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and he Thewed that his recolledion of the affair
had confiderably failed. On the part of the plain-
tiff it was allowed that this circumaance had not
been difclofed to the underwriters ; and that it be-
ing in the knowledge of the plaintiff it had been
kept back, the policy was void; but that the plain-
tiff really knew it was utterly denied ; and Capt.
Price of the Cirene was called to prove that he
could not have received the information in the way
limed by the laft witnefi. He fwore that he bad
not feen Mr. Gadefdale at the Cullom Houfe on the
16th of June, nor had fpoken to him any where
elfe till near a week afterwards, when he came on
board the Cirece. Then and no fooner he told
him of the Amie having failed two days before tire
time of his own departure.
The Learned Judge left it to the Jury upon the
credit of the witneffes, and after a very fhort con-
I fultation the) found a verditi for the plaintiff.
There were three other cafes in the Eper but
I they were all referred to arbitration. The Court
I was than adjourned till after the Mires.

COURT OF EXCHECWER,MARCH s.
IISS MAJESTY'S ATTORERY GENIRAL o. OMR j
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GRIGORY.
The Counfel on the part of the Crown Rated to
the Court and Jury, that this profecution was com-
menced
by order of his Majefty's Commillioners
of the Stamp duties, to recover of the defendant
penalties to the amount of pea for a too corn-
mon and injurious fraud upon the revenue, of giv-
ing receipts upon undamped paper. That the de-
fendant was a potatoe merchant, refiding in Crif-
pin-fireet, Spitalfields, where he carried on a very
extenfive trade. That he had confiderable deal-
ings with the wintefs whom he fhould call to prove
the cafe. That the information contained thirty-
two counts for various offences, fixteen of which
were for giving receipts on payment of money up-
on undamped paper, whereby the defendant had
forfeited for each offence the fum of id. and the
other fixteen counts for penalties of Sol. each, in-
curred by the defendant for a fraudulent contri-
vance to evade the ufe of (lamps. That one mode;
among(' others adopted by the defendant in giving
thefe receipts, was what is too commonly ufed by
molt tradefmen at the foot ofiheir fhopbillsforgoods,
viz. writing the word " CAI" oppofite the Turn
paid, and which the defendant had often done.—
But he had recourfe to another ingenious device,
which he fuppofed would fecure himfelf from any
penalty, if his cuflomers were fatisfied to accept
fuch receipts, viz. by writing " The day of the
month and the year," on which the money was
paid, and the letters " A, B, C," at the foot of
his bills of parcels, which he delivered to his cur-
tomers as a difcharge for the funs paid.
Two witneffes were called who proved the pay-
ment of the money to the defendant, and his hand
writing to the fevcral pieces of paper which he de-
livered as receipts, whereupon his Counfel on his
behalf faid the cafe was fo fully made out, that he
would not trouble his Lorthhip and the Gentlemen
of the Jury ; and requefted the Counfel for the
Crown to accept a verdict for fuch penalties. as
would be a Icahn to the defendant in future, and
others guilty of fimilar praaices. It was therefore
agreed, under the direction of the Chief Baron, to
take a verdict for penalties to the amount of 1601.
which his Lordfhip (aid he hoped would operate
as a caution to others who wereiin the habit of de-
frauding the receipt duty, and he trufled they
would not in fume fuhjea themfelves to tech
heavy penalties for fo trifling a funs, and which
moreover they had a right by law to charge to
their cuftomers.

