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ir-7 J.- - , r. pv of a letter tome of the ilith of December, 1927, to show that Cl l.:. Dickenson received the Russian Order of St. Ann in con • i!uence of his own mis-statement. " Adverting to the absence of the master and others, I beg leave moat respectfully to repeat the suggestion in my former fetter, that the Deputy Judge Advocate has means which I ..annot command, of ascertaining how far the evidence of those officers can be compensated for the presence of others nn the cpnt. " In conclusion, I trust I may be permitted to lament the ne .-et.ity which their Lordships have felt of exposing to public loves titan the conduct of a British alter when serving in con)unction ..,1„1 the squadrons of two foreign nations, and more particularly Ow their having done so timid have originated in my anxiety to enable them to appropriate justly the highly-prized honorary dis t :ions committed to their distribution.—l have the honour, kc. (Signed) " EDWARD CODRINGTON." ?ROM DIR. CRONES 70 SIR ItiKARD CODILIIIO7OI'. " Admiralty Office, Aug. 3,1829. Nit —I have received and communicated to my Lords Com • loners of the Admiralty your letter of yesterday's date on the ,I)jvct of the Court Martial on Captain Dickenson, and am corn - ....i,led to state to you in reply, that the assurance stated to have 'urn given to you by the First Lord of the Admiralty—namely, • •h,.t having given the Board all the information you were pos •etsed of, you should not be called upon to take any further part in the transaction, had reference, as is obvious it must have had, only to the objection you felt to appear in the distinct character of prosecutor. His Lordship did not, and could not, have meant to release you from the responsibility of substantiating your own allegations by your own evidence, or that of such other persons you might have reason to suppose were enabled to support them. Not having asked for a Court Martial on Captain Dickenson, you could not, of course, be held bound to undertake the distinct character of a prosecutor; but having made charges against that officer which, in their Lordships' opinion, require investigation at a Court Martial, it is incumbent on you to establish the truth of the charges which you thus advanced, and which their Lordships had not heard from any other quarter ; and although it will be the duty of the Judge Advocate to arrange the evidence with which he may be furnished in the mode most likely to elucidate the truth, neither the Judge Advocate nor their Lordships can decide as to what evidence may be necessary to establish your view of the case. It therefore remains for you either to take such measures, in com munication with the Judge Advocate, as may tend to substantiate your charges against Captain Dickenson, or, by declining to do so, leave their Lordships at liberty to consider Captain Dickenson's conduct as free from all imputation, and to treat him accordingly. •' And, finally, In order to bring this torrespondence to a close, their Lordships desire that you will distinctly state whether you are willing that the trial should proceed under their Lordships view as above stated of your " position," and if so, whether you think the attendance of the absent ',fineness so indispensable as to require the postponement of the trial until their arrival. In the event of your not stating your willingness that the trial should pro ceed on the understanding above-mentioned, their Lordships will feel that they have no alternative but at once to adopt the course stared In the latter part of the preceding paragraph.—l am, Sir, atc. (Signed) " J. W. CROKER." FROM SIC EDWARD CODRINGTON TO MR. CROICRR. "Elton-square, sth August, 1829. " Sia,—My inability to reconcile certain expressions in your letter of the 3d, with the fact admitted in it of my not being the prosecutor of charges against Captain Dickenson, induced me again to hate recourse to the First Lord of the Admiralty. And his Lordship having condescendingly explained, that the real meaning of the i oard is, that they require my hen judgment under the circumstances, whether or not their desire to do justice both to Captain Dickenson and the public service is likely to be obtained by the trial proceeding without waiting for the return to England of the master, surgeon, and signal midshipman of the Genoa, I with great deference submit my opinion, that it is best the trial should not be delayed by the absence of these officers. " I have already observed, that the Deputy Judge Advocate may perhaps ascertain means of making up for the absence of those cfficers. But it is right to mention, that the Leveret, with Mr. Giles on board, is, I am told, now on her way to England. " Even, however, at the risk of