Star.
London, England, 1814-08-12 00:00:00

DEAL, ,AUGUST 11.

Arrided the Rambler, SIM; and the Eppleworth,
PIXLEY, from the West Indies. Sailed' his Majesty's
ships CsoltiNtrE and PHCENII. for the River ; and the
LLVERICT sloop of war, for Portsmouth.7Wind S.
LEITH, AUGUST 8.
The Blossom, Wurra, arrived at St. Petershurgh,
!rim Leith, 24th Jone ; the Hebe, ; Henry

Chaplin, and Alexis, BELL, on the 6th July ; and
Grace, GRAHAM, and John, JACK, on the 7th.—A
very large one-masted vessel, laden with colonial pm-
duce, &c. has been found on the coast of Norway,
near Bergen, without any person on board, by his
Majesty's frigate UNICORN, is arrived at Peter-
head in a very leaky condition. The new brig Ori-
ent, Lim, of Aberdeen, from London to Tea:nitre,
was taken and destroyed by the Pike, Ameuican pri-
vateer, on the 17th June, in lat. 36. long. 13. The
Pike is 296 tons, 139 feet long, pierced for 14 gums,
had 12 mounted, with 96 men. Crew were landed
,at Porto Santo 20th June, and arrived at Madeira
the 25t1t. The Orient was the 21st vessel taken and
destroyed by the above privateer, which, with other
two privateers, her consorts, it was feared would
sweep the track in that quarter, as there seemed to
be no British ship of was to %top their destructive
progress.—Tuesday the brig Mary, OSWALD, passed
through Aberdeen Bay, for Montrose, after a passage
of '29 days from Pictou ; and, on Thursday. the brig
Sprightly, MORISON, also arrived in the Bay. after
passage of a month from Miramiclii, where she kft
the Seven Sisters, BROWNIE, loading.

The Madeira, Rotseras, WAS captured 7th June, by
the Rambler American letter of marque, and after
plundering her of 80 casks of wine, gave her up.—
The Rambler was from Boston, bound to China.

The Sir Alexander Ball and the Nelly have been
retaken, and are arrived at Halifax.
The Crown Prince, from Newfoundland to Alicant,
has been sunk by the Rattlesnake American sloop
of• war.

The St. Jose, Indiaman, from Liverpool to the
Brazils, was carried into Portland early last month.
The York schooner privateer, of 14 guns and 120
men, sailed 23d June lag, from Baltimore, cm a zruize.
The Greenland Whale Fishery has this year been
uncommonly successful. By the accounts received
from Hull and the other out-ports most interested in
this commerce, it appears that almost every ship is
lull. The South-sea men also have been equally
fortunate.

The ship the Prince of Brazils has arrived from Rio
Janeiro and Pernambuco, which latter place she left
on the 23d June. On the 17th July she parted con-
voy. A few letters have been received from her, by
which we learn that it was fully expected the Royal
Court would soon be removed from Rio Janeiro to
Lisbon, but serious apprehensions were entertained as
to the future tranquillity of the Brastils, both from the
discontents in these settlements, and from the revolu-
tionary movements in the colonies by which they are
surrounded. The crop of cotton, we are told, is very
deficient in all parts of the country, and in some situa-
tions not one fourth, in others not one eighth of the
ordinary produce.
It is said, that by a vessel from New Brunswick,
Government have received accounts of a successful
enterprise against some American ships in the neigh-
bourhood of our own frontiers, when several of them
were destroyed by our ships of war on the station.
Specie was so scarce in the United States, that the
Banks of New York would not pay in cash what arc
called the branch notes, issuing from any of the places
south of Philadelphia. The Treasury Notes also
bearing an interest of .5 2-sths per cent, were, at New
York, at a discount oft per cent. and further north,
at a discount of 1 per cent. and even l I per cent.
Moose Island and the other Islands in Passama-
quoddy Bay, of which the Arnericans 114ve been dis-
possessed, were oririginally included within the limits
of the province of Novia Scotia, and since the erec-
tion of New Brunswick into a separate Government,
have formed a part of the latter province. Indivi-
duals from the American boundary have from time
to time established themselves on these Islands, and
by degrees extended their usurpations ; until the
American Government, actuated by a constant spirit
of encroachment, and encouraged by our forbearance,
proceeded to form a military post on Moose
and to dispute our claim to it. Our occupation of
the Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay will deprive the
Americans of the facility of carrying on an extensive
and profitable illicit traffic prejudicial to the interests
of this country.

