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THE ROADS OF MIDDLESEX. The County of Middlesex appears, by the Reports of the House of Commons, to have 157 miles of road, with an average income of 6081. per mile, and an average expenditure of 548/. leaving a surplus of 601. per mile. Among the minutes of evidence annexed to the last Repott is . letter from Messrs. M'Adam and Cook,who estimate the necessary expense of. maintaining these roads, i 1 once put into a st-.te of perfect repair, al fol low,: For one mile neat the storm. per annum . . Oae half of the remaining distance, per mile, per ann. The other ball, per mile, per annum ae.loo 350 2.50 - fiali, p... -- Supposing these statements and estimates to be cermet, it is self tvident that not only the debts of the different tri.sts might be soon paid off, but the toll might be considerably and safely reduced. The present cost of keeping up the toads is at least a third inure than is necessary upon a good system. A suitges ion has been made that all toll-gates should be abolished, and an additional tax for the maiwenance a roads paid upon horses, carts, and carriages. Though the stoppages at toll-gates are an evil, yet th-ire would be an injostice in the ci•mmutation tax proposed, wi,ich would be, perha; s, worse chair the trouble we should get rid 01. The tax for turnpike roads is now paid in the fairest manner, viz. by those who travel over them, and in p.oportion as they are likely to make them need repair. Oa the other hand, the commutation tax woul‘i fall as heavily upon the carriages of the re,ident country gentry, who only use them to be trundled over the parish roads (which they pay in aoother shape for inaintainiog) to the next Church, as upon those of the most desp , - rate tow ists. HORSHAM QUAHTER SESSIOnS. At these Sessions, holden on Tuesday last, Nary Thrrrphrem, aged '2l years, a young woman c f interest ing appearance, was indicted for stealing a lace sell, value 20s. one pair of silk stockings, a silk handker cl.Fef, a can't): is ditto, and various other articles. The prisoner was brought to the Sessions from the Petworth House of Correction, to which she had been committed on the '25,h of April, by John Wakefield, Eq. a Magistrate for tie county, " charged on the o.ash of the Rev. Edward Robert Butcher, with steal irg, in the town of Worthing, one silk handkerchief, avid one cambric handkerchief, rf the value of 2s. the property of the said Edward Robert Butcher." She bad, it appeared, been a favourite servant of Mrs. I . l.atthe:, whose service she had quitted abunt three a before this charge was brought against her, and when apothen,led was in the service of the Duchess of Ilam hoar, at Brighton. On her examination before t:.c Mai ; is , tate, the prosecutor swore, that Mrs. Butcher, a material witness in the case, was prevented by illness iron. attending. That Lady was sent for by the Magis. trate, b&t did not attend, nor did she appear on the psi trial at H•rrsham. The prisoner, in her defence, said the articles which s%e was charged with having stolen, had been pre setittd to her by Mrs. Butcher, and this statement was ir. part contirmed by the evidence of Helen Cook, a per son living at the same time in the service of the Doctor ; a,.d by that of a Mr. Cranston, of Worthing. The latter also stated, that at the time when it was sworn by the prosecutor that Mrs.Bateher was ill, and unable to attend before the Magistrate, the Lady was at the house of witness, about a quarter of a mile distant from her own residence, and that therefore she could not hive been too ill to attend at the Magistrate's, which M as not mine than 150 yards distant. The Jury would not trouble the Court to suns up the evidence, but stated thae they had long Ake been satisfied. llity instantly returned a verdict of—Not GtiLy. Hurst, Esq. one of the &Leh of Justicia, declared that in the whole course of his life (a period of more thm half a century) be had never known so gross a prosecution stain a Cou-t of Justice. Application was afterwards made by the prisoner's tour el, for a copy of the record, on which to ground a prosecution against her prosecutor. The application was immediately granted by the Court. The trial lasted three hours and a half, and the prisoner, who ap peared in a fainting state, was aUowed by the Court to be seated, the fatigue being greater than her comtituticn could support. She was treated during the trial with the most huinaue attention by the governor of the plums. Jacou Bonsai. was a German horticulturist, and came to