Star.
London, England, 1825-08-25 00:00:00

MI GENTLE MARY.

The sailor in the steel confides
That points his course ; but that will vary—
The home, where all my hope abides,
Is in thy breast, my gentle Mary !
To each dark point the compass knows,
Its anions eyes are turning ever.
Till chance at length the landmark chews;
Hut mine can be uncertain never !
Thou art the star that guide.; me still,

The campass that will never •ary !
The beacon on the midnight hill,
To light my course my gentle Mary !

LXLCUTION.

The execution of John Mann, for highway robbery,
was appointed to take place on W. doesday se'nnight,
at 12, at Bury. Ausut two o'clock of the morning
of t'iat day, the following order was delivered to the
g.toler. by a messenger who had left London on the
preceding afternoon:—

" Whitehall, 15th August, 1825.
1111 to acquaint you that the accompanying respite has
I,oen grdlited to John 31.. nu, only with a view to give time for Mr.
Stem try Peer% consideration of his case, and that the prisoner must
t ut be led to expect a further suspension of the law.
" I am, Sir, your must obedient humble servant,
0 11. lIOBHOUSE.
" To the Keeper of the Gaol, Bury St. Edmund's."
This respite, it appears, wai granted in consequence
of a petition having been transmitted from Hadleigh
to the Home Secretary, after the announcement of the
unsuccessful issue of the application to the Lord Chief
Justice, by the Rev. j. G. Smith.
In conformity with the little hope held out by the
above letter, Mr. Orridge, the gaoler, anxiously im-
pressed upon the prisoner's mind that there was scarcely
a possibility of Mr. Peel advising his Majesty to grant
a pardon, when made acquainted with the merits of the
case. The unfortunate man's hopes were, in conse-
quence, by no means sanguine, and his attention to his
religious duties continued as strict as before. On the
morning of Friday, however, he watched anxiously,
from the sv indow of his cell to discover if the coffin,
according to custom, was that morning carried into
the chapel. He saw that it was, and the faint ember
of hope died within him.
The following are the particulars of the confession
which Mann. some days previous to his execution, made
of the robbery of which he was convicted, and which he
attested before J. Benjafield, Esq. a Magistrate of the
county. It was in consequence of a discrepancy be-
tween this cot fession and the evidence of the prosecu-
tor on. the trial, that the petition to the Home Secretary
was grounded. Granting, however, that the state-
ment given by the deceased be correct, it will be seen
that it does ma in the slightest degree lessen the crimi-
nality of the act for which he suffered death:—" On
the 9th of March last, he, with T. Grimsey and others,
were drinking with the prosecutor, J. Raynham, at the
King's Head, in fladleigh, from about five o'clock till
the time of the robbery ; he tossed with Raynharn for
beer, and observed that he had foil some money, and
then said to Grinisey, • Old Raynham has got some
money, and 171 hare it.' When Raynham left the house
he followed him, and on going out, Grimsey said to
him. • Tell my Lurcher (meaning Sarah Barnes) to get
uld•Ra)nliarn's money. Sarah Barnes was standing out-
side of the King's Head, and he told her that Raynham
bad got some money, and Tom Grimsey bad sent him
to tell her to get it. It was then agreed that Sal Barnes
should follow Raynhant, and try to get his money, and
that he should be near, in case she met with any resist-
ance. Raynham and Sal Barnes walked together till
they came near to Topsail-bridge, then went into a
stack-yard belonging to Holibeck's Park. After being
there a few minutes, Barnes called out,' You old rogue,
you hurt me so, ra call my husband.' He went up to
them, lend called 'Halloo, what are you doing to my
wile ?"I' hey were struggling on the ground : he then
struck Raynham with his fist, and Sal Barnes knocked
him (the prosecutor) about the head with her patters;
both Sal and himself put their hands into Rsynham's
r octet, arid he took out the purse from the pocket, and
Sal.and him returned into the street, and met Thomas
Grimsey,.and he called out, Come along, Tom, oft
have got old Raynham's money.' They all went up
the street, and pasted the money by a light from thel
window of the Cock public.house. There was only
one red note, eight half-crowns, Ss. 6d. and some odd
halt p.:nce. They shared 14s. 6d. each, and Tom Grim-
sey put some stones into the purse and sunk it in a pulk
or water near the Cock, after which they went to the
Lion tap, where they remained for some time drink-
ing" Mann also confessed having been engaged in
upwards of forty other robberies.

