Star. — London, England, 1802-08-27 00:00:00

I FRAUD ON THE UnDERWRITERS. Yefierday the final examination took place at the Manfionlioufe, of IVrn. Codling, Cipt4iti of'the brig Adventure, bound from London to Leghorn. and funk off Nipliton on Sunday the itit of thi , month ; as alio of nitn. M , Fartnic, one of the own ers of the faid brig. Thomas Cooper, Mate of the faid veffel, who was admitted as a King's evidence, depofed, that he went on board the laid vacl iu the Downs, having engaged to make the voyage with her ; but that a short time alter he had come on board, he was prevailed upon by the pertilafion of the Captain to join in a fcheme that was propofed of finking the veffel after having firft plundered her. On Saturday night he, by the particular defire of the Captain, broke open come boxes cantaining watches, which the Captain carried alhore at Deaf. The Captain provided augurs for boring holes in the (hip's bottom, and the next d.ty, the veffel being near lit ighton, this witoefs, at the Captain's defire, bored feveral holes in the Ihip's bottom ; and the rell of the crew of the veffel, about five or fix in number, confirmed the account given by the Mate, and Paid, that on Saturday, as well as Sunday, the Mate was (hut up with the Captain in the cabin : that the boys, who ufed to attend in the cabin, were not permitted to go down; and from all thole circumflances, the crew lufpefled that fomething wrong was going forward : that on Sunday, finding the (hip make a great deal of water, they were all bufily employed at the pumps; but the Captain cried out, ‘‘ ll—n you, never mind her ; d—n the pumps, let her go to the bottom." After this, the Mate went down into the hold, with a crow bar ; and in a Mort time afterwards, the leak was found to have increafed prodigioufiy, and the veal to be in a finking (Late. Signals of diarefs were then made, and feveral boats came off to her affiflance, but the Captain would not Infer them to come alongfide, but called out ro them to (land off, faying they fhould have nothing to do with the veffel till he had done with her : a (port time afterwards the veffel funk, and the crew got alliore in the boats : a day or two afterwards. Mr. Ea(krby, and Mr. M•Farlane, two of the (hip's owners, came down to Brighton, and paid the crew their wages, without dicing any particular queftions about the lots of the (hip. Richard Brewer, a (hip-builder, refident in Shoreham, hearing of the lots of the (hip, went immediately down to Brighton, and teeing part of the (hip's malt Rill above water, he contrived to have the veal drawn under the water Co near the (bore as to be in a (fate of fafety. While he was doing this, he was very much oppofed by one Read, who pretended to have the poiftflion of the veld as a fupercargo (and which Read is now in Lewes gaol.) The witnefs, however, Paid he was determined too keep the vefel till he knew who were the real owners of her. The Captain was with Read at the fame time, and famed very unwilling to leave the weal in the witnefs's poffeffion. The witnefs after wards brought the veal on (bore, and upon ex• amining the (late of her bottom, he found feveral boles which appeared to have been bored with augurs, and a larger one that appeared to have been made by fuch an inftrument as a crow bar. He then produced three augurs which were found in the (hip upon her examination. Mr. Tallier was prefent when the (hip's hatches were opened for the pumofe of examining her car go. He Paid that a confiderable number of articles which the (hip's papers and her clearances at the Cufkonthoufe proved to have been (hipped on board of her, were not to be found ; in particular, feveral cafes of hats, feveral boxes of MI6 linens, 149 ounces of worked (dyer, and a variety of other articles were then miffing. Mrs. Paterfon proved that 22 packages of goods found at her houfe, were brought by her from the houfe of Mr.M'Farlane—(in a former examination the Paid that (he had removed them at the defire of Mr. M•Farlane, which the now denied). Mary Smith, her fitter, and who lives in her bonfe, Paid thole things were brought to the houfe by her filler in a coach, at the hour of twelve o'clock at night. She confeffed that the word 64 Gores," were marked upon Tome of the packages. The packages were proved to be part of the (hip's taro. oho Perry, an O ffi cer of the Marine Police, (a ter having apprehended Mr. M'Farlane) found at the houfe of Mrs. Paterfon the 22 packages be fore mentioned, and which were proved to belong to the cargo of the Adventure. Mr. Roff, organ builder and mufical inArument maker, proved - , that he had been employed by Mr. Eaten by, one of the owners, to make a grand piano-forte, which Eallerby Paid was for his daugh ter; and afterwards, by the order of Mr. Eafierby and Mr. M'Farlane, he made feveral other tutifi cal inftruments, particularly