174 my opinion it Is alreater critue.to serve the former than tlic latter tvith tßis infamous stuff." The defendant was convicted in the penalty of 501. Tilt KING •. BIWA% The defendant, Mr. ALNander Brndy, grocer and d...nler in tea and coffee, in Gray's Inn-lane. was charged with having, on the t , :Bth of February last..irs his pos session, 18 pounds of sham coffee, called vegetable powler, and with pelting the same for genuine coffee. Lord anti -Pearson', Excise officers, stated that they Laught an ounce of coffee of the defemlant on the 28.01 of February, and u pon examining it they discovered that it wow nvade up of pease and beans, ground with a smolt quantity of coffee. Upon examining, the mills in the shop they found loth curie and vegetable powder in' them. They -also found eighteen pounds of vegetable powder mixed with coffee in s J tate prepared for sale, wrapped in papers. One of. the Commissioners tasted some of the 18 pounds induced by the officers, and declared it was rnostinfantous stuff, hot to the mouth, and unfit for human food. Defendant--" Why, I have sold it for twenty - years!' Commissioner—" I hen you have been'for twenty years acting most dishonestly, defrauding the revenue, and' the health of the poor wust 'blare suffered very much by taking strch unwlwlesoate article. Your' .]caving dealt in the article so Tong aggravates your case ; you have been for !twenty years selling burnt beans, pease, and Lord knows what other article, for genuine coffee.—You are •convicted in the penalty of 301." - TNT KING V. HOWSZR. Tie (!efendant, 11Jwser, resided in Oxford-street.— The Excise Officers stated, tha► on the 28th of Feb. they went to his xhop ; he was a grocer, and dealer in tea and coffee.; they seized 74 pounds of vegetable powder, which contained very little coffee, if any ; and also a quarter of a pound of coffee nixed with the ye .getable powder. The defendant pleaded Guilty to the charge, and prayed the Court to mitigate the penalty. He was con victed in the penalty of 501, Several persons were convicted for selling wine and spirits without a license. COURT OF CO.V.VON COUNCIL. "".'hursday a Court of Common Council was held, which was eery numerously attended. Before the business of the day cont. menced. Mr. Dixon said, he had a question of the greatest importance to coinalimity to put to the Lord Mayor. He wished to know whe tter the ,public had benefited by the change that had been made with respect to the regulations relative to bread. It had been stated le 'he newspapers, and by eeveral respectable corn dealers with whom Lee had communications, that there was a constant regular •fallef the material weekly. It might therefiwe be presumed, that the public would feel the effect of that decrease , in the price. his object was not to entrap by thus suddenly putting a question of such impor tance, on the contrary, he should rather have an answer predated from a consultation with the Alffirmen, if his Lordship thought it necessary to refer the question VP the Court. We understood the I turd Mayer to have said, that. the question required the deliberation s.iggested. .tfr. 01.ntea in roec to present a memorial from the Commissioners of the Court of Requests. in the flomis.th of Southwark, Which -contained sonic charges against the Chief Bailiff of Southway*. The Member olywrved, that much inconvenience had arisen from the confined size of the place in which the business of suitors was trans acted, Ina that the complaint made to that effect to the Court had been disregarded. A complaint was now made, which he truttcl would meet with snore attention. It had been formerly the case that the Deputy Bailiff allowed the clerks of the Court of Requests a certain salary tow transacting hi.s. business. 'rite Chiet Bailiff now . insister, on receiving in person his own fees, to which lie was certainly eluded ; but he also insisted that the clerks should send all suitors front the Court of Retprescs, Snow's-tieltl, to St. Margaret's-hill, where the Chief Bailiff a Office was. The inconveniences resulting from such an alteration we/indeed very grcat,and the Commissioners, `Up the sake of *he public, who were to be the great sufferers, had timught necessary to make an application to the Court, all aims at a mutual aerommodation hiving proved ineffectual. Mr. Oldham to oved, that the Memorial be referred to a Special Committee. Mr. Dixon said, the merits of the question should not be entered i!.. e before Mr. Prinsep, who had acted with the