The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1826-09-25 00:00:00

4.0 . .. - ise=t---- -- . first character, the Duke of Devonshire and the Marq u HOPS. of 'fltchfield baying accepted the Stewardship. The sub- ---......--. scriptions are already numerous and respectable. • Hors.—The Hop duty this year will be a well-timed The following is the comparative statement above al- supply to the Revenue, which must show an enormous de buted to:— ficieney in the present depressed state *of trade and com• 192ri. 1112".. merce. Should the duty on Hops realize the estimate of FII.ST DAY. FIRST DAY. 250,000/, which is most probable, the whole amount of .t 1 C. i l duty, old and new, will be 440,64.51. Os. Id., and the 1-1 awilliam States . 110 Elul/Miami Stakes . 110 Produce ditto - - 250 Produce ditto _ _mg 1 quantity of Hops grown will be 24,030 tons, 1.5 cwt. 211 b., Handicap . - 170 Handicap - - 11 0 1 the largest produce ever known.—Kentish Chronicle. Champagne - . 87a . Champagne - 6 7 5 EAST RETFORD, SEPT. 21.—The Hop plantations in King's Plate - 110 Hing's Plate - - ll° the North Clay districts are now nearly all deprived of .!latches . . 700 Matches - - 200 their towering production, and the Hops, most of them, SECOND DAY. SECOND DAY, T. V. 0. Prodoce - 130 T. V. 0. Produce . 400 have been securely bagged and in excellent condition ; the .St Leger . 2,175 St. Leger - - 2,350 average produce of the present year will considerably Doncaster Stakes - 210 Donca ster Stutter - 300 exceed the produce of any year in the recollection of II orporation Plate . 50 i Corporation Plate - ' " the oldest Hop-grower; and, as is generally the case when THIRD DAY. THIRD DAY. Foal Stakes - 90 1 Foal Stakes . . 300 the crop is extensive, the quality and flavour of the Hop Four year old Stakes 140 , Doncaster R. C. Stakes L A ) is always superior in proportion, so that not only will the Sweepstakes . Itia Four year old Stakes -00 exuberance of the present year's growth tend materially to Gold Cup - - 350 All age Stakes - 45 depreciate the price, but the quality trill render a smaller . FOURTH DAT. FOURTH DAY. quantity necessary in rendering John Bull's far-famed T. V. O. Sweepstakes 580 T. V. 0. Stakes Hascoigne ditto . 240 thecoigne ditto . - 270 ' 4 " beverage palatable to its numerous and delighted votaries. Sweepstakes of 200 each :211.1 Three year old (290) - . 100 St. veral of the plantations i n this neighbourhood average Doncaster R. C. Stakes 100 Gold Cup . . 210 from It 2. to 16, and IS (in some instances) cwt. per acre ; Match - 600 I Match - - - 110 the present prizes may be quoted from six to eight guineas FIFTH DAY. man DAY. per cwt. with little business doing, but it is generally sup- Filly Stakes . . 361) Filly Stakes - - 3eo - 2 . 4) posed that a depreciation will take place previous to or at Sweepstakes . 3.r0 Sweepstakes - Ditto - . a° Ditto - . 3 . 2 „ our ensuing fair, Plate . . 110 Plate - - - Its) Matches • - 200 :Hatchet - • tutu CLOTHING FOR THE POOR. £8.335 £8,690 [From the Stockport Advertiser, Sept. 221 Ey the above it will be seen that the present year's meet- His Majesty's Ministers, ever anxious to promote the ing has exceeded hat year's in value by 143/. welfare of the labouring classes, have presented to the We subjoin the prevent state of the odds:— London Committee a considerable quantity of militia Deana. 1827. clothing, to he distributed amongst the manufacturing 20 to 1 apt Tattler, taken. districts. The Committee, as will be seen by the follow- Lentil, 1827. ing letter, have forwarded the clothing to the respective • Iri to I age Reviewer I2ato 1 agat Popsy towns mentioned in the annexed statement. 24 to I apt Granhy 25 to 1 agst Nonplus 21 to 1 asst 3latilua ,+ Manufacturers' Relief Committee, Landon, Sept. 14, 1826. -•- -- - - STORTING I N'VELLIGENCE. " Slit,—llis Ma j esty' s Government having intrusted the Lon -awww--_ don Committee with the distribution of a quantity of clothing DOVER REGATTA. and blankets for the relief of the distressed poor in the manufac- Dov CI, SEPT. 22. luring districts, the London Committee find it quite impossible to The weather proving favourable this morning for our Regatta, apportion the same with any correctness, for want of local infor the necessary preparations were. mede at an early hour by the Gent. mat ion ; and are therefore compelled to call for the particular iMitee, whose attention and exertions have been unremitting, and assistance of the gentlemen forming Local Committers at the fal are duly appreciated. The influx of visitors from the neighbouring lowing places, to which they have forwarded the respective allot. towns was prodigious; and before the hour of starting for the first ments (being the whole quantity placed at their disposal, or which rare the beach, the Marine Parade, and every house and situation is likely to be so), in the bode that such Local Committees w*:',l is. aflarthug a view of the bay, were literally crowded. With the ex. merest themselves in aid of the London Committee; so that the motion of the second race, in which the 1/over galley, Jackson, die- same may be distributed as impartially as possible amongst all the talite•l her four opponents, each match was admirably contested, parishes and townships in their respective neighbourhoods. and affintled much entertainment. But the race that excited by "By order of the Committee, far the Ineatest interest was the Sweepstakes between the three " E. Me it:l'l3lER, Acting Secretary." ' towns Veal, Dover, and Folkestone. A great uncertainty pre. "To Capt. Humphreys, Stockport." sailed amongst those beat able to form an accurate opinion as to , Apportionment of a Grant of Clothi ng , made by hie Majesty's the winning boar. The resrective crews had been selected with much care, and each boat was freely backed by her own townsmen. Government, for the relief of the distressed Poor in the Menu- Of the three, we should perhaps say the Deal boat was rather the factoring Districts of England. fraourite at starting. The crew was composed of particularly fine . • men ; and it was recollected that the number of boatmen to select i t : .. i 4 . j . i zti from was considerably greater at Deal than at either Dover or z•.' ; S « .T; 1 5 , , J • it .3 5 ...' Volkstone. The start was beautiful , and for some time the boats a s 0 w - - t e e T.