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MURDER. Yesterday afternoon, an Inquest was held before Mr. STIRLING, the Coroner for the county of Middlesex, at the Hog in Armour, Great Saffron•hill, on the body of Ann Perry, who was found murdered in hrr apartment, in Lilley-street, Saffron-hill, on last Tuesday morning. The Jury having been sworn, proceeded to view the body, which appeared a most appalling sight, the head and face being dreadfully fractured, and the room in a gore of blood ; after which the following evidence was' examined. George Thomas, of No. 4, Lilley-street, said, that he knew the deceased, who lived in the same house, in an adjoining room to the witness, and cohabited with a man named John Ambrose. On last Saturday night, the witness came home about ten o'clock, and went up stairs, and heard Ambrose and the deceased quarrelling, and heard several blows struck, and very violent and threatening language from Ambrose to the deceased, who said she could get a nice dinner of pork and French beans for to•morrow. Ambrose continued using horrid oaths to the deceased, and struck her again, when she fell, and the witness did not hear the deceased speak afterwards ; but Ambrose continued for some time thereafter talking to himself, which he was in the habit of doing, and the witness shortly afterwards went to sleep. About half-past six on Sunday morning, the witness came down stairs, and inquired of the landlady if she had seen Mrs. Ambrose (meaning the deceased), and was answered that she had not, but that she heard them fighting the preceding night. The witness then went out, and returned about half-past eight in the evening, and retired to rest ; he then heard Ambrose in his own room, and supposed that the deceased had gone to her brother's, whom she occasionally •isited. The witness, for the last time, heard Ambrose in the room about ten o'clock on Monday morning, speaking to himself. On Tuesday morning the landlady, and a lodger in the second floor, went into the roonroccupied by Ambrose, and found the deceased murdered therein. The witness went into the Loom, and saw the deceased lying on one side, and streams of blood running from where she lay to the door, and the position of the body was such, that it could not be seen without going completely into the room. Ambrose is a shoemaker, and the deceased wrought as a dress-maker. The deceased had oftener than once been absent from Ambrose's lodgings for three or four days at a time, and on those occasions another woman used to come and sojourn with Am brose. but she always went away upon the return of the deceased. Ambrose, the witness believes, was sober on Saturday night, and is a man of temperate habits ; the deceased used to drink to great excess, and he thinks ' she was intoxicated on Saturday night. The deceased was about 50, and Ambrose looks like a man of 65 or •70 years of age. William Robinson, a bookbinder, the lodger who was mentioned by the first witness as having, along with the landlady, discovered the deceased on Tuesday morning, being sworn, said, that he occupies the room underneath that occupied by Ambrose and the deceased. He was at home on Saturday night, but did not hear the quarrel and noise in their room. On Monday morning, the witness sent up his son for a flat iron borrowed by Am brose, who did not give the flat iron to the boy, but brought it down himself in a few minutes afterwards, and he then told witness that his wife (meaning Ann Perry) had been out all night, and had gone, be sup posed, to her brother's. The wit►►ess saw Ambrose for the last time about eight o'clock on Monday morning. He had no acquaintance with Ambrose, and would hardly know him if he were to meet him in the streets. On Tuesday morning, the witness suspecting all was not tight, tapped gently at the door of Ambrose's room, he received no answer, and the door not being locked, he walked into the room, and discovered the deceased lying as described by the first witness. He then alarmed the house, and Mr. Jay, the landlord, and the witness returned to the room, and found the deceased quite dead and cold. The witness thinks she must have been dead some time, as the blood round the body was in a congealed state. Mr. Shepherd, the surgeon, of Hatton-garden, was called upon oh Tuesday to view the body of the de ceased, which he found lying as described by the first witness. He examined the body, and found the marks of many blows on the temples, and indted all over the head and body. These contusions were of a dangerous nature, and no doubt occasioned her death. The witness opened the head, and found a great quantity of extra vasated blood between the scalp and pericranium, and between the inside of the pericraninm and the outer skin of the brain, and also upon the cerebellum. He attributed the quantity of blood found in the head to the external violence received by the