Cause, confine the said Mary Cuer, she having an infant at her breast, in a cold and unwholesome cell; neglecting to supply her during that confinement with firing, or with the bread and water necessary for her sustenance. The second charge alleged, that, on the 20th of November, 1820, the defendant, intending to injure one Thomas Gardner, also a prisoner in Ilchester gaol, put a blister upon his head and a strait waistcoat upon his body, confining him at the same time in a solitary cell. Mary Cuer's case, which was at first sight calculated to affect the feelings more powerfully than the other, received a considerably milder colouring from the witnesses successively produced. It appeared, that this woman, who had been committed, not for felony, but for bearing an illegitimate child, had quarrelled in a disorderly manner with some other female prisoner that fuel was placed within her cell, but that she refused to have a fire lighted that, according to the witnesses for the defence, her provisions were not confined to bread and water; of which latter article, likewise, though she complained of a deficiency, there was enough within her reach, had she thought fit to apply for it. Of this charge, there fore, Bridle was acquitted. The second act of unlawful severity rested on stronger grounds. Gardner, admitted to be of infamous character, having been capitally convicted and sentenced to death for house-breaking, was charged by Bridle with picking a fellowprisoner's pocket, mulcted of his earnings, and confined in perfect solitude. While thus situated, he was further accused of refractory and troublesome conduct, having

stabbed a fellow-prisoner in the knee. Bridle, meeting the apothecary in the prison, observed, that he had a troublesome man in confinement, and asked the apothecary, if he had a black dose; the latter replied in the negative, but added," you may have a blister, and, as his head seems affected, you may put it pretty high on the poll." Bridle accepted the offer, and the strait waistcoat was resorted to as a convenient appendage to the blister. Gardner, not having a hand at liberty, tore away the blister after several hours, by rubbing off his cap against the wall of the dungeon. These facts stood uncontradicted by the evidence for the accused party, whose numerous witnesses confined themselves, for the most part, to attestations in support of Bridle's general character for mildness, indulgence, and humanity, in the execution of his office. these witnesses, some were liberated prisoners, who had been under the charge of Bridle, others were officers of the prison, and a far greater number were magistrates and gentlemen of the county, who had known and watched him for a long course of years. So far, therefore, as general reputation went, the jury were impressed with a strong bias in favour of the motives and intentions of the exgaoler. But the fact remained. Bridle had inflicted a punishment not authorized by law, and a verdict of "Guilty" was necessarily given against him, though accompanied by a warm recommendation to mercy, on account of the previous excellence of his character. Thus ended this important prosecution, which was instituted by the present Secretary for the Home Department.

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16. HANOVER. The young princess of Cambridge was this day baptized by the name of Augusta Caroline Charlotte Elizabeth Maria Sophia Louisa.

20. THE FRENCH PRESS.-A prosecution having been instituted against M. Lepage, the editor of a Parisian publication, called the Courier des Spectacles, for inserting in his work, which, though periodical, was not a newspaper, articles relative to politics, it came on to trial. The charge was, that he had published disguised politics, and direct politics.

Among the articles of the former kind, stated in the act of accusation, the two following were the most remarkable. The prosecution of such trifles indicates great alarm or irritability in the government:—

"The Old Clothes' Shop. An officer covered with honourable scars, is in the deepest distress. He looks to his clothes for a last service. Their condition announces under what glorious circumstances they covered their unfortunate owner; but that is no recommendation to an old-clothes-man. As to his sword, the veteran warrior transmits it, bequeaths it, but will not sell it. The blade is bright, though stained with the blood of the enemy. This veteran is in poverty, but perhaps if his sword had been dipped in French blood ***

"The canvassed Boot-maker. A bootmaker, who wished to be an elector, but who was not rated high enough, caused an additional window to be made in his apartments. As soon as he was qualified, his vote was solicited on the one hand by the constitutional candidate on the other by the opposite candidate; and he found himself in danger of losing the

business of all the persons of the party with which he did not vote. In this difficulty he consulted his wife, who is a shrewd Normand. She reckoned up their customers on both sides, and found that they had 150 constitutional ones, and only 20 of the ultra party. She farther remarked that the constitutionalists being young, in the full possession of their faculties, active, industrious, and addicted to the cultivation of the arts, wore by far the most boots, even with a single leg, when they have had the misfortune to lose the other, which has occurred to a considerable number of them, while their adversaries have almost all arrived at the age of decrepitude. Hence she concluded that her husband must vote with the Liberals."

