Star. — London, England, 1824-08-20 00:00:00

REPORT ON THE GENERAL PENITINTIARI AT MILBANK. ALSILANDER COPLAND HUTCHISON, M.D. examined. How Ling were you principal medical superintendent to the Penitentiary ?—Seven years, very neatly. Commencing from what..period, and ending when ? The date of my appointment is the 7th of Nlay, 1[316; the date of my removal, the 19th of April, 1828. During that period, what were the prevailing diseases amongst the privinets?-1 should say, visceral com- Oakum, rbewroation,.serophula, consumption, and oc casinhally a case of common fever. Had you many cliel of t one m ption?—A good many. Can you specify from the 'commencement, taking year by year, What were the prevailing diseases for each year think I can best answer that que.tion, by stating, that the diseases that prevailed generally in the Institution, appeared to me-to be such as we meet with in cOmMon life, with this difference, that pen haps there were more cases of scrophula and of consumption, according to the proportion of persons in that prison, than there are, according to the like proportion of in dividuals in any other situation. Have you any detailed account that you can give the Committee of the state of the disease in any given yeah ? I beg to rein to my reports, which were made monthly and annually to the Committee of the Penitentiary : one of those (which was printed by order of the Com mittee of last year), is the annual report for 1822; the report for 1821 I hold in, my hand,which, with the per- 1 mission of this Committee, I will read. It is signed by I myself and Mr. Pratt, the only two medical ofhcers of the establishment at that time. [The sante was read, as Midas :1 " Report by the Medical Officers of the Establishment of the General Penitentiary, on the health of the Prisoners generally, for the year 1821. " General Penitentiary, 6th January, 182 E. U GENTLEMEN—We have performed the monthly' , examination of the prisoners, and their cells, as pre-i scribed by our instructions, and have no particular re- 1 1 mark to make upon either, health and cleanliness pre vailing throughout. 4 , In the Infirmary ; two deaths have occurred during the month of December, namely, Jane Hawkins, of consumption, and Thomas Day, of dropsy ; otherwise, the number of admissions from the pentagons have, in proportion to the total number of convicts, been fewer than usual during this pet iod of the year. We have al so 1 1 to report the dangerous state of two patients new in tne Infirmat y, a male and female, of whose recovery we entettain very little expectation; the.former labouring under dysentery, and the latter general inasarca. 4' At the commencement of the year, we beg to be . permitted to make a few observations . on the state of health generally of 'the convicts foi- the past year, and on the subject of the medical department ) over which we preside. ~ By a reference to our monthly reports, it Will be seen, that there have died in the year 1821, eight males and nine females, making seventeen in all, which, ac cording to the convict population of the establishment, makes about one death in forty ; a degree of health not surpassed in the most salubrious town or village in the empire; for, according to the Swedish tables of mor tality, the deaths are calculated at one in thlrty•seven of the total population ; and although every reasonable allowance be made for the deaths in early infancy and in extreme old age, both which we are, it is true, here exempt from, yet when we take into consideration the introduction of vaccination since these tables were drawn up, and the fact that we have a great many broken down constitutions to contend with from pre vious intemperate habits, there is much reason to esti mate highly the degree of health enjoyed by the pri soners in this Institution.. _ " From the Ist January; MI, to the 31st December inclusive, there have passed through the Infirmary six hundred and seVenty-tour cases, male and female, be sides an average of about eighteen who mere prescribed for and visited daily in the different pentagons, but whose ailments did not appear to require removal to the Infirmary, as they continued to be employed at their different occupations. The prevailing diseases during the year have been, fever, scrophula, visceral complaints, rheumatism, and pulmonary affections, and one case of ague, being the first that has occurred since the opening of the establishment. There was also a case of natural small-Fox, which, however, was prevented extending to such as had not before had that disease, by immediately vaccinating them all. " We deem it our duty likewise to repuft to the Committee the good conduct, care, and attention evinced by all the officers connected with the sick department ; and we have the honour to subscribe ourselves, " Gentlemen, " Your very obedient and very humble servants, " A. COPLAND HUTCHISON, M.D. " Medical Supetinte o ndant. " J. PUATT, Surgeon. _ - - - " To the Honourable the Committee of the General Penitentiary." From the Evidence of Mr. ANTHONY WHITE. Can you give the Committee any information as to the cases that died in the hospital of dysentery ?