71IF. PRINCRSS OF r4i:rs DEPARTURE.

WORTIIIVO, AUGUST 9.—A MU crowd assembled
here on the &eine. at tour olel•ck. to witness the
dcpartun• of the Princess of WALE% in the JASON fri.
gat which Isy off W•rthing since Saturday. She
arrived At the ~trine H.,tel at hall.past (ar, when
the Hon. C.ip..tiit Kiwo not being ready to receive
her on Ler at, she drove off with L 43v Coosa•

t.orrr. I.I•:ItiAV, another Lady, and the teret-7i
(Wm.: Ausrts:), to Sole' Lan: tot;, which le about
two Indes tr oat IVortbing, apparently wishing to
elude the pe.,pl.: who were waiting to we her embark.
Aftrr 'he had lett Worthing. C.eptain Kin appeared
on the beach, got into a smail boat, and about halt
way bets. ern the shore and I:IP JASON. Vr.'S met by
his own barge, which proceeded to Lancing for the
: her fernsilT domestics were taken on boat
from Wo:alling.
It is rather singid it, and, indeed, occasioned rtrich
surprise here, that the heads of the Bow-street Office
were at the Steine Hotel on die oceasisn. The Prin.
cess had one conspicuous article among her baggage,
viz. a large tin case, on which was p tinted, in white
letters—" Her Rey2l flighereee the Princess of Wet.
to be always (Oh her." Her Royal Highness had
on a dark cloth pelisse, with 1 tree gold clasps, and a
cap of violet and green satin, of the Prussi in hussar
costume, with a green feather. She and her suite
were conveyed to the barge in a small poney cart,
driven by her own coachman. All the carriages and
horsemen w:tielt had been on the beach at Worthing,
and as many pedestrians as could, followed her Royal
Highness to Lancing. When on boirJ the barge,
she kissed her hand to the females, who wave) their
handkerchiefs. The farewell was a silent enc. The
1 JASON sailed about seven o'clock.

The Duchess of WELLINGTON, in a travelling cha.
riot and sir. the servants. &c. and Attended by some

of the Royal Horse-Guards (blue), left ttiwn yever.
day morning for Dover, on her way to Paris.
The Earl and Countess of HAIIDWICXE, and Mr.
and Lady ELIZABETH \VIIITBRKAD, have embarked
at Dever for the Continent.

Yesterday, a few minutes before one o'clock, his
Rclal Highness the Duke ne Bertat arrived iu Lar.
don; he travelled in a carriage and sis—the carriage
dark, green, with the Royal French arms in gold.—
His carriage was followed by another of a similar de-
scription, and six horses, with his Royal Highness's
full Suite. These carri iges were followed by two
Dartford post-chni.e., with domestics. There were
three eut.eidersiwith the French Royal liveries, of
dark green and gold lace. The other livery servants
•

rode on the dickies.
The watering places have suffered materially this
season from emigration by the way 01 Dover to Ca-
lais, of Brighton to Dieppe, and of Gravesend to
Flanders, by Ostend. The Pickets for the latter
place have been uncommonly full for some tiir.e past.
—Tn the attractions of novelty and economy, which
induces great numbers to visit Flanders, is to he added
the British Army now occupying that beautiful collo.
try, and which has attracte.l great numbers of the
friends and relations of the Officers revving there.
The widow of one of the men `who was Wrist at
the Pagoda. in Sr. James's Park. nn the night of the
grand illumination, is to receive his pays an.i h r
sons, when of proper age, are to be entered. as work-
men in the arsenal of Won!wich.
Emu:tit-1x or LORD COCRRAUR rum Tut ORDER
OP Till BATH.—III CORSKIIIeRCe of a meeting of the
Knights of the Order of the Bath, at which a war-
rant was agreed upon, authorizing Faaticts Towa.
was. Esq. King of Arms of the Or,fer of the Bath,
t• remove Sir THONIAII COCIIN ANN (CfsrOMONIV COW
Lord Comte/me) from the Order, Mr. Toweastas
attended yesterday accordingly, with a s arrant signed
by Lord Vibcount SIDMOUTII. as Secretary of State
for the Home Department, a few minutes before one
o'clock. in King Henry Vllth's Chapel, Westmin-
ster Abbey, and proceeded to ascend a ladder placed
for that purpose, to remove the banner of 1.0f41
COCORANF: frOpl the situation, which was the fourth
from the top on the right side of the Chapel, between
those of Lord BRRISTORD and Sir Blume Sesame&

