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London, England, 1813-03-11 00:00:00

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ADMIRALTY CpURT, DocrblufmoOmpits.
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The Court sievt jndgment in these cases of Arse-.
ships, winch put into Hance Bay, to olsisin
British convoy to Gottinbnigli, wbere they vrcrp de-
tained' bi British cruizefs, and hrought. to .Lostan.
A' darn of territorial .rightlad'beets setli) by we.
den s. the Court was, however, of opinioisithat Sweden
was not to be considered at that tisoisol-fritndly to
Great Britain as to entitle.her to this claim. It was
also of opinion, that Hanoi Bay, at the.tirne, was to
be considered as a British Roadsted, it being Ikea-
pied by a British force • and therefore condemned the
property, and reserved the question as to the private
adventure.
ESSEX ASSIZES, MARCH 9. •
LARCHER, QVI TAM, V. FIELD AND OTHERS.
This a'as an action to recover five penalties of £5O
each on the Act of the 18th Oeo. 111. regulating the
wages of the Silk Manufactory of London and Mid-
dlesex. By a clause in that Act, it is enacted, that
if any Master should engage any journeyman at a
less rate of wages than settled by the Sessions, to be
employed out of the County of Middlesex or City of
London, uith a view taelude the Act, for every such
offence he shall forfeit s5O. The defendants were
silk manufacturers, whose residence was in London,
and they opened a factory at Halsted in this county,
46 miles distant from London, for which they had
hired men in London at a less rate of wages than was
settled by the London book of prices, and five in-
sces were distinctly proved.—The Jury found for
the plaintiff in twb penalties, namely for £lOO.

On the Crown Side, John Murrel was convicted of
stealing the pocket-book of John Roberts, containing
£BOO in bank-notes, at Ingatestone. The prosecutor
was a drover and cattle-salesman, and on the night of
the robbery he slept at Ingatestane, in the same room
with the prisoner. They had been drinking together,
and after the prosecutor was asleep, the prisoner stole
the pocket-book from his pocket. He was convicted
on the testimony of an accomplice, and was sentenced
to be transported for life.

EXECUTION.—Monday the awful sentence of the
law was carried into execution at Dover, on the per-
son of William Turmain, convicted on' the 17th nit. of
a burglary at Margate, the gallows being erected near
the first turnpike at the end of the town, on the same
spot where the last execution took place, about 28
years- since. He met his fate with a consiJerable de-
gree (i fortitude, but by no means bordering on in-
ditft rerice. Ile died in the 56th year of his age. An
immense concourse of spectators were assembled to
witness this melancholy ca.astroplie.

Wednesday se'nnight a fine child fell over the rocks
at Cleghorn Lin, Mousewater, and was killed._

Tuesday se'nnigbt, as a carter was c.irrying• a bag
of grain on his back, along a plank, from the side of
a vessel to the beach at the Br3omielaw, Glasgnw,
he fell over and was drowned. .He has le.f a wife
and child to I:►ment his loss.

Wednesday se'nnigbt the sou of Mr. Shepherd,
mason, near Weacomb Church,. Somersetshire, took
up a gun, and, not knowing it was loaded, shot his
sister in the head ; who expired the following day.—
The lad is about ten yea's old, and the girl was 13.
Sunday morning a fire broke out in the brass-foun-
dry belonging to Mr. ARMSTRONG, in Fox's-lane,
Shad well, which communicated to the stables of Mr.
MaLiasit, and entirely burnt to the ground the whole
range of those extensive premises. •
A fire broke out at an early hour on Tuesday
morning, in the baek-parlour of a house in Villiers-
street, Strand ; but was soon got under, without
having done any considerable damage. A woman,
who lived wain a few doors, and had been for some
time in bad health, died of fright, on being suddenly
alarmed with the cry of fire.
A few days since the wife of a butcher, in Crown-
court, Warwick-lane, left a child about three years
• old in her room, white she• went into another apart-
ment to prepare her husband's dinner, and on her re-
turn, in the course of a few minutes, she found the in-
fant enveloped in flames ; a spark having, it is sup-
posed, flown from the fire and communicated to its
garments ; and though surgical aid was immediately
procured, it expired the same evening.
Yesterday, a boy, about ten years old, the son of A
widow, residing in Creed-lane, who supports a nu-
merous family by taking in washing, was passing
along Shoemaker-row, Blackfriars, with a bundle,
containing linen to the value of between 3 and 44, a
fellow offered him a .penny to deliver a message up
two pair of stairs, at a door which stood open in that
place; with this request the poor little fellow gladly
complied, leaving his bundle at the foot of the stairs,
but on his return, he found the villain had decamped
with it, and got clear off.

Boirma.—A boxing match, for 25 guineas and a
purse of 10, took place on Monday, on Hartfield
Common, Hants, between George Cranstcne, a de-
scendant of. Slack, and Roger Whitfield, a sort of
teacher of the science, who was backed by Captain
HANS. The latter gave a stone, but was still the
favourite. Whitfield shewed off about the head of
his antagonist in the first round, by hitting and break-
ing with great skill, and he at length knocked him
dawn, after four minutes fighting. This superiority
was maintained by Whitfield's science about half an
hour, but he at length fell off from fat;gue. Cran-
stone now bored in, and used both hands with great
effect* and after fifty minutes hard fighting, victory
was declared in his favour, by his planting a blow on
the side of Whitfield's head, which stunned him for
several minutes.

It has, been often said, but very seldom credited,
the the Round Tower at the west end of the church
of 13rechin, has been observed to vibrate in high,
winds. In order to ascertain the truth of this, many
of the respectable inhabitants resorted to the church-
yard, during the high wind on Saturday se•nnight,
when, with astonishroem, they beheld this wonderful
pile moving from the adjoining wall. So much did
it shake at one time, that one of the spectators had
his hand very much bruised when trying to slip it in
betwixt the tower and the wall ; and different sub-
stances thrust in were instantly crushed to pieces.—
Moving thus far from the wall at the height of six
feet, the bend must have been very great at 105
feet, which is the height of this wagging wonder /