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London, England, 1802-10-30 00:00:00

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The Bonaparte packet, with (even' paffengers,
among whom was Lord Lowovoaa, failed 'aft
night.for France.
- The Pailica's barriers threw off yefterday' by
Patchans Windmill, attended by a field of upwards
of 6o fportfluen. The weather was damp and
unfavourable ; fome good fport took place not-
withttanding, and a brace of hares were borne, in
triumph from the field. Some dathing belles were
alfo prefent, whofe intrepidity atcl fpirit might,
teachthe beans of quality to ride.
Amtrak—Lord and Lady Orernitte, Lady Cmndford, Mr.
and Mrs. T. Mash Lard Kirendbright, Dowager Lady Vincent,
1 Lady Motes, Lady A. Dailiwood, Sr T. and Lady Clark, 1
Sr W. and
atm
Smith, Sir T. Smith Barges, de Hon. Mrs.
Dauer, 'sync, Mr. T. Rogers, Mr. S. Buckingham,
Mr. Mr. &I MIA Lek* Mr. C. Sankh, Mr. Jellicoe,
Mr. F Mr. and Mts. Brown, Mr. Itt Out, Mr.
Comp; Mr. Wheelie, &e.
- DepartarsoLady Martin, Hon. Mifs Byron, Mr. and
MTS.-T. Powell, Mr. W. Powell; Mr. T. Teagle, Mrs. Grove,
:rl.l Mitchell, Mifs Smith, Mrs Pargrove, Mr. C. &Melte,
Mr. Wood, Mr. Thortton, MO. Walter, Mrs. AC., Lade
. , Mrs. Thornton, and the Atebbighop of Cantata:7.

Colonel Gasviat.s, driving his curricle along
King-ftreet, Saint James's, yefterday, one of the
honks fell, and the other came down above hint.
While they lay kicking on the ground, the Colonel
leaped out and efcaped without injury.
On the firft day of November next every pro.
prietor of -wool. Bank Stock will have transferred
to him or her 251. Navy Five per Cent. being at
the rate of Two and a Half per Cent. Navy Five
per Cent. Annuities, on their refpeaive interefls.
The -Right Hon. the Governor in Council of
Madras has been pleafed o.declare a dividend of
80,000 pagodas to the creditors of his Highnefs
the Nabob of the CARKATIC.
The Governor of Madras has aboli(bed the fe-
potato command of the Province of Canara, and
has direaed that the troops in that province !hall,
in future, be under the immediate orders of the
Officer commanding in Malabar.
A Society is forming in London, in forme re-
fpeas fimilar to the Galvanic Society at Paris; its
objea being the ufe of the Metal& I'n:dice in the
diforders Of the Poor. Several meetings of dif-
interelled perfons have taken place at the Crown
and Anchor on the fubjea. Men, of Science,
among whom are come Noblemen, have already
concurred in promoting the meafure. The etlab-
lifhment is to be called the Peri:hum bylitutioa.
Lan week the firft none for a new County
Gaol was laid at Cambridge upon the fcite of the
Clil Cattle.
The Pickpockets, or .bivers, as they are called,
congaed a very-pretty booty at Newmarket. One
Gentleman loft i 70 guineas out of his pocket.
A trufs of muffins, send a trunk, containing
wearing apparel, belonging to a Lady of Bath,
were on Monday ftolen fiam the Gloucefter coach,
on its way to that city, :4-44,-",1 ~- -, '
On Monday 'ino4rlnft, between one and two
o'clock, a wan :ciitine &anger in one of
the coaches tai the con's 'Bft-- d Inn, is Bull-
ftreet Birmingham, left his bed in a Rate if men-
tal
derangement, and without any other cloaths
on than his flirt, got oat of the chamber window
into the yard; from whence .bo fcitled a` wall at
the bottom thereof, (tuck with pieces of glafs bot-
tles, and defcended into the coach yard adjoining.
His lamentable outcry on Waddling, from the
ihocking manner in wiaich hal* cuthimfelf, in
climbing over the wall,--alarmed the watchman
and the neighbourhood, who coining to his af-
finance, found him lying on the ground covered
with wounds and blood. He was intnieltately
carried back to the inn, and medical alliance
being fent for, it was judged unefarT VP. bats.
him properly confined, to prevent his atteapting
any further violence on himfelf. It feats, by
fome papas found in his pockets, that the unhappy
man has friendsliving in Lonatmln whom stincg'
has been feat of his p y ateationl
;and that what led to tellkagaill'Ve4beetioned.
'was an opinion which prep6frefed'his win & that
Ate was purfued, in order to be copy:Tido:prow

