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AQUATIC CHASE.

rienrr Rrnera, alias William Holland, well-known at the
'tails of Blstkfriara.biiilge as Jack is Ike Water, was
brought before Caplatu It.rhbeis, mid John Langley, Esq.
ithsracil with uttering a forged It. note, purporting to be of
tbe bank of England, under the following circumstances:
Satnrelay last the Prisoner, who was iu a skiff, landed
at Cuckold's Point, and pYorieeded to the Horne public.
hawse, where he purchased a plat of runs, in payment for
winch lie tendered a If. note, at the same time saying he he.
longed to the barge Wham, ling dose by, and requesting
• pen and ink, endorsed the note with the name ot " Ho'
land, Dukeiatreet, Lambeth."

Mr. Eilicumhe, the landlord, gave him the change, and he
jumped into his skiff and rowed up the River. Soon after
hi. departure, the landlord, suspecting the note to he had,
took ■ boot, sold, in company with three watermen, went in
pursuit of the Prisoner, sod iiu their gettiutt in sight of him,
he, suspecting that they were in parsnit of him, Moonily
►owed suiting the shipping, thinking to evade hi. pur-
suers, hut they rowing with great velocity, final!), bore
him down. On their approaching within a few y;trils
of him he jumped un board a collier, alongside of nhielt
lay a griantity of barges which communicated with the
shore, hut hie plan was fit:strait-4, Ma his pursuers succeeded
in securiug him. fie took something finm his pocket which
he threw into the water ; it floated on the surface, and on
bring picked up it proved to be a small canvass bag, con-
taining four If. notes. He was taken to the office and
searched, when another If. note was found in his waistcoat
pocket.
1 Mr. Glover, one of the Bank Inspectors, attended and
proved the whole of the notes to be counterfeit.
Mr. Royal, a boat.builder at Lambeth, attended and
owned the skiff in which she Prisoner endeavoured to escape,
whit b he had hired of him, for the purpose, be said, of fetch-
tug a bed Irons Blackfriars.
I The Magistrate ordered the boat to be restored to Mr.
Royal, and committed the Prisoner fur further examins-
I 11011.

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INQuLsra.

TesterdsY a Coroodu's Inquest was held at the Roes sad
Crowe puhlie haute, in Ranh,Wrote, before J. W. Cowin,
Req. on the body of Martha ningletua, the smfortionste
promos'- of CharleeTaylor, who was shot its Rlssules'-fiehh,
Ilene Holiton. The dairy took • Cite of thg body. In the
week were shire sushi, apparently made by some sharp in-
strument, or a pair safari ;on the left arm was another
wowed of the sense ',afore. Ose the right arm Were several
large cuts, apparently from • knife. The /berated was
about IS years of age, and wb• a Ant young woman.
The first willing called was a ;resole than named William •
Walpole,• who stated that he lodged at 'he Rose and Crown.
On Monday morning, at about twelitt. minutes after ten
o'clock, he was called upon Is, the landlord to assist him is •
getting into the mows occupied by the deceased, as the door
was fastened itoide. The witness ftweed losneelf tato "WI
room through a walasrut parlitioo. When he gut in
ee
saw some lihnol at the bottom of the bed. He let in the
landlord null aurae other preens. The deceased was in haul,
and spoke to the wilsoeia, to whom she said she was dying.
He saw a sruntid in her neck. She survived about taro,
minutes after he first saw lier. Mr. Pearcy immediately rau
for a doctor. The attires' did nut slay is the roust the
whole time that the deceased ssirviveol.
J. Navy, the lassallord of the house, deposed, that the
deceased had lodged at his house about twelve weeks, and
had hero iptroduced as • married woman. He saw the body
of the deceased Climates Taylor at Shouctliteh Church, and
immediately recognised him. The last time he saw Taylor
was on Thursday, but he miderst I that he left the house
fur the last time oie Trolley mu 11l lig The althea» told
the deeeesrol un Sunday night that he thought the man
who had bran killed •t Huston was her hasbasol. She
had appeared ext,emely uneasy from the time of his
absence, hot on bearisig the iutelligeoce she looked din.
framed. She expressed • wash to go and see the body
that 'sight ; but lie told her that it was too lair, auol apoint-
ed to go with tier the nest moraine. The swat moo wag, at
about twenty minute@ sifter ten o'clock, he wrist sap to her
room to ask tier if she was ready ill go.; Is. knoektd at the
door bat received no answer, and found that the door
was fast. Ile then went Into his own room rind knocked
at the partition, which divided the two rooms, just over
the head of the bed. Receiving no answer, Ilse psititioo
was forced aisle, and lie got into the room, whets Ise saw
her in bed roorertol up with the clothes in the ',Magary man
nee; he at first perceived nothing particular, and requested
her to vs up, when she mode uo answer. The first aitsesa,
Walpole, told him that the deceaioest had bird herself, when
the witness Anonediately rat. to Mr Smith,thr Parish Doctor,
who did not come. lie then sent five a coach to take the
decraosed to the Honopital, hat torfure the enacts arrived the de-
ceased was dead. The witness ilocis spoke as to the state of
initial which the deccesed had been in ',revives to the es-
testrnphe. She hail hers very uneasy during the whole of
Friday, and at times talked incoherently. Upon the whole,
he thought that she was not in ai sound dale of milts'.
John Hall, our of the beadles of the parish, staled, that
he called at she Rosa and Crown on Christmas-day, a little
after use o'clock. The deceased was still lyiag in hood,
hut life was oopoOte extinct. lie saw some blood upon the
Moor, wt.! hear to it a knife, with marks of blood, which
was produced. It was a common table-knife; a pair of
sci mark,' with blood, tepee .haul fossud mounget the
berteloilios In looking' mend the room, lie perceived •
letter on the table 116-31V41 1119 with black erase He also found
tot her pockets a seal, which corresponded wills the impres-
sion on the letter.
The letter was stated to he in the hand-writ'sie of Taylor,
sail appeared to have hero intended to be sent to the frieoshr
of the deceased and Taylor, as the title, of Loth. It was
directed to Richard SoaTleloit, at Mr. Charlet' Campbell's,
Be • owl l'ark, hear Steteohge, Herts. The following is

