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• irarki I,tl ifizilek • . t'OMMi3I3OItE „. Auonst-9.+-AillYod the ENS; Siia l ; Capialh Join Youleoi from . dieeniatid, with eighi • fi s is, .ife was taken ty the Pearliest, tominodore it t ooais, oh the 24th July. After taking from hint several kitycles; and a bond for With payable iii London; lilt elitierated; • and the -crews of the ti ostik.i4isained sldPs put in bditrtlialm. Captain YouRG war afterwaids boarded by the ALiXANDRIA frigate and the Sphimut sloop, Who. impressed the :tears of the ships mentioned beloirl The Neon, Captain MAJolis Of GbanSOyi taken the ith June, off the Western Islands. The Jean and Ann, ROll/1T C I ALDWIII.L. Of Saiteoats, taken .he rth Inn., in lat. 61.7. N. It S. If. E. The Daphne, this.ss, Of Whitby, taken the lath July, in slight *of Cape North. 14421•tonamoust. The ALEXANDRIA, 32 guns, arriired at Leith on the 10th inst.; returning from Spitihergen she fell in With the Fruit/rat, Commodore Rooms, ands in company With the SPITFIRE sloop of war, chased her 96 hours, wheh the Proidenei superior sailing run them hut of sight. The ALEXANDRIA is commanded by that bribe officer, Captain tATHCART, who so. nobly defehded the SEAGULL, in the Baltic, about four years ago, against a far superior force -- the kaaittiLL was sunk in action, and for his eondlict on that occasion, the Lords of the Ailihiralty were pleased to giire him Post Rank. AUGUST to. Arrived the ALEXANDRIA frigate and SPITFIRE sloop of war, from Greenland they chaced the Pre. acne American frigate, Commodore RODGERS. for 96 honks, btit lost her on the 28d ultimo. She was trowding all sail to the 'Westward. A fast-sailing priirateer, of 16 guns and 200 men was in company ivith the President. FALMOUTH, AUGUST 10. Nothing arrived or sailed to-day, but the Richard Stapleton, Larrn, film Belfast bound to BUenos Ayres.—Wind variable, very light breezes PLIMOUTH, AUGUST it. Put in here to join convoy, the schooner Fame, Lowther ; and the brig Venus, Lowther ; both froth Waterford ) with cargoes of provisions, bound to Lon. don.—ArriVed the Lord Nelson, Litten, from Lon- don ; Idea, Clemens, froth Padstow ; Industry, Carpenter, frost Arundel ; Ceres, Langmaid ; Cul. den Grove. Mills; and the Dasher, Daily, from Wales ; and the Fontenoy, Denten, from Sunder_ land.—Sailed the Bruit Poime frigate, and the SPAT:ROW brig of war, t o pin the Channel Fleet.— Wind variable.. PORTSMOUTH, AUbUST la. Arrived the sloop Diana, from Waterford; Wil liam, —, from ditto ; and brig Liberty, from Gi bialtar.:—tailetl his Majesty's schooner ALPHA, with the transports, having the Tipperary abd Waterford Militia un board, for Cork. Went out of harbour the Ctostus, of 10 guns, Captain FIFE, and is ap- pointed convoy to the Downs. DARTMOUTH, AUGUST W. Sailed yesterday the Jenny cartel, for Atnetita and to-day the Anna Maria cartel, also fdr America ; they carry between than upwards of 200 prisoneis of was to be exchanged. DEAL, AUGUST 1!. • Came down from the River, the Charles Itathilton, DinALDON, for Cadiz ; and the Selby and Ruby, and several more, and sallied, under convoy of the nap; cutter, for Fortsmouth.—Wind S.E. GitAVESEND, AUGUST 14. The following East Indiameo,ate. have arrived, and safely passed Gravesend :—Clarkson, from Bengal ; Echo, holt', the South Seas; Mary, froth Calcutta ; Hannah, from Bombay.; Hindostan, froM ditto; and the Arab, from the South Seas. tiAItWICH. AUGUST Is. Sailed the Lord Nelsen packet, for Ofitenburshe and the Lady Nepean pacht, fok Heligoland, With mails. YARMOUTiI, AUGUST Is. Arrived the HEARTY, from Harwich, arid the KING Georics, from off the Texel. Salad the VIXEN, for the Humber, to take out the trade in that. river for the Baltic. Annonbrit.—Colonel CADOGAN, it appears .by his bwn exertions & recruited the battalion he commanded, the 4tl of the 71et, ok Glasgow regiment, from among the young men of that city, and in a very short time rendered them fit for active duty. In every service in which they have herb emplo)ed they have always behaved in the most gallant manner, and worthy of their late brave Commander. At Arroyo de Molinos, however, when it happened to be their lot to drive the enemy into the toten, they became in some measure appalled by the firm front which their opponents, who had rallied at the furtLer end of the street, presented to them) and seemed to waver ; Colonel CADOGAN, who was in adVance, expecting them to fhllow, in stantly perceived this ; and, aware of the danger of a moment's delay, and being struck with the resem blance of the street to the Gallogate of Glasgow, wined immediately round, and liailoping to the head ni his egimentocalled out in an n uiatingto;one," What, my lade, shall we not drive them out of the GAllow gate !" The address was electrical, the regiment in stantaneously regained its wonted courage; and, led en by their brave Chief, overcame all opposition, and in a few militates not an enemy was left in the place. Last week, while