organs, to he ex ported by this (hip Adventure; Once that time, and Croce the lots of the laid (hip, he has fern two of the organs, the one at Mr. Eaficrb) 's, the other at Mr. M'Farlane's; he alto faw the grand piano forte, although; as well as the organs, it had ' been entered in the (hip's papers forcxportation. Thomas Blagdon, a waterman and lightei man, proved, that by the particular defire of - Mr. Eaf terby, he carried about ten tons of goods from the Cullom-hook to Canada wharf, where Eafler by's houfe is ; ;hat many of thefe parcels were marked A M (the fame marks as the parcels had which were found at Mrs. Paterfon's.) Several clerks of the Cultom.hode proved the entries and clearances made at the Cullom houfe, which were fur a much larger quantity of goods than were found on board her. Edmond Storrow had been an apprentice to Eafterby, when be was a fail-maker in Sunder land ; remembers to have been prefent at a con veifation which took place at the houfe of Lifter by, between Ealterby and M'Farlane, about the poffibility of finking (hips fo as to take in the underwriters; it was then agreed that the Adven ture (hould be to funk, and t'he plan then was, that k m the witnefs was to go out as fupercargo, fell as 2; N. Cll9lllll 2t Mr. Blacker, a broker, proved that be bad been .7oruntiilioned by Mr. M.Farlane to infure for hint to th.: amount of 50031. whereas it had been be. tote proved, that the entire valve of the cargo did ant •:,cted 350c1. The evidence being doled, C tpt. Codling and M'Farlane (being called upon to Phew why they thould not be committed for trial) refufed a: the prefent Babe cf the but - Inds to make any de fence ; but requelled by their Connie' that they might be admitted to hail. This was refuted b} h.s Lord(hip, and they were fully committed to Newgate, in order to take their trials at the next Admiralty Sellion at the Old Bailey. Eafterby and Read will loon be brought up for a final examination. PECKHAM FAIR.—On Monday night, towards the end of the fill., Inch a fcene of villainy and blood flied took place, as was never perhaps heard of on a limilar occafion. At different parts of the ground on which the fair at Peckhatn is princi pally held, are tome narrow entrances, through which people pats backwards and forwards. On their return that way about ten o'clock, a numer ous and defperate gang of pickpockets planted themfelvcs near to the paffage. and as the people came up, openly attacked thole who appeared worth plundering. They firft thatched away the hats of both men and women, and the women's handkerchiefs from off their necks. Some young women, of decent appearance, were (tripped to their petticoats, and feveral gentlemen, after lofing tbcir hats, had the flaps of their coats, as well as their pockets, cut away by inftruments, and many loft their money and watches. Thofe who refilled were treated in the molt brutal manner. A fe male aetually had one of her ears cut off for the fake of a valuable ear-ring, the villains not being able to pull it away as they had done the other. Many repeatable perfons who had endeavoured to defend their property, were dreadfully mangled with Ricks about the head and face. A young man and woman of very decent appearance were attacked by a party of the fame gang, on the road leading from Peckham to London ; they cut away the young man's pocket, and took his hat, and then feized the affrighted female, whofe dreadful Ihrieks, though heard all over the neighbourhood, did nos prevent them from cutting off her poc kets. The fame night a young man being out late was robbed by three villains on Blackfriars- Bridge of a guinea. It alto appears that the gang after robbing a young man in Peckham-lane, threw him into a ditch, where he was found fenfelets. A Gentleman who fell into the hands of thefe defperate banditti gives the following account of the treatment he experienced :—" Returning home about half after nine, we were beret in coming out at the public entrance by a gang of clef - mate villains, one of whom came deli berately up and carried away my hat ; another at the fame inaant (with horrid imprecations) roared out " Knock him down, go it, go it ;" and I was immediately (truck about the head with a bluJgeon, and brought to the ground. They then commenced rifling my pockets, and in the ltruggle to prevent their doing fo, I again found myfelf on my legs, when a dreadful feu& enfued about my watch, which having been previoufly fecured in the fob, could not easily be got at. During this, a fellow with a knife cut my coat acrofs the fhoul ders, and tore one half completely off, and a ruf fian (whore face I flu& not loon forget) came up. and, clafping me round the neck, threw me with violence on my back. He then placed his knees on my break and holding me dole round the throat with one hand,began to untie my cravat with the other. A 'umber of others were all this while fighting for my watch, and one with a (harp inaru ment cut my trowfers entirely open to get at it. But mine was only one inaance among& many, and notwithaanding my being bruited and torn from head to foot, 1 have reafon to believe that many others received Dill worfe treatment. I am af: lured that fome Gentlemen were Dripped of hat, coat and watitcoat entirely, and moD cruelly beat befides. " This trans Lion, Sir, did not take place in a corner. It was an open and avowed defiance of all law, and therefore meths a ferious inquiry.