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tO THE EDITOR (JP Tilt thiß:

Sitoßy inferring the following paragtaph in toff
ufeful Paper, as a caution to dilkonit peopli; yod
will particularly oblige; your huifible fereant; •

stanTink,
Lieut. and Adjutant tatlaXitht Dtagneate
Eaftboinnt Barracks, Dec 6, 18 7.

EOWARb 8714 and TF4014111 Hauser,
trallihg Butchers for the Army, in the Souls Dilititfts
have been convieed before a Bench cf Magid...Nei
in the town of Alit-Mt Nin this county, for defraud.
ing the Soldiers ilationed at Blatchington Barrack!:
in a confiderable quantity of Meat, a deficiency having
been dtfeovered of Deafly a quat ter of a ',mind weight
in the fcales, and neatly four runces in the two
pound weight, as well as a deficiency itt every other
weight. It having all.) been proved io Cotirt that
the defraud, to the above extent, had been carried
on from the time of the delivery of Meat to the
troops upnn the opening of the contraß, for nearly
four months, the Magistrates, confidering the enor-
mity of the crime, f,,und themfelves obliged to put
the penalty in full f Ice, after giving direilions fir
the weights and fcalcs to be deltroyed.

REV. ROWLAND HILL ON VACCINE INO4

CU LATION.

Missal Patrersas—Since the utilitY and fectuirf
of the Cnw Pock Inv ciliation has, by the etprefs comb
mand of the Sovereign, now received the fullefl con.
firmation imaginable, from the united teliimonies
every medical and fingical fociety b!longing to the
United Kingdom ; and lince the Legit!alive Body
have voted fuch an ample reward to the refpetiahld
Phyfician who had the happinefs to introduce the
dircovery, it were a mere Waite of time to produce
another argument in its dcfer.ce. Let all its refit
oppofers bligh with thame for what they have Paid,
figs their recantation, and go and fin no more.
On an early day after this molt beneficial difcovery,
from mere prirciples of humanity, I gave it the
turnoff countenance and publicity in my power,,—
Brillol partook if a (hare of thele my attempts, and
on fme former vifits to this city, ayplied the pro.
idling lancet with the Cow pock virus to many hun•
dick ; while, at the fame time, I did all in my power
to advife the poor to accept the homane offer from
the Difpenfary of gratuitous vaccination to all who
chufe to apply.

One would have foppoied, that filch a liberal pro-
pnial would have immediately banifhed the Small
Pox from the City ; but on this my Tall vifit, I dif.
covered jun the reverie. From having rriPtiy frefh
applications, but no vaccine virus, that proved effiea•
cious, I applied in the gentlemen of that excellent
Inllitution for their affiflance, which was very readily
granted ; and I was fur 'nixed to find, that they had
but one patient under the vaccine inoculation ; and
that at times, they found it a difficulty to keep it in
exittence from week to week, and that nothing was
found to quicken their applicwions, till after come
viaims by the savages of the Small Pox compelled
them to leek for that proteCtion they had fo luau-
tinufly neglsfled before.

Having thus availed myfelf of the all iance of the
Difpenfary, I was immediately determined to make
another attack • n the Hill exitling prejudices of the
people ; and after tome pointed and firm-4 recom-
mendations r,n the falmary effeels of ♦accination, I
was happy to find that no lets than 720 fubjefts were
added to my former lilt.