His Lordship's arms were afterwards unscrewed from
his stall. The helmet, cies., mantling. and sword,
and all his Lordship's insignia of the Order. were then
taken down from the top of the stall. The most de.
grading part of the ceremony then took place. that of
his Lordship's banner being kicked out of the chapel
and d. nn the steps by Mr. Townsen D.
Lord COCHRAN. has addressed a long letter to his
Constituents, in answer to the statement circulated by
his solicitors respecting the brief in his cause. On
the 25th ult. he put a number of queries to them,
which, after the lapse of near a fortnight, they said it
wauld be improper for them to answer. This °tea.
sioned the delay in the issuing of this v•niication. It
relates chiefly to the colour of l)e Braissisn's coat s
and it is added, that l)s BV.RINGILit himself 1i.4% owned,
since his confinement. that the coat in which he ap.
peered belore Lord COCHRANE was Jari I N.
This Jana has very appropriately been chosen vs
carry away the :Wee ilea?, which is shortly to enrich
acme petty S:ate on the Continent.
The report th it four companies of the 24 battalion
of the Sd Foot (or Bolls) had hen reduced, is un-
founded. It probably menaced from too hundred
men leaving Brighton to embark at Partway's, -tn.
der the command of Captain MURPHY. lC 'Jhs Ist
battalion lately gone from France to Amessca.
A TVA!!! or Howoult.—.l. meeting took place yet.
terday mexuing, in Mary-la-bonne kids, bo:wesos
Captain WV as. of the Royal Navy, am! Kline
11—x, of South street, blanellester.sinare.
parties met at an early hour, attended by eir sr.
conds. and the distance being masked nut, toe anal
signal was given. when they both fired. T.. f testier
received a severe wound in his kit alsoulders the lab
ter escaped without injury, the pistol of Captains W.
having missed fire.
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DESCRIPTION OF SLEEP.

BY LORD 'SYRON.

The crowd are gone, the revellers at rest;
'I be courteous host, and all-approving guest, •
Again to that accustomed couch must creep
Where joy sutnodes, and sorrow sighs to sleep,
And man o'er-Ihoured with his being's strife,.
Shrinks to that sweet forgetfulness of life :
There lie love's feverish hop-, and cunning's guile,
Hate's working brain. and luird ambition's wile,
O'er each vain eye oblivion's pinions wave,
And quench'd existence crouches in a grave. •
What better name may slumber's bed become ?
Night's sepulchre, the universal home,
Where weakness. strength, vice, virtue, sunk supine,
Alike in naked helplessness recline;
Glad fur awhile to heave uncumeitousbreath,
Yet wake to wrtstiewith the.dread of death,
And shun, thaw,* day but dawn-on ills increas'd,
That steep, the loveliest, since it dreams the least !

The Dtike of Yong, at the late Jubilee, directed that
the children of the Military Asylum should participate
in the national spectacle, and in consequence they
were all marched to the fair iu several divisions, eider
the escort of Seijeants, when every boy received 9d.
and every girl 6d. by the command of his Royal

Highness... •
As Ensign TRAVERS, Of the sd, or Prince Regent's
Own Regiment of Royal Lancashire Mili►ia, was
bathing in the Liffey, near Dublin, on Thursday,
the 4th instant, he incautiously ventured mit of his
depth ; And though accompanied by two of his bro-
ther Officers, who, like himself, couict`not swim, but

who used every possible and justifiable effort to rescue-
him from his perilous situation, yet he sunk to rise no
more. His body remained under water upwards of
twolours before it could be discovered, when cvery

