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London, England, 1807-09-08 00:00:00

PICK rOCKETS.

Out of the number of charges of the above de-
scription, extending to above thirty, in the course
of yesterday, all originating in or near Bartholomew
Fair, preferred before the sitting Alderman (Pato.
Sc,), we seled che following as the most worthy
ar particular notice:
A Mr. 11., is, an housekeeper and dealer in the
c;ty of Lend In, was charged, upon the oath of
two Police. Officers, with having been detefted, by
the officers, with his hand in a gentleman's pocket,
in or near the fair. The officers watched and took
up this man as a person before known to them, and
mere that once brought before the Magistrates,
with a similar offence. The charge had
been, at list, brought before the LORD MAYOR
~terday morning, who relosedito entertain it, as
the crime wets not committed within his distrifl.
Mr. Barry having appeared first before the LORD
Mayon, on behalf of the Ptitoner, pleaded for
him at Guildhall afterwards, where the charge was
fully investittated, and some points of law discussed
upon the subje.q cf attempting to pick pockets, as
cnntradtstingrnshid from the adual perwtration of
tile crime itself. The Learned Counsel admitted,
t.at he had been once before concerned as Counsel
for the F"- - islet the like charge, when no
e; and with some labour
icers (who were very po-
the charge), an admit-
did appear against this
my office in the city of
large. From thee mel-
ts and tumultuous, or
t place where the offence
ttemmed, he contended,
;g credible witnesses to
inrmation of life, it even
in his haiiits, night not

111r.1.1 or.

to be eommitted back to prison. since the officers
might be mistaken, under existing circumstances;
but finding the Magistrate of a contrary opinitm, he
desired that the Prisoner might be brought up
again, on the most distant day compatible with the
rules of law, to be fin illy examined. in order that
justice may tie fully and fairly administered, as well
to the Prisoner, by giving him an opportunity of
clearing up his charatier from the onions charge, as
also to the Police of the City, for the purpose of
establishing the charge; as, if substantiated, it gave
the Magistrate a power of presenting or treating
the Prisoner as a rogue and vagabond.
The ALI/INN i 4 desired him to fix the clay most
convenient. which was appointed to be friday
ext. _ _

A roan was charged with being found, at a very late
hour, on Sunday night, in Newgate-street, by one of
the Officers of Police, under circumstances of strong
suspicion, of intending to rob or pick the pockets of
an elderly gentleman, who was walking on 6efore
him. The Officer walked up to the prisoner, who
ran away through one of the hoes, at the extremity
of which he let fall an old silk Nand kerc
wrapped about a cutious iron instrument. resem-
bling a wrench or crow, fit to force open dot-as.
The officer swore he saw the instrument dropf et!,
and heard the sound of the iron against the &cc--
there having been no other person in view at the
time when he overtook and 'detained the Pri-
soner.

l'he Prisoner, in his defence, stated, that he was
a drover of cattle, and was, at the time, on his way
from the Fair, to Islington, where he lodges.
One of the Officers .ta'ed, that in a certain hew,
in the City, a desk had been lat:ly torced open, Mild
robbed, by some instrument, the mark or impres.
sion of which, be thought this instrument would ex-
a.frly fit ; upon which the Prisoner was remanded,
with instruftions to the Officers to make careful exa-
mination of this curious instrument, and Cie desk
forced open, in the hope of some beneficial dis-
covery.
A decent man stood charged on suspicion of steal-
ing a pocket-book• produced in Court by one of
the Officers, who picked it up in the Fair. It con-
tained a bill, some pawnbroker's tickets, and other
papers The tickets were in several different names,
sad no person appeared to own the book.
The °lnca swore he saw three men close retry-
ther, and one of them pulling nu• the pocket ho• k
from a lady's peel:ft, whom hr l.s sight of in his
pursuit of the robbers, all of whom escaped, except
the Prisoner at the h sr, whom he only suspeEt‘rd to
belrwg to the g tri4. u. iv is sure he had not robtsed
the lady, Al he (flannelly ;view the mall who pulled
out the book, hut could not overtake hi !I.
The Maoist save UlJeredstriet search lobe made
for the owner of the pocke•-hook, and among the
pawnbrokers, about the rickets, in hopes of some
di•covery s hut ordered the Frio:lnce to he dischareed,
thr Otficer'‘ evil-,ce went rather to Lis acqui;ral,
titan to ...y thin MP' condemnation.

