POLICE OF LONDON. EMANCIPATION IN THE CITY.—Complaints were on Tuesday

made to the Lord Mayor, at the Mansionhouse, by some of the in- habitants of Cornhill, against the Irish orange and apple women who congre- gate every day about a door where a petition in favour of emancipation has been placed. The officers stated, that the women took their stations in Cornhill more as emancipationists than any thing else. To be sure they sold their fruit, but then they thought themselves quite at liberty ever since the Minister brought down his measure to the House of Commons, to stand wherever they pleased, sell whatever they pleased, and, in fact, do whatever they pleased. The moment they were desired to move away, "No," said they, " the Duke of Wellington has tould us we are as good as yourselves now. He has done for us, and the d—1 a fig we care for you or the Lord Mayor." The officers expostulated with the women, and told them all they were required to do was to allow people to pass without being molested. " Ah, the d—I go with you," the women cried, "we'll just let you have a turn in Ireland for a few years, and we'll try what we can do now we're up. Why don't you go and sign the partition eh ? No, you're afraid of Ould Birch." The Lord Mayor ordered that the officers should bring before him any refractory people who blocked up the way, whether they were Papists. or Protestants, or Mahometans.

OUTRAGEOUS PAUPERS.—A Considerable number of paupers and vagrants have lately congregated in the City : it is their practice to take up their lodging nightly in the Asylum for the Houseless Poor, and to beg and prowl about the streets during the day. The Committee of the Asylum having discovered that several of these persons had slept there for several nights successively, adopted measures to prevent their returning. A number of them in consequence went to the Mansionhouse on Saturday, to complain to the Lord Mayor, who on hearing their statements, directed them to apply to their parishes. The paupers who preferred being sent to the Compter rather than to the workhouse, went away; and shortly afterwards his Lordship's housekeeper's windows were dashed in with paving-stones., On being brought before the Lord Mayor, the paupers pleaded that they had no place to go to, and they should be glad to go to prison. The Lord Mayor said he should certainly send them to prison, but it should be where they should work. Soon afterwards some more windows were burst in at the other side of the Mansionhouse ; but the delinquents having learned that the tread-mill and flogging were to be the portion of their fellow-conspirators, contrived to escape.

The Lord Mayor has directed that those paupers who are known not to belong to the city of London should be put without the limits. His Lordship had previously ordered that the diet of those who sought refuge in the Compter should be only felon's fare—bread and water once a day ; and since this regulation has been enforced, the prison, in place of being nightly crammed with apparently perishing objects, is now carefully shunned by paupers. There is no change in the treatment of the really miserable and unfortunate.

Mr. Hobler, some days ago, wrote to the overseers of a parish in Berkshire relative to a pauper who, it was believed, had no claim upon any parish in the metropolis, and seemed to be universally rejected. The overseers did not send any answer; but the churchwarden, who could write sent a note to

town, of which the following is a literal copy Sir,—Consarning of John Marsh, wich you have sent to me about, I took he home to Shoreditch, on February 6, 1828, to the workus, wich he nows that his self with his wifee and 2 childer, wich it was proved that he gain a setlement there by hiring a rentle of 4s. 6d. pur weak, wich at that time it was line land (final) ; and liquewise they did give us notes of an spite (appeal), wich we sent up to them a man for to survey the primses, and then they withdrawed the horder. " I am yours, Mr. Hobler, " T. C.

" Churchwarden and Garjian of the Poor."

ASSISSED TAxES.—Earl Ferrers came to Marlborough-street-office, on Wednesday, and complained to Mr. Dyer that whilst the rent of the house he occupied in Marylebone was only fifty guineas a year, the Commissioners of Assessed Taxes had charged him on a rental of eighty guineas ; and more- over, that he had stated his objections and reasons to the Commissioners, but they paid no attention to him. Mr. Dyer could afford no redress for this grievance. Earl Ferrers then observed that he would appeal to a higher tri- bunal; and for the benefit of the public, try the right of Commissioners to raise the assessed taxes upon a higher rent than was actually paid.

