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SETTLEMENT OA BAY. FURTHER PARTICUI.Ait.S. The letters'reCeiied by the Jan trlinsPorts t t highly of the cliniate 'and prospects of the ie The allotments of land are well wooded and watered, and, being principally on the banks" of the Great F . lsh' River, plenty of fish is easily obtained; game in *abundance, particularly a species of imp - se. The Dutch farmers are particularly civil and accommo dating to the new-coaxers on their journey. The dis tance of the settlement from the coast is About SO , miles ; this journey is in waggons, with teams of sixteen bullocV r a n d e tliese, with the con ductors, are procured of the Dutch boors at an easy rate. The I3uteh farmers observe, that what they can raise by industry so can the new-comers. They raise corn of every:description; potatoes Bountifully ; tobacco thrives- welt; the wine they make on their estates is most excellent. and sold at the.rate of bid. per bottle. They laughingly observe, that more Cape wine is sold in the year by many hogsheads than is made in the whole Colony. Many of the estates produce !bur crops in the year, particularly in those parts which can at pleasure be inundated ; these inundations answer all the purposes of the best manure, and the crops are prodigious. Major Pleorr, brother of Captain PIGOTT, R.N. with his family, occupies- the largest track of land as a free settler. Captain DUNCAN CAtinsett, R.M. and his party, who embarked from Portsmouth, are localized at the Zonder end of the river, about eighty-seven milei frem the Cape. In April last, the Captain was married to the niece of Mr. TURNER, the n:aster of the Weymouth store-ship, in which ship he em barked. The followipparties are localized : Lieutenants Charles Valentine Griffiths, and sisters ; Lieutenant White, 7 Eeglmcnt, and family, from Notting ham ; Mr. Richardson and family; Mr. Sieve and family, late Banker, of Liverpo6l; Mr. Leeversey and family, and Mr. Ileyhurbt and family, from Iketrpool ; Mr. Phillips and fa mily ; Mr. Wainwright and fty front Leeds ; Mr. Stanby and family, and Mr. Smith and family, from Manchester. The arrangements of Government were most li beral, and every attention was paid to the comforts of the females while on board. They were plenti fully supplied with port wine and sago, excellent beef, pork, and biscuit ; even mustard, salt, vinegar, needles, thread, &c. were not forgotten. On landing they procured the best fresh beef, at I id. per lb. Government willingly supplies you at 6d. per head, namely, I alb. of bread, and lb. of beef, per day. They also supply a good tent for two guineas. Provisions of every kind are amazingly cheap; there is a great want of waggons, and it is strongly recommended that they should be brought out from England, as on landing teams' of oxen are procured at an easy rate, and you set out on your journey im mediately. Followers of heads of parties are each, at the expiration of five years, allowed thirty acres of cultivated land, and, by a praiseworthy arrangement of Government, a man dying on his servitude can bequeath to his family or It lend such proportion of land as he is entitled to, kr which reason most of the settlers make their W ill on landing. General DONK i N, the Governor of the Cape, paid the greatest attention to his countrymen. A premium of one hundred guineas is announced for the farm that sends the first marketable produce of its land to the Cape. Though the Dutch boors ate illiterate, they arc good-natured ; as an instance, we understand, the wife of a Dutch farmer, seeming anxions for an in different gold watch, it was presented to her; and next day a beautiful team of sixteen oxen, neatly yoked, was sent as a return. Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir H. BLACKWOOD, Bart. K.C.B. in his Majesty's ship LEANDER, 60 guns, Captain C. 111CRAILDSON, had arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, from England, and proceeded on to India to relieve Sir RICHARD KING, who was daily expected at the Cape, on his return home. Rear- Admiral LAMBERT was also daily expected in the Vroo. from England. On the Bth of June, the Kinner,sley Castle and Ocean werkat the Cape ; the Brilliant, Lieutenant PKITCHARD, was to sail for England on the 12th ; the Importer was taking in stores for St. Helena; the Aurora, Lieutenant COATS, arrived in Sirriond's Bay on the 9th ; and the East Indian on the 11th the Fanny and Nautilus, under Lieut. COLE, may be expected do arrive in England in a few days. Advices have been received from Lower. Canada to the . ‘"ith ultimo. That Province, it appears, par. ticipates in the general decline of Commerce and Agriculture experienced in other parts of the 'Bri tish Empire. A letter from Quebec, of the 6th ul timo, says— " Upon the whole, the present Agricultural prospects in this diva-let are but middling. Prices are unusually lMv, affording the forgoer little for his surplus produce, forcing him to *duce hi expenses, and diminish his purchases of imported goods, which 11 felt in the dulness of trade and the depression of the value of all real property. Extravagant living, idleness, and speculations on the capital of others, and a consequent non-pay mein of debts, bave also had their influence in producing our present dilleulkies. The thermometer stood at 98 in the shade on the 4thinstain." _ _ _ It is a common observation in Sicily, Rather be a sow than a soldier." The people have a great aver sion to a military life, and many years ago paid a large consideration in money to be exempted from service. A Correspondent, who was lately at Pa lermo says, that when the Neapolitan Government, not long ago, determined to enforce a conscription throughout Sicily, but, having qualified the ordinance of conscription With a provision that married men should be exempted from its operation, "no fewer than 8,000 marriages actually took place in the island during one month ; youths uniting to women who, in piAnt of age, might have been their grand mothers. Such an aversion to a military life, may have been very natural when the nation was under teoke of the Neapolitans ; people do not com monly like to fight the battles of their oppressors ; but we are not to conclude from it, that when the Sicilians have got freedom to contend for, that suffi cient courage or talent will be wanting to achieve its triumphs. The beautiful spire of St. Mary's, Castlegate, York, was struck by lightning last week, a few feet from the extreme point, and several pieces of stone broken from it. This Is the third time that this spire h as bees similarly i*red. Friday ni ght, between nine and ten o'clock, a fire broke out in a brewery in Hutchesoutown, Glasgow, which originated in the malt kiln ; part of the roof was burned before the-engines from Glasgow arrived, Ina soon these:Ogg- the fire wiw sot under. •6 . I ASSIZES. AM %I lam a au .. •••••••,.................... . . NIWCArLEZPONTTNE—CROWN 0017/1:1'. Vitelaus W2N/WOIMIT BEAUMONT, Esq. M. P. is Poletnan cithe Grand Jury"; &r CHARLDS Moscit, late ale Members far the County, was atso on 'the Ghia' . tit Mr. Jisioi l / 4 ARE laid, it was a great satisfaction to him, on the first occasion of addressing the Grand Jury of this great County, to find the calendar so Ask, both as to the number and the magnitude of the crimes. There were only eight offences charged in the calendar. Two of these required some obser vations from him. One was for concealing the birth of a child : this could be no ground for presuming the murder of the child. Coroners had no right to commit-upon such a charge; their business was only to inquire respecting death. A case of malicious cutting would come before them, where the instru r . • ment was a poker. It was right to mention to them, that in the case of the King against Heywood, in 1805, ti* Judges held a conviction right under this statute (Lord Ellenborough's), although an iron crow had been the instrument. One subject more he had to mention, which he had adverted to in the lower part 61 the town, and which he would inculcate in every part of the town and