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rule for t- re-hearing. His creditors were resident • ut Masselfibter, and hod no right, unless the lust& vent could •hew specal circumstances to justify a re-hearing, to be put to the expense of a second journey to London, fur the purpose of opposing him. The Insolvent said his case had not hero fully heard. He was now !prepared to blsew by affidavit., that there was no grouud for refusing him the be nefit of the Act. The Couirr at length consented to let the cue stand for the <,..5"4. 0,, to eimble the creditors at Manchester to answer the tsfE lints now tiled in Court by the 1ue.10,e,,1. Several Iworimis were made, hut they were p!ovitd of interest, except to the putties concerned. POLICE. VAGRANT SEAMEN. Two sailors, in Mien, were brought before the new LOUD Maven, charged by Mr. Flodyer, of " The Committee for Distressed Seamen," with bring irminstiire, and making had nee of the indulgence extended towards them by the AblO. ciatinn. l'he Complaisant raid. that the Prisoners were not only incurrigib , e, bat that they were poiguning the minds of all the idle seamen atilt wandering abont town... The facts having been proved, the Lord Mayor said, he should have a watchful eye, during his Mayoralty, beards characters of this description, by endvavoniiiie to discrimi nate between the mafiosi:mak and the deprored. The punishment he should inflict, in the present in.tanee, would not be comm.-figurate to the offence, List it might have as exemplary effect. The Prisoners were ordered to be sent to Bridewrll fur oar mouth each, and to be kept to bard labour. ADVENTURERS TO SOUTH AMERICA. A ward beadle, uansed Davis, waited upon the lord Mayor yesterday, to stale a CiECUMPIMACC that had just ecc c art eol, of rather a singular nature. A dispute, it appeared, had liken place at a poililic•lumpor in the City, between three persons, about a reckoning which had been nunrred its consequence of an enlistment. The embodying of soldiers struck the !author I as ass extraor dinary thing at suck n 11111", snot he scut for the ward whnospon !scathe: the word.dcsirrd an ootliccr infollow the disp sit ants. One of these persons conducted she other two to the ship perseverance, ION: ill she river, near Elephant street, Rootherlsithe, and hound for South America. The meat the lieu, who nettled to he in u. sue sura-aire snider the authority of the third, Ent on board. their attendant skewed n tit bet to a at uhu marched up and thou to the sleeks, and tiny were sent down " below." The inonnent they dis appeared she hatches ws-re thrown over theist, and there they rein...toed without she chance of returnosoz, if appearances a. it: 111 he credited. 'flue officer allO a :itched this soncoine. mon proceedin imino &lamely demanded the reason such a wide of security was adopted, and was answered by the tined, that the two meta had enlisted vuluutaitly, and weir going to Senile America. Ihe Curd Mayor—" Did the men complain of the re sit ?' Otfieer—" No, my Lord. thry hail no opportunity.—the tatthiii *ere 08;rd enJdrnly oil diem. I oloorryed a prrson from banw raise ep los brad and ask the scistinel for a ladle lo Fri some water." This was refused by the sentiorl. oho !aid, he omit attend lo his orders, and stopped all expostulation by putting dim 's the hatches. _ . . Thr Mayor—" Were many un boars' in a similar Oflicer—" That I cannot boll, but I have reason to fop. rep sn " The Lord Mayor—" I should be extremely glad to du every tliiiig in my power on such an occasion, hat cannot pre in ahst manner I eau act, except the patties were prtseist. By whom were the men enlisted?" OlEeer—" By some Colonel or Captain it was said, but I c ~not tell his nauic." The N'ard.Bcadle—`/ I merely applied 111 your Lord.hip, fur I thought it a very strange case that men should he taken VW of the kingdom iu this manner." The Lord Mayor—" Visa were perfectly right in stating In nir any thing that had the appeasance of unfairness ex eseipril within my jurisdiction. There npprars, however, to be no compulsion in this cape, and if my unfortunate cuientryinen all allow themselves to be trepanned, I cannot Isi Ip it. iVe all know, that numbers of men are every day going to South America upon this military sprculat' Hot tel me in what state the men were, as to their command user ihenisclves." . . (/flirir—" The two soldiers were •ery much intoxicated indeed," . . . ..... The Loyd Mayor—' 4 Oh, that in a point indeed, and will furnish as with an oppio Inuit) , of the cow. shall not 1w wanting in lily duty." Officer-6s One of the awn said, that if he did not go out •f the emintty of his own accord, he certainly should be 11311 V .1 or tiansported." The Lord Mayor immediately directed Mr. ITontner, 11w City 31rirshnl, to lake the necessary steps fur examining the &within ity aims which this odd puotuduig was founded. OVILMIALL. CHILD STEALING. .....