Now it appears from hence, that peculiar exertions
may Qin be attended with peculiar effeas, and it is
well worthy the confideration of the public, how the
lives of the common people. (in whom alone the
ilreng.h of our nation confiit•) may be preferved
faoni Ealing a facrifice to this ;heir fatal neglect.
While vaccination has been In decidedly lane-
tioried both by Royal and Legiflative Authority,
fhould not all orders and degrees of fociety exert
themfelv:s to promote its general propagation ?
Might it not be attended with very efficacious con.
fequence., if all the Bithops were to recommend it
to all their Clergy to be its advocates from the pul-
pit, and its promoters in every parifh ? Would not
Push exertions as thefe infpire the like loidable zeal
among Diftenters of every denomination ? After this,
at what a t►itiing expence might not the Churchwar-
dens and nverteers appoint gratuitous inoculator. in
every patilh ? and are not all enagiftrates and bodies
corporate bound in duty to ant in Inch efforts by
their au.hotily,and to put in force thole lawsalready
exiaing (if not too inefficacious and obfidete) againft
fuch mercenary and defigning men, who have now
no more creole for planting in any parifh the coma-
gious difeafe of the Small Pox, than others have to
propagate the Yellow Fever or the Plague and if
Magittrates Humid find the prefent exifting laws too
weak for their purpofe, tan a doubt be admitted that
theLegiflative Body, from their views of vaccination,
under proper information, would lend their aid? Alas,
that our own country, the firft in the difcovery of
this merciful proteCtion. fhould be the laN in exerting
itfelf, as other nation• have done, fo as to render it as
widely extended as it is beneficial and fafe I
In no place is the Smallpox more fatal than in the
confined and narrow courts and avenues of the city
of l% iltol ; and I am it formed, that difeafe is at this
time again beginning to make its ravages among its
inhabitants. What a noble opportunity is now before
them to make filch efforts, as might fet an example
to all the kingdom; by immortalizing their chataller,
already famed f.r their benevolent inititutions, by
the promo ion of the difcovery of the immortal Jen-
ner, whereby millions throughout the Univerfe have
been fnktched from an untimely grave.
I am, Sir, your's, &c. ROWLAND HILL.
Brylol, Ott. 26, 1807.

City Lottery, to be drawn in Guildhall rn Apra
26, itioB, containing capital prizcs amounting to
(04,m0/. The Grand Prize, 25,c00/, one of 7,000/.
lour of 6,000/. fevsn r,f 4,0ce1. Liz of 3,0ci0/. and 2,ocisi.
'he ',melt prize. Tickets only 7/. Iv halves 4,4
qu liters 21. tr. eigh hs 11. tr. fizteeenths tor 64 a'e
feding at HORNSBY and Co's, 26, Combat, 52,
Charing Cras, and St. Margaret's Hill, Borough,
where No. 2,279, a prize of to °cot, and No.
10,873, I,ooc/., were fluted and fold in the lam
iiipplementary lot!ery.

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AtIDDLZSEXAUSSIONS.

