Star.
London, England, 1814-02-23 00:00:00

CHATHAM, FEBRUARY go.

The LIE was put out of dock yesterday) and on
Tuesday the CMiIIiRLAND will be docked.

The following are further particulars of the recent
Stock-Jobbing Fabricating
" Data, Fraimutv 21.—This morning, between two and
three o'clock, an b.spress arrived at Adm. Fot.cr's, from Dover,
with a letter, purporting to he from Colonel Di Bouiton, Aide-
de-Camp to Lord CATHCART, announcing his arrival from
France with dispatches of the utmobt importance, namely, the
MURAT AND DRAT!! or BONAPARTS, and Entry of the Allied
Sovereigns into Paris, in order that she Admiral might make the
necessary communication, by telegraph, to London, as suon as
day-light appeared."
Under these circumstances, Admiral FOLRY at-
tempted to communicate the intelligence by the Te-
legraph to Government ; but the haziness of the
weather prevented its working ; the Admiral, there-
fore, forwarded the letter, by express, to the Ad-
miralty.

At Dover this pretended Colonel Ds BURGH sported
a bag of Napoleons d'or ; but recollected he bad a
Bank of England note or two in his pocket, where
they had been laying some months, and with them
he paid his bill at the Inn, and then departed in style
for London ; soon after which, a reference was had
to the Notes, and it was discovered they were indorsed
by a Mercantile Firm in London, with the date, 15th
February, 1814. These Bank notes can, no doubt, be
easily traced, not only•by their numbers, bat by their
specific indorsements. Government have taken up
the inquiry into this nefarious deception, and both
on Monday night and yesterday, the Frenchmen
who were instrumental in the business, with an Eng-
lishman who assisted in their conveyance, were exa-
mined before the Privy Council. The result of the
inquiry has not been made known. It will be recol-
lected that when an imposition, by means of a forged
letter was practised in the Mayoralty of Bir C. PRICE,
caused an advance in the stocks, all the bargains were
declared void by a Committee selected from the Pro-
prictort and Subscribers of the Stock Exchange. The
ordinary Committee met yesterday, and we learn that
it has come to no resolution on the subject, and fur-
ther that it is not the intention of the Committee'at all
to interfere, leaving the parties injured to such legal
remedies as the disclosure of the fraud may admit of.
It has been ascertained, that one broker purchased
for his employers in the early part of Monday fore-
noon, the enormous sum of 650,000 in Omnium,
which purchase it is estitrtated, on a moderate calcu-
lation, produced a net profit of £16,000 pounds.—
The whole amount of the transfers, in the course of
the day, it is said, exceeded a million and a half.—
The pretended Officer was a tall dark man, dressed in
scarlet and gold, with a large star on his breast, the
coat turned up with green, and be wore a large
sword by his side. He feigned to be much fatigued,
and his beard was very long.

CORN IiNeCHANOE, MARX-LANE, PER, 23:
Our Market was thinly supplisd with all Grain this asondag.
Having had no fresh arrivals dace Monday, what few saaiplas
of fine Wheat appeared .net ready sale, but oar prkes oesiekrat
the sone as an kit 'market-day. In Barley, Pisa, amd ark
there is as allerstion. • •

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STAR-OFPICr., irIiNEE O'CLOCK.

Another Battle took place WI the I Stb last tilt, ha...
tareenßottaPairrs and Prince SCIIWAATZINMRO. The
French, as usual, claim thei.tietory.
The Comm/mallow willow Etats and the SEA
COAST 13 1:01V CUT OFF $y 11101COSSACFJJ!
The subjoined intelligetwit gas conveyed to Bou-
logne by an estraordlnary btplress, wbo wok an in..;
usual ratite:

" *ovum; sex 21, 'lva P. sc.
44 Our Telegraph has been cut off by some light
troops, partissns, The folloning comes by our er
traordinary Exprnss frUm Paris :
M Pain, FUR Ulla* 111:-6 P.M.
le On the 17th, at Nangis, the Emperor beat Prince
ScuwAßTstssititt; ; he pursued his successes. Ont
the leth, in the morning, between iontainbienu and
Melva, he marched against the enemy, who were at
Montereau. There was a warm action. The enemy
fought obstinately he was defeated and pursued.
We have Three Thousand prisoners, and one Gene-
ral and Five Pieces of Csnnon.