LAW INT EL LICENCE.
PALACE couitt OCT. s 9.
ISCDIIIII V. bourn.
The plaintiff in this tare was, at the time the
debt accrued, the landlady of a public.houfe, the
Nelfon's Head, in Bake-ftreet, Portman-fquare.
The defendant had beta a gentleman's valet, and
being out of place went to board and lcSige at the
plaintiff's : a debt then accrued of i al. tss. for
board and lodging, and 31. 155. for wine and other
articles, making.together the flan of. i6l. tos. for
Which the action was brought. Elk. Mites, the
daughter of the plaintiff,' depofed, that the defen-
dant lodged and boarded for a confiderable time at
her mdther's bode, in company with feveral others,
whoilfo lodged and boarded there; that they lived
very well indeed, and that the was of opinion that
the price charged, viz. ip. a week for board and
as. a week for lodging, was a reafonable price for
the entertainment he received, and, that all the
other lodgers and boarders paid tl-: fame price.—
She alto proved a debt for 31. zss. fbr wines, &c.
to treat his friends. John Chiftor, the ,fervant of
the plaintiff, alto depofed to the fame circum-
fiances of the board and lodging. The defence
fet up was, that the 'defendant bad lived all this
time with the plaintiff, not as a perfon undertak-
ing to pay for his board and lodging, but as a
companion,to the plaintiff, cohabiting with her as
a bufband ; and that confequently the was not in a
&tition to bring an as againft him fo as to re
cover it ; this was attempted to be proved in the
firft inftance thrdugh the medium of crofs exa-
mining the plaintiff's witneffes, who in anfwer to
the queftions put to them -Whether they knew of
any fuch cohabitation, or whether the defendant
had. Reed in the capacity' of wafter of the houfe ?
maft'pofitively declared, they had not any know-
ledge either of inch cohabitation, or his ailing as
matter.
The defendant's Counfet.then called three •wit-
neffes to prove the cafe, but he alto failed in that.
—He then called, to prove a fet-off of 51. Jafper`
Milken, who-proved that he lent the defendant
five one pound notes at the George, in Vere-ftreet,
'Qxford Road, for the purpofe of lending the fame
funs to the plaintiff, to affift in paying the brewer;
'ha raw hint lend it her.. He was Aed as to his
itnowledge of the defendant aaing as mafter of the
houfe, or of any cohabitation, neither of which he
could (peak to.
Mr. AGAR, in a very animated fpeech, molt fe-
verely reprobated this moft atrocious defence, and
then entered.into a .hiftory of the tranfaaions be-
tween the parties. The defendant being a valet
Out Of place, came on the 19th of January left, to
lodge and board with the plaintiff, who had feveral
of a like defcription lodging and boarding with her
at the rate of tss. per week for board, and as. for
lodging. There he continued until the 18th of
June following, without pay ; when, growing
tired of his delays, (he thought proper to ouft him.
It had been made appear •by one of the . defen-
dant's own witneffes, that a guinea per week would
not have been more than a fair puce. How did
he endeavour to repay the treatment he received
from the' plaintiff ? By raifing a fiaitious demand
againft her of sal. i Bs. and alto of ffimulating all
her creditors againft her, in which he fucceeded fo
far, that the was not only a fuitor in that Court,
but unfortunately a prifoner alto. As to the de-
fence itfelf, having beard much of the privilege of
ParliamentAmbich,thoughit proteaed the perfon
of the individual, did not his goods • he was this
day to hear, for the firft time, of &privilege of
which, ufe attempted made
of fromwa sto prot piston be
pro-
perty. .
perty. GOD forbid fuch a defence ()maid ever, be
held in a Court of LAW or Juftice ; the attempt
even to.fet up fuch a plea was infamous and un-
grateful in the extreme, and wasott a whit' the
better for the profligate charaam or- the witheffes
who attempted to fupport it.
The learned Judge, in a very.cone nner,
fummed up the evidence in fupport of the p ntiff's
demand, which he confidered as completely prov-
ed, allowing the 51. as a fet nff, which reduced the
demand to 14. tits. He then proceeded to Rate
the law of the cafe. That if a man goes to a wr-
man's houfe to board, lodge, and cohabit with her,
undertaking fo to do, the could not maintain- an
anion againft him for fuch board and lodging ; on
the contrary, if he goes to her houfe, undertaking
to pay for his board and lodging, though he night
poffibly afterwards cohabit with her, yet the was
entitled to recover. The Jury would confider
how far that bore on the prefent cafe, and find
accordingly.—The Jary found fur the plaintiff—
Damages 111. tot.