Sr. Gtonoa's HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday, a Board of
Governors was held at the above Hospital, to transact
ti:ebrdinary business of the establishment, but more
particularly to investigate the conduct of the nurse
Arm.tiong, brlonging to the Hospital, towards a pa-
tient, named Daniel Taylor, who died from an injury in
his hand, by being thrown from his horse, and upon
whom the Coroner's Inquest sat, on Saturday evening,
at II e Turf Tap, in Grosvenor-place. After hearing
a few depositions it was determined that two Gentle-
men should be appointed to communicate with the
rimer, as it was the uh:inion of the B and that the ver-
dict returned %li not in accordance with the testimony
t!.•at was produced before the Jury. The Inquiry was
then adjourned till a future day.
On the Ilth of July, at ten at night, a fire broke
out in the Palace of the Pacha of Salonichi, and, in

a vet)? short time all the apartments, the harem, the
stables, and the immense buildings, containing the re-
sidences of the Kiaja Bey, and of above 20u0 persons
• attached to the Royal Household, were destroyed.—
About I;() other houses shared the same fate, and the
ruin, covered a apace of above a quarter of a league in
extent. The eristnes and firemen of the Consulate,
alter trying in rain to save the Palace of the J'acba,
turned their attention to that of the Aga of the Janis-
saries, s hich they pees-reed (tom destruction.—The
finks accuse the Albanians in the suite of Omer
N'tione, and the Albanians accuse the Jani.sities.—
Ilie Paella was on horseback all the time of the fire.
Wednesday, as one of the steam packets was on her
passage front C.tlais to Dover, a Gentleman was exhi-
bit ng to many persons 011_ boiled a curious and rare
snutf box, ss hich he stared had been presented to bim
by the late Napoleon Bonaparte, drains his residence
is L•ba, when a sudden gust of wind caused the pas-
seialiet s to take hold oh ropes or something else that was
btauotainT, in the bustle this valuable little baublt
was jillteck two the CX,C•til• •

,THE ..DOG X.PEDIENTS.

FROM L'HISTOMINIMISPCHIENS CILLEBRIS.
• One of the rocatataintera fillWansisneowitoseitrade
it is to-exhibit litre monidesasid diticiatbears, bad also
trained half a dozen dogs to dittietit 'nerd:es. One
mounted plard with a gun and little sabre; another
made perilous leaps ; a third jumped 'like a frog ; a
tough clad in a black robe and placed in a chair,
maintained a thesis, by howling incessantly at the
ott!ers, and they replied in return, by barking at hint. in
short, this little corps of four•fuoted comedians formed
the revenue of their master with two ; for mankind, pay,
better for what amuses them, than for lessons of wits:
door and prudence. Through a jealousy, too common.
among people of the same trade, another dealer in
bears poisoned five of the dramatis persona of his rival..
who, afflicted at so serious a loss (for five dancers can-
not be made in a day), fell sick and took to his bed.
Having no means, and being in extreme want, the poor
devil had recourse to the following expedient :—He
trained his remaining spaniel to carry a billet, on which
were written the following verses :
• For my sick master in his bed,
Mourning o'er his actors dead,
MI whose drollery bath fled,
Kind "waters, give me bread ! •
The animal, which was very sagacious, had learnt his
part in less than a week, when his owner said, " Go,
&ludo's, and save the life of your master." Stipojou
was a little marmozer, that mounted the dog's back
and laboured with him in his mimic exhibitions. The
dog accordingly received the monkey on his back,
dressed in a rose-coloured gown and a blue turban;
then, guided by the little sou of the mountaineer, be
went to the place Belle Cour, and crowds ran to see the
snort. On this, the monkey alighted, and, seizing a
stick, drove them to a certain distance, where they
formed a circle. The ground being clear, the dog per.
formed, by way of prelude, several of his customary
tricks ; he then danced a minuet will the monkey ; he
leapt for the King, the Queen, and the Count d'Artois;,
and, at the conclusion of his tricks, he took a hat be-
tween his paws and made a collection, as he solieted
respectfully the delighted spectators. The farthings,
pence, and even pieces of silver, fell in such abundance,
that the sick master got mosey enough to cure him, and
in a little time set up another corps of comedians.

