the lottery, and having been plunder ed of all he was worth by insuring in the Little Goes.

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A fine peacock, belonging to Mr Henwood, of Cardinham, near Bodmin, was lately attacked by a ferocious hog, and literally torn to pieces. It was above ninety years of age, and very old man now living in Warleg gan, has remembered it more than eighty years. Its appearance made it probable that it would have lived many years longer. It was lively and active, and its plumage as perfect and beautiful as in early life.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.-Harris v. Cohen. This was an action to recover 561., the amount of an attor ney's bill, for defending the defendant in a charge of stealing silver spoons from the butler's pantry of Mrs Martin, of which offence the defendant had been acquitted; and the question was, whether the defendant had made himself liable to the demand, or his mother-in-law, who had absconded, for fear of being charged with the felony. Many witnesses were called on each side, who, as well as both parties, were all Jews, and contradicted each other most mainly. It appeared probable, however, that the plaintiff had received 231. on account, for which it was certain he had not given credit but it was agreed to refer the amount of the bill, subject to the decision of the jury, who, however, found for the defendant. The defendant was a minor, but Lord Ellenborough held that no defence; his acquittal from a capital charge being a necessary.

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FORGERY.-Last week, a forgery was practised on a very respectable banking house in the city, under the following very singular circumstances, by which they were defrauded of two thousand and ninety pounds, and hitherto the parties have avoided the vigilance of the police. A few days ago, a person called at a house in Francis

street, Fitzroy-square, a part of which was to let, to engage it for, as he said, a gentleman of the first respectability; and having agreed to terms, &c., the better to prevent enquiry, he offered to pay for three months in advance; and for which purpose presented for change a one hundred pound note, having several other notes in his hand at the same time, none of them, he said, for a smaller sum. This manœuvre had the success that was wished; the lady who had the lodgings to let, could not give change, but the sight of the money lulled her into security, and the gentleman was allowed to take possession on the following day. The finan cier thus seated in fashionable lodgings, sets about raising the ways and means, and commenced by answering an advertisement from “ a young man from the country in want of a situation," who was desired to call in Francis-street, Fitzroy-square; where, if he answered the description of the advertisement, he might hear of a situation likely to suit him. The young man accordingly presented himself, and being interrogated as to what he could do, &c., he was asked for his town references, which he gave, and was desired to call on the following day, at twelve, for his

not over accommodating, he was to take two notes of 10001. each, and the other 901. any way; and then to go to the Bank of England to get notes of 501. and 301. for the two 10001. notes, and to meet him at the Moorgate Coffee-house, Fore-street. The cheque was paid by the banker without suspicion, and the large notes having been changed at the bank in the manner desired, the young man went to the coffee-house, but no master had come to meet him. After waiting for two hours in great anxiety, he set off for Francis-street, and was there informed that his master had gone out soon after him, and had not returned. The young man went a second time to the Moorgate Coffee-house; still no master, but he found a note had been left for him during his absence. On opening it, it was from his employer, dated the White Hart Tavern, Holborn, corner of Warwick-court, whither he was desired immediately to repair, where his master was waiting for him. On his way to Holborn, he was joined by a man who forced his conversation on him, and to whom he related where he was going, and what he had been about. They parted at the door of the tavern, and the clerk went in to ask for his master; still no master was or had been there. The young man having been permitted to remain long enough in the tavern for those outside to ascertain that he was not followed by any person from the banking house, or Bank of England, the person whom he had the conversation with in the street, came into the house, and told him that his master was crossing the way. The young man looking out, saw his master, to whom he went up, and was most graciously received, and relieved from any further trouble respecting his charge; and the master, to save trouble, taking the youth's pocket-book, in which were the 20901., promising to return it in

the morning when he came to busi ness: but this trouble was spared him, by a note which he received the same evening, inclosed in a parcel, in which was his pocket-book, and two 11. notes. The note expressed, that unexpected business had called the master suddenly from town to Liverpool ; that the two pounds were for the trouble he had had; but that his further services would for the present be dispensed with. This strange proceeding awakened suspicion in the young man's mind, and the following day, by the advice of some friends, he went to the banking-house, when they first discovered that the cheque was a forgery. It is hardly necessary to state, that the parties never returned to their lodgings in Francis-street.

