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o'clock. It was llieir intention to 

 have returned to the cottage, but 

 on account of the darkness of the 

 morning, and the noise occasioned 

 by the storm, two of the officers 

 missed the others and their con- 

 ductors, and could not find the 

 cottage. They wandered about 

 till day-light, and then made in- 

 quiries of peasants and others that 

 they met with. From their con- 

 duct they were suspected to be 

 officers who had broke their parole 

 of honour, and they were at length 

 charged with being so. They be- 

 haved very candidly ; and one of 

 them, who spoke English very well, 

 after very little hesitation, con- 

 fessed the whole of their proceed- 

 ings, and that he believed the other 

 six were concealed in a cottage ; 

 but he could not tell where it was. 

 The cottage was, after some diffi- 

 culty traced, and the other six 

 officers discovered there. The bu- 

 siness came under investigation 

 before G. H. Rose, Esq. M. P. 

 the acting magistrate of that neigh- 

 bourhood, who wrote up to Lon- 

 don to the Transport Board ; and 

 Adkins and Vickery the Bow-street 

 officers were dispatched in pursuit 

 of the conductors. They have suc- 

 ceeded in taking into custody Rose 

 the master of the vessel. Adkins 

 took Culliford the principal con- 

 ductor at Ilchester. He had been 

 convicted before for a similar of- 

 fence, and when he was then 

 apprehended it required four men 

 to secure him. Desperate resist- 

 ance was therefore expected, but 

 Adkins contrived to follow him 

 into a stable, and with the assist- 

 ance of a man, had handcuffs on 

 him before he knew he was in 

 custody. The officer conveyed 

 him to Southampton; where he 



underwent an examination last 

 Wednesday before Mr. G. H. 

 Rose, when he was identified by 

 one of the French officers, and 

 several other witnesses who cor- 

 roborated his testimony. He was 

 fully committed for trial. Vickery 

 is in pursuit of others concerned 

 in the transaction. 



About six o'clock this evening, 

 John Chaplin, a resident in Eagle 

 and Child- alley, Fleet -market, 

 went into a public-house in Shoe- 

 lane, and called for a glass of gin, 

 observing, with an oath, " that 

 he had how done the deed. " A 

 young woman in the bar, observing 

 his sleeves to be stained with 

 blood, and knowing him to be a 

 desperate character, and at times 

 deranged, from an injury he had 

 received in his head vvhile in the 

 army, immediately fainted away. 

 This circumstance attracted the 

 attention of several persons in the 

 tap-room, some of whom secured 

 him, while others repaired to his 

 residence, on entering which, they 

 were horror-struck at the sight of 

 his wife, who lay extended a life- 

 less corpse, with her head nearly 

 severed from her body. On Satur- 

 day night last he attempted her 

 life, but a peace officer being 

 called, he appeared pacified. The 

 unhappy man was lodged in the 

 Compter ; from whence he was 

 lately, greatly to the regret of the 

 neighbourhood, discharged, having 

 been confined at the instance of a 

 respectable inhabitant of Shoe- 

 lane ; such was the art with which 

 he conducted himself, as com- 

 pletely to deceive, with regard to 

 his insanity, those who had him 

 in charge. 



11. Dublin Some time ago, a 



ciicurastancc took placewhich made 

 considerable 