— The fpot they pitched upon was as light as noon day, from the great number of lamps furrourding it, and the gang (chiefly compofed of young men of about twenty-five years. of age) might amount to betwixt fifty and fury." It is however great confolation to learn that eighteen of there defperate villains have been ap prelended, have undergone an examination at the Police Office in the Borough, and many of them have hcen committed for trial. On Monday night, when the violent attack was begun at the paillage to which we have referred, the confiables were fo inferior in number, that they were obliged patient ly to witnefs the depredations that took place, but on the night following they mullered Droner and prevented a repetition of the fame horrid Icenes. Yefterday, at Worthip-ftreet, a Rage coachman was crnviaed in feveral penalties, to the amount of 61. for carrying more palfengers on the roof of his coach than is allowed by Aet of Parliament. Wednefday fe'nnight, an unhappy affair oc• curred at Maryport. A quarrel, it is Paid, took place in a public-houfe there, between two fawyer', Robinfon Wilton and Jofeph Raven, when the former Bruck the other a blow, which inflantly killedhim. A few days ago a coachman belonging to one of the Rages going out of London, left his box coat on the feat, and in his hurry it was Rolm.— Soon after he direeted his courfe to Rofemary. lane, where he raw his coat on the arm of a Jew, he bargained for it for 28s. took, the Jew to a bottle, gave him a hallo crown for earnell, faying he wt.uld return in half an hour, when he return ed with a conliable, laying he was robbed of the fame ; the Jew laid that he had bought it !mealy of a ltrange man for I as. The coachman to con ♦ince him, urged that it was his property, for he would find in the Reeve of his coat fewed up 401. in bank notes, which proved to be the cafe ; not wilting to give himfelf any farther trouble, he dif ...:11%.1 ev. v..... t.:... Jo. •m. *Um dISSIZES. BOOMIN (CORNWALL), AUGUST 206 The Affizes for this county commenced here on Monday lad, and doled on Wednefday. The molt interelling caufe at Nifi Priru was a profecu tioa at the fuit of the Attorney General, again(' Mr. Adam, Mr. Burrough, and Mr. Fitz, jun. of the borough of Lifkeard, charging them with an attempt to pervert the ends of jiittice.— The fitas are nearly as follow :—Jacob Crabb, of Lilkeard, was conviiled a few years ago of an al. fault upon an Officer of Excite, and obaruailig him in the execution of his duty. When brought up to receive judgment, an affidavit, in mitiga..ion of punithment, was produced from Mr. Fitz, tieing, that Crabb was a fober, hone(', civil, and iriduftrious man. About four years after Crabb was liberated from prifon for this offence, lie was again convicted on a fimilar charge, and brought ur a fecond time to receive judgment. In ti-is cafe, as in the former, an affidavit of Mr. Fit t and Mr. Adams was produced to the good charatcr of Crabb. The Bench animadverted with fc verity on thefe teftimonies in favour of fuel; a charaaer as Crahb's appeared to be ; and an affirm was ac• cording' y commenced again(' Meas. Fit z, Adam, and Burrough, for wilfully attempting to pervert the courfe of juftice, which came on to be tried at the prefent affixes. Several other perfOns had joined in the affidavit with the above Gentlemen; but this profecution was directed only againft the Gentlemen we have named. _ _ _ Mr. DALLAS opened the bnfinefs. He contended with his ufual ability, in a fpeech of about forty minutes, that the defendants couhi not fay that a man who obltraled an Officer in the execution of his duty was a civil man, nor that one who Was engaged in fmuggling was an honelt and induf trious one ; that a man who defrauded the reve nues could not be an honeft man ' • that the de fendants were not ignorant of the real chardler of Crabb, as he (hould prove in evidence • and that he, therefore, had no doubt of thelury finding the whole of thedefendantsguilty. Witneffes were then called ' on the part of the profecution. After which Mr. ERSKINE addrelTed the Court in behalf of the de fendants. We have neither room nor ability to do jullice to the admirable fpeech of this Cicero of the Englifb bar. He contended, that it was impollible that Gentlemen of charader, ailing as