Star. — London, England, 1830-08-25 00:00:00

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After r,eaarki-4 noon some of the principal chatges, his Lordship said that a pa per had been sent to the Judges, (which paper. however, did not bear any signatures,) complaining of the parish officer* of Wootton-under-Edge not paying proper attention to the wants and necessities of the poor : it professed to come from the workmen and labourers of that parish. Ile took that opportunity of adverting to the eircumstank to say, that an anonymous communication could not be attended tdlrbut, even if the paper had been duly signed, it related to n subject in which the Judges had no jurisdiction, and in which they had no duty to perform. Ile hoped, however, that those gentlemen re siding near the place would take an early opportunity of inquiring into the circumstance alluded to. Janus Cole ass, aged 52, was convicted of entering the brewhouse of George ffill, of the parish of Woodchester, and stealing a copper, his ptoperty.—Sentenced to seven years' transportation. Itafurt Rick was charged with having, on the 14th of June, felo niously entered the garden of Saul Timmons, of Winterborne, in this (minty, and stolen a shirt, value 2s. The prisoner, in his defence, said—" Really, my Lord, upon my word. 1 had not the least idea of wealing the shirt ; but the fact is this I saw a bird sitting on the garden hedge, so I picked up a stone, and threw at it ; down it dropped, and into the garden I went to look for it; but not being able to find it, oh, thinks I, it has got under the shirt. So, you know, I takes held of the shirt to lift it up, and see whether the bird was there, when I was charged with stealing the shirt." The Jury did not give credit to his defence, and returned a verdict of Guilty. Sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. Several cases of petty thefts were tried during the day, none of which, however, were of sufficient interest to notice. In the Civil Court, Mr. Justice Park was occupied the whole day in ;In action of ejectment, of not the least interest except to the parties eel: caned. MURDER OF LONG, THE POLICEMAN. Yesterday John Smith, Henry Sammers, and Charles Baldwin, were brought up before Mr. Serjeant SELLON and Mr. Lama, the sitting Magistrates at Hatton-garden, and two other County Ma gistrates, Mr. ALLEN and Mr. FLOWERS, for re-examination, charged with the wilful murder of the police constable, John Long, The particulars of the arrest of Smith and Summers we have already published, but with regard to Baldwin, it appears, that on the night of the murder, when Summers was taken into custody in Wilmington. square, he was accompanied by a man who at the time effected his es cape, and who it was subsequently ascertained was the prisoner Bald. win. In consequence of which the police were on the alert to apprehend him, and he, knowing this. surrendered himself on Saturday last to Waddington, one of the officers of this establishment, declaring his innocence, and as there was no evidence adduced against him, the Magistrates would not detain him in custody, but bound him over in his own recognizance' to appear to answer the charge on the following Tuesday (yesterday,) together with the other two prisoners. Mr. Serjeant SELLON told Summers and Baldwin that there was no evidence against them, directly or indirectly, implicating them in the murder, and he was therefore happy to be enabled to order their dis charge. The magistrate accordingly desired that they should be removed from the bar, in order that nothing:should impede or embarrass the evidence against Smith. James Prendevill deposed that he is private watchman to Mr. Cubist, the boi:der, of Gray's Inn-road. About twelve o'clock on the night of Montlay week, he was alarmed by the springing of a rattle,'.and by cries of "Murder ! stop him, stop him !" He saw the prisoner Smith run oine-, and he stopped him, as being the first man he saw. Prisoner (to the witness)--Did I not tell you I was pursuing a man in a peat coat, after whom the cry was raised ? Witness—No. You never said any thing, but denied all knowledge of the murder. Prisoner—l say positively that 1 did. Petit Millican sworn—Deposed. that on Monday night, about twelve o'clock, lie was in Wells-street, Ora} 's -inn -road, and saw three men ; pass him into Gray's-inn-toad. They were auspicious-looking charac ters. and went in the direction of Battle.bridge. A policeman—The deceased came up immediately afterwards, and, out of breath as if he had been running hard, asked witness what way the men went ? Witness informed him, and the policeman followed them. Witness followed the policeman at the distance of about ten yards, and saw him come to the men close by the gate into the burial-ground of the parish of bt. Andrew, Holborn. Smith was one of the three men, and witness saw one of them strike the policeman, who instantly cried out, t• Oh ! lam a dead man." Two of the men immediately ran to. wards Battle-bridge, and one of them turned into Wells-street. Wftness went with the policeman to a doctor's shop. lt'ary Anne Griffiths, otherwise Stephens, deposed, that on the night of the murder, she was in Gray's-inn-road, and saw three men surround the deceased. 