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London, England, 1810-09-25 00:00:00

PICKPOCKETS.

Yesterday Araimisie Itoisitt was berm& by Cherie.'
Hamphreys, to the above Odin ; who sold he apprehended
hiss on Selorday eight about twelve o'clock, 111 DruryiTaive,
ad well knowisig to be a pickpocket, and suspecting
hins to be there for the purpose of felony, he took him iota
custody. Os searebing him, hr found two valaable pocket-
handkerchiefs, and two pas iihrokei s duplicates for others
that had Ism pledged in the coarse of Saturday.
Nr. READ, the sitting Magtsiratr, roovtcted the Prisoner
as a reputed thief, solo th..t eereilsat Act of Parliament,
the Police Act, pared for the express porpoise of iuppiessing
Ibis descriptioa of yobbo's.
alms Cress, totArablsatreit. Westminster, was charged
with harionormg said eotice.eloog Inthans :LIMNS and Thomas
Lsa-, deserters from firs illajcsty's Royal Mattes..
k1111:aus 1113,4111114, OW of tie deserters, was admitted an
evidracr, and stated, that he ass a pnrsir io the Woomich
DiVolioll of Royal Marines; and that es the lath Any of last
July, be, is comp.my with Thomas Lear, another private in
the seine divisiuu, di tatted team Vtotattieh they neat is
ties* regimentals sod aide. onus to the house of the Primmer,
whore they were conceakd until Moods, the Pith day et the
ranee mouth . the Prisoner knew they bad deemed, sad be
gave him an old coat and a pair of lenseetiee belonging to the
Pistater, Therms Lear had aloe tam the Presence as old
sold sad s pair of breeches; the Prisonr supplied theta with
victuals and drink, fir which they did Dot pay, bet paid fur
thellagouv which they hail.
The Pinnace denied the charge, or that hr had fornideti
them wish old clothes to disguise thimiseivea.
The Magistrate convicted him in the posh, of 101. sad
in default rf priyasinit um fours itiye, to be comonitted for lie
stusthr.

teLri it.tihki, 'SFr.

Henry Grphs war iiidirteri for burghirionaly
breaking into the house f Slr. M,,rrydiratlirr, in
Charlotte-airert. 13.1iiford-.lhare, on the night of
the linh inst. a,th intent therein.

It appeared, from the testimony inirlimed in sup.
port of this indictmeist, that Mr. Merryneuthev,
who is a barrister, was out of town ; a fermate sera
rant was left so charge of the house : at six o'clock
on the 'veiling of the 10th lost. she went to Asstley's
Amphitheatre, having Mate.; the doors, ass : hatred
the windows. At a quarter peat 9 o'clock, J••hn
Harris, Clerk to Mr. Men). weather, went to the
door and rung the hell, be being its the Mart of
sleeping in the house; it was tonne tune before it
was opened, which was done ut last by e:e Primmer
and another man: Haim sem surprised at seeing
them, and inquired where the servant was ; they
said she was gone to Sadler's Wells, sAt had Irtt
them in charge of the Mime until she returned;
but he, douuttng• this aremint, as he never had
seen them before, they allisred their story, and said
they were not lett in charges, but only accompied
a men wl:o was, and whore Harri• knew ; and he
was gene to a public house, and they world ecc,nt.
patty Harris to hint, whirls, lie emesented ti : they
lila not proi-eeded. far, when some Mor•d person
c ime tselcon• him, and ;see Min a vtoterst blow on
th.• head, which knocked hum dears. etul tae three
rail sway he got top riot fr.:limed them, overtook•
the Prisoner. aisrl recipes, him; the etherst made
their eisc:tp... Some one of theriretrepped a crow
har, rvhrch tir!.ig rumoured t;itts a •dint mule tu a
drawrr of a baresii, whirls lied been Make mem,
it eon esponde,t, and appeared as if tt bed bat% done
with that inutrument.

