Star. — London, England, 1818-10-08 00:00:00

Bow-arearr.—Tuesday afternoon a young man d genteel appearance, of the name of Rat Louis Mirk Kest, calling himself an officer in the French se• vine, was brought to the Office by Bishop and, Ruth" the Officers, charged with robbing Lieut.-Generar Stafford Lightburne of Bank of England notes, WI Mesas. Hammersleys' circular notes, to the amount of abaft 5501. From the statement of the latter be•' fore RICHARD BIRNIE, Esti. the Sitting Magistrate, it appeared that a short time since he left England with an Intention of proceeding to Greece ; when he left he was possessed of 6001. to travel with in Bank of England notes and Hammersleys circular n While he was out he only changed one 501. note, which was at Lafitte's, the bankers, in Pais ; soon after that he received a communication from Eng ~ich laud respec ting some very important business, whit. obliged to return home. On his arrival at Ca lais he embarked on board the Desiree French packet boat for Dover, and soon after he got on board the packet-boat, was the last time he saw his pocket book, contained the above notes, when he took it out of his pocket to slew his permit to a po lice officer. He recollected seeing the prisoner on board the packet-boat. He and the rest of the pas sengers were landed on the beach at Dover, on the night of the I Ith of September last, about nine o'clock, when he found.the prisoner close to his per son, who asked him to allow him to carry a map of Lisle in his hand, which he was going to the Cus tom-house to pay the duty for, which he declined letting him do ; at the same instant he put his hand to his coat pocket, and missed his pocket-book. Ile instantly communicated his discovery to the Custom house officer, who was attending him; he recollected the prisoner then disappeared - from him, but he had no suspition of him then being the robber. He had the boat searched for his pocket-bock, but no trace of it could be found. Information was given of the robbery at the above Office, and Bishop and Ruthen have been exerting themselves since to discover the robber and the property. Two of the stolen 501. and two of the stolen 201. circular notes, have been pre voted for payment at Hammerslcy's Bank, in Vial mall, and stopped, but the parties presenting them contrived to make thei: escape. On Tuesday a man presented another of the stolen 201. circular notes at Hammel sky's Bank for payment. Bishop and I Ittahen traced the man to a house in Beaumont -street, 7 , :ary.la-bonne; he turned out merely to have been e - aployed to take the note to Hammersley's Bank to get charge, but the Officers, by exertions and perse vzrance, succeeded in discovering the prisoner with the prosecutor's pocket-book on him, and the stolen property, to the amount of 390!. which, together with the notes which had been stopped, leave very little deficient from what was originally in the book orevious to its being stolen. The Officers, on search irg the, prisoner, found pawnbroker's duplicates on Lim for a coal and.a ring, which are supposed to be the property of ;r-young man of the name of Koll mar., who the prisoner travellei with, and they put up at La Sablonieres Hotel, in Leicester-square, where Kollman's boa was broken open and robbed ; a passport was also found upon him, which he had obtained from the Marquis d'Osmond, the French Ambassador, three days after his arrival in London, and whicb would enable him to leave at any time.— In the passport he described himself as a naval officer, and a native of Brest. lie said his family lived at Ostend.—.Communed for farther examination. William Barry was convicted in the penalty of 40s. for forcing through the toll-bar at %Van:doe-bridge, on Monday afternoon, during the bustle , ckcasioned by 'ir. Usher's second acquatic etc tu•sion in a washing-, tub, towed by four geese! The defendant, a poor eebler, with i a ifs and children, pleaded great dis tress; and the Clerk of the Bridge humanely agreed to take the penalty by instahnents at 22.6 d. per week. MAntaorouGn-srater.----`ic!terday John Tom -1:7,50n exhibited a charge of felony against afnaster, a tuatekman near Great Cumberland-gate. 'lle complainant said as he was coming down (;scat C . .rnherland-street, lie lost his hat, but did not know ho took it. The Serjeant of the night coming up, he communicated it to him ; suspicion fell upon the atchman. The Serjeant of Ite night desired Demp ster to open a box in 'his watch-box, which he refused to do. It was then broken open, an d the complainant's had was found concealed therein. The prisoner was re/nand:A until Friday ; in the mean time informa fc,a will be given to the parish officers, that they era} appear to prosecute. TIM BODY STEALLNg AND TUC CONSTABI.F.3.