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ants. The greatest nnaber
time within the last three ;
The prison contains seven
BRIDPOIRT.IIOROVO A
The only prison for the
illidpoit consists of two str
tie kept for safe custody,
*caking the peace, felons, .
they are taken before the justices,
Zl, or otherwise diposed of.
these persons are suppled
iiibii. et the expense of the parish of Bri-dport. The
ill aces never commit prisoners for trial to this
r
ti e
bat invariably to the county prison at Dorchester.Omagh gaol is inconvenient and incommodious
16r Et/other purpose than that abovementionei. A
MaaAatid his wife reside in it, in order to pay attention
bribe rfiloners during their short confinement.
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DUDLEY CASTLE.
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His MAJESTY has been ple-seci to reward the services
of Viscount DUDLEY and WARD, by granting to hint
the additional dignities of Viscount and Earl of the
United Kingdom, by the titles of" Viscount Ednam of
'Edam, in the county of Roxburgh, and Earl of Dud-
ley, of Dudley Castle, in the county of Staffewd."—.
Dudley Castle, from which this distinguished and mu.'
nificent Nobleman receives his title of Earl, was
ancient days the residence of his Lordship's ancestors on:
the maternal side, the Batons of Dudley ; but now its.
ruined walls exhibit no genre than a memento of for met-
grandeur. These reins are, however. objects 'of the
higher interest, and cannot be beheld without exciting
those reflections on the mutability of human• greatness
which a contemplative mind is so apt to indulge in.—
They stand on a rock of limestooe, and comma d• most
extensive prospect of, the' shrrounding Comedy. The
grounds *titbits the Castle walls present a satiety of
beautiful and romantic scenery ; and the walks, which
are laid out with great taste, are kept in perfect order.
The Castle itself • was founded about the year 700.
" The 'name of its founder," we are told by Ph Booker,
from-'those Histolical Account of Dudley Castle"the
following brief notice is taken, 88 is variously spelt, as
Dudde, Dudoond Dodo. The Habingdon Manuscripts
only mention him as "a famous Saxon, who raised a
strong fortress here, which remained until the Conquest.'
On w hat account the strength of the fortress was then
reduced, the record ekes dot state ; neither is thire any
positive information respecting the successors.of ihe
founder, until towards the close of the Saxon Heptarchy.
This Castle, like the whole ream, then changed its
Lord. Concerning its last Saxon possessor, the
Domesday Book of the Norman despot contains ibis
brief memorial---, hoc an terruit Edvinus comes —Earl
Edwin held this manor:" of which he was afterwards
dispossessed, but whether " by force or by death, no
document informs us." Dr. Booker, however, inclines
to the opinion, that Esri Edwin was deprived by
William the Conqueror of this possession, for. having•
been a participator with a powerful N a-thefts-Chief, Mar-
car,in a formidable insurrection against the King in 1068.
The next proprietor of the Castle was Williain Fox
Ansculph, to whom, according to Erdeswick, the Con-
queror " gave five-a n d-twenty'Lordships about Dudley,
and created him first Baton of Dudley." In the reign
of Stephen, the Castle was in the possession of
•Gervase
Paganel, who then fortified it, and held it for the in-
terests of the Empress Maude. From the Pag creels it
descended through marriage to the Someries; and from
the Someries, by failure of issue male, in the reign of
Edward 11. it went to the Buttons. Through a long
line of that family, the Castle and domain devolved to
John de Sutton, who, in, the reign of Henry Vlll. was
artfully deprived of his title and rights to them by.
