racter and influence through us we consider to have been assailed. I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient humble servant, HARRY FARR YEATMAN. MOST CURIOUS! fending ourselves, if we could do so, from magistracy of Great Britain, whose chacharges and complaints thus preferred behind our back instead of sending for us into the adjoining room where you were sitting, and giving us an opportunity of meeting our caJumuiators and of disproving, as I trust we have disproved, the erroneous statements which they made, you are aware, sir, that on your returning into the room, you merely wished us a good morning, and shook us by I TAKE the following from a Newthe hand, and that from the 29. day of Octo-York paper, called the Morning Courier ber last till the latter end of April, 1833, and New York Advertiser,' dated, when we saw your report for the first time in New York, Thursday, 20. June, 1833. our lives, as "published by authority," we There is, it seems, a CANAL-JOB going had no conception that a single charge, or on in Pennsylvania; that it is carried on complaint of any sort or kiud had been alleged by the means of money, raised in shares, against us on that day. as the gambling devils call it. The "proThe only other part of your letter that re-perty consists of what they call quires additional comment from me, are the stock." In short, it is a STATEwords which follow, I cannot conclude my DEBT; a piece of "NATIONAL 64 letter without protesting against your "insi "nuation, that I wish to depreciate the pro- FAITH;" and " faith" it is of a very "pucial magistrates of England." I can only frail nature! However, the main say that when I find it alleged in oue part of thing that I have in view, at this time, your report, that you" do not hesitate to pro- is to give a list of the names of fo"nounce a decided opinion that the poor of 66 "boroughs, where little or no magisterial in-reigners, who are the public cre"terference takes place, are superior in moral ditors" of the State of Pennsylvania, as "character and appearance to the majority relating to this "CANAL." I dare say, “of country parishes," where, of course, it that the canal itself is a mere job; a does take place; and when I see such sweep ing censures ou divisiou magistrates in another piece of pure plunder; and that, at part of it, made, as they have been in our case, last, the swindle will wind up with a without the least foundation for them, I cau- 66 stop-law; "that is to say, with a not conceive that any great des re could exist on the part of the person making those state-payment in paper-money, worth, perments, to elevate the provincial magistracy to haps, a shilling in the pound. The the level which they are entitled to. I will jobbers are bad enough here; ́but there, not, however, having declared aiready in the what are they then? The vile and first edition of my “Inquiry," "that I believe the errors and misapprehensious of Mr. profligate principle of stock gambling "Okeden to have been perfectly unintentional has, here, to struggle against hereditary "and inadvertent on his part," having thus and traditionary integrity; against that given a proof of my desire to do justice to the undefinable uprightness of character, motives which actuated your mind when you which was attempted to be described in drew up the report complained of by myself the and my brother justices of this division,-I old saying, that such a man's will not depart from a principle so generous "WORD" was his "BOND;" and and correct, and I will therefore again declare, which character, though greatly faded that if, in the expression of these opinions, or by the devil's works of funds and stocks, any others which I have hazarde during this painful inquiry, you conceive that I have de is not yet wholly lost. But, there! parted from that spirit of liberality and good why, the gambling villains would laugh feeling which it becomes me to maintain and in your face, if you were only to hint to express upon all occasions, I am ready to at being under the influence of any thing express my sorrow and regret at having so but acted, unconscious as I am of even of intending gain. No set of sharks, assembled so to do, my sole object having been, not to round a gaming-table, were ever more invade the character, to misrepresent the mo- destitute of honesty. However, my tives, or misstate the opinions and practice of other persons, but simply with a view to our own individual characters, to defend and to protect ourselves; especially so, when considering ourselves as a part and parcel of the present business is to give a list of the foreigners who are creditors in this canal; hoping, and firmly believing, that they never will see one single From the LONdon gazetTE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1833. BANKRUPTS. BURROWS, J., Camberwell-green, bookseller. HAYTREAD, J., Silsoe, Bedfordshire, inn- NOTLEY, S., Cornhill, and Compton-street- SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. terms as compared with Friday, making the currency about Is. to 2s. lower than this day. se'nuight. Fine Essex runs obtained 635. Some new samples of Wheat were exhibited, their quality was much juferior to the first show of last season, being thin and shabby, and appeared to have been cut green; oue sample only was good. The prices ranged from 56s. to 63s. Although these specimens of the new crop are no just criterion of the general produce we have to anticipate, yet They indicate the probability of considerable inequality existing in the yield of this as well as the preceding season. In bonded Corn nothing doing. Barley was in short supply. The article meets little attention, and prices of grinding qualities were nominally unaltered. Malt dull at the former quotations. MACBRAYNE, R., Summerlee, near Airdrie, | feed met a fair demand at rather better prices coal-master. TUESDAY, AUgust 6, 1833. BANKRUPTS. ATKINSON, H., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, iron monger. BOND, J. B., and J. Plowright, Great Surrey street, linen-drapers. DENT, J., Durham, draper. FREEMAN, W., Edgware-road, plumber. GUNNER, J., Great James-street, Bedford- LATCHFORD, J., Piccadilly, bit and spurmaker, PIGOTT, G., Ranby, Nottinghamshire, cornfactor. RANGER, J., Newark-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire, linen-draper. SMITH, J., Liverpool, ship-builder. SUTCLIFFE, R., Butterworth-hall, Lancashire, shopkeeper. WRATHER, J., jun., Ripon, Yorkshire, innket per. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ADAMSON, G., Dumfries, draper. ANDERSON, J., jun., Aberdeen, general- SPEARS, T., Kirkaldy, distiller. LONDON MARKETS. than this day week. Beans saleable at a reduction of 1s. per qr. on the previous rates. 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