—. ..... Juba Flnltlatork, • a • loose-looking fellow, aged 19, was ought to the Reline, charged with stealing the male child ve Mr Connolly, of lanig-iialk, (Sapp-street, Crippli gate, Wetlotsday looming. prey Connolly, the snobs, of the child, gare her evidence in ita,••. She said, she was the wife rad. C ..... lf , who was IA the einploymeut of Mr. Brine, of Blatt:friars. The PI i -51)11(1, ahn was an idle fellow is the neighbourhood of her sentience, lent stated to some of the inhabitants on Tuesday vetting, that be nal about to leave town the following .....t mac, on particulat business. At au early hour her child, nhoot eight years old, euutiiiiiing absent for n considerable time, she made a most diligent search after hint. He was lie while to be found, tint at length, in the COWSe of the day, she main taiued that lie was seen with the Prisoner in the usortiinc, and that Holdslock had absented himself from the neichbourbouil ist the morning. 'lnformation was immediately cilia of the fact, soil a vigorous pursuit set uu foot in vat directions.: The remainder of Wednesday, and the *hole of ‘lednesday night, in fact, were spent i■ inquiry fur the lost child, but without effect. yesterday, how. ver, about twelve o'clock, the Prisoner again made his appearance in the %nighttime hood (without the child), where indignmut suspicion being strongly raised against him, he was 'need and given in charge. lie at hat deuird all know ledge of the boy, hot on his way to the Justice-mom was free to coatis to the contrary, allegiug that be hail lakeu it "merely tor a walk," and that the child was tare. The Prisoner, in reply to questions put to him by the Magistrate, said that he had been some time tit sea, mid bad lately returned frous the West Indies. Slure that time he rifTlOilleli idle, but was summit. ill by'• a few kind neigh bours," where the nold lie was said to have stolen lived. He saw the little boy mi Wednesday morning, and they took a walk together as far as Barking. lie dot out ask the ►uy to go wit► bite, nor did the Pattie express a wish to accompany him, but somehow or other he found him at his side, and they reached Essex together in the evening. At night he (the Primmer), went un hoard a smack to sleep, and at ten o'clock kr% the boy at rest, in the minis of another, the .Ifereery, Captain Thomas Carter, at Balking. The smacks were to be at Blackwell the following (yesterday) morning; sad as the walk to town would be considerably sborieueil, lie thought to have hens preceded iu his arrival by the: boy himself. He was sure that the smack had come up to Mackerel!, sod lie was equally eonhilent that the tiny was k-ft asleep on board it, on Wednesday night. He timid nut tell why be went himself on hoard anuther barge lomat If to ►lurp, nor why be came to lowu wtthout Yoking aft., the chili'. . ..... The worthy Alderman (Stiumtv) said, there was snitch aitsisiruni to the rase, and he would tot" it his slut) to re sulted the Prisoner Ishii" the matter was fully isirestigais Ile urols red the officers, therefore, and the friends of the es.td, to repair to Blackwell, or Wolin, if accessary, to mike the proms inquiries, soil also to snake known the re sult without delay. 'I he Piisooer was remanded. LOST CHILD. The circumstance of the lost child of Mr. Hanley, of Canunbury-lane, Islington, vontiones to excite the public attention in a very extraordinary degree, and the discove ries that have been made since our I est acentint have tended to increase the interval, the ease still continuing a complete mystery. The report continues that upon the child's life depends 20,0001. This is not avowed by Mr. Horsley, nei ther is it contradicted by him or his friends. Probably no occurrence was ever taken np so generally as till/ has been dune by the whole neighbourhood of Islington, and the nis_ onerous friends of Mr. Horsley, as a mereleant of the City of London. Great numbers hate bees. exciting themselves all directions, night and day, to endeavour to discover the lust child. We stated yesterday that Mr. Hicks and Mr. Birnie hail directed Godfrey, the constable, to go to the house of ill. fame in ',Head's-row, near the Asylum, in search of the lost child, and Elizabeth Holbrook, the enema girl, mod to bring the keeper of the house before them. We also stated that Mr. Horsley and his friend, whose name, we under stand, is Smith, and whin has exerted himself in a most ex traordinary manner, and displayed roneiderable primeval' and abilities in his exertions, retell Orli ill the office, and an nounced that they had been infornied that the servant Was discovered and taken in Holborn, and wag in custody at this Ofliee. This, however, proving to be a mistake, sO far as related to her being in custody at the Office, they left the °like, accompauleil by Godfrey, the constable.