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It would be the means of nearly putting a stop to these prictices. Jo .0 I inrion. a parish constable in null, sifts he smut he was sent by the Magistrates or Hush to detect the Prisoner; *noess is a corner by trs , :e, and live 4 there ; he *cut with another ver so . fter ite liaml got his instructions; they stoimcil at the Plough Inn, in Beverley ; witness sent a niessav tot Prisoner, saying, two gentlemen waot.;l to ve.. bi r at the inn; she came ii - untethate- Jy ; she appeared acquainted with the other per. *Oa. Witness asked her, if he would have a drop of Dap and sent fur a shilling's worth. She drank oto glasses of rum ; witness then asked her if she had any bobs or Amer? the said, tes, she had. and he might have ay matoy as he liked ; she too!: a lantern, and went to fetch them, at•d re turned with four parcels of bad money. Witness bought it, slid paid her ase eeee e for it. %Vit. nesa then molted het, if she had any xereerrs? she 'said she hail only one left, and went to fetch it ; she brought a two-pound Batik of Englund note, which witness produced. Witness asked her what she ought to have for it ? she raid 13s. ; lie said it was too dear ; she said, no, it was not ; it is the first time thou bast ever bought one of me, give me my price. Witness offered her half* guinea ; she said no, .she would not take it; he then said, he would give her 13.. if she would be a bob's (r sh idling a) worth of ru.n, to come• io. Witness gave her the 13s. and she gave him the note ; he wrote his DIM! upon it, that night, befo►e a Magistrate, at Beyer. ley ; he never parted with it, n or was it out of hi s eight until he had signed his name upon it ; they find another shilling's worth. Witness wanted to go riot ; she said, no, you must stop a little longer; she must be another shilling's worth to come in, which they h Witness told her lie was going to Pocklingion Fair; she told hint if he should see one David Tsubton, at Pock:ington Fair. witness was to say she would see him at York, in the Assize week, and he might have what bobs and slums he liked. She then called witness a rare good lad, shook bands, and said, " if thou keep my company, thou shalt never want fu► money." She said she was coming to York to try her luck ; she was determin ed to make something of her business ; she would either have a golden chain, or a wooden leg. Wit ness went out for a constable. and met one ; he took her up, and she was had before a Magistrate that evening. Mr. 11'tt.t.tasts. for the Prisoner, cross-examined the witness ; he said lie was sent by the Recorder of Hull; he had not given any information, but knew she was addicted to those practices; he was told so by nos South. Witn e s s was not acquainted with Southitutil the Magistrates sent for the witness he had no conversation with South—he learnt the cant words in going with hint to Beverley upon the coach ; he never spoke fire words to South before. When the Poisoner came to them at the Plough. they both asked her how she did? South asked her first if she would have some ale ? Wituess had seen her at flull, but never spoke to her before: had seen her in a public-house, at Hull, some time ago, but never spoke to her. Witness pinched the had money before the note, and gave her a g ea for it; hr paid her for the note bcfure she was Wien. Witness paid her for the note half-a-guinea, half-a crown, and one penny. He never 'thew those slang names till riding upon the coach with South. Being questioned respeetiug the serecne he gave for the had money, witness said it was a (fall bank -note, a good one. Mr. Thomas Clover was called ; he has helm an inspertor in the Bank of England shout ifi yt.tra ; the note was shewn to him ; he said neither the paper, impression, plate, nor ink, were those of the Bank of England ; there was a W. Newton in the Bank, and not a J. Newton ; this was not W. Newton's hand-writing, as eutering clerk; the name R. Lowe, as signing clerk, was not of the hand-writing of R. Lowe, a signer of small notes in the Bank of England ; in short it was a forgery throughout. The Prisooer was called upon fur her defence. She said the Witness was a bad character, ■nd" she was an innocent woman. From being taken up so lately, she had not had time to have any of her