a patty of the Lincolnshire mi litia were conveying five unlicensed stills, which the Revenue Officers had seized from Cara, to London derry, they were suddenly assailed by a band of armed men, who had posted themselves on the moun tain of GlentAugher, and volleys were fired on both sides, and a sharp irregular conflict was maintained for some time, when the assailants were dislodged and rooted, and the stills were conveyed to their de stination without further molestation. • 141* .. -r eIitAWSItY, AtOUST. it. !alit* smositusolt, to rue starreft tie Lrkits 4rm Widen. . , This was a iietitiOn, praying to be alloWed to hold a sum of moneys which had been seized, by attach = ing sortie property of the BankruOts in Ameticat It appeared that the Petitioners Wire creditors et the Bankrupts for £5OO. That ithniediately after they became insolvent, but a considerable time before they were, made Bankrupts, Bainbridge seat mit to America, and had an attachment put upon softie property of the bankrupts in That country. The question now was, whether the lais of America considered such an attachment a and effectual brie ? The opinions of . a mercantile man were stated, that it was a good and effectual Attachment at and from the time it *as made : but the Lord Chancel. for wished the parties to make enquiry how the facts would stand by the law of America StAREY ASSIZES. CROYDON, AUGUST 11. *h! KING .9. BOVINGTON AND ANOTHER. This was an informatiiin against the defendant% Messrs. Bovington and Elringtoni for a nuisance, in not repairing certain premises held by them adjoining to the Marshalsea prison, in consequence of which they fell down, and threw down a part of the Mar shalsea prison wall, by which two persons were ki1.1,1, and several others b.uily hurt ? Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD, for the prosecuiion, opened the case,, and the question was, whether the Wall fell down from its own ruined state, or was thrown down by the pressure of the adjoining build ing belonging to the defendants ? The evidence on. the part of the prosecution went to she*, that the building of the defendants was in a ruinous state, and they attributed the accident to the tie of the roof being rotten, bywhich the roof spread out, and pressing against the Marshalsea walls, the wall was thrown in. The building of the defendants, it appeared, was built , about 1G or 18 years ago, as store-houses for the Messrs. Calverts, and was supported on uprights reared against the Marshalsea wall. On the other side it was contended, that the accident a rse from the insufficient manner of building the prison that it was of insufficient thickness for its height, and that its fall was occasioned by a heavy c brow six-de frise, which was let into the substance of the wall. The examination of different Surveyors and wit nesses to these facts, occupied nearly the whole day, and the Jury withdrew for a considerable time to consider of their verdict, when at last they found the defendants Not Guilty. HUTCHINSON V. PIPER AND ANOTHER. This was an action which WAS tried the third time. It was to recover penalties on the Statute of Usury against the Defendants, who were Bankers at Dork ing, f )1' usury, in discounting various Bills of Ex change for Mr. Peter Botham, formerly a Magis trate, and well known in this county. The account of the transaction, as he detailed it, was, that in the years 1809, 10, and 11, he dealt with the Dorking Bank, and they accommodated him with discounts : that, in 1810, he had a conversation with Mr. Dewd ney, who told him they could not discount on the usual terms of five per cent. and that he must take bills which had some time to run—accordingly, when he discounted paper with them, he took as cash other bills which were not due, and which sometimes he had himself previously discounted with them. With respect to the particular transaction, it was one which took place on the 30th of April, when he discounted with them a post-dated cheque, payable on the 16th of May, in return for which they gave him a bill which they had before discounted for him, drawn by himself, and accepted by one John Ault, without allowing him the discount ; and that he had paid for discounting this note, and again received it as cash on discounting the cheque, so that he had actually paid £5 per cent. twice over, making it £lO per cent. Lord ELLaNsonotion, in summing up this case, told the Jury that it was necessary to prove a corrupt contract for an illegal interest, and looking through his notes, the witness had not said a single word as applicable to this transaction, and had stated a for mer conversation, in which the Banker had :stated that he could not do business at £5 per cent. ; but, in his opinion, it was necessary to slew that that was the principle upon which the actual discount was taken, and there was not a single word in the evi dence to establish that fact. Under this direction the Jury found the Defendants—Not Guilty. On the Crown side the cases were wholly insigni ficant, and finished at an early hour. ExactiTtow.