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PARLI ENTARI PAPERS. ." P.IPtR§ RELATING 16 the sALT DUTIES, &c.I (tontinuctl from yosterdwis§UN.) (No. 12.—Mt: Carter.) I proceed to make the statement which is de sired dr-me, of thoie particular circumstances whiCh have. come to my knOvrletige as Secretary to the Association for the Relief of the -Mann fact Lit ing and Labouring Poor, relative to the operation' of the Salt Duties, amd the disposition of the lower orders to a Fish Diet. As to the allowance of duty-free Salt to the and its Sufficiency - , I ant mot aware ,:tnat for any department of. the Fisheries the allowance has been particularly remarked as, in adequate, excepting that for dry-s altin g in bulk ,tart the North Sea and Iceland Fishery. It /May however perhaps be doubted, whether this acquiescence does not arise from the enervated d depressed state of the Fiihcries, occasioning a disinclination - to every enterprise beyond the accustomed limit, and preventing those experi- Thews und perfection in curing, Which-might in crease the trade and advance their prosperity. I have understood that the Downs Society, which is conducted with 'great ability and intelligence, ere ;resolved • to .attempt - a competition with the hitch in the Salt Cod trade its the foreign mar kets ; but to do this - with any chance of success, they have found it necessary fast to request an ulloivance of double the quantity of Salt which is now given by Statute, The North Sea and . Iceland Fishery had for some time ceased, When the Association .in the year 1812 offered to the ishermen, to secure them, IS/. a ton for she fisli•%Osich they should thus catch and cure. The Association renewed this 'offer twice Tons. Tons. • To the first instance 100 of dry salted,andao of fresh Cod. In the 2d. 'instance ditto - - 100 ditto. In the third instance - 600 - ditto - - 300 'ditto. • • • In all - 1,850 Tons of ash were taken and brought to.market in consequence of this ffer, and none of which would otherwise have item) caught. The allowances of S,,alt, duty free, had with them proceeded uninterruptedly finder the 25th Cits'i. Ili. cap: 65, Which did not at all limit the quantity of Salt for dry-salted fish. When the Associattoo, however, renewed their offer in 1814, the fishermen were, tit their - great *surprise._ directed to make their entries under the 41st Geo. 111., cap. 21st, which allows 221bs. only ; nor were they perMitted at the Excise Office Id make their entries otherwise. The 381.1rGeo. 111., cap. 89, calicoes 501 h, per cwt. for • all dry and unpacked Cud,. and.ap ars to have been intended to. relate to the curing of fish on shose only. The 41st was passed to citable. the fishermen slightly to salt fish in barrels flit- the consumption of Lon don, and so as to preserve it for about - fourteen days after its arrival. The cured fish on the Iceland station. is placed in/the hold of the vessel, and is thus salted. IT'ene fish should. not suf 6ciently take the salt, a stream of noxious fluid is produced, -which will spoil the whole cargo. The Salt is continually draining front the fish, and passes into the bilge water. Thus a much larger quantity of Salt is indisOeniably required than foe any cure on shore, Where the fish is plated in_ v ats, ' and the brine partly made. front sea-water, may, by being strengthened, he moreover repeatedly .used. Frota all that I can learn, less than 70 lbs. weight of Salt on 1 cwt. of fish were this's never used : I believe the fisher men have always used very touch more. • It is therefore scarcely necessary to add that the offer of 22 lbs. per cwt. amoutited, on the above occasion, to an absolute . proltibition. The Assilciation applied to the Lords of the Treastiry, arid en assurance was given, that if the fishermen should be pro leciasil for exceeding the_ allowance of Salt permitted by the rxcise, the proceeding should be superseded. The fishermen however, with one or two exceptistis, refused to avail them- Selees of this kind• of security, and ahandotied the Fishery altogether. lit the itsult the Committee had the mortification to find, that after inducing these men to taake preparations ous a state fully as large again as that of the preceding year, When they Caught 900 tons of fish, and after leadih; them to loco' expences of 401. or 501. in erecting stages, their at tempt was completely foiled through these obstructions from the Salt Laws. I understood that one poor fellow,. presuming that he bad been rightly informed, entered under the 41st Geo. 111. being the