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RECORDS of CAPTAIN CLAPPER-
TON'SKw LAST EXPEDITION to SOUTHERN
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A ferocious brute named HACKETT has,
within a few days back, been committed to Clonniel gaol,
having been convicted at a Petty Sessions hell by the
Rev. JAMES HILL, and It. B. 11. LowE, Esq., of having
bitten off the nose of one of his neighbours, named PATRICK
DO VOIIUE.

Wednesday last being appointed for the exe-
cution of HENRY DODMAN WOOOO, who was convicted
at our late winter gaol delivery of robbing the dwelling-
honse of his toaster, GEORGE ROUGEMONT, Esq., of
Cheshunt, as early as seven o'clock in the morning a great
concourse of people had assembled in front of the county
gaol to witness the melancholy spectacle. The scaffold
was erected immediately over the door at the entrance to
the House of Correction, exactly where the notorious
THURTELL met his fate in 1824. lie ascended the scaf-
fold with a firm and steady step, without showing any
symptoms of despondency or alarm, The fatal signal was
directly given, and the scene of this world closed on hint
for ever. He died after some seconds of severe suffering,
and the body was cot down after hanging the nsud period,
and the following morning interred in All Saints' church-
, yard.—llert .31-ercury,.

MALT AND BEER DUTIES.

(From the Stamford Noes of Dec. 19 )

After Yie have refuted all the other arguments
in favour of the Malt 'tart adduced by the advo-
cates of that odious and inhuman irripost ; after
having demonstrated beyond a question its
wickedness and its impolicy ; our antagonist,
are driven to their last resource, and soberly in-
quire of us, what tax we would propose to sub-
stitute in lieu of this most productive article of
revenue, which, exclusive of the beer duty, yields
at least four millions a year ; that it is not to be
expected nor imagined that any set of Minister:
could consent to give up, without the strongest
reasons, and those little short of absolute neces-
•sity, so very large a portion of the national in-
come ; that it is very easy to talk of removing
a tax or taxes, but not so easy to accomplish the
removal ; that people before they propose the re-
moval of any tax whatsoever, more especially
of so beneficial a one as that in question, should
gravely consider whether it was in their power to
recommend any other that might in some degree
be adequate to it ; and, in short, that it was
incumbent on those who so strenuously argued
for so material a defalcation from their sources of
the national revenue, to come prepared with
such a substitute ; for that these were times in
which taxes were not to be parted with on specu-
lation, and that the efforts of good citizens ought
rather to be applied to the discovery of new sub-
jects of taxation, than to the reduction and an-
nihilation of the old ones, &c. &c. These and
many similar objections, which wo have hereto-
fore heard amongst the ingenious Collective, on
the proposal of diminishing or abolishing some
obnoxious tax, and the substance of which we
shall doubtless again hear on the Castle-hill,
at Lincoln, on the Bth of January, carry with
them, like all other groundless arguments, their
own confutation, and drive us in turn to observe,
that a tax so avowedly oppressive and unnatural
ought never to have been imposed at all, and can-
not be defended by any argument drawn from its
productiveness ; that the health and life of society
are paramount to all considerations of sordid re-
venue ; that it is by no means incumbent on
those who severely feel, and therefore as severely
object to, a cruel imposition, to find means
which shall supply the loss which will occur at
its removal ; that it is quite sufficient for one party
to find itselfsorely oppressed, and to petition for re-
lief ; and that it belongs to the authors or continua-
tors of their wrongs to redress them, as to their
wisdom shall seem ft; that the petitioners, though
in the language prescribed to them calling them-
selves by that humble name, do not propose the
object of their petition as an appeal to bounty,
to kindness, and benevolence, but that they claim
the relaxation petitioned for as a matter of right,
of national justice : they say to their Repre-
sentatives, or to their predecessors who enacted
this obnoxious law in question, or rather they
would say, if they were not afraid of mortally
offending so sublime an Assembly, " Neither
you nor your forefathers had any right to enforce
on us the hardship of which we complain : it is
a violation of that personal property which na-
ture and the particular soil of England has con-
ferred upon us: to us, the production of our
own earth supply by our own industry the in-
dulgence and refreshment which you derive from
the luxurious varieties of the foreign vineyard :
we are content to draw from the simple source of
our native soil an article which is sufficient to
exhilarate and support, by an essence congenial
to the English Constitution, the minds and bo-
dies of all ranks of people by the most innocent
and healthful means, particularly those of the
humble and laborious classes of society ; but
even this native, this inestimable production of
their soil, you have unnaturally and impiously
withholden from them, by loading it with a tax
and other concomitant measures, that render it
next to impossible that they should profit by this
bounty of Providence ; the consequences of
which are, the nearly total banishment of home-
made beer from the cottages of the whole king-
dom, the general depravation of all that is
called beer manufactured and sold by the public
brewer, and the infernal custom of gin-drinking
which is fast supplanting the use of beer. We
say again, and we repeat it fearlessly, that there
is not a cask of pure beer, of any sort or deno-
mination, to be bought at any brewer's yard in
the kingdom : it is all trash, manufacture, and
poison : and why is this ? Why, gentlemen, it
is owing to the violent and impolitic imposts
you have laid on the barley, in its malted state ;
which compel the makers and the brewers to
combine in their ingenuity to indemnify them-
selves by dishonest contrivances, from the losses
which those imposts would subject them to. We
say, therefore, that, whether we view the matter
as a case of common justice and morality or
sound policy, no Government had originally a
right to interfere with and to harass this great
bounty of nature, nor has any Government a
right to continue this annoyance ; and that in
proposing a removal, we demand a right."

