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end to Ind* In 'this commercial City 'if !wiser&
were afraid to confide in their servants, and the Judges
of the lead have come to a determivatiou, where a arr.
want it criminally guilty of a breach of that confidence,
to visit it with the !learnst punishment the law allows. You
have erred—yon have escaped through the merey Jr your
emplorrs. Yon will leave !his bar a. an initoretit man, lot
by our wise laws all meu are Innocent mold a Jury of tbeit
fellows deelare them guilty. Bear well in your recolleetinu
hereafter the onxiou• motorists you have pivoted for the
last right weeks, and if you the not foryrt them. I have too
doubt but you will hereafter make a good member of an.
ciely. I have booty'', and I believe it is lly liftmen,
where a man had committed an error, sod afterwards he.
C4TIOe sensible of it, that he acted throo4holoor hi. l•fe after.
wards in the gloom rooted summer, peoli:000. ~,,, re so tlonu
those that never had fallen into error. That that may he
your cooe is my 'Meese Irish. It is now my duty to dis-
charge you as your prosecutors du not appear •gaisoit you.
If any thing that I have said will be the means of malting
you hereafter a good limiter of .ociety, I .hall rejoice
that I presided here this day; I wish it bail fallen
hands of some of my brother Aldermen, alto would have
delivered their sentimeuts more iinpree.ively. You have
had my observations from my heart, and I hope they way
reach yours. This is all I *hall say, for every person knows
lam not fond of making or beating bug speeches. You
are discharged."
The other charges were of a trivial nature, and of oo
public interest.

foWn.ltaLL.
Yesterday Ruksrt Briefly, James Rawlins, Joke Goes,
cud Christopher lied, young men of decent apircaiasice sod
address, were charged with assaulting James Bulky, a con-
stable, whilst on duty in Dort rstreet.
Toe atroctties daily committed in this shocking neigh.
bourhood have indueed the City of [Amami to adopt Mme
measures for the preserertion of the public peace. A Petty
Sessions WAS held—presto', Sir .1. Easter and A Wenn in .1 J.
Smith, at which it was resolved, that as Dover-street was si-
tuate within the Bridge.honse estates, two constables at the
expense of the City should he appointed to watch night slid
it.y, and public notices were issued from Guildhall,eujoisoug
all house-holders In Dover.atrrrt and its vicinity to clone up
their back-doors (several of the brothels having, without ais•
thority, opened doors at the bath of their houses, fur the par.
poses of ficilitatiog the escape of 'hies ea) on pain of prime.
voting These regulations have now been promptly follow.
ed for several days, and have been attended with very bent.
lictal results.
Yesterday morning, about balf-past one o'clock, as
1. Barley, one of the constables so appointed, was going his
rounds, he saw the Prisoners on a spot which is called
" The Bolus," at the back of Dover street, pushing against
the shutters of a broker's shop, and endeavouring to pull
them down. He desired them to go home shout their busi.
ness, on which some one of them said, " Knock his —..
brains out !" arid at that niomeut Brierly struck him, sod
Rawlins tripped up hi. hills. As soon as he gut up again
be 'hewed them his staff, but they again knocked him duwu,
and then he drew his cutlass, and brews to lay about him,
by which lie unfortutiately wounded Briefly very badly is
the arm. The watchman and others then came up, and the
Prisoners were taken to the watch•house. Briierly's arm was
in a sling.
iThe Prisoners, Brierly, Gase, and Rawlins, said they
were iu the employ of Moms. Welhury and Co., lacensen,
: in Wood•street, Cheapside, and Christopher Best gave his
residence No. 39, Market street, Kenniuglim, but his whole
i ace tof himself was very imapiehms.
Alderman Smith felt much Braid that those young men
hail associated themselves with bad company, and their
• masters would suffer as the natural consequence. Under no
! circumstances would he itistify any officer who had recourse
to unnecessary violence, but he thought Burley list received
t sufficient provocation and ill usage to warrant him in the
use of his cutlass.—The Prisoners were held to bail.
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A FAVOURITE PIGEON.