a copy t—
" DEAR nICIIARD.-1 have taken this nopoituni y to ill.
form you that your sister Martha is tarp welt, and she hopes
that her father and mother, and all of you make yourselves
as comfortable as the case will admit, eat I not to think
that she will he left without a friend iu the sot Id, as that will
never he the case while I have the use of my limbs to work
for her; and what we have done we beg will in time be
overlooked. Please to give toy love to them all, which I
hope they will accept, and you the same. Ask Charles if he
will come and live with me in the spring if 1 Send fur him
up; sad please to send use a.. answer hark as soon as you
can, as 1 don't know that I shall he in that part of London
where 1 aln now very little while ; 641 I shall expect an answer
back by the !Ater roil of the Christmas week.
" Fruin your loving sister, &c.
" MARTHA SINGLETON."
Signed in the panic hand-writing.
L. Crochwell, one of the beadles of Shoreditch parish, slat-
ed, that in consequence of Mr. Pearey having been to the
Church and recognised the hotly of Charles Taylor, the wit•
acts thought lie hail got a clue to the case of that unfortu-
n■te iudtviduil ; he came to the Ruse aud Crown uu Sun-
day, and was introduced to the deceased, when he question-
tit her as to the time whets she last saw Taylor? She stated
that lie should go to ■ Gentleman its Rishorgate-street,
that he had left her on Friday moraine, and that she had
sot seta. 11103 sneer; that he was by trade a bricklayer,
and had left her on the morning of Friday, saying,
and try to get which was due to him far work done in re-
pairing a house at Norwood. She said to was seven or eight
weeks since Taylor had had any work, and that in the
mean time they existed upon her own property. She begged
earnestly fer permission to see the body. The witness said
she should, and appointed the followin*day, at about eleven,
fur her to come in company with Mr. Paarey to view the
body. The witness asked the decent(' whether she had
been married to Taylor, how lung, and at what church? She
said she had been &tinseled to him abort seven yearn, and was
married at the next church to Whiteelispel church. She
was in the greatest agitation throughout the whole of this
conversation. On being further questioned, site replied,
that her maiden name was " Wright." [T to witness here
remarked that " Wright" was the name greitteu on the in-
side of Taylor's coat ] On being asked whether she had any
father, she replied in the negative. She appeared to be in
the most pitiable 'wettish.
The father and sister of the unfortunate woman were both
in attendance, mid appeared to be very defelit people. The
Jury, from a deltcecy towards their feelings, abstained from
questiouing them further than asking the father whether
the letter found upon the table was in the hand writing of his
daughter. He replied in the negative, and said that she
could nut write. Her name was Siugletou, which was also
his name.
Mr. Smith, jilts. the son of the parish Doctor, stated, in
explanation, that whim Mr. Prarcy called upon his father,
he merely stated that ■ female had bled herself, but by no
means represented the case in so serious a light as it was, or
there would out have been the slightest hesitation is at-
tending.
The Coroner then addressed the 'guy, who returned a
verdict •' that the deceased bad come to her death by her
own act, she hut being at the time in a sound state of mind."
An Inquest was also held on the body of a new burn
infant found floating in the basin of the City Canal by a
waggoner. no marks of violence appeared to be on the body.
Verdict—" Found drowned."

