The breath" or unjust | scene with the "Hotel-keeper is excellent. The toad-eater, who, like divertthe sacred temples of purity and loveliness! praise, especially when mingled with the taint of detraction towards all the rest indeed, is borrowed from the novel, is also a very what is great and good in others, becomes always pestilential to the ob- ing heightening of the real thing; one in which poor human nature is ject it would fain exalt: therefore CHANTRY will have mistaken the degraded to the lowest point of mental slavery and debasement. We right road of a great and honourable mind, if he has not rebuked this know not, however, whether the satire ought not to fall on the animals shallow friend, lest he should hereafter breathe such another loathsome pestilence over him. It may be a great chance whether the just hand who thus castrate mind into a tone of implicit servility and submisof posthumous fame will not deck the brows of some of these Stone-masons sion, rather than on the victim of the operation. Who but the egreWESTMACOTT, FLAXMAN, and others, with brighter laurels even than gious moralist of the Times fell aboard of poor VELLUTI? But this the one this critic has chosen to make the hero of his romance. If point of casuistry we leave to the virtuous THEODORE, the original Sculpture be an Art which at present receives a scanty patronage in author of the sketch, much of whose silver-fork knowledge is said to England, it is not for lack of highly-talented men, who are honourably have been obtained by very similar obsequiousness. Mrs. W. CLIFand zealously devoting their lives to its practice; while their labours, FORD conceived this poor creature to the life. The Mrs. Rosemore of already known to the world, will declare those labours not to have been Mrs. DAVISON was all that could be desired of the dignified gentle in vain. Go yourself, Mr. Examiner, through the studies of several of woman, and Miss P. GLOVER acted the daughter with much sensibiour best living Artists in that province, and you will see whether there lity. VINING could not make himself appear old enough for Sir be only one worthy of high estimation and honour in England. Harry, but otherwise performed with much feeling and force, and is evidently a very improving actor. RAYMOND's lover and gentleman was correct and respectable; and as to LISTON, he was as usual a walking piece of drollery from one end of the piece to the other. The dialogue of Quite Correct is sprightly, with no great portion of wit, but with considerable whimsicality, which is chiefly exhibited in the occasional introduction of the genuine Hook pun; a species of equivoque that, however agreeable to High Church Divines and Mr. Licenser COLMAN, everybody knows, at times, is anything but " quite correct." Two of them were laughably absurd, but exceedingly coarse; and these we have been told are from the original story. On the whole, this piece, which is attributed to Mr. EBSWORTH, will pass. The approbation was unequivocal from a crowded house; and it was given out for repetition in the midst of loud applause, and Q. without a single sound of disapprobation. s I have passed by his pitiful and envious attack of the Professors, en masse, of a noble art, Painting.17112 Pray excuse this trespass upon your columns, from one, who is very sincerely your's, July 26, 1825. A LOVER OF TRUTH. THEATRICAL EXAMINER. HAYMARKET THEATRE. THE Burletta of Midas has been revived at this theatre, and Madame VESTRIS has appeared to much advantage in the part of Apollo, in which she both acts and sings with great keeping and spirit. The Midas of LISTON being well known, it is scarcely necessary to dwell upon; the character itself a burlesque, he was of course irresistible. Miss GEORGE and Mrs. WAYLETT performed the rival sisters, the former with considerable musical skill, and the latter with much pleasantry and humour. The Dorcas of Mrs. JONES, and the Farmer of PINE, also told very well, and, upon the whole, it is a very fair revival, with the exception of the Pan of WEST, an operareceived, and appears likely to take its turn with advantage to the tic attempt altogether out of his line. The piece has been well. treasury. On Friday evening, a new minor comedy of three acts, was brought out at this theatre under the title of Quite Correct. It is built upon one of the "Sayings and Doings" of Hook, and possesses a very tolerable, portion of second-rate dramatic merit. The scene is laid at the Imperial Hotel, Brighton, where a Mrs. and Miss Rosemore reside, with little or no appearance of acquaintance or connexion beyond the amatory visits of young Milford, who, desperately in love with the daughter, gives implicit credit to their general account of themselves. This attachment having reached the ears of his mother, Lady Almeria Milford, a dashing veteran widow of quality, at the opening of the piece she enters, just arrived from London, attended by her poodles, her shawls, and her toad-eater. Her first inquiries are made from Grogan, the hotel-keeper, a quizzical personage, en caricature, whose passion is, that nothing shall occur in the Imperial Hotel that is not quite correct." By this oddity she is informed, that among other people of fashion at the hotel is the mature rake of fashion, Sir Harry Dartford, a gentleman who has lived in a state of separation from an amiable lady and infant daughter until he is ashamed to return to them., Lady Almeria doubts not of the assistance of the intriguing baronet to disentangle her son from the lures of a brace of adventurers, and is not mistaken; for even previous to their rencontre, partly to save Milford from an improper connexion, and partly from the love invite himself into the company Sue, he has determined to FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. BANKRUPTS. A. Still, St. Saviour's Church-yard, Southwark, tailor. Solicitors, 1 Solicitors, W. Dartnall, Dover, ironmonger. Solicitors, Messrs. Stocker and T. Swindells, Bosden, Cheshire, farmer. A. Sloan and M. Friedeberg, Paternoster row, dealers. BANKRUPTS. J. Johnston, Manchester, draper. Solicitors, Messrs. Adlington and Co Bedford row. T. Loveday, Newgate-market, poulterer. Solicitor, Mr. Dimes, Princes street, Bank. J. Hollis, Bishopstoke, Southampton, miller. Solicitor, Messrs. Winter and Williams, Bedford row. Poland street. Co. Cloak