Star. — London, England, 1822-10-19 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGA►NCL Te Britannia ) &Yaw, from Ynughal tb Bristol, was totally lest near the entrance of Milford Havens on the 7th lost. The Flora, GINS, from Riga to Dundee, was abandoned by the crew the 10th inst. being in a sinking state. The Erin, Settee, bound tO Buenos Ayres. which sailed front Liverpool on the 13th inst. put back on Wednesday, with loss of rudder. The John, Wont; from Dundalk to Belfast, was stranded at Ross Glass, near Killough, on the 7th inst. Cargo discharged, with dam ige. The Canadian packet, from Jamaica, is not arrived, as has beg n st ited. The Dispatch, Moßms, from Limerick to Hull, sunk in the Shannon on Saturday. The Born Felix, from St. Übe's to Limerick, has been towed Into Dingle, with less of rudder, by a Revenue cutter. • Ewa:yawls:a. OCT. 14.—During the gale this morning, When off the Nirth Foreland, a fishing boat, the Kitty, from.this place, took a very heavy sea, when five men were washed overboard; two were providentially saved by clinging to the ropes; but two, JOHN GRAYLAED and WM. SPICER, with RDWARD GRAVES, the ,1 reaster, met a watery grave, the latter leaving a wife and family to lament their irreparable loss. Prez...area, OCT. 16.—Arrived the Norwegian brig Anna Mar-, gado, of Porsground, Kuriese, with a cargo of wood for the Mount ; Norwegian vessel Reder Deie, of Porsground, Emit- NARK, from Porthleven Harbour, to repair the damages it sus tained there during the late heavy gales; French chasse maree la Josephine. it; Means, German AOl/STIN, from Cardiff, with a cargo 01 bar iron, for Nantes ; Active schooner, of this port, Lea-mei, with a cargo of coals, from Wales ; brig Betsy, of this port, Itosewatza, with a cargo of coals. from Newport; several small coasters, from both Channels; the SKYLARK cutter, Dorece, from a cruize, and for water ; and schooner Union, of Prix:Lint, thrones, from Wales. • Sailed the Norwegian brig 'Maria Sophia. of Porsground, MRLISHOLM, for Norway, in ballast ; brig Howe, of this pop, Anew, fur Dram, Norway, in ballast, and to bring back a cargo of timber and deals; French chasse maree la Josephine, AGUSTIN, for Names. FALMOUTH, ()CT. 17.—Wind E.N.E—Arrived the Duke of Marlborough packet, from Lisbon. Pzemourst, Oct. 17.—Wind N.—Arrived off the port, the Lady Popham, Janitors. from Jamaica for London. PORTSMOUTH, Om 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Rosalyn Castle, Mescals, (torn the Downs for Jamaica; and a Russian store-chip, name unknown. DEAL, Ocr. lE.—Wind W.—Came down from the River last night and sailed, the Wilna, -THOMPSON, for Rio Janeiro ; also, this day, the John Rickard, Waters, for Malta; the Rising Sun, Dowsoe, f o r Lisbon ; and Mary, YOUNG, for Whoa. Arrived, and • emains, the Clifton, SMITH, from Jamaica. Heat., OCT. 17.—The Betsey and Mary, of Sunderland, laden with the .t and rapeseed, was totally lost on the 13th off I ngolds owl, crew saved. At Anderby part of the deck of a sloop has' come on shore, supposed to be a I.ynn trader. Two bags of books Lye been picked up, which appear to belong to some Missiore.ry, but no papers. The coast is strewed with wrecks, and not less than fifty dead bodies have been washed ashore at Burnham, about twenty.miles from Lynn. YARMOUTH, Ot:T. IC—Further Particu!arsaf the Effects of' tile laic dreadful Gate.—'ibis coast was visited on Sunday night last with a i-ost dreadful gale from the N.E. which came on about half-past ten o'clock, and continued with unabated fury till mid day on Monday, when it moderated. The gale was so sudden, that there was no time for preparation, and consequently many vessels, it is feared, must have suffered in the ratty part of it. The ie-ash, for a considerable distance to the nortMard of this place. is covered with pieces of wreck. Some ships and fishing boats were observed running through our roads for shelter, some with ;he loss of masts, and others its a very distressed state. In the course of the day, an alarming report was very prevalent of the loss of the Ranger, Revenue cutter, Captain JOHN SAYERS, belonging to this station, and as the day . advanced, the report became more general. The anxiety and fears of the wives :aid relatives of the persons who were on board the Ranger was truly distressing. They were seen running about in the most agonizing distress, seeking for information, but none could be obtained to satisfy their pitiable state of suspense and anxiety. In the evening, however, all doubts on the subject