In several of the Southern Provinces of the Nether-
lands subscriptions have been opened in favour of
the Greeks.

A writer in the Qmarterly Journal of Science rug.
gents a plan for constructing sea ponds, for the pin--
pose of preserving and breeding a sufficient stock of
various species of fish for the public markets. It has
been found that sea-fish will live and thrive in, and also'
breed, in ponds of enclosed waters ; and with regard
to many, it also appear:, that it is indifferent whether
the water be salt or fre.h, or brackish, or alternately
fresh and salt. This plan would bring the fish within
our own power, to be taken alive when wanted, and,
from being better fed, in greater proportion and more
uniformly good. There are three or four sea ponds in
i Scotland, where the fish are thus kept : one n Orkney,
' one in the Frith of Forth, and one in Galloway. This
has recently been put to the test in Guernsey, by Mr.
Arnold ; in a pond of about four acres only, many spe-
cies of fish are now thriving; all those which have had
sufficient time have propagated; and all have improved
in quality, and many in a remarkable manner.
Sunday evening. on Milbank, Westminster, a man,
his wife, and the wife's sister, were taking a walk, and
the wife carrying her infant, which was a healthy and
fine child. After walking some time, the mother gave
the infant the breast ; and then the sister proffered to
carry the ails!. which was agreed on. The sister
having obtained the infant, her care. as well as that of
the mother, was, despite of the terrifically hot and suf.
ilfocating weather, “ to see that the baby was wrapped
up warm, and particularly to pull a shawl or hand-
kerchief over its face, so that it might not catch cold."
On looking at the infant shortly afterwards, it was
found to be destitute of all animation, and that blood
had issued from the nostrils. The mother screamed in
the most frantic manner, and the father was indescrib-
ably affected, the infant being their first child; and as
the party was on Milbank, hundreds were soon col-
lected about them, and crowds followed them along
Milbank-street, Bowling-street, to a Doctor's. Medical
aid was tried, but the child was found to be dead.

Wedgebury, the proprietor of the dogs Turk, Cap-
tain, Billy, and Sweep, who fought with the lions, Nero
and Wallace, at Warwick, was at Oxford Races on
Wednesday last, and standing within a quarter of a
yard of the den in which Nero was confined. The
animal, on hearing Wedgebury's voice, made a dread.
fal plunge at him, and protruding one of his paws
through the iron rails, seized hold of the back part of
his. coat. Wedgebury, however, got away, but was
Compelled to have the assistance of a tailor to repair
his coat and waistcoat. The dog Turk is dead, bat his
skin is stuffed ; Captain, Billy, and Sweep are all alive
and well ; but they required a great deal, of nursing to
preserve their lives.
Saturday morning a band of shearers, amounting to
about thirty, had come from the island of Rum to the
Lothians. They were all of one family or tribe, and
were conducted to Elinburgh by a venerable old man,
the progenitor of most of them. He took his followers
to the house of a countryman, of the name of Mac-
donald, in Baxter's Close; they were hospitably re-
ceived, and permitted to repose on the floor of his
house, each wrapped in a plaid or blanket. The fatigues
of a long journey soon threw these simple people into
a profound sleep; but they were suddenly aroused by
the groans of their ancient leader. They found him in
the agonies of death! In a few minutes the old man
was no more. When the first paroxysm of sorrow had
subsided, the poor people deliberated as to his inter-
ment, when it was found out that they had only five
shillings among them ! A coffin, however, was sup-
plied by charity.
Tt,e New River Company furnishes annually to
its tenants about seventy-eight millions of. hogsheads
of water. This would give a daily supply of nearly two
hundred and fourteen thousand hogsheads of water,
which would be about eleven millions fire hundred
thousand gallons, or upwards of ninety-two millions of
pints of water daily, at the average charge of less than
ld. per 100 gallons cf water supplied in the houses of
the ten ruts.

