Star. — London, England, 1830-10-14 00:00:00

_, '; `.; ''. ~~ ~, . ,~1 1 Tll MI4LAY AND SEIZURE OF THE BRIG CYPRUS. vivertlar the form convicts, named George Janes Davis, alias frualki. William Watts, alias Williams, Ale.ratuler Stevenson, alias Tel/ord, ind Jona Beveridge, alias Anderson, were again brought before W. BALLANTINE, Esq. the sitting Magistrate at the Thames Pollee-office, charged with being concerned in the seizure of the Colo nial Hrig Cypric:. between Hobart Town and Macquarrie Harbour, in the month August, 1029, after overpowering and wounding the mi. litary gnarl!. Mr. Wnolier attended on behalf of Davis, and Mr. Flower, of Fur nivars inn, fur the other prisoners. The depositions of Thomas Capon, Esq. the high constable of Ho bart Town. proving that the prisoners were convict sent out in the Cy prus, and the evidence of John Popjoy, one of the crew, that they sere concerned in the seizure of the Brig, and were all armed on the day of the mutiny, was read over by Mr. Fell, the Clerk, after which the prisoners were asked if they had any questions to put to Mr. Capon or Popjoy ? 1 he prisoners declined saying any thing, and Mr. Wooller and Mr. 1.11...• tr said they would reserve the defence of their clients until the sessions Mr. Curtis Eastmuir, second officer of the Charles Grant, East In elcimar,, James Sheath, the Steward, and Charles Harris, the Quarter master, were examined, and proved that on the 27th of February last the prisoners came alongside the ship at Whampoa, near Canton, with another man, who represented himself as Captain Weldon, master of the brig Edward, of which the prisoners said they formed part of the crew, and were wrecked on the coast. Huntly afterwards went to the Kellie Castle, in which ship he was brought home a prisoner, in conse quence of its being suspected by the authorities at Canton that he had been concerned in some acts of piracy, his statement being so much at variance with that made by Weldon, who had previously left Chine in the Charles Grant- Mr. Curtis Rastmir said that Weldon was shipped as Quarter-master, and Watts, Beverage, and Stephenson came home as Seamen ' and behaved very well on the voyage. The boat lying of the I homes Police-office, and which Popjoy had identified as the one be. longing to the Cyprus when she was seized, was the same in whisk Waldon and the others came alongside the ship at Canton. It was brought home in the Kellie Castle. In answer to questions from Mr. BALLANTINE, the witnesses stated that Watts, on more than one occasion, had worn women's stockings during the voyage, and had sold other articles of female wearing ap parel to the mikes, which it is suspected were a portion of the property belonging to the wife of Lieutenant Carew, the commanding officer, when the brig was seized. A soldier's shirt, sold by one of the prisoners to a sailor of the Charles Grant, was also produced. Mr. Capon said he could not identify the shirt, but Popjoy said he had very little doubt that it belonged to one of the military guard who were in the Cyprus when she was seized. The mutineers took every thing with them, and did not give a single article of wearing apparel to the females when they were put ashore on a desolate place. Mr. Curtis Eastmuir said, that Weldon went ashore at Margate, the Captain having no authority to detain him. He had a writing-desk with him when he came on board at Wharnpoa, and which was now in the possession of one of the petty officers of t h e ship. Mr. BALLANTINE ordered the desk to be produced,:when the pri soners were again brought up, as it might possibly be identified by Popjoy, and if there were any papers in it they might throw some light on the transaction. Popjoy said, that Dr. Williams, one of the passengers going out to Macquarrie Harbour, had a writing-desk similar to the one described, when the brig Cyprus was taken possession of by the convicts. Mr. BALLANTINE inquired if any tidings had been heard of Wel don, who, from his description, is suspected to be one of the convicts. named Swallow, sent out from London, and who acted as the ringleader of the mutineers ? Mr. Evans, the chief officer of Thames Police, said, that every ex ertion had been used to apprehend him, but without effect. A descrip tion of his person had been printed, and sent round to all the police offices and watchhouses in the metropolis. An individual had been brought up to that office by the New Police, who was suspected to be the man, but on examining his person for the marks described in the *. Hue and Cry," it was clear he was not the man, and was dis zharged. Mr. Capon said all the prisoners had committed offences in the co lony, after being sent from this country. for which they were sent to itlacquarrie Harbour, the usual place of transportation. He examined some papers found on Watts, which, he said, bad been in his (wit. mess's) possession previous to the prisoner being sent away in the Cyprus. All the evidence being gone through, Mr. Wools inquired in what manner the prisoners would be disposed of ? Mr. BALLANTINE said he should now commit the prisoners far trial at the next Anmiralty Sessions ; but, as he expected some additional evidence, they would be again brought up before the sessions commenced ; but their solicitors should receive notice