and bleeding as he was, finally succeeded in slinging and sending him on board. 9th. CONSISTORY COURT OF LONDON, DOCTORS' COMMONS.-Cox v. Gooday. This case was a criminal proceeding, at the instance of Miss Cox, against the Reverend W. Gooday, of ficiating minister of Terling, in Essex, for a disturbance in the church. It will be recollected, that the particular circumstances attending it were fully detailed in our report of the hearing on admission of the criminal articles. (See Vol. 3. Part 2. p. 254.)

Mr Gooday having this day person ally admitted the facts charged in the articles, the counsel for Miss Cox, after a few observations, moved for the judgment of the court, as expressed in the statute upon which the suit was founded.

The learned judge (Sir W. Scott) then, in a very impressive manner, addressing himself to the reverend gentleman, delivered his judgment. He observed, that the offence charged against him (and which he had just admitted) was that of having wantonly interrupted the performance of religious service in his own church, by addressing Miss Cox, in the midst of the service, in the language of uncalled-for reproof, mixed with a considerable degree of intemperate warmth; he reminded him, that it was the duty of the church-wardens, and not of the minister, to repress any indecorum that manifested itself in the church, and that his thoughts ought to be otherwise occupied they should accompany those of his congregation in the contemplation of divine objects, and the observance of religious duties, and should rise superior to every thing militating against those important considerations. He was willing, however, to impute the offence of the reverend gentleman to an excess of zeal, unrestrained by the suggestions of prudence; and should be sorry, therefore,

to visit him with a greater punishment than was commensurate with it: but the statute was imperative upon him, and left him but little discretion to exercise. In complying, therefore, with its injunctions, he felt it his duty to suspend him (Mr Gooday) from his ministry for the space of one fortnight; and, after a suitable admonition, the learned judge concluded with observing, that, as the reverend gentleman had attended personally to receive the sentence of the court, he should not think it necessary to direct its being published in the church.

Mr Gooday then bowed and retired, evidently much affected.

AMSTERDAM.-The female, named Madelaine Albert, has been apprehended. The following is the extract of a letter on this subject, transmitted on the 22d of January, by the subprefect of Gannat, to the prefect of the department of the Allier.

"Sir, I have the honour, to inform you, that the female, named Madelaine Albert, was apprehended yesterday, the 21st of this month, in the commune of Saien Ignat, three leagues from Rione: she was to-day conveyed to the prison of Gannat. The multitudes which assembled from all parts to see this monster were prodigious; I cannot describe to you the fury of the populace. If the gens-d'armerie had not protected this parricide, I believe she would have been torn to pieces. It was with the utmost difficulty she was saved from the sticks and stones with which she was assailed.”

GLOCESTER ELECTION.-Six military cars, each calculated to carry forty persons, and drawn occasionally by six or eight horses, are employed by the friends of Sir William Guise, in conveying voters to and from the poll at Glocester.

In the grand contest for the county of Glocester, in the year 1776, the number who voted, during a poll of

eleven days, was 5793; more than two-thirds of this number have already polled in the present struggle; but it is difficult to ascertain in what proportion the freeholds have increased since the former period.

The Lords of the Admiralty have directed Admiral Otway to distribute 5001. amongst those who so meritoriously exerted themselves in preserving the crews of the Nymphe and Pallas frigates, lately wrecked on the coast near Dunbar.

11th.-COURT OF KING'S BENCH. -The King v. Roche. The defendant was brought up for judgment for the libel in The Day newspaper, reflecting on the conduct of the military employed to preserve the peace in Piccadilly, at the time of the service of the Speaker's warrant on Sir Francis Burdett. He was sentenced to be imprisoned 12 months in the Marshalsea, and to give security for his good behaviour for three years from that time, himself in 5001. and two sureties in 2501. each.

The King v. Churchyard and others. -Mr Garrow moved for leave to file a criminal information against 14 persons out of a much greater number, for what he had no hesitation in calling the most outrageous conduct the court ever remembered. It depended upon their lordships' decision, whether a numerous and respectable body of dissenters in Suffolk should ever assemble again for the purpose of divine worship. A dissenting minister, regularly authorized by the law for the purpose of preaching, had hired two rooms of a cottage in Wickham Market, in the county of Suffolk, of a man of the name of Turner, and announced his intention of preaching there on Sunday, the 2d of September last. Upon the Saturday preceding, the crier was employed by certain persons, who were averse to the minister's coming among them, to warn the pa

