tator in her possession, at the time of her husband's death, that is an inquiry which would not be of course; but I think there is sufficient ground here for an inquiry, whether there was any other property belonging to her husband in her possession at his death, or in the hands of any other person in trust for her, and she must be examined on interrogatories before the master as to all these points."

Sir S. Romilly "Your honour will decree her to pay the costs of this suit ?""

Master of the Rolls" Yes, certainly."

An itinerant jew, who had purchased a house with a piece of ground in the suburbs of Warsaw, while occupied last month in removing some rubbish, discovered, at the depth of three feet, a truck, covered with pieces of iron, and which was found to contain gold and silver coins to the amount of 14,0001. sterling. It is supposed the treasure was concealed during the siege of Warsaw by the Russians in 1796.

Bruce v. the Inhabitants of the Lath of St Augustine.-This was an action of a singular nature, being the first of the kind ever brought. It was an action by an administrator against the Lath of St Augustine, to recover the sum of 1001. for the death of his relation, who was killed by some smugglers in rescuing their contraband goods. The action was founded on the statute of the 19th of Geo. II. c. 34, which makes it felony for three or more people to assemble with fire arms to rescue or to assist in carrying away contraband or smuggled goods. It then also goes on to enact, that if any officer of the revenue, or any other person, shall be wounded or hurt in opposing the smugglers, the Lath

hundred or division shall pay them their losses and expences; and if any one be killed, the county or division is to pay his executor or administrator 1001.

Mr Serjeant Shepherd stated, that this action was brought on that statute, and, he believed, it was the first action ever brought. The plaintiff was administrator to one -Bruce, an officer of the customs, who was killed under the following circumstances:-The deceased was a seaman belonging to a revenue cutter, called the Asp. On the 20th of July last, the Asp, in company with the Nimble cutter, saw two smuggling gallies, which they chased close into Deal, and just as they came alongside, and took the ground, they were fired at by the smugglers on shore, and a ball striking Bruce in the breast, he received a wound, of which he in a few minutes died. This was the fact upon which the plaintiff's case was founded. He understood his learned friends were to take some legal objection. The penalty was directed to be levied in the same manner as by the statute of Hue and Cry. By this latter statute, notice was to be given to the county, and when an individual had been robbed, it might be necessary, or how else could the county know the fact; not here, where there was an open resistance by force of arms, it would not be necessary to give any such advice.

Two seamen proved the preceding facts.

Mr Vandersee, from the Exchequer office, produced three rolls of the time of Edward the Third, of subsidies granted to that prince, to shew that Deal, although one of the Cinque Ports, was within the Lath of St Augustine.

Mr Marryat raised an objection, inpoint of law, that the Cinque Ports

were separate jurisdictions, and were not within the general division of a Lath.

A verdict was found for the plaintiff, subject to this reserved point of law.

An officer in the Bavarian service, who had made a variety of experiments to ascertain the ingredients used in the composition of the Greek fire, while recently engaged at Munich in a chemical analysis for this purpose, was, by the explosion of the article he was decomposing, propelled through the window, with his arms torn off, and his face so dreadfully burnt, that he expired in a few minutes after being taken up.

26th.--DUBLIN.--This day, a young boy, an apprentice to a Mr Farrington, tailor, took hold of a rope that was suspended from the crane of Mr Maguire's stores in Copestreet, upon which some person from above wound up the windlass, and hoisted him off the ground; the boy called out to be lowered, but was not attended to, and, when suspended at a considerable height, he let go his hold, and was almost literally dashed to pieces on the flags below.

A man of the name of Barret, with his wife and two other women, were on Tuesday morning found dead in a house near Three-mile bridge. The Mayor of Waterford attended, as did Dr Birkit, who reports, that, though he had not been able to ascertain the exact means by which this tragical event has been effected, he has not a doubt but it must have been by poison of the most sudden and deleterious kind.

An inquest was on Wednesday held on the bodies, and the following verdict was brought in :-That one, an old woman, died a natural death of age and infirmities; but with respect to the others, no evidence appeared

to the jury, to enable them to determine the cause of their death, as no marks of violence appeared on their bodies.

The sum of 1600l. was on Monday paid into the Exchequer, by the direction of Mr Perceval, to whom it had come enclosed in an anonymous letter, describing it to be the amount of certain duties which had been omitted to be paid, and of which the person who sent it was anxious not to defraud the public. A sum of 2001., received in a similar manner, was paid into the Exchequer by Mr Perceval some months ago.