On Wednesday. as Mr. Pi Loam, the Watch-
house Keep -r of St. Martin's parish, win 'thing in
a boat at Put ey-itridge. in the aa of pushing off
the boat be untortiamsely fell overboard A fisher-
man, who was near the places put off to his assist-
ance, and, on his rising. caught hold of him, and
saved Into from a watery grave. Al hough the ac-
cident had nearly proved tatal, it produced consi.
derable mirth among the s.zeaators, to see Mr. Pt t
ORt ot rise out of the water with a cocked hat, wig.
and spettacles. The joie against him was, that he
had been undyr water to look for fish with his
,pe tacks.
To /aip Crew from Corn.•.-Take a quart of train-
oil, as much turpentine, and braised gun-powder,
boil them together, and when hot dip pieces of rags
in the mature, and fix them on sticks itt the field.
About four arc sufficient for an acre ..1 corn.
In the ccurte of last week, two officers in the
French Prison. at St spleton, attempted to bribe the
centineli on duty, and offered them ten guineas to
connive at their escape. Tile centioel,, in a very
honourable manner, acquainted their Commanding
Officer with the eircum•tance. who advised tt.em to
bring the business to maturity. When the prisoners,
who had previously broken their parole, had passed
all the sentries but one, they were received by six
tile of men with fixed bayonets, previously pasted
in a convenient place for that puriso.,e. They were
consequently secured, and lodged again in the
prison. The common men iii the prison, we under-
stand, also lately attempted to escape, by under-
mining the walls, but their scheme was anticipated
by the vigilance of the guard. and frustrated in due
time. _ _

On Saturday se'nnight, Mr. Fa ET WR LL, late of
Thorpe, in Yorkshire, but now of Crowle, in the
county of Lincoln, was convieted before the Ma-
gistrates, at the Town-Hall, Doncaster, in the
penalty of of five pounds, for evading the payment
of the toll at Thorne turnpike bar, by travelling on
the bank of the Stainforth and Keadhy canal navi-
gation from Thorne to Stainforth ; a prahice
has been adopted by others to evade payment of the
toll at the said bar, to whom it is presumed this con-
vidion will be a warning. And on the :Am?. day,
Josh Molest+, of Thorne, was also conviaed for
having evaded the payment of toll at the said
bar, by travelling upon an occasional road from
Thorne through the meadows to Stainforth, instead
of passing through the said bar.
A circumstance of singular interest occurred on
Sunday se'nnight at Horneasde :—A son of Mr.
Moose, of that place, joiner, was bathi.-g in the
Bain, which runs into the town, and having swam
to the deep -st part of the river, suddenly sank, in
the presence of several persons. As he did not rise
again to the surface, it was supposed he had got en-
tangled with some weeds, and a young man stand-
ing on the bank plunged into the water to extricate
him. The second person, however, had scarcely
leached the spot where young Moons sank, than he
himself also disappeared. Twe or three minutes
of the most painful suspense to the witnesses
of this scene elapsed, when a young man named
RACK (a son of Mr. Race, tailor, of Horncastle)
threw himself into the river, and after diving about
for a minute, successively brought up the two
drowning men in his arms; first the person who had
nearly perished in an humane attempt to assist a
fellow-creature; and secondly, Mr. Moose's son,
who was quite exhausted, and had become black
in the lace tram sufocation, but speedily recovered.

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NAVAL Mir LLIGENCE.

_
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT 6.
Last morning Rear Admiral O'Brien Drury
hoisted his flag on board the Movireotab, of 64 guns.
Capt. E. D. King. for the East Indies. where he is
appointed to the command which Sir Thrinut
Trowbridge held. The Monmouth is appointed to
convoy the nine East Indiamen here. rhe /lane,
Diana, Sir William Pailteney. and taperinvent, for
Madras and Bengal, joined the ships mentioned last
week, firm the Downs, on Tuesday last; they ta-
ped to sail in the course of the week.
Arrived His Majesty's ships .Seems,, from a
cruise ; Mins►rel, with the Ansnhitrite and Dmislou
transports, under convoy from Plymouth ; Alliirnre,
from Guernsey ; having on board Admiral! Sir Ed-
vatd Neagle ; Pollard, Grossard, from Mogadore,
Luadon, and is put under quarantine; also the
Danish ship g'ilheiriiitis Caiiinrina, from Alicant,
with salt, detained by the /means/wit.
Put back His Majesty's brig Cenhent, which
sailed yesterday, with Mr. Gambier, for Lisbon.—
Wind W.

Captain Loring hat taken the command of the
Sea Feneibles in this distriO.