of the day. The wages which was due to the prisoners for their set vices ;on board the Charles Grant, on the homeward-bound voyage, would be paid them at the East India-house, as be had made an application on their behalf, in order that they should not be without the means of employing Counsel at the trial. He understood they had no money to fee Counsel, and he thought it but right that they should be furnished with the means of defending themselves. The prisoners expressed their thanks to the worthy Magistrate for his kindness, and said, that in consequence of Mr. Ballantine's interference they had already been paid the whole of the money. The witnesses were then bound over in the usual form to prosecute, and the prisoners were removed in the van to Clerkenwell Prison. On their departure an immense crowd had assembled in the streets. to catch s glimpse of the four men whose lawless and daring exploit was perhaps never equalled. POLICE REPORTS. MASSION-HOUSE.—PolicemanGeorge Norman, F, No. 100, and his father, we charged before the Loan MAYOR, under the following An elderly woman named Becket, who supports herself by mending old• clothes, stated that she had mended three costs for the old. Norman, and that being about to remove to the West end of the town, she sent word to him to pay for, and take away his coats. He accordingly did call, but be brought his son the policeman with him ; and having asked to look at the work, the demand for which was de. dd. be handed the coats over to his son, who put them across his arm, and made towards the door. The complainant did not relish this way of settling, and re solved to oppose even a policeman. She said that she could not let the goods go out of her custody, until the bill, which was a serious one to her, should be liquidated. The policeman immediately began to bounce, saying that nobody should stand in his way ; that he was a policanan,and would take the coats with him. The complainant then p lac ed her back against the door, but father and son forcibly removed her, and off they ran, without paying a farthing. Andrews, the landlord of the last witness, said, that having heard Mrs. Becket cry out for assistance to stop the two prisoners in their race down stairs, he stood on the landing place. The old prisoner instantly seised him by the throat, while the son passed with the property. Witness's w ire, upon hearing the row put her back against the hall door, but the father and son pulled her away by violence, and in the struggle tore the sleeve of her gown. The younger prisoner repeatedly during the conflict cried out that he was a new policeman, and nobody should oppose him with impunity. It was thought, however, that al though he was a policeman, he had no right to have his father 's clothes mended for nothing. George Norman assured the Lord Mayor, that if the costs had been properly mended, and at a reasonable rate (about sixpence each), Mrs. Becket should have been forthwith put in possession of the amount of her bill, but that had not been the case. The work was bad, and a very great overcharge had taken place, and he gave up the coats to his father on the spot ; he was, therefore, not liable. The 11111) MAYOR—You have not yet stated why you ran away with the coats, or why you assaulted this poor woman. The Policeman—They all molested me, and I could not get out of the house without removing them. My father was willing to pay any moderate charge, but the complainant', charge was enormous. The Lord MaToa—What, eighteen-pence for mending three coats ! Well, I suppose you are prepared now with the amount of the bill and the expenses, which amount to three shillings more ? The old man said he had not a shilling, but that if he was obliged to pa t he sum he would pay it by instalments. The Lord Mavot ordered both to find bail. Bow-St azgr.—A FEROCIOI73 Doo.—Yesterday mornings poor man named Lecount, whose leg had been moat shockingly lacerated by a ferocious dog belonging to a baker, named Knox, residing in Blaci moor-street, appeared before Mr. Minshull, the sitting magistrate, to seek redress for the injury he had sustained. Lemont stated, that as he was passing along Knightsbridge-road a few days ago, he observed, belonging to Mr. Knox, standing near the kerb.stone, a truck, under which a large dog was harnessed for the pur pose of assisting in drawing it. The animal was without any muzzle, and, on piing the truck, seized him (complainant) by the knee, and lacerated his leg in a most dreadful manner. The complainant here prodiced the certificate of the house surgeon of Saint George's Hospital, which stated the injury which the poor man had received was consi derable. The mat who bad been in charge of the truck at the time assured the Magistrate that the dog was as quiet and inoffensive an animal u could be, and expressed it as his opinion that the complainant must have done something to excite the dog's temper, or be never would hive acted as described. The complainant protested that he had given the animal no cause beyond that of passing along the pavement. Alr. birwastut.r. said that such a dog was most unfit to be in the streets, and , he should therefore have him pined in confinement, until it should be seen whether hewn in a rabid state oc not. The defesVisti - tVman — enid — iitii the - dog did not belong to his master, end that it was neither a goad sees door er as animaL Mr. Illrostut.r., however. ex his determination to bare that fact established by other proof, and ordered the dog to be sent for. The defendant then accordingly left the Office, for the purpose, as he said, of bringing the dog, but the instant he got outside the Office, he set the Magatrates' authority at defiance. Mr. HALLS, on hearing this, expressed his regret that a Magistrate could not interfere in the matter. This the defendant seemed to know; and the only course, therefore, left the complainant was, to have an ac tion brought against the owner of the dog. The complainant said he was a poor man, end law was not to be had without money. Mr. Hacks admitted that, but thought that if the acts were laid be fore a respectable attorney, he would obtain the necessary compensation for the injury. The complainant then retired. 111•11.10110U0E.STRIZT..—FALSZ CHARGE.-Mr. Ws. Mood,, the proprietor of the Windsor stage, attended yesterday for a final hear ing Ina case of importance, which had been adjourned. The inform don had been laid by the informer Johnson, charging the Defendant with carrying eleven outside passengers and luggage, contrary to the Stage coach Act. John Thomas, the informer's witness, stated that on the 22d of Sep tember he saw the Defendant's coach at Brentfard, and there were eleven outsides, that being one more than is usually allowed by the Act. Another witness gave the same version of the affair. In defence, Mr. Moody said there were only 10 outsides, besides a child in arms, which, according to the Statute, was not counted. Two Gentlemen, named Beaugard and Dyson, who travelled by that coach on the day In question, contradicted the witnesses for the informer fa foto. -- lir:Moody on the former occasion produced the way-bill, which bad 11 outsides on it. Mr.ftYEli inquired how it was that the way-bill did not correspond with his defence ? Mr. Moody explained. The case was simply this :—A female had been booked for the outside, but on their arrival at Piccadilly they dis covered that they had a fare too many, and there being only two persons inside, the female was conveyed to the place of destination inside at the outside price, which had been paid when her place was booked. Mr. Drs. inquired whether any one could be produced who would corroborate that? The defendant, on looking over the way bill, replied in the affirmative, and he then mentioned the name of a lady residing at Datchet. Mr. DYER observed that he was very well acquainted with the lady, I and the case was adjourned. On her attendance yesterday, Mr. DYER asked her if she wonld be so kind se to give him all the information in her power The lady stated that she was an inside on the day in Ties tion and she remembered perfectly well a female was put inside at Piceadilll e f e r a o: se the roof of the coach. She remembered it more= cularly, the female remarked " What a shams it was she s be shut up Inside on such a fine day." The Worthy Magistrate was about to thank her for the trouble she had taken and the inconvenience she had been put to, when The Lady begged he would not think of such a thing, and observed, " I have only done an act of justice, and my trouble or inconvenience is a secondary consideration compared to that." Mr. Dm said the evidence of the lady having been obtained, he must now dismiss the information, and the Worthy Magistrate having cordially shook hands with the lady, she departed for her country house. The chagrin of the informer was great, sad he paid all the costs with anything but satisfaction. Two lads, well known to the police, were, at the Evening Sittings, brought before F. A. ROE, Esq. charged with attempting to pick a gentleman's pocket in Leicester-square. Inspector Joshua Clements produced tour silk handkerchief* that had been found on them, and they were committed to the House of Cor rection for three months. LAMBETH-STREET.—Yesterday, an inhabitant of Limehouse, named Clark, was charged with being drunk and disorderly the pre. ceding evening, along with three other persons. When asked by the magistrate what he had to say, he declared that the policemen had be haved most brutally, and had struck him with their staves in such a manner, that, had he not been rescued by his three friends, he should probably have been killed. He also declared be had given the police no provocation. To disprove this, Police Constable 118 EC said he was on duty in Lime. house, and between 1 and 2 o'clock, the prisoner Clark, accompanied by three other persons, were coming along singing and making a great disturbance, and when requested civilly to desist, not content with using ill language, they seised hold of him, and pulled the cape of his coat over his eyes. He was then compelled to call for assistance, or they would have very much ill-trcated him, and they were taken to the sta tion-house. Inspector Dutton said, the prisoner and his three companions were in a state of intoxication, but, as he knew them to be respectable persons, he did not wish to detain them, had they not made a charge against the policemen, which he wished to have investigated before a magistrate. Messrs. WALKER and WYATT said they considered the police had acted very