failure in establishing such im- portant allegations, I use the liberty your letter opens to me to say, that according to my view of what is most beneficial to the interests of the public service, no further delay in bringing to a close the question of Captain Dickenson's conduct is advisable. Although I have expressed my anxiety that nothing emanating from my feelings as to the honorary distinctions in question, should have produced a Court Martial on Captain Dickenson at this protracted period. I do assure their Lordships, that since it has pleased them to come to a differeut decision, I have no less Embody to enable them, as far as in me lies, to have the subject or Captain Dickenson's conduct thoroughly investigated. With this feeling I now offer my opinion, that the presence of the lion. Captain Maude, and the officer whom he sent with the Glasgow's seen to get the Genoa ready, will probably enable the Court to ascertain the condition of the Genoa under Captain Dickenson's management; that the question of who wrote or composed the log-book account of the battle, &c. may perhaps be elicited (torn Captain Smith and others of the Genoa; and that the chief tnatswaiti's mate and other petty officers may be able to elucidate Pie production of the round robin.—" I have. &c. (Signed) " EDWARD CODRINGTON." 4 , I 1 I l k 1 1 I I 1 1 . i I I I Il /ROM MR. CROKIR TO MR TOWARD CODTINGTOW. " Admiralty-office, Augnit 5, 1829. Sir,--Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of this day's date respecting the Court 9 1 .artial on Captain Richard Dickenson, c. B. I have it in coat• 'and to acquaint you. that its consequenci thereof, and of Captain Dickenson's having consented to waive, on his part, the attendance of the absent witnesses, their Lordships have directed that the Court Martial shall proceed as soon as Captain Ommanney may be able to attend, and the other witnesses now in England shall be ccllected at Portsmouth "I am, &c. 4 .. T. W. CROKER." 1110)1 SID 1. COD/LUMMOX TO K. 431111ETRAU, PQ. " Eaton-square, August 10,1829. " Sic—Adverting to your letter of the 20th of July, and the desire of Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford therein contained, to have ' a correct plan of the Bay of Naval in, and the situation of the different ships during the action,' I have now the honour of furnishing you with such a plan as appears to me generally correct, with the omission of the positions of the Genoa and Albion, as they will be deposed to by their several officers. I have added a copy of the order to the combined fleet where to take up their an chorage, and a supplementary plan of the position of the Asia at four different periods of the battle. And it is due to myselt to explain that tie delay in furnishing these documents ' arose from a fear that I should subject myself to being considered the willing author, at this protracted period, of a prosecution which I had re linquished nearly two years ago ; and not from any want of that respect for Sir Robert Stopford which it is always a gratification to myself to show to so distinguished an officer. " The explanations which have taken pl.,ce since my receipt of your before-mentioned letter having established the point of my si , .t standing in the character of prosecutor, and being only called upon to point out all the means which occur to me for completing the investigation which the Hoard of Admiralty, in their superior judgment, h ye been pleased to order. I beg you will assure Sir Hobert Stopford that I am ready to give any further information for elue:dating the allegations which may be in my power, and which he may think requisite for that purpose.—l am, &c. (Signed) "EDWARD CODRINGTON." 5011 )I C &OKRA TO RZITHAN, 1111 Q. D.J.A. OF TEI •LIST. " Admiralty Office, Sept. 5, 1829. " Sze—My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having been informed by various channels that observations had been made to the Court Martial, now sitting for the trial of Captain Dicken son, imputing to their Lordships the baying denied or kept back certain documents, the production of which was considered as im portant to the inquiry, command me to acquaint you that no such documents have been denied or kept back, and that their Lord ships are at a loss even to guess what is meant by such a statement. " Sir Edward Codrington, in a letter to me of the IJAI of August, observes, that he thinks the' Court should be in the possession of the return of killed and wounded ; and of a copy of my letter to him of the 24th of December, 1827.' The return alluded to was immediately sent, but the copy of my letter was not sent, in the first instance, only because Sir Edward Codrington had himself the original letter in his own custody, and had it in his power to