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CAPTAIN DOUGLAS CLAVERING. We give a short sketch of the lift of this gallant and distinguislted Aker, from the able pen of his eminent friend, James Smith. Esq. of Jeedanhill. It is prefixed to an account of a scientific voyage to Spitsbergen and Greenland, which contains more information and geographical discovery than is to be found in many a goodly quarto, although given in the unpretending shape of a contribution to a pc olodical publication. A wild and romantic ilterest attaches to the accounts of East Comteland, from the circumstance of its havints been tbnnerly the scat of fl ourishing colonies from Dti.mark. Ki th which. in conse %niece of the coasts having been completely shut out from the rest of the world by ice, there has been no communication since the be ginning of the fifteenth century. Captain Clattering has no' only penetrated farther to the north of itireerdand than any former navigator, but is tho only one in IIICI• dem times who has had any intercourse with the natives. He found them, however, differing in no respect from the other savage tribes iiiitabiting high northern latitudes. " They are, in fact," to use his' own words, " evidently the same race as the Esquintaux in the other parts of Greenland and the northern parts of America :" " My late lamented friend, Captain Clavering, previous to his departure for the coast of Africa, drew up, at my request, a jour. oal of his voyage, and lett it with me, with permission to publish it in any manner I saw proper. I delayed doing so, in the hopes that, upon his return, he might make it more fit for publication ; but that event was destined never to take place. He sailed from sierra Leone in the summer of 1827, and it is conjectured that. soon after, his ship was lost, and all on board perished ; part of the wreck was found on the coast. hut no other tidings were ever re ceived of the unfortunate Redwing, or her gallant crew. In her commander, whose short but bright career was thus prematurely terminated, his country lost an officer who, by his seal In the per formance of his duty, and high professional acquirements, gave every promise of future eminence, and his friends one who was not less distinguished for his upright and honourable feelings, than for the most amiable and affectionate disposition. " Douglas Charles Clavering, the eldest son of Brigadier. General Henry Clattering and Lady Augusta Campbell, daughter of John. fifth Duke of Argyll, was born at Holyrood-house, Bth September, 1794. He entered the navy at an early age, and served as mid shipman,. under Sir Philip Broke, in the Shannon frigate, on the ,A nierican station. In the brilliant action of that ship with the Chesapeake, he distinguished himself for his coolness and gallantry, and his name was honourably mentioned in the Gazette. He af terwards served as lieutenant, in the Mediterranean, in the Spey sloop of war; and, in 1821, was appointed commandos of the Pheasant, then on the coast of Africa. On his passage to join his ship, he met with Captain Sabine, of the Royal Artillery, who was proceeding out to commence that remarkable series of observations on the length of the seconds pendulum, which extended from the equator to the most northerly accessible station on the surface of the earth. " He formed a friendship with that distinguished officer and man of science, which continued without interruption till his death ; and, at his request, the Pheasant was appointed to the service of conveying him to the different stations. And such was the able and zealous manner in which Captain Clavering co-operated with him that he was not only enabled to make the observations at every station in the most satisfactory manner, but without the slightest accident ever having taken place in moving the numerous and de licate instruments to and from the ship. The observations were made on this voyage at Sierra Leone the bland: of St. Thomas, Ascension, Bahia, Maranhao], Trinidad, Jamaica, and New York. In the course of the voyage, Capt. Clavering, in conjunction with Captain Sabine, executed a valuable and extensive series of oboe,. vations on the direction and force of the equatorial current, which, hollowing the course of the trade.winos, is deflected by the coast of America to the northward, into the Gulf of Mexico, from which, passing between Cuba and Florida, it returns again into the Allan. tic. under the name of the Gulf Stream. The results of these experiments, illustrated by a chart, have been published by Captain Sabine in his Account of the Pendu. him Observations. Aluch of the value of such observations must depend on the accuracy with which the ship's reckoning is kept. t sprain Clavering, by his judicious arrangements and personal su. perintendence, introduced such a degree of precision into the reek. oning, that it became little inferior as an element in the deduction of currents, to the observed difference of latitude and the chronome trical difference of longitude. Massey's self-registering log was used as a check upon the estimated reckoning, and proved the value and efficacy of the attention paid to the latter, by its being a rare circumstance to find a difference between them amounting to a mile in twenty-four hours. " Upon the return of the