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" Took him under her fostering wing,
" To cackle doggrels on Riclunoud green !"

And allowed him a small pension, which he enjoyed
but a few years. The late Lord PALM ERSTON pur-
chased a small piece of ground in the neighbourhood
of Charlton, the rent of which his Lordship appro-
priated to be expended in a good dinner, for ever, to
be enjoyed by the thrashers of that place on the birth-
day of the poet. It is now called the Duck Revel,
and took place there a few days ago, according Co
annual custom.

NEGRO POETRY.--(From CoMurn's Literary Ga-
z well-known propensity of the slaves in
the West Indies to make verses on all subjects, has
been often noticed. The following couplet has
amused us by its whimsical non sequitur..—Mr. Mar-
tin, a favourite with the black population, had lost
£5OO on a horse race; the animals together not being
worth, perhaps, one-fifth of that sum ; and upon this,
the Attican bard wrote—

1. Massa Martin ! Ma sx Martin! me sorry for your loss!
But five hundred pounds would have bought a better horse :"

ANECDOTE OF CORNELLYS THE ACTOR.—This ac-
tor purchased, without the knowledge of his wife, a
shine in a lottery ticket, and being rated soundly by
the prudent dame for what she termed an act of great
folly, he returned to the lottery-office, and entreated
the clerk to give him his money. This was refused,
but a Gentleman who was present (the late Colonel
O'DONNELL, brother of Sir NEALE O'DoNNEL) seeing
his distress, purchased the share at the price he had
paid for it, and much to poor lingo's mortification,
the number was drawn a capital prize, and he lost by
the prudence of his wife a sum of money which would
have insured a decent competence for life.

Or ERA- i iOUSE.—Last night II Don Giovanni was
repeated. The cast is at present uncommonly strong,
though the Piece has been witnessed under a great
variety of chai.ges, all of which were considered per-
feet.—The whimsical and interesting Ballet of The
Carnival at Venice followed. The House was crowded
'with company of the highest quality. There were
scores of Peers and Commoners of distinction in the
I'it. The Boxes were plenteously graced with fashion
and beauty.

SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.—The performances
of last night at this pleasant little Theatre were varied
and amusing. In addition to a comic Ballet, in
which the contrast between the French and English
styles is effectually displayed, and a Melo-Drame of
much interest, a Pantomime of considerable merit
was produced. It is founded upon the Fairy Tale of
The Two Fountains, a fiction to which Dr. JOHNSON,
the leading moralist of this country, has given his
sanction and authority. A youthful female, led on
by the natural benevolence of her bosom, performs
an act of kindness, for which she is repaid by the grate-
ful Fairy with three draughts from the fountain of
Joy. She drinks, and becomes possessed of beauty,
riches, and of the enjoyment of pleasures ; but of the
last draught she drinks to excess, and she becomes
enamoured of Folly. Evil and Discontent spring from
the fruitful source, when the kindness of the Fairy
leads the sorrowing fair one to the spring of Repen-
tance, w hen she is restored to peace and happiness.
Miss I. SCOTT, as the benevolent girl, and afterwards
as Columbine, performed with much ease and grace.
The scenery was beautiful. The whole of the En-
tertainments are brought forward in a style that re-
fleets the highest credit on the taste of the Manager.
The House was exceedingly well attended.
Usiox ov maim—Japes lirifutot, a barber re-
tiding in Clerkenwell, was committed on the oath of several
persons, being charged with throwing a wine glass from the gal-
lery of the Coburg Theatre, on Saturday night last, which fell
into the orchestra, and cut the eye and face of Mr. David
Wiliam, one of the musickans, in a most shocking manner. The
Proprietors of the Theatre attended, and the Magistrates said it
w..• a duty which they owed to the Public to prosecute the of-
lie was ordered to give 514 hours notice of bail.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
WATTS V. TUCKER.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a school-
mistress at Brixton, to recover the amount of her bill:
£l7 2s. 9d. was claimed for three months schooling
of the defendant's two daughters ; 9d. was paid
into Court, and the disputed E 2 2s. was the charge
for entrance. This point, however, did not go at
once to the Judge, but resolved itself into a question
of fact, as to the agreement between the parties : the
evidence was contradictory.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, that cognizance of
the plaintiff's terms having been proved upon the de-,
fendant, the onus was upon him to shew, and by clear
evidence, that the charge in question had been waved.
The Jury found a verdict for the defendant.
OLD BAILEY. JUNE it.
Robert Ilitchmough, aged 16, was indicted for
uttering a forged El note.
Thomas Warner, a tailor, in Grub-street, deposed,
that un a Tuesday in April last a person came to his
shop and purchased a waistcoat, in payment for
which he gave a £1 note; and, on being asked for
his address, he wrote upon the note " Robert Brown,
No. 8, Balstock-street: He could not say that the'
prisoner was the person. On the following day the
prisoner called and purchased a coat, for which he
paid a £1 note, and wrote the same address that was
given by the person the former day. The same day
witness discovered that both the notes were forged,
and the next morning he went with an Officer in
pursuit of the prisoner. He met him and said, " you'
are the lad I want for uttering a forged note ; to
which he replied, " I know I am ; but, for GOD'S
sake don't hurt me;" and at the same moment put a
£1 note into his hand, saying " put this away." This
note also turned out to be a forged one.
In his defence the prisoner said, lie had taken the
two notes last spoken of from a man named Brown,
to whom he had sold a watch the day before; that
Drown said he lived at No. 8, Balstock-street, and,
that his (prisoner's) father being about to remove
from his lodgings, he thought it best to give the
address of Brown.
Mr. Woodcock, of the Vernon's Arms public-house,
Pentonville, and ancther person, gave the prisoner a
very good character.
The Jury retired for half an hour, and returned a
verdictof—Guilty—Death ; but begged leave strongly
to recommend him to mercy, on account of his pre-
vious good character, and the probability, from his
extreme youth, and being out of employment, that
he had been made the dupe of other persons. In this
recommendation the prosecutor joined.
Mr. Justice BATLEY—I will take especial care that,
the recommendation shall be forwarded.
Thomas Clare, aged 22, was indicted for uttering
a forged El note.
The prisoner, on the 30th of March last, went to
the shop of Mr. Cox, in the neighbourhood of Poplar,
and purchased some articles, for which he paid a El
note, and gave his address, "Thomas Johnson, High-
street, Poplar." On the following day he went to
another tradesman's shop, in the same neighbourhood,
and tendered another note, and, when asked for his
address; he said his name was Johnson ; but that the
note was his employer's, Captain Adams, of the ship
John. The note being suspected, an Officer was sent
for, and the prisoner was taken into custody. On his
way to the watch-house, he said he was clerk to a
merchant in the city.
- Mr. Christmas, the Bank Inspector, proved the two
notes sere fogged.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he had been at
sea the greater part of his life, and in March last he
went to the Royal Exchange in the hope of getting a
ship. He was accosted there by a person who said
his name was Adams, and that he was Captain of the
ship John, lying in the River, and he had engaged
him to go as his steward. They went to Poplar togit
tiler, and the Captain gave him the note, and desired
him to purchase some paper, &c. at Mr. Cox's. The
following day he gave him another note, to purchase
some things for -himself, and these were the two
notes which he had passed.—No witnesses were called
in behalf of the prisoner.
The Jury found him Guilty—Death.
Mr. Cox begged to recommend him to mercy, on
account of the great temptation to persons to utter
forged notes, and also his youth and inexperience.
Charlotte Thorn was next indicted for the same
offence.—The prisoner had uttered two forged El
notes to two different tradesmen, and at each place
gave a false address. She was apprehended where
she uttered the first note, but was discharged with a
caution. In a day or two after, however, she was
found in the same pursuit, and committed.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty—Death.
Elizabeth Webster was also put to the bar, charged
with uttering a forged note for £l, on the 24th of
February last, at Bromley. There were several other
instances of uttering sworn to by the witnesses against
the prisoner, who had not only made her escape from
the watch-house, but had been got away by score
confederates from a gentleman named Boulter, to
whom she had also tendered a forged note. The
prisoner was subsequently taken into custody in the
City-road, and her person being recognized, commit-
ted to prison.—Guilty—Death.
The husband of the last prisoner was convicted in
the morning of a similar offence.
Robert. Bolding, aged 21, and Charles Wade, aged
18, stood indicted for breaking and entering the
dwelling-house of Benjamin Croydon, of Blackmoor-
street, Drury-lane, on the 26th of May last, and steal-
ing upwards of ninety pairs of shoes and boots:—
There was another indictment against them for a
burglary in the house of Thomas Gregory, of Soho,
and stealing £35, and other property ; and, on search-
ing the lodgings of the prisoners, in consequence of
the latter robbery, two pair of shoes were found in
a chair, and a quantity of picklock keys and a crow
bar up the chimney.
Several persons were called in behalf of the pri-
soners, one of whom, a publican, swore positively to
seeing them buy shoes if a person at his house.—
The other witnesses gave Holding a good character
for honesty, &c.
The Jury returned a verdict of—Not Guilty.
The prisoners were remanded to be tried on the
other indictment.
JUNE 12.—Robert Holding and Charles !fade (who
were tried and acquitted upon another charge of
burglary yesterday) were changed with burglary in