Some days since, one of the boats of BUCKLE
caught 2,000 haddocks. —Elgin Courier.

A meeting has recently been held in Liver-
pool, at which it was determined to form a company for
the purpose of forming a railway between this town and
Liverpool. The line of road proposed is the same as the
one projected at the meeting held in Birmingham three
weeks ago.—Birmingham Journal.

A quarrel lately took place between a gallant
draper, and a bold and daring currier, hods residing within
the same precincts of the parish of Columb Major. The
latter being an amorist of a young female of prepossessing
appeal ance, the former boldly attempted to evade the
progress of his earnest addresses. This was too much for
the man of cloth, who conceiving himself to be thus op-
pressed and opposed, determined on adjusting the atlitir in
an honourable manner. The time being fixed, and seconds
nominated, the parties repaired to the spot intended for
the bloody encounter, but whilst the seconds were busily
engaged in measuring the distance, the man of leather
imasured his distance by a swift and precipitate retreat
over a hedge—whilst the gallant draper returned with the
laurel of victory ; but to his sad disappointment, has been
bound over to keep the peace for the space of twelve
calendar months.—Cornwall Gazette.

On Sunday night and Monday morning the
frost greatly increaced in its severity ; even at noon, in
the suburbs, the glass was eight degrees below the freez-
ing point. The roads, however, continue very favourable
for travelling, as there has not been any additional fall of
snow ; the previous snow and ice are ground upon the
rands, so that the horses proceed with safety The gar-
deners and farmers consider thit the frost is likely to con-
tinue fir some time, and arc actively engaged (almost the
only matters they can do) in making preparations accord-
ingly. The supplies of water to most of the houses in
the suburbs especially have already been stopped by the frost.

halrpence..
'the 4cers all declared that the prisoner was a
general forager about town, and that he comtrived,
notwithstanding the great abundance which he en-
joyed of every thing good, to keep up an appe,tr-
ance calculatg'd to excite deep compassion. Lie
made it a practice 10 steal staves and meat from
bakers and butchers, awl /then defected, to cry " I'm
starving?" an apology which etas of abnost universal
efficacy—provftotion was out the question. A few
days since an otlicet itenrched him, after one of his
foraging expeditions, and found in his possession four
quartern loaves and ss. in moPey. ills bag is ge-
nerally well supplied with meat, and his ,!i.tiier being
extended all over London, lie is said to be able to
supply the families of other beggar: eitll provisions
at a reduced price.
The LORD MAYOR sail, that ►tich gross tilposi-

tion mint no longer be allowed to sneeeed, ruin ..,nn-
mitted the prisoner, !rho looked -more starved flints
ever at hearing of his degtioy, to N •-gnre for trial.
Several cases of vagrancy were brought before the

LORD MAYOR, in which it appeared lhat people who
were out of employment, on receiving relief, had
often preferred gin to hread. So powerfully had the
habit of gin drinking taken hold of them, that t hey
would snatch at the liquor tirfq, even though they
had not, during 2-1. hours, eaten any food.
One old woman was brought up by a constable
charged with having disturbed the congregsri ,” at
the Catholic chapel in Moorlielsis. On oar,:ay
morning she was amidst the flock, and her beh.ireolr
manifested that she was in a state of intoxica•iou,
The constable led her cut of the chapel, but ,he
became noisy, and was disposed to try the man's
" pluck," and she collected a crowd round the r!o.7:s
by her violence. It appearel that on the precea
day she lard presented herself, and begged alms r:•:,
the same place with success, having :limo.. her Ow
most strong apparent symptoms of
The old woman acknowledged that ,;;F.! had been
driven by misery to beg, and that the rot-r: -: she
got the price of " a quartern," site passeti to
the place where it was to be had, and toot: for
comfort.
The LORD MAYOR asked her whether some other
beverage would not have done her more service.
The defendant said that gin relieved lice distress
of mind, and her mind stood as a ie:11 in need of
consolation as her body. She was a p a.r forlorn
Irish woman, without a friend in the ‘vorld exe..pc
" the drop," and site wished to be passed home,
as they wouldn't let her alone in this country.
The LORD MAYOR assured her that gin-drinkinig
would aggravate all her sufferings. As she had un-
dergone two nights' imprisonment, she would now
be discharged.
Defendant—But I will not be discharged. I wilt

not leave the prison until sotne better place is pro-
vided for me. I like a prison better than a work-
house.

The LORD MAYOR said, he vas sot surprised
when gin was preferred to bread, idleness in a prison
should be preferred to every thing else. She was
yet capable of work, but if she was determined to
go to Ireland, she must apply for a pass to the offi-
cers of the parish where she last slept.
The old woman refusing to stir except.on condi-
tion that she should be taken back to prison or to
some place she liked as well, the officers
obliged to remove her and eject her by force fr:,,it
the Mansion-house.