15th.-NOTTINGHAM.-In consequence of great discontents having again broken out amongst the operative manufacturers in various parts of this county, a most alarming system of mischief has been carrying on during the present week at Bulwell, Sutton in Ashfield, and the intermediate villages. The depredators have been almost exclusively confined to the destruction of a certain description of stocking-frames, which, being of a new construction, are supposed by the workmen likely to prove greatly injurious to the body at large. The town and parish of Bulwell has been a scene of the most violent outrages: on Sunday night last, a number of men, armed with various offensive weapons, attacked the house of one Hollingsworth, who had become obnoxious on account of his having some frames at work on the new principle. The latter being apprized of their intention, procured the assistance of his brotherin-law, and three or four friends, who, with fire-arms, resolved to protect the property a great many shots were exchanged, and one of the assailants, named John Westby, was mortally wounded. This unfortunate circumstance occasioned the mob to withdraw for a short time with their wounded companion but being joined in a lane at some distance from the spot by fresh numbers, and Westby having expired on the road, they became so exaspera

ted as to return to the attack with redoubled fury. They soon forced an entrance into the house, when the party within found it necessary to make a precipitate retreat, which they accomplished by means of a window at the back part of the house, leaving their fire arms behind them. The rioters, on entering the house, immediately proceeded to demolish the furniture, and in their fury broke and destroyed every article in the house, together with the frames, the chief object of their vengeance. On the next day the mob again collected, and having obtained information of some frames being on the road belonging to two houses in the town, they intercepted them at Basford, and totally destroyed them, throwing part into the Leen. In a similar manner they destroyed some other frames.

A FATAL HOAX.-Some person who has thought proper to shew his or her ingenuity at the expence of their orthography, last night sent a variety of tradesmen with articles to a house upon the Adelphi Terrace. The hoax, a very clumsy one, was soon discovered, and the poor tradesmen had to carry back their articles to the shops from whence they brought them, most of them a long distance. One of them, however, missing his step at the top of the area stone stairs, fell down with his burthen, and fractured his skull. He died in half an hour afterwards. The hoaxer will no doubt have some pleasant feelings at the success of his attempt.

On Friday evening, in the lobby of Covent-Garden Theatre, one gentleman called to another, saying his pocket had been picked of his watch, and pointed to a man near him who had got it. The gentleman challenged the man with having his watch: the man acknowledged having it, and coolly returned it. He was suffered to escape, and no farther notice was then taken.

On the gentleman returning home, he told his wife the near escape he had of losing his watch. She seemed astonished at the narrative, and said he had not his watch out with him, as it was then hanging at the head of his bed. The gentleman was surprised at her account; and on taking out the watch from his fob, he discovered it was not his own, but very like his; so that there is no doubt the gentleman who was actually robbed did not discover it. The gentleman has advertised for the owner, but he is not yet found.

At a recent pay-day on board one of the line of-battle ships, in Cawsand Bay, a boat-load of geese came alongside from Plymouth Dock. The tars, who were up to the business, were very eager to bring in the birds; but this excited no suspicion in the master-at-arms and ship's corporal, who were on the alert to prevent the introduction of strong liquors; the former, however, perceiving 15s. paid for a goose, and thinking this a most enormous price at Plymouth, where geese are cheap, proceeded to examine the cargo, and found a quantity of brandy in the body of every goose. The smugglers being women, were not detained; but the stuff was started, (thrown overboard) to the no small disappointment of those concerned.

Some few nights since, one of Mr Crayling's children, in the Cliff, Lewes, was twice attacked in its bed by a rat, the marks of whose ferocity the child still exhibits on one of its arms.

On the 14th inst. Thomas Porch, a labourer, aged 51, with two children under 14 years of age, was discharged from Ilchester gaol, where he had been confined, since the 6th of July last, for a debt of forty-five shillings and five pence, and the costs six pounds.

19th.-FORT GEORGE.-Between one and two p. m. of the 15th, during

a strong gale from S. W., accompanied with rain, the small ferry-boat, with the four boat-men, nine or ten passengers, and a poney, set out from this place for the Fortrose side. They had only proceeded about third ferry (five or six hundred yards,) when they were observed from both shores suddenly to go down. In this dreadful situation a number of the unfortuuate sufferers were for a considerable time seen from the ramparts clinging to the wreck, which drifted in the direction of the garrison. Within twenty minutes or so after the accident, the poney had made his way as far as the breakers, with a man grasping the crupper in his left hand, and exerting the right and his feet in swimming. Both were now at times completely buried in broken water, and the poney having at last found bottom with his fore feet, seemed incapable of farther exertion, while the man, by the violence of the surge, was forced from his hold, and being quite exhausted and encumbered with great coat, boots, &c. would have inevitably perished, had not Mr Ferguson, paymaster of the 78th regiment, rushed in to his assistance, and rescued him from his perilous situation. He is a Mr Henderson, from Caithness. By this time the wreck had drifted within 40 yards or so of the west point of the fort, with seven or eight people on the keel, oars, &c.: some of them called out most piteously to those attempting to assist them from the shore, but at last getting into a violent eddy, six or seven of them were successively washed from their hold, and sunk to rise no more. A man and a woman still kept by the mast, which was floating alongside the wreck; and, in this affecting situation, the man setting up most heart-rending shrieks, they drifted down the frith, till nearly past the garrison, when William Skilling, a private in the 78th, swam out with the end of a rope to make fast to

