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The Officer stated, that in oonsequence of infOr-
mation which he had received, he • procured'_ a
search warrant, and went to the. prisoner's house,
who is a dealer in marine stores., On searching
the house, he discoVered near a cwt. of copper ship
bolts, 'amongst. which .was one marked, with the
broad arrow, . concealed in a back room. The
Officer also found the 'prisoner in the coal cellar,
employed in coveriuglupotlier copper and marine
stores with the coals. On examining the 'copper
bolts, it appeared, that
:they, had all been de-
faced by tiling, just on that part where Iris Ma.
jesty, s mark, the broad, arrow, is usually im-
pressed. -
The prisoner's Solicitor attendel, and wished
to plead guilty. as to, the single .bolt which had
the,. King's mark remaining- on it, and to pay the
penalty, which (the 'article being under the value
of'2os.) was 101. • .
The'Somc oit to: the. Amtut' ALT Y, who also at-
tended on the ..part. of the prosecutiOn,. observed,
be could not, consent to that 'propOsition. ;No.
-doubt could remain on,the mind' of anyperson that
the bolts which were defaced, had also borne the
King's mark ;.this .circtimstance 4,4--ra'vatcd the
prisoner's• guilt ; the depredations of this. descrip-
tion . which were daily committed on the public
were immense, and. the Admiralty had deterwin-
ed to.prosecate offenders in future with severity..
The present case, he submitted to the Magistrate,
WB3 .one of.the aggravated nature which ought to
be taken to another Court; hut as it Would he ne-
cessary to prove that the-defaced bolts were King's,
stores, he submitted,that'thc prisoner should be
remanded for further cxAiatiation. when a per-
son from the dock-yard would attend to prove
that fact.

The. Magistrate. (Mr. 1.1:-.-..iNcr.) being of that
. ,
opiniOn, the prisoner Was remanded.
Ann Salter, the keeper of an old iron-shop, in
Prospect-place, was fined 5/. for having in her
posses ion some spike nails with the King's mark
up-on them.

MARLE6ROUGH-STREET.-117.11, Godridge was
yesterdaycharged with feloniouSlySteaiing a look-
in. -glass, the property of William Harvey.' The
prisoner was also cbarged with, obtaining other
articles of different trades-people• by fraudulent
pretences. The prisoner inhabited an elegant
house, No, 180,. Cleveland-row, where the arti,
Iles were furnished. He was rerna.uda for an-
other examination OTl,Sittirday.

Vessels 'hhve arrived in the Downs, and at Do-
ver, from iOstend and Havre-de-Grace. ' The ac-:
counts by these conveyances state, that the people
of France -were fully aware of the dreadful disas
ters that have befallen the army of BLY9NAPARTE,
and that the utmost misery ftnd discontent pre-
vailed,.throughout the country.
In return for the tubs of Bulletins which the
French were accustomed to send to us in the
Austrian war, reports of the Russian victories,
and of the retreat of the French army, have been
printed in large characters, and sent over to the
French coast, and posted along the shore, by men
employed for the purpose, who watch opportu-
nities to land at night, and having completed their
object, retire immediately to their boats. By this
means the French people have been made fully ac-
quainted
.with the disasters of their army in Rus-
sia, not Withstanding all the pains taken by their
Government to conceal them.

The following article, giving an account of a
mutiny, successful in the first instance, but at-
tended, ultimately, with the lOss of the lives of
all thOse concerned, is extracted from a respect-
able Irish Journal, dated Belfast, Dec. 19
" On Thursday morning, about three o'clock,
the new-raised men on board the Neptune tender,
lying in the Lough, broke through the press-
room, and took possession of the Vessel. After
confining the crew of the tender below, and se-
curing the hatches, they lowered down the boats,
and twenty-six, chiefly impressed men, effected
their escape, and proceeded towards the shore.
Owing,. however, to the tempestuous weather,
Or their ignorance of the Channel, it is supposed
the boats struck on the banks, and the men at-
tempted to wade to the land, it is. feared, haVe
all ,perished, as at day-light one of the boats
was found near Mr. R. Getty's, and two demi bo-
dies lying near it. One of the dead bodies only
could be got-at,- the other was too far in the mud.
Six hats and several bundles Of clothes were also.
picked up. The body of the man vas brought up
to town, but \has not yet been owned; he is re-
cognised, however,- as one who entered regularly
as a seaman."--(.Belfast Coin: Chron.)
SITriPLIFTIN6 TO, A:GRET AMOUNT —Saturday
'afternoon, about four o'clock, ,two respectably
dressed females went into the shop of Mr. Mills,
silk-shawl warehouse, corner of Great Turnstile,
Holborn, and asked the shopinan to sheer them
some fashionable pattern silk shawls, which they -
said they wished to purchase, when' the s'hopman
readily complied with their request, ha,v-
ing looked over 'a great number, of patterns, they
left the, shop, without making' any. p urchase, say-
ing they did not snit them, and immediately after
they were gone, the shopinan, in folding up the
shalds they had been looking at, di covered that
two of them, of the value of 40 guineas, were
missing from among the parcel. They were im-
mediately pursued, but without effect: On the
same night, the patrble, while going ais rounds,
in Chick-lane, Saffron-hill, hearing two women
quarrelling, iminectiaitely ran towards them, when
they threw down the shawls they had in their,
hands, and made their escape towards Silithlield.
The property was immediately taken by the patrole
to the watch-house, where, on hearing in the
morning that Mr. Mills had. been robbed the
preceding day, the property was taken to him,
and identified as his- own.

