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QU.AR.4IIIITINE A,T ANG4I.E CR.E AK: 5 I RON TBE JOURNAL Or A sasysi.tee.l 4. 1 at Gibraltar on the 13th of May, in a evi -1 ' nol INN Alexandria. laden with linseed, and arrived at o , -tangate Creek on the sth of July, 1825. We were in named that our quarantine would be 21 days. On the nth, however, it was announced to ns that we should be attained only ten days from that date. At this our un evicted good fortune, the health guardians, I could evi -1 dently perceive, were very much disappointed, as well as extremely annoyed, at the changes which had recently taken *De her the quarantine regulations, which they feared Y would Mad to the total abolition of the system. IVe were tartlet-ad to send part of our hacgage on board the qua:an- Sine hulk, retaining our feather beds, and the necessary -, articles of dress, although we could not, for our-part, see 4 f i n what respects these articles, in point of dagger to the public health, differed from each other ; nor was there any distintstien made between the clean and soiled clothes, nor Iliteween those from Alexandria and those from Gibraltar. tome of the mats were also sent to the Lazaretto, whilst Lupdreds of them were retained in the ship, to he landed without purification in London. Another vessel arrived • an the same day from Alexandria, laden with cotton and I boned. The masters mutually visited each other, the slither remaining in his boat alongside his friend's ;hip ; , and thus they drank grog, handing the full and empty to each other. At first the precaution of taking a 'C IiP 7I: guardian in the boat of the visiter was practised, bat latterly this ceremony was sometimes dispersed with. Thus the regulations were infringed in the presence of the guardians; and thew officers, seemingly without entertain ing much apprehension of contagion, or perhaps to counter , set it, participated in the enjoyment of the glass without restraint. Paints and paint brushes, newspapers, &c. were • .also sent freely from vessel to vessel. I do not say that them was any danger in this freedom; the absurdity ap gears to consist in imposing any restrictions at all, especi ally on a vessel which bad been 98 days on the passage from Alexandria to Stangatc Creek. Out baggage was peremptorily ordered to be sent to the Lazareuo, and we.received an assurance from the super- Edant that it would be restored to us on the release of ship. Bat on the 15th, three days previous to our tion, we were informed that as the baggage of another ihip, which had two days more of quarantine to serve, had been put on board the same hulk with ours, we could not receive it until that ship had also finished her quarantine; consequently, we must either retain two days longer for our baggage, or incur the expense,. risk, and inconvenience cf having it trananitte by a lighter. The vessel in ques tion bad arrived on the same day wi:h our own, but too late to transmit the intelligence by post to London, so that the diffirrence of a few minutes as to the period of arrival may make the difference of two days in the period of re /ease, and this although the ship last arrived may have been tke first to have left Alexandria. This detention of baggage was therefore not only preposterous, but arbitrary and even wanton. The Captain in vain remonstrated. He stated that his crew and passengers were destitute of wear ing apparel, having only the suits which they had in im- Imediate use. This was particularly hard on the sailors, i who ate discharged on their arrival in London ; and in this case, as they were mostly natives of Liverpool and its ntighlx,nrhood, to which they wished to return, they were obliged either to depart without their clothes, or to wait in London spending their hard-earned wages, until it should (Anse die owner of the ship to send for their luggage. On the day of our release we were visited by the Saper intendant, who demanded his customary fee, as he said, for commission. It is reported that he expects a guinea per mast for his attentions in supplying the incarcerated with provisions, &c. He was referred to the broker, who lie was told would comply with his request, if it was proper. It is rather unfortunate that the persons who are shut up in quarantine iu this wretched creek should not be able to depend upon being supplied with articles of sub sistence of the best quality, although an extravagant price i is charged. It was said that the Superintendent, whose duty it is to see that the articles supplied are of a good quality, and at a reasonable price, is the person who bene fits by the supply of these articles, at a profit said to be corrmous. During the first six days, certainly, the milk was good, and other articles proportional; for the last four it was sour, and watered ; the bread stale, the fruit bad, 0 the meat unfit for use after the first or second day, having born killed many days before. As there is no efficient control, it would be well if passengers were more fre quently to give an account of their treatment in quarantine. The quarantine establishment at Stangate Creek con sists of one guard-ship, one hospital-ship, in which there • Ms never been a sick person, and five large hulks, which And bet-a either seventy-fours or tbree-deckers, with about Ito persons, who may be almost saitl to be idlers. Mr Saunders, the Superintendant, resides at a distance of 15 miles from the Creek ; and Mr. Dixon, the second in office, rit the distance of about 10 : there are two doctors, both of whom reside in the interior, making occasional but not daily riots. DEirzRATZ OCTRAGE.