The Sun. — London, England, 1817-07-31 00:00:00

i't-toIiCSALs AND .REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO THE ROYAL NAVY', 14AD'E 8Y THE BOXIirY OF TIMIRALT'f, ANL) SANC -1-I,)NED I OEI)E1.1 IN COUNCIL, COM.:,!ENCING ON THE AST OF J.‘tiCARY, 1817. It ‘v” to be expected, that, in th'e lapse of time, and still inore, in the course of a war, 'on 'exiitnpled in duration and extent, 'several varia tions-fp ow the old otabl;shinent 'And TegOlations Of the RoYal Navy shoUld'hd%;i: Olsen pliice . ; and how:;v;A: desirable, in the'vieN either of 'economy nr convviikace s nnifohnity may be,. it %vas impos iihie, (hiring ;tie Fcs ,, nre of ‘.V3l',, to resist the innovations temporal circ'nnistatire's I't 111 d tiecesary, 61; to remould and reform the whole syteni of the Navy, on every occasion On Which s,on6 alte'ration introduced.' We diet( fore find 11,at there have grown tip se eral inconsistencies, irregularities, and departures froni t ystAlishinents, in 'particular articles of the naval service ; and as we think this a favour able occaSrion . for endeavouring to remedy the in- ConVenienCe ises Iron) these irregniarities, and to reduce', as 'far as may be pacticable, the several alterations which 114 ye been made, into one regtaar system, we most humbly`beg leave to sub !nit lo'yotrr Royal 1-lighness's gracious c6n,idera tion the tollowing observations and propositions, on the rates, classification, and schemes of arming and manning his M 4 jesty's ships ; and on 4 - 1 .2t7:' 1 3". trAiligs, and numb:As of the officers and tva, rant aml u iissioned Officers of his Alt - I . o . q . 'y'i Navy and Rciyal iNii-irines, and the estAlishwelit of the compatiies af Royal Mariae tifilrry. I. The post.ships of the Iloyal Navy are aisided into six rates; he.,iiles which, there are the Various Classes of sloops, fire-ships, booths. gun-vessels, yachts, schooners, and cutters. . . iLe division of ?be Royal S;jivy into six rates took place in the reign of King Charles the First, a 0 a at that period, and for several years afterwards, these rates included the•whii!e Navy: In%the rein of King Charles the Second, the sloops, fire -3hips:ml yachts, becalm- distingqished front the six,th ratts. At the 'Bev., the' rates CO:uprise& neatly the same elassjs of ships w ich they now do, except that 11w sixth _rate sti ipclutied, reit;ls of a less number of guns than tweilty. In the sear 1719, a general establishment for building was adopted, which hoWever was not long adhered to. In 17:33, a scheme of manning and armament, ut gunning, as it was-called, was proposed, but the latter was not adopted till the }Tar 171.2, and then only as applying to ships built since'l7,lo.. In T 742, the ships - of 20 guns, of the sixth rate, were in creased to 24 guns, and 11i0, morn, and this became for the time the lowest class of post-ships. In the year 17.15, the Board of Admiralty, observing' that " no'csiablishment or regulation for budding ships had been madt.sinee the year 1.719, , Which. had been-long discontinued; that instead thereof ships had been built according to parti cular' schenieS and proportions, wirnunt any standar'd or nni - foriultv ; those of the saute rate being often of unequal - dimen sums, so that tbe stores and furniture of one would not suit mint Lier of the same doss,--a matter of infinite inconvenience in point of service, as well as the occashni. - of extravagance in point ofrexpente,&c.;" directed a Conimittet composed of all tiag-otlicers . in:employed, of the Commissioners of the Navy who were ser., oflicers, under the presidency of Sir 3olio N tins, Admiral of the Fleet, and assisted by all the master ship wrights, to consider and propose proper establishments of guns ' men, scanting of timbet s, masts, yards, stores, &c., for each rite at class of his Majesty's ships. This Cuilimittee made. a very elaborate report, and the was established by Order in Council of his Aiajesty' ---ktiog George the Second, on the -27th of March, 174G.' By ti is estalilist4ment, ttic , rates, arroaateat, and,compte.:. 