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CARDIGANS/WlZ—Benjamin Edward Hall, of Kilgwyn, Esq. Thomas Francis Gibb, of Hendrefelen, Esq. Thomas Hugh Jones, of Nayarit', Esq. RaDooostuate—John James Garbett Walsham, of Old Radnor, Esq. John Dodson, of Ilengoed, Esq. Robert Bell Price, of Dross. field, Old Radnor, Esq. B ucoilbm soo—Williani Lewis Hopkins, of Aberansell, Esq. William Henry West, of Glyffaes, Esq. John Joseph Holford, of Chapel Altmawr, Esq. GLAMORGANSHIRE William Williams, of Aberpergoln, Esq. Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, of Ruperra, Esq. Walter Coffin, of I.andaff Court, Esq. NORTH WALES. ANOLCSET—TbomAs Williams, of Glanrafon, Esq. Owen Owen, of Llanfigaci, Esq. Andrew flirt, of Llynogan, Eaq. Cazositvonsoraz—John Williams, of Brintirion, Esq. Rice Thomas, of Coedhelen, Esq. Jno. Wynne, of Brynyneuadd, Esq. MIRIONETII6IIIIIK—Jones Penton, of Idwyngwern, Esq. Hugh Lloyd, of Cefobtolig, Esq. Griffith Jones, of Ynsfaig, Esq. Motcroomistsisisx—John Monsn. of Lianfechan, Esq. 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John Fry, Whitechipel, corn dealer. Samuel Plumbe, Great Russell-street. Bloomsbury, surgeons WEDNESDAY EVENLNG. NOVEMBER 18, 1829. BANKRUPTCIES SUPRRSEDED. John Hill, Iced Lion Wharf, City Basin, coal merchant. Charles Wadsworth, Salford, Lancashire. spirit dealer. BANKRUPT& William Giles, Harp-lane, Thames-street, victualler, to surrender Nov. 24, Dec. 1, and 29, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners. Attorney, Mr. Bennett, Adam-court, Old Broad-st. Bernard Henri Lackenbacher, Lime -street, merchant, Nov. 20, at eleven, Dec. 1, at twelve. and 29, at eleven, at the Court of Commiuloners. Attorney, Mr. Bull, Ely-place, Holbore. John Hill, Red Lion-wharf, City Basin, coal merchant, N0v.20, 24, at twelve, and Dec. 29, at eleven. at the Court of Commis sioners. Attorney Mr. W. Davison, Bread-street, Cheapside. James Thornton, Brook-street, Holborn, glass cutter, Nov. 20. at one, Dec. 4, and 29, at ten, at the Court of Co m missioners. Attorneys, Messrs. Poole, Greenfield, and Ganden, Gray's Inn-square. Henry Hall, Islewortb, Middlesex, bopkseller, Nov. 27, at ten, 8, and Dec. 29, et - eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. At torney, Mr. J. D. Kelly, New Inn. Thomas Stammer, Francia.street, Golden-square. grocer, Nov. 20, 27, at twelve, and Dee. 29, at eleven, at the Court of Corn miuloners. Attorney, Mr. Nias, Copthall-court. Edward Allpreas, Watling-street, stationer, Nov. 20, at one, 27, and Dec. 29, at eleven. at the Court of Commissioners. At torney, Mr. T. B. Pugh, Langbourn ( hambers, Fenchurch-st. Henry Cramp and James Crowdy, Friday-street, Scotch ware- housemen, Nov. 24, at ten, 27, and Dec. 29, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioner& Attorney, Mr. it. Gadsden, Fur nival's Inn. George Leech, Laos End, Staffordshire, grocer, Dec. 1, at four, 2 and 29, at twelve, at the Roebuck Inn, Newcastle - under- Lyme. Attorneys, Mr. Walker, Lincoln's Inn-fields; and Mr. Piekford, Congleton, Cheshire. John Bull and William Bull, Taunton, Somersetshire, woollen drapers, Dec. 1,2, and 29, at twelve, at the Swan Inn, Bristol. Attorneys. Mr. Jones, Crosby-square; and Meurs. Wasbrough and Stanley, or Mr. Saunders, Bristol. James Bevan, Pontypool, Monmouthshire, grocer, Dec. 3,4, and 29, at ten, at the Crown Inn, Pontypool. Attorneys, M . Bicknell and Roberts, New-square, Lincoln's Inn; and Mr. Edwards, Pontypool. James Varley, Stanningley, Yorkshire, cloth manufacturer, Nov. 2 . . at three, 24, and Dec. 2 9, at eleven, at the Court Houses Leeds. Leeds. Attorneys, Messrs. Strang% ayes and Walker, Barnard's Inn ; and Mr. Robinson, Leeds. Thomas Willis, Bath, carpenter, Nov. 25, 26. and Dec. 29, at the Castle and Ball Inn, Bath. Attorneys, Me . Horton and Son, Furnival's Inn; and Mr. Dowding, Bath. Thomas Barlow, Pendleton, Lancashire, calico printer, Nov. 30, Dec. 1, and 29, at two, at the Palace Inn, Manchester. Attor neys, Mr. Hampton, Manchester ; and Messrs. Ellis, Walnuley, and Gorton, Chancery-lane. Joseph Ardern, Weaverham, Cheshire, farmer, Dee. 