Star. — London, England, 1811-09-06 00:00:00

• LINES WRITTEN AT AN INN. I • disstE is. • CARLISLE. Chritioftier Hohne was indicted for embezzling two bills of exchange of the value of £soot). The points of evidence in this cast rested upon this circumstance—Whether the prisoner was to be consi dered a partner in the concern or not ? He had been principal clerk fair eight years, in the house of Graham, Ramshay, Mounsey, and Beck, Bankers, Carlisle, and always conducted himself with very great pro priety. But in the year 1809 s , nue peculiar circum stances took place which were the grounds of his de fence. In this year, (1809) Mr. Beck, 'me of the partners, being appointed one of the Deputy Re ceivers of the county, which necessarily occupied a considerable portion of his time, and being of a ner vous habit, engaged Mr. Holme to transact the chief business of the batik for which he was to receive one third of Mr. Beck's profit, in addition to his own sa lary. This was c intmenticated to the rest of the part ners, and received their approbation. In consequence Mr. Holme acted accordingly and considered him self a partner in the concern. The bills for which the prisoner was indicted, were drawn subsequently to this agreement. The bills being dishonoured, were returned-to the house, and occasioned the discovery. It was contended, on the part of the prosecution, by Messrs. Mounsey and Beck, that they never under stood that the prisoner was a partner, or that any meeting had taken place for that purpose. They al lowed that there was an agreement between the pri soner and Mr. Beck by which the prisoner was al lowed one-third of his individual profits. But this was merely a private agreement between themselves, without any reference t.) the other partners. Holme had more than once allowed his share of the profits to lie over; but this was entered in Beck's name, and was .considered a private transaction between Beck and the prisoner :—nevee recollected having mentioned Holme in any other light than in the one already explained. In favour of the prisoner, several persons were brought forward to prove, that Mr. Beck had often mentioned in company, that Mr. Holme was a part ner—particularly, Mr. Warwick, who proved that he had been himself, and until some little time ago, partner in the said firm, when he retired. He per fectly recollected meetings for the purpose of making Holme a partner, and ever alter understood him to be such. He believed the rest of the partners consi. tiered him to have ash tre. _ . _ _ Whet early the sun sinks in winter to bed, And the western horizon gleams faintly with red, When the mists of the ev'ning rise thick from the vales, As darkness creeps on, and husb'd silence prevails, At tb' approach of night's gloom o'er the rest of hie course, The Traveller moursis for himself and his horse, And bewails his hard fate, fore'd alone, thus, and weary, His way to pursue through roads dirty and dreary. But when safe in Isis inn, and his horse at the tratteer, How snug he reflects on past darkness and danger His fire now so warm is, his steak so well dress'd! His wine (gin and sloe juice) so truly the best ! The armchair so easy, the bed room so neat, The warming-pan ready, and Molly so sweet ! So gratefully slumber encircles his brow, Nu hero mere blest than our traveller now ! Can an inn then such comfort impart 'midst the squall Os Waiier ! Boots ! Chambermaid ! Ostler ! and all ? Far from home, far from spouse, far from children, and friend, Can the 'I raveller fancy all care at an end? Ibe reason my Muse in few words shall explain— , To Contrast we owe a l l our pleasure and pain ; For cause and effect are confounded in this, That bliss leads to woe, and then woe leads to Hies! POLICE. • Gutt.num.t..