deceased. Another medical Gentleman who assisted Mr. Shep herd in opening the deceased's head, confirmed.bis tes timony as to the appearance of the inside of the peri cranium,&c.which was, no doubt, caused by the external violence received by the &ceased, and which occasioned her death. • Mrs. Jay, the landlady of the house where the de ceased lodged, was examined ; but her testimony was only confirmatory of that given by the two first wit nesse,. The last time tie witness saw Ambrose was about five o'clock on hlonday afternoon. He inquired of the witness if she had seen his wile (meaning Ann Perry) and added, that she should never rob him any mote. Ambrose had been in the habit of ill•treating the de ceated, and they were often quarrelling. The Coroner summed up the evidence to the Jury, who returned a •erdict of " Wilful 'Murder against John Ambrose." The murderer has not yet been apprehended. The Lake of Geneva at present is lower than it was ever known to be. The four steam boats belonging to Geneva are sanded up, and do not ply. POOR LAWS SWITLEMENT.—A case of some nicety has come before the Magistiltes at Mary-la-bonne. A poor man was about to be removed from Mary-la bonne palish to Diss, in Norfolk. On his examination, it turned out that he had rented a house at '241. a year in Paddington, fora twelvemonth,which,byMr. Sturges Bourne's Act, entitled him to a settlement. The parish contended that lie had not paid his rent. In fact, he had paid 101. and given a bill for 141. of which 41. were still due. The Magistrates, after a long discussion, declared their joint opinion, that the man had gained a settle ment, and that the acceptance ofd bill by the landlord, though not an acquittance of the debt, was tantamount to an abandoning of his right of distraint. A case was cited, in which the King's Bench had held a contrary doctrine, but the Magistrates adhered to their decision., Last week fourteen stocks of bees were taken by Mr. Edward Day, of Coldblow farm, in the parish of Hock ing, in Kent, of which the produce of honejwas 5761b5. He has got ten stocks more to take, which will produce neatly 401bs. per stock. HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. In consequence of the early assembling of Parliament —for to meet before Christmas is now considered an early meeting—there is a good deal of bustle about Voth Houses, to complete alterations and improvements commenced during the recess, and to make the requisite renovations customarily resorted to preparatory to each Session. At the House of Lords, the workmen are en gaged in finishing, and some of the officers of the House in furnishing and occupying portions of the new buildings erected in part of Cotton Garden for the new " Parliament Office." Extensive and tolerably well arranged offices have been built for the reception of the Lords' Papers, the Parchment Originals of the Acts, icc. and most of such Papers have been removed from the inconvenient accommodation heretofore had at the temporary Office in Abingdon-street. Amongst these new buildings, but neat to the Chamber in which the Lords assemble, and close by the Painted Chamber, is formed a new and commodious library for their Lord ships, to be provided with Parliamentary Journals, &c. There are already several hundred volumes—and a Gentleman, the clerk of Mr. Courtenay, when he was a Master in Chancery, has been appointed to the new office of Librarian to the House of Lord , . 0 her build ings for Parliamentary Offices and accommodation are planned in Cotton Garden: workmen have been long engaged in clearing out for the foundation, having had to pick out, as if they were separating so much solid stone, the bases of old walls, near the memorable cellars of Guy Fawkes, which now no longer exi.t. The only alterations within the body of the House of Lords are the customary renovations of new leather covers to the seats, new matting to the floor of the House, the passages, ecc. all these are in progress : the Throne was regilded, &c. shortly after the last Session, and its tout ensemble is now very gorgeous and beauti ful.—The House of Commons is , now occupied with workmen, ripping up the old seats, repairing them, and making preparations for re-covering them with green leather, icc. Considerable alterations are taking place in several of the Committee Rooms. To the Committee Rooms opposite to the Members' Chamfer, known by the name of the " Smoking Room," there has been formed a passage, so that it will not now be requisite to go through one Room, to get into that beyond it. The floors of the C,Enniittee Rooms, in Vie stone buildings opposite to Henry Vll.'s Chapel, and which were recently added to the Commons accommodations for Committees, have been considerably lowered ; so that they now form fine and lofty rooms. A new Com mittee Room, and chamber for the library, are now building in a corner of Cotton Garden, close to what is at present called the Journal Office, and approachable from the Lobby of the House. The present library. which is in the gallery leading to Mr. Bellamy's Coffee' House for Members, was found to be much too small for the Commons' Library and Journals. There have likewise been some alterations in the offices and resi dence of the Speaker, Mr. Phillips, the Speaker's Secre tory, ecc. and of the accommodation for the vote office papers, by which one room has been taken away from such office—the object of such alteratious being to afford more convenience for Committees of the House, on private bills, disputed election returns, Etc. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. Yesterday morning, Place, the officer, Mrs. Ford, and the cad, who were charged with having robbed a sailor, underwent a final examination. The LORD Maros said, that upon a full conskierition of the evidence, although It satisfied him as to the intentions of the parties, yet the sailor being drunk at the time, he doubted whether there was evidence sufficient to satisfy the ands of a Jury. This being a capital offence, requiring very strong evidence, he should discharge the prisoners. He had beard nothing against the cha racters of the two male prisoners. Tuesday, a married woman, Mrs. Clifton, the wife of an ivory turner, residing in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, appeared to answer a charge of assault preferred against her by a decent looking young woman, named Susan King, the wife of a carpenter. Mrs. King appeared with two black eyes, and her face otherwise bearing marks of severe contusions. Sbe stated, that she was peace ably walking with another female, when Mrs. Clifton, the defend ant, whom she had never seendiefore, suddenly flew upon her, and, after demolishing her bonnet. and cap, beat her about the head and face, until she put it in a worse condition .than that in which his Lordship now saw it: Mrs. Clifton, who could not refrain during the complainant's statement, making use of the epithets, " Good-for-nothing jade," " Hussey," &c. at once admitted the fact of the assault to the full extent represented by the complainant, but declared that she bad just grounds fur doing far more towards her than she had done.— The fact was, that she had been from home on a visit to her native place (Wales), and in the meantime her husband had had criminal conversation with this good-for-nothing woman. He had, as she was informed on good authority, when she returned, taken her home with bin,. In short, he had confessed u much himself. Could it be expected, therefore, that a virtuous woman should peaceably bear such treatment? The Loan Alarms said, that, at all events, the defendant could not be allowed to take the law in her own hands; but there was nothing in the appearance or manner of the complainant to corrobo rate the statement made against her. _ The complainant protested that it was utterly untrue. The de fendant had incited a number of Wel•h people, of the lowest cha racter, against her, and her life was actually endangered by them. The complainant's hu4sand, a young carpenter, who said he bad been married to her six months, came forward to state his convic tion of his wife's purity of character and conduct. The defendant assured his Lordship, that she could prove what she had stated to be the truth, and could undeceive the young man as to his wife's conduct (if be was not aware of it already) provided time were given her to produce witnesses: The Loan Mason adjourned the case until yesterday when Mrs. Clifton produced no other person than her husband to depose to his own shame. " Now," said she, "mind you speak the truth before his Lordship."—The husband then calmly acknowledged that what his wife had stated was the truth. The LORD Maros strongly reprimanded him for his conduct, and his public and shameless avowal of it. " Get out of the room," said his Lordship," for I would not believe a word uttered by a fellow like you, who thus, without a symptom of shame, comes forward to avow your infamy." Evidence was then given to prove that Mrs. King, the complain ant, who now wore so respectable an exterior, had been, in fact, a prostitute. The complainant wept, and admitted that her former course of life had not been strictly virtuous, but ske declared that since bet marriage she had reformed. She had seen the defendant in the company of her husband. She had once met him in her husband's absence, and had taken a glass of wine with him, but she declared her innocence of the charge imputed to her, and prayed that she might not be abandoned to the fury of the defendant, and the females of the neighbourhood, who had all come forward to support her. The Loma Maros reprimanded the complainant, who, he said, I could only stone for her early misconduct by , her. future good be haviour. At the same time, whatever the defendant bad suffered from