"No o i.l accounts of die battle tithe 17th had
reached Paris late this night.

44 On the 18th, 3 per Cents.
• Actione of the Bank 690."

THE ARMY.

The Dumfries Militia, flow quartered in that tows
are under orders for detached services.
Thursday the first division of the Nortlrimberland
Militia marched from Haddington, on their route to
Newcastle.

Last week the koyal Ayrshire Militia marched
from Perth for Ayr; they are under orders to embark
at Ayr for Ireland.
•
Thursday a detachment of 20') of the 37th Regi.
ment of the Line arrived in Canterbury from Silver-
hill Barracks, on their route for embaskation at
Ramsgate, for Holland.

PRIVATE LETTER,
FROM AN OFFICER IN LORD WELLINGTON'S ARMY, DATED

" Fifth Division), Prbruarx 1,1814.
" We are gradually pushing forward one advanced
posts and stealing ground from site enemy ; the other
day Sir fiteat CLINTON carried off the entire of one
of their pickets ; but we cannot cross the river till she
roads are in better Condition, and until we get rein-
forcements from home.
" There is we now discover no stop to the con-
scription, and it rapidly fills their ranks, and we find
that the voice of the country is for BONAPARTE...-.
This will continue until some great reverse happens,
or until a Bourbon party raise an insurrection, and
the white standard as a tallying .point for ethers to
fly to.
.
"The peasante are not so friendly to us as we were
led to believe they would be : a few days ago they
took forty of Sir Lownv Cos.en moles, which were
foraging, and Matt unmercifully beat the rest. Ilk
was done entirely by the peasants, dare being no
French soldiers in lut qtrarters

,g The Froach have oi themselves given up all the
ground near B47onne, and our beatrtes are now
within rnusket-sbot of the town."

EXTRACT OF A LETTER rnom AN OFFICER IN THE 7RTX
RROINENT, aUtifING iN IinELAND, WIDER Tin (7n1,1
HAND Of LIE TMOALAS-GRANAM.

Calelletnit, lan. 14, 1414. •
" Since I wrote pa on the 7th instant, I have to
add, that we have joined the army the day before
yesterday ; and to grAtify our wishes, General Sir
THOMAS GRAHAM moved forward with two brigades,
yesterday morning at seven o'clock, against Ant-
werp, upon the Scheldt ; and on our first advancing,
no doubt, the French made their appearance in the
field. Colonel MACLEOD got the command of a bri-
gade, consisting of the 66th, 73d, and 73th regj-
ments; which brigade had the first engagement, and
owing to the situation of our regiment, it shared the
warmest part & the action.

4, It is unnecessary In, me to snake any remark's on
the conduct of the small remains of the Maitre High-
landers ; it will be sufficient to s.iy, that the intrepi-
dity of the 78th regiment on this uceat ion wa% marked
with the entire approbation or Sir Till PMAS GRAHAM.
and many other General Officers, all of whom ex-
pressed themselves highly pleased with the gallant
spirit which the heroes maintained at this particular
crisis. A superior force was driven into a small vil-
lage with great slaughter; but, I am sorry to say,
not without a considerable loss on our pan. Colonel
MACLenD was severely wounded, while oravely lead.
ing his brigade against a superior force, nod just be-
hind his own battalion. Colonel Lturisae had his
horse shot under him, and himself and horse fell into
a deep ditch, where the Colonel was obliged to leave
the animal. Lieutenant W. Mammas' was mortally
wounded in the body, while gallantly cheerios the YAI
company into the village; and I am exceedingly
sorry to say, that he died last night, to the groat regret
of his brother officers. Lieut. W. BATH was severe.
ly wounded in the WI arm, just below the elbow,
as he was bravely leading the 6th company into the
same village ; I am happy to add, that be is doing
well, and out of danger. Lieutenant Cunuotas was
slightly wounded in the left breast, but not so much
as to prevent hith performing his duty. Ensign
Onstsev, who carried the regimental colours, was
killed in the field ; Serjeant FINLAY took up the co-
lours, and retained them during the remaining part
of the day. Captain G. 12 received four different
balls through his gnat coat, without the smallest in-
jury to himself. Captain SIME was likewise touched
by a spent ball, but not materially hurt. None of the
Serjeants were bum Piper A. Wert° was slightly
wounded in the begiening of the action, and after he
fell he played the 6 Highland Laddie' and Johnny
Cope'. Alexander Macdonald, Sd company; William
Simpson, 6th; Donald Maclean, sth ; and -- Cham-
bers, second company, were killed—and about twenty-
five wen wounded. •
66 We landed on Walley last, and during four
days we have marched upwards of 70 miles ;—we
itmethed the het eight, after tan o'clock, about twenty
milariato the interior of the country from Antwerp.**