CONSPIRACY TO Muaosa.—An inquiry has been in progress for some days at Worship-street Police-office, with the object of unravelling a singular con- spiracy to murder and rob a gentleman in Essex. It appears that a man named Ray (a discharged police-officer, who had agreed to become a party in the transaction) gave information last week to two officers, that a conspiracy bad been formed by four men to rob and murder several persons in Essex. In consequence of this information R. and J. Peet, father and son, J. Smith,

and J. Willmore were apprehended. Ray's account is briefly this :—He met Willmore in Smithfield, about a fortnight ago, who told him he might better

this condition if he would join him, Smith, a baker, of Orsett in Essex, and Peet, a carpenter, at Hoxton, in a plan they had laid for robbing and murder- ing a Mr. Brown, of Orsett. Ray agreed to meet Willmore, Smith, and Peet, the nextday ; ,which he did. The plan then agreed upon was, to pro- ceed to Essex with guns and dogs, to enter Mr. Brown's grounds on pretence of shooting, and to waylay and murder him at a lonely spot which he would pass in his morning's walk ; and havingburied the body, they were to plunder is house. They supposed that their intended victim always carried a large sum of money with him. The officers state, that after that time they were constantly on the watch; and the prisoners, Willmore and Peet, jun., left London on Tuesday week, in a cart, which they had hired ander the pre- tence of carrying some property to Woolwich ; and they purchased some straw in the Commercial-road, and concealed the other two prisoners under- neath it, and proceeded to the house of Smith, at Orsett, where they passed the night. On the following day, the prisoners were all assembled at the King's Arms public-house, near the residence of Mr. Brown, and the officers secured them. Ray was present, and exclaimed " that they had come there

4o .commit murder and robbery." The only evidence to affect the accused is that of the witness Ray, who is not a person of good character.

FIRE-RAISING.—Moses Jacobs is now fully committed on the charge of set- ting fire to his manufactory, in Phcenix.street, It was at the burning of this lame %hilt the woman Davis lost her life. ROBBERY—On Monday, Jesse Bray, a boy of fourteen or fifteen was charged at Hatton Garden with breaking open a letter, and purloining a check for 441. the property of his employer, Mr. Harding, a solicitor. He had been directed to deliver the letter inclosing the check to a gentleman ; in. stead of which he opened the letter, took out the check, cashed it, and fled to Dover, on his way to France. He is committed for trial.

Joseph Barnett, porter, was on Tuesday committed from Guildhall, charged with having robbed the house of the Reverend E. Osborne, 22, Burton Cres- cent, of property to the amount of nearly 3001.

FORGED NOTES.—It has been mentioned at Bow-street, during the present week, that a man of dashing exterior, attended by a servant in livery, was going about town in a stanhope, defrauding different tradesmen by uttering forged 5/. Bank of England notes, in payment for goods. The counterfeit notes are most excellent imitations of genuine ones. One of them was offered at the shop of Myers and Field, jewellers, Strand, in payment of a gold seal ; but upon inspection it was declared to be forged. The fellow succeeded in mak- ing his escape, leaving his hat and cloak. The notes are said to have been fabricated in America, and sent to Ireland.

Mr. Curtis, a medical practitioner in Goodman's-fields, committed suicide on Thursday. The deceased was a member of the Royal College of Sur- geons, a magistrate of the metropolitan county, and the chairman of the ma. gistracy of the Tower Hamlets division. For some time past he had been in a weakly state of health, and betrayed at intervals a positive aberration of intellect. He was watched; but deceived the person who attended him ; and, after being absent for a considerable time, was found in the water-closet, warm, yet dead, and a remnant of prussic acid lying in a bottle beside him.

ROBBERIES.—The premises of Messrs. Kesteven and Co. silk-mercers, in York-street, Covent-garden, were entered on Friday night by thieves, who succeeded in removing goods to the value of 2001. and cash to the amount of 80/.

