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Vtrs: 3 of rff- erld And the 'Master and Wardens of the COmpAny of , fakers are hereby enjoined to see the above Assize ",nIY, kep t u ntil further orders.—lt is expetred his 1 -bi . itship will reduce the Bread considerably on Tuesday of for - The LORD ICIA-VO* deserves the esteem and gra titude of his FelloVr..:Qourrtrymen, for the Adver tisements which have licen published by-his ()Wier, to frustrate the artifices of the Corn-Dealer's and Nlealmen, who have toot suctssfully profited by the Scarcity in the essential 'Ankles. of Life, a Scarcity that has been so 'severely felt by all ranks of People, hut particularly the poorer Classes; tvhb have suffered under such severe• di . stresses. that it Tl nnclerful h ow t h ey h ave b een a bl e to ~ Teasure of his Lordship, is likely to be pro t v iji l i v ) e of such utility, that it is to be hoped, it e established as a custom by all his successors. to The "Pence of publishing the Entries at the 'IL-Rouse, can be no objea compared with the tomb -aule advantages, which, by preve n ting M on opo- In j , ?an4 4 any attempts to raise an ail;ficia/ Scarcity, t ;T:thviate a real one ; it may afford the lower' „'',„, n 's• 9f the People permanent relief from - those ,T e rkngs; which they have borne with such '„ a rY Patience; satisfied that government has done a b " that ,was in its power to mitigate theit hard :riPsi and that it will not terminate its labours in the respeA,, until it has laid the axe to the rout - -of dreadful evilti i irbe decre e aga i ns t t h e im portat i on a Et:slid; cu l t ." i ntorrance is very strange, and very diffi, n o ~t ° c amprehend. Surely the Chief Consuldoes PptchEfnd - any restive spirit of Loyalty in, the "Th .a is- that may be injurious to his Subjects: But, What ever he inav fear, he can have little - reason to h dou btz th a t *having brought millions of men' under Yoi- in ' France, he inight be able to tame a few ,0 61- co% ,ou of day rty. RP, Sae E'ter :L. Led ,n 4 ; The b,e'n inTheatre h.l:t g of g, Pß *0 •S‘ IA has ordered, that - etitty. to for t he at Berlin shall an_ 1 NY otn.of.his salary TO chalers, into a fund 8 th e . k l Pport of Decayed Comedians: t i The followin g are t h e c i rcumstance s- att e ndin g robbery ofhe house of Barnes, Esq. l as a t t ‘ z ti t l Bridge. at:Hendon, on Saturday morning I • flue t • and Mrs. Barnes sleep: in a room-on the first ' r ' 'lnd on account of Mr, Barnes being extremely . d 4 With an asththatic complaint, the door and : win_ S aregenetally ieft.open for air. Abotit - half !t one o'cl oc k on Saturday- niOrrang, Mrs. Barnes down . stairs. to 'get softie tea .for her husband, i h Q she thought. she heard a noise at the door of S e back kitthen ; but not hearing it repeated, and a u PPosing i t might be the cat, she went up stair s g:'in, without noticing it further. 'Soon after v• C ing in bed, arida light burning in the room, they lE 're alai - tiled by' tlie'§aSh: of the. window being t •'` , 'nwn up in a violent Manner, and a man with his ii 4 et blacked, and a pisia in, his liand,jumped into -Cfl4ers r° o ln. •He wits instantly followed. by three i with thei r faces bl ac k e d , a l so : The sudden f l - ° c l c. had occasioned Mr. and Mrs. B. to spring ;roll their bed, the exertion,: howeve r , being too • h ad eat fc't Mr. B.'s weak state of 'body to bear, he bre „ k ne arly stink under it, and lay gaspi n g f or t wi ,"'"' unable to answer, when the first villain fth 1° v Yas called Captain' by the oth e rS) .wi t h h orr id, treats demanded his ,money. Mrs.-B. with more Presence of mind and resolution than cou:d be expeft !