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BOW4TRVlrr.ujiht Vottimittee -of Licensed' ii
tiallershstving failed in two attempts, hi the last
'Conti( Parliament, to get a'll'ill patted making its
offeneeloi Publicani. to send rout Pewieriltots, se
leave ,them with porter at lnit
.enstoarie,hottspe
was suggested, that a law' as aleft; dy *ranee this
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would answer, fine pat-pow,'.and -In eonsitpiejlee the
Statute Book *as searched aid an otiseiteit litwiesia4
and Couisslls' Opinion as to the verbal of it,. waits
'lnawerinS theihirpose, and they being of opinion hr
the aifivntatire, the Committee determined on sling.
the experiment, and gaite public notice in the Papers
of their intention, 'reciting the Act and Counsels' opi-
nion, and that the Act WOuld be enforced from and
after the first day of this :month.: Why 'the latter"!
and every material part of this notice has been' de:
viatt-d from is not known, at an-information was laid
last Satni-day against a publican, said to have been
committed several days previous, under the retiree
Act, and yesterday was the 'day appointed for hear.:
ing this important question (so far as relates-to the
inhabitants of this great metfopolis and the peblicans) '
as to the abolition of a custom that has been Nora&
by the inhabitants fora great number of years. Mr.'
NARES, Mr. lit4t4ARD, and 'Mr. RICHARDSOIfs the
,Magistrates, attended to hear and determine the
question, which is under an Act of Parliament of the
12th of George the First. ' The infortisation was
' against a publican residing in the pales Of St.,Tatztei,
Westminster, charging him with sending eat of his
house, to be drank in another house, a less quantity
'Of porter than one'sallon, in. a pewter or other
' , and for which offence belied subjected himself
to a penalty of forty shillings& for Fray :lbw* ...
sent out such pot or. ots. ' • '• - ''''''"'',
'Mr. ALUM attended as leading "Coined Ter the
prosecution, and centered very fully into the 'history
'fpot
of the Act of Parliament. under Which this infornia-
Ition was laid ; entered very particularly into no . on:
planation of the custom of the publicans sentlitsg'ont
.1;. pots ; the heati-losses and, great inconvenience tin,
Iwereputtotii the'custont ; and concluded, frith'con-
tending, that the Act had never been repealed* bat
was' In furforce. .: . .
Peir.rtiastilfbliowed, on the same side.
The 'cirennittances of pots with porter in that be.
,ing.eent'outirom the defendant's house in less quan.
tidathan a gallon were proved,' to which there was
no defence offered but the custom.
`'he Magistrates, after taking a view of all the chi.
eunrstances -of the oase,-gave their unanfinous opinion
that the Act was in MI -force, and convicted the de.
fendant in the penalty of 40s.
The Defendant gave notice of his intention to ap.
peal against the conviction at the ensuing Westmin-
ster Sessiona, and entered into a recognizance for that
purpose. After which he asked if he Might,. in the
mean time& -.send out beer in less quantifies than a
galloni
Mr. Mist, in reply, said, that it was the deter.
urination of the Committee of Licensed Victuallers,
who had instituted the present prosecution (many of
whom were then present in the Office), to persevere
in their determination to put an end to the custom,
which they 'considered a very great evil.
UMW HALL.—Yesterday a coalheaver and his
wife were charged with keeping a house of :ill fame
in St. George's Fields, and were ordered to find bail
to appear at the Quarter Sessions.
A person who owns 14 or 15 houses in one street
in. the Borough, had an information lodged against
lain) for keeping one of a similar description. He pro-
„tested his abhorrence of such scenes of immorality,
li.and declared he had ejected the tenant as soon as the
fact came to his knowledge. The Magistrate obser-
ved, that such conduct might avail him on his trial,
but he must find bail.

A baker m East-street, Walcot-place, was fined for
exposing ,to sale bread short of weight.
MANsiox-House.—A gui tarn Information having
been filed before the LORD MAYOR, on the informa-
tion of a Custom-house Officer of the name of Hay,
against Mr. Kennett, of Cheapside, by which the
Custom-house Officer sought to recover from Mr. K.
penalties to three tants the amount of the value of
certain foreign silks which had been found in his pos-
session, and had been seized as prohibited, Mr. lien-1
nett yesterday appeared before the LORD MAYOR and
Mr. Alderman BRYDCIES, and pleaded not guilty to
the charge. - .
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The Custom-house Officer swore, that he had seized
prohihited foreign Silks, on different parts of the de.
fendant's premises, to the value of £l7 and upwards,
as appeared by the certificate of the Custom-house
Inspectors now produced. He was in no condition
to prove the value-of the silks so seized, nor that they
were foreign. prohibited goods, except by the certifi-
cate so produced. The silts themselves were not in
Court.

