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George Cumming Osborne, Esq., being examined, said, he is sub-treasurer; he took possession in July, 1809. He soon heard of the native officers, now at the bar, having equipages and handsome houses, living in a sumptu ous manner, much beyond their scanty pay; that the two head shroffs had emerged from obscurity to elegant houses, &c; sometimes they had ten lacs, sometimes half a million sterling in their possession. Witness gave notice of his design to inspect the balances; he found them correct, and ever afterwards kept the keys, contrary to

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Other witnesses were examined, shewing that false receipts had been given to make an appearance of balances, &c. The Recorder, in his charge on this trial, remarked, that conjuration or in cantation failing, as every European believed it would, the dagger and the bowl must be resorted to to effect murder. That it was remarkable the chief shroffs, having only half a guinea a week, and no other means of emolument, lived in great splendour, had great wealth and credit. To support this they wished to dispose of Mr Os borne, that they might again have the keys of the Treasury in their power. The Recorder declared his thorough conviction of the guilt of the prisoners; and the jury, after retiring a few minutes, pronounced them Guilty.

At twelve o'clock at night the Recorder pronounced sentence as follows on the three chief criminals: "That you be imprisoned for five years in the prison of Bombay; that you be placed once a year in the pillory; that you be twice publicly whipped through the Bazar (market); that you be fined ten thousand rupees each, and imprisoned till the fine is paid." The first punishment of whipping was inflicted next day, in presence of twenty or thirty thousand spectators.

The Bombay Courier, of the 24th

November, says, "Yesterday the spe cial Sessions of Oyer and Terminer closed with the trial of C. J. Briscoe, Esq., which lasted three days. He was indicted for corruptly and wilfully conspiring with others to obstruct and impede the course of justice, by pre venting the trial and conviction of cer tain conspirators to murder Mr Os borne. The jury found him Guilty, but most strongly recommended him to mercy. He was sentenced to be imprisoned in the gaol of Bombay for twelve calendar months."

8th. In the month of December, that part of the Castle Cliff adjoining Guilford battery, Dover, fell down, and buried underneath the house of Mr Poole, master carpenter of the ord nance, in which was his wife and five children, who were killed several horses and a hog were also buried in the ruins; the former were got out, but the latter being so far under, it was not for a moment conceived it could exist; however, last night at seven o'clock, the workmen employ. ed in removing the chalk and rubbish heard a considerable noise, like the grunting of a hog, and communicating the circumstance to Mr Poole, he desi red them to remove several huge pieces of fragments which stood in the direction of the stye; upon doing which they discovered the poor creature alive, after being confined without sustenance for five months and nine days. It appears that the stye was hollowed out of the solid rock; therefore, upon the cliff falling, it did not affect it otherwise than blocking up the doorway; the air, of course, must have been admitted through the crevices of the rock, and the animal must have had a considerable deal of sleep, or life could not have been sustained. The stye being about four feet wide, and as many high, several persons have crept in, and had evident signs how the poor creature has gnawed and sucked the

chalk, in order to satisfy the cravings of nature; yet, notwithstanding the sufferings and confinement endured, it was very lively, and not at all alarmed at the number of persons who went to see it. The bristles of his back are as white as the driven snow; but for flesh, there is hardly a vestige remaining, the back-bone being as sharp as a knife: when the cliff fell, the weight was supposed eight score, but now it is reduced to two and a half or three score. By proper measures life has been preserved.

relate, she buried alive in a field near Tottridge. After this disclosure, the unhappy wretch appeared more resigned, and expired almost immediately. The circumstance had such an effect upon the people of the neighbourhood, that no one would stay with the corpse during the night previous to the bu

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10th.-THE REGENT'S BRIDGE.Yesterday being the day appointed for laying the foundation stone of the new bridge on the Thames from Milbank to Vauxhall, a great number of sons were assembled, notwithstanding the uninviting aspect of the day. They were admitted to view the interesting scene by means of tickets, and were accommodated with seats in a sort of inclosed arena. About two thousand persons were present. Among the company were a great number of ladies, who, in despite of the "pelting of the pitiless storm," occupied the stations allotted to them from the hour of one till near three o'clock, when Lord Dundas and the gentlemen on the committee arrived. Their arrival was announced by a salute of twentyone guns.

A young woman, named Susan Rudson, died a few days since at a small village called Mill-hill, near Hendon, Middlesex. Her complaint was what is generally termed a galloping consumption, which arose from her taking, no doubt, at different times, poisonous medicines, procured, as she said, by her seducer, but unsuccessfully, for the purpose of producing abortion; and the last unhappy offspring was the fifth child.-For several days previous to her dissolution she appeared to struggle under the most violent convulsions possible for any human being to endure, and exhibited all the horrors of imagination arising from a Ceremonial. After the company mis-spent life. A few moments before were arranged in their respective pla death closed her eyes, she declared she ces, Mr Rennie, the engineer, laid could not die until she had unburthen- some mortar in the cavity made in the ed her conscience. A clergyman was lower stone to receive the glass case, sent for, but to him she would say no- gave Lord Dundas the trowel to thing; but called out for a Mrs Mac- spread the same, and then handed to kay, who had given her nourishment his lordship the glass case containing during her illness. This miserable the coins, medals, and plate of inscripcreature then related how she had false- tion, which his lordship bedded in and ly sworn her two first children (now covered with mortar. The noble lord, alive) to an innocent man, and how in laying the stone of the bridge, said, she had disposed of three other born" In the name, and as the representa since. The first, a boy, she destroyed as soon as born, and buried under a tree in a garden near Dors-lane; the second, a girl, met with a similar fate, and she buried it behind a public-house called the Adam and Eve, Mill-hill; the last child, a girl also, shocking to

