Star. — London, England, 1801-09-22 00:00:00

LONbON itAxrrl. claii-EXCHANGE, MONDAY, SEPTEIVIDER it. RETURN of WHEAT in Mark-lane, isselodiog gem the yth Septauber to the lad of September; agreeable to the nen Ada. T0tab..49488 `carters. Average 774 84. 13 .. 84. hiher thaa t it return. • PRI C E OF H P& Katt 3 1 es to 41 to 4 R lKent 41 04 to 31 ISi 04 gyres 31 to 41 6s Suffer 41 os to 41 161 L a x st 04 to 41 6s Farnham 51 OS tO 71 OS SEEDS PFit HUND WEIGHT, Sept. at. Sad Cleo los eis 9oa White ditto sos to 1I m per cwt. Trefoil los to sos Turnip tat to 181 per buthel Rye Graft Ws antis per quarter afiqueicAl mato sor per di tto Mader& SWhite 7161 . to 141 at pet bathel g oet t, jrz y t tos to 141 6d per ditto Seed Is to Is per ditto Rape Seed • 381 to 401 per lilt SIVLITHIPIEth, 'September at. To fink Ms (611-9!? Rom of Db. Jeff tt 64 to ss 4d Veal - ts Btl to is 44 mom .se 44 to 6s 84 Pork - 64 4d to 7s oil Lamb, se. 4d. to 65.6 d. Stack ot Market this nabnilnt. &aft' 1800. Sheep and Lamb, Bsno. NEWOATE and LEADENHALL, Septeabet 2/. Pet Rate of 81b. by the Mamie. b a r 4 1 id to 4s 84 Veal 4s oil to di off Matted 4s toil to Ss tod Pork 6s 44 to is oil Lamb m Ed to saB4. _ . TRICE OF HAY AI4D ersaW, September It. Smithfield. St. bunts's. Vib O.HAys StoS ts 3 oo to 0 4 0 oto S 10 0 Halo. 3 3te 414 Straw Itoto a s z 30 oto r 16 (2 i Boto z x 6 o Coral to to 6 6 -- 6 6 oes 7 9 o d.. 3 JOS 3 ALS, September at. ' Pet tools In flee Pool, it 71. rad. per ChaldrolL Delivered - al. ga, dd. Suoderland, • al. 3s. 6d. Delivered • 21. its. od. A letter, dated Colmar, September ii, Rates, that an event before unknown had fpread a confiderable degree of alarm. Vat morning at a quarter pall one, a pretty Rrong (hock of an earthquake was felt's a great number of people were awakened by a hollow noife and certain agi. ration, which was, felt in the houfes, and (hook the furniture. Several (hocks followe d : at a quarter paR two, there was one pretty thong. Yeflerday a very melancholy accident took place in the neighbourhood of Highgate. An amiable youth, the fon of Mr. Dew of that place, who held an Ace in the cußoms, having a holiday, event to fills in the ponds; and, while amufing Itimfelf. flipped in, as is fuppofed, and was unfor tunately drowned. The accident happened about two o'clock, but the body was not found till it was too lave to attempt any means of refulkitation. It is much to be regretted that the proprietors of there ponds fuffer them to remain in their prefent accef. fible Rate. They ought to be railed or enclofed, or if they will not fubmit to this expence, they Mould take care to have in rtadinefs, at fume con venient place or places, drags, and other imple ments neceffary for the recovery of drowned bo dies, as weft as the apparatus recommended by the fluoune Society for tse reßoration of curponded The body of a poor woman abeent do, was taken up at the Rain at Wellminfier Bridge. yefterdiy morning about elevenn'clock. Two [killings and two penny pieees, with a razor and two thimbles, were found in her pocket: She was dreffed in black, with a ring on her finger. The body was obferv ed by a Gentleman looking over the bridge to rife' , frtnn under the barges lying near Whitehall [Lairs. Yellerciay a perfon, calling himfelf jobs Sul• sea, was examined at Bow-fireet, on a charge of extorting 341. p. from Mr. S. a publican in the neighbourhood of Hatton-warden, under a threat of charging him with an unnatural crime. A richer routine' of amufement has certainly never before the public than what the Royal Cir cus, St. George''s Fields, affords, where among other exiellent performances is the new grand tipeelacle of Kmg C•fi•r, or the Negro Slaves, a piece certainly of the roof impreffive nature throughout its various fcenes; its fcenery is aVo admirable, particularly the tremendous effeets of an Earth quake, the Mill or Terrors, the Caßle on fire, and numerous views in the Hand of St. Domingo. The mufic by Mr. W. Wale, is truly fafeinating, and the Dancing by Mifs ADAM: and brafs Dame T is Itniverfally admired. The Rev. I. WALTON, of Sutton, Croft Hills, in Craven, Yor fhire in a letter of Auguß 180 t, addre (red to B. PESKIN% of Letcefter-tquare, London, the Patentee of the Metallic