Star. — London, England, 1822-04-19 00:00:00

''►q r PLAN FORA GROGRAiIiIICALGARDEN. A level and verdant plain of a very few acres might easily be converted into a map of the world, of great and singular interest. Invention is too often stretched to lay out ground with taste in tho gardens of opu knee, for such a . project to be considered either ab surd or unuseful. Its execution would be pleasant, instructive, and healthful, especially in the actual operative arrangements, and give learners an expert ness in geography, much beyond what they acquire from books and maps. Let a spot of level ground, 360 yards in length from east to west, and 180 yards in breadth from north to south, be inclosed by . a wall of a very small height; let thirty-sir marks be made on the east and west wall's, and eighteen be made on the north and south walls, to fix the degrees of lon gitude and latitude at ten degrees, or 600 miles, asunder ; let four pieces of oak timber be made, thirty_ feet long, and eight inches square, with holes at the distance of three inches, or five miles, from one another ; Thu" thirty-six inches, or three feet, on this piece (which may be called a scale), are a degree, and the whole scale will cothprise 10 degrees, or 600 miles in length. These scales being placed upon the ground, at any of the large divisions of ten degrees made on the walls and opposite to each other, afford au opportunity, by cross log-lines of packthread, ofl determiuing the particular town, ciu, Etc. to be marked on this map, in the same manner as we ope. rate with a Gunter's scale and.a pair of compasses on paper. The continents and islands may be made in turf, the sea in gravel; the boundary ma y be a hard terrace of mortar, pieces of slate fixed in mortar, or a border of box may be planted. At particular places on this ocean of gravel, posts may be set up, indicating particular circumstances of trade-winds, currents, &c. prevailing in particular parts. The contemplative owner, looking on the surface of this map, will feel the powers of his mind expand, and have a clear idea of the subject.—Gleaner. The Royal Dublin Society have come to the reso.. lution of commemorating the KING'S visit to that learned body, by erecting a full-sized Statue, in marble, of his MAJESTY, represented in his robes of the Order of St. Patrick, as he appeared at the In stallation of that Order, to he placed within the pre cincts of the Royal Dublin Society. Tuesday se'nnight, being the quarter-day of the out-pensioners cf Chelsea Hospital, resident in the district of Edinburgh, many of those men chose to make it the occasion of festive indulgence. Some scandalous scenes of riot and intoxication were the consequence. One of these pensioners, determined on enjoying himself for a day at least, engaged the com pany of .a female, whom he met with in the street.— He then hired a coach to Leith—and after driving about for some time, sat down to dinner, when both got so completely intoxicated, that they were literally carried into the coach, which was kept waiting for them. The next part of the entertainment was to break all the coach glasses. In the meantime, the ne glected wife endeavoured to find consolation in a si milar way. She was found, at the close of the day, in a state of insensibility, from drink, in a close in the Grassmarket, with her child, only a few months old, lying beside her! Extract of a letter from Wednesbury, dated April 17.—" Our neighbourhood is at this moment quite in a tumultuous state. On Monday morning the col liers began, about Wolverhampton and Bilston, to stop the pits which were working, and yesterday morning, Tuesday, a large body of them came round and stopped Lord Duoury's and Pawn's pits, in conse quence of which, Mr. DOWNING has just brought up the Dudley and Hinckley Yeomanry, in order to pro tect those who are gone down this morning to do a little work. PRICE s pits are at play again to-day, and I understand they (the mob) are stopping all the pits round Bilston, Wednesbury, Westbromwich, Dudley, &c. so that I am of opinion that the busi ness will now be soon decided, and the men at work again. As they are not only stopping the thick coal pits which have been working, but also the thin coal pits, our brooch men were obliged to come up yes terday morning and take to their heels, and those who are in the least obstinate, are immediately beaten by the mob, or thrown into some reservoir." At Ruthin Assizes, a man of the name of Conner, an Irishman, was convicted cf robbery near Wrexham, attended