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London, England, 1806-09-10 00:00:00

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ldV7 liLLIGENCL

PALACE COURT, SEPT. s.
lIIVIILD V. 10MM GROOM.•—•VnOT ILICIP.

This action was brought to recover of the Defers•
dant the fum of 91. 19s. Gd. (it was fo laid to remit
a removal to another Court) ; that fum, or that
amount, having been put in his hands as a flake,
holder, to abide the event of a font race, between the
Plaintiff Edward Bifield, and William Groom, the
brother of the Defendant. The bet was made that
Bifield and' Groom fhould run five miles for five
pounds each; the former not being of equal celebrity,
was to be allowed five minutes, which he might take
fink or tall. Bifield chofe the latter, and his Counfel,
Mr. Haar, contended that as he had won on that
point, he was entitled to recover. He then called his
Sitneffes.
Thomas Rtnmer was prefent at the making the
bet, and at flaking the depofit. Meld being at the
moment lhort of money, he flaked his watch aad a
(even fhilling piece againft 51. and another (even
ling piece ; he was at the race, and indeed ran before
them. It was not a regular five miles they ran. It
was from the Plough, at Little Ealing, to the Red
Cow at H.mmerfmith. Groom certainly came in
&ft ; but llifield well faved his time of five minutes
allowed him.
Richard Wellon, in his examination in chief, (poke
to the fame points precifely, but on his crnfs•examina-
tion by Mr. AGes, wholly altered the cafe. The bet
was made not limply for a running match, but a
ruaLtialmatch ; the parties were to come heel and toe
to the ground each time, or forfeit. Mr. Bifield, in
place of doing that, ran right on as lot:g as he in
tended, which was, till he taw he had 1011, and he
could not on his oath fay, he had 1011. The Judge
held there could be no pretense for the aftion, and
the Plaintiff was non-luited.

MARSHALSEA COURT, SEPTEMBER 6. I
HAMMOND V. WIMPY.
This was an salmi brought by the Plaintiff, a 1
publican at Poplar, to recover a fum of abnut 31. for
provillons furuithed to the Defeadant. The circum-
fiances laid before the Jury were fingular : It appear-
ed that the Plaintiff had entertained at his bottle, for
many weeks, a man of the name of Wortley, who
had run up a bill with him. His debtor had abfeon-
ded, aad the Plaintiff hearing of the prefent Defen-
dant, who refitted in the neighbourhood, concluded,
without any farther enquiry, that he was the man
who owed him the money. He fent him &ft an
attorney's letter, to which no anfwer was returned ;
he then proceeded regularly in his aBion, which was
defended. A witnels (leofe that he had demanded
the money if the Defendant, who had not difavowed
the debt, but (aid he would not pay it. Upon the
mots examination of the witnels, he was aficed, if he
fhould know the Defendant t He Paid, be certainly
ilkould. The real debtor-then came forward, and the
wand's (aid be was not the man. The Defendant in
the fuit theft appeared, and the witnels exclaimed
that he was the perfoo. The Counfel for the Defen-
dant Werra, the real debtor was ready to (wear
that the obligation was due from him, and not from
the Defendant ; of this the Plaintiff had been ap-
prifed, but he had obflinately perfifled in purfuing
his anion. The Defendant declared he had never
fern the Plaintiff in his life, and had never ate or
drank at his coll. The aival debtor acknowledged
he had done both, and was willing to pay the de-'
snand as rope as it was in his power. The Plaintiff
made a Ling harangue, in the clunk o•f which he
laid the blame ppm) his attorney. The Plaintiff was
uon.(uitcd.

