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was brew -ht op fur examination arid. r tho following cir-
consstaaces :
Mr. Forrester, silversmith, elated, that the Ps isoncr was
in his employ, and WWI iutrnstal with the ens re maisne.
anent of a concern of his in Aklersgate-street Having rea.
ion 1.. mares that the Prisoner was acting frandulestly,
and that he did 001 accusal for all the articles wild, he was
induced to send some persons to purchase g soda of the Poi-
soner, with a view to detect him The experiment sac.
reeled, fur ia most of these looming the goods on pin,
chase d wore either not accouestell for in the sale book, ur
set down as sold fur a small. r sour than the Prisoner had
teed for them. tkveral articles au lumbered by the
Compllios..o. direction is • re produced, six. a shawl, • time.
Direr, brain Limp, mah.lcoal. kr. Namr of the persons who
had wok tho port La-es uut beiug is attendance, the Pls.
wooer Sal r. mood. .1.
Mach anxiety was expressed by the Proweetne to per.
vest this ease from appearing before the public, awl lamest
applteation was amok by him to Sir f'hhirs Flower hi grant
. a private hearing. The worthy Alderman, however, refused
the request with some indignation; " he dot ant like justice
allbataisteral in private. and saw nothing is. this ease that
teas tom:awry to be cuucesled from the public eye."
sow
ON Monday eviesiing. an the arrival of the ran OM a Imes-
bary, secostepanied by the HON. Sir lower Cole, In town, •
trunk. containing property of coessi.:erahle vitae, was ewe
from Isebiall their carriage, between Whitebsll and 11.11-
street, Berkeley-square. The trunk was seen safe behind
the carriage in Parliantentviireet. In conargnence of the
sribhery, Nicholas., the cooduclor of • party of patrule,
with some maistsots, were spoil the alert in Whitehall, on
Friday .sewing, when he oboes wed three 00,11;60114 char:se-
ts rs lasting about there, he watched tlo ses for some Inn.,
and observed them following a eart,exclief them ocessioually

