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SHEER4YESS) JULY 16:

Txts day sailed the Queenborough hired Cutter,
Lieut. FABIAN, on a Cruize.
Came into parbour His Majesty's Ships Ardent
Unite from-the Nore, to be paid off, and re-
paired.

Tbe Broederschap heaving down. Ship, has gone
"t of Ha-rbour to the Nore, to assist in removing
he ambuscade.

Captain DEVONSHIRE, of His Majesty's Ship
Alcmene, arrived yesterday morning at the Admi-
ralty, with Dispatches from Admiral POLE, Com-
mander in Chief of the Baltic. Fleet.

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The first division of the homeward bound Fleet
from Pete rsburgh, consisting of the Ships so long
detained there, sailed from thence on the 16th ult.
A number of people are daily employed on the
Ambuscade, lately lost at Sheerness, at low water.
They have cut her masts away, got oiat most of her
guns, and likewise saved a quantity of her stores.
She is nearly righted, and her deck is clear at low
Water; but we are fearful she cannot be weighed, as
she has bedded herself so much 'in the sand. It is
now ascertained that twenty-th fee persons have un.
fortunately perished in her ; among whom are a
woman and her infant child.

The new ship lately laurihed for the Honourable
East India Company's ser',ice, called the Northamp-
ton, is consigned dire& tc, the Presidency of Bombay,
and is to be commanded, by ROBERT BAaxER, Esq.
She is appointed to 1-,e at Gravesend on the zoth
inst. and to be in the Downs on the 26th ditto.

'On Saturday the (aold Medal, given by the Hon.
Edinburgh Compariy of Golfers, was played fur on
Leith Links, anti won by Mr. OLIPHANT.
On Wednesday/. the LORD MAYOR, Sheriff's, and
several Aldermi :n, attended by the several City
Officers, went i n procession from the Mansion house
td St. Margare:t's Hill, and held a Court of Conser-
vancy for the ( :Ounty of Surrey. They afterwards
Proceeded to i ;he Crown and Anchor Tavern in
Strand, where his Lordship held -another Court -of
Conservancy:, for the County of Middlesex.

,C ,11J REPORT.

COURT OF KING's BENCH, GUILDHALL, JULY !6

SITTINGS BEFORE LORD KENNON AND A SPECIAL JURY

LAWSO.N, EART. AND OTHERS, IV. WESTON AND

OTHERS.

Mr. GARROW said, that this was an A&ion upon
a Bill,of Exchange, drawn by a Gentleman of the
nathe of- Veazey, dated the 3oth of March, 18ot,
fifty days after date, payable to order of Thomas
Stoko, for cool. value received, indorsed by him,
and accepted by the Defendants, which came into
the hands of the Plaintiffs for a valuable considera-
tion, that is, they discounted it. Mr. GARRow
said, that. the Plaintiff's in this Cause were persons
of the first class of respeaability, and had long
been known to be such, they constituting the
Firm of the Richmond Bank, in Yorkshire.---
The Defendants were equally respetable, they
forming the; Firm of the Southwark Bank:—
There was no imputation whatever intended to be
cast on the integrity of the Defendants in this Ac-
tion they resisted the payment of this Bill under
the indeimity of the Gentleman for whose benefit

their acceptance was made, for the purpose of agi-
tating this question : a question which, for many
Rears, had been thought at Westminster-hall and
Guildhall to have been at rest. It was decided in
the year 1764, in the Case of Vaughan and Grant.

That Case was in point with the present : the ques.
tion there was preciSely the same. as the present
He had looked at that Case, and he - would yen.