rish to take care of their houses and persons, for a bad set of people was coming among them. There was an idea in the county of Suffolk, which the learned counsel hoped would be corrected by the bench, that as long as dissenting places of worship were insulted and disturbed without their walls, they might be insulted and disturbed with impunity, and that the penalties of the act were confined to disturbances within the walls of the meeting-houses. Upon the minister's arrival at the meeting-house in question, on the 2d of September, he found it besieged by upwards of 1000 persons, some in disguises, affecting attitudes of adoration, others beating drums and a large gong, and blowing trumpets, and all making an uproar; the obvious purpose of which was the prevention of every thing that might be said in the meeting-house from being heard. These outrages were afterwards repeated on the 16th of September, and on various subsequent Sundays, the crowd of rioters amounting in number to sometimes 2 or 3000. On one occasion, was brought before the door of the meeting-house a waggon, in which was placed a man dressed out in a full suit of black, a wig, and a cocked hat, who distributed bread to the mob, certainly for no other purpose than to disturb the dissenting congregation; for the orator gave out, separately, the names of the persons who were to receive this bread, upon which there was a general shout; and the whole concluded with a scramble for the loaves which remained. Upon some occasions, the minister was met by a concourse of these persons, and was jostled by one of those against whom the motion was made, and who was on horseback. Fireworks and stones were also thrown into the meeting-house, and at the horse and chaise in which the minister departed. At one time, a procession was formed by

the mob, who carried a gallows in their front. At another time, rotten eggs were thrown into the meeting; and two of the rioters, who were professed masks, stationed themselves among the congregation, saying, "that they came there to hear the word of God, and, by G-d, they would hear it." One of them then asked the preacher, "Can a man live by bread alone?" To which the minister, thinking it apposite, replied in the conclusion of that text. At length, the rioters proceeded so far as to bring night-soil into the meeting-house, with which they smeared the walls of the place, and at last broke all its windows. One man kept open house during the time of this riot, and gave wine to all those who opposed the Pograms, as the dissenters were nick-named. It was openly stated, too, at the vestry of the parish, that there was a gentleman ready with 1001. to support the Anti-pograms. The owner of the cottage where the dissenters assembled was forcibly turned out of his house, and his wife was threatened, that he and his brother, who had interfered in the business, should be pressed and sent to sea, if they did not turn the Pograms out of their house. Of this house the rioters had gotten possession, and were tearing it to pieces in the night, when the brother of its owner endeavoured to prevent them; upon which one of the rioters called out of the window, "A dd Pogram; seize him!" and fired a gun. It was also threatened, that if the congregation should attempt to meet again, an engine would be prepared to play upon them-not water, but such a mixture as would compel them to relinquish their meeting. The affidavit, which stated all these circumstances, concluded with saying, that there was no other place in the parish for the congregation to meet in; and that if they were to attempt to build one, what they should erect

in the day would be inevitably pulled down in the night. Against every one of the persons who were the subject of Mr Garrow's motion, the affidavit swore overt acts of this conspiracy to prevent the congregation from exercising their religion. The first was a farmer, of the name of James Churchyard, of whom it was sworn, that he entered the meeting-house on the 14th of November, when he talked loud, and afterwards joined Mr Thompson, the officiating minister, home, telling him, if he were to come for seven years to preach there, that would be the way in which he would be served. Mr Garrow had omitted to mention that these rioters wore cockades of their order, and, in short, presented an happy edition of an O. P. riot at a dissenting meetinghouse. The next person against whom the learned counsel moved was Benjamin Garrard, the distributor of the bread, and the person who rode at the head of the cavalcade, who threw stones and fireworks. The third was William Hewitt, a collar-maker, who wore a cockade, and was the mask who has been before described to have mocked the attitude of adoration. It was he that procured the drum and drummer. The next was Philip Dykes, not one of the most vulgar of the rioters, but a man more criminal than perhaps they; for he was in a superior station in life to them, and supported and encouraged them. He was described yeoman, and was the churchwarden of the parish. On the 2d of December, which was the last day of preaching at the meeting-house, the minister went with Barber, the tenant of the house, to the church-warden, in order to endeavour to repossess themselves of the house; when the churchwarden told them there should be no preaching there, and that murder would be committed if it were ever attempted again. (As this happened after the destruction of the house, the

court did not see why Mr Dykes might not have given the minister this advice without identifying himself with the rioters, and his name was, therefore, struck out of the list of defendants.) The next was William Moore, a farmer in the neighbourhood, who encouraged the mob by cries of "Burn them;" and was the person who threatened Turner and his brother with the press-gang. The next was John Culpeck, a shoemaker, living next door to the meeting-house, who wore a cockade, who was the performer upon the gong, and the person who cried from the window of the meeting-house, "A dd Pogram," &c. The next two were James Sheldrake and William Gurling, who entered the meeting-house, and being afterwards taken by the constables in the act of rioting, effected their escape with the assist. ance of William Benton and Charles Bunn, who were the next two moved against: but as a bill of indictment had been found against these first two for the disturbance, though not for the conspiracy, their names were like wise, at the recommendation of the court, struck out. Benton was a wheelwright, who disguised himself as a butcher; he struck at the meetinghouse door, and offered to fight the constables. Bunn (yeoman) followed one of the ministers on the road, and assaulted him, shouting, "No Pogram." Edmund Hewitt, who was the next, assisted in the rescue and disturbance. The next two were Tuffield and Clow, who came into the meeting-house with the insignia of the riot, bearing with them a basket of stinking sprats, (they had before smeared the place with human ordure), which they threw over the congregation. The last was William Cooke (yeoman), who struck the constable, and assisted in Sheldrake and Gurling's rescue, by knocking him down.