— They gave up tlir first arrangement of g gin the house of ill-tone in Menefee-row, hot proceeded first to asees lain if the report was correct as to the servant girl being taken They proceeded 'broach Holborn, making inanities. and went to Hattme.garden Puhce.uture,supposiuy she might le iu custody there, but here again they were disappointed. They then proceeded in Mr. Horsley 's house, iu Casemibury. lane, where they found a crowd of people round the house, and a member of \t r. and Mrs. llorsley's friends ill the Image condoling wish Mra. Horsley, and they all had heard of the servant baring been discovered and taken, but it could ' nut he awe rtained %lore she was for some tithe, when it was at knells discovered that she had been taken Is the office of the Vt.:ly Clerk of Islington, a here the guard stated that the girl hail g •by the roads he was guard to, from the Sorre l-reit Head Ines, on Snow-ball, ell Saiislay evening, to Bir mingham, under peculiar and extraordinary circumstances. She presented herself to go by the coach as ass outside pas senger just before they were ready to start, asul she said her place was taken ; he looked at the way bill, and found there was nu place taken for a female that use not filled, and the passenzers were all come. He no istioneal that there was ft place taken by a Mr. Atkins, who teas not yet come, when she replied that her name was Atkins, alicream it is Elizabeth Holbrook. Ku Mr.A thins a rpm ing, mid the coach being ready to start, he asked leer alai re her clothes or lug. goage were? She replied she kid laUlle, and ter clothes which she had on were not calculated to travel in being very light, ease snonoted the coach and %east to Ilirminebam, when on her arrival at the Saracen's Head Ines at Bir mingham, it was ascertaiiied that she did nut know any person there. She is sixteen yeses of age, small in its. lure, sod has a very y appearaote—she excited the at. sentient of the people al the lac, to ascertain her motive fur leaving London to go Vismingliam, • here they could nut learn that she hail any object, and there appeared a consi derable degree of mystery about her, beet they at length learnt (rum her that she was ensile to Binuingh , m to be marriell,but her intruded bush:end teas nut she had left him in Loudon, sisal be *as to follow her to Binning. ham to marry her. 'fhis statement was sullirit sit to eon_ vince any re fleeting peeson, that she bail Lees the elope of some designing vilLlin , Willi I hal' used their exertions in en deavouring to persuade her to the same be-heron., her suppos ed lover slot ierrivil"ee at Birmingham by Tuesday afternoon, she war convinced that she had been deceived, and agreed to return to London by the enrich that afternoon; some money was collected by a few humane persons fur lire, as well as by some ladies who came as, Ills same cuaeli, anal it a.. happeue.l that the same guard a ent with dant coach font. Birming ham that attended the roach she arid by (mum London ' In Birmineliam, anal under the peculiar circumstances . . under whirl' she went, he undertook the rare or her, and the circumstance• of "'r. Horalet's children brio: Mr. carried off by a servant girl baying list a subject of great notoriety, and excited a emisigleralde sit gree of public inlet est and feeling, he I'l.mi:tined that she was the person, sold therefore &hemmed on out kiting her go out of his sight. on his arrival in London till he had delivered her into safe custody ; however, etrasige to tell, tustenul of taLatig her to some one of the Police Offices, or to Mr. Horsley's house, he delivered her to the Parish Officers of Islington, where she was also kept in an extraordinary way. From this place she was taken to Lambeth, in consequence of a report that a mail had been seen there with the missing child. This ci r. farina:Melt having become known at Mr. Mr. Horsley's, Coil free, the constable, went ofT wills all speed to follow her Isom Ishugtu• to Lambeth. (In his arrival there he met Good win, the officer, alas hail also been employed mu this dis tressing businesc; From him Godfrey learnt that the per. sons who had bronglit the girl trout Islington hail taken her to Billitigsgate to endeavour to lend out a Mall who had Maas Seta there With a child anewering the th.cript of Mr. Horssey's ; he 'soloed oust a public-hung iu Lambeth. mamls, whirr several own employed in the Useiurg Theatre were brought he fore her to aSCertaill if any of them %%as the man a Ito hail seduced lit r to leave Mr. llorsky's children in the chaise, but she. kuew nothing of aay of them. Godfrey prueselled to the politic-house iu dniasheth 314144 as thectilatl, where he found Elitibt.th Holbrook in the custody of Mr. Brows', the Beadle of Lambeth parish; lie claimed her as his Ps letslsta, hut the beadle refused to give r tip, till Godfrey pros:need a marmot which he hail against her In a abort tame after, Godfrey took her to the Hercules public-house, opposite so the Asylum, the landlady of which very I nely took the infant gill out of the chaise which had been left udder thee garden wall of the Asylum, on Sunday tee ' g, and probutbly saved its life. Here Mr. Carter, also is employed at Astley'e Theatre, was sent Mr, as he saw tha Tall take the child one of the Chaise,snd fullawed him to the public-house, but was in ducts.' to hair lion wish the child from the rebuff he no:cived from him. (In Lit arrival at the Hercules pub lic- bosom he described to the servant fully the mats whom he haul seen take the child ant of the chaise, hut alit declared that she did nut know such a man, or nay thing of the child being taken out of the chaise. She was interro gated by mescal versants there as to her knowledge of the children being left io the chaise suit the Asylum iu so cruel a matinee late on Stitelay evening, but sin satisfactory infur onntion could he obtained trout her. A g the persons present was • female elegantly slimiest, a hit IllkiTattd herself very much restricting the servant. It