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C'LERXE iES§IOIVS—Nor:g.

FRAUD.
Joseph Heath was indicted for defraudieg Mary
Anne l'uruell, designedly and unlawfully, of six
pounds, by representing himself to be Mr. Reeves.
of the Alien-Office.
Mr. Gime SY, in a most able manner, stated the
case on the part of the Prosecution.
Mary Atine Purnell deposed MB follows :.—"1 am
• native uf Normandy, in France, mud have been iii
Etsglisod since the year l 791; I carry no the busi-
ness of a milliner, in this city. On the 10th of
June last, in the evening, the Prisoner called oil
me, and stated, that he was Mr. Heevea, who was at
the head of the Alien-Office, and wes sorry that. he
was obliged to communicate a message to Me.
which would alarm me. and which coneerne4 blot,
very much. I asked his name; lie said it was very
well known. it was Reeves, and lie was at the head
of the Alien-Office ; and that a women hail long-
ed an informatiou against me, at the Office. ..for be-
ing an alien. and without • proper certificate. I
told 'dui, I did sot know 1 had coy enemy, or that
any person had it in their power to spa ak against
me; he said, he thought so, or he would not have
given himself the trouble or calling on me ; but if
the woman's information proved right, she would
be entitled to 401., and that I should he obliged 76
quit the country ; I replied. I had not that sum e
he suit', he thought so, on which account he had
promised the woman •be invest, which I
must give him, as he could not, in mist:Ware, tale
it front His Majesty's Treasury; I told -hint I had
not that sum, but would go into the parlour, to a
geotkroan who lodged there, to try to barrow it ;
lie ft. lowed me, and the 'gentleman was nut at
home; I then went nif.etitirs, and brought down
41. in out-pound pores, Vrllich was all the Money 1
had, wlich I gave him; he then inquired, when
iii colOd have the ratoutrider ? I answered, that I
ivolifft not trouble him any more to cull—if he
ate 'WI his address, I would send it
to ;ten ; No, he would call on the Sa-
t I*, . • ,•. . hia family rebided at Sauter's-
t•,vr:,, for tot •- f!, .tad he was with them when-
ev, r Put if ,i!lowed him; he, mein I was
frightencd, nt,t; 1,, said, Unlit be afraid, you
reilv get fur tile west of the tummy by Saturday, I
a iii take care that the womsu shall be silent.' 1
had heard that Mr. Reeves was at the head of the
Alien Olfice, hut I did not know his person. On
the l'rflay following, the Prisoner agent called on
me is n coach; I told him I was sorry he had come
before the day appointed, as I had ot:tr two or
t:.:, e !moods; he awswerd, give it to te-. mad I
will give it to the woman; I gave him tt is ouee
pound notes; he said he wis very busy, he bl 4 to'
set all the people to rights, as the country wash)*
complete nonfuaion; not altogether with fordignem,
for his MVO countrymen wanted to be bet to rights
as much as they. Ile asked for a glees of water;
dosiri'd my servant, Mary Athston, to bring him
one, which she did, lint looked very angry and
eCtIlt11111.1,1; he only tasted the water, and com-
plained to me of her impertinent look, and said,
That not the way to look at a Gentleman of
hi, tank.' He would make the pelicei punish her
for it ; lie i ben went away, and said be would call
again cm the 23d. In the intermediate time, I in-
formed some friends of the transaction, who made
n provision to receive him. On the 22d, he again
cline ; I told hint ' I wen very sorry I could not
i4ive him any money then. He .said •he could
not call ',Ann, nod I must abide by the law ; and
if did not give him the money, II Would he obliged
to quit tho country in five haute' I kept him tit
cotivei,atine until Gregory. the officer, appeared."
Joseph Gregory deposed, be took the Primmer
into custody, and, on searching him, fonsiel e card,
which, he slid, was his address. viz.: " Joseph
Heath, fishmonger, Borough."
Mr. Reeve..., Superintendent at the Alien Office,
deposed, that there never was an information lodg-
ed against the Prosecutrix, In that office. and that
the Prisoner was wholly unknown. to him.
Mr. ALLEY. Counsel for the Prisoner, most ably
argued sits era! pietas of law, which he conceived to
be in favour of his client; particularly one, that
hank notes, laid in the indictment as money, were
net so. _

