The National Register.
London, England, 1822-10-06 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL. REGISTER

Shlells, si petrel, charged on suspicion of having wilfully and
maliciously sal fire to a certain dwelling-house, belonging to
'thorns Glenton, of whioli she was the occupier.
The defeudaut was accumpluied by several respectable per-
sons, and was allowed to mend at the table in freed of the
bench. She was taken into custody on a warrant issued on
Monday, at the suit of Mr. Glentun. Mr. Adolphus appeared
for the prosecution ;and Mr. Harmer on behalf uf die defendant.
Thomas Glenton, of No. 1, Wilton-place, Groiiveuor• place,
Phulico, bricklayer, sworn.—l have a house, No. 40, Chapel-
street, Groaveour-plane, which I let to Mrs. Neville, in No-
vember last, on an agreenieut for a lease of years. She was
to give nie a premium for the lease, and I had lately pressed
her for die payment of it ; bet no legal proceedings between
us had been threatened, nor had any angry words taken place
between us upou the subject. The house was partly furbished
by Mrs. Neville, and partly by a Mr. Forbes, who 'edged on the
first dour, but who quitted the house on last Friday or Satur-
day morniug. On Saturday evening last about eight o'clock,
my foreman said there was a tire there. 1 went to the house,
and found the furniture in great disorder. The whole of it bad
been removed from the upper to the lower part of the bootie,
with Cie exception of a deal ,hest of drawers and an old bed-
steed sod muttress, and trilling things in the back gaffed.—
Synie furniture, 1 believe, bad been removed altogether. Two
or three persons were with me when I went into the house.—
I went up into the back garret, and saw Mrs. Neville sitting on
the bedstead, seemingly much distressed.—The bed-curtains
were burnt, and the wainscot appeared to have buttered from
lire. There were s.nne pieces of under un the floor. I asked
her what was the matter and she said she came up stairs to the
hack garret, to tuaLn up the niattreas for a piling mail who was
to sleep in the house fur protection, as Mr. Forbes lied left her,
and when she opened the door she saw an apparition. She
said she retreated, but retuined to the room, cud then saw
something tall move behind the curtain, which so alarmed her
that she dropped the candle and fall down stairs. She said
also that she bad been robbed, and that a great deal of linen,
two 51, notes, and two sovereigns had beeu taken out of the
deal drawers. I then examined the drawers, and in the bottom
one I funnel several pieces of rags burnt, not quite to tinder, but
they hat suffered by lire. The drawers were a conaiderable
distance from the bed. There was a young lady (who is now
present) with Mrs. Neville, and I asked if she was any relation
to her, and she slid she was nut, but that she had known her
for some years, and that she had heel. there fur a short time only.
She (the young lady) said she had seen the bottle of oil and
a cap, which was pertly burnt, in the kitchen below. My im-
pression was, from all that I saw and heard, that the house had
been set nn lire on purple e.
Li answer to a question from Mr. Harmer, the witness said,
Mrs. Neville objected to paying the premium on account of some
doubt as to the title of Lord Gro venor, the groand landlord.
Mrs. Neville told him she bad called in some of her aeighbuurs.
George Whiting sworn.-1 live at No. ti, Chapel-street.—
On Saturday at ening Mrs. Neville came and said she had seen
a man in her house, and begged me to come over and see. I
went up stairs with Mrs. Neville and her friend, and saw the
room in a Caine. The door was shut when I first went up.
saw on man nor ghost in the room. I went down stairs to get
a pail of water, hut Mrs. Neville said she bad no pail is the
house, and I got one from a neighbour's. More persons came
iu, and water was brought to put out the tire. The bed curtains
were buret, and the lire had caught the wainscot. The body of
the wood had, in my utilities., been caught by the fame.
By Mr. Harmer.—! think the wood had actually caught fire.
Mr. Harmer said, the wainscoting ought to be taken down
and produced ; and Mr. Adolphus said this should be done.
