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London, England, 1811-08-21 00:00:00





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• 4, YOU DON'T EXACTLI .
The favourite Song sung by Mrs. BLA N o with universal applause,
at Vauxhall Gartletts.—Tbe words by W. UPTON, ,Lsq.
A Youth to me a wooing came,
For pity did implore me,
And hop 'd I :Wet could slight or blame
'Flu, Lad that most adore me.
I bled him much, hut hid my plan,
To see how he'd repute mi.,
So, trowhing, fried, don't tease, Young Man,
You don't exactly suit me.
NQ seyned antaz'd, quite vex il, he steed,
Then vow'd he'd tie'er deceive me;
Says I, your presence can he spared,
And therefore pray, Sir, leave me.
To leave you, love, 1 never can,
I swear by all your beauty ;
Now pray, says 1, don't craze, Young Man,
You don't exactly suit me.
He started; sigh'd, hung down his head,
Which prov'd I'd fairly caught hint,
- 0 haste, my Love, to Church, he said,
You see to what I've brought him.
Dear Sir, says 1, if that's my fate,
To wed's a Woman's duty,
Let's fly, or We shall be too late—
You NOW exactly suit me!

SIT ME."

SURRAY SAECLAL SESSIONS.

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;fling,

a- •-, , INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
• • Mr. Martin Duins, of Saltash, in the County I
e Cornwall, was opposed on the charge of obetima
- money under false pretences. and gross fraud from
e Messrs. Larke and Woodhead, of. London, Navy
ie, Agents, by pretending to assign to them his pension
hi to repay diem the sums he had obtained on their
es bills for his accommodation, while he in reality came
hi to town himself, and received the next instalment
3tl thereof, after the accommodation granted to him by
t ti the plaintiffs.
SM Mr. Smith, the Paymaster of the Navy, proved
stet ' the detelidant's pension being a sum of 0250 per an-
tic( worn, was not bo the usage of .the Navy assignable,
he since the pensioner alone could receive it.
ler When threatened with an examination at Bow-
Ca
street, he paid L'so of the sum &Se, leaving a balance
ty ; of £79. Ins. for which he was detained, owing only
£2O more than his demaii.
tar,
The CHAIRMAN stated it to be it gross fraud, as the
e.
prisoner had a pension of £2.501 year, and owed
,VI ft only £2O besides the present debt, which he uncon-
aug scionably endeavoured to evade payment of, under
reh, an Act of Parliament which did not extend to his
ugh case.—The prisoner was remanded. , 1
ir fat OBTAINING GOODS OA/ FALSE PEETENCES. '1
Irt CAsE OF naRON DE WECIITEtt.
late- This important and interesting case occupied muds
! j time and discussion ; the prisoner, an insolvent Deb-
- ! tor, and a Danish Nobleman, being opposed by Mr.
ELOPEMENT PREVENTED.—MISS W. theonly (laugh- : Law's, on the charge of having in the year 1809, ob--
ter of a respectable clergyman residing in the neigh- t:tined from Mr. Smith and paitner, of Bruton-street,
bourhood of Hanover-square, was prevented from Silversmiths, a quantity of new plate, amounting in
eloping with a favourite swain, on Monday: evening value to a sun. of thirteen hundred pounds, under
last, at the moment she was stepping into a post- fthe. and fraudulent pretences, for whkls the plain.
chaise and four, in Conduit-street, which had been tiffs had arrested and detained him in prison.
procured and placed there by the object of her affec- The defend tnt was intrsdeced to the Rev. Dr-
tions, who was in the act of handing her in, when the I ise,h,,,, at the hose and table of the Marquis of
enraged father seized her by the arm, and Conducted Hertford, ;
whither the Martel's, through hospitality,
her home. I and the introduction of a Nobleman %Ito had seen
•A GHOST DETECTED.—A ghost, who has for some the prisoner in the character of Danish Envoy to the
time past tertified several of the inhabitants at Ken- coutheereieen of the Rhine, bad invited several per.
singten Gore by his ,tightly pranks, was caught on sons of rank to introduce them to the Noble Stranger.
Sunday night last, in the act of starting from a stable He consulted afterwards the Reverend Doctor as to
in that neighbourhood, habited in a white.sheet, by the hest Silversmith to furnish him with several ser-
Mr Wilson, of Kensington, who immediately "tunas- • vices of plate. In order the better to carry on the
ked the now terror-stricken ghost, and discovered the . negociation, he represented himself to come into