were re moved, as intelligence was brought of her being lost off Has borough Gap during the gale, and that every person on board bad perished. The crew of the cutter consisted of thirty-eight persons in all; out of which number there were seven men on shore at Cromer, at the time she was lost, and one man tick on shore at this place; so that the number of the unfortunate suf ferers is thirty, including the Captain and Mr. BELLARD, the mate. The wreck of the cutter came on shore during the night, bottom upwards; as did also the body of the mate. Several other bodies belonging to her have since been picked up upon the beach, but we do not learn that the body of Captain SAYERS has yet been found. The melancholy intelligence of the fate of the Ranger and her crew was communicated to the relatives of Cap tain SAYERS, as soon as prudence would allow; and we need not picture to our readers the distressing state of his family since. Captain SAYERS was a single man, and when on shore resided with his sisters, on the Quay, in this town. To them his loss will be severe indeed; and to a numerous circle of relatives and triends,his memory will be long cherished with esteem and regret. Captain SAVERS had been on this station in the Ranger 15 years, and had repeatedly distinguished himself in action with the smug glers who infest this coast. It is very remarkable, that the Hun ter revenue cutter, Capt. JAY, was lost with all hands, within 150 yards of the spot where the R anger was wrecked. In consequence of the loss of the hunter in 1807, the Ranger was appointed to suc ceed her on this station, and the command given to Capt. SAT IRS. As some of the crew, we understand, are natives of Harwich, we have collected, for the information of their relatives, the names of the eight who survived their unfortunate messmates, viz.—JOSEPH SELLAND, ISAAC MARSHAL, Vs as. SALLOWS, JAMES FISK, ItOREST 110L111100E, TITUS ROSINSOR, SAMUEL LAYTON, and SAMUEL PRETTYMAN. Several vessels are on shore to the north ward of this place, and many, it is feared, have foundered at sea with all hands. Four bodies have been picked up on the beach, and are now lying at the Workhouse. One of them only has been owned; his name is Joust WALKER, belonging to the Dolphin, of Sunderland, which vessel was wrecked, and all hands perished, excepting the Mate, who fortunately succeeded in swimming to the shore. The Ulysses, CARNEY / of Sunder land; Hopewell, Auntie, of Maldon; Agettoria ' a Humber keel, are totally wrecked, and the crews supposed to be drowned. The Supply, of Sunderland, is a wreck ; a young Gentleman, a passenger, drowned ; the crew were, however, saved by Captain Maroty's mortar. The Sarah and Mary, Haßmsoe of Boston, for London, is on shore at Lowesteff; crew saved. The Nelson, of Yarmouth, Fizz Master, is on shore at Wells. Every hour brings us intelligence of some fresh disaster and it will be many innnthebefore the extent of the losses sustained will be known. Considerable appteheusions have been entertained for the safety of a steam-packet, bound to the north, which passed through our Roads on Sunday afternoon, as it is supposed she could not have weathered the gale, and we have not obtained any information of her since. About 30 sail cut front their cables in our Roads on Monday morning. Several fishing boats areon shore, and many leave escaped with the loss of their nets. Cosrom-House, Oar. 18.—Ships Entered Inwards: British Union, front Memel; Burdon, from Quebec; Thomas and Mary and Industry, from Hatnburgh ; John, front St. Petersburgh; Esther, from Malaga; King of the Netherlan Is, from Ratter ; Prospect and Joseph and Mary, front Rig;; Vansittatt, front Canton; Iris, from Belfast. Entered Outwards: Marquis of Hertford, for Norway; Salus, for Hamborgh ; Comet, for Oporto; Comet, for New York; Lord Craustoun and Princess Charlotte, fir Jamaica; Dart and Fox, fur Ostend ; Margaret, for Grenada ; Ocean, for Honduras; lizabeth, Barbadoes. Cleared Outwards: ro, for Calais; William, for Port-an-Prince; Ant, for Hamburgh; Riga, for Tobago ; King of the Nether lands, 'for Ttorteedsai ; Lord Melville, fur Calais; Biene, for Stettin; Freden, fur Alica.ot. .. `~ The Kingston (Jamaica) chronicle of August 24., says—" We understand that his Honour, the Lieu tenant-Governor, intends calling the House of As sembly to meet and proceed to business on the Ist of October nest, for the purpose, we believe, of enabling the Legislature to equalize the American duties under the new Act, an official copy of which his Ho nour has