put the Court in p"•seasion of it, in its original and therefore most authentic shape. If, however, this be not the fact alluded to, and if this state ment had refet tate to the correspondence which passed between this department and Sir Edward Codrington as to the character in which he was to appear at the trial, my Lords command mu to acquaint you that tL•is correspondence never was ',kW for ; had it been so, their Lordships would have directed it to have been trati.mitred ; but they did not originally send it because they could not anticipate that it could have any legal effect on the trial of Captain Dickenson. A., however, it seems to have been now brought into discussion, I am commanded to transmit to you herewith copies of the whole of that correspondence, in order that if the production of it, or any part of it should be required by the tourt or by the parties, it may bu at hand for that purpose. And their Lordships command me to authorise you to deity in the strongest manner that there is or was any desire to suppress or keep back any document whatsoever, or that, in point of fact. any document demanded by the parties was kept back, with the exception (if it can be called an exception) of my said letter of the 24th of December, a copy of which was not sent for the rea son already stated, that Sir Edward Codrington was in possessiou of the original. " Their Lordships command me further to acquaint you that they observe that allusion had also been made to some other docu ments, stated to be of considerable importance. and to have be longed to another department of the State, which had been de tained from Sir Edward Codrington by this office, and the teceipt of which had not been acknowledged. " Again, their Lordships are at a legato know to what this allu sion can refer ; the only colour fur it which they can discover are the following circumstances : " Some of the enclosures in a certain dispatch transmitted to Sir Edward Codrington, were In the French language. It was thought right (in order to prevent the risk of any mistranslation or rniscon stt =ion) to accompany the French originals with translations into English. It afterwards tweeted that the copy of these transla tions, which had been intended to be reserved in this office, had been transmitted as a duplicate to Sir Edward Codrington ; and as no copy had been retained at the Foreign Office, from which the dispatch had emanated, I was therefore commanded to write to Sir Edward Codrington, to obtain a copy of the duplicate of the said translations, which I did by a note, of which I enclose you a copy. " How this very unimportant transaction can bear the character ascribed to it in the observations said to have been made at the trial, their Lordship. cannot conceive, but if these translations be not the s important documents' alluded to, their Lordships do not know what is meant. _ _ " All this seems to have little or no relation to the trial of Captain Dickenson, Mali, as their Lordships have been informed, such observations. or anything resembling them, have been made (however irrelevantly) before the Court, their Lordships think it due to the Court to put them in possession of the true state of the case. " I am, &c. _ _ (Signed) " J. NV. CROKER." ASSIZE OF COALS, temp. HENRY VIII. " M'd. That the Lorde Meyor of the Ceteye of Londrin for the tyme beyng may and doth anise after what rate and pryce the colyers bryng colys to the said cetey than shall seel the same. " It. The said Lorde Meyor hath officers appoynted to se that en'y tole sake eontyng to the cetey be of letight ij yerde, and in brede iij q'rs of yerde ; wt sake ought to bolde, yf it be well and truyly fylled, .iij bz. " It. If it be at eny tyme lounge the said uks to be defectyne, and not of niche contents as aboue wide, the said officers may, and cloth, from tyme to true, take the sake so fawte, and kepe the same till a tyme apoynted for the bornyng of the same in the open market-place. " It. There is a lawe that, in eu'ry wards w'in the tetey ther shall be a grate sake wt cont. vtij bz. and ye p'ce of colys to be aet by my Lorde Mayer and the Aldermen, bothe wynter and tomer, as the case shall requere ; and, now at this present tyme ye p'ce ys at viijd. the quart, seised and to be mesered." EDINBURGH, Oct. 5. A CASE Or SEVERE AFFLICTION.