7,8, at ten, and 29, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Northwich, Cheshire. At torney, Mr. Kent, Clifford's Inn. John Simm.ne ' Plymouth, grocer. Dec 1,2, and 29, at eleven, at Hannaford's Commercial Inn,Plymouth. Attorneys, Mr. Smith, Basinghall-street ; and Mr. Husband, Devonport. Thomas Newcombe, York, common-carrier, Dec. 1,2, and 29, at eleven, at the King's Arms Inn, York. Attorneys Messrs. Jacques and Bettye, 36, Coleman-street; and Messrs. Wood and Newton, Yotk. William Townend, Keighley, Yorkshire, corn-miller, Dec. 1,2 s and 29, at eleven, at the Court House, Leeds. Attorneys, Messrs. Atkinson and Co. Leeds. William Raishley, Lattiford, Somersetsbire, dealer In cheese, Dec: 10, 11, and 29, at twelve, at the Town Hall, Wincanton, So mersetshire. Attorneys, Mr. Dyne, Lincoln's Inn-fields; and Messrs. Alessiter, Wincanton. William Bickerton, Oswestry, Shropshire, 'lnman, Dec. 3,4, and 29, at eleven, at the (ineen's Head Inn, Oswestry. Attorneys, Messrs. Rosser and Son, Gray's Inn-place, Holborn ; and Messrs. Griffiths and Carrie, Oswestry. Thomas Peele, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, corn merchants Nov. 23. at twelve, Dec. 8, and 29. at eleven, at the Talbot Inn' Peterborough. Attorneys, Mr. T. Atkinson, Market-place' Peterborough ; and Messrs. Brembridge and Cleobury, Fund vat's Inn. Philip Nuttall, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, cotton manufac turer, Nov. St), at four, Dec.l, and 29, at ten. at the Bridge Inn, Bolton-le- Moors. Attorneys, Messrs. Hurd and Johnson, Tem ple; and Mr. W. Pendlebury, Bridge-street, Bolton le-Moors.. Edward White Benson and William Darke r Aston, Warwick. shire, chymists, Dec. 1,2, and 29, at one, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Attorneys, Messrs. Swaine, Stevens, Maples, Pearse, and Hunt, Frederick's.place, Old Jewry; and Messrs. Webb and Dolphin. Jamaica-row, Birmingham. Samuel Watkins, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire. ironmonger, Nov. 19, at eleven, Dee. 1, and 29, at the Rummer Tavern Bristol. Attorneys, Messrs. Clarke, Richards. and Medea'' , Lincoln's Inn-fields ; and Mr. H. W. Hall, Bristol. Wiliam Gerard, Liverpool, boot maker, Nov. 27, 28, and Dec. 29. at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, South John -street, Liver. pool. Attorneys, Mr. blawddey, Doran's-lane, Lord -street, Liverpool; and Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row. atm Breese., Michael Lewis, William Heade, and William Hand ley,Tunstal, Wolstanton. Staffordshire, manufacturers of earthen. ware, Dec. 4. 5, and 29, at one, at the Swan Inn, Hanky, Staffordshire. Attorneys, Messrs. Smith and Stable. Stone. buildings, Lincoln's Inn; and Mr. Dent, Shelton, Staffordshire. arab Thackway, Ledbury, Herefordshire. stationer, Nov 25. 26, and Dee. 29, at eleven, at the Plume of Feathers Inn, Ledbury. Attorneys, Messrs. Bicknell and Roberts, Lincoln's Inn; and Mr. J. Holbrook, Ledbury. DIVIDENDS. Dec. 15, F. Deakln,Deretend-mills, Warwickshire, wiredrawer, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham—Dee. 10. E. 0. Junes, Gloucester, timber merchant, at one, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol—Dec. 17, J. Prang, Bristol, leather furor, at one, at the Commercial Roonasjaristol—Dec. 18, W.Remingtoo and Co. Lom bard -street, bankers, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners— D e e.ll, W. Remington and Co. Lombard-street► bankers, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—Dee. 8, J. A. Fleury, Fleet-street, boolveller, at twelve, at the Cuurt of Commis sioners—Dec. 11, W. R. Turner, Great Dover-road, Surrey, carver, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—Dec. 11, W. Bell, Fenchurch-street, merchant, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners—Dep. 17, W. Barnard, Bottom, Lincolnshire, banker, et eleven, at the White Hart Inn, Boston—Dec. 9, E. Bird, senior, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, ironmonger, at one, at the Com mercial Rooms, Bristol—Dec. 9, J. Burnett, Stroud, Gloucester shire, innkeeper, at ten, at the