lane. R. Watkins, Mount street, Grosvenor square, tailor. Solicitor, Mr. Young, Badcock, Watlington, Oxfordshire, tanner. Solicitors, Messrs. James and Whitelock, Ely place, Holborn. T. Barnes, Dennington, Suffolk, merchant. Solicitors, Messrs. Alexander and Son, Cary street, Lincoln's Inn fields. street, Cheapside. ladies, whom he has never seen. He accordingly writes a note to Mrs. Rosemore; and to the infinite dismay of the bearer Grogan, whose notions of correct-J. ness are thereby outrageously assailed, the lady consents to the interview. Not only so, when piqued by disbelief of Milford, Sir Harry writes a note to Miss Rosemore, requesting a private meeting at night in the gallery; the mother obliges her to agree to the Holah, Hastings, chemist. Solicitors, Messrs. Burra and Nield, King assignation. The sequel may probably be guessed at: the Rose-W. Haseldon, Liverpool, porter-dealer. Solicitor, Mr. Chester, Staple mores are the wife and daughter of Sir Harry, who makes the discovery at the appointed meeting, and acknowledges them in the face of the attendant listeners; and the union, of the lovers of course forms the finale. The Adventurer of HAWKESWORTH, and the Man of the World of MACKENZIE, give foundation for this incident. The development of the plot is not amiss, and the acting Was in all parts highly respectable. The Lady Almeria of Mrs. GLOVER is a fine spirited sketch, with a dash of originality in a portion of the character, which was most animatedly delivered. The first THE FUNDS. There has been a considerable bustle during the past week in both the Home and Foreign Markets, but particularly in the former. It is said to arise in consequence of a conflict among the jobbers, and a speculation in a certain monjed quarter to sell English and purchase French Three per Cents, in the idea that the measure of the French conversion of Stock will be carried. Looking at the relative price of the Stock, a certain gain of a half per cent. in every hundred is anticipated. Such is one of the causes to which the sudden fall of Consols on Friday is attributed, but it is possibly owing quite as much to a comparative deficiency of mones, from the locking up of so much capital in the new speculations. There is very little doing either in Foreign Stock or Shares. Latest quotations. Consols, 89 Reduced, 90 per Cents. reduced, 984 PRICES OF FOREIGN Brazilian Scrip (1825) 34 dis. Greek Scrip (1825) 12} 13} dis. New 4 per Cents. 103 THE EXAMINER. LONDON, JULY 31, 1825. THE foreign news of the week is rather continuous and explanatory than altogether new. An admirable address from BOLIVAR on opening the Congress of Peru, appears in the Jamaica papers. The clause in which he lays down his dictatorial power, supplies another of those fine instances of consistent wisdom and patriotism, by which the conduct of this excellent man has been all along distinguished. It is as follows: It is amusing to read an account of a Convention between the Emperor of AUSTRIA and King of SICILY, for the further stay of a portion of the Austrian forces until 1827, the Neapolitan army not being suffleiently organised the execrable story of France and Spain under other names. What a pleasant opening of suppressed feelings and interests will the next tolerably general war produce! The King of FRANCE, it seems, has created much ill-will in the Netherlands by a decree against the introduction of a portion of their manufactures into France. They say he has forgot" the Hundred Days." Alas! poor man, in some things his memory is excessively defective. He has almost forgotten that he lives in the 19th century. The President of Haiti, finding that appeals to the justice and consistency of the British Cabinet are of no avail in procuring a recog nition of his country's independence, has wisely resolved to touch its interest. The important duty on English goods is now one-half less than on the goods of any other nation. A law has passed the Haïtian Congress, declaring that the duties, after the 1st of January, 1826, from England, shall be the same as from all other nations and states. We shall now see therefore, whether our Ministers will persist in a refusal so unjust and impolitic on general grounds, when by so doing they will cause direct and serious injury to the commerce and manufactures of Great Britain. Surely a tenderness towards BOURBON pretensions cannot outweigh in Mr. CANNING'S mind the obvious considerations which would lead him to follow up, towards Haïti, the principles he has so recently asserted and acted up to in the case of the new South American Republics. MR. O'CONNELL AND MR. COBBETT.-In his recent speeches in Ireland, Mr. O'CONNELL has expressly declared, that his support of the two " wings" of the Catholic Relief Bill was given only in the hope of thereby insuring the success of that measure; that he should have shuddered with horror at the plans for disfranchising the free"LEGISLATORS!-On returning to the Congress the supreme power holders and paying the clergy by the state, under other circumstances, which they deposited in my hands, I may be permitted to felicitate the and relying solely upon his own judgment; and that he now feels that people on freeing themselves from what is most terrible in the world even with his temporary object he was wrong in supporting the from war, by the victory of Ayacucho; and from despotism, by my resig-wings," which he is convinced rather retarded than advanced the nation. Proscribe for ever, I beseech you, so dreadful an authority !