defended on the ground that it would preveal im
Elizabeth. *If this request, was granted to such a prince as Fer provideut parents from spending the money in other ways, which
dinand, it could never after be refused to any other power.— they received from the parish for the support of their children :
• One instance of the partiality of this Bill was, that there was and that it would secure to the children an useful aud moral edu
no provision in it against British subjects supplying transports to cation.—On a division, there were—For the motiou, 69; against
Spain to convºy troops to South America. He was only advo it, 46.-Majority, 23.--Adjournca.
cºting neutrality on the part of the State. Individual neutrality
coald never exist uwder such circumstances, when a contest was TUESDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE.,
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Kºng ºn between the most odious tyranny on the oue side, and
- *e ugllest struggles for liberty on the other. Among the titles - BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
**ich Ferdinand VII. seemed in the eyes of his Majesty's Mi J. Stephens, Loudon, uerchant. -

****ers to possess to the interference of England in his belialſ, he BANKRUPTS. - -

*-i-led to know if the Noble Lord opposite reckoued his ready G. C. Case, Whimple, Devonshire, hop merchant. Atworusy,
cºmpliance with his (Lord C.'s) request for the release from cou Mr. Robinsou, Essex-street, Sirand. º
**enent of those alties of Britain and patriots of Spaiu who had T. Brown, Newport, Shropshire, grocer. Attorney, Mr. Hicks,
*** rºd his sovereign displeasure. (Hear!)—Parliament had been Gray’s-inn-square. - - -

‘old of repeated applications having been made by Government J. Yate, Worcester, leather-seller. Attorney, Mr. Platt, New
for the release of these excellent individuals. Still, however, Boswell-court, Lincoln’s-inn. - - -

Arguelles languished in a dungeon. The Noble Lord had as: R. Pollitt, Bowker Bank, Lancashire, calico printer. Attornies,
•uted the House, that the assembled Majesty of Europe had Messrs. Hurd and Johnson, Temple. -

twice interceded for hun, but had interceded in vain! et the | S. Sutherland, South Shields, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. Bell
Kluwse recollect that the Slave Trade, which Ferdinand had pur and Brodrick, Bow Church-yard. -

**y-restrained for money, Arguelies prevailed on the cortes J. Bonsor, wheeler-street, Spitalfields, coal merchant. Attorney,
instantly to abolish; and that the South American Governments, Mr. Warrand, Mark-laue.
***!e of their natural prejudices, had put an end to a traffic J. Polglase, Bristbl, provision merchant. Attornies, Messrs.
“ill cherished in Europe. The Hon. Geºtleman then read the Adlington and Gregory, Bedfºrd-row- . . .
**cription on a mortar taken from the Freuch at the raising of E. and G. Gregson, Liverpool, perſuiners. Attornias, Messrs.
• * *ge of Cadiz, and in which the names of the Spanish pa Courteen and Robinson, Walbrook.
*** were houcurably mentioned... Yet, at this very moment, .J. Brockliss, Oxford, corn, dealer. Attorney, Mr. Pownall,
**o-e brave and illustrious men were lauguishing in the dun Staple-inn. * * - *-
*** “I that Prince, whose cause a British Parliament was now R. Duke, Gateshead, Durham, merchaut. Attornies, Messrs.
“P” tº “lºves - this eloqueut speech was followed by Bell and Brodrick, Bow Church-yard. * *

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BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED, Lowdon, JUNE 13.
R. Walker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grocer.
T. Shillito, Doucaster, innkeeper.
- * BANKRUPTS. Accounts from Berlin say that Colonel Wassenbach,
J. Higman, Duke-street, Adelphi, victualler. Attorney, Mr. the gentleman who was said to have documents in his pos
Lewis, tºlement's-inn. session formidable to the Prussian Court, and for whose
J. Lamb, Great James-street, Bedford-row, tailor. Attorney, Mr.
Lewis, Clement's-inn. *
seizure a good while back a neutral territory was violated
J. Riding, Blackburn, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturer. Attor by the Anti-Bonaparte King of PRussia, has been sa
sey, Mr. Armstrong, Staple-inn. shiered, and sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment. As
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J. Laughton, Liverpool, earlheuware-dealer. Attorney, Mr. he is already sixty years of age, the sentence is naturally
Makinson, Eime-court, Temple.
J. Catterson, Kingston-upon-Hull, currier. Attorney, Mr. Dax, regarded as one of imprisonment for life. We can scarcely
Staple lan. - -
believe, however, that the Royal Anti-Bonapartist, with ałł
$. Goddard, Cornhill, map-seller. Attornies, Messrs. Paterson his delays of a constitution, and his hankerings after the
and Peile, Old Broad-street.
F. Kegg, Liverpool, master-mariner. Attornies, Messrs. Dacie old tyrannies, would, in the face of all Europe, sentence a
and John. Pºl-grave-place, Temple. man to this dreadful punishment without even a publis
J. Bosser, Wallingford, Berkshire, carpenter. Attormies, Messrs. trial. This is not a time to augment the editions of the
Price, Williams, and White, Lincoln’s-inn. -

R. Cooper, Rawcliffe, Yorkshire, common-brewer, Attornies, - Memoirs of poor TRENck,--which has been a favourite
Messrs. Wright and Cole, Temple. - - book with the rising generation ever since it came out.
J. Parker, Norwich, bombazine-manufacturer. Attorney, Mr. They are apt indeed to consider it almost as a fable; but
Nelson, Barnard's-inn. *

T. and R. Bulmer, South Shields, rope-manufacturers. Attor when they come to know the history of FRederick (the
nies, Messrs. Bell and Brodrick, Bow-church-yard. Great!) himself, and that of other wilful and implacable
J. D. Pritchard, Tipton, Stafford, linen-draper. Attornies, despots ancient and modern, it reappears to their memory
Messrs. Swain and Co., Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
B. Wright, Birminghain, victualler. Attorney, Mr. Platt, New in all its horrors; and they partake warmly of the indig
Boswell-court. - -
nation which has already shaken thrones to their centre,
T. Siminouds, Maidstone, Kent, wine-and-brandy-merchant. and which will shake them down to the ground at last, if
Attorney. Mr. James, Earl-street, blackfriars.
-J. Arliss, Newgate-street, printer. Attornies, Messrs. Russen the heads of tyrants remain as incorrigible, as it would
and Son, Crown-court, Aidersgate-street. seem their hearts are.
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J. Patterson, Fore-street, Cripplegate, corn-dealer. Attorney, The following passages, literally translated from six
Mr. Luckett, Wilson-street, Finsbury-square.
P. Gaugain, Church-street, Soho, silversmith. Attorney, Mr. sermons preached in Caracas, in 1816, have just appeared
Hutchinson, Crown-court. Throgmorton-street. in the daily papers. The sermons are printed and circu
R. Dyke, Bayswater, jeweller. Attorney, Mr. Ilutchinson, lated by order of King FERDINAND's Governor, sanctioned
Crown-couri, Threadneedle-street. -

-C. Crandon, America-square, Minories, merchant. Attorney, by the Archbishop, and commanded to be read after divine
Mr. Hutchinson, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street. service in all places where the Spaniards had the upper
H. and J. Wick war, Colthropt-inills, Newbury, Berkshire, paper hand. We should like to know how many recruits their
makers. Attorney, Mr. Hudson, Winckworth-place, City-road.
E. Peacock, Erst Eud, Finchley, viztualler. Attorney, Mr. exceeding stupidity and impudence added to the Patriot
Brewer, Quality-court, Chancery-lane. Armies. When the reader reflects that it is FERDINAND,
W. L. Brown and T. Hunter, Wood-street, Cheapside, ware whose divinity-ship is so spoken of, he will think of the
housemen. Attornies, Messrs. Kearsey and Spurr, Bishops Egyptian vulgar who used to worship onions and cats.
rate-street-withiu.
Page 20. “A King partakes of the divinity : he is another man
J. Buckley, Mossley, Lancashire, clothier. Attorney, Mr Battye, from
Chaucery-lane. the moment he is invested with the august dignity.—The
T. Kay, Bath, dealer. Attornies, Messrs. Bourdillou and Hewitt,name itself of Christ,” a name consecrated to designate the Son of
Bread-street, - -
the Most High, belongs to him. In power he exceeds all the
R. Bealey, Cockey Moor, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturer. At great, as well as the very body of his Empire, &c. &c.”
tornie", Messrs. Clarke, Richards, and Medcalfe, Chancery Page 72. “Americans, I now address myself to you. The
}*tie. - Kings of Spain are they who have always alleyiated your dis
6. Adams, Gloucester, jeweller. Attorney, Mr. Manning, Cle tress; who have at all times protected you against a multitude
ment's-ium. -
of dangerous enemies; who have preserved you in peace and
J. Millward, Reddish, Worcestershire, needle-maker. Attornies, happiness; who have always been anxious for your mental im
Messrs. Long and Ausien, Holborn-court, Gray’s-inn. . provement; careful of your productions and of those manufae
S. Nathan, Chandos-street, Govent-garden, butcher. Attorney, tures and mercantile pursuits analogous to your circumstances;
Mr. Norton, Commercial-chambers, Minories. and if they have deprived you of a free trade with foreigners, it
W. Walker, Norwich, bricklayer. Attornies, Messrs. Adlington has only been to preserve you from freedom, from fanaticism, and
aud Gregory, Bedford-row. -
from the spirit of independence and irreligion, which people of that
kind usually introduce with their merchandize.”
Pape 77. “Our Princes have also in their favour the sanction
Among the books recently prohibited by the Papal of the Holy See, more particularly that of Pope Alexander VI.,
Government, is a translation of Jehemy BENTham's Trea who after most serious deliberations, by his Buil declared them
tise on Civil and Penal Legislation. Lords of the West Indies, and imposed the heaviest ercommunica
------------------ tions against whatsoever person, even Emperors or Kings, who,
without special permission from our Monarchs, should interfere
rates or stocks on saturday. in the conquests of these said Indies. And can any one doubt
+ per Cent. Red. 6733 68; 67% 3 per Cent. Cons............. shut. that all the insurgents of the present day who have invaded the
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possessions of our Monarchs stand liable to the penalty of this
Justus and other Correspondents will perceive, upon reflection, excommunication ?” -

the impropriety of our inserting statements which affect the cha * The word Christ means Anointed ; but with the Reverend
Jacters of individuals upon anonymous authority. Preacher's leave, the word Auointed in some phraseologies has
wº copied the paragraph about the Chilian Ambassador from a two meanings, and besides Anointed Saints there are such things
Daiſy *per, but we know no more about hia than Mr. R. as Anointed Scoundrels.-Eram.
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page:34. “The sovereign authority of Princes does not de eioms about Sweden. As to the rest of the letter, we fearit
pend on any contract they may have celebrated with their sub
jects, but on the will and determination of God. It is the wark only affords additional vindication to the deposers of this
of divine wisdom that there should be Princes, Monarchies and weak and unfortunate Prince. It is observed that he has
Empires, in like manner as there should be inferiors and vassals.dropped the title of Count Gortorp, and signs himself
It is God who by the election of Sovereigns maintains the order plain G. A. Gustaffsox (son of Gustavus), which but
of nations. There is no power in heaven or on earth that does
not emanate from God. Princes receire their power immediately for the letter itself would look like an acknowledgment of
from God, and not from the people. That dazzling chimera of his alleged illegitimacy. . -

equality, which is the very principle of insubordination itself, The accounts from South America are very contradic
was also, Venezuelans, that which was about to deprive this so
Catholic a country of its religion and King. The freedom of tory. It appears certain that the Royalist General Mo
worship and religion was already about to be sanctioned as a Rillo has been making a dash at Angostura, the chief
principle article of the impious plans of that system, and before town in possession of the Patriots; and it appears equally
these horrors were sanctioned, the freedom of conscience and of
certain that, after pursuing the army of Bolivan, without
worship were seen practised among you.”—[This alludes to the
time when the Patriots were in possession of Caracas.] being able to bring them to action, he was obliged, in
Our illustrious countryman Benth AM has been compli consequence of measures they had taken to strip the coun
mented by the Popish Authorities with having his work try of supplies, to retreat. Now the accounts agree in
on Legislation put into the list of prohibited books. In stating that a battle had taken place between him and
the same list are the most celebrated and popular ethical Parz, an Independent Commander, but the result is stated
writers of all countries, including Lockr, the Spectator, differently. Indeed, no official intelligence of the battle has
&c. At the same time, the Quarterly Review has been been received. In the mean time, the English Volunteers
adulating him with it's abuse. Mr. Southey, now the were arriving in considerable numbers at theisland of Mar
Holy Altar War is over, professes great horror for the garita; and an expedition, chiefly composed of them, was
Babylonian (what shall we call her) Lady under protec about to land on the coast in possession of the Royalists,
tion;–for such she has been for the last twenty years;– and perhaps to push on to the Royalist capital—the city
but we see they are good friends in private, and they ought of Caracas. This expedition is said to be about 3000
to be. By the way, this fancy for prohibiting books only men, a large body for that country, and more valuable
serves to stimulate the curiosity of speculative people; and from many of the men being our disbanded veterans. A
there are abundance of such now-a-days in Catholic letter from Port Spain, dated April 22, speaks of the pee
countries as well as Protestant. We have met with an ple as being delighted with the Representative Govem
accomplished Spanish Gentleman, who was one of a se ment established by the Patriots. No wonder either, aſter
cret society that continued to read foreign philosophical their long and sad experience of the Government of the
works, and bound themselves together by oaths not to let Spanish Viceroys—of the worst tools of the successive
it be whispered that they knew such a diabolical ſellow as despots in Europe. -

Hockr. People may say therefore on such occasions, Nothing has yet been heard of the expected attack on
with Dogberry in the play, “If a merry meeting may be Lima; but the official-assumption of the command of the
wished, God prohibit it.” - - Chilian fleet by Lord Cochrane has been ascertained by
“The report,” says the Chronicle, “that the Emperor an account in the American Papers, of a sort of dispute
Alexander is assembling an immense body of troops in between his Lordship and the Captain of a frigate he
the vicinity of St. Petersburgh, gains ground, and gives longing to the United Stases, about the etiquette of salut
rise to serious alarm. It is said to be for the mere pur ing on entering the port of Valparaiso. The American
pose of a Grand Review, and that he has invited the Duke Editors, with their characteristic gasconade, trumped up a
of Wellix GroN to be be present at it—but it cannot be story about an attempt of Lord Cochnas a forcibly to
believed, that for the mere object of a holiday parade, he hinder the departure of the American, who nevertheless
would, in the present state of his Finances, incur the passed out of the harbour in such bold style, that the ships
expence of marching his numerous armies from their dis (manned partly by English sailors) dared not molest him!
tant quarters—and therefore it breeds a suspicion, that the The official correspondence between the Noble Lord and
rumours respeeting his design on Sweden are not un this Captain shows, what indeed we must have believed
founded.” This suspicion will be corroborated by ac without it, that this is all a fabication. * * *
. . -
counts from Stockholm, dated the 24th of May, which -

state that the regiments destined to form the camp at The conduct of Ministers with respect to finance cer.
Scania are on their route thither. A further account re tainly presents a remarkable picture of inconsisteney ahd
ports BERNApotte also as having set out for the same irresolution. When they find their own plans will serve
place himself. At this juncture, a letter has been sent them no longer, they appoint a Committee, who recom
to the Courier by the deposed King of Sweden, in mend, as the result of their own invention or at least con
which his Majesty, strangely enough laying open his struction, some measure that the Opposition have been
family affairs, and for no public purpose that is discover urging for many years, a little modified (often for the
able, not only complains of his divorced Queen, for keep worse) to give it an air of originality. The Ministerial
ing their son under her jurisdiction, in violation of the pe orators then praise the wisdom and industry of the Com
riod limited by agreement, but seems to complain also of mittee, the plan is gravely adopted, and Ministers receive
the Emperor Alexander for knowing more about the congratulations on their liberality. Some of them are
matter than himself, and interesting himself without his candid and sensible enough to confess their change of ºpi
knowledge in the young man's prospects. This latter cir nion, as Mr. Peel did; but Lord CastleReagh, who
cumstance serves at least as a commentary on the suspi has all the blundering characteristics of his countrymen
 THE EXAMINER: __379
without any of their fºnikness, always makes some-half of ignorance, they would have had good ground for ani
witted attempt to repel the dreaded charge of being com madversion ; but where is the breach of faith in avowing
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verted to Opposition principles, and generally gommits the truth on this occasion ? The ſundholders derived no
some egregious and palpable mistake—“caught in the real security, but rather the contrary, on account of its ex
web of his own sophistry.” * -
pence, from this delusion; and if it is bad faith to unde
Of the new taxes and their aristocratical principle we ceive them, it would have been good faith to have con
thvéspoken in another part of this paper. One curious tinued the mystery till they ſound it out, which they could
matter in the debate qn the proposition was the cant not fail to do in a very short time, even supposing they
about the Sinking Fund. This very completely illustrates did not know it before.—This is not a politic course for
our preceding remarks. When Mr. Gnenfell made a the Whigs: it tends to make their opposition to really in
motion the other night respecting the appropriation of this jurious and oppressive measures appear to be only the re
fund to make up the annual deficiencies, and clearly showed sult of a regular sytem of hostility to Government, and to
that a considerable sum would be saved from the cormo confound all distinctions and degrees. -

rant loan-contractors by so applying it, his arguments were It appears from the Budget, that there is a surplus o
met by some assertions of the Chaxcellor's about the income over expenditure of two millions, which is to be
great use of the Sinking Fund in keeping the market devoted, along with the three millions to be raised by the
steady, &c. Now, whether they have really changed their new taxes, to the establishment of a real Sinking Fund
plans, or whether they wanted to have the credit of being for the reduction of the debt. But in the first place, will
the originators of this idea, or whether they thought they three millions be raised? There is such a thing as winding
could net raise a loan large enough to keep up the ſarce mp the chord of taxation too much, and causing it to saap.
any longer, they come forward with their financial plans The present weight of taxes lias, in conjunction with other
for the year, in which no provision is made for the old causes, created a great deal of distress, and it becomes a
Sinking Fund, but they say that we must now have a question whether a fresh duty on a particular article will
“real and effective” find, which implies, that before we not so lessen its consumption as to render the sum raised
had only a mock one. This admission is good, as it will by it no greater or even less than before? The duties on
undeceive all the remaining believers in the virtue of a articles which are not common necessaries will very likely
borrowed Sinking Fund; but we do not think with Mr. be thus affected.—Next, supposing the new taxes to be as
Ricanno, that the confession is an “honest” one: it is productive as they are calculated to be, is it conformable
either the result of an inability to borrow the money neces to the acknowledged principles of political economy to take
sary for its support, or of a conviction of the ridicule that large sums of money from a distressed neople, and to lay
would follow an attempt to delude still longer by such a them by, the nation obtaining no more than the interest,
well-understood artifice. Lord CAST), eRRAgn, however, while they might be leſt in the pocket of the subject, there
rather than admit a change of opinion, gives an account of to accumulate by the natural and rapid means of trade,
the reasons for giving up the old fund different from that &c And would he not be a more efficient tax-payer in
of his financial colleague. He makes out that it was a a few years, in case of emergency? Is not, in short, the
matter of justice to put a stop to the too rapid growth of prosperous condition of a people a greater resource than
his darling. “But what,” he asks with all imaginable the possession of a few millions of capital?
simplicity, “would be the result of allowing the Sinking There is another statement of Mr. WANsittant's, which
Fund to go unmolested? It would be destructive to the doubtless gives great consolation to Lord CastlemeAgiſ.
property of the country. There must be a period when a as he may be assured that the pew “real and effective”
stop is to be put to the accumulation of this Fund.” Here Sinking Fund will not make any of the alarming advances
the Noble Lord arrives at the highest point of his absur of the old one for at least two years. Our readers know
dity, and he may now look back upon his progressive ad that the Bank Committee recommended the re-payment to
vances at his leisure, from the time when he first sported the Bank of 10 millions of the money they had lent to
the elegant phrases of “ſundamental features,” &c., and Goverment. Half this sum is to be paid this year and
talked of certain people “turning their backs upon them half the next; and this is partly the cause of the present
selves,” to the present moment, when he turns his back loan, and will render another of four millions at the lowest
upon his forlorn friend, the Chancellon of the Exche necessary next year. The loan of this year exceeds the
Quea, and affects to have felt alarm at the amazing re money paid off therefore by three millions, as the new
duction of the debt by a fund composed of borrowed taxes will not operate before 1820; and as we shall not,
money, by which that debt was increased in the same or a even according to the calculation of the Chancellon, pay
rather greater proportion than it was paid off. off more than one million next year, the real Sinking
One of the great defects of the Opposition is, that they Fund will not attack the debt for two years to eome.
seem to have resolved to oppose every thing that comes The Foreign Enlistment Bill went through a Com
from the other side of the House. As if there was not mittee, in spite of the “splendid impediment,” as Mr.
enough to condemn in the plans of Ministers, they find CANNING called it, thrown it its way by Sir JAMEs Mack
fault with what is not at all objectionable. For instance, 1NTosh, and the strong opposition from some of the cle
Mr. Tierney and others call the abandonment of this verest men in the House. The question lies in a small
Sinking Fund a great “breach of faith to the public cre compass. It is this;–Is it or is not neutrality to interfere
ditor,” because the inviolability of the fund was guaran on behalf of Feadinand to prevent the succour to the
teed at differeſt times by Mr. Prtt and Lord Sipstourn. Patriots which the admiration of the cause produces from
Had they attacked that guarantee as a deception or a piece individuals in England, the State remaining neutraj? And
 380 the ExAMINER. ~s
is not the King of Spain the very last person in whose theThe Loan.—Wednesday morning the contractors for
loan waited on the Chascellor of the Exchequen,
favour we ought to interfere?—But nobody mistakes the and the FIRst Lord of the TREAsury, to deliver their
meaning of this legitimate attempt, or is deceived by proposals. The sealed proposals of each contractor were
the Ministerial cant about preferring honour to interest.— opened. It had been proposed, that for every 100l.
Great good has arisen however from the discussion of the subscribed in money, 80l. were to be given in Congols,
matter, and we congratulate all the best feelings of our and the party willing to accept of the smallest sum besides
countrymen and the world at large, on the notice taken by in 3 per cent. reduced, of course obtained the contraet.
Sir JAMEs M.AckINTosh in Parliament of FERDINAND the The following are the sums named by each contractor:
Mr. Rothschild ºf 62 18 8
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Seventh, a creature whom he justly designates as too Messrs. Rica Roo - - 65 2 6 -

contemptible for the very expression of contempt. He is Messrs. Reid and Inving 65 10- 0. -

beneath, not notice indeed (unfortunately), but beneath The loan, therefore, is taken by Mr. Rotrisciitin—
obloquy itself. The lowest fathom-line epithet cannot Mr. Ricardo expressed a desire to learn from the Ciian
reach him. Such notice as that of Sir JAMEs cannot but cellor of the Exchequer the manner in which Exche
have effect. The poor reptile will shake and endeavour to quer-bills are to be received in payment of the installments
hide him in his mud, at the very thrill of this free breath of the loan. ...The Chancellor replied, that the Exche
running over the waters.
+ +
º
j.
itself, with the premium of 20s., and the interest
ue upon it, would be taken as so much money. Thus a
person wishing to pay an instalment amounting to 1,000l.,
The following is an extract from the letter of a friend and taking with him an Exchequer-bill for 500l., on which
in Paris. It will, give our readers, we believe, a pretty a year's interest was due, would deliver his bill as 520,
good account of the state of parties there:– and pay 480l. in money. The bonus on Mr. Rothschilp's
“The state of political feeling in this country appears to be contract is 11. 3s. 3d, or nearly 1% per cent., estimating the
auch the same as it was last year. The Ultra Royalists are funds at the concluding price of Tuesday, when Consols
weak in point of numbers; are furious at the disappointment of
their hopes; and are ready to involve the country in a civil war, for the account were 70%, and Reduced 694.
rather than not endeavour to restore the old regime. The oppo On Thursday, a ballot was taken at the India-house
wite party, the Republicans, is not, perhaps, more numerous than for the determination of the following question, viz.:- .
the Ultras; but it comprises much more talent and information. That the sum of 60,000l. be granted, to be applied to the
The military and the lower classes are still, I imagine, attached benefit of the Marquis of Hastings, subject to the confir
to Bonaparte; but I do not think that he is mentioned by them mation of ...'. Court. The numbers were
so frequently, or with so much enthusiasm, as he was last year.
The most numerous party, by far, consists of those men who are For the question, 414.—Against it, 191.-Mjority,313.
friends to Monarchy, and the Charter; but you must not 'rom —Our readers saw last week that this same India Com
this suppose, that they are generally contented with the present pany rejected the claims of Mr. Witkinson, whose tas
order of things. Every friend to the Charter interprets it in his we have before stated, by a large majority. Should a
own way. A few think that, according to the Charter, the power single farthing for any purpose of this sort have been
of the King, and the privileges of the Nobles, may and should voted before they had satisfied so just a claim as that of
be restored nearly to the same state as before the revolution :
others maintain that Government has, at this moment, its proper Mr. W. 3 But perhaps the truth is this ;-that the system
degree of influence; and others again think that the spirit of the of mis-governument in India has injured so many persons,
Charter requires that more power should be given to the people, that they are afraid to begin giving compensation, not
and that many existing abuses should be remedied. This party knowing where it would stop !
is, I believe, by far the most mumerous in the nation at large, General Savany, Duke of Rovigo, arrived in the river,
though not so in the Chamber of Deputies. I am convinced that
if the Charter was construed according to their interpretation of off Gravesend, a few days ago, on board a merchant ship,
its provisions, and the influence of the Ministers diminished in from Smyrna, which place he was obliged to quit in eph
conformity to their views, the King would soon be no more sequence of a dispute he had with a French naval Lieu
than the Chief Magistrate of a Republic. The general feeling tenant of the name of La Florre. The ves-el in which
against the Aristocracy is so strong, that it seems to me in SAvARY arrived was immediately put under quarantine:
possible that they can ever regain their power of oppressing the and as it is necessary for the Captains of vessels to send ºn
eople. Three subjects lately have excited great interest : the
; relative to the Press; the retaining the Swiss troops; and shore the name of their foreign passengers, SAv any sent
an assumed name to the Alien-office, at Gravesºnd
the proposition for recalling all the persons banished up to the However, a day or two after a friend of his informed
last return of the Bourbons. With respect to the first, the law,
though not a good one in many respects, relieves the press from Lord Sidmouth of the circumstance. No communication
many restraints so which it was before subjected, and enables the can, of course, be had with the vessel for the present, on
Editors of the Journals to write with more freedom. With re account of the quarantine; but when that is taken off it
spect to the second, the absurd conduct of the Cour Royale, rela is the intention of Ministers to send him away again
tive to the observations of some writers who had animadverted Sunday paper. " * *

upon the marder of a Frenchman by a Swiss soldier, has excited. Advices from the Cape of Good Hope to the 27th of
muuch discussion ; and certainly the nation at large view the pre
sence of these foreign troops with great jealousy, and are desirous March were received on Friday morning. The Cup.
of having then dismissed. With respect to the last, M. De Serre Town Gazette of the 13th contains a proclamation of mar:
has lost all the popularity which he had acquired by liberal tial law in those districts where the rebellious Caffe wer"
speeches upon the law relative to the Press, by his foolish de then carrying on their depredations. It appears, however,
ciºration that the Regicides should never be permitted to return. that a speedy prospect existed of these marauders being re
Notwithstanding this declaration, and the rejection of the peti duced to submission, or driven across the frontiers.
tions for the recal of the exiles, Soult, Piré, who took the Duc
d'Angoulewie prisoner, and others, have silice been recalled; and By letters received from New York, it appears that up
I see by one of the papers that even some of the Regicides wards of forty houses in the cotton line failed in the cour*
are, in an underhand mainer, permitted to return. The King's of seven days; and the greatest distress prevailed through
health is, I believe, much improved; but even in the event of his out all the great towns in America. -

death, I do not imagine that any disturbance would take place; New Law ARRANGEMENTs —Sir S. Suspiisºn tº
for I have been told, and believe, that Monsieur desired Des
from the office of Attorney-General, and is tº be
solles and De Cazes to contradict the reports of his intenuon to Baron of Scotland.--The Solicitor-General, Sir R. ºr
º
restore the old regime; and that he declared to them his deter romp, is to be Attorney-General, Serjea ut Coriº, Seli
mination, if he came to the throne, to adhere to the Charter, and
to make no changes. T. B. M.” citor-General.--Courier.
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DRURy-LAN.e. Theatre.-On Saturday week, a meet Ron ERT BURNs.—A Public Festival in commemora
ing of the Proprietors of this theatre took place in the sa tion of Robert Burns, and to promote a subscription to
loon. It appeared, from the financial documents, that the erect a National Monument to his memory at Edinburgh,
expenditure of the season, up to the 25th of May, had ex was celebrated in the Freemason's Tavern on Saturday
eeeded the income by 1,297l.; and that the debt of last week. The Chair was filled by the Duke of Sussex, who
year ($4,800l.), was now increased to 90,000l. One was supported by Sir J. Mackis rosti, Sir F. Bundery,’
&c.—Mr. Robert BURNs, the son
reat cause of this increase was the law expenses incurred Mr. Throw as Moore,
[. the proceedings of the new renters and bond-holders.
In the course of the discussion, Mr. S. Krxible stated,
of the poet, was one of the speakers.-The Treasurer an
nounced, before the Meeting broke up, that the subscrip
that he was authorized by Mr. Kean to make a proposi tion of that day amounted to 256!, and the total to 1076!.
tion to the meeting. That gentleman was willing to give Parson Fees.—The following is a list of the fees taken
a rent of 8,000l. a year for the Theatre, undertaking to from every prisoner discharged from the Marshalsea and
make the stage smaller, and to bring forward the boxes, Palace Court Prisons, as regulated in the year 1765, by ~
so that the audience night hear and see better—The do an Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. The system
cuments were referred to a Committee, and the following of ſees is in all cases sufficiently scandalous and corrupting,
Resolution was carried unanimously :—“That a volun but when it presses upon those miserable persons, who are
tary subscription should be entered into by the Share in confinement expressly because destitute of the means of
holders for the payment of the contract debts, upon se paying their debts, and who are ſequently also in want
eurity being given that the New Renters, Bond-holders even ºf the necessaries of life, it is a cruel mockery of
and Proprietors should receive no dividend until the justice:— . -

principal and interest of this subscription were paid.” To the Knight Marshal on the discharge of each
0 1 a
Paice of Worship.–“ On entering the Chapel Royal, ToPrisoner - - -

the Keeper, (for safe custody) on ditto --

- -

0 4 8
St. James's,” says a Correspondent, “a few Sundays back, To the Chaplain - - - - 0 1 0
with no thought of paying, as if I was going into the To the Doctor and Apothecary - - 0 1 0.
Shilling Gallery, the Door Opener said, “Sir, strangers To the Turnkey - - - - 0 1 6
pay a shilling here.” Now, in all other places of English To the Clerk for entering his discharge - 0 1 0.
worship, strangers are admitted gratuitously. Is the prac
tice, differest here, in order that the poor, who cannot *O 10 10
afford admittance money, may not be suffered to worship count AND FASHIONABLES.
Gop in company with &º. or is it that the sight of -
-

Nobility and Royalty is considered too great a treat for -

The Duchess of Cumberland was delivered of a male

common eyes to º for nothing, upon a sómewhat si child at Berlin on the 27th ult. The Duchess and her
milar idea that King JAMrs I. entertained, that scratching infant are doing well. - -

was too great a pleasure for subjects to enjoy. I was well Chancery
A Ministerial Paper states a rumour, that a
remunerated however on a former Sundav for my pay, Barrister, just returned from the Conlinent, has brought
by the novelty of remark in a Royal Chapel Preacher, who with him such incontestible evidence of the improper con
was bent down by age, but had made no advances to dict of an Illustrious Personage, as to make it likely that'
wards even a Deanery. Speaking of the inequalities of
*ondition in life, he said that “the King of Kings would it will become the subject of a legislative proceeding.—
And the Editor states this as the probable cause of the
have a fresh distribution of honours hereafter.” By rather invitations to Carlton House, of some of the most dis
a singular coughing which ensued, I perceived that this tinguished Members of Opposition. Whatever authority
sinost choaked the Courtiers, though it amused your the Editor of the Ministerial Paper may have for the inten
Constant Reader, Civis.”
Awful CLERicar. Thn EAT 1–" The Archdeacon of tion of bringing the conduct of the High Individual
will hold a visitation at — on the 15th in alluded to into discussion in Parliament, we can safely as
to Carlton House, there was
stant.”—(Country paper.)—It is not added whether the sert, that for the invitations allusion,
Coroner will be in attendance or not, but our respect for no political motive; and no either at the previous
interview or at the dinner, was made to any such purpose.--
the character of that officer will not allow us to inagine Chronicle—We dnesday.
that he would be absent on so pressing an emergency. It
being a novel case, great doubts are entertained whether a w

the verdict of the Jury on the bodies of those unfortunate THEATRICAL EXAM 1 NER.
persons, on whom the threat will he executed, should be—
"Died from Eccessive Sermon,”, or—“Died from the
visitation of the Archdeacon.”—Mr. Chitty, it ap
DRuny-Lase closed on Tuesday night, and Cowent-
pears, has in vain searched for a precedent; and the result Garden ,
is looked for with equal anxiety by the learned in “Crow is in the course of its benefit-nights; and as
ner's quest law,” and the relations of the intended congre it is not the etiquette to criticise pieces performed on
gation. -
those occasions, we are, happy enough to waive the
Loan Churchiti...—A Correspondent, speaking of the privilege. We own very we have a liking for the smaller
heat of sum ver-time, there
late action against this paper, asks the following question: theatres even in the sociality
* Would not the evidence, upon which the Jury found for is such a feeling of about them; and we have
the Defendant on the third count, be sufficient to convict at all times an old regard for the painted atmosphere
Lord Churchill of Manslaughter? in other words, does and tin fountains of the stage; but mere inclination
would seldom or never lead us either to Covent-Garden or
not the verdict in effect convict him of Manslaughter?”
Eccentric VERDtcr—A Coroner's Jury having sat Drury-Lane, except when one of the old comedies was
oing forward; and in weather like this, our old friends,
lately on the body of a young lady, in Baltimore, America, the
who had hung herself in a fit of love frenzy, brought in ſeal-board ºtherialities and tin liquids, will excuse us
their verdict—Died by the visitation of Cupid—a reason if we preſer real fresh air, and brooks “warranted to go.”
able novelty. - * -- -
however
We are happy to see that there is
some ros
A letter has appeared ſrom Lord Byaos to the editor ect, at last, of Drury-Lane's getting into better condition.
of Galignani's W. (an English paper printed at }. would be monstrous if the town were reduced in winter
Paris), renouncing the (dis) credit of being the author of time to the grave common-place , and eternal repetitions of
4he ampyr. - - * - - -
Covent-Garden. such should ever be the ease,
Indeed, if
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we trust that the minor theatres would do their best to get hospitable, beloved Landlord as Sir Roger, and the milder
their privileges extended, and restore to the public the and more refined Spectator, Mr. Admisos, we doubt whe
chance, at least, of some decent winter novelties. How ther he could have painted them better, or given a finer
ever, Mr. KEAN, it seems, has made an offer to rent Drury contrast of dependance and protection; of gratitude and
Lane theatre, and take it under his management; and beneficence, of rusticity and genºlemanly manners, than
what is much better still, it is understood that it would his pencil has here afforded. How well is Sir Roger's
contract the size both of the stage and the house itself, so gaiety and goodness seen in his lively manner, and his no
that there would be such things again as audiences and tice of the young Widow, and the Boy whose head he
spectators, that is to say, people hearing and seeing; for lays his hand upon approvingly, and how equally well
hitherto they should rather be called listeners and blinkers. is the benevolent and delicate mind of his companion the
The improvement would be great and obvious. . At pre Spectator seen in his open countenance and softer move
ment. The young Widow bends, modestly before, Sir
sent the enormous size of the theatres tends to injure both.
- the drama and the performers; for the natural wish to be Roger, the old Fariner liſts up his hat respectfully, and his
seen and heard produces extravagant gestures and declama pretty innocent-faced Danghter is about to drop her best
tion; good actors are injured every way; noisy ones are curtsy. Mr. Wilkie, or any of the Dutch Painters, never
brought forward; and the managers, not being very wise better hit off mind and manner dian Mr. Leslie has in
or spirited perhaps at any time, and degenerating more the personal vanity of the Womam, who, bedizened in a
and more into mere tradesmen, do not think it “worth various coloured dress, so self-approvingly slicks a rose in
their while” to produce any dramas but such as are full of her bosom to make herself still finer, and appear capti
mere action and glare. Yet whenever nature appears on vating in the eye of Sir Roger. Her sun-burnt brawny
the stage, it is ſelf as far into the house as it can be; it has Husband, in a white frock, has as capital a vacancy of staye
a triumphant reign of ten benches and a third part of the and no-mindedness, as the highest bred Dandy-parader,
boxes. In the circuit, observe how Mr. KEAN's looks and in and about Bond-street and the Parks, could i. ambiti
tones are recognized. It is there, that the applause is ous of. A summer sunshine is spread over the figures,
loudest and that the tears are true. If the sensation ex church, and landscape, physically according with the mo
tends farther, it is because such of the spectators as have ral sunshiné and happiness, the * sunshine of the breast”
had the ſuck to be nearer to Mr. Kean formerly, endea which the picture displays. The Painter wants nothing
vour to supply by their imaginations whatever they can but more firmness and finish in his execution. This pic
catch at a distance, But if is now notorious to every ture of the felicity bestowed upon a tenantry, by the
body, that a great part of the house can neither see nor choice of a tastefuſand beneficent residence of an English
hear him to any purpose, especially when his voice is ex gentleman of property on his country grounds, is a silent
hausted, another consequence, by the way, of the space but significant censure on the tasteless and time-serving
which he has to fill with it. Now imagine Mr. Kean, on departers from the good old English practice of a long
a stage like that of the Haymarket or Lyceum, every tone country residence, and is one of the evils introduced by
audible, every look perceptible;—what a complete and the WALPolf, Pitt, and. PFRceval. system, to the rueful
noble effect! It is the best way in which he could do destruction of the ancient habits and happiness of the Bri
justice to his talents; and the only way, as we have often tish people. - - --

said, in which Drury-Lºne theatre can be saved from de 143, Lending a Bite, is beautifully executed, and the
struction. And unless we are very much mistaken, characters given to the life by Mr. MULREApy. That
Covent-Garden would be obliged to follow the example earnestness which is raised in children by “trifles light as
at no great distance of time; or the major, and minor air,” that momentary impulse of pleasure and concern
theatres would finally change characters and the . Doric
which gives to their feelings an interest so disproportioned
edifiee in Bow-street confined to melodrama and spec to the nature of the existing causes, is liere most entertain
tacle. ingly seen in the Boy who leans forward, with widely
*— --
opened mouth and voracious intest towards an apple held
up to his bite by his companion, whose alarm makes him.
irink back *: look bordering on horror at the grasp
FINE ARTs. ing and selfish attempt. This is another of those i.
which so successfully assists in shewing how equal our
ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. Artists are to the Dutch Masters in the painting of com
341, Sir Roger de Coverly going to Church, accompanied mon life character. -

by “the Spectator,” and surrounded by his Tenants. Mr. Instead of the numbers, we think it better to give alpha
Leslie's picture, lately exhibited in the British Gallery, betically the names of the Sculptors whom we consider
of Slender and sweet Ann Page, so conformable to the text the best. Next week we shall give the names of the
of ShakspeaRe, raised our hopes of future excellence in Artists, who have executed the Water Colour Drawings
its Painter, for we cquid not anticipate it with certainty, and Miniatures.—Sculptors :-Lady Bell, Messrs.
after the single, lucky, hits, followed by inanity, which BAILY, BrhNEs, Cn ANTREY, FLAxMAN, GARRARD, Hsr
have been witnessed in some Artists. But this picture FrrxAN, Joseph, Privsick, Rossi, Turnenell.1, West
more than corroborates those hopes; it turns them nearly, MAcott, WYATT. Medallists and Modellers:—Mills,
if not entirely, into assurance, and we shall look to Mr. Rouw, WARwick, Wyon.
łºis for fresh and continued supplies of pleasure to our A Correspondent, who has mistaken us, requests ex
selves, and of ſame to himself, in the Domestic Life de planation upon the following remark:—“We hear weak
partment of painting. To excite so universal and strong complaints about the number of Portraits in the Exhibi
a sensation as this picture does, is indeed an indubitable tion, which must be expected in a country rich as England
proof of the force and faithfulness with which he has is.” We meant these weak complaints to apply, not to
transferred to canvass the characters mentioned in No. 112
the patriotic animadverters on the administration of the
of the Spectator; for interwoven with our feelings and Itoyal Academy, but to the far more numerous and less
memory as they are by the reading from infancy of that intelligent complainers who, on every returning Exhibi
justly popular work, the pictured characters would have tion, affect a high feeling of regret at º: not beholding a
but a weak effect, did they fall short of the written ones, of greater display than ſhere is of talent in the higher ranks of
tli, so much read and understood. If our young Artist Art. We referred these malcontents to the many Artists
had lived all his life in the country, and with such a hearty, who present us a rich entertainment at every Exhibition.
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That it might be stiſ richer under another system, we cor- LA W. º
dially agree with our Correspondent...". - - --

• ***. * - COURT OF CHANCERY. , r*

-- - - Tuesday, June 3.
- POETRY. BLEN HEIM GOLD PLATE. . *
--
- THE JOVIAL PRIEST'S CONFESSION.
the EARL of shaftesbury AND Lord Robert speNcFR v. Taf
four-e of xi.Arlborough ANd Trio Mas trip hook. -

There is already an imitation by Mr. Huddesford of the Mr. SHApwell moved for injunctions to restrain the defend
following reverend piece of wit; and one of the passages ants from disposing of certain gold plate, bequeathed by the late
in it beats any thing in the present version. It is the be Duke of Marlborough as an heir-loom to the Blenheim estate,
ginning of the last stanza, - . . . . . . The plaintiffs are the trustees named in the will. The affidavit
- *}”. and ſºul." of the Earl of Shaftesbury stated, that finding, upon comparing
the plate at Blenheim with a list in possession of the trustees,
never could unfold 'em,
that the gold-plate was missing, he had made inquiries about it
Without a flagon of good wine, of the Duke, who only gave him evasive answers, and referred
- And a slice of cold ham. . him to his solicitor : by him he was told, by desire of his Grace,
The translation here offered to the reader is intended to that the Duke had borrowed 12 or 13,000l. on the plate, and
be a more literal picture of the original, and to retain more that it could not be obtained till that money was paid; that
ef, it's intermixture of a grave and churchman-like style. Thomas Triphook, stationer, managed the whole business
..We subjoin the original itself as a thing too good not to for the Duke; that the deponent had received a letter from
be repeated, and not common enough to be very easily Alderman Cox, of Little Britain, gold-refiner, apprising
found. It is preserved in the Remains of the learned him that some time before the plate had been brought to
him with the arms concealed by sealing wax, and offered for
Camden, who says in his usual pleasant way, that “Wal sale; but that he had, under such suspicicºs circumstances,
ter de Mapes, Archdeacon of Öxford, who in the time of refused to buy it.—This affidavit was followed by another from
King Henry the Second filled England with his merri Mr. John Home, clerk to Messrs. Foster and Ce., stating, that
ments, confessed his love to good liquor in this manner:”— part of the gold rate, with the arms concealed, had been offered
Mihiest propositum in tabernå mori, - to pawn by a person of the name of Wright to Mr. Parker,
Vinum sit appositum morientis ori: of Berners-street, who took Mr. Wright hefore a magistrate,
Ut dicant, citin venerint, Angelorum chori, where he was liberated at the request of a Mr. Guest, of Fleet
Deus sit propitius huic potatori. -
market, pawnbroker: that the plate had afterwards been pawned
with Mr. Guest for a sum amounting to about 920l., and had sub
Poculis accenditur animi lucerna, sequently been partly redeemed till the loan was reduced to 520t.
Cºr imbutum nectare volat ad superna. That Mr. Wright then applied to Mr. Guest, and upon a repre
Mihi sapit duleius vinum in taberna, sentation that the Duke's rents were come in, and the money was
Quàin quod aqua miscuit praesalis pincerna. ready to be paid, Mr. Guest was induced to part with the pledge,
Suum cuique proprium dat natura munos, still in his hand, and had not since received the whole of the
Ego nunquam potui scribere jejunus: money advanced. That Mr. Wright informed the deponent,
Me jejunum vincere posset puer unus. that he had received the plate from the defendant, Triphook;
Sitimetiejūmium, odi tanqūam funus. that Thomas Triphook admitted, that he had paid the 920t...re
Uni cuique proprium dat natura donum, ceived of Guest to the Duke; that on being told that the Duke
Ego versus faciens, vinum bibo bonum, stated that he directed him to bring the plate from Blenheim for
El quod habent melius dolia cauponum, the purpose of having the arms engraved on it, he positively.de
Tale vinum generat copiam sermonum, nied the truth of such statement, asserting that the same was
breught up for the express purpose of being pawned or sold;
Tales versus facio, quale vinum bibo, -
and that the Duke, in a previous conversation, suggested that
Nihiſ rossum scribere, nisi såmpto cibo, -
awnbrokers would be the best persons from whom to obtain a
Nitrii valet penitus, quod jejunus scribo, - - oan, and that if he could not raise money so, he would put it
Nasonem post calices carmine praeibo. into the crucible. - 4.

Mihi nunquam spiritus prophetiae datur, The Lond CHANcellor.—Take the injunctions.
Nisi tune cum fuerit, venter bene satur; *
COURT OF KING’S BENCH. --
Cum in arce cerebri Bacchus dominatur,
In me Phoebus irruit, ac miranda futur. Friday, June 12. t

I devise to end my days—in a tavern drinking, This being the first day of Trinity Term, the Judges came
Maysome Christian hold for me—the glass when I am shrinking; down in procession'to Westminster. ".

That the Cherubim inay cry, when they see me sinking,
God be ºverciful to a soul—of this gentleman's way of thinking.
A glass of wine amazingly—enlighteneth one's internals.
Tis wings reddened with nectar-that fly up to supernals.
Bottles cracked in taverns—have much the sweeter kernels,
Than the sups allowed to us--in the college journals.
Every one by nature hath—a mould which he was cast in :
! happen to be one of those—who never could write fasting;
By a single little boy—I should be surpass'd in
The Lorp Chief Justice said, that, during this term; the
Court would nºt take any of the cases in the special paper, or in
the Crown paper, except there might be any which were entered
only for delay. . On four days in each week, namely, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, the Court proposed to begin
each sitting will hearing motious for new trials; and, oil the
other two days, Monday and Thursday, they would proceed, for
an hour or two, with the peremptory paper. . .
In the case of Lord Churchill v. the Times, Mr. PLArt, on the
part of the defendant, moved for a rule to shew cause why the
-

Writing so; I'd just as lieſ–be buried, tomb'd, and grass'd in. costs incurred in this action should not be paid by the plaintiff,
Every one by nature bath—a gift too, a dotation. he having neglected to proceed to trial, pursuant to his notice.—
I, when I make verses, do get the inspiration. The rule was immediately granted. - - ...
-
--

9f the very best of wine—that comes into the nation.

It maketh sermons to abound—for edification. " . OLD BAILEY.

Just as liquor floweth good—floweth forth my lay so;
But I must moreover eat—or I could not say so ;
Sought it availeth inwardly—should I write all day so;
But with God's grace after meat—I beat Ovidius Naso.
Neither is there given to me—prophetic animation,
Unless when I have eat aud drank—yea, ev'n to saturation;
Then in my upper story—hath Bacchus domination,
And Phoebus rusheth into me, and beggareth all relation.
- -
[We could not find room last week to give any account of the
follºwing trial, on account of the length of our law report. Mr.
Mills has addressed a forcible letter to the Common Sergeant, in
which he asserts the right of every man to be heard in his own
cause, and demands to know.by º legislative Act that right
-, has been destroyed, since formerly, before Counsel were licensed
to plead, all prosecutors were compelled to appear personally.]
John Matthew Gutch, proprietor of Felir Farley's Bristol Journal,
was indicted for a libel on Mr. Mills, of Bristol. The alleged
HARRY Bhows. libel consisted in some observations on the result of a previous
384 THE EX AMINER.
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trial for a libel on the same person at Bristol, on which occasion steep track seemingly accessible only to shepherds. An aetire
Mr. Gºtch was acquitted, from the non-appearance of Mr. Mills. search commenced in that direction, and in a place called Clea.
Mr. Mûls wished to address the Jury as his own counsel ; but Gill, the little innocent was discovered with its head reclined on
was told by the Court, that could not be allowed, as a man could its arms. As not the most distant idea was entertained it could
ºnot be own counsel and a witness in the same cause, and that he survive 6 days and 5 nights of incessnn" bunger, and exposure on
could only be examined as a witness.-Mr. Mills then declared, these bleak mountains, it eccasioned no small consternatins
that he did not wich to give evidence; but the Common Sergeantamongst those who first discovered it, when on calling out “it
insisted that he should be sworn, and he was compelled to com was found +” it raised its head, and desired they would not hurt
ly.—At the close of his examination he put in a paper, contain it. . Its feet were partially covered with water, and much swollen.
ing the alleged libel. The Common Sergeant asked where it This was its only sustenance. It instantly recognized its father
came from. Mr. M. replied, from Bristol.—Wn. Moore was and the neighbours, and complained of 'hunger. Food being
called to prove that a cºpy of the paper containing the libel had sparingly administered, it was taken home, and is now running
been received at Peel's Coffee-house; but he did not appear. The about seemingly well.—Cumberland paper. - - -

defendant was then acquitted.—He was next indicted for a libel A Student of Vienna lately blew out his brains in a tavern st
in a paper of subsequent date. W. Moore proved that the paper Leopoldstadt. This yeung man arrived at Vienna, accompanied
alluded to had been received at Peel's, and filed, but could not by an intimate friend; and fell in love with a young lady, who
say that it came from the printer or pnblisher of the Bristol also engaged the affections v.f his friend. A challenge ensued,
Journal. The Court held that this evidence was not legal proof but each felt a repugnance to take the Hfe of the oth It was
of a publication by the defendant in London, and he was again therefore agreed to decide the affair by a party at piquet, on an
acquitted. - -

-
undertaking that he who lost should tow out his brains. The
- game was played, and the loser, a youth of 19, instantly shot
POLICE. . himself through the head.
-
- ' Guildnatt. -
BiRTHS.
. Iron CorriNs.—A short time since, Mr. Clare, the Rector of On the 4th inst., at Guernsey, the Lady of Lieut.-Colonel
St. Andrew's, Holborn, refused to inter a corpse in an iron Carey, of the 57th regiment, of a daughter.
eoſfin : proceedings were instituted against him in the Eccle On Wednesday last, Mrs. F. Thornhill, of a son,
siastical Court; but by his sudden death, the suit was abated. ſºmeºple,on the 6th instant, Lady Katherine Halkett,
The cºrpse, which was that of Mrs. Gilbert, the wife of a re or a son. - - -

spectable inhabitant of that parish, has remained above ground - MARRIAGES. *

for nearly three months: the husband, apprehending no further
At Dover, bn the 7th inst., by the Rev. T. Morris, John Henry
opposition, the Rector being dead, gave directions to Mr. Bridg Latham,
man, the patentee of the iron coffins, to prepare for the funeral. Broderip, Esq., to Harriet Stringer, only daughter of Edward
Esq., M.D. . .
On Wednesday, Mr. Bridgman sent notice to the churchwarden, On the 4th inst., at St. James's Church, the Rev. James Gib
-

&c. of his intention to bury the body the next davi reply was son, Rector of Worlington, Suffolk, and late Fellow of Wadham
made, that if the body were brought in an iron coffin, it would College, Oxford, to Mary Elizabeth, second daughter of John
not be permitted to be interred. Notwithstanding this determi Phillips, Esq., of ºl. -

nation, the funeral proceeded to St. Andrew's burying-ground,

in Gray's-inn-lane, on Thur-day. On their arrival, the gates On the 8th inst. Mr. Joseph Kirkland, of Coventry, to Miss
were shut against them, and alj admission º the sexton Penelope Pratt, of Banbury. •
On the 3d inst. Capt. ºund Tuberville, of the Royal Navy,
mnd his assistants: the body was then taken to St. Andrew's to Mary, only daughter of John Westcar, of Creslow, Iſaqks. --
church, Holborn, and the gates being open, the procession * Monday, Chandos Leigh, Esq. only son of J. H. Leigh, : M.P.
entered with an immense crowd; the Minister, however, was not of Stoneleigh
there, and the sexton, insisted apon the ºbeing taken away;
*'.
Warwick, to Miss Willes, eldest dayghter ºf
the bearers deposited the coffin upon oue of the tombstones, wear the Rev. W. S. Willes, of Astropiſatise, Northamptonmºute.
the front door ºf the church. The sexton, it being then nearly - *** - * * **** --DEATHS. - -

mine at night, sent for the churchwarden, vexit , and On Tuesday evº, in Harley-street, of an attack of apc
others, who, after insisting upon Mr. Bridgman's removing the
plexy, George
body, gave charge of him to the officers of the night, by whom
§.
Esq., of Bürford Lºdge, Surrey. '
Suddenly, on Saturday week, in a fit of apoplexy, Thomas H.
he was taken to the Compter... The body remained in the | Robinson, Esq. of baker-street, Portman-square, ared 27.
churchyard alſ might, and the case came on here on Friday.—Sir On Thursday last, in Portugal-street, John Stration, Esq. of
W. Domville said, he had no authority to direct a nuisance to Farthingboe Loklge, Northamptonshire. His death was occa
be removed, but strongly recommended that the corpse should sioned by an effusion of blood on the brain. -

be taken away for the sake of peace. With regard to Mr. Bridg On Friday last, of an apoplectic seizure, the Rev. Thorns"
mºl, an assault had been proved against him, and he should George Clare, Rector of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and of Wal
therefore hold him to bail for that offence.—Mr. Bridgman imme mer, Kent. - - -

diately gave bail. The corpse has been removed by the parish At Sidmouth; on the 5th insk, Colonel Garbett Walsham, cf.
officers to the bone-house of St. Andrew's. -
Keill Court, in the county of Hereford, aged 48. - -

Lately, at Dublin, Lieutenant-General Barton, aged 59, thirty

nine years of which he served in the 2d. Regimeut of L.
ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. Guards. - -

-
On the 10th inst., Mary, the wife of Mr. George Killick,
on Saturday week, two young Welchmen, Stephen Jones and Blacklands-lane. Brompton.
Enoch Davis, quarrelled about a girl in the Kent-rond; they At her residence, at Dalston, June 10, after a lingeringillness,
K.".
then arreed it out, and adjourned to a field near the aged 30. Mrs. Selby, widow of the late Mr. Selby, of the Bank ºf
º where, after fighting desperately for upwards
of two hours, Davis was killed, and Jones was carried to St.
England.
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at Tewkesbury, in distressed circumstanees, Mr.

George's watch-house, in a dreadful state, and aſterwards to St.
Thomas's hospital. Davis was only 23 years of age, and Jones
is only 19.-The Coroner's Jury, who sat on the body of Davis,
returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Jones, and two other
labouring men, who seconded the combatants, and were prove
to have urged them on with a ferocious eagerness.
Thomas Morgan, long known in the gaming circles at Brighton
and other fashionable places. Previous to his death he ...
ed all his gambling apparatus to be brought to him, and burnt
in his presence, observing, that ns they had been the ruin. of
himself, he would preveut their being the means of injuring any
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twº-day, the 18th ult... a little girl, ſour years of age, accompa
nied tº nºther to the foot of Great Banna Fell, and rumbled to
ºute adjoining reat pots, where some of the neighbours were at
work. The nºther, not seeing the child, imagined one of the
neighbour. had take n it home. This not proving the case, an
Lately, in the 75th year of her nge, Mrs. Flavel, wife, ºf
Thomas Flavel, of Loughborough. After ten, feeting herself a
little unwell, she took a walk in the Church-yard; but finding
her indisposition increase, she was retaruing home agaki, whes
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inroediate search commenced, which was cºntinued through the

ſonr following day-, on. Sunday, some persons extended their Printed and published by Jonn, Hºnºr, at the Examinºr-ower,
search as far as Foulwern Tarn, and observed a clog-mark in a . . . 19, Cºllierine-Street, Strºud.-Price 10d.
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No. 599. SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1819.

THE POLITICAL EXAMINER. and the revenue; and the people are to be presumed safe
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. - Pope, from the new duty on wool, because they have not means
enough without getting in debt to put on a decent coat on
- No. 584. Sundays. A blessed finger-cutting logic!
r. No But the fact is, as these logicians would tell you private
* - THE NEw TAxes. ly, taxes are made purposely to fall on the poorer classes;
** and for two reasons;–first, because the poor cannot so
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easily dispense with the articles taxed as the rich;-and
Swce we wrote our last article on this subject, we have second, because they are not Boroughmongers, and their
met with nothing in the newspapers that at all serves to votes are of no consequence.
confute any part of it. The main fact, in particular, of the Both these reasons go hand in hand. If the Ministers
tendency of these new taxes to press upon the poorer were not afraid of the rich,--if the rich themselves, who
classes, remains undisproved. Indeed the supposed organ legislate, and who threw out the tax on property because
of Government, the Courier, seems on the present occa it really came home to them, were resolved not to tax their
sion to avoid puffing as much as possible, conscious that own pockets, there are many articles of almost exclusive
the best music it can make must be discordant. It calls to consumption among them, from which money might be
mind the text in scripture,`-"We have piped to ye, and raised. For instance, there is scarcely a house perhaps
ye have not danced.” at the west end of the town, tradesmens' houses not ex
It is only the usual ministerial pretence, on this as on cepted, where a piano-forte is not to be found. Why
all other occasions, that the taxes do not press on the lower then not tax musical instruments? We should be sorry
orders; which is as much as saying, that the poor do not to see obstacles thrown in the way of any elegant enjoy
drink spirits, beer, or tea, or smoke tobacco; while on the ment; but how many families are there, not trading, who
other hand, the rich are seen exclusively with pots of por would give up their piano-ſortes for a tax * Not a dozen :
ter in their hands, and pipes in their mouths; or if not ex and if there were, with all our love of music, we would
clusively with pots of porter, at least with cups of tea and rather that the poor should have enough left them to eat
glasses of gin. Let us repeat the pleasing list. There is and drink, than that the rich and others should be exempt
Anaw Consolidation of the Customs, including 200,000l. from paying for their luxuries. There is printed music,
of increased duty on Foreign Wool 4500,000 too, upon which the regular music-sellers get an enormous
A Tax on British Spirits, near -. - 500,000 profit, charging a price which is quite absurd in propor:
A Tax on Pepper, near - - - - 100,000 tion to any other species of printing. Why not tax prºuted
A Tax on Coffee and Cocoa - - 120,000 music? Then again picture-frames;-why not tax them?
' A Tax on Mult - - - - 1,400,000 Why not tax also chandeliers, wax-candles, marble, plate
-A Tax on Tobacco - - - - 500,000 glass, the exclusive possession of game, grounds of cer
A Tax on Tea - - - - 130,000 tain dimensions and uses, houses of certain dimensions
Of these, the tax on Malt is the only thing that might be and uses, civic idleness or the being of no profession,
supposed to fall on the poorer classes; and then those ermined robes, diamonds, titles, &c. &c.? The taxation
göbd Samaritans the Brewers are to intercept the blows, of many of these things would not even obliquely touch
and take them upon their persons ! But British Spirits, the poor. Imagine the crop from a good head of dia
Pepper, Tea, Coffee and Cocoa, and Tobacco, the taxes monds,-Lady CastleReagh's for instance. Imagine
on all these are to fall upon the rich And how so? the noble loungers made to pay for their eternal gºping.
Have the poor, then nothing to do with such articles? Imagine the multitudes of game becoming at last worth
Observe the dilemma. According to the objectors to these something to the poor, to whom at present they are
taxes, they almost all fall upon the poer. According to a continual temptation, provocative, and spectacle of in
the Cºurier, Malt only might fall; so that if we are to justice. -

believe this Government organ, a poor Englishman has
no longer anything to do with a coat to his back, pepper
to his turnips, a cup of tea for his afternoon, a pipe of to
kacco to bis mouth, a pinch of snuff to keep him awake to
his laboºſt, or even a glass of gin to stay his hungry sto
mash 4 Our old friends the washerwomen (with whom
Mr. Giffard was so afraid of being supposed to have
had any acquaintanee) no longer take- their favourite
beverage on tubs turned upside down; you never see
people smoking at alehouses, or barrow-women taking a
pinch, of snuff; thousands do not resort to gin, any more
than the latter, for the benefit of starvation, good morals,
But no! The feasters and dancers by waxlight, the
supercilious steppers up marble stair-cases, the exclusive
possessors of game, who kill a half-starved poacher, the
dwellers in princely houses presenting you with landscapes
in their plate-glass-windows as you go, -the loungers,
the ermined robe-wearers, the sparklers in superflnity.
wedded to their diamond-snuffboxes and diamond-headed
dames, these are the makers of taxes and the sellers of
seats, and how are they to be expected to bear burdens
in common with the sore and bent-down shoulders of the
middle and lower orders ?
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SIR WILLIAM
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REPRESENTATION:------ the ruinous career of Ministers, their extravagant, estab:
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lishments and wanton violations of our dearest rights.”

The strange termination of the late Election Proceed This language was plain; manly, and decided; the Indº-E
ings at Taunton has occasioned a good deal of conversa pendents of Taunton took the Baronet at his word, for
tion; and some surprise has been expressed, that the lonest men are not suspeious, and the liberal of all deno-. 3.
person who had obtained a majority of votes and had been minations were soonin full action to ensure the triumph of
returned as duly elected, should have quietly surrendered their principles. . . . .
his seat to the opposing and beaten Candidate. Juggling And they did triumph. Notwithstanding all the worth
in politics; unfortunately for the character of Englishmen, less arts of the Tories—their “political property,’’ their
has long been too common in this country, owing chiefly threats, their cajolings, their slanders, their denunciations,
to our wretched system of Representation: it therefore fails their purse and their power, Mr. Colliss last the elec
to excite a due disgust: yet when a very grave case of tion by a majority of five; and this majority, would have
imposition occurs, it may not be without its uses to direct been increased, but for theimerference of the Legal Agent
the º: eye to a view behind the curtain, that the of the Tories, who remarked that the business might as
Tricksters may be unmasked, and exposed, for the double well terminate, for a majority of five was as good as one
purpose of warning and correction. of five hundred. Sir W.M. Bus Roughs was therefore de
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Almost every housekeeper within the Borough of Taun clared duly elected, and took his seat as one of the Repre
ton possesses a vote. . It returns two Members to Parlia sentatives of Taunton.—The beaten party, nevertheless,
ment. In the last, Mr. BARING, the eminent merchant, soon began talking of an opposition to the return, and a
and Mr. Collins, the brother-in-law of Sir Thomas petition for that object was prepared; but, confident in
Lethbridge, were the Representatives; the former was their strength, and relying on the fairness of their conduct,
elected by the Independent, and the latter by the Aristo the Independents thought this proceeding was merely an
eratic Interest. Sir Thomas Lethbridge (of hair-stand idle resource of the faction for keeping up for a time their
ing and fugitive memory) possesses what he emphatically drooping spirits. What was therefore their surprize and
terms “ P. property” in Taunton: that is, he is the indignation when they subsequently found that Mr. Col:
owner of a number of houses in the borough; and he is tiss's petition had not been oppºsed, and that he, had
never, we believe, very delicate in his exertions to induse consequently been declared # the House the sitting Mem-.
his tenants to vote:according to his wishes. It is quite ber —Thus the vanquished ecame the victor; and those
easy to imagine the many ways which a wealthy i in who had disinterestedly exerted themselves for the general
tolerant landlºrd may employ to compel obedience. No good now found themselves not only defeated in their
tices to quit, distresses for rent, threats of employing others great object, but absolutely given up, as it were, into the
as tradesmen, &c. are a few of the most common and the ...y, hands from which they had so well struggled to get
most successful: for such unhappily is the dependant con free *"

dition into which misgovernment has brought the popula ... To have been defeated openly in the conflict, -to have
tion, that even housekeepers, instead of being able to vote witnessed the triumph of men, who were greedy of power
according to their honest convictions, are too often induced, merely that they might gratify their own paltry ends,
from fear on the one hand and poverty on the other, to would have been sufficiently mortifying: but after an
become the tools of men, whom, under other circumstances, anxious, laborious, and º contest, to find them
they would spurn from them with contempt. selves duped out of their right of choice, was a blºw
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At , the late Election, the Independênt Party were which they could not at first but most deeply feeſ; and if
roused to increased exertions, in the hope of being able to the name of Buenoughs is now hardly ever mentioned in
return two Members, who would aid each other, in the Taunton unaccompanied by epithels of disgust or con
good-wºrk of economy and reform, and thus make the tempt, Sir W.M. must thank himself only for this sudden
voice of Taunton powerful in the Legislature, instead of change in the generaſ sentiment.
its being, divided and consequently inefficient. They That there has been foul play, is the universal opinion;
thought that, however strong their opponents might be in and indeed there appears but little doubt of the fact. When
the means of corruption and terror, sićh had been the suf. the petition of Mr. Colliss was first agitated, Sir W.M.
ferings of the nation from foreign war and domestic mis Buñaouails treated it, or affected to treat it, with infinite
rule, and such the disgust engendered by a long course of scorn. In his Address to the Electors of Dec. 31, so far
ſº waste and insolent domination, that a new spirit from expressing .*. of a successful result, he con
ad bean created, and a conviction-had, arisen of the vital fidently assures them, “from the best information,” that a *

necessity, of a change, which would be strong enough to strict scrutiny of all the votes would add greatly to their
meet-and, beat down all the forces of their opponents. triumph and to his majority; and after, even threatening
Their leaders therefore urged them to resist the pretensions his opponents with the inflictions of the law for their mis:
of Mr. Colºss (who was neither more nor less than the deeds, he informs his friends, that when the day of trial
agent of the Tory faction) and by sending into Parliament came, they might rely on his defending their lawful rights
Mr. BARING and Sir W.M. Burnoughs, at once serve the with the same firminess he had evinced in the past days of
cause of their country and rescue their borough from an trial. He was not insensible (he adds in conclusion) to
unjust and pernicious dictation. the trouble and expense by which his opponents hoped to
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Mr. Baring's political bias was sufficiently known; deter him from resisting their attack; but he called upon
but the sentiments of the other Independent Candidate them not to distrust him in the assurance, that he should
were not so well understood. Sir W.M. Burnoughs had be found steadily at his post, and that he should electually
been a Judge in India during the Administration of Mr. fulfil his duty : - -

Pitt, and, as some say, one of that Statesman's adherents. These valiant assurances were yet fresh in the memory
Latterly, however, both in Parliament and out, he had of all, when various ugly reports began to be circulated.
avowed his hostility to the system, and strongly opposed It was whispered about, that Sir William indulged him
the present Ministers: and to a letter addressed to him by selfin divers apprehensions; that he talked of his daughter's
a Gentleman of Taunton, respecting the representation of ill-health, which might take him abroad, and of the heavy
that borough, and the desire of the people to support a expenses, which might follow a defence of his seat. Ail
£andidate who would aid in resisting the “ pestilential this looked very ominous of ill, though nothing whatever
Toryism that pervaded the House of Commons,” Sir had arisen to shake the confidence of his supporters, or to
William
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tº Sir Wiiii ºw.was the duly returned and sitting becoming of less and less value; and he perhaps will one
Member, and that his opponent was running much greater day find out, that the strength of a man's purse is not
pecuniary risk than he was. Add to this, Sir WILLIAM's, always an equivalent for the weakness of his intellect. Sir
suppºrters offered—to defend his return for bim, up to a W.M. Burroughs, though very far from being a wise
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certain'sſage; to which at least therefore he might have, man, as his present conduct sufficiently shows, has sense
gone, without the smalfest alarm for the consequences. enough to discover, that whatever may be his private gains
But the Báronet, it should seem, had already resolved upon in this affair, he has sacrificed his public ...; —a
his course. A." golden light” had doubtless broken in sacrifice, which, even in, the selfish calculations of policy,
upon hiºn, from the West, which was to clear his troubled it would have been well worth his while to have avoided,
way and comfort him on his future path. He therefore though at the risk of a few darling hundreds. . And the
ºmnenced a correspondence-with his chief supporters in Independent Electors of Taunton ought, we think, to con
Tauntorrºwhich soon set the matter at rest. After he had gratulate themselves that they have a $.". Oppo.
spoken of the great trouble he had caused his friends, and .nent sitting as their Representative, rather then a talkin;
*xpressed his warm wish for “an honourable peace,”— and trimming Politician, who, under the pretence ºf public
(such were his very words)—he goes on to request, that a duty, would in all probability have been only watching
propºsition should be made to his opponents to the follow his opportunity to “take office,” or any thing else of the
ing effect:-". That he should be allowed to sit in Parlia kind on which he could lay his hands, after his own
ment for two or three Sessions, when he would resign his “honourable” fashion: *
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seat in favour of "-(whom do you think, good reader?)— 7

“ in favour of Mr. Collins or Sir Thos. Lernshipge
and that his friends”—(O monstrous !)—“his friends
shoºd agrºe to support, or at least not to oppose, either
For EIGN INTELLIGENCE. --

Sir Thºs. Lethbribge or Mr. Collins, when the vacancy FIRANCE. - - -

should be made by his retirement!” . . . -

Reader, you have doubtless often seen instances of
great politieak profligacy; but did you ever hear of a case
more odious than this? Here is a man, who, but a few
short mºnths before, had over and over again-declared
that he had no object, in getting into Parliament but the
hºpe of doing good by opposing the ruinous career of
Ministers, their extravagant establishments and wanton
violations of our dearest rights. On the strength of these
sentiments, certain independent individuals had laboured
night and day in his cause, and after infinite fatigue, much
personal risk, and some cost, they had succeeded
#eing the Electors to chase him as their Representative,
PARts, June 13.−In the Chamber of Deputies, yesterday,
several petitions were reported, one of which from the Sieur
Poureet, a Captain on half-pay, prayed an exception in his
favour, from a law passed in 1818, interdicting the receipt of
more than one-pension by the same individual. This law had
deprived the petitioner of a pension of 600 francs per annum; .
under the title of a national recompense, for having, at his per
sonal risk, saved the life of Bonaparte, in an attempt to assassinate
him at St. Cloud, on the 19th Brumaire, year 8. The Commis
sion thought the petitioner was justly entitled to the benefit of .
the exception, and proposed a clause to be inserted in the above .
aw to that effect. This proposition excited much clamour;
in in After considerable opposition, the advice of the Commission was
adopted. * - * * *

The defeated party petition against his return and talk of June 14.—The Moniteur contains a copy of the law recently
a scrutiny.; he replies in terms of confidence and defiance, enacted for the repression of crimes committed by means of pub
lication, by which it is to be understood, that the King has given
and even threatens the threateners: when all of a sudden, his assent to the law, as amended and finally adopted by the
in utter contempt of his admitted duties and solemn pro Legislative Chamber.
mises, he not only offers to resign his seat, but he offers to Sandt still lives. For the last three weeks there has been nº
give it up to those identical politicians, whom he had op perceptible change in his situation, and ...” are unable
osed as the hacknied supporters of a system, which he to speak of his fate with any degree of confidence.—An intimate
imself had so loudly denounced as pernicious and even of Sandt, the Sieur Asmis, a native of Mecklenburg, who has re
ruinous!. Nxy more. Not content with this hacksliding, cently resided at Jena, has been arrested there, and conveyed t
the military guard, where he is closely confined. A physiciati'
this man has the inconceivable effrontery to propose to his of the same town has also been arrested by the police. -

supporters, men whose whole course, as he well knew,

had been upright, patriotic, and disinterested,—that they
should follow i. in his obliquity, and wantonly prostrate AMERICA—UNITED STATES.
themselves with the whole independent interest of Taunton
at the feet of their old opnrássors!—And this he terms New York, MAY 19.--The pride of New York is still her
“ an honourable peace.”—Verily, Sir W.M. Bunkoughs, commerce. Nothing can break down her high eminence. The
thº art a hardened man; yea, a man of infinite brass. Gazzette of yesterday and to-day has announced the safe arrival,
This foolish as well as insulting proposal met its proper with full cargoes, of more than 100 vessels from sea. This ac
treatment; the Baronet was briefly answered, that his cession of wealth to our port revives the bustle of business, and
operates as a restorative to commercial confidence, ". " * * *.*
proposition had excited nothing but disgust and indigna The large mausion house, called Hyde-park, at Hempsteads ,
tion. Seeing therefore no hope of bending the Electors plains, on Long Islaud, occupied by Wu. Cobbett, has beeuwburnt. “
to his purposes, he forthwith concludes his private bargain to the ground. * * * :: .
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with the enemy; and then giving formal notice that he A Petition lias been presented to the President, praying him
should not defend his seat, Wir. Colli
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C Ns, without further to hold an extra cession of Congress. The Petitioners assert,
fouble or expense, is at once declared the Member for that their agricultural productions are either excluded from
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foreign markets, or reduced in price from 25 to 40 per cent.,
Yet, after all, the Tories have no great cause of triumph. while their own markets are deluged with Roreign inerchandize,
Their Agent, it is true, slides once more into the House; their citizens cannot get employment, and their manufactures ará
but they must all be convinced, that he sits there in despite languishing. Commerce, they proceed, is almost equally prás-ºs
of the voice of the people of Taunton. Sir 'I'mos. Lºrd trate; and the outy remedy is some legislative measure, by
which importation slull be lessened, and national industry:
Bridge" inust also see, that his “political property” is protected. - * -- -
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e marvellous blundering of these would-be-Statesmen is
it.

really very pleasant. At a Pitt Dinner the other day at Bristol, Pitr deemed these Claims so proper to be granted, "that he re º
Sir Tºroxt as indulged himself in one of his usual noisy harangues, linquished office because of the King's resistance to thºr. But
in which he laid much stress on the necessity of vigorously op these sort of politicians, like your second-rate actors, caucuſy
posing the Catholie Claims. The reader knows well, that Mr. imitate their Master in his least estinable qualitie-.
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UNITED PA R LIAMENT. - TIMES NEWSPAPER—BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.

Mr. CANNing called the attention of the House to a breach of
its privileges which affected him personally.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
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years that he had sat in Parliament, he ºn;During the 25
had occasion
once before to make a complaint like the present, and that was
Monday, June 14. against the very same newspaper as his present one was, last
Lord Kenyon moved the committal of the Cotton Factories' Session. At that time, the House had been induced not to press
Regulation Bill. the matter against the paper, hoping that the warning would be
The Earl of Roslyn objected to the Bill as interfering with sufficienuo prevent a repetition of the offence, which hope was
free labour. He thought also that the evidence formerly ad not, however, confirmed by the result. The circumstances of
doted, with respect to the health of the children in cotton fac the present case were these:–He had been absent for two or
tories, showed, that this employment was no worse than many three hours on Tuesday might, during which the Hon. Member
ºhers, and ought not to be the subject of a special interference. for Aberdeen (Mr. Ilume) made some remarks on what had falles
The proposed measure would be equally injurious to parents and from him (Mr. C.) previously. He returned to the House before
children, by substituting idleness and misery, for labour, food the Hon. Gentleman sat down; but as the attendance was then
and cloathing. >very thin, and as he did not know that the Hon. Gentleman had
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..The Hous; divided-Contents, 27–Non-contents,
rity for the committal, 21.-Adjourned.
Tuesday, June 15.
6—Majo said anything respecting himself which demanded notice, he did
* - not prolong the discussion. The next day, he was astenished at
seeing the following sentence in the Times, in which the Hon.
Member was made to say,+" Ministers might laugh, but let
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The Earl of I-Audenpair, after some remarks on the differ them look at the other . of the picture; let them survey the
ence ºf the real and relative value of the gold to that of the misery of the poor laborious industrious wretches at Carlisle, or
silver coinage, and the impossibility of their both circulating to even of the unhappy beings they meet in our streets: and he be
gether, under the present Mint Regulations, moved that the lieved there would be found but one man among then who
Judges should be ordered to attend the House on Tuesday next, would still keep a smile on his countenance, and that would be a
in order that they might, bé asked their opinion, whether the smile of self-cougratulation from a Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr.
goºd was depreciated to the value of the silver coin, or the silver Canning), that by habitually turning into ridicule the sufferings
raised to the value of the gold, by the 96th of George III., and of his fellow-creatures, he had been able to place himself so fur
the Ҽbsequent Prochmations; and also some other questions above their unhappy condition.
relative to the currency.
cheers)."—(Hear, º
hear !) If any man in the House, who had heard that sentence
The Earl ºf Liverpool thought that Parliament had already read. believed that, if not spoken, it might have been inserted by
sºfficient eviºlence on this subject, without taking up the valuable accident, he (Mr. C.) would give up the business without a word
time ºf the Judges. He did not agree with the Noble Earl that more. He had of course applied to Mr. Hume, to know whether
the silver ceinage had driven the gold out of the country: the the report was correct or not; and as soon as that Hon. Geºde
unfavourable exchanges had done that. Government limited the man's absence from home and necessary attendance on an Eleo
amount of silver to the wants of the people; and as gold was tion Committee would permit him, he returned an answer, which
taken as the standard, and the two metals were prevented from
satisfied him (Mr. C.) of the misrepresentation. On Saturday,
cºmpeting by sitver only being a legal tender to'the amount of however, Mr. Hume, having then seen the newspaper, disavowed
40s, the silver coin was in fact only a set of counters, issued for it most completely. He had therefore no further satisfactico to
the convenience of retail transactions. >
obtain, when he had ascertained that the misrepresentation
The motion was negatived without a division.—Adjourned. came from a source below contempt; but he felt it his duty to
Wednesday, June 16. bring the matter before the House, for the sake of those Members,
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who would rather bear an attack of this kind than expose then
The Marq is of I.Assbown laid on the table a Bill for the in ‘selves to continued persecution from the same quarter. The
demnification of the witnesses examined relative to the barn libel was the more atrocious, because the wretch, be he who he
"taple Election, from any consequences injurious to themselves might, who was the author of it, did not put it ſorth on his own
which might arise from their evidence. The Noble Marquis ob authority, but upon that of an houourable name, in order to give
*erved, that this protection to such witnesses was necessary, countenance to is slanders. (Iſear!) The evil must be checked,
both to encourage them to speak the truth, and to remove from or there would be no bounds to it.—[The Right Hón. Gentleman
their Lordships the unpleasant restraint they must ſee, with re then read an article from the Times of that morniug, in which
spect to pressing the examinations so as to criminate the wit sorrow is expressed for the mistake, but such pairs, it is added,
nesses.—The Bill was read a first time.
are taken to give the public an accurate representation of the
The Report on the Cotton Factories' Regulation Bill was taken debates, that an error need not be defended du the plea of “in
intº Fonsideration, and Lord Liverpool, referring to thſ clause curia fadit,” but should be attributed to the imperſections common
which limits the number of hours of emptoyment tº elevº, stated to our nature.]—What degree of incuria, he would ask, could
that he was willing to consent to alter theºlºmber to twº. pro occasion such a misrepresention : The sentence was long aud,
vided that means were taken to secure the hildren again I'whº as the House must see, not hastily composed; it could not be the
he considered a greater grievance, the shºrt time allowed t result of a mistake. That it might be laid to the imperfection of
dinner.—The Bill was ordered to be re- -

human nature, he believed: for, unfortunately, one of those im

which day the House adjourned. perfections was falsehood, and another maliguity. (Hear, hear!)
Friday, June 18, He thought the exculpatory article was an aggravation of the
The Loan Bill was passed.—Lord LI offence: for it amounted to this, “Instead of complaining of
Pool observed, that accidental errors, you ought to be thankful for our general ſide
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he expected this would be the last in that woºd be re lity, and that we take upon ourselves this respousibility.” The
$º ºring the continuance of peace, notwithstanding about
,000,000l. would be wanted next year, to make good the pay misrepresentation appeared on Wednesday, and the apology on
ue its of the Bank.-Adjourned. Monday following. In the mean time, he had been held ºrth
in that false light in all the Sunday and provincial papers. He
* - / hoped the House, though it might sometimes be indulgent and
HOUSE OF COMMONS. !. waive its privileges, would exercise them on this occasion, and
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Monday, June 14. --
cumstances, he should leave it to the House to act as it should
Sir J. Jackson presented a Report from the commit. a
think fit; and should merely add, that, after taking great pain's
to enquire, he had found that no Member had any recollection of
pointed to inquite into the existence or non-exin...". c.
tagion from the Plague. The general result was, that no specific any thing being said like the sentence complained of.
contagion appeared to belong to the Plague. t º Mr. Huxle said, that it was almost unnecessary for him to
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. Some Petitions against the new taxes being presented, a deuy the words attributed to him. After coming to an explana
discussion arose on the question whether Petitions agains. tion with the Right Hon. Gentleman, he had addressed a note to
..., º
*****euseº the Hot Sé seemed House
thggugh
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ti be received; the Editor of the Times, informing him that he had grossly
§: !º: .
calumniated the Right Hon. Gentleman under his name, and re
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or the negative, the quiring him to make an apology as public as the calumny itself.
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in the strongest terms of regret, and expressed a wish to wait on to devote themselves exclusively to the discharge of their duty it -

him with an explanation of the error. He (Mr. H.) had thought might be advisable to encrease the salary beyond the proposed
fit to decline receiving him, but sent him a copy of what he had 1,000l. that they might relinquish all professional practice. This
said. As far as he had examined them, the reports in the Times would be true economy.—Adjourned. -
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were in general very fair, and he was therefore willing to believe
that the misrepresentation originated in a mistake. He had per Tuesday, June 15. r

haps, too, deprived the Editor of the Times of an opportunity of The Publicans' Licenses bill was recommitted, and the clause
making an apºlogy to Mr. Canning which might have been providing for an appeal from the Licensing Magistrates was re
satisfactory. ; -
jected by 114 to 76.
Mr. Wyss then moved, that Charles Bell, the publisher of TIMES NEWSPAPER—BREACH CF PRIVILEGE.
the Times, should be ordered to attend the House to-morrow, in Mr. C. Bell, the printer of the Times was called to the bar.
order that the Editor might be discovered. and examined. He told the liouse who the Gentleman was that
Mr. Brough AM observed, that if a practice was created of had reported Mr. Canning's speech. He stated, that the Re
noticin: thºse offences, the omission of such notice would be felt
porters had the strongest injunctions from the proprietor to re
as a confession of the truth of a misrepresentation. He was port impartially, but the haste with which it was necessary that
afraid, if these things were all brought forward, the very bene the gentlemen should write their accounts, and that what they
ficial communication of their proceedings to the public would be write should be printed rendered it impossible that any controul
impeded. . could be exerched over their reports. -

The motion was carried mem.com, The witness then withdrew, and the SpeakER stated that he
- PARGA.—CASH PAYMENTS. had received a letter from the Reporter, giving up his name.--
Bir C. Moscº recalled "his notice respecting Parga, as he was The Gentleman was then called in, and after the usual questions
sorry to find that the Treaty for the Evacuation of that place had and answers, gave the following explanation :-From the situa
been carried into effect. tion in which those who reported the debates were in the Gal
The Cash Payments Bill was read a third time. A clause, lery, it was impossible alway tº hear, or to write what was
proposed by Mr. Ellice, giving the Bank the option of paying heard with perfect accuracy. He had been seated in a back row
their notes in coin as well as bullion, after the 1st of May 1821, of the Gallery, and in consequence of the passing of person" in
was then added to it by way of ider.—Mr. MANNING also pro front of him, and the station rather under the Gallery, which
posed a clan-e, compelling the Government to pay the sum of Mr. Hume had taken, he was obliged to apply to a person before
500,000,000l. to the Bank, by monthly instalments of 500,000l., him to learn what the Hon. Member had said, and that person
to begin on July 15th, and end April 15th. The Hon. Director. had distinctly stated to him the substance of the paragraph com
observed, that as the Bank were compelled to pay in bullion, it plained of. The inconvenience he had been subject to, was at
wn- but just that the pavement of this sum should be secured to unavoidable cause of occasional incorrectness in reports. Ha
then.—The Chancellon of the Exchequer said, it was in had been engaged in concerns of this kind nearly tew years, and
tended that the proposed sum should be paid in the course of this this was the first occasion in which he had given cause of con
and the next year, but he could not consent to ſetter Govern plaint. The report was written the same night, immediately
meat down to a specific mode of payment, which it was more after the debate had taken place; the extreme haste in which it
than probable they would be unable to fulfil.—The proposition was necessary to furnish the account of the proceedings, each
was withdrawn.—Mr. Ellice then proposed another clause,_ slip of paper being taken away by the printers as soon as the
that the Bank should be called upon to pay its notes at the pre hand of the writer was removed from it, left no room for deliba
seat market price of 4t. 1s-This was negatived by 166 to 2i. ration bevond that given to it in the act of writing. He had
CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS. inserted the words “continued cheers” in the parenthesis. He
had a certain mark for cheers, and his idea of their continuance
The House resolved itself into a Countmittee on the Charitable
Foundations Bill. was derived from recollection which might be incorrect. He had
Lord Castler eact stated some of the alterations which he also inserted the name of Mr. Canning in a parenthesis. He had
wished to introduce; it was proposed to increase the number of. strong recollection that Mr. Hume had alluded to a smile on
a
Commissioners, paid and unpaid, to ten each. That two should the Ministerial Bench, and he had also heard indistinctly other
co-stitute a Board for all purposes, save that of making Reports words, which corroborated his opinion, that the information
to Parliament; in discharging those functions five should be ne which had been given him that the allusion was directed per
ce--ay. That the salaries of the paid Commissioners should be soually against Mr. Cantring, was correct. He was at the time
notable to ascertain whether Mr. Canning was in his place, and
10,000t. per annum, and 8000t. for expences. There was a clause from the previous . which had been made to him, he
alsº which gave to the Commissioners power to examine accounts had no reason to behieve that he was not; for if Mr. Hume had
and to convº!, brºt not to impose fines. That was given to the
Vice-Chanceflor, Master of the Rolls, or a Judge of the Exche stated, that he regretted the absence of the Member for Liver
quer. The Comthissioners would call upon the Attorney-General pool, no such words had reached the witness's ears: be ex
pressed his regret that he had fallen into an unintentional error,
tº proceed against, parties for irregularities. Instead of having which he was eonvinced would not have occurred if those incon
abūse-, when made out, accumulating on the notice of Parlia
ment, nººsures of immediate redress would be put into operation. veniences to which he had alluded were removed, and added
It was nºt contemplated to extend the operation of the Inquiry toº that he might appeal to the frequent misconceptions between
charities created by voluntary subscriptions. Any such inter Hon. Members themselves, who had so much better opportuni
ference might be prejudicial to their progress. The Commis ties of hearing one another. (€ries of “Order.” J -

sioners would be required to report to the Hoàse the names of The Witness then withdrew, and Mr. WYNN moved that the
Charities having special visitors, as by the original Bill of last paper put in was “...a scandalous misrepresentation of the de
session. Even the Court of Chancery was not authorised to in bates and proceedings of this House, a calumnious, libel on the
terfere with such charities. character of one of its Members, and an º breach of its
Mr. Brough AM congratulated the House on this measure, as it privileges.”—Some conversation arose on this motion, and seve
went to restore the Bill he had introduced last session which was
ral Members expressed their sense of the proper and ingenuous
defeated in the Lords. He still objected to the exemption of behaviour of the Reporter, and acquitted him of intentional mis
visited Charities, and if he should fail to bring the House to representation.—Mr. Wynn said that there was nothing in the
agree with him on this point, he should propose, as the next best wórding of the motion which imputed bad intentiqu-The Reso
measure, that the Commissioners should be armed with some lution was corried; and Mr. WYNN then moved that the He
means of putting the visitorial power in motion. porter should be committed to Newgate, as he thought he was
Mr. M. A. Taylor contended, that if many of the Charities, guilty at all events of very culpable negligence, which deserved
which had special visitors were shut out of the operation of the itunishment.—Some more conversation followed this motion, and
Commission, oot half the good wauld be done by the Bill that was stated by several Members, that there were smiles on the
might be done by it; and he instanced the case of Sherborne ºbs ‘Ministerial Beach at the time alluded to, and that cheers were
pital, in the county of Durhan, the master of which, Dr 13ell, heard about that time.—Mr. WinLIAM South said, that he kn
derived nearly 1700l. a year, althºugh he was scarcely evºr resi the family of the Reporter, who were of great respectability : $
dent there. He remembered a school, of which the late Arebbi also knew the individual himself, who had always borne the
shop ºf Canterbury was visitor, the master of which had actually character of being a well-behaved, an excellent, and an idleliu
tºrned the seliool-room into a billiard-room, -
gent young maur-The House appearing to consider the eom
Mr. Brocshaw said, that in order 40 induce the Commissioners mittai to Newgate as too severe, Mr. Wynn moved instead, that
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- the Gentlºuian-should be committed to the custody of the Ser Grenfelt moved, nº at-Arneºd: - that-the-clause allowing a
geant-at-Arns.—This was accordingly done... certain rate iothº Bank fºr Fºgºmºtº ºn
[.In-the coarse of this debate, Mr. Brough Axt said, that there
-** ***** should be struck aii. The Alfºwingº whº 890: ºffen every
. . . were other breaches of privilege of a more serious nature in the millioit, which, on this ſº would ºthſtºs,600." This was
public prints, without the excuse of haste. He could state seve most unnºcessary and ºnfeasonable, easierºy team of itsäfin
ral instances of observations of the strongest nature being made |º hºrrºr ºffiº.
by writers in the ublic” Journºis: A paper of yesterday said, ‘debt, for managing wºr:lity ºf Rentage.—The
‘speaking of his Hon. Friend (Sir J. Mackintosh) that he had. Chawcrlton of the Exchequeñºntrimtairº, that this allowance
• made a shameless and impudent attack on Ferdinand.—Mr. was no more than,was justly due for the tºe and trouble-taken
BENNEr also read an extract from the Morning ost, in which by receiving the instainents and converting them ºnto-stock :
some Members of the House were coarsely and scurrilously"at and that it should not be taken away on this loan which wºrs the
tacked.} - * .
last that would most'likely be made for years—the Amendment
** - CESSION OF PARGA. * , , was negatived. . . . . . . : … -- ~
Lord CAstler EAch, in presenting the papers ordered by the mended... Mr. Peel, observed, that the Bank"Cºminés had recom
the restriction of the Bank advances to the Government,
House respecting this affair, entered into some explanations re and he now brought forward a measure fºndº on that recom:
specting it. He contended, that we had only taken military
mendation. It would be extremely inconvenirº to prºhit all
possession of Parga to oppose the French, and not with any view advances to Governwett,
of ultimately retaining it; and that no British officers had eiven stances were always varying. or to fix any specific limit, as circum
The Bill he wished to introduce
any assurances to the fahabitants that a British garrison would would enact, that no advance should be made without the special
remain there, to interfere between them and the Turks. -