with so many circumstances of aggravation, as to exclude him from any hope of mercy, and he was accordingly left for execution on Monday last. When the laws of his country had thus consigned this unhappy culprit to his fate, and expiated, on this side the grave at least, the crime which he had Com mitted, it was a singular proof of inhumanity, to find one of his prosecutors solicit the duty of being his exe cutioner, on cheaper terms than it could be performed by any ther ketch ; for this was literally the propo sal made to the Sheriff. It was, however, rejected. A few days ago, F. 0. TAYLon, the son of Mr. TAYLOR, of Thuxton, terminated his mortal career, at the age of 14, under the following circumstances : He left his father's house in the morning, with a fowl-, ing-piece, and in attempting to force a way through a hedge, lodged the whole charge in his body. In this.' wounded and dying state he remaiued five hours, at' the expiration of which he was found by a husband man, and conveyed to his parents. At midnight he expired. The very morning on which Mr. TAYLOR'S house became the house of death it was to have been the scelie of nuptial festivity WHOOPING COUGH.—Dr. ARCHER, as able and ex perienced American Physician, in addressing Dr. MITCHELL relative to the cure of the whooping cough by vaccination, says—" I. have vaccined six or eight patients that had the whooping cough, and in every case it has succeeded in curing this most distressing disease. The whooping cough does not come to its height in less than six weeks from its commencement, and then, when a favourable termination is expected, the :declension of the disease is gradual,,and it does not terminate in lesi than six weeks more. To arrest this afflicting disorder in its progress, I would recom mend vaccination in the second or third week of the 'vhooping cough, i. e. when tl,ie symptoms of the -ing cough are fully ascertained, then to vacci- Should the convulsive cough be violent, I inkmediately vaccinate, being well assured ~ie aistressing symptoms of the who Oping cough checked by vaccine disease. The :erinination of vaccine disease will be the termination of the ing cough." LAW INTELLIG • EWE. COURT OF BUICK 'AVAIL 1" 18RISTIS AND °TRIM V. ITANDLAE. The plaintiffs, who are ship-brokers o brought, _ action to recover from the agendum. 087, the amount of their commission of OM per cent. on the price of two East Indiamen which they had sold for the defendant. The defendant contended that he was not liable to i this demand, inasmuch as it was Det he, but the pur• chasers of the vessels, who bad employed the Plain tiffs to negotiate the sale. - • The usual per tentage on sales of this description was admitted to be one per cent. and it was stated by several ship-brokers, who were called, to be al• ways paid by the seller, even though the negotiation should have originated with the purchaser, the broker being considered as the mutual agent of both. From the deed of sale it appeared, that ten thousand pounds had been given for the interest of the defendant's con tract with the East India Company, and £80,792 for the shipsewhich were then in an unfinished state. The LORD CHIRIP JUSITICS directed the Jury, if they believed -the evidence, to give the plaintiffs the per center on the price- of the ships, which, in his opinion, could not. include. the £lo,ooo,•which was merely given for the contract. The Jury accordingly found a verdict for - the plain tiffs—Damages £307.185.. . DOWSON AND ANOTHER V...LONOSTER AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought by Messrs. Dowsnns shipwrights at Limehouse, against Messrs. Longster and Leeke, as joint owners - of the ship Ranger, to recover £847, for repairs done to that vessel. The defendant Longster suffered judgment to go by default ; but Leeke resisted the demand, on the ground that at the time the repairs were done, he had disposed of his share of the ownership of the vessel to Longster ; and although he had suffered his name to remain on the register, by way of a collateral se• entity for the payment of certain bills which he had received for the amount of the purchase-money, yet having parted with the beneficial interest in the ship,- and the credit having been given to Longster, he was• not liable to this charge. It appearing, however, that the defendant had not wholly parted with his interest in the vessel at the time the repairs were done, but had merely executed an agreement to transfer his share to the other de fendant, when the last of the bills