properly, except in the using their staves so much ; and as the prisoner had suffered a slight punishment in being locked up al l night, they should discharge him. THAXZMPOLICI—Yesterday Capt. dams Smith, muter of the brig Eagle, now lying in St. Katharine's Dock. recently arrived from Batavia and Sincapore, was brought before Mr. BALLANTINE, the sitting magistrate, charged with assaulting Wm. lililboum, the second mate. There was also a second warrant granted against him, for as saulting Wm. Napier, a seaman of the resat!, and eight others of the crew, who attended to prefer charges against the defendant, for alleged ill-treatment during the voyage. Capt. Smith is the individual who a few years since was tried at the Admiralty Sessions on a charge of piracy, but acquitted, owing to his having pleaded that he was compelled to join the pirates, and remain with them to save his own life. Milbourn first preferred his complaint, and stated that he went out mif chief mate, but was afterwards reduced to second mate. On the 6th o, March he was standing at the helm, when the Captain called out " Mind your helm !" He replied, " Hoy-ho, Sir, all's right." Soon afterwards the vessel went out of her course about a quarter of a point: when the Captain again called out, and he made the same reply. Di reedy afterwards the Captain came on deck in a great passion, and ae cused him of repeatedly letting the ship go out of its course. Witnet in reply said, " If you'll say that, you will swear my life away." The defendant immediately sprung forward, struck him several times, tore his shirt, and kicked him forward with great violence. Mr. Bar.Lawriwit asked the complainant bow he came to let the ship out of its course ? It was a very lubberly act. The witness said, although the weather was calm, It was quite un. avoidable. It was always ranuked in the ship by the crew that he steered very steady. He was not aware of the offence he had committed to be broke to the rank of second mate, but Captain Smith was a very passionate man, and continually finding fault. Mr. BALLANTINE, without calling on the defendant fora reply, said the complainant had behaved with great linoleum to Captain Smith, in telling him that he (the defendant) would swear his life away. It was an observation which ought not to be addressed by any sailor to his commander, and he should dismiss the charge, leaving the complainant to his remedy at the Sessions. William Napier the► preferred his complaint, and stated that on the 17th November, 1829, the Captain found fault with him about some work he was doing at the time. He was ordered to go forward for a snubbing brush to scrub the ship's side, and was returning, when the defendant, without any provocation, struck him a severe blow on the I nose, which caused it to bleed profusely ; he followed up this attack by other blows with his clenched Bst, which blackened one of his eyes. He then started him with a rope's_end, and gave him several cuts with it. Smith said, his recollection of this affair was not very per but he punished Napier with a rope, with which he only gave him a few stripes, for having, with sevetal others, stolen a loaf of bread, and drunks gallon of beer out of a cask ; he did not strike him with his fist at all. The complainant said he was not concerned in drinking the beer, nor did he steal the bread. The captain repeatedly struck him with his fist before he beat him with the rope. It was not the only occasion he had been ill-used during the voyage. Mr. BAILLANTIMIE said he was rather surprised that Captain Smyth should have got into another scrape, after the experience he had met with. it was rather too summary a mods of discipline which he had adopted, even supposing the defence set up was correct; but the Ad miralty Sessions were close at hand, and he should not bold the de. Amount to ball, as the complainant could go!before the Grand Jury, and indict him if he thought proper. Another sailor pressed forward to make a complaint, and the officers said there were several others outside the office, waiting to charge the defendant with &malting them. Mr. BALLAItTIWE said, he should not interfere, as all he could do, if the case were clearly made out, would be to hold Captain Smith to bail; and as the Admiralty Sessions would be held on the 23th instant, the sailors could attend, and indict the defendant, if they thought pro per. Their complaints would not be at all prejudiced by anything which had passed in that office. Captain Smith bowed to the Magistrate, and withdrew. Wosisntr.srazzw---Yesterday, Grove Andrews was charged with a felony at the house of Mr. Palmer, at filtacklewell. The prisoner told the servant that he had come from Mr. Palmer's bootmaker, in Sitorediteb, for two pair of boots which required some alteration ' and that be bad been ordered also te ask foe two pair belonging to another gentleman, Mr. Palmer's brother, for the same purpose. The ser vant gave him three pair of boots, with which he went off. The value of the boots was stated to be about 2L 10s. or $l. He was_committed for trial. Towit.Mal.i..—.Jokts Hamm, carter to Mews. Hearne and Mack, Peckham-Rye, was summoned under the Turnpike Act, 9d Ow. IV. 'tap. 195, sec. 41, foe endeavouring to force his carts though New. Ington-gate, without paying the toll ; penalty, il.