TPe Learned Judge, Mr. Justice Hifi% ob.
served, that the Jery must impair the-Pvisner.
It was six o'clack when the fonale *want west oft,
at which time it inis4 have hero daylight. and the
breaking in the night was lint proved ; nor did it
disinter that they had brnkrn
The Jerry wccotliogly retoine,l a Verdict of Not
Guilty.
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He was ordered, by the Court, to be detained,
to take his trial for being found' in i he house.— Clic
other trials were destitute of ;owes,.
On Saturthiv last, a soldtkr of the $M regiment
was committer) to Winehelterithot, foe Committing
a rune on a respectable young WOMIII of Yarmouth
in the Isle of Sll'igfit.
Mr. StaxeltVis, of Clasp-hill, iledfardattire,t in
returning from %V 4 I (limn f air. on %Yeduesdhys_blid
the misfortune to lose 3001. iu : he hall;' far
declivity, pet them ii'to our of hiebdots, horn whirh
it appears they were forced by the exertion of fid-
ing.
Late on Flundernie,t,orearly yesterday moriang,
the house of AN% 'llliatte, Ilurk.street, St.
James's, was hr,ike open and robbed of a large
(tomtit!: of plate /rid other raloatile artielev,. Vie
house was entered by a hole hiring bztred in the
parlour .)totter with a rintre-bit, to draft the holt.
The rulthery is %opposed to have herrn effected by
some iveisaii who knew the way of the bone,, and
veLere to rind the plate; also by their leaving the
plated &alleles. Thvy pasted a piece of dark co-
loured paper over the aperture made with the ceutre.
bit in the .hotter, to present the watchman seeing
it to give au early alarm.
Vesteril.iy 'naming', one of the labourers em-
ployed at the ruins of Tke Trarelfrr 015('.., ut
Fleet-street, was dre.olfolly braised by the fall of
some brick-aim k. WHY taken on a shutter to
St. Bartholon.ew's Hospital, without hopes of
erovery..

Yesterday morn n„ about halT-mtst sit o'clock,
a m in was discovered by mine labouring men hang.
ing to the railing of the palisade which snrroun6
the young trees in St. James's Park.—He was' in a
kneeling posture, and 'Anne two inches from the
4rniind. 013 the alarm being given, several persons
got over the rails ; he was rut down, and laid on
the grass; as-istatice being at hand, every
means was tried to restore suspended animation,
but iii vain : the body of the unfortunate man was
taken to St. Margaret's, Westminster, bone-bouse.
Rail was not owned at seven o'clock last evening.,
From a rule and gimlet being found in the do:,
ceasiurs pocket, he is snpposivel to he a nsastW
corpciiter near Penlieo.—iAu ingisest will be Weld.
on the body this day.
During .ev-r st evening*, a set of ship-corpenters°
arid scope-maker.' slim-entices have Nide a point of.
insulting the crews of foreign vessels in Mill, arhs-n.4
ever they met with any of them in the street. TA'
was particidarty the case on Titesday evening 'Wt. ;
when a sertoos affray had like to have taken titre
in Humber-street: where some foreigners were very
roughly handled by the sway. Ode of the laver
as. seized by a con.table, but whiletnking hint he.
fires Magistrate, his companions interfered and wt..
cued him. Several of the offenders are bmisd leer
to the Ses-ions.

A man named Bones, front flirmingitlissi. has
recently been eitiptoyed' in repairing the spire' of
Patringtqn Church, which was previously in 4 very
ruinous state. Although the spire is nearly 200
feet high. he Geed his scaffolding, and a-cended
torthe top of it, from the tower of the steeple, in
the short space of four hours only. His method is
very ingenious. He first raises a ladder, and by
means of it secures a rope round that parrof the
spire where he wishes to erect his scaffold : baelbg
a few triangular frames, with • strong hook et the
angle of each frame he filIP5 these Looks to the
the rope, and with a few planks the scaffold is kivsh-
ed. lfe proceeds in a similar manner until he
reaches the top,
We are sorry to gad that Sir 0. COLLIER met I
with a severe accident during his last cruise : in
drawing an overcharge from a pistol, part of the
contents unfortunately went off, passed through,and
greatly lacerated his right hand.
On Tuesday the Boston Mail-coach was over-
turned in Norihboretigh, a village between Peter-
borough and Deeping, owing to the horses taking
Bight at an ass laeitu with a pair of panniers. We
are porn to add, that two passengers, husband sad
wife (wflo had paid inside fare, but preferred riding
on the roof of the coach), were dreadfully hurt try
the accident ; the former had his thigh and collar-
bone broken and his tongue nearly severed is two;
the female daisdatigeronaly braised: the same of
the sufferers is Wong. The guard (Swint) bad
an suck broken.