A gang of pickpockets assembled on Monday evening in front of the en- trance to the House of Lords, and shouted " No Popery" as the Peers were retiring. Several gentlemen felt the effects of accidental contact with these miscreants, as they passed through the avenues. An attempt was made on Tuesday evening to rob the mail-cart between Cheltenham and Gloucester. While proceeding through Bennet's Wood, the driver was assailed and knocked down by two men ; but heating the distant clattering of horses' 'hoofs, the robbers made off. The driver recovered him- self, fired his pistol, and wounded one of them as he was entering the wood- atteast he heard him exclaim, " Oh God ! I'm shot !"

SMUGGLING,—The corpse of Earl Bridgewater passed through Canterbury, on Sunday. On its arrival at Sittingbourne, a carpenter was sent for to open the coffin, from which was extracted a large quantity of jewellery, watches, and rings, for which the undertaker' had. forgotten to pay the duty at the Dover Custom-house.—Kent Herald.

On Thursday week, while an excise-officer was on duty at Leddiard's wharf, Horselydown-stairs, a smelt' herring-cask was landed from a vessel direct from Limerick, which excited his suspicions.. The cask was opened, and found to contain the bodies of a young woman and a child in pickle : the female was twisted nearly double. The captain states, that when he received the cask on board, he was told it contained pig's trotters well cured. It was addressed fictitiously to a pork-butcher and butter-man in London.

For a considerable time past there has existed a suspicion that the trade of disinterring bodies from the graves of the burying-ground of the parish of Kirkmichael, county of Ayr, has been carried on. On the morning of the 5th instant, the populace insisted on the right of opening some graves, where recent interment had taken place. The parish minister resisted the attempt, advising a more regular mode of procedure ; but the anxiety to ascertain the fate of friends and companions was too powerful to admit of such delay, and to work they went. In the first instance they were too successful, for the empty coffins realized their fears. This prompted on the work of examita- tion ; and at the close of the day there were seventeen graves, whereinter. ments had taken place within the last six months, which were robbed of taeir inmates. On the 6th, the work of examination was continued, and leer more found in the same situation. The scene was melancholy : the empty coffins were brought up, and. the dead-clothes, fresh and white, exhibited across the graves ; and the relatives. are rushing front every part of the parish to know the fate of their departed friends. The perpetrators have,,in some instances, left the bodies of such as have not suited their purposes in a situ- ation too shocking to describe. A gentleman who visited the place, says he was not a little'surprised to see a work of this kind done by a populace, with- out any leader to direct their movements, with as much calmness and order as if they had been paying the last tribute due to those they esteem.— Greenock Advertiser.

MEDICAL TREATMENT of ANIMALS.—About ten days ago, the operation of lithotomy was successfully performed on a horse at the Hospital near St. Pancras, and a stone about the size of a pullet's egg extracted. The horse has thriven since the operation, and is now almost well.

The Duke of Buckingham, who is residing in Rome, suffers sorely from gout.

The Colosseum in the Regent's Park has been transferred by Mr. Homer to a Committee of highly respectable gentlemen for the benefit and advan- tage of all his creditors. It is the intention of the Committee to convene a meeting of persons generally interested in the affairs of Mr. Homer, who, we understand, is gone abroad ; when a proposition will be made to them, ac- companied with a powerful recommendation, to finish this tasteful and highly ornamented temple, and the various apartments and grounds connected with it as soon as possible.—Morning Chronicle. Mr. Elliston's company of the Surrey Theatre have presented a silver cup to the great Manager, " in token of regard, but more particularly for uphold- ing the respectability of the stage"—not at all for considering his own inte- rests—" by resisting the issuing of shilling orders."

The diamond necklace of Marie-Antoinette of France was on Thursday sold by auction by Mr. Robins, for 645 guineas.

Captain John Ross, who made an attempt some few years since to discover the North-west passage, is about to undertake a similar expedition ; and from what we have collected, is to proceed to the Polar Seas in a steam vessel of peculiar construction.—Standard. The Central Board of Customs and Excise in Scotland is about to undergo reductions almost equivalent to an abolition.

THE &est:ie.—The oat sowing season has commenced : and a more fa- veurable time for it, we believe, never was experienced.—.Sussex .Advertiser.