of the kingdom, if his voice could extend so far, and he had authority to. enforce his own impressions. Yet, whether they would hear, or whether they would forbear— reve lake emimam meam. They would perceive that he al luded to seditious and blasphemous publications, which increased and multiplied, which threatened morality and religion, and which undermined the security of the country. The licentiousness of the Press invaded every department of life ; it inveighed against men in the highest station ; it arraigned the character of the Sovereign himself; and, what was more shocking, and made every well-constituted 'heart recoil, it assailed the Majesty of GOD himself. Many men—aye, and good men —,were accustomed to say, 4 , This is well written," and " that is well' written," when people ought to drive such publica tions from them as a pestilence that would destroy themselves and their families. As Grand Jurors, in their higher character as Magistrates, and in the dearer !elation of masters of families, they would, as they valued all that was dear to them in this lite— 1 1 and still more, as they regarded their happiness here after—they would drive such pernicious writings far from them : their language would be, " Here you shall not enter—here you must not be read." By l their own bright example they would give effect toi their precepts. He said so much, not for themselves, but for those around them. It was the duty of every one to eradicate this dangerous and growing evil. William Minto, aged 35, was convicted of stealing a brown mare, at Capheaton, in this county. Eleanor Renwick, aged 48, was charged with hav ing, on the 15th of June, wilfully, maliciously, and unlawfully cut Reginald Charlton with a poker, with intent to murder him. Mr. Lour opened the case to the Jury. It would be proved that the prisoner bad threatened to do some serious injury to Mr. Charlton before she had struck him, as charged in the indictment. The cause appeared to have been that Mr. °bar 4 lton had dis trained upon her fattier for rent. Mr. Reginald Charlton lives at Moto-hill, parish of `Park.. The prisoner lives at Letterford ; her father bad been tenant of witness, and witness had had oc casion to distrain his goods on the Lsth of May. The prisoner lives, not with her father, but with Mr. Pick ering, to whom she was housekeeper s ahout a mile' from witness's. On the 15th of June last, witness went to see Mr. Pickering ; sat with him in the kit chen past ten or fifteen minutes ; observed the pri-; soner moving out and in three or four times. Wit ness proposed to go, rose from his seat, and put on his hat. Mr. Pickering proposed setting him on his way home, and went for his own hat to the kitchen window. At that instant witness was suddenly struck and knocked down ; he felt a particularly sharp blow on the back part of his head ; he became senseless ; when he recovered his senses, he heard Mr. Pickeritig say, " Good Goo, woman, you have killed the mani" She said, in the Scottish dialect, gi D e il ha'e them cares, for I have long wislitd it ; but he's nae dead yet, for he's sprawling." He with difficulty turned round his head, and saw her, he thought. lay down the poker. Mr. Pickering helped him to get up and to move towards the door. The door was shut. Mr., Pickering called for the assistance of his men. Wit ness, by clinging to the wall, got to the end of the house. His head was bound up with a silk handker chief. The wound was bleeding most profusely ; he was washing the blood away with his hands from both sides of his coat. He walked home, having de-! dined going on horseback, or in a cart, for fear of irritating the wound on his bead. When he got home, he felt particularly ill ; he was faint from loss of blood. He was confined to bed for upwards of a week. His bat was cut through. Mr. John Pickering, when he had turned round, saw Mr. Charlton lying on the floor. He could not distinguish the noise of the blow from that of the fall. He saw the prisoner standing at the fire, and the poker in her hand. Mr. Charlton remained senseless about a minute. Witness said, “ You have killed the man." She made no reply to his hearing. He swore that he heard nothing. She never men tioned anythlig to him but that she had to pay money. - When he bad rebuked her after he had re turned, she said she was sorry for it, but she could not help it ; she felt in a passion for what he had done to her. His carter had carried away her father 't goods before the distress, at her desire. Cross-examined by Mr. WlLtrAsra.