Star. — London, England, 1807-10-20 00:00:00

COURT MARTIAL AT HALIFAX. The Trial of is N at N RATFORD, which we ?aid before our Readers in the STAR of Friday, was given from the Copy printed at Halifax. We now lay before our Readers the following Re marks which were fubjoiued to the printed copy: HALIFAX, SFPfEII4I3ER 5, 0107. While the American newfpapers have, for two months part, echoed and re-echoed the affair of the Leopard and Chefapeak—while Town lk.leetiogs has e been affembled throughout the Union, and firings Refolutions framed, in which each have endeavoured to out-do the others in violence and invective againtl the Britith Navy and Government ;—the Prefident of the United States, inffead of dildnfing the real (late of fails, which was in his poireffinn, and the difclofure of which would have furnifhed the public mind with a j•ill ground of thinking and aEtini, , , has, by the Proclamation he iffued (though couched in terms of infidious moderation) milled the public mind ; increafed the ferment occ:.fioned by the par. tial knowledge of the facts which led to the tranfac tion complained of, and, to isle his favourite philofo phical expreflon, fet all parties afl )at on " the tern. elixirs Sea of Liberty." As the violence of the (lorm has in tome meafure rubfided, the Refolntions, Orations, and Toafts, gone liarmlefsiy by, it is highly probable, that plain, un difguifed fads may now be lillened to ; and that the minds of men, which have been excited to indignant exprelßons, by &Ile Ilaiements of fads, may feel the deception that has been praaifed on them, and turn with no lets indignation on their deceivers. If this fometimes takes place in countries where the will of the people is not the fupreme law, it is much more likely to happen in a country, where all power ema nates from the people; and where liberty is indulged to the extreme of licenlioufnefs. In the Precl4mati.n ifrued by Mr. Jefferfon, he Rates—" that this enormity was not only without provocation or tutiifiahle caufe, but was committed for the avowed pur r ore cf taking by force, from a ai l) of war of the United States, a part of her crew ; and that no circumilance might be wanting to mark its charaßer, it had been previoufly afcertained that the feamen demanded were native Citizens of the United States." Would not any person fuppofe, from this flatement of the Prclident, that the contelt between the Len paid and Chtfapeak, was fulely occafinned by the demand of two or three feamen, whn beb.re the fail ing of the Chtfo2eak, had been dearly afcertained to be Citizens of the United States ? Would it be ruppored, for a moment, that the fol. towin7 order of the Hon. Vice Admiral Berkeley, a copy of which was delivered to Commodore Barron, could hate been in his pa - Orton ? Or, can it be imagined that Commodore Btrtro, in making his Report to the of this t6ui Ptould have omitted to mike that Order a part of his Report ? By the. Hon:oral-1e GtORCE CRANFIELD BERKELEY, Vice-Ad miral of the White, and Commander in Chiet of hls Majefiy's Ships and Verels employed in the Riv, r St. Lawrence, along the Coait of Nova Scotia, the lOands of St. John and Cape Bre ton, the Bay of Fundy , ar.d at and about the Bland of Bermuda, cr Somers' Mauls. Whereas many feamen, fubjedts of his Britannic Majefty, and (crying in his 1\1,,j; fty's fhips and veffels, as per margin•, while at anchor in the Chefapeak, defected and entered on board the United States frigate the Chefapeak, and openly paraded the ftreets of Norfolk, in fight of their Officers, under the Imerican liar, pro idled by the Magiftrates of the town, and the recruiting-officer belonging to the above-mentioned American frigate ; which Ma pirates and Naval Officer refufcd giving them up, although dc sanded by his Britannic Majefty's Conful, as well as the Captains of the (hips from which the Paid men bad defected—The Captains and Commanders of his Majefty's Ships and Veffels under my corn• aland,are therefore hereby required and dire Red, in cafe of meet • Jag with the American frigate Chefapeak, at Sea, and without the limits of the United States, to thew to the Captain of her this Order, and to require to fearcli his (hip for the dfcrters from the befors•mantioncd (hips. and to proceed and fearch for the fame; and if a fimilar demand should be made by the American, he is to be permitted to fearch for any &fetters from their fervice, accord ing to the cuftoms and ufage cf ciWlized Nations, on terms of peace and amity wi h each other. Given under my hand at Halfaz, Nova Scotia, the eft day June, 1807. (Signed) O. C. CERKELCY. To tile refpczkive Captains and Commanders of his Majefty's Ships and Vsffelt on the North American Station. The above order of the Admiral, under which Captain Humphreys