did not appear who this mysterious elegant ti guile was, or a hat her subject eta its iuterfering wills the servant, and slit declared that she slid nut know any thing of she lady. They left the Wreaks public . ..house, ■nd proceeded from the nee to llow-strei I, where they arrived shout a punter twfure nine o'clock. It was stated In evidence that a man with a child, ma sweriug the descriptions already nutlet d, hail Let u stew in a public house near Billingsgate MI Sunday night, waiting for the sole, to proceed to Gravesend; sod at ten u'elsiek that night the man went on boars! a Gravesend taut, takiog the c►ild with him, the dem ripti tttt of which so nreo eatt•ly answers that of 11r. Ilursely'a child, that their is no doubt entertained hot that It as. his. The *comet Elm+ln tit Holbrook gave of herself and her infamous and crud conduct towards .lr. and Mrs Horsley and their elaildrea, is that she lived as a atom girl to How for two years mot aryl rid ills. Three were three )iniag thildreti, and when 11w wrath., was fine, she was in list rhitly partite of laktog them out in a child's chaise, la:, at a time. About tato Muoth's sii.ce, whew ►he KU 011 t with the children in their chaise, she ;net with a young matt, ith minim ■t length she 11,e:utile intimately acquittals ise fact, she acknowledged Hirt improper f.tioilial sties brit taken place hi wren Clem. Ile very frryitrutly met list when flit WWI out wills the chi:Oren; he made love to her, called kir his mycelia art, soul promised it/ marry her, lists she admits !edged that she 'Kitties kat* also he as., or a hilt he was; all that slue profess si to know of him was, that his waute was (.t urge Faulkner, and she coosidicell him to he a yuuNg i‘ uth titan by los dress, &e. He tuld Ire that 11,9 cc. latiOns and friends lierd at Dirmingham, and they would be married there; he desired her to leave her place on Sunday fur that purpose, and be would make arrangements for Lee jour ney. He enjoined her to strict secresy, that she was nut to tell • single imam what she was going to do, and that she was to meet Mut in Smithfield on S lay afternoon, and he made her promise to being the children with her. According to arrangements with him, she left her master's louse about Iwo o'clock, taking the children in the (liaise, as her mis. tress supposed, to give the dill 'ten an airing. !ate pniceril eit with all possible • petal to Smithfield, and drew the chaise shout theme foe nearly an hour and a half waiting fur Mr. Fanlkener, and on his coming to h. r, he gave her a two pound Dank of England note, told Ivo 10. had taken het a place, %hewed her the inn where the coat h went from, and said lie woad follow her to Birmingham lit the next coach; the inn she went from was the Saracen's Head, on Snow• hill. Mr. Fatilkener then took possess" of the child's chaise, and promised to take prat care to deliver the chil dren safe to their parents, and he would inform then, that she was gone to be married, rod would tartish, every thing to them She gave him the key of her master's street door, whirls she hail brought out ill her pocket, and which he also promised to deliver safely. The adventures of her journey to Birmingham, and her return to Loudou, are described in the guard's account, as above stated. Bhr was not sworn le her statement, the Magistrate ile a • 'g to do .0 lest it might turn out hereafter that she war concerned in a conspiracy to carry off the children. She was iuterrogated very closely by the Magistrate and by several Ceetlernea as to her more partirsilor knowledge of the supposed Mr. Faulkner, and the *mitosis() carried off the buy frum the chaise, and went by the timaresenal Insist with it, hut nn iuformation could be ithiami:sl f her re specting them, %lir dien . )Oug that she knew any inure shim what she had told. Godfrey acid, lh, fore he brought her to the Office, she told him she knew scheme Mr. Faulkner sited, and that it was nut far from ber.master's house. She explained this by saying , T h at about a fortnight SIM, v. hen she was out wills the children in the chaise, she met Mr. Faulkner, Bud the weather having site appearance of ram, be said he tvanlil ran and get an umbrella, amid wns mint gone above lice mi nutes. He appeared to go into n house it Set erit's.haild. lugs, but she email nut may which it was. • , A number of gentlemen Interrogated her, but nothing more of importance; could lie obtained from hoe.. Time Ma. gistrate considered her to hive been an. ignorant dupe of some deriguing villain or villains, to answer 11011Ie pal !scalar porpoise. Iler father was present, who nppeared extremely affected and grieved at time infamous and cruel conduct of his daughter. The iieutlemen present, the frieuds of Mr. and Mrs Hortif y, spoke iii the highest terms of thri. conduct, and the manner they appeared shorted ou Irking lot armed of his detightei's infamous conduct. The Magistrate, in consequence, arranged 111. t her father should take her home with bun, mid keep her in close mon finemeui, not all (Ming her to M. ont or have infetentorse with any person, and that he should he auswerahle fur her forthcoming when the villain who stole the chitd was up prchesideil. Soon aft, r this arrangement had beret