(l, fom.a females under such terrific circumstances, e ntreated the robbers not to hurt her husband,. and they should have money ; but it was with great she could persuade them to leave the room, alter they had taken what notes and money were contain_ ed in Mr. B.'s breeches pocket, which lay. near The hed.side. They then.accoznpanicd her down stairs to karch the lower part of the house for money, which they seemed to have a knoWledge of being kept in a and opening a back door let in another of er aecomplices, at which time two' more w ere l e a r in the Garden, and another stood sentry on t h e Ivi cl et. they had procured from the premises to enter A er r f Barnes's chamber window.' Not being suds . en s With ,what M rs . B arnes gave th em ,, w hi c h f ns tsted of four One . PO un d N o t es , a S even Shil llnrg Piece, and a Metal W a tch, they three times h 'lt het,- swearingthey would, go up s tairs and take that husb an d' s lif e ; h er per Sua s ions, an d assurances , • t a t they had no more mone y in the house, induced hem to forbear, and after taking a new_ hat, several th ey of boot s an d. s h oes , an d s o me s ilk st o c ki ngs , teY asked for brandy ; , but while Mrs. Barnes was to look for the key of the closet; where it was they'opened-the street door and, went away, 4tving been upwards of an.hour i n .the house, and • he morni ng beginning to break: A:man-servant l but prevented slept i n another part of the house was alarmed, prevented g i v i ng , any assistance by the' two • Tlle n who stood in the garden. *Fr o a. variety of r' r eilinstan c e s , there is teason to believe the'of 7'ders were hay'-cue-latelv-w-orkett4ti • g luourhood. They took away in Money,, Bank Country Bilis, and ll . kaits, - Jo tWamounii • -wow - 301, iic YESTERDAY the Right HOD. the LORD MAYOR *as waited von at the Mansion-House by the Prin cipals of the Bakers' Company to set the Assize of Bread, when his Lordship after examining the Ivl ealweighers' Re urns, it appeared that Wheat had fallen 65. Bd. quarter, 'and Flour only . 6d. per t ic k , he therefore oMered the price and weight of tu ad to be as follows, which is one Assize, or 2d. In the Peck Loaf lower than last week, and to com rnence and take place to-morrow, viz. . AT Guildhall on Monday, the discharge of a Pri soner of the nanit of Somkiiis was opposed, on the grnund that he had obtained money undet false pre.: tences. By the 4oth se&. of the Aet for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, such persons are denied the benefit - of the A. It appeared, that the Defendant had purchased a quantity of woollen goods of Messrs. Kay and Co. for which he was to pay ready money., When the goods were sent home, the Defendant's servant gave the PlaintifFa . draft upon Messrs. Ran_ sons and Co. for the amount of 1131. is. rod: when the draft was presented, it Was refused payment, there not being sufficient assets in hand. The Defendant accordingly was arrested. .The'Plaintifrs Counsel insisted that,the .Defendant's condua came within the meaning of the 4.oth see. of the AEI, as having obtained goods under false pretences, heknowing at the time that there, were not sufficient assets ih the- Bankers' hands, and that consequently he was not entitled to his discharge. . „ The Defendant's Counsel contended, ,that the Prisoner was'entitled to his • discharge, -inasmuch that no fraudulent or subtle means had been used by him. It was true - that he had promised to pay, and had given a negotiable instrument for that purpose it was at- the option of the Creditor either to have.- taken his goods hack, 'or have left than with. the Defendant -; lie chose the latter. No false pretences could be urged against him, as it was proved that he had a sum of Sol. at his Bankers, and many respeaable tradesmen were in tbe habit of overdrawing their Bankers. If the position set up by the Creditor this day ; was adopted by the. Court, it would tend td overturn the. whole-c,ommer cial concerns in the kingdom,as any Merchant in simi lar circumstances with the Defendant ; might be liable .to an indiament. for fraud. The Learned Counsel submitted, that the case of the King v. Lars (which . was an indidnient for fraud, the Defendant having purchased certain Scrip Receipts, for the payment of which he had given a draft upon Messrs. Ladbroke and Co. and in whose hands it was proved he had no money at the time) had decided the present,— When that Case came on to be argued in the Court of King's Bench ; the Learned judges gave it as their unaninmus opinion ; that the Indictment could not be held, asthe Defendant did keep. cash at that house, though at the time -the draft was presented, he had no assets hi the: Ilankers'' hands, anti