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means to restore him that art could suggest, were im-
mediately resorted to; but the spark of life was ex-
tinct, and they unfortunately proved unavailing.—
He was a fine young man, aged 20. His remains,
which were interred on the 6th instant, were attended

to the grave by his own regiment, and the Offiters
of the Ist Royal Lancashire.
On Sunday morning, at twelve o'clocc, as two boys,
about 12 or 13 years of age, were bathing in the sea,
a little to the East of Hastings, a retreating wave
carried one of them out of his depth. By the exertions
cf his companion he was brought on shore, but not
till animation was in a degree suspended. Some of
the means recommended* by the Humane Society
were immediately bad recourse to, and we are happy
to say, were followed with success.
Sunday forenoon, a man abcint so years of age,
dropped down in the Relief Chapel, James's:place,
Edinburgh, and instantlyexpired.
Tuesday se'nnight a child of five years old was
killed at Douglas Mill, Angus-shire ; having fallen
into the water course, and dashed against the wheel.
Thursday se'nnight, Peter Totbes, who for many.
years carried timber from Strathspey to Fortes, was
found crushed to death beheath his loaded cart, which
by some accident was overturned on the road.
A Gentleman who was shipwrecked, thus writes
from South America:—" That excellent work of
:Johnson on Hot Chlorates, printed for STOCKDALE, 41,
; (it is equally important to those who have
resided in hot climates;) which you had the goodness
to send me, and which I read on beard, was loit isi
the wreck. It is an invaluable book, every one cons.'
ing out ought to have it. Indeed, 'it should form
part of the ship store. To my remembtance of its
contents, t owe my escape from all sicknees and the
enjoyment of perfect health."
scoove.—When Cabusac's Tragedy of the Boil
of Warwich (a subject which La Harpe afterward,
dramatised with better success) was first performed.
a mortal wound was given to the piece at the very
outset : the actor to whose lot it fell to recite the fobs
lowing line—
., Let England be transported to the midst of France !"
unfortunatvly dwelt upon it with peculiar emphasis,
which occasioned one of the wits in the pit to cry out,
" Make room for England, make room for Eng-
land !" This was enough ;it was impossible for
the piece to proceed amidst the clamour that was
raised, and the curtain dropped without its being
finieled.
STAGE•COACIIES. —ln the year 1572, when through.
out the kingdom only stage-coaches were constantly
going, a pamphlet was written by one Jrnos CRESSET,
'of the Chatter-house,for their suppression, and among
the many grave reasons given against their con-
tinuance is the. following: "These stage-coaches
make gentlemen'comc to London upon every small
occasion, which otherwise they would not do but
upon their necessity ; nay the conveniency of the
passage makes their wives often come up, who rather
than come such long journeys on horseback, would
stay at home. Here, when they come to town, they
must presently be in the mode, get tine clothes, go
to plays and treats, and by these means get such a
habit of idleness, and love for pleasure, that they are
uneasy ever after."
MYSTERIOUS CIRCUSISTANCL—A fine boy, the son
of Mr. Raimes, in Piccadilly, was on Sunday eveniag
last missed from his parents' house. It was known
that he had gone to the Park, and he was expected
home at eight o'clock : not. returning at nine. his pa-
rents became alarmed, and went in search of him.—
• Their pursuit, however, was ineffectual, he could not
.be found ; and although every means was taken to
olitam intelligence of him, he remained undiscovered
till Wednesday evening, when his father obtained a
traroient view of him, in a very genteel carriage, in
I-hde Park. He immediately pursued the vehicle,
tailed on the coachman to stop, and his request being
• complied with, he opened the door, and in an instant
his child was in his arms. A lady, who was in the
carriage, immediately handed out her card, and de-
sired the coachman to drive on. A crowd assembled
round the enraptured father, and in the hearing of,
many of the bye.standers, the boy said he had been
decoyed by the lady into her carriage, about the same'
Lour on Sunday, and had been driven to a fine house,
a shot t distance from town, but where exactly he could
not say. He was treated by the lady with great kinds
ness, but she • peremptorily refused, as be entreated
her, to nod him home. The card, on examination,
proved to be blank ; but whether this Was intended
cr accident, it is impossible to say. The boy is only
eight years of age, and is remarkably handsome.