Pheasant to Great Britain. the Board of Longitude determined that Captain Sabine's Observations on the Pendulum should be continued to the most northerly latitude to which it was possible to reach. For this purpose the Griper, which was one of the vessels that had been engaged in Captain Parry's first expedition in 1819-20, was selected, and Capt. Cla. vering appointed to the command. " It will be seen that he availed himself of every opportunity that presented itself for prosecuting discoveries, and enlarging the boundaries of geographical science. A considerable part of the east coast of Greenland explored by him, was seen in the preceding year by Captain Scoresby ; but, from his distance from the land, that able navigator had not the same means of laying it down cor rectly to the north of Cape Parry which he had to the south of that headland, when he was close in with the land. In the chart the discoveries of both .navigators are laid down, and form an actual survey of the coast from lat, 69 deg. to lat. 76 deg for although Capt. Clavering did not reach farther north than Shannon Island, yet the positions of the bluff head lands to the north of Roseneath Inlet, and the islands named, from their appearance, Haystack and Adam. were determined by astronomical bearings from two hills, one on the outermost, and the other on the innermost, of the Pen. dulum Islands; and the distance between the two stations was aicertained by a trigonometrical operation. " Although the principal object of the voyage was to convey Oaptain Sabine to the different stations, Captain Clavering did not consider it necessary to give any of the results of his observations in his account, as they were already published, and well known to the scientific world." _ We are sorry our limits prevent us from appending to the above a few of the parwages in Captain Clavering's Journal. This, however, we may do at some future period ; and, meanwhile, we recommend an attentive perusal of it to our readers, who will find themselves amply repaid by the knowledge and entertainment it affords. LAW REPORTS. COURT OF CHANCERY—(MONDAY). RUNGATE V. GASCOTNE. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-dry in this case. The only point which the case involved for the decision of the Court was a purely technical point of practice—namely, whether the de- j fendant's plea of title to the property in question ought not to be dismissed foe insufficiency, inasmuch as he had, by his plea, set up a different title to the plaintiff's, whose title be took no notice of in his plea, it being his duty to traverse that plea according to the prat. tice of the Courts. His Lordship was of opinion that the defend. ant's plea could not be sustained, and he should therefore 'overrule it. confirming the judgment of the Vice. Chancellor, to which this was:an appeal. He would not, however, give costs. His Lordship was occupied the rest of the day with bankrupt petitions of no public interest. ROLLS COURT—MONDAY. This was general petition day, before the Master of the Rolls. ATTORNET.OZNIRAL V. WINCHISTER. The object of this petition was to obtain a refaence to the Muter for him to determine what proceedings should be adopted to protect the interests of a charity to which the Corporation of Winchester is a trustee. The charity in question was founded in the year 1030, under the will of a person named Richard Budd, who bequeathed a rent charge of 301. to the poor of Winchester. The land on which this annuity was steured,was the manor of River,in Sussex, to which Lord Egremont set up &claim, in opposition to the cbarity.A similar line of conduct, in conformity with his Lordship's example, was pursued by other individuals connected with the manor of River. Under those circumstances the petition was filed. In addition to a direction of law proceedings, it prayed that, until the question at issue with Lord Egranont should have been decided, the super. Sums funds of another charity, called that of St. Jobe, dub the hands of the Corporation, should be applied to the purposes of Budd's Charity. The petition was granted. IN RR Alit NAVIGATION. In this case it appeared that, in conformity with the ptovisions of the Act of Parliament under which it has been incorporated, the Aire Navigation Company for 7001. a portion of land from an individual named for the purposes of their canal. They also agreed to build a bridge over the canal, connecting the land on each side of it. This was commuted fora sum of 3001. to be laid out in the purchase of other land which lay contiguous to the vendee's estate. In the fulfilment of this compact, certain ex. pence' beyond the 6001. were incurred, and the question in the case was, whether these should fall on the Aire Company, or on Dobson. According to the 29th clause of the Aire Company's Act, that body is directed to pay all the cost and expenses of purchasing land for those upon whose estates it should infringe. Mr. TINNY, for the Company, in the present case, submitted that this was not a ease contemplated by the Act, and that his clients should only be deemed liable for the 6001. given in lieu of the bridge. Mr. PRIRSERRON appeared on the other side. His Howoun sold ise abseil coesidie the 7001. sad 5001. as one sum given tor the vight Is the land. Part of this had been