Star.
London, England, 1802-10-08 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, ISM
THURSDAY, ocTossa 7.
The. King's Plate of wogs. for 4 yr olds, carrying
41b. 5 yr olds, I(t. 61b. 6yr olds, 121 t.
and aged 'ail. 2ly. R. C.
Sir C. Bunbulr b. f. manor, 4 yn old

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Sir P. Standilltss Mgr to i3cioiy, 4 yrs old - 2
Mr. Norton's b. in. Annifeed. 5 yrs old - 3
Ld sackvilk's b. h. Warta, aged - 4
Mr. Lockley's b. c. Hotpitality. 4 yrs old - - S
Mr. Wardell's eh. c. Malta, 4 yrs old - - 6
Mr. Rd. Williams's b. k. Peacemaker, s yrs old - dr.
Mt. Watfon's b. b. Limns Vito, 5 yrs old - dr.
Six to son Eleanor-3 to i agft. Annifeed-4
to i agfl.
Cal C R rr.—:Tuerday was played a grand tingle
match of Cricket, on White Horfe Greenebetween
three Genilemen of a fide, for aoogs.
Mr. BRUCE.

TIRPT INNINGS. SICOND INNINGS.
Mr. Bruce b. Mr. Knott 8 c. Mr. Lett
Mr. Jones c. ditto - 6 b. Mr. Knott
Mr. Slane b. ditto - sc. Mr. Janis -

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Mr. KNOTT.

MST 11111111111 Ci. SICOND INNINGS.
Mr. Knott b. Mr. Bruce 7 c. Mr. Slane
Mr. tilde b. ditto - 7 c. ditto -
Mr. run cosi s b. Mr. Bruce

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MM.
7 9
Mr. Brine *On by one run ; even betting at Ratting..

FOR THE STAR.

