During the last week, the plantations in Windsor Park have
been maliciously set on fire in different parts, and con,iderable damage done, though not so extensive as might have been expected had the weather been drier. The authorities at Windsor have used every endeavour to discover the perpetrators, but without success.
A most daring highway robbery was committed in Surry at seven o'clock on Monday evening. Mr. Hoare, solicitor, residing at Merst- ham, was, on his return from Epsom in a four-wheeled chaise, stopped by three men ; two darted at the horse's head, and the third jumped into the chaise ; all three presented horse-pistols. Mr. Hoare gave up his purse, containing two sovereigns and a ball; when the tallest of the three, who was in the chaise, said, " You have more." Mr. Iloare re- collected he had ; and took from his pocket a purse containing five sovereigns and two half-sovereigns. The miscreants then demanded his watch ; which he gave. Mr. Hoare had just crossed the road that leads from Ewell Common fields on to the Downs, and was entering the lane leading to Lord Arden's, when his horse was seized.
Mr. Palmer, of Fleet Farm, left his house about four o'clock in the morning of Monday sennight, and was proceeding on horseback on his way towards Poorstock, near Weymouth, when three men came sud- denly from a little copse by the road-side and attacked him furiously : having unhorsed him, they all fell on him, beat and cut him, and, after rifling his pockets of 1601. in cash and notes, left him for dead. He was found about an hour afterwards, lying by the road-side, bleeding, and quite exhausted.
The mail which left Leeds for London on Saturday morning, was overturned, about four miles on this side of Sheffield. The horses, one of which was a vicious creature, ran away when descending a bill. There was no drag to the wheel. Of the four inside passengers, one, a young French lady, was hurt, but not severely. Two outside passen- gers were terribly hurt : one had his thigh broken, and both legs of the other were smashed to pieces. The coachman and guard were both very seriously injured.
The Reverend Mr. Goddard, Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and Rector of Charlton Kings, killed himself, at a tavern in Gloucester, on Tuesday morning : he applied a pistol to his head, charged with three bullets. He had been suffering lately from religious melancholy ; and had told a friend, that the Evil One had been tempting him, but should not succeed. A Coroner's Jury has returned a verdict of insanity.
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