aaed, clearly thews, that it was not two or three men he wai in (weft of, but defer. ters from his Msjelly's (hips Belle;fle, B.:Ilona, Tri. umph, Ch!cl,e(ter, Halifax, and Zenobia (cutter.) The faCts developed in the intereaing trial of Jeokin Raiford, 'hew, beyond all controverfy, that defertirms from his Majeay's (hips in the Chefipeak, have been molt fhamefully encouraged, and that the conduft of the American officers employed in their recruiting fervice, has been fuch; that they have not only inlilied our men under the very eye of their of- Leers, but when applied to for the delivery of them, their anfwets have been uniformly evafive and preva• heating. The Prefident alert', " that this enormity was vithout provocation or juftifiable caufe," and adds, " that hofptality under fuch circumflances ceafes to be +duty." Thefe a ff e rti ons we w ill exam i ne f e p arate l y : — an d in order completely to refute the firlt we (hall merely Hate the- treatment which Captain Stopford, of his Majelly's (hip Chichefter, received : . Early in F e b ruary , t h e C omman d ant o f t h e A me• bean Fort Nelfon, accompanied by a file of men, called at Captain Stopford's lodgings, and informed /um that three men had deferted from the Fort, and were on board his (hip, and requetted they might be 1 delivered up. C a p ta i n S top f or d i n fi ant l y comp li e d with the requea of the American Commandant— fent an order to fearch the (hip, and on its being re• Ported to him that the men could not be found, he went on board hirnfelf, had his crew mullered, and the Ihip fo effectually infpeEled, that two of the men were found concealed on board, and the other in a tote houfe contiguous. They were immediately de livered up to their officer, and taken to the Fort : — And, what renders this tranfasion mote deferving if notice, is, that of the men delivered up, one Was as Iranian, and another a native of Manchelter.— Mr. Brooks, mid(bipman, Rating to Captain Saun- 1 dens that he thought it wrong to deliver up thefe men al the Americans would not deliver up Britifh defer lets, was immediately put under an eft by Captain St ePford,who wa s d eterm i ne d not to b e prevente d by the mirconduft of others, from doing what he thought was proper and gentlemanly. ) Let us now m i nutely attend to the condo& of Cap tain Stopford on this occafion : Did be enter into a . Belkiflt. &Hone 3 Triumph, Cllcllefter, Halifax, and Za- ) "hu, (Mar). nice difeuMon of the right he had to retain thefe American deferters ? Did he go with Mr. Maddifon, into all the windings and turnings, contained in his nonfeofical jargon of inflruCtionu tranfmitted on this fuhje& to Mr. Monroe ? Or, did he urge a reafon, which he might with more propriety have offered, That the men in queflion were born in his Majefly's dominions ?—Na : hi had recourfe to none of thefe fubterfuges. He felt as an officer ought to feel on fuch an occafion : he honourably did as he would with to be done by—and as far as refpeEted the right there men might have to hi• proteCtion as Britifh Cub jeEts, he juftly confidered them as Renegadnes, who deferred neither the confidence or protection of either country. We will now contrail the conduel of Captain Stop. ford, with the fhameful treatment he afterwards re ceived from the American Government : Wnen the Chicheßer left the Welk Indies, four men—two belonging to the Royal Artillery, one to the 15th regiment, and cne to the 37th, who had been unwell, but were getting into a Rate of eon valefcence, were fent on board her, that in a voyage to the States, their recovery might be perfetted.— Thefe men deferted from the Chiehelter, and, with their &kith uniforms on, entered into the American fet vice. They were feen on fhore after they had en tered, by the Sejeant of Marines of the Chichester, and one I , f them had the impudence to offer to {hake hands with him, but he rejeded h;rs offer with be• coming contempt. There men .were applied for by Capt. Douglas, the Commanding Officer of the fquadron in the Chefapeak, and the anfwer he received was, if any fuch men had enliaed, they were gone up the coun try with a detachment. Did the Gentlemanly condo& rf Captain Stopford deferve fuch a return as this ? Will Mr. Jefferfon pretend that fuch treatment did net furniffi jult caufe of offence an.: provocation ? If he can reconcile fo bafe a tranfa6tion to modern maxims of philofophy, we ought to be thankful that the plain common fenfe of the country we inhabit, is not yet fo perverted, and that the terms right and wrong, hindinfr and unkindnefi, (till retain their priper and appropriate meanings. We will now notice the cafe of the Halifax :—A Kdfhipman and five men are fent from that (hip to weigh the kedge anchor. Thole men fuddenly take poffeffinn of the boat, feize upon their officer, whom they threaten to kill, and reach the American More. Though the circumliances attending their defertion are peculiarly aggravating, yet they are no fooner landed, than they are vilified by the American re cruising officer, Lieutenant Sinclair ; Lord Townf. bend comes on (bore, fees his men parading the ftreets of Isllrfolk, with the American flag—makes application to the authority there, through the Bii. tilt Conful, for the &livery of them, with3ut tad. One of the men would willingly have returned with him, had he not been prevented by the unfortunate man, who on Mond.ty last fuffered for his crime.