The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-10-15 00:00:00

KINGSTON QUARTER SESSIONS. Yesterday. these Seseints commenced before Barnard, Esq. the Chairman, and a full Beoch of Ma gistrate'.• The Calendar presents but a few cases, and those °lnn interest. THE TREAD MILL. The Ar t of last Session respecting the regulation of pri sons, dirt-ding that the Governors, Chaplains, and Surgeons who attended the several County Prisons and Honses of Correction, should give in quarterly Reports to the Bench of Magistrates, on the subject of the health, morals, Ike. of the prisoners, the greater part of the day was occupied in the consideration of those Reports, and of some other matters of mere local interest. Amongst the Reports handed in was one presented by the visiting Magis trates of Brixton Gael, where the celebrated . Mill was first erected. It stated that the prisoners enjoyed a good state of health generally : that they were kept regularly at work. hit by no tricots in such a manner as to cause any injury to lie ilth. The prison was not intended, when it was built. to receive so many inmates as were constantly sent to it, and the excess had rendered an increase of the classes from six to ten necessary. Much had been said in opposition to the labour of the Tread Mill, but not one of the objections eno• 'iterated, hail any application to the Brixton Mill, and doubtless the defects of other Mills, built upon the same principle, were also much exaggerated. In fact. health, cleanliaess, and good order prevailed in the highest de. ;nee.' arul were attributable to the excellent disciplioe, superintended by the Goveroor, Surgeon, and Chaplain. The duties of the Surgeon were represented as extremely severe, and his salary as ereatly disproportioned to his labour, perseverance, and skill. One of the difficulties under which he was said to labour was that of distinguishing between those prisonersnrho were really and inevitably ill and those who endeavoured to be so, in order to avoid the penalty of labour.—The persons who came under the pro fessional care of this gentleman amounted to no less than five hundred in one year.—The visitors represented the necessity of incressieg his salary, as his labour is double what it used to be, or what it was intended to be. They represented, that notwithstanding the great benefits de r Table from the Brixton Gaol Discipline, it would still be an evidence of enthusiasm to suppose, hat the majority of those who underwent the punishment prescribed Would abandon their evil habits. A desultory conversations, which it was evreruely difficult to catch. took place among the Magistrates, who seemed to consider the subject one of the utn ost importance. After some observation upon the necessity of ascertsiniog whether a person who leas some ground dose to the gaol, is not encroaching upon the Act Of Parliament by building tenements, a proceeding which may. in the opinion of the Bench, militateagainstthe health of the inmates, tho subject of the Tread Mill was al luded to. It was generally admitted that the health of the prisoners was a paramount object. A complaint had reached the Bench that the wheel of Brixton was so con strutted, or rather so defective in its construction. as to occasion a painful jerk, and that the prisoners found this defect a considerable obstruction to their efforts, and a most rigorous addition to their punishment. Several of —the Magistrates inquired whether this defect actually ex isted, and why, if it did, the person who made the wheel bad not been informed of the fact? It was replied, we understood (the conversation was rapid and in low tone), that the constructor had been written to upon the subject, notwithstmling which no remedy had been applied. Mr. Tnorren, who occasionally takes the Chair at the Sessions House, Newington, said it was particularly ne cessary to guard against any complaint of this kind, as, should any accident happen, exaggeration must be ex pected. Another MAGISTRATR observed, that the complaint about the wheel had been made by a person who afterwards contradicted it. The general opinion of the Bench, how ever, appeared to be. that the Brixton wheel was liable to the objection of inflicting an unnecessary and rigorous degree of pulishment. Mr. DIN tsos, the Member, expressed his surprise that the maker of the wheel, who was under obligations .to pre. v,ent it from becoming oppressive to the prisoners, had not remedied the defect. It was, he added, necessary