Yesterday a man named Lyon, residing in Kent-street,
appeared ou summons, to answer the complaint of sine of
Ins neighbours, a custernimiger.
The Complainant, with a tone and emphasis which might
be supposed to attach great importance to the case, slated,
that he had purchased fatirteen fancy piteous of the De.
Godard, fur which he had paid a considerable sum, besides
bring obliged to pay Is. 9d. per week for their board and
lodging. On Monday he inland one of them, the very best
taught of the whole, which he afterwards discovered in the
possession of the Defendant, who could give no accouut of
bow he gut it.
These birds are kept for a most important use: men of
the Complainant's description brad and teach them, and
thin sell them at a very handsome price to sporting charac-
-1 tern and blacklegs, who take them to fight', races, rkc.—
As snon as the issue of the contest is known, a billet is tied
ii•und the neck of she pigeon, naming the winner of the
race or fight; the bird immediately Airs home, where an.
other Greek most anxiously awaits his return, and who no
; sooner knows the fact, than he hurries to the gambling sod
sporting houses, offers the long odds, and frequently B:owns
• with his packets well stored from the coffers of the Gilpins.
4 The Dtfendaut said, he had pnrchased the pigeon for
11.6 d. from a person named Cooper ; but he could give no
; proof to that effect, said the Magistrate ordered the bird to
; Le given up to the Complainant.

The following notice is circulated in Menches.
ter :
" whereas, on the 16th of Augusi, an individual who was
present at the area of St. Peter's Church, was attacked by
one of the Manchester and Stiford yeomanry, and severely
I cut in the hand by Ike sabre, and also received a sabre
Iwound in the elbow ; and after see• sal unsuccessful cuts at
his bead, was wounded in the brow by the same yeoman:
The name of the yeoman not 1.. ing known, one of the hilvssivv,
•ho addressed him is the following manly linguae(—
' ' You bland!! raven!, That's murder; If you do as muds
again, I will spit you down.' is requested to forum d a rum-
wini,ica Hun on Mr. °Mari Pearson, Solicitor, at Mr. John-
! son's, Sliutle.hill, in taller that means may be taken to idea-
: tify and prosecute the yeoman in question ; and the hussar
i will receive the grateful thanks of the individual who is in.

&hull to lay protective fat dm reservation of his life'
Mr. HARMER, the Solicitor, accompanied by
Mr. WEST, of the Strand, WI town for Liiicaster
late on Tuesday last--the former to give his profes-
sional ce with :Ur. PE•RSoN, to Mr. HUNT.
They a. re to ertiVe at Laticii%trr ou Wedoreclay
night. Ti.. Judges nem to 'Ten their Commis,' (((( ,
attend divine service at Laiicaster on Wedites-
day ; but the Crawl Jury were not to be sworn
until Thursday mornimg, when it was the initia-
tion of Mr. If LINT, On the calling of the Grand ,
Jury, to challenge such persons who ought
be propoved as 111riuliers of it, against whom it
was introcirti, to lbw capacity of Magistrates, or
Ittetobrra of yrnmaiiry corps, to prefer bills of in-
dictinent unties- Lord ELIA:SID/ROUGH'S Act, in
constquence it il,e unhappy ptucertiinga at Man-
chester. 'rite ground of challenge i• founded nit
that wise principle of nor ClOllllllOll Law, Nevem &bet
cue juste: in pr Arid cuusd.
Sunday morning last, at ii-df-past three, a host's
crew, beirst.ging to the l't event's.- Station ni flythe,
to Kent, consistiog of Lieut. EDWARD FAYER-
MAN, It N., aid six Ware fellow*, were unlortu-
weedy tiprt at sr“, by two of the men getting to
leeward of the boat, when all were left to the useicy
of the waves. One poor fr how of the name of
HALL, lit labournig to vase los cotoiniititler's lift.,
lost his owls. It was with the grrutrit difficulty
the clew were saved, being completely exhausted,
having been ii the water imaily half nii
Lieutenant Edict:l3lAß was brought to shore per-
Itctly itiseiistblr• ; and bad it not been for the skil.
ful exertions of u surgeon on the spot, he could nut
possibly have survived, as lie was for two hours to
all appearauce dead.