---A few nights ago, Teasdale, a constable of St. Pancras, and another assistant constable, stopped two men, Lamed Thomas Moore and William Harriot, in Brunswick-square, carrying a hamper containing a dead body ; they tool: the men to the watch-house, where they deposited the body, and next day. con veyed the prisoners to Hatton-garden Police•office where they were held to hail by the Magistrate, and i the body was ordered to be interred. The constables, whose active conduct in taking the prisoners was praised very much, thought proper to take the dead body from St. Pancras watch-house, in a hackney coach, to Mr. Carpue, an anatomist, and offered to sell it ; they informed Mr. C. how they came posses sed of the " subject," and he declined buying it, saying, if it belonged to any body, it must be to those whom they had taken it from. The constables - then proceeded with the body to St. Thomas's Hos pital, and there sold it to the porter for one pound, and the porter skid it to the surgeons for four pounds. Yesterday the conduct of the constables was laid be .l.we the Magistrates, and they tended a bill indictment be preferred them at the to pi against . icrt Quarter Sessions, for a misdemeanour. QUEEN-sot:Aut.—A gentleman came to lay an in formation agains't Mr. Bolbycs, of No. 2, Clitirch-row, Chelsea.. He said that on Friday. last he was riding in his chaise by Mr. Itolbyes' house, when his horse suddenly fell through a trap-door into IL vault nine feet deep. He was himself pitched upon the ground, the chaise was broken, and the horse, which was a very valuable one, very much hurt. It was found necessary to take' the horse through several other vaults, till at last the ground was &lig, so as to get him up. Mr.PIILDING told him he would no doubt recover damages for the injury at the Sessions ; but was trot said; a public nuisance as cgold be cog nigzable before a Magistrate. The complainant left the OffiCe,avowing,that he would proceed as directed. Uxtos-sram..--11sx v. Cowst.L.—This was an in formation against Mr. John Cowell, a brewer of ale 2nd table.beer, in a large way of business, at Caw 6nvell, for omitting to mark 3g o elsks of tableleee in the manner prescribed by the Act of Parliament, by which he had incurred penalties to the amount of 1,5001. Mr. Benjamin Payne, Supervisor of Excise, referred to the clause of the Act under which the in formation was laid; requiring even the common brewer to mark his casks of table beer with the capi tal roman letter T. of the length of four inches, un der the penalty of 501 for every cask on which such mark shall not be put. The Magistrates consulted for a few moments, and in consequence of an 1 inti mation that there was no wish on the part of the, Commissioners of Excise to press for the full penal ties, they came to a determination to fine the defen dant in the mitigated penalty of 121. 10s. and costs. —Several persons resident at Camberwell, Norwood,' and Peckham, were charged with retailing table or small-beer, at a higher rate than is allowed by Act of Parliament, of 10 Geo. 111. viz. one halfpenny per quart. It was proved that the defenidants had in many instances vended beer at 2d.and 3d. per quart. James Clerk, J. Steward, William Ure_Ard, Arthur Smith, J. Rabies, J. Staples, Edward rhenium', J. .Wilson, J. Rodgers, and Richard Cooper, were seve rally fined 381. Wonsuir-sritEEr.--Yesterday a young woman came to this Office, to lay an information against a . man for robbing her. She said her name was Hannah Bland, residing at No. 60, Brick-lane, Spital-tields ; that the accused's name was John Smith. He paid his addresses to her for some time past; and met with such attention as was deemed proper by her friends; he visited frequently at the house, and declared him self a suitor in such a manner, that a speedy union was anticipated. He gave his address at Mr. Pit man's,' boot•maker, in London-wall, and signified his intention of going into business immediately after their marriage. On Tuesday he came as usual, but he departed rather abruptly, without taking his leave; he had been seen by a boy carrying off a bundle, which created suspicion that an elopement was in contemplation. An inquiry was made at the house of Mr. Pitman, when it was ascertained he had only been there a journeyman, and that he hal conducted himself so that Mr. Pitman would not employ him again. On examination it was discovered he had stolen two elegant silk shawls, value each, several silk dresses, a gold snuff-box, anJ some trinkets, the property