—I have collected from Mr. Pratt's account, his diary ac count of diseases, people. who were attacked from their first enuring into the priion. In the whole six ?-1 believe I have but five. The first person whose name I marked down, is E—; she was received into the Penitentiary on June the 7th, 1820; there is no remark made with respect to the fiat commencement of her disease; but the general rematk, is, that she was troubled with or piles, and irritable bowels, and she died, having diarrhoea, on the 13th of May, 1822, having been altogether two years and a little more in prison. Do you know what time she passed in the hospital at that period ?—That circumstance is not particorirly marked in Mr. Pratt's. journal ; this woman, Aft. Pratt remarks. confession, atter she came into the liclritn . extremely dissolute life; she had drank . great quantities *of'Spii its, and been a most po ll, gate woman in the full sense of the word. The next case 1 have marked is that of she wai received into the Penitentiary on the 10th of Aptil, 1819, and ill July of that year, the 27th of July, she was first attacked with disease, the disease of diarrhoea, and from that time up to the 21st of May, 1622, she was fie. quently in . the y with.the same complaint ; but it was discovered, that accompanying. this diarrhoea, this Woman, who had also been a hard drinker, previous to her coming in, had a schirious affection of the liver; she was there altogether three years and two month s . The next name is P ; she was teceivei into the Penitentiary on the 15th st May, 1S20; she was two year s confined, and on June. the fith, 1822, she was at t.icked with diarrhoea, and died iu-the same month, on the 29th, very evidently a case of diarrhoea ; she was but h short time ill altogether ; there is no remark that she had been ill of diarrhea previously to that. There is a case recorded also of G— ; he was received into the Institution on November the 9th, 1820, and from 20th May, 1821, his first admission into the Infir mary, the history of his disease throughout rather tends to shew, that consumption was the leading feature of his complaint ; but that after a long continued illness he died, having had diarrhoea only three days before he died ; the termination was diarrhoea. Ellie next case is that of he was received into the Penitentiary on the 18th of May, 1821 ; he was sent to the Infirmary on the 26th of September in the same year with fever, and in a day or two small-pex made its appearance, and the boy bad a very narrow escape of his life, after being sent down to the pentagon from the 23d of No. vember ; on the Ist of December following, he was , again removed into the Infirmary, with pain in his side and diarrhea, of which he died on January the Ist in the next year, being just a month ill of diarrhoea; this boy, it may be recollected, was in an extremely languid state when be left the Infirmary, occasioned by a very severe attack of small-pox. It appears upon the face of this paper, that there were but two that you would call undoubted cases of diarrhea; there is an observa tion that I should wish to make, with a view to shew, that the disease of diarrhea in the latter days was of a very different character to the disease which first pre. vailed ; the disease originally had crept in very insi diously, without any marked symptom ; but, in all the litter cases, it was generally preceded with considerable head-ache and bilious vomiting, which makes a great difference between the original character of the disease, and the latter character, which also I think explains why the first disease was dependent upon that diet, and why the latter state of the disease savoured so much of contagion. Are you at all aware that attempts at imposture were common in the Penitentiary ?—No doubt can be en tertained about it ; probably the Committee are ac quainted with the circumstance that the people were bargaining for each othersevacaations, that they might deceive the physicians. Was not that fact known to the world before the ,present inquiry ?