• Sir C. Monck had withdrawn bis motion on account of a cala authority of Parliament ; that when an application was made tº
mitous event. The Treaty of 1800, by which Parga was ceded the Bank, it should, along with the answer of that body, be laid
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before Parliament, in order that the House should have the im

to the Porte, had been abortive... as no cession ever took place: mediate controul of all advances to Government. The discount
and through, by a subsequent treaty, the inhabitants had a Bey ing of Exchequer Bills would be regulated in the same manner.
laced among them with a nominal superintendence, they had in He moved for leave to bring in a Bill.—Leave given.
act governed themselves. -

Mr. W. Swith said, the people of that town had been removed
tives NEwsPAPER—BREACH OF PRIVILEGE,
to an island which was totally incapable of accommodating Mr. W. Smith presented a Petition from the Reporter, who
them,
had been committed to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms. The
Lord Coºrpton stated, that the public property of the Par Petitioner did not deny his being guilty of a Breach of Privilege,
guinotes was worth 500,000l., but only 200,000t. had been given but he respectfully asserted, that lie had no initention of offend
them as compensation. ing the House or any Hon. Member. He prayed, therefore, that
Lord CastleREAgh'assured the House that Ministers would he might be brought up and discharged. - -

‘do all they could in behalf of these unfortunate people. Sir Francis Bºrder r protested against the principle which
Sir J. Mackixtosh was shocked to hear it said in a British
the House had assumed, of acting on -questions of privilege."
Parliament that' any compensation could be given to a man for the double capacity of judge and accuser. It went upon the
tearing him from his home. Russia and the Porte had forfeited principle of Rhadamanthus; it chastised first, and heard tº
all claim to be benefitted by certain treaties, by having violated party after. As to the particular charge against the Petitione”
those treaties with regard to Parga; and the sovereignty of that he did not believe him guilty, for he understood that the words
territory was vested in the people by the noblest of all titles—
that of wresting it from the invader—under the countenance too usedcheerswere
aboutnearly similar
the same to those
time. reported;
(Cries of “No,and
no,”that thereseveral
from we".
of a British fleet. -
parts of the House.) He had so understood it from the speeches
MORE BREACHES, OF PRIVILEGE : of several Members. At all events, it seemed to be admitted ºn
The Speaker stated that the Serjeant at Arms had a commu all hands, that the report had been given without ill-intent.":
where there was no ill-intention there could be no crime. The
nication to make respecting the Privileges of that House. It was Petitioner stated that his object was to give his report as fairly
stated that a stranger was found taking notes, with his book rest as he could ; and indeed the general accuracy with which the
ing on the front rail of the gallery. When desired to desist, he reports of the debates were given was remarkable. How, lie
refused with an oath-He was then taken into custody and would ask, could the House punish :
brought before the House. After an apology, he was discharged Lord CAsrleaf Agn thought the Hon. Baronet's speech wer"
on the payment of his fees. - -

Mr. WYNN read an extract from the New Times, in which Sir. to oppose the clemency of the House towards the Geutenan."
question; and that his (Sir F. Burdett's) conduct was not quite
James Mackintosh was charged with making shameless and im decorous. The Petitioner, with a greater sense of propº'ſ
pudent accusations against the present Government, and with
vindicating Gallic fraud and tyranny in 1808. He considered than the Hon. Baronet, did not try to justify the Breach of P*
this a gross Breach of Privilege. . If such comments were per vilege. - -

mitted, the press would become their masters, as a door would Mr. Cochtenay said, that a feeling in favour of the Gen!"
be opened for influencing the conduct of Members. He moved man had certainly been created by his conduct yesterday: "º
“that the printer be ordered to attend the House. deed, it would have been extraordinary if any person. gifted as
Sir J. Mackintosh was perfectly-indifferent to such attacks. those are and must be who give the debates of that House tº the
public, had not been aware of the necessity of conducting him
an" never wished to have his name connected with a question of self with candour and humility. He agreed, that there appeared
privilege. -

}t was urged, that it was doubtful whether this was a Breach to be no ill-intention; but still he thought it was highly rePrº"
of Privilege, as the comments were on the reported speech of the hensible in any individual who pretended to give an accurate *
Hon. Baronet; and that moreover the latter part of the para presentation of the debates to send forth, as a correct statemen"
graph referred to his conduct when he was not a Member of that that which he had only learned from an entire stranger.
House.—The question was postponed.—Adjourned. Mr. Huwe was sorry, that the Hon. Baronet expressed any
t Wednesday, June 16. doubts as to whether he had or had not uttered the calumny":
puted to him. He would not have entertained those doubts, º
Mr. Gore LANgtoN presented the report of the Camelford he been present when he (Mr. H.) explained what he had really
:lection Committee. The report set forth, that John Stewart, said.
JEsq. and Allsop, Esq., the sitting members, were not duly Mr. Huskisson and Lord Binning reprobated the conduct.”
elected, and that the Petition was not frivolous or vexatious.-- insinuations of Sir F. Burdeu, and Mr. C. Hutchnson defend"
The Hon. Member next presented a special report, setting forth, the Hon. Baronet.
privileges Thewere
of the House latterthegentleman
priviſegesremarked, that th:
of the people, and
that John Stewart, Esq. having violated the 49th of the King,
chapter 119, was incapacitated for serving in the present Parlia: those privileges would have been sufficiently vindicated, if the
ment, and that six or seven electors of Camelford had been guilty person who had transgressed them had been brought to the Bar
of corruption.—It was ordered that the Speaker should not issue of The
the House,
Petition reprimanded, and discharged.
was then brought up, and on the motion of Mr. -

his warrant for a new election, till the report should have been
taken into consideration. -
W. Smirn, the Petitioner was brought to the Bar, reprimanded,
Ou the motion for the third reading of the Loan Bill,—Mr. and discharged.
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MARRfAGE Act—issolvent DEPTORs pºll, ge. feeling. The people did not exelaim so much for a change of
fºr.:Mr. W. *:South observed, that before the Act of the 26th, : would
men; but they exclaimed loudly for a change of measures. He
jº. y as a civil contract: now move, as an sº “ that the House, should
º: Blackstone consideredit so; and that the otd.law-abso re resºlve itself into the Cºmmittee on that day six months.”
cognized it as such, was evident from an Act of Charles It... re The Chancellor of the Exchequer maintained that the new
-* * specting marriages solemnized before Justices of the Peace in the tal) wer little on the lower classes. The Malt Tax
taxes would
time of the Cºnnoiweath, “phe Act of George it. had ap , would affect the rich, ºnd not the poor: the public brewer would
* pºinted aiºreligious ceremony; but Jews and Quakers were have no occasion to make any rise in the price of beer. , The
exempted from its operation. Parts of this ceremony relating to ºlºty on spirits would not induce distillers to raise their prices.
: the doetrine of the Triśity were very offensive to the religious Thus, of the three millions of new taxes, two millious would be
principles of certain bissenters, and those parts, he proposed, it levied without adding to the burdens of the poor; a circumstance
• should be a Mowable to omit, whenever they would be so offen almost unprecedented in the history of taxation. . . .. e

* isive... If it were important that the marriage-contract, should be Mr. BENNET, Lord EBRINGros, Lord A. HAMILºok, Mr.
sanctioned by a religious ceremony, that ceremony ought to be Coke (of Norfolk), Lord Milton, Alderman WArrhytan, Lord
congentaf to the principles of the parties. In taking oaths, the John Russell, Mr. Ricardo, and Mr. Brougman, protested
* - religious creed of the rson-sworn was always made the secut strongly against any new taxes in the present distressed state of
- ºrity of its evidenee. He feared, however, that the association the country, and particularly-ngainst these taxes, sa oppressive
., of a religious ceremony with the marriage-contract had not ...to the poor.-Mr. Coke said, he would even go farther than the
always the good effect that was ascribed to it. Iu those countries Noble Marquis (Tavistock); he would say, that all opposition to
where marriage was a sacrament, its vows were, much more.fre Ministers in that House, was fruitless. It was a corrupt House
...qttently broken than in the northern part of this kingdom, where -(Order, order!)—and no good could be expected from it.
no religious ceremony was essentiat to its validity. He should Whenever Ministers were in earnest about any measure, they
move for teave to bring in a Bill to amend the Marriage Act.— summoned their troops—(laugh)—who were obſiged to appear.
Leave given." - -. - - - The controut of Parliament was a mere joke throughout the coun
The Scotch Acts in Desuetude Bill was thrown out. try. Every sensible man knew well what the meaning of it was.--
The Insolvent Debtors' Bill was recommitted. The Solicitor Lord Mitrox observed, that all the advantages derivable from
GENERAt proposed an Athendment, to allow of confinement the reduction of our debt, on the principle of compound interest,
within the rules of a prison. This was opposed on the ground would be nothing, when compared with the fructification and
that it afforded temptation to extravagant Yebtors to spend all increase of this sum of three millions, if leſt in the pockets of the
their property by living luxuriously, and then to defraud their people.--On-a division, there were—For the motion, 208—For
creditors. It was negatived. Another clause, exempting crown the amendment, 90—Majority, 118.
debtors from the operation of the Bill, was agreed to.—Adjourned The liouse then went into a Committee, and some conversation
to Friday. - -
arose on a clause for extending the Malt Tax to the stock of malt
Friday, June 18. in hand. The House divided-For the clause, 175–Against it,
Mr. Coke said, he held in his hand a Petition against the 67—Majority, 108-On the clause for imposing an additional
Malt Duty. The Petitioners remonstrated against the imposi Excise Duty, making a total duty of 8s. 6d. per bushel of malt,
tion of further burdens, until every means of reduction had been the division was 171 to 82–On the suggestion of Mr. Wilson,
adopted; and they pointed out various instances of extravagance, the clause for the additional Duty on Tea was amended, so as to
and especially the vote of 10,000t. for the care of his Majesty's exempt all tea from it sold under 9s, a pound; and the clause
jerson. Ministers had been very active in bringing in Tax then passed.—on the clause for the tax on Foreign-Wool, the
ills, before the people, had time to protest against them.—The division was 100 to 63–Adjourned to Monday.
Petition was uot brought up. - - -

Lord Eow ARD Soxtetts Et had also a Petition from the woollen
manufacturers of Gloucester, against the Wool Duty. Tuesday's LoNDON GA2E1te.
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The Lottery Bill was passed. -- -
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The CHANcrltor of the Exchequer moved that the House G. Brook, Lockwood, Yorkshire, woollen manufacturer, from
resolve itself into a Committee on the Excise Duties Bill. June 15 to July 3. - -

The Marquis of Tavis rock could not allow the motion to be R. Ridley, Basing-lane, carpenter, from June 12 to July 31.
be disposed of without a few observations. Was it not a grievous BANKRUPTs. -

reflection, that when Ministers proposed to the House of Com R. Garnett, Nantwich, Cheshire, shoemaker, Attorney, Mr.
mons a tax like the Income Tax, which was to have its effects on Hilditch, Lincoln’s-inn-fields. .
the pockets of Hon. Members themselves—a tax, by the former T. Goode, Hinckley, Leicestershire, hosier. Attorney, Mr. -

repeal of which, as had been justly said by a Noble Lord, Par Hall, Great James-street, Bedford-row.
liament relieved itself, and not the nation—was it not shameful M. W. Sankey, Canterbury, brewer. Attornies, Messrs. Collett,
that the House of Commons, when such a tax was again pro Wimburn, and Collett, Chancery-lane.
posed, rejected it with indignation: and yet, when other taxes, S. Sewett, Aldersgate-street, plumber, Attorney, Mr. Lang,
operating on the poor and defenceless classes of the cemmunity, Fenchurch-street. -

were proposed, carried them by acclamation, and nothing was W. Parker, West Teignmonth, Devonshire, innkeeper. At
heard of but the triumphant maiority of Ministers on the sub torney, Mr. Williams, Red Lion-square.
ject!—The language of the Noble Lord opposite when he took P. Leigh, Wheelock, Cheshire, currier. Attorney, Mr. Wilson,
off the War Malt Duty was, that as Palliament had relieved it King's-Bench-walks, Temple.
self from the Property Tax, it was the duty of Ministers to re W. H. Baldwin, Liverpool, merchant, Attornies, Messrs.
lieve the country of the Malt Tax. If it was necessary, that Clarke, Richards, and Medcalf, Chancery-lane.
fresh burdens, should be imposed, why did not Ministers I. p. Ruffy, Paternoster-row Christchurch, oilman. Attorney,
propose their favourite income Tax —Why, but because they Mr. Hurst, Milk-street. - -

were afraid of the House of Commons —Was it surpris H. R. Fanshawe. Addle-street, City, trimming-maker. Attorney,
ing that disaffection should sometimes discover itself, when Mr, Thomas, Basinghall-street.
the people saw those who ought to be their Representatives B. Martin, Middlesex-street, Whitechapel, victualler. Attorney,
shelter themselves from the Property Tax, while they did Mr. Crosse, Hatfield-street, Blackfriars-road.
not hesitate to tax the tea, the tobacco, and the malt of the R. and J. R. Townend, Mitre-court, Fénchurch-street merchants.
poor?. It had, however, long been his firm persuasion that the Attorney, Mr. Hackett, New-court, St. Swithin's-lane, Lom
only remedies for such grievances would be a shortening of the bard-street.
duration of Parliament, and a full and equal representation of P. J. Gaurain, Church-street, Soho-square, silversmith and
the people. If any thing had been wanting to convince him of jeweller. Attorney, Mr. Hutchinson, Crown-court, Throgmor
this truth, he º have found it in the support which the new ton-street. * - -

Parliament had given to every measure proposed by Ministers. J. C. White, Mitre-court, Fenchurch-street, merchant. At
The dissatisfaction existing at the present system was notoriousl torney, Mr. Hackett, New-court, St. Swithin's-lane, Lombard
manifested whenever the sense of the country could be tº: street. -

He did not wish to speak on this subject with any party feeling. J. Matthews, Penn, Somersetshire, shoemaker. Attornies, Messrs,
He wished to speak with truth, which was paramount to all party Bennell and Dixon, St. Swithin's-lane.
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SATURDAY's LoNDON GA2ETTE. been arrested; but this may be only a mandeuvre to
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frighten him. •
BANKRUPTCHES ENLARGED.
B. Walker, West Smithfield, tailor, from June 19 till August 7. The South American Patriots seem to be getting on ra
C. Hull, Silver-street, Wood-street, ribbon-manufacturer, from pidly. The statement we gave last week of the position
May 29 till July 17. and prospects of the various expeditions is confirmed by
- BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED,
C. Basham, Norwich, coach-maker. subsequent accounts; and the battle between Paez and
W. T. Dunderdale, Manchester, merchant. Morillo appears to have been decidedly favourable to the
- BANKRUPTS. former, the latter losing 400 men. But another more use
W. and J. Sandell, Newport, Isle of Wight, brewers. Atterney, ful and decided blow has been struck. Besides the expe
Mr. Luxmoore, Red Lion-square.
J. Hayter, Bristol, watch-maker. Attorney, Mr. Heelis, Staple dition of English troops from Margarita, which has landed
Inn. and is advancing on Caraccas, there was another under
J. Birch, Aston, Warwickshire, maltster. Attornies, Messrs. MacGRegor, which has captured Porto-Bello, a valuable
Egerton, Norton, and Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square.
R. Johnston, Freeman's-court, Cornfill, merchant. Attornies, and strongly-fortified town on the worthern coast of the
-

Messrs. Templer, Glynes, and Thomson, Burr-street, East Isthmus of Darien. The garrison consisted of 466 men,
Smithfield. a body more numerous than the assailants, which seems to
R. Park, jun. St. George's-square, Southampton, coal-merchant. show that they were not very hearty in the cause of the
, Attorney, Mr. Cope, Wilson-street, Gray's-inn-lane.
A. Knight, Wilson-street, Moorfields, calenderer. Attorney, Beloved. Indeed it is said that some of them have joined
Mr. Gibson, Lombard-street. the Independents. This capture is extremely valuable,
. Dauncey, Cateaton-street, warehouseman. Attorney, Mr. both from the quantity of stores and warlike material in
Lake, Dowgate-hill. - -

J. Hudgen, Dartford, Kent, paper-maker. Attorney, Mr. Flex the place, and its convenience as a point of rendezvous
ney, Bedford-row. and attack. MacgRegor issued a Proclamation after tak
-

W. Fell, Watling-street, Manchester-warehouseman. Attornies,

Messrs. Courteen and Robinson, Walbrook. ing possession, in which he talks of pushing on to Pa
S. Chambers, Bordesley, Birmingham, sword-cutler. Attornies, nama and the shores of the Pacific. We are glad to see
Messrs. Bourdillon nind Hewitt, Bread-street. that the Royalists seem very ill prepared to check him,
T. Chilcott, Bristol, broker. Attorney, Mr. Edmunds, Exche each fortress being in want of all the soldiers it can mus
chequer-office, Lincoln’s-inn. -

W. Brade, Preston, Lancashire, liquor-merchant. Attorney, ter. The Governor of Carthagena was compelled to re
Mr. Blacklock, Serjeant's-inn, Fleet-street. fuse an application from his brother of Panama for 500
H. Bryant, Norwich, leather-cutter. Attornies, Messrs. Taylor troops, because his own men were in a state of mutiny.
and Roscoe, King's-Bench-Walk.
T. and W. Jackson, Liverpool, merchants. Attornies, Messrs. We never hear of mutinies among the Patriots: they fight
Blackstock and Bunce, Temple. -
from conviction of the justness of their cause and indigna--
S. Wilmhurst, Martin's-lane, Cannon-street, merchant. Attor tion at their oppressors, while the hirelings of Ferdix AND
ney, Mr. Briggs, Lincoln’s-inn-fields. -

W. Amsdell, Plaistow, Essex, baker. Attornies, Messrs. Aspi cannot be kept to their standards' even by money and the
mall and Jackson, Quality-court, Chancery-lane. slavish and ignorant notions in which they have been
Longworth, Little Lever, Lancashire, bleacher. Attornies, educated. º
Messrs. Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row.
S. Leveridge, Bury-street, §§. merchant. Attornies,
Messrs. Eicke and Evans, Aldermanburv. The disclosures that have taken place in Parliament
E. Lord, Burnley, Lancashire, cotton-spinner. Attorney, Mr. respecting Parga present a very good specimen in minia
Ellis, Chancery-lane. a "

G. Seller, Lime-Regis, Dorsetshire, miller. Attornies, Messrs. ture of the CastleReagh diplomacy—the legitimate, po
Andros and Alderson, Warnford-court. lite, mercantile, oppressive, promise-breaking course, pur
W. Hunsley, Wetherby, Yorkshire, grocer. Attorney, Mr. sued by the Holy Allies—the mutual accommodation
Smith, Pump-court, Middle-Temple.
G. Marshall, Bristol, corn-factor. Attornies, Messrs. Bourdil afforded to one another with respect to little states or towns
lon and Hewitt, Bread-street, Cheapside. * which may prove refractory. This poor people, who seem
... to retain, in common with their brethren in the Ionian
- PRICE of stocks on sato RDAY. Islands, some of the Grecian spirit of liberty, were encou
3 per Cent. Red.............. 68}} | 3 per Gent. Cons............. shut. raged by English Ministers and English Commandors to
exert themselves against French tyranny, in the same man
THE EXAMINER. ner as the Germans and other contineutal-nations. But
when the Frendh are put down, at least as far as concerns
Lownow, June 20. foreign conquest at present, our Ministers begin to look
cold on their protegés all over the world, and among the
There are various reports and surmises in the foreign rest on this brave people, who had trusted that, having garri
journals respecting the dispute between Bern Apotte and soned their town and taken them, to all intents and pur
the Emperor of Russia, but nothing new has transpired poses; under our protection, we should continue that pro
that would show that the business was coming to an end, tection, and see them properly settled, as the Ionian
either one way or the other. SANDT seems to be still alive, Islands (one of whose dependencies Parga is) had been.
though not likely to remain so. Indeed it is remark But no: Russia, it appears, had surrendered Parga to the
able that he has lived so long; and it is perhaps owing to Turks by a treaty made in 1800, aid the assembled Di
the settled state of his mind and consequent freedom from plomatists at Aix-la-Chapelle had formally acknowledged
that irritation which would be fatal to most persons in his this treaty. The Sublime Porte demands the surrender
state of body. So that he may be actually realizing the of Parga from Sir Thomas MATLAND, the English Com
seeming paradox,−that his determination to die prolongs mander. What could Lord CastleReagm say to this re
his life: A physician and an intimate friend of his have gular and legitimate request? Parga is surrendered, though
.*
 THE EXAMINER. 393
it is well-known that the inhabitants of that town and the cruel,-aye, and a treacherous part, towards them. In
Turks regard each other with the most bitter enmity; the short, the great English nation is now judged of by the
Parguinotes are compelled therefore to quit the town, re conduct and viewed through the medium of a man like
ceiving compensation for their mere property, and are Lord CastleReagh'ſ
conveyed to an island which is said, without contradic
tion, to be incapable of subsisting or accommodating A great stir has been made by Mr. CANNING respecting
them. Now is this decent? As decent, it may be said, some reported words, which, it would seem, were not
as the transfers of Saxony, Norway, and Italy. It is in spoken of him in Parliament. The natural jealousy also
principle worse: those were the acts of the Allies collec of the House itself-a jealousy, let us add, not diminished
tively—the results of a general system of cutting up and by a consciousness of the construction of that House,_
partitioning; but this is the special act of the English added fuel to the flame; and for three days together, the
Ministers, and it involves a more cruel mockery and delu public were enlightened with fiery discussions on privi
sion. This spirited nation, accustomed to constant as iege, all arising from Mr. Casning's burning indignation
saults from the ignorant and despotic government of Tur against some particular words, which were not spoken on
key, must have received the English with delight: our that particular occasion. A very few honest remarks,
character for independence and national spirit, and indeed however, will, we conceive, suffice for this subject.
this very act of interference between them and the French, The particular words were as follow, viz. “ Ministers
who were then lording it over them, must have joined to might laugh, but let them look at the other side of the
make them regard us with gratitude and admiration. picture; let them survey the misery of the poor laborious
What must they have thought of our garrisoning their town? wretches at Carlisle, or even of the unhappy beings they
What must they not have hoped for after seeing the Con meet in our streets: and he believed there would be found
stitution given to the Ionian Islands? And then to be but one man among them who would still keep a smile on
given up in this way! To be told, after all this, that we his countenance, and that would be a smile of self-congra
never meant to protect them against their rightful masters ſation from a Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Canning), that
the Turks! These Turks, be it remembered, have never by habitually turning into ridicule the sufferings of his fel
acted hitherto on the treaty by which the Russians ceded low-creatures, he had been able to place himself so far
Parga to them in 1800. That treaty, as has been well above their unhappy condition. (Continued cheere)" -
observed in the House of Commons, had been rendered These were attributed by the Reporter to Mr. Huxte; Mr.
null, like any other contract, by never having been put into Canning accordingly writes to Mr. HUME, who denies all
execution. We merely mention this, to show how utterly such libellous matter; and a demand is then made to the
defenceless the conduct of our Ministers has been on this House, that the writer be brought up. He is; and gives.
occasion; for it is on other and more general principles that a very sensible and manly account of the matter, which
the question should be argued. It is a monstrous proposi originated, it seems, in a noise and interruption that took
tion, that one nation is to retain the sovereignty of an ac place during his writing. The interruption compelled
quired territory or dependency through a series of years, him to ask another person what the Member then speak
while all connection has been cut off, and that territory has ing had said, and the said person, knowing as little per
been governing and defending itself, without the smallest as haps of the thing as himself, but framing the words accord
sistance from the claimant. In the first place, we deny and ing to what he conceived natural to the subject, gave rise
protest against the right of one Sovereign to make over to the misrepresentation. Now it is agreed, that the par
any people to another, without that people's consent. In ticular words complained of were not spoken;–so far so
the next, supposing Parga to have acknowledged the good;—some Members nevertheless persist in saying that
Turkish Government, the separation that followed, and according to other persons' recollections, something very
the conduct of both parties, completely did away all mu like the substance of them, or the opinion of them, was
tual relation, and rendered the Parganese independent, uttered;—Mr. HUMe however, on the other side, if we
and capable of forming whatever engagements with other understand him, again insists that nothing was said at any
nations that they should consider most prudent. This rate, which amounted to their severity; and again we
pretence of inherent sovereignty is as impudent a one as say, so far so good. Let all this be as it may. There
that of Divine Right: it assumes that all the duty is on is a residuum however which comprises, we conceive,
the side of the governed, and none on that of the gover all the real and first elements of the business. If Mr.
nors, it wants to have, as the Irishman says, “all the CANNING supposes that by making this stir about
reciprocity on one side.” Sir J. Mackixtosh has elo some words which were not said on this particular occa
quently said, that “the Sovereignty of Parga was vested sion in Parliament, he does away the impression of what
in the people by the noblest of all titles—that of wresting has been so often said in Parliament at other times, and of
it from the invader.” In the mean time, how does England | what is daily said and felt out of it, he is most assuredly
appear in this business? Why, the English people—the mistaken. If a reporter were brought up for erroneously
descendants of the HAMPDENs and Sydneys—a, people inserting in one of the speeches an invective against the
who live on the memory of the deeds of their ancestors, scandalous means by which nearly 500 of the 658 persons.
and what those ancestors obtained for them—and who are who sit in Parliament are relurned by less than 300 peers,
of all other nations the most capable, by reason of their rich men, and ministers, the punishment of his error in
naval power, of assisting a state so situated as Parga, reporting would not do away the fact, or the impression
this people now appear to these ill-treated and unhappy of the fact, with the country at large. Nay, it might
foreigners to be acting a sneaking, eyasive, cowardly, tend to make them think of it, if possible, still more;
 THE EXAMINER,
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‘and to wonder that on such a subject; such measures |* The avowed division in the Ministry on the Catholic
should bertakenº-PF-we-fiºthis matter still cañvassed :Question,--a question.of vital importance to the State
with any angry affectatiºns, we will collect and lay before is, alone a proof of their mediocriſy, both of virtue and
>.
four readers the various passages out of Parliamentary talent; for men of strang minds and lofty principles could
not possibly #. oil together in sitch circumstances.
** * speeches and other political records, that have carried a ** **Thus have I seen itſ-coupled hounds
conviction to the public heart, which mething but the most “Draw diff'rent ways in miry grouads.”—Swirr.
unequivocal exhibitions of a totally different state of feel- | CARLisie WeaveRs.—We are happy to state, that part
*ing canºdé'away. “In the mean time, we repeat what we of the master manufacturers have agreed to give 83,9s.
said of Mr. CANNING on a well-known occasion last and 10s. per cut of ginghams-11, 12, and 13ths, instead
year;--that he is a man of wit,ºnd the feather in the cap of the late prices, averaging about 1s advance of the cut.
of the present duh-headed administration;—but he is no All the workmen are actively employed in finishing the
webs which they had began previously to the turn out,
thing mere;—he has nothing, in particular, of sentiment, thus manifesting their entire obedience to the law, though
or what is emphatically called-in philosophy, humanity; it is understood that they have, expressed their determina
nothing which redeems wit from mere ridicule and cold :tion not to continue in the employment of those who refuse
* - - bloodedness, and renders it the ornament of sensibility to advance, after the present work is finished.—Carlisle
. . and true wisdom. - * * *
Journal. - -

Last week two poor families left the village of Barwel,

* Observe a curious specimen of the habitual indifference near Hinckley, for Liverpool, there to embark for America.
to sound thinking and feeling, which is common among Their expences for passage, &c. are defrayed from the parish
those who regard themselves as the most knowing as well rates. -

as flourishing heads of the time. “Mr. CANNING professes : The wages of the best weavers in Glasgow, after deduc
himself willing, forsooth, to connice at the reports of tions, do not average 4s. a-week!
speeches; first, because they are a great public benefit; The Reader will see, that we have attempted to get the
and next, because any abuse of the connivance (that is to verdict in the case of Lord Churchill entered for-us
say, any abuse of the abuse) can be more readily pu on all the counts, on the point of law, which however is
in this instance a point of justice also. The attempt has
nished . But it has been well asked by the Times, failed, but we leave the matter to the decision of the pub
whether “a great public benefit” is a thing to be con lic, with a great confidence of their favourable opinion.—
niped at ; and we would ask further, whether connivance Mr. WILLIAMs stated the case for us in a clear, concise,
is not in itself a petty and unworthy thing; and whether and able manner. -

this unconscious boast of it, and on the part too of this By a bill which we happened to see, yesterday, we find
particular Minister, does not furnish an excellent comment that Mr. Elliston has kindly offered to play to-morrow
night for his old Drury-lane Companions in O'Keefe's
on the habitual insincerity and worldliness, which the delightful comedy of Wild Oats. The musical farce of
venerable BENTHAM says must of necessity arise out of our the Turnpike Gate follows, in which Mux DeN, of course,
modes of education, civil and religious. - will treat us with his hundred volumes of jocose meaning,
The Marquis of Tavis rock has done himself, and e bound in grin.
the name of Russell honour, by his manly and ardent The ſar-famed unique edition of Boccaccio (the origi
opposition to the new Taxes. Doubtless ºthere are some nal one) which was bought a few years back by the not
who will attempt to laugh him out of his ardour, as belong quite so celebrated Duke of MARLBorough, at the Rox
BURGH sale for 2,260l., was again brought to the hammer
ing to youth; butlet him beassured that the instinctive wis the other day, and purchased By Mr. A. F. Griffith for
dom of youthis the first thing to retain amongst the ac Messrs. LoNGMAN, at the reduced price of 875 guineas.
quirements of manhood. It is the very bloom, and health, Boccaccio is worth all that he can fetch, but then it is
and only strength of wisdom; and if the flourishing un desirable that he should have readers.
happy could recal it, they would then indeed have some A Correspondent, (whom we thank for his communica
pretensions to think their ſame immortal. tion,) informs us that Geo. VANsitTARt. Lord of the
(ºr +4 Manor of Bisham, Berks, is the uncle, not brother, of the
CHANcellon of the Exchequer, as stated in the leading
A series of Ceylon Gazettes to the 10th of January has article of the last Eraminer; that George Smith, the as:
saulter of Bishop, was not his gamekeeper, but a menial
arrived. At that period nearly all traces of the rebellion
had disappeared, and the principal leaders of it had beenservant, called out to assist the woodman in apprehending
brought to trial. The Pretender was said to have resumed poachers occasionally; and that Skewers, not Line Pegs,
are the produce of the poor inhabitants of that distressed
his priestly garb, and to be lurking in the forests.-A letter
from Colómbo, dated Nov. 29, says, “ Upwards of 800 parish, These mistakes, though of trivial consequence,
men and more than 30 officers fell victims to the climate, our Correspondent justly considered proper to correct.in
during our late war with the Candians. Four of the order to enable us to silence cavillers with better effect. He
state prisoners were sentenced to die; but KAPPITApol.A dates from Marlow, 17th June, 1819.
and MADoGABLE only have suffered. Their heads were France, according to the Paris Journals, has at the
struck off by two blows: their behaviour was manly and present moment, 246 ships of war, including 48 ships of
cool. The Governor (General BRowNRigg) having at the line and 29 frigates. There are now building 11 ships
length restored peace to the island, had issued several pro of the line and 4 frigates.
clamations respecting the future government of the Can A remarkable meteor was bbserved at Berwick-upon
dian territories; one of which contains the following Tweed last week about noon, the sun at the time being
clause: “It is also directed, that on entering the hall of .."; bright, and the sky cloudless. It had the appearancº
audience, every person shall make obeisance to the portrait at first of a ball of fire, and afterwards of a flaming sword
of his Majesty, there suspended : and as well there as in pointing to the earth, in a direction over the town; it
any other courts of justice to the presiding authority.” continued in sight above five minutes, and took a northerly
It is estimated that there are not less than 50,000l.spent course at a great distance from the earth.
daily by English absentees on the Continent. -
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-ºissa as Hussºr Moon—Pºtºs - We are informed, that Sir F. Buttnett, theºn. C.

Tºhºmºſºmated through the mann H. Hútchinson, the fion: Geo. LAME, and sever tºother
ºfºuſſººries isºerkshire,'a most numerous assem gentlemen, will attend the djinner on Tuesday next in com
> *neºplayed workinet-met on Monday at Hun ºration of Sir Rongar Wilson's return for South
**... sºmeºneºcl.aeds. As stage for the speakers had wark. .. • - -- -
**hºnºfºſsly erected, and -everal-persons addressed the Mr. Chambers, the Banker, has published another
* Mºſºg' ºf he'great theme dwelt upon, was the necessity pamphlet on the state of public affairs with tegard to
*; effºrtiºnentary; Reform:: It was near ten o'elock at domestic policy, in which he attributes the present finan
* Tºnight befºre the assemblage dispersed; after passing seve cial embarrassments mainly'to the want of a snflicient en
*****resekitoſis, as preliminary' to a “Declaration to be couragement to the houe growth of corn by the entire
ºf by ałł who are determined not to become passive prohibition of importation. Mr. C. sets opt-Apan very
* : slºwes,” ind to be transmitted to the Speaker of the
.*Hötrse of Cemmons “-for-the information of all whom it
sound general principles with respect to the º ot
manufactures on agriculture, &c. º shows clearly that
may coneern." A resolution was passed to meet again on our corn is so raised in price by the weight, of taxa
the same Moor on Monday next. The business was tion, that it can never stand an open, competition with
opened, by Mr. Wii.I.ANs, of Dewsbury, Printer, one of that of the Continental nations. . But we differ from
the Society of I'riends, who was very conspicuous amongst him in his inference. He thinks that the only remedy
~ +he reformers who detected Oliver's connection with Go is to tax imported corn, so as to destroy the difference
-- - vernment. . . *• -*.. -

in favour of the foreign agriculturist caused by the

s'. . GAxis-The following are the heads of the principal lowness of taxation and the price of labour abroad,
• clauses in the Biłł introduced into the House of Commons
compared with that of England. Now there is little
to authorise the sale of game, under certain restrictions:— doubt that these restrictions are injurious to all parties in
Lords ºf manors, and gamekeepers authorised by deputa the end, though, it may perhaps be said that this country
tion to kill game, may sell game to licensed persons. Jus is in so artificial a state that no general-principle is appli
tices may grant licences to certain persons, upon entering cable to its situation. Why then make its condition still
into a recognizance. Justices empowered to revoke licen more artificial 2 is as Mr. Cilambers assumes, England
ces, ºf...” of the conditions of the recognizance
*
being broken. Licensed persons selling game to affix a can
-
grow corn, enough to support itself, we suppose it
must be done by the cultivation of the waste and less
- a ticket to the same, signed-with his name. Persons ob productive lands, and that dultwation could only be
• ‘taining certificates under false pretensions, liable to penal forced by a rigorous prohibition of foreign corn. But
- ties. - Not to affect former Acts for the preservation of where would be the advantage of this?. It would encou
- game. * -
rage our own industry and resources, it is said. , Yes, but
- A view of a few leading points of difference between it would devote a great deal -more of that industry and
our present situation and that in which we were when the labour, to the production of agricultural produce than
* Bask Restriction took place:– -- would procure the same articles by being devoted to the
- Jan. 1797. Jan. 1819. production of manufactures and the exchange of those
Annual Net Revenue - - - 18,737,760–49,549,899
Interest of Public Debt , - 11,844,407–29,068,137 manufactures for foreign corn; in other words... the same
quantity of labour bestowed on manufactures will produce
Outstanding Exchequer Bills
Unfunded Debt - - -

Outstanding Credits due to the Ban t of

England
Exports
- - -
i; 13,218,600–43,655,600
5,248,932– 1,677,125
-
-
commodities that can be exchanged for a much greater
quantity of corn than...that labour would raise from the
17,597,280–39,096,900 present uncultivated lands. The principle of commerce is,
30,518,000–58,559,711
- -
—that one nation should export those commodities
Imports - - 23,186,000–86,900,681 which it can raise with least cost, and receive in barter
Circulating Gold Coin 30,000,000— — those of other nations raised under the same circum
Bank of England Notes 8,640,250—25,956,840
stances. To act contrary to this principle, would not
To which may be added an increase of population ex only, impoverish a country, by employing its industry
ceeding one million and a half. -

in a less profitable course, but it would also, we suspect,

A print has appeared of Lord Byron from a drawing be most injurious, if not ruinous, to commerce.— Mr.
on stone by M. Gauci, Esq. We have not seen many CHAMBERs' pamphlet contains some useful and interest
drawings on stone, and such as we remember happen to ing information on various questions of political eco
be ef trees or shrubs; but we should guess that the origi normw. -

nal of this print is a very good, one of the kind; and a ğhe following appeal has been sent us by a Gentle
gentleman better, acquainted with this new class of art, man who signs his name; and if as true as he himself be
says it is decidedly the best he has seen. The grain is soft lieves it to be, has undoubtedly no common claims of ad
and fleshy, and has all the look of a chalk engraving. mission to the hearts of those whom it addresses.—Eram.)
• ‘There is an undoubted likeness in the head, only we thin To Officers of the ARMY and Navy, and those who
the face somewhat too long; neither does the expression do can feel for real misery.—A Gentleman who has served
justice to the fineness of the poet's countenance, intellectual with his regiment in various parts of the world, has, by a
or otherwise; but this is en objection which it shares series of unforeseen, yet unavoidable misfortunes, been
with more elaborate portraits. The likeness is quite good
. to be interesting. It is dedicated, very appro reduced been
to the most wretched state of distress. Having
arrested for a trifling debt, and thrown into prison,
priately, to Chandos Leigh, Esq., who is every way he was compelled to self his commission: his wife died
qualified to appreciate the noble original,—in taste, heart, within the Rules, broken-hearted ; and he, with his two
and independence. unfortunate sons, has been forced, to prevent actual
Tuesday sennight, in the important question between starvation, to seek an asylum in a common workhouse.
the Earl of Fife and Sir JAMrs Duff and others, the Should this statement meet the “eye of any person
Trustees of the late Lord Fife, the Second Division of possessing a heart to feel for the sufferings of a fellow
the Court of Session, in Scotland, have unanimously re creature, the smallest assistance (if only a few shillings)
duced and set aside the trust-deed and deed of entail, exe will be most thankfully received, and most gratefully ac
cuted by the late JAMEs Earl of Fife. By this decision knowledged, if sent under cover, post paid, for H.
the present Earl succeeds to an estate of nearly 20,000l. B N, at Mr. SAMs, Bookseller, 62, Pall Mall; or to
sterling per annum.–Evening Paper. No. 4, Catherine-street, Straud. -
 396 THE EXAMINER:
- ORIGINAL POETRY. PAppixgron Stages.—Unless the owners of these
- sta speak seriously to the drivers, some accident
SONNET. will assuredly happen before long, and make them pay
Wno first invented work and bound the free for their negligence. The men, we suppose, muddie
And holiday-rejoicing spirit down their silly heads with porter, and then take themselves for
To the unremitting importunity mighty charioteers; and so the people are to be astonished
_Of business, in the green fields, and the town;
an º every day with their furious driving. It is
To plough, loom, anvil, spade,-and oh! most sad? not much more than a year ago, we believe, that one of
To this dry drudgery of the desk's dead wood these stages, in the attempt to get before another through
Who but the Being unblest, alien from good, a turnpike, was overturned; and this will inevitably be
SanbarnLess SATAN the who his unglad
the case, again, if steps are not taken to prevent a folly,
Task ever plies in rotatory burnings,
equally impolitic, unlawful, and brutal.
That round and round incalculably reel—
For wrath divine hath made bim like a wheel— court AND---
-
Fashionables.
In that red realm from whence are no returnings; The PRINCE Regenr held a Drawing-room on Thurs.
Where, toiling and turmoiling, ever and aye,
His thoughts and he keep pensive worky-day. day, to continue the custon practiºd by the late Qures—
C. L.
A presentation at Court, says the Times, being, from lon
established custom, a necessary preliminary among per
sons of rank, to an introduction into company at home,
VANSITTART-A BALLAD. aud to admission at foreign Courts, the PRINce Recºrx?
Ox the fall of the stocks, when the Bankers stand still, determined on holding a fº. A precedent for
And Britons the sweets of extravagance prove, the reception of ladies, without a Royal Female, to pre
When no steps but the Sheriffs' ascend Ludgate-hill, side, was found in the reign of Geongs IF., which Sove
And none but the Bailiffs the alley above. reign was accustomed to hold Drawing-rooms after the
'Twas them by the Treasury's portal reclined death of Queen Canoline. It may be remarked also,
VANsrrtant his parting complaint thus began,
though we do not quote it as a precedent, that the King
of France, though a widower, receives ladies as well as
His voice it was sad, for.his place was resigned, entlemen at his levees. It was determined also to com
He thought as a saint, but he feſt as a man. ine with it the celebration of the PRINCE REGENT's
“Ah! why thus abawdoned to darkness and woe, : birth-day, his Royal Highness having been indispºsed on
“Why flows not, Bob Southey, thy sleep-giving strain : the day first appointed to be observed as his natal anni
“For Watier returning thy sack shall bestow, versary, ... In pursuance of this plan, Lord Liverpoor, as
“And thy muse undisturbed by Reviewers remain;– Prime Minister, gave a grand dinner to several of the most
“Yet if pity has stilled thee, I claim not thy lay: -
distinguished Peers and Commoners; Lord Castle
“In silence, dear Laureate, thy Chancellor mourn, RFA.gif, as Foreign Secretary, entertained the Ambassadors
“Whose power and whose place, like thy sense, pass away, and diplomatic gentlemen; Lord Sinmouth the official
“Full quickly they pass, and they never return.
R.
connected with the Home Administration; the .
“Reluctant to rise in a turbulent sky,
larguis of WINchested, the Lord Chamberlain, and the
Master of the Horse, each entertained the gentlemen con
“See Peel half extinct his ambition displays; neeted with his particular department.
“But lately 1 marked when majestic on high The Court was a very crowded one, and the presenta
“He shone, and green Erin rejoiced in his rays— tions were very numerous. Among those not usually at
“Roll on, thou red orb, and with gladness pursue tendant were—The Duke and Duehess of Bedford, the
“The path which conducts thee to office again.— Duke of GRAfroN, the Marquis of LANsnows, and Earl
“But WAN's faded honour can Bibles renew GRosvenon.
“Fond saints to rejoice in a prospect so vain On Friday week, the Persian Ambassador, accompanied
“The three per cent. stock is attractive no more:
|by Lord Melville, visited the Tower, and afterwards
roceeded in the Admiralty barge to visit Greenwich
“I mourn; but, HART DAvis, I mourn not for you; Hospital.
“Your firm may revive and your splendour restore
“In wealth and in credit like Rothschulp the Jew:
“Nor yet for my treasury bills do I mourn, THEATRICAL EXAMINER,
“Kind fortune my embryo budget will save; No. 367.
“But will WiLBERForce watch an Ex-minister's urn?
“Or Jerusalem Gºt Axt raise a cross on my grave * ENGL1s fr errºr-r.
ARETIN Junior. Turs pleasant little theatre has opened for the season. The
spirit of Mr. ABNold, the Proprietor, has again induced
“I hope here be proofs.” SHAk. him to make another experiment with its saloon, which he
A certain brazen-visaged HUN, who flourished under Guelp, changes to as many appearances as a palace in an Eastern
Didshew some feeling once, they say, but then’twas for himself. tale. He has now converted it into “a Mameluke tent,”
But I would undertake to prove, as sure as five are five, with panoramic views, between the drapery, of Egyptian
He shewed, that instant, that he felt for the smallest thing alive. landscape. This, we think, is by far the best saloon he
has given us yet. The Petersburgh Panorama (which
we believe he began with) was a dull business; the Chi
... It is proposed to erect a monument in Dublin to the nese tea-room at the farther end of one of his saloons was
memory of the late Richard BRINsley Sheridan, by the an extreme case; and our old friends the shrubs, hanging
profits of a performance of two of his favourite dramatic their imprisoned heads, seemed to say like the starling in
productions, at the theatre of that cliy.—The monument the Sentimental Journey, “We can't get out! We can’t
of SnakspeaRE, in Westminster Abbey, was raised by get out !” But the tent is reasonable, appropriate, and
; produce of a representation of Julius Cæsar, at Old well managed. We could have wished the landscape to
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heat out of doors instead of coolness; but the variety has professed singers, by the quaverers, and balancers, and
its merits; and there is a fountain in the middle, which scale-ascenders, and fiery crotchet-shooters, and other
plays into a shell. The drapery also of the tent is hung Sacchis of song. She is something much greater. Her
in a very tasteful manner, full without heaviness; and the singing should rather come as an extempore effusion out
whole is managed, at once effectively and without osten of her acting, like a lute carelessly taken up; and then it
tation. The interior of the house has had its alterations would be felt to be what it is, a part of her general senti
as well as the saloon, and looks at once neat and spark ment and cordial feeling. After all too, Miss KELLY
ling. The Manager appears to have turned the new tin ought not to wonder, on other accounts, if she now and
invention, to good account. It ornaments the principal then meets with objections which shall appear marked both
*oxes with its glittering green, and furnishes pedestals to to her and her audience: for she is not only decidedly the
the stage pillars. - actress of the greatest variety and genuine unsophisticated
feeling now on the stage, §: she has been felt as such,
We have not attended to each new performer on the
first night. A great many mere experiments are apt to be and by the greatest critics been proclaimed as such ; and
inade on these occasions, though very properly; and the if she did not occasionally meet with the jealousy and envy
reader may be well content to let the merits of these new which she must excite, she would enjoy a privilege and
actors be noticed in the regular course of the performances. exemption, which mortal excellence has never yet been
able to boast.
The only one we have yet seen is a Mr. RowbotiiAM,
who, if he is a singer also, may be counted an acquisition Mr. PEARMAN retains his usual sweetness, and we think
as an actor. He appears young, though somewhat gaunt; has improved in ..f. We wish we could say as
much on the latter head for Miss Stephewson, who grows
but his face is not deficient in intelligence, and the front
view of it is pleasing. . We have not heard him sing ex prettier every season. We never saw Dowton to better
effect in the Jew. Mr. Wilkinson in the half-starved
cept in chorus. We take this opportunity of noticing the
orchestra, which seems to play more con amore than usual. lay-brother of the jolly friars gave us a pleasant foretaste,
During the performance of the Duenna on Friday night, this season, of the natural comic vein, which he shewed to so
it adapted itself uncommonly well to the singers; and be much advantage in Geoffrey Muffincap. His voice taper
tween the play and the farce (while we were looking at ed away into as starved a thinness as flis fingers-ends.
The new operetta, called Quadrille or a Quarrel—for
the saloon) treated the audience, we understand, with some
passages out of Don Giovanni. This is good, and giving What?, is of the usual pleasant cast of the little pieces
good measure. We are sorry.we came too late for the which are so often brought out at this theatre, and which
everture, which is taken from Winter, a great and appear to be taken from the French. It has some resem
deep-hearted musician. blance to Matrimony in it's story, which is that of a young
pair of lovers, (WRench and Mr. Chatterley,) who
The principal performers here, as usual, are Miss
KELLY, Mrs. Chatterly, Mrs. GRove, Miss Stephen have a quarrel in consequence of the lady's dancing with
a Dandy (a very harmless proceeding, we should think),
son, Miss Loye, Miss CAREw ; and Watson, HARLEY, and who are persuaded that each has married in the other's
PEARMAN, Wilkinson, CIIAttekly, &c. to whom the absence. They come together again very agreeably. Mrs.
masterly name of Dowton is again added. It was pro Chatterley, a pleasant actress, pokes out .#. a little
bably the re-appearance of this excellent actor at the too much, but it belongs to a pretty face, and has a right
#. which induced the manager to get up the to be prominent. WRench is the same ready and sprightly
tenna. His policy however in so doing is doubtful. fellow as ever, and in spite of his round face always look
The Buenna, it is true, coming as it did from the hands ing sharp. HARLev, too, is as quick, nodding, and im
of a man of wit, who could not turn his singing characters portant. Miss Kelly, in the lady's maid, seemed to have
into mere dolts, might reasonably be represented by per quite recovered herself, and was all ease and knowingness,
formers with very few professed singers annong them ; but as usual, to the great satisfaction of the audience. Her
unfortunately the town is so accustomed to expect little glad and breathing laugh is a cordial, of itself.
else in operas besides the mere art of singing, and the
harmarker-rmearne.
vocal paris in the Duenna have so often been perſormed by -

By the permission of Mr. MoRRIs, who is now, it

mere professors of the art, that they are not readily dis
posed to let Mr. Surrinax's wit and nature become more seems, sole manager here, and who we are glad to see has
prominent then the execution of the songs. We trust it began his reign so properly, the †. company
was a feeling of this nature, and this nature only, which (Fuere Troes 1) are to act here for a month. Mr. KEAN
induced some ill-timing person to hiss while Miss Kelly performed Richard the Third on Friday night, and no
was acting a prominent part on the stage. He might theatredoubt with all the perfect effect which the smallness of the
surely have chosen his opportunity better. The particu would give to his genius. Always let it be recol
lected however, that to give any company it's proper effect
larity of the thing hurt her feelings so much that she burst for
into tears; and she was proceeding to state, that having in any length of time, there must be more good actors
it than one or two. +
for some urgent reasons been induced to take up the cha.
racter, she would nevertheless lay it down if not approved,
when the house zealously, and affectionately interrupted
her with cries of No! no! and repeated rounds of ap FINE ARTS.
º. The truth is, the character of Clara, which Miss
Elly performed, really demands no other description of
vocal powers than those which she possesses, that is to ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION.
say, powers on the side of sentiment rather then execu For pictures of humour the Dutch have been distin
tion; but for the reason above stated, persons who have guished; so also have our Painters. Mr. SMIRRe has
no relish for these will be impatient for the others. If roduced many in oil, and Mr. Heaphy and Mr. RichTER
Miss Kelly had thought of this, she might have been less in water colour, enriched too with fine moral applications.
hurt; though the sensibility which is the peculiar excel "Fhe great Hogarth, who was at once the Juvenal and
lence of her acting, and we may add, the habit of being the Butlem, at once the grave and sprightly satirist in
a public favourite, may readily account for her agitation. painting, is the head and leader of the noble class of Sati
It might be to her advantage however if she avoided cha rical Painting, for the Dutch Artists were little else but
racters which have been made vocally prominent by more facetious, Equal to any of the Dutch Artists in point of
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drollery, is 453, where Calandrino, a Florentine Painter. stantly recognised, but are painted to the life as, we see. --
thinking he has found the Elitropia, a black stone, and them in the able performance of the respective characters...",
thereby become invisible, is pelled home by his Companions. The humour is highly entertaining, as seen in the contrast.
The subject has not only the rare recommendation of bein of the testy Lord, and be smiling composure of the servantſ.
a new one, but is among the most mirthſul. It touches who is waiting upon-him. There is in Mr. Çüsº
us to the very ribs. . We laugh not only at the egregious º a beauty by ne means, common, and he has.
blunder of fancy which Calandrino has deluded himself ere given us too good a specimen of his abilities not tes.
into, but at the pungent pickle the poor ſellow is getting make us earnelly hope that he will *"º.
soused in, the awkward and painful predicament he feels into theatrical subjects. '-º'-º', ; ; ; - -

that the is 'in from the stones that are so bountifully be Mr. Etty has a good eye for colour. In 58, Ge # -

stowed upon him by his companions, and that rise up in the Spring, there is a pleasing luminousness: 'We'vis
judgment against him, as detectors and punishers of his however he wºuld give is something that §: least de
error. We relish to the very core of our satisfaction tke cently finished. Mr. Erry's º are like fruit that º
vinegar and oil of his countenance, the mixture of doleſłłł is tolerably ripe in the colºur, but crude in everything else. "T
and smiling consciousness it shews of his ridiculous, bis. There is good painting in 193, Sunday Morning; of the 3.
tragic-comic situation. We equally relish too the laughter bad account of last Peek's Wages, W. Kipn. - ----

of Bruno and Buffulmacco, while they are sending their ...The visitors will not fail to admire the effletion with --
lapidarian messengers to prove to him his mistake. These which Mr. Rouw has executed eight Medallic Portraits, ;:
roguish companions are the quintescence of mirthful feel
ing. Its overwhelming power annihilates every other:
1137 to 1144. Qne of them; Lord Lymedock's, hº
transferred to a Die for Mr. Mubik's beautiful.Sães.
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They have not only no sympathy towards him what National Medals, for which Mr. B. Wyps has execute .*
ever, but they delight in his embarrassment and pain, and Dies. From these, 1110 and 11 11, are impressious that -
shew'their enjoyment most unreservedly by assailing his will enhance the character of the Series, upon which, it,
mind with shouts of laughter, and his unfortunate body being completed, we shall shortly give a conclusive article: -
with the “pitiless pelting” of stones. The relish of this Collections of British Prints will have an enrichinent id --
subject is altogether ºily savoury, and atones to our the Engravings that, Mlr, of .165 and -- Yº...
mental appetites for the unsatisfying nature of the insipid 166, The 1st and 2d parts ºf thee Decameron ºf Boccacio. -
meagre fare presented to us in the Anti-room... We re is about to publish from those fascinating Paintings. ------
quest Mr. BRiggs to accept our best thanks for the treat. Names attached to the best Drawings, Miniatures, &c…
149, The Daughter of Herodias receiving the Head o of different degrees of talent in the Antique Academy:--
St. John the Baptist—a sketch—R. T. Box E. Mr. Bose's Ladies—Mrs. GREEN and the Misses SHARPe, whose
figures want more ease and originality. The expression Miniatures are among the best in the Exhibition, and
they therefore have tells but little on our feelings. This |. us by their union of nearly every excellence that e
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ongs to that delicate branch ºf Art; Mrs. Pope, Mrs:

however is an advantage in a horrid subject like this,' HAMMoxo,
which is the more offensive the better it is painted. What Mrs. Joses, Lady Bell, the Missºs E. Jones, -

indeed can be more disgusting in a picture than the sight E. BLAckwall, Newell, KNight, A. E. CRIsre, HAxi
of a young virgin, presenting with her fair hands the re ly N, E. E. KENDRick, Chalos, Rev Nolps, Stores. .
cently decapitated head of a man quivering and ghastly DRUMMono, BURchell, (of whom there is a beautiful
with the recently suffered pangs of a violent death. What Miniature by Mdl.e. de BEAUREPatre); Mrs: KPARs F,
a contrast ! Göibo and other great Painters have given a who has well grouped, drawn and coloured 646, Double
horrid truth of effect to this º: For our parts we Dahlias. Of all the Flower Drawings we have ever, yet
would not exchange the place of the least valuable print seen in the Exhibition we recollect none so purely radº
in our parlour for any of them. For such pictures and transparently coloured, so lightly pencilled, so gracefully
uddings made with hog's blood we have equal distaste. º and faithfully drawn, as 654, by Miss ByRNE –
The choice of a subject in painting is a matter of import lessrs. BoutoN, BüRGFss, Chalos, CHANDEpte of *
anee. Mr. Bone's merit is mainly in his colour, which is Boyers, CLINT, CRAIg, Davis, DERRY, Douglas, DC-"
rich. - - Bois, Eoridge, ENGLEile:ART, FERRiene, HAYTER,
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We are always sure to feel at least a pleasing and often HAINks, HAvghton, Hastings, Hills, Housſes, Hoxf,
a strong interest, in Mr. F. P. Stepianoff's pictures. Hupson, JAcksos, LAN pseer, Leesing, Miller, New
In 264. A Musical Party, he has given that interest to tos, Plivier, Rris Agle, Robertson, Rochaſin, Ro
portraits which an agreeable occurrence naturally deli binson, Ross, Severs. Sherwis, Suonsultii, Sreele,
heated must afford. - -
Stuxip, Stepness, TAylon, WATTs, W. W. EsrAli,
In 30s. Passage of the River Beresina by the Grand White. Among some excellent i*aintings by Mr. PELLt
French Army on its retreat from Moscow, November 7, Tier is a large composition of Birds, Fruit, and Fºnters,
Mr. Dighton has well represented one of those occºr executed with his well-known adherence to their realities.
rences resulting from that defeat of NApotron by the ele Mr. FERRIERE's Imitations of Bronze Basso Refleros are
ments, which was the chief cause of his being finally over almost deceptiºns. Besides the beautiful Eramels by
thrown by the royal promise-breakers and de-pots of the Messrs. Boxr, Essex, and PLANT, there are extraordinary
Continent. This Artist's pencil has increased merit. The enamels in size and taleut, by Mr. Mºss, two Iłoty Fa
attack and retreat have a strong martial terror in the re milies from L. D.A Visci and PARMAGIANo. -

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In 433, Christ's manifestation ºf himself, we see no

Mr. HAynos's lamented indisposition in his eyes,
thing that could justly tempt the Painter to venture on bis which has so long, delayed the completion of his truly -
torical ground. If instead of the above name of the grand picture of Čhrist riding into Jerusalem, has also -
Founder of Christianity, the Painter's was inserted," the prevented his acceptance of a Commission from the pa_ .
, fitle of the picture would be very suitable as relating to his triotic Patron, Sir J. Leicestfit. We are gratified how---
graphic incapabilities. We needino further manifestation ever in stating that that gentleman's patronage, which is :
of them than this flaring canvass. - so exemplarily and constantly promoting his country’s
48, Pºrtraits of Messrs. W. Farren, Farley, and Jones, genius, has extended to the growing talents of Mr. HAY
in the Characters of Lord Ogleby, Canton, and Brush, pox's Pupil, Mr. Bewick.
G. Clist. The likenesses are not only such as are in
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defendant, on all the counts of the declaration. This, he said, …
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(We have been requested by one of the Spanish Gen happened by the furious driving of the plaintiff. All the counts
libel “of and
tlemen--whose signatures are subjoined, to insert the fol of the declaration charged the defendant with awithout,
lowing Letter, . to the Editor of the above-men concerning the said accident,”: which h ned furious, -->
driving. The learned counsel contended, therefore, that the
tioned journal. We do so; of course; but we cannot, at Jury found for the defendant on every issue; for they found that .
the same time, help expressing our regret that there should the accident happened by the furious driving of the plaintiff. -
be the least sympton of a difference of any sort among To fortify this argument, #. cited the case of the King tº Horne;”
persons equally respectable for their talents, their pa which was tried before Lord Mansfield. It was an informatiºn”
triotism, and their misfortúnes.—Eram.) for a libel concerning his Majesty's Government, and concerning" **
- TO MR.P. P. FERNANDEZ SARDINO. the employment of his troops. The case was removed by a writ tº
of error to the House of Lords; and Lord Chief Justice De Grey tº
SIR,-Having been informed that some persons, both then said, that if the Jury found that the libel was not upºn #. ---
in and out of Spain, have spread the report, that the pe Majesty's Government and the employment of liis troops, the in
riodical work which you publish in this Metropolis, under formation was false. In the present case, the declaration stated, 3
is the production that
the title of . El Espºol Constitutional,” London, the accident happened without ally “negligence, default, or
of all the Spanish Patriots resident in we, the furious driving” on the part of the plaintiff; and as the Jur º ---

undersigned (not having any connexion whatever, either found the furious driving, it appeared that their finding amounted S to an entire verdict for the defendant. . .- . ..
in its composition or in its publication), find ourselves The Learned Judges said, it appeared to them that the word
under the necessity of requesting you to give this informa accident was used to signify the event that occurred, namely, the
tion to the Public, by the printing of this letter; as it collision of the carriages: The allegation in the introductory
seems to us not fair to deprive you of the honour which part of the declaration was a thivisible allegation, and the plain
you may derive from your labours, or to take upon our tiſſ was not bound to prove the whole of his iſſtroductory matter. “
selves the responsibility of those opinions, different from The application was accordingly refused. - - - -

our own, which you insert in your monthly publication. Thursday, June 17.
May God preserve you many years. -
sº - . - wright v. dolev.
(Signed).A. Roro, S. pe. Robles, Count of Torexo, B. J. GAL This was an action for a libel. It appeared that the plaintiff
- LARuo, A. GARRido, Axtoxio Florez Estrada, was formerly a bookseller in Piccaditty, and that he had been
Avro. Diaz del MoRAL, R. Rox, Ay, Vire. MARtis afterwards connected with Mr. Cobbett in the publication of cer
Goxtez, Alvaro Flon Ez Estrana, RAM ex M.A. tain works; and that the defendant was now the publisher of a
CALATRABA, Dr. FERNANdez RAM, REz, A. Nebot, . weekly paper, called Cobbett’s Political Register. In the latter
Faan. Ygxo. Asuka, Axtonio Puig BLANch. work an article lately appeared, which charged the plaintiff
London, June 6, 1819. with having been guilty of various fraudulent transactions to
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wards Mr. Cobbett in the course of his business, and the plaintiff
brought the present action, alleging that the article was a false,
L.A. J.W. scandalous, and malicious libel. The declaration had been
served upon the defendant, and the usual notice was given to
COURT OF KING'S BENCH. I Mr. Chrrry now moved for three months' further time to .
»lead to it.
Tuesday, June 15.
by an affidavit of the de
Mr. Carlile was called on to plead to two indictments and one plead. He supported this application that he believed that the
information. The first indictment was for his weekly publica fendant, in which the latter stated,
tion the ; the second for continuing the sale of the Theolo averments stated to be false were true, but that the original ac
gieat works of Paiue after an indictment had been founded; and counts, and other documents, were now in the hands of Mr.
expected to re
the information was for publishing Sherwin's Political Register Cobbett; that he had written out for them, and
ceive them in the course of three months; and that, until he
Mr. C. required further time to plead, on the ground that the in received them he could not safely plead to the declaration.
dictments had been accumulated by the Society for the Suppres
sion of Vice, for the purpose of harassing him in his defence, He The Count said, that the defendant was bound to know the
put in two affidavits to that effect: truth of the statement in question, and to be prepared to prove
On the second indictment and the defendant's affidavit being that truth, before he published it. If a person published matter
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read,—Mr. Carlile was asked by the Court what he prayed for: injurious to another, and urged a justification which he was not
he replied—for further time to plead until the information and prepared to prove, and the injured party brought an action for
indictinent entered for trial were disposed of; on the ground that redress, he was not to be told that the defendant meant to bring
this indietment was founded on the same publication as that his proofs in justification from America, China, or other remotes
entered for trial. regions; and that the defendant was to be allowed three or 12
Mr. Justice Batley.—Do you inean to say that the twº indict months longer to fish-out evidence, while the plaintiff was ex
ments are founded on the same offence. posed during that time to sustain all the injury of an unrefuted
Defendant.—They are founded on the same publication, but slauder on his character. The motion must therefore be refused.
different books purchased at different times. -

Mr. Justice Batley.—That alters the case: they are distinct • ARCHES COI RT. •
books, purchased at different times, each of which constitutes an
offence. I recollect the defendant being brought to my Chambers Saturday, June 12. - -

for this indictment, and that a promise of forbearance was made sullivax, by syllivan his guano AN. Against olnacht,
FALselv cAlling Henself sullivan.
to him, provided he would give an undertaking to discontinue This cause arises out of the marriage of John Augustus Sulli
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to that effect. van, Esq. a minor, son of the Right Hon. Mr. Sullivan, with Miss
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Defendant-1 conceived, my Lord, that the publication could Maria Oldacre, the daughter of Mr. Qldacre, huntsmai, to Mr.
not be considered an offence, until a Jury had decided it to Sullivan, and also a minor at that time. It appeared that the
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lady was the illegitimate daughter of Mrs. Oldacre, before her
“. Justice Best.—You may be wrong there, and I think at marriage with Mr. Oldacre, and that she was never, known by
ieast with my brother Bailey i. he has sworn rashly. . any other name than Maria Oldacre. The bans, however, were
proclaimed as between Mr. Sullivan and Maria. Holmes Oldacre.
The court refused to grant the defendent any further time, and On
he pieaded not guilty to the indictment and information. the part of the lady it was contended, that the insertion of .
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the defendant'was then informed, that the two indictments; the word “Holmes,” which was her mother's maideu name, was
determined upon by the parties, from a fear of being incorrect: ..
end the information, would be tried at the adjourned sittings for they wished to give tº: most particular dyscription. -

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ſtorn churcurll v. Hunt. - Wednesday, June 16. , “ .

Mr. WILLIAxis moved for a rule to show cause, why the verdict Sir John Nicholl gave sentence in this cause. He observed
which had been found in this case should not be entered for the - - that no purpose of concealment appeared to have been intended
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and that the introduction of the name of “ Holmes” into the A wretch, in the service of a respectable Woollen Manu
bans, was, under the aircumstances of the case, a matter per facturer, at Cleckheaton, near this town, after severely kicking
fectly immaterial, and consequently could not affect the publica and beating one of his master's horses, actually tore out part of
tion of them. He therefore dismissed this appeal, and pro its tongue-The poor animal after this, being unable to masticate
nounced for the validity of the marriage.
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its food, was obliged to be killed.—Has the law provided no
punishment for such an atrocious act of cruelty?—Leeds Mercury.
earai, or sparºtestauray and Another tº, the dure of -M.Art.” Sunday evening a poor woman of the name of Jaue Grey was
Bortotº-Ger. attacked beyond Hounslow Heath, by four ruffians, who robbed
her of two one pound Bank of England notes, 15s. in silver,
To THE-EDITOR of The ExAMINER.
stripped her of her cloak, bonnet, stays, shoes and stockings,
SIR,--In your Paper of Sunday last, in the report of the pro and beat her most unmercifully. Perceiving a coach advancing
ceedings in this cause, you state, that Lord Shaftesbury, in his they ran off with their plunder. * .
affidavit, says, That I informed him I borrowed, by desire of + ==
the Duke 1200l. or 1300l. on the Gold plate, which being incor BIRTHS. :
rect, as I had nothing to do with the transaction, and was ut
terly ignorant of the removal of the plate, or of the borrowing of º Friday week, the Lady of the Rev. T. r. Butler, of Harrow,
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the money, I must beg you will correct that statement by insert
ing this letter and the passage in Lord Shaftesbury's affidavit, On the 13th instant, the Lady of Sir Frederick Baker, Bart-,
referring to the conversation which took place at the instance of of a daughter.
the Duke between him and me. It is as follows:—“That the On the 16th instant, Mrs. Hill, of Cooper's-row, of a son.
said defendant afterwards referred this deponent for further in On Friday, the Countess of March, of a daughter.
formation, to his Solicitor, Mr. Johr Pinniger, of Gray’s-inn, MARRIAGES.
who, on the 29th day of May last, called on this deponent by de
sire of the said Duke, as he stated, to inform him that the per On Thursday, the Rev. Gerrard Thomas Andrews, only son
son, in whose custody the said Gold plate is, had uot yet returned of the Dean of Canterbury, tº Elizabeth Catherine, eldest daugh
from Wales; that the said Duke had borrowed about 1200I. or ter of Dr. Heberden, of Upper Brook-street.
1300l. upon the said plate, and could not get it back into his pos At Harwich, on the 14th inst., Captain Richard Cust, Kt. St.
session till the money was repaid.”—Your obedient servant, Fd., 31st regiment, to Marianne, daughter of the late Colonel
- John PINNIGER. Ward, of the India Company's Service.
On the 15th inst., at St. Marylebone Church, Colonel Sir
Dudley St. Leger Hill, Knight of the Royal Portuguese order of
ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. -
the Tower and Sword, and Companion of the Bath, to Caroline
- Drury, third daughter of Robert Hunter, Esq. of Kew, Surrey
Suicine—Early on Friday morning an Officer of Cavalry was On the 17th instant, at Hampstead, Frederic Albert Winser,
found suspended #. one of the trees in the Mall of St. James's jun., Esq., of Shooter's-hill, to Catherine, eldest daughter of
- Park, nearly opposite the back of Carlton-house. He had been John Hunter, Esq. of Brunswick-square.
frustrated in a previous attempt to drown himself in the Canal. On the 17th instant, Robert Lowis, Esq., eldest son of Ninian
A gold watch was found upon his person, and a draft for one Lowis, of West Plean, Stirlingshire, to Margaret, eldest daugh
hundred pounds. He has been recognised by his friends. He ter of David Hunter, Esq., Montagu-street, Russell-square.
- ~ is said to: ºbeen at the Drawing-rootn-on." ayºr A On Wednesday, the Hon. F. C. Cavendish, M.P., son of Lord
Coroner's Inquest was held on the body, whose verdict was— Cavendish, to º Susan, widow of the Hon. Frederick
insanity.- ** -º • * -- * * * - * … [. Howard, and only daughter of the late W. H. Lambton, M.P.
On Saturday week, Mrs. Kirby went to Mr. King, one of the . Lester, On the 15th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, James
arish officers of Woolwich, (to which they belonged) who gave . On Wednesday,Esq., to Miss Febon. - - * *

§. 2s. and sent a letter to her husband, requesting him to bring Priory, to ..º.
at Boynton, Charles Winn, Esq. of Nostall
daughter of Sir William Strickland,
his family down to the poor-house. Next morning (Sunday) Bart. of Boynton, Yorkshire.
they all left their lodgings in Bull-court, except a girl nine years -

Thursday, F. P. Robinson, Esq. only son of Sir F. P. Robinson,

old, for Woolwich. About dusk the same evening, the man re
turned home, without either the woman or the children, and K.C.B., to Miss Harriet Meares, eldest daughter of the late J,
entered his lodgings as if he wished to escape observation; but Meares, Esq. *

near the dºor he was met by the landlord, who asked what had Wednesday, at St. Clement Danes, P. Cosgreave, M.D. to
become of his wife und the children. He said, that he had Maria, eldest daughter of the late Mr. John Ford, of the Strand.
stopped at a public-house on the road to have half a pint of ham, Lately, Mr. James Bigerstaff, of Robin Hood Butt, near Clap
porter, and that they had gone on towards Woolwich, but as he is the Yorkshire, to Miss Ennice Huck, of the same place. This
third time this hero has brought his offering to the altar
could not afterwards come up with them. he did not think proper of Hymen, though aged only seventy-eight, and having remained
to follow them. . Early on Monday Kirby went into the country a solitary widower for twenty long weeks; but, overcome at last
to seek for employment, but returned in the course of the day,
and in a conversation with a man in the house, expressed some by the irresistible charms of his present blooming bride, who is
in her nineteenth year—or considering, perhaps, that “it is
fear of going to Woolwich, for he said, they would certainly do not good for man to be alone;"—or otherwise through a parti
something to him. On Tuesday be cut his throat. After he
had been conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, a constable went cular respect for the memory of her who is now no more, has
taken to . arms the niece of his beloved helpmate, whom he
to Woolwich and learned that neither the woman nor the chil
drem had arrived there. Mrs. Kirby, at her departure, is sup had obliged in becoming her fourth husband.—Nottingham, Re
uietc.
posed to have had about one shilling in her pessession; not the
slightest trace of her has been yet discovered. Hopes are enter DEATHS.
tained of Kirby's reeovery. He is silent with regard to his wife At Edinburgh, on the 6th instant, John Young, Esq., of Bell
and children.
wood, Perthshire.
On Friday week, Mr. Mortimer Taylor, of No. 24, Broad-street, On Wednesday, the 9th inst., at Clay-hall, Herts, Emma, the
St. Giles's, sent a little girl about 11 years of age, to bring two wife of I. H. Waddington, Esq.
of his children from school; at the same time she took in her On the 13th inst., at Kennington, Mr. John Page, late of High
arms a fine male infant, two months old. On returning home street, Southwark, aged 67.
she came through Soho-square, and met a woman of decent ap On the 13th inst., Lydia, wife of Mr. I. L. Johnson, City-road,
pearance, who for the last three weeks frequently accosted the Finsbury, in her 56th year.
girl, and gave her and the children money. She requested the On the 15th inst., William Bond, Esq. at York-place, Penton
girl to walk with her, and took her as far as Rathbone-place, ville. -

where she sent her into Mr. Wright's, a grocer's shop, at the At Toulouse, on the 4th inst., George White, Esq., son of Luke
corner, for sixpennyworth of figs, and teld her she would take White, Esq. M.P.
care of the children till her return. The girl acceded to her re ---

quest; the woman gave the other children haif-pence to follow

their nurse, and on the girl's return she found the woman had Printed and published by John Hunt, at the Examnus-Office,
gone way with the infant, 19, Catherine-Street, Strand—Price 104
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THE POLITICAL EXAMINER. suppose, among others, he had been forbid te read his.
Would he have repeated the “offence,” or would he not
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Pope.
If not, what would he have shewn, but that his sense of
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his duty to God was less than his acquiescence in the au
thority of man If he had repeated it, and had been
called up for so doing, what would the real question have
PROSECUTIONs OF --
MR. CARLILE,
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been, any more than what it was at first,--a question of
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conscience and opinion, with which repetition has essen

Sixce writing our two former articles on this subject, Mr. tially nothing to do? Would the early Christians have
CARLILE has been called on to plead to the indictments
been right in submitting to the menaces of power, and
and information against him. He requested more time consenting not to promulgate their opinions? Would
for his defence, the indictments having been so accumu
lated upon him; but it was refused. He pleaded there gate Wickliffe have been right in consenting not to promul
his? Would Luthen, or Calvin, or Melancrimox,
fore not guilty; and is to be tried during the sittings aſter or Zungle, or the Missionaries whom Mr. Justice BAI
the present-term, which ends next Wednesday.—A curi Lev and others help to send out to preach anti-national
ous circumstance took place on this occasion, which shews
the different feelings with which Judges and a Defendant opinions in foreign countries See to what the question
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may regard the same conduct. Mr. CARLILE observed For our part, we sincerely believe with Mr. CARLite,
that one of the indictments was ſounded on the same pub
that these repeated indictments on the part of those offi
lºcation as a previous one.
cious persons calling themselves the Society for the Sup
Mr. Justice Baſiley-Do you mean to say that the two indict pression of Vice, originate in petty, worrying, and vindic
mºats are founded on the same offence
HDefendant.—They are founded on the same publication, but tive feelings. * If they merely wished to try the question,
different books purchased at different times. it could have been tried as well upon one indietment as:
Mr. Jastice BAILEx-That alters the case: they are distinct
books, purchased at different times, each of which constitutes an fifty: but every reader is not aware perhaps, that the law
offence. I recollect the defendant being brought to my Chambers (as grasping, and after all as foolish and unhappy as,
for this indictment, and thet a promise of forbearance was made Midas) never touches any thing but what it turns to gold.
tº him, provided he wºuld give-aw, undertaking to discontinue
the sale, and that the defendant refused to give an undertaking We ourselves, in our homest warfare with corruption, have
to that effect. defeated three several indictments, two of them indeed
Defendant.—I conceived, my Lord, that the publication could withdrew of their own accord, not chusing to risk a
not be considered an offence, until a Jury had decided it to battle; and yet each one, without exception, cost us a
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Mr. Justice Best—You may be wrong there. hundred pounds. The Vice Society is well aware of this
How do these observations of the Judges tally with the . appetite of it's friend the Law; and thus it is that worldli
law-maxim, that every one is presumed to be innocent mess and other-worldliness play into each other's hands.,
till he be found guilty? The alleged offence, be it ob Not that the Lawyers themselves, generally speaking, have
served, is not a manifest one like a personal breach of the any respect for the Society. They are too knowing, if not
peace, respecting the repetition of which nobody could tions too wise. But such is the costly result of these applica
entertain a doubt. It is not only of a quiet but a consci to them, and the Society know it well—The So
entious nature, quite as conscientious, and much more ciety —What a misnomer for a meddling though silly
quiet in it's effects than the publication of Mr. Justice set of weak understandings, who are least social when
Bailey's Prayer-Book would have been in Catholic times; they pretend to be most so. The Society make us sick.
and if the law complains of repetition, the law should There may be some well-meaning persons among them;
prevent it by being less dilatory on it's own part. The and some of the principal names that appear, may have
law, God knows, can practice delay long enough when it little or nothing to do with them but as names; but in
chuses, as we have experienced ; it can delay from term general, their old gossiping members, their prurient hypo
to term, if a Jury does not satisfy it; and the Court of crisy, their vindictive heapings of persecution, their wretched
Chancery can delay, till it's conduct has passed into a pro appetite for detecting offence, and their most disgusting
verb; and yet, if it's own dilatoriness help to give occa use of informers and false pretences (a vice in itself twenty
sion to the repetition of an alleged offence, it can afford times more injurious to social virtue then all which they
no delay for the Defendant to manage his accumulated take such absurd means of eradicating) present a nausedus
burden. Again, the Judges think it an additional offence picture of human folly, vanity, and want of excitement.
in Mr. CARLILE to go on with his publications; but would There are doubtless many members of this Society who
they have a conscientious man regard his conduct as an pique, or profess to pique, themselves upon helping the
offence, merely because he is told so Mr. Justice BAI propagation of the gospel in foreign parts. Suppose a
Ley, we believe, is a conscientious man ; he is also a reli Society for the Suppression of Vice among some old
gious man, and fond of shewing his zeal for religion. * We should be obliged to any of our readers, who would
Suppose he had lived in the Catholic times, when the per favour us with an accurate list of the members of this precious
secuted Protestants were forbid to read their Bibles, and Volunteer Rifle-Corps of Saints Militant.
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Hindoos or South Sea Islanders. One of the vices which of the Charter. The great thing held up to the Mis
they would endeavour to suppress would of course be this sionaries is the Erample of the Apostles, who went about
very propagation of the gospel,-for such it would appear every where, among countries and governments the most
to the devout worshippers of Brahma and the Great Spirit. opposed to them, in order to act up to their sense of duty.
A propagator is brought up accordingly, and warned how This is the great thing recommended in the abstract. The
3ie repeats his offence; he repeats it, as in conscious duty particular injunctions are to shew a culm resistance to dif
bound; and is then made to pay both for the first offence foulty and danger, and to employ argument. The present
and the repetition. What would the Society for the Sup Bishop of Chester, brother of the late Lord Chief Jus
pression of Vice in England say to this conduct on the tice ELLENhonovgn, in a sermon preached in the year
part of it's brother Society in Benares or Tongataboo? 1816, especially inculcates an indifference to dangers and
We noticed this part of the question before; and it ap difficulties. Eulogizing the conduct of the first propaga
pears to us worth dwelling upon. Indeed we have heard tors of the Gospel (who, be it observed, were opposed to
of readers, who though differing with us in several opinions every species of existing authority) he says, that “it was
were so struck with it, as to conceive it not to be got joy to them, to sacrifice the world, and friends, and life, in
over, that is to say at least, in point of fair argument. the service of their Heavenly Master.” A Bishop now-a
That the law may be another thing, we are all aware; but days, it is true, certainly does not sacrifice any of these
the dilemma remains, as long as there is even a shew of himself, or the least particle of them. On the contrary,
decent reference to argument, and indeed as long as law he indulges in the world and its good things, and even
itself affects to be decently consistent. For the law itself, in its “pomps and vanities,” and that too at the very
and lawyers, and judges to boot, as well as divines and moment when he is calling upon every body else, in
others, aid and abet in interfering with the established the catechism, to renounce them. But at any rate we
religions of other countries. Charters are granted by the here see what the Bishops' theory is. Then again, -“the
jºgislature, and missionaries sent out to Asia, Africa, and last objects of the Society's care,” says the celebrated
America, by legislators as well as theologians, for the ear Bishop Louth, in a sermon preached in the year 1771,
press pºppose of doing in other countries what Mr. Carlile “are the American nations bordering upon our colonies, or
kas thought it his duty to do in this, namely, to bring intermixed with them.” Here is an express recommenda
round the natives to another set of religious opinions. tion of what all the other Reverend Propagators recom
The Charter of King William, it is true, confines the mend in general. The Missionaries are to go among hations
exercise of this zeal to the dominions possessed or said to entirely independent of us, whatever may be their disincli
be possessed by the British Crown; but the reader may nation, or the dissatisfaction of their governments, or the
conceive how lax even the legal interpretation of this denouncements of their priests, and to win over as many
charter is, when he understands, that the island of Ceylon, of the natives as possible to their own way of thinking.
our usurpation of which is still disputed by the deposed And the evangelical Missionaries, observe, who are
family, has been formally added to the religious jurisdic patronized by numbers of individuals both in church and
tion of the Bishop of CALcutta. And it is to be ob state, have long done this, as in the well-known instance
served, that our Indian Napoleons do not pretend to put of the South Sea Islanders. The Bishops and they evi
--down the religious as well as civil authorities. The reli dently agree in this matter, however they may dispute and
gious opinions of the Hindoos are too much ground in and speak ill of one another in the rest. Bishop BARRisøros,
engrained with the whole substance of their lives, to render a kinsman of Noble legislators, says that “however the
such a measure advisable, even were it our custom, which Gospel has been forced to retire from some countries, it
it is not. The idea of putting down the most serious has been able, through the grace and providence of Gon,
notions of our fellow-creatures, however fanciſul or absurd, to penetrate far into others;” and he adds, that if Minis
ºby main force, appeals on such occasions too forcibly to ters and Missionaries conduct themselves as the first
our good sense and common nature. We ask ourselves
preachers did, it will at last “dbtain the dominion from
how we should like to be so treated by a conqueror; and sea to sea and unto the world's end.” Bishop Thunrºw,
the answer, glaringly obvious at such moments, induces brother of the Noble Judge of that name, longs for the
us, in this instance at least, to do as we would be done by. arrival of the time when Christianity shall be the establish
No:—we exercise our new authority only to recommend religion in India, because he says a field will thea be
argument, and to enable religious disputants and teachers, opened for it's extension in cºer remoter places, where
such as they are, to pursue their sense of duty with impu of course it will not at the same time be established. Pi—
nity. Observe then the new dilemma. is the possession nally, (that we may not leap up unnecessary quotations) i
of civil power the only thing which can make the propaga Bishop Rypert, kinsman of another Noble legislator, long
tion of anti-national opinions innocent ' If so, if the known for his co-operation with Government, rejoices
innocence of the propagation merely depends upon per that in consequence of the translation of the Bible in
mission,-why is it ever hindeed? On the other hand, to “most of the multiplied dialects of India,” the opi
if it does not depend upon permission, why do we arro tions which he thinks it his duty to propagate are begin
gate a right to permit to our own opinions that liberty ning to have free course; and his Lordship trusts with
which we refuse to others? It is thus the question eter great ſervour that the time is not far distant when
nally comes round to one of general right. - - “Cunist shall subdue unto himself (through the labours
The different Prelates and others, who have preached at of British Missionaries) the whole continent of Oriental
various times in furtherance of the society above-men India.” ' ' ' ... " - -