'fhe prisoner Smith was one of them, who raised his arm, and struck the dtceased,upon which the prisoner, and another man, dressed in blue, ran off towards Battle-bridge. Instantly the deceased cried out, " Stop him. I'm a dead mad." Mr. Serjetint SELLON (to witness). —Stop whom ? Did the police. man mean the prisoner, or the man in blue ? Witness--He meant the prisoner, Whited given him the blow. I am not certain whether the man in blue ran off before the blow was given, but I know that the prisoner was the last man who had run away, and that it was with reference to him, the deceased exclaimed, stop him, I'm a dead man." Witness declared, after repeated inter. rogatories, that she had lately resided at No. 1, Gray's.lnn.lane. John Cole deposed, that he was passing along Gray's Inn-road, and hearing the cries of " Murder," he ran up to the burial-ground of St. Andrew's, where he found the policeman lying on the ground. He took him on his knee, and found him bleeding at his breast ; shortly after which, the deceased leaned his hand upon witness's shoulder and expired. Witness went with him to the doctor's shop. Amos Dennis deposed, that he saw, at the time, the deceased driving three men before him. Two were on his left side, and one of the two struck him on the left breast. The prisoner Smith is the man who gave the blow. The deceased fell on his knee instantly, and ex. claimed, "0 ! I'm murdered." Nobody but the prisoner struck the deceased. Witness saw the prisoner run away, and never lost sight of him until he was taken into custody near the barracks of the City Light Horse. Witness subsequently saw a knife taken out of the side of the deceased. John Newton, police constable No. 42, division G. deposed that he saw the prisoner run, and saw him stopp ed by the watchman. He saw him also throw something away into a dark corner in the road. Witness produced the knife with which the deceased was stabbed. John Johnson deposed, that hearing the cry of murder, he saw the prisoner Smith run, and throw something away, which had the appear. once of cloth. It was a great coat. James Fuller, police constable, No. 118, division E, deposed, that he picked up the coat now produced, and also a crow-bar, on that part of the road where the prisoner was said to have thrown something away. It was the coat in which the female witness first recognized the prisoner. William Wilson, police-constable, 34, division E, produced the hon. die of the knife found near the wal of the burying-ground, on which were some spots of blood. Joseph Clements, police-corustable, 102, division E, produced a dum ber of files, brad-awls, Etc. found close by the spot where the policeman was murdered. Terence Martin, police.constable, 137, R division, produced a file, sharpened at the end, which he had lso picked up on the same spot the morning after the murder. Mr. James Holmes, of No. 111, Guildfotd.street, surgeon, deposed, that about 12 o'clock on the night of Monday, the 16th inst. the de. ceased was brought to his house. He was quite dead at the time, and on examination witness found the blade of a knife, about four inches and a half long, in the side of the deceased. The tdifs lad penetrated the right ventricle of the heart, between the fourth and fifth ribs, and must have unquestionably caused instantaneous death. Mr. Serjeant SELLOW, addressing the prisoner, said, "You have heard the whole of the evidence against you, have you any questions to put to the witnesses, or any answers to make ?" Prisoner—l don't know any thing about it. Mr. LAING—Do you know Hoddeedon, in Hertfordshire ? No. Were you never in Hoddeedon? No, never. Has not your father been a hairdresser ? No. What then ? He has been a blacksmith. Have you ever been in Hertfordshire gaol ? Prisoner, (hesitating)— No, never. Where did your father live Staffordshire. What town in Staffordshire—l don't know. Where were you born ? Prisoner, (with reluctance)--In Wolver. hamptons What street in Wolverhampton ? I don't know. How long is it since you lett Wolverhampton ? A number of years. How old were you ? About ten years. And you don't recollect in what street you lived while in Wolver hampton ? No. hat trade were you brought up to ? To no trade. flow then have you got your livelihood ? By pottering, running of messages, and holding gentlemen's horses. Where? Generally at she Royal Exchange. What ! In London? Yes. Who are the gentlemen whose horses you have been taking care 0f?... I don't know—but they are numerous. Where have you resided ? I havi had no settled place of residence. Where have you last•resided ? Prisoner, after some little hesitation —At No. b, Friend's-place, City-road. How long have you resided there ? I slept there only one Bight. Waddington, the officer, and a police constable came forward, and stated that they had made inquiries, and found that the prisoner had slept at No. 1, and not Na b, in Friend's-place City-road. Mr. Lao—ls Smith your seal name ?—Prisoner—Yes. Have you ever gone by say other name ?—No, never. Mr. Luna here observed, that there could not be the slightest doubt that the prisoner had given a false name, for reasons best known to himself, and that he concealed his real name there was every ground to suspect, ,in consequence of his having lannmitted Illegal offences elsewhere. Mr. Lento—when were you last at the Royal Exchange ?