Star. — London, England, 1829-11-27 00:00:00

4 0 Vii'. 4 - No. V. From the Cheltenham Journal. ;r l 32: 4 :TAirtotrcus.—How now, rustics, whither bound? Smirtizass.—To the Palace, an% like your Worshi?. SHAIStaAlta. Maar a Tale. " There also were two wits by acclamation,— • • Both wits—one born ao, and the other bred, This by his heart—the other by his bead." Dmlel- 4, Paoegyekkto the Ring's 'Majesty." _ - THE MAN OF LEISURE, IN CHELTENHAM.' —lf all these seem an heterogeneous mass To be assembled at a country seat, Yet think, a specimen of every class Is better than a hum-drum tete-a-tete. Bows. Dos Juan, c. From the first morning after the arrival of the King, to the day of his departure,—with the exception only of his absence at km Worcester Music Meeting—his Majesty was amongst the earliest frequenters of The Spa,"—accompanied generally by the Queen on.l the Princesses, but always by the Princess Royal: the courteousness—the affable, the bland demeanour of the English gentleman which—laying aside the hauteur of Royalty—be was always pleased to Indulge in such seasons of intercourse with his subjects, were such as to endear him to the humblest who beheld, as well as to the proudest who shared, his kindness : so that it might indeed be said of him, Gon makes thee King of our estates; but we Do make thee King of our affection, King of our love—a passion born most free, And most unsubject to dominion." • —lt was impossible to look at the good King without feeling the pleasure which he took in such unreserved communion, such affable and social converse. The Promenade was ever and anon enlivened by some happy saying or jocular remark of the good-natured Monarch, who seemed pleased in raising an innocent laugh at the expense of some titled courtier, who was proud to " bear bitch blushing honours thick upon him;' and one morning, I recollect, Lord Bewdley was the envied object of Royal merriment. The Queen, too, and her blooming daughters, enjoyed this harmless raillery, and were delighted with the witty and poignant humour of two of the most beautiful and fascinating women in England, who then nourished here the gayest of the gay"—whilst the strict decorum which her Majesty never for a moment suffered those who were admitted into her society to lose sight of, pro tected Lady Leeson and Mrs. Milbanke even from the suspicion of levity, though her Ladyship was all that loveliness and fascination could be, and Mrs. Milbanke, not less charming, nor pOssessed of less attractive graces, or less sparkling wit— was celebrated as an equestrian, for the intrepidity and skill with which she could clear a five•barred gate. George Soiwyn, the facetious Selwin—the Brummel of his day, who resided at Matson House.near Gloucester, did not ►ask heedlessly in the sun• shine of Royal favour, but shone in its pore rays, a brilliant of the first water. When he first met the King's eye, as he sauntered along the walk, he was familiarly accosted with—" Ha, ha, Sel wyn,glad to see you—glad to see yon—what wind blew you here ?" " In the words of merry Mister Heywood," said the wag. ". do I reply—two winds especially—the one to see your Majesty and the other that your Majesty might see me."—" Good, very good, ex cellent good," said the King, " good, very good, Selwyn,—only better,—much better if original,—much better if original Selwyn." —I have already recorded one of Mr. Whitefoord's habitual jokes —and he, too, was permitted to excite the hilarity of the morning promenade, so that here, as in the villeggiatura of Juan, And if, in the " heterogeneous mass," we had neither " Pa miles, the legal bully," nor " the pretm Chevalier de la Rune," — neither —Jack Jargon, the gigantic guardsman, Nor General Wireface, famous in the field— we yet had the redoubted Gunpowder Stuart, whose very name was so terrible, that the very doors of our lodging-houses were abut against so combustible an inmate. In enumerating the elite of our society, I forgot to mention, that the Duke of Queensberry drove down from London in so splendid an equipage that it was at first imagined his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (our present most Gracious Monarch,) had arrived amongst us; and so far was the delusion carried, that the inhabitants were about to Illuminate, and the bell of Prestbury steeple rung out a joyous peal in honour or the event. By the bye, so perfectly