Yesterday evening an inquisition was held before Thomas
Stirling, Esq. Curvier, ■t the Gower's Arma publie.huuse,'
Gower-street, Beilfdril.square, on the body of John Griffiths,
coachman to Sir Hobert Wairen, who destroyed himself we
the preceding Jay at bis master'* stables, by cutting his
throat with a razor. Several wiiiaesses deposed as tu the
manner and general character the deceased burr in the
family, where he had lived fur a number of years highly
respected.
Clie Jury being fully satisfied with the evidence adduced,
returned a verdict of—insanity.

INQUISITIONS IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE,
LATILLY TAMS!! ST WK. SM. C 01103611.

• On ilte7lls inst. at Bishops Froome, on the body of Rickard
Pitt, who was drowned io the river Frame, into which be
is suppiowd to have walked in the night, having no is•ed the
path leading to a bridge near the spot whore he was found;
when discoreredt•he was in an erect position in the water,

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his walkietelich hatie ILI, end s Wadi, whirs
he had purchased al s strap is the neighlstemased is the
whey. Os the itoir inst. et Stsitspirrair, oil lawdy of
Wilhasis Bythelt, who was drowned with biomes is setempt-
ing to ride through the river Wye. at Bridge Saline, ow the
21th of October last, sinew nbirh lime the truly had remain•
ed in the river. Veidiett.—Aerldeelel Deetis Os the ,
lath inst. at items, sin the bed, Oilstone* tierjeant, wh.ne
death was soppm.rd to hare !wen occasioned by the on.sll-
- fel use of inedirinea, which slid aol appear to he the c.itc.
Verdict-111'M by Ike Visitation of God.

CIIUONEICS INQUEST. IiUDLIN.

nn M lay, the 11111 Decembe►, instant, an bigoted was
held by Arthur U. !bosse, Ews. nue of the Germ'. re l'ir
comity of Dublin, on view of the body of Geo gc Au la,ter,
at the new harbour at Month, In the moo y of Dolditu
Jsmes Rushton, one of the 3d befit drag yes,uteted in •
Dublin leans, ha, identified the body of the deceatett, hula
the duets, Mr. the body being in a aphid state, to he that of
George ArldasteT, a aivate in witness's company, iu the
same segment. *kiwis knew the del-eased .to have hten
weeping for about Pore weeks ; the Jerenned haul a Moot
time precious, when in Dublin, informed the witl mu that he
was ■boor to to to Eoglauul with, Iwo OifiClT.' horses; de-
ceased had about him Yf. Irish money, sod If he had inure,
otitneas would have known it. _ .

