Star.
London, England, 1803-01-29 00:00:00

CROWN LANDS.

We this dap prefent our readers with an abflrah
of the fecond Report of the Surveyor-General of
the Land-Revenues of the Crown. It will be re.
collehed, that the Crown Lands formed, at one
time,the only regularincome of the Crown; and that
it was only in times of extraordinary emergency,
that fame impoßs of the nature of the taxes of the
relent day, were demanded in aid of that income.
In the courfe of time, however, the revenue of the
Crown Lands was fo much reduced by grants to
favourites, that it became totally inadequate to the
maintenance of the Royal Dignity,and hence origi-
nated the neceifity of permanent taxes. The rem.
nant of lands in the poffeffion of the Crown was,
however, confiderable, though, for a long time,
eoupted for nothing in the revenues of the Crown,
when they firfl became an object of Parliamentary
care in the reign of Qsteen ANNE. Some ufeful re-
gulations were then adapted, which, however, were
not fufficiently precile in the letter, nor fufticiently
enforced to obtain the propofed benefit of deriving
fuch an income by fair means of increale from the
Crown Lands, as would give fuch aid to the Civil
Lift, as would relievethe fubjed from a great part
of the burthens attached to that fervice. The pro-
'Mons of the Aft of Queen Awes being thus in-
adequate and impeded:try enforced, the Mt of the
34th of Gao. 111. was palled, and the report from
which the following abftraft is made is the fecond
formed upon that Aft. In confequenee of the regu-
lations of the AEI of Gao. 111. various improve-
ments have taken place in every branch of this re-
venue, which, from the introduhion of a better ma-
nagement in every Tepee, is now made to yield a
call increafe of income. In the firft clafs of eftates
comprifed in the report, lands of which leafes had
before been granted, the rents received by former
hares amounted only to 4781 41. 83d. whereas the
rents now referved, amount to 27331. 9s. 3d. with
a proportionable increale in fines. In the fecond
dafs, lands of which leafes were not granted before
the rent is 9131. 1 as. 6J. The increafe in rent by
leafes of both claffes is 32331. and the increafe of
fines 30321. xs. td. There are &Imo fume stifling
grants in perpetuity, and Tome (ales for a full con-
Ederation in money, the price of which has been
veiled in the 3 per cents. A number oft ew leafes
have been agreed for, in which the increale of rent
is 73431. cinch an addition of Soot!. tos. 4d. in
fines. Other leafes have been propofed, affording '
an advance in rent of near 70001. and the advance
in fines, near 7,3001.
The fum derived from the (ale of fee farm rents,
•and laid out in the purchafe of flock by the late
•Commiftioners of the Land Revenue, altiounts to
8,101. tos. ad. in 3 per cent. Confols, sshich
b 7 the additions in eonfequence of the late falcs, is
mow carried to 123,4431. 145. 3d.
The films arifing from the I'ale of the lands dif-
poled of were intended to be applied to the redemp-
won of the land tax of the lands not f ad, but the
vtillance and irregularity of the termination of the
Leafes of thole lands has retarded the execution of
:his plan for fume time. A rely lai,;te lam has
arifen from the (ale of roi al manor ial rights, royal
manors, (mall difperkst parcels of land, tithes,
filberies, ferries, and wales, amounting to
74.1581. in. 7d. which has bzen laid out in the par
::cafe of t x,,6661. (is. 9d. 3 per Con. ape:, af-
'ording a dividend 01 3,3 col. cs. id.inficad of soil.
t •a. cd. annual rent, and 54991. ss. 4d. in fines on
renewal of the . . .

His Mtieily's property in the moor i.IR cLains in
le Thanes, let on lease to I.e7d Gwyorit for flat
iutith r f aie profit:, is 111 U among the pa:ts of the