—Her face was not in the same way after Mr. Charlton was down ; it had been turned towards him. He had the par t ifr in Court. (Ilere he produced a very solid and massy poker). She had been nine years and a half his housekeeper, and bore a very good character for his manity and good nature. • By the Comm.—He had given her money to pay for her father. She had ten guineas a year pf wages. He gave her then ten guineas and same odd shillings; it was the balance of an account. Mr. William Weir surgeon, found much appear ance of a concussion of the brain. The wount was contused or lacerated; it laid bare part of th% sin cipital bone. It was two inches in length. He at tended for a week. By Mr. Wu.Liama---Ile called it a contused wound, as conS4aikitingitisbesl front an incisioni it • • • • • F. •w~c d.A.:...«wF •..•A.... tad rained edges ; it septuaihed more a great-dela to a bruise than a cut. Brib' CouaT.-41e shoda hiOn shiti.itvit - it* by a bloat instrument. This was the case for the prosecution, - Mr. WILLIAMS submitted, whether there wks case to go to the Jury. He remembered, when a very young Counsel, to have been engaged in a case at York, in 1806, "the King and Atkinson," where a blow had been given by the claw-side of a hammer, which was reserved for the opinion of the Judges.— A case had occurred, too, in Chester, before Mr. Chief Justice Dallas and Mr. Justice Burton, in 1808, " the King agaiist Hurlston and Lambert," where the wound had been given by a windlass on a canal. Chief Justice Dallas reported that Lord Ellenborough and Mr. Justice Lawrence thought the case was not within the intention of the Act. In the meantime, in 1806, the opinion of the Judges had been given respecting an instrument used by highwaymen, be tween a crow and a chisel, but capable of great acuteness of edge. But the present case seemed to be entirely similar to that at Chester, and not within the ineaninf of the Act. Mr. Justice PARK.--The Welsh Judges have not the same means as other Judges of taking the, opi nion of all the Judges. All the Judges in 1805 held a conviction right where a blunt instrument had been used. 'lt is clearly within the reason of the law. The Jury retired for half an hour, and found a verdict of—Greilty, but recommended her to mercy. Mr. Justice PA am bound to ask the reason. Foreman.—On the ground of her former -good character.—Judgment was not passed. WOODS V. RUSSELL. The plaintiffs in this action were the assignees of a bankrupt, Patten, who had been a timber-merchant and ship-builder. The defendant had successively paid £750 at two several payments, as part of the expenses of a vessel building by the bankrupt, Patten, for the defendant. The question in the present ac tion, which was an issue from Chancery, went to ascertain whether the act of bankruptcy was com mitted on a certain day,, a Wednesday, or whether the pretended act of bankruptcy was fraudulent. If 'the act of bankruptcy was on the Wednesday, the rudder and cordage, to the value of £6B, which had been provided on the Friday succeeding the Wed nesday in question, were the property of the assignees, as forming part of the property of the bankrupt. Mi. Justice BoTtay expressed an opinion in the course of the trial, that the bankrupt was only a trustee to the extent to which money bad been sup plied by the defendant. Verdict for the plaintiff—finding the act of bank ruptcy committed on the Wednesday, and £6B due to the plaintiff. t 4.. .