Sprinking Act, allowing the 22 lbs. only, and then pro ceeded to the North Sea. On his return, at Gravesend, his surplus Salt was thrown overboard by the Excise Officers on that station, under the old regulations of 12 Anne, cap. 2, and he was afterwards called upoti to account, under subse quent rtgulaticos, 'for the Salt of which he had: been thus Ignorantly deprived. • To prevent a recurrence of these inconeeniencies, the As sociation recommended that the old Acts should he repealed, Anti the regulations of the Sprinkling Act extended to this Fishery, with a specific allowance Of 70Ibs. of Salt per cwt. of fish. The suggestion was partly adopted, with the•alteration of 501bs. of Salt: ouly, which the 38 G' o. 111. had already, given, in general terms, fur unpacked and dry fish : the con sequence, I thtderstand, has been, that nut a vessel has since guise out to dry-salt fish, nor has any thui been cored, ex cept by, the dexterous expedient which I shall hereafter nos tics!. I locution it as a circumstance in illustration of the ge rie'ral principle I have further to advert to,—that this clause in the renewal of the Sprinkling Act, thus unexpectedly al tered, was made to enact, That. the olloteance by Ow said Act •prr.s - cribed shox4l be altered, so far as relates to Con', &c. cured under the authority of the said Act, by dry-salting in bulk. Any other subject might as properly have been referred to that authority. . I was told by a respectable person at Gravesend; who is the owner of loot fishing smacks, that when this Associa tion firstotade their offer, he sent a.vessel to the North seas. Jt had the misfortune to , ship a-sea; the water ran through the hatchway and spoiled about 10 bushels of his salt. On its arrival: Ire•ruentioned it to the exciseman; and then anxi ous to do every thing to satisfy hint, went to a shop at iiravess end And purchased Salt.,' duty paid, .to the amonnt of the de tcl-ency, and offered to the (Airier to throw it into the water. The exciseman said it•woold not satisfy him. His captain arts shortly afterwards served with process. ,He sent the t iptain to London. Tia, captain offered to give any proof of the fact of the n Salt having been.thus spoiled which might be required by the Ex- Oise, but could get no Satisfaction. He paid seven guineas, -which he understood were for the costs, and the matter pass : eti over. He wilts thus of course discouraged from !liaising any.other similar attempt.. - I will mention another circum stance, a hich this person told me, tending to show that no filing is too ;; i!! toe to escape this baneful vkitation. He sold others were attempting the fishery off the Dutch coast for turbots, in order to supersede the purchasing of them from the Dutch. The Dutch haVe, however, an accessible it'd abundant supply of bait. There is enough of it to be found near the Isle of Sheppey, but to keep it street it was • necessary . to salt it, which he .and the others were obliged to do with Salt duty paid; they made no application fur an allowance of Salt duty free, being well persuaded they should he refused ; and owing to this, by no means trifling article of expense, and other inconveniences not experienced by tire Dutch, they were in the end 801. minus on the average of each vessel. *. • Ilwas informed by a:fisitermart, a person of good character, whit had a vessel of his own, that the same difficulties .oc eared to him so far - hack as 1798, which the Association be - gortyo encounter in 'lBl4. When the Sprinkling Act passed, vpwilling to give up dry-salting, and having tried to do it :slith 50 lbs. of Salt, and spoiled all his fish, he and others n:sorted to an expedient, which, though nut. so employed in this case, will serve to show flue pm feet ease with which Salt roily* be smuggled by the fishermen, after all the vigilance and rigours which the Excise can .employ.. I' hey cured a part ot'the fish at the rate of 22 lbs. of Salt on a cwt. of fish, for the: London market; agreeably to the Sprinkling Act, t pey expended what Salt they thought convenient on each. cwt. of fish. As to OW other part of their cargo, b efore their rival atifravesend t hey took all the slightly salted fish out of t . e .ias - rels, sprinkled them* with Salt, passed ,off the whole , ;it, y. sa tts.d cod. andnliterned an allowance of .501bs:* of Salt ' ~rrcash ey.4.. ut fish, as welt for She sprinkled as for the dry ]. oi,al fish . zen comp:allied to me of another very serious tonveni;ltce they had to encounter from a reee:a of the4lxeua: oa,aerN au..Graveeitd.. They