England about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was appointed first superintendent of the Physic Garden, in Oxford, I .tended in 102, by Henry, Rol of Danby. The Catalogue of Plants 'in the Phy sic Garden, published in 1648; was drawn up by J. .P.obart, and is a favourable proof of his zeal and dili gence. This Catalogue was republished in 1C.58. con siderably impr ved. and enlarged to more than double its bulk ; Hobart being assisted in the work, as he ac knowledge., by Dr. Philip S evens and Wm. Proven, M.A. A plant, in honour of Ilobart, is called Bober t:a, a genus loured by Liniati3, and said to grow in the Elsa Indies. Under the cane of Pobart and that ot: tans son, the Garden continued to flourish many yenrs. Old J -cob died in the garden-house, rebru a!y 4th, 15:79,11 ; .: ; ed SO. and was buried in the church yard of St. I' ter iii the East, where there is a moon. - :tent to his memory against the wall of . the church. ()a rejoicing days be to have his veneiab!e I. , :.:ard tagged with silver. lie left two sons, Jacob :.nd Tillman, who were both employed in the Physic Garden. There is an ingenious paper by this writer, in the Philosophical Transactions, for the year 1683, on the effects of the great frost which happened the preceding winter, on trees and other plants. Many oak, elm, ash, walnut, and other trees were found, he says, with large rents or clefts in different .parts of their trunks in the large blanches, and in such parts of their roots as were not sunk deep into the earth.— P.;rts, lie adds, that were so knotted that they could Lot have been split but wi+ great difficulty with b eet l es and wedge-, were rent asunder by the force of the ice contained within tkerp, making, at the-time of bursting, a noise like the explosion cf gunpowder.— Its.is supposed that the trees which suffered were dis c !sed, that some of the vessels were distended or burst, :md that the effect was produced by the fleezing of ti.e sap or other juices contained in these cavities.-- Jacob Hobart gave the rent of a piece of land in Os y.eY Meadow, commonly called Pike Acre, to:be dis posed of by the Minister and Churchwardens of the Pnish of St. Peter in the East, in Oxford, in the fol.' lr.wing wanner :—T% enty shillings yearly to the M:- Li...ter of the parish fur a sctmon to be preached by him tea Christauas-day in the aim noon, and the rest to such f the poor ink ibilants as do not =rive alms. He died December eqt.b., 1719, to the 79th year of his are, gild led in the above-mentioned church, vibwe these is an insciipuon to his mernary.—A de scendant of the lloba:ts, Mr. Tillman Hobart, for. nietly of University College, still reides in Oxford. He is one of the Lute.ire, or gold stick bedels of the Utriversity, and appears to inherit a love of gardening . . and botanical p 1 s uits from his ancestors. : • MIDDLESEX ADJOWINED SESSION'S. Johnnite was indicted for assaulting HenryWif ken . on the 29th May last.—The prosecutor stated that hini self and his brother were going with a horse in the, neighbriurhood of Kentish-town, and that he left the' horse at the stables of the defendant's father for a short time. On his return to ask for the horse, he offered the ostler 9J. for the keep. The ostler wanted mre ; and, while they were speakiag, the defendant came eut and insulted him grossly by words, and then kicked him, saying that he did not want him or his horse there. He took him to Hatton-Garden Office, where the defendant acknowledged his guilt. Mr. ALUM, for the defendant, said, thst the' sum charged for the horse, one shilling, was most moderate, as the horse had been four or five hours in the stables, and had been well fed and taken care of. But the pro secutor, dressed in the pink of the taillian, was going into the country will his brother, riJe and tie," and after leaving the hot Sc, with orders that he !night he well fed and taken care of, had the conscience to offer otely 6d. for his kels and 3d, for ;he ostler. The de fendant !.eating some high words between them, eame out, and the prosecutor was calling the ostler a rascal, sw!ndler, and that all about him were the same. It was too much for an honest tradesman to submit to hear such opproSrious terms applied to himself and his fa mily, and he did assault the prosecutOr, but under cir cumlances whith it would Le impossible for a mail to refrain from. Ile then called the ostler to prove this. The Ctia rtmtv.4 sail, that if the defendant had merely taken the prosecutor by the nose, or had given him al push expressive how cheap be held his abuse, it would have answered all the parpo:e of a violent assauh.