crowded were all our dwellings, hotels, and lodgings, that Prestbury and Chariton Kings were actually overflowed by the overfiowings of our " tide of fashion," and several families were obliged to take up their quar ters at Tewkesbury, where Lord Harrington and his amiable Countess bad apartments, though they repaired daily to Chelten ham. Lord and Lady Harcourt were so fortunate as to obtain a suitable reddence.at Manager Watson's, and Manager Watson was in his turn so fortunate as to obtain the Royal patronage, through that mutually fortunate circumstance ; for the King, who person ally visited every Member of his Court, when Lord Harcourt in formed him where he lived, expressed his intention to honour him with a visit. Upon this occasion, Watson, who was liked by every body," got a place at the Review," and a Royal command was the immediate consequence. But I must not anticipate. Before I lose sight of the arrangements made for quartering the beau monde, It may be as well to appease the unjust wrath of those who now-a days exclaim against the high rents of the town, by stating that then, forty years ago, the price of lodgings was raised from three guineas to twenty and twenty-two guineas per week! and I need seemly say bow Inferior in every respect was the style of accommodation which even that exorbitant charge could secure, when compared with the elegance, the neatness, and the comforts of our present dviellings4— Then, as at Tonbridge. in Charks the Second's merry days, " the company were accommodated with Lodgings in little, clean, convenient, habitations, that lay straggling and separated from each other, (I may as well transcribe the whole sketch for the resemblance it beers to Cheltenham as it was,) " half a mile round the Wells, where the company meet in the morning : this place consists of a long walk shaded by spreading trees, under whkh they walk while they are drinking the waters." Now, 0 The company are accommodated with lodgings," in magnificent mansions, detached villas, and substantial houses adapted for the reception of " high wealth and title ;" where there was formerly but the limited supply of one well, three pump rooms have for some years shared the patronage of the beau monde; and where we had but one grand walk, we have now a diversity of walks, indepen dent of the principal prOmenade of each establishment) so hien riously planted that the delicious shade of the foliage, even in the hottest day of summer, protects the assembled votaries of heahh .and pleasure from the beams of the sun.—" Three pump rooms," did I uy—then sinxe a fourth is now rising into note and import . ance, add, in the, words of Macbeth—" the greatest is behind." Well, the Motopellier, and the Imperial Spas, have favour of the faculty, and the liberal support of ~it they are destined, at no very distant period, to ex famidable competition in the magnificent temple, the sa and the eztendve and well arranged walks, width render Pittville a source of unprecedented attraction. digression. Let as return to the proud days of King was so delighted with the rend charms of he determined upon repeating his visit annually, in contemplation to render Cheltenham a Royal the erection of a Palace ! the site of which was :the meth side of Faueonberg House, and aburedly situidests la the vicinity commanding such extensive e prospects of the gretord that was then selected.— lltiuse (or Bay's Hill Lodge) which had been built by skuneocne„end purchased by Lord Fancoriberg, was not - !Ode" lbe the manbers ads, Rotal Family, without calculettniii atleft4lirtl9, 2 l.ld !bit lUIS, aft hie sojourn, caused seventeen additional apartments to be built, at his own expense, for his retinue. The Lodge itself, from its admi rable situation, commands many of the finest views in the county' whilst the grounds which immediately surround it, are laid out in a bold style of Park scenery :—but hear, " Sir Oracie."