—Prisoner —On Saturday week. Do you know Alderman Farebrotber do not. Were you ever employed by him ?—No. Have you ever been employed by auctioneers ?—Never. You said you were when you were last before the Magistrates.—l beg your pardon, Sir; I never said so. Mr. Serjeant SELLA:on—Then you can't say where you have lodged for seven days together during the last 12 months 7—Prisoner. I can not, Sir. Mr. Serjeant Stramx—l ask you again have you any defence to make, or any thing to say to the evidence adduced against you ?—Pri soner. Nothing further than that I deny all knowledge of the charge. Mr. LAING, holding up a paper in his hand, said to the prisoner, " Unfortunately, the person who has furnished this information is out of town at present, but he can be produced in evidence hereafter." Mr. Sergeant SELLON observed that he could have no hesitation in sending the prisoner for trial to ajury, but under the present circum stances, when other persons were also, it was evident, concerned in the murder, and when their apprehension was hourly expected, he would not commit the prisoner to Newgate, but he would remand him to the county gaol, to be brought up at some future day, if circumstances transpired that required it in the mean time. He would, however, im press on the mind of the prisoner, that he must consider himself as fully committed for trial. Mr. lama told the prisoner that such a proceeding as that of com mitting him to the county gaol Instead of to Newgatc, until the com mencement of the sessions, was a matter of no consequence to him, and that therefore he must consider himself as fully committed, and prepare for his trial accordingly. The prisoner, who during the entire of the examination, evinced a striking wildness and distraction of behaviour, told the Magistrate coolly, that he would prepare himself for his trial. An immense crowd of people surrounded the office during the entire day, anxious to see the prisoner, and hear the result of his examination. THB MURDER AT LAMBETH. Since the above dreadful murder was perpetrated, owing to the vigi. lance and activity displayed by the Union. Hall officers, some extraonli. nary facts have been brought to light, which will probably lead to the discovery of the murderer. Chief constable Hall having been in. formed that it was the invariable practice of the deceased to clean the tea-cups and saucers immediately after she and her husband Witham had taken tea, and it appearing that on the afternoon the deceased was murdered they had drank tea together, the chief constable immediately proceeded to examine in what state those 'things were left on that occasion. He found the tea.things had been removed from the table on which they were previously used, and deposited on the mantelpiece precisely in the condition they were after the deceased and Witham had left them—a singular fact, which indicates that the murderer in all probability was the person who had removed them from the table to the place in which they were found, the deceased never having been known to put them away without first wash. ing them. It has been generally believed, that the weapon used by the murderer was a wooden hat, on which some marks of blood were disco. vered ; this, however, has not been ascertained with any degree of cer tainty, for since the finding of the wooden bar a poker has also been found in the house, an instrument with which it was more probable the wounds were made; and on a subsequent examination of the head and face, that supposition was strengthened. In the course of yester. day Mr. Chambers, the magistrate, having been apprised that no infor. mation of the murder was given at this Office until Friday morning, expressed his astonishment that it was not made known on the night previously, in order that immediate steps might have been taken for dispatching the officers of the establishment to assist as speedily as pos. slide in tracing the circumstances connected with the murder, and co. operating with the new police on the occasion, who were not supposed as yet to be so well acquainted with pursuing inquiries of that nature. The Magistrate was informed that no account of the murder had been made known at the office until nearlyeeven o'clock on Friday morning, at which hour a messenger arrived who stated that he was sent by one of the inhabitants to communicate the circumstance, with a request also that some of the officers might be sent to the spot to render their assistance to the new police, a party of whom, it appeared, had entered the house on the preceding night. At 11 o ' cl ock the same morning Mr. Baker, one of the inhabitants of Prince '*.street, called at the office, and having thanked the Magistrate for his attention to the wishes of the inha bitants, stated that the money and other property belonging to the de. ceased, found in her bed.room, was in his possession ; and as some dis.