—Edmund Wells, gate-keeper, described the awe as committed on the sth. On app-- plying to the defendant for the toll of two leaded cons, he said be had passed the Camberwell...la, but could not produce the ticket ; be barna exessolvoly abusive, and attempted to force hi■ way.—gia Joss Finals* convicted the defendant in the mitigated penalty of 50s. and coats. Usiou-ilau..—Yestertlay, a MA named John Still was brought before Mr. CHAMBERS, charged with stealing a hone, the property of Mr. Bennett, of Seven Oaks, Kent. The complainant stated that the horse in question wu turned into one of his fields on the afternoon of the 7th inst. and on the following morn- 1 ing, at an early hour, it was missed. A young man named Fenleller stated, that on the morning of the Bth ', inst. he met the prisoner at the Haymarket, Westminster ; he was lead ing the horse in question, and offering it for sale. Witness inquired the price, upon which the prisoner told him that the animal belonged to his' mistress, that she was in distress, and that she desired him to ask 101 for it. The witness ultimately gave him 51. for the hone, and shortly , after the bargain wu struck between them, witness received information ' that it was stolen. 1 --- Tl;coe stable who apprehended the prisoner stated that he found him at a public-house in Gravel-lane, enjoying himself in the company of a female. They were both nearly drunk, and in his =sion was found some portion of the purchase money for the The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was fully committed. HATTON HARDININFORMZIOII FLoonzw.—Yestezday the in former, Byers, was in attendance with a large train of his emissaries. Mrs. Sarah Ann Mountain, of the Saracen's Head Inn, Snow-hill, coach proprietrix, appeared by her solicitor, Mr. Sbearman, to answer the first information called. Robert Staffoid, a port little strippling, swore, that on the 98th of September, at seven o'clock, he saw the Express Coach, from Liver pool to London, having the name of Sarah Ann Mountain painted on it. At Islington toll bar he saw that there were eleven papa out side, besides luggage, which is one more mangerluggage, is allowed by law. . . . . Crom.examined by Mr. Shearman—He could not say whether the passengers were males or females, or whether Mete were both males and females on the outside ? Mr. Sharman said, that he bads brief reply to make to the state ment of Mr. Stafford, by producing three or four witnesses to prove that he had sworn to what was utterly false. John Shqrman jun. son of the above-named solicitor, swore, that on the day libelled, he came passenger on the mach from Stowe; on which there were in the back dickey two females and the guard, on the back seat of the coach were witness and another gentleman, and on the front ware four pauengers. Byers, with his usual effrontery, began to cross-question this witness, I to elicit, if possible, if there had at any time been a greater number of passengers on the coach farther down the road. The witness replied in the negative. Byers was proceeding to extend his interrogations; but Mr. Rogers told Byers that he must confine himself to the information; for he had only to show what was the number at Islington bar. Walton, the guard of the coach, corroborated the evidence of Mr. Shearman. The Magistrate declined hearing more witnesses, and dismissed the complaint. Mr. Shearman said that several of the witnesses bad been detained at ' considerable expense—the guard had been thrown out of employment for five days ; and be, Mr. 8. begged to apply to the Magistrates to be allowed the expenses of the witnesses, seeing that it was so distinctly proved that the complaint was without foun da tion in truth. Mr. Bonzes said that no such expenses had ever been allowed before. Mr. Shearman submitted that informers were always allowed their expenses in cases of conviction. Mr. Ronnie declined granting the application, on the ground that in formers were only allowed the expenses of fees paid in the office. Another defendant begged that the information against him might be deferred, as he could not get his witnesses in town. He also produced another summons from Worship-street, for precisely the same offence. Byers said, it was not the same offence; because the one summons was for having two passengers, which would subject the defendant to 201. penalty, and the other was one passenger, which was only a pe. salty of 31. Mr. Roaxas Said that it was evidently arising out of the same trans. action, and had thus been varied with a view to make sure of a convic tion ; and he ordered both summonses to be heard at Worship-street. Byers seemed miserably disappointed at the arrangement when he retired. .1%!. • (?. INQUEST AT THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION, IN CULDBATH FIELDS. lAA evening an Inquest was held in Coldbath-flelds Prison, before William Baker, Esq. and a respectable Jury, on the body of a Getman named Smith. _ _ The deceased had been committed from Lambeth-street Police-Ace ea a charge of having stolen goods in his possession, and was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and hard labour. At the period of his commitment he was labouring under an asthma, and was about 00 years of age. Mr. Wakefield, the