there fore, it could - not be said that he had afted frau dulently. They . ftifther said, that if the doc trine maintained on that- occasion by the Learned Counsel 'for the Prosecution was to be adopted,. every person overdrawing their Bankers might be 'the subjed d'an indidment. The Defendant's Counsel, therefore, submitted, that the Court were bound to abide by dig . decision of the - first Court of Judicature in the Kingdom, and discharge the De:. fendants The Court, after some consultation, gave it as their unanimous opinion, that the Defendant ilid come within the meaning of the 40th se4ion of the AZii - as he had given a draft which he knew. was of no avail to the. Creditor. By this means he obtained Xhe goods (the reditoi having no suspicion of the currency of the d ra f ts having before that time taken a draft which was duly honoured) under false.,pre tences., as he pretended, to have cash at the Bankers' to the full extent of the draft, which he knew at time he had, not. He was therefore ordered to . be. rftmanded. The Magistrates sat yesterday at.the New Ses sionsilouse in Horsemonger-lane, for the purtiose of liberating the Debtors confined in the King's Bench Prison. A great nurnber were discharged, no opposition being made. Lord GRANTLE the Chair. The discharge of a Prisoner of the name of field, art AttOrney,•was -opposed under the set}. he having been imprisoned for the damages awarded against him, viz. 7661. in an - 'Action Moore eu. Corfield, for Criminal C. s onverotiony With the 'Plain till vi,ife. The Prisoner submitted that he was entitiDd to his discharge, as the naintiff died in the year 1798, and the Adminisfratrix, who was the Plaintiff's mother, .had not administered, .to the eileas .until the t 3th July, 18co,, consequently a Rei-ioet of more than a year had elapsed before the "?ministration, took place. The Counsel for the . Administratrix contended, * that ,the Prisoner was not entitled to be discharged; AS the delay was occasioned .by the Defendant's en tering.a caveat, for the purpose of preventing the i ldministraii6o. 'The , clause; under which he, s ub_ the. Prisoner ought to be remanded, was in. tloduced by the present LORD . CHANCRLLok,. who had been inde,ced to propose it from the best of motives, a wish to check the prevailing vice of Adultery. It,. however, had no effeel on the morals of the Defendant, %'w" continued - to co habit with the Lady, by ,whom.he has several'chil. dren.—The Court, ;after some consultation, orLlered the Prisoner to , be remanded, .as they had not. come 'to a decision on the pbint. He. will be brought up on a future day. At Bourdeaux, an unprecedented instance of re - dul ity and barbarity has recently occurred. The parents of a young girl of 15, labouring under a - complaint incidental to her age, put. her tinder the' care of a Quack-dociress who,, after - much' 'enmity of preparation, suspended her vi6inyin a flannel bag for-z 5 minutes, and in the. vapour of a , cauldron of boiling water into which she had thrown herbs' and different ingredients. ..The parents were present at the operation, and though the cries of their child bespoke the extreme of agony, they were persuaded hy the sorceress that these..were merely. signs of the crisis which vvas•ro effeet a cure. . The . girl was thus filthily ,steamed (o'dcath., Her inhu man murdere ss was committed t9.prison, where she awaits . the vengeance of the law. . Thursday - .Benson; serrast to William Were, Esq. Garrett-lane, was discovered sit)ended • •. • from,a beam in, the', fia.y..141,, wheye lie,was supposed to have hung near two hours. An unfortunate,cir -t-pmst,in,..:.