• 0 3 continued bow and bow. Before fne course had been a thtrd .. z a A *7: ~ 14 5.... rowed over the Deal boat gained on her two opponents, the Dover . at i` = boat close behind her, and the Folkstonc boat %ere near the 9uarter Sfunebester - ~ 02 .', 0 131015, 48 230 230 316 177 609 250 of the Dover galley. These situations were maintained during the Padiham lOl 120 100 30 100 lOU tel 30 170 100 race. and they came in accordingly ; the Deal galley having, during Rochdale ; ... . . 170 510 540 29 135, 136 106 69 293 Ito the latter part of the c.tntest, rather increased her advantage, and shipten. Ashton-under-Use the Folkstone galley putting in about a boat's length behind the Dover galley. The Dover boat sustained some trifling loss by the 81ackburn....... 0n.. 74 9qt/ 1 1...1ie at/ ,:.e4o 250 254 144 WO 203240 snapping of an oar ; but thesliatance she suffered by the accident Eradford .. 120 450 200 was by no means equal to the difference between her and the Deal Burnley ........ .•..• -•• 310 7 ' Bo l 7 ' id 2en 200 150 110 340 130 3'84 galley on coming in. It may therefore be fairly said Inc best boat Rudderadeld. .. ......... . •. 1 900 900 6 0 310 SIO IMO 120 WO ISO has won. . •• ..•• s° o P.)! 4 44) '‘4) , 200180 114 370 Dew.hury...... 'the respective prizes were delivered by Mrs. Jenkinson, at the stockeort.• ••• .... Committee.room, in the absence of the Countess of Liverpool, who, Obiliazn.. 129 640 540 20 135 135 107 KM 295 110 we re;Tret to understand, was prerented attending the Regatta by indinteew ion. EMPLOYMENT OP THE POOR.—Mr. McAdam, the cele- The Dutch frigate Maria Reigersbergen sailed early this morn. brated road improver, is at present in Yorkshire, rendering ing for the Teach had she been detained another day in this his services to the various local committees, in the manu anchorage she would have added to the beautiful scene the bay pre. facturing towns, where distress presses most severely, for sacred. _ _ SIT Godfrey Webster's line cutter yacht was at anchor close in, gaily dressed with her colours, and was deservedly admired. We are happy to add, that the whole has passed off without accident. it is expected there will be a very crowded and brilliant WI at the Theatre this evening. PARTRIDGE SHOOT iNG.—A match, on which heavy bets were pending, wok place on Friday, between Mr. Swansea, of Hert fordshire, and Mr. Beaumont, of Suffolk. Mr. Swansea shot from Bury St. Edmunds, on the Newmarket road, towards Great Veld. ham, and Mr. Beaumont from Wade's.mill, keeping towards En. field. Mr. Swansea bagged `26 brace, and Mr. Beaumont 24. The match was for DU wvereigna aside. Both found plenty of birds, but they were sby. EMPLOYMENT OP THE POOR.-Mr. McAdam, the cele brated road improver•, is at present in Yorkshire, rendering his services to the various local committees, in the manu facturing towns, where distress presses most severely, for the purpose of providing employment for the poor, who will be paid, after a certain teak, from funds arising in the neighbourhood, by voluntary subscription, as well as from those in possession of the Manufacturers' Relief Committee in London. With this object Mr. M'Adam has already visited Huddersfield and Bradford, and met the local au thorities and several gentlemen who take an interest in the matter.—York Herald. ------ Saw INTENTION OF A STOP-JACK FOR STOCKING FRAMEs.—That ingenious machine, the stocking-frame, which has undergone such a var:eiy of improvements from time to time, and has given bread to thousands of the in dustrious class for so many years, has recently received a fresh application of mechanical skill (the invention of Sa muel Lee, of Nuncargate), which, as it is likely to be of benefit to the trade, we gladly make known through the medium of our columns. The object of the invention, which is called a stop-s:ayk, is to accelerate the movements of the frame, and consists of two parts, joined by a rivet, and screwed to the stay. The upper end of the vibrating part comes in contact with the rear of the caster back; and there is, near the upper end, a ledge, so that, in the sink ing motion, the hanging bit cannot go lower down than a certain place, which abridges that and the throwing up motion, in favour of the workman. As the hanging bit bears clown the upper end, it passes oft; but the nether end preponderating, it brings it again to its right position. The vibrating part is four inches in length, and one being placed on each side is a good preservative to needles, sinkers, and rivets, improving the selvage, and preventing cutting. The improvement is of material advantage to learners in par:imam. TUE TUNNEL I/NDER THE THAMES.—The tunnel will consist of two archways, and, in order that there may be no obstruction to carriages, &c. those going from the north to the south shore will pass through one, and those from the south to the north through the other archway. These passages are to be Macadamized, and there will be distinct footpaths for foot passengers. In the centre, between the two archways, and dividing the two roads, is a line of nu merous arches of communication, spacious enough to admit of persons passing from one road to the other, and in each of these will be fixed a strong gas light. The dimensions of the tunnel are about 35 feet in breadth, and 25 feet in height. The excavators are defended from any falling of earth, &c. by working in frames constructed so as to•all the whole body of the tunnel. 1 hese frames are divided into cells, and 36 men are thus made to carry on the exca vation with perfect safety and uniform celerity. The briel:layers are now passing through a very strong blue clay, which almost assumes the qualities of pipe-clay, and is equally capable of resisting water. This strata of clay is supposed to rise twelre feet above the top of the arch way; so that all thoughts of miscarriage from any inunda tion are completely set at rest. The tunnel is now proceed ing with uncommon regularity, from 13 to 18 feet of it being completed every week ; and already upwards of 200 1 feet of this great undertaking are finished. ... . SD.I3ICFI7L CONDUCT OF% WA:rclimeN.—Tuesday a decent-looking man of the name of Gunn, his wife, and his daughter, a young woman of rather interesting appearance, appeared in the Police Court, Edinburgh, to support a com plaint against a watchman, (John M'l)onald) for conduct of a most atrocious nature. The girl had been at a dance, which she left at an early hour, in company with her brother, who happened to part from her, when near home, near Niddry•street. There she was apprehended by M`Donald, who proceeded to take improper liberties with her. Her screams brought her father andinother to the door, where they observed the ruffian dragging their daughter along the street, and beating her with his baton.