The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-02 00:00:00

That very fine regiment tho' Vaurtii, or Queen's
Own Dragoons, that has Min three )ears in the
Pc-ninsulat, and that distiitguished itself parti.
cularly at Alhnera and Usagre against the Polish
Lancers, expect, on their return, to be made Hussars.
They have been acting for some time past as light
troops.

Mr. POPP, late of Covent Garden Theatre, is
performing at the &Hub:ugh Theatre. He is an-
nounced for Lord Townty, Macbeth, Ovhtllo, 45(t.
Miss NORTON is the heroine; Mr. and Mcs• EYRE,
usefdt and respectable performers, have jaimsa the

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ere loves jobs, and he is fend of re.
wardiug hisavourites at the public expecte. Ain-
pointmeou.tnot
tenant Comeare is a very good Officer, and he has
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been well recompensed by a very good sisecernap-
adtifitihcculct
on a foolish, impracticable errant lo South America,
iu order to put some thousands a year in his pocket
at the expence of the nation, is as far from honesty,
as the mission is from wisdom, on which the English
Nabob has thought proper to send him.
A letter which has been received at Plymouth from
one of the Officers on board the Bloodhound sloop of
war, which lately got on shore at Padstow Point,
states, that that ship has received but very little
damage, and that in a week or ten days she May be
expected at Plymouth.
Monday night a child, • five years of age, belong..
ing to Mrs. Arundel, satin-stitcher, No. 3, City-
'road, being left alone during the absence of its parent,
was so deplorably burnt; by its clothes comment.
cating with the tire, as to cause. its death in a few •
hours.
In consequencence of a recent decision. in the
Court of Teinds (or Tithes), in FAinburgh, none of
the Established Clergy of Scotland will have a smal-
ler stipend than 1501. sterling, and C. es. se. for
communion elements, besides a manse and glebe in
the country parishes.
A shocking circumstance took place en the night
of the Pid ult. in Aungier-street, Dublin ; a person of
the name of Hall, of the Rotunda division of yeoman.
ry, had been out with his musket, and was return-
ing home, somewhat intoxicated, alma nine o'clock;
two fellows, seemingly drunk, came up with him,
and pushed him from the Gags, giving him at the
saute time some insulting language, and calling
him
.4.4 a blind gunner ;" this irritated him, and
be exclaimed, in a passion, " To show you that I am
not, I shall shoot the first man that comes near me;"
Almost at that moment he observed a young man, of
the name of Byrne (servant of Mr. Beckley,
street), coming coming up behind him, " Who are you ?"
said he, " what have you got to do here, are you-
following me ?" Byrne said he was going about his
own business, and was troubling no person; this did
not content Hall, who/ heated by irritation and the
effects of liquor, instantly levelled his piece, and shot.
him dead on the spot.
On Thursday seannight_a daring robbery was at-,
tempted in Boston. A little after eight o'clock, as a
• youth, was carrying a box, containing account:
bookie a few cash-notes, &c. from the office to his
master's house, a man who was lying in wait for
him, forcibly seized the box from him, and ran with
it down Beadmates-lane jute Spain.lane, where he
was joined by an accomplice. The robbers endea-
voured to escape thence with their booty into the
fields ; but being closely pursued into a small plan-
tation, they there dropped the box, which was reco-
vered by the pursuers ; and the robbers unfurtunately
escaped.
OUTRAGES AT Scootune.—Last winter some vil-
Jaius committed various offences on the premises of
Mr. Samuel Taylor, of Sloothby in the Marsh.—
'They cymmenced their base designs by misplacing
his articles of husbandry ; and, next, had the bold.
nos to enter his boast-shed, and let loose his cattle,
which they drove out. Mr. Taylor being grcatlf
astonished at such treatment, and not knowing what
the conseoutnice might be, did, for the safety of his
person and property, set a watch on his premises for
several succeeding nights; but there being then no dis-
turbance, lie was in hopes the villains had declined
coming any longer. To his great surprfze, however, he
was shortly after alarmed, in the dead of the night, by
some villains, wholdestroyed nearly the whole of the
windows about his house with large stones, &c. Mr.
Taylor and his family then thought their lives were in
danger, and were determined, if possible, to discover
the offenders. They accordingly on the following night
had their house and premiseiWell-gearded, and conti-
nued this precaution for several nights ;but no person
coming to disturb the house, Mr. Taylor again ven-
tured himself with his family, to protest them.
remained undisturbed the Wholieof ebelesrluzalnee
but, ales, to the horror of all the faMity, dirk
barn was broken open on Tuesday night, the 17th ult..
and on the Saturday following, about half-pest hie
at night, their house was asap beset by a gang of
villains, who attempted to break in through a chases'
bur-window, by mesas of a laddet, which they reared'
against the wall; bat in this they were disappointed,
for the Almighty forewarned the familyof their danger,
by Mr. Taylor's eldest son (18 years of age) dream-
ling that some villain had broken into the house, and,
was going to.murder him. The perturbation of mind
! occasioned by the dream awoke hen : and, to his great
astonishment, the first thing he saw, was a man• at
rise top of the ladder, endeavouring to take out,the
ebamber-windyw. The young man, Ivithout ghing.
the least alarm, got out of bed, took his gun (which.
he had by his bed-side ready loaded), and shot. her
off. Instantly the man upon the ladder dropped
down ; and the report of the gun alarming the father,
the whole flintily were soon np ; but no one dare
'open the door, as the son saw two men about the
house, and was afraid,.if the villains got admittance,
the whole family would be murdered. With great im-
patience they waited for day-break; and. the fir*
thing they saw wasa quantity of blood on the *Mori,
and several plates,in tha via leading froni.#e 1$
of the botietietoitbly.rd stained with
trace of the wounded could be found, se as SO
ljad to any discoverytt,. lkir.Ttyloeis perfect • w
satisfied that thevillaht irtat severely wounded, a
believe that he was ciaNted away by hie wont.
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