—Friday -morning, at half-past seven o'clock, Azubah Fountain and G. T. Rowell, con victed at the late Lincoln Assizes of the murder of the husband of the former by poison, were taken in a cart to the usual place of execution, in the neigh bourhood of Lincoln, where they joined in prayer with the Clergy man for a short time, and then ascen ded the fatal steps, with mere resolution and compo sure than could be expected from persons in their awful situation. The ropes Were soon adjusted, and the steps thrown down, forcing the trembling sinners into an ' awful eternity. After hanging the usual time (about au hour) the bodies were removed to a building in the Castle-yard, there to undergo the further sentence of the law.—Rowell persisted to the last in denying that he knew to what purpose the laudanum was to be ap*- plied, while his partner in guilt continued to assert that they both had frequent conversations upon the subject, and that he knew when he got it that it was to poison Fountain. The day being extremely wet, the cron d who witnessed the execution was not ,o great as was expected. Rowell was a native of Mel ton Mowbray, at which place he bore a very bad cha racter ; and from 1807 to 1809 he worked as a coo per, witir Mr. Skinner, of Bingham, who frequently told him, when reproving him for his bad practices, 0 that he was fearful, when he left his servitude, it would be his lot to suffer the vengeance of the law" —a prediction which has proved but too true. This vicious and irreclaimable young man was also to have been married to the eldest daughter of the unfortu , nate Fountain, having paid his addresses to her for some time. . mule k OIL #.llProitii she (stie declined saying, could mate the %A peeientation of her own affliction herself. Mrs Ca. PARTICULARS. ford never mentioned that she had mbneytbi3ut heft or *est' itelay s , Mr. Tuaroir std other Magistrates re: the contrary, she represented that she was distressed; the examination of witnestes; In the prit but the paid her room-rent regularly. She did not son of Coldbeth-flelds, conkerning the murder of the know that Clifford *as married to his companion. late unfortunate Edsiard Cliffotd- nor had she ever heard that he was rich till after the Thomas Lye. ins called arid examined. He was murder, when she was told that he had a trifle of Mrs: Clifford's brother, and carne-to Lcindon In 1786, money. Slattery told her they had some money. where he wrought as a bricklayer's labourer many Mrs. Hughes, of Lucas-stree , , saw a man, dressed yeari, and having earned a little money, he now lived in a dark coloured coat, walking slowly away from at his ease at N 0.9, Parker's-lane, Drury-lane. He the place where the niptdered body was (omit!, about ;Asked Ireland, his native country, in iBC6, and was four o'clock in the morning; he continued to walk introduced to Thomas Burke, a person whom he des till he arrived at a place where theft was no %boa tested, because he did not like his countenance, who rongl.fare ; she looked at her watch, it was just four had married his sister, the present Mrs. Clifford.— o'clock, Ind she was astonished to see a pereen thews Burke was a bit of a farmer, with a few acres of land, at that hour in the morning : when she first disco. in the county of Tipperary. The witness said,. he vend him, he was within one hundred paces of where returned to London, and the year afterwards, Burke the body was lying, and certainly had seen it. Here came fkom Ireland, with news of the death of his Leary was brought in, and Mrs. Hughes ha.ing (Lyon's) mother. Burke returned to Tipperary, mined him very attentively, said he was dressed dif and he had never seen him since, he had not heard ferently from the person that she saw, but he was that he was either living or dead, but he believed he ; about the same size. A man of the r tme of Shuttle was living. When he was in Ireland, in 1806, he worth, who discovered the bOdy of Cl.lford, was also aaw Edward Clifford, the deceased, at Butke's house, examined by Mrs. Hughes • but she said he had no but he did nor know that he was a servant there.— resembEnce whatever to the person whom she had About the time of his sister's arrival in London, with seen. Edward Clifford and her children, of which he (the Leary declared that he wore a grey coat during the witness) was not previously apprised, a strange man Sabbath day. butlie put on his jacket in the evening knocked at his door, and asked him if his name was! Mrs. Griffiths, who kept a public - house in Church . : 'Lyon ?he said yes, upon which he introduced him to lane, saw Mrs. Leary with Michael Harrington and • his sister, Mrs. Clifford, and the wife of Leary ; this his wife, and some other persons ; they drank some meeting was wholly unexpected, and he had to take beer in her house on the evening of the 25th of July, a few solitary walks hi his garden, before he could re- which Mrs. Leary paid for ; but she could not say gain composure enough to enter into conversation.