most honourable real since he came Into office, had ao opportunity of answering the attack. The conduct he had adopted was indispensably necessary to h• a dhertsl to, and had caused surprise, merely because the gentle roan who ffirmerly held the office had been unable, front the unfor tunate state of his finances, to ma in a similar mania:T. The mater ought certainly to undergo It et:lions investigation, for which reason lie should nova an aineedineat. t'hit tlo.. Memorial should be submit ted to the Committee for General Purposes. Mr. Jacks was of opinion, that in the present stage of the business, there shmild he so reference to a Comorittee, but that a copy of the Memorial elsould be sent to the Cilia' Bailiff. in orilvr that he might I:ave an Opel romity of replying to the clute;e. The fact was, that the husinc r: of the Court of Requests ha.: been done, since Mr. Psinsep eerie into office, with the: tit most dispatch; and that the tlissatisf.crit n tit -rely arose from the rieitsal of the Gii•-f Bailiff to nmunerahr the ender clerks it of hi-- own riA try, the injustice of expecting which sacrifice was sufficiently palpable. Mr. Pt ar , all regretted, that so respectablea /tide neaten or the Caramissioners should have made a chaa ge ,gainer an individual who 'deserved stitch commendation. The Memorial was so artful one, drawl up by soine-protlsjhaal person. emu:Mina: pan of the Petit, lon not the whole sf it. The Clerks of the t'o'ur[ ot Ropiest:. were Cie principals in the petition, and he would ask, whether, it the , . sere too proud or too lazy to do their du t y. the limo lion if a%asuld he called upon to pity their sulotitittes.— flue letiturial wa etcn referred to aCte :tannin of General Purposes. DI AtIOLIC ATTVM PT AT ASSASST N SatUrday tarc:it about tii o'clock in the lore mon, as a respectable lady, nay wiib .w of was y,nng to pay a morning 131 1, in D't ~street, a fellow %MI after her down the North PA, ,le. On In tooli ng lonnd, he immediately drew a (Waite , •as bore id to r elate stalibe.l her, %skid' cut through Lee ciii„p .ea; but providentially coining in eniiiiiet with grals . leoge ie 01 her st.iyv (which it cut of )very nightly woundro. side. The villain directly rim off tUI% aid; tlic df,otstli Para* • • TIIP. NATIONAL REGISTER EQUALIZITION OE THE DUTY ON .CO.ILS. Tuesday a numerous moving took place in th.: Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House, for the purnoiti of netitioning . Parnell - win to equalize the Duty Coals througlicot . tlee. kiegnolll ; the Lord Mayor in the chair. The Secretary re:d the rie,ult of the application to llinietars upon the subject: which ww, that Clowrninent would fully consider the propriety of the suggiauceis .aide by the deputieioa. Mr. Jacks there proposed re,olatae.s. Ile observed that London had stiffened much fret: epee preseut tax, which was uppity sive and injurion. in an extr-me degree. It appeared that the people of Surrey and Middlesex paid duty at the rate of its. per head per annum, for man, WOW 111, and child ; and that in fourteen other counties, the iivera,,-e was us: per head ; Wales about td. per buil ; in Scott - nail, not one sixth of a farthing ; end in other places no di.ty at all. Mr. Jacks then described the many additions made to the tax eine ground of which was site necessity of building churches; until it readied the preaert deplorable extreme of 911. 4d. a chaldruu.—Every thing that occurred recently tended, in his view, to rectify Mit inequality ; and the claims of the poor, to whom warmth might be twuvidertd as necessary as hind, were now likely to be intended to.; An oppoaltion could nut be entertained, except by the manufacturers ut' iron iv %'s'aks and other parts; although, from the calculations ha had made, lie found that the consequence of the equalization ttr them woul t be very in:materiel, a consumption of ;0 horse power, nut exceeding one chaldron per day. or at most dou ble that quantity, and reaching infrgreater expense than ;ail. a year. Ho should theretOre propose itcailutions, stating.the particulars of the inequality, and declaring it to be unjust, oppressive,and injurious to the auterest of the community. lie also prekenext a petition to both Houses of Parliament, prayieg an ego:di:46cm of the Duties, and stating the grounds of the application. A Gentleman having moved that certain words in the resolutions, which struck hint as likely to prove effensire, should be omitted. Sir W.Curtis said, this wasp subject on whielkiisfullow