'and revenue roll The pureltaft money given by
the London Dock Company, together with an ad-
ti,,nal film derived from the tale of tome private
chains, amounting to 73,0221. t 2s. 9d. with which
has been purchafed 124,5931. 35. 4d. the annual
dividend on which is 3,7371. 15x. I id. whereas the
average net produce of the chains in the lail t 8
years, was about 20001. and the refervcd eighth
parr only 2731. 175. gd.
The monies arifing from the Isles of lands,
amounting to 74,1581. tBs. 7d. and from the ap-
props iation of the mooring chains, amounting to
73,C221. 125. 9d. making together 147,1811. 1 is.
4J. having been paid into the Bank of England to
one account, entitled, " The Account of the Com-
miffioners of his Majelly's Treafury," and the
fums of flock purchafed therewi:h, viz. 111,6661.
:65. gd. and 124,5931. 3s. 4d. as before Dated,
making together 236,2601.05. id. having been tranf-
ferred to an account under the fame title, are not
didinguifhed in the accounts tranfmitted to me from
the Bank of England, and inferted in the Appendix.
From this Rock the hum of 16,1221. ss. 7,1. hav-
ing been transferred to the Commiiiimiers for the
Rednaion of the National Debt, as the confidera-
tion for the redemption of thofe parts of the Land
Tax charged upon the Land Revenue which have
been already redeemed, the amount of Three per
Cent. Confolidated Bank Annuities, now (landing
in the names of the CommifTioners of his Majelly's
Treafury is 220,1371. 9s. 4d. and the annual divi-
dend thereon 66041. 2s. id. The total increafe in
the Land Revenues, by thofe means, amounts to
24,4381. 25. gd. a year.
The principal improvement Dated in the fchedules
is on the funk ifland in the Humber, the hiflory of
which is extremely curious. It was formed by the
accumulation of mud, &c. and contintsed increa-
fing till in 1669, it was of fufhcient magnitude to
be demanded as a grant by ANTHONY G YLBY, Efq.
to whom a grant was made for an annual rent of
51. to commence from the embankment of the firft
too acres. Little progrcfs was made till a new
leafe was made, in the courfe of which the eflate
devolved to Wm. GYLBY, by whofe exertions 1,560
acres were embanked and divided into farms, by
the year 1744. In 1755, a third leafe was made to
MARGARETCYLNY, which expired tsthMarchlaß,
rent tool. 6ne t,5501. The Reprefentatives of the
family of Gs.cav have now agreed to e x pencllo,6ool.
on a new leafe within three years, and to pay a rent
of 1041. as. Bd. in the firli year, 20901. for the fe-
cond year, and 31901. for the remainder of a term
of 31 years. The lefTees have already expended
20,0001. and :835 acres have been added to the
lands already reclaimed, the whole fecured by em-
bankment.

By the fyftem at prefent adopted for the manage-
ment of the crown lands, it is intended to take no
fines,except on lands let for building, in which cafe
a fmall fine is thought a neceffary fecurity. The
moil advifcable of the new improvements in the
management of land, are impofed on the tenants of
the crown in the way of covenant as new leafes,
and where any improvements are made on old
leafes, a reafonable extenfion of intereft is allowed
in indemnification. This is particularly the cafe
on the crown lands within the City of London,
where every inducement has been held out to the
royal tenants to wake improvements. In moil
cafes within the precinas of London, the improv-
ed rents from the ground of the areas, would ex-
ceed the rents now derived from the exiling fu-
perftruCture.
From this fyftem of management there appears
jun reafon to conclude, that there will at length
refult fuch advantages as will tend very much to
effea the benefit propofed by the various ads re-
lating to this fub;ea, the reduaion of the burthen
of the Civil Lill Revenue upon the fubjea.
We have already obferved, that the advantages
which the fubjea had a right to expea from the
fair management of the Crown Lands were re-
tarded and diminilbed by the hardfhip which the
tenants of the Crown affeCted to find in allowing
a fair value for the Crown Lands, and the tender-
nefs which the officers of the Crown concerned
with the banters had (we fuppofe not without
reafons) for there hardniips. Between both
ere defcriptions of perfons the Crown Lands
were managed in the fame manner in which many
other branches of the Royal Revenue are between
fmugglers, who think it no matter of confcience
to cheat the Crown in any cafe ' • and collulive
revenue officers, who would wink at every viola-
tion of the laws with which they are entrolled, ra-
ther than be soreivit This fyftem has now, at leaft
among the upper ranks, undergone an entire alte-
ration, and, it is at prefent underflood, that the
property of the Crown, which is, in there cafes,
the fame thing as the property of the public, may,
and will, be managed with fume regard to the in-
weft of the right owners.
We are, therefore, not a little furprifed to fee,
among the papers, a copy of a memorial prefented
by a number of the tenants of the Crown, com-
plaining of the general hardfhips of leafes granted
in the manner now adopted, and putting feveral
extreme cafes of diftrefs which may occur. It is
rather remarkable, that among the tenants corn.
plaining of there great hardfhips and poffible dif-
treffes, the greaten number of names are thofe of
Peers, of the highen rank, Members of Parliament,
and private individuals, of high diftinaion and for-
tune. The titles of RICNNOND, Maaxsoaouom,
LEEDS, Ql./ItIISIRRRY, ESSF X, HARRINGTON,
GOWER, FITR, SHRTFIRLD, and WHITWCIRTH, are
not the only remarkable ones ; and Tome of them,
in make their plea of hardlhip the more laughable,
have their names figned by J. BAN n 'sr a, jun. The
anfwer of the Lords of the Treafnry was, that it
Was impoffible to make any general regulation
where every two individual cafes were different,
hut that no individual, who had a real cattle for
redrefs, Mould Puffer harellhip from the Crown.
No leafes are now renewed till within five years
of the expiration of the exiling leafe. It has been
tlrongiy recommended to tell thole lands which
are capable of greater improvement in private
hand., and to vett the produce in the three per
cents where, ey veiling the accumulating intereft
10, the advantage ariling win, at the end of 31
years, be double as much as can be derived from
the retention of the lands.