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LANCASTER ASSIZES. S►rs. 13.

CROWN SIDIL
SOBBING THS STAMP-OFFICE.

jawirs biekeit wa4 capitally truiteted for steiGng
h the dwriliog-house of Robert Makin • large
-quantity of stamps. of the value of upwards of •
trio•sand pounds. the property of Witham Pole.
the distributor of stamps tur the district of

'Liverpool.
Mr. Pule stated, thet on the morning of the 14th
of March last, hit office. *hi le hordes is part of the
dwelling-liouse of Mr. :Makin. war diacuvered to
be on fire; that the Pri,,oner was one of his clerks ;
and on ht. isil at the rare lie mentioned the I
tire t‘, the Prtsoner, and vird it we. a very tor-loge
buaius-wr. and asked him if he had made use of
candle use day previess loth,: tire. The Prisoner
said no. that them had not beets any tire in the
,dice tor a mouth hefore. That the part of the.
°hive beret wee a deok at which the Prisoner
nod coosaiiied policy stanisw to theinetenot of a
thousaed pounds. Mr. Pole thou said, that about
i;,roc weeks after * fire, the Primer. who is a
Lieuteumit on halferev. told him he heal received
It tier (emu the iiffainOlke. and mi.' he should be
o'liged to go to Loodoa in a ehon time. That in
three or font &wafter the Primmer mid he hod re-
ceived imotherletter Rom the %Var-t)tfice, will
he most sttemilat the Husse-Guards en the Seim.-
- day folio l'lll4. or be should lose his half-pay. Mr.
Pole told iwo, it would ha eery immoveuient for
keen to leave hint. but as it was of so touch conse-
quence to him, he would let him go. The Prisoner
said be would oodesvour to get leave of ohmage
fur a month, and return to Liverpool to smog Mr.
Par snail hr could cost himself with &clerk. The
Peismsor, however, sever returned ; that no sus-
pieimt etbeleiree was attached to the Prisoiser for
two meths after he left. Liverpool, when Mr.
Waimea. who has been a clerk to Mr. Pole for
tplerly thirty yams, wire dusfiug the wall where the
desk that wee burnt stood. discovered two spry-
tutesiii the welLemeh eontaisiug a quill filled with
jpiopowder. it Wog is such a sititebou that no
perms mold have dews it bet the Premier hr
lea suspected of haviag set tire to the desk, and
1011100 Maims a Twiggy of stamps; inquiry was
s bash sod it was iiseertanied that the
lead ,ass to Chatham. where Ist lied
opened *Aim fee Na ode of stamps.
*. iffy. toes rivet. stated. that on
dielrehege# the 14th of March, the olive was
ereettiettleedM Ids Aft .404 as vest
f Mod AM the Are deleinstad at me moonset'
ANL whit* meetsiefil policy stamps to • eery
egogimeespes ggibingsq the, in. Prisoner came to
the Math at his selbel hour of aa i ii e in the moriiing,
sod the witteme and to him. " Mr. Luken, we
tom had • ire ; K is a very a Timis business :" that
the. Prisoner replied. " You know you was in the
tam lost." Mr. Wilkinson also stgrd the cur-
cuestas/co! of finding the quills iu the wall tilled
with go.iinsw4e.
H. Adkins. of Bow-street Office. apprehended
the Prisoner at the Prince Witli.iin Henry publics
house in Bermosidserstreet : he asked the Primmer
where the Stamps were that he hod tak, is Irons
Mr. Pole. of Liverpool ? The Pg.°. er took I up
twigs. and pointing to a trunk. said that it con-
tained the stamps Villa tri: isk did COO/ 4111 tie.ssl%
14001, worth of gsitips. The Plismier then told
lam that he did not take any stamps until
four days eller the Ire ; and that it was in cause-
queinoe of hie eireetteoring a couverestion of Mr.
Pid.• and t wo ether Geittlemen, two ihivs aft.•, the
tire, in which they mod Mr. Pole woul.i twit far et
any lust; that the Stamp-Office ...mid allow him
the stamps, en ( :or -r.linelit would only be at the
loss 0) the paler; !hat just tit those time he received
al-tier from his slaughter, who swill she was in
grew distress. cud that she was obliged to throw
herself into the arias of a serjesnt of marines ; that
hr was in great dilicribies, rod he thought he had
th-u an opportunity of extricating himself ; he de-
nied. in the most, positive manner. setting lire to
the office. Adkins produced the stamps. mussy of
which were upon printed paper: they were i
Bed by Mr. Pole, sod Mr. Kaye, a printer at Liver-
M*l.
The Gemmel for the Pemeention offered evidence
to prove that the Prisoner was not sent to fruits the
War-Dilate I sad alas to prove -that is the month of
Awl' the Primmer weed a ;hop at Chatham fee
*emit of @temps. The person who *mild prose
the lease fact was M. Charles Townson. of
CllMaitios melieetles whot, bovine a short liaise be.
fee* had a tomtit/ of stomps *Wen out ef Iwo
ship. sad keetsug this the Prisourro stranger, had
opemed ogled" Amps powered s seareli-warrunt ;
the Pima« Old his his mos was Lombell. that
he wee empleyed be a dietnbutoe . of *tamps inthe otermtry, whit wasted to raise[ a eau of mceley.
Mr.Tinetimemskeel his name ; the Pri,user said
ha wes am pt hheety to emotion the Geuthensui's
nutmeat presets het thee lie would ante to hits
for hisommeolv NEL, if hr had no objeetion. he
weal/ give hire terry estisfaction herequired. The
Presser ahw ailed recta ups to Mr. Towtssoo to
keep till he needed su *newer. but which
Mr. foornson decime.l. The Counsel also
offered the esideems of Mr. Bryan Blundell. of the
Chftplef OaCe iu the Customs at Liverpool, to
whom the Primer smite two letters *fief he left
Liverpool : one of which was dated Miller's Ho-
tel, 2.1.1 April, foto. in which he stated Ulm he had
little chance of relit iii i i ig to Liverpool, and request-
ed be would ocgw.hnt Mfr. P.de of it. The second,
llseed ChathAie Bwrrectig, April 3ilh. 1410, in
wheels he stated. " At length I am side to give you
n Nine
at „st=ri. grief not is my satisfaction.
Vest I was ordered out of London to
this on, where I am still in suspeuse with re-
spect to may figure fem. expectiog by e req post to
receive orders to proceed to the Isle of Wight, to
join a detachment of the 4th West India lieginsent.
Thiel gives roe much pain. I have applied to be
cis red immediately rent to a Regiment is
either Spain or Port ugal. pray Goo I may succeed ;
for I would rather face the Devil with a drawn
sword, then the yellow fever. The instant i know
what is to become of me, I will write you again—in
the ineffls (see" let me beg yen will hare the good-
ness to send off my trunk to Mr. Umbel!, et the
Waggon 11111,-e in the Borou;li. Only think. my
dear Sir. what must be my troubles at this mniswrit
oboe' *fling myself out token a Regiment eta nil-
:newt. 11 have oat a shiltin4. siwl surrourided by five
dear cleat Pam's., sows dear than life, and who it