citizens had a right to command their Itepresentativee in Parliament. They knew in what manner their interests wore oonoenied in a case efthis diacrip. non e he should therefore go the whole length of the words, however they might offend the delicacy of other people. Government, he had no doubt, would pay every regard to the .application t for it never could be in contemplation to levy an unequal taxation. Mr. IS'aiithman concurred in the-Resolutions: He could not toe why the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey should pay 600,0001. whue is great portion of the eountryiVlClC exempted from tiny demand at all. But one ti.ing had been overlooked. In addition to the tax, the City was at an exorbitant expense, in having the Coals brought to it, while those who resided on•the spot where the Coals were-dug were at none, under any circumstances. The thing appeared more unjust, as there was nu tart when the Ceal was 4 or se. a eh:l'lton but there was an enormous one when it was at 50 or bus. Mr. Rowcroft did not rue to oppose the notion. He, however, thought it necessary that the question should be more deeply ai quised into than seemed to have been the 484, and that it should be referred to a Committee. He objected to the idea of making place, where a production originated pay a duty upon that production equal to that paid by distant The Resolutions anr ir Petition li. were unanimously agreed to; and thanks having been voted to the Lord Marie and the City Repre sentatives. t:a. Meeting uparaten. PEntrrnritneeW.—Mr. Flowers, the Ilampshire pedestriamarhO started on the 18th instant to da the eel:mon/Mary undertaking of 53 miles a day for fifteen days, aas going on well on Monday, the eighth day. His route has been than gh Basingstoke, Salisbiart , and Exeter. and Irian thence into Souiereetshire. lie slept at Wells on Sunday night, and the next day proceeded towards Hereford. MATCH AtiAlllllT TlME.—MOnday, two young men, of the names of Gittbrd and Raissford. in the service ola respectable coach maker, tin wager of a pound, agreed to run a carriage wheel of equnt dimensions. a ,certain distance. This mutest excited considerable intetest amongst their friends, as both the competitors were known to possess great &Leahy in the running of a wheel of the above tie aeription. The ground selected for this trial was in the New.road, where a quarter of a mile was measured out. They started at four o'clock, when Gifford took the lead, and was closely followed by his opponent, who, the short distance they . went, lost it by about two yards: the quarter of a mile was performed in two minutes:. when. in =- sequence of this close contention between• them, another match was made, and 51. deposited by the friends of each to run a distance of six miles ter 101. a side, in the course of ten days. The place for this is expected to be in the Edgware-road. and will excite much interest. CUItIOUS CUICUMSTANCLC.—In the early part of 1817, the Beavonslicki and London carrier had a small parcel delivered to him to convey to town,. which, by some imitate he ne.er could surmise, he lost on the road out of his pocket. Nothing was ever heard of the parcel until a few days ago, when a carpenter repairing Hall Barn, the seat of the Rev. 11. Waller. near Beaconsfield, accidently found the lost parcel in perfect preservation in a Jackdowit nat. On Monday evening last. after dark. the Rev. Henry Baker, brother to Mr. Baker, the Magistrate of Marlborough-stie:t, was stopped by two footp a ds, disguised as cour.tryinen, near Stevenage, in - Hertfordshire, and robbed of a gold repeating watch, with two gold seals. He gave the alarm as soon as prudence would show, and the villains were traced by some persons as far as the %Vare-road, but unfortunately meapeit the vigilance of their pursuers. By the Act just passed for fixing the rates of subsistence is be paid to innkeepers and ethers on quartering soldiers—One shilling and two pence per day, isto be paid toe every Non-Cominissioned Otficer and private soldier who shall be furnished with diet and small beer—and orte shilling per day fur hay and straw for every horse quartered on them. The present genial weather will produce the most beneficial effects on vegetation throughout the country, and enable the farmers to conipkte their Barley sowing, which is unusually backward in this couti.ry ; beans, pease, alai aping wheat are equally an. The ap. pie %tees, we are happy to state, generally promise a remarkably fine blossom.