Star. — London, England, 1818-03-09 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DOVER, MARCH 7. 7-. e wind has blown exceedingly hard all this day 4.0^ the S.W. to West, and many vessels have passed the Downs for shelter. Several small casks , i•s have washed alongshore duri n g the da y , c:', • kun g man of the name of Bn tees, in attempt •, ; • vt one out of the surf , was unfortunately ot f by the violence of the sea, and seen no more. Al \ s—During the whole of last night and the pill of this day, the wind has continued very hard, attended with a heavy sea on the wl:ich has caused much damage to the Ord ;xes:,,:e.house, situated near the Parade; a part c( has been carried away ; and, it is feared, if ;Ix co:i.a:es till high water to-night, that the' rex . : part of it will be washed down, as well as fluildi3g,s near it. Folkstone harbour suffered ve,:erday. several small vessels have put in this day.—Six P.M. Wind W.N.W. ;,-.lllo'Xi strong, with squalls of rain. DEAL, MARCH 8. W. moderate.—Arrived and remains in the D •,., ;he Alert, SARAU, from Virginia, all well.— ( ~..;,) % n from the River, the Posthumous, Trio- Demerara, with loss of anchor and cable.— ~.: S: t g, BEN NETT, for Malta, broke her anchor la go another, and remains in the Downs , ler is reported to have foundered off the 1 & u ;.': foreland yesterday—particulars not known. i~,... HAMSGATE, MARCH 7. 11.11C-caq Eight P.M.—This morning we had an aller v.rs - h r tvy gale from the. S.W. to S.S.W. The fol.‘aving is an account of part of the damage sus ti,ued, but in the midst of such confusion it is im possiule :;rt at all particulars :—The Jane, and the of Sunderland, missed the Pier, went and are gone to pieces. The following ships reeked more or less damage, and all have and cables :—The Hope, Trifenca, Per &della, Effort, Andromeda, Kate, Mary, Puiteney, Hope, Mary, Celerity, Thornley, k i .1. c. Perseverance, and the Stranger. The Han. New Bruaswicic, is on shore on Sandwich Three brigs missed the Harbour, and ran for C. \,:th Sea. B.—Came in the Mary, NEWPORT, with , all her masts. The Thomas, BELL, and STRACITAN, have been got off, and are I.tr';:r)ur. The Asia, East Indiaman, is dis- her cargo, and it is expected will be got The luckland hat discharged her cargo, and pe, led she will get off next tide. The Glory .:;.raved part of her cargo; the remainder is ,L 7 .vater, but she is expected to be got off. The sunk deeper in the sand. Some damaged .11 from the Fortitude has been landed ; the too ~.12.k deeper in th;... sand. MARGATE, MARCH 8. Arrived in our Roads yesterday evening, the Eu- Asirrox, outward-bound East Indiaman. Re . t!t: Java and the Franklin, East Indiamen. the Watchful, Revenue cutter, with loss of and cable. The Lord Wellington, KEENE, down from Pansand Hole, with loss of an and cable, and brought up in our Roads. The Rqent schooner drove out of the Roads• PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 8. W.N. W.—A rrived the Weymouth store-ship, tLe Mediterranean, and is under quarantine.— '.e.ither is very severe, but the ships ride it out with extreme regret we announce the drown yi the lloa. Mr. TUELLUSSON, (brother of Lord 5 1,1 . 7 . , 111.!41, Mr. HASSALL (son of J. HASSALL, q. of 11.ththorn, Derbyshire), and Mr. LEESON, [S' 71 of L:;.: If - m. Mrs. LEEsoN), all Midshipmen of sl:ip TIBER, who left that ship soon after lie ccrnmenced on Wednesday, in a wherry, wis pooped by a sea at the mouth of the har- and was ne•:er seen afterwards. The waterman li:,..)ws) and a boy also perished. These young Gen ti, woo were most highly esteemed by their L . .:ler Of.icers, were t , mipted to leave *he ship at haz4rdous moment by their anxious desire to see '-.:1 , ...-,f(nmance of Mr. Kr.Al; that evening. MARCH C. I,","nd W. to S.W. strong4)reezes and dirty-looking P .- AO:LT.—Nothing arrived or sailed of the least con- BRIICHAM, (TORBAY), MARCH 7. 1 . -.