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Janes awed, was charged with stealing a musleal snuftbox.—
The prisoner and another man went into the shop of Mr.
man Saysry, a
jeweller, in Comilla. and • while the attention of the shop Wad
engaged, lids companion walked offs with the property.—lternanded.
Thomas Woashmul, an extra waiter at the London Taverns was
brought up on the following charge:—Mr. lileaden stated, that
after a public dinner at his house the prisoner was about to leave,'
when an increaie of his bulk excited suspicion, and he was searched,
when the officer found a considerable quantity of fruit,meat, fowls,
ice. the former of which was intended for part of the dessert, but
was taken before it had been plated on the table. The character
of
his house was considerably injured by such conduct, as the com-
pany complained of the scantiness of the good things set before them.
The prisoner, who begged hard for forgiveness, was remanded.
Adis was charged with stealing a ream of paper, the
property of Alderman itlagnay. prisoner contrived to take
away the property while the porter was engaged in taking down
the abutters of the warehouse.—Fully committed.

GUILDHALL.
•Joohn and Thamas Flynn were charged with stealing a great coat,
which Johnson, a journeyman carpenter, employed in making re-
pairs at Mews. Gilbeet and Palmer's, paper-stainers, in Old Fish-
street, had left in the warehouse while he went to breakfast. On
his return it had disappeared. MI the persons about-the premises,
except T. Flynn, assisted Johnson in searching for it from the roof
to the cellar, in which litter place it was at length found, hidden
soder some shavii:gs. There it was allowed to remain with the
i view of detecting the thief. Thomas Flynn was the last on the
premises at night, but Mr. Dever, the clerk, watched the premises
eutaide, and at nine o'clock John Flynn came up, and Thomas
lowere the coat, packed up as a parcel, by a string, from an upper.
window. The prisoners were then secured.
Thomas said, in his defence, that he bid the coat as a joke ori-
ginally, but when Johnson made such an outcry, and used such
threats of prosecution, he became too frightened to tell the truth,
and sent-it out of the house at night that it might come by au er-
rand-cart the next day, and the clue to him be broken. John
declared his brother told him he had been buying a coat.—Coat-
mined-