Viscount Lisle, Earl of Warwick, afterwards Duke of
Northumberland. To John de S mon succeeded his
son and heir, Edward, who, in the reign of Queen Mary,
"obtained such favour as to recover by letters patent
all the property of whiclibis father had been defrauded ;
such property 'having devolved to the Crown by the
attainder and consequent execution of John Dote of
Northumberland." From Edward de Sutton this pro.
pc. ty, consisting of the Castle and Priory of Dudley,
with various other lord-hips, manors, and edeowsons in
Staffordshire, was transmitted to bis grand-daughtee,l
Fratmes. who became Baroness Dudley in ter owe
right. She manic] Humble Ward, Esq. who, in 1644,'
was created Baron Ward, of Birmingham, and dying
in 1670, was succeeded by his son Edward, who on the
death of his mother in 1697, inheriting both titles, be-
came Lord Dudley and Ward. On the failure of male
issue in 174.0, by the death of William fourth Lord
Dudley and fifth Lord Ward, the Castle and estates de-
volved to Fiances, his sister, who having married Wm.
Lea, Esq. of the Grange, and her two sons dying
without male issue, the title of Lord Dudley became
in abeyance between their Sire sisters; but the Barony
of Ward devolved on John Ward, Esq.. of Segley
Palk, a great grandson of Humble, the first Baron
Waron Ward, on whom his Majesty. in 1763, con-
ferred the title of Viscount Dudle and Ward by patent.
He was succeeded in the title by his eldest son, John,
who dying in 1788, without male issue, was succeeded
by his halt brother, William, a nobleman of the most
kind and beneficent disposition ; on whose death, on
the twenty filth of April, 1823, his 'only son, the
present Earl, became the inheritor of his titles and
possessions. His Lordship was born on the 9th of Au-
gust, 1781, and is consequently in hisarth year. Dur-
ing the civil wars, Dudley C)stle, being a royil galri-
son, was besieged in 16 S 4, when, after a resistance of
three weeks it was relieved by some of the King's forces
from Worcester, who, with trifling lo• tbeinselves, are
stated to have slain one hundred men cf the Pacliainen-
'tary army, and to have taken several prisoners and
standards. On the 10th of May, 1646, the. Castle was
surrendered to Sir Wiliam Bierc ton Commander of
the Parliamentary Forces, by Colonel Leveton, Gover-
a nor fir the King. Alter tl.e Itestoretion, the Castle
was to some degice restored to its wonted magnificence,
and the Noble Family continued occasionally to reside
lin ire till, 4g, is related by Dr. Bl4cer, " it was (except
its massive walls), totally destroyed by a ;rah disaster.
,This occurted on be Vlttb of July, 1750, when confla-
gration rapidly consented that work of ruin which the
mighty hand of time and the violence of war had failed
to accomplish, On the evening of that day, it,was die-
revered to be mile, and the means for extinguishing
'conflagration nut being then so efficient as now, the
flames raged with unabated fury, during three days
and nights, till whatever nes.tombu.stible in the 'edifice
. was destroyed." The principal seat of theEail of Dud-
ley is at Hanley, about sic miles from this wan, where
the ' most efiensive alterations and additions to it
More fur some time been in pro,aress.
Fonts. or Joust SALTiIi, Tat CHELSEA PERs
ssureiaFriday at noon, the tossaiss of this veteran WU con-
signed to the grave, to the burial ground attached to the Hospital.
tie was bunion Old cbristmes- day, in the year 1720, and bad he
Awed a few months longer would have bees 107 years of age; be
was the eldest man is the College, and was designated as the
" Father of the institution:" he was borne to the grave by tour of
his old comrades, and the serjeants followed as chief nuninsers.---
After the burial service was performed, the pendoeers fired a yol-
k/ of musquetry over the grave.

