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some favourable, recommendations in the " Cottage
Economy," and. refused payment.
Evidence having been heard,
The Under-Sheriff summed up. and the Jury returned a verdict
for 141. 15g. the Foreman stating that the Jury were of opinion that
the larger machine was a gift to air. Cobbett.
111011 COURT OF •DMIRALTY, Arius 13.
THR WILUELHINR AUGUST&
In this cause, Lord Suswem. was assisted by two of
the Trinity Masters, there being two questions that
more particularly required to be decided by the nauti-
cal experience and judgement of those Gentlemen,
first, a. to the degree of danger and difficulty incurred
by the salvors ; secondly, as to the necessity of the in-
terference of of the boats by which the salvage was
stated to have'been effected; and, consequently, as to
the validity of the claim set up by the boat's crew.
Dr DODSON stated, on behalf of the salvors, that on'
the 19th of September last, an action was entered
against this ship, cargo, and freight, in a cause of sal-
, vage, on behalf of three masters of as many pilot boats.
The value of cargo and freight was 5,3001. and Ye
facts of the case were briefly these. On the night of the
14th of September, the Wiltielmine Auguste, bound
from the port of Stettin to London, and laden with a
cargo of timber, pipe slaves, and severity two tons of
zinc, off the coast r,f Suffolk, and not from Orford
Lights, took the ground in very hazy weather. Early
on the morning at the 15th the weather cleared, and the
pilot discovered that they were on the edge of a large,
sand called the N ithaniel Lowe, on which the vessel
had struck so violently as to sustain very considerable
damage; at this juncture two pilot boats came up and
tendered their asskance, which was accepted : the crew
of the Wilhelmine, at that time, being in the act of pot-
ting up their linen, &c. in their pillow cases, with the
view, if possible, of effecting their escape with it to the
shore. The tide having risen, however, the vessel (which
was a foreigner of about two hundred and fifty tons bur-
then) floated into deep water, and by reason a tlic in-
jury she had sustained, was considered to be in a perilous
condition. The crew of a third boat which had bore down
upon her insisted on taking part in the exertions made
by the other salvors, and were regaled by the Captain in
the same manner as their colleagues had been. It was
now stated, however, in the evidence, that the Captain
bad desired them to be gone, and had no occasion for
them; yet the order to retain and employ them given
by the Captain himself, had been distinctly spoken to
by one of his own crew, who was at the wheel at the
time. The vessel was finally brought, in safety, into
the harbour of Harwich. The Learned Counsel cons
eluded by reminding the Court that this had been a
service of considerable danger acrd great importance,
and that, in his judgment, all three boats were entited
to a quantum of salvage such as his Lordship might
deeds a fitting amount.
Dr. Sausstrar, on the same side, contended it was clear that the
third boat had actually participated is the services that had
been rendered.
Dr. LUSIIINGTON (with whom was Dr. Hommas) did not dis-
pute that a salvage had been rendered, but denied either that it was
to anything like the extent at which it had been laid, or that the
third boat was at all necessary for the safely carrying this vessel
into Harwich.
Lord Srowitu.. said that the Trinity Masters by
whom he was assisted concurred with him in thinking,
that though the salvage rendered was a valuable ser-
vice, yet owing to the state of the weather, and other
considerations, it was one not attended with any espe-
cial degree of danger. The Gentlemen in question con-
sidered that there was no necessity for the assistance of
.the third boat ; and as the crew seemed to have been
certainly desired by the master of the Wilhelmine
'Auguste to return, the Court disallowed their claim en-
artly. To the crews of the other two boats his Lordship
decreed the sum of 1501. as salvage allowance.

Monday evening a brut in the extensive pre-
mises of Messrs. Oakes and Son, founders, in Hounds.
ditch, which were considerably injured.
SINGULAR COURAGE.—We have to record an in-
stance of female heroism in a servant of Mr. Ridding,
the town clerk of Southampton, that is rarely equalled,
arising out of her determined and successful resistance
of two villains, who on Saturday morning broke into
that gentleman'ihouse. Mr. R. sleeps out of the town,
and there were none but females in the house. About
two in the morning, Eliza Oakley, the female in ques-
tion, was awakened by a noise below stairs; and having
alarmed Miss Ridding, the courageous girldescended
to reconnoitre, and arming herself with two pokers,
discovered two men with a lighted candle in the pas-
sage, and the office and cellar doors open. To inti-
midate them, she called out the names of Mr.R.'s clef ke,
as though summoning assistance, but this was of no
avail, as one of the villains, telling her that he knew
there was no man in the house, began to ascend the
stairs. The girl instantly made several blows at him
with one of the pokers, which he, however, parried with
his arms, and at length wrenched it from her hold, and
in so doing staggered down the stairs. _ She then threw
the other poker at him, but missed him. The other
ruffian, who had remained in the passage, now betrayed
his fears of detection, and endeavoured to persuade bis
companion to go; this he refused, and again endea-
voured to ascend, but was repulsed by the girl, who
had armed herself with some pieces of coal from a coal
scuttle, and by throwing some large lumps at him she
kept him at bay, until the villain, observing that her
missiles were nearly expended, again endeavoured to
rush up the stairs, when the girl threw the coal scuttle
(a heavy copper one), coals and all, at the head of her
assailant; the blow took effect; he fell backwards
down the stairs, and was carrried off by the other villain,
down the cellar stairs; by this time a watchman, who
bad been alarmed by the cries of the other female from
the window, artived, and after springing his rattle,
walked deliberately up to the cage to procure assistance,
on the at rival of which it was discovered that the thieves
had gained an entrance by scaling the garden wall,
forcing open the shutters of the back cellar, and thus
ascending into the house. In the passage were three
coats ready for removal; and in the back yard was
found a tray, containing the plate, and some small
boxes, taken hom the kitchen and laundry, and a cor-
siderable quantity of meat from the larder. A great
quantity of blood WAS found on the spot where the
fellow fell, and a large piece of flesh, which had been cut
by the scuttle from his face. Wit are happy to find that
the girl is likely to be rewarded for her extraordinary
courage by several gentlemen.
Foust NO mentions a Clergyman who peferred punch
wine, for this ot thodoz reason, that the former was a
liquor no where spoken' against in Set iptut e.
CLASSICAL SWEARING.—The style of swearing at
Florence is peculiarly elegant and classical. I hear the
vagabonds in the street adjuring Venus and Bacchus;
and my shoemaker s ote, •' by the aspect of. Diana,"
that he would not take Ica than ten pauls for what was
worth about three ; yet was the knave fersworn."--Diary
olan Lunuyrc.