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To prove this part of the case,
Mr. Perkiugton, son of Mrs. Perkington, of Hali-
fax, who paid the money to the Prisoner, was called,
who proved the payment of the scorn in-question to
the Prisoner ; and Mr. Firth, cashier to the house,
who produced the book in which the _entry of •the
name, and sum ought to have been made, but in
which there was no's'uch entry.
But the most material part of the evidence against
the Prisoner was a letter addressed to Mr. Jarrat,
one of the partners in the firm ; in which letter the
Prisoner casts himself upon his mercy, and gives a
list of several persons of whom he had received mo-
ney for which he hadnot accounted to his ,employ-
ers, and which money he confessed to have applied
to his own use. The penitent style of this letter,
and the anguish of mind under which it appeared to
be •*ritten, ' strongly excited the feelings of the
Court. • 'Another letter of the Prisoner's, addressed
to one of his fellow-clerks, was also read ; the pur-
port of this letter was to request him to make some
alteration in several entries in the ledger and day-.
book, 'to conceal from his employers the extent of
the embezzlements in which he had involved himself.

This letter appears to have been written previous
to that before mentioned. _ _ _

After the. Learned Judge had recapitulated the
evidence, and made such observations as the case
suggested ; theJnry, without leaving the box, found.
the Prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to the
mercy Of the Court ; and the Counsel for the Prose-
ctition said, he was authorized to state, that the Pro-
secutors joined most sincerely in this recommendation.
Thomas Wilkinson was indifted for a highway rob-
bery. The only material witness in this case was
the Prosecutor himself, John Hutchinson, who
stated, that on the evening of Saturday, the 25th of
February, he spent three Hours in . a public-house,
in Meadow-lane, in coMpany • with the Prisoner,
and, in this period,. he ' got three pints of beer.—
About eleven o'clock in the evening he went out
of the house, when the ' Prisoner came out, and
asked the witness to go to his lodging, with which
he complied ; after this, at the solicitation of the
Prisoner, the witness accompanied him to a public-
house in Leeds, whete they got some beer. When
they had got part of the 'way, on their return to
Meadow-lane, the prisoner, proposed to go a More
private road than the dire& way ; this being
assented to; the Prisoner and Witness went toge-
ther ; when they arrived at the Quaker's bury-
ing-ground, the Prisoner stopped- the Witness,
and took from him, by force, his watch, ,sixpence,
and a tobacco-bo4. In the morning, the Witness,
accompanied by a friend, went to the Prisoner's
lodging, for the purpose of recovering the watch ;
but the Prisoner said he was very drunk, and knew
nothing of the matter, but if he had really thrown
the watch over the wall, they might perhaps find i ;
upon this suggestion, the Prosecutor, and his fri nd
searched the field, where they supposed it to lave
been thrown, but without eflea.

The Judge, in his observations' upon the evidence,
said, that the Witness's concealment of the crcum-
stance of the Prisoner's throwing the watch over
the wall, took something from the general weight
of his evidence ; more especially as the Prosecutor
acknowledged, that he was-not perfeCtly sober; and
it was possible, that the whole might be little.niore
on the part of the Prismer, than a drunken frolic,
as it was difficult to conceive what possible motive
he could have in stealing the watch, and otter he had
got it into his possession, should immediately throw
it away, in the presence of the person from whom
he had so taken it. His Lordship further observed,
that the Very- good character given of the Prisoner
by Humphrey, Esq. Lieutenant in the same
Regiment, ought, in a case,. which at most, seemed
very doubtful, to have some weight in determining it.
The Jury), without leaving the box, acquitted the
.Prisoner:

On Saturday evening sennight, about half past
five, the daughter of Thomas Dodds, publican on
the Quay, Leith, a child about four years of age,
while standing on the arch Ferry-boat Stairs, by ac-
cidentally slipping her foot, fell into the water. For-
tunatelykthe son of Mr. Watson, cooper, walking
on the Pier, saw the child fall, hurried to the spot,
and plunged in after her, seized her with his left .
hand, and with the other swam to the stairs, where,
with the assistance of a boat-hook, he rescued the
poor child from apparent death:
In thetlock of .1. Wythe, Esq. of Eye, Feb. 18,
a Norwich ewe yeaned three lambs; on the 20th
another produced three; 21st another five ; .23d
another four; same day, another three ; 25th
another, three; and 27th another, lour ' thus seven
ewes yeaned 25 lanibs, all alive.—A Score of others,
Leicester and Norfolk breeds, yeaned twocach.

