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London, England, 1816-12-14 00:00:00

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As3io llousu intent, who was on 'Wed-
t,+ slay earttnined upon a charge of having offered.
pi,tol as a pledge at. a pawnbroker's shop, Was.
yestviahty again brought before his Lordship.
At will be remembered that the prisoner said on
''Welho*lay, that his mother hild sent him with the
pistol to the pawnbroker's, being pressed by her
necessities, aild desired by her husband, 'whose
is Beadle', to dispose of the pistol in that
ni-oliter for her relief.
The .prishiler's mother having confirmed
tliis
fitilleibetit, and deelarrd that her son had acted
',later her direction, it warrant was issued against
Beadier, who was supposed to have obtained the
pistol as iorm`s of all. kinds had been obtained on
the day of rile riot. Sarvell, the Officer,
cb•ttvlV Went ,in,sraeli of hint, but was tinsuccess-
-14,1. • Beacher,.however,
.yesterday made his ap-
p, arance at the Mansion7l►onse, and declared that,
be had called upon his Lottiship the moment he
saw his name in,the papers. •Ills wife was then
desired. to rtpeat tier ae,count of the 'Manner in
which she got the pistol into. herpossession. tier
statement, the leading tel of which was, that
her hus.band said he had bought the pistol, and
that he had given it to her ..tvith the above-men-
tiont.d directions, was not contradicted by Bea-
eller, who admitted that he might have. used that
'.,deeeptipn. lle, however, assured his Lordship
that be had received the pistol from a young matt
named Thomas Gill, who vent irked at the time be
put it int() his bawls, that bb... father was the owner
it upwards of twelve months-.
The -Lord Mayor having received intelligence
that-Gill had given the pistol to Ikacitri, apinst
whom nothing appeared but his mere posseSsiuti
of did not think it :.tweessary .tietaih
I:,aeher assmed his Lordship that he woidd do all
in 'his power to aid the officers, in the appreherid-
log Gill, against whom aywarrain was issued.,
11 is Lordship -regretted that Vincent been
a antic ref sc.) long, and ordered glue .to be di's-
eitar;,;ed.
Serjetiut of the Veteral Battalion, on guard
at the Tower, iofortned the,Lord .1,4y0r, that he
was ordered by his commanding officer to intro-,
dove to his Lordship a gentleman whii had some
importantprtictdars relating to ten riots to COM-
-1%111(6(10C.
The gentleman, it Mr. ltutledge, of the•Crescenti
Irttmories, then said, that on the tit}, of the riot
he was passing the Tower, towards hi:, house, its
his way horn the corn,ntarketi that he sate
putot rioted assembled there, in:consequence of
which he was obliged to remain for half an bout;
on the spot; that, during that time he saw two
oleo, who appeared to be prominent characters in
the moli, advanee,to the wooden railing near the
ditch, and address a number of soldiers who were
on the bastion: that in the course of their speeches,
It was notAtear et!ough,to hear, they pre-
*aired pi.,101, at the soldiers, as it it was their in-
tention to fire...at,.theirt. One of those :ten, the
informant sale{, Wits tall, vary thin visaged, anti
was dressed in a light-eoloureagreat-colo, light-
hke, tvail.tcoat, and top.boots : the other shorter.
foll-feeed,, pitted deeply with.- that sinall•pox

stooped unseat, nod was deessed in a dark (.4.nat. "
'Vice LORD Mavoit said the description of the
latter person corresponded with thAt of a mart
1.0.4 had been observed conducting hitnself with
remarkable activity amongst the rioters, but who
bad not been taken nor even fully described.
At the desire of his Lordship, Mr. Rutledge
went to Bow-street in order to Make the•above
.entnmouication, and to ascertain whether the for-
Dia persorovas the elder %Vat Son.
Cartwright attti Leadheiter, the marshalmen,
went, incohiegnenee of information received on
Thtirt,day night, to one of the lanes leading into
Gray's-inn-lane, where they
,searched two wretch-
ed lotthio'g houses for a man who, they were
told, answered the description given of Waton,
jitn. The search was fruitless.'
The .1....0ur? MAYOR received a letter from Mr..
Wootoer, the Mat:Shal,, yesterday morning, in
uitich Mr. W. said he bad every expectation of
soccessin the search he was making after Watson,
inn , and that he had' 5 troop, grounds tar stippotting
that he was within two miles of the place where
tie fugitive netnally had taken refuge. The traces
Ice olntet veil were most accurate.
A pul:Stti tans yesterday brought to town from
111k4ki.aio, near Bath, whom general report de-
;scribed to be kl/atson. This was another of the
gii,;:pnoiotinents.
The Lord Mayor has traced -the hiring of the
waggon used by the Speakers in Spa-fields °it the
ti ioltaitt, to some at the rioters now in custody.