POLICR, Ice.
Monday, a gentleman like man dreffed in a white
cotton jacket and nankeen pantaloons, came forward
at the Mention Houfe, and begged his Lordfhip's
attention for a few moments. He Laid he was an
Arne, ican fubjeA, and being on a trading voyage to
the EAR Indies, his fhip was eaR away un the coafl,
and plundered by the Malays. He Maee the bell
of his way to an Eriglifh fettlement, and came home
as a paffenger in the Bombay Cagle Eati Indiaman.
He fent his wink on (hare to a friend at Grave(and,
itith orders that it (hould be forwarded to London,
which was done accordingly. As Coon abbe arrived
in town himfelf, he went to the hook in Billing[
gate, where the flunks are ufually lodged ; but was
(urprifed to learn that hi. had been delivered, with-
out any order from him, to a man named Edwards,
of whom he bad ant the flight& knowledge. When
he called on this Mr. Edwards, he was told F. e
Mould not have his trunk, unlefs lie paid him a gui•
nea for keeping it ; but this he refuted to do ; and
therefore applied to his Lordlip to know how he
timid aft.
The Lord Mayor enquired who this Edwards was?
and 'was intorii.ed, by one of the offi:ers, that he was
a Criaip, who made it his ballad's to get polfeann of
the (*hors' bc.xes, that they might come to his hoafe,
that he might fend them un board Time other tract.
An other was immediately difpatched to Edwards,
to Mir e him to retlore the dell ; but he refuting, a
fun nauv..w.o. itfued.
V earrlay, the American Mariner attended again;
as did all.n Mr. Edwards, who, after remaining in
the Jitilice Room half an hour, was a man of too
much confequence to await the Lame of the Lord
Mayor, or the 641o:telt of other bufiners ; and there.
tote went off withput abiding any decifion.
Another failor, jila a' rived from india,whofe theft
ha.: been landed from Gravefend at the fame public
hook in Darkhoufe-lane, now complained that Ed-
wards had alto obtained pofiefhon of his cheg, with
out any authority from him, and demanded a guinea
for his trouble, in lieu of which he detained the elicit
....—but the feamafs refuted to comply with his extor-
tion, and appealed to the Lord Mayor for redpefi.—
Of vitae, another role was iffucd for Mr. Edwards
tofivesi caafe why he &mild not furl-ender the goods,
and be punilhed for the million.
Another feamaa. airs; jut returned with the prefent
Beet from India. preferred a complaint againg a
man who keeps a public honfe oppofire to the India
Houle in Leadenball-fireet, and who is proprietor of
a boat which plies to and from the Indiarnen in the
river. This poor fcanian, who has inn the fight of
both eyes from the wounds he received in his head in
India,_ came on board this man's boat, with hie dud),
from Long Re.i to Billinglgate, for whiet this tee-
iiitioirais publican mulled upon the fare 4 MVO Ili.

war, and alfo demanded bal.( a pints for bringing np'
another young man, alto a tailor, from the fame vet
fel ; and he detained the chell and parcel of the par-
ties until his demands fhould be paid. Both refuted
to fubmit to the exorbitant exaCtion. A fummosis
was alto 'trued for this landfiark, and it is ferioufly to
be hoped that the Lord Mayor will perfevere in his
determination, to rue up by the roots this Won of ex-
tortion upon a clafs of men the mat peculiarly enti•
tied to the proteltion of their country.
Thirteen bakers were fummoned before the Lard
Mayor, upon a charge of making a falfe return of
she average price of flour lit week, namely, at 755.
per lick inaead of 7os. the real average, in order to
miflead his Lordfhip in regulating the alßxe of bread
for the week. _ .

