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• IP I MI ■ 'rentsHmk LENT ASSIZES. YORK CASTLL TRIDAY. MARCH 13. CIIOWN SIDE Befure Mr. Alsace BATLEY. AILIPN. Was. Creenareod was charged with setting fire to the workshop or warehouse belonging to the Lett). Pottery. Tor iniietment cootained twelve counts. which merely charged the offence under thifiretst males of description, as to the properly destroyed and the iteronns it would injure. lit the course of this trial, twenty-five witnesses were examined en the part of the prosecution. some of them at wrest length ; it will not therefore lie ;erosible to lay the whole of this evidence before OUP readers. We shall endeavour, however, to give such sottlnteact of it, es shall tawny a clear i;leu of die gruouN ou which the Prisoner was charged. -.. Mr. Haab'', tested tbeistse on the part of the prosecntion. He first described the pretnittes, and pointed out the situatiou of that poet which was burin. and the mode in which shit non obtained Ivo access who set fire to it. This p r tion consisted principally of an explanation models and plans tirodueed in Court. and which, without that illustra tion, would have been unintelligible. The premises are situ.' ted about half a mile from the town of Leeds, on the south side of the river, and immediately emitigoolis to the iron-rail reed-way of Mr. Brand hog ; end which also Forms a foot-path from Leeds to Hunslet and other Awes. The buildings. which are very extensive, may be conceived as enclosing a large triangular court. the hese of which sepa rates this from a keen'. tolled the straw•yard, one side of which was accessible by climbing over it wall about vista feet high. The fire took place its the buildiug which separated these yards, in a thin of tithich was tlw workshop where the Prisoner formerly *corked, and which of course was well *nowt* to hien. In a corner of the loner court, Chloe to the wall, was deposited a largelvantity of ochre, which formed a kind of inclined plane ; and on the outtide of the wall was found, the morning after the fire, part of a crate which formed a ladder, liy the assistance of which a person might very easily get over the wall into the building where the fire commenced. Having explained the situation of the premises. and the manner in which the person was supposed 'to have effected an entrance, he stated the whore of the proof he had to advance of the fire toot haw lug been accidental, which was briefly as follows: The fire began in a stove used for the drying of earthenware, placed on wooden shelves, before it wits baked, in what was called the cream-colour ed work-shop, and within was an iron pot with A tire under it. On the rubbish being removed, a shovel, which was used for the purpose of mending the fire, and which had been put outside of the door when the workmen left the place was found within the stove, under the wooden s helves, with cinders and burnt straw upon it. The circumstances, as at 'steal by the Counsel, ranch led to the inference of the Prisoner Iseing the hand that set fire to the building, are the fol lowing : He had been employed as a servant in this work shop, and was well acquainted with tlw premises; was discharged about a fortnight Siefert, sod had used expressions which indicated au intention to do some mischief to the proprietors; that he was 111 II situation in whicti he Could have done it, being upon the road ; that the Prisoner's shoes were mark ed with ochre, which could only have bent dune by his treading upon it its getting over the wall; that he istialniced by footsteps marked with ochre ; that he was 'wen, almost immediately hefore the tire eras discovered, coming in a direction front the Pot tery to a place called Busk Field, where there was a light at the time; that In a visit belonging to the Prisoner were found tools *hid) had been left by the workmen in the stove where the fire cot ttttt enced ; that the Prisoner could not account for the time *lnch elapsed between his leaving the