She was abandoned; and the shock had such an effect on her imagination, that she has ever since shewn signs of a disordered intellect. With a heart that shrunk from vice, she was flung on the world without a friend or a home; and in this deplorable state she became the victim of necessity. About three weeks ago, she saw an officer, who is distinguished for his gallantries, and who, by his address and attentions, so won upon her affections, that she could neither speak nor think of any other object. This fatal attachment absorded her whole soul. They entered into engage ments to live and die only for one another; and in the frenzy of this passion, or under the idea that she could not be his, and his alone, she took the desperate resolution of dying for him. She had prepared three phials of opium, two of which she swallowed, and she died with a spirit of heroism; for no persuasion nor force could make her, when seized with the nausea of the poison, take any antidote to the draught. She would not suffer the medical men to approach her; and though, after stupefaction came on, they administered every known medicine, they all failed of effect.

12th.-OLD BAILEY.-Susannah Geraine, an old woman, aged 78, was capitally indicted for feloniously uttering as true, knowing them to have been forged, several notes for 11. purporting to be notes of the Bank of England. The prisoner, who is the wife of a watchman, in the parish of St James, Clerkenwell, resided at the house No. 2. New-court, Cow cross. On the 2d of December last, she purchased some articles at the shop of Mrs Mary Clarke, in St John-street, and gave a 17. bank note in payment. The shopman had some scruples at

first about taking it; but the prisoner gave her own address, and said she would bring him another, or the money for it if he did not like it. On the Thursday following, she came to take up the note again, and put down 18s., promising to call the next day with the 2s.; but the shopman kept the money, promising to give her the note when she brought the remainder. As she did not come according to promise, he was induced to inquire at the Bank whether the note was genuine; but it was there pronounced to be a forgery. He was advised by the Bank officers to act cautiously, and to inquire of the woman from whom she obtained it, in order to discover whether it led to any train of accompliceship. He went accordingly, and asked her; and she answered, that it was given her by a man, whose name or residence she did not then know, but promised to find out both, and inform him next day. She failed in the performance of this promise also. Information respecting the circumstance being given at Marlborough-street office, some of the police officers were sent to her lodgings in the morning of the 16th December, where they found the old woman and her husband in bed. They interrogated her how she came by the note; and she said then that she had found this note and several others. The husband then came forward, and told the officers his wife was an old fool, and telling them lies, for it was he who found the notes in a tin case, when going the rounds upon his beat in St James's Churchyard. The officers now took them both in custody, and searched the apartment, where they found eleven one pound, and four two pound notes wrapt up in an oil cloth, and concealed up the chimney; all of them

upon examination proved to be forged.

The prisoner had nothing more to urge in her defence, than that her husband found the notes.-Guilty, Death. The husband, Geraine, was immediately afterwards tried, upon an indictment for having in his pos⚫ session the aforesaid bank notes, and found guilty.

13th.-SURRY SESSIONS.-Mary Matthews was indicted for uttering a counterfeit sixpence, and having a counterfeit shilling in her possession at the same time. It appeared that, in October last, the prisoner went into the Golden Last public-house in the Borough, and calling for half a pint of beer, tendered sixpence in payment, and having received the change, left the house. The landlady immediately discovered the sixpence to be a bad one, and directed the servant to follow the prisoner, and not lose sight of her till she was taken into custody. The servant accordingly kept her in view till she was apprehended by Goff, one of the officers of Union-Hall. When taken into custody, she had a bad shilling concealed in one hand, and one shilling and four-pence, good money, in the other. In searching her, the officer discovered six bad shillings, a piece of bees-wax, and some black powder, concealed under one of her arms. Mr Powell, inspector to the mint, was examined, who stated, that the bees-wax and powder were used to rub the base coin with, immediately previous to its being put in circulation, to take off its brightness, and give it a nearer resemblance to silver. The prisoner in her defence said, she received the money in change for half a guinea at a shop in the Botough. The jury found her Guilty.

Ann Fagan was indicted for a si

milar offence, and found Guilty. Both prisoners were sentenced to twelve months imprisonment in Kingston gaol; and the chairman (Mr Serjeant Onslow) cautioned them, that if they were again found guilty of a similar offence, the punishment would be death.

