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OTTLDNALLe.4SIOI.II TO COTPAISLOL.—Yesterazy,
mynas filmmakers were brought before the Magistrate by,i
night Constable, charged with disorderly coodoch
The constable said the twotmen bad been tipay the night btu
fares and would not go array when he desired them to do es ;
bat air-morning they were sober, and had" settled" she matter.The Alderman instsetly caused the constable to be sworn, sod
asked hint whether he had not* taken money from the defendants
to settle It releetatuly teknowledged that he had re-
ceived two pounds not to press it.
The Alderman sold, the practice pursued by watchmen and
night constables of taking bribes was a most abominable one,
and that the most frightful consequences Might be appreheaded
from it. He then closely Invangsted diocese. •
The constable stated, that in endeavouring to induce the des
fendants to go borne, at a late hour, one of them fell upon him,
and street him a violent blow, and knotked him down. ,
The defendants denied this. They declared that the covetable
/hewed no disinclination to be assaulted, and that he was not at
aihstrueit. They gave the two pounds by the advice of their
'tends, to get rid of the nateer.—The defendant, against whom
assank was charged, said he was locked up for answering a
watchman, who spoke insolently to him.
The Alderman said, it was no weeder that men had (Weird
money for the office of night constable, when such practices
were pursued.
The two defendants were then discharged from custody, and
bound ever to prosecute the constable and a watchman, who
was concerned in getting the money, for extortion.
Harmer-Gmtern.—Yesterday.the well known at Smith was
brought for the forty.ninth time to this Office, charged with as-
saulting and beating William Manning, an able watchtnah.
It appeared from the statement of the watchhouse-keeper, con-
stables, and watchmen, that the prisoner is a most formidable
enemy to the guardians of the night in the neighbourhood of Is-
lington, and that none of them singly cart face her; on many oc-
casions she has pot three or four of them to flight. She has for
similar assaults been committed for one month, or two months at
a time, and it was only last Saturday she was discharged for the
forty-eighth tiffie from the House of Correction, where she was
confined for one month, never being more than two or three
days out when she Is committed again. On Saturday night, after
being discharged from prison, she got drunk rod repaired to her
usual rendetvous near the Angel, at Istiogton, and from eleven
o'clock till one in the morning, she kept the neighbourhood in a
state of confusion. No watchman was found hardy enough to at-
tempt laying bands on her' in fact, they avoided her ; at length
the complainant, with the assistance of four gentlemen, succeeded
in securing her and currying her to the watchhouse, but not be-
fore she inflicted summary punishment on the watchman by
giving hint several tremendous blows.
The Magistrate declared he was at a less what to do with the
prisoner; she had spent the greatest part of five years in prison,
which had no effect on her, but it was better to keep her con-
fined than for bet to be at large, and be concluded bysintencing
her to another month in the House of Correction.
On hearing her sentence she swore that as soon as e had her
liberty again she would give the watchman such a beating, that
he should never forget Bet Smith as long as he lived.
111AltYLA-BOSillt 07171C1.—Yesterday John Williams, an athletic
young fellow, was examined on a charge of cutting a large
trunk of wearing apparel from behind a gentleman's carriage.
It was stated in evidence, that on Saturday last the family
carriage of Wood, Esq. of Park House, Hayes, was pro-
ceeding post to London, with a young lady, named Hobbs, in-
side, whose trunk was strapped to the back, and just after passing
through East Acton, an alarm was given by some workmen on
the roads, that the prisoner had cut the trunk front behind the
coach; being stopped, a pursuit was commenced, and the pri-
soner, during a very long chace, with the most astonishing ac-
tivity, leaped over several ditches, hedges, fences, and ponds,
still keeping fast hold of the heavy trunk, and finding he could
not clear a wide ditch with his booty, he slung the trunk into the
midst of it, and jumped over, but the pursuers still kept on, and
he was found lying in a field quite exhausted, unable either to
proceed or resist.
Ile had nothing to say in hie defence, and was fully committed
to Newgate for trial.
