the child. Witness was loth to let it go, because she thought they wanted to put it in the poor house. The old woman took out a book, and swore it should not go to the poor-house, and told witness, that her mother would never look on her again if she did not give up the child. Mrs. Burn asked witness how she meant to maintain it; at last witness gave it up, and the old woman took it away. She never saw her child since until the last summer, or the old woman until the same time. As soon as she did see the old woman, who was Nelly Cunningham, she knew her for the woman who had taken her child. Mary Burn corroborated the testimony of the last witness. A number of letters were then put in, written by Mrs. Sergison at different times to Nelly Cunningham, who is now dead; with a view to show that Nelly was acquainted with the secret of Miss Sergison's real birth and extraction; and that she received an annuity as the price of her silence. The Solicitor-General, in reply, contended, that a case had not been made out by the other side; and that his client ought not to be prejudiced by the foolish and unjustifiable conduct of her mother. The Lord-Chief-Justice summed up the evidence, and the jury, after retiring for a few minutes, returned a verdict for the defendant. clamation, bearing date the sixth day of May last, we did (amongst other things) publish and declare our royal intention to celebrate the solemnity of our royal coronation, upon Tuesday the first day of August next, at our palace at Westminster; and whereas for divers weighty reasons us thereunto moving, we have thought fit to adjourn the said solemnity until our royal will and pleasure shall be further signified thereon, we do by this our royal procla mation give notice thereof; and we do hereby further signify to all our loving subjects whom it may concern, that all persons of what quality or rank soever they be, who either upon our letters to them directed, or by reason of their offices or tenures or otherwise, are to do any service at the time of such coronation, are discharged from their attendance on Tuesday the first day of August next. Given at our Court at Carltonhouse, this twelfth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and in the first year of our reign. GOD SAVE The King. NAPLES. The following proclamation has been published here, dated July 12: "Having received intelligence of a movement which has taken place in the city of Benevento, and wishing to avoid, with every possible care, every thing that may in any manner disturb the good understanding with his holiness, and to prevent any inhabitant of the kingdom from interfering in the affairs of the state of Benevento, we give notice to our beloved people, that, to preserve their own independence, it Whereas by our Royal Pro- is necessary to respect the inde 12. THE CORONATION. PROCLAMATION. GEORGE, R. pendence of other governments, and religiously to avoid every thing that may compromise the good understanding with the Pontifical Court. We order, in consequence, that no inhabitant of this kingdom shall dare'to introduce any armed men into the neighbouring states, or to interfere in any manner in their affairs. Those acting in contradiction to this order shall be punished with all the rigour of the law, conformably to the 117th and following articles of the Penal Code. (Signed) "FRANCIS, Vicar-General." RUSSIA. The Jesuits who have been recently banished from Russia, were dispersed throughout that empire to the number of 750, of which 100 have already quitted the imperial territory, and the others are on their route from Kamtschatka and Siberia, where they were on missions. The Italian Jesuits have purchased a settlement at Monte Leone, in the province of Sabino, for 36,000 piastres, to serve as an asylum for such of their order from Russia and Spain as are desirous of sojourning in the states of the Pope. Letters have been received from lord Cochrane of the 10th of April. According to them, the services of his lordship were duly appreciated by his adopted country, and rewards were pouring in upon him. The govern ment had made him a present of 20,000 acres of valuable land. Lord Cochrane bestows the most unqualified encomiums on the talents, and public as well as private characters of O'Higgins and San Martin, with the only dif ference of the latter possessing greater military experience. His lordship also speaks in the highest terms of praise of the equipment, discipline, and spirit of the army and navy, and observes, that if a people ever deserved liberty and independence it is that of Chili. HERTFORD ASSIZES.