acting surgeon to the prison, stated that he bad seen the deceased on the day after his commitment, on the 92d of Sep. tember. He had him removed to the old man's yard, thinking him too old and feeble le he placed es the treadmill. The deceased subseguendy complained of indispasidon, and was removed into the infirmary of the prison es Monday last, and died on the following day. His death was see sleeted by an effusion of water on the chest. The deceased bed weary Maths paid to him, with regard to medicine, diet, As. and never ehespiahedi of any ill trea tment. In reply to the gamines of a Juror e witness said that the deceased had not been put on the treadmill, as he was too old. It was the custom of all prisoners when committed to hard labour to be examined by him, and his judgment was generally regulated as to their fitness of the labour of the wheel by the age or health of the individual. The deceased was only employed in picking oakum. TW Jury having nquired as to the eleepthg.place of the deceased, and whether it was in a damp or dry situation, Mr. Chesterton, the governor, begged the favour of the Jurors' per. sonal inspection. The Coroner and Jurors accordingly went into the various wards, which the deceased had been removed to, and from their admirable cleanliness and ventilation, expressed themselves perfectly satisfied that not the slightest suspicion attached that his death could have been acce lerated by either dampness or want of due accommodation. The Coroner was most minute in his investigation of the treavnent of the demand, and the statements of the Governor and witnesses were so perfectly satisfitctory, that the immediate verdict of 1 * Natural Death" was returned. APP•IITION SEEN BY AN EXCISEMAN.--I once heard a sensible and intelligent friend, in company, express himself convinced of the truth of a wonderful story, told him by an intelligent and bold man, about an apparition. The scent lay in an ancient await on the coast of Maven, or the .?ale of !dull, when the ghost-seer chanced to be resident. He was given to understand by the family, when betaking himself to rest, that the chamber in which be slept was occasionelly die. quieted by supernatural appearances. Being, at that time, no believer in such stories, he attended little to this hint until the witching hour of night, when he was awakened from a dead sleep, by the pressure of a human hand on his body. He looked up at the figure of a tall High. lender, in the antique and picturesque dress of his country, only that his brows were bound by a bloody bandage. Struck with sodden and ex treme fear, he was willing to have sprung from the bed ; but the spectre stood before him in the bright moonlight, he ens arm extended, so as to master him if he attended to rise; the other held up in a warning sad grave posture, as menacing the Lowlander, if be should attempt to quit his recumbent attitude. Thus be lay in mortal agony for more than an hour, after which it pleased the spectre of ancient days to leave him to a more sound repose. So singular a story had on Its aide the usual number of votes from the company, till, upon cross-examination, it was explained that the princi pal person concerned was an exciseman; a ft er which a eclaircissemeni . the same explanation struck all present, via. that the Highlanders of the mansion had chosen to detain the exciseman by the apparition of an ancient heroic ghost, in order to disguise from his vigilance the removal of certain modern enough spirits. which his duty might have called upon him to seise. Here a single circumstance explained the whole ghost story.—Sir Walter &Ws Family Library. No. XVI. %%e last week mentioned the horrible case of a child hay iaig had its throat cut by its father, named Searle, at Thorn Falcon, near Taunton. The wretched man has Since undergone a private ex. amination before the Magistrates, in gaol ; when it appeared, from the nature of his rephes, that at the time of his committing the dreadful deed, be was labouring under inranlty.—Bristol Mercury. MIL•TICHOLT SUICIDE.—It ie our painful duty this week to detail the particulars of a melancholy act of self destruction in the family of Mr. Dobbs, the respected comedian, of this town, (BirminghaM.) It appears, from what transpired at the Coroner's Inquest, that the eldest Miss Dobbs had, for months put, evinced a passionate predilection for the Stage ; and that her father, know. ing her utter inability ever to rise to any eminence in the jrrofession, firmly, though temperately, opposed her views. So fascinated and bent was the unfortunate young lady upon following her inclination, that she devoted her almost exclusive emotion to its promotion, to the entire neglect of those domestic duties necessarily imposed upon her as the eldest female in her father's family. Yesterday morning week, during breakfast, this troika was so manifest, that Mr. Dobbs, in the presence of his father, remonstrated with his daughter upon bee conduct, and a few words ensued. Nothing man, however, occurred daring the day, except that Mies Dobbs somewhat downcast and sullen. In the evening she called at s r:b l o t : of Mr. White, the druggist, in Beistol-street, and purchased a penny. worth of arsenic, which she said was wanted to destroy rats. db. White, after warning her as to the nature of the properties of the poison, sold it to her. On her return home she mixed the areettle di n the gruel she took for supper, and in about an boor afterwards imams became visible to the family. Medical aid was immediately 'bullied, bat notwithstanding every abet that human skill could suggest, the unfortunate young woman lingered until Sunday. when she died. A n inquest was held on Monday, when the jury returned a verdict of tem. porary insanity.