—" The ground had fine swells, spotted with these majestic trees, and the surface was fresh and verdant. One or two fields, like a few limbs of a glorious statue, stiU exhibit the original characters ; but the Sun ensemble which the house and grounds.possessed, is lost for ever. The fine animal has been butchered and cut in pieces." Out upon it ! the antiquarian has " been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps." No man was so well qualified to give a fine and majestic pictere of Cheltenham as the historical Fosbroke —" This was looked for at your hand, and this was baulked." —I have said that the Lodge itself was inadequate to the accom modation of the Court; and the King. who loved nothing so much as having his family about him, observed one day in the town, a wooden house. two stories in height, which had been built by a London mechanic, examined it minutely, and finding that it contained eight apartments. besides attics, it immediately occurred to him that it would be a very desirable and convenient appendage to the Lodge. Notwithstanding its size and weight (it weighed nine tons) the artist declared he could easily take it to pieces, and remove it to the top of Bay's Hill, without any delay ; and upon this representation his Majesty purchased the moveable dwelling.— It was precisely similar in its construction to the wooden house which was sent out to St. Helena, for the occupation of Napoleon Thionaparte, and seemed to afford as little satisfaction to its new proprietor or inhabitant as the house at Longwood. The windows were taken out, the screws and bolts withdrawn, and it was taken to pieces ; but by the following Thursday, although placed upon a machine moved with rollers, it had been conveyed little more than half way to its destination. So slow was the process, that the wooden house became the laughing-stock of the town, and wagers were laid—one of no less a sum that one hundred guineas to ten. that it would not reach Fauconberg House in less than a week. —The King was excessively annoyed by the tediousness with which his project was carried into execution, and almost deter mined to relinquish it altogether. But his displeasure was not of long continuance, and he persevered in urging the speed of the workmen —though they scarcely succeeded in moving the pile more than three yards in an hour ! In that season of universal gaiety, it was impossible to suppress a joke at the expense of the novel un dertaking, and it was often asked, " Why is the King like a zeal ous Member of Parliament r to which the anticipated reply was, " Because he so often moves the House." At length, on Satur day evening, the Herculean task was completed, and the wooden house was erected on the south-east side of the Lodge ; for the King, who bad regard even to the rational recreation of his do mestics, would not suffer it to be placed on the bowling green, lest it should interfere with their diversion of cricket—their considerate Master having sent to London for bats and balls, that they might amuse themselves when they were not engaged in attendance upon the Court. The Bowling Green, and, indeed, all the precincts of the Lodge, were the favourite resort of the country people, who were to be seen loitering about, viewing the game, or peeping through the hedge-rows, watch ing the movements of the Royal Family ; and when the awfulness of the kingly presence was lost to their minds in the gracious and good-natured condescension of t►e Monarch, they ventured to approach close to the parterre in front of the Lodge, and at length ranged themselves in full view of the windows.— No sooner had the King perceived how far the ardor of their at tachment to his person surmounted the natural modesty of their natures, than he determined to afford them all the gratification they desired, and every morning as soon as the dispatches and let ters reached him, his Majesty took his seat at an open window, and there he read whilst his poor subjects gazed with mingled de light, wonder and reverence, upon their King! Even thus, at 0 the Spa," the happy Family—King, Queen, and Princesses, — whenever they rested on the benches, were gradually surrounded by the gazing and enraptured peasants. who seemed, in the words of Taylor, "to nayle their eyes with greedy desire" upon the objects of their respect and love and duty.