required tht rusher men, though they 'shbuld arrive at ally boar of the night, or on a,Sunday, or with any cargo however large, and although the fresh fish might he sickly, and minter it requisite for them to drop down into salter water, at all events, at all hazards, and notwithstanding the expellee, to discharge 'all their car goes of salt fish in twenty-four hours alter their arrival, and no longer to have the eight days which had been assigned for this purpose. The particular advantage of the Sprinkling Act, I believe, consists in its allowing the fishermen to di,charge their car goes and reeved inotediately on another trip, without in curring the delays incident to accounting - to the Eielse on every art ival. It' is a'Sirlmg illustration of the salutary effect of relaxing the Excise regulations, ,that the bulk of all the salt fish consumed by the Metropolis is now caught and cured under the provisions of this Act, allowing that facility ; and I believe the fishermen were before in the practice of throwing overboard the chief part of the fish of . which this supply of excellent food now consists., • . If the fishermen remain faithful to each other, it appears to me that they may smuggle Salt to an enormous amount with the most perfect facility, and with little hazard of de-' tection froth any vigilance and, sagacity which the Excise would be able to exercise, by simply sprinkling their slightly cured fish with Salt, and presenting 'it to the Ex-eistautin as dry-salted cod, as did thelisherman before referred to. As.to the inquiry whether sailors and poorfishermea.can take the benefit of the preSent allowanceS, it may be observed, that by the 35th Geo. HI. cap. SD., before any person cats take any Salt into his possession fur curing fish, he must give secu rity, to be approved of by the Coannissioners or the local Ex cise Authorities.. in - trelJle the value of the duty on ail his Salt. Ide way, if he pleases, accommodate any person, with a supply of his Salt, and either the presence of an Officer, or notice to hiM,is necessary in every step which is thus' taken. I am not aware of any illustration 1 can further give that point, nor is it. perhaps very necessary. • The circumstances of the loss which has beta referred to, incurred by the Assbeiation,.by Salting mackarel, are these : The Association have been in the practise of offering to se , . cure the fishermen 10s. per 120 for all the mackazel they could ' not °filet wise sell at that ,price, an offer which has had the ef fect of greatly increasing the supply 'of that fish. On the last occasion of this encouragement being given, they were, short ly before the fishery t) au, recoannended to salt tbe imsckarel they might have occasion to purchase ; a large quantity..sad-' tinily arrived, and Salt, duty paid, was expended on them : this was dune on a perfect cotiviction that the duty wonld be returned, on, the circumstances being proved.: there was of course 110 indis.posil ion nil the part of Government to this ; but on a reference to the Excise, the Association found that t hey could get no 'other satisfaction than was to be derived froat.a dry recommendation not to return the duty. In making the above statement I hope .I shall not be con sidered as presenting any thing in the character of a cunt ' plaint against any class of authority ; I am making my state meat without reserve, with the details which . have been re (wired of me, and with 'the freedom which the nature of it seems to resider necessary. The evil adverted' is a yoke which civilized Europe seems. with one consent to have -framed fir its own neck, without doubting its comeliness.aad ; so far front - supposing that the regnlallous for sccttring the duties are too rigurotts and too severe, or 11::.t too much sti ictness is exercised to ac complish the end intended, m. humble opinitm is, that nap.-- nalty can be too heavy, no discipline too rigid, to secure thie due observance of the Salt 1.