OLD BATLEY.

Yeflerday ftventeen prifoners were tried at the
Old Bailey, ten of whom were canvided of fe-
lony, viz.
Midas! Lag, for healing a coat, the property
of R. Richards.

• Ekselieth Kero, for Dealing two goirns and odic:
articles, the property of H, Prichard.
W. Nan, for Dealing a leather trunk, the pro-
perty of j. Day. . •
• C. ketfiesev, for Dealing 31bs. weight of Spanifh
Juice, the property of J. Garcia: and T. Lewis.
F:Robert.r, for Dealing twelve quarts of peak
and other articles, the property of Meffrs. Field
and- Co.
• yam fames, for Dealing a pewter pint pot, the '
property of J.• Hayton.
W. Piclisu, for Dealing aolbs. weight of iron
nails, the property of J. and W. pickfon.
yerier for burglarionfly-ftealing in the
dweßing-honfe of Mrs. Barry, on Saturday the '
18th of September laD, three coats, a pair of trow.
fers; two handkerchiefs, half a guinea in gold, ,
•aiict eleven SO:4:in raver, the 'property of James
•
.;b16411 Misty; a coal.heaver, thus related the ,
'art ntoßssiees.of his loft :—He is a lodger in the
-hoe& of Mrs. Bum No. 6, Biag4treet, War.
+Wig. He is one of •three who have beds, ail. to
one room. , He kept.• his money and part of 'his.
elpothe in oboe in distrocon. Oa the moils e
Saturilky, SepteaVra ittb, he 'vent to bad is
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The Inocuto.Were yon awakened by an?
itnefs../eaei leildthif- tipster ihmourjor, I war
.".-TtfeTrifoner, a lodge; in the fame rootn, had
not then come in ; nor (14 be 'arrive while Canty -
remained awake. Next morning, It an early
hour, the witnefs found that his eloaths and mo-
ney were gone. Upon infp_rmation, he went not
long after to St. George's watch-houfe, where he
faw his cloaths and money taken from the perfon
of the prifoner.
Catharine Barry, In whcfe houfe the robbery
was committed, depofed, that the prifoner Parron
did `not come in that evening till about twelve
o'clock. After taking Tome viauals the prifoner
went up to bed. On account of the Hinds of a
child the witnefs did not go to bed till about three
o'clock in the morning. Soon after the prifoner
came in the had fattened the greet door, but the
would not fwear pofitively that the back door was
locked. About half pall one‘lhe heard fnmebody
Coming. down (lairs, and allied who .was that
was going out at Inch an unfeafonahip. time tithe
morning? Barron, whofe voice I ittlairt aut-
fwered, that he was goings," Ardulso*
this time he never returned th.
following morning the se' • .atittne
watch-houfe, when he paid her which
he then owed. The prifoner, on. the fame oer.4-
fion, made ufe of Come very extraordinary expref-
lions. He obferved that " he could never keep his
hands to himfelf when he was drunk, but he could
when he was fober !" Tt was evident that if the
prifoner got out at all, he got out the back way;
and this witnefs proved that the wall was not too
high to prevent his efcape.
John Guy refides, he laid, at No. 14, Ship.
'Levet, at the diftance of not more than 300 yards
from thchonfe of Mrs. Barry. On the morning
of Sunday, Oaober ad, as early as five o'clock,
he alias alarmed by his neighbours, who had lien
a man enter his houfe, or attempt to go out of it.
He arofe, and went into the kitchen. The back-
door was open. One of the front windows had
been broken. The prifoner fat afleep on a chair,
with his bead leaning on a table. Some eloatbs,
which were afterwards owned by Canty, lay on
the floor betide' the prifoner. Mr. Guy fent to
Mr. Dunbar, a conftable, who carried the prifoner
to St. George's watch-houfe.
The prifoner was found—Guilty of the theft, to
the value of 39 :billings—not of the burglary.
Anne-irtater and Alum Either, for ftealing a el.
bank note from the perfon of John grney, a Chel-
fea petitioner, on the morning of the 2d of Oaober
intl. They are common proftitutes, of the mean-
eft clafs, and of the moll uninviting appearance.
He came to town from Chelfea with one of them,
on the evening of the ift- of Oaober. He slept
with them both in one bed, at a houfe in High-
ftreet, Weaminfter. Between four and five one
of them went away with his money. He went for
a conflable as foon as he was aware of the theft.
The nymphs were taken in a roach ; and the mo-
ney was, all but four thillings and eight-pence, re-
covered. Mr. Jones and Mr. Goodenough, the
two conftables who feized the prifoners, confirmed
the evidence of Erney.—The women were both
found Guilty.
And fevin were acquitted, among whom
CMARGS OR WADER.
Elsner Crylel, a poor woman who lived by car-
rying loads in Covent-Garden market, was charged
with the murder of her female baflard child, by
choaking, fuffoeating, and.fmothering it in a ne-, -
ceffary, at No. 2, Middlcfex-court, Drury-lane, on
the 16th of this month.
The nature of this cafe was filch that delicacy
forbids us to enter into any detail of the particulars.
From the evidence of feveral witneffes it was
clearly-proved that. the prifoner had been delivered
of a child on the evening when the murder was
fuppofed to have been prepetrated.. There was
however, no fatisfaaory evidence that the chiki
was born alive.
Richard Simmons, a man-midwife, in Brownlow-
ftreet, faid, that he was applied to by the Coroner
to examine the child, and give his opinion whether
or mot it was born alive. He opened it, and found
the lungs inflated, and fwimmiug in water ; bat
could not take upon him to fay that it was,born
alive, for children often die in the atct of delivery;
a Engle gull of breath would inflate the lungs,
and the conclufion to be drawn from their fwim-
ming in water could not be depended on. Had
the rungs not been inflated, and had funk to the
bottom, he fhould have no difficulty in pronounc-
ing that the infant was ftill•born. When he faw
it in three days after the fuppofed delivery, the
body was petted, and not in a putrid Rate.
• The prifoner faid no more in her defence than
that the did not know that the was with child.
Mr. Baron THOMPSON, who tried the caufe,
after recapitulating the evidence,-obferved that the
faa of the child being born alive, wasby no means.
proved. The molt eminent Surgeons were of opi-
nion, that the leaft gafp of breath was fufficient to
inflate the lungs, and the Man-midwife had in-
formed them, that their fwimming in a liquid, was
an appearance notio be depended on ; accidents,
he faid, of premature delivery, were frequently
known to happen in violent complaints in the
bowelsa without perhaps the woman being con-
fcions of it. Thefe were confiderations worthy
of their attest' tian,;.before they found the prifoner
guilty of Murder ; send if they had any reafOna-
ble doubts, it was their duty to acquit her.—Not