tive of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, I lay the foundation stone of this bridge, to be called Regent's Bridge." After which the top bed of the stone was covered with mortar, and the upper stone lowered upon it; Mr Rennie then gave his lordship the

mallet to strike a few blows on the upper stone, which was followed by three cheers. The chairman, on naming the bridge, said, "In the name of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, I christen this bridge, to be so called from henceforth and for ever Regent's Bridge." The chairman advanced, and on naming the bridge aloud, broke a bottle of wine on the stone; which operation was also cheered, and a salute of 21.guns fired, in compliment to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and as a notice that the ceremony was concluded.

Coins in the glass case, also deposited in the cavity of the foundation stone. A guinea, a half-guinea, a seven shilling piece, in gold; a dollar, a shilling, a six-pence, four-pence, three-pence, two-pence, and pennypiece, in silver; a two-pence, one penny, one half-penny, and a farthing, in copper coin.

NEWMARKET.-The Jockey Club have offereda reward of 500 guineas for the discovery of the person or persons who infused poison into the different water-troughs on Newmarket Heath. An anonymous letter was sent to one of the trainers, desiring him not to water his horses at a particular trough, as he might be assured poison was put into the water. Unfortunately, several racers were allowed to drink out of it, and Sir F. Standish's colt by Young Eagle, Lord Foley's Pirouette, and Lord Kinnaird's The Dandy, are since dead. No hopes being entertained for the recovery of Spaniard, Lord Foley has ordered him to be shot.

A meeting of the Jockey Club will be held in London the week after the second spring meeting, in order to draw up some resolutions in consequence of this abominable act, and for the purpose of discovering and bringing to justice the perpetrators thereof. Last week, Mrs Tuckey, wife of Lieut. Tuckey, R. N., and her two

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children, Mrs Dore, Mrs Allen, Mrs Mount, and her daughter, arrived at Portsmouth, from Morlaix. The three first-named ladies went from hence in a cartel, for the purpose of proceeding to the depot prisons where their husbands are confined. After being detained at Morlaix for five weeks for passports, they were ordered to be sent back again to England, with any other women that should arrive.-There is no part of Buonaparte's conduct which so much discovers the malignancy and hardness of his heart, as his treatment of the prisoners whom the chances of war have placed within his iron power.

IMPORTS. From a return just presented to the House of Commons, it appears that we imported last year,

1,387,020 quarters of wheat;
503,422 cwt. of flour;

533,613 quarters of oats; and
38,226 bolls of oatmeal.

Of this quantity the imports were——

From France, 334,806 quarters of wheat, and 202,922 cwt. of flour;

From Holland, 189,016 quarters of wheat. From Germany, 145,186 ditto; and From Poland and Prussia, 296,756. From Denmark and Norway, 110,935 quarters.

and 210,209 cwt. of flour. From America, 34.829 quarters of wheat,

Hence more than one third of the wheat, and nearly one half of the flour, came from France and Holland; while from America we imported not more flour than we did from the countries with which we are at war; and the quantity of wheat from America did not exceed one fortieth part of the whole quantity imported.

There is a most extraordinary trial coming on in the Court of Common Pleas, Bolton v. the Queen, for 44,000l., a charge made for instructions given to the Princesses in writing, drawing, &c. Her Majesty has entered the plea of Assumpsit, and also the sta-. tute of Limitations. These have been

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replied to, and the case will probably be tried in the sittings after the term. Mr Bolton also brought a charge against the Princess Elizabeth for 12,000l.; but her royal highness has been advised to file a bill in equity against him.

The late Mr Abraham Newland, whose life had been so respectable as to give death no terrors beyond what human nature must feel at the approach of such an awful crisis, was found, a few hours before he died, by his physician, reading a newspaper. The doctor expressed his admiration at see ing him possess so much ease and serenity at such a period.-"Why," said Mr. Newland, "as I am about to engage in a journey to another world, for which I have endeavoured to prepare myself, I am willing to take with me the latest intelligence from this!" THE FRENCH EAGLES.-On Saturday morning the gratifying spectacle of depositing the trophies of British heroism took place on the parade in St James's Park. On the left of the party formed for mounting guard in the park, facing the Horse Guards, were stationed one hundred grenadiers, accompanied by their full band, in white gaiters; they formed into four divisions, paraded to the Tilt Yard, their band playing the Grenadiers' March before the guard of the day, and received the six eagles and colours which had been so gallantly wrested from the enemy. Six serjeants of the company, carrying the eagles, &c. &c. between the four divisions, marched in double open order, with arms advanced, the band playing "God save the King." They marched round the parade in ordinary time, and arriving before the British flag, the eagles and ensigns were lowered. They then proceeded through the Horse Guards to Whitehall Chapel, amidst the acclamations of thousands, who attended this national testimony of British gallantry. The Dukes of York,