'mitts, of his Majesty's ships, were to Le a§ RatC. Guns. Dien. Rate. ( ur s. Men. 1 -.... 100 850 or 750 2 00 750 01 660 2 . j 30.. 650 or 600 • • • . 70.. : .520 or 460 4 1 .4,20 or 380 t 150 850 or 5280 5 .... 44... .280 or 220 6 24. * . . 100 or 140 On this tstablishotedt, it is to be . obsrrved, that the 80- gnn ships on the t bird rate were on three decks,: and that the Board of Admiralty had suggested ro the Committee the ex pedieneyof substituting . , instead of this class, shills of 74 guns on two decks and a half, a proposition deeidedly rejected by tltk Commttter. A ehoet period only had however elapsed, before a very striking instance was given,' both of the way in which innova tions are pr. daced, and of the impossibility cf resisting them; for, en the 3d of - February, 1747, the Board of Admit City ac quainted his Majesty, that, " the French ship Invincible, , lately captured, was found to be ger than his Majesty's ships of 90 guns, and 7a) men ; and suggested that this ship, and all other prizes of the like class, and also his Majesty's ships of 00 . guos, ,wlien reduced to two decks and a half, and 74 guns, should be allowed a coMplement of 700 men ;" and, in 17..8, the hoard represented to the King in Council, that the ships built according to the representations of the Coin- Plitli't had not answered their expectations, and they there fore, prayed his Majesty's sanction for departing, in new ships abont to he built, from the forms MO models so lately estab lished. This was.granted, but not till the Board had been called upon h the Council, to lay before it a particular ac count of the alterations and variations designed ; and on se veral subs:l'llOn occasions; in which - the said establishment Was departed from, a minute detail of the variation was pre t•iou submitted for the approbation of his Majesty ill - We the rather notice these particulars, to show the dif ficulty, not to say the impossibility, of establishing and ad hering to any fixed forms or scantlings, on which subject.xe shall humbly submit some observations licreaNr. _ Stibsegnent to this period ; the introdi?etion of 7.l's appears to have gradually ad'anced, as well as of frigates of interme diate sizes, between 44's and 24's; fur, in the latter end of the reign of King George. the Second, the classes of iships comprised in the-set-el - al rates were as fopow, viz.:— -Ist Rate - - 100 Guns. 15th Rate - - 44 Guns. 4(1 Hate - 90 ad Rafe - SO - 74 36 - 70 --- fqii Rate - - 30 - 4th Rate - - 60 20 - During the whole of the prr;od hereinhefore referred to, and intiteu ,i , wn to 1793, the force of tit': ships was stated from the act nal number of eons they really carried; bat the introducti , m* of carroundes, which began partially in 1772, and which was finally adopted on the present extended scale in the Navy, during the course of the first revolutionary war, increased the armament of the vessels, as they ;were - found able to carry a greater number of carronadcs than the guns in whose stead they were adopted, so that the real force of the ships has no longer corresponded with their nominal force and that principle of variation being once adinitted, ships have since that time received denominations as to their num lima gulls, often, we believe, capriciously, and in one or two classes only, of the whole Nary, agreeing with their real force. • few instances will show your - Royal Highness the incon sistencies into whichjhis deviation from the old rules of the service has led. The c;aledonia, rated 120 guns, carries 120 gtins ; while the Hibernia, a ship of nearly the saute dimensions, which car-, ries exactly the same number of -guns, is rated only at 110 b e ing a less number by 4 tikaii that at which the San Jeseph is rated, though the furratirhas in fact 10 guns wore tliati the latter. all ships of the second rate, though rated as 98,, carry up cards of 100 guns, and they have all more guns than the. St. Gjdrge, Itrst rate, which is rated and carries 100 guns; and they onght all, tirereforc, according to the established regula tioos, to he included in the first rate, and there are in fact no real second rates, viz.