made, Mr. Horsley and his friend, who has so streiiiimisly exerted himself in the entered the office, ale ti Ike investization was re slimed, by ilidulgetice, fur the satisfaction of Mr. Horsley, who, as well as his friend, very closely interrogated the girl; and upon her eross-examinatiosi by them, she acknowbahzeil that Abe lead talked with 31r. Faulkner as to what a line child the boy ass, end what a great fortune he would lists. She also urktorwledged that Mr. Faulkner, alien lie Sri aimed with her to go to Ilirmiughant 011 Sunday, 101.1 her to bring the children with her, as the buy was it/ 11110111111111 y and her mistress having scut her out a little before one o'clock ait li the two mu-k, she, to constrpic::ce of Mr. Faith:- direrrions, wan n er.! home at tiro, left one of the girls, and brought out the boy and pot him into the chaise. Mr. Horsley's particular friend addressed the Magistrate, and professed himself to have a attonxr deblie to temper justice with merry, lest the conduct of Ibe gill hail heels so extremely bail, that he suhanitted that she ought to be sent into confinement, tool Mr. Horsley aisu urged this, saying, that although she had been the eau , e of so mod] grief and trouble to him mid his family, mod endangering the life of his wife, yet lie could not but consider her the dupe of Some desig g villain. 'Elie Magistrate agreed to this, saying he would scud her to the House of Ctiriectiou with is deelaratimi that her father should hare free access to her, bust an other per,..11. Mr. KO•PIIP, the Clerk, accordingly prepaied the usual infurmation iu the occurrence Book, charging her merely upasi his belief that she was concerned iu feloniously car rying sway his child, which to the surprise of those present, he refused to sign. lie said lie could wily charge her indi• teddy but nut directly. The Magistrate informed him that he could not send the girl to prison, as there was no way of making out a commit ment but on a charge upon oath. Mr. Iliirsley's friend offered In make tie eleirge upon oath, as he had no doubt hut she ur ie. cancel lied in carrying off the child; however, a charge from him was out divined sufficient. 31r. Horsley proposed that she slionld he kept in confine ment at the Brown Bear publie.huuse. 'lbis was lik4o re. lust d, and the Siagodvite ordered that the girl should he taken under the care of her father ; as he had originally ar. ranged. II f regretted the uofeeliug roil callous manner the girl appealed during the whole of the ilivestigation. She appearcil totally insensible of her conduct; and when giving ut accotout of herself spoke us tine.n,:ertied as if slit had lit in doing some good dell] ; and it hen on the ere of being sent to prison she was not the bast affected. The elegantly dressed female oho endeavoured to get the girl privaitly to herself from Giolfiey, the constable ; at the Hercule► publir.lintise, followed her to the office, and re mained at the buck of the crowd during the whole of the iuve►tigaliwy but did out attempt to interfere. QC lIN4QVAAE. CHARGE OF FELONY. Catherine Se:Milford, better known by the appellation of Tkier ;mg Kitt, was fully and finally examined on a charge of picking the pucktt of Mr. E. Knight, of High-street, Kensinton, of five IL pound Mink of Engfind notes. he KUM cwor, who is a young man, stated, Ilia shout twelve ticlork on Saturday night, Ire was returning home from town, and was accorded near the Pultenty Huta by the Prisoner, who begged him lu give her some gin ; she walked with him some distance, and to get rid of hie he gave her Al.; after they parted be searched his pocket, and Wised Sf. 111 111)ii`P, he applied to the watchinua uu the beat, who by the ileseription, Miti be thought she must " Thiev ing Kitt;" he remained all hour and a half with the watch rutin in search of her, soil on Monday last lie was infurtned she was 111 custody. Pace the Ali er said, that in consequence of information he received, he went, accompanied by Alfred Pople, to a room occupied toy the Prisoner's ninths'. in Pye-strei I, and lhcre kink the Primmer iotu custody on Moiiilfy morning. 'they searched the place, hut could RA um notes. lie at 1..4 unscrewed tin disir lock, and found four If. stoles inside it, concealed in a rag. Emil the Prisoner uad her mother were then brought to the Write, and the mother confessed having cluinged the other note at stir ill's shop. Mr. Knight identified the mites produced, and die Prisoner was fully committed fur trial. wonsmr FTRVVT. EXTRAORDINARV CHARGE. OF sHOOTOso. Mr. William Cooper appeared before J. E. I•UNNANT i (harslet' with violently essaultiog Geurce Dab - , 11 oriossengte nailer a commis of banki awry. It appeared, that our Henry Gomperts, Ilse of Token holm-yard, woubdes kr, had livcaine a ban Ir. ir lit on the sth of October last. He had a private residence at No. 11, Net auicterrace, Kingsbuid-road, %%kith be hail, previous to his becoming a bankrupt, made over to Mr. Gin racy, the ape. Mal plrimse, and Mr. Cooper purchased the said know of Mr. Gurney. It having been ascertained by the assigner.' that . .4.111WC WAS in possession of the houseo they also put I 1111111 fn posses on liVediusday the 411 i instant. Oil the next day, the fdle, he, with the