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711 E HOUSEKEEPER.

( From As Museum)
Home has well remarked that every thing belonging
to a vain man is the best th ,t is my vs here to be pound ;
his 1 es, equipage, Inmiture, &c excel all others.—
Ins wine is the best that can possibly be drank ;—lsis
horses, dogs, and servants are matchless. Does he
. change his situation vottintartly ? The change is always
for the better. Is he apienuted to fill any office? Thai
ollice is the most min porialit and eligible that can be held.
Every thing goes well with him. In short, your sails
loan is your true optimist; he is in isle best of all pus.
Ode states, in this best of all possible woilds.
When any change in the situation of a man of tltis
kind occurs, so as to throw bins into a new li.tilt, and
make fancy himself invested with a new character,
his increase of sell-consequence is Istymid measure lu-
dicrous. He is like a boy just breeched, a young girl ass
a new gown, a young lawyer in a new evi,t, a maapir
will) Isis red boots, a recently cleated knight of the Go-
elphic order, or any thing else that you CiP.I Conceive
superlative!) ridiculous ;—he is all pucker, fume. and
fudge ;—he wraps himself up in mysterious majesty,
and dignity Meltable and unintelligible.
My worthy diem', Mutt Blaise, was exactly a man of
this character. Every one who knew Alm% could tell
the exact state of his circumstances by his looks and
Planners. His face was a barometer by which you .nigh.
always measure the temperature of his pocket. As the
latter was high or low, so was die former. His coma-
tenance rose or fell as his pulse waxed light or heasy,
though to do him justice, as long as lie had a farittaig,
his assurance never tell below Zero.
Ail change for the better, in circumstances,
always threw him up an astonishitig it kkk her of pegs.—
A pair of new boots made him look three niches taller,
thnuels the heel was:as flat as a pancake. At one time,
wheal linen was rattier a desideratum, in his wardrobe,
clean shirt was often with him the proximate cause of no
small inflation. His mann( rs because es starched and
star as his collar, but gradually relaxed as the collar
grew more limber. To bee hint take a hackney coach
was a high scene. he imperious summons to toe
coachman, the punctilious and authoritative directimi,
. the stuck dignity with which he entered the coach, the
•popping of his head out a the window, and stopping
the driers under some frivolous pretext, and fioasty his
pompous altercation totieliiiig the fare—all this was
capital. Even iii his lowest eireuitiEtances Muu pte-
served nosinall degree of consequence ; but tills con-
cpience he has occasionally encounteted souse severe
and rude shocks. The state of his exchequer osier ren-
dered ii expedient that lie should occupy the most classic
apartment of a domicile in a tel :red 511114114,11. lie
made a further redtic,ion in his expemitture, by abolish-
ing the office of washerwoman its his
(almost a sinecure), and performing the duties of ilia
post himself. Oise day while he was ditis engaged on
a shirt, the delicate stale of which reitilerel its abiestion
.nearly as difficult a performance as the unrollitit est an
Herculaneati mantvcripi, he cast his eye, mot ards, and
beheld, directly over his head, his young mistress sur-
veying attentively, through the sky-light, the whole of
this ingenious operation. It is easier to conceive than
to describe his confusion. The soap dropped hunt his
benninbed hand, and, as lie afterwards comessed to a
confidential friend, he pound himself utterly incapable
of wrinuing out time chemise I
Brighter days, however, awaited Alum. lie was a
goodlooking fellow, ami his manners amongst women
were rather prepossessing. A widow fell its love with
him. She was, to be sure old enough to be his mother,
tall as a poplar, siittas a ram-rod, and Olio as a pump-
handle. The young anatomist would base found in her
-considerable facilities for the prosecution of his study.—
Without removing the .curia, he might. by the inspec-
Atoll of such a subject, have acquainted himself evtili
almost the entire of osteology. Add to this, that site
Wilb all old coquette, and as lull or aft, ciation, pomp, and
as Moo hinisel. Bin then she hail 3001. a year,
and tills to Huss was the wealth of C.cems.
:Mon now shot up most prodigiously. Though in
corporal measurement he was but five feet foe inches
and a hall,' in soul lie was thirty feet high.' I (Multi
much whether, for six weeks atter his marriage, he
would have given the w.:;1 to the stoutest of the Grena-
dier Guards. Nothing was to be heard from him now,
hut ' My wife, Mrs. B." our estate,' bank debentures,'
' stock,' life annuity?' Bv. In short, his sell:import-
ance became en excessive, that we all thought it could
admit of no further increase. The eveut, however,
proved that we were mistaken.
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In the course of his rambles one clay his evil genius
dincied his steps to a certain meet in Westminster.—
Mere W a house to he let furnished.' Ile imme-
diately pops in, and engiiir,s the rent, which was '2601.
per annum. He galloped over the whole house, from
cellar to cockloli, and illllll cuckloft down altain to the
-cellar. He poked his rose into every hide and comer.
gave a learned dissertation on fixtures and aspecis, talked
of his own immense landed property, his wife's tremen-
dous tontine in the funds, the east antiquity Of his
family, his town ultimate connection wi, h men of the
highest rank, and concluded with a peroration on gas,
aqueducts, and dumb waiters. Ile left the landlady
with the impression that he %rasa mons•rous clever man,
as rich as Rothschild, and if not a Lord, at the very least
• Baronet.