— He finally applies to Lieutenant Sinclair, and offers, if permitt.xl to go into the rendezvous, to point out the men, but obtains no fistisfaelion, and receives the evafive, prevaricating aniwer, that he knew of no men who had entered, of the names his Lord(hip mentioned. The American (loop of war, Warp, which failed the beginning of June, with the Prelident's objedlions to the pending treaty,as an additional proof of ft itndly intention, carried with her three Briti(h deferters. A number of men deferted from the refpeetive (hips named in the Admiral's order, and in no in - fiance have they been given up in confequence of the application made for them, but have been encourag ed and harblured in their defection, and the molt of them entered into the American naval fervice. In fort , the defertions from our fquadron in the Chefapeak have been regularly and fyßematically encouraged, and, in too many initances, has infult been added to injury. And, yet, fays Mr. Jefferfon, " this enormity was without provocation, or jullifiable eau fe." Would the Commandant of Fort Nelfon have thought as Mr. Jeffcrfon does, if Captain Stopf ord had fel - died to have given up his deferters when he applied for them ? Would he have been fatisfied if Captain Stopford had told him, that no men of the names he e:tquired for were entered for his flip, if the very men were at the time, in defiance of him, parading the deck of the Chicheller ? And would it have exalted his opinion of Captain Stopford, if he had known that the names of the men had been c;:anged by his advice, that he might be furnifhed with a reply fo ungentleTnanly and evafive ? We wilh the American naval officers, among whom are many men of honour, to anfwer thefe queflions, and candidly acknowiedge what would have been their feelings had the cafe been reverfed, and they placed in the fame fituation ? Would they have thought, as Mr. Jetferfon does, that they had no ground of offence or provocation ? We are fatisfied that not only they, but the feelings of all mankind, will ant wee the quettion with becoming indignation. Under thefe circumflances, what courfe was left to the Commander in Chief of his Majeßy's fquadron oa this Ration to purfue, but either to fuffer his (hips to be difmantled in the American harbours, where filch infidiour hoffitality was afforded them, or to take the very Rep he did, by which he fhould not only put an immediate flop t o the injury,but bring this yid ion to a determinate iffue between the two Nations. The theatre for the dcciflon of this important queflion, was the moil appropriate that could have been chofen—the Open Ocean—that the appeal and the juflice of it, might not only be made to the two na• Lions, but to the univerfe. In this Court of Honour, no quibbling civilians were admitted. The complaint was (imply Rated in the Admiral's Order, (which we have .already inferted) and tranfmitted to Com modore Barron, with a polite note from Captain Humphreys, To this demand Commodore Barron replies—gl I know of no filch men as you defcribe ; the officers that were on the recruiting fervice f rr this fhip, were particularly inftrueled by. the Government, through me, not to enter deferters from his Britannic Ma jelly's (hips ; nor do 1 know of any being here." The demand being made, and the reply given, the facts were completely at Wire between the parties.— And what was the refult ? That Jenkin Raeford, a deferter from his Majelty's fhip Halifax, one of the fhips named in the Admiral's Order, was found on board the Chefapeak. And that William Ware, Daniel Martin, and John Strachan, three deferters from his Majeliy's Chip Melampus, (a fhip nut named in the Admiral', Order, but coming within the fpirit of ir) weie alio f•in . nd on board, and very .pra. pert,' taken out by Captain Huinphreyi. How can Commodore Barron lock linnourable men in the face after a dildolure like this ? le was in , tne open view of the univerfe, puffing the feat to all the former evalivr, prevaricating anfwers, that our Offi cers had received un application fur their deferters : Nor can all the waters of Lethe blot