- violt..nt storm on Wednesday eight did no in- L is Bay, as it did not continue at S.l:. more hour, for had it continued longer, the few were in this Bay must have suffered, as the as so crowded as not to admit of affording One vessel of light draft of water fr,in her anchors, but received no damage. - - )lII,FORD, MARCH 6. h d a severe gale from the to S.E. •t, FIC;%IPIIREYS, lost her bowsprit and r damage. the Donegal, CouRTNtY, Friends Increase, IlAstvz,v, lost her ts :I,ld buw•prit ; the Sand - .vich, Post-office wen on shore, but has got elf again -t" • Earl of Leicester, Post-office packet, ••:;!Lc. cables and was drove on shy, bat r i , l .I:.;ain with damage. The Gowcr, ui.set her xin2.lass, and received ri:Nnyrr, MARCH 6. I 7,.dy here on Wednesday ni:;ht, S.S.W.— The schooner Ann, 4 n 4 t - •-• 1 wi:h copper, &c.partcd two hawsers in the afternoon, and held on by a third till eight o'clock in the evening, when she parted and drove out of the Piers, went on shore on the Beach, and became a complete wreck. When she parted the last rope, the Master and a man took to their boat, which was upset, and both were drowned. The Swedish schooner Maria, WICVHILL, parted three cables, carried away her channels, broke her false keel, and received other damage. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 7. The Mercury, RAE, sailed from hence on the 3d instant, has put back with loss of main top-mast and one man drowned. The Minerva, SICETCHLY, sailed from hence 12th ult. put into Ullapool, Loch Broom, 27th, with loss of her main and mizen masts, and other damage; the Mate and two men washed overboard. The Neptune, —, from New York for Dublin, has been boarded by No. 5 Pilot boat, having been driven out of Dublin Bay with loss of all her anchors and cables. Arrived the Margaret Ann, ALEXANDER, from the Isle of France, sailed 3d De cember. On 21st in lat. St. 50. S. long. 30. 20. E. spoke the ship Princess Charlotte, LEAN, from Cal cutta, for Liverpool, out 70 days, intended to call at the Cape, sailed from St. Helena 12th January, and was boarded off Ascension on the 18th by his Majes 7 ty's ship GRIFFIN. POOLE, MARCH s. Arrived the Ann, DAYNIENT, from Newfoundland, leaky ; sailed the•lBth January, and soon got jammed in the ice, where she remained twenty-nine days. They were just in soundings when the gale of last Wednesday came on, and they report that it was by no means so tremendous as we have found it. HULL, MARCH 6. During the gale of Wednesday last, the Metcalf, TINDALL ; and the Providence, WALTON, both from London for Leeds with goods, were driven on shore and sunk. NORTH SHIELDS, MARCH 6. The brig Piece, COOPER ; and the Juno, Srovax, are on shore, and the Mate of the former drowned ; all hands else are safe. The Lady Jane, FLEMING, sailed to-day for Davis's Straits. HARWICH, MARCH 8. Sailed the Castlereagh packet, with mails for Cux haven ; and the Lady Nepean packet, with ditto, for Holland. SHEERNESS, MARCH 8. Sailed to-day the Isabella, WALLIS, with convicts, for New South Wales. CUSTOM-HOUSE, MARCH 7. Snips Resew Istweitee —The' James, Harvey, from Wa terford; Rover, Harmer, from Tarragona; Churning Molly, Ferrier, from Calais ' • Churchill, Pancher, from Lisbon ; the Nhorn S, Young, De merara; Ross, Harrison, from Jamaica; and Two Brothers, from iv;alaga. °emcees—Young Arlon, Hawkins, or Madeira ; Phcenix, White, for India; the Leader, Smith, for Boston ; the Eire, Capp for Gilboa and Bayonne ; Antelope, Bryan, for the Cape of Good Hope; Wood, for Rotterdam; and Dart, Sibly, for Newfoundland. The late storm appears to have commenced in the North. On Tuesday evening it blew at Edinburgh a most violent gale from the westward ; chimney pots were tumbling down in all quarters, two hack ney-coaches were blown over, and all the gardens in the neighbourhood were more or less ravaged. The following are a few particulars of the storm of Wednesday in the country : _ _ At Bath and its vicinity the gale was very violent. The vane on the Abbey Tower was blown down ; a new wall, 130 feet in length, near the road to Claverton Down, was levelled; the river Avon had risen above its banks. In Melts and Orchardleigh Parks, numbers of trees have beta uprooted. Fairnborough Church was unroofed, and two turrets blown down. The Ports mouth Coach was overturned near Salisbury, but no serious in jury occtirred. Near Caine, in Wiltshire, a large elm tree fell be tween two stage coaches at their meeting, but no other mischief ensued than by the delay occasioned in removing