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bully," which had an irritated him that he took part in the business.
The complainant said Denniford went by the name all over the
bowie.

Mr. RA WLINSON asked Denniford, if he had been treated as the
boy had been, would he not ''ec felt himself aggrieved ?
Hennitord replied in the afitrmarive.
Mr. RAW LI N SOW-0 yes; so would any of you, and come here
for redress too. He certainly considered it a most shameful case.
They had exposed this youth to the greatest degradation a young
man could experience, and he hoped they would he prosecuted.
3lr. Kean—Sir, I assure you the they shall all be prosecuted,
even at the expense of a thousand pounds, if necessary.
The detence of the other two was precisely similar to that of their
Com pan ions.
Mr. Itawr.tssciar observed, upon ordering them to find bail to
answer the charge at the Sessions, that he was inonnished such a
shameless outrage could at all be perpetrated in any respectable•
trailer's house. upon his apprentice—the son, ton. of a respectable
merchant, who had given a large premium with him.
The defendants found bail during the day.
UNION HALL.
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Yesterday George lair:l7 builder, was brought before the
sitting Magistrate, charged with having fraudulently obtained ta-
sum of five guineas from Mr. Jones, • linen-draper, of High-
street, Southwark.
The complainant nutted, that on the 14th inst. the prisoner earn.
to his house, and said he hid sonic houses to dispose of at Hack.
ney, the leases for which were then in his possession, and asked
whether he was inclined to become a purchaser, as he should have
• preference; coinplai ant replied that lie hod no objection, if
the property was completely unenctinth,red. The prisoner assured
him that the houses were free of all encumbrances, and produced a
parchment as the origin t! lease sat the premises Complainant ex-
amined the document, i 4 !itch appeared to be as rep,esented. and
the following agreement war hdtliwith entered into by the parties,
viz.:—

"I agree to sell Mr. Jones four houses in Temple-street, Hack-
ney-road, for the stint of 255/., finished for immediate occupation,
with locks, bolts, &c. (Signed) " GEORGE FAIRFAX."
Complainant paid the prisoner ten shillings as a deposit, and on
the 17th a further sum of 5/. upon the production of the lease of the
premises. when it was arranged that the fellowirg Tuesday should
be appointed for the conviction of the purchase, and payment of
the purchase-money. On Monday • !tat; 'litswevee, complainant
went to hackney to view the premises, and in the course of exami-
nation mentioned to a person on the spot his intention of purchas-
ing the four hous:s troth Mr. Fairfax. • The individual alluded to
said that Fairfax had nothing whatever to do with the property in
question. Complainant observed, that the informant must be mis-
taken, for he could produce the lease made over to him by that per-
son. Complainant was, however, assured that the lease he held
was a fabricated one, and that the original was in the possession of a
gentleman nainol Harrison, to whom the rrisoner had mortgaged
thk propery some time before for the sum of 21111/. Complainant,
therefore, lust to time ii making the ne,:e,sary inquiries, when he
ascertained the above fact% to be perfectly true.
Harrison was then called, and produced the original lease of
the premises in question, upon which he stated he had lent the de-
fendant 2110/. on mortgage, on the 7,h of last October 'l.ie heti-
Howl lease was alto produced : it was precisely worded as the ori-
ginal, with the seals and the signatures of persons us witnesses who
were not in existence.

The Magistrate observed, that this was a new species of fraud,
and called on the prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, to enter
into his own recognizance, in the sum of IM/, and two sureties of
40/. each, to appear at the ensuing session• to answer the charge ;
in default of which he was committed to gaol.
PADDY'S DAY.—An Irishwoman, named Connry, and her son,
a navigator, were brought up. charged with lin% ti.g violently as-
saulted Mr. Bramwell, the landlord of the Fox and Hounds public
house in r-outhwark, by beating hint with his kitchen poker.
From the statement of the complainant it appeared that the de.
fendants entered his house on St. Patrick's Hay w a state of in.
toxication, and called for drink, which being relined. exasperated
the mother so much that she swore by her Patron Saint she would
have revenge before she went home ; she proceeded into the tap.
ram). and having armed herself with a poker, weighty enough to
knock down *bullock. concealed it under her cloak, and walked to-
wards the bar, in which Mr. Bramwell was stand' rig. Having got
within arm's length of him, *he drew out the ponderous weapon,
and made a stroke at his head, which he very dot kilt' avoided, and
it fell uptin his arm. Idc strove to wrest the poker out of her hands.
when tier son joined in the affray, and, having possessed himself of
it. began to strike at all who interfered, and gate some desperate
blows before it could he taken away from him.
The mother and son urged the festival of St. Patrick in extenu-
Minn of their offence.
They were both held to bail.

It appears by the census taken in 1821, that there are a
greater number of persons above 110 years of age in the county of
Ross, than in any district of equal population in the kingdom. In
the parish of Centin, three men died within the last ten months,
one aged 99 years and V months, another 96, a third 94, and two
women upwards of 80 years of age.

convequence of information received
by the officers of Excise in Inverness, Mr. Gardiner, supervisor,
accompanied by Messrs. (hassle, Gowie. and Beattie, stationed
themselves at the Canal bridge, near the Muirtown Locks, on the
night of Monday last, in expectation of seizing a quantity of
whisky expected in town. About twelve o'clock a band of
smugglers, consisting of fifteen men and a woman, appeared with
three carts and five horses, carrying 20 anchors of whisky. The
officers announced their names, and required an immediate sur-
render, upon which they were assailed by the whole posse, and
compelled to abandon the seizure. Mr. Gowie, one of the Excise
officers, was severely cut on the head in several places, and now
lies seriously ill in consequence.—Calcriunian Mercury.