public-house. at Ilunslet-latte,in Leeds, and beingseesi at the light in Busk Field ; that he had given contradictory ac counts of the manner in which he spent this time; that he first 'said he had not got home when lie lie.ord the fire-bell of Ow Pottery ring. butt in his examina tion before the Magistrates, he stated that 1w was at home when lie head it; that he appeared at the tire sooner than he possibly could lonic done if this statement had been true; that though he appeared very active in his exertions to extinguish the tire. yet in reality lie endeavoured to thwart them by privately doing something tt the engine which pre- Vented it from working; and that when the roof fell its he could not conceal his exaltation, but hue s:eel' aloud. Stich is the .übttbnce of the evidence which the Counsel stated was to Substantiate the charge against the Prisoner; but the evidence produced in Court did tint support the statement mode. The Jury. 10 9 110 m Vetirisrg Touud the Prisoner —Not Umilty. The trial occupied the Court from two o'clock in the afternoon Mita nine o'clock in the evening. SATURDAY, MARCH 14. Joke Squires, being a clerk and servant to the churchwardens and overseen' of the township of Leeds., was charged with receiving, by virtue of such his emplOyment, the sum of tourism KIIIIICII O , which he fratuirettly eulberiled mid converted to las owls use... 1-1:.11.0/1 stated that this woe a prosi;tutirin fataii , led on the statute of the 35th George HI. which was passed to remedy a defect in the law, awl to make it larceny fur any clerk or servant, in trusted by theSe persons with money for the use of their employer, to embezzle or convert the ramie to their own use. The Prisoner was employed by she churchwar dens and &revivers of the poor of Leeds, as thi-ir clerk, to receive and pay motley MI their uccomit, red iu the Counor of his emooloyinent lie received, au the 23il of .Juue. the stun of 14 gnliieas Irons the overseer of Lepton, for money advanced by the township of Lec•ls for the payment of their poor. Thir ttttt ey the Prisoner did not ucconitt for, best secreted sm., converted. it to his twon nor. In the month of January last; in cooserptelice of some sewivicion entertained of the conduct of the Primmer, the Committee, consisting of the churchwardeos ei.d sr:lc:seers, appcitiltd a day for tl.e particular exatuirrotion of the out-town paupers, and of his accounts : notice was brut to the members of the Committee, desiring their attendance ; and in pur suance thereof the churehwordens, overseers, rod paupers attended. hot the Prisoner did not make his appearance, and it was soon discovered that he absconded. A touither of legal olijections were urged by the Counsel for the Prisoner. It was also couteiriled, that it was orcersary to prove the appointment of the overseers ; but this was over-ruled. on the groom] thot their meting as such, was sufficient to / / sloe the presumptimi that they were duly appoiiit ed, and that he had treated with them as such.— Another difficulty @root from the property having hero laid as the joint property of the church wardens and overseers; whereas it appeared that the churchwardens were appointed for the perish of Leeds generally. and the overseers fur the township mi ly--and that the former, therefore. had no legal jurisdictiou in the concerns of the poor of the town ship. The Conn?. after hearing the Counsel on both sides, determined that the objection was valid. But, at the close of this discitssiou, it was disco vered that there was smother count, which stated the properly to be the overseers only. The trial (lieu pro, ceded. Mr. Richard 'Keinplay said he was an inhabitant of Leeds, and a churchwarden for that parish ; he mentioned the names of the churchwardens awl overseers for the current year. The churchwardens he stated were wardens for the whole parish. but acted as gamut' of the pour for the township. in conjunct with the overseers. Mr. John Senior is the overseer of Le;itoot ; dur ing last year they had some paupers residing in the township of Leeds ; he knows the Prisoner. and went there to settle wish him, for the money the township of Leeds had I:aid on account of their township ; he paid the sum of 141. 