of complainant. Inquiry had been made in different places for him, but he had not been heard of. Complainant then gave a description of his per son, to enable the officers to apprehend him. Sittings in and after Michaelmas Term, 1818, be fore the flight Hon. Sir VICARY Guess, Knt. Lord Chicf'Justike of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas: IN TERM. SIMYtESCI. Tuesday MordJy !3cndiy Nov. 10 16 25 LONDON. Wednesday - Nov. 11 Tuesday 17 Tuesday 24 AFTER TERM. Nlcrday rov. 30 Tuesday Dee. I Tuesday night Mr. Evans, hop-factor, of the Bo rough, was attacked by a gang of robbers, near the coach-stand, Newington, and robbed of a gold watch. Monday night, or early on Tuesday morning, the dwelling house of Mr. Joseph Mundy, watch-maker, at Cheshunt, lierts, was broke open, and robbed of', forty watches, four time-pieces in cases, a great quan- , tity of trinkets, watch-keys, and chains, miniatures' set in gold, a brace of pistols, and sundry other ar ticles, altogether to a considerable amount. Tuesday se'nnight, at noon, a poor woman, named Johnson, an inhabitant of Wingham, was stopped on the high road in Fish-pool Bottom, by two men, and robbed of 1:3 1.55. The villains, who had the ap. pearance of broom-dashers, proceeded on towards Canterbury after committing the robbery. Sunday, Mr. Buoy's:, keeper of the High Jail, Exeter, received the cJnditional pardon of John Hor top, July: Nias, and James Galliyin-d, sentenced for death at the last As:.izes, to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, in the House of Correction, for 18 ca lendar mouths each. Thursday morning last, A. Farley, for many years ostler at the King's head Inn, Sutton Valence, Kent, while in the act of leading two horses through the stable-yard, fell, and, without a groan, instantly ex pired. An Inquisition was taken. Verdict—Died by ti7e Visitation of Gov. _ . _ ..... _ Yesterday an inquest was Feld in the Vestry of Wapping Chinch on the body of Mr. Frederick Au- 1 gnstus Antony, aged forty, a planter of St.Domingo, l who was drowned in the river Thames on Monday afternoon. The circumstances of this unfortunate accident were given in our Paper of yesterday. Ver dict..—Accidental Death. Tuesday a young man, named William Basson, a groom, in the service of Mr. Yarnold, of Soho-square, riding a very spirited blood horse belonging to his master, near the Green Man, at Finchley, was, from the enlmal plunging, thrown from his seat on the ground; he fell upon his head, received a most vie lent concussion and fracture, and almost instantly died. Two fine young Women, one 13, the other - about 20 years of age, we lament to state, perished in the flames, in the fire in Tooley-street, yesterday morn ning ; they were a servant-maid and lodger of the pork-butcher's. The remains of a human body were discovered amid the ruins about twelve o'clock at i noon, but so shockingly mutilated that it was utterly impossible to distinguish who the unfortunate sufferer was ; the other body had not been found at a late hour last night. The following is an extract of a letter from Sussex, dated the 6th instant The present season is like a second Spring ; grass, corn, and weeds, appear accordingly. The farmers are busy in all directions preparing for the wheat sowing, and where care and industry have been exercised in the summer fallow ing, nothing can promise better to ensure a future abundant crop. The price of hops has declined." We are concerned to state, that the respectable and hitherto peaceable town of Carmarthen last week exhibited symptoms of a riotous complexion ; a mis guided multitude having interfered to prevent the shipments of cheese for other ports from that borough. However, the spirited and determined conduct of the present worthy Chief Magistrate, supported by the military, prevented mischief, an d the merchants ship ped their cheese without molestation. PIE POWDER coi:Rt. BRISTOL, OCTOBER 6. Wednesday, according to an ancient annual custom the Sheriffs of this city, Magi. Hassell and Roach, attended in the Old Market, to open the Court of Pie Powder. The antiquity of this Court is very great — it is of Saxon origin, and in all probability has been held on the same spot (the south side of the Old Market) for centuries past. It is held on the pave ment facing a house occupied for more than 100 year s by a Mr. Wetherell and his family. Mr. Wetherell has been preient at the holding of 64 Courts, but it is now 26 vErs since any cause has been tried. The Sheriffs preside, with their Steward, and a Jury is summoned, as in our other Courts of Law, when a cause is entered for trial. It continues open for 14 days, and