her husband, she must not be allowed to take justice in her own hands ; nor was she, because she was virtuous, to let loose her fury Without restraint. His Lordship ordered the defendant to find sureties to keep the peace, and also ordered the complainant to eater into her own recognizances for the same purpose. GUILDHALL. Yesterday, a man of highly respectable appearance, named Woo!rich, of Richmond, about thirty years of age, was put to the bar on a charge of assaulting a young girl, of very interesting appear ance, about IT years of age, apprentice to Mrs. House, who keeps a childbed linen warehouse in St. Paul's Church-yard. Mr. and Mrs. House, and several young women in their employment, and a num ber of the young woman's friends attended, and the case appeared to excite a very high degree of interest. The young girl, on whom the assault was committed, appeared to be deeply affected. and could with difficulty give her evidence. She stated, that on Sunday fortnight, Mr. and Mrs. House beings from home, at which times the prisoner was in the habit of coming to the house, there being then no one at home but the witness, the pri soner rang the bell at the door, and she let him in ; they went into the drawing-room together, and be asked her to get him . a glass; for which purport. she went into& bed-room, where the glasses were kept ; he followed her, and taking a bottle of gin from his pocket, endeavoured _to prevail on her to drink some, which she refused, but at length drank half a glass. He then attempted to pull her towards the bed, but she got array from him and ran down to the kitchen, where he followed her; she then got into the coal-cellar, but being followed there also, she ran up to the drawing-room and locked herself in. The prisoner endeavoured to prevail on her to open the door, and rang the street door bell, as she supposed to induce her to come out of the room to open it, but she looked out of the window and saw there was no one at the door, and continued locked op in the room for about an hour and a half, when a servant girl of Mrs. House's. who had been absent for a fortnight on leave, and one of the young women that worked for the shop, came home. She then felt her self secure, and the prisoner drank tea with them. Mrs. House stated, that the servant girl who had been absent on have, had obtained the leave on pretence of going to see ber mother, who, she said, was dangerously ill; but it since appeared that she was living with the prisoner. The prisoner admitted that the servant girl lived with him, and in reply to the Alderman's questions, said he was a merchant in Canada. He denied, positively, that he had any intention of offer ing violence to the prosecutriz ' • he merely wished to kiss her and play with her, but it h e was t o be brought before a Magistrate for playing with a girl he'd take care how he played with one again. Mr. Alderman Armes said, he considered the charge a very serious one, and the prisoner must enter into recognizances, him self in £OO, and two sureties in £4O each, to appear to take his trial at the Setbions. The prisoner said he had no notion that be should be called on for bail, and had not provided himself, and hoped the Alderman would not think Jr necessary to require bail. Alderman Arnvs-•-.Sir if you were my brother I'd hold you to bail You stand committed till you find sureties. BOW-STREET. EdinariJarvis, otherwise Edward Artie nilast, a man of some SO years of age, of florid complexion, and rather bald, dressed in black coat and waistcoat, drab kerseymere small clothes, and top-boots; of staid and sober demeanour, and, in appearance, a respectable tradesman, was brought befOre Mr. Hairs yesterday, by Ledger, an dicer, charged, simply, with a trifling assault upon a Miss Find laysne, of Camden Town, which ended in his being charged with a more serious offence—that of bigamy. Miss Findlayson stated, that the defendant, who is married to her aunt, an old Lady between 40 and 71 years of age, came to her aunt's house on Monday afternoon, and attempted to take away some property belonging to her aunt, but she prevented him, and refused to let him take it away, as she had some suspicions that he had another wife living besides her aunt ; and in consequence of dila interference on her part, he struck her. She immediately ran out to get the assistance of a constable, but in the meantime pri soner escaped. For this assault the defendant was ordered to find bail, and in default, he was locked up. Soon after, Miss Findlayson and an elderly woman, named Whitehurst, residing in Windmill-street, Tottenham-court-road, again presented themselves before Mr. Hams; and a Gentleman, on their behalf, begged his Worship to detain Mr. Edward Jarvis, as they should be able to prove that he had coniniitted bigamy, in having married Miss Whiteburst, the old Lady then present, having another wife living at the