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London, England, 1813-10-16 00:00:00

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EPITAPH IN SWANSEA CHURCHYARD.
The body, underneath this stone, is
' Of my late husband, Jacob Jonas,
Who, when alive, was an Adonis!
Ah ! wcll•a-day !

0, Death ! thou spoiler of fair faces,
.44Wiittook'st thou him from try embraces,
How ootild'st thou mar so many grace 4?
I-lay,- 'Tyrant, say N.
AT NOIITHALLERTOIC.
• /licjatet Walter Gun,
Some time Landlord of The ssx,
$k trinsil eerie issurdi..-

He drabk hard upon Friday,
That being a high day,
Theo took to his bed, and died upon Sunday.
IMPROMPTU.
Times are now, by some, 'tis said, •
The hardest ever known,
•
For Bakers, when they make their bread,
Instead of Jaw me Arne I

PILDUTRIANISM.-....RAILNFA, the celebrated pecks-
trian,lost his match of 100 miles in 18 hours,onThurs.
day, on Tenterden Racecourse, near Ashford, in
Kent. He did 69 miles in 12 hours and 9 minutes,
and could proceed no further. The weather- was
much against the performauce, and the pedestrian
was much exhausted.
The Lincolnshire Yeoman, who undertook, on Sa-
turday sennigbt, for a wager of IMO guineas, to go
48 miles in 12 hours, for twelve successive-days, corn,
pleted his task on Wednesday evening, about six miles
tram Milton Mowbray. He appears to have been
much distressed on the eighth day of his journey; but
he recovered, and won the match by extraordinary
resolution and power.

The only £lO,OOO that was Shared in the last
Lottery, was Sold. by Holm's,/ and Co. in one Half
and Eight Sixteenths, No. 3934, and the money paid
immediately. Tickets and Shares, for ensuing New
Lottery, of only 800() Tickets, are selling in great
variety, and at the lowest prices : The Drawing be-
Fins on the 3d of November. The Scheme contains
two Prizes of £20,000, besides many other Capitals.
Letters by Post, or Parcels by Carrier, will be execu-
ted with fidelity and dispatch. -
.
MELANCHOLY AceIDEK,T—On Friday se'nnight, T.
Lyons,. accempanied by T. Gillmore, S. Sheppard,
jun. .and his son, went down Bristol Channel, in his
yewl,- in hopes of meeting craft coming np, with
intent to' pilot them. The wind blew hard from the
.S. S. W. and next morning the boat's oars and tackle .
ware .picked up off Clevedon, but the unfortunate
crew were missing ; the whole are supposed to have
perished. Sheppard has left a wife and six children,
Lyons a wife and three, who are thus deprived of
their means of support.
Thursday the inhabitants of Butcherhallline, New-
stati-street, were thrown into consderable alarm by
theoppearance of 4 young girl, about fourteen years
of age, who was enveloped in flames. Her cries in-
stantly brought to her assistance two young men, who
had the presence of mind. to roll the poor girl in the
'kennel, by which means they, with slme
extinguished the flames, but not without severely
burning their hands. The girl was immediately taken
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in a dangerens state.
Acireumstance of ratherasingular nature happened
at. Cork on Thursday se'nnight : the wife. of a publican
of the name of Welsh, residing in Caroline-street, in.'
stigated by resentment against her husband, for some
partiality he had manifested towards a daughter by a
former wife, brought to the Postmaster half-notes for
a sum considerably above 4500, which she alledged
her husband had stole from the mail about •seven
years age Welsh then kept apartments for the coach-
men and guards of the mail. He was immediately
*pp a and brought before the Mayor, who
coin him to son.
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411ittaturv.-----sitt Warwick Assizes a cause of great
interest was Weir. The following are the principal
cir&, ices Adams, a man of wicked and de-
prated habits, and a widower, with five small chil-
dren, was indicted for a violent assault on his daugh-
ter Ann, aged eleven years. The prisoner resided in
Hurst-street, Birmingham. On the morning of the
4th of August two of his neighbours, on hearing one
of his children crying out, looked towards the pri-
soner's house, and saw him, with his fist, knock down
his son Thomas, aged seven years, several times, with
great violence : the child at length escaped. He
then prot,eeded to beat his daughter Ann on the head
with a pair of bellows, with such barbarity, that tlie
blood gushed out at eve: y blow ; the bellows fortu-
nately broke, and one of the neighbours rescued the
child, who, in all probability, would have fallen a 1
leiCtiM to his inhumanity. The only defence the i.
soner made in his justification of these wanton acts it
barbarity, was, iliac his son had torn his small-clothes, 1
and his daughter had not prepared his breakfast. He
had just returned from • the public-house, where he
constantly wasted his time, which ought to have been
employed in providing for hi,, children, whom he left
in the most wretched state of poverty.—The Chair-
man, after commenting on the aggravated circum-
stances of the cas4 passed a se:itente of two mouths
further imprisonment in the llonse•of Correction (the
prisoner having already been imprisoned two months))
with a suitable adornition as to the cc'ndnct of his
future life.—lt also appeared, that the prisoner had
frequently before ill used his children in a most cruel
planner, and had been taken before the Magistrates
for the same; but, on a promise of more kind beha-
viour to them in future, he was dischaigcd.
Monday night, about eleven o'clock, as a labouring
man was passing-down Stonecutter-street, fleet-mar-
k:l, on approaching the ruins of sc.me old houses
y:hich have lately been pulled down on that spot, lie
perceived the almost naked body of an infant. He
immediately gave an alarm to the watchman,i who
picked up the lifeless corpFe, and in the skirt of his
coat conveyed it to St. Bride's-watch-house, where it
way examined. It proved to be a fine male child,
about five weeks old • on the head was a night-cap,
and on the body a little shirt, and this was all the co-
✓ ring it had. There was a violent contusion on the
bead, and hi the ear were marks of coagulated blood.
On the left side also there.were other marks of vio-
taw. A Coronet's Jury have since returned a verdict
of wilful userikr against nailer:on ugkown.
•