° agreement was likely to arise between the parties who had claim to it, he was anxious to know whether he would be justi fi ed in retaining It until after' proper investigation took place ? The applicant was in. formed that he was perfectly justified in retaining the property until further investigation had taken place, for as yet it was impossible to discover to whom the property legally belonged. Mr. CHAMBERS hoped that no jealousy would exists between the old and new police upon this occasion, and that they would co-operate, and by their united exertions be the means of bringing the perpetrator of the murder to justice. Chid-tonstable Hall said, that from the moment ire commenced an in. quill into; the affair, he had given every assistance in his power to the new police, and should continue to do so, although he was bound to 1 state that he had met with some obstruction in the first instance from some men of the new police on entering the premises belonging to the deceased, although he told them who he was and the business he had come upon. Mr. CHAMBERS said, that no ill.feeling ought to prevail between the officers belonging to the different establishments and the new police, particularly in a case of this nature. It is proper to mention that it has been a matter of complaint at Union Hall, that the inspectors of the new police very seldom divulge when robberies or housebreaking take place in their respective divisions. This omission must be calculated to defeat the ends of justice ; for, on information of any offence or outrage having been committed, an account is transmitted, from the police office where it is given, to Marlborough. street, and it is inserted in the report which is circ ulated all over the kingdom, and lads, not unfrequently, to the detection of the ofenders. CORONER'S INQUEST. The neighbourhood of Long-lane, Bermondsey, Southwark, was on Sunday and Monday in a state of great excitement, in consequence of its being generally accredited that a murder had been committed there. Jane Lambert, a female 26 years of age, the wife of a man named Lam bert, in the employ of Mr. Longstaff, a leather.dresser, was seen going about in her usual way on Sunday morning, till past ten o'clock, or within a little of eleven. In the interim the man and wife were heard engaged in a quarrel, and about eleven o'clock Jane Lambert died. The circumstance of the deceased having been seen so very recently in good health excited strong suspicion against the husband, and these suspicions were increased from the circumstance of Lambert im. mediately absconding. The officers of police were in search of him all Sunday and Monday. A Coroner's inquest was held on the body on Monday night, before Mr. Carter, the Coroner for Surrey,'and a respectable jury, at the house of Mr. Vousley, the sign of Simon the Tanner, Long-lane ' when a sur. geon was examined, who attributed the death of the deceased to the sudden effects of miscarriage. One of her neighbourr,:a married woman, gave the same opinion. While the inquest was engaged in deliberation, one of the Union-ball officers succeeded in apprehending the husband, who acknowledged that he had quarrelled with deceased; and in the heat of passion, that he had struck her with his braces, after which she almost immediately expired r In a fit. The jury then returned a verdict— Died by the visitation of OOD ;" but in consequence of some apparent prevarication in one of the wit. nesses for the prisoner, the officers conveyed him to Horsemonger-lane Prison to undergo examination before a Magistrate. Deceased, with her husband, resided in Smith's-buildings, Long-lane. She has left behind her three children. THE NEW POLICE.—A few nights ago, as Mr. C. an extensive sugar-baker, residing at the east end of the town, was return ing home, he perceived one of the new police shamefully ill-treating a sailor in the Commercial-road. He remonstrated with the policeman upon the impropriety of exercising his authority in so brutal a manner, and advised that the sailor should be taken to the station-house, if he had committed any offence. Instead, however, of following such ad vice, the policeman availed Mr. C. with a volley of abuse; upon which that gentleman, fearful that, from the violence of the fellow's temper, his own liberty might be in jeopardy, contented himself with taking the policeman's number,with a view of having his conduct investigated before his superiors. The following day Mr. C. wrote to Col. Rowan, informing him of all the particulars of the treatment which the sailor had received front this man. He received in reply a request to attend at the office in Scotland-yard, and make good his charge in the presence of th e police man...:..At the appointed time Mr. C. attended the Commissioners, and the complaint was fully gone into, which ended in the discharge of the policeman from the service. Colonel Rowan, upon dismissing the man from hie situation, expressed his thanks to Mr. C. for following up the complaint in the manner be had done, and by which he had rendered the country a service. He (Colonel Rowan) was well aware that many complaints were publicly made against the new police ; but they were more owing to the refusal of the public to make their complaints known to the Commissioners than to any thing else. The COmmissloners were always glad to attend to any well-founded complaint against any of the new police, and they would feel obliged by any person who whitened any impropriety in the membered' that body suending at the oiEce, and layincauchmisconduct before the COMlllifillOOM POLICE REPORTS. GUILDHALL.