-013 Thursday evening, between Ilk end seven o'clock, Webster, the gaoler of Mary-la berme police-oice, was atta:ked and nearly murdered, in Tottenham-court-road. He '.tad deposited several prisoners in Clerkenwell prison, and was returning towards the office, .nil when at the end of Tottenham-street, a tall, powerful liiniciug man came up to hint, and said, " Is ?our name Webster; don't you belong to the police-office?' Webster answered in the affirmative. The stranger then looked teund, and coming close up to the officer, said, " I have 'allowed you some time, knowing you to be the same." Webster, rather 'surprised, looked in the man's face, and instantly recognised him to be a desperate smuggler named Adkin, whom he had four years since apprehended on the sassfor smuggling, and an attack upon some of the re venue officers, for which the fellow was sentenced to im prisocment. The moment he found himself recognized, the radian said. " I will now be revenged, you d—d in lensing rascal," and, seizing Webster by the throat, dash ed him to the earth. Webster, as soon as he could get upon his feet, grasped the fellow's collar, calling out to se veral persons, who had assembled, to assist him in the King's name ; but the !titian swore in the most horrible manner that he would kill the first that dared to interfere, and gain dashed the unfortunate 'Webster- to the earth, and beat him in a dreadful manner, leaving him on the ground 11111406 L lifeleas. Although above one hundred persons were assembled, not one interfered in any way, nor attempted to: moire the miscreant. Webster was removed into a shop' by two gentlemen who caine up, and his wounds being deamed, he recovered his senses, and attended at Mary-la home office before Mr. Griffisit ) who hes directed a most, active pursuit. Para'. ACCIDENT.—On Saturday morning last, about ton o'clock, as Mr. Jonathan Flower, of Downham-market, in the county of Norfolk, builder, was leaving home in his jg , drawn by a young spirited horse, he suddenly started aillr with the most furious and ungovernable impetuosity, Mr. Flower having scarcely seated himself ; and, in dash through the town, the gig unfortunately knocked down Itr,. George White, of Wilusbothem, near Downham, a sopeotable, but infirm and nearly blind man, of the age of ei yeaur, who was Imprieleetly walking on the middle of the street or highway, when the off shaft entered his right art", most dreadfully lacerating it to the shoulder, and the Ighesi t hat over him, he was so miserably wounded and hajtiW that he expired the following day. Mr. Flower was is the most imminent peril of coining in contact with a tats .art then standing near the Castle Inn, in which ease he must inevitably have been dashed to atoms ; hut most providentially he just cleared it, and with great pre sence of mind rctatned his seat till he had the good for tune to get the mastery of the animal, and cheek his mad sad desperate career, when about half a mile from Down hem, on the Lynn road. Mr. F., as may reasdnably be suppeesti, is much distressed in mind at the lamentable fate of the above poor old man, upon whose body an in *pleat was held on Monday last, when a verdict of " aesi dastal death" was returned, with a deodand of ten abil legs upon the horse add gig, the former of which Mr. }1...7-^r is dstermined to dispose of immediately.—Cost-1 4.44 e Chr . itia Bee La BIT.—At Sarson, lately, a shepherd ob secy.& a hawk descend and pick up something with its dews out of the grass, and rise again immediately, ascend to el considerable height 111 the air, when it suddenly fez to die ground ;he ran to the spot and found the hawk thud, but a stoat, which ha.l sucked its blued during its aerial aseevision, made of into's bodge Ware it mild be' kelhd .--Dursrt Chrentek. • CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday morning an inquest was held at the GreyheandTavem, Kennington Common. before RICIIARD CAllTell, E"., on view of the body of Mr. William Webb, a tespeotablo wine-oisrehant, who destroyed himself on Weinewlsy night. Jane Knowlton, who lived in the deceased's service in Church. row, Lambeth, dity•ed, that on Wednesday night, shout eleven i o'clock, when the family were about to retire to rest, the deceased called her, and inquired whether the candle was extinguished in the kitchen. On being answered in the atiirreetise be said, " that's right," anti walked back into the parlour. Witness did not hear any more of him that night. The following morning, about 4..!11 minutes before six o'clock, on her coming down stairs, she per. I teived her matter's chnir.ber door open, and being surprised at that circumstance she walked into thwerioni, and discovered that it had not been sleet in. She then called her young master, who im. mediately hurried on his clothes. and they both proceeded over the house in search of the deceased, for whose safety they had the mast alarming apprehensiens. Bet 31r. Webb was not he found, and they proceeded to the stable. where they "saw him lying on his back ; the blood was flowing front his mouth, and he had a pistol firmly grasped in hilt right hand. Witness immediately went the medial assistance, and a surgeon accompanied her bock, who pro.. Dowered her master to be dead. ln March last two of her roaster:a sons died, and be had been in a low and desponding state of mind from that period, and more than usually so during the last few days. 11:r. Bryant. a surgeon, deposed that on examining the deceased he discovered that the roof of the mouth was completely destroyed by the contents of a pistol, which appeared to have beta discharged into the mouth. tie had known the deceased, who was a man of grent respectability, for several years. Within the last tive'or six months past he had observed in him a deep rooted melancholy, so much so that the moment he was called to attend him he was of of opinion that the deceased had destroyed himself in a lit of temporary insanity reclined by the above causes. The Jury were satisfied as to the state of mind in which rite deceased was when be committed suicide, and returned a verdict— " That the deceased had destroyed biMself whilst laboutiog wades. a fit of temporary insanity." GROSS NEGLECT OF A NURSE. Yesterday evening an inquisition was held at the Oriffia, NIL lien-street , Strand, before T. Higgs. Esq., on the body of a child named William Shand, aged aescri months, which was alleged to have died through the neglect of its nurse. Mr, William Shand, of Buckingnam-atreet, artificial leg-makes, stated that the deceased was witnexes son; last Tuesday week he I took the deceased, who was silting in hash'', to a woman, Mrs. Mary Biggs at Ealing-dean, Afiddlettex, for the purpose of weaning. Mrs. Fhand left the deceased in Afro. Bigg's arms. He received a letter Mat Thutoday week from Afro. B. elating the chiid was in good health bat had not forgotten the breast. On Moodsy morning last, about six o'clock, witness's mother-in-law came up to town and informed him of the dangercips state or the child ; he instantly procured a hackney-coach, and sent Mrs. Shand, Who returned about two o'clock the same day. Witness had Mr. Mac donaid, a medical gentleman, in attendance; he examined the child, and dressed the wound or sores, and he died about one o'clock r-xt morning. Mr. 1 0 . Macdonald, of Buckingham-street, surgeon, corrobo rated the evidence of Mr.:i!:and. . In answer to a question by a Juror, this witness stated, that if medical assistance had been resorted to earlier, the child's life ' might have been saved in his opinion, at least from the naturally strong, constitution of the child. Mary Bigg, the wife of John Ili:;, of Ealing-dean, said, the child was brought to her nurse, and last iVednesday week she dis covered he was somewhat relaxed in his bowels; she gave him some arrow-root during the evening, and by two females who were going to town she sent s message respecting the child's health; she sup. posed his mother would have called on Sunday with some baby linen, but she never came, and witness was, in consequence, com. pelled to wrap the child up in any thing she could make use of. By the Foreman of the Jury.