to give the constructor of the wheel notice, and if he continued to pay no attention to the direction, to sue him for the penal ties. to this opinion the Bench acquiesced ; And Mr. Lawson, the Clerk of the Peace, was directed to write to the bland acturer to the above effect. In the Report concerning the County Prison, it was re presented that the plan of patting the prisonerr in Irons being dispensed with, the facilities of escape were increased, and it therefore became necessary to have gratings thrown over the airing yards, out of which even prisoners in irons contrived to escape ; of course prisoners with free limbs would find less difficulty in becoming their own masters. Nothing of any interest is expected during the sitting. CORONER'S I HIVES - T.—Yesterday evening an Inquistion was taken at the Brown Bear, Garlick-hill, Upper '1 baffles street, bef,:re 'l'. SHELTON. Esq. Coroner fur London, upon the body of Ann Johnson, who was reported , to have died from the effect of drinking ardent liquors to excess. Airs. Elizabeth Alcock deposed, that she lodges at No. 5, Worcevter-olace, Garlick-hill, in the same hquse in which the deceased bad lodged; she bad been ailing, On Sunday, at ten o'clock, she ran into witness's room, exclaiming "My husband kills me by inches, in conse quence of your asking to borrow that tract which we had only bortowed ourselves." iVitness expostelated with lie replied " you are all gin -drinkers, and my . wite is drunk among you." He pushed her out, and the de ceased requested that she might he led into her own room, —she was dying. .Witness led her in and set her down by the table. He bid witness begone, and then shut the door vio`eritly after her. In ten minutes afterwards their child screamed out, " Ob, daddy, daddy. don't hurt my mam my!' Whoa the baby ceased, he opened the door, began to cry, and called out, "Oh, she is dead! she is dead!" Witness went into their room, and found her lying upon the floor tear the door, gasping . fur breath, and bleeuing front the nose. She assisted hint in lifting her upon the bed. Mr. Edwards, the apothecary, was seat fur, but she expired before he arrived.. Mr. Daniel Edwards, surgeon and apothecary, Trinity•lane. deposed, 'that the rleclmsed called upon him about ten o'clock on Friday morning.. She complained of violent pains in her right side. Me examined her, and found she had an inflamma tion on her right lung ; he bled her and gave her medicines.—' Site called on Saturday morning about the same time, end said sho was somewhat better, but the pain had not left her side. He gave her a blister to apply to the part. lit half past eleven on ,-undny morning he was tient for, and told she had fallen in a fit ; but when be arrived she was dead. The Coroner and Jiffy ordered him to examine the body of the deceased minutely, in ortier to ascertain whether there were any et,terual marks•of violence upon It. After some discussion the Doctor returned after his exami nation of the body. The Coroner asked him—What state be found the body in ? lie answered. that there were no external marts of violence upon the body; the hp!niins • he had formed was, that the in flammation prenebly lied caused an internal effusion of blood upon the chest and liver, which no doubt would produce death. • The Coroner thought; as she was reported to have beemac • eustomed to drinking spirits to excess, it might have the effect . alluded to, and Use Jury agreed to adjourn the inquest till . this evening, in order to have the burly opened in tue 010&11 time. • Saturday, Jas. Wilson alias Quigley. a sturdy vagrant, was apprehended, being in. Walcot.. On . his person sere found two petitions, one . purporting to be drawn up: by Mr. Wright, jeweller, of the Abbey Churchyard; and the other by Mr. Walsh, linen-draper, of New Mind Street, Barb ; both of whose names were forged. He was fully . summated for three months to hard labour in Shepton gaol bilbhmilanfto POLICE. MANSION•ROUSZ.—THE EXETER COACO ROBIRRY.