rot • or-r-
Jew boys. of the names
of Ifaac Solomon. and Jofeph Mores, were examined
before the Lord Mayor, charged upon the oath
-of a Captain of a (hip, with picking his pocket in
Lower Thames-ftreet, of a pocket-book, contain-
ing bills and notes to the amount of 401. A
.gen-
tleman, who was in company with the Captain at
the time, Rated teeing one of the prifeners pick
the Captain's pocket, and on which they were
both fecured. He law one of them drop the
pocket-book from behind him into the ftreet.—
They were committed for trial.
SHADW ELL.—Yetterday a publican was charged
with alts of fwindling and robbery. The offences
being chiefly committed in the county of Surrey,
be wascommitted to the new gaol in the Borough,
to undergo a trial at the next affixes.
Thurfd.rf a woman, the wife of a foldter lately
returned frOm Egypt, preferred a complaint againit
him, at Hatton Garden Office, for having cruelly
treated her. He promifed very fairly; but as
Paid the could maintain herfelf and children
without his aid, the perfifted in (wearing the peace
againfi him. He was, therefore, committed for
want of bail.
A great number of forged notes of the Bank of
England, of the value of two, five, and ten pounds
each, and a great many bad feven Chilling pieces,
were on Tuefday difcovered bras boy, in the trunk
of an old tree, near With Farm, on Southfea. I
Common, Hamp(hire. They were curioufly tied
up in an old worfted Rocking, and fecreted under
force pieces of boughs. As the boy was carrying
the notes carelefsly along in his hand, in the road
leading from Southfea to Porilmouth, he was met
by a man of the name of Horlock, a thoemaker. I
who, perceiving them, requefled the lad to look
at them, which be declineddoing, when he inftantly
fnatched . the greaten part out of the boy's hand
and ran off. The boy having a knowledge of his
perfon, and recolleaing he had feen him before at
a hoofs in St. Thomas's-ftreet, gave information
to Sir Join CAZTER, one of the Magiftrates of
the Borough, who gave immediate orders for his
apprehenfion. When the conftables entered the
houfe where he lodged, they detated him in the
very as of drying the notes by the fire, as, from
the late heavy rains, they were in a very wet
Hate • he was of courfe inftantly taken, and com-
mitted to gaol to take his trial at the next felons.
Sufpicion of the perfons who have forged the notes
and fecreted them in the above manner, has fallen
on two men.

length been able to trace out the nett of felons who
have been fo bufy of late in the forget, xi their
notes. The neft was formed at Bilfdow, between
Birmingham and Wolverhampton, where feveral
perfons have been taken up. Two men,belonging
to the Shrewibury mail were apprehended at the
fame time, as in the guard•boot of the carriage
was found a parcel concealed, containing forged

notes.
G. Lynes and J. Ballance, dealers in forged Bank
notes and counterfeit coinage, have been commit-

ted to Stafford gaol.
Monday morning the following felons broke out
of gaol at Glafgow:—George Rankine and Alex-
.uider Anderfon, under fentence of tranfportation ;
and Allan Henderfon and John Smith, who were
to have been tried for theft at the eating Circuit
Court there.
Thefe fellows made very extraordinary exertions
to effeil their efcape : they wrenched out a large
iron bar, which was fixed in the vent of their cell,
and having with it broken and burnt fo much of
the bottom of the door as enabled them to get out,
they burnt off the lock of another 'cell, and then
forted open another door, at the back of the chink.
ney of which they broke through the wall, and
got into the flair leading into the clerkichambers,
into one of which they entered, and remained till
after feven o'clock in the morning, when the fen.
tinel at the back of the gaol was taken off his poll;
they then made their ecape by a window upon the '
ground floor.
A fanner, in the neighbourhood of Bury St.
Edmund's lately gave a dealer t 4 guineas and a I
bobby for a fine riding horfe, which the latter fold
as his own property ; but on the farmer's riding
to town the following market day, the hone was
claimed by the fon of a perfon from whom it had
been Qolen.
Oa Tuefday evening between (even and eight
o'clock, a moil daring robbery was committed at
the Ship Inn, Sheerness. When the people of the
honk were bufy ferving their cuftorners, fome vii
lain or villains took the opportunity of going up
hairs, and with an iron crow broke open the bed
room door, where Mr. and Mrs. it AIME sleep,
fearched every drawer and clofet in the room, and
hole cash and Bank notes to the amount of upwards
of col. with which they got clear off; though a quan-
tity of plate to a confiderable amount,and two gold
watches were in the room, they did not take any of
thefe articlesaway. A defperate gang of mifcreants
inlet that place, who have no vifible means of living
(except by robbery and plunder) ; they often en-
tice the invalid Tailors into fome public houfe, make
bem drunk, and then rob them of their property.
One poor fellow lan week had his pocket picked of
601. another loft his chef full of clothes and 301. in
Bank notes. Scarcely a day paffes, without depre-
dations of a fimilar nature taking place.
On Sunday the 14th ult. a terrible fire broke
out in the premifes of James Done, farmer, of
Little Budworth, in Chefhire, which entirely con-
fumed the fame,together with 5 cows, and another
very much burnt, a quantity of barley, oats, hay,
and firaw, all his geering, and mot of the farming
utenfils.
On Sunday fe'nnight, between the hours of nine
and ten o'clock at night, the Town-hall at Eaft.ltct-
ford, Nottinghamflure,was difcovered to be on fire,
but by the exertions of the inhabitants it was hap-
pily got under without any material damage.
I On Saturday the 13th ult. three boys impru-
dently ventured on a marl pit at Weft-Heath, near
King's Norton, that was frozen • over, when the
ice gave way, and di• two eldeft, about 12 years'
of aeo w,— Ulaortunately drowned. The young.
1, rot more than three years old, contrived, by
fome means or other, to get out, and was the
bearer of the melancholy intelligence to his parents,
of the lots of his brother. The other boy, we
underhand, was the fon of a Qstarter-Mager in
the Blues.