out the 6ifgrace. lithe American Government had, in fincerity and good faith, iffued the order forbidding deferters from Britifh (hips tl be coned on board the Chefapeak, would not Mr. Jefferfon have in(antly ordered a Court of Enquiry, to know why that order had been difobeyed, arid to find out the culprits who had dared by their difubedience of fo falutary a regulation, to involve two countries in a conteft, the great mats of the inhabitants of which lincerely with to be at peace with each other ? Has any filch meafare been adopted, or any difclofure of the circumaances which led to this tranfaaion, been made by the Ame rican Government ? And are not many of the Ame rican papers lout in their complaints at the niytle rious fecrecy obferved on this occafi )n ? Does it not look too much like a defign to pufh the public mind, blind folded, to extremities ? _ _ If doubt can (till rzmain in the mind of any per. fon, whether Commodore Barron knew that the men who were taken out of his !hip were Br kith deferters, we copy the following cstraas from their own volun• tart' confeflions : John Strachan, after giving an account of his de. r fertion from the Melsmpus, the ill of February, in company with Ware, Martin, and Little, lays, " they went to Not folk,where he, Martin, and Ware ' entered for the Chefapeak ; that he knew the faces of feveral, Englifbmcn on board the Chefapeake, but did not know their names—that Comma:re Barron promifid to proteil Km." William Ware far, " that when they came before ,Commodore Barron, at the naval yard at Wathing ton, he promilid to prottel them, although they were clver ters from an Angly6 man el war." Jenkin Raiford, before his execution, acknowledg ed " that he war born in London, that he voluntarily entered into his blajetty's fervice—that he defeited in the jolly boat of the Halifax, in company with George North, captain of the main top, Henry Sauaders, boatfwain's mate, Richard Hubert, fail maker, and another man whole name he did nut know—that they all entered at Norfolk fur the Che fapeak frigate, and afterwards joined her at the Fe deral City—that in a fhort time Richard Hobert ran away, and was leer. at Alexandria by force ..f the crew, about three days after , and that George North and Henry Saunders ran away during the time the [hip was coming down the river. That Richard Hubert wac from Liverpo'l, and formerly belonged to the Leander, and that Saunders was an Irifhman. On his defence, Rat ford laid " that at the time of their entering fir the Chefapeak, Lieute nant Sinclair afked them, if they had not a fecond name ?" On this fuggertion Raiford altered his name to Wilfun, and was fo entered on the Chefa peak's books. To this circurnflance it is owing, that the names of North and Saunders were not to be found in the inoks, and to their having deferred on the paffage of the Chefapeak from kVathington to Norfolk, is alt . () owing that they were not, like Rat ford, found hid in the coal hole of that frigate.— What protediim Commodore Barron, after all his promifes, afforded to there deluded; iinhappy men, his own feelings mull long befoie this time have fug gelled to him. After the preceding flatement of fads, we believe it will be veirc difficult fcr Mr. Jefferfon to fati•l y any man "that this enormity was without provocation or juf table caufc." We Nall now briefly notice his other affertion, "that hofpitality under fuch ei,-,ualflances ceerf.7 to be a duty." After the flatement ve have given of the treatment our fquadron received in the Chefapeak, it will na turally be enquired, " What can Mr. Jefferfon mean by hofpitality ?" It is true that our (hips were fur niflsed with provifions in the Chefapeak ; and as far as this hofpitality extended, an equivalent re:urn was conflantly made in the pundual and regular pay ment for thole prow: lions ; and thus this account of hofpitality was very nearly balanced. But were thole fupplies to be put in competition with the daily in jury received by the encouragement of our men to defertion ? Would Mr. Jefferfon, if invited to a ban qnet, come away very much delighted with the hofpi. talky of his holt, if he found that while he was par. taking cf hi, viands, he had enticed from hip duty a favourite fervant ? Urns remonttrating at the injury he flsould be coolly told—the law will proted me in what I have done—would he be able to contain his refentment ? or Would he be very defirous of parta king again of fuck hofpitality ? Exadly refembling t!,.ir, is the hofpitality that cur fquadron has been excluded from by the Prelident's proclamation. The kindeß Rep Mr. Jefferfon could have taken, would have been to have Hilted' this proclamation fome months ago. A number of feamen, the greateß part of whom are now lamenting their folly