--Tbt horse-dealer who was charged on suspicion of having uttered a number of the Birmingham Bank stolen notes, knowing them to have been stolen, undenvent a final examination before the LORD MAYOR ELECT. The prosecutors bad no evidence to adduce on this occasion beyond that already stated. The LORD MAYOR ELUTE in taking a view of the evi dence adduced, said, the account given by the prisoner of the manner be became possessed of the notes, namely, that he took them at Croydon fair, without marking on them or knowing the names of the persons from whom he took them, was highly improbable, particularly as they were not the notes of that place, and as it was well known to be unusual to take large country notes of a distant place from strangers., It was also a suspicious circumstance, that the notes were sent to be changed at Watford, a place Where it was not likely they would be known ; and all the circumstances together formed a case of strong suspicion against the prisoner. His Lordship, however, was of opinion, that there was not sufficient evidence to commit theprisoner. The prisoner denied that any suspicion whatever ought to attach to him, as he had been secure in his own opinion from the fair way in which he took the notes, and paid them sway at a place where he was kaown openly and confidently. He bad made no concealment and had ac knowledged them. As to the manner in which he bad taken them, it was well known that country notes were constantly paid at fairs without the possibility of knowing the person . who paid them. The prisoner then declared he was not satisfied that the notes lb question really had been stolen. The statement that they bad. might be all a hoax on the part of the bankers When be, a housekeeper, presented a note which lie bad taken in the regular course of business, and which were not forgeries, if the banker chose to say they were part of those stolen from the inn yard, what guarantee had be (the complainant) for the fact beyond the banker's mere word ? And was it not possible that it might be a mere excuse to avoid paying them? If some of the notes were offered to him that day in business, notwithstanding all that had been said, he should take them. He complained that he should have been so long deprived of his liberty on such a ease. The LORD MAYOR ELECT said, if the prisoner would act so incautiously as to take country notes from persons of whom he knew nothing,and took no care to know, he must put up with such inconveniences. Circumstances might.how. I ever, yet turn up, which would render it necessary to take the prisoner in custody again. His Lordship thee die charged thearisoner. The prisoner said he should be always found to meet any • charge that might be preferred against him. A young man was brought before the Loan MAYOR on a I charge of having assaulted a young girl in the streets. The • prosecutrix had refused some familiarity which he offored to her, snit he, in consequence, struck her; she now said the defendant had offered a sufficient apology. and she • was unwilling to prosecute; but she said that she bad herself been imprisoned. The night constable, who took • the charge, said he did not know but that the name and address giverr by the complainant was &talons, and, therefore, to secure her attendance, he had locked her up for the night, which was 'the course he adopted in such cases. The Loan MAYOR expressed his astonishment and indig- nation at the statement. " What! if a female was insulted in the streets by a fellow, and gave him into Custody, was she also to he imprisoned for a night, because the night constablo might not know her? Yet this might happen to the wife or daughter of the most respectable inh4bitant but ever. to the poorest it was a gross violation of the liberty of the subject, which could not be eudurPd." • The night constable said it wn not more than what he had done throughout his constableship, and he had done it -upon the. instructions he received from the Deputy of the {Yard' , (Cornhill.) The Loan MATOR immediately sent for the Deputy, who attended, and stated that the night constable had grossly mistaken his instructions, which were, not to liberate " defendants," and not complainants, without good bail. Upon an assurance that the practice should not continue, his Lordship allowed the case to pass with a reprimand to the sight constable. HATTON•OARDIM.