received by the packet. The New Yank Commercial Advertiser of September 14, says:— " Captain Stuccos, of the schooner Abigail, sailed from Xibara, Cuba, on the 20th day of August. Next morning, off Key Re main, saw a Schooner, which gave chase. When within about i league, we prepared for action, all hands (12 men and six boys) being ready to defend the vessel to the last moment. At sun set the chase fired again, when we took in sail, and every man was stationed at his post. She came up on our weather quarter, within pistol-shot, hauled up her foresail, fired three guns and musketry, without hailing us. She appeared full of men. We commenced a fire upon her, and in about an hour shot away her fore-yard and fore-gaft. Shq then ceased firing, and hailed in Spanish, which we answered by telling our character, and de manding to know his; they made no reply. -We commenced firing again —she fired another gun and stood off. Capt. &MK, who was on board, received a musket-ball thruagh his arm. At daylight next day we made sail, and found our fore and fore-top sail braces shot away ; 22 shot had hulled us, and three went be low the deck : much other damage was done—three shot lodged' in the mizen-mast, which, with the fore-topmast, is unfit for further service. The mainsail had 4$ shot-holes through it. We must have killed a good many of her crew, as we were so sea: as to hear their cries. " Captain Tono, of Philadelphia, arrived at Xibara about the 22d ult. from 'Guanaja, and stated that several piratical vessels were fitting out there, under a man named blanawa, who swore vengeance aping the Americans, and patticularly against Lieu tenant Sl o F.xeon, of the Alligator, who put taunt one of his ves sels. Information was received at Xibara that the pirate Psalms had been taken and carried into St. Domingo, and thence sent to St. Jago de Cuba. The pirate Lerma was again on the coast, about six leagues to the windward of Xibara, in a schooner of 14 tofts and 26 nisi" On the first market-day at Taunton, attthe Mallet House Inn, a bill was posted up, announcing dinner at seven-pence only per ead: the dinner to consist of " a good sirloin of beef, with a roasted leg of mutton and vegetables; Aaatvan—At Jamaica, fhe Harmony, Currie; Jane, MiClurez... and Hercules, Dew, from London; Hantilla, 3laine, from the Clyde; llope, Gibb ; I lopeNernon ; and Waterloo, Harty, from Liverpool; Louisa, —, frum Campeachy•; and George itick erton, from Cork. At Demerara, Loyal Sam, --; and Harriet, 3lattbias, from Quebec; Lucy Ann, Cole, from Mira suichi ; l'atay, Campbell, from Liverpool (?i.S.); and William, Floud, from St. John's (N. Li.) Wednesday, Charles Chisholm, a sailor, belonging to the " Courier, of Peterhead," having taken rather ton much grog, ovas pacing the deck, when, lay a sudden gust, the vessel rolled, and he felt overboard and was drowned. . Tburaday, John Deem], 15 ye.rrs of age, belonging to the " Caledonian," while sculling a boat to the shore, slipped the scull from the rillock, and fell overboard and was drowned. - ______ -S Noarii•wssr 'LAN!) EXPEDITIOM IeAMSG•42`4, ocroan. ii. . • FURTHER PARTICULARS. . The Bathaore_l(alat the Royal Assembly low. Captain Franklin hits succeeded in surveying the w a s givesil ad • I northern coast of North America, from the mouth of v a ned es{ and the splendour which, anything the season has .-yet ptais, Copper Mine River, f or more t h an 500' m ile s to the ducede Th. S a l oon W as brilliantly,.illeminattll4 , eastward. He found th e mout h o f that rivet in hit. ten o'clock —at eleven it as crowded; the Band Ho 67 deg. 48 miu. which is 4 deg. less than what Hearne eellent; the Master of th 4 Ceremonies as attentive al made it, and no poi n t o f t h e coast t o the e as tward usual. The Long Minuet being winded, the Lan exceeded 88 deg. 20 min. in one place it came down cm (Pa null's) were led off by tghter of Liaj to 66 deg. 30 min. to th e A rct i c Ci rc l e . The sea was CAMMILL- and an Of fi c e r o f artillery; there studded with innumerable islands, between which and were three sets at midnight. Atiosit two o'clock the the main . land wa alt open channel of water four or visitants retired to th e supperrooms. Here a banquet, five miles wide, and from ten to forty fathoms deep ; replete with every luxury, and arranged in a true no ice what t ever, bat some small masses here and magaVico style, was superintended by four Stewards, there adhering to some rock or promontory, all of a ll G ent l emen k nown in high life. Covers were la i d which is