TO JOHN WALLACE, ONE OF THE COMMISSIO•
HERS FOR THE AFFAIRS OF INWA.
Ste—lt his been Rated in feveral of the daily
prints, that accounts received from Madras men-
tion the death of his Highnefs the depofed Nabob
of the Carnatic. How far that ftatement, which
concludes with a confidence that gives to it the
colouring of certainty, is entitled. to the, credit
that it claims, you belt can determine, as your
official titration mutt be informed upon a matter
of fo much importance ; and relying upon your
candour, I perfuade myfelf that you will feel a
particular gratification in relieving, by fuch means
as you may deem bell calculated for the purpofe,
the painful doubt and anxious furpence it has pro.
dueed in the mind of the country. To folicit the
Company upon the fubjeit would be an unprofit-
able undertaking. Elevated by the pride of power,
furrounded by the attributes of Majefty, and ex.
ercifing all the funEtions of Royalty, they feem to
have copfidered upon all occafions that a commu-
nication to the Public .of their Afiatic tranfac-
tions would be a condefcenfion incompatible with
their pre-eminence, and derogatory to their
dignity ; yet furely they are not to learn at this
day, that although fovereigns in India, they are
fubjeBs in England, and that they owe a larger
debt of duty and of gratitude to the Public than
any individual or body of men in the kingdom :
that whatever may be the privileges they enjoy
under the charter they hold, every stet of their
government is amenable to the Jaws of the land,
and that a violation of thofe laws will work a for.
feitnre of that charter. And if the report alluded
to be true, it may be advifeable that they Ihould
-pay an early attention to the confequences that
mull follow upon a difclofure of the circumflances
with which the event it announces is conneited.—
It has been aliened from various quarters, and I
maintain the fait to be fo, that immediately tub-
ilequent to the depofition of his Highnefs, 'he was
not only condemned to be " a • s Iterfont hojelt
to the Brig ink* ami disk 1001 e the bounty of
the Company," but its aggravation of this fentence,
remarkable for the defpotifm by which it was clic.
tated, and the abfurdities that pervade it, his
Highnefs was era -deprived of his liberty, and
confined to an obfcure apartment of t 4 Palace,
in which the Ufurper of his. Throne refided and
ruled with arbitrary fway, . and as it has not been
even fuggefted that his Highnefs was afterwards
reflored to libeity, er removed to-any other fan.
ation, we have a right to prefume that he died in
his prifon, and that to the lateft moment of his
exiftence he continued to be within the power of
that man in whore fight he was odious and deteft-
able ; who, adopting the perniCious Councils of
Envy and Jealoufy, and bending to the grovelling
fentiments of Hatred and Malice, greedily anti-
cipated the death of his Highnefs, as an occur-
rence that would difpel all thofe fears and appre-
henfions that befet his new angled greatnefs, and
fecure him in the poirefflon of his ill-acquired
diadem. Contemplating this afremblage, the
tendency to which it pointed, and the paflions by
which it was influenced, are you not fatisfied that
it offers• ample ground for the ftrongeft fufpicions
that his Ilighnefs's death did not proceed from
that courfe of vifitation to which our nature is
fubjeited But, Sir,
_there are other faits that
(peak with more pofitive decifion, and demand
.the awful decrees of retributive juftice. The un-
happy Prince, whofe only crime was pofreffing a
judgment beyond the common attainment ofictis
infant years ; a fortitude that rofe to heroifm, and
, a fbul that united with filial affeition thofe gene-
rous feelings that ennoble man, and endear him
to his fellow-creatures, very foon perceived that
his life, which was delivered into the hands of the
tyrant, was in imminent danger of falling a facri-
fice to his machinations. At the dead hour of
night, a feafon beft-fuited to dark defigns, a band
oirttlfians, headed` by Azim ul Dowlah, forced
his dreary abode, with the impious view of making
it his tomb; but eluding the malevolent purpofes
of filch atrocious intentions, his Highnefs fled to
the mournful dwelling of his diameted mother,
mid the fury of " the Favourite of Fortune" was for
that time (pent in metres of-cruelty upon a child
.of (even or eight years of age, who had accompa.
stied his uncle, the venerable Nejeeb Khan, to the
ifolitude of their 'Sovereign, with the pion; refolu-
titm of leaning his misfortunes by becoming the
partners of them. Thus attacked in a (pot which
was confiders' as a fanauary; confecrated to grief
and affli9ion, his Highnefs looked tipetilis fate
as irrevocably fixed, and that the ,period for his
departure to another world was (4,approaching
it feeble ray of bpi howeistobilit 4 glimmer.

ing of light upon his gloomy profpeEls, and he con-
ceived the determination to addrefs the Government
of Fort St. George, complaining of the outrage that
had been committed, and craving protedion againft
future violence. His illufirious filthily, whore fuf-
firinb were equally as revere and opprellive as his
own, joined him in the application, but the anfwer
it obtained, far from dimmithing their forrows.
marked out for them new and more diftreiling
channels, and they law themfelves abandoned to
defpair. They were charged with inveterate en:
mity towards Azim ul Dowlab, beeaufe they were
abtent when he was enthroned, and had wi hheld
the obedience that was due to his authority, as
Nabob of the Carnatic ! Much praile was be-
llowed upon the manner in which Azim ul Dow-
lah had deported himfelf, and it was fignified in
terms not to be millaken, that his conduit towards
them was junifiable upon the principle of retalia-
tion. On the fubjed of the imprifonment of their
perfons, and the plunder of their property, ad-
verted to by them in their addrefs, they were left to
conclude from the premifes afforded to them, that
fucit ads were a part of the prerogative to which
Azim ul Dowlah had fucceeded, and that Go-
vernment were determined to guard and prote&
him in all his rights with honour and• refpeQ•--
This mercilefs anfwer finned with an intimation,
that if Azim ul Dowlah, in the exercife of his
authority, aged inconfiftent with the honour and
dignity of the Englith nation, he would be dif-
countenanced, and that an enquiry would be made
of him as to the meafores of opFetlion that had
been imputed to him. If thefq fans fhonld be
fufceptible of proof, and if it thould be mani-
felled that the fupplication of a dethroned Sove-
reign, and a Royal Pamily,•reduced to wretched-
nets by the arm of power, had been offered to a
Britilh Government for an alylum againfl
and to obtain fecurity for perfonal fafety, and was
received with indifference, or noticed only in order
to convey reproach, will you preforve your tran-
quillity ? will you experience no impulfe of incig-
nation ? will you perfevere in defending the Go-
vernment of India ? I think too highly of your
heart and nnderftanding to believe it potlible. The
fubjoined correfpondente will Moat-ate the fobje&
on which I have touched, and furniffi the evidence
that is neceffary to rapport it. I know the emo-
tions that it will excite in. the public breaft, and I
leave it with every grateful fenfation to the guar-
diardhip of the public reeling. ARISTIDSS.
TRANSLATIOU OF A LETTER TO THE LIGHT HON.

