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London, England, 1821-06-13 00:00:00

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sett—l transmit IhR following ru li wile particles
lars of Ihe late serious affray twine-en the smuMert
and preventive mei' belonging to the .Seger* frigate.
that ore stationed at Folksti.iiie, they were collected
from this Jury and the family of (lie deceased. and
l eau HleJge myself fur their corrertness.
A CONNTANT READER.
" rout ensile, Jowl 11.
" A aerials affray °rearmd in this'oeichlositrlusotf on ti.c
morning of Thursday last, shout . three o'clork. brtweem the
stuugileis, and an offirer„ e queriersnaster, and two sea.
men, of the Severe frigate, atalimied at this place for
prevention of smuggling. - It seams that a boat ladeu ultf•
contraband spirits, was expected to work (as the mining
the cargo is teebinally galled),. ui She cfnarse of the uichi or
moraine. For as Lieuteisant Prat, with thelmisif wry
above anoded to, was going his fillit.ll4, cruising the field.
by Martellu Tower, Nu. 2, his party discovered lying iu the
fields, wUsl at first was supposed to be a flak of sheep, from
the irreg,lar manner tit which they lay, but which, ou ;Mar
ap to them, proved to be a largo piety of smuggler., to !his
number of shunt 300, as is blipi•osed. The offiree immr-
timely roiled to the nearest of !helm to siorendee, and go
with him poisoner to the lower;' Iltiy all jumped tip mid ran
sway The Until sang had the temerity to pursue, and nu
the fi lit he cull.red -refusing to surrender as prisoner, he
erilerid his •mall party t., fire. which they did, and imme-
diately the armed party that attended the as drew up into
an irregular column and fired (they appeared so consist of
about 40;, two of the seamen cal of wounds received in the
first volley; they, however, fired whine un their knee., by
command of their officer, when tho other party discharged
Sivotlier volley with the precision of men regularly twined
• and irsiaed, which bronght down the remainder of their
oppoineuts; use of the party was observed to raise himself
a. he. lay to einkavonv to fire again, winch the armed smug-
glers.perreiving, they dist horned their arms again, which
kified the brive fetiuw ahmdrd •to, the o t•ole of thim then
tseaped into the country The firing euou gave the alarm.
°these ask Preventive Seamen hastened to tile spot uhly ni
time tolgive assistawee to the witundid end to remove the
dead buds of their compositor .
The name of the deceased was Richard Wooldridge, a na-
live of Lourlon,'froni which he had.just returned from the
funeral of his mother, very lately descried in the neigh-
boarhood of Soho.sqoare. Hr hu left a wife soil one
He hail wised his Majesty fur many years in the navy, snit
was anxiously looking forward fur Alit lapse of six months,
when be would have been discharged from a service pecu-
liarly iiksostie to him. lie bare a wvirdexemplary character
in the service. lie was buried en Suirdvy evening in Folk.
alone chnrch.yard, anewskd weds." grave by his own and his,
wife's family, owl all the officers of the dillereot stations
in the neighbourhood. Several of his hardy shipmates
were ulistertil to chop tears of regret fur his untimely
fate. I should have oh.crycd, that as inquest was bell.
• on the body at the fat on the alterisouo of Thurs.
sky. Thu Jury were sic hours ii, hearing the depositions
of the wounded witnesses, and deliberating on their verdict,
there Irving duisht• on the ads of several es to the pro-
priety of a rem dirt of " Wilful Monks," when the Officers
were the fiat to fire, and the oilier party having no smug-
gled goods Ultimately, however, • Verdict of " Wilful War
deg" against persons iiiikstoten, was recorded. Upwards of
thirty wounds wereecouated on the body of the deceased;
and Lieut. Peat has twenty at least; it in not unlikely, but
he moist undergo limpid** of tow of los legs: the other
two men are likely... do well lt is reported here that the
smugglers recognised Lieut. Peat to be the 111311 who was
tried at Ike late Maidstone Assizes, fur having ran a smug-
gler through that esideavoered to escape, he having taken•
him tutu custody, which is said to have increased their des-
puration. It way not be amiss to slate that the smugglers
load come from the interior, and brought • cart with them to
carry ~If their killed and irsuadell, in case of MU coconuts,'
to prevent driectioc"

ESCAPE PROM PRISON.