— %I'm. 1; did not justify blows in law, and the Jury would say w Le:her they believed the prosecutor or the def..nda nt? The J..ry found the defendant Guilty, but under very prJvokinr: circumstances. Fined XS to the King. tliznorth Pooley was indicted for assaul ing Ann Del wa. t theglst May. The prosccutriz sa'd, that tlivre was a board before her house, in wliich was :t door, vihich the parish had or deted to be kept shut. The prisoner, however, would go throng!' that door, althdtol there was another passage. The prosecutrix put up her hand across the passage, when the prisoner bit her hand very severely. (Here site exhibited the scar, and the torn part of the gown). She gave no provocation whatever. She had the benefit of very good flesh ; but I the. mark would last as long as the small-pox on ~ he other arm. Mr. Puttr.irs—Well, then, it will do as a set off—(l,aughter). The prowcutria further said, that the prisoner calicd her a —.—, and offended with her for locking the door. The CHAIIOIAN—Ah ! the murder is out now. Cross-ex .rn i ned by Mr.l3A SKY—Well, then, size hit yeti in the arm ? ProAe:utrix—Do you doubt it, Sir?—(Laughter.) Mr. BA 11 ity—Did not your husband interfere? Prosecu.rix—Wouldn't you help your wife in that state: — (Great laughter.) Dowling, a mason, had seen her arm after the bite, and it seemed more like the bite of a mad dog than anything else. lie would not have had it fur £Ol. Mr. Forman—She may go mad yet—(Laughter). 614113—lourteen days i mprisonment. Robert Walters was indicted for fraed.--Mr. CIIAIILES PHILLIPS opened the case, and called the prosecutor, Mr. John Till, a clothier, in' liatinghall street, who stated, that on the 4th of April last, the pri,oner called upon him, and re >resented that he had recently embarked in business. as A tailor, and I:antes. sed a - wish to open an account with witness; that he had served his apprenticeship with a Mr. Hunter, of Lynn, and had lately martied a Lady, from whose father he daily expected to receive the . sum of 800 L Witness told him he could • not Five him credit with out hiving a respectable'refere,•ce, when 'the prisoner .gaie.him the addresses of two persons; whose • account of the prisoner was so satisfactory; that he let him have cloth to the amount of 1411: which was sent .to his residence, 17, Compton-stteet,,Clerkenwell, From subsequent circunistanees witness suspected he had been swindled Out of the goods, and again called on the pea s,:its to venom the prisoner had :versed, when he Inind the houses shut up, •and .ascertained they bad both absconded, having .left •the nt ighSouthood nsiderably in debt; and even sttipl:el the.hottses of the fixtures, the le4d from the roots; etiphlards, doors, banisters, acc. He, on ascertaining the fact, waited On the -prisoner, and demanded his more;, when he found be was not a t 'nor, as lie had :e ire cute', nor could he ascertain that he car tied, on any businesL He re fused to shew witness: his bo , :ks, or to stare to, whOin he frAd disposed of the cloth, which he said wis made up. Witness after wardi procuted a warrant, and had the prisoner apprehended. Several other witnesses proved *that the prisoner had obtained mods from them, represetitiitg himself sometimes as a baker, or merchant, a ficiur-factor, a private Gentleman, &c. &c. Mr. ALLEY, for the prisoner, contended that no case of !laud had been established agaiii4 him, and the prO seclitor ought to have shewn that he was not a tailor, as he s. a, averred in the indictment not to be so. This • averment thil ; ht have been supported by bringing the person to whom the prisoner said he bad been ap . prentierd to deny that wsertion. The Orals:sax i agreeing with Mr. Attrrohat the evidence did not support the iudictment i directed the Jury to acquit the pri soner, which they accordingly - There is ariodivr indictment against the prisoner and several others; for a conspiracy, the trial of which, at his request, was put Off until next -Sessions. Chard iirriakt was cnnyictecl . of assaulting William Lee, an ()ni cer of liatten-garden police, while in scarab of a boy who had COM mined felony. Sentenced ra 14 days in the House of Correction. Letters and Papers from H imburgh to the 9:11 inst. have been received by the new steam-packet established between London and that port. The Harrbuigh Cor respondent of the above date, which has reached us by that conveyance, contains not a word of news. The steam-packet made its passage in 58 hours. The ex change on London the - Bth instant, was 35. 