„ -IA • J• FROM LASIMMICrthi IMIEtTT E. Gazette. &nominees that the Witt has tittered a letter es 'be dkeered to the Chapter 'of the Ciatedrid of Hereford, re vocalseliding to them the Rev. Robert Janis Carr, D.D. to be chosen-Dein of the said Cathedral, becalms Void by the death of Dr. George Gretton, late Dean thereof. It also notifies that tke King lois nominated General Charles Count Alten, of the Hanoverian Set vice, Honorary K n ight Commander of the Most Honourable Order f the Bath, and Grand Cross of the Gue!- phk Order, to be an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Bath BANKRUPT& Thomas Faulkner, Rapes court, Leicester-square% straw-hat - manufacturer, to sumender August 194 26, and September 26, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Robinson aid Courtees3, Waibrouk. Quirks Rudd, late of Lawnat, Laticasbirv, woollen-manufac turer, September 13, 14, and 26, at ten ' at the Wellington lan, Rochdale. Attornies, Messrs. Shuttleworth, dale; or Mr. Chippendale, Crane-court, Fket-streei. lugh and Edmund Taylor, Manchester, callcts-printers, Sep tember 8, at four, 9, and 26, at ten, at the Dog Tavel- ; Deansgate, Manchester. Atturnies, Mr. Ellis, Charmer).- lane ; or Messrs. Johnson. and Lonsdale, Manchester. lichard Atkin Smith, Sheffield, grocer, August 25, 26, and September 26, at twelve, at the Town -hall, Sheffield. Atter= nies, Mr. Batty', Chancery-lane ; or Mr. Dixon, Sheffield'. ohn Gunby, Birmingham, sword-maker, August 25, at fire, 26, and September 26, at eleven, at the George inn, Str, , ,.e, Gloucestershire: Attornies, Messrs. Sandy. and Co. Crar t . court, Fleet-street ; or Messrs. Fisher, Stroud. ohn Milthorp, late of Pot Ovens, Yorkshire, clothier, August 22; at five, 23, and September 26, at eleven, at the SCESiOt house, Le eds. ” Anomie', Mr. Ward, Leeds; or Mr. FA- mends, Exchequer Office, London. James Newbold, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, butcher, August 29, 30, and September 26, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Leamington Priors. Attornies, Mr. Platt, New Bo - well-court, Lincoln's Inn ;or Mr.Patterson,LeamingtonPrion.. William Wood, Holm Farm, near Wetherby, Yorkshire, earth jobber, August 2s, 29, and September 26, at eleven, at the Old Sand-hill, Colliergate, York. Attornies, Mr. Wigles worth, Gray's Inn ; or Mr. Wood, York. Joseph Armitage, Birmingham, saw-maker, September 6, v.: Eve, .7 and 26, at twelve, at the Rein peer Worcester.— Attornies, Messrs. Bonifield and Williams, louverie-street, Fleet -street; or Mr. Hope, Temple -street, Birmingham. William Goldsworthy, Sun Tavern Fields, rope-maker, Augut 19, September 2 and 26, at eleven, at Guildhall Attorney, Mr._He&rd, Hooper's-square, Leman-street,Goodman's-firld.. Isaac Jacobs, Bristol, gla;s-manufacturer, August 211, 30, and September 26, at one, at the Rummer l'avern, Bristol. „I tornies, Mr. Walker, Bristol; or Messrs. Adlington and Gregm-y, Bedford-row. Robert Wilsford Coopland, Bridlington Quay, Yorkshire, lin a draper' August 22, at five, 23, and September 26, at elevrr, at the Sessions-house, Lee ds. Attornies, Bettye, eery-lane ;or Mr. Hargreaves, Leeds. DIVIDENDS to be made at GUILDHALL. Sept. 5, R. Coliens, Maidstone dealer in hops, at ten. Sept. 23, J. Bailey, London-wall, coac bmaker, at eleven. Aug. 19, J. Wilkinson, Appledore,. Kent, miller, at twelve. Sept. a, W. Green, Albion-place, Kingsland-road, underwriter, at tn. Sept. 9, J. Browne and J. Gregson, Charles -street, Grosvenor. square, upholsterers, at ten. Sept. 9, LH. Standish, Bishops. gate-street-Without straw-hats-manufacturer at twelve. Sept. 9, W. Mitchell, Pl aistow, Essex, ship-builder, at twelve. DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY. Sept. 7, J. Guardner, Mapleborough-green, Warwickshire, dealer, at twelve, at the Castle Inn, Birmingham. Sept. 11, J. Bothwell, Arnold, Nottinghams hire, hosier, at eleven, at the Falcon Inn, Micklegate, York. Se pt. 12, A. Aaron, Ply mouth-Dock, silversmith, at twelve, at Weakley's Hotel, Ply.. mouth-Dock. Sept. 8, W. Parker, late of Bridgsviter, malt ster, at twelve, at the Mansion-House Inn, Bridgwater. Sept. a, W. P. Watts, Gosport, victualler, at