highly favourable to the success of Captain for 220. Madame Mare might be called the queen Parry, who, however, could not have arrived on the of the feast. This daughter of the Duke of Sussex part of the coast to which Captain Franklin pro- looked more than ordinarily captivating. cezded until the latter had left it on his return, The dance, after supper, was conducted with a spirit which was on the '2sth August,,and at which early quite delightful. At five the music ceased. There period the winter set in, and continued with great were about 250 persons present; among whom were— severity, though, as everybody will remember,wehad The Countess D'Ameland, Lady and Miss Curtis, Lady no wiliter at all in England. Arundel, Lady Mary Shepherd, Mrs. and Miss Warre, Major and Mrs. Kerr, Mr. and Mrs. HaMilton, Major D'Rste Colonel On the sth of September, on their return by land, and Mrs. Sutton, Mr. Aubrey, Countess MOuntnorris, ' Lady .10- a snow storm occurred, which covered the earth with liana Annesley, Major Prendergast,._ Miss Starr', Capt. Elphin two feet deep of snow : this was the forerunner of all s t one,__ Mr. an z t i Mrs. Scott, Major and Mrs. Ikuce, Mr. and Mrs. the misfortunes that befel the party. The musk oxen, in ave. Colonel Wayland, Mrs. and Also r. t a h n e d m M u r itaty s. Scr ems (rem canterbu , and Deal; the rein-deer, the buffaloes , and immen , ,e fl ights of the Naval Merl from the Station ; the Ladies of Kent ; and all birds, immediately hastened away to the southward. the principal resident' in Nelson's-crescent, and Chatham-place. Their provisions were all expended, no firewOod was Mr. w - ICIPPART led the Band. to be had ; the fatigue of dragging their baggage - through the snow induced them to leave their canoes behind. With great difficulty, and in the utmost dis tress from cold and want of food, they reached the Copper Mine River, which lay between them and Fort Enterprise, where they had passed the previous winter, and where they expected to find a supply of provisions. There was no wood to construct a canoe, or even a raft, and eight days of the only fine weather during the whole season were lost in fruitless attempts to cross the river, which was at length effected by a sort of beat or basket of rushes, ••which, with the ut most difficulty and danger, carried over the party, one by one, filling every time with water. ' From this moment the Canadians began to droop, and before they reached their' destination, not less than eight of them perished from cold and hunger, 'the whole party having subsisted almost wholly on a species of liChen which grew on the rocks, and by gnawing pieces of their skin cloaks. With exactly the same hard fare, and sometimes without even that for two or three days together, the five Englishmen, Captain Franklin, Lieutenants Hood and Back, Dr. Richardson, and an English seaman, suppot ted them selves by their buoyant spirits, and did all they could to cheer up the desponding Canadian bunters, but in vain ; they became insubordinate, refused even to go out in search of game or firewood, straggled away from the rest of the party, and frequently -laid them selves doer- on the snow, indifferent as to what might bef i r I them. With the most anxious desire to preserve their lives, Dr. Richardson and Lieutenant Hood consented to remain behind to attend to three of these infatuated people, who were unable from weakness to proceed. Two of them died, and the remaining one, a good marksman, and more vigorous than any of the party, became so savage and ungovernable, that he refused to endeavour to shoot anything towards their sub sistence, or even to fetch a little firewood, which Dr. Richardson and the English sailor were obliged to do; and while this savage was left alone in the tent with Lieutenant Hood, the latter being indisposed and sitting ovZr a little fire, he shot him with his musket through the head, and killed him on the spot. After this he became more violent than ever, his looks were wild, and he muttered threats that could not be mis taken, so that Dr. Richardson, for his own safety, and that of the sailor, who had been a most faithful companion, found it necessary to get rid of the mon ster,* by shooting him through the head. Thus, of twenty persons which composed the Expedition, ten have perished :—eight through cold, fatigue, and famine, and two by violent deaths ; but the rest of the party, after almost unparalleled sufferings, have returned to their friends and their country. It must be highly gratifying to the