terfoury, and his father.-William Shand, 18 years farm servant to William Young, Esq., of Inverugie.-Alexander Ross, 17 years farm servant to the Duke of Gordon.-James Inglis, 14 years farm servant to the Duke of Gordon.-John Shiach, 14 years farm servant to Mr Alexander Russel, Oakenhead.-George Nichol, 10 years farm servant to Mr John Lawson, Linkfield.

THE BRITISH NAVY.-There are at present in commission 150 ships of the line, 20 from 50 to 44 guns, 168 frigates, 153 sloops of war, five fireships, 174 armed brigs, 37 cutters, 76 schooners and luggers, making altogether 792 ships of war: besides which, there are building, repairing, and in ordinary, as many as make the grand total 1065, of which 256 are of the line. Two marines were executed on board his Majesty's ship Zealous, at Lisbon, on the 8th ult., for the murder of a serjeant of marines. Their trial disclosed the following wicked, and, in other respects, singular circumstances:-The deceased serjeant had been sent with the two prisoners to do duty on board one of the prison ships in the Tagus. In the course of the night they planned to call the serjeant from his cot under pretence of being wanted. On On his proceeding to the part of the ship requested, they way-laid him, and shoved him overboard. It must be supposed that he had made himself obnoxious to them; but this did not appear. On the deceased's being missed, it obtained general belief on board the prison-ship, that he had jumped overboard; but it was not warranted by the man's general character, for he was a sober, discreet man, and a good soldier. The first intimation of his death to his shipmates on board the Zealous, was by the sentinel upon deck seeing his hat pass by the ship in the Tagus. The sentinel instantly knew it belonged to him, and enquiry ensued. No

suspicion, however, fell upon the pri soners; nor was it necessary for the ends of justice, for their consciences so lacerated them, after the first hour they had committed the crime, that, as they confessed to their comrades, they had no rest day or night. Their voluntary confession led to their trial, and they told the court they had not slept since, but were constantly visited by a distempered imagination of being in the presence of the deceased's ghost! Both of them, it afterwards appeared, were notorious characters; one of their names was Brown. They died very penitent.

A young gentleman of family and fortune, from the neighbourhood of Cheltenham, lost, or, to speak more correctly, was robbed of seven thousand pounds, on Sunday morning, at a low gaming-house, in the neighbourhood of Pall-mall.

The vestry of St Martin's parish preferred seven bills of indictment, which have all been found, against keepers of houses of ill fame in Ŏxendon-street, Whitcomb-street, &c., and a great number of witnesses are named on the back of each bill, to prove the cases.

FROM A BARBADOES PAPER.-We have been furnished by a gentleman, passenger on board the ship Cornwall, Captain Peat, bound to Jamaica from London, which arrived on Sunday last, with the following particulars of her voyage here, after having lost her rudder in a gale she encountered in the Bay of Biscay. The Cornwall had 200 recruits and 16 officers on board, for the different regiments in the West Indies; the whole under the command of Captain Cameron, of the 6th West India regiment.

On the 3d of January, in lat. 45. 18., she encountered a very severe storm, which increased in the evening with such violence, as to endanger her safety. During the night, the gale

still continuing, she unshipped her rudder, which, on disengaging, tore away the helm, stern, and counter, but fortunately did not injure the stern-post, or she must have foundered. She was thus rendered a wreck, and became completely unmanageable.

On the following morning the wind abated; but in the afternoon it blew a hurricane, when all on board, amount ing to nearly 300 souls, momentarily expected a watery grave. Captain Peat, having foreseen the storm, had fortunately placed the ship in its best possible state; and, during the gale, the exertions of himself and crew are beyond praise.