— whether Clifford accompanied them. He then inquired of his sister who Mrs. Leary was ? I Mr. 7ideliman, of the Union Arms, Union -court, and she answered that she lodged at her house at had no recollection concerning Leary and Clifford, Saffron-hill. They parted, after he had promised to lor any of their friends, being in his house on the night call on her, that very afternoon. He was alarmed 'of the 25th of July. when be saw his sister, because he hated her husband, Mrs. Champion said, she was Mrs. Clifford's cousin, and he could not conceive what had induced a wit- and one day Mr. Clifford said to her, that he was man with so many little children to travel so far from goingbsek to Ireland, but he had given Mary two home. He wished her to return to Ireland, but he pounds three shillings to lye-in with. She saw them offered her no money to defray her expellees, and she in company with Leary, on the Sunday evening of asked for none. He saw Clifford and his sister in the murder. Immediately after she had heard .the company, but he made no inquiries, because he did news of Clifford's murder, Mrs. Clifford said she had not believe them to be married ; this meeting was at six pounds in notes, which she had brought with her his own house, about a mouth or five weeks ago ;he from Ireland. Mrs. Clifford had five children with saw Clifford no more, and he had not seen his sister tor, the eldest of whom, and she believed the second since, except after the murder was committed. No too, understood English ; the others spoke Critic. money had ever passed from his hands into those of [Here the Magistrates gave orders that n. ate of her his sister since her arrival in England ; he was posi- children, should be permitted to converse with her, tive that Slattery was not the strange man who had unless they carried on the conversation in English, in apprised him of his sister's arrival: he did not know presente of the keepers.] Slattery. Mrs. Jacks was questioned concerning the manage. Slattery was then brought forward, and his evi- merit of the money which charitable persons bad put deuce taken before the Magistrates at the last exami- into her hands, to be applied to the destitute children nation was read over to the brother of Mrs. Clifford. who accompanied this wretched pair to London; and Slattery deposed, that he came from Inland about a it appeared that two pounds had been left at the house couple of months ago, where he had known Mary during the absence of the witness , of the expenditure Clifford from her infancy. He was well acquainte. of which no account was given for more than nine with Burke, her husband—they did not live very shillings ; and Slattery and another person were sus pleasantly togedier, and had separated houses three pected of having misapplied it. months before the w ittre,s came to London. They The Magistrates ordered the six Al Bank of Eng. had sold two • acres of land, with some wheat, and land notes, deposited in the shopkeeper's hands by Mrs. thirty pounds was the produce, as he had been Mfor- Clifford on the morning after the murder, to be kept mid, with which Mary Clifford went off to Water apart from others; they were represented to have ford, accompanied by her children. He had seen been obtained in O'Keefe's Bank, iu Cork, and their Burke, her husband, within a fortnight of the period numbers and dates are as follow : that he left Ireland. One day he met her in St. No. 77,829, dated February 25,1818. • Giles's, shortly after her arrival, and she complained No 10,310, dated January 2, 1813. to him that she was not comfortably lodged at No. as, I 33; dated March 9, IBIS. No. 71,106, dated July 8, 1812. Leary's ; upon Lich he roomed her lodgings more • No. 71;929, dated July V 4, ttl l3. to lu.r liking in Church-lane, where he assisted in No. 15,399, Cued June 3, 1812. the removal of her clothes ; but lie saw no more Mrs. Clifford became suddenly indisposed during money about her titan a few shillings. She had fire the morning, and her labour pangs increased so as children, two of whom went by the name of Burke, to render it imprudent to read to her the evidence and three by the name of Clifford. of Slattery, or proceed to any examination of herself; The testimony of Slattery then proceeded to de- upon which the Magistrates postponed all further scribe the disputes between Mary and-Edward Clif ford, when she snatched Ins hat from his head, and examination into this mysterious murder for threeford, weeks, when it is calculated that Mrs. Clifford *ill offered him a silk neck handkerchief. At this part be recovered. of the evidence, a Lady of the name of Busby came forward, and produced some fragments of a speckled silk handkerchief, which she had found on the spot where the murder was committed ; and Slattery was strictly examined concerning the colour, and appear ance, and quality of the neckcloth which Clifford usually wore : he said his neckcloth was of