going to kook sato it, a,od relation; 10 his companions.
Tbe cart proceeded to Pall-mall, where use of the gawg took
something oat of the cart which proved to be • dowse, upon
which Nwholls iris• d him, and he olio w the dares, nosy,
sod mole • desperate resiatairee to Wriest takes, and mull-
ioned to du se fur such • length of time that his eampeeimas
eimaped; and the eget from *Web the cheese had here stolen
proireediet ow at its norm! pace-, there loot having been any
time to Wroth% the den, r what had happened, was lost sight
of, and could not be tracod. The videos who took the cheese,
after a desperate light with Ricketts, was secured, awl proved
lii he • esittirious character, named Jock Rottor.—Re
was broright IN the Office, and uuderweet an Ix iniiisatim
before 111 r. Manta, *Um there being an owner for the
cheese, he wassaummitteit foe (wither examisueton, charged
with stealing the dowse, the properly of some persons or
permits ituknorns.
Up Saturday eNIIIIOII. a stage-oroath which slopped at the
Boukiieruffice of the C. C.,ffee-hourte,
tons robbed of • to took belonging to, a boy, who was at, ono.
side paasesoger, by • ft How, oho, un the coach stopping,
asked the buy which was his Irma ; the boy enauspectioely
asked him if he canoe from his fi *lend, to %loose house he
was going, aseationing his mono-, and the dint twine pee.
pared with any deception to obtain his object, answered inn
the affirmative, whew the boy gave him his trunk, with
which he made off. A Gentleman oleserviiig a man ten-
sing from Whiteloinh.streti hit') Selfolk-strett, with the
Creak, and hearing the hue and cry, stopped him, but be
made a desperate resistance, sort (Meted his escape. A
roan, supposed to be his cumpsuison, ass secured and
brought to this Office, and examined before Mr. Hicks, hilt
his person not bring identified. he was nut detained. How.
r, he is to appear slain on Wednesday, is CAW of there
b i,ig any fresh proof against him.
• John kddleston, Rory his wife, and • boy, were char.zeit
on anspirion of kohl stolen a large spaniel, of lead, to
the 'Aire! of 1,4110 lbs. aright. A horse and earl. rontain.
log Ilse trail, were hromait to Ilse Office room Tottenham-
court-row% • here they had been eels. d by Davis, end a
party of petiole heluirgiug Ste Office, IN the art of unload.
big the lend at the bowie of Ir. BMus
lint account the Prisoner, gave of bring poimessed of
sect, a hoer trustily of lead was, that they had bonght it
of Mrs Borne, at Breniford, opposite the Market place.
The buabaud sad buy were sent tu the watch.house, and
the w.fe was discharged.
Willies Read was charged with robbing the shop of Mrs.
Cheesessiaii, in Hulywell.strtet, of three pairs of stays, by
forcibly tearing them fi om the stile of the shop window, and
rueuiog off with them, about fuur o'clock on Saturday of
sermons, which being pyre' ivid by Mrs. Cheescusass. who
was oeubserverl by the young earlier, she ran out, calling
unt " Stop thief!* She came op with him and held him fur
some time, hat being tin, strung for her, he diatomite,' him.
sell hum her hold; Weever, he was i.stauily stopped and
si cooed again by a gessiletnaii, Mr. Meredith, of Biufietil,
lB iks, who happened to be politic. Two of the plies of
stays were found upon him, and one pile be was seen to
throw away. He at Mot went on his knees and entreated fur
merry, declaring he did not steal the idays, lint that two '
boys, who hail slukii them, threw them on his arm. On
Gilding that his false and hypocritici I ocyre,tutations did lout
Duo-et:id, hr changed his conduct to the must horrid oaths,
infamous language, clod threats, hich proved that a:though
lie was young in years he was cold in profligacy and iisfanoy,
and be use' well knows at the office oil his being brought
there. He was fully committed f. r t,i..1.
James Roberts, • journeyman printer, was cherged with
vrisdisigalasanaeks, fur Ilw year lel.), without being legally
stamped. as dirt tied by the Act of Parhanient.
It appeared that the Prisoner had impowil spots Joseph
Giles. • poor blind mass lobo hawks goods about the streets
fur his living. At first be sold him fuer ateliers' kr for the
year 1619, without having stamps affixed to tbeees—the se.
mud time he sold him twelve of theta for 9a. id. At ass
other time the Prisourr offered pool Giles thirteen alasaaacks
fur 9s. &I. which was at the Red Lion public-house. in Great
Windmill street, inhere the PoWouer and poor Giles were
both taken iutu custody by Mayhew suit Avery, the coasts
hies, who had previously received informatios of the traos-
action.
Os the person of Roberts more undamped ahasemeks
wese Aisud, and out searching his lodgings in Gilbert-
street, Clare Market, six eisires of unstauoped alinauacks
were found.
The defence set up by the Prisoner was, that he winked •
for the printer who priuted the almanacka fur the Statiourrs•
Company, sad the journeyiner etre allowed a certain num-
ber of aliwauatks (whirls were called blanks) as perquisites, to
distribute aUtUllj their Sliced*, and this was the way lie
b.icatne possessed of the uustailiped almaaacks it moist'
Mr. Woudfall, the Printer, was reseal, and proved that
no such custom of perquisites of mastamped or blank
alassmacks existed to journeymen, and that be must hate
moreptitiously obtained puesessamo of them.
The Prisoner was committed as the Act directs.
On Saturday, Taelose a poster at the White Hart tnn,St.
Johoi sire, t, was summoned to 1111*Wer the complaint of
Charles Musgrave, Lire of Portland-place, fur an over-
charge in the carriage and postage of a parcel. The over-
charge, which was • very gross mire was clearly proved, but
the Defoudout brought fin ward the bookkeeper to prove
that the parcel weighed 621 b. oath by the statute, Magi.
strati s ea 000000 t take cogeix any usurcharge epee sup
p acid wiielsine mow thaw 541 b. It was pruvoel, however,
that the I/tired:lm, epos delivering the parcel, had obtain-
ed an extra shilling Gum the sun of Mr. Illuserave„ who
was at home ill and alums, under the represcutatioe that it
was • wet day. This glutton was iu addition to the over-
shares.
The Magistrate told the Dr fenilaut, that. to use language
more easy moderstood by himself, he had " jmopil from
the fiyiug.pan into the hit" iu lIIC preernl case. To avoid
• ti.rial penalty, he had brought a u Uneas, Mbu.v testi y
had the effect of takieg away the je.isdirtiuu of a Magus-
trete ; hot by thus a. t he had remlcrird hunvrlf iisdirtalste at
uIDIMUII las for a Is mil. and he silica rely hoped float Mr.
Musgrave world nut allow so KIM* au imposition to gu
unpuutshed.
Maagrave was exceediugly Milieu/int at the imposi-
tion, and expressed his full deternsimatiun to indict the
INftudaut at the toes. Sesames fur foxed.