-tws, to overcome the unequalled tempta - ion itt their infraction, anti that the present adminis tration of them is perfect .mildaess compared with any thiug which would completely attain that object. • = Front all the observation I ha've had an opportunitynf malting, smuggling is a matter of comparative ease, even witl+ all the care and energy that is now exercised, to. he ordinfity difficulties which the fishermen have to encounter in puas-uu tug their legitimate occupations; and that, to a serious ex tent, the evasion of these duties operates as a bounty 'to the dishonourable, and consequently, in this way, as a further discouragement to thsehonest, who are - thus placed in circum stances of unequal competition. Wish all the kindness and attention which I well know that Ciovernment.. is ever anxious to show to the welfare of the poor fishermen, 1 verily- believe, the „Fishery can never be carried on at ail under the regulations; which are indispens able, and the severity which must. be exercised to give any complete effect tie Salt Laws. lf,such an institution, so sup ported and possessing such faciliticiSas the Association,.deal ing, too, with the very sources of authority and information, has been thus interrupted atul inconvenienced, what must poor uninformed fishermen suffer, regulated by officers as ig norant as. themselves, and who can scarcely have any know ledge of the intricate regulation; which it is their duty to enforce ? .„ - • . • As to whether the.poor would be induced to use fish, if it were plentiful and good, I would state, As to ?Mir of the Metropolis 1 • In 1812 the Spital-fields Society obtained fists fromstir As sociation, and sold it to the poor Of that quarter, and so eager were they to obtain it as to resort to the shop till twelve o'clock at night, to purchase at the low terms at whit% it was offet'ed them. I understand that immense qmmtities of fish' have recently been afforded to the peor of that district, and that it has been found a most acceptable relief in the leresent emergency. The same remark Wall 'apply to the Poult• iii tar populous vicinity of, Tothill-fields, who were highly gratified with a quantity of herrings which the s issociatiotsatforded them thrmigh the Parochial Committee ; and so on grit were they for a further supply of fish, that under' the special cis- eumstances a second grant Was made of herrings for these poinspeonle, though inhabitants of the Metropolis. They are in the habit of cat hug fists; but when the poor of London ob tain it, it is generally half• rotten, and conseqn , •ntly is most unwholesonle and disgusting food. The eireninstaoces of the pour of London have lately . come less within my observation than those of the poor in the country ; but far as it has ex tended I must certainly state, that the poor of the Metropolis receive fish, if it be in a - . .Knurl , and w/oleAonie stair,' with willingness and even with avidity; and I believe that the local Ctimmittees in the-larger districts,. have teund it expedient to afford a seat of their relief iii fists during the esent exi gency. This has chiefly been in salted fish. The poor do, I believe, generally prefer fish in a salted state. As to the disposition of the poor in the country to a fish diet, I would present the following Extracts - of Communica tions from that able and excellent-philanthropist, Dr. Booker, of Dudley, Chairman of the Dudley Association,,comprising population of near 100,000 persons. " Fish slightly salted would prove Most'acCePtable indeed ! A liberal kraut of this kind front your excellent Association in the year 1812, was found to conduce much to the comfort of the poor." After distributing the fists, he writes : ", The excellent Salt Fish„with which you favoured us, supplies an additional - dole that is received with the liveliest gratitude :" again, " our portion (of fish) we are now distributing, and the gift is uni formly received with great thankfulness." From a Clergyamo at Modell. in Salop We have found it necessary to establish a cheap provision shop, at. which we have been accustomed (amin; other things) to,sell Herrings, and so great . has been the demand_ for-. 600- that we have never Sold • less than five barrels of them• iisany-one day of sale." The population of Madely is Irons 5 to 6,000. From . a Clergyman at Stoerbridge, in - Worcestershire:— " The Herrings in particular have proved it bonus to the Odor,! of tire most essential benefit.. We sold them at - a - very low and reasonable rate, on account of the extrauteindigeoce of the purchasers, and they have produced 401., which, after the expence of carriage is paid, will be laid put iii employing the poor in repairing the roads." Teiity-fit'e 'barrels . of herrings were • sent to Stourbridge. The population 'of the parish is 9,100, and 4,830 were then supported by it. Without multiplying instances, I may state, that I know of ho ease in which fists has not, in the present emergency, been an acceptable relief to the distressed. • If Fists be acceptable to the poor, and even as a matter of purchase, and at a place where no language can too strongly describe their indigence