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POLICE.

CUILDRII,4I., OCT. 24.
Solomon Mbar, of N.. to, biuble-street, Poster-less,
charge.: Rniert 110 fibril, of the same place, with stealing •
hopiece ut white livery cloth. He stated that he reuted aware-
use and apartments from the Pennine, ; he was in the
habit of iesetug pieces of cloth, out of the warehouse, fur
delivery. On this occasion he had left seven, and the Pri-
soner miry delivered six. On searching hi. apartments, one
piece awhile Ilirery was found secreted under a bed. It was
the property of the witness.
The Prisoner, in his defence, admitted he had taken the
piece of loth, at the suggestion of a ti iciid, to secure his
rent, as the Prusecotue had become stitch involved in his cir-
cumstances, and a docket had been actually struck against
him. He dill not take it secretly, his apprentice knew of it,
and the purpose he took it fur. He had also mentioned the
circumstance to several other persons, and there were many
respectable householders, in attendance, who would give
him a good character.
The worthy Aldermen, the Lord Mayor elect, gave hirn
'Were reprimand fur taking the law into his own heads, but
observed, he did tidt think en) guilt attached to him. He
therefore ordered the cloth to he restored to the Prosecutor,
and discharged the Prisoner.

KAWt!ON•UOU49, OCT. 94.
There being a Court, of Aldsrassa bliuminoried at Guild.
ball, the Lord Mayor did mot sit.

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ho* slit Ste.
Yesterday Mr. J..1.n Jackson, some years war.: well known
me a cekbrated prke.tighter, was brought, is the custody of
Mathias°, before Mr. Rea u, charged with •.oleutly sweadlt-
lag Mr. James Savage, of Walainghass-placet uu the Surrey
aide of BlackfriSrs'doidge.

Mr. Savage stated, that, on the evening ads. lath of Sep-
tember, the time when Covent. Garden Theatre ommed, he
Oros, to the boxes of that theatre. When the peg turnmuci.s
bed eweieluded, he was in the front row of one of the front
tweets, sad i•: prmsare was se great, that be and others,
who Were in the front rows, were uhlige.ido stand upon the
eu,laiostp stone (sine. .4 person came behind hint, pulled
s &hit, and told him be was injaring his property,
by 4111,2dt:ix upon the cushion • he replied, that if be was in-
juring any peewees property, he was willing to auks it good,
but it was larpue..hle fur him to stand any where else, the
crowd bakind Whig so great. In a few minutia; aster that,
he wee mixed by the enlist, by a in,, whom be did not know,
and turned out of the tuts ant the theatre. At the tient be was
turned out of the theatre, be row Mac Lean., the officer.
lo toe days after hi saw Nineteenth, again, and inquired of
him the Luew whinu it u Y that turned lust out of the thea-
tre t when he replied, it wan Jackson, the prise- fighter. •
gsw da,)a mime he sal Maensanas agaia, when be repealed
that it was Jae( we *be bed C.irised him out.

Mr. It L•to asked Mr. sita, if Mr. Jackets, who stood
by his side, was the person who tensed him out of the The-
etre !—To which be replied, to the great astouishmeut of
every one present, that be did met know. Mr. H. observed,
as that was the case, how wet it pdisiblc for him to swear
to the Information, to enable him to Obtain the rearrest '—
Mr. Savage acknowledged that be had never meets Mr. Jack-
doe before in his life, to his knowledge ; but be resembled
the Milli Will/ turned him out of the 'Theatre lie bed too
much sense of the solemnity of an oath, to swear to a pr-
ams Ire was not quite positive of ;, and hr had sworn to
the info. mstion, merely upon what Mammon' had mid.
Mr. tics s repressed htd astouishment that Le should pee-
Dud to sweat to what aaluthet person Lad told him.
Macinimue was not present, and Mr. S.issice requested
that the decision upon the warrant might be postponed
till Me:menus ribald attend.

Mr. Jarkeuu, in his defence, said, that, on the tad, day If
September, he dined with General Gwyose, Cul. M‘Dowall,
Captains Barclay and Haribury, arid others, at the Pimeza
Cuffee-base. Atter dinner they went to Corrist-Gsrtlen
theatre. He did not recollect seeing. Maculauur is the
course of the night. He and the above (emaciates left the
Theatre saint After the perfor.aances were over, and returned
to the Piazza Coffee-hawse, at half poet eleven o'clock, to
supper; which he could prove by the above grutlanteo, the
waiters of the bailee, sad others, cud that hr was at home,
in Grusvcour.etreet, Pimlico, at the time ekes 11r. Satrap
said he was turned out of the Theatre.