As Mon walked home he occupied himself with re-
flecting profoundly on the tart increase of consequence
that would accrue to him, frum being a housekeeper.-
1 he resu:t of Ins to,ditations teas, that a houseeper he
ss as deterniiiied to be by book or by crook. When NI un
t! !urn, il home, he ceuuuuoic•atrd his project to Nlailant
11!..ise-4ilarged on the importJuee conferred oy the
c haracier of a housekeeper. ' The rent, toy love, said
' is 2.801.; We eau let the lodgings, our being house-
kee ;Ars will give Its unliunted credit, and we may un-
ques6utrahly manage matters so as to increase our in-
(mtir, and to ke au acidulent to vur pocket-muse, .' To
1:1s 110111 :14 could Le opposed; Ahddus se-

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quieter(' of course; and the house street was
iininethately take.).
Behold NI tin now at the very summit of his ambition.
—lie was at List a housekeeper, and a housekeeper with
him was an epitome ol all human dignity. His wife was
not less inflated than himself by this new hotiour, and
they both displayed in their ordinary deportment the
very essence of torkey-cockism. Poor Mutt I shall
never lorget the nisi visit 1 paid hint after his instalment
—I
gave my name to the servant, who went up stairs,
and having delayed for five minutes came down and
showed me iLto a parlour, stating that .\lr. Blaise was
Jost diets busily employed in his study, bin would be
happy to receive me in a few minutes. After a while
she came in agaiii, and apiiogised 'or having shown toe
into a room without a fire, and requested tile to walk
Into the opposite parlour. I complied, smiling within
myself:it this ingenious piece of ostentation. Soot' after
she came and ushered me up to Mr Blaise's study.—
Titete 1 iouuJ Alm' in a red night-cap, a large account-
hook open before him, his left hand under his jaw, and
in an attitude of the most intense theatrical abstraction
'My dear friend,' said he, starting tip. ' I beg ten mil-
lion pardons ; lint this business of honsekeepitig dues so
ebsurb the mind. It is indeed a great More; but there
are relative duties in every situation in Me, which must
be discharged sv ith exactness. 1 find it necessary to hi-
spect my sections daily, and balance my books myself.
—Tins is incumbent on every housekeeper. I find tiny
duties becoming extremely burilenrime-1 have to
attend a vet ry to day at one o'eluck, and shall be oblii!eil
to-morr.isv to sit I/II a coroner's inquest very unpleasant
—wish I could et riff—ntit can't, you know, as I am a
housekeeper. Thus he ran on, pretend.ng to lament
what was evidently 3 matter of the greatest triumph to
his vainly. Mrs..Blatse now made her appearance, de-
clared that indisposition had confined her the whole
morsiiiig to her &Adair, and asked us into the drawing-
room. 'Dirge 1 had to tnidergo a long lecture on the
pleasures and pains, the duties and tesponsibilities ot
housekeeping.
Aluiescondoct, during most part of the time lie to-'
panted this house, was indescribably absurd. lie talked
of nothing but his house in D-- street. Ills town-
house. The repairs necessary in his house, &c. If you
asked him to dine at any particular hour, tie could not
come, Or jtut then he hail an appointment at his own
house. lie would quit a piny at ten o'clock, because
housekeepers must set an example of keeping good hours;
fur his part lie alwa)s kept his own noose quite regular.
D:spining with a mange gentleman at a collee house,
he cried out ' Uo you know, Sir, that I am a house-
keeper? rktid one nay lie dragged ine into •1 bOOI•
shop and called the wan up ham his Jiuuer to enquire
his terms it; dealing with housekeepers!
llosvever, pleasure cannot last—Nluit's Elysitun was
soon to vanish. The reader may easily anticipate the
sequel. The rent swallowed up his income, he gained
tits lodgers, and the unioriunate housekeeper was con-
ducted to prison, fine the debts he had contracted In the
lofty character lie had been vainly ..ttempting to sustain.
Thus Aluii, l:ke Julius Caesar, paid the penalty of his
ambition ; as tint one lost his 111.,, so the oilier lost his
liberty. He might have lived halyily as a lodger. but
aspoitt to he a mitt-eke: met, he became a pritoner—
Aspiring to be Gods ii angels fell,
Aspiring to be angel. men rebel..