The CUAIRMAII summed up the evidence, and
the Jury found the Prisoner Guilty. He was sen-
tenced to be trausported beyond the seas, for oeteti
years.
11i...4(1rd Thorn was indicted for attempting to
prevail on Jane Gairet, by vellum he had a bastard
child, to swear that David Pique was the father of
it, he well knowing to the contrary.
Jane Garret deposed us follows :—.l I am a single
women, and have been acquainted with the Pri-
soner for six years ; I lived as servant with Mr.
Payne, in St. John's-street, two years and three
towni., during part of which time the Primmer
courted me. and, I had every reamin to believe, with
an 'mention to make me his wife; be seduced me,
awl 1 heeatne pregnant; he told me he could
het marry me then, as he had not a house
to lirtio; me home to ; hat advised me tv go
to iilv friend•, at Wells, its Norfolk, to lie-in.
I told nun I thirst not let them know my ►itua-
ti.on; he said I should go as hi. wife, he would
writ• to them. acknowledging me as sorb : and as
1/1"10:1 114 I came op to town I should I.e mirrserl.
lie .ierordingly wrote to ins brother *nil sister."—
(11 re the letters were read, where lie called her his
wife; and, in one, in anew ..r tonne f her brother.
he pr.iinises to send a eertnieate of their marriage.)
The Prnseesitria thus entstiutsed--.. I was Orr %%fl
by toy friends, they being satisfied with his let-
ters, and I wits delivered of a male child, on
the 19th of Mny, 1/4013, after which I metie-
r() several lorpro, acknowledging me as his wife,
with many endearing isupsories after his chilsl,parti.
esilarly one. of the 1511144 July, which ponied me
on the to.' 1. I ar►ived in London on the 17th of
July. I saw the Prisoner, on the 17th of July, at
his sister's ; he received me and the child very
coolly. He told me it was Mr. Payne's child. and
if I did not swear it to him, he would forsakes. ;
this I refused. I remained with hiss three week.;
during which title he constantly srged life to swear
it agmost Myna.; and if I dill he would marry me.
so as I mide Porn, settle a weekly allowance no the
child. I told him I would not take a false meth. lie
thentened me life. about 11 cecina at aidlit, tor-
, vane I not twomise to swear the child to Mr.
Pilo*. it was is bed ; twit it op, sad lea him.

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the Mkt day I found ht was in a treaty of Mat&
rise with a woman who kept a publie•trouer.
saw hiia in December ifterwurds, and asked hint
for a maintenance for the child.. He told me I
assist swear it to*Payrie. I was forced to gn ytown
to Wells, as the child was born there, ai.eL•swear
that the prisoner was his father. • •
M. David Payne deposed, that he never had an
improper connexion aids the Proserafrix; while she
was in his service, she had behoved herself het•om-
ing a servant, and he, conceived she was the wife of
the Prisoner.
Mr. ALLtY, Counsel for the Defendant, con-
tended, that the case ass not made out; as, in all
cases of perjury, it required two witnesses; and us
this case appertained to perjury, it required as strong
evidence.
Three witnesses were produced on the 'part of
the Prisoner; they were his relatives, and out
stepped moderation.
The Cuttauts summed op the evidence, `arid
the Jury, after an hour's deliberation, returned It
verdict of Guilty. •
The Court was not adjourned until six o'clock.
aramionsmormsamere • .

NAVAL. INTELLIGENCE.

POILTIMIOUTX, NOV. 2.

Arrived the Tisiphise, Captain Lave.; from off
mingteni t also, the Middlesex, Turner, from die.
liaises, fee Jamaica, and •the Ph (!tree, Cockerill,•
a tainsport.••• The next convoy is. expected to mil
to-morrow. - • •
An American ship is arrived at the Motherbauk,
from New South Wales; particulars ativiciaeraii.
Sailed the Ceritaiir, 74. IteaNAttinind Sir Sa-
muel Hood, eaptiiin Webtey ; and Warepik, 74.,
Hen.. Captain Blardtirsod, for din Mediterranean;
also the Dines, 3(, to tha Eavtaard.

' TLs•stouTll, Nov. I. -
Arrived. yesterlay, the Marieer gun-beig, Litut.
,Griffiths, from a cruise WI the Laud's End. •
Sailed, this dey, the Nimrod hired cutter, with
dispatchee for Cadiz ; and the Indefatigable frigate,
for • her station off Rochefort; also the Goldfinch
sloop of war, on a cruise.

VATAMOVTII, OCT. 31.