The court granted a rule to shew cause against the following six persons,

who had assisted in the disturbance, and against whom no proceedings were depending, viz. Churchyard, Benton, Garrard, William Hewitt, Culpeck, Tuffield, and Clow.

Mr Garrow made it understood to the court, that there had been attempts to proceed in the ordinary course of justice, by indictment, against all these persons, but the grand jury had thrown out the bills.

The Birmingham coach was robbed a few days ago of a trunk, containing jewellery, &c. to the amount of 24001.

A few days ago, a person went to the different clerks of several of the most eminent barristers, and gave them a case for an opinion; at the same time tendering a check, and receiving change. This trick was practised on more than twelve, before the checks were found out to be forgeries.

One of the Martello Towers on the coast of Essex, near St Osyth, has given way. Its first inclination was several feet one way: in order to restore it to its situation, the ground was excavated on the other side, and it has now gone back with an inclination in nearly the same proportion the other way. What is very singular, though the fabric must have sustained a great degree of percussion, no crack or fissure appears in the brickwork.

The crew of the Otter sloop of war, which arrived at Plymouth from the Cape of Good Hope, suffered the greatest privations on the passage, owing to a want of fuel to cook their provisions. They consumed two of their boats, and all the spare timber they had; and when that was expended, they were compelled to eat their beef and pork raw.

A daring outrage was committed at Arundel, on Sunday evening, by a party of the 68th regiment, more than thirty in number, and headed by some officers, who, armed with bludgeons, attacked and knocked down many of

the inhabitants. On the volunteers beating to arms, the party retreated to the barracks. Two of the officers and a corporal, who were identified next day as principals in the disturbance, have been committed to Horsham jail, and another (a captain) was held to bail.

A poor man, at Norwich, who had been collecting a sum of money in notes, deposited it in a drawer; but going a few days ago to pay it away, he found that the greater part of the notes had been destroyed by mice, and not more than two of them out of a number were in a recoverable state.

On an appeal against the assessment of a surveyor of taxes in Warwickshire, who charged a spaniel as a sporting dog, though he was used only for the purpose of a house-dog, the chairman gave the following interpretation of the act :-He stated, that the intention of the legislature most evidently was to impose a higher rate of duty on sporting than on common. dogs; that the distinction contemplated in the act, referred not so much to the precise breed of dogs, as to the uses for which they are employed; that any dog whatever, if used for the purpose of sporting, must be charged at the higher rate of duty; and that all dogs employed bona fide merely for the purpose of a house or a yard-dog, without at all regarding the particular species, are liable only to the lower rate of duty.

Monday, at Ewerby, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, an inquest was held on the bodies of two fine children, twins, named Francis and Richard Richardson, sons of a cottager in that parish, who were drowned in a pit near their father's dwelling. The poor little boys were remarkable for the extremely affectionate attachment they bore to each other, and were never happy when separated. One of them, it is supposed, adventured upon some rotten ice in the

pit in which they were found, a few days ago, and the anxiety of the other to save him from danger proved fatal to both.

The report of the Infirmary for diseases of the eye, at Exeter, announces the cure, in the last two years, of 1195 persons; 86 of whom had cataracts, and 33 were born blind.

The boiler of the steam-engine at Providence Mill, Shipley, near Bradford, burst, on Monday se'nnight, at the moment when the work-people were about to renew their labours after dinner. The explosion was tremendous ; the boiler was carried eight or nine yards from its seat against the mill, to which it did considerable injury. Five young persons who were near the spot were so dreadfully wounded, that four of them died the same evening, and the fifth on Wednesday.

15th. On Tuesday evening, about eight o'clock, as a young man, the son of a butcher in Wandsworth, was passing on the Wandsworth road, he was stopped by five footpads. One of them presented a small pistol to him ; they then dragged him into a field, and knocked him into a ditch, from which they afterwards pulled him out, They then proceeded to rifle his pockets, and robbed him of his coat. They next pinioned his arms back with his neckcloth; and because he looked at them, he received some violent blows on each side of his face. After they had fastened his arms, one of them put the muzzle of a horse-pistol to his nose, and told him to smell the contents, which he should have in him if he looked after or pursued them. He remained in the position in which they left him for about three quarters of an hour, and then ventured into the road, and walked to the Britannia publichouse, where he related what had happened, and got his arms released. The robbers were all dressed like grooms.