Star. — London, England, 1810-08-23 00:00:00

• :i".•• . PO,I4ICA • GUILPHALL.—WiIIiam Pidgeon, 2 waiter in Peek's / Coffee-house, and who, in the absence of his mistress, ism ~ with _ Public Association lately incorporate(' was entrusted with, and responsible for the . whole pro by Charter in this City, for the cultivation of practi , perty in the house, charged a decent looking old man, cal Astronomy, and the improvement of Navigation. named William Carter, with stealing in the Coffee have been highly gratified within these few days, by room a silver table spoon, the property of his mic a visit of Dr. Hfrschel. * This great astronomer no tress. According .to the statement given by the pro sooner heard, last summer, of the liberal scheme pro- secutor, the prisoner came into the Coffee-room on jected by the citizens of Glasgow for promoting his Tueday, and 'called for a -bowl of soup, with which he favourite study, than he proffered his hearty co-opera. was served, and fox which he paid. Immediately on tion. He revised and materially improved the plan his leaving the room the spoon was missed ; the pri. of the building, then submitted to his inspection; he soner a was followed, brought back, and the spoon undertook to furnish a telescope, of his admirable foun d'in his possession. construction, superior in power to any in the king. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge ; stated dom, except at his own residence ; and he also pro- that be bad served his country for 36 years ; had been mised to assist personally in directing the proper mea- repeatedly wounded ; could have the most respecta sures for its accommodation and use. This promise ble character from some of the highest military men he has now generously fulfillsd. He visited the Ob- in the country ; and that he had committed this of servatory, of which the mason-work is nearly corn- fence under the immediate pressure of want, he, his pleted, and expressed the highest satisfaction with the wife and family being reduced to the greatest distress. situation and interior arrangements. He also inspected The prosecutor stated; that he felt so much for the the valuable instruments already procured, of which at the time the th eft was discovered; that he prisoner he perfectly approved. On Thursday last, the day 1 would not have brought him before the Magistrate, previous to his departure, the Astronomical Society ! bad not his losses in this way been frequent, this being gave him an elegant dinner in the Star Inn, the Rev. the fifth spoon stolen from him since Christmas, and Dr. Lockhart, if err Preses, in the chair. Upwards of the twelfth in the course of the year. There was a sixty Gentlemen of the first respectability, among circumstance, however, which operated still more whom were the Lord Provost and sortie of the Ma- for,:ibly in his mind against the prisoner; and it was University, the Principal and several Professors of the t hi s , t h at t h e pr i soner h a d b een i n t h e coffee-room on IJniversity, and Colonel Brisbane of Brisbane, joined, the preceding Saturday, when he also had a bowl of on this occasion, to pay a just tribute of respect to soup, and on which occasion also the spoon disap illustrious merit. The happiness of their venerable peared. .. . . guest seemed to operate like a charm on every heart, i A ~. (salter be l ong ing to George's Coffee-house, also and was reflected from every countenance. Seldom, , appeared, and stated that • on a particular day on do we imagine, has a convivial party displayed a which the prisoner had a bowl of soup in their coffee more pleasing scene of refined and rational enjoyment. ; That person must indeed have been a stranger to the room, the spoon was missing. finer feelings of our nature who could, without enthu- ; Nothing was found on the prisoner to lend strength siasm, hold immediate converse with a philosopher i to these additional grounds of suspicion against him, who, after discovering a new planet, more than eighty 1 and he was remanded till to-morrow, that it might times greater than the earth, and rectifying our ideas ibe seen if any thing could be discovered to confirm of the structure of the sun, and his tributary spheres, l or invalidate the suspicions of the prosecutor as to the has penetrated into districts of creation immeasurably ! prisoner's former guilt. and inconceivably remote, from whose contempla- 1 Margaret Hawkins, for stealing