Geor,e Inn, Stroud—Dec. 16, R. Kay, Bury, Lancashire, cottou-spinner, at one, at the York Hotel, Alancheater. CERTIFICATES—Dac. 8. F. T. Hart, Charlotte.street, 111.tekftiars-road, tailor—T. Bal lard, Doekhead, Surrey, cheesemonger—J. Sampson, Weymouth, linendraper—F. Wyatt. Plymouth, grocer—J. Okey, Cambridge. cattle salesman—S. R. Brooks, Manchester, merchant—J. Vesey, Elver, linendraper—J. Banks, Lothbury, auctioneer—J. and B. Allen, liirmingham, glass.cetteis. PARTNRRSIIIPS DISSOLVED. Eaton and J. Senior, Sandyweil, Salford, Lancashire, com mon brewers—H. Barber and W. Wilding, Leicester, hosiers— W. J. Palmer and Co. Sackville.strett, Piccadilly, tailors—J. Hulbert and Co. Great Horton, Bradford, York.hire, worsted spinner;—H. Barton, aen. and H. Barton, jun. Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, carpente s—C. Smith and J. Johnson, Leeds, Yorkshire, wine-merchants—J. Garnett and G. Bolton, Leeds, Yorkshire, hackney-coach proprietors—G. Tucker and It Tucker, Liverpool, wine-merchants—r. Dove and J. Hooper, Frome-Selwood, So mersershire, grocers—B. Lever and W. J. Sharp, Buckingham street, Fitzroy-square, tinen-draper•--J. Garnett and J. Mar chant, Gerrard-greet, Soho, coal-merchants—J. Beer and Co. Plymouth, Devonshire, plumbers—J. T. Abrams and C. Sbn monds, Maidstone, Kent, tailors—D. Fletcher and I. Slater, Manchester, calico-dealers—S. D. Bear. and J. Hatchet, Picca dilly, hotel-keepers—W. Marshall and Co Spring Mill, Hidden field. machine-makers—L Piper and Co. Reigate, Surrey. bankers —F. Gilmore and B. Aliliburn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, school mistresses—T. Lean and M. Wheelton, Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk- manufacturers. ANDERDON v. BURROWS. Copy of a Letter from Nii7W;t7rSudbury, (in Suffolk) ad dressed to the Right Hon. Robert Peel, NI P. Chief Commis sioner of Lunatic Asylums. SUMMIT, Nov. 11, 1829. Sta.—After all, is it come to this ? After all the estrum dinary "evidences" which have been given before " the select committee of the House of Commons in 1827," is it come to this? After all the mass of minutes" which were taken before " the select cent mitt. of the .House of Lords in 1828," is it come to this ? After all the pleasing expectancy of amendment and amelioration in " law lunacy,' in the enlightened era of 1829, is it come to this, that a man styling himself an M.D. a self-interested mad doctor and physician, is to, and do, sign a " certificate of lunacy," of, concerning, or relating to a person of high respectability, whom he (the M.D.) has himself actually not seen, but upon the bare report of another, or the mere representations of others, has done this deed of monstrous cruelty, of hellish inhumanity. Question upon question will 'leggiest itself, to the breast of every feeling man, on this cruel ease; but this interrogation receives a ready solution, from the most ignorant or illiterate,—" What is, or, wherein does, lay the difference, between a' Lettre de Cachet,' and a ' Certificate of Lunacy ?' " None, venly none, as they both are, in this case, alike in its dreadful effect, or in their diabolical consequences. This case is somewhat similar to the one of poor Mr. GrindaU's, which at that time excited such an extraordinary sensation. I call upon you, Sir, in the name of Goo!—in the name of hu manity—and in the name of the honour of this country—to search into this case, and to such like abuses, as in so doing you will serve those whom, in many hasty and heartless instances, are unable to serve themselves. Interim, I am, Sir, Ste. JAMES WELLS. " Nunquam dormice, sod semper miserite vivo." Postcript.