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THE ROBBER. ----r The tomes with terrible flu/ did raw, The thunder trnmendoudy dada ; The seabirds were screaming, the billowy wave With threatened desuection the inouuteins did lave, The lightning Incessandy ! Though Nature appear e d in the tempest to reek, And seemed as dividing asunder; A wretch, whose Ingratitude taught him to mock The voice of the storm, which the bravest might shock, By Avarice ured, went to plunder ! With innocence Meet his kind master had dept, Nor during the storm had awoke; This child of Ingratitude silently errs To the place where he knew that the matey was kept, And basely' the cabinet broke. To aid his vile purpose, a gliotmeeing fight Within a dark-lantharn he bore ; lie thought he heard footsteps—he sheok with affright— And starting, a countenance gleasn'd on his eight, Aad eenakess he fell on the floor ! Ilia fall woke kb Muter. who Wind) , flew To the closet whence issued the noise ; Rat what were his feelings, that servant to view, For whom his attachment no boundary knew. Lie trembling with guilt and surprise? The culprit replied not—his pangs were severe,. The cause of his fear and detection Arose from a pair of half-boots hanging near, 'Which Tuna's In Bzresn4c had poliah'd so dear, He sunk at his guilty reflection! RICHARD TURNER, 114, London-Road. Yesterday morning, at six o'clock, 25 male con- Vets, who were tried at the last Sessions, Old Bailey, and were sentenced to different periods of transpor. tation, were removed in a caravan from Newgate: they were escorted by a party of Light Horse, in order to be put on board a ship now waiting at Sheerness, to convey them to Botany Bay. A few nights ago, some villains entered a field at Maida Hill, near Paddington, and most inhumanly slaughtered a mulch cow, the property of Mr. &RANO, the cow-keeper. The ruffians divided the hind-quar ters, part of which they carried away. Between seven and eight o'clock on Friday even ing last, as Mr. Boreham ' of Saffron - Walden, was returning from a sale at Littlebury, he was stopped by a man In horseback, who demanded his money. Mr. Boreliam at first offered to make resistance, when the fellow presented a pistol at his head, and threatened to blow out his brains. Mr. Boreham struck the pistol aside, and clapped spurs to his horse, when another fellow rode up and caught his bridle. They now rifled his pockets, but finding ittle of value, determined to revenge their disap pointment upon his person, and after having shame fully maltreated hire, they rode off towards Malden. Saturday morning, about two o'clock, some vil lains bloke into the house of Mr. Leftwich, baker, in Paradise-row, Rotherhithe. They entered through the bakehouse into the shop, from whence they stole 41. 15s. in copper; they then proceeded op broke open the chamber-door of Mr. Leftwich, and while himself and wife were buried in sleep, took from under their bed a box, and rifled it of 250/. in Bank-notes. An adjoining rocm, in which one of the shopmen slept, next became the scene of their nocturnal depredations, and without disturbing the man, who slumbered as soundly as his master and mistress, they unlocked a bureau, and took out 971.1 in notes, and 161. in silver, and made off unmolested with their valuable booty. Two casks of butter and two large parcels of sugar were set apart, and pack ed up in readiness to be taken away, in the yard; but it is conjectured that they were found too bulky fir conveyance. Thursday last, seven journeymen shoemakers were convicted beforeW. BEDFORD and I. SPOONER, Esqrs. two Justices for the county of Warwick, of an un lawful combination to prevent Mr. J. Edwards, a 1 'Laster shoemaker, from employing a person of the name of Hoult, and sentenced to two months impri sonment and to hard labour, in the House of Correc tion. The Magistrates, in passing sentence, informed the defendants, that whenever a case cf combination was clearly made out before them, they should al ways visit it with the severest punishment in their power, such combinations being as prejudicial to the interests of the persons combining, as detrimental to tilt public welfare. Tuesday last, a gentleman was convicted before two of the Commissioners of 7 axes for the town and county of York, in the penalty of 401. for Las ing made up one window or light in his dwelling Louse without hav ing given six days previous notice thereof to the In spector or Surveyor of the district, and also a further peiialty of £lO, for having opened out one window or light, without g iving the same notice. Stisuas OF CHAPEL FURNITURE FOR POOR RATES. --A few days ago the parish officers of St. Andrews, Worcester, entered the Countess of HUNTINGDON'S Chapel by means of a ladder placed to one of the gallery windoWs, and, with two constables, took down