Traitors, a copy of his notes during a feries of experiments with thofe Inflruments. Befidcs important cures of Rheumatifm, ContraElions, Burns, Head•ach, afftetions of the Eyes, &c. &c. is the following on a hfirfe, which will Phew how futile are the artifices of interefted men, to perfuade that the Traitors operate on the imagination : • " A beak belonging to Mr. Slack, of the White Sear lon, Cruis Hills, through a fpraln, had his leg exceedingly (welled from above the knee down to the foot. A farrie had tried tuems witboot fueccia Throe operations of the Tralors hi the comic of the day carafiderably reduced the (welling, and re moved In part the lame:leis. In three days that [welling was entirety gone. I then, however obferved, that the principal lido in the brcaft was much difiended. The drawing of the Trseton over this vein evidently produced great &et, as the tow animal trembled exceedingly. I then tried, In the fame inaruitr, three dircrent pkees of metals, %aped like the Truer tars, &ern neither of which did he expects any fenistion, but nit bringing the Traciton in comae spin, the trembling in• Canty returned, and it was with difficulty he could be held. In 40 minutes the vein was mach disnialthed; and, by repeat , 4 ide of the Tractors foe two days more, the hock was weft." The Traetors Co Deur/try M every Family, and among E.nfea• may be had, genuine , with new and improved dire thins for nave rhea. fur FiveGuieras the Set, of B. D. Pet e:us, A. M. tke Patentee, In the book of the tate John Hull ter. Surgeon, Lc:tether-Iquart ; and of Frederic Smith, Che m* and Gruggift, In the Haymarket, London. The portable nature of the Trade*. reader. their conveyance by Coach, or even by Poll, perfeCtly convenient. Latin Inch:ding their anima (pott.paid) ditty attended to. N. B. The purelaers of the Traitors receive gratis, two N. intent Book% which contain, as communicated by the firft teeny eharaners, about three thoafand Cures of Gout, ft hen matlfm, Scalds, Head-ach, Tontis-ach, Sprains, Infirasmations, Lc. &c. and all asiaingous Difcafes cif I locks. Caul. tuu.--The genuine Traders are 'tamped with the words •• Ps aal s i s r TTTTT Taacroas " and at the bottom of the printed &cella, s is a Reetipt for At five guffaw, figned In the hand writing of the Patentee. by Menial this, km rations will often be &trawl. 6Lb 'SAIL& 4 trefterday thirty-eight prifoncrs were tried, two of whom *ere capitally convieted, viz. Them Fitzroy, for breaking .and ehtering in the day time, the dwelling-houfe of James Harris, and ftealing feveral articles to the value of 405. — On the evening of Sunday, the sth of July, all the people who lived in the houfe had been out,' and the houfe was locked up, The daughter of the profecutor came and found the prifoner at the door with a bundle and a baficet in his hand, and he appeared as if he was coming out of the houfe. She afked him what he wanted ? He faid he want.' ed her father; and, on alking him what things they were that he had got he anfwered they were his own. She then followed him up a court, as he endeavoured to get away from her. He was im mediately, however, fecured by a man who faw him, brought to a public-houfe, and given in charge to a eonftable. The property found on him was all proved to have belonged to the per =living in the profecutor's houfe, and to have there on the day in queilion : When the pri foner iras fearched, a quantity of fkeleton keys were found upon him, one of which opened the houfe-door ; and the locks of fbme of the rooms infide appeared to have been forced. The principal quellion was, whether the prifo ner was to be capitally convieted? The RECORDER obferved, that the property Rolen being of no greater value than 4os. it would be rather too much to find the prifoner guilty of haling to that amount in a dwelling-houfe ; but if he broke open the houfe, and (tole to any amount, it was capital ; the Jury were, therefore, to decide whether be did fo or not? Grilty of breaking and flealing.