—How well do I now remember the second Sabbath-day upon which their Majesties and the Princesses walked from the Lodge to St. Mary's Church, at• tended by an immense concourse, who seemed individually to regard the good King, just. as the Spectator tells us, Sir Roger de Coverley was regarded by his tenants. At the Church door the Bishop of Worcester—the venerable—the learned—the mo dest Bishop Hurd,—and the Incumbent the Rev. Mr. Freeman received the Royal Family, and conducted them to the large pew in the gallery, fronting the Pulpit. To give additional effect to the choral parts of the service, a party of select singers had been employed, and were for some time occupied in rehearsing the ap pointed Psalms and Anthems ; but on the preceding Sunday they were an much " daunted" by the importance of the task they had undertaken—so perfectly bewildered by the mere notion of singing in the presence and in the hearing of Royalty, that they made but sorry work of it. On this second occasion, however, they mus tered courage, and acquitted themselves " indifferent well," nay, with the help of a bassoon, they performed " in a style," as the Courtnewsman of that day might have reported, "superior to any thing that could be ezpected."—l was amazingly tickled by the selection of one of the Psaltns—it was the tAtb," How pleasant is thy dwelling place !"—in which I fancied I discovered the appli• cation of scriptural thoughts to temporal circumstances, and a greeting to the Sovereign artfully blended with a complimentary allusion to the town itself. I hope there was nothing profane in that fancy of Cheltenham, Nov. 21, 1829. . . . • The Royal Well, long enjoyed.the. tht public ; but t yerlence a fairald 111 lubrions springs, ". cannot fall to Ten " Mit a truce to 1788, when the . 1 , . • the place, that. li 1 and It was even i Residence, by .41 " • marked out up . tl - there are few *sit 2114 picturesque Vauconberg HU MY. W. Skiing() sullicieslly sped even calculi dng ' J. Dal THE MAN OF LEISURE. A reward of £2OO is offered for the discovery of the incendaries who lately set fire to the farms in the Isle of Sheppy. A glove-manufacturer in Hexham, a few days ago, received from a wholesale dealer in Worcester, a letter, inching a bill, remitted in part payment of a debt due to his father itt the time of the merchant's failure, which took place in 1820, and cc. companied with a promise to make up the deficiency, which was about .6100. This is the more to be admired, as it Is the volun tary act of a bankrupt, nut of whose estates two dividends were paid soon after his failure, and nine years having elapsed, nothing more was expected. This exemplary tradesman is a member of the Society of Friends.—Nesecasile Chronicle. CORONER'S INQUESTS.—Yesterday evening two In quests were holden a: the London Hospital, before J. Dowse, Req. the one on the remains of Wm. Ashmore, aged 58; and the other on those of Ann Frazier, aged 84 years, who expired in that In. stitution. From the evidence adduced in the first case, it appeared that, on the 20th instant, the deceased and a countryman of his named Howe, were In the stables of a Mr. Denton, in whose employ the former was as horse-keeper, and while t here a coo. versation arose on the merits of a horse is one of the stalls.— The deceased observed that though it was low in flesh it was high in blood, and one of the quietest horses in England. To prove this assertion, and its temper, be went over for the purpose of tickling it on the side, but before be had reached it he fell down, in consequence of a large nail in his shoe, slipping off one of the tiles, and came with his head against the hind-hoof of the animal. It lifted up its leg and hit him on the forehead ; after which be was removed to the Hospital, where be expired on Tuesday last. Verdict, Accidental death. In the next ease, it was proved that the deceased, about four days before, during the absence of her mother, while playing with a piece of stick which sh e h a d ta k en from the fire, ignited her pinafore, by which she was so severe l y burned, that it was thought necessary to remove her to the Hos rital. Here she lingered for some days, and expired in the after noon of yesterday. A verdict of Accidental death was also re turned in this cite. On the night of Ttiesday week, a gaud of poachers invaded most of the estates in the neighbourhood, the chief object being the destruction of pheasants. They visited in succession, or in separate parties, the estates of Heudersyde, Newton, &iehel, and' ilie Duke Of Roxburgh's, and succeeded la committing consi derable depredation*. This is the first instance of such a southern . attacirin thit generally quiet neighbourhood ; and es means are taken° prevent a: successful recurrence, It is to be hoped4bensis guided mento ill tibt make another ittempt. The penaky Int the offence is transportation, and the judges hate already' declared' their determination strictly to enforce it.