The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-10-05 00:00:00

FIRE.

Yesterday morning, about four o'clock, an alarming fire
broke out in one of those retreats of poverty mid wretched-
ness, situated in Church-lane, St. Giles's. The house being
a receptacle for the accommodation of persons of the very
lowest description, who lake up t►eir nightly lodgings, was
much crowded. On the alarm of fire being given, • some
took place which baffles all description. Men, wows,
sod children, were seen running all directions, I■ •
half state of nudity, to escape from the devouring ele-
ment, the poverty-stricken appearance of whom presented
a most finished picture of homes misery. By the active
exertions of the watchmen and others the fire was fort mutely
subdued, without extending its ravages beyond the horse in
which it began. The fire is supposed to have been occa-
sioned by one of the lodgers coming home intoxicattd.

A fire broke out at two o'clock yesterday morn-
ing at the house of Mrs. NICHOLSON, in Mon-
mouth-street, which was occasioned by some un-
slacked lime setting fire to the boards in the lower
part. The interior of the house was destroyed :
but the exertions of the firemen got the flames
wait r.

The neighbourhood of Oxford-market was in
much alarm and confusion yesterday afternoon,
about two o'clock, from a house fallingdown (No. 18)
with a tremendous crash. An elderly woman and
a man were the only inmates, and they escaped
front the ruins ranch injured, and were conveyed
to the Middlesex Hospital ; but they are not con-
sidered in a dangerous state. A part of the next
house, an eating house where persons were dining,
fell at the same time, and a ludicrous scene oc-
curred in the escape, some taking their plates with
them. The adjoining house on the other side stood
in a precarious state, and from the rottenness of the
building, no one dared approach it; and the houses
being of one date of building, the inhabitatita in
the row were busily occupied in removing their
goods for safety.

A little girl was lost on Friday evening, under
peculiar circumstances niost afflicting to the poor
parents :—ller mother errs gleaning in a field upon
Nucton Heath, Lincolnshire, when, upon going from
one close to another, the child, with two or three
others, was sent home; the other children arrived at
their parents' dwellings, but the lost child turned
back to follow the mother, and no traces have beta
had of it since. She is described of the name of
ELIZ4BETH BURRELL, between four and five years
of rue, and answers to the name of Bass; stout
made, but not tall of her age; dark brown heir,
dark complexion, with blueish eyes. Had on a
blue printed cotton dab, ■ blue and white spotted
bowler, rod half-boots; had not any stockings.
The hither awl his friends were searching the fields
a!I night, sail fears are entertained that the little
innocent may have been taken away by some per-
son. The Right Don, FREDERICK J. Holmium,.
of Noeton, has kindly interested himself in behalf.
al the parents.

A farmer of the mime of BELL, residing at New
Houle, in Bidders&le, has in his possession • goose
..inch, in the course of two year., bus hitched and
brought up 43 goslings ; and what is olso.rernsi k-
able, six of the last brood, hatched in June lest,
and which are therefore only four months old, have
been sold, end found to weigh 19Ibs. each.

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The following is an milreact frowns account of a Mission
among lbe Senecas...lid Illinsees, performed in 10.20, by the
Rev. Timothy Alder, President of Allegheny College, ad-
d/limed to the Rev. Abrel Humes, H.D. of Massachusetts,
Secretarymf the Society for propagating the Gospel among
the Indians and others of North America. It is communi-
cated to us for publication, on the supposition that being
pirblished here, it may resets some of She connexions of the
White Woman, who would be flinch gratified to hear of She
existence of . aged and estimable Mary Jamieson." We
publish it as a sketch of a scene, many the I.ke of which
have.uccurred in this country since its first settlement, bat
withOtit calculating much on its grateful effect on the sur-
viving friendi of this old female.—(National Istlelligeocer.)
" Ott Friday, the 15th of September, we called uptm Mary
Jamieson, at Gatibrdaus, known far and near by the name
of the IV Woman. She lives in a comfortable Indian
style, on one of the fertile bottoms of the Genessee, flanked
by high, abrupt, and romantic banks. Her habitation is
near the place where, about three years ago, fifteen acres of
land slid, the night, from the side of a lofty and steep
bill, with a frightful noise, carrying trees and rocks into the
bed sof the river, to the amazing terror of the few aboriginal
families in the vicinity. I could have no opportunity to col-
lect an assembly at Gauhdanu, of which I had been duly
apprifed; yet it steeled a duty to travel six miles out of our
course to have an interview with the aged White Mimes. I
found her able to converse intelligibly iu English, but stew.
Mg, at first, that
racier of the Senecas. She, however, at length, le•came
acreeahly communicative. and cave a history of her life,
which is so ium,estiag, tl at I shall h • excused in stating a
few of its prominent iticideum. lam more inclined to do
this, thinking that this statement may each some of biz
relatives, who have prhbably no Iris isrledge of her past dm.
freesia; trials, nor errs of ter meteor....
" She was burn at Marsh Creek, below Connicocheague,
in Pennsylvania. tier par is • were Flionias Jamieson and
Jane, originally Irvine, and wire Guns Ireland, but of Scot-
tish descent. At the age of thirteen years, a few weeks afire
the evacuation of Fort Ds Greene, 61 MS, she, with her
parents, a sister, and two brothers, were taken by the Ist.
dices, and hurried into the wilderness. In the third day ..f
their captivity, the lodisess discovered, by their scoutitig par.
ties, that many white people were in pursuit of ahem, inher-
ing, bit their lives would have bees spared.