one, at the Sun lan, Gosport. Sept. 15, J. Weston and T. G. Kendall, Liverpool, merchants, at one, at the Office of Mr. Topham, Castle -street, LiverpooL Sept. IS, T. Stubs and W. Lenox, Liverpool, mer chants, atone, at the O ffi ce of MT Topham, Liverpool. &pt. 7, W. Fletch er, Wolverhampton, ironmonger, at eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Bittninghana. Sept 14, P. Leigh, late cf Wincham, Cheshire, tanner, at eleven, at the Old Ship Inn, Northwich. CERTIFICA' W. Walker, Wortley, VOrishire, merchant. F. Kendrick, Holborn; linen-draper. W. Tennant, Liverpool, tailor. •J. Jackson, Leeds, merchant. J. Shelley, Hanley, Staffordshire, shopkeeper. R. Bibby, Liverpool, merchant. N. Peake, Handswortk . Staffardshire, merchant. J. Scott, Foreistreet, corn-dealer. S. Sadler, Birmingham. pump-maker. DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIPS. Webb and Gibbs, Lamb's Conduit-street, fishmongers. Tidd and Co. Gidusborongh, Lincolnshire, seed-crushers,. (as far as regards J. Stuart). 'Snob, and Co. Gainsbonagh, merchants. F.. and Ilf. Bellamy, Birmingham, school-mistresses. Warn and Dodd, Dock, Devon, paws-brokers. Ash.and Co. Bris tol, linesdrapers. Smith and Thatcher, Hungerford Wharf, coal-merchants. Pearson and Berry, Fenchnrcls-sueet, wine merchants. Pate and Wane, Wansfeed, Northamptonshire, coal-merchants. Bailey and Co. Rdtal Exchange, stationers. Kidd and Thompson, Woburn Mews in the Fields, stable. keepers. Hammond and Crane, &airport, Worcestershire, minters. Primrose and Warren, litides hall. Suffolk, Robinson. and Phillips, West-Ham Abbey, Essex. Cl= Ridgeway, Warrington, file-manufacturers. Pryce and - Co. Reskurh. Cornwall, bankers. H. and J. Wynn, Kiddermin ster, plumbers. East and Croggoa, Combin e auc tioneers. De wey and Waterland, Hall, spirit-merchants. Brown and Marsh; Ckrkenwell-close, gold and siiver•datters. SINKING OF A- MOUSTAINe•—A high ridge of mountains, the Moselle, called the Sieben Owen Berg, has been observe d some years past to have in it very large clefts, which for the last five years measured above a foot in breadth, thus exciting in the inhabitants of the adjacent banks no unreason able apprehension of an approaching fall of part of the mountaiq. This has now taken place. On the 7th of July, In the evening, earth and stones were seen rollin4 down from the summit, which continued increasing in quantity till four o'clock the next morn ing, when a whole mass of rock came loose, and fell with such violence into the Moselle, that it forced the water out of . its channel, overflowed the opposite bank to some distance, and drifted away, the vessels lying at Bruttig. The damage done is ittcalculable ; it appears that about forty vineyards have been pre cipitated with the rock into the river. The moan taia on the opposite side, called the Kessel, likewise threatens to fall. As this mountain is rent and torn with frightful clefts, as. well at the top u in the mid dle and lower parts, and the front part had sunk three feet on *é morning of the istb, and large makes continually rolled down, it is to be feared that the whole enormous body will fall into the. Moselle, and fill up the greater part of the channel, which would make the river overflow its banks, and cause the most dreadful ravages. BIRTHS. August 13, the Lady lot Sr John Boyd, of a son. August 8, at Edinburgh, the Lady of Rear-Adzairal of a aen. , MARRIED. lkspit at Fenton, John Hope, Esq. e9th Regiment, to Mem, youngest daughter of the late G. Bogue, Esq. Wnedball. DIED. August ff, in Duke-street, Liverpool, Lady Barton, the wife of Sir William Barton. May 31, at Sierra Leone, Mr. Henry Ala. Elliot, R.N. August 3, at Edhiburgh, in the gist year of his age, Mr. Ed ward Finlay Marnoc:h, Student of Medicine. iICiH- WATJ Mcrning Afternoon at LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORRO* 0 mlnuccs after 7 LONDON ; Pripted and published by Levu KIM Pickets. • DAN Tsnitle-Dat. I POLICE. Mattstos-flout—A young man, tinned Bortmes was yes terday charged with having robbed his