—The painful and humbling impression has nut yet faded from our minds which was excited by those colti-bloodel and villainous tragedies which were about this time last year in full perpetration in the heart of our city. And, indeed, it is very desirable that the impression should long remain, to keep us in mind of the sad truth, that Scot land, Christian Scotland, with her plenty of churches, schools, and books, and her numerous respectable members of Society, has some very evil marks in her character—blots which cannot be overlookid on account of her many redeeming qualities. Our read ers may wonder why we should choose to revert to a subject so painful at a period so distant. We can assure them it is not less painful to us than to them ; but we have recently had brought en der our notice a very afflicting case, which, remarkable and shock ing as it is, we believe was purposely made as little prominent as possible when it took place, in order that the perpetrators of the mischief might be the more easily discovered. So long ago as last February, when men's minds were filled with horror at the F.din burgh plans (or furnishing the dissecting rooms, a poor woman was seized within fifty yards of her house at 10 o'clock on a Saturday night, her mouth was filled with flax, and her hands tied behind her by a cord. One shriek, which she uttered on being seized, brought a neighbour to the doer with a candle ; and the wretches, being scared from their prey, left her with her face in the mud in such a position that she must in a few minutes hone died of suffo cation. The unhappy woman described two men as having assailed her, but the darkness and the confusion of her mind prevented her giving any distinct account. Those miserable monsters have hitherto escaped the detection of man, but, it must be sup posed, have borne with th m some foretaste of the misery that an awakened conscience will one day infallibly bring then. We but now arrive at the object of giving the above narrative. We wish to state, that this poor woman, Elizabeth Gowenlock, is wife of a weaver at Wooden L,ntmill, upon the Tweed, a little below Kelso, and that she is a person of most gentle, inoffen sive and correct deportment—the mother of six children, the oldest of whom is only twelve. Since she has suffered this frightful outrage, she has lost entirely the use of one side, and is consequently bed-ridden. But had she even escaped this bodily calamity, which renders her a burden, instead of a help, to her little ones, there is still untold a more poignant agile tion. Since that fearful night, her mind has been often en tirely unsettled, and, upon every small agitation, she is liable to become absolutely insane. We have ourselves seen her feeble and aged mother toiling to fill the place of the useful housewife thus laid low ;—we have seen her affectionate, tender, much enduring husband, doing every thing that kindness and pati ence could suggest to alleviate her misery ;—we have seen t►e whole group reduced to poverty, by means of this unprovoked and unheard of outrage ; and having felt our own pity powerfully ex cited, and being personally convinced of the truth of every parti cular above stated, we venture to make this appeal to the sympathy of the benevolent. It will afford us real pleasure to be made the instrument of conveying pecuniary relief to this afflicted and de serving family ; Edinburgh Evening Journal. According to advices received from Isle Louis, the Court of Appeal in that island pronounced judgment. on the lit of June last, against the owners, bfficers, and sailors, of the sloop La Rose, of St. Pierre, Martinique, for carrying on a traffic in slaves. The captain was condemned to 10 years' banishment, the mate to five years' banishment, and the two conjointly fined 12,480 francs, and declared incapable of ever serving in the vessels of the Royal Navy of France or French merchantmen. Ten men of the crew were condemned to six months' imprisonment, and three others, who were contumacious, to five years' imprisonment. The vessel was also declared confiscated CRIME IN TILE UNITED STATES.—Of the 290 con victs in the Massachusetta State l'rison, 29 are under the age of 20 years. 131 from 20 to 30, 75 from 30 to 40, 34 from 40 to 50, 13 from 50 to 60, and 8 from 60 to 70. in the Connecticut State Prison 24 of the convicts are under 21 years, 78 from 20 to 30, 23 from 30 to 50, 5 from 50 to CO, 2 from 60 to 70, and 2 over 70 years of age. In the Auburn, New York Prison, 50 of its inmates, are under 20, 295 from 20 to 30, 150 from 30 to 40, 70 from 40 to 60, and 5 front 60 to 70 years of age.—The whole number of convicts in the Massachusetta, Connecticut, Auburn, and Baltimore prisons is 697. Of these 40 are natives of Ireland, 24 of England, 15 of Scotland, two of Portugal, four of France, two of Holland, one of Brasil, one of Africa, four of Nova Scotia, eight of Canada, seven of the West Indies, and the remainder or seversl of the States of the Unit.n. This statement shows that some portions of the crime of our country is of foreign origin, and even more of it than those numbers present, as the corrupting influence of one bad mem ber of society is often made to extend to those around him, who but for that influence might have been good citizens.