Ldlit INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, AUGUST U.

Px PARTE SHIRLEY IN TIIE MATTER OF SRAGAM.
This was a Petition praying to have certain proofs
of debts under the banks upt's commission expunged.
It was stated by Sir 8. RotaILLY and Mr. MON,
TAGUE, flit the petitioner, that the bankrupt, Braham,
had formerly been an officer in the Marshalsea, which
he had quitted to enter into the glass trade. In that
business he had failed, and had contrived to meet all
his just debts to a considerable amount (to about
4€15,000) by accommodation bills, which were prov.
ed by various persons under the commission, and
thereby turned the choice of assignees and the chance
of obtaining his certificate entirely in the bankrupt's
favour. Among other debts proved against him
WAS one for £450, by !insister, Sarah Simmons, al-
though he had thrown her into Newgate for a debt
of £5O on his own admission, while be held money
of her's to nine times the amount of that sum. Now
the way he accounted for this was, that when Sarah
Simmons' husband died, he left the bankrupt 4E600,
as trustee for his wife and children. Out Of this sum
he paid 4150 to Susan Nathan, one of Sarah Sim-
mons's children ; and the reason he put the latter
into Newgate was, that she had contracted a habit
of drinking, and pawning her cloaths and other arti-
cles, for which (having advanced het 460) he put
her into prison, in the hopes of reclaiming her, instead
of paying himself out of her £450, which he consi-
dered as trust-money. Such conduct as this, Sir S.
Romilly said, in sending a woman to a gaol, the re-
ceptacle of all that was infamous, in order to reclaim
her, was worse than procuring false proofs of the
debts under his commission. Under these circum-
stances, it was hoped his Lordship would grant the

prayer of the petition.
Mr. HART and Mr. CULLEN, for the bankrupt,
contended, that this application was only meant to
harrass the bankrupt, and to keep him longer in pri-
son, where he had already been confined for ten
months. It was also very hard for him to be accused
of collusion with two men, (the assignees) one of
whom was since dead, and the other was insane. As
a proof of the truth of the bankrupt's statement, they
had a receipt from Sum Nathan for £l5O, being
part of the money left by her father. Besides, the
Coniinissioners had expressed themselves satisfied
with all the bankrupt's answers; and therefore it was
trusted, That his Lordship would refuse the prayer of

the petition:
The Lonti CUA24CELLOR said, that as to the Com-
missioners being satified with his answers, he did not
think Oat their enquiries had been directed to the
right point. As.to the proof of Sarah Simmons's
debt, he put it to any one, if he could believe that
any such debt existed. His Lordship asked Mr.
Hart if the bankrupt would consent to allow it to go
to a Jury, to see whether any such debt existed ?
Mr. HART said,,if his Lordship made any such
order, he must of course consent to it, on the part
of the assignee.
The LORb CHANCELLOR said, that it was a singu-
lar circumstance, that this bankrupt should Contrive,
by proving on bills, to meet all the jtist debts of the
other creditors; but he would loot into the proceed.
tugs, and if he found that true, in this case, which,
he then suspected, he would send an account of it to
every Court in Westminster-Hall, that the attornies
might be held'out in their proper colours. He was
determined, by every just and legitimate means, to
crush, as fat as 't by in his power, all conspiracies
for the proof Of debts; and he could name, it he
pleased, seiretal offices which were now open to en•
able bankrupts to proture proofs of debts to any
amount, and so obtain their certificates; but he was
determined never to grant a certificate to any man
who should be found to have admitted the proof. of
one false debt under his commission. In this case,
be would take the whole of the proceedings home
with him, and peruse them with all the attention he
was .vaster of; and in the mean time, it must stand
ever till Monday.

LY-X•ARTE DUNMAN IN THE MATTER OF DUNMAN.