—Did you ever state to the grand. mother the sores on the child ?—Ycs, Sir, I did, and she said it was the tooth-rash ; witness frequently applied fuller's earth on the body, and some of it might have got on the *ores, but it was never purposely applied. John Bigg, the husband of the nurse, stated, that he paw the child undressed the lint nigh, and that it had several sores about the body ; they had the appearance of blind biles. Mrs. Maria Sband, the another of the deceased, declared that when she delivered the infant to the nurse it was tree from spot or blemish. , Dire. Bigg, the nurse, persisted in denying this statement. After some further diseussion, which lasted till eleven o'clock, the Jury unanimously agreed to the following verdict :—" The de ceased came by his death in consequence of the gross neglect and inattention of the nurse, Mary Bigg." PALACE Courr.—ln consequence of the death of Bur ton Morice, Erg. the Judge of the Palace Court, which en happed on We dnesday lest, the sittings are suspended, and the eases which stood for heating yesterday were of ' necessity adjourned till Friday next. CRISIS& METHOD or RPAIIIIIO Duces.—ln China, the rearing of ducks is an object of great moment. In that country the major part of them are hatched by artificial heat: the eggs, being laid in boxes of sand, are placed on a brick hearth, to which is given a proper beat during the time required for hatching. The ducklings are fed with crawfish and crabs, boiled and cut small, and afterwards mixed with boiled rice; and in about a fortnight they are , able so shift for themselves. The Chinese then provide them with an old stepmother, who lends them where they are to find provender, being first put on board a sampane, or boat, which is destined for their habitation, and from which a whole flock, often, it is said, to the amount of three or four hundred, go out to feed and return at corn-I mend. This method is used nine months out of twelve, for in the colder months it does not succeed, and is so far from a novely, that it may be every where seen ; but more especially about the time of cutting the rice, and gleaning the crops, when the masters of the duck-sampanes row up and down the river, according to the opportunity of pro curing food, which is found in plenty at the ebb-tide, on the rice plantations, as they are overflowed at high water. WITCHCRAFT,—In Exeter the belief in witchcraft pre vails, and that too in one of its principal streets, and al most in the very centre of the city, where, at the thresh old of a door of a tradesman, who is ill and under the supposed influence of witchcraft, has been exhibited for seversl days, a horseshoe, firmly nailed, to prevent the fuel hog from gaining access to the interior of the house.— Exeter Flying Poll. FIRE IN CIIOIIEII-STHET.T.—About one o'clock yester day morning, the shop of Mr. Spencer, oil. 'an, No. 54, Crumer-street, near the Foundling Hospital, was discovered to be on fire. The alarm spread instantly through the street; and by the alacrity of the neighbours the fire was got under before it communicated to any other part of the house, or before the arrival of any of the fire-engines ; although a great part of the goods in .the shop was de stroyed or damaged. We regret to state, that a young man, named Edgeley, had his hands and face severely scorched, in his praiseworthy exertions to quench the fire. The house and property were insured in the Britannia As surance Office. _ _ _ A very fine and promising child, 15 months old, (laugh. ter of Mr. Mann, Drake -street, Plymouth, one day last week was burnt to death. The servant seeing the child's dress wet, proceeded to dry it by holding it to the fire. Finding it was saturated with turpentine, she went to pro.• cure a change, and on her return, she found the child (in imitation of what she bad just been herself doing) holding up her frock to the fire, which was instantly in a 'blase, awl therms infant was ultimately so burnt as to cause her death after a day of the most poignant coffer ings.—Doesetshire Paper. The villages of Easton and Coll}•wcston, near this place, were agitated on Wednesday and yesterday, by the dis covery of the body of a newly-born ftsnale child, which had been deposited in a grave dug in a garden at the latter village. The Coroner from Kettering attended at Collywes ton yesterday, and held an inquest on the body, then lying in the church. Suspicion of murder fell on a young 111/- married woman named Maydwell, living at Easton, and who, according to the testimony of a medical gentleman of Stamford, had lately been delivered of a child. The young woman (Y 6 years of age) is the daughter of a pauper living in the pariah of Pilsgate, but has a sister living at Collywcston, in the garden of whose house the corpse was found on Wednesday. by some persons who had ;awn to suspect that fold play had been used with the infant. Upon the usual examination of the lungs, with a view to ascertain whether breath had been drawn, it was the medical nisn's opinion that the child had been and the Jury returned a verdict to that eflict. The woman (Mrs. Smith) in whose garden the body was found, stated that that was the fact, and that she bad therefore (after her mother from Pilsgate had acted as midwife to ha sister) taken away the body in a basket from Easton to Collyweston, and buried it privately. It is believed that the parish of Easton will prosecute the mother for the crime of concealing the birth.—Lincoln Mercury. ilunotaay.