—Boston Pa triot, 12 Between eight and nine o'clock on Thursday night, as a gentleman's carriage was arising at a rapid pace from Finsbury square towards Coleman-art -et, a cabriolet, with two gentlemen, father and son, in addition to the driver, came aping the carriage while the cabriolet was on the turn out of Fore-street into Cole- nun-street. The sudden and unexpected concussion was so great that the cabriolet and its passengers were overturned with great violence, and the gentleman and his sun, a lad of sixteen, were must set iou.ly injured, the latter being obliged to he carried to Sr . liar tholomew's Hospital. The driver and the elderly gentleman were taken up in an insensible state, in which they remained for some time ; but the attention of a medical gentleman who was called to their assistauee enabled them, with the kiodue.s of two or three of the passengers, to walk to their respective dwelling*. 'the cabriolet, in shafts and body, has been rendered useless for its for mer purposes; and the horse, tri.ns its struggles, mast have consi derably suffered. SHOCKING At:c DENT. —On Saturdity night last as Mr. White, gardener, was re:urning irons Boston market in his cart. be met the Monarch coich within ten yards M the toll-gate at Spalding, when the two vehicles coming In contact, his leg was literally crushed to atoms, and although amputation of the limb was promptly effected, lie died on Sunday night; being a very old man, we believe in his 75th year. An Inquest was held over the body on Monday afternoon, before Sand. Edward*. Gent. Coroner. Verdict.—" Accidental Death."—Curnbrisige Chronicle. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPSOM OCIIIEETING. These Races terminated yesterday, having afforded two days' excellent diversion. The Wellington Stakes (free handicap) of 25 sows. each, and 20 sots. added from the fund. Derby Course. Lord Mountcharles's Gayhurst, 5 yrs, 7st. Mr. Dockeray's Linkboy, 6 yrs. Bst. 71b.. 2 Mr. Sadler's Challenger, 4 yrs, list. 41b. Mr. Lumley's Goshawk, 6 yrs, ilst. 91b—...... 4 Gen. Grovrenor's Icarus, 4 yrs ' 6st. 71b Capt. Locke's Spondee and Mr. Miberley's Howard paid.— Betting sto 2 apt Gayhurst, 7 to 2 apt Challenger, 4 to 1 apt Linkboy, and 4to 1 against Goshawk. Challenger made play at a steady pace, Gayhurst lying next him, Linkhoy third, the other two a long way astern; no change took place till they came to the furze, where Challenger dropt off; Linkboy immediately took op the running, and carried it on with some spirit till about a distance from home, when Gayhurst went up to him, and won by a length after a pretty race. Two year old Sweepstakes of 50 soy. each, h. ft. colts, Sat. and Allies, fist. 31b. Last half mile. Mr. Sadler's ch. f. by Tramp Mr. Young's cb. c. Ads, by Blacklock 2 Mr. Young's b. f. by ReveUer, Mr. Maberley's ch. f. Zelas, and Sir G. Heathcote's b. f. Asia, paid.—Betting 5 to 2 on Ads—A very close quick run race, the two keeping abreast at a capital pace till within about 20 lengths of ending. when Mr. Sadler's bily, who bad been tight in hand, got ahead of her opponent, and won very cleverly by two lengths. Rode by Chapple, the other by Dockeray. The EweU Stakes (handicap) of 10 soy. each, and 20 added from the fund. Derby Coarse. Mr. Clarke's Scipio, 4 yrs. 7st. 331 b. 1 Lord Mountcharles's b. e. Benedict, 3 yn, fist. lib 2 Lord Mountcharles's Coronet, 4 yrs. fist. Sib. Mr. Bulkeley's Burlesque, 5 yrs. Sat. 111 b.. Mr. Maberley's Howard, 3 yrs. Est. 121 b... Mr. Tilbury's Smuggler, 6 yrs, 9st.. 6 Even on Lord Mountcbarles's apt the field, 2 to 1 agst Bur lesque, and 7to 1 apt Scipio. After four or five false starts, occa sioned by the restiveness of Scipio, they went off at a strong pace, Coronet leading, Benedict weU placed at his heels, and after him Scipio, the others lying behind throughout the race. They ran in jo ckey) gave order to the turn, when Wakefield (a very improving gave Scipio his head ; he immediately went to the front, made running bin own way, and won cleverly by a length. The Maiden Stakes of soy. each, and 25 soy. added front the fund ; the winner to be sold for 100 soY. Su. Heats, one mile. Mr. Taylor's b. c. by Rubens, 3 yrs. Mr. Robarts's Tancredi, 3 yrs. Lord Mountckarles's Mitchel Grove, 3 yrs. Mr. Berkeley's Poppy, 3 yn. .. 2 4dr Mr. Lawrence's Keepsake, 3 yrs. Mr. Frampton's b. e. by Bubens, 4 yrs. .. b dr HUNTING. s TOIL Tag MIMING W/LIIC. H. Joiliffe, Esq.'s Fox Hounds meet on Monday, at Platt's Green; Wednesday, at Kingswood Gate; and Saturday, at Her mitage. The Surrey Fox Hounds on Monday, at Worms Heath; Thursday, at the Rose and Crown; and Saturday, at Locks Bottom. The Sanderstead Harriers on Monday, Wednesday, and Satur day, at Kennel. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BO W-STREET. Two or three days ago a drunken man was found lying insensi ble in Holborn by one of the new policemen, who took him to the Inspector. On opening one of his clenched hands the sum of 31W. in Bank notes was found in it. As he appeared to be a person of respectability, the Inspector sent a man home with bins, having learned his name, and that he lived in Middle-row. The police man, on arriving at the place, found the wife of the drunken man, and his landlord and landlady, all drunk, upon which he left the man at home, and took the money, which consisted of three notes of 100/. and one of 10/. back to the station, and it was sent to the lodging of the person on whom it was found in the morning. Yesterday Mr. Thomas, the Superintendent, appeared before Mr. Muissruxx, and stated that since this affair had been made public, he had received a letter from Mr. Davis, clerk to Messrs. Barclay and Perkins, stating that his desk had been broken open, a short time since, and robbed of 3701. and some bankers' checks, and wishing to know the description of notes found on the drunken man. They did not correspond with those stolen, but since that, a person somewhat answering the description of the drunken man had presented one of the stolen checks for payment at a banker's, who refused to pay him, because it was crossed with another banker's name. Mr. Davis new therefore wished to have an exact description of the man. Mr. Thomas's object was to ask Mr. Minshull's advice about taking the man into custody. Mr. Muumuu. said there was considerable suspicion about the affair, and he would have the man taken into custody by all means. It was a pity that the Inspector did not at least bring the money to the Mice in the morning. _ _ _ _ _ Mr. Thomas then left the Office to bring the suspected party before the Alagistrates. Mr. Thomas also related an occurrence which took place on Thursday night at Covent-garden Theatre, where a man was turned out for being disorderly. lie had 481. in gold in a bag, and insisted upon treating and giving money to every body at the watchhoube. This, however, was not permitted, but he was sent home, and his money kept and restored to him 111 the morning. MARY-LA-BONNE. William Ray, a clerk at the Green Mao and Still, was yesterday brought before the Presiding Magistrate, J. RAP/LIMON, Esq. charged with assaulting Ezekiel Hawlerights. The Complainant stated that be went for a parcel, which was Is. 2d. for buokage, and Bd. for porterage ; he, however, refused to pay more than Is. 21 because be considered that was the legal charge, and the defendant immediately struck him. ItavntaLex enquired how the mistake arose regarding the price of the parcel? The Defendant replied that it had been directed to Paddington ; but, owing to the Complainant's coming, it had not been sent until after the alleged assault was committed. Complainant said that be called in the morning, and then the parcel was only Is. 2d. He had told them to keep it until the evening, when he would fetch it. On his going in the evening he was asked 81 extra. Defendant said the parcel had been sent to where directed, and the charge was fair; be had not assaulted the complainant until he bad made the first attack upon bin,. Mr. 'Lammas= said he had a great difficulty to judge, from the evidence of both parties • but, in conjunction with his brother Ma gistrate, he was of opin ion that the assault had been committed, but thought there might have been circumstances of aggravation. He must add, that it was a very rare thing to g et a civil answer at such places; to show, however, that he entertained no prejudice on that account, he should fine the defendant ss. and costs. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Leslie, together with Sandford and his wife, were yesterday again brought up for re-examination, charged with being concerned in the daring robbery at A i r. Stultz's. Mr. CONANT, after asking the female pri4oner a few questions, ordered her to be discharged, and the male prisoners to be re manded for a week, it being su•peeted that the prisoners are im plicated in the numerous and daring burglaries committed at the West End. HATTON-GARDEN. Robert ClPins, a young lad about sixteen years age, was brought before Alr. KOMI. yesterday morning, for attempting to defraud Knight, Esq. one of his Majesty's pages. Mr. Wm. Parton, bead porter of Gray's Inn, Holborn, deposed that on Thursday evening the prisoner came to him with a parcel directed to Mr. Knight. Mr. Knight had formerly chambers in Vernlam buildings, Gray's Inn, but he is now one of his Alajesty's pages, and witness takes in all letters and parcels directed to him. —The prisoner produced a ticket, and stated