is prebable 1 shall never see again ; but duly mint
be don*, and ftisnrshaty l wale never finich."
The Learned Judge (Sir ALAN CNAMBILY) was
of "Ninit.9l.. that it was out necessary to produce
evidence : he said that it WAS 110( hii11.111(:.
Wray proved that Mr. Poles offices composed part
of the ilwelling-hause of Mr. Maktu ; and said,
the capital part of the charge toast fall to the
ground. Hr called ori the Prisoner fur his defence,
but he declined raying may thing.
Sir At.an monied op the evidence, and in hill
°taw sal ions to the Jury, told them thee mustactinit
the Prisoner of the ("wind part of the charge, as
Mr. Pole's Office wo% not a part of the dwelling-
honor. He said it' as extremely fortunete for the
Prisoner. fur had the offices been proved to he a
part of the divelling-huus.., he could not have dis-
covered a feature in the doe which would have
given him the power of spewing the least lenity.
He said it too often happened, that such cireuni-
waiters prevented a puinshinent which offenders of
thin description merited. The Prisoner, not satis-
fied with plunder, aggravaied the offence by the
diabolical crime of setting tire to a house in which
Mr. Makiu, his wife, five children, sun *tryouts,

slept.
The Jury. without hesitation. pronounced a c✓r-
dict 4--4aifty of atealmg, but not to the dwelling-
house.