son of a respectable Gentleman at Hammersmith.— this cogency, upon the success of which, he expected
The hapless ghost begged for mercy, in the most pa-' a premium from each of the respective Governments,
sthetic terms, and might have escaped the punishment England and Denmark, he had repeated interviews,'
he deserved, but for the approach of several persons with Mr. Canning, Lords Liverpool and Castlereagh,
who had been alarmed by his appearance, and who, and had letters from the exiled Royal Family of
without hesitation, and in spite of the intreaties of . Frenee, acknowledging their debts and obligations to
• Mr. Wilson, conducted him to a horse tningh, where him, for his accommodatious and sacrifices. made for
they cooled his energies by frequent immersions. I their sake, and lamenting die great sufferings of the
A sMart pitched battle, contested with more con- prisoner and other Noble Personages exiled on se-
rage than skill, was fought yesterday in Paddington- , count of their cause. But the inability of the prise-
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fields, between two young men, of the names of Man- ner to prove the hand-% rime of the parties, or of the
ring, a carpenter, and George Cummings, a Clerk Miuistsrs of State in this country, whose letters he
in a counting house. The prize for which the heroes now handed to the Chairman to read, Owing to his
contended was the fair daughter of a publican at Pad- imprisonment arid embarraeensou. rendered such evie
'dington. A determined battle of forty minutes was ahem inadmissible.
finieht, in which the combatants were so mad, that ; After obtaining the plate, under a contract with
every feature was disfigured. The palm of victory the plaintiff to furnish one hail of it, at first, upon the
having been for some time doubtful, Manning at , credit of bills to he drawn at three months, and on
- length decided it, by putting in an awkward blow on payment of such Was. the other half the plate on
the side of his antagonist's head, which deptived him fresh bills at six months date, while the plaintiff offer.
whole contract at once, being for a
Of sense. I ed to furnish the
Sunday se'nnight, as Mr./ English, a butcher, of sum of a:1600, and proceeded to furnish the articles'
Wisbeach, was, with his wile and infant son, risjoh . as far as £l3OO worth, belore he discovered that at .
in a cart. on their way from Wisbeach to Nolte ich, as the Baron's house, in Welbeck-street. where a grand
they were about to enter Swaffham, the horse began service of plate, preparatory to a splendid entertain-
to kick most violently; and struck the infant a mort .1 mint which •:as pretended to be in contemplation,
blow on the left side of the head, and it died before there were only one servant man and one set Wart
they reached home. i maid in attendance, and that no crest or arms were
pro. put upon the plate. which, with other concurring cir-
On the I Ith inst. when the Norwich Mail had
cu . ,
rnstonces left no doubt of deception, and the inge.
eeedesl within five miles of Colchester, the cnachmatt
.nious fraud was detected. The prisoner was proved
beine much in liquor, grew sleepy, and suddenly fell
eto have taken part of the of
in his own ctirricle
between the wheel horses, when they set off at full
horn the plaintiff's. and to have sold to Mr. Sherwin.
speed, but by the exertions of Mr. H. St-lohn, at the
of. the' Strand, silversmith, a pair of silver candle-
imminent danger of his life, they were so far stopped
socks, for nine-guineas, a few Joys after they were
as to enable the guard to seize the leaders heads,
furnished ; as also to have pawned with a pawnbrco
without any farther accident. The guard and Mr.
key in Subs, live or six hundred pomade wet th of the
St. John were 'ell in charge of the coach by the other
.° plhte, and to have taken the remainder with him to
passengers, who went in search of the coachman,
prieon, where he re as give it up, or any part of
whom they found on the road, upwatds of half A mile
behind, his head shockingly cut, bleeding profusely, the nn'neYn•
and one of his legs broken. Mr. Niote. in an able speech for the defendant,
I argued. that he was hustrated in his expectations,
Friday evening, at 7 o'clock, the prisoners confined and Misled by his own credulity, as in a measure the
in Reading Gaol, consisting of five transports, and plaintiff had been on the occasion ; for that the state
