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scendant of a former factor, he found certain leases and old letters. These were transmitted by a trusty messen ger to Bradley, who, with the assistance of Fanning (Crawfurd's two associates) deleted certain passages in the letters, and substituted some thing relative to this James Crawfurd, and for the names of some of the wit nesses, which were also deleted, that of Crawfurd was likewise substituted. The singular ingenuity displayed in these alterations struck every one who had access to see the papers, the hand-writing and colour of the ink being not only most successfully imitated, but the fabrick of the paper, though old and worn, was preserved entire and uninjured. The papers had, in fact, so much the appearance of genuine deeds, that the deception was in part completely successful. At this juncture, Fanning, to whose dexterity his associates were indebted for the success of their plans, turned king's evidence; and having made a declaration before the sheriff, intimated to Crawfurd's agent the whole of the circumstances. In consequence of Fanning's information, Bradley and Crawfurd were soon after apprehend ed, and the declaration emitted by Bradley opened a scene of the most deliberate fraud.

Several witnesses were called in corroboration of the declarations; and the exculpatory evidence only proved the good character of the prisoners previous to this transaction, and the bad character of Fanning the witness, on whose evidence they were convicted. The point chiefly insisted on by the prisoners' counsel was, that, as no patrimonial interest was affected, no crime was committed.

10th.-RIOTS AT NOTTINGHAM. -It is with great pleasure we state,

that the destruction of frames this week has been much less than that of the last.

On Monday evening one frame was broken at Bobber's Mill, and carried clean away; and one on Tuesday night, at the same place. On the last-mentioned evening, one frame was broken at Basford, and the same even. ing two were broken at Taghill, in the vicinity of Heanor, in Derbyshire, and five at Burton Joice.

On Tuesday the Royal Buckinginghamshire Militia arrived here, in 38 waggons, they having left Woodbridge barracks, in Suffolk, at 7 o'clock on Friday evening last. Yesterday two field-pieces arrived, which belong to the regiment. On Wednesday two more troops of the huzzars likewise entered this town. Two London magistrates at present here have been using their utmost endeayours to learn whether politics have any connection with the present troubles in this neighbourhood; we understand they are convinced of the contrary.

Committed for trial at the assizes, William Barnes, of Basford, charged with having, in company with divers other persons at present unknown, wilfully, maliciously, feloniously broken, and destroyed, and damaged two frames.

LETTER FROM LUD.-The following is a literal copy of a letter accompanying returned articles which had been stolen at the time when frames were broken at Clifton :

Unknown Stranger, I have entrusted thees Articles into your Care and I do insist that you will see that they are Restored to their respective oners it is with extream Regrat that I inform yow hau thay Came into my hans when I came out with my men

their weir sum joind us that I Never had ad with me before and it wear these Villinds that plundred but ass we wear goin out of Clifton one of my Men came and told me that he Believd that those Men ad got some thinck that they had no Buisiness with I theirfore gave horders that they should be searchd and what we found on them we left the things at the Lown End and I hope that the oners has got agen we were gust agoen to have hang'd one of the Villends when we weir informed that the Solders weir at hand and we thot it Right to Retreat.

N. B. The Men that had the things weir entire strangers to my horders or they Never dworst not have tuch'd one thinck but they have been punished for their vileny for one of them have been hangd for 3 Menet and then Let down agane I ham a friend to the pore and Distrest and a enemy to the oppressers thron.

(Signed)

GEN. LUD.

Letters from Portugal state, that Marmont arrived at Salamanca on the 21st ult. to assemble his troops for the relief of Ciudad Rodrigo, supposing it would make a much longer resistance. He was there joined by Dorsenne, from Leon, and could have collected his army by the 24th. On the evening of the 21st, he received accounts of the fall of the place, and immediately countermanded his orders for the marching of the troops.

In half an hour after the fortress was carried, Lord Wellington and Marshal Beresford were within the walls, forwarding the new arrangements of the place. General Hill was said to have actually crossed the Tagus, in his approach to Lord Wellington, whose intention, it was sup. posed, was to advance.

An officer who remained in the

fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo the whole of that night on which it was stormed, says, he had various opportunities of conversing with the French prisoners, who averred, that the intrepidity of the allies surpassed all they had ever seen in military performances.

Our army entered the place on the 19th, at nine p. m. and great was the slaughter. The garrison, with the exception of 1200 men, and the governor, were put to the sword. Gen. Craufurd fell in the assault.

Subscriptions have been entered into in various towns in England, and on board different ships of war, for the laudable purpose of assisting the widows and children of the unfortunate men who perished in his majesty's ships St George, Defence, and Hero, on their return from the Baltic.

