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London, England, 1807-08-27 00:00:00

POLICE.

VILIN, AUO.
Tie late affair between the Kines Court and
13oillieborough Yeomanry. in the county of Cavan,
having been much niisiepresented, and greatly ex-
aggerated, I send you the following account, which
may be relied upon:—
At the affair of Muff. in the county of Cavan, on
the I ifrh in-t. a cram' took place between two pri-
est-3 of these corps, in consequence of an old
grudge between them. In the contest, the Baillie-
borough man stabbed the Kif.g's Court thoo, but
not d ingrrously. Many of the members of the two
corps laa mg at the time in the fair, they assembled,
and ranging themselves in opposite parties, a serous
coals& ensued, in which many were seterely M-
I I.
jured, though no lives were lost The result was in
ifavour of the King's Court party, the other being
the weaker, was obliged to retreat.
It had been fix -d some time before by the Bri-
gade-Major, that these two corp sho old be in-
speaed together wish the Shereock Yeomanry, but
dreading the revival of their animosities. he met
vie King's Court Cops a few miles from Baillie-
borough, ins2ecied, and then very prudently or-
dered C.ern to return home, while he writ back to
inspect the other corps ; some at the Baillieborough
Corps. who, it is said, had obtained a promise of
assistance from the Shercock med, disappointed in
I
their hopes of revenge, behaved very turbulently dur-
ing the course of the inspedion, patticelarly a per-
son who had been a pi incipal rioter at Muff, he said,
0 He was an Orangeman, and would do a. he liked."
An Officer reproved him for the insolence of his
conduCT, and attempted to strip him of his orange
insignia, with which he was profusely decorated,
when he instantly lard down his arms, and was. I
am sorry to say. imitated in this by several other
individuals of tne corps. They have, however, I
since understand. condescended to femme them.
Whether or not Government will seize this oppor-
tunity to check a wild and irregular spirit of party,
which has r nerated so many evils amongst es, still
remains to Ise seen—certain it is, the reyairy of these
men, as they themselves phrase it, ougit not to
excuse their disobedience as soldiers, or their viola-
, tion of tht laves as subjeas.

HATTett•asabie.
Yam Pak, an hostler and horse-keeper, was
brought before the Magistrates at this Office, chargad
with having in his possession a bay horse, the pro-
perty of Stephen Cooper, a Farmer at F.lemington,
in the county id. Northamp• on, which had been
stolen from the said. Co3prr in the 'torah of June
last.
It 3ppeared that the horse in question was stolen
at a fair in the neighbourhood where Cooper re-
sided, together with his greatcoat. bride and sad•
die ; and the sv:•eit after the robbery. the,horse was
iseen in Smithfield market, by the person who sold
hirato Cooper two years before, in the possession of
one Saitdero is, a horse dealer. Fells had boigi.t
the horse from a Mr. Rawson, and was to :Ave paij
him 61. but finding be was a stolen horse, be scot
bun back. Rawson purchased the horse fer a friend
(tom Sanderson, which latter, since the horse had
been discovered by the nigh: owner. had offered to
take him back and return the money he had origi-
nally paid for him. The value of the horse to the
owner was considered about 81. Fells bore a good
charaaer, and was well known in the waighhaur-
hood, and Mr. Rawson was a respeet.tble stenie-
keeper. The so, pieion there ore of . the felony.
rested wholly upon Sandereso, fu► whose awe
hension the Sitting Magistrate gave immediate di

