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London, England, 1810-12-15 00:00:00

• DOPIIt CASTLE, Me.l4.

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reg-house in Livetpool : the bill was left A the de.
fendant's house, Gloucester-row, Walwolth, for ac-1 • ..........., _
ceptance ; but-never was returned to the plaintiffs, This morning, about sir o'clock, part of the Milli
although repeated applications had been made to the fell into the Engineer's Worklard, near the Guild•
defendant for that.purpose When he proved these ford Battery, by wheh, several of the houses in it
facts, he had not a doubt but the Jury, under the have been totally demolished, and the Wild of oat!
direction of his Lordship, would give a verdict for of the foremen, in the Engineer department, and sit
the plaintiffs. children killed.
Thomas James, a clerk in the employ of the plain- Every assistance that could be given was attended
tiffs, deposed, that he gave the bill of exchange to to by Sir DAVID RAE, {Senior officer of the Garrison
another clerk to send it out for acceptance. He saw of Dover) and Brigade-Major JARvIS. The body of
the defendant at the Tower a few days after the bill one of the children hastiness taken out, and other:
became due •he said lie had accepted the bill ;he discovered but n't yet removed, on account of the
had sot paid it, but was ready to do so whenever the presssure of so large a mass of elsalk, anetthls ruins of
bill was produced or presented to him. ; the houses lying upon them.
On his cross-examination by Mr. PARKE, he said, i . _________
he did not know the defendant, or his situation inlife, t SMITHFIELD CLUB CAME SHOO:
except that he was a Clerk in the Ordnance Office ;1 , .........6.lrimill
did not know that he was in the constant habit of ae- it Yesterday mottiirg, Mr. Sadler's yard, ii Upper
cepting bills for Gentlemen in Wales, whom he was Goswell-street, was opened foi. exhibiting the fine fat
agent for in London, or that a great. number of his' oxen, cows, sheep, and pigs which had been seat front
bills had passed through the plaintiffs' house. Mr. all parts of England, in competition for the Prizes
Parke 'put several bills into the hands of the 'witness, ' offered by this patriotic Society. The three Gentle.
and he admitted that six of them had passed through ! men appointed for deciding the Prizes, viz. Mt. MDR-
the plaintiffs' house, and all acceptances of the defer- . ors 13tarsEctc, of Wanborough, Surrey ; Mr..Canao*
dant that had been presented to him had been paid. ' GuNmixo, of Friendsbury, Kent ;• and Mr. Gemmel
David Lake deposed, that he left the bill at the Winfiresott, of Woodhouse, Le4cestershire ; having
defendant's house ; he called for it again in about a ' on the Thursday minutely es mined the animals, and
fortnight • he saw Mrs. Jones, who went into a par- made their award, very full labels, describing tech
lour, and brought out two or three bills, which she animal, and announcing the Prizes, were stuck of at
shewed to the witness, but the one he left was not the heads et the respective animals. ~
amongst them. Mrs. Jones said she recollected hiv'ng At three o'clock, a number of the Members of the
given a bill for £lOO to a Man who called for it the ' Club repaired to FreemasOns' Tavern, and held •
day after the witness had left the bill. ;meeting, Sir JOHN SANDERS 86,49111 C M, BAT. in the
On his cross-examination, he said, that he had n-t i Chair, in the absence of the Noble President, rho is
been employed by the Plaintiffs to leave the bill for .in Norfolk. At which meeting the following Noble-
acceptance, but it was given to him by John Emble- i men and Gentlemen were elected Members of the
ton, the plaintiffs' porter, to get it accepted. 1 Club, viz.
Lord ELLENBOROUOII-4‘ There has been very great i Lord Kensington. the Hon. Thomas Brand. P.sti. M.P. Wm.
negligence on the part of this banking-house ; they i
.Fl,_u_st_leresi-vvvim.Hl-rindtis, 14;41.4rMDPa.nielMri,%:btrStoptine, 15;4‘,1r•
left a bill for a fortnight at the house of the Plaintiff.Y'
D• 114. Mnrg.,Edmmutt. d HT' "an. d Mr. Robert WrigiL r.
as'
for acceptance. There is none of us that have not' had The premiums to be offered for next year wend
bills, and we should have felt a great hardship if we taken into consideration. Stewards were nominated
had been obliged to watch them every day for a fort- for the two ensuing years; and other routine business
night after we accepted them, merely to indulge the gone through, till-half past five o'clock, when 30 of
negligence of the endorsee. the Members sat down to dinner. Sir Joao; SANDERS
John Embleton deposed he was porter to the c
tIKABRIGHT in the Chair. The cloth being withdrawn,
plaintiffs. Sir JOHN gave—
Mr. PARKE asked Mr. Marryat if the witness was The King—The Duke of Beiford—Lord Seebervilie-,-Breed.
released ?—He answered in the negative. ' tug in ail its•Branches—Tice Judges of .the Shinv—The &twang,
Mh.r. Coke of Nor.
Lord ELLENBOROUGLI" He must be released be. el_ e_Ft—A, gost:id. ca'ca'o
eaundser •Pa
fore he can give his evidence; at the same time I would ildk
Much interesting
not recommend it to the plaintiffs to release him ; for • .-
' uccciann svei is
conversation econPle:ogec urred on the
this bill has been lost by his negligence : what right breeding and tatterunif of cattle, in. ,the course of
has the porter to a bank to employ another person to .
which the Rev. Mr. ARIISON offered a bet of fifty
, guineas.to any person present, to spew a Durham on
get a bill accepted I" of his, under three years old, next year, in Class VI.
Mr. BOLLAND—gg My Lord, there is a messenger
gone for one of tire partners to the plaintiffs' house, against any other ox of the same age.
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to give him a release ; they will do it ; he has heed
eighteen years in their service."
Lord Ettexaonouott —4, That is certainly a long
time ; but perhaps lie has lived too long. I think,
Mr, Marryat, the greatest indulgence I can shew your
clients is to have them called ; they ought to have
come better prepared to support their cause ; and if
they should think themselves aggrieved by a =suit,
they are sufficiently able to litigate it."
The plaintiffs were accordingly nonsuited.