14%. in country bank notes ; it was for sixty by gone weeks. Mr. Richard Kemplay then underwent a long examination, or rather a series of exit ~, i l lotions, the substance of which may, however, be briefly stated. He said, that he attended at the workhouse with the view of proceeding to the exernination of the out...town tutor accounts ; lie had examined those for the last four years. in weekly portions, and the book was in the Prisoner's own hand writing. Witness, by the direction of the Com mitter. gave Mr. Squires notice that they would meet for the specific purpose of examining the out town paupers, end the accounts connected with hint. to see if every thing was right ; and he di• reeled hint to give notice to the churchwardens, overseers, and potir of this examination : the over seers end poor attended, but the Prisoner did nut— he had absconded.. Mr. Kemplay produced the ledger kept by the Prisoner, iii which all sums received by him on account of the township ought to have been entered ; lie had minutely examined it, but there was 110 entry of any Milli paid by the overseer of Lepton. The Prisoner had given that book as a true account of the money lie hurl received and paid fur the township. Witritss said the Prisoner had been appointed to the situation heroic Ise was in office, Mid suppo se d it was a writ ten appointment. Ile then produced the minute book, in which. under the date of August 16, tell). there was a nientorersduin of the appointment of the Prisoner to be clerk to the over , with a salary of 100/. per annum. The Prisoner pod bees' coutimied in his situation by the subsequent over seers without any new appointnient. Some further useinunnolums relating to the Pri soner was also read, by which it appeared, that some years ago. he had been deficient in his sic counts about SUL half of which the Co 11111 l ittee had agreed to cancel, and to accept his 'tote for the other moiety. Mr. HARDY then milted, to what amount the Pri. sorter admitted tloot he was deficient in his accounts The JUDGE said, he thought the question nitro per, as it might create a prejudice against him. Mr. Mane paid, he risked it with a view to raise the presumption, that the 14 guineas he was proved to hove received had not been omitted entering through accident. In this view, his Lordship thought the question might be proper. Mr. Kemplay, in reply, stated. that the Pri soner had admitted that the stain of 1,8001. was un accounted fur in his books, being sums he had re ceived and not eritered in his book, and therefore never accounted for. Mr. K. also stated, that time Prisoner was always required to produce the ba lance, which he appeared to have in his hands, *lien the accounts were examined. Mr. Ws lAA ANS cometided, that there was nothing to go to the Jury, and that the Prosecutors had nut offered a tittle of evidence to prove that he hart converted to his own use a single farthing of the money. His Lordship said, there was certainly evidence to go to the Jury. The Prisoner being called upon for his defence, mid. he should leave it to his Counsel, who called the following witnes-es :—Mr. C. Wood. of Leeds; Mr. J. Marshind, Mr. Clanliam, Mr. J. Hisichliffe, Mr. 3. Marshall, and Mr. J. Walker, all of Hie. stall, near Leeda ; all of whom wake in very high terms of the Prisoner's character. After lair Lordship had stated the evidence, and exiblintied the law in reference to cases of embezzle ment, the Jury conferred together a few moments, and found the Pri.oner—Gerikii but eaprersed their wish, that the Court would. in consideration of his foriber good character, sliew I • all the mercy the ciiciimptauces of the ease would admit. On Mom's?, at nine o'clock in the morning, 11Ir. Jivitice BA" LEY passed 'Weather spun the Privoners couvich:d during the Avinzer. Th e fol lowing ‘2.5 received sentence of Death, la the order in which we name them : ••• ------- - - Matthew , Todd, fur burglary ; Juba Wliberireirk mod Thomas Wilagli fur slc3lbis in a ilwrllissilsuirse l 0 Ihr value of fairly abilliiv*,;.; Robert Kirby, David Metall,. and Joseph Matit.barder„ for alirep•aleatinz; Wm. Parker and Richard 111 , 1•1. fur horse btrulioig ; %Silh..ms *hitch", fur high way syWhei y gamic, tt , at, fur stealing three rows; Juba' l• y, S .