A melancholy accident happened on Thurfday
night, in Perkins's Rents, W.:llminfter. A large
old houfe, inhabited by a number of poor families,
fuddenly fell in, about half paft ten o'clock, with
a craft), which, at that Rill hour, was heard at a
great diflance. The unfortunate beings who were
thus buried alive, had retired to reft,among whom
were fome children. The people that affembled
direeted by their cries and groans, immediately let
about removing the rubbith, and extricating the
fufferers, fo that by day light all were dug out
of the ruins ; Come miferably wounded, and lonic
dead. Among the dead is the wife of a fohlier
in the Guards, lately nturned,from Egypt, of the
name of Ltgget ; he crept out of the rums bimfelt,
and his wife was following him, when a beam I
Shifted its pofition, fell acrofs her neck, and killed
her. In the fearch, her hatband was the firft that
difcovered her.
The following perfons were alto found:—Mat-
thew Tag, a labouring man, who, it appeared,
.had not been in bed, as he was found dead with
his clothes on : he bad been heard to (peak fereral
times to the perfons not to dig too near his head.
James Steward, a duftman, who worked for a Mr.
Corny, much bruifed-. Elizabeth Steward (his
wife) her Shull fraanred in fuch a (hocking man-
ner, as to occalion her death. William Steward,
a young man, terribly bruifed ; he lay five hours
under the rubbifh. A little girl, tz years old the
day the accident happened, dead.
IThe wounded perfons were taken to the Infir.
mary, and every care taken of them • aid to the
credit of the humane inhabitants, we find fubfcrip-
tions have been fet on foot for the benefit of the
diftreffed furvivors, who, by this calamity, have
loft their little all as well as their relatives.
The houfe belonged to a Mr. Nass, and the
lower part was ufed by a perfon who burnt bones,
for the pnrpofe of making hardhorn, who had re-
cendy made a Shed and Rabic for his cart and
horfes, at the lower part of the premifes, in doing
which, it is fuppofed, the fupporters of the houfe
were fo injured as to occalion its giving way. It
is to be hoped, that the Coroner's jury will :deer-
tain whether the calamity was really occalioned
by this circumftance, for Should it prove to be
true, it will attach that neglea to the diftria fur-
veyori whofe particular duty it is to prevent there
accidents, that the Migiftrates for 'the county will

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The monftrous and depraved !harder which re-
cently took place in Peter's Row, excites much in-
tereft in this city. CRAWLEY, the perfon accufed
and in cuftody, was brought up to Coutt this day,
at an adjournment of the Commiftion Sitting, and
arraigned; he pleaded not guilty, and is to be
tried on Wednelday fe'imigla. As yet the evi.
dence again& him is wholly circumitantial. He
perfeveres in denial or filatce. He revved his time
as an attorney to one of the moil refpeaable houfes
in this City, and, fo far as is known, with uniform
propriety, as affeding the bufinefs of the Houle.
He was afterwards an officer in the Rofcommon
militia. He has been well educated, and not del-
titute of abilities and good addrefs. His fatl•er it
reaor of a parifh in the County of Dublin, and two
brothers of his graduated with much credit to their
literary charaaer, in Trinity College : one married
and went with his wife toAmerica, where they both
died of the yellow fever ; the other is now purfuing
his profeflional ftudies.
The Prifoner to-day looked very wretched ; a
blue horfeman's coat, and blue pantaloons, both
very dirty ; his perfoh in every other refpea greatly
neglected, and he was loaded with not lets than
pls. weight of iron ; his age, I Ihould fuppoCe,
I about 23 years.