A few nights since an unhappy female; a native of Glas-
gow, in a fit of desperation, threw herself into the harbour of
Leith, with a dash against the side of a vessel, evidently for the
purpose of extinguishittg a wicked lire, by drowning. In this at-
tempt she broke three of her ribs. Fortunately, however, she was
soon rescued from a watery grave by the activity of some of the
watchmen near the spot, and brought to the Humane society's
rooms, where the usual means of restoration were adthinistered with
success. She was here visited by,one of the clergymen of Leith,
through whose kind admonitions.she was led to see her guilt and
danger, and became desirous of being admitted into the Magdalen
Asylum. No sooner was this circumstance communicated to the
Lord Provost, than his Lordship, with his accustomed humanity.
gave the most prompt directions tor her admission into that excel-
lent institution.

PCRPIGNAN.—A murder MIS perpetrated in the vicinity
of this town on Monday last ; the person who lost his life I. sup-
posed to be an English gentleman. who had been making a pedes-
trian tour in the Pyrennees. His papers and money had been taken
away, and nothing iodicated to what country the unfortunate man
belonged, save that a hat was found 'near the spot, bearing the
malc.-r's name. " Lloyd, London." The body, and particularly
the face, had been so shockingly mutilated, taat any person who
might have been acquainted with the victim could never have been
able to recognise the individual. it small portfolio, containing a
few botanical and mineralogical specimens, was also found; the
only paper discovered was a small aecourt for board and lodging,
partly in French, and a few words in English. The police was
very active in their researches after the perpetramrs of the crime,
but, until yesterday, they had not been able to effect a discovery.
On that day a Spanish deserter, who stated that be had left his re.
giment on the 7th Instant, and had walked from Figueras to Per.
thus, was arrested by the gendarme.. The man wore the uniform
of his regiment, and was armed with a musket and sabre. On
examining his prison, several severe broke, were discovered on his
arms and shoulders. He said that, on his road to Perthus, he had
been attacked by a robber, and that in the scuffle vie wounds had
been inflicted. No money or papers being found upon hint, the
Magistrates were on the point of sending him bark to the depot
from whence he had deserted, when a small penknife, with an
ivory handle, was found conceaLd in his handkerchief; it bore the
mark of " London." lie could not give a satisfactory account in
what manner it had come into his possession, and cn that citron.
stance alone he was fully committed to take his trial.

HEMA N BODY POI'Nll IN A BOG IN A SINGOLAI
PREM—The body of a man was found in a bog on the lands
of Gallagh, near Newton-Bellew, the seat of C. D. Bellew, Esq.
in the county of Galway. The bog was about ten teat and a half
deep, and the body lay about nine feet below the surface. It had
all the appearance of a recenbileath when first discovered, except-
ing that the abdomen was quite collapsed ; but, on exposure to the
atmosphere, it decayed rapidly. The face was that of a young
man, of handsome features and foreign aspect ; and his hair, which
was long and black, hung loosely over his shoulders. The head,
legs, and Get, were without covering, but the body was clothed in a
tight dress, covering also the limbs as tar as the knees and elbows.
This dress was composed of the skin of some animal, laced in front
with thongs of the same material, and having the hairy side In.
wards ; and it is not improbable, that it might have been that of
the .loose-deer. Ile had no weapon ; but near him, at each side
of the body, was found a long staff' or pole, which, it was supposed,
he had used for the purpose of bounding over streams ; and, as the
body was found near a rivulet, it was further conjectured, by the
peasantry, that the man had met his death accidentally in some
such manner. The antiseptic power of bogs is well known, and
the frequent discovery. of human bodies in a high state of preserva-
tion in those of Ireland has been already recorded. The finding of
this body woultfnm, therefore, deserve particular notice, nor would
it, probably, have excited much attention at the time, hut for the
singularity of the costume. And this notice is the more necessary,
as the dress no longer exists, having been buried with the body_in
instance of thoughtlessness of which the better informed in Ireland are
ashamed. The antiqutty of these remains is shown by the great depth
bog under stitch they lay ; but as the growth of bog must depend
nn various circumstances, as situation, humidity, soil. Sm. that fact
alone can give us no certain criterion of its age. On this point,
perhaps, the rude dress in which the body wait clothed, is likely to
afford mote satisfactoty ground for conjecture. That it belonged
to a period antecedent to the arrival of the English, may he con.
eluded from the evidence of Oirahl Batty, who says that the Irish
were but lightly clad in woollen garments, barbarously shaped,
and for the toast part black, because the sheep of that country were
usually of that colour : and, from the spirit of that author's work,
we have little reason to suppose, that it any portion of the Irish in
his time had been clothed in skins, he would have failed to have
noticed it. From these circumatatices, it is conjectured that the
body was that of one of the Belgic inhabitants of Ireland, as it
was in a district unquestionably inhabited by theta, and the close
skin dress seems to have been used by them.

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On Sunday evening, the 24th Instant, at Eton College, in the 15th Val:
of hit age, Lancelot Rnile.ton, only son of Lancelot Rollestun, of N at.
nall, In the cJunly of Nottingham, Emt.
°tithe 72(1 of Auguat, lea% at Port Dalrymple, Van Dienten's Land,
Mrs. Balfour, lady to Lieut.-Cul. Balfour, of the 411th regiment.

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