silk, with red stripes ; those fragments which the Magistrates supposed might have been rent away in the struggle, bore no resemblance to any handkerchief that he had ever seen in Clifford's possession. On the night of the murder he went to bed about nine o'clock, and WAS awaked by the arrival of Mrs. Clifford about twelve, who smoked a pipe and went to bed. He fell asleep again, and saw her no more till four in the morning of Monday, when she came to him in great distress concerning the murder of Clifford. She said she had six pounds, which the children had found on the floor ; and he counselled her to put it into the hands of some secure person, and they pitched upon the keeper of a neighbouring shop, and gave it to him as a trust, without any iojanctions of secrecy that he remembered. He counselled her to put it from about her person, lest the knowledge of her having money should prevent the bounty of charitable people. Hannah Singlaon said, she lived with her husband in Chuich-lane, and Clifford and his wife took lodg ings at her house, which they occupied at the time. el the murder. She had the management of the house, and her plan was, when any of her lodgers were ab sent at night she lett the door open for them, so that they might find no obstruction on their return. Un der this arrangement her lodgers went out and came in, according to their own discreton, at all hours.— She had no recollection of any thing whatever con cerning Mrs. Clifford, on the evening of the murder of her husband ; nor did she take any notice of Leary's coming in or going out : she did not know at what hour Mrs. Clifford returned to her apartments on the night of the murder, nor did she even know that she was at home. She saw her early next morning, and asked her if her husband had gone to Ireland ? for Mrs. Clifford had told the witness, that Edward had a notion of leaving her altogether : she answered, that she almost believed he was gone for Ireland. — This conversation took place between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, and the witness had not then been informed of the murder of Clifford, and no notice was taken of it by Mrs. Clifford. About the same time Mrs. Clifford offered to sell some of her things, de claring that she would go to Ireland after him. Soon afterwards accounts came of the murder of Clifford, and the widow wanted the witness to go and make a representation of her distress at the workhouse; but MARLIOROUGH-STREE r.—A boy named B eta was yesterday charged at this Offize, on the testimony.of an accomplice, a youth respectably brought op. and the apprentice of Mr. Dell, baker, at the corner of Great Marlborough-street and Poland-street, with aiding and inciting the said apprentice to rob bis master.—lt appeared by the testimony of Mr. Dell; that he had at various times missed money from his till, to which his apprentice had confiJential access, and from the respectability of his connexion!, no sus picion at first fell upon him. Mr. Dell.received a 42 note; which he particularly marked, and deposited it in the till, and very shortly after, on going to give change for a larger note, that of Je2 had been taken out. The men had, at different times, lost money from their trunks, and suspicion at length fell on the apprentice ;- who, on being closely interrogated, made .; a confession of his guilt. He stated, that he had first been initiated to dishonest practices by his fellow ap- ' prentice, who had run away. The prisoner and ano ther youth planned how the pilferings were to be committed, and they had a share in the produce r by which they maintained themselves in a lodging in Shepherd-street, Bond-street. The apprentice stated, that they had robbed their master of from three to five shillings, and more, every day, for many • months; but on the other apprentice running away. he was determined to discontinue bad practices. The prisoner, and his accctrplice, however, threatened to tell his master of all his delinquencies, unless the ap prentice continued his depredat•ons, and to alarm him they often came to the shop to buy ma:. The apprentice made a full confession, and the prisoner Bites was committed, but his companion is not yet taken. .lames Lacy, a lamp-lighter, was committed for trial for attempting to steal gold seals from a gentle man's watch, during the fire near Grosvenor-square, early yesterday morning. At the Lincoln Assizes an action was tried brought by the Master of the Bull Inn, at Mi+rlcit Deeping, against the Cornet of the Ness Volunteers, for the expenses of a dinner and liquors for fifty-four of the corps. The party sat down to dinner about half past four o'clock, and mostly retired before ten. The quantity of liquors charged was as follows: one hun. died and twenty-six bottles of port ; forty-eight of sherry ; sixty-tour half-crown bowls of punch ;a d twenty of negus, besides ale and porter ! The Jury gave a verdict in favour of the innkeeper, with only taking off sixpence per bottle on the port wine.