a silver spoon, in tion are derived the most transcendent conceptions of the kitchen of :he workhouse belonging to Cripple- OMNIPOTENCE. ; gate, in which she was a pauper, and which spoon The lame of his discoveries has spread over every , she had pledged with a pawnbroker of the name of civilized religion of the globe, but his benignity of : Guest, was fully committed for trial. temper and suavity of manners r.re, perhaps, less ge- Mary Smith, an old offender, well known at the nerally known. These endearing embellishments of office, was fully committed for trial, charged with genius have been conspicuously displayed during his robbing a barge-man, belonging to Maidstone, of his late residence in Glasgow : and they will serve to dis- watch, in Foster-lane, Cheapside, on the preceding sipate the vulgar prejudice excited by half-learned evening. pedantry, which connects philosophical pre-eminence The prisoner begged that she might be immedi with a solemn and mysterious demeanour. ately sent to Newgate; but was informed that she The effective and zealous patronage of Dr. Hers- must, in this respect, share the fate of the other pri del must shed a lustre on the Glasgow Observatory, inners. Newgate was already sufficiently burdened. and will, it is presumed, enable it to redeem the pledge r, a- CBLIC OFFICE, QUEEN SQUARE.—For some time it has given the learned world of being the first pub- past the parish officers of St. Margaret's, Westmin lic establishment of this kind in Scotland, to make ster, have been in the habit of paying a man of the and record a regular series of observations, for the name of Thomas Knight, a fireman, rewards for bring general benefit of mankind. In thus endeavouring 1 ing his engine to p laces where fires were stated by to vindicate the reputation of our country, deficient in him - to have happened. Alarmed at the frequency the cultivation of no science but that of the Heavens, `of them, the vestry clerk was induced to make in the noblest of all, as well as in accomplishing the 1 quirks, the result of which was, that in about thirty other two objects of the Society—the instruction and cases no fire had happened, or engine ever braigla entertainment of the public mind, and the introduc- . forward. The parish officers applied to Henry James tion of the ample resources afforded by astronomy I Pye, Esq , the Magistrate , who directed J. Lavender a. for conducting the mariner across the ocean with an to - apprehend this offender, which was done, and yes expedition and security hitherto nearly unknown in terday he underwent an examination, at which a num this part of the island—this institution will certainly . ber of persons attended to prove that no fire had ever receive the cordial support of every fiiend to learning happened at their respective houses. What makes this and humanity. case peculiarly atrocious on the part of the prisoner, ' It is peculiarly fortunate for the Glasgow Society is, that before the overseer of the parish paid the re that they have begun their patriotic scheme, at a ward, an affidavit was to be made before a magistrate, time when the eminent improvements made by RAIDS. ; . Ind above thirty of these affi w davits ere produced, den, and particularly by Trotioliton, in astronomical _ - _ s• instruments, have effected a revolution in the appa ratus of an Observatory. The great quadrant, (innerly the standard instrument, having been lately shewn to be incapable of the precision required by modern science, has given place to the completely graduated circle. Of this form, perhaps, the happiest construction ever exhibited to the philosopher, is that Of the celebrated circle made by Troughton for Mr. Pond, by means of which this distinguished astronomer was enabled to point out discrepancies in the observa tioes made in the most skilful manner, with the fa mous quadrants of Greenwich. These have since, by a decision of the *Royal Society, been directed to be superseded by a great circle, now constructing by • Troughton. • It must be deemed a most fortunate event for the Glasgow observatory, that the Directors have pro. cured Mr. Pond's magnificent instrument from the heirs of the Hon. Mr. Greville, who had purchased it fora scientific institution analogous to our own, which he had begun to erect at Milford-haven, when death put an unexrcted termination to his patriotic plans. The similar;ty of the objects induced his executors to parr with the astronomical circle for a" sum far be neath its intrinsic value. Indeed, the Directors of the Glasgow Society have reason to believe that a similar . instrument could not be obtained for less than SOO guineas above what they have paid, and that, after a delay of several years. The concurrence of so many rare adv stages, as well as the extent and form of the building, which unites architectural elegance with simplicity, must entitle this to a place among the first scientific establishments in Europe. Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held by. AN THONY CELL, Esq. at the Hop-poles public house, - Edgeware-road, on the body of Mr. Stilwill, a master llricklayer, who was, on Monday morning last, preci. .pitated from the top of a house, near the above place, through the scatfilling giving way. His head came .with such violence against the pavement, that his skull was shattered to pieces, and he instantly expired. The Jury returned a verdict—Accidental Death. A CultiousCALcuLsTioN.—The difference betuteen rising every morning at six and eight o'clock, in the muse of 4.0 years (supposing the person should go to bed at the same time he otherwise would) amounts to 29,000 hours, or S years, 121 days, and 6 hours; so that it is just the same as if ten years of life were to be A tiled, to which we might command eight hours every day for the cultivation of our own minds, in know. ledge or virtue, or the dispatch of business. This cal 'ewlation is made without regard to the bissextile, iwhich redu ces it to 8 years, 111 days, 16 hours ; and , - it eight hours a day, will want about a month of ten robbery, and had turned approver) sworn, and e n . mined by Couniel bit- the prosecution.—ltemembered the night he was takelf, but not the par cul.a hieb t: there were four persuls at the robbery besides hint. self; they went out about nine that night, in order to take money. Remembered gettin - into A h ouse where the ) . were alarmed by the army coming up ; the saute Eons?. where they were t %ken ; saw on e of the party in C )urt. and id...ntitied him, by putting th e Crier's rod upon his head. Witness said prisoner was one of the party at the robbery, and was also one of the persons taken by the army. When witness's pa rt y came to Whitby's, they commanded the man of the house to get up and open the door ; a little delay having occurred, the party called out, " what are you about—open the door in all haste." The pri. scaler at the door and Michael Power had pistols ; there was one shot tired into the hause, to tetrify the people belonging to it. Edmund Mansfield, tie p r i. soner, fired that shot. Witness did not knew wile. titer there was any money got—saw notl.iu g taken, as the coming ef the army prevented thew break. ing open the box. Their party attacked the .wo ner houses the same night. Witness belonged to their gang—he was sworn live weeks befote Chrisiresr,.. some of th: party on that night were never out biieri with him—they were all Caravats, excepting ilett's terferd nian—Martin B iffy swore hini—tl.e witiess resided about three mi es from W o u l e er d, ot: t h e Annstown road. The Prisoner, having no Counsel n r Attoirty employed, Mr. Sancta. Senior:, se,.. et ,se examieed this witness. From whence did you come to give your evidenir? SURP.F.Y ASSIZES. i ---i cams out of the gaol. The following prisonersreceived sentence yesterday: Were you a prismue there ?—Witness said he wa s • k Death—T. Campbe ll , V not ; but, en a more strict investis,ation, u ejoorned front last Assizes. J. Wilds, ..) nowl cd g. alias Davis, for burglary. Mary Titian], his accomplice in the ed be had be' it. fact. Mary Marks, for a burglary of comequence. John Strong, i 1 WlLtt induced you to come to give evidence aga:nst Mr trealin- ten sacks of oats. Richard Valentine Thomas, fora ! theprisoner i—To tell the truth. forgery. b William Steers, for two charges of horse-stealing. Ste- I p Upon your oath, was the object of your coming phen Jones, for a serious burglary, and Edward Maim, for re- I turning fret transportation before the time, viz. for his life . forward to save your life ?—I came to do justice. 