- three-dickers of be,ttt ern 90 and too guns, at., present existing in the • Royal Navy, in a sea going-condition. in the tltiol rate, some of the ships rated at 80 inns carry ntvir 90, ani: nthcrs rated as 74 carry SO guns, but the Ilia jofity of the same denomination carry 74, and this is one of the...very few t eases inwl,ieh the real nominal force agree. to the fourth rate, of the ships rated at 80 guns, one class Mint on two decks) carries 58 guns, another (that on one deck) carries 60 and upwards. • In the fifth rate there are three frigates rated as of 44 guns, !tamely, the Sybille, taken front the French, which carries 43 gnn the aftralscr, wlll•cli_c_artics 60 guns: • .andh he late Ameiican ship President, the g[l:li mounted in whith, on the day of her capture', were- 64, besides one 42-,' pounder howitzer. The frigates rated at 40 guns carry 50, and those rated-aL 38 Orrry 46 And upwards, Thi• majority ot.t,lioe rated.at 3d guns carry 44, and som e . of those rated ar32'Caia y 4fl!tud• 4S, being more than others that are rated at Att and -38. - • ' . Simile,. differences between the real and the nominal amount of force exist in the fifth rate, but it it unnecthary ta srecify the details. . . . trust 'ere shall tie ckcus . rd for observi n g to your noyal:;.. Highness th•tt it is wholly unworthy the-ehar.aeter of the lluyal Navy of tY is hr.gdom to maintain this systeni, which, though ittrodui..%ed by the'aceidental cause we have mentioned, and •1 without any tit-sig . :loA' decerioti, yet may give. occasion -tor 1 .foreigir nations t aCCO,t, us of inisr2presentation, sklien.we state that it,Thitish fiii:ate of 3,.; ;Tins has taken a Iffeign fri gate of 44, When, in tact, the rirtisli.frigate was of equal, if not _superior force., . • therefore recomnivlid, lhat - yinir Itoyal Iligh . ness he pl•asetl to oreke, that the role for sLiting the force of leis si‘Lijesty's ships, winch rev:lilvtl prior to tire: year 1793, and wilien, in 1.1 L:, txter was forinAlly io)ro,::ate;tl, should be rcsit'ed and est:11)6;11...1; 411(1 11,1.10 furore ail Ins i)lajesty's ships should he rated at the nuinlier of guns and cal - to/lades...whit:ll.olu actually carry, WI tilt ir decks, q1.1:11-_ ter-decks, and forecastles. The recurrence to dais ancient practice of the service will render some slight variation. as to the limits'of some: of the rates themselves, necessary; and we therefore humbly pro pose that the following scales of rates be adopted The first rate t? include all 3-dechers, itiasintich as nil sea going ships of that description carry too guns and upwaids. The second rate to . include all ships of 8U guns and up wards, on two decks. The third rate to include all ships of 70 or upwards, and, less - than 80 guns. - • ' • • fourthirate to include all ships of 50 and,npwards, hut less than 70 guns. The &fth rate to include all ships from 3(7 to 50 guns.. The sixth rate to include all ships trout 1 4 to 36 5 guns. Though, by this regulation, no ship toolfr 24guns will' hereatter he a past ship, we, in pursuance .ot the ancient practice of the service, iiropose that all his Majesty's yachts Should be considerektas post ships, and shouid see eaten, one, as a second rate, and the rest. as third rates, out with such complements as we snay apoint. It is necessary here to stair, that several sloops are now rated as post ships, and vice versa; and as much neconve-i -ence to toe oit eel- - who may'he in the command of such slips, and much embarrassment to the public service, would arise, if the present rates-of sueh vessels were to