The following is the state of the woolen manufacture, from the 25th of March, 1809, to the 25th March, 1810, as given in at the late WestRiding sessions :-Narrow Cloths. Milled this year, 151,911 pieces, making 5,951,762 yards, being an increase of 7,287 pieces, or 642,755 yards.-Broad Cloths. Milled this year,311,239 pieces, making 9,826,648 yards, being an increase of 31,380 pie ces, or 775,078 yards. Total increase in yards, 1,417,833. The quantity of cloth manufactured this year has been rarely exceeded; and the stock on hand is acknowledged to be small.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR, Computed from the Returns in the week, ending the 14th day of March, 1810, is 53s. 2 d. per cwt. exclusive of importa

tion.

FASHIONS FROM Ackerman's REPOSITORY.-Ball dress.-A plain slip of white gossamer satin, with short sleeves and square bosom. A Circassian robe of brown silk net, the meshes terminated with white or gold beads; edging and tassels of the same; head dress, à la Diana, of pearl; necklace, armlets, &c. &c. of the same. Slippers of white satin, with gold clasps and bindings. French kid gloves below the elbow. Fan of white crape, with gold Persian border,

Morning Costume.-A morning robe of spotted or flowered Moravian muslin, with high-winged collar, edged with scolloped lace. Bosom formed of alternate stripes of lace and muslin, A matron hood of lace, tied across the crown with grey ribbon. Morning slippers of grey kid, trimmed with swansdown. An occasional scarf of French silk, with rich flowered border and ends.

APRIL.

6th.-BOW-STREET. ROBBING CONGREGATIONS.-PICK POCKETS.For some time past, complaints have been made of robberies, by daring gangs of pickpockets in the day-time, in the public streets; also at churches, chapels, and meetings, particularly at St George's church, Hanover-square, on Friday mornings during Lent, when numerous congregations assemble to hear Dr Hodgson. The Countess of Aylesford, and several other ladies of distinction, having been robbed there, mentioned the circumstance to VOL, III. PART II,

Townsend, the officer. The Countess of Aylesford said, she had no doubt but she was robbed by a short fat woman. Dr Hodgson also informed Townsend of the robberies that were continually committed in the church; in consequence of which Townsend went to the church yesterday morning, and as soon as he entered it, he observed in the aisle Mary Blakeman, alias Hills, a well known female pickpocket, genteelly dressed in a black velvet pelisse and a cottage straw bonnet.

She is celebrated for robbing females. He beckoned to her to come out, which she instantly complied with, and then addressed Townsend with, "My good soul, I am not come here to do anything."-Townsend replied, "But you have already done something." He took her to the vestry-room, and searched her; but no property was found which was suspected to have been stolen. She was conveyed to the above office, and underwent an examination before Mr Nares.

The clerk of the church proved his having seen her several times in the church; as did the beadle, who also said he had seen her several times in the avenues leading to the church; particularly when the crowd was going in, when the doors were opened, and on the congregation coming out.

Townsend said, he had kwn her to be a thief for 25 years. Sayers, the officer, also had known her to be thief for the same length of time.

She was committed for further examination on next Tuesday.

A journeyman weaver, named Appleton, on Friday se'nnight, undertook for a trifling wager to eat 36 penny buns, and drink two quarts of ale in 40 minutes, at a public house near Long-alley, in Moorfields; he devoured 30 of the buns, and drank

half the ale in little more than half an hour; but he had by that time become so ill, that he fell from his seat, and was carried to his apartments in Wheeler-street, Spitalfields, in a state of insensibility.

A larch, planted about sixty years ago, was lately cut down near the Cathedral of Dunkeld. It was 110 feet high, and contained 160 cubical feet of wood. There are some others of a still larger size in its vicinity.

A thatcher, of the name of Leaman, while standing on Monday at the window of a house in Norwich, viewing the operation of a sawing machine, the wheel burst, and forced a large piece of iron against the temple of the unfortunate man, who was killed on the spot.

Several ships were last week paid at Plymouth, all in gold coin; and on Saturday last, the artificers belonging to the dock-yard were paid their wages in new half-guineas. The Jews and slop-merchants are busily employed in purchasing this desirable coin, and substituting provincial and other bank paper in its room.