" These merciless savage% to facilitate their escape, killed
the father, mother. sister, and 511, brotherr, but suff. red
Mary to live, and travelled to the westward, taking her with
them, to a certain place un the Ohio, probably near the Lit.
tle Beaver Creek, where they cominued some time, and went
to a Shawnee town far below. Here she lived istony years,
married an Indian, roil had several chitdrro. Once she at-
tempted to desert the place aud make her escape to the white
people, and had proceeded through the pathless wood minty
miler, when the fond yearnings of a mother induced her to
return in her children, whom she has never since felt ■ dis-
position to leave.
" Mary had an uncle, Juhn Jamieson, who was killed at
the time of Headsetlee defeat. She bad two brothers, John
mail Thomas, who were not captured with the rest of the fa.
mily. Musty yiars loner she saw a man from the neighbour.
hood of her native rp.t, who informed her that these two
brothers were then, as she understood, it some part of Vir-
ginia. If still living, and feeling the best sympathies of
human nature, bow must it delight them to learn that a
sister, who no doubt was supposed near seventy years ago, to
hive suffered the vengeance of the tomahawk, sud who once
'Streamed born to it better portion than Providence has wen fit
to allot her, is yet oa this side of the grave, sustaining the
part of sir inoffensive and estimable women. The last words
her mother spoke to her, before the fatal weapon released
her and so many of the family from the sorrows of life, were,
not, at present, to attempt to run away; not to forget her
English, not to forget her God.
" She had beam taught to read, and, if she could have had
books she thought that she could not have forgotten, but now
her sight was impaired. She bad kayoed the Assembly's
Catechism, and was early made acquainted, by the care of
her parents, with the duties foundrd oat the word of God,
and has probably often communicated the •monist of her
knowledge to she Indians. 1 remarked to her, that, as she
had greater advantages Omit the people among whom she
bad spent her life, it must have beers in her power to have
offered them very important instruction, as to the duties we
all owe to the great God and Saviour of the world. She said
she used to teach the children when they were young. Pur-
suing my remarks on the Sweat which she might still afford
to the natives, whom she frequently sees, by speaking to them
on the things of religion, she replied with a quick ridicule-
Hon and considerable feeling, a The Indians know whit is
right well enough, but they won't do it—they won't do it.'
" From other sources we learned something of her uncom-
mon trials. After the death of her first husband, she came
to the Generate sod married Kotlam, a chief, who t►en as-
soused her name, but was generally called Gaubdaor, from
the place where he lived. By him she bad six or seven chil-
dren, and has more than forty grand children. Of her sous
three were living a few years ilium The youngest of these,
being ambitious of the honour of his father's situation in
the tribe, he being deed, had recourse to murder, that there
might be Lou competitor in his way for the sarheorlon. He
accordiogh watched for an opportunity, when ore of his
brothers little suspected what was in his heart, and slew
him. This Was overlooked. Some time after, his tourdir.
our hand plunged a dagger into the breast of the seirriving
brother.
" The Chiefs in Council then resolved that he should alone
fur the repeated outrage upon the rights of humanity with
his own life. The mother went forward to plead for him,
stating Host be was the only son she had left, and entreated
that be might not be taken from her. In tenderness to the
old woman, the Chiefs granted her a lease of her sou's life,
during her coatinuance us the world, with the uoderstending
that, on her decease, the sentence already pronounced should
he carried into execution. Two years ago 'ilia young Rolm.
hue was killed by some of hie countrymen in a drunken fro-
lic, at Squake Hill."'

A fatal accident lately occurred at Nantes :—As
Roitget was proceeding to a review,
his horse, it is supposed, bring stung by a fly, start-
ed and threw him on the pavement. Ills foot being
caught in the stirrup, he was dragged some distance
before it was possible to stop the animal. The Ge-
neral expired almost immediately in consequence of
the fall.—(Paris Paper.)
A shocking outrage has been committed on the
perriou of General DuJote, by a relative, named
DRUAULT, an officer on half-pay. He went to the
General's house on some pretence, and on his de-
parture stabbed him below the heart. The General
cried out for help; and during dint time Dausul.T
wounded him five or six times in the head and
arms. He was at length arrested and conveyed
to the Prefecture of the Police. It is hoped the
General's wounds will not be attended with any
serious conseqcences.—(Journal des Debars.)
A school for the education of mechanics has been
established at Edinburgh, and upwards of 200
students have already enrolled themselves for Im-
provement in their several professions.
Saturday se'unight, • fine cluster of grapes, of
the .black Hamburg!) kind, quite ripe, was cut in
a garden poaaesbed by Mr.JOUN DUDGEON, nursery
and seedsm.sn, Paisley, Scotland. These grapes
grew in the open air on a southern exposure; they
were of full size, and of excellent flavour. There
are more grapes on the sante tine, nearly ripe.
Mr. BENTIAIr, butcher, of Stafford, has con.
tracted with the trustees of our General Infirmary,
to supply that institution with beef, mutton, and
veal, during the coasting quarter, at finer-pence
farthing per lb.--(Staffordshire Advertiser.)

LANCASTER ASSIZES.

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NISI PRIES COURT, Panay, Syrrausca 11.

PRETENDED RoRnERT.

JEWlow r row.

This was a cane, of a very silica .r owner, and of eery
peat important-. In the public, II ••114 all n.tinn
?If the sum of 480/. bring the balance of 01101
the Plaintif from the Defendant. Tar ilefeiwo t tow I
was, that the Piaintiff hid released th. d lii node. his hs..d,
and seal, Laving executed a deed of rodoenment
Defendant bad made, to which tie •reerett a rompimaast.iii
of twelve shillings in the pureed, The Plaintiff admits—l
that I.e hid executed the duvet to que•ditra. hat that lip
induced to do an from a reprerentatilisi that Ire Defendant
made of having had %Minium brisket. into, and rshhed IlTo•Il
notes and • bill of eselosuge to the amount of I,3leftt. and
vlswarda, which representation he bud (PslC. learomf w a
false and tinfounded, sus mach robbery baying bee• rairmetst.d,
and that consequently the deed was null and Void, limenag
been obtained by fraud.
Mr. Justice HOLEOVD staled, that snels a false TOW P.. 'l-
talian would vitiate the deed. The Irani. which Ow y
had to try was, whether the Defendant had been /01.berk ill
the maltase be bid represented ur not.
The following is a brief statement of the facts as thi y
came out in evidence:—