BOW-STREET.
Yesterday rather a curious affair was unfolded to Sir R. BIRNIE,
of which the following are the circumstances:—One Sir Thomas
Wright Wilson, who gave us pretty clearly to understand, that be
either was, or had been a tradesman, but woe bad been forty years
in the commission of the peace, and had a large family, whom he
always clothed twice a year, appeared before the sitting Magistrate
to complain of his servant. The latter, as he stated, had formerly
been his apprentice. At the expiration of the seven years he took
him into his service, and retained him fur five years. At the end
of that time, having taken a horse front the stable, and ridden it
contrary to the wish of Sir Thomas, be determined to discharge
him, and discharged he was. When he left the house, the servant
took away with hint his old liveries. On this ground Sir Thomas
applied to Sir 11. Blame for a warrant, in order to apprehend him
on a charge of felony. This the worthy 'Magistrate refused; but as
there appeared some circumstances requiring explanation, he issued
a summons for him to attend yesterday. Accordingly he appeared.
accompanied by a friend bearing the clothes, which formed the
subject of the proceeding. The respectable prosecutor then, with
considerable warmth, addressed the bench in a half hour speech,
accompanied with aU the graces which eloquence and action could
give it. He dwelt with great effect on the innumerable kindnesses
which bad been lavished eo the defendant.
Mr. William Hays Petit, one of the Committee of the Foundling
,liimpital, said he appeared there on the part of the defendant, as,
when the Committee fiaund that those whom they had formerly
fostered in their childhood, acted in a becoming manner, they were
OM accustomed to desert them. There did not here seem any
wet founded charge against the young man now before the Court.
The young man had taken the clothes, fairly imagining that he had
a right so to do. If he had not done so, be must, after twelve
years of satisfactory service, have been turned out naked. Fer his
owe part, he would rather go without a coat himself, than turn out
a servant in such a state. The youth, however, was willing to re-
store the old clothes to Sir Thomas Wilson, to make what use of
them he chose. .
' Sir It. Bums said, he thought the young man bad acted under
a mbtake very prevalent among servants, but which be might
-Itssit with the greatest innocence. He bad supposed that his
livery belonged absolutely to him, and therefore that he bad a
right to do what he chose with it. This was an erroneous supposi-
tioo. Ho must return the clothes. But there was not the slightest
shadow of anything like even a constructive felony. He was there-
fore to be discharged.
Caw( or TASTAIO—IIiss Maslen Smith and Miss Ursula Mit-
oses were brought before Mr. Miesnutx., on Wednesday morning,
from Covent-garden watch-house; to which uncomfortable place
they. had consigned each other en mutual charges of assault;-
Misr Hhliman having charged Miss Smith with spit/Peg in her face
and tearing her lace cap; and. Miss Smith having charged Miss'
Hillman with endeavonring to pull her down stairs backwardeby-
the skirt of her sky-blue gm: de Naples pelisse.
Miss Smith is tall, stately, add drab-comp ; arrayed in
ddichilia-trimmed sky-blue gros de Neptesp-muffed, buckled.
beaceletted, and reticuled, "In a corresponding style of elegance.*
Miss Hillman, on the other band, a very diminutive damsel—us..
mildied, and clad in bumble brown calimanco ;—her complexion at
the olfactory apex, of a fine purple, and gradually softening Bowe
over her cheeks into a pale primrose. -Miss Hillman opened bur
carte to the Magistrates, in form and manner following :
" This morning at one o'clock, please yohr Worship, I was at
Mother H.'s—"
"And pray where is Mother H.'s?" asked his Worship, inter:
rutting bor. , , ._. .
;all_ _ e .ettending gaoler explained. . .
- Bliss klilimaa proceeded :—" It was about one e'clock, please,
yoir. Worship, and at I was passing down .the stoics this Lady
gave me a push--" Why did you pus& me, ,Mess 7 said I. ,I'U
smack . yaw .usly,lookijig chops !' said she;—and, with that, she
spit in my face three,times running. 1 Why do you spit,' at me.
p ifirif i' said I, • l'U tell yon in a minute,' said she--,and with that
Adstetore my cap to tatters ;—and here it is for your Worship's in-
'pectic% -sprit hest lace cap!" .. . , . . ...
;MiseSultith looked scornfully down upon the tattered best lace
cao which Miss Hillman held up,for his Woratip'siespectiuti ; and,
thrusting lier.liatids up to the elbows in her own proket muff, she
proceeded to gilts her account of the matter. " Upon my word, Sir,"
saickshe,•l it illber.einestne to take any notice otwhat the hasig-
nificant little creature bas said. The fact is, she has insulted me
repeatedly, tie-Care..when we were at Mrs. Hodskinsun's the
ofilet.oiglit,..acoaltleman with • whom 'this little body presumes to
* em terms, took me by the hand, and said ' my. shear, will you take
,row stigikem with, me ?' To which polite invitation 1 very nee
tunny replied,' Oh, certainly. Sir !'• Of course 1 and the Gies
deman supped together; and ever since thin paltry small moduli
Ibis taken every opportunity of insulting me; lie spit at her indeed!
lavas she Wits spit at sae." • . . • •
W. Let these ladies be locked up together," said the Magistrate;
4 kritliit they may have an opportunity of arranging their differesem
Vett , and I will bear them again presently."
....3hey were lucked up accordingly in one of the iron baudoirs.aed
llow
the dispatch of some less interesting busibess, die Magistrate 1
*Mita that they might be again brought into the office.
" Well," siad his Worship," have they settled theif disputer
• , 58 1 don't know, Sir," replied the gaoler ; " there has been a
Feet deal of talk between them—but as they both talked at once,
titippose neither of them heard what the other said."
.. Aliss Hillman said, Miss Smith was "'so intertkrate that arrange.
merist was 'spite impossible.
Miss Smith was about to put in a rejoinder to this; but his
Worslaip said he bad heard quite enough to convince him that they
werveboth, equally to blame, and therefore he mould hear no more;
butileave them to. indict each other at the Sessions if they chose.—
And then they were discharged.
HATroN-G ARBEN.