The LORD MAYOR, in these circumstances, not
thinking himself called on to assist gui tan informa-
tions, ,by dispensing, in a case like the present, with
that sort and degree of evidence which would be re.
spired to satisfy a Jury, was of opinion that this evi.
dence was not enough, to prove either the value of
the silks, or that they were foreign prohibited goods.
Even the identity of the goods was not here made
out. On these grounds, his Lordship was of opinion
the information ought to be dismissed.
Mr. Alderman BRYDGRS was of the same opinion,
and the information was accordingly dismissed.
A young man, rather of a genteel appearance,
named Turner, was charged by another young man,
acting for a Mr. Jones a licensed hawker, with pass-
ing to Mr. Jones, in satisfaction of two pieces of cloth
purchased from him by Turner, a, checque on the
house of Masterman and Co. by Hall and Co. pay-
able to Turner, for 47. 17s. it having been ascer-
tained, on application at Masterman and Co.'s, that
there was no such firm as that of Hall and Co. at least
that none such kept cash at Masterman and Co.'s.
The account Turner gave of himself was, that he
was a servant out of place; that he had till within
these two Months lived as footman to an Attorney in
the country, of the name of Stevenson; that he picked
up the cheque in queStibn upon the street,and haying
tnet with Jiinei shottly aftervvardein the street,. and
:'he Laving asked the prisoner to purchase soige cloth-
of him, the prisoner told 'him the circirmstaitte of hie
'afting .picktid Of/ the -eheqne in question °tithe streeFl:
and Offered it id paymentUf the dloth. Masser istarkhapv
-canted .for-icattes net appearing 4riusselif