15th. About two o'clock on Friday morning, an alarming fire broke out at the city of London hotel, in Dover; it raged with the utmost violence for two or three hours, in which time it entirely consumed that building, and damaged many houses contiguous. This accident is to be attributed to the inebriety and obstinacy of a Russian, who, though repeatedly urged to permit his candle to be removed after he had retired, would not comply; and being, from intoxication, unable to take proper care of it, his curtains caught fire. He fortunately escaped from the flames by the window, and by climbing over the tops of several houses.

A few days since, the house of Mr Gustard, a woolen-draper in Bedford-street, Covent-garden, had been broke open, and robbed of superfine cloths and kerseymeres to the amount of 14001. On the day after the robbery, Mr G. received an anonymous letter, stating, that on the morning of the robbery, a cart was seen being unloaded with cloth in St Johnstreet, and the cloth carried into a house in a court in that street. Mr Gustard attended to the letter, and made inquiries respecting the circumstances as stated in the letter, and learnt that some suspicious characters lived in the house described: in consequence of which, he applied to the nearest police-office, in Hatton-garden, for assistance, and two of the officers agreed to search the house described. They went well armed

and having gained admittance, they attacked the fellow who inhabits it, who resisted most desperately; he was armed with a loaded pistol, but the officers took care to deprive him of any means of using it. They searched him, and found a number of picklock keys; and on examining the house, they found some iron crows, and other implements of housebreaking, and a quantity of cloth, supposed to be part of that stolen from Mr Gustard's shop. The fellow was secured, and taken before the magistrates at Hatton-garden of fice, when, after a hearing, he was committed for further examination.

A curious indictment was prefer red at the Norfolk sessions last week, in which a clergyman was the prosecutor, under the following cir. cumstances:-It was alleged, that on a certain Sunday, while he was preaching, the daughter of one of his parishioners came with her sister into the church, attended by a man, who carried a bag. The ladies, "with clanging stride," clattered in their pattens up the aisle-opened the door of their pew-packed their moveables therein into the bag, and after pasting a label containing the words "a pew to let," opened the door, and retreated in the same order. To punish this conduct, the indictment was preferred, but the bill was not found.

Saturday night, whilst a man was exhibiting a telescope for lunar observations at the end of Fleet-market, a gentleman passing along was induced to have a peep, and in the mean time was soon divested of his watch, and purse, containing 101. in bank notes, with which the offenders escaped.

18th.-OLD BAILEY.-THEFT, DELUSION, AND CREDUI ITY.-Mar

garet Conners and Richard Conners were charged with a capital felony, in stealing in the dwelling-house of Joseph Iredall, in King-street, Sohosquare, three gowns, two pair of sheets, and a variety of articles, to the value of more than 40s., the property of Mary Anderson.

The prosecutrix, a simple-looking young woman, stated, that she kept a mangle; in the month of May last, the female prisoner, who was then unmarried, came to lodge with her, and continued with her for some time. She afterwards assisted her to remove to a different house in the same street, where the prisoner again came to live with the prosecutrix. Shortly after she came to live with her the second time, the prisoner told her she wished to try some experiments. She accordingly began by laying the poker and shovel under the bed during the night; then cut out rings of cloth, which she placed in sand with sothernwood, and figures cut out in paper, which she placed on the chimney-piece. After this she made a cake, prepared in a particular manner, and broth, into which she put certain powders, and gave it to the witness to eat.

One night a knife was thrown at the witness from the opposite side of the room, where the prisoner and she were sitting, which the prisoner informed her had been done by the spirit of the man to whom the prisoner was now married. This was on the evening of the 8th or 9th of August. The prisoner went to the window, and talked as if she had been conversing with some one, but the witness saw nobody. She cut some bread and cheese, put it on a plate, and held it out, as if some third party had been present to partake of it. She then desired the witness to look

on the wall, which she did, when she saw on it the figure of a man about the size of a large cat. When in bed, the prisoner again desired the witness to look towards the wall, when she saw the figure of a man faintly upon it. The witness asked the prisoner what he wanted; when she informed her, that if she would lay some of her things out of her trunk, he would let her know. The witness rose out of bed, and being alarmed, laid a number of things out of her box, all of which were gone in the morning. The prisoner made a noise for a considerable time, while this was going on, as if some person were strangling her. The witness did not see any of these things again till some time afterwards, when she saw the prisoner wearing them. The articles which she saw the prisoner wearing, were not disguised or altered in any manner. When the witness noticed this circumstance, the prisoner said the apparition had told her that she must wear them, and that the witness must consent to it, for if she said any thing against it, she was to be turned into some different shape. The prisoner so completely deluded the witness, that she believed she had it in her power to do every thing she said. The man prisoner lived in the house, and had been in the witness's room that very night; but she could not distinguish if he was the apparition. It appeared liker to the shadow of a man, than to the substance. He told the witness on one occasion that he had carried off some of her property on the 2d of October. The articles which she had lost were carried off at many various times. She did not see him in the room, however, at the time alluded to, in the month of August, nor did she know of any thing that he did