LORD CLIVE, GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL, &C. &C".
(TROY TBRPRINCtiAND PRI NCRSIIRS OP TIM ROYAL TAMELY
Of YIALLAJAW AND OUDOT VI. 0/11tAll.]
MT LORD,

We had the honour of addreffing your Lordfhip in Council
on the z3th of Rajah, on the fubjecct of our unhappy fellation ;
but we have not yet been favoured with your Lordthip's ferny.
Circemftances will not allow us to remain inactive in feekbig
our fafety; and thefe mutt =cute any teeming importunity in
requelting your Lordihip's initant attention to our cafe.
We fhall not repeat to your Lordihip in Council the aggra.
vated injuries which we publicly reprefented in our former let-
ter, and we hope they are not forgotten ; and although they
have hitherto received no redrefs, we cannot bring ourfelves to
think that they will ultinkately be unrelieved. We have too
high an opinion of your Lordibip's charadter,and thofe honour-
able men who are your Lordfhip's Council, ever to fuppofe
that the indignities and cruelties which we fisted to yourLord-
fhip would pafs, after our folemn reprefentation, without in-
quiry or remedy.
Since we left had the honour of asldrefling your Lordihip in
Council, our Rate has become more intolerable and more
alarming. In a condition of huprifonmcnt (fad rererfe of our
former foetune)—e condition which would awaken humanity
in every civilifed breaft, we have been loaded with opprobium
and infult—more fevere and more galling than the heavieß fet-
ters which ingenious barbarity could forgo—Weak, forlorn,
incapable of offence, and faced as it were from circumßance,
we have been offended and attacked both in perfon znd in pro-
perty.—The doors of fome of our dwellings.have been forced,
and our interior apartments have been entered and proiaoed,
bt a hired band, without a femblance of reafon, and witheth
a thadovrof carafe; which juitice or even policy can avow and
anchorite.