—StIspiCiOn being entertained that the burial ground' for the poor belonging to the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, had recently been disturbed by some ' rude-violators of the sanctuary of the grave,Mr.Jobn Scott's the churchwarden, appointed a watch, the report,of whom confirmed his suspicions; and he accordingly, last Monday night, resolved on watching himself. The result was the apprehension of three persons, who were yesterday morn ing brought to this'office. They gave their names William Thomas, Thomas Kelly, and John Shearing, alias Shear. MGM , From the depositions it appeared that two bodies were, on the day preceding, interred in one grave. A arum one' o'clock on the following wonting, the parties on watch . heard dis:inctly a noise as if proceeding from the striking of a . spade against a pion.. They immediately determined on enteringlthe ground and securing whoever they foundthere; awl to prevent any possible escape, parties were stationed to watch at the corner of the ground. The party, on entetiag the ground,. found, on attempting to open the lock of the gate, something within resist the key, and which after ward a they found to be a skeleton key left by the body ! . stealers is the key bole.. In consequence, before they could enter, a delay and noise was made. so that on their getting within the ground, they saw the men running towards the lower part of the ground, and immediately after betted & sound as if of some heavy body dropping into a qaantity of water. This sound was repeated thrice, and was discovered to proceed from the dropping of the prisoners into the Fleet-ditch, which rims along at the boundary of that part of the burial ground. On their attempting to get out of the ditch, they were secured by some of the party on watch outside. I'4e-4e:too, as soon as day break, searched the burial ground, where he found two coffins on the surface of the earth, one of which was empty. 'f he contents of the empty coffin were found close by, concealed within a sack.. Mr. Sergeant Stiraaar considered the evidence sufficiently conclusive to warrant him in committing the prisoners. • Mr. F. B. Singleton and Mr. John Singleton were brought op by Read, jun., under a warrant of assault. . 1 Mr. Mason, shopman to Mr. Post, ironmonger, at Isling ton, stated, that they had been induced to give credit on the plansible . story told by the elder Mr. Singleton, bat %bleb account, for reasons that bail subsequently occurred to them, they felt anxious to obtain. Repeated calls had been made, but no money being forthcoming, Mr Mason at last declared he would stay till he was paid. This being inconvenient to Mr. Singleton, he, with the aid of hit son, forcibly ejected his troublesome creditor from his premiers. Mr. Sergeant Sem.oar, after a patient hearing of the ease, declared, that Mr. Singleton was perfectly justified, alit did not appear that he had used more force than was necessary to ellect the turning of Mr. Mason out of his house. • -WIEN SQUARlL—Yestetday Mr...lames Shirley, residing . in Eaton Street. Pimlico, was charged pith obstructing 'he sentry at Buckingham Gate on Monddy evening, in tient dutv 4 whilst upon the King's guard. Serjeant Parquet, of the Ist battalion First Regiment of Otenadier Boards, stated that he was on duty at the 'Nerd:diorite; BUCliinkham Gate, when he saw the prisoner coming towards the paling, - St. James's Park; and, not withstanding the sentry at 'Buckingham House told him he could not go that way, he was coming over the pales, till the sentry ran from his post to stop him; and he (the serjeant) went to the assistance of the soldier, and gassed the prisonet to be taken into custody. . • STATES M k N. Joseph Mills, private in the same company, said he we on duty at Buckingham House; seeing the prisoner wa• going over the paling. contrary to orders, be attempted to prevent him, but he endeavoured to force his way. and conducted himself violently, till be was taken into custody. The prisoner said he came into the green part, in which is the Canal now cleaning, at the end near the florae Guards; many beodreds were in the Park, who entered by the cattle way. He was proceeding home, and thought it no harm to go over the pales at the end next Buckingham Gate, when the sentry run up and struck him a violent blow above the eve, which stunned him. He recollected nothing more till he saw his hat in the Park, and the sol dier holding hint by the leg to fling him back over the pales, into the Park again. Mr. RATNSPORD —Was it Mills who struck you so rashly ? Yes, Sir, and I was afterwards dragged a prisoner through the Ahnonry, and all the low courts and alleys to the watch house; but I found bail. Here a gentleman, who did not give his name, butt who said he was himself a freeholder in Westminster, stepped forward, and said he met the soldiers taking the prisoner to the watch-house; he offered to become bail for his appear ance,observing the officers all knew him, but they refused ; ultimately he was accepted, and now he attended with him. He was sorry the military had