-.; zrhiLii tart - tred - to - him - in a - situation- he _ left a fe'v mon:t111 - ..ii . nce:(and which laid redueii him to• - distres 'anti poverty), is supposed to haye been the•cause of this ' CROYDON; Mid, hiForut At/ii A iPF.CIA .01i4%; K eG 4 7. L. ESAVIS AND ojHaks:' RIOT AT Kll4Gt.Olst. . Mr. GARiow stated; that tliis was an indietrneiti against Wil Danis; Rober . t, Barnes; John Ell_ cock, and Robert Collins; survefois Of the high ways for the distrid of Kingston; Mr. Carter, (their Attorney), Neville; Brown, Empson; . and several. others, for riotoasly and titititilttiously assembling to cut doWn the trees belonging tb 1\4.r.; Pui-rier; Gentleman in the neighbourhood of Kingston: It, was•a case whiCh contained - Circumstances iinosm mon aggravation : - it would be found, 'that the four first-named Defendants .had availed thernselves , of the power they possessed as Survq , oi.S' of the.High_ . ways, to wreak their private'inalice against the-Pro .secutor, by Cutting down a number of trees placed' before his house, which had remained an ornam.mt . to the premises for more than a . century. FOr the Defendants to pretend. that these trees =were a nv_ sauce to the Public; and that the ctrting them down .was, justifiable under, the ; general Highivay . ,•*t, would be„ridiculous; but supposing that, As Sur:, yeyors, they had such right, they _could not by the statutes.of the land exercise it without, legal notice. ; In this instance no notice,whatever Was given ; tsJe trees were felled in April, a month ,in which the laws, with a. view-to the preservation' of. the bark, tendered it. illegal to cut down trees,.B4r;admitting that Good Friday- was, the fittest day .for, such abu. siness,. and April the most proper month---admitting also, that the- Surveyors were doing their, duty. by Cutting these trees smack smooth, yet, still he would. contend, they ought not to have effected their pur pose by means of a desperate banditti: He was afraid he should be able to bring it home to the .Defendant Carter, that' he threw a weapon at a . gencleman of the name of Hibflert, since' deceased, likely to have occabioned destli; in whiCh event, all these parties, instead of- standing as ticfendantfor a misdemeanor,. would have' had to have answered a charge for trurdcr. Upon the question .of Law he should just say a 'word : The Prosecutor had received notice to produce a certain PeaSe to a Mrs. Bernard. by whom the•premises were lett to Mr. Furrier. That lease would be produced; and he should prepare, his LOrd. ship and the jury-for 'the, reading of it by stating what it was it, was a demise froM the Lord of the ! Manor of the place on which these trees grew, and there was a stipulation 'that no lessee should cut them down without licence of the lessor ; in short, an express teserviition which excluded every tenant from destroylng what was .th t e .growth of.ages.— The. fans whiCh were stated hy, the Learned Coun sel, we shall detail in the language of the witnesses.: He concluded, by enforcing.upon the minds of the Jury the enormity of the offence of promoting a riot, more especially in times like,.the present, when it was, so peculiarly the duty of every peaceable citizen to prevent popular tumult. It',y,v,as Rot their province to. I,preciate the punishment the. Defend'. ants merited, that would be the subjea of future consideration; all they had to do was to ascertain whether.,they were guilty of theeliarge-.imputed to them. John Vincent Punier, Esq: 'said he resided near Kingston : On Thursday the ad of April, several perscins came to his- house to cut the trees which grew — before it ; they were hewing at the, roots when-he-first discovered' them : "he did not think any of the befendand Airete there.' He persuaded them. desist, till : a negotiation should take place with . the Surveyors. A meeting/was' had at-Mr. Carter's house ; which 'was attended by'Elleock, Davis,. and Collins ; it was agreed that a regular notice : should be given, in order that the right to cut - doWn the trees might be tried in a regular form. After wards Carter informed him, it was' the intention o'f. the Surveyors , to cut them down at all events. There were two divisions of frees, four on the-North and seven on Coe South; it was on the Nciettr'side they fir - t began to cin. 