the wreck, but which was unfortunately too short. Encouraged, however, by his commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel M'Leod, who was on the beach using every exertion which humanity could suggest, Skilling proceeded to the wreck, where he endeavoured to push the mast with those attached to it before him to the shore, but which noble attempt was frustrated by the mast's being fast to the wreck by a rope which he could not disengage. In the mean time, how ever, a ship's boat from the pier, which, to the imminent danger of the crew, had been got round the point, soon came up and succeeded in bringing the man and the woman ashore. The man's name is John Angus, a sailor, and a native of Thurso. The woman was taken up lifeless.

20th.-COURT OF KING'S BENCH. -The King v. Davenport Sedley.— This defendant was now brought up for judgment. He, together with John Sedley, Edward Meyer, and John Gabriel Gustavus Kieruft, had been indicted for a conspiracy to defraud the Marquis of Headfort; the present defendant was found guilty, John Sedley and Edward Meyer had not appeared, and J. G. G. Kieruft was acquitted. The reader will find the prominent features of this complicated fraud at p. 74, &c.

Lord Ellenborough read his notes of the evidence at the trial in full, and the defendant now put in only one affidavit, stating, that the letter signed "Thomas O'Brien " was not written by the defendant's son, John Sedley, as was proved at the trial by George Barnes, and imputing to that witness convictions of fraud. The defendant then addressed the court in mitigation of punishment, with very violent gesture, and a strong Irish accent. He began by recriminating upon his prosecutor, who, he said, meant to benefit his own credit, which was completely

lost in Ireland, by his bill negociations with Meyer, which were as much for the accommodation of one party as the other. He denied that his son had written the letter signed "Thomas O'Brien;" he had never trusted him with his affairs. He said that Barnes would have sworn any thing as to that hand-writing, which he desired of their lordships to compare with his son's hand, and they would find there was not the slightest resemblance between. the two. He accused the Marquis of Headfort of offering 4001. to two bulldogs to swear him guilty of felony at the Old Bailey; and related a story of a conversation which had passed on that subject between his lordship and a friend at the Union Club-house.

The Attorney-General and Mr Gar. row urged the infliction of an infamous punishment. The defendant had said that Meyer had received a scar in the cheek from a brick which had been thrown at him in the pillory; and the public justice of the country would not feel that the court were going too far in submitting the person of the defendant to the same public exposure, that every body may in future guard against the arts of so profound a villain. The defendant had stated himself to have been acquitted of felony at the Old Bailey by the direction of Lord Ellenborough; but he would recollect that a very little more indeed would have altered the nature of that verdict.

Mr Curwood was on the same side. Lord Ellenborough.-Let the de`fendant be committed to the custody of the Marshal of the Marshalsea, and brought up for judgment on Monday next.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.- -The Welsh Calvinistic Association was held at Pontypool, Monmouthshire, on Wednesday and Thursday, the 23d and 24th ult. Many people were present, and several ministers were enga

ged; but the friends who were there from Bristol experienced an awful visitation of Providence on their return home. Having arrived at Newport, intending to go by the coach, they found a vessel was to sail for Bristol the next day, and agreed to go altogether in it; they sailed about twelve o'clock on the Friday, but the captain not knowing the coast, the vessel was lost, and all met a watery grave, near the Spit. There were nine passengers on board, and three sailors, who all perished. The small boat, with one man dead in it, was found near St Bride's on Sunday night.

25th.-COURT OF KING'S BENCH. -The King v. Davenport Sedley.The defendant in this case was brought up to receive the judgment of the court, having been convicted of a conspiracy along with Henry Meyer and John Sedley, the defendant D. Sedley's son, to defraud, and having, in consequence, actually defrauded the Marquis of Headfort of acceptances to the amount of upwards of 30001. by representing the persons to whom the acceptances were given as being in a great mercantile business, and capable of making loans or advances of money to a large amount; whereas, in fact, they were low and despicable characters, in no mercantile employment, and incapable of making pecuniary advances to any amount, being themselves needy and insolvent persons.

The sentence of the court, in the whole circumstances of the case, was, that the defendant be imprisoned in his Majesty's jail of Newgate for two years, and that he do once, during that period, stand in and upon the pillory for one hour, between the hours of twelve and one in the day, in the Old Bailey, opposite to the door of Newgate.