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BOW-St nrET,—,Yemterday John Butleo, who'
was appreheaded at Hatfield on 'Monday last, .un-
der st.spicion of haring .been- concerned in the
riots, Underwent a long examination, In answer
to the que,“io:3 pot to, him by Mr. Br RN pt.,' he
srated.tblt be butcher' by trade, and had.
1,,,e0 111 the eloplo no:nt (It a backer in Fleet,
in,ok, 1., Oa Thursday week, he was going to
q!,sttnr tine,tt of a situation, and..about four'
ictoet‘ in the afrei-noon he picked up ‘26/, rolled
up its rt piece uf White parr, and teal with s piece
of white tape, about a mile u)) this side of Ripley.
Ire ;i pt ott marl that night, at a house the 4,bts,
or to,id not tell, bc,iog :00.cd what
hirn tp liairteht tilt Nionday. was
appidiendoi, he 4tate,c4liat ~ :is going to liar-
net tor a
ride only, tine hotii4eil Whatever
there:: he -stopped afT-"h00 to gt:t
,54me refresh-
f
.netot yr m
ry uch intoxicated : he tilt!
elut lit have said there : be really
ilitl p,„ Know, eitherof the Watsons, nor bad ever
theta in .his life ; and if he had used their
to,mes in tiny way, it must have been in vonse-
Thwore of their being the subject of conversation;
underoooo thattelove different Accounts be-
fi,re I.;nrd Craubourne, of t he manner by which he
bee),me-pogsessed of the money which was traced
to him ; hot be was than intoxicated, although he
)14d IOU! a aigitt's rest, and, ditl trot know what he
Said, and teas so sick daring; the examination that
he was obliged to go out. The notes which he
enood consiited of a Wit. 11(104, two 21. notes, and
the remainder, in I I. notes,
A pa .v abroker, whose us* we could npt hear,
We nittitlStalld, stated that the prisoner pawned a
width lvitll I,iw on the 3d instant, anti released it

on the 7th, paA;ing 'the principal and interest with
a 51. • note; which the witness produced, and,
marked.
A livery-stable keeper in lilachfriirs-road stated,
that.theitrisrmer hired a mt..re at him at about 11,
o'clock on 11Ionday morning last. In cortsegnence
of his expressing a reluctance to. lend the prisoner
a horse,•as he did not knOw hint, the prisoner left
a deposit of 201. in his hands, to convince him
that his intentions were proper, stating that he
was only going v,3 for
.I,S Thinner, and woold return
by 8 o'clock the "ali,Cer.evening. 'line witness pro,
duced the 201. stud stated that he had kept them
separate front all othry money.
The con,table who had apprehended the prison
tier stated tha't he found on hint two guineas, a:11.
note, and some silver.

'L'l►e Mil,. to the Alal.);;strAtes at Hatfield pro•.
[iced the ileilosiiions tAten before Lord Cran-

bourne.

The butdher in Fleet-Market, in whose employ
the prisoner had been, gave him a most excellent
character, and'stated, quit on the day of the.riots
he was under his own personal observation front
twp o'clock until six, and then lie went to the
play with a young man of his acquaintance, so
that he Was. not at all connected %vitit the riots.
lie had not beard that the prisoner was going in
quest' of a situation at Kingston.
• Mr. litaNin said, that he by no means_thought
that the prisoner was connected with (lie riots
but as lie had heard of a very extensive robbery
in the neighbourhood of Ripley, he should commit
the prisoner for turthL:r examination until Tues.:
day next.