12th.-SUICIDE.-Late on Tuesday night, or early yesterday morning, Mr Marshal, one of the king's yeomen of the guard, put a period to his existence, by hanging himself in the king's guard-chamberin St James's Palace. It was his turn to do the duty of sleeping in the guard-room on Tuesday night. He entered the guard-room at nine o'clock on that duty. He has been for several years past in a low, desponding way, bordering on insanity, and he discovered evident symptoms of insanity on Tuesday afternoon; so much so that one of his brethren did some of his duty for him.

17th.- Saturday the sum of 100,000l. as voted by parliament, was paid to the Prince Regent, to defray the expences of assuming the royal functions, from the Exchequer, without any deductions for property tax.

20th.- -Messages were on Tuesday delivered to both houses from

the Prince Regent, announcing that he has created Lord Wellington a British earl, and recommending that an additional annuity of 2000l. be granted to his lordship.

21st.-A Cadiz Mail arrived on Wednesday with advices to the 4th instant. The Cortes have created Lord Wellington a Grandee of Spain of the first class, with the title of Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo. It is not a little singular, that the first act of the new Spanish regency, as well as the first act of the Prince Regent, in the exercise of his full authority, has been to confer a title of honour on the same individual.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-Court of KING'S BENCH.Sittings at Westminster Hall.-FORGERY.-The King v. Colonel Browne.-This was an information against the defendant, Colonel Browne, fora forgery at common law. The information charged him with having forged certain instruments purporting to be signed by George Harrison, Esq. one of the law clerks to the treasury, and by the Hon. Cecil Jenkinson, Esq. one of the under secretaries of state, with a view to defraud government, by surreptitiously obtaining a grant of 6000 acres of land in the island of St Vincents.

The Attorney-General stated the circumstances of the case as follows. In the year 1809, Colonel Browne represented to government that he had a large gang of negroes which he had nurtured with particular care, and had succeeded in reducing them to such domestic habits, that they multiplied as fast as by the course of nature they would die off; and he prayed for an allotment of crown lands in the island of St Vincents. It was thought that he had claims upon the government of this country,

having suffered as an American loyalist; and as government had at that time a part of the lands formerly allotted to the Caribbs, in consequence of a grant made to him of 6000 acres. It was discovered that a part of these lands had been granted to other occupiers, who held the will of the crown, and as they had expended their money to reduce the land to a state of cultivation, it was thought inequitable to expel them, and they therefore were allowed to purchase, which was done to the amount of 60,0001.-But in order to indemnify. Col. Browne for this disappointment, government gave him half the money, namely 30,000l. which was considered a munificent recompence. It happened, however, shortly afterwards, in the year 1810, that Sir Charles Brisbane, the governor of St Vincent's, received a dispatch under the official seal of the secretary of state's office, directing him to make a grant of the same quantity of land which had been deducted from the six thousand acres of land, originally granted to Colonel Browne, which direction purported to be by order of the Lords of the Treasury, and was signed by Mr Jenkinson, the undersecretary of state. A discussion however ensuing with Col. Browne's agent, the governor thought proper to send home for instructions, when it was discovered that the whole was a forgery, no such orders having ever issued from the secretary of state's office in England. How Colonel Browne got possession of the seal of office he was unable to state, but he should be able to prove that the papers were written, all but the signatures, in the office of a Mr Stevens, a law stationer in Chancery-lane, and that Colonel Browne brought the rough draft, and took them away

when finished. And the plan which accompanied them was drawn by a clerk in the Duke of Bedford's of fice, who was employed by Colonel Browne, so that he traced him in giving directions for the forged instrument; and it was proved no other person had any interest in the fraud. Underthese circumstances he thought no doubt could be entertained of the guilt of the defendant.

These facts were proved by Sir Charles Brisbane, Mr Harrison, Mr Jenkinson, and Mr Steele, and his clerks, who engrossed the papers by Colonel Browne's directions.

Lord Moira, Sir Alured Clarke, and several gentlemen of rank, gave a high character of Colonel Browne ; but the jury, without hesitation, found him Guilty.

22d. Yesterday evening Mr Benjamin Walsh was discharged from Newgate, in consequence of a pardon granted by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent.

24th. The Acteon sloop arrived from the East Indies, last from the island of St Helena. There was a mutiny at St Helena on the 23d of December, among part of the troops. They seized the lieutenant-governor, and confined him, and were proceed. ing to seize the governor. He col. lected, however, such of the troops as remained loyal, repelled the muti neers, and put an end to the mutiny. The governor immediately summoned a court martial, and tried the mutineers. Six were instantly executed. Perfect tranquillity had been restored when the Acteon left the island.

