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THE TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1844. Airs Of IMiTVOAL. raot pri.o coitrjrpHT.) Wipst ppst, Armrr 14. TV mWlr 'raie rt forms which I have this week to anwouace Is big Uj gratifying, as evincing tht sincere die po.l i3 and energetic spirit nnlerrtJ the Government, tht turn delerttlnUKm to eqWire receipt ail expenditure, whkh fcra the best rJy 17 ') tb ti of the assailant of their financial fUicy, and wh 1 1 expressed my conviction in recent MUft. Fir.t come lb.

TfnAM of the Ministry of Efcksiasilcal Affaus ul Justice, which the pn sent vacancy frt folio permit i to be at once carried out. This toeaiare his been taiiivety determined en. and will produce ving to IS or near. V.CMCtf. year, by abolish log the Varies of th Mieiterof Jastioc, chief cteiks and" other heads of departments.

functions of the Pt wf Iw acneied to th.e cf Minlater cf th Kingd.n, uiJ tic balk of the wil be transferrc i to a new eo tic in the Hn off In couatry such trifling xtent tbrt can be nt coo I reon for ieparatir.g the diflerc nt bren. iks of the internal MmmUtretion; and it mm machinery will easUy eurtriolcad and direct eofm. ic'u the cir ia lirUl.andc'cSeiatical functionaries of the hiatdoui. Ifi i wmt A leeway and comtituti nally, it much the better; tut the Portuguese do nut er little merit freed, ta. A most iiupcrtaat decree lu len published, prohibiting tie wvuniuaation of more than one salarud ficpt'y matt by any rv.tt I the Plate.

This the ncrf rr cvwnplcmrr.t of lite anoucJ letnamtian to Joc tie eipendjture of kU the rM'C Jrrrtmtnt5 5 per crai. The irmt it wfr.eJ fry jeen, nJ countertifc neJ by toe Miuit'T, anj the tmvinj kruiiifE from it i kbout per am. It ij'liVtwiw imfxrtint, demon trmlint the undimiruAeJ power cf tbe OoTernment, iiact litre no Us.f jutlic futctic'iuriee which ii not Were men lwly.wC is iu detrett iaterertt ofp cltL Tbe decree rrciW that. coniJfrins the urrot neccwily of duuinUhins the pab ic expenditure, with iew to jumliie re and JtlT, the ccraulation' of two or more aalarii paii trom the ccfftn of the Sute is prohibited, eierptiivt where prnaiont are coaocied ia rrmuneratkm of Important aerrior, and (mu.tel with thi prril pririJefe, and where or military rcmaikndt are ttabUahcd by law. (ThufinleonrCoitaCabral' on a aalary ai Ceancillorof Pule 1 AH ruf civil, tuiliury, or cccletia tical, holdiog two or more cffien, mutt maVe choice of whichercr aalary they prefer but only for one office; The decree to tale effect from the cvmrnencemeLt of the pre tent month." A decree hat lAew'ue been puhluhed, reulatinx the period dariaj which appeals afa'nrt the uwasmest for decima will 1 receif and facilitating auht of the lirta in the 'country diitricU, where erery man will what bi came art Jjwi.

for at hit parirh church. All rr text for irrcirularity Mug thua remored, and a fixed time aMised for at niin in and pronouncing on ap peal, the provincial administrator are required, on paio of dinii to notify all rtrfat.ti a fixed period for pay1 tnet.t of their acTenl atn'mati, which period being paraed, they are to rit Xhe houura of the recuaantf, and after Irt'amiziariei to attach their cood, after fife diys' farther law, wid be inexorably Soil. All that required it to make the legal process certain, when the parties will pay quietly oo being made sure that they can neitner shirk nor be indulged, tfome idea of the beneficial results of this mea ure to theTreasury may be formed from the fact, that there. are at present pending fore the courts cf LUbon no fewer than actinit for disputed payments of Uciaut alone TheSu'e will gain by this igrous strirgeacy about 690 contos prr atboa, and the imjictition of fresh taxes will, ia fact, be little ralltd for. The inspect'eg commisaioneri ap pointed, some time fince specially to rint erery locality and tee that the donma is duly paid.u again made responsible, by 'yrtarvx of the 7th iittt for the faithful discharge ef the prorir.

i functionaries' datict, and all are put en the alert OvHmtra. er smies the profess, ri who conduct H. warped throne, and lii tecuri to the I ortwueae ration tU LV ar bt the "ndisturbed enioyniMit of the Uberal urantedby TheiceM0f tue EllkncJ atme decree nude UabU to be jlaced ou hair pay without rT(B jB Ue dQcultiM of the aieyi ol any rvao Mng awigned. All thU of course is undisguised Ojwrto separated the cauae of his angut daughter from tht m'lIiUry ind.pe?deee. Uut tt Ctrtatnly is goternen au of iWlut; Oolf Jour Eieellmer i again demonstrates the immense force of Sethor CahrU's AdtBiaUtrstion.

This Minister has now gathered up aU his reins and ritnds, and has the whole team ander his whip. All must pull kindly, and none can kick OTtr the trace. KV.n other were croaking and predictor Cabral speeoy HA DA BaSI'EIRA To his Excellency the Pake da Terceira." ThU is tr ry wel', but not worth a ruth. The mask is thrown off, the dictatorthip established, an 1 so lung at Csta Cabral is alire thire will not be a fragment of liberty in I'or d)wtifall. I intariaWy decUred that the revtt of Almeida tugal, would only aerre to strengthen his (5ernment.

and that its krVan the i.frV of the Or poti ti fuch it profcd to be the fact. While he Ues he will ride on the neck of Portugal. I haie said that he woald become a Dictator; he it a Dictator. I hare predict! that the Finance Minister wi'J carry all bis tueasur.i, and make the deficit to disappear. Such will likewise be prore 1 to be the fact.

I hare predicted that, a tariff conrention will conciuoea nrr.lirtion which artear rather slow of The Finance Minister's monie 1 arrang emer.t are nvw com plete lor the presenj year. Ue his concluded with the Uni ao Commercial" an operation by which he is to re ceire ZM contos ia money, and 100 in patl moeda," and titulx of the three operations," this beiag nearly the last of the fljating debt. The rerenues hypothecated as cu' rity are the residue of those which formed the security for the former loan contracted with the same parties, stamps. duties on the succession to property, ic. The fulfilment.

Bat this too wi'd be speedily realix and nerer has already recc'iTed the first instalmeat, being upwards of in a fairer way to a satisfactory conclusion than at pre 1 100 contos. Ue has i oncluded a second operatic itu toe enL The re juintion to Ird Aberdeen njw on foot in I flank and other capilali.U, by which he recrirei 310 contos London to re oren these negotiations will douhtl. ss be eflec toal for its purpose, and the dipljmacy will this lime be conducted in a more friendly and practical pirit It is not the leas likely to tucctuful, because the Duke of Talmrlla anil hare nathlng to do with it, being al.ou to set out ror in dudgeon, after a remanstra ice. at Court which was entirely disregarded. The Queen an! Costa Cabral hare sworn an alliance cJensire and dtfjnre In fact, he it thoroughly afraid of him.

This decree for the destruction of the independence of the Judicial llench, the I'niTersity, aid the Army, has created an uaparalltled sensation here. It is substantially un establishment of Absolutism, and the last faint shaJxw ol libertr in Portugal it now completely extinguished. Erery article in the Charter has leu sucsessitely violated, and at l.tt its rery spirit is annihilate.1. The Charter scored the inlrpendcnceof the Judges, the nan remoeal of professor, the invio' abilitr of military commtssiont and promotion ac cording to standing. Special law, reorer, secured itill further all thee in valuable right of the subject, and nothing bat criminal process legally perfected could destroy them.