should be duly paid, which was not until the following year, the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs--Damages £847. GRANT V. SAUNDERS. This was an action brought to recover the sum of £4OO, upon an alleged warranty of a large quantity of herrings that were exported to the plaintiff's estate' at Jamaica, in the year 1817, and sold by defendant to Alderman Atkins and son, the plaintiff's agents. It was raid that the herrings, on their arrival ih the West Indies, were unsound and unfit forthe purposes intended ; although other herrings of the same cure, bought of the same defendant by other persons, and also sent to the West Indies, turned out to the satis faction of their purchasers. Mr. Lane, Alderman Atkins's clerk, was called to prove that the defendant warranted the herrings to be as good as any which were in that year sent out to Jamaica ; but on his cross-examination by Mr. SCA aLErr, he admitted that Mr. Saunders positively refused, at the time of contract, to warrant them in writing, but that he did so verbally. It also appeared that Mr. Grant had long since been paid in account for the herrings, and that in fact this action was the worthy Alderman's, although he came into Court under Mr. Grant's colours. The evidence for the defence was in complete con tradiction to the statement of Mr. Lane ; proof being given that a warranty was expressly refused, and that the herrings appeared of the finest quality. The Learned JuDGE, in his charge to the Jury, left it for them to say which they believed—the plaintiff's witnesses or the defendant's—and to give their ver dict accordingly. The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. OLD I . IAILEYSESSIONS,•APRIL is. William Tilley was indicted for stealing a mare, the property of J. Mullins, of Teddington. On the morning of the 6th irritant, the mare was missed out of the proseutor's stable, and they tracked her into a lane leading to Kingston. Prosecutor and a patrol pursued, and took the prisoner from off the mare. The animal was previously stolen from a Mr. Bowles, and sold by a person named Hall to Mr. Mullins. Mr. Bowles has recovered her again.— Guilty—Death. Henry Leonard was indicted for stealing 33 silver spoons, and 33 sovereigns, the property of - W. Slade. The prosecutor lives in the parish of St. Odes in the Fields. The property was taken from a strong closet in his house, on the 24th of February. The prisoner was a labourer of his, and used to brush his coat. About twelve o'clock the same day, the prisoner was at the Green - Man, on Furchley4ommon, drunk, and asked a labouring man to get him change for a sovereign. The man could not get change, and when he brought back the sovereign, he observed the ends of two spoons sticking out of the prisoner's bosom, on which he sent for an officer, who found Mr. Slade's property on him.—Guilty—Death. The prosecutor recommended him to mercy, as there were £45 in notes lying in the closet, which he never touched. George Adams was indicted for stealing a watch, the property of J. Spencer, in his dwelling-house. The prosecutor keeps the George and Vulture, at Horton. On the night of the 26th ult. the prisoner asked for a bed, and paid for it. At eleven o'clock he returned and went up to his room. In a few mi nutes he came down, saying, he would return in half, an hour, and went out, but never came back. In con sequence of a report in the Newspapers, the prosecu tor went to Guildhall, and saw his watch in the hands of an officer, who had the prisoner in custody for stealing three sheets from another house. The watch was stolen from the room in which the prisoner was to have slept.—Guilty of stealing to the amount of 395. James Legman, aged ten years, was indicted for stealing 2s. Bd. the property of Thomas Yarrow. The prisoner's father was in the service of a re spectable currier in Moore's Yard, St. Martin's-lane, and some time ago considerable quantities of leather were missed from the premises. The boy was detected in stealing some, and to save himself from punish ment, he accused a patrol of St. Martin's parish of ' having incited him to commit tLe robbery, and the whoopil whoopii ~..i li nate. 'You'd that the 1 are chec ' . the tovraici :`; R -- -- ~~ -.R.:-~, ~ .. T ~ _____ .~-- M!. 1 , --7 T 74 "7- 11 4rrfr.M • .. put . }eel the workshop he hid bientdlf, and saw the prisoner walk-in and steal the in o o , l , —(ildig.f. Job Flea was indicted fur stealing a gold pin, the property of G. Flack, •and a watch, the property of G. Tomlinson. in the dwelling-house of the former. . Mr. Flack is Secretary to the Russell Institution.