- dam brirlit, already inifisiontelyt kitunkat ALS /Man-
a alone House: :^
.The .Liettel-Maxott" remarked upon the extraordi:
trary eitiwinseence ofTorierfsrhstvinethe good fop
tune to, pick, up in the street waireequerenade payable
to himself. This wasittase; Where.; intending
tin $ll
prithabilitrbak to cotatek a fraud,: the party
'orthat intention, hitiitidilly COMlllatlifil forger?,'el4n •
- . LOrd'shiip prdered th the at eiiie d
over Illitb.isorraii, that icFces linaielf Mt lit sidind,
and' urhip \ leordship ffottai. tie.'`OtL.
lenclaece' of one of the Partners or hiteltrelerkil: of.
`Messrs.Mastermen and Cob
Guittaawiee.—:.Yesterday an elderly man of the
name of. James C#e . was. brought before Alderman
• poi:immune, the ttting Magistrate, on the. follow-
ing charge men Mist said he was a glass and
.clusa merchant, rn:Fiteustreet, and the prisoner was
a porter in his employment. For some time past,
the complainant lost, be knew not how, considerable
,4nataticies of zaluable.gl.au. ware, and. his suspicions
fell tipon bis,p9rteer. Accordingly. be took. meastires
to ascertain in what manner• his property ivas re-
movedwand the prisoner was deekred tti go *errand
.into.Holborn. Having placed himself in a tonve-
_nista position to observe his porter's movements, pre-
!lam :Jo his departure 130 the message,,he saw him
put half-IL dozen wine glasses secretly. nnabis pocket,
and then he walked away. He caused him to be int-
medietely followed, brought back, and examined,
and the wineglasses *ere found la his pocket. The
prisoner was a reduced tradesman, and had come into
Filpis employment with a good character, and he would
deal mercifully-with him,, provided he would disclose
who the person was that received the seolen property,
for he had, within a abort period, lost no less than .50
or 60 dozen of die same description of wine glasses ;
and he was almost positive that the prisoner was the
person who bad carried them away. A number of
glasses similar to those -which the complainant had
lost, were found in the prisoner's house, but he really
apprehended that neither his wife nor his children
knew of his depredations. The prisoner confessed
that he bad .taken the half dozen glasses that were
found in his pocket, but with them his guilt had com-
menced, he was innocent of the rest of the charge.—
P The Magistrate causedhim to.be remanded till Friday.
Charlet Grahams, a journeyman watchmaker, was
charged by Mr. -.Edward 'Walker, with baring
pawned a gold repeating watch which he had put
into his hands to repair. The prisoner said, that fa.
inily distress, for he had a wife with five children de.
•penclent on him for support, had compelled hint to
pawn The Watch with Mr. Beauchamp for £5 e • -he
hoped that the Court and the complainant, would in.
dulge him with• a few weeks leisure, and he would
settle all the differences. Mr. Walker said he would
gladly comply with Grahame's intercessions, but
another watchmaker had been placed, by the priso.
ner's misconduct, in similar circumstances, aad if he
consented to drophis charge, the other complainant
would immediately bring -forward his ; therefcre, he
thought it most advisable to proceed. The Magis-
trate stid, that an Act of Parliament bad been
passed, the object of which was to protect people
against those hind of depredations, and by it be was
authorized to imprison a transgressor for three
months, and fine him in five pounds besides. Under
the circumstances of the present case, it could be no
gratification to the injured party to see the prisoner
suffering a long imprisonment; he, therefore, ordered
him to be confined in Giltspur-street Compter for six
weeks, at the expiration of which, he would pay half
the. penalty, and be discharged. Mr. Beauchamp,
the pawnbroker, applied to the Magistrate for some
compensation suitable-to the loss he had sustained in
advancing five pounds upon property which the pri.
soner had not feloniously obtained. The Magistrate
said he was sorry that no compensation could be at.
lowed him. This was a loss that appeared insepa-
rable from the trade of a pawnbriker, and if the Act
of • Parliament Operated inconveniently on Itiin, his
applicatio- for redress mu-A be made• to the autho-
rities which legislated the Act by which his determi-
nation was guided.
Two middle-aged ladies, who lived in Field-lane,
complained bitterly to the Magistrate against their
countryman, Billy Delahoy, who entered their apart-
ments before it was prepared for his reception, and
without any ceremony :ittaeked the complainants,
first with his fists, next with an iron knob which he
wrenched from the top of the grate, and lastly with
a large knife, with which he inflicted many wounds
on theif. oreheads and various parts of their bodies.—
The Magistrate immediately granted a warrant to
cause Billy Delahoy to appear before him, and an-
swer to this grievous complaint,
A labourer from the warehouses in Crutched-friars,
belonging to the East India Company, was commit-
ted to the Compter for stealing tea.

The examination of James Leery for the murder of
Edward Clifford, that was to have taken place this
day in the House of Correction, is postponed.
Tuesday evening, as a cart, with several bales of
woollen cloth, was passing St. Jam-street, West
Smithfield, the rope at the tail was cut, and a bale
stolen by some thieves..
Saturday night, as Mr. BURNETT, enraver, of
Cross.court, was returning home, he was attacked by
three villains, one of whom knocked him down within
a few doors of his own house; another held his month,
aOd the third,asked his companions for a knife, to
wound him if he made any resistance. Tbey kept
him on the ground till they had taken from his per-
son a considerable sum of money, his spectacles, and
some memorandums, and were in the act of taking
his watch, when some Gentlemen came by, and they
made their escape.
• A few days since, GRIZZF.L MACANNON, wife of
Corporal PALMER. in the Dumfrieshire Militia, left
Gateside, in the parish of Wamphray, to inquire in
Dumfries about the regiment and her husband ; but,
about ten o'clock In the forenoon, when she had pas-
sed Lochmaben, and was in the Moor, about six
miles from that place, she was attacked by a footpad,
and treated in the most indecent manner. He de.
manded her money and threatened her and her infant
with death, if she did not instantly surrender her pro-
peiti td-hits ; butt's/Me he was searching her parcel,
,iletil4ettnitvian4Stnieback-cante up, and elated him
.td 6dsist'ftl plunder,' and conducted iltivragottr
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,entirsoliArisostinteilatch 44,Aw0 hours. slutation and if
*thick re A eighty-stelen-.eetectiude took pi!tte, we.,
fought in .Bornham. Meadows, a short. distance from
Getod'a .Cross, .on Monday etening,. betwixt Mr.
• 4Prier, a dealer ins:attic, and a farmer 'of the
:nape. of •Getien, for ,ten guineas a-side. It was a
kellad Male, the stakes hawing been laid a fottaight
410Pre. • The dispute originated in an .affair .oejeot
;kw% aaaheegarding a- young widow inebeit neigh-
sbenrbood. The .conihatants were complete novices
in ihe gritiftiouliag, • never.haviog even seen a tight.
:Dare were .no . easy falls, nor avoiding blow by
:idslging.distance. They met each other with n.uit,t
ebaracieristic brag/cm and used all the power nano
•bad afforded them Cu hitting and throwing. In sem."
rounds eight and ten crushing half.round•Wows Wert‘
wade; and in ten minutes after setting to they were
hideously beaten. Two stud three minates wire
immetienes spent betwixt the tounds, from the inatit•
laity of both to stead up—and in .this state the ecenho:
tents contended the last. half hour, when Jenner was
tu mete, and.Gatteskaten:deariy.