The eflect of I he new decree, considered in detiil, are at follw All classes of majistrate and iudjes thronihout the kingdom, excepting the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, answering to our Court ol Chancery ana courts of appeal in the Judicial Committee of the l'riy Council and House of LorJs, are made mareable at the will of the Minister open a moment's notice, precisely a if Lord Denmtn. Sir N'. TiodaL and the Baron of the bxche querwere liable to be sent at a word from Sir Graham, without asking the leare of TarUamait, to MalU or tse Ionian Isles, "and the tnlightened a'lmln'utratori of iurit prudence who figure in these minor possessions to'bo transferred to the highest teats in the curtt at Westmiaster. The Court of Lisbon contains 21 Judges, a Presi dent and Vice President In. all, 23 functionaries and the fU lsjaj of Oporto 25 Judge, a President and ice Preident in alh 27.

The Minister is empowtrea to weed these benche of ali but hia subserrient creatures, and select from the 53 judges who form Iwth courts conjointly CTery man who it tainted with the crime of honest Independence, and transport both him and his family by the first re sel that sails from the bar of Lisbon or Oporto to a life re silencein the midst of the Atlantic Still worse than Milo's fish suppers at Marseilles, they will be condemned to ea weed and oranges (when these are in season), and to a total separation from the sympathy "ef their kind, in the insuLiled willernee of Tonti Delgada. The unfortunatei who ad minster the law in the distant Azores will be too ready to make any'termt with the Minister which can secure their per manent residence in the metropolis and access to the court and benches thus packed at Lisbon or Oporto will, condumn or acquit all before them on the sic nJo of a Cabral, in cash at stated periods, ard 80 contot ia depreciated paper COURT Of BASKRUPTCT, BatmgkaR ttmt, A0.VS. (fie fort Mr. Conmimrvr Fait.) cnxRLis noon mottrsi's AIKXCMCT. The bankrupt in this ca appeared brfore the Court on his avlj iured Usl cxaaanation.

It will be recollected he was a wart Ut uscrran, carrying on ouiinrM ia rrviay streex, and that the pirticuUra of his afliirs hare been reported at much lenitth under this head, lie was adjourned on a previous occasion to give a statement of his purchase and (air inorJir to satisfy, his creditor relative to the amount of profit he bad made, during the year and a half he wis in business, which was very small indeed, cnnsiderisig that he had turned over in oi aaeoaeu Daiance sneti ne gave to day a let gthened history of dealings, naming the separate of goods, and stating whether they were sold at a profit, a loss, or at cost price. Mr. Reed appeared a formerly for the assignees, who were not saUafied with the present account and Mr. Tboraa, the barrister, attended for the bankrupt. After the bankrupt was examined on this statement, which, it arrearrd.

was compiled from recollection, and the (act elicited that some goods in the trade were auld at a lota, ou purpose to Juoe customer to purchase others, which paid 1U or 1 per cent. Mr. Commwoner Faxe said that he should pass the bankrupt's list examination, for the reason he had already given, which was, that it was desirable that ad questions rtlatinr to the bankrupt's estate should he decided at an early a period as pof ible, and while VI the circumstance were in the full recollection of the parti? concerned. If he she continued to be the tenant of the pre ibises in which she, as well as the plaintiff, lived. Lord Chief Justice TlSDAL, at the conclusion of Mrs.

Sxltb's evidence; pat it to the jury to say whether tber benben Ted her testimony, because. If to, there was aa end of the cue. The Jury Immediately said that they wen aatiified, and a verdict wa found for the plaiatiff ca the fint, and for the defendant on the second blue, lb substantial one ia the This cue took op five hoar, front o'clock the snora ing till 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The ret of the day was occupied with aa action in which the question whether the occupiers of a cerUin farm and cottage near Tewkesbury have aright to nse an occupation road. CoraT firort Air.

Serieunl ATCnttLITj Nearly the whole of the day has been occupied La trying ft class ol case which require the exclusion oi woman. all the facts staled ia the opening speech which had nlatiow to hia (the witness's) conversations and tranaactioD withtha dfeiidant. Ia bit cross xamlaatloQ by the Solicit a Gmu tk. witnessj (Uted, that he hid not gone twfuea a snagntrTt prefer any cha, against the defendant, and that Im Kad not entered Into any reeogmixaaew beforw the bill iWhctavat had been presented to and found by the mad hrv Th witness' chambers ia Gray's Inn were within lb coonrv ol Middlesex. The SoLici roa diui then said it wonld weQ oa this evidence that be should at one take a sreBmioary olfaction, which would save the time of the ublie and the ConrtTaa it would put an end to the laActmrat.

Th evUrsc arovtd chat all th falsa pretenee had been made hi CrayVia souare. the ewntv of MidUeavr. aViU (V. th indictment was that they had been made te parish of 1 8L Mart le Bow. inthteitvof London, ft i.

Charles Thoma and John Budge were indicted stealing, proved, that the prtsecutor had not entered inia anv nov at West Dean, on the 6th of July last, a ram and a lamb, the niiance to pmaecute before the Indictment had be pjL property of Ilenry James. I ffred and foond by the craad jury. The Court was aaar. Mr. W.

IL Cooke conducted the prosecution, and Mr. liud 1 that by th Central Criminal Court Act, 4 and Wuliaa IV dlrtton delended the prisoner. 36, 13, it wat enacted, that no bill af indietiaent for The prosecutor, a small farmer in the pariah of West 'any misdemeanour which can or may he presented to Dean, having misrcd the two animals named ia the indict 1 the grand jnry a any. sessions of the peace for the uj titr ment, instituted an immediate search in the neighbourhood of Westminster and rmrvugh of Snath wark and emtbs of hi property, the result of whi'h was, that in an enckwirv Middlesex, Essex, Krnt, aa JHurrey. respectivrly within 700 or 800 yard from his house he found the skins of I which such misdemeanour waa rmmitted pr altered to have a lamb and a ram, together with tome meat cut np In ft man been committed, shall he" presented to the grind jury to he.

per which proved that no butcher could have had a hand In summoned under the authority this act, ualeM the prosa iointinz the litnhv To the skins of the animals the prose en tor or othr per nresentiur such indietneni iHlt (th. to adiourn the examination, be knT lhcture'sfUe we5 Is Son. SCT oTdTrH.vh the person or persona accused of er ua less such person or persons accused shall hav ln rwnmit ted to or detained in custody." It wasclear, that thouch tha indictment was good in law. there was a variance, aa ta venae, jm a much as if an offence committed in Eex moneyof the same description as above, upon the Mcurity he cuatlyVgeJ I to pas. the bankrupt, aod then jj fur ye bnU the habit of gaxing of a portion of the fectma and other revenues.