—Common sense, common reason, and common un derstanding, in conjunction with common feeling. detater this vital and virtuous truth :—" Private madhouses are a vile stigma upon the honour and humanity of England, and upon the English character; and ought at once, by a prompt act of the legislature, to be done away with." For they are altogether, in a greater or less degree, no other than earthly hells—or English bastiles !J. W. Copy of a Letter transmitted from the Secretary of State's Office to Mr. Wells, of Sudbury, in reply to one front that Gentleman on the subject of Dr. Burrows's Certificate of Lunacy. WHITZNALL, Nov. 12. Sir,—l am directed by Mr. Secretary Peel to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th inst. on the subject of the certi ficate of lunacy recently signed by Dr. Burrows in the case of Mr. Ancirrdon. And lam to inform you, that Mr. Peel has forwarded your letter to the Metropolitan Commissioners of Lunacy, who, be has no doubt, will direct their attention to the subject to which it refers. I am, Sir, your most obedient bumble servant, To Mr. James Wells, Sudbury. THOMAS PHILLIPS. FRENCH TRIAL. The Journal des Deeds is filled with a long report of the trial of two men accused of murdering a female who was pregnant by one of them. The facts which cast suspicion upon them lie, however, within a very narrow compass. Marie Anne Bonnet, an Inha bitant of the village of St. Thomas, after having had the misfor tune of bearing two bastard children, had the still greater mis fortune of becoming pregnant with a third, in consequence of her intercourse with Andrew Nathan, the sun of a rich landholder in the same village. For some time she concealed from her friends the name of the father of her unborn child; but as Mathon refused to give her any means of support, and threatened her with vengeance if she dared to fillate upon him her forth coming bastard, she went, on the Nst of March last, before the Asp de Pair at Viviers , to declare him to be the father of it, and to inform the police of the murderous threats which he uttered against her. On the evening of the same day, she returned with one of her neighbours in high spirits to St. Thomas ; and after telling leer mother of what she had been doing, left her house to keep her appointment with Mathon, who had promised to give her a sack of wheat. She was seen by several persons going to a ruined castle, of which the Ma tbons had the key, with a man dressed in dark clothes, who repeatedly kissed her ; she was heard to say, " Come, let us go there ; every body is now at prayers, and we shall not have any body to disturb us." After that evening, she was seen no more ; and suspicion, in iionsequence, arose that she bad been murdered by Matbon. About ten days afterwards her body, which was then in a putrid state, was discovered in a ca. Tern in the rocks on which the ruined castle was built, by a man of the name of Chevalier. From the appearances which the sur geons observed on inspection of her person, they were decidedly of opinion that she had been strangled ; and from the footsteps which were discovered Within the saver'', which was difficult of approach, it became almost certain that she must have been pulled into it by two persons. Public opinion, which had already marked Matbon as one of her murderers ' designated, as his accomplice, Stephen Guillon, a farmer of bad character, who had vowed vengeance against the deceased for some offence which she had given him. They were in consequence taken into custody, and a few days ago were placed upon their trial, which lasted three days. Mathon is described as a tall young man, with a figure of so much sweetness, as to have earned for him the title of " Handsome Mathon." fits answers to the questions were brief and precise, and he maintained that he had never had any connexion of any sort or description with the deceased. Guillon's answers are said to have been unconnected and inconsistent with each other, except so far as they west to deny his guilt of the crime imputed to him. Sixty witnesses were examined. We subjoin the depositions of two or three of the most important : Joseph Chevalier deposed as follows :—" In the beginning of April, the son of Anne Bonnet told my son that his mother was lying dead in the &atone de Fees (the name of the cavern above. mentioned). My son informed me of it. On the following night I dreamt that the corpse of Anne Bonnet was in the Grotto of the Fairies. Placing confidence in this dream, I took my gun, and accompanied by my dog, went early in the morning to that grotto. Arriving