ex. pend ia.. .44n tr bs zshosee sf ceseigesps Lab. The expenses of this upon the Company. The Act should be be.l ! neficially ccnstrued for those alto were compelled to leave their land. " Vnu must, therefore, pay, Mr. Tingley ; and the Company k SO rich :I at it don't signify any thing to them." SIIEPUERD V. tiIIEPHERD. • A respectable nonprofessional individual took occasion in the course of the day to address the Court in reference to this ca..r. He said that the plaintiff in it was a poor woman, who had intrusted her cause to an attorney, to whom she had. from time to time, advanced all the money, amounting •to 6111. of which she was mistress. He gave her hopes eon , stantly that her case would be brought to a decision, and had I mentioned to the speaker himself, last May, that the ease had been set down for hearing, and would come on in a few days. He i (the speaker), having suspected the truth of this statement,examined the list at the Register's office. and found that the representations of the attorney had been false. The consequence was, that the poor woman's bill was dismissed, with costs, to the amount of 1201. and she was thrown, by her own brother, the defendant in the case, into prison. She had applied to several attorneys to investigate the cir cumstances of this transaction. but they had all refused to interfere. Mr. Spence and Mr. Barber, of the bar, had told him (the speaker) that, in their opinion, the plaintiff bad a good cause. Under these circumstances he took the liberty of submitting the case to his Honour's consideration. His Howoun said that, as a man of sense, he (the individual) must be aware that he was then pursuing a course quite incompatible with justice, when he advanced such weighty charges against ano ther perron in his absence. To this the individual answered that lie had in vain applied to different attorneys, in order to bring the matter regularly before his Honour, and a fund of 6001. in stock, which gave rise to the ques tion of law in the case, was in a few days to be made away with Ir. retrievably. His Horrourt said, he could not hear him then; he had very good advice (alluding to Aleuts. Spence and Barber,) and should pursue the course to which he should be directed. Will your Honour grant an injunction ? The Master of the Rolls would not hear any thing further. ROBERT T. WALKER. In this case his Honour gave judgment. There were two points at issue: first, whether the share of a trust fund devised to a felon, previous to the expiration of his term of transportation, should be forfeited to the crown. This point his Honour decided in the af firmative. The second question was to this effect :—A fund com posed of personalty, and from the sale of realty, is divined in trust for certain specific purposes. Some of these fail, was the surplus en created to be taken from the realty alone, and so go to the heir at law ? Ills llonour thought that the two species of funds from per. sonalty and realty should contribute pro rata, and the proportions to go accordingly to the personal representatives and heir at law. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. STAFFORD, JULY 31. Imam v. wEsu. This was an action of breach of promise of marriage. The de. fendant, in and prior to the year 1828, was an assistant to Mr. Birch, a medical man residing at Barton Underwood. The plaintiff at that time was housemaid in Mr. Birch's service. The defendant paid such marked attentions to her as to attract the notice of Mr. Birch, who several times spoke to him on the subject. The defendant declared his intention to marry the young woman, and some time after he had quitted Mr. Birch's service he wrote a letter to her, in which he expressed his determination of making her the matron of his family. Some time after writing this letter, the de fendant fixed the time and place for the celebration of the wedding. The defendant did not keep his appointment, but, without assigning any reason. or offering any apology, broke off the engagement, and afterwards married another person. A witness said, she believed that since the defendant broke off with the plaintiff, she bad got another sweetheart; but she was not "positive sure." Verdict for the plaintiff, Damages, Thirty Pounds. DORCHESTER, Jvt.w SO. Thomas Bowtiny, aged thirty-live years, was placed at the bar, upon an indictment which charged him with having, on the 18th of March last, assaulted Muter Jeffrey Foot, son of the Rev. Lundy Foot, and put him in bodily fear, and then feloniously robbed him of a pair of shoes and a little basket. The prosecutor, a boy about ten years of age, of the most graceful behaviour, and full of intelli gence, deposed, that on the day laid in the indictment, be was walk ing towards his father's house at Longbred, carrying a little basket of flowers in his hand, when the prisoner seized him, and presented something like a pistol to his head, and threatened to murder him if he made any resistance. The prisoner then took his little gloves, and wrist-muffs, and shoes, and was in the act of stripping off his coat when he was alarmed by the noise of a cart coming in that direction, which induced him to go away. The prisoner was found guilty. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT-MONDAY. James Coombes, whose case was originally heard in March last, and adjourned, was brought up for judgment. It appears that the insolvent, who had been in business as a saddler, some time back disposed of all his stock in trade, • con. siderable part of which he handed over to his nephew, with a view of raising money to take him and his family to the new settle. ment at Swan River, whither the latter, consisting of a wife and children, have actually sailed, without, perhaps knowing, from the circumstance of their having been en board, why he had not accompanied them in their voyage, which was only prevented by his having been awkwardly arrested when the vessel was preparing to get under weigh. The case was adjourned in order that the insol. vent's nephew might give up the property. This, however, had not been done, and the Court therefore sentenced the insolvent to ten months imprisonment from the date of filing his petition. William Francis, late of Brixton, Surrey, wheelwright, was opposed by Mr. COOKE on behalf of Messrs. Thorpe. Mr.Woonnorrn supported the insolvent. It appeared that he owed three years' rent to the Rev. Shaw Brooke, of Eltham, in Kent, for which he distrained the insolvent's property. The distress bad been paid out by the insolvent's son and a person named Smith, partly in money, and the remainder by a joint bill of exchange. John Smith being called and examined, stated that he was a 'farmer living at Eichorn), in Kent. He recollects the distress put in by the Rev. Mr. Brooke, on the insolvent's premises. He paid 361. in part, and joined in a bill of exchange. He assisted the insolvent, because things were bad at that time. The CHIEF Commtssionza—Farming business I hope is better now. Witness—lt a ould be so if the landlords would lower their rents. The CHIEF Constissinwart said that the landlord having made a distress for three years' arrears of rent instead of one, after the insolvent had been arrested at the suit of Messrs. Thorpe, he could not support the levy,uoder the 31st section of the 7th Geo. IV, which enacts, " That no distress or distresses for rent made and levied, after the arrest or other commencement of the imprisonment of any person who shall petition the said Court for his or her discharge from such imprisonment, according to this act, upon the goods or cf. feces of any such person, shall be available for more than one year's rent accrued prior to the execution of the conveyance and assign. meat of such person in pursuance of this act, but that the landlord, or party so whom the lent shall be due, shall and may be a creditor for the overplus of the rent due, and for which the distress shall not be available, and entitled to all the provisions made for creditors by this act." Mr. COOKS observed, that the assigned' might bring an action. Mr. WoonnorrE said, no improper motive couldbe attributed to the Hey. Mr. Brooke. The Cum'. Costurseroxin said, it was Imperative that the reverend gentleman should be insetted in the insolvent's schedule as a creditor, as he could not receive beyond one year's rent. Mr. COMM said, it would be necessary to see the last receipt, and prayed the Court to adjourn the case, and to order the attend ance of the reverend gentleman. The Cum/. Coremisatoxza.—Let Mr. Brooke, °this attorney, attend to explain this matter. Richard Hooke, describing himself as a general merchant, was opposed by 111 r. Nicholls, for Samuel Isaac Brie, a liamburgb merchant, and other creditors, and Mr. Barry for Mr. Isaac Elm. Mr. Coma supported the insolvent. The Catzr Commissioata, observing that the insolvent had taken the benefit of the act in 1826, said that the onus was upon Mr Cooke to show that the ihsolvent had bronght himself within the 64th section of the act. . . . Mr. Cooxe then proceeded to examine the insolvent sot to the nature of his transactions subsequent to his former discharge, and whether he had dealt in accommodation bills, when it appeared he bad been a bankrupt, which fact not having been recorded upon the petition, the order for hearing was dismissed, 'kith liberty to pe tition de nova ni RE JOIMPHIME 13ARTOLozzi. Mr. COOKE moved upon affidavit this day, that the insolvent, who was heard last week in the matter of ber petition be dia. charged out of the custody of the Marshal of the King's etench. From what we could gather from the application, it appeared that the insolvent had been sued with another person, and there was a variation of the name in the wording of the discharge from the petition, and the copy of causes, inasmuch as the letter had been omitted, and the bluslial, in consequence, would not discharge die insolvent until this error had been rectified by the court. The Chief Commissioner said, that it wu a pity these things were not more minutely examined into, as it would have saved dm insolvent a lengthened imprisonment, as well as unnecessary ex pense, and the time of the Court from being wasted. The Court granted the application. EXECUTION OF CAPTAIN MOIR. We have received from our own reporter a long account of the execution of this unfortunate culprit, whose case, however, had no circumstances in it that would have warranted a pardon. May his fate operate as an useful example to those hare not learned to set any value on the lives of their humbler fellow.ereatu►es. There are many individuals