About three o'clock in the morning of the 11th of De-
cember, 1819, the Defendant, Mr Lepton. tallow-chandl
of Date street, Salford, gave aes alarm to the wstelunee et
his house hawing bora broken into, sad • tie-tiox sato,
away, containing Bank of England unless 111 the amemest f
about 1.1001. A hand-bill was published el efollorine n o it.
'tog. offering a reward of 50/. for the elierevers of Ibe so i-
rons who committed the robbery. About three of foor
months after, • tin bus, rootaming a bill of rxeliairge. its
same as described in the pinesid, wee brorielit to this Pollee-
offiee. al Manchester, by a man who said he had routed it is
$l. Stephen's cliiirrh-yard. loinstolialedv oftr the alleterl
robbery, the Defendant wrote to the lie whom he
was i.lilehlC(l 111 the sum of 1.1331. swine' ohm be hod h • u
'ebbed of till his enotiey, and Meiling linei to rote io 111 n.
The result was, fiat the eseilitios screed to mu pt
a composition of 12s. in the pound, and sign a sheet of ,e-
-tease, the Plaintiff log the first to em cute it.
The following were the cuusideimions and 'et Wee. toi
whirl, it was attempted to negative the robbers I—Tne gr. et
imprubability that the Defendatat, a small dealer, shu.6l
have so large • stern by loin to rash, his whisk stork uo.v
selling for about 3001. It was 11114 urged, this lifter t'e
*opposed 'robbery RINI the Octet of assigemeut. he ass able
to make large purchases fur rearly money. Ho,/ thesoaiii
farts relied tau were those ininseilintely connected wear llrn
alleged robbery. When the watchman wing to the home of
the Defendant on the alarm beinz given, the Delendant
him that lie supposed the robber had forced the cellar deer,
gone from thence into the bark yard, which was upon ti
same Merl, and by memo of a ladder hail cut 'in at the kit-
chenW.ll4.l.lW, O. whirl, was 1111,11., and vi hied. 1,1.4
I eh: I
sixteen inches is width, hot in the cerise there aroma rem-
per pipe for the ronveynnee of the gas, which was Omit
burning. The watchman tolled the Defendant how any per-
mit, meld get its at the window *Woolf flaitiosieg the pipe ?
u Or' said 51r. Lupton, " it was quite Rot, but 1 raised It
up." There had been snow about one o'clort in the morn•
hag. Ikitness saw no mai ks of (301stips, ear. pt as hat loot
been made by him and the Defendant, or may appearaure •f
footsteps in the honer, or of any violent..done to .11,1 part
of the horse; neit'ter Me Lupton 'tor his oat-appetites) at
all diatomite.,; they seemed a. if nothing La I bsppeneil.-e-
Tide wieners ?semis:ed. ,t)e, door, which woe .181940 e hat..
been forced 1.111C11; the atiple aa. drown not, but wit,.. stolid
nut are any m rks of violence tin the outside of the dew.,
but he saw marks upon the dour-post con the inside, and wit-
ness was of opinion that the staple had beer dray. in the
inside. Oti going into the cellar, the witness observed a
dog, and remarking that cireunistnnee to the Dgenialit, be
asked him if he home whose it was? Defendant meld hr did
nttt ; it must belong to the person whet rubbed the femme._
Evidence wise given to strew that be knew the do: very well,
and that it belonged to his neighbour, Mr. Pilling. . •
Mr. Robert Derbyshire us a police natter; beard of the
robbery, and went to the Defroilant'a boils. the game 11110.1r-
anis who told him that the person•who rubbed the house hail
gut in at the kitchen window by a ladder. Withers., examits-
ed the slide of the window; it was sixteen inches in width,
and in the centre there was • copper tube for • gas light.
having only eight inches on each side of it, throneb o bleb
it was impossible for either matt or boy to get without bend-
ing the tube. Witness made this ohoervatian to the Defend-
ant, who, laying his haled fiat epee the bottom of 'the win-
dow, said, " It was laid flat thus.when 1 first got tip, but 1
put it straight again. Witness said he massif opinion that
if the tube had been bent in that mamaer,.and then at-
tempted to be returued to its former position, it would hove
broke clear off. Witoess saw 110 appearinee of-its hatriur
beets bent. The Difeudant slated that he hail been robbed s.f
between 1,1001. suit 1,2110/. A handbill was published that
morning, under the directiou of the Defendant. %Visor,'
stoked him what reward they should miler, and mentioned the
sum of 50/. on which Defendant said," offer 2nD!. reward i"
limit on the wititess represeatiug to boo, that in case only a
small part of the property should be recovered, at might in-
eouveuicuce him to pay so lorge a sues, it was agreed that
the reward should be 501. The property stolen was stated iii
the handbill to be • 1001. Bank of England note, dated
.1110 C 23, 1819, No. 1 608, signed Miners ;.501. Bank of
England note, No. 2,672 ; 301. Bank wf England note,
Ni.. 7,631 ; • 20/. Bank of Englaad note, Nu. 4,573 ; sod a
bill of exchauge for 331. 3.. ; the rest forming an aggregate
of upwards of 1,100/. being in 1/. Bank of England notes.
Witnesi proceeded to state, that two or three months after
the rubbery a tin box, containing • bill of exchange, was
brought to the police-office by a stuse-masaii, elm said he
had found it in St. Stephen's church yard. 11 itness tool the
box to the Defendant, mid wept with him mil the man who
found it to that church-yard. The man pointed out the spot
ohne it was found, which was twee the public road, and
from which it might have been seen. It was a lies box
japanued, except out the under side, which the finder said
was upperintot when he found it. The Darsolant slid to
the witutos, •1 Look how rusty it is." Wiluess said he could
not see am rust whatever upuu it.
Mr. Pilling stated, that the Defendant kept his (the wit-
ness's) dog abort a week after the supposed rubbery : the
dog was in the habit of 'mug to his shop, and he ea% well
acquainted with it:
Mr. Serjrant Coots, after some observations on the ob-
jection taken against the deed of release, on the ground of
its not being sigoed by all the creditors (which we have nut
adverted to, as it was overruled), in a hick he animadverted
with great severity on the conduct of Mr. Robert Bennett.
attorney-at law, who prepared the deed, and theis came and
gate evidence to destroy its validity, proceeded to the main
question, obit's was " robbery or nu rubbery." Ile cum
!deiced that his client sae taken by surprlse, as be heel
nu notice until the trial that the Plaiatir to tomtit
the deed on the ground of there being no rout, toy. TLe
creditors who were upon the spot, mod had examined into
the transaction, were satisfied that there had been a robbegy,
and bad attested their conviction wider their hands and
seals; bur had they beets taken by surprise, as the deed
was not executed until two motor's after the rubbery
The Learned Counsel dwelt a good deal nu the ruinous con.
sequences which would result to the Defenthent if this deed
should be set aside, and the great injury that would be there-
by tufliettd on his present etedouss. The barred Counsel
said the Defendant laboured uuder great disadvantages, be
could Out tell his own story, and being taken by surprise he
had tau time to collect awy mallows. to (unify the moult( be
bad given of the rubbery. He also dwelt open the hardship
of calling upon him Iwo yearstafter the teansection to ar.
count fur it. After some observations on Iho evidence given
by the witnesses for the Plaintiff, the Learned Counsel said,
if the account gives. by the Defeudsat hail been • fabrica-
tion, they might have traced the'siotes Ly application to the
Bank of &glutei, or at least they might have mireetalsied
whether the notes answering to the deseeiption had or had
not been issued by them. He concluded with an impiessive
bippeal to the Jury in behalf of the Defendant, but he tailled
so witnesses.
Mr. Justice Hot.novo —The present was • cause of great
importance both to the Defendaut and the public, tad the