—George Easement, a lad, was committed for M. balding various sums he had received from the customers of his master, Mr. King, a baker, in Little St. Thomas Apostle. In one instance, he had kept all the money he bad received from a customer since Christmas. Bow'•sTßEET.—Yesterday a man named Grainger was charged by Mr. Pahner, one of the assistant clerks to the overseers of St. Martin in the Fields, with the non-payment of upwards of 151. due to the parish, for the maintenance of two illegitimate children. The defendant was ordercd.jo pay the amount claimed by the parish, and in default of payment he was sentenced to an imprisonment of six months in the House of Correction, being three months for each child. A man named Williams was fined 51. for knocking down a police constable of the F. division, and throwing himself with all his force upon the man's body, whereby he received considerable injury. In default of payment, the defendant was sentenced to an imprisonment of two months and hard labour in the House of Correction. QUEEN-SQUARE.—Monday, a man about thirty years of age was brought before Mr. GREGORIE, charged with sleeping under ►he por tico of St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, about two o'clock that morning. The poor fellow exhibited the most wretched appearance, his frame almost reduced to a skeleton, and his garments of that wretched des. eription that no respectable person durst approach him. He gave his name James Fletcher, and said that he had been in Westminster about ten days, having come from Exeter in search of employment as a la. bourer, but had not been successful. The whole of his means hay. ing been exhausted previous to his arrival in London, he bad made away with one article after another to procure food, and he contrived to find shelter in unfinished houses, sheds, &c. since. He was now without a farthing in the world, or the means of procuring a morsel of bread. Mr. Ortzoonts ordered the clerk to give the poor fellow a shilling from the poor-box, and Mr. Wilson, the overseer, gave him another, and he departed with the intention of setting himself up in the world by selling fruit in the streets. MAILBOROUOII.IITBLET.—.-Monday ► carman, named gri /Mtn Shack(ll, was brought before the sitting Magistrate, F. A. Roe, Esq. charged by one of the worthy tribe of informers with driving a cart that was without either name or number on it, in Regent-street, about 11 o'clock of the same day. John Murray, the informer's witness, who desccribed himself as a labourer, living in West -street, Smithfield, swore' positively that the cart had neither name or number on it when he saw it in Regent-street, at 11 o'clock on that morning ; he accordingly stopped the carman and brought him to the office. Shackell having been called on for his defence, stated that he brought the cart at the tail of a waggon from Croydon that morning, and had put the horse to it without being aware that it had no name or number on the cart, as he could neither read nor write. Mr. ROE.-But you could see whether there was any characters on the cart, if you could not read them. Suppose any person had been killed by the cart, how was the owner to be discovered?—Mr. Plank, the chief officer, who had left the office while the informer was giving his evidence, here stated that the cart had both a name and a number on it. How is this? asked the worthy Magistrate; the informer swore post. tively that there was neither on the cart. Mr. Fitzpatrick, the clerk, now left the office, for the purpose of ascertaining the fact, and, on his return, he =firmed the statement of slr. Plank, as to the fact of the cart having both a name and a number on it. Mr. Roe asked whether it was legible ? Mr. Plank.—. The name and number is written in the usual place, in front of the cart, and the letters arc at least two inches long. The worthy informer now endeavoured to shelter himself under the plea that the carman told him that the cart had been given to his master in payment of a debt due to him ; and that the name on it was that of the former proprietor, and, consequently, was a wrong one. Mr. ROE.—How can you tell that? You swore positively that there was no name on the cart at all, and it turns out that there is both name and number on the most conspicuous part of the cart. The complaint must be dismissed. The informer retired, very much chagrined at being defeated in his hunt after a penalty. LAND crw.rrazEr.—Yesterday, Wm. Hutchinson was placed at the bar before Mr. Wyatt, charged with robbery. Mr. Elisabeth Stepney, of the Crown and Dolphin, opposite Stepney old church, stated that the prisoner and another man engaged a lodging for the night. One of them gut into her bed-room, and threw from the window into the yard some sheets and a quantity of wearing-apparel. At eleven o'clock the prisoner went into the yard, and on his return Mr. Beck, one of her customers, perceiving something bulky about his per son, asked him what he had got On which he darted out of the house, and ran away. A cry of " Stop thief !" was however raised, 'aftalte was secured with a portion of the property on him. He was committed for trial. Tow w.HALL.