so ill-treated him. Mr. Wnrre—The Grand Jury will sit in a few days, and be can indict the soldier; the military have no right to act as constables ; there were constables in the Park, and they would take charge of him if they were called upon. Mr. RAINS/ORD—We will not hold the soldier to bail for this. If he is not forthcoming, and a true bill be found, there will be a warrant issued against him. Mr. Shirley—Your Worship, C would feel disposed not to press the matter further, although 1 had been so ill treated. Soldier—Your Worship, this man cannot prove what be has asserted ; he beano evidence, and hisaccount is false. Mr. WHITE—It is absolutely necessary that an indictment be preferred, it is of public importance; it would then he proved whether the military are justified in assaulting the King's subjects. Mr. Shirley then expressed his intention to prosecute, add the Magistrate, with this understanding, dismissed the charge. MARLBOROUGH STRERT.—Elizabeth Coady, Catherine Fitzgerald, and habella Sullivan, were yesterday finally examined, on suspicion of havi attempted to extort mo ney from an old man, named Thomas Barnes, whom Fitz gerald enticed into a house of ill rime, in Maynard Street, St. Giles's, kept by Elizabeth Coady. Oar readers will recollect that Barnes was found on the pavement, under one of the windows, in a state of insensi bility, on Tuesday, the 231 September. and was conveyed to Middlesex Hospital, where he had been ever since, un able to attend. lie was; however, brought to this offi..e yesterday in a hackney coach, being still incapable of walk• lag, from the injury he received in the fall. The deposi tions taken by the Magistrate at the Hospital, the day after the transaction, was read over to Barnes. and lie said it was correct. The substance of it was as follows :—The day already namedlit came to town from a village in Suf. folk, and in passing along Maynard Street, he observed a young women standing at the house do r in slayn trd street ; she invited him in, and he went up stairs ; she then demanded some money from him, which he refused to give, upon which she called some persons to come up ; a young *and an elderly woman came up, and they repeated the de nand for money, which he still withheld from them. Bei lag greatly alarmed, lie ran to the window, threw up the sash, and called for a constable. They persisted in asking for money, accompanied with dreadful oaths. He went to the window again, but could not recollect whether lie or they forced his legs out : in his fright lie tried to escape,' and hung by his bands some time until be fell. The Magistrate directed him to look to the bar, and say if the prisoners were the persons of whom he had spoken. The old man declared be could not undertake to swear they were, his alarm was so great at the time. James Turner stated that he was a shoemaker, living at No. 5, Maynard Street, and on Tuesday, the 23d of Sep tember, he saw the old man hanging out of the second door window ; Catherine Fitzgerald bad hold of his hands, Itithough she was endeavouring to prevent him falling.— She cried out," The man will be killed." lie soo n fell down on the pavement; witness was the first person who reached him after the fall. Susannah Perry confirmed the old man's statement as to his entering the house. The evidence not being strong enough to commit Coady; she was discharged. Fitzgerald did not deny the fact of baying taken the old man up stairs, but he said the money demanded was only for the room. He bad been seated by the fire some time, complaining of being tired of his day's walk,•before a word-passed respecting money. She then remarked that if he wok a ferncy to put himself out of the window, it was not h9Pfault. Sullivan remained silent. Mr. 11 irrentssoN, the solicitor, attended on behalf of the r a ish. The parties were bound over to appear, and Sullivan -and Fitzgerald were fully committed fur trial. Thomas Seymour, habited as.