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CHARITIES. The Margois of EXETBR gave donations last week to 300 poor het sons in and round Burgh ley, and. Lady Mary Flydger gave beef, bread, and money to the poor of Tbide'on, Ayston, and Woidley, Lincolnshire, sufficient for a week's consumption of each fanuly.—The Honotsraitle Charles Noel gave 501. to the poor of Oalsham —On Christioas.day, the Heads of Colleges and_ Halls, at Oxford, as perpetual visitors of the Grey Coat and Gene ral School, upon the national system, provided the boys educated in their school s.tr;ll) a dinner of roast beet and plum pioldiNg, as e reward for the progress they have made during the year.— Ors Christmas-day. Air. Bowerman gave Isis an nual donation of bread and beef, at the village of Ensham, Oxon, amongst nowaids of ninety fami lies Forty pounds were' last week given by Mr. Willer, of Colchester, for supplying the neees sit poor of two parishes with beef, and a forHoo-, donation for cods ; anti Mr. Simons, late of &r,ooead-ntaiket, liberalky bestowed upon the poor inhabitants of the parish a rt St. Mary Matt- . (Talon, nearly the s•li,;le of two his:locks; DW. Hat vey, rvl the Borough, distri buted 500 isoshris of (yolk- ,so-olgst the resident free burgesses. lienevole.•o Food of Chat ham. On January, 1819, exi7eeo , or its atuo4ost and distriblition of clothing, etc.. .any former year, since its commencement. The fi n d exceeded 1301. and the number of persons te!ieved, icaelted near ly 100. One-fifth of the sum was cow, ihuted by the poor (Ist-two:lves, which is an excellent principle in institutions of this kind, havitig die effect of preventing the pauperizing system, too often connected It charitable iustitut The Contorts of Glasgow ordered forty carts of coals and five bulls of meal to be di , .,tributed, in the mOidle of December, among poor families, chiefly in the south-east part of the Abbey Parish Patsley : and, on the 24th of the month, her Ladyship ordered her yeady Christmas gift, on au exteoded scale, by sending servants with carts contaitsiog butcher's-meat, potatoes, meal, guar tern-loaves, tea and is,tgar, to many aged, sick, and indigent 'families. Lady Jane Boyle in the s am e mo u th, ord,red eight guineas to •he laid out on warns eloalhing for the poor in that district.—Mr. Finlay of Tree ,s, in the parish of Nerhoon, has bestowed between 50 and 60 carts of coals on the poor is, the villages of that palish ; and Messrs. John Wilson and Sous of Hurlet, have gi•en a donation of 175 carts of coals ro the poorest inhabitauts of Barrhead, and of the south east part of the Abbey parish of Paisrey. Great quantities of these coals have been carted by far mers, free of expense. PETMON OF THE IRISH LABOURERS., fuilowing is a -- (7nrrect and official copy of the curious, and certainly not uninteresting, Petition, Maid, was resented to the House of Commons on Thursday Last by Mr. W. Wit.- LIAMS :--• House of Commons, Jovis 30. die Deeen►bris, 1919. A Poking' ot the thtre-tintlersigned Irish La bourers, of the parish of Sr. Giln, on behalf of themselves and the other uneinrAnyed Irish La boot CI'S in Great Britain and Ireland, was pre sented, ant! read, setting for!h, That the Petitioners are able and willing to work, but cannot get employment in Great i tain, and that the Petitioners do not complain in that respect, as there are many British in the same condition who ought to he employed in Great Britain in preference to Petitioners, as charity b -gins at home ; and that Petitioners are therefore most desirous to be employed in Ire land; and the House will learn with great pleasure, that there are tour millions of Irish acres which do not now, and for ages past, have not added one farthing to the wealth of the coutory, and which four millions of acres the Petitioners and their fellow-labourers will, with the assistance of the Boose, make good and profitable land ; that by this noble work employment will be given not only to all Irish labourers in'whatever part of the Empire they may be,but to many - English and Scotch ; and the Petitioners, having handled a good deal of