who have the tyrannical impatience of poor Moir, without his redeeming qualities of general kindness of nature. We give some particulars from our own report, and the rest from the EMU' leftury. Cazil.msroin AVG. 2. _ . This morning the awful sentence of the law was carried into effect upon the above ill-fated gentleman. Whatever might have buoyed up the expectation of the relations of the convict, Captain Moir never had seriously considered, since his conviction, that his life would be spared, yet he drew a distinction betwixt his case and that of those where life had been taken away in consequence of an old grudge. When he arrived at the gaol, after conviction, he threw aside the new suit in which he was tried, and put on his blue surtout and trousers of the same colour, with a b lac k waist coat, and those he wore on the morning of execution. He employed the morning in arranging some mundane affairs, and wrote several letters to his friends and acquaintance. During the interval be. tween his conviction and the period to which we allude, he evinced no extraordinary emotion, but, on the contrary, the greatest for titude. _ _ _ ---- The chapel service of Sunday was quite private, by order of the Sheriff; but we understand from those in authority that a most ex cellent discourse was delivered by the Rev. Chaplain, to whom Captain Moir appeared to be very much attached. After he had dined, his wife, mother, and sister, were admitted to an interview, which lasted until six o clock, and was most affecting. The time at length arrived when it was intimated that these dear relatives of the unfortunate gentleman must separate for ever. Al. though his awful moments had been long expected, it produced an electric shock, which appeared to affect Moir most grievously; he turned aside to weep, and during the paroxysm of grief the unfortunate female relations bid their gad adieu, and were then removed from the room in a state of insensibility. Early In the evening the unhappy man sought repose by reclining upon his couch. He was attended by Mr. Pearson and some other of the principal turnkeys, and for several hours slept soundly. —The prisoner rose wily in the morning, and washed himself and portook of a slight repast. About seven o'clock he was visited by the Rev. Mr. Lewis, the chaplain of the gaol, and another clergy. man, who entered into religious conversation with him. The pri soner received them with his accustomed politeness, and expressed himself perfectly resigned to his fate. It had been previously ar ranged that the Sacramental service should take place in the day room instead of the chapel, which being at the top of the Governor's house, commands a view of the scaffold. This deviation from re gular practice was an consequence of a request from the prisoner. By his particular request also no person was allowed to be present on this occasion excepting those who were in some way connected with the prison. At the early hour of two o'clock in the morning two officers of the 14th regiment of Foot, who had served with Captain Moir in dif ferent parts of the world during various campaigns and expeditions, arrived with a letter from Lord Petre, addressed to Mr. Jepp, the Under Sheriff, soliciting that the execution might be stayed until the arrival of some gentlemen who were expected from a distant part of the kingdom with a despatch. The application, however, was not acceded to. About nine o'clock, Captain Moir expressed a wish to see the officers alluded to before he went out for execution ; and a gentle. man went in quest of them. The object of the desired interview was to solicit the it to induce the officers of the regiments in which he had served to notice his children, and moreover to implore them to obtain a certificate of his services and merits as an officer. The gentlemen did not attend, but sent their assurance that the request of the Captain should be attended to. The Captain re. ceived their communication with gratitude, and felt satisfied that he should not be forgotten. In consequence of the delay occa sioned by the above message the execution was delayed for a short time, but at a quarter past nine Captain Moir made his appearance in the court-yard ; he looked around, and shook hands with several gentlemen, whose utterance was prevented by sorrow. Having arrived at the turnkey's lodge, upon :the summit of which the fatal scaffold was erected, the p risoner was received by the executioner, who pinioned his arms and bound his wrists, du ring which awful preliminary the Captain flinched not, but con. tinued to maintain a self.posstssion which was most extraordinary. When he cast his eyes upon the fatal rope, which was so soon to terminate his existence, he heaved a sigh, and looking upwards, ejaculated something which, however, was inarticulate. He was then led into one of the reception cells, when the Rev. Alr. Lewis, the chaplain, read several portions of cripture, and engaged for the last time in other devotional exercises with the unhappy culprit. At halfpast nine o'clock it was announced that the awful moment I had arrived when the prisoner must ascend the fatal platform, and he readily obeyed the mandate. Inured lately that he ascended the roof he took the hand of seve ral persons, indeed of almost every oue within his reach, and shook them cordially. When standing at the foot of the steps attached to the platform, he said, " Gentlemen, I declare in the presence of GOD and you,: as p cettain .is I am about to mount this scar. fold, I had no animosity against the unfortunate man (Malcolm)." He than walked up the ladder with a steady step, and immediately bowed to the populace, and then with composure surveyed the beam to which he was to be suspended. He asked Mr. Neale, the Governor whether he should:give any signal ? Mn Neale told him that he might use his own pleasure in that respect. Captain Moir replied, " I am quite satisfied.