the house of Thomas Brown, and stealing therein!
£3OO in Bank-notes and monies.
On the morning of the 30th ult. about five o'clock, I
one of Mr. Brown's servants discovered that the front
door was standing open. He immediately called his
master, who found that the door of his counting.
house had been forced, and a number of papers
strewed upon the floor; the iron chest, in which he
kept his money, Was wrenched, and the whole of the
money deposited there on the previous night was
gone. In a canvas bag were five £lO, nine 1.5, and
five £1 notes; and in a tin box 18 sovereigns, and a
large quantity of silver ; and in other parts of the
chest a number of .ss. parcels of copper coin. There
was also a French demi-franc of the date of 1808.
Mr. Brown had some suspicion of Holding, whose
father lived in the same srreet, from having seen him'
repeatedly standing about his house as if surveying
the premises. He gave information at Bow-street,
and Ellis and Furzthan accompanied him with a
search-warrant to the house of Holding's father, but
there they found nothing. They then went in search
of the prisoners, and saw them standing together in
Crown-street. The officers asked them where they
lodged, and Holding at first said he had no lodging,
but afterwards said he lived at No. 71, in that street.
The officers then went there with the prisoners, and ,
in an apartment up stairs, of which Holding had the I
key, they found a parcel 91 Bant-notes, correspond-1
ing in value with those which Mr. Brown had lost ;
together with a tea-caddy filled with siker, several
papers of copper coin, and a number of sovereigns.
Upon Wade two parcels of copper were found, in
one of which was an old halfpenny exactly like one
packed in one of Mr. Brown's parcels; and among
the silver was a demi-franc of the year 1808. Mr.
Brown also identified a £1 note found upon Hold-
ing's person. Furman, in the course of his search,
looked up the chimney, and found in an aperture a
larr crow-bar, several pick-lock and other keys,
and a phosphorus box. The crow-bar fitted the
marks in the counting-house door, and in the iron
chest. The amount of the money found by the offi-
cers was about £2OO.