— an authority that was the sepulchre of Rome! It was laudable, without doubt, in the Congress, to escape from horrid abysses and to avoid encountering furious tempests, to confide its laws to the bayonets of the Liberating Army; but now that the nation has obtained domestic peace and political liberty, none should command except the laws." " Such are the men who, in the highest sense of the word, live for ever, both in the hearts and understandings of grateful posterity. Looking at the foundation and security of two great, free, and ultimately powerful communities, as the result of his character, influence, and labours, who can doubt that the name of BOLIVAR will henceforward rank among the foremost of the indisputable benefactors of mankind. A correspondent of a Morning Paper attributes the blustering report of the Georgian House of Representatives, to which we alluded last week, to the defeat, by the General Congress, of a bargain for territory with the Indians, in which the latter were deluded by the treachery of a few of their chiefs, bought over, as it is supposed, by the purchasers. This is said to be the main subject of dispute, and that the topic of Slavery was artfully introduced into the report, in order to rouse the attention and passions of the other slave states. The separation of these states from the Union is an admirable threat, truly! possessing, as they do, a germ of weakness within themselves, that would rapidly render them the victims of the system they so sanctify, if left to the glorious guardianship of each other. Their own slaves would be the active ally of an enemy, and the braggarts know it. In Georgia the want of confidence in them is such, that when a fire recently broke out in Savannah, the, capital of that state, the White Militia were ordered under arms, and strict orders were issued that all slaves should be confined to their masters' houses. In addition to these remarks, it is said, that the dispute between Georgia and the Washington Government is in some measure connected with the late contest for the Presidency of the United States-Mr. CRAWFURD, one of the opponents of Mr. ADAMS, the successful President, being a Georgian by birth; and General JACKSON, another rival candidate, a native of Tennessee, another of the slave-holding states. Since the above was written, we see by later American papers, that the Georgian House of Assembly has closed its session without taking any notice of the violent Report of the Committee-thus bestowing on its framers, and the Governor of the State, a silent but significant reproof. This is all as it should be;-and the Courier's advertence to symptoms of a dissolution of the Union, rather premature !] on Catholic desideratum. Mr. COBBETT comments with great severity and sinister motives on the part of the Learned Gentleman. He this inconsistency, for which he does not hesitate to assign selfish details the circumstances of various interviews between Mr. O'CoxNELL and Mr. PLUNKETT, sought for by the former immédiately on his arrival in London, and just after he had been prosecuted for sedition by the latter. Mr. COBBETT adds a still more grave assettion. He says, " Mr. O'CONNELL had, at this very time, as I believe, obtained a patent of precedency in the Courts, in case the Catholic Bill should pass! That is to say, a patent from the King, putting him as high as a Barrister as he would have been if he had never laboured under any disqualification! If this be true, what more do we want? Is there anything else necessary to explain this wonderful mystery? I say that I believe it to be true; and I believe it to be true, because Mr. SHIEL told me so, and he told me so on the 10th of March. He told it me merely as a circumstance showing the friendly disposition of the Government. He told it me without any injunction of secrecy, and without any the smallest hint of imputation against Mr. O'CoxNELL. He seemed to look upon it as a very proper thing; and he hoped, I dare say, that equal justice would be done to himself."This circumstance, in conjunction with the sudden and friendly concert between Mr. O'CONNELL, and Mr. PLUNKETT explainsaccording to Mr. COBRETT the whole mystery of the violent contradictions of the Catholic Leader. Such is the statement of the writer of the Political Register, himself lately the warmest eulogist of Mr. O'CONNELL. The latter will doubtless reply forthwith to assertions so injurious to his character. The Austrian Observer persists in maintaining that there has been no Congress at Milan. If it said the Congress had failed, we might believe it; but, before it persuades us that there was none, it must inform us why the Foreign Diplomatists followed the Court to Milan. It is not the custom for Ambassadors to accompany a Sovereign travelling in his States-Globe and Traveller. 20 Mr. Power, an Irish barrister, has obtained $007. damages, for a libel from the proprietors of the Dublin Evening Mail, a paper conducted in the on his character, couched in the style of the John Bull and Quarterly, John Bull fashion. The libel held forth Mr. Power generally as a wretched contemptible character, and, among other such stuff, insinuated that he was in a state of such abject poverty, that he diued at a cheap coffee-house on a sixpenny dinner, of which they doubted not he ate heartily, as people often do who live on one meal!" Nearly a hundred sheep perished at Overton fair on Monday se'nnight, from the extreme heat of the weather. A CLERGYMAN FOR SALE. In an auction advertisement in the Yorkshire Gazette, the following are offered to the highest bidder at the Tiger lun, Beverley, "A most excellent Freehold and Tithe-free Farm; also the Perpetual Nomination to the Church of North Dalton, worth upwards of 701. a-year, and the present incumbent aged 36." Mr. LION, merchant, of Bristol, has just imported, in the brig Milo, arrived at that port from the Cape of Good Hope, seventeen Zebras, which were taken about 300 miles in the interior of the colony. LAW. ASSIZES. YORE JULY 21.-LIBEL AND SLANDER-BELL v. THE REV. MR. HILL Scarlett stated, that the plaintiff was a respectable young woman, residing at North Shields, where she carried on the china trade, in partnership with her brother.. They were both members of a religions community, known under the denomination of Methodists. The defendant (Mr. Hill) was a Methodist Preacher, a preacher of a district. Miss Bell alleged, that in consequence of some disagreement between the defendant and her brother, John Bell, who was a local preacher, and who, according to Hill's statement, had interfered with his worldly interests, he (the defendant) had formed the base design of destroying her peace and hap. piness, of ejecting the brother from his situation as preacher, and of driving the whole family from their residence. He complained, that in order to carry this object into execution, he took the most scandalous steps; in short, that he omitted nothing that was likely to have the effect of ruining her and her family. He fearlessly maintained, that a baser or more flagitious case had never come into a Court of Justice-a baseness, if possible, still further aggravated and rendered disgusting, by having been