In consequence of a severe thaw at Vienna, in the middle of last month, the great Tabor bridge was entirely demolished by the floating ice. Its destruction was so sudden, that of 28 persons who were upon it at the time, only six escaped; the remainder were precipitated into the water with the ruins, and drowned. By this accident the communication with Bohemia, Moravia, &c. was interrupted for ten days.

The Princess Augusta Dorothy, Duchess of Brunswick Lunenburgh, died on the 10th of last month, at Gandersheim, of a consumptive fever. She was sixty-one years old.

At the Wexford assizes, the jury

impannelled to try a petty assault, not agreeing in a verdict, were locked up a day and a night; at the expiration of that period, not being unanimous, they were conveyed to the bounds of the county and discharged.

PUBLIC OFFICE, WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday, an elderly woman, named Pryor, the wife of a mat-maker, in Crooked Billet-yard, near the basing-house, Kingsland-road, was charged with the murder of her husband, by beating him over the head with a wooden mallet, on Tuesday evening, in consequence of which he died next morning. She was committed for reexamination, and until a coroner's inquest has been held on the body.

A man and his wife were recently executed at Augsburgh for a murder, the discovery of which, after a long lapse of time, strongly manifests the impossibility of eluding the all-seeing eye of Providence. The criminal, whose name was Wineze, was origi nally of Nurenburg, but removed to Augsburgh in 1788, where he followed the law. In this city he became intimate in the family of M. Glegg, to whose daughter he paid his addresses: but the old man not sanctioning his visits, he met the daughter privately, seduced her, and persuaded her, in order to remove the only obstacle to their union, to administer poison to her father. The horrid plan succeeded, no suspicions were entertained, and their union put him in possession of the old man's wealth. During a period of twentyone years they lived externally happy, but in secret a prey to the greatest remorse. At length, unable to endure any longer the weight of guilt, the wife made confession of the particulars of the atrocious crime she had been prevailed on to commit; the

husband was apprehended, and both expiated their guilt by an ignominious

death.

A duel was lately fought at Paris, between two comedians (M. Presque and M. Doule) of the theatre Francois, in consequence of a quarrel occasioned by jealousy, both having for some time paid their addresses to the same lady. It is not a little singular that both gallants are upwards of 60 years of age, and the object of their tender flame on the verge of 70. They were attended to the field, the former by his son, the latter by his nephew. On the first fire, M. Doule was wounded in the arm, when a reconciliation took place.

An institution for the instruction of the blind has been lately established at Zurich, in Switzerland; and what is singular, the chief master, M. Funke, is blind. He is described as an excellent teacher, and an ingenious

mechanic.

Saturday, Thomas Smith was brought before the lord mayor, at the Mansion-house, by the overseers of the parish of St Bridget, charged with leaving his wife a burthen upon the parish, and not giving her that support which his circumstances enabled him to do. The defendant pleaded that she was not his lawful wife; that they certainly had been married, and lived together some years; but she had been married before, and had not heard of her first husband for 17 years. He was advised by a lawyer gentleman, that unless she could prove her first husband's death previous to her marriage with him, she had, of course, lived in adultery, and therefore he was not bound to support her. The lord mayor, however, taught him a different doctrine. It also came out, in the course of the investigation, that this

gallant, gay Lothario had another wife, whose company was more agreeable to him, and a third was also mentioned; all of whom, it appears, he had dispossessed of the little property they had, and then set them adrift. The gallant was a poor meagre pipemaker by trade, and had four children by the wife who appeared, and who had kept a little school, and lived in decency and respectability before she was unfortunate enough to become his yoke fellow.

The lord mayor, after a severe reprimand, handed him over to the care of the parish officers, until they should ascertain what allowance he could make to his discarded spouse, declaring, at the same time, that his offence should not escape with impunity.

Early on Saturday morning, the sword, buckles, and straps, fell from the equestrian statue of King Charles the First, in Charing Cross. They were picked up by a porter at the Golden Cross. The board of Green Cloth has been apprised of the circumstance. The sword and appendages are of copper, of which metal the statue is formed.

Bow-STREET. For some time past, Mr W-n, M. P. has been extremely annoyed by a woman in the avenues leading to the House of Commons, and also at his house; so much so, that he obtained a peace warrant against her last Monday se'nnight, and Låvender was employed to execute it. The woman was accordingly brought to the office, when Mr W. not being present, the magistrate took her word for her appearance or a future day. On Saturday, both parties appeared before Mr Nares. Mr W. was attended by his attorney. It appeared, that a connection had taken place between Mr W. and the woman in the country; and the con