—( He , Vinyl Jourrktl. be cIU r:.—A bout four o'clock o:. Wednesday afternoon, &butcher residing in Fox and 1(4ot-court. Snowhill, atter listing smile angry words with his wife, whilst she was in the act of leaning out of this window talking to a person outside, cut kis throat with large slaughter knife. and immediately expired. The Doman States still continue to be infected by brigands. A. M. cregetvio was lately carried oft from the er.sinis at 'lerracitios and only released upon payment, by bas friends, of a ransom of tour thousand scud* and a number of gold watches. The Courier of Ancona lias also been robbed. "It is high time," says'the Roman accountants, " after so many fruitless negoriations.(legociatiens with rehhers !) that some severe measures should be taken.'' A sloshing accident happened at Caythorpt, in Lincolnshire, a few days siose. Traumas IlannS:on; a labourer, am the employ of W. M. Shield, Esq. of that place. was leading a bull to is...ter, when the animal sttatiketl limn Ittevusly in the yard s gored hint in the cheek, ui t othersist itu;,elt bruised him as to leave but little hope of his rect.tery. Tlit kuf was Use 'ltalia:oy destroyed. To . 1 . 1 P Pl. —The aghvigiust Recorder says —" Some time past, a merchant in an adpitiing county went down to Oteacoek, anti at aitet . bought a puncheon of loin, took it home and sold to his neighbours, the greater part without hav ing any fault touted with it but as the cask ebbed, the rung altered so mate, ially ter time worse, that those who at first drank it with avidity, were compelled to desist, in con, - ip.enee of its very offensive smell and punk; appears .se. - Them. reliant svgs desired to hate the cask untie:pit did so—when lu! therein was found, a small grey-lie.oied out MAN. There WAS nothing ahem him, whereby it was poesy hie for hint to be known, ieither as to name, chars: ter or to tray.' MAY Si. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MONDAY. OUNDY %% TOE BANK OF ENGLAND. This WM a rule obtained List ferm, Ly Brougham, calling upon the delendanta to slit w cause why a writ of Alan. damns should not issue, commanding them to proceed to divide among all the members of thr corporation, fur the time being, rateably in port.ons, the part, shares, and interest tut the cumnion capital stock, of such profits as 11411 ilf:sCIA Cult of the management of the said corporation, and haul nut been so divided Miura the l9ub of March last, excepting the charge of maintaining the blisiness of the said corporation. Nil. A. Pi.,:got now appeared to spew cause against this rule, and contended, flirt this Court had nn right, still less any power, to interpose its authority to cows oul the manage. meat of any Commercial Company in 145 pecuniary concerns i fur, in fact, the niterpesition of such power vvottld be au as sumption of levrishitire authority. But supposini the Court could attract to itself a power SO novel and ono eredented, in this case it would appear,froin the law as it stood, that the Governors of the Bank of Englund had no power to divide the stock,or any part of it, or obey the mandate of the Coin t in the terms now required. Lord Ellenborotigh interposed, and asked whether the corporator, who hail apple d for the interposition tif the Com t, should not have used all such means, competent for him to use, to attain the objet he bad in view, before he matte this requisition—did it appear, that this Gentleman had dune all that he cook] have dune towards obtaining the end in view? Had be attended the meetings held for the, purpose of de claring dividends, and made any resistance to the proceed_ lugs of those meetings, or taken any step before the consii. tuted authority of tile Corporation, to effect the purpose of the present application ?. . . _ sir A. Yiautt said , that Mr. Gandy, the applicant, Lad certainly not taken those steps, and this was one of several other flat answers to the application. Lord Ellenborongh —lf there is that o!sjection applying to this proceeding, I don't sec how this motion can be cuter. tained, Sir A. Piggott—The dividend was made on the 19th of March, and it was declared by the General Cunsty and no motion was made by Mr. Guudy for any larger or any oilier dividend than .5 percent. Lord Lllenborungla—Not made any objection or opposition Slr A. Piggott—!'here was no mutton made by him for any other dividend, nor did he make opposition to the divitleed then declared. Lord Eflunborough-1f a party does not dissent, he assent... Mr. Brougham being