9i; at two months, 36k. BATH Inaxtrovs.—The Mechanics' Institution lately established in that city, held its first general meeting of Subscribers, since its formation, on Monday evening, on which occasion a report of the proceedings of the Committee was read, and received with the highest approbation.. Wednesday, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh reported to the Council, that Government had agreed to erect i the Westerrf Pier of Leith at the public expense, and that the £240,000 were now at " the command 'of the Council, on condition that the city shall carry out the East Pier, and deepen the Old Harbour. The present Bishop of Salisbury (Dr. Buaosss), on retiring from the See of St. David's, liberally contri buted the sum of 5601. in addition to his former sub scription, towards building the Church at Carmarthen A Gentleman of colour has arrived in town from Port-au-Prince. He came over in the Sir Robert Bar clay, and is supposed t.) be charged with a missim from the President, on the subject of ti,e new St. Domingo Company. • ". . Afqnprp. A strong sensation has been, produced in the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and its neighbourhood, by the death of W. Price, whose body was found floating in the water of the Canal basin, near Newcastle, on Thursday sennight. An Inquest was held, by adjournment; from Friday lastao Tuesday last, and the following' is a sum mary of the evidence The deceased, William Price, went with a team antl timber carriage on Friday, the 24th of June, to Broad Grove, for a load of tails and posts, but not returning ' as was expected in the evening, his master (Bartley) set off at a late hour, and met him at Whitmore.— A man named JerVis was driving the horses at the • time, Price being in liquor, and unable to take chate of the team. Bartley swore and said, that the deceas.d deserved to have.his head knccked off. Toev arrived in Newcastle at half-past two . o'cleck on S.turday morning; Jervis went with Par tley into his hoax, and the deceased weet to pry the horses into the stable, when he was soon f sllowi;d .by.. Hartley. In a short time the latter returned to the (rouse, arid a . ..lain went back to the stable: on hi, return swim the last occasion, he appeared very anxious for Jervis to retire to bed.— Jervis had been in bed about ten minutes, when he heard Bartley return again to the stable, and in about half an hour afterwards. he came back, and his son fetched same water tur him to wash himself. From that time Pr ice was not heard of, till he was discovered as above stated, on The Thursday following. From the evidence of the ;:lurgeon who examined the hmly, it arpear, that marks of violence a ere found on the head; face, and neck, w' ids could not have bee., caused by* &awning, and • this injury was o( such a nature as to have caused - death/ Tise fact of Bso tley having admitted that he struck the . cleccated, and of his having beflre the body was found. " that ha was gone to hell before cleat, or he had made bad use. of hi , time," to;ether with a variety of Circumatautial evidence, of a hich it might be premature to give the particulars, but which tended to pr me that Bartley' struck the deceased, and w . as the last person who sa:. , him alive, inducts' the Jury to find a verdict of " fal Murder against James l.i if tley, who has beeu cum. mined to take his trial at the ensuing As:,izes. A rearm:l:able ' ercunattanee, .connected with this affair, is, that a flannel co.it, which: the deceased had wi:h hiM, When last see' , , was th rown through the window of his father's house, on Saturday . morning, be- 1 1 tweeti two and three o'cioc k,and although his father rose quickly, and went out of doors, he cauld . d sc , ver no Me near. Bartley is sixty years of age, and has rea lised acme property, by carrying timber, with a good team of his own. He did not attempt to abScond after the body was folios!, and 'betrays no sort of alarm.— Toe deceased WAS only twenty yearS of age, and had been oa.y three weeks in Bartley's service. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION•.HOUSE. A Gentleman who is connected with the Stock &change, cams to the Justice Room yesterday, to request the LORD MAYOR'S ad vice and assistance under the following circumstances : The son of the woman who kept the house in which the applicant has Acre is a smart boy about 13 years old. A letter was sent to the applicant from one of the new Companies, con taining a cen:ticate entitling the bearer to receive a certain num ber of shares, upon his paying to the Sinkers of the Company a deposit upon each share. The boy, by some means, got hold of this letter, opened it, and finding it to be a negotiable document, took it without further ceremony to the Alley, to make as much money of it as he could. He soon found a man, in the Alley, who had formerly been a member of the Stock Exchange, and who readily undertook to negotiate the promised shares, which were at a premium. The jobber sold the letter,, and gave the boy live pounds. The deposits were paid st the banking-hotsse where the Dire:tors did business, and soon; in the rapid transactions of' what is called property on the Stock Exchange, passed into hands wholly unknown to the party who in the first instance made sale of the letter. It was ascertained, after a good deal of inquiry, that the shares had gone through the hands of ten per sons after , the jobber had disposed of the letter, and the applicant found that he lost by the robbery about 504 • The boy's mother, who is a very respectable woman, was greatly distressed by the circumstance, and the applicant did not • wish'to proceed to punish him, in the hope that he would be placed under a proper controul.• Ile, however ' was determined to do all he could to punish the jobber, who had acted under the double capacity of tempter and thief ; for he had every reason to believe that this Alley-dealer had urged the boy to steal the letter, and theri had sold it at a such higher premium than be pretended, and put the over-plus into his own pocket. . The 14::1 MAYOR said, the case Was one of very considerable diffi - cul!y, end quite new to hiM. Ile feared that in the eye of the law this letter would not be considered as property. It was merely an order entitling a eteeson to certain shares uport paying a certain sum of money as a deposit at the banker's. The documents obtained upon the payment ,of the money might be considered as property,' but he should feel much hesitation in committing a person for a robbery under the circumstances stated, although it was, morally speaking, as serious and wicked an offence as if the cash bad been' stolen. It appeared to his Lordship,.however, that the boy aid the jobber might be indicted for a conspiracy to• defraud the applicant, and he rhoaght it a case in which Ilse decision of a Jury might be. of considerable importance to those who interested themselves in speculations on the Stock Exchange. The applicant said be considered the letter property as well as any other document, inasmuch as he could obtain money for it in the market, where it was known to have been negotiable. The Loam Mime asked some questions relative to the evidence that might be adduced, and the complainant retired, after some pri.: vote communication with his Lordship, who seemed very anxious to interfere, if possible, in so nefarious a transaction. Mary .Arn es and Stroh Asher, very staid and respectable-looking women, with two men of corresponding appearance, named Morgan and l'aget, were brought before the Loan Niaroa, by Forrester, the younger, charged as rogues and vagabonds, found at large, " with intent to commit depredations" upon his Majesty's subjects. Forrester stated, that he had seen the four prisoners parading the avenues of the Bank and the Exchange, backwards and for wards, in such a manner as left no doubt in his mind as to the nature of their intention. They gathered together always very closely when in crowded avenues, and acted in evident concert. At length, after watching them a considerable time, he took them into custody, with the assistance of another officer. A solicitor who attended for the prisoners said, to warrant a conviction under this statute, the " intention" must be made mani fest by some act. In this instance, the officer had proved no " sounding" of pockets, nor any other acts from which the intent to commit depredations might legally be inferred. Harrison ' the Marshalman , here said,. he knew Jones to be an arrant thief. She had been on the town for many years. She was one of the most deaterons and successful pickpockets. It was her practice to wear false arms, with a muff attached to them, whilst her real arms were at work under a shawl. " You know, Sir," added Harrison, "that you were concerned in a prosecution against her W years ago." " That might be," replied the solicitor, " but she may have become a very Saint since then." The LORD Marna said, it would be to exercise a dangerous power if he were to convict the prisoners upon such evidence, although the suspicion against them was strong.