assistance of a man lie rim piled; forcibly turned oils the messenger. On Friday, the GM, one of the assignees went with the Complain:lot (Dahl, with proper mithiiiit and entered the lio ate by the bark.iloor, which was then ripen. • Upon bearing that possessi o n was aims obtained, he immediately came dvw • staii 1., attb • bract of Ii•Ivls 4t Li. haw', Ind a.kedlc to stew Lis osill.nrity, which lie iminithately did; all remonstrance on the part of the assiznec was inef fectual ; after 15 minutes' conversali.n on the stairs lie dis. charged our of the pistols at Dale, *Well Ina uniately miesrd him; finding that had no effect he directly fired the outs r, ahjrh struck Dale 1111 ilie wrist; lie then dew up stairs to Isis room, and seized a sword, with which he made a blow at Dale, hut with the assistance of the assignee they suc ceeded ju talsinz the sword from lIIM,IIIIIi sent fir Rotherfist‘l, the hcsulhsrongh . who took him into his custody, which put is.. end to the affray. It hail been sepresented to the assignees that Cooper had been lately discharged from prism', awl that I. had offered Isis services to a Solicitor as Clerk, fur a guinea per week, therefore they thoutzlit his representations pur chased the h(,(( 4t Wily improbable, which in s o nic 111 oecasiourit their interference iii such a ma 00000000 A Mr. Wild appeared as the solicitor tif the ito—i•zole, , , Nod (7otoper ably supported los own cause in au adolot,b to the 3lngistrate. _ . . Cooper was ordered to find hail , whirls he did. mitt was liberated. He applied for mu Officer to proirct him in the possession of but. !must and property, but this the Magic refused him. NEWGATE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. read in your Paper of last week, a stitemeni whiele purported to hr the presentment of site Crawl July ol the City of Lund on, relative to the state of Nctvgate, ant! the talon of the prisoners therein. 'fhe authenticity of this dueoment 1 cannot dotila,, but I roafcss nu pablicati ssss has ever sitrpristal IIII! more. The Gratis! Jury !octet'', "-that having visited the gaol of Newgale, they sire mach gratified by the order, elm I iness,and ea (thrived in erery part" Nu dotilit the Grand Jury did, in 'aunt of fact, walk ever this prison ; hut the notioas ell comfart alma mater oleic!' they entei min most he peculiar to and were probably framed to justify all they saw. 1, tem, visited Newcate Tuesday hot, the 3d inst. and forma 40 persons m Ilse con e:rattiest. COIN eider sentence of 'lentil; two of them buys shout 15 yests of age. These 40 permits were shut up its 15 cells (being sit arty three in cat II) a hid" 'of 111 41111111 . 11Plioa • feet tun` by seven wide; anti the prisumrs tire shut up in them nl least 12 hums in the 24. 1 wouhl then ask any umnber of persons in the Itiugelione, excepting only the City of 1.4110.111 Grand Jary, 1f ..thin Made of sss ss en! be apt so much Wally :torture ? .1101 even allovtiNg that, as the lives of these pour wretches arc furfrilyd, It is lilting to fill up the interval bet wrest their summite awl she earl mien, of them, by the intlielion of a certaiss portion of buddy suf fering, there is yet a enure imp.iitcuu imestimi to be con sidereal-.-usentely, What are the motal yllects of thus mix ing together as ; classes', of prisimers ? Some ; If these Miserable beings arc to lie exert:tett. Do the (Brand Jut y Hlfall 10 approve of (hit spttan.,sts a mode of fuligioUs preparation for the day lilies' the terrible sentence of the law is to hi' carried luta (street ? Did any of the Gentletioci lake the trouble even of what the victims themselves thought of the comfort and ureter whirls are sitard to he so mauifrat Mee and elsewhere in the prison? Did the Grand Jury ask the I hdivary, 1)r, ('Otto,,, what ware his opinions upein Ibis subject' Du they out know, that he spoke Iwtore the Prison and Pollee Committees, with the horror that be came him as a Minister of the Gospel of Christ, of the 1111- refalli and irreligious (street of slits part of the Netegate sr_ reingivictit• Li troth, the bodily pain endured is happiness to their mental anguish. . Ti, lilt VififlUa auJ ill*Pleigrlte—to those who trek to striVe nut ot ilo ir minas all thought of the future, and all recol lections of the past—this made of bum is sssssss mit may inpire feelingsof wrier and ronefore in this sort of society all re. ligiaur conversatiun is banished as PI matter of cons se here the pertain was 111 is alime theisitzlit uf; the ch.**.ces of tafalle are disclosed; future robberies are planned; and, above all, the maul is amused by the detail of former achieve ments, of hair-breadth escapes, and Meuse romances of real life %Stich are the dedglit mid occupation of the idle and desperate, Bud a Nell WWII the stings of conscience and cheek the feelings of reniutse. 