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London, England, 1824-01-20 00:00:00

MISSY) VARY MEETING.

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Last evening, at seven o'clock, a meeting of the Wee.
leyan Missionary Society took place at the Chapel, Great
Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, for the purpose of ye.
ceiving the Annual Report of the proceedings of the
Home Branch of the SoCiety, and also for the considera-
tion of otherimatters connected with the general welfare
and existence of the Society. The Rev. ADAM CLARK e,
LL. D. F.A.S. in the Chain—After a prayer, the Cuata-
MAN opened the business of the evening.
The SECRETARY then► read the Annual Report of *the
'proceedings of the Home Branch of the Society, which
presented very gratifying results from the unceasing
exertions of•the -Missionaries in propagating the Scrip.
tures ; and it appeared-that in this branch of the Society
164 missions had been established, and 179 schools for
the religious instruction of about 11,564 scholat s. The
funds of the Society had increased considerably, an•? a
balance wasieft in hand ; but the Report recommended
very forcibly the necessity of a larger supply, in order
the more extensively to carry on the great undertaking.
—The Report was received with much applause.
Mr. Burrenwoturn, M.P. recorirmended its adoptio
by the meeting; and in, the course of his address ob.
served on the late unfortunate differences in the Wv.st
India Colonies, which, he said, had existed only in the
opposition of certain persons to the Missionaries, upon
whom the most desperate outrages had been commijtcd•
.--Same Resolutions were then agreed to, and the meet•
log separated. A num'aer of Ladies were present.
Leztera from Gibraltar of the 28th ult. state that Senors
Sonettos 'and ALLYON, Nlembeysnf the late Spanis!)
tortes; residing in that garrison, have been 'poisonc-1
by a servant who atteoded them. The former died 1:1
consequence, and the latter was so dangerously ill a.
'not to be expected to recoier. The perpetrator ot Orr
I'Relations act had escaped.

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Cab IIAILEIt-TlitS DAY:
Williams was indicted for stealing thirteen shirts,
petty of Samuel Sedgfield, on the 17th of De-
last. The property had been sent to the Swan
,lbor n-bridge, for the r ose of being for-
, to Devize., but whether the prisoner had stolen
iroperty from the inn, or whether he had commit-
, robbery on the road, did not appear.
Att.titts, in summing up, said the recent posses-
the property‘by the prisoner, who gave Ito ac-
iow he came by it, was sufficient, and the Jury
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(am Bain:leg was indicted for stealing a chaise-
le property of Robert Davis, in the parish of St.
d, Shoreditch. The prisoner went up to the
the prosecutor ill the most daring manner,
the coat, and ran off. The Jury found the pri-
Edward Adam, a child only eleven years of age,
tad guilty of stealirig divers monies, the in. o-
t. E..Maton, of Crown-court, Strand. He was
to be whipped in the Jail, and then given up to

