Piaacy.—The Admiral Benbow, of Liverpool, Captain Crawford, on her voyage
from London to Madras, was boarded, on the 11th April, in latitude 13. N. and longitude 26. 49. W., by a schooner under French colours, who plundered her of provisions and treated her crew in a barbarous manner. The Benbow was boarded by the Ganges East Indiaman, then on her homeward voyage, on the 14th April; and from the statement of some of the Benbow's crew, it appears that the pirate murdered two men and a boy, and wounded several others. One passenger cut his own throat, and stabbed himself, sooner than let them take his life. The captain was lying in his cabin, though still alive, with his entrails hanging out of the left side. During the time of the slaughter, the chief mate jumped overboard, after receiving three wounds, two in his left arm, and one in his leg, but aftemanIs had got on board unperceived by any of the men, through one of the stern windows, and reached the hold, where he hid himself. The Ganges supplied the Benhow with necessaries. She intended to touch at the Cape to refit.
MERDERS.—A coroner's inquest was last week held at Leeds, on the body of Henry Rangeley, who was supposed to have been murdered. The deceased, on the evening of Saturday week, met three men going over a field. They had a cloth with them, and he accused them of being resurrectionists. One of them then stabbed him with a knife; his death was the consequence; and a verdict of wilful murder was returned against them. Some weeks ago, a young woman was found murdered at Dis, in Norfolk, under circumstances of peculiar atrocity. The murderer has nut been traced ; but among those to whom suspicion attached, was a young butcher, who was apprehended last week. In order to test his guilt or innocence, the body was exhumed, and the young man was ordered by the Magistrates to approach the body, to look at it, and touch it. He underwent the singular ordeal without betraying any symptoms of trepidation ; and the body was again consigned to the grave. William Sully has been committed for trial for the wilful murder of his wife, at St, Briayell's, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. She had quarrelled with him, and he struck her mortally : her lungs were loaded with blood, and one of her ribs was fractured.
SEICIDES.—On Sunday, a cow-keeper's servant at Islington cut his throat, because be had quarrelled with a female to whom he was attached. On the previous Tuesday, a girl at Hull poisoned herself, it, a fit of jealousy,—her lover, with whom she had quarrelled, having been seen with another female.
On Monday, a young man, in a fit of insanity, threw himself over the North Bridge of Edinburgh. He died immediately.
Romizniss.—On Wednesday week, no fewer than five daring robberies were committed in Oxford-street, between six and ten o'clock in the evening. Three gentlemen were robbed of watches ; another lost his purse, containing a sum in gold and silver ; and the other lost some money and a ring. Other robberies are understood to have been committed, though the day patrol and the nightly watch were on the street.
On Monday evening, an Irish gentleman, while corning out of the box-entrance of Drury-lane Theatre, was robbed of his gold watch, value 50/.
On Sunday morning, the premises of Mr. Greaves, tallow-chandler, Coventgarden, were plundered by thieves. They had to scale four walls before they reached the house ; yet they conducted their operations So quietly, that the family' who slept in the second floor, were net alarmed. The thieves had even the audacity to regale themselves with runs wlf.ch they found in the parlour.
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