This was a petition by the bankrupt, who sued in
forma taufieris, praying that his commission should be
superseded, or that his Lordship would order an en.
quiry to be made into the manner in which the As-
signees had managed and disposed of the bankrupt's
estate. The petition stated, that he was a grocer, to
Aldgate High-street, and that he also carried on at
similar concern in Bishopsgate-street. That having
broken off a matrimonial connection, for which he
was threatened with a prosecution for a breach of
promise, he was advised to go abroad, which he did,
and went to Portugal, with the view of joining the
allied army under the Duke of Wellington, where he
intended to act as a merchant and agent. He took
with him ill 00, his property at that time amounting
to about &SOO% and his debts to £3(00, which he
left sufficient money to pay. In Portugal he was ar-
rested by a person sent out by, the Assignees, under
a warrant from the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs. He was put on board the Leopard, and
brought to England, confined among the wet cables,
in the • cable tier. The good-will of his business,
which had been valued a few days before lie went
abroad at £l5OO, had been sold to a brother of one
of the Assignees ler £4lO, and the advertisement for
the sale ot his lease, stock, &c. never specified the
street in which this valuable grocery business was
carried on, so that it had not received a fair sale.—
besides, the Assignees had paid the person who ar-
rested him out ot the surplus which should have come
to the bankrupt, who had, before his departure, exe-
cuted a trust-deed in favour of those very Assignees,
as well as of all his other creditors. On these grounds,
Sir SAMUEL Rosmcv and Mr. CULLEN, for the bank.
rupt, contended that he had been grievously oppressed,
and treated like a felon, although he had committed
no crime in tins or any other country ; that the con-
duct of the Assignees, in disposing of the property at
an under value to their relations, was very improper;
and they, therefore, submitted to his Lordship, that
the bankruptcy should be superseded altogether.
Mr.• HART and Mr. MONTAGUE, on the other side,
contended, that these Assignees were as respectable
and well-known men as any in London. They had
applied to several auctioneers to purchase the good-
will of the business; when, not being able to get
more than £4OO offered for it, it was then sold for
£4.10. it was Weed true that the bankrupt had left
checks with all his creditors, but no assets in the hands
of his bankers to pay them with. The person who
apprehended him, ou'his arrival in Portugal, could

'hear nothing of Mr. Dunman, but he learned the Ir.
rival of a Captain Thompson, who he thought an-
swered the description of the person he was in pursuit
of. It accordingly proved to be Mr. Duriman, the
grocer,
wrapped up in a grey military gicat coat,
with a black stock and a wig on. When told that
they had come for him, he said—" Bless me, are you
come for me ; I was advised that my creditors could
not follow me abroad ; and them are persons here
who live in srlendottr, who are never sought after by
their creditors ! If I had been aware of this, and had
not acted under the erroneous advice of my legal ad-
visers,• I would have been of to America, and not
have come here " [This statement was denied by
the bankrupt, who was in Court, but Mr. MONTAGUE
read the affidavit which contained it.] The sale of
all the property had been fair and open, nor had any
one of the creditors objected to that or any part of
the management and disposal of the estate. There
was, therefore, no rea' on for an enquiry into the con-
duct of the Assignees, although they consented to it,
and wished that it might be most fully locked into ;
and there certainly was ao ground whatever for su-
perseding the Commission on a petition like the pre-
sent, which was founded on nothing but disappoint-
ment and irritation.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, otte was always very
sorry when one found A ssigneesdisposing of any part of
a bankrupt's estate to their own relations. It was, no
doubt, very frequently dcne in the most fair and up-
right manner possible ; but still a man of delicacy
would abstain from it entirely. In this case, he thought
the petitioner was entitled to an enquiry into the con-
duct of his Assignees, and he directed the parties to
go before the Master for that purpose. As to super-
seding the Commission on the ground of there being
no act of bankruptcy, he was clearly of opinion, that
the going to Portugal was an act of bankruptcy, as
well as the execution of the trust-deed ; he, therefore,
could not order the Commission to be superseded.
The bankrupt then addiessed his. Lordship as to
some other points for the Master's enquiry ; •and his
Lordship told him that every thing should be looked
into.