1 have no thiubt, many of those aim are cootined in the coudenined cells would very unwtlliugly exchaiove these amusements fur the solitude aud rellectiou which become their unhappy condition; but to the serious and repentant offender, this mixed sassocia. tie ss of Humber, is the must distressing evil of this ill-toga. nisei! prison. It may he of no importance iii the eyes of some persons, whether the individuals who are hanged die repentant or nut, blaspheming Gull, and cursing their fellow-creatures ; Of is' the Imitable but pious hope of forgiveuess, and in charity with mankind. M lien these poor ignoraist creatures are ex ecuted, they are at least out of the way. But of the forty a l is t nre e. lemma to death now in Nsa gate perhaps thirty. five will he spored. Is it then of cumitamence to take ad. ventav of their unhappy state, stud in this season ed.:lmpair and doubt to make it also one of lepentanee and retLy motion ? la bulb, I an not know where the wards comfort and or der tutu be applied, eNfeill sits Ilia female side, and in the in firmary. Do: the Grand Jury know that there is nn room in Netrgate for pi isosters sit a better situation in life demi common utrailleas ; and that in under to save Dr. liallorian lions the siecitly of pickpockets awl shames, this individual (Khasi. offiatce of fin gam a Gaol:, de.G:anelio2 the revenue of 10.1, the law of England, so just at all times iii pruportian. Mg Ilse puilishinent to the mime, ham senteoced Su seven years' transportation) tens, before trisl.runtiiiest in the con demned cells, &Humor 30 sir 10 vicious tool idle buys, sisal is at present in the intirmaiy, living mat 31,1407pa1100r with the sick felons! No part of this system is 140 be laid to the flial:C of the keeper, Mr. Bruwu ; he, us' the contrary, does all he eau to retina) she evils which arise from it. Many of (tiers' have twee', indeed, 'caresses' of late; the prisouers uo longer railer fawn famine and a ant of bedding.. All these miseries, for gems unobserved awl mireprescuted by iospect iug Grated Juries, have Iseeu, by those who wt le n o t the iit t alai guardians of the friendless and imprisoned, exposed, mull are now, I hope, for rails at ;ill I observe., too, that while the (.and Jury take um notice of the real erudition of the prisoners, they are very careful to Moir slue expense abide the City incurs fur the maiuteisance of She cony tem. This is a grievance which ought to cease ; but it is as isathing to the state of the condensueil cells; to the lateness, noise, and intermixture of all classes autl age., with the exception of hill uuder 15 ; mid , above all, to the mural depravities of this school of vice. All these things the (hand Jury du put seven to have observed ; or if they 1 1 have, may he lakes' to he altogether Codifies-mit about. 11 I have thus, Sir, ventured to mono:seat upon this strange document, because it is calculated to mite a belief that all the mils of ?Seagate have Levu amended; mud that, instead of theise erievaiwes, moist mail physical, a loch are detailed in the cricklife isken last year before the Prison Committee (Mr. Alderman Wood Ist the ('hair), order, cleanliness, and ecaaturl, air apparent in every' part. Besides, I fear that this presentment is to be received as a ; elemonstratiun that the City of Lusidon consider that they • hove done enough its the way of amendment. nll.l that the public !lave no right to expect from them a Letter regulated meal con , 11111•Ird I, Sir. Is, g leave to protrst against coming to this einwhi 1,1. 41111 aMI the blessing of God will neve r t e ase soy teapots ell . "' is to e &et that radical reform*. lam of - t stahlislimeia, a bleb shall snake it, what it is soil :a l a • Aid, a 4111181 SO title Metruperlis, /mil aim example to the Lit.;;;:iiia. I eon ; Sir, your obedient Servant. li. GREY BENNETT. Walton miaow l'hames, Nur. lb. The ehimuey-sweepers of Leeds have carried the process of mluttemiut, to its utmost ercte rl t. These black devils motive to *ix !Lei,. soot (which they sell to the formers for 'Minnie) With a large por tion of dry dye..wsre thit4, t lir selo:.e of the woollen orsurtisetorirs in that neighbourhood. On Friday John Ilurmet, shut Al'Llarnet, was esevuttd art A het deo,. for venous acts of Irotv.e. toroltiog mod iht-ft, pus molest In Ili* sentence, or the lhi Ctr rot Cour! COIZONER'S LVQUE.Sr. On IVednesday night on Inquisition was taken al the Royal O.k, Margaret-street, Hackney-ruail, nu the body of Mrs. Frances Dickson, aced 30, who dirt, suddenly ini Monday morning last. The surgeon was ordered to open the hotly ; he exainiued the head, anti found a quantity of water lode.;! upon the brain, which he was of opinion proilnced a f; and inteasioned the death of the deceased. The decease" was the wife of a woollemdraper in Aldermanhury, hut she chiefly resided at her country-house. VIA dict—`• Died by the ristt , ition of God" SHOCK! NG I)EPB.4I'ITY. On Titesdsy nun-Ding au early hour, three ehildrei.• flout seven to twelte vear4 (doge, we., fount sittiog at I I I• step of a door in High vireo, Wiiiiechapel, the atelimal on passiug them inquired why they were there at such no unseasonable hour, they answered they had uo home, wi which he took them to the watch-bowie till morning ; brought to Lantheth-street Office they were well known to the Officers, young as they were. They stated that thew parents lived in Old -street, mid sent them out 111 proem, their own livelihood, and that they dire not return—lli v were very dirty, awl scarcely any thing to cover them. The oldest was committed to the House of Correction for iwe mouth, and an Officer was ordered to take (he other two to their parents with a saheb,s advice from the Magistrate. NAVAL INTILLIGENCI:. rowremourtt, NOVFNMER I I Wont out of harbour the Regalia trmisport, Dixon, for London. PLYMOUTH,NOVTMIHM in. Arrived the Soren, of Boomle, Portres,., fruit' Vaigisict, fur Loudon, ia 34 dap. DARTMOUTH, movamnrit 10. 