—Yerterthy, a number of known thieves and pickpockets, and of other persons appre hended in their company, in suspicious eituatioee, and in crowded parts of Bartholomew Fair, were remand. ed for further examination on Saturday. A person of the name of Lee, was charged by Mr. Mader, the City Marshal, in-ving been found play ing the violin, at the hour of two o'clock in the morning, to a number of dancers, in the Plough pub lic-house, in the vicinity of Bartholomew's Hospital, in which, from its proximity to several of the wards of the hospital, it was peculiarly desirable, and had been ordered by the Lord Mayor, that, for the ease and accommodation of the unfortunate inmates of the hospital, as little noise as possible should be made, and reasonable hours kept. The prisoner having made no resistance, and seeming to have been igno- rant of the order made respecting the public.house in question, the Sitting Magistrate ( Mr. Alder man Woon) ordered him to be discharged. A number of bakers were, as usual, charged with being ring-leaders of the riots and confusion incident to such tumultuous assemblages. An Hibernian named Dennis Foley, and a coun trymen named Kearsley, were charged by a person named Gill, and his wile, with a violent assault ; and the accusers were in turn charged, by the accusers with a similar offence. It appeared from the testi mony on the former charge, that the plaintiffs, who had gone on a party of pleasure to the fair, had en tered one of the refeaoria in its neighbourhood to re gale themselves on cold buttock, and other delicacies; and they met there with the defendants, who were perfect strangers to them. Mr. Delay, probably thinking that all was fair play inlfair time, made soroe overtures o(a tender kind to the lady, which were re sented by the husband, and a battle-royal ensued ; in' the result of which Mr. Foley had one of his eyes ecNueat by the fist of Mr. Gill ; and besides, be re ceived so many other good and sufficient proofs of his antagonist's superior skill, as taught him the good policy of discontinuing the combat .- I'he landlord of the house, too, who appeared as a claimant in civil action, stated, that his tables were overset, his plates ; mustard.pots, and the other fragile furniture of his board, broken, and his guests thrown into confusion; and many so frightened, that they weut off lot getting to pay their reckoning. The Magistrates judging, that this complicated dispute would be best adjusted by arbitration, order:l ed the parties to retire with an officer, and settle it amongst themselves. BOW-STREET.—Chrittian Crane was charged with being concerned with two others in burglariously breaking open the house of Mr.Castan, on the Hamp stead-road. It appeared, that so long since as the morning of the (2911 of May, the prosecutor's house r • was brol-e open ;an alarm was given by the watch man on seeing the street-door open. Three men were seen to conic out of the house, two of whom were se cured, and have been tried, and found guilty ; the third made his escape. The prisoner was brought to the office on a warrant for a common asea tilt, when he was recognised as the man who escaped at the time of the above robbery. He was fully identified by a watchman and others, and connnitted for trial. Abraham Lerly, a well-known Jew pick pocket, who was apprehended by Humphreys, at Hackney, on Thursday se'nnight, at the ascent of the balloon, un• de: went a final examination. It appeared, from the evidence of Humphreys, that The value of Dr. FarteMAN'S Gorr.% Seetarents he saw the prisoner put his hand into a Gentleman's has been so long proved, that nothing of the present pocket, and take out something. and put it into his day can beer a competition with it, in all the are 6osom—un which he seized him, when the pri , oner let a pocket-pohook fall ; he picked it up. The prisoner) rent stages of a certain disease , which it effectually cores and era) sate , from the habit, without exciting resisted violently, and endeavoured to get away ; he was then surrounded by at least a dozen well-known the painful feelin;;s and exposure that attends saliva pick-pockets, and he received a violent blow in his tion—w.ithout debilitating the constitution in any de mouth ; notwithstanding, he was determined not to gree, or even requiring confinement from business or I let the prisoner escape. The owner of the pocket- restriction of diet. The radical virtues of these ines tr-,ok has not been traced. The pl,3„,, ier was there . 