committed under the mask of religion. What would they think of this methodist preacher, when they heard him invoking the aid and bless ing of Almighty God, while in the same breath he was using the most insidious efforts to blast the reputation and ruin the prospects of an in nocent young Lady? Even up to the present time had he persevered in one undeviating system of persecution towards her. Early in 1821, the plaintiff, Miss Bell, and a Mr. Sissison became acquainted. They visited the same families, and as their intercourse increased, an attachment was formed, which ended in an offer of marriage by Mr. Sissison The mar riage was to take place in July that year, and it only remained for the lady to fix the day of their muptials Mr. Sissison at that time carried on the business of a carrier at Hull, and possessed the means of ensuring the plaintiff's happiness, There existed no impediment to their union. The Lady was of a most amiable disposition, and possessed considerable attractions. They were both of a religions turn, and belonged to the same sect While, however, wach was anticipating the happiness that awaited them, Mr. Sissison became alarmed by the receipt of an anonymous letter, ad dressed to the care of a Methodist Preacher at Hull. On the following day, he received a second, addressed to the same preacher, the undoubted object of Bath being to calumniate the plaintiff's character. In these letters, she was described as being totally unfit to become his wife, as a person almost unfit to live in any society. The writer, while he stated this, professed to be actuated solely by a wish for Mr. Sissison's happiad warned him, as he valued his peace, to avoid a connection which would disgrace him. Mr. Sissison had no previons acquaintance with Mr. Hill; his faer had known Mrs. Hill, and he himself was also known to ber; yet the intimacy kept up between the families was so triding, that he never thought of consulting them on his intended anion. On receiving these anonymous leers, he wrote to other Methodist preachers for information, but received no answer; and then it was that be, for the first time, thought of addressing Mrs. Hill on the subject. Here It was that the defendant completely succeeded in get this unsuspecting young man into the snare. His solicitation to know something of the plaintiff's character was precisely what the defendant wanted. The letter to Mrs. Hill fell into his hands; he answered it; and a number of letters passed between them; those of the defendant bearing his wife's signature. Those letters, it would be found, were in the same hand-writing with the anonymous letters; that was the fact, he would distinctly prove, and having proved it, all comment would be useless. The Jury would see, that the defendant was throughout actuated by personal and vindictive motives; that his object was to gratify his resentment, and avenge upon the plaintiff and her family an injury which he supposed himself to have received from her brother; and that he had taken the most unjustifiable means of accomplishing his object. In the first anonymous letter, he says, Is it you for whom this dreadful pit is dug at Shields? O Sir, for God's ke, make inquiry before you take such a desperate step.-What! a Methodist Preacher join himself to infamy and poverty?-Ask any body in North or South Shields, except Dr. O-l-y."The person here alluded to was Dr. Oxley, whom he knew to be an intimate friend of the plaintiff's Family, and of whom, therefore, he was anxious no inquiry should be nade. He goes on to say in the same strain- Fly from danger, bury ourself in a prison, rather than take a——— and a — for better, for worse.-Your sincere friend." In the next anonymous letter, addressed also to Mr. Sissison, he says "As a friend, I warn you of your danger; may God help you, you are cruelly deceived." The defendant concluded with a quotation from Scripture, and a prayer that Mr. S. would make further inquiry. The defendant, in advising thus anonymously to make inquiry, calculated that the party advised, would, amongst others, apply to himself, and in this calculation he was right. The Learned Gentleman went on commenting on those parts of the letter which spoke of the plaintiff's family, as being disreputable, and which pointed them out as being in debt, always squabbling and deceiving, full of religion, and even sunetification, and full of drunkenness, scandal, and calumny; and concluding with the words, "Perhaps I have said enough;" well indeed might be come to that conclusion, but much as he had, he was determined to say. and do more. Miss Bell having received intimation that some inquiry was on foot for the purpose of discovering the author of these anonymous letters, proposed, in order to protect herself from his malice, to appeal to a month of August, the precise period arrived for granting the testimonials of meeting of the preachers and obtain testimonials of her character. In the Miss Bell's character. The testimonials were signed, upon which the defendant wrote to Mr. Sissison, describing the manner in which such signatures had been obtained, and observing that some signed from a fear of being considered Miss Bell's enemies; others because they saw the names of their friends inscribed, and observing that many were anxious to withdraw their names again, if possible. Speaking of the anonymous letters, he said, "I have now some reason to believe they were written by an enemy of mine; I am not certain yet, but every thing I have said, is strictly and literally correct. Yes, I would declare, if I was dying, that she is, from all I have seen and heard, a dirty, bad-tempered, and very deceitful person, and that the family is such as a person of your name and character should form no connection with." In conclusion, he says, "My brother, pray much, trust in God, and you will be delivered." (These invitations to prayer, coupled with the slanderous matter which accompanied them, excited considerable laughter.) Mr. Sissison being under no obligation to conceal the anonymous letters, gave one of them up to Miss Bell's family, bat being bound to keep those which bore the defendant's signature secret, he kept them in his own possession, Miss Bell brought her action upon the anonymous letter against the present as the supposed writer, being ignorant at the time that he had written any to