the obstruction. The roads were impassable on Wednesday from the heavy rains. —At Hnniton's Clyss the water was breast high to the horses, and many trees were prostrated on the road. The stage coaches and mails were detained for several hours beyond their usual time. On the way from Exeter to Bath, not less than 200 apple trees, and an equal number of other trees, many of a large size, were found thrown down on Thursday morning. The horses of Mr. Bard's waggon, from Exeter to Bristol, took fright at the lightning, and the waggon was precipitated over the bridge on the river Cullum, a mile from Collumpton ; one horse was lost, the other seven saved ; but a roan s his wit:, and son, passengers in the waggon, were unfortunately drowned. The waggon was carried by the current under the main arch of the bridge, and soon sunk, about nine o'clock on Wednesday even ing. Next morning part of the waggon and the drowned horse appeared above water. At Canterbury, Wednesday evening commenced with boisterous wind and dreadful thunder. The lightning struck the summit of Ash Church spire, which was set on fire, and menaced the destruction of the church and vil lage ; but an engine was procured from Sandwich, which, with the assistance of the inhabitants, soon stopped the conflagration. —Accounts from Norwich are of a similar description. At Hempnall, the top of a new mill, with the four sails, were blown off. On the Yarmouth road to Norwich, the wind was very destructive. At Mr. Loess ' s, at Firby, a tree was snapped, asunder close to the ground. At Burlingham, a pole was blown through a large barn. Four trees at Lakenham were torn up by the roots. In Norwich, many chimneys were thrown down; all of those at Mr. THOMPSON'S brewery, which received much damage by their on the roof. Part of the city jail wall was damaged. At Leicester, the storm was severely felt. At Loughborough the shock of an earthquake was experienced, as well as in the surrounding villages, between one and two on Thursday morning, which, with the wind, destroyed a new rreetiog-house of Methodists, called Ranters. A great part of the banks at Southend, Essex, have been washed into the sea.— On the roads in Berkshire and in Hampshire, on the Portsmouth road, vast numbers of trees have been overthrown, and the win dows and roofs of many houses, cottages, &c. have been greatly damaged. At Margate, part et the Customs watch-house was washed away, several of the groynes were torn up, and great farther danger apprehended. The mail-coach from Portsmouth to Bristol was overthrown between Pareham and Southampton. The guard conveyed the mail part of the way on saddle-hor s es and-post-chaises by a circuitous route across fields, in consequence of the trees blown across the road. One of the chimneys of C'arli.le Gaol was blown down by the violence of the wind, whereby ore of the debtors was severely injured on the head. Thursday morning, about seven o'clock, a brick wall, forming part of the Circus, near St. Cuthbert' Church, %vat blown down by the high wind. Mr. Wilson's coachman and four horses bad just passed the wall, followed by one of the per 'on, employed in the •!able, when it fell ; some of the bricks touched the heels of the latter. An inquest was held on Saturday night on the bodies of John Draper and Thomas Page, bargemen, in the employ of Mr. Rod gers, Lit-en/ford, who were drowned on Wednesday night last, doling the tempeoduous weather, by the barge sinking which they were on bored of, near Ilorse-shoe-alley, Backside, South wark. The deceased came from Brentford oa Wednesday to the wharf of Messrs. Bishops, Bankside, with a barge load of iron ; they unloaded the barge at the stern, but not at the head, and went to bed on Wednesday night in the cabin. In come pence of the hurricane of Wednesday night it stink ; the un fortunate persons (it is conjectured) finding the barge sinking, ran out of the cabin quite naked to ende-vour to save themselves, and wee drowned. Verdict—Food drowned. THE AR.VY. ARMY PAY TO GENERAL OFFICER& EXTRACTED ;ROM THE SEVENTH REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE Or FINANCE. _ ----- Your Committee now proceed to those beads of expense, which however necessarily