The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-10-16 00:00:00

KINGSTON SESSIONS. - 1. 1111 " -- THE AMPIIITHEATRE. AITLRT r. DAVIS.—POT a contiderable time there has been a very setions disagroemant between the widow of the late Mr. Astl7 (goondrtn the celebrated Mies Smith) and Mr. Davi., whose name appears alone upon the bills of the rt w atre, not witheandinz the claim made br the latter t.pon extennire star. in the concern. Mr. 'Davis claim, ti.e whol• rirlat and title upon the rronnd that be is solely responsible, awl that he has brought all the money into the theatre. _ _ _ .......... Ycs'er 'ay hlr. Crocus moved, upon the part of Mr. Davis. for a iirense for the Amphitheatre, in the name of Mr. Davis alone. Hitherto, since the death of the widow's hualiand, the lirene• had been uniformly granted in the joint names of Astley and Davis. A woe, feeling in benne of the widow, ee (the Learned Counsel knew) pre a-Aled upon the Bench, of whose honour, although be did net at all tlonht, yet be could not see why the partiality should exit, as the lady had not at all contributed to the advancement of the Concern by pecuniary or other means, Davis being the sole capitalist and director, and amenable rrson. It was quite clear that the widow had re right which she could enforce in a Court of Law, and be was net aware that she bad any power of management. Under these circumstances the appliration would, it was to he hoped, prove successful. The Learned Counsel then oint-d to Mrs. Astley, who was in Court in the deepest mourning, and said, that at an earlier period of her widow boost she lied appeared all In white, and that she was now laying off before the Bench to affect their feelings, in better style than she had ever performed in on the public eage. Bat the exhibition would not, he hoped, prove a b it, and the lady would not come in and take a share of the profits; while Mr. Davis alone took the risk. 'Long e'nee Mri. Astley bad given up the stage as a profession, ps these who managed the amphitheatre were of opinion teat ante would no longer answer their purpose. It was writ known that her husband died 8,0001 in debt, and he believed it to be a fart, that the Creditors would have no more than sixpence in the petted out of his property, and that distribution would be made most likely to none but those who held bonds or other deeds of security. For some time previously to Mr. Astley's death, he was not :useful in fneniehine assets, and Mr. Davis was obliged to take upon kneel( ihit reeponslaility, as well as every other. Upon , the death' of tJJ Astley, his widow called a meeting of his creditors, and Mr. Devil, with an honourable feeling of liberality, nrideitook to pay them two-ittha of the profits; upon which voluntary proposal, Mrs. Astley premised never again to interfere with the concerns of the theatre. It would be too much, the Learned Counsel thought, to sat a precedent for widows of deceased partners in institutions, ;o claim to be partners. Mr. D.via said, he was engage' as part Proprietor of the Amphitheatre upwards of twenty years, and had been concerned io it, more or less, upwards of forty years; he tir , t was enema as riding master, but for many years he bed provided the horse, at his own expence, old Mr. Astley never hiving more than three or four at a time ; be was lessee conjointly with the late Mr. Astley in a conSioded lease which bad still upwards of a year to run, and be Was Fable to the payment of the rent, amounting to '1,0001.a year.— By the Bench: On the death of Mr. Astley no es eignment was made to him of the interest in the lease, and be bad held the theatre for the last six or seven years nn his own responsibility. He was entitled to three-fifths and Mr. Astley to the remaining two-fifths. Here hlr. Davis declared, that if the Bench would ex onerate him from the responsibility, be would no longer object to Mrs. Astley's name io the license. Let him hut take away his property, he shciuld commit the whole concern to her. He wished to get rid of it. The Benet, then said they would grant the license, but it must be in the joint names of Astley anti Davis. Mr. 