— do as you please, but allow the cap not to be drawn until necessary. The rope having been put round his neck, he said, in a firm tone of voice, " I for the last time declare that 1 have not the least ani. malty against any man on earth. I die in peace with all mankind. I hope the LoaD will have mercy on my soul, and that he will bless my poor wife and dear children, and also my sister, and that they may have strength afforded them to sustain this dreadful shock." Then addressing the few persons who were admitted upon the lodge, he said, " Gentlemen, my dying prayer is, GOD bless you all; to which was responded a hearty "Amen." The executioner having adjusted the rope, the Captain took his hand, and said, " God bless you," repaired to the winch which withdrew the bolt upon which the platform rested, and the unfortu nate victim to a criminal impetuosity was launched into eternity. Being a stout heavy man, it appeared that sensation became imme diately extinct ; he scarcely moved, with the exception of a mo mentary attempt at respiration ; indeed, it may almost be said, that he died without a struggle. After the body had been suspended an hour, it was cut down and placed in a shell, in order to its delivery to the surgeons for the put. pose of dissection. pursuant to the sentence. It is understood that the body will, after incision, and a sufficient anatomical process to fulfil the sentence, be delivered up to the dis consolate widow for interment. A report is in circulation that the unhappy gentleman has, upon certain conditions, bequeathed, before trial, the sum of 11. a-week to the widow Malcomb • but although the report is credited by many, we cannot vouch for its veracity. Frew the Eases Mercury. CHELMSFORD, Sunday Night, 12 o'Clock. A letter bas just been received by Mr. Burton, who conducted the defet ce of Captain Moir, from Mr. Phillips, the Under &ere tary of State, informing him that Lord Tenterden had refused to interfere in favour of the petition to the King, so that the law is lett to take its course. Mrs. Moir, with the sister and brother of the unhappy man, have left the town for Ingatestone, where they will remain till after the attention. 3londay Noon. The ill-fated Wm. Moir is no more. The hour appointed for the execution was nine o'clock ; the tpacious area in front was then thinly mitered with spectators, and a considerable number of the inhabitants of Chelmsford were admitted within the wall•. The Rev. Mr. Lewis, the chaplain of the gaol, visited 3loir in his cell ; and when be spoke to him respecting his religious duties, Moir re plied " Sir, my religion k honour, but I 'lupe that I am not un. mindful of my situation." Moir repeatedly exclaimed, " Let it be understood that I had no animosity to the unfortunate man ; it is that feeling which now sustains me." Captain Moir was a native of Forfarshire. North Britain, and highly respectable by birth and connexions. He was brothmin.law to Sir James Gardner Baird. Bart. a near relative to the veteran Sir David BsIn!, the predecessor of the Duke of Wellington in the command of the peninsular army ; and he was also first cousin to Sit Wiiliam Rite, the present Lord Advocate for Scotland. He was descended by his grandmother's side from the heroic Bruce, and was also connected with the distinguished families of Blair of Blair, the Stewart., and the Butts. Tall and commanding in person. possessing a fire and manly countenance, his inclination led him early in hfe to ent e r i nto t h e army, the hereditary ptofession of his anon ors For seventeen years 1w served successively in the 14th, 37th, and 40‘h regimuts i of Foot, and in the course of such service he •• • el France, Spain, India, and America. In the latter place he married the daughter ' of an officer in the Artillery, by whom he hail three tine boys.' In the year 1813, accompanied by his wife, he repaired with his regiment to Gibraltar, and while there the yellow fever made its destructive appearance. Moir was attacked by it, and suffered so severely that his life was long despaired of. His brain was eon. siderahly affected. and he never had been perfectly free from Its el: (nt h .. In one of the paroxysms caused by this malady during his residence in Canada. he took an opportunity, when alone, of indict. lag several severe wounds with a hatchet upon' his forehead, the wars of which were very prominent to the last hour of his life. This fever ptodueed the most disastrous influence upon his character and conduct : his disposition, warm and irascible before, but withal merges and hatnane, became tbrostgh it so susceptible, that, if I insulted, or excited by liquor, his passions were uncontrollable, and his