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London, England, 1815-08-04 00:00:00


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SAILING MATCH.

A Sailing Mach took place on Wednesday last, I
between the Mercury, Capt. Astley, and the Saint j
George; Capt. Gunston ; the boats were started from
Bl tclewall by signal from the Cumberland, Comm-
dore Taylor, soon after eleven ; the Mercury had :he
advantage of the start, the St. George having fouled
her rigging, and there bring link wind the Mercury
kept rather ahead. but on the breeze freshening the j
• St. George passed the Mercury off Woolwich ; Gal.
'coils and half Reaches the boats kept close to, and
frequittly heading cacti other. and every means was
t.sed •by each to luft to the windward, but neither
boat (so equally were they matched) had the advan.
to 4e. Tlwy kept close together, avid passed round the
r. c.t.aing ship at Gravesend at the same time. In,
coining up the %Ind had increased and was nearly
; in beating to wind through Northfieet.hope,
the Mercury pasted the St. George, 'and in St. Cle-
menei Reach was neatly a mile a-head ; after which
the St. George shifted jibs, and presently came up
with and passed the Mercury, and kept her distance
a-head horn Long Reach to 13ugsby's Hole, where it
fell calm ; the Mercury shortly after got a fresh breeze
from the north, and kept it to windward, while the
St. George lay becalmed. This partial breeze decided
the wager in fay :ur of the Mercury, who came round
the buoy at Wacky:all about a minute before the St.
George. This wager excited considerabe interest
among the Captains of the other boats who sailed in
the match on Monday last, and all off-them attended.

LAO IM7ILLIGENCE.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.
Yesterday the release of Mr. Burton, from the
King's Bench Prison, was opposed by -a creditor, on
account of the prisoner's having made over the lease
at' his house in Welbeck-street to his landlord, after
he had become a prisoner : such. a contract being to
the injury of his general creditors. l'he prisoner, in
his defence, •proved that the landlord had put in a
distress for a debt arising out of Bent, and was paid
its amount by the produce of •the sale arising there-
from. The lease, lie also skewed, was of no value ;
because he had repeatedly tried to sell it without suc-
cess, although only £6O had been asked for it. The
house was alterwards let for a smaller rent than he
(the prisoner) paid. The Judge not thinking that
any fraud was annexed to this transaction, discharged
the prisoner. •
R., Chapman was opposed for withholding in the
schedule of his effects delivered to his creditors, two
houses which were stated to be his property, Nos. 20
and 21, Peacock-lane, Newington Butts. The pri-
soner was sworn, and declared he had no interest
whatever in the houses in Newington, they were his
wife's, who had them in her own right from an aunt
named Spenser. On his cross-examination, he ac-
knowledged that he had read the will, by which his *ife
possessed this property ; it was also found that his
marriage took place just at the time this will was
made. The prisoner's discharge was refused in con-
seqiience of his concealment of the above property. • •
John Tell was opposed for a concealment of a part•
of his effects. A bill of exchange had been given*,
by the prisoner to a spirit-merchant of the name of
Holt, in payment for wine, oho had passed it to
another party, at whose suit the prisoner was in cus-
tody. Through the informality of the opposing
parry being Mr. Holt, who had first received the bill,
and not the party who.had arrested the prisoner, and'
whose snit was never withdrawn, the Judge ordered'
the prisoner to be discharged from this oppositionr!
bait still to be held over for a hearing, on the objec-
tions of other creditors.
John hunt, a publican in Smithfield, was opposed
by a Mr. Metts, a spirit-dealer, from whom he had
obtained, ut ready money pricis' a quantity of spirits,
and had them delivered on the day of an execution
having been put into his house from the Golden-lane
Bretvery, without apprising Mr. Melts of his being
involved in any embarrassments.
Mr. Hurst, on being sworn, denied that he was at
all apprised of this execution ; he had not theleast
idea of it, believing himself to be in good credit
with the brewery, to the proprietors of whieh he had
but a few days before paid a sum of money ; neither
was he at his house when the spirits of Mr. Meths
were delivered. As there did not exist any proof of
Mr. Hurst's expecting this seizure of his property
for the debt stated, when he made his bargain with
Mr. hints, he was discharged from custody.
Ain Gorski:discharge was opposed, for his having
gone by different names and appellations throughout
the kingdom ; the fact was acknowledged, but ac-
companied with a denial of a fraudulent intention ;
the oisztion was held good, and the prisoner re-
manded to the King's Bench Prison.
°LOWEST= ASSIZES, AUGUST S.
HastketA. aged 2S, was indicted for the,
wilful murder of Geo. Smith, aged two years and
Sire =paths, on the 2d of June last.
Mrs. Lord,, pauper, of Yuley—l live in the work-
house : the prisoner so lived there; she bad lived
there three weeks t she was calletl the little woman :
she was exceedingly deformed in body, and appeared
not to understand what was going forward. The de-
' ceased also lived there on the 2d ut June. I went to
a passage where there is a window—it is nine or ten
yards from Betty Smith's room. I went down stairs,
and !mind the deceased in the arms of Mary Hand-
cock ; the child was in a dying state; its skull was
fractured; I threw my apron over it and wrapped it
op ; I found the prisoner sitting on the bed in• Betty
Smith's room; 1 asked the prisoner at the .bar why
she threw the child out of.window ? she said she did
it, but the child would not hut t ; it lived an hour and
a half; the window is three feet two inches from the
floor of the room.
Mary Handeock, also a pauper in the workhouse.—
The window is three or four feet from the floor ; I j
saw tie child before it came to the ground : it fell on
stones ; I heard its skull crush on the stones; there
did not seem any life in it for several minutes; 1 went
to fetch the surgeon from Dursley ; I afterwards took
broth to the prisoner, I asked her hos; she came to.
do it ; she said she did it, and should not be hurt for
it ; her manner was not uncommon ; she was not
person of good understanding, but inoffensive, shi
seemed to have no understanding at all, she was al.l
ways melancholy.
Mr.. Cave, Master' of the Workhouse.—The pii,
soner had been in the workhouse three weeks, upon
iihe death of her mother ; she appeared to be of week ,
intellect, and I treated her as such, and was very
hteareful of her ; I never suffered her to be out of sight
11• of some person, as I had heard she had attempted
.ber life ; I never heard of her 'disposition to do vio-
lence to ethers; she took but very trifling noticoot
the event, and was no more moved than a stock:
The window has been examined by a mason, and it
being three or lour feet from the floor on the inside,
it is impossible the child could have climbed out; it
is 20 feet to the ground outside.
Mr. Fry, surgeon, of Dursley--I examined the
child ; it died by injury of the brain.
On the part of the prisoner three or fear witnossei
proved that she was incapable of distinguishing right
from wrong, and had attempted to drown herself and
cut her throat.
The Jury therefore found her Not Guilty on the
ground of insanity. She was, therefore, committed
to custody for life under the statute.

Jam K.IIy, capitally convicted at the Cornwall
Assizes for ravishing Abigal Bele, has since been re-
prieved, and ordered to be transported for' life.
At the last Assize% at CastLeber, a man was tried
for, murder. After the Jury brOugbt in their verdict,
ray, the prisoner was observed to drink out of a
bottle be had during the trial concealed. The audi.
tors conceived it to be poison, but it turned out to be
good (Aidl When be drank it out he lung the
bottle at the head of the prosecutor—it broke—.and
after the 'Consternation which the circiimstance caused
in the Court had subsided, Connsellor RAne.satess a-
wned, it was the first time be ever beard of a nisi.
aal and a prosecutor *reeky a &auk forth,