[This point was must narioeely enquired into throughout the
bit astigatiou, 'weenie to establish the capital charge of arson,
name part of the budding itself must be pros eel to have suffered
by lire ; otherwise it amounts (supposing the proofs to be con- i
clasive against a defendant) uoly to an indictable niisdemeauour
in attempt* to set the house me tire.]
Charles Puce, a am vent oat of place, living in Chapel-street,
said—l went to the house in consequence of en alarm of fire,
and saw Mrs. Neville standing at the dour. She said there
was a strange man in the house, and requested my assistance
to detect him. I ran up stairs, and when I got to the second
door I smelt lire. It was dark; tied I called for a candle and
water. 1 found the door of the back garret shut, but nut fas-
tened. When I opened the door a volume of smoke issued
from the room, and as soon as I could I got some water and
threw it in. The matinee was the only thing then ou lire, but
the bed furniture was buret. The wainscot in my opinion had
not actually caught lire.
A brother to the witness (Whiting) gave the sane opinion
upon this point.
Elisha Williams, foreman to Mr. Clenton, gave it as his
opinion that the wood had been on lire.
James Shiells, the Mow-street patrole, said be was called to
the house about twenty minutes past nine. lie saw the wainscot,
and observed the paint was very black ; but did not examine
it minutely enough to give any decided ()plume. W abbess pro-
duced the burnt raga, oil bottle, and bit of candle fennel in the
drawer. Ile saw some tallow iii the c. f..re of the drawer,
which appeared to him to have been dropped there for the per
pose of making the oandle stick.
John Scott, souther patrule, said. he thought the wainscot
was only searched by the lire being near to it.
Mr. Whiting ben. said, he broke open t .e drawers by desire
of Mr. Neville, and found the thiligs produced. The bottle was
lying on the rags.
The magistrate's thought that spon this evidenoe the place
should be e.aamined must minutely, by competent persons, and,
if necessary, to bring away the wainscoting, in order to set the
question at rest, as to whether Mrs. Neville was to be charged
with a capital offence or a misdemeanour only.
For this purpose the hearing was adjourned till the evening,
Mrs. Neville reeneiniug in custody.
Soon after coven in the evening the case came on for hearing
again, when Ellie and Jones, two officers, deposed, that in per-
sll3llCe of ivatructions bum Mr. Halls, the magistrate, they had
been to examine the room in which the lire took place, which
they heel dune most minutely, and they were enabled positively
to butte, that no part of the wainscoting had been actually on
lire. It was scorched, and the paint blistered, but .be wood
was not burnt.

Limn this evidence Mr. Halls said, the offence amounted
only to a misdemeanour, and he should therefore call upon Mrs.
Neville fur bail for her appearance at the sessions.
Mts. Neville was not asked to say any thong in answer to the
charge. She made no observation.
Two gentlemen who came with her immediately tendered
themselves bail, and entered into a recognisance of 501. each for
her appearance at the sessions.
MAItt.I3OIIOISCII-STREET.

Mr. Lowtsdes, of East Indle:House celebrity, appeared to
answer to a deinaud of 69/. due to the Parish of St. Pancras
for the toriutetiant e of two illegitimate children. It appeared
that au awsre was made for the payment of ten shillings a week
for each sLild in Ildlat, slid the ..du sought after was arrears

due. Mr.. L. contended that the amount awarded against hint
was injustice allogether, and that it was physically impossible
Thal lie could hare been the father of the youngest child ; that
the mother was a would,, of the worst description, whom he
had picked up under the Piazzas at Covent-garden.
The Mai.:stiate said he had no power to alter the award, and
the way would have been to have appealed to the Sessions
when the award was made. Mr. L: left the olgce much dis-
satisfied.
UNION-HALL.
The neighbourhood of this office was crowded, perhaps,
beyond all former occasions on Satnrday last, in conse-
quence of the apprehension and examination of a lady, who
had thought roper to dress herself in the clothes of a military
gentleman while he was asleep, and to adopt the manner and
conduct of those offensive characters by which the whale me-
tropolis isin rested.