The Mule of the Prince, the Heir of our late much regret-
ted Brother and Sovereign, has been violently and forcibly
broken; the doors torn from their hinges; his cabinets plen-
dered I. his friends calumniated and reviled; his attendants
heatcn; and he himfelf &hien before a fcolfing horde of ruffians
(for we cannot dignify them with the name nifoldiers) into the
Sandtuary of the Mehl°, to the defence of what is dearer than
life—his honour and his name.
We need not declare to your Lordthip in Council the author
of thofe injuries, nor need we reprefent the events to which
they lead, and to which`they are fo raft approaching-. They arc
too intiritabk and too plain to efcape the moft column. (apa-
thy and judgment.
We think it a duty we owe to our rightful Prince, to our fa-
milies, and to ourfelves, to make known there eircumftancet to
,your Lordlhip in Council, under a full conviction, that in re-
gard to the calls of justice and humanity—to your own honour
—to the charatfter of the Britith nation—and to the interelt
which your Lortlfhip reprefents—you will interpofe your im-
mediate authority to reftrain proceedings which outrage every
principle of right, and the belt impreffions of our nature.
We requeft /our Lordfhip's molt (aims' attention to the
matters, of which we have now, and before apprifed your
Lordffilp in Council ; and if it (hall be deaftettexpediedt. trout
public motives; if your Lordthip in Council is liable to decide,
to fubjea the Prince and us to a temporary conflnenrtnt, we
hope that the horrors of it may be abated, inafmuch as it Shall
be confiftent with the objedt which renders fuch a =aft:re ne-
caary. We muft entreat molt eameftly, that under the rap-
„ pored neeeffity of fuels a meafure, we may not be left-under the
guardianfhip of one who has a decided intereft in our deftruc-
tion, and whole daily ads we arc concerned to fee and appre-
hend, have a diredt tendency to that end. If we are to be con-
fidered as prifoners, let your Lordthip's lattice allow us the
common privilege of prifoners.-fafety.—Take us from without
the precinct of Chepauk, and keep us within the custody of the
Company—permit us any pittance which may nuniltcr to our
wants ; but do not fuffcr us to remain within the grafp and
terror of a power that knows no bounds, and acknowledges no
laws, and whore ads receive a countenance anti encouragement
from furrounding foldiers, wearing the uniform of his Ntajefty
the King of Great Britain and the Company. What, need we
fay more ?
Nabob Sultan Ul Nifa Begum, own name Boody Begum.
Mulk Ui Nice Begum, own name Durya Begum.
Omdut Ul Mira Begum, own name Fratta Begum.
Huffam Ul Mulk Yctta Mauded Dowla Mahumed Abdulia
Cawn Bahauder Has-Carfung, own name Tippoo Bad
Shah.
Aitamad
.111 Mulk Bahauder, own name Ilutrain Navas
CaNabob.
ti Nita Segura. own name Zainub Begum.
Rh 111 Ontrah Mahumed Abdul Flutf*iu, own name Ab-
dul Huffain Miah.
Ahead UI Dowla Bahauder Nafeer Jung, own name Nafeer,
Biroohan Ul Mulk Shpjaul nowlaHau'ufwe Ahumed Nati-
fus Cawn Bahauder Sumfam Jung, own name is Mahu •
med Hans Ur Cawn Bahauder.
Ar.imees UI Dowla Abdul Cauder Cawn Bahauder Ammeer
Jung, own name Abdul Caudcr Cawn, the Ma's lon 44
Na:aoh Valaujah.
Chlpatik, Dec. 13, /for.
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NEW IMPROVEMENTS.

The new improvements in the City, of which
notice has been given in the Lyndon Gazette, will
make a great alteration in the property of
duals. Lord HAVIIIISSCRY'S plan is to have a
new London-bridge, higher up the River than the
prefent one, with a wide grand area to .ace the
Royal Exchange ; to effect this, feveral of the
houfes in the front of Cornhill, oppoilte the Ex
change, and the principal part of Ecchan.ge-alley,
mull come down, as alto many houfes in Lom
bard-beet, Cannon.lireet, &c.

Behind the Royal Exchange,the houfec in Bar-
tholomew-lane will be fet back at leaft fifty feet.
The church will remain, and the arch under the
prefent Teeple will lead to the new foot-path ; the
honks at the end of Bartholomew-lane, in Throg-
morton-ftreet, will come down, to make the open-
ing to the grand ftreet which will go through
Tokenbonfe-yard, &Halley, to London-wall, and
to face the grand fquare which will be built where
Bedlam now Rands.—The ground is all metafured,
and the plans dtrawn ; even the new greets ate
already named ; as loon, therefore, as the Alts
of
Parliament are obtained, the tenants will have fit
months notice to quit, an this great work will be
proceeded on with all pothble expedition.
Another new fqnare was marked out left week,
at the top of Cumberland-places an eligible fitna-
tion, communicating in a direr* line with Cum.
berland Gate, Hyde Park,and with Portman and
Manchefteaquares, to be called Cesnierland Pkee.