AMPRI CA.
T?iTER,ESTING iIIIAL

At the City Court of Hebiome, during ils present lons
Session. Nrsacrr Gagale, milatereati young woman
of nineteen years of age, was inflicted and trod for kid-
uapping, skating, and conveying away an infant fentak child
of she name of Margaret Pool, aged twenty months, the
daughter of James and Mary Pool.
Oil the trial Mary Pool, the mother of the child, testified,
that on Thursday. the 20th May about eight o'clock in
the morning, the little child, who bail just hegme to rein
about, was playing on the pavement in front of her door,
and teeing eng,azed within the browse about fifteen minors
she left the child, and on her return it had disappeared;
that immediate search was made for it without success; the
sieighhourlionet was roused iii quest of the child, but nothing
could he certainly arzertaineel by her wild the Sunday after
(2311), when the child was brought back most dreadfully
whipped and mangled from its little neck to its feet.
The child was produced in Court, with the marks of the
rod still upon it—a sweet, interesting, beautiful, sprightly
child, of 1$ or 20 months old.
General Heath testified, that having beard of the loss of
the child, lie went with others in pursuit of it; that after
many fruitless inquiries he al length heard it had hero
seen ow the Arinapolis road, and accordingly took that di-
rection in search of it, along with Mr. Alexander Russell.
That at Mr. Hensworib'e they were told that the traverser
dined there on Thursday with the child, which she repre-
sented as her ow•n—called herself Mrs. Williams, the wife of
Mr. Jacob Williams, 114.1 said she and her husband bail
quarrelled about leaving the child with her grandmother in
Baltimore. or putting the child out to nurse, and pretended
to nurse it herself before the family—that she left there soon
after dinner and went so to Craig's Ferry, where •he said
the child was her sister's, and staid that night wills the child
The carat morning else WA the stage towards Annapolis.
was lint down • abort shoranee this side of Mrs. Gamble's,
(her aunt), and carefully avoiding the house of her annt,,
bail gone round through the woods to Mr. Pomfret' s, near
Magothy. Here she was found by Gen. Heath, Mr. Russell,
and whereon' 10 o'clock nu Saturday night. in bed with Miss
Peonfrey, who had taken off the child's clothes to wash. The
child, when found, was in the arms of the V/0111411 lying in bed
with the traverser. Gen. Heath accosted M las P. (supposing
her to be the oilier woman) roughly, who denied the crime
and charged it upon bee companion in bed (the Traverser)
who confessed the whole truth without any threats or flat-
tery, fear of punishment or lope of reward. The traverser
stated to the pursuers tbut she sad takeu the child from the
street in trout of 4 house is Cheek...street, which she de-
scribed agreeably to the situation of Mrs. Pool's ; that she
took it up Pratt-street to a Sirs. Hamilton's, near the Keg;
Tavern, where she !eft it a short time in the care of • little
girl until she could fetch a bundle of clothes from mar the
seminary ; that on her return she took the child and brought
it on the Annapolis road in the manner above mentioned.
9n being closely questioned as to her motive, she mid flint
her ►eel object was to obtain the reward which would pro-
bably be offered for bringing the child back. General Heath
said, that on examining the child, they found it most cruelly
and inhumanly whipped, lacerated, and bruised, so that in
many places the blood had gushed through the skin. Thst on
inquiry bow this had come, the Traverser confessed she had
whipped the poor little inuoceut because it would not walk to
keep pace with her ; that its little arias and body were so
mangled, as literally to draw tears from several men then
present, especially a Mr. Stone, who shed Scare freely, and
clasped it iu his arms; that the Traverser's character in
that neighbourhood was very had indeed ; slit had bee■
abandoned by her stint as worthless, and her reputation
generally very depraved.
Mr. Alexander Russell confirmed General Heath's testi.
mony throughout. Mr. Heusworth, Mr. Craig, and Mr. Cook,
respectively as to the Traverser's possession of the child at
their several houses; and So Mr. Conk she confessed she had
whipped it severely because it would not walk, as she was
too heavily laden with clothes to carry it; and once she had
whipped it, because it would not keep io the right toad.
Dr. Handy also spoke of the wounds on the infant's body,
and said they were evidently indicted at different times.

