The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-18 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIC;ENCE.

PORTSNIOUTII, JAN.

The Hermes, Capt. P. Browne, sailed with a Peet
of transports for Corunna.
IVe have here three of the unfortunate Hors's
voy, who are now put under the h urienco, Captaia
Mounsey, and Zanobia, Capt. Mth:Ltuie; they
convey stores, ammunition, and arms ff,r
toast of Spain. Tha Masters of the Nvmph,
Woolgar, and Diadem, being well actiattinted
the strong currents on the coasts of Jutlaud
Holland, took care to haul well olf, and, by "
doing, saved themselves from the untimely cnd of
Hero's people.

SHEERNESS, .I.iN. 17.
Yesterday, a considerable deal of firi!!..; of gre,•
guns being heard from the Flag ship at the Nor.-.
supposed to proved from some hit or is di..
tress, the Desiree and Crescent frigates tutu
patched to their assistance, but owing t,, the ea!
which prevails this day, we have not been able
learn particulars.
His Mai; s•y's ship Cossack sailed this morning for
Woolwich, to be refitted.

*f he Dauntless sloop of war sailed from Cork rm
the I‘2th Instant, with a convoy for the %Vest hitlie,
Mr. Needham, of the Navy Wive, Sorners::.
humie, and Mr. Moose. Messenger to the Ailmirai!r,
echo • stand charged with defrauding Goerunte;it,
were on 'Thursday Light admitted to bail. Gawk:
has not been apprehended.
. _ _

An uncommon circumstance in the annals ofJevi
occured on Thursday. The ease of the ship
iVaria came oo to be tried at : after which.
the Jury retired to consider of their verdict ; Mr. C.
IIAncLAY being their foreman. When the Cour,.
closed, the Jury had not made up their minds o❑ the
subject. They continued in the Irish Chamber ;dl
night, and yesterday morning they were as tmdejdA
as ever. Towards, the afternoon, Mr. B. Ilcmix,
one of the Jurymen, petitioned the Court to ho re.
leased, which was attended to. We understand dr.!
a uew trial will be necessary, and, of couse, a freit
Jury.

The following curious circumstmce respecting t!ri
toad, is communicated by a coriespondent in a Piiih,-
sophical Journal : " A person," says he, " iu tie
neighbourhood of Maidstone, who manufzhtles
brown paper, informed me, while I was observing
people at work, that he had frequenily paced a toad
amidst a pile of sheets to be pressed, and always founl
It alive and well on taking it out, though it must haie
sustained with the paper a pressure equivalent to
veral tons; bu' a frog could never survive the same
degree of pressure. I sought a long time for a toad,
to see the experiment mvself, but was unable to lind
one till after the men had left work." _ .

The French General SIMON, who is charged with
the breach of his parole from Wiliam, and with beinc
guilty of traitorous correspondence, was traced, on
Thursday evening, to a hyuse in Pratt-street, Cam-
deu-to‘rn, where he was apprehended. M. BornuN,
a surgeon in the French army, who is charged w;th
being coucerued with the General, was also taken in.
to custody. They were not taken to Bow-street
office and examined, but to Tothill-fields BritlewAl,
and safely lodged. Fridey evening a French woman
at the house in Pratt-street, was apprehended and
conveyed to Bow-street, where she underwent a pri.
fate examination on a charge of concealing them.
A servant girl and an infant child were lurbarously
murdered last week, near Congleton, in Cheshire,
by six miscreants, who got access to a barn helov
ing to a farmer at that place, with the intention of
robbing the house. They were afterwards taken iuto
custody.
Edmund, alias Edward Thrower, commonly call-
ea Ned Thrower, of Carbrook,iu Norfolk. and Lin
Head, alias Beads, of Swaff ham, in the same cuun•
ty, have been committed to Ipswich gaol, on the
confession of Thrower, of being present at, and aid.
ing and assisting in the murder of Thomas Carter, is
1703, and Elizal. th his dau4liter Head in also
charged by Thrower with !rasing actually committed
the murder of Elizabeth Carter. Both the culprits
are nearly sixty years of age. And early on Wel•
nesday morning last, IVilliam Smith, alias Gipscu
Will, strongly suspected of being a principal 'a de
above horrid imirder, was apprehended at Bacten
public-house, near llappisburgh, and committeil
ro
Norwich Castle. Head, upon being applied to about
ten years ago, in consequence of some suspicion,
stated that Thrower had told him that he lwl
knocked a girl and an old man on the head e ith I
hammer. Thrower was a short time since, in coll.
sequence of an inquiry respecting another ciao•
st4nee, discovered, and he has state' that he far
Head murder the daughter. The Prisoners will be
trit.d at the next Norfolk Assizes.
When the Police of t'.o mehopolis in reform IL
is hoped that nightlj &Wad singing. will he c. mplet^-
ly suppressed, as these performers arz genevally
the pay of the street robbers. .
The Church-wardens of '4. Leonard, Shored.. tr%
and Lukes's, 0!d-street, have offered, in adfirtio
to the Parliamentary rewards—Forty pound on co•
fiction of a murderer—Twenty pounds on cow-, •
time of a housebreaker, and Ten pounds on a sin,.
robber ; all offenders to be prosecuted at the Petri::
Expcnce.
Thursday a plumber was nearly deprived .uf
sight in Spring-gardens, by another man incautiou,iy
pouring boiling lead. into a damp. stone, which
le
stantly Hew into his face and e) es. Mr. Davis,
Surgeon of the Life Guards, who happened to
hr
passing at the time, in the most humane manner inl.
m'ediately rendered everyassistarreeto the ut;fortunata
sufferer, who was obliged to be led into the hoot
where he was at work.
' It is mentioned, that Mrs. CLARKE iS daily el.
pected at Dublin. With what particular object .
business or pleasure, rumour doth not say.
The Committee of Supply will find much no
difficulty to raise the Ways and Means Fon DI
Yratt,,than the Fortunate Holders of 'rickets al
Shares in the present State Lottery, will roa syss"
they are bought before Next Monday Night, as t
Drawing begins at Nine o'Clock on Tuesday Mor
ing, and the whole 2120,000 is varied Capitals so'
other Prizes, will be determined in 'l'Welre hours.

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