1 Transportation—l lenry Itoltem, for fourteen ye:lrs. His (laugh. do not know uhether 1 shall save my life by it or not. tens Caroline and Mcry, seven year, ;as are :Awn d Willi: .'Es, ! To a witaion from his Lmdship—Would witn e ss John Spooner, and John Erau, tor burglaries, seven years. Ed- have come itirwArd to prosecute but through an ides ward Coleman, our two years. lof self.preservatien ? He d s oinier de. SUFFOLK ASSIZES. • claration. He said le: had been persevere three in times hif out before The Commission for holding which was opened at with the prisoner, Edmund Mansfield. Bury St. Edmund's on Thursday evening, before Sir , Sir FrAncis Elass:ad deposed, that nn his return JANILS Maeseteen, Lord Chief* Justice of the Conn from a circuit, he bad, in consequence of the disturbed of Common Pleas, and Mr. Justice Hearn, of the state cf the nei;thbourhood of Watcrford about this same Court. i time, gone out with a party of his corps (the Loyal SPILLING V. DENNY. ! Wajerford infantry), and on his arrival at the house This action was brought by the plaintiff, Who is of John \Vhitty, one of his tenants, caught the last parish clerk of Bungay St. Mary, against the defer- witness, Keane, coming out of the house; gave him dant, who is churchwarden there, to recover the in charge of one of the party while he pursued the rest amount of half a year's salary as such clerk. 'of the gang. Same few days after the pris..ner Mans- It was proved that the plaintiff had always receiv- field sent for witness to the gaol, and was about to ed a salary of £ for every half year, until by the disclose all he knew of the transaction, if his lif e wool/ voice of a .Vestry Meeting (who were desirous of set- be spared ; Sir Francis told him, the most nurcitul. Ling an example for the curtailing. of sinecure places) way to act toneuds him was, to declare no. hopes this salary was agreed to be reduced to 305. The could be given him, and mentioned th it he knew all defendant had paid 30s. into Comt, and this action the persons but one ; Mansfield admitted the tact,. was continued to recover the temairinc s , 10s. and also and mentioned the names of those Keane had stated. to recover ss. for half a year's washing of the Mini. Si r F ranc i s to ld hint he was anxious to find oat the ster's surplice : which important duty had been per. name of the man which Keane did not know—and formed by the clerk ; and the eepence of which, by that the utmost In: could do for him (the prisoner) the Ecclesiastical Law, was to fall on the parish. ; would be to state the matter to the Judge if he would The plaintiff proving the salary alwa7s received, state this man's name ; this he either would not, or and the mode adopted to curtail it being holden an could not do, and there was no further intercourse illegal one, the Jury gave a verdict for him, with 15s. with him. damages, and full eists. 1 The Judge delivered a brief charge ; after which, a Butt OX, LSQ. V. rowere, F.Q. i verdict of guilty was almost immediately returned. This action was brought to recover the value of On Monday last the prisoner was brought again the underwood on an estate sold by the plaintiff to into Court, when the awful sentence of the law was the defendant, under an agreemcw, whereby, for a . prinmtnieed upon him. Ile begged piteously for certain sum (Je18,590) the plaintiff agreed to convey ; mercy, and said he would be happy to serve his Ma. the estate, together with all timber trees and under- jesty in any part of the earth. His Lordship deeply wood ; and in the agreement was a clause that the lamented . h at, from the present lawless state of this defendant should, in addition, for all such usual -- - - - - the sf ' part of the country, he cuuld not grant him , est gleam of hope, recommended him to implore the forgiveness of his offended MAKlilt i and appointed Saturday, the Ist of September, the day of his ere• cutiun. - . which had been thus sworn by the prisoner. He was ._,.... ~,,,,, kl, .4. •—i, pay ___ _ committed for trial. things as are paid for by an incoming to an outgoing , erding to the custom of the country ; un hlassice-House.—Yesterday T. cg; zits Gouges, tenant, acc her which clause it was contended, the underwood a soldier, was re-examined, charged with stealing; a la though bort r_t mentioned iu the agraemcnt) should quantity of cochineal.—Mr. Connop repeated, that be paid tor in adjition to the purchase-money for the he had entrusted the prisoner with the property to estate ; but it appearing that by the agreement, cer take to a Mr. Bennet, in the Commetcial-road, in ' tain arbitrators were to ascertain the sums to be paid, tmding to accompany him, but stopping to speak to &c. and mi one being appointed on the part of the dc a friend on the way, theprisoner took the opportu tendant, the plaintawas nonsuited, nity of decamping with property.