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London, England, 1824-10-25 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Swiwnr.i No.—Saturday, Mr. t.ole, the coachmaker, of Pen.
land-street, applied to the Magistrate under the following circum.
stances :
A short Arm since, a person who 'mimed the name of Liec.
tenant Clifford, of the 14th Dragoons, sold him a chaise ; he
subsequently been applied to by Mr. hest, a livery-stable keeper,
who resides on the Surrey-aide of Westminster-bridge, respecting
the chaise, and a demand was made by Mr. Best's Solicitor for it to
be delivered up.
The Magistrate was afraid he could render no assistance, and
advised Mr. Cole to apply to the attorney.
Mr. Cole said he had endeavoured, with the assistance of m offi.
eer, to apprehend the pretended Lieutenant Clifford, but then
efforts had been unavailing ; they hall discovered that he had clw
mined goods from other tradesmen, who bad been satisfied upea
having their goods returned to them.
Lord Charles Spencer Churchill appeared at the Office, and
complained of one of the porters of the White Horse, Fetter-lane,
having substituted a ticket for the one he received from the Comb.
Whet. whcreby he demanded It. lid. instead of 2s. 2d. for a parcel.
Lord Churchill pnaluccd nearly twenty tickets, and said that all
of them had been similarly altered. The moment he discovered
the fraud he came to London, and now brought his servants (re-
ward to prove several of the cases against the ciefendant, acd ya.
vent any further imposition upon the public.
The defendant pleaded guilty, when he was fined twenty
hogs, and in consideration of such plea his Lordship did not pros
any further charges.

11.1TTON GARDEN.
Saturday, Ilenry Ord, the dr:. er of the hackney-coach, N 0.731.
was charged by a young lady with having stolen (rum her 24 yards
of silk, in a parcel.
The complainant, Ann Spearman, stated, that she, in company
with a friend named Gardner, took up the hackney coach in
Gracechurch.street, on Friday night, to drive to Theobald's.road,
and had with her, amongst other little articles, a brown paper Nr.
ccl, containing, in three several pieces, black silk (21 yards in all)
for gowns, for herself, mother, and sister, which she put on the
hack seat, and forgot when the coachman put her down; she
immediately after noised it, and ran to the coach stand, where she
recagnised the driver, who had jam drawn up. He admitted that
' he was the man who had set her down ; and said if her parcel was
put into the coach, it must be there still, as he had not taken up any
other fare. They then examined the inside of the coach. but no
parcel was to be found, and the prisoner said she must have dropp-
ed it when she called him originally. A constable, who happened
to be passing at the time, proposed searching the conch-boot, and
raounted on the wheel for that purpose ; the prisoner immediately
sprung up, at the opposite side, and endeavoured, by rummaging
about in the straw, to cover the parcel, the corner of which the cor.
stable at the saute time saw, anti succeeded in securing, as well

as the coachman.
W. Gardner, who war with the lady, corroborated her statement
of having left the parcel in the coach, and not in the boot.
The coachman said, that he should have taken the parcel to the
Hackney-ooach Office.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
ALLEGED NI'IIIANCX.—A shopkeeper, named Damns, to.
siding at No. 33, North street, was summoned by the Surrevor of
the Parish for a nuisance in has iug ;.laced a board next the riding
of his house, which prevented the green.grocer's shop, kept by a
man of the name of Smith, from being seen by the passengers.
The green-grocer declared that the board was a nuisance; and the
owner of the board said it was intended to prevent the sight of the
green-grocer's shop, which was a real nuisance, in °misquote of
his hanging out bunches of vegetables, and scattering the learn ill
front of the pavement.
The Magistrate in vain recommended the parties to accommodate
their difference, and on referring to the Act said, that there was a
great latitude of construction in the training of it ; foe whatever the
Pariah Surveyor thought to be a nuisance. was remoseable. The
Magistrate added, that he would tete an opportunity on Monday
to look at the place, and enjoined tite parties not to recognise him
as he passed.
Some persons in the office remarked, that these boards were com-
mon throughout the town, and were not generally deemed r.ut.
sances ; there was hardly a public-house without them.
The 31agistrate said, that however common they might be. still
he believed the provision of the Act of Parliament was Imperative.
Ile knew that at thcwest end of the town,Portland-place for instance,
they were in the habit of putting up such boards n..at their railing*,
for the purpose of protecung ladies going to their carriages from Ue
severity of the north winds, which blew sometimes Pull Tiolf,"''
down that street; but he believed that on any complaint beir;;
made, the families must be deprived of the kind shelter which these
boards supplied.

'ARRIED.
At Colchester, on the 2lat inst. the Rm. Thomas Parry. lateFel•
low and l'utor of 'dahlia College. Oxford, to Louisa, liftli daughter
of the Remy Dutton, Itei:tor of Beaumont, in the comity of
Essex.
Friday, at the New Church. St. Parcras. the Res. ('has. Boy.
LLB. of Folkinghani, in the c,nity of Lincoln, to Strni, r‘lietot
the Rev. Edward Smith. of the same place.
On the 31kh inst. at St. Giles's, Camberwell. Robert, son of AS
that Wilcoxon, Esii. to Lucretia, daughter of Thos. Brockeiba.A.
Esq. of Deptford.
On Friday morning, by special licence. at St. Peter's ChOi
Dublin, by the Archdeacon of Dublin. Major Logan, of the
Brigade, to Bliss Furlong, daughter of William Furlong, of AP-
gier-strect, Esq.

At Hastings, in his VA yearD,lETDltOmas Hulse Bragrave, EOl-
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Durham-place, Chelsea.
At Brighton. on the 20th inst. Susannah, the wife of Sannu-
Grimsdell, Esq. of Tutitham-green to her 64th year.
(}n the Itith instant, at 3lalahitie, aged !8 years. John flair-
Esq. M.D. late Physician to the Forces at Cork. Thir mil, skil-
ful and zealous officer began his career under Admiral Sar.ders,
the Mediterranean, where (although then a very young rinan),
be
had sufficient nerve to inoculate the D.y of Algierw—aa operatic,:
previously unknown to these send-barbarians; a race wham tor-
duct, in can of failure, no man could calculate on; in fact.
operated with a drawn scymetar over his head! The Euiprrfe
of Morocco was also his patient. Dr. Haig served his country lo
the reigns of George 11. 111. and IV. and has left two most amiable
children (females) behind him. Their claims on the country ige
strong; but we feel certain that our wise and beneficent 31onan,f
will not neglect the daughters of the skilful and the brave-,—DY
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