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Mr. CHURCHILL, as the senior Middlesex Magis-
trate, was in the chair; and Mr. Ails, senior, his
four sons, and the whole of the sei saws of the isri-
son, were closely examined. It turned out. its 'anted
above, that the two prisoners were not suppameil to
know each other ; and that the whole of the gates
leading Guru the confinement of Roberti, six in
number. were found open in the timeline, they
having been made fast at Incling-up time on the
preceding night. The Prisoners then made their
escape over the wall, by ascending 0 new 1041ge io
the prison, not yet finislwd ; and when at the top
of the wall, they were supposed to have let tbetnielves
down by a rope, as a hook was found in the morn-
ing by *Daniel Ans, the goatees son.

The most important witness was a youth of the
weave of Nlacar. or Nl,Gar, who stal•nl some eon-
!mum' which he had tiverhelrel betwixt Daniel
Aril and Rohm t Roberts. This youth WAS an et i-
deuce against a party of burglars, and hi. testimony
relative to this affair. with other circumstances of
corroborations temliog to implicate D. Aria sl•b haw-
iug been privy to the escape of the prisoners. in-
duced the Magistrates toettiontit him to New Prison
for trial, fur aiding and abetting in such escape.
It turned out that Roberts had been indulged
with walking is the garden •cre•the prison. after he
had been lucked op 111 the evening, as usual, at the
same time as the oilier prisoner•. Neither of the
watchmen could give any satisfactory account of
the business.

The invetrigstilst closed with lb • savendiog of
Avis. the gaol-keeper: the eomnsit IA of thliirt A
hts son. Ur &limy, and the dismiss.% of member of
Aries sous, who was a turnkey.
Mr. Newport, from New Prison, Clerkelwell,
is appointed successor to Aria, at the Cohl-buthe
Gelds prison.
The youth who gave evidence again.t Moir!
Ari% was committed to Tuthill-601i Blidewell,
sui to be kept private.

Nu clue has yet bee■ ha I of Robert• or II leper.
The evidence ageing' Robert... frisbee to the for-
g. upon the Wink, was quite anil
woman he cohabited with was admitted an eviili.tice
in the blinitic4s. It would defeat the rude of justice
to publish the particulars of Roberti., rzatni-
patios*, loiterers! other persons are involved so the
busiorsa, who cannot at present he found.

A very violent storm of thunder. lightning. and
rail,. visited this metropolis last ni4lit shoot eleven
o'clock. The rain descended in torrents. the light-
ning was extremely vivid, and the thunder treinen-
doudy loud.
The preparations for Bartholomew Fair com-
menced lasi with. if possible, more than
usual bustle: the reiterated strokes of the ha tamer
from all quarters " gave dreadful note of pre-
paration."
Mr. FARQUH4IISO% and Mr. RIMARD P01.1.:11
have uoidersiten, for a very considerable bet, to kill
Su bruer of partridges on the 14 of September. •iirl
hove chosen Mr. FAItyVHAILION'S Manor at Gren-
ville to decide it upon. No event has prohibk oc-
casioned Ott much interest in the sporting world as
the ',rest G to 4 in their favour.
The high Sheriff of the county of Mayo. in com-
pliance with a re.pisition oi4tte.l Iry some of the
most distingsli%hed Protestant Landholders of the
comity, has tixrd a Meeting of tb' Gentleman, itc.
of the county. for the 17th S"pte nlber. to consider
the propriety of forwarding the Catholic Claims.

Lord and Lady Gatv, and all their family, have
been visiting tile Lakes of Westmoreland, and
went several das at Low Wood, no the banks of
‘Vinderopere. They are now on the rwiv to Lon-
don. Amon, tite company there at pre4ent are,
the Puttee of ht.togne, Lord W.GORDON. the Earl
Of EGREM,),IT.