His ar the result would be that the question of certificate ouldulK)a countenance when he numbered and ia raugement with the Litn Itauk likewise continuf hertby 1 Jr. llL kf, nv, Pcted his flocks. He was compelled, indeed, to admit in hercceivesfu he did last mouth) 120 conto. per month at .1 The qutLn clte wlouUt at ail T1' 5 per cent, per annum, on the security of a portion of the affected by the fact c.f the bankrurt being passed, and could we wh(J J.Qtn the animal that the eves were Customs' duties. He has this, week received that amount i i.

i i ,1 Vt, out. and that the nose was conaiderahly damaged yet, ia i submitted that the grand iut had no iurirc'ln uivV tK VV' 1" wt.u... I aupite of the absence of these features, though clause he had read to find the bill ia tha'abarnu af th particular iwm, ue uu of tv. v. i for the present mouth and thus, in ds pile of the momcn tary league against him, he is able to pay all cluase of.

claims on the Treasury. We are without any foreign ships of war here, and require none. A new steamerthe Valenja, ha been launched at Oporto, and is destined to run between the different ports of the north of Portugal. Gomes de Castro, the Foreign Miuistrr, has gone with his family to Oporto for a few d.jt' relaxation. The Duke of Palaiella has gone to Mafra for a day or two, preparatory (as is generally understood) to his leaving the kingdom.

John Alfred Toxer has now been in prison 120 days, confined for the most part so strictly that for weeks together he has been unable to obtain the privilege walking out in the castle yard, accompanied by an armed soldier, althougn there are sentries at every tte, whom it would t.iinoMibl to pass. He has been left to broil within a narrow room, during the whole summer, while the thermometer wat often at 100 yet active have been the humanity and justice of the authorities, both British and Portuguese, that he is no nearer to trial now than he was when he first was flui.g into a dungeon at Coimhra, four months since. So frightf ol is the dread which Costa Cabral' late lawless legislation by decree has inspired, that the whole bar of Lisbon could furnish but one advocate who would take up his case the Judge Conservator has rtfused to interfere with it, on the pretence that he was incompetent to try it and yrslcrday the rtill more affrighted 1UI ijao Court pronounced a similar decision The case is now between the British and Portuguese Governments, and if Lord Howard suffers this outrage to be perpetuated, shame will Lght on the English name. TUK srw IXSOLVKST XCT. Quern Pe vult pcrtjurs Irius domctiUt TO THE EPITOK OF THE TIMES.

Sir, The silliest of your coiitrtoperuries inlurinj her readers that the first public act of the Pasha of Egypt in service of the Treasury, getting rid of onnecewary hands, and introducing into very branch the most strict and severe prinrip'es econociy. wit'a a ins the immediate redaction 5 per cent, in the expenditure. The Minister his likewise addressed a foHaria to the Treasury Tribunal, requiring that every junta throughout the kingdom be immediately called on to tnplttc without delay the watRncnt of the V.a fr 1:12 4. We re informed that a Irtcgueie ia aj launch with only ten men, teloniing to the navsl station of Angela, en the 2Tth of May last captured a Drazilian tUvcr, the Co.dor, in the oouth cf tL river Dande, wii J50 slaves aboard. -E turns Lave en tfi.t in frcm the prcrlscial districts, shotting a cotslderable tJ lie Tre sury, arudng from the tew tyiteatf Uting the tax esUblUhcd Earori Jcj.

in the rom cf the amtad rvu, aVoluhed by decree of the of DecoaUr, liii. In Evora alone the diminution 61 eipend tare amounts to 2 cont er annum." This coio taic ain it not partial oj acci 'enUl, but rtal and taanr nt its principal being that, while the ntadort aad their asa'stauts receive 3 per cent, of all that they the.riaricufarvj, by whom th uv substituted, receive otly 13 er thousand. In a similar return proves that bv this sstem a savii of 70 milreis a year to the Treasury has likewise there been cSected. I Pccta Delgali the Customs Lavt prj Jaxi 1': coct more than Ust yaj. While the general PJicy of the Government is to the lart degree lw less and despotic, its (irjiMi.J jlicy cunot be too highly comiueaded.

Thui saving hich results from the decree agai accumulation of wJrW, or jJuralinu. am.unts to Ecr 'J contos pr annum, and Jour cf tie culler iy bsiderabty, t'te Ijke Of Terceira lof.tg 2 cont adjourn him, or cveu commit him to Newgate, till he gave a proper account but. that not being the case, he thought it would be better to ueeide direcllT on tne Question oi tna certificate, than indirectly by adjourning the List exami nation. The bankrurt then passed, and received his protection, on the understanding that ha takes immediate steps to apply ler his certincatt. scvxnn assizes.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT. LIVERPOOL, Mosdat, AcocsT VJ. ClTlfc Siyt (Before Mr.Jmtire Crisjwill) ALHiV. OAM'IMB. This was an action a solicitor fur negligence in takiairan intuflMent securitr.

Mr. Martin and Jlr. Kotinson appearel lor toe plaintut, and Know Irs, fir. atsoa, and ill. Cowling, lor the detendaiiL Itanieared that the plaintiff had been an artist, who exercised hi profession lu this county, but who had relin quished the pursuits ol the easel lor the cloisters 01 CL Uees, with the view cf entering the church.

The defen dant is a very respectable solicitor, who had been both the tnewl and the patron of th plaintit! in hi Irst profession. In February, 1S10, the plaintiff wrote to the defendant, stating that he wished for his friendly counsel aad advice in disposing oi a sum oi about oWi whica be had been able to pave from his and wished to ob tain a mortgage or some other security on which he might safclv trust the little which he had hardly obtained. The defendant wrote to him directing him to pty it into the bank of Barclay, Tritton, and Co for the credit of the defendant with the Lancaster bank, which he sid would insure the defendant 3 tr cent, for the mcney till a ire profitable securitv could tw obtained, which he had no doubt would soon occur. In about a month the de frndant wrote to sv th.t he ha 1 foun an elutible securitr utHin the joint and several bond of a young man named ltaines, a surgeon at Manchotter, and his father, a substantial vevman at Chipping, near Clitheroe that the father wnt in scsion of a nice eFtate, and the son had married iKto a rnpectable lamuy. the interest was to be 41.

ISf, per annum. The defendant subsequently lent the tame party 200. of his ou money; but it was proved that he sut t'qti sued the father to judgment for it, and then wrote to the present plainua advising him to get hi money were, who had slaughtered the animal that the eyes were i laid to have been committed ia Kent. and. therefore, aispite of the absence of these features, though ui nose, ana eyes, ana ears bereft, But uttle of himself was left." Jf i mriadictMn tn trt tha canatu On IK.

v. the prosecutor could still positively swear to th face of his mitted that the Court was bound i to direct the lurv at ones mucn loved and mirdered ram. Suspicion feu upon the prr 1 to acquit the defeadant. soners, who were believed to form part of a gang of sheep 1 Mr. Ciuaxsos said, he had not the slightest notion that stealers who have long infested the fores of Dean, and a such an objection exnited, or ho would not have troubled his search was made at their houses.

At Thomas's boose was I leaned friend ta make it. On the contrary, should, had a uuiiuu, um a ucuge, wbku uu i oe seen aware oi it, at once Bar abandoned the case, aa part of the country signifies the liver, llrhts, and windpipe he njust admit it was extinguished by th objectiaa. and in the yard at the back of his house, under a I Some conversation ensued as the'eourte to he pursued stone flag, was fouad buried in the earth a large I whether that th indictment should be quasd, or that th stone jar, full of pieces of mutton and Iamb, cut i Court should direct an aequiital. Eventually umiwucu ipjuiurr. ue uown oi vue ins nacoapait ueterminetl to adoot the latter eouraa.

prisoner lludge, alo, were Hiscovered, in a tub under a and under his direction the jury pronounced a verdict of Jfot Ura tray, upon which was placed a wooden box, several (luilty. piecet of mutton and lamb, which, upon being fehowed The defendant then left th court accompanied by a hvt or put together with those which were found at Thntas, of friends. and compared with the skins found la the enclosure by a George Mi'ldleditch, a snifter of the 2.1 battalion of the butcher, were sworn by htm to correspond exactly. Thej CoUttream Hoards, was indicted ftlotuoualy aecunnc prisoners, when charged with the offence, (aid that they Frederick Reynold ThackeQxw ia the parish of St Martla had bought the meat a. Coleford market.

in the rVId. with the eommisaioa of aa abominable onVne Mr. HCDPiisTos aJJrerK the jury for the prisoners. I with tha intent to sxtort money from the said Frederick Mr. Serjeant Atchirlit summed np.

and the jury re i Revnohls Thackerar. tired to consider their verdict. After having been locked up I Mr. Ctarknn, wita wheta was Mr. Ballantine, conducted for three qurrtert of an hour, they returned into court, and I the prosecution, and the prisoner vu defended by Mr, delivered a verdict of Omity, much to tha surprise of i Prendenrast, those who had heard the evidence.