British money, »ill be happy to see British, la bourets in Ireland, for one good turn deserves another ; and Petitioners, with the greatest hu mility, submit to the House, that if the Petition ers had been set to work at their bogs a few years ago, that Irela s ild would have produced as lunch corn as woold have supplied bread to the whole Empire, and prevented all the beautiful gold so vereigns from going out of the country to France and elsewhere, to pay for foreign corn, and the Banks of England and Ireland would have plenty of gold to pay their bank-notes; and the Peti tioners most humbly beg pardon of the House tor venturing to say a word on so knotty a point ; but so much bother has been made even in Saint Giles for the last few years about bullion and bank-notes, about gold and paper, that it was im possible for Petitioners not to know something about the matter ; and before Petitioners come to an end, they beg leave to offer a hint upon another subject, of which they would be ashamed to be ignorant, for they have heard a great deal about it in Saint Giles, from folk who, instead of earn• ing their bread honestly by the sweat of their ' brow, as the Petitioners wish to do, spend their ' whole days in prating about what they call Radi- ' cal Reform ; and the Petitioners make bold to say, that the best way to cause a radical reforma tion is to give the Radicals plenty of work, end the harder the better; the sooner, therefore, that the P tit loners and the other Irish labourers in this country are sent to the bogs of Ireland, to make way for the Radicals, the better wilt it be for the country at large ; and most humbly begging pardon for making so free, and hoping that their case will be taken into speedy consi deration. SUICIDE COMMITTED BY A YOUTH.--An In quest was held h e f,,re Mr. STIRLING, Coroner tor blidd!esex, at St. Giles's Wollchouse i on the body of Tisornai Cummings, a youth IG years of age, which lay at his master's house in Tottenham court-road, who put an end to his existence by cutting 1)13 throat vri h a knife.—After a great deal of discufsion, the Jury returned a verdict— " The 'deceased died by Lis own hand in state of derangement." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. ATTEMPT TO ovE.EsET THE DFPUTY WATRR•EAI- LIFF AND HIS MEN IN THE THAMES. Mr. Howell, the %Vater-bailiff, having received information that illegal fishing wits carried on to a very great extent in the' Thames, near Purfleet, made such arrangemeots at the latter end of last week as were calculated at least to limit the practice. After a very hazardous experiment, which had nearly ended in the loss of tour lives, Mr. Nel son, the Deputy Water-bailiff, succeeded, with the assistant e of his small crew, its getting to !And a number of nets, the value of which is esti mated at -1.501. The account given before the Lord Mayor was as follows : Nelson stated, that the fishermen, many of whom were very desperate fellows, having al ways, when employed in their illegal labour on the Thames, a look-nut for him and his men both night and day, he determined to go down by land to the place where he understood the work was going forward. He accordingly went, accompanied by his men, - to Estill, where begot aglass, through which be observed five sail ofboats in a spot called Havely-bole, near Purfleet. The boats were well manned ; and Nelson, in expectation that resist aoce would he made, revested that s ome of th e lands7nen in rite neighbourhood would assist him in the perform tune_ of his duty. Tris was refused, more fr't.in fear !ban from favour, and the deputy was obliged to row off without any as sistance but that of his three men. They found a number of nets lying in Havely-hole. The owners of the nets did not offer the slightest op position to Nelson. On the Contrary, they as sisted hint in lifting up the nets, which could not have been done by a few hands. Soots after wards Nelson saw a Gravesend hatch-boat beating flown upon his boat, which was very a n d lr.y within anipcli or two of the surface of the water. He cried out to those on hoard to lutf, but they paid no attention