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dered any one. They however persisted in taking
her away., and carried her before a Magistrate, who
dismissed her upon her. promise to leave the parish
DZIMPaIATE RIOT AND 1/01,11PIRSONS SHOT.-"lte.S.
and go to West Ilazn, in Essex, where she was 1e- tsrday George Yardley, Joke Howell, and Jae Rep-
gaily settled. 'pen, three notorious characters, part of an extensive
Mr. MAInTAT, for the defendants, stated, that the gang, were brought up in the custody of Dalton,
parish officers were legally justified in what they had Fortune, and Foster, officers belonging to Lambeth,
done under the circumstances of the case. The street office, charged under the following circum-
plaintiff had been pregnant of a bastard child, which ' stances :—lt appeared that some villains, on Wed-
was likely to become chargeable to the parish, and ; nesday morning last, entered the back part of the
the officers of Plumsted had regularly removed her 1 premises of Mr. Sheffield, butcher, of High-street,
to her place of settlement at \test Ham, in Fssex, Aldgate, and stole three fine bullocks, which had
where she was brought to-bed. By the statute of . been brought from the country the day previous.--s
17 Geo. 11. commonly called the Vagrant .Ict, lOn the evening of the same day, about dusk, about
amongst other things it was enacted, that when a 1800 or 1000 persons assembled in a field near Step-
person had been regularly removed, if they unlaw- ney Fair, and had the bullocks secured with halters
fully came back to the parish from which they had round their necks, till an appointed time ; they were
been removed, they were thereby declared to have let loose and hunted by men, dogs, &c. through
committed an act of vagrancy, and were liable to be different streets, the whole of the gang pursuing
punished as a vagrant. The plaintiff, after her re- them, being armed with sticks, bludgeons, and other
moval, did come back to Plumsted, and the parish weapons, and pelting stones, to the great danger of
officers, finding that she had renewed her cld prat- the passengers. They took their route towards
tices, and might again endanger the parish to the Whitechapel, and several persons on the road were
charge of a bastard, took her up under this clause of tossed by the animals. Mrs. Williams, who lives in
the Act, but being unwilling to deal harshly with her, Lambeth-street, walking with her child in her arms.l
they let her go, upon her promise to depart the parish. was tossed; and herself and infant injuredin a dreadful
The former removal being proved, manner. A porter, proceeding along North-street,
Mr. COMMON SERJEANT made an ample reply, in Whitechapel, with a chest of drawers on his head,
which he contended, that her return to her parents was I.kea tie tossed; the drawers were smashed, and'
was not an unlawful return, and commented on the I himself injured in a terrible manner, having one of
oppression of the parish officers with considerable his arms broken. Seieral oilier persons were tossed,
severity.—Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 51. and materially injured. The villains drove the poor
DUNN V. BECKLEY. beasts about the town for a long time, till they be-
This case occupied a considerable portion of the came in a state of madness. They drove them to-
time of the Court. It was an action brought to de- wards Hare-street, Spitalfields, on entering which,'
tide the question as to the right of appointment to ore of the aniriali which was more infuriated than
the office of Parish Clerk for the parish of Bromley : the others, lushed into the warehou,e of Messrs.l
whether such right was vested in the parishioners or Roscier and Jacques, dyers, of that street, being fok
in the clergyman of the parish? °The parties in this lowed into the shop by a number of villains, who
suit were both candidates for the office, and the commenced an attack ; the whole of the windows
whole of the testimony adduced by the plaintiff was were smashed, and the pannels at the sides of the
to shew an immemorial custom in the parishioners to shop, and great injury done to other parts, as like-
appoint the parish clerk. To make out this custom, wise the property. The persons employed on the
a great number of witnesses were called; but the premises a ere dreadfully injured by the animel, and
plaintiff completely failed in making out the case, were infaniously maltreated by the robbers who fol-
and a verdict was given for the defendant. lowed it. At length the men who worked in the shop
HILTON AND (ITIIERS V. BALDOCZ. succeeded in turning the villains out, and managed
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This was an action upon a bill of exchange drawn
by Messrs. Burton and Matthews, and accei ted by
the defendant, to the amount of 471. 13s. 6d. given
for flour delivered. The plaintiffs are assignees un-
der a commission of bankruptcy issued against
Messrs. Burton and Mathews, who were formerly
millers, residing at Faversham, and the defendant was
the acceptor of are bill.
The defence set up to the action was, that no deli-
very of the flour took place, a-. I that the bill having
been given under that i !ca, ti r defendant was not
answerable for the acceptance. It appeared that Mr.
Baldock had been induced to accept the bill for a
Mr. Diprose, a baker, residing at Faversham, whose
credit was completely gone, and whom the defen-
dant was anxious to set up in business. It also came
out in evidence that Mr. Diprose was now confined
as a prisoner in Dozer Castle, for a debt of 1001. ow-
ing to Messrs. Burton and Mathews, and that the
bill in question had been drawn by these millers the
very day previous to their failure, and had obtained
the signature of the defendant under the promise of
sending ten sacks of flour to Diprose, which stipula-
tion was never performed.—A verdict was found for
the defendant without hesitation.