1 ornai;le Drops have proved their claim to publ c ap the probetion for more thin 30 years. In all the debility fore committed for trial , charged with stealing of both sexes they prove a never-failing restorative property of some person or persons unknown. whether the debility ie produced by too free use of The officers belonging to Hatton Garden Office, a mercury, by illicit pleasures, or the effects of? warm few days since, apprehended a man, who, having climate To traveller s and those going abroad, they been put in possession of a bankrupt's house and cannot be recommeacied t{a) strongly, as they will re effects, had decamped with articles to a considerable calve a safe, speedy, and . complete cure, in all olp amount. When apprehended, he pretended to be so stir:born gleets, and every weakness that affects the lame from an accidental hurt received in his efforts to 1 bladder and or eans of urine. By its eilicecy many escape, that be could not stand without support, and } women have become mothers, who for many years was conveyed to a public house in the neighbour-, had been deprived of that happiness.—Sold fi holesale hood of the Office, to wait the sitting of the Magis- and retail, at Mr. Butler's, No. 4, Cheepside, corner trite soon after, he requested to be assisted into al of Paternaster-row ; and retail, by Belam and Sharp, building in the back yard, and being left there, he ; Poitsmouth ; Hall and Johnson, Gosport ; Allnutt, continued sn long without calling for assistance back Weston, Mallory, and Jones, Portsee; 'Freeman, again to the house, that the officers began to be agar. Exeter ; Cookworthy, Glenville, Gilbert, and Hoz. med, and went to look for him, when it was cliscovel land, Plymouth ; Newbury, Dublin; Beater and Mac red that the cripple, during their absence , had rec o - 1 dunald, Glasgow ; Smith, Manderston, Scott, and veresi the use of hib feet, made a way through the , • Ca; ill , Edinburgh ; Crutwell, Bath ; Roes and Peck, roof of the back part of the building, and over a hi ghoregson and Billings , Liverpool ; Stains and wall into the yard belonging to an adjoining house, , Ly% ; ch, Manchester ; Bowen, Norwich ; Knott and through which he found his way into the street, and L l o yd, Birmingham; Gregory, Brighton ; and most ostected his escape-. He has not yet been heaid of. • Veatiera, in bottles, at tin. & 1.25. The evidence was ably summed up by the Judge; and the Jury, after a short consultation, brought in a verdict of—Not Guilty. NEWCASTLE. GREY 41. COORSON A! , )D CLAYTON, MRS. Mr. Patti.: informed the Jury, that this was an ac- ! tion to recover damages for false imprisonment. The plaintiff was a very respectable woollen-draper, in Newcastle; the defendants are Magistrates, and men of the strictest honour and integrity, and he was ex tremely sorry to see, that, in the present instance, they had overstepped their line of duty. In this instance they had no authority to act, and their own warrant of commitment decided the same. Mr. Grey had articled himself to Mr. Spencer, a woollen-draper, who is now dead ; and it April, 1809, he left him, before the time of the indenture expired, but with his master's consent. Nine months after this, his late master, Mr. Spencer, went to the two Magistrates, Cookson and Clayton, complaining, not on oath, that Grey had absented himself from his service. Mr. Grey was accordingly brought before them. At this time Mr. Cooks , m, one of the defendants, was Mayor. When in custody, Mr. Grey sent for his Solicitor ; but he being' rom home, his clerk attended for him : when I'e got into the Mayor's chamber, Mr. Cookson said, " I want no attnrnies in my chamber, I have the Act of Parliament before me, and will act upon it; and if Ido wrong, I am answerable for it. I will either 'commit Mr. Grey to the House of Cor rection for one month, or ire must go back to his master's service." The young gentleman preferred the former, and he was committed. Mr. Grey moved for a writ of Habeas Corpus in the Court of King's Bench ; and %then the warrant of commitment was read, Lord Ellenborough ordered him to be instant ly discharged. Agreeably to a Statute of Elizabeth, no indenture was legal for a less term than seven years. His client had suffered much on the occa sion; he had been unjustly dragged from his busi. ness and friends, and confined 13 days. The expen ces incurred were also very great ; he had paid the jailor who accompanied him to London,R46. 