A correfpondent, who has lately pared thrnugh
a great part of Galloway, and from thence to
Glafgow, Edinburgh, and Carlifle, fags that the
ereps of grain of every kind, are the moll abun-
dant. ever known in the memory of man ;—and
though the barna has been fomeirhat late, it has
proved very favourable. Two fields near the pub-
lic mad, about halfa mile from C.arlifle, attraded
for fosse time the notice of every traveller, from
the aflonithing luxuriance of the 44 waving grain;"

did More Farber Ihroaties forth,
Wits firs a NI and writhirawlog hood,
that every beholder ejaculated a prayer .
a Vora 1111‘ortose, Sfiferr,lllaft, or Damp."
ZATTLIIOO7 Pmts.—LA week, as a Gentle-
man of Lewes was walking by the tide of a ditch
near Old Mailing, he &Covered, in Sallow water,
and in sharp con/le, two hungry pikes, whofe ob-
jee was to devour each other, but which he pre-
vented by commeircing holtilities againft both, and
bring them captives to the !bore. They were
nearly equal in fize, and rendered the more vora-
cious from their boundaries being limited by the
lewnefief the water.—Lemes Period.

A 6ne feafonable day, (on Sunday latl) was
fumed by one of the melt tempelluons nights
that has been knovia for tome time pelt, at White
haven. A heavy terns of wind and rain was ren-
dered Ihil more awful by the extreme darknefs.
The Woollen Weavers of Gioucellettore have
entered into a Club for the profecution of perfons
who follow,the trade contrary to the flame of
Elisabeth.

Tun Raucous, awn nee Sow.---The follow.
lag is sn extra& of a letter from Vichy, in the de-
partment of Allier, dated September Is :
I feud you the following faa ; you will commu-
nicate it to your Reaches; if you think it worthy of
their pergal. A few days ago I found, about eight
o'cloc.lt in the. evening, an iinfortuliate young mast,
blind, houtelefts sad Mmelcfse and Perainit with
• hunger. He. was going to lay himielf,clown upon
' a (tone near his dog. Tlmopked at feversl cottage
doors, and at found one that confuted to
ractive him. The boy Laid that he had only been
blind a few days, from lightning. He told me he
jived on roots, herbs, and raw Beth, and that he-
had abnoli always dwelt in the woods ; thefe de-
idle induced me to inquire into his hiliory,_which
is as follows : •
“ When I began to walk atidtpeakr 1 was in a
wood, where I tucked a goat that never quitted
me, and I faw no one elfe but a woman who caret=
fad with foodnefs, but who lett we frequently.
She told me afterwards that the was a re:6oo9lSr,
that fin hid efcaped from her convent to bring me
into the world ; that not being able to (tickle me
befall, the bad procured the goat who had fuckled
The. My mother told me that the left the fore(
" only to procure food for herfelf. t law her daily.
One events* the WIN neat. and force time elapkd"
before I foetid ha. At length; dna day susl was
running with the goal, I dilcovered her. She,was
wretched of thee ground motionlefe. lOalled her,
the an veered no, I took hold of her hand, her
hand kparated itfelf from her body. I faw then
that I had no longer any mother, I remained in
• the woods, I lived on roots, graft, and wild fruit,
which I gathered from the hedges.
gg A long time after chance led me to a road;
a man with a cart faw me, rptettioned ale, and-took-
me with him. Becaufe I r.O Beth and herbs raw,:
and love to ileep in the air, he thewed me about
for money. Thefe people annoyed me, and I
made my efcape one day with my dog. I had
walked a long way, when a man offered to let tni
get into his cart, which retied me. Afterwards
I quitted the cart, pod wail welkin, when the
lightning blinded me. I then law the light no
more, and fattening myfelf with a tiring to my
clop he led me about." _
''his Rory has all the air, I own, of romance ;
yet the unfortunate boy is no more than I's • his
voice is not the voice of one accoaomed to /peak
much, and he (peaks aids difficulty ; he does not
appear to be intelligent, and teems totally inca-
pable of inventing theft fats.
He began to cry when he was ppt in a bed, and
faid that he could only ileepin the open air...Hs
ate nothing dread, dmak wme, and !rinse n
formald to pay
renni

