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MADE 711 TN, BRAZILS: (CIRCULAR.) ISOM Tint PORTUGUrsIi AMBASSADOR TO THE J GovIRNOR CY THE ISLAND 01' ST. CATHARINE. Agreeable to the letter which I had the honour of you, under date of the 4th January, of the year a nd in which I explained at large to your I nc y the motives which induced me to sanction s ending out of British merchantmen to the Island st. Catharine, provided that their cargoes consist articles hitherto received into the custom-houses of I have now to request that you will be to order that the ship - should be ad into the custom-house of that island, the Cap. o r master of which, (who is the beater of this let. r) you will permit to unload and sell his cargo, and directions that no more duties shall be required iher, than were paid in Portugal for the same arti tits ; and also that those duties should not be deman. until he has sold and dispatched his cargo, in particular conforming to the practice of the cus. l ouse at Lisbon. A i d as it may possibly happen that your Excellency ry o ot yet find yourself authorised to consent to the of such cargoes, I earnestly request you, that at e vents you will be pleased to allow that they should b o ded and properly warehoused, and that you will . t h a t the ships should moor in that port, waiting w i t h their crews, without molestation, until your I cy shall receive the instructions and orders of Royal Highness the Prince Regent, on this head. y ou r Excellency will observe, that the bearer of this , o ught also to present you with the manifest of ru m confirmed by me, and the licence of the q t isy Council ; to fulfil the conditions of which Excellency will be pleased to order the officers customs to deliver to the bearer a certificate of the - discharge of the articles specified in such ma Conditions agreed to by the merchants, for the ad (pmvisionally until his Royal Highness's re are known) into the port of the Island of St. of all such goods as were heretofore impor -4 into Portugal : I. Thal all merchants wishing to make adventures to the Bra abet waiting for the regulations of his Royal Highness, j id caged to take a licence from the Privy Council, which F at est the port that will be agreed on by his Excellency mpg and me, and to which alone they must give bond I. That every Master and every Shipper will give the usual this custom-house, for the due delivery at the custom of the said port. Besides, every Master and Shipper will bind themselves to ' castors-house of the said port the same duties that were ' A Portugal upon every such article, or in lieu thereof, such NM hive been already established by his Royal Highness the Mee Regent Acceding to your offer, and to ascertain that no contraband tat neaported thither, the manifest of the said cargo sworn, inthmticated as usual at this custom-house, vein be sig ned nit Agent and Consul General, Mr. John Charles Lucena, and !SI Oa these conditions, which contain all that fair trade can 5 ix at present, I will most willingly provide every Captain to inter of trine to the Governor of said port, informing him toitlhave done, and requesting him earnestly to require int flown:nom from the Rio tie Janeiro, in case his Royal tisalreadyarrived; and should his Royal Highness be *id, requesting him besides not to enforce the existing bat to sugendeban until he receives the instructions re ei, Idiot moot be long in coming, and in the meaewhale tt molest, bet permit the said ships to wait peaceably for the , tatiers ;wins he should be authorised by his former instrue mto admit the miry of such goods, on paying the same duties alto allow the Captains to invest their proceeds the Foam tithe Country, in which case I will ardently re• ant the Gdoesorto facilitatd this trade. P. S. land** try, that upon your application with the licence 'the Noy Coantal,llm. &c. &c. the manifest will be signed by missy lenw to the Governors will be delivered immediately, hoot the last apiece to any of the concerned. o his Excellency D. Luiz Mauricio da Sitsein, or to whomsoever is at present Governor of the Island of St. entwine, Brazil N. B. 1 request their Excellencies the Viceroy and Governor of t different ports of Brasil which this ship miy enter in distress, they will cause it be accompanied by a guards costa to the dtheidandof St. Catharine, in order to avoid any unjust suspi !against the Captain, of illicit commerce. 'lt hit Royal Highnvss's Envoy at London. LAW mTELLIGENCE. —TV COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS, JAN.I4. "This day the Right Hon. Sir WILLIANt SCOTT pro -1 to the adjudication of the following cases : I and Siegmund, master.