The deception was dircovered by comparing the
return of the bakers with that of the mealweighers ;
and the Lord Mayor very properly refolved to punills
the attempt. The whole kerb looked quite brows
upon the occaGon ; and on being taxed with their
deception, one or two attempted to be flowery is
pleading their excufe, though, for the molt part, they
teemed rather rnea/y mouthed. Some appeared quilt
fodder d, others affeaed to rife in their confequenet ;
Tome appeared/at as cakei, others fermented with sp•
prehenfion, like yea) tome looked four as alum, and
others pale as dead nun, at the difcovery. But the
Lord Mayor, with a laudable antipathy to all rogue:
ingrain, determined to work there gentry, who, full
of old leaven, no doubt expelled to foci a round turn
by the manoeuvre from the induitrions poor, who
are but too frequently ground by fuels exahlions. They
were every one fined, and obliged to si come down
with their AA" at which they teemed confoundedly
me,. Convinced that.this was not the way to butter
their bread, they an lotted together ; and, refer:wing to
try their hands at malt, lioce they were Co unlucky in
!teal, they milled o.f to the next beer bottle for a tarsi,
determined to we:their !Pone:, and concert Tome mode
of recovering their colts in the rollooffice, or the col
lip of corn doBors in Mark-lane.
Yeflerday two boys, named Rattray and Hamp
fon, were committed from Union Hall, charged by
Mr. Babb, the Superintendant of the Watch in Wal-
worth and Newington, -in fulpicion of burglary. It
appeared that the feed (hop of Mr. Chambers, Floriar
in Walworth, was broke open and robbed of feeds, a'
large pair of copper fcales, and Come other articles
and the boys, the eldell of whom is not 14 years of
age, were found in a cart by the patrole, with-a lack,
in which was not only the articles charged, but lonic
live fowls, a hammer, and Tome other articles, not as
yet owned, the property of other perlons.
Yeflerday Robert Williams, a eolleaor of toll at
Hammerfnuth turnpike-gate, was charged, at Marl-
borough-flrect, with affaulting a Gentleman in Wind.
mill-(greet. The complainant, accompanied by a
Lady in a fingle.hot fe chaife, flopped at the gale in
(picnic)°, and tendered the toll in halfpence, but the
defendant refuted them as being bad. The Gentle.
man listed that they were fuch as be had taken on
the road, but he had others in his pocket, and on-'
prefentinc a confitlerahle quantity for the toll-taker
to make choice from, he threw them into the lap of
the Lady as being all bad, and backed the hotfe from
the gate. The profecutor had been detained about
half an hour, when the defendant condcfcended to ex-
amine the halfpence again, and he fatisfied Itimfelf
for the toll, leaving feveral other good ones in par-
ferßon of the profecutor, who produced them before
the Magiftrate. The defendant was held to bail for
the affault. This is the fecund complaint made againa
people at the above gate within this week.
H•TTON G•lDlN.—Yeflerday the cafe of Jane
Stock, charged by William Walker, her landlord,
with difpofing of tome of the furniture of her apart-
ments, came before the Magifirates at this O&ce for
further invefligation.
Mr. Edward Baker, with whom the duplicates of
the furniture were pledged for money and goods ad.
vaned on them, alto attended. Ot this fpecies of
trading we gave a full explanation in our Paper of
Monday
After Come examination with refpelt to the forni.
cure which had been taken away, &c. an information
was preferred before the Maginrates, againa Mr. Bi-
ker, grounded on the 2111 ferition of an Aft of Par-
liament., commonly called the Pawnbrokers Aa,
wherein it is enaaed, that all perfotis advancing too
ney or goods upon Pawnbrokers tickets or duplicates,
(hall forfeit certain penalties for every fuels offence.
After a full invefligation of Use queflion, the Magi-
Itrates were unammoufly of one opinion, and Mr.
Baker was confequently conviaed in the penalty of
4os. From this conviaion„ Mr. Baker intimated his
intention of appealing to the Q2arter Salons, declar.
ing that he was not convinced in his own mind that
he had at all infringed en the law of the land,, and
col y wilbed to have the judgment of the Court of
Salons. He was accordingly bound, along with two
finetics, each in double the amount of the penalty,to
attend the (43arter Sefions, and profecute the appeal
in the ufual way.

An interelling child, named Eliza Oxford, tine.
years of age,latcly applied to the overfeers of Scdbury
tor protettion. She gated, that the had been enticed '
from her mother, a widow, at Boxhill, near Minchin-
hatnpton, by fome gypfies, who treated her very ill.
The child was rellored to its difconfolate friends.
On Saturday fe'onight a angular exhibition took
place on the river at Montrofe—Seven fishing fmacks
had arrived from Gravefend to procure buckies for
bait, and were followed by another fmack from Har-
wich, fur the fame purpofe. It appears they are re-
gularly ferved by the fifbermen as they enter, and a
gated price paid by all for the (core of buckics ; but
the Harwich man, withing to get the (tart of his
coinpaniors, thought proper to bribe the fifhermen
with an additional half penny per fcore, and accord-
ingly got his quantum in preference to the others.—
&tell a flagrant infringement on the effablitbed cuf.
WM. loudly called f'r an immediate puntfhmentr
ojecprate to the enormity of the crime. The Grave
fend men inflituted an enquiry, which was followed
by a court-martial, the result of which was, that the
unfottunate Harwich man was fenteliced to he pub-
licly (in effigy) !1...xi& through the &et, and after.
wards committed to the tlaiiies ; which lenience was
accordingly put in execution, with all due iblemnity, ,
ttsnidfl the joint acclamations of the multitude on the
(bore. The wird' were regularly equipped with cu.
lours, half m:,111 high, at.,.! the boats moved in grand
prate:eon, the tirlt cat ry...g a fidlero and the jail the
effigy of the esprit

bUI3LIN, SEPT. 4.