10s. 6d. land £2i) is law expences had alr,;ady been paid, and lit was from the decision of the Jury that he was to receive compensation. This case was proved in evidence. Verdict for the plaintiff £l7O damages, subject for leave for defen. 1 ti.ints to enter a nonsuit, should this case come within [ the meaning of the Act passed 43d Gco. 111. ' • AMERICAti NATAL BIOGRAPHY'. I No. I. Cossmonont Roncens. The American Papers give the following account of this Commander in the Navy of the United States. Captain Rodgers entered the American navy is the year 1798, during the ad ministration of Mr. Adams, then denominated the Federal Administration. He first sailed under the command of Captain Geddis, in the Potarsco, a small sinop of war, as a S.J►-Lieutenant. In the year 1798 he was promoted to Master and Commander of the Baltimore sloop of war, and made a cruize off the Leeward West-India Islands. On his return to the United States, a Court of Itiqitiry was held upon him for unofficer-like conduct in striking one of his mid shipmen. From the Report of the Court of Inquiry, he was dismissed the service by the President, and was not again called into service until the war between the United States and the Bey of Tripoli, when he got the command of the John Adams, nuw a shop of war, hot originally built for a frigate ; she sails badly. He kfterwards commanded the It igate Congress and Constitution up the Mediterranean ; and when the late Commodore Samuel Barron wits obliged to return, alter making peace with Tripoli, Captain. Rodgers being Senior Captain, hoisted the broad pendant, which he has ever since retained. The gallant Com modore entered into his nautical career in the Guinea, commonly called the Slave trade, and from the lowest grade on board of a slave ship, rose to the honour of being a master. He sailed out of Baltimore, and was known by the names of Bully Rodgers and Blacklack, the latter from his complexion being dark, the former, from his tyrannical and blustering disposition. He has been often known to strip himself to his shirt, and fight with one of his foremast hands; if conquered, he confessed it, and was always the tricnJ of his conqueri4 ; inn where the reverse was the case, he always sheered his superiority of strength by ty ranny. He is about five feet ten inches in height, very muscular, has a dark but not unpleasant coun tenance, his features are prominent, a full black eye, heavy blow, and a low forehead. His manners are coarse, and where he affects the contrary, they shew the sycophant.- His education has been bad; he is very illiterate, but allowed by every person who knows him to have great judgment in the working of a ship. He is a native of Maryland, barn at Have-de-Grace, I where he has a very handsome seat, highly romantic. . , POPULATION OF LONDON. The war; fur the City being now arranged. we have subjoined a general view of the returns ft.r West minster, and the re:pective districts. The returns • f the same districts in the ye it 1601 are added, and the increase it) the popidatien mire mitiutelysstated, while the relative nun.hers of males and fernates are al s o given. The disproportion of females to males is equally Acacril throng/lent the kingd•al ; 110ZWIth. standing, from Ow registry of births at hie the bills of mortality, it is -calcult:ea, that to Rd males, tl.ele are less than 100 females ts..rn.' The p wishes con vi cunas for an accession of iiihabitauts are.alsq noticed. Sir Wm. Petty, in 1652. eznreted London w0 .,L1 so an incre.i4in.. till the year 18(0. at which tims tliont.tht the popttlation would amount t. fivemillion•l Dr. Brakedni,l..e, iu 17.:;1, caletilatel the populatien. of London at 7.7.1.81 f , whis.h was probAbli as ova. estimate at that time. _ Lost.l3n (Ci:y) ISt ?‘ Yrs. Praialis 'revs i7,u4S IMPIS 1te,753 Weituantter (City) Is t 1 7 4.50 • 7...13 101437/ 11101 70.114* BY fait; • 1; t. 272 5.8.17 The Borough, lel i 1801 lneress• 3544 .....4..... PA .5 2 %In 51,590 Si, ICI 29,0:: 1 3b,f.5.1 l i sts 2,6'4 4 , 4 .4 Holborn District, IS! t I s szi u:* 10.4 7 0,03 S 101.7117 low.