The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-21 00:00:00

THEATRICAL ROBBERT.—The money-taker at the
gallery-door of the Sans Pareil Theatre, was robteq
on Friday night of the first price receipts in the fol.
lowing manner :—A man, dressed in the habit of a
sailor, with a woman, came early to inquire for half.'
price and remained waiting ; and while the money
taker turned his back in the box on some trifling
siness, the drawer was opened, and the bowl, con.
tanning fourteen or fifteen pounds iu silver, stolen.
The thieves escaped, and have not yet been disco.
vered. This should act as a caution to other places
of public amusement.
A numerous gang of notorious pickpockets were
busily engaged on Saturday, in the neighbourhood of
the Strand and Cockepur-street.
On Friday evening last, about a quarter before
twelve o'clock, as a female servant at Mrs. Thorpe si
18, Foley-place, was going into the garden behind
the house, she perceived a man who made up to her
as quick as possible, she ran into the house, flung to
the door, and by her screams alarmed the family, who
threw up the windows, and called for assistance;
the watchmen came immediately to the spot, hut re-
fused to go into the house, saying, that as the roh.
hers were no doubt armed, they did not choose to
risk their lives, though by the screams of the servant
(who was then in hysterics) it was thought she was
being murdered. After a quarter of an hour had
elapsed, five watchmen and others entered the house,
and on searching the premises, it was ascertained the
villain or villains had escaped over the wall, at the
bottom of the garden, to the adjoining ones.,
A few days ago, the passengers in a Yarmouth
coach going from the metropolis, were stopped at the
toll-gate, near Colchester, and on inquiring the cause
of delay, were informed that they had travelled the
last stage, nine miles (through Kelvedon), without
coachman or guard.
PUGILISM.—On Saturday morning last, a pitched
battle was fought in an inclosed ground, at Mile Ead
Old 'fowl', between two powerful strong young
men, the one a gunsmith, of the name of David
Jones ; and Dirk Edwards, a dyer, for 51. a-sith.
The comhatants met sit h their seconds, at the place
appointed, at seven o'clock, when, after a ring bell;
formed, they set too nit!' great spirit and resolu.
tion. The gunsmith came of victor, the latter not
being able to see or stand. They were both very
shockingly bruised, anti were conveyed to their r•
spective habitations by their friends, in two hackney.
coaches.

An eminent manufacturer of Leghorn plait f*,.
hats has applied to Government to grant him 3orAi
acres of laud, lying waste. ou Bagshot Beath, fors
few years, without any fine, and afterwards at an in•
creasing rent, according to the improvement of tin
soil. Ile proposes raising on the land, in straw
alone, what would occasion '20,0001. to be expentleil
annually, for the employment of poor children,
some thousands of whom might be thus employed
from seven years old till they were old enough top
out as servants. In confirmation of the extraenli.
nary profit derived from this manufacture, he stat...,
that the straw plait nets upwards of t3l. sterlingper
pound weight.
The Mayor of Vivey, in France, who is 78 year,
of age, in walking last month through his woods, cru
attacked by a wolf, which, after a severe couteit,
during which he was dragged on the ground, be kill.
ed. The carcase of the animal weighed IVA.
Three Russian Tombs have bee►► discovered at tla

•illage of Crems, upon the borders of the Rhine,
which, from the arms and from more than 200 rneda s
found in them, were supposed to have contained the
ashes of some warriors. .

Superstition appears to be rapidly extending
empire in Germany. The wife of a citizen at Pre,.
burg, who belonged to one of the new sects, having
been twice delivered of a still-born child, conceived,
says a foreign journal, that she was an object of Ifi•
'vine displeasure, and determined to destroy bersid
She spent three days and three nights in confirm'
prayer and great anguish, and having, at the expira•
tion of that time, made a large fire in the oven, tri•
der pretence of dry lug some new wood, she ow.,
and threw herself into it. Nest morning, when her
husband sought her, he found her remains in
even, her augers still grasping the wire with
she had fastened the mouth of it.
ATTEMPT AT ROCBERY.—Yesterday morain;
Colonel Christie, of St. James's-street, near Bea•
Ingham-gate, was alarMed by a noise in the rear of
his house. He jumped out of bed, and, on opening
the window-shutters, he perceived a man standing is
the garden. He went back to his room for some itr,
arms, and, on his return to the window, the Dial
he had seen was making his escape over the *A
when he fired at him, but n ithout effect, ac he sp
parently made his escape unhurt.
MYSTERIOUS CIRGUIasTANCE.--A few days ago,
las Mr. Joseph Sanderson, of Moss-side, Abbey•
holine, was pulling down part of a wall, in makig
some alterations in his house,—to his utter astonist•
meat he discovered, built up in the wall, the shelN
ton of a full-grown child ; which must have raw'
ed there for 30 years at least.

SOOTCII
Mlt.t.r.res Wharf.
Pilot (Sanderson), Leith
Trusty (liallangall), Leith
Dow'e'r Wharf.
Swift (Stark). Montrose
Matchless (Baldwin), Leith
Omahurgh (Wiiilart), Dundee
Alert (M. 1)onald), Inverness
LEITH and BERWICK Wharf.
London and Berwick
ming), Leith
Caledonia (Nisbett), do.
HIGH WATER AT LOUD
Morning, SO minutes after 6

SMACK:

16 Jan.
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Sails.
23 Jan. -- 4,1
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Evening.

TUTS DAY
66 minutes after

RI RTIIS.
OnTia y last, at Knightsbridge. the Lady of J. WeLb
daughter.
On the Sd inst. in Portland-place, Mrs. Henry Wortley.
daughter.

MARRIED. 11
Lately, William Chalmers, Esq. of Newington, to,Jatte,
daughter of A, Smith, Faq.

DIED.
Oa the 17th ind. at Stoke Newington, Mn. M. Netbringw
On Saturday latt, Mr. Joha Purkig. Chancery-lane, i 4
69th year of his age.
At Branford, os the 19th wit. Mrs. Mary Sherwall,
Weetoo-greeth Surrey.

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