:Mary Palmer, the woman who thus distinguished herself,
has been some time on the town, and possesses a very fine lace
and figure, but both are of the ma►culine order. She had in
the course of her speculations in St. George's fields on Friday
night, met with an officer in the army who was a little far
gone," and secotnpatited her to her lodgings, where be fell
asleep in a very short time. As the hour at which he retired
to bed did not suit Mies Palmer, she determined to leave him
to himself for a while, and to join her companions in the Lent-
road, where she bad left them envying her good lortune. She
felt an inclination, also, to ascertain bow far they would be
likely to carry their jealousy towards each other, by going in
the midst of them in the character of a dandy, and hay.
ins observed that her military friend was not likely to
cause any interruption to her plan, she slipped on his
trowsers, boots, anti spars, shirt, waistcoat, coat, hat, and
silk neckerchief, and sallied out thus equipped in search of
amusement. Although aim had drank very freely of strong
waters in the course of the evening, she was able to deceits
her old companions, by whom she was soon surrounded and
caressed. And after having for some time caused a very
strong feeling of animosity amongst the girls, to each of o hunt
ithe pretended a sudden fondness, she started ,way from them,
and, calling the watchman, desired him to clear the road of
all women of bad character, upon pain of being complained
against tefore the Magistrates the next morning. The watch-
man, alarmed at the tune and dashing appearance of the per-
son who gave this order, proceeded without delay to put it
into execution ; and the Kent-road was soon in such a state
that any modest woman or drunken man might walk there
without danger. So far her sport was not calculated to do any
great mischief; but she 60011 began to show her powers of
imitation to perfection, and was considered by numerous spec-
tators to be the greatest ruffian they bad ever beheld. Every
one who approached her came in for a short ►bate of her abase,
which was composed of oaths and epithets that terrified even
the guardians of the night, who so seldom know fear. At
length a sense of duty prevailed over their apprehensions, and
they sailed her by the collar, and, notwithstanding all her
efforts, lodged ber in the watehhouse. As soon as she en-
tered the room in which the constable sat to receive the
charge, abe whispered to him that she was no man ; and that
officer in astonishment informed the watchman, who bad jnst
described the prowess of the ‘' gentleman" over whom the,
had obtained a victory. She begged very hard to be permitted
to depart, and promised never to offend again ; but the consta-
ble would not listen to the request, and she was obliged to wait
upon Mr. Chambers and Mr. Swabey at the Dice in the clothes
in which she had offeadod.

The defendant begged to be forgiven. declared that what
she had done she had done in a frolic, when overcome with
drink, which disguised her conduct as much as the clothes did
her sex ; and declared that she would never more distarb the
peace in the character of man or woman.
The magistrates, who were apprised that site was not knows
as an old offender, very sharply reprimanded her for the impro-
priety of her conduct ; promised her upon any future occasion
of ill-behaviour to make an example of her, and lined liar 5,t.
for drunkenness; ether which they desired her to appear as
quickly as possible in the dress of the sex to which she might
have been an ornament instead of a disgrace.
The defendant appeared grateful for this lenity, and imme-
diately drove home, where the military gentleman was waiting
in anxious expectation for her return.
GU I LDHA LL.
ATROCIOUS CASE.—A fellow who gave his name George
Massey, and described himself as a servant out of place, was
charged by James Lockwood, a very respectable looking mar-
ried man, between the age of 40 and 50, residing at No. 8,
Broadway, Blackfriars, with an offence of the most atrocious
nature.
Mr. Lockwood stated that lie and his wife were living upon
a small properly they possessed, the result of former industry,
anti were at this time employed in taking care of a house No.