LAZY INTFLLIGENCE.

calm.r OF iaxc., I;FNCH, JAN as.

THE 7t 2:7 or 4,;SEENSLURVP..!tO7,I-RT
This Wits ta.e cf tliofc C.tieS which occur altn".l
daily, fro:n the extrer.le itrianels which the .`.1,-
nuity .\fl is fuppofed to tequire in the wording cl
the memorial, as the It.cord of the trar.f.te!irm.
It WAS to this Cale M: E.Aine alluded tla
other day, whey, he mcr,tiored that it was d;;;,1::
ed whether a check of his Grace upon Coo ts th,
Banker, Was a payment uf rnune:,•, as ruct.tioncd
in the memozial.

The Duke of Q.Lteerifberry had, in 1.1:1,
4,00c1 by dr.ifts on M: ifrs. Conti, ainl Co.
much money, in colifidelatitin aim::ity
2ccol. per ann.
• Mr. DAmPIERE, on the part of the lkiendant,
pointed out other &leas in the memorial, as I,r
inflance, that Mr. Courts eras n.tmcd tritace, %%idi-
om cra&ly defcribing the nature oldie troth.
Lot d Er. LEN COROOC H considered this fitt,d, and
afked his Grace's Counfel, Mr. Erfkine and Mr.
Jekyll, whether they could hope by any dr!ar.
ments to defend the memorial as it now flood?
He all() fuggcfled the 11:Tering judgment then to
pafs pro forma, and letting it go to die Ilouti:
Lords.

Dlctfrs.EßstarrEand JEKYLL immed
Lord ELLENBOROUGH then laid, that if it earn:
before the Houfe of Lord, he thould conceive
Itimfelf at liberty there to diferifs this quell ion in a
very different manner from that which, fitting in .1
Court of L4W, he Weli cow bound to deeije it in.

MEATH HUBBARD.

This was an aelion of troves-, brought by the
Plaintiff, as ov ner of one third of the (hip Fitburn,
arsai!ift the Defendant, as owner of the other two
Sirds, but who fold the whoh: Ihip to reeov'r the
value of that one third. It was tried before Lord
Ellenborough and a Jpectal Jury of Merchants, at
Guildhall, on the to of Nos ember fall, :.hen, after
feveral objesflions taken on the part of the Defen•
dant, it was agreed to find a verdict fur the Plain-
tiff, fubjeel to a cafe for the coatis oration of the
Court of King's Bench.
This cafe, which is of great importance to the
(hipping intcreft of the country, was argued with
great abilities by Mr. B. HALL, for the Plaintiff,
and by Mr. C. ABBOTT for the Defendant.
Mr. HALL, after Rating the fasFts of the cafe,
oblerved, that he was to fupport before their Lord-
fhips the verdia that had been given. He laid at
the trial of the caufe three obitaions were taken
on the part of the Defendant :
Firfl—" They contended that the Bill of Sale,
which had been executed in this cafe to Heath,
the Plaintiff, in truff for certain unnamed Under-
writers, could not be fupported, as the property
of Foreigners might thereby be mailced under
Britifh names, againft the provifions of the Re-
' giller Mts."
The fecond obje&ion was, " That the Plaintiff,
in this inflance, through the omiffion of the Offi.
cer at the port of Neweafile, did not complete his
title before that of the Defendant intervened."