—ln his defence net us AND OTHERS 11. GRIOW: AVD mums. he denied all knowledge of the circumstance, asserting This action was brought by the plaintiffs, who arc even that he was never employed by the prosecutor. merchants and traders on the Stowmarket Naviga- This, however, was contradicted by a soldier of the tion, to recover of the trustees a compensation for the same regiment, who asserted that the prisoner was so i damage done to their barge, and for the loss of a employed ; and stated, that his life had been threat- horse killed, by the bursting of the gates of a lock, ened in the regiment for the part he had taken in 1 which were proved to be out of rep-4r, and to have bringing the prisoner to justice. Several con obora- I been notified to the defendant's Surveyor : %Oren the ting circumstances were adduced against the prisoner, i facts of the case being fully made out, the Joins and he was fully committed. (which was Special) gave a verdict for the plaintiff Sarah Dicks:son was charged by a Mrs. Barnes, i —Damages ,E6B. with throwing vitriol over some linen. It appeared The Assizes did not terminate till four Walock on the parties lived in a court in the City, and that the Sunday morning, although Sir James Maxsat LLD as prosecutrix was in the habit of hanging linen out to sisted Mr. Justice Haatti in the trial of some causes dry, which displeased the prisoner, who threatened at the Crown Bar on the previous mm ning. to do her a mischief ; this was not noticed till .some Both Judges, after attending church on Sunday shirts, &c. to the value of £3, were found deteriorated morning; left the town fur the seat ot Sir Charles by some some corroding liquid,—The prisoner, on being b ury, Bart. at Great Barton, where they were Itospi taxed with the fact, equivocated in her reply; and i tably entertained at dinner, and in the evening pro the Lord Mayor informed her, that if the proof had i ceeded on their route to Norwich. been a little stronger, she would have subjected her- WATERFORD (IRELAND) ASSIZES. self to tramportatam ; as it was, he had little doubt of her guilt ; and advised the prosecturix to give her Saturday the 11 th, Edmund Maas veld was tried for an account of the damage, and upon her refusal to tumultuously assembling in arms, with others, under pay, to summon her for the money. the denomination of Caravats, and on the llth April Liston HALL—Yesterday M chael Patrid, charged last attacking thehouse bfJohnWhitt y, at Crantstown, i with robbing his ready.furnished lodgings of two James Whitty sworn.—Recollected ' his house was near this city, with intent to rob the same, Etc. blankets, a sheet, and several other articles, was re manded for another examination. l attacked in April last, about twelve o clock at night, Susannah Toting was charged with pawning the ma- i by persons who came to the door, ordering it to be BIRTHS. of Major-Cantu terials for making two jackets, with which she had .. r opened; they broke in the windows of the house.— On the lath instant, in York-place, the Lady were ? Cia,hie a a &lighter. been entrusted. She was fined 20s. and .ss. for the ! Witness got up, and asked them what they Late' . , at Edinbt:-411, the Lady of Sir Charles hfolik, of atlas value of the materials, which not being prepared to they said they were Caravats, and that they wanted Castle, of a daughter . . pay, she was committed to the J-louse of Correction arms; said they would burn the house it the door, for one month. i was not opened immediately. Witness, tinder dread. ! MARRILII. •,. I opened it, and two of the party came in ; they were •Lately, Mr. Roberts, surgeon, of Bromley, hi gent, _ 1 QUEEN-SQUARE —Yesterday a Curate o f Carmar- armed with pistols. [Here the witness was 'desired s-cued .laughter of the !are kev. JawPrat, h Prat, vicar of thenshire, whose name for obvious reasons we to look round, and try if he could see in the Court a for to hi l i. t 7 ... and Lirrittopinn, in 'Fin .____ to mention, was committed from this Office, as a de. I either of those persons; but, on turning to the dock, DiFao, setter from the York Rangers. I could not identify the prisoner. 3 Witnes heard shots On the Bth insist, at DWI, the Rev. Thomas Tait, Ml , 4.4 f THAMES OFFlCE.