Elisabeth Tomlinson, who was lately committed to our
county gaol (Staturdahire), charged with the wilful murder of
her husband, by 'mien'', died on Thursday evening last (2lst
inst.) She was infected with jaundice, and confined to her
bed when the unnatural clime was perpetrated. During her
short ci linement, she was regularly ettended by the county
Surgeon, but her complaiut was not to be subdued by medical
skill. To the exhortations of the clergyman the wretched
woman manifested great iadilterence, and observed, that
she wanted neither doctors nor parsons ;" but to the last
moments of her eaistence she asserted her innocence of the
cr:nie with which the was charged. An inquest was held on li
her body yesterday, when the Coroner's Jury came to the una-
nimous conclusion that she " died by the visitation of Cod."
She was upwards of fifty years of aga—ber ill-used husband
nearly seventy-
AWFUL CATASTROPHE.—We have been favoured with the
perusal of a leucr from a gentleman near K.eninare, which gives
the following account of a most melancholy and awful circum-
stance in that noighbourhood:—.. I have now to give you ao
account of a t melancholy event that took piece here to-
day :—I was going up to &teem fair, (county Kerry, Inland,)
about two o'clock, and just near the turn up to the Glebe met
Dr. Sullivan. lie passed me liy, and as there was a heavy
shower coining on, 1 ran on and got into a house at Dritniita.
I had not been there more than two minutes w heti I saw one of
the brightest flashes of lightning that I ever beheld, which was
immediately followed by a most treinendnua clap of thunder ;
and in a few minutes after smite on. passed by, saying. that a
man bad been killed near the ll'iicat'• house. I ran down there
and aim lite poor Dueler stretched on the road. At lust I did
not knew hint, Lis face was so disligured—his skull over his
forehead had been beaten iu, as if he had got a blow from a flat
stick uu the head ; his face was swelled, and quite red ; his
lips were turned black, and the blood seemed driveu through
his eyes, nose, and mouth ; his whiskers and eye-brows were
scorched, and he had several marks on his body, and particu-
larly on the inside of the lert thigh. His bat, breeches, stock-
ings, and shots were tom to atoms, and scattered on the road—
in short, such a spectacle was never been. There were three
or four persons with him at the time, hut they escaped Unhurt.
Mr. Brom and John were twenty yards behind him, but they
were so dazzled by the Mash that they did not see him w hen
knocked down. lhc body is in such a state that it will not
probably keep for 24 hours. It created such a panic at the fair
that there was not an appearance of it in half au hour."
DREADFUL ACCII/LsT IS A NOBLE FAMILY.—A most
distressing mid inside] event took place at Dunbar House, the
risideuce of the Earl of Lauderdale, on Wednesday evening
(20th inst.) Some time lifter the son of Mr. lialfeur, of
liitting!tain, who is married to one of the daughters of the
Noble Earl, had been put to bed, the bed-clothes, by suwe
unaccountable accident, took lire ; and before it was disco-
vered, the pour boy, a line infant four years of age, was so
dreedfully burnt, that he expired in about two hours. The
■sloppy parents Weil, at hand ; their state of anguish and dis-
tress is not to lie described. It is a singular consintleuce th.d
a very short time ago, a false and must distressing report
found its was ii.to mimosi all the 1/011(1011 Papers, of the Cuuu-
tens of Lavdeid.de LA/ mg been but at to di ail'.

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, The keelmen still refuse to return to their usual employment
but the efforts of the coal-owners to conduct their hu.siutss
without their assistance, have this week attained an efficiency,
which must convince these misguided men of the utter hope-
lesnesss of the struggle in which they are engaged. By the
aid of steam-boats, and through the increasing skilfulness of
the men who have been engaged to navigate the keels, eon.
siderslile nnuibere of them have each day this week been
brought &mu from the smiths above bridge to the ships at
Shields, and again conveyed hack, under the escort of the
boats from the ships of war at Shields. On their passage
they have occasionally been united with showers of stoues
from the shore, and sonic of the keels which straggled behind
the test have been boarded by parties from the allure, and
brought to an anchor. On Wednesday and Thursday these
showers of stories were answered by a discharge of lire-arms
from the men of war's boat*, but without injury to any peraoa,
as the shots were bred inure by way of intimidation than with
intent to injure. The number of keels which were brought
down on Thursday limo... Med to near 50, which is near the
average number Iron' the colleries above bridge. I here is
thus every appearance of these colleries being enabled to cou-
tinue their side, without the assistance of their refractory ser-
vants. As to the cutleries below bridge, they are fully able
to meet the demand for their coals by means of their spouts,
and here, in fact, shipped more than is usually dune by them
in ordinary times. The trade of the Tyne may thus be said
to he in full activity, without the intervention of the ordi-
uary keelinen. he present appearance of things has, it is
said, made a deep impression upon these men, and it would
not be surprising if we should shortly have to aneounce
their return to work.