Souse of the gratleinew wh.i were is compaay with Mr.
Jaeitsow, at tbe lhvatte, &treaded to prove Me. Jackaosa
statevaent.

Mr. Savage urged again to have the decision postponed.
Mr. RII•D refined ; but said, if Macausniii would repeat
what Mr. Savage had said, be shveld have 11110011.1 VIA/Tiint
Mr. Jackson said, he should not be satisfied with a
ehageot of the warrant, but called aria Mr. Savage for 1114t111-
faction.—.olr. S expressed himself sorry for kit bail p.“s-
trd ; but Mr. Jacksoo replied, that would ant aativfy hoe fur
being coder isspiisonboesit by a warrant; he should rxpga
satisfaction. Mr. Savage very readily pee him his mime
and address.
Mr. Jai-twin was arearditigly discharged.

Jame, 711, f /Mr the butcher, who resides akw miles from
Windsor, Ann his been iu crtstody, tunic time, cal a
charge of utteriag forged Bank notes, was brought up for
re-examtnatioo.

Mr. Farsmrtzt.o, the solicitor, and Mr. Lees, the In-
spector, attended foe the Bank.
Mr Mtn vita tre attended for the Prisoner ; and contend-
ed, that the Pt 'seiner being a tradesman, he bid paid aw sy
the Iwo 11., and three it forged Bank notes, together with
ten guineas, fur a beast, to a salesman at Southwelt market,
to whom be told Ism name and place of abode; sad as
there was no prow( that the Prisoner bad in ►ie posses
Mon any other forged notes, or had been concerned, in any
way whatever, with any forged notes, he °arid to be its-
charged ; especially as he could prove that he bad an unde-
niable character; and several persons, who bad received large
mains from hint, bad never received any forged notes.
'lime Agent. for the Hank, however, persisting is their
charge,
Mr. READ said, he should commit him foe trial: at which
time, any thing be had to adduce in his defence world avail
him.

41 A RI.ROROUGWO , OCT lg.

The further examination of Tt rode, a lan has ahead an-
tiserum seerril examinations, charged w ath tarions robberies,
parLeular4 a,th robbing the Arundel !Marl, and nal, bang
concerned in the rubbery of the F.xctar Mad, we, in put goon
into ; but the evideuce nut lacing cannelete, he as remanded
until another day.

UNIOIII-11•1.1., 011 T

T.tnma. /WI, and Jagre. Morcott., were brought up by t:olf,
charged with having in their pumemoun a qumitity of un-
dressed flax, of which the could give no a,count.
staled, that, as be was passing along the road, un Sunday
last, mar N. whigton turnpike, he saw the Prisoner, Hall,
•bo had a sack on his shoulder, costaining sunset hire ; and
the °dicer iaquiriug what it was, the Prisoner said he did
not know, he had just before found it, and bad not examin•
cd it. commits On examining it, Goff found it contained a
quantity of midressed flax. Norcute, the other Prisouer,
bad an empty s+tk w his hand, hick he attempted to throw
away; at first, they denied having soy knowledge of each
other ; it afterwards appeared, ►owever, that they were inti-
mate aremaintances —.Pimp were both ceasicted, nudes the
hovering att, and Sued aOll eac►.

Lord inct.t.e Is arrived in Dublin, on Thursdity,
on his way to the county of Louth, to meet hue
fnewls at Diiiidaik, previous to the elrctioo for
that eminty. All the rank and fashion of Louth
*re assembled there, the present being the week of
the Northern Rangers' Hunt. His Lordship bas
been absent iu Spain, or up the Alctliteiraneao,
these two years post.