to shut and bolt the donors. The prisoners and a great
t
body of their companions, however, broke open the
place, and acted with the utmost violence. Finding
All measures to quell the riot and prevent them from
robbing the place ineffectual, the persons in the
warehouse, who :were furnished with fire-arms,
threatened to fire on the depredators, if they did not
desist from their purpose, and being disregarded,
they, after subsequent entreaties, fired upon the mob,
four or five of the villains received the contents of
the fire-arrrs, and were carried off by some of their
companions. The other two animals were hunted
by more of the mob round the adjacent parts, and
information having been received of the diTraceful
transaction at the above office, Diltoh, Fortune, and
Foster, were dispatched instantly to quell the riot,
and appre'oeild the delinquents.' On. their Iping to
the place it- was in the utmost consternation, but,
with a party of the Worship-street officers, they suc-
ceeded in dispersing the rioters. Dalton, Fortune,
and Foster, at the peril of their lives, rushed in and
seized the prisoners, who were armed with tremeti-:
dous bludgeons, and appeared most active in th
affair, and brought them in custody to the office.—:
During the time the mob was in Hare-street several

A Court Martial assembled at Portsmouth on
Wednesday, on board his Maj:sty's ship the QUEEN
CHARLOTTE, for the trial of Captain JAMES ARTHUR
MURRAY, late of his Majesty's ship SPEY, on charges
preferred against him by Admiral PLAMPIN, on the
St. I lelena station, when the charges not being proved,
he was most fully acquitted.

persons had their pockets picked, and sonic com-.
pletely cut off. An officer of Whitechapel, nanteff
Richard Plunket, was knocked down and braf,b_g,
some of the villains, with sticks and bludgeOrs,
they almost murdered him, and he now lies in a de-
plorable state, at his residence in Vhitechapel,. The
two animals that were drove about the greets during
the transaction at the above warehouse, were with
difficulty taken home to Mr. Sheffield's .premises,
but the other was in such a dangerous state that they
were necessitated to have it slaughtered in the ware-
house. The prisoners are all well known by the offi.
cers. On being searched no property was found on
them, but their sticks, which appeared to have been
much used in the affray. The prisoners were com-
mitted to Newgate to take their trial.