—James Robi'mon, a porter in the employ of Messrs. Newton, tobacconists, Tooley-street, was committed for embezzling the sum of 2L 4s. 10(1. and also a quantity of tobacco and snuff. Tonacco.—The cultivation of every description of Ame rica tobacco has been lately carried on in Russia with succfis. TIIE Two WooncUTTEßS.—Napoleon, one day hunting in* forest of Fontainbleau, alighted from his horse, and walked, &e -1 edimpanied by Caulaincourt. He met two woodcutters, who, fatigued with work, were sitting on the trunk of a tree. Both of them had served in the campaign of Egypt. One of them recognised the Empe ror, and rose instantly. Caulaincourt desired the other to rise also. " po r " said Napoleon, " don't you see he is fatigued ?" He then made the one who was standing resume his seat ' and sat down with them him. self on the same trunk. Here he conversed with them on the Egyptian expedition, and of their private affairs; and having learnt that one of them had obtained his pension on quitting the service, he ordered it to be granted him, with the arrears, and gave six Napoleons to both on leaving them. THETAX-GATIIEREIL IN A DILE3IMA.—a Some writera have stated the number of islands in Strangford Lough to be upwards of two hundred, but it has been ascertained that there are not more than fifty.four. Some are inhabited ; on others cattle of various kinds are kept by the inhabitants of the opposite shore. Upon one of them there Is a very extensive rabbit warren. The individual who resides on this island had for many years derived a considerable income from the sale of the rabbit skins, and although he had erected a very good house, he never dreamed of paying any thing in the shape of excise or taxes. At length, however, a tax-gatherer, who had paid a visit to the houses on the neighbouring shore, beheld with anxious gaze the goodly edifice which presented itself upon the island, and determined upon visiting it in the name of his Majesty. The proprietor of the place, having been in the habit of receiving visits from persons who came to purchase his skins, and supposing the taxman to be one of them, sent off a boat to feed: to the island. On reaching the place, the man of taxes be. gan to make various inquiries as to the time the house had been erected, the number of windows, hearths, &c. it contained ; and, having gained the desired information, he immediately demanded, on behalf of his Majesty, a considerable sum, as the amount of taxes and arrears due upon the place. In vain the poor man protested against the proceeding, as an imposition ; in vain he contended that the demand never having been made before he had no right to pay it then. The stranger was inexorable, and nothing would satisfy hint but the payment of the money down, or, in default thereof, he threatened to return direct, with a party of the army, and lead, drive, or carry away all that he could find upon the island. At length, fear ing such a catastrophe, and finding every effort to soften the hard heart of the exciseman completely fruitless, the poor man laid down the amount demanded, and gal a regular acknowledgment for the same, and the officer put the money in by pocket, haughtily desiring be might be put ashore. • No, no,' said the old man ; although his majesty may compel me to pay taxes, he cannot compel *me to keep a boat to row you, and the likes of you, back and forward.' After many threats and entreaties, the islander at length consented, as he had brought his visitor over, to give him 'a bit (I/ a rem' back again ; and both getting into the b oat, along with a young man, son to the proprietor, they pulled for some ti:ne in the direction of the shore. When about midway, however, the islander quietly laying down his oar, informed the o ffi cer, that al though he promised to give him 'a bit u row' he had never any Wen. tion of taking him the entire way, and that now he must do the best he could, as he was himself obliged to return to the island, or that they would land him on Phaddy Lhug, (a large rock, which was visible at low water, but was many feet beneath the surface at full tide)—from which if he shouted loud enough, perhaps some of his friends on the shore might hear him, and send a boat to convey him the remainder of the distance. On the other protesting against such conduct, and insisting that they should continue their labour, and take him ashore—the old man pull. lag his oar into the boat, and desiring his son to do the same, very drily observed, that if the gentleman did not wish to quit the boat , they would not insist on his doing so, as they' could swim like twa water dogs,' and thus easily regain the island ; but if he chose to pay him for it, they would willingly land him at any place he wish,d. Finding himself outwitted by the islanders, the officer deemed it the more is:. viable way to accede to the terms proposed—when to his astonishment he found that the demand was nothing less than the entire amount he had received for the taxes, together with a receipt for those of the fol lowing year, and a special engagement, that he would never return to that island to demand taxes or excise ! Hard as the terms were, he was at length compelled to accede to them, ratherrhan take the &kerns. rive of being left to drift out to sea in an open boat, on a tide which, at the time, was running at the rate of 9 mi iles an hour, with scarndy a hope of relief from any quarter. It is ocarcely necessary to observe that having paid back the money. and given the, required receipt, the crest-fallen taxman was put safely ashore, and never again visited the island. or trusted himself in company with so trickery a customer as the old desler in rabbit-skins."