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London, England, 1810-03-21 00:00:00

was of opinion, art if the army Ind been landed
successively in dioions on the Ist, 2d, and 3d of Au—
gust, the b.itterie before Antwerp would have been
ready on the evtning of the 9th. He did not land oh
Walcheren til' the 30th of July ; he expected that ha
was to haveproceeded with the Commander in Chief
towards Aitwerp ; and went on board shi p again - he af
terwards tbund that Lord Chatham had e,talished his
head-vartersat Middleburg, and went thither. It was
not till the Btk that Lord Chatham put it in orders
that he might take the direction of the siege of Flush-
ing. After that period the operations of the siege ad-
vanced as far as the weather and other circumstances
would alioW.

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Yesterday, at the Mansion-house, three orange mer-
chant% in the vicinity of Billingsgate, were summoned
before the Lord Mayor, by the Inspector of Sewers,
for suffering their servants to throw their Orange slush
the streets, which'stopped up the water•course, but
in this case the law requires a witness, independent of
the person making the charge, which, not being the
case, it was dismissed.
-Jeh. Rigky, GO years of age, was charged by seve-
ral women with indecent conduct to their female chil-
dren in the streets. He had continued this practice
for some months, but always got away when any
alarm was given ; but, at length, one of the mothers,
going with her &lighter, was an eye-witness of his
infamous conduct, liwsued him to a court, in Aldgate,
and had him apprehended. The prise-her inK he
was a cabinet-maker, and had a wife and four chil-
dren. He denied the charge, but was remanded for
examination; when the children and their parents
were ordered to attend.

At Hatton-Garden on Saturday, Margaret Smith,
25 years of age, a pauper belonging to Clerkenwell
poor-house, underwent an examination, being charged
with the murder of Jane Bear, 65 years of age, a nurse
in the poor-hovse;by beathig her over the head. She
was taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where she
died. A Coroner's Jury returned a verdict, that she
was killed by an ins.ine person, meaning the prisoner,
who had been confined in a mad-house. .4"
It having been reported, that a young woman was
murdered in the neighbourhood of the London Docks,
the following particulars may be depended on :
Early on Friday morning, as the patrole was kissing
along Nightingale-lane, near the London Docks, he
beard a croaking noise coming, a* he thought, from a
Person being strangled ; he went to a house, and on
entering the door, beheld a young, woman covered
with blood, who ad endeavoured, m iaia, to obtain
assistance, by crying out murder, as her voice was in-
audible from the injury she had vecairtcl on her neck,
having been stabbed in several ['lei= with a fork, the '
prongs of which were broken ; half of both her lips,
with the corner of her mouth, were lit • off ; half of
'her left ear gene; her cheeks so wounded, bit, and
torn, that a great part of one must come away. An.
Italian, who was the perpetrator of this deed, after
some resistance, was secured, and conveyed to .Lam-
beth-street Office. where he has been fully committed
for trial. The young woman has not been able to
take any kind.of sustenance since. and now lies in a
very deplorable .condition. Slight hopesurehgviever
entertained of her recovery. .

The to disputed game cause, Thomas Jenner v.
H. Hunt, Esq. in. which at the last Assize the Jury,.
it will, be recollected, refused to give any damages,
though a trespass had been proved, was decided on
Tuesday last. The Jude was of opinion that the tres-
pass was not wilful. Ihe Jury gave the Plaintiff a
ver4ict—Damages is. and on application being made
to tlte Judge, he declined to certify.
-At the Assizes for the Coenty of Wilts, R.. Wright
.(known by the name of Black Dick), J. Lie, and•
liancoch, were therred with•brealat4 intodie:
counting house of Messrs. Crosby snd- White, at.
Westbury, and stealing a large quantity of tiroad
cloth. The prisoners were traced, with a cart, to the
premises, at the time of the robbery, and from thence
to Wear, near Axbridge, where a quantity of the
stolen property was consigned to the care of W. Lloyd,
who had been committed as an accomplice, but was
admitted an evidence ; and, by his testimony, the-
case was brought home. Guilty—Death ; but, in
consequence of a legal objection, their execution was
ordered to be deferred till the 26th of May next, that

the opinion of the Judges might be taken. When the
verdict was given, Wight declared, that Lloyd, the
witness, had sent for him and his companions, from
Derbyshim,.to commit the robbery.

W. Walter, for breaking into the dwelling house
of 8. DaA, at Bufbage, and stealing wearing apparel,
etc. and R. Cole, for colouring pieces of metal, so as
to resemble shillings, were also capitally convicted;
and received sentence of death ; but both reprieved.
At-Worcester Assizes, a cause was tried, in which
A. Lechemere, Esq. was plaintiff, and Disson,
defendant. A quantity of oil-cake was purchased by
the plaintiff of the defendant, some time since, but
not finding his cattle to thrive, as he had reason to
expect, many suspicious circumstances induced him
to attribute the cause to the quality of the oil-cake.--
Accordingly, samples were submitted to the exami-
nation of one of the first manufacturers of that com-
position, who proved that due attention had not been
paid to the cleaning of the seed, by skreening and
sifting it ; and by an analysis of the article, not only
the quality, but the quantity, of the extraneous matter,
"was ascertained, and exhibited in various forms in
Court, to the complete satisfaction of the Judges and
Jury.—Verdict for the plaintiff, £.50 damages.
At Dorchester there were only four prisoners. 4?.
Riddell was found guilty of stealing wheat, and see-
tenced to six months imprisonment ; G. Carter (a
youth of 17), for a violent assault on Elizabeth Han-
cock, was also sentenced to six months imprisonment.
There were ten causes, but all were trivial.
Monday se'nnight, at about nine o'clock, Rebecca
Blandell, for the murder of her female bastard child,
at Fordingbridge, was executed near Winchester.—
She spewed herself very penitent, and acknowledged
the justice of her sentence. W. Johnson, the man
with whom she said she had cohabited, was in-
dicted for assisting her in the murder of her child, but
no bill was found against him.
A drumtner belonging to the 84th regiment bronght
an action, at the York Assizes, against the proprietor'
of a coach which runs between Sheffield and Doncfts.
ter, for a serious injury sustained by him, by the coach
overturning in consequence of the drunkenness of thtl
coachman, and obtained 120 guineas damages.