THE NATIONALREGIgTEW. ous, and,drew the attention of some of the peace officers, he 'moved into the centre of the pit, IN Mere he renewed his incite• smut to riot, and annoyed the peaceable part of the audience by his violent and unmannerly behaviour; and whilst thus ev erting himself, the officers rushed forward and took him into cus:ody. This charge was corroborated by a Mr. Davis, the Surveyor of Bloorusbury-square. Mr. Robson, in his defiance, said, that his coughing and sneezing were purely natural, and originated in the cloud of dust that Was thrown up by the violent motion of the people in the pit ; be said, he felt no concern for his situation, as, how ever obnoxious his conduct night have been, it was dictated by a desire to support a righlecus cause.---" Ordered to find bail, which he did immediately, an was discharged. Wedesday a man was brought before Mr. Graham the Sitting Magistrate, charged with having taken Mr. Winholt's hat from hint a few evenings since in the pit of Covent-Garden. Theatre. It appeared that the . prisoner bad pawned the hat, and con verted the moll-'y in his own use. The pa..vnbroker, with wham the prisonerbad pawned the hat, appeared and. identified his person ; he was therefore convicted in the penalty of 40s. and It. 4s. pd. the value of the hat, which the prisoner paid. W ihholt received the value of his hat and half the penalty. Mr. David Forster, of No. 66, Basinghall-street, was brought before the Magistrates at seven o'clock en Wednesday evening, charged by two persans, the one named John Goddard, and the other George Farmer, with riotous conduct in the pit of Covent-Carden Theatre, towards the termination of the first act of the performance. Mr. Forster behaving improperly before the Sitting Magis trate, he was reprimanded in the strongest manlier fOrhis con duct, and was ordered to find bail. Two gentlemen, his friends, Mr. Robson, and Mr. Bryan, instantly came forward, and became his sureties, and he vas discharged. The next persims brought forward were Mr. James .Tohnson, grocer, Cracechurch-street ; and Mr. John Tvler, fish-sales man, of Billiwzgate, they were charged by Mr. J. Binii:!on with repeatedly crying, Silence! in the back boxes, wiiii in tent to create riot, and interrupt the performince; the charge was further supported by two other persons, attendants of the Theatre. Mr. Johnson declared, that his cries of silence arose solely from a wish to stop the tumult that existed, so as to enable him to di, tinguish the voice of the performers ; and Mr. Tyler swore by 6—d, that the charge exhibited against him was erroneous..—Ordered to find bail. Mr. Graham then fined Mr Tyler two skillinA.s, for profanely swearing one oath in 1113 presence, which, with three shillings costs, be immediately paid. Mr. David Forster was brought in a second time in ctF•tody from the pit, and char4ed by - Mr. Egerton Cutler, of 'Blooms bury-square! with haranguing the people in the pit, and pro moting riot nod distuthanee by his general conduct. Ordered again to tod hail. Goddard, the witness against Mr. Forster in :be first charge, then applied for a warrant to apprehend a person named 1:-yan, one of the bail for 7 ,11 r. Far. , ler, for an a:-cult. he !•tlicil, that on his return to the pi:, Mr. Bryan poimed him out as an informer, and they tore the skirts of his coat nearly off, Which he exhibited in a very ragged state as a proof of his assertiau. Mr. Graham granted the warrant, and at the coneltv.ion Of the performance, Mr. Br\ an was brought from the Theatre by some of the Officers, !attended, by an imm:oise crowd of the O. P.'s who made a tren;eodous noise at the fiont of the (Mice, in proof of their displeasure. Mr. Bryan was ordered to .fiod hail. Two gentlemen offered to swear that the charge was fal , e; but as the informant positively swore to the correctness of his statement, their evi• deuce w as not received. Several persons were then brought in from the door of the °slice fur disorderly conduct in the .street, some of whom were discharged with a reprimand. and one was ordered to Lind bail for attempting to strike an officer. Last Sunday morning, a poor woman, the wife of a bna:swzia s mate; was most infamousl/ plundered of br.l* all, being her hus band's three years wages, and a proseat from the Captain, amount-. lug to 2001. besi des wearing apparel, &c. by two villiaus (one of whom is a watchman,) by the folowingdeep-laid scheme, she arrived on Saturday evening, at Charing-cross. and took her place by the Liverpool Coac:i to proceed immediately to Ire land, and being called in the morning, waited for the coach under the gateway : the (mkt - ordered her to follow him, which slie .