The commission was opened in this city on Saturday after 22d of June last. It is sufficient, therefore, to stale, that noon by Mr. Justice Patteson, who came post from Devizes, the gvj'ant prosecutor, who had been ia the service of hi and was escorted into the city by the sheriff and authorities, country since the year 1790, solemnly, on his oath, deaied and was received at the temporary court house by the wor the abominable imputation east anon him by the prisoner shipful the Major. Although, a great deal had beea said' whom he had never seen until the night ia question. about the expectation of a very heavy cause list here, still 1 Mr.

Pass dixoajt, an behalf of th prisoner, took some on rcuruay nignt very lew causes were entered and upon technical obiecttona to the form of ta indictment, which the court opening at 10 o'clock this turning the list only were overruled by the Court. The learned gentleman at pretented 30 causes, and only four special juries. Of these dressed the jury at considerable length on behalf of his aircau uceu wipuxi ct as uaucicnucu, ana cuent, wno receiver a goou character irom the sergeant of ue vwu wuduiivu. by the knowndeterm naticn to reduce the r5iy of the va the incessant fear before their eye of being picked oil rious rmpiofit throughout the lingdjm, and of course to Kme wgrt rock Wtween Europe and America. Slight and puny were the symptoms oi tndependeace wnicn urcw By other Kot.l decrees the pot 4c vfrnnea, yeo ty, svwejnns feaseance.

One judge pronounced Silia macry corr. are. abolished throughout the couatry another CainJ'g dejioirs with the press here illegal and absurd proof that tbeilea of disturbances ij derided. Miatary i lnother decided according to law in preference to the Mi taclxoents. w01 rerform the dities J.y this raeasun a Lyter's bid lini.

Bat not a bird in all Portugal willbeper savmg of S3 contos per annum ii effected. And by a further njued henceforth to chirp a note except Cabral, CaVraL" Koyaj decree a irommisricn has teen appointsd; consisting of tu professors of Coimbra aud the officers of th army and Senhs Fkrido, Ferri, File a J.J. Lobo, to nTyhdUkewisetheirchairsandcominitioni secured to them ettmeansof impnfying the I by laws; but lest a scintUU of independent thought should incommode the Minister in either of these drpartme uts, i th are muzzled jr the future, an 1 a'BwIstelydisTaiiwd upoa allowiDgasiagleexpreariC'nofhunrst opinion to escape them. With regard to the officers of the stmy and navy, a new fifth sectkn it created, to which, without cause awigned, any man may be instantly remored, placed upon half pay, and deprived of all right to promotion. Hitherto officers removed from active service were placed ou what was railed the third section," receiving full pay and entitled to promotion according to seniority.

Of this privilege, which was secured then by an act of the Legislature, they may henceforth be deprived upon the. mere report ef their commanding efficcr. Sow1 the Minister takes care that these, latter are his subservient creatures having reiioved but the other day the colonel cf a regiment of Lancers. With regard to the judges and profi asors, this decree enacts that they may be removed on a deliberative vote of the Council of State, which is about the hundredth violation of the CharUr, the latter according to the.Couacil only a consulting vote. To square all thidgs, and, doubtless, in anticipation of this very move, CcU Cabral made himself lately a Councillor of State, and if Lit opponents there give him any trouble, he will unceremoniously swamp them by creating one or two Councillors mere amongst Lb creatures.

The coolest part of the decree it its concluding article" All legislation to the contrary is revoked!" Thus the word of a annihilates half a dozen arts of Parliament. Of course a bill of in wifhn.it .1 1 It .11 IMil in titrt nf th utcaureoi uis maiauy, was the discharge irom prison oi an pUutiti that the father had carried a Miss Parker, the the rozurs and vairalvonJs who were incarcerated in Alts. onlv dauxlibr with enlv one son of her father Mr. Parker andria. "Purely your contemporary Tr the moment has for in 1 le.ft he in firt? oc9'l'iJ i the father, to his daughter, and alter her decease ti gotten the parallel scene which her patron or njt (I know btr children that the son to whom the money was lent not which of the two) has been enacting here.

That I kept a shop som! time in Manchester, as a clivmist and maladv shoulJ run th same eours. and terminate in the drist, and to to quhfy as a su geon, but failed in uaimr the Collego examinttiou that it was true same way, mu not, i nrm.y otueie, tw a source oi lu" he hi married into a respectable timily, but that he had least regret to the tens of thousands of honest and indui nccuiuli.ht that object by running away with theatrp trions tnulamen whom fir.t ,1 IK mill nmst daui'uler i ft Mr. HUlktufO. with whom he BCVer EOt a 4. shilling that after about two rears he left hi thop, and serioufly injure, and, in too many instances, totally ruin.

uhhlttd ta TrtarB ttt I The ruinous tflect of the measure is felt already, am jug the I.ing about as he could with her retatious and that all the smaller tradesmen in and is gradually extending neignbourliid well knew that at the time the money was it. i. 'lent the fithrr was not in good credit. The son was then S'led by the prewct defendant, on which he made an as uiu uu" ugunieut lor the keutnt his crediiors. verta'lv under 20.

rae h. and in the tot uiiv of carets IvNowLts adires thejurv. and contended that the are owing "by derk mechanics, and othere who elo nt acted us the fiieodnlVmwlIor, and not as the f. ii, pf the plaintiff, who liady this action ill returned i (ne WudneM the defendant had showu htm, and that, not vinble or tangible pmiwrty, of which their rrrditors can htiing acted fur re war if he took as much care of the avail themselves. Now, this clasi of persons obtained crrdi piaiut.tr mot.

as he bl done of his cwu.lt was all the The lfnie Jriyin summed up the ease, and the jury, Tiie lir. li exceptirg ihe special juries, havinj been tof at clock. from th. ir butchers, bakers, tailors, and others, upon the tale faith of that remedy which has' now, by a rrtrot iciive law, fu .1 returned i Verdict for the pl.iin been taxen away. To all practical men it is nutoiious that ll" 'i.

otv itwaanot actual imprisonment, but the leir of it, which! i 'i Ti 1 i lordship induced this class of persius to (y their debts, i mean in Ck ws SiPE. fflorc Lord Citlir Baros.) the vast majority of cas for where one mu hu becii shua Foster ud i uoiuas Suiith, two lads, were indicted actually imprisoned lor debt, rrobablv 100 have been iu fdr' g. En igu luvis, of he 32 1 lU gimecSrof bit duced to pay their d. bts by the fear of imniioniuent. Urdl conducted the prosecution, and Mr.