be immediately changed, we submit-to your li2ey,te iiighuess that with regal ft -to any such vessels at present . in eamission, this new ar- Yangenient shall,nut ap; I toil,' shall he paid off, or un til some otherlavourabee opportunity shall offer of ',facing them in their proper' rates• Yoar Royal Highness will observe that this scheme differs very little from that which, gi own into use, and slid less from the last establishment (that of 174 U), which had toe sanction of his Majesty in cuancil, and which, strictly speak 7 ing, may be said to be still in force. We beg leave farther to represent to your Royal IlighnesS that the schemes for manning his Majesty's ships have,'lront the causes already refet red td.with regard to the gulls, and: front accidental and ten‘purary circumstances, become so very varions p thatthough th'ese six rates were originally in tended to regulate, amongst other things, the amount of the respective complements, there exist at this moment not fewer than twenty-nine different scales for towelling, the ships of the six rates; the third rate alone-ineltiding set en distinct cunt- plements. It were to be desired that all this variety and irregularity should be abolished; but we have seen that, .so early as the year 1741 i, there were ief schemes of manning, and the variety of ships which hare been from time to time built or - captured (which though they may fall tender the sione.rate,- are yet of very different sizes) render perfect uniformity in this point impracticable : we are, however, of opinion, .wt mature cone sideration, that this variety "may he re,y touch di m i n i s h e d ; and that two, and, in one or two rates, three schemes of manning, in each rate, will be round to answer all the prac tical pqrposes . ot the service, and will tend to- simplify the system, by thus reducing the twenty-nine schemes before rnentioired-to 15 or 14. • `We therefore submit for your Royal Highness's gracious approbation, that the following be the may. cumplcluetils-to be hereafter allowed to the several rates of his Majesty's ships an,t vessels : Ist.rate 900, 850, or 800 Men. f 4th rate .... 450 or 3r.:0 bleu. ed ditto 700 or 11(1. 1 j iil~ ditto.— 300 or 2SO Sd ditto 00 or dOO t)th ditto 175,146, or 1-25. Of sloops there are so many varieties, that we cannot pro pose to reduce the eight schemes of complement note• existing, to less titan four, as folloky, vik.isioopS,. 133, 10, 96, and 7 5 men. Brigs (not sloops), cutters, sehnorirrs. and bombs, we pro pose to reduce Irmo. .ten .schemes of .complement , to two, namely, 60 or .50 men. Ansi we also propose that for-small craft, which may not require so large-a complement as 50--inen, we may-be-autho rised to assign such a compleareut as .%vct May deem necessary. As there are no longer any regularAre , ships in the-service, we humbly propose that., whenever it may become necessary r to fit out any - vessels of this description, we may be lint he rized to assign to-them such- complement of oiheers and men,. together with the pay of such rate or class, as the size of the vessel employed, or the nature of the particular service, tray render expedient. We farther propose,- that .when. it shall be necessary to fit out troop ships, we may he authorized to assign to them such rates and complements as may. seem proper. By these regulations, the forty-seven varieties of"eomple ments, now in use in the [lacy, will be reduced to twenty. Having thus submilteol to your itoyal Highness our 'pro positions for the rating and manning of his Majesty's ships, it is next our duty to state, that, the varieties in the, rigging and arming of ships are at least as great as in the comple ments; the irregularities and deviations from establishment in regard to the Torus. scantling, &c. of his Majesty's ships, complained of in 1745, are now exceedingly increased, and are of much more serious injury to the service, both in re spect to