—afelso Mail. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. The betting continues dull, but not more so than usual at this season. when the majority of the gentlemen subscribers are par taking-of the sports of the field; nor is it likely that the business will be at all heavy till after Christmas, unless a severe frost should occur to make a diversion in favour of the metropolis. The St. Leger betting will not assume an Important character until after the nomination has closed (Jan. 1). The following were the closing prices yesterday : DRUM. 7 to I apt Sir M. Wood's Mummer 1! to 1 -- Sir 111. Wood's Cetus 15 to 1 Mr. Petre's Brunswicker 17 to 1 -- Lord Exeter's Mahmoud ill to 1 -- Mr. Thornhill's Wat Tyler 18 to 1 -- Mr. Chifney's Cressida colt 18 to 1 -- Lord Sefton's Sal. Colt 20 to I Lord Cavendish's Mouse colt 22 to 1 Mr. Petre's The Major 22 to 1 -- Lord Sefton's ?douche 25 to Lord Sefton's Captain Arthur 25 to 1 Mr. Roberts's Sister to Sailor -- The others as before. OAKS. 15 to 2 Lord Sefton's Moucbe 9 to 1 Mr. Stonebewer's Leeway filly. 10 to 1 Lord Queensberry's Sister to Emma 15 to 1 Lord Exeter's Simla. 15 to 1 . Lord Jersey's Fillagree filly 17 to 1 -- Mr. Maberley's Zelus The Sister to Emma was backed freely at 10 to 1. IT. L[oll. 8 to I Lord Cleveland's Raby (late Rod.) 16 to 1 Lady Mowbray. 16 to 1 St. Nicholas. 20 to 1 Reginald. LAW INTELLIGENCE. WINTER HOME CIRCUIT. The Hon. Sir William Garrow, Knt. one of the Barons of the Exchequer, and the Hon. Wiliam Bolland, Baron of the laid Court of Exchequer, Justices : Hertfordshire—Monday, Dec. 7, at Hertford. Essex—Wednesday, Dec, 9, at Chelmsford. Kent—Monday, Dec. 14, at Maidstone. Sussex—Saturday, Dec. 19, at Lewes. Surrey—Monday, Dec. 28, at Kingston.upon-Thames. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 26. PILIVATI ADMOUSIS-71111 ZING V. THOMAS SHAIIIPLIX The Arroanee-Gauanat. moved for the judgment of the Court on the defendant, who had suffered judgment to go by default, on an indictment charging him with having received into his care an insane person, without the necessary certificate of insanity, as pre scribed by the late Act of Parliament. The defendant, who was without Counsel, appeared on the floor of the Court. The Arroauav-Gmtaaa I. stated that this prosecution was founded on a very salutary Act of Parliament, which bad passed the year before the last. The Legislature having resolved to protect persons who were afflicted with insanity from the interference of malice, and to secure them the common rights of mankind, had passed an Act which provided that no persons keeping a house for the reception of insane persons, should receive under their care any person afflicted with insanity, except a certificate was signed by two medical men. The Commissioners, acting under the Act, basing learned that the defendant had re misted into his custody an insane person without the ne unary certificate, thought it their duty to bring the case be fore the notice of the Court. It was the first case that bad oc curred, and it was thought right to bring it into public discus sion, in order that it might be generally understood that the Commissioners would prosecute all cues of this kind that might be brought under their notice. The Commissioners had Inves tigated the circumstance of this particular ease, and they had satisfied themselves that the defendant, who had not wilfully violated the Act, and that the person who bad committed the lunatic to the defendant's care, had not been actuated by any im proper motive. They felt, therefore, that they were not called on in the discharge of their duty to ask for more than a nominal punishment. _ _ . . Mr. Justice BATLZT observed, that there could be no doubt the Act of Parliament had introduced a most important regula tion with regard to the treatment of insane persons. It ought to be generally understood that if, after this case bad been made public, any person should be found offending against the enact ments of this Act of Parliament, their conduct would not be puled over lightly. The defendant was then ordered to enter into his own recogni sance in X2OO to be of good behaviour, and to appear to receive judgment when - called upon. The defendant having entered into the _recognise:lces, was dis charged. LIBEL. IDE XISG V. HATFIELD. The Arroansv•Genzaat. (with