On Tuesday the, son of a respeetable farmer in
Merton, driving his team from, town, the horses
took fright, and in attempting to stop them he fell,
when the. cart
_went over his body, and caused his
death.

MnA DOGS.—On Saturday the .Bth ult. a large
dog, belonging to a carter, in Ayr, ran mad.—Be-
fore it was known that he was so, he was seen to
bite several dogs in town, near to. the Bank, and
two grey-hounds led by a,boy who was riding on a
white or grey horse, after which he-went to the,
country, and at Doonholm, bit.a number of sheep.
Symptoms of real madness have since appeared on
some of the sheep, and oue of the dogs in town, and
they have been killed. . .
In consequence of a butcher of Stretford, ' near
Manchester, having disappeared from the period
of the last flood, a report prevailed that an appa;
rition had been frequently seen at midnight, near
Cross-bridge, between Stretford and Cross-street,
wh,re there' is generally a standing pool of water :
a Town's Meeting was convened, which came to
a resolution of having the place pumped dry. The
business was accordingly undertaken, and, after
several days labour, completed on Thursday,.when
the body of the bUtcher .was found. He was
generally supposed to have been robbed and mur-
dered; but, on examining the body,
,money and
• other valuables were found in his pockets,; a, cir-
cumstance which evidently proves his death •to have
been accidental.

On Monday afternoon .as a Gentleman of the
name of Pearce, who resides in Titchfield-street,
Mary-le-bone, was crossing the New Forest, vamp•
shire, on horseback, on his way from Poole to South-
ampton, in..company with a' stranger, they were at-
tacked between Christchurch-lane and Lyndhurst,by
three ruffians, .two of whom were dreSsed in blue
jackets and trowsers, who, with dreadful menaces,
demanded their -property: The robbers "immedi-
ately dragged them from
.their horses, beat them un-
mercifully with bludgeons, and ransacked their.
pockets. Having been disappointed of any consi-
derable booty, the villains turned loose the horses,
and dragged the obje&s of their fury some distance
from the high road,- when they fastened them to
a tree by the arms and legs, and left them. In this
situation they remained suffering under the bruises
they had received, in very inclement weather, until
five o'clock the next morning, when their situation
was discovered by a higgler, driving a cart, who was
led thither by the barking of his dog. The unfor-
tunate victims to brutality were relieved from their
perilous situation with but little hopes of life, and
conveyed in the higgler's cart to the Cat public-
house, on the Heath, whcrd every assistance was
aftbrded them, and they regained their faculties.
The name of the person in company with Mr.
Pearce, it appeared, was Selby, a farmer, near Odi-
ham, in Hampshire.

SIIIP NEWS.

roecsr mAttcli £4.

Arrived—the Nestor, Young, and Eleanor, Jackson, from
Sunderland ; Vi Cory, Lamb, front Limerick ; exeter, Ash-
more, from Portland ; Dove, Men, from Cowes ; Nunn,
Holloway, and Flower, Lodcyer, from Christchurch ; and
Brothers, Coater, from Bristol.
Sailed—the Active, Williams, and •Aaive, Baynes, for
Portsmouth ; Lively, Flinm, arid Beaver, Lincoln, for New.
foundland ; Betsey, Bristowe, and lohn and Thomas, Mor-
corn, for Liverptis)l ; Hope, Miller, for Southampton ;
and Sovereign, '1 hateliell, tor Lyuungton.

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Sir. • • No. 9, Neer Bridge-street, London.
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