COLLFOR OF PHTSIC/ANS —The third assembly for the season took place on Monday evening, and was attended by upwards of two hundred members of the faculty, besides other literary and scientific persons. Some scientific papers were read; after which the company partook of refreshments, and passed the evening till eleven o'clock, in discussing various matters of sci- entific research.

Sir Humphry Davy has derived great benefit from the climate of Italy.

CAPTAIN GARTH'S AFFIDAVIT; A MYSTERY.—The Morning Chronicle on Friday rpublished a document, purporting to be an Affidavit in Chancery, sworn by Captain Thomas Garth, in a case in which he is plaintiff, and Sir Herbert Taylor, Sir John Dean Paul, Robert Snow, and John Dean Paul, and Charles Molloy Westmacott, are defendants. The application to the Court of Chancery is for an injunction to prevent Paul and Snow the bankers, from delivering to Sir Herbert Taylor and Mr. Westmacott a box containing some papers, the property of Garth, which has been deposited with them really in trust for Garth, but in the names of Taylor and Westmacott, who he now apprehends may betray the trust reposed in them. It is to these papers that the mysterious paragraphs which have appeared in ssme of the news- papers within the last fortnight have related. We subjoin the more import- ant passages of the Affidavit, which is dated at " No. 7, John-street, Berkeley. square, the 28th day of February. 1829." " Thomas Garth, of Melton Mowbray, in the county of Leicester, esquire, a cap- tain on half-pay in his Majesty's Army, the above-named deponent, maketh oath and saith, that he was in the month of November last, in possession of, and rightfully entitled to, certain documents, papers, and correspondence, of very great value and importance, relating immediately to his fortune, station, and affairs, and to the claims which he had upon certain persons named in such documents and corre- spondence, and to the mode by which such claim could be substantiated and en- forced. And this deponent further saith, that he was also, at the above-mentioned period, indebted to several persons in various 'sums of money, amounting in the whole to a very considerable sum ; and thatLieutenant.General Sir Herbert Taylor, of St. Katherine's Lodge, Regent's Park, in the County of Middlesex, Knight Com- mander of the Bath, one of the above-named defendants, was very desirous of ob- taining possession of the above-mentioned documents and correspondence, or, at any rate, of having the same so securely deposited in safe custody that neither this deponent nor any other person should without his, the said Sir H. Taylor's assent, obtain access thereto ; and that the said Sir H. Taylor entered into a negociation with this deponent for that purpose. And this deponent further saith, that it was ulti-

mately, as this deponent bath been informed and verily believes,agreed by and on the part of the said Sir H. Taylor,and on the part of this deponent, at a meeting held at his house, on or about Thursday, the 20th of Nov. last, to the effect and in the manner fol- lowing : That is to say, by and on the part of the said Sir H. Taylor, that all the theu outstanding debts of this deponent should be discharged by or by the direction of the said Sir Herbert Taylor, and that an annuity of 30001. per annum should be effectu- ally secured to this deponent for his life ; and by and on the part of this deponent,iThat the box containing all the above-mentioned documents, letters, and correspondence, should be sealed with the respective seals of this deponent and the said Sir Herbert

Taylor, and, so sealed, should be deposited in the hands of some banker or bankers, to he agreed upon by the said Sir Herbert Taylor and this deponent, whilst the pro- per securities for securing the due payment of the said annuity of three thousand pounds per annum, which was to commence from the period when the said box should have been so deposited, were being prepared, and until the completion and

execution thereof; but should be redelivered to this deponent, in case any failure should take place in carrying into full and complete effect and execution, on the part of the said Sir Herbert Taylor, the terms of the above-mentioned agreement."

The documents were deposited in presence of the partiesto the agreement; and the box—locked, and " tied round with tape"—was sealed, and depo- sited, on the 24th of November, in the banking-house of Paul, Snow, and Paul—for safe custody, and as a security for the annuity—in the joint names of Sir Herbert Taylor and Mr. Westmacott ; the bank giving two receipts for the box, one to Mr. Westmacott and the other to Sir Herbert Taylor. Why the receipt was given to the former instead of to the plaintiff Captain Garth, is stated by the latter to have been " lest some colour or countenance should be thereby given to certain rumours then supposed to exist respecting the nature of certain documents and papers supposed to be in the possession of the deponent."