to the call, and press ed upon lint apparently with the desperate inten tion of sinking his boat ; again he cried out, and asked whether they meant tr, drown him and his men, but this appeal was also disregarded. The Gravesend boat approached with great speed, and threatened to•overwhelm the other in an instant, when the , small crew .made a tremendous effort with their oars, and got under the !Aim Of an other boat that lay in Cie river, where the enemy could not reach without danger to all. It was ' supposed that the hatch-boat was the out-scout, appointed to watch the suotioe.s of the Water bailiff in the river, and that, having missed in her object, she was determined to make up for the oversight by sinking him. The LoaD MAYOR expressed Isis astonishment at this stak. ment, and declared that he should adopt the rues decisive course for the protection of the %Vater-bailiff, and the punishment of such :esperate characters as had been desciihed. His Lordship asked,. whether' the persons who were engaged its running down the boat could be re cognized? This was answeted in the negative. Ilis Lordship then addressed the owners of the nets, who had beets in waiting, and assured them, that if any thing fatal had taken place, they would in all probability have a heavier responsibility upon them than that for the violation of the Fish ing The defendants declared that those in the hatch .boat were nut acting under their directions, but that it was impossible they could have borne down upon Mr. Nelson with any bad view. It must, they thought, have been wholly uninien tional. Nelson said, it was absurd to state that there was no had intention. He had been very fre gn►ently threatened by some of the illegal fisher men, and he had no doubt of their general dispo sition towards him. Had not his men rowed un der the bow of the moored boat, his boat must inevitably have gone down, and after that their lives would not . have been worth a farthing. The MeII on hoard the hatch-boat, he added, seamed to know those in the fishing-boats, for there had been some conversation between them. John Aldridge, one of Nelson's men, stated the circumstance as Nelson had done. He could not say whether it was the intention of those in the hatch-boat to drown the deputy or not, but cer tainly if the moored boat had not been at hand to a fford protection under her bow, lives would have been lost. John Glover, another of the water.bailiff's men, stated, that the danger was extreme, and that had it not been for very great exertions all must have gone down. The words of• Mr. Nelson were wholly disregarded, upon which witness took up a broomstick and pointed it at them, swearing , that he would stand no nonsense, and that he' would give them a pill. At that moment, front the efforts of witness's comrades, the boat was got under the bow of the moored boat, and those on board the hatch-boat showed symptoms of fear that the broomstick was a gun. The Deputy Water 13414 said, the defendants were, in his opinion, by no means accessary to this desperate attempt. They were nil respecta ble men, and were never before detected in ille gally fishing. There were, however, several cha racters upon the Thames, from whose violence he had every . thing to apprehend, and against those he claimed the protection of the Lord Mayor. The LORD MAyoa declared, that the most rigor ous measures should be adopted towards the ruf fians who bore such enmity to the officers, and issued directions which are calculated to add to the security of those whose lives were in such im minent danger. The nets were of course condemned. At Mr. Howell's request, the men were not fined. The owner of the hatch-boat has been ordered to at tend at the Mansion•house. MOST EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. Bowy a man of ;be flame of Frith underwent an ex‘lmination • before All• CONAKT, charged with an extensive robbery on thr premises of Francis Gregg. Eq. at Skinners' Dowgate•bill. to the amount of up,vards of 10001. including Bank notes to the amount of 5001:, in Foreign and British coins to the a mount of 4001., together with a quantity