cure to say, it was not in the least degree dis_
. tinguishable from the present. There were two
Learned 'Gentlemen witbin the Bar (the ATToR-
NEY-GENERAL. and Mr. PARK) taking notes on
this occasion, and. one Learned Gentleman with-
out the Bar (Mr. HoLito-vn) doing the same thing,
but he would defy ail- their learning to make any
distinction between this case, and the Case. of
Vaughan and Grant. Even 1( the case of Vaughan
and Grant had not been decided as it Was, and this
were one of The first impression; he should con-
tend, it ought to 'be so decided ; "for, as had been
aptly said 're: y lately from the, best authority (my
Lord KENY ores), that we eat, and drink, and live
on Paper Credit, we should make wild work of
it, if there was to be any Question, Whether a
bona fide Holder of a Bill of Exchange, or
Negotiable Instrument, was to enforce payment
of that Instrument from- the party who was bound
to pay it, and who was the first . party who
was bound to pay it, namely, the Acceptor.—
This was a Bill dated, as he'had said already, on the
30th -of March, t.Bor, payable fifty days afterwards
to the order of Mr. 'Thomas Stoko, indorsed by
him and accepted .by the Defendants—lndorsed in
blank, and put into the hands of a person of the
name of Warren, whose name was signed " J. War-
ren, Esq." This Gentleman, thus possessed of
this Bill for sool. found his way to the Banking_
house of the Plaintiffs, the Richmond Bank in York-
shire, and there he had it discounted in April last.
The Plaintiffs seeing a Bill regularly accepted by
this respedable Banking house in the 'Borough
of Southwark, indorsed and put into a course
of negotiation, carrying with it no mark of
impropriety whatever, nothing to lead them to sus_
pelt that it was dishonestly 'obtained, did. that
which was perfecctly legal for them to do,--they dis-
counted it, gave the'person who brought it a diaft
upon their Bankers in. London, and the rest in small
Notes of their own Country Bank, and now they
called, as they had a right to call, on the Defend-,

ants to pay this their acceptance ;and his Lordship.
would tell the. Jury, if they needed to be told, that
it was nothing, to the Plaintiffs,' provided they were
Holders of this Bill for a valuable consideration,
what had h.ippened to this Bill, whether it was lost,
or whether any body had stolen it.. There, was a
case to this effel, Peacock and Rhodes, in my Lord
Glenbervie's. (Douglas)
.'Reports. He was very
well aware that, in this case, nothing more was re-
quited than what common 'sense and common
nesty diaated. The whole depended upon this :
.‘ Whether or not the Plaintiffs were the Holders
of this Bill for. a fair consideration ?" In - the
first part of the argument of the case of Grant
and Vaughan, the Court was, struck with this
objeaion--" If the holder is entitled to enforce
payment, it would enable any body who found a
Bill, or who stole it, to bring an lietion and'recover,
upon it"—to which it was very fitly answered
'" No such thing ; for
.the person who brings the
aaion must shew he came into possession of the
bill fairly, for a full and valuable consideration."—
Now in order to .do this, hewould prove, in the
present case, that the Plaintiffs fairly and honour-
ably discounted this bill.—lndeed he thought he
ought to make an apology ford speaking so long
before. a Jury of 'Merchants in Guildhall on such a
subjea as .this.

To save trouble and expence, tile parties had
come to the following admissions : That the Bill in
question, was drawn by Mr. Veazey, to the order
of Mr. Stoko ; indorsed by him ; accepted by the
Defendants ; duly presented to them for Payment ;
Payment refused by them ; that such refusal of Pay..
meta was in consequence of notice given to the Ac-
ceptors by the Payee, that the Bill had been stolen;
that the Bill was afterwards noted for Non-payment,
&c.
These Admissions being read,

Mr. GARROW wished to add a few words more :
In the case of Grant and Vaughan, to which he had
alluded, Lord MANSFIELD bad observed, " Here
are two innocent persons, on one of whom a loss
must fall. One of them has been guilty of negli-
gence, the other has not: the question is, on which
of them the loss must fall ?—The person who has
been guilty of negligence, to be sure." Who was
guilty of negligence here ? The Payee, who had
suffered this Bill to go into the world with his In-
dorsement on it.

The Bill was then given in and read, and this,
Mr. GARROW said, was case enough for the Plain-
tiffs, for the present.
It was contended on the other side, that the
Plaintiffs ought to prove the. Consideration they
gave for this Bill.

Mr. GARROW contended it lay on the other side
to shew the. contrary, and if they should make out.