POLICE, &c.
--.........
tlatteten-Hovss.—Wedneftlay yam Kmady
Was finally examined before the Loeb. MAYOR',
being charged with a burglary in the houfe of Mr.
Sharp (A wholefale hauls), in Leadenhall fired.
The pi ifuner was ken to enter the Ihop, and move
feveral -of the packages, when the alarm being
giien, he was purftted, and taken near the (pot.
He is an old offender. His Lordfhip fully com-
mitted him for trial.
1 A Gentleman's groom was yeaerdaycommitted
'by' the Loan MAYOR, until he could find bait, or
Othcrwile satisfy a poor man who drives a cart, by
doing jabs, &c. with which he obtains his living;
the circumflances, as they came out, appeared to
place the tr.uffaaioa in a moll cruel point of view,
as the defendant, in a moil violent manner, and
Without provocation, mounted the cart of the pro-
fccutor, who is an old and infirm man, and beat
him dreadfully.
A man was committed alto by the LORD MAYOR
for further examination, charged with having a
qaantity of thrub in his poffeffion, which had been
feloniou fly -obtained.
-Mr. Seaton, a wine and brandy-merchant in
Towetaircet, attended, to acquaint the Lots
MAYOR, that in the •courfe of yeaerday a half
hogshead calk, full of &rub, hid been taken from
their premifes. The prifoner was flopped by one
of the City Officers, oho fufpetted he had tome
goods upon him not boneßy come by, and found
upon him a bladder, concerning feveral gallons of
ihrub; to the neck Of the& bladders is affixed a tin
tube, which they put into a hole made in the head
of a calk by an loth-met% tad leave it, the Mad-
der necetarily fills from the hole, and when a
convenient opportunity prefents itfelf, they take
it away.
GUlLDHALL.—Yefteiday a man was brought
before Sir Ws. L 1161170111 charged by a poor
Ina woman with having fraudulently obtained
7d. from her, under the pretence of bringing her
a ktter, which the fuppofed was from her hulbind.
The pofi-fcrawl of a figure of 7 was forged. The
prifoner, in his reply to this charge, hod he was
drinking in a pithlic-houfe with a man of the name
of Jolts ti who gave him the letter, and direaed
him to do as he had,bet on the poor woman find-
ing her miflake, the went to a neighbouring public-
houfe and apprehended the prifotter; he raid
JohnfOn madebis efcape from the houfe as loon
as the profecutrix came in. The offence being
committed in Middlefix, the Magiftrate tent him
to Worthip-ftreet from whence he was committed
for re-examination. Notice was given toohe So-
licitor of the Nil-Office, in order that they might
direst a profeention.-
Um tom-Haet....-Yefterday a-coal-merchant was
conviaed before the Magiftrates at the above
Offices in the penalty of ten pounds, for moving
two cluddroin and a half of coals from Peacock's
wharf to Croydon, without their having been pre.
vioully meafinvd by, a regular coal-meter. The
perfon, who in this care proficuted, and appeared
as evidence, was * (worn meter, and he Rated to
the Magißrates, "on oath, that he did not expel
one-farthing of the penalty e and that from the
great loft tbefworn meters fuilain by the frequency
of this offence, they being entitled to 4d. fee out
of every ehaldron of coals they meafured, and the
injury the public alfo fußaioect by Sot getting full
meafure, he and the fociety of coal meters in ge-
neral conceived it a duty to the public and to them-
(elves to enforce the Aa whenever they could.--e
Much pains were taken by the Solicitor of the de--
Lndant to throw the imputation of informer upon
the principal meter, who (wore he followed the
coal cart from the harf to Croydon, where they
were delivered. -The offence, however, iris
proved to the fatisfaition of the Magillrates; and-
we are parfleular in Rating it, becaufe it is an affair ,
in which the public are confideribly huerefted.. •
PI/DLIC 0111C/4 Harm* Gaaosao.--Yefterday
* watch-movement-maker, his wife, and his filler
to-law, were examined on fufpicion with being
principals in Ribbing Thomas Pamplin, fervent
to Mein. Gordon and knights diaillers in Go‘
wellatreet, on Monday night Jail, between nine
and ten o'clock, in Compton greet, Clerkenwell,of
which wounds he died on Wednefday evening lal),
is Middlefet Hofpital.•
A young man, journeyman to Mr. Payne;
ariPeman, in John-flreet,,Clerkenwell, who is dread-
fully wounded in the fide, by tonne fbarp inftru•
ment, in company with Pantplin, pointed ()Untie
watch-movement-maker as being on the (pot when
this barbarous outrage took place. -
It appeared In evidence, that the prifoners were
on that night at the Harrow, in the above greet,
where there was fiddling and dancing, and where
one of the women danced a hornpipe—that when
the man and his "wife went out, two men offered
great indecency to his wife, and tired horrid lan-
guage, which was beard by feveral houfe .keepers,
but who the two men were they"could not tell—the
prifoner, who is a young man, was going to relent
fuck behaviout to his wife, which the two females
Grid, they prevented, and took him to the Harrow,
where they (pent the remainder of the evening :
the Al denied the charge imputed to them.
' e wounded man Laid, that l'amplin and
il
hi felf were Abe %eerie- for liquor; being pornive
that the hufband was near his friend when he was
wounded; he was, as well as the two females,
committed for ke- exam i nal ion.
Several perfons, who had been at the public-
houfe, came of their own accord to praive their i
innocence, which was admitted:
On Wednefday two men and a woman were
taken before . Rosser', Efq. at Tottenham,
on a charge of committing a footpad robbery.— '
They were committed Ihr trial.