•-.isrl Swabia., JuiLua Nichol% Abrams Maur, Diiiiu.nx, Richard elayatirit, Jailers Ilarrivuo, trl kr, Mi In. 110.4 j. S49v:. I Ilan, Gorge Rlph.snlon, Wm. wa,„.„, J an .. Nur. ..... and Thum... Wally, fur burglarv; an d 'laird, fur ultra:nig furscil /taut of fli;;•- laud writs at Hull. The Liar insullirirsit to contain so largg • uttrubrr, und thr‘r unhappy turn wvre !nought up, at three separate times, to receive the awful ten teller of the law. Mr. Justice Birea.inr, previous to passing sen tence upon them, addressed each of the Prisoner., pointing oat the nature of their several Offences. mud commenting upon the alleviating or ngtravating circumstances of each case. His Lordithip made many just, striking, and affecting observatiotis on the extreme fully of a career of wickedness, of which the unhappy men before him furnished • most pain ful but appropriate illustration ; iu most of their cases, detection had followed close upon the com mission of crime ; and in no one instance had any permauent advantage resulted to the perpetrators of it. But in the case of all the Prisoners. except Samuel Leatherlsorl, convicted of tittering forged Bank of Englund notes, his Lordship distinctly intimated that the full severity of the We would not be executed upon them. but that mercy would be extended towards them, in proportion to the circumstances which extenuated or aggravated each case. In speaking of the last unhappy man, to whom no mercy was to be extruded, his Lordship void, his case had occasioned him much distress, mud after the most anxious and bluer consideration, he had been imperiously c by a sense of duty, not to interfere in his favour, but to leave him to the unmitigated rigour of the law. His Lordship. however, mentioned, as (leum stances of sonic elleviation, the readiness which the Prisoner admitted his guilt, sod the wil lingness he expressed to give information respecting the persons who had employed him. But Ire held out to him no hope of mercy from any earthly tri bunal. The following Prisoners received the sentences affixed to their respective' names: — Matthew Robert! and Wary Robinson for uttering base silver, to be imprisoned cis mouths, sail find security fur their goof' behaviour for use year; David Bream. for stealing in a dwelling bungle to the value of 39a. ; John Champley and Matthew Johnson for stealing leather from a earl, to he imprisoned two years ; Jonas Jewett, fur steal. lug from the person, to be imprisoned one year ; Joel Hsr. graves and James Hall, for washing a warehouse at chef. Geed, to he transported omen yon ; and Win. Walker, an necessary afler the fact, in receiving the goods, hovering them to be Mulcts, to be transported 14 yeses ; Joseph Fox, fur being an aecetuary in a burglary, in receiving dwelt/len property, to be transported 14 years. Charles Hare, John Gilbask, and Tho.seat Smith, convicted of beiog out armed in a wood, with an intent to kill game. were discharged on finding sureties, and entering into a recognizance to keep the peace for twelve months, and to appear to re ceive judgment when called upon. His Lordship said, if they abstained from similar practices iu future, they would never he called upon. Joins Split-es, the treasurer to the Leeds work house, convicted of etribeszlement, was sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of Correction at Wuktfield, two years. IRELAND. DUIIILIN, MARCH 23. We understand that Sir Gore Omley, Bart. has given 80.000/. for part of Colonel Eyre's estate, in the County Galway. The