convenience and economy. It is obvious that the extra expence of providing masts., yards, rigging, and stores of various dimensions, for ships of the same actual .force, must be very great; because, if not required for the particular ship.for which they were originally prepared, they are either useless, or must be altered to fit sonic other ship at a great loss of labour, time, and materials; and, in cases of accident or urgency, this variety disables the ships from assisting each other: and it requires that.t he naval at serials, both at home and abroad . , should he furnished,. ht a very great expence, with a notch larger assortment of these articles than would be necessary if they could he made more generally applicable to the probable wants of the whole fleet; this will be explatsied to your Royal HighneSs more forcibly, by stating that for the single class of ships of the third rate, called 74's, there were lately not less than serer 'different schemes of wasting and rigging ; and that a squadron might be composed of seven vessels of this force, which could not properly employ one another's-spare :pars, and Sails, - and for each of which the dock-yards must necessarily have their in dividual gear. Itis in this particular. above all others, that uniformity would be desiraole; but the experience of what occurred 1131 7 . mediately after the establishment of 1746, as we have already stated, and of all subsequent times, shows that it is unfortu nately unattainable the varieties - of ships produced by suc cessive endeavours toimprove our models, and still more-the great numbers of ships of all classes which have been captured from the variotis enemies With whom we have been at war, render any scheme of perfect - uniformity impracticable ; omit this very important subject has not escaped our consideration. We have, in cinjUnction with the Navy Board, and with the assistance : of a Committee of experienced sea office rs , taheu measures fur pushing this principle of uniformity as far as the nature of the case would allow; and though the experience of what has occurred •ow former occasions dis suedes us from atteeipting to establish, by the approbation and sanction of your Royal Highness in Council, minute de tails of the forms,lines,and scantlings of kis Majesty's ships, -we have the satisfaction of stating that a system of gradual assimilation is in progress, and that we hope to see it every day become - of more extensive operation, and inure practical utility; and we beg leave humbly to assureyoucßayal High_ tiess, tl:at no efforts shall be,spared, on our parts, to prevent for the future, any unnecessary deviation front the establish ments of rigging ansi armament, and to reduce the varia tions which exist t o as f e w Cl as s e s as possible. W now proceed• to sobinit to your Royal Highness some observations on-the present mode of calculating the sea-pay of the officers and men of the fleet. The pay of all classes in the service is liableto certain per manent deductions; and the pay of commissioned and war rant officers receives a very considerable addition, under the name of compensation ; so that the rates of pay stated in the pay table would give a very 'erroneous .idea of the actual pay of the several classes. • - . . , . _ But the present system is also liable . to other and more se rious objections; fur these tkduetions, frow cattses which are no;' la:catric utsukie, effect tL aiitert'ilt clalshs iire go • . . • ~„ Thus, I:lleAcduction from the pay of a post captain, cos - tuandilig'i ship- who‘e complement may be 215 men,. is 4s. -3d.. Ter loaosem,. while Iltat ,frow,the pay of all captains of sinallcy post, ships, ;001 of a I couiniondt rs", is 4s. 9d. ; while the .de ouction from the still inietiur pay s of lientcosnts, sad IpaSyg.ri is a'ssntt ch as from Us. t 0 '7s. Pd. per ma liSeM ; and while dedUction.; from .at gupoer or. boatswain of a first rate are ss. pd., those from the carpetit!