And the third objeCtion was, " Suppofe their
Lordthips thould be of opinion with the Plaintiff
nn thefe two grounds, yet (till the Plaintiff and
Defendant, being tenants in common, this anion
of trover would not lie."

The Learned Counfel confidered there ohjetlions
in their order, and argued againtt them with great
ingenuity and force of reafon.
Mr. ABBOTT, on the part of the Defendant,
contended thefe two propofitions, tit, That this
Plaintiff was not the legal owner (on the true con-
ftruelion of the different ftatutes relating to (hip-
ping and navigation) of any part of this veffel.
And idly, admitting him to be fo, yet, on the
fads of this cafe, he was not entitled to maintain
the prefent action of trover againft the Defendant.
At the conclufion of the argument, Lord EL-
LENIOIOL'GH faid, this cafe bad been extremely
fully, and very ably argued. It was brought to
a fingle queftion, for the action could not be main-
tained by the Plaintiff, if he and the Defendant
were tenants in common. And whether they were
tenants in common or not, depended on the perfec-
tion of the Defendant's title, which depended on
the validity of the new regifter ; for as to the de-
ftrudion of the fhip, that was out of the cafe.—
The only queftion therefore was, whether the De-
fendant had a good title in confequence of the
'conveyance made to him under the new regifter.
There was no occafion for the Court to decide the
other points that had been argued. A tenant in
common could not maintain an action againft an-
other. Was the Plaintiff a tenant in common with
the Defendant ? If he was, he could not maintain
this action. That reduced it to the queftion of
title in the Defendant. That was the only point
neceffary for the Court to decide. As the cafe re-
lated to a matter of great general importance, the
Court would confider of it before they delivered
their judgment.

MiDAMIEL AND ANOTHtt V. HVCHS.

This alion was brought to recover the fum of
t sod. It was tried in February, aos, when the
Defendant pleaded a judgment of the Mayor's
Court in London by attachment, the validity of
which, it was agreed to fubmit to the confidera-
lion of the Court of King's Bench.
This cafe was argued to day by Mr. Be it ay, on
the part of the Plaintiff, and by Mr. GIL as forthe
Defendant.
The Counfel for the Plaintiff fubmitted three'
objeftions---111, That the Garnifhee was not in
pod-a-ton of the money at the time of the attach-
inctit-2dly, That the Defendant below who was
the Plaintiff its 'his aCtion, had not any notice of''
the procefs of the Mayor's Court againli him ; and
the third ohjeetion was, that the Plaintiff below,
who was now the Defendant, did not prove any
debt in the Mayor's Court, nor did be prove any
debt in that Court, in the charaCter of Defendant.
The Learned Counfel fupported each of there ob-
jeCtions, by a number of authorities from the books.
Mr. Guts appeared for the Defendant, and in
the condi of his argument gave an anfwer to the
objections dated on the part of the Plaintiff.
It appeared in the condi of this argument,
that by the cuftom of London, a man might be
attached, who altually, a: that time, had no ow

ney in his hands hziongng to another, Lot U•i:o
;vas e xpeacd to recei:e a fun' at I.4ne it:;ure
;,cried.

Lord ELLENlio7.nucii ;bought it a mat vv. 1! ;Pus
that ama Tn;g',,t fm att.lcitednil A 1).17..f.
peetlti,ll, and when p?rhArs the munq
lever corr.e hands.

Mr. GIT.ES faid, though at the time of the at-
nt, the Gatni!h:e had no mcney, yet he
this money h.Aween the time of the at-
-achm:nt and the plea he had pleaded. fie had
..leaded that he had no money belonging to the
'Defendant either at the time of the attachment,
rat any time rince. hat however was not the
; and he was haond to plead that plea, and
r w gild hare been had. He compat
plea to that cf /'Lr.' .1,1;;:it..i/L7vit, in die cafe
of an t x (Tutor.