Magiflrates, could have intended to impofe - upon the Courts; that they only fpoke to the charaCler of Crabb cxclulively of the offences charged ao•ainft him. They could not be capable of the fo lly of denying what had been proved and recorded in Court; but they fwore to his private charaNr, to the bell of their knowledge. Mr. Erfkine conclu ded a fpeech of an hour and a half, in which every thing was laid that could charm and convince hi, hearers, by expreffing his confidence that the Jury mull give a verdiet for the defendants. Several Gentlemen of the fiat refpeetability bore teaimnny to the fair and honourable characters of the defendants. The Le.rrned Judge GRAHAM fummed up the evidence with the greateft candour and accuracy ; and pointed out to the Jury what was, and what was not, wilful perjury. The Jury retired about ten minutes, and returned with a verdiEt—Not Guilty. DUBLIN, AUGUST 19, On Tuefday evening, between 8 and 9 o'clock, as the Rev. Mr. REILLY, of Clarendon. ftreet Cha pel, was going to Ranelagh, he was flopped by three footpath, who, robbed him of as. and his watch—not content with which the ruffians treated him with a confiderable degree of barlhnefs. The preceding Saturday a Mr. TuR KIN GTON, who reticles on the Circular Road.near New- II reet, WAS flopped within a few yards of his own houfe, and robbed of what he had about him. A centinel on duty at die New Prifon, on Tuef day laf, (one of the 15th foot) leaning upon the muzzle of his firclock, it accidentally went off, and Ihattered his hand in fuck a flocking manner, that amputation was indifpenfable immediately after wards, to Live his life. AUOUST 21. At the Affixes of Philipftovm, on Mondry laD, a noted offender' named Hanlon, nick-named Jack Poifon, was found guilty of robbery before Lord No IL aua Y, and received fentence to be executed on Thurfday next. At the fame Affixes a matt was found guilty of boric Dealing, but it appearing that he was tome what deranged when he committed the offence, he has bees recommended for mercy. The Affixes of Antrim doled on Tuefday without any capital conviction. Bryan Hargan, for Dealing a cow, was ordered for tranfportation. Barbazon O'Hara, for alfaulting B. M'Cleverly, affillant gaoler of Carrickfergus, to be imprifcned 12 months, and find fecurity to keep the peace—he was alto ordered to remain to abide his trial on a charge of murder. Several other perfons were convicted of petty offences. TRIALS BEFORE THE RECORDER, AUGUST 17. Honora Dwyer, convicted on the IA fitting day of the ftflion, of felonioufly receiving from Marga. ret Tyrrell t so guineas, knowing the fame to hare been ttolen from Wm. Swords, a hatter, in Meath row, was brought up to receive fentence. The Court determined that as the flatute enacting pe nalties on receivers of ltolen goods, only mentions goods and chattels," and as calls does not come within the denomination of either, the crime with which the prifoner (lands convicted could not ex ceed a mifdemeanor at common law, which pre cludes the punifhment of traafportation—the fen tence of the Court m as therefore that the prifoner be confined for three months ; certain tefiimonials of her good chara.ter had been adduced on her Laurence Aiken flood indi&ed for having, on the aBth of June laft, Itolen from the roof of a new houfe, the property of Richard Williams, solb. weight of lead. Andrew Bruce proved that the lead was fell). nioullr taken, as laid in the indielmen!, from the winner--and that lie detected the prifoner, who was a birdman in the work, lurking about th e pre °miles at the time it was 'Wen ; he found Mllie f the lead, however, in his custody, but difeovered i t in the hoof: communicating Kith that from whi c h it was Itolen ; this occurred on a Sunday min when the prifoner could have no occafion t o b e there ; when interrogated at firft as to brought him to this place, he was filent, b ut af, cr. wards alledged he came for his hod and Witnefs found three large pieces of the lead ne.rr the fp ., „.b ere:t h e prifotter was at that difcovered, front whence there was a ladder communicatirig with a well hole or vacancy for a flair-cafe, through which the priloner might eafily h ave paifeetand All there circumflances appearing fufficicrtly hong to the Court in their charge to the Jury, to warrant a conviction, they returned a verdict.-. 