—Upon their interfering, he, ignorant probably of their relation ship to the girl, told them an abominable falsehood, that she was a street-walker; and, at the same time, by rapping on the street, brought a number of watchmen to his assist ance, from one of whom old Gunn received at least ten heavy blows with his baton. Hia wife was also severely struck. They were all taken to the Police Office, where the circumstances having been explained to the Lieute nan ton duty, he liberated the whole, and directed M'f)onald to be locked up. After the evidence was gone through, the Superintendent called to the bar the watchmen who bad come to M‘Donald's assistance, when they all declared they saw no blows given ; while Gunn distinctly swore that it was one of them, of the name of Sandilands, who had beat hint so unmercifully. The Ma gistrate, after remarking he had never known of' a grosser outrage, and expressing his doubts whether the case should not be sent to the Sheriff; sentenced 111'Donald to sixty days' confinement in Bridewell. J iusic . '.:AYENCE, Aucesr 2e.-1; Highness Prince Metter nich came here yesterday, to be present at the performance of the Maher qf Seville, for the benefit of the poor, in which Miss Sontag performs the part of Rer;en. May ence is the birth-place of this celebrated singer; and to this circumstance, and the request of her relations, we are in debted for the pleasure of having Ifeard her. Deputies had come from Frankfort to request her to perform in that city also. We hear that, after completing her engagement at Berlin, she is to return to Paris, to perform in the Italian Opera, with an annual salary of .50,e00 francs, and per mission to go abroad for three months in the year, which may probably bring her nearly as much more. Upon this announcement the writer proceeds to make the following truly German reflection!, the justness and philosophy of vehicle are not unworthy of attention. " The profusion of public favour which, in these latter t;mes, has been lavished on musical performers, is indeed a proof of the progress of music, and of the taste of the public for that art. It must -also be allowed that the arta greatly contribute to embel lish life end improve morals: but they cannot absorb the' . whole or the greater part of the attention of mankind, -walleye abstracting them from more serious occupations, and giving to the feelings and character a degri c of sickly sensibility and effeminacy. And when we consider that arising chiefly from susceptibility of feeling and the impulses of a fickle imagination, affords but a very imper fect satisfaction to the untlerczatuling ;—since experience • shows that music affords much more pleasure in youth than in maturer years, when the moral powers arc more deve loped, and require the gratitieation of more serious wants; lastly, if it is evident from history that in almost all coun tries music was sot passionately cultivated till they were verging to their decline, of which modern Italy affords the rapt striking proof ; we cannot help thinking that the un bounded homage paid to this art, in Germany in particular. lea far from being a pleasing indication of improving civi lisation, is rather the sign of a relaxetion of moral energy. THE Scorch MENDICANT Pt: i.o.—On Wednesday the eraon who is dubbed Colonel Macdonald corn toenail his piripatetic wandering through Canterbury, aceOmpaMed by a man, in the character of servant, who received the largess of the public. The Colonel plays un aommotly well on the pipes, and possesses every appear ance of a discharged soldier, with the air of a gentleman. Me is nearly six feet in height, a Scotch countenance, mild,/ whiskers, wears spectacles, and is much like Lord Cochrane. During his progress through the city, numbers of ladies and gentlemen who were anxious to obtain a sight of him, were extremely liberal. Ills dress consisted of join or fustian, and seemed well calculated for a Scotch man travelling the Highlands, with a pock of barley meal, to mix in every puddle-pond.on his jeurney, as a refresher. Rennett, who created such a sensation in England some seven years ago, by the abduction of Mr. llorsley's child, is now the proprietor of considerable landed and ether p-nerty, in New South Wales, which lie has acquired by Ids enterprise and industry, in keeping a " store" in the rum-drinking districts of Girds, where he has been some years milled. Announcements of his may occasion ally he seen in the Sydney newspapers, warning individuals trom trespassing on iris land, in such and such placcs ; anal if the success that has attendtd his efforts hitherto but con tinues, lie bids fair to rank soon among the most consider able aristocrats who havc sprouted up into sudden affluence in this Crams-creating colony. Ile obtained a " ticket of leave" in Governor Macquarric's time ; and while his de meanour has been quiet and inoffensive, his conduct has helm marked by a prudence and circumspection quite at • variance with the character which the Airs. Settle of his d'stinv is said to have instilled into the ears of his relative, regarding his spendthrift debiathed habits. This is an example, among dozens if• individuals who can now show sown thousands of sterling reasons for their being trans with their transportation to this English purgatory. THE BRITISH PRESS. OLD BAILEY, &pr. I Before Mr. Sergeant Anent tr.l John George Leach, a painter, with one arm, was indicted for cutting and stabbing James Brooks, with intent to do him some .grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor, who is a shopman in the employ of Mr. Careless, a cheesemonger, in Clare-market, said, on the 27th of June last, about seven o'clock in the evening, the prisoner came to the shop, and, having called him outside the door, said he called upon him respecting an illicit connexion that had subsisted between hint and his (prisoner's) wife, and the prisoner desired to be supplied with money, for the support of the child which his wife had had by him (the prosecutor): he replied, that he had entered into a bond with the parish to pay for its support, and that the aftisir was at end. At that t'me the prisoner had his hand behind him, as if it was placed in his pocket, and he suddenly made a rush at him, and aimed a blow