Naval Officers, that in their absence they were not forgotten, but that each has received a step of promotion in the service. Lieu tenant Hood was considered as an excellent Officer, and an accomplished young man, who, among other acquirements, was an admirable draughtsman. • The man was no doubt insane, in consequence of the hard ships he, with the others, had gone through. , • It is already known to many, that the Memoirs of Napoleon, written or dictated by himself, are-prepa ring for publication we have, however, to announce another Work of high importance in regard to the elucidation of the private character of this Axtraor dinary man. We allude to the Journal regularly kept at St. Helena by the COUNT DE LAS CASES, which has been lately restored to him by tht British Government, and has been obtained by Mr. COLBURN, for publication in London. The Stamford News says—A faux pas has lately come to light, which is likely to occasion some bustle among the Gentlemen of the long robe. The injured husband resides within a few miles of Nottingham, and the gallant Laihario (a widower) is an eminent Solicitor in the neighbourhood of the Melton Hunt. The deluded fair one last week wrote for pecuniary assistance to her gay deceiver ; and the letter by some means got into the hands of his housekeeper. The consequence was, a full exposure of the whole amour. At the Cornwall Assizes, Montego Bay, on the 4th of August, John Simpson, a planter, residing in the parish of St; Elizabeth,.aged seventy-four years, was capitally convicted of committing a rape on a Negro girl in his servitude, under nine years of age; On the following day the prisoner's Counsel moved an arrest nif judgment, which was overruled, and the CHIEF Jus tics passed sentence of death on the hoary culprit. JUSTICE.--At the Cape of Good Hope, about two years ago, a Dutchman was found guilty of having a slave baked to death, who had taken refuge tn an oven for concealment from his master's vengeance, he being in the frequent habit of Begging him. The master, on discover ing where the slave was, kindled a fire below the oven. For this atrocity the master was sentenced merely to be banished fur seven years to Robin's Island, which is situatei in Table Bay, and in sight of Cape Town : 'however, he had interest enough to get his son sent in his room, and shortly after to have him enlarged !—Dublin Journal l Oct.l6. A few months ago, a man of suspicious character, and of the name of Howes, was taken up on the charge of stealing a sheep, the property of a tradesman in Tamworth, and confessed the crime. lie moreover stated, that a vicious and dissolute lad, of the name of Vaughton, had assisted him in the slaughter and removal of the sheep. Vaughton on learning that he was implicated on the confession of Howes, imme diately took to his heels, and was not again heard of for several days. The father ofVaughton, who worked at a brick-kiln in the neighbourhood of Tamworth, was, one morning, while employed at his labour, ac costed by his delinquent son, who confessed his guilt, and declared his intention of quitting his home for ever. The father gave to young Vaughton the little money he chanced to have about him, and with it a positive command that he might never see his face again. The young reprobate having proceeded a few miles on his way spent all his money in a pot house ; and his courage failing him, returned clan destinely under the shelter of darkness, and reached the house of his father about the middle of the night, wholly ignorant of the fatal accident which had, in the interim, befallen his unhappy parent—for soon after the last interview of old Vaughton with his son, the farmer had been killed while in the act of giving some assistance to the workmen at a neighbouring colliery, and brought home a corpse. The neighbours laid it out on the bed which the deceased had been in the habit of sharing with his son, and locked up the house. Young Vaughton, on hi(return, finding the doers fastened, and fearing to excite attention by any attempt to awakenliis father at that unseasonable hour, crept in at a back %inclose, and in utter dark ness groped his way to his father's room.. He was astonished to find, on feeling for the bed, that his fa ther was covered only by a single sheet, and still more that no answer was returned to his repeated ob servations on that unusual circumstance. Con ceiving, however, that intoxication on the part of his father might explain the mystery, he proceeded to un dress himself, and got into bed. The dreadful reality then first became apparent. He sprung from the cold body of his father, rushed to the head of the stairs, and uttering an agonizing scream, fell senseless into the room below. The neighbours, alarmed at the noise, repaired immediately to the house and found the wretched young man in the situation just de scribed. Next day he surrendered himself into the hands of justice ; and lies now, with his associate Howes, under sentence of transportation for life.