Thefday night- a gentleman was robbed in St.
. James's-Aware, by four footpads, of 1701-. in bank-
notes, and a gold watch worth thirty guineas, with
which the ',Um got clear off. -
-- A gentleman returning from Bath to Marth.
field, between the hours of ten and eleven, on Fri.
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--.acked ' two armed foot.
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the left, threw one hi. the villains into tinfiteclge ;
the other immediately fired, but.fnrtimately for
the gentleman, the bullet took a eras diredion
under his chin, taking a part of his.ueckcroth, and
through the cape of his coat, ever the left thou(-
' der. Finding hintfelf-thits extricated, he with dif-
'lenity keptliis Caddie, and before the other matt
recover his fell, got clear off. .
• A fmgolar mode of thieving has been filecefsfiil•
ly pradifed about the environs of the Metropolis,
by itinerant • dealers in fruit, Ste. The man or
woman .knocks at the door, and difpatches the
fervant or child with lonic apples or onions, which
are to be fold remarkably cheap, and wbiht the
mailer or millrefs are receiving ;dont:titian of the
price, the fruit merchant takestlie opportunity of
handing off cloaks, umbrellas, or, in Ikon, any
thing portable that comes within reach. Numer-
ous robberies of this kiild are committing daily,
againit which the public ought to be caistioned.
Several fhameful frauds have been lately prec-
eded on feamen paid off at Plymouth. A man of
the name of Baxter has fee off, it is fitppofed, for
America, with 6il. in banknotes, belongihg to one
of thofc poor fellows. He was formerly Captain's
Clerk of the Galatea, of 16 guns, Captain Byng,
but lately kept a tavern, and aded as an auctioneer.
On Thefday, a young girl, a fervent, called at
a public houfe on Clapham Common, and took
half a pint of porters the then went with the I
striker acrofs the Common. After he returned,
the was found with her head fevered from her body,(
lying a few yards Mem from her. Two mcn
in redoes cloathes, were apprehended at the fame I
public houfe, half an hour afterwards, with her
bundles., . .
Mondity,about noon, as a young woman, whofe
'name is King, was going dosin Fith-street-hill, the
*as run againn by a butcher carrying a large
tray full of meat on his Moulder: the handle of the
tray ftruok her with fuch violence that the fell on
the pavement, and the back part of her head was
dreadfully cut : on• taking her up it was difco-
vered that the handle of the tray had dallied one
of her eyes to pieces : the was conveyed, in this
moil inexpriffible agony, to an hofpital. We very
much lament that the brutal perpetrator of the
Chocking a& was not fecund.
On- Monday night lag, Mr. W. D. of Prekot-
erect, Goodman's-fields, returningfrom Hackney,
where he had been to dine at the Mermaid with a
party of friends, was found-late at night lying on
the road, near Mile-end Turnpike, with the kck
Part of his head fraiftured; he was taken to the
hofpital, where he. immediately expired. Next
morning forte of his friends recognized him, who
afferted that when he left Hackney, be had ten
guineas in his pocket, a gold ring on his finger,
and a watch in his fob—bet when found, had not
fo much as a picket-handkerchief about him.
As Colonel OGLE with another gentleman *ere
returning in his gig on Friday night, to the Co-
lonel's refidence at Pickwick, the boric (tumbled
over a heap of Roues lying nearly in the centre of
the mad at Bath Eafton, and they were thrown
with great violence out of the carriage. The Co
lonel had a miraculous ekape for his life ; the
other gentleman was found under his houfe, from
which fituation he was with difficulty extricated,
and is now confined to his bed.
The following are more correß particulars of
the (hocking accident which happened to Mr.
HEATHCOTE, Sir GILBERT'S brother :- As that
Gentleman was returning to London in his ctn.-
rick on Monday morning, on entering the George-
yard, at Dartford, one of the wheels went againfi
the pte'pon at the entrance, and the flock threw
Mr.l-1. out over the back part of the vehicle ; he
fell upon his head on the gravel. The concuflion
was fo violent none, as to fradure his lull in a
dteadftil manner. The fervant, with the aaillance
of the bonier, lifted up his unfortunate matter .
When he recovered the !hock, which was dot till
fotne time had elapfed, mental derangement fol.
lowed, and in that Rate, what withthe excruciat-
ing pain he friffered, and the diforganized (Cate of
his faculties, he endeavoured, to deftroy every
thing around him. With difficulty he was recur-
ed, but his ftrength was fo great, that it required
fix men to hold him. He was put to bed, and ex.
preffes were immediately forwarded to Sir WAL-
TER FAMLUNAR and Lady HEATIICOTE. Her La-,
elythip received the melancholy news at the time
fire was preparing to dteCs for the ball, at Margate.
Sir WALTIR FAROSHAI attended, and front the
reptirt of a gentleman who accompanied him, the
fituation of the unfortunate fiifferer is almod trwo
dreadful to defcribes The gravel on which he
fell was fo completely buried in the fkulj, that al-
though a great quantity tad been extracted it was
found impoffible to remove the whole. In this
'hocking fituation he remained all night and the
next nv+rning : all hope of his recovery was given
up ; the prayers of his friends are, that a fpeedy
diffolation may put a flop to the fondler progrefs
of his misery. Mr. HEATHCOTE is the gentleman-
who met with the unfortunate accident at New-
market lately when his houfe fell and rolled over
him.

