RIOT 'AND. ROBBERY.-011 Thursday, about two hundred persons, calhimmg thernselei
Sailors, marched from the City to the Admiralty, where it was•thefrintention to deliver a petition for redress of griev- ances, partlgelit flagging and impressment. They excited 'little atten- tion in tben;AitfdgreSa westward; but in returning east through Lohg Acre, they stopped opposite to some bakers' shopS, where they de- manded, and by their threats or importunity received, several loaves. Some of the mob, it is said, shouted " Bread or blood !" Mr. Moore, of Great Queen Street, refused to comply with their demands and they smashed in one of his shop-windows in consequence. It would appear that similar pranks had been carried on in the east, by a party of real or mock 'sailors.. The officers there, however, were in greater force, and five-and,avienty of the rioters were secured. They had threatened a Mr. Francis, a baker in Goodman's rields ; who, presenting a pistol, dared therriao make good their threats. They were not content with bread, bat had carried off a quantity of boots and shoes from a dealer in Rosemary Lane. They were all remanded. .ROBBERr AT HOLXIIA3L—A man, named George Lilly, was charged at Bow Street, last night, with an extensive robbery at Mr. Coke's.. The articles stolen consisted of plate, which had been offered to Goodman, a dealer in Holywell Street, by Lilly. The man pretended that it was the property of a gentleman in Cavendish Square; on which Goodman told him that he would keep the property until the gentleman was forth- coming. In the bag which contained the plate offered for sale—two ink-standishes and some silver spoons—were found a lady's red- cede, some gold lace, and a steel purse. Lilly did not return to Holy- well Street; but on Tuesday Goodman received a letter with the Royal Arcade mark, requesting the 20/. to be sent to No. 20, Panton Street ; the letter was signed S. Keevey. Goodman went to the place with an officer, and found Lilly, whom he gave in charge On the person of Lilly were found sixty pounds in bank-notes and silver, and several valuables ; a quantity of property was also found in his box. The prisoner has, it seems, married since the robbery, with the produce of which he intended- to set up in business. The ink-smndishes were heirlooms, said to have belonged to the great Earl of Leicester, from whom Mr. Coke claims descent. Lilly was remanded.
MuRDER AT LIMERICK:A gentleman of thename of Blood, a ma- gistrate of the county of Limerick, was murdered last week in his own house. It had been beset by a gang of ruffians for the purpose of plun- der. They fired at Mr. Blood through the door ; he endeavoured to escape by the back yard, Whell a second shot struck him dead. The murderers mutilated the body in a dreadful manner, and having robbed the house, withdrew. A verdict of "murder" has been returned against five persons. It is said that the only- object of the gang was plunder ; an opinion which does not, however, tally with the brutal mutilation of the body. TIIE BOMBAY SLAVE- CAst.—Seven bills have been presented to the Grand Jury by the Clerk of the Crown, against Lieutenant Hawkins, of the HonourableiCompany's ship Cruizer, for piracy, and five of them have been returned true bills.—Bengal Hurkaru.
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