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or argumentative, decent, humane, or even Christian (if much about as good an authority for facts as Damberger's
the doctrine of doing as one should be done by is to be ex Travels. . But the author is a hot Federalist, violent in
clusively called Christian), any conscientious man what abusing his own Government, and in praising ours. Mr.
soever is to be withheld from pursuing his own sense of Fearon's book contains a good collection of facts, but his
opinions are distorted by an extreme degree of fastidious
duty, in propagating his own doctrines by means of argu ness and spleen. It seems to have disappointed him that
ment? And we should like to know in particular, why he did not find the American woodman as polished, intel
Mr. CARLILs, the Defendant in this case, is not to be ligent, and learned, as the Royal Society. #. is no friend,
allowed to do his utmost endeavours, by those means, to however, to the system of our Ministers, and, therefore, the
propagate the worship of GoD alone and the disbelief in Reviewers receive his testimony with a reservation. They
eternal torture, as well as the Missionaries are allowed state that he is a lover of truth, and an excellent witness
against America, where he was about six months, and saw
to propagate the additional worship of CBR1st and the things exactly as they were ; but in all that concerns Eng
belief in eternal torture? land, where he has lived all his life, he is ignorant and
33r prejudiced, and his opinions are .*. authority. From
the materials which these two writers furnish, assisted by
AMERICA AND THE QUARTERLY RE their own invention, the Reviewers are able to make Ame
- VIEWERS. ºrica and its Government as bad as they please. To follow
them through all the misrepresentations in these two arti
It is allowed that the long and secure possession of cles would be to controvert every paragraph. We can
power makes men mild and it. in the use of it, and only afford room for a few remarks.
that a violent spirit in public men betrays the danger of }. Reviewer would fain persuade his readers that
their situation. Judging on this principle, we should none but a government supported by rotten burghs and
suppose that the present Ministry is hastening to its de sinecures can endure the trials of war; and he quotes the
struction. The open and shameless contempt of truth, h of a member of Congress, who affirmed that the
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candour, and fair statement in the pages of the Quarterly #. Government would have been dissolved had the
Review is without a parallel, at the present day, in any war lasted six months longer. But he does not tell us
Journal-that has the least pretensions to philosophy or that the Federal party, three years before, had predicted
literature. As Journals readily catch the spirit of their the dissolution of the Government within six months,
Yeaders, we are forced to infer, that the party rage of the while the fact was, that the Government gained additional
faction for whom this one is written has º wrought up support at every election. When a trial of strength took
-to implacable fury by its recent defeats and loss of coase. place after the peace, at the election of President in 1817,
quence. We are certain that party spirit may exist in full the party who had supported the war were to their oppo
vigour.without such an avowed 㺠of decency as nents as five to one. But this superior strength, it seems,
this Journal manifests at present, When the name of Mr. is not got by honest means. The party who came into
Hazlitt appears in the title of an article, what does the power seventeen years ago, according to the Reviewer,
reader of the Quarterty Review expect? . He expects not employ the whole patronage of the Government to keep
one word of fair criticism, but an unremitted effort to themselves in, and the President is obliged to appoint his
blacken, distort, and misrepresent, he expects to find adherents to office without regard to their knowledge,
what is bad, aggravated, what is good, perverted, what is talents, or morals; practices happily unknown on this side
true, denied, and all means, foul or fair, employed that of the Atlantic. Men however must be very cheap in
tan hurt the author's feelings, or injure his character.—The
America, if the pecuniary means of the government suffice
Review, in short, is an engine for indulging the private to bribe great numbers. The whole expense of the civil
hatred or party rancour of a few persons, for persecuting establishments at Washington in 1817, including the Pre
and torturing individuals, and, we may add, for poisoning sident's salary, was but 351,000 dollars, or 80,000l. not
the public mind by falsehoods. Perhaps there is no exceeding two sinecures here. But if a party make itself
Journal that does not deal partially at times;.. but it was so strong with a revenue of five millions, how destitute of
reserved for the Quarterly F. to avow its purpose of resources must another party be, which after thirty years'
misrepresenting, and vilifying without disguise, to sport possession of power, can scarcely keep itself from sinking,
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with truth, candour, and fionesty, and glory in doing so. with a revenue of fifty millions !
The name of America, at the head of an article, is We have no means of knowing whether the Reviewer's
anºther signal to let the reader know that he is to expect a statement is accurate, that the American Judges are of an
fall dºse of misrepresentation and Billingsgate abuse. If inferior class. . It may, for aught we know, be as well
we had entertained any doubts that the establishment of founded as another statement of his, that British Judges
the North American Republic was the greatest triumph to have a character of dignity approaching to religious vene
the cause of eivil and religious liberty in modern times, the ration, and that they are adverse to indulge even in inno
bitter invectives of the Quarterly Reviewers would have cent levity. There may be things in America and else
removed them. These gentlemen are too wise to exhaust where whicſ; even the Reviewer has not divined. It may
their strength in warring with phantoms. , Were there not be the case that when Judges are to be selected, they are
something in the American Government that was ſelt to be taken from the lower end of the bar, instead of the upper,
a constant reproach to our own, they would not make so that a Barrister whom nobody would trust to state his case,
many efforts to decry it. If the defects of that Govern is appointed in the wisdom of government to decide upon
yment were so obvious, they need not take such pains to it, that a freehold vote, powerful friends, political ser
blazon them; if our own is so perfect, it will not suffer b vices, may raise men to the Bench without regard to their
roºmparison with another that is inferior. Above all, if ualifications,—and that the men thus exalted by signa
the Reviewers stand on the vantage ground of truth, they lising themselves as political partisans, may give one half of
need not lose their tempers in the discussion. the country good reason to doubt their impartiality. These
The Reviewers have been fortunate enough to find two are great evils; and the . who escape them cannot be
boºks well adapted to serve their purpose, and, in the too thankful for tkeir good fortune.
present number, each of them is made the subject of an The Reviewer deplores the neglect of religion in the
erºcle. Bristed's Resources of America is a crude super United States, for which it is clear that his remedy would
ficiº work, vague and confused in its statements, and be very simple. The government should take one of the
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many sects there into partnership, endow it with great It is stated that 15,000 persons received charity in New
privileges and ample salaries at the expense of the others, ork in the winter of 1817. Mr. Bristed, we admit, is
not forgetting a die allowance of sinecure stalls; in return, as good an authority for this fact, as Mr. Wansittart is for
this sect should preach passive obedience, canvass for men the very flourishing state of this country, which he an
in power at elections, and prostitute the offices of religion nounced a few weeks ago. The same was stated to be
to the vilest party purposes. But how is this charge of a the case at Philadelphia. But Mr. Fearon, who was in
want of religion made out? Mr. Warden has shewn that America at the time, (and is º said by the Reviewer
where the population is concentrated, the Americays are to suppress all mention of the subject), says he saw no
as well supplied with churches, by their own voluntary thing to justify such a statement; that, on the contrary,
contributions, as we are by compulsory assessments. New every person in health might find advantageous employ
York, in fact, contains more places of worship than Edin ment. Some distress, however, did exist, and indeed it
burgh, including those of all descriptions. The same is obvious, that New York, as a great commercial town,
holds true in proportion of Boston, Hºpi. and all must have suffered from the contagion of our misery.
the other large towns, And we think there is a better But the Reviewer has suppressed what Mr. Bristed tells
chance of those churches being filled which men build at in another part of his book, that a great proportion of the
their own expense, than those which the State supplies to poor of New York are foreigners. Probably two-thirds
them, whether required or not.. There is, no doubt, a of these sufferers were British subjects seeking refuge from
want of churches in the country. But the Reviewer starvation at home. It is rather hard, that not content
knows well it cannot be otherwise, where the population. with sending out the overflowings of our own wretched
is so much dispersed that it will nºt average, for all the Old |. Americans, we should charge them with
ness upon
States, 20 persons to a square mile, while England, from producing the misery with which we have ourselves
which his ideas are taken, averages more than 200. We burdened their charity. At all events, pauperism is not a
advise the Reviewer too, before he indulges his, national deadly evil in the tººd States. Mr. Warden informs
vanity and spiritual pride over the fanaticism of the Tun us, that the average number of poor is about 1 in 399, or
kers in Philadelphia, to let the world forget the prophetess 33,000 in a population of ten millions. This should not
Joanna, Southcot, with her five thousand followers, in the be oppressive, since England, which has the same amount
great intellectual city of London, enlightened as it is by of pºpulation, is flourishing, as the Reviewer well knows,
reverends and right reverends, and by the Quarterly Ré with one and a half or two millions of paupers.
*ew. Though morals should be as much relaxed in As emigration has not yet had its place determined
America as the Reviewer affects to believe, it will be time among the class of crimes, it may not be amiss to inform
enough for us to reproach them with it, when their crimi our readers what rank in the scale the Reviewer assigns it.
mal calender has increased to the half of ours. And if their They must know then, that the man who transfers his in
vices be chargeable on the want of education, what must dustry or his capital from the land he was born in, to
be the state of morals every where else, since it is well another where he can employ it to more advantage, or the
known that the common people in America are better edu man who will rather go abroad than starve, or the weaver
cated than in any other country? It is true that the higherwho grudges to remain in a country where he earns 5s. 9d.
branches of education are not so, common there as in some a-week, out of which he pays one-third to defray the pen
countries of Europe, but men make a shift to discharge sions of the Quarterly Reviewers, is “a ruſian,” “a
their duties without a knowledge of the learned languages; jacobin,” “an atheist,” “a fellow that defrauds the
and the example of the Quarterly Reviewers is sufficient to gallows of its due.” But there is a dispensing clause in
prove that persons who quote Greek and Latin have favour of placemen and pensioners, and the Quarterly Ite
often less respect for truth and decency than the lowest viewers or their friends are at liberty to accept of snug
vulgar. situations in India, America or China, where they may
We advise the Reviewer, when he appeals to facts, to spend their lives and fill their pockets with the publis:
go to some better authority than Bristed, and not put down money, without the imputation of being cold blooded, and
one digit instead of another. He will find that the pay of without any breach of duty to their country.
the members of Congress is not six but eight dollars a-day; The short career of the United States has thrown more
Mr. Pitkin or Mr. Warden will tell him that the slave light on the theory of Government, than the experience of
population did not increase faster than the whites between centuries. But the truths it exhibits are gall and worm
the first and last census, but slower nearly in the propor wood to the hirelings of power. Without it we might
tion of 17 to 19; and this too when the slave trade was have believed that rotten burghs are the soundest part of a
ºpen.He will find that the number of slaves, instead of Constitution, and that a fair and full representation was
bºg above two millions, can scarcely exceed one and a visionary nonsense. Delolme's doctrine might have passed,
hai, ; that instead of forming with the M egroes one fourth that it is only the strong executive of a monarchy which
of the population, they scarcely exceed one sixth; that the can indulge its subjects in great liberties of speech and
opulatiºn of the United States is not nearly eight millions, conduct, while a republic is necessarily suspicious and
{...} nearly ten ; that the emigration, which he supposes severe; and that in a democracy the people must become
to be the principal source of its increase, does not furnish the prey of quacks, under, whom neither person nor pro
more than a tenth or fifteenth of the annual augmentation; perty could be secure. To the confusion of all these
that the two parties are not, as he states, about equal in theorists, however, persons and property are more secure
numbers, but more nearly in the proportion of 5 to 1 ; in the United States than any where else, if we may judge
that the Americans are not more heavily taxed than us in from the rate at which both multiply. The interests of
proportion to their means, unless three dollars a-year press the people are found to thrive wonderfully under their
more heavily on a man who earns a dollar a-day, than own care; and political quacks find so little encourage
3 or 4 Founds do upon a man who earns half a dollar a ment there, that they are aſ most the only class which never
day. . To these mistatements a hundred others might be emigrate from this happy country. The Government, so
added, very few of which originate in ignorance. It will far from being jealous and cruel, is the mildest and most
be observed, they nearly all relate to arithmetical facts, as liberal that ever existed in the world. It creates no ficti
to which it requires honesty, and not accuracy, to avoid tious plots, nourishes no host of spies, or mercenary Re
errors. It is scarcely necessary to add, that when a writer viewers, and has contrived to get through a stormy periºd
takes such liberties with facts, no argument can stand in without the legitimate help of the gibbet, so indispensable
his way. . to the strong monarchies of the old world-Scotsman.
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Yellow Stone detachment, and other evidences of hostility, the

Foreign INTELLIGENCE. . Indians have given a prºlogue to the great drama they intend
to act. -

FRANCE. - Well they may naturally suspect that an establishment so far

CHAMBER OF I) EPUTIES. in the heart of their country is but a prelude to further encroach
M. Dupont, noticing the petition of an old greundier of the con ments; and, believing so, will they not identiſy action with
sular guards, demauding payment of a pension of 600 francs, which belief, and oppose what they believe to be intrusiou ? It then
had been granted to him as a compensation for having saved the behoves the constituted authorities to take precautionary mea
life of Bouaparte ou the 18th Brumaire, in the ball of the Coun sures, in order to be prepared for any event. If the war should
cil of Five Hundred, declared, that he (M. Dupont) was present happen, the result sooner or later will be in our favour; and the
at the time, that no assassination was attempted, and that the more vigorous the incipient operations, the sooner they will be
story was invented, and this soldier procured to attest it, for the disposed to peace. A war with the Indians will be productive
purpose of justifying the violence put upon the national repre of great injury to themselves, and of corresponding good to us;
sentatives.—The petition was unanimously rejected. it will be the means of giving a death-blow to the prospects of
Tire debates assumed, on Saturday last, a highly animated the British for companies, and it will go to the source of that
and interesting character: the disgussion was nominally on the fatal British influence among the Indians, so clearly evinced by
affairs of the budget; but M. de Cazes took occasion, from some the devastation of our frontier settlements, and the murder of
women and children.
sarcastic remarks of M. Chauvelin, to express his confidence in -

the capacity of Ministers to repeal all indirect aecusatious; and The Indians will be so greatly undeceived, that they will put
at the same time, turning towards M. Bignon, demanded the no more confidence, repose no more faith, in British promises;
meaning of those mysterious menaces which that Member had it will open their eyes to their real interests. Cautionary posts
thrown out against the 'King's Government, as if he possessed will be established at proper distances, with efficient garrisons
some terrible secret, by the revelation of which it was in his to prevent the North-West and Hudson's Bay Companies from
entering into any competition with the American traders; and
power to blast and overwhelm it. M. Bignºn was encouraged St.
by M. Cassimir Perrier to refuse explanation; and after mount Louis, instead of Montreal, will become the focus of trade.
ing the tribune, pale and confused, he declared that the time was H will make the Hudians respect our character; it would pro
not yet arrived for marking the threatened disclosures, which bably be the last Indian war of consequence that we should tº
he would reserve until the repeal of the article respecting the engaged in; and if our soldiers and traders would blend the mill
Regicides should be again discussed.—“That time,” answered and humane virtues with the terrible sterſ aspect of war, they
M. de Serre, “will never come.”—This Minister then went on would probably transfer their affections from the British to the
American Government.
to state, that all the petitiºns in favour of the Regicides pro
ceeded from a single source: that a committee was established
in Paris, whose object was to insult the King, and to traduce the
Government; aud that the petitions, which seemed to be the re UNITED PA R LIAMENT.
salt of spontaneous feeling in different provinces, were the work
of this central assºciation. The Minister of the Interior con HOUSE OF LORDS.
firmed this account, and expressed great contempt for the plot -º
and its author-. The Members of the left side defended them º

selves with much vehemence; aud the Chamber adjourned its - Monday, June 21.
sitting. * = * * -
- Some discussion arose on the motion for the commitment of
the Cash Payments' Bill, in the course of which the Marquis of
GERMANY. -
Lansdown and the Earl of LAudrapale adverted to the subject
Ixspruck, Juxt: 12–Several Carboniari have been arrested in of the new taxes, and strongly condemned the choice of such a
the states of the Pope, and two in the town of Ferrara. The period as the present for their imposition, for the sake of having
number of this sect now in custody is pretty considerable. It a larger-Sinking Fuud.—The Bill was committed.—Adjourned.
continues to be attirmed, that a plot has been discovered, relative - Tuesday, June 22. º

to political changes projected by them. Some are detained in

the Lombardº-Venetian prisons of the kingdom of Naples. The
proceedings instituting against them are kept a profound secret.
• PRLss; A.
Bealin, JUNE 7–Capt. Bloeure, of the Royal Guard, who
was formaerly intimately connected with Sand, has allowed him
self to use very bold language, tending to justify that assassin.
Time Govern-ent has sent him from 13erlin, and placed him in a
regiment in garrison at Posin, put leaving him, however, his rank
in the line. , - -
AM ERICA–UNITED STATES.
--
[From the National Intelligencer.]
Noarº-Westras Expedition.—That the expedition to the
mouth of the Yellow Stone will eventuate in producing a war
with the Indians bordering on the Missouri, and contiguous to
The Cotton Factories Bill was passed.
FRAME-WORK KNITTERS.
The Duke of Rutland, on moving the second reading of the
-
Frame-Work Knitters' Bill, observed, that it was of vital im
portance to a numerous and distressed class of persons at Lei
cester. By the introduction of a spurious article into the manu
facture, the meu employed, who could formerly earn 15s. a week
bv working 12 hours a day, were now obliged to work from 13 to
16 hours per day for the small pittance of 7s, per week. If this
measure was not resorted to, the manufacture itself would soon
be totally ruined.
The Earl of Lauderdale contended, that the Bill was highly
injurious. It went to substitute a dear article for a cheap one,
and at the same time to throw out of employment 3000 persons
who were employed in the cheap article, without any certainty
that the sale of the dear article could be forced so as to ensure
the employment of these persens. -

the settlement, intended to be established, is an opinion enter
tained by many; and indeed, were we to draw conclusions from
that analogy and the past—from the uniform customs of all ages,
whether civilized or barbarous, who have always viewed with a
jealous eye the encroachments of a contiguous power—from
the undue influence possessed by the British traders over the
Indians, this opinion seems to attach to itself a more imposing
The Earl of DeNeigh maintained, that if the Bill was passed,
the 3000 persons employed in the spurious article, who would
be thrown out of employ, would be much more advantageously
employed in the regular manufacture.
The motion was carried by 20 to 8.-Adjourned.
Wednesday, June 23.
-

grade of probability than is ordinarily given to it. Conjecture The Frame-work Knitters' Bill was opposed by the Marquis of
now will probably one day be history, and perchance the LANsnown, on the ground that nothing could be more mischiev
prairies of the Missouri will be as famous in history as the plains ons and foolish than prohibiting the manufacture of cheap ar
of Alibama. -
ticles, in order to endeavour to compel people to buy dear ones.—
Government, we understand, has ordered two regiments to On a division, the Bill was thrown out by 27 to 25.
this place:–one to ascend the Mississipi as far as Prairie-du After the third reading of the Cash Payments’ Bill, Lord Hot
Chieu ; the other most probably to the mouth of the Yellow LAND proposed an ameudalent, to fix the period for 1.e resump
Stone. These measures, while they evince a forecast of charac tion of Cash-payments at July. 18.0, instead of July, 1833.--
ter highly creditable to Secretary Calhoun, also show the appre This was negatived without a division, and the Bill was passed.
hensions of Government. In attacking a hunting party of the —Adjourned.
 406 THE EXAMINER. –––.
2

* Thursday, June 24. - had been referred to a Committee, ou his motion; but they were
MADHOUSEs. -
found to be so voluminous that nothing was done. They were
The Marquis of LANspown moved the second reading of the however at length referred to the Board of Taxes, who stated,
Madhouses' Regulation Bill. The Noble Marquis dwelt on the in their report, that Rogers, the surveyor, had by the conni
dreadful abuses existing with respect to lunatics, and particular vance of a clerk to the Commissioners, been guilty of grºss fraude
ly paupers, who were often kept in workhouses, chained and and overcharges; had inserted in the principal duplicate less
, Hi-treated, to save the expense of sending them to regular asy sums than had been received, and in many instances has made
lums. Persons had died in the receptacles for Lunatics, without the charges in thq supplauentary assessment appear 4" sº
its being possible for the Magistrates to discover the mode of charges, by which i. surveyor became entitled to a considerable
their death. sam as per centage. With respect to this clerk, the Commis
The Lord Chancellor opposed the Bill. It was necessary sioners bad indeed threatened to make him pay the penalties,
that physicians should have power to order such remedies and but instead of following up this threat, they had (as the Hoº:
treatment as they thought proper; but no respectable men would barouet was understood to say) made him superiºtendant ºf
give their aid, if a controul was to be exercised over them by surveyors in four northeru counties. He, though; this was ºf:
inspectors appointed by the Secretary of State. The Bill gave subject for Parliamentary inquiry; and he therefore moved for
half the penalties to the informer, and the consequence would certain returns, merely for the purpose of getting information.
be, that informers would be found in all the asylums, who Mr. Lusatwgton said that, as to the surveyor so justly coº
wound be made judges of the conduct of the physicians. He ob demned, penalties amounting to 91st. had been recovered from .
jected also to the register which was to be kept in the Home Se him on the discovery. The clerk to the Commissioners was a
cretary's Office, for the purpose of being inspected by the rela very respectable person, and it appeared that he had ºnly been
tives of lunatics, and in order to prevent concealment: he guilty of unintantional neglect, in trusting to athers: the adnº
thought that persons who might be afflicted for three or four nition he had received therefore weuld put him on his guard *
weeks would not like to have their names registered. There future.—The motion was agreed to.
were certainly great abuses in the management of pauper luna t Excise PROSECUTIONS. -

tics, and he would agree to a Bill containing the clauses re Mr. D.ofw
specting them which were in this Bill. Bryan, theHanvey held in complaining
ship Margaret, his hand a Petition from Captain
of ºppressieu from
The Marquis of LANspowN maintained, that the shocking facts the Commissioners of Excise. According to this Petition, whe
disclosed in the evidence on this subject rendered it absolutely Captain's case was this:–On the Margaret corning intº pºrt
necessary, if any remedy was to be attempted, that there should frºm surinam, capt. B. sent in a statement of the exciºlº
be frequent inspection and reports; and that, with respect to articles on board, and 145 bags of coffee were set dºwn tº that
persons confined for a short time, there were sufficient provi statement. the searchers on coming on board found the **
sons in the Bill to prevent disclosure. were only 140 bags, by which Capt. Braynn, was rendered liable
The House divided—For the motion, 14—Against it, 35– to a penalty of 300i. Capt. B. inquired into this, and ascertained
Majority against the Bill, 21.—Adjourned. that it occurred in consequence of the hurry of sailing, lie coffee
Friday, June 25. contained in 145 bags having been put into 140 at Suinam.
This was represented to the Commissioners, and as nºthing was
-

The Lond CHAscellon presented a Bill for making better

provision for the care of Pauper Lunatics, which was read a done, the matter was considered to be at an end. Two yº”
first time.—Adjourned. , -
afterwards, however,
which was the he washeserved
first notice with
received of an
theExchequer Procº;
commencºmeu of

HOUSE OF COMMONS. proceedings for the penalty (a very unusual course). He º

-- diately applied to the Excise, to whom he sent a statemen.
Monday, June 21. º
the ºhºl,
remit occurrence, if
the prosecution, andhe they
wouldreplied, that they wouldsº"y
pay a cºmpensatiºn, the
The second reading of the Slave Registry Bill was opposed on Excise never commenced a prosecution without 'good grounds.
the ground that it was quite superfluous, being only a copy of a This refusal might be accounted for from the circumstan.” of
Biti in force in all the Colonies, and that its only object would be these petitions being generally referred to the Solicitor of the
to increase the patronage of Government.—Read a second time,
FOREIGN ENLISTMENT, BILL. Board, who had an interest in deciding always in one ***
A long debate, again took place on the Foreign Enlistment
this was a system which could not be too strongly condemned.
Bill, when the third reading was moved. It was supported by The Lords of the Treasury, however, on a similar applicatº"
Sir W. Scorr, Mr. R. GaANT, Dr. Puillixto RE, and others, who being made to them, remitted the peaulty, thus virtually *
contended, that we were bound by a treaty with the King of buking the conduct of the Excise. . They directed the Petitº
Spain not to interfere in favour of either of the belligerents, and however to pay the costs; those of the Excise sºlicitor alwounted .
that no State could be considered neutral, while its subjects to igoi, and
injustice, andhisitown
wastounfortunately
891. This wasnotcertainly a case
a unusual *of ,gº"
Thre
were engaged in the service of two contending powers.-On the official returns showed that in one year alone.751 crimina! itrºbr
other hand, Mr. ScARLErr, Lord Nug ENT, Mr. G. Wen NoN,
| mations were filed, the costs of each of which averaged 1604,
Alderman, Wairuman, &c. argued, that the treaty referred to making an annual sum of 120,000l. . He could only suppº that
only stipulated that we should not supply munitions of war to these informations were filed, not for the protection of the re
either party, and said nothing about enlistments; that this venue, but to wring enormous cºsts from the parties. Au ex
rol tº try was perfectly neutral, while individuals were, left to
----t which party they chose; that there were many instances pense of 50 guineas was incurred every time a prosecutºn .
commenced, in this manner:—a brief to the Attorney-Genera
an our former history of such assistance being afforded; that as 10gs. ; to the sºlicitor-General the same; to two other Coºn"
the feeling of the British nation was entirely favourable to the eight each, and to two, mºre four each. And to these item.
Patriots, this measure would in fact injure and was directed
ºn ther tacked, of 71.13s. 4d. for the court-ºries. $4
against them only, and was therefore contrary to the very prin taugh.)
ciple of neutrality.—Lord Nugent mentioned, that about three The employment of so many and such counsel. jº.
years ago he was in Spain, and saw a brigade of Spanish troops creased the expenses of the parties accused...by compelling then
tº provide more than common defence. He (M. tº should ..
embark for South America, whose muskets were all British and
bore the mark of the Tower of London. (Hear !) This showed at , future time,
he expected for athe
to have committee to inquire
assistance into thisAsºbjº
ef Ministers. ".
the finance
the partiality of those Ministers, who affected such a regard for resolutions so strongly recommended economy. These pºsecº
neutrality.—On a division there were-Ayes, 190—Noes, 129– tions even interfered with the social duties, such was “ i.
Majority. 61.--The Bill was then passed. .."
in a conversation which took place on receiving the Report of dity of informers.
following:—A As an instance
gentleman of this,
at Colchester lenthehis
would menºn º
friend a º:
the Excise Deties Bill, a Member remarked, that it had been and was prosecuted for that friend's brewing a quº; o . -

agreed on a former night to except from the new duty teas at and The penalty was 100l., which was notified to him in the * .#
under 2s. per Ib. He found, on inquiry, this was a complete form of a copy of the bill filed, of forty or fify folios, The
delusion, as there were no teas at any such price.—Adjourned. in the end tº pay 30l. as a composition, and 48l. for costs.- tº
- Tuesday, June 22. tion. Gentleman concluded by moving that the Re"
The Insolvent Debtors' Bili was passed. brought up.
- PECULATION. T. sºrror-Generat stated, with respect tº ºf:
Sir W. Crespigny observed, that certain papers respecting Captain Bryan, that the delay in prosecuting º: left
frauds in the parish of Westerham, in the district of Seven Oaks, found, he believed, to have arisen from the captain's having
 - ---a -- - - -

Eugland in the mean time. Several representations had car , taiued the managemeal And yet, where the confidence of the
rainly been made to the Excise, and one of them stated, that the founder in a particular person had been so unbound, d, that he
error was occasioned by the coffee bei-ig brought in barrels and had appointed him both visitor and trustee or governor, the Com
stowed in bags: this, if so, would have appeared in the ship's missioners had power to inquire!—Even if this clause were re
books, which however had not been produced. The Act of jected, the Universities, the schools under their visitation, all
Parliament did not allow the Commissioners to suffer parties to the great schools, and the Charities connected with the Cathe
altar their reports of cargoes—The Learned Gentleman then de dral Churches, would continue exempted. Out of 40,000 Chari
fended the Excise and its Solicitor. The greater part of the in ties in England and Wales, 2000 . special visitors, and many
formations inentioned were never tried; and the House was hundreds of those were of great value.
aware that the Crown never either received or paid costs. All Mr. Peel, thought the wills of the founders, with respect wo
ºrmpromises proceeded from the parties prosecuted, and never visited charities, provided a sufficient protection to those chart
from the Exchequer. As to the number of Counsel employed, i. ties. The Right Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to attack the
was necessary that there should be a regular number, both that Education Committee and its Chairman, (Mr. Brougham). He
they might relieve one another in very iong cases, which some had expected that the Learned Gentleman would have mºved the
times occurred, and because it would not . to have a Counsel reappointment of that Committee this Session, and intended their
for the Crown one day, and to run the risk of his being re to have taken the sense of the House upon the question. He
tained against the Crown the next, when his assistance would accused the Committee of having exceeded their powers by call
be necessary. -ing before then the masters of several schools in different part:
Mr. CALv ERT and Mr. DENMAN thought a strong case had of the country, while the original design was, that they should
been made out for the interference of Parliament. inquire into the state of the education of the lower orders in the
The CHANcellor of the Exchequent wished to explain that metropolis. In 1818, the proposers of the reappointment of the
the Treasury had remitted the penalty, because they considered Committee intended that the Universities sliould come under its
the costs a sufficient punishmeat, and not that they at all dis cognizance, and it was expected that they would nominate some
approved of the conduct of the Excise. The great revenue persons conuected with those establishments. Of the Committee,
raised from this seurce (35,000,000l.) was a sufficient reason for six were of no party, seventeen usually voted with the Opposi
the number of prosecutions. . . . tion, and three with the Ministry. And who were those three ?
Mr. Gordon remarked, that the Attorney and Solicitor-Gene Who were the three lloratii singled from the enemy's camp oil
ral ought not to be paid for holding briefs in causes in which this occasion ? Why. Sir James Shaw, Alderman Atkins, and
they could not attend, on account of their other engagements. Sir W. Curtis—(Loud laughter)—very respectable men no doubt,
Mr. HARVEY withdrew his motion, and the papers relating to but not qualified for such a duty. #. (Mr. P.) also thought the
Captain Bryant's case were ordered instead. the way in which some of the examinations had been conducted
Mr. Huxte presented a Petition from a number of journeymen (that .# the head of St. John's College, for instance) not proper.
in London, complaining of the laws relative to combinations These persons had been asked for copies of the statutes of their
among workmen, and praying for an amendment of them. The colleges, and when they declared, that they were bound by oath
Hon. Member gave notice, that he should move for leave to not to produce them, the Committee applied to the British
bring in a Bill to amend those laws. - Museum, obtained from thence imperfect copies, and published
The Penryn Bribery Bill was passed. them, with all the marginal notes. This he did not think at all
Mr. C. Wyss brought in a Bill to indemnify witnesses giving fair. He had next to complain of an apparent assumption of au
evidence before either House of Parliament, or their Committees,thority by Mr. Brougham, as Chairman of the Committee, iii.
in cases of election bribery, which was read a first time.—Ad July, 1818, after the dissolution of Parliament, when the Com,
journed. *, *- - - - - - - -mittee was also dissolved. At that time, a Rev. Gentleman had
-

Wednesday, June 23. received a letter, franked by Mr. Freeling, and signed “ li
*
Brougham, Chairman,” proposing several questions of an unfair
Mr. Wilheasonce presented a Petition from Dr. Lempriere, nature;
master of the Exeter charity school, complaining of having been Witham,and a circular had been sent round, signed “George
persecuted by the trustees, and, afterwards turned out of his Clerk to the Committee,” directing all clergymen not
£tuation without any cause, though he had, by his exertions. having made their reports according to order, to send them up
raised the number of scholars from 56 to 141.-Mr. CourtENAy immediately. This was very wrong, because it was calculated
stated that the trustees had only done their duty in dismissing to mislead the pnblic with regard to the fact of the Committee's
Dr. Lempriere. They had raised his salary from 20l. to 40t., sitting. Mr. B. had also, last April, issued a letter beginning
under the condition that he should keep to a former regulation thus:– “It will be rendering a very essential service to the in
which forbade the master to take more than 6l. 6s. a year for quiries now carrying on by the Committee for the education of
the poor,” &c. This, being dated from the House of Commons
every day-scholar, The Doctor, however, raised the price, in
spite of resolutions of the trustees, and caused great discontent in and franked by Mr. Freeling, would raise a presumption that
Exeter: his scholars, fell off considerably. The trustees called Parliament had directed these inquiries, and that 'the parties
him before them, and as he refused to comply with the regu-, were bound to answer them. These proceedings, if unnoticed,
lătioa, he was of course dismissed.-Several other Members cor would form most dangerous precedents, and he therefore pro
tested against them. º -
roborated this account, and the Petition was rejected. Mr. BroughAM rose to defend the Committee and himself from
CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS, the unexpected and laboured attack of the Right Hon. Genile
Lord Castlette.Agit
Foundations Bill. moved the 3.1 reading of the Charitable man. The reason why he had not moved for the appointment
- o - -

of the Committee this Session (which the Right lion. Gentleman

Mr. BRoughaxi approved of the Bill with the exception of the must have known very well) was, that Mr. Canning, on the tirst
clause exempting visited Charities, from inquiry. There were or second might, had given notice of Lord Castlereagh's inven
now to be five Boards, each consisting of two stipendiary com tion to bring forward a specific measure on the subject. He dis
missioners. The Boards were enabled to call for papers by com puted the assertion that the Committee had exceeded its powers.
pulsory process, and there was no danger of its being resisted, As to the original composition of the Committee, to were from
as there was no limit to the fine which they might impose. As the Ministerial side of the House, and only five from the Opposi
to the expense, the House, in the course of a year or two, might tion. He denied, as far as he could recollect the examinations of
reasonably defray it out of the recovered funds, as without the the head of St. Jobn’s College, that that person was treated un
Commission, those funds would have been lost to the poor. courteously. As to the publication of the statutes, that was done
These Boards too would at least get through 1200 cases in the in consequence of the unanimous opinion of the Committee; and
3. As to the visited charities, he orposed the exemption, the notes were published merely because it had been forgotten
ecause abuses might exist without the knowledge of the visitors, to direct the printer to omit them. The Committee was charged
and the Commissioners would then aid in the detection, and not with eoutinuing to act after their labours should have ceased.
**persede them. There was too in this exemption this gross in Now this charge was wholly groundless; for nothing was more
ecºsistency:-The exemption was defended on the plea that the common than to print and circulate, during the recess, the
will of the founder, appointing such special visitors, was not to minutes of evidence taken before Committees at the conclusion of
be interfered with. When no special visitors were appointed, a Session. Were it not for that practice, the business of Parlia
the founder and his heirs were visitors, and such charities were ment would be completely checked by the termination of each
not exempted. So that the House exempted those charities from Session, and both the House and the public would be kept in
inquiry where the founder had appointed a stranger, but there ignorance of the results of such labours till the next Session.
was no exemption, when the founder himself and his family re With respect to the letter he had written during the present
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408 THE EXAMINER.
Session to the parochial Clergy, every body must perceive that it
was written in his individual, and not in his official capacity, for
the terms of it were—“if you can conveniently inform me;" and it
was very different from the circular of last year, in which the
parties were requested to answer the questions put to them. He
.
on the ground that the new Act compelled the bringing a great
deal of fresh business into the Jury Court. The Bill had been
several times in the orders of the day before it was passed, and
any Member must have known when the m-ney clauses weuld
be introduced. - -

knew the Clergymen were not obliged to answer these ques The motion was withdrawn, with an assurance from Lord
tions, but they might have been compelled to attend the Com CAsrlen EAGH that the appointments would not be lastily filled
mittee, and he wished to save them the trouble. urº

A MEMBER of the Committee said, he had uniformly found LORD SELKIRK AND THE NORTH WEST COMPANY.
the conduct of the Chairman, during the inquiry, correct, polite, - Sir Jastes Montgomery entered into a history of the disputes
and proper. between the Hudson's Bay and North-West Companies, main
Mr. V. Fitzger Ald remarked, with respect to the question of taining that the latter had always been the aggressors, and were
the powers of Committees after a dissolution, that although there guilty of a ſoul and premeditated murder, in sending a party of
were many instances in which evidence had been printed and armed men to the Red River Settlement, by whom that Settle
circulated during the recess, that course had only been adopted ment was destroyed, and its Governor, Major Semple, a most
in compliance with an express order of the House. amiable man, along with ethers, put to death. He also accused
iºlº thought it hard that he should have to de the Government of partiality in not bringing some persons to
fend the clause exempting visited charities from inquiry, as it trial, against whom bills of indictineut had been found at the
was the same as Mr. B. himself introduced into his Bill of last
year. Those who had founded charities considered the manage
instance of Lord Selkirk, and in having the causes tried at York,
an incousiderable place, where the people were all under in
inent of them sufficiently secured by the appointment of a special fluence. - t -

visiter.
Mr. Ellice contended, on the other hand, that the scenes of
. The Bill was then read a third time. bloodshed and confusion which had taken place in Upper
Mr. BRough AM brought up a clause to enable the Commis had been occasioned by the violence and aggressions of
sioners to get effect given to the intentions of founders where Canada
Lord Selkirk. As to the question of his Lordship's right to the
their instructions may have been deficient. Company, several
In some conversation which followed, Mr. John Smith noticed territory granted him by the Hudson's BayCompany
lawyers were of opinion, that the itself had -
the false and scandalous libels circulated respecting questions eminent
no right to the land, and therefore could not graut it to any one;
said to have been put by the Committee to persons, who in fact and he (Mr. F.) strongly condemned, the conduct of Lord S. in
never entered the Committee-room. He regretted that Mr. having proceeded with his plans of colonization before the qº
l’eel had thought proper to make the most unwarrantable attacks tion had been decided by a Court of Law. He believed his
against a man who had done more in the support of truth
and
jºstice than almost any other individual. He hºped the Right Lordship wished for a judicial decision, but he understoºd there
lon, Gentleman would do as much : he never would be able to was a delicacy in submitting to counion Courts of Law the right
of the Crown to make such grants.
do more than that most distinguished gentleman.-The clause Mr. Goulburn maintained, that Government had done every
was added to the Bill.
Mr. BRough AM next proposed an amendment to take away the
thing in their power to prevent violences. Some time ago...they
had directed the Canadian Government to send up a military
exception in the Bill to visited charities. In a very large porforce to keep both parties in order, though, the Governor found
tion culpable negligence would be found, amounting in some impracticable. When it was found that great confusion
cases to gross corruption. In this opinion he was supported by that
was created by individuals of both, parti", who were mºgº
the present Lord Chancellor and the late Lord Kenyou, strates, continually arresting one another, Ministers revoked all
Sir W. Scott objected to the amendment, principally on the the commissions of Justices of the Peace, and sent out two gen:
ground that the visiteis would be reduced to mere nominal tlemen to report on the matter, and their report had been laid
officers.
before the House. The Government had not acted partially
The House divided—For the original words, 107—For the against Lord Selkirk: that person had necessarily been put
amendment, 75–Majority, 32–The Bill was then passed.— upon his trial for resisting a warrant and iºriºning the officers.
. Adjourned. it had beeu asked, why the different trials had not taken place
Thursday, June 24. - in England? Ministers had directed that they should; but it
The Assessed Taxes Composition and the Publicans' Licenses was found that Indians and others, whºse evi ence was tieces
legulation Bills were passed. sary, could not be brought across the Atlantic. . .
SCOTCH1 COURTS-JURY COURT. Part of the papers moved for were ordered.—Adjourned.
Lord A. HAxilrox observed, that as long ago as 1814, a Friday, June 25.
Commission had been appointed to inquire into the Scotch Courts Mr.J. Smirn presented a Petition, signed by 683 persons em.
of Justice, and since then had made four or five Reports, ex ployed in the Gotton Mills of New Lanarkººting; that thºugh
posing defects in those Courts, and containing suggestions for their hours of labour had been reduced to 10% per day, no dim:
their improvement. And yet Ministers had all this while brought nation had taken-place in the amount of their earnings, and
forward no measure founded on those Reports, which was both praying that the indulgencies enjoyed by them, might be ºf
di-respectful to the House, and tended to throw discredit on the tended to persons employed in other factories. Mr. Smith said,
Commissioners. The only thing they had done was to refer the he understood that the persons employed in Lanark Cotton Mills,
Rºrts to the consideration of the very Courts in which defects were paid by the piece. He could state frºm his ºwn knowledge,
lººd been pointed out, and some offices in which were recom that the Petitioners were most respectable people—indeed they
i.ended to be abolished. Many thousands a year might have were the most respectable body of working inauufacturers whom
been saved by attending to the suggestions of the Commissioners. he had ever known.—A similar Petition was presented from Mr.
1He now moved for copies of these references, and the answers Robert Owen their employer.—Laid on the table. -

to them. " -
on account of the great pressure of business on the House, it
Lord CastleReagh postponed his explanation till the infor was arranged, that the sitting shºuld begin in future ºf three
mation should be before the House; and the motion was o'clock, instead of four, and on Monday at two-\ir. HENNET
agreed to. and Sir C. Burrell remarked on the delay which had taken
Lord A. HAyulton said, that a Bill had lately passed to ex place in not bringing on the regular Bills frºm the public offiº.
tend Trial, by Jury to civil cases, in Scotland. Ilalf this Bill befºre Easter, and the recent mode in which Bills were pushed
(13 pages) had been filled up one night at 12 º'clock, when only through the House by being brought on, after midnight, when
seven Members were present, and new officers had been ap there were scarcely any Members present- --

pointed with salaries amounting to 3500l. a year. Now as he The Bank Advances Bill, and the Baukrupt Acts' Amendment
considered some of those new officers, quite superfluous, and Bill were passed. - -- -

thought the mode in which the Bill had been hurried through The Excise Duties Bill was passed, after some prºte.'"
objectionable, he should move an address
the House particularly against the new taxes by Mr. Western, Lord Ebrington, Sir R.
tº the Prince Regent, praying that the appointments named in Wilson, &c.
the Bill should not be illed up before a month after the begin The Lºs Amendment to a clause in the Cash Payment."
lºng of next session—[The Act is not to commence its operation was agreed to. That clause gave the Bank the option ºf re
ecember next. payments in coin in May, 1821; and the amendment
suming
§ºrror- ENERAL defended the additions to the officers changed the time to May, 1829. -

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409
SUPPLY. -
W. Skidmore, Sheffield, grocer.
The House, resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, and G. Adams and T. Nash, Gloucester, jewellers.
various sums were voted. Among them was a stim of 1,000,000l. R. Fielder, Tenterden, Kent, victualler.
to the King of the Netherlands for building fortresses in the Low W. Cavet, Old Change, cheesemonger.
Countries. On a resolution for granting 9,6321. to deſray the J. Nunn, St. Mary Stratford-le-Bow, coal-merchant.
expence of publishing i'roclamations in Ireland, being proposed, T. Gubby, Lower York-street. Rotherhithe, timber-merchant,
Mr. C. Horcaixson observed upon it as rather a suspicious J. Beaven, Old Cavendish-street, Cavendish-sq., wine-merchant.
circumstance that these grants were always estimated at the B. Cohen, Creat Alie-street, Goodman's-fields, watchmaker.
same amount, though it was quite clear there must be some T. Buchan, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy--quare, pianoforte-maker.
variation in the number of Proclamations. - - W. Smith, Bristol, timber-merchant.
----------
Mr. R. Gordon asked, whether it was true that the Proclama
tious were enly inserted in certain papers, nnd given as a sort of ruice or stocks on saturatoay.
compensation to the Editors for their support of Government 3 percent Red. 66; 67%. 67 || 3 per Cent. Cons............. shut.
Mr. Baxkes thought it perfectly fair that Government should
exercise a reasonable discretion in the choice of papers. It was, Several Communications from Correspondents are unavoidably
in fact, a legitimate source of influence, - delayed by the press of matter. With respect to others, we
Mr. Huw E thought that such it flueuce was illegitimate. The have unfortuuately to state that a whole packet of Communi
practice lead to an improper Prº of the public money. If tions regularly tied up and put away for inspection, have been
Government must make use of the press, the Gazette was their put away somewhat too effectually,–iu fact, mishaid. We
proper paper; but he opposed the principle of making the press shall however most likely recover them. -

subservient to the views of Goveruunent by such means.—Agreed

to-Adjourned. the EXAMINER.
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TUESDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE.
-º Lowdow, JUNE 27.
BANKRUPTS, -

3. Jackson; Duke-street, Manchester-square, haberdasher. At The French debates, at all times apt to be vivacious
torney, Mr. Towers, Castle-street, Falcon-sq. are. -

J. Smith, lºristol, tinman. Attornies, Messrs. Clark, Richards, enough, from the animal spirits of the Members, became
end Medcalfe, Chancery-lane. * very warm the other day, a consequence of a mysterious
E. Joy, Christchurch, Southampton, fishmonger. Attorney, Mr. threat which M. Big Nox had put forth in a printed speech.
Allen, Clifford's-iun, -

J. West, Richmond, linen-draper. Attornies, Messrs. Pickering This Gentleman, who held the port-folio of Foreign
and Smith, Staph-inn. Affairs during the short interregnum which succeeded the
W. R. Wilson, Crown-court, Broad-street, merchant. Attorney, second abdication of BoxAPARTE, and who greatly dif
Mr. Birkett, Cloak-lane. - -

F. Bradley, Greet Marylebone-street, upholsterer. Attorney, fers with the Ministers respecting the recal of the Regi
Mr. Vincent, Bedford-street, Bedford-square. cides, which they say shall never take place; threatened the
J. Harrison, Spring-gardens, tailor. Attorney, Mr. Clark, Government in his pamphlet with some “terrible revela
Broad-court, Long-acre.
W. Mole, Worcester, and R. Lockett, Hereford, common-car tion.” The Minister of the Interior accordingly, in a
riers. Attorney, Mr. Edmunds, Lincoln’s-inn. marked manner, turned round in the Chamber, and after
-

G. Pettie, Salford, Lancashire, dyer. Attorney, Mr. Taylor, looking at M. Bigson during some general observations
. Manchester. -

W. Wilson, Gateshead, Durham, ship-owner. Attorney, Mr. about our old friends “tangible shapes,” emphatically
Spence, Threadneedle-street. - called upon him to come forward and explain his “terri
W. and J. Blanch, Bath, tiamen. Attornies, Messrs. Sandys, ble revelation.” M. Big NoN, as he had done before, de
Horton, Roarke, and Sandys, Crane-court, Fleet-street.
A. Young, Bishop-Wearmouth. Durham, ship-owner, Attor clined. The moment, he said, had not arrived. Upon
ties, Messrs. Swain and Cº. Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. this the Ministers said what they also had said before,
S. Copland, Hoit, Norfolk, miller. Attorney, Mr. Bridger, An that the Regicides would never return. (“Here was agi
gel-court, Throgmorton-street. -

. C. Mackenzie, Caroliue-street, Bedford-square, merchant. At
tormies, Messrs. Lowe and Bower, Chancery-lane.
V. L. Wandermoo'en, Beaumont-buildings, Cannon-street-road,
- dealer. Attorney, Mr. Eyles, Castle-street, Houndsditch.
SATURDAY's LONDON GAZETTE.
, -º
- BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
• T. Taylor, Guildford, liquor-merchant, from June 26 till Aug. 14. Bigson's secret, there may or may not be such a thing,
* - B.ANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
W. George, otherwise Hunt, Frome Selwood, clothier.
R. Wild, Craven-street, Strand, tailor.
tation to the left, and cheers from the right and centre.)
“Never, Gentlemen,” repeated the Keeper of the Seals,
turning towards the left.” It is clear, however, that the
word merer can only be effective, as far as the Ministers
or the Royal Family are concerned. Circumstances and
debates may still arise, as other Members observed, when
the never may come to nothing. With regard to M.
at least, of any real importance; but the Minister's daring
him to come forward with it is no proof of it's non-ex
-

J. Hederle, Leicester-square, taifor.
- - BANKiku PTS.
S. Faull, Havant-street, Portsea, broker.
T. 11. Granger, Leeds, money-scrivener.
J. and E. Crockitt, Dibdale, Staffordshire, ironmasters.
J. R. Silva, Liverpool, merchaut.
J. Aston, Birmingham, victualler. ; :
W. Carr, Leek, Stafford-hire, silk-manufacturer.
3. Linsley, Leeds, merchant.
11. Feather-tonhaugh, Bishop-Wearmouth, Durham, coal-fitter.
-
J. James, Cheltenham, innkeeper.
F. and G. Molling, Jerusalein-court, Gracechurch-street, mer
chants.
J. Howard, Wooburn, Buckinghamshire, paper-maker. .
J. King, Ipswich, timber-merchant.
H. Smith, sen. Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, miller.
B. Hall, Bristol, glazier.
istence. The Ministers, after all, are old Bonapartists;
and though they may be no friends to the Regicides, they
may have no objections to a secret's transpiring not very
favourable to the character or pretensions of other persons
in the State; especially if they are aware of the secret
themselves beforehand, which is not impossible.
The important question of abuses in Charities for the
Education of the Poor has been again agitated. The his
tory of this enquiry is altogether curious. Of course the
clerical and political cormorants, who have been so long
fattening on the property of the miserable and uneducated,
either by direct or indirect means, have a great interest in
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Parliament. Notwithstanding this, however, the cases the visitots a sufficient security, we are bound not to in
brought forward were so flagrant and the necessity for in terfere. Here then, says Mr. BRough AM, is a glaring in
vestigation so incontrovertiby shown, that the Honourable consistency: you interfere with those visited by the imme
House could not decently refuse it, though they took par diate family and discendants of the founders, whom the
ticular care to narrow it as much as possible. The Upper latter no doubt thought a sufficient security, but you refuse
House, as it is called, who seem to be little influenced by all inquiry into those which have other visitors, because the
commºn sense, and rarely to descend to reasonable argu founder appointed them in his will, however corrupt and
ment, threw out a Bill which had passed the Commons; engrossing that favoured class may be We may add,
and a Royal Commission was appointed, in which Mr. too, that this excuse will appear still more wretched and
Baough AM, the very person who had brought the subject hollow, when it is remarked, that in the very Bill just
forward, and had devoted a great deal of time and labour passed by the Commons, there is a clause, empowefing
to acquire the necessary information, was not included. the Commissioners to act in cases where the wills of the
The reason, or (if that is not too good a name for it) the founders may have been deficient. Now this case of
excuse for this proceeding was, that no person predeter visited charities is precisely such a one as would justify in
mined to detect abuses should be a Commissioner! As if terference on their own showing. The founders thought
any one, bowever “predetermined,” could find out abuses they had secured their establishments against corruption :
which did not exist; and as if this foreknowledge of such it now turns out that they have not done so;-their wills
abuses and predetermination to detect them were not an ex are therefore deficient, and the deficiency should of course
cellent quality for one who was to expose and reform such be supplied.
well-fortified and time-encrusted corruptions. Yet this Great credit is due to Mr. BRough AM for his laboriotis
Horse of Lords but stop, or we shall be getting perseverance in this important matter; and no one who
into that fearful dilemma-a breach of privilege! Well then: considers this properly, can help feeling contempt for Mr.
the Commission was appointed, and as all predetermination Peel's carping attack on him and the Education Com
was not objected to, it was partly composed of certain mittee, in which he laboured hard to prove some petty ir
persons who had opposed all enquiry. Previously to this regularities, and had not even the ingenuousness, or the
attempt, however, a Committee of the House of Commons common policy, to say one word in acknowledgment of
had been appointed, with Mr. BRough AM as Chairman, the useful exertions of his active opponent. Mr. John
to enquire into the “Education of the Poor.” This Com SMITH's retort was good: it was the spontaneous result of
mittee has been accused of exceeding it's powers by his disgust at this paltry attack, and must have been rather
summoning before it the masters of some of the schools hard upon the hopeful candidate for fame from Oxford.
all over the country; but surely the matter which it Is not this shuffling work contemptible in the extreme!
was to look into embraced all such establishments. We What would the conduct of a Reformed Parliament be on
haye little doubt, however, that the House was astonished the discovery of such scandalous abuses 2. Would they
at the activity of the Committee, and the latitude they hadaffect such extreme delicacy about interference with wills,
allowed themselves; and we have as little doubt that this and all that ? No: such objections would not be thought
mistake has accelerated the present good; that is, that the of: they would at once say,+"We see very plainly what
Reports of the
concealment Committeepracticable.
or retreating disclosed too much to render
r
the intentions of the founders were, and we will have them
carried into execution.” This is the very thing the pre
What course then did Ministers oursue in this case? sent people say, when their own or their friend's interests
Why, Lord CastleReagh, finding that Mr. Brough AM and influence do not come in the way.
was about to stir the question again at the beginning of We are glad to see that Mr. Hanvey has persevered so
this Session, stopt any further proceeding by announcing meritoriously in his warfare against the nefarious system
his intention of bringing in an effective Bill. Now nobody of Excise Prosecutions. This part of our administration
suspects his Lordship of any particular zeal for the edu: of law (we were going habitually to say “justice,” but the
cation of the poor: perhaps be thinks a “reading public” gross inapplicability of the term struck us,) is perhape,
rather a nuisance, especially while the press is so “licen though it is difficult to be nice, the most unjust, cruel, and
tious,” and there is so much “seditious weekly trash” and overwhelming of any. It partakes of the spifit of Ex
literary “venom.” So that we shall not be in much dan officio Informations, inasmuch as the Excise never pays
ger of attributing a wrong motive to the Noble Lord, the costs of the party prosecuted, though he may be ho
when we find, too, that the matter has been kept off till nourably acquitted; and it is, we believe, much heavier
nearly the end of the Session by this manoeuvre. No with regard to expense. When this iniquitous system
doubt time is valuable to the peculators in charities. is attacked, it is usual for its defenders to talk with
A word or two on the question of visited Charities, an affected dignity of the practice of the Crown “ne
even though it is only to repeat the unanswered arguments ver to pay or receive costs,” which seems at first sight
of Mr. Bhough AM on Wednesday night. Those chari to be at least relatively just; but the practical effect
ties whose founders made no wills, are visited or inspected is, -that persons when acquitted are heavily fined to
by their heirs; and such are to be inquired into. Others, save the revenue, though the prosecutions are instituted for
to which visitors were specially appointed by will, are not the public benefit, and when convicted, the same public
to be meddled with. Mr. BRougiiAM brings forward still lose their expenses of the prosecution, and the fine
instances of gross neglect and gross corruption on the part goes to the King. The Reader now perhaps see the fear
of these visitors, which the other side do not deny, but they son why the King's Advocate (the AfroRNey-Generat)
insist that as the ſounders considered the appointinent of stickles for this system. The details in this precious bus
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nees are worthy of such a principle. It appears that fire obtruded upon us by the Addisotoss; aud though from temporary
similarity of public opinion we admitted apart, we always exercis
coºnsel are always retained for the Crown at a cost of 50 ed the right of rejection. We thus think it necessary to place the
guineas for every cause. Now it is notorious that these parties on a level before the nation; for though it is known how
oeuses, concerning as they do mere matters of fact, require much Mr. CANNING abused the AddingtoNs, it is not matter of
in general no legal ingenuity or even labour. “Yes,” so general notoriety how much they abused, or attempted tº
abuse, Mr. CANNING. Truth, however, compels us to say, both
says the Soliciton-Geneaxl, “but they sometimes do.” on our own account, and ou that of the family of which we are
And so we are to act like a man who should employ con speaking, that our columns were never tainted by such ribaldry
stantly five men to attend his garden, where only one was as then appeared against Lord Sidmouth and the other members
of his family in the Oracle. No; neither could the Appingtons
required, because it may happen now and then that five have written, nor would we have published, any thing so de
men should be wanted . If such glaring abuses be not grading to the persons attacked, as those writings, in which
abolished, trials and juries had better be done away, and their characters, their talents, their connexious, and even their
most innocent peculiarities and family habits, were every day
fines imposed according to the pleasure of Boards and expcsed in the Oracle newspaper.
Commissioners; for this mockery of justice is more irritat But to return to a point from whence we have diverged, we
ing than an absolute denial of it. again º that since we sent the ADDINGroxs adrift, though we
may, as heretofore, bave been opposed to Mr. CANNING's public
Our readers probably recollect the stir made some time measures, we have uever suffered any article to appear which
ago about the treatment of the unfortunate persons con has alluded to extra-political topics. And such has been the
fined for insanity, and the dreadful details Nien made pub fairº (if we may use the term) which he has received as a
lic. Numbers of persons frequently died in secret in the political person, at our hands, what we have gone far out of our
way, aud subjected ourselves to great inconvenience, in order to
cles for such persons, and the imagination can insert speeches of his, which were not connected with his admi
easily picture to itself the tortures of all sorts they may nistration, or with the uational councils: his electioneering
have undergone. They were, in fact, as far as the secret ºl. at Liverpool are examples. Towards the Appixgross.
also, we have dealt out equal lenity; for during the many years
horrors go, so many practical, though illegal, Inquisitions. that have elapsed since our connexion with them, we defy any
The Marquis of LANsdown brought in a Bill wo appoint one to tax us with attempts to decry them persoually.
Qur conduct therefore, as public writers, towards the three
certain inspectors, in order to keep the keepers of these places geutlemeu spoken of by the Courier, has indicated no disposition
in awe, the only means, as the Noble Lord justly says, by to calumniate any of them: and even now, such is our respect
which the recurrence of the same horrors can be prevented. for the public offices of the country, of which Lord Castle
BEAGLI, É. Sunriou’rn, and Mr. CANNING, are the several pos
"This Bill is opposed, because it is said, that the medical sessors, that as the men do act, and can act together, we sin
men will not submit to inspection And who is it that cerely wish that they had not so described each other as they
libels the respectable class of physicians in order to oppose have done, or that all that they have said and written of eng's
a measure imperiously demanded by common humanity other could be obliterated from the public memory; but as this
cannot be, surely it is unwise and illiberal to assail others for
and decency? Why, the LoRD CHANcellon—the Judge speaking of them as they have spoken of each other.
who weeps on the Bench from united weakness and vanity Such is the strange exposition which has been laid bu
when his judginent may be called in question,-and the fore the public by the Proprietor of the Times. We say the
Legislataſ, who, when a claim is made upon his sympathy, Proprietor, because it is clearly he, and he alone, who can
feels so strangely respecting the sufferings of the most be responsible for the publication of circumstances con
wretched class of his fellow-creatures, that he would leave nected with the management of his paper so far back. The
them exposed to aggravated misery for the sake of a pro change of the Editorship is too frequent, and in that parti
blenatical evil, which, if certain to its fullest extent, would cular journal too well known, to render the case other
weigh nothing against the other side of the question. We wise; and we confess we have more reasons than one,
aiways had a distaste to the whining of my Lord ELDoN, why we are glad to know this fact, and to exonerate the
and a suspicion that it was not, as many people supposed, real literary part of the press from the imputation of hav
an over anxiety for what was just and decent; for a con ing betrayed confidence. * -

sciousness of good intentions is never whining or canting. At the same time, to those who think a breach of con
fidence in any case justifiable, the Proprietor of the Times
The following extract is from the Times. The writer might have much to say for himself. In the first place,
is speaking of an assertion of the Courier, that Lord there is the disgusting affectation on the part of Members
CastleREAGH, Mr. CANNING, and Lord SIDMouth had of Parliament, in pretending to be squeamish and only
been singled out by the press as the objects of perpetual “conniving” at the publication of their speeches; whereas
abuse. Heinstances the duel and disputes of the two all the world knows as well as themselves, that they are
former, and goes on to speak thus of the latter, in order delighted to have them recorded, and mortified beyond
to shew that they have done one another infinitely more measure at their omission. Do they think the public has
harm than the strictures of the press can do them: forgotten Mr. Winnham, and that combat of his with the
And then, with respect to the Stowoutits. Here is a subject
upon which, as the Appingtons were for a º time our daily Reporters, which he found so unequal? In the next place,
scribes, we are excellently well-informed. The Apolygross the contempt with which Members are apt to speak on
may have since gone round, and united with Mr. Canning; but such occasions of Newspapers and the writers connected
if we still find ourselves in our pristing opinions, in which we with them, is extremely absurd; and to the individual in
were along with them, (with the Appingross) and in which
they (the Apoungross) placed us, they surely will not be the question, it may have been reasonably provoking, for
É. to impute blame to us. We took our opinion of Mr. reasons which we shall state presently, Many Mem
NNing from them, at a time when we possessed no greatmeans bers of Parliament have themselves been writers in News
of judging for ourselves. But we appeal to Mr. CANNING himself,
or wo any of his friends, whether, from the period at which we cast papers, and some are well known to be so at this moment.
of the Aoningron family, this journal has not ceased to peck at him They may despise their own hirelings, if they please, as
personally,The truth is, that every article of a personal trature was much as other newspaper writers despise them; but this
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is no reason why they should affect to despise the rest, and MR. Rogers's Subscription.—We have still some
to look loſty on a reporter. Their favourite BURRe was rivate names to publish of the persons who have contri
once a reporter; so was Dr. Johnson; and among the uted to this subscription; and we shall give then, with
reporters now Hiving, there are names well known and re whatever others may be sent in the mean time, in a few
spected in the literary circles, and even destined, if we are weeks. Knowing as we do the hardship of this case,
not much mistakén, to be more than usually known and and feeling strongly the utility and propriety of disap
admired by all the world. pointing such a persecution, and making the attempt recoil
But, in the third place, who are the members in this par on the persecutors, we cannot help participating in the sen
ticular instance, that affected such loftiness, and such un timent of one of the subscribers, who signs herself
contaminated, distance from all journal-writing 2 Qae “A. D. H., a Lady who is surprised that more has not
was a person, who was a notorious contributor to a weekly been done.” Another subscriber, too, signs in the follow
journal, which heaped his present friends with ridicule; ing satisfactory manner:—“A man who knew Mr. Ro
and another, we are given to understand, was one of a gens to have been diligent in his business, and mild in
family party, who used this very newspaper the Times for his demeanour.” -

the purpose of secretly assailing this very assailer DRURY-LANE THEAT1:F.—On Monday a Meeting took
This, to be sure, is a very instructive thing to transpire I place in the Saloon, consisting of the New Renters, and
We think it a pity, however, that the Proprietor of the the Select Committee for rescuing the theatre from its em
Times did not at least confine his revenge to the person barrassments. A Note from Sir B. Bloomfield was read,
that roused it, instead of making all the rest of his kindred stating that the PRINce Regent had directed a sum of
suffer as well. And again we must say, that however silly 1000l. to be subscribed towards the fund necessary for the
he has made the offending parties look, with thus sticking relief of the theatre. The whole sum wanted to be raised
their old Newspaper pens under their chins, and making s 25,000l., and it is also necessary that the New Renters
em hold up }. sorry heads, nothing should have in should forego certain payments due to them during the
duced him to forego kis still better and quieter advantage next five years, as the 25,000l. is to be repaid, with inte
over them, unless, he has reason to charge them with rest, in that time.—It was unanimously resolved, that the
having broken the confidence first... And even then theatre ought to be let; and the Chairman a-sured the
there is something in these kinds of retaliation, from which meeting, that a yery few years would, on the terms which
the mind revolts. We know something of provocation; had been offered, free it from embarrassment.—A Com
and in spite of provocation we have never resorted to mittee was appointed to confer with the trustees of the
them. We do not allude to offences of this kind, but to New Renters, - -

ones much more deep and heart-cutting. Nor do we speak About two o'clock yesterday afternoon, a fire broke out
of our ſorbearance, for any other purpose, but to shew at the Printing Office of Mr. Bºssilev, in Bolt-court.
that we have a right to speak on the matter in general. Fleet-street. Mr. Bessley uses the new steam press, (of
(ºr + + which indeed he is a patentee) and it is said that the blow
ing up of the machine has occasioned the fire. How this
A correspondence between the Commissioners of Cus can be, we cannot exactly see. The damage has been
toms and the Lords of the Treasury, published by order very serious, though no lives have been lost. The men,
of the House of Commons, discloses at once the criminali they say, were mostly absent, enjoying their customary
ty and punishment of a great number of tide-waiters, tide annual dinner. If the whole of the property has been de
surveyors, and watermen, at the port of London, in con stroyed, the loss must be prodigious, as Mr. B. was in a
sequence of their having, in violation of their duty, and of very extensive line of busines:... So careful a man, how
solemn oaths, taken fºs. All whose criminality was:
-
ever, was doubtless insured. Though water could not at
established (about 40 in number, of surveyors and acting
first be easily obtained, the fire was rapidly got under in a
surveyors) have been dismissed. The charge of dishonesty
short time. As the office was in a clºse cºurt, the damage
was first made against Thomas Anwyl; and Tipper, and has most likely reached the neighbouring premises, but
Neyle, who came forward as evidence against him, were there was no getting a near inspection of the spot.
in vain recommended to clemency—the ſaw did not allow Mr. Dickesson has presented a Petition to the House
it. In this general system of peculation three names stand of Commons from Mr. Mills, the gentleman who asserted
honourably exempt: those of Messrs. JEFFERson, JAMEs, his right to conduct his own cause the other day at the
and KEpping ; “...against whom,”, says the report, Old Bailey, when the CoMºMos-Sºng: Ast refused to hear
“throughout the whole of the investigation, there does him. The Petition was read, and ordered to be printed.
not appear the slightest imputation.”—It is said, that “so The question will be discussed and decided, if possible,
considerable a part of the water-guard are implicated in this Session, and otherwise, next. -

these practices, that if proof could be had, it might involve The Etching from the painting of the unfortunate Mr.
more than 500.” The Surveyor-General conducted the CLENNEL, which is to be published for the benefit of his
inquiry; but how came he to be ignorant of the practices destitute children, is now finished. We shall give a criti
#. es.
were carried on under him for so long a péried?— cal notice of it next week,
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There has been nothing new worth observing at the

The sensation occasioned by the new taxes drove out of theatres during the past week. There is a piece however
our minds the recollection of another attempted imposi which was brought out at Covent Garden a few weeks
tion; we mean the impudent attempt of those “gentle
shepherds”. The London Clergy—ſo oppress still more ago, which we have not yet seen, called Cozeming. We
will see it, if it continue to be performed, next week.
their already overburthened flocks in the good city. We
should have mentioned a week or two ago, for the satis LOVE IN CRIMINAL LIFE.
faction of our readers, that these cormorants had aban
An instance of this kind lately occurred which perhaps
doned for the present their object; not that we give them deserves to be recorded.
credit for any sense of remorse on the occasion, but they intoxication or otherwise, had Some young men, in a state of
wandered into one of those
no doubt felt that this new-taxing time was not a period at retreats for similing faces and broken hearts, which ºver
which such a thing would be tolerated.
There will be a Meeting to-morrow (28th inst.) at the the scite of what was formerly St. George's fields. They
Crown and Anchor Tavern, to receive the Report of the that had no sooner entered this abode of painted wretchedness
their ears were struck with the sound of a female voice
Committee appointed last year at a Meeting for the Relief in an agony of tears. On inquiring what it was, they were
of the Suſſerers under the Suspension Act.
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told it was a young girl in the house, whose sweetheart | extravagance, when they have placed them on that which
had been just taken up for soma crime that put his life in is an object of hatred and contempt to all others—on the
danger. Their curiosity as well as compassion being ex very dregs of nature and outcasts of society.
cited, they asked to see the girl, and the woman of the
house, trying to console her, said—“Do, Betsy, tell the
entlemen all about it.” The poor creature, º with FINE ARTs.
ſº dishevelled and eyes streaming, began the account of
her lover. She was sitting at a window one afternoon, ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION.
looking at the people passing in the street, when a young
man came up, with a handsome face shaded with dark 206, England: Richmond Hill, or the Prince Regent's
ſinglets, and dressed in leathers, and said to her—“Miss, Birth-day, is a pictorial display of the magnificence of
I am very hungry, would you give me a crust of bread?” England, as shewn in its richly-fertilized land, its culti
The girl struck with his manner went into the kitchen, and vated and its high-spirited people of every degree, nu
cut him the whole of the bottom crust off, which he de merously assembled on a fine summer's day, and on a fes
voured very eagerly, and expressed many thanks. After tive occasion, to enjoy each other's society, music, regal
some conversation, he withdrew, but returned again to the ing, &c. This is one of those select scenes, where a vast
window the next evening. At length an intimacy grew extent and variety of object, canopied by an immense con
between them, and the consequence was that Betsy was cavity of sky, gives full satisfaction to the mind. Nature
obliged to leave her father's house and went to live with spreads before you not a usual entertainment, but a
her seducer. She soon however began to be uneasy with i. banquet rich as well as plentedus, which the industrious
him. He came home late at nights, started and talked in of man, aiding great Nature's work, has dressed up
his sleep, and gave such evident signs of agitation and to perſection at the great solar fire. A rich draught of
terror, that his mistress at last said to him—“Oh Nathan, pleasure is added in the bright course of the Thames flow
-you are upon the cross!”—which meant that he was a ing through it in a sky-reflecting stream, bestowing its
thief. This Nathan denied for a long time, till being grateful contrast of coolness to the summer heat that is so
pressed by appearances and her questions, he one. night well pictured, deepening into the warmer brown of autumn.
confessed that he was, and said—“Well, Betsy, I am It is a scene so warm and vivacious, as to be in smiling
upon the cross!” Having keen engaged in some desperate sympathy with the cheerful assembly on the hill, come
enterprise, he was taken up and sent to Cold-bath-fields forth to make a holiday; a scene, in which it would be
prison. There his sweetheart used to go and see him, and suitable to make holiday in honour of some truly great
stand the whole day together, at the grating, their hands circumstance, of the birth-day, not of a common-place
locked in each other through the bars. He had received Prince, who presides over measures which engulph a
sentence of death, and this was what had thrown the girl people in remediless expence and misery, but of a WAsh
into such an agony of grief. All the time she told her iNgtoN or Alfard, who executed measures which re
story, she wept bitterly. She said, “If he could but be got leased their respective countries from base administra
off, she would do anything—she would walk the street from tions, from vile aristocratical influence, from grinding taxa
morning to night, and take the meanest pittances, to sup tion and misery. Mr. Tun NER's pencil never fails of
port him alive, and out of harm's way.”—Interest. was exciting what he intends to excite of the grave or the gay,
made to change his sentence from death to transportation the mild or terrific, the graceful or the grand. He feels
(with some difficulty, for it appears that he was quite a Nature intensely, and makes the spectator feel it too. On
desperado) and a sum of money was collected for the girl, approaching his works the mind never languishes, but is
who was advised to think no more of her lover—but all in briced up to the pitch of admiration. It scarcely regrets
vain: she remained inconsolable for his loss, and could his omission of one feature of Nature, her precision and
not wean her heart from the comely but unfortunate youth, nice detail of parts. All greatmen have their faults, but
who had first won it by his waving ringlets, his distress, all great men thus deeply interest in spite of them.
and the pity she felt for it. Of a very different style, though equally-successful of
its kind, is Mr. Constan Le's, who though he also is still
—“To shew that power of love, how great far from pencilling with Nature's precision, gives her more
Beyond all human estimate!” contracted features, such as a wood or a windmill on a
Polly and her Macheath are not a fable—the fiction of the river, with more of her aspect. . He does not give a
poet's pen. Qh no! They are parts of every-day life, sentiment, a soul to the exterior of Nature, as Mr. TuR
and illustrate the deepest principles of our nature. “I love NER does; he does not at all exalt the spectator's mind,
caugot be constrained by mastery.” Its empire is too which Mr. TURNER eminently does, but he gives her out
mighty, like that of the sea—it cannot be kept out by forms ward look, her complexion and physical countenance, with
of law-its everlasting spring gushes out, overflows, and more ex::ctness. #. has none of the poetry of Nature
melts the human heart, in spite of the dykes and fences of like Mr. TURNER, but he has more of her portraiture. His
systems of morality. Where life is, there also is love, to sus Scene on the River Stour is indeed more approaching to .
tain and warm it. The poor prostitute feels it for some “gen the outward lineament and look of trees, water, boats, &c.
tle George;” the º “on the cross” feels his withered than any of our landscape painters. There is perhaps a
heart revive within him when the tear of pity-from fond eyes little inaccuracy in the perspective keeping of the remoter
drops on his baggard cheek!—Women are attached to all parts. * - - -

professions that imply a precarious and vagabond (or to There is but one opinion of Mr. CALcott's increased
speak it less harshly, romantic) mode of life—to soldiers, eminence in his Art, especially in his marine performances.
to sailors, to strolling-players, to gamblers, housebreakers, With his View ºf Rotterdam, we are so highly gratified,
and pickpockets. They love them for the hazards they that we are sorry our limits allow us only to bestow upon
run (they think for their sakes) for the interest and anxie it the usual general phrases of description that pictórial
ties they excite; some of them for the glory, and others for critics are obliged necessarily often to repeat, in speaking
the infamy they share with them. The spirit of contra of synonimous features and principles of different per!
diction is as strong as the impulses of vanity in the sex; formances, such as the barmony aid transparency of its
they delight in liberty of choice, and shew, it most by colour, its excellent composition, its beautiful breadth and
braving common opinion; and their self will and affec subdivisions, the judicious balancing of the chiarp-scuro,
tions are then at the height, and indulged to the greatest the unusual and vigorous tone and truth of its separate
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and º parts, and the forcible and fascinating wildness of light that glares across the scene, such as is
effect bf the whole. Such a picture deserves an amplitude forebodingly seen on the approach of storms. A gust too
of description, where might also be dwelt upon the pleas of wind and rain is admirably painted.
ing scatter of thin small clouds through the sky, which * Mr. GLoveR has given us some of those mild and
blends its blue so tenderly into the bright yellow of the soothing features of Nature, for which his pencil has ban
horizon, the pleasing perspective of the §: as thev re admired. Such is 409, View of Patterdale. He has a
tire from the picture's base, the proper finishing of all its peculiarly sweetness of tone, in colour, &c. but would ga
parts, the exact costume, &c. tify us still more in The Campo Vaccino at Rome, &c.
Mr. Hoffland still continues to rise in our regard. His did he manage not to remind us of the delicious Claupn.
native Views are understood and painted with uncommon . Of Mr. Collins's Morning, Fishermen on the Look
decision. The high-wrought brightness of sun-light and Out, we can scarcely speak in too high praise. His hand
the soberest soothing of shade are for this purpose con is faithful to his just conceptions of the effects of day
nected by the tenderness of meeker shades º lights, with break on the sea-shore. He always doubles the pleasure
an ordered regard to a whole, and a simplicity, aided by a his scenes give us, by his peopling them with men, wo
great indivisibility of colour. is masses of every kind men, and children, that expressly belong to them. They
are unusually distinct, and the effect is strong on the mind are never trifling accessories, as in most other, and even
from their thus not scattering its attention, Mr. GANDy, good landscapes, but important and essential additions.
on the contrary, whom we are glad to welcome so success He shines, in fact, equally in figures and landscapes. -

fully into the upper rooms among the painters in oil, wants In 323, Willage School, C. CRANMER, Figures and
condensation and simplicity of parts. The forms throng Rustic Landscape well represent their originals. They
with rather a bustling intrusion upon our view. This lease us more than many pictures of greater F.
is most the case in 351, Selim, or the Shepherd's Mo or the decisive and just difference of feature given to the
3al, where the fore and middle grounds, seen as they are trees, &c. the unostentations diffusion of light as it is
before very elevated hills that intervene between them and abroad, and for the burst of joy on the children's rushing.
the rising sun, ought, we think, to be in cool, unfluttering, forth from school, and catching almost at the first objects
quiet shade. There is a sweetness of tint, however, and they see to make sport with.
a magnificence of scene here, and a gloomy magnificence Rſ. J. Waap much improves. His View by Mºon
in 332, Hassan the Camel-driver, - light, 286, is pleasingly natural.
“Where rocks alone'and tasteless sands are found, Mr. Withenington's View of a Caravensera, is Per
And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around.” sia, has a charming local brightness. -

We, like beyond, any of his former landscapes Mr.

Jones's View of Abbeville. The red tints of the figures, SOUTHWARK ELECTION.
houses, &c. come off with a novel and rich, but sobered -
force, from the stone-grey and beautiful forms of the Ab On Tuesday, the Electors of Southwark, who had supported
bey, and the clouds. Sir R. Wilson in the last election, dined together at the Čamber.
Mrs. C. Loxg keeps on in a steady track of improve land-tavern, Vauxhall, to celebrate the triumph which they had
ment in oil painting. Her View of the Boulevards ºf then obtained ; Sir R. Wilson in the chair. The company as:
Paris has a style of boldness, in conjunction with cauti sembled amounted at least to 300 respectable persons. By an
ousness of pencil, a correctness of colour, a chastened account given to each gentleman, it appeared that the whole ox
force and a J. truth, that are worthy of her long pense of the late Southwark election amounted to 8071. 15s 3d,
and that the subscriptions received to defray it amounted to 796L
admired and practical taste in the Arts. -
6d.; the balance due to the Committee .. all expenses are
Mr. TURNER is our only landscape painter that can al paid, does not amount to more than 10l. 14s. 9d.
ways venture successfully, and at will, out of landscape After the usual toasts, Sir R. Wilson proposed, “ The ºnde
pendent Electors of Southwark, and may the victory of 1818
portraiture into poetry, or, in other words, that can give a serve to animate them to fresh exertions in the cause of Reform."
classical character, a superior, beauty or sublimity to the
materials of landscape; can make them thrill with terror, or The next toast was, “Charles Calvert, Esq. the approved and
faithful representative of the inhabitants of Southwark.”—The
with the enchantment of elegance; can convert the sable health of the Chairman being then given,
woods into a temple of religious awe; fields, rivers, groves, Sir R. Wilsox returned thanks. He declared that if he had
buildings, and skies, into an earthly paradise; can diffuse not fulfilled his professions, he should have been coe of the
from them into the attentive soul, delight or sadness, and basest and meanest of men. He should have been º to

other various and imaginative enjoyment. Mr. Copley have congratulated the electors on the hope of some reſief fºr
Fislding, however, we have observed now and then to their sufferings; but unfortunately, notwithstanding the great
trace poetic ground with some advantage, and we think number ºf those who were now in opposition to Governient,
he might cultivate it with greater. There is a gleam of notwithstanding all the justice and reason upon their side, all
their efforts had met with the most determined hostility of the
this flashing into our minds from 152, A Sketch, where a House. (Cheers.) He condemned, in severe terms, the Forekn
few trees and a figure are struck with lightning. Eulistment Bill; and said, that if it had been intended to preserve
Mr. NAshryth's Landscapes are well known, and our neutrality, he would not have opposed it; but as it established
esteemed for their naturally grey hue, rural character, and our vassalage to the most debased government in the world, he
neatly spirited execution, He has succeeded not so well had felt it his duty to give it his most decided opposition, (Cººrs.)
in a new feature of nature, in 94, View of the Pass of There was no other hope for a redress of present grievance- but
Gien Coe. A nearer view, and less of soft blendings, amake Reform in Parliament. Neither he nor his friends wanted to
any alarming reforms; they did not war with the mansion
would have still more successfully represented abrupt, or the palace ; they wanted no anarchy, no spoliation, For how
rugged solitudes and sublimities. To elucidate our opi was it to be supposed that the noble representative of the hºuse
nion by another branch of Painting:...'The stern look of a of Russell, wº all its vast property and titles; that the Hon.
misanthrope or a bandit, would be ill described by a soft Member for Norfolk, the greatest agriculturist in the natiºn :
countenance, and soft, blendings of the forms and tints, that Mr. Ricardo, the first political economist of his age i that
however accurate the shape of the limbs. It would only Mr. Brougham, the very first lawyer of this century; that the
look like the Portrait of a huge º Mr. J. J. Cn A- H Worthy Baronet (Sir F. Bardett), who had such an omen-e
10N has, on the contrary, given ver narsh outlines to his stake in the country, should wish for anarchy or any sanguinary
struggles? [The gallant General then sat down awów wery
Piew ºf Hastings, so that the water looks like a sea of cut loud and general applause.
brass and lead, and diminishes the satisfaction we derive The next toast was “Sir F, Burdett and the ludºwieut
treu, the composition in other respects, especially that Electors of Westminster.” --

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Sir Faaxcis returned thanks for the honour done to him. He MANUFACTURING DISTRESSES.
said that the best tinage of despotism ever presented to his mind, -->
was that of Montesquieu, a philosopher and a Frenchman, who We extract the following accounts from various pa
said that the savages of Louisiana were in the habit of cutting
down the tree in order to get at the fruit; so it was with his ers. They certainly render all comments on the po
Majesty's present Ministers. They struck at the resources of icy of the new taxation superfluous; for these are the
the people in order to obtain a temporary relief. The Members very people on whom the additional weight, will fall,
of the House of Commons did their duty very well to those who both by increasing the price of their ſood, and lessening
sent them there; but very ill to those whose interests they were
their masters' business, and consequently their own employ
bound by every tie of honour and gratitude to defend. There ment. As if, too, all this was not dreadful enough, it
had been many Parliaments before in this country. There had seems likely that those traffickers in human blood—the
been the Healing Parliament, the Biessed Parliament, the Long
Parliament, the Drunken Parliament, and the “Praise God detestable spies of Government—have been again set in
Barebones Parliament.” There had also been the “Lack motion, and that we may have acted over again such -
learning Parliament,” so called from its not having the misfor scenes as those of the execution of Brandreth, &c. What
tune of having any Lawyers in it. He could not call this a will be the answer given by posterity to the question, who
“Lack-learning Parliament,” because there were but too many is most in fault in these things? the Government who
Lawyers in it. This, however, if it deserved a name, at alſ, have brought the people into this situation, or the people
ought to be cºlled the “Wonder-working Parliament;” for in who are goaded into violence by dreadful distresses, ren
stead of diminishing the burdens of the people, as every member dered intolerable by the stimulating harangues of cold
of it had pledged himself to do, they i. increased the taxation, blooded fiends 3–
and taken as much from the liberty of the cºuntry as any set of
meu dared to do. To say that the present Parliament was better On the 16th instant, a numerous meeting of the operative
than the last was a complete delusion : a new return had indeed weavers took place in the Green. A resolution was read, the
been made; but the same members in general had been returned purport of which was to petition the Prince Regent to grant the
to it: what their predecessors had dome, this Parliament would spare hands of the trade, or such as were inclified, the means of
do also; and this was a grand reason why he had not stirred reaching the colonies belonging to his Majesty in North Ame
the question of Reform during the present Session. Indeed, if rica, together with the means of support for one year after their
an honest man obtained a seat in Parliament, he appeared like arrival there; which sums they promised to repay by yearly re
an honest man caught in a lady's bondoir; if the husband came mittances of produce; but on a show of hands, very few agreed
suddenly in, the appearance of such an honest man there could to this proposition. A second resolution was submitted to the meet
not fail to excite surprise; and it would be a very slight excuse, ing, as an amendment to the foregoing, that there should be An
for the man to say, he did not know how he got there. (Loud nual Parliaments, Uuiversal Suffrage, and a Diminution of Tax
laughter.) ation, which amendment was carried apparently by a large ma
“Mr. C. Hutchinson, and may he live to see his country en jority, and with great cheering.—Glasgow Paper.
joying both civil and religious liberty” was the next toast.—Mr. The Carlisle Journal, speaking of the preceding meeting, ob
Hatchinson returned thanks. The company did not separate serves:—“We have very great reason to suspect, that one of the
till a late hour. * * jersons who addressed the meeting was a Goverament spy. We
i. heard of a certain well-known character who was prowling
about Carlisle a few days ago; and it is very probable that a
CITY. bloodier scent had attracted him to Glasgow: very fortunately,
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his incitements were not only disregarded, but absolutely
On Thursday, a Common Hall was held for the election of hissed.” .
Sheriffs. The choice of the Livery fell upon W. Thompson, Esq. A meeting of the inhabitants of Ashton-under-line and its
and J. W. Parkins, Esq. The latter gentleman was proposed by neighbourhood took place on Monday, the 14th inst., at Hurst.
Mr. Fearon, who eulogised him, as attached to rational liberty, By one o'clock, the hour at which the business commenced, the
and constantly engaged in acts of private benevolence, which assemblage consisted of from 12,000 to 15,000 people, and was
his ample fortune enabled him to perform. He was now, he still increasing.—The Rev. Joseph Harrison was called to the
said, at Carlisle, alleviating the sufferings of the poor manufac chair, who entered into a most pathetic statement of the deplo
turers, –[The Lord Mayor was excessively hissed, whenever he rable condition of the poor, and coucluded by exhorting his
made his appearance, on account of the indignation felt by the audience to preserve peace and good order.—Warious resolutions
Livery at his conduct in refusing to convene a meeting to peti were passed, which dwelt on the means of remedying the people's
tion against the new taxes, according to a requisition sent him.] distresses, viz. Universal Suffrage and Annual Parliaments, &c.—
After the Recorder had announced the result of the election, the constitution of the House of Commons as now existing, which
Mr. Wooler (who had before attempted to address the meeting, is a mockery—the distribution of the hard earnings of the indus
but was prevented, as being out of erder) came forward to the trious, not for beneficial purposes, but in profligate expenditure,
hustings; on which the Lord Mayor left his seat. The hissings as for example, 22,000l. for snuff-boxes, 10,000l. a year to the
were again renewed, and Mr. Wooler was called on unanimous Duke of York, though possessed of 40,000l. a year, for perform
3y to proceed. The Lord Mayor expecting, no doubt, to hear ing the least of all filial duties—the Corn Laws—contempt of
his conduct º censured, said in a peremptory, tone, “Come, Petitions—suspension of laws to keep men in dungeons, and
Dissolve the Hall.”—The Aldermen and City Officers of course acts of indemnity to screen from deserved punishment—the ne
retired. It would be utterly impossible to attempt giving any cessity of resistance to increased taxation, until every sinecure
jdea of the confusion which now took place. There were the and pension be abolished.—The people dispersed without any
loudest expressions of disgust and indignation at the conduct of tumult.
the Lord Mayor, who retired amidst hissings and groanings.
Aldermen Wood and Waithman were severally called to take The Leeds Mercury, the paper which was so active in
the Chair, but declined it, as being contrary to established cus exposing Oliver, thus speaks of the meeting on Hunslet
tom. They both withdrew with much applause.—Mr. Woolen moor, noticed in our last:—
then animadverted in the strongest terms on what he called the The proceedings of the meeting of last Monday evening we
Acandalous, disgraceful, and insulting conduct of the Lord think calculated to do a great dead of mischief. The most press
Mayor. A requisition was sent to his Lordship, and having ing object was lost sight of, and the distress of the poor starving
read it, he said, “No, I will call no such Meeting, and I'll give manufacturers was merged in the subject of Parliamentary Re
'you wo, reasons for my conduct.” He concluded by the follow form.—Being ourselves Reformers, we are far from wishing to
ing motion :- “Resolved, That the refusal of the Lord Mayor under-rate the importance of this object, but we cannot think
to convene a Common Hall, when a requisition was sent to him, that it will ever be secured in a peaceable way by such fan
signed by 57 persons, to petition Parliament against new taxes, guage as that held by the advocates of this measºre on Monday
&c. is a personal insult to those who signed the requisition, a night. The advice given by George Peire, in particular, if
direct outrage on the right of the Livery to meet in the Common adied upon, will lead to one of two things—either revolution or
Hall. and a deserved forfeiture of the confidence and esteem of military depotism, or both. Of this person we believe very little
his fellow-citizens.” (Loud Cheers.)—The motion was carried ena is known in Yorkshire, except that he is employed as a journey
nºmously.—The Hali was extremely well attended by a respect man tailor in this town. What may be his character we cannot
able body of the Livery.-
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for a political guide. We are far from wishing to impute to him she refused. He left the place, and shortly afterwards some
or to any other man, bad motives, but we must say, that his ex thing was heard to fall, and, on looking up the court, the de
pressions about the fall of the fabric of Government; and his re ceased was dashing his head on the pavement, with his legs in .
&ommendation of the example of the Irish Rebellion, to his the air; he got up and walked on. When he arrived near Mr.
Yorkshire auditors, savours strongly of the language, used by Donaldson's, the broker, he inoved his neckkerchief, and with a
Mr. Oliver to his dupes two years ago. We have, indeed, au lancet, after a sudden start round, inflicted a deep wound. He
thority for saying, i. there are already spies abroad in the afterwards took off his neckkerchief, and cut his throat again;.
country; and in proof of this assertion we quote a letter, now he fell back, the blood flowing profusely. It was useless to
before us, written last Tuesday, by an intelligent Gentleman at render any medical assistance. Mr. Beil, of the Crown-tavern," 3.
Carlisle to Mr. º saw,” says the writer, “two said, the deceased had eccupied apartinents at his house since
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of the Committee (of the Carlisle Weavers) on Sunday morning, February last. He was sometimes very flighty. Within the last
to whom I communicated the interesting intelligence, that a Spy five years he had run through an immense sum, though now he. º
had arrived here from Bolton for a bloody purpose. . He had was in very indigent circumstances. His ſather end brother are
not been with any of the Committee. . I presume he is gone to respectable cºergymen in Northamptonshire, and his wife and
Glasgow, as there is to be a large meeting of the weavers there family are at Lancaster-Verdigº, Insanity. º -

to-morrow. The fellow's name is W---.” -

Thursday sennight a melancholy º happened at the,
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The following is the account of the second meeting on mouth of º Dou, near Aberdeen, by the upsetting of a coble,
Hunslet-moor on Monday:- *
employed
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in the salmon-fishing there, and on board of which,
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there were 4 salmon-fishers, a woman with her two children,
The meeting did not break up till nearly 10 o'clock. The whom she had taken out for trying the effects of sea-air in al
principal speakers were the same as those of the last, meeting,
with the exception of Mr. Willans, of Dewsbury. Mr. Booth leviating the hooping-cough, and a girl about 13 years of age.
The four men were pulling out the coble through ſhe breach on
took the chair. . He appeared to be evidently labouring under the sea-shore, when a heavy swell upset it, by which all were
the pressure of distress; and addressed those around him with thrown into the sea. The net, which was partly out, was im
much feeling:—“Why,” he asked, “are we now labouring un mediately drawn in by the fishermen on shore, by which means
der this acute distress : Our enemies say, it is a just punish two of their companions were brought out, wh;ſe a number of
meat for our sins; but that cannot be, as Providence has for two
seasons blessed us with the most abundant crops, and plenty and white fishers, accidentally near the spot, rusheſ into the water,
amites throughnut the land. We can therefore only attribute people sticceeded in bringing the remaining part of the unfortunate,
our distress to the this rule of Ministers, and the defective state of part of to the land, seemingly in a lifeless state. The greater
them were restored; %. Thomas Nico!, a respectable
our representative system.”—Mr. Petre addressed the crowd old man, John Hay, a young man of 23 years of age, and oue of
with great vehemence. The intemperance of his language, and
a vein of irony and contempt of religion which pervaded it. theOnchildren, about 6 months old, were past recovery.
the 15th current, this town was visited by a severe thun-.
throughout, gave great offence to many. The different speakers der-storm. Two boys (brothers) having fled for shelter to the
exhorted the multitude to depart peaceably.—Mr. Petre took corner of Mr. Bisset's coach-work, were struck to the ground by
occasion to notice the calumny of one of the Leeds newspapers, the lightning. Both were dreadfully scorched in the head; one.
which had insinuated that he was a spy.
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in the shoulder, and the other in the thigh; The parts affected
. A numerous reform meeting was held on Monday at Dews exhibited the same appearance as if they had been seared with
bury, in Yorkshire. Similar meetings were also held the same a red-hot iron, and }. their clothes had nºt sustained the least
day at Manchester, and other places in Yorkshire and Lanca.
shire. These different assemblies every where conducted them areinjury. The elder brother suffered excrucieting pain, but they'
now considered out of danger. A number of persons in the
selves peaceably, and there was no occasion for califºg ou neighbourhood felt a sensation similar to an electric shock. A
either the civil: or military power. | great deal of damage was done by the hail.—Cupar'
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MA fºrt AGF.s.
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On the 16th inst., at the Chapel of the English Ambassador,

COURT OF KING’S BENCH.
at Paris, Henry Peters, jun. Esq., to Sarah, daughter of Gen.
Christie Burton.
Lond critincmill v. Prºnry. On Monday, Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Esq., son of Pascoe
This was an action for an alleged libel in the Morning Chro Grenfell, Esq., M. P., to Lady Georgiana Isabella Frances
'cle, imputing an accident in the King's-road to the hard driving Molyneux, eldest daughter of the Earl of Seſton. . .
of the plaintiff.-Mr. Platºr, on behalf of the defendant, ob I}EATHS. - - s

tained a rule to shew cause, why judgment should not be en

tered in this case, as in a case of a non-uit, the plaintiff not hav On the 16th instant, at the house of her son-in-law, Mr. John
* * ,
ing proceeded to trial pursuant to notice. Perry, Durham-place East, Huékney-road; Mrs. Mary Child,
formerly of Brighton and Sunbury, in the 84th year of her age.
On the 17th inst, the Right Hon. Robert Dundas, of Arniston,
ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c., late Lºrd Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, in Scotland.
At Richmond, on the 18th instant, Mrs. Anne White, aged 77:
Execution.—Wednesday morning"were executed the follow she was daughter to the late Taylor White, Esq., formerly one
ing unfortunate men :-Nicholas Benign Ailin, aged 32, and Bart., of the Judges of Chester, and aunt to Sir Thomas W. White,
of Wallingweis, Nottinghamshire. -
Thomas Jeffcott, aged 36, for stealing mºney-letters entrusted to -

them as clerks in the Post-office : Charles ºright, aged 42, for a On the 224 inst., in Hans-place, in the 74th year of his age,
burglary; George Price, aged 20, for putting off a forged note Sir John Morris, Bart., of Casemout, Glamorganshire.
for 20t.; and Wm. Ambrose, aged 28, for maliciously shooting, On the 22d inst., at Hanwell, Middlesex, Julia Henrietta,
with intent to murder. All but Ambrose seemed perfectly re widow of the late Henry Jerome de Salis, D.D. Count of the
signed. In his behaviour there was often a fierce show of re Roman Empire. - -

sentment. He declared that he was innocent of the crime im At Cheltenham, on the 24th inst., Lieutenant General Charles
wied to him; but said, “Although I am innocent of shooting, I Reynolds, of the East India Company’s Serviee. -