-Hugh Carhill, a robust looking young man, aged 20, was capitally indicted for robbing the Rev. F. W. Franklin, clerk, on the highway. As It appeared, that, on the evening of the 22nd of April last, Mr. Franklin, who is a clergyman at Hertford, was returning home from London in his gig, and had reached about one mile on the London side of Hoddesdon, when two men suddenly rushed into the road, one of whom seized the horse's head, and the other jumped into the gig, and demanded his money. The prisoner was the man who held the horse. Mr. Franklin was feeling in his pocket for his purse, the man in the gig saw his watch chain, and immediately seized it, and attempted to draw it from the fob. Mr. F. made some resistance to this, upon which the robber called out to his companion (the prisoner), "Give me a pistol, and 1 will blow out his brains." prisoner then left the horse's head, and jumped into the gig; and the other pulling Mr. Franklin over to one side, the prisoner seized him by the legs and threw him over into the road. They got down, and were proceeding to rifle his pockets, when a woman, named Catharine Badcock, came up, and seizing the prisoner, dragged him off Mr. F. The other ran away. The prisoner was soon afterwards secured. On him two sham pistols were found, which were formed of brass, The nailed on two pieces of wood, but were not calculated to do any serious injury. The jury, without hesitation, found the prisoner Guilty-Death; but recommended him to mercy. 13. THE QUEEN. Messrs. Brougham and Denman as the queen's attorney and solicitorgeneral this evening obtained permission from the House of Commons, to conduct her majesty's defence before the other House. As the subject of the charge against her majesty comes properly within the experience of a civilian rather than a common lawyer, the assistance of a practitioner in the ecclesiastical courts is thought necessary; the indulgence therefore obtained by Messrs. Brougham and Denman was extended to Dr. Lushington. On the part of the prosecution, leave was asked for the king's attorney and solicitor-general, and granted. It was understood that all the gentlemen thus indulged, would, by acting as advocates, forfeit their power of taking any part in the determination of the great question at issue, either by vote or otherwise. NAPLES. On the 13th ult. the king of Naples, in the presence of the provisional junta and the great officers of state, solemnly swore to maintain the new constitution. The same oath was in succession repeated by the duke of Calabria, viceroy of the kingdom, his brother the prince of Salerno, and the members of the provisional junta. The other military and civil functionaries afterwards took the oath in the presence of the viceroy. 14. STIRLING.-This morning Baird and Hardie, two of the Bonny Muir radicals, were convicted of high-treason. PARIS. For several days persons had been employed in the garden of the Luxemburgh cleaning the tubs which contained the gas with which the chamber of peers is lighted.-On Friday the 14th, they left open the cock of the tubs which were more charged with vitriol than the others; in consequence of which so infectious an odour ran through the neighbouring streets, that they were obliged to shut all the shops and casements. The foul water entered the Seine by the sewer of the bridge of the Arts; and the bleachers were obliged to withdraw their linen; that part of the Seine being apparently covered with vitriol. It was not till several hours after they had suffered the water in the basin of the Luxemburgh Palace to run off, that this poisonous odour dissipated. In the street de la Seine an itinerant chocolate seller was suddenly struck dead; and that event, coinciding with the fætid exhalations with which that street was at the time poisoned, gave rise to a supposition that he had been suffocated by it; but a medical man, who examined him immediately, reported that his death was solely caused by apoplexy. The odour is described as being so fœtid that several persons experienced spasms and fainting fits. A great quantity offish of all kinds, large and small, were found dead, and floating near the bridge of the Arts. 15. KING'S BENCH.-De Bosset v. Sir Thomas Maitland.-This was an action brought by colonel De Bosset against sir T. Maitland, as governor of the Ionian Isles, and commander-in-chief of his majesty's forces in those islands and in the Mediterranean, for having, from malicious motives, suspended and dismissed the plaintiff from the situation of inspector of militia in those islands. Mr. Denman stated the case to the jury, and called the wit nesses, having first put in a commission, dated March 24, 1816, appointing plaintiff inspecting field officer of the militia of the Ionian islands; and lieutenant-colonel on the continent of Europe. Mr. A. Coleman produced a copy of the commission of sir T. Maitland. The 22nd article of war was put in and read. It provides, that no commissioned officer shall be cashiered or dismissed the service by any commander, except upon the sentence of a court-martial, approved by the king, or by some person appointed by his majesty for that purpose under the sign manual. Sir H. Torrens, now adjutant general, was secretary to the duke of York for ten years. Knows the plaintiff, who is a foreign officer in the British service, and was on half-pay as a lieutenant-colonel; produced an order of sir T. Maitland, dated the 26th Sept. 1817, suspending the pay of the plaintiff as inspector-general of the forces from that date, it is usual, that the appointment or dismissal of an officer should be communicated through the commander-in-chief, the duke of York. A commander on a foreign station has no power to dismiss an officer, without the sentence of a court-martial; here was no court-martial. Witness did not hear from sir T. Maitland until after he had written to him on the subject. After the order was explained, the plaintiff continued to receive his pay as inspector-general, till he exchanged. Cross-examined.