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"ID!) Tit Eric

*RITTEN DURINCI luxus9 ,ilf.lerty gags WRITS.

'kerne of the day-biyah, feint ! I hell
Your dubious hots. *too the eqbe
Of night, which wraps the..lornheriog globe,
I mark four *Wi 'I; • ;• " •
Tir'd with the tam. *dilly light, ,
Aid with the w-aghtg,,t•umbeed night,
1 hail the iltritaiNf ;

And to ! they,bsusekbetwarift raw dew y wreathes
That round rnigial easement twine t.
The teeth galit 646141 e gettirlivrtt bteathes,
it fans my feverish brow, it cain.s the mental strife,
And cheerily reastues s lambent flame of life.
The lark .has her ijay song began,
She leaves her tmassi:twit, •
And saws `tilt the itirtraus sun
Gleams on her speckled breast..
Now let me leave my restless bed; •
And o'er the ettangleditplanis tread ;
Now thru'. tlw eustone4 Wwed-walk wend; •
By'many s gkeen lane hes my way,
_Matt high 6'ollh-id thirwildbilars bead
..rin on the mountain's summit pry, •
I sit me duty n, and mark the glorious dawn of day.
Oh HiAverr! the soh refreshing gale
• it brtutliee int• bretAti
My sunk aytglsattut, My, chcelt so pale „
I; th. new colours draw. _ _

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Blythe hee ! sato( life and ease!
Come thou too, oaths: b4ltity 13rtese,
- Invigorate my frame:
FR •juiltAvith theellife bUskin'd chsee, •
With tht:e the distant caws willtrar,e,
Beyond chose clouds '6f tame. •
. .
Above, liekvr, .what charms unfold
In all the waked 44(4 " • • •
Before me all is burnished gold,
iiecipd the twilight's hue.
The mists which bit old night await, •
Far to the west they hold their state, . •
• '•*rhey shun the clear blue ladroLusers,
Along, the ine &ruble Sky
The Betty clod& *LIMIT* fly,
While-bright priimbrie bemnsiheir shadowy tbilisAdorn
And With! the Thar:leer has begun . '

His woistle on the seen,
Anil oft the Hedges-VW( is beard
Arnorg the tattling leaves:
The siovireant creaks upon the road,
Tile nosy whip resounds,
The driver's voice; hie esrolblythe.
The Mower's strole, his whetting scythe,
" Mist with the titotnitig's sounds I •

• .
' Who w vuld not rather take his Seat
Beneath these clump, of ,reett,
The early dawn of day tngreet,
.. And eaten tile healthy breeze,
Than on the salkea couch. of•sloth
• • Luxurious to lie;
Who wou'ti•not from kle's dreary etrte
finitteh, when he could; with eager haste,
• An interval-Alai
•
Ito hinf who simply thus rtenunts
'.- The moraines oex:urea o'er,
Tate dooms, we Fong, the scene mast close,
. • 'to ape 60 bhn no more
Yet, ivlornisig ! unripening still,
Ttel greet thy beams awhile, •
And Inltnly thou, When o'er his grave
Silletita the vshitertng willows wave,
. iyik sweetly en him smut,
An I 'impale giew•vrosm's,fensive light,
Will guide tos ghostly walks in the drear tuosmiess &At

• 3Pb-ter& G INI: EL LG NC E.

BETTING ON THE DERBY, OAKS, Mc.