'ln the cotirne . Of the - eonversa. tion Ellcork grew warm,' and .said, as so, 'many words were made about the trees; be . would have the seven immediately before the house..., On Good Friday the four trees on the'North He applied to Cook 'and Bradshaw; the Bailiffs and Chief. Magistrates of the Towii, to interfere, which they undertook to do, observing; that it was against their will that the Surveyors proceeded to such ex tremitiesr' About five in the morning of Saturday' he was called up by his servants, and observed se iveral labourers cutting the, trees,to the Southward ; he prevailed on them to desist, and went .to request Cook and 'Bradshaw to prevent the men from cut ting -them dowels Cook gave him an - authority to procure assistance to proted the trees .; he sheaved the authority, to carter; who, having ,read it, ;re,. • turned, saying,. " Damn Cook and Bradshaw too." They went away, and, in abotit hall an hour after, Catter, Davis, Elleock, Barnes, Empson, 'Blown any' Neville,' returned, with about sixty 'others, 'marching from the town. 'His own friends were posted round the trees, and ,he had directed them to lay aside tl'!e arms With .'which they had previously provided themselves; and'not to humany one.. .When the mob arrived, none of his friends or servants had any fire-arms.. ' As soon,as they reach, ed the spot, there was a cry from one of :the De-. . fendants of: " Come, -my lads, take to your blud geons ;" and immediately they began the attack. "hey came - up . , :chopping away with their:axes at : his and his - friends and servants- feet. Empson came - up with a Wheel-barrow, exclaiming, ". Take care ofyourselves ;,this is-for the killed and wound_ : ed, for, by G=-d, there will be slaughter:" :'There was a scuffle at• the first tree; and Carter said,' at , Purrier and his party were so strong there, they . would proceed to another. , He . presently saw Davis endeavouring to get away from a Mt. Thomas, who had collared him, and was calling &!.• the peace offiders, Davis 'struck him several tinits, and at length got away. Empion cab was *very aaive with his axe: • *He saw Carter strike Mr; Hibbert with a stick, and as the hitter was running away, he threw it' at him ; ,he also saw ii n` axe fall at the 4 feet of Mr. Hibbert, and had he not been in motion, it must-have struck, •-and most kiiled him.— ' •che mob effeaed their purpose . ,of cutting down the tree's, the Surveyor's directing th6ri all the'firne:— There were handkerchiefs hoisted upon sticks as , • sliatititigritid - huiZan Chi his erosg.:ix.".:aniinat he iAld• 116 tifFered.tO. give. the &It.- yeyoik eVeiy satisfthioli with reg:ird :o the illega lity Of cutting,dOwn the tyees. He• insisted that. none of his friends had offered td male use of artusi, Mr. thcicti4; the Sdlithoi; and rei6tion of the laft Witness, entirely corroborated his evidence,' And proved; that every endeavoiir hzd been used`te try the right of cutting, the trees in a legal way. Mr. WilSon, Me'rchant of London, And one of , the Prosecutor's friends, &voted to the same tired. The Servants of the .Prosecutor were mirnined, and bthuilir the charge home to, all the Defendants included in the i \ ndietnienr. • The exclusive right of the . Lessee of the'Plaintin.' to the trees was : clearly proVed; and clofied the case for the prosecution. , - • Mr. Serjeant Stim a rte, 'for the Defendants, ob served;_that this-Was certainly a very serious ;case,' and never should he stand in,a coutt of justice to state ; that it persons had a legal right, they were justified in asserting it by violence :. he admitted,. that".whatever right , tile Defendants might have had to cut down' the trees in question (and that right they certainly' had); yet that the carrying it irate effe.d.by violence was no justification. But itt the 'present instance; it would turn out upon. the evi dence, both parties were in The wrong ;. for it would appeari.thaty the PrOsecutor had not armed hitn self and his servants; nothing Of the kind would have happened ; no n e .ivotild have been engaged but the workmen who were lawfully engaged in cutting down these trees 'which stood the'-way, and, were liable to be removed under the general Highway A& It was' not true, as had been assert.. ed by his Learned Friend,' that they were cut down from malicious motives.: On the contrary, the trees stood in a situation extremely inconvenienc,to the Public, 'and several accidents .I - Yld happened in consequence of chaises and coach es 'runnia against them: 'lt had. therefore long been . .the determina tion of the Surveyors to. cut them down, and they had. given notice,to that efFed