'CowLee observed, that if the Lord Chancellor declared that Mrs. Astley bad any interest in the property, the creditors would be first entitled to their claims. Mr. 3acxson (on the Bench) said, that Mr. Cowley bad admitted that the widow had a claim, and it would pro bably Nitre that claim not to grant the license in her name as well as in Mr. Davis's. Mr. Davis was then cross-examined—He became a. partner not because he rode, but because he brought money with him. Ile bad adiertised the Theatre as " Davis's Amphitheatre.' and he should continue to do so while he bad the whole responsibility, and was the only paymaster. He had received notice from Mrs. Astley, remonstrating with him oo the subject, but be should not alter his plan. Mr. COWLCT then withdrew his opposition to the license in the two names, in consequence of the opinion or the Court. Mr. TuEsstoan, for Mrs. Astley, called 'upon the Court to protect ter OEMs, which were endangered in this con tention. As to the objection to have the lady's name in the license, there were precedents enough to remove that. The name of Margaret Tyers appeared in that for Vans ball—tea. of Mary Hughes in that for Sadler's Wells. It would he well if the name of Mrs. Astley alone, for the proteetinn of her interests, were in the license. She bad! been refused all sorts of advantage. Her orders had been exclude , ' ; her property was in jeopardy, and it would he el, sirable :o try the expedient by granting the license in Ler name alone. '1 he Magistratrs were of opinion that the interests of the widow would be best served by joining the names, as bad been hitherto done in the license, and the license was granted accordingly. The licenses for Vauxhall, the Coburg, and the Starry Theatres were granted without opposition, Michael Garvey (the boy who got the plum stone into his windpipe) was discharged from the County Infirmary on Thurkday last, perfectly recovered. This extraordinary case adds much to the credit of the llospital.—(Liaterick Chronicle.) The whole of the sonth nail (36 yards long and from 10 to 12 feet high) of the parish church-yard, at Preston, tell down together, about ten o'clock at night, on Wril nesdav, 3d instant. Had the circninstance occurred in th day-titur, in all probability we should have hid the me laucholy task of recording many deaths, since (notwith standing its ruinous appearance) its immediate vicinity was a favourite place of resort to children. Falling in the night no accident occurred. . Monday last, the body of a respectable person was found lying in a hop garden near the Coach and Horses public house, Strood; which, upon inspection, presenteda shock ing spectacle, the throat was cut, one ear mangled, and several wounds inflicted on the body, apparently with a penknife ; near the body was found twenty-live sovereigns, a ten pound note, and a gold watch. The only conject ur e at present is, that in a state of mental aberration the tin fortunate individual muss have pat a period to his ex i s t once. In his pocket was found a pirsicica'a prescription addressed to an apo.hecary in I,olo.tia, %%hid, has been fora anted, and we hope, oil lead to Om disc.icery o f t h e cause of this melancholy transaction. The initials C. B. were marked on the hat. The body was taken to the Co.ach and Horses.— (Maidstone Journal) Monday se'nnight a fire broke out at a farmhouse in Montacute, belonging to John Phelips, Esq. occupied by Mr. Martin, which consumed the whole building. it most distressing circumstance occurred dmittg the conflagration; while eight men were in the interior a the house, using every exertion to atop the progress of the devouring ele spent, the roof fell, in, and so blocked up the door -seals, OW no apparent means were left of escape. Four of them tweed a passage through a window, schile the ethers made their way through the tire, and wcre so dreadfully butt, as to he deprived of sight. POLICE. -ow Marmot; House.—Yesterday, Mr. Armstead, a notary; public, residing in Clement's Lane, appeared before then LORD MAYOR upon a complaint made against him or, having extorted 3s. 6d. for improperly noting a bill of exchange. The complainant, Mr. Ward, a tradesman, residing at 16, Castle Street, Leicester Fields, stated that on the day . before he sent his boy to take up s bill which had become due, and lay for payment at the banker'e. The boy did not get to the hankers' until after the banking hours, and was told that the bill had just been sent off to Mr. Arm stead, the notary public. When be got to the house of the latter he tendered the full amount of the bill, for the time had not expired to justify noting it. The defendant object ed to one ball crown, because it would not ring, for it was in fact, one of the cracked ones, of defective execution, which were so plentiful in the last coinage. The boy said he thought it was silver, yet he would undoubtedly bring another for it, if Mr. Armstead would take the rest