he bad brought the parcel front the Golden Cross, Charing-crisis, and the carriage and porterage came to three shillings and tenpence. Witness having a suspicion, in consequence of asocial Gentlemen at the Inn having been defrauded in the same manner by fictitious parcels, that this was not genuine, he told the prisoner he would not pay for it till he had seen the contents; he prevented the prisoner from going away, and opened the parcel with a knife, when he discovered that it con tained nothing but waste paper, scraps of newspapers, &c. Witness then called for an officer, and gave the prisoner into custody. Waddington, the of in attendance, stated that a Gentleman in Ilatton-Garden had been defrauded in the sante way, and from the description he had no doubt the prisoner was the person who had done it. Alt.. Room told Waddington to fetch that person to the Office. During his absence, 31r. the chief clerk, asked the prisoner if he could write; pri-oner said he could, and pen and paper were given to him. and he was told to write the name of Knight. Prisoner did. and it exactly corresponded with the writing on the ticket and p .rcel. ha consequence of the Gentleman sent for by the Magistrate being f:oni home, the pritoner was remanded till Wednesday next, when it is expected other charges will be brought agaiiiis him. W VItsHIP EBT. • Yesterday a miserable-looking man named Joseph Castle was charged before Mr. Baum with stealing a quantity of rum and brandy, the property Of Mr. Sabine! Tillett. the proprietor of the Salmon and Ball, Limb-street, Spitalfields. • Mr. Tilivtt stated, that last night, about nine o'clock, he smelt an unusual smell of rum, and inquired of the boy in the bar whether he had been drawing any? who replied he bad not; he (Mr. Tif lett) then went into the cellar, and found on the stairs two bladders, one filled with brandy and the other with rum ; be then found a hat and a handkerchief in the cellar, both of which he bad seen it the prisoner's possession. Mr. Botarr—Do you know the prisoner ? Mr. Tillett.—Yes, Sir, by his frequently coming to my house. Mr. Bassrr.—Are you quite sure you have seen the prisoner wear the hat you found in the cellar ? Mr. Ttllett.—l am, Sir. A little girl nine years of age was sworn, and stated that she saw the prisoner come out of Mr. Tillett's ceilar. between eight and nine o'clock last night, and run out at the back door. The prisoner said be was Innocent of the charge, and produced a hat which he said was his, and the same be always wears. The hat found in the cellar never belonged to him. Atfield, an officer, said, the hat the prisoner produced as being the one be always wears, did not fit him ; it would hardly keep on his head.—The prisoner was remanded. There are about nine of the new policemen allotted to take care of the Regent's Park by day and night. They complain that such cultivated part of the town gives quite as much trouble as the most uncultivated part of the metropolis, in the day time, owing to the number of fellows that are larking about all day long in the copses round the Park, and the attacks made on the unfinished houses in such neighbourhood. As a proof of the little communication which subsisted between country villages and large towns in former times, tradition says that the events of the great Rebellion were never known to the quiet inhabitants of Fawley parish, near Southampton. The dethronement and murder of Charles, the usurpation et Cromwell, and the re-establishment of the Stuart line on the throne, all oc curred without involving these fortunate hinds in any of the anxieties, mischiefs, and distress, which they occasioned to the other parts of the kingdom. An Inquest was held yesterday morning at the Work house of St. George. Southwark, oa the body of a womas un. known; and it appearing from the evidence that she died in coo_ sequence of a stage coach having been driven over her neat New. ington-causeway, on Wednesday last, the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death—Deodand Is." DItIADFUL ACCIDENT.—Monday morning►, about eleven o'clock, a journeyman painter, named James Alsip, was engaged in the upper loft of the premises of Messrs. Ml'Andrew and Son, the orange-merchants, in Pudding-lane, Lower Thames. street, which is nearly sixty feet high, in painting the crane, when he fell into the road with such tremendous force that both his legs were most frightfully fractured, and his collar-bone dislocated.