Messrs. Paul, Snow, and C...
The Times, 1824-09-14T00:00:00

Messrs. Paul, SInow, and .Co., have discovered some ch1u to the robbery that was comm itted the other day on theirclerkit Fleet.street. We urderstand overtures have been madeto hem fc tbe restoration or the proper:y, but the terms are said to be most e' orbitant indeedl.-Morwi7hg taper. It is saiid to be the intention of resident Baratstere of th counties to attend the circuits of the Comoiseloners for tbh ief tlie Insolvent Debtors. DRSADFUIL SHIPWRECK.-A seaman named Franct Olford, belonging to Polperro, has recently rettined to his n.atuv *lace, having lost both :.is legs, and being otherwise in a pitiabl; state of distress. The following account is given by this poor fet iolv of the cause of his calamity: -On the 3d of April, 1823, , sailed from Plymouth, in the btigl Mount-stone, Colemrn. mastec bound for St. .Y1hn's, Newfbtndland. The crew consisted of tl master, Samuel Longmaid, the mate, three seanen. Olford, c'f,; and Dingle, and a cabin bo--. They had on hoard, beside. Ms. Hodgc, the owner of the vessel, and his son, a lad a0oUt 17 ye of age, and hlIr. Roth well, a passenger. They had a rather favo' able ps"sage until the 7:h of Alay, when during the prevalence o dense fog, and whilst the vessel was sailing at the rateof eig knots an hour they struck against a bogy of ice that s level wiw the surface of the water. The shock was so severe, that the Ve5 was stove in. and after a vain attenmpt to stop tho lealc, they v boreed to get into the boat, without bein-m able to save a rnorse food. a drop ot water, or an article of cothing but what they h;&d o and push frot the shii. which ws;x rapidly sinkizig. Soon z leaingtheveselshewen don, t~hey proceeded to make e, bestof their way towvards the land, frot vwhich they were then 3. miles distant. They toatinued to ro bfor three days, whenz bei corApletely exhausted by fatigue, hunger, thirst, end cold, they w compelled to desist, and resigning themselves to their fate, they lowed the boat to drive before the sea. On the fifth day, AIr. R t well, the passenger, expSred; on the seventh day, young fiod.- the owner's son. died; his father, a few hours after, shared the sad fate and was speedily followed by Cost and ingle, the two sel men, the mate ar.d the boy, leavIng only the master a 01 ford alive, ut reduced to the ast stateofweakness. On t 17th of May, ten davs after quiuting the Mfoanttst-.e, tbey 't observed bv a vessel belonging to Liverpool, on board of whi were taken and treated with every attention their deplorable state4 3iniredl. The next dov they were landed about 100 miles from 2 woh's, here thev o6tained medical assistance. In conseque his feetbeing frost bitten whilstin theboat, Olford had them am tated a little above the anDCes. In the mnth of October last,hs e sent to St. John's, to obtain a p.ssage home: whilst them was founl necessary again to amputate his legs a Lttle bes, knees. After recovering from this second operaton, newa home, and has at length reached his native place in the state Wree. described.-W,est Briton. PROVIDENTI-AL ESCAPE.-The neighbo-arhooa of John's-hilt, in Shrewsbury, was throws into grt alselr; abrm u; o'clock on Tuesday morning, by the cries of a male and-ferna: the upper story of the house of ir. Liawrence. in a few Momoe( a large concourse of people assemfbled near the spot, andivereho, strucdk to see a voong man, in the ervie of Dr. Lawrenc, Im. by hi bands fr_m the le-ads pon the top Iart of the house. .ndj by one leg by a nearlynaked woman leaning throgh. ide i i garret wihdow. The terrified werman, in a'few monaentsaterwa 9 fainted away, and the young man.beiigunabletoiftdlmtiZilnsk fell into the atrms of ar% heroic pitgap, who first 6aw him m perilous situation; and, wonderfil to say, neitber of thent sil any in;ury. The unfortunat man had baee afIcted with debri -SUhffoedshire Adveriir'er.