arising out "of 4 war unexampled in its duration and magnitude, press heavily on the resources of the country. In their Report of last year they adverted to this recent instl tution of Army Pay to General Officers ; admitting its propriety in the case of Officers, who during active service I. a long-pro tracted war had risen to stations inconsistent with regimental duty, and who could not from their number obtain like usual in demnity by commanding a regiment; but eapressifig a strong opinion against extending such a provision to every promotion by Brevet in time of peace. Your Committee mulling their opinion, have great satisfac tion in laying before the House a Warrant from the Prince Re gent; by which they conceive that sumcient provision is made to enable the Commander in Chief to remunerate the claims of meritorious and active Officers, who may be promoted by brevet to the rank of General Officers without entailing upon the public the large and indefinite expense of the former regulation; under the present order, the expense will be gradually reduced from .£176,955, the amount of the Estimate of the present year, to X 54,750, which will be the charge of 120 General Officers, the number to which the royal bounty under this head will thence forward be limited. " By his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. " Grolier, P. R. " Whereas, We think it expedient that the permanent esta blishment of General Officers, not in command of Regiments, but receiving unattached pay, under the regulations contained in our warrant of the Bth of August, 1814, shall consist of 120 ' General Officers, at the rate of V. Ss. a day each ; our will and pleasure is, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, that the following Regulations be observed on this subject : " lit, That the rate of 11. 181. per diem, now attached to the rank of General, and the rate of 11. 12.5. 6d. now attached to the rank of Lieutenant-General, shall be abolished respectively, and shall not be received by any Officers who may henceforward be promoted to those ranks; and that the Lieutenant-Genera snow on the list shall continue to receive their present rate of pay in the event of their becoming full Generals; and the Major-Ge nerals now on the list shall receive 11. Ss. per diem, without any augmentation of that rate in consequence of their rising to the ranks of Lieutenant-General, or General. " ad, That all Officers who may henceforward be promoted to be General Officers, shall continue to retain their Regimental Commissions, receiving the full or the half-pay of their Regi. mental Rank, until the total number of General Officers on un attached pay shall have been reduced to the above-mentioned establish:nent of 120 Officers; and that vacancies which may then happen in the establishment so limited, shall be filled up by General Officers to be selected for that purpose. " That those General Officers who are now Colonels of Regi ments shall, nevertheless, in the events of their regiments being reduced, be placed upon the establishment of unattached pay, at the rates granted to their respective ranks by our said warrant of Bth of August, 1814. " Given at our Court at Carlton House this day of , in the Lath year of his Majesty's Reign. " By command of his Royal Highness the Prince Rent, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty. " PA L MERSTON." ESTIMATE OF PENSIONS TO WIDOWS OF OFFICERS. The charge under this head is varied only from that in 1817, by a trilling reduction. Your Committee esteem this species of bounty as most congenial with every humane feeling of the heart ; but for that very reason they consider it most proper to be confined by fixed rules, deliberately formed, and consistent with the various other demands on the resources of the country. The following Order has recently been made by the Prince Regent, for ascertaining those, who from their pecuniary circum stances, shall in future be entitled to receive their pensions : . By his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. • " Gmaux, P. R. " Whereas, We have deemed it expedient to revise the Rules and Regulations under which Pensions are now granted to the Widows of Commissioned Officers of