Miro NI- Ft c-A alqS.—On Th tirsOliy the
pa‘i,bbroliers, and all. other 'persons residing.
in
this district dealing it) fire-arms, attended tit this
Offire, in compliance with a suannous lisued by
the Magistrates requiring them to
,do so, to re-:
ceivea connumileutiort of the precaitionat y mea-
sures recommended by his Majesty's Government.'
as fit to he tut,,pred by,all persons having in their
possession large quantities 01 fire-arms, either for.
).ale or other purposes, to prevent a recurrence or
the disgraceful scenes which p:t4sed during the
continuation of the late riots. The Magistrate
(Mr. Evance) informed the persons attanding,
that the Ordnance Board, were ready to receive
into their care any quantities of arms ti inn ituii-
vidfiali, packed in cases, which cases ,r(lid be
deppsited the 'Potter fur safe Custody ; and
where persOnSprelerred, or ‘vere obliged'to keep.
large quantities of arms in their possession, they
were strongly teconuncoded -not to expose lima)
to public view; and yard( ularly to take off the
locks front-all .fire,arnis, and thereby render then)
in a greitt nica-4nre useless in the :hands of anis;
chievous persons. These precautionary measures,
werirre6mmit'nflea as well nit!) regard to private
safety as to public good.
The persons present readily and Cheerfully pro 7
'nised to comply with the precautiOns recom-

Mr. Platt still continues as we last suited.

UNIVCRSI l'Y )NTELLIGENCE.

.CAMBelpoe, Dec. 32.--The Rev: George
Barnes, B. D. Fellow and Tutor of Queen's Col:
lege, has been presented, by the Pt &dent of that
4ociety, to the Rectory Of Grimstim, In Norfolk,
void by the death of the Rev; Jolrn Brett.
The Rev. G, Carter, Minor canon, of Norwich
Cathedral, antichaplaiu of Christ Church and New
College, Oxford, wns last week presented (by the
Dews and Chapter of Norwich) to the vicarage of
Lakenham and Throwso Newton, Norfolk.
The Rev. George Day, B.A. of Bene't College,
has been nominated, by the Deart and Chime 01,
Norwich, to the perpetual Coracles of Prowston.
and Plumstead Magna, in Norfolk.
The Rev. Jobn Wilcost, M. A..Minister.of Ely
Chapel, London, and Lecturer-of St. George the
Martyr, Southwark, was last Week instituted, by
elle Lord Bishop of Norwich, to the -rectOry of
Stonham'Jerningbam, in Norfolk.
The Rey. Bardley Norton, M. A.. was last week
licensed to the perpetual coracles of Blythbro'
anti Walberswiak, in Soffolk, on, the presentation
Of Sir Charles Blois,' Bart.

13uttGLARY.---On Thursday ni;;ht, the house of
Mr. Gcil, in Findittry-srptare, was entered by
thieves, who bad brirken in through a partition
composed of lath and plaister, into a room wher,e-
in the family plata was ileyobited, which they
tarried off, with other property, to the amount of
1501. ;
.search is makin4 after the 'offenders.
HIGHWAY RithrigßY.-011 Thursday last, be-
tweett the hours of three anti four in the
afternoon, as a countryman and his wife were
passing through ape of the bye lanes in a
chaise cart, which leads from Finchley to nigh-
gate, they wine stoop d by three footpads, dress-
ttl in soldiers clothes,.wbo robbed hint a his

xvatelt and money. Information has been give
Of their pcisous to Reed, Ow Officer, at. ilsittou
6:11-41en.

----Thnr-sday evening, AS Mr. Aldred, one of the
clerks of Union-hall, Police-office, was ciriviag
along Parliament-street in a gig, accompanied by
friend, about eight o'clock, a man in a chaise-
cart drove furiously against r Ile wa9
overturned by the shock. Mr. Aldred aml his
friend were thrown upon the pavement wit it great
force. The first Gentleman received a severe
contusio4 on his face and side. The latter had

his skull fractured in a dangerous manner, and he
was taken home in a state of inseusisility.
ACCIDENT.----A melancholy accitient occurred
'yesterday at the hike of NORPOLK's haute, in St.
James's-square. One of the workmen fell from
the upper part the house, pitched on the stove in
the inner hall, aril immediately expired. This is
the 4ecund person who has lost iris life doting
the repairs of this Nobleman's nran,ion.
The body of the celebrated horse Sir Joshua has
been dissected, to ascertain the cause of his.snil-

tlen death. From the examination it Hppears, that
either in lying;
:down or getting 111, iit his,stitil he
had broken `the roond 'hone of the nicer Iliad kg,
and the pieces (It:the fracture had cut:the snijumt
veins, and filled bis hotly with extravasitted blood.