MR BY.

• to 1 apt Partisan.
Vg to I apt Ld. &awell's G. by Wary.
• 13 to 1 apt Mr Hewett's My, by Dick Andrews.
•/6to 1 agy ail 'Other. • •
Partisan appears to be a rising favautilia

• 0 AKS.
8 to 1 aght Mr. Hewett's 511 y.
••10 to I art D of Rutland's t. by Sam.
11 to 1 apt D. of Grahon's Starr to Whalebone.
11 to 1 apt Sir J. Shelley's fr by Sorcerer.
OATLA.ND" STAKES:--;Four CaAss.
- I to I art Octavio', pp.
7 to 2 apt' Defiance, pp.
5 to,l apt Pointers, pp.
• • SECOND CLASS.
• -1 10 1 apt Aquarius.
5 to 1 apt any other.
9.000 p. STANI.S.

6 to 1 apt. Sir C. Bilibury's Brother to SrooTenho, pp.
COCKING.—The main of tack's fought between
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, was decided
on llonday night, at the St. Giles's Cockpit, tha
sports having been adjOurned in consequence of the
-sudden death which occurted on Fr.day evening.
Four bye battles were fought as follows :
. 'Won by Houtivgdon.
- . Canibrdge.

.

s - . Unto.
4 •• - - • Huutiogdon.
Four ether battles.up.in the main were next fought
to complete the eight, the
.whok four of which were-
won by Cambridge. uu Friday evening.
On the main I - Won by Catubcsidge.
I . .Won'by dicta.
3 • • Won by dice&
- 4 - Won by Huntingdon.
Bets ou the whole main were off in. consequence' of
the postponement. The Cambridge birds wetAticked
at's-and 6 to 4, before setting to.
Puotilinti7—;Yesterday beg the day appointed for..
the • colftbite.. between • Ford, the pugilist, and a
o,,nifireftorri'DetOorcl, hundreds' trf ptople'
assettibiert In'twetee o'clock 2.1 Conti* Wood;- the.
spot fixed On. After waiting for alone time, -there
-were no signs of the arrival of the combatants, and it
at length luttred out that theDeprford man had turred
it, or in -otiiet- words had- tensed to fight-. Thus
were hundreds-bin-ail a'Svould.be pugilist; never
bef .re -heard .uf. •• No "bi.tme War attaetied.TO Ford,
whowleati re-Ady for'Comba.t—the turnpike-men anti
publicans were the only goiners. .•

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•
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Yesterday the N(4lTressep and. Gentlemln's Coach
_Club, which was inststine4 hf the 4te E.ail pi: SAKEi-
u-loi, dined togekher at.44ThistsbiAl lionso Tavern.
Mx. COAT is. —The Corne3ist:l3lle Will fedian watt
last night ststrdered (as k itacsaid, foe the Benefit: of.
a isidow and six children) at the lialyinarkettr,heatre
,the 'character of Bdrosir. kof.ll44,Cas'ATniu: From the
iow.fessons who assembled befog. the curtain 'roses it
shbiald seem she general fielleg i 4 that aissitrdity itt
tit. periowei Mr. COArichs bas *id itr day.. _Mr. C;
Antb.havisver .4ts'utatali , ir4hited Abby, of tow,
teosptetous blgistavand :derision.; and; .indeed, did
nol‹ Dramatis Ferrous' welt treated with thlemnsit
sutra geOus tidkfiles Otipt sparser of i.4lscord
titas-reacy coati; suggest inis iregerlylAselld irith
.he serviab eat upesseriess burr whiti *WIT of
teeasghtbA 7 • : ; ..! 4