Hon. Mathew Fitsmautice, son of Lord Musketry, is appointed Captain in the Royal Coun ty Limerick regiment, vice John Brown, Esq. re- LIMERICK, MARCH 18. On Friday, the 27th nit. the boot Nary, of this port, belonging to Mr. Parker, on her peonage to Mims's, came to anchor at Almond), when the was boarded by some men its a small bout from the shore, who coot her rigging and cable, and after sculling the boat, let her drift down rite river. It is conceived they Murdered the crew. as twee of them has ►ince been heard of; their gnomes are Phi lip and Patrick Stack, and Patrick Tonokins. The mail from Limerick was robbed ye►terday morning between Itatlakeale mood Torbert, and the bye letters pas,ing through Limerick and Shams golden for Torbert, Listottell, and Trotter, coroild utf. The pootonan had no Dublin moil, but it is probable that there may have been several letters for the Gentlemen of the long robe, re-directed front Limerick to Tralee. WATERFORD. MARCH 23. EXECUTION.--011 Saturday fames Tobin, Pa. trick Murrisem, mid Williams Leary, were execut. cd in front of the county gaol, pursuant to their sentence at the late AssiZre, for burglary and rob- Ivegy in the house of Captain Johnson, of Spring hill, and for firing sit huts with latent to 111111111 and kill him. Since their conviction, and particularly, as we are informed, at their execution, they evinced the most becoming penitence and resignation, fully avowing their guilt, and acknowledging the justice of their senteoce. The following account of these men has been published : IA Tahiti was a tall, stout matt, 'boat 45 years of age, a toiler of Carrickbeg, where he eairied on the trade of it' butcher, and was some years ago in very routtortable cit.- cuutstances, awl at that time conaidered • man of respect able character. He hall fume or fire children by his first wife, and was married to his second about a year mad • half ago, hut was separated from htt about six months before his arrest. They were since retiratilied to each other, and she appeared alstracted at his tarimaiehaly death. . 4 MOrrillOy was a low-sized ilia, about twenty-six years of age. He was likewise a native of Carrickbeg, and worked usually as • boatman, between Conine! and Waterford. He was unmarried, but his aged mother is still living. He had lung been considered a mitt of indifferent character, and was one of those accused of the iiltutpt to rub Mt. White's office, nut long since, in Waterfued. " Leary was a slight man, 'ilea, 23 years old, tool was born sear Clabhmore, in which neighbourhood Ise lousily rivittea hold lately. He was likewise, unhappily, remark able fur the bregularity of his life, and ialatowly estiped conviction at the Lent Assizes of 1616, at which his I tier in) . James Leary was executed fur burglary. During his *- Moment previtries to that AbsiZeS, he contracted s pc quaintaace with a woman then in gaol, antler a charge ur boating clashes, and, after his acquittal, he lingered in Waterford, ruder false excuses, awaiting her expected libe ✓iliou curium" to the 'Write and entreaties of his mother, itiothe , t, aud retrials, who strove to prevail oil him to return to his wife. Whew this wettish araa dischartpd, Ixary accent glided her to her Mauve, in thi neighbourhood of Capt. Joint ed'', bower. there he coatiailed itt culabit with her, sdpiturl ita; themselves chiefly by petty robberies of potatoes, lie. Has. iiik planned, as it is untietaiood, between diem, the rultbety Of Caplan. Johnson's humor, Leary repaired to canickbeg, lb procure accomplices to tatty the phut into execution, when he foam, ready iestrusisbnts in tibia, Morrissy, Moe. Ise (the approves), sad another was, not yet takes, wish all came dawn *AY him fur ibis express purpose." CLOWMxL, Mallon Itt. On Thuraday evening last. about seven o'clotit a barbarous murder aid perpellitted at ilayloUgh . . • in the mountaias, about three miles humid heeir, on the person of Michael Vleniiiig, a col lett ' 1 and indpstrines piing man, in the *erne., of Richard Urubt, Burp He *leson his way with two horses and can from Libman., innisig half-notes fur a considerable sum, and about three pounds in cash, when he Wigs Met at the above minted place. null murdered with three wounds in the head from a hill-hook, and had likewise several of hi* bones broken his body wits then thrown into a well, and lightly covered, with rubbish.