—Thursday night, or early yesterday morn ing the residence of John Soignee, ilf.sq. High Bailiff' of Southwark, was entered by sane villains, ale farad the iron bu of theme window. A consulerabloquantity of plate and wearing apparel was earned off, which the thieves packed up by the light of the hell lamp. which thew lit for the purpose. %%we is no doubt of their being experienced deprtaton. Ibe aiirar.raounstris of a dritiltiog-born wee taken etl end tin horn left behind. The sob. bery was not discovered till }ever* martin`, when isforassairxi girsa at the Tose-1141. CHESTER CIRCUIT. CHESHIRE ASSIZES, Ciusszt, Atrom 31. ROBIN/10V V. wooDwirr.n. Thls-was an action on two several bonds brought by the plain. ta agsMOt the defendant, his nephew, to recover the sum of 4301., after a lapse of twenty-three years. The defendant denied his , liability. I Front the statement of Mr. Sergeant CR o‘9, it appeared that the plaintiff had lent the defendant's rather, in his life time, two several sums amounting to the abcre. The defendant was the heir-at-law of his father. and hail jtv.t come into possession of landed property to the amount of 1401. per minim. The widow of the deceased had taken out letters of administration, and the plaintiff now sought to recover his demand. M?. WILLIAMS. on the par: of the defendant, took an objection to the stamps, and cited the 48th Geo. 111. C. 49, which required an ml-uslortin duty to :he extent of the money borrowed where mart- Igaged deeds secompai,ied the bonds. In this instance the stamp on the second bond wal only 1/. IN. The CHIEF J usz inn overruled the objection, and the fart went to the -fury, who, under Ids Lordship's direction, found for the plaintiff, and assessed the land under the Act of King William to be of the value of 2,0001. POLICE. STEAM.PACKATS. Masetou.wonau, SEPT. 2.—lt will be recollected that on a former day a complaint was made here regarding the tr.i4conduct of some persons connected with hteam.packets, and to-day, Mr. W. I. Hall. and Mr. De Buck, two of the Managing Directors of the (leneral Steam Navigation Company. together with Captain Mar tin, of the City of Loudon steam-packet. and two other persons who were on board the packet, attended for the purpose of Trim- Mg the complaint. The matter of complaint made to the Lord Mayor was, that a female servont of the complainant, and his three children, were crossing the river in ahoat, under the care of a waterman. Now, this first statement, the Captain assured his Lordship, war quite inczrreet ; for, Instead of crossing the river under the care of a watermam they had been merely sent out for recreation on the river, which fact the complainant himself admitted in a letter ad dressed to, and inserted in a certain morning raper ; but on the contrary, they were In a boat by themselves. lashed alongside a barge, in which were the complainant, lighterman, and his ap prentice. The bares was dropping down the river, pith the tide, and the steamer craning up against it; and the captain of . the steamer, ir,stead of wantonly running against the barge, used every effort to avoid this particular barge, as also another barge which was near, and that immediately it warn seen that one or other of rite barges was likely to come in contact with the steamer, and before they actually touched each other, the engines of the steam ves-9 were stopped. It was true that the moment the boat was, by the heeling round of the barge, cast against the steam WWI, that the lightettran was in the boat, but he had only just jumped into her in time to east her off, and bear her astern, which would have cleared her of the steam vessel, and which, if he had been in the boat 'las he ought to have been), be might have prevented the ac cident. It was stated, that the complainant's lighterman was, from deafness, incapable of hearing any direction which might be given to him, that the assertion of the complainant, that at the time of the accident the steam vessel was proceeding at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, was, on the face of it, evidently a gross ex aggeration, for which all the late material improvements and in. creased experience in steam navigation, it was yet impossible to propel a vessel, teem of double the power of the one in question, at the velocity above stated. When going at the greatest speed, bib vessel never went more than nine miles an hour, and to and from Greenwich never more titan six, being within the prescribed regulations of the city. A regular log-book was kept for the in. spection of the Directors, by which it would appear that a due conformity had been paid, not only to th. regulations, but every precaution used to prevent accidents and injury to property. The Loki) MAYOR regretted that any erroneous statement pre judicial to the proprietors of .the noun-packets should have gone abroad, particularly as die statement strU entirely expiate. The representation now made altered materially the nature of the occur rence in his Lordship's opinion ; but as the complainant was not pre+ nt. he could not pretend to give a decided opinion The Captain stated that he had waited on the complainant, and intimated the intention of the Directors of waiting on his Lordship, to remove the false impression formed by his misrepresentations; he had ;lot, however, thou: ht proper to attend. The Loan MAYOR said in future he should, as he lead grown more experienced is the matters, never listen to the statement of any complaint, without both parties being present. The Directors thanked his Lordship for the attention they had exper:enced, and added that on every occasion they would give the fullest explanation of their proceedings. DISPUTED IDENTITY. ...- BOW -STREET, SEPT. 2.