—Theiniesthess Joys nal. SCINTILLA. • TRW WORDS ON lISIZS. " Asa, it. W. win; la. was ; L, minas ; Fa. atia, for arms ; Aix. 611111 ; LT. PORT. IMO; IT. ark.. Qu. from GOTR. auto, ON. oar, an ear." Wairrsa's English Dislionary. Ammolus had an ass that was so fond of poetry, that he pmferred it even to food, PROVIES, Milo. 242. Mearea first brought the eating of asses flesh into vogue, PLINY, b. 8, c. 48. Cardinal du Prat was also a great lover of asses flesh, bletaoser c. 26, p, 166. Sees fine passage in DUQALD STEWART'S Phi/00001400/ Essays, p. 319, on the ass being an object eminently picturesque. The Maltese asses are remarkable for strength and beauty : no less a sum than 361. has been paid for one. See BOISCIELIN'S History Asses about a great home, emblematical of those within. So nary the learned Da. Prows in his Anasystitasa, p. 466. PLUTARCH informs us (Lartaxostres traustadow, a. 6, p. 142, ed. 1826,) that when the army of Artar.erzes, with which he had in. vaded the Caduaii, was in citrons want of providoes, an ms's head could hardly be bought for 60, drachms. See also 2. tiougs, e. 6, v. 26. LUCIAN (N. 2, p. 140 of Tooirs Tnntalafiors,) tells us, that the roes-laurel, a species of wild laurel, is so pernicious to asses, that by only tasting it they die on the spot. Respecting the remarkable story told of Balsam's am, (Numbers, e. See Bocnaae's Moron, v. 1, b. 2, c. 14, p. 160, and Ds. Jew/lies celebrated Dissertations ; and for some curious observatiam on Sampson's astonishing exploit with the jaw-bone of an ass, the reader isreferred to BOCHART,II. 1. b. 2. c. 16. p. 171, and toJaconßaeatr Observation Oft,Pangtfol Scripture. The Para, or wild ass so beautifully described bprob, 39, v. 6,8, is probably the onager of the ancient writers, see FsitrY, Nat. Hist. b. 8, 689. Appian, Plutarch, Diodoras Siculus, and Tacitus, have accused the Jews of worshipping the ass. Josephus labours hard to prove this a ca. lumny. Tanaquil Faber ss that this accusation proceeded from the temple in Egypt being call ed onion, as if this name came from lassos, an ass; whetru the temple onion, at Hellpolh, was named from osier, the High Priest, who built it in the reign of Ptolemy Philomela and Others have asserted that the Greeks, meaning to say that 6 (2 :Ve y :yews adored homers, summon, might in abbreviation write I amen ; from whence the enemies of the Jews concluded that they wor. shipped elms, an ass ! Bochart sar gys that iel piso in the Egyptian lan. game signi fi es an ass, and that the ' ' continually hearing the Jews pronounce Pi..lshowah, or Pi.Jee, ved'thst they appealed to their god, and thence inferred that they worshipped an ass. All which explications:are no less ingenious than unsatisfactory. Then is a very interesting and philosophical romance, by Apu. liens, to which this animal has given a title r from its greatpopu larity it has been called the Gorman Ass. There is a most exal. , t and spirited translation of it, enriched with copious explanatory and cvi. Real notes by Mr. Thomas Taylor, the celebrated translator of Plato ' and Aristotle. John Price, a learned English Catholic, of the 17th I century, wrote a commentary upon Apulieus, Bvo. 1660, the notes of which are so long, that, whereas the text contains only 262 pages, they take up 734 pages, and are printed in a smaller type. than that et the text. This romance has been most unaccountably pressed into the service of christianity by Bishop Warburton, in his strange gallimaufry on the Divine Legation of Mores. Never has the eccentricity of the human mind been so clearly di.. played as in the feas4 which were formerly celebrated in honour of this animal--the Feria itrinaria. The gross absurdities practised, under the pretence of devotion, would surpass belief, were there not such in controvertible evidence to substantiate all the facts. The Rev. Mr. Crowe wrote an ode to an ass; Mr. Coleridge has also favored us with lines to a young ass ; and among the papers of the ts. mous Toland, was found a psalm before sermon in praise of sanity. The Rev. Mr. James Murray, of Newcastle, published a volum e of Serwsosss So Asses, replete with sarcastic irony and forcible resealing. J. J. W. Upon an equal space where one man subsists in Iceland, three tree subsists in Norway, 14 in Sweden, 36 in Turkey, Li in Po. land, 63 in Spain, 119 in Ireland, 114 in Switzerland, 127 in Germany. 