of the money, and allow him to hare the bill. Mr. Armstead, ' however, refused, and the boy returned to Castle Street, Leicester Fields. When the bill was applied for again, it was declared to be noted, and 3s. W. - demanded for the noting. The complainant produced the half crown which bad been tendered, and in strong terms complained of the defendant. The defendant said he weighed the half crown in a pair of gold scales, and found it deficient in weight. The complainant said he had weighed it, and was pre pared to say that it was weight. It was in the condition which many had been issued from the Mint, and though cracked was a legal tender. The Loan Meroa expressed his opinion that when all the rest of the money was tendered, it was rather sharp practice to detain and note the bill, because there was one objectionable bell crown which could not be changed in time. The defendant denied that the boy had assured him be ovoid return. In the multiplicity of daily transactions it would be extremely entbarraning to give such indolgencies as that which bad been asked when the money was flat cor rect. However, if the half crown upon trial, or by proper authority were declared a good one. he (Mr. Armstead), was ready to retnrn the 3s. 6d. be had taken. The complainant's boy declared be had given an assur ance that lie would return with another half crown. A long alterc s ation then took place on the case, but the half crown objected to was sent over to the Bank, where its goodness was decided by another being sent in exchange. Mr. Arinstead then acknowledged that he had been in error, retorned the three shillings and sixpence, and cancel led the noting of the bill. The Captiin of a Gravesend boat was summoned before the Lord Mavoi for refusing to remove his boat from Bil lingsgate Market when required to do so. This was a question which excited great interest amongst the proprie tors of the fishing and the Gravesend--boats, as it involved the question as to the right of the latter to lie alongside Billingsgate Market. The City Solicitor attended in behalf of the Yeoman of the market, who made the complaint. It is customary to ring a bell at high water when the Gravesend boats " cast off" from alongside the market, and make room for the fishing boats. The defendant, on the occasion in question, did not cast off, and cons' tinnily some boats with fish could not come in ; but it was proved on his part that there was at the time so high a gale of wind, that be could only get out his vessel by greet exertion and danger. The pro raietors of some of the Gravesend hosts contende d that th ey d a prescriptive right to lie alongside the market, and thet they were not bound to remove when it was incon ienient to them. They had been accustomed to lie in the dock for more than one hundred years, and for their 1 own convenience always went out when the bell rang at high water. The City Solicitor , on the other hand, read the Acts fur the regulation of the market, and clearly proved to the satisfaction of the Lord Mayor. that the Gravesend boats had no right whatever to lie where they did; that they lay there by sufferance only, and that the whole of the dock,and about it, had been exclusively devoted by the Legislature to the fish boats. The Proprietors of the Gravesend boats then made a pathetic appeal to his Lordship, and said they bad been greatly injured by the steam boats, and were severely re duced ; but if they were driven from alongside the market, and forced to lie off in the middle of the stream, their utter ruin would be the consequence, as no one would pay sixpence to be put on board them, when, for the same sum they might be put on board the steam boats—those dangerous things which the public so inconsiderately patronized, to the destruction of the river and all good sea manship. It was only the l jester cheapness of the Graves end boats that prevented the " steamer" engrossing all their business, and extirpating them. Mr. Saunders, and those who contended for the exclusive right of the fi sh boats, declared that they had no inte ntion I whatever, of doing any thing to injure the Gravesend boats. They merely wished to have it settled, and cleanly uoder stood that they only came by the side of the market upon sufferance, and provided they made way at high water for the fish boats, there was no intention to disturb the pre , sent practice. The LORD Mayon approved of this declaration, and the 'complaint was dismissed, upon the understanding that the Gravesend boats must always give way on the ringing of the bell for the fish boat=. Many complaints have been made recently at this office, of the speed at which the steam boats go at night tip and down the river, to the great danger of all the small boats, which in the dark can only avoid them with difficulty. BOW-STREET.