27, New Bridge-street, in the absence of the family. On
Thursday be had occasion to go to the Conuercisl-road, and on
his way stopped for a short time, certainly nut a minute, at the
picture-shop in St. Paul's Church-yard. On his turning away
from it, the prisoner whom be bad not before observed, and
whom to lair keowledge he had not seen before, addressed him
and said, " I suppose you neon to steed something:. He did
not at first think that the prisoner spoke to him, but on Ids
repeating the words, he asked him what he meant, %healthy
prisoner replied for the indecent liberties lie had taken aid'
his person, and immediately applied the most approbrious epi-
thets to him. Ile (Lockwood) turned away, and the prisoner
followed him, occasionally addressing him with such language
as already hinted at, the whole of the way to NN iiitechapel.-
On his return he found the prisoner had wailed for him. when
he immediately recommeticed the Wile sort of attack. Finding
that he could not succeed in frightiting him (Mr. Lo. kwood)
out of any thing, the prisoner changed his tune, and offered to
treat him with some limier if he would go into a public-Mats*
with him. This, however, he refused ,• the prisoner continued
to follow him the whole of the way back, repeating occasionally
his atrocious accusations, till be arrived at the house in bridge-
street, and was let in by his wife. The prisoner then knocked
loudly at the door, and created a great molt round the house.
by renewing the ulrensive charges. He (liotkw nod) went out
by the back door leading into Water-lane, and gave directions
to Potter, the officer, to go round end take the prisoner into
custody.
Potter, the officer, bore testimony to the nature of the
charges the prisoner was making against Mr. Lockwood. and
stated the desperate resistance he wade when lie found himself
in custody. Two gentlemen in the crowd, which the prisoner
resistance had collected together, recognized him as having
previously made a similar attack upon them severally, and ex-
pressed great satisfaction at seeing him secured.
The prisoner, in his defence, renewed the hot rid eccusatiou
against Mr. Lockwood.
Sir James Shaw was proceeding to consult with Mr. Payne,
the clerk, as to the precise mode in which the prisoner's com-
mitment should lee made out, *ben kir. Alley, the barrister,
who 11114 in atteudauce upon some other business expected to


same on, suggested that the prisoner should be committed for
felony, and not for misdemeanour. It was right he said, that
the public should kuuw, that by the statute of Geo. 11. it was
not necessary that any property should be obtained su conse-
quence of using a threat, to constitute the felony. The bare
rising the threat, wills the view of obtaining money, being in
itself autticient ; and he instanced two cases in which lie bad
himself been concerned, where parties under such ei.-cum-
Stances bad been sentenced to transportation.
Upou this authority Sir James Shaw directed the prisoner to
be committed to take his trial for the capital offence.
Clinton* APPiteaTioN.—A decent lookin; young man,
apparently strongly agitated, was brought np as disorderly.—
He it seems, been married just five months, and last
Wednesday his beloved wife wets safely delivered of a finis
chopping boy. On this unhappy discovery of h s wife's flail-
ties, the passion of the deceived Isuahand broke all bounds,
and he bad conducted himself with a violence bordering on in-
sanity. On first entering the room after the discovery, be was
so intensely affected, that lie went iuto a violent tit of hysterics,
in which state Ise remained upwards of two hours, and he had
since been so dreadfully agitated in his whole brhavionr, that
his landlady. partly fur his sake, as well as for her own per-
sonal security, found it necessary to give him its custody. Sir
James Shaw treated hint with great kindness, and upon his
promise to rettsiin front going to the house, at least until his
wife should be able to bear Isis reproaches without danger to
the lives of herself and offqsriug, directed bins to bo dis-
charged.
A person in the neighbourhood of Wisbeach, of
the name of Winkley, was taken into custody last week on a
charge of sheep stealing, whose apprehension was attended
with some shocking circumstances. A farmer had lost 14 sheep,
which wet e supposed to be stolen, and suspicion falling on this
person, a warrant was issued fur his apprehension. The farmer
who had lost the cheep, attended by a constable, called at the
suspected person's hostile, when his wife informed them he had
just gone down the grounds. They went there iu seam!' of
him, and as soon as he saw them, he took to Night, hut being
closely pursued, he threw himself into a dike. However,
buslng there was not water sufficient in it for his purpose, be
drew a knife and stabbed himself in different parts of the body.