—This was a vessel under argh colours, from Arch.mgcl to Memel. Fifteen sixteenths ship were claimed as Hamburgh property, one 16th as Da and the cargo documented as Prussian. The question was, her a Harnburfh ship could trade to Memel ?—The 15-16ths restored, and the remaining 16th, together with the cargo amused to the Crown. kage Elias , Dcuidelot master.—This was an American vessel its with sugar and coffee, bound from America to Bourdeaux. Feared that a warning had been given by a British cruiser, ley teed there, as all the French ports were under strict The Court directed further enquiry. -Acker, BIM master.—This w as a Danish vessel, laden 116 , from Barcelona to Tonningen. The question was, !ntite farther proof was sufficient to prove it Danish pro ! Nit was, the property would be condemned to the Crown, wilt to the captors. The Court held it to be sufficient, , celesmied the property to th e C row n ; b ut a ll owe d th e cap ' deir zpences . ‘ ar n aB „ . _ . 1 Jansen master.—This was a question of salvage, the 'Mt beet re-captured from the French.—Ship restored malt. Sra. Masons master.—This was also a question The ship and cargo, consisting of wine, was esti at 23 )000L and afterwards at 15,000. but it sold for only Under these circumstances (the chip ~ 1 1t1 cargo inving been 110 c4 to the Crown) the Court allowed 1401)1. as a re mune to the salvors, being 35 in numb.. r. iron rawter.-1 his vessel, laden with sugar, log ic ulna on board at the Havannah, was proceeding to This was likewise a further proof czse.—Property oar 15.—This day the Right Honourable Wn.u.tv Scorn proceeded to the adjudication of ' l* (4l:ming cases : '-, Stanton was:tr.—This American vessel was laden .atseg.) cif wine and brandy,and was captured on the ground smelts( blockade.—Property resterned, and the captor's ex ' of taking the depositions allowed. Atairade,Rabolla master.—This vessel, under Portuguese with cotton OR board, was coming on a voyage from Lis. no itats at the time of capture. The Court, in this case, re. the cargo, and directed the ship to stand over. Woyde his was a further proof case ' certain goods that were claimed. The Cant restored unclad showed the claimants their expellees. Margaretha, Ntolrenson master.—This was a similar --- goods restored as claimed. 7 1121 1 Arnees master.—Thls vessel was laden with a cargo i me,altd was going, at the time of the rapture thereof, from 'liihlestet.. to Tonningeu. I n t hi s case t h e cargo was restore d, and iredusdetturrage pronounced for. vlitaddiap, Ayelts master.—ln this ca.: further proof beir.g the property was condemned. 4:llll goeders,lbbes master.--This vcs'el was coming from Ito* cif Holland to Bremen. In this case the Bremen property 111lisetd,and the other property on board condemned. sitit.Arr SESSIONS, 14. The Court pmceedcd in the cases of appeal, of which the following were the most prbminent. JOON ATKINS, ZFQ. V. TIM PARISH OF ST. MARY, Mr. NOLAN, for the appellant, called several re spectable witnesses to prove the rental or rather the value of the Wharf and warehouses situate on the Thames side--used as a provision wharf; particu larly one estimated at the annual value of 3001. another 2501. and a third and fourth 2001. • the rate made was at and for the annual value of 4 001. Mr. WEATIIIMALL made a very humorous speeFh, in the course of which he quoted a-case of an ap p eal from Mitcham, as to the rent of a farm held by 14r. Hoare, in which he described a grand procession 6f surveyors from London, to liz the value ; they came in tandems, curricles, yellow carriages, and out riders--they, like surveyors in general, differed not a little, but on the whole agreed the farm was not worth more than 100 L a year to be let, though rated at 2001. a year ; this was at an Epiphany Session. On the following Sessions at Reigate the business came on again, and the value was referred, not to surveyors, but to farmers in the neighbourhood well knowing the real value, who all undertook to take the farm at the annual rent of 2001. He then spoke of improvements curiously con. strutted at the house of a learned friend of his (Mr. Marryatt) which he had been obliged to take in Rus sell-square, as his chaMbers in the Temple were not large enough either to hold his briefs or entertain his clients in : to his frontage he added screens of various sorts—one to keep out the morning suit, the other the mid-day, and another the afternoon sun. he had also put up screens to keep out the boisterous winds—these were called ornamental additions. It was for some arcade or ornaments, he supposed, that this rate was in part laid on, rather than fyr the real value in point of profit or emolumentanore especially since the open ing of the Wet Docks, which had much injured the trade on the south side of the Thames. Mr. MettavArr, for