actions and language appeared to be those of a madman. It is a particular characteristic of this unhappy frame of mind, that in the very highest point of excitement, Captain Moir Imagined himself the moat calm and colketed ; and while those who knew him were but too sensible of the difference between his professions and his conduct, lie laboured to convince them of the perfect sobriety of his intellect. All this was increased perhaps by suffering in India from a coup de •oleil, and upon his return to England from an attack of pure inflammation of the brain while at Canterbury. In the year 1828, Captain Moir retired from the army, and his active but unsteady mind turning um attention to Agri_ cultutal pursuits, he took upon lease the farm at Shellhaven Creek, where he was residing when the unhappy event °centred which has been the means of terminating his life on a scaffold. BIANSIOW.HOU sr.—William Edwards, policeman No. I al, brought before the Lord Mayo: by John Forrester and Thomas lierdsfield, the City officers, charged on suspicion of having stoleti. 70 pounds weight of sheet brass. The city officers were looking about in the neighbourhood of the Mansion-house in the afternoon, and they saw the prisoner on the opposite side of the street, carrying something very heavy indeed, wrapped up in his police coat. Although he was a new policeman, they suspected that he was a thief, and immediately questioned him about what he was carrying. He appeared confused. and said that he had been employed by the Inspector of the Kingaland district to take the load to the Stationery Office in Scotland-yard. One of the witnesses went to Mr. Johnson, the Inspector of Kingsland, but that person, although he knew the prisoner, knew nothing what. ever about the brass. I The brass was found to be the property of a house in WA brook, and it had been left near the door, from which it required some ingenuity to take it unperceived. The prisoner was committed for trial. William Williams, alias Phil. Owens, who was a few days ago charged with having stolen Mr. Barnwell's snuff-box, in the street, opposite the Auction Mart, and not in the Auction Mart Coffee. House, as was erroneously stated in some of the papers, was brought up for final examination, and committed for trial. Maastow-House. 2 CHARGE or Foarmair.--A young man, named James Hunt, of very respectable connections, was brought before the Loan MAYOR. upon a charge of forging a check upon the banking-house of Jones, Lloyd, and Co. of Lothbury, for SOL Mr. GATZB, the Solicitor to the Committee of Bankers for Pr,#. teetion against Frauds and Forgeries, attended to prosecute. Mr. HARMER attended for the defence. Mr. James Tewaby, clerk at the house of Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co. deposed, that in the afternoon of Monday, the 26th of July, a man, named John Gardner, appeared at the counter and presenttd an order for the payment of 901. It purported to be the draft of Moms. Shoolbred and Cooke, of Tortenham-court.road, and was made payable to Mr. J. Smith, or hearer. The writing resembled that of one of the firm of Shoolbred and Co. but witness suspected that it was forgery and no payment was given for it. Messrs. Shool. bred and Co. kept cash at the house. Measures were adopted to apprehend the prisoner, who was said to be the fabricator of the in. strument. George Gardner, a porter, stated that on Monday last as he was standing at the door of the Elephant public-house in Fenchurch street, at twenty minutes after four the prisoner walked up and me costed him. The prisoner told him to take a paper, which was an order to receive money, to the house of Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Cu. and get ten five pound notes and forty sovereigns., and bring them to him at 31r. Watkins's counting-house, in Mark-lane, or in the Corn Exchange. IVitnese stopped in Ball-alley and lo oked at the order, and that which was now in the Justice-room was the same. Mr. Shoolbred stated that the prisoner was employed in his house as a servant. It was the practice of the house for the clerks to fill up the drafts on bankers, and witness believed the writing in the body of the check to be the prisoner's. The order was a forgery. The prisoner was committed for GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday, Mary Fiyginr, an elderly woman. forty-five years of age, was charged Lefore Mr. Alderman Copeland with stealing two silver tablespoons, the property of Sir George Naylor, Garter King et Arms. henry &fridge, constable, stated that he was sent for on Saturday evening last to the Heralds* Office, in Doctors' Commons, when he I was informed that two tablespoons had disappeared, and suspicion having fallen upon two servants, (the prisoner, and another,) Le was requested to trace the robbery if possible. In consequence of this information, the officer made inquiries among a gteat numbei t pawnbrokers, and at length discovered at Mr. Franklin's, in Neu. Elm. a spoon corresponding with the pattern one received i‘i Ishii. In pursuing his inquiries further, he found the second spots pledged at Mr. Fleming's, in the same street. Both spoons were pledged by a female, and one of them in the name of one of the ser vants of Sir George. (nut the prisoner.) A description of the per. son who