OYSTER LAYINCs.—At the Effex Quarter Se.
lions, holden at Chelmsford, on Wednealay.lati,
Robert Farrer, after a trial of liven boors, was
found guilty of Ilealing in the night, by the help
of a cutter and a dredge, fevcral buthets of Oyf-
ters, the property of, and from the layings of Mrs.
Overall, of Merfea Ifland. The Counia for the
defendant argued with great ingenuity; to thew
that there Oyiter Laying', which are rented, and
Rocked with purchafed Oyfters, were not a (pecks
of property chitin& from the Oyller Fatties, com-
-main° all dredgers, and therefore larceny could
not attach on the clandeftine removal of 'the fame.
The Court, however, ruled it otherwife but as
the Chief 'Aka Lords MANUIELD and 1-mml4-
'4:mount+, at the Mix Affixes, had declared the
law differently on this *tint, the former convia•
ing, and.the latter diret9ing the. Jury to acqoit pri-
foners refitedtively charged.whh felony for this of.
fence, the Court, an the motion of the prifoner's
Counfel, (*treated town arreß of judgment, thin
this important cart mey'be more rolenntly argued
before the Twelve In the . mean Whik,
tpr lrener 18 be recommitted to the

for it. Th. Cotta engaged to mush) forifil day nig)* lA, Was attacked by two armed
dayi and regain his iireagth ; but having recovbred pads, who milted foddonly before his horn:
his tie*. he wilted to go, and Lade bit &ape. Tstdwick wood, beyoqd Swinerwick, OR the
kAvisitigassfare tetrad his. which waoilthe- Giouceiter Road. clearing him at the fame ti