—The hackney-coach case, which we reported yesterday, came on again to-clay at one o'clock. The pre valent opinion was, that there was obvious collusion betwixt the two coachmen. _ _ . Mr. Martin and the witnesses attended, and their evidence of yesterday was read over to them, subscribed by their names. Thomas Mitchell, the street-keeper of the Sttand, upon being asked whether he was as fully convinced to.day as he was yester day that the driver, Thomas Neate, who stated his coach to be the landau, MK was the offender named in the information, he answered, "I am perfectly satisfied that he is the man. If I were to die the neat moment I would swear that he is the man, and that the little one was not." Ile went on to state that there had been some difficulty with respect to the Waterman of the stand in the Strand. They could not by any means get him to attend. The neat witness, Edward Wallace, repeated the evidence which he delivered yesterday. He declared that he had not the least doubt as to the identity of the mat) Thomas Neste. He was also confirmed in his opinion by what he bad yesterday observed of the conduct of the two coachmen in the office. They looked at and nudged each other, and seemed to have a perfect understanding. He frequently observed one touch the other, and whisper, although the pretended to have no acquaintance. The man who yesterday answered to the summons, and owned himself the culprit, was not present this morning. Neste, during the wbolc of the evidence against him, regarded his SCCIIIIttII with a mixed air of confidence in his own innocence, and indignation. When railed upon for his defence, he said he could bring as respectable witnesses to disprove the charge as Mr. Martin him self. lie declared that he was the object of a moat shameful per secution. This assertion, in so clear a cue, only excited the laughter of those present. Ilia first witness was the waterman of the hackney-coach-stand at Adam-street, West, Digeware-road. This man stated that, on Saturday night Thgrnas /Suite was in the coffee-shop, Edgeware road, at half-past al ; he came to the stand at five minutespast six. He left the coffee-shop about twenty minutes to seven, to take up a fare. Mr. Martin eroas.examined this witness very narrowly as to his knowledge of the time, who, however, seemed to establish the truth of his testimony. Mr. Martin here shook his head, and reminded the coachman that be had yesterday talked about the gentleman whom be had driven. Yes, your Worship, here he is. Mr. Samson then stepped forward. He said that he resided at No. 47, Ilryanstone-squire, and oo Saturday night. as it rained herd, he hired this coach, in place of using his own carriage, to take his children to the play. He was positive chat this was the man, as he bed him at the door for ten minutes, and had talked to Woo about returning; he had also brought him his stick, left in the coach, the following morning. It was about twenty minutes to seven when be came to the door, and it was past seven when he set him down at the Haymarket theatre. He drove carefully all the war, and was perfectly sober. The other witnesses swore positively that the time of their seeing the coachman flogging his horses in the Strand was 20 minutes to seven ; and they both consulted good clocks for the purpose of fix ing the time precisely. ' Mr. Martin, upon this clear evidence of an alibi, immediately consented to withdraw his information. The coachman, however, with much vehemence, declared that he would not be pulled about in this manner; he had just come out of prosecution for felony ; been three months in gaol ; and stood three hours and a•half to hear his life sworn away, when he wssivird **alibi, .o*4 the rean VP NMI to pay the expences of the indietwiewt. If Mr. Martin Pat Aout evacMitiging false bares* edlians to ruin his character and property, he should bear more ofd. THE TABLES TURNED. HATTON HARDEN. SEPTEMBER 2—Ur/up/as Ward, person of genteel appearance, residing at No. 67, IE-moo-garden, was brought up by John Pickworth, an occuioual night-constable of that Liberty. Pickworth deposed that as he was this morning, at about one o'clock. pas.sing the corner of Craw -street, Hatton-garden, the prisoner and another person whistled and shouted in the jockey or , groom style; upon which he turned round and asked them whether they took him for a horse, they replied that they did not, but pro. 'I ended to call him by very opprobrious epithets ; in consequence of which he gave them into the charge of the constable of the night, by whom one of them was released, there being no actual moot' of his having offended the delicate ears of the " occasiouil" night. conatsble to the same extent as his boisterous companion, who now stood beio-e Mr. Sergeant Salton to answer this very serious cbarge of " whistling wr.d booting." Pickworsh was proceeding in a very animated strain to expose his own grievances, and what he con. ' sidered to be a breach of the public peace, according to the opinions 'I lately laid down, when he was interrupted by Mr. Sergeant &Ilion., and desired to state whether the defendant had atm* him. T. this he replied that he certainly had not committed such an outrage, but that his conduct altogether was of a description which rendered his Juvrthension proper, and perfectly within the limits of what he (Pickwortb) conceived to be the legal authority of the guardians of the night. The defendant, when called upon, met the charge with an ahscs-1 lute denial of the facts, and mewl that Yickwoeth alone was the aggressor, he having, without cause or provocation, assailed him with very virulent Language, at a moment when he wu in earnest conversation with his friend, a law-stationer, relative to some pro- I petty in Norfolk,of which be was about indispose, and that, so Air from his having made any noise, the tone in which they conversed was so low, that it was impossible for a person to distinguish what ' they said at • distance of throe feet. The defendant further stated, that theconsluet of Pickwurtli, in intetrupting their conversation, and using virulent language, was such as to induce him to threaten In put hint into tiss waschbouse, upon which Pickwottb emerald a ,sbeihr threat, and pet st late execution ageidet bimetal end Ws I friend. To corroborate dile stameneakhlr. Ward called ble irked. the law-5401:er, who conercied it ',Shell point, wiCh the simple dmission of their having, in the heat of the stenent, called Pick worth a humbug. Mr. Sergeant Sr.LLOS here observed, that Pickworth had not , been justified in his conduct towards the defendant, and that he was bound to offer the most ample apology to Mr. Ward, as it was not to be supposed that a constable could be justified in confining a person upon such a charge. Even had the language been brought 'home to the defendant, anti the words " fool and scoundrel," than which nothing could be more opprobrious, been used, there still would not have been ground for the arrest and imprisonment. Mr. Ward hastily interrupted Mr. Sergeant Sellon, to observe that he did not consider the dismissal of :he constable with a mere reprimand as a sufficient atonement for the outrage which had been inflicted upon his personal liberty, and that he would as suredly carry the matter further ; but upon the learned Magistrate advising hint to accept the apology and let the matter rest, he agreed td do so, provided it was offered In the course of the day. • INSOLENCE REWARDED. 