the Respondent, made a very able speech in reply to the Gentlemen on the other side, refuting their arguments as he went on, and contended that the rate was too small in place of being excessive ; to prove this, he called Mr. Trump, the Collector and Assessor of Rotherhithe for many years; he went with a Committee of the Parish, by desire of Mr. Atkins, and his and their opinion was, that a full rental, at a moderate value, would be 6001. a year ; but as some thing should be abated as to the deterioration of wharfage and housing, owing to the opening of the Wet Docks, they abated it to 4001. and that was less on a comparative value with Mr. Durand's, Mr. Hooper's, or any other premises of a similar extent ; and that it, in fact, was the most commodious wharf and warehouses the witnesses had ever seen of the like extent. After replications, rejoinders, rebutters, &c. Ser jeant °MOW, Mr. KENRICK, &c. from lie Bench conferred, and then adjudged that the rate was Mire Jane Ilailey, a respectable young lady of ra o nt beth, was charged by a Mrs. Shellead with stealing a ham from her shop, at the end of Oakley -street, Lam beth. It appeared in evidence for the prosecution, that Miss Husst7, on the Bth of September last, went into the shop of Mrs. Shellead, and cheapened a ham, for which she was to pay 15d. per pound ; it was put in the scale, and weighed 161bs. ; it was delivered by a girl of the name of Dunn to a boy who was with Miss Hussey. This was the , evidence of the prose cution. Mr. MARRYATT and Mr. NOLAN called witnesses to prove that when Mrs. Shellead opened the shop, I Miss Hussey having given her credit on the part of her mother, for china, glass, and Staffordshire ware, went to ask for payment, and finding she could not obtain it, she bought the ham in order to set off a part of the debt : it was sold and regularly delivered ; and so, of course, could not constitute a felony. After this he called witnesses to the character of Miss Hus sey ; among them were General Mackenzie, Colonel Baker, Captain Applegarth, Mr. Grattan the Magis trate, and Mr. Biver the Foreman of the Grand Jury, who gave her a most excellent character. The event was, the Jury, without turning round, acquitted her. . _ TRADE TO TllB BRAZIL (CIRCULAR.) GUZSIC AMDABILI eno,lo "iirr ~c 0 or gr. CAT wa wa or THE ISL AN D I GO ' had tl A g reeable to the letter v; drrssin2 you , under date of the 4th A: t a nd in which I explained at i Jim , the o tives which induced ir sen di ng out d Bri tish merchantmen Catharine , provided that their ea • St. art i c l e s hitherto received into the custc n ow to request that pi, I h av e s h kaie d to order that the ship : t ied into the custom- house heois of that the bear i *., or master of wh i c h, ( , w ill it to unload and sell hi e• 'douirectionspertll no more duties shall t h an were paid in Portugal forth 6 , a n d, also t hat those duties should nc ' uni nh e has so ld and dispatched h particular con forming to the practi ,in-house at Lisbon. o An d as i t may possibly happen that you not t find yourself authorised to cc e Y ell—au.; cargoes, I earnestly request 11 be pleased to allow tha ' ts 4 bneven yo u Will be pleased to allow tha' nded an d properly warehoused, and I e t h at t he ships should moor in that I w ith their crews, without molestatio cellency shall receive the instructions t. Royal Highness the Prince Regent, of Your Excellency will observe, that the 1 ter ought also to present you with the - t weo, confirmed by me, and the lie , i s hlrivy Council ; to fulfil the conditir - Excellency will be pleased to order I cus toms to deliver to the bearer a certi g d at discharge of the articles specified motions agreed to by the merchants, • (pmvisionally until his Royal H ' are known) into the port of the : of all such goods as were heret I j. Portugal a L nit all merchants wishing to make adventu • Asa waiting for the regulations of his RI bilked to take a licence from the Privy le gig at the port that will be agreed on by 0 .beleg and me, and to which alone they m 31 NS every Master and every Shipper will tl . a this custom-house, for the due delivery dthe aid port. • Okada, every Master and Shipper will bind i • tithe ratan-house of the said port the same e Patogal upon every such article, or in Iles ray hive been already established by his Royal n- n • ker 4. According to your offer, and to ascertain that . &imported thither, the manifest of the sai atiaticated as usual at this custom-house, ht tie drat and Consul General, Mr. John Charl „ s . • Oa taseccmditions, which contain all that brat present, I will most willingly provide R alma of mat to the Governor of said port, • lhave done, and requesting him earnestly inareetions from