Ow Monday night Nocklogo and Rennet, the two P.i-
sellers whom we last week stated to have hero committed at
Tewkesbury for a burglary, escaped from the New Borough
Gaol there, in company with Joseph Stephens, who was im-
prisoned on a charge of shop lifting. No tidings whatever
have been heard of the two former, bet Stephen* was appre-
hended next day, and has been sent back to him Of4i planters.
In consequence of tbm crowded state of the gaol, the abuse
three Promisees were confined in one cell; but the daring
character of the two who are now at large beteg well known
(one of them having us a former occasion escaped from she
same prison), the precaution wa taken of keeping them
heavily iron. d, a bieh appears, however, not to hams had telt
desired effect. Having by some no mcerMined means, pro-
vided themselves with a proper iustrument, they contrived,
its the course of the preceding day, to file their irons measly
Ibiromgh; so that a trifling forceonly was required to wrench
them the gaol. r as usual visited the Prisoners about
nine o'clock, at whirls time ohs y were all in bed, though it
appears they immediately afterwards began to carry their
project into %Petition. liebasing themselves from their
fetters, they, with the file and a knife, made a bole in the
door, through which they got into the inner !omit and the
petitioning, I bickly studded with strong tenter- musks, was an
obstacle soon surmounted. They then formed a step-ladder
with their bed-cluthes, which they made subservient to their
purpose by tying thereto a towel full of earth, and throwing
it over the outer wall—a barrier which they thus quickly
sealed, and let themselves down u uutaule by the same
means.—(Oloisesettr Journal.)

COURSE OF EXCHANI
Aesstrideme, C.F. 1$ IS
Ditto at Sight 111
Ruttorthm, 12 19
Antwerp l2 19
Flasnbuigh 38 10
A none ..... 38 11
Paris 3 Jay's date 25 85
Ditto 26 20
%Bordeaux
Frankfort ea the

MI6 Ttn4o.4v, JUNE 14.
Leghorn ... ..... 47
Venice ital. Liv 27 00
Mall*
N•pies
Palermo, per oz lls
Lisbon ....
()poi iu .. 50
Ran Jastriro . . .. 49

Maine 1591
Petrrstiiireh, p. rbl. 9 3 Us.
Vienna E5.291.11u. 10 30
Trieste
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilbao 351
hum loos 33
Seville ..
3114
Gibraltar
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. . 09
Dublin 9
Cork *it
11ULI.10111
Portugal Gold in I a. d.
Coils, per uz ..4. 0 0 0
Gold iii 8ar5...... 3 17 la
New Dmehlowes.... 0 0 0
New Dollar• 0 4 9
Silver io Bars .. - 0 4 10

Oa the 5411 isatast, by special license, at Gloster, is ea.
Cousty, IM seat of Jubn Lloyd, Esq. the goer., d
Henry King, nephew and Ist it of the late John Knit. Eaq.
of Hallylin, to Mies Lloyd, youngest daughter of John Lluyd,
Eaq of Molder:
Edward S Lees, Esq. Secretary to the General Post-oflier.
Dublin, to Jane, youngest daughter of the late Capt. Clarke,
40th regiment, awl niece to the Hou. Sir Edmund Stanley.
Chief Jubilee at Madras.
DEATHS.
On Sunday last, in Baker.street, in the MI year of her
are. Mrs. Hengough, relict of the late Aldersosu Bengtiugh,
of Prieto/.

Us Sunday, the 20th instant, at Romney, is her 31lb
year, of iiAammation of the chest, after four days ilium,
Rebecca, ware of John Reynolds Berideme, Esq. Surgeous
and youngest daughter of the Rev. Robert Winter, D.D.

MGR WATER THIS DAY AT LoNnoN BRIDGE.
Hornier • •Rer IS. I Evening '22 •tier 12.

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