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• • '"JI)1149 4114 re
Yettetday Mary Avast was indiOei for ntterieg
t'OediSfaft &Wogs: - • ,
P 97
,41,-ftfr glis P
er's hoi}je is _Tvi e 4 that. .09, the rli;
telMil*
rhomas'#.otce, pel4nall,grAlp. with
'ii-marked 3*: tokO,fdr which-he received five pate;
*Dings- ind. tw*O 'While* he was
Another officer, named Bishop, waited outside, and
soon after enter ed and txfeived the base coin.—.on
the Cross-examination
,of, this vri9:sess by ALLEY,
'-it e.Ppeited; thielfis'dapghterAvas uqsjer sentence for
pessink hase•ctiin ; that, in the event of the prime
soner)seing convicted, he tinged his daughter would
reveled,' pardon. _
vfillite.:Armstrong, a parish officer, and. other wit-
nesses, corroborated the precedigg lestitnony, and
' iithlted;tlheir haring r)und the 3s. marked token on
p!rson of the ()Toner, alsd'a qUititity 4 finished
and unfinished aline-ilea-1.-bin, in various parts of
the mouse.—Mr. Pov.lll,.one of the Assistant Solid-
tot* to • the Mint, -here 'eiamiried the coin, and de-.,
,cl,tred it to be base.

,The prisoner produced many witnesses, who gave
her a respectable character.
The Jury. retired Tor nearly an hour, and then re-
turned a verdict of Not Guilty.—'r he Recorder ad-
rminidted the prisoner to abandon her practices in
future...
Robert Oakley, -.x lad sixteen years old, was brought
to the bar in a chair, being unable to walk frorri-la me-
nen, cause," by chilblains since he had been in prison.
fle—vias" indicted f for stealing a:coat, some silver
spoons, &e'. from Mr. Osenhatn, a mangle-makci,
in Oxford-street.

Mr..Orenham proved his loss, and identified 11;s
property. ;The prisoner was his errand-1)o/. l'te
,property was found at, mother's apartments.—
Crosi-examined. • The prisoner had- always been 110
nest; had been sit 'Years in the prnsecittor's service. .
The. Officer proved hiving found the property
his mother's. draWers. • I
Oxenhans gave him an excellent chAraczer.—.
.The RIWORDSit inquired if. he had any frien.!s, who
`could take care of him ? The prost.i.itior himself,
Muth to hixhonour, said he :lould have no otjection
m receive him back again, though he had bee' goihy
of that one' fault. The facts .being proved, thz• Jury
could not avoid finding him guilty; when the Ita-
&ORDER impressively addresses the prisoner, or 4..1 ing
him to pay. a fine of one shilling, and be ciiseirirged.
Mr..Orenhatirtook him imrnediate.y home with him,
that he nright not remain another moment liable to
the contatnniation of a.prison.

James liars stood indicted for baiting married urn
wives, the bunter being alive at the time ot his se-
cond marriage.
Mt: KNAPP stated the case to the Jury very briefly,
and then proceeded to all witnesses.
'George Osborne deposed, that he had a daughter
named Margaret; she married the prisoner at Towns-
end-street Chapel, in the month of Tune, 1808. His
daughter was a Cabolie, and the prisoner said lie was
Catholic also. Saw her on the 16th ot last month.
Mary Smith, his second wife, deposed that she was
married to him in June last year, at St. James's
church. -He had £250 with her, and had now re-
duced her and two orphan children to a state of des-
titution. -
The prisoner, who did not sees to want confidence,
inaJe an incolicren! iice,, in the course of which,
however, he admitted the facts alledged against him.
The Jury consulted for a short time, and returned a
verdict of—Guilty.