and wretchedness — if it be acceptable to the poor in the interior of the kingdom,'and •when the in ferior meat is so cheap, and to the' poor of London where it is so accessible, and where inferior joints are so low in price, arid so abundant,—it can, I think scarcely be doubted that the poor would use fish if it wet e good and plentiful. ' As to what the increase of fishermen would be, its any given time, in consequence of an a 11aneipatio.,t1 front the Salt Duties, I feel quite tot a loss even to Conjecture, when I con . sitter :he superior .'energy, ability, and enterprise of British seamen—the unequalled advantagesof our insular situation— our timers beset with countless myriads of those which arc presented to %rich men as the reward , of their tells—the ad vantages Which have been so much monopdizedby the Dutch, with means so inferior to mu own.—When, again, I advert to the undoubted necessity of a free us,e of Salt, without duty, foe rendering fish an article of trade, and the heavy respon sibility of security in treble the duty, and a ditty thirty' to forty times its intrinsic value—the toecesSalY "14116e5-of obtaining it—the strength of the temotations,to fraud—the consequent number, intricacy, and rigout.of the restrictions and regulatioes—the absointe and inevitable incompetency of the general body of those who have to expoutaand eisforce them—abe,equal ignerance of the poor fishermen vet) are to observe thee, ; and when, in particular, I advert to all the trouble trod all the 10Wwhiclethe Assacisitiob liaTa entieio terci, with all the advantages it had withiu its , power, and • . releet' how V this, and much more than this, must operate on those who are uninstructed, an.l poor and.friendless ; Rod when, after all, I hod such - an accumulation of evils, the Fisheries of our country are carried on at all,- , -what the ul tithate consequences may be of removing all of. them, by an abolition of the Salt Duties, I cannot. estimate. The present situation of the fisheries, and, as far as I have had the nteans•of observing, of all connected with them, is bad indeed. At Bridport, where - the manufacture of nets, sailcloth, &c. is carried on, the town appeared recently to be on the ere of a general bankruptcy. The popula tion is 4,000. In December, 1,200 of them, able to work, were without any employment, and those who had it obtained but 1 s. per day; 1,770 were on the parish, and the poor rates les, in the pound at - rack rent. In February they state, the poor rate had been doubled since the former period." At Harwich the poor rates were lately ils. in the pound,; at Yarmouth, 15s. -td.; at Walmar, 145.; at Deal, 15s. At Northwich, where the great Salt Works - are, the poor rates were recently, when I last heard from thence, 20s. in the pound, and all of i he above at rack rent.. The Fisheries, therefore, most urgently at this time require, as welt as merit, some substantial relief. As to, lastly, Ilow far the proposed emancipation would increase employ ment, I must refer to my answer to preceding inquiry, and add to it, that I have no doulat each vessel, for every one to whom it gives employment at sea, produces, in the various items of expenditure, and in the sale of the article, employ ment to six on land; [To be continued.] . . .SKETCH .of the. EVAPORATING REVERBERATORY .FURNACE, referred to in Messrs„ MACKINTOSH and Co.'s Memorial,,, inserted in our Last Page of !yesterday,. . • f ~/' ~, , , mmv.:_77.77.--2:: 7 1: • ~' ~ '~ '' Ir.:: I • e• C. 4 .: i ~ ,:~i A - ►rte! -47 i t • I. • .P • • `.~ A Fire-place. , . .. . . . B B Cavity of furnace. C Surface of fluid. D D Flame, smoke, and heated alt., parsing over surface of • • material§ to be evaporated, v. , likti escape along with - • the.rapOtir fornied by the chlinue,i F V. F F, Chimney stalk. • • " Aperture for feeding furnace, and. Withdrawing saline mas§ when evaporated to dryness. b Bars of grate fur furnace. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS. • - , ' On Saturday night. a galky , belonging to his MajestY's"Schormer Pioneer, at Deal, being on the at her grapnel, came 'n "rti•-blow hurridane, and' th t Ai e7g'4ley be ing struck by a sea, it washed the whole' Of the crew. m'erboaril, when th4 . .all . got hold of the ,and another, sea striking, her, she over-set, and, melancholy to relate, a Midshipman (who had •JOintd 'On -Sarmilalaftertmon), and five' seamen, were drowned ; the '„other saved . himself by• swimming on shore in St. Margaret's Bay. • Four of the bodies have been taken but the- Mid. shiPinanand the - other seaman hdye not-yet : been round. • Last week `-Mr. RICHA . RDS i thi-Engindtr at Chvhain Dock .yard, having found it.necessary to cause the large iron cylinder of the pump, used io•demw . fiff the water from the new Dock, which is workgd by ,a steam.engisie, he directed - the top I of the cylinder, which is of great weight, to be removed, and it was snspenderlin a ,manner which was thought to be Secure., - 11 r. R. having 'given the necessary, tin ections, his son, 20 years of age, looked into it, when, the fastenings gave way, and it fell upon his bead, which it nearly severed-from his s body, in sight of his agonized father. On Saturday afternoon a horrible accident ite enrred'at Mr. BEst's Brewery, whilst replacing the .heavy iron shaft of a !Acam-engine, which had been repaired: The -shaft was being hoisted into its situation' by ropes and pullies, when'hy some means it slipped, -and striking one of the men, of the name of,Purling, wjip was assisting, at the time,, the end entetvil lii3 side, crushing the rib hones near tie spine, and tearing the viscera in its frill: The it:am-tin-tate ,man was taken up enduring an agony of pain, and died, before he reached 'home. CURIOUS ROAttutt.:---Sdrne lime since ft horse thief stole'a -horse near . Steoben vine, in the following manner the•night he Went to a field, adjoining Ole mansion-hnuse; hi - which there were t wcrhorses—unezalonng 'horse, which. was difficult to catch; the other au old'one, easity caught. While-he was attempting to 7 cateliTthe young horse, the owner awoke, and listening; heard a man say to . himself---" since I cannot catch you, l'll take the old one." .The owner, know ing that the young horse 'ctitild overtake the thief, permitted him to proceed. -As soon' ; as he' was -gone, the' , oWner caught .the young horse; and . went directly, roperly armed; in pursuit• of ..the- thief. '''On -observing that he was pursued, he' left thehorse, and ran into a deserted , Cabin . by the road sider, The owner'tied Iris nag,, and followA the thief into the cabin, who had, by this time, climbcd 'to the top of the chimney; and, Jumping down, he ran to the young horse, iii brit anti mounted him, and was clear off bet t*e e owner issoed froin the cabin. Yesterday ut‘ • ,, eto the hours of eight . and nihe, the p,qter of Mr. R ,, e, ware honsennin, Cal-don' 1,174; gone to breakkst.; sonic , torci4ly en ,r, , ... it wiin an iron crow, Hon (-411 ltd off I , illibiazeetti and other good, to Luc druouht, of 14Gi. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ELOPEMENT op A -WARD IN CHANCERY.--Cap• taiu H--, late au Offi-er in his Majesty's ser• vice, appeared before the Magistrates, complain iog of the forcible (felon' ion of his daughter by ferioht a (haftstnap anti an apprentice ,an to Mr. Burgess, of Newport-strcet. Caitaiu H., it appeared, had lately quitted the army fur the purpose - of superintending the ethical ion of his daughter: He lodged in Clipstone-street, Mary lebone, and there were two ysoung women who,. resided in the same house, through whose means . the Captain's daughter, a Wald in Chancery, be came acquainted with Wright about four months back. On Sunday--lost he called to see her, arid, according to the young Lady's statement„having remained together about an hour, she was appre hensive of returning home, and preft-rred accept ing of an asylum from her, lover. He conducteti her to his nnister's house, and Mr Burgess, with a view either to the interest of his apprentice, or the reputation of 'the Lady, had her conveyed to' the house of his sister, in , which she resided . since the elopement.. Plant the officer was dig. reefed by the nagistrate to see her removed front this place of refuge to the more natural and ho nourable one of her father's residence; and, the young gentlewoman consented to the removal with some reluctance. FOIiEIGN SAILORS.—A complaint was made from Prince Esterhazy, the Au,trian Ambassador, against the tionibtr of foreign sailors who seat themselves at his door forveliet. They have au idea that the Ambassador is bound to pros isle tor them, and they say the Lord Mayor sentihem there., The Prince gave f.tirteen of them two shillings each, two or three,tlays ago, and they have multiplicd since. The parties were referred to the parish-officers.. MANSION-HOUSE: BURGLARI'.—At a very early. 