‘r are (is. The Addition, byway of compensation, Itas an equany ir tegOlsfr :effect. [To be coiltiatletl.l' - ES,l.',7c. ASSIZES. Cqi.t..msFoßti, .ILtr.t'2g . .-=-The Sionmet Assizes for ihe county. I,f • ,commenced ttCfC yesur (l3y bctut'e Lni „the Side, and 11.1:-..Tuktice DALLAs in the Civil Sine.— Ji.dgesattended divinesee- Viet , ; 10 - trr they peoceeded tti' open the. an,l this Allot ning they cominenced the business of the, A s§i4e, CIVIL THE KING V. THE INHABITANTS OP . cinOwELL This was 39 indietthent 'against the tiefendan for. not keepin' in repair a certain' publk wa'y leading from Woodford-bridge through . the fore.t of I.lainault to Chigwell-roiv,: in the• cie tendants' The 'trial lasted nearly the whole day, and the principal question was, ‘vhether the road in ques tion was; according:to the Lilignage of the indiet ment, a iniblic _high way for time immemorial, used hy Hu! King's subjects to-pass t hre)tigh and along at all times, with carts, waggons,, and carriages. Front the evidence it appeared that the highway in question was ordy,a fair-weather yoad r and bad never been treated by the defendants as a public highway, which, they were liable to keep :in repair. There was nothing of general interest in the case, and the Jury, nnder the Learned Judges di rections, found the defendants.—Nnt Guilty. Several undefended causes were disposed of, and at five o'clock the . court adjourned till to rnotrow morning at nine o'clock.. . Tie number of causes entered for trial was 28 and in the crown 'Court the number of prisoners. in the caletadar did not . exceed .70. CROWN SIDE.-ELSINGHAM GANG. William Welsh,. one of, .the . desperate gang, several of whom were convicted at the last Assizes, Was indicted for maliciously shooting at James Dennis, at Elsingham,on the 39th of SFptekuber last. . • The prisoner was, part of a desperate vng who committed several robberies and burglaries in this county. The — koseciftor; rtlr.•DenniS; a farmer, resident at' El.:41101 1m ; i, this* connty; stated, that on the night of the 30th of September last, about twelve o'clock, after liis family bad retired to bed, he 4a§ alarmed at t noise as foreing - one of his lower Windows, upon which :l ie t Al p and SaV. , several then iiithei;anl: Ile liallbgetFOut " Who is ithere . ?" UP ,. .;ti which one of . Cie•tit c3;eldimed, " buirt‘r, we wilt let you knoVv.' . ' " fire at von," and Callen up his u!an. Soon alter 1 1 :s maid NON, nnti Le vent down livlbw, wh ' er;'Ll . ;:tta or pistol was fired a t tile dow :,huiter, and two shots came through the creche of the shutter, and st6icli under the eye and near th,.e no , ;e: he could'uot identily any of the parties, but he saw that •there were several men. Tire t:vo xr:toesses who detaile&the whole trans.: actmn were, Eliz.tbeth Clark and Thomas inert ; • the formei• of win was the mother of one of t h e men who . ‘yas hanged offer the last Assizes. They stated that, on the night of the 30th of September las!, personS•Of the names of Miller, ann., Wm. Chi ke, and James! Clarke, together With the wit nessMert, met at Ilanly, at old Clarke's house, on the night ti! 30th'of SepteMber, and having there blacked' their faces, they went out to commit depredations, and in 'pursuance of that plan they went to the prosecutor's. There one of them attempted to force open a parlour window' with a plotighshare which disturbed the family. Merl then corroborated the statement of the prosecutor, that he appeared at the , window, when Welsh snap ped the pistol, which . Missed fire twice, but On the third attempt it went off. Upon the firing of the pistol a man of the name of James Pearce came up, who questioned them, but they told him to hold his totigne, or he should fare worse, but if he went away quietly they would not hurt him.