" And this deponent further saith, that shortly after this, deponent caused a list of his debts to be furnished to the said Sir Herbert Taylor, at his request, in order that the same might be liquidated in pursuance of the said agreement ; and this de- ponctit was in full hope and expectation that the said agreement would, as well in that, as in all other respects, have been fully and duly performed. But this depo- nent saith, that no sum of money whatever bath in fact been paid to this deponent, since the said deposit so obtained as aforesaid, upon the faith of the due performance of the said agreement ; nor have any securities been, as this deponent believes, ever prepared or attempted to be prepared, nor have any of the debts due from this depo- nent been in fact liquidated or discharged ; and the said Sir Herbert Taylor denies that he is bound to perform the agreement, as hereinbefore and in the said bill set forth. * * * And this deponent further saith, he believes that the said Charles Molloy Westmacott intends to join with the said Sir Merbert Taylor in demanding the said box and its contents ; and that the said Sir Herbert Taylor, and Charles Molloy Westmacott, respectively, have the said receipts in their possession, and that they intend to present the same, and to demand and receive the said box and contents, and to prevent this deponent from regaining possession thereof."

Who is Captain Garth ?— to whom else than General Garth is he related ?

and by what circumstances_ he to involve his private relations with those of the Royal Family? * * * This Captain Garth is the reputed son of an illustrious princess, who by every religious and moral tie was the wife of General Garth. The law of this country interposes certain restraints on princes or princesses of the blood marrying subjects of the King. The mar-

riage, therefore, of this illustrious princess was consequently illegal. It was as illegal as that which was consummated between the Duke of Sussex and Lady Augusta Murray. But the law could not strip such an union of its moral obligations. It could not dissolve the marriage between the parties. It could only interfere to taint the issue, and disqualify such issue from inheriting pro- perty or succeeding to titles. The obligations of the parties to each other remained unharmed—their honour could not be reproached, nor their private virtue assailed. The person called Captain Garth is the issue of such a con- nexion. How he became possessed of certain letters which passed between the Princess in question and his father, General Garth, is not for us to describe. * * * True it is, however, that he did possess himself of a certain cor- respondence ; and, whatever may be the nature of this correspondence, equally true is it, for his own affidavit rather incautiously admits the fact, that on the non-disclosure of this correspondence he founds his claim for an annuity of three thousand a year and the discharge of his debts. If this were all, we should here lay down our pen and notice him no further. But the Ministe- rial slanderers insinuate that, among these private letters, is one in the hand- writing of his mother, containing accusations of the most repulsive kind against a Royal Duke. We mince not matters now, for the facts are in every body's mouth, and the slander, like the snow-ball, acquires bulk and additional filth by progression. Certain gentlemen, one of them a distinguished member of his Majesty's Government, and another an Irish Catholic holding a high office in Dublin, are reported to have said that they have seen a letter (one of those In the keeping of Mr. Garth's friends) in the handwriting of the illustrious lady, containing severe reflections on the conduct of the Royal Duke in ques- tion. We have made ourselves acquainted with the whole facts before we have ventured to express this opinion on them ; and we now declare, in the most solemn manner, and on undoubted evidence, that there is not the slightest ground for the accusation. We believe it to have its origin in the most foul and infernal conspiracy that ever disgraced public men.,-Morning Journal, Saturday. The adherents of the Personage in question (for such there are) assert that not only has no proof of the alleged criminality been discovered, but that the imputation which formed the gravamen of the charge is clearly established by the stubborn evidence of dates, and facts, and distances, to be a physical impossibility ; in short, that a military name, which has latterly been much before the public, must look elsewhere for the equivocal honour of a myste- rious affiliation. It is, we believe, quite certain that measures are in pro- gress which will have the effect of clearing up all ambiguity on a subject painfully interesting.—Morning Chronicle.