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• NAVAL INTR L LIGENC

einl,- gn •ii,nn for the Jury to deride was this; whether the
evideore satisfied them that the story told by the Defradmit
&boot the robbery was a fabriestioa, invented for the par
poses of fraud. If they atoll out satisfy themselves that it
was false, sod that there had hams en robbery, they moat
And a verdict for the Defendant, MIL* deed would then be
vali.l biat if they were satisfied on this point, the Plaintiff
would be entitled to their verdict for the differesee between
in the pound mid the whole amount of his di tit, which
14•14 4110!., as the deed would be wall and void on the
grohnd of its being founded upon a fraudulent consideration.
the Airy, after deliberating about tee laimiti a, timed a
ya rd:et for the Plaintiff—Damages 400/.

About eight o'clock es Tamils, emmiag, Mr. Maurice
Howe, of Park-street, lslingtest, WWI stopped in Hulywell.
L.,tr, Shoreditch., by three Militias, me of whom kniteked him
d. on, and the gas% robbed him of a valuable gold repeetiog
oateh and .ppeudages, sod 15s. is mosey, with which they
memos!.
The same eight the math-home of Mr. Peters, motto.
tanker, is Sueth Amllep.street, was broken lute nail eteMbod
of eight plate claws, a dashing ben cowered with poessill
leather, anti two sew leather ammo frees gigs.
Wren... Hay some daring 'Maim fuesed-imans is ester the
Mem of Willow', Palaneee•terrate, labegien; the cloth
um laid in the perkier fur discs, in which there waa no
• prim as the time, and • valuable act of eight ramom,
tiehly rnoutited in silver, with a silver stand, was married of
by Ike thieves. A few evewiegs ago Mr. Stone was idepped•
at the cud of the Terrace, tame his own house, and robbed
of his watch led mosop.

LIST OP THE AMERICAN NAVY, 1821.

Fit fo► Nsis
Independence 7B
Wag hingion.
,ran li ha ....... . ..... 78
Colombo' 7O
Chippewa 7B
Plea 1►r1ean.......
FRIGATES AND 'Loops FIT TOR SBA.
Frigates. Costliest, ..... 3$
Cun►titotioa 5B Muwhask 3B
Unity.' St stos ......... 58 Cayenne . 31
Cue/vivre .
Jaya .. 58 Peacock .. 10
Magedniiis . ..
Conatell.iiisin . 48 Prulirk
Congress

Tag LINE.
Badding.
Virrioia .. 78
Penoom!yogis .......... 78
N. York
Masao-lunette 7s
New Hampshire 7s

Aodseveral sonalkr vessels, le;sides guards eostal, &e.
The French a•ry consists of 5S sail of the line and 40
frigates. Russia, Denmark, and Holland, are in • very ef-
fective state.

°arose* 3.

Arrived t►e Royal George yacht ; cud the Active, Liffey,
And Caen I. on, Croat France ; Kenn' front Halifax ; and
Ana. &nee, from Dantsie fur ()porno.
Sailed the lionthireteth, Sampson, fur Cork and New Soeih
W 4611.

IPALIIOIITN, OCTOBER 2.

Arrival lb. Nottioghaat, Corset, from Loeidun fur Liver.
10044.

YARMOUTH, OCTOIRRIL 3.

The Juke and Ann, Robinson, which was on shore at the
bask of the Pier, has been got off and brought into the
hartiour.
The John David Campbell, front Newcastle fur London,
pat it, here os the let instant, with loss of both anchors.

Nana wit, °mogul' 3.
Arrived the Prince of Orange packet oaks mail from Hal.
id.
Soiled the Nocella Claa•loite packet for ditto. aad Lord
Panics. packet for Coxbarew—each wish a mail.

MAMMA/W. OCTOBEM. 3.

Arrived the Andrea, Pauline, from Gale, leaky and
soils *phi; London packet, Owen, loom London for Car.
marttwo, with loss of anchor, &r.; Frances, Brown, from
fund,. land, trek,; and Thames, Wsrderis from Whitby, with
eivoinyird and trustlttrce broke; oleo several vessels fur
*hr.litr.