—That was.not published to the world, but I hold in my hand a publication of Doctor Hutchi son, which tends to shew the deceit that is used on board ship, as well as in the Penitentiary; it is the London Medical and Physical Journal for the month of Vebruai y, 1824 ; article the first, is some observations on simulated and feigned diseases, by Alexander Cop- Lord Hinchison, Esq. surgeon, &c. it is written expressly fOr this journal, which is published monthly. Will you state that part which relates to the Peni tentiary ?—Under the head diarrhea, he says, « I have known diarrhoea and dysentery many times induced in hospital practice; where an individual found that he would not succeed in obtaining the object of his desire ; namely, iavaliding by any other means, and not unfre quently I have witnessed such unfortunate men fall a sacrifice to their own imprudence, by inducing a disease' which they would most gladly have been relieved from at a period when it was too late; on this subject the writer millet forget the death-bed disclosures, and pangs of conscience, which he has witnessed on one or , two occasions; the bowel affections to which we allude, can, I have reason to believe, be induced by various means, but that which was most resorted to by deluded seamen, was a mixture of vinegar and burnt cork ; in what proportions I have never been able to ascertain, neither can I discover in what =anaerobe burnt cork can assist in producing the disease in question, but cer tain it is, that these were the ingredients most commonly had recourse to; and as certain is it, that some of the finest young men in the navy have fallen victims to the' use of such substances fOr the accomplishment of their Unhappy purposes; I have also known convicts in the Penitentiary, at Milbank, previous to the late malady breaking out, both in. their cells and in the Infirmary, break down with their fingers, in their urinary utensils, a good figUred or formed motion, and intimately mix it wi th the urine, so as to induce the belief that it was in reality a.diarrliceal evacuation ; but a little attention to the character and appearances, with strict watching, will, in most cases, lead to the detection of the impos ture ; the object which convicts have in such practices, is to be exempt from labour, and to be kept in the In firmary, where their comforts in every way are certainly much greater than when in their cells in the prison." At a meeting of the Court of Guardians of Bury, on Monday last, it was resolved not to allow relief to any person keeping a dog. FINE ARTS.—The Jury appointed to examine the paintings to be admitted into the Gallery of the Louvre, for public exposition this year, which opens on the 25th inst. have rejected 580 out of 780. This severe scrutiny promises the amateurs a choice selection. Ten paintings have been exposed at the Palais des . Beaux Arts, as ' competitors for the prize granted by the Academy ; the subject is the Death of Alcibiades. The subject is beautiful, but perhaps above the powers of young artists; and not one of the paintings have met the ex pectations of the public. The letter carried by Sir HARFORD Joan from the King of ENGLAND to the King of PERSIA was, during the journey of the embassy through Persia, always placed in a takkt-e-ravan, or litter, which was escorted by ten Indian troopers and an officer, and was never taken out or replaced without the trumpet of the guard sounding a blast. Whenever the train stopped, it was deposited in the tent of ceremony, under a cloth oil gold ; a sentry with a drawn sword was placed over it, and no one was permitted to sit with hit back to The correspondence of Princes is an object of general reverence in the East; and the dignity which, by these observances,was attafied to the letter of the Sovereign, raised among the people a corresponding respect to wards his representativC About ten days ago, a Laity of Mott respectable ap • pearance hired a house, No. 33, Nortblnnhetlilid-street, Mtr r' Ll- Bonne, stating herself to be the wife of an-Othcer, and was ac companied by a groom, and a female attendant, as part of her suite. until the remainder of her servants arrived. The land lady, thinking she had an excellent lodger, requested a dentte limn who had some apaittnents, to leave, at it would be injk. rious to her if he should remain, as it. would hinder her letting the house. The Gentleman complied, and Mrs. S. Williams took possession. On occupying her new mansion, she commenced by being very liberal hi her orders to her ttitlettlien, and fiCling " e" , pettied," requested to know whit public 'libraries were near. The landlady pointed out Mr. 