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Satnrday the trial of Robert Brown and lFillianr
Roberts, who were indided for obtaining good. tXom
different tradefanen under fraudulent pretences, was'
pert off until thenext Seffions, upon their making an
affidavit, Hating the abfence of fome material wit-
neffes. The Court having agreed, in the ulnal fntm,l
to ahis propolitinn, its attention was afterward* tie
Copied in dilcufling the merits of the bail, which the
defendant Roberts offered, in order that he might be I
Coffered ter be at large till the enfuing Sefli ms.
The Court not being fatisfied with the fufficiency !
a the baibuen, who were not worth the amount of I
the bail, took the defendant Roberts was remanded!
to the New Prifon, while his accomplice was fent
back to ibe Fleet Prifon.
frirrairs Mager, a parifh conflable, was inditled for
-4wantiinl7 allaulthrfn two perfons who happened to
interkre with his* the abufe of his office as a con-
*able, by inhumanly treating a poor old man,
whom he took into euflody, on a fell wrought up
charge of vagrancy, becaufe the poor creature
happened to have in his hand two herrings, given
to him for charity. It appeared that he had knocked
the old man down, and was dragging him through
the kennel, when the profecutors obfet ving his inhu-
manity, called to him to defift.
This furnifhed him with a pretext for attacking'
them, which he did with more than brutal ferocity,
lodging them both in the watch honk, where they
were denied all aecefi to their friends, and one of
them, a woman, was kept in the dungeon of the
place a cnnfiderable length of time.
The fads were all proved, and the defendant being
foetid guilty, was fentenced by the Court to three
months imprifonment in the Houle of Corredion,
Cold Bath Fields.
Alexander Cociturn, a fadler, in Gray's Inn Lane.
Yaws Longman, and Thomas Collins (his apprentices)
were indided for violently affeulting Elizabeth
Whitaker on the 16th June.
Mr. Porter Rated the cafe for the profecu'ion.
Mrs. Elizabeth Whitaker tinted, that the occn
pied the firli floor in the Defendant's houfe. That
when the fir ft went thither, he tended in the houfe.
but., about the middle of April quitted it, and re-
futed wholly at the Red Lion public bottle, which
he had lately taken. The two young men, Long-
man and Collins, flept in the houfe in which the
lodged, and were in the cuflom of coming home
at very unfeafonable hours. On the !nth June, they
knocked et the ch or abont twelve o'clock, and, up-
on her remonfirating with them for ditturbing her
and the other inmates, they abufed her grofsly. he
then retired to undrefe for bed, when, in a few mi
mutes, the Deferdant, Cockburn, burft into the room,
and ufrng the moll horrid and blalphernnus language
(which the witnefs tepeared) (truck her violently or
the break and other parts cf the body, and laid the
fhould go to the watch houfe, as i.e wanted to ge:
rid of her. At this time, the was undrelled to her
demfli, having nothing in addition or. but her flannel
petticoat. A watchman was then called in, who
whifpered to pockbutn, and the latter replied, 4, Oh,
d—n her eyes, I'll loon do that." The watchman
then went down Hairs, and Cockburn called out,
" Jem and Tom come and help me to take her to
the watch bottle." Cr.ekburn, and the eldell ap
prentice, Longman, then took her by the neck and
'boulders, and dragged her down (lairs ;—and the
other apprentice, Lolling, kicked her feet, and flop
ped her mouth with hit band. When they got t..
the door four watchmen were in waiting ; to them
The was given in charge, and carried to the watch-
houfe. She had, however, previous to being dragged
out of the room, contrived to flip on a bed gown
She offered bail to the watch houfe keeper, but was
rtfufed ; the was then locked up in the dark roam till
twelve o'clock the next day, when the was taken to
Hatton Garden public office, where Cockburn pre
(erred a complaint againft her for heating his ap
prentice. The youngefl apprentice, Collins. flept in
her bed room all the night, and in that bed room,
flteping in the bed, was her daughter, a child of ten
ye trs
Cockburn, who appeared to he a min above the
common (lamp, was co f txsmined, and imputed
to the witnefs various it regulat irks ; but the Court
interpofcd and informed him, that he wa. not to
traduce and vilify the rrufecutrix. The language
he had ufed was extremely improper. He then afked
her, u lietlret the was tuber on that night ?—A. Per
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John Stone, the watchman fink called up by one
of Crckbton's apprentices, proved that he was re•
qttened to take her in charge, but declined ; as fhe
was in her own apartment. *Cockburn was holding
her down in a chair, and (he nruggled to get away.
Some more watchmen came round the door ; and
when fhe was brought out and given in charger they
carried her to the watch honk.

When caned upon for his defence, Cnckburn ad-
ibctred the Conic and Jury, and told them that
lie had given his apprentices permillion to go to
the play that evening ; that on their return, they
fiipped at his hnofe, and then retired home to refl.
In a few minutes Longman retnrned, and informed
him, that Mu. Whitalrer would not let them in, and
had thrown Tom (meaning Collins) over the wall.
On at riving at the houfe, he found the boy fo fright-
ened at her outrageous cone uB, that he had clambered ,
over the wall into a neighbour's yard, to avoid the 1,
fray of the woman. That fhe was in the habit nil
getting-into furions pailions, and of ill treating her
Enfband, who requelied him to give her warning ;
and that her ill treatment had c Impelled the hufhand
to fleep from home half the week. That he gave
her in charge to the watchmen ; and when they got
to the watch houfe, finding her fo much intoxicated,
he afked Spiv., the keeper of the watch honk,
what he fholik. do with her ? Spriggs advifed him
to let her remain at the watch houfe, and promifed
to take care of her, and that (he timid want f
nothiug ; that he then left her in his care, and was
iu doubt what to do with the child, whether to take
her hope t his wife, or to let her remain ; but at
length thought it bell; not to dillurb her, and defired
To e,ons to lay down on the carpet on the fide
of the bed to take cart of her, that-no harm fhonld
happen to her in the night 'l That he had requenert
her to q,uit his premifess and the had repeatedly pro-
=Kest to do it, but had riot performed her promife.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7.
SADLER'S WELLS. _