and ciuried away ten patent lamps, which they sold for the payment of 1:18, for six poor levies, at C 3 each ; and they were proceeding to take down the organ, and had actnally brought a man into the Chapel for that express purpose, when one of the Trustees entered the Chapel at ten o'clock at night, and remonstrated with them on their conduct, and offered, with another friend, to give them security for the amount, if, upon an appeal, the proper law au thorities decided that they had a right to demand the rate ; they were with difficulty prevailed upon to de sist, although the key of the Chapel and the key of the organ were delivered up to them, by way of se curing to them the possession ; and they marked the organ with G. R. After this, a friend came forward, peal the £lB, and expenses, and redeemed the organ, lamps, and keys of the Chapel, at the same time pro testing against the illegality of the demand i—since this proceeding, legal notices of appeal have been de livered to the parish officers, and the case will be brought forward at the ensuing Sessions. The Trus tees ccntend they have no right to be assessed, be cause there is no profit ; and Lord ELLE:amitotic,' has decided, that where there is no profit, no assers snent can be made. A barbarous murder has recently been committed near Coleraine, where one Adam Linn is accused of drowting his own son in a bog-hole. The unnatural father has absconded. POLAR EXPEDITION. We have already stated that an Officer of the Do rothea, Captain BUCHAN, has arrived at the Admi ralty with dispatches, announcing the return of that ship and her consort, the Trent sloop, front the Green land Seas. Every thing • that nautical skill and in trepidity could do was effected, but the difficulties opposed to the passage were insurmountable, and rendered the further prosecution of the voyage to tally impracticable. The ships, had they persevered in their course, or remained mach longer in the ad vanced position in which they had reached, must have perished. One of them was caught between two floating ice-bergs (ice islands), the collision of which was so great, that she was lifted completely out of the water—her irons were all forced, and her ribs broken. We understand that, with the advan tages of every poiible care and assistance afforded by her consort, it was with great difficulty she has been able to make port. These are the ships which were equipped with a view to their reaching the Pole, and entering the Pa cific Ocean by Behring's Straits. This is, we believe, the seventeenth or eighteenth failure to accomplish the daring project of crossing the Polar regions. The first expedition of this kind which history records, was made between the years 150 and 1556, by Sir H. WILLOUGHBY % R. CHANDLER, and S. BURROUGHS % in quest of a north-east passage to India. They reached Nova Zembla and the Strait of Waigats, but could proceed no further on account of immense shoals of ice. This expedition led to the establish ment of the Russian Company, With valuable exclu sive privilegr. In 1576 MARTIN FROBISHER % who was afterwards knighted for his courageous repulse of the Spanish Armada, sailed from Blackwall with two barks, the Gabriel, of 25 tons, and the Michael, of 20, and a pinnace of 10. On the 1 lth of July he saw Green larsii„" rising like pinnacles of steeples, and all co. ' vered with snow." The pinnace was lost in a storm, the Michael, disheartened by the prospect, sailed home, and reported that the Gabriel foundered at sea—but FROEISHER returned home on the 2d of October, not being able to advance further than Greenland " for the monstrous ice which lay about it." The passion for adventure was kept alive by a foolish story about the existence of a gold mine, and in 1577 he was again seat out, by a subscription made among the Gentlemen at Court. He sailed in the Aid, a sliip of 200 tons, and was again stopped by the ice at Greenland, where he met with islands of ice, rising thirty or forty fathoms above the sur face of the sca. In 1585 J. Davis sailed with the Sunshine, of Lon dots, a bark of 50 tons, and the Moonshine, of Dart mouth, of 35 tons; he discovered the Strait, which bears his name, but was obliged to return after being enclosed between fields of ice off Greenland. The highest latitude he reached was 68. 53. In 1605 the King of Denmark sent out J. CUNNINGHAM, a Scotch man, and J. HALL, an Englishman ; they only reached the latitude of 63. 33. and encountered many perils from immense shoals of ice. In the same year, a Company of London merchants sent out H.lluosott, who reached the very high latitude of 8l is, where his progress was completely barred by a frozen sea. In 1612 Captain T. BATTON reached the latitude of 135, when he was finally stopped by a barrier of ice. About the same period the Muscovy Company sent out JONAS POOLE, who could only reach the la titude of 80. In the same year Captain HALL pushed northwards to the parallel cf BY. Jr. 1614 K Fo- THEM3YII was elibayel in ice in the latitude of 79.54. In 1615 It. BILLTII and &mutt were stepped in the latitude of 79. 