'fitebborniN who supplied every. sew work ; but as the tongue of slander spreadi itself wide, it sswn reached the ears of Mr. TitchbOrne, from wheinidse Contrived to get. goods to the 'amount of Alb; Tram Mit. Gibbs, hiberdither, or High-stiter, : 1 213; Alt. Man, publican, Nosiiligham Ariss Not tingliam:stteet, sE7 for win.; 'irei nuirettis *et tif trideilitten: of all descriptions, to a conbiderible ettietint v iti the intuit terns -Of nine dart. Findint herself bard prVitsed by titibbstileb Wit meat her escape nn Sunday mornitif at sweaty ralat b lesvlettie eirlefrfsted words (written fri French) used b 4 Bentiphiteue Waterldo,ohlashe qui pent." The Lady speaks Very - good Welch; and filarial it THE HARVEST. The oat harvest is now pretty' general in England And Ireland, it i, one of the richest ever remembered. Of other grain, the accounts from all parts of the United Kingdom continue to he 14hly favottrable. EoNisuttoir, A Usa. 16.—We are informed, by a Gen tleman just returned from a journey through the coun ties of Lothian, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick, and part of Northumberland, that the crops in these districts are most abundant, and in a very considerable state of for wardness. Harvest had partially commenced, by the sth instant, between Jedbitrgh and Kelso; at Cold stream, near Wooler (in NottliuMbetland), in &mid shire, a field is cut here and there ; between COekixtnn.- spath and Haddington, a considerable quantity of every kind of grain has been cut down, and• in that district harvest will be general next week. Potatoes and turnips look fresh and healthy, and it it supposed that peas and beans will turn out better this year than they have done for some years past; the crop of peas in some places is very great. The weather has been genial, with occa sional light showers, but not a field is to be seen "laid" with the rain. In short, better filling" weather could not have been wished for. Several farmers in the Carse of Cowrie are to com mence their harvest this week. The crops in the Carse are in a state of great foi wardness ; indeed, through out the country, the farmer never had a more flatter ing prospect. Harvest has commenced in various places in the neighbourhood of Perth, and at Tufthouses, in theparish of Tibbermoor. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. • MANSION-HOUSE Yesterday, the solicitor for the Post-office attended at the Jus tice-room, with evidence to make the case complete against Robert Wightmon, who was charged on Saturday with having stolen money out of a letter, directed by a young Lady named Barry to a person who resides in the country. It will he recollected, that on the former examination it was stated that . the prisoner, who is a stamper of letters in the Post-office, was seen by a felloev-servant to put aside a letter, which was supposed to contain money, and afterwards to go to a water-closet, in which the fragments of a letter were found subsequently. Miss Barry stated, that the writing on the fragments of the let ter was her., to the best of her belief, and that she had enclosed half a sovereign in the letter, which she superscribed to a person at Truro, in Cornwall. She also stated that she intrusted the letter to another : young female to put into the Post-office. Proof was given that the letter was delivered at the Pott-office. To a question pat to her by Mr. Harmer, who attended for the f et, Miss Barry said the money was put so carelessly into the i Zel l that she could not swear it might not have dropped out. Mr. Ha R 31611. then asked the solicitor for the Post-office (Mr. Dowling) under what Act of Parliament it Wag his intention to pesecute Wighiman ? Mr. Dowtees replied, that the Pvit-Iffice Wocald-prosecute MN under the 7th Geo. II I. cap. Se. Mr. He alma submitted to the Loan Mavoa, that supposing the prisoner had taken out the half-sovereign, he was not guilty of any ofenee of which that Act took notice. The Act alluded to made it a capital (Artifice flit any servant employed in the Bost-office to secrete a letter containing notes or securities of any kind for the payment of money, but in no part of the statute was there the. least mention of 0 money itself," as prohibited from being stolen. The Loan Maven said, the case was one that certainly was new to him, and he Wished the solicitor for the Post-office had been ready