Mr. Matawaatac." Suppofing this Roil to be improper modal, have beep degriied of their lives!l
correttly true, you muft know, as a man of fenfe, Wives of their hulbands,_fathers of their children,
and of the world, that you had no right to take her and children of Lair parasol And gib le families
out of thelnufe ; it washer cattle, and the had as brought to utter ruin by your oatrageous conduft.
snitch right to be there as you." The fentenee therefore of the Court upon you, John
Cockburn—As You will find, Sir, that what 1 have Pearce, is, that you be imprifosted for the tpace of
flitted is not all—there is a great deal more, which fir months; and that you Vincent Pearce be irnpti-
my witneffes will prove." rotted for the (pace of four months ; and that you,
Mr. Matawaztuo-..." I would advice you to be Elizabeth Laker, be imprifoned only for the :pact
careful of *hat you attempt to prove, as you may of t 4 days.
aggravate the cafe."
Benjamin Sprigos, the watch•houfe keeper, was
then called on behalf t.f the Defendant. lie raid
I;hat when the was brought to the watch houfe,
which is fituated in Eagle Street, Red Lion Square,
Cockburn gave in a charge againft her, " for mak-
ing a riot and ditlurbanee, and beating his appren•
tices." The witnefs obferved, the was mdch in liquor,
I and behaved very turbulent ; that Cockburn of
him what he timid do with her, and he advifed to
let her remain there for the night.
Mr. MA I NWARI/10."Did you not know that this
woman was a refpeBahle perfnn, and lodged in his
hook P'—A. " YeP, Sir, I undertlood fo."
! Mr. M•IN WAR IN What did you then do with
I her ?"

PIASTIRS AND 3.IIANANTA.
John Mack was indieed for a fraud. in having ob-
tained from his wafters, Medi:. Hittlditch, coach•
makers in Lot Atre, the turn of ss. 63. Maud of
26 Bd. under hare pretences.
Thotiiis Butterfield, the Mager of the Half Moon
public boufe at Holloway, proved the payment of
the is. gd. by the prifoner, for corn and bay • and
that he had only one peck of oats and hay during
the time of the flandlog of the horfes, nearly three
hours.
Mils Butterfield, a young girl, proved that her fa-
ther told her to make nut the bill for is. Bd. but that
in the abfence of bp father, the prifoner came and
defined her to make it for 3s. 6d.: that i<;—" 41.
for corn. ts. for hay, and 61 for the bottler."
The Jury then found him guilty t and the Court
fentenced him to be avbi:iped front the one end of Lone
Acre to tie other.
Itlizaheth Hollet was found guilty of two different
afftults upon her iniareP, an infirm old lady, by
throwing her down and breaking her arms and in a
month after, knocking her down.—The Court (co-
mm.: her to two months imprifonnsent.