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George (smoky, of the aims regiment, identified the dr.
ceased 111 Ih4 same manlier, and knew him lobe missing for
about the ISM(' tome.
11,nj omits !Markham, of the loath Harbour host, idesti.
hed the hody_of deceased to be that of a nail whom he had
l Ast seen at Hoards Woolson oil the evenitag of Site fob of
Nortmller last ; tkreaseil tool a horse that be was about to
',hip on board the packet, " the Montrose Packet," that was
to sail that night, and got the key of the crane; it woos re-
ported that the man was noising, and that the packet had
Laiimi without hint ; bolt on search was Made, and *ilems
limier saw him afterwards until yesterday ustormoz, whoa the
dead body was found floating in the hailsootr, rat tether an
upright position, and the witness, assimed by others, pocked
up
the body, and lauded it on the new Pier.
Charles Taylor, of the Howth lialbour.bost, mid Boirihn.
Inmate, Goff, rorroluirmed the last wilnem as to the noodling
of Site dead body in the water, roil stated that they load -se
Mated Reajamin Markham its takiug it up and lodgiutit
upon the Pier.
' Gothrm Bratty, of El 011 th, aboist four wet ks bat-k to thr best
of his recollection, saw a maul, whose Lerdy he supposes the de-
ceased to lor, at iloailt, goiiig towards the par ket, on horse-
back ; Ihr man said lie was going to ship lb. horse, nod was
perfectly sober at the time; the man had no comrade sills
hint at that lime ; a aim...1.11.3rd the packet man say that a per-
son, a him he supposes to be the nun alluded to, was himself
In goo tin hoard a tilt the horse, load gone to the hotel for bay,
but had oot returned; none:she:fool the three a.t ail ...MPS
to take up the holy of the olt crowd where f"tta.l fl.4t mg ;
wit me., on the taking op of the deceased, fogad iii loos poc-
ket If. B. in Ruttish shillings, and Ito. is copper, along
with a forloolozlo, or team, of Moo no., whiets was produced,
mod appeared to have burn emoted to the deceased. ' •
51 oth,w SPAotally, of HlPNiii, assisted the other men in
taking op the deceased; saw the body at arched, and the
money hefute lurid mooed found its the !owlet of the deceased.
Edward Bailey, of Howth—Aboot a month ago, between.
four and five o'v.loek in the evening, saw a swan at Howell.
who hail the appouraure of brio.' a sohoit r ; he had on a great
coat; ti WA. tattler dark; the man hod with Mtn tiro her!;

and dAcal the *dues. was the packet guiiie to *ea; with's*
directed hint where to go, he appearing to be a straitly r; the
Moitiroae pick. t was iu the baboon' that night, bet did cot

sail until next night. •
The first wanes., Ilishlon, from Mt description, did sot
think she prison allud.d to rould have ti-eu the deceased;
the dress was nut the came, aim the appearance of the de-
ceased at Month was mi the evening at which the Montrose
pieties sailed, which by the tri-fence of Edsard Riley,i did
nut sail antil the Muhl aft. r he 114 W the pass, and it was
conjectured that the in,.. with the two horses was an 06-'
cres 'errant, bringing dorm the horses previous to the de-
ceased's going on Ward.
The Cormier salil, that he raw no suspicious eirennistanere
induriiig him to think that any violence whatever had been'
committed oo the deeeased, who appeared to he • 'tramper id
that part of the country ; that the ulij.rt Ow whit* he came
there had het u meowed ; that three was no evidence of sof
ipierrel'or enmity having perviously subsisted between the
deceased and any other person; that there was not any e►i-
dence °renitence or robbery,or t•vrn a sospfcioo sf any thiag
of that kind, and that ecru bad any suspicion of the Lied
existed, It would hart been utzsiired by the circusastaisce
or the money found on 'cinching tl.t body of the deceased,
which. allowing for some Wiling matter the deceased might
naturally he supposed ip have spent for refreshment, and the
changing of Irish money eta.. English, previous to his ern.
harle.t inn, which also was a most twine, elrenwistatice, cor-
responded with the stint proved to have been in prarsessiois
of the deceased, previously to his quitting Dublin, and it
appeared that from the appenraisers of the place near Si
which the body was found, accidents, particularly nn dark
nights, might too often occur, if persons going that way
were not very cautious.
The Coroner and Jury concurring in opinion, a verdict
was drawn up to form by the Coroner, and apprOved of, and
Sigurd and acknowledged I.y the Coroner and Jury, stating,
is effect, that the deceased George Arblaster, on the if tb day
of November, in the first year of his present Majesty's
reign, at the parish of Routh, whilst proceeding to go on
hoard the Montrose Packet, then lyin4 in Howth Harbour,
accidentally, casually, and by misfortune, fell •iisto the
waters of the sea, and was by 111C11111 thereof suffocated and
drowned, and so mime to his death, and not otherwise; arid
that his body was them famed floating and dead un the 10th
instant.