A diabolical attempt was made on Thursday last to poison
a Cattily, in the village of Doane, near Stirling, by mixing
arsenic with the potatoes they bad fur breakfast. A precog-
nition has been gone into, but no distinct clue has yet been
°fund to lead to a discovery of the wretch who has been guilty
of so base a deed. The sufferers are, a woman of middle age,
her daughter of IT, and a sou of eight years of age. From
porno and judicious medical aid, the three persous are in a
fair way of recovery,.
Clii:Al. LODl:llkCs.—.lll a respectable, but not very fashions
able street ot,Glasgow, lodgiugs are let so cheap, that, in one.
a woman has c good room fur 41 per week. I asked Gd."
said the landlady, but she stormed, and I let her have it for
4id.' It 'a
scarcely necessary to obseive, that house-room is
all that is gut for this sum. •
The three iudividuals who were taken into custody in the
Cortliner's Hall, iu the Potter Row, Edinburgh, charged with
endeavouring to propagate doctrines subversive of religion.
were detained in charge of the eheriff's Miners, with whom
they resided until the close of Me prosecution, on Wednesday
night, when they were admitted to buil.
A hole impudent fellow, about thirty years of age,
called at the house of Mr. Barnett, surveott, in Charters
house-square, oti Saturday evening, and impaired if the
foot buy was at 110111 e I being answered iu tile negative,
lie recto:sled leave to write a note for him, which the lad
allowed hitu to write in his presence. The ft.llow, in
stiuthog the candle, put it out, and then debited the lad
to fetch hint a light in order to seal the note, but hef ore
lie could return to the ri,odi, lie met tile Ithow iu the
passage, who said it was all right, as he irappened to
have a wafer iii his pocket, gave the lad the note, and
left the house i but aliortly alicrwards it was discovered
that the thief took with lion a valuable silver snuff box,
which happened to be out the in,litle-pluce.

A most appalling catas.rophe happened in the neigh-
bourhood of the Holmes' Lights, m Bristol Channel, on
Friday se'linight. Captain Gill, his wile, two sisters,
and a sert.iiit lad, were coming over from IVarchet to
Guild', in one of the pilot boats beiollgOlg to the latter
place, and when about mid channel, the boat was
uvrr-
takell by a Ett&thick) gust of wind, amid instantly upset, and
the above pet-sous, together with the boatmen, were
buried beneath tile waves. Mrs. Gill was in an
advanced state of pregnancy, and was returning to Car-
diff to be confined. None of the bodies base yet been
found, but part of the boat and sprit sail have been
picked up. When the boat left Watchet, considerable
apprehensions were etitertamed for the safety of the
voyagers, winch have b.en thus fatally realized.
The newly erected Tread-mill, for the employ.
meat of prisoners in the County Gaol and Home
at Correction at Reading, was, for the first time, pin ht
motion on Friday se'imight. Tne prisoners performed
the labour apparently well :ill .Nionday last„ at one
o'clock, when tmrty.two mutinied and reiused to go on
the wheels, statin4 that they JJJJJ at have extra provisions
and leather-hottonied shoes, or they could IRA perfortil
tile labour. They considered confinemein in cells was all
the piiiiist.ineitt that awaited their vissob.:dience, but in
that idea they were deceived ; the keeper and assistants
were under tile necessity of baring recou►se to arms and
bludgeons, JIM compelled every twin to go upon the
wheel, and perform the allotted labour.
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ELoecrakx-r.—Lieut. 11.. an officer upon half-pay,
kali:Jog iu Queen-street, Goldembquiare, on Alooday
looming hire,t a pust.chaise In Piccadilly, and lett it la
11a:4cm-street. In a few minutes afterwards he came,
and handed a young lady of considerable fortune, re-
biding in that neighbourhood, 111.0 it. and told the post-
boy to chive as last as he could dowii the Kent-road. In
halt an hour afterwards the fugitus cs were plowed hy the
lady's brother, who was anted with pistols. He IfaCell
them to the Bricklayers' Arms, when they quitted the
chaise, anti Ito inrilier clue could be obtained.
()it Thursday afternoon about three o'clock. a coal
waggon, in eu,iravaunug to pass the carriage
11,11, near Popiun'b cour,, Fleet-street, ran fold of the
Sllllr, threw both tile C03C1101411 and footman from the
hoz, and drove the coac't (xi the pavement, by witien
tile window traiiii-s, said b‘reial panes of glass belong-
log to Ali.. Capes, were destroyed. Fortunately
were 110 liclamlS 111 life carria6e. received col
tlera tale injury.
Oh S.,turday last, as J. Ekless, E-. of Burlesd
bridge, was shooting wild fowl on tile river near to
house, his gun unlortonately burst, carrying id
two augers, and otherwise lacerating the Zell ham
1110V1111.1111al!y both hands were behind the breech
circumstance which cahoot he too strongly impressed
those who are hr tile habit of bhootioa), or the •
t have been
ii.Alll4 Ucen Ittually blues n to FR:Lev.