Captain Walpole (son of the Hon. Captain Wal-
pole), who was taken in the thtrce. anJ is lately
re iurned from Paris, is appointed to the Pot t, a new
brig at this port.
Capt. Dumaresq on Thursday commissioned the
Diomede, of 50 gnus, at this port, which is Siting for
Sir James Saumateh's flag, at Guernsey.

PLYMOUTH. SEPT. S.
The homeward-hound East India fleet, to the
amount of fifteen sail, under convoy of the dlouriopc,
of 50 guns, Captain .Hazely, passed up Channel
yesterday with a fair wind.
Arrived the Palter, 36, Capt. Miller, from the
Channel fleet ; Cesarst gun-brig ; and Nde cutter ;
A'eptiore tender; and the Rae sloop of war, came
in and saile.l again; also, the Wright, Gillespie.
from Chariesta%; and Hata, Thompson, from Lon-
don. Also the Danish vessels Drobart, Thurson,
and the Inge, lef: Maria, both from Alicar.t, the
former detained by His Majesty's ship Rue. and the
latter by the nryadr.
Came in the Pe. Lie schooner, and towed in a
French row.boat privateer, whices she found upset
off the Lizard three days since.
Sailed the /70.thrtpd sloop, Capt. Greene, to the
EaS, ward ; the Misstrel, Ca pt. Hollingsworth ; and
the Perseverance tender.—Wind S. blows hard.
T•IMOCTII, SEPT. 4.
Arrived yesterday the Albion cutter to crllelt
convoy for Portu,;al ; st e waits the arrival of His
Majesty's ship tveringle, Copt. Lord Cochrane.
Arriv.-d this morning the Humber armed ship
from a cuisr, with the smuggling cutter Dere, of
Guernsey, I with spirits, toblcco, and empty
kegs. which the fell in with near Scilly.
The Iliend,rr sailed again this evening on a cruise.
—Wind S.W.

DIAL, SEPT. 6.

Early this morning arrived in the Downs Ili. Ma-
jeltri. ship Antelope, having under convoy the Ear!
41. riortut. Lord Nelson, Anal, Lord Cortlerragh,
Lody dons Dund,r, A.ia, Irvia In'lls, Harrod, Hid-
dart, S arraign, Monarch. Aleraadcr, and the Waltham-
stow East Indiamen; Fortuna Swedish Indiaman ;
the brig Flo. frrm the Cape of Good Hope; Scor-
pio', and At/antic, Si.uth-seamen, last front St. He-
lena, and remain with the ships as per last.

GREENOCK, SEPT 3.

Arrived yesterday, the Eartrol4., Smith, from the
South Seas, last from Rio Jareiro, in 63 days; and
the Aurora. Boyd, from Quebec.

BORAP•RTI has restored to General De ZAS.
tame the property of which he had been deprived
in Poland ; and several other landed proprietors ere
said to be equally fortunate. He has also distri-
buted the following estates to his Marshals and fa-
vourite Generals : —To Marshal Ds VOU,T, the i'rin-
cipality of lonvisky ;to Marshal L rs, the Pi ind-
pality of Sseviersky ; to Marshal Ncv, the Principa-
lity of Saleusky ; to Marshal BaRTHIER, two sine-
cures; to Marshals Mown tie and DEStita la, to Ge-
nerals S SOUCHIT. OUDINOT, DUPOPT•
Water; s n .Gaoncise,Ma aestauss. MINTS ASID,Litt.
PM jet. Sr Httaav, Micaaua, and NA mown,
van us offices and places of emolument is the
newly conquered countries. principally in the de-
partment of Plritake ; to General FRIAND, an
appointment in the Kaliteh departmen• ; to Mar-
shal Soutor and General Vicros, each a place in
the department of Posnania ; to Generals Leo a A ND,
LAR I SWIMS. and Moteoe, appointments in the
department al Warsaw. The three Polish Princes
Ssticesa are to retain the Sarostey of Prsyemsky ;
and Genesis Mut:mow:Ey and ZAVONtCOEK are
to have property worth a million of Prussian florins,
but in what quarter is not yet decided on.
It is confidently stated that BONAPARTE made the
most tempting propositions to the ?stetcs Rsoesir,
in case he consented to co-operate in his views. This
proposition is said to be the re-union of the King-
dom of Sweden with that of Denmark and Norway;
and this union to be accomplished by French troops.
provided the PRIMER R r arse would agree to ci se
the Sound against our trade, and place the Danish
fleet at the disposal of France.
Mr. Rose, of Isteworth, who was some time since
arrested upon a warrant from the Irish river.irary of
State, and transmitted to Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin,
has been liberated in consequence of the interpo-
sition of Mr. SHERIDAN, and has just returned to
this country. The warrant under which Mr. Rost
was arrested, was backed by the signature of a
Bow-street Magistrate, according to the prescrip-
tions of a recent Aft of Parliament. TM; A.% was
brought in, specially, to meet the case of Judge
Joiimsom and is so constrated as to render any
man in England liable to be arrested and transmitted
to any Irish prison, upon the authorial of a warrant
granted in Ireland.