is regularly opened and adjourned each day by Proclamation. There is a projection before Ur. W:s house, supported by pillars. Round these pillars some ancient tapestry is nailed, and the only business now transacted under this canopy, after the Court is formally opened, is, that of its Officers par taking of toasted bread and cheese, soaked in methe glin and cyder, for which purpose a table is spread with plates, knives and forks, &c. aad the fragments which remain, are afterwards distributed, with much good humour, among the boys and girls, who are almost the only spectator; who now assemble in this once popular Court. Its antiquity and the uses to which it was applied, may be gathered from the fol ' lowing description of it : " Pie POWDER COLTILT.-1 Curia pedis pultefiati)—From the French *d, i. e. pa and postmur, i. e. polverulenous—is a Court heid, de ham in ilonam,, in fairs, to administer justiee to buyers and sellers, and for redress of disorders committed by them; so called from the dusty feet of the'suitors; or, according to Sir Edward Coke, because justice there Is done as speedily as dust, ran fall fr.,m the foot, upon the same principle that justice among the Jews was administered in the gates of the city, that the 4 .0- ceedings might be mare speedy as s. It as public . "—Ruth, ch. 4. " But she etymology given by a learned modern writer is much more ingenious and satisfactory, it being derived, accord ing to him, from Fiedrutterestr, a pedbr in old French, and there fore sismifying the Court of such petty chapmen as resort to fairs and market!.'—Barrington on the Statutes. " This Court among the Saxons was called at:sow-ma , 1. e. a Court for merchandise, or audling matters of buying and sell ing. It is mentioned in Doan- and Sind: at, c. 5, which tells us it is a Court incident to fairs and markets, to be held only dur ing the time that the fairs are kept.--The fair of St. Giles, held on the hill of that name. rear the city of Winchester, by virtue of letters patent of Edward IV. bath a Court of Pie Powder of a trenscenchrt jurisdiction, t h e Judges whereof are called Justices of the Pavilion, and have their power front the Bishop of Win chester." THE FORCE or CONSCIENCE.—Linen-drapers, and others who deal in articles of female attire, are, we believe, particularly exposed to the artifices of shop lifters, and suffer severely from their depredations.— Among these, Messrs. MASH and Son, of Parliament street, leave frequently missed -articles of value, stolen by persons who have visited their spop on pretence of buying goods. In one instance the loss has been re paired by the justice and conscientious feeling of the offending party, from whom they received, about three weeks ago, a suns of 31. in three 1/. notes, en close,' in a letter, sent by the twopenny post, of which the following is a copy : " From an unfortunate person, led through the mercy and goodness of Goo, to feel the wickedness of the past ; who, there fore, as a proof of contrition, hopes to have now returned one third more than that which you have lust—all that the afflicted person has to give." This Letter was addressed—. Mr. Mann, Parliament-street." On the 29th nlt. Mr. 31,t0m received from the same party a second letter, containing a 11. Bank note, of which the following is a copy : " Permit me to irtruele on yea owe mote. A short time since I enclosed you the whole of the money I possessed, except a few *filings. Since then I have had a further supply, which I Imsten'to offer you, praying that you will receive it as a pledge of my contrition sod virtuous resolves for the future. " My sense of the injury you have sustained is so intense, that my acknowledgments of it are only measured by my very limit ed means ; and my best consolation is, that should even this trifle miscarry, you are no loser by me. And how greatly do I stand in need of consolation ! It would be difficult for you to imagire the dreadful misery I have gone through since the udortunate transactions, which for ev:r in this world have deprived me of the enjoyments of an unoffeading conscience. 