— Th e pr i soner ' s father w as employed to work at the, Institution, and the prisoner was engaged under his father. The watch and pin were stolen from one of the rooms in the Institution ; add a pasinbroker at Somers Town proved that the watch was pledged with him by a lad like the prisoner. J. Lawler ' a plasterer's labourer, deposed, that he sold the pin for the prisoner, but refused to pledge the watch for him, ai he did not think he had come honestly by it. The prisoner admitted that he had not, and said he got it out of a house in Great Co ram-street, where he was at work.. The prisoner was found Guilty of stealjng, but not in the direlling-house, the same not being properly described in the indictment. ' Henry Rickards and' John Francis were indicted for stealing 17 planes, the property of Isaac Darby,,, Wm. Curphay, and John Sims. The case was clearly brought hom - e .to. the pri soners by a great mass of evidence, and the Jury found them Guilty. The following were also convicted of felony, vas.—Richard Pearson, aged 15, for stealing 56 lbs. of rope-yarn, &c. John Crewys, aged 40, for stealing 30 lbs. of lead ; Mary Oliver, aged 39, for stealing a leg of pork; Wm. Williams, aged 22, for steal ing a carpet ; Thomas Cano, aged 43, fur steeling six pair of brass hinges • James Clarke, aged 27, and Win. Morgan, aged 22, for stealing a diver spoon ; James Buckley,. aged 27, and Gottlieb Marcus Levi, aged 19, for staling 180 sal-skins; Jails Truman, aged 34, for stealing 14 yards of satin; James Dodds, aged 24, for stealing two pair of silver tongs; and George Mel- 4 nth, aged Ilk for stealing a. handkerchief. , Richard Smith, a sweep, aged 17, was capitally in dicted for cutting and stabbing Elias Duke. The parties were drinking together at a public house, and a dispute arising between them, the pro secutor struck the prisoner. They were parted b; their friends, but they continued squabbling for about ten minutes, when the prisoner struck the prosecutor a violent blow on the thigh, and inflicted a deep wound with a knife which he had in his hand. The prosecutor admitted that there was no cessation of the squabble from its commencement up to the m•- ment that the wound was inflicted in his thigh. Mr. Justice BURROUGH, upon this evidence, di rected the Jury to acquit the . prisoner ; observing, that in order to produce a conviction, under this Act of Parliament, the proof must be such as; in case death had been the consequence of the wouns, would have made the crime that of murder. In his opinion, had death ensued here, the crime would have been manslaughter only.—Acquilted. Ann Smith was indicted for stealing two sovereigns, the property of Joseph Woods. The prosecutor, a Chelsea pensioner, was returning from receiving his pension, when he met the prisoner, and they drank together ' • they then went to buy some bacon and eggs, and she prevailed upon him to treat her with a new bonnet. He then acdompanied her home, «here in about ten minutes, as he swore, she picked his pocket of two sovereigns and decamped. The prisoner admitted that he had been drinking a little bit!— Not Guilty. John Walker was indicted for breaking into the house of George A. Gazeley, with intent to steal. • The prosecutor lives in Great Newport-street. On the evening of the 19th ult. the prosecutor's shopman was going out, when he saw the prisoner open the private door. The shopman asked him whom he wanted ? He said he came to measure the shopman for a pair of shoes, but the witness was not the man. Prisoner stood on the threshold of the door, but no part of his body was inside the house.—Net Guilty. Mr. Justice Boanouott advised the prisoner to be on his guard in future, for he had been overheard planning the robbery, and it was only froth the ab sence of that witness that he had been acquitted. The following were also acquitted :—John Haydon, aged 28, of house-breaking ; Thomas Mash, aged 21, of stealing a watch; John Bigland, aged 29, of stealing eight pounds of lead; and John Green, aged 20, of stealing two pair of silver tongs. EmuTton.