at hi.. breast. He parried off the blow, anti pushed the primer away. The prisoner then walked off; and. after he was gone, wit ness found he had been stabbed :n the arm, but he did not discover the blood until some time afterwards. In his cross-examination by Mr. BARRY, he said he drove the prisoner away from the shop : he did not drive him into a butcher's shop, nor put hint in fear of his life. Ile had paid 501., and taken an indemnity from the prisoner's wife not to trouble him again respecting the child. Thomas Kirby. a shoot:um to Mt. Careless, proved that, on the evening of the 27th of June, the prisoner came ro the shop, and inquired for Mr. Brooks. The prisoner asked Brooks if he knew him ? lie said he did not. Prisoner asked him if he knew the name of Murray ? Ile said he did ; and then the prisoner said he called respecting the young, kmale lie had seduced. Brooks asked him if he was the person who married her? The prisoner said he was the person, and asked Works if he was prepared to pay 100/. for the a n ppore of the child ? Brooks said he had paid 501. already, and had nothing snore to do with it. So e words then occurred between them, and the prisoner made a thrust at Firooks, who warded of the blow, and drove him away from the shop. Mr. Weaver, a surgeon, of Blackinoor-street. proved that he attended the deceased on the 27th June, as he had received a wound in the arm. The dividing of the artery was the principal injury. The effusion of blood would be immediate when the artery is di. vided. From the appearance of the wound, he should have thought the blood would have been discovered immediately. The coat or shirt sleeve would not have been sufficient pressure to stop the bleeding. William Couzens, a Bow-street constable, proved having Belpre. headed the prisoner on the morning of the 28th June. He told him he had a warrant, and lie said he hoped it was a death-warrant. Witness said he apprehended him for assaulting a man named Brooks ; and the prisoner said. " I hepe I have done enough for them to take away my life; if they don't, I shall take it myself. If I did stab him I must have done it with a pallet knife; but I am not aware I did it." ECouzens produced the prieoner's basket of painter's tools, among which was a pallet knife; hut the Judge, upon examining it, seemed to be of minion it would not have inflicted the injury upon the prosecutor's arm. 1 James Green said the prisoner came into his shop about four months before this affair took place, and desired to be informed where Brooks lived. lie told him he slid not know, and the prisoner then seized him by the throat, and said he had an instru ment to put Brooks and his wife and child to death, but he would spare him (witness) for the present. The prisoner, when eilled upon for his defence, declared he was innocent of the charge. Ile had, unfortunately, lost his arm some years ago, and he was in consequence compelled to carry glass and other materials in his pockets, and it was possible that when the pro secutor was thrusting him away from the shop, he might have cut his ann. He had, he said, kept the prosecutor's child for three years. and never had a farthing as a recompense. lie was about to read a long written defence, when Mr. Justice Lt TTLEDALE observed that there was a great deal of doubt in the me, and he thought the Jury would not require to hear any farther defence the prisoner might make. The Jury con sulted together a few minutes, and then returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Riel.ord Stevens, aged 25, was indicted for a highway robbery upon Mr. Matthew Finch, on the 26th of June last, near the brewery of Messrs. Banbury and Co. The prosecutor and his wife were walking together on the night in question, when the prisoner and another pa•sen, nut now in custody, came up to them, and at tacked them. The prosecutor, who is an elderly gentleman, de fended himself as well as he could, but was at length knocked down and robbed. His wife was also knocked down during the contest. On his crows-examination, lie said lie believed the prisoner at the bar was one of the men that had attacked him. 0 the other person he could not speak with certainty; he thought he could speak to tie ptisoner, not only because he had had some opportu nity of observing the prisoner's face, but because he had struck the ptisoner over the face in several places ; and when the prisoner was apprehended, prosecutor observed marks which he believed to have been those inflicted by himself; however, he would not swear posi tively to the prisoner. The r rofiecutor's wife was equally unwilling to swear positively to the prisoner. The defence set up was an alibi, and to prose this several witnesses were called, and stated, that on the night in question they were at the Three Sugar Loaves' public-house ;•that Stevens and a man named Fox were also there that these two men quarrelled, and Fox and Stevens fought, when the latter got the worst, hating been •repeatedly struck over the' face by his opponent, and thrown down upon his face on the pavement. The landlord of the public-house confirmed this testimony : the fight ()mend in the street, after he had cleared his house; he merely looked out of his be d-roorn window, and when lie saw the men were fighting in the street, lie took no more notice, but went ta bed. _ _ By theJrDGE—He had kept the Three Sugar Loaves about a year, and had previously kept a public-house in Mile End New Town for two years. The robbery was said to have been corn. mitted near llanbury's brewhouse, and since he heard that the prisoner was in custody he had taken the trouble of walling thither and running back again, which occupied him exactly five minutes and a half. The Ileadborough of Christ Church rpm the prisoner an excel. lent character, and the Jury acquitted him. James 'blies, who was convicted a few days since for assisting in the robbery upon Mrs. Fuller, was again placed at the bar, charged with having assisted in the robbery upon Mr. Finch ; and the pro. secutor having in this instance sworn positively to his person, he was convicted. . Mr. Fuller appeared to complain of the rate of allowance made to him by the officer under the order of the Court, to allow him his expenses. Ile said he was a professional man—that the gang was very extensive—and that ne could not afford to lose his time in pro. smiting them if he was slowed no greater sum than 4s. 6d. per day. The two beamed Juntas, eter consulting