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erkiay, John Austin Wren, S. Rains, and J. Elliott,
.Ipitally indicted, under Lord Ellenborough's
firing a loaded pistol" at Jo'--in Collins, on the
anuary inst. with intent to do him some griee-
alv harm. There were other counts in the in-
is, charging the prisoners_with the same offence,
tent to commit a robbery. At the request of
w, the prisoners' Counsel, the witnesses were' or-
rat of Court.
Collins examined.--I life as servant with 31r.
)v, of South Lambeth. On the 4th of January
down the Vauxhall-road, having been to
mall w ith my aunt. It was Sunday evening, and
ie.ut ning home, at about eight minutes to eight
whet I was six yards from the toll bar, a man
ip to me and presented a pistol in my face, say-
tand ! I demand your money, else I'll blow your
out: I told him that I had no money ; he te-
‘ I know you have," and still kept the pistol pre.
.e my face ; two other men then came up, I re-
step or two, with my face towards them ; the
itir the pistol then said,." Positively I'll blow
rrains out if you don't deliver your money."
then his hand on my breast, and the pistol
'd at my temple. The other two men then
told of me, one by the left arm and the other
behind me and took. me round the waist. "
see you d—d before I give you any money,
ith that I made a rush from them to get away.
as I got loose, I called out 4' Murder!" and the
had the pistol then fired in the- direction in
was ; the ball came so near me as to strike my
it struck under the rim of my* hat, but did not
it off my head, as I caught it With my hand.
all then ran away ; the man who had had hold of
ran across the road; the other two, into
ter-row. I followed, and called ont,," Stop
they then separated, and one of them crossed
id, I heliete it was the map who fired the pistol;
Ter I kept in sight till I saw a soldier catch him.
soldier bitught hint back to the guard-house,
Pace, the officer of Queen-square Police-office,
:hed him. He found on him three or four pistol-
an& a powder-flask. The prisoner Rains was the
On the Friday following I saw the other two
in custody, and at first I thought it was the
r Elliott that had fired the pistol, but I after-
thought Wren was the ma who fired ; and I
so now. I judge from the height And figure, as
in who presented the pistol had something over
:e like a black stock, which came down to his
He was the tallest of the three. He had on a
:oat, light waistcoat, and dark-coloured trowsers.
's dress was nearly the same. On my oath, I be-
they were -the two men who were present. The
prisoner (Rains) was taken in my sight, and was
out of it.
ross-examined by. Mr. LAw.—lt was a darkish
but it was under a lamp. so that I could distin-
I certainly was alittle alarmed, and was more
on making my escape than observing the men.
istol was so close, that it might be the wind •of it
luck up my hat; the man was about a yard from
'hen he fired,and the muzzle of the pistol was not
inches from my face. .
somas Lance examined—l am a private in the 2d
lion of Grenadier Guards; about eight o'clock on
:b of January, I was in Rochester-row, and heard
:poet of fire-arms, discharged, as I thought, about
jards from me. I heard a cry of " Murder !" and
wards, 44 Stop thief !" come from the sane spot:—
'orporal of the guard called my attention to a man
ing along Rochester-row, on the- opposite side of
way from the place where I had heard the report'
. the cries, I ran after the man foe about 200 yards;
. ran very fast, but I overtook him. As he ran, he
:ailed out 44 What do you run after me for, I have not
sae anything r I said 66 1 would overtake him pre-
ly, let bins run as hard as he would." I overtook
just at the corner of Vincent...square. and brought
Ito the guard-room. The prosecutor was there, an
" That is one of the Men who shot at me in the
11141-road." The witness identified the prisoner
ins as the man taken by him. An officer was sent
;and the prisoner was searched ; four pistol-balls and
glass bottle, containing a little gunpowder,were found
ipon him, together with a- shot t piece of cane, which
ad apparently served for a ram-rod.
Thomas Stiff, a soldier, deposed, that on the 4th of
rarer', he was standing sentry at Rochester-row. Ile
teard the report of fire-arms, and afterwards-a cry of
'stop thief." He saw two men running on the oppo-
.e side of the road ; one of them crossed over and
Itne close to witness, who knocked him down.; but he
up again and ran away. Ile kft his hat and a
tece of black stuff in it, which Witness afterwards gave
-ne prisoners, on being called on for their defence,
:flied all knowledge of the robbery, and called
TLe Hon. Major Cust, who spoke to the sharacter of
ma, who two years ago had lived as servant with the
i-uirss. At that tithe he had conducted himself honestly.
Bittleston and Mr. Shand, truss-makers, for
men the prisoner Rains had worked, gave him a good
taracter for honesty and industry. Ile had been in
re employ of the latter witness up to the period of his
rprehension.
The Learned Judge (Mr. ARABIN, who sat for the
tCORDER) havirg summed up, the-Jury retired for half
hour, and on their return found all the prisoners
"4) but recommended Elliot to mercy, on these
:thiLds—their belief that it was his first offence, and
,wrrom the slighter proof against him.

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FRANKLAND LEWIS" El. M.P. has- arrived at his
,u,t fn Curzon-street, fro h►. sea, llorpton-court, minor,
get:. Wales.

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