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prison. In the coach his Lordship was very est.
any idea of the manner in which he escaped, sap.
Isis own, and added. that no one knew aids isiterw . appear
House of Commons. In removing him, he maintained that they had
done wrong, and that all of them would be sent to Nevrgate for it. It
is stated, that his Lordship, in answer in questions put to him, said, be
considered himself is ill used man ; that he ought not to have been
sect to prison ; Cochrane Johnstone had robbed him of 40001. ; that
lie went to the House of Coalitions !o have the question again agitated ;
never had a thought or leaving England ; had been all the while in
London. It is strongly suspected his Lordship's mind has been affected
by the late proceeding, anu that all has conduct of lute has been the
yank of insanity.
rimmommuusgs
POLICE.

liT IR LB OR OUG H STRUT.
A ynung man, dressed in the first style of fashion, was brought up
in custody of a watchman, named Ball, who stated, that he had
found the prisoner et different times in the course of the night, ex-
tremely riotous and noisy, in different parts of Berwick-street, and
Wartlanr-street. He had several times remonstrated with !I'm, and
advised him to go home, offering to accompany him, Wile would
tell lan where lie lived. This, however, he refused to do, and et
length the 'watchman was tinder the necessity of taking him to the
watchhottse, in the way to which, th• prisoner struck him sevetal
blows, which were visible on his face et the time be exhibited his
complaint before the magistrate. The defendant said his 'lame was
Conway, and that he belonged to the medical profession ; he ae..
bnowledged the truth of the watchman's charge, and said, in ex-
cuse, that he was much intoxicated. The inagistrateon this, advised
him to make the watchman satisfaction; in reply to which proposi-
tion, he said he would do it on sane other day, but now he had no
silver. Tbree friends, equally fashionable in their' appearance with
himself, attended ha the office, and on the magistrate telliNg hint he
must either satisfy the watchman with a few shillings, or put in had,
ho applied to Ins friends, but they all declared they had no infra,
nor could they thilik of becoming bail for him. Under these circum-
stances, the magistrate ordered him to be detained till had should be
procured, or the watchman was satisfied.

It is confidently reported that the King of France made a
formal request, two months ago, that his former residence, at
Hartwell, in Buckinghamshire, might not be disposed of for
a term to any person whatever.
In the annals of the Inquisition, published by Don Hlorente
it is stated, that in the first twenty-eight years, this tribunal
sentenced 130,400 persons to be burned alive; 70.080 to be
burned in effigy ; and 1,405,071 to various penances.
The escape of Buonaparte from Elha caused the greatest
consternation at Vienna. The Allied Sovereigns were about
to depart for their respective states, but it is now supposed
they will not separate till they have come to a decision on
the sudden change which affairs have undergone.
There is an idea current in France, which in spite of its
absurdity, gains full belief. It is absolutely believed by the
lower orders in that country, that the escape of Buonaparte
from Elba was connived at by the English, in consequence of
our jealousy of the French improvements in manufactures
and commerce, and With a view to ruin their country by a
civil war,

Letters from Madrid, via France, state, that a most formi-
dable insurrection has taken place in the province of Catalo-
nia, which the utmost efforts of the military were scarce able
to suppress.

We understand, since Buonaparte has arrived in France,
Guineas have become a very Valuable article. How eager
n;ust the public be to obtain Bish's 5,000 Guineas, on Wed-
s esday next, the Sib of April, or the Three 30,C00/. Prizes,
all of which may be (llama on that day !

"DENTS AND OFFENCES:

4%4'OII)IANS. A young man, of genteel appearance and address,
who called lamsrlf.J. Low, Esq has recently been practising friends
on the tradesmen at the went end of the town with great success.
On Friday he went to the alsop of a respectable silversmith, in Oa-
ford.atreetl, and picked out plate to the amount of 401, which lie
paid for with a draft on Messrs. Sibbalds, Fontleroy and Co. who
he said were his bankers, lot 551 taking the chew-, 131. with hits,
and ordering the plate to be sent to his holgiugs. On preseuting the
draft, however, at the bankers, no such person as Mr. Luw was
known to them; and, on enquiring at his supposed lodgings, they
found he was equally a stranger there also.
A PJOURNEII INoursT.—Notolay the Coroner's Inquest resumed
their investigation of the eiretimstauees attending the death of Jane
Watson, who was shot in Piirlingtou-street. Nothing new cause
nut, soul the Jury, at one o'clock on Tuesday mornine, returned a
a verdict of 4. •Wilfill li-outlet neainst J. Ripley, R. hiatthews R.
Herbert, and R. Barton, by firiat! hall to shut front and out of 'fire-
arinc, flow the windows of Mr. Robinsou'shonsc, in Old Burlington.
street."
A most horrid murder was committed in the evenitie of Saturday
on the hi:de of Sarah Willis, an tinfortimaie Cvprian, at Lvtr-
ington, lialits. It appeared seam the evidence ut Mr. Thomas Burden,
that, I earing the cry of murder from the house where the deceased liv d,
and perceiving a person running from the place. be enileav-tred to se-
cure him, which he evaded by jumping user a wall. On going to the
apartment. of the deceased, he found her stabbed in the breast, and the
blood flnwing copiously from the wound; he immediately asked her by
whom the deed was committed, to which she replied, she did no' know
the man's name, but said it was an artillerymen. A coroner's inquest
cut on the 1),:cly on Tuesday last, ashen, after hearing the evidence of
others who attended the deceased in•lier last moments, and 'he surgeon
who examined the wound, the jury brought in a verdict of Wilful Nur.
der against IVeniel Hisensuer, who had been identified by \Jr. Burden.
Marks of blood were found on his clothes and accuutreinents. Da was
accordingly committed to Winehester Gaol.
A circumstance of a most atrocious nature, lies, we err informed, re-
cently occurred.—The servant of a respectnbfe family iit the west end r f
the town, mixed a large quantity of arsenic in a pie w hich was se, ved
up to table, and of which the whole family, consisting of seven perioro,
partook. They were shortly afterwards seised Kith the most alarming
symptoms--medical assistance was immediately called iti, and there are
hopes that none of the family will fall sacrifices to this diabolical attempt,
although they are at present confined to their beds in a very ()anemia
state. On examining the dish, a considerable quantity of arseniCk was
found in it; and which has been ascertained to have been stolen out of
a drawer in the master of the family's bureau, which lie lad for the per-
pose of destroying rats; and, to prevent any accident, the weird arsenick
was written in large letters on the back of the paper in which it was
contained. Suspicion is attached to a servant, who al'o eat part of the
contents of the as it is supposed, the better to escape detection,
and who is now confined to her bed, and a police officer has been order..
ed to watch over her, until site is in a state fit to be removed to prison.
Friday, there was an inquest held at the Triumphal Car public house,
in Halkiii-street, Grosvenor-place, no the body of a hackney-coachman,
who was blown off his box by the high wind, and killed by one of the
wheels of his coach going over his heed.—Verdict Accidental Death.
An inquest was held un the ltth instant at the Eight Bells, at Ware,
before Benjamin Rooke, jim.Coroner for the comity of Ile rtkrd, on
the body of George Fordhain. It appeared in evidence that the deceased
was groom to C. D. Hogeart, Esq. and that he went out that morning
for the purpose of exercising the horses, and in passing through the
park of 1 hemas Hope 1133 de, Esq. the horse on which lie rode ran away
with him and threw him off, and his head pitched against the runt of a
tree, which neca•ioned his death. Verdict--Accilentol Death.
An inquest 1484 held on the 13th inst. at the Black H-ose, at Barnet,
before the same Coroner, on the body of Martha Whitlock. The de-
ceased was the wife of a labouring moan, and it appeared that on Sun-
day morning her husband went out, about seven o'clock, to attend to
his master's horses, and left her in the bed room up stair ; on his return
about eight o'clock, lie found her 11814114 at the stair-foot door, with
the cord fast-ned to the hand rail at the top of the stairs ; she was
cut down, and a surgeon immediately sent for, but life was totally ex.
fiaet. Fium the evidence of the Surgeon, it ppeenrs that she had tor
some time past been in a low lief votia state ; and Leverel tiei_hbours
proved, that at different times she had strewed e, ident'syniptoins of
insanity. Verdict—Lougee.
Another inquest was also taken on Saturday last, upon William
who hung himself in the pariah of 13.iiiiingtoo, at the house of
Joseph Fesuon.


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