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severe clusgilictiocentest took place at C.beadte
obln.onday t,between a blacksmith and a mason;
it continued about-three dope and a half, and more
-than 150 rounds were fought :-.the bLicksmith teas
at length obliged to. leave- off fighting in-order to go
to eivrk. and the contest was undecided. About 1000
spectators were present.
A few days since the Hon. Colonel HAVGEIt left.
bissesidence in.the.iiampstead Road, on a'shooting
excursion in Norfolk. The Colonel was equipped
with pistols and sabre suspeoded-to ai look. lie rode
a mole, and was preceded by-his spaniel,. wearing a
bell, to give the game notice of his approach and the
commencement of hostilities.

MARRIED.
August SI, John Price, Esq. of Baker-street, Portman-square,
to Ann Seaton, daughter. of H. Seaton, Esq. Mum&4u-street,
Montagu-square.
Saturday, at Hamerll Church, Middlesex, John Clllesple,Esq.
Commandant of the Hon. the Eatt India Company', troops at the
Army Depat, Isle of Wight,. to Georgiana, third daughter.of
George 'Hodgson Esq. Charles-street, St. James's-square.
Monday, at Peal, Captain 'George Reyelds, R. N. to
Dowers eldest daughter of Govanor Dowers, of the Ro lal Nfral
Hospital at that place.

DIED.
In October ha, at Sent, Casten John Davis, Esq. tremors In
the Hon. East India Company's Estsbkshment at Bombay.
At Portsmouth., R. Renner, Esq. Surgeon so the Forces, who
lately arrived from Goree.
At York, in Canada, on the 9111 of June, of a woand he receiv-
ed in the head on the 4th of the same month In tbi action at
Stoney-creek, Lieut. Dory, 49th regiment, youngest.sen of Ale&
bury, Esq. of Hadley.
August 25, Mr. Shepheard, landlord awf the Queen Charlotte.
Head, near Portsmouth halfway-bouse.—He was thrown out of
his gig on ikellenday preceding, and the bruises he then received
were the nosier Itts death.—lt was the third similar accident
that had recently befallen him.

WILLIAM B. MOUNTAIN,
SARACEN'S HEAD INN, SNOW-HILL, LONDON.
The best Accommodation for Travellers good Beds, choice
Liquors, and moderate Charges.
H E following POST COACHES, MA IL
COACHES, Stc. set out-from the Saracen's Head Inn,
Snow-HIM