Down', OCTOBER 3.
An arbor of I 'cwt. Iqr. 01b. with 13 fellsoms of buoy
Awe, and six or seven fathoms of old csble, has bees picked
up in Door ..vs reads and landed here. Nu marks on it,
RIBOOTO11) Loghall made.
imax, ()crown 3.
S•il. d for *Lc River the Moira, Htsrublow, from ludic,
and dm whole of she homeward-buund except the An■ and
Am►lia, from (skull..
Put back the Spring. Grove, for the Sontb Seim and re.
Walt./ wish the Woodstock mot Lady Popham, fur America;
t.eorge, for Cape Coast, and several other..
Seven o'Clock —Wind W.S.W.—Blows wrong and shirk
w, saver, with rain.

worratr, ocroara 2.
Y. sterday it blew a straw gale from the north-west, and
several light collier* parted from their anchors, thrre of
which drove put the harbour to the souttivrard. The follow-
log gut in hen with low of an audio, and cable each 1—
Cumbertan,l, of Scotus Sluice; Charlotte, of Shield.; Wood
hoax, of Buruhasa ; and !Vary, of Burlington.

GRAVESEND, OCTOBER 3.
Airiveil the Manta", Wilkinson. front Bend.

Wednesday the neighbourhood of St. Giles's was throw•
into the giestest confusion, in coasequence of the fullowiag
circumstance:— A young ems decently dressed was observed
going along the streets, knocking down the stalls of china
anal apple women, and in other respects conducting himself
in a ir.ry si liege sort of m . Ile stewed to have an
.ettraurdmaly antipathy to china, fur wherever he Male near
to a dal! or chins-shop, he would seise on the •wicks and
dash tit. ea ua the ground. A estortl of persomt awsemblad,
at.d Bartlett, with Benrick, the beadles, on passing by seat
1.. take him in custody, but he took to his heels, and in
flio mid-thee( be rushed into a cellar, where, after relnaias
ayg fur some time, lie Caine up armed with a knife, which be
bi audishel, and dashed through the crowd, by whom he was
Gnawed ; he ran us with the greatest fury, Muslim blows at
'cry body be came near, and clearing all before him. He
triad. ail aim at one buy, who narrowly escaped. lie was at
I. nth taken into custody after • desperate resistance, and
the knife taken from him. He was brought to the Police
Office, Alarlborough-elrett, where be was recognised to be
the son of a must reapertable gentlemen bolding a public
iv:a dims, and was stated to be insane. He was ordered to
.1 Wil, and hos friends to take care of him.

Tire is in an orchard belonging to Mr. MA lITYII,
at Newport, by Linnet-ston, an apple-tree in bloa
som, n;iilst a quantity of ripe fruit remain on its
branches.

There is now standing in a garden belonging to
Mts. Detinurr, 1-ligh.street, Portsmouth, • Bur-
ins') tree, which is now iu full bloom, being these•
sound lime this season.
A radish, weighing eight pounds and a half,
raised in New Jersey, is now exhibiting in Phila.
iltlpt:ia.
Last Fiiulay, at the Kilkenny Assizes, Michael
flahlan, Jan heuly, and o'. Deluxyorcre tried fur
• taiing; a house belonging to Sir Witssr.t•
Luifti, at Greeuhridge, in the charge of WIL-
-3.1.1111 Kturoims, and hurglarinasly entering the
rubiong it of firearms, and violently as.
smoking KrLiotru, on the night of the 19:h
august last. At hulf.past three the Jury retired,
sod a a short time returned with verdict of not
C•i/to.

ritalN nisiekrtMe.

(Continua free Pia' illraf pap )