which he had put his name. The case was tried before Chief Justice Abbott, at Newcastle, in 1821; Mr. Sissison was examined on the triul, and in the course of his evidence said he knew nothing of the hand writing of the anonymous letters, and when questioned as to the reasons which induced him to break off his connection with Miss Bell, he said that he had other causes besides the anonymous letters, for doing so. The Chief Justice, upon this ground, thought the plaintiff must fail in her action, as the gravamen of the charge-the breaking off the marriage in consequence, of those two anonymous letters-had not been substantiated. Mr. Sissison kept back the other letters, and the consequence to Miss Bell was disas trous; she returned from Court without redress; her character had been destroyed from other quarters; she had, by the artifices of the defendant, been deprived of the object of her affections-what wonder, then, that she was reduced to distress and despair? Miss Bell was thus depressed and borne down, while the defendant triumphed in the distress and misery. which his letters had brought upon that unhappy lady and her family. Fortunately for the ends of justice, however, the affair was not to end here. Mr Sissison having heard so many persons swear that the anonymous letters were the hand-witing of Hill, was induced to compare them with those which bore that person's signature; he compared them carefully, and the result was a conviction that they were all written by the same hand. From that moment Mr. Sissison looked upon the defendant as a base and malicious character, and felt that all obligation of concealment of his disgraceful conduct was at an end; he saw that he had been be trayed; he saw that an innocent woman had been calumniated by that. deceitful bypocrite, and he determined to do all in his power to remedy the injury, which had been brought upon her. With this view he, a few months ago, put all the letters into the hands of Miss Bell; and upon those letters was founded the present action. The defendant, as it ap peared, bad taken especial care to secure his property in anticipation of a verdict passing against him. That, however, was not a matter for their consideration. In estimating the injury sustained by the plaintiff, they fendant was actuated, neither must they forget the sacred garb under must not shut out from their consideration the motives by which the de which he perpetrated his base and diabolical purpose. What must they think of the man, and that man a preacher of religion too, who, because the brother had in some way interfered with his worldly interests, strained every nerve, put every base and malicious engine to work, to destroy the peace and ruin the character of a virtuous, unoffending female? Was there in human nature any thing more detestable, more abhorrent to any honest mind than conduct such as this? Yet such was the conduct of this defendant, who walked in the fear of the Lord;" of him who spoke "as a Minister of Jesus Christ, who must stand at his bar to account for all his transactions." He should call evidence to prove what he had stated, and would fearlessly leave his client's case in the hands of the Jury with only this one additional observation, that to that unhappy lady, overwhelmed as Mr. POLLOCK, for the Defendant, proceeded to comment upon the evidence, and contended that the characters in which the anonymous letters were written were very different from those in which the real and acknowledged letters of Mr Hill were written. He called the attention of the Jury, with great earnestness, to this point;—the letters were either true or false. If they were true, there was an end of the present case; if they were false, why had not Mr Sissison married the present plaintiff Why indeed, unless he wished to become to-morrow after providing him self with a dowry for his wife by acting as a witness to day? He frusted that if any such unworthy motives actuated Mr. Sissison, which he did not affirm, the Jury would disappoint him, by returning a verdict for his elient. He thought that the facts of the case would fully warrant such a conclusion on their part. It was not because a man was accused of writing an anonymous letter, the most odious and dangerous crime which could be committed on society, that therefore he was to be found guilty of it. If they were convinced that Mr. Hill was the author of this anonymous slander, let them say so distinctly by their verdict ; but if they had the slightest doubt upon the subject, let them give him the benefit of that doubt; because, though the issue of this trial, as far as regarded the plaintiff, innst be a matter comparatively of little importance; as far as it regarded the defendant, it was a matter of life and death. It would rob him of the good name which he had hitherto enjoyed, and would cast a stain upon a character which had hitherto remained free from even the shadow of imputation. Mr. Justice BAYLEY explained to the Jury the law regarding privileged communications, but observed, that if they thought that the anonymous letters were written by the defendant, they had no occasion to take the remarks which he had made upon it into their consideration. He pointed out to them the different circumstances which the evidence afforded to discover the writer of the anonymous letters, and said, that in his opinion, whoever saw the D and S in the words Dear Sir, both in the anonymous letters and in the acknowledged letters, would perceive that they were written in exactly the same characters. After several other observations, Iris Lordship left it to the Jury to decide what was the proper amount of damages to be given to the plaintiff for such an injury, supposing it to have been committed. The Jury retired for a quarter of an hour, and at 6 o'clock réturned a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages, 3001. The defendant sat in Court during the whole of the trial (which lasted all day) and seemed but little affected by the epithets bestowed upon him. JULY, 23.-Wm: Poskett, aged 25, was indicted for forcibly abusing Eliza Beilby, a child under seven years of age: After some of the child's evidence had been gone through, Mr. Baron HULLOCK being of opinion the capital charge could not be sustained, the prisoner was indicted for the assault, of which he was found Guilty. He had already suffered nine months' imprisonment, and was sentenced to fifteen months' hard labour in the House of Correction in Wakefield, in addition. James Johnson was indicted for forcibly abusing Jemima Fineh, on the 12th of July last.