friends here to speak for her. Mr. Juqire La BLANC recapitulated the evi. dente, and observed, that if the Prisoner did not know it to be forged, she would not be guilty upon this indictment. South, it appeers, is deeply con• eerned in the business ; hut the witness Horton op peers to have no concern, being sent by the Ma gistrates for the purpose of detecting her. Selling the note, purporting to be of the value of 41. for 13s. chews she knew it was a forged one ; end whe ther the witness paid 13s. or 13s. 6d. in the wny he said, wee not mate' lel. The Jury found her—Guilty. CIVIL Before Baron Tuomrson. NARRIOTT V. DAY. This was an action brought by the Plaintiff, late • drummer in the ilath feot, against the Defend ant, proprietor of • coach running between Shef field and Doncaster, to recover damages for the in jury sustained by the Plaintiff, in being overturned in the Defendant's coach, by the drunkenness of the coachman. It appeared us evidence. that, on the .tth July last, the Plaautiff applied to a Mr. Parker, clerk to the above mech. at Sheffield, for an outside place from thence to Doncaster. The regular fare, it 'ap peared, was five shillings, but Mr. Parker told him it was only three shillings for • soldier. The Plaintiff accordingly paid three shilling,, and before the coach went off, took his place in the chair behind, and placed his drum on the top of the coach. When the coachman came sip, a girl, (daughter of the Plaintiff, and one of the principal evidences,) saw he was very drunk, and a Mr. James Woollin, of Sheffield, Quarter-muter of the Local Militia at that place, who was an inside pc:stager, also no ticed his situation, and told Mr. Parker that it was very unsafe to go with the coachman in that state ; Mr. P. replied, that he had often driven the coach when more in liquor than he was at that time ; when the coach drove off, there were eig' ina.de a nd six outside pas.enfrere, and three more were taken en on the Outside shortly after ; shout a mile from Sheffield the coach was overturned by the di woken neer of the coachman, by w hich accident two lathe , were hart, and the Plaintiff very severely iniercd ; he was taken home, and after being under proper care boat a month. he was sent to the Sheffield Infirmary, where he ass au in-patient some time, afterwards an out-patient ; and had since been at the Whitworth Doctor's = ene of the surgeons wbo attended hint, had seen loin lint week, when he appeared still to suffer pain iu certain postures of the body ; hie thigh was wasted ; lie limped iii walk, and the surge‘n was of opinion that he would feel the effects at the accident all Ilia life; the Plaintiff was near sixty years of age, and though Ode to work a little ut his business, as a table. knife cutler, was unable to dress himself without usi■tumce. The fret of the accident having happened through the carelessness oldie servant of the Deletidant,lwas admitted by his Counsel, (lr. Park), who, how ever, attempted. in the cross-examination of the Plaintiff 's witnesses, to chew, that the Plaintiff not having paid the regular fare of five shillings, was not • regular passenger, and had got up unper ceived by Mr. Parker, the cki k ; but this was positively contradicted; and it was also proved, that, alter theaceident Mr. P. waited on the Plain tiff, returned to his wife the fare of three shillings, and alio gave her seven shillings and sixpence more, for the relief of her family. It was proved by the Plaintitrs witnesses, that the Defendant turned away the coachman immediately after the mention, and paid the surgeon's bill for attending the Plain tiff i be first three weeks. Mr. PARC very handsomely admitted the liebility of the Defendant for the consequences of the care lessness of his servant ; but contended that this was not a case which called for large damages. The Defendant had acted throughout in a mariner highly honourable to hint, and had even offered to rel'e► the question of the amount of damages to any respectable individual. He reprehended very severe ly the practice of coachmen in taking up more pas serigers than the law allowed, and thus rendering their masters liable for whatever accidents might occur in consequence; and observed, that, in the present case, the passengers, when they saw the coachman so evidently incapable, ought to have in. 