Home, the author of Douglas, held port wine in ab-
hot rence—in his younger days claret was the only wine
dunk by Gentlemen in Scotland. lie wrote the follow

ing line, on the enforcement of the high duty on Frecch
wines in this country :
" Firm and erect the C.iledotlian stood,
Old was his mutton end his claret gnu,: ;
• lA* him drhsh pert; as English Staten:Lin cried
•
Ile drank the poison, and his spirit.died,"

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SOll- STREET.
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Fnu-MerknOil.'"A *Pecti • I"kidli 10•0411004 ans 'Arm"
.-froklo, Aired beibre .bitMtilitinA. Mg- 'Aria no=
a girl netted Mari Mirth& • 'Mart kasha, a pretty 111*
maidostattd, that Mr. 'Within Wag a lodger in the house of het
mistress, Mrs. Billings. The other 'day, whenthe Gentlentaaliail
his dinner, the bell from his' room was heard to slog violently, al
the praecutrix, in some alarm,*eut up Mari. The worthy lodger
was stalking about the wren to a stare Of fairy almost approaching
to &traction. Refire she hid date to hiquire tie eastseed his
having waxed thus wroth, he eomewweed.an attack of abuse which
was delivered with the most stenelOg volubility. Still the alio
was net disclosed. At length, Ithile'rtige ticked hts lettermen he
pointed to a fork, whith he held iltntly Impel in his left' heed.
When his anger had in 'some ()egret subsided, he at length said,
" Look at that fort—leok as It; tan anybody pretend to eat their
dinner with sech a thing?—Look at the dust—you have not wiped
it—it is quite intelerable.=Here his fury became ungovernable.
He seized the damsel by the neck, twisted it, struck her on the
head, and pushed her down stairs. These were the facts on which
the complaint was founded.
Mr. Mixstirti. now asked the unchlvalrous merit what be had
to say in his defence? He said he did not deny what he had done,
but the treatment he constantly received, put it beyond his power
to act with moderation. Not a sattAgpan, not a pet. not a kettle,
not a cheese-waster, net a knife, n a tinder-box could he use,
they were always so filthy. Ile had complained, but without
effect. He would put it to the Magistrate, if he wanted to use a
cheese-toaster, how be would like to have it brought to him dirty?
Be was not a god, and therefore could not bear it.
Mr. Menu:a told hint it was necessary he should display some.
thing a little snore approaching patience, and must therefore give
bail to answer at the Sessions for the assault.
Egrard nylor, the young man who was remanded on Saturday
last, for a theft committed in the Sablonniere Hotel, Leicester-fields,
was brought up this day for finther examination.
Pedro de Aysseimo, the Gentleman from Mexico, whose pro-
perty was stoicu, attended, and repeated his former testimony.
Mr. MlNbilriL, addressing him, observed that he understood he
had expressed his dissatief..cti%nt because his property had not been
returned to him without any-further trouble on his part. lie wished
to inform him that, by the laws of Eoglaed, which were framed
so as best to secure the punishment of offenders, the Magisirate was
not empowered to take any such course.
Several hotel-keepers attended upon this occasion., in order to see
if they could identify the prisoner, as concerned in the robberies
committed upon their premises. Handbills were -brought to the
office, which have been for some weeks past in circulation, detailing
particulars of robberies made under circumstances of a precisely si-
milar nature.
The difficulty which occurred in all these cases was that of iden-
tifying the prisoner, as the-thief bad, by entering late at night, and
departing early le the morning, afforded but little opportunity of
observing him. Theprisoner removed this difficulty himself.
The landlord of the Bath Hotel stated, that a young man had
taken a bed at his house on the night of the 27th July. He de-
parted ih the morning, and a ffiendeman missed out of his bed.
ream his gold watch and seals, 8 sovereigns, and a valuable shirt pin.
The porter was asked if be thought he could recollect the stranger
who slept there on the night In question ? Ile said he had seen him
but a short time. In the morning be got up at a quarter past five,
and came down stairs. In the passage be called out for the waiter,
and when the witness went to him asked the price of his bed?
Witness told him half-a-crown.
Prisoner—You said 3s. 6d. you know you did.
Witness—Then that she*s potter* the man.
The prisoner looked a gested 6alcoifesed at having inadvertently
/grabbed this link in the ettain of evidence against him.
The Magistrate told him he had better hold his tongue.
Two young women who have visited him in prison were brought
to the office. One of them passed in the prison for his wife ; she
stated herself in the office to be his sister. Upon being questioned
as to her mode of life, and where she Need, she hesitated for some
time, and would give no satisfactory answer. Her companion said
that she lived at No. 23, Walnut Tree-walk, Lambeth, where they
had the ground-floor. An officer was immediately dispatched with
one of the young women to this house.
In the meantime the prisoner sus remanded.
T. Pickett was charged with a robbery to the amount of £6l in
the house of Mr. Pitt, a linen-draper, in Holborn, and was fully
committed for trial.
Mr. MINSKULL discharged Styles, the poor fellow who stole the
box of linen from the Richmond Curia, after keeping him locked
up until night.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