DI h; 44.NCHOLY SWORICIC.
The brig George, Capt. J. APAlpin, tailed from Quebec
with it calico ut timber, for Greenock, un the 1211 i of
sqtteniber last, with a crew consisting of nine persors,
hcsides Once passengers. Early in the morning of the
6il/ of October, she Wild overtaken by a violent storm,
winch was continued without intermission during the day
—towards silo-set the gale increased, and the vessel be-
came 11111 l anagoable.
At two o'clock the following morning a tremendous sea
broke over her, and swept away three of her best h• 11111%,
141111 the companion, binnacle, cable, and boom, and
p emly dalllidged the hut all hands were then called to
the pimp; but only tin re were able to render any assist-
ance. At six o'clock tiny found the vessel to be water-
logged; nothing them tens:tined but to gain the mills-top,
which with iulsueise difficulty they accomplished, carry-
ing with therm one hag or bread, about eight pounds of
cheese, t no dozen cf wine, %laid entail quantity of brandy
1111.1 11111/.
IL:101e they:had time to secure themselves in their peril.
cos hiill.ll ion, the vessel It'll on her beano ends but within
half 1111 holm the hatches blew up 1111,1 she again lighted.
Their beauty stores were now examined, when to their
utter di-may, ail had bet it washed away except the bag
of bread. At this pet bid a distressing :erne occurred in
the undst of their otkLetiona ; one of the passengets load
his Mite vii board, and a clad I fifteen :ovum» Gl.l, which
he carried in his :11111S ; the imam, boviever, lie was com-
pelled to atiaatilon to the niercilce waves, tit the view of
its distracted mother!
'the mainsail was now let down to screen them from
the erre' ity of the weather, which continued tempestus
bus mild I.iiday, the I I th, they were able unee muse to
opt n the leek. Their titirat lied now become execs-
else, and nothing bill salt tinter to be procured. Having
tannin the Cilyelliel's axe, they cut a hole in the deck,
near the *lime cask had been stowed ; but, alas! the
cask had heels stove, mid nothing was to be found either
lor support or convenience, 1.1111 411 empty pump-era,
*lnch they canted with them to the wain-top.
'foal night the female passenger iteraine insensible, and
next day, Saturday, the 1211, she died. The pour %vuman,
whose name a as Juice !toe, canoe with her husband fount
between Belfast and Larne, hr Ireland. Tile unhappy
sttivivoi a were now redllet'll, by raging thirst, to supputt
nature by sucking the blood of their deceased Cumpailion,
and, shocking to relate, the miserable 1111411/111d was ne-
cessitated to partake of the a 1111 l atone! and horrid beve.
age. Their sufferings' however, met with little allay
lionnthistempo:ary but alreadttil relief; they were now
assailed by the most acute and ungus et liable Hunger, and
to preserve existence wire comppliml to disirintite the
flesh of the deceased among the tainishing sin vitors!—
While in the very acme of their multi mugs, a ship hove in
view; but this joyful sight was of short duration, ler it
being neatly dal k, they remained tinpeiceived by the
vessel, which continoed tier oat course, anti was 600110111
ail their reach. This ft esh misfortune torew them into
greater despair than they hail yet expo aenceds From
111111 time to the 23d, the following died;—John Lamont, a
boy ; John ;tl•Kay, carpenter; George APllowell, pat.
smiger ; Cohn ItPliechitie, and the steward, Gilhert
Itl'aiiivray. Part of the tlesli of these wretched auttereis
was also devout ed like that of the Wotll‘lll.

'lite whale her was how 'educed to the captain and
one of the seat ho, by the help ut the mainsail, and
the cast already mentioned, cunt; ived to %apply themselves
with water till site 1-ith ut November (having beret :id
days on the wreck), when they were pio,identially disco-
vered by Capt. Hodson, of the Soittag, of Catliste ; but
they wile yet rated to b..tfer 'mother shipwreck, though
of 11l i l tor importance. (hi Ttit,day, the 19th Instant, this
vessel, whilst sailing ott Beekihot, on the Cumberland
coast' it blowing a gale, Woke her chain cable, when she
drifted too near Ai ill yborough, acid was con,ideratily &i-
-maged, bit all hands woe saved, including the two n
too innate sufferers, wlto art ived at Annan on ‘Veduesday
the 2001, and, what is very remarkable, apparently its
good health.

NEGOCIATIONS wiry TOIEFES FOR THE RE-

COVEIcY Qk' STOLEN PROPERI Y.