-Mr. HENDY stated the case. The crime of which the prisoner stood charged was committed under extraordinary circumstances. At the period at which the offence was committed, there was a fair at Leeds, and the prisoner was appointed as watchman to protect the booths. The prosecutrix was employed at a manufactory in Leeds, and though her appearance did not indicate that she was above 14 years old, she was in reality 25. On the 12th of July she went to the fair, and was induced to enter a booth to see the exhibition of a dwarf and giantess. She herself, from the extreme diminativeness of her stature, might well have been put in the place of the dwarf, and accordingly when she went, she became even a greater object of curiosity than the exhibited dwarf. In consequence, she was detained a long time in the booth, but as it contributed to her amusement, she showed no reluctance to remain. On quitting it, however, and going towards Meadow lane, where she lived, she was followed by some persons, who laid hold of her, and insisted she was the dwarf belonging to the show people. They prevailed upon her to return to the booth. She, either from timidity, or weakness of mind proportioned to the diminutiveness of her person, did not oppose them; but when they came, the booth was closed for the night, and the people said they had their own dwarf, and knew nothing about her. She was then put into the hands of a watchman, the prisoner at the bar, to see her home, but instead of affording her that protection which he was bound to do, he took advantage of her situation and her helplessness to perpetrate the crime for which he was now indicted.-Jemima Finch was then produced, and was so diminative as to be scarcely able to speak over the witness box. The case was so satisfactorily proved, that the prisoner was found Guilty.— Mr. Baron HULLOCK then passed sentence of death on the prisoner, who was so affected as to be unable to leave the bar without assistance. WEXFORD. On Wednesday week, an action of some importance was tried, in which John Nixon Nuon, Esq. was plaintiff, and Francis Wyse, Esq defendant.. It was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant for writing and publishing a false and malicious libel, re flecting on the plaintiff's character as a Magistrate of the County of Wexford, which libel was contained in two letters, one (a private one), written to John Bric, Esq. Barrister of Law, the other enclosed therein to N.P. O'Gorman, Esq. being to the Catholics of Ireland, and both directed to the care of Counsellor O'Connell, Merrion square, Dublin.-Verdict for the plaintiff, 500l. damages and costs. NOTTINGHAM, JULY 25,-MurdeR-Thomas Dewey, aged 30, whi indicted for the wilful murder of Maria Austin, by stabbing her in the side, on the 2nd of July last-Mary Fallowel deposed, that she lodged in a room opposite to that occupied by the deceased. On the 2ad of July, at about 10 o'clock at night, witness went into the apartment of the deceased. The prisoner was then standing near the door. The prisoner went with witness into the deceased's room, and then asked witness what he had said on the preceding day to the daughter of the deceased. Witness replied, that he had threatened to beat the child. He acknowledged that he had done so; upon which the deceased said he should not order her children about. The prisoner turned away, without speaking, and went into his own room, He returned immediately, and struck the deceased a very violent blow on the left side, saying, at the same moment, "There, then." This was done with great rapidity. Witness did not see whether the blow was given with any weapon. The prisoner, as-SOOR as he had struck the deceased, went back into his own room, and witness heard him lay something down upon the table. The deceased put her hand to her side, and groaned very loudly. Witness told her daughters to fetch her uncle Heenas; but the deceased opposed this, Witness held her up. She was sitting on the same stool where she had received the blow. Her head hung down on her left side; she could scarcely speak, and seemed very faint. The prisoner soon came again into the room, and said, "Don't send for anybody; she is a murdered woman." There was no light in the room; the curtain was drawn. Witness asked the prisoner to fetch light: he said "It's of no use, she is a dead woman." He took the deceased's hand and kissed her; be afterwards went out of the room, when he met Heenas, the deceased's brother, on the stairs, who asked him what he had been doing. He replied, "Nothing," and then went away, Witness sent for the deceased's mother-in-law. The deceased died in witness's arms, within three-quarters of an hour after she had received the wound. When the deceased was undressed, witness found that she had been stabbed through all her clothes. On the following morning she saw a butcher's knife on the table in the prisoner's room, which fitted the wounds in the deceased's clothes. Maria Austin, the child of the deceased, who was present at the murder, stated the same facts. Joseph White, a surgeon, examined the body of the deceased. The wound had occasioned death; in its size it perfectly corresponded with the knife produced. S. Moore, clerk in the Nottingham police office, produced the prisoner's confession of having stabbed the deceased. The prisoner said he had committed the murder under the influence of a sudden impulse, for which he could not account. The Prisoner said, that he was subject to a disorder in his head, which deprived him of reason. He bad, under the influence of this disorder, several times attempted to commit suicide, and had once nearly succeeded. A witness was called, who proved that the prisoner had attempted to destroy himself by taking laudanum. He thought him subject to melancholy which interfered with his reason. The prisoner's father said he had once attempted to drown himself in the Trent, Several witnesars gave him a good character, and stated that he was subject to occasion. dejection. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty; whereupon the Judge passed sentence of death upon the prisoner, and ordered him for execution on Wednesday.