14. In 1616 BAFFIN penetrated to the latitude of 81; in 1751 Captain hl , Catiam sailed without obstruction from Hackluyts Head land, as high as the latitude of 83k. It is remarkable that about this period the sea was very °pelf, for both Captain M4Cattuza and Captain WILSON, so high as 83k, found the sea open, and were deterred from sailing further only by their resporrsihility to their owners, as their destination was merely to Green land. In 1746 other attempts were ineffectually made, but the navigators wintered in Hudson's Bay. Dr. MASKELYNE states that a Mr. STEPHENS, in 1754, reached the latitude of 81i. Several attempts were made to reach a higher latitude, without effect, be tween 1630 and 1720, chiefly by the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1720 Knialir and Bantow were sent out, but they were never afterwards heard of. _ In 1776 and 1777 the Admiralty sent out Lieute nants PICKERSGILL and LANE, but these naval offi cers made very little progress, and effected no dis covery whatever. Captain COOK explored the expanse beyond Behring's Strait, between the parallels cf 70 ai,d 74 degrees, where they were stopped by the ice. In different years the Greenland whalers have ad ventured to the latitude of 81. and 82. and so late as 1806 the elder Mr. SCORESBY ascended to the lati tude of 81.50. It is now clear, tide think, that-all hope of sailing to the Pole is at ar. end. The son of Mr. SCORESBY lately suggested the bold plan of ap proaching the'Pole over d:icy Continent from Spits bergen. Adopting the mode which the Russian hun ters have employed with such advantage in explo ring the frozen sea from Nova Zembla to the shores of Kamschatka, he proposes to pass the winte r i n th e island of Spitsbergen, and starting in the spring wlth sledges, drawn by dogs, to pursue a direct journey of 6or 700 miles to the Pole. He might then expect to find a continuous sheet of ice stretching through his whole track. Friday sennight Matthew Bowerbark, slater, of Penrith, with his wife and four children, returned to that town from America, of which he gives a me lancholy description, and is thankful he has got safe home to his native town. Yesterday morning a boy, of the name of Turner, with a small switch, began to tickle a horse under its tail whilst another boy was riding it up and down the yard of a livery stable, near the Blue Lion, in Gray's Inn-lane, on which the animal kicked him with both its hind legs broke his jaw bone, and the w h o l e o f the front teeth were driven into his mouth ; the left arm was also broken in a dreadful manner ; he was carried to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Imitation 'Tobacco !—Saturday se'nnight a parcel, consisting of dried cabbage leaves, having the appear ance of a large roll of tobacco, was seized in Dublin, on a person, who, on being taken into custody, re ferred the Police Officers to a house in Thomas's. court, where they found a manufactory in full work, picparing imitatioot tobacco from siliglar materials. POLICE. Bornasettere.--Yesterday, a rout feriloee, more than six feet high, calling himself John Press, was charged with assaulting and robbing D. Litchfield, a poor labourer, upwards of sixty years of age. The prosecutor swore, that on Saturday afternoon, as he was crossing Enfield Chace on .his way from Steve nage to ,London, he was joined by the prisoner, who observed, that as they were going the same road, they might as well walk together. To this he made no objection, and they proceeded on till they had passed through Whetstone ; when the prosecutor said, as it was getung late, he should stop at the nearest public-house for the night. The prisoner then ob served, that he knew a good house, a little way out of the high road, and persuaded the prosecutor to accompany him down a lane. After wandering for some time, without finding the house, they agreed to go on to Highgate ; when, getting over a knee, the prosecutor stumbled and f ell. The prisoner instantly jumped upon his stomach, seized him by the throat, and threatening to murder him if he resisted or call ed out, rifled his pockets of a canvas bag, containing about SOs. in silver. He then left him ; and the pro secutor, who was almost choaked, lay on the ground for a considerable time. At length he managed to crawl into the high road, where in a few minutes he met three of the horse patrole, to whom he related what had happened, and they set off after the robber. In a short time they overtook him, and conducted him to the Wellington public-house, near the High gate Archway, where he was searched, and the bag, with the sum stolen from the prosecutor, was found in his pocket. The walking suck belonging to the latter was also found in his hand. In his hurry after committing the robbery, he had, it appeared, taken this stick instead of his'own. The prisoner was fully committed. MARLDOROUOR•STREET.