time. He then handed the Magistrate three marriage certificates, which were found upon the defendant's person. One of them certified the marriage of the defendant with one Rachael Pearce. on the 18th of August, 1795. The second was the certificate of the marriage of the defendant with Elizabeth Wbitehurst, spinster, of No. 32, Windmill -street, Tottenham-court-road, on the 3d of July, 1826. And the third, the marriage of the defendant and Mrs. Hannah Gray, on the 10th August, 1826. The Gentleman said, they had not been able to find the first wife, Rachael Peace; but they would endeavour to do so, if the prisoner was remanded for a day or two. I have good reason to believe, said he, that several more wives will come forward when this tzposi don of the defendant is made public. Mr. lima.. therefore ordered Miss Whitehorse. deposition is be taken. Being sworn, she deposed—My name is LIU. Whitehurht, and I carry on the business of a grocer In Windmill-street. On the 3d of July, in this present year. I was married to the prisoner at St. George's church, Hanover-square. She then went on to state, that the prisoner had skewed her a certificate of his marriage with Ra th:re! Pearce, who, he said, was dead ; and he brought several per sons to her, before they were married, to prove what he had told her—that he was a widower. He lived with her but three days, and then left her. At this part of her statement she became very much affected: Mr. HALLS asked her if the prisoner obtained any property from her? She replied—" I cannot say; being in a public way of business, I don't know what he may have taken—but I don't mind that"— Here she was unable to proceed. Mr. HALLS, then addressing the prisoner, said there was sof. ficent evidence to warrant his detention, and asked him if he had anything to say why he should not be remanded until Friday, in order to give time for the production of further evidence ? The prisoner replied, with much now/ea/once, that he was very well content, as it would give him an opportunity of procuring a solicitor. He was taken away by the gaoler. It was afterwards stated by the complaining parties, that the prisoner7was also married to a young lady at Gravesend on the 10th November last ; but they have not been able to learn her name or residence; and a letter, of which the following is a copy, would lead to a belief tha the number of this Lothario's wives is not limited to four. " Camden Town, M.l 20._ " Mr DIARZST Axx—l have just received orders to attend a fu neral to-morrow, to which I at first objected; but being pushed hard by Mr. Crutchley, I could not with propriety refute, particu larly as I am the only one he has acquainted with that solemn duty. I can assure you, my dear Ann, it is a great disappointment to me, as I have thought much of the pleasure I should have received in a two-fold degree—being first with her I hold dear above every other object, and, secondly, to have seen some of my old friends at Rex ley—however, GOD'S purpose must be accomplished, therefore let us be patient under them. I know your goodness, my dear A—, will excuse this unforeseen occurrence. I shall expect to see you on your return, and believe it will not be long befose we shall take a journey, not only to the Crays, but as far as Dover. I hope, my dear A—, we shall be as happy as man and wife can wish—Goo bless you and your's. Make my kind respects to your mother and sister, and respectful compliments to all your friends. I conclude, my dear Ann, your sincerely affectionate u E. JARVIS." " N.B. I shall expect you on Wednesday, if I mistake not." This letter was foand in the prisoner's pocket by Miss White burst, a day or two after she had married the prisoner, and led to the present inquiry. It was not addressed to any person. Miss Findlaysoa said, in answer. to a question from Mr. HALLS, that her aunt, Mrs. Gray, though an infirm old lady and nearly 70 years of age, is very much attached to the prisoner; and that he had obtained Xsou front her. ' Mr: HALL* observed that he should net be surprised if more charges were brought against the prisoner, and Ledger, the officer, said that when he apprehended the prisoner that morning, he was in the very act of paying his addresses , to an elderly lady, at a house in Church-lane, St. Giles's! M A RLBOROUGH-STREET. Bridget Price was brought before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Rol, yesterday, charged by Mr, Ferraro ' a carver and gilder, Lower James.street, Golden - square , with adapting the most cruel treat ment towards her step.son, Samuel Price, an intelligent,but emaci ated looking little boy, about thirteen years of age whole crippled body an d wretched appearance betrayed all the signs of the most heartless- usage. Mr. Ferraro stated that the prisoner, together with her husband and the boy Price, had lately tome to Ave in a lane at the back of his house; that hearing the