-The prisoner was a slight, sickly-looking man, whose appearance corroborated the account given of him by the witnesses. MAIDSTONE, JULY 28-THE KING . ABRAHAM CONSTABI.E, EsqThis was an indictment for a misdemeanour. The indicturent stated, that the defendant, as one of the Justices of the Peace for Kent, having no regard to justice or to the duty of his office, but unlawfully intending to aggrieve and oppress one John Baker, and to expose him to ignominy, shame, scandal, and disgrace, on the 30th of July 1822, without an reasonable or probable cause, and under mere colour and pretence of his office, did sign a warrant directed to the Keeper of the House of Correc tion at Maidstone, reciting that he (Baker) had been duly convicted before him (defendant), by the oath of Joseph Abbott and Thomas Fergoson, of being a rogue and vagabond-to wit, by indecently exposing his person naked before a girl named Harriet Hall, ten years old, in Grees. wich Park, and that he (defendant) had for his said offence, adjudged hi (Baker) to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three coals, and by the said warrant did command the said keeper to detain him for the term therein specified; whereas, in truth and in fact, the said J. Baker had not, at the time of the signing of the said warraut, been duly convicted by the oath of the persons therein named, or by the oath of any other person, but on the contrary, defendant had signed the said warrant without seeing the said J. Baker, and without giving him an opportunity of making his defence, or of examining the witnesses to the said sup We have already alluded to a rumour that an expedition was fitting out in this country for the use of the Mexican Government, and that it would be joined by another, from the United States. We now find that the statement was essentially correct, and that the Surat Castle, of 56 guns, one of the vessels purchased by the Mexican Government, sailed from Gravesend on Tuesday week for Vera Cruz, with the intention, as it is said, of first touching at New York, where she will be joined by the American part of the expedition, after falling in with ship of larger force from Sweden, and with two forty-six gun frigates. The first object of this squadron is to cut off the communication between Cuba and St. Juan d'Ulloa; and by so doing, compel it to surrender for want of provisions. Its ulterior object is, however, we understand, an attack upon the Havannah, where a considerable party has been formed in favour of independence. The Surat Castle is commanded by Captain SMITH, the nephew of Sir SYDNEY SMITH, aud the officers and crew are all British.-Globe and Traveller. 1 SUBSCRIPTION FOR SPANISH EMIGRANT.—Mr. Foxton, Il. The Boys at Hazelwood School, 21. DEATH OF MR. BIRKBECK.-With sincere regret we notice in the New York papers last received, the following intelligence of the melancholy death of this enterprising and amiable man, and talented writer :— Morris Birkbeck, Esq. Secretary of the State of Illinois, was lately drowned, in crossing a stream on his way home from a visit to Mr. Owen, at Harmony. Mr. Birkbeck was the founder of New Albion, the zealous promoter of emigration from Great Britain, and the author of a vivid description of the western country. His loss will be severely felt by the emigrants of the west. His door was ever open, and his purse was ever at the service of the houseless wanderer. He has left four sons and two daughters. The backwoodsmen called him the Emperor of the Prairies,' on account of his buying, at a single purchase, 16,000 acres of public land." PROVINCIAL BANK OF IRELAND. The pleasing duty devolves upon CLERICAL TYRANNY.-The Liverpool Mercury publishes a letter from us, of announcing the arrival in this country of the three Directors, ap-, a correspondent, describing a very gross case of cruel and (as it appears) pointed to carry the measures of this establishment into immediate illegal conduct on the part of a Curate of the Established Church in execution. The first of these Gentlemen is. Mr. Montefiore, the near Wales. A marriage had been arranged between two humble but honest connexion of the great Mr. Rothschild, and one of the first capitalists in persons; and in conformity with a very ancient custom, the neighbours, England. The second is Mr. Medley, a Gentleman who has been occuto the number of about 200, were invited to partake of bread, butter, and pied all his life in the most extensive financial and mercantile engagecheese; on which occasion it is usual for the guests to bring their little ments, and one of the most respectable and wealthy individuals connectpresents to the newly-married pair. The party assembled, full of festi-ed with the greatest mart in the world, the London Money Market. vity, and proceeded to the church. The Clergyman had been previously The third is Mr. Edward Blount, whose name is well known to the Irish heard to say to a neighbour-" Come to church to-day-we shall have public. He is a Roman Catholic Gentleman, as remarkable for his some fun." He had ascertained, that the bride was of the sect of Bape moderation in politics, as he is distinguished for his knowledge in busitists, who practise baptism by immersion, and deny the propriety of sub-ness. It is the intention of the Directors, immediately after their jecting children to a ceremony which they cannot understand: accordingly, business shall have been concluded in this City, to repair to Cork, where the "fun" he meditated was to be created by the disappointment and pain they will forthwith open their Bank, and it is expected that their notes of the deserving couple. When they entered the church, he was found, will be in circulation by the 15th of August. From Cork, the Directors not in the pulpit, but in a pew below. Addressing the bride, he asked, will successively proceed to Limerick, Clonmel, Waterford, Wexford, with a significant air, whether she had been baptised? She answered Kilkenny, Galway, Westport, Sligo, Newry, Armagh, Belfast, and in the negative. “Then," said he," I shall not marry you, Mary Jen- Londonderry, where branches will be forthwith opened-Within two kins." "Not marry me, Sir !" exclaimed the poor disappointed girl. months the establishment will be in active operation throughout the "No," replied the unfeeling priest," not unless you are baptised: why, country.