172EICSQLTARE, SEPT. 2.—Wttfiarts Potter, the drive the r of the hackney-coach No. V. appeared before Martxnax n, Magistrate, to answer the complaint of a gentleman named Street, residing in Old Compton-street, Soho, for exaction, and abuse to his tare. Mr. Street stated that, on 3lonclay night se'nnight, he had been with his slater, who resides in' Tufton.street, Westminster, to spend the evening with' a friend, and on their way home tie en. gaged the defendant's coach at the stand, at the Marsh-gate. and desired him to drive to the end of Tufton.street, nearest West minster Abbey. On resetting his destination, he presented the defendant with one shilling, well knowing that to he the fare, having rode • the same distance repeatedly. The coachman, on seeing the shilling, asked what that was for ? The complainant told him, our his fare. " Sly fare is half-a-crown, and I'll have it, or I'll punch ' , out head," said the coachman. Witness told him that he would not pay him such an exhorbitant demand, and warned him of the consequences; whereupon he called him a —, and that he had made a of his coach. His conduct became so outrageous that he caused a mob of persons to assemble round him and his sister, and he was obliged to re move into an adjoining honse for her personal safety. and she now remained in a very ill condition front the effitcts of the alarm. At length an officer came up, who head the insolence of the defendant, and he advised witness to pay him the half-a-crown, and to take his number. This he had done, and had now brought him forward to atone for his misconduct. John Weale,gan officer belonging to this establishmeut, stated, that he was near the spot on the night in question, and saw upwards of 100 people congregated around the complainant, who was con. tending about the fare ; witness heard the coachman demand 2s. 6d. and he well knowing the fare to be a long shillings.worth„ advised him to pay him, and take his number. Weale declared that in the course of his experience, he had never heard sueh ill-language made use of, as was by the defendant. He threatened him once or twice to take his coach to the green-yard, and him to the watch. house ; witness saw the complainant pay the coachman two shil lings and sixpence. The Coachman said, he did not demand the half-crown for his fare; but that, he said to the -complainant, on living him the shit. l ling, that he ought, as a gentleman, to Aive him 2s. 6d. as he had made his coach dirty. lie Mill persisted in his impudent' as. Isertion of his coach having been made use of, fur an improper purpose, The Magistrate told him he was a most impudent fellow, aid be would take care he should not go unpunished. Mr. Street said, that he more than once threatened to knock his d—d head off; if he did not tie the 2s. fid. The Coachman stoutly denied this, and accused the complainant of striking him with his fist. Mr. MARKLACD on looking to the list of hackney-coach fares, found that from the Lambeth Marsh-gate, to Tufton-street, the fare was a short eighteempenny-worth, and thereupon, ordered the additional shilling which had been exacted to be returned to Mr. Street, and convicted the coachman in the penall of 20s. and costs, which altogether amounted to 11. 10s. fel. The unfortunat Jelin very reluctantly paid the money and left the office very dejectedly. THAMES OFFICE, SEPT. 2.—John Baptiste was put to the bar, before T. R !CREEL r., Esq. the presiding Magistrate, charged by Thomas Lewis with being one of the persons who surrounded him on the sth of August, in Thames-street, and robbed him of eight gold seals. Thomas Lewis being called and sworn. gave the following evi dence. On the sth day of August, between three and four o'clock in the morning, I was surrounded by four or live persons in Thames -street, end eight gold seals were taken out of my right hand waistcoot.pocket, by one of the persons who surrounded me. Magistrate—Turn to the prisoner, and say, whether you know him to be one of the persons who surrounded you at the time you lost your property.? Witness—.l believe him to be one of the persons; his voice is quite familiar to me. After I had been robbed, the persons who surrounded me separated ; one of them I kept to; he went along Thames-street, in the direction for Tower-hill ; I told him of myi loss, and that I considered one of his party must have them; and I should be much obliged to them to return them to me ; the man said, he knew nothing about me or the seals either ; observing he wished to get from me, I took hold of him ; he then struck me, and said I was accusing an innocent man ; I kept him in tow, till another man, belonging to the game gang, came up; he was secured, and afterwards committed to Newgate, from this office. Michael M'Carthy, the next witness called and sworn,. deposed, lam a watchman in the Tower Ward. On the sth of August I was stationed in Thames -street, and about four o'clock I was stand. log at the end of Water-lane, and saw a hustling between four or five men, and a short time afterwards three or four of them went together towards Billingsgate, and two others went up Harp-lane. 1 was relieved at this time, and went up Water-lane, at the top of which I met the prosecutor, and, to the best of my belief, the pri- Boner at the bar with him. In Tower -street, Thomas, a watchman, was calling the hour of four, and I heard the prosecutor call to him to take charge of the other man for robbing him. Thomas told the prosecutor to go to the watch-house and there give his charge. The prosecutor again solicited the watchman Thomas to take the charge, and he replied—" No, I will not." John Beaumont sworn—l am a watchman of St. Hatolph-with out, Aldgate. On the sth of August I was staticesed at the top of King-street, Tower-hill, and about half-past four o'clock in the morning I saw the prisoner and two other men crossing Tower-hilL They passed me, and went down Rosemary-lane. Tile prisons: was in deep conversation with one of the party. Magistrate to the watchman—Do you know the prisoner P Witness—Yes, your Worship, I have known him for four or five years; he has always been pointed out as a notorious bad ; character. . _ - -, I Samuel Thomas sworn.