pledged them finally led to the apprehension of the prisoner, and on her person were found the two duplicates of the spoons. Robert Cuffin, shopman to Mr Franklin, produced one of the spoons, which bore the crest of Sir George, and identified the pri soner as being the person who pledged it, John Badman, shopman to Mr. Fleming, produced the other spoon, but as it had been taken in by a boy, he was not able to identify the prisoner as having pledged it, but the duplicate bore the name Ly which she had been known for some time at the shop. Mr. W. Wood, from the Heralds' Office, identified the spoons as the property of Sir George Naylor. Mr. Alderman COPELAND expressed his surprise that the pawn brokers would take in pledge a spoon bearing a crest, as those pro. duced did. Mr. Fleming's shopman assured hint that if himself, or the per. son who usually takes in pledges, had received the spoon, they would instantly refu►e it ; but on the day it was pawned, being particularly busy, a boy attended to the prisoner. Mr. Alderman COPELAND considered that the prisoner's con. duct was very seriously aggravated, by stealing property and pledging it in the name of an old and faithful servant, who, having it in her power to get at the property, suspicion would naturally fall upon her. She was then fully committed for trial. HATTOW-liANDEN.—Yesterday, Anilsony Duncan was charged with assaulting a policeman while in the execution of his duty. On the previous evening, the policeman was sent with other constables to drive the men who were bathing in the New River out of the water. The prisoner was in the fields, and witness desired him to quit the field instantly, which the defendant refused to do. Upon this witness gently pushed him, when the defendant struck him on the head with his fist. The defendant was convicted in the penalty of 40s. and in default of payment, he was committed to the House of Correction for one month. QttEEN-SQUAIIE. Yesterday Charles Norton, Esq. was brought up on a warrant, before D.W. GREGONIE, Esq. under the follow ing circumstances. Last week, John Williams was committed fter picking Mr. Norton's pocket of a silk handkerchief, at his Majesty': Levee. On Saturday he delivered a letter to Woodberry, the officer, to be given to the Magistrates, telling the officer he should not t' able to attend at the trial, as he should be absent in Yorkshire.- Mr. &trout= 'mut d a warrant for his apprehension. Mr. ordered Mr. Norton to enttr into his own recognisance in the sut of 3001. and to find two sureties in the sum of 1501. each, to it: answerable for his appearance against John Williams for felony.— Mr. Norton gave bail in the course of the day. THAIIIIIMPOLICT.—Yesterday, John Burrell was charged witk horsewhipping Mr. Robert Feather, shipping butcher, of No, 187. High-street, Wapping. Mr. Feather had just alighted front his chaise, when the defendant, who was driving a horse in a earl, was requested to stop for a minute. The defendant refused, drove on. and the chaise was injured and nearly overturned. On 31r. Fea ther remonstrating, the defendant cut hint dreadfully over the bask and sheulders. The defendants was fined 40s. and costs. WORSHITOSTIMET.—CMARGE OF Anson.--Illiss Ann Bale. a respectable.looking person, about 23 years of age, and Maria Bell!, her servant, were charged with setting fire to the house No. 231, Shoreditch, where Miss Bate carried on business as a baker. The facts which came out in the evidence are these :—About a quarter before one o'clock on .Sunday morning, smoke was oh. served issuing from Visa Bate's house. An entrance was forcer:. as an person was found on the premises. The back yard was filled with a suffocating smoke, which poured in torrents from the stairs and windows, and was found to proceed from the cellar. The bottom step of a flight of stairs ascending from the cellar to the parlour was on fire. Burning pines of wood and shavings were tattered about the cellar and stairs, and a beam above the latter, and about sit feet from them, was also on fire, with pieces of carpet or sacking nailed to and hanging front it in a burning state. The fire was not blazing. but smoulder. ing,and was extinguished by two buckets of water thrown upon it. Some time afterwards the two prisoners came home ; they did cot appear much alantxd et spitired. and the servant-girl said of e). had been to market. No money war found in the till. and the setvant said her mistress took all the halt.pente from it who.: went to market and bought half a peek of peas. The prisoners were secured. In a basket which Miss Batt carried, was found a bag containing 00 sovereigns; mother with 17 sovereigns, and a thine Irma containing 41. 12s. lid. in silver ; some comehan necainets. bracelets, and trinkets, wearing appar e l, an d some pens . In het bosom was found an elegant Reid watch, with gold neck-chain at. tacked. She had previously denied having any valuable Properly about bey. Is the prisoner's house was found a policy of inourance erected in the Peeler" Of flee for 7001. The toreman to the In. surance (Moe said, that in his opinion the value of the stock aril furniture did not exceed 501.--v The prisoners were emended for a few days. lorry : Printed sod Pobilthed by Joao )lavou, at the Siam. Urine, No.l. Plobett plact.Temple Br.