-Freeman's Journal. you are no Christian." In her coufusion and dismay, Mary offered to The eminent Patron of indigenous Painting, Sir J. F. LEICESTER, has be baptised by immersion; but the clergyman observed with apparent engaged Mr. HAYDON on the amatory subject of Venus presenting herself triumph, that there was not water enough for that. Here the father in- before Achilles. The same Painter is employing his rare powers upon a dignantly interposed; and after some remonstrances, the party retired biblical subject connected with the Passover, and of the size of his in gloom and disappointment. The curate, however. not satisfied with Dentatus. F ཟ རིནྡྲ?༔ this persecution, put the father into the Ecclesiastical Court-a court where the clergy are irresponsible judges-for "brawling" ́in the church; and the poor man is exposed to the chance of heavy penalties, and the certainty of oppressive and shameful costs! The Society for Protecting the Rights of Dissenters took up the case, and threatened the curate; but the Bishop of St. David's took part with the latter, and used the language of defiance. The nuptials were delayed for a month, until the rector of the parish returned home. Our No-Popery Gentlemen," remarks the Morning Chronicle," are always talking of the illiberality of the Catholics. But does France, Austria, or Bavaria, compel Protestants to be married by Catholic Clergymen ?" SACRED MUSIC.-Tuesday evening, a grand selection of sacred music was performed on the organ at St. Bride's church, by Mr. Mather, the organist, to a numerous assemblage. The selection consisted of compositions by Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Arne, &c. The pieces were all executed with precision and taste. evinced his skill in composition, and displayed a perfect knowledge of In an extempore Fantasia the performer the instrument., the first lecture at the New Theatre of the Institution, in SouthamptonMECHANICS' INSTITUTION.-Friday evening Dr. Birkbeck delivered buildings, on the general principles of mechanical science. The principal feature of the lecture was the description of a machine, invented by a this country, which acts as a crane for raising weights with a power far watchmaker of the name of Dier, in America, not yet brought into use in beyond any before known. The learned Doctor said it was scarcely The act allowing newspapers to be sent to the British Colonies at a rate of postage of three halfpence each paper, does not come into operation till the 10th of October next, and then it will be necessary to put the newspaper into the post-office on the day on which it is published; other-possible to imagine any machine more simple or more powerful, occupying wise the paper will be charged postage as a letter, is now at Paris. 1 wheel of six inches in diameter, with oblique leaves (or cogs) worked by the same space. The small machine exhibited, which consisted of a application of a force of 8lbs.; and 4lbs. was found sufficient to balance a spiral groove in an axle or arbour, raised a weight of 500lbs. by the of clocks, by which he makes clocks with but three wheels, go twelve the 500lbs. The inventor has applied his contrivance to the construction months without winding up. One of these clocks was exhibited. There interest they took in the proceeding must be highly gratifying to the were upwards of 1,000 members of the institution present, and the high founders of the institution." The Royal Society of Sciences (La Société Royale Acadèmique des Sciences), in its sitting of 22d of this month, admitted Mr. Thomas Campbell among the number of its non-resident members. Mr. Campbell THE ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL INQUIRY.-Yesterday at 12 o'clock the Committee of Governors of this Institution re-assembled in the Board Room. Among them were Lords Sefton and Rosslyn, Mr. Pitman, one of the Hospital Surgeons, was examined'; and he declared that the treatment was the same in this case as in many others, and the Deceased experienced every possible attention that medical skill and humanity could direct.-Dr. Jefferys, one of the House Surgeons, was of precisely the same opinion. Mr. Sleigh, a surgeon, declared from the description by the witnesses, that the treatment was decidedly bad, and protested against the use of the roller and bandage, as it was contrary to the rules of all modern surgery.-A very warin discussion arose upon this, and Some of the Governors rather inelegantly passed the "retort courteous."having proved very detrimental to them: and from the want of rain The following Resolutions were finally adopted: After a full and mature consideration of the evidence adduced in support of the charges of neglect and inattention on the part of the nurses, and of want of proper cleanliness and food, and also of want of due surgical treatment to the deceased, Jolin Hammond, it is the opinion of this Committee, that the said charges are in no wise established, but that, on the contrary, every possible attention was afforded to him by the nurses of the Hospital, and every thing done for his benefit which professional skill could dictate." Thanks were then voted to Mr. Bailey for his conduct during the investigation. Mr. B. thereupon subscribed 1007. for the institution. Thanks were also voted to Mr. Jeffery, expressing the Governors' high sense of his professional skill in the case of John Hammond.-The Committee then adjourned. hear of a most luxuriant produce. In a few places, however, it has been The wheat harvest has become general; and from all quarters we. cut rather green, from the fear, we have been informed, that when the rains once set in, it will be a long time before they will terminate. In beans there will be a deficiency; the excessive heat and dry weather all chance of a crop of turnips is at au end. So great is the scarcity of grass, that many of the dairy farmers are obliged to fodder their cattle, It is a curious fact, we understand, that when a cow once falls off in the as in the depth of winter; butter is, in consequence, scarce and dear, produce of her milk, she does not recover it again for the season, Devizes Gazelle. NEWSPAPER CHAT. It is more than rumoured that Lady Byron is engaged to be married to the Rev. Mr. Cunningham, of Harrow. Sympathy, as well as gratitude, is often the origin of love,-Sunday Paper, |