—SIR. CORBETT AND TIIE TURNPIKE• MIIN.—One of the lessees of the Kensington trust, yesterday waited upon Mr. Mixsuut., and requested that the hearing which had been appointed for this day should be postponed. to suit the convenience of counsel, who was now attending the Sessions. After some discussion, the summoning clerk was dircted to communicate what had passed to Mr. Cobbett, and at the same time to inform him, that the cue was postponed until Wednesday next. CAIN ; A Mrsrenv.—Thomas Price applied to the 1 Magistrate for some sort of proceeding to compel one Mr. Johnson, a printer, in Ileautort-buildings, to give up to him certain reams of psper ; and he scarcelygot half through his complaint, when at r..lolinson stool at his side, calling upon the Magisti•ate to coamel him to pay far printing 1000 pirated copse l of Lord Byron's " Cain!' Price, it appeared, had engaged Johnson to print a certain number of Copies of 0 Cain ; a Mystery," for which he' fureished the paper, and undertook to pay for the printing according to au arrangem-nt mutually agreed upon between (bent. Johnson printed as many as a WOO copies of " Cain ; a Mystery," but " Cain; a Mystery ;" was too mysteriteis Co. the million. and became a drug—it would not sell even at the utice of 61. a copy ; and so Mr. Price could n 4 pay for the priming. The lOW copies of "Cain; a Mystery, ' were, consequeotly left upon ;mid. Johnson's hands ; who now declare-I that he could not sell them even for wade paper! And yet Mr. Price was r. unreasons'ile as to reiloire the Magistrate to compel the poor man to give up a small criaotAy of the paper " which remained un.rpoiled !" The Magistrate, however, refused to interfere in the matter, and after the parties had spent a lee minutes in calling each other bard names—such as filen, swindler, beggar, ate. they were cleared out. HATTON•GARDEN..--MAVIKING BEER IN THE STREETS. -e-Yeatertlgy Benjamia nod, landlord of the Friend at Hood puolic house, Colons'le, Ltrunstviek square, appeired to a summons, charged by Hodgson, Eq. of M. Upper 13cdford-plarr, with bituLiog beer about tLc sut•ets TEE STATESM4N he woman was then introduced into the Office, and on the prisoner beholding tier he seemed amazed, lifted up his hands, and when she at;:nitted the prisoner was her hut hand. Ile immediately cried out, " You are not my wife. ton are my sister." She instantly echoed, " I am not his wife, your Worship, I am his sister." The prisourr then desired her not to answer another question. lie re quested she might be removed from the- Office, as lie wished to communicate somethiog to the Magistrate. She was then taken away into another room. " flow can the woman be your sister," said the Magistrate, " fur ate declares she is an Irishwoman?"—"She is my sister-in law," answered the prisooer. lie added, if his Worship would forgive him this one offence. to he was a foreigner, for sale, contrary to An Of Iltpliipeepc, by which he was he would return to his own country .— " But where is y our liable to a penalty of 51. 'wife?" inquired the Magistrate. The prisoner wonld not Mr. Hodgson stated, peerless tp th answer. Ile, however, abused Mr. Plank, who reco gn i se d e evidence being . heard, that it was customary with the publicans in Inc him as being a suspicious character. nctiehbonrimeel to send out their servanti at all hours oil The Magistrate then told the prisoner he would be se n t the dap, even on Sunday, hawking beer in trays, and that' to Tothill-fielde' gaol for three months. all the respectable neighbours are annoyed by the constant Prisoner—l hope not, your Worshie ;be as merciful as cry of " Beer, beer," without its being ordered. To pat possible , a stop to the nuisance was his only * motive for laying the The Magistrate told him it was an act of lenity sending present information. He then called his servant to prove bim to Tuthill-fields ; for if he were to go to she (lo use o f the charge, John Davis deposed, he is servant to Mr. Correction, he would hare to lebour et the treadmi ll. Hodgson ;on last Sunday evening, about half past eight prisoner -1 would rather BO to Tothill - fields, if th e y had o'clock, the defendant'sserrant was hawking beer about the as good diet as they have at the House of Correcti o n. street