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The Court Martial which was ordered to fit for
♦e trial of the foldiers implicated in the unfortunate
occurrence at Tullamore. Tome time Since, opened
proforma on Monday Taft, and proceeded on Tuefday
witk the trials of the accufed.

The tigth Light Dragoons had a field day on
Tuefday. The honks were in paime order, and the
tegiment made a very fine appearance.
Saturday his Majeßy's fhip DRUID, Capt. %ones,
arrived at Cove, from a.cruixe ; and his Majefty's
fhip BOADICEA, Capt. MAITLAND. failed on a cruize.
The failing bf the outward bound Weft India con-
voy from Cork is poßponed till tomorrow or Sa-
turday.
Fiat.—Between four and five this morning a fire
broke out in Mr. HYLAND'S Mill, in Maore's lane,
Harold's Croft, which raged for fame time with great
fury, and totally deftroyed the mill and feveral (lore
houfes attached to it.
We are extremely concerned to Rate, that in con-
fequence of the elation' of Tythe Protlors a body
of people, Riling themfelves Thrafhers of Tythe Proc-
tors' Corn, have appeared in the hitherto_peace.
able Counties of Mayo, Sligo, and Leitrim. Their
depredations have been confined to the Collators
of Tythes and their underlings, and the reafons
affigned by thole unfortunate people for fuch con-
duß is, that from the unprecedented rife in the
Tythe demanded from what was formerly paid, the
profit of their crop centers almoß entirely with the
Prator. Threatening letters, figned Captain
THRASHISI, have been fent to perfons growing flax
and oats. infifiing, under revere pains, to leave their
Tythe in kind on the fields, and by no means to
pay money. They alledge 2‘ 6d. per peck co flax.
feed is now demanded intlead of is. old. formerly
paid, and three times more than atral for meadow.

At Edinburgla, M tbe IRlXlitt Lady of Admiral Dudding.
Ron of a fon.
Oit Tburfday laft et J. TirelMarin's,F Weedon, Bucks, the
wife of Captain Humphreys, of the Royal Navy, of a fon and hdr.
On Saturday, in Portland-place, the Lady of Henry Fawcett.
Rig of a fon.
On the sth MR. at his houfe. in York-plate, Portman Num,
the Lady of Captain Patterfon, of a daughter.
On Friday morning, at her bode in Welbeek-Brat, the Medi
Honourable Lady Charlotte Goold,of a fin.
On Friday, at General Pigot'e, Hertford-Rivet, the Lady of'
Lord Hairy Fitzroy, of a fun.
At Updown, near Deal, the Lady of Sir Samuel Chambers, Of
a daughter. •

MARRIED.
At Lennel Houle, on Tharfday tall, the Hen. Gilbert Elliott,
cidelt fon of the Right Hna. Lord Minto, to Mils Mary Bry.
done, eldelt daughter of Patrick Brydone, Efq. and grand daugh
ter o: the late celebrate/ Principal Robertfon.
At Jcdburgh, on the ad MR. William Somerville, Efq Deputy
Infpraor of Hofpitals, to Mifs Rutherford, of li4towfoutis.
lately, the Rev. F. Earner, Rotor of Crundaht, fon of Sir E.
Filmcr, Bart. to Mils M. A. Clore, feoond daughter of the Rev.
H. J. Clore, Rcdtor of Bent worth, Hants.
On Thurfday tall, at Margate, Captain Jennry, of the Royal
Hoek Artillery, to law Stewart, niece of the late Slr Henry Hue.
par. Ball.
Saturday, at Waloot Church, Bath, P. I.atooche, jun. Efq to
the Hon. Mils C. Maude. daughter of the late Lord Hawarden.
Arthur Stert, Efq. of Clifford.frvect, to MS. Augufts hlltford,
fourth daughter of William Mitfurd, hfq. of Pit's-hill, Petwcrth,.
Suffer.
Lately, Mr. John Bullivant. Melt fon of the late Rev. John
Hullivant, Reamer Marlton Trufwcll, to Mitt' 'f urville, of North
Kilvrortts, Lcicefterthire.
Lately, Mr. J. V. Hall, hookfeller, of Viircefter, to Mils Trevill,
(mond daughter of Mr. James Trevill, of St. John's, adjoMing that
city.

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Afternoon - . 17 lIIIOUICS after

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