At the mill at Elrick, near M inhurgh, on Tues-
day se'nnight; the miller, of the name . of Wal-
ker; his wife, ands child, were all found dead in
their sleeping apartment. The preceding evening,
in small bed-room in which they slept, a quantity
of wet shellings of oars had been put on the. fire.
for the purpose of preserving it daring the night ;
and the smoke - thereby occasioned, spreading
through the room, itiis supposed, proved fatal 'to
this unfortunate family.

AGRICULTURAL REPORTS.

UPPER WARD OF LANARRSHIRE.

The -Weather, in/ the beginning of the month,
was favourable for the season,- and grain left oat
in October was got in in good order. We had an
uncommon haH frost on the 20th and 21st, xvhich
with the foul weather that followed, -has been
hurtful to the sheep on.turnip.
Ploughing- the intended tallow fields, and the
storing of ttn'oips, are now the farmers employ-
ment, and they get on as the -weather permits,:---
The following simple and efficacious method of
preserving this root. has been practised with suc-
cess for some y:;.ars,, by an intelligent farmer in
this district:-1-IC' pitches on some convenient
field fit to be ploughed before winter sets in, and
as the plough goes roun. the furrow is neatly fill-
ed with turnips:with Thaws and roots at them ;
the plough on returning, covers them entirely, and
in this manner the Common sort have been kept in
perfection till!May..
In the report for last month. We hazarded a con-
jecture, that in this • district• the crop ---oufd notof
itself he sufficient to lower the market Materially:
Painful experience has justified our report, and-.
now that considerable quantities of oats have been
mewled, it appears that a large proportion of grain
in the Upper Ward is not of so good a quality as
last year's crop.
Meal at Lanark from :50s.- to 60s a load.—Snit
b tide). 235. per stone.—Common cheese Bs. Sweet
milk cheese Its.

, near Lanark, Dec. 1

MIDDLE WAED OF LANARKSHIRE.

