At the Marylebone Office, on Monday, Mr. Francis Sanders, Mr.
Arthur Barclay, both solicitors of Gray's Inn, Mr. Henry Green, a merchant residing at Twickenham, and Mr. Edward Richards, whose description is not given, were charged with an indecent assault on Maria Rose, a married woman, also with an attack on the Police. Sanders was fined 10/. for the assault on the woman, and the constable; Barclay 2/. 10s. for resisting a constable ; Green .5/. for assault-
ing the Inspector of Police ; and Richards was discharged.
Some days since, a certain house, which had been advertised to re- ceive deposits on the shares of a company announced to be in progress of formation, was actually besieged by a crowd of applicants, all eager to secure shares, by the payment of the preliminary deposit announced ; which, to make the bait sure, was only a few shillings. Those who were fortunate enough to gain admittance within the doors in time, re. ceived their quota of shares to that effect. Those, of course, were immediately carried to market, and sold as high as three times the amount deposited ; being a profit of two hundred per cent., in the course of a few hours. It may be observed, that nothing has since been heard about the company ; no names of directors have yet been published ; nor is it known where, how, or with what purpose their operations are to be carried on.— Times.
Yesterday morning, between five and six o'clock, a hostile meeting took place in a field near Jack Straw's Castle, Hampstead, between Captain B—n and R. 1'. F---p—n, Esq. The rendezvous was originally fixed at Bayswater ; but the parties having cause to fear an interruption, the place of meeting was changed to Hampstead ; to which place the parties, accompanied by their seconds, proceeded on the previous night. The parties were placed at twelve paces, and fired two shots each without effect. The seconds then interposed, but failed in effecting a reconciliation; and it was then agreed that the gentlemen should have the option of advancing to within eight paces previous to firing. Captain B. then advanced two steps towards his opponent, and fired ; when the shot took effect in the neck of Mr. F., who immediately fell ; and his pistol exploding at the instant, the ball narrowly missed taking effect on the second of Captain B., passing within an inch of his head. Mr. F.'s wound was pronounced not to be of a dangerous nature, and the parties immediately proceeded to town. The cause of dispute was a sporting bet. The Captain had refused to pay ; in consequence of which he had been posted by Mr. F. as a " blackleg."—Courier. The Globe says, that a paragraph, copied into last Spectator from a daily paper, relative to the robbery of a Mr. Norton by some soldiers in the Regent's Park, is a fabrication of some lying penny-a-liner. It had passed without contradiction for several days before we copied it.
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