six for trial at the ensuing March Assizes, attempted ! .
.of tne war prevented open credentials to be commit•
to make their escape, in the most resolute and formi. ted to '
one upon such business: and that apassport
dable way : the Turnkeys having proceeded to she;
kid been actually granted to the prisoner the very
ward where they were secured in the day, opened the i day of his arrest, to enable him to proceed on his
door to remove them one at a time tr the close cells mission to the Continent, so that he was uudrubiedly
for the night, when one came forward and was locked laccredited by Government, and in their confidence.
up. They then proceeded for the second : immedi- 'lhe CHAIRMAN observed, that neither / '
:ea , inge.
etely,as the door was opened,eight of them rushed out, •
• nutty, nor eloquence were wanting in the prisoner's
seized thrTurnkeys, and fastened them into the close
Counsel on Isis behalf, but the facts were too strong
cells adjoining their ward. The Keeper's wife, who !to y
e resisted under the 35th section of the Act.—
was sitting ia the kitchen with a debtor, ran to secure I
Every Ministry were forced to appoint times and in-
the door which led into the Keeper's house, to pie-1 terviews on business with foreigners, whose views
vent their approach, but was not in time ; they en- i inscrutable . were often in coming into this country.—
tered it, secured her, and forcing the debtor on the •t Ise prisoner might be only a spy, instead of an Am.
floor, dragged them both out, and bolted them into a
.' h4SSAdOE, and his whole management in this affane
s, liters( cell. The Keeper, who was writing in the;
was at tifice and cunning not to be endured by the
Magistrates' room up-stairs, seeing them drag out his I
evidence before die Court under the present wise and
wife, immediately descended, fastened the door of the i •
cautious Act of Parliament. The prisoner was re-
house, ran up stairs into the room he had previously mended.
left, and collected his fire-arms in the window.—The I
whole of the prisoners were now in a body trying to
force the door, calling out in menacing language for
the Keeper, who answered," Here I am,and will shoot
every one of you." and pulling the trigger of one of his
pistols at a transport, who stooping his head, the balls
missed him, and theyoill then ran towards their wards,
with fury, swearing, but again collected themselves to
attack him; when he quickly opened the door of his
house, with his fire arms, which were very formida-
ble, consisting of three braces of pistols, and a mus.
quiet with a bayonet, and drove them into the ward,
where they hid themselves in the best way they could.
—The Keeper now released the two Turnkeys, his
Wife, two debtors, and three women whom they had
shut up in the close cells, as before described. The
Keetiees wife immediately after her release brought
four Adstors through the house to his assistance, but
he bad previously rushed into the ward, and present-
ed his Are-arms at them, threatened to shoot the first
man that resisted going. to his nightly abode ; they
. obeyed, and with the assistance he bad now procured,
• he was enabled to secure every one with extra irons,l
and fastened them down to the floor of their cells.

At Warwick Assizes, on Wednesday last, a •man
of the name of Wilke: was convicted of bigamy, is
having married tour wives.
Yesterday a pawnbroker, in the neighbourhood of
Clare Market, was convicted in the penalty of forty-
shillings, and tell shillings costs, for taking more in-
terest forfora pledge, than is allowed by Act of Par
ment. It appeared by the evidence, that on the 5111
inst. a gold-ring was pledged at the defendant's shop
for thiee shillings, and redeemed on the 19th. The
shopman charged one penny interest, whereas only a
hallpenny was due.
At four o'clock yesterday morning, the houie of
Mr. Sieveret, in Brompton-road, was alarmed by the
maid servant detecting two thieves in a back parlour.
She shrieked loudly, and alarmed the family, when
the villains bolted out at the front door, leaving be.
hind them a crow.bar, pick-luck keys, and other int.
plements of house breaking: It was afterwards di:.
covered that plate and portable articles to a consider-
able amount, were missing from the lower part of the
house, which the robbers must have previously got

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