At Sligo, it is stated, that the labours of the
Visiting Committee have greatly prospered; the
conduct of the prisoners has been wonderfully im-
proved, and the greatest decorum now prevails in
every part of the building.
During the last year, the number or commit.
merits was less than one-half that of former years,
and not one of those who received inistructino has
been re-committed for any offence. Several de-
praved females, it is known, have resisted to the
paths of virtue and industry, in enneequence of the
humane exertions of ladies visiting this prison.
At Kilmainham. not one of the prisoners who
were the subjects of the Committee's lithours, have
been recommitted to it, since their discharge;
though in every other class of prisoners, where their
time is devoted to idleness and guilt, frequent and
melancholy instances have occurred of their return
into confinement, under fresh and aggravated
charges.
At the lite assizes of the county of Antrim, the
Learned Judge (Ur. Baron 81•Clrlisisd) remarked,
a great improvement in the educetion and moral
habits of the prisoners has recently taken place,
through the exertions of a gentleman in establish-
ing a school in the county gaol ; and I am happy
ti observe, that the most beoeficial consequences
are likely to result from it; and that even some of
the convicts have been ou much improved. and such
an effect produced thereby on their mind., that
disposed to interfere to have their punishment
mitigated."
In the connties of Tyrone, Londonderry, Mo-
nsghan, Lei.rion, Donegal, Carlow, Wteklosr, We-
learnt!, and the King and Queen's cow ties, the
er. ction of new, or elite ameudment of old. gaols.
are projecting, or hare been determined on. In
these alterations, inspection, claireficarion, and em-
ployment. will be steadily kept in view.
In the Dublin Bridewell, and a few other prisons,
a complete system of employment has been intro-
duced fur prisoners of both sexes. The happiest
effects continue to result from the benevolent trier.
tions of the Ladies' Aourciarion visiting the prisons
in Dublin, and many gratifying instances of per-
manent reformation of character appear to have
been produced amongst the objects of their care.
The improvement of the prisons, and of the
prison laws iii Ireland, has. during the last Session
of Parliament. furmed the subject of legislative
ensctinent. The Act abolishing goal fees has been
extruded to that cumitry. Another Bill for the
erection of District Peniteniaries, is also in pro-
gress. These prisons will probably be constructed
and managed iii such a manner, as will render
them worthy of general imitation.
The peliameritary Committee appointed in the
year 1819, to investigate the state of the gaols
throughout the kingdom, have not resumed their
labours since the publication of their first Report;
but a Bill has been brought into the Douse of
Commons, by his Majesty's Government, for con.
solidating and amending the various prison laws
at present in existence. This Bill, cm its iutro-
doctor)°, was referred to a Select Committee for
revision, and from the experience and intelligence
of the gentlemen composing it. there was every
reason to believe that the measure would receive
Nee consideration which its importance demanded,
and be founded on those just and enlightened prin.
elides of criminal jurisprudence, which now hap.
pity prevail. These anticipations have been rea-
lized. The Bill is evidesitly the result of much
patient iravestigation, and practical kuow ledge of
time subject.
The preamble declares, that the existing laws
fur the goveroment of prisons are complicated, mod
have, in many cases, been found iueffective, and
that in comecpietice there is reason to apprehend
that offenders hurt been hardeotd in their vicious
habits, to the great detriment of the state ; that it
is expedient to reduce the said laws into our clear
and distinct act ; that it is right and just such
measures shall be adopted us shall hot wily pro-
vide for time security, but also tend to preserve
the health, and to improve the murals of the pri-
inners; that due classification, Mailer:then, coustant '
labour or employment, sod religious sod moral in.
struction, are essential to the disciplioe of a prisoo,
and to the reformation of offenders; that the pre.
sent laws directing the separation. superiutendence,
employment, and instruction of the prisoners, re-
quire to be amender:laud enlarged, mid to be wore
uniformly and strictly carried tutu effect ; and that
it is therefore expedient that the several Acts, at
present in' force, should be repealed, time must use-
ful clauses its the same consolidated lido one Act,
and such new provisions added as may conduce to
the good order and regulation of all presents.
lu every prison separate and &eruct places of
confinement and dry and airy cello are ordered to
be provided, in which the several prisoners of the
following description may be confitied, viz.-
Ist. debtors ; 2d. prisoners convicted of felony ;
3d. prismiers convicted upon trial or minor offences;
4th. prisoners under summary cutivictious; Stb. pri-
soner* con 1111 l tied tin charge or suspicious of felony;
6th. prisoners committed of charge ur suspicion of
minor offences ; 7th. vagrants. The males, in all
cases, to be separated from the kande*, so as to
prevent, as far as possible, any communication be-
tween them; a separate place of colifinemeirt for
such prisoners es it is itileotled to eautuitie as writ-
Iltlibt* on behalf of any proweittiori, and such fur.
flier means of classification' as army be deemed prac-
ticable ; separate infirmaries or sick wards are to
be provided for the men and women, and conve.
Meld warm and cold baths; and ulso a chapel, with
separate divisions fur male and female prisoners.
lu the choice of plans fur the wee of new
and the amendment of old prisons, the Justices are
required to adopt such as shall ,gold the most
effectual means for the security, iinpection, classi-
fication, employment, and labour ul the prisoners.
Due provision is required to be made leer ratite.
ing herd labour in the cases of such prisoners es
are sentenced to that puutehruent, mud fur the em-
ployment of such other persons as may be com-
pelled to work, or disposed to industry. 'Elie
Ultillte of he'd labour are to be provided, said re-
quisite materials fur the empluyineut of prisoners
purchased.
It is directed that there shall be a competent
somber of cells or roomy, adapted to military con-
Aueineuts for the puntshoseut of refractory pri-

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goner•, and fos such persons as may by law be coo•
fined therein; also. places for labour and industry;
and proper yardaefor the prisoners to take ex-
ercise in.
No prisoner is to be put in irons, unless he at-
tempt to escape, or be refractory.
Suitable bedding is ordered to be provided.
Each prisoner is to have a separate cell at night,
where the arrangements of the prison render it prat•
ticsble.
No prisoner is to be kept in any apartment built
in so low a situation as to be damp or unwhole-
some.
The obvious propriety of giving the management
of female prisoners to persons of their own sex, is
recoanised ; and it is provided that ■ matron shall
reside in the prison, whose duty it shell be to super-
intend sod inspect the conduct of the female pri-
soners. Female prisoners are, in all cases, to be
attended by female officers.

The following clause bears honourable testimony
to the benefit* which have resulted from the labours
of voluntary associations in improving the condi-
tions of prisoners, under the superintendence of the
visiting magistrates
44 And whereas the reformation of prisoners has in many
iastswees beta maternity unlisted by the voluntary mud
gratuitous exertioas of benevolent person', in instroeting
the said prisoaers, end improving tit it religious and moral
pietism., and the most beoelletal eoarequeness have 'rive,
therefrom : Be it enacted, that in cases where each benevo-
lent persons are willing and ready to instruct the prisoners he
any gaol, bridewell, or house of corrective, with the eon.
wet of the visiting Justices, or the Chaplain—but where
obstacles may be presented by the rules and regulations pro.
tided by Ibis Act is respect S. the hours of labour, the dis-
posal, of lime, sod the distribution of books—it shall and
may be lawful for such persons to apply to the visiting
Justices, who, with the consent of the Chaplain, may refer
to the Justices at Goners! or Quarter &Thous assembled, for
leave to dispense with any of the rules cad regulations
touching lb. before mentioned subjects fur such time as
such benevolent persons shall continue their care *ad attend-
ance as such prises.

The visiting Justices at every General or Quarter
Sessions, are required to make a report in writing
of the state and condition of each prison within
their jurisdiction; of what repairs, additions, or
alterations may lie, required; and of any abuses
which may be observed, or of which they may have
►eceived information, in the management of the
prison ; of the general state of the prisoners, as to
morals, discipline, employment, and hard labour ;
and the observance of the rules.