in aban• doning their country's Rag, would have been in our fervice, and the life of the unhappy man preferved, whole fate we hope will be a warning to others. While therefore it than be necelTary for our (hips to remain in the Chefapeak, we fincerely with that their communication with the American fly-re may remain interdicted, and tl.at the mil - chin:pus hofpitality fo vaunted of by the Prefident, may continue to be Withheld from them. In the pi - dent eventful [late of the world, the Bti tifh Navy, in the conrfe of Providence, forms the only barrier between France and Univerfal Empire. That this barrier may not be either weakened or de. firoyed, ought not only to be the with of Great Bri. taro, but of America alfo. Their rulers may be at prefent fafcinated with French viaories, or they may be deceived by French intrigues; but if they do not more carefully look to the evils that are impending, it is highly probable, the day is not far diflanr, when the will feel the effeas of their blindnefs and temerity. We will now clofe thefe remarks with a few obfer vations on another expretlion in the Prefident's Pro. clamation, where he fays,-- ,, it had been previnufly afcertained, (that before the failing of the Chefa peak) that the (carom demanded were native Citi. zens of the United States." This affertion we doubt, and lot the fcllovrivg rea fon : —in looking into the official paper publifhed at Wafhington, after fame very indelicate remarks, as they rcfped Mr. Etfkine, the Britith Minitier, and of the eornmonicitinns with hio . ..,relative to Brilifh de fetters, it gives the defcriptions and places of birth of I 'William Ware, Daniel Martin, John Strachao, Jahn Little, alias Francis, and Ambrofe Watts, as Hated to the American Government before the failing of the Chefapeak, by Commodore Barron, who, it is Paid, had been directed to afcertain their ci.izenfhip. That thefe defcriprinhs were merely taken from the declarations of the men themfelves, and that Com modore Barron and the Ame:ican G, , weroment took no further trouble in the bufinefs, be rendered evident to all who do mot choofe to flint their eyes, by the fenrence which immediately follows the ab 'ye defcription, in the Wellington Official Gazette, which Pays, " that the report is in train, (that is, Commo dore .Barron's report, before the failing of the Chefa• peak) to be formally verified by a recurrence to the forams of evidence pointed out by the feamen refpeBively." Now, can any thing be clearer, than that this re port of Commodore Barron's was not verified before the failing of the Chefapeak ? If it was, it is Purely a work of fopererogation to go about the vet ification of it now: the fafts, once clearly afcertainei by good evidence, would be for ever ellablifhed. We could drengthen thefe obfervations by the tedirnony of the unhappy men themfelves, and prove, if any prcof was w :ming, that Commodore Barron went through the ceremony of afking them a few qnelli m,7, and thus ended the I lcmn enquiry he was direCted to make, and on this folemn enquiry alone refis Mr. Jeffet fun's affertion, " that it had been previoely after. t tined, they were native cititeut." If therefore we take this alter tion of the Prefident, and Couple it with Commodore Barron's reply to Captain Humphreys, and the whole train of prevail. cations and orations that have marked every flags of this bufinefe, we (hall find in 11.-w little edimation the peace of the two court!: its has been held by the American Government : for the (sets we have dated fpeak forcibly to the under flandinw t t every Irian. One obfervation more, and we (hill at prefent mils the fubjeet. The men whole citizenship Mr. Jefferf n attempts to verify, belonged to his Majefly's (hip MELAMPUS, a (hip not named in the Admiral's order under which Captain Humphreys anted. And this cireurnflance totally deltroys the Aire' rion of Mr. Jefferfon, that it was for the apprehenfion of thole 'tory men this enor mity was committed. The Mst.a m PUS and her men were totally out of the queflirn at iffue between the two (hips. It would certainly have (hewn fome de gree of fairnefs, if ro this report of Commodore Bar ron, the pedigree of John Wilfn, alias Jer.Lnßatford, Richard Hubert, George North, and Booty Saun de, s had been added. Their men all jt ined the (hip at Wafhii.gton, and failed in her from thence. It is true their defertion prevented their being found on board the Chefapeak, but this does not render the condußors of this flurreful prevaricating traufaelion leis criminal. We omit many other fans which might be urged on this occafi-n, as they will more properly he con reeled with the cafe of the u:ifertuna:e men who arc )et to take their trials. The above Ilatement of faits is given, not to irri tate or