}. committed crimes for which I should have been flogged from agedJn 82. the 22d inst., in Park-street, Baroness Mordaunt, of Torvey,
By her death this ofd Peerage descends to his Grace
the time of trial up to that of execution.”—They reached the the Duke of Gordon. . *
scaffold with firmness, and prayed ſervently. They died with -

out much struggle.—The connexious of Albin and Jeffcott were On Tuesday, in Walcot-place, Lambeth, in the 19th year of
highly respectable. Jeffcott bore an exemplary character; he her age, after undergoing the painful operation of trepanning,
has left aged parents. Albin has also left a wife and infant Miss Eliza Bicknelt, whose death was occasioned by a blow ſºn
child. Wright was an old offender, and Ambrose a desperate a broken bottle, wantonly thrown from the gallery of one of the
character. - ". Theatre-, about ...P. ago, from which time she has been
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On Tuesday aſternoon an inquest was held on William Ray in a lingering state of health. - -

mond Brotherhood, aged 30, surgeon. On Monday last, the de

ceased went into the coffee-room in Castle-court, and requested Printed and published by John Hunt, at the Examiner-office,
Mrs. Guimaldi to lead him a sharp knife to bleed himself, which, 19, Catherine-Street, Strand.-Price 10d.
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THE EXAMINER.
* .. No. 601, sund AY, JULY 4, 1819.
THE POLITICAL EXAMINER. cannot go on improving in it's mind and means, and
Party is the madner of many for the gain of a few. Pope.
actually altering it's modes of labour, and at the same
time retain all it's old opinions, habits, and acquiescences.
No. 586.
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Habit and the old common-places about us may induce
most of us to think otherwise. The comfortable rich

MEETING IN FAvoUR OF MR. owes's ºnalists, man, the journalist who has succeeded to fifty other jour
PLAN. -
the merchant and tradesman who have heard of
London's being a flourishing city for so many centuries,
The same spirit of kindness, which produces so much may think so. But ask the labourer, whose intelligence
visible good on Mr. Owen's establishment at New Lanark, has increased with his starvation,-ask the reader ac
enables him to make way in a remarkable manner among quainted with Bacon and his realized system of experi
all classes of people. Members of Parliament, Merchants, ment, ask, above all, the manufacturer, who sees these
Tradesmen, Speculators practical and theoretical, Jour gigantic steam-engines, like a new set of beings, silently
malists, Husbandmen, Lords, Princes, nay even Bishops taking the task of labour out of his hands, doing the work.
and Archbishops, all lend him at least a willing ear, what of thousands in an instant, and depriving him awhile of
everºfleir first impressions may be as to the ſeasibility of those profits which it would increase for him a thousand
his plan. Some no doubt begin their listening as a mere fold under an altered system. Whatever the precise words
task"of their patience, others cannot suppress a little sar of the answer may be, or by whatever feeling produced,
eastic smile, others attend out of mere curiosity, others out even by ignorant despair as well as wiser hope, it will
of graciousness, others out of astonishment, and others amount to the same thing—“People suffer bitterly—in
look with pitying wonder at a man considerably advanced novation is forced upon them by the very progress of cir
beyond the season of youth, who nevertheless retains the cumstances, something must be done, or there is ruin.”
enthusiasm of his ſormer age amidst the experience and We find nothing advanced against the particulars of
calculations of his present. Mr. Owen's system, which has not been, in our opinion,
Some how or other, however, all these do listen; and at already answered. The idea of the paupers going to live
length many are not only willing to listen again and again, in parallelograms still haunts the imaginations of some,
but to be speakers themselves, and, in fine, to co-operate. who nevertheless think Portman or Grosvenor-square a
There is in truth a whole host of kindly feelings at the very pretty place, to say nothing of the quadrangles of
bottom of most natures, which only want the touch of an Oxford. They must think, at any rate, that it would be
obvious kindred feeling to rouse them into action. Mr. much better for the poor to be housed under any configu
* ºwes appeals to no self-love that can be offended. He ration of village, than rot and starve as they do at pre
is not that melancholy and anomalous thing—that thing sent. We think it would be as well, however, if our
...to be lamented even when most honoured,—a soldier in practical philosopher would stick to his good old English.
the cause of humanity;-at least, if he receives wounds, word square, which carries it's own justification with it,
be gives none. He comes upon us in the middle of all and not frighten the adust recollections of scholarship with
out strifes, and only takes occasion of the obstructions terms from the mathematics. If we were to call a bis
they throw in his way, to shew us the necessity of putting cuit a twice-baked circle, it would seem to want double
an end to them. He appeals then to no self-love that can butter. - - - - -

be offended, but to all which can interest our better feel
ings in behalf of our fellow-creatures. He threatens no
thing, like the head of a sect; he declaims not against
argument, like a fanatic; he refuses no evidence, like a
person interested in maintaining abuses; he requests even
no hasty belief, like a suspicious enthusiast. All is fair,
open, practical, kind. * -
As to those who not having the fear of steam engines,
safety-lamps, civilization itself, and other mighty improve
ments before their eyes, pronounce the system too good,
and, as the phrase is, too romantic to be feasible, we reply
for the present in the words of the great Father of Expe
rimental Philosophy, many of whose romantic suggestions
have since become common-places:- º -

Now such a man would not be listened to, if every “FRANcis BAcox,” says he, in that summary of his
body could afford to carry on the old strife of passions and opinions, which sets out like the voice of one standing in
interests; but such a man is the very identical man to be the eyes of posterity, "FRANcis Bacox thought in this
listened to at a time, when human beings have at once ac manner. The knowledge whereof the world is now pos
quired heaps of knowledges and means, and are suffering sessed, especially that of nature, extendeth not to magni
under such inequalities of privation, as it is agreed on all t\ide and certainty of works. The physician pronounceth
hands cannot long be endured. That “something,” as many diseases incurable, and faileth oft in the rest. The
the phrase is, “must be done” before, long, every body alchemists wax old and die in hopes. The magicians per
seems to allow. That nobody well knows what to do, form nothing that is permanent and profitable. The.
especially the existing authorities, is also pretty well known mechanics take small light from natural philosophy, and
to be the fact by all descriptions of people. It is more do but spin on their own little thrids. Chance sometimes
over a third and more evident fact than all, that society discovereth inventions, but that worketh not in years, but
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ages. So he saw well, that the inventions known are very quire such physical strength, and improvement of mind, as must
imperfect, and that new are not like to be brought to light, necessarily fit them for netive and beneficial life. . When they
were twelve years of age they were to be employed six hours in
but in great length of time, and that those which are, came whrking, eitlier as manufacturers or agriculturists, and the other
not to light by philosophy. *
six hours to be divided between instruction and recreation, so as
“He thought also this state of knowledge was the slight to divide the day into equal parts. He had now given only a
and hasty sketch of the combinations he had in view ;
worst, because men strive (against themselves) to save the time would not permit him to sny more, but he was ready to ex
credit of ignorance, and to satisfy themselves in this plain the details of his scheme to any one who should think pro
poverty. For the physician, besides the cauteles of prac lº. er to request information of him. His great object was tº re
lower orders from ignorance, and the country from
tice, hath this general cautele of art, that he dischargeth the pauperism. He could declare most conscientiºusly, that he had
weakness of his art upon supposed impossibilities; neither no ambition to gratify; and that he never would accept any re
can his art be condemned, when it self judgeth. That muneratiºn from any men or body of men, for any service
which his plan º, produce to the public. (Repeated op
philosophy also, out of which the knowledge of physic plauses.) -

which now is in use is hewed, receiveth certain positions the duke of Sussex observed, that the plan required much
and opinions (which if they be well weighed) induce this reflection before any man could venture to pass an opinion upon
it, and thereſore he did not pledge himself to any one point. He
persuasion, that no great works are to be expected from had, however, heard ‘. as to its importance, to be con

art, and the hand of man; as in particular, that opinion, vinced that it ought to be taken up by every one who wished to
that the heat of the sun and fire differ in kind; and that relieve the sufferings of the poor. There was another considera
tion, how far the prosecutiºn of this plan might interfere with the
other, that composition is the work of man, and mixture existing laws in general, and in what respect it would be nece
is the work of nature, and the like; all tending to the cir sary to alter them. Never ought we to pull down an edifice till
cumscription of man's power, and to artificial despair; we had something where with to replace it. (Lond applauses.)
killing in men, not only the comfort of imagination, but He wished it therefore to go forth to the public, to be inves
tigated, and to see what could be done. Under this conviction
the industry of trial: only upon vain glory, to have their he held in his hand a resolution, which it would be found merely
heart thought perfect, and that all is impossible, that is not pledged them to inquire into a plan which the promotºr of it:
after long experience, thought worthy of attention. He must
already found.” * - - - - -
say,ourthat if the present plan tended tº bring abºut ºn alteration
in system of poor rates, and if this could be done without
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producing any convulsiºn in the state, he should be happy to
On Saturday week a very respectable and numerous Meeting witness such a result, (Loud applauses.)
of both sexes was held in Freemasons'-hall, for the purpose of Mr. J. Sxtra seconded the resºlution; and from what he had
taking into consideration the plan of Mr. Owen. seen of the establishment at New Lanark, expressed his couviº
º

The Chair was taken at half-past one o'clock by the Duke of tion that Mr. Owen had benefitted society, greatly, and he be
Kent, supported by Mr. Smith, M.P. and the Duke of Sussex. lieved that a great moral reformatiou would be effected by what
His ſºoyal Highness proceeded to open the business of the Meet he was doing. - - - -

ing, by stating his conviction of his utter inability to do justice The resolution was then agreed to: -

to the subject now brought before them. He had that morning The Duke of Sussex then moved a resolution for the forma
discussed the plan in company with Mr. Owen, and was so far tion of a committee of leading men of all parties, as he trusted
master of it; but he did not wish the Meeting to think he gave it would never be considered a party question—this was
any decisive opinion on the subject. -
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Mr. Owºn then stepped forth, pointing with a pole to the Mr. Rowcrorr then announced the following names as with
model of his plan on the table, and described its component ing to be members of the Committee *—viz. The Dukes of Krºit
parts. He proceeded to observe, that in proportion as the plan and Sussex, Sir Win. De Crespirwy, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Thomas
was developed, it would be found that no evils, from an excess Turton, General Brown, Mr. Sturges Bourne, Mr. T. H. Budd,
of population, would be suffered, in comparison of what were Mr. Basil Montague. Mr. Prestou, Mr. Harmer, Mr. Joshua Peel, .
now felt from the fear of it. He had soon discovered the neces. Mr. Rowcroft, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Smith, Mr. Foster, Mr. Clarke,
sity of providing land, labour, and securing good habits, and Rev. Wm. Gurney, &c. . - -

this not to the injury of proprietors of other lands. His first Mr. Ricanoo ºlogized the conduct ºf the Illustrious Per:
consideration was, what was the greatest degree of benefit to in sonage who presided at the. Meeting. It was an example of
dividuals, that could be combined with the greatest advantage to zeal for the pºblic good, and of benevolent intention, worthy of
society and the fewest possible inconveniences. About 1000 the highest praise. In a limited degree he thought the scheme
anen, women, and children, could be accommodated at the rate likely to succeed, and to produce cousiderable happiness, corn
of one acre for each man, woman, and child, and aſſording a sur fort, and morality, by giving employment and instruction,” the
plus for their common benefit., Trades and manufactures were lower classes." rson could admire more than he did, or
to be combined with, agriculture. ... He had already tried many appreciate more ſlighly, the benevolence that led his friend (Mr.
parts of this plan, under more disadvantageous ircumstances Owen) to prosecute his plan with so much zeal, and at the ex
than it had now to encounter, yet it had succeeded beyond his most pense of so much time and trouble. He could not, however, go
sanguine hopes. It combined economy in building with fuel, cook along with him in the hope of ameliorating the condition of the
ing, public instruction and inspection, light, space, and air. Work lower classes to such a degree as he seemed to expect: nor
shops were erected on the same principle with public rooms and should he wish it to go forth to the public that be thought the
places for instruction. With respect to schools, a most errºneous
plan wºuld produce all the good anticipated from it by his -an
impression had gone abroad; for it never was his intentiºn to
guine friend. As a member of the Committee he shºuld do
separate children from the controul and inspection of their everything in his power to forward the objects for which it was
papeuts. (Great applause.) i. knew that this objection had appointed. … . . . . . -

alsº been made against a Biłł lately brought into Parliament; The thanks of the Meeting were then unanimously voted to
but the only part of his combination which at all resembled that the Duke of Kent. •* ,” .
Bill, was the necessity of preventing childreu from imbibing the His Royal Highness returned thanks, and said, he would by
bad habits of parents, and this by placing them in separate zeal and attention do every thing in his power to make up for
schools. When a child was three years old, or when the fourth want of abilty in the investigation of this inportant sººjeº.
child was born, the former child was, intended to be removed to The thanks of the meeting being then proposed to the Duke of
the square of dormitories at night, and placed in the infant school Sussex. - - - “.. -

by day, and so to...remain till six years of age. He could only The Duke of Sussex returned thanks. Ile did not claim any
say, that it was in the power of society to accomplish more post merit for attending the present Meeting... Ile came there brea use
*ive good, by training up the children of the pcar to industrious he was anxious to hear whet could be said upon the important
habits of life, than could be effected by any other means. After subject, and from a desire which he had to “pport his illustrious
he "ge of six, it was intended to remove the children to the relatiºn upon all such occasions. - -

eneral school, there to remain six years, where they would ac -

sir wº. Dr. Ceesrigsy tock occasion to remark that, though
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self that the distresses of the country could in any very material MAnnnn, June 15.—By a Royal Decree of the 12th instants
degree be remedied by the proposed plan. addressed to the Secretary of State, Minister of Grace and Jus
The Duke of KENT said, that all were agreed in one thing— tice, his Majesty has thought proper to remove the Marquess de
the trouble, the care, and expense with which Mr. Owen endea Casa Irujo from the office of Minister Secretary of State. The
voured to carry his plan into affect, having no other view than to Chief of Division, M. Manuel Gonzalez Salmon, is provisionally
serve the public, and without any hope of personal advantage; charged with the direction of the affairs of that department—lº
he should therefore move, that the thanks of the Meeting be given consideration of the bad state of health of M. Egnia, Minister of
to Mr. Owen for his exertions. War, the King equally discharges him from that department by
The motion was carried unanimously and the Meeting another decree : at the same time he is appointed Captain
broke up. General of the Kingdom and the Coasts of Grenada. The direc
tion of the War Department is confided to Lieut.-General Don
Joseph Maria Alos, whe is also to direct the affairs of the
Ministry of Marine.—We are in all the agitation of a ministerial
For EIGN INTELLIGENCE. revolution. The Marquess de Casa Irujo was roused from his
FRANCE. bed in the night of the 12th inst., by an order of exile, which
banishes him to Avila. He had transacted business the previous
Paris, June 26–In the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, much evening with the King, without discovering the least prognosti
curiosity was excited in consequence of its being known that a cation of the storm which has just burst upon him. He quitted
Report was to be made by the Committee on the New Petitions the capital before day-light. It is thought that his place is de
for the recal of the Exiles, and of a report having been circulated stined for M. Onis, .. has returned from the United States.
that M. Bignon was to make a disclosure of his momentous
secret. The Report was made, recommending the Chamber to - (ANother Account.)
get rid of the Petition” by proceeding to the Order of the Day, theTon Manuel Gonsales Salmen, is the successor ad interim of
Marquis de Casa Irujo, who has been disinissed. Lieut.
which was agreed to without discussion, by a very large majo General Don Joseph Marie Alos succeeds to the Ministry of
rity; only thirteen Deputies voting against it. The secret of M.
Bignon remained as before undisclosed. º
War.—The greatest agitation has been caused by this ministerial
...A letter from Madrid, dated the 14th iust., announces another revolution. The Marquess de Casa Irujo had no previous notice
change in the Spanish Ministry. The Prime Minister the Mar or hint whatever of his intended fate; he was awoke in the
quis Casa Yrujo, received in the night of the 12th an order from middle of the night for the purpose of communicating to him the
order for his exile to Avila. He had transacted business as
the King, conveyed to him by the Captain General of the Pro
vince, enjoining him to quit Madrid before seven in the morning, usual in the evening preceding with the King. … Don Luis Oniº,
who is recently returned from the Unitad States, is said to be
and to proceed with all his family to a small town in Old Cas
tile. The order was immediately obeyed. -
destined ultimately to succeed him. Twenty-five changes of
June 28–Soune travellers recently arrived from Cadiz agrée Ministry in five departments have taken place, in the course of
in stating, that it is quite impossible the Russian fir-built vessels, five years, since the return of Ferdinand.
purchased by Spain, can be employed in the expedition to South *

Anerica, as they are decidedly not seaworthy. When the ves

sels in question last year put intn Portsmouth, in order to repair UNITED PAR LIAMENT.
damages, the English hipwrights who were employed declared,
that they were ouly fit to be broken up, and the truth of their HOUSE OF LORDS.
*ssertions is daily demonstrated since the arrival of these ships -
in the ports of Andalusia, Monday, June 28.
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The Foreign Enlistment Bill was discussed at some length, and

- - NETHERLANDS. in the same manner as in the Commons. It was supported by
Brussets, June 29.-Saudt is still alive ; his wounds have Earls Bathuast, HARRoway, Westworland, and the Lori,
closed, but his lºngs having been injured, an internal suppura Chancellon, and opposed by Lord Holland, the Marquisses
tion ha-taken place, which it is supposed will soon end in death. of LANsbows and Bu're, and the Earl of CARNARwon.
In the pre-ent temper of the young men of Geralany, it would be The division on the question for going into a Committee on
dangerous to execute him, -
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Tuesday, June 29,
- GERMANY. On the Report of the Bank ºf Ireland Cash Payments Bill, the
Fsox the MAINR, June 7.-In a North German capital City, Marquis of Lansdown moved some Amendments to make the
the differences which has arisen ketween the Sovereign and his period for the payments of the Bank of Ireland the same as for
eldest son appear not to be arranged. A person of high rank is the Bank of England.--Some conversation, arose on a question,
said to have forced, his way, with his word drawn, into the how a sum between 486t, and 2431. (the lowest sum for which
Sovereign's study, to have attacked the persons present, and to bullion could be demanded in bars of 60 ounces each) was to be
have insulted an esteemed officer.—A courier arrived from a paid. It was stated in answer, that there were two clauses in
Nºrthern Conrt has caused credit to be given to the report, that the Bill which sufficiently explained this: one which provided
a Northern Power has been applied to for assistance, to prevent that the payments should only be made in ingots or bars of gold
the measures which the Sovereign meant to take to prevent simi properly stamped and assayed; and another which described
lar occurrences for the ſuture. This event has made an un the fractional payments to be made in silver.-The Amendments
favourable impression, on the public. The officer is said not to were agreed to.—Adjourned. - -

have hitherto obtained auy satisfaction; it is, however, to be ex Wednesday, June 30. -

pected that he will, since otherwise very disagreeable conse
quences might be apprehended. The abuse and ill treatment
which have hitherto so often occurred, must of course become
still more frequent—still less regard will be paid to decºrum,
aud at the end some man of high sense of honour attacked in this
manner, and certain of obtaining no satisfaction, will devote
himself as a victim. It is indispensibly quite incompatible with
civivalrous and military ideas of honour for a Prince to insult a
brave man, aud then to take advantage of his birth to refuse him to compel anyone,—who should give information in order to pre
satisfaction, - -
The Earl of Liverpool, preseated, ou the part of the Crown, an
act of grace to restore two unfortunate individual- to their full
rights as British subjects. It was to reverse the attainder of
Lord Edward Fitzgerald, by which the blood of his two chil
dren, Edward Fox Fitzgerald and Louisa Maria Fitzgerald, had
become corrupted.—Read a first time.—Adjourned.
Thursday, July 1.
The Foreign Enlistment Bill was passed, with a clause added,

vent a vessel'sailing, on board of which he stated that there were

persons intending to enlist in ſereign service,—to set to th on
* * PRUSSIA. oath the circumstances on which his information should be
Bertiltw. Jux E 19.-lt is said that a new Constitution of the founded.
Thet is preparaig in Saxony, by which the possessors of estetes Lord Auckland said, that the advanced period of th: Session,
that are nºt nºble will have a seat and vote in the Diet. The made it necessary that either the new linsolvent ºeb ors' ful
people wish for n Repre-entative Constitution, as in Bavaria, should pass, or that they should return to the old law, wit intº r".
lºader, and Wurteuburg. *
*
lusolvent Act at all. in order to preveut the lattel atterrative
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he would consent to leave out all the clauses which had been ob the Government, they certainly had not been sanctioned by Par
jected to by Lord Redesdale, the father of the former Act. The liament; and so far the conduct of the Governor was irregular.
new Bill would therefore be the same as the last, with the excep Mr. Besner, in adverting to the powers assumed by the Go
tion of two parts of the present Bill, which would be retained: vernor, observed, that in levying a 3.ty on the spirits, he had . -

these were, the constitution of the Court, and a provision, that acted in conformity to the orders of one of his Majesty's Mini
if on the examination of the insolvent he laade a satisfactory dis sters; and therefore, if there was any penalty annexed to this
clºsure, he should receive an earlier discharge. . . exercise of power, the party that issued the order should be re
The House then went into the Committee, and Lord Redes sponsible. But there were other duties which the Governor had
dale's Amendments were agreed to.—Adjourned. imposed of his own accord, which he (Mr. Bennet) thought most
Friday, July 2.
unjustifiable as well as injudicious. He meant the duties on ex
The royal assent was given by commission to 42 public and puts.-Leave given.
KING FUND,
private Bills. Among the public Bills were, the Excise Duties The Report ofFINANCE—SIN
the Committee of Ways and Means was brought
Bill, the Assessed Taxes’ Composition Bill, the Seaneens' Wages
Bill, the Poor Settlement Biłł, and the Cotton-factories Bill. up and agreed to. In answer to some remarks by Mr. Huxe, re
On the report of the Charitable Foundations Bill, the clauses specting a sum of 1,600,000l. which was the interest of money that
relative to the proceedings in Chancery were, on the motion of had been funded last year, but did not appear to be provided for in
the Lord Chancellor, struck out.—Adjourned. the supplies voted for this, The Chancellon of the Exchs
ques said, that that charge would be met out of the new taxes:
1IOUSE OF COMMONS. to which Mr. Huxle rejoined, that he understood the new taxes
- to be exclusively for a real Sinking Fund.
Monday, June 28. The House went into a Committee on the Sinking Fund Loan
The Mock Auctions' Bill was thrown out. Bill.
In a Committee of Supply, 6000l. were voted to the American Mr. W.M. Smith remarked, that some years ago he had de
General Boyd, for the assistance he had rendered the English, clared, that the nation must either resort to the reduction ºf the
to an appropriation of the sinking Fund.
while he was in the service of the Nizam in India, and for his interest of the debt, ornow,
He was happy to find that the latter alternative, though
humane treatment of the English prisoners in the last American
war. formerly rejected, when he proposed it, was now adopted with
In a Committee of Ways and Means, 16 millions of Exche out the slightest difference.
quer Bills were voted for the public service.—The Chancellow The Chºrcellor of the Exchequer had adopted the alterna
of the Exchequer stated, that the revenue of the present tive without any shame, because he found
it would be no breech

quarter would exceed that of the corresponding quarter of last of faith with the public creditor. He had formerly opposed, not
year by 300,000t, without any sums having been paid into the the principle of the appropriation, but the policy; but when it
Exchequer in contemplation of the new duties.—Adjourned. became advisable, he had done it.—The Right Hon. Gentleman
then entered into some financial explanations, in the course of
Tuesday, June 29. which he stated that next year there would be a small sum of
GRAMPOUND–STIR.I.-FINEs. 4 or 5,000,000l. to be provided for, which he hoped to meet
The House having resolved itself into a Committee on the without a loan.
Grampound bribery indictments, some witnesses were called in Mr. Ricarpo regretted that no final arrangement had been
und examined. One of them, Mr. Alex. Lamb refused to answer made with regard to the Sinking Fund, and that the delu-ion
questions which might implicate his clients. Some discussion which had so long prevailed had not been destroyed. The pub
toºk place respecting the propriety of compelling him to say lic creditor should be at last told the truth. Yet the Chancellor
who employed him, when Sir C. Hawkins declared that he did; of the Exchequer seemed still determined to keep up the machi
**d the witness then replied to some questions respecting his nery, for he had said that next year we should have 16,000,000l.
professional labours at Grampound. While this was going on, of a sinking Fund, and should only require to borrow 11,000,000t.
Mr. MAntix took occasion to observe, that eager as the House for the supplies of the year, leaving a surplus of 5,000,000l. for
was to punish bribery in others, it was their duty to prevent the extinction of the debt. Would it not be better to destroy the
Members being returned to that House by it, as some of them machinery altogether, and to sny that we had only 5,000,000l.
notoriously were. (Order.)—Mr. WYNN protested with some of a Sinking Fund, thus confessing the truth in n public measure
warmth against the disorderly language which the Hon. Gentle itself, which was admitted in the explanation of it?
man was using. It was nºt to be endured that such imputations The Chaxcellor of the Exchequeſt said, that we had not
should be thrown out against Hon. Members. For himself he yet arrived at a state when it would be prudent to make any final
disclaimed the charge altogether.—Mr. MArtis had not the arrangement regarding the Sinking Fuud.-Adjourned.
*lightest intention of transgressing the orders of the House, or of
inputing to the Hon. Gentleman any thing like the practice of Wednesday, June 30.
bribery. -
In answer to a question from Mr. DeNMAN, respecting the
-

Oa àe motion of Mr. C. Wyss, the Attorney and Solicitor abolition of the office of Clerk of the Pells, which had been re
General were ordered to move for the judgment of the Court of commended by a Committee, the CHANcellor ºf the Excme

King's Bench “pon Sir Masseh Lopez, and the other persons con Quen said, that it was only intended to regulate, and not te
vºted of bribery at Grampound. abolish, the office.
-

The House resolved itself into a Committee on the Irish Still Mr. Wrottesley, an Address was voted to
On the motion of
fines Bill. - - the Prince Regent, praying him to grant a sum of money not
Mr. C. Hutchinson opposed the Bill, contending that the evils exceeding 20,000l. for the erection of a new building for tran
of the present system had been much exaggerated; and that the sacting bankruptcy business, and the sum to be provided for by
13ill would be liable to the objection made to the fine-systera, the Mouse. -

that the innocent were made to suffer for the guilty, because - . BANK NOTES-SINKING FUND.
the expense of keeping up the proposed large pºlice in the Mr. CALcraft asked, if it were likely that a further, report
Mºrious districts would be partiy paid by the whole United would be made in the present Session from the Commissioners on
łingdom. -
the forgery of Bank-notes. " -

The CHANcellon of the Exchequen observed, that all excise Mr. Counteway said that the Commissioners were convinced
Expenses were paid out of the general revenue of the United that the determination to which they had come upon the subject
Kingdom, and they would ail be liable to the same objection. was a correct one. A great quantity of machinery was neces
Fºil however he had thought it right that the districts should sary to prepare a sufficient number of notes before the Bank
peer half the cost. The small still system was full of difficulties, could begin the great operation of changing its notes: all opt
and he thought it should-be deferred to next Session. nions as to the time it would require were liable to error, but
The Bill went through the Committee. the parties were proceeding with all practicable despatch; in
-

... . . . . NEW SOUTH WALES, .. the whole, eight or nine machines would be necessary i two or
Mr. Gortººns mºved for leave to bring in a Bill to indemnify three were in a state of great forwardness, others were nearly
those governers of New South Wales who had imposed duties on complete, and the rest in different stages of progress. On the
.*.*.**** without the sauction.of the British Parliament, whole, there seemed every reason to believe that in three months.
* * lºse duties for a limited time, and to empower the the whole would be ready. - -

***** * *evy a new duty on spirits distilled in the colouy, - The Scotch Churches Bill was passed. ~... .
Alucagº these duties had been levied with the coucurrence ºf on
- - - -
the Report
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up, —Mr. GRENFEll remarked, that it appeared to him very We might fix the limits of the right of voting wherever we chose
desirable that that part of the system which gave a nominal to stop, but in law and reason ..I. of England had all
amount to the fund, so much larger than its actual, should be that right, and their right was a good as that of the King to hi
done away. It served merely to render the subject intricate, Crown. It was well known that the English People had for
and to create delusion. He trusted that in the course of the merly the nominatiºn, not only of their Representatives, but of
next Session there would be no objection to simplify it, and that, all Magistrates. Yet they did not wish to be reinstated: in a!
instead of being called 17,000,000l., it would be represented in their privileges; they wished only to have some share in the
future, as it really was, an effective ſund of 5,000,000l. and no choice of those who had the absolute disposal of their property.
more.—Adjournes. their labour, and their blood. “And is it asking too much,”
said the Hon. Baronet, “ that men who are thus torn from their
Thursday, July 1. -

families and forced to shed their blood on all occasions, should

Lord Morrerº presented a Petition from a Mr. Bedingfield, have some share in the election of those who have the power of
stating his important services in having contributed to save the saying
when and how these burdens shall be imposed on them,
life of the King 24 years ago, when his Majesty was going through these services
the Park from the House of Lords; and ...
by leaving to shall be demanded of them?” It appeared that
anciently the people of this country were much better gif than
the consideration of the House his claim to reward for this ser
they were at present. Lord Chancellor Fortescue, in a work on
vice, for which he had never yet received any recompense.— the excellence of onr laws,
Laid on the table. -
drew a comparisou between the con:
dition of the French and that of the English people, and attributed
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. the difference in favour of the latter to the security they possessed
Two Petitions from King's Lynn were presented, in favour of for their property, and their ability to get their wrongs redressed.
Parliamentary Reform. “ . This learned writer described them as enjoying all the comforts
The Marquis of TAvistock presented a Petition for the same and luxuries of life: he said, that they had abundance of gold
object from Liverpool, signed by 1,800 of the most respectable and silver; that they never drank water except upon a religious
inhabitants, praying that they might be allowed to participate in score, or by way of penauce; that they had plenty of food, were
the election of their own representatives. The Noble Marquis clothed
in good woollens, and their bedding and other house:
would just say a few words in relation to a subject about which hold furniture was of wooi. (A laugh.) What a contrast did
so much had lately been heard. Some contended with great this picture present to the present condition of the people'. The
vehemence for a radical—others, with equal zeal, for a mode result of such a comparison between France and England now
rate reform. But what he approved of, looking to its effects, would make the relative situation of the two countries appear
was a reform both radical and moderate—(Hear, hear!)—radi completely reversed. For the real state of the country was nºw
cal in remedying abuses, and moderate in the remedies it miserable and wretched, notwithstanding the as-urances put by
applied: - - Lord Castlereagh into the Regent's speech that it was only a
The Petition was laid upon the the table. temporary pressrire—(which however had lºsted 5 years)—oace
Sir FRAxcis Burpetr rose to address the House upon the most sioned by a transition from war to peace. Instead of this being
important of all subjects—Parliamentary Reſorm. He had never the case, however, there were Petitions mplaining of the into
wished to separate the friends of the measure, whatever might lerable distress occasioned by taxation, from all classes of mºnº
be their differences as to the extent to which it should go; but facturers and agriculturists. Every one wanted to have the bur
he thought they could not pursue too far that ancient and recor den taken from his own and placed on his neighbour's shouldn'".
nized maxim, “that the People of England are not to be taxed The truth was, that the taxation was now beyond what the
without their full consent, expressed by their fair representatives country could endure--(11ear, hear!)—and this was one ºf the
in Parliament.”. He had not brought this question on at an strongest reasons for Reform. To those who cried out for re
earlier period, because, constituted as that House now was, he -trenchment without Reform, he would say that Ministers had it
wished people to see how futile all expectations of redress were not in their power to grant it. Profusion was necessary to "p
from a “New Parliament,” and because he wished it also to be port the present corruptions; it was what had been significantly
seen that he expected no such redress from an assembly who Galled “oiling the wheels of Government.” In the collection of
were of the character which had marked the present. He should the taxes, for instance, the object was not how much money
not on this occasion go into specific details; but should leave to should be paid into the Exchequer, but how much, thºs persºn*
stiners the applying of a particular remedy for existing abuses. should be benefited through wilose hands it passed. The "mºn
By agreeing to the measure which he should propose, Members strous military establishment, too, was necessºry to support this
would be under no obligation to support Universal Suffrage or monstrous
and unconstitutional Parliament. This immense army
would
Annual Parliaments. In 1809, he had proposed a measure that. by the no longeras betheir
people necessary if Parliament—were looked up of
tº
safeguard, and not as the instrument
was far from being wild or visionary; it was to make all those
who paid direct taxes voters: it was founded on a principle their
tially oppréssion.
necessary for“This overgrown
the support of aarmy is; however,
Gºvernment e-en
carried on
ºf English haw, and recognized by the best writers on that law.
Chief Justice Blackstone, a crown lawyer, and consequently not through a corrupt House of commons—though rºughtº:
*ely to carry such a principle to a permicious extent, declared, ardon for saying a corrupt House of Commºns...ſo I mºst do
that “If a free state, every man who is a free agent ought to be justice to the Gentlemen calling themselves the House ºf Com
in some measure his own-governor; and ºtherefore a branch at mons”—(Order! order!). - - - - --

least of the legislative power should reside in the people.” “The The Speaksa thought the Hon. Baronet would see, upon
true reason of requiring any qualification with regard to pro reflection, the impropriety of such language: -

perty, in voters, is to exclude such-persons as are in so mean a sir fºncis assented to the sentiments of the Speaker: . The
situation that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.” Gentlemen composing that House
Representatives of those who sent were the hones: and faithful
them there; but they did not
Now it was perfectly notorious, that the greater part of the follow the interests of the public, because the public had anot
Hºuse were returned by such voters—(Hear!)—by persons chosen them. The Septennial Act did not affect them, ſº to
whose numes were kept off the poor books, for the sake of them there were neither Septennial, Triennial, nor Annual Par
enabling them to give their votes. Thus the enormous injustice
was practised of excluding the larger portion of the community liaments; the patron dismissed his nominee whenever he pleased,
and the nominee made it a point of honour to take the slightest
frºm the exercise of privileges possessed and abused by the very hint from his patron. The Septennial Act therefore only was
cià-s of persous-whom the law originally contemplated to ex those few. Members
erade, on account of their dependant state?.. But every line of who effective against
depended onthe people
their in the
suffrages for case of ºthis state of things
a seat.
ancient legal authority was a severe satire on the whole system: was as degrading to the Crown as tº the peºple.” The lºng
Tºy a law of Edward I. it was declared, that any person inter
fering in the election of a Member, should be guilty of a breach could not even exercise his legal privileges; he could-not al
*:
"of privilege; add so it had been held of a Peer intermeddling. point havingasahis Minister
whole set; any persononly
he cºuld whom #e thºught
shange ºne set flºwiſhº
of-bºrniºla
with such elections; and *. ‘with these facts staring them in
: *the face, they had the e r onteryºto sit there, accounting the proprietors for ºther. He was in the iſºfº
who wishes to have a particular steward, but is tals by ºn t!ºt
* whoſe of then properly returned, by their unjust and corrupt
"... *Majºrities. As ió the extent ºf suffrage, Blackstone had said. could not be, unless he also had John för butter, Peter threoach.
ſlºº every member of the cºmmunity; however poor; should, fºuse man, Andrew for coºk, &c. (Mºhugh.) ºrteºroughtºne."
have a votein’éſéeting those delegates ºf commºns inad wrested frºm ſlie-Crown all the *.*
mitted the dis
to whose charge is coui.’
of his roperty; his fiberty; and his lifº *If vantages of which it was iſſp.
- - bossessiºn for the tºilefit of the prº
this was not tºniversal Siffrage, ſhekhawºjörwiere to find it." *it. "rheºsovereigisºft
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batºry wereºformerly in a twº
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 422 the ExAMINER.
enviable situation: Queen Elizabeth was a proof of this. That vote away the liberties and property, and lives of the people!"—
Princess could say, when she was going to a ſeast in the city, While we were thus unnecessarily guarding ourselves again-t
and the Spanish Ambassador asked her where were her troops;– foreign, we neglected our defence against domestic foes. We
“These,” pointing to the people, “are my troops, and my bestwere like Dr. Johnson's father, who kept a bookseller's shop at
Exchequer is the pockets of my people.” Litchfield, and who was very attentive to the bar" and bolt" in
He (Sir F. B.) wished
articularly to impress upon then the enormous cost of the front of his house, but let thr thieves get in through a back dºor
#. system, and the inability of the people to support it. that he had left open. In like manner, the influence of the bo
When any tax was objected too on the ground of its injuring the roughmongers was our unguarded back-door, which we ought to
health or the morals of the people.—a tax, for instance, like that chain up as soon as possible. He (Sir Francis) was one of those
which was called the Fever Tax. because it spread contagion and who thought an extensive suffrage of less importance than an
ſever among the people, and which was the more felt in that equal suffrage; but his present object was not to recomnreud
country on which it pressed, from the hospitality of its inha any specific Reform, but to show that some Reform was nee---
bitants, who had hardlv sufficient resolution to ſhut their door sary to hold out a prospect of relief to the irritated feelings of
Against a poor stranger; or when it was proposed to repeal the people, and to satisfy their just expectations. “As on the
auether source of revenue, the produce of which was almost a one hand I am not disposed to carry abstract right to its greatest
sepper-corn in our taxation, and which had the effect of sprend extent, so, on the tither hand, I am not disposed to stop short of
jlig vire, misery, the spirit of gambling, through the country : that which is necessary for the purpose in view.” It had been
the Right Hon. Gentleman, who was also a Member of the So said by a Right'Hon. d.º.º. opposite, that the present sys
ciety for the Suppression of Vice (A laugh) said,3that he pitied teth, in spite of all its defects, * worked well." But what
the misery or the had effects of the taxes, but, however small worked well ſor one set of men worked very ill for another. : In
might be their produce, he could not dispense with them. “It the grave-digging scene in 11amlet, the principal grave-digger
is absurd,” said Sir Francis, “to expect the Government to be says to his cºmpanion, who had observed that the gallows-maker
conducted much cheaper till the 1ſouse is differently constituted. made stronger works than any other man, hecause that frame
, If this system continues long, what will become of the public outlived a thousand tenants, “I like thy wit well; the gallows
creditor # Under a. Reformed Parliament he might have some does well; but how does it well ? it does well to those that do
chance; but if matters come to a push with the Boroughmonger, ill: argal, the gallows may do well, to thee."-(Loud laughter.)
the public creditor must give way—there can be no doubt which What right had gentlemen opposite, who lived on a bed of
party will go to the wall. There is the greatest reason for sup roses, to call the views of others visionary and delusive, when
posing the taxes must be less productive, and I shall not be sur thew themselves lived in a world of delusion, and appeared to be
prised, if, with the three millious of wew taxes, no addition is utterly inseusible to the general discontent and misery There
obtained to the Revenue. The public creditor has therefore a was now an absolute necessity for coming to some agreement
strong motive for advocating Reform, and so indeed has everv with the people; for perseverance in the present system would
than in the country, except the proprietors of rotten boroughs.” involve nil in one common ruin... Ile would not mention part
It had been said that the Reformists were wild and visionary in cular grievances, because they stared one in the face in every
a-serting that Reform was the one thing needful. But what he had direction. They appeared in the Reports on the table ; they
seen of the result of the exertions of gentlemen around him, with abounded in Charitable Institutions, in Prisons, in Madhouses;
all their talents and industry, convinced him that all efforts were and above all in the monstrous expense and delay attendant on
fruitless without a Reform of the Representation; and that no our Courts of Law. It was said in the Great Charter-” We wiłł
good could be expected from any other set of men, if the change not sell, deny, or deſer justice " but now, though it was not ac
was not preceded by that. After the close of the American war. tnally sold, it was totally denied to many persons by means of
Mr. Pitt asserted, that Reform was so indispeusible, that without it its attendant expense. The master grievance was the state of
no honest man could be a Minister of this country; and he predict the Courts of Equity, and particularly that of the Court of Chan
ed, that if Parliament were not reformed, the country would cery, which was the source of more human suffering than any
again be plunged iu war, and involved in additional debt, diſ system ºver established in a civilized country. This was in a
ficulty, and danger. That Minister lived to verify his predic great measure attributable to the scandalous manner in which
tions in his own person. Those whose only object was a change the Legislature had taxed Justice, than which they had better have
of Ministers said, -“Give us good men, and they will give us taxed bread. Had that House discharged its duty, to the people,
good measures." But nothing could be more opposed to sound it would have never imposed such taxes. For all these griev
political reasoning, to experience, and to the opinions of the ances, the only remedy was a fair Representation. At present,
ablest political writers, Locke, Black-tone, Harrington. The though ºn abuse, when it became nost glaring, was sometimes
last writer wisely said, “Give us good men, and they will give inquired into, little more than palliatives were applied....He
us good meanres, is the language of demagogues; give us good should now conclude with the following Resolution :-" That
ºrders wnd they will give us good men, is the principle of wise early in the next Session of Parliament this House will take into
legislation.” ł. was time interest of the King—it was the interest its most serious consideration the State of the Representatiou of
of the people—it was the interest of the public creditor—it was the People.” - ** -

the interest of all orders in the state, that, a few individuals Mr. G. LAMs congratulated the friends of Reform that the
should no longer be permitted to enjoy the privilege of nomi terms of the motion were such, as would enable then to concur
nating a large proportion of the Members of that House. Those in it, though they might differ as to the details of the remedy:
Gentlemen were grossly mistaken who supposed that the pre He wished to draw a broad line of distinctiou between his own
sence of a large standing army would enable them to force upon opinions, und the wild theories out of doors. The persons who
the people the continuance of such a system 5 to resist moral held those tueories had kicked up a great dmst, like soldiw” in
force by the bayonet. It was the expense of a standing army that marking time (as the military phrase had it), but had made wo
he objected to, nét its danger to liberty; for he had less fear of the advance; but he contemplated with great satisfaction the mee
red-coated Gentlemen of the army º of the black-coated Gen sures that had been taken in that House to put down bribery and
tlemen of the long-robe. (Laughter.) He defied Ministers, in corruption. For his own part, he wished to see the elective
the present tranquil state of Europe, to justify such an army. franchise removed from boroughs in which general corruption
But it was urged that the country must be kept in a commanding was prowed, to popular districts or towns. at was all that he
attitude : in other words, in a bullying posiure. ow it was wished to see aliered in the Representation. He should also
with natious as with individuals. Nothing could be more inju like to see the duration of Parliaments shortened. He regarded
dicious than for a man to hold himself in a constant position of de the jollity, the noise, and the abuse at the Hustings of a popular
fence; his powers became exhausted before a blow was struck. place as an excellent ordeal for a Candidate to go through. (A
A relaxation of a single year would render the exertions of the laugh.) He did not think Parliamentary Reform such a grand
eountry more effectual than if this over-strained vigilance—this panacea as it had been described by the Hon. Baronsº, and
attitude of defence—was maintained till it was exhausted by fa. jºreached up of late years; but still it might be so managed as to
tigue. (Hear, hear, heart) “But," continued the worthy Ba prodace much good. It would diffuse among the people a re
monet, “ much as I object to a large military establishment, I liance on their rulers, of which the great mass wers uow almost
would with much more pleasure make any sacrifice to the King divested. Whatever reception the present" proposition might
with respect to it, then I would to those usurping subjects who meet with, he must still consider the Members of that House as
**inate Members tº this Howset this House the majority of the coustitutional representatives of the people; and if he had
*lºt, although acting under the character of, and assuming uttered any sentiment in the slightest degree disrespectful, it
tº be representatives of the people, are in fact should be attributed solely to inadvertence:
£90 individuals, who by this means Mr. Gasnºsli was not accustomed to address the House on
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subjects of this nature, but he would take the opportunity of The House divided, after a short reply from Sir F. Bundeft
stating to the House and the country his honest conviction on For the motion, 58—Against it. 153—Majority, 95.
the subject. . He saw in the practical effect of the existing system The Dissenters' Marriage Bill was postponed, by Mr. WM
of Representation much real and positive good; and whatever Smith to next Session, at the request of Lord Castlereagh.--Ad-,
might be its theoretical defects, he thought it a more practical jourued.
safeguard of liberty and property then any one ever established Friday, July 2.
in any state of society in our circumstances of civilization, popu The Lords' Amendments to the Foreign Enlistment Bill were
lation, and maturity. On the other hand, he could not cousent agreed to, and anether Amendment, proposed by Mr. DeNMan,
to endanger this positive good, without having some stronger in was added. It enacted, that a person gave false information
ducement than the hopes held out by the Reformers. He respecting a ship's having recruits on board, should be liable to
doubted whether any great, material, or, above all, any radical the penalties of perjury. -

changes (however beautiful in theory) would produce the pro DUKE OF KENT'S LOTTERY.
mised good effects. He by no means denied that the present Alderman Wood brought up a report on the Petition of the
system had its imperfections; but, instead of sweeping measures Duke of Kent, praying that he might be allowed to dispose of a
of Reform, he would recommend a more practical course. When certain part of his property by lottery--The report stated, that
ever a proposition should be made to the House, in which an at an early period in his ſife, the Duke of Kent had served in
evil should be clearly pointed out, and the remedy as clearly America, and whilst there, had lost by capture and shipwreck,
shown, he would be most happy to support it. Another reason his baggage and furniture; that in order to replace these loºse".
for his attachment to the present system was the total want of he had been obliged to raise money upon the most disadvan:
concord among the Reformers: except the Radical Reſormers, he tageous terms; that these, embarrassments had been increased
never found three that agreed in their object. They only agreedby large sums, in which he was obliged to insure his life; that
in one point, that of supporting a motion for a Committee of though for some years back he had been living in the most eco
Enquiry; but he could not do so too, as it was necessary for nomical manner, both at home and abroad, and though he had
him not only to know the abuse, but to understand the specific regularly set aside a part of his income for the discharge of his
remedy. . He should express his dissent ftom the motion by debts, he was now indebted 70,000l.; that he had no disposable
moving the other orders of the day. property to pay those debts, except his estate at Castlebar; that
Mr. Gurnev and Alderman Woon thought that.the Resolu this estate, if sold at present in the usual manner, would be dis
tion was necessary to calm the irritated feelings of the people. posed of at a sum much below its real value; and that, unless he
Sir R. Wilson remarked, that it was objected to his Hon. was allowed to dispose of it by lottery, he should be obliged to
Friend's propositiens, that the Members of that House, being the live abroad and educate his daughter in a foreign country, from
virtual Representatives of the whole people, would not sanction an inability to provide for his Royal Consort and her child in
any measure which would injure the people, and themselves as this country those comforts which ought to belong to persons in
part of the people ; but it should be recollected, that they had a their exalted situation.
sinister interest to gratify, and that they recompensed themselves Alderman Wood then moved for leave to bring in a Bill
by private bargains for theodium they excited. One description of founded upon this report. This lottery would not at all increase
Anti-reformers wanted to have a regular plan laid down; but the spirit of gambling or the vice and misery which emanated
that should be left for the Committee to recommend, and for the from the lotteries in general, as it was intended to draw it at the
House to adopt. For his part, he would prefer Triennial Par same time as the state lottery. . The estate was now mortgaged,
liaments, and votes extending to all householders. for 50,000l., and had cost originally, as he was told, 120,000l.
Mr. Wilmor considered this motion as connected with the So popular was his Royal Highness among the citizens of Lon
seditious meetings in the conntry. The Radical Reform of the don, that there was little doubt of every ticket in this louery
Hou. Baronet would destroy all the effects of civilization, and
being immediately disposed of: one gentleman had even pro
we should have to begin again de novo. He was surprised that mised to pay 70,000l. immediately to the l)uke, if the lottery.
the Hon. Baronet should make the comparison between present should be permitted. The Hon. Gentleman then named some
and former times favourable in point of liberty to the latter, since instances of private lotteries, and eulogized the conduct and eco
in those times labourers were iransferred from one lord to an nomical º of life of the Royal-Duke... - " -- :* *

other like cattle. He (Mr. W.) was an enemy to corruption, and Mr. GRENFELL thought, that if the House granted this appli-"
would reford it; but the exaggerated statements of the advan cation, they could not refuse any similar one. * - - - -

tages of Radical Reform brought all Reform into disrepute. The Mr. Huyte could not see why the House should not assent to
right of suffrage ought to be raised higher, and not brought the motion, unless they wished to deny the Son of the King what
lower, thaw at present. For the distresses of the people, many they would grant to any other subject., The Hon. Member then
salutary remedies might be devised; but, though it was easy to reviewed the circumstances of the Royal Duke's history, in order
knock down, it was not so easy to build up, and he could not to show, that the smallness of his income when young, the un
consent to endanger the Constitution. The Hon. Member then avoidable losses he had suffered, and the expenses. rendered
read an extract from the writings of Mr. Fox, in which that: necessary by his situation, had compelled him to incur late
statesman urges that the House were bound, by the Constitu debts. His Royal Highness went to Hanover, when about 8,
tion, to take care ef greater interests than those of their imme and remained "uhere two years, during which he was only
diate constituents, and not to give way to the clamour of the allowed two pistoles a week. From 1790 to 1799, he had only
rº. if they should make improper demands. (Cheers.) *.* tº
5000l. a year, and he did not receive his allowance of 12,000l. a.
Mr. Williants, Alderman WAiru wan, Mr. Hume, Mr. C. year till he was 32, while the other Princes received theirs at .
Hutchinson, and Mr. Byng, supported the motion.—Alderman 21 or 24. The 20,000l. granted him by Parliament as well as
Warramax thought Mr. Wilmot must have misquoted Fox, for, the additional 6000l. a year only went io discharge his incum
although that great man did not think a Member should sacrifice brances, which showed his sincere desire to pay his creditors.
his conscience to the opinion of his constituents, he could never All he wanted was to be allowed to dispose of his estate on fair
have expressed such a wide sentiment. In his celebrated speech, terms, which he could not do without this Bill.
in 1797, Mr. Fox had declared himself a Radical Reformer.—Mr. Lord CastleReach remarked, that if the House agreed to
C. Hutchinson maintained the absolute neeessity of Reform in what was now required, it would be impossible to refuse a withi
the present state of the country. He had lived to see the Parlia lar Bill to any individual, who thought that he could dispose of
ment of Ireland bought and .# in open market, and the country property to more advantage by lottery than by regular “le.—
which it represented degraded to the most abject state, blotted He sincerely lamented that the Hon. Gentleman had gone into
out of the map of nations, and reduced to the state of a poor the review he had taken: some of the facts advanced conveyed,
miserable province: he had lived to see a corrupt and insolent what the House could not bear without strong emotion, a sout
*
majority, acting under the command of a corrupt and insolent of parental reproach—a suggestion, than which there was ut
Minister, sell themselves to the Ministers of another nation, and thing less in unison with the general feeling, that the King had
by so doing sell that country which they were bound to protect. acted towards his children with undue partiality-(Continued
Lord John Russell concurred with his Hon. Friend (Mr. Cheers.)—Oue son had been invidiously brought forward in con
Lamb) in thinking, that the most practicable Reform consisted in trast with another; and it had not been fairly made." The Duke
disfranchising boroughs found guilty of corruption. He would of Kent had possessed professional advantages; he had received
also support Triennial Parliaments,
... motion, because any proposition
but he should
*...*. oppose this large emoluments from Gibraltar; and at this moment his Royal
the House to a Highness actually had : an - income of between 30,000!," and
generalipauiry, must have the effect of throwing a slur on the 32,000t. considerably beyond the incoee of his elder brother.
state of the representation, and of alarming the people. * *.*.*.*, * The best friends of t Duke of Kent would lament much what
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had been said this night, and they would revolt at the idea of
...; the present measure as a mode of rewarding his Royal TUESDAY's LoNDON gazette."
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ighness for his exertions in favour of public charities. - BANKRUPTS.

Mr. Foames supported the motion. The Duke of Kent had not. R. P. Jackson, Liverpool, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Lowe
been treated like his brothers, and his debts had been inevitably and Bower, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane.
incurred. J. Dobell, Cranbrook, Kent, brewer. Attorney, Mr. Jones, Mill
Lord Lowrhea was not a little surprised to see the Worthy man-place, Bedford-row.
Alderman supporting anything in the shape of a Lottery—a T. Pickton, Hammersmith, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. Wood
system to which he had, in that House, always evinced so deter W.ward and Collins, Watling-street. -

mined an hostility. Hardy, Manchester, drysalter. Attorney, Mr. Ellis, Chan

cery-lane. -
Alderman Wood stated, that his Royal Highness himself had A. Allen, Pall-mall, calico furniture-manufacturer. Attorney,
in fact no concern whatev-r in bringing forward this measure, Mr. Coºkney, Castle-street, Holborn. -

for it was pressed upon him (Alderman W.) by the Trustees for
liquidating the Duke's debts. As the feeling of the House
seemed to be against the motion, he would withdraw it.
- CORRUPTION AT CAMELFORD.
S.W. Woolrich, Stafford, druggist. Attorney, Mr. Knowles,
New-inn.
* R. and E. Eddleston, Blackburn, Lancashire, cotton-manufac
• turers. Attornies, Messrs, Avison and Wheeler, Castle-street,
Holborn. --

Some conversation arose on a motion for taking into conside

ration the Report of the Camelford Election Committee, in the H. Lanham, Dorking, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. Russell and
course of which Mr. D. W. HAnvey thus described the corrupt Son, Lant-street, Borough.
practices of the borough:—The facts were—that there were 29 C. Law, Minories, victualler. Attornies, Messrs. Thompson
electors for Camelford—that that borough had been frequently aud Oram, Leman-street, Goodman's-fields.
, the subject of sale or barter—and that it was now the property
of a Noble Lord, whose name was no secret. Not long before
the last Election, a meeting of five of the Electors was held at an SATURDAY's LoNDON GAZETTE.
-
inn, which meeting was joined by a certain Reverend Divine, - BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
who expressed a desire to return two Members. The Electors J. Strafford, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, miller, from July 13
annexed only one condition to their compliance with this; till August 14.
uamely, that a large sum of money should be deposited for pur - BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
poses mentioned in a whisper. With that condition the Reve J. Snow, Swarkestone, Derbyshire, and R. Wilkins, Staunton
reud Divine would not comply. The five Electors, however, Harold, Leicestershire, timber-merchants.
met again at another inn, where a letter signed James Harvey -- BANKRUPTS.
was read, offering 6000l. for the power of returning two Mem J. Lewis, junior, Martley, Worcestershire, horse-dealer.
bers for the borough, to be distributed among any fifteen (being J. Marshall, Mincing-lane, merchant.
a majority of the Electors). This proposal was agreed to. As a J. Collman, Chelsea, coal-merchant.
security for the money, it appeared that the half-notes of the J. Phillips, Littleton, Worcestershire, paper-maker.
6000l. were deposited at Camelford. Ultimately, however, the J. Leslie, Island of St. Michael’s, Lower Thames-street, merchant,
conspiracy failed, and the Election was lost. I did not appear, H. J. Reynolds, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, haberdasher.
- however, that the half-notes had been returned without making E. Fentiman, l'eterborough, Northamptonshire, habendasher.
some compromise! Mr. Hallet had absconded, to avoid giving J. Mort, Bolton, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturer.
evidence before the Committee. There were two sets of Candi J. Smith, Parliament-street, Westminster, tailor.
dates, both on the Ministerial interest; but they had agreed to R. Crombie, Chelsea, victualler.
settle their claims by drawing tickets out of a tea-pot—(a laugh.) K. Boott, Artillery-place, Finsbury-square, merchant.
• The lot had fallen on Mr. Stewart and Mr. Collett. In his opi G. Southern, Streatham, Surrey, baker.
miou there was no mode so effectual for the abolition of the T. H. Ilirst, Dean-street, Canterbury-square, oil-merchant.
abuses of the Borough System, as by taking each particular case W. Love, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucester, grocer.
that came before the House. It seemed tº him that such a
T. and W. Beardsall, Worksop, Nottingham, dealers.
system as that which prevailed in the borough of Camelford T. Waller, Trentham, Stafford, potseller.
went to the establishment of two iiouses of Lords,-(Hear!)— C. Mann, Wakefield, grocer.
1. He therefore thought that the House would consult its own dig J. Gandy, Liverpool, merchant.
• *ity, by, prosecuting the matter—The question was postponed R. Dodd, Oxford-street, engineer.
to Monday.
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NEw south wales.

The House went into a Committee on the New South Wales Meetings continue to be held all over the country, con
Duties Bill, sisting chiefly of manufacturers. Some of them petition
Mr. Bessºr was unwilling to consent to the indemnity to for Reform, others for the means of emigrating to Ame
Governor Macquarrie given by this Bill. Suspicious circum rica, in order to avoid starvation at home.
stances connected with the duties illegally levied by order of the It is supposed that the House of Commons will adjourn
Governor had been stated in the Committee now investigating
this subject. The taxes illegally imposed were of the most it on Tuesday, to give the Lords time to pass the bills from
indicious description-on shipping, on tonnage, on coals—and. the Lower House; and that the Parliament will be pro
there was a tax on persons going out of the Colony—not to pay rogued on Saturday.
the naval officers employed, but to pay the Governor's own The Sun of Wednesday night contains the following
Secretary. Mr. Campbell, the Secretary, took Is. 6d. of head amusing specimen of anticlimax :—“It is particularly our
money on all persons going out of the Colony; he took 6d. a ton wish to gratify our female readers, and for that purpose
on his Majesty's transports. He could not understand why this we endeavour to render our paper as miscellaneous as
tax was imposed for paying the Secretary, and he could not possible, when we can do so consistently with a proper
therefore consent to protect the Governor., -

Mr. Forbes thought the inquiry would turn-out very favour attention to subjects of essential importançe, such as the
mble to Governor Macquarrie, and that these hints of suspicions preservation of our happy establishment in church and
were very unfair. - - - - - - state, a firm resistance of Popish intrusion into our legisla
The Committee adjourned till Saturday. ture, and a due support of regular solicitors, to whom the
MR. Owen's PLAN, property and happiness of º: in general are intrusted,
-
- -

... Sir W. de CREspioxy expressed his regret that Parliament
shºuld have neglected to take any effectual step. respecting the
Relief of the Poor in the course of the present Session. "The
late period of the Session obliged hinto withdraw his motion,
on an understanding that it should be renewed early in the next
Session.-Adjquined, -
against those empirics in the law, whose ignorance and
presumption may involve their deluded clients ifruin."
The last Census taken, two years ago, of the inhabitant:
of North America, makes the population between ten and
eleven millions: when they published their Declaration of
Independence they were not quite four millions.
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THE EXAMINER.
price or stocks on 8ATURDAY. tempt what they cannot answer, and besides there would
sper Cent. Red......... 68}#68 (3 per Cent. Cons. --------, *n. be an aukwardness in stirring the question of corruption,
in which they are so much personally concerned.
*. THE EXAMIN ER. The speech of the Honourable Baronet was perhaps,
on the whole, the best he has ever made on the subject.
London, July 4. It was very temperate; it embraced all the points con
nected with the necessity of Reform; it was not encum
That poor Creature FERDIN AND has given another speci bered, like some of his former speeches, with antiquarian
men of his exceeding stupidity. He has discharged all reseaches; and it very properly avoided any mention of
those who were foolish enough to become his Ministers. particular plans. We are inclined to think, that Sir
The Marquis of Casa Yauyo, his prime Minister, and a FRANcis, after a good deal of wavering between Radical
man who was thought to be capable of striking some blow and Moderate Reform, has come to this conclusion,--
in South America, was ordered away at midnight, and had that, whichever he may be disposed to think best, the
only an hour's time, according to some accounts, to get most rational and effectual mode of proceeding is to
away from Madrid. Men must be strangely infatuated, or urge none till there is some chance of succeeding:
intoxicated with a little power, a very “. brief autho This is the most modest as well as useful course; and if
ºrity,"—who would expose themselves to the caprice and all the Reformers would adopt it, without obtruding on
cowardly despotism of such a miserable thing, who the public their particular (and often intolerant), views,
has outdone, in capriciousness, the most contemptible of the general cause would be greatly promoted, both by the
the Roman Emperors. In the few years that he has been removal of a constant bone of contention, and by depriv
in possession of the Spanish throne, there have been no ing their enemies of one of their chief excuses for refusing
less, it is said, than 25 changes of Ministry. The Monks, | all enquiry.
we suppose, are at the bottom of this affair.
There is bad news from South America. MAcqregon, It was objected, that this motion had been brought on
who took Porto-bello a short time back, with the assist late in the Session; but this the Mover very well accounted
ance of his English soldiers, has been driven out of it in a for. Nothing is more convincing than a little experience.
very disgraceful way. He had neglected the ordinary The Whigs anticipated great triumphs from the result of
caution of keeping outposts, in consequence of which, the the General Election: abuses were “to fall before them
Royalist General, who had advanced from Panama with like sheep.” Sir FRANcis did not think so; but he abstained
1000 men, came suddenly upon the town, on the morning from interfering with their exertions, in order that they
of May 1st, and entered it, killing and wounding 100 men,
might have fair play. Now what has really been done
worth mentioning 2 A Committee has been appointed to
and taking 370 more. Not more than 12 escaped, among
enquire into the Criminal Laws, and another to en
whom was MacgREgor himself, who upon the first alarm quire into abuses in the Scotch burghs, and we sup
rose from his bed, leaped out of a window 20 feet high,
and swam to one of his squadron in the harbour. To pose the House will make some small reformation—
will apply
add to his disgraceful conduct, too, a Colonel in the corps This is the sumsome “palliatives,” instead of remedies.
threw himself into the fort with 250 men, and sent to of the good; and if as much good as this
request MacGREgon to assist him. The General pro could be effected in every session (which is not likely), our
mised to be with him in aa hour, but instead of keeping abuses are so numerous, that we might be ground to death
his word, his ship was soon perceived to be gliding out of by taxation, and degraded morally and politically to an
port, on which the fort was obliged to surrender. abject condition, before any great advance could be made
This is of course bad enough, as it assists to retard the
or any effective relief afforded. But the truth is, that what
overthrow of the Royalists; but it is to be recollected, on good the Whigs may do is counterbalanced by the mea
the other hand, that this MAcc Regon is said to be little sures which the Boroughmongers carry through the House,
better than an adventurer, who not being connected and and will carry as long as the people are unrepresented. ,
All the calculations of the beneficial result of the exertions of
... acting in concert with any of the rising. Independent Go
the Opposition go upon the assumption that the other side are
vernments, might have one day been engaged in disputing idle. They cannot, however, be idle: they must, as Sir
with them, instead of fighting battles with the general enemy. FRANcis has well said, satisfy the demands of their borougm
There are two circumstances besides, which are chearing
...just now, the forward state of a fine corps of British and masters
the
out of the public purse, as well as at the expense of
rights of the people. Have the Whigs, with all their
Irish volunteers, now rising in Ireland; and an agreeable
account in the Paris papers of the unfitness for sea of the
talent and their asserted encrease of power, been able to
Russian fir-built vessels, which composed the eternal prevent the imposition of three millions of new taxes! No.
Then we must resort to some change that will secure us
, Spanish Expedition. -
from such an imposition upon a suffering and exhausted
Sir FRANcis Bunbett's motion on Reform was re people;—an imposition made, too, in spite of the outcries
ceived by the Anti-Reformers, both Whig and Tory, ac of the very people who ought in justice to be the imposers
. . cording to the policy lately adopted. The Ministers did as well as the payers of taxes.
not say a word, and the leading Whigs were as silent: so The arguments of Sir F. Bennett may be summed up
. . the task of replying to the mover was left to any who thus:–The people of England, once flourishing, are now
might like the opportunity of making a speech. This is wretched—starving at home, or flying their native land;
certainly the most politic course that can be pursued by once they were free and elected their Representatives and
the other side: they are wiseifi affecting to treat with con Magistrates; now the majority of their own Iloise are
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nominated by a few persons whose interests are directly Glasgow WEAvers.--The Committee of Glasgow
opposed to theirs;–in short, matters have become so weavers have published an Address, dated the 22d ult.,
desperate, in consequence of the extravagance and profu expressive of their grief and disappointment that polities
should have been introduced at the Meeting on the 16th."
sion caused by the long continuance of a bad system, that ult., convened solely for the purpose of devising the best
some means must be adopted, in order to avert utter ruin. mode of procuring immediate relief, and to petition the
The means hitherto tried have proved insufficient even to PRINCE Reg ENT to aid all those of the trade who may
stem the torrent of corruption. Changes of Ministry have ba disposed to emigrate to the British settlements in Nort
America. The sense of the General Committee was abso
been unavailing, for we have still driven on to the point
where we are now. The only remedy that remains is lutely averse from the introduction of politics in the Meeting,
and they came to the determination to object to every pro
then to give the people the power, through their Repre position that might involve a political question.
sentatives, of disposing of their own property and blood. Blackburn FEMALE Reform Society.—At Black
This will prevent the ruinous effects produced by the op burn, near Manchester, a society has been formed under
posing interests of the governors and the governed, as the the above title, from which a circular kas been issued to
many will then receive benefit from their wise, and injury other districts, inviting the wives and daughters of the
workmen in the different branches of manufacture to form
from their foolish, measures. themselves into similar societies. The object and aim of
In answer to these powerſul arguments, the Anti-Re this society has been publicly avowed in the recommenda
formers say, that it is very true the present system has its tion of the circular. They are to co-operate with the
evils, or, as Mr. GRENFrLL delicately expresses it, its different classes of workmen in seeking redress of their
“imperfections;” but then what system has not? and grievances, and “to instil into the minds of their children
what can be more imprudent, not to say absurd, than to a deep and rooted hatred of our tyrannical rulers.”
A meeting of the manufacturing, trading, and labouring
abandon its real advantages, for what is merely a conjec classes of the city of Cork took place on Monday last, for
tural good.—Then again, some of these prudent gentle the purpose of petitioning, Parliament upon the subject of
men want a specific remedy, something that shall be their distresses. Although there were nearly 15,000 per
clearly advantageous without any danger. Thus they would sons assembled, it appears that the utmost order and pro
putup (they tell you) with the most monstrous corruptions, priety were observed. A series of resolutions were agreed
and cruel oppressions, because those who want to reform to, and a petition founded upon them was read, and ap
them cannot make the remedies appear as clear and in proved by the meeting. In this petition they pray for a
reduction of taxes, and “a restoration of their landed
such “tangible shapes” as the abuses. They are like a proprietors, by means of a tax upon absentees, and a repeal
man who should enter another's house, shut the door upon of the Union.” They further pray, if the above points
the right owner, and refuse to let him in, though he knew cannot be granted, that the means may be afforded by
his voice very well, because the deal wood prevents his see Government for emigrating “to some country, where, the
ing his face, to tell whether he was friend or enemy. taxes being lighter, they may be able to obtain employ
ment and support.” -

This motion will however do good: it will show once Subscription for MR. Rogers.-Mrs. Williams, of
more how little is to be said in denial of the claims of the the Moor House, Herts, has sent Mr. Rogras two pounds:
people. It will (as a minor advantage) also show the this is the third sum, we believe, subscribed by the Mlem
Whig Reformists, as they are called, in their true co ours. bers of this benevo.entfamily.
Mr. G. LaMn apologized, if he had said any thing “dis R.J. KiRros, Esq., Deputy Assistant Commissary
General.—This Gentleman wasfound drowned on Sunday.
respectful” of the House; and Lord John Russell op last near Laycock's-fields, Islington. An Inquest being
posed any enquiry, because it would throw a slur on the held on the body by Mr. Stirling, a Mr. Penton cane
state of the Representation, and create an alarm among forward, stating that he well knew the deceased, with
the people! How pure must be the Representation! And whom he had money concerns; that the deceased had
lºw- and fearful of change the people! been from home, fearing arrest; that he was with him on
the evening of Wednesday the 23d ult, which was the
last time he saw the deceased.—The verdict was, “Found
The following statement respecting the legion now drowned.”—A female named Reynolds, a sadler's wife at
raising in Ireland appears in the Dublin Evening Post of Islington, having informed the deceased's family, that she
the 29th ult:—“GENERAL DEveReux's Legion.—“The Raw #. Penton and the deceased walking together on the
1st light infantry belonging to this regiment is now in pro banks of the New liver on Saturday the 26th ult, an ap
É. of formation and equipment, under the command of plication was made for a new, Inquest, but Mr. Srialisg
Colonel Power, late Major of the gallant 28th foot, an was out of town, and his Clerk said nothing further could
officer eminently fitted for this distinguished rank, having be done in the business. The body was consequently in
been in more than thirty general battles, independent of terred yesterday in St. Margaret's Church.-We give the
various affairs of less moment. ... Several officers of expe above brief account from particulars furnished by a Cor
rience have already joined the light infantry, which pro res * the whole of which we do not chuse now to
mises to be in every respect one of the finest corps in the A singular
punilsºn. instance of the diversities that occur in the
Patriot service. Though but a few days on foot, such is
the anxiety of officers and men to obtain admission into history of the same family in revolutionary times, will be
this regiment, that there is no doubt of its being complete found in that of M. DE SERRE, the French Minister of
and at sea by the 1st of August. The 1st rifle regiment Justice. A brother of this Gentleman (who himself bore
of Devateux's legion has embarked, and the 1st Lancers, arms in the service of Louis XVI). was brought as a pri
a remarkably fine regiment, commanded by Col. Aylmen, soner of war to this country, holding a commission in the
is complete in officers and men, and will sail in a few army of Le Clerc, in St. Domingo; he has since married
davs.' and settled in Leicestershire, and become so strongly at
f is said that General SAvARY, Duke of Rovigo, who tached to the religious principles of some of our dissenting
lately arrived at Gravesend, has received the permission of sects, as occasionally to preach amongst them. He is now
Ministers to reside in England. * officiating at the Baptist Chapel, Blackfriars-road. . .

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Bible Monopoly.—Another meeting of Booksellers and A CLERGYMAN AND the Press-A Newcastle paper
Publishers was held on Wednesday week, to receive the says—“In the first division of the Court of Session, a
Report of a Committee appointed at a former uneeting to few days ago, in an action against a Clergyman who con
inquire into the assumed right of the King's printer and the ducted a newspaper in a provincial town, at the instance
Universities to circulate Bibles and Prayer-books exclu of the foreman of the printing-office, for a communication
sively; and to consider what course was to be pursued in of profits, the Lord President expressed his marked dis
consequence of the proceedings instituted in Chancer approbation of the Clergyman's conduct, in occupying
against various individuals who had sold Bibles an himself in affairs unconnected with the proper duties of his
Prayer-books.-The Report referred to a number of cases sacred office; and his Lordship directed the Procurator
and law decisions to show that this right to monopoly had for the Church to take the matter into consideration.”
been invariably denied by the Courts of Law; and it in On Saturday, FRANces BRidgforn, aged 78, attended
stanced the editions of the Prayer-book published by Mr. at the Register's Office, in this city, to prove her husband's
Justice Bailey and others, to show that all publishers of will; while doing so she was much affected, and after
the holy books had not been prosecuted.—The Report was paying the fees, she sunk into a chair speechless: she was
agreed to ; and a subscription entered into to defray immediately conveyed to a neighbouring house, where she
necessary expenses.—In the course of the conversation, died in a few minutes'—Worcester Journal.
Mr. OFFER, alluding to the editions of Bibles and Prayer
books published by the Universities, said it was notorious BREAKING UP OF THE GREAT SCHOOL.
that those printed by private individuals were better exe -

cuted, and more correct. An University edition of the The noise of post-chaises going by, filled with hurraing
Bible had put forth 12,000 copies, in all of which, a school-boys, has reminded us of the Great School which
blunder was committed, by making a sudden stop in the will shortly break up for the holidays in Westminster.
midst of one of St. Paul's Epistles, and then going on We do not mean the one called Westminster School, but
with the 7th chapter of the book of Revelations. Another another not far from it, where grown gentlemen are taught
of these standard editions had called the parable of the to dance into office. ,

Vineyard, the parable of the Winegar.". And again, a Our object in noticing this happy event is to recommend
University Prayer-book had, instead of “the world,” pro the ...'. question to practise the usual public mode
mulgated this prayer—“O Lamb of God, who takest of breaking up. . Some of the smallest charity schools
away the sins of the Lord’.” (Laughter.) have their processions with white wands, and gold-lace
e erroneously stated last week, in our remarks on hatted beadles, and smirking elderly gentlewomen in stiff
Excise Prosecutions, that the fines recovered from de clean linen. , Your genteeler academy break up into the
fendants went to the King. This however is merely no post-chaises before-mentioned, dashing through the dusty
minal, as they are in, fact applied to the public service. roads, and thinking that all the world is admiring their
The sum, too, said to be received by the Counsel for the joviality and importance. The Christ-Hospital boys at
Crown in avery cause should not have been stated as fifty aster appear in procession with the emblems of the re
guineas, but as forty-four. This is of no consequence to spective schools into which they are divided,—the gram
our argument, as both sums are so immensely dispropor mar-schools being preceded by the masters in their col
tionate to what is necessary, that the mistake is only worth lege-gowns, the navigation-scholars carrying mathematical
correcting for the sake of a wish not to appear desirous of instruments, and the boys of the writing-school wearing
making out a case by the help of exaggeration, particularly red quills in their caps. Lastly, the other foundation:
when there is so iſ. need of it. -
schools º to the still greater one we allude to)
We have very great pleasure in stating, that Mr. Mill, give the ſesser boys the last taste of their despotism for the
author of the very valuable and elaborate work on the season, and so go home, to see how their fathers, who did
History of Biºl. has been appointed to a lucrative so before them, get on in the world by bowing and
and highly respectable situation in the India-house. Con scraping. -

sidering the opinions which Mr. Mill has so freely ex Now as the big boys in the school we speak of ca.
presseſ respecting the Government of India, this appoint themselves,with whatever justice, the Representatives of all
ment reflects the greatest crediton the Directors.-Scotsman. other schools, why not have a set of customs on these oc
We understand from the most authentic quarter, that casions, comprehending each particular one as above men
there were only 17 persons at the Shields Pitt dinner.— tioned? The post-chaises, they do have; but why not
Where were all the worshippers of this immortal? They have also the wands and elderly-gentlewomen of the cha
must have been “on a journey, or, peradventure, they rity children, the explanatory symbols of the Christ
slept;" or had they gone to attend a few bankrupt com: Hospital boys, and above all, the valedictory inflictions
missions;... or were they appealing against the assessed of the remainder?
taxºs ?-Tyne Mercury. We will give a sketch, by way of specimen.—Let us
The unique copy of a tract, consisting of five leaves see.—There are the Ushers and the Serieant-Beadle.
only, from the White Knights' Library, was on Tuesday These must go first; only we recommend by all means
Knocked down by Mr. EwANs to Lord SpenceR, for one the previous use of scavengers, some of the ways about
hundred and twenty guineas. It may be curious to ob that part of the town being very dirty.—To set out then.
serve, that this. let was first purchased by Mr.Taip The bells are ringing; the soldiers out, and the windows
rtook for two pounds five shillings, and sold by him to the crowded with the smiling faces of expecting relations.
present Duke of MARLBorough for fifty pounds. But first, before the procession approaches, a hubbub is
On the 20th ult. arrived at Liverpooſa fine steam ship, silenced; and mischievous disrespectful boys are to be
350 tons burden. She is called the Savannah, sailed kept in order. The voices of the gº's gradually get
from Savannah the 26th of May, and arrived in the Chan uppermost—Make way there, you Sir! Stand off, can't
nel on the 15th: during her passage, she worked the you ! I'll have you up ! Who was that cried Stupid?
engine 18 days. Her model is beautiful, and the accom Ay, master Peter, I'll fine you for swearing. : Who was
modation for passengers elegant and complete. This is that said “Give us a song?” Don't laugh so loud,
the first ship on this construction that has undertaken a Wat-Jack there, don't point. I did'nt point. You did.
voyage 43ross the Atlantic. I didn't. I say, you did; and you know the face. What,
The Tºwnlon Courier says that the early leaves of the do you mean that hard ugly face there? }''. body
whortleberry (varinium myrtillius), when carefully dried, knows that;-what's the use of pointing?— º you
are a good substitute ſor tea. young-aggrawating—I'll have you up.–Sh! Sh! They're
 428 THE EXAMINER:
coming. Hold your tongue, can't ye? What the devil are After which they will disperse to their respective homes
ou giggling al? Sh! Hist! Silence! Make way there! and indigestions.
. Now them—Hats off! We do not happen to possess, the old school song of
The Serjeant-Beadle, Consonamus o sº. or we might have given a version
Looking out with due *::: dignity for offenders and his
tºes.
Musicians,
Two and two, with much representative music, including News the holidays at that season of the year, and which weac
men's-horns, Jews'-harps, and bag-pipes. Tune, Here ice go
*p, up, up. -
Mr. W-NN, Dr. D–g—n, and others, expressly for a set of jolly boys, one of whom is still in
As Aridae Nutrices, that is to say, Dry Nurses or Old Women, the school, and figures among the masquerades above
dressed with infinite stiffness, according to ancient custom, described.
though for conscience sake not altogether so. They step out
of the path occasionally, and curtsy in a grave manner to per Mr. Feathernest, Mr. Vamp, Mr. Killthedead, Mr. Papersiamp,
sons in the windows.
Ushers with rods,
Taking snuff to keep their eyes open. These rods are only for
form, not being the ones in actual use, which are said to be
made in a very eurious manner of goose-quills.
- The Boys,
Mostly carrying Sticks, which are emblematic of something not
ascertained. Some of them are dressed in masquerade, like,
Eton Boys at Salt Hill; as Master V–T, for instance, like
Henry the 4th of France, Lord C–H like PERicles, Master
C—R like the Chevalier BAvARD, and Master C–G like Ed
ward the Sixth. These will of course collect salt; and all
the spectators will do well to disburse, even if they have but a
penny in the corner of their pockets; otherwise, as the young
Gentlemen have a privilege to abuse, which must not be answer
ed, HENRY the 4th may tell them they keep it to buy luxuries,
and Edward the Sixth cut at their shius with his sceptre.
They call the dropping of the money into their pockets the
Sinking Fun. Some of the other boys will of course carry
flags with appropriate emblems and inscriptions,—such as a
boy reading a ginger-bread multiplication-table, with Neº
Parliament over it; another looking at a House inscribed
Dulce Domum; a third pitching a psalm to his companion,
with Cantamus, O Sodales; a fourth sitting on an old worm
eaten seat, with a label coming from his mouth, inscribed No
reforming, alluding to a triumph over a faction in the school,
who would have had some rotten seats or forms altered; and
a fifth kneeling with his hands tied behind him, and enting
from off the floor a Toad in the Hole,_the inscription the
comprehensive Greek word pzyo (Phago or Faggo), that is to
say, No stoop, no soup.
- The Master,
In his gown and a fine didactic wig, carrying Enfield's Speaker.
The Governors,
Who nominate the boys, chiefly dressed in robes, most of them
being Peers. . It is not certain, however, that these noble and
wealthy will choose to appear, especially since the late in
quiries; for it seems that their right to tie nominations has
been long and vehemently disputed; and the fear of meeting
the disputants face to face has hitherto kept the school as
much as possible to itself.
However, the scholars cannot be restrained by any
hame. Should the procession therefore still take place,
as we hope, it will first well beat the Parish bounds with
it's sticks; then it will come up Parliament-street, and
make the first halt opposite Downing-street, where it will
repeat in honour of several Ministers bred up in the school
that interesting passage in Moscnus—
- Lalei ta sa grammata, kai pleon Ay I Ay!
* Lambane sois petaloisi,
The second halt will be opposite the Treasury, where the
boys will give cheers with nine times nine; and then like
those of Christ Hospital at the Mansion House, will re
ceive each a sixpence, a bun or two, and a glass of wine,—
at least as many as chºse, and the leading ones something
more. The third halt will be opposite the Admiralty,
where they will give three cheers; and then turning
round, they will face Mr. Greenwood's the Army Agent
in Craig's-court, and give three times three. The last hitſ
will be round the Statue at Charing-cross, where they will
repeat the first part of the ode of Horace, beginning
- 'Quis desłderio pudor aut modus * -
- Tam chari capitis? . . . . . . - a
*
- -
-
_-
of it suitable to the occasion. However, there is a scholar
and man of wit now living, in one of whose publications
we find a Christmas song, which is excellently adapted to
cordingly proceed to transcribe. In fact, it was written
HARRY BRows.
QUINTETro.
and Mr. Anyside Anti-Jack: ,
(To the Tune of, “Turning, turning, turning, as the wheel
goes round.”)
Recitative. Mr. Paperstamp.
Jack Horner's Christmas Pie my learned nurse
Interpreted to mean the Public Purse.
From thence a plum he drew. O happy Horner!
Who would not be ensconced in thy snug corner:
The Five.
While round the public board all eagerly we linger,
For what we can get we will try, try, try ;
And we'll all have a ſinger, a finger, a finger,
We'll all have a finger in the Christmas Pie.
Mr. Feathernest.
By my own poetic laws, I'm a dealer in applause .
For those who don't deserve it, but will buy, buy, buy:
So round the court I linger, and thus I get a finger,
A finger, finger, finger in the Christmas Pie.
The Five.
And we'll all have a finger, a finger, a finger,
We'll all have a finger in the Christmas Pie. *
Mr. Vamp.
My share of pie to win, I will dash through thick and thin,
And philosophy and liberty shall fly, fly, fly:
And truth and taste shall know, that their everlasting foe
Has a finger, finger, finger in the Chrismas Pie.
-
- The Five.
- And we'll all have a finger, a finger, a finger,
We'll all have a finger in the Christmas Pie.
Mr. Killthedead.
'll make my verses rattle with the din of war and battle,
For war doth increa e sa-la-ry, ry, ry:
Andi 'll shake the public ears with he triumph of Algiers,
And thus l'll geta nger in the Christmas Pie.
The Fire. . .
And well all have a finger, a finger, a finger,
We'll all have as nger in the Christmas Pie.
Mr. Paperstamp. -
And while you thrive by ranting, I'll try my luck at canting,
And scribbie verse and prose all so dry, dry, dry:
And Mystic's patent smoke public intellect shall choke,
And we'll all have a finger in the Christmas Pie.
- The Five. , -
We'll all have a finger, a finger, a finger,
We'll all have a finger in the Christmas Pie.
- Mr. Anyside Anti-Jack. -
My tailor is so clever, that my coat will turn for ever,
And take any colour you can dye, dye, dye : -*
For all my earthly wishes are among the loaves and fishes,
And to have my little finger in the Christmas Pie.
The Five. -
And we'll all have a finger, a finger, a finger,
- -
We'lſ all have a finger in the Christmas Pie. ,
-- --
Melincourt, vºl. 3, p. 152.
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Poetry. fortable a personage perhaps to personify Springlove, in
- whom the voice of l: bird awakens a restless instinct of
LEANDER swimming over the HELLESPONT. roaming that had slept during the winter. Miss Steven
(From “Hero and Leander, and Bacchus and Ariadne; son certainly leaves us nothing to regret for the absence of .
two original Poems. By Leigh HUNT.") the Lady, however agreeable, who formerly performed the
At last, with twinkle o'er a distant tower, part of Meriel. Miss Stevenson is a fine open-coun
A star appeared that was to shew the hour. tenanced lass, with glorious girlish manners. . But the
The virgin saw ; and going to a room Princess of Mumpers, and Lady Paramount, of beggarly
Which held an altar burning with perfume, counterfeit accents, was she that played Rachel. Her
Cut off a lock of her dark solid hair, gabbling lachrymose petitions; her tones, such as we have
And laid it, with a little whispered prayer,
heard by the side of old woods, when an irresistible face
Before a statue, that of marble bright
has come peeping on one on a sudden; with her full black
locks, and a voice—how shall we describe it?—a voice
Sat smiling downwards o'er the rosy light. that was by nature meant to convey nothing but truth and
Then at the flame the torch of gold she lit, goodness, but warped by circumstance into an assurance
And o'er her head anxiously holding it, that she is telling us a lie—that catching twitch of the
Ascended to the roof; and leaning there, thievish irreproveable finger—those ballad-singers’ notes,
Lifted its light into the darksome air. so vulgar, yet so unvulgar—that assurance, so like impu
The boy beheld,—beheld it from the sea, dence, and yet so many countless leagues removed from
And parted his wet locks, and breathed with glee, it—her jeers, which we had rather stand, than be caressed
And rose, in swimming, more triumphantly. with other ladies' compliments, a summer's day long—her
He had aot long left home; but at the shºre
face, with a wild out-of-doors grace upon it—
Altogether, a brace of more romantic she-beggars it was
He made no stay; his eye but just ran o'er never our fortune to meet in this supplicatory world. The
The hills behind; and stripping him, he laid youngest might have sate for “pretty Bessy,” whose fa
His clothes within a nook some holm-trees made, ther was an Earl, and whose legend still adorns the front
And o'er the pebbles, in his naked pride, of mine Hostess's doors at Bethnal-Green; and the other
Trampling the surf, rushed down into the tide. could be no less than the “Beggar Maid” whom “King
Smooth was the sea that night, the lover strong, Cophetua wooed.” “What a lass that were,” said a
And in the springy waves he danced along. stranger who sate beside us, speaking of Miss Kelly in
lie rose, he dipped his breast, he aimed, he cut Rachel, “to go a gipseying through the world with.”
With his clear arms and from before him put We confess we longed to drop a tester in her lap, she
begged so masterly.
The parting waves, and in and out the air By the way, this is the true Beggar's Opera. The
His shoulders felt, and trailed his washing hair;
But when he saw the torch, oh, how he sprung,
other should have been called the Mirror for Highway
men. ... We wonder the Societies for the Suppression of
And thrust his feet against the waves, and flung Mendicity (and other good things) do not club for the
The foam behind, as though he scorned the sea, putting down of this, infamous protest in favour of air,
And parted his wet locks, and breathed with glee, and clear liberty, and honest license, and blameless asser
And rose, and panted, most triumphantly! tion of man's original blest charter of blue skies, and va-.
Arrived at last on shallow ground, he saw grancy, and nothing-to-do. ++++

The flaring light, as if in haste, withdraw.