A general Report is also to be drawn op by the
Clerk of the Peace, before the Michaelmas Quarter
Session, on the ►eport of the visiting Magistrates,
and on the certificate of the gaolers, and containing
all that is important therein.
With the view of insuring the execution of the
law, or at least of detecting its violation or neglect,
■ Report is required to be made annually by the
Chairmen of the several Quarter Sessions to the
Secretary of State fur the Home Department, on
the state of the prisons and the observance of the
Act. This return is to consist of answers to a
series of questions involving the most important
points in prison discipline, and will he found in the
Appendix. The return is to be laid before Parlia-
ment. The Chairman of the Quarter Session is
also required to transmit to the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, ■t the close of the first
Session held after the pawing of the Bill, a copy
of the rules in force in the several prisons in that
county, ■nd within three months after, plans of
such prisons; the said copies and plans to be care.
fully preserved in the Secretary of State's office.
To enter into a further examination of the vs.
lions clauses of the Bill, would be to digress too
widely from the object of this Report. The Com-
mittee may, however, be permitted to express their
regret, that in some parts of the Bill which
might have been rendered specifically binding, •
discretionary power is unnecessarily vested, and •
looseness of expression 'observed, which by merely
rendering that lawful which should he imperatively
required, may, in some cases, serve to disappoint
the views of the benevolent framers of the Bill.
For instance—it is enacted, that the substance
of certain rules of admirable tendency, and which
are calculated for all prisons, should be enforced,
when to the uniform and literal observance of such
regulations there could exist 110 possible objection.
The duty of the keeper is prescribed, and his obe-
dience to certain rules laid down, as far as is prac-
ticable.

It is provided that pritoners shall be allowed as
much air and exercise us may be deented proper, for
the preservation of their health.

Prisoner* are to be allowed a sulfrcie►rt quantity
of plain and wholesome food, to be regululed by
the Justices in General or Quarter Sessions, upon a
written report of the burgeon that such allowance is
sufficient.

Prisoners of both sexes are to be instructed in
reading said writing, to such extent as the Justices
may deem expedient.
The deplorable condition of the Borough gaols
is well known.. Owing to the smallness of their
size, and the general inadequacy of the funds ap-
plicable to their amendment, no material improve-
ment is practicable in these prisons. Until they be
abolished, the prisons of England call never be,
what they ought to be, at once the terror and the
reformation of the criminal. It does not appear
inched that any necessity whoever exists fur the
continuance of these defective places of confine-
ment, as the persons usually committed to them
might be sent to the costa), pole. In the Bill in.
question, there is a clause which suggests the ex-
pediency, and renders lawful such a transfer, god
points out a mode of arranging the .=pence. But
it is apprehended that the benefit of this clause will
be very partial, as the recommendation will be ne-
glected by those who are indifferent, and opposed by
ethers who are unfriendly to improvements is prison
discipline. The advantages of the clause bring
thus lost, the Bill will become a dead letter us to
the government of a great proportion of the gaols
iii the kingdom.

The Committee cannot refrain from adverting to
a subject u►►touched by the present Bill, rod wh►ch,
in the►r opinion, is intimately connected with the
interests of justice. The present delay in the gaol
del►verier is productive of evil.. the extent and im-
portance of which give them a claim to the se•
moos and immediate ■ttentiou of his Majesty's
Giseerument.

From the leog period which ellipses between the
Summer Avian to um year sod the Lent Assizes
in the year following, msuy prisoners lire bequeath!

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exposed to an imprisOnment of three. six. and even
eight month., before they are brought to trial ; a
severe hardship, to be defended on no jail grounds.
arid indeed in direct opposition to that maxim of
English jurisprudence, which considers even• man
innocent till proved to be guilty. By this prac-
tice. however, a heavy punishment is inflicted, not
only before the law convicts, hut in massy cases
where it eventually pronounces an acquittal.

From papers laid before Parliament, it appear,
that at Maidstone Lent Assiv.s, in 1819, there
were 177 prisoners for trial ; twenty-nine of these
had been in confinement before the Ist of October,
• period of six months. Now it is well known,
that for many crimes six months imprisonment is
considered a sufficient puni•hment. and it is a fact
that. at the same Sessions; twenty-five felons were
sentenced for different terms, not exceeding that
period. Yet, here, twenty-nine individuals are pu-
nished with the same severity before trial. as that
to which twenty-five felons are subjected after he-
ing convictiol of a breach of the laws. It is still
more worthy of remark, that of these twenty-tiiiie.
seventeen were declared innocent, or d:schargrd
without prosecution.
At the some Assizes, at Chelmsford, the injustice
of the practice was as strongly illustrated. Of 166
prisoners brought up for trial, twenty-five were in
prison before the Ist of October preceding. Of
these, eleven were acquitted or discharged by pro-
clamatiou. Two had been in confinement eight
mouthl, three upwards of seven months, and three
upwards of six mouths; while sixteen eouv.cted of
felony were sentenced to shorter lengths of impri-
sonment than these had sheady suffered.
Nor is this evil so grievous in one or two pain.
cular itistences only ; for, from the parliamentary
returns, it appears that the whole number of pri-
Porters tried at the same Lent Assizes in England
and Wales, exclusive of Middlesex, was 2,700 ;
405 of whom were in confinement before the pre-
ceding Ist of October, which number was increased
to 1,270 by the lit of January. Thus it appears
that more than one-seventh of the whole number of
prisoners, innocent or guilty, had suffered six to
eight mouths imprisonment before trial; and nearly
one-half, from three to six months.

The sense of this evil is indeed so apparent, that
it frequently induces a Judge to mitigate the sea.
tence of a prisoner when convicted. A criminal
whose offence is considered by law to deserve twelve
mouths' imprisonment, is frequently sentenced to
six months only, in consideration of the confinement
he has already undergone. This practice is cer-
tainly just, and qualifies the evil when the prisoner
is convicted, but no reparation can be made, sup.
hosing him acquitted, for subjecting him to half
the punishment of guilt. And even in the first
case, it is evident that the system must be bad,
which compels the administrator of the law to strip
it of half its terrors, in order that its letter and spi-
rit, thus set at valiance, may in some measure be
assimilated.