—Death. Yobs Kasai& and William Cooper, two lads, the latter of whom wit only is years old, were in dieted for Reeling privately, in the warehoufe of George Singleton, a piece of linen cloth, value mrs. his:property. One of the City Marfhalmen faw the two prifoners in Fleet-areet, looking at the windows of leveret (hops, and going away again. He watched all the way to the profecu tor's warehoufe, at the corner of Watling-ftreet, St. Paul's Church-yard. They (topped looking at the doors and windows for a fhort time ; they con verged together, and at laft Kanally went and en tered into converfation with a man who (wept the trolling, as if to draw away his attention; while the other fiepped into the warehoufe, aad came out direly after with the piece of linen under his arm. This officer then took them both into cuflody.. . . Mr. Singleton Paid, he was, at this time, bufy writing, and there was nobody in the warehoufe but himfelf, when the prifoner came into anti where force perfon lived ? he did not fee him take away the cloth ; but he knew it to be his when the offi cer brought it back; and a little before that it had been lying on the counter. • The RICORDER (aid, that if the perfon charged with taking the cloth out of the Ibop was guilty, the other, as aiding and affifting him, mull be equally guilty. The Jury, however, acquitted 'tonally, and found Cooper Guilty of the capital charge, but re commended him to mercy on account of his youth. Seventeen were.convitted of felony, viz. Am; Batas's., for Reeling fundry articles, the property of Dinah Brian, in the houfe of Mr. Wil dron, in Grofveuor-place. The prifoner was a fellow-fervant with the profecutor. The profecu. tor identified feveral articles produced, and they were alto (worn to by feveral other witneffes ; Ann ,Archer, for (leafing a fheet, the property of Sarah Lane; Jeremiah Peck, for Reeling a pair of boots, the property of Charles Barham ; William Hunt, and Edward Monday, for Reeling two pieces of Irifh linen, the property of Richard GoiEngton ; John Ealy, for Reeling three (beets, the property of John Gwilline ; John Smith and James J ones, for Realing a marble flab, the property of John Waddilove ; Jofeph Joachim, for healing a o•otch, the property of Charles Wenneberg William In gram, alias Eagle, for Reeling a tub and a gums dty of oyfters, the property of Stephen Chilton. Mary Leiv°4 for robbing her ready furnifhed lodgings. There were (einem' indiaments 'pre ferred againft her by different perfons, at whole houfes the had taken lodgings, on one of which the was tried. Mrs. Petrick, the wife of Wm. Patrick, Paid the prifoner came to take lodgings in her bouts and reprefented herfelf as a fervant out of ploce. She flept there one night, the next morning the went, as the raid, for the purport of fetching her box, but returned no more. The witnefs toes miffed a gown and a pair of fluets, and hearing that the prifoner was taken up, his went and law her before the Juftice. Here the prifoner confeffed having Bolen the things and pawned them with a pawnbroker near Weßminiter-bridge. The things were found there according to her account.— Yokr; liarrit, for Reeling a pair of (beets and a watch, the property of Hannah Lucas, a widow, into whofe houfe he bad entered by a back win dow. Two men (wore they raw the prifoner come out of the back window in queßion with a bundle in his hand • that they followed and pnrfued him; for a fhort time they 101 l fight of him; but after wards came up with him in a Roble yard, near Baker-greet, where he was Banding on a dunghill; he was immediately taken into cußody. and the (beets were found concealed in the dunghill; but the watch could never be found.—Gaiky. Yaw liarma t y. lot Reeling, on the 6th. of An vil, twelve pieces of tortoite-fhell, value tl. tos. the pri perty of Meth*. Macdonald. The confederation of this cafe took up tome time, however, the circumflances were briefly as follow: It appeared by the teßimony of the principal Witncfs, one of the Marine Police Officers, that being on the River the evening of the 6th of Au. in the Police-boat, he oblerved the prifoner and another man in a boat, under the bow of the (hip Alert ; that he noticed the prifoner to have fomething bulky under his jacket; in conic quence he rowed up to their boat, when they run upon onefide of the Alert,and afcended the vete!, into which he got at the other fide. He inflantly perceived the Witmer flooping, and apparently as if be had siepofued