Wil When, therefore, you aboliih tho irnirisoiiuieutjou arc i Lint the deltfto taiiryfiff the nruure i.i.t nrrel. from Ihf lurt 1'i According tithe evidence Of Mr. D.1VIJ. a gentlc frorathero mm of b'j ju: 11', he on the eveniug of the 2d of April irora pa sing with to efficers, younger than hinuelf. in I his, of course, is suppoung thtt the Utter will be du iroil 0f Hie Iiitiruiarv in Muchter.

wheu they were sud honest enough to avail themselves of the opportunity thus i ih.nl, i.d itu.ut a ij prwvocaiion, set upon by several affonledto them; aud it is unfortunately a Tb kuocke 1 dowu twice, and, wnile grt'ni i up th arend time, one of the tuuilauU put most melancholy exhibition it is of the state ol morality iu aii inw hi9 icktt, abstracted his watch. The this metropolis), that si fir as I can ascertain from a pretty giurJ brk aud leii on the pivorj. ct, Mr. D.ivis picked it ponnerinn inonnt ir the rl.L.,f and eto3eil with the prty, whom he identified Foster, A ilic man hemjng the iIL turhance i oming up. when to whom I have allulel bare aluwit, umver ally set their ol tae assailant clled out, here's thi Peelers," creditors at defiinc since the pacing of that act.

The I un which hey all a away, but Foster was taken without smill tradesman cannot obtain his money fromrhi debtors, being lut sight r. Mr. I.wrte, anr.t'11 of the parte. enrr. the consequently cannot pay the whoiett.e dealer irom wj RnT whom he obtains his goods, and the latter wilt soon, a the effect of the measure progresses, be unable to pay the merchant and manufacturer.

If th latter iunigincr, as I believe many of them do, that bei ause th ir ac demnity will le applied for, but this is confessedly the counts are reckoned in hundreds and thousand, the'2W. 20th. which Lu.i been made requisite by the legislation clauses will not aflect them, they will soon find that they ar; by decree which hu prevailed during the present summer. grievoutiy mistaken. Nothing in lay time, an'l I well reuM nt The unresisting subserviency of th Cortes is thus made a ber the panicof 132(1, has caused such a sensation cfabsoluu: boast aid a derision tut Portugal "must be new created be disniay aniongst travlesmen as this act.

The hard WE3TERX CIRCUIT. BRISTOL, Mosdat. Acccst 19. The details the case, which was a oroaeeniiiia at tVa, instance of Malor UenerU Thackeray, have alrea ly appeared at length la our report of the proceeding at the Marlhe. rougn stru pouce eourt, published la TA Tmri of tha The only on tried ha been that of jsrriBjis t.

Mir. Mr. Crowder and Mr. Stone conducted the plaintiff's ease. and Mr.

Cockburn aad Mr. Butt that of the defendant. 1 hu was an action broaght by the plaintiff to recover between lof. aad Hi. for the board, lodging, and clothing of the defendant's wife.

The defendant paid between 6Z. and into court. The plaintiff and defendant had married two sisters, the former was a bookseller at. Bristol, and the' other a retired tradesman at Sheffield. The defendant's wife had left him sfx different timet between the year 1323, when they were married, and the" year 1S4L She had sometimes stone to; the house of the plaintiff, and the defendant had on more than one occasion paid him 25.

a wcca lor me doom and lodging of lb wife but ta December last he wrote to the plaintiff, stating that hit house was hit company and several other witnesses. Indeed, this fact was shown by tha regulation chevron (the index of good conduct) whieS iu affixed to th prisocer't uniform. Tha Ricoaon summed np the case with great minuteness, and the jury immediately returned a verdict OaaVfy. ja The Rccobpxx. after dwelling with, much feeling upon the atrocity of tha oflence of which tha prisoner had been convicted, sentenced him to be transported for th term of his natural life.

The prisoner, on hearing his sentrnee, exclaimed, "I have not hadjustict dote tome, that's alL and hurried cat of the 4ck. The Kicoaora directed the execution to be respited an til tie nsj sessions, in order to sffH time to rMuult, II ae" cessaryVtb judges on tha technical objections which bad been raised by the learned counsel for the prisoner. in tne course oi the day th grand lory returned (amongst open for her. and he was willing to receive her. and.

if she would not return, be would no longer pay her debts but others) a true but against James Cockburn Belanev. the tur then n.a. int tl I .1. k. I i i i.

tiwauiuviimucik va yiainiui aiwrucj, usuwa NEW COURT tha defendant ag eed ts enter into a deed of covenant to pay Wefort tk CoauoB Sxajiai ai IS1? i' llT.T Georg Jeop; aged 3, wa. Indicted for steaung II silver his the The question for the iurv was whether thev believed the attorney's clrk, because, If so, the plaintiff was entitled to recover under that agreement. 1 he jury found a verdict for th plaintiff. CEXTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, T'lay, A wnU 20. tkfuit Me Rico hues, aVUtmh J.

Puuc, Cart Sir. tmaoHUiBBs, Edward Brown, a vounz Eentleaaan of most respectable appearance, and said to be highly connected, this morning surrendered at tne sitting oi tLe ikiurt in discharge ol hu bail, to take his trial upon an indictment charging him with a ll ITtli 1 nril l.rf In Ik. a.nA of 91 ic now, in tne ward oi wtiain tne city oi uoaioa, obtained by raul and false pretences tha turn, of 3Sjs the monies of Mr. Richard Edward Arden. Mr.

Clarksun and Mr. Ballantiee appeared to conduct the prosecution, and the prisoner was defended by the Bolicitor Ueneral and Mr. M. Chambers, both of whom had been rp cislly retained. The defendant pleaded "Sot Guilty," and was givea In charge to the jury.

Mr. Curksox then proceeded to ttate the facts of the ca e. The prosecution in this instance was Instituted by a gentleman of the nam of Richard Edward ArJetw. a solicitor, practising in Qriy's inn square, aad who had added to his profession of sultcitor th practice of discounting bill. He at the3hie time was a gentleman of entire resoectabKr: nij, wu ue tuintJi up im preacni moment was as per fe ctly unitnpcfechrd as that of any of the gentlemen of v.the jury.

The defendant was a'to an attorney, and beside had article, value lit. the propertr Of Mr. Last. jir. ioans conducted the prosecutioa, aad Mr.

"reader jat defended the prisoner. The prosweutor stated that he Is a publican residing at Tux month. The prisoaer had lodged in bis boas for four months previous to the commisaioo of th robbery, and was always considered as a very respectahls inmate. On 240. of une last witness left hi house to go to FaWham Fair, leaving his wife and the prisoner at Jiome.

Oa his retare ta tha (veainc, he fouad that hit wie had gon off with th prisoner, and that the property mentioned in tha indictaiest was missing. II immediately pursued then up to Loodoo, and and them in bed at th Bell Ian, in NwgaUstret, ue gvie too pruoaer a sever beating, and tivra gav aim into custody. It was subsequent! ascertained that the prisoner had sold the spoons to Mr. West, of LoJgate hilL These fasts having been proved bfacvrral witnesses, Mr. PITDI53AJT contended that the present eharg; against the prisoaer could not be austaiaed, a in th cat of ttosenberg, lately tried at this court, Mr.

Justice Cbltmsa held that where the wife was a party to tha trailaaotioa tht charge of robbing would not lie agvnsl her paramour. TUC0M4SOX duuiiSi said, that in Roseaherg'seastth circamstances were different. Ia that case' th wif wu proved to have taken tha oropertv of her hnthaiht to th lodging of her paramour. Lvthe present case it appeared that tha prisoner bad personallv seustcd in removing the property stolen, aad had also sold it to Mr. West.