Even after they bad secured him, and were taking him of in a
cart, he attempted again to destroy himself by thrusting the
knife into his body. Ile was taken to a public house at Walpole,
where he lies ill of his wounds ; and though some of them are
serious, they are not ekpeeted to prose mortal. Winkley was
a man of respectable character and of considerable business,
and among the last that would base been suspected of sheep
stealing.
CAPTURE or A SMUOGLER.—A fine cutter, of
SS t,ms register, called the /sir, of and from Flushing,
was brought into Waterfoid, ou the 27th ult. in charge of
pail of the crew of the Bit/mond revenue cringer. Lieut.
Morris, by which vessel she was fallen in with on Satur-
day night or Sunday tar Armstowis, and taken between
the Salter awl Twitter, after cliace of above six hours,
during which she solfereil so much damage in her rigging
from the fire of the Richmond, as to render her escape
impossible. She was also injured in her hull. The num-
ber of persons taken (including the supposed Captain,
who calls himself Garrets de Potter, and says lie is a pas-
seller) was LS, the greater part apparently foreigners,
who have all been committed to caul, and are to be re-
examined. Three hundred and twenty-two half bales of
tobacco, of 641bs. each, and seventeen kegs of Geneva,
were found ois board, all snugly made up, with a small
rope attached to each, fur the convenience of car-
riage. The whole has been lodged in the Custom-house
stores.
EFFECTS Or THE Bars OF A CAT.—About a
fortnight since, a poor man, named Thomas Stewart, in
the employment of SICX4,II. Hall and Co. Old Jewry, on
going to work in him morning, discovered a strange cat
secreted behind some lumber, in the warehouse ; and on
being desired to remove her, he was de.ired to turn her
into the street, when the cat bit one of his fingers, which
was in a trilling degree lacerated; butt the injury being
so trivial, lie to,k no notice of it, nor were any ill effects
observable till Finlay last, when the poor fellow was
visited with violent retellings, pains in his head, arc. and
was incapable of swallowing food, or any antidote admi-
nistered him by his medical attendant, 31r. Mails way e,
*1 Shoreditr h. Ile became alarmingly worse in the
course of Friday night, and neat morning lie bets • et,
strong symptoms of madness, such as 111411161 g at tic-
mouth, gnashing Isis teeth, and snaking noises similar to
the cat. The malady increased an fast upon him, that
NI. 11, advised Isis being conveyed to St. Thomas's Hos-
pital, where he was attended by Mr. Ttascrs add oilier
medical ;gentlemen, who used every art human skill could
devise; but all efforts proved abortive, and the Idus-tu-
n tie man died of the shocking nsalady *bout two o'clock
the Maine day. Tile poor fellow lived 13 years with
MCSSIB. Ball and Co. and has left a wife and four small
children to lament his loss.

A few days ago, the sun of a respectable merchant,
made an attempt upon his own life in loorfleltls. lie
was in a state of inetital derangement at the time, and
had been confined in a private mad house in Bethnal-
green, 111)111 which lie made his escape in a singular
manner. lie had marked the hour at which the lock-
ing up took place, and observed that immediately before
that time the allperiiitelidents were more busily employ-
ed than at any other. Oa the day of his escape, lie
conducted himself with more than ordinary discretion
and calmness tinder the eye of the Governor, and re-
nted, when all was most deeply engaged, to his room,
where he deliberately took the cord from his bedstead,
and fastened it to a window bar, let himself down and
walked to a coach-stand, where lie hired a chariot and
ordered the coachman to drive to the Monument. On
arriving at the Monument lie alighted and porelased
brace of pistols and powder and bail, 31111 then resuming
his seat iii the ch 'riot, ordered the coaclitomi to dose to
Mouth:lds, to the house of the Rev. Mr. Deeereux, the
Catholic clergyman. iiasih g remiket that destniation,
lie left a letter for Mr. Deserenk, begging that a spot in
the biotal gr din which tile Rev. gentleman usually
officiated should be given tip for the reception of the
l ttly of the unfortunate writer. Tile chariot was out of
sight before the letter was read, and the pour maniac had
discharged one of the pistols at his own body. The ball
catered btweett the tins. II was taken back to the mad

house, where evcrviiossible attention had been paid to
hint, but it is apinctiended that be CJIIIIM recw•er. 11e
has been in the artily and navy, Lut s years ago lie
was attacked with brain low, which perwanenny
Itcrtd his mind.