Upon this subject, *hid', since the Ipswich mail affair, has
been much talked of, Mr. Halls, the magistrate at Bow-street,
look occ ision ou Tuesday to make some Wong observatinus.—
t Seale, in whose house in Rosemary-Issue about 1,0001.
worth of property, which had been stolen by burglars from the
warehouse of a Mr. Emerson, in Watling-street, was found on
Tuesdav se'nuight, was b.-ought up for re-examination, when
Mr. Andrews, as counsel for the prosecution, begged that
she be again remanded, to give time to procure further evidence.
Mr. /lulls said lie should not object to delay iu a case of so
much importance as this. Now, however, that the solicitors on
both rides were preseut (Mr. Isaacs attended fur the prisoner),
as well u all the parties concerned, he felt desirous of making
a remark or two upon another subject. It bud come to lis
knowledge, that, of late, where extensive, and indeed,
enormous robberies had becn committed, negociations regu-
larly conducted had been entered into with the robbers, fur the
restoration of the stolen property, upon the payment of
stipulated PIMA and other conditionns ; and are wis very sorry
to add, that men in the profession of the law, or at least
practising as such, had lent themselves to these negociations,
and had been indeed the go-between in disgraceful trims
actions of this kind. There were men who had often been
professionally employed in that very Office, and been at:-
mitted as a matter of courtesy to the Bench, who had been ne-
gotiators between the rob!iers and The robbed. What was to
become of the justice of the country if its course was to be
thus obstructed by men whose duty it was most peculiarly
to all it in its operations. But let these imlividuals take
tare ; they should not be suffered, as Ind been the case, to
curry %boot stolen property in their blue bags, and stipulate
fur the price of its restoration to the lawful owner. Such per-
sons might shelter themselves within the limits of the city,
but let them, or any of their clerks or agents, take care how
they did any thing of that sort within his jurisdiction, for if it
Caine to his knowledge, they might rely upon his pursuing the
severest measures which the law would authorize. Ile was
not to be understood as nsplyin,; these remarks personally to
nay individual then present; they were throw,' out generally,
and lie hoped would be attended to. Mrs. Scale most be re
moulded

Ou Wednesday morning, the Pea: thorough coach,
uo;ng down lialdo7k-hdl, tinfortunitcly np,et, and ve
are awry to add, the guard ss as It.lled on the spo•, and
the coachman also much hurt. Noise of the passengers
subtotaled any injury.. 4

'HE NATIONAL REGISTER

POLICE.
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BOW STREET.
UNNATURAL AND BRUTAL CONDUCT Or A 11,10THRR !•—•
Tuesday inurninitA.FrAtiels was brought before the sluing
magistrate a (T. Halls mid W. Beckett, lisp...) charred
with having cruelly treated three of her child' en, of the
ages of Oiler, four, and six sears, whose appeal:ince in
the office bespoke the total neglect of their 11111114iWrid pa.
rent; they appeared iu a depluiaLlo state of filthiness
and starvation.
The office was crowded with the woman's neighbours,
whose feeliugs of horror and disgust occasionally vented
lliemsel es in a manner the least unequivocal.
The following depositions were taken ,—C. Bower,
beadle of St. Giles's stated, that in rouse metier of infor-
mation he received from a Mall named tslippertim, who
lodged ei the adjoining room to that Occupied by the pri-
soner, he elide ivinired to gain admittance into her apart-
mem (the back garret of a house situate at No. 411, Great
st. Aodiew-street), at about oue o'clock on Monday, lout
lie found the door fastened by a padlock, and on looking
Through a hole in the door, saw three young children lying
upon some shavings in a corner of the room ; they were
completely naked, end the only coveting they had was
small piece of dirty canvass ; being unwilling to break
open the door when he went away, and returned again at
about II all•past tin ee o'clock, when the dour was fastened
on the • le; be then knocked, and was answered by the
prisoner, who told him he could have no bitsitiess there,
but lie eventually succeeded i.e persimiiiig her to let him
In; the chilila it were still tiaked, and were crying very
much ; he told the woman to give them some victuals; she
fetched some bread fton the cupboard, which witness
gave to the poor chattiest, and the voracious manner iu
which they devoured it, convinced histi that the Waimea -
!ion he had seceived of the cruel conduct attic mother, in
starving tier children, was out exaggerated.
John Clipperton said, that lie had resided in the front
garret ailjoitiiiig the prisoner's room, sluice the Ist of
.march; tile prisoner was then living in the horse; a man
lived with her, who was nut her litislicid ; both of them
frequently beat the pout children in im unmet cilia 111411-
tier ; they used to go out between eight and nine o'clock
in the morning, and r sometimes at tilt er, and fre-
quently at seven, and even at ten o'clock at uiklt ; during
this time the children were left alone in the room, gene-
rally without either victuals or tice ; their cries were often
dreadful; the key of the padlock which fastened the door,
Was put in a cupboard on the landing-place; he and his
wife li,quettil:. opened the door, and gave the children
something to eat; but they were themselves very poor,
end could spare but little. The woman's brother, a ser-
taut out of place, used often to bring them some !mead
and chem., but he had nut been to the house for many
months. flee prisoner and lire male companion would
sometimes have a hot slipper, but the children had cried
-themselves to sleep whit empty stomachs; and they 'miter
'participated in the food of toe itilitimati and iiniceling
wretch who gave them an esistence, which she appeared
desirons of Utilizing to an untimely and bonid close. The
whines* treated minty iuteresting but disgusting cireutu-•
stances, which pioved utter dewily:lly And Iteattlessness
of this excepting to humanity awl materual affection.
• The woman hat for wombs received parochial assist-
ance Iron those diff lent puttees. _