fosse stung in a place of , . enneealnieed. He Mai iitunetriatelytectitect, with a bag containing she pmperty laid in the 1n i - The latter part of the Officer's acciattn was corroborated by two others of,the *image.. The Pci loner in his defenee. , genytelly alerted. his innocence of the charge ; and his hfei or dered a man of the name okAles. Brno s to be called, st'hu not imtnediatelir A pftatihiti e pro ceeded to eitamine feveval Witnetes, who came forward to the Prifoner's charadter. At length Brooks appeated, and entered into a detail, the greater part of which was in flat contradiction to the teftimony of the Witnefrcs for the profecution. —He laid the • Prifoner was one of fit or fever Lumpers, of which he, the Witnefs. was chkf, who were engaged in difcharging the Veld that even-, ing ; that he did not leave the Vefel, and that he was alloniflied when he faw the Prifoner in the cullody of the Police Officer, and he did not know for what it was, until after he had taken him away. He defcribed the tortoife-(hell to be placed in lush a way as that the Prifoner could not, on accptint of the way he was engaged, have &pouted it there. The Police Officer was then called up again, and on teeing the Witnefs, depofed, that he was the identical perfon whom he law at firs in the boat with the Prifoner; and in this' fad he was in a great degree corroborated by the tellimony of one of the other Witnefes. On Brooks's crofs•eiamination, he admitted, that he had not interfered in behalf of the Prifoner, at the time, although he affetted, he knew him to have been innocent of the charge :—and alfo, that he had not attended at any of the examinations be fore the Magiftrate in his favour. The Jury - had little hefitation in finding the Pri foner Guilty ;—and the Court ordered the Witnefs Brooks into cuftody, in order that a Bill of In diCtment might be preferred against him for Per jury. ,lobe Gut), for llealing ,s. 6d. the property of Peter Miller. Mrs. Miller, wife to the profecutor, fait!, that' the keeps a butcher's (hop in Fitzroy-market. Up on the 26th of June the prifoner at the bar came to her flail and cheapened a piece of veal; after tome converfation, they agreed upon the price, and he defired her to fend it to his houfe, No. 5, Polygon, Somer's Town, calling himfelf Mr. Al ley : he likewife added, that he wanted flyer, and defired Mrs. Miller to fend him change for half-a guinea. Mrs. Miller'sfervants were all occupied ; but a neighbour butcher gave her leave to fend a boy of his to Somcr's Town. She accordingly gave him the meat and the tos. 6d. He returned us about an hour after, faying, that he had not been able to find Mr. Alley, and without the mo ney he received. The lad himfelf was now called. He faid that, having got the meat and the money from Mrs.l Miller, he got up behind a coach that was to pats through Somer's Town. After he had got about half way, he was met by the prifoner at the bar, who faid to him, You'll get my veal all over daft; are you not carrying that to No. 5, Poly gon, Somer's Town ?" The witnefs leaped down, and replied, that he was. The prifoncr then told him, that he was going to the city ; and, as he had no flyer about him, defired to have the change for the halfguinea he was carrying to Mrs. Alley. Mrs. Alley, he added, would give him the half guinea when he arrived at the Polygon. The witnefs put into his hands a feven-fhilling piece and a fixpenny-piece, and he immediately made off. Upon arriving at the Polygon, no fuch per fon as Mr. Alley was to be found. About three weeks after, the boy was walking in Oxford-ltrect, he met the prifoncr at the bar, and recognizing him, he took meafores to have him apprehended. Gueft being called upon for his defence, faid, that in the firft place he fhould prove, that on the 26th of June he was feveral miles off, and if he fhould fail in this, he fhould fet up another plea, which would infallibly produce his acquittal.— However, none of his witneffes appeared, and he was immediately found Guilty. Mary Perry for Realing fever handkerchiefs and two fhawls, the property of Charles Holmek.