?taints.
Hoary Clemeefs, a hicitriereoseit-paner, was also
brought before the Magistrate's eitarged with a s;-
miler offence, in having in his posit, swat e bright
bay mare, the property a one BrI.:igloos. a resident
of High Wycombe, who was in the habit of letting
out horses to hire. On the lit of Jonoary lest •
person hired eit mare in slur& and was to return
that night, or the nest mooting, but who whoLy
absconded with the snare, which wes now 106,0 ri
the possession of Clements; who sxlcl, that b ing in
want ot a horse.* person. calling himselr Pritchard,
came to him, with the mare. and told him, that a
friend of his (naming him) had informed nim. that
he wanted a :torte. and having examined her and
agreed about the price, be paid him lawhich was
considered to be the full value of toe mere. Upon
farther investigation it turned out, th..t th.s mare ...Lis
.fen by Pesree. wno was tried, condemned, and
sae • --tt at the front of Newgare. Ito Wednesday
sennight, f h Ase st-ating, and who, shortly pre.
vitro. ,o his exec rs..h. wrote to Bridgman, dircaing
him to cell o.t his (Pearce's) wife, in a fortnight.
and he should hear nomething about his mare. It
also appeared, that Bridgman. and his hostler, at-
tended the examination of Pearce. beton' the Ma-
gistrates. at Bow-street, when the hostler recognised
two to be the person to whom the mare was bored ;
notwithstandirg which he preferred no Bill of le-
diament ag:tinst him, but acr.v sought restitution of
the mare through the means of the Magistracy.
Tr.* SITTING MAGISTRATE LOW hi n, he should
have prosecuted Pearce in
ordered the the first instance, and the
Judge would then have mare to be re-
stored ; but as the precut owner of tut mare had
given a fair price for her, and no suspicion of fe-
lony attaching upon him, he (the Magistrate), had
not the power of restoring the mare, and he
therefore referred him to his remedy by a civil ac-
tioo. The Magistrate alto reprimanded the coach-
owner for purchasing a hots from a person he
had never seen or beard of before.
GUILDHALL. •
Yesterday, Page and Perth, hare, the two person,
who were committed oo Tuesday for breeding a
riot at an auction in Skinner-street. and beating
Harwood, the Attaioneer. and his wife, as men-
tioned in our Paper of yesterday, were again brought
up, and admitted to bail, to appear and take their
u ;el the next Quarter Sessions.
Mrs. tlarpur, a respeaable chiszo's wife, ap-
peared to charge two well looking women, but or
an unfortunate elass.together with ayoung gentleman
a revenue officer, whose name we have not beads
with having assaulted, battered, and roti-ed her in
the public sweet, Cnespside, on "l'oesday sight. about
the hour of I t o'clock. The hosscutris stated in
her charge. Oat the Prisoners were togedser Sher a
groats, or gang, and had struck and knocked
doen, wig intention to rob der of her cloak and
other articles of wearing apparel. which they took
by force from her persoa, hut which were produced
in Court, owing to tie diligence and itaivity of the
Police.
This charge appearing to be very serious and
alarming, under all the circumstances attending it ,
the Alderman became peculiarly minute iss his in-
vestigation, and ilsisted upon committing to Bride-
well, net only the women of ill tame, for this out-
rageous violation of the law, but likewise the young
Revenue Oitcer ; but the Revenue Officer strenu-
ously denied that he had either struck the Prosecu-
tor, or ever known any of the parties in this affray,
before he bad unguardedly joined the crowd which
surrounded Mrs. Harpur, while she Lay under the
hands of her assailants and robers. He produced
his superior, aid other sespedable persons. w nix
uncommon good chara6ter in his department, in
consequence of whick (against the positive swearing
of the Prosecutris) he was discharged.
II•NSION-HOUSR.
Lai's, the servant of Mr Bullock, the Bankrupt,
before the public heretofore, for his refusal to gsse
satisfactory or foil answers, upon his examination,
relative to the alleged trauda of his master, respett-
ing the effeas of the Beuktupt, under the Commis.
sion, was this day discharged, upon his own recog-
nizance, in the sum ci 2001. al:hough remanded
few days ago, for his reluaance and refusal to an-
swer the necessary quesiinos proposed to him on a
previous examination ; his subsequent examination.
A seems, before the Lean Marna, having appeared
to be perfeetly satisfactory.

On Thur.d.y last, the young gentlemen of the
Rath ssihool, adjoining Manchester, having gone t)
bathe in the old river, three of them were unfortu-
nately drowned near Ageeroft Bridge. The part of
the river into which the sufferers went was deep.
and, when their danger became apparent. one of
the teachers who accompanied them, but who could
not swim, waded up to his neck, with his clothes
on. to nave given them assistance, but his &forts
were fruitless, Medical assistance was obtained as
speedily as possibly, and every effort made cn the
bodies to restore life, bat in vain. The names of the
deceased pupils are, Narvis, Saasonaw. asd