4 Guilty ; prifoner to he tranfported for feven years. Catherine Norris, indided fur Beating fever:it articles of weal ing apparel, the property of Daniel Bacon, was found guilty on teitimo n y of the pro. fecutor, who caught the prifoner in the farti of (baling—to be tranfported for feven years. John M4Longlilin, a yOuth of about the age of t 3 years, flood trial on a charge of haling from Chrittopher Rafferty, five National Bank notes, of one guinea each. The profecutor depofed, that the prifoner bad lived with him for near four years, as a ferr aut , during which tin:e, until the prefent tranfaftion, he conducted himfelf with diligence and fidelity; .that on Saturday fe'nnight, having miffed fome promiffory and bank notes, his fufpacions turned on the maid-fervant, whom he accufed of the theft; the however denying the charge, remarked that the prifoner came to her at an unfeafonable time fcr a piece of candle, to look about his room, as he raid. The profecutor was afterwards induced to ilium gate the boy, who confelred to having taken the promillbry notes after a difeharged bill was foiled on his perfon, the bank notes and ell the other papers having been found in the fame pocket-boa. He perfevered to the tart in difTavowing any ac complice. Verdira—Guilty ; to be burned in the hand, and imprilimed twelve months in the Peri. tertiary, when ready for the reception of culprit,. Margaret Doyle and Mary 'Tyrrell Rood inch& ed for having, on the t sth of Augull init. stolen fire pieces of (tamped muffin, the goods of Mr. John M'Dermntt, who depofed that both prifoners came into his fhop, in Grafton-street; that one affeled to bargain with his wife about a piece of muffin, .while the other, he prefumed, took the five pieces away, which he found on her perfon after the left the Burp. He alfo foutui on the perfon of her who feigned to bargain with his wife, a piece of white muffin and a pair of flockings, which he could not prove to be his property, not having the marks en them by which he could recognize his own. Ver. Guilty.—To be tranfported for feven years. Judith Power, indicted for an affrult on Sea comb Mafon,_ on the 28th July tall, plead e d no t guilty and defended her own caufe. Mafon drpnfed to a violent alTault committed by the prifoner,with her nails on his face, the honour able marks of which he bore about him. The prifoner jullitied the afrault on a new prin ciple, in which the difditiaed all reference either to common or Itatute law—the alledged that the bore two children to the profecutor, whom the nutted and reared at her own expence, and that he refuted to contribute even 2d. a day towards the fopport of the furviving one ; that when fupplicating him the Ida time for this little pittance, and he being fo cruel hearted as to deny her fo !mall a favour, after the m.e.ty the had granted him for ten years back ; that the was honeftly and faithfully attached to him, the could not keep her pafTion for him, which was always flrong, and the made free with his face a little, and that was all. The profecutor, in anfwer to this &arm/pleading, denied the premifes on phyfical principles,alledging that fo promifcuous was the connedion of the loner with his lex, that (he could not exactly feted the real father of the children,and that confiquent ly, in ju(tice to himfelf, he always denied them. The prifoner in a rejoinder called loudly for her child, entreating the Court to) wait, and " the would be bound they could ealily, by the Teem blance of her darling to his falfe-hearted Litho * fee that he could only be his." It is certain the gentleman's phis was rather of the expreffive call, and would not require the (kill of a Lavater to trace a living miniature of it; but the Court not concurring entirely in the lady's ma ternal feelings, charged the Jury to find her guilty before (he could avail herfelf of fo new a fpecies of evidence as the produdion of her child.—To be imprifoned three months, wish condition, that in cafe the profecutor (hall lack to have any part of her fentence remitted, his requeft (ball be complied with. Pat. Ward, prerented by the Grand Jury as a vagabond, was ;diet wards tried and found guilty of a grofs and aggravated affault on Robert Kear). Sentenced to 12 months imprifonment, and to find fccurity in tool. to be of the peace for feven years. Martin Browne convi&ed of flealing a thin, the property of Alderman Exihaw, value 5s. —To be tranfported for feven years.—lt was one found on him out of four the prifoner [tole. Court adjourned to 7th September. BIRTHS. At Reading, on the 23d inft. Mn. MtCowell, of a fon. At Baberton, on the 16th initant, Mn. Robert Gordon, of al daughter. On the lift inftant, the Lady of Richard Baca, Efq. of the Royal Greys, of a daughter. DIED. On Tuefday evening, at his houfe In Davics-fireet, Hertel. y. ((pare, Timothy Calvrall, Efq. of Saeombc Park, Herts. On the 13th init. Mr. Akxander Clerk, Middkton. At St. Pierre's, Martinique, 011 the auth of June laft, Mr. Wm. Graham, merchant, fon of the late Rev. Henry Graham, minHter of the parr of Cambray. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW Morning 14 minutes aim Afternnon 34 minutes after a —.7••=m LGNIJON : Printed for the Fropricturs by JOHN DANIF.I.. gi4araabrareet) at the STAR PIIINTINO-Of VICE, Na. t. -Brea ; sod pabilthed by LEVEL KENT (01 Can la:bury-Ow, Lantbethloit Na'Carry-Rivet, and at the. i iff