-- Whea the body was found. a shoe belonging, to nu e of the murderers was picked up; and, at the In quest held next slay before the Rev. Mr. Tuckey and Mr. Joshua Sutton, Magistrate-a, a shoemaker (who had recently repaired din shoe) deposed, that it was the property of a certain man. whose sonnet we do not conceive it proper to mention here : a bill hook, with marks of blood. was also found at a house. with the owner's name ou it. Besides, the two men, ogainat whom these strong circunistiancea have appeared, were seen cutting heath on the same evening, clear the same spot, add to which both these torn have tied. Colonel Bagwell lies rawly completed the plant• ing of filly acres of the Commons of Clo 1111 l el, and twenty acres in the rere of Minllield (at the Cosiott Waterford side of the Suir), each acre of winds will contain 3,000 trees. lie has fenced in 50n acres of the Commp,ns ofCla n nish,qu4tiiitiea yearly, similar ovatil d rises have them all plaited I to the abuve-inentiolied 70 acres. MARC!. 21. On Thursday evening, Captain Wilcock,' having received inforna►tion that Finnegan, the noted robber, under sentence of death front the Kilkenny Assizir, and known by the name of captain F Kan, wus !tell at his old walk near Two-mile Bridge, recently before, sent his chief cr n ►..table, Mr. Keily man whose activity we ha►' various occasions of recording), with a few of his ow') mei', in disguise, to the neighbourhood, said they suc ceeded in the apprehension of F gin, in a public-house, armed with a highlyalnaded blunder buss, which he had tint time to use, as the party, instantly no Mr. Keily's seizing him, closed ut him, and effectually presented any resistance.— The Inil►tllace from that into the town. exhibited a shocking instance of sympathy with this villain, the crowd following him with shouts of 'maculation at his capture.—(Clon►nel Herald.) NAVAL IhTELLit,ANCE. PORTSMOUTH, WARM! 25. Arrived ibe Coln. Munson, from L 41114011, fur Antigua. The Acorn, Llewellyn, from Slime-Mint, broke huth her &reborn ism the Park, triw•u getting under weigh. FALMOUTH, MARCH 23. Arrived the Himira, Hamilton, (ruin Losidou, to China, last from Plymouth ; and at eb•ven p ac. arrived the Princess Charlotte packet, with Mails from the Leeward Islands, in twenty-three days. HARWICH, MARCH 25. Sailed the Lord Nelson packet with a mail and passengers for Holland. TENZANCIN MARCVt 23. The Sarah, Warren, (rim Oporto for Bristol, with wine, went on shore this usu ggg igg N. hut has since been got but with so much damage that the cargo must be unluailcit. HEAL. MARCH 25. Arrived and 'tailed for the River the Rehece4, Pritchard, (rum Jamaica 111. be, Rrutit 0000 0 from Demerara; and Arab, Earckley, from the Suulb Sean. WHITBY, ASARCO, 24. The fulinwing Greenloud ships hare sailed for the 6.+ltery, viz. V.lllllll, Altar; Mars, Johnson; Phenix, ; Esk,•Duishar ; Volunteer, Craig; and Resolution, KI racy. rown. MARCO 15. Arriteil the Lady Banks, Walker, fruits Laudon fur Ma dras and Renal, with her rudder !woken. LIVEMPOOL, mane' 44. Arrived the True Brit((((, Ilead ; and Princess Charlotte, ---, from Calcutta ; and AIIII Maria, Waite, front New Yolk; railed °Mk Febritars ; also the Alexander Bucluutati, Clements, from ditto ; sailed sante day. The Sarah, Attain•, front this port, fur Oxman'', Cult from both cable,' doting the rale of theft!, and went 1111 shore in Brannsaria pay, bat has sittee been go off, with two feet water in her bold. . colic. Stamen 29. The Ja• e, of and from Calcutta to (hemlock, with cotton, salt-peire and indigo, was hoard iu here thin day almost a complete wreck, having