Again it issued just above the door FINE ARTS,
With a white hand, and vanished as before,
Then rising, with a sudden-ceasing seund ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION.,
Of wateriness, he stood on the firm ground, The class of Portraiture has had a great diminution of
And treading up a little slippery bank, interest this season from the absence of Sir T. Lawrences
With jutting myrtles mixed, and verdure dank, pencil, which has been the only one in the Exhibition
Came to a door ajar, all hushed, all blind | since Rey Nolds's, majºrially connecting it with subjects
With darkness; yet he guessed who stood behind; of higher importance. There have been indeed occasional
And enteriug with a turn, the breathless youth touches of this talent, such as the late Mr. Hanlowe's
Slid round a gentle cheek, and kissed a warm kind mouth. Queen Catharine from ShakespeaRR, and Mr. CLINT's
Lord Ogleby, Canlon, and Brush, now in the large room.
But none of our Painters have given a poetical cast of
THEATRICAL EXAMINER. thought to portraits like Sir T. Lawrence. For instance,
there have been no exaltations of individual resemblancé
No. 368. - - like his Kemble as Rolla, or his Lady Leicester as Hope,
t from Spenseſt. In some important respects Sir Thomas
rew GL?srº. 6 Per 4. is surpassed. Thus, though no one has better general ar
THE Jovial Crew or the Merry Beggars has been revived rangement of colour, he is inferior to Sir W. Beechey in
here after an interval, as the bills tell us, of seves years. sweetness of tone, to Mr. Jackson and Mr. Phillips in
Can it be so long (it seems but yesterday) since we saw tinting the skin, and in all local colour, and in bringing it
poor Lovegrove in Justice Clack f his childish treble out with its fullest power as in the Portrails of Archdea
still pipes in our ears: “Whip 'em, whip’em, whip’em.” con Corbett, Mr. Cambton, Mr. Crabbe, &c. by Mr. Phil
Dow Tox was the representative of the Justice the other Lips, and of Mr. Dance, Mrs. C. Long, &c. by Mr.
night, and shook our ribs most incontinently. He was JAcksox. *

in “excellent foolery,” and our lungs crowed chanticleer. Mr. Jacksos's capital portrait of Lord Normanby is
Yet it appears to us, that there was a still higher strain of not in good keeping with the place that nobleman stands
fatuity in his predecessor—that his eyes distilled a richer in ; for if riding-hoots, and spurs are sometimes worn by
dotage. Perhaps after all it was an error of the memory. ambulators as well as riders on the sea-shore, it certainly
Leftinct merit comes out upon us strangely. is not usual to be standing there without a hat under a .
Easy natural WRENcil was the Springlore; too com squally sky, and especially when a closely-buttoned coat,
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and a snug well lined cloak over it, such as are here seen, abroad, did they not beat him in one thing, in num
give shivering evidence of a frigid atmosphere. We would bers—in a host of hired mercenaries.—In the late Princess
not wish to dispense with his Lordship's boots, painted so Charlotte, Mr. CHALoN has well hit off her open coun
admirably to the (still) life, did we not observe that an tenance, and pallid complexion. He has succeeded in
uncommon surface-painting skill is equally well develo conferring an air of mixed inildness and dignity on her look,
by the Artist in every thing else, and that Day and Mar countenance, and dress, spread out as it is in length on
tin's unrivalled liquid would have shone from Mr. Jack the sofa she is sitting upon. He makes us, in fine, sigh out
sox's brush with as ebony a lustre on a pair of suitable approval. To 85, The Hon. A. Mackenzie, Mr. Geppes has
shoes. If, too, the entire head must be seen (and it is al given power of colour; also originality, a difficult attain
ways desirable in a portrait), why, in the name of con ment. His attitudes are always easy and elegant.—Mr.
sistency, not make it an inn-door one. These incon Raeburn has also originality of colour, but we think
sistencies may be regarded by some perhaps as small it erroneously gloomy. In spite of the hright carna
ones, as small perhaps as Mr. CANNING and the amiable tions in his figures, they appear as if some storm of fate
AddingtoNs regard their drinking wine and ruling toge was ready to burst over their devoted heads, from the un
ther, after virulently abusing each other: or as Bur naturally “green and yellow melancholy” clouds and
Roughs, the lately returned $1. for Taunton, does tºmſ: Mr. RAeburn is however always interest
his renegado-like surrender of the independent voters in ingly vigorous. He laws on his paint with intelligent
that town who elected him, to a passively obedient mini firmness, drawing, and effect, and the positions and move
sterial list. But consistency in Art, as in politics and ments of his figures are always good. A graceſully manly
every thing else, when it is on the side of truth, is always air distinguishes 212, Highland Chief–87, portrait of
estimable. It is always indeed the companion of truth. the Duchess of Cambridge, by Sir W. Brechey, comes
She could no more be truth without it, than a manly and naturally out from the canvass upon the approving eye of
independent spirit can agree with any degree of servility, taste. It shews throughout the lively light of day, which
9r than such a spirit can exist in a bought and per we think is too much kept out of portraits in general. It
jured Member of Parliament.—We observe a like defect is elegantly attired with almost real looking sattin, &c. It
in Mr. Owen's portrait of Sir T. Ackland, where the melts into our souls with sweet blendings. It is, in short,
gentleman's hat, with his gloves lying carefully in it, are so ſemininely and amiably insinuating, as to be universally
on the ground instead of his head. This is an unaccount admired, and almost to cheat us into what no picture ever
able situation, except Sir Thomas, in his walks, has strange did or perhaps will deserve, unreserved approval. But Sir
moments of starting and upward-looking aberration, such William has his faults. He sometimes blends his fleshy
as he really appears to have on this canvass. A man tints to a degree of softness that reverses his intended aim,
might perchance, as he rambled abroad alone, suddenly and produces something of the effect of marbly hardness,
stop, assume an attitude, plant one foot behind the other, as in 205, portrait of Lady Stanley, which is deficient in
fold his arms, and look upwards at—perhaps “a cloud those touchy breaks, without ... flesh in portraits will
that looks like a camel or a whale,” but we cannot so always thus appear, or like firm smooth wax. It is how
readily account for his placing, before he did all this, his ever a fascinating portrait.—Mr. Brecuey is allied to Sir
hat and gloves on the grass. The flesh is here painted William as closely in Art as in filial relationship. He
much fivelier than has been the practice of this Artist. His paints with much of his tuition of heart and imagination,
general spread of colour is a consistent grey, but his female the soft attractions of the prime chariner—woman. He
carnations are still in too low a key. The complexion of has, too, an eye and power for giving the bolder aspects ºf
the loveliest flowers of the human race is somewhat her protector-man. Thus in 340, A Field Officer of the
deadened by his pencil, like flowers of the garden, after Life Guards, the handling is firm, the colour and chiato
being some time plucked. This is obvious, in comparing scuro rich and strong; the look manly and martial.
93, A Lady, to contiguously placed pictures; to Sabrina,
by Mr. Wºstall, and 87, The Duchess of Cambridge, ETCHING FROM MR. CLENNELL's PICTURE OF THE
DECISIVE CHARGE OF THE LIFE GUARDS AT WA
by Sir W. Beechey. But there is such ease in his por TERLOO. - -

traits, such taste in the dresses, such nerve in the execu

Our readers will recollect that some time since we an
tion, such accordance in the general colour, and such strong
resemblance, that Mr. Qwen's talents will always be nounced the intended publication of the above work for
highly esteemed. We liked Mr. Shee better last year the benefit of the Painter's Family. The publication is
than formerly, and like him still more this, but the bloom now taking place, and from the interest which it must on
on his female cheeks and lips is still a little to positive every account command, it cannot ſail to fulfil the expec
and pretty. They seem to engross too much of the red tations and benevolent intentions of theexcellent Committee who
have superintended it, and of its other Patrons.
stream that in Nature assists to carry health and beauty politician the momentous consequences
into other parts also of her fair dominion, and love into the The will consider
heart of man. Mr. Suke's portraits still retain something of the victory of Waterloo. The lover of Art will admire
the well digested principles of the Painters and the En
of the appearance of being seen under a glossy surface, a graver's Art, whose united powers lay so lucidly before us;
transparent covering of coloured ice, #. Nature, only
glass, water, and highly polished objects, have such a the grand crisis of a stupendous victory on one side, and
glossiness: still his portrait of Mr. Macnab, has a look of defeat on the other; the regular movements, deliberatº
breathing actuality that is far from being ordinary.—Mr. valour, and awfully smiting arms of our soldiers, and the
Pickersgill, is making great advances. " His attitudes are dismay, confusion, and precipitate flight of the enemy's.
unconstrained. . He lays his colour on with a justly felt The philosophically or the constituionally beneficent, the
confidence, and it is like his originals. While he sacri promoter of the happiness of his species, the delighter in
fires no necessary details, he pleases by his breadths. He doing F. will prize so favourable an opportunity, not
gives his portraits appropriate character and strong like only of blunting that adversity that in want and inental
ness. Such, with its manly as well as gentlemanly air, is derangement has assailed a '. being, but that has
216, General Sir R. Wilson, whose breast is loaded on thrown down the noble structure of genius itself, with
the outside with well earned insignia, gained by his fine scarcely any hope that it can be raised from its ruins. Mr.
Baoxiley has evidently moved his hand in theetching of this
chivalrous spirit, and inside with the noble spirit of liberty, Print
which would be as successful against his and his country's with an ardour of feeling considerably coincident with
worst enemies at home, as he has been against his enemies the Painter's, so that the gleaming sword and the stream
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ing banner; the ruin-spreading and the silenced artillery; with heat. The cattle get inte the shade, or stand in the water.
the horror-struck, fugitive foe; the intrepidly calm, pursuing The active aud air-cutting swallows, now beginning to assemble
victor; the light glaring over sights of distant woe; the for migration, seek their prey about the shady places, where
fiery and the fallen horse; the massive light on the pur the insects, though of differently compounded uatures, “flesh
suers; and the physical shade that gives an increased look less and bloodless,” seem to get for coolness, as they do at other
times for warmth. The sound of insects is also the only audible
of horror to the shades of death spread over the pursued; thing now, increasing rather than lessening the sense of quiet
the sparkle, the smoke, the chaos, the combustion, and the by its gentle contrast. The bee now and then sweeps across
ruin of the battle, cannot fail of stirring up that solemn the ear with his gravest tone. The gnats
pleasure which will excite an advantageous patronage Their murmuring small trumpets sounden wide:–
SPENsen.
where a work of less powerful talent would rely only on the
and here and there the little musician of the grass touches forth
still better, but often less influential claims of the bodily
and mentally afflicted, among the most honourable of his tricksyThe note.
poetry of earth is never dead;
mankind, the sons and daughters of genius and virtue. When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
Such to a great degree must be the effect produced by this And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
masterly etching, but its full influence is reserved to its From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead:
completion to an Engraving, of which completion we That is the grasshopper's.
shalſ inform our readers. In the mean time we could KEATs.
not forbear this notice of it, that many who may hereafter Besides some of the flowers of last month, there are now
obtain the finished Print, might ". candy-tufts, catchfly, columbines, egg-plant, French marygolds,
not be too late in
lavateras, London-pride, marvel of Peru, veronicas, tuberoses,
obtaining (what is always an additional desideratum to
such a one as that will be), its groundwork, a finished which seem born of the white rose and lily; and scarlet-beans,
which though we are apt to think little of them because they
etching. . For the information of those readers who furnish us with a good vegetable, are quick and beautiful grow
may not know the fact, we state, that the Painter, in addi ers, and in a few weeks will hang a walk or trellis with an ex
tion to one of the greatest of human deprivations, has had uberant tapestry of scarlet and green.
his three infant children left motherless, in consequence of The additional trees and shrubs in flower are bramble, button
the fever in the head and heart brought on by the husband's wood, iteas, cistuses, climbers, and broom. Pimpernel, cockle,
calamity; but there is some consolation in an announce and fumitory, are now to be found in corn-fields, the blue-beli in
ment of the Committee, that “they have experienced the wastes or by rond-sides; and the luxuriant hop is flowering.
The fruits begin to abound and are more noticed, in propor
greatest success in this 'interesting cause, and that theytion to the necessity for them occasioned by the summer heat.
have already invested some money in the funds for the The strawberries are in their greatest quantity and perfection :
benefit of the Artist's infant family.” and currants, gooseberries, and raspberries, have a world of
It will be necessary to remark to some of our readers, juice for us, prepared, as it were, in so many crowds of little
who inay not be very conversant with copper-plate pro bottles, in which the sunshine has turned the dews of April into
ductions, that an Etching, compared to its subsequent wine. The strawberry lurks about under a beautiful leaf.
finish with the Graver. º: it becomes an Engraving, Currants are also extremely beautiful. A handsome bunch looks
like pearls or rubies, and an imitation of it would make a most
must necessarily be a little crude, as it cannot in that state graceful ear-ring. We have seen it, when held lightly by fair
have the clearness of outline, solidity of light and shade, fingers, present as lovely a drop, and piece of contrast, as any
variety and harmony of tone, delicacy of touch and finish holding hand in a picture of Titian. -

ing. But it is always desirable to possess for the sake of Bulbous rooted flowers, that have almost done with their
an off-hand, freedom, which can scarcely ever be pre leaves, should now be taken up, and deposited in shallow wood
served in the finished Print, and which is. peculiary en boxes. Mignonette should be transplanted into small pots,
pleasing in Battle-pieces. . . . . . ... → carnations be well attended to and supported, and auriculas
kept clean from dead leaves and weeds, and in dry weather
frequently watered.
It is now the weather for bathing, a refreshment too little
CALENDAR of NATURE.
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taken in this country, either in summer or winter. We say in
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winter, because with very little care in placing it near a cisteru,

(From the Literary Pocket-Book.)
: July. - once or twice a week with warm water; and it is a vulgar
Then came hot July, boiling like to fire,
That all his garments he had cast away.
Upon a lyon raging yet with ire
lie boldly rode, and made him to obey:
(It was #. beast that whilom did forray
The Nemacan forest, till the Amphitrionide
Him slew, and with his hide did him array :)
Behind his backe a sithe, and by his side
Under his belt he bore a sickle circling wide.
* - - SPENsert.
July is so called after Julius Cæsar, who contrived to divide
his names between mbnths and dynasties; and among his better
deeds ºf ambition reformed the calendar.
The heat is greatest in this month on account of its previous
duration. The reason why it is less so in August is, that the
days are then much shorter, and the influence of the sun has
been gradually diminishing. The farmer is still occupied in
getting the productions of the earth into his garmers; but those
who can avoid labour enjoy as much rest and shade as possible.
There is a sense of heat and quiet all over nature. The birds
are silent. The little brooks are dried up. The earth is cha
ped with parching. The shadows of the trees are
f.". leavy, and still. The oaks, which are freshest because
atest in leaf, form noble clumpy canopies, looking, as you lie
wnder them, of a strong and ... green against the blue sky.
The traveller delights to cut accross the country through the
fields und the leafy lanes, where nevertheless the ſlints sparkle
and having a leathern pipe for it, a bath may be easily filled
error that the warm bath relaxes. An excess, either warm or
cold, will relax: and so will any other excess; but the sole
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effect of the warm bath moderately taken is, that it throws off
the bad humours of the body by opening and clearing the pores.
As to summer bathing, a father may soon teach his children to
swim, and thus perhaps might be the means of saving their lives
some day or other, as well as health. Ladies also, though they
cannot bathe in the open air as they do in some of the West
Indian islands and other countries, by means of natural basins
among the rocks, might oftener, we think, make a substitute
for it at home in tepid baths. The most beautiful aspects
under which Venns has been painted or sculptured, have been
connected with bathing; and indeed there is perhaps no one
thing that so equally contributes to the three graces of health,
beauty, and good temper;-to health, in putting the body into
it's best state; to beauty, in clearing and tinting the skin; and
to good temper, in rescuing the spirits from the irritability oc
casioned by those formidable personages “the nerves,” which
nothing else ‘allays in so quick and entire a manner. See a
lovely passage on the subject of bathing in Sir Philip Sydney's
Arcadia, where “Philocles, blushing, and withall smiling,
º, makingshamefastnesse pleasant, and pleasure shameſast, tenderly
moved her feet, unwonted to feel the naked ground, until the
touch of the cold water made a pretty kind of shrugging cone
over her body, like the twinkling of the fairest among the fixed
stars.”—P. 138, Ed. 1638.
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LAW. - the former ordered the deceased to be conveyed to a surgeon',:

one surgeon refused at first to take him in, but his Lordship in
COURT OF KING'S BENCH. sisted that no excuse could suffice in a case of life and death, and
the man was at length taken in, and every assistance was af.
Wednesday, June 30. ſorded, but he died soon aſter. His body was conveyed in a shell
frox coffins.—The king v. collerupg|E AND orhERs. to St Ann's watch-house, Dean-street, and a coroner's inquest
- Mr. Gurney shewed cause against the rule obtained for a was held upon the body. The Jury returned a verdict of Acci.
mandamus to the officiating curate, churchwardens, and sexton dental Death, and levied a fine of 50t. upon Lord Glenorchy, and
of St. Andrew, Holborn, commanding them to inter in the church 40s, upon the carman for sitting on the shafts. Lord Genorthy
yard, in a patent iron coffin, the body of Mrs. Gilbert, the wife of sent a letter couched in the most feeling terms of commiseration
* parishioner. for the deceased's untimely end, and expressing a consciousness
The Courtr were of opinion, that the right of burial in the that more blame rested on him than on the carman, and that he
parish church-yard was a common law right, which might be would defray ...} expense, at the same time mentioning that
enforced by mandamus if the parson positively refused inter every inquiry should be made concerning the man's family, in
wnent; but that the mauner of burial was peculiarly a matter of order to alleviate their sufferings. The deceased has left a son
ecclesiastical cognizance, with which this Court had nothing to and daughter.
do. This motion related solely to the manner, and as the de Tuesday night, an inquisition was taken at St. Thomas's Hos.
fendants had not refused to inter the body in the usual manner, pital, on the body of Michael Kirby, aged 50. The deceased,
this Court could not interfere.—Rule discharged with costs. about a year ago, was charged with attempting to murder his
The king tº. Moser, ey woolfe. children, but being thought insane, was sent to a receptacle for
lunatics at Mile-end, from which he subsequently escaped. His
The rule obtained in this case by Mr. F. Pollock, for setting conduct
aside the writs of levari facias, was discharged, it appearing that at the Hospital was that of a confirmed lunatic, and he
the Crown had sanctioned the proceedings; but it was under was at times delirious.-Mr. C. Clark, surgeon at the Hospital,
attended the deceased when he was brought in, and found an
stood that the Sheriffs should pay the money levied into Court, extremel
to abide the due course of law. y large wound in his neck; the symptoms from this
time were favourable, and hopes were entertained of his re
Lord.c. s. citurcmill, r. John Walter. covery; but a difficulty of breathing followed, which caused his
Mr. PLATT moved to make the rule for judgment, as in case of death on Friday week. The body has since been opened, and
a non-suit, absolute. there was a great quantity of water on the brain. Verdict–
Mr. ScARLErr shewed cause, and unon the affidavit produced, Insanity, produced by the pressure of water on the brain.
the rule was discharged, the łºf
giving a peremptory un
During the storm on Monday, three men, haymakers, in the
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dertaking to try at the adjourned Sittings after this Term. fields between Clapton and the River Lea, were getting their
A similar rule in the case of Lord Churchil l v. James Perry dinner under a tree, when one of them, finding the rain pene
was disposed of in the same manner. - -
trate through the leaves, left his companions, and sheltered him
wright tº. HAY.-saxie tº. Dolby. self under another, a short distance off; he had no sooner got
These were motions to put off the trial of these causes until under it than he was struck by the lightning senseless on the
the Sittings after next Michaelmas Term, on the ground of the ground, but after some time he recovered, and on looking round,
absence of Mr. Wm. Cobbett, now in America, but who is ex discovered the liſeless corpses of his companions, both having
pected to arrive in England by the fall of the year.—The rules been struck dead at the distance of ten or a dozen yards from
were inade absolute. each other.

Birth.
ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c.
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On the 27th ult., at Hutton-hall, Essex, the Lady of Lieut.
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Colonel Charles Bruce, of a son. -

At Brighton, in the barrack-yard, on Tuesday afternoon, T T

about half-past four, the military, the 90th Infantry, turned out MARRIAGES.. ---

there for the afternoon's parade. A private, of the name of On Monday, John Frederick Crewe, Esq., nephew to Lord
Broadbent, who had been confined in the morning for being Crewe, to the Hon. Harriet Smith, daughter of Lord Carrington.
absent from duty, was released by the orderly Serjeant, Watson, On the 28th, ult., the IRev. Richard Williams, Prebendary of
to fail in for the parade. The fellow no sooner had his musket in Lincoln, to Miss Round, eldest daughter of the late Step
his possession, than he charged it with a ball cartridge, and as Round, Esq., of King's Beech-hill, Berks.
Serjeant Watson descended from his room, to the barrack-yard, On the 28th ult, at Teſfont, Wilts, John Thomas Mayne, Esq.
he took aim, and shot him through the body. The ball entered of the Inner Temple, to Sarah Fulcher, eldest daughter of the .
on one side, near the ribs, and came out at the other. The Ser late John Start, Esq., of Halstead, Essex. -

jeant staggered a few paces backward, and dropped. Surgical On the 29th ult, the Rev. C. D. Brereton, Rector of St. Ed
assistance was useless. He did not survive more than twenty mund's, Norwich, to Frances, youngest daughter of Joseph Wil
minutes. The deed was perpetrated in the midst of the soldiers son, Esq., Highbury-hill, Middlesex.
mustering for the parade; many of them supposed the gun had Friday, at Camberwell, Mr. Samuel Wilson, of the borough
been fired from the other side of the yard wall, and were in the of Southwark, third son of Benjamin Wilsou, Esq., of Grove
act of sealing it to discover by whom, when the miscreant threw lame, Camberwell, to Sarah, eldest daughter of Mºkº, Met
down his piece, and exclaimed, that he was the mau, and that calſ, of Camberwell-grove.
he had then had his revenge, and was nowise sorry for what
he had done. He was then secured, and lodged in the prison. ide Aths.
The deceased was the orderly Serjeant at the Paviliou, and has On the 28th ult, at Chapham, Louisa Sarah, wife of Thomas
left a wife and three children. Warre, jun., Esq., and eldest daugbier of Sir Rupert George,
* *

• On Tuesday afternoon, about four o'clock, a dreadful accident Bart.

happened in Coventry-street, Haymarket, by which a poor man, The celebrated Austrian General, the Count de Beaulieu, at
uained Robert Pink, who was 50 years of age, and in the employ Lintz, aged 93. - -

of Messrs. Iinwell and Reed, of Upper Brook-street, lost his On the 22d ult, the Rev. Rice Anwyl Clerk, M.A., aged 80,
life:—Lord Glenorchy was driving along Coventry-street, and Rector of Llanyckil, Merioneth, for 37 §. -

on turning sharp round the corner of the street into Prince's Lately, aged 109 years, Eliz. Perry, born at Shirlheath, in the
street, while the deceased was on the point of crossing the road parish of Eardisland, and who resided at Streamford, Hereford
into Sidney-s-atley, his Lordship's horse ran against him and shire, within 200 yards of the same spot, to the day of her death,
knocked him down: a cart, heavily laden with soil, was at the Her sight was a little impaired, but she could ent, drink, and
same time proceeding along in the contrary direction, and before take snuff (of which latter she was particularly fond), to the
the unfortunate man had time to rise, the fore-wheel of the last, and could walk about the house and premises, with the as
vehicle passed over his stomach. The carman was sitting upon sistance of her daughter, who is now upwards of 80.
the shaft. of the waggon, and his Lordship and Mr. Derton, of
Chelsea, who was passing by and saw the transaction, im d by John Hunt, at the Examinen-Office,
mediately collared the carman, and noted down his number, &c.; Printed and publishe
19, Catherine'street, Strand-Price 10d.- :
 THE EXAMINER.
.. . . . No. 602. SUNDAY, JULY H, 1819, sº
the po LITICAL ExAMINER. property, is punished according to his deserts by the sen
tence of an impartial Judge. The question on this point
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. - Pork. of view is therefore whether there is any thing in the cha
racter or situation of a creditor that entitles him to a power
No. 587.
given to no other prosecutor whatever; or rather, whether
- INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
the circumstances in which he is generally placed do not
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render
tion.
it necessary that he should
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be. allowed no discre
THER r have been some attempts at further legislation on
this subject during this session of Parliament, but nothing The great error upon which former laws have been
has come of them. A Bill introduced by a Committee founded is the presumption that all the criminality is on
of the Lower House was so altered and neutralized in the the part of the debtor, and none on that of the creditor.
Lords by Lord Redesdale, that it was understood the Now in the first place, the criminality of debtors in general
Commons would not acquiesce in his amendments, and is extremely doubtful. It will not be disputed, that many
thereſore it was resolved to bring in a Bill to continue the insolvents have been made so by unforeseen and unavoid
Insolvent Act now in force till next session, as an alterna able misfortunes, without any guilt. We know there are
tive preſerable to that of allowing the old cruel law to be persons who think those criminal who incur debts without
revived pro tempore. There were some Members of the knowing the exact means of paying them. But this is
House of Commons, however, who thought the other al merely the result of want of imagination and sympathy.
ternative the better one, and would willingly have placed Men may involve themselves in embarrassments for the
sake of friendship, and the noblest disinterestedness; and
all the unfortunate persons now confined for debt at the is
mercy of their creditors, for eight or nine months at least.Hope, besides, perhaps the most lively and immoveable
We are sorry to observe among the aames of these Hon. feeling of the human mind, to be taken into no account?
Gentlemen that of Alderman WArtim AN, of whom we Shall it be made criminal and punishable to hopef
thought more liberally. Without affecting any contempt . But if the debtor is sometimes criminal, is the creditor
for trade in general, we think the worthy Alderman acts always innocent? It seems to have been entirely forgotten
too much in a mere trading spirit in this natter. His ar that one has duties to perform as well as the other. It is
gument is, -that as the present ſaw protects a great deal of notorious that many debts are contracted by persons whom
fraud in-debtors, the simple mode of giving the creditor tradesmen carelessly permit or criminally persuade to run
despotic power over the personal liberty of his debtor in debt without means or prospect of payment. Who,
would be more easy and just; and that the general hu we would ask, ought to suffer most in such cases, the
thanity of the mercantile class is such as to do away any persuader or the persuaded ? The creditor trusts auctier
apprehensions of any particular vindictiveness or cruelty. man with his property with the hope of getting paid, and,
We shall attempt to show that this argument is not only even persuades him, by easy terms as to payment, to run
wrong in the particular view of it, but founded upon a to in his debt; and yet some of these creditors complain of
tally false apprehension of the just and natural relation and would imprison those who buy in the hope of paying:
between debtor and creditor. Setting aside however this monstrous and impolitic
The right of a creditor to lay hold of the person of one system, there is considerable difficulty in fixing upon a
who does not pay his claim, is raised, we suppose, on that plan which would suit the present state of society in Eng
• maxim of law, which says, that the man that cannot pay land. The difficulty is not so much in the abstract ques
in purse must pay in person; and as long as the system of tion of justice, but unfortunately our political condition
giving extensive credit lasts, it seems necessary that this has been made so artificial by iſtricate Bankrupt and
maxiiii should be acted upon. But the great injustice |Poor Laws, and heavy taxation, that abstract justica
which, by an extraordinary mistake or wilfulness of former. often becomes practical injustice. *

Regislators, has been so long (till lately) practised, is, - The abstract justice in this case we take to be this:–
that the person supposed to be injured, and not the law That a creditor has a claim upon the property of his
(as in other civil or criminal cases), has the power of pu debtor, but upon nothing else; that this claim is founded
nishing the guilty or unfortunate debtor; that is, a man upon the fact, that the property of the debtor has either been
who may be angry at disappointment or deception, or procured from the creditor without being paid for, or has
naturally cruel and vindictive, or 'spoiled by power, been the produce, directly or indirectly, of the creditor's
is to be prosecutor and judge in his own case, ris goods or money. For the relation in which the parties
to punish airother, not according to his criminality or stand towards each other is this:–The one lends and the
carelessness, but according to, the extent of his own other borrows for his own (supposed) advantage; the
had passions. . The analogy, therefore, between the creditor sets of the chance of selling his goods or of getting
treatinent of peeuntary and of other offenders only part of the money at least, against the chance of the failure
holds good where there is a tribunal established (as the of the debtor; and the latter balances the present benefit
Insolvent Debtors' Court) in which the creditor prefers his he receives from the possession of the property contracted
complaint, and the debtor, besides the surrender of his ; for against the future danger of distres and the ſtice he
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-Pays for credit. If the debtor is careless or knavish, it is: on the creditor after his property is surrendered; and above
a misfortune to the creditor, but it is one that he must have all, against the iniquity-the-monstrous disproportion be
known to be probable, and one for the chance of which he tween the crime and punishment—in keeping a man for
had what he thought an equivalent chance of gain: he months or years in prison for being unfortunate or care
trusted his property at his peril, but he had a compensa less. If a compromise must be made between justiee and
expediency, let not that man suffer most who is already
tion for that peril, . If the debtor is fraudulent, he is guilty
of a crime towards society, and should be prosecuted as the most deserving of commiseration; let not the boasted
for perjury and any other offence; but what we object to legal maxim—that the guilty should escape rather than the
is the considering it to be a private offence against the cre innocent suffer—be contradicted by the indiscriminate pu
ditor, who has in ſact no more a right to punish a man for. nishment of the worthless and the innocently miserable,
the failure of his speculation than that man would have a at a time when the observance of that maxim is rendered
claim upon him for a reward in case of its success. The particularly desirable by the “confusion worse con
two cases seem to us perfectly analogous. |ſounded” of the law.
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The principle of the cessio bonorum, or the surrender of
property, is the simplest and most equitable, and as the
Bill just thrown out of the Lords approximated to this
ABUSES OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY.
- From thence as from the gaping jaws of hell
principle, we are sorry, though not surprised, that it is Wide ruin spreads, Whilst wigged monsters yell,
lost. A trader of course is more enabled to calculate upon Grave E-N smiles; destruction waits his call,
And damned ſees absorb the Suitor's All.
the means or prospects of any one, to whom he entrusts
money or goods, than he is upon his honesty or prudence. To MASTER JOHN cAMPBELL.
For this reason and the one above-mentioned” the pro Sin, The great Coke, in his most excellent Cómmen
perty of the debtor should be made to compensate as much. tary upon the 29th cap. of that golden Statute Magna
as possible the lösses of the creditor; but any further Charta, says, “Every oppression, by colour Fº usurped
authority, is a kind of destruction, and it is the worst
power would only render one a tyrant and the other a oppression that is done by colour of justice.”—The plun
slave; would continually violate humanity, stir up all the der, robbery, and oppressions, which usually support and
bad passions, create eternal animosities, and only serve to characterize the prosecution of a suit in Chancery have
add to the gains of Judges, Clerks in Courts of Law, Bar hitherto been veiled from the public eye, because no hand
risters, Attornies, Sheriff's Officers, and the Revenue. has yet dared to draw aside the folded mantle of Justiee
It is immediately objected to any statement of this sort, .
neath.
covers and protects the disgusting deformity be
that such a pian would injure trade by destroying its chief It will be necessary to give a short statement of the
support—credit. This is a question of political economy facts which occasion this public address to you, in order
which we cannot now discuss, but we may make one or that }* connexion with them may be the better under
stood :-
two remarks upon it.” First, then, we very much doubt -

whether credit would be much, if at all, injured by it. Un In March last, an order was served upon me to pro
der the present Insolvent Act, it is allowed (and indeed a duce before you certain books, &c. in my possession,
which I accordingly deposited in your office upon a regu
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-matter of complaint) that fraudulent debtors escape in lar affidavit. I was directed to take a warrant and your
great numbers; so that a creditor can rely even now upon certificate of such deposit, which I declined doing, not
little else than the debtor's property. Besides, we may deeming it necessary. By the desire of your Clerk, Mr.
ask, is credit refused to a person in business, because he Drake, a letter was then sent to me, threatening me with
can become a bankrupt, and be only liable to the cessio the service of the process of the Court for deſault (or in
other words with a process of contempt, upon which I
bonorum ?–Secondly, we are inclined to think that it should be imprisoned), if I did not take the warrant and
would be more preductive of good than of evil to destroy certificate. I consequently waited upon Mr. Drake, who
the artificial system of credit, which has already caused demanded for the certificate, &c., altogether containing
such immense speculation and over-trading in this coun only a few lines, a sum exceeding two polyads, besides a
try. It would necessarily be a temporary shock, and ſee for himself”. I requested him to produce his autho
would level the unsubstantial speculators; but though it rity for those demands, which he could not do. I there
fore declined paying the fees demanded; whereupon he
would reduce the bloated and puffed up surface of the informed me that the process of the Court for default.
national corpus, would it not make its limbs more active, , would be issued against me. - -- -

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Three months, Sir, have now elapsed, and no preeeed
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Whatever measure may be thought best under our arti. ings have taken place against me for my pretended default
ficial circumstances, there are certain bad principles and and my refusal to pay your fees. I informed you of the
threats used, and requested you to say if they were made
false assumptions against which we must protest. -We. by your authority or direction. This you declined: an
protest against the assumption of the criminality (fraud or swering, but said you would support Mr. Drake your
culpable negligence) of the debtor; against any preference Clerk. I therefore conceive you #. idealified yourself
shown to the creditor, and the habit of considering one with him in this matter. . . . - , -

party more respectable than the other; against making , Sir, if the Officers of the Court of Chancery have the
fraud an offenew against the creditor, and not against the power of exacting exorbitant fees, under colour of autho
rity, for the support of a legal hierarchy #, which fattens
community; against the giving one any power over the * As in the case of the great Hampden, resistance to an ille
liberty of the other, or considering the debtor dependent gal-inposition should be directed against the principle-its
* "I'll at the property of the insolvent (not bein id for amount is of secondary moment. -

be justly considered the property of the creditor, g paid for) may + Legal hierarchy, Formerly the Chaneellors, Masters, and
| other Officers of the Court, were generally Priests, and the pro
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upon the entangled property of widows and orphans, why Sir, to act up to the “head and front of my offending”— . .
Ş. that º: fºr: exercised in this case? Why to .."; the threats which have been held over me. It
have three months been suffered to elapse without exe is for you, Sir, either to take this direct course, by report
cuting the threatened process of contempt for my refusal ing my default, and that I will not, pay your fees, or to
to pay charges which it is pretended the Court has the submit to the presumption of conspiring to support impo
power of ordering? Does the mighty fabric totter upon sitions, which I trust the public will no longer endure.
the slightest .# of resistance? If the Court have not 'l'his is one of that series º ressious “under colour of .
such power, the threats used are amongst the “worst usurped authority,” to which I shall continue to direct the
attention of the public until the proceedings of persons
kinds of oppression done under colour of justice.”
That the Court of Chancery has not the power of set connected with the Court of Chancery are met by the
ting or levying the ſees demanded by its Officers, I shall united disgust, contempt, and opposition, of this plundered"
proceed to shew from the highest authorities:–The Sta country. - - *:

tute de Tallagio non concedendo (34, Edward 1. cap. 1.)
expressly declares, that “no tallage or aid shall be set or
levied in this kingdom by the King or his heirs, without
the will and assent of the Clergy, Barons, Knights, Bur
gesses, and the rest of the free Commons of this realm.”
The Court will no doubt support the claims of its offi
cers to their fees, with at least the readiness with which it .
hears eomplaints" against them: if indeed it do not, the
public may form a better estimate of their pretensions
than has yet been made-I am, Sir, your's, &c. -

The learned Coke, upon this chapter, observes, in his for - Julius LUDolphus SchrodeR,
June 28, 1819. 9, College-hill.
eible style, “There words are plain without any scruple, -

absolute without any saving. And this is as much as to * The parties perſectly understand me; the public win in a
say, that no subsidy, task, tenth, fiſteenth, i tion, or future letter.
T

other aid or charge whatsoever, shall, by the King or his

heirs, be put or levied without the Common Council of FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
the realm-that is to say, by grant and common assent in
Parliament.” And the same great expositor continues:— - FRANCE. - -

* Within this Act are all new offices erected with new Pants, July 3.—The Ecole de Droit (school of law) has been
closed, pro tempore, by order of the Committee of Public Instruc
fees, or old offices with new fees, for that is a tallage upon.
the subject which cannot be done without common assent tion, on account of the disturbances which have prevailed
by Act of Parliament.” He then cites cases, in which new amongst the students for many days past. This affair originated
with one of the professors, who in a public lecture inculcated .
fees attempted to be levied, by virtue of patents under the an ultra-liberal doctrine, which was clamorously applauded by
Great Seal, were resisted, and the patents revoked by autho one portion of his youthful audience, and as violently reprobated
rity of Parliament; and he concludes thus:– “Note that the by another party. The schism spread in all directions.—Yester
words of this branch are general:—Nullum tallagium, &c. day morning, when the daily journals were left, as usual, at the
ponaturseulevetur, &c. Forgenerally ALL tallages,burthens, Luxembourg readiug-rºom, autnerous students assembled for the
orcharges, put upon the subject by the King's letters |. purpose of reading aloud their exploits of the preceding day.
Some seditious indications were remarked. An individual cº
or other commandment or order, are prohibited by this
act, unlesse it be by common assent of Parliament. And claimed aloud—“ Martaintille a la lanterne!”. This horrible cry.
was drowned amidst the general replies of indignation against
note that the words are in the disjunctive (pomatºr seu the daring author of it. Some students accosted a man peace- .
letetur), so as if it be set by the King, although it be not ably walking past, and denounced him to their comrades, as a
*evied by him but by a subject, as it was in the cases above police spy, ou which they were on the point of precipitating hira.
said, it is within the purvieu of this Statute.”—And when into the Basin de Luxembourg, when he was recognized as a
the last glorious revolution in this country hurled its tyrant quiet citizen, who usually repaired to that spot to take a morning
from his throne, the Declaration of Rights was set forth walk: they then desisted. The civil authorities interfered, and
by Parliament, in which (1.W. and M. cap. 4.) it is after dispersing the crowd, shut the gates of the Luxembourg .
and set a patrol on, foot. The students declared their intention ,
enacted, that “The levying of money by pretence of pre of meeting on the Place de l'Observation, at two o'clock. A de
rogative, without grant of Parliament—for longer.time or
in º ºr manner than the same is or shall be granted,— tachment of gendarmes was sent to parade that spot; this, how
ever, did not prevent the nuineers from assembling. One of
is illegal.” - . . .. . .. their leaders flourished a rolſ of paper, and called out, “Gentle
Now, Sir, in direct contradietion to these plain Statutes, men, now for the Petition?”. He was instantly surrounded by an
and to the most able Commentaries upon them, the Qºli immense concourse of people, notwithstanding the active efforts
oers of the Court of Chancery do set, demand, and levy of the cavalry. The Petitiºn was addressed to the Prefect of
new fees and charges not allowed by any Statute, under Police, soliciting him to refease those who had been taken-iºwa
pretence of the authority of the Court for receiving the custody. A second. Petition, addressed to the Chamber of Pepu
ties, was then read. All this passed auder the observation ºf
same. A general system of imposition is practised upon the armed force, who, were unwilliug to have recourse to coer
and supinely submitted to by suitors. With the assisting 4 cive measures. Some of the unilitary bore threats, and even in
talents of feed disturbers of domestic happiness, blood is sults. M. Boulange, professor of the establishment, who is much
set against blood, the ties of consanguinity are trampled liked by the students, now interfered. His remenstrances were
down, and suits are instituted and carried on for the sole auended with success; aud towards evening the crowd had
purpose of supporting the satellites of that Court upon the almost eutirely dispersed. - -

plunder of fortunes, manoeuvered into it by its abused pro On the 80th ult, a mau, about 40 years of age, called at the
residence of M. Mattainaville, stating... that he had something
cesses. As from the abyss of the destructive Maal particular to communicate to him. Madame Martainville, in the
strom, "...º. wrecks and scattered ruin are returned absence of her husband, received the individual, who anneumced
from its horrible vortex. - -- .. -
inimself as the former friend of her parents, and added, that in
I here ſº challenge, the power, of that high and 1794; Madame Martainville's mother, being compelled to joinker
honourable Court to levy the fees demanded of me for the thusband, who was in the French army, had made him the depo
warrant and certificate, which have been denied me upon sitary of a pair of pistols, which he had preserved, and that he
my refusal to pay those pretended dues.—I challenge its Madamehad come to acquit his conscience of a promise then made to her.
power to attach me for such refusal. “I call, upon you, them intºMartainville received this mysterious deposit, and putt
a drawer. Next morning, Monsieur Martainvite
seedings in this Court were founded upon the worst modeſ, or "took the pistols into his study, for the purpose of examiniºg
fºcclesiastical Jurisdiction, and were long most strenuously op them. He held them both in his right hand; his left unfortu
posed, as beiug directly contrary to our excellent Common-Law mately covered their muzzles. The two pistols, which were at
Judicature. laalf-cock, went of together. The shot tore his hand in a shook
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ing manner. The fore-finger was entirely destroyed, and the atent, &c. &c. should be read a second time, till a Report upon
two next grievously shattered. It is-feared that amputation is it should have been made by a Select Committe of the House,
indispensable. The motion was agreed to. - - -

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* July 5,-The number of suicides attempted or executed in On the motion of the Earl of Lauderpals, the second reading
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Paris during the months of January, February, March, and April of the Publicans' Licenses Bill was postponed fºr three months,
last, amounts to 124, ºf which 33 were by females. Among with the understanding that the subject might be better discussed
, them were 64 unmarried, and 60 married men or women. The next Session.—Adjourned. - -

greater part terminated their lives by means of fire-arms, coal Wednesday, July 7. -

vapour, or by drowning; among the latter there were 46... Of INSOLVENT DEBTORs.
the entire number 53 destroyed themselves from a disgust of life; Lord Arcklaxo said, that he understood there was no chance
the remainder in consequence of derangement in their affairs, of their Lordships' amendments to the Insolvent Debtors' Bill
miscouduct, play, and debauchery. Comparing this period in being agreed to in the Commons; he should therefore move that
the present year, with the corresponding period of the last year, it be recommitted that day three months, in order to afford au
- where appears an increase in the present year of 41 deaths. opportunity for passing a Bill to eontinue the former Iusolvent
July 6–The first accounts of the riot in the Ecole de Droit Act. - - -

contained many exaggerations. M. Bavoux, the lecturer, to, The motion was agreed to, and the Bill thrown out. Another
whose language the mischief was principally imputed, is likely Bill to coutinue the former Act was brought from the Commons,
to undergo a prosecution; as are several of the studeots, who and read a first time.—Adjourned. . .
have signalized themselves by their superior intemperance and Thursday, July 8. -

excess. -
The Scotch Churches Bill and the Silk Manufactures Appren
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tices Bill were thrown out.

-- - - - - PRUSSIA. , , still FINEs. .* -
JENA, JENr. 26.-Professor Ocken has received from the The Farl of Doxough More moved that the Irish Still Fines
vernment of Weymur the injunction either of renouncing his Bill be committed that day three months. The present system
i.
lace, or giving up the Editorship of the Journal called the Isis. of Town-land Fines had been very beneficial to the revenue;
}. signified that he had no answer to make to this order, a and he did not see that it was more unjust 'than the -law of
decree has immediately declared him dismissed, from his place Alfred, which rendered every man in a hundred liable for the
and deprived of his appointments. The Senatus Academicus of acts of any body of the inhabitants, aud wineh had been carried
Jena exerted itself strenuously to prevent this measure; but its into effect in the Court of King's Bench the day before. -

efforts were unavailing. The motive of this extraordinary step, The Earl of Aberdees thought the system of Town-land Fines
on the part of a Government so liberal as that of Weymar, cau one of great atrocity and injustice. No consideration of revenue
only be attributed to the influence of Russia and Prussia, and could induce him to vote for its continuance. As to the inhabi
especially of M. Chemikow, Russian Minister at Dresden. tants of a Town-land being saved by an informer, the Nobie Earl -

== must know his countrymen better than to suppose that they

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would be so ready to turn informers.

UNITED PARLIAMENT. The Earl of Donougumore's motion was negatived, the Bill
passed turough the Counmittee, and the House adjourned.
HOUSE OF LORDS., -
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Friday, July 9,
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Lord Aucklasp moved that the Bankrupt Laws' Amendment
BiH, and the Bill for regulating Commissions of Bankruptcy.
- Monday, July 5. -

should be read a second time this day three months. These

- POOR LAWS-INSOLVENT DEBTOſtS, Lordships at a period Bills had unfortunately come before their
The Marquis of LANspowwºmbved that the Poor Rates' Misa when it was impossible to give sufficient attention to then.—
plication Bill be read a second, time this day three months. He . Ordered.
bbjected to this Bill, because it would create considerable ex The Marquis of Lassnows moved an Address' to the Prince
E. fºr the workhouses to be erected for the children who Regent on the African Slaye. Trade, similar tº that moved by
ere to be taken from their parents; because it would hold out Mr. Wilberforce iu the Commous.-Agreed to.-Adjourned.
a bounty for improvident marriages, as the phildren weuld be no
burden to the parents; because the separatton would destroy HOUSE OF COMMONS.
those natural affections which formed the best moral and politi. * * *
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cal ties; and because those parents, whºse affection induced Monday, July 5.
them to keep their children at home, would have to struggle CORRUPTION
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hard to support them, while the callons and indifferent wººd AT GRAMPOUND AND CAMELFORn.
have no care or trouble with them. He approved of that part The House went into a Committee and some witnesses were
of the Bill which provided that grown persons in employ should examined, after which, -

be refused Parish aid : but it was so interwoven with the rest, • ‘Lord John Russell, observed, that since the Revolution, two
that the whole Bill must be thrown out. great innovations in our system of Representation had taken
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increased value of seats in that tiouse had produced
.The Earl ºf Liyearool, agreed with the objections of the places—the
Noble Marquis, and the motion was agreed to.—the Bill is of treater competition and consequent corruption in the smaller
course lost. - " -* -- - --
tº: and great cities aud towns had grown up, which
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The House resolved itself into a Committee on the Insolvent were not represented, though they had as much right to be.so
Rebtors' Bill—Lord Redesdale objected to the principle of this as other cities and towns before the Revolution. Next Session
Bill, which was the same as that of the Bankrupt flaws, and fering he should propose a measure founded on the principle of trans
gave facilities to debtors to eheat their creditors hy gding abroad. the right of voting from corrupt boroughs to the large un
The clause which provided that a prisoner should not be con to represented places, whose inhabitants were so numerºus as bºth
mitted to prison, unless the Court should so order it, was ear. be entitled to have a voice in the choice of those who had the
ried.—The clause, “that if a prisoner move himself by habeas £uardianship of their interests, and to reuder corruption impre
corpus, he shºuld not be entitled to the benefit of this Act,” was sible. In the mean time, he should propose two Resolutions;
negatived.--The ºrther consideration was postponed to the re. first,--That the notorious corruption at Grampound-called for
coinmilment on wº. - - - - the serious consideration of the House; and secondly,–That the
House womld take it into ceasideration early in the next Session.
Thesday, July 6. Agreed to ment, con. - •. - - -

The Royal Assent was notified by Commission to the Sinkin On the motion of Mr. WvNN, a Resolution was carried, de
Fund Loan Bill; the Charitable Foundations Biſh, and others.
claring that Alexander Lambe (an Attºrney concerned ºn the
NEW STANDING ORDER.—PUBLICANS LICENSEs. trampound affair), was guilty of a wiifºl, suppression ºf evi
The Earl of Laupendale, -after some remarks on the bad dence, in having destroyed a document relative to the Gram
pound election, and a high contempt of the puthority of the
**quences of the passing of Bills through the House, relating House,
to trade, manufactares, &c., of the nature and provisions of Mr. Lambe was also ordered.to be taken into custody.
Sºhiº, their Lordships had no information, moved a new The House resolved itself into a Committee on the Report ºf
ºaºg.9rder, that no BiH for the regulation of any trade or theof St.Camelford Election
Mary Axe, and stated,
Committee, He
was examined. Mr. Halfeº, a druggºs',
tºº; he an his
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partner, Mr. Sibley, wanted to return two Members—Mr. petised with. As to the first, the information they ind received -

Stewart and Mr. Alsop—for the borough; that he raised 6,000t. 'completely bore out the declaration of Lord-Castlereagh, that
went down to Camelford, and sent the half notes of that sum to very atrocious crimes had decreased. During the last thirty
a Mr. Ching, as a security, having been told that the appearance ears, as compared with the thirty immediately subsequent to
of money was required to gain the confidence of the electors. the Revolution, convictions for murder had decreased, in the
He admitted, however, that he understood, that, if the two Home Circuit, in the preportion of more than two to one. lui
Candidates he had nominated were elected, the money was not London the yearly chance was 500,000-tol against the murder
to be returned to him. If they had been returned, ń. had no of any individual-a state of things as little dangerous as could
doubt they would have paid him his expenses.—some conversa: be expected in any society. With respect to the second point—
tion arose on the witness being asked from whom he borrowed the uselessness º certain penal laws, the Committee had as:
the 9000l., which Mr. BRoushaw thenght an unnecessary and sumed, as a principle, that laws which had not beep-executed
improper question. On a división, there were 26 fºr putting for above a century, were only an incumbrance to the stafate
the question, and 18 against it; and the witness explained how Book, and an undeserved imputation on the humanity of the
he had raised the money.—Adjourned. country. The Statutes to which the Committee wished to direct;
the attention of the House, were divisible into two classes. The
- Tiesday, July 6. -

first class consisted of acts, constituting misdemeanors, which

* * ,; -Excise PROSECUtions. having become matters of indifference, or nearly so, it was pro
Mr. W.M. Swiru presented a Petition from Jeremiah Abell, a posed entirely to repeal:—the second class consisted of acts for
prisoner in the Norwich gaol, which would serve to illustrate the capital punishments comprehended, in which it, was pro
the character of Excise Prosecutions. The Petitioner had an in •ed to substitute either transportation or hard-labour, at the
formation filed against him, which he instructed a Counsel in Åiscretion of the Judge—giving that discretion in the most ample
defend. He was fully prepared to prove his innocence by 17 manner. The Committee had examined evidence concerning the
witnesses; he conld prove an alibi on his part, and he cºuld laws which affixed capital-punishments to certain crimes, and
also prove, that the informer was thirty º: distant from the which, on account of their severity, were rarely executed. They
place where he stated himself to be watching the smuggling pro Thad examined those who were the losers ...} thefts and forgeries:
ceedings of the Petitioner. On the day of trial, however, his those who prosecuted; the witnesses, and the jurors; they had
counsel left the court unexpectedly, and another counsel, not, out of delicacy, examined the Judges, as they could not ex
unknown to aud unemployed by him, undertook his case, pect them to give opinions against the very laws which they
and cºnsented to judgment against him. The information might have soon after to act upon; but, they had procured the
originally filed against the Petitioner stated the penalty at very valuable opinion of Sir Archibald Macdonald; they had
1,000l., but upon a compromise that penalty was reduced examined the various police Magistrates, the officers of the Old
to 3001. After this, nothing was done for a year, and the Bailey, and the clerks of the police offices, persons who had the
matter seemed dropped. At the end of that time, however, the very best opportunity of knowing the facts; they had exºned
Petitioner-was arrested and committed to the gaol of Norwich, too another class of persons—the traders of London and West
his house and property being afterwards sold under an execu minster (whose intelligence and humanity the Learned Gentle
tion from the Court of Exchequer. He had remained in prison man warmly enlogized); they had examined Mr. Cººr, the soli
sixteen months, during which he had applied in vain for re citor to the Excise; Mr. Ilarmer, solicitor at the Old Bailey;
lease. There were seven persons included in the information various bankers and private individuals: And all these person*
filed against the Petitioner, two of whom had not been brought were decidedly of opinion, with himself, that the thumb?r of
to trial, , though the Petitioner, had frequently petitioned the escapes by delinquents from punishment was owing to the ºve:
Treasury to order their trial, that he might-have his innocence sive severity of the laws, which rendered prosecutors reluetant to
established. roceed, witnesses reluctant to give evidence, and juries re
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, The Petition was laid upon the table, the Caaneslaos of the uctant to convict. [The Hon. Bart. repeated a number of
Excrequen observing, that he had no information upon this ex striking and conclusive instances of this feeling which had been
traordinary statement. related in the evidence before the Committee. In the evidence
Mr. BRough AM, adverting to a Petition presented in the course of Mr. Harmer there was the following "excellent ºf:
of last Session from Mr. O'Hanlon, complaining of the conduct honourable both to his understanding and humanity:-"It I
of certain high legal characters in Ireland (the Lord Chancellor were asked what description of punishment would be prºductive
and the Attorney-General), stated, that illness and professional of benefit, I would answer such as might force he delinquent
*ngagements had prevented his submitting a motion on this sub into a course of discipline totally opposite to his habits. 1dle
ject hitherto ; and he should now defer it till next Session, on mess is assuredly a part of his cºnracter, which industry would
. . account of the absence of Mr. Peel. ' counteract. Set him to labour. He is probably debauched; and
Upon the motion of Mr. WvNN, Alexander Lambe was brought abstinence would be advantageous to both his mind and his
to the Bar, and, after a reprimand from the Speaker, was dis body. Apply it. He has been necustomed to dissolute.com
charged, upon payment of his ſees. panions, separation from whom would essentially, ameliorate
win. Keep'hin in solitude. He has hitherto rioted in uncon
Laws RESPECTING capital punishMENTs. trouled liberty of action. He should be subjected to restraint,
"Sir J. Mackistosh laid on the table the Report of the Com and the observance of proper decorum.”—The general instruc
mittee appointed to enquire respecting the state and effects of the tions which he had received from the Committee were--to pro
Laws relating to Capital Punishmeurs. - pose (next session) a Bill for the abolition of thirty-five, or
Sir Jaxes then explained, in a powerful and perspicuous incre, capital felonies, and a Bill to amend the forgery laws.
speech, the course pursued by the Committee. The Committee They thought that, as long as one and two pound notes con
had not been able to make to the flouse any distinct proposition, tinued in circulation, it was necessary to place them on the same
nor would they do so now"; for though they had been actively footing as the metallic currency; and they therefore reluctantly
engaged for three months in collecting information, and had cer. recommended, that the actual forgers of Bank-notes should con
tainly made great progress, yet the question required maure tinue liable to capital punishment, and they also soggested that
defiberation and complete knºwledge of facts. What had been a very high reward should be offered for their detection...The
done fully justified the rejection of Lord Castlereagh's proposition Committee proposed to lessen the punishment for uttering forged
for uniting this inquiry with that into the state of the gaots: both notes thos:–To punish the first offence either with transporta
Committees had been assiduously engaged, but neither had been tion or hard labour, at the discretion of the Judge; but to place
able to come to a conclusive Report. He expected therefore that. the offender on the second or third offence on the footing of the
this Committee wºuld be re-appointed at the beginning of the common utterer of money, prosecutable capitally; leaving it.
next Session.—The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to give however, open to the prosecutor, to proseeute as for a first
an account of the proceedings of the Committee. And first he offence. With respect to the persons found in possession of
had to state, that the City of London, as well as other public forged notes, whether to subject him to imprisonment or to hard
bodies and public men, in different parts of the country, had labour, was recommended to be left to the discretion of the
been very prompt in furnishing the information required by the Judge.—The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then adverted to the
Committee. From Ireland, however, they had received no in number of Petitioners (12,000,) for an alteration of the Criminal
formation ; no notice having been taken of their orders. The in
Laws. Their Petitions expressed the decided conviction of the
-quirres of the Committee had been directed—first, to ascertainpublic at large, that it was impossible to execute the laws as
the state of our national morality—and, secondy, what Criminalthey now stood in the Statute-book-tie concluded by moving
Laws are useless or mischievous, aud may be conveniently dis | that the Report be printed. [Loud cheers followed this speech
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which had been listened to with profound attention, during its tenth of the population of a country ought-to-be scholars at ºne
delivery.] - -
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time, to answer the proper, purposes of Education, and that
w

-::.3'he Revivºr wºrrº. ‘..…. ." § -- --

nearly so many were educated in France, Holland, &c., while in
Treat Britain there" was a differenee of more than one-third
... VACCNAT+08—MR. MALLASON'S INVENTION. between the nnmber that were and the number that ought wbe
Mr. W. Sºrrra thought it, his duty to state to the House, that educated. * . …". - ... " -

that most destructive practice of iaoculation: for the small-pox * The Bill was committed.—Adjourned
• **been lately recovering its ground with most alarming strides. * * --

• ‘In Norfolk it had spread far and wide. IIe trusted that mea . . . . . . . madnesday, July 1. - -

•ures wºuld be adopted by Government to remedy the evil." . In moving the 3d reading, of the Pauper Lunatic Bill, Mr.
Sir F. Bunnery, after dwelling for same time on the advan Benner noticed the frequent attempts made in the House to
“tages of Mr. Mallison's iuvention for the preservation of ship amend the law for the benefit of the unfortunate, lunatics, ren
wrecked persons, and persons upset in boats, which, he said, dered nugatory-by resistance in the other House, where there
would be of the greatest benefit to persons engaged in the col seemed to prevail an indispositiou to attend to distresses of this
… lection of the revenue, moved an Address to the Prince Regent, and other kinds. Such Bills were either allowed to linger to
. Praying that his Royal Highness would give direction to the death upon the table, or were rejected en masse at the end of the
proper authorities to act on a Report of a Select Cemmittee of Session.—Read a third time. - - -

º the . House, recommending the invention. He (Sir F.) had in

- vetºendeavoured to draw the attention of the different Boards coRRUPTION AT camelford–INSolveNT DEBTORS.
- to it.” - - *" .. . * . - Mr. D. W. HARwry, after stating that he thought further
' '. Sir I. Corsin said this invention had been known along time, inquiry necessary into the transactions at Camelford, which
}. but instead of assisting to preserve mens' lives, it wºuld be most could not be pursued this Session, moved a resolution that it
* destructive of them: if the men had cork-jackets, they would be would be fit to renew the investigation early in the next session,
* always exposing themselves to unnecessary danger. and that the Speaker should not issue his writ for a new election
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. Sir-G-Cocknunn stated, that the Board of Admiralty had until ten days after the meeting of the House.
*-inquired into this invention, and did not even think it the best Mr. Genney said, that the parish of Camelfordeontained ºnly
of the sort. Its introduction into the Navy would be most mis 1,100 souts; if the franchise were given to the bundred, there
“chievous. When a ship was in danger, the greatest difficulty was already another borough there; and in the three adjoining
*lways was in keeping the crew by the ship, and the people who hundreds no less than eight boroughs. - -
Mr. ABEacowbºy said, that under the eircumstances of the
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• *-could swim were generally these who lost their lives. (Hear!)
When a ship was on a lee shore, it was of no use to a man that mutilation of the new Bill respecting tusslwent Debtors in the
Lords, he thought the best course would be to bring in a Bilºts
* he could swim, or that he had a cork-jacket, for he would be continue the former insolvent Act. . - *
'' beat to pieces by the surf on the rocks. - - - -

*- Sir F. Bunprºtºr contended, that the invention would be ex This motion was opposed by Aldermen wood and Wartº
MAN: Mr. G. LaMa, &c.; but on a division it was carried by 80
'treinely useful in the case of boats upsetting.—Motion negatived. to 26, it was then brought in, ſorwarded through all its stage,
... APPLICATION of Revenue without the AUTHo and passed. - -

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..Mr. Huxle observed, that at the beginning of the present

ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE.
reign, the Crown had, given up its private revenues (with a few Mr. Wilbertsonce, after some remarks. on the illicit **
...extentions) and had since received instead an annual Civil List.
After this, he had not expected that Gibraltar should be a source trade still carried on by subjects of all countries, and the per
a considerable profit to any individual. It was well kilowa that mission still given to it by mauy Goveruments (particularly Pºr
... heavy and oppressive duties and restrictions had been imposed tugal), moved an Address to the Prince Regent, praying his
at that fortress. Ile was informed that 50,000l. were thus raised Royal Highness to renew his efforts with foreign powers, ºr
and that 18,000l. of that sum were remitted to England, though the entire abolition of the trade.-Agreed. to-Adjourned to
he did not knew how far these sums were correctly stated. It Monday.
.deserved the most serious consideration of the House; that Mini
sters should presume to raise money without the authority, and
TUESDAY'S LONDON GA2LTTE.
..npply it without the knowledge of Parliament, particularly too -
.. when that liouse was voting every year large sums of money for
... the garrisou. He should conclude by moving an Address to the - BANKRUPTCHES ENLARGED.
; : Prince Regent, for an account of the sums raised at Gibraltar' J. Daly, Woolwich, innkeeper, from July 3 to July 13.
. . between 1800 and 1818, and their application. J. R. Bell, Old Broad-street, ship and insurance-broker, from
*

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The Chancellon of the Excurquem opposed the motion.} July *
3 to Aug. 21.
. BANKRUPTS. .
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. . . The House had never been in the practice of calling for informa. - -

- “on respecting the private revenues of the Crown, except when R. Miller, Taunton, grocer. Attornies; Messrs. Collett, Win
the Crown applied for increase of revenue. Most of the revenue burn, and Collett, Chancery-lane.
-, * of Gibraltar (40,000l. a year) was applied to local purposes; R. Parker, Ellesmere, Shropshire, grocer. Attornies, M*rs.
but ever since the conquest of the place, the surplus had been Stocker, Dawson, and Herringham, New Boswell-court, Carey
considered as the private revenue of the Crown. It went there street. . : - - -

-fore to the Privy Purse; and had only amounted, for nineteen T. Harris, St. Nicholas, Worcestshire, woollen-draper. Attorney,
years, to a sum total of 72,000l. -
Mr. Shuter, Mill-bank-street, Westminster.
Colonel Davies enumerated some of the most oppressive and E. Turner, Howarth-cross, Lancashire, corn-factor. Attorney,
unequal taxes at Gibraltar. - - Mr. Chippendale, Crane-court, Fleet-street.
- -- . .
- Mr. Huskisson said it had been the practice during this reign J. Thompson, Greenhalgh, Manchester, dealer. Attornies, Messrs.
to consider the revenues raised out of the kingdom as not in Hurd and Johnson, London.
cluded in the branches of income given up by his Majesty. J. Harris, Redbridge, Southampton,victualler. Attornies, Messrs.
Mr. Hume said, that in the Act passed after the accession the tlicks and Brajkenridge, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn.
revenue of Gibraltar was not reserved, and those revenues which W. Probert, Holborn, wine-merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Wade
were reserved were particularly ºl. He was sure that re sou and Son, Austin-friars.
tarns of the 4% per cent...West India Duties. (revenue similarl B. Porter and R. R. Baines, Kingston-upon-Hull, glue manº
circumstanced) had been laid before the House. Why this deli turers. Attorney, Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane. -

cacy then about Gibraltar He should withdraw his motion E. and I. Deut, High-street, Southwark, hatters. Attornº,
till uext:Session. . Messrs. Raine and North, King's-bench-walk, Temple.
CIMARITABLE FUNDS BIT.L. . J. llunt, Ebenezer-terrace, Commercial-road, merchant. , Al
-

tormies, Messrs. Pearce and Sons, St. Swithin's-lane, Lombard

… The committment of this Bill being moved,—Mr. Brough Axt street.
said, that he understood it contained the clauses which had been E. Fentiman and H. J. Reynolds, Peterborough, haberdash”
thrown out of the Charitable Foundations' Iſill in the House of Attorney, Mr. Spence, Staple-inu.
Lords, but so worded as to be unobjectionable. The Learned W. Kent,
Gertlamau then entered into calculations, to show that one
stationer. Attorney, Mr. Posio, º
Adam's court, Old Broad-street.
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SATURDAY's LoNDoN GAzETTE.,
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BANKRUptcies superseded.” ". .
R. Radford, Strand, tailor.
R. Peacock, Finchley, victualler.
H. G. and W. Lang, Ackerington, Lancashire, calico-printers.
*BANKRUPTS.
J. Cox, jun. Emsworth, Southampton, chair-maker. Attoraies,
- Messrs. Alexander and Holme, New-inn:
s: Worrall and A. Pope, Bristol, bankers. Attornies, Messrs.
Lºnberts, Taylor, and Deane, Gray’s-inn-square.
J. Willis, Wardour-street, St. James, Westminster, coach
Pulptr ORAtony.—Having during the last recess concladed the
subject of Chiticisyts upon the BAR, and being desirous while
. .. . . . .
º Parliament is tot sitting to diversify our columns, it is our in
.
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tention next Sunday, to commence a Series of Articles on the
different Preachers in And Nean the Metropolis, whose
stile and matter may afford sufficient scope for observation.—
- The Remarks will be purely critical: they will not be con
fined merely to the Ministers of the Establishment, and will
embrace Pulpit ORAtory in the largest sense of the word.—
In these Articles (which will be supplied by a Correspondent)
there will be no Theological Controversy. . .
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maker: Attorney, Mr. Allen, Carlisle-street, Soho. , , phics or stocks on sarumbay. -

T. Bell, Pinner's-hall, Old Broad-street, insurance-broker. At 3 per Cent. Red............ 68}}} | 3 per Cent. Cous.......... 67344.
tºrnies, Messrs. Reardon and Davis, Corbet-court, Grace -
cuurch-street. - - *

*W. H. Hayward, Tamworth, Manchester, cotton-spinner. At

... tornies, Messrs. Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row. THE EXAMINER. *-*. *-**

G. Catton, Andover, Hant-, grocer." Attornies, Messrs. Shaw

aud Stephens, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-ium-lane. , -
London, JULY - 11.
4. Wetheril, and E. Fayle, Dyer's court, Aldermanbury, factors.
... Attornies, Messrs. Pownalſ and Fairthorne, Old Jewry. The rumours respecting a misunderstanding between Swa
J. Androus, Edgeware-road, Mary-le-bone, corn and coal-mer
den, Denmark, and Russia, are strongly corroborated by
ºnt. Attorhies, Messrs. Slade and Jones, John-street, Bed
ford-row. " - the movements of troops on both sides. The King of
R. Bryant, ºld Brond-street, surgeon. Attorney, Mr. Thomas, Sweden has a camp at Scania, where he himself resides;,
Basinghall-street.
Attorney, Mr. and the Emperor Alexander has ordered the formation
- - - - " .

- Bennett, Dartmouth, Devonshire, merchaut.

Price, New-square, Lincoln’s-inn. of three camps in Finland, towards which the troops are
.G. Brown, Broad-street, Westmiu-ter, upholsterer... Attorney, marching, and the Emperor, is expected to review them.
- Mr. Cleveley, Great Pulteney-street... " there... The fort of Scania was supposed to be chosen for
-

w. Wright, Chipping-Barneſ, Hertfordshire, fishmonger. At the purpose of overawing the Danes, who were disputing
!oruies, Messrs. White and Bostock, George-street, Mansion
house. -
a short time back about the Norwegian debt; but as the
J. R. Mulleneux, Liverpool, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. payment of that debt was (according to official announce
Clarke, Richards, and Medealſ, Chancery-lane. -

£3. Pardon. Plymouth, linen-draper. Attoraies, Messus. Walker
:*d Rankin, Old Jewry.
. G. Law, Manchester, grocer. Attornies, Messrs. Blackstock and
Bruce, Temple. . .
ments in the Swedish journals) arranged by negociations
-
in London, the keeping up the force and the presence of
its Royal general looks very like some apprehension of at
-

*f; Giblin, Bartlow, Cambridgeshire, miller. Attornies, Messrs. tack ſtom. Russia, thought it might not be thought politic
Long and Austen, Gray's-inn. to shew any fear, or, suspicion by moving nearer to the
F. Haywood, senior, Liverpool, merchant. Attornies, Messrs. Russian frontier. Whether Alexander wants to pick a
Avison and Wheeler, Castle-street.
J-Henshaw, Stockport, Cheshire, cotton-manufacturer. Attor. quarrel with, BERNADoTTE upon some of the old frivolous
nies, Messrs. Avison and Wheeler, Castle-street, Holborn. and legitimate pretences, and to take another consequent
J. Bee, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, butcher. Attornies, Messrs. slice off Lapland or Gothland; or whether he means to
Hall, Ross, and Brownley, New Boswell-court.
p: Pºlº Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grocer. Attornies, Messrs.
-

lead such another crusade, against this illegitimate inter

Bell and Brodrick, Bow-Church-yard, Cheapside. loper as he did against his former master, remains of
J. Cumihings, Chapel-yard, Spital-square, merchant. Attornies, course only-matter of conjecture at present. After all,
Messrs. Sudlow and Co.; Monument-yard. - - -

these reportstmay be exaggerated, as Alexander may

J. G. Jones, Mark-laue, corn-factor. Attorney, Mr.-Abbott,
Mark-lane. . - merely want to drive away ennui by a little military, spec
- W. Wailes, North Shields, merchant tailor. Attornies, Messrs. tacle; but yet we have a great notion that it is not in the
Cardale and Young, Gray's-inn.
T. Ainsworth, Little Bolton, Lancaster, bleacher. Attornies, nature of the present set in Europe to be very pacific, and
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Messrs. Mihue and Parry, Temple. . more particularly that Russia and Sweden are not calcu -

J. Mayers, Yarmouth, merchant. Attorney, Mr. Isaacs, Mansell lated to be good neighbours long. Luckily for “ the ba
street, Goodman's-fields. -

lance of power,” the “Fox” is as cunning as the Elephant -

J-Lay. Southmolton-street, hatter. Attorney, Mr. Tueker, Bart

lett's-buildings, Holborn. is physically powerful. . . .
-

R. Reynolds, Gioucester-street, Commercial-road, carpenter. At 'The late change in the Spanish Ministry is attributed
... tormies, Messrs. Walton and Gliddon, Girdler's-hall. by some to the impatience of the Creature at the delay
J. D. Gregory, Crown-street, Finsbury-square, silk-manuſac
...turer. Attornies, Messrs. Webster and Son, Queen-street, in fitting out the Cadiz Expedition, and the hon-perform
Cheapside. . -
ance of other impossibilities of that sort; by others, to the
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victory obtained by the British influence over that of

B. Berry, J. Broadbent, J. and J. Wilson, Dalton, Kirkheaton,
i Yorkshire, manufacturers. Attorney, Mr. Battye, Chaucery Russia, the latter being understood to have procured the
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S. Worrall, A. Pope, and J. Edmonds, Bristol, bankers. At appointment of the late Ministers. There have been for
tornies, Messrs. Lamberts and Co. Gray's-iau-square. some time rumours of the intended cession of the island of
Cuba to England, as an equivalent for the injury our in
Cox PARAtive Tax Avrox. —In France, the taxation terests have sustained from the acquirement of Florida by
upon every wan, woman, and ehild, is 27s. ;-and upon the United States, and this is also conjectured to be con
every housekeeper 6l.—in England, it amounts to 4!. 10s. nected with Ferdis AND's late vagary. It is not at all
upon every mail, woman, and child; and 22, upon every improbable that the English Government may get Cuba
housekeeper. from Spain, and add to our overgrown and costly foreign
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ossessions, in the vain hope of opposing the progress of humanity of society; and it would be better for the cha
American aggrandizement. .. . racter of “the powers that be,” if they were properly sen
sible of this fact.
A private letter from Warsaw in the Times, dated May. - - - -- - - -- -

27, gives some very curious particulars respecting an at Our readers will peruse with some surprise and perhaps
disgust, the account of the actions brought by some Whig
tempt by the police of that city to put down a spirited Lords and Gentlemen against Sir F. Burpetr, and one of
journal, contrary to the Constitution granted by Alex his political supporters, for the damage done to the houses ºf
ANDER, guaranteeing the liberty of the press. The journal the aforesaid gentlemen by the Election mob. In support of
had published an article;’ headed “Abuses of the Police this action there is a law, which has that invariable mark of
in a Constitutional State,” in which the Police was ac excellence—having been made in barbarous times,<-and
cused of arbitrary and illegal conduct in issued ahaving by this law a man whose house is injured b ...?".
notification that “whoever shall dare to hiss or insult an timult may conºupon any inhabitant of the hundred fºr
compensation: This law ought to be called the “Private
actor in any manner whatever, shall be arrested and pu Revenge Encouragement Aci,” or perhaps the “Lawyers'
nished.” This had been issued in consequence of the Benefit Act,” for if all the inhabitants were to go reco
vering from each other, some dozen limbs of the law inight
strong disapprobation a bad actress at the Opera had met derive
with for some impudent behaviour. The article in the to be an entire income from the litigation. But what is
said to such men as the plaintiffs in these actions
Polish Quotidienne (the paper in question) contained some availing themselves of such an iniquity? Do they thirk
very just remarks upon the right of the public to exercise that any one will be deceived by the flimsy pretence
a jurisdiction over all artists and works of taste. It was (urged by their advocate) that Sir Faancis, and especially
received as it deserved by the inhabitants of the city. The Mr. PLACE (who is not a rich man) jºi. as,
Editors, Count Bruno Krciuski and M. Titropong Mo “respectable inhabitants of the hundred?" If their fiere:
Raúski, proceeds the letter, “were rewarded by the sities were so great that they could not pay their glazier's
public approbation, and all the distinguished persons in bills without reimbursing themselves by attacking others
who are totally unconnected with the violence, (more
the capital addressed them in letters of thanks. They were so, we may add, than themselves, for they exposed them
invited to entertainments at various private houses. The selves º to an angry multitude); if this is the case,
students of the University gave them a splendid dinner, at why did they not bring their actions against some of the
which not only the healths of the Emperor and Royal Fa great sinecurits and fatteners upon the people's money:
mily were drunk, but that of the editors of liberal jour of there are no doubt many such to be found at the west end
the town. We believe that by notable law, Sir
mals. During the entertainment, the editors of the Quo F. Burnett and Mr. Place may suethis any other inhabitant
tidienne were presented with iron rings, having this in of the hundred for the damages, but their own and the
scription—“Grateful youth to the editors of the Quoti plaintiffs' costs they will lose, besides that the injustice
disme.’”—The Police Regulation still remaining in force, will be just as great whoever: pays the money and the
two other articles of a similar nature were inserted in the lawyers in the end. It is alto!!ether a petty and disgrace
Journal, on which the Police ordered that the Paper either ſul affair: Mr. Wishant, and the others have not only
should be placed under the censorship, or that the Editors singled out these two individuals for the purpose of gratify
ing their party animosities, but they have compassed their
should become responsible. They manſully chose the object by resorting to a law which, they ought to be
Jatter alternative, and the affair ended for the time by the ashamed to countenance, and of which, had it been used
Police shutting up their printing-office. The parties con º themselves, they would have justly complained.
cerned and the inhabitants of the town are waiting with 4.
great anxiety for the decision of the Emperor, to whom Dreadful Catastrophs.-The following letter from
-the case has been sent. This is a glorious sign of the pro Paris reached town, yesterday.;-, -, -- 1.
gress of liberal opinion in Poland, and particularly as re To the Editor of the Courier. -

gards the people, who were for’so many centuries the mere Sin, -I am much concerned to inform you of a most awful ar
property of the nobility. As for this particular affair, the cident which happened here last night at Tivoli. Madame
Blanchard has been prevented sometime, by the weather, from
Police could not have shown their hatred of liberty in a ascending in the balloon. Last night, in spite of a good deal of
more absurd manner; for we do not see how the Empe wind, she went up amidst the concern of thousands of specta
ror can countenance their arbitrary conduct in the teeth tors: on the lights being extinguished, the fireworks exploded,
and I saw the balloon, as a dark cloud, for an instant, when it
of the Constitution which he makes a merit of having took fire, as it appeared to me, from a spark. Madame B. was
given to Poland. . - precipitated to the earth with the utmost velocity. She fell in a
small street near Rue Mont Blanc; when taken up, she was not
quite dead, but literally dashed to pieces; every surgical aid
Parliament has been occupied all the week in winding was given, but to no purpose. She survived but a few minutes.
up its proceedings, and nothing of public interest has oc I am, Sir, your obedient servant, . J, TIM swell.
curred, excepting the presentation of the Report of the Paris, July 7, 1819. Surgeon, with Lord Somerviſie.
Committee on the Criminal Laws, by Sir J. Mackintosh. The Paris papers state, that the effect produced upon the
This is a most convincing document, and cannot ſail to company who witnessed the above accident, was distress
ing even to agony. Many females went into violent hys
produce some mitigation of the evil into which the Com terics,
and a general consternation prevailed. The amuse
mittee have been enquiring. Sanguinary laws have been ments of the evening were immediately closed. A sub
shewn to be mischievous by the best writers on legislation scription for her family was set on foot at the deors of the
in all ages; but it has also been a common prejudice garden, to which all contributed as they went out. It was
(partly owing to their bad passions) among men in power, understood the suns received for admission would be ºp
that mere weight of punishment would prevent crime. plied to the same benevolent purpose. It is supposed that
The truth is, that no such cruel mistake as this can subsist the artificial fire-works attached to the parachute having
i. the branches
long, when it is opposed by the growing knowledge and displaced, of the trees in ascending, they became
and thus caused the balloon to take fire.

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The legion raised by General-Bevereux; in Ireland, ... Courier AND Sun—in our last paper, says the Leeds.
for the stipport of the South-American:Patriots, has, we Mercury, we gave a positive contradiction to the inflam
understand, sailed from Liverpool. x: 'l'his legion, compre matory paragraphs in the Contrier and the Sun News
hending . and infantry, is said thamount to 5000 papers, wherein they had asserted that the Cap of Liberty
men, completely equipped; But such is the enthusiasm had been raised in this town—that placards of the most
of the Irish in favotir of the cause of South America, com inflammatory nature were circulated—that, the white
bined with the popularity of the General in that country, standard was hoisted—and that every thing amongst us
that if time were afforded, ten-times the number unight seemed ripe for an extensive revolution. The contradic
have been easily raised, in despite of all the false rumours : tion of these false and mischievous rumours has also been
circulated, and all the base artifices employed to damp the given by the other ſeeds newspapers: but neither the
ardent desire of the people to second this glorious struggle Sun nor the Courier has disabused their readers. Not a
for liberty.—Morning Chronicle. word has been introduced into these papers to remove the
delusion; and all those who collect their political informa
he last letters from Rio daneiro communicate an event
that strongly elucidates the character of Antigas, the en mation solely from these impure sources are still left tº
terprising Chief who has been so long formidable to the believe that we are in “a state of tumult and confusion"
independents of Buenos-Ayres. The Spanish Govern This is most disingenuous conduct, and seems to indicate
ment, it appears, has not lost sight of the obvious means improper motives. We do not blame these Journals for
arising from the discord previously existing among the being misinformed. We are all liable to be imposed upon;
Patriots, to sow further dissensions among them. The but surely it is the duty of those who have misled the
Countre Casa Florez, their Ambassador at Rio Janeiro, public upon any subject in which they are so deeply in
had received instructions to gain ARTIGAs, if possible, over terested as that of the tranquillity of the manſacturing dis
to the Royal cause: a letter to that Chief was, therefore, tricts, to take the first, opportunity to remove the alarm
drawn tip containing the most tempting offers, and a Spa which they have contributed to create. How this conduct -
nish officer undertook the dangerous exploit of delivering of the treasury journals is to be reconciled to any principle
it. He succeeded, after many difficulties, in presenting it of honour or fair dealing, we are at a loss, to conjecture. .
himself to the hands of Artigas, who perused this docu On being written to for their authority, one of them, we
ment with the utmost coolness, but made no other answer understand, has asserted, that the information was trans
than by turning round, and instantly orderiñg the officer mitted from the Leeds Intelligencer-Office; but at that
who brought it to be shot. office it is denied that any such information was sent.
From the American papers, it appears that the com Who is the author of the shameful fabrications, for what
mercial distress throughout the United States is almost purpose they were invented, or whether the story was
beyond precedent. The State Bank of North Carolina fabricated in London or in Leeds, we cannot say; but the
has stopped payment, in addition to several others. "Peti public will be of opinion that both the Courier and the
tions were circulating in Maryland, requiring the Governor Sun have identified themselves with the impostor, by not
to call the Legislature together, in the hope of thereby taking the earliest opportunity to contradict his calumnies
procuring some relief to the people, among whom a large Drury-lane Theatre.—On Saturday week a meet
portion of the most enterprising classes were said to be ing of the Proprietors took place in the Saloon; J. Cal
deeply involved in debt, and wholly unable to discharge craft, Esq. M.P. in the chair.—The ChairMAN stated.
their obligations, owing to the reduction of prices and É. that the new renters had made a sacrifice of upwards of
eral, stagnation of commerce. The Baltimore City 16,000l. arrears, besides accruing rents to the same
ank, however, had partially resumed its cash payments, amount. The consent of the bond-holders to come to an
and contributed, in some degree, to quiet the prevailing arrangement of equal extent had not been similarly ascer
alarm. The embarrassment is described to be greater in tained, but there existed no doubt of their liberality. The
the Western States, than in those nearer the Atlantic. tradesmen had consented to the proposition made to them.
ºr. from all the Banks in the Union are to assemble, and thus the debt of 90,986l. was reduced to half the
and to consult on such measures as may be most favourable sum, and in 10 years the proprietors would have a divi
to the support of public credit. dend upon their capital. Without the 25,000l., how
Lately a Privy Council was held at the Treasury-cham ever, they could not proceed; and he suggested that the
bers, to investigate the circumstances attending the death Select Committee should sit another fortnight, in order to
of a Maltese at Athens, who was shot by Mr. W. Kis make every effort to raise the sum.—A smart subscription
NAIRD in January last.... Mr. KINNAIRD had presented was struck up by those who had subscribed before, and
810. were raised in the room. The whole amount of the
himself at Malta for a trial, and was sent home a prisoner
to England. After a full investigation, Mr. Kinnainn subscription was stated to be 10,3391. - -

was honourably acquitted of any charge against him. It New Coster.—On Saturday night, another come made
appeared by the evidence transmitted by the Consuls of its appearance: the nucleus is very bright, and the tail
the Levant, that the event firing well defined. It seems to be directing its motion north
of on the deceased was ward by the position
in absolute self-defence. - -
of its tail, and may be seen in that
. On Wednesday week, at St. Andrew's, Blackfriars, were quarter of the heavens. Whether this heavenly pheno
menon is connected with the excessive heat of the weather
interred the remains of Mr. ANkrft SMITH, A.R.A.,
Historical Engraver, in which department of Art he had utterday, we are not astronomers enough to determine:
the synchronism is worthy of remark we recºilect
eminently distinguished himself. He was a man of great also a similar coincidence in the summer of 1811, when
Frobity and equanimity of temper. He has left a widow were also visited by a comet.—(Times—Monday).
and five children to deplore the loss of an excellent hus weThe
band atid father. His remains were numerously attended visibleEdiuburgh and Leeds papers state, that the comet was
at those places on the night of Thursday week
by pºvate and professional friends, to pay the last tribute two days
º respect to departed worth and talent. The poll was notice of before it was seen at London.—The following
this phenomenon is from the Gazette de France
supported by Messrs. Toxtkins, WARp, WARREN, AGAR, of Sunday:—The comet lately discovered by M. Pons, at
Risopes, and Milton, of the Society of Engravers. the Observatory of Marseilles, was visible last night at
Awe
~1 -
to the Question in Mr. Woºdsworth's Poems Paris. During the whole evening a great number of per
-

“What is good for a bootless bene " sons were assembled upon the bridges and quays to exa
- - -

Why, a pair of boots, I weeu. mine it. It is in the constellation of Leo. The luminous
point is not very distinct, but its train is long,
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Subscription for Mr. Rogers. —John Col.MAN The Right Hon. William DuNDAs, Member elected
Rasulfign, Esq. of Prideaux, Cornwall,—well known by the present Town-Council of Edinburgh, has got, by
for his judicious exertions in the cause of Reform, -hăs. reversionary destination, hold of the notable sinecure of
sºnt a pound note in aid of Mr. Tºdgers.
It was M r." of the Register of Sasines, formerly enjoyed by
'ILLIAMs, the Member for Weymouth, who last week the ſate Lord Chief Baron; and this, too, afa tin, when
added his name to the list of those, who are endeavouring a Bill has been passed to do away, on the death of the
tº heal the wounds inflicted upon this ill-used man by his
clerical and ministerial persecutors.
g.”.” salary of the É. Clerk Register of
-

cotland,-when the nation is depressed beyond all exam

, MR. Qwen's PLANs.--The Committee appointed by ple, and when, in peace, and in addition to burdens al
the last General Meeting to investigate Mr. Owen's Plans imost insupportable, an attempt is to be made to extract
resolved with one dissent, “That the immediate pressure an additional three millions of taxes on what may be con
of the evils of pauperism, render it highly desirable that a sidered the necessaries of life.—Scotsman.
single establishment on the plan of Mr. Owen (with an The following letter has been circulated in the metro
ultinate view to an improved application of the funds polis. -Is it not an invention of the enemy?— .
raised for the Poor) should be made under the conduct of - - (circui.Att.)
Siw,-Instructed by the Committee of 200, (formed out of the
* Committee, and that it is, therefore, expedient that a great body of the Nox-Rºpresenten PEoPLE of the British-Me
fund should be raised for the purpose of forming such tropolis), and acting for and in their behalf, I have, in accord
Establishment.”—And it was resolved unanimously,– ance with the Instructions so received, the honour to announce
-* That this Committee hope, in the event of the success of to you that a Publre Merring will be holden in SMrrivield
the proposed Establishment, that a most desirable resource Marker Place, on Wednesday, the 21st instant, for the pur
would be afforded to the London and other populous pose of discussing and adopting the best means and the most
parishes, by the adoption of similar expedients for the em prompt and decisive mansures for obtaining a Radical Rsronx
in the Coxytows Ilouse of PARLIAMENT 5 and am also further
ployment of their Poor.”—There will be another public
meeting on Monday week, at the London Tavern, to con commissioned, with all due respect, to request your attendance,
in conjunction with those Gentlemen whose names are here
sider this subject. -

under mentioned, as public integrity and talent are tha great

An account has been published by order of the House objects of solicitude at this important crisis.-1 am, Sir, your
of Commons, showing the several species of merchandise, obedient servºnt, Edw. Jas. BLAN promp, Sec.
July 5, 1819.
with their value annexed, exported from Great Britain to -

HENRY Hunt, Esq. invited to the Chair.

Buenos-Ayres in the three years ending the 5th January, Sir Charles Wolsely ; Thomas Northmore, Esq.; Major Cart
$819; and also a similar account of the merchandise im wright; Mr. Cobbett, jun. ; John Gale Jones; Mr. Wooler;
Sorted from Buenos-Ayres during the same period. The Dr. Watson ; Mr. A. Thistlewood; Mr. J. Gast; Mr. John
ritish merchandise, the produce of the united kingdom, stone, Manchester; Mr. Mann, Leeds; Mr. Edmonds, Bir
consists of almost every article on, which the ingenuity and mingham; Mr. Marman, Winchester."
industry of our people are employed, but those articles for
which the greatest demand seems to be made in the markets COURT AND FASHIONABLES.
of Buenos-Avres are cotton and woollen manufactures.
The value Y. exports in the year ended the 5th of January, The Princess of Wales is grown extremely, large and
1817, was 31 1,6571. - º
• *-*
corpulent. '. She is recovered from the shock of her incom
5th ºf January, 1818, was 548,689t. -
parable daughter's death, but it affected her powerfully at
5th of January, 1819, was 730,808l. -

the time. Apart from political considerations, the eir

-

The exports from Great Britain of foreign and colonial cumstances under which she received the news were
merchandise in the last year amounted to a further sum of enough to produce the most painful effect on her feelings,
16,385l. The imports from Buenos-Ayres are very vari On the arrival of the Courier, there was no confidential
ous. They consist of cinnamon, cochineal, copper, fea person near her who understood the English language,
thers, skins, hair, hides, tallow, and some others; of which and in the hope of finding very different information, º:
the official value imported during the year ended the 5th ſº the letter which conveved the fatal intelli
of January, 1819, aimounted to 272,380l. . It will be seen gence. She fainted, and was ill for a length of time after
from these statements, that our export trade with this one ward. . . At present she resides at Pesaro, a small-town,
port of South America has progressively and rapidly ad not far from Ancona. Her suite and establishment are
vanced during the three years. not on the grandest scale. The celebrated Baron, or Cou
CaledoniaN CANAL.—By the Sixteenth Report of the rier, for he is one, and was the other, forms part of it. He
Commissioners, given into Parliament, it appears that the is now a man of a certain age, a large person, and of a
expenditure upon this important work, from May 1818 to dull character of countenance. Young Austin, the boy
May 1819, amounted to forty-seven thousand pounds; whom the Princess adopted, and about whom such ex
that the whole expenditure from the commencement to traordinary assertions were made by Lady Douglas, is
May 1819, amounted to seven hundred and forty-two grown a fine handsome young man. The Princess has
thousand pounds; that a moiety of the Parliamentary now taken a fancy to another child, the son of a peasant,
grant of last year (twenty-five thousand º has not of whom she is said to be equally fond. He goes with
yet been issued from the Exchequer, and a farther grant her every where. Her chief amusement is the opera,
of fifty thousand, pounds has been voted this Session of which she almost entirely supports. The custom of Italy
Parliament.—It appears likely that this great work will be is generally to hire your box for one opera, which is
completed in the course of the two next years. The navi played successively for a number of nights; and when a
gation from Inverness to Fort Augustus is already open, new one is performed, you pay again for it. The Prin
and there is a near prospect at the other end of the Canal cess has had the operas frequently changed, and they say
it costs her from five to ei . thousand pounds a year.—
of a similar approach towards the completion of the navi
gation from sea to sea... It appears from an inquiry, that Extract ºf a Letter from Italy in a Morning Paper.
a proportion of about fiſty-nine in sixty of the workmen We understand that the Vice CHANcellor is on the
employed on the Canal have been Highlanders.-Scots eve of a journey to Milan; and there is a rumour that the
intuh, - object of his journey is the same that led Mr. Cooks to
the same place, preparatory to the renewal of a delicate
Parliament is expected to be prorogued on Tuesday by investigation in the next Session of Parliament.—ºforſ:
the Patxce REGENT in person. ing Chronicle.
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THE REVENUE.
PoETRY. - f - *
'Abstnact of the NetProbtree of the REvrxtſk of GREAT BRI
* --
º
----- ºf Híº BEATH GF-LEANBER.— . . . . . . .
---
-
TAIN (exclusive of the Arrears of War Daty on Matt and Pre
(From “Hero and Leander, and Bacchus and Ariadne; . perty) in the Years and Quarters ended 5th July, 1818, and
. . two original Poems. . By-Lergh Hunt.”) -
'5th July, 1819:- -

- YEARS -ENDING July 5.