-,- .. I '39 r • but it being dark lost sight of him—when t 0 men accosted be• g. and said they .sere going by the same coach she was, and as the coach would stop at three places before it got off the stones, ad vised her to walk on with them, which she foolishly consented to. • They set of, and proceeded with her to the Cock public house, in Dyot-street, St. Giles's. She treated them with some liquor, and having put her bundle on the bar, in expectation every mi nute of the coach stopping, w hick contained her 200/. one 'if them decamped with-it, the other said he sup p05:741 he was taking it to the coach. In a few minutes he told her the maw had run away with her bundle, and that he would pursue him, and bring him back, but never returned. Thos left %I . ithoot knowing where she was. ora single person in England, and rub bed of the whole of her property, brought her into such a state of mind that she immediately cut ber throat, but the knife did not penetrate far enough to endanger her life. In jostilication, she said, she might as well lose her life as her money. In th Airlorn state an houest sailor took compassion on her, and tom.' tier to his apartments, where she fared as he and his wife did during Sunday, and on Monday took her to Row -stress, w here 'Treadway, the constable, undertook to istvestignte the business; and in the meantime took her under his protection and procured her a lodging. He learnt at Dy ot-street that one of the men's name was Daley, a watchman, the other man was only knouts by sight. Daley underwent no examination, tied acknowled;reil being one of the men who was with the prosecutri x, but de nied knowing who the other man was, or where he nos to he found. He was committed for further examination. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. A woman of the name of a pretended prophetess, hat been committed from the Marlborough street office, for defraud ing Ann Smith of 11. 17s. under pretence of disclosiog future :'vents. The Sybil obtained the money at various times, and she also got posseision of the greater port of the clothes of thq credulous girl. The prosecution was instituted by the com plainant's mistress. As a hackney-coachman of the name of Hiveson, who haft taken up a fare at Covent-Garden Theatre on '.lontlay night, and who w:.! inebriated, was - proceeding along Belton street, he fell from his hoz, and fractnred his head io so silo , k ing a manner, that he died on being conveyed to the hospiioi.--- The boys; proceeded with the coneh wi:hout the %now ted:te the person 3 within that the accident had happ , .ned, 'lntel it 1,•;;:: - turned over in St. Giles' but no erson was hurt. A man of the name Norton, i 3 a custody, for stealing ;a --- horse from the livery stables at Mourg:ite. Chi A:ooday he emit his throat: he perpetrated the horrid deed with a td zor, and to enable himself to have power to effect his purpose, ite tied the blade fast to tiie with ,osne worsted, with w air!' he halt hung a fowl to roast on Friday se - nolo:4M. lie remoias in the House of Correction in a very dangerous state. DIED. On Tuesday sennight, in Seymour-place, after a long and pitiful illne►s, John George, Lord Momon. This most amiable and deeply regretted young Nobleman had just entered his 14iir year. Ile succeeded his father, the late Lord, is 1806, anti the following sear married Lady Sarah Saville, daughter to the Earl and Countess of Mexborough, by tvhoia he has left a sou, horn in March last. John Stiatford Collins, Esq. solicitor, of Ross, Herefordshire. }J had rode over to AVhitehall, near that place, to inspect ,oiter alterations going on there, and had entered a house. but a w minutes, before he fell back in his chair and expired. At his house in Pall-Mall, SiC Frederick Morton Eden, Bart. On Saturday, at ltanskill, in the 100th ear of his age,. Mr. Thomas Marriott, late of-Doncaster Stard. Io Hans-place, Lieut. Colonel Henry Broworigg, Deputy Adjutant of the Forces in the Island of Ceylon. At his seat at Newland, in Bucks, Sir Henry Thomas of, many years a Deputy Lieutenant, and nu active hlagiArate in that and other counties, aged 7(4. On Saturday sennight, George Knapp, Esq. M. P. for the borough of Abingdon. His death wits occasioned by his being thrown out of his gik on his head, about a fortnight ago 0 A.• fordshire ; and this being neglected, brought on au ath•ctoko u the brain and a fever, which . - proved fatal. • At Dumfries, Mrs. Aramina Maxwdl, she unfortunately fell into the lire, and before she • received astistunoe, the;.d fully bunt, that she e‘p!red on Sunday. di a NOV. 26. i ti