— Pearce corroborated this part of the statement, and he thought it prudent to retire. When they re turned to Clarke's house, Mrs. Clarke advised thei - n to bury the pistol and dark lanterns, which they laid irl'an adjoining orchard ; they did so, and the constable proved that he found the pistol but ied in the place that Mrs. Clarke had described. These facts being proved, which was the same evidence given against others of the gang last Assizes, the Jury found the prisoner—Guitty. FIRE IN WATER LOO• PLACE.-YeSltretay even ing, about six o'clock, a tire was discovered to have broke out in a house lyeloning to Mr. Dut ton, in the new street opposite Carlton•house, the north-west corner of Waterloo-place. The tire was seen by a boy in the square, who Aave. t h e A l a rin to the workmen, who had not left .the premises adjoining-. They sent off .for the. en gines, and endeavoured to get into the house, but f ou nd the doors and wintlows fastened. They broke open the door, and %i cot up .stairs ; in a room on the same floor, where the Gaines were raging, they :found Mrs. Jennings, the wife of the. Clerk of the Works, and .her children, unconscious of their danger. They were got out of the house, aed i n a few minutes the t.t.Jaities's engine ar rived, next the British and Imperial, and in a short time about twenty others. Eight engines were playing on the house at one time: It was completely unroofed, however, bctore the tire was extinguished. Mr: Jeuning9, the Cleik of: the Works, and his family, were allowed to live in the upper part Ofthe house, while the work men were finishinolre lover part. A fire had been left. burning in the room, which communi cated to a piece of .timber,, and fro.% thence to the mantle-piece, - till the whole was on fire, On Monday the 21st instant Ayr jail was•again broken, and three of the prisoners escaped. These three prisoners were confined in the versTstrongest rootn:of the prison,nisnally called the condemned cell. POLICE IN rEi.LIGENCE, A. it DEN. • • tURII.I . 03 esterfay TT i?lic`n •Al 0;,7t11 ,* •' a • emaciated, Shairby-loo;,log about. fifty ji,r.e*s . ot age, with i 4 past foremost,,was charged by [Jew:: I - lotsey, • hachu'. - ...YCOachan, t te'r a udi ng; filth Of his fare.-• when' put _to the bat', burSt oat into. a •fk of hughter jug about., and rnlibing his hauzl3. Jie listerted Lei V ccuppose'dly tie the charge. Complaiutiut satd,'• l ' that' about elcvvn o'clock ou Sunday night, the ;•r.: prison er .ea,lied hiti coach 1)11 11ie stand: ittliolboru i ,,,, opposite -llatton-ljarden, wht n, he ordeyetl I , rfinairt t 0 drive to Tato:ha:l. Cost%idainacit him that Viti*hall was hin ntwrl Oil Sunda7 Jhe putioner at t swereii, 4 ' , No r ; drive :I R: C,,lopi,inaut mount t.d his box, anti, "drove . tO the Circus ; tvl;er, the prisoner had no 'money to 1,-y the toil, ke . "' consulted the toll=coilecita v:hiat .was hest :- to do, and he advised . Witness to p; . ,;;;_:ad o er, hut to drive - back 't6 his yird, 'advice witness complied, and there-gave charge of the prisoner, who was lodged in the wateb-house,„ which he afterwards partly .destroyed. tract:--" Why, you. must be •as great a fool ai him. What wade you take such . a man into your coach ? ['he toll-colkctor acted the tvise..t."--• wors4ip, it was between and - dai!s when liegot - ioto the coach, I could not tell, what kind of person 1 had got,• and I was - he would stiromons me fot -refus,ing . hi m ." Ma gistrate—"Yrisotter, what is y; - ,tir name " The ,11:on. Wm Moody." Magistratc.—" What are von ?" • A. M. I'. Member of Parliame!it " Magistr,-,te.—" What • took • you to- 'Vauxhall ?" A. Pleasure," Magistrate.-- Where do yort live ?," I keep theAVoolpack "l'avera, Jewin-street, and the Albion Tartrii, in Alder's gate-street." Magistrate.—" What business: are you 1" A.—" An engraver." ALlgistrate....... Coachman, • I am afraid you have got" a I;a4 customer; th e , prisol:cr isvisi' ,, ; y derang..d. charge.him." Prisoner.