FROM L.4.cT NIGHTS •

,I

BY THE KING.
• PROCLAMATION,
For pardoning all Seamen and Mtrines who n. .t .t.. • ,
hare dr.s. (inset His Majeety's
•
GEORGE R.
Whereas we are dasireis to mark the fiftieth unisiversvy.
•
ef oar accession to the Unwise, by eatsednig our mu4sui to
all aurora sod marines who/may at any tin hive *eeriest
fi.on our service, previous to the :main of tbas one rural
proclamation : we hare thought it, by and with the advice
or our Prify Commit, to publish this OW royal prodansatiuu, I
and do hereby s.,cordingly grant our most gele;duis prardtalS
to all suck seamen a, may at any tide here deserted from
say °fuer ships in vessels of war : and we du hereby further
grant our most gracious pardon to all /marines who may at
any time have deserted from oar service, and we
declare, that all such seamen end marines, Whether sorrels- .
deriug thenmelves ur not, or who, Litwin:: deserted, are wow
belonging to some of our ships or vessels of wee, or are nt
the bead-quarters of our royal marine forces, or are beloug-
ing to recruiting parties of the said fortes, shall be released
and discharged from all prosecistiuns, imprisonments, and
penalties, commenced or mem red by reason of such deem.
lion; nod that all such seamen or marines, who have not,
before the insulin of this our royal proclamation, surren-
dered themselves, nor entered on board our ships or vessels,
nor jollied the head-quarters or recruiting parties of the
royal maritirs, shall, nevertheless, receive our free pardon,
without condition of further service, or being required to
join any of our ships, or the head-quarters or mei-toting par-
ties above-nientionca , but that such pardon shall not entitle
the said deserters, whether seameti or snariivs, to any ar-
rears of pay, or to any price-money forfeited by such deser-
tion; sod we do further declare, that such free pardon
slip not extend to any seaman or marine who shall de.
wet from any of Our ships or vessels, or from marine •
quarters or recruiting parties, after she teth day of dim
iactaut October.
Largo at Our Court at the Queen's Palace, the lath
dey of October, tto,, is the egth tear of OW
• Reign.

GOD save the KING.

PROCLA 4TION
?sr pardoning Deseiters from His M ijesty's Land Fortes,
liar-Office, October g 4, Ism)
Whereas it baa ►ees west humbly submitted to the K.rie,
whether, on the joyful occasion of Hoe Majesty% eaterine
into the loth year of his Beige, it might nor be desirable to
distinguish so memorable an epoch by an acted' grace to all
deserters; and His Majesty having graciously approved of
his free perdu* being extended to all such deserters from hie
Land Forces as shall deliver themselves up within two
months from t►e oz;th intuit . these are pnLluiy to declare
His Majesty's benevolent intention and to direct that all
deserters, surrendering thetdaelyes to the Commanding Offi-
cer of any reeioneut, or to May of the Superintending Field
Officers of the Reeriii,ting Service, whose stations are mem
tinned in the margin hereof; to the Commandant of the
Dothan'. Army Depot in the [deur R'ig►t ; or, w hers
Carlisle. there is no military post, to • Marcelo ,
Leeds. shall he pardoned, mid they are hereby par-
Manchester. &Mita accordingly.
Nuil,,,Kbaui. Sur), .1i serters, if from the Regular Forces,
being able-bodied men and lit fur service.
Shrewsbury. shall he sent to the regiments from which
Birmingham. they respect ir.-ty deserted, or be appointed to
Hereford. soth regiments i■ the Coiled Rined.sen, as
Bedford. HI, Majesty may be pleased to command ;
Maidstone. and, when so placed, shall not be liable 1.3 he
Gloucester. claimed by ane ot.ier corps to which they
Southampton. may formerly have belosgest ; and from the
Wells. Yilitis, shall be sent to the regiments to
London. which they respectively belonged.
And whereas many of the said Deserters may have enlisted
is other Corps, sod are sew serving therein, Ks Majesty is
graciously ideated la cured to each Deserters the bi•ucltt of
this Pardon; and to direct that they shall continue to serve
in the Corps wheiets they sow are, upos declarlhe them-
selves to their.respeetnre Commanding I )flicera, on or berme
:he period abovs•menttoned : and they shall not he liab4, at
soy future time, to be claimed by the Regiments in which
they formerly served.

I

The 11 3 gistrate, to whom any deserter, as above, may sm.
render Luu,.4f iv aatlrniised and required to certai the day
deserter surrendard himself; which curing-
este pito continue in force mail the arrival of the aleverter at
the nearest military post, provided he proceed at the ratio!
ten miles a-day, unless prevented by sickness, to be et:tithed
by same medical oleo itiona r on the back of the Matestratr'•
certificate; or to be otherwise proved t.. the satistattiuo of
the officer I. ommanding at such military post
Ills Majesty has further been pleased to Jirmt, that
aerte-rs, now actually in confinement as smelt, stall hart this
benefit of this His Royal Pardon.
By His Majesty's eommand,
GRANVILLE LEVESON GOWER.