Jlr. rRS3lKRaA4T sa thai the spoto were marked with tha wife's maiden' name, and therefore tha prisoner might have supposed them to be her own property. au v.iauj guuuJi ua 1 1 11 "immri up. been conaected in partnership with a mercantile houieL TBe jury, after a long eoruuIUti n. retired, wd ia about fore this shameful hji will be disappointed.

The Cortes is The Civito if now To this I Lave toa.Il a fact a manufactory e.f bills of indemnity to arder new regulatfen of the jne, by which a tafiiig of 7 ntot registry office for recording the tdiett of the Minister. Ke effected tvtxVw cut jear the amocat will be rr here it tomcrc a farce, that the sooner the still great laths estimates A the Ministry of the King mockery is ended the better; and Don Miguel's principles domrui9iistookpUltyearttlieextettof40cont, now completely triumphant, it would be as well to and the rt4rfin year are. tmtly SO contst, while iviw him oyer from Home at once, or establish Costa the public works have in no department been ne glccied. Thu, although Portugal has jplayed no public but party, lie admitted that tney bad "poteii H. ularly to some iflics uf a cerium tut whoid thry met in the street, but had in iny iho were with the A woman cf the ateive uanied cluj identified Smith as being of the pnrtv.

His LoKPsturViid he thought there wss no case agaiatt 'mi i left it to th jury iy whether or there wa iutt ii' i ieiil the watch, or whrther the guard had been puiU oat ti.d broken iu the scutlU Wrd ct, Ow.ltji. Janie (Jounor wa iixlicted for a burltry in the dwslling Funk lUnarJ, of StaylejbriJge. fV an.l ltr and family, with every prospect of tinilly unking an in1e the tuVehc. prndence. and able at present to pay 40s.

or V. in the apperC that the prosecutor a dealer in rags, and oa Iund, if he could get in his debts, ftnd himslf all at one tllt, Ut of jJliy 1 soae tj j. on the very verge of absolute ruin, without any fault of tui 0, WhU as usual, he obtained reaJy own; and all for what To enable a few 'fraudulent dcbu.r Tne pruoner hid often been at the house selliig to get out of prison, and to cheat their creditors ir it i wlJ tow bim tut TTl, The prosecutor hal hone6t, iadustriom tralesmin, toiling to auppert hiinjell i which had from I'viO until some IS months past carried en business at Sheffield and Birmingham, under tha firm cf Putts, Baxter, and. Roberts. Up to the beginning of the present year the defendant was a perfect stranger to the prosecutor, when he was introduced to the latter by, a erson named Morgin, who appeared to be an agent employed in procuring loans for persons reruiring such aid.

On the 15th of April last a letter, written by the defendant. reached the tOice ol the prosecutor, Jlr. Arden, bearing Ue date of the 13th, from Edgbastoa, near Birmingham at the timed its receipt Mr. Arden wa out ol town. That letter, in order that there should be no mistake about its contents, he (Mr.

Clarksoo) would low read to the jury. The learned counsel here read the letter, which was to th eflect Uiat the introduction which had accidentally bromht them together induced the writer to believe it might be of service to Ar Jen in proieseisnu way. It then proceed dtostUetaat the writer (the defendant) had at least war.h cf tropcrty rfjuth America that the busi ness of consignees requited a large capital especially to those who had a long ana that his father in law had recently advanced money on the securitv of tha cargoes of tha ships ct tac concern, ice u. ose in tuverpooi givitg an to piy th produce over to the father in law on ecoiiomy, he is cvn.tM.ndel in all that cercerris the T' gu trediie By lt iyal jem oouttendgiifrd by all tht'Miiitttrs, the maieiidaoon of s'oonvm Jtee afpoiDted in April laat bat been adopted, anfl the tibacco sxd. snap duties are to be united in oin or.

tract and auctioned together. Tlie decree abates, that each inp jrii the nose priviles es, aud a Sjaji1 fsacadizaticn, there null inevitably result from the propued Ubkui a dWnution in 'the txpense of working' theto, and cw.aewently an augmentation in the plice wl both ootitractt in favour ii the I'uific Tressury." If adds, that this junction a cci.furraable anteruir rae lice, and enact that they thali be put up to auction tigther, accord ing i the terras anl cditin a'pi rove i of by ths ii the arrival ot tae vessels, mis naa been perfecte J. and the i naa iiyoccaoioremain mprisonas ii sioiMiiore iiir j( tnu, jn jiis sieao. i oriugue ae niaaiiig fejent alteration. lw.

mt tiadnight he ws awakened by torn. bod at euon wonu one lariuiug wr me rcMorauou vi eucir ura mi. uuuki iu5 "'i tempting Mtet.tUe trousers Irom ties, the idea hopelessly whole couutry not ya rewroscrvii.i pifvutor immediately fined to debts to be contracted from the time the tusvaz i i tk. C0LtairiUig much patriotism or J4ibuc virtue as the act, there could not have be much g'und of eri could be aeauired in such a matter by any epistolary The iurnals talk of constituting a new Opposition and invite the Duke of Paliuella. to place, himself terms, adlio' that th house in Liverpool stood "A oni under his hca Haye The letUr concluded by inviung th i prosecutor to pty a pro got up, ai.d the Piisoner r.

1 fa kal twt to Rrmiugham, and bv an laspection of the hey different i of Srt4" 1' o.v a uaim vj mMj ruwuij short, the whole tone of the letter wa an hour returned wita the following verdict'4 find th prisoner uutity, but strong ly recommend him to mercy, as we believe be told the spoons under the unprreaton that taey were the property of the wife, they beimr marked with her maiden name." The Coxmov Sesj east said that it vat no verdict, tzd could not receive it. The jury (hen, after a short deliberation, aeptitti ths prisoner. POLJCR. JfASilos noci. Yesterday WiUiam Thackham.

shop man to Mr. Thomas Simpson, of No. X. Iadeahall trecV hardwamnan, wa charged with having robbed hi taaetar. Mr.

T. Stmpon, father of the prosecutor, suted tkat his son, having suspected that he wu robbed by on lis shopmen, adopted the plan of tending pennas wckas goods in the shop with marked moaey. One ot the a lad out and paid IPs another and a third 10a, ail wi asxitained that the prisnner. who arred th eustoatrV entertd in the book the sums of 17a, 8a, and 7l, aal pocketed the difference' It wu rather curious that te of the gentlemen' who made the purchase was witness brother, whose person th prisoner well knew. Th witxesi and his son, as toon they found to their surprise that prisoner, who had been long employed by the family, hw been committing such deptvdatiens, called at ait boast see whether there were any symptoms of necessity abut tha family, determined, if they were In distres.

act only forego proeecurioa, but to give him the means of srtliag 9 Ktiaineaa in atVMthee enanlev. The thera heanMd that matfStS were q'lite in a different condition, and that th priawO head of it but Coeta Cabral, taking t'i exact measure the Duke' pilitical courage, "inserted one of his customary threatening articles in the Cortrw, kaowh to be his by the numerous italics and insolent tone which pervades it, which will tffectually prevent ths Dake from confronting the. perils bf the hour, and sen! hlui ell ct uaste to France, anl Belgium If the Dake dares da any aueh thing, says upright statesman, he will instantly lose hit lost cf Councillor of Ktite, and decreeof the ''th of July lat the new soap contract to i luin Uitosdf for ever." When this appeared, the Luke comaw nat frn the 1st of July, 'wheii th. present I Uasteiied the sale of hu Lories, an 1 coapletcl the prepare contract tertoinatea. Jhis is iaat two months after' the I tn, for his iun.ey.