— Many persons who saw him falling endeavoured to break the force of the fall, but failed. The poor sufferer via; picked up, and car ried to Guy's Hospital, where he now remains without the re motest hope of recovery. The unfortunate man has a wife and family depending on him for support. An unfortunate woman, well known about the \Vest end of the town by the name of " Poor Betty," was, on Tuesday morning craving charity, dressed in her usual fantastic manner, when a boy, having attempted to snatch some flowers, Zitc- out of her basket, she ran after him across the street, and not observing the area of a house open, which is repairing by Newport market, she fell in, and lacerated her face arid arms in a shocking manner against the iron rails. Several persons who saw the accident ex tricated her from the area, procured a surgeon, and afterwards conveyed her to a wretched lodging in Saint Giles's, where she has long lived. The fate of this unhappy creature is peculiarly severe ; in her youth she was considered a beauty, and was in the keeping of several persons of distinction, and moved in the gay circles of fashion ; but becoming abandoned she sunk to the lowest state of vice, the horrors of which deprived her of reason. In her present state of Insanity she is frequently known by passengers who formerly have seen her; she addresses them in French and Italian, and assumes all the etiquette of politeness ; her behaviour is perfectly harmless, and whenever she askscharity sbe desires the party to be brief, for she is going to visit some great personage. BIRTH. At Havant, on the 6th instant, the lady of Captain Thomas Martin, R. N. of a son. DIED. At his seat, the Mount, near Newcastle, Staffordshire, Josiah Spode, Esq. In Drvonshire-place, George Palliser, Esq. aged 70 year*, for merly Clerk of the Check in Cbatham-yard. At Falmouth, the lady of Lieut. Applin, commander of the Skylark packet. At Torr. near Plymouth, Mr. Robert C. Phillips, (third son of Captain James Robert Phillips) at the e irly age of '2 1. At Fernando Po, Lieutenant A. 0. Carrington, of the Royal Marines. Aged 60, Mr. Henry Smith, of Exeter, formerly Quarter-Master of the Queen's Second Dragoon Guards, but late Adjutant in the Pendennis Local Militia. Commander David Gilmour, lI.N. formerly of Gosport. At Rugby, Wdrwickshire, Rear-Admiral Chambers, aged tlfi years. Lieut. R Gill, R.N. Petersfield. aged 50. At Sherborne, after a few days' illness, in his 34th year, Mr. Jarvis Harker, for some years a proprietor and the editor of the Sherburne and Yeovil Mercury. PRICESor HAY AMU STRAW YBSTEItDA I. ST. JASIVeS• 14A I'LL. Hay 3118 s Od to 41 15s Od Hay 41 Os to 41 10. Od Clover 3110 s 04 to 51 10, 0,1 j Clover 41 104 .11 51 10 4 04 straw 21 24 04 to 21 54 Od 'Straw 11 104 to 11 18, t'd PRECH OF LBATHEIt. Best Dressing Hides Common Ditto Crop Hides, 55 to 40Ibs for cutting Ditto 45 to 50Ibs l6l to I9d Calf Skins. 36 to 40Ibs ..... 154 to ad Ditto 50 to 70Ibs Ditto 70 to Wilts ... .. 2od to Vtld Small Seals, Greenland) . Tanned Horse Hides ... ... Spanish Horse Hides .... .......... PRICE OF HOPS, OCT. 9. IC CM POCK ITS. I.IIW PACS. Kent 2oos to 224 s I Kent 1264 to 1.151 Susses Es4ex 200 s to £lO4 I F.44ex 1204 lu 134.11 Farnham fine 1554 to 2204—Second4, 1804 to 2004 Old Duty laid at ,E 35.000. PRICE or TALLOW, SOAP 4:c. Town Tallow ... 4its Oil Yellow Soap ... 78i od Yellow Russia ... 40s Od I Mottled . 84% Od White ditto .. —s Od Curd .. . ... —s Od Soap ditto ... —s od I Graves 16, 041 Melting Stuff ...... Od Good Dregs .. 5 s od Tallow Imported from St. Petersburgb. 7,710 Cask., COURSE OF EXCHANGE, OCT. 9. Amsterdam ...12 8i C.F.i Seville ... 7.1 i Ditto at sight —.12 6i 1 Gibraltar .. 476 Rotterdam... 2 U 12 Ili : Leghorn ... 474 Antwerp ... ...12 84 ; Genoa ... •::.5 PO Hamburgh SI U 14 00 Venice ... ... 474 Altuna ... 24 U 14 00* i Blahs .. 4zi Paris, 3day's sight 25 75 ; Naples Ditto ...2 U '26 00 Palrrrno .. ... 1194 peg ua Madrid Cadiz ...:.64 Rio Janeiro .. 24i Barcelona ..36 Dublin ... ... 1.11 Uilboa ... ..36 Cork . . .. 14 _ COAL MARKET, Om 9. Ships at Market. Ships Sold. 70i Newcastle 46i 26 Sonderbnd 512 11AltRIED. At Christ Church, Mary-la-bonne, Charles, second son of the late William Runciman, F.sq. of Woburn, Bedfordshire, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Captain Philip Gedley King, li. N. formerly Governor of New South Wales. At Gillingham Church, Lieut. Charles Friend, R.N. to Eliza hialpas, eldest daughter of George Weatherale, Esq. of Brompton, Kent. At Riddlesworth, Lieutenant W. 13. Portman, R.N. to Sarah, only daughter of T. 'Thornhill, Esq. of Ridrilerworrh Han, Norfolk. At Teignmouth, Captain Parsons, R.N. to Frances, daughter of the late F. Adams, Esq. of Norton MaSeward and Stockwood House, Somerset. NEWGATE AND LEADENHAI.I. NIARKETS, Ont 9 Byer ..... 3s Od to 34 4d I Veal 8d to 4. 4d Mutton ..... 3s 4d to 5$ 8:1 Pork 44 8.1 to N Oti Lamb 44 " to 4s 4d PRICESOF GOLD AND SILVER. Foreign Gold in Ban £.l 17 9 Silver, in Bars, standard 0 4 Ili Pricy. 29. 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