Mr. COM 'ION SFRJEANT oliferved, that this was
ccrtaialy tlic prielice, and it the Garnilliec
pleaded immediately after the attachment, he
%void., 114%e got rid a it.
:Nft,..r a great deal of dilcuflion on this point,
Lord ELLEMitoitoucii raid, a: Court wouLl
look into it.

p.tAa ♦SD OTHERS V. TAYLOR, AND OXLE Y AND

OTHERS V. TAYLOR.

Mr. Max LF.Y moved, that the Defendant, who
now attended the Conic, fhould be rendered, in
due form, in difchaige of his boil. The frets are
fbortly chef.: : The Defendant being arrefted for
debt, gave bail ; fince which he became bankrupt ;
;old, on examination, his anfwers being difatisfac-
tory to the Commiflioners, he was committed by
them to Newgate, there to remain until he (hall,
upon interrogatories, lankly them in his anfwers.
In this lituation, the bail could not render him in
their own difcharge in the civil fuit, without bring-
ing him into Court for that purpnfe, which they
did accordingly ; and the Court ordered, that he
he rendered, in the firfl inflame, in due form, to
the cullody of the Marfltal of the Court, and that
he then be remanded to Newgate, there to remain
until difcharged in due courfe of Law. Bin after-
wards a difficulty occurred ; becaufe it was laid
that the Habeas Corpus thould have ;gibed from
the Crcwn fide of the Court, inffead of the Civil
tide, becaufe he was a6tually in cuflody upon a
criminal, inficad cf a civil charge.
Lord niLLENßoaouc after conferring with the
other Judges, °harm!, that, according to the re-
port of the Officers of the Court, this prifoner be-
ing in cuflody on a criminal charge, the Habeas
Corpus ought to have iffiied from the Crown fide,
iallead of the Civil fide of the Court : the prefent
writ was therefore irregularly ifiucd, and there
murk be another from the Crown fide, on which he
might be brought up to-morrow. The prifones
was then remanded.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JAN. 11.
JARRETT V. BOTETT.

Mr. Pune ER timed, that this was a bill filed by
the Rev. Mr. Jarrett, Vicar of the Vicarage and
Chapelry of Wallington, in Somerfetfbire, againft
the defendant, one of the parifhioners of the part&
of Wallington, to recover the Lull value of the
tythe of hay, and the predial and mixed tythes.
which, as fuch parithioner. he was bound to pay
to the Vicar. The plaintiff had, in the year 1791,
been included to the vicarage and chapelry, and
immediately after he was inveLled with the vicarial
rights—he gave notice to the defendant, that he
fhould expel to receive his tythes in kind—the
defendant, as well as the other inhabitants of the
parifh, infifted on paying a companion in lieu of
tytbes, which compotition they eliimated at only
1201. a year, though the tythe, if taken in kind,
would be equal to 4001. a year. The motive of
the defendant in infifting on a compofition, was
his knowledge of the difficulty of proving the en-
dowment of the chapelry—the original endow-
ment had been 1011, but it was contained in the
Harleian Manufcript. He admitted the Harkins
Manufcript was not a medium of proof which
could be received as evidence either in a Court of
Law or Equity, but, fortunately for the plaintiff,
he had difcovered a very ancient book marked A,
and having on the firß leaf thefe words—" Ab
Anno 5270, nfq. annum 1391." This book bad
been found in the Muniment Room of the Re-
glary of the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral
Church of St. Andrew in Wells. It contained a
pedal copy in Latin of the Ad of Endowment.
The Learned Conine] then Rated the terms of this
document in the language in which it was couch-
ed. It was prefaced with the words "In nomine
Deg, Amen;" and as well as we were enabled to
tranflate, the fenfc of it appeared to be dated from
the year of the Incarnation 1340, in the 9th Indic-
tion, on the 23d Odober. It was in the firth year
of the Pontificate of the Mott Holy and Reverend
Father in Grin, by DIVINE PROVIDIPICII, Pope Be.
nedid the Twelfth, and purported to be an Ad
of Endowment in favour of John de St. Paul, as
Prepofitus of the Vicarage and Chapelry of Wal-
lington, and in confideration of his obedience and
fubmiflion to the Bilhop of Bath and Wells, grant.
ed to him and his fucccffors for ever, all the
great and (snail tythes, predial and mixed, of the
Vicarage.
The Learned Counfcl having Rated the cafe,
proceeded to the proof of it, by putting in the an•
cient muniment we have mentioned.