The defence was insanity.
Two witnesses, Mr. Farrell and Mr. Thomas, both testi-
fied that they considered the tramper bat little above an idiot.
On the contrary, General Heath and Mr. Russell testified
that she was remarkably smart and subtle, sagacious, stud
The Jury, without leaving their box, found her Gary.
There were also other indictments against the Traverser,
one for the inhuman battery of the child, and the other for
stealing its clothes ; on the first of which she was found
ru tit y, and from the other acquitted. It did not appear that
she had stolen the child fur the sake of its clothes, or that
she had deprived it of its clothes without intending to return
theta.
Maria Thomas, who had been aiding Nancy Gamble, was
also found Guilty on an indictment for kidnapping.
The Court passed sentence on each of the women, that
she should on the first Wednesday (the 7th) of July,
and the succeeding Wednesday (the 14th) stand one hour
each day in the pillory, to be erected in the gaol yard ; be
imprisoned twelve month', and until security be given for
her good behaviour, in SOU dollars.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

serTtaistß 2.

Arrived the Koutotoff, Higesneister,frt;m Batavia, in 131
days.
Passed up Channel the Carlotta, Weppeil, from St.
Thonias'a, in 42 day', bound to Copenhagen.
Sailed the Larne fur the Blediterranran ; and Britannia,
Ilatnlyn, fur London.
lALVOUTH, AUGUST 31.

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Arrived the Lorenzo, Kitson, from New Orleans, in 34
days ; Friends, Lewis, from London for St Sehmtiana; sod
Lady Arabella packet with a mail for Lisbon, is 14 days.

LIVERPOOL, swim. 1.

Arrived the Ganges, Chapman, from Philadelpia—sailed
29th July; on 17th August, in lat. 46. 33. lung. 36. spoke
the Mary Ann, from Liverpool for Baltimore, out 24 days.
Uu 2811 i August, off Cape Clear, esperieuccd a sudden gust
of aiud from S. by W. which carried away the three topmasts
and sprung the The Kingston. from St. John's,
N. B. took the vessel in tow. Also arrived the New moue,
Von Geylhell, from Antwerp, wilts loss of anchors and cables.
The Pike, Balker, was drivrti on the rucks near Priest-
huhu, Island, and is a complete wreck; the crew is saved.
The Susan, frum New Orleans fur Liverpool, is uu shore
near Formby • two of the crew are drowned. The Cybele,
fur Nliramichi, which was on shore near the Prince Be.
gigues Dock, bag been gut off with damage

Arrived and sailed for the River the Buitira, Hamilton,
from China; General Hewitt, Cameron, from Madras moil
Crylon ; Martha, Seliutilding, from Calcutta; Andromi da,
Sughrue, from Jamaica; Sarah, You Hey thrums, fr m Africa;
Vittoria, Montgomery, fruni Tobago ; Ratcliff, Brightman,
from . the South Seas; and Jame. Harris, Butcher, trout
Jamaica.

The Diming passed the Spanish fleet in the N. E. trades,
bound to South America, apparently all well.
Came down (loin the 11.ver ilia Kale, !town, forCuracon;
and Westmoreland, 31injuritiank, tor Bermuda.
AUGUST 31.
It has blown a heavy gale all slay at N.W ; st•vvral cultten
on entering. the port drove on the bench, between the piers,
where they still lay. The Content, Burns, and Thistle,
Adamson, both colliers, cane WI the strand to the eastward
of the harbour. The crews wire sawed by the hfr but.
Should the gale cuutinue, it is feared hulls vessels will gir to
piece►.

The remains of Mensal; OWEN, Esq. of the
Strand, omit formerly of the Seerri..o'rr office,
East India [louse, who died at Margate oil Weil.
ttesday, the '2 5t It August, in log 68th year, wore
yes.erday deposited iu the vault in the church of
St. Paul's, Covrtitsgarden ; his only son, his only
brother, Ilia two sons-in-lan, end three old fr.endo,
intended on the enelauchuly occasion.

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