LoRD NELSON.—A very enticing natural pheno-
menon Iles lately been diserive.c.l in Edinburgh;
and as it .takes daferent persona in the mime man-
ner tit first sight. it impossible thatfoNev (that
active ininciiil.) cum lie tie cane of it. Finiu a
mot of ldtnbgry er.ig., and from • place called
Nldler's (;Arden. there is visible. in the emit on
.o,teli tite liso.iiittent to the niemnry of the illustri-
on• Lord Nl.l.firin is rreeird. a most
r leave,lll'l,l4lS 1-94kolie profile of the Ilirro's face.
by the rock. ni was first &seaweed
• t*,•,v on.lts sine... by an Euglnli family travelling
in St•otlina. since that period it has been the
thein•• of woes& r. and olsjert of curiosity to all the
'won to th:. Sent 4 MCI rovulit, as will Hto the in-
halo tams Th„,,•orannlissary likenee., it i. to be
bolted. the M take car+ most tell
giously and is tilt' foe E.lina
▪ .v% of one of l'or ittelinrahilia attending tie life
of lii taites Itigheq Naval

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JUSTICI*4IO CV' AU it.

►Vat. lilagurin.r W 4 rltartv.l br 1.1.1•:4ril ha 11111.
a ;:viar. 6.10,4414 to the ( %):If tllir.t Inrlrarn:ut.
WWI havits4 mbhrd hint Ittl4et II 0110 and Iwo
ilelnt k thin iit"rnii.g.
. . . .

The Pio, entor slated, that he came from ',lir-
tool, yeo.• i.t a stare co telt, blot the coati:in tit
little au many del..ys tuion the road, that it W 44 late
IP-Inte he arrived in town : being strany,rr to the
noirminlia, he int:timed the co chin-In, Oa tta lie
wax the ranee of Itia late ariiyol, he hinted he would
procure him it loigin; hir the night ; tins the en icha
111411 endeavoured to di; and in the coarse of their
peregrination in search of a lodg,ing.houtie, they
met the Prisoner at the Barley mow
in Long-lane, w;in immediately informed the Pro-
secntor tli-tt he eroild take him to a 11011.! where he
hl be comfortably lodged for the ; to re-
t for this kind °fin., the. Prosecutor gave him
something to drink. and they went together to
Citric-lime. where the Prisoner thrust ilia hand
suddenly into the seaman's pocket, mid forcibly
drew out the evident., about I:14. Prowvutrit. im-
mediately seized hold of the Prisonl.r's ti..ht sleeve,
which came off in his hand, and the Prisoner got
away ; lie wait, however, pursued, And traeed buck
to the Rarity-mow, in Lon..n.lane, where he iris ap-
prehended,, uud 44. 61. of the money stolen found
upon him. port of which the Prosecutor identified.
Alderman FLOWER (who preaided) inquited of
the Prorwentor,„ as he WlO a 4e:daring min, how
long he thought he would remain in town ?

The Prose"eutor answered, be would stay •
month. ►hat lie might b:ing such a treaclierow vd-
lain to justice; who had not left him a farthing to
procure his breakfast.
The Prisoner, who declined saying any thing in
his defence, and who is well known in the nei4h-
bourhood of Smithfield as a very bad character.
was then fully committed.
The worthy Nlagistrate directed 51. to Ix given
to the Prosecutor for his pr....cot subsistence, and
informed him that his other expenses should he
lend; with this a►surance ✓acs depisrtest, highly
pleased, as he declared lie had sot a single shot its
the locker.

NARLOOROUGH-STRZF.T. AUG. 31.
Anne Cummings charged Julia Sheen with snak-
ing a riot in her house lust evening. under the fol-
low ing circumstances :—He came to her house about
nine o'clock in the evening, accompanied by two
females, one of whom, he said, was his wife. and
the other his mother-in-I*w. He asked if he could
be accommodated with a bed that sionl.l contain the
t'sree. Mrs Cummings was shocked at the ilea of
his mother-its-law occupying the bed with him and
his wife, hut proposed that she should have a sepa-
rate! bed, which Wag acceded to by the Prisoner,
and he paid her half-a-crown. At half-past eleven
o'clock. Mrs. Cumming, was disturbed lisr the Pri-
soner's calling out that there were robbers breaking
into the house. She went up stairs, end told him
nut to be ',Wined, it was only the rain beating ou
the sky-light. awl that he was safe from all kind
of robbers. This would not satisfy him, bait lit in-
sisted on having ids half-crown back. which she rif-
fered to return if his wife and wither-in-law would
get up. which they strenuously refused, and treated
him as Vont of his mind. He became violent, and
called Mrs. C. very indelicate names. and raised his
hand to strike her; hut which she prevented by
tripping into a closet where elle kept her chins. An
°Meer sae sent for, and the Prisoner was taken
into custody.
The Prisoner (a decent-looking trailesmal in
his defence said, he unfortunately had got much
intoxiested, and could not account by what means
lie got into the Prosecutrix's howe. The persons
when he repre.entril as his wife and mother-in-law.
4 have been prostitute*. He awoke without
knowing where he was, and was estoni,hed to find
a female that he never recollected to have seen be.
fore. in the same heal with him. He was ignorant
of having given the Prosecutrix half-a-crown until
she informed him of it. The only strogg'e he made
was to get nut of the house. He never attempted to
aseanlt the Prosecutrix; and as to her getting
into the closet, the Magistrate might see by her
walk it was impossible; for, if she was fairly mea-
sured, she was more than six feet in circutnferencr,
Riot chine closets were not generally of dimensions
to admit her.

