was unkennelled at Ystradgunlais, in the county of Brecon, which was pursued by a number of men on foot to the extremity of the parish of Lloughor, in Glamorganshire, where Reynard became quite exhausted, and was killed, after a chace, which, in a direct line, was not less than 30 miles; but, in the winding direction which the fox took, is supposed to be nearly 50 miles. The pursuers were all in at the death, but could not muster a hat or shoe amongst them, so eagerly had they followed their game, and the dogs were completely knocked up. The hardy fellows, after taking some refreshment, set out on their return home.

7th.-DUBLIN.-The special commission, for the trial of the persons accused of being concerned in the recent outrages, was opened at Clonmel, on Monday, by the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, (who delivered an impressive charge on the occasion to the grand jury), and the Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Several persons were arraigned under Lord Ellenborough's act; but, on the application of their counsel, the court allowed their trials to stand over, the prisoners not having had sufficient notice of the nature of the offence with which they were charged. Andrew Kerwick and Lowrence Dwyer were tried on an indictment charging them with having been concerned in stopping the Cork mailcoach, and taking from the guard two blunderbusses and two pistols. The evidence for the prosecution, and that for the defence, exhibited a striking example of contradictory swearing. The prisoners were acquitted. On the following day, the 5th, two unfortunate men were capitally convict ed.

A few days ago, a notorious offender, and most formidable ruffian, was taken by Mr Sheriff Bernard, accompanied by some of the peace officers of

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Cork, and a party of military. This daring villain, whose name is Laffan, had been for a long time a sort of Rugantino in Cork, exciting terror whereever he made his appearance. It was necessary to manage a man of this description with very great circumspection and stratagem, as his vigilance eluded every effort that had been made to arrest him. He was at length, however, so well watched, as to have his haunt discovered, which was so judiciously surrounded as to leave no possibility of his escape. Before he knew any thing of the sheriff's arrangement for detecting him, the room in which he worked (at brogue-making) was entered by Mr Collis, one of the peace officers, whose zeal and exertions in this, as in many other instances, deserves every commendation. The ruffian immediately took a posture of re sistance, and threw his working seat at Mr Collis, without however, fortunately, doing him any mischief; he made another blow with a loaded stick, which had more effect: it fell upon Mr Collis's hand, which it injured severely. Finding, however, that Mr Collis was not to be deterred from seizing upon him, and that a rein forcement was following him into the room, he bolted through a window, and got over a wall. Here he was beset by the sheriff's party, which he resisted with extraordinary ferocity until he received several wounds. He was, however, finally seized upon and lodged in gaol. There are different indictments against this ruffian for capital offences; and he is also a deserter from the 95th rifle corps, and from other regiments.

A few mornings ago, as the carts belonging to the Lanark Mills Com pany were proceeding from Glasgow, the principal carrier stopped for a little to settle with the tollman at the Gallow-gate; and on coming up with the carts, he discovered that à boz,

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containing a thousand pounds in notes, had been abstracted from one of them. Suspicion having naturally lighted on the carter, he was apprehended, and confessed that he took off the box, and tossed it over a hedge, where his father and two other accomplices were in waiting. The whole of them are now in custody, and almost all the money was found on the person of the father.

HOTEL ROBBER.-The man who was taken into custody on the charge of having robbed divers hotels, was re-examined yesterday. The prisoner's name is John Lawler. He was taken into custody at Wake's Hotel, in Brook-street, where he was seen to go into a sitting room, and return with some great-coats and boots, on Sunday last, when he was challenged in the hall by the waiter. Another charge was made against the prisoner from Morris's Hotel, Oxford-street, where he obtained access to a lady's bed-room, and stole articles of jewellery, &c., part of which was found in his possession. The office was crowded with proprietors of most of the hotels in the metropolis; but the prisoner was recognized by three prosecutors only, and on their several charges he was committed for trial.

A few days ago, as a dragoon was on his return from duty to his quarters, a small public house, called Barndean Hut, in the Forest, near Petersfield, in Hampshire, his attention was arrested by the cries of some person in distress, which induced him to ride up to the spot from whence they proceeded, where his humanity was shocked on beholding a woman tied to a tree, with the tears, which her situation and suffering had produced, actually frozen to her cheeks, and, horrid to relate, quite naked, having been strip ped and robbed of every article of dress by two villains, who afterwards left her in that deplorable condition.

The dragoon instantly cut the cords that bound her hands and feet to the tree, and having in some measure restored her to the use of her limbs by rubbing them, wrapped her up in his cloak, placed her on his horse, and proceeded on to his quarters, where he soon after arrived; and as he was conducting the shivering object of his care into the house, she looked through a window that commanded a view of the kitchen, suddenly shrunk back, and in a faint voice exclaimed, "There are the two men that robbed me of my all, and used me so cruelly!" The soldier, in consequence, entered the kitchen, and secured the men, who were the next day taken before a magistrate, and, after the necessary examination, fully committed to Winchester jail, for trial at the next assizes.

8th.-During the late embarkations of the dragoon horses, at the Dockyard, Plymouth, two of them were found so completely ungovernable as to frustrate all endeavours to sling them, and they were, in consequence, sent back to their barracks; but on Thursday last, a singular occurrence happened during the embarkation of the 11th dragoons. A fine spirited horse had baffled all the efforts of the dragoons, &c. to sling him, and became so ungovernable as to render it dangerous to approach him; however, a sailor, with characteristic indifference to danger, dragged the animal to the jetty head, and proceeded to put the slings under his belly, but he soon received a severe kick on his forehead, which laid it open, and the horse got loose and dashed off; when, to the astonishment of the by-standers, he wheeled round, and returned to the sailor, who lay at his full length near the jetty, or pier, and, with his right forefoot, pushed him off the jetty into the sea beneath. The sailor, though nearly stunned, swam on shore, mounted the jetty, seized the animal, and, wet

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, officiating 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 consider able 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 ful 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, I 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 d—d 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 m; 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 be