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London, England, 1805-07-09 00:00:00

Gt ILDHALI,.

ICl:steed:7 the London Se,sion commenced before
the IlEcoanra, Aldermen LE NI SMITH,
PRI NSEP, and the Sheriffs.
A Mr. Bros/tag was tried on a charge of assault-
ing a tar.gatherer in the discharge of his duty, and
was fined 201. .
A Gentleman's coachman was tried for wilfully
driving against a one-Morse clutice, and endangering
the lives of a Gentleman and his servant. He wog
hoed lot. and to remain in prison until paid.

POLICE.

PUBLIC (Amor, POW-STREET.
When the siz persons, who were in custody on
suspicion of being concerned in the numerous
burOaries which have lately been commited in the
neighbourhood of Blackheath, were under examina-
tion yesterday se'nnight, s. mug suspicion was erter-
tained that part of the property stolen had been con-
veyed to Birmingham ; in consequence of which Sir
RICH ait D Porto dispatched Adkins, the Officer, to
that town, who, after his arrival there, and making
diligent enquiry, discovered that the prisoner Webb's
mo her lived there, and he'llad been to see her lately;
upon which he &stained a search warrant, from the
Magistrates at Birmingham to search her Manse. On
the officer's going to the house, he told her the busi.
ness he was come up-m, when she acknowledged
her son had been there lately. He proceeded to
search the house, and found a pair of pistols, a va-
riety of articles of plate, and other property, to a
considerable amount, which, he had strong suspicion,
had been stolen, and st ized them.
Yesterday the six persons in custody were brought
from the different prisons where they have been con-
fined, and underwent another examination before Sir
Rrciiaan Folio and G. H. HARRINGTON, Esq.--
Lord Sc ;MEV likewise sat upon the Bench.
Adkins the Officer produced the property, which
he had seized in the house of the Prisoner Ffrabl'a
mother, at Birmingham.
A servant at General Twist's, who resides at
Chidehurst, proved that his master's house h•ol
lately been broke open, and two bottle stands pro.
duced by Adkins, were his property.
Mr. Taylor, of New Cross, proved, that an.
opera•glass, a pair cf silver buckler, and a case set
mathematical instruments, were part at the pro-
perty stolen fri'm his house when broke open, which
were produced by Adkins. and fwnd by him in the
house of Mrs Webb, at 'Birmingham.
Mr. Warne-, of Eastliarn, prayed six curtains to
be his property, which were friurd in the house of
the prisoner Rime', upon Blackheath.
Mr. Li-mutate, of Mays Hill, Greenwich, at-
tended, And proved that his hcus had lately been
broke open, and robbed of plate to the amount of
ROI. but none of the articles produced by Atirirs
were pert of it.
Mr Lonsdale's servant attended, end statedb that
at the time his master's house was broke open, he
lest several articles of irropeity. which was combo.
r.tet by a woman who made the shirt.
They were committed for further examination ca.
Thursday.

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NAVAL eNTF 7. ICE ATE.

rtpid Jlq..T 6.
The "iasee fr;gate arrived were this afternoon from
the Mediterranean. We learn by her, that sit sail
of Spanish line of battle ships were lying in Car-
thagena. Sir Richard Bickerton, with the Qmern and
I.),agna men of war; were cruising off Collz. The
Anion seas chased between Cape St. Vincent and
tape St. Mary. The Awe,' lift Malta on the I.t
of May, and passed Gibraltar on the 51st, at which
the Expedition was lying at Gibraltar.
JULY 7.
Arrived the Reiliierex, (4, from the Downs ; the
tech./air frigate, from cffilavre; and His ~.lajesty's
*hips aleasta and eqces, from a crui.e.
By six whalers that pautd by tlis morning. we
learn that eight Chinarnea wete lying at St Helena
in.Aptii, waiting the arrival ol the liceiater. of 64
guns, which ship convoyed cut the Ife,rtm Iraq-
,, s, and some other Indianten, and sailed from
this port in the beginning of Fehroary ; therefore
the above ,hips may reasonably be exptileJ home
*very day.

retstoutn, JULY 5.
Arrived the Ihrti!oNt packet, Anthony, from Ja-
maica, in 4C days passage; passengers by her are
Captain Elite and Mr. Lepare. The packet brings
no piutirular news respeaing the Combioed Fleet;
Admiral Decres was cruising off. the eat end of Ja-
maica, with five sail of the line ; Admiral Cochrane
had sailed fnr Earbedoes io His Majesty's ship Cm.
teat ; the Bnaiilien yesterday passed a fleet of about
Oft sad, supposed to he the West India-fleet. The
ships Geiiege a,.d Bridgrt and the Brolhav, from Lon-
don and .4etleira, are captured by a Frcii h priva-
teer, and carried into Guadeloupe.
Arrived His Majesty's sh,p Favourite. to give in-
strudions to the slim& waiting cony% for Lisbon.
LITMACT 07 A LIETTER.

" PLYMOUTH. MY 3.
14 I have just received a 1: tier from on board the
Nikrsia,„da,ed July 2. off Brest, which says:—
Sir Thomas Graves sends an account that the
Combined Fleets have tak n Trinidad, end that a
division of it are gone against Ismaica. '1 his news
is said to be brought to Passage, by a French na-
tional brig.
*4 It is certain great rejoicings were made at Brest
and at Rochefort, on some ecca.ion, as the ships,
dossed in colours, had fired several Royal salutes,
as well as the batteries ; the account also adds, that
five sail of the enemy had gone to St. Domingo.
14 Admiral Dacres, according to private letters,
has rettOried from the coast of St. Domingo to the
.3a,maica eta ion.
iseA packet of letter:, taken out of a sloop of war
from St. Helena by a fishing boat off the Sound,
from Rear-Admiral Sir E Pel'esr, Bart. only nine-
teen wcslcsltom the East Indies, is just arrived to
Lady Pellew. The gallant Admiral was well at
that period with his squadron."
JULY C.
Sail-d the P'llk Jr Pnrir rnal of war, Admiral
Corstwal!is, to join the Chlnnel Fleet, and La Lan-.
fits*" on a anise. Wind S.W.

•• • . •
,SPORTING tLTGENCE.
MORPETH MEETING.
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Tdesday,July 2, and Wednecl!y the fld, fit the
t*o XOl. plates. Nu race for either.
NEWCASTLE UNDER-LINE MITTING.