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Thomas Owen a Coittable, wts indicted fit
an assault, and falsely imprisoning. a Mr. Thompion,
a citizen of respectabilittion the 6th of December.
It appeared by the statement of the piOsecutor,
inberated by witnesses, that. he had dined at the Chap.
ter Coffee-house with some friends and on his v.-ay
home he met the Defendant, raid otber constables,
conducting a naval officer to the v.-atai-house. Ti e
prosecutor made way for the guardians of the nig)
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to pass, but not sufficiently so as to accommodate the
temper of the Defendant, who seized lins by the col-
lar, took him to the watch-house, and there charged
him with obstructing hini in his duty. The pro:C.-
cutor was refused bail, and after Living been kept all
night in the watch-house, he was on the.nett more.:
big taken before Sir Charles Price, who discharged the
complaint. A defence was up that the prosecutor
had obstructed the officer, but it NTUS 1111SUpp011Cd,
and the Defendant was fine.i iOl.
Thomas Large was indicted for assaulting Jonathan
Greensted iis own house, on the-11th day of June
last. From the evid?nce adduced in support of tlle
prosecution it appeared, that the defendant, who is .
pearl and ivory cutter, had called at the prosecutor's
'house in New-street, Fetter-lane, on the day stated
in the indictment; that the defendant had used very
improp language to the wife of the prosecutor;
that, in addition to this, he dragged the prosecutor
out of his own ',owe to the street, wbere several
totrads took place, .n the course of which the prose-
cutor's arm was broke; the consequetke was, that
he was for three months afterwards an-out-patient in
St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The defendant v,.
round guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of 201.

In the Court of Chancery, on Saturday, Sir S.
ROMILLY moved, on behalf of the Earl of ATHLONE,
for an order to invest him with the care and custody-
of his eldest son; Lord AGHRIM, a lunatic. On behalf
of the applicant, Sir S. ROMILLY and Mr. MARTIN
submitted affidavits to the Court, which stated the
)oung Nobleman to labour under mental derange-
ment, and that his own family were net permitted to
have access to him, nor did they know his abode,
The cause stood over until y steriay ; but was again
postponed until to-morrow, in consequence of the ir.
disposition of Mr. WETHERALL, Counsel for the Peti-
tioner, Lord Athlor.e.
Yesterday the ex-parte case of Ludlam was heard
before the Lord Chancellor. It was a petition on the
part of Mr. W. Ludlam, (the person who fired at the
landlord of the London Tavern) praying to be al-
, lowed to traverse the commission by which he was
I found a lunatic, and it was supported by the ME-
davits of Drs. Monro, Reynolds, and other Medi.
cal Gentlemen, all of whom agreed in bearing testi-
mony to his sanity. After an able speech for the Pe-
titioner, by Sir S. ROMILLY ; and an answer for Mr.
J. Ludlam by Mr. COoKE, the LORD CHANCSLLOII
postponed giving judgment till to-morrow (this day.)
About three o'clock last Tuesday snorting a fire
broke out in the hemp and tar-warehouse in the roper-,
of Messrs. J. Hall and Co. at Barton, in Yorkshire,
which consumed that part of the building, and pro-
perty to the amount of several hundred pounds. It
was prevented from spreading further, by pulling
down some of the adjoining premises.
Yesterday, about five o'clock, a fire broke out at
a !odging-house in Ray-street, Clerkeriwell, but, by
the activity of the neighbours, the flames were sub-
dued, without doing much damage.
GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday Charlotte Bumstead was charged be*
fore sir William Curtis, (who sat as Magistrate) with defrauding
several wholesale haberdashers, of goods to a considerable amount,
under false pretences. The first charge was preferred by Messrs.
Jones and Co. of Bull Head-court, Newgate-street. Mr. Jonas
stated, that the prisoner came to their warehouse, on February
the 15th, pretending to be sent from Miss Lisney, a shopkeeper
of High Wycomb, to look out au assortment of goads for her ;
that they knowing Miss I.isney to be their-customer, and rap-
posing the prisoner to live with her as an assistant, suffered her to
look out pieces of silk handkerchiefs, silk stockings, lace, &c. to .
the amount of 381. 15s. 6d. which they sent with her to the Hie%
Wycomb coach, and ordered some more black silk bandkerchicts
to be sent after as soon as possible, which was done; std this
discovered the fraud ; as they were sent back nest day, with a let-
ter, assuring them they sent for no goods • from this they bad
printed hand-bills sent roundero the trade,.describing the prisoner.
she wis accordingly stopped at Messrs. Engkby and Co.'s, Wood-
street, Cheapside, from whom she wanted goods on similar pre-
tmces : when searched, a great number •of pawnbrokers' dupl:-
rates were found in her potsesaion • for part of his goods were
pledged, as well as thegoods of others in the trade ; and several
pawnbrokers from Chelsea, Knightsbridge, Bloomsbury, &r.
produced pieces of handiterihiefs, lace, silk stockings, etc; and
all stated the pi operty to have been obtained in this way. -
Mr. HUNT appeared as Solicitor, and told the Alderman he
had several other charges against the prisoner of a similar natures
and called forward a gentleman, who told the Magistrate that the
prisoner had obtained goods to the amount of sal. from the ware-
house of Adams and BeU, No. 12, Bread-street, Cheapside pre-
tending she came with an order front Mr. Nice, of Colchester,
and desired they might be sent to Mr. Sharp's, and were carried
away by the prisoner. A letter from Mr. Nice was read by the
Solicitor, who denied any knowledge of the business; but the
Alderman said Mr. Nice must appear personally to make the de-
claration,
Miss Lisney, from High Wycomb, attended, and stated, that
the prisoner had lived' as .shopwoman with her ; but had been
gone front her about two years, and she had never seen her since,
and knew nothing of the goods.
The prisoner did not deny the charge; but complained of hav-
ing been very ill used by a Mr. Hawkns, with whom she had
I lived for some time, and passed as Mrs. Hawkins and had pled.
for every thing at their lodgings with the money obtained on the
-goods.
Upon this Hawkins was ordered to attend, who stated, that he
was a Quarter Master of a regiment of Light Dragoons lately cum,
from abroad; that he bad been strangely deceived by this wicked
woman, who had persuaded him she was to have 9000 L; and that -
a brother supplied her with money till she got It ; denied any
knowledge how she. obtained 'the goods ; and produced a forged
letter, as from her brother,. ecc.,4tc. No person being
.able to
prove that this gentleman was privy to the fraud, he was dip
charged, and the prisoner fully committed.
We are assured that the Anniversary Festival of
the Humane Society will be celihrated at the City of
London Tavern, on the 4th of next month. 'Three
thousand one hundred and ninety-five of our fellow-
creatures have been restored to life, to their families,
and to the State. Many who were rescued from the
watery grave, having, arrived at years of maturity, -
are either settled in useful occupations, or defending
their country in the fleets and armies of the nation,
The. Managers of this excellent institution have like.
wise established Humane Societies in various districts
of the kingdom, and in distant parts of the world..—
The Right Hon. the Loan MAYOR and Sherif:Awns
kindly promised to be present at the above anniversary.

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