At the dawn of day on the 5th, the gale subsided, and a gleam of hope succeeded, depending on the friendly assistance of some vessel that we might fall in with, as we had the signal of distress flying. About two o'clock, a ship hove in sight, and came down to witness this scene of wretchedness. When she came within hail of the Cornwall, the master having observed our loss of the rudder, promised to keep by us. Allowing, however, no further time for conversation, he unexpectedly shot a-head; and as the sea was running mountains high, no boat could be sent off to explain the assistance we required; thus, when a prospect of relief was in view, did this monster, in the shape of a man, make sail from us, and left the miserable to their fate.

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After being thus abandoned, it became necessary to devise some method of governing the ship; a jury-rudder was therefore made by means of a spare fore-top-yard, at the end of which were fixed pieces of square plank, to serve as a paddle, reeved with blocks and tackle, ingeniously contrived by Capt. Peat and his carpenter: this served as a rudder, and requiring great power to assist in steering, was supplied by the

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exertions of the soldiers, under the di rection of Captain Cameron, who regularly did this duty until the 13th, when it was contrived to work with the wheel of the lost rudder. Considerable delay was occasioned by the repairs this machinery required, and the improvements that were daily discovered, which rendered the working of the vessel more steady; and by unparalleled assiduity and perseverance, the vessel was safely brought to anchor in Carlisle Bay on the 10th instant.

At the Warwick Assizes, William Bradbury was tried and convicted of selling forged notes, of the similitude of Bank of England notes, considerably less than the expressed value, and was left for execution. He is an old offender, and is said to have been the cause of more than fifty persons ving suffered death for uttering the

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Sir James Pulteney experienced a severe accident, while shooting in the neighbourhood of Buckingham on Saturday last. His gun was one with a new invented lock, which not being in proper order, he no sooner pulled the trigger, than his right eye was blown out. His life, however, is not considered in the remotest danger.

14th.-On Saturday evening, aclerk to an attorney in Lynn went to the bank in that town where his master kept cash, with his bank-book, and desired to have 7001. Without any other authority, they let him have it, and the business being done in a hurry, not any of the numbers of the notes were taken. In a short time after, it was discovered that the clerk had obtained the 7001. without the authority of his master, and had absconded from Lynn with it. Several persons were dispatched in various directions in pursuit of him, and he was traced to Boston, but there lost. The attorney having written off to his agent in London, with a

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description of his person, and the particulars of his obtaining the 7001.; the agent gave information at the public office, Bow-street, and Vickery was employed to go in pursuit of the offender. He learnt that some of the bank post bills obtained had been changed on Monday morning, soon after nine o'clock, at the Bank of England. This convinced the officer that the offender had arrived in London; and after making enquiry at several inns, where the Ely, Cambridge, and other coaches put up, he ascertained that a young man, answering the description, had arrived by the Boston coach early that morning, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Snow-hill, in company with a young lady, who was then in the inn waiting his return. In the mean time one of the bankers from Lynn arrived, and waited with Vickery till the young man returned, when the banker identified him as the person who had obtained the 7001. under a pretence of being authorized by his master. Vickery took him into custody; also the young lady he had travelled with; and on searching them, he found upon her notes to the amount of near 6001. Upon him he found a gold watch, chain, and seals, which it appeared, from a bill and receipt found upon him, he had paid 501. for in London, and he had purchased several other articles. The young lady is of a very respectable family and connections at Boston, and had eloped with him for the purpose of being married in London, without any suspicion of how he became possessed of the notes. A debtor, confined in the Marshalsea prison, applied to the court for his discharge on Friday last, on the grounds of his creditor having failed to pay him his sixpences in a legal manner. It appeared that the creditor had tendered him, for his week's allowance, three shillings and a piece of silver resem

bling what now passes for a sixpence; the latter, however, upon a close in spection, proved to be a foreign coin. The learned judge being of opinion this was not a tender within the meaning of the act, which directs that the allowance to debtors should be paid in the coin of the realm, ordered the debtor to be discharged.

Thursday, being Maunday Thursday, his Majesty's bounty to 73 old men, and 73 old women, was distributed in a large room adjoining Whitehall-chapel. The royal donation consisted of 73 silver pennies, about three pounds of beef, four loaves of bread, a quantity of salt cod, a salmon, and herrings; 21. 15s. to the women, in lieu of cloth, for a coat; and shirt, shoes, and stockings given to the men.