in a tray, calling out beer.; witness's master told him Magistrate—Perhaps your wife will be able to assist (witness) to go and buy a pint of beer from him I he did you. so, and paid two-pence f er thing f or st ; th e beer was not Prisoner—l shall not ask her, neither do I wish to hurt ordered ; witness bought it as he might buy apples, or any her heart by describine my situation. thing else that was hawked about the street. l'he delen- Magistrate—How do you know the diet of the two dant put 1 questions to Mr. Hodgson, but was in- p a s ", e formed by Mr. SERGEANT SELLON, the Presiding Magis- Prisoner-1 have been at b.th place*, your Worship, and they are bad enough ; but at Tothill Fields we h a d b rea d trate, that it Wes better for him to be silent, as Mr. Hodgson slid not press for a conviction, and that his motive and water, and at the House of Correction plenty of m e w and soup ; if it had not been for the wheel, it would have was to put an end to the nuisance; that the offence was both against the condition of the recognizance he metered been pleasanter. into, and the tenour of his license, and by Act of Parliament Magistrate—Well ; you mar take your choice, eith er t o he was subject to a penalty of 51. for the first offence, 101. go to t h e trea d- m ill or"l'othili Fields. for the second, and 1001. and the forfeiture of his license Prisoner—Thep 1 will rather go to the tread-mill, far I forthe third offence—Abet his license authorised him to shall lire better. sell beer in his house, and no where else. The Magistrate He was then committed for three months to the House read the defendant a long lecture, and dismissed him on o f C orrect i on . paying the costs. MARTLEBONE.—A young Irishwoman, named Mary Mr. Sergeant SELLON, etre having consulted his brother Casey, was brought np on a warrant obtained against her Magistrates, yesterday gave his decision respecting the by the parish of St. alarylebone, charging her with having important mtestion whether parish officers have a right to stolen the child she then bad in her anus, a fine little girl, insist on knowing the residence of the mother of any about eighteen months ol 1. It appeared that the child Illegitimate child, which they only pay towards the mutin- was her own, but had been sent to the workhouse to be by maintained. She was told that it was improper is her to tenance of as the agent of the putative father, end are him reimbursed, and when they are acquainted with the take away the child, bet that she should be permitted to residence of the father, and with the place where the child v i s it It whenever she liked. ie at nurse. The Learned Sergeant observed that by an {Vermin. System—The driver of the hackney coach No. 720 was summoned to appear yesterday before Wm. Act of Parliament, parishes are empowered to cause the BEKETT, Esq.. for not depositing a shawl left i n hi s nether or father of any child to be apprehended on a coach, at the Haekney.coach office: fur by 55 George 111. Magistrate's warrant, if he or she shall refuse paying on c. 159. s. o, every driver not carrying' property left in his demand the pension ordered. Now bow is the parish to be secure from loss if it does not know their residences ? or coach within four days after it is so left, awl depositing the bow compel them to perform the conditions of the order of same in the Hackney coach office, is liable to a penalty not affiliation. As he considered the parish had shown good exceeding 201. reasons for refusing payment of the pension, he should Mr. Berry, a gentleman of respectable apprarance, stated. dismiss her application. that on the 2 . 211 of September last, Mrs. Berry eilearea QUILIN-11QUARE.—John Beeden was charged with de- the defendant's coach, and on quitting it she had left her serting his wife, a respectably dressed woman, and four shawl in the coach. It was true the shawl had been site* small children, and leaving them chargeable to St. Marge- returned, but that was io consequence of the search which ret's parish, Westminster, which parish sued bim for a which they expended upon was made for it. sum of 61., money his family. The defendant alleged it was a scarf, and not a 'shawl, Ile consented to allow Ss. per week, and was ordered to w hi c h " s l e f t. find security for the payment of the sum. Mr. BILNITT directed the shawl to be produced. MARLBOROUGH 87E1/BT.—Frederick Haase, a middle- Mrs. Berry said, that it is the scarf or shawl, which ever aged man, of decent appearance. was yesterday re-ela• you pleaae.to call i t. that 1 left i n the coach. mined, charged with having endeavoured to obtain money Magiotrate.