- Meantime the sum had sunk; the hilly mark . { 1818. 1819.
Across the straits mixed with the mightier dark, customs -
-
- - - #10,000,379 fºlò,499,497
And night came on.' All moises by degrees - . . .
Excise - - - - - 21,179,114 23,486,168 ..
• Were hushed,—the fisher's catl, the birds, the trees, Stamps - - - 6,443,768 6,308,177
All but the washing of the eternal seas. -
Post-Office - - 1,333,000 1,401,000 -

Assessed Taxes - " - 6,169,009 6,184,410 :

Hero looked-out, and trembling augured iii, Land "Taxes - - 1,163,621 1,172,184 --

The darkness held its breath so very still Miscellaneous - - 517,669 $20,577 .. .
... ... But yet she hoped he might arrive before *

... " The storm began, or not be far from shore; Total - 446,806,500
-
49,071,9ss. .
- Aud crying, as she stretched forth in the air, Increase on the Year - - - -. 2,265,863
“Bless him!" she turned, and said a tearful prayer,
QUARTERs ENDING July 5.
And mounted to the tower, and shook the torch's flare. - 1818. 1819.
But he, Leander, almost half across, Customs. - - £1,887,144 £2,244,689
Threw his blithe loeks behind him with a toss, Excise - - - 5,637,801 5,703,446 -

* And hailed the light victoriously, secure Stamps - - - - 1,599,814. , 1,534,728.

Post-Office - - 324,000 367,000
. ... Of clasping his kind love, so sweerand sure; Assessed Taxes - -2,208,976 2,257,960
-

- When vnddenly, a blast, as if in wrath, Land Taxes - - 441,820 483,577 - -

Sheer from the hills, came headlong on his path; Miscellaneous - - 112,282 62,785
. Then started off; and driving round the sea,
Dashed up the panting waters roaringly. -
Total - £12,181,287 12,604,130
The youth at once was thrust beueath the main
Increase on Quarter - - 422,893
with blinded eyes, but quickly rose again,
And with a smile at heart, and stouter pride, The Income and Changs on the Consolidated Fund for the
Surmounted, like a god, the rearing tide. quarter is as follows:—
But what?. The torch gone out! So long too! See, Incoxie. Charge.
He thinks it comes! Ah, yes, 'tis she 'tis she', Customs - £1,835,073 || Exchequer Annuities #35,897
Again he springs; and, though the winds arise "Excise *-- 4,715,371 || South '. Company 168,185
Fiercer and fiercer, swims with ardent eyes; Stamps - 1,584,728 || Bank on the Capital 89,125
And always, though with ruſhan waves dashed hard, Post-Qūice - 367,000 Dividends - 9,522,005
Assessed "Taxes 2,257,960. National Debt 2,986,372
Turns thither with glad groan his stout regard; Land Taxes 433,577. Civil List
- - 242,000
. And always, though his sense seems washed away, Miscellaneous 62,785 Pensions - - 117
- Emerges, fighting tow'rds the cordial ray. -- Unappropriated War Imperial Annuities 227,539
Duties 39,461 || Other Charges
- - 162,077
Bat driven about at last, and drenched the while,
The noble boy loses that inward smile. - - £10,745,950 || Estimated Charge £13,500,000
For now, from one black atmosphere, the rain To be brought from Y Income . - 11,202,274
. . Sweeps into stubborn mixture with the main; Supplies, being the ---

- And the brute wind, unmuffling all its roar, amount issued out Deficiency 42,297,726
of the Consoli
• Storms;––and the light, gone out, is seen no more. dated Fund of Ire-$ 456,324
Then dreadful thoughts of death, of waves heaped on him, land for Public - -

-* And friends, and parting daylight, rush upon him. Services in the I -

• He thinks of prayers to Neptune and his daughters, April Quarter, *

And Venus, Hero's queen, sprung from the waters; 1819 -

And then of Hero only,–how she fares, -

Total Income £11,202,274

And what she’ll feel, when the blank morn appears;
Aad at that thought he stiffens once again -

From the general depression and stagnation in agricul

His limbs, and pants, and strains, and climbs,-in vain. ture, trade, and commerce, many are at a loss to account
Fierce draughts he swallows of the wilful wave, for the increase in the last quarter's Revenue, particularly
His tossing hands are lax, his blind look grave, .. in the Customs, looking to the falling off which has evi.
Till the poor youth (and yet no coward he) -
dently taken place for some time past in all commercial
Spoke once her name, and yielding wearily, business. The cause of this increase is not from a natural
Wept in the middle of the scornful sea. inerease in the prosperity of the country (for all accounts
say the contrary), but it arises from the new Taxes which
Ministers are about to lay upon us, and which are gene
PyRowlig Nous Acid.—This acid is said to preserve ani rally to take place from the 5th instant. Up to a late
mal food for any length of time. . The whole carcass of a eriod in the quarter the Revenue had decreased: this Mr.
sheep being immers in it, was found, upon examination (ANsittant acknowledged in his place in the House of
many months afterwards, to be perſectly free from, any Commons; the revival took place in the latter part of the
appearance of putrefaction. . A leg of mutton, declared quarter. Upon tobacco the duty is raised from 3s. 2d, to
unsaleable by the butchers, being immersed in the pyro 4s. a lb.; the usual entries on this article are from 90 to
lignous acid a twelvemonth ago, is stated to be at this time 100,000 lbs, per week, but in the fortnight preceding the
perfectly sweet, and likely, from its appearance, to continue 9th June, the enormous quantity of 1,074.462 lbs was
is many years.-Country paper. eutered out of bond (in the port of London alone), for the
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purpose of saving the additional duty of 19d per lb.; has given to their aerial and linear perspective...We feel
upon tºbacco alone, there is...little º but at least the cathedral silence, solemnity, and beauty. To.1034,
290,000l. was thus brought into the last quarter's receipt. A Cenotaph, now building to the memory of the late
Upon sugar, rum, and wine, it was also expected that aii’ Right Honourable William Pitt, and in which is painted
increase of duty would have taken place, and larger entries the “ vinegar face” of that notorious, political nºncoat,
than usual were made in consequence. Upon coffee the Mr. Soane has very simply or very slyly added in the
duty is increased from 72s, up to 112s, the cwt. ; upon catalogue,
wool from 7s. 11d. to 56s, the ewt.; and upon a variety “Take him for all in all
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of other things the duty is increased by the new Customs We shall not look upon his like again." - -

Consolidation Act from 10 to 50 per cent. and great We hope, not, and sincerely wish that Mr. Soan; may
uantities of most of the articles liable to an increase of here be a better prophet than painter-Very few Architects
i. have been taken out of bond and the old duties paid, ive a suitable ... to their buildings—Mr. Sewano
in order to save the advance; and in this way the Re as done this in Vients of the principal front and the
venue has been increased within the last quarter, perhaps entrance gateway to Bristol Jail, now building-1079,
to an extent (including the increase upon hops, from the Section of the Cathedral of St. Peter at Rome, does Mr.
unusually great crop of last year.) of not less than from Golpicurt much honour for its beauty, delicaçy, and elº
600,000 to 800,000l. : if this had not been the case, the borateness. Mr. Marvin's 1nterior ºf King Henry 7th's
Revenue would undoubtedly have fallen off, from the ex Chapel, is the richest and deepest coloured ºf the Archi
isting, distress and stagnation in trade and commerce; tectural Paintings.-We like º Reid's Elevation of a
but the present and ensuing quarters must suffer in an . Design for a National Monument in the style of the Par
equal degree, by so mnch having been forestalled or thenºn at Athens. No. 36 is a good Effect of Moon
aid up in advance into the quarter just ended.—Morn light in a Bay of Devon, by Mr. Thatchen, and 195,
ing Chronicle. , -
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-
- -
- - - - -
------------ of Earlu Morning, by Mr. Reynolds.--Over 117, Vieir
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in the Village of Samton, G. ARnold, A., has cast a rich
amber coloured reflexion from the sun, when he sinks glo
FINEARTS. riously below the horizon, and given those deep and lon
Roy AI, ACADEMY EXIIIBITION. shades, with a few partial sunshinings between, whº
mark the parting day, and induce a soft sºlemnity. .His
Of various . of beauty are the Water-colour Paint View near Dinant is touched tastefully; . His Dinant sur
ings by the following Architects, &c.:—Messrs. Allason, Meuse has the clearness of the French atmosphere, and
Bºyses, Buckler, CARKET, Cockefell, CoNEy, GANDy, the yellowish grey rocks and buildings are thrown back in
Golpicut.T, Hughes, LAING, MARVIN, Mutiliss, NAsh, good keeping and contrast by the strong red, yellows, &,
Neale, Robinson, Sewann, SHARP, SHAw, Stoker, ºn the figures, &c. in front—In 131. A Lindscapº, Sir
Weston ; but excepting the poetical magnificence of Mr. G. Beatºront has, with a boldness of touch, a depth and
GANDY; we discover no Architectural originality or inven
tion, in his Jupiter. Pluvius Lebedea, the congregated
richness of colour, and an elegant arrangement of part,
painted a woody scene with an effect that elevates his style
forms of Nature and Art, swell the mind with awe and above common nature, and almost approaches to Poetry.
enchant it with elegance. It expatiates attentively over the In its effect it is not unlike Găspar Poussin. ... But the
foaming water-ſalſ and firm bridge, the solemn sacrificial figure in the centre is stiff and unmeaning, and had better
procession, the beautiful terraces and colonaded temples, be away. The stag bending over the stream which beau
ibe aqueducts, states, numerous altars smoking in honour tifully brawls along the wood down alternate descents:
of Jupiter, with other classical subjects, all rising on each the huntsman, &c., would make an excellent picture of
side a river, and among trees and rocky masses; the high Shakespexar's “melancholy Jaques,” had the man's
and distant craggy precipices, the moving masses of clouds figure an impression of moral gloom.—A squally sky,
partly “turning their silver linings to the sky,” partly in ". the forms of the clouds are in unusual diverse direc
showery gloom; and lastly, the stupendous figure of tions; waves largely and loſtily heaving; boats with their
Jupiter, exceeding the highest structures in stature, sitting mariners riding on them as in airy disdain of danger; a
in his own innate majesty, and the majestic accessories of vessel half immerged in the sea, and sailors busily scram
Nature and Art, between double rows of columns, stand bling on it to convey away its cargo before, its final de
ing "on an eminence, whose entablatures are sur struction, are painted in 136, Entrance of the Meuse, by
mounted by urns, on which he rests his awful arms, which, Mr. Tunner, so as to convey our imaginations to the
together with his wings, the earth as his footstool, and the briny element, among the storm-defying sailors:-The
clouds his diadem, shadow him out as the great creator, strong intellect of that friend to civil and religious liberty,
conservator, and giver of rain; the universal ruler of the Rev. Mr. Wilks, is seen in the vigorous portrait
earth, water, and skies; the bestower of the ail-sustaining painted by Mr. Reston.—Mr. LANE's portraits recom:
bounties of Heaven. Mr. GANDy's Altar of Ceres, and mend his style for its lively recognition of persons and
Court and Bath in the interior of a Palace, are fresh evi things, as in 410, Sir G. Bunbury, &c.—Mr. J.P. Davis's
dences of his extraordinary genius in the pictorial composi has great richness of colour and strength of effect; 232,
tion of buildings and natural seenery, and of a beautiful Capt. Manby, and 244, Capt. Penrice, are admired—Mr.
decision and contrast of colour between his landscape and Lonsdale's colouring has originality. He introduces a
skies. When we mentioned last week Mr. TuRNER's ex eater variety of hues, such as light browns, yellow, &c.,
clusive poetry in landscape, we strangely forgot at the time larmonizes them well with his back-grounds, masses his
Mr. GANDY and Mr. MARTIN, who share with him the lights well, has great neatness in his carnation inarkings
honour of poetic invention.—The loftily-placed, brightly and outlines, with uncommon propriety in the position of
illunºnated, and romantic look of 1918, The Temple and his figures and the action of their arms. He seems to be
Garden of Hope, F. Edwards, is well painted from the encouraged as he deserves. Every one has admired the
Rambler, No. 67. . We recommend the larger part of our New Hat, by Mr. Davison, and i. child's head it is on.
Architectural Painters to consider attentively the natural Very few : 've equalled the touchy fleshiness of the face,
look which Mr. Conry has given to 1028 and 1042, &c. ‘ſh is sweetness of tint, &c. in Mr. Hobbay's
Interiors, of Malmesbury Monastery and Hinchester Ca 'Portrait ºn Lady, 481, but we do not so well like 330,
thedral, by the retiring of the parts behind from the Portraitº, his Royal Highness the Duke of Susser. Why
lightest and darkest columns in front, and by the touch he shouliº inted with a glowing complexion when he
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 - THE EXAMINER. 445
is known to have a paid one? It is the complexion of Learned Counsel then detailed the circumstances that occurred
at the conclusion of the last Westminster Election, the disturb
his mind only that exhibits a strong glow, the glow of in ances on the attempt to chair Mr. Lamb, &c. The plaintiff was
reflect and patriotism. The style in which Mr. Clover: the owner of the House, in Henrietta-street, used by Mr. Lamb's
Tººts arranged his lights in 460, B. Lemon, Esq., Mayor of central committee, and had his windows broken and his house
INorwich in his second Mayorally, much like the partiality “otherwise injured by the mob, to repair which cost him 24!.4s.
of REMBRANDT, united with something like that famous 6d.; for which sum he had brought this action against the de
painter's force, and his earnestness of look and action, fendants, as inhabitants of the hundred of Ossulston, in which
render the portrait a valuable one, and worthy of the place Westmister was situated. They were persons of respectability,
of i. #inter, he Hall of St. Andrew's, Norwich. and they were selected merely for the sake of form, They
would have their . should a verdict be found against
them, against the hundred. - -

* Evidence was called to prove these facts. .

Mr. GAselfe, for the defendants, contended, that it was neces
LA JP. sary for the plaintiff's case, that the riots should have been com
menced for the purpose of demolishing the house; but the object
court of KING's BENCH., of the mob really was to get at Mr. Latub, and therefore the
plaintiff was not entitled tº a verdict. -

- Saturday, July 3. The Chief Justice said, that it was no matter what the ob
crist. cow.—Peacock p. perbysmire. ject of the rioters was, if it was proved that they did the
damage.
This action was brought by Mr. Richard Peacock, law-sta -

tioner, of Chancery-lane, against Mr. Stewart, Derbyshire, an Verdict for the plaintiff-Damages, 241.4s. 6d. - -

ensigi, in the army, and the son of an apothecary and surgeon; wish Attr v. sin F. nuwpºrt Ano place. -
in Berners-street. In 1811, the plaintiff married the daughter of This was an action under similar circumstances. The mob,
sit H. D. Peake, surveyor in the navy, and had by her two after attacking Mr. Jewell's house, went to that of Mr. Wishart,
children, a boy and girl. In the course of last year, Sir broke the shop windows, and did other damage.
1Henry Peake and his family went to France, and the plain The defenee was, that a mob had been hired to make the de
- - - tiff and his wife accompanied them. There they became sº struction in question ; and that as Mr. Wishart was one of the
quainted with the defendaat, who visited at Mr. Peacock's persons who hired them, he was not entitled to recover damages
house on their return. From the commencement of this ac against the inhabitants of the hundred of Ossulston.
quaintance, the lady was observed (accºrding to the state;
ment of the plaintiff’s counsel) to neglect her duties as a wiſe and To prove this, Giles William Waller was called, who stated,
that he was employed at the last election by Mr. Bond; on Mon
mother. She used to go out at a particular time every day, sup day he was desired to go to the south end of the hustings, and to
posed to be convenient for the defendant. But the elief circuin cheer while Mr. Lamb was speaking, and when Mr. Hobhouse
stance that excited suspicion was this:—The plaintiff, on going spoke, to make the most discordant noise that could be made.
to bed one night, observed his wife in some confusion, and after Witness was then out of employ ; but as he did not like his
watching her some time, saw her conceal a paper in the bed. business, he went to Bond, who said, that as he wrote a good
. . He immediately snatched it away, and carried it down stairs, in hand, he had better, remain at the Ship public-house, and make
spire of her violent efforts to regain it. She even followed him out a list of the men's's names, that they might go to the com
down undressed, and blew, gut, the light; he went to the street mittee and be paid in the evening. He was disgusted with this
dºor, to read it by the light ºf the lamp, her violence however
prevented this, and it was at leiſgth secured and locked up bv employment, because he saw several fighting-men there—Cribb,
Randall, Tom Jones, Cropley, Dolly Smith, and West Country
the plaintiff's brother, who was in the house. Next day Sir H. Dick. Dolly Smith had, a party of 12 men under his orders.
and Lady Peake called nud ook Mrs. Peacock away-This Bond paid them, and witness was present on that occasion. The
letter was written in a very familiar style; it spoke of certain account was given to Mr. Prescott, at the Committee-room. A
precautions necessary to prevent the discovery of their corre man named Barnstaple had 36 watermen under him. On the
spondence. ‘The strongest passage in it was tſiis 1–" You will Tuesday he went with Bond to the Committee-room, who told
by the time you have got thus far, no doubt, say, or think, a Captain Prescott that the meu had been hired for three days, and
-truce to prudential considerations—love has nothing to do withhe could not discharge them at a minute. Capt. Prescott said he
such. I acknowledge it, and desist, only recommending to you should not give him any more money, for he had already re
discretion.” The ſº Counsel contended this, was a style ceived 271.
Witness had been a .#,
officer. On the 3d of
in which no man would write to a married woman, unless he March he applied at Bow-street office, to be engaged as a special
had previously been criminally intimate with her. -
constable; but, “being open, to all parties, and unfluenced by
Some witnesses were called, to prove these facts, among none,” he entered into the service of Bond. Mr. Bond was
whom was Mr. S. Peacock, brother to the plaintiff, who stated, patrol on the Bow-street establishment, : Witness broke no
on eross-examination, that the plaintiff had before suspected his windows, - -

wife with a Mr. Maund. Witness also related, that, when he Mr. Holmes, Secretary to the Committee, and Mr. Macdonald,
called on Mr. Derbyshire, and asked him to deliver up the the Chairman, were called, and siated, that Mr. Wishart, though
latters he had received from Mrs. Peacock, he (defendant) re a Member of the Committee, took no part in the measures for
fused to give them up, unless witness would pledge himself that rotecting the voters. When it was found that the supporters of
plaintiff's wife would consent, which he would not do. De Mr. Lamb met with ſrequent interruption in their way to the
fendant also appeared agitated and said, “I find I am in a hustings, they applied te Bond, who was represented to be a
scrape, and must get out of it as well as I can; and added, “that Bow-street patrol, desiring him on the Monday morning to have
the errors of youth may lead us into acts which we may after a number of persons, not more than 100, who should receive a
wards regret, and which blast our future prospects in life.” certain allowance, to protect the voters ; that Bond would be re
The Counsel for the defendant was entering on the defence, spousible for them ; and that on no account were they to be per
when Mr. Scanzºrrūthe plaintiff's counsel) interposed, saying mitted to have either a weapon or a stiek. No eomplaint was
that he felt there was not sufficient evidence of the adultery, and ever brought to the Committee of the misconduct of any one of
would theretore consent to withdraw the case.—The Chief Jus them. -- - - - - -

tre acquiesced, and the plaintiff was nonsuited. -

Mr. Scarlºrr, in reply, observed, that he did not wish to
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Wednesday, July 7. mix up his political opinions with those of any other persons,
WESTM INSTER ELECTION.
but he could not help observing, that Sir F. Burdett was the
greatest enemy to the cause of Reform that ever existed.
wnwell. v. 1; Elshaw AND ANother. The Lond ºries Justice observed, that there was nothing to
Mr. Scantºtt sated the case to the Jury. This action was connect Mr. Wishari with the persons who had committed the
wrought under au Act of his present Majesty, which was mere outrage. - -

ly n continuation of the ancient laws of the country, and which | The Jury were deliberating, when his Lordship said, “Gen
provided, that if any tumultuous assembly did Jamage to any tlemen, what is your difficulty?—The case is clearly proved.”
shop or building, the owner should be entitled to recover com Foreman-My Lord, if you please, we wish to consider our
* -- pensation for the loss sustained from any inhabitants of the verdict. - -

county or hundrød in which the violence took place. The Cruex Justick-What can you have to consider?
446 THE EXAMINER. * -

Foreman—There were persons employed by the Committee, “that no jou rneyman should in any way combine against his
and we wish to consider that point. employers." But they had a real set of rules, which were kept
Chief Justice.—They were hired before that day; and it is in profound secrecy. These rules were printed, but without a
not proved that Mr. Wishart was at all privy to that measure. printer's name. The grand leader of this conspiracy, was
Foreman.—My Lord, it was stated by Mr. Holmes that he never William Connell. By the secret rules, a grand Committee was
saw any colours; but Mr. Macdonald said, that he saw some to be formed for superintending the affairs of the society, and
colours before the election was alosed. penalties levied in cases of disobedience, amounting sometimes
Chief Justice.—what has that to do with it? It is nothing to the total ruin of the offender, by depriving him of his employ
unless Mr. Wishart was connected with it. ment. There was a general Secretary (Connell) and district
Mr. ScARLºrr then begged to say a few words to the Jury.— Secretaries, by which it was contrived, that if a proscribed man
The Lonn Chief Justice desired them to attend to what the got employment in the country, the Society compelled the master
Learned Counsel was about to say. to dismiss him. One instance was this:-A proscribed man got
Mr. ScArterr then recapitulated some parts of the evidence, employment at Bristol; Connell went down to his master, pulled
and insisted that the mob who broke the windows of the plain a bundle of Bank-notes from his pocket, and flourishing them in
tiff were not hired him. As to the ribands, they were not his face said, “I have 2,000l. in my pocket; I will set up a busi
provided till the 8d of March, and they were not ness against you, if you keep that fellow in your employ.” The
Here a Juryman interposed, and said, it had occurred to him.' coach-maker dismissed the individual. One of the º of the
that some of the persons who had been disappointed of receiv Society was, that if a journeyman served a master who em.
ing their money, had gone to Mr. Wishart's house, and broken ployed any but members, he should be fined 10s. 6d. per day:
the windows. another was, that no master should have more than one appren
Mr. ScARLErr said this was not the case, but if it were, it tice to six journeymen. The master perceived a great deal of dis
would make no difference. Mr. Wishart never knew: that any content among the workmen, but could not tell what was going
persons had been hired. -
on, such was the secrecy observed. But it was discovered by
The Jury then gave a verdiet for the plaintiff-Damages 15l. 13s. the following accidents—A parcel was sent by coach to Reading,
elARRE v. Bunnert AND place.—o'NEILL v. BURDETT AND PLACE. directed to Mr. Williams, a coach-maker; but no such being
-shelley tº. Bundert AND place.-navis ty. Butteºtºr ANB there, it was delivered to Mr. Brown, also a coach-maker, and
rt,Aerº-the Earth, or serºton tº. Buttnett AN p PLACE. was ſound to contain the secret rules, and an announcement of
These were similar actions for damages done to the dwelling an approaching turn-out in London, with directions for extend
houses of the several plaintiffs, and supported on similar evi ing it all over the country. This was transmitted to some mas
dence. In the last case, the Counsel for the defence endeavour ters in London. In the mean time the journeymen went on with
ed to connect the Earl of Sefton with the mob, inasmuch as he their plans; a circular (written by Connell) was sent round to
was on Mr. Lamb's Committee, and had contributed to a smb the masters, offering terms, and some of them, being alarmed,
scription, out of which persons were hired who had commenced submitted to their demands. On the 14th of March, a particular
brauch of journeymen struck, but by the spirited conduct of
the riot.
some of the coach-makers, the combination was defeated and the
In all these cases, the Juries found verdicts for the plaintiffs. defendants brought to trial. * - *

Thursday, July 8. Evidence was called to prove these facts, and while the wil
- The AsbALE tº, cleMENT. . nesses were being examined, the Counsel for the defendants ad
This was an action against the defendant, proprietor of the mitted that it was impossible to resist the weight of evidence;
Observer, for a libel. and verdicts were accordingly entered against all the defend
it appeared that the supposed libel had been copied from the ants. In consideration, however, of this submission, the Coun
Horming Chronicle, which had paid the plaintiff 50l. as a compen sel for the prosecutors declared they would forbear bringing up
sation, and purported to be an account of the examination of two the defendants for judgment (except Connell) on condition that
persons, named Moore aud Harmott, charged before Mr. Leach, the liability to be called up $.".
over their heads in tar
of Hatton-Garden, by the plaintiff, with stealing a dead body. rorem, as a security for their future good eonduct. Towards
The Magistrate had 㺠the body to be taken to Surgeon’s Coanell, however, no forbearance could be shown.' -

Hall, and the libellous statement in the newspaper was, that

contrary to this order, the plaintiff had offered the body for sale COURT OF COMMON PH.EAS. ,
to Mr. Carpue, the Surgeon, who having refused to take it, the
plaintiff had sold it to St. Bartholomew's-Hospital. The evidence Tuesday, July 6. -

was, that the plaintiff and Smith had gone to Surgeon's-Hall, * -- MongAN v. ToMLYNE AND orhERs.
and offered the body for public use, and that the porter of that This was an action brought by Mr. Morgan against Sir T. H.
institution had received the body, and took it to St. Bartholo Tomlyne and others, the executors of Mrs. Barwis, to recover
mew's-Hospital, paying the plaintiff and Smith the sum of 16s. the sum of 2000l. advanced by him to Mrs. B. on a boud. The
for their trouble and loss of time; but there was no evidence that piea was, that the bond was a forgery. (Mrs. Barwis was the
the body had been in fact taken to Surgeon's-Hall, as had been mother of Mrs. Wyatt, the attesting witness to the bond; and
stated in part of the declaration, and Mr. Morgan, the plaintiff, had married a daughter of Mrs.
The Chier Josrice ruled, that as the plaintiff in his declara Wyatt; but as Mrs. W. was interested in the action, she could
tion had so identified this fact with the allegation, that the libel not be called as a witness.) -

was concerning the plaintiff’s conduct with respect to the body, Mr. T. Wyatt and Miss M. Wyatt (son and daughter of Mr.
that he was tied up to prove it, but having failed so to do, the W.) both swore that.they were well acquainted with the hand
necessary consequence must be a nonsuit.—Nonsuited accord writing of their grandmother and mother, and that the signa
invºlv.
Rely Friday, July 9. tures to the bond were of their writing; and Mrs. M. Ridley
believed that the name of Mrs. Barwis was written by that Lady,
* Jourt.NEYMEN coach MAkers' conspiracy. —On the other side, Serjeant LENs contended, that other evi
-

This was an indictment against William Connett, George Ste dence than the children ought to have been adduced. He dis
phenson, William Thatcher, Thomas Wildey the elder, Thomas avowed any intention of imputing to Mr. Morgan the ſoul crime
wildey the younger, Richard Palmer, Richard Windover, Daniel of forgery, but he was afraid that Mrs. Wyatt, who had the en- -

Pince. John Caricardine, Abel Brannau, Richard Alder, James tire management of Mrs. Barwis's estate, had lent herself to it,
1.angshaw. John Stevens, Thomas Cor, John Moody, Sidney Thomp to relieve the embarrassments of herself or husband. She had
son, James Field, John Drake, and Robert Clarke, for unlawfully employed no professional adviser, and the body of the bond was
combining to raise their wages. - in her own hand-writing.—He then called witnesses to prove
-

Mr. Gun NEY stated the case to the Jury. The defendants had that Mrs. Barwis's name to the bond was a forgery.—Mr. Thomp
been selected out of an immense number of conspirators on ac son (who had been footmau to Mrs. B. 19 years ago, but was
count of the prominent part they had acted. This conspiracy, now a schoolmaster in Essex) was satisfied that the signatºr:
though not long discovered, had been ripening for some time. was not her writing, but a very bad imitation indeed.—His Hut
Two years ago, a society had been formed by the journeymen, was of the same opinion.—Mary Cole said that the signature wº
cutled “The Benevolent Society of Coachmakers,” under pre not in the least like that of Mrs. B.--Two other female servants
tence of relieving the aged and sickly members of the trade, but of Mrs. B. gave the like evidence.—Mr. Hume. (Inspector at the
in reality for the purpose of compelling masters to submit to the Post-Office) was inclined to think the signature a forgery, fºr"
journeymen. in order to disarm the master coach-makers of any its stiffness and singularity, and from the letters being painted:
suspicion, they inserted an article in their bye-laws, to the effect he thought it was not written by an aged person. Mr. Tºy!"
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47.
*
(1nspector of Franks at the Post-Office) was of opinion that the defendant as a gentleman of high Northern family, dignified
writing had been done by a machine; but he thought it was the both by their name and in their arms. In this, however, his
eharacter of an aged person, -Mr. Crackenthorpe (another In Learned Friend was a little mistaken, as his client had unforts
spector) did not think the writing genuine: he deemed it nei nately lost his arms; at least they had been weakened in the ser
ther the writing of a young nor an aged person, but an imitation vice of his country. His income was only 14s, a day. He wonki
of an aged hand.— Mr. William Taylor (a Bank Inspector) then ask how the defendant could have maintained a wiſe con
thought that the signature was in a simulated hand, intended as sistently with her station in life? If they gave heavy damages, .
an imitation of an aged hand.—Mr. H. W. Nelson (another Bank they would ruin his happiness for ever. - -

In or) was of the same opinion. The Chief Justice observed, that the Jury were to consider
le Chief Justice observed, that there was always great whether the breach of promise was a positive-or a conditional
difficulty in proving hand-writing; it was not unusual to see six ong; and if they sheuld be of opinion that it was a positive one,
witnesses swearing that certain characters were, and other six what damages would repair the injury sustained by the Lady.
that certain characters were not, the hand-writing of the same It struck him, when reading the letters, that an actual promise,
individual. If the Jury were clearly of opinion that the hand had been given.
writing of the bond was not that of Mrs. Barwis, they ought to The Jury consulted a few minutes, and found a verdict for the - * *

find their verdict for the defendant; but if they enteriained the plaintiff-Damages, One Hundred Pounds.
slightest doubt, they ought to give the benefit of that doubt to
the plaintiff, as the character certainly would be, and, what was SHERIFFS COURT, BEDFORD-ROW.
scarcely more valuable than the character, the life of Mrs. Wyatt
probably might be, affected by the result. Monday, July 5. -
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The Jury then retired, and, after some deliberation, returned libel.-liaves tº. Reynolds. -

a verdict for the plaintiff. . -

This was an action to recover compensation from the de
Wednesday, July 7. fendant, a bookseller in Oxford-street, for a libel in the Literary
Journal. - - -

Levy tº. ltohertºrs.

Mr. RRough AM stated the case to the Jury:—The Rev. Mr.
This was an action of trespass brought by Mr. David Levy Hayes was a Catholic Clergyman of great, respectability, who
(the father of Lewis Levy, the person lately found guilty of a had been educated at Rome. When the Pope sent permission to
mercantile conspiracy) against the Sheriffs of London for a tres the Irish-Catholics to accept the Veto, the plaintiff was appointed
i. The facts of the case were shortly these:—The plaintiff by those who were dissatisfied with that measure, to go to Rome,
ad lent money toºk is son some time ago, for which he got a to remonstrate with the Pontiff; and the libel ..f. his con
warrant of attorney; and on the 19th of last November he issued duct while he resided there. . The article was entitled,—” An
execution, and a bill of sale was made out to him on the 28th.
authentic account of the proceedings of the friar, Richard Hayes,
The Sheriffs had since levied on the same goods, under a writ of the Irish Catholic delegate at Rome.” It stated, that he had
levari facias, issued against Lewis Levy; and this the plaintiff personally insulted the Pope, and sold himself to the English
coutended was a trespass, the goods being his and not his son's Rovernment. That he was seldom seen in his secular dress, and
property. On the part of the defendant it was urged, that the
plaintiff hºl. execution by collusion with his son, in ſrequented coffee-houses and houses of public prostitution. That
he resisted the orders of the Government, and had introduced
order to defraud the Sherift-3 that no bond ſide rule had taken abandoned women into the convent of S. Isidor. That he locked
place, as Lewis Hevy and his family remained jn the house after himself up in the convent, having improperly obtained posses
the execution was put in, and without any officer being in pos sion of the keys, and was at length removed only by a stratagem
•ession (this was proved in evidence); and that, even if no col of the police, who obtained admission by a secret door; and
insion had taken place, the bill of sale, and the motification made that he was at length removed from the Pontifical territory, under
to the parish ..º.º. David Levy was become tenant of
an escort of carbiniers, who conveyed him to Tuscany, whence
the house-was not a notification sufficiently public to prevent he returned to Ireland.” -

the Sheriffs from levying. - - -

Anthony Meyler, M.D., stated that the plaintiff was in the habit
The Ciſterºus rice told the Jury that the only question which celebrating mass at Wexford, in Ire !. and was a man of
they had to decide was this—whether the goods seized on by of excellent moral reputation. In the plaintiff's situation, character
the Sheriff were really the goods of D. Levy; or whether the was every thing. One of his principal duties was that of receiv
whole matter was a contrivance between him and his son, having ing confession, and it was not probable that confidence would be
only the semblance of reality. - -
reposed in one who lay under º:
The Jury then retired, and, after a short deliberation, re The Rev. Peter Gandolphy was at Rome six months, and newer
turned a verdict for the defend ºnt. -

heard a word of suspicion against the plaintiff's moral character.

[The Sheriff will in consequence remain in possession of the Juryman—“Will you answer me candidly, M ºGandºlphy,
property seized, until the Court shall have determined to whom is A uot simple adultery commutable in the Catholic Church?” ..
the fine levied upon the conspirators is ultimately to belong.] Mr. Gandolphy.—“Adultery commutable! It is impossible for
- Thursday, July 8. - meaning.”
me to guess at your **

breach of PRowise of MARRIAge.—BounenwAllt v. BAMPFYLE. Juryman.-" It is not commuted by penance f" , -

This was an action breught for compensation in damages for Mr. Gandolphy, in great surprise, said “Certainly not."
a breach of promise of marriage. - . . Juryman.—“Nor by confession?” -

Mr. Serjeant LENs, in opening the case on the part of the Mr. Gandolphy.—“No. Confession is a species of repentance,
º said, she was a young lady of respectable family in and certainly has not the quality of changing one crime into an
'rance; her father was a notary at Calais, and his counections other.”
were people of great respectability: the plaintiff cane over from . .Juryman.--"Will you be kind enough to tell us what impeach
Calais in 1815, accompanied by a Mrs. Baker, her aunt. The ment of moral character adultery is considered in the Catholia
trek up their residence in Robert-street, Bedford-row, in º Church f" - -

bouse the defendant was also lodging: he was a surgeon in the Mr. Gandolphy said, mildly, it was considered as the greatest.
army in full pay, and of ancient family of the North of England. Mr. WILLIAMs, for the defendant, contended, that the plain
By their living together in the same house an intimacy, was if had obtruded himself into a public situation, and ought not
formed, which ended in a formal declaration, which would be to expect to be exempt from the fate of all public men. The de
proved by a variety of letters. - fendant had a most respectable character, and was he to be sup
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Mr.Sankey knew, the defendant, who was a surgeon, with a posed responsible for every book or newspaper he might sell ?
pay of 14s. a day; he was about 30 years of age. There were several actions pending, some of the parties in
we letters, written by the Defendant were read. The first which had justified the truth of the alleged libel. Might not,
was dated 16th August, 1816, No. 143, High-street, Portsmouth. therefore, the plaintiff have deferred this inquiry till the truth
It contained a general" declaration of his affection for her, and wns ascertained? It had been said, that no justification was
that nothing but unavoid-ble circumstances should prevent him offered. Where was the necessity for the defendant going to
from carrying his view of marriage into execution. that expence? What, was a bookseller to be obliged to pay for
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Capt. Hillers believed the plaintiff was 27 years of age. the expence of Commissioners going to Rome to ascertain
Mr. Serientat VAugnan admitted that a case had been made whether Mr. Hayes was the companion of prostitutes ? He seld
rºt, but the Jury would consider what the Lady had lost. His the Morning Chronicle, Times, &c. every day, and was he to be
elient was a man in ill health, a valetudinarian—what then could answerable for all the paragraphs in these and other papers?
be expected from him His Learned Friend had described the The notion was absurd; and though a verdict must be given
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THE EXAMINER,
founded upon the presumption of the law—that every vender time in consultation, returned a verdict of Manslaughter against
khew the contents of the works he sold,—nominal damages would Roxburgh.-(On Friday, Mr. Roxburgh was tried at the Old
be quite sufficient for all purposes. - -
Bailey for mºnslaughter; and instantly acquitted, the evidence
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Damages—Five Pounds.-The damages were laid at 5000. being contradietory. - -

At midnight, ºxia. Tarasy last, four villains, armed with

pistols, bludgeous, and pikes, made a forcible entrance through
a *
Accidents offences, &c."
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the cellar, into the house of Mr. Joseph Oliver, Ardwick, and
THE LATE R. J. KIRTON, ESQ. whilst two others acted as sentinels at the front and back of the
premise", ſaid hands on the aged master and mistress, cut and
* - To THE EDITor of the ExAMIN ER. wounded them in a shocking manner. There were two females
SIR,--I observe an article in your paper of Sunday 4th inst., in the upper apartments, one of whorn giving intimation that she
in which it is stated that Mr. R. J. Kirton was found drowned on
Sunday last; that on the Inquest “a Mr. Penton came forward
recognized the person of one of the ruſſians, she was throttled,
till the strangulation caused the blood to flow through her mouth.
and stated, that he well knew the deceased, with whom he had The noise made by the sufferers gave the alary to the inhabi
money concerns; that he was with him on-Wednesday the 23d tants of the adjoining hause, (the sons of Mr. Oliver.) who open
ult., which was the last time he saw the deceased; that a female ed their window and called out for assistance, when the yiiians
named Reynolds stated that she saw Mr. Penton and the de fired at them with balls and slugs; by this time the neighbour
ceased walking together on the banks of the New River on hood was alarmed, and the robbers were obliged to retreat,
Saturday the 26th ult., and that a new Inquest had been applied though evidently with much, reluctance, withott any booty
for.”—You then state that you gave the account from particulars whatever; yet so coolly, that it was in slow order, and whilst
furnished by a Correspondent, the whole of which you do not they fired at their pursuers, who happily escaped unhurt. A
thuse to publish. Now I am the person who gave evidence on too free use of a dark lantern, which the assassins brought with
the Inquest, and must presume that I am referred to in this them, has afforded a clue to their persons, and four cf the six.
paragraph. I understand your Correspondent is a Mr. Low, ºf have been apprehended. Some of them were weavers under
Princes-square. The imputation on me is wholly unfounded, personal obligations to the venerable man whose life they at
and I shall, proceed against Mr. Low as I may be advised. I tempted to destroy. They cut him on the head in many places,
never saw Mr. Kirton after the Wednesday night mentioned in, and by one of the blows slit one of his ears; and when crawling
my evidence. I had become his bail, and was in search of him for protection under the bed, they ran him him through the arm
from the Wednesday until the time I heard of his being drowned." with a pike. He and the other sufferers are recovering from
In the course of this search, I was constantly accompanied by their wouads.-Manchester paper.
ray friend, Mr. Ogg, who' was also joint bail with me. Of : On the morning of the 28th alt. a pane of glass was cat in the
Saturday the 26th ult. I crossed" the Islington-fields with that shop window of Mr. Monnier, watchmaker, 38, Southampton
gentleman. and we were very probably seen by Mrs. Reynois's, |
who mistook my friend for Mr. Kirton, he being about the same street,5trand, and the thief succeeded in carying off iwo watches,
height.—I consider Mr. Low as wholly unjustifiable on such a gold tººd steel chain, and a silver watch-case. This was
effected at the hour of nine, whilst Mr. Monnier was at break
grounds in casting any imputation on me. I went forway fast in a back room. Next mornin'ſ a paper packet was found
voluntarily, and gave the ſullest explanation to the Coroner
and Jury as to my knowledge of the deceased. I need not on in the area, containing the steel chain, and the fºllowing polite
note writted ºn a slip of pºer -" From a Friend—Sir, having
this occasiou state the particulars, but I am ready at any time to made; as much as i possibly ſºuld ºf theºpritty Watches agd
do so.-Your obedient servant, Gsp, PENTon.”
Islington, July 9, 1819. º -
Casei have sent you back this Chain as i Coald get nothing for
º
it and I thought it was of no use to any body but tº owner i
[Mr. Low informs us, that Mrs. Reynºlds now says, that after have sent you back :...'...'. for your window.—S3 ºb ****
Thearing the above explanation, she might have been mistakea.— more ºf present from yºgiki e servant-Carca nic wres
Mr. Low disclaims any intention of wishing to injure the cha you cas." - - > º * , * --
—ra.

racter of Mr. Penton.—Examiner.] -

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MARRIAGE5. .
son Saturday week, a Coroner's inquest was held on the body On the 1st inst., at Marylebone Church, Henry Erast, Esq.,
of Mr. Alexander Wilson, gunsmith, of Sherrard-street, Picca late of the Heneal Civil Service, to Elizabeth, you gest daughter
dilly. It appeared, that the deceased went out ºn Friday even of the late Rev. Dr. Strachey.
ing; when he reached Oxford-street, he was seized with a pain On Tuesday last, at Mary-le-bone Church, William Yates."
in his head, and sat down on a step of a shop ; a coachman on Peel, Esq. M. P. for Tamworth, and second son of Sir Robert
the stand asked him if he was unwell ? The deceased replieſ, Peel, Bari. to Lady Jaue Moore, second daughter of the Eart of
he was very ill, and begged the coachman to drive him to his Mount Cashell. -

family Doctor, which he did, but the Doctor was hot at home. Ou the 2d inst., at Liverpool, the Rev. Henry William
The deceased then requested the coachman to drive him to his Rawlins, Rector of Staplegrove, Sounerset, to Eliza, youngest
own house. Oukis arrival at the house, the coachman knocked, 1. daughter of the late Johu Nash, Esq., of Hill-house, Newnham,
and Mrs. Wilson came out, when the coachman told her that as Giocestershire. -

gentleman, was in his coach extremely ill. Mrs. Wilson ex On Wednesday, the Rev. Hen º Lindsay, Perpetual Curate
claimed, “My God! I hope it is not my husband.” She opened of Wimbledon, to Maria, eldest aughter of Joseph Marryat,
the coach-door, and fou d'her husband rifeless, sitting upon the Esq., M. P. **
seat, with his head recined against the back of the coich. A
surgeon opened the body and skull, when a suffusion of water DEATHS.
was found on the brain, which undoubtedly occasioned his wickshire,On the 3d inst., at the reetory house, Feny-Compton, war
death. Verdict—Died by the visitation of God. - -
Anne, wife of the Rev. Henry Edmund Hº!, B.D.
A Coroner's inquest was held on, Thursday in Little James On Suuday morning, 4th instant, Lieut.-Colouei-Petrick, late
street, Bedlord’row, on the body of Mir. Charles Coe, -aged 56, a of the East ludia Compatiy's Service, aged 66. -

respectable gentleman, , who met with his death, as appears On Monday morning, the 5th inst., at his residence, Durham
from the following evidence:—Mr. John Paul said, that about place, Chelsea, Thotmas Richardson, Esq., in his 81st year. -

six o'clock on Tuesday, as he and a friend were going along Hoi On Cornwallis,
the 5th inst., at Newfauds, Southampton, Ajmiral Sir
born, he observed the deceased crossing the street, when in the Win. G. G. B., Vice-Admiral of England, &c.
At the Tower House, Arcadell, the Lady Louisa Atherley.
middle he stopped short, as if with terror, liot being able to cross I,
from the number of carriages that were passing up and down. At Paris, on the 29th June; the Hon. Alice Euily Perey, secead
"At that instant a man on horsebaek, who was riding at a very daughter of Lord Lovaine, in the lith year of her age.
§. Friday week, Joseph Yates, Esq. of Sueed Park, Bristol,
brisk rate, rode up...against him, knocked him down, and rode aged"G9. * :
over him.—Mr. Abraham Francis deposed that the rider was
going at a sharp º: got knºw that he had knocked any *. the 30th ult, suddenly, at Middlesex-place, Major-General
que down, as he atterwards said. The rider was Mr. Roxburgh, Thomas blishment,Hawkshaw,
aged 68. late of the India. Company's Bengal Esta * - a -

of King-street, Seven-dials, baker. Mr. Roxburgh returned and

went to Mr. Gorbyu's shop, where the deeeased was.-Mr. Mor
gan, surgeon, deposed, that he had no doubt the blow be re Printed d published by Jóns Husr, at the Esº-oººº,
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an

'ceived was the cause of his death.-The Jury, after being some 19, Cathevine'street, Siraud-Price 10d.
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THE EXAMINER.
No. 603. SUNDAY, JULY is, 1819.
the PoliticAL EXAMINER. niably encroached on the Constitution, and been guilty of
practices, “notorious as the sun at moon-day,” and “at.
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Pope.
which our ancestors would have startled with indignation,”
No. 588. -
to take care how it charged with unconstitutional designs
a needy and angry population, driven almost to despair
sPEECH FROM THE THRONE.-EMIGRA by those very identical practices. - - *-*

- - TION. . -
It is well known, however it is to be regretted in the
- -
Sovereign of an intelligent nation like this, that he is not
There is something of late years which has contributed only advised as to the spirit of his speech, but that all the .
to make these speeches less and less regarded, and to throw words are actually put into his mouth, as if he were a
an air at once melancholy and ludicrous over the accounts puppet. The Master of the Horse carries the Royal speech
of the ceremony preceding them. It is something of a in his hand;—which ought to be thought as ridiculous,
mixed nature, partly connected with the progress of things as if it were said that he carried the royal actions in his
in general, and partly with the strong contrast just now. mouth. But however-what we were going to say is
presented between the little intellect and great luxury at this.--that the Prince is certainly not responsible by icº
the top of society among us, and the great intellect and for what he is advised either to say or do;-but them, it is
(Gon knows) very little luxury indeed at the bottom. | the tendency of the habitual violation of this-law by his
By the side of the Court Newsman's account of the own servants, who by their corrupt practices render them
procession in the Morning Chronicle, there happens to be selves also independent of it, to make the people fix respon
the Editor's account of Mr. WANsittant's proposal for sibility on whomsoever becomes prominent in the direc
shipping off paupers to the Cape of Good Hope. With tion of circumstances; and it has a very suspicious took
what feelings must those whose minds are agitated on the indeed in the Ministers, to advise the Prince to make these
latter subject regard the profound and admiring gravity angry speeches just now; especially too. at the moment
with which the classical historian of our Prince's move when Parliament itself has ceased to speak. The last
ments talks of “the eight beautiful creams, drove by voice is naturally left longest in the people's ears,
Mister Roberts the State-Coachman "-of the Duke of There are speeches not easily forgotten, and one of
MostRose who attended in the State-Carriage as Master which is apt to call to mind another. The Prince is ad- .
of the Horse, carrying the Royal Speech in his hand! !— vised to threaten :-at the same time one of his chief Mi
and of his Royal Highness's (thrice wonderful to tell) nisters advises the poor to leave England for the Cape of
having “entered the House of Lords one minute before Good Hope: now these poor will hear the threats of the
two, and remained there exactly tirenty-six minutes!!!” Prince and the advice of the Minister, and they will call
The comet itself could not be waited on by a more mi to mind the famous piece of united threat aud advice,
.nute intelligencer. - which was uttered in the House of Commons—“Let
But what will the people think when they find in the same those who don't like England, leave it.” -

paper, which contains this account and Mr. VANsitt Ant's • How often was that speech insinuated, before a foolish
proposal of Emigration, that the part of the Speech which man was found to blurt it forth !. How often has it's
announced the Prince Regent's “determination to exert spirit been repeated And yet now, the Ministers, be
all the legal and constitutional powers entrusted to him tween their threats and their recommendations, and in real
for the preservation of internal order and tranquility.” despair of knewing what course to take, come forward,
was delivered with an energy and emphasis that marked and turn this very taunt into a serious and charitable pro
the resolution of Government! The reporter observed, at posal : . . . . - - - .

the same time, that the Speech, upon the whole, “was Most serious and charitable it is, no doubt, especially
not delivered with that graceful tone which formerly dis towards themselves. They would hope by this means to
tinguished his enunciation.” In other words, the deli get rid of those, whom in spite of all their pretensions to
very was marked with no interest, except in the particular the contrary, they know to be the persons most dangerous
passage which related to the suppression of disturbances, to them,--we mean, the really suffering classes, who feel
and the alleged hypocrisy of the Reformers; and this was their necessities sharply, and aré beginning to know their
delivered in a certain grand and denouncing way! In the rights thoroughly. . -

name of all that is really dignified and politic, what weak But we apprehend they are mistaken. At least, the
head could have advised his Royal Highness to this dis emigration must take place to a much greater extent, their
play? In the first place, it is a vulgar idea of power, to either the means afforded by Government, or the inclina
associate it with physical effort;-in the second, granting tion of the sufferers, appear to render likely. Numbers
even that the manifestations of public feeling alluded to were will doubtless be glad to avail themselves of the power of
as unlawful as the people's necessities are great, the sove flight; but with numbers more a great question will re
reign should announce his resolution to crush them, with main to be settled... Why should they leave their fertile
** countenance rather in sorrow than in anger;"—and and beautiful native soil, when there is room for them "
thirdly, it were well in a Government which has so unde-f Why should Scotchmengo, when they could keep such
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quantities of flocks and fierås at home? Why should the scale of rural existence, above her neighbours. What
Irishmen go, merely because the rich men for whom they then must the notions of most of them be of the savoir
toil, chuse to live and spend their money in another coun vivre f : Is this the sum and substance of all our boasts of
try Why should Englishmen go, when there is so people the roast-beef of old England 7–The truth, is, that the
in this part of the country (I do not know how it .
much wasteland that might be cultivated,—when there is is in others) have neither food nor cloathing wherewith to
so much useless park land from which portions might be be content; nor are they content without them, nor with
let för their support-when there is so thich mechanical those that have them. Any one dressed in a plain broad
power, that might be turned into a relief of their toil, in cloth coat is in their eyes a sophisticated character, as out
stead of aggräväting br superseding it? These are landish a figure as my Lord Foppington. A smock-frock,
great and serious questions; and the Minister may be part and shoes with hob-nails in them, are an indispensable
assured, that they will be asked and discussed, not as one who of country etiquette; and, they hoot at or pelt any
is presumptuous enough to . †. from this ap
questions are usually discussed in other quarters, but with propriate costume. This, if we may believe a philosophi
all the united acuteness of natural intelligence, necessity, cal poet of the present day, is the meaning of the phrase in
and resentment. - Shakespear, “pelting villages,” he having been once set
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upon in this manner by “a crew of patches, rude mecha

It is not an overstocked population in this or any other nicals,” who disliked him for the fantastic strangeness of
country, that is the natural callse of such distresses, what his appearance. Even their tailors (of whom you might
ever those who preach “increase and multiply" in the
pulpit, may thuse to cant and reciat out of it. It is the expect better things) hate decency, and will spoil yºu a
suit of clothes, rather that follow your directions. One
dreadful inequalities created by the want of a sumptuary of them, the little hunch-backed tailor of P−tt-n, with
morality, and the ill-educated pursuit of gain ſor it's own the handsome daughter, whose husband ran away from
sake;—things as removable by better teaching, as bigotry her ...}. to sea, was ordered to make a pair of brown
or snuff-coloured breeches for my friend C *

and the disposition to theft. Men cannot be deprived of instead of which the pragmatical old gentleman (having
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their want of excitement; but they can be taught how to an opinion of his own) bräught him home a pair of “live
direct it, how to turh it to more real advantage. Hook ſy Eincoln green,” in which fremember herode in triumph
at what a single man, Lycungus, did, with the most stub in Johnny Tremain's cross-country caravan through New
born-tempered people in Greece. He notoriously moulded berry, and entered Oxford, “fearing no colours,” the ab: .
them after the single particular fashion of his own mind; stract idea of the jest of the thing prevailing in his mind
and the die listed, and made one of the deepest impres (as it always does) over the sense of personal dignity.
šions in history. We do not mean to recommend his in have If a stranger comes to live among country people, they
stitutions, which are now-a-days impracticable, and in overcome a bad opinion of him at first; and all he can do to
their dislike, only confirms them in it. It is in
many respects we think mistaken. All that we mean to vain to attempt to coaciliate them: the more you strive to
shew is, that the liabits of the most obstinate nations have persuade them that you mean then no harm, the more they
hothing in then so unchangeable as habit leads people to are determined not to be convinced.|. They attribute any .
imagine; but may be altered by the hands of philosophy civility ºl.". r kindness you shew them to a design to §.
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They
and education. "And this must titore especially be the case, them. They are not to be taken ill by appearances.
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are fera natural, and not to be tained by art.,

and will, when the intellect of the community meets the tion as you give them no cause of offelice, they summon In propor
phiesopher halfway. ' ' ' , “ .. . . . . their whole stock of prejudice, impudence, and cunning, ſo
; 1, is the foolish exemptions from all industry of some, aid their tottering opinion; and liate you the more for the
and the more foolish and imaginary gains of the extrava injustice they seem to do yon. They had rather, you di **

gant industry of others, that driva the poor as it were into
holes and corners; and then because the holes and corners
are stuffed with the sick and the despairing, pretend that
they must be emptied by wars or emigrations. King
JAMEs said to the fly who smarted his visual and royal
faculties:-" is there not room enough in my three king
doms, that thou must needs fly into my eye?” But the
fly might have answered (if the Star-Chamber would have
let hin), “What are your three kingdoms to me, if you
shut your windows, and do not allow me to have my
share of them?”. . .. . . . . . .” treatment, the expression of their gratitude, is not very
CHARACTER OF THE country PEOPLE
º º ... “Here be truths"—passery.
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them an injury that they might keep their original opinion
º f there is the smallest circumstance or insinuº
tioã to your prejudice, their rancouragainst you, and self---
complačeney'in their own sagacity, eagerly, seizes hold of
it; fails their suspicions into a flaute, and breaks out into
openinsult and all the triumph of brutal derision, Qn the
cºntrary, if they find you, aſter all, a quiet, inoffensive
person, they think you a fool, and so have you that way. "
Used to contempt, they have not muchmode
respect tº spare fºr
other people. Finding themselves the better, for r
them, they have not mučh faith in your demonstrations of
good-will towards them. ‘Prepared for repulses and hard .
spontaneous or sincere—An aged Sybil ºf this placa.
having gone to a lady, whº bad just settled here, with a
doleful Tale of distress, and an empty bottle, received a
siliſing instead of having her boilé replenished with . .

liquor: when bbeing net on her retirn by one of her. -

—First, there is an old woman in the *hbouring gºssips coming on the same, erraud, and being asked her
*

village, fifty-six-years old, with a wooden leg, who never, success, she held up her empty bºttle in sign ºf sºorn. ..
saw a leg P.I., Iſ saying, “Look here!”. Such is time beau ideal of un
º roasted, or a piece of beeſ put into
º dº any person who, has not fived sºciºd human nature in her obscuré retreats, about
§ºndºñº" mountain which there have been so many “songs of delight and
# ſhaftóñ, who now offi rustical rºundelays.” . . . . .
it haunts” into i. Is it straage that these people whº knºw nothing, hate.
kept her father's house, who all that they do not understand? Their rudeness; inte
years; so that she ranks, in lerance, and conceit, are in exact proportion to their.
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ignorance: for as they never saw or scarcely heard of any pump up idle, rumours, and the blacksmith's-shop is the , .
thing out of their own village, every thing else appears to place at which they forge the proofs, aid turn them to
them odd and unaccountable, and they cannot suspect shape," giving to airy nothing a local habitation, and a
that their own notions are wrong, when they are totally name.” They lie like devils through thick and thin..
unacquainted, with any others. We naturally, despise They tell and believe all incredible things; and the
whatever baffles our º and dislike what con eater the improbability, the more readily and greedily is
tradicts our prejudices, till we are taught better by a liberal it swallowed, for it imposes the more on the imagination.
course of study; but these people are no better taught To elevate and surprise is the great rule for producing a
than ſed. It is a rule which they act upon as self-evident, theatrical or pastoral effect. É.
in a state of nature
and from which you will not get them to flinch in a believe any ſhing for want of something to divert the
hurry—to scout every proceeding which differs from their mind, as they plot mischief for want of better employment.
own, and to consider every person, of whose birth, pa Credulity and imposture are two of the strongest propen
rentage, and education, they do not know the several par sities of the human mind. Men are as prone to deceive
ticulars, as a suspicious character. They have no know themselves as others, without any other temptation than
ledge of literaturé or the fine arts; which, if once banished the exercise it affords, to the imagination. It is a false
from the city and the court, would soon “be trampled in test of historical evidence, that it is necessary to assign a
the mire under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.”. A motive why men should consent to be dupes or undertake
mischievous wag of the present day undertook to read to be cheats. Curiosity is the source of superstition; for
some pastoral and lyrical jº.
(remarkable for their we must have objects to occupy the attention, and fill up
º to a collection of Cumberland peasants, to see the craving void of knowledge; and in the absence of truth,
if they would recognise the sentiments' put into their falsehood is called in to supply its place, and with the
mouths; and they only (which was what he expected) gross and ignorant, supplies it much better. To ask why
laughed at him for his pains. “The spinsters and thé the untiność savage |. every marvellous story that
knitters in the sun, and the free maids that weave their is told him, in the dearth of all real knowledge, is to ask
thread with bones,” may indeed relieve the welcome pedlar why he slakes his thirst at the first fountain that he meets,
of his wares, his laces, his true love-knots, or benny or devours the prey he has just taken. With all their
Ballads, but they will have nothing to say to the flyrical tendency to bigotry and superstition, country people have
ballads, nor will the united counties of Westmoreland, scarcely any idea of religion. They have as little divine
Cumberland, and Durham, subscribe to lighten the Lobdon as human learning. The Bible is the only book they
warehouses of a single copy of the Every."ri. have, but that they do not ſead, except, with spectacles,
hewers of wood and drawers of water know nothing of when they grow old and half-blind. They are to a man
poetry, and they hate the very look of a poet. They'like and woman of Mrs. Quickly's opiuign—" But I told him
a painter as little. An artist who was making a sketch of a'should not think of God yet.” They go to church, to
* fineold yew tree in a romantic situation, was asked by a be sure, as a matter of custom, and from not knowing
knowing hand, if he could tell how many foot of timber it what else to do with themselves on Sundays; but they
contained? Falstaff asks as a question not to be an never think of what they hear, from one week's end to
sºvered—"May I not take nine case at mine inh?” But another. Heaven and Hell are out-of-the-way places,
this ºil, East-Cheap... I cannot do so in the country; not accessible to the apprehensions of those whose ideas
for while I am, writin this, I hear a fellow disputing in cannot get beyond the #. where they were korn; and
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the kitchen, whether a persoil ought to live (a he'ex. their joys or sorrows indifferent to an imagination, taken
presses it) by pen and ink; and the landlord the other up with the wants of the belly, An old woman, who
day (in order, I suppose, the better to prepare himself for lived in a cottage by herself, on hearing the account of the
such controversies) asked me if I had any object in read. Crucifixion, said it was a sad thing, but she hoped it was
ing through all those books which I had brought with ºne, not true, as it lºgº so ſat off and such a long-time
..". few odd volumes of old plays and novels. The ago. A servant girl, hearing a Sermon read in whigh
people born here cannot tell how an author gets his living there was a striking account of the Resurrection and the
or passes his time; and would ſain hunt him out of th: Day of Judgment, was very much alarmed and said she
place as they do a strange dog, or as they formerly did a hoped it would npt be in her time. The Decalogue has
conjurºſ, or a witch., Ask, the first country clown you no terrors, and the Book of Revelations no charms for
meet, if he ever heard of Shakespear or Newton, and he them. They will be damned, but they will steal and lie,
will stare in \" lice; and I remember our laughing a and bear false witness against each other; gºif they do
good deal at W-'s old Molly, who had never hear for not, it is the fear of being hanged, or §.
the French Revolution, ten years after it happened. Oh moned beſore the Justice of the Peace, and not of being .
wore than Gothic ignorance! . . .”.” galled to accotiat in another world, that prevents them.,
They have no books, nor ever feel ſhe want of them. They are of the * earthy. They take thought pilly
How indeed, should they?” They have no works of for the morrow ; or rather, conform to the text=". Suff
* or fiction, to “ fleet, the ºil. time carelessly;” cient to the day is the !. There is not a greater
ºut they do not therefore want for tabulous pºsources. mistake, or a more wilful fallacy, than the common obser
Necessity is the mother of invention; and their talent for vation, that the lower orders, are kept in order (and can
lying and, candil is nbürished by the very lºck of mate only be so) by their faith in religion. They have no more.
rials...t, They five not by bread alone, hit by every beliefinil práctically than most of their bellets, who pro-.
word that präceedeth out of their mouths.” They are em. pose to keep thºjú in order by it, have speculatively. .
ployed...like tº Allenians of old, inhearing or º The ignorani and destitute are restrained from certain.
new thing. Thedraw-well is the sourceſtrom which they things by the fear of the law, or of what will be said of
...At Sºftbury; which is a cathedral and county town, you them by their neighbours; and as to other things which
are denounced in Scripture, but to which no penalty at
cannot
, t The
*
getknack
* * * ofof
a copy *
Congreyeunprincipled,
off-band,
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or Wyckerleyidle
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at any of the shops.
ſabrication, is not taches here, they think
i late thin if they
ney have
n a mind to do them.
att -

assi-ted, bat the cºntrºy, by general knowledge or regular edu-. and clause to go to hell for it, they have a right to do so.
satiºn. Women, for this reason, have the better of their hus “That is their phrase. It is nobody's business but their
- bands in trumping “p and den excuses and £outrivatices that have. own. It is (generally speaking) the absence of temptation
nº foundation in tact or. * : *rd their servant-maids, who or opportunity, and not an excess of religiousapárºlyen
.*.*.*.**ill,
sºme of cross-purposes. . beat
. then
. hollow at the same
r • * sity ision, that keeps them within the pale of salvation. Their
sell-will balances their tear of the Devil, and when it
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THE XAMINER,
comes to the push, the present motive turns the scale, and (who “ſº the pleasure felt by the department on the reco
the flesh proves too hard for the spirit. Burns's old man *ion. Theyou.”
be among King answered, “Here.
All the houses of ISt.
am... I amwere
Cloud verydecorated
hºppy":
in the Colter's Saturday Night must pass for a very poeti with white flags, and his Majesty was saluted with shout" of
cal character, at least in this part of the country. We see Wive le Roi. - - *
constant accounts in the papers, in the case of malefactors it is binted by the censeur Europeen, that Marshal Sºult ºx
that have come to an untimely end, that it was owing in pects to be chosen a deputy for the department of the Tarn, at
the first instance to the want of religion, to the habit of the ensuing election, as a preparatory step towards his return to
swearing and Sabbath-breach. The same account would the office of Minister at War. -

hold equally true of those who are not hanged: for iſ all July 11.-The Duke de Bassano, inscribed upon the list of
the 38, has obtained permission from the French Government to
but the godly and sober among the lower classes came to take up his residence at Geneva.
the gallows, the population would soon be thinned to a It is stated in letters from Warsaw, that the Emperor of Rus
surprising degree. -
sia will, soon aſter the close of the Polish Diet, proceed to Prague
“”Twould thin the land where he will have an interview with the Emperor of Austria
“Such numbers to string on Tyburn tree.” - and the King of Prussia. This rumour, however, does nºt reº
As to the regular church-going peasantry, there can be no on a very sure foundation. It is more certain that the King of
great difference as to religious light and feelings between Sweden is making vast exertious for the equipment and improxº-.
them and their foreſathers in the time of Popery, when ment of his fleet, and the dock-yards in Scania. Ships are fit
the Service was performed in Latin, as it is at present in ting out for the purpose of exercising the odicers and seamen.
July 12.-it is stated as a certain fact, that a young English
most foreign countries. The only religious people (ex nobleman, Lord Powerscourt, offered Madame Blanchard, at
cept as a matter of outward shew and ceremony) are Tivoli, 25 louis to permit him to accompany her in her lastºcent
sectaries: for the instant religion becomes a subject for the lady refused it, not having been apprised of it in ºfficient
serious thought and private reflection, it produces diſ time to allow for an alteration in the boat, and some other pre
ferences of opinion, which branch out into as many specu parations that were indispensable.
July 13.-The Marquis de Riviere, our Ambassador at Con
Jative ſancies and forms of worship, as there are differences stantinople, is, it is said, superseded by one of our most es' eerned
of temperor accidents of educatión”. This, however, is Marshals; rumour designates the Duke d'Alkuſera-L'Indo
the exception, not the rule, in the present state of thing— pendent. -

now that zeal is no longer kindled at the fires of persecu CHAMBER of DEPUTIES...
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tion, and that acts of Uniformity no longer throw the M. Avoyne de Chantereyne presented a petitiºn; signed by
whole. ...} into a ferment of opposition. The mis 300 students out of 2,000, who composed the Ecole de Droit of
'sionaries and fanatics sometimes indeed set up a Metho Paris. It prayed that the Chamber would intercede with.”
dist chapel, where the staid inhabitants go in an evening Government to restore to the Petitioners the instruction of M
to spite the parson of the parish, or to while away an Bavoux, so “ distinguished by his virtues, his talents, and his
hour or so; or perhaps a melancholy mechanic has a seri attachment to the Charter.” On this petition the Wommittee of
ous call and holds forth, or a pining spinster, moved by Petitions offered their unanimous opinion, that it should not be
received, because the judicial authority had already taken cogni
the spirit to listen to him— -
zance of the matter.—M. Royard Collard supported the propº
“Anot, as patient
The whilst as thecouplets
her golden female are
dove,
disclos'd, r
tion of the Committee, He stated, that not only had disorder"
broken out in Paris, during the last six months, but at various
A while sits drooping:” - - establishments of learning, simultaneously, such as at Rennes.
but the younger and healthier sort make a sport of it as Bourdeaux, Perigueux, Vanues, Caen, Lyons, and Tournon
of any other fantastical innovation; throw owls and ske the Minister of the Interior supported the motion. Benjºin
letons of kites and carrion crows into the place of wor constant, M. Manuel, and M. de la Fayette, opposed it. It was
ship; and make a violent noise all the time the parson is agreed to.
preaching, to drown the nasal twang of evangelical glad NETHERLANDS. .
tidings, and the comfortable groans of the faithful.—All -

Bnussels, July 12–It is said that the famous Fouche he*

this while there is no end of the bastard-getting and swear obtained leave to reside in the northern provinces of the king
ing: and a girl, after having had three or four children by dom,
the same man, or by different men (as it happens), and
who is as big as she can tumble again, is at length asked - GERMANY.
in church, without much scandal or offence to the commu CARLsnume, July 3.—The Gazette of Bohemia announce", that
nity. It is a new topic for the village, and is excused on it was on the complaint of the Prussian Minister at the Coºl of
that account. It is, besides, an evidence quashed; and wurtemberg, that the King suppressed the new Gazetle ºf Stuſ
whatever others may take it into their heads to do, she ard.
need not talk. Liberality flourishes; a good example, is 5. Frankfort, July 4.—Schwalbach (a mineral bath in the
set; and the species is propagated with as little trouble Duchy of Nassau), has just been the theatre of a horrible event,
and formality as possible. The parson gets something by which may be regarded as connected with that recently per
the christening, and the apothecary has a finger in the pie. petrated by Sandt, and which proves the fanaticism of theyonths
of Germany. A young man, son of an "potheºry at Idstein (in
This is a state of things which ought to be reformed—but the Duchy of Nassau), persuaded himself, that he would render
how or when 2. - --- Y. Z. an essential service to his country, by ridding it of M. Ibel, Pre
* It is observed and perhaps justly that the members of the sident of the Regency of Wisbad, who enjoyed the confidence of
Established Church are the pleasaniest sort of people to deal the Duke. He found M. Ibel at Schwalbach, and aimed a blow
with. Dissenters are more soured by the leaven of religion. at his face with a poniard. M. Ibel, who is tall and corpulent,
'fhe others do not trouble themselves enough about it to come to seized his assassin and disarmed him. Whilst they were strug
gling, the murderer drew a pistol from his poºke', and attempted
a conclusion of their own, or quarrel with other people who do.
'They are religious merely out of conformity to the practice of the
to discharge it, according to some, at M. Ibel, but others say at
age and country in which they live, and follow that which has himself; ſhe pistol, however, missed fire. The assassin was
authority and numbers on its side. - taken into custody—P.S. From subsequent information we learn.
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that the assassin's name is Lechning; he studied at the Universi
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ty of Heidelberg, and only left it eighteen months agº. He bus

FOREIGN
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INTELLIGENCE.
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served as a volunteer, He entered the residence of M. Ibel on
the gainstant, and attempted to stab him; but missing his ºn
º T FRANCE. * - - - - xi. Ibe eized him and called for help, when they were fºund e
PAars, July 10–Yesterday his Majesty arrived at St. &Hond. above described. The poniard only pierced M. Ibe's cloak
The national gººd was under arms to receive him. 'Arrived Journal des Debats.
in the Saloon of Mars, his Majesty was addressed by the Prefect, July 5–The assassination attempted at Schwalbach, on the
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person of M. Ibel, makes a great noise here. The President of age, who is hot disqualified by crime or mental derangement, to
the Regency of the Duchy of Nassau has the reputation of an an equal vote in choosing the National Representatives. Lastly,
able statesman; but arbitrary fiscal measures are imputed to in order to guard against the abuse of power, it is necessary that
him. It is affirmed that the young apothecary reproached the the People -hould elect their Representatives annually.”—After
President with being the cause of his country's misfortunes, preagreeing to the Resolutions, the multitude disper-ed to their
viously to aiming at him a blow with a poniard: the attempt, respective homes.—At the close of the proceeding-, an attempt
fortunately, only produced a slight wound. On his first exami was made by some persons, in the garb of Gentlemen, to induce
nation, he confessed the fact, alleging for his motive a wish tothe people to commit acts of violence; but their good sense
rid his country of a man so injurious to the public weal. It is frustrated the base attempt, and they separated peaceably.
affirmed that this fanatic has had an University edusation, and A meeting was held near Blackburn on Monday, at which
that he served as a volunteer during the last war of invasion. about 8,000 people were present. The Rev. Mr. Harrison, of
w
Stockport, was there, with several other persons usually speakers
SPAIN. at these meetings. For some reason not the fire º
Irún, Jr.NE 29.-A corvette lately arrived at Cadiz, with the
engines belonging to the town were brought with great rapidity
letters from South America, has brought dispatches from Vera near the place of meeting; and the women, and some of the
Cruz, Lima, and the Havannah. Hitherto the Government has timid ran in various directions, apprehending the arrival of
uot been in a hurry to publish them in the Gazette of Madrid,magistrates. A Deputation frem the Blackburn Female Reform
which seems to indicate that their contents are not advantageous.
Society mounted the stage. They were very neatly dressed,
From what has transpired, it seems that General Morillo urgently
and each wore a green favour in her bonnet or cap. They as
demands reinforcements, without which his situation would be cended the hustings amidst the reiterated acclamations of the
come very critical. Fears are entertained for the Isthmus of people... One of them presented the Chairman a most beautiful
Panama.
cap of liberty, and an Address describing their sufferings. , 'I he
banner was then lowered, crowned by the cap, amid coutinued
PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE. huzzas; and the Chairman read the Address, which was fre
- quently interrupted by repeated cheers and cries of “God bless
PUBLIC MEETINGS. the teomen.” A vote of thanks to the ſemale Reformers was after
Birmingwaw, July 13–Yesterday a public mecting of this wards carried, and delivered to them by the Chairman. -

town was held on New Hall-hill, a piece of ground forming a Other meetings for Reform, have al-o been -held in various
natural kind of amphitheatre; not less than 50,000 people were parts of the country, but nothing particular ºccurred. At all of
present. A platform was erected in the centre. Mr. Edmonds them the people maintained great order and regularity in their
(schoolmaster) took the chair, and read a letter from Sir Charles proceedings. - - -

Wolsely, stating the death of Lady Wolsely, his mother, and ac

counting for his absence under such affliction. Mr. Edmonds.
then addressed the crowd, and was followed by Mr. Maddocks UNITED PAR LIAMENT.
(another schoolmaster), who was succeeded by Mr. Lewis (a
schoolmaster of Coventry). These persons proposed that Sir HOUSE OF LORDS.
Charles Wolsely should be sent up to Parliament as “Legisla -º
torial Attorney and Representative of Wirmingham.” The is
suing of a writ being compulsory, they had not awaited the form - Monday, July, 12.
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of the mandate, but anticipated the right. The privilege consti The Royal Assent was notified to the Insolvent Debtors' Bill,
tutionally belonged to them, and they were fulfilling their duty. the Insolvent Debtors' (Irelaud) Bill, the Charitable Funds Bill,
as good subjects, in proceeding to advise the Sovereign by their the Still Fines Bill, &c.
representative. . If they had not been commanded so to do, the Tuesday, July 13.
error rested with other.—The Baronet was then nominated, and
seconded, pro forma—duly proposed, and elected, amid the thuu PROROGATION of PARLIAMENT.
dering acclamations of one undivided multitude. The show of n the Their Lordships met about 12 o'clºck, and before that hour
seats, were uearly filled with ladies. Several foreign An
forest of hands was a striking and interesting view, every person bassadors, aud among them the Persian and Algerine Ambassa
being distinctly visible to each other. A Remonstrance to Par dors, were present. ^:
two o'clock the Prince Regent entered
liament was read, which the new-elected member was to present in state, and took his seat on the throne. In a few minutes the
to the House, and demand of the Speaker his place in the Com Speaker, attended by a great many Members, appeared at the
mous assembly. A Deputation was proposed to wait on Sir bar. The Speaker their delivered an address, in which he spoke
Charles Wolsely; and give him the necessary instructions of his of the objects to which the House had directed their attention
coustituents. Sir Charles had previously promised them to go during the session; and concluded by presenting a Bill of Sup
and claim his seat in the House if they elected him. This will ply, which, together with some private Bills, received the royal
be a new case for the next Session.—The business of the Meet
assent, " - - - -

ing cccupied three hours. The utmost order was observed; and
this immense assembly broke up, and retired to their homes, with The Prince Regent then rºad the following Speech:
as much regularity and tranquility as though returning from a “My Lords and Gentlemen, . * *

place of worship. It was a pure example to other places, in the “It is with great regret that I am again ºf: to announce
peaceful and uncorrupted exercise of the eleetive franchise.— to you the continuance of his Majesty's lamented indisposition.
Evening paper. . . ." - -
“I cannot close this session of Parliament without expressing
the satisfaction that I have derived from the zeal and assiduity
1:Aaxst. Ev, July 12–A public Reform Meeting was held here w th which you have applied yourselves to the several important
this eveniag, on May-day Green. The number of persons as objects which have come under your consideration.
sembled was e-timated at from six to eight thousand.—Mr. R. * “Your patient and laborious investigation of the state of the
JAcksox read the Resolutions, which were in substance—“That
the principles of Nature never authorised one man to make laws circulation and currency of the kingdom, demands my warmest
acknowledgments; . entertain a confident expeciation that
for another without lis cºnsent; that whatever authority any the measures adopted as the result of this inquiry, will be pro
man possesses is solely derived from the People—consequently,
if any Goverument cense to answer the purpose for which it was i. ductive of the most beneficial consequences.
appointed, the People have a right to call their Governors to “ Gentlemen of the House of Commons, . -

account; that the distres, which we now suffer has originated in, “I thank you for the supplies which you have granted for the
a base and profligate expenditure of the public money, which service of 1he present year. • * > . . * . .
has brought taxation: to such an extent as to have nearly der making“...I sincerely regret that the necessity should have existed of
troyed our "... and º tlie, any addition to the burdens. fine people; but I aute
country from the pinnacle of prosperity to the verge of ruinii that pate the mºst important permanent advantages from the fºr
the men who compose tº present Parliament, by their conduct which you have this made for theeting at once all the financial
in supporting a system bf proſtigate ektravaganée, and the iºn difficulties of the country'; and 1 derive, much satisfactiºn from
position of new taxes, tave shewn that they do not represent the the belief, that the means which you have devised for this pur
People—they have:Eastly betrayed the interests of the Nation, pose are calculated tº pre-s as lightly on all classes of the coin
and shew tº the or £ºhºl thiy are unwerthy of ºftº: inunity as could pe exiccted w hen sº great au effort was to be.
That the •ernal º ofjºtić entitle every man # º made. '" . * * ~ *

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THE EXAMINER.
“My Lords and Gentlemen, - - - - - - -
were kept, and the complex nature of the rules of office; and
“I eºntinue to receive from foreign powers the strongest assur they stated, that by amending these things, and consolidating
anges of their friendly disposition towards this country. . . different Boards, &c. a great saving might be made. They then
“I have observed with great concern the attempts which have compared the expences for the Civil List, Navy Pay-office, the
recently beeu made in some of the manufacturing districts, to Offices of the Secretaries of State, &c. at present with those for
take advantage-of.cireumstances of Höcal distress, to excite a which the same business was formerly executed.—Sir H. Par
• *pirit of disaffection to the institutious and government of the nell now gorrected some mistakes in the statements of the cost of
country. No object can be nearer my heart then to promote the various offices, &c. He was convinced that great reductions
welfare and prosperity of all classes of his Majesty's subjects; might be made: the collection of the Revenue cost now 7 per
but this gannot be effected without the maintenance of public cent.; it might be collected for 5, which would save the country
order and trauquility. . . . -
1,200,000l. per annum.
“Yºu
ſº måy rely, therefore, upon my firm determination to em
for º: purpose the powers intrusted to me, by law; and I Mr. C. Long and Lord PALMERsron proceeded to point out. at
some length, the incorrectness of many statements respecting the
have no doubt that, on Your return to your several counties, you expenditure. They centended, that there was, besides, no neces
will use yoºr utmost endeavºrs, in eº-operation with the magi sity for these Resolutions, a Resolution of Mr. Wansittart's,
*racy, ſº defeat, the machinations of those whose projects, if
successful, could only aggravate the evils which it is professed passed.
º
the House to economical measures, having already
to remedy; and who, under the pretence of reform, have really Mr. Calcrafr observed, that against the main point of his
*o other object but the subversion of our happy constitution.” Hon. Friend's Resolutions nothing had been urged. It was said
--- º
said,
the Lord Chancellor, by the Prince Regent's command, indeed that the House were already pledged to economy; but
- -

no confidence could be placed in the promises of the Chancellor

“My Lords and Gentlemen, - - - of the Exchequer; and besides, if Ministers were sincere in their
... “It is the will and pleasure of his Royal Highness the Prince professions of economy, what objection could they have to the
Regent, acting in the name and on behalf of his Majesty, that passing of Resolutions containing uncouiradicted statements of
this Parliament be prorogued to Tuesday the 24th day of August unnecessary charges for collecting the Revenue.
next, to be then here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly Mr. C. Hutchinson, alluding to the reported cost of the St.
Prorogued to Tuesday the 24th day of August uext." Helena establishment (500,000l.) remarked, that the character of
the country was greatly involved in the way in which this enor
MOUSE OF COMMONS. mous sum (if correctly stated) was applied. If certain statements
in print were true, the character P. nation was ruined for
- - Monday, July 12. -
ever: it was therefore incumbent on those who managed its
Lord A. Hawtures brought up the Report of the Committee affairs, either to prove those statements to be incorrect, or to
on the Scotch Burghs. On the motion for printing it, some dis give redress to the injuries of which they complained. He would
cussion arose on account ºf the lateness of the Session, and the put it to the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, as a good man,
Committee were accused by Lord BiNNING and Mr. K. Douglas, (and on his conscience he believed him to be such,) whether it
9f having obtained their evidence in a hurried manner, and of was not the duty of this great nation to see that Napoleon Bo
having made assertions respecting the disordered finances of naparte, if he was to be a prisoner for life, was treated with
Edinburgh which were not borne out by the fact. Lord HAMIL the utmost kindness and civility. If there was anythiug unkind
toN, &c. defended the conduct of the Committee, and the pro in the treatment of that individual, he hoped that the executive
priety of giving Members time to consider the Report was government would remedy it before the next period in which
urged—The Report was ordered to be printed. they again met in Parliament. The Hon. Member then pro
" answer tº a questiºn from Mr. M. A. Taylor, respecting ceeded, after condemning the British Government for depriving
the wanton attack by a Spanish Frigate (the Bronte) on an Eng him of the attendance of one whose attachment to him would be
lish vessel,-Lord º said, that Ministers had taken an etermal honour to his memory, to say that the nation ought
what steps, they deemed necessary respecting it. He believed to demand his removal to some wholesome climate, instead of
theThe
published account was correct. - -
allowing him to remain in one which was so notoriously—he
Report of the Gaol Committee was laid on the table. had almost said, so proverbially unwholesome.
!! was ºrderº, that the writs for Penryn and Barnstaple be berThe Citaxcellor of the Exchequer thought the Hon. Mem
º till 14 days after the next meeting of Parliament.
The CHANcellor of º
for Cork had introduced many extraneous topics in his
Excmeºuek then moved the annual speech. Instead of the expenses on the St. Helena station cost
grants to the Chairmeñ of Cónimittees, clerks ofth. House, i.
ing the country 500,000l., they did not cost more than one quar
and Mr. Huxtº moved a grºit of 3000l. to defray the travel ing ter of the sum. He moved, that the Resolutions be further con
and other expences of W. witnesses who had been ordered to sidered that day three months,
Mr. Hurchunson said, that whether the expenditure at St.
*ttend by the Scotch Bürghs' Cºinthittee, the Petitioner. Wi.
had come to 'town to supºrt the statements in their Petitions Helena were millions or farthings, he objected to it, as the prin
had made to charge.—Agreed to. ciple was the same: the treatment of the prisoner was cruel and
unheard of.
EMIGRATION-CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The Resolutious were negatived without a division.—Ad
The CHANCElton of the Exchequen adverted to the attempts journed.
to induce persons to settle āt the Cape of Good Hope. This Tuesday, July 13.
ºy ſºld ºf gºatºr inducements to emigrant than any
ºf the colonies in Norih America; because persons, when once STOREKEEPER-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.
fixed on the soil, would always find the means of subsistence Mr. Huxs made some remarks on the general extravagance of
while the ºi...". the fertility of the ºil, Ministers and the hollowness of their professions of economy;
rendered but he particularly called the attention of the House to the in
little cºſture necessary. "It was not proposed to carry moderate
out ersºns wholly destitute of means of providing for themselve. cost of i. Storekeeper General's Department. During
A shall deposit would be rejuired from them before leaving this the period when Mr. Trotter, of Soho-square, managed this de
*ry, ºn security for their prºviding for themselves when partment (and that period embraced 18 years of war), the totat
they arrived at the cºlony. He concluded by moving an address annual expense was 19,717t. ºut when the other gentleman
for a sum, not exceeding 50,000l., to be issued from ºne to time, (also a Mr. Trotter) was placed over it by Ministers, the expense
ºr the encouragement of persous disposed to settle at the of his first year was $0.823t. for the next (1812)55,561.3 for
1813, 130,000l. : for 1816, 181,000.; for 1817, 82,5941; for
Cape-Agreed to." -

1818, 68,9681. The two last were years of peace; and this enor
. ... FINANCE—NAPQLEON BONAPARTE. mous expense had been kept up in spite of the recommendations
Sir Henry Pannºt higved the resumption of the debate on
a number of Resolutions, formerly laid on the table, respecting for its reduction made by a Committee of that House chiefly com
posed of gentlemen on the other side. During 1816, 1817, and
º, collegion ºthe, Reventie, and the expenditure of public 1818, the whole value of the stores was only H53,829.; while
offices. These Resolutions compared the expence percent. of the expence of keeping them for those three years amounted to
collecting the revenue in England with that †. and Scot 277,716t, being nearly twice that amount! Another abuse was
land, and showed how trifling the 'former was compared with
the latter. The total cost of ă. collection of the Revenue was allowing clerks to retire on pensions after shorter periods of ser
* , They pointed out the great expense occasioned tº vice than was usual in any other department. It was stated in
official returns that one clerk had retired after serving only one
the confused and intricate manner in which the public scº, year and four months. [the discharge of eannon, on the arri
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 TH
E. EXAMI NER,
val ºf the Regent, interrupted the Hon. Gentleman, who then J. Q. Spring; Coningsby, Lincolnshire, grocer. Attornies,
concluded by moving an Address, calling on Ministers to adopt , Messrs. Jenkins, James, and Co. New-inn. : -

the most rigid economy.1 - *. T. Fisher and T. Ashmore, Cheltenham and Winchcomb, Glou
The CHANcellor of the Exchequen stated, as a reason for in cester, bankers. Attorniès, Messrs. Wizard and Blower, Lin
creased expense in this department, that in the fifteen years coln’s-inn-fields...} : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -

during which the former person held the office, the value of the T. Docura, Earith, Huntingdon, victualler. Attornies, Messrs.
stores in his possession was only 1,800,000l.; but that under the Long and Austen, Holborn-court, Gray's-inn. "
present Storekeeper it exceeded 3,500,000l. |J. Radiffe, Swansea, grocer. Attorney, Mr. Chester,
-
Staple
The Debate was here put an end to by the arrival of Sir T. 1 tº it. -

* Tyrwhitt, who summoned the House to attend the Lords. . The O.W., and G. Innell, Long Aerº, oilmen. Attorney, Mr. Ro
Speaker, attended by all the Members present, then left the bins, Serjeant's-inn. . . . . . . . . . . . ' ' ' -- " '
. House. On his return, he read the Royal Speech, and the J. Protheroe, Bristol, ship-broker. Attornies, Messrs. Young
Members separated. and Hughes, Saint Mildred's-court, '...}. ... . . *

C. Stacy, Nassau-street, Westminster, cºffee-house-keeper. At

torney, Mr. Richardson, Golden-square....
TUESDAY's London Gazette. | E. Dean, Narrow-street, Limehouse, biscuit-baker. Attorney,
-* Mr. Osbaldeston, London-street, Feuchurch-street. . . . -

BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. P. Butt, Cheltenham, grocer. Attornies, Mes Frowd and

R. Finch, Cooper's-row, Crutchedfriars, wine and spirit mer Rose, Lincoln’s-inn. r-, * : - . . . . . "
chant, from July 3, to Aug. 21.
T. jº. Kingston-upon-Thames, maltster, from July 3, to
*

The Highlanners-A number of these poor º

ug. &I.
T. Thompson, Piccadilly, ironmonger, from July 3, to Aug. 21. have lately been driven away {g. their habitations, by
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDEi). the agents of the Marchioness of St.AF#6RD, lately Countess
S.O. Jones, Prince's-street, Lambeth, potter. of Sutherland. This personage had let a town-ship.
- BANKRUPTS. which formed part of her immense property, to a new te
T. Mather, Warrington, Lancashire, cooper. Attornies, Messrs. nant, for a sheep-farm; and to give him entire possession,
Mason and Housman, New Bridge-street. 300 cottages were burnt, and at least 3000 of the misera
-

T. Collinson, sen., Lovely-hall, Salisbury, Lancashire, cotton ble inhabitants were ejected without any provision for their
spinner. Attorney, Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane. support: “We hold no opinion,” says the Scotsman, “ in
R. Roberts, Salford, Lancashire, provision-shopkeeper. At common with those who blame her Ladyship
tornies, Messrs. Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row. her estate into sheep walks. n the contrary, we thin
º:
W. Capenhurst, Cotton, Staffordshire, seedsman. Attorney, that every Highland proprietor who has, done so, has
Mr. Smith, Aldermanbury-Postern.
really conferred a benefit on the country;, but it is impos
W. H. Hayward, and R. Collier, Manchester, cotton-spinners. sible
Attorney, Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane. -
to vindicate her from the charge of having suddenly
D. Longworth and . W. Sudren. Little, Lever, Lancashire, deprived a helpless peasantry of their accustomed means
bleachers. Attornies, Messrs. Milne and Parry, Temple. of subsistence, and of having left those who looked up to
W. Walker. Hythe, Kent, farmer. Attornies, Messrs. Stocker, her as their protectress, to struggle with the extremes of
Dawson, and Herringham, New Boswell-court, Lincoln’s-inn. poverty and famine.” The tenants have associated for
J. Gleave, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, victualler. Attornies,
. Messrs. Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row.
the purpose of facilitating their
to America. º:
A. Griffiths, Swansea, Glamorganshire, grocer. Attorney, Mr. | of Curious Adventisgient. The following specimen
no-meaning appea in the Times of one day this week.
Price, Lincoln’s-inn. -

A. S. Racater, Wichenford, Worcestershire, farmer. Attorney, as an advertisement:—“As it is generally acknowledged

Mr. Becke. Devonshire-street, Queen-square. . that grievances do exist, and it may be feared that mis
N. Carkeet, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden, upholsterer. At chievous effects may emanate from the efforts of the ill
torney. Mr. Brookes, Spur-street, Leicester-square. disposed, it has in such times been contemplated, that
B. Gibson, Cheltenham, Glocestershire, wine merchant. At
some eligible means may be devised by patriotic and judi
torney. Mr. Brown, Commercial Sale-room, Mincing-lane.
J. Broomfield and J. Haselwood, Birmingham, steel and pot-ash cious persons to accomplish beneficial results. Commu
manufacturers. Attornies, Messrs. Hicks and Braikenridge, nications addressed O, at the Post Office, Camberwell
Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn. (post-paid), will be respectfully received.”
* -