widen the breach between two nations, who ought to be in amity with each other—who, fhoold a contell enfue, might materially mar their mutual profperity, without deriving any benefit from that contelt : but, by Ipreading all the citcumfiances minutely before them, to give all patties inopportu nity impartial:y to examine the cafe ; and we are con fidently perfuaded, that all candid men will at length agree with us ; that if Mr. Maddif: , n's quibbli ng pro duelions on the Law cf Natkns, had been thrown into the fire, a little fincerity and plain dealing fublii tuted in the place cf the evalions which have mat ked every part of this tranfitflion, and the fame undif guited courrefy and hofpitality praftifed, which mark ed the conduit of Captain Sc' pford, the harmony of the two oath ns would never have been interrupted, and the c•mmercial profperity clbuth, gone hand in hand with each other. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE CALAMITY AV SADLER% WELLS. During the time of the general confternation from the (Aft. alarm of fire, levcral pe:.ple endeavoured by different mean‘ to grt from the g dlcry into the pit.—fume got over the woodwork in front of the gallery, and let themfelvcs drop down in.() the pit ; one fe. male, whole name we have not hcard,lowered he Kell dawn fron t the gallery into the pit by mrans of the chin ic liac, and rfrapel unhurt ; lonic other., made defperate by the fright jumped Itraight down without any he(tation. Amoaif there. tv..re Ma ria King, about 18 years of age, the daughter of .1 pc,rk butcher in Somer's Town, her arms arc bruifed, her head is cut, ai,cl her hack is fo ftverely injured that it cannot yet to.• arc...rained whe.thrr the fpinsl bone is Hured pail recovery or not. '1 he pour young girl was op Sunday in the molt pitithle Rate. ..... William Baker, between t a and 1 a years old, fon of a foreman to the New River Company, who refides in Br tai Ada ftrert, &g -ale-bridge, alfo jumped plump over from the gallery to the pit Molt providentially be was caught by fume ma., in the pit, and did not receive the fmalleft injury Hannah Godfrey, a little 'gill about is years old, the daughter of a poor widow, at No t, Field ftreet. Battle-bridge, alfd leaped from the front of the gallery. A failor who was ID the pit caught her in his arms, and the efcaped unhurt. Mary Ann, ate fißer of the above, was dreadfully (queued upon the ft:irs, but is in a fair way of 1-emery. Elizabeth, the drighter of William Monk, a Meffinger at the War Office, bad her arms torn, and her elicit violently bruifed, hut is not in a danrrous Rate. Her brother, a little boy, jumped out of a window &,(: to the gallery, that looks into the footway out tide of the Theatre, and molt miraculoufly elcaped with only tome flight b-uifes. But the molt remarkable and the molt aff...eling accident that occurred was that which betel Mr. Chilkey, of Cattle flreet, Ox ford ftrect, and Sarah his wife. The wife hung rou.d the hufbancra neck—he clafped her round the wailt. They were both thrown down by the crowd, and fo fevercly trampled upon. that they were taken up apparently in a lifelefs Rate. When they were taken into the prollietor's houfe at Sadler 's Wells, a furgeon opened a vein in the arm of the wife, but no blood followed. The prole& fional gentleman then breathed a vein in the arm of the hufband; a few drops of blood iffued from the fpot ; the reviving man had a weak convulfive (hock, rouged as If from a trance, and became completely reanimated. But the fir ft °Heel that prefented itfelf to his weak and bewildered finks was the body of his dead wife, Exhaufted as he was, it was impoffible for human twture entirely to witl.ftand the fhcck. It was with the uttnoft difficulty that the poor man was prevented from relapfing into his former flu e o f infenfihility. Notwithflandlog all the efforts of the proftißanal gentlemen that attended him, he expired ye derday evening. It is impoffible to WWI all the different incident. that occurred at a time of fuel) alarm and confufion as that mutt have been when a Theatre was crowded to 0v: stowing, and a fcandaltats unfoun ded alarm of fire was given. But it may tend to expofe the eon• duet of tome who were in the Theatre at the time, and perhaps may fet the Peace Officers on the alert, and lead to the detetftion of the mifereants, when we relate that a young Irian of the name of Jones, a faibm, was knocked down and robbed of his watch, about five guineas in calla, and his protedien. The bwediffi (allot who identified the body of Caroline Terrill, was alfo robbed in the gallery. The curtain bad dropped for the water fcene when the riot began ; and if it had commenced ten minutes later, many of the audience Inuit have been drowned in getting on the Rage. r