—l cannot please to call it ; you must prove from Mr. John Jerznan, goldsmith and jeweller, St. James's . to sue that it is a *bawl which you left. Street, by means of fictitious recommendation's and false Mance, the officer, on looking at it, said it was a scarf ; representations of distress. The prisoner has long been it was of s long form, and that of a shawl was more 'Hoare. known to practise his tricks upon the benevolent, and has 6lagistrate.—lf it he a scarf, I meat dismiss the mine once or twice suffered for them ; however, he has again mons ; for in proceedings for realties, names ought to successfully carried on his schemes since he was last libe. he precise an d „ ruin ; and seeing the defendant without rated from prison. Mr. Fagan and others of the Mendicity v. ligel adviser, it is my duty to take the objection. Society, hearing the prisoner was taken into custody, came Mrs. Berry said, that the article when purchased, was to witness the examination, of which the following is a brief purchased as a shawl, and they bad always called it so outline : afterwards. Perhaps a dictionary would define it. . On Tuesday afternoon the prisoner applied to Mr. Jar. Johnson's Dictionary haviag been consulted Ivy the Clerk. mao, to alleviate a most distressing case. Ile said that he l ie stated, that "Scarf" was defined to be " any Skier had been recommended to him by Mr. Nosada, a jeweller that bulge loose on time shoulders, and " Shawl '' a part of Coventry Street; and by Mr. Parkinson, demist, of o f mo d ern f ema l e d ress brought from India, a kind o f Sackville-street. He tben presented a letter, purporting to c l oa k . be written by an attorney named Crows, of 14, Bishops- Mr. Meters was of opinion, there was a distinction gate•street, to which the names of many persons Were ash - between the two, and if this was a scarf, it ought not scribed in different kinds of hand-writing, with various to have been named a shawl in the proceedings ; and its sante of money affixed. The substance of the letter was, that account be dismissed the maroons, which he recent tbat the prisoner's family was in the deepest affliction, he meuded to be before the Commissioners. At the same tine having two children lying dangerously ill of the small pox, he thought Mr. Berry doing good to the public by pre end that his wife had recently met with a dreadfal calamity, carding s pi ne t the d r i ver for this offence. she having unfortunately had a fall, which shattered her The complaint was then dissnisted, on on understand leg so severely, that amputation was necessary to save log that is should net disparage a future decision. her life. Unton-uett.—Yesterdity, Ella. Betlend4us leer and Elks Mr. Jarman considered the !letter an imposition, and told Dunn were brought before R. F. Cuteness, Esq. charged dm prisoner he %mild not relieve ids. Upon which the with having feloniously stolen and misread we pillows, one latter broke out into a volley of abase, which induced Mr. sheet, and one pillow case, from their ready furnished swede J. to have him conveyed to this office. The Sitting Ma- memo in chapel.. . wet, Lambeth. Elisabeth Bellenden gistrate (on Tuesday evening) questioned the prisoner re- Ker, who, although destitute of decent clothing, had the specting where his wife's leg was amputated, and where appearance of having seen better days, represented herself he resided. The prisoner said, "he would sooner lose as near lineal descendant of the late Duke of Roxburele, his right arm" than answer those questions. He was ac• and as such had written letters to Lord Mulgrave and the cordingly sent to the watch-house, and Mr. Nosada and Duke of Portland, from whom abe obtained some relief. Messrs. Parkinson, were written to, requesting to know Mr. CHAMBERS questioned the prisoners as to the fact of "ether they had authorized the prisoner to use their their having made away with the property mentioned. bliss Names. Ker declared that she finew nothing about the things laid Messrs. Parkinsons did not attend, but they wrote say- to her charge, and her servant also totally denied any lag that the prisoner was wholly unknown to them, till knowledge of them; however, on searching the latter at about a fortnight back, when he pestered them very the bar. the duplicates of the stolen articles were found in much for money ; to get rid of him they gave him half- her pocket. 