Lausern-Sramer.—A Roma SHOT...—It has been already
stated. a few days back, that a man was shot while boldly at.
tempting a robbery at the dwelling-house of Chapman, Esq.
at West Ham, and that he was in consequence lying at the Lon-
don Hospital, to be cured of his wounds. It being determined
on to prosecute the man, strict orders were given at the Hospi-
tal not to allow him, when able, to depart, without giving-no-
tice to the Police, and on Saturday evening he was brought to
this Office, when he gave his name James Ciente:as. The butler
by whom he was shot, a also his master, attended, who prefer.
red a charge of burglary and rubbery against him. Pawnbrokers'
duplicates for several books, being part of the property stolen,
were found on the prisoner. The unfortunate man appeared to
be sufihring grievously from the effects of the shot ; he limped
into the Justice Room, supporting himself on crutches.—He
was remanded for further examination.—Since his commitment
a letter was received by Mr. Miller, the Chief Officer, from the
rivet, intimating that the unfortunate man was so much indis;
posed that it was deemed requisite to place him in the infirmary
of the jail.
hl A ettiostoucu-erasme...-Yesterday,-11rellington was charged
with being concerned in a serious riot. It appeared that a dis-
pute arose between two soldiers at a public-house in Arabella..
row, Pimlico, when two of them went out to fight, 'and on the
watchmen interfering to preserve the peace, the whole parry
turned upon them, took from them their sticks, and beat theist
so severely, that a party of the Guards were fetched, which
took the refractory soldiers to the guard-house, and gave the
prisoner-up to the civil power. The Magistrate severely repro-
bated the conduct of the publican, who, after the affray, gave
shelter to the refractory soldiers, and shut his dogs against the
watchmen, and those of the military, who came to preserve the
peace. e therefore issued a summons for his appearance, and
ordered the prisoner to find ban.
uNioa-HALL.—Saturday, James Cooke Clarkson, whose case
Was reported in our Paper of Friday last, was again brought he-
fore 1.. B. A Lute, Esq. for re-examination on the charge of having
fraudently obtained the sum of Altin from Mr. John Anderson,
under pretense of procuring for him a situation in the Revenue.
A Gentleman attended upon the part of Government.
Mr. Anderson having produced the letter which he bid men-
tioned as having been received by him from the prisoner, the pd.
goner acknowledged it to be his hand-writing.
The Gentleman who attended upon the part of the Treasury,
requested that the case might stand over for a few days; and added,
that Government deemed it necessary that the prisoner should be
prosecuted under the 49th of Geo. 111. cap. 26, sec. 4, which
statute enacts, that " Persons receiving or paying money for ob-
taining any office under Government, or in consideration of soli-
citation for obtaining any such office, or of isegociatinus or pre-
tended negociationt relating thereto, shall be guilty of misde-
meanour."
A Gentleman was in the Office, who said It. attended in con-
sequence of seeing the account in the Papers, and added, he had
been defrauded by a similar contrivance about two years ago. lie
identified the prisoner, who was remanded till next Wednesday,
at the request of all parties.

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We understand that, in consequence of the ideas
associated with the title of the infamous Bishop of
Cuxmita, in consequence of the conduct of the indi-
vidual excommunicated and driven into exile, the
name of the See will be changed from Clogher to
Tyrone. This, it seems, is thought a necessary pre-
liminary to the nomination of a new Prelate.
Monday sennight, abouttwo o'clock, James Archer,
a Bur ntisland pilot, while steering the boat with an
oar, unfortunately losing his balance, fell overboard,
and was drowned,
Thursday se'nnight, as Mr. Richard Smith, miller,
' of Ullcoats M.:4 near Egremont,was returning home
from Whitehaven market, when near Corkicle, tell
from his hcrie and was killed on the spot.
Wednesday a man, named Alexander Midair,
employed as a carter in a marble work on Leith
\Valk, was .killed at Restalrig, being squeezed be-
tween the shafts of his cart and the toll bar..
An inquest was lately held at Cheltenham ou the body of
Sarah Kent, aged seven years. Her brother, about four ypirs
old, threw time lighted shavings at the deceased, which she
trampled on to extinguish the time, but it commuuicated with
her clothes, aud she was so dreadfully burnt that she expired
in two days atter. • Verdict—Accidental Death.

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