together, observed, that it was not in their power to alter the allowance made to the prosecutors. They distinguished between the case of a professional man attending in his professional character to give the Court the benefit of his scientific assistance, and that in which he attended in the character of a prosecutor. They said, however, that the officer would be as liberal as possible. Thomas Jones was indicted for procuring forty counterfeit shil. lings and sixpences, with intent to circulate them for good and lawful money. A witness of the name of Romaine proved having seen the pri. soner coming out of a house in Petticoat.lane, suspected of being& mart for the sale of bad money. Ile was taken into custody, and the counterfeit money stated in the indictment found on his person. Romaine was rigidly cross-examined by the prisoner, and admit ted that he had been imprisoned two years and ten months , part of the time for defrauding the revenue. He apprehended the pri. soner, and assisted in the prosecution purely for the public good, and expected no reward. The prisoner, in his defence, attacked the character of Romaine very severely, asserting that lie was in the habit of endeavouring to entrap unwary persons, by dropping a small bag of counterfeit money in their way, and, when they fell into the snare, apprehend ing and giving evidence against them. The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment and hard labour. The SdAdOCII will terminate to-day (Monday). NEW COURT. (Before the Uoitatot: SERGEANT.] • . - Frederick Sue Wag, a very respectable-looking young man, was charged with embezzling a sum of 501. which he had received on account of his employer, Mr. Robert Gray, proprietor of the Bolt. Fleet-stress. The prisoner was a clerk employed by the prosecutor to keep the books, and receive the monies paid into the office by the drivers of the coaches. Mr. Eastland, the driver and part proprietor of the Tunbridge coach, had, in the course of business, paid lifty sovereigns to the prisoner, no account of which appeared to his credit at the end of the month. The case being dearly proved, the prisoner attempted, in his defence, to cast an imputation upon the character of Mr. Eastland as a witness ; but Mr. Adolphus, his Counsel, reminding him of the folly and mischief of such a course, that defence was not per sisted in. The Jury instantly found him Guilty. This case was the last of the trials for felonies in this Court. It is expected that these Sessions, which have been protracted to aa unexampled duration, will terminate to-day (Monday). It is not generally known, even among legal men, that no person can receive the benefit of Clergy more than once, and that if convicted of a second offence, however trivial, he is precluded from it, and the offence becomes capital. A remarkable and unprecedented instance of the clerical im munity from punishment being twice prayed for by a cul prit occurred at the last Northampton Sessions. W. Smith, aged 20, was convicted of steeling a shirt, the property of J. Kean. When called up for judgment, he prayed the benefit of Clergy. The Judge was about to pass sentence as In case of g r an d l arcen y, but was informed that the prisoner had on a former conviction received the benefit of Clergy, and had been sentenced to four months' imprison ment. Mr. Justic e B est o b s erved that this was the first time, during a long professional life, that he had known a Jury called on to decide on a point like the present. It was, therefore, for them to judge whether the prisoner had received the benefit of Clergy or not. The Jury instantly returned a verdict in the affirmative. Sentence of death was then panel ROBBERY OF AN EMPLOYER. POLICE. ----- .*MANSTOTI-iiollBE.—On Saturday Frederick Joietiee Latham, and a young man of respectable connexions, named Singleton, the former an apprentice in the house of Mr. R. Warner, a wholesale grocer, in Rood-lane, the latter prisoner a clerk in the Ordnance Office, Tower, were brought up for a second examination. The case, as made out by the several witnesses for the prosecution on the present occasion, was in substance as follows:—The prisoner, ' Latham, had some time since become acquainted with Singleton, who was his superior in rank, and they became companions during the evenings after business. On Wednesday, the 13th instant, Sin gleton suddenly disappeared from his Ictlgings, and absented him self from his office in the Tower without leave. On Thursday he was proved to have been at the French Ambassador's to procure a pastrrt. and there was reason to suppose that Latham was with him in the course of the same day. On Friday, at Mr. %Varner's, it was the ditty of Latham to take a sum of money and pay some duties with it at the Custom-house. The money wasltept in a drawer of a desk belonging to the office, and he had access to it. He took out the sum requisite to pay the duties, and also about 1401. beyond that, amounting in the whole to 750/., or thereabouts. One portion of the money consisted °fa cheque for 173/. 17s. .d. upon the Bank of England, which he received. Ile paid no duties, and 'absconded with the whole amount. lie took no clothes from home, and it was proved that he and Singleton acre together that day, at the west end of the town, making purchases of wearing apparel, of which neither before had any stock. Singleton got a pass for France in his own name. Latham got one in the name of Johnson that day. In the evening, they were seen together at the Hyde Park Coffee house, and Singleton paid for refreshments, and at the same time dinplayed a large roll of notes. They took a post-chaise, and set off from thence to Dartford. At the inn where they stopped, at the latter place, Singleton paid for some refreshments with a 101. note, which note was proved to be the property of Mr. %Varner. In the mean time, Mr. Warner, suspecting that Latham had abscond ed, promptly despatched one servant to Liverpool, another to Dover, and concerted measures to have a watch upon other pine where it was thought the prisoner might embark. On the Saturday morning the servant sent to Dover was walking on the pier, when he met with Latham, whom he immediately apprehend ed and searched. He found upon him about 530/. of the money taken from MO Warner, and brought him to town. On the same night Singleton arrived in town, and wrote a note to a young man, requesting to know where Mr. Warner lived ; and in the course of Sunday went to hint and gave up to him seventy pounds, repre senting that he had been told by Latham that he 'wham) had re ceived a legacy, and was desirous of taking a trip over to France, and wished his frierd Singleton to accompany him. The latter did not refuse; but finding ground to suspect the truth, he had returned to restore the money. hlr. Warner did not believe this statement, and soon after gave him into custody as an accessary to the rob bery or embezzlement, whichever it might turn nut to be. Powtn, the solicitor for the prosecution, contended that the case was one of theft. He cited a case, in which it was decided to be a theft, where a servant, having been entvusted to get change fur a note, gor the change and ran off with it. lit. ALLEY, who attended for Singleton, said the decision in the case cited had since been overruled. As the law now stood, .