Thus will one hostile vote be re 1 1 article the otp cotira'. vur rcoauu Muject to tne exiaung lira Of Jofcnl( aiiiuaJly, ferming part of the juhu of! public credit's er.doweaVtjt fir the interert on the public dctt. To this Las been added In the exiting contract' one per cett. oo the original irlce, aewnting to a con to and Sfi miirris that tai soap contract yields at present the Jfut J21J coatu. or a tenth part cf thct roduoc of the toLaOCO COLltaTt.

The noted Oos.Z'lez late Prime Minister of Hain, Las at length trrie t. i and aasamel the djti poet of Eavey Extrv.rdinary and Mini.ter rieniftentiry from fpain at the rt or Her railhful Jlaiesty. Great hot are entertained of the immediate aui surcess ful renewal of the tariff liegot ations.Th many proved inaccuracies ia Mr. Margrtgor's report, an the rea ct mover in Lond sunongst parti ootJiected with the trade of Portuzal falthouib the" latter has not yet been made known publicly), lead to the cwrluii that Lord Aberdeen ia the its 20f. clauses as one of robbery and plunder, calculated only to encourage iwuidtng, and to pn teci swiniierj.

These may be strong expression, but 1 firmly, lunstly, OXFORD CIRCUIT. Moxdav. ApotsxlO. and from experience, llieve them to bo not'onej iti Nlfl Priu Cut'KT. Heore lArl Chief JititTTxPJ) an attorney off hu guard.

Mr. wie wlu wu evidenUy unconKiou of the bad ti4st which then reached his haa It, but I Sitin. uncle to tM.prosecutor. aal to tbAt letter, as emild not be saown It ever cam, to tha de rr8Te4 talU purchuedfoous withfflaA fen lan be (Mr. Clarksou) would aot read.

Th. defendant on ta9 prisoner. probably un laving received the answer.eamj ta London i firrt witDM, 5tatd, that after th purchasrt and called upon the prosecutor on the 1 1 th of April, and gQ.a; he aad his son called the prisoner into the couTi af nroilumi i him a bill of exchange pumerrifidr to hav been I iwm a lii. ii, .1 oouseana accuseu nuaoi unaj drawn in Sheffield on the 11th of Kbruary, IsH, at tare tbe thre than had aeoeaated fir. if Irnnjtr than thf occasion deserves.

Call ILCH ihg, M1LU1. HATCkT nonest suaenng tra iesiuan, reuueeu iroi cBinpeiciice io i au ir. 11.35 rrrirai ui ibu raiui cy tar una 01 i uaaier. ana lirewn, 1 jj. nlt gaow tilxt n4 Witaew then oer re I to set i insolvency, perhaps to beggary, and all it iio.nii case tha an Mr.

OoU3 and Mr. Gray taut evils and miseries, be blamed if he heapi curses and ivuntv lor the Jeteilai.t. pool, and accepted, psyable at Messrs. (Jlyn, IlaHifax.and which were part of the marked money Thp ioaerhiiw; imprecations on th authors of such a mtuii' Th uction Pr tight against the defendant, an itor lnJon.ltwaseadorsedby the outolv af'erwapls nson being told that tmw he al way in which the uc' was smugglcl thronn ney, fr a trsp js nUcged to have been eommittcd by hitu defendant, ua inqairies being made of thedefendant by the 'robbin the 'concern for sometime, abmitted tSw is as disgraceful as the act itself, and eviaees ni trWly in seinng tm luares ami ta colts, 11 waggon, hud other prosecutor, the former stated that the acceptor was the wool I tekrf moneT aad Sail U. 1 IKS' that its promoters were afraid to submit it to the ju lgniiiit 1 rtwlt to which the defendant pld 7 of the public Not only was it studiously kept Irom the i and, lecondly, tut the pUiMiff vaj ugt posased of tte uat 6ona been given for a valuable consideration.

'The The in order to lull their apprehensions as to in nn 'if. defendant ailed that he hbuelfwu a merchant of good for ji, ture, iu provisions were misrepresented in Parliament. Hi. appeare i irem ioe ntence given in tcppor; 11 tuae, ai be nadauTKe mm emoarted in tbe arm of tha 1 11. promoter cried out, when the immediate abolishment ol pumuu taeej taai, iu one caiitn, uniiM tr.e drawers of tho bin, that be had lately bought an esute called 41 1.1 nt 1, Itiili'hr and a fanurr at a am rnuntrv 1 in.

TV. an, I tl afc hm K. a I.A... I DnWDUieui was Wl'jcttnl nuanu'ic than tliat a man should give up all his property to bis creii ut ur miles Irom Kiw, the neighbouring county of lure. In reply to this statement torsT It wu expressly stated.

Uk). in both Houses that IIn tun leavitig a widow aud srcalor orxrved that he did no 1 that th plaintiff, whose hands were hive nothinc to do with them uson which lhr defiant I mhtimr namerou depreciations allh hour gana afford creditor additional facilities towards securing the pro then quit. unoccupieil, he haying just befor rwsed invited the prosecutor to accompany him to bis solicitors, connecVd wilh hu family, aiid wto me iii.ieni l'euiors wun, wiiuout pay ing Mtrs. aiur and i emoertTO, ia imond inn. Chancery 1 terna innmate rnendsaip.

whilst it abolishcil the imprisonment of the person, it would debt b. ii.d bin ditlereot stamp, Viscount Sa da Baiideira, who loet an arm in defence of the Cliarter, bakes up the pen ia his remaining hand, and becomes its constitutional defender in the following protcat which he has forwarded to the Prime Minister "Illustrious and Excellent Sir, The official journal of ftis day, the i'tli of August, publishes a decree, by which the Government assumes the power of legislating, whereas tl.ia Ta iwer beloiiL a eii lixirHv In the Rortel with the mine. lion of the Crown, according to the constitutional charter of and discharges those who owe no debt exceedint! 2rf. recognlzet as the actual law. It It therefore evident that by I remedy against the g'O Is of his debtor which he did not1 friend at Km, the plaiutifl and bu brother came, in the foriU re pay men this decree the Ooverement usurps a power which docs not posits before: but, on the contrary, by enablinir the sn.all of the MKi.t.

and away tne porjej, colts, vragixa, ti lor the interest oa the loan 1 scrutiny 01 me insolvent iwowirs inri, vc. m. rl i sa.j vt "a rcpajment. iu ac prisoner pleaded that he eoaJl not tuppirt wu. upon 30.

a week. was committed for trial. WoasBSTRMl. Yesterday Oetavjus GarWthe1 at by the defendant, the pro 1 a late h.ghly aiguiahd divine. waaTd al ta baf like bills, and would rather fore Mr.

Bisamx for final xaaiiaatliBthaigtd ''i Jrty of debtors, Now. this latter statement i and thruus'i lb without any quahlication, untrue, though it was generally his credit believed at the time, and tended greatly to keep the pnblic w' w. in, quiet. The fact is, tl the act merely anoru greawr lies to ueoiwrs iu lueir any iy ideiiu, went to nve wita urs. crm .11, lane, aitn a v.ew to prosecutor s) satiafatliou a to the I The prisoner, it will be recouectevi, aircuj 11a 1 MPd managed thv whole ef the farming rabeUntiality of the defendabt.