The Sessions being ended, sentence of 4eath was
passed on William Butcher, for stealing goods in a
dwelling house ; Hartley Smith an 4 Joseph Maresca,
for a like offence ; Abraham Levy and Charles Har-
ding, for robbing William Woodhouse,; Joseph Bur-
rell, John Morris, and MOses Solomons, for burglary;
Samuel Fowler and Henry Woolfe, for a like offence;
Andrew Roke and George Thatcher, for stealing
goods privately in a shop ; William Sturman, for
setting fire to his dwelling house; Henry French, for
returning from transportation ; and Mary Gray, alias
Carney, for privately stealing. in a shop.
Six were ordered to be transported for life, viz. 1.3.
seph Williams, Thomas Smith, John Brown, John
Nightingale, Charles. Matthews, and Samuel Lyons';
five for fourteen years, viz. Thomas Smith, William
Lucas, mail Ingland, John Fawell, and John Bore.
ham and twenty-one for seven years, viz. James
Hare, Richard GoodAild, Hannah Brown, Mary
Coombe, Thomas Williams, George Hodges, Eliza-
' beth Freeman, John Dibbs, William Scones, Ann
Turner, alias Akers, John Brenan, James Blanche;
W iliiam Maggs, James Ingram,. Thomas Brown,
Israel Davies Leroyd, Catherine Smith,
John Smith, Dennis Bi iant, and John Gordon,
-Fivewere ordered to be imprisoned in the House of
Correction.lorone year, and thirteen for six calendar
months; six to be imprisoned in Newgate for various
:periods ; sixteen were ordered to be privately whip.
'ped ; nine judgments resOted ; and sixteen were dis-
charged by proclamation.—Sessions adjourned to the
'4oth of April.. • .
. J.
,Kingharn, a bankrupt, convicted of- a snick.
,•meanor, in conspiring to defraud his creditors on
'Monday evening, was sentenced to be imprisoned in
klesvgate one year, and within the first lour months
of that time to stand twice in and upon the pillory
in Guildhall-yard.
. • .

Hannah Knight, the capital convict, who made a
disioVery of the first of the two late escapes, planned
by the feloni in Horsham gaol. flai since received a
tree pardon, and- been released from the ship, which
was to have trai.sported her to Botany Bay.
the Strand having been much infested with street
robberi lately, Westcote, belonging to 13ow-street
Otte, wAsim the alert on 'Monday afternoon, to watch
i'Veni, 'And observed two fellows of the name or
Evan} "Ana assisted by two others, attempting
teli:liftefeilt people:. A; length Evans put his
hand .
'mice into the same Gentleman's pocket, and
ifiiile'Ond time he only got * clk.hatielkerchiet.—
Wie?tebte -secured him and Taylor by tying their
itaficls,:ind conveyed them to the Office ; and a thii4
*if teecifeent Another of the patrols, and also **
*eyed to the Office. The Gentleman attended whim
they Itid4titbill; ittd 'they were committed' (or 'trial.
atelhervitrevtitklgg' rfofp the ofce to mison,
' &it,' • ding.
•;1 'l', -tat • • 4 fb'4 near. OittiSeic,
sip mietedointaintaiiited
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It
GLADI4APL•••742III4OIek -P4flel7(as rd,ed Iv h
bei,ing,lier own motper. ,Theprkr?puef h 4. has i
scrtice, but .haiini for eb.m!t.nl.l.sconilliKS 4,1441 t-
mused, site vianiti.f to go' !ionic to her ituither. i_ !hi'
however, not being peimitiell, .she took refuge irr tht'
,house of a neighbour,!. from whetter she trequestly
sallied forth op her mpiher, 214 nsgaulted.her. On'
. went to
, .
the u present occasion she went to her 114gings. tore
'her hair,•arid ',nuke het' wciows. The wgrthy At
Iderman siren& reprobatOip suChinhuman condudt,
and fully committed her. , • •

MAnLanncitam:wraw...,►Yesterday J. :Butcher, G.
Hardy, and": Rrracqn, alias Colder, were
charged with stealing coach glasses, &c Two of the
prisoners were liacineY coachmen, and ,the charges
more parriculskrly against them were for robbing the
crach•houscs of Sir Joseph • Banker, in I)eanrstreet,
Snho, of coach-glasses,,aad,two great coats. A
.I:at-
criminis was admitted an evidence against the
accused, and they were remanded fur anot4er exa-
mination.

Mims HALT---T.Mann Awns yesterday brought
up, charged on suspicion of being concerned in the
atrocious nimder of the, fvoily of the Marrs, in Wit- 1,
cliff-highway, Tbp 41tif.Pcler .was in the of
custody
Barretf, the officer, 'dialed by, his wife with beating
and ill-treatiag her. • A person who lived next door
to the parties, stited Vitt he had frequently heard the
'woman cry out ,rounder, when the prisoner was
beating her r and hid also repeatedly beard her ac-
:use him with being absent horn home the whole of
niglit on which the Marrs were murdered, and
c. ',pin him to account for the manner in whicli he
that night. His wife confirmed this state.
',aid4he never could obtain a'satislactory
She did not, however, mean seriously to
p.;tc to him any concern in the borid- transaction
adnded to. Shetiow,sshe said, had him brought up.
for his cruel .treatificnt.of her, he, having often de.
claredhe would murder her; if he were not afraid
the law. The pri,oner, in defence, said, that on tit...
night the murder alluded to, he lent his home in
consequence of a quarrel with his wife, and went 'to
the Bull at Whitechapel, where he slept, which he
could prove by the evidence of a person who lived
Old F:ord. The Magistrote committed him till Sam-
day' togivehim an of portunity to produce his witness.