—" ! ha! ha! I ttiil go and get another coach, and take toy pleasure." Set t his.old wig, , lie walked out laughing •auti taking snuff. / 11 . 1 ILLBOROUGH-STR E ET. • . , FRAtin.—Ann Jones wa4 charged with falsch° . asstroning to b e th e w id ow o f a clerg,yonan, thereby endeavouring to impose on Genernl Brown. The:poisoner called ,upon the Genes a!, in Sackvilie-street, and stated herself to be tist tvidow , of a clergyman in distress. She had with her 'a' Verition . signed with . mrtny b'ames. Tire son e r gave an address where she.,state! - 1 she re— sided, and the Geaeral, in order to,aseertain the extent of her alleged distr6s . , iipiminted h er t o 611 - again, i wiiiist; in' the interim, he made ries respecting her. He found out that the sone! . had.impied ',Ton him, and given a fi tows address, ` and he had her secured vt - 11.211 she c:7,l!Cd 'l3l;a hi.-=the prisaher was remanded. • ri"ost's-FIALL, A • fellow of the tole 01 George Oliver was clwae,A2.l 17 St lIIS ith Val/1)111g her ‘rith a si,rl) instiament in the witi) intent' tfi take filer prisosier committed for further enamioatio,,, SWINDLIRG.—On Tiresday a man dres , ed bittact went to the home of ihe SPEAKEr haste, -- saying . -he came from Mr. •I'loonas'S, ti,e % butcher, in Charing-cross, and gsserti, , lg t r it ' l( —Lt.! leg.of mutton had been setit there by mistake,- : which •evas intended for tuot-her eustoitter, and be must have it again. The conk, at first refused let him have it, but the man persisting, s at length so thoughtless as to unspit the leg . of 'utton, and let him have it. The same Mein to tie Ilishop of Lincoln's house, in - Great, Ge orge -street, and obtained a leg of fituttia der a similar pretence. He went to another e ns.: tomer of ,Mr. Thomas's, in Great G etirge - street -, where he obtained a piece of beet. The servants waited till their patience was _exhausted for other joints to be sent in the - room' of those taken away-, and, the ,dinner time at.proaching, they sent to• Mr.. Thomas's shop 'in Charing-Cros s , w h en . t h, trainl was discovered. SUDDEN DEATH..—.OO Fliaday last a poor blipd woman, led by her daughter, a girl :o.)our 18 ye-its of age, was passing through a Court in Whit•rlia-: pel, when the daughter was taktn stiddetthiMio., and sat down upon a st cp,where,Tlasping. her arts round the neck of ht . ! . agooked paint, she vx- i verdict of Xaticial wed without a groan.-- - A CoroneCs Jory sat upon the body broil - gilt in Death. Thi s morn i ng , .in our market, pctarnes werg sold at 2s. and green Puns 38. rr pe c k ; sir es_ berries lA. 6d. per pint.---There were 91 carts- of , vcgetiables in the Inarliet..—(Edinburgh C'ourard, Ju1y.2.6.) • COAL ,1,111-I , :ET, • Tui, t . 30. Ships at MArket. - Shills sold. Price. 1 .2 • . • 3 . 154 Newcastte ..... .••• .• . 4 ..... . • •29 , . 4 :) , I. to 4 . Ott. 2 Scotcli C0a1... • .• • •• • • • I ..... • .375. od. to --'-s. (4.• 1 , 111 t111!.;. , . On Tnesday last, in .Andie Y-square, the Lady of Lienttqihnt- Colonc,itirownrigg,r ot . . .‘.: Sontbanytotip the Lady of Captain F. 'Thomas, R.N. of a son. NI.A,:tRI New Church, witltams, of l'i" 4 " ru '',, s ;rvet., t;tlest. : bot: of the lato tV O il:::o a i t \ t 'v l: il l' i l t Y lt i t a t : : 'l4 : t t•t i tf u t .‘ :: - e. 1 :; : ;;: i t::: t i.hollse, to ,S,:rah, 4111 daughter of.the [ate I.WhiLe f Esq. of L.lingion." • ' • A few days since, . 1011 11 Sithirtr, Esq. of the 21st Regiment o f -F on t,•to tintry Tavlor: secunkL daug:itee of 11r. W. TAYIor, surg.ef:), Great Yartnuath. DI ED. Lately, sincerely nod deeply regretted, Mrs. Brown, atit*S of Mr. Matthew liroad,vo: , .o, of Oxvidon•strtet. On the 19th of January last, at Calcutta, IVil:intu • Lately, at Chichester, the wife of Dr. Parson, of Doctors' Cuminoits. --- en the , 22d i list. at Larerton, Somersetshire, the nor. Wm. Borl:triWKentr.., in the •tsth year of his age, froth a rupture of a blood vessel in the lungs. 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