ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



To Mrs. Brown, in compen- 

 sation of damages sutfered 

 by her person - - - £. 300 



To her for the loss of her 



husband 200 



And to each of the children, 

 eight in number, 130/. 

 each 1040 



back of the gallery, he rushed di- 

 rectly down to the front, exclaim- 

 he would either get a front 



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1540 

 With full expense of process. 



2. Six French prisoners, who 

 lately escaped from the castle of 

 Edinburgh, have been re-taken to 

 their old place of confinement. On 

 Friday last, information was given 

 to the commandant of Linlitliguw 

 Local Militia, that a number of 

 foreigners had been seen skulking 

 among lord Hopetoun's planta- 

 tions : a party was immediately 

 sent out, which descried them at 

 some distance in the fields. On 

 seeing the party, they all separated, 

 taking different directions ; six of 

 them, however, were taken, after 



* considerable fatigue, four of them 

 hid among the whins, and two of 

 them in the hollow of a stack in a 

 barn-yard. Onstheir escape, they 

 had made for the sea, near Cra- 

 inond, where, finding a boat, they 

 sailed up the Firth, till opposite 

 Hopetoun-house, where they land- 

 ed, intending to pursue their 

 journey to Port-Glasgow by land. 

 They had subsisted for three days 

 on raw turnips. On being taken, 

 they were carried to Linlithgovv 

 gaol, fed and clothed, and conduct- 

 ed to Edinburgh on Saturday last. 



3. An unfortunate accident oc- 

 curred at Portsmouth theatre on 

 Tuesday. A lad, 14 years of age, 

 son of a widow, a slop-seller, went 

 with some companions to the gal- 

 lery. On their gaininp- the top of 

 the stairs, which opened on the 



seat, or go into the pit. There was 

 no iron-railing above the resting- 

 place to prevent his falling over, 

 and he was precipitated down a 

 height of thirty feet. Surgical assist- 

 ance was immediately procured, 

 and the theatre closed. The ma- 

 nager had him conveyed to bis 

 private dressing-room, where he 

 lingered till eight o'clock the next 

 morning, and died. 



3. In consequence of a recent 

 decision in the court of Teinds (or 

 Tithes), in Edinburgh, none of the 

 established clergy of Scotland will 

 have a smaller stipend than 150/. 

 sterling, and SI. 6*. Sd. for commu- 

 nion elements, besides a manse 

 and glebe in the coimtry parishes. 



We have to record one of the 

 most daring robberies that was 

 ever committed, as well as the 

 greatest perseverance and exertions 

 by police officers, to detect and 

 apprehend robbers. Reid, belong- 

 ing to Perry's party of the patrole, 

 received information, that the 

 house, No. 4, in Bury-street, St. 

 James's, kept by Mrs. Martin, was 

 marked to be robbed by a gang of 

 thieves, who had got to the know- 

 ledge that she in general went out 

 every evening, principally to the 

 play, through the thoughtless and 

 imprudent conduct of her fe- 

 male servant, who had admitted 

 one of them, named Clayton, to 

 visit her as a sweetheart ; having 

 got acquainted with her under a 

 false representation that he was a 

 trunk-maker, living in Oxford- 

 street. Monday se'nnight was the 

 time fixed on for the perpetration 

 of the robbery. Perry, Reid, Lim- 

 berick, and others, applied to a 



neigh- 