with the authorities in support of the charge. As the life of the prisoner was in question, be thought it would bemost advisable in - Mi. Dowling to bring forward all the circumstances he could collect, to elucidate his vies* of the subject; at the same time his Lordship could not help stating, that from the hasty reference he had himself made to the statute, the prisoner's case did not appear to be comprehended in offences punishable by the Act. The pri miler was then remanded. GUILDHALL. Yesterday, /Ira. nullity, an interesting-looting acid elepnily dressed ferpale, was brought up for reexamination, on a charge of receiving part of the notes stolen from the Birmingham Balloon Coach, in December, 1822, knowing the same to be stolen. Mr. Hustessalts, the prisoner's solicitor, took several legal °Nee- Bons against the prisoner being committed on the charge of felony, and Alderman Sir J. "%raw held her to bail for the misdemeanour. BOW-ST REET. Tax Kwo v. Suaaacaorr.—This was a proceeding by warrant against Mr. Timothy Shateereft fur an assault and battery on the per. son of Mr. Zachariah Jones. Mr. Timothy Shearcroft is a stuffer Of sausages; Mr. t achariah Jones is an ex-grenadier in the lion. East India Company's service; they are fellow-lodgers in one house —the sausage-stuffer the uppermost; in-length of sears they are equal--say three score and ten each; but in length of petson the ex-grenadier has the advantage of the sausap-stuffer by at least half a yard. The ex-grenadier deposed, that though he himself is the molt peaceably inclined mad in existence, the sausage-stuffer will never kt hint be at peace, but is continually aiding up conspiracies against him, and putting ill languages upon him—whether he is going in dr coming out, sleeping or waling, eating, drinking, or smoking his pipe ; and that oh a Certain day named, as be waa peaceably. pacing to and fro in the passage leading to his own apart. Went, the said satisage-stuffer slid wantonly and maliciously teem! one pail of cold, water upon his head—" Whereby," continued the ex-grenadier, " I prensonnestutd with him In respect to that regard, by which means be and others aseendkd upon me froth above stairs, with unlawful weapons of all sorts, and laid open my head, as ydur Worship may perceive." The sausage-stuffer and seventeen witnesses answered this charge simultaneously. young men, maidens, iecient dames, children of three spans long, and even his own daughter, ail Opened upon the unfortunate ex-grenadier at once, and laid sins enough tb his charge to furnish out a whsle regiment of grenadiers.—lle was as idle ak a pig, as sly as a fox, as greedy as a wolf, as drunken as a lord, as thievish as a cat, and as libidinous as a cock-sparrow; and upon the occasion when the water was teenied upon his wicked bead, be hid just, been caught in the fact of taking indecent liberties with a young woman as thaws. going up stairs. " I detest my innocence before Gon and man!" exclaimed the ex• grenadier, when he beard this last charge. " Don't believe him, your Worship—he's callable of anything !" cried the sausage-stuffer. " Don't believe him—he's a dirty, shod• for-nothing, rascally old toad," reiterated all the witnesses; and his. Worship decided that the ex-grenadiet and the sausage-stuffer should both give bail to keep the peace towards all the King's subjects in general, and towards each other in particular. Yesterday, Wolfe Inge!, a Jew boy, about fourteen years of age, Was brought up, chatged on suspicion of stealing stlza in gold and silver, the itropetty of i Man of the name of Hartorti. The prose cutor is an itinerant dealer iu gingerbread, dt.c. and is in the habit of attending fairs. On Whitsun Monday he wait at Greenwich fair, arid the . prisoner came to his stall in a deplorable state, and asked for employment. Harfotd employed him during the fait, fed hint Well, and paid him liberally. At Ascot Heath Hanes the prisoner agein presented himself at Harford's stall; be again took him into his service. Ile was destitute of linen, and liarford's wife pur chased some cloth to make him shirts. On the third evening of the races, the Inisiness of the day being over, she deposited £24 in cash in a eannister, add the stall Was closed for the night. This deposit took place in the presence of the prisoner, and on the following morning he absconded. Soon after he was gone, the money was Missed. The next day the prisoner was seen at the house of an old weallanin Drury-lane ; chewing a quantity of gold.