„.. - it would be felony if a person receiving a bond to get cash for it converted it to his own use ; hut if he got cash Am it, and then appropriated the money to his own use, it was embezzlement. Before the passing of Sir Thomas Plomer's Act, it was considered, in the latter case, to be only a breach of trust. There might be Hide doubt upon the case as regarded Latham, but as regarded his client there was rot a tittle of evidence to prove him either an accessary, or a principal In a second degree. To make him an accessary it must be proved he had some knowledge of the fact, either before or at the time of its felonious couversion by the psi cipal. Th's had not been clone. A Clerk of the Ordnance Office, named Henry Bayley, who had been a companion of the two prisoners, gave evidence to prove that Latham had represented to Singleton that he had a legacy left to him. They used to walk home with him, and leave him at the top of Rood.l,me. The LORD MAYOR said, that, with respect to the law of the case, he had consulted with the City Solicitor, and he was of opi nion that it was requisite to show that Singleton had cognizance of the fact at the time it was committed, in order to prove him to have been an accessary ; but his Lordship considered that the offence was created, not by charging the cheque, or taking the money out of the desk (which the prisoner was authorized to do), but in con verting it to his own use ; and at present his Lordship thought there was reason to suspect that Singleton had a guilty knowledge of the fact. Mr. POWER asked that the case might he remanded, as he ha I evidence coming from Dover, to show that Singleton there made use of an assumed name, and was made aware of his companion's apprehension before he returned. 'fhe Loan MAYOR remanded the prisoners for further examina tion. There was a crowd of friends in attendance on both aides. A FALSE FRIEND. MARLHOROnnIT-9TIIEEI.:-Via;iTii,;:janan, a Jewess and woman of the town, was brought up on Saturday before Air. DvEa for robbing Mrs. Gordon, whom she met ill in the street, and took to her lodging by proffered kindness. Ellen Gordon, 116, Alfred-place, Newington-causeway, widow, deposed that last Sunday evening, between ten and eleven at night, she was taken ill in Leicester-square, and was holding by the iron rails when the prisoner, of whom she had a partial knowledge by having seen her once about twelve months since, came up and of fered the accommodation of a night's lodging, which witness, hay. ing no money to get a coach, accepted. Witness slept with her that night, and being asked in the morning for money, witness gave her permission to pledge her lace cap for three shillings, the pri. soner telling her that she would get half a yard of muslin and make up a cap that would serve tilt she got home. At this time wit. news was in bed, still ill ; the prisonergave her some warm gin and water, and witness went to sleep, having had little rest in the night. In about half an hour witness awoke, found the prisoner absent, and that her pelisse, petticoat, and bonnet, had been taken away. Witness waited till tie evening, thinking the prisoner would re. turn, and then went home, but saw no more of her till Tuesday evening, winn witness met het in the street with her bonnet on her. Witness called the watchman and gave her in custody. Witnela valued her things at 41. John Nichols, shopman to Messrs. Graham and Stokes, pawn. brokers, in.Tothill-street, Westminster, produced a pelisse, cap, and petticoat, pledged at his shop by the prisoner for Ids. on Mon day afternoon, in the name of Smith. Edmund Pepper, constable of St. James's, produced the bonnet taken by the prisoner, which she gave up in the watch-house on Tuesday evening. On Wednesday he went to the prisoner's lodg ings in M'estminster, and learnt that she had not been seen there since Monday. Returning from Tothill-fields prison, he made in. quiries of last witness, and there ascertained she pledged the pro perty now produced. In the watch-house the prisoner denied any knowledge of thelpeliase. The priconer said Mrs. Gordon gave her leave to pledge the pe lisse. The bonnet she meant to bring back, but having got tipsy, she forgot it. Mr. DYER told the prisoner her story was a very improbable one. She was fully committed f or trial at the Westminster Sessions. FRAUD. _ . John Harper, a tailor, was brought in by Schofield, for defraud ing Messrs. James and John Vine, woollen-drapers, 385, Oxford street, of two quantities of cloth and cord by forged orders, purport ing to be sent lby Mr. Phillips, of Acton-street. Mr. James Vine stated that he had bad a knowledge of the pri loner previous to the frauds, by his being recommended by Mr. Phillips as a customer of theirs, who came with hint on the 18th of August, and desired wimeas to let the prisoner have two yards and a half of blue cloth, and place it to his account. On the 15th of September the prisoner brought a written order as from Mr. Phillips for blue cloth sufficient for a coat, which witness let him have. On the 191 i the prisoner brought another order for cloth, and a yard and three quarters of woollen cord, to be put down to Mr. Phillips, which he also had, worth 541. Last Thursday Mr. Phillips came fi , r some blue cloth, when witness asked him if he would have it from the same piece as he had had on the day before. Mr. Phillips denied the orders, and witness then found out he had been de frauded, and hail the prisoner apprehended. Mr. Thomas Phillips said the prisoner had worked for him in the spring, but not during the summer. In August he went with him to Messrs. Vine, and