In the dreary night of WeJnes.lay the 12th ult.
Mr. Wm. :Warrox, jim: of `,:hadlivrou, 0 xfordsha e,
having been to 11-mbury fair. was re to it-:.r* home the
same iveni:lg on toot ; he, howi:vi,r,-1,1 his w ty be-
tween Chipping Nort,n an," Chadlinizion, and was
found nest morning, a congealed nt. s trt icc.
From the recent thaw, the waters in the rm‘r Wi-
them have broken the hanks in many p 7 ices, and
finoded all .the lands west of Lincoln,' towards
Gainsborough ; the strength of the cu7reirt has been
.sa .great as to carry away Boultham-bridge, which.
was ertcted last year ; the damage sustained will be
very .great, both in the banks and on the lands, as
many thousand acres are inundated. For several
days in the week before his the water in the river at
Wishedr rose rapidly, until, on Saturday, the river
was eight feet higher than its .ordinary levek The
gitatest exertions were necessary to save the bridge,
and buildings on the banks, from being cariied away
by the masses of fi ,ating ice. On Sunday, the wateis
had gfeatly abated. The ice-boat, %vial eighteen
horses, and a great number of men, was incessantly
at stork on Friday and Saturday : and to iheir exer-
tions it is owing that a great deal .11 mischief did not
occur. A part .of the old wooden bridge over the
river Trent, at Markham, near Newark, gave way
early on Sunday se'nnight, soon after the Worksop
and. Manchester waggon, heavily loaded, had /raised
over.

Owing to the rapid thaw on the 7th -instant,
that part of Penrith caUed Sandgate, was inundated
to such a height that many of the inhabitants were
obliged to seek their safety by a precipitue flight ; -
the water being nearly two feet in depth in borne
of the houses.

By the inundation of the Tay, much damage has
been. done in the neighbourhood of Perth : one vessel
had her cable cut by the ice, and drove among the
rest, in consequence of which the Union, loaded with
coals, was sunk, and several others drove on shore.
Three hones and eight cows were suffocated in the
town, and i number of sheep that were con filed near
the South Inch,, met a similar fate. A family upon
the island were in imminent jeopardy; hut were re-
lieved by some humane persons, whO, at the hazard-
of their lives, crossed upon the broken ice, and-brought.
them off on the 641119 frail support.
A few days ago, as Susannah Hitchcock, aged
about 8 years, daughter of a labourer, in the parish
of Springfield, near Chelmsford, was blowing the fire,
a spark flew upon her clothes and set them on fire,
by which she was so dreadfully burnt that she died.

VARIATION OF TIM • Cosu'Ass.—A Correspondent
has remarked to us, that the needle, which in this
latitude pointed truly to the North in the year 1657,
and has been inclining, to the westward ever since,
at the averaged rate of about 'lO thin. per annum,
has reachtd flee utmost twine of its variation, hat been
stationary, and is now receding. From this tact, if Elk
observation be correct, it stems that about c.1341e,. rees
is the extent of its variation westward ; that it will in
about 1.50 years again point truly to the North, and
probably for the next 150 years will incline to tlit-
East—taking up a period of 600 years in making a
revolution.

BIRTH.
On the 16th Instant, at CueroWy, the wife of Captain Masters,
Royal African Corps Cate of 102 d), of a .on.

I)11. D.
' At Glasgow, on the 13th inst. Mrs. Ann Stewart, wife of the
Rev. Dr. Taylor, Principal of the College.
At Swinton, 4)n the I ith inst. the Rev. James Baird, Minister
of Swinton, in the 524 year of his agc.