152 in England, 153 in France, 172 in Italy, 192 in Naples, 224 In Holland, and 1,193 inMalta! The celebrated Ninon de l'Enclos is stated to have had, at the age of 70, lovers who adored her: at that age she captivated the heart of a Swedish Baron, and 80 made a cooquest of the Abbe Gedvyw, a young Jesuit. The following story, which Burton quotes from &lien, is obviously the origin of one of our most popular nursery tales:—" Ro dophe was the fairest lady, in her days, in all Egypt ; she went to wash her, and by chance (her maids*, mean while, looking but carelessly to her clothes) an eagle stole away one of her shoes, and laid it i n tueticus, the King of Egypt's lap, at Memphis: he wondered at the ea. ceiling of the shoe and pretty foot, but more motile foams, at the manner of the bringing of it ; and caused, forthwith proclamation to be made that she that owned that shoe should come prate* to his Court ; the virgin came, and was forthwith married to the may qf Melancholy, voL Li. p. 404. The following is a history of the Statue of Queen Eliza beth, which was sold at St. Dunstan's Church for 161. 10s.--Geoffroy of Monmouth, a monkish historian, tells us Led was a British King, brother of Caseivelaua, whom Julius Cow conquered. Be repaired the walls of Trinoventum, and changed the name of the city to Caer Led, or Led's-town, which was in presses of time corruptaly called London. The same fabulous author says.—" Bing Lud, about the year of Canvas 6686,, built the western gate of the c ity, an d called it laud's-put. or Ludgate." This, however, (says Smith,) was, in the year 1686, in so ruinous a state, that a new one was erected with the statue of Queen Elizabeth on the west front, and Led, with his two sons, oa the east. When the gates of the city were taken down, the late Sir Francis Gosling obtained these statues from the city, with an intention to set them up at the cast end Of St. Dunstan's Unuels, in Fleet -street, where the said statue of Queen Elizabeth now stands; but there being no place at that end of the church, where the ether three figures could be conveniently placed, the Xing and his some were deposited in the lane-house. The Muscat wine of Montefias-cone is called Est Est, from the following circumstance:—John Deloateris, a German, was so fond of good wine, that when he travelled he always sent his valet forward a post in advance, with these instructions :—" That he should taste the wine at every place where he stopped, and write under the bush the word ' Est,' if it w a s t o l era bl e , an d 4 iit, Est,' if it was eery good; but where he found it indifferent, he should leave the bush in statu quo." The bush is a bunch of evergreens , which is huag upover the entrance to a vineyard, or a house, to show that wine is there sold. and gave rise to th e martian " Good wine needs no bush," as it was supposed judges would soon find where it was to be had good, afterence tasting, without a bush to remind them. Defoucria's valet arrived at blonteilaucone ' and approved so much of the wine th a t h e wrote u p, as agreed, " Est, Est." His master soon followed, and gut dead drunk. to his entire satisfaction; but, repeating the experiment too often, be drunk himself dead: and his valet, a bit of a wag, wrote for him the following epitaph :.. Prover nitnium " Eat Est," Dominus mews mortuus est. Such is the turbid state of the waters of the Ganes in the rainy season that there is calculated to paw down into the Bay of Bengal at that time, In every two day s , a mw of earth equal in siseand wed tto the great pyramid of Egyp t . UNISHMENT OF THEFT.--I remember an officer who died on shore from plague had with hi m a h un d re d ru bl es i n • b ag; this hls servant stole; but he, too, caught the infection, and followed his master; and after him seven men in succession, who purloined the hundred rubles from one another, all fell victims to the disease ; and as it was thought that some fatality attended the treasure, it was at last thrown into the sea I—Aferander's Travels to the Fart. In a book called " Levamen Infirmi," written in 1700, the usual fees to physicians and surgeons at that time arc thus stated: —" Toe graduate In physic, his due is about 101. though he commonly expects or demands 20s. Those that are only licensed physicians, thei doe is no more than 6s. Bd. though they commonly demand 10s. rk surgeon's fee is ltd. a mile, be his journey far or near; ten groats L. , set a bone broke nr out of joint; and for letting of blood, Is.; the cu•- ting-off or amputation of any limb is 51. but here is no settled price t:' the cure." BIRTHS. The 12th Lust. the lady of S. B. Worms, Esq. at Habover.termee, Regent's- park, of a son—The bth inst. at Portsmouth, the lady of Capt. F. Wbinvates, of the Royal Rngineert., of a daughter. MARRIED. The 12th inst. at Henlow, Bedfordshire, W. J. Goodeve, of Clifton, Esq. to Lady Frances Jetnima Erskine, eldest daughter of the late, and sister to the present Earl of Mar. —At Chichester. on the 12th inst. the Rev. C. Greene, vicar of Hampnett, to Elisa, eldest daughter of W. Weiselin, Esq. of Northgate, Hants, in that city. DIED. The 9th inst. at Rateliffe.aors, Helen, youngest ter of Mr. le C. &Boon ' turn, in the 21st y ear o f h er age . y, at Harshen'. Suffolk, in the •allt year of his age, U. 0. evreilksig. Req. dam lii of the late Rev. H. aeckfts, rector of that parish..-21be 7th In at Adt km, Meier Okdoloneo, of the Illth Light lataatry..—Tb• bar. ld Ma at at MarylaaAlaki, &ratted, N. Laby. lea 74 """ Tate 1101 . at Cheohollt, &MN WM of Mr. A. IR*, it stew. aged 14 Sib bet. at Ilovilliftilt*. aunty, Mlle, the wife of W. Cards, litsq. mixes Lownow t Piloted and rubllsbnd by Joan MAIM, .0.00 IT °mot, No. 1, Pickett-Ow, Tan& pm