Bow-sllnirr.-!-Yester. day G. Nowell, the guard to
the Exeter subscription coach, who has been in cus-
tody for siime time, on suspicion of robbing the coach
on the 19th ult. of a parcel containing bank notes to
the amount of 8200, underwent a final examination,
and WAS discharged for want of evidence. .
I. Mead, a porter belonging to the Golden Cross
Inn, Charing Cross, was convicted in the penalty of
forty shillings, for altering a ticket to a parcel sent
to Mr. .T. F. Dove, in St. John's-square, from 2s.
10d. to 3s. 10d.

MaNum-House.-- Yesterday M. iftrthelv was
charged with stealing a pocket-book and jacket from
on board the brig Ann, lying off Custom house Quay.
E. Miller, the Master, stated, that as he. was lying in
his birth the night preceding, he heard a noise on
deck, and, soon after, felt something touch his back ;
he started up, and saw the prisoner with his hand on
his watch and pocket-book ; upon which he jumped
out of bed and called for assistance, when his men
came forward and secured the prisoner, who was
taken on shore and-searched, when a pocket-book and
jacket, belonging to one of his men, named Leigh-
ton, were found in- Lis possession. He did not deny
his guilt, but said, he had gone on board because he
felt himself cold. A Gentleman attended from the
Custom House, and stated, that no less than four
ships near the Custom House haVbeen entered in the
night, and the watches and pocket-books of the Mis-
ters and men carried off. Similar robberies had been
committed on the opposite side of the water. The
robbers generally took their shoes off on deck,• and
were thus able to commit their offences in silence.—
Two duplicates of watches were found in the priso-
ner's possession. He was remanded, till further en-
quiry can be made respecting him.
R. Porter and L. Buchani were brought up, the
first charged with stealing a quantity of plaster
moulds, the property of .t Checkini, his employer ;
trod the latter for receiving them, knowing them to
have been stolen. The prosecutor stated, that having
repeatedly missed articles from his shop, his suspi-
cions at last fell upon Porter. He accordingly ap-
plied at several shops in the trade, and at last found
a mould, kit which he had given £4, the cast of which
was the Centaur Nusut carrying I..Danira, the Wife of
Hercule:, in the shop of Buchani, who had a great
number of similar articles, all the property of the pro-
secutor. An officer of Union Hall, who took Bu-
chaai into custody, stated, that he produced a num.
ber of articles, saying to the prosecutor—“ I don't
know whether these are your property or not ;—but
I bought them of Porter; and, if they are your's,
ikke them away." His conduct was such, that Sir
J. PINHORN, before whom he was taken, liberated him
on his promise of appearing when required.' Porter
stated, that his master had not been regular in paying
him his wages, and had once done him out of 02, he
had, therefore,- taken the mould in question to reim-
burse himself, and to support a sick Lather, for which
he was sorry. - This was denied by Chpckini, and he
was committed for trial. The Magistrate, notwith-
standing the declared intention of indicting Lirchani,
as the teceiver, would not commit him or hold him
to bail.