'listed on another driver. After a few words from the Learned Judge, the Jury retired, and in a short time returned a verdict for dot Plaintiff, damage• WO guineas. r=iiir2insinemn BOOKS E LLERS. On the first day of the late Sessions at the Old Bailey, a convictiou took place. on a clumze of fe lony, highly interesting to printers, as well as to booksellers. The following are the particulars : Ou the nth ultimo, the working warehouse of Mr. M'Creery, printer, in Black-horse -court, Fleet-street, was robbed, hetweeu the hours of eight awl Mile at night, of about 1000-sheets of au original awl unpublished work, entitled The Scottish Chirp. In a short time after the robbery. • part of the property was taken to the shop of Mr. .14 , 11C0, chemenionger, in Fleet-market, and there sold at VA. per ;annul. Mr. M'Creety'e supi ciente fell a t om • pressman of the name of Isaac Pettit, who had frequently called at his offire iii the eve ll ill gr. to inquire for employmeut, and when en gaged did nut come to work. Search was imme diately made after this man, and it war not until the 16th that he was taken at the office of Mr. Stratford. in Crown -court, Temple-bar. His lodg ing was searched, but none of the property foetid there ; lie was then taken to Mr. Jones's, and im mediately recognised by Mr. Jones and his son as the person who had sold the paper. When ea before the sAing 'MagiAnste. ht was discovered to be the person who, six months before, had offered • bundle of white paper to a trunk-maker in Holborn, who stopped it, suppos ing it to have been stoleo, and which proved to be the property of Mr. Swan, printer. On this oc ow he made his escape. After the trial. the Hecostictt gave Mr. Jones • caation, iii future, not to purchase property of this description from persons of whom he knew no thing, as it is a double injury to the person from whom it has been purloined, the value of the printing being added to that of the paper. Deal ers in waste paper ought to bear in remembrance, that if stolen property he found in their possession, without their being able to bring the person for ward from whom they had it, they are theinsslves Gable to action and punishment. There are regu lar and respectable dealers in this article, from whom. if they purchase, they will always i.e in safety. Butchers and tobacconists ought also to be very cautious with whom they deal for waste paper. There were thirty-five prisoners on the calendar for trial, at the late Wi.t•hire Assize', but the chief interest was excited to bear the trials of Ilerhord Wright, (known by the name of Bleck Dirk.) loins Leo and William Hancock, charged with breaking into the counting-house or factory of Messrs. Cerium and Wilica, at Westbury, and teeing a large'quantity of superfine broad-cloth. A chain of evidence was adduced, by which the prisoners were traced, with a cart, to the premises of Me-srs.Caosay and WHIM at the time of the robbery, and from thence to Wear, near Axbridge, Semersephire, where • large quantity of the stolen property was coneigned to the rare of William Lloyd, who had been committed as an ae-' eomplice in the robbery, but was admitted an evidence for the Crown, and by the addition of his testimony the crime was broaght home to the Pri. sneers. The Jury accordingly returned a verdict of I:nifty—Death; but iu consequence of a legal objection by the Counsel for the Prisoners, their e‘ecution was ordered to take place on the 56th of May next, that the opinion of the twelve Judges might be taken on the point reserved. When the verdict oft he Jury was given, Wright declared that Lloyd, the witness, had sent for him and his com panions from Derbyshire to commit the robbery. The trial began at nine o'clock on Tuesday morn ing, and lasted till seven in the evening. A moat melancholy affair happened at Itippin ple, near Falkingliain. on Tuesday seciiiight.--.