Cambridge, and Glocester, with a large assemblage of military officers, and many beautiful and elegant ladies, were present. General Sir John Doyle, the commander of the 87th regiment, which took the eagle at Barrosa, was present, mounted on a beautiful Arabian cream-coloured horse. The ground was kept by a detachment of the guards, and between the Horse Guards and Whitehall the life guards paraded to preserve order. The ceremony was awfully grand and impressive in the chapel, which was crowded by all the beauty and fashion in town, The French eagles were placed three on each side, and upon a level with the altar. The French colours were suspended from the gallery, over the altar: The Earl of Liverpool gave a grand breakfast on the occasion to all the cabinet ministers, and other distinguished characters who attended the ceremony in the park, and were present also at that which took place in the chapel,

On Monday last, died, after a tedious illness, which he bore with the greatest fortitude and complacency. Felix McCarthy, Esq., long well known for his eccentricity and benevolence; and latterly forthe embarrassments brought upon him by both. It is but justice to his surviving friends to say, that they were not unmindful of him in his sufferings; and a noble earl, in particular, whose name is uniformly associated with every thing generous, not only came forward in the most liberal manner to his present aid, but also exerted his influence successfully to provide a comfortable establishment for the remainder of his days, if providence had not cut them short. Mr M'Carthy was the author of several pamphlets upon subjects of temporary interest at the periods when they were written. His last production was one of consi derable length and comprehension, upon the question of the Catholic veto

Mr M'Carthy was remarkable for his great stature, bulk, and strength, which being united with a courage no less singular, rendered him extremely formidable when provoked by insult, though, like most men so gifted, he was by his natural disposition extremely placid, good humoured, and for bearing.

On Tuesday, the remains of Richard Cumberland, Esq., were removed from his residence to the collegiate church of St Peter, Westminster, attended by his relatives and friends. On their ar rival at Poets' Corner, the different officers in their robes, together with the dean, and the chapter clerk, his son, belonging to the abbey, escorted the corpse into church, chanting the choir for the burial of the dead, and proceeded to the grave near the shrine of Garrick; and on the officers resting the corpse, the company were conduct ed to the pews; after which the dean read an eulogium on his departed friend, with great feeling and emotion, descanting on his literary attainments, and the excellent qualities with which he had been possessed. The funeral service being ended, the body was deposited in the ground; when the company got into their carriages, and proceeded slowly to their respective homes. Several of the performers belonging to the theatres attended the ceremony.

On the 12th instant, about five o' clock in the afternoon, a destructive phenomenon appeared at Bensall, in the Peak of Derbyshire. A singular motion was observed in a cloud of a serpentine form, which moved in a circular direction, from S. by W. to N., extending itself to the ground. It began its operations near Hopton, and continued its course about five or six miles in length, and about four or five hundred yards in breadth, tearing up plantations, levelling barns, walls, and miners' cots. It tore up large ash trees, carrying them from 20 to 30

yards; and twisted the tops from the trunks, conveying them from 50 to 100 yards distance. Cows were lifted from one field to another, and injured by the fall; miners' buddle-tubs, wash vats, and other materials, carried to a considerable distance, and forced into the ground, This was attended with a most tremendous hail storm: stones

and lumps of ice were measured from nine to twelve inches in circumference.

15th.-WIRKSWORTH, DERBYSHIRE.-On Sunday last, about half past five o'clock, a tremendous whirlwind or tornado, immediately after a short thunder and hail storm, began, as far as we can learn, near Kirk-Ireton. Its appearance was an immense cloud, in form of a balloon, whirled round with incredible swiftness, having a pipe or tail hanging down to the earth about 300 yards wide, darting continually up and down, the force of which nothing appears to have been able to resist, which it caught in its course, taking Kirk-Ireton, part of Cawlow and Hopton, which it has laid in a complete state of ruins.—It is impossible to convey an adequate idea of the scene immediately after it had passed, and the destruction so instantly occasioned by it. Houses were unroofed, and barns and out buildings entirely and in part unroofed and thrown down; hay and corn stacks carried away and dispersed; trees of all sizes torn up by the roots and broken off in the middle, being twisted in several instances into splinters.

BOXING.-The match betwixt Mo. lineux and Rimmer, for 100 guineas, took place yesterday at Moulsey Hurst, the place where the celebrated Game Chicken gained a conquest, and which is also noted for many other exhibitions of note. It would be needless to state any thing respecting Molineux, who is well known by his late battle with Crib. Rimmer, his antagonist, made his debut on this occasion, having

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