Spriggs.—" I locked her up in the room for the
fafe cuticdy of perfons."
Mr. Met ?twee sec —0 What fort of a room is it r
Sprggs.—" It is a room where thieves and va-
grants, and all forts of pet lons charged, are I }eked
up.”
Mr. MAINWARING.••••44 So then you made no dif
tinaion. You locked this woman up in a room which
you confefs was appropriated for confining the very
worft of fociety ?"
Spriggs.—" Yes, Sir—l could not help it. There
is no other appartsnent. The parilh have not pro-
vided any other."
M►. MAINWARtwG.—" Did it not occur to you,
that this woman had as mnch right to be in the
houfe of Cockburn as he had himfelf ? Did you not
know it was her houfe as well as his ?"
Sptiggs He told-me, Sir, that this happened
out of her apartments. She was in great alarm and
agitation."
Mr. MAINWARIXG.-..." Well Ise might be, after
fuch ufage."
Spriggs.—'t But it appeared to be through liquor."
A woman namen Kentplter, a lodger in the bottle,
was called. She let the apprentice.. in ; went up to
her own room and heard a noife, but cools' not fpeak
to any thing further.
Mr. MAINWARING —" This is a fingular fort of
ejeament. The portent:ix might, luppofing the
tt'ry of Cockburn to be true, be a troublefome fort
of woman, but that is no escufe for the part he has
taken. You find the boys coming in at unreaforah!e
hours, and fhe ryas angry at being ditturbed in the
night, perhaps foolifhly angry ; but for Cockburn to
go to the honk and treat her in the manner he did,
was In to.jullifi4ble that he mull be found guilty.—
It was her dwelling, her float:, her castle indeed, as
much as hi', and it is not to be endured that he
Ihould torn her neck and heels out of doors, becaufe
the might be tronblefome :—I am lorry a man of
fence lhould fo far forget himfelf. Suppofing her
htifband and (he had difputes, that was no juttifiea.
ton fur him to aft as he has done, nor to dived his
apprentices fo to aft ; to be fore they would of
courfe obey hint. Confider your Verdict, Gentlemen."
The Jury in a few minutes found Cockburn
Guilty and Acquitted the apprentices, under the
idea that they acted from their mallet's orders.
The Cum t, after force deliberation fined him Ten
Pounds.
He declared he was not able to pay it, and re-
quelled a remilLon of it. The Court, however, ob-
'creed, that they had been ton lenient under all the
circumllances of the cafe, and therefore would not
remit the h cnalty.

John Fearer, Vincent Pearce, and klizoleth Loire,
welt brought tip to receive judgment, being convie
ted of exciting a tiot and difturbance at Sadler's
Wells Theatre.

Mr. MAINWARINO. the Chairman, in pronourcing
lenience, addretTcd them in a very impreffive and
f lemn manner, to the following effea :
" John Pearce, Vincent Pearce, and Elizabeth
Luker, you have been leverally conviaed on an in-
diatnent which charged you with being rintoully
and tuntultuotifly alfembled for the purpofe of dif
tut bing the King's peace. and of having refi'led the
legal authority to fupprefs your dangerous condites
in a Theatre legally authorized, called Sadler',
Wells. It has appeared that you obtained
admif-
lion into that Theatre. and it has alto appeare I from
the evidence that you repeatedly interrupted the per-
fru mance, grofsly infulted the audience, and obit; Ire-
ted the officers duly authorized in the performance
and execution of their duty, when interpofing to pre
vent your riots. It is neceflary to preferve the public
peace, that propriety of demeanour fhould be abler-
ved, from the highefl to the lowa, in perfons of
fembled at places of public entitlement. The mil
chievous and fatal effeas which have enfued, from
want of a due obfetvance of the principles of deco-
rum, are too numerous to make it neceffar y for me
to recount ; and it is to be lamented that hardly a
week paffes but thofe diflurbances do strife in Come
or other of the Theatres. But the calamities and
dreadful events which happened in cnnfcquence of
your outrageous condua are dilireffmg in the extreme.
Not lefs than 03 lives were loft—whole fsrnilies were
plunged in irremediable ruin,by the loft of the pro-
talion of thole who were their natural proteaors and
guardians ! When informed of the mifchief which
you had occafionecl, inflead of exhibiting horror and
difinay, and profelling fymptoms of furrow and cow.
runainn, you molt unfeelingly replied," Well, we
don't care—we can't be hanged for it!"—But Curdy,
if you are not worfe than brutes or favages, or Orange
to the feelings which in general govern human na-
ture, you will hereafter feel compunaions of rcmorfe
for the mifery you have entailed upon the relatives
of the deceafed. The lenience which the Court is
about to pronounce is flight, in comparifon of your
crimes, and affords no atonement for your offence :
but it is to be hoped that the punifhment will have
the area of calling you to a proper repentance and
unntrition, and induce you to condo& youifelves for
the future at all times, and in all places, with de-
teney- Eighteen of your fellow creatures, by ypor