- rno. ATKINsom, a blacksmith, of that place, who had been stipbamed to Lincoln as a witness in a horse emse, unexpectedly returned front the assizes in the evening, having left Lincoln bi't'e the cause Caine on for trial ; and in the griddle of the 'light he got up from his bed. and h iviiig nothing on but his shirt, he thre e himself into Rippingsle town well, a descent of 17 yards. and waydrowtied. lie was not discover.,l •everal hours after. The prior man is ,a very direteil on his return home: his wife abed •neut a year ago, and left him with le infant children. APPLICATION OP PUBLIC MONEY IN IRELAND. A censurable, unprofitable, and injudicious ap plication of public money, has justly been consi dered among the secondary, or derivative cir cumstances which conducts! to retard the poogre,s of Ireland towards that distinguished place .111101. g the nations of Europe, which she is demonstrably quallied by nature to hold. The following facts, collected from Mr. Newen ham's last work, furnish sufficient evidence of the want of a well-directed solicitude for the pros perity of this country, on the part of its former Legis latoire ; a want which, we trust and believe, the Legislature of the United Kingdom, notwithstand ing present appearances, will not, hereafter, be liable to be reproached with. The total amount of the charge fur pensions, on the civil hat, from the year 17:03, to the L. year 17a6, inclusive, was 3,367,922 Tim total ainomat of the parliamentary grants to the Incorporated Society for promoting Protestant Chatter. schools, and the produce of the duty-uu hawkers and pedlars appro. printed to that society, from the year 1745, to the• year ended :AL of January, 'so', was 612,271 Besides whirls, the 111Clei y derived a very coo. milemble re v e ccc from estates,legacica, do nations, tac. The total amount of the money disbursed, un der ildftient heads, by the trustees of the Born manufacture, for the encouragement thereof, from the year 1712 to 1703, Melo- _ _ _ . . sive, was .. SUOMI The total amount of the bounties granted on the exportation of corn, fur the encourage ment of tillage, films the year 170$, to the yesr ended in Vlsreh, 1754, was only 1 ighanfi The charge fur erosions un the civil list In the the year ended sth January, lens, was 89,639 The grant to the incorporated society, in the name year, was a3,97* Tbe grant for the enciteragement of the linen manufueture, wu st,tioo besides the produce of the appropriated duties. The grants to the Dubin' Society, and Farm ing Society, including ,t,uoul. for the Cork inatitut ion,aan 'tooted to 17,014 out of which there will probably be applied at least 10,0001. to buildings, repairs, salaries of officers, allowances, wages of labourers, &c. &c.; as has uniformly been the case for several years past ; leaving, at the utmost, not more than 7,0001. for the encouragement of agricultural industry in Ire• hind. which"oe conceive — should actually, in a spa c'al manner, excite the sobeitude of the Legis lature. 'fhe foregoing particol.trs furnish ground for some further observations : First, the application of 3,300,0001. to pensions, in the space of 57 years, out of r revenue, the gross receipt whereof did, in no year, previous to 1706, exceed one million sterling. appears to have been r most unjustifiable and scan. delnus lavisliment of the public money ; especially as the pension list of Ireland always notoriously in chided the 1114111 e. of A Cat sudsy 11111.•01thy inthvi du'ls, and thii,e of laer.vu, w ho had no claim whatso ever on bill, national gratitude. Secondly, it may be observed, that the effect expected to result from the inatetotion of charter-sehoole, has not been expe rienced the numeral proportion of the Roman Crtliolics to the Protestants not being but obviously and conies.eilly increased. Thirdly, it may be observed, that no manufacture whatsoever is entitled to so great a share of public money, as was appropriated to the eneouragernent of the linen manufacture of Ireland ; that the rapid progress of that manufactory is nett ascribable to the expen diture of so much money for its encourage ment. a great part of that money, as ap pears by the Journals of the Rouse of Com mons, having beau misapplied or jobbed away ; and that the late and present flourishing condition of that manufacture evidently pre cludes the necessity of continuing a bounty. which, perhaps, might have been requisite in its iiilitiit state. Fouttlily, we feel oierwlvi autho rised to observe, that the former Legislature of Ireland, either remained for a long time ignorant of the various,' important national lichen's necessa rily accruing, in a peculiar manner, from the erten- Dion and improvement of agricultiste ; or that the