told them to place a cut of cloth the prisoner wanted to his account, but did not send the orders produced, or au thorize him to make use of his name. Schofield, the officer, apprehended the prisoner at his lodgings In 'New.court, Chapel -street, Westminster. He showed the prisoner the orders. He admitted them to be his, and said he was autho. tired by Mr. Phillips. Witness asked what he had done with the cloth ? the , prisoner told him he had worked it up. On searching him witness found some duplicates, and two keys belonging to one of the Parks. Mr. Drew ordered the duplicate. to be given to the prisoner's wile, and 1110 keys detained till inqull can be made as to the pro. prlety of his possessing them. The Magistrate remarked, that the keepers of such public places had no check against improper persons getting copies of the keys but by changing the locks every year. The prisoner was fully committed for trial at Westminster. FRAUD BY ANOTHER FORGED ORDER. JoArs Joyce, who was committed from this office fee a month, on the Itith of January, was detected on Saturday morning Imposing a forged order on Messes. Brown and Son, 104, Great Titchlield. street, bran-founders. as coining from Messrs. Everett, 32, Dorset. street, Manchester-square. Though the case was perfectly clear against the prisoner, he es caped conviction, by an ignorance on the part of the prosecutor in not knowing that any man can apprehend a thief without bending for an officer. He obtained the property without any suspicion of the fraud, and left it for half an hour to call again for it. During his absence the clerk surmised the cheat, anti:sent for an officer to wait hie return ; he came, and the goods were given him, directly after which Valentine the officer apprehended him in the same street with the property on him. This second delivery was with a suspicion in the prosecutor that the order was a forgery, and the letting him have the things purposely to detect him defeats the averment of an indictment, " obtaining under false pretences," as the prosecutor cannot swear that he parted with his property be lieving the prisoner's representation to be true. Mr. William Pisey, clerk to Messrs. Drown, stated, that the pri soner that morning presented an order for six large brass cocks, fourteen pounds weight of block tin, and six bars of solder, for Messrs. Everett. The goods were given to him, but instead 01' 1 taking them then, the prisoner said he would call in Italian hour. It then occurred to witness that a former order from Messrs. Everett --- HIGH WATHE, THIG•DAY•AT LONDON BRIDOS. Morning • ••. min. after 71 Enenlng.. .... 29 main. atter S Printed at THE BRITISH PRESS Office, by 1. W.R.LRi,TQW,NarIOt Strand, sad pubttaited by it.CAtINON, swag plate. had tumed out a forgery, therefore he sent for an officer, who ad. wised the delivery of the things, to apprehend him in pGEMIAiM,I. Mr. Everett said he knew nothing of the poisoner, and of coun did not send the order. flint name had been used at other warp, house!. In orders for goods, through the Instrumentality, he suspected, of a discarded apprentice, who had turned oklt no bad, thut witr e , cancelled his indentures, and gave hint his liberty. This app ren , tice knew how to obtain goods at the wsrehouses where winters, dealt, by orders, whom he supposed connected with the prisoner. On this representation 111 r. DYER committed the prisoner for bail till the Sessions, to afford tithe to Mr. Everett to apprehend apprentice. 1111.1RDISR-MANIA. " A few days before we set out on our journey into the inte t fp, of the miuntry," says ill. Iluet. Bishop of Avranehes, in his meth through Sweden, • a strange adremure took place at Stock`infrn. A young man who was very easy in his circumstances, asst wh o s e conduct had clwan appeared very regular, in passing by a shop i n the middle of the day, seized a little child that was playing ;Af ore the door, and cut its throat with a large knife he had conceded about him for the purpose. He was loser:n:ly arr seed, and t a k en before the Magistrate, who interrogated him is to the mot'ves that had induced him to perpetrate so horrible a crime. eep if e4 I he, I confess my guilt, and acknowledg e th at 1 ileserve to die. tar from seeking to justify my conduct, or to chain pardo n , temuld think you did me an act of Injustice were you n ot s set' tence me to punishment. I have deeply considered the 'ai eu of life and death ; the first appears to the a source of crime seal misery—the second a Thee of Innocence and peace. After mature reflection. seeing that the commission of some serious offence wa s the surest way of attaining the end I aimed a*, I made up ley mind to the act I have commiited. as the least i jurious, and the most excusable. I have killed a child at the size of in nocence, no have thus insured its salvation: I have lightened she burden of its father, who is loaded with a numerous family, and with very little means to provide for their subsistence. 1, at the same time, am conscious of the full extent of my guilt ; but I trust that tie pi j „, nishmeit I expect to receive through you, and the manner in which I shell be prepared to meet it. will obtain pardon from my God.' Ou being led out to the scaffold, he advanced with en air of %Mil. lied resignation : and underwent the execution of his sentence with a &minas and joy that astonished the attendant multitude." A similar kind of insanity seems at this time to be prevalent in France. M. Barbie., he head physician of the hospital at Amiens, and the author of several very able works, lately made a communna. don to the Academy of Medicine in Paris, for the accuracy of which he personally vouched. A woman, who had been recently delivered, hearing people talk of the girl Cornier (who lately committed a horrible murder), was seized with tuurder mania. She struggled at first, although with great die. eulty, against the desire which pursued her ; but at last, fearful that she should not be able nut(/' longer to resist, she confused her feelings to her husband, who very wisely caused her to be confined ; and she Is not yet cured. A 31. Esquire/ reported, on the some occasion, that since the details of the minder committed by lieu. rietta Cornier had been published, he had received into hit private mad-house six or seven women, who had been attacked by ssimi. far cotnplaint.