Mr. I falls, after expressing 16nm-1/warmly in depreca-
lion tot the unuatnial mother, and in praise of the conduct
of Girlie. ton allot wile, said, that lie wood.' sign an outer
for the removal of time Woniail to her pas isli, stud also for
that of the child' en, and particular ilia ections *humid be
given to the parish utticeis, in order that proper care
should be taken of the poor children, who would require
more than ordinary attention in the restoration of their
health, if the neglect they had expel 'teamed had nut been
continued to I fatal length.
A case, involving the disputed points between Hackney
Coach Alasters and Short Stage Masters, was brought be-
lore the Magistsates of ibis °Hier, on Sattatolay last.
Mr. Alley stated the case, and by a witness proved, that
on the 25tli October last, the detesulaut, Mr. Cleveland,
proprietor of the stage coach N0.42..5, out only stopt at
the While Morse Cellar, in Piccadilly, nut went so tat as
the ft out of Devoitshile-hou•e to wait for Itivistonge is, sad
turned rnun4 again to the White liorAe Cellar, tor the
s tune plot pose; and the learned Gentleman contended,
that nod witlistatodioug the Acts 43 lieu. In. cap. 1115. stud
the Jol G..0.1.V. cap. 9 s,tepeallitg lormer hews on toe sub-
ject, no slatte-conelt had a tight to tale tip any Ilder:ler
hone the 'Meets, without bring subject to the usual penal-
ties for such tat ingensent upon the prixilege of the hack-
-11(1101'11.
Ale. Andrews, for the defendant, and Mr. Sykes, for the
Stettip °thee, iota c ly comenoled, that the two Acta of
Pathausent above quoted, gave c plcle power lu the
stage to take up passengers on the stones,
and to early then' to their places of destination, if they
were vomit,' the line of road sor which any stage-ctiaaii.
was licensed.
Mr. with whom Mr. Halls coincided, deter-
naioeol that Ilse 12th section of the 5311 i Geo. M. cll. 165,
completely empowered stage coaches to take travellers tip
on the statues, and not oil the stones, as contended by Mr.
Alley; but as proof had been given that the coach in
question hail turned rotund, after leaving the house of call,
for the pin pose of picking up passengers, a flue of
was tollicted upon the proprietor thereof.

On Thursday last an impleit was held at the Son
risen], N.iwitigtoit, on the body of Mr. James Tucker.
Mr. lli•onett, a fillteoio, Slated, that he was ACM for to
the dece 'sea, who hail taken something poisonous
Ile Mudd him in agony; his eluemities were cold, and
311,1 111 a death-like perspiration. He plained ch., fly
of bwitiou pains in the chest. He questioned the de-
ceased as to the cause, and with thlfictilly the young man
said—•• On Saturday 'hosanna I went tut on
and as I WaSi•JSbillg along Biackinan.street, Southwark,
1 picked tip a blue paper contaitiMA a white powder,
which I tholight was medicine, end thinking that it
might do me good, a 511011 time ago 1 ewallossed it ; the
the bloc paper and the bill that was with it is in my
waistcoat pocket." 'hoe deceased was 1111.11.1 C to say
more ; his pockets were searched, but no blue paper or
bill was found. Ile administered a stroitz, mole, but
it had tio good effect, the poison was so tery powerful.—
Ile did not know positively what it was, but lie believed
it was white arsenic. Verdict—" Died from taking de-
leterious ingredients as a medicine, nut knowing that it
was poiron."

383

DARING OuraAer—As Mr. Chas. Williamson and

his wile were, Ice on Saturday evening, remelting to
mwit from Highgate. they were stopped nearly at the
bottom of the mil by a single footpad, armed with a
heavy liludgeon. The fellow seizing the reins of the
horse, and uttering malty shocking imprecatious, de-
manded his money or life. Mr. W. however, jumped
out of the gig, and nutting the reins into his lady's
Is itianhilly attacked the assailant with the butt-end
of a whip. The villain feelisig himself thus roughly
dealt with, roared out, when two other ruffling came
mulling up, and begat' to rifle Mrs. Williainsou, with
tearilig her clothes, and dragging her cloak and se:aloft
her s';oitiders ; her shrieks instantly broiuht Mi. W.
to tier assistance, after settling the rascal opposed to him.
Ile now luckily hit down one of the oilier villains, who,
holditag fast by his great coat, lie could hot prevent his
wife being brutally forced out of the vehicle, and carried
thmogli a gap of the hedge dose by, notwithstanding
her cites and resistance. At this instant, a cart Caine
down the hill with three persons in it. Hearing the
distressed screams of a woman, they cried out, " We
are coinits4 I we are coining! " pulled op, leaped out,
and rail up to the gist. and Muni! Mr. Williamsoo
inA on the horse, with the reins in hit hands. quite ex-
hausted. They lost no time, but flew to the lady's re-
lief; they soma discovered her hi a fainting state, con-
veyed her immediately to the carriage, placing Mr. W.
with her, and made the best of their wry to a cityisigt
drieagist in Kentish-town, where she was relieved.
Mrs. W. lost her cloak, scarf, and one shoe; her out-
side dress. and petticoats were much cut and torn. but -
she Mist ftlr:1111dlely sustained no material hen. The
made their escape across-the fields on the first
alarm.