majority of that Legislature wanted sulEcirot pa. trionsiu to urge the adoption of measures proper fur their atti t i ttt neut. A fire, almost unexampled in its Semmes" be fore it was subdued. broke out in the house of Mr. Gages, engraver, in l'at tick-street, Cork. on Mon day se'imight, betweeu seven and eight o'clock in the evenin4. The bursting of a ve•s-1 in which oil had been hailing ass the cause. aad the same pro duced b► this accident. which took place in the lower part of the house, communicated itself with each singular rapidity, that in a very few minutes after its appearance, the roof was barn* furiously. —The preservation of a little family of helpless children was the first object of exertion, and an effort was made to rescue them, in defiance of the danger to which the suddenness and fury of the conflagration► exposed those who made the attempt. It was not. however, we lament to state, altogether successful ; of five children which composed the fa mily of the unhappy *offerer, only four were re deemed from this horrid peril—a tine boy, of three years old, unfortunately perished. A female ser vant threw herself out of a window, but was so ter ribly lacerated is, the fall, and so bruioed liv it, that she duel the same night. The boos of Mr. Charm was entirely consumed. but, by great ex ertions. the tire was prevented from spreading Monday se'imight died, aged 21, Mr. lIESnY SAVAGE, joiner, of tiulkham.—This unfortunate young man was bitten in the fore-fin ge r by a mad dog. about 15 weeks ago. and had the part cut out +,y • surgeon two hours after; the Gager had apparently healed, and he felt no further incon venience till the Saturday previous to his drath, when he Ur% suddenly taken ill, accomposited with all the dreadful symptoms of hydrophobia. There is no foundation whatever for the state ment in some of the Papers relative to a pretended concealment practised in respect to the proposals for an exchange of prisoners received from France in November last.—(M ors i ng Pow.) A shocking murder was committed in the vici nity of Wrexham. on Friday aennight. The fore man of • lime-work havmg received about aye pounds to p.y the other workmen, a blacksmith (now in custody) way-laid him. and so trverrly wounded him. as to rinse his death. The ,umbers of the notes were krmien, and the delinquent w as discovered, whim pourcha.ing a Den kat. thus% &c. at Krealtam. die iIJ; folisming. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. • RT-mot,TH, MARCH ‘2O. Sailed the Bonne tituye nn e, with a calm) ) . f o , Nova Scotia and Halifax.: the wind bring Tuts calm, they have brought op in Cores Ronda. PLYHOUTH-DUCII, MARCH 19. Arrived a convoy of fnnr sail, ]rota Dartmouth, put in here by contrarr winds. Yesterday, sailed th'e Daphne, Capt. Pipon, fw Guernsey. Caine into Barnpool, to refit, the Hissed. Thi. day, sailed the Pheassust, IS gum, Crtpt, Palmer. toe Collis ; Prometheus, IG guns. Cuptvio n o wi se .; Tartarus, 18 *WI., Capt. M..inir■ T • trg; and Log, 18 guns, Capt. Marshall, far Yarinninu. The kapetagetar is expected to follow *nom—Ansi S.E. moderate. FALIIOUTa, MIAMI 111. Arrived, yesterday, oft this port, the inito t a. bourn! Portugal and Mediterranean fleets, a „,4 were Joined from hence by the Hardy, la gnus, the following weasels, viz.: Eimer fiat, Tv. anis.. for ; Mary, Hobart*, for Oporto; Gibbons, for Lisbon ; the whole proceeded doe,. Channel with a fine breeze at Ealft, Alw im „. 4 the Johii, Porter, and Princess Amelia, iteheT.. front Lom:its; the Juno, Graves. from Hull; t ot M a deira, Hacdon, for Cowes; aud Airtim e , Payne. for Poole. Sailed the Espeigk, IS guns, with too W it t Indiamen tinder convoy; mid tlin day the folios. ing Michels. viz. : Lady 1.01,e11a, Puttenu., aat i mails for Madeira and the br tt zlki; I, 7r d Hamilton. with ditto for Cod's; trvice Todd, with ditto fur Li.boli E .t. DEAL. MARtil 10. Came down from the River the 41.0i:k eater Root Inditurwil ; fly/mono, Geurge,, end the Jaw, for Rio Janeiro. Sailed the Seam and ()rims. for Vermont); Airsick Carrie, for India ; and the whole of the running 41.ipm that were left here, ler the Westward. —Wind N.E. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. 