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six eightcen=porinders, I put French stamtn on
bca-rd her, in order that iNtitabalady, wbo bad the:
command, may be able to second me iii the event
of falling in with 'lle enemy.
Th ea e trope bad originally th© same niunter of
guns, but having been obliged to throw a great num-
ber of then) overboard to lighten her, I contented
rny,:elf with sending on board that ship merely the
,nuinber of men necessary to navigate her, and to
ensure her salely.

It is with great Pleasure, my General, that I re-
port •to you the ,bravery displayed. in this business
by M. Leroux, my Chief Lieutenant, who has sheen
himself a gallant officer ; M. Bazin, who command-
ed the guns on the main deck; Messrs. Rabaudy,
Desplanches, Truchaid, Robin, officers of detach-
ment ; the Gentlemen Midshipmen, liasters,.and,
in a word, all on board the frigate I have the honour
to command.

SI BREY SEAS'SIO S.

VVIVYNESDAY;JANUARY 17.

Margaret _Martin was indided for 'assaulting
Sarah Fiddeyman, an infant under three years of
age. The circumstances of -The case were as for-
low

M's. Martin, the Defendant, resides in Glouces-
'tei--stryet, Lanineth arid the infant is the child of
'one of her neighbours. - A quarrel, it appeared, had
arisen between a lady with resided in Mrs. Martin's
house, and another of the fair hex, who graced the
same. street. The quarrel had collected a number of
spectators : amongst the rest a bacher onliorse-
hat: k was a loOkei-on. • Mrs. Martin, whose prlnvess
is well knOwn in the neighbourhood; hart,- it .ap-
peared; issued forth from the house, :armed with a
hair-broom, w hich she determined to use.in behalf
of her liAger, and' for the 'purpose of dispersing the
Tmob, and the butcher being tire most prominent ob-
jeCi, became the first point
_of: attack the broom,
howeVer, hot pons, ssing pciwer sufficient to set the
butcher's nag in ritotiop,' she resolved to adopt.the
frisk mode of starting restive cattle, and relinqUslrr
ing 'the broom to her fair ally, spe-retreated into the
house, and returning with the kitchen poker,
with ath4tic,arM, launched it full against. the
butcher's steed, and the, et owd by whom he was
surrounded. The poker unfortunately taking a
wrong diieEtion, strtiCk the' infant, who was
standing at its parent's door, and infli4ed a very
dangerous wound on its forehead. The defence set
up, was that the defendant had not intended to in-
jure the infant, and bad expressed her sorrow imtne-
diately after it happened.
The Cif AtumAN obseikedJo the Jwy, that it was
Lamaterial whether the defendant had intended to
injure the prosecutor, site had used an unlawful in
strument, and most answer for the mischief arising
from her own imprudence. -
The Jury found her Guilty, and the Court sen-
tenced her to six months inapt isonment in the House
of CorreEtion, and at the end of that period, to find
sureties for her good behaviour for !I've years, herself.
in idol. and two sureties in bOi. each.

After the sentence was passed, the husband. of
the 'defendant carne forward, 'and, addressing' the
Court, said he was willing to give the prosectltor
40. guineas, and to find securities for the defendant's
good behaviour for five years, if the Court would
Change the sentence ,of imprisonment to fine., , He
stated that thprfather of ihe.child was satisfied with
the •ofler: •
The CHAIRMAN, however, observed, that the
partiei concerned might be satisfied, but it. was also
necessary, foi the satisfation of public justice, that,
punishment stould follow conduct so violent as that
of the defendant had been ; the Court, therefore,
could not sanction any 'such compromiie.

DUBLIN, JairY ,

On Tuesday night was apprehended by the Pene
Officers of the Head Office of Ponce, two men,
charged with swindling. It appears that they Were
concerned with a man named Arthur Downes,
who kept a shopin Great Britain-street, with whom
bills were occasionally passed for accommodation
,goods were raised, purchased from shopkeepers,
and.one of the bills passed at 6 t or 91 days, for the
amount'; by a good look-our these people have been.
happily deeded. A, visit was paid by the Peace
Officers of the same Office to Mr. Downes, at Great
Britain-street, and in MS shop was found a great ape
pearance of goods;but when examined, all was out-
ward shew, for what appeared to be linen-drapery,
fustian, corduroys, &c. were literally small rem-
nants, stuffed with hay. The shop was taken by a
shopkeeper in Francis-stereet, who set up this
Downes, and drew upon him, and so back in re-
turn. The owner of the house in Great Britain-street
i 3 a very respe6table tradesman, a Mr. Murphy,who
always considered it extraordinary that Downes never
inhabited the kitchen which belonged to the .shop,
nur ever communicated with the interior of the
house, but kept fastened the door which opened
into it. However, it is now discowted that it Letter
enabled him and his colleagues to carry on this
trade in private, in order to s indle the public with
greater effect. .vast concourse.of tradesmen have
appeared before the sitting Magistrate, Major Sirr,
and much important matter has come
These people are conneaed . with Roscommon;
• Sligo, and Leitrim, • .

Such was the extraordinary'rnildness of the sea-
son, that a linnet's nest, with four efigs in it, and
the hen sitting upon them, was found on Thursday
sennight, 'in the neighbourhoOd-of Leek, Stafford-
shire, (one of the coldest situations in that country.)
On Christmas-day, a large company dined at the
house of Mr. WillianiSinapson, gardener, in the eb-
bey of Cane;uskenneth, near Stirling ; when a large
tart, filled with gooseberries, which had, beeupuiled
that day, in an excellent state, was served up. On
New-year's day, gooseberries were set upon the
bUshes in the garden of Mr. Barnard Bowron, near
Great Arelitfe, Durham. A butierflv was caught,
on Monday se:nnight, in a garden in Pilgrim-street,
in Newcastle.' The colours were as brilliant as they
are in summer.

India Stock experienced a fall yesterday of about
10 per cent.