: J. Duuu, Bristol, broker. Attorney, Mr. Heelis, Staple-inn. The number of informations filed in the Court of Ex
chequer . recovery of penalties under the customs and
excise laws, from 1st Jan., 1818, to 1st Jan., 1819, was
SATURDAY's LONDON GAzETTE. |761, as appears ſtom the return made to the order of the
-
House of Commons on this subject. . . . .
BANKRUPTcy suſpenSEDED. An article from Wisbaden, dated the 9th inst. announces
J. Oughton, Deretend Mills, Birmingham, manufacturer. that Lecusing, the person who attempted to assissinate
BANKRUPT's. M. Ibel, has been brought there, and the preliminary
R. Thomson, Exeter-street, Strand, baker. Attorney, Mr. Ponti proceedings for his trial cóinmenced. .
ſex, Dyer's-buildings, Holborn. -

Illness has prevented the Editor from attending the

J. Smith, and J. Forsyth, Princes-street, Bank of England, merTheatres for the two last weeks. He is now recovered,
chants. Attorney, Mr. Maxon, Lawrence Pountney-lane.
W. Low, Hanover-street, alworth, merchant. Attornies, | and will resume his duties there.
Messrs. Knight and Freeman, Basinghall-street. By the report of the Committee on the state of the City
J. Allsop, Southampton, baker. Attornies, Messrs. Winter and of §º.
we see that according to the evidence of
Williams, Bedford-row. the City Accountant,: . -

T. Lowe, Dartford, watch-maker. Attorney, Mr. Bartlett, Bar "The expenditure beyond it, income amounted ih -

tholomew-close, - the ten years preceding Martinmas, 1815, to £85,241 0 0

J. Browne and J. Gregson, Charles-street, Grosvenor-square; The super-expenditure for the year ending at -

upholsterers. Attorney, Mr. Goreb, Qruhard-street, Portman Martinmas, 1817, was - - - 16,036 12 o
squa e. The super-expenditure for 1818, was - - 18:242 17 2
T. Wiſ et, Hurleston, Cheshire, cheese-factor. Attornies, Messrs. And the probable deficiency in future will be per
Hard and Johnsou, Temple. annum -
- - - - - - 16,312 16 8
- - -

W. Rathbone. Manchester, printer. Attornies, Messrs. Milne and In the above is included the sum of 4,5121. being the
Parry, Temple. - - annual deficiency in the nce of the §: -

T. Harris, Liverpool, master-mariner. Attornies, Messrs. Black The atheunt of debt due by the City of Edinbu gn, in
stock and Huace, King's-Heuch-Walks, Temple. cluding that on the Dock Fund, is 497,000!? .
 456: * the ExAMINER.
The second Letter on the Abuses in the Court of Chancery next liſe time, and is too liberal for the race of men employed
week, if possible. - -
by King Frrdinand.” All this, to be sure, is reason
The Letter respecting Insolvent Debtors will be attended to.
Our First Article next week will be on the subject of the nume more than sufficing. An enlightened Minister of Feapı
rows Reform Meetings now taking place,—a subject every day NAND might as easily be expected to continue in office, as
getting more important. -

The Prorogation of Parliament will now afford us more room a gas-light to be held by an owl.
for our Correspondents and for Miscellaneous Articles in
general. -
The Court Newsman, after describing the preparations
- Paice or stocks on 8 ATurn AY. for the Prorogation of Parliament, informs us, that the
3 per Cent. Red........... 69+ 69 || 8 per Cent. Cons...69 68}}#}. PRINce Regent proceeded through the State-rooms, at
--F--- ~~~ tended by the usual officers, and that the “Master of the
Horse, and an Officer of State attended the Regent in
THE EXAMINER. the State carriage, carrying the Royal speech in his
Lowbox, July 18. hand. Wiscount Melbourne also rode in the State car
riage as Lord in Waiting. The PRINce Regent wore
.Notwithstanding the alleged settlement of the differences regimentals, with his different and numerous orders; and
of Sweden and Denmark by mediation, the “illegitimate” we were happy to observe, appeared in excellent health.
Swedish sovereign still thinks it necessary to go on with The Regent entered the state carriage at 25 minutes to 2
his preparations for war. This is but politic, and felt to o'clock. His Royal Highness entered the House of Peers
be so, whether his immediate apprehensions are well one minute before 2 o'clock. His Royal Highness remain
grounded or not. The young Prince Royal Oscar, ed in the House exactly 26 minutes. The procession re
“, seems to go about with him every where, and to be bred turned to St. James's Palace in the same order. His Royal
… mp to an active enterprising life. It is curious, and will Highness was cheered by the populace as he went in his
not be thought unworthy of the notice of real politicians, carriage to the Palace, and as he went and returned in the
that this youth who was named Oscan by his father in Royal procession.”
compliance with a taste for OssiaN, which is said to have Now this account of the cheering is, as far as it goes,
originated with Bonapante*, is now heir to one of the true, but then it is only half the truth, which is equivalent,
sovereigns of the ancient Scandinavia, the scene of some according to the received opinion, to a falsehood. Among
of the greatest exploits of the poet's heroes. those who witnessed the Royal Procession, some cheered,
The example of SANDT has roused the maddened feel some groaned and hissed, but the immense majority were
ings of another student to attempt an assassination. His totally silent. One more word, by the way, of the late
intended victim was a Mr. Ibel, President of the Regency accounts of this illustrious personage. Those who really
of Wisbad, and in the confidence of the Duke of Nassau. wish him well, should cease to draw attention to him
He aimed an ineffectual stab at IBEL's head with a poniard; in certain particulars. We have already noticed the im
ard being seized by the latter, who is tall and large, drew politic words put into his mouth, and ways put into his
out a pistol, but whether to shoot his antagonist or him manner, on the occasion of the speech. The Courier,
self is not known. It is said, that on advancing to his a week or two before, in mentioning a dinner or ſéte,
purpose, he reproached the President with being the cause took an opportunity of eulogizing him, in which it hinted,
of his country's misfortunes; and that he still alleges this that his failings were only such as have been common to
as the ground of his attempt. Mr. IBEI, it is added, is the most generous and exalted natures, and that his
reckoned a clever man, but is supposed to be the origi virtues were of course in proportion. In other words,
nator of some arbitrary pecuniary measures. The young he is another FRANcts 1st, or HENRY 4th. It is curi
inau's name is Lecisiso, and he is the son of an apo ous that some of the ladies who went to court the other
- thecary, We speak of him as a student, because both as day seemed to think proper to give into this notion.—
student and volunteer he seems to have gone through one dressing herself as Armida, another a la Gabrielle,
precisely the same career as SANDT, and to have im and a third “as Mademoiselle La Valiere presented to
lºrd in consequence the same vehement principles, Louis the 14th,”—a pretty significant suit of clothes. Now
** principles, be it observed, which, as long as they were of we are by no means of opinion that the PRINce Regent
use in resisting French despotism, were connived at by the has no natural good qualities; or that all the old French
Gérman governments, and especially fostered by the Ger courts were the worst in the world. Anything even in
man writers; one of whom, at last, by forsaking the most the shape of sympathy, or the commonest excess of it, is
excellent part of them, became the victim of the most better, in our minds, than the intolerances, envies, jea
doubtful. - t.
lousies, and all uncharitableness, which so often usurp the
-The best reason assigned for the dismissal of the late. name of virtue. . But then it is extremely desirable that all
Spanish Ministers is contained in a private letter from departures from the common prudery of manners should
Gibraltar. “The ſact is,” says the writer, “IRujo was be known and felt to be the result of something prin
not liked by Fendix AND's servile party: he had married cipled, and not merely lax; and what the public have
* American, the datighter of a strenuous Republican, and objected to in the PRINce REGENT is, not that he
is himself well read in Tox. Paise, Rousseau, and Vol is destitute by nature of all good qualities, or of the
+&ine. He was not subservient enough to the Friars and many excuses allowable to every body so liable to
'iaºnisition party; indeed he has lived out of Spain all his bad education and flattery, but that he has appeared
* Oscan, was the tarling asid promising *on of Ossian, and to them deficient in the finer and more unequivocally
tº and scu
- of his llero l'ixcar, the cilief warrior of the North. .
** * * - -- - - generous qualities attributed to him by these jour
*
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4–1.
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nals—journals by the way, which have shewn no such A Bill of Indictment for sedition has been found at the
ceremony towards his less important brothers, whom the Cheshire Sessions against Sir Charles Wolseley and the
Courier once designated as “great babies fit only to fill Reverend Joseph HARRison, for the Speeches delivered
up ball-rooms.” We have said over and over again, and by them at the late Stockport Meeting.
Sir C. Wolseley was taken into custody, and brought
say once more, that the Prince would have been allowed
into the Court of the Cheshire Quarter Sessions, on Thurs
all the freaks of his royal brethren of old, had he day, when he pleaded not guilty, and bail was demanded
impressed the public with a sense of his possessing their of him, himself to be bound in 500l. and two sureties in
generosities, to say nothing of their talents; but what looks 25l. each. He was committed till he could procure it.
The Hon. Douglas Knnaird has been chosen mem
like the pardonable infirmities of greatness on one hand,
ber for Bishopscastle. Salop, by a majority of four, over
often looks so like unadorned weakness and false preten his opponent, Lord VALENTIA.
sion on another, that the attempts to represent it as some The Liverpool Orange Club, met with their deserts on
thing else only recoil on its head, and force us to laugh at Monday last. They paraded the streets with fantastic de
as ridiculous, what we should really be inclined to pass corations: “many carried ornamented poles, upon which
over as immaterial, or even to regard as not unamiable. were placed, representations of saints and eminent men—
We find, that we were mistaken in thinking that Sir F. another carried a triumphal arch, with the inscription of
BURDett and Mr. Place could only recover the damages “Holiness to the Lord!”—four men carried the Ark of
the Covenant—another the effigy of a lamb–another bore
obtained against them by Mr. WishART and others, by the bible before him—and one held up to the public gaze,
bringing an action against some other individuals: they a silver image of King Will:1AM, during the passing of
will go the Petty Sessions, and a rate will be levied upon which, every Orangeman took off his hat. A number of
the inhabitants of the Hundred for the amount. It ap them were dressed in leopard skins—others in white and
pears, too, that the plaintiffs could not have recovered da orange-coloured garments—others in black robes, with
mages, without first getting a verdict in a Court of Law miters on their heads—some displayed drawn swords, and
a number of silk colours crowned the whole.”—This
against some inhabitant. This explanation, of course, splendid display of ultra-loyalty and bigotry did not suit
exonerates those Gentlemen from the suspicion of their the taste of the other inhabitants, who attacked the pro
beiag actuated by so unworthy a motive, as the wish to cession in one of the streets, destroyed all the parapher
punish their political opponeats by means of an unjust malia, and scattered the “robed laymen and mitred high
law; but still we think it would have been more to their priests.” When this was accomplished the people retired
eaceably.
credit, had they put up with a trifling loss, without going “'The public,” as the Chronicle, justly says, “will be
to law for it. It may still be asked, what could be their sorry to learn, that a serious calamity has befallen one of
inotive in attacking two persons polically opposed to their most favourite Poets, Mr. Moone, in consequence of
them, and thereby exposing themselves to suspicion?— the misconduct of a deputy, whom he had employed some
We suspect the true reason is stated in the following ex years in his office at Berinuda, and who has embezzled a
tract from the defence made by Mr. BLAckptºn N :—“The considerable sum of money, for which Mr. MooRE is of
course legally responsible. The cause was decided in
plaintiff in this cause is a person who has long been a fa the Cockpit, before the Lords of Appeal, on Tuesday last,
vourer of the Whig Party, and that is the reason why and an attachment decreed against N. Moore's person.”—
he, or rather his party, have singled out Sir FRANcis The first impulse, on this occasion, in the minds of Mr.
Bcaberr, who you know is the great advocate of the MooRE's numerous friends and readers, will be obvious to
rights of the people, as a deſendant on this occasion; it our own; but a mind of delicacy and independence is
is an attempt to fix reproach upon him, because he has very often the last to agree in some things, the propriety
been steadily labouring through his life to procure that of which is obvious to every one else; and Mr. Moorf,
which they formerly themselves confessed to he the right it is understood, is resolved to extricate himself from this
and property of the people, namely, that their Repre difficulty by the exertion of talents, the strength and po
sentatives should be chosen by themselves. They have pularity of which may certainly warrant him in dispensing
been anxious that his name should go forth to the world with the aid of his grateful admirers. The sum is six
connected with the disgraceful proceedings of a mob, and thousand pounds.
to induce a belief that those who advocate the cause of The King of SpAIN sleeps in one apartment and the
Reform are in
*
general the creators of riots and disturb Queen in another. It is thus noted in the orders—that
alice.
when the King comes out of his own chamber in the
(ºr ++ night to go into the Queen's, he must wear his shoes like
slippers, his black cloak upon his shoulders instead of a
An account has been published of an extraordinary and night-gown, his brouguel, or buckler, fastened under his
wanton attack by a Spanish frigate (the Bronte) upon an arm, and his bottle fastened by a string to the other : with
English merchant vessel. The latter was hailed by the this accoutrement, the King has besides a long rapier in
Spaniard, and after answering some questions, was ordered one hand and a dark lanthorn in the other; and in this
to the leeward side of her. A boat from the frigate then manner he is obliged to go alone into the Queen's cham
came alongside, the questions were repeated and satis ber.—How picturesque! The gallant soul! Guy Fawkes
factorily answered, and the boat returned. About five to a hair! -

minutes after this, the frigate suddenly run on board (as During a thunder-storm a few days since at Cleron
the sailors say) of the other vessel, and fired a gún into (Doubs), 120 sheep were struck dead by the lightning.
the fore-rigging, which severed the body of Mr. Walker, To give some idea, says the Chronicle, of the alteration
a passenger, of the town of Whitehaven, and wounded which has already taken place, at the Custom-house since
two other persons. The Spaniards were proceeding to the close of the last quarter, we extract the following from
fire again, when the others cried out, and repeated that the entries:–
they were English. They then got off, after the ship had Entered 9th June. Entered 9th July, tsIg.
suffered considerable damage, and the Spanish Captain Tobacco, 117,653|b. Tobacco–none.
came on board, behaved very civilly, and apologized 1– Šigº so; cwt. Sugar, 2,306 cwt.
How worthy a representative of FERDINAND1 *
Ruin, 3,599 gallois. * - ilum, 2,572 gulloes.

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THE EXAMINER.
- HALF-PAY Officers.--It was stated by Lord PAL The circular, signed “J. Blandford, Secretary.”
Merston, in the debate on Sir H. PARNeill’s Resolutions, copied into our last paper, appears to be a triek. Mr.
on Monday, that though it had been neglected to bring in (Bristo!) Hunt was spoken of as being invited to take
a Bill to do away the necessity of Half-pay Officers making the chair, and from the manner in which the other names
an affidavit that they held no other appointment under followed, *|†: were left to suppose that they were
- Government, the Treasury would do this in effect, and the inviters. But the fact is, that many of those gentlemen.
enable them to ..". emoluments, amounting to Majort CARtwright, Mr. North Morr, Mr. Taylor, of
three times their half-pay, in this manner:—The Trea Norwich, (who, with other gentlemen of the same name.
sury would give Half-pay Officers, holding civil appoint has long been a consistent advocate of Reform in that
- ments, a º, allowance equal to and in lieu of their city), and we believe Sir Charles Wolseley, either dis
half-pay, and for such allowance no oath would be re approve of the proposed meeting altogether, or would de
quired respecting civil offices. At present Half-pay Offi cline attending in the company of those who have called
cers swear that they hold no office civil or military, &c.; it. A letter from Mr. HUNT. in answer to this invitation,
the alteration proposed is, that they hold no military office, has been published, in which he speaks of the above gen
which exceeded three times the rate of half-pay. tlemen as being also invited. We thought this ºff be
Tire SUN NewsPAPER.—A Correspondent, referring to the mode of accounting for the use of their names, when
a paragraph inserted last week from the Leeds Mercury, an explanation took place; but nobody will be deceived
respecting an exaggerated account of the Leeds Meeting by this artifice, or doubt the real intentions of the persons
in the above Journal, states, that the Sun did apologize who drew up the placard.
“for the imposition practised upon it,” stating that it had We hear that a Subscription is now on foot in aid of
received better information. Mr. HUNT's finances, and that 60ls. have been obtained.
Mr. Rush, the American Ambassador, Generals Boyd GRAND JUNction Water Works—A Correspondent
and HARPER, and some other Americans, were present at says, -“You will render an essential service to the public
the 43d Anniversary of the Holkham Sheep-shearing, and by noticing the unwarrantable conduct of the Grand Junc
tion Water Works Company,” who are now charging the
partook of the hospitality of that patriotic preserver of
good old English customs, Mr. Coke of Norfolk. The already oppressed inhabitants of the western district, with
memory of the great WashingtoN being given, Mr. Rush an advance of fifty per cent. upon the water rate; at the
returned thanks, and spoke of the liberality of his host, same time, that the water is scarpely fit for any human
and the benefits resulting from his agricultural plans. This being to drink. For example, f have for a number of
is very properly felt on all sides: a tribute to the memory years paid on an average about 22s. per annum, which
of WashingtoN is a compliment to all lovers of freedom, sum is now raised to 35s. What makes our case more
and an American Ambassador must feel very proud in ac Jesperate is that the three companies (the New River, the
knowledging it as particularly addressed to the great people West Middlesex, and the Grand Junetion,) have united.
he represents. thus destroying that competition which is so neeessary to
A gentleman went to the office of the Black Dwarf on a proper supply of all commodities.”
Saturday evening, and after complaining of unjust and An important decision was given on Thursday, in the
false statements inserted therein, ridiculing the regiment Court of Conscience, Fulwood's Rents.-A Gentleman
called the York Hussars, insisted on a public apology, discharged his servant for gross misbehaviour at three days'
which being refused by Wooler, the stranger immediately notice, offering to pay him up to the time of his dismissil.
began to belabour him with a stick, so violently, that this The servant summoned his master in this Court, it having
weapon was soon broken into pieces. Wooler made a been agreed (when he was hired) that he was to have a
spirited resistance till another person came up and held the month's warning or a month's wages. The master pleaded,
stranger, who then gave his name and address, “ Lord that this agreement necessarily implied decency of beha
GRastianſ, commander of the York Hussars.”—Weekly viour, the contrary of which as necessarily violated the con
"Nºw STREET-A Correspondent wishes to call the tract; and that, if it were not so, a servant would only
r.

have to behave so ill as to compel his discharge, in order

public attention to the circumstance of the erection of large get a mouth's wages. The Chief Justice had, in the pre
iles of buildings in the New Street which are intended to sent term, decided for the master in a similar case. The
oceupied by a number of different persons, without Court found for the plaintiff. The Act declares the de
having party walls between them, in the teeth of an Act cisions of these Courts to be final; but a body of free
of Parliament, which expressly provides that if any build holders have resolved to avail themselves of a section of
ing, of the first, second, third, or fourth rate, be divided that Act, which enables them to apply to the Chanceller
into separate dwelling-houses, “which shall be in distinct for a remedy for such proceedings.
tenures on the ground floor,” such dwelling-houses shall be Clerical, RApacity.—The following case, says the
divided with the proper party walls. Our Correspondent Nottingham Review, has been furnished us from a very
therefore desires to know how the Surveyor, who is sworn respectable source:—A maltster, not one hundred miles
to carry the Aet into execution, can get rid of this provi from Mansfield, who lately paid the debt of nature, had a
sion ? “It is supposed,” he adds, “to be the intention demand upon a Reverend Gentleman in the same neigh
of the owner to have the various tenants separately assessed bourhood for malt. The executors sent him a bill, and
to the King's and Parochial Taxes, by which means the requested payment, the Divine sent in the following to the
Window Tax will be nearly avoided, and each lodger will executors :
be entitled to a vote for Westminster. This may appear The Executors of the late J. E.
To W.
very favourable to the ministerial interest, while it is only 1818.
uſin practice on the Crown Lands, but if it can be March 2, Reading to him
egally done there, it will be equally legal for the owner 5, Do. . . . . . . . . .
of every house in Lower Westminster, who has lodgers, to . 9, Self driving him out” . . . .
agree with them to pay the taxes for their separate apart 17, Do. . . . . . . . . . .
ments, and thus increase the number of voters on the other
side.”
Miss SoMºrrville, who has been married some time,
has now publicly assumed the name of her husband, "Mr.
BuNN, the lessee of the Birmingham. Theatre,
23,
28,
April 2,
13,
Reading to him
Self driving him out
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 - THE EXAMINER.
MR. Rogers's Subscription.—Mr. Charles WIL
LIAMs, the son of Mr. Williams, M.P. of Belmont
House, has sent Mr. Rogers a pound note, thus adding
his name to a list in which are placed the names of so
many other members of his benevolent family.—Since our
last regular list, some subscriptions have been received, be
sides those noticed in occasional paragraphs; but they are
reserved until the close of this attempt to interest the public,
when a complete account of all the subscribers will
addenr.
Jr. CLEARY has published “a Letter to Major CART
wright, in justification of the Writer's conduct at the late
Election for Westminster, and in Answer to the Calum
nies spoken and published against him by Cobh RTT, Hunt,
and Thelwall, and certain Members of Mr. Hobhouse's
Committee.”—In this publication, the Writer refutes the
arguments urged by those who asserted that the Letter
writen by Mr. Cobbett to Mr. WRight was a forgery.
Indeed it seems quite certain, whatever may now be the
inions of Mr. Cobbert concerning Mr. Hunt, that in
April 1808 he did think, very ill of “the Orator,” or at
least that he wrote about him in no very measured terms—
as for example:– “It is impossible for both factions
united to calumniate our motives, if we proceed as we
ought, and do not mix with men of bad character.—There
is one Hunt, the Bristol Man—Beware of him He
rides about the country with a whore, the wife of another
man, having deserted his own—a sad fellow ! nothing to
do with him.—Adieu.-W.M. Cobbett.” ,
--
ORIGINAL POETRY.
--
LA BELLA TABBACONISTA;
on the fair tobacconist of covent-garden.
Gon prosper long those noble things
Our wives and safeties all;
A fearful shop is just set up,
At which it's bold to call.
Let Frenchmen boast their coffee-house,
Which they call Mille Colonnes,
Where there's a lady sits and takes
Your twopence on a throne.
No throne is in this fearful shop,
Nor does it deal in coffee,
Nor are there columns hung with glass
To take the portraits of ye;
Only some boxes, pipes, and jars,
For holding snuff-that's certain,
And there's a natural back-room,
Whose window has a curtain.
But then from out this curtain comes
Something that has the art to
Take with it's two witching eyes
Your image, cash, and heart too.
The rash snuff-taker unawares
With open mouth and box,
Ere he can say Jack Robinson,"
Stands staring like an ox.
The very barrow-woman feels
As if she must address 'em,
And cutting short her speech, exclaims,
“Two ounces, Ma'am—Lord bless em!”
The Turk, no longer terrible,
Keeps bowing for a while,
Desiring much to take a pinch
Not of her snuff, but smile.
other world delight in the same pursuits and Pleasures that emi
ployed them on earth.
* A sort of snuff, so called from a worthy gentleman about
town.
-
The gallant sailor says “I want”—
Then suddenly slacks sail,
And gapes, and scratches his wise head,
As who should say “Pigtail.” +
The wiser spark, though much surprised,
Falls chatting with the parrot,
To make her turn her eyes that way, --
For his at ease to stare at.
The lady of the manor finds . . .
The curate less subdued; - -
Thinks he, I buy my snuff in town
Of one that's quite as good. --
The oldest gentleman alive
That loves the nightly pit,
And hears (or would) the self-same plays,
And sports the self-same wit,
Almost imagines that he sees
Miss ARNE or Clivr before him
Performing in a comedy; º
So young a dream comes o'er him.
The whistling idle errand-boy
Who stops and falls a brooding
Over the painted snuff-boxes,
Stares dumbly on the sudden;
And with his flattened nose against
The window-pane, descries
A finer living picture there,
Which makes him say “My eyes
No pastry-cook's, or little-go,
Could more detain his heart;
He stares upon the lady's face,
As if it were a tart.
All ages and all ranks, in short,
Peer, lawyer, doctor, poet,
Can take no other snuff or road,
The moment that they know it.
And if those doings of dead men
Are none of Virgil's hoaxes, t
No doubt the dead, of any life,
Come here to fill their boxes.
Yes; now, I think, I've seen 'em come
To get a pinch of Doctor;
Only they were incognito,
Or else they would have shocked her.
There's Paion comes in shape of Moore;
ARButmixot, LAMB, in thine;
And Swift in Hazlitt's too, they say;
And GARTH, dear rogue ! in mine :
with every ghost of wit and taste
That Pope said “How d'ye do” to :
Who smokes the devils with PRosen pinc,
Qr takes High-dried 5 with Pluto.
And so long life, segars, and breath,
To those in court and city,
Who help to make Fair Dealers rich,
And me so mortal witty.
And let those keep to Frraouac's snuff
Who think there's nothing new good;
Be Glipoon's mine, whose only fault
is being somewhat too good.
HARRY BRowN.
+ A sort of tobacco. * -
Aeneid, Book 6, where the poet tells us that the souls in the
# A sort of sauff.
§ Otherwise called inndyfoot.
 460 - THE EXAMINER:
ACCOUNT OF THE MOVEMENTS OF THE COME-EAT for erecting perhaps a hundred new churches in the me
By the gastronopment nowal. tropolis, should not have thought it necessary also to adopt
(From the Pahlic Observatory in Westminster.) some measure for the purpose of filling them. The inha
On the thirteenth first noticed this great luminary—
bitants of a º parish, very likely, consider them
It's face like a globe, head prodigiously hairy— selves specially unfortunate in having a dull inefficient
Bolt upright—a sign of it's great elevation— clergyman, and consequently pay their devotions at some
And yet in a heat to be felt by the nation.
chapel; but such as have been in the habit of visitin
It entered the Charioteer,” as I reckoned, different churches know, that usually half the churches
At twenty-five minutes to two by a second;—
have not half the seats they contain occupied. Yet this
point was never even touched during the discussion of the
Had hitherto held an irregular course, Bill to which I allude; and it seems to have been taken
But uow went strait on by the Equus or Horse— for granted that the progress of Methodism was chiefly,
Then suddenly turned, and was partly concealed if not altogether, owing to the fewness of the erections be
By the Draco or Drago(0)n, as if with a shield. longing to the Establishment, and that nothing more was
A strange thing was uotic'd, as here it went by, wanting but to build a number of churches to put down
A sullen red light in the star call’d Bull's Eye; all the chapels.
And then in the air were strange whispers or groans, In truth, this was a delicate matter to touch upon in
Such as usher in general the falling of stones. Parliament: the individual, who should only have hinted
At one minute to two (items past all forgetting) that something more was necessary, would have been in
It entered the House of the planet then setting; stantlv denounced as an enemy both to Church and State.
Where suddenly changing from pallid to red, Sir Willi AM Scott and Mr. Peel, would have started
It swell'd with such grandeur, and so rais'd it’s head, from their seats, as the chosen champions, to deſend it and
And put on an aspect so threatening and awful, its Ministers from the most unfounded, most malignant,
It read a great lesson to all the unlawful. and most libelious attack, that had ever been made upon
its sacred institutions. To have asserted that a Reform
it return'd then much smaller, though still flaring up;
And at midnight was lost in the Crater + or Cup. was wanting among the Clergy—that the nature and mode
HARRY BRowN. of their emoluments must be changed before they would
exert themselves to attract and impress their hearers, would
* The constellation otherwise called Auriga or Ericthonius. have called down the fulminations of the whole Bench of
+ ‘the real P.": perhaps of the word creature, which is
Bishops, backed not merely by their, bristling inferiors of
used by some of his Majesty's subjects for brandy or whiskey, the same profession, but by the high-church laity in all
and by many still pronounced cratur. parts of the kingdom. Yet no impartial man of sease and
knowledge scruples in private to say that such is the
PU LP IT OR ATO R.Y. fact:—until the Clergy are what now they are not, the
*
new churches will remain as empty as the old.
No. 1.-The STATE of the Establish MENT—THE BILL If it be answered that some of the parish churches are
Fort ERecTING New CHURches—TIIE GRowth of tolerably full in the morning, can it be denied that they
Metropisyſ. -
are nearly empty in the evening, and that the literal veri
fication of the words of St. Chrysostom's prayer, “when
Tiie uncontrouled licence of Catholicism was the origin two or three are gathered together,” is almost become a
of the severity of Puritanism: the gloomy self-denial of standing joke? If the inhabitants of crowded parishes
the Puritans gave place to the more moderate and accom are indeed so anxious to go to church, but are prevented
modating system of the Church of England, and the laxity in the morning by an apprehension of its fulness, why do
of the existing Establishment is daily contributing to the thev not make thé attempt in the afternoon Z. Or, if their
growth of Methodism. . Methodism is again making ap zeal and fervour be very great, why do they not attend
proaches to the ceremonies and symbols of Catholicism, in prayers on Wednesday or Friday ! The answer is to be
which, or something like it, it would not be surprising iſ it found in the inefficiency, not to say, incompetence of the
were to terminate. Thus even religion runs round in a officiating Minister. Bishop Latimien (see his 6th ser
circle, and as in fashions, politics, and opinions, after all mon before Epwºrd VI.), in one of his visitations, came
our wanderings, we return but to the point from whence to a place where the people did not perform the usual ce
we started. - -

Without either now or hereaſter troubling ourselves with son, andofwas

remony ringing him into the town : he asked the rea
told that the bell wanted a clapper; but
the “shadowy differences” of sects, it is obvious that the one that was wiser than the rest, took him into the church
only material points that concern us in the above relate to and said, that he would shew his Lordship a bell that had
the cause or causes that have aided in the extension of
Methodism-in opposition to the Established Religion of been without a clapper these twenty years, and pointed to
the pulpit. Now in our churches at this day the emolu
the State, and to the question how far the one or the other ments are great, and the pulpits are not vacant, but many
is and has been most favourable to the display of Pulpit of those who occupy them are. If the Clergymen are
Oratory ! - - *
not completely wanting in information and understanding,
With respect to the first of these points, the reader need which I do not pretend, they find it needless, as far as pro
not be under any alarm lest I should attempt once more to fit is concerned, to employ there either their acquirements
drag him along the old beaten track, which, however or their talents. -

wearisome, has of late had many travellers, bent on an I will admit however that in three, four, perhaps half a
inquiry why Church-preachers are so languid and unani dozen of the churches and chapels of ease, large audiences
inating, and Miethodist-preachers, so ſervent and attrac are collected once a week, yet I think I may say, that in
tive:-why the Tabernacle and the Chapels in Spa
fields and Blackſriars-road are crowded to excess with every instance the Preachers, either 'eliver their sermons
extemporaneously, or with the air and , manner of unpre
wondering and terrified listeners, while parish churches in meditation, which has uearly the same effect; and above
general are visited ouly by a few families, who sing out all, their tenets are known to savour strongly of what is
one-half of the service, and generally doze out the rest ? understood by the word Methodism: nay, some of theºn;
Many reasons have been as many times assigned for this on this account, have actually been removed as secedeſ
contrast, and probably every one of them applicable; but and dissenters from the Establishment. ''Therefore, to use
it is singular that our Legisſators, when esſacting the Bill an old phrase, the exception proves the rule, and shews.
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that where due pains are taken, and the Clergyman really FINE ARTS.
possesses ability, he may command a good attendance.
am disposed even to go so far as to maintain, that the pre ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION.
cise doctrines he entertains are of little consequence, com
pared with the style and power with which they are en [Concluded.]
forced; at least there is nothing in the tenets of the Church THE SCULPTURE.
of England which should prevent them from being nonu IF 1205, Bust of Mrs. W. Taylor, is correspondently de
lar. It has been said, that the more mysterious and in licate in the original, it is lucky for bachelors' hearts that
comprehensible, the more inviting doctrines are to the she is wedded." The Sculptor of it, Mr. J. Gibson, who
great majority of society. One of the earliest of our Me isBust
a pupil of theVose.--Strong
by Mrs. Marquis CANova, appears inand1190,
resemblance a good
sºftness of
thodists, a man gifted in many ways, but as nrone to
superstition as the most uneducated vulgar (Sir T. BrowN), execution are seen in 1233, The late Princess Charlotte,
in his strange but eloquent book, Religio Medici, insists, from the meat chisel of F. Nicoli...—The Busts by Mr.
that “there are not impossibilities enough in religion for Bennes are to the life, but the common nature folds, in
his Busts of the Duchesses of Kent and Cambridge, are
an active faith—'Tis my solitary recreation (he adds) to
pose my apprehension with those involved enigmas and tame. We like somewhat better the dress and hair in his
fiddles of the Trinity, with Incarnation and Resurrection. delicate Bust of the Hon. Miss, Barrington. The wi
I can answer all the objections of Satan, and my rebellious and robes in his Bust of the Bishop of Durham, though
ſeasºn, with that odd resolution, Ilearned of TÉgrulliaN, well executed, are unfavourable for Sculpture or any class
Certigm est quia impossibile est.” Hundreds of thousands of Art.-Mr. Bailey has beautifully executed a Monu
feel the same in our own day, and would willingly go the ment to the Memory of Col. Bewick, from a graceful de
same lengths, provided they could find a conductor who sign of the late classical Sculptor, Mr. Theep. It is of a
would lead them on with zeal and ſervour. This is ano female sunk on the shoulder and holding the hand, ºf he,
ther cause why Methodism is now so prevalent among the he father, who is looking up as if, in a “silent soft address.”
lower orders, and this it is that will for ever prevent the was invoking a blessing upon the lovely mºrner. The
Unitarians from becoming a popular sect; they invert the performance touches the heart to its centre. It has much
saying of Teatullias, and convert it into a maxim of of the rhetoric of actual life, when the bitterness of º:
law, id certum est quod certum reddipolest. Reason and ing in death occurs between friends, the soul's anguish re
the understanding are the tests of their faith, and a rational
religion, as it is termed, is ill calculated for the uninformed pears as a gloomy.
jects all wonted
wilderness, the
andgarden of the world ap
the days of peace to be
mass of mankind. The difference lies between those who departed.— Mr. CHANTREv's Busts are, as ever, distin
think without feeling, and those who feel without thinking. guished by their fleshy character, and the ºttic elegance of
the dresses. His Stative of the late Dr. Anderson look; as if
The preceding observations will be sufficient to explain
it had the functions of life. The head is turned and the
why in the series of articles, to which this is the introduc
limbs placed just like those of a man sitting with entire
tion, I shall so frequently be induced to take my subjects
ºf criticism from that increasing body of preachers the comfort to himself, and the dress, modern as it is, has its
Methodists; or more properly, why I wander among the breadth varied in parts with tender and beautifully this:
leaders of the different sects of Dissenters, as they are con seled folds, rendered even somewhat classical by a light
fusedly and collectively called, instead of confining myself over-hanging gown. We understand that Mr. CHAN
only to the Establishment. In fact, in the latter, taken as They is greatly assisted by the admirable execution of Mr.
a body, I should find but miserable specimens of pulpit i.ege. PThe Adam and Eve of Mr. KenoRick must
oratory; but I shall not fail to notice even some of them surely be a misnomer in the catalogue, for such common
by way of warning and illustration: such church clergy nature figures never can represent
men as in any respect aim at distinction, who make any - “A lovelier pair
ºt force and effect in their preaching, will obtain “Than ever since in love's embraces met."
heir full share of observation. Doctrinal points and The progenitors of the human race, fresh from the Crea;
modes of faith will have no weight with me; # shall look tor's
at individuals merely with an eye tº their powers. It is 'hand, the primeval possessors of perſect beauty and
i
health, can be J. pourtrayed only by
unnecessary to add any thing to prove that the pulpit, as and classical of forms, by Fiji. excellence.
the most perfect
Mr. KEN
it affords the amplest room for the display of all the various pack has ventured beyond his depth; and sº, has Mr.
kinds of eloquence, so it opens the widest field for enlarged Scoulan, in 1188, The Death of Virginia. The highly
and liberal criticism. -

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...Whether the eloquence of the pulpit has or has not de: parent to plunge a knife into his daughter's bºsom to prº
clined, is a question with which º do not trouble myself, serve her from ravishment, and the extraordinary beauty
and probably am not well qualified to judge; because the of the devoted female, can be properly represented only by
written sermons of any man who lived thirty or forty years the noblest and most beautiful forms and expressions,
ago do not enable us to form a fair opinion. Thus I have from which these are at an opposite distance;—The form.
little doubt that Dr. Fordyce' was a very striking, de the action, and upward look of Achilles, attacked by the
claimer, but I never read one of his sermons that did not waves of Scamander, are those of a hero ſiteously beseech
make methink that I should have been irresistibly inclined ing Heaven for assistance in distress. Mr. Hººsas
to sleep while he was delivering it: action and utterance. has here beautifully executed what he has with fervour
he could not put upon paper, and other preachers often conceived.—Mr. Joseph's Busts and their dresses are
added in the study more solid recommendations which spirited and graceful—Mr. GARRARP has, an admirably
were wanting in the pulpit. Neither shall I institute any tºuched Bas-relief of a Bull, erecuted for Woburn 4bbey,
direct comparison between our own preachers and those and Mr. Rossi exceſſent Models for Statues of a Gricketer
of foreign countries, although the latter will sometimes be and Bowler.—Mr. WestMacott's Peasant Girl is per
incidentally mentioned. I shall take the pulpit as I find haps of a little too elevated a cast of character for a rusºe,
it, and if I leave it as I find it, it shall not be for want of but it combines a countenance, shapes, and graces, partly
pointing out its defects and the means of improvement. “Weird in a simple robe their best attire.”
. . . . Diox.
that, from the moment of looking at them, take fast hold of
[The subject of the next paper will be the Rev. DANIEL The elevations and inflexions
Wilson.] . . .. . . . .” - - -- our hearts and memories.

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462 ºr -. THE EXAMINER.

of the surface of the limbs are soft and highly beautiful. barassments. His case has been too often inserted in your
We are especially pleased with the position of the lower paper, and those of similar principles, to render a repeti
limbs, for its giving additional beauty to their graceful tion of the facts necessary. My aim is, though a female
diminutions of shape. . The oaken fillet also adds to the and an humble individual, to rouse the feelings of all those
beautiful proportion of the face by the contrast of wide who really love their country, and honour public principle
ness it shews immediately above it, and affords a lesson wheresover and in whomsoever found, and induce them
of tasteful head-dressing to ladies, while, with the distaff to come forward and give a pledge of their sincerity, by a
at the feet; it explains the peculiar personal class of the timely and generous rescue of Mr. Rogers and his family
figure. She would personate a Lavinia from 'l'homson from the weight of ruin under which he lies buried by an
most charmingly. We congratulate Mr. WesTMAcott unjust and cruel political persecution. I would more
on the revolution which has for a year or two back especially appeal unto my own ser, Gifted by nature with
occurred in his style. He was always an able Sculptor, acute and tender sensibilities, and with more leisure time
now he is a very elegant one. Our want of room pre than falls in general to the lot of man, it is in our power,
vents us from expressing more than our admiration of his and should be in our inclination, to effect very much in the
Reliero in Marble, part of a Monument to the late Lord cause of benevolence, if we put our shoulders to the wheel
Penrhyn, consisting of four groups of charming chubb with a good will. It is among many a received opinion,
Infants, designed to represent the condition in . that a woman should never meddle in politics. I could
Lord Penrhyn found his tenantry on coming to his estates never admit this as a truth. If a woman be capable (and
in Wales, and the improvement they experienced by the who will deny this to the virtuous and sensible female) of
time of his decease. For the same reason we cannot gra appreciating the blessings of a free Constitution, ef the
tify our wish to dwell at length on the following very charms of home and her fireside,-of all in short that ren
masterly works.-Mr. Flaxx! AN's Alto Reliero (in Marble). ders life desirable, -she can full well judge of, and liſt up
of Charitiſ. This best of human qualities is beautifully her voice against that system of tyranny and persecution,
pourtrayed in the protecting care of a mother, of a mien which has hurled a worthy and innocent man, from a re.
dignified and graceſul, in garments most tastefully appro spectable and independent station in society, and with his
priate, because broadly simple, and children equally ap helpless wife and seven young children, has doomed them
propriate; because innocent and gracefully infantine in for ever (unless the §.
benevolence prevents it) to po
shape and movement. Mr. FLAxMAN executes with much verty and misery. Base and venal as are the times, let it
delicacy, but still a good deal like Mr.Stothamp in paint not be said, for the credit of the few who yet wear the
ing, his refinement does not extend from his ºf: | unfading wreath of civicindependence, that they suffered one
ception of form and action, which are however admirable, less able than themselves to stem the torrent of oppression,
to those minuter delicacies, to those touches of taste in but, by a timely aid, replace Mr. Rogers and his family in
parts throughout the entire work, which materially assist that situation, from whence his love of public virtue has
to conſer upon it the highest degree of excellence, such as alone dislodged him.—I remain, Sir, your obliged and
is displayed in the choicest antiques. Here we think Mr. constant reader,
CiANThey to be his superior. A firm and dignified cha A Wifr, A Mother, AND AN ENGL1suwoxias.
racter justly distinguishes his Relievo (in Marble) of Faith. South Lambeth, July 13, 1819.
Mr. Flaxias's monumental figure in marble, A"Woman
bending near an Urn, is excellent in her abstraction of
CITY.
grief—Though Mr. Physick's monumental figure has no -
refinement of form, it has much of the same merit.—Mr.
On Thursday, at a Court of Common Council, Mr. T. N. Wit
B. J. W. v Att's Model of a Monument to the late Lady Laws moved, that the conduct of the Lord Mayor's household at
Ann Hudson is altogether charming throughout with the Mansion-house be referred to the Sword Bearers’ Committee
domestic and affectionate feeling. The eager attentions for their opinion. The Lord Mayor, he said, had made charges
of two young Ladies starting forward with keen anxiety to respecting some of the officers, which should be inquired into.
uphold an elderly Lady, who is suddenly seized with ill His Lordship had stated that he was every day receiving anony
mess, cannot, we think, be more justly conceived. e mous letters, and had particularly charged lim (Mr. Williams)
admire Mr. Bailey for his pure laste, both in conception with having written some of them;-now, as that charge was
utitrue, the other observations might turn out to be false like
and exeeution. His Hercules throwing Lychas into the wise.-The Lord MAvon, with much warmth, appealed to the
sea, a subject of difficult composition,--is a work of Court whether he was obliged to sit and hear that gentleman ac
high intelligence. e cannot conceive a better arrange cuse him to his face of falsehood.—Mr. Dixox and Mr. Oldhaw
ment of parts. It has beautiful muscular shape and action." called Mr. W. to order; and Mr. J. Griffrths said, that for this
Genius and study have animated the marble Alcides with language a man ought to have his nose pulled; and he wondered
bodily and mental vehemence, and Lychas with fearful how his Lordship could sit still while it was uttered.—Mr. Wit
ness and beauty. Mr. BAux is in every sense of the liais was ready to apologise, for improper language, but he
could not see what was to be done, if Mo' member of the court
term, a classical Sculptor. His Bust ºf an Artist, 1234, could answer the charges of the Lord Mayor; and he was re
is distinguished for its style of refinement and science. peating the offensive declaration, when the Lond MAvon rese,
[Next week. a concluding notice of Mr. Munre's declaring he could not be thus insulted.—Much confusion en
Giºiº.
* R. H.
of Medals.
-
sued, in which some Member moved that the Court do now ad
journ, which was carried, and the meeting broke up.
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SUBSCRIPTION FOR MR. ROGERS.

L.A.W.
to the Epiron of the examinen. vice-CIIANCELLOR's court.
Strº-The manner in which you have laid before the tº
- - º

iblic the melanchoſy and interesting case of Mr. Win. ; : - Saturday, July 10. .
aul Rogers, induces me to hope you will pardou the the EARL or smartesbury, &c. AGAINst rite bust of wart
tionough ANd t. rºenbok.
present intrusion on your time and paper. It is my wish Sir ARThun Pigatºr
•

moved, that the fluke be ordered to de

io draw the attention of the friends to freedom aud public posit the Marlborough gold plate, &c. in the office of Master
principle to some effectual mode of relieving this most Cox. The Lord Chancellor i. granted an injunction on the
worthy and deeply-injured individual from his heavy emi | 8th of June, to restrain tile defendants from pawning or swling
 v. - - - - the ExAMINER. * 463,
the plate, and no attempt had since been made to contradict the said ship, for an assault. The plaintiff's case was this:—During
affidavits on which the injunction was obtained. the homeward voyage, the stock of provisions became exhausted,
The Vice-Chancellor made the following order:—“Let the and nothing remained for the crew but rice and peas. When
motion stand over till next Seal, to give his Grace an opportunity the ship arrived in Margate-roads, the plaintiff wished to clean
of putting in his answer, or of filing an explanatory affidavit; some P the guns; the men complained of weakness, to .
for in whoever's custody the plate is, this Court can reach it; the want of proper food, and the plaintiff himself then endea
and his Grace will find, if he does not replace it, that he cannot voured to go on with the work, but was unable. He told the
touch one shilling of the rents of the estates. Let his Grace mate that the species of food he had had, had reduced his
deliver up the keys of the library, &c. to a proper person who is strength so much, that he could not move the guns. The Captain
to inspect them, and to be appointed by the trustees, and let the came on deck, charged him with mutiny, struck him, and made
diamond sword and chronometer that have been recovered be preparations for flogging him, when the plaintiff jumped over
lodged in Master Cox's office.” board. The Captain, when some of the crew wished to save
him by putting the boat out, said “Oh, damn him, let him go.”
COURT OF KING'S BENCII. A Deal boat, however, took him up, and brought him to the side
of the ship, when the Captain ordered him to be dragged up by
Monday, July 12. a rope, and desired the boatswain to flog him. . Eighteen lashes
The king v. EARL Grosvexott and others. were inflicted, while the Captain stood by, and desired the officer
This was an indictment against the defendants for having cast not to spare him. Four witnesses, on board the ship at the
rubbish into the river Thames, and thereby encroached on the time, proved these facts. - -

river, which was a highway. I.ord Grosvenor had commenced For the defendant, two of the officers of the ship were called,
an embankment at that part of the river between the Horse-ferry who deposed, that the conduct of the plaintiff to the Captain was
plying place, and the beginning of the embankment in front of very insolent, that the plaintiff did not appear weak at the time,
the Penitentary; and it was intended to erect wharfs on the that the flogging was not severe, and that the plaintiff had been
ground gained from the river. This the occupiers of the houses previously uſutinous.
on that part of the bank, wished to prevent, as the projected Verdict for the plaintiff-Damages 500l.
wharfs would cut off their view of the river, and had therefore
instituted this prosecution, to try the right of the defendants. COURT OF COMMON PI.EAS.
Lord Grosvenor had purchased permission from the City of Lon
don for the embankment, but it was contended by the plaintiffs Wednesday, July 14.
that the river being the King's highway, the city had no autho BREACH of PROMisk er MARitt AGE.-spexcer v. colt.
rity to grant such permission. On the part of the prosecution, Mr. Sergeant Vaughan stated, that the plaintiff, Miss Spencer.
a number of watermen were called, to prove that the recess had was now twenty-two years of age; the defendant, Mr. Cole, an
been of great use to watermen in rowing against wind and tide, attorney, was about twenty-eight. His father was a respectable
and a great shelter for barges and other craft in boisterous silk-mercer, in Wood-street, Cheapside. The young lady is the
weather. - -

sister-in-law of Mr. Reynolds, who keeps the Beil-tavern, in

For the defendants, it was urged, that if this embankment Wood-street, Cheapside, at which house the plaintiff was on a
were a nuisance, aii, wharts ought to be pulled down; and that visit in August last year. The defendant occasionally visited
Government had created a precedent for such embaskinents by the Bell, became acquainted with the plaintiff, and appeared
embanking a much larger space in front of the Penitentiary very assiduous in his attentions, to her. An epistolary corre
The Clerk of the Navigation Committee of the Corporation of spondence having taken place between the parties, defendant
London said, that the embankment in question would be a great succeeding in gaining Miss Spencer's affections. He wrote to
improvement of the navigation, as it would equalize the current her mother in the country, to inquire respecting her fortune, and
of the river.—Several watermen were also called, to prove that an answer being sent, preparations were made for the marriage,
the embankment would be no prejudice to the watermen, but an a license being procured, the wedding-ring bought, &c. How
advantage to the navigation: barges would be moored in greater ever, the defendant, in March last, became more cool in his at
security, and the present mud-bank would be no longer the re tentions, and even told Miss Spencer's brother-in-law, that he
ceptacle of dead dogs and cats. could not marry her. The defendant's father had from the com
Verdict of Guilly against all the defendants, except Earl Gros mencement been aware of the courtship, and Miss Spencer
venor and George Henderson, against whom no evidence had visited in his family. Mr. Reynolds called on the defendant to
been adduced.” -
know what he meant to do, and he then declared he would
Wednesday, July 14. marry the lady as soon as he could. Nothing however came of
GRAxtrobwn BRibrity.—the krst v. warts, &c. this declaration, and at length, the defendant, on the 25th ef
This was an action against Isaac Patts, Samuel Croggan, John March, having been for some hours in the coffee-room of the
Luke, JohnCooke, and Nicholas Middlecote, for conspiring to get Bell, went to the bar, and told Mr. Reynolds that his sister-in
certain persons returned Mettbers of Partiarhent for ſhe boroughs law was a girl of no character, that he would uot marry her, and
of Tregony und Grampound, at the last General Election.—The that he believed he (Mr. Reynolds) was as intimate with her as
evidence against the defendants, with respect to Tregony being he was with his own, wife. This of course aggravated the of.
incomplete, was not gone into ; but witnesses were called, who fence, and he now called on the defendant's counsel to apologize
for such
fully proved the following case —In May, 1818, when a dissolu. done grossly insulting language. [This was immediately
by §. Sergeant Copley.] The Learned Counsel then
tion of Parliament was expected, the defendants came to town,
for the purpose of disposing of the seats for Tregony and gram. called witnesses who proved this case.
Mr. Sergeant Copley stated, that the defendant's hesitation
-

pound. They lodged at the Bell and Crown Inn, Holborn, and
there treated with persons for the boroughs. The regular price to fulfil his engagement arose, first, from the remonstrances of
for Grampound was 6000 guiteas, besides the expenses of his father; and, secondly, from some severe losses which he had
counsel ànd an election dinner; and the rule was that if the Par sustained from some mines. No witnesses were called to prove
these assertions. -

liament did not last six years, so much of the money was re
turned as remained after deducting 1000 guineas a year, for the Verdict for the plaintiff-Damages 500i.
time it had lasted.--The Counsel for the defendants rested their
defence upon the bad character of the witnesses for the prosecu CONSISTORY court, Doctors-coMMONs:
tion, who had been chiefly accomplices in the corrupt transac
tions.—The Jury, aſter a short deliberation, found all the de - Friday, July 16. -

fetidants Guilty. - - - - -
, Apultery.—rnocron Agatsstrabcroſſ. ”
R. G. Butt v. JAMEs prany. - -Sir Williaw Scórr récapitulated the facts of this case. The
This was ºn action for a libel in the Morning chronicle, but no parties were married in 1810, and in 1814 went to the Continent.
Counsel appearing for the plaintiff, he was nonsumed. At Rome, they became acquainted with Charles Standish, Esq.
an English Gentleman of fortune, between whom and Mrs. Prog
- - Friday July 16, ter all adulterous intercourse took place by the connivance of a .
Rhodes v. Leech. female servant of the latter. The adultery was cemitted either
This was an action brough
ght by a gunner's mate oh-board the [ when Mr. Proctor had risen and gone (as was his constant cus
Fastºdia Conpany's Shin Orwell, (who had formerly been a toni) into his dressing-room, or when Mrs. Proctor was calle
midshipman in his Majesty's service) against the Captain of the out of the drawing-room by the servant, on pretence of being
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THE EXAMINER,
wanted by milliners, &c. At Rome, Temple French, Esq. who
had been before introduced to them at Naples, visited them, and
offered his company on their intended journey. This offer was
necepted, and they travelled together through Germany to
Brussels. During this tour an adulterous intercourse appears to
have been carried between the lady and Mr. French. It was his
custom always to travel on before them to the various stages, in
order to inspect the rooms at the different inns, taking care that
Accidents, offences, &c.
-
-
Monday evening, a fine child, belonging to Mr. Harman, soli
citor, was killed in consequence of falling out of a two pair
window. The nurse left the child in the nursery, when it con
contrived to get to the window, and was precipitated to the pave
ment: pitching on its head it fractured its skull in a shocking
tnantner. -

his own bed-room should adjoin theirs. His next care was to
bore holes with a gimlet through the partition, by which means On the 26th ult, a dreadful accident happened at New Mill,
he was enabled to ascertain when Mr. Proctor went out of his near Holmfirth. While the servant of Mr. Micklethwaite, car
room, and avail himself of these opportunities to go in. At penter, was loading a cart with wood, the horse took fright, and
Fraukfort Mr. Proctor's valet hinted to his master suspicious of the wheels passing over his body, killed him upon the spot. The
master ran up to the horse, and attempted to arrest its progress;
the adultery; but as the latter could obtain no positive proof but the cart came in contact with a wall, against which Mr.
of it, he only separated from his travelling companion.— Micklethwaite was jammed, and so dreadfully bruised him, that
A private correspondence was however carried on between Mr. after languishing till the Monday following, he expired, leaving
French and the lady through a milliner at Brussels, after they a widow and a numerous family. The borse was approaching a
had returned to England; and one of the packets was inter number of children at play, when a young man took up a large
cepted by the husbaud, which disclosed the connection. She paving stone, and hurled it at the horse's head with so well
then went to the house of her father, Mr. Hale, where Mr. Proc
directed an aim, that it brought him headlong to the ground.
tor showed her the packet, and taxed her with infidelity. She Explosion of 'A STEAM-BoAT-On Mouday se’nnight, at
was extremely agitated, and retired to her chamber, whither her Grangemouth, a steam-boat, having undergone some repairs,
husband followed her, and obtained more criminal letters. She
was preparing to start from the harbour for Newhaven, when, in
then confessed her adultery with Mr. French, and attempted to consequence of the safety-valve not being opened sufficiently to
obtain forgiveness. Being within three months of her confine allow the escape of the accumulating steam, the boiler exploded,
ment, Mr. P. remained with her till after that time, when he and nine persons were scalded, three of them severely; but al
quitted her, and she had since lived with her father. Mr. Proc though a number of passengers were on board, and many people
tor had, in 1817, recovered 500l. damages from Mr. Standish in
the Court of King's Bench. on the wharf opposite, no lives were lost,
The Learned Jupg E said, that the Court had not only to con A shocking accident happened to one of Dr. Scudamore's
sider the indisputable guilt of the wife, but the title of the hus horses, a short time since, at Northiam, owing to the negligence
band to his remedy. She had accused him of adultery, and his of the blacksmith, who had left a harrow placed upright at the
Counsel had acknowledged that he had had a child by a woman entrance of the forge. The horse (a valuable young one) in
named Charlotte Phipps, with whom he had lived in various stepping backward, became entangled in it, when one of the
parts of the town, and whom he had permitted to assume his spikes entered the part called the pope's-eye, and the animal
bled to death in a few minutes.
name. Now the Canon Law (by which, however inconvenient On Monday night an alarming fire broke out in the village of
in the present state of society, the Court was bound to decide) occupied, by Mrs.
supposed the actual cohabitation of husband and wife as long as Exning, which totally destroyed a barn
they had not formally separated, and made therefore no distine Bryant. There is no question, but that it was caused by some
tion between the adultery of the husband committed before or disbelieat incendiary. On the next evening a letter was found,
after-actual separation. The husband, in such cases, would also the superseription of which says, that Exaing shall beingement
conflagration: the contents point out, that three more fires are
have his spurious children acknowledged by the law as his heirs, , to be forthcotning, and the first which is to take place will be on
and would be liable for their debts. This law was intended to
prevent the incontinence of the husband after his separation the premises of the individual mentioned therein.-Cambridge
Chronicle."
from his wife. Under these circumstances, the Court pronounced
Between nine and ten o’clock on Monday night, as a young
that the husband was not entitled to separation, and therefore
dismissed the suit with mutual costs. waman was going along one of the principal streets in Bradford,
with a can of water on her head, she was met by a man named
John Hodgson, a stonemason, who, being intoxicated, began tº
ARCHES COURT. take indecent liberties with her person; she therefore threw of
Saturday, July 10. the can of water, in order to defend herself from his violence,
wilson v. M'MATn. nud fled into the house of Mrs. Wainwright for protection; at
In this cause the party prominent is the Rev. Dr. Wilson, the same instant, Mrs. Wainwright herself coming to the door,
the villain rushed at her, and inflicted two severe blows on the
Rector of St. Mary's, Aldermary, London; and the point at pit of her stemach, which laid her senseless on the ground:
issue between him and Mr. M'Math is, “as to the right of the morning.
parson or vicar of the parochial church to take the chair at ves she expired at five o'clock next
try meetings, virtute officii.” In the articles exhibited, Mr. -

M'Math was charged with having dispossessed Dr. Wilson of BiRTHS.

the chair at a vestry meeting, in the following manner;-The Tuesday, of a son, Mrs. Jackson, wife of J. Jackson, Esq. R.A.
Doctor having proceeded to take the chair, one of the gentlemen Newman-street. -

present moved, that Mr. M'Math should take it. The Rev. On Wednesday night, in Grosvenor-square, Wiscountess Eb
Gentleman continuing to retain it, another of the parishioners rington, of a son. -

moved that the Doctor be turned out. Mr. M'Math took the On the 16th inst., Mrs. Sholl, of West-square, of a son.
chair, and immediately assumed the functions of chairman; upou MARRIAGEs.
which Tºr. Wilson retired from the room. -

Sir J. Nicholl postponed deciding on this important question On the 1st inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Mr. Edward
till next term. - Jaaobs, of Clarges-street, Piccadilly, to Sophia, eldest daughter
of Mr. Thomas Pettis, of Dean-street, Piccadilly.
On the 10th inst., at Enfield, James Sauds, Esq., of Westmin
SHERIFFS COURT, SURREY. ster, to Miss Fleming, of the former place.
BREACH OF PROMrse of MARRIAGE.-Gibbs v. Packwoop.
The defendant having permitter judgment to go by default, a - DeAths. .
Jury of the county of Surrey assembled before the Sheriff to At Inglis Maldie, Kincardineshire, on the 9th instant, Julietta,
assess the damages. The plaintiff was a respectable farmer, Countess of Kintore, -

who had paid his addresses to the defendant, and had obtained On the 13th inst., aged 63, James Bell, Esq., of Russell-square.
a promise of marriage from her, as the witnesses proved. The Wednesday, Mr. Romualdo Zotti, of Broad-street, Golden
- defendent, as the Learned Counsel (Mr. BARRy) stated, was the square, aged 52.
widow of a man, whom every man had reason to bless, at least On Thursday morning, in Wimpole-street, Thomas Wheeler
once a day, after shaving higself—the widow of the celebrated Milner, Esq.
Packwood, who had let her'600t. per annum. I stead of per
formiº; her engagement, however, she had suddenly transferred Printed and published by John Husr, at the Exawnsen-Office,
her affections to another, and was now married.—Damages 201, 19, Chtherine-Street, Strand-Price. 10d.

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. No. 604, SUNDAY, JULY 25, 1819.
in a most dreadful state of suffering and privation? And
The PoliticAL EXAMINER. do not the rich and great, at the same moment, flash, as it
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few, Pope. were, the light of their festivals in their very faces eating
and drinking of the most costly things to saturation?
No. 589. flaunting in foreign pearls and diamonds, and in lace pro
ducing three or four shillings a week to the wretched lace
REFORM-MEETINGS IN VARIOUS PARTS | maker? and ostentatiously exhibiting all these splendours
- OF THE COUNTRY. and superfluities in newspaper-paragraphs close to the
-

most shocking accounts of distress? t

Every thing passed off quietly on Wednesday, as we ex These are the questions. These are the questions that
pected; but no wonder the Corruptionists were alarmed; have been asked, that are asked, and that will be asked,
no wonder they looked round in anxiety to their thick till a proper answer be obtained; and not mere newspaper
walls and their standing armies. Not that they have any questions as to paltering and paltry paragraphs in the
fear from the individuals whom they most talk about, - Courier and Post. The Courier and Post forsooth The
from Consert in America, or Mr. Bristol HUNT any turnspit and my lady's lap-dog.
where; but they fear their own consciences, and they fear But schoolmasters, and even women have at laſt ceme
the thousands and thousands whose voices are getting up forward; and “women,” we are told, “might be better
like the wind in so many quarters of the country, and employed.” Then give them the better employment.
whose rising, though not for revolution, is It is not lace-making, we are sure; nor setting a pot of
- As the sound
- -

water on the fire to boil, with nothing to put into it.

Of thunder heard remote.
Women have come forward; and it is another undoubted
And no doubt this is a fearful consideration for the
sign of the times. It shews how deeply the misery must
truly lawless. However words may be tost about just have penetrated, and how impossible it is to keep the
how, it is a fact, notorious and undeniable, that the pre voice of it hushed within doors. What the better employ
sent possessors of power are in the daily habit of violating ment is for women or for schoolmasters just now, we
the constitution; and it is a fact, undeniable and awful, know not. If the Caurier means to say, that he would
that the suffering classes know it, and feel it, and will not rather see a woman rearing a fine healthy offspring, and
Jet the consideration go out of their hearts. Ignorance singing them to sleep of an evening, quiet and smiling, so
may be attributed; designs may be attributed; but is not would we; but the health, and the quiet, and the smiles
the House of Commons illegally brought together? Are must be procured first; and either all our teaching at
º - not “seas there bought and sold, like cattle in a fair?” schools about Athenian schoolmasters” and Spartan
• "Are not these practices, by the very confessions of the prac women (two words of which these English women are
'tisers, “notorious as the sun at uoon-day !” Did not the very fond) must mean no more then the babble of a court
late Speaker himself say of these confessions, that “our newspaper; or in times, when the best information and
ancestors would have startled with indignation to hear the best feelings are in requisition, schoolmasters and
them?” Arenotthe Ministers themselves the most notorious women are the very properest persons to busy themselves
of these violators of the constitution? Are there not rotten with the guidance of opinion. - -

boroughs which send men to Parliament without any real But these shocking women avowedly teach their chil
constituents but these. Ministers? Are there not other dren to oppose the Boroughmongers, and the most unequal
places, full of population, which send no representatives, system of which they are the head! To be sure they do.
and the inhabitants of which in consequence are illegally What!" Is it supposed that the wives, sisters, and daugh
"taked without representation,-the ground upon, which ters, among these suffering classes, are to teach their chil
the Americans, who now send us an Ambassador, re dren to read and spell, in the most approved and genteel
belled? Is not justice continually delayed in the most manner, out of a little jacobite history of England? or
seandalous manner, contrarily to the provisions of Magna to make them look upon their husbands, brothers, and
Charta ? Is not a standing army illegally kept up in time fathers, as a pack of rebellious knaves, wilfully half
*of peace, contrary to the provisions of the Bill of Rights? starved? or to teach them to worship the selfish authors
• Are not the most unequal, as well as illegal taxes, laid of their misery, the Corruptionists, as the Africans do the
upon the people; and has one of then ever been volun devil, out of fear? -
tarity taken off except in the single instance that pressed The Corruptionists really seem to have thought that the
"upon the taxers? Has not the interest of the native soil rising generation would grow up in trusting reverence for
.been put at the merey of mere money-getters and helpers their follies and knaveries; but the schoolmasters and the
of war; and have not the inhabitants of it been taxed and women have at last helped them to a little better know
jaded beyond measure, and told into the bargain that they ledge; and now the opinions of the next generation are
must abstain from the last solaces of human nature to
enable this monstrous inequality to go on Lastly, are * * Tynroeus, the author of the celebrated patriotic war-poems,
not the sufferers from all these things at this very moment was au Atheuiau schoolmaster.

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• the ExAMINER. . . .
fearful to think of ! Truly, they are so; for they are thousands of suffering Englishmen are not in earnest? Or
taught, not credulity, but justice. that any ipse dirits whatsoever, on the part of any indi- .
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The Reformers are becoming every day more numerous, viduals, either constitute the nation's grievances, or can do
more intelligent, more earnest. On the other hand it is them away ? - - - - -

not a mere antithesis to say, that the Corruptionists are

becoming every day less consistent, less cunning, less self
possessed. The former, conscious of demanding what is sº
INsolvent DEBTORs.
universally right and just, are daily gaining strength; the Mr. ExAMIN FR,-Your attention to the interests of the
trading part of the community, and your frequent exemph
latter, conscious of wishing to maintain what is wrong and fication of the trite but important maxim of “hear both
selfish, are daily betraying weakness. Both parties per
haps cannot cease to go on in their respective courses, the sides” have encouraged me to request of you the insertion
of a few observations on an article on the Insolvent
one from principle and necessity, the other from babit and Debtors' Act, which has appeared in your paper.
false shame; but while the former persist in urging their To consider this subject merely as a concern between
point with a countenance more and more firm and solemn, debtor and creditor would, I think you will agree with
the latter, in the very attempt to waintain their errors, can me, imply a narrow view of the question. As a legislative
not help shewing a sense of their injustice and dangerous measure it must be contemplated in its general bearings,
ness, and in the very weakest way. They threaten by: and it should not be forgotten that we have already several
years experience of its operation, a circumstance which is
wholesale, and then put forth the pettiest and most trem calculated materially to assist our inquiries. -

bling lures. They lay on new and unequal taxes; and Has the Insolvent Debtors’ Act, which is now pro
then bring ſorward the old business of the Marquis CAM. tempore continued, been attended with benefit to the com:
pen's renunciation, into which his Lordship was fairly itmunity ? I fear we must answer in the negative. Indeed
is well known that it has been the fruitful source of
worried by this and other newspapers. They suspect that fraud and perjury, it has greatly tended and must still
the Irish poor will be less patient than ever, seeing how farther tead to spread demoralization throughout the coun
impatient the English are growing; and so they agree to try. The sanction of an oath ought on every considera
reverse the attainder of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. They tion of policy and moraliry to be rendered sacred, but
find multitudes of Irish, English, and Scotch, likely to be where is the town or village within the sphere of the ope
driven to desperation for sheer want of food and home;. ration of this Act, in which it has not served materially to
weaken that sanction? Prosecutions for perjury have
and after all the insults of their hirelings about “those been recommended as the legitimate mode of checking this
who don't like England leaving it,” they come forward evil, but it is well known that though the fact be open as
out of their vast possessions, and in the infinite benignity the day, adequate legal proof of it is rarely to be adduced.
of their hare and venison, propose to ship off their coun An accomplished swindler establishes himself in a new
trymen to the land of the Hottentots *. situation. He finds the means of furnishing a handsome
housé, has the address to become acquainted with some
Oh, bit it is irritating and dangerous to talk of the persons of respectability in the neighbourhood, and cod
doings of the eorruptionists! Good; it is certainly not trives to circulate captivating representations of property
easy to mention them without exciting feelings somewhat which he may or may not possess. By deceiving the
deficient in gratitude and complacency. But what of the gentlemen with whom he associates and who in their turn
doings themselves? Do they irritate and endanger no deceive others, all classes of traders become his dupe.
thing? And are they not the very reason why the very When too late his apparent effects are said to belong to
mention of them is irritating? To read some of the jour some relation; he passes three months in the rules of the
King's Beach, or perhaps (if actually confined) contrives
mals, one would suppose that if nothing were said or writ to spend the period of imprisonment pleasantly enough, in
ten on these subjects by the more public speakers and au gaming, debiuchery, and merriment. He is then let loose
thors, the public peace would never be in danger. We to choose a place for the recommencement of his career.
will give these journals two pieces of information; first, But this is not the whole of the evil. A number of un

that if nothing of the sort were said or written, nothing principled persons in the places which he makes his tem
porary abode are captivated with the ease with which he
would or could mend matters but a dreadful explosion, goes round his circle of fraud, adopt a similar course, and
mixed with every species of violence, the more outrageous frequently make their exit from prison richer than when
from previous suppression ; and second, that one of the thew entered it. -

most irritating things in the world to a long-suffering and If a law, reasonably effective, could be produced on the
exasperated people, is to be told, that the whole business excellent principle of cessio bonorum it would deserve the
is a mere matter of words. Good God . What; are we sanction of every considerate trader. The existing Act is
to understand that a man in Lancashire would feel nothing, however a mere ignis fatuus with respect to this principle.
That the monies paid into the Insolvent Debtors' Court
if Mr. Cobb ETT's Register were not published 2 Or that amonuted to less than one farthing in the pound due, is a
because Mr. Cobbett has changed his opinions, poverty fact which speaks louder than theory. This circumstance
and misery have changed nobody's looks? Or that be indeed contains in itself a lamentable but unanswerable de
monstration that fraud is the rule—integrity the exception,
cause Mr. Bristol Hust plays a coarse or suspicious part, in the conduet of persons amenable to that court. How
* A pretty spectacle such as choose to go there will see, the else could their effects be reduced to a smaller fraction
good-natured and gentle natives turned into a set of broken than 1-960th less than their debts?
hearted slaves by the military and money-getting dsmrpers of The distresses of the times I consider as a motive
their soil. 'i'he idea of the Hottentot, proverbial in this country
for his tilth and ugliness, is no attruction to new settlers; but which should induce the legislative rather to grant than re
the Hottentot, outwardly disgusting as he was, had the heart fuse encouragements to the careful and industrious classe"
and the wisdom too of a Socrates compared with the brutalities of society. Shall their difficulties be increased, and their
planters. - - - -
motives to frugality be lessened, by letting loose upon
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them harpies worse to be dreaded than the acknowledged
criminal f
sions to be drawn from experience.* His arguments may
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be simply stated thus:-That a great facility to fraud is

There is no description of men to whom it is of greater afforded ły the present law;-that such facility cannot be
... importance to stand well in popular opinion than the class prevented without a recurrence to the old system, as traders
of traders. This circumstance is to be considered in two cannot subsist if they refuse extensive credit;-and that
points of view. Firstly, it renders them unwilling to deny the humanity and º of creditors are a sufficient secu
credit even when there is a manifest imprudence atached º
their cruel treatment of debtors.
e certainly wonder how our Correspondent can recon
to it. If the shopkeeper, refuse to part with his goods,
not only the party, applying for them, but his connec cile it to his sense of propriety to recommend a system
tions, take offence, .." an hundred stories are buzzed which he admits to be unjust, and an “anomaly in ju
about to the discredit of the cautious trader. If he con risprudence,” as far as concerns the debtor and creditor.
ducts his business upon an uniform principle, he must It would not be difficult to show, that every manifest in
necessarily decline to trust persons by whom he would justice is practically, as well as theoretically pernicious: it
eventually: be paid, together with those by whom he is sure to create disorder, from the constant irritation it
would never be paid, but of whose actual circumstances it excites, and the frequent encounters it must have with the
f jºy impossible that he should become correctly in natural love of justice (in the abstract, and when it does
ormed. -

not interfere with interest) implanted in the human mind.

- . Again, his dependence on the good will of his neigh We might therefore rest our case upon the argument,
bours is an evident reason why the power of imprisonment that, even admitting the practical good effects of any sys
originally entrusted to creditors by the law of England, stem, it should not be supported by the sacrifice of justice;
should not on their part be abused. I am well convinced but this, however conclusive on the present occasion,
that if an investigation were made, instances would rarely would be an admission against the general principle just
be found of that power having been used fram vindictive mentioned, which we think it quite needless to make.
‘motives. The flagitious conduct of debtors may sometimes, Our Correspondent, in attempting to show that trades
. . have caused the period of their imprisonment to be un men cannot avoid giving credit, takes instances of indi
usually extended, but in the generality of cases in which viduals, who of course could not alone refuse to do what
this has happened, it has arisen from a suspicion that a others of the same class continued to practise; but he does
long confinement may bring to light concealed frauds. It not take into account the effect that the carrying into prae
is evident that the last case cannot apply to the conscien tice the cessio bonorum would have on the whole trading
tious debtor who has given up his all. Indeed I can con community. No individuals could change the system,
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ceive few instances in which such persons would-be made but, by any new arrangement of this sort, they would act
to ſeel the severity of the law, and I am persuaded that if simultaneously in the same manner. . . If therefore fraud is
an inquiry could be instituted, the number of insolvents protected by the existing law, it is because it does not go
who would be found wholly innocent of crimes against far enough to check the root of the evil—an extensive and
society, must be infinitely small. Let us, however, bear almost indiscriminate credit.
in mind the great sum of general good which must result There remains only an alternative between the com
from a few instances of individual hardship; let us not for plete establishment of the principle of the cessio bonorum,
get that persons quite as innocent as the unfortunate insol or a recurrence to the old law, which made the creditor the
vent, the wives and children of honest tradesmen, are per absolute master of the debtor. This is a matter of feeling
haps, in consequence of his imprisonment, rescued from as well as a subject for argument; but we cannot think
the bitter pangs of want. For their escape from these there could be much doubt as to the choice of the alterna
evils they would be indebted to the wholesome terror of tive in the minds of reflecting people. But, says our Cor
the law operating to check the insidious designs of un respondent, traders are generally humane, and it is more
principled sharpers. . . over their interest to be so. We will not dispute their re
The writer of the article to which I have before adverted lative humanity, but we have not so good an opinion of
disapproves of the imprisonment of debtors, excepting, human nature in general as to think it right to leave the
under the sentence of an impartial judge. This experi disposal of their fellow-creatures' liberty to a class of men
ment has been tried and has been found wanting. The who would be most likely under the influence of resent
common sense of the community loudly calls for a severer
scheck upon frauds than at present exists. And I cannot * Practice without theory is as bad as theory without practice.
In fact, the connection is never broken without going astray.
he persuaded that this is an unfair criterion of the case. All theory is of course derived from the observation of certain
Blind self-interest it would be hard to believe has wholly facts, and the application of analogous reasoning with respect to
misled the people of England. The evils of the present other facts. But in order to be correct, it is necessary that there
system are overwhelming and require at all hazards to be should be, in making out any theories, a constant reference to
arrested in their course. If the power of imprisonment practical results, lest they should wander too far, and get, as it
resting in the creditor be an anomaly in jurisprudence its were, out of their depth. As this is the danger of mere t teory,
* without a sufficient recurrence to known facts, so the danger ºf
ractical effects have proved its superiority to the abstraet mere
perfectibility of the existing law. practical reasoning is, that it is satisfied with attributing
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effects to their immediate and proximate causes, without takin.

For these reasons I consider Mr. Alderman Waithman into consideration the more remote ones, or the other effects prº
entitled to the thanks of every friend to industry and frugal duced by the same causes. Thus, for example, the immediate
habits, every promoter of the commerce of this country, cause of the wretchedness of the lower classes is the law rate of
and every admirer of the virtues of the old English cha wages, and the remedy, according to certaius persons called
racter. - -
“practical men,” would of course be to compel the employers tº
3.
- Leominster, July 14, 1819. give more; yet this, instead of bettering their condition, would
render them worse off;-a great many of the masters would L.
at once reduced to poverty by the double operation of the in
We have inserted the whole of this letter for the reason crease of their expences, and the decreased consumption of their
ymentioned by the writer at the beginning; and we have goods, while a number of workmen would be necessarily thrown
out of employment, and *:
constantly dropping in upon the
now to say a few words upon the subject. We need not parish, increase the general distress. The want of a proper mix
repeat any of our former arguments, as our Correspondent ture of theory and practice has occasioned all the bungling ar.
, does not dispute their theoretical truth: he confines him half-witted measures proposed to Parliament respecting the roor
self to the question practical effects, and the conclu-J Laws.
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ment. As to the argument of policy, we have to observe, ‘Chancellor, whose business it was to keep the King's seal,
first, that passion is usually stronger than prudence; and to examine and exemplify the grants, writs, and patents,
next, that, by such reasoning, one might prove the great rofusely made by the Conqueror to his Norman followers,
imprºbability of the existence of vice, inspite of gin-shops F. confiscared estates of the Anglo Saxons: "The
and houses of ill-fame. This would hardly amuse the Chancellor was originally, as Bacon observes, “no better
mºst “..wild and visionary” theorist, but it becomes mar than a Register, or the King's Remembrancer, or Secre
* in an admirer of practical reasoning. tary, but now with a judicatory power, and the keeping of
the great seal, and the occasional increase of power after
wards conferred by Parliament, his is me the supreme
ABUSES OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY. Office of the State.” . As the Kigh Court of Justiciar
“. For by some new uncommon weapons radually drew to it the jurisdiction of the ancient Saxon
Urinus Spiritus of Capons,”* - É.i. Courts,
the business of the Chancellor be
And Chancery craft, called sequestration, came much extended in the way of issuing writs and sum
They trick and plunder half the nation: | monses to the suitors; but he had, under the first Norman
'Gainst Common-law, they play the wh—e, Princes, neither separate Court, nor jurisdiction of any
Sham Equity, and rob the poor.” plea: he was merely an officer of the Aula Regia. .
TO THE LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR. About the year 1176, Henry, the Second, having a
-- *

. . My Lºnd-If I were required to give an explanation laudable wish to restore in some degree the administration
of the difference between Justice and * Equity,” I might of justice throughout the country, without obliging the
refer to the proceedings in your honourable Court for a the suitors to come into a court which always attended the
practical solution of the inquiry. If there be doubts as to King's person, created Justices in Eyre oritinerant Jud;
the possibility of such a iº. existing, infidelity itself who were to go through the several counties at regular
may be there convinced, and leave the hall a sainted periods, and distribute justice in the County Courts, ac
convert. * . cording to the ancient mode. This was the commence
It is not for tour Lordship's information, but for the ment of the rising of the Chancellor to power and of the
purpose of enabling the public to understand the nature of breaking up of the Court of the Aula Regia. From the
those detestable proceedings by which upwards of thirty time of the Conqueror to this period the Chancellor had
ºne millions of suitors' property have been manoeuvred become, from his making out of writs suited to every pur
jºyoºr Court, and are there retained until the processes pose of tyranny, a most useful and necessary engine of a
ºf Equity shall turn them into the pockets of its Judges, despotic government, “ The Chancellor was (now) acon;
Officers, and Solicitors, that I ...iſ give a short account siderable man in the motions of government.” “Hesucked
of the nature and origin of a jurisdiction, which, like death, fat from beneath and blood and spirits from above the
stalks forth clothed with the dreadiuſ privilege of omni grand Justiciar of England, and so reduced that honourable
potent and universal destruction.—It will be the object of tentate unto the degree of Chief Justice of the King's
his and the fºllowing letter to exhibit the usurpations of É. leaving scarcely unto him the name and title of
the Court of Chancery upon the Common-law judicature Lord.”* A separate Court was at length established by
ºf this country, and to shew the injustice and illegality of the issuing of writs returnable before the Chancellor, and
forcing a defendant to answer against himself for the pur of examining witnesses by Commission, and returning
pose of establishing the plaintiff’s case. - their depositions in writing, and then considering such de
At an early period, when our excellent Saxon adminis positions as matter of record. Then, as it was the Chan
tration of justice had not yet succumbed to the chicanery cellor's business to notice these records, he by a stretch of
‘and inventions of rapacious lawyers and bigotted priests, authority took cognizance of the thing or matter in dis
suitors found their causes easily, quickly, ind uprightly pute. Thus was a jurisdiction established totally contrary
decided by the hºme and county courts to which they re to the proceedings of the ancient Common-law, which re
sorted. Such indeed was the value attached inpublic'esti uired that all matters of dispute should be determined b
mation to the character and competence of those tribunals,. . judgment of Jurors or per Judicium Parium.—"It
that it was forbidden to apply to the King's Court, except soon became a kinde of peculiar, exempting itself from the
ing in difficult cases. “ et no man seek to the King in ordinary course in manner of trial, and from the ordinary
matters of viriançë, unless he cannot (ſrom the difficulty rules of law in giving sentence; and is as a back door to
of his matter) find right at home; but if that right be toº the King's arbitry in cases of judicature.”f It was looked
heavy for him; then let him seek to the King to have it upon “with a very pleasing eye of Majesty which loves
lightened.” I.L. Edgar, cap. 2d. William the Norman, not to be straight-ſaced: yet all is embattled under the
finding the Saxon institution of the Tiemantale, Wapen colour of equily, honour, conveniency, and conscience, like
take, and County Courts for the administration of justice, a monopoly that is bred under the wings of the publicke,
to ſavour too much the liberties of the people, which he but it feeds itself upon it.”f. These, iny Lord, are the
was determined to trample down, established at his palace sedate opinions of a man well qualified to judge afight of
a new tribunal, modelled upon the Norman plan. "This that wretched system of pretended equity which,-over
was the dula Regia or High Justiciar Court, to which he throwing the wholesome inode of trial by jurors of the
obliged his tenants in capite and others with principal country, and virá poée testimony in open Court, -esta
causes to come and plead before his chief officers, by blished a dark ecclesiastical system of judicature, in de
which means he very politically lessened the influence of fiance of common sense and Common-law. The encroach
the Saxon Courts, j. the same time gained informa ments and usurpations of the new Court of Chancery º:
ion as to the principal, estates throughout the conntry. the Common-law jurisdictions of the country had in a few
Further to ensure the obedience of the people, William years so increased as to rouse the spirit of determined
erected the Scaccarium, or, Court of Exchequer, for the opposition on the part of the Barons and people. In
keeping of the Doomsday Book, containing an assessment §. Charta, there was an express stipulation to con
of all the estales and lands throughout England, and for trouſ the pretensions of the Chancery to determine matters
the direction of his revenues and receipts. ---, by summons and without the usual process of the law:
Among the officers who administered to the tyrant's “’No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised of
endeavour to overthrow the ancient jurisdiction, was the * Bacon on Government, part ?: chap. 4.
* Wid, Death and Dr. Hornbook.-Bunns. Urinus Spiritus—
- - - + Bacon on Government, part 1.4 lisp. 14. and 15.
an ingredient for tempering the Chancery wax. -
# Bacou on Government. - -

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+
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his freehold, or of his liberties, or of his free customs, &c.; published, and that the necessary measures for carrying it into
nor will we pass upon him or commit him to prison, unless effect are already far advanced in its chief points; it is said to be
entirely the . of the Councillor of State, Prince Hardenberg.
by he legal judgement of his peers, or by the law of the Very little is known of the contents and tendency of our future
land.” This declaration of itself proves the extent to Constitution; the opinions, or rather conjectures, on the subject
which illegal exercises of jurisdiction had prevailed; but are various, but we believe that the spirit of it may be pretty
power once established upon the pretence of justice is not accurately presumed from the answer made by the Prince a year
easily shaken. The ecclesiastical proceedings of the Court and a haſ ago, on the Rhine, to the Deputies of Coblentz, in the
of Chancery were too congenial to the bigotted feelings of discussion of the remarkable address, and in which the most
liberal sentiments and views are evident. A section of the Coun
priests in power to give way to the voice of the country, cil State, with Prince Hardenberg as President, has long
and the frequent oppositions made by successive Parlia beenofappointed to draw up the Constitution, and therefore the
ments to the pretensions of this new tribunal. whole has to take a regular prescribed course. --

In the next letter, I purpose giving a summary account July 11.—Our Gazette of to-day has the following article, un
of the resistance which the establishment of this new der the head of Carlsruhe;—“M. Toelarenbach has received a
tyranny met with-a resistance, by the help of which, had letter addressed to him, with the post mark of Stuttgard, June
it been continued, we might at this day still have had our 18, of the following contents :-
To The DEPuty teentre Neack.
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properties and fortunes secured by “the legal judgement
of dur peers”.-I am, my Lord, your's respectfully,
- - Julius L. SchrodeR.
For EIGN INTELLIGENCE.
- - France.
PARts, July 7.-Yesterday the Keeper of the Seals communi
cated to the Chamber of Peers, in conformity with the ordinance
of the 25th of Aug. 1817, ten new letters patent, establishing
titles of peerage in favour of the same number of Peers. Those
for whom these letters are expedited are the Marquises Gouvion
Saint-Cyr, de Louvois, de la Suze, de Boisgelin, the Counts de
§ Bourdonuaye-Blossac, de Damas, Lanjumais, de Choiseul mation of importance. Sandt does not manifest the slightest re
ouffier, Castellane, and Wiscount Montmorency. gret.
“Man!—Thou who livest, and thinkest to live longer, lis
ten I K–e (Kotzebue) spoke against a whole nation—and
he is dead! Thou who speakest against a single class, and
seekest to plunge it in misery, think of thy existence ſº-Qther
Deputies have received similar letters; as also Mr. Brodhag,
Councillor of Archives.—All the papers of Professor Oken at
Jena were put under seal on the 29th June by Commissioners of
the Police, who came from Weimar.
FRANkront, July 13.—The medical men who attend Sandt
consider him to be incurable, but they are of opinion that his life
may be prolonged for 8 months, or even longer, in consequence
of the goodness of his constitution. The Commission continues
its investigation, but still, it is said, without obtaining any infor
PRUSSIA.
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July 18—The two Chambers were yesterday prorogued by -

Royal proclamation. A great crowd of spectators filled the BERLIN, July 6.-On Saturday, the 34, the performance in
galleries of the Chamber of Deputies to witness the ceremony of memory of Kotzebue took place, as has before been done for
º Prºrºgation. The assembly dispersed with cries of rive te Lessing, Schiller, Iffland, Koerner, and the actors Flack and
Mrs. Bethmann. Mrs. Schroeck, in the character of Germania,
- It is said that Generals Grouchy, Clausel, Lefebvre-Desnouetts, spoke the prologue with great precision and feeling; toward"
and some other expatriated Frenchmen in the United States, are the end of it she was accompanied by music. When the pro
logue was concluded the curtain was slowly ..F. and the
shortly expected in Belgium, where they have obtained permis
*ion to reside. The Quotidienne announces, on the authority of representation of Herrmann and Thusmelda ended the ceremony.
letters from, London, that “the famous Hunt intends to visit The receipt, which is said to amount to near 1,000 dollars, was
Frence during the peried of the elections.” for the widow of the deceased, and will be remitted to her.
July 19.-We have received intelligence from Soissons, that July 10-On Tuesday the Chaplain of the Duke of Cumber
the collector of taxes in the commune of Vissignieux has just put land performed, according to the rites of the English Church; the
an end to his existence, after assassinating two persons who ceremony of baptism of the young Prince, born ºn the 27th
of May. The ceremony was performed in the residence of the
were deputed to examine his accounts. This collector, whose Duke, and in the presence of our §: The young Prince was
name was de Toussy, had been in arrear in his remittances. christened by the names George Frederiek Alexander Charles
The receiver sent two of his clerks, the Sieur Berthemet, a
Quartermaster on half-pay, and the Sieur Brinquant, ex-militaire, Ernest Augustus. The King was pleased to hold the infant over
$o lºok into his official affairs. On their arrival at the residence the baptismal font. -

July 18. The measures which have been lately taken in *

of de Toussy, he invited them to breakfast with him; and leav
ing them underpretext of going for his books, he returned with
a double-barrelled 'fowling-piece, shot. Berthemet dead on the
spot, and mortally wounded Brinquant, who died, some hours
afterwards. The assassin then went into another room and shot
himself. He had taken the precaution te send his wife to
Soissous, and to remove his servant.
- HOLLAND.
HAgus, July 21–A Philadelphia paper, under date of June
5, says, “We, hear, from Havannah, that Admiral Popham
had arrived there with three ships of 74 guns and two frigates;
that he was eng in concerting with ū. Governor measures
for the giving up efthe island of Cuba, which was ceded to Eng
land, and, must be delivered up within uine months. It was the
general opinion at the Havannah, that this cession would un
doubtedly take place; and this was confirmed by accounts from
Jamaica, but, that the inhabitants of the island were far from
being satisfied with it, and seemed rather disposed to declare
themselves independent.”
veral places, both in Prussia and other countries, for the further
investigation of secret democratical societies, were occasioned by
the receipt of most important and complete proofs of their
existence, and of their revolutionary and even treasonable ten
dency. The complete plan of the republican constitution, which
has been frequently discussed, intended for Germany, has been
seized. Hence it is evident that the measures which have been
determined upon
of dispositions adopted to bestudents,
are notagainst or in
considered the confinedofview
associations stu
deats, as but few such are more er less implicated, and hence
affected, by the measures in question. It is plain that the Pub
lic cannot yet be made acquainted with the extensive and com
licated ramifications of those democratical intriguers, without
injuring the important and beneficial object in view.
Magneaung, July 13.-The detestable event at Schwalbach
has induced our Government to adopt measures equally wise and
energetic, in causing, since the 9th instant, the papers of several
students here to be seized and sealed. Some arrests have taken
place; among others a doctor, who came from Jena, is oonfined.
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on one of the persons arrested was found several dozen copies of