A cannon-ball, weighing ninety-six pounds, and measuring upwards of 30 inches in circumference, has, within these few days, been dug out of the ruins of the old castle in Berwick. According to Fuller, in the year 1405, a conspiracy was formed in Berwick against Henry IV., in which the Earl of Northumberland and several others were the principal leaders. The earl held possession of the castle at that time, when hearing that Henry was bringing against him 37,000 men, with engineers and artillery properly fitted for a siege, he retired into Scotland. The royal army advanced to Berwick with some engines of destruction which had never before been brought against it; and which were on this occasion for the first time employed in Britain. The first discharge from one of these cannons of a large bore demolishing one of the principal towers of the castle, the garrison was thrown into such consternation, that it made an instant surrender. From this account it is probable that this is the identical ball which, four hundred and six years ago, occasioned the surrender of Berwick to the English arms.

A most horrid attempt was made by a man who resides near Dockhead, on Friday last, to poison his wife and three children. He took a leg of mutton home, and ordered it to be roasted for dinner. His wife accordingly roasted it, and got it ready by the time he appointed. He did not come home to dinner, and his wife and children made their dinners from some provisions that were in the house, and did not eat of the leg of mutton. The husband did not arrive till suppertime, and made an excuse for not coming to dinner. His wife offered him some of the leg of mutton for his supper, but he declined it, saying he had brought home some fish, which he wished to have fried. His wife fried them with the dripping produced from the roasting of the leg of mutton, and he ate heartily of the fish. In the night he was taken extremely ill, and has continued in the most excruciating torture ever since. He enquired how the fish had been cooked, and being informed, and also that none of his family had partaken of the mutton, he acknowledged his guilt by saying, the deadly and diabolical scheme he had laid of poisoning the whole of them had fallen upon himself; having laid the leg of mutton in a quantity of arsenic for a considerable time, and also having rubbed it into the meat. The miser able wretch is languishing in the greatest torture of body and mind.

RICHARD ARMITAGE.—This celebrated character, of whom so much has been heard respecting his transactions with Roberts in forgeries upon the Bank of England, in which establishment he was a clerk, was taken, on Tuesday morning, at an inn about three miles from Ipswich, in a cross country road, by John Foy, accompanied by two gentlemen from the bank, a reward of 300 guineas having been offered for his apprehension, as long since as the 11th of August. The

prisoner went by the name of Barclay at the inn, and he represented himself as a private gentleman, who wished to reside secluded from the gaieties and pleasures of the metropolis. He spent his time in the association of the gentlemen yeomen in the country, with whom he used to take the sports of the field, and his wife, who had just gone through an accouchement, was the only person who knew his situa tion. The prisoner was surprised in bed, first by the hostess of the inn, who informed him three gentlemen wished to see him, and after one of the gen tlemen had been introduced, Foy followed and took him, and conveyed him to London in a chaise and four. He was taken to Marlborough-street. office, and after having been identified, and some other necessary forms gone through, he was committed to New Prison, Clerkenwell, for exami nation on a future day, where he now remains doubly ironed,

YORKSHIRE ASSIZES.- Trial of James Whitehead, for attempting to murder Ann Ockleton. The prisoner, on being arraigned, pleaded guilty, which plea he persisted in for a considerable time; but, by the advice of the court, and the repeated entreaties of his counsel and friends, he reluctantly withdrew his plea, and pleaded not guilty. The prisoner, who was a good looking young man, seemed greatly affected during the whole of his trial.

Mr Tindall stated, that this was a prosecution under what is called Lord Ellenborough's Act. The prisoner lived sérvant with a Mr Brown of Hedon, at the same time that Ann Ockleton, the prosecutrix in this indictment, lived there as a domestic, and a considerable degree of attachment existed between them at that time. After Ann Ockleton left the service of Mr Brown, their intercourse with each other was necessarily less frequent, and her father having expressed some dis

approbation of the connection, a shy ness on the part of the young woman took place, which probably led to the catastrophe detailed in the following evidence :

Ann Ockleton, a young woman of about 20 years of age, was the first witness called; but she was so extremely agitated, as to be unable to give her evidence. The judge recommended that another witness should be placed in the bar until she was more composed; but as it would occur first in the natural order of the trial, we shall give it that place in our report. Ann Ockleton stated, that she first became acquainted with the prisoner n December, 1809, when she lived with Mr Brown, with whom she was his fellow servant. During the time in which she lived with Mr Brown, which was until April following, the prisoner paid his addresses to her, or, as she expressed it, kept her company. After quitting the service of Mr Brown, she lived at a public-house at Sproatley, where her sweetheart occasionally visited her; on leaving Sproatley, she went to live with her father at Aldbrough, where she was visited by the prisoner once or twice, at which her father expressed some dissatisfaction: she also stated, that she had left the service of Mr Brown on account of her intimacy with the prisoner. On the evening of the 4th of September last, she went with her aunt, Jane Ockleton, to milk in a field about half a mile from Aldbrough. On their way thither they were met by the prisoner, who said to her, "How do you do, Nancy?" She answered, "Very well, thank you." The prisoner then stopt, and she said, "If you mean to go with us, I will return home." The prisoner replied, "No; I do not want to go with you;" and then turned, and walked towards the town, and the witness and her aunt went forward: they were employed about a quarter of an hour