any
_case from which fraud might be' imputed to
the Plaintiffs, it would then be time estough•for the
Plaintiffs to go into proof of the Consideration.
• Lord -KENydrir Was of this 'opinion, and held, that
proof of the Bill on the Admissions which had been
tease,, was a prima facie case for the Plaintiffs.
ThC.ArTbkNEY GENERAL. said, he did not rise
to dispute any of the general propositions which had
been laid down as applicable, in general, to Bills of
Exchange. It was no'part of the. Case he had to
support to dO so ;- he was not_ going- to contest any
of them. He admitted that a 'Bill of Ex-change,
drawn, accepted, and'inciorsed, acquired a megotia_
hility of charader, and that a holder of such an
instrument fairly, for a bona Ale, full, and valuable
consideration, may maintain an Aftion against the.
Acceptor ,)f such a Bill, although,. in the course of
it, some other person may have acquired it by -
fraud,
.or et-en florn theft. That was a proposition •
which lie did nor disPute ; but he contended • that
this doarine was applicable only to those who took
Bills in the fair and ordinary course .of trade and
dealing, but did not applY:to the Case here. This.
was the ca-se •in which a Bill -of a large amount,
came to the house. of the Plaintiff#, not for payment,
but for discount, at a.great distance from Town,
-:Which was the ordinary place of "its negotiation and
of payment ; in a place of circulation where it could
not have been
_expeaeti;
.a long time before it be.
came due ; its ordinary course of circulation was
London ; its place of. payment; London ; the Par-
' ties interested supposed to be- in London ; present-
ed by a stranger to a Banking-house in Yorkshire,
for'discount. :These circumstances combining thus
to make the matter at least snspicious, imposed
upon -these Gentlemen of Richmond, the duty of.
• inquiring into this Bill. They should have learnt
some of the circumstances before they took such a
Bill as this. They should have done as their neigh_.
hours did, .to whom this
.Bill was tendered;. they
refused to discount
.it. But .there was -an eag-erness
in all these Country Banks to do every thing by
which they could profit rapidly ; and this was done
by getting so much cf their own Paper, into cir-
culation, for a great part of the discount of this 5001.
Bill, was the Paper of,this Richmond Bank, that
is. to say, they put into circulation, 2501.. worth of
their oWn Paper; the 'rest they advanced by draft'
on their Agent in Town ; this was the cause of the
eagerness for the pra&ice of discounting, which the
Country Banks manifested, upon good security in
London.. Now, this was an improper.ptaClice, and
••could not be paid to• come, within the rules of deci-
sion upon Cases supposed to govern this. All the
Cases proceeded upon the idea " that the Bills of Ex-
change were really taken in the way of trade,''
but in all of them there was adegree of prudence and
caution in taking of these BillsL--'-so here,- it ,Was.
reasonable to expert that the Plaintiffs had observed
that. caution which one man expeas of -another in
the way of trade. Now, if a' Bill is brought after
it is due, there was a presumption that there was
about it, something_ that was unfair: Under all.the
circumstances of. this Bill, he confended, there was
imposed on the Plaintiffs .a duty to inquire into
this matter—here. for sool., a large sum,
drawn on a'considerable House in. Town=--accepted
by that House—got into: a Country circulation—
discounted to a person who called himself". Warren"
discounted without question ; other Bankers,
would not do so—they had refused do it ;---the
truth of-the _matter was, that this "Bill was stolen
after it had been accepted andindo'rsed. 'was
advertised in three or four of the Public Papers in.
.London, advising all who might have it offered to
them, to stop it, &c. Other Bankers aced on this.
caution, and had refused to discount it. The Plain-
tiffs might be suPposed to have seen this advertise__
ment, or to be aware of these circumstances as Well
as their neighbours, A Bill of this amount was not
like a thing which might Come .in' the ordinary
course of trade. • • - •

Lord KENYON wished to know, what the sum
was, which required:caution more than was appli-
cable to another.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL said, that this-was a
matter for ordinary prudence.. If no amount was
to call for. caution, it would then follow, that if a
Bill for ro,oool. was stolen, and happened, after-
wards, to come into the hands of a person who had
given consideration for it, he could enforce Pay-
ment against the Acceptor. This Bill ought to stag_
ger a person in the Country to whom it was offered,
by a stranger, to be discounted.- He Would say of a
Bill of ro,cool. that it was a Bill'of•a staggering
magnitude. The Plaintiffs ought to have asked this
Mr. Warren some questions, who and what he was,
instead of discounting it at once.- Had they looked
into the Papers, they would have found it adver-
, tised as a stolen Bill. Others did so, and refused
to discount it. They should have paused before-
they discounted•such a Bill. They did not take it
for a debt. It was discounted for the mere sake of
profit, in a spirit, which, he was sorry to Say, too
many of these Country Bankers indulged, for the
purpose of putting into circulation their own Paper,
from which a great deal of mischief-had arisen, and
more was likely to arise. He quoted some cases-O.
shew.that the Rule of Law was, that -a. Bill must be
taken, in the fair way of trade, in order .to come
within the rule laid down by which the holder
. could maintain an Adion for payment, after the
Bill had been stolen ; as this Bill had.
LordKENYON observed, that this doCtrine would
go to this. That if a man had a Bank Bill for s.ool.
offered to him, he must not take it at a distance in
the Country ,without. making inquiries.. If the ar-
gument was good upon • the 'Sum, his Lordship
wished to know what the Suin was to be ? If 5001.
made a rule of caution, why, not 4001. • He thought
this very- dargerous doCtrine; to hold .to the Com-
mercial world. Suppose a Bill of a Noble Duke,
to whose spirit of adventure the Public were indebt-
ed largely, (the- Duke of BRIDGEWATER), for
too,oool. was in the bands of any one fora: valua-
ble consideration, was it to be said that it should not
be negotiated until inquiry was made at Messrs.
Childs the B.ankers ?--Certainly there was nothing
in these oblations to this Bill. If the Defendants
could chew any fraud,. or atny blameable
„negli-
gence in the Plaintiffs in this ease, he , would
hear the Evidence of that, -most readily. If they
shew that this Mr. Warren, who had ob-
taiged the Discount of this Bill, was a Male