The counsel for M. Lepage asserted, that these articles contained merely reflections, and were to be considered as purely literary. It would not be contended that Juvenal and Boileau, in satirizing manners, had written political articles.

The articles which came under the charge of direct politics were entitled Horace Vernet, and De la Peine de Mort en matière criminel.

The counsel argued that the first related entirely to the fine arts. Its object was, to complain that the exposition of pictures had been made a question of politics. As to the other article, it was purely philosophical, and in that view it had been inserted in the journal as the criticism of a work discussing the question which the title of the article involved.

The following article was also charged as containing direct politics.

"More Follies Poets make

verses, compose tragedies and comedies, which the public applaud with transport. Writers be eloquent, honour your country by glorious works, and present yourselves to the academy with your literary titles. An Abbe who has written nothing-a preacher who has diluted the sermons of Masillon and Bourdaloue-a savant, who has composed dissertations

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Etruscan vases another savant, who has all the wit, grace, and sprightliness of Dacier, have obtained the vacant places in the Institute.

"Now that the right side of the academy has signalized its folly by a choice equally ridiculous, we ask, will not all writers, of whatever opinions they be, unite in contempt for a body which blasts the honour of letters, and their noble independence, and converts a useful and generous institution into a species of coterie, where piety is a more powerful title of admission than the finest works?

"If I were an academician, if I had been the colleague of Arnault, Etienne, Garat, &c., I would now give in my resignation, and would go and place myself beside my proscribed brothers. Such a place would be much more honourable than a seat in a club, of which M. Roger is director. Oh! what academicians are those who, among candidates for admission, have chosen MM. Fraysinous and Dacier."

M. de Barneville contended, that, while it was allowable to pass a joke on academicians, this article contained a libel on the academy.

M. Berville, the counsel for the defendant, contended, that the article did not contain any thing prohibited by the criminal code. The

academy had received lately into its number, two respectable men, but two men who possessed not the essential title to admission into a body of writers-namely, that of having written. This author brings the judgment of the academy into the court of assizes of Parnassus, and obtains a decision against it. The academy had always been subject to attacks, and never had prosecuted.

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Lepage was convicted. FRENCH PROSECUTION. young man employed by one of the first commercial houses at Nantes, has been condemned to a fine of 200 francs and one month's imprisonment, for having written on the sand of a public promenade the word Espionides, which was alleged to be insulting to general Despinois, being an anagram of his name. Despinois is an officer who figures in the affair of Rochelle, and is accused by some of the prisoners of having induced them to declare themselves Carbonari, by saying that he was a member of that secret society himself. The public prosecutor laid the penalties at a fine of 1,500 francs and three months imprisonment.

NEW SPECIES OF ROBBERY.On Monday night, about 9 o'clock, 15 or 20 ruffians collected in Stephen's-green, at the corner of Harcourt-street, Dublin, all bareheaded. They had previously deposited their hats in a place of safety, and were assisted in the execution of their plan by a number of women. They assailed every person who passed, pretending to have lost their hats, and desiring to see the hat worn by those who alighted from the cars which came from the fair. As soon as the unsuspecting passenger gave his hat for inspection, one of

the females snatched it from the bareheaded robber, who pretended to have no knowledge of her; the female fled, while one of the robbers called out "stop thief!" but with what success may be imagined. In this way about 20 hats were taken from different persons. UNSUSPECTED LOYALTY.-We copy from a late Moniteur the following odd testimony to the popularity of the reigning family, brought from a house of correction :

"The prefect of police went yesterday to visit the prison of Bicêtre. He traversed the different rooms where the prisoners are kept to hard labour, and was everywhere greeted with cries of "Vive le Roi," and "Vive le Prefect." Several of the prisoners offered him some of their works-all loaded him with benedictions, and assured him of their repentance, as likewise of their devotion to the king and the royal family. It is well known that the feast of St. Louis is a season of clemency, and it is believed that a certain number of the convicts will have their punishments commuted."