of plkee and other valuable property. The robbery wa s coos milted on the 18th of December last, or the morning of the 19th. Excepting two female servants, the family were all at Mr. Gregg's coun try house, and the female servants discovered the robbery between ten and eleven o'clock in the morning, when they found the office had been robbed, and various places in the house broken open, also two iron chests, and a drawer in the kitchen, from which upwards of 51. had been stolen. An express was sent off to Mr. Gregg, who carne to town with all speed. Appli cation was then made to this office for assistance, when Salmon was dispatched to the house, who found teat no violence had been used in breaking in or our of the premises. The female servants had double locked and bolted the doors the pre vious night, and on the following morning found them on the single lock ; but considerable vio- . lence had been used in breaking open the chests, boxes, and drawer. The officer made enquiries as to who had been in the house, when he was informed that the prisoner had been there the previous evening, and that he was in the habit of calling and sitting with the servants in the kitchen, with the sanction and know, ledge of Mr. Gregg, the prisoner being muell respected by him, having lived cle.en years with him as a footman, and marrying a female in his service. Mr. G. bad also got biro an ap pointmeht in the Custom-nnuse, aad he had been since, for these five years past, in the habit of -calling at his house, and was received anti treated as one of the tamily. W' an be was at the house on the Strtiirthiv eeroio:. Of the family were out of town, was 'Atari:led the whole. He afterwards left the house, and let himself out as usual, and the servants heard the street-door ,bet, to induce them to think he was gone ; but he, well knowing the house, concealed himself till after the girls were gone to bed, and then let in a compaeion, who broke open the dit -IVrety pieces, and Cal rted off the above valuable property. Salmon having strong suspicion that the prisoner weis the robber, obtained a search warrant, and, accompenied by Mr. Greeg's clerk, went to the prisoner's house, at N• lson-terrace, in the Hackney-road, where, atter taking the pri soner into custody, he ran if, and endeevouredto make liis escape, when Salmon purpled hint, re tied: him, and handcuffed him, and afterwards proceeded to search him and the house, and found On his person two guineas in gold, one nu the floor between his legs, several other guineas tinder !'a tile in the yard, and a canvas-bag, in which were several more guineas, half guineas, and a seven shilling piece, a small scent-box, and three mourning rings. The prisoner resisted much leaving his house. Yesterday his examination oc cupied neatly three hours. A number of witnesses were examined, who proved having received many of the coins from different persons who had been .. employed by the prisoner to circulate them, all of which were supposed to be part of those stolen from Mr. Gregg's premises, who attended yester day, and identified the mourning rings and scent box. In fact, the . prisoner himself publicly con fessed the robbery and his ingratitude, which he had previously done to the Governor of the House - of Correction. He also charged a man, named Kemp, with being an accomplice in the robbery, whom he admitted into the house, and w broke open the chests, and carried the p!--; away at different times to his own residence. In conse quence of Frith's confession Kemp had been taken into custody and was brought into the office to confront the charge of . the former against him. Kemp positively denied any participation with the prisoner in the robbery, and the latter not being able to prove his assertions against him, Kemp was accordingly discharged, and Frith was fully committed for trial. SIDMAUTH, Dec. 30.