— Lidsizeld Mercury. Fins.—Last night, between ten and eleven o'clock, a fire broke out in the house of Mr. Webb, oilitiani Kennington-lane, Lambeth, which raged With inch fury, that in a short time the premises and . trade were totally destroyed. Oy the exertions o the firemen the injury was confined to the preagei of Mt, Webb. The load's considerableoindirciltrd . for 60 Pale! A 14_ii , stprzn was experienced at SFr , UFA' 17th uli.,sati,did considerable daAis.c.: . ♦ • rt 'a • • ••• • 1111/.11-6411 , , 10111111111110001 •i 4 • a...AAA.. • 4 t • • wilt mgettaid—oet. if; Ustttaid Plate tt reSO, toe sacra t • a .t.ittatlitast= • 1. • • a le I WlTeritall dram addles • II Mr. Hhassa's Lulea • e - Ir . " 114 . 41 11 4 .1 1 ' - • . .4111miire Sweepstake& ar ine a : .sit aims leek MOO' Mr. Bhmtvetle s e Giant ." ' g Heenby's Cora r . •,„ Mr. Milsom's Fos Three only were p to 4 on the.* • Ths ingrinfek, , Sarrey Fox-hounds met on Win uladot Addingted Lads, Bottom ; Thursday, at the Half-moon.Godstom read g . and Saturday; at Batley-hay. The Sander tend Harriers meet on Monday, Wedhes44, aed Saturday nests at kennel. THE ROAR - TROTTING MATCH !OR stilt HUN DRED SOVEREIGN& TM! match, 'upon which many hundreds were penal* Met piece on Thursday, over the Milaand.half Range, Mien Park, Bedfordshire, before a numerous field of anxious sports.. men. The mars was bred in Lancashire, and the horse by Mr. B. Smoiniu, and they were considered the fastest in England, under 15 hands. The match was to trot against each other, and to start at the opposite ends. Each mile and a half was done ae follows, with feather weight: The Horse did the to s. Ist mile and half, in S SO sd ditto • . - 5 52 3d ditto - 6 2 4th ditto - - 7 4 sth ditto . • 6 1 6th ditto - - 6 2 7th ditto - - 5 59 Bth ditto -- - 5 58 9th ditto . - 6 4 loth ditto - - 620 • 61 5 The Mare did the la mile and half, in 2d ditto - • 3d ditto - 4th ditto - Sth ditto - • 6th ditto - • 7th ditto - • Iri. 11. 5 49 S 50 6 1$ 8 4 5 52 S 40 18 2 The sure was pulled up k the Bth round, as she could not be kept in temper, although she shelved best speed. ' MATCH TO NOTTINGHAM AND BACK. Mr. All6loltfillr, who started from Sboreditch on Wednesday to go on foot to Nottingham, by a circuitous route, and return. making 260 miles, in four days, performed half his distance and halted four hours at Northampton late on Thursday night, in good condition. The pedestrian had two hours over his timer* do the second two days in, and be felt confident of success. lie is five feet seven inches high, 25 years of agc, and travels in flannels only, and thick shoes. He has travelled much on the high roads of Scotland. • Bow.araurr.—Yesterday Intiaus Croprey, a child ten Team of age,wag brought before the sitting Magistrates, G. It. Mmotuu. and Tuox►s Mau.% &qrs. charged with stealing a coat, the propel ty of his father,Williant Cropley, the elder. It was stated by the father and mother that the prisoner, young as he was, had been in the habit of plundering them almost daily for the last two years, and punishment or kind treatment was equally ioefficadous in curing him of his invincible attachment to pilfering. Some months ago he was brought to this Office, and sent to solitary confinement in Tothill-fields Bridewell, but he was no sooner released than he commenced his old practices...— His father is a very industrious coal-porter, and goes to work about five o'clock in the morning. *Yesterday morning he went out at the usual hour, and locked the prisoner in his room, but he bad not been gone many minutes when the young delinquent bloke the lock of the door, and ran out of the house with his father's coat. When the coat was missed, some hours after, a search was made for the prisoner, and he was found playing with a gang of idle boys in Hungerford-market. Six or seven shil lings were found in his pocket,which he said had been advanced to him upor. his father's coat, at the shop of Mr. Harris, a pawn broker, in the Strand. An inquiry was made at the pawnbro... leer's, and the fact was readily admitted. Mr. hiarsituu. said