—He discharged the prisoners. BOW-STREET. Yesterday, Henry Wile, a person about 35 years of age, who has for some years carried on the business of a surgeon and apothecary, was brought before Sit N. Blasta,by Bishop,on a charge of defrauding the CA,nimissioners of the Legacy Office, Sonterset-bouse, of the sum of ,t'29 10s. By the evidence of Mr. Gwynn, the Solicitor of the Legacy-offices it appeared that, in December last, a person applied theta for the return of .C.'9 10s. bein; the amount of duty ps , 4 on the letters of adminierasion on thee4.tate of . C..pc. John. AI CotlycLall, dccsntsed, late ur East •c bug. Gamin y vo fccula:d, • -nj it kat shift been alcertalned that no 'perm bad been awhor'red • to receive it. Samuel Truman, i clerk in the Legacy-offiee, deposed !hat on the , 2 d of December last the prisoner applied to him fora warrant for the return of £9.9 Ins. 'ander the estate of the late CePt. Convenan , the prisoner gave a receipt, which with a warrant he took to the Receiver-General's office fur payment. George Norman, clerk to the Receiver-General of the Legaty : . office, deposed that the receipt and warrant for the return of £29 10s. were presented to him on the 23d of December last ; witness paid the amount, but cannot swear the prisoner was the person who 're:eived it. • Mr. Harmer, Who attended on behalf of the prisoner, said that he should not advise his client to make; any answer to the charge against him at present ; ill he should now Advise Would be for the prisoner to give notice of bail, it being a bailable offence. • Sir R. BIRNIX informed Mr. Harmer; that as the present czte was a fraud on a most important branch of the Revenue, he could not treat it in the tame manner as a fraud upon a shopkeeper. Mr. Dunne, Solicitor to the South Sea CoMpany, etyped fcr ward, and addressing himself -to Mr. Harmer, observed, that he wished to state to hint circumstances, which, if proved igsinst tut prisoner, would amount to a capital offence. Mr. Harmer—l do not wish 'to hear them, Sir. Mr. Dunne said, he hoped Sir Richard would defeat the y saner in custody until hecould collect 'nether the tn:cett...:y C7i: to support his charge. Sir li. litnme—Sir, you had better call any vritnessrs .1 now irtve against the prisoner, and pr , :duce the other evidence on a future day.—Mr. Donne aceordingly called S. W. Ellis, a clerk in the Unclaimed Llividsnd Office in the South Sea 11 , buse, who stated that the prisoner, a short slime ago, applied to him for the payment of the unclaimed dividends due to Captain (7onvettan, late of the Fast India service, on the transfer of South Sea Stun:. The pi ironer roduced a warrant of attorney, signed by William Smith; witness gave the prisoner forty-three dividend warrants, and by a reference which he made this morn to Ow warrants, witness found that they were paid. * Mr. Dunne here stated, that in consequence of inquiries made by him, Le belieled that the p over of attorney pro .lu.:ed to the last witness by the prisoner was a forgery. Under these circumstances, Sir It. DIRWIt remanded the pri soner for a further examination. QUEEN-SQUARF. Jan Far was charged with robbing his employer, Mr. Struthers, slater, Milbank, to a considerable extent. Mr. Struthers stated, that theprisoner had been in Isis service for seventeen years, and, owing to the gcod opinion he bad always formed of him, he rm.: him from a labourer to be the superintendant of ill the other me , t, at a comfortable salary, and also a house to live in on the About nine months :ince. he had a suspicion that things wee conducted properly, and he gave directions to the, pr'sonr -o diiipose of any slates from the wharf without his particular ltnti-v -kdge. About the:'let of April last, .a large barge arrived at t!. - .* wharf, loaded with slates, denominated Darhers-s, front which the prisoner sent a cart-load to. Vatixliall. Upon asking the prisait-r what he had done with the money for the slates he sent to the Vauthall-road? he at first positively &tiled liaikitient 'any there ; but, on being confronted with Web)), the carter, •he seemed dread-: fully agitated, and said nothing; Mr. S:rutheie observed. he hal, since the beginning of this month, made a calculation, and found that upwards of £lOO worth of tlates• had been disposed of by the prisoner since April. Pace, the Officer said, that while tte pr!so.. tier was in his custody, he seemed dreadfully agitated, and said that he knew he had done wrong to his master, and was sorry he had net taken h . wife's advice. The prisoner, through his Solicitor, e.:l nothing an his defence, and was ful!