—A case of a most diabo lical nature was heard at this Office on Saturday night. A man named Jones, who had been commit ted for seven days for begging, charged Jordan, a constable of St. Giles's, with robbing him of a bundle and E 2, which Jones said he had left in his care. His story was innocently told, and had so much the ap pearance of fact, that Messrs. BARER and BURROWES were much inclined to credit it, notwithstanding the positive assertion of innocence on the part of - the Constable. The case was ordered to stand over until Saturday, and Jordan's word was taken to appear ; but in the mean time he consented to have his apart ments searched without a warrant, and Plank, a very diligent officer, undertook to make full inquiries into the mysterious case. The whole turned out to be a most diabolical fabrication in every respect.---Plank, being sworn, stated, that he had made every inquiry, and that Jones, who had enlisted into the 46th Regi ment of Foot, and afterwards discharged, had neither a E 2 note or a bundle, as the recruiting party who brought him to London were at hand to prove; and he had also traced Jones to where he slept every night, and he was proved to have been pennyless and without a bundle, and consequently Plank brought him back to the oilice.—Jones here confest ed his - monstrous villainy to Plank, and stated, that a man named hichards had advised him to ask cha rity in the presence of Jordan, who would take him into custody, and that after his release he should - charge him with the alleged robbery. Jones con fessed this upon his knees belare the Magistrates on Saturday evening. He was committed as a rogue and vagabond. HaTroN-cannix.--Jalin Roberts and Thomas Dy sart, two poor men, half naked and half starved, were brought up by the Clerkenwell Constables, who stated, that by the orders of the Overseers of the Poor, they brought up the two paupers, having found them sleeping on the top of the brick kilns in Cold Bath-fields, and where they were remarked to have slept every night for about a fortnight ; it being only three weeks since one poor man was suffocated by sleeping in the same place, where about twelve others perished within these eighteen months past. They were committed for seven days, in order to be passed to their parishes. Ustow HALL.—Williem Edmunds was yesterday brought up, by E. Pedder, Beadle of Putney, charged with attempting to murder Mary Edmunds his wife, Mary his daughter, (a child seven years of age), and Sarah Dyer. On Monday, the 12th instant, as Mrs. Massey, of Putney, was passing the prisoner's house, about eight in the morning, she heard a cry of " Mur der." She was afraid to go in, and went past the house. A woman, named Dalton, then came run-' ning out, in a state of agitation, and informed her that Edmunds was murdering his wife and child.-- She was going for assistance, when the prisoner's daughter ran out, pursued by the father, who over took and struck her a blow on the neck with some thing he had in his hand, but the distance prevented her from seeing what weapon it was. He pursued the child for several yards, and then fell down-- Mrs. Massey carried the child to the nearest house : she bad a dreadful wound on the back of the neck, ftom whence the blood flowed in torrents. Mrs. Massey then went for some person to secure the pri soner. She met Mr. Stevens, of Putney, who went immediately to Edmunds's residence, where he saw the prisoner on the ground, fast held by Mrs. Ed munds, and a young woman named Dyer. He held a clasp knife, opened, in his right hand ; and after much difficulty they disarmed him. Mrs. Edmunds was then bleeding very mush, from a wound on the neck, and was carried into the housa exhausted.-- Besides wounding his wife and daughter, the prisoner had inflicted two dangerous wounds on an elderly female, named Dyer, one in the neck, and the other on the back part of her head. The prisoner's con duct was indiscribably outrageous, and Pedder put him into a strait-waiscoat. The Parish Oflicers were informed of the transaction, and considering that his conduct had been occasioned by a fit of insanity, they sent him to a mad house at Chelsea. Subsequently, receiving information from the Keeper that his con duct had been steady and rational, and his mind ap parently composed, they ordered the Beadle to con duct him before the Magistrates. Pedder stated, that the wounded parties were still in a dangerous state, and unable to attend. Mrs. Dyer had inform. ed him of the particulars of the