The ‘Vorthy Migistrate ordered the Prisoner to
Itid

enw-sTacti, AUG. 31.

About six weeks since, the Staasp-Office at L.
verpool, kept be Mr. Poole • number of years, for
that dis:rict in Lancashire, was discovered to have
been a. t on fire, and no doubt was entertained
hot it wait done by design. Tha discovery was
made by the chief clerk going to the office early in
the morning ; when he perceived that the desk be-
longing to a clerk of the name of Lockett, had
been on fire. and Asper put in different puts of the
office, as if intended to assist the fire in spreading
all over the Office. Luckett reminded the ch:ef
clerk that he was the last in the office the preceding
evening; lie expreried himself in a particular man-
ner, Lut not sufficient to ground any suspicion
upon hint, und the circumstance passed over with-
out any discovery having been made. In a short
time after. Lockett left the Stamp-Office, and
Liverpool, in such an extraordinary manner, es to
calve a suspicion that he had acted improperly :
and accordingly an examination of the stock of
stamps took place, which is extremely great, for •
full stock is about 100,0001. worth. Several large
stamps sere misswil„ and it could not be ascer-
tained hut lie might have made off with about
20,0901. worth. Mr. Miller, the Superintendent of
the Police, was employed to pursue him: and he
commenced en metier search : he traced him from
Liverpool on the rood towards London; and found
that lie had sold great quantities of stamps at rid.
praut ',laces to respeetehle persons, for a trifling
sum Ira, thin is tistivlly allowed by the Stamp-
Office to the retail distributors, imposing upon
them with the plausible pretence that he was vend.
ing them for • general dnitnlintor of stamps, who
was under etubarrasrnents, and *silted to raise •
two. of money without delay. Mr. Miller pored him
t. Loud n, and from thence to Chatham. where
some a hi+ relations reside ; where he remained and
in laindan upwards of a fortnight, without being
NM, In apprehend hint ; and business requiring ban
.t ILO, 'Tool. lir was obliged to return there.
6 Adkins ills officer received private information

from Chatham, theta Lile trronk was sect Or front
there on Tuesitiy rnorniis by 110111 C iit Lockett
connertiout. directed to Mr. Appleyard. Priu• o
William Hrnrr, Berniontl,ey-ttreet. Souther& a.
Loudon. by Ruth-y*4 ostegun, with J. W. at •ne ,
corm. r, which WAS S,ll4pee!ld to ti for Luck it,
Adltios in eonsegnence went to On Thccr Ki
Inn. in the Borough. ou %Veda, aday, where ;he
waggo.i putt up at ; but it not arriving at the ex-
pected time, he was oat aide to *al. owing to en-
gagements on other butiiie,t, lint left his brother
Harry Adkint, who mute,' Till the wiaggaw came
and stiav the trunk as advi,e 1, which he never hitt
sight of, till it was taken to the Prince %VII lane
Henry nubliethoute, in Berm::idtey-street, where
the landlord took it in, and tin med.:Aviv. went oft
stairs with it. In a shwt time after, a into tame dow rs
stairs. and held cunt erseiol aoh the. Ludlam' ;
their eyes being ti rcl upon 1. I. A d knit, the latullordl
saying' he wat attr log, r;llpid the man ota.erving he
dad not know biw : they at' length went ini it the
bar together. Adkins blfilpee!rd the oral, to ha
Lockett. but was not confident eiiciu;n, trim the
description he had received of him. to apprehend
him : lie went out to fetch a mon. who was waiting
in the ratiglibotirtlond, whw knew his person ; and
on his seeing him. he idyl:Mies! him ; upon which
Harry Adkins took him into cuttoili. On srareh-
ing hit root° un trairt, he found the track which
hid In-en brouht:from Chatham. directed to the
landlord, to be full oistawin4 and two other trunks
fell of clothe,.
lie underwent an culmination before Mr. Nam
on Thursday evening, *lmo. all the evileneengitinot
him bring at Liverpwl, Harry Adkins was sent off
with him for that town.
Five hackney coachmen were convicted in the
penalty of 10.. ea,:h. and costs, fur obit/tit:Ong the
nudge highway. near the Haymarket theatre.
Nine others are very properly sumatoued to rummer
for a %nailer offence.