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TILE NATIONAL REGISTER

MATCH TO MAIDENHIAD, AND SACK TO KILN-
sIuoToN.--Me. Bernard West, the pedestrian, started at
It o'clock on Monday night holt, to go from Kensington
to Maidenhead-head and back (48 miles) in seven hours,
fur a stake of 2ho guineas. Betting was ti and 7to 4 oil
time. The pedestrian did right miles in the tient hour,
eight and a halt in the second, and lie halted at SI melt,
10 miles of his match, which he did in two hours and
thirteen minutes. He reached Maidenhead-bridge in
three hours and eighteen iii 11l lam fresh. He travelled
WI to Colebrook at the rate of seven miles an hour, and
he halted at Brentford, having the last five miles to do in
forty minutes.—He won the ;match with great difficulty,
baying three minutes to spare.
In June last Mr. Hardy, keeper of Ilchester gaol,
lost two of his prisoners, convicted at the last spring assizes,
who succeeded in making their escape from the walls of the
gsel. Oae was retaken the sante evening : the other of the
name of John Hallet, evaded the various parties sent in pursuit
of him in the neighbourhood of Kingsbury, Creveb, and various
parts of Doraetshire. In the isoaree of last week Mr. Hardy
received private information that he had been seen in the neigh-
bourhood of Hindumand it was possible that Hallet might he
met with at Woodhury-hill fair accordingly, nu 'lliursday
week, Mr. Hardy, mum and Pike, the turnkey Si the gaol, were
despatched in pursuit of him, and on Friday afternoou, snout
half past two o'clock, they succeeded in retaking him, having
found him in a booth on the top of the hill, wills a number of
Gipsies, and he is now safely lodged in Ilchester gaol. Great
praise is due to Mr. Hardy, the keeper of the gaol, for the in-
defatigable exertions to retake this notorious character. A
circumstance took place which shows the siugular depravity of
the companions of Hallet. Immediately on its being known
that he was in custody, one of the fellows rode off with it wight
chestnut horse, which lie had been riding in the fair, and was
at the time of his apprehenaioa tied up alongside the booth,
and with which the fellow escaped.
The passion of Dc Luc, the natural philosopher,
for music, was so predominant io his latter days, that a piano
was placed by his bed aide, on which his daughter played great
part of the day. The evening of his death, seeing her father
ready to sink into a slumber, slur asked him--" Shull I pier any
more?"—" Keep playing," said he, " keep playing." He
slept, but woke no more !
About seven o'clock on Wednesday morning last, the
inhabitants of Swan-yard, facing Somerset-house, were
dreadfully alarmed at a great part of the street falling
in, and exposing to view a ISIOSS frightful chasm. On
examination it appeared to have been au old well co-
vered in, and upwards of one hundred feet in depth,
eighty of which are now full of water. Had it hap-
pened at night the loss of lives would have been very
great, as this tremendous chasm is in the center of a
very narrow thouroughlare, so that whoever might un-
fortunately fall in could give no alarm. 'The hole is in
a circular form, about eight feet in dial!), ter. Nlany
curious persons visited it in the course of the day ; it is
I now fenced over, to prevent accith
Oil Saturday moritiog last three great fish, of the
whale tribe, of eIIOIIIIOUS bulk and uncommon appear-
ance, were discovered in shoal water, close by the lesser
Salter Islands, off the county of ‘Vertiorel. They ap-
' peared much weakened by their efforts to get in deep
water, and two of them were secured with difficulty
by the persons who discovered thim, but the third es-
c yeti. They were of a deep black colour all over; the
skin perfectly smoth ; one about 25, the mher nearly 30
feet in length ; the body, at the lidless part near the
head, 15 to 16 feet in girth. They were almost Mime•
diately cut up for the sake of the blubber, the quantity
of which yielded above 200 gallons of fine clear nil.