aided, .
as they Anne bad the power to abate the nuisance.
The defendants said, that they bad been at some oyster rooms to
regpper and there bad a Towel, which they came out into the street
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alt. HACILIII—=IIIPbe oyster-shops and coffee-shops, and of
, are really and truly a maw abominable and intolerable
diihrice to the neighboothood, and ought to be removed. Sew
people imagine that we bare the power to remove It, but do not nie
It, when the contraty is the fact. We have neither power nor con-
trout. The matter resit entirely with the padre, arm we are made

whole Weigh-
riot and dis•
europetent power

to bear the besot of their negh-it. It is in the power of the parish
to proceed against these houses by information if they choose: they
have only to give proper directions to their constables.
N'r. 'lliesmas—As Ism now serving in my own right, and as it
is my design to do the neighbourhood all the good I can, lam de-
termined to rid the pariah of these sinks cf infamy. I shall cer-
tainly commence by laying informations against the great before I
apply myself to the mall.
Mr. Ilsces—Your intention cannot be too highly lauded, Sr. '
I, for my part, only regret that we had not a few other constables
like you.
The defendants were committed to the House of Correction for
twenty-one slays.
Thomas Tack, the the driver of a hackney-coach, was charged by
Ann Caroline Mallets, a woman of the town, with having assisted
the driver of another coach, do rubbing her of nine sovereigns.—
Another coachman, named I ienry Berry, and Julio Davis. a water-
man, who came to the Office so speak for the prisoner, were also.
charged by the prosecutrix as accessories. It appeared that the.
proiccutrix took the heckney coach Nom Holborn, at a late beta
on Friday eight, and directed the coachnia.n to drive bet to her
locking, in Paddington. She was in liquor at the time, but suffi-
ciently sensible to perceive that she was driven in a contrary direc-
tion. instead of proceeding to Paddington, she was conveyed to
Drury-lane, where the coachman pulled up at a public-house., and
insisted epon.a treat. Tuck, the prisoner, and the coachman plied
her with gut, and after Miring to several public-houses, and drink-
Mg at each, the coachman palled up at the stand in Charles-,
Street, Covent Garden, at three o'clock in the morning. She was
here desired to alight, and was then surrounded by the three pri•
goners, the driver of the coact, who has midst yet been apprehem
Jed. and several other men. They pushed her about, and she
swore dietiuctly that 'fuck held her by the throat, while another of
the party robbed her of her money. Berry and Davis were pre-
sent, and assisted in sobbing her. The woman was ignorant of the
number of the coach in which she rode, but Tuck having stated it,
a warrant was Issued for the apprehension of the driver.
The tine, prisoners were ordered to be remanded for a farther
VAlollajtioo.

.wii
ti one o'clock'
serving tbe

lI.%TTON-GAR DEN.

Thomas; and
et the pariah,

Rua eslis was charged with pawning write apparel whkh had
been entrusted to her to wish. •
John Roden, an architect, deposed, that the prisoner was eat-,
played to wash fur hies and bis family, and that the articles produced
by Ltmbriek (the dicer) had been pawned at the shop of Mrs. ,

?dr. Lima—Pray, Sir, dki you owe this woman more money
than she borrowed on your Ibsen? Prosecutor—lf I did it cannot
justify her.

Lapsa.—No, Sir, but it goes &great way to palliate. What
hare you to say, prisoner, to the charge?—The WORM) said, " I
worked for Mr. Minden, until his hill amounted to 31. 17s: 6d. and
although I repeatedly applied to him for payment, I was always put
off with excuses ; and as I was in the greatest distress, with three
Infant children, and just ready to be put to bed, I was compelled to
raise money, and I pawned Ale. Fat:idea's things for a good deal less
tkan be .wed me, and sent him the duplicates.
. _ _

Mr. Lasso (to the prosecutor)..—Did the prisoner ask for pay-
ment of her account?—Answer. I believe she did; but she had
so business to pay herself.
Mr. shall cetraibly not think of punishing in this case.
If you bad paid the poor woman her due, she would probably never
have committed the offence.

The ease was theta dismissed, and the prosecutor was compelled
to pay (which he did very reluctantly) the amount due to the wo-
man. before the property Wlll restored to him.

DIARY•LA•BONNE OFFICE.