most piteous cries constantly coming from their habitation ' he was induced to learn the cause of them ; for which purpose be bored a hole in the partition of his workshop. which looked into the room occupied by the prisoner, and be there frequently beheld acts of the most brutal description committed by the prisoner on the boy. This statement was corroborated by the servant of Mr. Ferraro, and a servant of a neighbour. The prisoner, in her defence, said that the cruelty complained of was nothing more than a little essary chastisement, which she was obliged to inflict in conseg aennce of the violent temper of the child. This account bees evident marks of untruth, from the ap parent placid disposition el the child. It was also denied by Mr. F. trim said nothing could be more gentle or tractable than the conduct of the boy. The Maglitrate considered it a case deserving of punishment, and obliged the prisoner to find two sureties in /10 each, and herself in • ageo, to answer the complaint at the neat tiessioos. I in tire Sus Of yesterday, we gaited that a young man wa s charged with attempting to steal a valuable horse, the property e t a Gentleman named Smith. The young man Hien said, be wa s sent by a Gentleman named Hawkins, for the hone, and whit*, upon inquiry, It appears is the fact. On Sunday, Mr. Smith vv the ostler positive orders not to allow any person to have the hone on any pretence whatever, but it appears that be had previously given Mr. Hawkins authority to send for the horse whenever be wished to ride out. This inf o rm a ti o n b e i ng commun i cated to the • Magistrate, the young man was discharged. H A 1701443 ARDEN. Mr. Harnett, the solicitor, and a great number of witnesses, were in attendance at the ogle', soon after the Magistrate had taken his seat, in the expectation that the examination of Robert Bat. terror, who was charged on Monday, by Messrs. Statham and Co. Lamb's Condult-street, with embezzlement, would be entered into. Twelve o'clock wa. the hour appointed, but neither at that dm*, nor up to three o'clock, bad Mr. Battersby made his appear: ante. His bail, two persons of highly respectable appearance, began to be fearful that his recognizance* would be forfeited. One of the witnesses applied to the Magistrate, in order to km)* whether be was compelled to wait any looser? Mr. Sergeant Sutton replied, that " he knew nothing about for the parties were not before him." Witness after witness then gradually disappeared, and at three o'clock none of the parties were in the office. Mr. Harnett ati tended for Mr. Warren, of the Strand, but we did not observe Mr► &atham, or any person present from his arm. MARY-LA-BONNE. Yesterday, • two Gentlemen attended at this Office. and lodged informations of a cheat which had been practised upon them by some persons who had described themselves to be agents from the Greek Government. They stated, that one of the individuals of whom they complain e d had represented that be was authorised to give commissions to proper persons for the Greek army and naval service. The Gea. tlemen having the honour of receiving these commissions being only required to'find their own uniforms, accoutrements. &c. and to pay a trifling douceur of ten pounds for the commission, and towards the passage money. The cause of Greece and all its glorious classic additions, were illustrated in such feeling colours, that the person succeeded in gathering together a crowd of young aspirants to martial fame, from each of whom be received tea [ pounds, and gave them a paper signed by himself in the name of Orem, accompanied with an introduction to a tailor to pro. vide an outfit, also giving a pattern of a splendid uniform which to any person acquainted with the satire of the Greek war. fare would appear altogether useless. One of the complainants, who is the son of a Gentleman holding a situati •n under Govern. meat, being so charmed with "the glorious theme," having heard the Captain expatiate upon it, that be obtained the consent of his frieads, and determined to join the Greeks, and accordingly paid 101. for a midshipman's rank in the Greek pasty, doubting but little that, under so distinguished a leader as Lord Cochrane he would obtain rapid honour and promotion. He gave the tailor orders for uniforms, which were soon furnished, when he received" sail. ing orders" from the Captain. and seat his luggage to the Antigaliean Coffee house, preparatory to is embarkation, but was astonished to learn that the " Royal Charlotte"—the vessel named as engaged to take him and the rest out—was not taken up, or likely to he taken up, for any such purpose.