Mr. R,cHatnf, for the defendant, objeeted to
its admiffinn as evidence. He contended it bad
no tide, which tnanifelled its being a legal docn•
ment.

The Learned Barons were, however, of opinion
that, as the appearance of the muniment carried
fuch unequivocal internal proof of its high anti-
quity and authenticity ; further, as it was corro-
borated by the Harleian Manufcript ; as it had
been found in the regillry of the Cathedral Church
of St. Andrew, and as it appeared in the books
and manufcripts found in the libraries of Deans
and ChApters, had been frequently reviled as evi-
dence, they were bound to admit it.
Accordingly the A& or Bull of Pope Benedi&
the XI Ith was allowed to be complete evidence of
the endowment of the Chapelry, and the plaintiff
had a judgment in his favour, by which he will be
entitled either to take his tythes in kind.r
a compofailn at the rate or 4001 a year.

mia or receive
r.

WINTLR.-A PASTORAL.

Bleak Llowt the wind! and fr.,.3 the furly Ncrth
The f1..-cey 11.1kLs in drifted ihow'ri del-cend!

Prow hi' warm cot the Shep::ei,', ventures forth,

At.d I the (torn:, hi, bleating charge to tout

W.th v'cr the joylcf, plain, on droopinz n ing,
The tcatlier'dtiibc, urge
With mnelous cry—nor lonzer, fing
'llc of pay

Ep huneLr picre'd and chilling cold,
Now to the garden Lta the feet Hare;
Fur want twit render c't ,1 the talid 'OOll,
And rook the torpi,l Lb of Deipair.

Thc fai.llßobin, with tV.ltreb*,lphirrf,
r',.n at the window poi:r.hii plai,,ti n In
On tl.i,eting wing. and, reAkft of the
LkftineLively imp!or.:s the 1,uint,4•,6r.,ir..

little rofy-breatted fav'tite, co.: !
To dice my bounty ever 0::11 expand ;
k..c in my c,:!...gc lied a welcome Limn;
And freely than: p:ttance of r•.:y {sand!
Th'ck falls the fnow ! and ruth:cfs howls the Nan !
No flar benignant greets th. trav'ller's fght !
But plunging on, dcfisondent and aghaft,
He droops ! he falls! he finks in endlefs night !

Happy the man, befide his ehearful are,
Whom books delight and lit'rature reein'd ;
Who wisdom can fi oin ev'ry page acquire,
And treafurc up her precepts in his mind!

And lipppy he who with Come partner d'ar
Holds converfe tweet, nor dreads the wintry gale;
Or to a prattling offspring's liiThing ear
Repeats the jocund, legendary tale.
But think. ye Sons of AfP.uerce! oh think,
While thus the Gods your ey'ry wish fupply,
How mat:y on the bed of a:lva fltrink,
And talle the bitter draught of mire!). !

Go—du-ire the rigour of th' inclement year,
The checrlefs Hut of Poverty explore!
Go—chafe th. Widow's and the Orphan's tear,
And toetteit want, unfold your ample fore!
SO ihßii OUNIPOTZNCE the deed reward,
And with praperity your riches blefs!
For be alone is worthy He AT.N.II regard,
Whole foft'ring hand relieves the Children of Dards!

O. R.

POLICE.