—The Northern Tourist SCINTILLA. ANAGRAM. Tout—•° A SOT." A toast is like a sot; or, what is most Comparative, a sot is like a tout : For when their substances in liquor sink, Both properly are said to be in drink. EPITAPH. Beneath this gravel, and those stones, Lie poor Jack Tissey's skin and bones ; His flesh, I've often heard him say, He hoped, in time, would make good hay. Quoth I, how can that come to pass? And he replied, "All flesh is grass." COPERNICUS.—A statue of this great about to be placed in the square which fronts the Palace Society of the Friends of the Sciences, at Warsaw. Lord Erskine, when once pleading at the bar, in a style a boldness and freedom which offended the Judge, concluded his ai t zu. went on the case with this noble sentiment :—" It was the first M ound and counsel of my youth, always to do what my conscience tot! me to be my duty ; and to leave the consequences to GOD. ADVERTISTMENTo--A young woman, 25 years of age, who is possessed of an annuity of 3W. a-year, Is willing to alter he r condition, provided she can find a worthy honest man, who must be ork of those despised people called Methodists. The young woman cannot boast of the beauty of her person ; she had rather be esteemed for de beauty of her mind. He must be a man that loves to do his duty, en. deavours to be a good Christian, and must not be ashamed of stuffings and reviling. fur righteousness sake. Thirty pounds a-year may b.: a comfortable assistance to a man in trade, and may enable an honest couple, joined in the LORD, to pass, with some degree of happiness, through this transitory life—this vale of teats.—Letters directed to S.L. to be left at the Chaper Coffee-house, shall, if approved, be answered —Relies of Literature. KING JOHN gave several lands, at Kepperton and Atti:- ton, in Kent, to Solomon Attefield, to be held by this singular service —that as often as the King should be pleased to cross the sea, the said Solomon, or his heirs, should be obliged to go with him, to hold hi, Majesty's head, if there should be occasion for it, " that is, if he should be seasick ;" and it appears, by the record in the Tower, that this same office of head.holdiny was actually performed in the teign of Edward the First. On the 15th January, 1800, the Union Question was again brought forward. In the interim Lord Cornwallis and Lord Cas. tlereagh had secured forty-three refractory anti-unionists. 1,500,000 L was raised to compensate proprietors for the loss of their boroughs ; Lords Ely, Shannon, Clanmorris, Belvidere, and Sir Hercules Langrishe, received 143,0001. the two first noblemen being paid 00,0001. for their six members.—Sir Jonah Barrington. In the Dictum de Kenilworth, made in the fifty-first ycat of the reign of Henry 111. there is the following curious clause:— " Knights and Squires, who are robbers, and among the principal rob bers in wars and piunderings, if they have no lands, but have goods, shall pay half their goods for their redemption, and find sufficient surety henceforward to keep the peace of the King and kingdom." HOUSEHOLD OF HENRY Vlll.—His Highness's baker shall not put alums in the bread, or mix rye, oaten, or bean flour with the same ; and if detected, he shall be pet in the stocks. His Highness's attendants we pot to steal any locks, or keys, tables, forms, cupboards, or other furniture, out of noblemen's or gentlemen's houses, where they go to visit. Master cooks shall not Employ such scallions as go about naked, or lie all night on the ground below the kitchen fire! No dogs to be kept in the court, but only a few spaniels for the tidies. Dinners to be at ten; suppers at four. The officer* of his privy chamber shall be loving together; no grudging, nor grumbling, nor talking of the King's pastiest. The King's barber is enjoined to be cleanly; not to frequent the company of misguided women, for fear of danger to the King's royal person. There shall be no romping with maids on the staircase, by which dishes and other things are often broken ! Care shall be taken of the pewter spoons, and that the wooden ones used in the kitchen be not broken or stolen. The pages shall not interrupt the kitchen maids! The grooms shall not steal his High. i ness's straw for beds, sufficient being allowed for them. Coal only to be allowed to the King's, Queen's, and Lady Mary's, chambers. The hewers are not to put any brimstone in the ale. CAIRO.—The Paella of Egypt has resolved to estab lish at Cairo a museum of antiquities. With this view he has for. bidden Europeans to export, and even to search for, antiquities. A FRUITFUL MOTHER.