the Rio de Janeiro, in c V ' is shady arrived ; and should his Roya Of maelmi, requesting him besides not to enfos let to esepealtban until he receives the is whisk carat he long in coming, and in tl Of %Mesta hat permit the said ships to wait pe Ides pains he should be authorised by his 1 ambit the entry of such goods, on paying ti e, b Pawl, write allow the Captains to invest the pima dila Country, in which case I w " 4 the Gamma facilitate this trade. is P. S. lamina say, that upon your application s • the ?My Coaxal, Etc. &c. &c. the manifest wi • Wray letter to the Governors will be delivers • the last apace to any of the concerned. o his Excellency D. Luiz Mauricio der Sink; or to whomsoever is at 7, present Governor of the Island of St. Catmint, Brazil N• . B. I request their Excell e n c ie s th e Vi ce r o y a t " difenot ports of Brasil which this ship miy er IL they will cause it be accompanied by a guars dthelskndof St. Catharine, in order to avoid s •• • against the Captain, of illicit commerce. d i Peon his Royal Highness's Envoy at London. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ••,4i itATRALTV COURT, DOCTORS' COMM is This day the Right Hon. Sir Aicsi.LlA, led to the adjudication of the followii ig kiaa and Siegmund, master.—This was - • colours, from Arch.mgcl to Memel. F the ship were claimed as Hamburgh property, an ad the cargo documented as Prussian. TI eel • a Harnbureh ship could trade to Memel? Ir . • restored, and the remaining 16th, together • ~ .ed to the C rown . ••. on c e Elias, Dandelot master.—This was an . Pt. With sugar and coffee, bound from America aj ttlested that a warning had been given by a to proceed there, as all the French ports WI td The Court directed fu r th er enquiry. • stoker, Brill master.—This WAS a Dan be 'it, from Barcelona to Tonningen. Tb a y 11 .0 tie further proof was sufficient to prove Rh was, the property would be condemns • n. to the capt ors . Th e C ourt h e ld i t 114. i llentned the property to the Cross n ; but deli exp euccs. at Linen master.--This was a questior - wait been re-captured from the French. RI , Riva g e • • Sra. Masons master.—This wa The ship and cargo, consisting of id' at MAO. and afterwards at ;5,000. but r ed Under these circumstances (the ship c a s •'' to the Crown) the Court allowed 144 40 to the salvors, being 35 in numb.. r. Jan, Prat ratirter.-1 his vessel, laden le' • Etc. taken an board at the liavanials, w This was likewise a further proof nil • • • AIT 15.---This day the Right of WaLLINr Scori proceeded to the as following cases : te, N ahhir, Stanton waster.—This American 1111 / 1 ' aorta af nine and brontly,and seas capturi ed breathe( blockade.—Property resented, and art ,;_*l taking the depositi o n s a ll ow e d. ss.w Ainizade,Rabolin master..—This vessel, with cotton OR be board , was corning on ato Nate at t h e time of . capture. The Court thecanto, and directed th e s hip to stand cm 1 4, !laaberg, Woyde ma. , t-r.-1 his was a I iy." ' retain goods that were claimed. tame,and allowed the claimants their expetu ra Dart Margaretha, Ntairenson master.--'1 goods restored as claimed. Amees maAer.--Thls vessel was la , • the, andosr going, at the time of the rapt' et; dem' ureTg a e in a. g r en on ' ou l n n e t edfo c r ase . the cargo ey Ayelts master.—ln this er: fu bg r e Gov . " 'the property was condemned. ocden d. %hes master.--This ves.el asst of Holland to Bremen. In this case the rest uott•and the other property •on boar d ci JAN. I S.ACCUSEID.-PICK•POCKEie This was a similar case with that of Soames, Wood ford, and Conky Beau, heard last week at the West minster Sessions. The prisoner, Thomas Johnson, was apprehended by Collingbourne, an officer, 28th No vember last, in Saint Saviour's Church-yard, during the funeral of the late Abraham Newland, and brought before two of the yvlagistrates of Union Hall, who convicted him on the oaths of James Lockie, and John Goff, constables, as a rogue, vagabond, and reputed thief, having been found in a certain highway, with intent to commit a felony on the persons and properties of his Majesty's subjects ; and not being able to give a satisfactory account of himself, er his way of living. Mr. NoLts, on the part of the prisoner, appealed against the conviction, as boing contrary to the express forms of the 42 Geo. 111. c. 76, and urged various objections to convince the Bench of the record. After citing different authorities, the Learned Chairman was of opinion, that as the record of conviction only stated that the prisoner was apprehended in a certain place near the high way, in the County of Surrey ; and that certain place might as well be supposed to be either in Kent er in Middlesex ; the objection was fatal, and the prisoner was immediately discharged. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India - House, when Captain ions BROOK SAm som was sworn into the command of the Earl St. Vin cent, destined to Bombay.—The Court adjourned at six o'clock, till Wednesday next. • The Sir Stephen Lushington, Captain GRAY, from the Cape of Good Hope, had arrived at St. Helena, and was to sail from thence about the 10th of De cember. A swift-footed hero of the name of Harding, groom to a gentleman, undertook on Thursday, for a wager of twenty guineas, to go from Hounslow to Slough, and back to Smallbery Green, a distance of 21 titiles,:' in three hours and 40 minutes. The pedestrian went, something more than seven miles the first hour, and• % 'the second hour he went seven miles and a quarter, on the heaviest ground. Over this ground he had to return, and he did six miles and a quarter in the third hour. He had three miles and a quarter to do in forty minutes, which he performed with ease, in in clement weather. - OLD BAILS?. MURDER. ' Yesterday dints Thom on was indicted for the wilful tat 'der of Joseph Walker, a Negro seaman, on the 28th of December last. Mr. POOLZY was Counsel for the prosecution ' and Mr. GURNEY and Mr. KNAPP exerted their talents on behalf of the prisoner. It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner and the deceased had lived together for a considerable time previous to this melancholy occurrence, in a street called Denmark-street, East Smithfield, where they occupied a lodging. About ten o'clock, on the even. ing of the day mentioned in the indictment, a man named Antony, a friend to the deceased, and who lived the very next door, was alarmed by the voice of his friend crying out murder. He in stantly went to the door of his apartment, and endea voured to .pin admission, but found his exertions in effectual, because it was locked on the inside. He looked into the room, through the crevice , under the window-shutter, and there he beheld the prisoner hanging her head, and the deceased lying on the floor. He went away to get some assistance, and re turned again immediately, and found the door, which was before fastened, now open. He immediately en tered the room, and saw the prisoner with a knife in her hand, and mocking the deceased, who was then groaning with pain on the floor, seeming as if she were not conscious of the injury she had done to the deceased. Onperceiving the witness, she cried out 0 Jonas !" a nick-name he went by), and shook r-rc her head. At at moment a watchman entered the room, accompanied by a black seaman, to enquire what was the matter. The prisoner answered no thing was the matter ; and at the same time told the black seaman to go about his business, for it was no affair of his. He refused to do that, and she ordered the watchman to put him out of the room, which he immediately did. The witness Antony asked the prisoner to let him see the deceased's wound, which she refused, till the watchman was gone. But upon the watchman being given to understand that there was no occasion for his interference, he went away, and left the parties to themselves. Immediately upon his disappearing, Aatony went to the deceased, and asked him what was the matter ? but he made no answer : upon which he procekded to examine the wound, and found the collar of His shirt sprinkled with blood, and apparently torn open. He asked the pri soner for the knife to cut open the shirt, to get at the wound to see it ; but she refused, saying—" This is the bloody knife with which I did it, and I wish my bloody hand had been cut off before I touched it."— Antc7ny then tore open the deceased's shirt, and found a wound in the lower part of his left side, out of which a part of the omentum and intestines projected. Alarm. ed at its dangerous appearance, he exclaimed to the prisoner—" Nancy, it is indeed very bad." The pri soner then asked him, what had best be done ? He advised her immediately to send for a Doctor, and to tell him that the deceased had received the wound in a drunken fit, by falling over a jar, which was then lying broken on the floor. A surgeon was imme diately sent for • and in the mean time the deceased having recover ed his senses, exclaimed to the priso-. ner—" Nancy, I forgive you." When the surgeon arrived; he immediately ordered the deceased to be carried'to the Hospital. The unfortunate man was accordingly conveyed to the London Hospital, where he languished till the Monday following, and died of the wound. It was remarkable that the conduct of the prisoner towards the deceased, during the time he was in the Hospital, was marked by the most tender and kind attention to his sufferings, having constantly attended him, night and day, by his bed