ealkd upon for his answer to this tie, jeetion, said, be felt himself obliged to admit, that it was fatal in point of fonts to the present application. He had no doubt of being able to satisfy the Court that there was an (pie' ping of plants divisible in the hands of the Bank of Litglaud, inde pendent of all contingent demands upon them, and the bank ing capital necessary to carry on their hominess. Lord Lllenburoaigh said, that this Gentleman could not attain the object of his motion per rattem ; his motion should first be made to the Ceart, competent to give information as to the state of the funds of the Cut potation ; and if they did not produce the required information, theta there might be au application for a Mandamtis to compel them. Bid he war now assuming what the result of the funds was, without adopt ing the pi open means of inquiring into the su bject. Mr. Brotighant said, he could shew by the Stith of Geo. 111. that two years since the Bank had divided 23 per cent. profit upon their capital; but as he could out get over the preliminary objection in point of form, he must withdraw the motion, and come better prepared another time. Sir A Piggott amid, that if the case had gone on he should have referred to several clauses in the Act mentioned, which W 01144 have afforded an answer to the application, in addition IQ al others with winch he was prepared. Mr. Searlett, on the mate side, said, that if the application succeeded, no further dividend could be declared for years to cone.—!tole discharged. THURSDAY. THI KING V. ARTHIVR 11111sTLEW00D. The Attorney General moved the judgment of the Coln t upon the defendant, who, it will be recollected, had brvta found Why of sending a challenge to Lord Sidmontli, in order to peoroke him to lied a dud. Mr. Justice Bayley read user the evidence given on the trial. ....... The defendant being called on for his defence, said, he had no affidavits to offer, but that after a trial of so nnprecedent• ed a *attire as his hod been, he felt it kin ditty to protest against the judgment of the Cairn, He had been incarcerat ed for the last seventeesr weeks, and es Lord Sidinotith had stated, that his only object in the prosecution was pea a rota security, he (Thistlevrood) could assure the Court that his! Lordship was at present perfectly safe eis far as regarded hint. He dirt not feel the least animosity against Lord Sidmouth, and the challenge hail been produced Icy an impression that his %offerings, as well as the loss of 1801 which he sustained hy his confinement, had been occasioned by the conduct of the Secretary of State towards hint. The Attorney General then addressed the Court, and react the challenge, which, he observed. could not bear two inter pretations. The object of Lord Soltuoisth was not only persona/ but official also. It was with a view of protecting all future Secretaries of State as well as himself that the pro secution hail been instittuted. Lord Sid mouth had merely acted in his Magisterial capacity, in the conduct which seem.. ed to itave prosoked the defendant to summit the act of %%hid, he had been found godly, and in the astute character eras it that he now moved the judgment of the Court. His Lordship's object a as, not that a severe aet.'.ener should be prommticed on the defendant, but that he should be so dealt with as to deter others from the commission of such illegal and unjustifiable acts in future. The Court consulted for a short time, after which, Mr. Justice Bayley proceeded to pass sentence out the de.. fendant. He observed, that not a doubt could be entertained either oldie regularity of the trial, or the propriety of the verdict. The defendant had received great indulgence in bring allotted to withdraw his plea of guilty, and he mutt have loosen at that time that his trial wo►►ld take place atter Easter term, which was (Wilhite for hint to hare• his witnesses • summoned, if he had any, or else to have taken whatever other steps neve/set:ol*m . y to his defence. lie had not on his trial made any sitegestion of being taken by sow i‘e or of not haying had time for preparation until the ft lai had proceeded to such a length as that it could not he put elf. The offence of which lie had been (mood guilty wan of a litgb anti serious nature. 'There had probaldy been no lin BOHM atiiimAity or personal knowledge between me de tendant end his Los lsMip, but if nay glievance had existed on the part of the defendant, i :be Com t 3 of Law' would have gilietyproper retiree?, as they