Gtniunam..—.Ww.Thorongligood, a young man, 17
years of age, in the service of Mr. Wiltshire, a re-
spectable newsman, residing No. 11, London-wall, was
brotight np, charged by his master with embezzling
his property entrusted to his care, in a variety of in-
stances, and, even so far as discovered within the
,space of two days, to a considerable amount. 'l'lle
'offence committed by the prisoner, in the present in-
stance, too, was aggravated by this circumstance—
that the prisoner, being lame, had been kept by Mr.
W. more froM a feeling of humanity, or compassion,
than on account of any actual services which it was
in his power to render to his employer; added to
which, Mr. W. from this very circumstance, which
led him to believe that the young man would not in-
jure him, and also from believing him honest, reposed
greater confidence in him than he would otherwise
have done.—The young man expressing his sorrow
for his past conduct, the worthy Alderman, having
ascertained that the prosesutor was more inclined to
try whether the young man might not be reclaimed.
by the infliction of some slight punishment, rather then
'be committed for trial, ordered that he should be sent.
to Brideweil for one month.
Marturottoucti-spteer.--C. Brannan was fully
committed, charged with robbing a Gentleman of a
gold seal. The prisoner went up ati the prosecutor in
Golden-square, ;at ti.e eveninz, of Monday, struck
him, and made an attempt at his watch, but he only
succeeded in getting the seal from the chain.
UNION HALL.—Yesterday J. Kin: was brought
before Mr. BInNIE by Goff and Clark, charged by
Mr. Bp ne, a Gentleman, residing at Camberwell,
with storping hint in the street and attempting to rob
him. Mr. Byrne, it appeared, was passing along
London. Bridge on the evening of Friday se'nnight,
when the prisoner and another man ran against him
and attempted to force their hands into his breast-
pocket, in which was his pocket-book ; being, how-
ever, aware of their intention, he prevented them,
upon which they ran off towards Tooley-street. Mr.
Byrne, and a Gentleman who was with him, pursued
them quickly, and pressed hard upon them, when
they• perceived them draw their knives, as if deter-
mined on resistance : on seeing this, Mr. Byrne and
his friend gave up the pursuit, and jammed Goff of
the circumstance ; at the same time describing the
prisoners. Goff and Clark traced the prisoner to the
Dover Cagle, and there took bun into custody. He
was committed for re-examination, till Mr. Byrne,
and the Gentleman who was with hint, can attend.

The following must please our Readers in general.
Few will disbelieve, and none can disapprove. That
!rightful dreams, weak nerves, lownes' of the spirits,
declines and fits, both fainting and convulsive, with
many maladies, but too common in London. Adults
as well as Infants are thus attacked. The public may
rely Worms is the cause, set en times in ten, of these af-
flictions; and when you reinoim the cause the effects
will cease, not sooner. Let any gentleman of good
sense, (a medical man, unprejudiced) examine Dr.
GARDNER'S Museums, No. 74, Long Acre. and 3.
Migh-street, Shorediich, together with the' testimo-
nials of all the above being cured by Worm Pills and
Cordial, prepared as above. Then, let such gentle.
man's conscience disapprove the panacea disc can.

WrEUNIATISAIS, PALSIES, and GOUTY
AFFECTIONS, with their usual concomitants, Spasm or
flying Pains, Flatulency, Indigestion, and general Debility (mi.
gin:sting in whatever source), are ielieved and frequently cured
by WHITEHEAD's ESSENCE of MUSTARD PILLS, after
every other means had failed. The Fluid Essence of Mustard,
(used with the Pills, in those complaints where necessary) is per-
haps the most active, penetrating, and effectual remedy in the
world, generally curing the severest Sprains and Bruises, in less
than half the time usually taken by any usher Liniment or Em-
brocation; and Aiwa immediately after any accident, it prev.•nts
the part turning bIack.—WHITEHEAD's FAMILY CERATE
is equally efficacious for all ill-conditioned Sores, Sore• Legs, Scor-
butic Eruptions, Blotches, Pimples, 'Ringworms, Shingles Break •
rugs out in the Face, Nose, Ears, and Eyelids, Sore and Inflamed
Eyes, Sore Head', and scorbutic Htimours of every description.
Prepared only, and sold by R. Johnstoa, Apothecary, No. 15,
Creek-strett, Soho, London. The Essoce and Pills at es. 9d.
each, the Cerate at Is. lid. and 2s. 9d. Sold by every Medicine
Vender to the United Kingdom.
•,• The genuine has a Stack Ink Stamp, with the name of
R. JOIINSTON inserted OK' it.