—The prisoner denied the robbery, and said he left because he could not adhere to the firms of his religion while with the ptostcutor.—ltemintled. MA RY-LA-BONNE OFFICE. Mary ifitteoknest, an unfortunate &mate of the tarn, was fall/ collitnitted to Newgate, on a Charge of stealing a twenty-pound Hank of.E.nglinui note from T. Bradshaw, ite*ard of the ship IVlterluo. ITATTON-GARbEN. • Boass.aasisia-=Yesterday T. 7'sylor, :11. Piglet, Misty Cliforii, and iisadigieit, wire beeught o* for a find exalt:Mu:los', charged with. coingsiuiog two harglaries on the night of the 12th l and.mortiing,of 'the, lath hist. gothitig appearing against A nn I l ew it, s h e was di s . dlitgred. thy Othet three pthontri Were Committed td Ne*tite 'fife ttiak Old the tribleibies bound diet tb proaectite.. C s ownsiSfiltib.GOton*-:Yeseerday mein ral .persohs appeared. to in. , tormatiosta, for haying Contraband goods in their possession. ,chiefty coi.sistint of diawls, scarfs, apd handkerchiefs of India numutlic. curt. The perabtli abtiMidtted Were Chtter : serV•sett in tetpectible families, who all pleaded Guilty, and were convicted in the mitts gated penalty of one moiety of treble the value of the goods. A, boon as these cases were disposed of, the name of Charles Mills, Esq. of Ilenrietta-street, Covesdieb-square, one of the East India Directors, was called ; as also those of his servants, William Poole and Caroline 'Fbelwall, to answer similar complaints. As the p, r. ties did not appear, the Custom-house officer proceeded to sta te , that on the 14th ultimo, in consequence of information received, b e went to Mr. house, and informed him of the purport of his visit; Mr. Mills said that he knew of no contraband 7,00ds In his house, but that he could not be responsible for his servants. Or; the officer searching the house, he found one piece of India silk handkerchiefs iu a drawer in Mr. Mills's bed roam : and on Mr. Mills being apprised of this discovery, he fequ'eslici to have the I piece kept apart from any articles detected in the possession of the servants. The servant, Poole, confessed tobaving twelve pieces his possession, and on searching the apartMent of CaroMie Thelwap, there were found five silk dresses of the richest cual:ty of French manufacture, four appeared to have been used, but the fifth, a pc litse e Was quite new, and was a beautiful spetinteu of millinery..;. the Magistrates wete admiring it, Mr. Malls entered the slit r, and pourtrayed great anxiety as to the fate of the article. Id, tabi-t c l that it was extremely severe to inflict penalties on thou: i;norair, classes of aociety who cannot discriminate between Indian and Fug lish manufacture in their purchases, but the Solicitor to the Cu,.. toms assured Mtn that Mrs. Thelwall was On novice in the busine... To prevent unnecessary trouble, Mr. Mills 00t ed to pay his own and his servants' penalties, and atcordingly the Clerk ftilnished hies with the items, amounting to matt , fifty pounds. QUERN-SQUARE. Yesterday, a post vrotnin, Who keeps a* *Mkt stall it hike. street, Westminster, appeared before MallifJoND, Esq:the Sit ting Magistrate, and stated, that at a late hour on the prectding night three young men, very genteelly dressed, who appeared to have been merrymaking over the bottle, came to hit stall, and bv way of a lark, began to pull her about, and to take Freedoms, which she resented. One of them in a jocular way snatched jeer shawl from her neck, and she made an attempt to retake it, which pro. duced a struggle in which they all joined. At length she succeeded in regaining her shawl, and the party left her in h:gh good humour. Shortly after they were gone she perceived something weighty clang. ling from one corner of her shawl, which on examinationproved to be a very handsome watch, the appendages of which were en. tangled in the fringe of the shawl, and which had apparently Bern accidentally drawn front the pocket of its owner during the frolic. She now produced the watch, and said she had made this applica tion with the view of having proper steps taken to find the owner. The Magistrate said he would cause proper inquiry to be made after the owner of the watch, and told the poor woman she should be rewarded for her honesty and the trouble she had taken. Mr. William Johnson appeared oh a summons to answer a charge against Messrs. Johnson and Brice, paviors, of Millbank.street, Westminster, under the Mutiny Act, for not furnishing a cart and horses, pursuant to notice, to assist in removing the baggage of th 3d Battalion of the Ist Grenadiet Regiment of Foot Guards, Crinu the King's-mews