I,OA,DOA MARKET&

Thursday night, as Mr. Coombe, of Winsmoor-hill,
Middlesex, was travelling through Ellis's-lane, lead-
ing to Low Layton, „Essex, he was stopped by two
footpath, who demanded his money, but, he peremp-
torily refused to be robbed, and rode off with great
speed ; the robbers discharged a pistol after him, but
which missed him.
Gulley and Crib, of pugilistic celebrity, were sum.
moned to Queen-square office, a few days since, to
answer an assault against a post-chaise driver, in the
employ of Mr. Newman, of Windmill-street.. It ap-
peared that Gulley had. gone to Crib's abode in Kent,
in a post-chaise, and the driver demanded more than
hii due. Gulley paid him his just tare, and the driver
returned it with postboy's civility, although Gulley
informed him he would pay his master, with whom
he was acquainted. An assault was committed in
getting the boy from the door, for which Gulley paid
a £1 note. _ _

Yesterday T. W. Morton was fully committed from
Whitechapel Office, charged with stealing several gold
trinkets from Mr. Marshal, of East Smithfield ; as was
J. Dorrien, for stealing sundry articles, value £4O, from
the house of Mr. M'Carty, of East Smithfield.
Yesterday two men were brought to the Public-
off" ce, bow-street, charged with being reputed thieves,
and loitering about the avenues of the theatre, for the
purpose of picking pockets. Neitherof the prisoners
having been convicted of felony, or having as yet been
in custody, Mr. NARES did not convict them under
the Police Act, but held them to bail upon their good
behaviour.
J. Jones was fully committed from Marlborough-
street office, charged with a burglary in the house of
Mr. Davis, a grocer, in Swallow-street, and stealing
various articles. He was detected with a quantity of
grocery on leaving the premises. There were three
thieves in number, but two of them escaped. As was
J. Freeman, under Lord Sidney's Act, for being found
in the house of Mrs. Mead, in Coram-street. The
prosecutrix stated, that she heard some footsteps up
stairs, and on opening her bed-room door, which she
had left locked, the prisoner presented himself, and
was unable to give any satisfactory account of himself.
Yesterday afternoon, about five o'clock, the house
belonging to Mrs. Grant, in White Hart-yard, Drury-
lane, fell down viith a tremendous crash, burying in
the ruins several persons. Among others, the bodies
of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson were precipitated from the
garret into the cellar, and were taken out dead, and
conveyed to the Sun and Apple-tree, in White Hart.
-yard. A nephew of the unfortunate sufferers, a youth
about 20 years of age, was also taken out, but hap-
pily had sustained no. material injury. The son if
Kr. Anderson made his escape by dropping out of
\ the two pair of stairs window, by which he WAS dread-
fully hurt. Mrs. Grant and family were in the shop
serving at the time when this lamentable accident hap-
pened,
but fortunately escaped with their lives. Two 1
young men were taken out of the ruins with broken
1 . thighs, and otherwise hurt, A poor woman who
. lived in a cellar, with four children, had just gone out
about a minute before the fatal accident, with all her
children, to the neighbouring shop for a candle. Mr.
Anderson belonged tcs tie 2d Itegigueut of Guards.