The cession of Cuba to England seems to be more and more a revolutionary poem that appeared some time back; since then,
confirmed. Accounts from Charleston of the 15th May, and
from New York of the 19th May, confirm all the above parti several daggers have been found.
culars, and add, that Commissioners were expected in America,
appointed by Great Britaih to receive the island, but that all PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
possible opposition from the inhabitants might be reckoned upon. ASSIZES.
Germany.
Asinapox, July 20–Sepuction.—This was an aetion brought
Aussauna, July 8–Accounts from Berlin state positively, by Mr. John Kimber, a º:
farmer, of Denchworth,
Berks, against Mr. Timothy Townshend, akao a farmer, residing
that a Constitution for the Prussian Monarchy will shortly be
 ºr ſu
THE EXAMINER,
*t Weald, in Oxfordshire, for the seduction of the plaintiff's rarck of stocks on saruno Av.
**cond daughter, Miss Mary Kimber. The young lady, who 8 percent. Red. 703; 7.1#71 is per cent. Cons..…..... 10th.
was about 25 years old, first became acquainted with the
fendant at a fair, from which he walked' home with her. He
de
Next week, No. 1. of a PRAETER-NATURAL. History, to be con
afterwards visited her at her father's house, as her intended tinued from time to time. - - - .
husband; but being one day reprlsed by her for improper beha
viour, he discontinued his visits, although he had ... ob
*ained forgiveness." About Christmas," 1816 (a year after), he THE EXAMIN ER.
went to her at the house of a friend where she was visiting, and
told one of her female companions, that he always intended to
*rry her. Upon repeating these assurances, he was again al London, July 25.
lowed to visit her upon the former footing, and continued his
visits, though at long intervals, till the middle of May, 1817, The German public have been treated with the “Thou
when he effected her seduction, just at the time he was telling sand and One”th tale of a Prussian Constitution. It may
her family to prepare for the wedding. After this, he neglected
her, though he still professed, in his answers to her letters, to come at last :—such a thing ispossible;—but all the world
intend to perform his engagement. Her father had several knows that it will not have come till after long and dis
interviews with him, but he always demanded that he should gusted waiting; and they will not fail to remark also, that
have 800t. on his marriage, which Mr. Kimber did not think it
just to the rest of his family to give. In February, 1818, Miss the announcement is now repeated just upon the heels of
Kimber was delivered of a male child, and then the defendant numerous investigations into certain alleged Democratical
, cºme to see her. In November last, however, he married a Miss Societies, which are said to exist to an alarming extent.
Cooke, of Burford, and put an end to the hopes of the young Seizure is reported to have been made of a complete plan
Jºdy: These circumstances being clearly proved in ...}ence,.
the Jury found for the plaintiff—damages, 500t. of a republican constitution for Germany; and the public
Winchestºn, July 22-Wºn. Bateman was charged with are eloquently told not to consider the measures determin
lºng, on the 13th day of May last, at the parish of Hurstborn ed upon “in the confined view of dispositions adopted
Tarrant, assaulted William Wallace, and taken from his person
991. The prisoner was an officer in the navy, of respectable against the students or associations of students, as but few
connections, and only 24 years of age. On the 13th of May, he such are more or less implicated.” The meaning of all
stopped the prosecutor, being armed with a pistol, and took the this, we suppose, is what the public knew very well be
property from him. The prosecutor, on reaching home, sent fore;—that not only the students in Germany but
his servant in pursuit of the robber, who traced him to the
Crown Inn, Basingstoke, and burst into his room there. The the whole nation are resolved to have the promises of
prisoner immediately confessed that he was the guilty man, and their sovereigns kept, and are exceedingly irritated by
gave up the property. Several witnesses deposed to his excel the paltering delays that have taken place.
lent character, and the dreadful distress he had suffered. The - --

Jury found him guilty, but recommended him to mercy (as did In consequence of the late attempt at assassination
the prosecutor also), and the judge promised that their recom at Schwalbach, the papers of several students at Magde
mendation should be attended to." - r
burg (the place of TRENck's imprisonment) were to be
seized and sealed; some arrests had lately taken place
TUESDAY's LoNDON GAZETTE.- * . -
. among others that of a doctor from Jerra ; on one of the
BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. * -
persons several copies of a supposed revolutionary poem
J. Jones, Upper Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, tailor, from were found; and several daggers have since made their ap
July 17 to July 27.-- - - - - - - - -

• BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEI) ED. pearance. The papers of Professor Oken at Jena were put
G. Adams, Gloucester, jeweller. -
- under seal on the 29th.-SANDT, it is thought, from the
º
- “BANKRUPTS.
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goodness of his consitution, may live three months
A. Patou, Felling-shore, Durham, ship-builder. Attornies,
Messrs. Clayton, Scott, and Clayton. Lincoln’s-ind. .
longer. The Commission can get nothing out of him
R. and H. Thompson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, timber-merchants. important, and he does not manifest the slightest re
Attornies, Messrs. Meggison and Poole, Hatton-garden. gret. Threatening letters alluding to the catastrophe
J. Harwich, Mill-street, Lambeth, iron-founder. Attorney, Mr.
Hunt, liolborn-court, Gray’s-inn. … - - - -
of Kotzebue, have been received by several persons in
Clarke, Hammersmith, coal-dealer. Attorney, Mr. Fowler,
J. Clement's-inn. office at Carlsruhe. There has been a stage exhibition
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to the memory of Kotzebue, such as takes place in ho

SATURDAY'S LONDON GA2ETTE. nour of any departed dramatist or actor of eminence. Mrs.
13 ANKRUPTCY ENLARGER). Schroek recited the prologue in the character of Germany,
Bºrºr, wheeler-street, spital-fields, coal-merchant, from July It should rather have been Russia.
zº, tº Aug. 21. -

3.
- - BANKRUPTs.
Pearce, Newent, Gloucestershire, grocer. -
There is one result of the Smithfield Meeting, which
!. Birch, jun. Manchester, cotton-spinuer.
-
ought to make a deep sensation in the public mind,
1. Biſheſ, Llanypw!!, Denbighshire, cheese-factor. and which most likely will be brought forward to the
W.Thomas, Bristol, money-scrivetier. * notice of a Jury, should any disturbance be made a
Thomas, Glass-mills, Gloucestershire, ivory-black-manufae ground of prosecution hereaſter. We allude to the lan.
1.tºurer.
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J. Gooding and W. Gray, Goldsmith-street, Wood-street, hosiers. guage in which the disappointed advocates of unconstitu.
b. Shout, High Holborn, oilman. -- tional power have spoken of the universally acknowledged
1:. Moore, Lucas-street, Commercial-road, builder. * quiet and good order with which the méeting took place.
‘J. Easton, Yºrk-street, Blackfriars-road, baker. -
'i'. Little, Bodiham, Sussex, grocer. -
The public will recollect that before the meeting, the nº
J. Porter, Bristol, barge-owner. most endeavours were used to alarm them about it's dººr
3. Greenway, Plymouth-dock, brewer. gerous nature, and the violences to which it would give
*... Foster, Farmingham, Kent, inflier.
G. Birkinshaw, Howden, Yorkshire, currier. rise;—the Reformers were taunted with their rebellious in:
It. Pewters, Bristol, shoe-maker. - -
clinations; and riots were ostentatiously provided against
º: B. Sºlilesinger, Church-court, Lombard-street, merchant. with soldiers in all quarters. This was befºre the meº
r". Wahis, chºreºhum, Gloucestershire, builder.
- - - | Puring themseting, it would seem as if these alleged"
 THE EXAMINER. 471
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clinations were purposely provoked, for not only were the MR. HARRison.—The warrant for the apprehension of
same taunts repeated in some of the daily and “evening” this person was countersigned by the Load Mayor on
papers, (the latter of which are published at mid-day) but Wednesday, and his Lordship ordered it to be imme
Mr. HARRisow, who might just as well have been arrested diately put in execution, Alderman WaltiințAN entered
before or afterwards, was ostentatiously taken up in the into the room where the Lotto, MAvor was sitting, and
protested with some warmth against the rasbuess of at
face of the meeting in consequence of an order from tempting to seize Mr. HARRison before the multitude;
that weak man and most potent courtier—the Lond but the Ilond Mayor, persisted in having the warrant ex
Mayor. Finally, after the meeting, the Reformers, who ecuted, and treated the application of the Alderman, as
had been taunted as rioters, were now taunted as cowards; impertinent and officious. It is lucky for his Lordship .
their having disappointed the speculations of the unconsti that the “rabble” were wiser and more...forbearing than
himself. : Mr. HARRison has been sent off to Chester.
tutional was turned against them as a new species of crime; Domestic Seavants.-The extraordinary judgment
the very quietness and patience which had been sarcasti which we stated last week to have been pronounced at
cally demanded of them as a proof of their good intentions Fulwood's Rents, has been declared by the profession to
and a furtherance of their views, were now to be cast in be as palpably contrary to Law and Equity, as it seemed
their teeth as evidences of a sorry spirit and a want of na contrary to common sense. Measures are now in progress.
tive courage; the Courier pronounced them dastards; and of which will effectually controul and chasten the proceedings
this court. -

the paper called the New Times, with the perusal of whose DRURy-LANE THEATRE.-This establishment seems in
desperate nonsense we are luckily enabled to dispense in a fair way of recovery. . At a meeting of proprietors on
general, (the more official stupidity is quite enough) abso Saturday week, the Chairman (Mr. CALCRAft) announced
lutely taunted them with having tamely submitted to Mr. that 22,0881. had been subscribed towards the loan of
HARRison's arrest! We call the thoughtful attention of our 25,000".; and 300l. were added before the meeting broke
up. It was also stated, that the creditors of the theatre
countrymen to this most iniquitous and exasperating dou
blº-dealing on the part of the bawlers for public peace. had nearly all come in to the necessary arrangements.-The
Theatre is said to have been let to Mr. Elliston.
A party, consisting of Mr. Croker, the Secretary of
ORANop Riots—We noticed last week the loyal peace the Admiralty, Mr. Perl, &c. lately set out on a short ex
cursion to the Continent. It was proposed by one of the
breakers at Liverpool, and the unfortunate repulse they
met with from their fellow-townsmen, who paid so little party to proceed in the packet from Dover to Calais, and
ºpe tº their divine-right and pompously pious emblems. thence round by land to Holland. The Secretary of the
The Irish papers contain some accounts of the vagaries of Admiralty offered the superior accommodation of the Ad
these partizańs of all established religion and government miralty barge, and proposed to sail direct for Antwerp.
Qº the 12th instant—the anniversary of the ºccession of His offer was accepted ; they sailed for Antwerp ; but it
Wºlfax; the Third. On this day they annually go in pro unfortunately happened that there was not skill or intelli
cession (before the inhabitants have risen) to }: statue of gence º on board to find out the mouth of the Sheldt,
that monarch in Dublin, which they dress with their fan and the time of the party having been exhausted in the vain
ºstic decorations, and then undress it! They are not experiment, they had the mortification of returning home
however satisfied with thus quietly venting their absurdi without setting foot on either France, Flanders, or Holland.
—Morning Chronicle.—Perhaps one of the junior Lords
ties, but, in order to do it with some eclaſſ, they fire of
guns, make a great row, and render themselves mischiev. commanded the expedition!
ºus as well as ridiculous.--The feeling that excites such An article from Rome, dated July 4, announces that
doings is no doubt partly the animosity excited by religi the Princess of WALEs has quitted Pesaro, accompanied
ous differences, and one of the blessed effects of “Pro. by her equerry—FIANchini Peng AM1, by means of pass
testant ascendancy.” - -
ports obtained by her femme de chambre, as for herself
Wiltshire Election.—The retirement of Mr. Me and one of her friends.
thuen from Parliament, the duties of which (he very man A singular occurrence, proving how easily a highway
honestly, told his constituents) he must either neglect or in may be frightened:—Lady STANLEY, travelling from
jºre his health, -lately occasioned a vacancy in the Wilt York, accompanied by her maid-servant, was stopped by
shire Representation, to fill which two Candidates offered a highwayman, when the maid in her alarm took up a
themselves, Mr. BeNerr, the gentleman who unsuc bottle of ginger-beer, and the cork flying out made sûch
cessfully ºpposed Mr. Wellesley Pole at the last elec a report, and so alarmed the highwayman, that he instantly
tion, and a Mr. Astley. The polling commenced galloped off—Leeds paper. .

the other day, and Mr. BeNett has kept a-head of his to At the York sessions, Thomas English was sentenced
be transported for 7 years, for having, in conjunction
opponent from the beginning. The numbers on the
fifth day were-For Mr. ñºsº, 1486–For Mr. with Henry Fearby, stolen 6lb., of mutton. On hearing
Astury, 1205. There have been some disturbances occa his sentence, he exclaimed, “Thank you! I only wish it
sioned has
serious by the violent partizans
occurred.
had been a better steak...Two men to be transported for
on both sides, but nothing gll ra
of mution: And I'll be d-d if either of us stole
Mr. Rºvnoºns, the Barrister, is appointed the Judge in it.
the Insolvent Debtors' Court, instead of Mir. Sergeant
Russisgton. There have been rumours about for one THE LATE SESSION OF PARLIAMENT.
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time respecting some misconduct of the latter, and this re -

moval will of course tend to confirm them. " The late Session of Parliament has been unusually ºff,
. The new plan of conveying the mails to and from the partly on account of its being the first of the new Parlia-.
distant parts of the island, and the capitals, by light car. ment, and partly from the number of measures which the
riages, without passengers, at the rate of 11 miſes an hour, increasing demands of the age constantly force on the cºy
is to be immediately carried into effect. Letters sent by Houses. There have been several things enquired infº,
this new conveyance are to pay an additional ostage for and admissions respecting them drawn forth, which wif:
expedition. By this arrangement, a day will be saved in secure for next year some actual steps, not very effectiºnſ,
the transmission of letters between london and Scotland. perhaps, but still good witl come “out of Nazáreth.”---
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 472 THE EXAMI 1 N ER.
There is the Committee on the Criminal Law and the
Committee on the Scotch Burghs. Both these Commit
tees were appointed in spite of the resistance of Ministers;
one of them has already made a report, full of humane
wisdom, and the other may be expected to recommend
some considerable alteration for the better in the Scotch
Burgh system, which would be in fact a small advance
towards Parliamentary Reſorm. ...Now the House does
not of course feel itself at , all bound to adopt the
recommendations of its Committees, and it is particularly
TT ->
the subject to a trial by his peers, whenever they chise to
send out their traffickers of human blood, and collect into
a new “green bag”, the violent expressions of half-starved
artisans? Are ºf th: things, we say, so light that we
can tolerate them for years, while some of the most bear
able of them are being gradually lessened or abolished?.
This “slow and sure” mode of proceeding gives nº more
satisfaction to the suffering people, than the promise of 4
single mutton-chop at the end of a week would to a man
hungry enough to eat half a dozen. ‘. .
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likely to kick very hard against a Reſorm º would in It may be said,..that there may be a cha of meat
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any way affect itself; but then it is unwilling to disregard which would immediately cause a change of measures.
altogether the proposals made by Committees composed of We answer by referring to the past Session. The Whigs,
the cleverest men in the House º: these are), which are as a party, have been baffled,
notwithstanding their assert:
besides the fruits of constant labour for many months: ed accession of strength at the last
so that something useful may be reasonably anticipated. done with respect to the enquiries set election.
on foot hasThe good
been the
As to the preparations for a return to Cash Payments, and result of public discussion, and the glaring nature of the
the recanting on the part of our wise rulers of all their for abuses brought forward. The press had paved the way
mer obstinate opinions against such return, together with
the bursting of the bubble of the Sinking Fund, and the
for some attempts of that sort: for example, the
Fund, one of the most shallow artifices ever made use o
*::
other recanting respecting that, it is no doubt useful, if it was entirely exploded by pamphlets and the newspapers,
was only because it tended to show their imbecility; but and it was not till very ſately, when the delusion was rº:
we have less confidence that any effectual good will follow pidly going, that any of the Opposition expressed their
the declarations on these points than on the others; first, conviction of its absurdity. We do not wish to under
because of this very facility, of eating their own words, value the talents, or deny the good intentions of the Whig
which would prevent any surprize at a second exhibition; Party: we only say, that this constant clipping and par.
and next, because they always are cautious enough to ing away lesser nuisances, however useful it might be, if
make very comprehensive reservations with respect to the people were pretty comfortable, is not at a l enough
“unforseen circumstances,” under which they may very for their pressing wants and more acute sense of oppº
safely shelter themselves from charges of inconsistency. , sion. - -* :
Now let us look at the other side; let us see how these Every session of Parliament now presents one, ººlous
indications of good are balanced by what has been done spectacle, which is alone a sufficient argument for Reſorm.
stupidly or oppressively, and by what has been left un Two or three hundred bills are annually past. These are
done, though never so unjust. There is the Foreign En chiefly Amendment or Regulation Bills. Sometimes these
listinent Bill, with its pretended love of neutrality, and its Bills so accumulate as to make their very titles ridiculºus.
real hostility to freedom;-there are the number of mea You shall see “an Act to amend an Act, entitled “an
sures demanded by humanity (the Bills relating to climb Act for the amendment of an Act entitled “an A* tºº.
ing boys, to lunatics, to insolvent debtors, &c.) which gulate an Act, entitled “the Hackney Coach Act. The
i.º. through the Commons, and were stifled in the statute-book has indeed become a curious botched com"
Lords by the want of sympathy for the plebeian classes pilation, to the great advantage of lawyers, who, as Ben
which prevails in that House;—there are the refusals to iham says, make regular travels of discovery among woº
interfere in cases of injustice brought before their eyes (the eaten records and obsolete Acts of Parliament, but at the
Excise Informations, cases of Petitioners, &c. &c.), and sºme time to the great hindrance of justice, and the dº:
the non-enquiry, into those standing abuses and oppres comfiture of legal suitors, who find to their cºst, that the
sions, which nobody can deny, to some extent at least: law is as mysterious as it is expensive; and that their
ºthere is the denial of the claims of the Catholics, which opponents will get up some huge antiquated objection**
even the least dull part of the Administration acknowledge a claim, which seemed previously too plainly just 9
to be just 3–there is the refusal to attend to any propo disputed. What makes this the more disgraceful and
sition for the amendment of abuses “as notorious as the irritating is that the remedy is the simplest possible, the
sun at noon-day;"—and last, but far from being least, collection of all laws into one summary Code, to be newly
there is the partial imposition of three millions of new dated from time to time. The continual patching.j"
taxes upon a people groaning under their former burdens, alluded to is a very cutting satire on the state of the laws
far the sake of affording an additional security to the fund which require it; but the corrupt reason of this confusion
holders, -a body of men, who have already sucked the nobody can be blind enough not to see.
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very life-blood of the nation! ... • ++

If this contrast does not afford a convincing proof of the
necessity of an effectual and speedy Reform of the polluted THEATRICAL EXAMINER,
source of all these evils—the non-representation of the
people, nothing can. It is in vain to say that we are get No. 369.
ting on slowly but surely, that in a few years our Criminal
Code will be more consonant to public feeling, our cur Wr saw for the first time- swaltar ophrº
rehcy in a more wholesome state, and some of the worst on Friday the new pie? called
boroughs disfranchised. This will not do; this progrsss My Own Rival, which illness had prevented us from ".
does not keep pace with the progress of intellect in the tending during the previous fortuigit: ; It has the air o
community. Besides, until a Reform takes place, will not one of those little entertaining pieces from the French so
the convicted corruptionists be going on with their perni usual at this theatre; and whether original or not, is very
cious and selfish doings? Will they not make unnecessary well and pleasantly written. Miss Kelly, the º
wars and incur extravagant expences to feed the rapacit whosewho is lover
almost(WRENcii)
the whole time on thereturned
has just stage, isfrom
a yº."
the wars.
of their tools? Will they not fill their own “itching palms"
qut the public º as long as they have the management, richer Havingtogrown better and handsomer in the º
boot, she is resolved in concert with his father toº
df it, and it has any thing left? Will they not make a
mockery of the Constitution by suspending the rights of try his constancy by coining in his way, as Lucy *
º

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 THE EXAMINER. +13
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stranger. The poor Captain, seeing the image of his own | above the common order of dramatic promise, if he would
Sophy more lovely and more refined, yields to the struggle, take pains; and Self-Sacrifice appears to be very care
candidly telling Miss Daivil at the same time his situation lessly dished up, and too content with the usual grilling
with regard to the other. His situation with hoth soon grows and be-devilling of blood, and wounds, and hi con
more and mere distressing. He has scarcely engaged to sciences. Mr. Soane occasionally evinces an insight not
marry Lucy, when Sophy makes her appearance in a coun very common to young authors into the elements of human
try straw-bonnet, having expressly come to town to meet nature, the weaknesses of the strong, and the claims of the
him, to nurse him during a wound which she has been despised; but whisking his eye away again, he falls
told of, and finally to comfort him and shew him her con gravely working upon the most taudry common-places;,
stancy during a pretended reverse of fortune on the part of and the author of Undine" appears little better than a
his father. He clasps her to his breast in a passion of love compiler of sixpenny stories, such as illuminate the little
and tenderness. He has then an interview with Lucy, to shop-windows with pictures in front, and tell their whole,
whom he is resolved to excuse himself; but before he can . for nothing in the title:page—The shew and stage
*...? courage, is told by her mother that the nuptials work of the piece are well got up, and the music is
are fixed for the next morning, and several friends in pleasing. -

vited.; and to render explanation almost impossible, the ' | Yesterday week, a short musical sketch, called one,
bung lady, on being told of his father's reverse of Two, Three, Four, Fine, by Advertisement, made it's first
ne, declares herself doubly happy in the opportunity. appearance here, together with a young actor of the name
of showing her affection by assisting the old Gentleman .#. The sole object of Mr. Reeve seems to have
with her own. Again he sees Sophy, who now comes in been to shew his talents for mimicry; and the author ap
tears, having been invited to the marriage, as a lodger in
the same hotel, and resigns her lover, *i. says, with the pears anxious to have it understood, that he wrote for the
express purpose of introducing him, or at least,that he had
less bitterness, inasmuch as she has herself met with a re no higher object in falling in with his views. It was writ
yerse of fortune meantime. The Captain's dilemma may ten, he says, “for the sole purpose of exhibiting a particular
be conceived; but he sees instantly whom he ought to talent in particular situations;” and in the play-bill; it is
marry; and after one or two more perplexities, Lucy, hap announced as a piece “in the modern style.”...We do
pily assured that he will really give her up, changes herself, not wonder at the betrayal of this small opinion of his own
in the putting on of a hat, to Sophy; and all are as happy work; for the moment we read the entertainment, we said
Ҽ as rich hesides. -

“Here are phrases, which shew a writer too good, for

portedthis
by W.
is very
y interesting;
b and Miss Kelly, well sup p his task;” we have since learnt the name of the author,
Resch, gives it all its effect, with her happy who is well known in the literary circles for the possession
transitions from graceful yet affectionate coquetry to inno of no ordinary taste and knowledge, and is fitted, if we are
cent and still more affectionate simplicity. , She sings aot much mistaken, to shew them both to advantage in
also three or four popular songs, in the happiest manner,
and upon the principle we spoke of the other day, as suit. any work connected with the description of nanners. He
has performed his present slight task in a sufficiently plea
ing her fine talents so well. We were ºf; pleased sant as well as quick-headed manner; and has seen it, at
tº ſecognise among, them that touching air of Sronace's, all events meet with great success. Mr. Reeve performs
Go nºt, my Love. The fault of the piece is a want of the part of a young lover, whose mistress's father, in the
Poetical justice. . The poor Captain is more than suffi delicate economy of his affection, fairly advertises for a
cently paid for his imaginary inconstancy, and the expe husband for her. The lover answers the advertisement as
riment-making parties hardly enough so for their want of four different characters, in which he gives imitations of a
good faith. To bring his own mistress, bettered in al number of actors. In Sir Peter Teazle, he is Fannex ;
most every attraction, before a young campaigner, is in Dr. Endall, HARLEy; in Sam Dabbs, Mux DEN; and
somewhat hard in the outset; and not to relieve him from in an Actor, MAtthews, in which last character he in
his honourable agonies, till the self-love of the country cludes a variety of other imitations,—BLANCHARD, Fisher,
innocent is quite satisfied, is a good deal more so. He and KEAN.. We are sorry we are unable to compare hitn
loved her qualities, not her mere self, or he might as well with Mr. Yates, whose mimicries we have not seen.
have loved any other girl;-now two of these qualities, Some persons near -us thought him decidedly inferior
truth and simplicity, she evidently violated in the experi duringhis first imitation,-FARREN; but during his second,
ment, thereby furnishing him with two excuses for not that of HARLEy, they thought him as superior. This will
liking her so well; and had she treated us so, though no shew, at any rate, that his HARLEY is very good; and in
thing would have induced us to leave her, and sacrifice deed we never witnessed a more perfect piece of mimicry.
perhaps her whole comfort to our lessened regard, she There were all the strange quips, and quiddities, nods
would certainly have put is, against our wills, and to the and becks, and wreathed smiles,
great danger of our legal consciences, in a situation to ad Such as hang on HARLEy's cheek,
mire the reverse qualities in others. *
And love to grin for Mr. Psaki: ;
The new melodrama, called Self-Sacrifice or the Maid all the odd combinations of fidgeting with self-possession,
ºf the Cottage, which was brought forward in the eourse and slouching with firmness, all the trippings, and trape
of the week, is ſounded on the same tale as the one called sings, and slammekin trots, and then those quaint bring
the Heroine, which was produced at Drury-lane theatre ings to, with approaches more than familiar, with staring
last season. It is the story of a young lady, who knows ---

that her supposed father has murdered the child of a noble * Undine is a little wild work from the German, which Mr.
man she is in love with ; and who undergoes all the hor So ANE the translator is understood to have almost made his
rors of a prospect of execution, and the tortures of sup own. There is a remarkable mixture in it of fantastic tragedy
guilt in her lover's eyes, rather then break her pur and comedy, of the dreariest ghostliness, and the sprightliest
pose offilial martyrdom. . It has a happier ending bow and flesh and blood. One thing in particular is extremely touching
ever, as our readers already know. We do not think the ing body original. Undine is a beautiful fairy creature, really possess
and vitality, like any other human being, but without
adaptation one of Mr. So ANE's best efforts. It is managed an immortal soul. This soul she is to have, if ever she marries;
with his usual dramatic feeling in some scenes; and with that is to say, marriage itself is to give it her;-she does marry
Miss Kelly's acting and Mr. T. P. Cooks's intelligent and from an apparently thoughtless over-giddy creature, sud
pantomine, is sufficiently striking altogether; but there is denly becomes capable of gravity as well as mirth. The moral
something in this young writer which strikes us as being is deep and fine. . . . * -
head into his neighbour's face;—and then again the setting of being hung. The servant then, if we remember, re
off, and careering, and all the other indescribables of ex appears as a police-officer, and Sir Puddy being prevailed
cessive How d'ye do, -not forgetting the quaint nagging on to pretend blindness, they ransack a bureau in his room,
voice, that slaps upon the ear at every third or fourth word, which contains a will he had illegally kept from his cousin's
like smacks upon lath and plaster.—We fairly rolled with knowledge, and which entitles her to dispose of her hand
laughter, in common, we believe, with the whole pit. and fortune at pleasure.
The FARREN is by no means so good, and the MuN We have gone to too great length in the account of this
pen we think still less. He twisted his jaw about suffi plot, which the reader will see is composed of no very
ciently ; and had got the proper syllabical enunciation; original elements. . But the language as well as situation
but he hardly seems to feel in what MUNDEN's peculiar is exceedingly amusing; and Wet Weather is an entire
drollery consists. We conceive it to be this;–that he rain and set in of puns, equivoques, and slip-slop, which
pretends a world of meaning in the most insignificant fall upon the exposed head of the poor clown of a Baronet,
things, sometimes in direct proportion to their having none; and keep the audience in a constant roar of laughter. We
and so by grinding his features portentously, and sideling never saw Liston to better advantage, more easy, more
and shrugging himself off, as if from the burden of the full of little turns and manners at once familiar and help.
importance, begets in the spectators a sort of fancy that less, more exquisitely unconscious and self-satisfied.—Miss
there must be a prodigious deal at the bottom of it. It is Beaumont looked the handsome cousin, completely, and
a style very ludicrous and rich, and has been infinitely use performed her almost as well.. She improves rapidly.
ful to the poverty of modern dramatists. -
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The two best imitations next to HARLEY are Fisher and

KEAN, which were instantly recognized and well main Cove Nºr-GARDEN.—The following is the farewell Ad
tained. Matilews also was easily recognized, but was dress, spoken at this theatre, on Monday night:—
too great an exaggeration both in look and manner. The “LAnirs AND GEN refºres,-Again the proprietors of this
mimic seems very young, and may become a good actor; theatre have to express their grateful thanks for a most pros.
but it is to be observed after all that the best mimicry, con perous and successful season.—Aided by your liberal patronage,
sidered merely as such, is no very great thing. Some of the national drama has been sustained in all its various branches
the least civilized nations have been found to excel in it; in a manner (the proprietors hope) worthy of this great and en
lightened metropolis.-If we look back to the performance of the
and it is included more or less in every other species of season, we shall find that Tragedy has been supported by a com
stage talent. It is not every one that like MAtilews can bination of rare antſ distinguished histrionie talent; and authors,
render his mimicry intellectual as well as external, that is both ancient and modern, have had their tragedies acted with a
to say, can shew himself alive to manners in general as strength of company perhaps never excelled. Comedy has kept
well as to individual peculiarities. even pace with her sister muse, and your plaudits have greeted
in armarrier-third-ft re.
the performance of most of our classical comic writers.-In opera,
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a great advance has been made. The execution of the most

.
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On Monday night there was a new farce here called Wet beautiful of Mozart's music, with the utmost precision and effect,
Weather. It seems written by Mr. ColMAN to shew off is a proof that what has hitnerto been the sole pride and boast of
foreign talent, is likewise attainable to English musical genius
the particular talents of Liston, and succeeds perfectly. and
Liston is a booby Baronet from the country, Sir Onesi capacity.—The lighter pieces have also had their full share
of your favour, and have successfully answered the purpose of
phorus Puddiſfat, who thinks himself in possession of the exciting hilarity and good humour:-The Proprietors therefore
{..., of his bandsome cousin (Miss BEAUMost), and is very hope, they have only to pursue the same steps to merit the same
angry though, at the same time intimidated, at the perti encouragement; and relying confidently on the continuance of
nacity of Captain Bromley (Jones) in paying his addresses your favours, they most respectfully bid you farewell, Ladies
to her. Among other stratagems, the Captain obtains ad and Gentlemen, until the re-opening, Monday, the 6th of Septem
mittance to the house as a portrait-painter; and the great ber.--The performers beg leave to add their heartfelt acknow
booby, who consents to have his picture taken, dresses him ledgments for your unvaried kindness and indulgence: and until
self up as a shepherd with a crook and garland. The trick our next merry-meeting we wish you all health and happiness."
is found out, and the lover, who is in reality a favoured
one, thinking that his mistress has angrily returned him his PU LP IT OR ATO RY.
own portrait by the hands of Sir Puddy, who has kept
back an explanatory present which accompanied it, charges No. 2.-The Revear ND DANIEL Wilson.
the astonished lady with caprice, end renounces his pas
sion. A discovery however takes place in this respect There are few congregations in London more numerous
also ; but the Captain being obliged to give up his visits, or respectable than that which attends the Chapel in John
the lady takes occasion to send him an ambiguous letter of street, Bedford-row, where the Rev. DANIki, Wrisox
invitation by Sir Puddy himself, who is enjoined to read preaches. It is my business to notice some of the causes
it to him, and who does so accordingly with infiite cox of his popularity. -

combry and triumph, to the equal delight of his stupid self He is undoubtedly to be placed in that class of Mini
and the triumphant lover. The scene ends with an an sters which has had its origin in the prevailing supineness
nouncement on the part of the Captain, that for past treat and comparative indifference of the Clergymen of the
ment he shall not beat his antagonist, but condescend to Established Church. I do not of course mean that he
regard him as a gentleman, and send a friend to him in the does not belong to the Establishment, for he would not:
evening; at which the clown, whose elevation had been preach where he does at present, if he did not belong to
checked by the word beat, remains equally happy and sur it; but his doctrines verge upon Methodism, and his
rised. The servant however untieceives him, and pre stile and manner approach the stile and manner of those
tending that he will get a German Baron to thump the irregular pastors, if f may so term them, vulgarly called
Captain for him, advices him not to go home, till night, Methodist Parsons. In fact, he is one of a body looked
which iu his terror be consents to ; and the lovers ac upon with some degree of jealousy by such of his profes
cordingly have a meeting. Returning unexpectedly, how sion as pride themselves on a strict adherence to the forms
ever, the Captain stretches himself on a table, and the lady and ceremonies, as far as they are such, of the Establish
and servant raise a doleful noise, telling the mystified ment, asd who therefore can relish nothing that at all sº
Baronet that the German instead of thumping had killed vours of secession. A know that it is a disputed point
º
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at
whether the Methodists are or are not to be considered as beats his “ drum ecclesiastic" with more than a finger,
seceders; but as I carefully avoid all controversial points, and not then when he is most strenuous, but when he is
I shall leave that for others to settle, contenting myself Pointing out a distinction, making a definition, or explain
with shewing the place to which Mr. Wilson belongs, ing a phrase. He has a peculiar mode now and then of
without entering into the question how he became entitled displaying his arms on each side of the pulpit, but he
to it. - -
knows how to bring them back again without awkward
In continuing these articles, I shall generally proceed mess—an art which many violent preachers never attain.
in the natural course of first giving the º Like the soldiers of Mr. Puff, who, when they were once
reader some notion of the external appearance and physi upon their knees, was at a loss how to get them upon their
cal qualifications of the individual as a Preacher, before I feet again.
mention his higher not to say more important requisites When I began I was really not aware, that I should
(for that may admit of doubt) as a public instructor. have so much to say upon mere externals; I will now
his attainments my judgment will generally be formed shortly advert to the stile and matter of Mr. Wilson's
from what he has written or published, or, in their ab sermons. He preaches extempore; that is, he puts down
sence, from what I have been able to gather from his dis the heads of his subject and apparently trusts to the inspi
courses. ration of the moment for filling up the outline: I use the
Mr. WILson's appearance is certainly pre-possessing: word inspiration, not so unuch because it is applicable, as
his person is good and his features formed with much re because Mr. Wilson is fond of using it as applied to him
gularity. When in a state of inaction, his countenance self. He not unfrequently commences by stating that by .
looks irº and somewhat severe; but when delivering the aid and inspiration of God, of the Saviour, or of the
his sermon it is found to be capable of much variety of ex “Holy Trinity,” he will endeavour to illustrate his text;
pression. I am not sure that he may not be charged with thereby producing upon vulgar minds a notion that he
a degree of affectation in this as well as in some other re speaks with a sort of authority, something similar to that
spects, and that at times he puts on an appearance of saga of the Prophets of old; that he like them pours out what
city and deep thought, when in fact his mind is more occu in fact is a divine infusion: they therefore sometimes set
pied about his looks than any thing else. Altogether he down his individual and solemn assertions as the dictation
seems a man of considerable study, who knows the value of a celestial power. This is an expedient to secure atten
of advantageous externals. The fault of his face is that it tion and reverence unquestionably below a man of Mr.
is too uniformly of a sombre cast: cheerfulness may pro Wilson's talents and acquirements; besides it is a stale
perly be admitted into the pulpit at all events, as an illus and thread-bare artifice, and has been resorted to by
trative and occasional accompaniment; but a smile rarely hundreds of preachers from the days of Whitfield to
lays upon his lips or raises his down-cast but scanty our own. Rowland Hill used it in almost every ser
row; as if the doctrines he preached were merely in mon, and when that reverend and peculiar gentleman
tended to excite gloom and despondency, or that religion offered in the pulpit to lay a wager with St. Paul, most
was to ...i a source of misery and despair, and not of his auditors I dare say did not scruple to believe that
of hope and consolation. Yet I have heard . exert his the Minister was as much inspired as the Apostle himself.
powers to encourage that calm and contented reliance Mr. Wilson however addresses a very different, and very
upon Providence, which must be an abundant source of differently educated, class of persons who know better how
cheerfulness. . 'The general current of his discourses, from to apply the ..". employs; and this is another
the opinions he is known to entertain, must inevitably run reason why such cant should be omitted by a preacher of
in a contrary direction. - -
his discretion. r

Many of his stated hearers are of opinion that his voice Although his delivery is what is considered extempora
is peculiarly harmonious, but they are not the best judges neous, I cannot think that it is by any means unpreme
because their ears are accustomed to the sound: to me ditated, even as far as particular expressions are concerned.
some of his upper tones are harsh and unpleasing, and as It is perfectly fit that a person who sets up for a teacher of
a whole, his voice is capable of little inflection, and is not others, generally as well informed as himself, should pre
rich and full in any of its notes, I cannot deny however viously reflect with anxiety on what he ought to deliver:
that he manages it with great dexterity, and though he has it is not to be endured that he shall take up the bible and
generally the policy to confine himself to narrow limits of opening it dilate upon any text that meets his eye,
intonation, he cannot be said to be monotonous or uniform rambling on from one position and conjecture to another,
in his delivery. His utterance is rather weak than meagre, and stumbling and blundering over a series of half-formed
and at present when reading the Communion service he is ideas; he is bound to make himself master of his subject,
sometimes almost inaudible at the further end of his chapel: and to take great pains in its illustration. Now this Icon
when first he began preaching. I have no doubt that, he eeive Mr. Wilson does almost to a fault, and for this .
found it very difficult to make himself heard distinctly, but reason it was that I said that even his expressions were
the poorest voice is susceptible of improvement, and Mr. not unpremeditated. It seems probable that, he models
Wilson, in cultivating his, has probably taken great pains and moulds his phrases, at least those upon which he lays
and not without proportionate success. most stress, before he enters the pulpit, and that much of
He employs a great deal more action in the pulpit, than what he utters is committed to memory. . . In this respect I
is commonly used by preachers strictly orthodox: he is may be in error, and if I am, it is a double compkment to
even charged with being theatrical in his manner, and the the smoothness and regularity of his stile of composition—
charge is true: it is often striking and energetic when he to the general perfectness º periods and to the aptness
is warmed in the middle of his discourse, and no one of the particular words he introduces. I do, not think
knows better than Mr. Wilson the effect produced by the notwithstanding that he can fairly be charged with forma
indicious and º introduction of a white handkerchief. lity or elaborate involution, . His language flows naturally
#. no little skill in the employment of his arms: in and in general easily from his tongue, and without hesita
the beginning of his sermon he is perhaps too much con: tion, while his epithets, if not always' new and forcible,
strained—that is to say, he looks as if he were desirous of are select and applicable. -

being more at liberty, but by compulsion reserves himself I do not apprehend that there is any great originality
for a later and fitter period. This circumstance sometimes about his mind, and though he treats his texts agreeably,
produces a feeling .# uneasiness in the spectator, which is there is never much novelty in his remarks or strength in
gradually relieved. Mr. Wilson never saws the air, or his dilutions. He seems to possess a sufficient share of
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professional learning, and in his doctrinal sermons he is nothing of moral or intellectual importance—nothing that
sometimes accused of making a parade of it. vibrates on the heart with patriotic and emulative effect,
- -- Dion. or fixes with delight the tasteful eye—nothing, in fine;
the* matter
We shall perhaps
of Mr. take sermons.
Wilson's another opportunity peakin of worthy of the majesty, and renown of the British people,
y of speaking
and of the beauty and dignity of Art, hastill now appeared
[Next week, the Rev. Dr. Colly ER.1 from an English Mint. This, Series therefore, while it
commences that new and noble species of publication,
* - ? • * which records with elegance and unequalled durability
.. . . * *
FINE ARTS. . . .
subjects highly deserving of commemoration, will com
mend itself to every lover of the Fine Arts, and every class
... THE GRAND SERIES OF MEDALs. of politicians, to those who are friendly, and to those who
Medals have a share in continuing through the lapse of are adverse to the past and present measures of Govern
ages, a knowledge of the personal appearance of distin ment; for British fortitude, talent, and bravery, must be
guished characters and important transactions of Indi ually admired by all. We wish indeed it had been on any
viduals and States, thus becoming the sister science of other subject but war, and especially a war which makes
Literary History. They lay before us circumstances us blush as English advocates of the rights of mankind, for
which are curious from their extreme remoteness or other its being instrumental in the hands of power-possessin
peculiarity, and which but for them would have been for knaves, abroad and at home, of opposing those fights, an
gotten. How pleasing is it, for instance, to see the forms surrendering them into the hands of royal and religious
and ...” beautiful antique temples, that time bigots... But on the intrinsic grounds of the high medallie
and the barbarisms of war have ... or even the merit of the Series, we cordially recommend it to public
shapes of the shell-fish that produced the inimitable Ty patronage. We hope that our patriotic patrons of tasteſul
rian purple! With what gratification, then, will the lover genius, our Leicestems, our StAfroads, our Fawkes's,
of knowledge and virtue look at such a medallic head as our GRosvenous, &c., will second the expensive efforts of
that of the great orator, Cicero, or that great Reformer a spirited individual, and not follow the example of the
and Philosopher, SocRATEs, who, above two thousand Government which, with its usual narrow policy, confines
years, ago, was put to death by the abusers of power, its encouragement to one branch of Art–Statuary, and
which never has given even a fractional º to the
the sly inventors or silly believers in foolish plots, the
CastLEREAghs and Sid Mouths of his day. But these justly admired talents of the venerable President, West,
metal Miniatures and portable Sculptures are admirable or to the pictorial DANTE, Fuseli, or to the eagle soaring
also for their neatness, the elegant filling up of their fields nius of HAYoon, or to the diffusive *: ; Hilton,
or inner spaces, their classical references, their beauty, their #. Government has indeed a Mint, but the blunderer
forceful telling of the recorded circumstance. The Series Wellesley Pole is its Master, and the only coin issued
now before us possesses all this, and that it might most from it during this .#.
of English reigns, worthy of
effectually do so, Mr. Mupie has employed the best regard, the late Crown Piece, executed by a foreigner, has
French as well as English talent, for, as we have else been thought not proper for currency, and it was recalled
where said, our Medal Engravers have not yet attained to after a few had been issued. Besides the invariable mean
the delicacy, precision, and finish, of the French and Ita ness of its issues, this Mint has been further degraded by
lian Medallists. This is by no means attributable to an banishing from the current coin the significant and vene
rated emblem—the Cap of Liberty, while the emblem of
deficiency whatever in the native capabilities of English dominion—the
men. The inbred vigour of their powers, if duly che Trident—was substituted ... We hope that
rished, is competent to the highest attainments in this
our numerous community of literature will not . the
add every other Art, or they would not have rivalled the young wing of Numismatic genius among us to be broken
in its fi. effort to rise, but that the enlivening atmosphere
finest genuises of antiquity in the sister Art of Poetry, of nativepatronage will lift it up in a ceaseless and glorious
have approached antique perfection in the works of their
former own native Medallist, S1Mon, or have given proofs career. We hope that the charge of inferiority to foreigners
of almost every other excellence that adorns, ennobles, and . in the exquisite Art of Medal Engraving will thus be
immortalizes a nation. The French people have had the speedily silenced; for why should Tour º be sur
advantage of a Mint, over which their government has for passed in this branch only of Engraving 2 Why, in the
a century and a half presided with an intelligence that has name of all that is analogous, should Great Britain be out
inade the taste for Medals as universal in France as for done in this Art even by the Ancients—Great Britain their
any other branch of Art, and far more general than that rival, and in some respects their superior in reil glory
for paintings and prints in England. There are, how Great Britain, the land of Siddons and GARRick, of Rey
Nolds and Hogantii. of Marlborough and Nelson, of
ever, several of our countrymen who have great and grow ShakspeaRe
ing talents in Medal Engraving. These are, Mr. Webb, and Milton, of Locke and Bacon, of
who nearly, if not quite, equals the continental Artists in PENN and How ARD, and of SYDNEY and HAMPDEN.
the Engraving of Heads º: Mills, who has cut the Each class of Art has its exclusive advantages. Those
beautiful Pattern Crown Piece, now publishing by Mr. of Medal Engraving are—its durability, delivering down
Mudie; and Mr. W. Wvon, whose improved tâſent is to remote ages, in the most lasting of materials used in
}.}}}. conspicuous in the Reverse to his Head of Art, its elegant and energetic records—its universality
otte. spreading its numerous impressions in every direction over
This is the first Medallic Series of importance that has the globe, so that the admirers of impressions from one
been executed on a British subject, or that has engaged identical work of Art may at the same time be antipodes
British Artists, since the time of Oliver Cromwell and to each other—its freedom from injury and its smallness,
Charles the 1st and 2d, in whose reign SIMox engraved and consequent portableness. -

that famous Trial Piece, whose beauties with those of Mr. Munre's Series comprises forty Medals, º:
Fine Art of every kind had no charms in the eyes of that with a Head of his Majesty, with a suitable Reverse, end
cold-blooded king in every thing but sensuality. One of ing with the Head of Lord Ermouth and the Bombard:
these Pieces lately sold for one hundred guineas. A few ment of Algiers, and including all the principal civil and
Medals of individual persons or circumstances have been military characters and incidents of the late war. We can
struck, but nothing of general moment—nothing that ce scarcely eulogize it, more than to say, that, except as to
lebrates the power and grandeur of the British empire— numbers, it equals the celebrated Napoleon Seriesin work
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manship. It is in fact executed by the identical En J. C. Rashleigh, Esq. - - - - 1 0 0

ravers—the best in France—with the addition of most of Mr. G. G. Day, Attorney, St. Ives - - 1 0 0
the Obverses and a few of the Reverses by English hands. Robert Slade, Esq. - - - - 2 0 0

The majority of the Reverses are allegorical. Allegory . James

W. Slade, Esq.
Williams, Esq.
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1
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0
1
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can be introduced into no species of Art so properly as Timothy Jenks, Esq. - - - - I 0 0
into Medals. The small space, circumscribing, the inci J. Rawson, Esq. - - - - 1 0 0
dent told on each Medal, renders necessary a brief and at H. G. Esq. by Mr. Williams - - - . 1 0 0
the same time a comprehensive method of delineating it, We again state here, that a complete list of all the
and this allegory affords. Did our room admit, we would subscribers (and among them several names not yet pub
shew that this method is very judiciously and significant lished) will appear in a few weeks, notwithstanding they
ly employed in the Series. e would detail the promi * to be so agreeably numerous.
ment merits and demerits of the work. But we must re
retfully take leave of it with the general notice we have
just taken, and the more particular observations we have PUBLIC MEETINGS.
formerly made, congratulating our Gallic rivals on the -
additional extension it will give in England to their sculp - MEETING IN SMITHFIELD.
tural fame, and our countrymen on their successful com As early as eight on Wednesday morning, the City Officers
mencement of a new extension of theirs in the only branch and the Firemen of the different Companies began to assemble in
Smithfield, and were stationed in such places as would enable
of Engraving in which they have hitherto been exceeded by them to act most effectually. Most of i. shops remained un
foreigners: but they have done in this work enough to
convince us, that they have been nobly emulous of the opened, and as the hour for the meeting approached, those that
had been opened were immediately shut. Every possible exer
highest character in their Art, and given a sufficient pled tion was indeed made to prevent disorder.—At a quarter after
of their shortly arriving at it. Opportunity only can eleven, a deputation of twenty was appointed to conduct Mr.
wanting to open to British genius all the paths of intellec Hunt to the scene of action. At a quarter before one, they
tual glory. -
escorted Mr. Hunt on horseback into Sanithfield, amidst the
cheers of the populace. One of the flags bore the inscription of
---
“ Universal Suffrage,” the other the words, “Peace and good
case of William PAUL Rogers. will.” The procession moved in a very orderly manner to the
-
- waggon, into which Mr. Hunt, and as many of the deputation
It gives us real pleasure to be able to inform our as could find room, mounted. For the purpose of procuring
silence, two boards were displayed, bearing the words “Order,
readers that something, has at length been done in the Order "-and every thing was done to secure tranquillity.
cause of this persecuted individual, which affords every After the applause had subsided– -

hope of the accomplishment of the object sought after,< Mr. Hunt was called to the Chair, and addressed the meeting.
an object in fact twofold; first as regards the benevolence He declared he had never seen so large an assemblage (it was
thought 70,000 persons were there), and he should do his duty
of rescuing an innocent man from the distress brought as became the Chairman of so numerous, so orderly, and so con
upon him by his public spirit, and next the political utility
of checking the impudent attempts of exclusively pious stitutional a meeting. The answers to some of the, invitations
which had been sent to fourteen gentlemen in various parts of
and loyal people to interfere with the rights of other classes the country would be read, as it was proper that the meeting
of society. The circumstance we have now to notice is, should be able to judge of men who stood forward before the
a meeting at the house of Sir W. de §.º. at which country. Some of those gentlemen had promised to attend, but
the subjoined Resolutions were passed, and the best means either intimidated by threats or actuated by some other motive,
of furthering their object resolved upon. These Resolu they had not kept their word. Sir C. Wolsely, the steady friend
tions are in a very Prºf. spirit: they are firm, temperate, ment
of the people, had been prevented from coming by a Govern
arrest. The Rev. Mr. Harrison however liad not been de
and comprehensive. They do not appeal to the usual op
terred from doing his duty by any consideration, and now stood
onents of the Government solely, but (what is infinitely beside him (Mr. H.), All the abuse and threats thrown out by
better). include that body in appealing to all those the Government against the Reformers he had read with con
who would support the constitutional rights of their coun tempt. He had received letters threatening him with a violent
trymen. They do credit to the good sense and liberality death if he acted as Chairman at the meeting: he wished such
of those who sent them forth :— -
cowardly miscreants would show themselves. He was sure it
Resolved unanimºusly:-That, on a minute investigation of was not necessary for him to request them to suffer nothing to
the case of Mr. W. Paul Rogers, it appears that this worthy and instigate them to acts of riot; what they wanted was not devas
honest man has been unjusly and cruellyoppressed and persecuted, tation, but the recovery ::::::::: [This address was re
for exercising, in a quiet and contitational manner, the right of ceived with great and unmixed applause..] . .
every Englishman to petition the two Houses of Parliament. Mr. GAst then read the proposed Resolutions. They were
That, in consequence of this persecution, himself, his wife, introduced by a short ºf
to the effect that, as nothing had
and seven children, have been reduced from a state of comfort appalled the factions and the venal press so much as the orderly
and comparative affluence, to the greatest pecuniary distress. conduct of the Reform meetings in the country, it was devoutly
That Mr. Rogers lias been rescued from prison by the liberali to be hoped this meeting would follow so useful an example.
ty of a few individuals, and if now assisted by a generous public, The first Resolution declared the inherent right of every man
has the prospect of again supporting himself and family by ho to be free. The succeeding ones contained propositions founded
nest industry. - *
upon the principle of every man being entitled to a voice in the
That a subscription be immediately commenced, and the money. election of Representatives, and that no man ought to be taxed
be applied by a Committee, and that every friend to humanity be without his previous participation in that right. They declared,
earnestly solicited to aid that benevolent object. that the members of the present. House of Commons were not in
. The following additional subscriptions were immediately an such manner justly elected; that after the 1st. Jan. 1820, they
nounced:— -* - - could not consider themselves conscientiously bound by any
Sir W. C. De Crespigny, Bart, M.P. 45 - 0 enactments made by persons, who did º
‘represent them; that
Mr. Alderman Thorp, M.P. - with a view to accelerate the choice of just Representatives,
C. Fyche Palmer, Esq. M.P. books should be opened in the different parishes of the metro
Robert Gordon, Esq. M.P. polis, for the enrollment of the names of every man of mature
F. S. Douglas, Esq. M.P. age and sound mind resident therein, so as to enable him to give
Pe'er Moore, Esq. M.P. his vote when legally required so to do; that an humble Address
W. Williams, Esq. M.P. should be presented to the Prince Regent, requesting he will be
Mrs. W. Williams "- graciously pleased to issue his Writs to the Returning Officers of
C. M. Williams - - - the Empire, to cause Representatives to be chosen agreeably to
Mrs. williams, sen. the foregoing Resolution. • -
 78 the ExAMINER.
- “12. That it is the right of every individual to retain and ex money in their pockets. If also a grant of 22,000l. were called
press his religious opinions, without being answerable to any for, to be laid out in useless presents of snuff-boxes, perhaps
human tribunal; and that it is wicked, intolerant, and unjust to they would practice a similar vulgarity. -

impose civil disabilities on account of any difference in religious The thanks of the Meeting being voted to the Chairman, he
profession.” - -
expressed his sense of the honour conferred on him. He then
The twelfth and thirteenth Resolutions expressed the sympathy proceeded to read some extracts from the Red Book, and cum
of the Meetings with the sufferings of the Catholics, whose ap: ment on them. [About this time a person in the crowd said—
plications for Emancipation had been so often barbarously re “Pray, Hunt, how much a year does Castlereagh allow you for
fused, and declared that the only means by which the Catholics spouting,” on which the multitude were about to punish the
could obtain relief, was by uniting with the demanders of Radical questioner, but Mr. Hunt interfered and begged that he might
Refortu. The next Resolution was, that an Address, containing remain unmolested. Soon after, a commotion near the wagon
these sentiments; should be sent to the leading Catholics of Ire again interrupted the speaker, when one of thºse who caused it
land. The two last were as follow:— was gently ducked in the water, which had filled the lower part
“ 17, That this, Meeting solemnly disclaims the Debt im of the market from the opened plugs...] Mr. Humt, in the course
pudently and falsely called the National Debt; that as it was of his speech, stated that he had paid no taxes for 18 months;
contracted by the Boroughmongers, without the consent of the and that though he had been threatened with distress, no such
Peºple, let the Boroughmongers pay the principal and interest measure had been resorted te. For his part, he was resolved
of the same.
humbly to follow the example of John Hampden, and resist the
18. That this Meeting unequivocally disclaim any share or imposition of such taxes. (Loud cheers.) He proposed, that the
participation in the disgraceful and cowardly act of the Borough amount of the penny subscription, set on foot by Dr. Watson
mongers, in placing the brave Napoleon a prisoner to perish (6l. 14s. 6d) should be devoted to the payment of the expence ºf
upon a desert Island, shut out from human society, and torn the waggon and of advertisements.
frºm his only son, whilst he is exposed to the brutal insolence of This was agreed to, and Mr. Hunt rode through the crowd,
a hired keeper.” - - -

| after having cautioned them against any acts of violence. An

The Reverend Joseph HARRIsox seconded the Resolutions. immense crowd followed him to a house in Wych-street, where
He particularly insisted upon the propriety of peaceful conduct, he addressed them from the window, repeating his caution. The
by which the people would finally gain their object, without any Meeting at Smithfield gradually dispersed.
of the disgusting and sanguinary scenes of the French Revolu
tion. He was persuaded that if the inhabitants of every village, Another Meeting was held on Hunslet-moor, Leeds, on Mon
town, and city, in the kingdom would exert themselves in the day, at which about 5000 persons were present. The Resolu
same constitutional manner in which they were then acting, tions carried were all in favour of Universal Suffrage and Annual
such an expression of public feeling would be too strong to be Parliaments. One of them was, that as soon as an eligible and
resisted. -

willing man could be found, he should be chosen their Repre

The Resolutions were agreed to almost unanimously. sentative—The multitude dispersed very peaceably.
Mr. Hux" said, that to him it was a source of pecuñar gratifi The Nottingham Reform Meeting took place on Monday after
ºption to reflect, that he was the first man, as Chairman, in noon. It consisted of about 4 or 5000 persons. Among the
Smithfield, where so many burnings had taken place in the speakers were the Rev. J. Harrisou and Mr. Francis Ward, who
times of error and delusion, to have the honour of proposing an was imprisoned under the Suspension. A requisition had been
Address to their Roman Catholic brethren. addressed to the Mayor, who refused to acquiesce to call a meet
At this time time two flags
were hoisted; one consisting of red, ing. They also made application to several of the Aldermen to
white, and green, with the inscription “England, Scotland, attend, to see that no infringement of the public peace took
Ireland;" the other with the words “Liberty or Death.” place; and invitations were sent to the several Clergymen. The
Mr. livnºr then read some correspondence that had passed be Resolutions were all founded on the principle of Universal Suff
tween Lord Sidmouth and himself, in which his Lordship had rage. One of them declared, that Sidmouth and the infamous
rºſu-ed to present two Remonstrances voted at a meeting in Castlereagh had been guilty of high treason, by stopping up the
Palace-yard and a meeting at Manchester. He had declined the legal channel of communication between the Prince and the sub
presenting of the first Remonstrance, because he thought the ject. Others denounced the House of Commons as most cor
meeting in Palace-yard was not composed of the inhabitants of rupt and profligate, declared the hypocritical Whigs to be
London and Westminster; and he had declined presenting the greater enemies to Reform than the Tories, and recommended
second without giving a reason. |-the adoption of female societies, on the plan of the Blackburn
At this time, one of the City Marshals ascended the waggon, Female Reform Society. The Rev. Mr. Harrison strongly re.
and informed Mr. Harrison that he had a warrant against him, commended peaceable conduct, and censured warmly the ideas
which he must immediately execute. Mr. Harrison, after re that private assassination or publie bloodshed would do any
ceiving the advice of Mr. Hunt to surrender himself to the law, thing for them.—The Meeting broke up in a very orderly
departed. -
túailner. - -

A Remonstrance (the same rejected by Lord Sidmouth) was

carried with loud acclamations. - CITY.
Mr. Watson then spoke. He moved the following Resolution, -

which was carried:—“That this Meeting, jealous of the right MORE PLOTS? -

they possess of addressing by Petition, Memorial, or-Remon On Friday, a Court of Common Council was held at Guild
strance, the highest authority of Government, with feelings of hall. The Lord MAvor gave au account of the measures
indignation towards any individual that presumes to stand in adopted to prevent riots on Wednesday. He alluded to a
tie way of this right, publicly censure the conduct of Lord Sid printed bill posted about the streets on that day of a most sed
mouth, for having dared to withhold Petitions and Remon tious nature. The following is a copy of it:— - -

'strauces from the Prince Regent.” “To tag Non-represented.—May that day of trial, which
A letter was real from Joseph Johnson, of Manchester, in our intrepid Leader, in his answer to our requisition, said could
which he regretted his unavoidable absence, supported Univer not be far distant, be this day. Universal suffrage, annual elec
sal Suffrage and Annual Parliaments, and discussed with much tions, and voting by ballot, if possible, without breach of peace:
'freedom the conduct of “the sportive Canning” and “ the but at all hazards, those objects. No riot, no bloodshed, by
— Castlereagh.”—An Address to the People of Ireland was choice; but blood-thirty Despots must grant our rights., if that
aſ ºrwards agreed to. - overgrown pauper, if the puppet of C–, of L–, and S-,
Mr. Gast, a ship-carpenter from. Deptfor", addressed the whose villamous impudence at his late prorogation of the House:
Meeting. He refuted the calumny (advanced in the House of of Corruption, could mock the miseries of the non-represented
Commons) that the lower orders were too ignorant to understand by jargoning about our happy constitution!—if he can be pº
1he mysteries of Government. The lower orders of society were dºwn without breach of the peace, let peace be preserved. If
more wise in the regulation of their private affairs than Ministers that compound of villany and fraud, the Bank of England-f
were wa the regulation of the affairs of the public. (Applause.} those who deserve the punishment they inflict upon their fellow
He now addressed a very large assembly, many of whom be counterfeits, and merit halters more than the forgers they hang,
longed to clubs aud benefit societies. He would ask such per can be annihilated without breach of the peace, let all be peace"
sous, what would any society say if their steward were to pro fal–Peace is our wish; but let us never forget that resistan.”
pose a grant of 10,000l. a year to a son for visiting a sick father? to oppression is the constitutional privilege of every Briton. "
Perhaps they would be vulgar enough to preſer keeping the London, Westminster, and Southwark, there may be, rerhº;',
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THE EXAMINER.
about 20,000 voters. Shall a million of stout non-franchised
hearts, reduced ab the abject coudition of slaves, lick the feet of
- LAW.
such a comparative handful of rascals, who trample upon us, as
they are lorded over by superior scoundrels Shall ten times -VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
tenfold the whole tº,of Electors in infamous Westminster
crouch to those who, in a fifteen days’ poll, insulted the vene Monday, July 19.
rable Cartwright with thirty-eight voices? None but panders to The EARL of shAFTEsbury, &c. AGAINst the Duke of MARL
the borough thieves of both the factions can maintain that any . Borough ANd T. TRIenook.
practical liberty remains to once free England. If the work can Mr. Bell, stated the substance of the answer of the Duke to
be done without fasting, praying, or peace-breaking, good; but the bill filed by the plaintiffs. It admitted that there were two
if the unspeakable grievances of non-representation cannot be swords belonging to the great Duke of Marlborough—that one
redressed without vengeance, ’tis better to break cºr chains of them was in the possession of Lord Churchill, and ſhe other
upon the heads of our common tyrants, than longer to endure (the diamond ...]. noble plaintiffs had gained possession
our servitude. And oh! if the day of trial is come, recollect of, it having been seized under an execution by a creditor of his
that the corrupt knaves of the daily London Press, with their Grace; that he did, about three months ago, cause the whole of
heli-h types, have been our greatest oppressors.” the gold plate to be removed from Blenheim up to London by
“July 21, 1819.” . - - Thomas Triphook, as his agent, for the purpose of having the
His Lordship said, that he trusted his information would lead new arms of Churchill engraved thereon; that in consequence
to the detection of the authors of this bill. He had received in of distresses arising from litigation, the defendant being greatly
pressed for money, and particularly to pay the workmen em:
formation upon oath, that the seditious had made every effort on
Wednesday to eall into action their means of outrage, and toployed on the grounds at Blenheim-house, he had instructed
Triphook to deposit such plate with some respectable silver
incite persons to aid in their diabolical object, which was no less
smith, to raise a sum of money; that Triphook undertook to
monstrous than to fire the Metropolis and murder the inhabitants.—
raise such money; that he never authorised Tripbook, or any
The firmness of his fellow-citizens had, however, defeated such
attempts. - *
other person to pawn, melt, or dispose of the plate, and that if
Alderman Woop trusted that the Lord Mayor, if he knew the any such thing was done, it was without defendant's knowledge
printer and publisher of this placard, would bring them to jus or consent; that he had been informed by Triphook, that the
tire immediately. In his own mayoralty, a placard of a similar plate had been deposited in the hands of some banker (whose
tendency had been posted about the streets; and when he came name the “ said Duke” did not know) by the person into whose
to inquire into it, he discovered that it had been printed in hands Triphook had given it; that having been informed that
Bridewell, by a servant of the City, and a man connected with some of the said plate was offered for sale by persons in whose
Government 1 (Hear, hear!). This might possibly proceed from hands it had got, after it had been delivered to Triphook, he
a similar quarter. As far as he could judge of the Smithfield immediately applied to him, when Tripbook expressed himself
meeting, there was not the slightest attempt at disturbance; so shocked at the circumstance, and assured this defendant that he
that the author of the placard contemplated what the parties had, immediately upon hearing thereof, taken away the gold
...themselves did not seem to think of. " - plate from the person or persons who had so offered it for sale,
Alderman Warrn MAN observed, that when he recollected the and deposited it in other hands ; that in consequence of the de
mºshimations of Oliver and others, he could not overlook the pos fendant's instructions, Thomas Triphook had raised 1,200l. or
sibility of such persºns being at work at present. (Irear!) The 1,300l. on the plate for the use of the defendant; that he was
quiet conduct of the meeting showed, that they contemplated no unable to inform the complainants where the plate now is ; that
violence; and indeed he was surprised at their moderation. although he could not believe such plate had been disposed of by
Soldiers had appeared in the streets: he had seen some dragoons. Triphook, so as not to be forthcoming, safe, and uninjured ; yet
iſ Giltspur-street, who (as he had heard) were only prevented if it should appear otherwise, he was most willing to submit to
by the civil power from impeding the procession to the market. indemnify the testator's estate for the value thereof.
The worthy Alderman reprehended, in the warmest terms, the The Vice-Chancellon said, he should now order certain ar
rash act of sending constables in the very middle of the business ticles of the gold plate (which had remained in the Duke of
of the meeting to arrest Harrison. (IIear.) - Marlborough's possession) to be deposited with the bankers of
The Lond MAvon asserted, that the only soldiers in the streets the trustees. If the whole was net forthcoming, he thought the
of the city were two dragoons in Giltspur-street, who carried Court had power of making the present possessor of the estate
him accounts of the proceedings every half-hour. He was told, make up its value out of the profits of the estate. His Grace
that the worthy Alderman had insulted them most grossly, and would find, that wherever the plate was, the Court would reach it.
had even endeavoured to excite the populace to attack them
(hear); nay, this very insult was entered in the order book of the COURT OF KING'S 1312NCH.
regime-t. . (Hear.). He would do all he could to get at the au
thors of the placard; and he would offer a reward for the dis. Saturday, July 17. -

covery of those who attempted to stimulate the people to witTE v. ARNEY, cATH, AND RAIN.
violence. This was an action brought against the defendants to recover
Mr. S. Dixon and Mr. Griffiths eulogized the conduct of the the amount of a bill for 1171. 2s., drawn by the above defendant
Lord Mayor. -
Arney, who was partner with Cath and Kain, in the firm of G.
Mr. Williants censured his Lordship's conduct as too busy Arney and Co., and was one amongst many other bilis drawn by
and rash. The constitutional Reformists, he said, were the real Arney for his private use and purpose, without the knowledge
friends of order; they never sent out atrocious placards to ex or consent of his partners, by which they had become very great
cite the people to bloodshed and murder (cheers); they never sufferers; the former bills, being principally in the hands of
employed any Oliver or Castles to instigate the people to crime, third persons, they did not think proper to resist, but the present
in order to punish them for it after it bad been committed (loud being one of so private a nature, ". a loan from the plaintiff
cheers); but they were found at their post, ready to preserve or (who had been trustee to Arney's family) to the defendant, and
der and tranquiſlity. (Loud cheers) -
the bill never having been out of his own hands, they determined
-

Some conversation followed, and a vote of thanks was pro to abide by the decision of a Jury.
posed to the Lord Mayor for his exertigns on Wednesday, in Mr. MARRYAT, for the defendants, called J. Poole, Esq., who
stead of which an Amendment (a vote of censure) was also pro proved that the plaintiff had admitted to him, that he lent G.
posed. Some recrimination passed between the Lord Mayor and Arney a sum of 800l. i-, 1816, and that he knew at the time he
Aiderman Waithman, the former charging the latter with in lent it that it was for Arney's account alone, and certainly not
temperate language and conduct when he (the Alderman) re on account of the firm; that he did not know who the partners
monstrated with him (the Lord Mayor) respecting the apprehen were, and had kept the bill in his possession ever since. -

sion of Mr. Harrison on Wednesday. The introduction of three The Jury, having been directed to find a verdict in favour o
horse-soldiers into the Green-yard (of which the Lord Mayor G. Arney, who had pleaded his bankruptcy, he was admitted au
asserted his ignorance, having only ordered the horses to be evidence, and being called into the box, said, that his brother
brought there, which he thought would be more useful, in case having been in difficulties, he had borrowed money of the pham
of disturbance, than his own), was also protested against, as an tiff, for which he had pledged the partnership acceptance, but
infringement of the privileges of the City. On a division the that this money he had borrowed for the use of the firm.
original motion was carried by 69 to 27–The Court then ad Mr. MARRYAt then rose with great warmth, and said, “Gen
journed. - º tlemen, if a doubt ever existed in your minds upon this case,
 486) THE EXAMINER.
surely it must now be completely removed.” He then handed Payne, and have returned a verdict of “Accidental Death," but
the books up to the witness, where in his own hand-writing, in lººr-a a deodand of 30l. against the roprietors of the
the cash-book as well as the ledger, he had credited his own coach.
private account for the money received of the plaintiff, whose A fire broke out on Thursday night. about 10 o'clock, at the
mame was not in the books from beginning to end house of Mr. Karnaby, cork-cutter, in Cow-lane, Snow-hill: the
The Jury then immediately nonsuited the plaintiff. flames soon communicated to the adjoining houses, tenanted by
Mr. Smith, a pocket-book-maker, and Mr. Alston, a bricklayer.
COURT OF COMMON PI.EAS. By the prompt exertions of the firemen, the mischief extended
no further, but those three houses were entirely destroyed. No
Monday, July 19. lives were lost. Mrs. Karnaby and a female servant saved them.
Antonios 11, Anstice. selves by jumping out of a window. -

The plaintiff was a Lieutenant in the 65th regiment, in India, . On the 16th' inst, Miss Mary Templeton, daughter of Mr.
from whence, in consequence of ill health, he returned in an Thomas Templeton, ef North-street, Newry, and Miss Mary
East Indiaman, commanded by the defendant, and paid for his Macklin, daughter of Mrs. Macklin, of Sugar-island, proceeded
passage 220. Before, the ship reached St. Helena, a dispute to the Green-bank, for the purpose of bathing. It is supposed
arose between the plaintiff and defendant, in consequence of that the young ladies had entered into the current of the river,
which they had a duel on that island. Neither of the parties and had been hurried into deep water. They were observed in
was wounded, although three shots passed on each side, and the imminent danger by Mr. Frances Haughey, of Derrabeg, who
matter was amicably settled. Some time after, a young gentle precipitated himself into the stream, and caught Miss Macklin,
mau, named Warton, a passenger in the ship, wrote a letter, re whom he brought to land. He instantly made an effort to save
probating the conduct of the defendant, which was torn in com Miss Templeton, and hoped that be had seized her by the hair,
pliance with the wishes of the plaintiff. Capt. Anºtice, how at the moment she sunk—but when he raised his hand, he found
ever, picked up the scraps, read the letter, and, in consequence, that it only grasped a crooked comb, with which she had bound
forbad the writer, who was a charter passenger, the privilege of up her tresses. Meanwhile the body was hurried away by the
walking the quarter deck, or going into the steerage, in which retiring tide, and was not discovered till two hours after the
was the plaintiff’s cabin. Upon this, the plaintiff, conceiving accident, and then at a great distance from the spot where she
that his friend Mr. Warton was hardly treated, invited him to had sunk. She was only 18 years of age.—Irish Paper.
his cubin, for which breach of his orders, the Captain confined The following singular suicide was committed at Parison
the plaintiff to his cabin (a small close room, often totally dark), Friday —The Sieur Guillet, a lodger in the Rue des Lyonnais,
and placed two sentries over him. He remained in this con No. 32, aged nearly 75, hung himself in his apartments between
finement three weeks, after which, until the ship arrived in port three and four in the morning. A paper was found near him,
(about 10 days), he was allowed to walk the deck in the evenings in his own hand-writing, stating, in the following terms, the
for an hour. To recover damages for such treatment he brought motive for the act:—“Jesus Christ has said, that when a tree is
this action. -

old and can no longer bear fruit, it is good that it should be de

Fºr the defendant, witnesses were called to prove that the stroyed.” -

plaintiff had treated the Captain's orders with great contempt ; -

aud that his health was not injured by the confiuement.—Wer , birtths. *
dict for the plaintiff-Damages 500t. -
Tuesday, Lady Rendlesham, of a daughter.
Friday, in Brunswick-square, the Lady of George Darling,
LONDON SESSIONS. M.D., of a daughter. -

Steam-boats.—An appeal was laid before this Court by the MARRIAGFs.

proprietors of the Engineer stea against a conviction that -

bad been obtained against th by the Watermen's Company, Monday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, the Hon. Frederic
for having more than the legºſ number of passengers on board.— Sylvester North Douglas, only' son of Lord Glenbervie, aud
It was couiended, that steam-boats, never having been contem M. P. for Banbury, to Harriet, eldest daughter of Wm. Wright
plated, were not described by the Act, which only said “till son, Esq., of Cu-worth, in the county of York. -"

la Apriſ last, Henry, Brougham, º M. P. in Marianne,

boat. tow-barge, or any other boat or wherry s” and that the widow of the late John Spal ins, Esq. Hill-street, Berkeley
. Act mentioned boats of 15 tons, wherens the steam-boat was 2
or 300.-On the other side it was urged, that the words “an square, and niece of the Hate Sir John Eden, Bart. of Windlestone,
Durham. -

other beat” completely included steam-bºats; and that the con

-

sequences would be very serious, if coaches or boats were to be
allowed to endanger the Hives of passengers by overloading,
merely because they were worked by steam-The conviction
was quashed on account of a legal flaw in it, but the other ques
tion remains undecided.
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On Tuesday, at Marylebone-church, Captain the Hon. Robert
Rodney, brother to Lord Rodney, to Ann, youngest daughter of
the late Thomas Dennett, Esq. of Lock-Ashurst, Sussex.
On the 17th inst., at Marylebone Church, Wm. Thomas, Esq.,
to Miss Jane Pope, niece to the late celebrated Miss Pope, for
merly of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane. -

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. DEATHS. . - -

-
- On Sunday last, Mr. Wm. Fletcher, of Upper. Eaton-street,
Hypnormonia.-Another fatal instance of this alarming ma Grosvenor-place, in the 20th year of his age.
lady occurred in Sheffield on Wednesday night, in the death of On the 13th inst., in Upper Seymour-street, in his 75th year,
Joseph Neweli, a miner, employed in the service of Messrs. the Rev. Wm. Percy, Paul's-church, Char
D. D., Rector of St.
Booth and Co., and formerly an apprentice at the Low-moor leston, South Carolina, and formerly of Queen's-square-chapel,
Iron-works, Bradford. The deceased was 20 years of age, and Westminster. - -

recollects having been bitten by a rabid animal about 12 weeks Friday week, Mr. Jonathan Brear, shoe-maker, of Halifax.
since; the wound was in the thumb, and since presented an up After getting out of bed, he was taken ill, and before medical
pearance of being well. The first symptºms ºf h drophobia assistance could be procured, he was a corpse.
were displayed on Wednesday morning early, when his medicalOn Monday, in Brompton-row, the Ilonourable. H. M. John
attendants were speedily convinced it was a confirmed. case. stone, second daughter of Lord Napier, aged 64. -

The quantity of saliva which flowed copiously from him irrigated . On Tuesday, in Upper Grosvenor-street, Lady Cave, the
everything contiguous; during his indescribable sufferings, he widow of the late Sir Thomas Cave, of Stanford-hall, in the
retained a perfect presence of mind, tilt within two hours of the county of Leicester, Bart. r -

flame of life being extinct, several times previous to which he Sir M. Constable Maxwell, suddenly, at Abbeville, on the 30th
barked iike a dog. It is sincerely hoped that this additional case ult. After the funeral ceremony, which was performed with
will produce some salutary regulations for diminishing the use great pomp, according to the Catholic ritual, Miss Maxwell
less number of the canine species.—Sheffield paper. walked round her father's coffin, and kissed-it-everal times. ,
sunday afternoon, Messrs. Walker, and Co.'s coach, the On the 19th inst., in Sydney-place, Bath, of a paralytic sei
Comer, was overset in Arundel, and all of the outside passengers zure, Wm. Savage, Esq., of Midsomer-Norton, Somersetshire.
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dashed to the ground. , Mr. Richard Payne, of Noble-street, was
killed on the spot; and Mr. Cobden was dreadfuſſy injured. A Printed and published by John Hunr, at the Exaxinus-Office,
coroner's Jury has sat upon the remains of the unfortunate Mr. 19, Catherine-Street, Strand,-Price iOd.”
*
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*No. 605. SUNDAY, Aug. 1, 1819.
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the PoliticAL EXAMINER. H. There are two things which always tend to maintain
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. Pope.
this ignorance,—the want of necessity for doing away with
the corrupt practice, and an instinctive dislike to look into
the theories opposed to it. The rich man eats and drinks
** - *No. 590.
to satiety, rides, hunts, preserves his game and his inte-..
rest, yawns, dresses for dinner, dozes, sleeps, goes to
IMPUTED IGNORANCE OF THE Lower town to enjoy it's amusements, comes back to look after
*
orders. his rents, and if he is not happy, certainly does not attri
bute his non-happiness to his being too rich. What does
Popular leaders, whether sincere or not, may doubtless he want with innovation ? What does he know about the
sometimes exaggerate matters; but where a real ground benefits of a more equal distribution of comfort? He
of provocation exists (and none but the wretchedest mini damns the weather, his horse, his wine, and every thing
sterial hirelings will deny it's existence), the greatest exag else perhaps but political things. Those are alwayst best
geration is not a twentieth part so provoking as a total as they are. If they are not as they ought to be for
want of sympathy. Mere cords then will irritate fast others, he doubts the fact exceedingly, both from long .
enough, in whatever way they betray the deficiency. It precedent, and because he thinks they are just as they
is to no pnrpose that a man occasionally professes sym ought to be for him. And if he is ever led for a moment
pathy, if the whole general tenour of his writings shews to doubt with more gravity, he avoids investigation into
that he does not feel it, perhaps does not even know the the subject with a kind of horror, feeling that he should at
miseries that should excite it. least endanger his conscience, or get into his head a notion
And this wrings us to the first demand, which the suſ. of a day of reckoning. He thinks, that not to know the
fering poor have a right to make. It is the awful demand danger, and not to risque it, are the same things; and
of the Voice in the Scriptures,-"Come and See!”. The so hides his face in his down bed, for fear of seeing the
rich and others may talk of the ignorance of the sufferers, ghost of his country's happiness.
till they find to their cost that the latter are wiser than * On the other hand, there are two things which tend to
themselves; but we have good reason to be convinced accelerate knowledge on the part of the poorer classes, the
that numberless persons who talk about the ignorance of moment it is excited;—first, the same necessity which ex
the suffering classes, really know not a jot about their con cited it; and second, the indignant-consolation felt in
dition. We shrewdly suspect, as one glaring instance, ‘becoming intimately acquainted with their rights. Nor is
that the House of Commons, generally speaking, were not any mighty, study requisite to perfect their acquaintance.
aware the other day of the importance of tea to the poorer It is a task which a good will can soon accomplish. The
orders, tilt the newspapers informed them of it. In fact, main provisions of Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights
it requires one of three things to render a man competent are as intelligible as Poor Rictishn's Almanack; and the .
to speak and to feel about other mens' misfortunes;–it publications of Major Cartwright, however open they
requires either experience of the suffering in his own per inay be here and there to the sharp-set eye of scholarly
son, or the testimony of his eyesight, or an imagination criticism, contain more real knowledge of his country's his
and habit of sympathy. Now let the public say with tory and institutions, than could be brought together by.
bitter smiles, how much of all or any of these helps to dis multitudes of parliamentary gentlemen. If not, let them
cussion is possessed by the government journalists. Bad write and circulate publications as good. Let them dare
authors can flourish as well as good now-a-days, when to probe the subject, as he does, for the benefit of the peo
the Dunciad is verified in the ruling circles; and who is ple at large; and shew them how feeble are his argu
here among the eaters of good things and the sayers of bad ments, with weapons as fair as his own. -

ones, that has experienced the evils arising from want of Then there is the Twopenny Trash. We really know,
bread or of hope? Who is he that has taken the trouble very little about this Twopenny Trash, except Consert ;
to make himself acquainted with them in town or village? but from specimens we have formerly seen of it, we believe,
Who is he, that has an imagination to conceive them, or that none of the newspaper advocates of the present sys
a habit of sympathy to ſel? - temmingle any thing half so wholesome in the composi
We will venture to affirm, that in any given district in tion of their Sirpenny Trash; and as to Connett, with .
England, the suffering classes, and particularly the school all our dislike of him on some accounts, he is at once the
masters and others to whose understandings they look up, most pewerſul as well as popular political writer now.
- know twenty times more of the Constitution, than all the living. It is in vain to deny it. There may be attempts
aristocracy in the neighbourhood. Even the knowledge to confound his vulgarity with his want of power; but .
which jhe latter possess, is apt to be an erroneous one, they are only so many proofs of ignorance or affectation.”.
whilºt is otherwise with the knowledge of the sufferers. which serve the more to betray the inferiority of his on-..
And the reason is obvious. The aristocracy derive theirs ponents. Now the poorer classes have been in the habi:
from a corrupted practice, the people theirs from elemen of reading Connett for years, while their “superiors”
tary right. have been as deep, begause almost as interested, in the
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Sporting Calendar; and as deep as the ground would let which persuades them of the necessity of amendment, and
them in the superficial Courier and the slippery Quarterly | to the necessity proportions the power:-by the same
Review”. The two latter they read merely to nestle spirit which enabled the self-taught plebeian Paise to re
themselves in their sense of security, or be taught the fute, out and out, the proud and self-ruined Bunkº:—hy
worst way of securing it; but the poor read CARtwright the same spirit, which enabled Rºxzi, the son of a
cpd Cobbert with an anxious and pertinacious interest, washerwoman, to make the vain and degenerate princes of
commensurate with their sense of suffering; and while Rome tremble before him; and by the same spirit which
the elder sons of the magistrates, and divines, and lords of enabled FRANKLIN, a compositor in a printer's office, to
the manor, and courtiers, and great clerks, are beguil do what RIENzi's learned pride hindered him from doing,
ing rainy weather with the Calendar aforesaid, or the that is to say, complete his ſtask though not to the same
younger ones wondering at the meaning of HoRace's fashion, and restore the great old privilege of England for
political ode, “O Navis referent,” the sons of the wea setting popular examples to the world. They who doubt
vers, and lace-makers, and cotton-spinners, and ruined such things, only show that they, at any rate, are not the
farmers, are canvassing the state of parliament and the persons,
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nation, not, as the idle Courier pretends, like Jack Cade

and the rioters of unleſtered times, but like inen who have
ABUSES OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY.
been informed as well as suffering from their childhood,
TO THE LORD HIGH CHANCELLGR.
and are prepared solemnly to demand what they have
solemnly learnt to know. For one Lord Holland or Sir My Lond,-The jealousy with which our ſtreſather:
FRANcis Bundert there are twenty Peers and Commoners viewed the first endeavours of the Chancellor to usurp upon
the anciest Common-law Jurisdictions, and to bring the trial
who could not give you decent answers respecting the par of matters of property, life and limb, under his arbitrium
ticulars of the constitution; but for one manuſacturer who without the intervention of a Jury, was undiminished for
attends the less illustrious debates among his companions, ages after the first recorded check which these new pre-en
and is ignorant of the question before then, there are sions received by the Magna Charta of King John. The
twenty whom every strong human interest, in the world ſull parliament assembled in the ninth year of Iſenry 30,
A.D. 1225, solemnly re-enacted the general provisions of
has made familiar with his political catechism. # Magna Charta, which then became a statute that may be
There is a common-place in philosophy which many truly considered, as the firin corner-stone of our civil rights,
would-be philosophers of polite life have yet, it seems, to and political liberties. This statute or charter “ is decla
leare. It is this.--that there is no surer mark of vulgar ratory of the antient law and libertie of England, and there
ignorance then to be perpetually bringing accusations of it. fore no new freedom is hereby granted, and the words
Vulgarity is commonness, or in a more contemptuous pronobis et har ridibus rostris in perpetuvºs were added to
*sense, ostentatious commonness. Now can any minds be avoid all scruples, that this great parliamentary charter
might live and take effect in all successions of ages for
more decidedly of a vulgar cast than those of the first lead ever.”* This statute 9 Hen. 3. c. 29, again restrains he
ing men in the state, and their hirelings? And yet while pretensious b; the Chancellor and of all othere at:cºpiºg
the sway of these men is a marvel and a reproach to the to draw the trial of criminal or civil causes frou the ord
times, and is perpetually recalling the old saying of Chan marv. Cetºria and Juries of the country. -

cellor Oxenstien N, f we are asked with a fastidious smile ... Now the legal or ordinary jurisdiction of the Chancellor
how “ the vulgar” could possibly amend a state? How
(for he had no Court but §
an office) was confined to
the making out of charters and commissions from the
By the same spirit which enabled them to detect the real King; the issuing of writs under the great seal, when he
vulgarity and abuses of their pretended superiors:—by the held the same ; to hºld plea upon scire facias; to repººl
same spirit, which allows them, what it does not allow the and cancel the King's letters: patent, when inade against
law, or upon untrie suggestiºs; to hold pleas of mot
others, the free exercise of their reason:—by the same spirit strans
*There are some Ex-Jacºbins write in this Review, whose re de droit, traverses of offices, and the like. But the
ſerences to first principles, which from habit and temper they can Chancellor could not try any issue: “therefore Scroºpe,
not help making, are Iudicrously inconsistent with the jolter Chief Justice of the King's Bench in the time of Ed. 3.
Nºaded and more servile common-places of the regular hirétings. | says, that the Chancerie and King's Bench are but one
they betray, for instance, their preference of Seºnde, the diº place, and the Chancellor may by his hand, without writ,
triºter of land, over less summary Reformists; and like Mo del: ;er any thing (i.e. within his leaf jurisdiction) to be
marchy better shan n Repnblic, not because they really hike it tried in the Beach of the King.” + Matters remained upon
ałł in itself, but because they have not been able to after the this ſooting for many years, and there were no further at
world to their own wish, and wanted modesty and perseyetance. tempts duriug the time to establish an ecclesiastical juris
They have married the hag Corruption out of spie. ' diction over the property and estates of Englishmen, coa
+ Nor are the manufacturing districts destitute of “politer"
inspiration. There is a little poetical pamphlet now before us trary to the forms of the Common-law, under the insidious.
pretence of “Equity.” “Such as then sought reliºſe by
printed at Manchester and called the Weaver Bay, from the occu
pation of the writer. It silews, and no wonder, a political spirit equitie were suitors to the King himselfe.” “The Chaº
sufficiently violent but this is at least no detriment to the cºlour had not then any Courte to himselfe, but rather
spirit of its pºlitical ballads; and in these as well as the quieter assisted the King:” and “be attended the King to in
ºverse-, there is a ſacility, and even a real poetical feeling, not un forme him of equitie as the Judges of law.”f And the
worthy of those “plebian” bards of Scºtland, to whom monu learned Lambard then continues “King Edward is:
ments are now being raised. We shall give a specimen or two caused the booke called, Britton or Breton's to be penned
in our next week's aper, and should like to know how man
ºf “the mob of rentlemen who write with ease,” could write in French about the beginning of his reigne (A.D. 1271),
for the better understanding of the laws then comment”
The memorable ºpeech to his son about a council, of mini • * Coke upon Magna Charta, cap. 1.
****-ºlde; mi fiti...ºugm pervā sapientii regitur mundus—See, * Archaion, by Wm. Lambard, E4, 1535, p. 57:
ºdd, with how smalli portica of wisdom the world is governed.
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upétrº written in Iain by Glanvil and Braeton. But not the principle upon which it proceeded and knew the suffi
sword is said of a Chancerie Court, although the Chan ciency of our Courts of Common law to adjust all fair dis
cellout then issued all the original writs upºn which the putes concerning property. , And we shall finally enter
ether King's Cºurts proceeded.” §. the testimony of upon the main purport for which these letters are addressed
this learned antiquary is of consequence, and is to be re to your Lordship, the detailed exposition of the abuses,
§ed as conclusive; for could he have discovered any manoeuvres, contradictions, and chicanery, by which a
authority for, or annals of, the establishment of a Court settled system of unparalled and merciless plunder is sup
fºunded upon the abominable principle of foreing a man ported. It is far from me, my Lord, to conceive that you
tº give upon his oath evidence against himself, he would: can possibly be personally interested in the support of the
idly have announced them. This conclusion we deduce atrocious proceedings to which I purpose directing the
- the perusal of his long and elaborate defence of the public attention. Should the public feeling be sufficiently
infamous Court—the Star Chamber; the illegal power of roused to insist upon legislative interference, for an entire
which he defended upon the ground of the fight of per reformation of the course of proceedings allowed in your.
sonal jurisdiction in the King, and the occurrence of cases honourable Court, or for its entire suppression, I doubt
*ithºut the bounds of law or equity 14 Lambard was a not your Lordship will hail our escape from the chaotic
Master in Chancery: therefore he may be presumed to coaſusion of “equitable” chicane to our old institutions
have entertained-every swish to discover the legality and of trial and verdict by Common-law and a Jury. The re
origin of that “equitable" jurisdiction: he had the keeping nunciation' of thirty-five thousand pounds per annum,
of the records of the Tower: consequently he possessed the drawn from the funds of minors, orphans, widows, and
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fools, will be a glorious sacrifice for even an Eldon to
The great and learned antiquary–Selden,_in his Dis' make: it would at least, my Lord, defeat the aspersion
cºurse to Lord Bacon upon the Life of Becket, Archbishop that your Lordship has not yet been sufficiently enriched
of Qanterbury, and of his Office as Chancelior-does nºt from those in