Ile was sentenced to be transported for seven
years.

On Tuesday last, the day on which the Anti-
Union Meeting was held in Dublin, the discon-
tented took the opportunity of marking their dos.
like of Mr. Forma. They hurot him in effigy at
the Rotondo, and afterwards proceeded to Nlti-
slates Hotel, under the it. rsuasion that he was
there. They insisted upon seeing hint. and when
they were assured that he was not in the hotel, thew
disbelief could be removed only by searching it,
which they did, without meetlng with the object of
their dissatisfaction. It is, perhaps, a fortunate
circumstance for him that he was not then in
othervriae the populace. exasperated by whiskey
and discontent. might have proceeded to some acts
of presosial violater. They eoliressed their disap-
pointment by breaking is few windows of the hotel ;
but upon the arrival of some police °dicers, and
the expectation of s.oine of the military, they dis-
persed without furthe► tumult.

During a heavy storm of thunder and lightning
on Saturday morning, two sheep, the property of
Ale It tionaLL, of Uniamice, were killed: the sker
herd doll In. dog were also knocked down, but did
not receive any material injury.
A very toe vessel, of between 6 and 700 tons
burtheit, the I.irgeat ever built in the port of Bos-
ton, ma intended to be launched on Friday next.

A woman. who had been left in charge of a house
in Baker-ot,eet, North, was. on Friday eveuiug, dis-
covered to he dead by the bed side. Her husband,
occasionally absent in the City. had not seen her
sitar Tuesday. It is supposed that she died that
evening. Her infant, a fine boy of afloat ten
onoutha of I. was all that time the melancholy but
helpless witness of his mother's calamity. The
Jotry. who act on the body of the woman. brought
ill r verlott Died by Me Visitation of God.
Mr. Nritass., who died lately at Woolsthorpe.
near Belororir Ca ale. was a native of Switzerland.
and patt,cularly known fur haring saved the life of
the great Marquis of GRANIT ; nho ever after. as
well as the &mil. of his Grace the Duke of Rut-
!AND. evinced she gersiest friendship and e.teem
for him. NuTSEL carried the standard at the lone-
rs of his (hare the late Duke of RufT.A iu No-
veinh r, 1787, who died when Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland.

The practice of hull-baiting has been revived at
some of the animal feasts in the West Wiling of
Yorkshire. At Milholm, near Huddersfield, a large
company icaierniiled lately to enjoy this sport, when
the enraged animal, breaking trout his ring, made
a furious run at a number of his persecutor*: and
selecting one from the rest, levelled him with the
drat. On i uguiry it turned out, that the bull had dis-
played more sagacity than usually falls to his race,
for the peanut selected for his vengeance was his
own master'

Ate appbeetron is to be made to Parliament in
the next ameion. for leave to bring in a 8.11 to
make a harbour 4.id wet duck at St. Nicholas Bay.
in the hle of ihanet.

Application i- intended to be made to Parliament
is the ensuing sehmim, far (rave to bring in a bill
for making and maintaining water-works for better
*applying the iiitimlnimit% of the tievetal parishes
and place. of St. Martio's.in the-gelds. Si. Paul's,
CasenteGatden. St. Mar! -le-Strom), St. Clement
Danes, the Precinct of the Savoy. St. Ann's; Soho,
St. George, St. James's, St. John
the Evanolist, and St. Margaitt, in the City and
Liberty of West:mm(.4., and the perishes of St.
Asdrew, Holborn, St. James and St. John. Clerkem
well. St. Pancrits, St. Mary. Islington, St. George
Bloomsbury, St. Cales's-in.the-fields, and Mary.
le-house, in the County of Middlesex ; and the pa-
rodies of Sr. Dar.stisi.i. St. Bride's. Mt. Andrew's.
Holborn, and the Liberty of the Rolls, in the City
of London, or some part or parts thereof, and the
worts raj 'cent thereto, with writer from the Rime
Tnames ; and also for more effectually preventing
sad estsiguishing tire, and supplying water for
waterlog the streets within the said parishes and
places, and for making reservoirs. mineducts, pipes,
and drain..