YARMOUTH, OCTOBLR 3 —Sunday last, being
Michaelmas Day, the installation of the Mayor, with
the accustomed poblicand s porous dinner, was de-
layed until Monday last.—After the usual formal
services at the church the iklavor, with the Corpo-
ration and a number of friends, adjourned to the nev
flail to dine, and were attended tinnier by a very nume-
rous assemblage—in their way they were greeted by
shouting aod by the ringing of the CIII/fall bells, as usual
a number of pieces of cannon were laid upon the Quay
and filed on the occasion—excepting these instruitimta
of des:ruction were tinder better ►management most ❑w-
laticholy proof was given that it would be better to dis-
pense with the latter custom—in the round of hrtug,
which commenced as the procession was passing Minn
Itegem-street, else of the guns burst, and with its frag-
lIICIILS wounded several persons, two boys very severely,
true of whoops, of the name Of Melia, tiled oil Wednes-
day ; a piece of. the gun struck him on the forehead and
nactured his skull in a shocking manse r--it is a matter
of wonder that many in ire sunsuits were not injure r, but
it is conjectured that most of the pieces into winch the
gun was shattered were driven upwards, as souse were
found at a considerable distance, one piece, weighing
two pounds and a half, fell iu the post office row, very
near a young woman who was standing at a door with
an infant in ner arms—the spot where it fell is perhaps
300 yards 11031 the place where the gun was lying, and
trout the tor* of the curve which it most have made to
clear the houses and walls over which it travelled, the
height which this fragment was projected could not be
less than ($6O yards ; another fragment, weighting tour
pounds and upwards, fell 'upon the roof of toe ltev.l'
IVatson's house ; a pretty large piece was round to have
taken an horizontal direction 011 the Quay and passed
great numbers without doing injury to any one.
IVe regret to announce toe total destroction by fire of
the elegant cottage ul (i.forge Purlitig, Esq. of Bradford,
near Weymouth. On the everting or Tuesday last, that
gentleman entertained a large party of his Iritirds at dm-
tter, and several of his visitors remained at the noose Mr
the purpose of forming a shooting party the following
day; but about seven o'clock they were alarmed by the
cry of lire, and their personal security was hardly ellected
fre:ore the whole Wall its Hones. Much of the !immure,
and the greater pit of the cellar of choice wines were
saved. The cause Of the tire has not been ascertained,
but it is conjectured to have arisen limn the over-treating
of a Rue communicating with a hot dresser.
A Coroner's inquest wits held on Tuesday on the
body of air. Thomas Craig, late a respsetable linen draper
roadiag in Oxford Street, whose uisath was catosia by a fall limn
the second floor window of his house on Sunday lain, whilst in a
suite of intoxication. Jury returned a verdict to that

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Rowney OF THE IPSWICH negocia.
tiou has been ter some time on foot between the
thieves who robbed the Ipswich mail-coach of the
notes of Alexander and Co. to the amount of 31,1901.
and some persons upon the part of the Bank. The
thieves had signified, soon after the robbery took
place, that the risk they ran, and the ingenuity they
exercised in this hazardous undertaking, entitled
them to a very great part of the sum they had made
themselves masters of, and they made an exorbitant
proposal to the concern, undertaking to restore the
whole of the notes, upon the payment of no less a
sum than 6,0001. in sovereigns, and an indemnity
from all charges or demands. A refusal was given
to the monstrous offer of composition, and the thieves,
who were not afraid of detection, seemed cureless as
to the rejection of their terms, being men who have
already made fortunes by enterprises of the kind,
and perfectly well able to try the patience of those
who are so unfortunate as to come within their
reach. The efforts of the firm for the recovery of
their notes were not remitted in consequence of their
knowledge of the determined spirits of the gang to
make the best of the robbery. The sum of 3,0001.