Timothy Toomey and William Barry were
brought to the oth, r, charged with rwhining the
shop of Mr. Brunk., w tolvenianith, of Chairing..
Crofts. The Pros, rotor sit •tte that on Thura lay
scorning, betweeu 8 and 9 o'ch,clt. bving in the
pithier behind the "Iv, lie heard a pate of
itt the *bop crack; and, on his going forward. per.
vivre, a piece of glass in one of the pours that was
previously cracked, push.d out, and almost itu.
medistely after saw the Prisoner, 'Forney, come
up to the window and put his fingers through the
broken pane, and, as he believed, take • gold riot,
and saw Loth the Prisoners in company together.
Ott searching. Toomey, when he was brought back
to the shop,* ki.ife was found upon him, the pnint
of which ha,l inane putty so it, which corn-ponder(
with the same kind of patty as was on the Pressrun-
toes windows, and also with that taken sway.
They were committed fur trial.

PALACE COURT, Aug. 31.

•AGLEY v. ROBINSMI.

This was so action for the auto of 2!. 141. alleged
to be due for work and labour.

The Plaintiff, it appeared, is • person in the habit
of usAkiug patterns or models of stoves for iron-
mongers. and was employed by the Debodast. •
very eminent grate and stove ussaufacturer. to
make a model of an eliptie Gothic stove; which he
executed, according to order, in a very ingenious
manner, and for which he demanded 14%; the
Defeudant resivted this charge, as exorbitant, and
tendered 11. la.. as a sum fully adequate for the
work performed.
On the part of the Plaintiff, Mr. Bound, so irrie.
monger end manufacturer of stoves. who is in the
habit of having models made. del:med. that. in his
opinion, the charge of the Plaintiff ass a very fair
one, and such as he himself would not hesitate to
pay. The workmanship of the modal appeared to
him extremely elegant.
The Defendant, on the other hand. celled Mr.
Snuggs, a cabioet.nriker, residing in the neighbou►.
hood of fiatton.gsrden. who stated. that tie had
mink a very accurate calculation of the valise of the
article in question, and he thought that It. 16s.
would be a most ample reeom pence ; being an al-
lowance at the rate of 501. per cent. for Plaintiff's
labour.

The cave on both vide% re.ted herr—and the Jury
returned a verdict for the Plaint If for 21. 2s. ; be.
ing ss. more titan Defendant had paid into Court.

EGERTON C. REDING.

This was an action to ft Cfnlrf damage% for is
assault committed by the Defendant. the Landlady
0(4 pnblic-house in the environs of Depleted, upon
the Plaintiff, the wife of a respectable block-maker
of that place. It appeared that there was a female
club held at the house of the Defendant, of which
the Plaintiff was a member, though not a favourite
one with the Landlady, she being what is called a
dry member; that is, one who did not attend on
cliih-eights and spend her sixpence far the good
attire hoarse, as mast others of the members dad.
On the day on which the assault complained of
was committed, the Plaintiff went to the Defend-
ant's house, accompanied by a female friend,
to receive some money due to her from the dab ;
and although she was not in the custom of drink.
ing at other times, yet on this occasion, as she had
to receive moisey.she felt it incumbent ow her to wet
the payment, and therefore her friend and herself
took a quarters each of Hodges comftriable cordial
at the bar. Whether it was that her judgment was
obscured by this her complaisance to custom, or not.
did riot appear ; hut certain it wi., she and the
Defendaat disagreed in enunticg the money which
she had just before received from the Defendant,
who acted as treasurer to the Club, their appearing
to be a difference of nine-pence in their calculi..
tions. This difference produced contention between
them. which terminated, on the part of tie Dee
fesulant. by her earoulting the Plaintiff. stoking
h►r several violent blows on the head and breast,
and finally ejecting her from the house by suit
force.