that night. On her cross examination by Mr Knap, the witness said, the man prisoner had once paid his addresses to her, and had since married the woman prisoner; but she was not angry on that account, nor would have been sorry at their marriage, if they had let her property alone. The woman prisoner continued to live with her 11 weeks after the 9th of August.

James Bligh, an officer, stated, that when the prosecutrix told him her story, he went to the house of the prisoners along with another officer, and carried them, and all they could find which the prosecutrix claimed as hers, before a magistrate. The woman prisoner pressed sadly to have it hushed, and that she would make every thing right; but the witness told her it was a felony, which he could not compound.

James Noble, another officer, confirmed this statement.

Mr Justice Chambre, did not put the man on his defence, though he confessed the suspicion was strong against him, but men were not to be found guilty of felony on suspicion. The story was a very strange one, but credulity would lead some people a great way, and it was impossible to say what effect it might have on a weak and uneducated woman like Mary Anderson. If, by any fradulent contrivance, a person was induced to open a box in which his property lay, and to spread it out, and the property was taken away, that was, in point of law, a felony. The prosecutrix had been credulous in the extreme; but still, however, she was to be protected by the laws of the country. As to the capital part of the charge, that must be discharged from the consideration of the jury, it not appearing that on the evening

laid in the indictment property to the amount of 40s. had been carried off. The jury would judge if they gave credit to the story of the prosecutrix, in which case they would find the woman prisoner guilty of stealing. The jury accordingly found the woman prisoner Guilty of stealing 39s.—and the man, Not Guilty.

19th.-REMARKABLE SUICIDE.Yesterday Mr Lyon Levi, a diamond merchant, of about 50 years of age, precipitated himself from the top of the Monument,'and was literally dashed to pieces. Mr Levi attended to several appointments in the city about eleven o'clock, and transacted his usual business; and at twelve obtained admission to view the Monument. He walked several times round the outside of the iron railing before he sprung off, and in falling, the body turned over and over before it reached the ground. When near the bottom, it came in contact with one of the griffins which ornament the lower part of the building. A porter, with a load on his back, narrowly escaped the body of the deceased, which fell a few paces from him in Monument-yard. It is said, that two days ago Mr Levi visited the Monument, and continued at the top for some time. Nothing has transpired from which the friends of the deceased can judge of the cause which led to the sad catastrophe. Mr Levi has left a wife and eight grown up children.

Last week a woman was committed to the house of correction at Beverley for telling fortunes. This sybil, although she could predict the fate of other people, was ignorant of her own. The number of virgins (young and old) that went to consult this oracle, in this enlightened age, is truly astonishing. She had, how ever, so little skill in the art of divi

nation, as to predict the union of several of her votaries with the same young man ; when the ladies came to compare their good fortune, and found this to be the case, they, as may easily be conceived, were not quite satisfied that their money was laid out to the best advantage; some of them accordingly lodged an information against the fortune-teller.

The Duke of Portland has ordered 400 deer to be shot at Bulstrode, and has annexed an absolute and peremptory injunction, that the carcases should be buried entire, venison, skins, horns, entrails, &c. It is said the Earl of Jersey offered 80001. for the deer alive, and to remove them immediately from the premises; but the money was refused.

Broaches, with the figure of his infernal majesty worked upon them, are now become the reigning fashion, and are worn by all our dashing belles; so that it may be said, the devil reigns in the bosoms of our angels.

On Friday se'nnight, as some workmen were cutting down an elm belonging to Mr Jepson, of Comsbrough, they discovered in the heart of the tree a horse-shoe, with a nail in it, in excellent preservation. It is supposed that it must have been in the tree for 50 years. The elm is five feet in circumference. Mr Green, of High-street, has the shoe in his possession.

Within a few years the bed of the river Thames has altered so much at Woolwich, that where a line-of-battle ship formerly floated, with many of her stores on board, a frigate, with nothing in her, will now ground; and, notwithstanding 120,000 tons of mud and soil have been taken out of that part of the river within the last ten months, no relief has been afforded to the ships at the moorings.