whom was Mr. KELLY) ap peared to show cause against a rule obtained by Mr. Adams for a criminal information against Mr. Hatfield, the editor of the Hun linden Gazette. for imputing to. Mr. Maule, the town-clerk of the corporation of Huntingdon, the crime of having packed a jury, and altered an indictment, with intent to procure an unjust verdict. It appeared that a dispute existed between the Burgesses and the Corporation of Huntingdon, as to who possessed the right of stock age of a certain common. It appeared that the common used to be under the controul of a Leet Jury, but the corporation subse- • quently took the care and right of stockage of the common into their hands. The action was tried, which decided that the right of itockage remained in the Court Lat. A burgess named Becket, having a right to turn cattle on the said common, Cooper, a baker, nominally sold him a cow, which was accordingly turned out, but it being observed that Cooper alone milked the cow, it was impounded. A servant of Cooper's broke the lock and took the cow away. He was indicted for pound-breaking, and Mr. Maule, a solicitor, baldly, as town clerk. to prepare the indictment, laid the cow as belonging to Becket, and summoned Cooper, and It was alleged other persons, who were interested in ignoring the bill. The bill was ignored. The Attorney-General contended that if ever there was a case in which comment upon public officen ought to be allowed, it was the present. Mr. KILLT followed on the same side. Mr. ADAM was heard at great length, in defence of Mr. Mauls, the town clerk, who, he alleged, bad no knowledge of the cow being Cooper's, and in consequence laid it as belonging to Beckett. Mr. Amsasws followed, and _ . The Cause ordered the rule to be mad...absolute. as the libel imputed clear and absolute guilt. It was no answer to say that the defendant bad ground of suspicion. Rule made absolute. DONCASTER ROBBERY. TUB LIM V. IMAM Mr.Svaattis moved for a writ of habeas corpus, directed to the keeper of the gaol of Doncaster, and commanding him to bring up the body of Isaac, alias Is aiah Smart, committed on a charge of robbing the box in the betting-room of Doncaster, of 5t2,500. The application was made for the purpose of admitting the defendant to bail. Mr. Stickle stated from the affidavits all the circumstances connected with the robbery of the box in the betting-room, Doncaster, in September last, and submitted that the defendant's cue was one in which the Court might admit to bail. _ _ Mr. . Justice no part of the property been found ? Mr. STAddld...NO. Q. Nor traced to his possession? A. No; be had 1001. which was taken down to him from London. Mr. Justice Bavuiv—You may take the writ. Mt. DODD, on the part of the klagittrates of Doncaster. said he was instructed to say they . did not interfere in this application ; but they hoped, for the purposes of justice, the evidence taken, before theft might not be made public, as it might defeat their efforts to secure suspected persons. Mr. Justice Bavt.sy said the Court would attend to that repre sentation. The writ of habeas was granted,. and the defendant will appear before the Judges. RITA L oreysincoutn. Air. Gaoatis applied for a rule to show cause, why a criminal in fonisation 'Mild not be bled against a Mr. Lord, an apothecary, at Nuneaton, Warwickshire, for a libel on two medical men, residing in the same neighbourhood. It appeared that ^Mr. Lord had written a letter to a clutocif individuals, Tyke paid the two apothecaries two shillings and dormice pet head per, annum, for supplying them with medicine and advice. In that letter be impugned the practice of his rive& in the practice of the healing art, and offered to kelp them in eacellent health for two shillings per head. - As an inducement to comply with his request. he hummed the ludlardof the )loot , where the club was heldi to supply the company_ with liquor to the important amount of seven shillirigs, to be paid for by hinfgelf. Mr. Justice that all you have to state in support of your application ? • . • Mr. George..r.Tes. The club was Imposed on, my Lord. Mr. Justice Ilevtrr.—But we are not to be imposed on.—Thii is no use for a criminal information. The parties must be left to the common and ordinary remedy.—Rule refused. