A Hundred Years Ago
" THE SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 28TH, 1835.
A•i' the Hatton Carden Office, on Tuesday, a poor, miserable creature was committed to the House of Correction for ten.days, as a punish- ment for selling Cleave's Weekly Gazette and the Twopenny Dispatch. Mr. Laing said to Dean, the prosecutor, and Inspector of Stamps
" It is very strange that you bring forward such persons for selling Unstamped papers. Why not prosecute the parties from whom they are purchased 7 " Dean--" That is impossible, your Worship ; they are not printed in London now. We have done everything in our power by taking down their presses and seizing their types, but they have devised means of defeating our objects."
Mr. Laing—" How is that 1"
Dean—" Why, your Worship, they are now printed and published in Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham, and forwarded in' great num- bers every week to the Metropolis, where they got numbers of persons who are glad to sell them."
The morning papers supply intelligence from the East. The Pluto,' with Mr. Ellis on board, left Constantinople on August 31st, and proceeded on her way to Trebizond. Mr. Ellis was received by the Sultan with marked courtesy. The ' Barham' frigate, which took out the Earl of Durham, hart passed the Dardanelles. His Lordship was prevented from spending as much time at Athens as he had intended, by the plague. The news from Albania was favourable to the Porte ; as the insurgent chiefs of that province, which seems to be in a state of perpetual insurrection, had received a severe check from the Sultan's troops. It was also said that the inhabitants of the district of Mount Lebanon had revolted against their prince ; who is under the protection of Ibrahim Pacha,
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