FALMOUTH and TRURO New Post-Coach every Morning.
EXETER., Plymouth, Weymouth, Dorchester, fulmouth,
Dartmouth, and Sgt.:bury New Post Coach, every Morning at
-Six o'Clock, with a Guard, through Honiton, A:winner, Brtd.
port, 111andford, Basingstoke, and Bagshot.
BOSTON, Spalding, Peterborough, Stilton, and Hunt/oglea
new Royal Mail Coach, sons out every Evening...--Coacheafront
Boston to Spilsby, Louth, Grimsby, and Hull.
LIVERPOOL, Warrington, Knutsford, Stone, and Ltchfield,
Post-Coach, called The Expedition, every Evening at I, We
o'Clock, to B. Brotherton's; Soreness's Head Inn, Dale-street,
Liverpool. Guarded throughout.
BATH and BRISTOL Flyirg Post-Coaches,throwthChlpmt.
ham, Calne, and Marlborough, every Afternoon; arrive at Mr.
May's, the Greyhound inn, Dinh, and the London Tavern, Tho•
was-Street, Bristol, next M.orniog.—Coaohed to Wells, Bride.
water, Taunton, &c.
LEEDS new light Coach, called the Rockingham, sets ant every
Morning at Eight o'Clock; carried Four Insides only, and goes re-
markably easy, with a Guard throughout. Passes throngls Stern.
ford, Newark, Retford, Doncaster, and Ferrybridge, to the
Golden Lion, Leeds, next Day, at Noon. Notsvithstanikat tko
anconutton Expedition of this Coach, it is allowed to be the mint
agreeable and complete Public Conveyance on the North load.
'being nun:palled in Accommodation by any other.
KENDAL, Lancaster, Preston, Kirby-Lansdale, Bolton,
Chorley, Ormskirk, and Garstang Post Conches, every After
noon at Five o'Clock.—Guarded..
GLASGOW, Longtown Gretna-Greeni Annan, Damfriee,
Srownhi 1, Thorokill, Cumnoct, Kingswell, and
all Pans of Scotland, Camperdown Coach, Daily.
YORK, Newcastk, And kalinhorgh new Coach, performed
with a Guard throughout, sets out every Morning at Half-past
Six o'Clock, hi way of Newark, Retford, Tadcaster, Darlington,
Northallerton, Durham, Morpeth, and Berwick. Passengers
finding themselves fktigued from the length of the Joltrawfs oarr
rest what time they please, and then proceed on without soy isd•
ditinnal Pare. I. CLACK, the Black Swan, Cooerstreet,
tins Coaches to Suoderland, Hull, Scarborough, Wiskby, and
other Places.

BRIDGENORTH and Walsall new Poet Coach, every
Evening.
CARLISLE, Penrith, and Whitehaven 70,i Coach, goes wit%
Four Horses, and a Guard all the way. ?asses through Brough,
Appleby, Greatahridge, .P_lchnsond, Catterick, Darougbbrlige,
Wetherby, Aberford, Doncaster, and Grant ant (the nearest
way by eighteen miles). Sets out every Morning, and performs
the journey with the greatest facility. Passengers detained us
the road by business, or pleasure, have the roulisr advantaged
their seats being secured in the neat Coach.
CHESTER and PARKGATE new Post Coach, Daify.
ECLIPSE, a new Flying Post Coach, to York, Sunderland,
Newcastle, and Edinburgh, carries Four Insides only, emery Af-
tenmon at Three o'Clock, by way of Doncaster, Grantham, and
Stamford.

SUNDERLAND, Stockinn, end Vann, new Coach, every
Morning, to the George Inn, Sunderland.
MANCHESTER, Winslow, Coogleton Newcastle, Weisel,
and Wolverhampton Post-Coach, every Alternoon.--Guarded.
SHREWSBURY, Wellington, and Sblifr.al Post•Coacb. the
Royal Charlotte, evi-ry Evening, at Floe o'Clock.--Ouarded.
SHEFFIELD and Rotherham Post Coach, &awl*. Rockinr
ham, every Morning.
Ent&IINGHAM Mercury Post Coach, with a Gsard, seta
uht every Afternoon, and reaches Eirmlogkam next day at Noyes
Passes by Oxford, Enston, and Ships:one, to the Saracen's like,
Buis-street, Birmingham.
HULL, Northcave, Howden, Thorn, and Doncaner Post-
Coach, every Morning at Seven o'Clock, to the Bull and Gun Um,
Mytoo-gate, Hull..
SUNBURY, Hampton, and Twtckenbant, Twice a Vrebt
SOUTHAMPI ON, Winchester, Alresford, and Altos Coach
every Evening.
Wit Liao/ E. More !nisi and Co. respectfully aKoalst their
Friends and the Pubic, that they will nos be acCountabk far any
Parcels or Luggage, &c. of more than Five Fount.. VallT, if lot
or damaged, unless entered as ruchaad paid fat -oceorsEngly, at
theSaraceh's Head Inn, Snew•ltill, I .ondou.
I'aseergers and Parcels booked for the above Coaches,
at the New Wines Norte Cdiar, Piccadilly

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