in milking. On their return home, at a short distance from the close, they met the prisoner, who spoke to her aunt, and desired her to leave her with him, as he wished to have some talk with her, which her aunt declined; when the prisoner swore, and said he did not care for her, and, turning himself round, stood before them, and said, "Stop!" and drew a knife from his pocket and opened it; on which witness and her aunt set up a loud cry, and the witness let fall the milk-pail. She then ran back two or three yards, and was followed by the prisoner, who caught her in his arms, and threw her on the ground, he falling with her; he then cut her throat with a knife, and, after being wounded in the neck, she wrested the knife from him, and threw it over the hedge, and, while he was seeking the knife, supposing she had dropt it near the spot, she extricated herself from him, and run away, the prisoner pursuing her, and almost immediately she met Isaac Ellard, who took her under his protection.

Jane Ockleton gave a similar account of all the transactions which preceded her niece being thrown down by the prisoner, and added, that she, the witness, called to him, and said, "You villain, do you mean to take her life?" He replied, "Yes, damn her; I will murder her, and then I will murder you, and then there will be nobody to tell." Witness immediately ran to the town for assistance. In about a quarter of an hour she saw her niece again; her neck was cut, and she bled profusely; her fingers were also much cut.

Isaac Ellard said, on the 4th of Sep. tember he met Ann Ockleton in the lane, and James Whitehead pursuing her; she exclaimed, "Save my life!" and witness shouted out, "My friend, what have you been doing?" To which the prisoner replied, "I do not mean to hurt you, or any man or woman on

the earth, but Ann Ockleton; and I mean to have her life, if it be possible. Give me your hand, for I shall be hanged for her; and so I will go to the gallows and be hanged like a dog." Witness said, "No, my friend, I hope you have done nothing yet that will hang you." Prisoner said, "Yes, I have cut her throat; and if I had not lost the knife, I should have killed her upon the spot, and she would now have been a dead woman." During this conversation, himself, the prisoner, and Ann Ockleton, were walking towards Aldbrough. The prisoner wished to shake hands with her, which she refused. The witness did not observe any appearance which indicated derangement of mind.

Mr John Mann, surgeon, described the wound, which he was called in to examine, as an incision in the neck, about three and a half inches in length, and a quarter of an inch in depth, a little before the tracher; he also said, that several of her fingers were much

cut.

On the part of the prisoner, Mr Robert Stubbing, the partner of Mr Brown before referred to, stated, that during the time the prisoner lived with them, which was about nine months, he conducted himself with propriety, and seemed to be of a humane disposition and good temper.

The learned judge, after recapitula ting the evidence, said it was possible the prisoner was much attached to the young woman, whom he suspected of a coldness towards him; and that, under the influence of these feelings, he had worked himself into a violent phrenzy of passion. But his lordship observed, that the violence of passion would not justify or extenuate an act that deliberately aimed at the life of a fellow creature; if it did, a door would be opened to all the excesses and crimes which persons under the impulse of

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passion might be induced to commit and no evidence had been given to induce the jury to think that the prisoner was not in a sane state of mind at the time this act was perpetrated. The jury, without leaving the box, found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to mercy on account of his good character. character. The prisoner, on leaving the bar, said, " May God be the comfort of my prosecutrix."

It is hoped that the following accident, which occurred in the garrison of Plymouth Dock, on Saturday, will operate as a warning for recruits generally. Some men, who were all of that description, had fired nine rounds. One of them, finding his piece did not go off, pursued a practice which is too common, of loading afresh, and had actually put nine cartridges into his piece, which, bursting, tore off his right arm, killed the right-hand man next him, by driving a part of the excluded musket three inches long into his head ; blew off the hand of a third, and most dreadfully shattered the arm of a fourth. It is said, that on an examination of all the muskets, another was found with eight cartridges in it. The practice of polishing muskets with ramrods is also extremely injurious, as a great number of pieces in the army are thereby reduced to a thin shell.

Some disturbances have taken place in the neighbourhood of Nottingham. The letters from that place state, that on Tuesday last the workmen, to the number of one thousand, assembled in the market-place, and from thence proceeded in a body to Arnold, a distance of about five miles, where their numbers were increased to between two and three thousand. Thus augmented in strength, they shortly evinced a determination to adopt measures of violence, and parties proceeded to enter the houses and destroy the frames of several of the manufacturers. The

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