—Yesterday, and this day, the weather proving favourable, their Royal High nesses die Duke and Duchess of KENT, and the Princess, have been each day on the promenade, where they continued walking a considerable time. The dangerous practice of inexperienced persons being entrusted with guns, had yesterday been nearly attended with disastrous consequences : An apprentice boy, shooting at small birds, had the audacity to approach so near the residence of their Royal - Highnesses, that the shot broke the windows of the nursery, and passed very near the head of the infant Princess, who was in the arms of the nurse. The delinquent was detected, but, at the request of the Duke, he was pardon ed; upon a promise of desisting from such culpable pursuits. The Princess Feodore, of Leiningen, arrived here on Saturday, having remained until Ft iday at the Palace of the Bishop of Salisbury. The Duchess of Northumberland is daily expecr ed ; and it is rumoured that Prince Leopold will pay his Royal brother and sister a visit during their stay in Sidtnouth.—(Exeter Gazelle) Paisley continues in a state of considerable agitatidn. There are so many out of employ, and so many evil spirits ever ready to take advan tage of any tumuit, that the smallest incident or the least disturnance in the public streets soon makes a formidable appearance on account of th e great numbers who assemble either to witness or abet the scene ; there are Many disagreeable reports perpetually circulating, which, whether true or false, arc equally calculated to arrest the attention ; cases of individual suffering, of per• sons arrested, and of the most extensive prepara tions among the disaffected to attempt some poli tical change, are among the most prominent of these stories. A notion appears to prevail among the most ardent Reformers, that something will soon transpire which will lead to the final attain ment of their wishes. The most astonishing de lusion has become triumphant on this head that ever existed. For some time past speculation and rumour would make each succeeding week to he the last week of existing in a tranquil state. Ano ther week passes by .and the same deception is still fostered and propagated. Nothing, however, like an insurrection is likely to.occur. Betijainin Surr, of Leeds, an unfortinate ma niac, who was lately ehiscrvered chained in his fathet's cellar, where he had remained about 16 years, died on Thorsday last, in the Leeds Woi k house. The warmth and comfort which he ex perienced during the week which he VCRs in the Weikhouse, were so different from the rigours to which his constitution had been b °bituuted ' thst they produced the evil they were meant to avert. PRICE OF RAW FAT, As stated by the Tall. Ateliers. St, James's Market .. Os Whitechttpel Market Os 0.1 Average THE ARMY. rn our Paper of the I Sth December, tve insert ed a Resolution of the Officers of the Ist oft Highland regiment of Edinburgh Local Militia, containing an offer to re-embody that regiment ; or, if this was not consistent with the views of Government, it was at the i- sarne tinre res. solved, - " That the Officers do tender their services in such other manlier as may not be incompatible with the commissions they 'hold in this Regiment." This resolution of the Offi cers having been transmitted by the Lord Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh to the Secre tary of State for the Home Department, an an swer has been received from Viscount Sidmonth', stating, that " the tender of their services at this pet iod is most gratifying, and is duly appreciated by the Government, and I shall have great plea sure in laying before the Prince Regent any offers these Gentlemen may think proper to make of serving in corps already raised, or intended to be enrolled, a p ti , l b l i i i a c ve sp i i i r o it, do ‘v n i b u t a t ff h o a r t d t i e r g ty a a t l e t) s - t „ zeal, satisfac a t n i d on to his R ,, yal Highness." It appear ing farther, from Lord Sidmoutles letter, that the services of the Regiment on its former Establishment are not at present require(' by Government, we understand the Officers of 11 , e Higaind Regiment have, i n conseq „ en „ , resolved to act on the aheroatice in their original Resolution, and many of them hhve Recordingiv, too the present, already joined volunteer corps.