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John Grand Mitigated, the subject of a revoking charge made
at this Office a few days ago, was yesterday brought up for a
further examination. The prisoner was professionally attended by
Mr. Harmer.
After the examination of one witness, who only deposed to the
obscene conversation of the prisoner,
Mr. CONANT observed, that be understood there was a Gentleman
present who bad some other evidence to give respecting the prisoner..
Here Mr. Force, who keeps a print and *caricature shop at the
corner of Sackville.street, in Piccadilly, came forward, and said
that he had something to state.
Mr. Force was then sworn, and said, that he has known the psi-
totter a long time as a most detestable character; he has ohs* ob-
served through his window, at which there is generally coliecied a
crowd of persons, the prisoner make his way gradually thmugh them,
until be got close to some youth (Mr. Fares here described the
most scandalous practices on the part of the prisoner.) He (the
witness) having seen repeated instances of this kind of conduct in
the prisoner, thought it his duty to consult tMe Magistrates, to
know if be could not have him apprehended fir it ? but they gave It
as their opinion, that Mr. Flares evidence would not go far enough.
Witness has often endeavoured to make the prisoner aware that be
knew what be was at, and, if possible, to shame bins away from the
place, by holding up to his face a print of the Bishop of Mosher;
bet, instead of going away in consequence, he stood and Imbed at it
with the utmost unconcern.

And is this you, Mr. Fonts," said the prisoner. " who comes
forward against me—a man *hom I have patronised, and done
material services tor

" Donense ---aserVice," said Mr. Fore.; " I would not accept a
service at the hand of such a wretch. I believe you once bid out
41. or Ss. in prints at my Shop, if you can that a service; but you
know I know you well, and have seen your practices at my window
with beys often ; and you know that it is as long as 18 years ago-;-
you Were the talk of the town. I remember any opposite neigh-
bour, Mr. Lincoln, the hatter, caning out to me one morning, as
stoodl at !sty shop-door, There is that rascal kluirhead gone up
the street with a country:looking yew boy, that he has jam got
hold s(, asps with dim; and I ran as fast as I could after you,
but you red. This was two-years ago."
Mr. 101 submitted that it was really talbelialblit a man
down in this way, by detailing circumstances aid IA a Man's
conduct at suck a distance of time.