— The profecutor laid, he made inquiry and found the prifoner was lately come from Scotland ; that her hufband, a foldier, was abroad, and that the was very much diffreffed : but that he believed this was her firit offence, for that he could not learn any thi n g orc againft her. The prifoner did not utter one in her defence, but handed up to the Bench a paper writing, praying for mcrep— 1 The Jury recommended her to mercy, and the Common Sedeant faid, that certainly their recom mendation fhould be attended to. _ _ joins Ikeda, a little and very deformed man, for (leafing, on the sift of July, an iron vice, the property of Francis Styles. The prifoner, it appeared, was feen by one of the witneres to take the vice from the place where it lay near the pmfecutor's door, who keeps a broker's fhop; he put it on his (boulder, and was proceeding off with it. The witnefs feeing the tranfaftion to be clearly a theft, followed and brought him back. The article was duly identi fied by the profecutor's wife. The prifoner in his defence Rated, that the vice was lying againß the fide of the gateway, appa rently without an owner ; that he ;Liked fermi( peen's% who all Paid they knew nothing about it, and in confequence, and as having a large family, he took away the vice, when the witnets alluded to came up and flopped him. The Jury, however, being more inclined to credit the evidence fur the profecution, found the prifoner And 19 were acquitted; among whom, Throat Pollard was indifted for Reeling a num ber of japanned waiters; and Wilburn Pollard for re ceiving them, knowing them to have been Role's, the property of Mars. Atiilin and Sons, of Oz. ford•lireet. Benjamin 'Watkins, the I.,reman of Mars. Ant tin, Paid, he believed the waiters which were pro duced were the profecutors' property. Benjamin Crnket, a gilder of japanned Want (aid he had information that z 6 or 17 boys. ap prentices, were in the habit of rubbing their ate ters, and William Pollard was laid to be at their head. This he collated from an apprentice of his own. He was going w relate the whole of the is. • • formation be did; teceired, bnt the edam . ott rtc4. Jeant Paid the Court could not hear- it. He then laid that the priforers, who atilwo boys under. twenty Teats of age, and brothers, are painters of Japan ware, and live in Cotk-lane. And that Eliza beth Davis, a young woman who lived with one of the prilbnets, gave to him the waiters now in Court, t.pon his going there to fearch for them: Elizabeth Davis fait) at fira. that the did not. • give thefe waiters to Mr. Croke. The Courtin. Szettaar told her that the Court had already ad intimation of her way of life; that it was filly 4} her to think that the could deceive the Court; thzt the bell thing the could do was to fpcak the truth, for that if the did not, not only would the be in :danger in the next world, but of her Net v in ffiis. The winters then laid that the follows the hook: binding bufinefs, and that the waiters which were . delivered to Mr. Croket were made a prefinn of to her by the prifoner William Pollard. Benjamin Watkins was then crammed again. He laid, that the prifoner Thomas Pollard was an apprentice to Medi. Attain, who are in a great and extenfive way of bufinefs. He had worked at the trade for upwards of five years. He laid hd only knew the% waiters by the pattern : they are now in an unfinilhed Date, and not (Arable, fur they are not varniffied : the varnilb is an espenfive operation, and not done by the prifoner, that be ing another branch of the manufaeture: but if there waiters had not been, found where they were, he thould not have miffed them out of his mailers° (hop, they being in fuch"a great way of bufinefs. The wand's never charged the prifoner with hav ing aolen there goods ; but he confelfed •when he was brought before the Alderman.—'That couleP lion was taken down in writing. The oonfeffion was returned to the (hurt from the Office at Guildhall, and produced. It was figned by the prifoner Thomas Pollard, and witnelied by Mr. Newman, the fitting Alderman's Clerk, but that Gentleman was not in Court. • The COMMON SER J EANT.—" This profecution has been very ill concluded. Gentlemen of the Jury, it is a melancholy thing to ice two young men, fuch as are upon trial now at the Bar, the one for ftealing, and the other for receiving the property in queftion, which is Paid te.be the pro perty of the mailer of one of them.' It pears that they are brothers. The charge againft one of them is, that of robbing his :natter, and the other for receiving the property knowing it to bare been Bolen.