'Arrived off* the Shirt Point yevtcrilay, the !tidos King, 111 Nei► Yurk, from Batavia, fur Amsterdam, all we ll. ►AIMOUTII, N0V19111.11 9, Arrived the Comoro' of Chichester packet, woh a :tl,l front Malta, last (ruin Gibraltar, in 16 days. PiNZANCE, NOVFMISFR 9 The Redbourne, Sherlock, sailed yesterday fur Falintnith. to perform iiiiantntine, hut was obliged to put hack, am, having brought lip in foul rotund, scum parted front for utothor, hut w s brought up artin wills the utitur. Caine iti the Betsey, ttusewell, Gum London, and sereral others for shelter. R.SIii , GATE, NOVI. 5111 FR 11 Arrived the ll!rives, Iltighes o and several ()the' trottini, to from Calais, with iinupi. lIARWICII. NOVCIII:Eft Arrived ihe Gnod Intent, I►rlly, in Indlast, On Newrastk, with tuna 01 anchor and cable, Ftunl le:dt, 11.v ing been on shore tat the Plnttcro, WV this hmli..nr. Dovvu., Novrutivu 11. • Arrived last night the Friends, thicsi, Integrity. Cotlea. tour, arid several other transports from with ir...ps and horses. In coming into the harbour the Frictas got aground within the Oier.licarls, which occasioned several yrs_ Fels to run foul of her • she had her bulwarks, fair- rig_,; carried away Tire Endeavour, of Fife, run fool of her, and carried away her bowsprit, broke her atirdior, arid 1 , 1 ceived other damage. DEAL, 7/"OVFM l:Fft I I. Remain in the Down. the Severn and Florida >lu u p ui n',kr ; abut the A Ihtiry, Brilliant, Sir George Osborne, and Hamilton tram:ports, still waiting to take tromps to LERWICK, OCTOBER 29. Arrived the Margaret, Cowie, from Aro han-, I. it I tla cht at, very leuky ; on 30th the Hartnea, Kind, room ditto with oats, tke. and having thrown oterboard most of ho r rarzo, bring extremely leaky; Man, on the 30.1,, the IhFenv , ry ships Alexander, Capt. Parry, and liodulla, Cape. Rom.. flout Davis'a Straits ,—on 2.1 November, arrived the Barham, from Archangel, viithloss of bulwatka and 104; boat. •• Extract of a letter from Trroogliton-iii.Eurnsps. dater! Saturday, the 3 . lst day; about our, p.to.wr experiencetta slight shock f en earthquake. The air had been close fog two or three days before. The Aurora Borealis was very hrilliant in the evening." The hater plienomen.its was also observe!! at Lancaster the same evening, and was preceded by a luminous arch, eitchtfiti4 from N.E. to S.W. On Thursday. the , 2ertli tilt. JOHN E tun anti another person took a bull which the day before , had tossed a man, and which belonged to DUNNING, farmer, at lletsingby, near Bridling ton, out to water. On their return the iiiiiiital attacked EZAILD furiously, ran his horn into his neck, and lacerated hit arm and other parts of his burly in such a manner, as caused his iimmedisr:z death, by which lamentable accident a poor widi•ar and eight children are left to bemoan his loss. The bull was killed the day following. A poor labourer of Snrfleet, named KING, w•;•3 forced, on Sunday last, to destroy a tine swine hog. value 41. which had been bitten by a mad dog, in Judy last, and although the poor man then took it to the Reservoir, and bathed it in the well, and sr%r ral times when the tide was up, yet a few days sitlce it was seized with the hydrophiibia. :KS YESTERDAY. Bank L. An... 20! 1-16 India 5t0ck....... 23'21 Ditto Bonds 82 pi. Ex. II:11s. e.. 19 '2O pr. Lotteiy Tickets 19/. 18.• Otntitutn • • Cons. for Acc. 78t 774 PRICE OF STOCI Bank Stock... 270 470 .3 per Ct. Red...... 77h1 77 76& 77 3 per Ct. Cons. 78 . 77N 3.1 per Cents..... 861 86 4 per Cents... 95i 9511 5 per Ct. N. Au. Mint BIRTH. Thursday morning, Mn. Wtu. Kew, of New• l'alace.yarg', of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 9th inst. at St. Margaret's, Leicester, by the Rev. James Sherard Coleman, John Sherard Cultnl3o, yt , .lll4cht snit lathe late Henry Coleman, Esq. of Market II Leicestershire, to Henrietta Charlotte Lucy, only child of the late Mr. !Slaisgeun, of Clifton, Gloucestershiie. Out the lAth inst. at Oswestry, by the Key. J. Russell, I). Thorndike, Lq. Royal Artillery, to Frances Chrildisna,eld. daughter of Lleutroant•Coluuel Fanner, late of the 4th, uu• King's Own Regiment. On the 916 instant, at Tynemouth, Jo..pli Walk►r, E.g. of Eton Lodge, near Lteeeputil, to Catherine, 'West daugh ter of Samuel Walker Parker, Esq. of Whitley House, iu 'ha twangy of Northumberland. DEATHS. On the 10th inst. at Rtighton, pod 66, Mrs. 'rumor, relict of Eilniund Tangle. Esq. of Pantos, House, Comity of Lincoln. _ . . Yesterday, at his house at Fe!thaw, Mr. Riclrird Trr liir, many years principal rloor.kreper to the House o; (*.unmoor, and universally respected by all who 'mew him. HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT I ONDOIC-Ili:1 I , ‘ ;E. Moaning 10 after 2. I Evening 90 situ E. LONDON: Printed sad Published at till Orem, Ns. 10. Strand; where Advertisements are received. and Lem.. (post.paiil); must be addreimed.—C N'tttlTH, Nu Clement's lug s Printer -4 WHITE ; Nn 1:7, St',