at the mouth of it, my dug went in, and soon after began to howl frightfully. I followed him in, bending almost double, and at a distance of fifteen or twenty yards from the mouth of it 1 saw a dead body, which I recognised as that of Anne Bonnet." The witness then d scribed the state of the body, and the two different foot-marks which he observed in the grotto. He then added—" I went with all speed to inform the Mayor of what I had discovered. (laud told me that the corps had remained two days out of the Beaume.....that both Anne Bonnet and her tether were" bad characters—and that I ought to say nothing, though I bad found the corpse." John Bonnet, a child of the deceased, aged seven yea's, declared that on the night of the day after his mother disappeared,he dreamt that his mother was dead in the Fairies' Grotto. lie told his dream to his grandfather. They went together to the grotto, but on account of his grandfather's great age, and the difficulty of access to the grotto, his grandfather could not approach it ; and he was afraid of entering it, on account of the fairies. The Paeunaex—What are these fairies, of which you are speak ing. my little fellow? John Bonnet (crying.)—Wild women, Sir : I saw Mathon on two different occasions in company with my mother. Jean Baptiste Baud, who admitted that be was a common beggar, deposed to this effect :—" I was returning from Sc. Mon te= at eight o'clock in the evening. After I bad crossed the river, I had scarcely got 50 paces, when I beard a cry of murder. I made all the haste I could, and arriving at a turn of the road I saw at a distance of 50 paces, not far from the Fairies' Grotto, Anne Bonnet, whunt Mathon held fast by the neck. Guillon put a cord round her neck, and said • Despatch, for prayers i.re just over.' I then saw them pull the cord tight by means of a stick. Anne Bonnet kept crying. blathoti wore a white cotton bonnet, and withdrew hastily in the dire cti ni of St. Thomas. Guillon, who had on a black hat, withdrew in the opposite direction. I withdrew myself and was at prayers. I saw Meilen' in the church that night, near the dour." Witnesses were called to prove the immiscibility of Baud's tes timony being true, owing to the nature of the ground which pre vented him from seeing any such scene as he pretended. Jean Chambon deposed, that on the Slat of March, as he was returning from his work, when he wart near the middle of the mea dow, _he beard two cries of '' Abi! Ahi !" proceeding from the ruined castle ; that on proceeding onwards he beard other cries, but in a weaker tone; that he had some intention to have goer there, but that be was afraid; that he had scarcely reached home, when he heard the angilas * which informed hint that prayers were over. Without giving any particulars of the defence, the Journal des Deism informs its readers, that in consequence of the exertions of their advocates, both the accused were acquitted. PRICE SriENPENt" . THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH WHIST PLAYERS It appears by an article in the Cosmic,. Francais, which ale sub - join, that a late English Ambasador at Pails has humbled the French whist-players, by a challenge to play a hundred rubbers for £50,000, in twenty days, besides £lOO on each rubber, it order to decide the superiority of play, which he claims for the English. He had the money ready and his partner named hut the Frenchman, who took up the glove for the honour of his country. could neither get his stake subscribed, nor the partner he wished to play with ; be could not therefore fight. " To shut one's self up to cut pens and appear deep, when one is, as folks say, only empty and hollow," this is, according to Figaro, one of the chief occupations_of Diplomacy. The portrait he draws of the statesmen of his time gives us more than one feature of re semblance to those of our own days. This may be judged by the following fact, on the details of which reliance may be placed A Noble Lord, who has spent many years in Paris is the ea ! acity of Ambassador, instead of applying himself to rem the the old caulks of rivalry