side, to watch his every motion, and anticipate his desires, and ex pressed the moss apparent concern and grief for the melancholy act she had committed. The unfortunate deceased being exhausted in strength, and wasted with loss of blood, at length breathed his last in the arms of his unhappy destroyer. Griffiths, the Police-officer, who apprehended the prisoner, stated, that having been informed that there was a man lying dead at the London Hospital, by violent means, he went thither to ascertain the truth; and upon finding that the fact was so, he went, by direction, to Denmark -street, were he found the pri soner very easily. Upon interrogating her how the death of the man happened, she told him, that they had been quarrelling—he had beaten her very much, and the result was that she, by the excess of his cru elty, had seized a knife, and unfortunately wounded hint. She shewed a severe bruise on one of her knees , and another between her eye and her nose, which sh e had received from the deceased. She further added, that the deceased had been in the habit of treating her very ill, frequently beating her most unmercifur ly. Gri ffi ths, however, in the proper execution of his duty, immediately conveyed the prisoner before the Magistrate. Is then appeared by the evidence of Eliz. Jakes, 1 Cath. Blunt. Jos. Blunt, Ann Murray, Mary Gorr don Jane Barlow, and J. Johnson, that the substance of this statement f the prisoner to the above Police officer was correct—that she and the deceased had had a quarrel ; that there had been a great noise in the house just before the accident ; that she had bolt ed him out ; that he had walked up and down the street muttering in great anger, and vowing vengance against her, saying, you b—..-, I will mark you to night for burning my nose with the candle. That they met that afternoon in a public-house where he had been drinking, and behaving outrageously; he said to her that he would come home ; she said, he should not, " I have kept you too long already," &c. &c. She had as good a character as a person in her unfortunate situation could be expected to hive, The CHIRP BARON. of the EXCHEQUER told the Jury, that in order to make out the crime of murder, there must be open malice, or malice to be implied from the act, or that malice was to be collected from the cir cumstances of the case : but if no such malice ap peared, then the killing of a human being wore a different aspect from that of murder. If one person was struck by another, and that he was apprehensive of danger to his own life, the law did not require that, in repelling that danger, he should act i n t h e manner which upon cool deliberation be might have done, but would make allowance for the common in. firmity of human nature, if, in such a state of confu sion he should happen to go beyond the limits of that which in cooler moments might he deemed necessary. A human creiture, when put into a passion, was not required to weigh in exact balance the proportion be tween the injury received and the manner of repelling it. The question here was, whether the prisoner was not, upon the evidence, in the state rich she had described herself to be in to the . Police ..er ? If she was, then the crime. would not amount to more than manslaughter. There was sot enough of thefacts of the case before the Court to mike it justifiable hOini cide.—Guilty of Manslaughter only. 25 yards of sarsenet i It yards o&'muslin, &c. the property of Messrs. Morhall and Evans, in their dwelling-house. Elizabeth Mauler was -capita .convicted for stealing HIGIIWAY Rovinrny.—Martha Dlll,ll a St. Oge- Amazon, apparently about 60 years W e age, was ca pitally indicted for assaulting and putting in bodily tear, on the King's highway, John Tidsweli, a lad aged 14, servant to J. Lewis, Esq. comedianOind taking froth his person two shillings and sixpence, a hat and piece of saver lace, the property of the said Mr. Lewis. • • • . It appeared in 'evidence that Tidsu-ell, on the 6* of this month, was sent on a Message for his mistress - to Gower -street, Bedford-square, and from thence he was to go on some farther business to Broad-court, . Bow-street. He had performed his errand at Gower street, and was making the shortest road he could to Bow-street, but mistaking his way, he turned into Dyott-street, St. Giles's, where he had not gone above twenty paces before he was seized violently by the prisoner, who stood at the corner of a court, and dragged hi m forcibly into the entry, and from thence into a room on the ground floor, where she knocked him down several times when he attempted to resist, and threatened to murder him if he made a noise. She then proceeded to rifle his pockets, and took from him two shillings and sixpence, being