— They applied to Mr. Hume, M.P. who was represented by the Captain to have the superintendence it the " agency" in this king dom, and that Gentleman in reply, disclaimed all knowledge of it, and pronounced it to be a disgraceful fraud upon the public.... Therefore they applied to procure, if possible, redress, and to put the public upon their guard. One of the Gentlemen said, he had no doubt from what be had learned, that Lord Cochrane was not aware of or in any way a party to the business. The Magistrates said the trick was evidently a fraud, and as t►e parties seemed to have at present escaped justice, they advised the applicants to caution their friends against any such frauds, and it was hoped the publicity the case would obtain through the newspapers would effectually expose it. The applicants bowed and withdrew. LA NIMITH-STREEt. C. F. Jones was charged by his father, a most respectable Medi with robbing him. The unhappy father stated, that it was with extreme reluctance he had undertaken the painful task of thus exposing his son's mis. conduct ; but he was compelled so td do, as the only means of pre serving him from an ignominious death. He had tried every method of teclaiming him, but in vain. He had, at a considerable expecte; placed him In a respectable situation at Knightsbridge, from which he had absconded. He then fitted him out for sca, and he had made three voyages, at the end of each of which he deserted. Ne vertheless his Captain would have again taken him ; but on the eve of the next voyage he concealed himself, and the ship sailed without him. The Magistrate urged the unhappy father to state some spe cific charge. The father then stated, that yesterday morning he came to his house, demanding breakfast,, and then rushed into the kitchen, seized a gravy spoon, which be thrust into his trousers ; and when his sister attempted to stop him he knocked her down; nor was this the first time, by many, be had plundered him; but the last fact his mother and sister could distinctly prove. This evi dence was given in the most pathetic manner, which the hardened youth heard without the least emotion ; and when the Magistrate asked him what he had to say / he acknowledged it in the malt unblushing wanner; and on being reminded that he was inculpating himself, he replied, " That's right ; egad it is ; you are right, so you are; I smoke it." He was then remanded, that his mother and sister might have the melancholy task of appearing against George Houghteit was charged with robbing Mr. Fuller, surgeoni of the Hackney road. .Mr. Fuller stated, he was passing the end of Fleet-street, Bethnal Green, about eight o'clock on Monday morning, when he was surrounded by twenty ferment, some armed with sticks, who threatened his life, and robbed him of above some surgical instruments, &c. Having given a description of some of the men to the Police, the prisoner was apprehended oo the fal lowing night, and was now fuUy identified by Mr. Fuller, behaving been particular in searching all the pockets a second time, to see that no property was left in them. The prisoner protested be was at the Angel and Trumpet, at Stepney, at eight o'clock, in company with one Wm. Bady ; Wks was committed for trial. TOWN-HALL. Mrs. ilex Moms, of Fryer street, MeV - tiara Road, WM nun moiled by two sisters, dress makers, in the city. The complainants were employed in their profeivion three days at the defendant's lodgings, and pay-day coming round, she charged them with robbing her of two sovereigns out of 39, and detained ene of the complainants' shawls as an equivalent, and refused to pay their bill. Several witnesses living In the same house did not believe she had the money to lose; and the charge being unsupported, the shawl was ordered to be given up, leaving her to the Sessions, and the young women told to apply at the Court of Requests for their money. • BIRTH. The nib May, at the Cape of Good Hope, the Lady of James Duff Watt, Esq. Deputy Assistant Commissary General to the Forces, of i daughter. DIED. At Carbrook, Sterllngshire,on the 27th ultimo. Miss Anne Smut, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Archibald Smith, Minister of Khiross. At New Norfolk, Van Diemen's Land, on the 7th of April last, Captain Hugh Wilson, Cith Reginsent of Bengal Native Infantry. At Naples, on the 2Sd of August, Held Marshal Baron Vats Koller, who accompanied Napoleon as Austrian Commissioner. At his house, in C.ouper.street Leith, Whiteford Smith, Eel. aged sixty.five. Among various legacies, he left the sum of £lOO to be applied for promoting the education of the ehiltimn in his native parish of &ennes, in Orkney. The way in which he directed this to be done, was by paying the interest of the mina to the school . master for the time. MAILS- . •IM DM 'HIS DAY. 0I France ♦ll. Dor. 1 0 Waterford 1 0 Hamburg!' 0 1 Guernsey and Jersey 0 1 Flanders • 0 Lisbon _ 0 • Brasil 0 0 Donagha4ee Malta o o O 0 ---- Swedes 0 1 Gottenbargb 0 0 P 0 0 0 LONDON i Printed and Pablished by J. F. KEA LT, al the 31A a. Qtrier, Ng. 1, Pickett-Place, Temploßar. HIGH-WATER at LONDON-BRIDGE TO MORROW. Morning . . 19 minutes after 1 Afternoon . 4 minutes after 1