-; committed for vial. UNION-HALL. A hard-working middle-aged woman applied, by the name of Nicholls, to the Sitting Magistrate fur a warrant against a Iran named Harris, to whom she had been married, but who, she had ,_lately discovered, had previously led two others to the hymeneal altar. He was a native of Devonshire, where, under the name of Hawkins, be married his Ern wife. His second resides in Clerk enwell, but applicant did not know her precise address. Harris is now a porter, in the service of Messrs. Hell and Harper of the Je rusalem Coffee-house. Since her discovery of his duplicity, appli cant removed from her concubinous partner, and taking a small hou . se in the Camberwell New Road, was enabled, by the assistance of her friends, to procure a mangle, and. by which she had until now earned a living. Harris, however, having found her out, bad now taken possession of her little property, and by his violent con duct had that morning driven her from her house, and compelled her to make the present application. Mr.Atratm immediately granted an assault warrant againet Harris, directing the poor woman to prosecute her inquiries as to the resi dence cf his two former wives. Three youths, the eldest not awe 14 years old, named Boom. reith, and Anderson, vivre fully enrnmitted for trial on a charke of picking the pocket of a Gentleman mimed French, of his handker. chief, the previous evening, in Oreek.streel, Soho. An article from Turin notices some extraordinary in ventions of a peasant genius, named Misera, a native of Montefalcone, near Chien. Independent of some curious efforts in watch•m eking, he has produced a piece of mechanism, of polished bras 4 con sisting of David, with his . harp, seated on a throne, which pen. duces musical sounds resembling• an organ, and the whole contained in• the head of a cane. He has also succeecred in perfecting, unassisted by the aid of musical knowledge, an instrument which has received the name of the Mus'so Grafo. To this is added another instru ment, called the Paniosono, which will repeat the notes communicated to it by the Musico Grqlo, and which may . with facility be adapted to an organ or piano. In addition to these useful inventions connected with the fine arts, he has communicated to the. Royal Arsenal, a method of turning and polishing gun b irrels -10 or 12 at a time, and fcr polishing all kinds of metals ; it is turned by means of water. An interesting. young woman yesterday coMpliined at Mar.lhorough-street, of one of those scoundrels who inveigle young girls into the idea of marriage, and then take the first opportunity of robbing and forsaking them. The offender is a tailor, and, whilst the de. hided creature was dressing for a walk, he went to her box, and took about sot. the savings of her whole life, and decamped. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-?HORROR•'..- AT THE COURT OF 10/ ZAWILitiPTS, SAISINGUALL STRUT. THIRD 111111 TINGS. W. 11. Williams, Old -street, corn-chandler M Lawrence, Drury-lane, tallow-chandler W. Jeffery, Cock-yard, Davies -street, horse-dealer J. Walsh, Norwich, linen-draper C. Hale, late of Egham, innkeeper MOND R. Wall, Hastings, shoeinaler J. Was, Aldbeurn, WIM, corn-dealer 10 le 10 11 10 • . • 11• MIST ICUT2II9. H. Smith and S. Sanders, Flnchley, bullders • al DIVIDENDS. . • J. Nowell, Beaconsfield. draper: J. Durham Vatliesine-street, Strand, cabinet-mak?. J. Moole , St. John's-sisarn, elunt. P. A. Coin/Kin, Beckenham farmer.- J 3 •flftlikabon, Broad-street-place, merchant. J. Hodson, BirehlOisse, G. Brown, late of Bridge road, Lambeth, tallow-ekontilee. G. Hirst, now or late k Manchester clothier. G. Jay and T.-Ward. Burlington-gardens, artificial florists. I Kinghatn, Croydon li nen-draper. T. Pine and B. Davis, Maldstone, millers. S. Hum phreys, lam of Charlotte-street, Portland-place, merchant. MARRIED. Yesterday, in St. James's Church, Arthur Algernon Crpel, Esq. to the Lady C.arolineJanetta Beanelerc, third daughter of his Grace the Duke of St. Alban 's. WAILS—THIS DAY. 11PUIL &AL wo o 1 0 I Franco . 1 b Waterford 1 0 I 11..zwurab 0 1 1 0 Franco -. "JR& 1 0 liarnaurek auernse, soil Jersey 0 1 Flanders 0 0 Lisbon 1 0 Buenos Ayres' 1 0 Gottenbarei 0 0 Jamaica 1 0 Malta 0 0 Ameriza 1 0 Holland 1 0 Lftward Islands 0 0 HIGH-WATER at LONDON-BR LOGE TO. MORROW. Morning . • 24 minute after 2 Afternoon • • 49 minutee after 3 Loaaoa : Prueed and Published by J. F. KnaLy, as the Ilya O►ncs, No I, Pte4at-Pface, Temple-Bar • r