—On the 3th of August I was a watch: man, and remember a person, who appeared very dirty, wishing me to take charge of a person who he said had robtictl him, and I be- Here it was the prisoner I was to have taken into custody; but, as there had been many charges during the night made without foun dation, I did not take the charge. There were a number of corn porters standing by at the time, and two of them said, that is the man (meaning the prisoner) who lives in IVhite's-yard. Being a little intoxicated myself, I considered the charge a " bit of a lark," and took no notice of it. . Magistrate—Let the present witnesses be bound over to prosecute, and, as it is likely further evidence may be obtained, I remand the prisoner until Thursday next for a rehearing. SEPT. 2.—Three men, named Foy, .S:yrnmonr. and /Celt, were brought before the sitting 31agistrate(M.bweesr, Esq ), the former charged with having been concerned in stealing pockets of hops from the firm of :Bessie. Price and Co., the hop. factors, of Maidstone.huildings, Souttwark, amounting in value to between 7001. and OWL The two other prisoners were charged on suspicion of having received part of the property, knowing it to have hew stolen. Hall, the chief constable, stated, that a few days ago the above firm applied to him, stating they had discovered that they had been robbed of hops from their warehouse to the above large amount, and that they had strong suspicions against Foy, who acted as foreman in their warehouse, and who wart employed generally in weighing the article alluded to. Hall took the foreman into cus tody, and advised the firm to have hand-bills printed, offering a reward of 1001. for the recovery of the property. This plan was adopted, and the hand.bille had scarcely been distributed when a respectable person in the Borough proceeded to the office of the firm, and gave information that he had recently purchased two pockets of hops from a man named Symptoms, which (rattly nor. responded with the ones descrioed as having been stolen. Hall took this man into custody, and found a quantity of hops concealed in his house. . _ Orr being questioned respecting the hops he sold the person in the Borough, he stated that he purchased therida wan named Allen. This latter person was also taken into custody, and when confronted with Synimons their stories so materially differed that they were both conveyed to this office. When before tic /11agil trate, Allen acknowledged that he and Synamons had frequent dealings together, and that the two pockets of hops now described as having been sto►en, he (Allen) had bought trout a man whose name he does nut know, at Paddington. When asked, what he (Allen) dealt in ? He replied, that he was a dealer in anything. One of the firm said, that if the prisoners were remanded for a few days, he hoped ro bring forward evidence which would impli. ease them in the ►obbery. They were accordingly remanded. At the Carmarthen Assizes, in the year 1742, a girl of only eight years old was tried upon the Coroner's verdict, for the wilful murder of her brother and sister, the one six the other four years of age, and acquitted. It appeared upon the trial, that the three children, who lived in a cot-. ace not far from the sea, had been dreadfully frightened with stories of the cruelty of the Spaniards, and the danger• of their landing upon that coast. These children having been one day left alone, when there happened to arise a violent thunder -storm, became so terrified as to imagine the Spaniards were coining, and the eldest of them, to avoid falling into their handy, took up a hedging-bill iu order to destroy herself, which the two younger children observing, cried out repeatedly, " Pray, sister, kill us first !" upon which she actually despatched them. She afterwards desperately wounded herself ; but not having strength, or perhaps courage enough, after feeling such pain, to complete her design that way, she ran out of the house towards a river which was near it, and was going to throw herself in, but was prevented by sume casual pars- Isengers, to whom she said, in great terror, that she was going to drown herself for fear of the Spaniards, and that she had killed her brother and sister for the isme reason.- M.4IIrETS. (Frog the Leedom Mir Price Cwrriont.l Fattur. SEPT. I COTTON.—The demand for Cotton In this market contisr.,,s confined to parcels for export ; the sales this week are nearly l,scu bags, Surats 64d. a 73d. ; liengals 83. a 8/d. ; the request to , Pernams, for shipping, has been very extensive, but the 0r1'..•, are limited to 4]. to Id. per lb. under the present prices; of mule, the ostlers cannot be executed. The letters from Liverpool statethat market heavy. SUGAR—The demand for Illuacovades during the pre, mt week has been very liinitesl, and the few purchases reported are at prices a shade lower, but no general IttillC6oll can be stated, es / h e holders appear not to be anxious to sell, except at the full market currency. In the Refined market the sales lately of low goods for Ham. burgh, and crushed for the Mediterranean, have been considers. bit ; but generally there is no briskness in Refined goods, and the prices arc without variation ; low Lumps Len. ; for Molasses 31s, is asked, but cannot generally be obtained. In Foreign Sugars by private contract there has been little doiv.g, white II avannah COFFEE.—The public sales this week have gone off heavily, at prices a shade lower. Yesterday a considerable contract for good ordinary St. Domingo was reported at Ms. The public sales this forenoon went off heavily ; the Foreign Coffee rather lower • good ordinary pale St. Domingo withdrawn at 80s. GA. ; since the sale, sold at that price ; Brazil Mils. a 63a, good to. fine ordinary ; g ood middling Jamaica 93d. a 93a. 6d, middling Mocha fills. SPICES.—There are no purchases whatever of East India Spices, except in Nutmegs: sales of the latter 3s. &I. • light Pep. per nominally 3{d. btld.; Pimento sold at load . a mid. RUM, BRANDY. and fl 0 LLAN DS. —The clovernment con. tract advertised for 160,0011galions Rum has rather imprbred the market ; the holders are more firm, though few sales are yet re. ported ; the nearest quotation of proof Lee Warde is Is. lid. Brandy suitable for immediate consumption is in considerable reques t • an d parcels of old (we believe of 1923) newly landed, have sold at 31N3d. a 3s. 4d.: the new and recently-landed about 3s. 21.