was offered to them, upon condition that they would
forthwith return all the notes, and the principals of
the concern gave it to be understood that no larger
offer should be made, and that the police should
commence their operations without delay, if those
terms were not acceded to. The gang replied that
they had already sent 3,000:. into circulation, and
that as that money was quite out of the question
they must look to some profit from the notes still in
their possession, and they accordingly demanded
3,0001 more as a recompense for their loss if they .
were to give up all they had risked their lives to ob-
tain. For some days the negotiation was kept up,
but the bankers were playing a deeper game than
the thieves. In all those places where their notes
were in great circulation there was a " culling in,"
and it was pretty well ascertained at the time that
none of the stolen property had been circulated ; the
report to that effect having been made to those so
deeply interested fiir the purpose of showing that
they were not to be trifled with. On Thursday
bills were posted on the walls, offering a reward of
5,0001. to those who will give information either at
Alexander's and Co.'s, or at Fry's and Co.'s St.
Mildred's-court. Poultry, so that the parties may be
apprehended and convicted, and the property reco-
vered : 20001. have been offered upon conviction of
the parties without the recovery of the property, and
the public have been requested to take no mere of
the Black Ink Notes of the Ipswich Bank without
well knowing the persons from whom they receive
them, as Alexander and Co. had instructed their
bankers in London to refer those who present such
notes to themselves at Ipswich. The colour of the
copper-plate has been changed from black to red ;
and at Fry's banking-house on Thursday some notes
of the Ipso ich bank, which were presented by
strangers were stamped•with the words " Stolen—
referred to Alexander and Co. Ipswich." These
notes were returned to the persons who presented
them, and it is calculated that the gang cannot
pass more than a couple of hundred pounds worth
of the paper, as a general terror of the black notes
predominates every where.
MADAME SAQUI 0111 DUNE.—At the entrance of
Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, wife of Charles VI , a
Bavarian fastened a rope from the top of the tower
of Notre Dame to one of the houses within the
Change Bridge; he descended dancing upon the
rope, with a lighted fl.tmbeau in each hand; her
passed between the blue taffety curtains,ornamented
with large goiden fleurs-de-lis, which covered the
bridge ; he fixed a crown upon Isabel's head, and
re-ascended upon his rope into the air. The chroni-
cle adds, as this was done in the night, he was seen
in all parts of Paris and its environs.
It is with unfeigned regret that we have to an-
nounce the death of Charles. the youngesi son of
Colonel Dixon, of Rainharn, Norfolk, which took
place on the I Ith ult., at Megrus, near Lausanne in
Switzerland, and was occasioned by his gun going
off accidentally, whi:e lie was stepping into his car-
riage, by which the whole charge was lodged in his
siale below the heart.

The Marquis of Titchfield, that truly independent
and patriotic young nobleman, took an opportunity
of declaring at the Corporation Dinner at Lynn,
that the recent appointment of Mr. Canning, who
stands in a degree of affinity to his Lordship, being
married to his aunt, will make no alteration in his
Lordship's political s.nitiments, but that we will
still remain an opponent ut' Ministers. This assu-
rance must prove truly gratifying to the country, in
which his Lordship has excited sanguine hope and
expectation.
The petty way in which vanity displays itself in
little flung, is very atisitsini4. Every hotly hill, Itwrd of
the afros tamer, mitt° enitiplaisied ut the heat Or WMArisitc
surer l.ulton•, when lie lti 1111 l I them to be spurred 111,410.
tired ; u. like manner Dr. Johnson related an anecdote
1 of A ittisa Wilk) MIMI SO fond of displaying on his sideboard
all the mate lie possesscd, that be actually added hi*
gners to tt.