our Land Forces, and to confine such pensions to those appilcanu who shall appear, from the state of their pecuniary circumstances, to be proper objects of our Royal Bounty—lt is out will and pleasure, and we do hereby order and direct, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, that no pension shall be hereafter granted to the Widow of any Commissioned Officer of the Land Forces, dying subse quently to the 4.5 th December last, who shall have any other pension from Government, or whose annual income otherwise arising shall amount to double the rate of pension assigned to the rank of her deceased husband. " Given at our Court at Carlton House, this 17th day of February, 1818, in the 58th year of his Majesty's Reign. 4 , By command of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty. (Signed) " PALMERSTON." Wednesday landed at Donaghadee, from Portpa trick, Major General Sir SYDNEY BECKWITH ; and on Thursday, General CorawaN, and the Hon. Colonel O'Nai Previous to MINA'S being killed by the Spaniards, he was compelled to sign an order to his companions, in fort Comanja, to deliver themselves up. The an swer made was, that they regretted the misfortune of their General, but it would not materially affect their situation ; adding, however, that if the Royalists killed him, they would do the same with 6Q Spaniards then in their power. Monday the brig Dolphin, PaowTlwG, in 34 days from St. Thomas's, laden with coffee and sugar, ar rived at Portsmouth. The schooner Morgan Rattler, which sailed from that port with about 40 young men to join the cause of the Independents of South Ame rica, had arrived at that island, but they were not permitted to land, in consequence of the deplorable condition that many had been left in who had previ ously arrived, and who actually had become paupers on the inhabitants, from not finding there an agent to advance cash and furnish means for their proceed ing to the Spanish Main, as they had fully expected and calculated on when they left England. The Morgan Rustler had sailed again, supposed direct for the Main. The Game-keepers of the Earl of CARLISLE, at Castle Howard, going their rounds a few nights ago, observed a light traversing the fields in a very ex traordinary manner, apparently moving of itself.— They watched it for some time with amazement, when, at length, it made a sudden stop, and they observed, for the first time, three men draw a net towards the light, which proved to be a setter-' dog with a lantern fixed upon his head, so that he could range the field, and on his stopping, the poachers knew where the game lay. The whole of the poachers 1 1 were apprehended, and committed for trial. EXT&AOISDINAILY Duatn.—About ten o'clock on Saturday night, the landlord of the Crooked Billet, Whitechapel, returned home after being out the whole of the day transacting some bu siness, and sitting with his wile in the bar until the house was cleared of all the customers, she observed he WAS very melan choly and dejected. On a sudden he started up and exclaimed, " Wife, come get me the pistols, don't you hear thieves breaking into the house, they are coming to tab and murder us." Ilis wife did all she could to convince hint it was only imagination, and strove to compose him, but to no effect. On his wife re fusing to get hint the pistols, he started up out of his chair, and getting the pistols himself, be ran up and down stairs with a loaded pistol in each hand, crying out " Robbers! Murder !" but fortunately met with no person ; he became quite exhausted, and returned into the parlour; he walked about in a state of frenzy for some time, when seating himself in a chair, he drop ped down and expired ; a surgeon was called, who rendered every assistance, but to no effect. CORN RTCHANGE, MARX-LANE MARCPI9. - . Our supply of Wheat th is morning was very small, and consisted of land-carriage samples from Essex, yet the trade was very heavy; and although picked samples obtained last Monday's pikes, the .. sales were at a reduction of 2s. per quarter. ft t ; n lL r f Bar ley there was but little doing, having had no arrivals, and prices continue nominally as on this day week. Beans are 2s. per quarter cheaper. Oats were ex ceedingly dull sale, at a decline of Is. per quarter. In other articles there is no alteration. CCRAII3II PAWLS AS WARR : lIMOLISII. Wheat, Kent and Essex Suffolk Norfolk Rye Barley Mak White Peas Boilers Grey Peas 70s 911 s 70s 90s 701 88s 36s 40s 501 50s GUs 76. 