The prisoners said nothing in their defence, but
called Richard Bowers, who swore that be was in
company with them on the night of the 29th of May,
at the Black Lion, in Vinegar-yard, from eight till
half-past twelve o'clock, at which time he lett them
so drunk that they could scarcely stand, and he was
sure they were quite incapable of doing anything
like the robbery at Mr. Brown's.
Cross-examined.—Witness is a licensed hawker ;
had never been in this Court before, except as a spec-
' tator ; but he had been under charges at Bow-street,
he believed, four or five times. _ _

Some witnesses gave Holding A good character.
Mr.:Justice BAYLEY summed up the evidence ; and
the Jury, with little hesitation, pronounced both the
prisoners Guilty—Death. Aged 21 and 18.
Wade, when the verdict was returned, said, that
one of the officers bad taken his watch and seals from
him at his apprehension, and he wished to have them
back again.
Mr. Justice BATLEY—Any property that you might
have bad, has become forfeited to the King, and I
can make no order about it. I would suggest to you,
prisoners, that you have been convicted of a very
serious offence indeed, and you will do well to prepare
yourselves for what way eventually happen to you.
John Bidwell, William Cook, and John Brett, were
I indicted for a burglary in the house of William Bi-
shop, and stealing therein two silver candlesticks, the
property of Elizabeth Holt.
Mr, Bishop resides in Bunhill-row, and the can-
dlesticks, which were the property of his mother,'
Mrs. Holt, were placed on a sideboard, near the par-
lour window, on the evening of the burglary. About
a quarter past eight, Mr. Bishop had occasion to
leave the parlour, and on his return, he found that'
the window had been opened, and the candlesticks
taken away. Shortly after, the prisoners, with an-
ther man, were seen by a Police Officer to go into a
coffee-shop, near Mr. Bishop's house ; and, suspect-
ing they had done something wrong, he followed,
and saw them go into a back-room, where they
washed themselves, and exchanged coats and waist-
coats with each other. While they were doing this,
the Officer went in, and, in searching the room, found
the stolen candlesticks concealed in a corner. Cook,
on being asked how he could commit such a crime,
said, he was sorry they got no more than the candle-
sticks. Verdict—Not Guilty.
John Gottkb Menke was indicted for violating the
person of Anne Field.
The prosecutrix stated, that she was twenty-one
years of age, and was an orphan, and had been for
some time in the service of Mr. and Mrs. —, near
the Shepherd and Shepherdess-fields, Islington. On
the 12th of May, the prisoner, who lodged in the
house, came to her mistress's )ed-room, where she
was at work, there being no other person in the
house, and before she could get out of the room, the
prisoner seized her round the waist, and throwing
her on the bed, effected his purpose. She told what
had happened to a Mrs. Bentley, as soon as she could
get out of the house. Her evidence, however, as to
the completion of the offence, was not satisfactory,
and the JUDGE directed an acquittal; but he was de-
tained to be tried for the assault.

Thomas Canto', aged thirty-eight, was capitally
indicted for maliciously shooting at John Beeson,
with intent to murder him. ,

Mr. J. Beeson deposed, that he resided at No. IS,
Cross-street, Hatton-garden ; that on the day stated
in the indictment the prisoner called at his house;
witness, on seeing him, had a child in his arms,
which the prisoner desired he would give to the ser-
vant; and, on his complying with the request, the
prisoner asked him to walk into the garden, and wit-
ness had just got outside the back-dour when a pistol
went off, and he felt himself struck on the shoulder
by the shot. None of them entered the flesh,.nor did
they break the skin, but merely caused a black mark.
Witness immediately asked the prisoner why he had
fired? and he answered, s, You have injured me—
you are a great rogue." The prisoner had been in
the employ of witness about nine months, and left
his service by his own choice. Witness owed the pri-
soner at the time near £3. He never appeared insane.
Cross-examined by Mr. ANDREWS.—Witness had
forgiven the prisoner, and they were good friends.
He was obliged to prosecute by the Magistrates.
James Jones, a lodger in Beeson's house, heard the
report of a pistol, and or coming down stairs went
for an Officer. This witness stated, that since the