the taking a pledge from such a child was shameful conduct on the part of the pawnbroker, and im mediately sent an Officer to the shop with orders to bring before him the person who took the coat. The Officer returned in a few minutes with a spruce young fellow, who brought the coat with him, and who admitted that he advanced money upon it to the prisoner. His name, he said, was Joseph Burgess, and he was sbopman to Mr. Harris. Mrs. Cropley was questioned by the Magistrates, and she stated that the prisoner had Several times stolen things said pledged them at Harris's with Burgess; and she had, in conse l quence, warned the latter that the boy was given to pilfering, and desired that he would never take any pledge from him again. About four months ago be stole a shawl, and pledged it with Burgess, and then she gave him the same warning, and he knew that the boy had been in prison for theft. She bad redeemed several articles thus pledged. Burgess seemed to treat the charge with the most sovereign contempt, and when told by Mr. Mnianut.t. that he regarded him as a receiver of stolen . goods, and should deal with hint ac cordingly, he assured his Worship it was all fable, mere vile per jury. Mrs. Cropley had been iu the constant habit for these fin:r years past of sending the prisoner with articles to pledge. He admitted that he knew of the boy having been in prison, but said it was for running away with money advanced upon things sent with hint by his mother, and not for stealing the things. Mr. lilmsuutt..—Mrs. Cropley, you are upon your oath, and, for Gon's sake, speak nothing but the truth. Did you ever Fend the prisoner to pledge articles with this man? Mrs. Cropley.—Upon my oath, I never did. I repeatedly warned him not to take anything front the buy. Burgess said, she would yet have the worst of this, for she should be indicted for perjury. Mr. MISSHULL said be would not suffer a witness to be inti midated, and desired Burgess to hold his tongue. Burgess insinuated that Mrs. Cropley was given to drinking and bad company ; but this was denied by her landlord, who said she was a sober, industrious woman. Mr. Matsuura. said be had beard nothing which could induce him to alter the opinion he had first formed aeon the ease, and be should commit the prisoner for the theft, and Burgess must find bail for his appearance at the Sessions, to answer to an in dictment for receiving the coat, knowing it to have been stolen. Burgess's master, Mr. Harris, made his appearance in the course of the examination, and protested against the course about to be adopted by the Magistrates, observing that, by the Pawn. brokers' Act, they were liable to penalties for taking pledges from persons under a certain age, but this was the first time he had ever heard of a Magistrate committing a pawnbroker si a receiver of stolen goods. The Magistrates said it might be so, but they were detertbintd upon that course in the present instance. The boy was fully committed for trial, and Burgess was held to bail, himself in £4O, and two sureties in X2O each, to appear at the Sessions. The witnesses were bound over to prosecute both bills of indictment. . , 4. MA Rl.lloRouan-srarrn—Yesterday, Wes. Leslie, late a ser vant of Webster Wedderburne, Esq. was charged with being drunk.—lt was stated, that on Wednesday night last the prisoner was taken to the watch-house, charged with assaulting a young woman, when he gave his name Captain William Leake, of the Army. On arriving at the Office in the morning he gave the young woman a pound note not to appear before the Magistrate, and she quitted the place. Suspecting some collusion on the part of the watchman, the case was ordered to stand over tilt yester day morning, when the prisoner appeared, but the young woman. did not. Magistrate.—Well Sir, who are you? - Prisoner.—Who am I, Sir ? • Magistrate.- 1 es, Sir, who are you ? Pool) , (a constable) —He calls himself a Captain, your Wor ship, but he is only a servant. Prisoner—Yes, Sir, I am a servant; I lived with Ladr Frances Wedderburue. Here the prisoner said, that he was the person with whom Mr. Wedderburue had a soar on the Continent, some time ago. Magherate—Well, but If you were never In the Aristp,-Viss oeght not to assume such a title. ; 4 Prisoner—l:lease u r Worship, I never was p at j th e : battle . of .sodthe W aterloo froalrusathere brat shot II II never forget that-.-but, alas, I abs no t• • . trils th toils 7 a Ws Si fire 1/0 , an d 'it Ms dpelarge. . , 1 was I sli i 44 . aOt , , - R I 1., f r • 1 ,•