—Saturday last, Charles Taylor, con victed of coining, was executed in front of Stafford County Jail. From the time of his commitment ht never entertained any expectation of escaping the pu nishment awarded by the law for a crime so injurious to society. Before trial he avoided the company of the other prisoners and passed his time in reading and praying, in which he was assisted by the County Chaplain, with unwearied assiduity. After condemna tion. he was calm, and resigned to his fate, though at times he wept on account of his family, consisting of a wife and eight children, the youngest only a month old. His wife visited him on Thursday morn ing, having the infant in her arms. The meeting was one of the most heart-rending description: he was so much affected that he fainted, and was strongly con vulsed. The poor woman saw him again on Friday, for the last time; and in this trying scene his forti tude did not forsake him. The night previous to his execution, he slept from ten to twelve o'clock, and employed the remainder of his time in fervent prayer; he avowed that he felt strong confidence in the mercy of GOD, and had hopes that his many transgressions would be pardoned. Soon after seven o'clock on Sa turday morning the Sacrament was administered to 'him; after which he was permitted to take leave of his brother John, for whose fate he had shewn a na , tp.ral anxiety, by declaring on the trial his brother's I innocence, though he did - not deny his own guilt.— He ascended the drop precisely at eight o'clock, and while the executioner .adjusted the halter, &c. he prayed with. the Chap4in most devoutly, shedding tears freely, but appearing to be very collectei. In about six minutes after eiglit:the drop fell being a stout, muscular man, h e seemed to suffer much, but in seven minutes life appeared to be extinct. After hanging the usual time, his body was cut down and delivered .to his friends (who had brought a coffin and a one-horse cart), to be interred at Aldridge. The unfortunate man . was 96 years of age, a native of Bmomsgtove,'and bad resided at Aldridge aloft five years; he was osteusibly a small farmer, and carrier. , ~ a. . • • ...• . . . .. . vas eeesemite so lAt: bet es Ms blab . EliFnabeintee Wei . . esiedibitig sad be wittaktittteL febestoseetly tie . resisitieeeteeeve -411 4 6 !no I esorhesetbatibe: s 4a. iliac.. gaged 60.1 thii money Iron; Alnspocitei et- his jacket, which he bad t he left in the shop ; in consequenee Of Aich, he the next t he day married a half-e nten ands Mph/ ' and hating f oe putthem in the semi* pocket . sad left his jacket in this sus . -•- r . - , . Yesterdaya meeting was held et th lbyee* . c om patois, in Holborn, preparatory to St .nend 'meet. sng of thanhabitant Householders of tbe Pal isltes e r St. Andrew, Holborn, St. Gles, and Bt. Geotve, Bloomsbury, and Mary-la-Bonne, . on. the s ub sict the Middlesex County Court. At about five o'cio c k Mr. - SAWA( 'tvaig called to the (hair, l Who stated at some length the object for wiric. the meeting we s cr.lled. Ile complained that the fees taken by the Conroy Clerk were greater than he was entitled toby Act of Parliament, and that the Juries were Apt tfa proper description. After some desultory conve rse . tion, a future general meeting was agresed upon, and a subscription entered into to pay the expense ofit. Tuesday se'nnight, a very respectable druggist Sheffield, was fined in the mitigated penalty of Es; 10s. for having sold to a victualler .a mixture of li quorice, ginger, and pepper—art'cles which, hoe. ever far from being deleterious in themselves, at Legislature has thought fit to forbid in the manuLc ture of malt liquor, under the heavy penalty of £5OO. The Tenth Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry on Courts of Justice in Ireland has been printed. It embrac ft the Equity side of the Court of Exchequer, of which it dets the duties of the several °Ricers, and their salaries and fees, with • great minuteness, points out several defects, and suggests in. provements. The Report, which is of great length, comprisint, with the evidence, 362 folio pages, commences with the race a Chief Remembrancer in the Court of Exchequer, held by patent ;bee 17117 by the Marquis WIILLIMLET. The rev enio.l of this altce was- further granted by patent, in 180 n, to Itienauto "Viants.s.zr, Esq. for his life.. The office is a sinecure, its deli , " imeing delegated to a deputy appointL:l by the patentee : t!. Wary, £69.1 ts. 2d. ; gross amount of fees, £4532. 10s. diebbnements, £7BB. 10s. Id. ; net income, 43813. I is. td.— Deputy Chief Rtraembrancer:—salary r o e ; gross amount of fees, £3740; disbursements, £550 ; net income, £ZI9O. The present number of Roman , Catholic Peers is eight English, nine Irish, and two Scotch—in all 19. CATHOLIC QUESTION.