—There cannot be a much worfe offencethan that of a fervant robbing his mailer, for whichirea• fon, when any one is conviaed of it, even if the charge he capital, and the life of the crirninas forfeited, his Majefty excludes filch offend:r frau: , mercy—Were thefe two young men to be found.: guilty of the crime imputed to them, I thould thinA it my incumbent duty, to fend them both out of kingdom, the one for 7, and the other for 14 year's', or to pima them even more feverely if the law al lowed it, but that is the extent of the litw in this cafe.—But whatever may be the guilt of the pri fosters, or our abhorrence of that guilt, they mull be tried and difpoted of, according to the rules of law.—l think the public have:talon to complain of the mode in which this profecution has been con duffed. In the firft plate, here is Mr. Auflin the elder, who knows nothing or very little of the cafe, as a witncfs ; his foreman, who knows more, but not enough ; and as to Mr. Croket, he knows only that the goods were found in pod - cif:on of Ehra beds Davis—Now it turns out, that two very ma terial witneffes are, the one deficient in knowledge of the cafe by legal evidence, I mean Mr. Croket, who knows no more than he has told except from hear-fay; and the other, (Mr. Newman) abfent. Mr. Croket indeed tells us a very lamentable rale, that a number of apprentices are in the habit of robbing their mailers, and that he is fully inform. ed of this by an apprentice of his own, which may be, and I dare fay is true; but it is not evidence, bccaufe what a man fay:, not upon oath, cannot be taken notice of in a Court of Juftice, and, there. fore, we cannot hear from a witnefs in Court, al. though upon oath, any thing he heard from ano. ther, becaufe that was not upon cash; a fanaion which the law requires to every evidence produced in a Court of Juflice, for which reafon hearfay evi dence is never taken in a Court of juitice.—As to the young woman who lived with one of the pri loners, her evidence only proved that the had thefe waiters of one of the prifoners, Wiliam Pollard the elder brother; and the foreman believes them to be the property of his matters--How does he know them ? There is no mark upon them—By the workmanfhip Why the prifoner himfelf might, at his own leifure hours, for his own convenience and profit, have worked at them from any other mstnufadory ; and, therefore, I am of opinion, that the property is not identified in this cafe, for it is not enough that you (aped, but you fbould be fully fatis&J, that this is the property of Metfts. Attain. Now fuppofing you to be fatisticd that the prifoner, Thomas Pollard, Role theft goods, the next queftion would be, whether the other pri. loner, William, received them, knowing them to be Bolen? They have alluded to a confellion which was nude before a worthy Magistrate of this city; that confeffion would have been flrong evidence ; and, could I with propriety receive it, perhaps it would clear the matter up; but I cannot for the fake of puniOting any individual, whatever I may think of him, infringe upon the Law, the rule of which is, that when any thing is reduced to writ. in, no Parole Evidence can be reeds ed concern ing it ; the thing Ufa mutt be prodiiced, for there is a certainty in a written document which does not belong to Parole Evidence, and the Law al ways requires the belt evids.r.ce which the nature of the thing admits. I cannot read to you that confetfion, becaufe the perfon who is a witnefs to it is not here. It is a rule that when a deed is produced, ft malt be proved by the fuhfcribing witnefs, if living. Mr. Newman is abfent, not from any defire of fereening a culprit from tire; but becanfe he has not received notice ti tend. On the whole cafe, I have only to fay,' however I may fufpea the guilt of the prifonet the bar, it is incumbent on me to Rate to you tl is not Intficient evidence against them to corn and that therefore they are entitled to their accr td."—lloth Mr Goity. ~ Juf- t t o at: ers at there mei/4 , -