Mansion House.—Yefterday a long private
examination took place before the LORD MAYOR.
bpon the cafe of one of the letter carriers of the
General Pnfl Office, who at prefent Rands to-cott-
milted on fufpicion of being in fome way concern-
ed in fecreting a letter, in which there were notes
and bills to the amount of Sol. Two other per-
Cons, who are alfo in cuflody, and who were ap-
prehended yefterday morning, were alio examined.
One of them was flopped at the Bank, while offer-
ing one of the notes, fuppored to have been in the
letter, to be changed, and the other was appre-
hended in eonfequence of the perfon fo flopped,
having declared he received the note from him.—
The whole of the examination was private, and
we do not feel oerfelves at liberty to enter into
any of the particulars, until the circumtlances (hall
be more fully developed at a future examination.
• Gustostatt..—A young man, of the name of
Concasaost, was yellerday brought before the Sit-
ting Alderman, charged by the landlord of the
George and Mitre Tavern, in Mitre-court, Fleet-
treet. on fufpicion of having flolen his pocket-
book,ln which there were notes, &c. to the amount
0(701. The landlord faid the prifoner came into
his coffee room, where himfelf and fnme friends
were fitting ; he had that day been paying a good
deal of money to his brewer, wine merchant, &c.
and being a little elated with it, had drank freely,
and, in the collide of converfation, had produced
his pocket book ; when the prifoner obferved, " he
Mould like to (peak to his reader"--and two or
three times, in an apparently joking manner, pick-
ed his pocket of his handkerchief, and retus ned it
him again. Soon afterwards he left the haute,
and the pocket book was 1011. In confequence of
the above circumflances, Cufpicion attached to the'
prifoner. He was remanded for re•examination,
and a warrant granted to fearch his lodgings.
Bow•STRETT.—On Thurfilay evening, about
eight o'clock, as the Chifwick errand cart was par-
ling through Hammerfmith, a box belonging to
Mr. Dickens, of Alderfgate-flreet. was cut from
behind it, and the robbery being difcovered by the
boy who was driving the cart, lie gave an alarm
to fevers) perfons, who went in purfuit of the rob-
bers, and when they got into Black Lyon-lane,
they found the box in the poffeffion of two men,
who laid they had juR found it ; but the perfons
who had joined in the purfuit of the robbers not
believing the account, were about to take them
into cuftody, when the men ran off. They were
purfued, and the cry of, " flop thief," sailed, and
as they paired through Hammerfmith, one of the
men who had been in polfellion of the box, ex-
claimed to his companion, with a moll lo.rrid oath,
" he would do them both," meaning the two mess
who were purfuing him, and immediately doled
with one of them cppolite the four mile Ilene, at
the end of Hammerfmith, when a delperate
enfued, and unfortunately the villain proving the
firongell man, threw his purfuer down, get upon
him, and was endeavouring to murder him in the
moll deliberate and barbarous manner, till
allif-
tanee came up and fccured the villain. It was
fome time before it could be -afeertained who the
wounded man was, on account of the bloody Rate
his face was in. He proved to be a man of the
name of Pidgeon, a fervant to a gentleman in that
neighbourhood. A forgeon was immediately pro-
cured to drefs his wound', when on examination
he proved to have a dcfperate cut from his fore-
head to the back part of his head, which was
croffed with another delperate cut acrofs his head,
and f:veral cuts on his eyes, nofc, and hands; the
villain not content with this blond thirfly condsuft,
had endeavoured to cut the infide of his mouth.
in doing which he aSually broke a large knife in
his month. The poor man's life is dcipAircd of.