But the injustice of the present arrangement is
not the only argument against it. Its effects on
the prisoners, both on those who are guilty Lind on
those who are innocent, demand consideration. It
renders the sentence of the convicted comparatively
light; its character being aoltened by the reflec-
tion that the innocent have shared so largely in she
punishment, while the long interval before trial
necessarily tends to separate in his mind the con..
uexiou which it is desirable to preserve between the
punishment and the offence.
On the other hand, the hardships endured by the
prisoner guiltless of the crime imputed to hint, ■re
too obvious to require a single continent. It would
be sufficiently grievous were the gaols of this coun-
try under the most effective discipline, when the
deprivation of his liberty would be all he had to
endure ; but his punishment is infinitely aggravated
by the evils arising from idleness and vicious. assuci-
•soa. Though innocent, lie is placed in a situa-
tion of all others the best culcelsted to render him
guilty ; and thus the defective discipline of our
prisons, already too capable of corrupting, gaits, by
the tardy administration of justice all that is requi-
site to give its demoralising tendency complete
effect.

The increasing number of committals has rem.
dered it necessary in most counties to make mate-
rial additions to the common gaol•, but by a
more frequent delivery of them, the number before
trial would be materially reduced. In twenty-five
prisons, principally county gaols, which are calcu-
lated to contain 2,636 prisoners ; there were at one
time, in the course of last year, no fewer than 4,858
prisoners iu confinement. Were there another gaol
delivery in Jemmy, the number of prisoners before
trial would be lessened one-half, and a nasterial
saving would consequently be effected : a subject
worthy of consideration in many counties, where
their maintenance and the provision for their ac-
commodation is an object of serious expense.—
'I he decrease thus occasioned in the number of pri-
soners at one time, would also provide the means of
a more extended clas►ification.

It is not for the Committee to suggest in what
manlier the proposed amendment could be effected :
this is a subject for the consideration of the Legisla-
ture. But they earnestly trust that ■ measure of
such importance will soon receive the attention
which it demands.

The awful extent of juvenile delinquency in the
metropolis has of bite attracted so much omen_
boa, that it would be unnecessary to dwell at
length upon the subject.
%Vitt) the view of ascertaining the causes of the
increase of youthful criminal., the Committee, at
the earliest period of their labours, investigated the
cases of nearly 9,000 boys who were coufined in
prisons of the metropolis, or at large, actively en-
gaged in the commission of crime. These lads
were examined as to the names of their parents ;
the employment and situation of their family and
friends; whether they had received any education;
the means which they had pursued to obtain a
lihood ; the masters by whom they had been em-
ployed ; the crime.; for which they had been ins.
'mooned; and the circumstances which led them
into vicious courses. The immediate causes which
appear to have produced these habits, were traced
to the misconduct of parents, the waist of educe.
Lion. and especially of religious instruction; and
the difficulty of obtaining suitable employment—.
causes which have at all times • strong moral in..
Ilweace on the lower orders of society, but which
hare been impelled into extraordinary action of

late years, by the increase of popultitiint, and the
unusual prevalence of severe distress,
As a preventive remedy, the education of the poor
unquestionably stands pre.etnitient ; so tilucistioe
not simply elementary, but such as shall et mtuu-
nicate moral instruction, and deeply impress the
heart with religious feeling. Much has, within
these few years, been done to promote the educa-
tion of the poor, yet little comparatively has been
effected for the improvement of the most sudigesit
classes in the metropolis. To secure the attend.
ance of children of the lowest description much
personal exertion on the part of the public is ab.
soltitely necessary. It is not sufficient to build
schools, nr to ',townie gratuitous instruction; • ryas
tem must be established of domiciliary visiting to
the abodes of wretchedness and crime, and nitre.
mittinq exertions used to procure the attendance of
the children. In labouring in this great work, dia.
COUnlgello4llll most be expected to arise from the
ignorance, extreme poverty, an‘i depravity of parents.
The degrading tendencies of the poor laws; the pre-
valence of improvident marriages; the pernicious use
of spirituous liquors; sod other causes which serve to
deteriorate the moral character of the poor at large,
present formidable obstacles to the education of
their children: these impediments can only be re•
moved by the persevering elfdris of the unwearied
10 well-doing. Let the friends to the moral im-
provement of the poor, however, unceasingly. per-
severe; for they may be twinned, that them en-
lightened labours milord to the rising generation the
surest preservative against crime that reason or ex-
perience ern suggest.
(To 4o connived )

AN EXTRAORDINARY SHRUM—A woman now
re►iding in liailiffote, in Newcastle. named ELtr.
NOR NORRId, his hren regularly employed us a
►hearer every I. for eighty year,. She went
first into the harvest field at biz years old. is now
88. and earned half-a-crown a-day for several days
during the present brawn.

It was some time ago suggested by certain mem-
bers of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, that
considerable convenience would accrue from hav-
ing the city steeple-dials illuminated after swipes.
The idea has been entertained, as the Magistrates
have allowed, and the Board of Police been at the
expense of fitting up the west dial of the Trots
steeple es an experiment. The apparatus. con•
structed under the superintendence of the sag-
gesturs. 1111111 illuminated for the first time on Tues-
day night. Should it succeed, the Glasgow Gas.
light Company have agreed to furnish this steeples
with light gratis. The apparatus consist of a No, 1
argent' burner, placed • few feet out front the top
of the dial, •nd enclosed in a nearly hemispherical
lantern, the front of which is glazed; the back
forms a parabolical reflector ; the dial receives nut
only the direct hut ■ conical stream of reflected
ears ; and is thus so brilliantly illuminated that
the hours and hands can be seen with nearly the
Kline distinctness at a distance as through the day.
By a simple contrivance the clock disengages,
about sunrise, • small detent, something similar to
the larum in wooden clucks; this shuts the gas..
cock, nod so instantly extinguishes the
Ldißbairgh C•rrixt.)

MEETINGS OF CRRDITORS AT OUILDIL4LL

Tills DAY.

R. *.
W. Hai'stout,Medial', grocer 1 1
W. Cadger, late of Bloomsbury, boot maker 1 1
J. H. Aruold, Llaubletbian, nattlejobber ... 1 1

L.