barracks, to Sutton, on their route to Brighton, en Thursday, the 12th instant. Mr. Johnson said the non-attendance of the cart was owing trbol:y to the circumstance of the carman having overslept himself to con sequence of excessive fatigue from the preteding day's work. The defendants Were convicted in the lowest penalt), 40a. Ittleltsfett _ _ A youthful and lighthearted son of Neptune, about two years ago, was called into the active service of his country, and not Dilly necessitated to quit his " nativc home," but that which was more dear to him than los existence, a lovely and amiable wife, whom he had takel to himself but a very short time pievioasly to his me. lancholy separation. Notwithstanding, Jack c-iisoled himself with the idea of once more meeting with a friend in London, on his return alter a prosperous voyage. This did not, however, turnout to be the case, and after an absence foe the above period, he returned to his native shore, where he discovered that the " girl of hisheart" was selling apples at the corner of Chandos street, to which place he repaired, with all the speed that nature supplied him with, until he gave one joyous glance at the sweet girl, who rr.et him with cordial at tachment. Mutual inquiries took place; but Jack's astonishment may be easily imagined when his wife re fused to introduce him to her home, and on ascertaining where she lived, he discovered that an old pensioner, upwarde of seventy years of age, had been cohabiting with his frail rib during the last twelve months, and most wretched life they had led, _quarrelling and threatening to murder each other all day. Jack soon gave the old one " warning to quit," but received his wife again under his protection, after professions of love, and that distress drove her to the necessity of loving the pensioner,.for the sake of his 201. 14. year j and oa this excuse he consented to join his wife's humble calling, and became-master of the " fruiterer's shop." 13..1: what must be the audacity of the pensioner, when he proceeded to Jack,whilst sitting by the applbs and pears, and asked for a aperth of pears. Jack replied, "I'c doesn't make aperths, so 'Riede" (leave.) " Well," le joined the pensioner, "if you don't make a aperth, g: Us a pennerth." Jack detet mined not to serve him ; and conceiving this to be a direct insult, after the nian ner in which he had. mated hies and his Wife, gave hint one or two 1 14 Cribb, while the old son of Neptune de fended himself with a stick, and the crowd began to abuse Jack for ill-treating the old men, without know ing the cause, and he was pelted with apples, pears, and currants, until he was taken into custody and tarried before the Magitttate at 110*-stteet, where their quarrel was disensied to the no small amusernea of a crowded Coto t. Tne pensioner cut it very awkward ap pearante before his Worship, while Jack won the laurels. The pensioner swore he loved the girl dearly; Jack swore be loved and Would cht•iish her better than " such an old —;" and the inconstant fair one, with a look of indignation, spurned the old one, and vowed to " love, honour, and obey her lawful hutband until death," and Jack was acquitted honourably. Saturday night last, the stables of Mr. BURNABY. an Officer in the Prince or Wales's bragoon guard., residing at No. 12, Little Stanhtve.itre2t, May Fair, were littilitti into, and two valuable box coats, saddling, horse dabs, and other pristerty, stelae thersiVorn. 1311ttli Wednesday, in Little. Dbin'sgyatd, the Lady bf the Rey. G. Weston, of a son. Tuesday, in Great George-street, the Lady of the Hon. Eivami. ,Cult, M.l'. of a daughter. Aftw daft since, a woman at Manister, in the county bf iitticr skt, of town *ohs and two daughtets, *ltch *lth the thither, arc alive aed dying well. nßtno. In Castle Connell-Cburelt,;l; - ---------- Lorenzo Fitzgib bon, of Castle Dermot county of Kildare, torah hliza, daughter of the late Rev. Prederich Neligan. August 2, at Dundee, the Itee. Q. D. hludle, of nothrersi, sex, to Miss Weddetbutn AlnblleNdatighttr of MY. e At little Hampton, in fluiset, oil the lt/th ultinirh I.ittlei Clark, Esq. of Granby-row Do din loss wi ll be deeply felt by : , • 1 friends of religion and benevolence. August 10, at Edinburgh, aged 24, the Rev. William ••••• cowl soh of John Hall, Esq. of Stathotbugh, rothsbite. August lt, at Myth Hill, Wattitchthire, Lily Otiolgiana ' wife of Frederic* Weue Esq. .. 3.lA't siik Sea. 1 0I 1 0 Dublin Wacerfut4 _ Guernsey and Jersey I tt (liana b o 0 1 Buenos. 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