Mr Adkins, the governor of the Home of Correction,
Coldbattl-fields, di...a...a Friday morning, after a long
illness. Vickery, the senior principal officer of Bow-
street, waited upon Sir R. Brine in the course of the
day, to inform Mtn that he intended to become a candi.
date for the vacant situation, which is iii the gift of the
Middlesex Nlagistrates, and to solicit his sanction and
support. Sir R. Binne immediately promised both, and
took the opportunity of bearing testimony to the intelli-
gence and activity uniformly shewit by that officer in
cie performance of his duty. Ile had been 2.5 years in
the po ice, and 13 years of that time a principal officer of
the Bow street establishment, and he hid several times
been desperately wounded in the execution of his duty.
Upon oue occasion, in endeavouring to apprehend two
uteri charged wait murder near Finsblity.square, his
scull was fractured, several of his fingers broken, and he
watt left for dead.—A recommendation to the rest of
the county magistrates, on behalf of Vickery, was imme-
diately cgited uy S:r R. &rine, G. R. Minshull,T.Bialls,
and W. Beckett, lisrps. the magistrates on the bench at
the time.

Bats-rot. MAIL—As this mail from London on •
Tuesday last was changing horses at Fraicheld, owing to-•
some altercation betwe en the coachman and horse-keeper. •
the horses set ofl• without coachman or guard. An out.
side and inside passenger were injured, but two gentlemen
(Mr. Ricketts, of Bristol, and Dr. Smilers, of Mendip- •
10.1ge,) keepin4 their seats escaped unhurt. The horses
went int at a steady quick pace, till they. reached the gate
at the entrance to Marlborough forest, where one of the
leaders struck against the gate, and broke from the rest
the coact was draaged by the three re liattig horses into
the forest, and brought to a stand-still atnong the trees;
iii about at minutes a Bath coach came up with coach-
man and guard, and with proper assistatice the mail pro-
ceeded ; tile coachman not forgetting at the end of the
stage to ask for hisfeefor *illation.
Ott Thursday night last, about half-past ten, as Me.
John Morgan, borsholder. of Tunbridge, was oil his
return front Maidstone. where lie had been to convey a
prisnaer, lie was stopped on we road between Timbridge -
and liadlow, ne.ir to Green Trees, by two footpads. one
of whom was tall and the other short, who immediately
attacked him, and after besting him in a roost inhuman
manner with thick pieces of hop-pole, rolds.4l loin of
property, consisting of one ball-sovereign, 15 shillings
M 'ilVert a toratora,idorn book in a marble cuter, coon.
tainting some appraising accounts, a receipt for ti.e afore-
said ',moiler, a steel shot charge with powder in it, and
(Morgan thinks) likewise two if. notes of the Tunbridge
Odoik.

There is a new plan beginning to develope itelf, of
ruffians assembling and threatentll•g persons who prose-
cute thieves to convictiou. The inett(opolis swarms with
luniscbreAers, and it is forsooth cimisidered a great of-
ience by these villains and their connections, if persons
(10 not surfer themselves to be roithed and plundered wiirt
impunity. Where fellows are mond assembling for the
purpose of injuring or insulting those WIN proscuee of-
kiiders, we hope to hod the police officers on the alsrt,
and that oillians so conducting themselves will be dealt
with according to the utmost rigour of the law.

Es U MATION.—An 3 pplic3tiGn of 311 affecting nature
was mad.: to Sir George Farrant, at Marlborough-street,
by the son of a Aentlemmi in comet:pence of his father's
corpse being disinterred. The gentleman stated, his
father was hurled a clay or two since In a church-yard in
the country, and the saute night the body was removed
Rum its peaceful habitation by some resurrection men,
who hail been seen in the night coining down on the
road from Loudon in a light cart, which they had driven
into a field, while It is ,tipposed they plundered the grave
of his lather's remains; every article Which W3S p.aced
in the coffin was leli, mid the shroud, shirt, &c. were
taken from off the body. gentleman had applied
to several eminent sor6eons, aid had been admitted to
malty dissechug rooms, but could not find his father's
body among the ns,aly which he saw ; his ObirCl was to
procure an order front the magistrate, and the assistance
of an 0111Cer in starching the premises of those surgeons
who resided i iiiiii edtately within the district of the °thee.
The magistrate give him a letter, and dispatched Jeff.
revs, a very intelhAent officer with hint, but hitherto this
search is unsucccsatul.

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