—Yesterday Mary Ann Pinch was' fired. There was money in the house t the people of th e G o sp el there ...- ' fully committed, charged with stealing R 5, tile pro- : went to the box where it was, carrying with them an petty of two Captains •; as was ; iron bar, in order to break it ; but jost at this moment Morning- ....... ... ..... 20 minutes after 9 Now, Schanion, charged with stealing 1i coats, the I a party of the army were coming up 1. - ) the house, . HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORRuI4. Afternoon ..... •• ... .... St vintitel att.r IP _property of - a salesman, in Rosemary-lane. aid one of the Caravats ran in to y.tive them !.11:. alarm; 4- • WoRSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday norm Filch was I they then fled through the winchiw ; they left alter ' fully committed , c har ge d w i t h st e a li ng 20 lbs. of tea them a pistol, an iron bar, and a treat coat. 1 s T•a - O n No. L, Carey-striae, and o at the Irika-Or . LON DO N :• Prafted and published by LEVEL KEN t'. al l : ,• oat of a cart s in Bethaatrxreea-ma4. I John Keane (one of the party who had been at the Triune-liar. In a case which tat •ly came before the LORD CHAS. cELLou, his Lordshi.) observed, that the best advi.e 11e could give thy parties was to compromise that. r •nces as we 1 as they could ; for if their coral. nued litigation should compel him to give further di. recti.ms :two the case, the expences were likely to be sucl., that even the successful party would lose mlich. and 112 who was unsuccessful would lose a great deal more. Saturday morning as two of the London night coaches we:e passing up the High-street, Canterbury, one of thin drew up at the Guildhall tavern, and in endeavouring to avoid the other, ran on the kirb of the pavement ard was overturned, at the moment when the coca r Lich followed passed, and the . wheals went over one of the outside passengers (Mr. Buckenridge, a Deal Pilot) one of whose legs was in , cons?quence broken in two places ; he was imnieLii ' ate: y taken up, and with the assistance of some of tha inhabitantF, who were awoke by the crash, earn ed into the Tavern, were the bone was set, and we have the satisfaction to state he is now in a fair Way of recovery. 1 An accid!nit of a nearly similar nature also °Wu red l.tst week at the foot of Boughton Hill. Thuisday last an inquest was taken at Hschestnit. fl'olko.in the body of Stephen Dammam, a labourer who, while standing in company with another mo under a tree for skel!er, was killed on the spit Tl 7 lightning, and the other man was knocked down, but is in a fair w.iy of recovery. li k GLA36 7 Oli; AUGUST 16. The lovers of Science, and especially those con• nected with the Public Association lately incorporate( ASSIZES. i • All the capital convicts, condemned at the Exeter Assizes, which terminated on Friday last, were re '.grieved before the Judges left the City, viz. William Cook and John Parsons, for stealing deal-boards ; 'W. Symons, for stealing bank notes ; Joseph Ivey, for stealing •prayer-book; out of Stonehouse Chapel ; and F. Mi ler, for burr bry..—Nor were there any left I or transportation. Thomas Easterbrook, for receiving the 19 boards, stolen by Cooke and Parsons, who was sentenced to be transported for 14. years, had his sentence mitiga ted to twelve months imp! isonment. . A cause of interest to Country Magistrates came on to be tried at the last Exeter Assizes. It was an action brought by Mr. Trimlett, a scrivener, of Ot tery St. Mary, against Sir W. Pole, Bart. one of his Majesty's Justices of the - Peace for the County of De von, for false imprisonment. The constable of the parish of Colyton was also made a party in this case. It appeared in evidence, that the defendant was re quired to produce sureties for his grier4 behaviour for a supposed indignity offered to the Magistrate when', attending his duty at a meeting of the Justices of the Hundred of Colyton, and that on his not producing j then be was ordered into custody. The offensive ! words complained of, were spoken in an adjoining I room, and not in the immediate presence of the Ma ; g'strate. The Learned Judge, in summing up the evidence, told the Jury that the verdict must be in L i your of the plaintiff, but that on con 'd '' the 'si eriag cir cumstances of the case, he thought the dama:zes could i not be too small, and the Jury returned :t verdict, on the point of Law, with--Five and Twenty Shillings damagos.