on the 1 11 h tilt. ht•- tweem the Western 16111114 and the Books of Newf 11M111, oxperienced a most 'Miceli gate of wind, is which tli her maws, &c. were carried away. GRAVESEND. mAncei Ur. Arrived the Rower, Brown, (turn Nopfet; I.:4curgim, Clover, from Buenos Ayres, sad La Amphitrite, Atwar, from Havre. Sailed the Essex, Poole, fur Madeira and St Viurent's; lames, Walsou, for Si. John's, N. IL; Catheriue, Casson, for Rueoffs Ayres; Maly, Ridley, for Trieste; Au,,, for Dublin ; Wakefield, Aaron, for Haroloorch; Jolt's and Sally, Raters. for Rotterdam; Duke of Seat, Pound, for ditto ; Duke of York, Fryer, fur ditto; sad ‘'ruer Aufjr, Fiermati, for Amsterdam. MEETINGS OF CREDITOIM AT GUILDHALL M. H. .1. G. Arndt and Co. Coleman-street, toy-merchants 3 11 W. BOSS, late of Gem•ge-street, gun-utsker R. Churchill, MIMI street, distiller T. tLiullyear, A Idersgste-street, straw-hat-matinfae Curer W. Smith, Oxford-street, ironmonger T. Fearsley, late of Portsmouth, slopseller 3 12 J. Polly, Thayer-sheet, liumt-furniture.manitlite hirer C. T. Cracklow, Spits!fields, marble-merchant 2 10 S. Joseph and Cu. Winchesler street, merchants 2 10 A. 1.. Gwillywi, late of Great Iltilsstreet, grocer 1 10 T. Manner, lirailsfurd, innkeeper IL Harvey. thford-itreet. grocer • 1 In I'. &les, Collier's-tents, fell ger. •J. Wilk,. rinstntry.equate, nirrehnot Newt, late or Lis erpool. merchant C.Paltereon, km of Great Sultans-sleet', woollen factor S. Gatr,., Ctey p, Wine merchant . 1 11 J. Pratt, Brook's-plate, surgeon W. Haney, Houndadithh, cupperstbith DIVIDENDS. Reilly, Dart•atreet„ merchant .. H. Cooke and Co. Colraitast.rtreet, merchants .. J. Domini. I.7.thrard street, ironmonger T. Iluniphryes, Cheltenham. place, horse-dialer E. Warren and Co. Austin-friars, merchants.. ln (7. Distcr, 'Change-alley, broker lO G Noble, Ely-place, merchant lO E. Borchardt, Feuctinrch.street.chambers, ship-broker CEKTIFICATES. S. Lee, of the Tailor's Arms, Duke's-piney, vietuiller.— .1. Ol.ver, of Newington-causetvay, Surrey, contemner It Collyer, of Cheltenham, Gloucester, porter-ifca,lai.F. Kohl, of Liverpool, merrhant.—John Beim, Or the Phi:mink Brewery. Bapilime Welly niddleset, tires e rs —i %I - adding. too, now or late of Brielsronse, Halifax, York, col n-fctor. W. Freehttily, late of St. Mary, Readmit, Barks. eu %I-merchant. —D. Duck, of Whitby, Yu) k, chunisto-4. Sla~shtll, of Manchester, draper. AltilY. UU.L A RIPi. M 7. 131 s. At a General Coort•otartial h. lii at Whitehall, tot the kith of Jaistil4fy. Its 18, nrd et.fillnsor.l by :oljotartimeots to the 15th of the same 'toroth, litrvet. Major William Bailor, of the 45th Regiment of Foot, was arraighed 'spoil the utAler-meamoned Charge. tiz.— " lor having, on or about the 81.1 of March, 1817, pro moted, eiiconiaged, and you himself at the fond I.l' a essinhi nation of Officers of the 25th Regiment, agairst Major James Peat, the Corousauding by acting sogether in opined t . to his orders, with the view ot• controllits4 the Colo_ masidjug Officer is the sloe exerci►e of Inc proper authority, sod thereby effecting a division iii the Wainscot, notwith standing Inc was frespir oily called .upon by 31.sjoe Pent, the Commanding °lnert, for Isis suppori,ss ...court in command, in discountenancing nod putlitiN a stop to the said emilhina lion, and fur per si oo hie isi the same insubostlinste and dan gerous conduct, from the above- mettimoell time, to the 17th of May followinif, in defiance of the express disapprobation of Colonel Edward Cods], the ()dicer commanding the gar rison at St. Anne's, Barbados s ; all each comfort Isciuz highly injurious to the discipline of the Regiment, and prej u dicial to good ostler, and in direct violation of the Genera: Orders and Itegulations of the Army." ti oirticion _ . . The Grit !mere maturely weighed and eon►idrred the evidence aildnerd on elw .uet of the proweeiti•en, vs w.•II as what has hen offered in defence, of opinion, that Itrevet 11Nur William Bailie i 4 Yet 4 1 11iP . 