—In a village in the neighbour hood of Venice, a woman was lately delivered of six living boys. Four of them died at the end of a fortnight, but the two others survive at, and are likely to do well. The American States have as many climates as names, and, like the gardener and the potter in the fable, whilst one prays for rain, the other looks anxiously for the sun. A New York paper, tired of rain, kindly offers to swap with the Nashville paper, a thunder cloud against a gleam of sunshine. He says, " The Na shville, Tc. nesse, toper says—' We are suffering much from excessive drought. Indeed I—we should be right glad to swap with them a thunder cloud or two Of water for a degree of sunshine—and give them a night's rain into the bargain." ELECTRIC HARANGU.4=IIapo' leon, passing in review the second regiment of Horse . Cliesieurs, at Lobenstein, two days before the battle of Jena, asked the Colonel how many men there were? " Five hundred," said the Colonel ; " but some of them very young." " What matters that," said Napoleon, with an air of surprise at such an observation, " are they not all Frenchmen ?" And then, turnirg to the regiment, thus addressed them r "Young men, you must not fear death ;" and When that is the case, you will make it enter the enemy's ranks." A sudden shout of enthusiasm followed these words, harbinger of that memorable victory, which forty-eight hours afterwards overthrew the Column of Rosbacb. . . SMALL DEBT COI; RT.— A recent publication gives an amusing account of the Small Debt Courts in America. In the coun try towns of America there are, generalfy, two or three justices of :he peace, and an attorney or two. '1 hese justices or judge* (in fact, they are both judge and jury,) as may well be imagined, are men that have not much law at their fingers' ends. In almost all cases they subsist chiefly by following some mechanical trade, and not unfrequently the dignity of village "Squire" is conjoined with the more humble. i•ut probably as useful, occupations of carpenter or shoemaker. They most commonly give a verdict In favour of the plaintiff. I recollect a circur.:. stance which afforded me no little amusement. It was the case of a young man of the village who got half seas over,' one day, and either through mischief or accident, had shot an honest woman's pig ; she fad him instantly arrested and brought before the justice. As rear as I can remember, the following colloquy took place. The judge w.ts a quaker and a mechanic : Justice.—Well, Jane, what has thee to say against neighbour Bill ? Plaintiff.—Say ! why I've too much to say about the waggabone would you believe it, the good-for-nothing fellor has killed my without no manner of provocation. Justice—And did thee not want thy pig slain, friend Jane? Plaintiff—No, I guess my pig would have fed a hundred weig':: come Christmas. I calculate I had :good feed for the poor thing; bet that there Bill, the low fellot, shot him. I guess he would be r,ore worse of a good spanking with a clever stick. Justica—Pesce, Jane, peace, we shall find for thee, we shall find law for thee, woman, 1 say, but be not violent against Bill. Why did thee kill that pig of Jane's, Bill ? Squire, I expect that I was shooting at a mark on the fence, when dar'nt pig poked his nose too near the mouth of my rifle. and I being typsy a bit, I guess he was shot. Justioe—Why then, Bill, you must pay Jane the price of the pig, and two dollars damages, besides the expense of court. Billy—No, Sammy, no, 'nation sink me if I do pay a cent. e' da mages. I guess I must pay for the porker, but bang me, Sammy, if ever I take a shoe from you in my life if you talk of damages. I ealcu. late I'll get them cheaper at all events from John Arkwright. Justice.m.Now, friend Jane, since Bill has confessed his mistake. yeu must let him pasa.this time free of damages. I guess Bill will treat.. Bill—Why.ammy, I vow that's clever. I'll treat, I swear I will: come over to Bill Ivison's tavern, and I calculate we'll have goi toddy there and fix our matters. BIRTH. On the 18th Inst. at Exmouth, the lady of Capt. Hobert Insanity, of a son. MARRIED. At Kensington, on the 21st inst. Lieut. Charles Forbes. 17th Lan cers, second son of Sir Charles Forbes, Ban. M. P. to Carolir.e. v:- cond daughter of George Bettye, Esq. of Conden.hill.—At Irlirg ton church, Captain Grover, late of the 19th Foot, to Louisa, p 3 ur t :- est daughter of J. Bourdelain, Esq. of Highbury-grove.--At the Br•- dab Consulate, Bordeaux, Nathaniel Johnston, jun. Esq. of t"3: place, to Charlotte Sophia, youngest daughter of H. Scott, Esq. Britannic Majesty's Consul at Bordeaux. PI e.D. At Cheltenham, Mrs. S. J. Ricketts, relict of 0. P. Ricketts, Esq. Bengal Civil Service, and youngest daughter of the late Capt. Place. of the Halswell East Indiaman, the disastrous shipwreck of which. on the coast of Sussex, may be in the recollection of some of our readers. —At Forfar, on the 11th curt. 31r. David Milne, botanist. in the 63d year of his age.—At the Manse of Kiltoalie. on Thursday, th e 12th curt. the Rev. Duncan M'lntyre, :minister of that parish, in the 14th year of his age, and forty.sisth of his ministry.— At Learning. ton, IVarwickshire, on the 22d inst. Frances Lady Dueie.--M her house, in Clucks-street, Berkeleyssquare. in the 70th year of her age, Harriou Mary, Countess of Malniesbury, widow of the late, and mo ther of the present, Berl of Malmesbury. -- - LONDON: Ploixicirs,ndvo.eutltrebirdicketbty.pfaceTTetigxL.at the STAR- • astronomer it *of the Imperial