A short time ago a gentleman of the name of
ANDS ews, who occupied the first floor at a brush.
maker's, in Mount-row, near the A►ylum, Limbed],
during the absence of his wife, and another relative,
went up to the garret, and hung himself with a bed
cord. When discovered he was quite dead. The
Coroner's Jury found a verdia of bailey.— ft is a
remarkable circumstance that this is the very house
in which Colonel DM ARD lodged at the time he
was taken up for high treason, 4111.1 to which his body
was earned atter execution.

7

On-Friday, the 4.11 of 44-ptember. inst. a Coott.
Martial sat assembled on board the Selo 4ae di/
Meath. Plymouth-Mir )nur, in order to try Captain
Z schary %ludo, of H. sj.sty's 'hip Noah, on
charge, erabited aga nci him by a Mr. John
Tnompsom who was late Parser of the said ship, Ltd
who was ',take by th • seat ace Of a Court-Motu.
and rendetecl incapable of ever set ving in His Ma.
jetty's navy again.
The Coast, atter the most minute inns**
Intend the charges malictou. and unfounded, and
therefore dad most fully and h • nourably acquit tae
said Captain Zachary Mudge of all and every p
of the charges exhibited against him.
The President, Sir John Duckworth, then de.
livered to C ipt. Mudge his sword, with a very ap.•
propriate speech. atitirinK him what satisfaamn
it
gave that Court to return to an officer, who had
so
well rains d tame and honanr, that sword, which hr,
as we:l as the other members, were well assut.,
would never he need but in honourable puts r'..
The above senten:..e was given no the ct 05.....;
own evidence, Capiain Mudge not calling a balgt:
person.

COURTS .1f.112T14 L.

The G-rierail Court Martial svi';ch lately assem-
bled at Colchester, And of wt.ich the 11,11. Colonel
Wool-mot:7.e WAS Piesid•nt, is dissolved; His Mk.
jsary ihsving been ple.tied to confirm the teittenee,
whereby three Offir.ltS, Captains of toe Westminster
Nltlttie, were aciju.iged to be c s hirr.d• The tar.
cum;tances which gave rise to the trial originated
in a quarrel betweeii two of the parties, in which the
third became a mediator. Charges of airoinatton
and recrimination en tut:d ; these were made the sub.
jedt of a Court Martial, which involved the second
AS w.. 11 as the principals, and terminated in ti.e
missal or all the three officers. The dispine was
between Captain GASCOY NC and Captain Garay,
Captain 6 r AV*. I s was the friend of the former. The
Court Martial had no reference whatever to acy
military miscondal.

M 4 ICKA TS.

CORN-EXCHANGE, Sm. 7.

The imports of Wheat, thu d is, make a tolerab'e soppily,
and the trade ready in sales at a small advance, tut pri.ne.ant.
p e.. harry in snort windy, and little in r. que.t. Mad sas
:e.r buyers, executing Ins fine. White Pease are whet lima.
Beans of e.h.10 sort are higher. There are but fee rime's 4
Oats, and thy trade ie dearer. Flour at the prices quotaL

CURRENT PRICE 01 GRAIN
Wheat........ 451. 55.. 644 Tex Braes 50. N.
Fine . 725. Od I Oat. ..... VO.
Rye (New) 455. 01 roolands 53. 34‘ ad.
"..o.rooly .
Mat 64e. 745. 04 k.peSeod 241.
•.Vstte Peas .. oas: lOUs ot. Foo.e C. 04.
Gitek. 54, 59=. Uol. Seconds iJ. JJ. Od.
Berns ...54. bO.. 0,1

U.: BRIDGE:.
The C.)rs laspeloe's &Awn, on Thur. 4.7, Sept. S.
Brava, per low.
Barley, per Ir
Ott. st. t r 33.
to —4

for the Prisoner, under the
per,on appeared to prosecute;
obtaired horn the two office
41 sifts, in their evidence of tl
pion, that no person ever di
unfolliboate Prisoner at an.
London,
iz.inns, uiputtn
soanysui,srie h
piciocu:
crowded a state, as was the
was charged to have been Sal
that a roan who could brim;
his gond etinduil and rani
he were fuelisrly irrcgislat it