06, how fervently do I wish to rascal the last three months, wherein I have fo.feit ed the happiness I once possessed for ever ! And yet sometimes I hope there is some extenuation for me, and that all is not to be imputed to ViCiIUS dispositions, but to an aberration of rea son I can fully account for, and still suffer from. I cannot dis close myself to you; but as you hope for mercy yourself, for Ilraers's sake let me implore you to take no steps to discover . me, but to pity and forgive me. Both day and night I weep and prov for pardon ; and though nearly distracted there are seasons of hope, when I sun tempted to believe GOD hears me; but as I stand alone in this melancholy distress, I bare no friendly voice to strengthen my hopes, soothe my afflictions, pity my wuakneu, or assist my endeavours. That you may pass the re mainder of your life in the posstision of heavenly peace and happi ness, is the sincere wish of one who very probably will fall the vic tim of transgression ; for unless repentance and prayer, through 000'41 mercy, can ease the pangs of a wounded conscience, no frame can lung support what I endure. I shall confide this let ter to the put ; but in case it should not reach you safely, I pro pose sending you a copy of it, that at least you may learn my in tention. Once more let me implore your kindness, and believe me you need not wish nu a more dreadful punishment than is mine—as a father, I en you." An advance of £9 per ton in the standard of cop per ore has taken place at Pool, in Cornwall, making an increase, during the last five weeks, Of al per ton. Whore an assemblage of talent and experience is concentrated in one line of practice, a success must ; attend their application, not to be found elsewhere. This has been evinced in the Establishment of the Medical Board at Charlotte-House, Bla:kfriars-mad, and at Woodstock-House, Woodstock -street, Oxford street, where cures are every day performed in cases which have baffled the skill of eminent professors, and excited their astonishment.—The Medical Board hive particularly attended to those consequenees o f a certain disease, which entails the most distressing de bilities, and unhinges the constitution of both sexes. They also remove the effects of those symptoms aris ing from juvenile indiscretion, from irregular living, and from a long residence in warm climates—of this description they beg particularly to notice obstinate eruptions in the skin, sore throat, pains in the head and limbs, frequently mistaken for rheumatism, strictures, fistulas, scrophula, &c.—Messrs. COOPER and Co. after forty ) ears practice in various Hospitals, are consulted at Woodstock-street, Oxford-street, daily, ; from eight till eight; and at the Medical Board, Charlotte-House, Great Charlotte -street, Blackfriars road, precisely from twelve until eight in the evening. —Mechanics, and persons of moderate income, have advice, gratis, if they attend at certain hours, namely, -Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday mornings, until one o'clock, and from six to eight every evening. • A sldr door, aid private moos tot fraialco. BIRTIt Wednesday se'nnight, at Doerr Illabaridtte St. Leger, of a son. This that Noble Mouse as it giv es a preyeatate of Lord Ltili.railr. MARRI Saturday, at Ilfracombe, Lieut. f ten, only daughter of Captain 'Mae Thursday, at Bideford, Wm. Col to bliss Mary Hatberly, deo:bier ol of Shibbeartown, near Bideford. DIED Sept. ez, in the act of ranting ar he WAS :hooting) John Ler, for several months laboured und e r a Sept. 25, at his house in Upton, - , for many years part an active M; Lancaster and Chester. Sept. 25, Ann, relict of the late many yearn Alderman of Plymoutt Sgt. 27, at Keaton Lodge, rear I daughter of Colonel Tonne. Sept. 28, at Cork, John Bernard Tate Secretary to the late Bight I lc Oct. $, in her 79th year, the It widow of the late Lord Northwich. October .5, at Faversham, of a typ Ware, builder. The 24th ult. aged itC years, (70 public service), Capt. Jas. 4.albraath Thursday, Mrs. Basnet: relict Fralshatu, late one cti the &toners Saturday, at Plymouth, aged 79, Captain Drustis, It. N. 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In All cases of. ther resulting front the too frequ e:icy ties of fashionable life, the unbounded or a secret solitary habit, which weak and destroys the flower of youth, by pi sex, aid impotence is the °dui, they are. To those who, from such comp ing into the married state, acd ashami their infirmities in silence, it must bs ever difficult or ineffectual the cure Practitioners, that by a renovating and be restored to a sound and vigoroy ,disorder, frequently contracted in a n every species of % enereal infection, I mode of treatment, is speedily and restraint in diet or exercise, as also St Glatt, which they are enabled to cur recourse to the painful and dangerous rences of which can he given to severs of high respectability, who have been after having laboured under stricture' . _ To Mar w ried cemales, whose es pledges of connubial happiness have a pleasing reflection to know, that h their remedies, the general health is menu removed. Messrs. 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