MANSION-HOUSE.

AN INTERESTING TRANSACTION.—Mr. West-
wood, solicitor to the Bank, obtained a summons,

a few days ago, from the Lord Mayor, upon the
following statement :—A Mr. Bate, of Cheap-
side, offered a note purporting to he one of
the Bank of England for 5/. for change at. the
Hank. The clerk handed it to the inspector, who

immediately ascertained that it was a forgery
upon hearing which, Mr. Bate begged to look at
the note, and when it was put into his hands re-
fused to comply
,with the regulations, by return-
ing it. to the inspector.'
The LORD MAYOR observed, on granting the
summons, that an application from such a body as
the Bank, in acase which they considered of great
importance, was what he could not resist, but he
did not see of what avail his interference could be
under the circumstances described.

Witery 'Mr. Bate appeared at ,the office, -Mr.
Westwood made his complaint ; and the LORD
MAYOR having repeated the observation as to the
inefficacy of his interposition, the Solicitor said,
that since the offence had been committed a very
serious aspect was assumed by the transaction—
Mr. Bate was in the awful situation of a man sub-
ject to the puniiihment of a felon.
The LORD MAYOR said that the affair must in-
deed have, altered its complexion.
Mr. WRSTWOOD COBIIIIIICII.—IIe now had the
had note in his .possession, haVing received it by
means which proved the violation, upon the flat t
of Mr. B~t e, of the Act of Parliament, which
made it 'felony to otter a. forged note, with the
knowledge. teat it was a forgery. The notehad
tire() offered agaio, at the Ilatklt by. a different per-
son, but. the caution ‘vhich Air. Bate'S conduct
tendered so necessary was used, and the note could
note he produeed in evidence. It was obvious,
under these eircomst'ances,
.that Mr. Bate had
uttered the note knowing that it was aforgery.
Nlr. Bate .was exceedingly 'indignant during
this complaint. lie admitted that he had refused
to return the note, and declared tha-t he would
have resisted any 'Violence for the , profection of
what he considered his own property, .His ob-
ject in not complying with the system whicit the
Bank had thought proper to .adopt was, that be
Might return the note to the person from whom
he had taken it, and to whom he, had given the
value of al., there being a vwell-known diffieulty
in procuring a restoration of property in' cases
where the Bank had an opportunity of exercising
such an authority, as that which they thought to
visit upon him. At the time of his refusal, be
gave.his address, and desired, that if his conduct
was criminal, a constable, should be sent for,
and that he had no objeetion to appear before
arty magistrate to answer the charge. That part
of the .coMplaiut Which attributed to him the fact
of having uttered the. note art-ir re-had been told
that it was a torgery, was base and villainous. A
lady Moiled Scrivenet had paid it away to him, de-
tha, as she was gain int() the.country, lie
'would put :the Dame .of Crouch, Holborn, front
whom site hadtaken it, upon the back. Upon
leaving the Bank he went. to Mr. Crouch, told hint
the note was declared to be. is forgery at the Bank,
and immediately:received from him a good note
in exchange. Mr. ,Crunch returned it 'to a Mr.
jennings„ front whom he bad received it ; and
Mr. Jennings went to the. Bank, but .instead of
offering-A° Autter the note,. desired to know .whe-
therit was tt forgery.. These were the circum-
statices under, .which at Attempt was: made, 'he
said,. to traduce his character. , ,
The. Loaf) Mayoa said,, that Mr. Bate's M 0...
tiVe9 had been wholly. misrepresented. It was
evitietit that his object was to recover his motley
with as much facility as possible, and the charge
Of 'guilty circulation. was without the slightest
foondation.
Mr. Bate 'having stated to his Lordship the ne-
cessity of disclaiming the calumny upon the part
of Mr. Westwood, that gentleman said, that his
Motive for instituting the complaint was, to.con-
since Alt. Bate that he bad done wrong. Ile had
no'notion of pushing it to extremities.
Alt.,,Bate-Said.be was. so well convinced of the
propriety of his own conduct, that he hoped, it
would be follOwed-by-otiters, circumstanced as. he
had been..
After 'the affair *as distniated, Mi. Jennings
came to the Office in company with Mr. Bate., and
confirtried that part of Mr. B's statement which
related to him, declaring that lie had wine /to the
Batik in consequence of having beard, throngh
Mr. Bate, that the nottewas a forgery, and that he
had made no other application there than to 'know
Avhether the Note was, actually a forgery,
The' boailMavoit Sail that solicitors, and' in-
deed barristers, were occasionally subject to tits
of imagination, which Made theta roundly assert
more than they' were able to substantiate. For
his part, he would, if a note were forced from
him; as in the case of Pitt, seek redress in every
Court in Enghind. Ile knew the difficulties de-
scribed by Mr. Bate, and hadbiloself experienced
the ineonveniettee arising front the demotion of a
note which be had presented sonic titne ago, and
Which proved to he a:forgei)h
.'i.toW-STIIL LT.