raontioxfn SILK Goon:.—Yesterday Mrs. Ellipse • Cups, milliner
and dross-maker. of Regent-street, was summoned to ap-
pescbefore the Magistrees of this Office, to answer a complaint of
the oillset• of his• Majesty's Customs, for having in her possession,
vsnowA articles of foteign manufactured silk goods, gloves, &c.
cs..,t‘opao the statute.
On her name being called, she did not answer, but a French Gen-
tleman, oho gave his name as M. Oenolley, came forward, and
Amid that Mr.. Cops wa. in France, he appeared for her.
Mr. I.atsc asked him if he wa,s prepared to take the copse-

quences ? •ft.
M. Denorey said that he did not kaow anything of the muter;
Ase only came there to hear the Magistrate's decision.
Mn lama said, that of course the case should go on as if ao de-
fendant had appeared.
'ice seizing °dicer was then sworn, and proved the finding the
artigikamanacd in the information on the defendant's premises, they
were of the volur of B 6 I[.s. 4d at d'of foreign manufacture.
Thes.Solicitor of the Citsttatts said, that the Llonourahlt Board
bring Merit: that the defet.datit hdil frequently offended, had with
a tom to protectar.g the liti.ash ►ue..utaciure thuusht proper

to proceed under the 57th Geo. 111. which allows a pereate
£lOO on conviction oT this offence. the Magistrates having a d
' creti.mary power to mitigate it to one-fourth of that anio:.in.
though the ordinary mode was to proceed for treble the value of
the article seized.
• The defendant was fined in the lowest penalty, t;5, and LS t. costs.
Yesterday, this office was much crowded to hear the final eta-
mination of Patrick Caen, Mary Cwt, and Margaret Caere, !the
daughter. who- were charged with the wilful warier of Maurice
Fitzgerald, in Horn's-alley, Gray'sdnrs.lacre. A. woman named
Casey said, that when-she beard of the murder having been com-
mitted, she ran into the Court and said, " what a pity tag tine is
killed—what did you kill the man -to: ?" to which Mrs. Cant re.
plied, "ifbe is kiikti, what right bad he in nay place? I'll let you
see "what business you have in my place, 51.turice Fitzgerald.**—.
Mem Ford heard Mrs. Caen say to Fitz3erald, " yuu have es
business here." Mrs. Caen also accused her of having accepted
2s. Gd. on the previous evening from Fitzgerald.
Mr. gerjeant Setsoe having heard ail the ',harems, ordered the
daughter to be removed from the bar; but before he took bee evi-
dence, he cautioned her to tell the whole truth. She said she wa
sent for by her mother, and on her arrival she found the deceased
lying on the ground. She shouted " murder! murder!" Het
mother was staiiding in the passage, but she was una'Jle to state
whether she had a knife in her hand. She had a child on her kill
arm, and desired a woman who came down to attend to the
dee
ceased while she went for a doctor. She asked her mother whether
she committed the murder? and she said, " don't bother me; do
you think I did it'. She went for a doctor, and on her return into
the yard she saw her father for the first time; several persons were
also there. There not being any evidence agairest the male prisoner;
he was also removed from the bar. The prisoner was then called
upon for her defence; and she said, that on the night in question,.
while she was preparing supper, one of her childrm ran out., She
went after it with a knife in her hand, with which she bad been
peeling onions. She had taken two glasses of gin, which took suck
an effect upon her, that she was almost frantic, and knew not what
she did.—Committed for trial.

lIARLBOROUGH-STREET.
1101111 MY AT Loan LOYASNZ.II.—Forr well-known characters, of
the name of Willis. Williams, Sermon, and Mood, were brought to
this office yesterday, on suspicion of being concerned in rubbing
the house of Lord Lovalne;s6,Upper Brook-street, on Tuesday night.
Lord Lovaine's butler deposed•that. about ten o'clock on Tues-
day night, having occasion to go to a neighbouring hotel ou a mo-
mentary business, he kft the area gate open, and upon his return
found that there had been stolen front the hall three travelling
coats, two travelling cleats, and two. pelisses. In the pocket of
one of the coats, his own property, was a pocket-book containing a
SOL promissory note and several valuable memorandums.
One of the footmen deposed, that while the butler was out the
ben rang, and upon hls.answering it, a person whom be was con-
ident was the prisoner Williams, inquired which wa= Gilbert-
street? Witness informed the prisoner that the street inquired foe
was opposite, on which he went away.
Mr. Drat —Are you confident that Williams is the person who
made the inquiry?
Witness—l have no hesitation in saying that he is.
Scholefiekl the officer deposed; that in consequence of the infor-
mation he had received, he proceeded to Lord Levaine's house,
and examined the area gate, which had no appearance of having
been forced. H. then went to Willis's house, in fidhert-st ern,
which he found Williams entering with a bottle of wine, and
knowing the whole of the prisoners to be suspicious characters, he
brought them to this office..
The prisoners, in defence, denied all knowledge of the robbery,
and Williams said the servant was mistaken in his identity, fur that
ho had not been in Brook-street on the day in question.
Mr. Dram observed, that although appearances were very mach
against the prisoners, yet the evidence was _insufficient to warrant
any further proceedings against them. They must, therefore, be
discharged. The prisoners were discharged accordingly.
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UNION-HALL. _ _