POLlCE.—Gettnn t.L.—Yesterday Won. 7 Aonigh a
drover, was examined before the Sitting Aldermanion
a charge t‘f cruelty. A respectable inhAitant of
Smithfield stated, that tl:e defendat.t was oh ,erved
beating a sheep over the head, in a most brutal way.
The animal was bleeding, and the man by his gene-
ral conduct appeared a proper object for punishment.
The defendant said, in extenuation of his conduct,
that he bad only beater. the sheep over the horns, but
it was proved that his cmuluct was highly inhuman,
and the Magiitrate fined him in the full penalty given
by the Act of Parliament.
HATTON GARDEN.—Yesterday T. Thorpe, pnrter to.
Mr. Read, tobacconist, of Gray's-inn-pass a;e, was
charged with forgery. The first cl.&:irge was that of
writing and delivering a note to Messrs. 'Faddy and
Co. tobacconists, in lie Minories, in the name of Mr.
Parry, of Leather-lane, by which he obtained anuan-
tity of tobacco and snuff. Mr. Lloyd, partner in the
banking-house of Taylor and Co., Lombard-street,
stated.that. on the 3d instant, the prisoner came into
their house, with a check for £1.1.7, purporting to be
drawn by T. Ceale, tobacconist, in Whitechapel ;
that the clerk who took the check, said it was not Mr.
Ceale's Writing. The prisoner answered, it was the
son's ; the clerk was then going into the inner office
to shew it to the partners, when the prisoner ran away,
and was pursued but escaped. He was remanded.

Itasosr-HALL.—The following curious attempt at
imposition was detected, in the presence of the Ma-
gistrates, at this Office, yesterday. Clennon, the
officer, was sent for to the shop of a haberdasher and
hosier, in the Borough, to take two soldiers into cus-
tody, who were behaving in a riotous manner. On
his arrival at the shop, the officer found two soldiers
there, one of whom said he had lost his protection,
and reB in Bank-notes, which he had left in the shop
or. the counter, after he had purchased some stock-
ings.- The master of the shop said it was impossible
the case could have been left there, as no person had
been to that part of the shop where the compltinant
said he had left it. Upon his saying this, the other
soldier swore that he, the shopkeeper, had got the
money, 'anti that his looks betrayed him. Under these
circumstances, Glennon not being able to sett& the
dispute, all the parties went to Union-Mall. Here the
soldier again detailed his loss, and his comrade re-
peated his suspicions of the.shopkeeper. At this time
Glennon, by accident, knocked the hat of the soldier,
who had accused the shoAcepe,r—, out of his hand,
and in its fall saw so.nething In the crown of it which
excited his suspicions; and on closer cx +ruination, he
discovered the protecticn Case, knil the mom.), which
had bees missed. This changed the face cf affairs
akogether. The soldier who had lost his money was,
urged to make a charge Against his comrade ;--but
this he could not be induced to do ott any account,
declaring he considered his comrade as a more he,:
nuurable man than any General in the King's ter-
vice ; and was sure he did not know of the mcney
being in hiss hat. No .charge being prt•letrfid against
any one, the Magistrate discharged them all ; but
cautioned the soldiers against trying such experiment.
again, lest the results should be snore I:toious titan
would be pleasant.
BRUTAL OUTRAGE.—As a young woman, of most
respectable appearance, was walking in the fields lead-
ing to Primrose•hil), Chalk Vann, on Wednesday
evening alone, she was accosted by three ruffians, in the
attire of gentlemen, who appeared to have been drink-
ing freely, and who, in the most unmanly manner;
took advantage of her unprotected state, seized her,
and in despite of her resistance, tied her clothes round
her neck, and in that state left her till relieved by
some of her own sex, whose assistance she implored
from a ditch, in which she had secreted herself. She
has given an ample description of the monsters to the
'Police-officers, who have obtained a due, which, we
trust, will lead to their apprehension.
It is perhaps not generally known that a strong de.
eoction of Quassia is sufficiently effectual for killing
flies. It is at the same time perfectly fife, when
taken into the human stomach, the proportions are of
little consequence ; but, as a general rule, ttt-o ounces
of Quassia, (which may be had at any drug.shop) to
a quart of water, to be boiled to about a pint, strained,
and a little sugar or molasses added to it. If this be
attended to, and it, to avoid mistakes and imposition,
'.people will eeke thp trouble to make it to- themselves,
t he possibility a: accidents occurring will be prevented.