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Henry Nimmo, of Aline!, merchant, to suvendcr Mail, 1,
2, and '26, at T.:even, at thP White Lion, Rroad-street, Bristol.
Attornies, JAIII,•F ai,d 'Donna Leman, Bris,ol.
Sarnuollirrice, of Oldhain, Lancr,ter, !Lurk 7,8,
and 26, at three, at t'ie Spread rag!?. Lan, Manchester. At-
torney, Mr. Earret,
• Stribblebili Noorw:cal Slay, of Gr:at St. Helen's, merchant,
i'eS. 1.), sr FA. 26, at T.ii.vt n, and March 26, at
twelve, at Guralhall. Attui:e2y, Mr. (:region, An,./.1-court,
Throgmertori-str,c'.
Anthony liacitney road. shoe-maker, Feb. 15,
ar.l March 26, at ten, at Gni:. f..li Attnrney, Mr. David
Alder-gtt7r-strect.
C rant Hewlett, Shipton•Ler..., Bm-kingharnsbire, dairyman,
Fe.. 1), 22, and Mar:it 20', at t. n, at Guildhall, London.
Attorneys, Mews. ("tart.° and Richard:, Solicitors, Chancery.
lane; or /nlessrs. Pict. and Son, Aylosbirry, Buck:.
Edw,tal Grc-r, Chr.rea•3trr,.t. Soho-kin:ire, man's-mercer,
Feb. 15, en, n.l ;:ch t "Ile, at Cuildbiel. Attorney,
Turner, :in. Featlr rstolv.!-B
vvivi•m R^(lt;.l(l,4oP, horce•dealer,
Feb. 19, 26, and 7+.larch 26, at Gni:a:tali, London. Attorney,
lir. R. tAidack, li-rte.

Jntn C lle3trr, maltcL•r, 7t.brrli 7, R, and March 26,
at the Rem. avid Billet, Cie.:cr. Attorney, Mr. JoAeph
Ch . _ .

Jo n Wright, Mirchegter, et.tton-cr.inner, F..b. 2R, Mardi
1, :42.4 2.3, at elere3, at Spemer MancliNter. At-
tmriry, Mr. F.t.tingrii, '.llancht:4?.r.

DIVIDENPS

March Gent z.? t Lovell's-murt, £Aternoc-
ter-rnvi, wiae-meicliatitt at one, at G•,iLlball.
f 33. Benjamin Tinton, ci Colenagn-stv•-t, drurg'st,
at elev. 1.4 Guildhall.

Feb. 19. Vre.terick Gardner, late of Great St. lielen'g, un-
derwriter, at twe've, at Gadhall.

March 7. Wilhant Smallev, bite or Rlackb.” n,
cotton-manufactumr, at eleven, at the St. John's Tavern,
Blackburn.

March 14. Cl;a•les Rensley and inveph Dale, late'of Nor-
wich, warehots .1,1101, at five, at the White Swan liar, Nor-
wich.

CERTIFICATES, MAtcw 5.

Wil'iam Weston Young, of Aberdyllai Mil!, aamo,gan-
shi re, miller.

to:envie. Con7er, Duce-sire t, Altizatp, mart's mercer.
‘Vilham ScutEtta, a l'oit-t,u, Southampton, taylor And slop-

.kweph Wells and Thomas Well, of Holborn-bridge, jew-

elleis.

The guard at the Naval Arsenal, Plymouth, has,
by orders from the Admiralty, been increased from
forty-seven to ar. hundred men.
it is a practice which we hope to see discontinued
by the strong interference of the police, for two or
three fellows, in the hahit of sailors, to associate for
the purpose of begging in the streets, annoying and
anti idating, ar.d frequently abusing such passen-
gers as will act contribute to them. tVe cannot but
consider these extortions as very much in the nature
of robbery. It is certain that there is no charity in
giving what there is danger in withholding.

As a lad, a kw days a,r, was driving plough, in
the parish of Sutton, in busses, in endeavouring to
quiet the horses, which the sudden crossing of a
sportsman and his dog had terrified, he fell into the
furrow, when the plough-share entered his head, and
in th:u horrid situation dragged him for a considera-
ble distance ere the attempts to extricate him met
with any success. When released, dreadfully maimed
and lacerated, he complained only of the universal
coldaess v. hich pervaded his blood, and expired in a
w• minutes after.

. The Society for the relief of Chimney-Sweepers'
Boys owes its institution chiefly to the useful and
meritorious hbours of THOMAS BERNARD, Est.
who so laudably conducts the huthane Society for
Bettering the condition of the Poor. In these va-
luable Reports is the following curious case:—.
In December, 1791, Charles Richmond, a little
boy, the apprentice of a chimney-sweeper in High-
street Mary-le-bone, was convicted at the Old
Bailey, of a felony in the adjoining house of the
Rev. Mr. BucKLEY.—The circumstances were, as
follows :

44 On the preceding Sunday he had tun away
from his master. He was brought home on Tuesday,
and (his master and mistress having occasion to go
out) was left locked up in the house by himself.
On their return that evening the doors and windows
were all fast, but the boy had escaped. On Thurs-
day the master and mfttress (on their return home
tl'at day to dinner, and unlocking the door of the
house) perceived the boy in the room, with a bundle
of woman's clothes, which he said he had found in
a cock-loft, and had brought home for his mistress.'
Some circumstances leading to detection, the boy
was apprehended, and tried at the Old Bailey : upon
his mat it appeared that he had climbed up his
master's chimney, and down Mr. Buckley's, where
he had stolen the clothes. The boy's account was,
4 he took the ciches to prevent his being beat :
I that, when he was unemployed, he was sent to
'-beg to the streets; and that, on one Sunday, he
had • begged eight-shillings, which his master
6 took from him ; another time be brought home
a new pair of shoes that some charitable person
had given him ; they were taken off his feet, and
paw. ed for a few pence.' The boy was convicted ;
btu h^ was thought more an object of mercy than of
jus:ic and on the application. of Mr. Sheriff An-
derio 1, was taken under the protection of the Phi-
lanti.opic Society.