employers, Messrs. Wil son and Co. silk-mercers, of property to a considerable amount. it appeared that considerable quantities of silk, Su. had re cently been missed from the stot.k of Messrs. Wilspn, and that the circumstance of a pawnbroker's ticket having been acci dentally dropped by the prisoner, who was in their employment as a porter, caused suspicion. to fall upon him, and he was ac cordingly searched, when the duplicate of a piece of silk, 70 yards long, was found upon him. The sbopman to a pawn 'broker deposed that the primmer pledged a piece of silk, 70 yards long, en the 7th ibitellt. The piece was produced and identified by one of the firm as their pmperry.--Comositted. Guaratata.—G. Watkins was filly committed for stealing' I two reams of paper from the door of a stationer's shop, in King-street, Smithfield. He admitted the charge, and said he I was in a state of starvation. G. liele,tritepresentd a cheque for paymeit at Messrs. Chiles, -Aida had been stoien.froun A. Mortis, Rog. the High Bailiff of • Westminster, was reexamined and committed. No net► evidence was adduced against him. Hemrox-Gaanix.—Yesterday se►eral lads were examined, charged with bathing after eight o'clock In the Regent's Canal: taey were severely reprimanded for the Indecency of bathing at so late an hour of the day, when many females walked• that way, and threatened to be convicted in the penalty on a repe tition of the offence. They were then discharged. Thursday a forgery on the Bank of Scotland's guinea note made its appearance in Glasgow. Two of the notes were passed, they are very coarsely en graved, dated, May, Monday night, a daring gang . of robber! broke into the bacon drying-house of Mr. Wilwood, bacon merchant, in Goswell-street, and succeeded in carry ing off several flitches of bacon. - Sunday eycning, as Captain WATSON, R.N. was retulning to his house in Nelson-square, just as he turned round by the Rev. Rowland Hill's Chapel, he happened to make a.false step, when a person came up and pretended to be very anxious about Captain W.'s safety, and in two minutes after the Captain missed his watch, gold chain, seals, and key. An impostor has been lately attempting to defraud several country bankers in the County of Kent, by means of fictitious cheques and bills. One of the bills was drawn from Bruxelles on Messrs. Dunlop and Co. Glasgow, by whom it is pretended to be accepted, payable at the house of Sir P. Pole and Co. bankers, London, who have pronounced it to be a fiction, by stating that "they have no account with any firm of the name of Dunlop and Co. Glasgow." Last week, John Armstrong, who was shot by a soldier of the 6th Carbineers, lately quartered in Car lisle, died in consequence thereof, a mortification hav ing taken place. A Coroner's Inquest was held on the body, when, after an investigation ofsome hours, and an examination of several witnesses, a verdict of Wilful Murder was returned against the soldier, Asherst, for the offence. An Inquest was held at the Triumphlnt Chariot, on the body of H. Turnbull, an ostler at Tattersal's, who was killed by a stallion falling on him that he was exhibiting for sale. Verdict—Accidental Death. Wednesday, as a fkm-servant from Eccles was crossing an arm of the Tweed, with a double horse fart, near Birgham, he and the shaft horse ware drowned, owing to the River being much swelled by the late rains. Monday evening . as Mr. Cunningham, of Essex street, Strand,. wine-merchant, in company with . another Gentleman, was driving along Holborn in a single horse chaise, one of the wheels cam* in Con tact with a stone fired before a street post 'opposite Gray's Inn- ate; the shock threw' them both forward, by which Mr. ,Cunningham lost possession of th e reins, the horse took fright, and set off at fall speed: —The shrifts broke short; and -both the Gentlemen were throivn out. Mr. Cunni ngham unni had some othis ribs fractured, besides receiving many severe braises on various parts of his body. His frisnd wiped ', with a few coatusussa it ~►.__ _L 4 11. • • , . ,