Ow Wednesday morning, the second battalion of the First Regiment
of Grenadier Guards, commanded by his Grace the Duke of Welling- ton; at present stationed at the New Barracks in the Bird Cage Walk, mustered in the usual place of parade, and marched to the King's Mews Barracks, Charing Cross. Private Orger, belonging to the battalion, who had been about six weeks in confinement, was also brought out, and marched prisoner with them, to hear the minutes of a Court- martial read over which had been held upon him. This proceeding was considered rather extraordinary, but was done to avoid publicity, as no punishment could well be inflicted at the barracks in the Bird Cage Walk without the whole neighbourhood hearing of it, particularly as the cries of the wretched individuals had often offended the ears of the in- habitants of James Street. The battalion having arrived at the bar- racks, they were mustered in a stable in the Mews ; Colonel Doyle, the eommander of the battalion, was in attendance ; and private Orger was brought out. Captain Torrens, the Adjutant, then read over the mi- nutes of the Court-martial which had been held upon Orger ; When it appeared that he was charged with insubordinate conduct, that he had come in a state of intoxication on duty, and when desired to give up his arms, he had threatened to run the first 'person through who dared to take them from him. On the above charge he was found guilty by a General Court-martial, and sentenced to receive five hundred lashes. he was immediately tied up, and the drummers commenced their flagellation on his bare back. Afresh hand was procured at every twenty lashes, but not a sigh or groan escaped the unhappy object. After, he had received two hundred lashes without a murmur, Mr. Harrison, the surgeon of the regiment, went up to the man ; and from what he ob- served, gave orders to stop the punishment. A hackney.coach was then procured, which was brought into the Mews ; and Orger having been taken down, he was put into the coach with a guard, and removed to the Military hospital in Rochester Row, Tothill Fields, Westminster; when the proper applications were made to his back, which was most dreadfully lacerated.—Tintes. [This man was sentenced to undergo more than twice as much torture as his frame would bear. Two hun- dred lashes were probably as dreadful a punishment to him as eight hun- dred would have been to some others. The capability of endurance never enters into the calculation of Courts-martial when they pass sen- tences. If drunken officers as well as privates were flogged, this matter would be reformed.] On Thursday sennight, a hogshead of brandy, the property of Messrs. Field and Co., of Mincing Lane, was stolen from the London Docks. It had been sold to a person who bud arranged to send his cart for it on the afternoon of that day ; but two hours 'be- fore his cart reached the dock, it had been delivered to other parties, on the production of the Customs delivery order, who placed the cask of brandy in a light spring cart, and drove off with it. Three men have already undergone four examinations at the Thames Police-office ; and it ha S been clearly proved they participated in the robbery, which was planned by Bannister, a shopkeeper in Colthester Street, -Whiteehapel. The Customs delivery order was obtained by a man who gave the name of Tolley, on his naming the letter IV., and the figure 8 on the cask, and the ship Archimedes, which brought it to England. It transpired during the examinations of the three men, that any person naming the stip, letter, and figure, could obtain the delivery order of the Custom- house. officer of that department, for any quantity of wine brandy, or other liquors in the dock, on which the King's duty and other charges had been paid. Mr. Broderip, the Magistrate, expressed his very great surprise at this loose mode of doing business ; and said he hoped that the mercantile world would hear of it, and cause some alteration to be made, or robberies of this kind might be committed with impunity. The Thames . Police are making strict search after Bannister.
-A gang of swindlers have recently been victimizing the tradesmen of Richmond. At length the leader of the gang has been lodged in prison for debt ; from whence, after undergoing the purifying process of the Insolvent Court, he will probably emerge to renew his operations.
A parcel was stolen the other day from the Barton mail-coach, con-s tinning upwards of 1.501. in notes, &c., and some valuable papers, ad- &eased to Mr. George Capes, Gray's Inn.
When the Chester mail was preparing to start from the Golden Cross, ..o Tuesday -evening, a box and dressing-case belonging to f Lord Co.._ vere -stolen. The box contained a quantity of minerals, tt and the Are siti-g-case five gold seals.
An extensive burglary was committed on Tuesday night, on the pre- mises of Mr. Grant, at Notting Hill. The robbers entered the pre- mises unheard, and succeeded in carrying off a quantity of plate, linen, tedding, and furniture ; with which they escaped in the fog, and arrived in Oxford Street with their booty. They were stopped by two Police- men with the whole of the property, and a quantity of housebreaking implements in their possession.
As Colonel Whalley, of Hermes Terrace, Chelsea, was returning home between seven and eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, he was at- tacked by a ruffian, in Grosvenor Place, who knocked him down and robbed him of a valuable watch. The fog was very thick at the time ; and the robbery wits so sudden, that the Colonel had not an opportunity of even catching a glance at the villain, who was out of sight in an in- stant.
Mr. William Tuffnell, the Clerk in the Audit Office, who lately gave evidence on the trial of Mrs. Hampton's servant for robbery. died ets Tuesday night. - It was supposed that his death was occasioned by time e wound n his: throat, which l be bad cut with his penknife, as we mentioned in the Spectator two weeks ago ; and a Coroner's inquest accordingly was LAI on the body on Wednesday. • It was stilted, how- ever, by his surgeou and other persons, that he had suffered gVeg men- tal anguish, in consequence of • the discreditable eircumstanres under which he had appeared at the trial ; and that an abscess had formed. in the skull, and produced an effusion of water out the brain, which caused his death. The surgeon stated, that although the wound in his throat, might bare hastened his end, yet that be could not long have survived
the effects of the abscess. The Jury, upon this evidence, returned a verdict of "Died a natural death, from an abscess on the brain." Mr. Tuffnell was in his thirty-first year, and the son of a respectable gentleman in Bath.
About four o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mr. John Bingley, a gentle- man of highly respectable family in the county of York, destroyed him- self by cutting his throat with a razor, in the Fleet Prison. He had been a prisoner more than eight years.
On Wednesday afternoon, a distressing accident occurred under the windows of Mr. Bulkeley's house in Curzon Street. Sir Mark Sin- gleton had called ; and whilst his cab, and a servant mounted on a valuable horse following, were waiting at the door, a gig with a high- spirited unbroken horse came with a tremendous fury down the street (having thrown out the driver), knocked over Sir .Mark's cabriolet, shivered it to pieces, and so cut and dislocated the limbs of the horses that a veterinary surgeon ordered them to be immediately destroyed. Several people were thrown down on the pavement, and a passing gig broken to pieces.
On Thursday week, the wife of the coachman of Mr. Law, of Mon- tague Place, was in the act of throwing some water from the loft of Mr. Law's stables in Montague Mews, when the gate against which she was leaning flew open, and she fell headlong to the paved yard. Her husband, who was employed in the stable, heard the crash ; and on running out, saw his wife weltering in her blood, with her skull bat- tered in. She died the next day.
Yesterday week, the daughter of Mr. Creek, a pawnbroker in Ber- mondsey, committed suicide in a fit of religious frenzy, by hanging her- self to the hook of a trap-door at the top of her father's house.
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