1/ of the charge refereed against him, and duet therefore folly acquit him." The Prince Regent Iles born ',Lenard, in the name said on the behalf of lila Majefity. to opprovett and confirm the finding of the bentence of the Court. Although the charge against Brevet Major Wm. Bailie is not supported by evidence, yet it aisioareri to his Royal Highness, front the nrocreilings, that there was a dit.uhioa among the officers, which sown individuals were crilpably arrive iii pro ttttt bog, *hid) tended to subvert the good order and dis cipline, and to cast discredit upon the character of ...Id and respectable a corps as the •' sth regiment, rind which perhaps in this instance could not have occurred. hall Wur l'eat exercised his curnmaiid with that firmness or sound discretion which his responsible odulloo called spun him to exert ; for if there existed any good re I• 1111, founded ulsun mili tary, arrangement I discipline, for fixing the time of messing at any particular hour, he fatiril in not having issued and firmly enforced an miter to that effect ; and whether such reason existed or not, he appears to have injudiciously exposed his authority. by a weak attempt to enforce it through half Though u snore judicious exercise of Major Peat's discretion, as a commanding officer, might have averted the circumistinices which have Rivets rise to this Court-martial, yet the Prince Regent has been ',leased to consider that the rinestiou volved in the proceedings ought tint to go forth 1..1 the army without sonic refelealco to his Muje s ly' s regulations, in which the ailvartagos of a well-re gulated mess, upon principles of subordination owl gentlemanly deference to authority, are strougly inculcated, and iu proportion as u iesiiectahle sys tem of messing uniang the officers hoots a very material feature in the tlito.ip!ii,e of a corps, so is it essential that tar colsoluothog ullicer, will, is respon sible for its minutest:ince, should plobras a proper authority, and have the power Of regulating, among other things, ihr hour of slitting, with rrfereoce to the other calk for the aiteudince• of his officers, and according to what In considers due Io tme sup port of good order and economy among It is presumed that es ety Oilierr holding is situa tion of such reispoosibility uiiii imporissice as attach to the command of a teglitleitl, Will exercise this authority with II &sera:oil that stroll not unsieces sarily niterftre with Or t oilvenirtior Or ifilllVOloals, said his Ro)al Highness lota bents pletortl to cum. omotl, that the atteolion of 'he army shall lie hilly drawn to the tate.tre/lilee a f this principle, so er.eo hal to discipline and good order. The Commander-in-Chief directs that the fore t►aing charge preferred irg , drist Brevet-Alai , r Wil liam Bailie, of the '25t11 Itegiment of Font, to gether with the sentence of the Conti. and the I'D ince Itegettea conunand. ou this ot • ra•iou, Shull he entered iii the General Older-Book, mot read at the head of eyei l regiment ist his Alajtoy'al ►rri•ice. Be cotnmattll of his Royal ll:gimlets the Cow. 11ARav CALvERT, Adjutant-atm, SACRILFGE.-4 few nights ,inee the par; h chords of Ciotiltmt, in Kent, was broken Wit awl robbed of the pialpd iiitd desk hanging-, the alh,r cloth,. the velvet cmhionS and trimming,. wilh the gold lace, Ihe comintotooti table-cloth., dor tsesp kiti4, the Clergyman', .earl, surplice, &c. the large Prayer Books belonging to the oratlitig and clerk% desks, with which the roLbers wade their enctie. assa A ssit p . oflhe D l u et k t e er of f l rr o.l l 3 3 ll N r u ift .c: t m a , te w i l , lo t h h a ti s t t,e t e. l7 ‘ at last discovertd, was denounced by In. tatistrnsv a women of the town, with whom lie resided to rae Dauphine. q~ PRICE OF STOCKS msTER DAY. •3 perCem•Cons. 78 771 I Ex. Bill*. 1..13 16 ifl pr. 74 I Di MI. .21 • • —l4 17 pr, 5 per Cl. N. Ann...106: 1 I COM.. 1,0 Ate...... 78, 1 4 1 105 i 1017 I 78 78i India Limalx.... 83 pr. 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