A very interesting discovery has recently been made in Cornwall. A regular silver vein has been found just on

the Cornish side of the river Tamar. Although small quantities of this precious metal have frequently been got in cross veins, in the mines of Cornwall, yet no regular silver lode has ever before been met with. This vein was found, and traced from, the surface ; and is now regularly worked as a silver mine. The operations are still very recent; and it is only within a very short time that enough of the metal has been got to render it worthy of observation. Not much of the precious metal has yet been found, nor is it to be expected, the occurrence of that ore being so unusual in Cornwall: the ore yields 60 per cent. of metal.

A curious invention has been lately adopted on board some of our merchant ships, which seems excellently calculated to prevent their being boarded by the enemy's small privateers, or boats. It consists in fastening to the ruff-trees and quarter-sails of vessels, a set of boxes, which contain springbayonets four feet in length, and which, in case of alarm, are immediately pushed out in a horizontal position, thereby forming a line of bayonets one foot asunder, completely fore and aft, over which it is extremely difficult for the boarders to pass. They seem to meet with such general approbation, that it is very probable they will supersede the use of boarding nettings.

SWINDLERS. The public are cautioned against a gang of swindlers, amounting to about twenty, the whole of whom were turned loose on the town by the last Insolvent Act, and whose depredations have already been the ruin of several young tradesmen. They reside in respectable situations, in different parts of the town, represent themselves as merchants, and give reference to sham firms, in different parts of the city, instituted only for the purpose of acceptances, and to give colour to their villainy. Their practice is to give bills, and by reference to each

other, the tradesman is put off his guard, and becomes the dupe of artifice. Within the last fortnight, above, 20 acts of fraud of this kind have been committed west of Temple-bar. A man, calling himself a merchant at the East India Chambers, purchased some small organs at a manufactory in St Martin's-lane, amounting to 401., and gave a bill at two months, accepted by a firm in Wormwood-street, Bishopsgate-street; but the next day the manufacturer was apprized that part of his property had been pledged for a trifling sum; and from further enquiries he was quite satisfied about his new customer. A stable-keeper furnished another of the squad with a horse, and this was harnessed in style to the discomfiture of a harness-maker in Swallow-street; and the next thing was the purchase of a chaise in the same street, which was paid by a two months bill. A tailor, in Long-acre; a jeweller, in Oxford-street; an upholsterer, in John-street; tavern-keepers in numbers, as well as other tradesmen, have also been plundered by this gang. It is necessary to inform the trades-people, that although they have taken bills, the parties are liable to arrest under such circumstances before such bills are due.

29th.--MURDER.--A most atrocious and unprovoked murder was committed at Fowey, in the evening of the 25th instant, on the body of Israel Foulach Valentine, a young man of the Jewish persuasion, who was found drowned near the quay, with his jaw-bone broken, head fractured, and pockets turned inside out. A jury being summoned to investigate the circumstances attending this event, which were rather mysterious, after sitting ten hours, brought in a verdict, "drowned by William Wyatt, innkeeper of Fowey," who was accordingly committed to Bodmin jail. The prisoner was late a publican of some repute in Fowey, and the de

ceased seems to have been enticed thither by Wyatt's pretending that he knew a person who had some buttons (a cant word for guineas) to dispose of. A few evenings after the poor young man's arrival there, Wyatt and himself were seen walking together on the fatal quay, from whence the latter appears to have been precipitated into the water by the former, as two sailors in a merchant vessel lying near the spot gave evidence on the inquest, that they heard the deceased exclaim, most probably as he was falling," Oh Mr Wyatt! oh Mr Wyatt !" in a tone of agony. It is supposed that Wyatt must have leapt into the water at the same time, and kept the deceased under until life was extinguished, in order that he might be enabled to rob him, without molestation, of a considerable sum, known to be in his pockets when he left the inn. On Wyatt's return to the inn after committing the murder, another Jew who had accompanied Valentine to Fowey, became very uneasy at his friend's absence, and intimating his anxiety, Wyatt exclaimed unguardedly, "What, have you not heard that he is drowned?" This expression, evidently dictated by the suggestions of a guilty mind, naturally excited suspicion, and enquiries being set on foot, it was soon discovered that Wyatt had not only been seen on the quay with the deceased, but also loitering about his stable at an untimely hour, on the night when the crime was committed. On searching the premises on the 27th, the sum of 2601. in notes was found concealed in a dung-heap near the stable door, which converted suspicion of the prisoner's guilt into certainty. As a further corroboration of it, in the prisoner's waistcoat-pocket were found the identical letter he had written to Valentine inviting him down, together with a Hebrew letter to the deceased. The unfortunate Valentine's body was conveyed to Plymouth on