The first day of November waswet and stormy,
but the next twelve or fourteen:days were_ remark-
ably favourable to the harvesting of; the crop,;—
The greatest part of What,vemained out Was se-
cured in excellent condition; during the first week, .
and the whole during the second week of Novem-
cer. Perhaps few harvests have been more tedi-
oils; and the crop kept longer in the fields, than
this now ended; but the injury, upon the whole,
has been far less than has often been met with in
seasons that were earlier, an(( reckoned much bet-
ter. As there were many green stalks among_the
crop, and as the farmers who had-been retarded-
by the rains proceeded hastily When the weather
dried orp, some graiu•has heated i the stack; but
by no means to any great extent ; and the wind
having general y bloc: it fresh, since the crop' was
secured, has prevented heating.
In seasons like the present, and indeed in .any
season, it would be highly proper to set up four
fir trees, nailed Or tied together at the tnp, in•the
centre of every stack, and- lay in as much brink-.
wood, 'bound together, as the thickness of a corn-
sheaf, or so, on the opposite sides of the stack, at
different heights, so 515 to promote ventilation
through the stack. This would-be found one of the
greatest improvements -that can be executed at so
small expense.
The frost that came on about the 7th or Bth,
put the farmers in mind of their. duty as to the
potatoe crop ; and F o rne. of them left the inning
of their corn to get them secured. Such of the
potatoes us were not covered with earth Were hurt
by the frost ; hut-the loss on that score was not
great, probably not more than half a per cent. of
the crop.
The crop now secured is every is every where
one-fourth, generally one-lhird, and on some
farms one-half more bulky, than that of last year,
and, upon7the whole, considerably above a tnecri-
um crop. In that which was -early the grain is
excellent ; but where later, i§' not so goad. There
is indeed much grain of good qualify, even-among
the very latest ; but it is mixed With such-a large
portion of tiolt Which ha§ not ripened, that the
corn Will not yield, in many cases, riare than
eight, ten, or twelve pecks of meal. per liiikttark-
shire boll. When the weak corn, however, is se-
parated, the best will yield a larger' return of ,
meal; and the weak corn, when preserved for
cattle, will render their situation much more com-
fortable, and make them more productive than last
year.
The fears entertained o. f -the crop turning put
ill, and the clamour that some attempted to raise:
on that score, cannot be better removed or refitt-
ed by the fall in the price of oatmeal, from 3s. 4d.
to Is. 11d. a peck, though we have had no impor-
tation to affect the market, nor even the prospect
of grain front abroad,
The price of potatoes, which had fallen tqb far,
has .risen to near its proper level ; they sold at 6d.
when the oatmeal was 3s. and at 7d. when it gave
2s. 6d.: but they have risen to 10d. and in some
places to l Id. while the oatmeal has fallen below
2s. per peck..
The turnips are good, the young wheats look
well, and cattle of all sorts have had an uncom-
mon supply of herbage and mild weather during
the autumn, and are in excellent plight.
The dairy, has, contrary to expectation, at the
beginning of the summer, turned. out weli, and
the prices of butter and cheese are higher-than
they were last year. The knoWlede of this part
of husbandry being confined to the' coenties of
Ayr, Renfrew, and Lanark, and 'the dairy being
rather despind by the cast country farmers, the'
prices of dairy produce haVe advanced, within the
last thirty years, five or six tines Much as that
of oatmeal, and as it is still advancing in price; it.
may be expected that the eyes of •the intelligent
farmers In other districts will soon -he opened to
that intportant and wonderfully neglected branch
of rural economy. •
Strathaven, Nor. 30.

NAPOLEON'S grand army, with which he enter-
ed Russia, for the purpose of effecting the, de-
struction of that Empire, but which cannot now
be considered as any longer exiiting as an army,
consisted, according to the following statement,
and nearly half a million of men,viz.—

Poles, :60,000 ; Saxons,- 420,000 ; Anstriaris, 30,000; Ba-
varians,' 30,000 ; Prussians, 29.,000; Westpbalians, 20,000 ;
Wirtemlkergiters' 8,000 ; Badeners, 8;000 ; DarmstadVers,
4,000 ; Gutha and Weimar 2,000; Wurtzburg and Franconia,
5,000 ; Mecklenburgh, Nassau, and small Princes, 5;000 ;
-Italians and Neapolitans, 20,000; 'Spain and Portugal, 4,000;
Swiss, 10,000 ; French, 250,000. .

Total, 498,006; including 60,009 cavalry, besides 40,001
hones for artillery and train, being 1,200 pieces of cannon.

SCOTLAND.

CO 'l:'' OF SESSION—Fms-r DIVISION, Dcc.

cEssro soN'Orarm. JOHNSTON V. HIS CP,E,DITORS',

The pursuer of this cessio is well known in the
theatrical. world.. As stated by his Counsel, he
commenced his career' an early period Of life,
in the Royal of Edialiurgh, and he after-
-terwards prosecuted his employment in the Thea
tres of Condoni 'He was unfortunate
in his matrinionial engagement, and.was compcl.7
ltd, some Years. vso ;o separate froin his wits,' El
from which, as he might be traced OR
his subsequent inisfortimes mud caknities tire.'
*future care, support, and management of his. la-
fant family, consisting of five children, having
devolved entirely unon .himseif, and the feeling
produced,by hiS doniestic misfortune ha7ing coinpelled him to 'Leave the Loudon stages, and-give oll.‘
_his lucrative situation there. In the year. 1809 he
was advised to purchase the Theatre Royal, i 0
Peter-street, Dub:in, at a great expense.; and he
issued 'forty debentures-, .at 'lOOl. beariag
an interest o 4 'live' per, cent. and entitling the kol-
der to a free admissit'm to :_?1-y part of the house
but not more than one 1.; t i of the subscription was
filled up, and he was compelled, besides sinking
the whole of his fortnne, to borrow money frow-
his friends to T.apply the, deficiency. deficiency. By a train
misfortunes and multiplied calamity, his affairs
tit into disorder; and in Spring last he came to
Scotland to obtain the advice and assistance
his friends in this country, when one of his credi-
tors having applied for a meditatione fugce warrant,..
he was incarcerated in the gaol of D4ndee, and:
having been arrested in- gaol upon diligence by
caption, lie raised the 'present process of cessio•
The pursuer put in a condescendence, stating the.
amount of his debts, specifying his property, and
alluding to the cause of his bankruptcy; but ap-,
pearance having-been made in the latter end of the
summer Session for one creditor, Mr. James-'f)e-
-Ville, of London, he obtained a temporarylibe-
ration, upon finding caution to return to pfiso3
,on thel2th of November last, under the penalty'
of ;3001. He had accordingly -now; returned to pr:-
son, and Mr. Clerk, his Counsel, now moved the
Court to -take his case into_ conSiderationauti
find him entitled to the benefit of the cewsio.