transaction. On Monday morning, about half-past seven, Mrs. Dal ton went to the house of the prisoner, who is a cow keeper, to purchase milk. He was reading. He started up, and seized her violently by one of the arms, which occasioned her considerable pain, and made her ety out loudly. Mrs. Edna in from a back room, and the priseter up a clasp knife, which was open, ar , in the neck. His daughter mot ran ceiving the situation of her mother, rat terror, and was overtaken and wonnii ther. Mrs. Dyer, a neighbour, lr:arin ! "Murder r' went in to a scerta i n the c;'; mediately attacked by the prisoner, two dangerous wounds, ore in the ni other on the head. Her son went to 1 and, by a well-directed blow, brought to the ground. Mrs. Edmunds. with h strength, assisted in keeping him do; arrival of Mr. Stephens prevented fur . The poisoner, in defence, said, he was acquainted with the transaction; he 17 fits. He was remanded for the opinio, men as to the state of his mind. MANSION House--G. /Jammed. a of the mail carts, was summoned for violence on the pavement in Abchnrc complaint was supported by Mr. lkul Mr. Deputy Williams, who stated, th a o'clock they topped to inspect the gas the defendant drove on, though they c and in passiag them rtn his cart se houses as to endanger their lives. The d fined in the mitigated penalty of 10s. at THE MARKETS. NEWGATE AND 1417.‘DENHALLM;.IIK (II; the Carew.) Beef 54 4d to 4 4 54 I V el 4o 3Littcn 4s 041 to 56 41 Pork.-- .:,. Lamb es. Od. to .7 , e. ti PR ICES or ILI. Y Aste STRAW - T . ln ST. j A \lre% 1 .1n741 Hay —6l 153 orl to tal Es Od 1izy...71 44 Stra-x U I'7s Od to 31 es Od , Sows , Cicvcr al Os Od to 01 Cs Cd Clam i 1 os riucE new LAC% Kcnt 6l no to 7! 121. , Sussex CI Is to 71 et Ems . 01 Os to Cl C. r.49e1 Fordzo to 61 Cs v 'arnbzr-, ...PI PRICE or TALLOW, soLr, .101. CFI St. Junt,s i Market......Ss 10d I Town T:l!ew.. Clare Market...—. .......Os tad Yellow Russia Wilitechaper3Lrket......Ss 10d Waite ditto... (per stone of Slb) I Yellow Soap, ius—Mottled, L.:is—Coo:l,l2S p.r du.. 14 Gd—Moulds, I It AW HIDES. Best Heifers and Steers (per Ordinary ...t stot:e) ^3 8d to 3s Od Market Calf I Middlings 4th to Sts 6i FAT. Horse Co Siseepskins—Polled, 3. Od to 6s Od—Dawes, Sheaslings, 5s Od to 6s 10d—Lambs, Ss 6 PRICE OF LEATHEI Butts, 50 to 561bs tact .......... 2z,1 Ditto, 56 to 61Ibs each ....—. Dressing Hides Id Fine Coach Hides Ed Crop Hides, 35 to 401a4 or cutdng 20.1 Ditto 45 to SOlbs— ............. ......_24 Calf Skins, 50 to eOlbs ^4ci Ditto 50 to 701b5..--.—....—. ....... .25d Ditto 70 to 801bs ..... ........ ......... ..30J Small Soak (Greenland) ;E d Large ditto per dna Zs Tauned Horse Hides •^J Spanish Horse Hides: c'd COAL MARKET, Oct :9 Ships at 'Market Skits Said. .r:. 31k Newcastle 25 /0 f a Sunderland 7 '.. , Ft 1 Ralbeeth 1 :st ' 1 Cinden I rs I Meal has declined ss. a load in La! the best sort sold on Tuesday last at 501 One hundred and fifty sacks of fine offered for sale, last week, at Blandfo: shire, at 6s. per sack. At Burntwood Fair in Essex, last we a large show, of beasts of all kinds, South Welch, which were principally reduced prices. At Market Deeping Fair, on Saturds there was a short supply of beasts and what there were, sold well _ There was a larger quantity of cbees Leicester fair, on Tuesday, than had be the prices were, blen milk, 505. to 58 80s. to 84s. and prime dairies, 90s. per very choice cheese as high as 925. The present high price of candles re tigation, as they are at this time abc higher in price than at this period last y importation of tallow exceeds that of las many thousand casks. • BrItTHS. 'Wednesday, at Caldbeck, die Lady of the Re+ a son. - —.- The Lady of Major Tootling, of the City of litia, of a daughter. MARRIED. The Right Hon.W. O'Dell, Lieutecant-Colorc limerick and one of the Lords of his sury, to Wiss Anne Maria Finuc:use, of Ennis. At Kirkby Stephen, Mr. Win. a veer Mies Ann Nevison, an itinerant dealer in art bridegroom and his consort have lived ttvethet years, and have a family of four or five children " Their courtship o'er, their licneymoon bi A numerous offspring, too, amend them Strange that this snber thought acluld coin To crown their labours with a wo:k of 1 DIED. Friday, at the Vicarge, ShaMord, scar Guar the wife of the Rev. H. K. Creed, aped 27. Wednesday, Henry Fowke, Eq. Town CM corder, and Coroner of the Sorourh of Temkin,' Wednesday, at Barnard Castle, Mr. John I monger and bacon-factor. His death was awft dropped down in the public market, and instao Same day, at an advanced ago, Mr. Shaw, Lichfield. He was the owner of a borne whit Plate at the late Stafford Races, and he went to the intention of bunting on Thusiday last. hnarty supper at the house of his son, oa Wedn died while unbuttoning his ratters. 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