Guit. -
,
The prifoner was a wretched looking woman,
apparently near so years of age, and was fo feeble
And languid, that the Court granted her the indul-
gence of a chair.

CHILD STEALIND.
Sarah Harvey was indided for felonionfly (feel-
ing a cotton frock, a beaver cap, a linen flirt, and
a pair of aloes (being the apparel of an infant) the
property of Zechariah Wealthdale:
It appeared in the courfe of the evidence, that
the profecutot's wife, Sarah Wealthdale, was met
by the prifoner, who hid every appearance of an
artlefa country gill, in Norton Fatigue, about two
(o'clock on the a4th of September. Mrs. Weal b.
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timer inquired of her, whether the Chethont flap
had gone by, or at what time it was likely,to go
She to/dher-fhe did not know; but was induced
by the plaufibility of her appearance to accompa-
ny her to the Bull Inn, in Bilhopfgate-ftrcet there
they learned that the 'coach in queftion fet of at
half pat three. The prifoner then beged of her,
as being an abfolute ftranger in thole parts, to
permit her to top at her (Mrs. Wealthdale's)
place, until that hour. This the could not com-
ply with, but they walked together as far as Shore-
ditch Church, when the prifoner propofed refre
ing themfelves with a pint of beer. -The propofal
was accepted • they had the beer on the bench at ,
the door. The prifunet made love to the child,
took it in her arms and fondled it, while the mo-
ther was engaged with the &kith beverage. The
prifoner appeared fuddenly to recollea that the t
had a coufin jut by, who the knew would be de-1
lighted to fee fo tweet a baby, and the begged per-
riiffion to take it to her ; it was only jut round,
the corner—the would be back in four or five mi-
nutes. Accordingly, the mother parted with her
child. andmore than ten minutes had elapfed with-
out the heat appearance of its return Her feel-
ings may be eater conceived than defcribed---flie
ran round the cotnet, alarmed the neighbours, and
interefted many of them in her behalf. A man of
the name of Warner, one-of the witneffes, with
great fpirit and humanity, undertook to fearch af-
ter the prifoner; be -got an accurate defcription•
of her perfon, and the drefs, &c. of the child, from
'Mrs. Weakhdale.- He fet out on his million, anitJ
in confequence of his fedulous enquiries, found:the
prifoner the was fitting by the road fide, with
the child in her arms, nearly oppofite Kingfiand
Chapel, at a diflance of about a mile and a half
from Shoreditch Church, the place where the ob-
tained thethild. She faid, that in confequence of
the inadvertence of her coufin We miffed her way;
bad no intention of taking away the child ;was
forty thd mother was uneafy. She put her own
handkerchief abont.the child's head to ptevent its
catching cold, and, finally, accompanied Warner
to the place where he left the anxious mother.—
They found her near Shoreditch Church, with a
conftable ready, to whofe care the prifoner was of
cowrie configrd.