On a farm at Setterington, a ewe fell a lamb on Sunday evening, March 31st, and, to the great surprise of the shepherd, lambed another on the Wednesday evening following. A similar occurrence is not in the remembrance of the oldest farmer in the neighbourhood.

Last week, a woman at LeightonBuzzard, Bedfordshire, actuated by motives of jealousy, formed the resolu tion of murdering her husband. For this purpose she heated a quantity of lead in a tobacco pipe, and, while he was asleep, poured some of the liquid into his ear, but it had not the intended effect. The sufferer, however, has since laboured under violent mental derangement.

On Friday last, a woman 30 years of age, wife of a painter, in the neigh bourhood of Mary-le-bone, undertook to go on foot, for a wager of 101. forty miles in ten successive hours, on the Uxbridge road, from Norton-hill to Shepherd's-bush, one mile out and in. She started at six o'clock in the morning, and completed the whole distance at twenty minutes after three o'clock, winning by forty minutes. A

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Saturday, the 6th inst., Patrick Mullowney, who had been so long the terror of the neighbourhood of Mitchels town, was capitally convicted before Judge Day, at the Cork Assizes, of a burglary and murder, and was on Sunday sent under an escort to the scene of his former crimes, there to suffer the sentence of the law. This man was a rare example of hardened villainy. According to a confession made by himself, before he was twenty years old he was concerned in a murder, and had been since at the forcible abduction of twenty-four women.

A singular, but dreadful accident, occurred a few days ago on board his Majesty's ship Menelaus. A sailor, having over-reached himself, fell from the main-top just as the sentinel was passing beneath, pitched directly on the point of the bayonet, and was literally empaled. The violence of the shock wrested the piece from the arms of the sentinel, and threw it with its wretched burthen over the gunwale. EASTER MONDAY SPORTS.-The summer Olympics in the vicinity of the metropolis commenced yesterday morning at an early hour; and John Bull, notwithstanding the badness of the times, seemed every where as " ripe for sport," as if these were " the piping times of peace." The first symptoms of sporting amusement that caught our observation appeared in the neighbour. hood of Hampstead and Kentish-town. The sun had scarcely surmounted the horizon, and

"Tinged with gold the village spire,"

when the sportsmen of Kentish-town had assembled at the Bull and Gate, to prepare for a badger hunt; and,

fortified by their morning draughts, they set out for the field, not with "Deep-mouthed hounds, and mellow-toned horn,"

but keen-scented terriers, and highbred bull-dogs, to assail the grizly savage in his den, situated in a field between Highgate and Hampstead.

A badger, of formidable size and ferocity, there awaited the attack in hole; and many dogs of storied fame in many a sturdy bull-bait were successively led against the wary game; but he kept the greater number at bay, and those who ventured on nearer approach were sent yelping away under the sanguinary effects of his sharp teeth. At length a brown terrier, of true blood, pinned the badger by the nose, and dragged him from his lurking-place, This quadruped champion bears the name of Grip, and belongs to Knight, the driver of the Kentish-town stage, who received the congratulations of all his acquaintances on the occasion; and the odds are now twenty to one in favour of Grip against the field, for next badger-bait.

This exhibition was succeeded by a duck-hunt in one of the Hampstead ponds, which afforded admirable sport; and was followed by a scene not less humane-that of a large tabby cat set adrift on the pond in a deep wooden bowl, and baited by water spaniels, which ended in the loss of the eyes and laceration of the noses of several of the dogs, and a watery death to the illfated mouser.

EPPING STAG HUNT.--A stag, caught on Saturday for the purpose, after two days pursuit, near Loughton, was, according to annual manorial custom, turned out yesterday, for the diversion of the foresters and all comers, opposite the Ball-faced Stag public-house. The animal was brought to the place in a cart, and there was a