Wednesday night, as Mr. Millet, of New-strtet„
Bishopsgate, was proceeding to town, lie was attacked
in the Kent-road by a gang of five or six men, who
knocked him down, and robbed him of a gold watch,
chain, and three seals, and also a pocket-book, con-
taining two bills of exchange of a large amount.—
Same night, the counting-house of Mr. Harris, hat-
manufacturer, Winchester-street, was entered, and
the desks were plundered of bank'notes and cash to
the amount of 151.—Same night, the coach-house of
Mr. Wilkins, Montpelier, South Lambeth, was broken
open, and a set of chaise harness, several horse-cloths,
and a variety of other articles, were stolen.—Same
night, a burglary was committed in the house of Mr.
Prince, Camberwell, and a quantity of linen stolen.
WILD Doc.—A most destructive animal (supposed
of the mastiff species) has for a considerable time
past infested the neighbourhood of Roehampton, and
committed great ravages among the sheep and lambs
of persons residing in and near that place ; twenty
belonging to Lord ELLENBOROIJOH, eleven of Sir C.
PRICE s, ten belonging to Mr. LEADER, and one of
Mr. JONES'S (the Marshal of the King's Bench), have
been destroyed by this animal within the last three
weeks. His attacks are always made in the night ;
he seizes his victim by the throat, mangles it terribly
in that part, and sucks the blood ; it does not appear
that he eats any part of the flesh. The farmers and
labourers in the neighbourhood are indefatigable in
their endeavours to find out the haunt of the ferocio-
ous beast, but their efforts have proved unsuccessful.
Tuesday evening, as a young woman was passing
through the back yard of Mr. Blake, at the Half-
way-house, in the Kent-road, a dog, belonging to Mr.
Blake, furiously attacked her, fastened upon the fleshy
part of one of her arms, and literally tore out a large
piece of flesh, which was afterwards picked up by
Mr. Blake. Her screams brought persons from the
house to her assistance. The surgeon who was called
in stated, that the wound was one of a most dange-
rous nature. • It cannot be too extensively known,
that the law provides, that—" A dog going ia the
street unmuzzled, being from its nature dangerous,
and cause of terror to his Majesty's subjects, is a com-
mon nuisance, and the owner may be indicted for
suffering him to go at large."
There never has been remembered a season which
has proved so fatal in many cases as the present one.
The great mortality has been principally confined to
the distemper in dogs, the rot in sheep, and the typhus
fiver in human Leings.
A female child, now living at Kirkland-how, in the
parish of Alecdon, was horn on the 23d of March,
last year ; of course it saw two Good Fridays and
two Easter Sundays, before it was a year old!

MANSION-NW:SP.—Yesterday Thomas Arundel,Jo-
seph Dawson, Thomas Impett, and John Blacken, four
boys, the oldest not more than 14 years of age, were
charged with a robbery in the shop of Mrs. Willis,
jeweller, &c. in Bishopsgate-street. Thee 'boys, it
appeared, formed part of a gang of young thieves,
with which the east end of the town hasbeen for a
considerable time infested, and Arundel, who is only
13 years old, was one of the leaders. About three
' weeks ago they were "on the sneak," in Bishops-
, gate-street, when the shop of Mrs. Willis, from its
having no person in it, attracted the notice of Arun-
del, aul he proposed an entrance. His companions,
however, being rather backward, the young delin-
quent boldly opened the door, and creeping round
the counter, opened a glass-case, from which he took
a parcel of gold fancy rings, about twenty-four in number, and
effected his retreat in the same manner. Ile gave each of his
companions one ring, and kept the remainder. Having sold part
of them, he squandered the greater part of the money at Step-
ney-fair on Alondiy last.- On Wednesday the prisoner Blacken
had a quarrel with Arundel, and in revenge for something the
latter said, went to Airs. Willis the same evening, and made a
full confession of the robbery. 'The other prisoners were in con-
sequence apprehended at the house of.krunders father. Aiister of
Arundel attempted to effect the escape of her brother, while the
nicer was at the house of her father.—Arundel did not deny
the robbery, but, with an impudent grin, said he had sold some
of the rings, and made a scramble with the rest among wine of
his companions.—The prisoners were remanded.

SU/LOWELL OF/Wt.-R. Digrom, 70 yeas of age, was reman-
ded, charged by Mr. Johnson, of Turfing-street, St. George's,
with an attempt to violate the person of his daughter, nine
years old.

MARLIIOROUGH-STRETT.—POLYCANT—Jdiah Ablintiah, a jovial
looking man, was brought up for eta:inflation, on a charge of
having married Rachel Cape!, 'tiering the life-time of his first
wife. The prisoner said, that he supposed the wife, to whom
he was married in the Abbey-cht.rch, at Bath, 35 years since,
was dead, ind to remove his doubts, he took to wife Rachel
Capel, in 1814. Another woman, to whom he was united two
years since, now appeared, and Kenunish, on being interrogated
by the Magistrate, candidly admitted that, being tired it the
second, he wished for a.third.—lle was remanded.

lificha el Kirby, a workman in the employment of Mr:Dupre,
one of the Commissioners for Paving, in St. James's parish, was
fined 40s. for wheeling a large barrow, laden with pavel, m the
foot-way, opposite to the Police-othee.

ACClDorr.—Monday as Wm. Anderson, a labourer, was assist-
ing in placing the body of a coach in the loft of a coach manufac-
tory in the Westminster-road, his foot slipped, and be was pre-
cipitated Aran* the trap-door to the pavement, by which be
was bruised in to dreadful a manner Ulla be insinediatelrezpirsd.