Yesterday ra►her a singular case came to this,
office for the opinion of the Magistrates.
hackney coachman, the driver of No. I,OIS, had
summoned Mr. Ciirwen, a gentleman residing in
Pail-mall, for not paying the fare demanded fm
licing cart ied from the I.oyul Exchange to Char,
ing •cross.
The circumstances of the, case were shortly
these :—lt is cn,t notary every afternoon, when,
the gentlemen of different offices in the city are
going to ditmeo, for a number of hackney-coach-
men to draw np to the pave►nent, by the Royal
Bxeltange, with their coach duo's open, for the
purpose of more readily taking ni) their fares. A
'porter had engaged the coach No. 1,018, for two
gentlemen, and the coachman was 1014 to wait by
the Royal* Exchange, for them. lie was ac-
cordingly walling,., with his coach-tionr open,
when the gentleman in question, who bad been
summoned, came up, and got into the coach.
he was ratiterdeaf, he did not hearaquest ion whit:
WaLpat to him by the coachman as to his being 31;
of the gentlemen for whom' the coach was engaged
Shortly afterwards a friend of his citut up, au

aso got f.
who had originally ordered the coach arrived and
claimed it. After some conversation, however,
they agreed to get another coach, which they ac-
d'ordipgly did. On the coachman's, setting the
fentleman-in question down, he would only pay
25., and stated that the coachman ought to apply
to thepersons who had originally engaged him
for the remainder of the fare, for being called off
his stand. It etas for the payment, of this re-
mainder (is.) that the summons was issued : and
Mr. Btattig having declared that it was his opi-
nion that the defendant in stepping into the coach
stepped in the shoes of the original hirer; the re-
mainder of the fare .Was awarded to the.coachman,
with costs.

15vio1e they 4.IIIJVC VIA

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NINE WEEKS AFTER MAttatArm—A man of the
name of Scottwas char“ed.bv his wife, to whom
he had been Married only nine weeks, with at-
tempting to stab her With 'a knife, declaring that
he would get a pair of :pistols and'shoot her. with
one and with the other_he would shoot himself.
Front these and other circumstances, she conai-
tiered ber.selt to be in &Luger of her life. She at-
tributed this ciMduct to the circumstance that-she
would .not let hint baye 1001. towards the purchase
of the lease of a house, all her funded property
having been settled upon her by her father.
He was ordered to find hail.

A boy, only 13 years of age, was charged with
feloniously stealing a violin, the property of Mr.
Byrne, the Ballet-inagter of Drury-lane Theatte;
who stated, that a few days since he tvent to
_ _

Brompton to teach, in his chaise, and asked a
man svho was sweeping a cross-way to mind it,
while he went to his scholar ; the man decli►red,
but recommended the Flew= for that purpose.
On his return to the chaise, after• he had given his

lesson, be found his horse tied to a rail, the pri-
soner not to be found, and his violin taken trout
the•chitiee. ‘Vesteote, the constable, tV3S em-
ployed to go in search of the prisoner and the
violin: he succeeded in finding both. The violin
he loomd at an old it on shop in North-street,
Sloane-street, Cheliea, where the prisoner sold it
for 71. The way the prisoner had disposed of the,
money was partly in the purchase of apples and
plumbs. st.,,shilling's.worth of gunpowder to otakc
fireworks, and is. 641. to a groom belonging to a
stable in Grosvenor-place, to let him ride a:horse.
Mr. Byrne "put the most lenient construction
•on the prisoner's conduct, considering it to be
more the act of a child than a deliberate felon,
andl requested to be allowed not to proceed in
.prosecuting him. The Magistrate cont,(Atell, and
the boy was discharged after a proper aduionitiou.