LONDON MARKETS.

COEN-EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, MARCH S.

A &tutu of the PRICES of FLOUR, front the iptk of Fdle.
to the aGth of February iacluirve.
Total 17,902 facks.-.-Averare 595. 71.4
es. 'FL lower than ialt return.
•
PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH •
Bairi 31 sos to el sss I Pockets 41 os Ns 41 tat
SEEDS PER HUNDRED WEIGHT, March s.
fled Mart 3os to 965,
White ditto 4os to 1681 per cwt.
Trefdil los to 7os
Turnip 151 to 22$ pa buena
Rye Grafs 20$ to 38s per quarter
CintiodOd ,ios to 6os per ditto
Molter& ¶
White Its ad to sss per
Brod. Brown t 1 Cd to 14$ 66 per ditto
Canary Seed its to 121 Cd per diem
Rape Seed 544 to 00l per lalt.
SMITHFIELD, March;.
To fink the offal--per Rohe of 81b.
Beef 4s 84 to 6. 4d Veal - is 6d to 7s 64
Matted, -5s 61 to 71 od Pork - Gs od to -s iii
Stock at Market this morning. Bracts hoc, Sheep 900.
NEW GATE and I.VADENIiAII, March 5.
Per Rune of Blb. by the eareafe.
Beef 4s od to 5s 6d Veal 5s od to 7s od
Mutton 4s 8d to 6s od Pork Gs od to 71 841
RAW HIDES, March
,c. . _

Hides (per ftone) gs ad to pBd I licavy-Call rO4 each
Middling 31 od to pi ad Alit& Sties 13, to Its
Ordinary is od to 21 Sti Sheep tirkins 4s cd top • a
PRICE OF LEATHER, per lb. A I: LEADi!NHALL.
Botts, so to 561 b each, - - i tid to ltd
Ditto, 6o to 661 b - - - tad to 24i
Macho:to. Backs • 17 }.l to AO
Dreffing Hide.a - • rod to 161
Fine Cuaela Hides i6d to std
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Crop Hides fdr Cutting - zB.I t. 21a
Flat Ordinary . - t 4 }d to z:d
Caft Skins, 35 to 401 b per dozen, - std to 2741
Ditto so to yolb - -25 d to 291
Ditto, 7o to 8:Ib - . -13 d to 2
Small Seals (Grecnlvid) psi IS. as 61 to Is 1,1
Large ditto - - IGO* to t 4)s per does.
Tanned Hurfe Hides - zits to 3or each
Goat Skins - - cos to 641 pct. dozes
PRICE. OF TALLOW IN LONDON.

St. James's market as 2d Town Tallow dos 6d too.
Clare market ss ad IRO% ditto (ea.) 66s al tool
Whiteehapel market as td Ft ofka ditto (foop) 63. tubas
(per Item of 81b.) White Candle Rulfis 63s to 64$
—.,—... MeitinrStuff sos al tos6s

124 sd Ditto Gush ios al to o►
Average Price es ad Graves - Oil to ois
Good Dregs sos os
. Yellow Soap, has. to os.--Mottled , Bor —Curd, 84s
Cana.* s is. las. 64.
PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, March 5.
SmitltlSeld. St. Jainc*'s. Wbitechapel.
o•Hay otos so 3 ooto 5 so 0 4 ootos 5 •
Straws Bto a 2l z 16 oto a 8 o t 14 oto a 2 o
Clovers esto6toll 5 zo oto 6 8 es
COUNTRY MARKETS. _

Coventry Grab) Market has for feveral fucceffive weeks pat
continued on the decline, and both Wheat and Barley were dill
lower on Friday lalt.
At Northampton, on Saturday, there was a Rill further re-
dudion in price; Wheat fold from Ss. Gd to sou 4411-141
Whet.
At Warwick Market the fame day, Grain of every kind was
dull of Cale, at lower prices.
At Chefter Market, on S.-turday hQ, the average price of
Wheat (571 b.) sts. otd. Oats is. 7d.
At Shrewfbury Fair, on Saturday left, fat cattle and 'beep
declined in price, and W Clt dull of fate; lean cattle and pigs
were dearer than at the 'receding fair.