40s 48, 54$ 561 40s 46. Small Beans 411 s Tick ditto 56s 41 Oats, Potato, Sas 34s Poland 241 32s Feed las 30a Flour, per Seek 73s Ks Rapeseed, per Last L'io Xsit TOZILION. Wheat, Dentate 80, lON Baltic Red, Hainbro' or Brenteo,Braltant red 705 90, A dreadful event happened at Priorsfield Colliery, near Lane End, on the morning of Thursday, about six o'clock, occasioned by the breaking of the main chain immeiiately after the waggon was drawn of the pit, by 'which accident three men, and three boys, all fastened together in the chain, were preci pitated to the bottom of the pit, and literally dashed to pieces. _ _ _ A calamitous accident happened in the afternoon of Monday last, %bout three or four miles off Dover. A boat had gone out for the purpose of catching whitings, when the wind having increased very much, it is conjectured upset the boat, and the crew, consist ing of tow men of Dover, viz. Spice, master of the boat, Tefty, Franks, and May, were unfortunately drownect, May was 70 yearsof-age ; Terry and Spice have left wives and families to lament their loss. Sunday se'nnight the following affecting event took place in the parish church of Henley, in Oxfordshire, during divine service : at-the time of naming the text (Isaiah lv. 7), a labouring man named House, ob serving that the person who sat next him was drowsy, eagerly aroused his attention to the interesting and important passage: but scarcely had the Minister'pro ceeded three minutes in his address, when House in stantaneously sunk in his seat a lifeless corpse Sunday se'nnight, about five o'clock in the morn ing, the farm-buildings belonging to Mr. Thomas Hewit, of Itockliff, near Carlisle, were discovered on fire, and from the violence of the wind it was im possible to extinguish the flames in the buildings in which they raged; but by great exertions the fire was prevented from extending to those adjoining...-. The horses and cattle were the only property saved ; , a large quantity of hay, corn, farming and other utensils therein, being entirely consumed. Harron-Gaansn.—Saturday Thomas Deosom,Caseles Sonia Renton, and Thomas 139talter, four young men, between ge and 22 years of age, were brought up in the custody of Wl - Read, jun. and William Wainwright, Officers, and v e t: the bar, charged by Mr. Michael Riley, landlord of the hound, Henrietta-etreet, Brunswick-square, with infusing and mixing same deadly poison in some porter, and giving it to drink to Sarah Morgan, Sarah Woodham, Betsy Fox, Jane Griffiths, and Jane Tucker, five young women, with intent to deprive them of life. The complainant deposed, that he is landlord of thetheyhound public-house, Henrietta-street, Brunswick-square, and is likewise a bresh-asamffaeterer; that the above five named young women worked for him In a work-shop in the upper part of a house deemed in an adjoining mews s that the two int named prisoners are gentlemen's servants, and the other two journeymen brush-makers, who worked for another person in the Lune mews; that ab out twelve o'clock that forenoon, one of the two first-named prisoners came to his house for a pot of porter, which complainant drew into a clean pot; that after taking the chill off he carried away the beer, and meeting the other three prisoners, they drank better than half of it ; after which the prisoner, Samuel Renton, took the remainder to the above five young women, and which they drank between them. The prisoners returned to complainant's house, where they eat down and had some refreshment. They had not been long there, when a messenger came and informed him that the five young women wete stretched on the floor in the room in which they worked, lying in the agonies of death. Witness hastened to them immediately, and found them as described ; one was in strong convulsions, black in the face, and foaming at the mouth; a second speechltsa,"and apparently in a dying state ; and the other three stretched by them on the floor,'suffering