There is no futilwr account of the stolen child,

the wii of Mr. Iltittat.cr. C I ury-laile,
I•l.tigtuu, *hue, cAsk. estetttb bJ wucli public HP.
it rest.

CIIARACTER OF no VAP.4RTE,
PR EVIOUS TO HIS ABDICATION.

(Free " Nulathe Ds STatell Work on fk Fresel 1:••
r•laliks.")

We have mach Idea+ure its transcribing, fur the
gratification of our readers, from the. iwwthumous
work of this sitigidarly-gifterl woman, lire correct
Ora. touching the mind of Napoleon when intoxi-
cated with roarer. There is, indeed, in unlimited
power, a kind of girlitinas which ►rizes en genius
as on stupidity, and overthrows them both alike.
" The strength and character of Itiniaparte's judg-
ment," sly, this writer, " were isexpired when he
saw mess mail things bending before him in such a
manner, that it became no longer necessary for hire
to exercise his thoughts upon any of the dilbcolties
of life." _ .

" The Oriental etiquette which he bad establish-
ed in his court, intercepted that kind of knowledge
which is acquired amidst the easy communications
of society. Wheat there were four hundred people
in his saloon, a blind man might have thought him-
self alone, so deep was the silence that prevailed.
The Marshals of Fiance, amidst the fatigues of
war, at the crisie of a battle, used to enter the tent
of the Emperor, to ask lies orders, without being
asked to sit down. His family clot not suffer less
that, strangers from his despotism awl his pride.
Lucien preferred living a prisoner in Engbind, to
reigiaileg under the orders of his brother. Louis
Butaaparte, whose character is generally esteemed,
was restrained by Isis probity to renounce the
throne of Holland ; and can it be believed, that
when conversing with his brother during two hours,
by themselves, and that brother, from iodesposition,
to lean painfully against the wall, Napoleon weer
offered hint a chair ; he lewd to continue meadow
himself, from the fear that any one should think of
using the familiarity with him of pitting in his pre-
pence. The dread which he isolated in later time*
was such, that nobody dared to address him first on
any subject. Sametimes he conversed with the
greatest simplicity, atirrourobd by his Court, mud
in his Council of State, II I- butirmi such evrw
rn-
cuurmged contsadictims, upon administrative s.r
judicial affairs, which had no c. iiiii mon with his
power. It wa* curious to remark how tensibly
those pers.sns were affected whom he had suffered
fora moment to breathe freely ; but when the
master re-appeared, it was in sails to ask the minie-
' tern to reseed a report t.i the Emperor against all
unjust measure ; did it relate to the victim of sonic
error, to some individual caught by accident in that
great net thrown over the human race—the agents
of power would object the difficulty of addressing
Napoleon, as if he had been the great Lanus. Such
stupor, caused by power, wealth have raised •
smile tithe situation of men without refuge, under
this clespoti*m„ hurl not inspired the deepest pits.
Toe compliments, the byname, the adoration, a
out number and without mea'ure, which filled his
journal-, might have tired a man of such unlaces,.
dent I ; but the dexputime of his character was
stronger than his reason. He liked true costae less
then base flattery, because the owe skewed his
merit whilst the other attested hi* authority. lie
general, he preferred power to glory ; fur the exer-
tion of power pleased him too much to make him
think of posterity, on whom it cannot act. But
one of the results of absolute pm ter, which contri-
buted the most to precipitate Bonaparte from his
throne, was, that by degrees. no one dared to state
to him the truth on any subject. He ended by not
knowing that it wars cold at Moscow in November,
because there could be found on one among his
courtiers who had enough of the Roman to inform
him of a thing so simple." Our extract must
here end.