-At the time the order was issued sir T. Maitland was lord high commissioner of the Ionian Isles, under the charter ratified by the prince regent, and in that character he would not be called on to correspond with the commander-inchief, but with the secretary of state. Knows, that the commission of lieut. colonel was given to defendant at the express recommendation of sir T. Maitland. Re-examined. The order from the secretary of state's office was a written document. Witness first heard of it from Mr. Goulburn. The Chief Justice said, the plaintiff was in this difficulty:the allegation of defendant was, that the order was made by him in pursuance of his majesty's pleasure. Now the plaintiff said that allegation was false. On the examination in chief of sir H. Torrens it so appeared; but his cross-examination altered that fact. His majesty's pleasure was not communicated through the War-office, but it was communicated through the office of the secretary of state. It rested with the plaintiff to negative this fact. Sir H. Torrens re-examined.It was usual for commanders on foreign stations to receive orders through the office of the commander-in-chief; but he was bound to obey the orders of the secretary of state, though in such case the commander was bound to apply to the commander-in-chief for an explanation. Sir John Osborn, lieut.-colonel Triquett, Richard Bussey, esq. assistant commissary general, and Sir William Clinton, gave evidence as to military forms and the publication of the order in question. Mr. Scarlett, for the defendant, submitted, that no case had been made out against the defendant. The Chief Justice considered there was sufficient to go to the Jury. Mr. Scarlett then proceeded to address the jury on the part of the defendant, and submitted, that the plaintiff must have laboured under some extraordinary delusion, since so far from the defendant having done him any injury from malicious feeling, he had done every thing in his power to serve him. Sir T. Maitland, so far from entertaining any vindictive feeling towards the plaintiff, had always endeavoured to promote his interest, and was still anxious to do every thing he could to serve him. Mr. Goulburn, Under Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, produced a copy of the Charter of the Ionian Islands, as ratified by the Prince Regent on behalf of his late majesty, in 1816, in which it was provided that the Lord High Commissioners, the residents, the inspectors, and sub-inspectors of Militia, should be British or Ionian-born subjects. The witness also produced the communication of Sir T. Maitland to lord Bathurst, pointing out, that this article of the Charter would affect the plaintiff, and other officers, unless foreign officers in British pay could be considered as British officers; and the answer of lord Bathurst to sir T. Maitland, containing the communication of the Prince Regent's pleasure, that no foreign officers should be employed as inspectors of Militia. Sir H. Torrens produced the orders for discontinuing two other officers (foreign) as inspectors, his majesty considering their longer services in that situation as inexpedient. Lieut.-col. Rait, deputy-adjutant-general of the forces in the Mediterranean, knew that sir T. Maitland had received lord Bathurst's dispatch and the charter previous to his making the order for the suspension of the plaintiff. Cross-examined. There was a German officer still continued as a sub-inspector, but there was no foreign inspector. The Chief Justice summed up; and the Jury, after a short deliberation, found a verdict for the plaintiff-Damages 100%. COURT OF CHANCERY.-In the Matter of Roscoe and others, Bankrupts.-The Lord Chancellor in giving judgment observed, that he had read with the greatest attention the further affidavits in support of this petition to supersede the commission and to stay the bankrupts' certificates. The first question for his consideration was, whether this was a concerted commission of bankruptcy; without it was concerted with the petitioning creditor, he could not set it aside. If he was asked whether he had any suspicion that it was concerted, he would answer in the affirmative, but he could not act judicially on suspicion; however, in dismissing the petition, he would depart from the usual rule of Court, and not allow costs. SCOTLAND-Stirling, July 15. |