A young man, named William Cwe, was charged with commit-
ting a burglary and robbery in the house of a widow, named Mary
Brown, residing in Inman*ii-buildings, in the New Kent-toad.
The prisoner lathe son of Cave, the chief turukey of Horsemen-
ger-lane. It appeared that on the Mt December, the prosecutrie
went out to pvrchaseta few articles, when she met a woman named
Dick, with whom the prisoner cob:hired, and who persuaded her tu
go into several liquor shops, and drink some teturnin - to
her house, she found it had been entered, and robbed, and the wisaule
of her drawers.and cupboard. carried aw.sy.
The principal witness against the prisoner was a young woman,
Ward, who lodges opposite the complainant's house, and
who, luring Mrs. Brown's absence from home, saw the prisoner
enter, and come nut with a large bundle. She was afraid to give
an alarm, as she considered it more than her life was worth to give
information against the prisoner.
The Constable who took the prisoner into custody, said be re-
quested to have his liberty unt4 the next day, and promised to
meet him at a certain hour, he, however, kept out of the way. .
The prisoner was fully commlted for trtal.

THE Ex-kING OF SwEnew..7-The following curious
statement appears in adignamis Messenger:—" Ex-
tract of a private letter of the 25th instant, from Mentz:
—The public attention is at this moment powerfully
excited by the dissppearance of Colonel tiusrAvsom
(ex-King of Sweden), wham it was customary to see
almost daily within our walls. His he is situated at
Cassel, a parish comprehended within the fortifications
of Mentz. His attendants assert that be went to hi:
son, who resides at Carlsruhe, with his mcelier, and that
from thence they both step ted for Russia. Well-in-
formed persons say that GUSTAVUS was very intimate
with Prince CONSTANTINE, and kept up a regular cor-
respondence with
Monday evening, soon after dusk, Mrs. Ann Patter,
residing near VV'est7square, Lambeth, was proceeding
along the wall of New Bethlem, on the Lambeth-road,
when she was tusiderily attacked by a stout fellow, who,
after knocking her down, robbed her of a hand-basket,
containing Is. 6d. in silver, six pair of unmade slate-
coloured gloves, besides several other a.ticles,
instantly made
.a2Lecipitateletreat. with the intopeity.

MARRIED.
Dec. 31, at Wareham, Berk', the It-v. Wm. Dockland, D.D.
Canon of Christ Church, 414 Professor of Mineralogy and Geo-
logy laths University of (hfur4,. and President of the GcOlOgie.ll
Society of London, to Mary, eldest daughter of Iktijando 111or-
land, Esq. of Sherpstead House, near Abingdon.

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Jan. I, at Marston House, Viscount Dungarvan, aged 27.
tu, at Piershill Barracks, Edinburgh, Ilenty Pery Corry,
Esq. of the 6th Dragoon Guards.
Tuesday, at the ltectory, Amersham, the Rev. Dr. Drake.
Saturday, in Can Grove, aged 34, Captain James Ives
Edwards, late commander and owner of the Golconda lodiam. r.
July 20, at Itatnree, East Indies, of a bilious fever, Lieu:era:A
George M. Pilgrim, 40th Regiment.
{tee. 20, at Woburn, Mr. Isaac Ahlett, of Parker's court, Lon'
don, and formerly ofd Manchester. Liis death Was occasioned by
the upsetting of the anchester mail at that place wattle above date.
October 24, en board his Majest}.s ship Scylla, ott the Jamaica
station, to which be had been recently appointed, Captain Aug.
tut Chhispion De•Crespiry.
At Clifton, on the Stith alt. Colonel Write, late Deputy Liea•
tenant of the Tower. This highly.ropected °Ricer had attainti
his atth year, and had served with inuch distinction in the varieur
campaigns of his day, particularly_in tho.e which took plrce
America, under the Marquis Cornwallis. No man could he .11 ec
respected and •d in private lAV Mtn ibelevel Yorke. lle wa.
confessed pattern of the strictest integrity, as well as of die
benevolence;* and W 43 acknowledged to poise's, is a nrinc
ordinary degree, all the qualities which at once digaily tht.
and the man.

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