Miss Rtitiertsett tan allusion to the •iwiriller
Blackheath] it would be doing something, :but, he;
could not encourage such
,a defence as this it would
paralyse the' whole Trade of the Country; if such a
• defence were successful in a Court of jusftc.e. If it
applied to pool. it must apply to soh; for theye was,
no drawing a-line of distinetion as to the sure—the
rule mtlst be general, if there should be any. If
there were any circumstances from which the Jury,
could infer fraud, the Defendants had a case; other-
wise they bad, none culpable negligence might be
something, but.that was a loose charge. As. to the
Bill having been stolen, and its being advertised
as such -in the London Newspaf;ers; that advertise.:
meat could not ,conclude the parties here, tieing they
might, or- they might not. have seen tit/t advertise:
merit : he thought of orhers from hinkscif—he was
by no means sure of. Seeing what was.advertised iii
a Newspaper.: if he saw a thing of this 'kind, he
should have paid attention to it if.he was in trade;
but. if he did not
.see it, su;:h a publication could
not be binding upon him. Ile.did not mean; by
this, to say, that no than was ever hound by an
advertisement in a „Newspaper unless it could. be
distint-tly •proved that he had been concerned its-.
sending it to the Paper ; or, on the other hand,
that he had read his Lordshipstated, that while
he waS young at the Bar, he was concerned in a

cause, which was tried at lierefoid, which was an
Action by a person who had been the means of re.
storing to the owner a horse which he had lost, sup:.
posed to have been stolen, for the recovery of Ur!
Reward advertised for that event. There was n )
evidence that the Defendant, in that Atflion, hal
aaually authorized the advertisement to be pub-
lished ; .but the Jury were left to infer, from all Old
circumstances of the case, that it was published by
his .authority ; and they-did infer it, and found a
yerditt for the Plaintiff in that ACtion. But that
was from circumstances, by which the jury con.
eluded that the Defendant must have authorized the
publication of the advertisement. The Jury would
hardly infer, without a great deal of evidence, that
the Plaintiffs in this cause, Bankers in Yorkshire,
read this advertisement in the London Newspapers,

Here two or three Witnesses were called on the
part of the Defendants, to support the idea that this
Bill was- in a very, ,suspicious.manner presented• to
the Plaintiffs ; that the person who had it discOunt-
ed, was not o such an appearance as warranted his
having such a Bill as this' at such a distance from
London, &c. : but this evidence fell very short of
the point for which it, was offered. One witness, a
Partner in, a Banking-house in the. neighbourhood
of. Rictirnond, in Yorkshire, proved that the Bill
was offered to their House, but refused ;by theirs ;
he did not like the appearance of Mr. Warren, who
presented it, ,&c. .
Another person, who was Clerk at the -Northal..
.