Oa Thursday afternoon, whilst the ruhhish near
the wall of C•ld-Bath-fields Prison was being cart-
ed from thence, two lads, not prisoners, in the pee.
mice of the carters, obio-rscd sow-thing just shove
the surface of the rubbish, sod which, as they say.
appeared like • ring, but, on being taken up, pro►-
ed to be a key; very dissimilar io shape to what is
used by. the turnkeys in the prison, being in the na-
ture of • skeleton key, but, on h.nng tried in thelocks
of else doom through which Roberts escaped, was
foamd to unhick every door which had Fern no-
locked by Rolierta and his enlleitgue. It has hero
pretty well au-ermined. diet an imprewion of one
of the keys used 111 the vruson by the turiikeyt was
Wt.'', sad slit out tiliou soap. and that the key
itself was conveyed into the con•,.•, an the Clio ley
previous to his cseiipe hulk Mt% an the M
cum:rated ill a lee .tut ins to iiiiiituer prisoner. It
oho•iI.1 that lft►pe►. the oilier prison-
er, had ,roc his w4y through Int cell.

21.IPAL LVTELLIGEvf.r.

PONTS)131:111. 91 Pr. 21.
Arrived ale Siork frigate,. liow tile Leer/4'rd

heiit

SAM-it the Venerable man of %vv.. mu,l Harpy
gun-br,ig, nti a Cruiz .; awl t hr North hbertan.l wad
of wan, tor l'iymoutil.—Wnri •

!‘iah

1.1.1 Mot rn. R£PT. IS
The Jame and Ann. H sk.a ; Acart ..h
integrity. limner; and Nancy. 11u4hts, I I .

far Swasisro, with copper ore, were iirivro
Pentance with the gale on Turclay last :
J.ec and dna had her bold. end .1110‘lia5 VIM!"
her maw, washed ovrevivard, and received u.L.:r
damage. Captain Hoek'n fell in oil!' a %rretk wa
Tuesday night. but could nut di.cover what it %v.,.
" The Penelope. Briant, was totAly to..t urar
St. en Weduesday mo * g; crew seved..._

rinieuri-Ducx. SEPT. 33.

Came in • Frenchprivateer, ea pin ed I ;is
Majesty's ship Mime; and a Portuguese brig. n me
unknown.

Sailed the Hydro, with fonr transports full of
French prironeur, fur Portsmouth.
The Zenobia has brenght from Cadiz 101 bars
of silver. the amount of which is intri.defl to be
paid the American Arent in London for dear.
Yesterday a Court-Martial was held on the
Master of the Ta/A:rt, for opening the atore•ronm,
and drswiug litpaor. curl witiffieer-like conduct on
board her. 'Ent charges being proved, he was des-
oilseed Hit 111.1jesty's service.
Tie Dolphin transport is expected hem from
Coronae. with the Swim Regiment which lately
sus reudered at Puebla de Seriabria.

The Corionts, Cant. Fife, has captured a French
schooneer, which is hourly expected into port.
The following transports came in here float Gib-
raker, under convoy of the Hydra, which arrived
nu Thursday brit, after a inondi's passage, viz. :
Britatdaie, 11rillirtet 'lslet, Benson, and ilerrah.N ;
they have on board 1,100 French prommers, deattned
for Purtunouth, put iu here by eintiary winds, and
are under quarantine. A convoy we% to leave Gib-
raltar for England the day after the above Milos
sailed.

The nun; Pena. of Jersey, captured on Tues-
day lust, off the Liznni, was soon after re-captured
by the Stork.
Yesterday the Sam Raphael was undocked, and
towed round to Sutton Pool, Plymouth. She was
purchased by John Hawker, Esq. of Plymouth, for
the purpose of being made into ■ dry dock, and se
capable of receiving • ship of 800 Woo burtbea, al%
though she hsts been cot down, and her stern con-
siderably reduced ; she measures upwards of 130
feet its length, 52 in breach h, and her gates from
.4; ft. 4 in. below, to 37 ft. 4 ilt. above._

The lireiwksought, Capt. Linzee, will complete
her provisions, SNITS. mici water, on Monday; after
which she will lie paid wages, previous to resuming
her station in Basque Roads.