— (Edinburgh Courant, Jon. 1.) LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF DREAD THIS WEEK. The highest price of the best Wheaten Bread 111Auglimat the Metropolis, is stated by the principal Bakers to be lid. the Quartern Loaf.—Soine Bakers sell the Quarteru Loaf from one penny to two pence lower. II). oz. 11).oz.. Per'' , Loaf to weigh .. 17 6 I Quartern Loaf toweigb 4 51 Half ditto.. ditto .... 8I I Half Quartet - 1i that) .. 2 PRICE OF HOPS, per Cwt. •JAN. 1. Bags. I . Pockets. Kent ~. 01 Os to 31 3; a4l 4s 1 Kent 31 6s a3l 18s to 41 lOs Sussex. •21 16s a3l 10s aOl Os Sussex 31 Os 31 lOs to 31 45s Essex.. 01 Os a2i 16s a3lto e Essex 31 Os to 31 lisa 41 Os Farnham, second, 41 lOs to 51 ss —line, 51 5s to 61 Os ' Foreign Pockets, 28s to 42s to—s—Duty, 242,0701. SEEDS. Red Clover (Foreign) Ditto English • • • • —s 40s to 79. s White ditto —s 60s 88s to 100 s Rye-Grass ... lss 25s to 40s per qr. Turnip, White .. l4s Od to 20s od•per hush. White Mustard Seed 6s Os to 1 Is Cld Brown ditto l ss od to 9.0 s Od _ __ --- Red and Green ... .. .. I6s 0,1 to 20s Od Carraway Seeds (new) Cinque Fuin sos Od to 70s 0(1 per qr. New Coriander do. Tiefoil ...... , . per cwt.,.. 30s ;ins to ii3s —s per cwt. Ititigrass ... 3 , -N 4il's (3 ,:4 Canary Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, 141 14s to —1 Os per Own sand—New Rape Seed, :i3l to 341 per Last.—Rape C•rir,,, 1010 s. to 01 Os per thousand.—'fares, 9s to 14s per buihel. NENVGATE ANT) LEAPENHALL ALARKETS. • By the Carcase. Beef 3s 4(1 to 4s Bth ( Veal 4s . 8d to Gs Od Mutton 4s Od to 5s 0:: Pork ss 4d to b's &I ST. JAMES'S HAY MARKET, JAN. 1. Hay 3i 8s Oil to 51 Os Oci--Average, 41 45 Od Straw WHITECHAPEL FLAY MARKET. flay 3i 18s Od to 41 Gs Od--Average, 41 28 . 041 Old ditto .., 01 Qs Od to 01 Os Od-Avcrfsge, 01 Os .thi Straw Clover 5l lOs Od to 6! lOs Od--Average, ml Os tot RAW IDES. Best Heifers & Steers, per et. I Ordinary 2s Od to 25241 2s 8d to 3s Oil Market Calf .. each .. 41s Middlings 2s 4d to 2s tifi 1 Eng. IIoi•se .0s ed to Os 011 SHEEP Polled DoWin SKINS. Shearlings Os Od to Os 0,1 , Lambs Os Od to Os OA PRICE OF LEATHER. Butts, 50 to 561bs each, per lb 18d to MI Ditto, 56 to 661bs each 2141 to 23d Dressing Hides l4ld to 1.6 d Fine Coach Hides . 4 l 6d to 183x 4 Crop Hiides, 35 to 4011)5 for cutting lsd to 174 Ditto 45 to 50Ibs Call Skins.. 11;) to 401hs 2od to 26.1 Ditto 5O to 701bs 26d to 343. Ditto 7O to 801bs • 25d to 29d Small Seals (Greenland) 1 Ail to 904 Large ditto Tanned Horse Hides Spanish Horse Hides - l6d - to 20d per Stone of 61b.--JAN. I. I As staled GI the Butch ers . I St. James's Market 3s sd Whiteeloyel Market as 61.4 Clare Market Ne‘vgate Market Average ...... PRICES OF TALLOW. Town Tallow Cis Od —s 0(1 1 Yellow Ru ss i a 57s 0(i 0(1 White ditto .. 55s Od —s Soap ditto.... 53s Oil —s •Od Melting Stuff 45s Od —s Od Ditto Rough.. —s Od 33s Od ', SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Yellow Soap... Mottled Curd Graves Good Dregs. StS 94% 0 33, 2 .13 PRICE OF CANDLES, FROM TALLOW CHANDLER'S !TALI. Price of Candles, per dozen, 11;•-od —Moulds, 12s 6d. 6d per dozen allowed for ready money. COAL MARKET, JAN. a. Ships at Market. Ships s.old. Prices. 1034 Ncwcastlu i i 1 Sunderland 8 '3 4 s G d to 44 a 6.1 BIRTH. On Saturday last, at Hornsey, Mrs. W. Martin, of a daughter. On ‘Vedneßday last, in Bury-court, St. Mary-axe, Mrs. Selnuacch, of a daughter. MARRIED. In December last, at Glasgow, Cap , tain 'Campbell, late of the 94th Regiment of Foot, to Miss Poi Jodi, of that-city. DIED. On Friday last, at his house it; Tavistock-street, Bedfufd square, Richard Barker, Esq. in the 75th year of his age, and universally respected. Lately, at Madras, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Bayntoa Bagshaw, of the 25th Native Infantry, in his 46th year. On the Ist inst. io Helaineli-street, Mancheste r-sipare, John Hooper, Esq. in the 7Glh year of his age. Lora)()N: Printed by.). 11. CARSTAIRS, of NO. i 9, (;Teat Ormond-street, Queen-sylare; artd lothlished 1.)17 W. t. SCI :11 1 1'S, of N4 , .7, South Mallon-street, al TJtr tios OlFce, No. 1 Stmod ; where AdvettiErment2, Lriters, &c, (Post-paid) rallst be addresstd. • •