dating pain. Witness sent immediately for Dr. Darling, of No. 29, Brunswick-square, who came and administered the ne. cessary medicines; bet finding their case very dangerous, he deemed it proper to have further advice, and three other kledl cal Gentlemen were called In, all of whom agreed in opinion that their lives were in imminent danger, and that they could not give the smallest hopes of the recovery of either, and that their opinion was , that they laboured under the effects of some ' deadly poison add not from julep, opium, Spanish Lies, o r any similar things that might be administered to them for any base purpose. Complainant, under all these circumstances, caused the prisoners to be taken into custody, and brought to trial. The prisoners were asked by the Magistrate, Mr. Sums, if they wished to say any thing in their defence; on which a con. troversy took place between two of the prisoners. One, a gen tleman s servant, said that he was sent by the two brnshmakers to the complainant's house for a pot of beer ; when he got it, he took the chill off, and returned with the beer to the two brush,-. makers; they made him and his companion, the other serraat drink ; they swallowed about a pint of it ; and the ' , harmer, fine muel Renton, a brushmaker, carried the remainder to the young women. This prisoner declared that there could be no poisonous inyredients in the beer when he and his companion drank ; as, if there had been, they would have been as mu c h a ff ecte d as the women. The prisoner, Samuel Renton, said that there must have been something in the beer that was improper when it was given to him by the person who brought It, for that he drank of the beer before be gave it to the young women, and that he found hattself very mutt affected, and not able to go to work. A Gentleman, who happened to be present in the tap-room whoa the two brusllmakers were apprehended, stated that he heard the prisoner Renton say to his companion, the other brushing/ten, " Tush—not a word—keep close, and they can do nothing." At seven o'clock on Saturday evening, Mr. Riley, the coo plainant, accompanied by Mr. Boughton, surgeon, of 16, ter-street, Brunswick-square, and some other gentlemen, attend, ed, when the Magistrate put the following questions to Mr. Riley: Magistrate.—Mr. Riley, how long after the pot of beer was taken from your house was it before the girls complained?—. About a quarter of an hour. . . Magistrate.—Did you examine the pot to to see if it ccrntained any sediment I—The pot was taken back to my house, and left on the bar, before I heard of their being unwell; and I then 'poked for the pot, and found it had been just filled up for act , ther person ; lest here should be . any left, I took the beer and spilled it in the street: Mr. Edward Boughton, the surgeon, was called forward aid asked—ls it your opinion that it was arsenic or any other deadly p o i son th a t was infused in the beer?—lt is not; the symptoms were not alike, but it must have been some violent stimulus, such as car.tharides, tartar emetic, or sulphur delingua, &c. Magistrate.—For what purpose could cantharides be gives? —lt would produce an excitement of the system. Magistrate.—What is your opinion of their present state; are they out of danger?—Doctor Darling and I visited them nos long since, and we are both of opinion that three of them will recover; but as for Betty Fox and Jane Grath, they ate stlU in such a dangerous state, that if an inflammation of the stn. mach was to follow, death must ensue; consequently we am both of opinion, that they are not out of danger. The offenders, who were aLrmily in prisms, and no present at this period, were ordered to stand committed for ruder examination, when the fate of the unfortunate girls is* dechissl either one way or the other. 1 • • I : 1 , . 1 1 1 , i . ' s • I ' i m •I't ' i • . 1 , o ' ~.1, i i i t . ' i , • . . i , . • 1 • 1 1 • , ii • .1 ' . I . . i .. 1: t 4 1 1 1 c k, l 1 1 f ! ! , 6 i / Ai . A... v fi' 1 ~ ~, , . :11 / 1. ... ~ . , 11 ;1 ~., i'• • ~. _.. ..:, „, t • ! ..f iii i Alt, r, t it ' 1 '' 1 1 . .1 , •f t r i , . i , , t 15 • t fil . t r!,, ) 1 , , ,• , 1 , , i , . 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