lerton Bank,'. where the Bill was offered, proved
that- Mr.-Warren had much the, appearance• of a
Gentleman; of being a man well,acquainted :with
busiaess,.. very polite,. &c. ; .although., their, liouse
had.also refused to discount it... But this,Was realSy,
nothing,
,for-there was no
,clePencling upon appear,:
antes in such,cases ; it.lay with the:Defendants. to
shew „fraud .or, culpable .rniscoadud in the Pia in tift,i:
After this, by the extreme solicitude ofthe
tiffs to support the.honourmf the ttimsa(rtion,
K:ENYON allowed them to.prove that, the 'Bill
~was
discounted. for a valuable consideration, which they
did by one.: of. their Clerks, who proved, that •the.
was discounted. fairly,
.by giving to Mr,.
ren zsoL in a.draft of the .Plain tilts' House ons.lieir
Bankers in London, and the rest in . notes of their.,
own. This was not,necessary, but was permitted
on account of the anxiety of the Plaintiffs for tha
honour of their charaAet..
The ATTORiiFY GENERAL took'oecasioff to OD;
serve, that although 'there-was-no imputation -upOn
the honour of the Plaintiffs in this Afflon, whom he
only charged with that sort of 'negligence which
might have forfeited their right of A6tion in this
case, if he had been abie,to prove it,' which he was
not,, took occasion to observe,.. that the speculations
of Country Banks were such as 'to require, "some
:cheek from the Legislature. .
Lord KENYON approved of this.observation, and
said, he had of late seen. some Advertisements
which were most alarming.\ Banks advertised to
be established in Cheshire, Nottingham, arid various
other Counties, by men on whose security' no' man
who knew. them would advance a farthing. His
Lordship • agreed with the ATTORNEY GENERAL,
that this was a. subjea worthy of the attention of
the Legislature. . In the case• now before the Juty,
hoWever, there was nothing .to be said against the
Plaintiffs. If any fraud' could be prOved to have
mixed itself with the_ transaftion, his Lordship
said,. he
.would have listened with both ears "to
•the proof of -it,. but that was a thing not to., be
inferred in ~the absence of proof. If there
'had beat any
.culpable negligence in 'the - case,
his Lordtitip said, he . should have submitted it
to. the • Jury, but here was tsothing but. the
plain case, thae.the.Plaiatiffs were-Holders of a,Bill
'tor a- fair consii.leratiOniin the courze of Commerce,
'and 'the: Defendants, the*cceptors of-it, and, there.
fore, there- was nothing.,-.4a) it
.out of the common

course. - •
11Ct for the Plaintiffs--Damages 520!.

A ,Cause of much. interest to the mercantile
world was tried last week TO `:the Court of King's
Bench, Dubin, before Lord:, KR 'ARDENT it was
an anion on the Bankrupt,lpaw,.against the Defend-
ant, for having conceald a hog ii of sugar,
value "sol. the property of a i-)nokrupt : the fat
being clearly. proved,
,a verdid for the Creditors
was giVen, pursuant to the statute, one hundred
pounds penalty, being double the value of the goods,
and one, hundred pounds damages were awarded the
Plaintiffs, together with all the costs of suit.

• •It is asserted that one ounce of Chocolate con-
tains as much nourishment as a pound of lx.ef. Whe-
ther this curious assertion be strktly trae ,or not, it
is certain, that the nutriment afforded by the Cocoa
Nut, when well prepared, is most admirably adapt-
ed for the human. stomach : hence the high repute of
the preparations by Fry, of Bristol, which no
less proves his superior skill and care than the ex-
cellent salubrity of the articles prodUced from his
/debuted manufadory. •

!:';"

SUICIDES.

. SAtURDAY evening, about seven o'clock, a man
named' Benjamin Pritchard, many years Head
Cook to the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, put. a
period to.hiS existence, hy cutting his throat. with
e clasp- knife, at HiS Grace's house in Pall-Mall.
He left SiOn-hill, where the 'family now , are, on
'Saturday morning ; pretending.his business was ur-
gent in town. On his arrival he conversed with
the porter, and wished to go to his own room,.com-
plainmg he 'was not well. The porter accompanied
him up stairs, and left him ,in his room ; but, on
his not - returning, the porter Went up -.stairs, but
found the door locked ; he then called some assist-
. 4nce, when they forced the door, and found the.un..
• fortniwe mirn his bed, his face downward, and
his throat cut from ear to- ear. He bore the.best of
charaders for- many. rears in the family, where he.
ailed as head-cook, and his wife as under-cock ;
' but for two or three years he has shewn several
.symy (!ms of mental derangement.
• On Sunday evening last a young woman terminat-
ed her existence by. hanging hersel to the bed-tester,
at the house of Mr. Pilton, a respeetaWe tradesniln
-in Piccadilly. She 14 formerly been 'a servant in
-the family, and from her good offices in the.familv
' Nly. and Mrs. Pilton gave her leave 'to, remain
in their house' while she ,'was out of place. She
was a very handsome young woman. No reason
can be assigned for the rash ad, but she had -foil
some time appeared reserved and low in company.
with Mr. Pilton's servant. She went up stairs on
Sunday, pretending to take a sleep after dinner in
her mistress's bed=room, the family then being at
their country-house ; but not coming down to tea
at- the usual time, and the door being locked, sus_
• picions arose, and she was discovered, after hang-
ing, it is supposed; nearly two hourS.