—One of the members of the Academy made s com munication of the same kind. At f3n7ac, in Languedoc, a woman, hearing a narrative of Cornier s crime, also bec ame afflicted with murder-mania, and oonceived the project of killing one of her own children. For that purpose, she provided herself with a razor, which She carried about her, concealed, for some time, waiting for a favourable opportunity. But, at the very point of committing the murder, she led a Violent struggle is her mind ; and she found no other way of preventing the possibility of giving way to her frightful inclination, than by calling for help. She was disarmed ; and it was thought rv.reessary to confine her. Another member declared that the double 'Murder committed by Papavoine had given rise to an occurrence similar to those which have been already mentioned. A Lady of very high rank, having the curiosity to visit the place in which the assassination had been committed, was seized at that very moment with murder.mania! MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON LlST.—[From the London Casette.? AT TIIS COURT OF CoMMISAIONARI 111 RAvARUFTY, R'ASINORAI3- STILICIGT, WEDS/9EI4Y NISXT. a. Ainley, J. Halifax, Innkeeper [no place mentioned', Interest la 3J91. II Darby, T. Critchell-place, Holton, plumber, assignmeut 1501. Kerrison, K. Hackney, coach-master, 2d exam. ..... ........ Wadley, W. Woolwich, marnet-gardener, Bristow's mortgage COUNTRY LIST. Adkins, W. Coventry, ribal4.M;lllllacturer,Craven Arno, Coventry, dtvidevd. Cox, T. Ensham, Innkeeper, Towu.ball, Oxford, 2d exam. ..... 11 Curti., It. Bleaadale, paper-maker, Commercial Inn, Lancaster, 2d exam......... .... . .... Eta G. Darton, t01, , .-... , :,i,t, Mr. Aubry's, Kesbnrough, spl. affairs .5 Garbutt, G. Bishop IVearmouth, bookseller, Town-house, Stockton, thvklenst ...... .......... 11 ...... .......... ........ . ...... ........ Gray, T. Ely, brewer, Griffin, March, final d'vidend . Lyon, 1). Holton-le-Moors, timber-merchant, Mr. Woodhouse's, Bolton, spl. affairs (Liver, J. Manchester, victualler, Star, Macbeater, daughter's Inn, Peeling, J. Liverpool, dritggist, Mr. Taylor, Liverpool, sell college.. 1 ) Pickering, H. B. Coventry, riasud-dresser, Criraen arms, Coventry, dividend. Pippet, J. Shepton Mallet, clothier, George, Sherten, 2d exam ll Siinkin, T. h. ROSY. wlne.merchant, Mr. C hadborn, Gloucester, die ) Tetley, J. Birstall, top-maker, Mr. Tolson, aradford, sphaff j U Wood, T. Bastard. tallow-chandler, Punchbowl, Nottingham, 24 ex II ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY it3MDE111....4 few evenitmi since, as Mr. Henry Pratt, plumber, Canterbury, accom panied by a lady, was on his way to Ospringe, a fellow: , rushed from the hedge, and demanded him to stop, at the same instant violently striking die animal in :he zlrile, which being a spirited one, ran off' at full speed, and the foot iron striking the villain, he fell down, and the vehicle passed over him. The driver, at length, checked the im petuosity of the animal ; but he bad no sooner done so than it commenced kicking, but was fortunately preveroet: doing any serious mischief by two genii:Amen who hap pened to be on the spot at the time. The hole is not ma terially injured. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Friday noon, as the labourers were removing the brick work that remained of the old houses recently pulled down in Crailbourne-anet, D large portion of brick work near the foundation, being under mined, suddenly gave way. Several /abjurer* at work near the place escaped, but one of thou fell into a chasm that bad been made near the foundatio% and a large part of a thick brick wall fell over him. IL* fallow-labcarers immediately went to his ;elier, and by making levers of some of the planks, succeeded in raising the mass of brick work about a couple of feet, when they got about half of the poor fellow's body from under the wall, and in a few minutes extrica . ed him altogether—his wounds bled pro fusely, and he was otherwise much injurer]. It did not ap pear that any of his bones were broken. He was imme diately removed on a shutter to the hospital. ASTONISHING RAVAGES Or GRASSHOSPRIS.—These insects increase daily. The farmer having used all due diligence in arresting from them the small pince of grass which they have left, they seem to thit,ken among the English grain which remains unharvested, and the Indian corn ; and many fields of wheat, rye, and oass,are already more than halt' destroyed, and some entirely se. kt teen► instances the agriculturist is cutting down his grain in due milk for fodder, not having any hopes that the hoppers will leave any thing but the bare stalk. These ravenous insects, it appears, are not confined to vegetables. They frequently seize upon clothes and wooden farming mats and utensils, in many places where they are left in their way, in an incredible manner. Labourers, who may cave thrown down their coats, vests, and handkerchiefs, on :he ground, have found them so much eaten as to render than almost entirely worthless. Rakes and scythe snaiths have, been eaten, and made so rough in a few hours, as to ren der it necessary to smooth them before they could be used without inconvenience. Thus (says the Rutland Herald) we are visited like Egypt of olden time, and we know not that the ravages of the destroyer will be less calamitous, -- Anzerican Paper. BIRTH. On the 23d inst. at Chelsea, the wife of ➢lr. William Ting, of a son. MARRIED. On the 21st inst. at Yarmouti, - IVtiOrfolk, Charles John West Esq. nephew of Ilenry Francis, Esq. of Norwich, to Eliza, only daughter of (Hies Barrett, Esq. of the former place. On the 21st Inst. at Bressingham church, William Mello, eldest son of John Mello, of London, banker, to Mary Henchman, se cond daughter of Robert Berney, Esq. of Bressingham Hall, Norfolk. DIED. On the 19th inst. in her l7tit3Tear, Sarah Charlotte, the twin daughter of Dr. Crotch. On the 19 h inst. at her house in Gower-street. Bedford-lusre, Dowager Lady Bias Miller, widow of Sir John Riggs 31 111 'r , Bart. (father of the late Baronet), and formerly Lady dtavenP?"' relict of the late Sir Thomas Daveoport, one of his Majesty's bet. geents.at , Law. On the 224 inst. George Anstey, Esq. of Russell-nuare, aged sixty-five. Mr. William Ward, second son of William Ward, Esq. banter and .olieitor, of Farringdon. His death wss occasioned by bathing in cold water after returning from a shooting excursion, which brought oa an inflammation of the bowels, followed by mortifica tion, which terminated his life, in the 28th year of his age.