Yesterday arrived the Surveilknife frigate, Car.
Sir G. Collier. from a cruize oti the coast of
France. Mimic tt.li IWO' since, her knit. cut nut
n French brig from Morlithan, hut on iict passage
home a gale of wind carried away her main-mast,
which rendered her unmanageable, and she was
obliged to be destroyed.—Our craters have looked
iota L'Orient, and ascertained that two frigates of
th! largest class have been lately Isanc..,d, and five
others are building there.

Sir Thomas Williams is expected here to-dry.
from the Downs ; we understand he is to succeed
Rear-Adiniral Stanford.
Captain Johnson is appointed to the Seipiou, rice
Bateman.
Remain is Catessad Baf—The Alfred, Dreadnought,
Sri pine, and Hydra.
lu the Soonil-.-Owea Glendower, Surveillaute, Dryad,
Espiegle, and Zenobia.
Deforms the lalaud and the Hain—The
In Barnpool—Tbe Amethyst.
In Hamoase--Tbe Dragon, Abercrombie, Power, Spar -
tan, President, Penelope, Orestes, Talbot, I'yx•htiuud,
Pheasant, Hawk, Monett, Miasma, Neptune (.?) abd Elisa-
beth (1) tenders.

novas,_ 11111PTEMBEII 23.

night, a smart firing was heard on the water
for some tune. which, we are since informed, pro.
ceeded from one of the cruisers iu chase of a pri-
vateer, which made her escape; however, on the
cruiser's return, she fell in with a boat. having six
French Olfieers on board who had broke from their
parole; the boat which they had is said to belong
to Folk stone ; they have since been takes on board
the Admiral's ship in the Lino'''. Two transports
front thence, the Patty sod Revenge, are; come in
for a supply of water.
Sailed, the Thesis., of Dover, Bowdon,
for `Sund►rlaud. A lire of light colliers and coasters
have also passed this morning, the wind having
corns round to the South-west. The Master of one
of the colliers has been on shore here: he says, that
on his passage front the Westward. he saw the brig
Amor, of Sunderland, Dodd.. Master, captured by a
French privateer; soots after he was informed that •
boat had been driven On shore on the Isle Wight.
that the b est had the appearance of having been
shot at. and was stained with blood in •cveral places;
there was a man's cocked hat in the boat; and it is
said the Mader of the Arse had his wife on board.
A few days back • boat belonging to the nogg
sloop of war. then lying in the Roads, in coming
for the harbour. upset among the breakers ; but by
the exerrion4 of our boatmen, the crew, Lire in num.
ber, were all saved.

DEAL. SEPT. 29.

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Arrived the I'estal. from the %Vestward.
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The Theban frigate, his detained *nd oent into
the Lftwoo the Am •ricou oehrioner Hope. Cepta.n
(tardy, from 'renertffe on her armal she was pat
under quarantine.

On MonclAy hp.r. a Inatcner In Cheltenheos was
convicted for hut mg in his poe-..sort part of •
deer ; and not Kiying a eati,fictory actouot how he
become p...*ested of n, be thereby incurred the
salty of :101.
The Inurtotewded improvement of the navigation
of the Thsotes. by the formation of a Canal from
the Hog Hole. seer Datchett, to the Rails End
Beidge, Islewarth, is to be carried into effect early
in the newt year. It is likewise iotandeti to make
• Canal from Heeding to communicate with the
Thames at Tapia.. anti from thence to join the
Grand Junction Canal in the ;wish of Cowley. in
Midillesos. Another Cut is intended from Eshowe n,
near Newincy. to Old Basing, fnr connecting the
Kennet and A vo.iC inatwith the &sting-toile Canal.

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' stateireut of the prieea owl utoliera :....•
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Veal •• ml. 10 70. tul. Calvet .................14
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HAY. ARK ET.
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(ly fie Careens.) .
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Mattes as. _Rd. to is. AJ. I Poet AB. al 4;. 44
Lount, so. 04. to dn. ad.

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Straw,4l. 3i to Jt. ud. New, 01. 0,, 10 of ,4
Clover, 01. as. to
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