would not only restore him to health, but to the
vigour of twenty-five.
Mr. Newton was treated as all persons are (or were) who snake any appli. 'ESCAPE OF A CONVICT FROM NEWGATE.—A fellow named Philips, cation at the palace unless through the accredited channels—he was cons- ordered for transportation, escaped from Newgate yesterday. The man- mitted to the surveillance of a policeman. Mr. Newton's remedy was ner of his escape is not known • but it took place at the time when the not tried, nor was it examined ; hut Mr. Newton was examined until prisoners had assembled in chapel, which they do every morning. Morning was wet and lowering, but the -sun broke forth as the peoces-. same 'gentleman was brought before Sir Richard *Ernie on another eion reached the Cemetecy, and during the remainder of the time octal- charge, A Captain Hipkins, of Ormond .Street, Queen Square, coin. pied in the ceremony the weather was fine. No accident happened on pained that he had waited on him and demanded payment of 6081.; the occasion; which is chiefly attributable to the orderly manner in • and on being refused, had recourse to threats so violent that he alarmed
which every thing was planned and executed by the gentlenen of the Miss Hipkins, and even Captain Hipkins was not without some terror. Committee. Captain Hipkins went on to state, that four'rnedical men, of New York, [When we sat down the week before last to narrate the most lament- had certified that Mr. Newton was insane, and the Duke of Wellington able accident of which the above was the closing scene, we had to regret had done the same. The Premier is a most wonderful man ; the chit. that among the mass of facts and particulars contained in the various meter of a mad doctor is a new role to assume—perhaps the state of the reports of the daily papers, there was an uncertainty, and occasionally a elections may have led him to the study of it. It afterwards came out, contradiction, which rendered it very difficult to say where the exact that the 6081. was money belongiog to Mr. Newton, which the consider. truth lay. We were not, of course, on the spot ourselves, and had ate Captain Hipkins had attached for the behool of Mr. Newton's therefore to glean from the accounts of others what appeared to be the family, who are now in America. Sir Richard said, the Captain had most correct. That in some instances we should err, was not surprising, acted with perfect propriety, and called on Mr. Newton to fiud bail ; and for even at the moment when we write the statements of the accident in default of bail he was ordered to be locked up.
are far from satisfactory. No one has yet shown why the Rocket was EORGELLY.—A curious case of alleged forgery transpired in the not sooner perceived by Mr. Huskisson and his companions—why they course of another charge at Bow Street, on Thursday. Mr. Flintan, were not sooner perceived by its conductor—sshy the steam-carriage was provision merchant, Berwick Street, Soho, charged a Mr. Philips, grocer, not stopped before it reached the Duke of Wellington's car—why the Pickett Buildings, Strand, with an assault.. Flintan had, it seems, sold persons on the middle of the road might not have found safety by cross- to Philips hams to the value of 54 6s. 6d, for which he had only received lug over to either side. Had the correspondent who signs himself " A 6s. 6d. He charged Philips with swindling, and Philips struck him. Liverpool Merchant," and who addresses to us a long letter to correct When called to defend the assault, Philips justified it, by asserting that errors common to us with the rest of the London journals, stated any he had paid the whole sum due—l. to Flintan himself, and the re. particulars tending to throw light on these matters, resp ecting mainder to his servant ; and he produced in proof, a receipt for the which we and our contemporaries have been left equally in amount, signed " Samuel Stone, for Messrs. Flintan and O'Hea." The the dark, he would have merited and received our thanks, and receipt was shown to Stone • who declared that neither the figure 5, nor we would have willingly passed over the impertinence of his man- the L. S. D. placed over the figures 5 G 6 were written by him, and ner for the importance of his matter. But he has limited his that they must have been introduced after he had given the receipt for correction to trifles as insignificant as his own foolish anger. Os. 6d. The prisoner declared, in the most positive terms, that he hail We mentioned that the select Liverpool dinner to the Duke of paid Mr. Flintan 51. on the day when the goods were delivered. Sir R. Wellington was to take place on Tuesday; we ought to have said Wed. Birnie—" On your oath, Mr. Flintan, is that true or false ?" Mr. nesday. We were led into the mistake by the indistinctness of the no- Flintan—" Upon my oath, Sir Richard, I never saw the colour of his tices of the dinner in question. The same indistinctness in a Manchester money, with the exception of the Gs. 6d." Sir R. Birnie said he should letter published the previous week, led us to suppose that in the first in. remand the prisoner until Monday next, on the charge of forgery ; in stance it had been proposed to commence the procession at Manchester. the mean time, he might give bail for the assault. lire can readily believe that no such intention was ever entertained, and THE INOLIS AGAIN.—Captain Dudman, of the Inglis, was held to that it was a matter of the slightest possible consequence if it were or bail on Tuesday, for flogging one William Allen, at St. Helena. Allen,
mistress had been duped ; and lie accordingly took him to the Mendicity
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