011111111131 D, MARcu g 0 gates, Randal, for St. ; Admiral Colpoys, Vensides, hr Demerara; Aun, Johns, for Madeira ; llt. Patrick, Las, fw Dllblia ; Cali• Junia, Reid, ha Limerick, and the Lady Luis sea, Dye, fur Oporto - - • There was a tolerable supply of grain at Norwich market on Saturday, and pities much the as.. as last we k„ fine bade • truing in densand.--11 heat 40a. to S 1 s.—Barley 14s. to 20s.—Outs 104. to 1 4s. —Brans 17s. to 19. There was a good .apply fat I.easts fill the ibll, winch hail a dull , ale, the jobb.is not seeming eager to bay. Some fat me teor was exhibited, although but few store shill/ or lambs were teen. The skew of lean beasts am small, slid only few purchases mode. Last Friday afternoon. a woman, of decent up. pearance, dressed in snoriroing, *rot to the %tints Mart link in Lewes, to inquire if she could lie accommodated sv;th a 'nom! owl, on being an swered in the affirmative. she followed the waiter into that which is appropriated to the use of ter. yellers, where. at her reqaest, pen, iolr, ,nil paper were brought her, 10011 after which she was oh. served to quit the house abruptly ; this excited the waiter's curiosity, and induced him to visa lit room, where he found Iyiug on the table. her one - bred*, her gloves, a new f.llof, sio.l a letter, onto. nib:eddy written, except the last line, wleo:h ems expresstve of l.tr determination, mud composts• of the following words, I shall, this day, put an end to my unhappy life." The r.zrir she hid, as doubt, provided for the commissira, of ruiiide. but ere she could find resolution enough to apply it. her distracted mind, ptsbahly, suggested to her a lets painful death, as she hastened born the ion, la the wharf adoining the bridge, mod I,oes thence threw hersel f into the river, and must have bees inevitably drowned in a few minutes, hn4 not a ;semen,. who caught sight of her.i'namton, step p ed into a barge and rescued her, just as star wee sink ing a servost time beneath it, but much against her will, as she censured the U3Bll for his hormone COs duct, and observed she had left at the Mote-flirt (meaning the razor) that which would effect lice purpose. She was put to led at the Bear lan, where proper care was taken of her, by order of her husloend, who, it creme. is a nerjeant in the 18th Hussars, and attributed her desperation to en founded ie•lousy. COAL MARKET. *Rea I. Phipa. Ship. sold. Prier. Ipi ..Newrootht . I 6; "Seats Coal Mat 4/1 STOOLS TOTS& op., . s re CM. ramie d. 4 &per CM. Nagy , Imperials per Out. ell !Ma Maude VI It rem . UNA Sea hack Korb. Bab j beady We- / 44.... q to pe. ( me deity, of )30.... ti to er. Ettirli.ll Lottery Tickets 441• 6111. C.)11.4.1% for T. BIM, Stork Booker. _ _ Stork 4, C 41.114111, awl 9, QMrisL•" PORTO On Saturday Lot, the Lady of I. H. Soracry, Eaq. a klar ky- place, of a daughter . MARRIAGES. In Dublin, on Friday the orb iiittant, I..rooard °gab?. of Aulland.Squarc, to this, .laughtev of Frederick Mehl. Ebl. A Mei roan, of Abbey-street, in the name rite. On the nth iust. S. Hamilton ltiesan. Ea, aecond of Archibald lhmilton Rowe', Eon of Kil'eleanb oirlf tben, to rllen, daughter of Jobe Jai:lmm, Lan. of CU" C O Monaglann. . - DEATHS. Lately at Arran-hill, mousey Tipperary, she oral a/Thalami Money, Fog. the Rey. flobert Showy. Laic!), at Grange, county Westmeath. aged 4.0, "" re. theuston, relict of Richanl FelberMos, Coy. Its hatorday last, aged 37, Joseph Srot L. 5 of N . 0 " ‘.°'. many year, oar of the hns otm (:,eat h es of She ieat orlinea Ward, and owe of the Croon of Goarshatis Oa Moollay last, aged Mount 7%, arls•r a ling. coal M rt. Savant, wife of Vire-Admiral ?mange, mil ...sty 115itr of the late Mrs. Trayaad (nis i ,.e n o f r y's...3,, ..od of Richard Plaistow, formerly of Potter's Bar, nel lost at sea, im their musimge to Esiope, Limit • C,,tnnel A Fast Islam (:ouipsweS's a,nier, ?Wept ewe the late Altamonte,. tlre. Ems of Waterside, Nlre (In, d of the lag Gencr“l SydenhAns, •• their Ilsme rhildrem HIGH WATER AT 1.41NUP7111111 Til74—list LON lk#l4 ..-Peobeed by C x.IIIII, t wort ••• • •• • sod poblesbrd r ebb (Mbre. P. es, SAO. ..r •rn Clutch, Ofrasod, by J. WHITE. of nor, p _,•..•:. be foe ibis Papas. .Si.es 'be Oar., • ~.4 •in ably Noni,/ Mb Aug, '1 " i.ru lir. tit. pi Hr I w„4• Sere B I:ur,d IP' • JIlLt fru t. long sel luttle tiny for ri Ch HLs 1 Eni I ROI At. 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