The smith way fully proved; and thed.feneeeet
up was. that the Plaintiff had provoked the Otsw
fendant to assault her. he att.icking the chastity of
her daughter. whom she charged with whit ai a
state of pregnancy. although her husband hall ham
absent from her upwards of three years; Itud fora
ther saying. that the daughtee hod pledged her
clothes to raise ossatey is pay as. apialsecary, foe
medicines furnished to her to proem abortion.
The Learned Judge, N auatating up. observed,

21.1V.1L INTELLIGENCE.

that by the Law of &ghoul, no words, however
strong their insport, could juStify an assault; but in Ptalctsmotre, AUG. 30.
tile present case, the imputations thrown out by SsAed the Jur/Varrgabfe, opt ,;our, Ciipt. licoughs
the Plaintiff ',plug the ciairacter awl ereslit of the
ton, to jo,n the Chamsel Fia•ct ; the Freya, 38 guns,
De'etidant's ditualiter, mud a professiumil roan, , ~,
•'vp.• ga4Ve., for I.llr 1..)-,wos ; :tercel. 36 goo*,
whose Home. the learned Judge ols,erated, he had
Capt. Iles wood, for Rio lanciio; tortuixt. store
foreborn to inquire. were of the most mischievous
tendency ; the offence which hail hemp imputedship; fur Ihe 'Alcditerratiran. Tiir iv tug.sl,Sottio.ll,
.
dui Nletlitevr4lar.in Fici ts, *re likes% is*, ...Kitt d ; but
to them was tr,e of the blackest nature, and ii. is
siiiiiiii.md ihiey „it
out
ri.sch r
Hiller tiiiin
ose which could not he inquired into in that Court:
COWYN under the' charge .1 the tistibieured, 38
it was one, hotter,r, which, if proved egoists' the
gulls, Cant. Ild.iietire ; Onyx, Iti glair., l.:apt.
,parties, could suliject them to the sever, st penal- ,
a ummt..ta ; Go/chock, I 8 quay. C.lpt. I.llllnini ; owl
ties. Altlion4h therefore no sorely coma justify so i the strady, too ling. Lieut. si,iw.
assault, yet iu the damages who to they awarded to
Come Muo harbour the IW/a Ile Milan, 40 gong,
the Plaintiff, the Jury would take into their con-
Copt.'Sar H.. Leone,
eideratiou the irritation which auch an attack on
the characti r of her daughter must I aye caused iu
the mud of the Defeodasit.
The Jury found a verdict for the Plaintiff, da•
wages one shilling,

HOME CIRCUIT.

SENT £SS&ZES.

St AID4ToNE, THURSD %If , AU& 30.

DE A I . d. 30.

DOE. on TUE DEMISE ipr noNvivouo, O. LOAD

Arrived and sailed for the Riker. titer of ara•
zits picket, Ili, La, from RIO J,Illeir11; Elizabeth
ail. I .Sephin, Brown; Nluirticul ; faeaarile,
—, and Anon 1.1, pall mole, but c t
their nastier, from the West Ii dir..-11 sod S.S. E.
F 41.11011116 AVG. 28.
Sailed the Watsingham packet, Liam).
ExmouTtl. auu.

Arrival the Apollo, Ki Bornshort., Ilog;
Friends luerease, Heath I bull ; 111111 /.111CCIVL C4lll-
- 11011 Slilitirdale4l, MOW!, 1114 ram ;
Uation, Hart.; frittals, l'erridm ; and Harriet,
Fox, Irom Plymouth, with sult,lne..
lailnt thr George Atm, ; Aar, Virßey ;
pool Aeu, due, Shror4, for Plymouth, wills flour,
Sty.; Actice. Prtta,g, for Bralisalt, *WI umber.

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ward, awl Content trteroa,e, et0.1.4,u0, 6utu Quebec; •nr•
tot. Stub ), frost Si Kilt's• the Bern, C
NOT (trleans the 11.‘ta'ola„ IttnA, fur ludtaq 4111.1
the WA Nelsen, tiarruont, for foraeort.