to the last tenant, a Mr. Fuer, who had requested as a favour that they should be suffered to rernain during his life. They had done so, and afterhis death had determined to• carry their fOrtner intentions into.execution, with.. out any personal animosity towards the Prosecutor. The Learned Counsel proceeded at great length, and chiefly inferred, that the mob consisted of persons attraaed idle curiosity, who took -no part in the of tit, and that the riot was produced by the intern. , perate and viole n t conduitcif the Prosecutor and hii .friends. ' Mr: Justice GRosE said; he 'thought the Learned CoUnsel had opened no defenCe. All he - had said was founded.upon the supposed. Misbehaviour of the Prosecutor ; bat, that was nO . justification for the Defendants, however it- might avail them'if the fait 'should be proved 'Upon affidavits, When they were brought ,up to receive judgment. Supposing all the misconduct stated on the part of the Prosecutor to be true, it would not repel the charge of the De fendants' having been guilty of-a riotous and tumul-. tuous assembly. 'Hehad no doubt but the Gentle men .who travelled the Circuit recoletled the trees ; if he remembered, them rightly, there was r o o : n . ericiugh on both side's for carriages to pass. On the evidence, there must necessarily be‘ a verdict gainst the Defendants. With regard to the mitigation of 'punishment, that must depend 'upon the establishment of the fans 'alledged in the defence;* there might be degrees of delinquency, but manifestly all - had been taking An aaive part in the riot. ,It was a shameful proceedin g i n a Country. where the laws were open to erery one, - and where those who had a right; might appeal to the laws for redress, withbut preSurriing to rake it into hiS own hands, .by committing so dangerous an offence as a riot and breach Of the Peace. Tht Jury pronounced all the Defendants—Gkilty. Mrs: ASTLEY, the lovely representative of Fair Rosamond,. in ,the new Spectacle 'of Woodstock Bower, at the Royal Amphitheatre; Westminste'r Bridge, has made 'such an impression on every spedator since its first appearance, as to 'have gain.. ed her the envied laurel of universal praise, Ano ther change of Eniettaiments is in preparation for Monday next. , . ' a On Friday week severed - minder storm happened in the neighbourhood of A.bberfard. At Pirlington, the Seat of Sir. THOIVIAS GASCO I GNE, - the servants,' on sitting 'down 'together in the hall, were' alarmed by the cry of " water, water !" They instantly 'went out,' and found themselves surrounded with a flood. The stables were filled as high up as the , mangers, and every place wore the appeP.rance of instant destutlion.: This sudden deluge is sup posed to have been occasioned by, .the, bursting of a' thunder-cloud. The water, in its rapid course did much damage. The division walls of three pad docks,. situated at the end of each other, were en tirely washed down, .and the ltones` i _some of which upwards of Zoo cwt. scattered about the 'grounds. 'At AbberfOrd, many,of the houses were filled with ,water, to the depth of three or four feet above the 'cellars. At Milford, the water was two or three ,feet on the turnpike-road. The. whole had the ap pearance of,a general deluge, and greatly alarmed the inhabitants. . Of the nine convias who were executed on Fri_ 'day at Chelmsford, four had conceived the plan of escaping on Wednesday, by the singular expedient of forcing with their feet twO..penny pieces under the pavement :Of the cell in which they were con tined,'and wliidi,' by, usin g; these as' levers, they hoped to raise. Strange as were the instruments, they had sekceeded in breaking ofF by these means an incredible piece of the pavement. The vigilance of the gaoler, having, however, perceived the hat tercel .appearance of some of ,the coin in the hand- of achild.'who had . been admitted to .the cell, and was returning, he instantly concluoed that they had been 'used , di instruments of some kikt.tfforee, and on searching the cell, clis'e6vered tht hteach .that, had been made. •-• : • . 'The Kingsrnilli Marschall, .froin- - ilitui York to Et'i - stol; has 'put into Halifax with U:ituge, having sprang a lean,