He acquiesced, and having mitted iijHn tao charges ol felony the ar lacill i'uiu jcu 1.... it uikTouutci vj me ueieuaani jar. remoertOD, taOe t'uuei 1 itl aelTTr, ncuareo Court. 1 the butcher business iu favour of one l.thpocl. In feadat left the room, and Mr.

Pemberton ar.d the prosecutor I Uaberdasher plaoe, Uoxton, frem, whom he yu from lili Mrs. rj'iutli adrerised a Ue of th toc funutTre, V. i an interview, the resaJt of which was that uaon the bill tity of jewellery and wearing apparel; and tae itor anv by nuetirn, an du ing her absence, avUit to a belong ti it Bat it is equally manifest that obedience 1 debtor to avoid the 1 cant be legally enforced to the said decree, since the it takes away from the creditor the principal and ouly eflec tured tue pnpty, and toe piatntin taen brought ttis ntmelv, on tie Slth of April, a farther sumol ZXL was ti were ye.Mrdav taken agaiast him that no citizens can be obliged to I tire means which Ue bad 01 coming at the dcour pro charter express: ssys. do or to refrain from doing aaytalng, except In virtue of the perty, I have the honour to be a member of the Ie isla tite body, and feel it to be my duty to protest against the said decree, which I do for the following reasons 1. Because It it an usurpation of the rights of the legis lative power.

Because it is an attack on the in ii. 1 lauve power, s. oecauao an ateacx on me new negoUations will ait upon bis own unlettered Jadg th. tadiciat rawer. 3.

IWana It i. ment. without cauitiziia: the croULels cf the Board of attack upon the right, secured to citizens by the Charter. 1.. 1 t.

nnrrt an erident i of beini luibred only by tribunals legally constituted. and not attempted bv this decree, t. iecause 11 Qettrovs the trua ran tee conceded by law to the omoer of the army and navy. ai a reward for their service seal list Don MlgueL Be cause it Invades the rights which tbe law eoacedes to protesters. 0, and lastly, because the Oovernnteat by its decree, annihilating the constitutUnal charter, places the natian in similar situation to that to which It was reduced In IKS by the destruction of the same fundamental law.

and place itseu in a path In which it cannot advance, except with the aid of UlieaslTO ana internunaoie tmuoico. 11 uiw a ticks so sue neeaajtr of aet.diaf this protest to tout Excellency. who acquired such fiery a mwrerinj for the tgneen her eletlre to re open the sol ject. A Koyal decree, couutrrs'gned by aU the Ministers, appears In the lJiario, whereby the Judges both the firtt in stance aad of the rdafw ouurts of Lisbon, Oporto, and Pocta Delgada, may Le transferred from one point to an otherin other words, banished to the Islands without tpe cific cause, upon a deliberative vote of the Council of State, Upon a aunilar deliberative vote all classes of public prolea tors may be dumiaaed. This piece of executive legislation is tr.cant La the brtt instance to pot down the Ofpoaitioo I am aware it enacts that where a debtor avails himself of the 'J)X.

clauses, his property shall remain liable; but speaking from pretty long experience, 1 no not oeneve tnatiuoiv case out of a thousand the creditor will be. benefitted by that enart ment. The fact is, that nobody knew what tbe act would be till it had passed, for considerable alterations were made iu it at its very hut stage. I took all the pains in my power to mate myseii aoquainieu wim iu peoTwoui i was inrougn raruameni, ano. oouuicu nuieu copicj v.

i iroui time to time, but all ia vain. It was altered at every stage In the House oi Commons, and at the tame time still further alterations were promised, so that no one could know whit it was latended to be. Tbe result Is, that all the relations between debtor and fesonsi men in the kingdom are injured many' totally ruined merely to gratify tbe morbid activity 01 a vaiu ndgetty, reatleat old man. 10,000 pities that the "Birds' have ceased to trouble his hawk's aeit. I am, Bir, AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.

prosecubr advanced the defe nimt the sua ot Siut, tak Mr. Samuel Smoothy, a farmer, at Birdbnioa. asar waw lent, laa adde tax tenant ol on 01 in prison A ad tae costs he borrowed a mare, value ISL. another wetk, 1 horse lale ar Suuthfiehl Ir.Thfollfiafni,?,,i sre yeurday taten agxiast aim Mr. Alexander James Stewart, a nurserjmaa and debts, the proivrty on th farm should then become Lis own.

A gfw ueai ci time was consumed in proving a number pf small fact, all of however, were quite con. tiatcnt witn an arreement that tbe rlaintm should act as Mrs. suutn uin anj, wncn it came to tae mra of tin defendaut's counsel to call wituesaes. Mis. smith herself wu put into the box and she denied, with an earnestness and simplicity which left no doubt on the Kinds or those wno beard ber that she wis speaking the whols" truth, that any such agreement had taken place, un the contrary, the oki lady Said be came to live with her upon the death of her husband wihat any agreement at all being spoken of and though she allowed that, il he htd gone on as he ought to have ic, might Tk.

asid, he had lately behaved so ill and treated her to cruelly, beating ber and abusing ber, lost at un the consulted her own mind" and determined, to tell everything she had, leave the koue, and get ril of him. It appeared that the poor rate were paid In ber name, and alt the tithes, sod that of the defetulants to bis ample means, and that the bid ban ben given tor a valuable consideration, tie should alto cul Mr. Roberts, the acceptor, who woald prove that he had accepted in blank, under the promise that consignments saouiu oe made to nua, waica never came, and a tootud iunr.tr prove uai tae nrm 01 rotts, Baxter, asd Brown, tbe drawer, had expired by effluxion of time at least 12 months before the data ot the MIL The rury would remember that the first tranaaetion aa to these loans took place 01 the 17th of April, aad he (Mr. Clark son) should prove that the defendant's nam apt reared in tne uaxttt on ue 1. in oi Miy.

lie need scarcely add that the bill, on reaching maturity, was diahenoured, asd un to this boar had act bren naid. Hueh w.ra is. rati upon which It wu hit duty to seek at the har of the jury a oi iruuiy agaicss tne ueienaant. Mr. R.

E. Arden was then rilleJ. aai. in answer to unes tbsi rat to hia by Mi. IXJlaatiae, prortJ cost eetion against him, ali.

ging, that there was at agree ueal v.mced on Dr.ciael7 the same terms, ciaainar a total sum of iH taeen mm ana uis aunt luae ue aui ma uiaisg ie larui ow, tne ctirre against tte aelcndant was, that be i in seeds, reaidutg at salt sou. near f. rherf. two years, anufter discharging her hctban Ua. I obtained this large sum from the prosecutor by false I had been acquainted with the prisoner, pretences, ana 10 support that charge oe lair.

Uarkson) I were 01 fcr respectaouuy, wr maaj 7 i7hafJt sh.Hild call the prosecutor, who would prove the I aim for a considerable when, on the last, caed on tae wune a aw maie hi. If known an eU tchoolfcllow, weas obj that he was the captain aad part owner of BrJJ the Ruhr, hound for CoasUntinopU, and to" been couunusioni by ouaa a of choic English seeds there, and entirely rrivate spearalatlon, he mended to. oa hi awn account ait witaest was IfJ quaiaUd with his family, he aEowad the ruer yj, ani lodge ai his hoaae, wilha remuosralion, 'ct of that month till the 31st, when, th seU pasked up la hoxs for exportation, the 'tVJ his inteauoa to com to a settlement, but saal th" not diKbarge the account till he got to town, to can upon Mr. Sawyer, bis mother's solidhir. Wj inn, ef whom he had to receive alarg tum kas and other purp ses, and.

as th witnes had sotaclv to hfai, night that iw ti.