1147011'n. Mr. CHAMBERS, under all the circumstances, orderd Mr. Nosada said he knew nothing of him, and cone- both prisoners to be remanded ; and in the mean time s gave quently did not recommend him to the complainant. directions that the blendicity Society should be informed The chief officer, Mr. Plank, having learnt that a woman of the ease. was outside the doors inquiring for the prisoner, suggested to the Magistrate that she should be called in and ez- I On Sunday last, a wan eniellyeti in carrying out parcels attained. She accordingly entered, and said that she was from the 'relate' den coach, on its arrival in this town, was the sister of Ilause (the prisoner was not then at the bar), observed by two men in the employ of Mr. Sharp, of the and his not going home In the evening, as usual, alarmed Mitre Tavern, to go into the Mitre yard. From his man lier exceedingly; she feared that some accidenthad befallen ner, suspecting all was not right, they looked through a bim, and went to Middlesex Hospital to inquire. On small window, and saw him bteak open a parcel, which learning that he was not there, she could not conceive contained a quantity of game and some papers. The men what had become of him, and was wretched about it; at did not immediately apprehend him, but gave information length she accidentally learnt he was taken to the watch- of what they had seen to E. Poolly, the constable, who house on Tuesday night, and was to be brought up at this found him at the Rose and Crown, and lodged him in the Office for examination. watch-house. This was about the middle of the day, and The Magistrates inquired where she lived? She replied the watchhouse faces up High Street, yet, singular to relate, at Islington. She was asked to name the street; at this the prisoner contrived to break through an inner partition. she pretended to faint away. After remaining ten minutes and taking off the lock of the, outer door, he succeeded ikt in a feigned illness, she c o nfessed th a t she was the wife of making hits escape. The stolen parcel proved to be one Haase, and that they lived at No. S, Little Chester- sent to T. L. Hodges, Esq. of Hetusted.—(dfaidetoue street, Mary-la-bonne. Gazette.) The Magistrate then inquired how long she bad been ADJOURNED INQ UEST . — SINGULAR CASE. — Yesterbv married, and was told two years. He asked if she had the In q uest upon Mrs. Ann Anthony. the wife , of Michael Anthony, offee roaster, met with any accident lately? She replied she had nor, Worcester Place, Garlick MI , but some years back, when In service, she had her shoulder , syas resume d, . hone broken. He then inquired if she bad injured her r hames . , Street before THOM AS SHELTON, EST and a re• at the Brown Bear. Garlick Hill, Upper leg? She answered she had slightly, but it was quite well spectable Jury. Verdict—Natural Death. now. it was manifest to every one present that she had no wooden leg. She was then taken into the private room, ' and Hause was then placed at the bar without his suspecting that any one had been examined. On being questioned as to whether the letter he had presented was true or not, be most unequivocally declared it was all true. He underwent a minute examination as to the particulars of This marriage and his wife's accident. He said that be had been married eight years,- es ti that his wife hail her leg' amputated above the knee about eighteen months hack. But he persisted in his determinetion nut to name the place where the operation uas perfumed, nor the place of his residence. • BIRTH.—On Tnesday morning, in Driminirt-vtreet. Mrv. Danl. tain, of three childsen, two boys and a girl; who, with the mother, are doing well. 34 ARRIEn.—on the 13th instant, at Reading. the Rev. Philip, Filleul. Rector of St. flrelades. and Lecturer of St. Aid:ibis*, Jersey, to Catherine Elizabeth Blanch, fourth daughter; and the Bev. Peter French, of Wading. to Penelope Arabella. youngest daughter of Dr. Valpy, of Reading. On the lath of January last, at Walcot Church, Rath. John Sam. Williams, Esq. late of the 3d Regiment. of Bengal Cavalry. to Harriet, second daushter of Captain Dyer, of the Royal Navy, and Mete to the late Sir J. Dyer. hart. On Monday. the 13th instant, at Scampton. near Lincoln. Thome Water house Ram Esq., of the Middle Temple, London, barrister at law. to mail Ann, fourth daughter of the late Rev. Dr. lllingwerth.of the former plate. DIED.—Ou Friday. the lOth instant, at Herebii d, aged 7ti. John Wehhe. Westun. Esq.. of Sutton place, In Surrey,and ot Sarnesfield Cora. is Here* fordshlre. 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