between France and England, has only employed his leisure in a new one of a species quite peculiar. Ile has only, while staying here, made such observations rs enabled him to raise this strange pretension—that the English have maintained over the French an immense superiority in playing the game of whist. Let nobody believe that we are at all exaggerating the singularity of this opinion. It was uttered in the circles of the Court ; and as an excess of urbanity has always prevented good company from contradicting it, it has become In his Lordship's mansion a sort of established idea. On his return into his own country, the Noble Lord was beset with it, even to his domestic fireside ; and wishing to verify, by a solemn proof, the pretension he bad maintained so long in the form of an axiom, be hit upon an expedient which deserves to be made known. Like a true Chevalier, he has recently sent to one of :he srloons at Paris, whine the rich idlers of all nations, who live in that capi tal, meet every evening, a challenge in due form, in which he defies the best players at whist to undertake a match of one hundred rub bers, to be played in twenty days, for £lOO the rubber, and £50,000 to the winners of the greatest number of games. If this challenge should be accepted, the combat will take place at Paris or London, at the pleasure of those who are challenged, and his Lord ship announces that he has already made choice of one of his coun trymen as a partner. It is generally thoLght that the gloves thrown with so much ar togance has been taken up in the arena into which it was thrown. Happily he who picked it up, and who believed himself called upon to avenge the national honour, has more boldness than wealth. It has been necessary for him to have recourse to a subscription to raise the stake required. There has been an assessment, and in a re* days 900,000 francs (5936,000) were obtained. But this is not enough, and beyond it the subscribers will not go. There is another disappointment 'also ; for the champion who thought himself so strong that he could measure himself with his Lordship over a green cloth, could not procure the support of the second, in whom he placed his confidence ; the latter, who occupies a place of would 4Lof take part in this joust for the benefit of another. We' re forcel therefore, it not to confess the inferiority of France, at least to admit the in ability we are under of fulfilling all the conditions of the combat. A DEFAULTER. On Sunday morning last, William Ray, the principal Police Officer at Eastbourne, in Kent, and an Assistant, arrived in London, and applied to the Police at Bow-street Office for assist ance to apprehend a person of the name of William Mockford, the Collector of the King's Taxes and Parochial Taxes at Eastbourne, who had absconded with public money to a considerable amount, leaving a wife and four children in great distress. As far as we have been able to ascertain the facts connected with this transac tion, it appears that Mr. Mockford has been for some • .. the Collector of the King's Taxes and the Parochial Taxes at East. bourne, and he w.:e formerly a Collector of the Customs. lie had been living at a rate beyond his means for some time, and to sup ply his extravagance he had applied the public money to his own use. On Saturday morning last some of the principal gentlemen connected with the parochial affairs of Eastbourne were informed that numbers of paupers had been waiting for some time for relief, but the acting overseer could not pay them because Mr. 111. who should have been on the spot to advance the money, was no where to be found. In a very short time the utmost anxiety prevailed amongst the parochial authorities and the town—people, on their dis covering that Mr. M. had absconded, and that he had carried off with him the money be had collected monthly, to the amount of three or four hundred pounds, for poor's rates. It was determined - to send a police6officer in pursuit of the fugitive; and on his arrival in London he fortunately applied to Salmon, one of the principal and most fortunate officers when in