* sailor, was re-examined, cba-ged with having stolen a light drab coloured great cost, the property of Mr. Henry Turner, solicitor, Prosser street, Rathbone-place, Between three and four o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday, the prisoner went to Mr. Turner's house, and after ringing the bell, to which' the servant answered, he said he was the conveyer of a lettar from a Captain who was lying at Blackwell, whose vessel had justarrived from Bengal. Unluckily be had lost the letter, but he believed its contents were to apprise Mr. Turner of .the arrival of some goods which had come by the ship from the East Indies. He then requested the servant would convey the message to Mr. T. The story, l earning a plausible one, the prisoner was permitted to Inter the hall until Mr. Tauter was made acquainted 'with it. While the servant was relating the prisoner's tele, Mr. T. heard the outer door close. He immediately tan down stairs into the street, and caught the prisoner as he was endeavouring to escape with the great coat in -question, which Le had taken from the hall. The prisoner was committed for trial. NI ART -LA•HONNE.—Yesterday a woman, named Mary Weston, with a child in her arms, was charged with a felony in the house of R. Barclay, Esq. the banker, 37, Devonshire Place, Mary-la-bonne. • Elizabeth Perry, the housekeeper, stated, that on Satur day afternoon last, between three and four o'clock, she went up stairs into her room, and presently an alarm was given that the house had been robbed, and that the thief was in custody. She returned down stairs, and found the pri soner in the hands of Brant, the beadle, with a shawl in his possession belonging to witness, which he said lie had taken from the prisoner, who must have sneaked down the area stepsomil have proceed to her - room, and from a closet therein stole the shawl now produced. Samuel Brant, beadle of alary-la-boone, stated that he saw the prisoner in .the area of Mr. Barelay's house; he also saw her go into the house, and on her return he stop ped her, and demanded what business she had there 1 Site said she wanted to get her boy into a school, and wished for the recommendation of Mr. Barclay. He took her down the area again and searched her, when he found under her arm a hhawl, which she declared was her own property. — He alarmed the house, and the footman coming down, the prisoner said she had 'asked him' for his master's reckon) wentlation. The footman deilared% had never seen the prisoner before in his life, until he saw her in the castody of the beadle. She was committed. LAXIIITI STttazT,—lt may not be generally known O/Utter° are in the inetropuos many houses tor the sale of liquors, kept by persons calling themselves Woolcombers, who Leveler a considerable time exercised all the privileges of ►,icensed Victuallers without having a license to do so. They invariably plead their right to keep open public lionises without any license, and say they are authorized so to do by virtue of an Art pissed in the 35th year of Geo. 111. cap. Itl-1, entitled'• An Act to enable Woolcombers to exercise tea 'es in any town or place in Great Britain." This Act states that in consequence of the many uses ma: chinery is put to, a great number of Woolcombers had heed thrown out of employment. It therefore authorised ani person who lied served an apprenticeship as a Woolroniber, to set op aro, exercise any trade he may he " apt and able for, without *ha I t. suit or molestation whatsoever, for, or by reason of their using such trades." The above are toe grounds of the Woolcombers' elaiti. The Magistrates, however, decided otherwise, and ordered informations to be laiil against all such persons who ex. ercised the calling of a Licenied Victualler without licenses. Samuel Walters was the first person informed against; he keeps a public house, without any sign, situated near harbour Square, I .!ron ate rci .1 Road. The Magistrate said, he felt it necessary to convict the defendant in the fall penalty of the 201. for selling beer without a license. 31r. Unman, the Clerk, then read the clause which 'Moss defendan's to ay?eal. by giving instant notice, and entering into the requisite recognizance.. A 31r. Benjamin Bright advised the defendant not to appeal, as lie said the Woo!combers' Act was imperative; he had bed, be said, end advice on it before. Mr. Bright said he was a woolcouther, and the lit st who opened a house of this description (in Spa Fields, we understood ) It is singular, that the Act under which the def ndast was convicted was passed in the name Session as the . Wool. combers' Act, by which he thought himself authorized to act as belied done. . The office was crowded by a number of most respectable licensed victualler., who expressed great anxiety to hear the Magistrates' decision, and appeared much gratified when they heard of the conviction. informations have been laid against two more houses of the above description. UNION Haar..