—The office of sexton for the parish of Islington was some years since c nferred by the parishioners on the destitute widow of a 0. an who held the office at the time of his death The number of burials in that populous parish obliged tie poor woman to retain in her employment several operative delvers ; and being smitten by the personal charm-, or more probably, by the frugal and indus; rious habit, of one of these gravediggers, she lately conttacted with him a lawful and public matrimonial alliance. Unfortunately, this second husband and joint partner in the office of sexton, had been brought up in the comnfunion of the Church of Rome ; and that cir cumstance soon becoming known, some of the pa rishioners conceived that their chances of a happy re surrection would be much diminished if their graves should be dug, and their Protestant bodies ea.-thei over, by the foul hands of the unconscious Papist!— Prejudice and bigotry were forthwith called into zealous activity : a parish vestry was convened : an at its meeting, on Monday last, the poor woman and her newly made husband were formally dismissed from the office of sexton, and their successor enj , fined to ascertain the creed of any labourer whom he migitt find occasion to call to his assistance, lest the soil of the church-yard should be again polluted by the spade of a Catholie!! Hodie mini; cras circumstance of a ve7v extraordinary nature •lately occurred in Pembroke shire. DANIEL EVANS, of Llannwthan, near guard, impelled by a herrn:de:it Nsish of provi•ling coffin for the interment of his wife (who was the:i con sidered dangerously ill, but is now in a fair way of recovery), went to the above town for that purpose; but, so narrow and imperfect is human foresight, that, after having completed the bargain, he became i::- toxicated, returned home that evening, and at ten o'clock the following morning, he himself stood is need of the same article which was kindly intenJa for his beloved spouse. Thursday. se'nnight, one of •the preventive wator guards, of the name of Kearns, belonging to the Clogher station, went into Mr. Martin's public-house, at Laurence's-gate, when, after drinking a small quantity of spirits, he•betathe quite unruly; he drew a small sword s *llO he flourished through the house, and. slightly wounded Mr. Martin's servant-woman : a decent, industrious old man, named Campbell, by trade a carpenter, and well known in this town, who was present, entreated in the most conciliating man ner that Kearns would put up his sword, when the ruffian made three stabs at the unfortunate man, one of which entered the left breast and perforated the lungs ; and he now lies in a most precarious state, attended by two Medical. Gentlemen. The fellow was immediately secured, and upon the necessary in formations being sworn before the Mayor, he was fully committed to take his trial for the offence.— Drogheda Journal. B I RTH S. April 9, at Edinburgh, the Lady of Captain Hint, of a daughter. April 17, the Lady of John Walter, Eaq. of a eon. MARRIED. April 15, Capt. Charles Shaw, R. \. to Frances Ann, daugh ter of Sir Henry Hawley. Bart. of I.eyhourne Grange, Wednesday, at St. Lawrence Jewry, Mr. Burn, solicitor. King-street, Cheapside, to Sarah Sophia Colnett, dac:;hter of the late Capt. R. Colnett, of the Fast Ind!a Company's eerie,. Tuesday, at Edmonton Church, Capt. It. L. Lewis. late ef the tlst Regiment, to Fanny, second daughter of Richard Lee, Esq. of Southgate. April 16, at Bath, Win. Lockart, Esq. of ererrniltor. county of Lanark, to Mary Jane, youngest daughter of the Sir Ilugh Palliser, of Ilarnyforth, Barr. April 16, Mr. Aide, of Constantinople, to Georgian Farr.-.' Maria. daughter of the late Admiwal Sir George Collier. DIED. • March 24, at Als, in Provence, Roderick Norman, Esq. o• the 78th Regiment. March 19, at Rome, Cardinal Fontans. April 11, in Upper Norton-street, Hobert Wilson, Esq. /a:: Superintending Surron on the Bengal Establishment. March 22, at Brought} Ferry, Captain Robert 11111. April 1, at Moy, Rear Fort - es, Colonel Hugh Grant, of Mol late of the lion. East India Company's sr% ice. April 9, at Paris, George Mercer. Esq. of Queen Ann ..tree. late Lieutenant-Colonel of the is: liegimtnt of Life Guards. CIA 1 IS TIM DAT.—aatt• net. ARIL 1•t 11 . () (I 1 0 France Waterford 1 0 Guernsey and Jersey 0 1 Asbon 0 1 Holland 0 1 New York 0 • 0 Iletniburgh 1 0 Flanaers 1 0 Jansai4a 0 0 clonrnhurgh Isrew•trd Islands 0 • 0 0 HIG 1-I- w ATER At I.ON VON Mt lIMIt TO:Mirk IP 'W A. 14 ritaig . • • It artilititee :Aar 1 .—. Afternoon • - • 3el l— LONDON; p r im e d a /d and indliblialDat . ts, Urns IA" mg* Tonple- . 9 • ~ • ff?