pursuit of a criminal,connected with the Bow-street establishment The constable related to Salmon the particulars of the case, and said that the gentlemen at Eastbourne were of opinion that Mockford intended to make the best of his way to the United States. Salmon asked the officer if Idockford had been traced from Eastbourne in any particular direction, and hr learned that a person residing in Eastbourne had driven Mockford in a gig to Battle. Salmon, ascertaining this fact, was of opinion that Mock ford had determined to proceed by some coach from Battle to London ; and he thought it was most likely he would come by a Hastings coach. Salmon instantly proceeded to the Golden Cross Inn. Charing.croas, and be ascertained thata person had arrived in London that evening. who had booked himself by the Hastings Mail at Battle on the preceding night, and had given the initial of his name M. This person was described to be a short and vary stout man ; but he was dressed in a white and brown smock frock. Salmon was satisfied that the person described war the man they were in pursuit of, and that he had disguised himself in a countryman's drew to evade pursuit. The officer also stated that he was of opinion it was the intention of Mockfurd to proceed to France instead of America, and be made an inquiry for the purpose of ascertaining if be had taken lodgings in London, or had gone off by some conveyance towards the sea coast. Salmon learned that a person who had come up by the Hastings Mail had breakfasted that morning with the coachman, and the descrip• ion of the per son coo vinced him that it could he no other than Mockfurd. He afterwards learned that the same person bad taken a place by the Dover coach, which had started that morning at half past ten o'clock, from Charing-cross, and he determined to take post chaise and follow bins as quick as possible, to take him before he should be able to quit the country by one of the packet boats. Salmon and the other two ot. beers. arrived in Dover on Suaday night, and they ascertained that a person answering Mockford's description had arrived at the Ship by the London coach that night ; and that after he had stepped, he bad gone to sleep at the Packet Boat-house, kept by Mr.Woncle. Salmon proceeded to the Packet house. and spoke to the servant, who, un hearing a description of Mr. Niockfurd, took the officers to the apartment where be was in bed and in a profound sleep. Sal mon entered the room first, and removed the clothes which con cealed the face of the man who was in bed ; and having called in the other two officers, be asked them it that was Mockford, and they instantly recognised him. Salmon, without waking him, removed the pieow, underneath which he found a pocket book, containing 42 sovereigns and between fifty and sixty pounds in notes, and two more. He then awoke Mr. Mockford, who was dreadfully alarmed, and told him that he was his prisoner. Mockford was ex ceedingly violent at first, and the officer was obliged to handcuff him. lie afterwards became more calm, and the officer re lieved him from the fetters, but watched him closely during the whole night On the following morning, Salmon knowing the great anxiety of the gentlemen at Easthour, s fur the detec tion ut tee pri-oner, instead of bringing him to Bow-street for eaamination, which is usual in suck cases, he dispatched hint with Rey and his assistant officer coastwise to Eastbourne, for ex amination before the Magistrates of that place. The prisoner has borne a meet unimpeachable character until the period of his pre sent default, and the circumstance above rearmed has created a coissidtrable sensation iu the county of Susses. The precise extent a his defalcations is not yet knows,. Salmon proceeded to the Custom-house, to in orm th Commissioners of the apprehension of Mockford, and was deserv•-elly complimented upon hfs skill, Inge null, and promptitude, in the affair. At eleven o'clock on Sun day morning, be heard of the priaunea's having absconded, and he travelled seventy miles and captured him by divest' O'clock the same' night.--Morterni raper. 11