'hour on Monday morning the warehouse of Messrs. Smith and Co: of Cross-lane, was broken into and plundered of a. quantity of cassia, pepper, pimento, ginger, 1118Cep cloves, :and other articles to an immense; amount. Yesterday it was (BlN:preyed thata great part of the property was in the custody of some Excise Officers at Mackwill,'Whostopped a eart is it passed along the road;upon a suspiCion that it contained contraband goods. In this opinion they were confirmed by the flight of the driver and the examination of the articles, which were after wards recognized - as the property of Messrs. Smith and Co., The officers have a clue to the driver,. and received the necessary instructions. QUEEN-SQUARE. RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS.—Anne Chesnut, a girl of thirteen years old, apprentice from the York Military Asylum, to Mr: John Loring, shoe maker, corner of Charles-street and King's -street, Westminster, and Anne Francis, a woman wha has for some time past 'swept the crossing at the corner of Downing- - street; were brought be fore the Sitting 111agistrate, Mr. FIELDING, by Cooper, the Officer, charged by the said Jolla Loring,. under the, following circumstances Mary Anne Loring, wife of.the prosecutor, stated the girl bad. been apprenticed to her ltusbautl in. Warch last for foot. years, but witness had' : lately found: the girl, stay a much longer time than was necessary when ;he . wva! to straw, waxer* at the Treasury Pump, and began to suspect she had made soore:bad connexions. A pair of child's , boots and a pit •of:thoes of the same size being. latelyntissing, witness questioned her closely eon— cerniqg them ; and she confessed that she had taken and given them to the Ivon,an above ntentioned. Mr. Fielding reproached the Wopran very severely. for the infamy- of her conduct, in sedueing a .child to become a thief. Prisoner was remanded for a . . week, and the sent home again with her mis— tress, with an admonition to be careful as to her future . conduct. CHESHIRE Assizes... 4( affords us much qatis— faction - to state, that the progress.of crime ,with r in this county, since our last assize, bears not the' slightest comparison with that .which was made during the same period twelve months ago. There are, at present, only twenty-five prisoners for trial ; but,, at the last Summer Assize, the num.- her 'that was tried approached to 'nearly sixty ! Delinquency, therefore, it appears, has undergone' a very 'considerable diminution.—(Chester paper.) SWINDLING.—On Tuesday last it mail' went to the Agents of the Belfast Linen Company, Great Russell-street, 'Bloomsbury, and said he was bent by his master, Colonel Collett, for two pieces of Irish linen, which he desired to be sent to Slaugh tei's Coffee-house, St. Martin's-lane, with change tor,:a 201.• note. The- Agents sent the linen and change by one of their Shopmen, accompanied by the ,man, to the coffee-house, and when arfived there ; the man went into the coffee-house with the cloth and - change, which amounted to 101. !Ss., leaving . the shopman at the entrance, and, aftec remaining some time,- came out and desired the thoptnan . to get a receipt. When he returned the man had-decamped with the change. On inquiry at the bar; the. :shoptuan found t he- man had left the linen there, saying, it was for Colonel Col lett. The bar-maid not !mowing such a person, declined taking; it in till be said the Colonel would ca n for i t . The swiodler , is a young man * with a wore 3 blue frock coat, and has famuchirc 6 .1 ntite p p leppxirc7iircince of a groom. m AERIE D. On Saturday last, John Wythe, Esq. to Ann, eldest daugh terof the Hun. General Sir Brydges Trecothick Henniker, Bart. deceased, and sister of the present Baronet. Yesterday, at Hornsey, Richard Holland Goode, - Esq. of Allesley, Warwickshire, to Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of Anthony Parkin, Esq. of Great Ormond-street. ~_ ""~` i , :~ DIED, On Tuesday last, in OW Burlington-street, Miss Margaret More, third daughter of the late William More, of Caldwell, Esq: one Of the liarons of the Exehequer torSeutland. Ul> the 14th instant,-at the residence of his brother, on Laurence-Pountney-hill, Robert, youngest son of ,lames Thompson, Esq. of Grayrigg, Westmoreland, aged 15 years. .• . .. . LONDON: Printed by J. II.CARSTAIRS, of :kiill.. 29, Great Ormond-street, •Queen-square; and - published by W. A. SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Molton-street, at .".ritz 'SUN ()Wee, No. 112, Strand; where Adyettiseruents, Orders, Letters, &c. (post-paid) must be addressed. I 1 T' nat on en lUCA COPI perio4 Pa ,trt t h furl le in P and irate: but ; cf S steitlt it, 0' t' NC cj reu 1 sno • rr Nig sets rltt Lai IV a sto! thc the Cl; :8