FUNERAL OF MAJOR-GENERAL ROBERT CRAUFURD.-Lord Wellington, to testify his high sense of Major-General Craufurd's great and distinguished merits and services, de

termined that he should be interred in the breach which he had so ably and heroically assaulted, as the highest honour he could confer upon him.

The light division assembled before the St Francisco convent, where their late beloved commander lay, at twelve o'clock, on the 25th of January. The fifth division lined the road from thence to the breach. The officers of the brigade of guards, of the cavalry, and of the 3d, 4th, and 5th divisions, with Lord Wellington and the whole of the head-quarters at their head; General Castanos, and all his staff; Marshal Beresford, and all the Portuguese; moved in the mournful procession.

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He was borne to his place of rest on the shoulders of the brave men whom he had led to victory. The field officers of the light division officiated as pall-bearers; Major-Ge neral Charles Stewart (Adjutant-General) was chief mourner, attended by Captain William Campbell, and Lieutenants Wood and Shawe, aidesde-camp to their late glorious commander, and by the staff of the light division.

The ceremony was as awful as affecting, as sublime as possible, and well calculated to inspire feelings of the most exalted nature; and if any other sentiment but that of the most poignant grief could have found place on this melancholy occasion, it would certainly have been envy at such an end so wept.

The breach of Ciudad Rodrigo is the monument of this admirable man, bedewed with the tears, and decked with the praises and blessings, of the whole army.

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of the weather, has proved in some degree injurious to the young wheats, by forcing them beyond their reason able growth. The early beans have suffered, by rotting in the ground, and the general sowing is much retarded from the same cause. A considerable breadth of oats has been got in upon leys in the eastern counties; but the fallowed lands are found too wet to stir for barley.-Indeed, most of the preparatory operations for spring cultivation have been suspended, from the ungenial weather. The young plants of clover are generally good; and the rye and winter tare plants shew well for spring feed. The turnips, in most counties, are running prematurely for bloom. The hay markets are lower, from the openness of the season.-Considera ble droves of beasts, principally Scots and Irish, are come to Epping Forest, and have hitherto been sold at high prices. Store sheep are somewhat cheaper. The wool trade has become a little brisker, owing to Merino fleeces selling pretty freely for 4s. 6d. and fine South-Down for 2s. per lb.

FASHIONS.-Evening Costume.An amber crape dress over white sarsnet, trimmed with pearls or white beads, with a demi-train; a light short jacket, rather scanty, with two separate fancy folds, depending about three quarters down the front of the skirt, forming in appearance a kind of Sicilian tunic, and trimmed down each division, like the bottom of the dress, with a single row of pearls; short sleeves, not very high above the elbow, fitting close to the arm, and ornamented at the top with distinct points of satin, the same colour as the dress, relieved by pearls; two rows of the same costly material, or of beads, according as the robe is or

namented, form a girdle. The hair dressed in the antique Roman style, with tresses brought together and confined at the back of the head, terminating either in ringlets or in two light knots; a braid of plaited hair drawn over a demi-turban formed of plain amber satin, with an elegantly embroidered stripe of white satin, separated by rows of pearls, and a su perb sprig of pearls in front. Necklace of one single row of large pearls, with ear-rings of the Maltese fashion to correspond. Ridicule of slate colour shot with pink; the firm base secured by a covering of pink stamped velvet, with pink tassels. Italian slippers of amber fringed with silver, or ornamented round the ankle with a row of pearls on beads.-White kid gloves.

A Winter Walking Dress.-A scarlet Merino cloth pelisse, lined with straw-coloured sarsnet, trimmed with light-coloured spotted fur, and attached with loops of black silk cordon and rich frog tassels; the broad fur in front, forming a tippet, pointed at the back. A narrow fur passes from the top of the sleeve, is brought down the side seams, and relieved by fastening of black silk cordon; four loops with frogs ornament the shoulders and cuffs; plain standing-up collar tied with cordon; a fine cashemere shawl, with brown ground, and richly variegated border, is generally thrown over the dress, in which is united both comfort and elegance A Swedish hat of the same materials as the pelisse, lined with straw colour, and fastened upon one side; the crown trimmed with two rows of narrow spotted fur, and one still narrower at the edge of the hat; a bunch of the Christmas holly in front, and two tassels falling from the summit of the crown, of black, to answer the pe

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