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London, England, 1806-02-28 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S Erse'', c; 11.•NALL —Fcs. ?7.

The Lord CI4ILI JI:StICC SAC at *iv/Willi, but
stn trial of any public interest took place.
COWMAN PLEAS, Ts. :7.
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The Court was engaged with two very unimport-
ant causes until nearly three o'clock, when Lord
ChisfJustice MatisriaLn announced, that a neces-
sity existeu for his almost immediate attendance in
the How. f Lords.

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POLICE.

Itammthioedic.
FORGERY ON A PATRIOT"
A woman. who stated her name to be Abev G...
was charged with forging a marriage certificate,
sod the restates of two children, with intent to de-
fused the Patriotic Institution 1.. r the relief isf, the
widows and orphans of those who fell in the service
of their c.iuotry.
It appeared by the statement of Mr. Douglas,
. Secretary to the Institution, who resides in North
♦adiywtrest. that the Prisoner applied to him to
*die the lareet of the charity, MN) described herself
to bine been the wife of a soidiJr, of the name of
Owls. belongir•.g to the I Sth regiment of foot,
who fal, in the service of his country, in Egypt....
bonds having ►een committed on the Institution,
et Wsrions times, avid to a very conside.alile amount.
• lbw certificate, residers, Ste. proshiced he the PA-
WN/At, were looked into with a suspicious eye;
add it was ascertained, that the hand-writing
was she' same as on other cer:iticates, by which
the laatitutien had suffered. The papers. as
well as the Prisoner. were detained. until a let-
ter was arias% to the clergyman of Dungarvan
church, in Ireland, where the registers were said to
have been poets:ed. and str:iich were signed by the
Moister and Clerk. An answer was returned by
the Minister to whom the letter was addressed. de-
, daring the whole to be &forgery, as no such roar-
. rime was registered, or were ever any chil-
its of the name baptised at the church. The let-
tee concluded with a wish, that the imposter should
be punished wisb severity. It was stated by Mr.
Dangles. that the impositions were praised with
impunity for alength of time, until it was ascertained
alts the documents by which the charity was
iiilll.4 were of one hand-writing. The Pri-
PEW said. she had kit Ireland a few weeks since
• sort bee money ; that she had prevailed on :ser
iMPlaber to get the miser from the parish of Den-
; lOW= *lt ha slain) was just.
She was remeasial be another examination, and.
fa the imesime, the heamtss will be further looked
late.

It was stated by a person is Court, that he had
heard a woman snake her boast of having ob,ained
relief, iv. Jiff:rest times, by esirg fire different
samers. of persons, whom sbc had represented, dis-
tioftly, se bcr 'unbends.

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NATAL 11417hLUGENCE.

/0117911101T11. rte. SS.
Arrived the Friendship, Hopkins, from St. lees.
Idled tee iilmayareary, Mesa wow. fee Eiden;
Wqrso/e4 fripte, for the Downs ; and the Here
garAng. as a cruise.—Winti W.
!LI-14011TX. S.
Soled the Sally. Ashley, fur Antwerp; Jove
par, Allah, for Haeshorgh ; and the Ledj Wee-
raa arced dip. with a feet under moray, to the
Eastward; the Colpaai. Cierfolte. and Duke af rock,
hired attars e the Prospero. Siaaaca, and Streamer,
..Wind S.W.
'retesT, es. .4.
Arrived. yesterday, the &us, privateer, of Ply.
rwwwelir ba detained an American ship, from
Araratnintra. to Monica, and sent her into
Dartrasse.
Capthda Harrison, of the &hey. reports, that a
few misfits ago. being of the Start, she was chase.'
-lop wappesed to be a French privateer ; but
%oloored by the de: knees of the night, the
,Iltssv mode her escape.
WELL, rte. 26.
irmareday aftereonn, the Kole sloop-of war, Capt.
Jena% arrieve In the Downs, from a cruise of the
pt about. and troughs in with her the Gar,
of Noir Haven, lade* with timber ; she had been
cornered by a . d retaken by the
she nn Fre, whisk
leas with dl ge is sent for

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