the only coin he had about him—she also took off his hat, and threw it under a bedstead in the room. Finding no more plunder to take frpiu him, she suffered him to depart, not, however, before he had gained his hat again. On recovering himself in the street, he im mediately called for the watchman, to whom he told his complaint. Upon which they returned together to the prisoner's apartment, where she was taken and carried to the watch-house. When she arrived there she endeavoured to compromise the matter, and offered two shillings ; but finding that her terms would not be acceded to, she threatened to murder the boy, flew into a violent rage, cursed and swore in a furious manner, and knocked the boy down with her doubled fist. He was, however, rescued from' any farther injury ' • and the prisoner was the next morning carried to Bow-street. She there stated in her defence that the prosecutor (Tidswell) wanted to take improper liberties with her, but, not coming to her terms, she had insisted on the two shillings and sixpence, which he accordingly paid her. The prisoner made a very improbable defence, when the Jury pronounced her--Guilty; Death. W. Welk was indicted for a burglary in the dwel. ling-house of J. Cock, and stealing therein a pier-glass value 61. the property of Basket. - Mr. Guararr stated, that the prisoner lodged in the house of Mr. Cock, at Kensington, 'nth his mother and grand-mother. The prosecutor, Mr. Basket, also had apartments at the same house, which he did not always sleep in. On the 10th of December, the front parlour, which belonged to Mr. - Basket, was brake into, and the drawers forced open. In consequence of some suspicion, the apartments of the prisoner were searched, and the stolen glass was found fastened underneath the bed, bound close to the laths of the bedstead. There had been several articles stolen, but the glass, and two trivial articles were all that were found in the prisoner's room. In defence it was stated, that the parlour windows were sometimes left open the whole of the night, and the door was open until eight in the evening. The .„ prisoner could not account for the glass being undbr,r his bed; but he stated, that Mr. Cock's son was a • painter, and kept his materials in his father's house, • where his workmen often attended. These materials, however, were proved to have been kept in the area, and the workmen consequently were never up stairs. The Jury retired for half an hour, and returned a verdict of Guilty of Stealing, thereby taking of the capital part. John Butler and Cornefier Fogerty were capitally in dicted for feloniously stealing on the 7th instant va rious Bank notes and money, amounting to upwards of SOl. the property of John Catesby, privily from his person. This case took up a long time ht the investigation t but our limits restrict us to a very brief notice of its merits. The gist of the evidence appeared to be that' the prosecutor, a militia recruit, together with a com rade of the same description, and a corporal, went to the Thatched House public-house in Field-lane, on the evening of the 7th ; they had some oysters there and some liquor, a young woman was with them.— The prosecutor went to the bar to pay for what they had ; he changed a 51. note ; he had the rest of the prves.y tied up and knotted in a white handkerchief in is pocket. The two prisoners, with a person named Thomas Moore, and the prisoner Butler, were observed by more than one of the witnesses standing near Catesby soon after he paid ; and the young wo man alluded to swore that she saw Moore take out of the prosecutor's pocket a white cloth, or handker chief, which appeared to have money tied up in it.— Moore and Butler went out of the house the moment after, and in a few minutes Fogarty followed. The prisoners were apprehended the same night at the Black Deg, in St. Giles's ; but Moore escaped.— Butler was fotind Guilty, but not of stealing privily from the person ; and Fogarty was Acquitted. FlRES.—Thursday afternoon a fire broke out in thc house of Turnley, chair-manufacturer, in Gar den-row, London-road, which burnt part of the work shop, and the greatest part of the stock. Same day a fire broke out in the back premises of Mr. Wince, a cabinet-maker, in Fleur-de-lys-court, .. . Spitalfields, which threatened the destruction of thf adjacent houses, owing to the great quantity of wood on the premises. The firemen, however, by inces sant exertions, succeeded in suppressing it, with the loss ef part o f the workshop. About six o'clock last night, a fire broke out at the house of Mr. Arrot, a shipwright, in Sliadwell, which burnt the furniture, and materially damaged, th* k m se , \ 1 , 1 ~ .. . . , 1 t , • 1 , ~.. I 1 , , , . . , -e- -,,.. ..,