SPORTING INTELLIGENcE.

EDINBURGH. RACES.

.MONDAT.
The City of Edinburgh's.. Purse or Fifty Pounds.
Mr. Bztes,.b. h. by Drone, 5-yrs. - I
Mr. Brown's b. m. by Pitch, B. Taylor, - - -
Mr. Kincaid's b. c. by Overton, - - - -
Sir j. Scott's b. h. - - • - - -
This Race aforded excellent sport.

EATS!.-The following is the return Mrs. Et.
DETH HAMILTON, of Russel-street; recently iti.tde
to the Assessors of Wateot, of male servant,;,
mules, carriages, dogso&c. •

" Not a male in our house,
Not so much as a mouse."
•
Nor a horse, nor a dog, as true written ;
For search tiouse and ground,
Not a beast could be found,

But a hungry old cat bud her kitten

IVloti.NT VEsuvrtis.--The last eruption of this
•Mountain which took place in I /94,- was remark-
able for the diminished furor, of the flames. The
caloric in the lava 'was evidently less
,than .ou
'former occasions. The .stones which were in the,
reach of these torrents of flrime were no other Wise
'affected than.beitig more easily pulverized ; anl'rnal
and vegetable substances were reduced to a state of
coal, but some pieces of copper were found uninjured
thOugh surrounded by the same, and locks and- bolts
were not affeCted.by it ; even• glass preserved its
form unchanged. It has been inferred from these
circumstances, that Vesuvius is incapable of more
than one, if even of one eruption, and that•the force
-of it will be found relatively. very inconsiderable.
On Saturday and Sunday last the neighbourhood
of Tottenham and Stamford-hill 'Were alarmed by
.two Lascars, who, frantic' with liquor, planted
' themselves in the public road, arid, with their
knives drawn, menaced -several Ladies : they then
pointed their knives to their sides, drew them
across their throats, and seemed to be in such a
state of inflammation, as not only to excite the
strongest emotions of fear in the mind of every: pas-
senger, but, indeed, to threaten imminent danger
to the vicinity. To the intrepidity of a Gentleman
who resides -near Stamford-hill, it was owing• that.
one of these men was taken ; and the other has since
been concluded to the Poultry Compeer.

Last Sunday was buried at Sim:well, aged 95, an
Italian beggar of the name of Fisher, who never was
known to have an hour's illness previous to his last
sickness: He had thirteen wives, by whom he had
no issue. The last one, who is living, is a middle-
aged woman, 'is inconsolable for his loss, because, as
our correspondent adds, in his avocations of sweep-
ing the streets anti begging, he acquired a good deal
G f money.

:MANS oY-Tious Chafes Dubour-
deaux, an alien, underwent a final, examination he_
fore the. Lord Mayor, -charged' upon the oaths of
several witnesses, with having, married three wives,'
all of whom were living at-the same .time. The se-
veral marriages were fully -proved, and the prisoner
was committed to the POultry Com.i-ter for trial...
Tuesday a man was publicly whipped in White,
chapel, from Red-lion-street to the City Bars, pur-,,
suant to his sentvnce, for stealing several articles
belonging .to the carte rs 'of 'the hay and .st raw carts.
One of the Police Officers had his pocket picked,
. while attending to keep the Peace.
The same day a young-man, known by -the name
-of Dustinanjimmj, was-publicly whipped in White_
croSs-street, fo.r stealing a shoulder of mutton from.
a butcher in thai neighbaurhOod. •

On Sunday sennight IVl'Dowall, accused
of housebreakirg at Dunferthline, 'made his escape
out of Edinburgh Prison in woman's clothes: - His
stratagem was very dextrous. He had procured a.
woman to come into the Jail with 'a sucking child,
while several other women were also there, ,each of
whom took-the child and dandled it in their arms in
various parts of the Prison, particularly in presence
of the Inner-keeper. -While this was going on,
IVl'Dowall retired to a private part of the Jail,
where one of, the Prisoners, who is a Painter, so
coloured his face as to give him the resemblance of a
female. He then put on a woman's dress, a cloak
and bonnet, with a deep veil, after„vOich, like the