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INSPECTOR'S RETURN AT UXBRIDGE, Derettlasrl4.'
Wheat per load 191. Os. to 251. -Ow. ,
Barley, per par= 335..-d. to 451..... j.
Oats Us. -d. to 554. -.41.
Beans .545. -8. to Ss*. -d.
New ditto 4Ss.-d. to 4431 -4.
Pus - 555. -4. to 685. -4
SMITHFIELD MARKET, December 14, •
To sink the Oral per stone of olb.
lid 4s. 8.1. to Ss. Od. Veal ss. 04. to to. 84
Mat4ol3 S. Od. to Ss. Od. Pork • 64. 4,1 'o 6s 411
NEWUATE AND I.EADENHALI, MARKET
k'er stone of Rlb.by the carcase.
Best Ss. id. so 4s. 84. Ve.ol 4s• Od. to IN. 011.
Mutton 4s. pd. to. Is. 4d. Pork 5.. 4d. to so. 44
PRICE o9P HAY *AND STRAW IN SM I Ili FIFA .D.
Meadow Hay 71. Os. to 101.0.. Rowin 61. Os ta 61. ISao
Clover PRA ES
M. 9.. Straw 21, 2s. to SL oa.
PRICES OF NAY AND STRAW.
dr. texas. .Wisir ILCHAPrt..
Hay M. Os. to 91. lis. Hay 61. as. to 91. 98
Straw S. 173. to S. 91. Clover 111. Os. to It I. 08
Straw 21. las. to 91. IM
PRICE OF LEATHER IN LEADENHALL MARKET. •
Butts aid. ssd. Calf skhss us. 425
Ditto RM. scad. Ditto 375. 41j5
Merchants' Backs 20d. 914. Ditto nos. sts
DresSing Hides 17d. 19d. Small Seals Se Id. 3s. •Sd
Fine Colch Hides ltd. 91d. Large tlitto 005. 150 s.
Crop Hides for cut. 194. 22d. Tanned Hone Hideo • Illid :mid
Ditto 174. 191. Goat Skins 60s, 706
1
1 RAW HIDES.
I
Best Heifers and Steers (per Ordinary Ss. Od. to s. Od
. stone) Cs. 08. to Ss. 4d. Market Calf i 55. Od. each
Middlings 21. Gd. to 9a. 114. English Horse lu. to tss. id
PRICE OP TALLOW.
• St. James's Market 45 044 Town 'fallow 701 04
iClare Market is 11d Yellow Russia 663 on
Whitechapel Market 4s Od White ditto 444 Oa
per awns of sib. -----• $OO9 ditto Ilts Off'
115 11+d Melting Stuff ISSa 00s Od
Average 4s Od Ditto rough Ms OW SI
Graves Ills Od Good Dregs 115 Od
Vella* Soap, Us-Mottled, 945 04-Curd, 1001 Ode
Price of Candles, per down ils 4d-Monde, Its 445
COAL MARKET, Docunber 14
Sh'po at Market Said Off.. Prier
57} Newcastle lei 41e o 431 Ode
17 i Sunderland it 47% Od. to Si.. OS.
1 Cinders 1 275. lid. to 00e. Od.
THE COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
Amsterdam, 51 6 9 U Palermo, 193 Pitglat pet es.
Ditto at sight, 30 1 Loewy, MI
Rotterdam, c. f. 912 V. U Genoa, 64
Hantburgh, es 6 91 U Venke,n. C. 54 Lir:Piccolo
Mtona, 28 7 2 U effective peril sta.
Paris 1 day's des. 20 S Lis,. Naples, 42
Ditto, 2 Us. 90 4 Lisbon, 64
Bourdeauz, do. 90 $ Oporto, 65
Madrid, Effect. Dublin, 9i
Cadiz, 44 Effect. Cork, 101
Billsoa Effect. New Dolhrs, ss. aid.
Rio Janeiro 72, Malta 64, Gibraltar 40.
New Doubloons, £4 91 Goldin bars per es. £4 is. id.
COUNTRY MARKETS.
Gtocerrea--Wheat i Ss. to 175. Barley sa. to 716 d Beall
7a. to 414 d. Oats U. 9a. to 4s. mi.
swainws....T-Wheat 164.44. to 175 Od. Barley 76. 3d.
BlRMlllatidlal-Wbeat it's. to ISe. Od. Barley Se. to 71.
Beans is. to IN. Oats 45. to ss. Od.
Woacasru...Wheat 15.. Rd. to 185. Barley tin. 64. to 7a. td•
Beans Gs. id. to 75.44: Oats 41. to 55. id. Psis 6s Bd. to 611. 34.
WOLVIIIIIAIIIPTON--Vneet 14*. ltd. to 151. 44. Barley 6a.
604.10 75. Pease Se to 85. 4d. Oats U.
I Ozroao MAllcirr, Dec. s -The sseoodbest price d abutted
oanfeewhnelasatsertaso
thelSs.batocr,ctohredainstitoe
which
hrlPnee cote' and
bread a ta4gree alastuwol..
low-Tbe peek loaf. household, to weigh 17 lbs. d os. Its. 5.1.-..
The half--peek Its. lid. and the smaller to proportlop.
Od.
CANTERBURY S^DCK MARRY I', DM'. 11.
'oaf, Ilts. to 145. Q. per MU. •
Mutton, 41. 64. tc. 5.. Oki. per .1", ..

At his house In James.streec. Aberdeen, ate and deservedly
lamented by his ntuncums friends and acissintai.ces, Captain
Robert Bruce, formerly commander ot a West ladia/nam
Lately, at Seville, a servant in the Meuse of Do Fernandes
Garcia, aged 106. During the epidemic winch raged with gram
violence in Seville in 1600, he was Supposed to be J. 4..29 big at
the moment of his interment, some s.gtis of life appearing to
those whii carried him, be was iecalied ta sensation by pouring a
smell imitate./ of wine down his throat lie ha, had 11‘• St astshiS
is the musts of Ids long lertille !albs bias et Ganes.