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. it.. (Sittings b Banco.) IMPERIAL GAII.I.IOIIT COMPANY. _ Mr. &rjeant Tanuv applied for a rule to show cause why the plaintiffs should not be allowed to inspect the books of the Company. This was an action brought by the shareholders of the said Company against a Mr. Clarke, and five of its Di• rectors, charging them with having allowed false entries and statements to be made in the books by persons of the names of Mayhew and Nugent, who had obtained various sums of money, which they did not account to the Company for. Various entries had been made, one of which was £8,715 for expenditure of coke ; another for sums received from December 1825, up to March, 1828, amounting to £6,550 for public lights, and £5,400 from the proprietors, which sums the Company wished to have accounted for. Rule granted to inspect the books. The Court was afterwards occupied in hearing arguments for new trials of no public interest. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. These Sessions commenced yesterday morning before hunts Frq. and a very full Bench of Magistrates. Thomas Wilde was indicted for stealing a quantity of locks, the property of his father, and John Groom, for receiving the same, knowing them to be stolen. Wilde, who is a lad of weak intellect, pleaded guilty, and was fined a shilling and discharged. He was afterwards called as a witness against Croons, and deposed that be was tempted to steal the articles by the prisoner offering him sixpence to do it. The CHAIIIMAII told the Jury it would be dangerous to convict the prisoner on the unsupported evidence of the thief. The Jury being of the same opinion, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The Calendar is extremely heavy, when it is considered that only five weeks have elapsed since the last Sessions. There are 52 charges of felony; more than that number of misdemeanours, besides as sault cases. _ The total number of prisoners confined in the small gaol of Tot hiU•fields are no less than 218. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. Yesterday, the mate of a Margate hoy was charged before the LOU) Muyoa and Mr. Alderman Awn, with assisting to land, from on board the Prince. Frederick packet, from Ititterdani, a quantity of Brandy and- Geneva, which had not paid duty, va lue 11. 7s. _ . . . . . The Solicitor for the Customs attended, and examined three Custom-house watchmen, who proved that they saw the defendant hand a basket from the Ptince Frederick on board a boat, by which it was taken to the Margate boy. The value of the spirits was proved by an officer of Customs. . . The penalty by biw is fouitimes the value of the spirits, but as mitigated by the Lord Mayor and Alderman to 40$. which the .fendant paid, and was discharged. BOW-STREET. A Portuguese, Antonio Rodrigo, who wu found in an attic, at No. 4, Adam -street, Adelpbl, and taken into custody by pollee officer No. 170, on Wednesday week, was again brought up before Mr. HaLts, yesterday morning, to give an account of himself, and how he came in possession of an umbrella which he bad pawned. Not being able to answer satisfactorily to the magistrate, be was sentenced to one month's hard labour at the House of Correction. He has already been imprisoned, and is a well-known character. HATTON GARDEN. Yesterday morning three lads, who gave their names George Payne, John Beat, and Was. Harding, were brought before Sergeant Smnou, by Waddington, the officer. Waddington stated that he was in Goswell-street, on Wednes day evening, about seven o'clock, when he saw the three prisoners together ; he followed them in Goewell-street, Rodney-street, City road, and during the time he was watching them, he saw them try at least twenty different gentlemen's pockets, without gaining any thing. When near Finsbury-square, he saw them try a gentle• man's pocket, and they appeared to take something front it. He went up to the gentleman and asked him if he had lost any thing? he felt in his pocket, and said be had lost his silk kandkerchiel.