Mr. Couto: said, that although he did not pr iii to make this
evidence against the prisoner, yet he did not think it unfit to have
it stated, because, until he had heard what Mr. Foam Itair to' say,'
how could he judge if it were evidence or not? If he (Mr.
Conant) were.. disposed to make ad the facts sail eiremogances
stated to him evidence against Mr. fduirhead, he could tell Mt.
Harmer that he could trace these practices of the prlioner not' to
two, but to 'Musty year* back.
•" I can speak to if years back myself," said Mr. Fores.
Air. Hoaxes applied to the Magistrates on behalf of his client
for a reduction of the proposed Ammon of bail, as being excessive,
and above any bail ever required for such a charge. lie was also
instructed to say, that it was entirely out of proportion to the
income of Mr. Muirhead.

Prisoner—lt is, Sir, quite out of proportion. Inn prove by my
rent-roll, which I now hold in my hand, that my income, since the
failure of the collieries on my estate, does not exceed 20001. per
annum, and on that there are several inettosbrances. Besides, it is
not likely I should run away. My estate le an entailed one ; and
if I were to disappear, the next heir *odd take it, and cut me
out altogether.
After some conversation amongst the Magistrates, Mr. Comity
said his present impression was that the bail was not excessive; but
he would take a short time to consider, and Mr. Muirhead should
have an answer.
After the prisoner was removed front the office, an elderly re-
spectable-looking man, who bad been listening attentively to the
whole proceeding, came forward, and stated to the ,Magistrates,,
that he had lived as. steward with Mr. Muirhead about forty years
ago, but he was obliged to quit his service very soon,from practices
he observed in Mr. Muirhead at that time, of sucina nature, that no
man of character could live in his service.
" Forty years ago!" said Mr. CONAN; " Why, then, when I
said twenty years, I was considerably under the maric."
Mr. Roe asked the steward what he considered Mr. Muirbead's
property to be ?
lie replied, that when he lived with him, (40 years ago) his rental
ivas above 2,0001. a-year; and since then several coal-mines have
been disc:Seem:l on the e.cate. The property is entirely situated
Leaf Glasgow, it: Scotland, and he never kneW 01 Lis baring any

lether rude. Hit 71 ay,bncmer,. baVC dIICIP made Turebasts rma
be believed Ire bad lei a viiice\ataa, end neves spew ham
ethic inconie.
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,HAITOW-61ARBILIC;

Cher,* Stir Nag, *be *mg man who' hasiteNe Ira Isespie,,l.
brought vp, charged with selling a tienwhithins hadhired.fiv,i,
' Mr. Martin, the Riding Master; itl boreugit-ehrwow
essbrvint
up for Beal ex:ntleptian. • The delay` big goal isinendital
tient the absence of Mr. Mardnis'son, whore iertimony WS/ ail
-quince to 61i up an important thosib it tha evidrsiee. lihNsiteaut
had been isnied for his apprehension*. any St thrbediffisteates,„.
[ties, as great exertion has been made to save thsLalmate, COSO.
pience of the respectability .of his einmexioni. :To the areal .star.
priseof Edwards and Lee, theriliWft to vitas* tko-Warrant•was
entrusted, Mr. IlfaAnjus. frestildry enteed
Mr. intro mve hprimanded him for '..bsentiag himself. :Wm
evidence wu taken, and was fully committed to Eeniste.
Clarissa Gudgeon seas chard hy a wailierwomaa, her teflon.
lodger, with throwing wittrer upon some Hem the properti if
her customers. ' _ _

The prisoner, so far from &vying the fact wised charged *ii
it, gloried in the act of vengeance which she bed tykes; for vurte
uncomplimentary epithets bestowed upon herby the complain-1i t.
referring her, as the clothes Were destroyed, to liatese-f/arden bat
+e-drew.