It appearid, that in fume` converfation with the
officer, the acknowledged that the took the child
at the tnftigatioa of her lifter, who, on her remon.
&rating agamft fa& an employment, told her that
as the was a Rranger in town, and' a country girl,
the could do the bufinefs better than herfelf.
This was the jett of the evidence againft the pH-
roner, who, on being called on for her defence,
faid, that the had no intention of hurting the child;
the anent to take it down into the country as her
own. No witnellin appeared in her behalf.
Mr. Baron THoursos, in the- courts of his
Charge to the Jury on this occa6on,ebferved, that
they were to bear in mind the indiament upon
which the "'Moser was tried, which was for Reel-
ing the articles of apparel laid therein, and which,
it appeared, were the clothes the child had on
when k was taken by the pawn* they Irma be
fates in ibcks cote, 'by the evidence, that the
"Arian bad-an intention of Reading the clothes
chargt:ci, fad convert them to her own rife, as
by ftripptorthe child, &c. this they would belt
*Ake from attending clofely. to the evidence, and
the cantina of tbe prifoner m that refpea ; they
Sped fapprfft whatever indignation they may
feel at the d'oner's taking the child away, and
fokly et her condua with refpe& tolhe alle-
gations of she indiament.
Aftena fkort conference, the Jury pronounced
a verdia of Not Guilty.
The prifoner is a young girl about twenty, and
ef great appatent fimplicay the' was decently
dre fed.

—.agar %YILL SESSIONS, OCT. sg. •
Ja.cs ra indicted in the July Sefton: IA
- for picking the pocket of Mr. Wm.-Woolhoufe, of
a pocket book, was yefterdar arraigned for the
above offence, and the fait being proved, was con-
Tilted and ftntenctd" to be tranfported for (even

years,
John Wiliam was indicted for uttering two
falfe and counterfeit pieces of money as good and
current guineas,' a publican of the name of Hill,
who depoibd, that he keeps the White Lion pub.
is houfe, in Wych4treet, Drury Lane and that
on the morning of the s3th of Ottober inilant,
the prifoner, in company, with four others, came
to his houfe, when they drank Tome fpirits, which
cane to one (billing, in payment for-which the
prifaner gave him (what he foppofid to be) a
guinea. In lefs than an hour after the prifoner,
with another man, again came to his haute, drank
fome more liquor, and gave another guinenin pay..
meat ; but not having 'enough change by haV.ip.
crown, the man who was with the prifoner add,
if he could get a bottle, he would take home a
bottles of gin. The profecutor accordingly filled ;
the bottle, and there remained three pence due to
the prifoner' who Paid he would call for it ano.
*her time. A than time afterwards a cußomer
tame in for change for a ten pouna note, the pro.
fetutor gave him the guineas from a pocket in
which none other were depolited, and they were
both proved bad. On the say to the public of.
Ice, whither they dire&ly went, they met the pri.
loner in the beet, and apprehended him. He
Was found Guilty, and fentenced to be imprifoned
fist months.

Es van Lsv.—Anew feffions-hoafe is tole ereaep
for conduaingthe bufinefs of the Eakßiding.
Mr. JOHN HALL, a well known Grocer, at Go.
theriburgh, in Sweden, died
hi lately in the 63d Year
of s age, having mailed the lately
of eighty btu
of
At Patcham, near Brighton, on Thurfday laft,
a couple entered into the holy bands of wedlock,
whofe ages added together, amount to 140 years,
the bride being 65, and the Oridegroorn 75. The
bridegroom received his bride from the hand of a
rtfos aged 65, and the bridemaid is on the wrong
Fide of 60.. This fond pair appeared highly de-
iislised with their new &nation, and ht the even-
ing gave a handfotne nuptial jai at their ref-'
at Withcicap. -4. •

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