The villain's nceottplice was :ilia fecnred, and ycf
terday they were examined at the Public Office,
Bow-ftreet,and committed fin-further examination.
A young man was charged before the Magil-
traces, with getting into the fervice of a Lady as
a footman, by means of a falfe charaaer ; this
being clearly proved, he was entwined in the pe-
nalty of twenty pounds, which he not being able
to pay, was committed to the Houfe of Corteaion
Ittr lix weeks.
M.'.1:111'.0.017CH STR.rET.—YetierclAy David GPf
:4! was brought bei.ore the Sitting INilngiftrate,
cirtr,:ed by a Gertleman with being an impolior.
This man is one of the numerous objeis which in-
fel 'his town, and prey upnn the humanity of the
pa!Lnger. by pre• ending to be iil. The Gentle-
man tlated, that fame time (ince he perceived this
M ..ying ontht ground, apparently in a violent
1:', he api:C.C.'eJ to recover, compaflionating
tu,..e:011, hint all the Myer he had in
pi,eket. At a ful;;;:quent time he fats him in
the taint: tituation, and conceiving that he was li_
in he thought it was not proper for him
to be its the Ilrect, and accordingly procured atfif-
tance, and had hint ci•nveyed to his lodging, in
New Peterdlreet, Weilmintier. The people be-
longing to the honfe told the Gentleman that he
was often brought !lame in that Rate, and after the
1,.n-fiats that had taken Cate of him were gone, lie
weald curie and (wear, and call his landlord and
the other people in the !mitre fools for working and
and would fay, Here, fee what I have
.gi.t by my fits, 1.-e how it turr.bles into my poc-
ket!" at the fame time polling out great quantities
of..nriney. The Gentleman, however, at that time
teak no farther notice, but left him. Yefterday
he happened to he going up Fill-Ilreet, Hanover:
feluare, and taw this fame fellow in a pretended
tit, lie immediately came to the Office and inform-
ed the Magillrate el the circumftance, who in.
ilantly &thatched two of the Officers, who appre-
hended 1••nt in the very parnxylm of his diforder,
and brought him to the o!lice, where lie under-
went an examination, and pretended to be very ill.
He was committed to Bridewell as a rogue and
vagabond The 111agiftrate laid the public were
much indebted to the Gentleman who had ftepped
forward to bring this impoftor to jullice.
A refpetahle man and woman were charged by
a woman with taking illegal infurances in the
Lottery. This woman fluted, that fo long fince as
September, Rte had infured No. 17, for forty-eight
guineas, and had paid them 21. Bs. as the pre-
mium: The lucky number came up, when they
retitled to pay the hit. The parties denied all
knowledge of the tranfaaion, and called feveral
perfons to their charaaer, and the Magiftrate dif-
charged them.
A woman of the name of Sr:l;th was charge 1 by
a tradefman with making a riot and difturbanee.
It appeared that Mrs. Smith had a child by this
perfon, which (he kept, but had ufed it HI, and
tar ned it out of doors. The child, who is about
ten years of age, flew for proteaion to the father,
and the mother infilled upon having it back. This
occafioned a difturbance. The father Rated that
he allowed her upwards of 601. per annum for her
maintenance. She was committed to find bail to
anfwer the Charge.

The Fair Sex in general mna admit the truth of
st:claring, that many Mothers date the commence-
ment of long iilnefs, and lingering death, by being
incapable of fuckling their Infants from having
Sore Nieles, whereby either improper food was
infufed into their tender Stomachs, or delivered to
the care of a negligent or unwholefotne Wet•nurfe,
the fource of difeale and fhortener of life. Many
lovely infants have been pined and left the father
childlefs, and the weeping mother comfortlefs ;
many have gone mourning to the grave under
'filch a lofs ;—who would fuller one day when relief
I can be obtained by applying Mrs. GARDNER'S
!Pee of Rots and Xi/pie Cafes, which have been
prefcribed and adopted by Gentlemen of eminence
of the faculty in their nwn families, schn, divelles:
of prejudice and pariality (fatisfied of the efficacy
! of the Medicine) were relolved to patronize the
• fame, for the general utility of the public. To
be had only of Mrs. GARDNER, No. 76, Long
Acre, and No. 3, Shoreditch, near Finfoury•
fquare, at 7s. per Packet only (duty included),
literally worth 11. is.
Diforders that proceed either from an impure
(late oi the blood, or a relaxed date of the nerves,
having, in innumerable inftances, fubfided by a
courfe of SP ILSBUR Y'S Antifcorbutic Drops, too
! much cannot be faid in praife of that invaluable
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molt complicated cafes, kas eflablifhed its celebrity
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infallible core of the Scurvy, Gout, Rheumatifm,
Evil, Leprofy, and a variety of other complaints,
too generally incident to human nature ? Thefe
Drops are fold in bottles of ss. and 6d. los. and
11. zs. cask, with a black (lamp affixed to each bot
tle, by the following venders in London : F. New-
bery, 45, St. Paul's ; Dicey and Sutton, Bow
Church-)yard ;E. Newbery, corner of St. Paul's ;
Wray, Birchinlane; Bolton, Royal Exchange;
Evans and Co. Long-lane ; Barclay, Fleet-market ;
Bacon, Oxford-ftreet ; Ward, Holborn ; Bayley,
Cockfpur-flreet ; Swinney, Pall Mall ; Walth and
Withers, No. 229, Strand; Brennand, Biffiopf-
gate-ftreet ; Clark, No. 269, and B. Shaw, No.
74, Borough, Southwark ; and at the Difpcnfary,
Nn .15, Soho-fquare.

HIGH WATER AT I.ONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW
Morning • • •• • 56 minutes after 6
Afternoon