•xt Ircrem 1%,1111 MOM Finsbury Diatict, 1511 44,262 St,sy3 • C 1.,• iS lbJl "Sili 39,4113_ lr.ma!e I 0,4 '7 I^,; 00 Tower Dlvisbn, ISII 96.1411 1801 77,366 Increase 9.3111 1f.1.1 di NMI 2 :, 11%5011 1:10P,S Surrey ditto, 1611 isOl C 4,1119 47,491 SV,V*4 se.ses Se.su 14 %SO Increase 10,7 i 0 2 1 415 -- - Middlesex ditto, 1111 114,177 1401 27,34 i alai! 46,770 11 •47 5c.,,, el.!,*; Increase 6,113 11..79 16 .92 The population of London, Westnimster, and the abuve districts, by the present census, appears-_ Antra, 1111,7 Sl female% 615,333 ; foul, 1,099.164 Incraase In ten years - - t 3.3 159 The statement for the City of London includes the whole of tile 105 parishes within the boundaries. The population of the City has not incre.ited within the laststen years, because its limits ate tired, and a great number of houses are yearly converted into warehouses, &c. In the estimate for the Surrey district, tv elve parishes arc included, viz. Christchurch, Newington, Camberwell, Putney, Clapham. %Vatic's. worth, Rotherhithe, Sueatham, Battersea, Bet mond. sey, and Richmond. The Middlesex parishes ate Kensington, Cliches, Fulham, Hammersmith, Chiswick, Ealing, Lfinvis. ton, Tottenham, Enfield, Harrow, Twickenham, Staines, and Ustnidge. The influx of inhabitants since 1801 appears very conspicuous in the undernamed parishes : harms.. St. Giles and St. Andrew's, Holborn 13,91 K. St. Mit it -la-bonne - • 11,t,60 St. Genres and Pancras - 90, 060 _ _ No 11. Commodore JAMES BARRON is a native of Halms ton, Virginia, an inconsiderable town at the mouth of the Chesapeak. Its only trade is supplying vessels which lay in the Roads with fresh provisions and wa ter. The father of this Gentleman had the command of a small revenue cutter, and made out a decent sub sistence by that and letting out slaves, that is, hiring slaves from their owners at so much a head per an num, and letting them out as daily labourers. Our hero had the conducting of them, which he did not do in the most humane manner. To assist the natu ral mildness of his disposition, at 18 years of age he entered into the Guinea trade, and rose to the lawnutr. able station of the Master of a Slave Ship, which he resigned, and obtained a commission as 4th Lieute nant. At the commencement of the partial warfare between the United States and France, towards the end of the year 1798, he joined the United States fri gate as 4th Lieutenant, then under the command of the ever to be lamented Commodure Barry, the mild ness of whose manners, and the humanity of whose heart did ill accord with the tyranny of Lieutenant Barron, who never sailed with him but one cruize to the West Indies. He was not again employed until the year 1799, when he got the command of the sloop of war Warren, of 22 guns, an Old East In diaman, that had been purchased into the service.— After an unsuccessful cruize of six months off the Windward West India Islands. he returned to Hamp ton Roads, having lost half his crew by desertion. ; He was not again called into service until the latter end of the year 1802, when he got the command of the New• York frigate, built tor a 4*, lout only mount ing 36 guns. He went up the Mediterranean, but his conduct no: being approved of by Commodore Peeble s commanding the station off Tripoli, he was sent to Washington, in the frigate Chesapeake, she requiring to be refitted. He, however, baffled his enemies, by his influence with the then ruling party, die .Ifiree nitre:, and war again employed in 1804, and took tl-e commar..l of the Essex frigate, and sailed in company with the President, C'ngress, and Constellation hi. gates, and the Enterpi ire schooner, the squadron tin der the command of Commodore Samuel Barron, since deceased, from Hampton Roads to Gibraltar, where he cruised for two months, and at the end of ten months teturned to whence he started, without ever having fired a gun in anger. He is about 54 years of age, 5 fret 11 inches in height, and clumsily made ; his complexion more of a disagreeable yellow than dark. There is a vast deal of severity in his countenance, always accompanied with a sneer. To his inferiors he is haughty and cruel, to his superiors submissive and dissimulating. It would be impossi ble to describe his character and disposition better than he has himself, more than once, when he has boasted, That he, as an officer, had ordered more Men to be flogged than any six in the navy—that he could handle a eat better than any man he ever saw, and do more execution."