Seven hundred of the 6.11 regiment of foot, from
Francis, passed through Stamford, in three divisions,
hest week, on their route to Sunderland, to relieve
the 95th about to be disembOdied.
The Lord Chief Justice Annorr, who has I itchy
beau appointed to the high official situation convey-
ed by that title, was formerly a scholar of Corpus
Christi Culler, and distinguished himself early in
life by the force of his untlerstmiding. Lis persever-
ing industry, and the richness of his 111 l
in classical literature. les:dent in the Uni-
versity, he gained the only two prizes then in ex-
istence : io 178.1, the Latin Verse Composition,
Globus derosiatiens (one of the beat imitations of
the philosophical style of LECRETIUS that has ever
appeared since the memorable work of MELCHIOR
DE POLIGH RC) ; and in 1786, the English Essay on
the Use and Abase of Satire ; and he has wolves-
sively been carried to the most elevated rank in his
profession by the most credituble of all patrons—
the recommendation that sprung from his oan solid

merits as a Lawyer, and onblenching impartiality as
a Judge.—(Oxford Jouraul.)
Arms Octant Togir.—lt is a fart, that at the
October essiniiiationa fur entrance at Trii.ity Col-
lege, Dublin, one hundred and three candidates
were admitted, out of which number tweitly• six
were Lieutenants on half-pay.

In the night of the sth instant, shoot eleven
o'clock, the dwelling-house of Mrs. SARAH MANN,
• maiden lady, of about 70 years of age, who oven.
pies a small farm of her own, at Cold Norton, Es-
sex, was entered by forcing open an outer and
inner door, by live turn, who demanded a light.—
From the noise made, • man-seivant, about the
age of his unarms*, and the only person who ap-
pears to sleep under the same roof for her protec- ,
non, was alarmed, and had got toward. the door,.
where he was met by the nocturnal vi•iturir, who de-
manded a light, and not a light, • tinder-hos ;
when, on being told there were neither, our of the
villain, as 'though acquainted with the pretnists,
went in the dark to the chimney, mid took out the
tinder-box, with which lie struck a light. Mrs.
MANN was shortly after discovered, and was threat-
ened with instaut destruction, unless slur gave up
her ninny—which ►he persisted In nut having, lint
art out her visitors souse bread and cheese, to which
she added solar water. About this time, whilst
the villains were remelting the house, Mrs. MAN N•
t•CAptil out at a back doors and rail Loatalh a cote
loge about 100 yards dt►tant—alien, as 50011 she
was tuissed, tae thieves became alarmed with the
appreltrumni of some ambiance bring rhortl) pro-
! duct,d, aud decatupedwithout any booty whatever.

EAST INDIA INTELLIGENCE.

SEIZURE OF TRIMBUCKJEE DANGLIA, DUCE
RUW PRIME: MINISTeR.

(From thea liftlebey Courier, July 11 ]

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lily aciconnts from Chasidore, dated 30th Jane,
wr are informed that Triisibuckjer Dough* was
seized by Captain Swimston in the village of Alter'.
Ration on the morning of the .29 Is June. %Ve hove
been favoured with the follii.ing particulars ref this
event :—Almiut noon of the .24 li, Ca n pta.o ._r_ggs,
our political agent in Cliantlei.n. who was then at
Mulliagatim, received infuriiiiitior. that Trimbuck-
jee was concealed in Alterigaum, nod had been there
Eleven days. • Altevigimm is distant 50 miles from
Mulliagaum, 14 from Wins, 23 from Chatidare, 25
from Nauuck, und only 10 from Launnilguurn, st
all of winch places there were British troops. It
was, however, considered that Trimbuckjee would
be prepared against surprise from any movements
to be made by our troops in his more immediate vi-
cinity, and it woe therefore resolved open to detach
Captain Swanton with 800 auxiliary horse, imme-
diately from Mulliagaum, to surlbusid the village
and secure Trimbuckjee, or ut least %lose persona
who had afforded him refuge. The plan completely
succeeded. Capt. Swasiation immediately• marched,
arrived at Chandore at 7 in the evening, and after halt-
ing an lour and a kali to refresh Ins horses, inowd
forward on Aherigartm, which place he reached at
day-light on the ,29th of June, listing performed a
fatiguing attach ei TO miles in 30 hours. Captain
Swansion had moved so rapidly on the village, that
he was enabled to varrodnd it, force open the gates.,
sad take posses-ion of the house in which Trim-
htlajee Iff !is concealed, before he or any
other person In the place was aware of Cowan'
Swanston's approach. Trinibuckjee had time to fly
to the upper lain of the house, and concealed him-
self in some straw ; but lie was soon discovered mid
seised without resistance. Captain Swanston then
carried him. with his two wives and a servaist, whom
lie requested might he allowed to accompany him,
to Chandore, Irvin which place he will be sent, un-
der charge of Captain Trendy, with two companies
of the Ist 4th Bengal Native infantry, in l'aoush.