•
Mr. AspeßsoN, Counsel. for the. opposing cre.t
ditor, stated,' that his client had no wish to do
tarn Mr. Johnston in Prison. lie cbielly insisted
On the objection,. that one of.the' mortgages 011
the Thqatre in Dubl;tl was for a debt alleged t 4)
be due by the pursuer to his father, Mr. Robert
Johnston, inn-keeper,' in Shakspeare-square,
Edinburgh, to the amount of no less than 20001-
an advance that old Mr. Johnston ,was not in g
condition to make, and which, therefore, shOttla
be held to be.fictitious. Wit hour, hoverer,
ing upon the objection as tci the validity of this
debt, his client had no objection to Mr. John-
ston's redeivingt, the benefit of the ccssio, provides
his father would renounce his mortgage, nnd raul;•
upon his son's funds paii pzia with. Cie odic(
creditors.

Mr. CLERK expres::ed bis
,client's readiness td
agree to the proposo.
The Low ilimstnENT observed;- that
position omnium bonorliM., to iy• grivi7 ed• by ,7,1 y
Johnston in the present cesi:o.„ would not be
&tient to convey the heritable, prope.rt.y. in Duhiig•
Mr. YotING stated, that a proper and valid duel
in :the English torn would be executed by Mr. -
Johnston, and lodged in prgccss.

On tbene conditions, the 'Court found Mr. John'
stow entitled to the '
ces;io.

CASTI.EBAR, (IREL.ND) DEC. •-10.•.—Wc a.re
much concerned to hear of renewed ontragl,!s iv
the.Barony•of Tyrawly. On Monday night, tiJ,
30th silt. we are ihforined:that the house of WA'
a member of the Mina/ yeomanry,
resident near that. town. was attacked b!,' a won'
her of.irnied fellows.—Kelly, however, spiritedif •
engaged them and succeeded iu beating their. otf•
They afferwarwards proceethul to the 1, oust of an'
other, yeoman, whose name we have not learned,
and pfurdered 'him by a shot fired through bis
door. A store-house, belonging to the Gentle
man who holds the ground on which. the' above ex',
cesses were committed,.was, we are, also informer;,
completely demolished,- and several head of
cattle were houghed.—Surely these enormiinc •
atrocities will promptly stir up the inhabitants of
the respectable , neighbourhood in which the
have been perpetrated, to a proportionable degrce
-of exertion.

A true bilk bas been found against Captain
II for 'exposing his perso❑ at the Rummer
Hotel, Charing-cross, to some persons in an ad"
joining house. f •

BIRTHS.
On Tnesday, at Spencer Lodge,Batterseaßiie, the Lady o'•
S. Kingsford, Es'q. of a Daughter.
Ou WeAneolay morning, at Winehmore-bill, Middleset
Mrs. Harvey of a Daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 19th lust. at Walthamstow, Sohn. Furbor, Esq. of,
Prince's:court, NVestmittstcr, to Lucy, yo-ungeAt daughter
the !ate John, Da:ley; E. Surveyor-General of Flis Molest));
COstorns,

On Saturti:-.,y, at I)atcliet Cirtreb, Mr. James soo
of Samuel Willniot, EF.4. to Miss Knight, Of Brunss-siclv
square,l7ackne- • ,
On Tliurstlity last, at. St. George's Cnorch,
Mr..; ohn it:Cnie; of ITrper,GrOi!rid-street, tv
Beaty, only (laughter of the late itiehard.lieaty, Esq. of Tut'
tenharn. '

DI El).
On Friday last, at Norton Conyer.:, in Yorkshire;-- tl4e scat
of her son-in-law, Sir- Bellingham Graham, Bart. Mrs. Claris'
widow of the late George park, Esq. . ./
'Ttiesday morning last, of a deep decline, in the .200
yar.of liis age, ,Ifiurice Roberts,the only son of Mr. Thom-"
Roberts, of Clwapside, Silversmith.'
'The smile day, at St. Mary-Axe, after a long and painfAl
in the 4th year of hi,. age, 111 r., Joseph Jeffries Eraost
:Merchant. - .

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