Arrived the Princess Elisabeth packet, Captain'
Kidd, with a wail (rem Libon, in eight days.
SISAL, NOV. s. •

A sloop, name unknown, got on shore on .the
Goodwin Sends, this morning, and sunk. Many
of the Deal boats hare Mean off to her, hut canton
learn what her cargo consists of, or if the. crew is
saved. .
The SA Tioreszo, with several transpoits, haring
sick OQ board from Flushing, paned at the back
of the Sand for the Westerlies/this day.
Sailed the Orpheus frigate& also the outward.
bound. under couvoy of the Padargas, fur the
Westward.

DOVER. BOY. 2.
Several persons, mostly foreigners, who have been
taken into the English serv:ce, have lately made their
escape from France, be the way of Rout:slam, which
place they left last Monday. Among them sans
person of the name of Henderson, who was taken
shove 12 months since, in a brig belonging to this
place, called the Allgood Plebe.—llv says, there has
been no rejoicing in Holland. for peaces with Aus-
tria; and although the report is general, it is but
little credited. He mentions having lately seen the
following prisoners, 411 is good health, who have
been in France between one mut two' years;
Hail, late master• of the Experiment, of Dover;
Walker, mate of ditto, with his wire ; sod John
Hall, late master of the Prospect. of Suuderland.

The St. James's Volunteers Inul their last gene-
ral iosretion, this year, by Colonel JIVIIIIINSJN, on
Thursda?• last. They mustered in St. JUlllab-
squitre, instead of Boirlimzton-court-yard, on ac-
count of the death of the Duke of PORTLAND.
The Waking-house of 111lOW N. Conn, and Co.
have contradicted the assertion of their having he-
roine receivers of subscriptions for the elefeui e of
persons under prosecution for riotous behuviour in
Covent-Garden Theatre.

Tbursdsy morning, about two o'clock, a fire broke
out at a pastry-cook's, in Middle-row, Holborn • a
young woman, to escape the flames, threw herself
out of a window, but was saved by the people in the
street: the flames were subdued without much iu-
jury- to the prrmisea... . _

- A melancholy accident happened, on Thursdiry
senniglit, at the Ship public-house, in Oapringe,
Kent. Between rigid and • o'clock in the even-
ing, seam soldiers being there drinking, a quarrel
arose between two of*thetts, vie. Edward Smith and
Allen Backhoupe, privates in the 9th regiment of
font, reqwcting a girl in companv, when they fell
to Glows, and, after a few rounria, Backbowe de-
clined tiening any more, and Prated himself on a
bench, in the tap-room, whereupon Smith culled
Backhouse a blackguard, am 'aid he had not done
with him, and immediately advanced and strut k
him several more blo•ls ; on recvii Mg them. Buck-
house fell from the bench, and never rns again, nor
uttered any groan, but died instantly : and, on
Friday. an inipre.t RIIS taken upon the hotly, and,
after much deliberation. the Airy brought in u
verdict of Manslangliti r. against Eduard Smith,
who way buten/snit committed tq gaol, to take hi,
trial at the nest Sessions.

We have heard that Nome very riotous procced•
ins prelim-41 at Doidlistun-htath, near Ellestiiel.e,
1111 Monday last; so outrageous and olrotillate NAY
the conduct of the deluded person., thet it nos
deemed necessary to send for the 4 )4r% eitry Itrn; rte.
Seven of the ringleaders have been romniitte 1 to
nor comity gaol. Oar woman, we understand, lost
bee life on the oreasion.—(Selopiais Journnl.)
The neighbourhood of Sandgate mid Folkestone,
has been much alarmed by the appearance of mad
doge; and we are sorry to 'intro, that three men, be-
looting to the North York Militia. have been
bitten by it dog, supposed to be affected with the
hydrophobia.
At Castle-hill, the seat of Earl Foavitneue, in
Devonshire, the Lonl Lieutenant of the county,
after divine service, a plentiful dinner was given,
on the stAth last; to all his Lordship's labourers
and their families, with the poor of the palish mild
its vicinity, m 1 tublosi !Aced on the terrace before
the house; and ih the evening the Earl and Colin-
teas Fnavaitcur. with' their homily. and a party of
their friends, drank lilt the Castle, where a bon-
are end fire-works were exhibited, and a large con-
' courarefropie entertained with strong bur. •

LONDON :—Prioted by C. SMITH, N. t, Cieneert's la, ,
sad published at the OfSee, Nu. 15, Mat of
Church; Strand, by 1. WHITE, d game ylsee....tordtrs,
&A. he Ws raper, seat to ibs Wire, (o.g.1011);* Mill L.,
hap stesiiii . . - • .