SURREY.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.-Adam Lee, Thomas Lee, and Eleanor his wife, were indicted at the Surrey Assizes, Kingston, for a highway robbery, by stopping Elizabeth Collier on the 21st of October last, and forcibly taking from her her clothes, pockets, money, &c. The prisoners were three gipsies, and the case excited a considerable degree of interest, on account of the cruel manner in which the prosecutrix had been treated. Elizabeth Collier, when called, was in a very languid and debilitated state, from the ill usage she had received. She stated, that she lived, in October last, at Horsham, in that county, with a Mr. Giles. On the morning of the 21st of October, she was sent to Walton, by her mistress; and on her return home she saw the three prisoners. The woman gipsy asked her if she would have her fortune told? she replied, no; she knew her fortune very well. Immediately the prisoner, Thomas Lee, came up to her, and caught her by putting his arm round her neck. The other came up, and they dragged her towards the park paling of Sir John Frederick's park. While the men were dragging her, the woman kicked her several times. They then loosened a paling from the park, and dragged her through the aperture into the old park. Here they abused her very much, by beating her violently. She fainted away, and as she recovered, she found that they had stripped off her gown, pockets, petticoat, and left her almost naked. She made a noise, but they were not gone; and they told her, if she made any

drowned." The prisoner pulled him out; the boy had a very large cloth over his shoulders, and shook with cold. Witness said, "I'll have a warrant and take you up." Prisoner d-d him, || and wanted him to fight. Another witness met the prisoner and deceased at night; the boy was down on his hands and knees in the road; prisoner said the boy was drunk; put his stick to him, and said, “You rascal, get up."-The boy said, "Don't beat me, I'll never run from you no more. Witness got off his horse, and attempted to raise the boy, but he fell on his hands and knees. Prisoner said, You rascal, go along!" and gave the boy a kick, and kicked him down.-The boy cried, "I'll never run from you again." Prisoner threw the boy across his shoulder, with his head hanging down. Another witness stated that he saw the prisoner in the toll-house, at Over, at nine o'clock. He asked "if the fire was at leisure;" witness answered "Yes." He brought the boy on his shoulders, as he would a dead calf; his head hanging down the prisoner's back. Witness asked the prisoner how he could carry the boy in that manner; to which the prisoner replied, "The rascal ran away into the ditch, and I have carried him so three miles." Witness saw the boy gasp once, and no more; and observed to the prisoner, the boy was dead. Prisoner said, "There is something the matter," and then rubbed his thighs and limbs by the fire, and cried, "Jem, Jem!" Witness said, "It is no use to call, for the boy is dead.”—Mr. Freeman, a druggist, Mr. Davies, a chemist, and Mr. Cother, surgeon, all of Glouces-more noise they would murder her. She then

ter, were examined; the latter was of opinion that the boy died in consequence of ill treatment. The Jury pronounced the prisoner Guilty, and he was condemned; but in consequence of some peculiar circumstance in his favour, was reprieved.

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described the dress of the persons of all the three. She said that Thomas Lee, the taller gipsy, had more hair and whiskers. They were taken the next day, and she recognised them again, except that the whiskers of Thomas Lee had been shaved off. The Jury found the prisoners guilty. The men were executed on Monday April 13, and the woman is to be transported.

SUSSEX.

SUDDEN DEATH.-The following occurrence happened at Kimbolton, a market town in this county, on the 29th of March-As the Rev. Mr. INSANITY-On Thursday, April 2, a passenCodling, the resident Curate, was preaching from ger in a stage coach, which runs daily from Chithe 17th, 18th, and 19th verses of the 118th Psalm, chester to Brighton, was seized, near Shoreham, "I shall not die, but live, and declare the works with a violent fit of insanity, and bit a lady, who of the Lord. The Lord hath chastened me sore; was in the coach with him, in a most shocking but he hath not given me over unto death. Open manner, about the face and arms. The coachto me the gates of righteousness; I will go into man and outside passengers, hearing her screams, them, and I will praise the Lord;"-he suddenly got down, and with much difficulty rescued her stopped short, and exlaimed!" I can't!-I from the jaws of the maniac. Two gentlemen can't!" and immediately sunk down in the then got inside, and pinioning his arms, prevent. pulpit, and almost instantly expired, to the greated him from doing farther mischief. He was terror of his auditory, lodged in the poor-house at Brighton,

YORKSHIRE.

PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.-A remarkable feat of horsemanship and providential escape occurred lately at Doncaster. A servant of Mr. Williamson, of York, horse-dealer, trying a horse on the road towards the High-street, between the Rein Deer and Ram Inns, was unable to hold it, and the animal running furiously across the street, sprang through the shop-window of Mr. Whalley, shoemaker. The rider seeing his danger, crouched down his head, or must have been killed on the spot, as the height from the ground to the under part of the beam was only seven feet and a balf. A counter being near the window, the man was thrown upon it, and the horse prevented getting wholly into the shop. The window was shivered to atoms, but neither the horse nor rider much injured.

On the 11th of April, at St. Martin's Church, Mr. John M'Intosh, of the Orduance Depart ment, to Miss Harriet Jane Humfrey, youngest danghter of the late W. Humfrey, Esq. late Ordnance Store Keeper in the Island of Jersey.

Lately, James Kenney, Esq. to Mrs. Holcroft, of Camden-street, relict of T. Holcroft, Esq. At Lincoln, Corporal Dupre, to Miss N. Misa Trollope, with a fortune, of £12,000. Trollope fell in love with him while he was on parade with the soldiers; the next morning she communicated her sentiments to him, which he joyfully accepted, and on the following day he led her to the altar of Hymen.

DIED.

At her house at Beaconsfield, Mrs. Burke, the amiable relict of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke; she was in ber 70th year.

Suddenly, Mr. William Till, of Pentonville, greatly regretted by his ninnerons relatives.

Lately, at Botcherby, near Carlisle, at the advanced age of ninety, Miss Margery Jackson, a maiden lady, who was for many years an inhabitant of that city. This woman was a complete miser; she died worth fifty thousand pounds, hoarded by penury. Eighteen hundred guineas in gold were found in her house at her death.

At Spilsby, far advanced in years, Mrs. Sykes; who had an annuity left her by the wife of the late Ellis Key, of Partney, on the singular conditions, that she adhered to the Catholic religion, and admit none of her relations to reside with her.

Lately at Macclesfield, aged 100, Mary Nor bury. This provident wonian had deposited in the hands of a few friends, by a penny a week, enough to purchase an oak coffin and pay the expences of her funeral.

At Whitchurch, Hants, aged 83, Lieutenant Thomas Thomson, of the Invalids: he was an Officer upwards of 64 years, and twice severely wounded at the memorable battle of Minden, which caused him to be lame, and unfit for active service.

SWINDLERS. At the East Riding Sessions, at Beverley, came on the trial of the Mills's, alias Slim, who have lately made such depredations on the public, particularly in the town of Leeds. The Court was crowded at a very early hour, so that admittance for the witnesses could scarcely be obtained. The Counsel for the prosecution made a very animated speech on the subject of the various frauds the parties had been guilty of, in obtaining goods under the assumed name of Slims. A tradesman from Leeds proved the deceptions they had practised there, and their sudden flight from that town; and Miss Watmow, a milliner at Hull, and her assistant, proved the impositions which they had used against them, in obtaining cloaks, pelisses, and dresses. The prisoners' Counsel contended, that the statement made by the daughter, of their mother having used the shop, was unknown to the mother, and that they might really imagine their mother had used the shop before, and that the adoption of the name of Slim was only to avoid the At Ealing, in her soth year, Mrs. Bumby. At odium, &c. to which the name of Mills would the age of 50 she married; and on the day of her have subjected them. The Jury, after deliberat-marriage, immediately after coming from church, ing about half an hour, acquitted the mother and two daughters. The prisoners were by no means of an interesting appearance, either as to their manners or persons. They are detained to be tried at the ensuing Sessions, on a bill found against them for a conspiracy; and had this not been the case, there were persons waiting to arrest them for the debts they incurred at Leeds, and other places, in their predatory tour.

Suddenly, Sir William Plomer, Alderman of Coleman-street Ward.

The Rev. James Bowden, of Tooting, Surrey. While preaching at Hammersmith, on Sunday, April 12, from these words, "Submit yourselves to God," he was suddenly taken ill, and conveyed from the chapel to a friend's house, where he expired in a few hours after.

a mental derangement took place, from which she never wholly recovered. What is very remarkable, a horn sprang, within the last few years, length of nearly six inches; another also made from one side of her forehead, and grew to the its appearance, but owing it is supposed, to her frequent rubbing it, its growth was stopped.

At Row Manse, on the 25th ult. the Rev. John Allan, in the 75th year of his age, and 51st year of his ministry. It is remarkable that this is the first time the parish of Row has been vacant since the year 1719, Mr. Allan and his father having served the cure during 93 successive years.

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