• Witness immediately went and took the prisoners into custody ; but whilst he was talking to the gentleman, the prisoners by some means or other put the handkerchief away, for on searching them he could not find it. The prisoners could not give a satisfactory account of themselves, and the Magistrates committed them fot six weeks' imprisonment each, as reputed thieves. MARY-LA-BONNF.. Yesterday, young Bloonsfrid was brought up for examination and several other individuals came forward with complaints. Mr. GiIIFPITHS said they were matters of debt, and they must recover them, if they could, in a Civil Court. The prisoner asked whether bail would be accepted for his future appearance when required. Mr. Garenrus told him that as be had, after running into debt with an unfortunate tailor, been pleased to knock him down in Regent-street without provocation, he must give good bail, or be committed fur that ; and if, in addition, be gave sufficient security for his re-appearance, it would be accepted, but 48 hours' notice would be required. QUERN-SQUARE. Mr. Gassman yesterday gave his declaims on the information laid against James Burgess, for carrying on business at the Paviours' Arms, Jobason-street, Horseferry-road, which house was licensed to Mrs. Boura, whose name appeared on the door of the house. The Magistrate said he was of opinion that the information could nut be sustained ; but if by the neat licensing day the license was nut transferred, or Mrs. Bourg did not return, be should report the circumstance to the Licensing Magistrates. UNION-HALL. A Manchester attorney, named Civilities., lately arrived in town, charged a man, named Stevens, with having, with others, robbed him of ./10 at cards. On the previous evening, the complainant was picked up by some woman, and persuaded to accompany her to a low house in the Mint. Here be was introduced to the ,prisoner and some other blackguards, and after drinking a few glasses of liquor he sat down with them to play at cards. In a short time he lost aflO ail the money be bad, and to satisfy a further demand which the pri soner made on him, he accompanied him to the shop of Mr. Kirkman, a pawnbroker, and producing his gold watch and meals, worth forty guineas requested the loan of five pounds. The sbopman, however , perceiving that Mr. Crompton was intoxicated, and that his companion was a suspicious character, kept the watch, Sec. and gave the prisoner into custody. Mr. Crompton, having partly recovered from the effects of his previous night's debauch, said he was quite inexperienced in the ways of London, and bad never been in town before. He having sworn that be believed the prisoner intended to rob him, the latter was sent to Brixton for three months. WO RSH P-STREET. Yesterday, five men, named Seer, Price, Coape►, ireedward, and Freeman, employed as sawyers by Mr. Richmond, cooper, In Old street, were charged with having conspired to intimidate Daniel Gallagher from working for Mr. Richmond. It appeared, in the course of the evidence, that Gallagher had been engaged to work under the usual price. and that threats were used to deter him, because be was what the men termed " a Yellow." The Masi*. trates held the defendants to ball, taking, In the meantime, a few days to consider of their decision on the case. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday Eli Thooques, a labourer in the employ of Messrs. Wiggins and Co. builders, of St, George in the East, was com mitted for trial, charged with stealing 140Ibs. of new iron, the pro perty of his employers. --- In the daily police report of yesterday, an account of seven pictures by Hogartb, whether paintings or engravings it don not appear, are stated to have been stolen flan the house of Mr. Elliot, the North Briton, Bedford-square East. The subjects of the pietUres ire 4. The Girl seduced from her House," atc. the series concluding with her death. MARRIED. On the StM inst. at Effingham, Northumberland, Henry 8. Ste phens' Eaq.to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Th omas Hauer 'ton, En. DIED. - - --- Monday, in the 66th year of his age, Mr. Thomas Kidder, 'of Wood-street, Cheapside, 40 years an inhabitant of the parish of St. Alban, 'Wood-street. At Teignmouth, Capt. Thomas Lethbridge, R.N. On the .17th instant, John Norton, Esq. of Chipiry Park, So menet, aged 76. At Piny, near Scarborough, aged SS. James Lao Watson, Esq. of Hull, banker. At the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, in the Kent Raul, on Mon day, the 1134 inst. Joseph Watson, LL. D. Teacher of that Etta blishmeot, in the 64th year of his age. Ll' u H- W *TICK at LONDON-BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Mania* n album altar Afternoaa 11 =mates altar 8 Lonny Printed and Pub'Wad by Aim Memo, at the Bead- Orris No. t. Plidiett-plaosaeinple Bar.