—Yesterday a young man of respectable appearance was placed at the bar, charged with having stolen a gold pin from the person of Lewis Isaacs. The, complainant stated,•that about nine o'clock the previous night, he was walking along Union Street, South wark, when the prisoner rushed upon him and instan taneously grasped a gold pin which was attached to the frill of his shirt. He held him until a watchman came up, to whom lie gave the prisoner in charge. The accused, in reply to the charge, stated, that on the night mentioned he was walking boat., and observe I the complainant, who appeared to be intoxicated, standing on the pavement in Union Street. On his near approach, the complainant ran up, seized him by the neck, and charged him with having stolen his gold pin. Ile assured hint of his innocence of the crime, but the complainant held hint f a st, and two watchmen owning to the spot, he was con veyed to the watchhouse, where the coutpleinant still per sisted in the charge before the night-cormable, and lie, the defendant, was consequently kept iu coolinetuent during the whole night, the crime alleged against him not being a bailable offence. Me. CHANIBIERS asked' the complainant If he teas sober at the time he at:rutted the younir man of stealing his pin. The complainant declared that he was. 'the conitable of tie night, to whose watchhouse the defendant Was consigned, stepped forward, and the malt having been administered to hint, swore that Mr. !spats was drunk on the night in question; and notwithstandieg the repeated declarations of innocence egged by the young man, Isaacs insisted on the charge heirig "booked," and et OvUtSe he (the constable) was obliged to detain him, snit bring the matter before a migistrattr. Rice, the officer, spoke to the respectability of the youmg man, who he was convinced, would not commit such an girt as imputed to him. Mr. CnAMBIRS asked the complainant whether he was certain no other persons were near him when be lost lois pin ? Mr. Isaacs said, that no one but the prisoner robbed him. One of the watchmen, who led the defendant to the watch house, proved that the complainant was very much is ►iquor, and in giving charge of the young man, he (the watchman) observed two suspicioue looking men knee Isaacs. and run off, but he insisted that the defendant sues the man who tore the pin from his shirt. On search{ ng the defendant on the spot, no such pin as described to ha re been lust was found in his poisession, neither was it to .;be found on the ground where the accused stood when he it as charged with the robbery. Mr. CHAMBERS expressed strong indignation at the conduct of the complainant, is ',ringing forward such a charge against a respectable young man, who in cons& inence might have been deprived of his 'character and liberty, for an offence of which there was not the slightest grounds for charging . him. The rilagisirate.—lVho and what are you. Mr. heads? The complainant.-1 am a musician in his Lloyd Highness the• Unite of Gloucester's band. Mr. Cuaatexes.—Then I shall take care that your' cos• duct shall be reported to the commanding officer of your regiment ; and before you leave this office you shall pay a fine of ss. to the King fur being drunk. The young man was of course discharged, and the musician sneaked out of the office after having paid Or; fine. BIRTH.-0a the 11th Instant, at Bourne House, in Kent, the Lady 0 the Rev. Edward Smyth, of two daughters. . MARRIED.-11v special license, on the 9th instant, at Ditton Park, the Hon. Peregrine F. Cult. M.P. to the Lady Isabella Montague Scott, daughter of the late, and sister of the present Duke of Burelench. On Tuesday. at Kenstogton Church, the Rev. 'fhoinas Henna, Vlcar of Kensington, to Frances Henrietta, oldest daughter of the late J. Delaileld, Esq. of Canipden Hill. On Taesday, at St. John's. Hackney, Mt. O. W. Harries of Trowbridge, Wilts. to Mary, eldest daughter of Jesse illoaldsusith. Esq. of the above place. On Tuesday, at Sutton, Edward Soaks, Esq. to Mary. daughter of Hobert Huggart, Esq. late of Beckenham. Kent. As Paris. on the 6th instant, at the British Ambassador's' William :deare, eat.. sots of Robert Patten, Esq. of Westport, Ireland, to Charlotte, eldrrt datighter of Major Philip Stewart. DIED.—On the 11th Instant, In the 91st year of her age, Mrs. Lydia Hip ginbotharti, Assembly row, Mile-end, relict of the late Mr. iliggmbothiur, formerly of the Strand. On the 13th instaitt.at Portsmouth, Wm.Tarner, Esq. aged GI. 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