25. The ceremony of placing a beautiful bronze equestrian statue, of Louis XIV, in the Place de Notre Dame des Victoires was this day performed. All the nobles of the court attended in their respective ranks and costumes, with orders of all the colours of the rainbow. A scaffolding was raised for the royal and noble party, and every surrounding window was filled with welldressed company, male and female, and both British and French. The cry of "Vive le Roi" resounded in every part. An old soldier, aged 115, assisted at this inauguration; he was contemporary with the grand

monarque, that is, he had been raised on his mother's shoulders to see his then majesty pass, being only five years of age at the king's death. This man, whose name is Huet, served six years in the cavalry, and several years as a marine under Louis XVI. His beard was very long, and white as snow; his faculties are perfect, and he has no bodily infirmity of age: he had, cut of respect, a chair placed for him during the ceremony. The king commanded the ordre des braves (the legion d'honneur) to be given to this veteran.

26. LANCASTER ASSIZES-MALICIOUSLY CUTTING. Martha Milns, aged 31, was charged with maliciously cutting and maiming her husband George Milns, with intent to murder or to disfigure and disable him, at Oldham.

George Milns-I have been married to the prisoner 15 years, and have had eight children. There had been no quarrel between us for several days before.. She thought that I had been with another woman, nine or ten days before. I came home on the afternoon of the 14th of June. I wanted supper. She said there was no water. I went for water to make tea. She made none, so I went to bed. The bed had not been made, and I made it myself. She was not in liquor. She had had a glass of rum and water. I awoke about three o'clock with a violent pain which struck to my heart. stood at the bed with a razor in her hand. I said, "O dear, what hast thou been doing now? Thou hast killed me, thou hast killed me." She said she had not done it. I turned the clothes down, and found that a part was cut off. Much blood issued from the wound. I did not observe whether there was

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any blood on the razor. She had gone down stairs. I could not wake my eldest son. I went down and found the door open. I went to the surgeon in my shirt. I saw my wife in the street, with the youngest child in her arms. I went home then to bed. The surgeon, Mr. Bellott, came at halfpast four. I was taken to the infirmary at Manchester.

By the Court.-I thought she was not in her right mind. I believe she was not. I thought she was often not in her right mind, since her last child.

Robert Chadwick.-I went to the house about half-past five; met the prisoner, having the youngest child in her arms. I took her into custody. I asked what she had done; she said, she had done nothing, that he came home in that state. I told her not to deny doing it, for there would have been blood upon him when he came home, if it had been done then. She said "I have done it, I have done it." She pointed out the garden, into which she had thrown what she had cut off.

By the Court.---She discoursed as in her senses.

Mr. Bellott, the surgeon, said the wound was a dangerous wound. She repeatedly said, "It was not me. He came home in that state."

She cried.

Her declaration before the magistrate was proved, and read. It charged acts of the most barbarous cruelty on the part of the husband.

Her husband was recalled, and denied the facts stated.

The prisoner said, she had never been well since her last child, and did not know what she had done. She hoped they would forgive her this time, for the sake of her dear

little infant. She wept most bitterly, and while his lordship was summing up, she dropped off the place where she stood, apparently

in a swoon.

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Verdict Guilty-but insane. HAYMARKET THEATRE. new musical farce, entitled Family Jars, was produced at this theatre, and met with applause. The following is an outline of the story:A master china-man (Mr. Terry,) and his servant (Mr. Liston) have each an only son, Messrs. Leoni Lee and Oxberry. These fathers have wives in prospect for their heirs, but the heirs happen beforehand to have taken wives for themselves. Discovery being inevitable, each scape-grace entreats the father of his companion to mediate with his own particular parent; and when the seniors are duly instructed, each by the other, in what has happened, the juniors leave to their ladies the first brunt of the battle. Out of this state of things an equivoque arises. Terry meets with Oxberry's wife, vulgar Irish woman, takes her for his own daughter, and is confounded at the strange taste, still more than at the disobedience of his son; Mr. Liston finds, in Mrs. Garrick, the accomplished daughter of a naval officer, and is charmed that his booby should have made so fortunate an election. The lovers are pardoned, and the curtain falls. The dialogue, in the first act was flat; and vulgar in the second.

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EARTHQUAKE. Aleppo has been visited by an earthquake, resembling those which laid waste Lisbon and Calabria in the last century. The first and most severe shock occurred on the 13th of August, about ten in the evening, and instantly buried thousands of