-oe,, neva is without alteration ; sales of pale at Is. I Id. TALLOW.—Tice piece of Tallow are steady, the new 305.9 e. a 1175., and for late arrivals 37e. fid. a 33.5. INDIGO.—East India continues in great demand ; od e at an advance of 6d. per lb. ; the others tid. to L. on the India Going prices. On Tuesday, 136 serocs Guatemala Indigo, of a (inequality, sold Bd. a Is. higher than the previous prices, Is. 6d. a 13.5 d. The small sale to d ay was of an inferior quality, and went off fd. 9d. under the prices of Tuesday's sale. CORN EXCHANOE, FRIDAY, SEPT. 2. — Our supplies this week consist of 2,850 sacks Flour ; 3.500 quarters Wheat ; 830 quarters Barley ; and 6,800 quarters Oats. The 19 eat trade was very dull to-day, and sales even of fine qua. lily could only be made at a reduction in prices from Monday's rates. Barley, was without alteration in prices, but heavy ale. Oats sold freely on about Monday's terms. Pease and Beans maintained the currency of Monday. UXBRIDGE. Corn Inspector's Return, SEPT. I. Wheat, per load . 171 Os to 191 to Ditto (New) . . 161 10i to 211 De Barley, pn.r quarter • . - 1$ 182 to 21 23 Oats . . . • . 1$ 6s to 11 13s Beans . • - . . 21 6s to 21 Its Peas , - - - 21 134 to 2112 s Bye - . 11 16s to 21 Os NEWBURY - . 80i co 78; i lea. . . 58• to 82s Beni . • 38s to MI s Poor Bread, per gallon, is Id to Is 9d Wheat New SILCT. 1 Barley 22s to 34# 32s to GOt 40s to iGr DEVIZES, SEPT. 1. Wheat and Beans at per sack t Barley and Oats per quart's. Wheat . Od to 381 Od Oats -23 s to 34i 4,1 Barley - 45 s Od to 60s Od f Beans . 25s to 27a al Whcat • . Barley Beans LIUNG&UFORD, Ago. 31. 62s to 78s 1 Oats . 281 to 88. • 42s to Ms Ditto (New) • ~-.I to —4 -48 s to 80s IVheat • New . Barley - SAI.ISBITRY, A co. 30. . Ms to 66s I Oats - . Us to 70s Beans - -36 s to 46a . 20s to Zig . 48. to 45;$ WARMINSTER, Auo. 27. Wheat . 65s to 72s N I Oats Barley -36 s to 430 N Beans PRICE 0 Ms to 523 Us to Lt.'s N' FLOUR. - ----- . - -- ... Town Made, per sack 60a to 65s Norfolk and Stockton 45, to Slit Seconds - 551 to 604 Bran, per qr. . 12s to IS Els:A and Suffolk, on Pollard, Fine . 16s to 2::. board Nhip - Ns to Ms PRICE OF The highest price of Bread in the 3letropolls Is 100. for the ab. Loaf. There are Bel.•ers who sell from ed. to 21d. below that rate. SIIITIIFIELD, FIIIDAT, SEPT. 2. There is a briskness in our market to-day for most things. Beef and Aluuon sell very readily at the prices of 3londav but Lan u is advanced, sa. 10d. per scene being obtained for the best. Ve-i also is higher, the generality of gt od Calves reaching to 6s. the figure we quote—perhaps even more is given for a few of most curious. Beef • 45 Od to Ss 2d Veal . 51 Od to As 11l Mutton - 4. Od to Ss 24 I Pork - 4e lid to 6s WI Lamb 4s 8d to 5s 10d BEAD OF CATTLE THIS OAT: Beasts, 503 ! Sheep, 8,920 Cakes, 288 I Pigs, 80 HA Y-SIA lt fi BT. Hey (Old) . Al Os Od to 51 lOs Od Inferior . . 41 Os Od to 41 ISa Od Clover . 61 103 Od to 61 Os Od Ditto (Inferior) • 4/ 10s Od to 51 ss. 04 Straw . - 11 ltis Od to 21 Od NEVVGATE AND LEADENHALL—(Bv the Carom ) Beef . 3s Od to 4s Od Veal . 3s Ald to 51 OQ &ham . 34 4d Is 4s SdJPork 3s 44 to Eld Ud LambUddtoftdd PRICE OF POTATOES, SEPT. 2. New Potatoes, Wan Ot 5s Od to 01 7s Od per Cwt. Middlings - 01 Ss fid to 01 4s tid ditto PRICES OF HA' IT. JAUES'IL Nay - tNs Od to 1061 Od Ditto (New) Ns Od to 105 s Od Clowa . las Od to 13tis Od Straw . SCs Od to dOs Od r AND STRAW. T F Cif LOLL. Hsy • 74s Od to 1001011 Inferior . —s Od to ..-11 od Clover . CO. Od to 135 a fd straw 402 Od to 48s Od PRICE OF RAW FAT, per Stone of 81b. Price by Tallow (as stated by the Tallow 31elters), 2s PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store Candles in the retail shops is as 4211ews Candles, per dozen . 63 fid to 7s Moulds - . . 9s 6d RAW RID: Best Heifers sad Steers, per stone -35 2d to 3s 4d Middlings . 26 10d to 3s Od - Ordinary - 2s td to 2s fAS Market Calf (each) - 9s Od 10<1 ao 16d w 164 - iici To lid 1714 io 14i . 20,1 to 224 18d to :Id iid tl ii 4 98d to 286 . lir to w 18 e • lel to 18d PRICE OF LI Best Dressing Hides t'ommon ditto Crop Hides, 85 to nabs. Ditto 4U to 45Ibs. . Ditto 45 to 50Ibs. Calf Skins 35 to 401bs. . Ditto 45 to 551bs. Ditto 55 to 751bs. . Small Seal Skins ! Tanned Horse Hides - Spanish ditto . - COAL 111ARK4T, 04-rr. 2. Ships at Market. Alpe Sold. Prf% 11 Newcastle . . 12 . 34s LI to 08 T/G Readseland - 0 418 9d to 0 1, I ticotch Coal . . j . 341 foil to —8 M I Stone Coal . - 311. 0.1 to —4 tU 1 Cola - I . 30s 6d to BIRTHS. On the 27th ult. at the house of her father, Colonel Co'trite. of Ottery St. Mary; Devon, the lady of John Pinto:wen, Esq. c; Gower-street, of a daughter. On the 30th ult. at %'ratting Park, Cambridgeshire, the lady John Gibbons, Esq. of a son and heir. MARRIED. Yeeterday, at St. George's. Hanover-square, by the Rev. Lim* Iremonger, Prebendary of Winchester, Charles Douglas, YdMi lli son of Janus Belford. Esq. of Piccadilly, and of Lalehent, lda Wows, to Emma Matilda, only daughter of the late Richasd Sad' net. Esq. of Shackleford, in the county of Surrey. On the Ist inst. the Rev. Richard Board, of Weser:Thaws Imt., to Elizabeth, sister of John Jones, Esq. of r ortlead.plate._ ,1101 second daughter of the late John Jones, Esq. of Hwy Cardiganshire. e On the let inst. at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Flsearri a Spackman. Esq. of Cornhdl, and Burton-crescent. youngest 163 of Thomas Spackman, E'q. sen. Paulson House, Bradtrd, to Isabella Ann, youngest daughter of the late Thos. Seed, lieq' On the lit inst. at St. George's, Bleomsbury, by tlw R. Watkinson, the Rev. Andrew Irvine, of Charts' House, le /Om eldest dough er of Jehn Rawlinsou, Esq. of Ruesell-Vbete ' On the Ist inst. at Richmond, .R. H. Brown, Esq. of Cllt t . Stamford Street, Blackfriars-rnad„ to Sarah, relief of the Richard Chambers, Eeq. an Alderman of Newcastle...upon-Tr"' DIED. On Wednesday, at Ewell, where he had gone for the benet his health, David Wilkinson, Esq. of New Broad-street. awriror" In the 26th year of his age. HIGH WATER AT LOADObI gItIDD.E - OS -17 Ar Horning 6 min. after b. I Evening 25 tnitb. Inn 4 • • ' Printed at THE BRITISH PRESS (Mee, by 1. • t afet' Suand, and pubitabeil by R.fititiliff 010.01•6 1; r)