"An extraordinary circumstance lately happened to a sheriff's officer, in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden. Hot with _juniper berry_, not the _Tuscan Grape_, he had an idea of beating the _Carmagnols_; and in consequence, going to a recruiting party in Bow Street, said he would _enlist_. The Captain of the party gave him a shilling, in the usual phrase of _His Majesty's name_:--he said he must have more:--a guinea was given him in His Majesty's name, to serve so and so; he took it, and departed. The matter thus rested for five or six days, when he came back to return the money, which he said he had taken _in a frolic_. The money was refused. He said he would be revenged, and, having a writ some days after, against one of the enlisted recruits, he went to the rendezvous house to execute it, where the Captain took him up as a _deserter_, and sent him to the _Savoy Prison_, from whence he has been released by a _Habeas Corpus_, contrary, as military men say, to the law by which the military are governed. This will occasion a most curious contest."--(_Times, June 30, 1794._) * * * * * "Something like a _legal mutiny_ has, it seems, already arisen in the _long robed_ Corps of Volunteers. By a clause in their _engrossed agreement_, every Member neglecting to attend the regular _drill_, is _bound_ to pay a _fine of three shillings and four-pence_, towards purchasing _parchment_ to new head their drums. Against this _penalty_ being _levied_, some of the absentees have _demurred_, on the _plea_ that the _instrument_ is not _valid_ in _law_, from its not being _drawn_ on a _six shilling stamp_."--(_Times, July 17, 1794._) * * * * *