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The husband of the prisoner coming forward..the matter was at
lergth settled by his paying down £9. les. (half alsc'estigkated
value of the habiliments), though very relucsantly Os the part 44'
the prosecutrix. - •

TOWN-HA Lit.
Mr. Thomas Priests landlord of the Colonel Wardle public-
house, Tooley-stieet,cbarged a very creditable 'nuking mar., named
IF-Wirri Love, who was brought from the 2km/ugh Compter ib a
very tattered condition (one of the sleeve* of a good bite ton
being rept, from the elbow to the wrist. and ida waistcoat in
fritters), with behavieg disorderly In his Junta on Monday nigh:.
In the St. Olave's watch.house eharge-hook,
.where he was fire
taken, the name of Ms wife was also entered, h izt she did not appi.ar,
and the sum and substance of Mr. Priest's charge was, that the
wife of the prisoner struck his servantgirl several times 'on 'the
back, on some dispute about a glass, front which the prisoner and
his wife had drank the contents of a quartern of rum, of *hick
she complained to her mistress.

Here the man at the bar being called upon t actount. gala/kat
the girl first charged hint and his wife with smite: the glass; she
was repeatedly told it had been taken to the ba-, which proved to
be the fact. The servant became insolent : :tis wife resented it ;
squabble ensued, in which he very naturally trik his wife's p.:rs.
They were both taken to the watch-house, and front thence to the
Borough Compter, where (and here he seemed to struggle for
utterance) my wife now lies, bruised from head to foot, on the
very verge of delivery—nay, for aught I know. at dais moment dead.
Alderman J. J. mania expressed astouidsment- at hearing this
account. and desired the Keeper of the Borough tompter to state
the woman's condition.

Mr. Law said; she had been exceedingly ill throughout the tight.
and had many bruises on her person.which she accused the watch-
men of inflicting, and said she believea her arm was broken. or
shoulder dislocated.

Alice Ballard, of Queen-street, Itotherliithe, sworn—l heard that
a man and woman were accused of stealing a glass. 1 saw the
woman pulled out with the greatest violenc,. Site cried " Mut-
der !" and said she knew she should be killed. I begged them to
have mercy on her situation. One of the wrchmeu said, "" Zr
you interfere, I'll take you." I saw a watchman strike her on the
head with his staff.

Mr. Priest denied thi► in lain.
The prisoner.—She has a black swelSng or tumour of great size
above the right eye, given her by a watchman's staff.
Mr. Law again questioned on oath—She has, and avributes it
to a watchman.
Hanes, a patrol, and IS woman named Tvans, swore that there
was no.cry of murder: that she was taken out of :he hinge as

humanely as possible.
Sullivan, Scauhury, fierier, and other watchmen, all swum tkai
no blows were struck by any of their fraternity.
Alderman Sums asked Mr. Priest if, under such circumstances*
he meant to press the charge against the prisoner?
Mt. Priest said, No.
Alderman asurir said, he had bestowed the greare‘t attention ro
the cue; and could come to no other conclusion from the eviJence
than that his wife's illness was the result of her own violence.
Shenld be, however, be able to ()braid further evidence, the case
should be again beard, and the watchmen, if guilty, punished.
He was desired to leave his address, which he did, as housekeeper,
41, Cartwright.streer, East Smithfield.
The injured woman, we learn on inquiry since at the Comfort,
has been conveyed home in a coach in a very precarious stare,
where she is attended by Mr. Box, the surgeon of the prison.

QUEEN.SQUAR!.
Six journeymen shoemakers were brought up on a warrant,
charged by Mr. Robinson, matter shoemaker, Tothilt-street, West-
minster, with combination and riot.

Mr. Robinson stated, that the defendants, who had been in his
employment, struck for an advance of wages, which he refts.ed to
give, and employed other workmen. The defendants were is the
habit of watching thole men, and threatening them if tbey con-
tinued to wotk fur him. On Monday evening the defendants
brought their seats and tools on the pavement be fore his hose, And
tegaled themselves with porter and pipes, and collected a mob of
more than a hondred persons, and refused to go away until they
were dispersed by an officer. Mr. Robinson said. be did not vdsb
to press the charge of c.nnbinatioo, but wished to have his bonne
protected Rom disturbitnee. The prisoners war held to bail for'
the riot. •

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