Saturday the driver of a Paddingtoo stage coach was summoned
by Johnson, the informer, for having driven his coach furiously
along the New-road.
Johnson's witness stated that he was passing along the New-
road no Wedoesday morning last, when he saw the defendant driv-
ing on the wrong side of the road.. At the time there was another
stage coach (which is an opposition one), and the coachman was
conducting three ladies to it, when the defendant wilfully drove
against it, and the jerk almost upset the coach on the ladies, who
ran great risk of losing their lives.
The Magistrate asked tf the ladies were present ?
Johnson—Nn, Sit; they are is the country, but witlattend if thc
case is postponed.
klagistsate--The conduct of these coachmen has becomes public
nuisance, and must be put a stop to by some means or other.
A solicitor for the defendant contended that his client had only
driven at the rate of other coaches. He was Instructed to say that i
his client did not drive wilfully against the coach.
Maotarasaa.—" All the coachmen on the road drive furious!,
and negligently. The cast is proved, and I think it Is it for an
example."
Solicitor—m What rate are they to drive at, your Worship r
NAGISTIIATI—" ?'hey are not to gallop their horses, but to drive
steadily, so as not to place life in danger.'
Solicitor—".llia Majesty might be convicted emery day; for when
we see his equipage driving from the Palace, I: can be called nothing
else but furious driving.t, -
The MAGUITIATI smiled, mid said his Majesty Wes not the sub-
ject of the present complaint, and he should doe the defendant in
the penalty of £lO.
MARLBOROUGH-STRRET.

An unfortunate female named Mary illetross. was on Saturday
charged wida haying rubbed a hackney coachman. named William
Maize, whom, on Friday night, she presided on to accompany her.
As soon as the prosecutor entered the apartment be fell asleep,
from the effects of liquor, and the prisoner then decamped with his
Witch, worth about eight guineas, and some siker. The prisoner
was taken into custody the same morning, and the watch,/Lc. found
In the apartment in which she was concealed. She was of course
. . . .

fully committed.—At the last Old Bailey Sessions, kvras Intimated
by the Judges, that all females convicted of robbing persons under
the circamstances above stated should be transported for life.

QUSEN-SQUARE.

itdos Berry, was brought up on Saturday by John Harrison, •
Bow-street patrol, charged with stealing a quantity of lead from the
manaion belonging to the Fad of Hudky, in Park-lane.
It appeared from tke rridehce that this Noble Earl's residencels
being considerably enlarged, and numerous workmen &reemployed
on the premises to forward the improvements. The prisoner waa
one of tke labourers, and on leaving work on Friday evening he
carried off the mansion about a hundred weight of lead in a basket.
As the prisoner was proceeding along Bt. James's Park with his
plunder, on the Officer asking him what be had got, he replied lead,
which the foreman gave him. . . .

Henry Boswell, the foreman and superintendent at the works,
stated that be resided in the Noble Earl's residence. The prisoner
was a labourer employed at the buildings. Witness never gave
him authority re take the lead ; it was more than he was empowered
to do. Hr resided on the premises to watch his Lordship's property.
The prisoner declared 'that he asked the foreman, who gave him
the 64—He was convicted ender the Bumboat Act, in the penalty
of 40s. or stand corm itted to the House of Correction for one month.

fiber in-coatnetnents at any one' 'POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
e yews, wit seventeen. Id, —.W..-
BOWATIMET.
ven 'sleeping rooms or cells. Saturday two dmilagly deemed women were brought
scoff GAOL, APRIL 1826.. Me sight
.charges from the. wasableatise, charged wil
te confinement of offenders at " kifilltotort a great noise and thstarbeace at half-past a
us steeping in Dredge...sweet. .
strong rooms, in which pet sints " WO
Mr. omit. a tradesman fist Tort area, and who to I
)dy, who are apprehendell in dB. of t.,,,,,,,bk to bk nw, rigi,,,,berrypik dwells wh
sot, and other offenders, eileil loottrhood contigoom to the theatres was eae some of. ril
latices, and tent to Dorchester order, and cried aloud for the interfeseaceof some compel
ed of. Doting sac% short pt.- is put a stop to it.
Mr. HALLs said. be perfectly omeurred with Mr. The
uppl.ed with food, when neees- added, ilia it was aet oubirec for the mosideeation a 1
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