—Ttais humane officer was not again employed until his memorable action in the Chesapeake, with his Majesty's ship Leopard, in the American waters. He has been since suspended front his command, by a Court of Inquiry held at Wash iugton. He was in London about two months since, as die master of a merchant ship belonging to Norfolk. The Mary Ann, a vessel just arrived in the River, was boarded by some fellows early on Tuesday mor. niag, when all the crew, except one man' and a boy, were on shore, and robbed of a quantity of coffee, with which the villains made their escape. At the Greenburn-market, Aberdeen, a short time since, a scuffle took place between some men who hid be .n drinking, when one of them drew his kaife, and stabbed another severely in the body, of which be die in two days. The offender was aprrehended. Wednesday afternoon as an elderly reste table lnnking woman was swinging in one of t he cars at Bartholomew Fair, she missed her hold of the rope, was precipitated to the ground, and fractured her skull ; she was immediately conveyed to st. Bartho lomew's Hospital, iu a dangerous state. hackney and Bethnal-green Cieekenweil and "Anita' . Lambeth, and Nee Mgt on Kensington and Chel,es • 15,340 II AMR IV,? I I Val Satov.—The ruins, as they are not imprnperly called, of this ancient hospital being about to be ie moved, a short account of it may notice unacceptable. premising, lanwevi.i, some regret that London, in a few years, will exhibit scarcely any remains of its ancient grandeur, or any land marks to revive the me mory of - our ancestors.—On this plate stood the pa :- lace of the potent Simon de Montfcrd, E.trl of Lei tester. Henry 111. had granted to Pt ter of Savoy, uncle to his Queen Eleanor, all the houses upon the Thames where this building now stands, to hold to him and his heirs, yielding yearly at the Exchequ:r three barbed arrows for all services. Tbie Prince foutided the Savoy, ani bestowed it on the irateraity 'of Montjoy. Queen Eleanor purchased it, rid be ! stowed it on her son, Edmund, Earl of Lancaster.—. It was rebuilt in a most magnificent manner by Ns i son Henry. It was made the place of confinement ' of Jahn, King of France, in 1'356, atm; he was taken prisoner at the battle of Poitiers. After his release, he made a visit to his brother in 1363, and t!i:d is this his ancient prison the Bth of April followirg.— In 1381 it was entirely destroyed by Wat Tykr. out of spleen to the great owner, J , but of Gaunt. He set fire to it in several places. The rebels made a pro. , clamation, that nn cue sirould Convert any part of the rich effects to their own use, under pain of death.— They actually hung into the fir: one of their temps• ninns, who hall reserved .t piece of rich plate. They afterwards found certain b.:rrels. which the' tlicuOt had been gold and silver, ar.d flung into tTie games. The contents happened robe gunpowder, which blear up the great hail, and destroyed several hisses. De volving to the Crown, henry VII. began to rebuild it, with a design of forn.ing it into an rinspind tor a hundred distressed people. who were to be fed. clothed. and buried these. This building was in form of 4 crass. the walls (If which ate now nearly entire. His son, Henry VIII. contiaued and completed the de. sign. The revenues, at the suppression by Edward VI. amounted to about £5OO a-year. Qi.een 140/' restored its and her maids of honour, with memo plary piety. furnished it with all necessarivs. In 1611, the Prince's wardrobe was at the Savoy. FiR some years past it has served as barracks for apart of the Guards. and as a military prison. The church here was originally the chapel to the hospital and 4- hibits some reatutes of its ancient grandeur, particu. larly in the roof, ani there are several ancnnt ate• numents in it. It waa made parochial when the old church of St. Mary le Strand was destrioed to make way for the Palace of the 12uke ado/roar. 1)110. Sunday last, at Erne nth, utters ba tweet foe the her ef of "4* heekh, Erie Beall,. Up. Aid titan and Barker. of 1 r 8 a d one of the Relive& foatowe. paga i r m ,, w f u r ote coy. ONDON Prontad and I glow act by a vaa..%. lit, at kes Ms Chsacery-bar, ast.l at the ()te a moil bat.