Star. — London, England, 1822-07-31 00:00:00

Fr I MR. EMERY. The Committee for conducting the Benefit and Sub scription in aid of a fund to make provision for the aged parents and the % i , e and seven destitute chil dren of the late Mr. EMERY, met yesterday at the Office foi conducting the affairs of the Theatrical Fund, in flow-street, Covent-Garden. The labours of these Gentlemen appear likely to be crowned with completv success. The subscription already exceeds SOO , ; iiiiteas, which includes fa:100 received anony mously and in one sum. His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK has volunteered, in hi , usual kind and condescending manner, to send a donation of £5O, • with ermission to use his name as patronizing the Benefit. The Proprietors of Covent-Garde4 Theatre have a teed most liberally to petTflit the gratuitous use of their Theatre. Mr. ARNOLD voluntarily shuts up his Theatre, and the s'hole of his effective corn- • puny have, with one accord, agreed to play without fee co- r eward. Mr. MORRIS, folloWing this laudable example, has permitted all of his company, not per that evening, to rlay at Covent... Garden. By these united acts 'of kindness, the Public will be gratified by a combination of talent, unequalled on any former occasion, and the result, it will not be difficult to Anticipate. But however gratifying it may • be to witness an overflowing House, yet to provide in the most moderate manner for two aged parents, a wife, and seven children, cannot be accomplished by means of this Benefit. Mr. Rost Ns took occasion to compliment the Com. miner on the receipt of a most gratifying letter from the Marquis of HERTFORD, and who had generously conttibuted 1:25. The good feeling that always prevails when a Theati ical Friend is gone, cannot be better illustrated than in the eat nestness with which the whole of the company now in town have taken up the distressing case at - poor EMERY. Miss DANCE, with her two brothers, have most generously contributed £l5 to this laudable subscription. THEATRE--The favourite Opera of Pietro L'Eremita, and the Ballet of Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, were performed last night with undiminished success, to a splendid audience. HAYMARKET.-111e performances last night were Who Wants a Guinea, A Day after the Wedding, and Peeping Tom. The Pieces were excellently i_erforaseJ throughout, and the audience, which was numerous and genteel, testified their approbation by repeated shouts of latightei and.a r plause. Lady PERT!! entertained a select party of fashion ables yesterday evening, at her house in Park-lane, among whom were the Dowager Duchess of RtcH MOND and the Ladies LatiNox. _ _ _ ----- - Yesterday a Com t of Aldermen was held at Guild h t l .l, for the dispatch of general business. A Petition was presented from - the Spectacle-makers' Company, praying for an increase to be made to the number of their Livery, which wa, referred to a Committee for examination. Mr. Alderman LUCAS, one of the She riff, elect, attending, enteied into the usual bond to t,ke upon him the said office on Michaeltnas-day next. Sundt y persons were admitted and sworn Brokers. The Court were occupied at considerable, length in hearing and determining corn 'Taints against ii:ckrts. The Inquest, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, of St. Bi and Donate Wald, attending, presented several disorderly houses and ruinous premises, upon which the requisite orders were given, and the Soli citot as instructed to put the Act of Parliament in force ;elating to ruinous houses. Commissioners of Court, of Requests for September next were ap pointed. The Court directed the provisions of the Act of Parliament relative to ruinous houses to be p it in force against several in St. Martin's-le-Grand. Air. AUSTIN surrendered his office of Serjeant at Mace. The sum of 20,3001. Orphans' Stock was or dered to be paid off, and the Chamberlain was di rected to give the usual notice to those interested. A fine boy, six years old, whose parents reside in Green-street, Theobald's-road, unfortunately drank some fly-water in milk, fur sweet wine, on Saturday last, and soon after expired. Yesterday, an Inquest was held at the Workhouse, in Dunning's-alley, Bishopsgate-street, en the body of Sarah Dowling. who was run over by a stage toach on Monday afternoon. Miss Cox deposed, that at the tithe she saw The deceased and another person ciossing the street behind a cart, which was going into the City, when the • Cambridge stage-coach (Tally-ho), was coming on in a contrary direction, and the leader knocked her down. The coachman pulled up, but could not stop the horses,• and the wheels passed over the body of the deceased ; the horses also trod upon her. The coach was going at a fast trot, but very steady. She was taken Up by a Mr. Matthews, of Skinner -street, and carried to an adjacent public-house, but expired in a few minutes. Verdict—Accidental Death. Deodand of £.5.0n the coach and horses. _ _ _ _ A letter from St. Petersburgh, of the 10th instant, give as frightful accounts of the deplorable state of the Russian peasantry, as the letters fi om Ireland con tain of the wretched suffering of that population.— The farmers gan get no bu) ers for their produce, and the people are perishing with hunger. The Nobles, so far from reaping benefit from their possessions, find themselves obliged to purchase food for their slaves. There is pleat) , of food, but the great mass of con sumers have no money. At Odessa, wheat, brought from the interior of Poland and Russia, is worth no more than 15s. a quarter, and other descriptions of grain are low in proportion. The great bulk of his Imperial Majesty's subjects are labouring under the deepest aistiess. A distressing affair has just been decided by the Court of Assize of South Brabant. A farmer's wife, of the name of Englebert, was accused of having murdered her husband, and the son and daughter were implicated as accomplices in the crime. After three days deliberation, and hearing ninety witnesses, the mother alone was condemned to death. The son and daughter were acquitted, there being no evidence affecting the son, and the only fact against the daugh ter being, that, after the commission of the crime, in which .she had no participation, she bad assisted to carry the body of her father to the river. The ATTOIL• 24SY-OZDIZRAL, who had prosecuted for the Crown, thought she might be excused, as having obeyed the impulse of Nature, which led her to conceal her mother's crime. . rVi'" : . lINSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. Major Jan /Wee, of- tbe 65d &SWIM (tow 4 4 biltla . Y) came u p to eemieeludansest o f the Courts as his *POP*s to be discharged under the - Act- Court, said, "That the installs' _ The CuterC°11$111816"11121 in t deli tbad ne r ni elivee lan od in niPhilik a easedt. t r , was &dispute debts amounting to between four a nd fi red ve t , o 4.• and an d that the only property w hich he SOO• and by a palm of the name given of a m be stated to ireli a nd Chambers, who For the debt of £BllO ho had c Ca lin tn na pb o e f lf roe , idieebtwr:lfsAc"sed. by Mwin"Miled"Aki. sod li G il u i n p , a fo a y r ali a le d a e t bt l% o le f ae X es. loo 9 . be his bankers, but on t he insolven t 's exaraination it turned out that he never had any account with the house, although it was true that Messrs. Birch and Co. were his father's bankers. The insolvent attempted to explain this by stating that he had before drawn upon Birch and Co. who had paid his bills, and that he ex pected the bills in question woul d have been paid ; but, as appears by the insolvent's schedule. he was, so long ago as 1817, indebted to this house upwards of £3OO, cud for which sum they remain creditors. Messrs. Macdonald and Campbell's bill was given in the year 1820, when, of course, the insolvent could have no ex pectation of its being paid. The debt due to Gun was incurred in the purchase of a gig, for which two bills bad been given, payable at Messrs. Greenwood and Cox's ; this gig he sold to a brother Officer. At this time he bad no funds in Greenwood's house, but the insolvent Said he relied on his father placing money in their hands to answer these bills, but certainly, in the opinion of the Court, without any reasonable expectation. Much had been urged by the Counsel for the insolvent respecting the honour of the profession to which the insolvent belonged, and of the temptations to expense to which it is exposed. But we think that that profession (alike honourable in feelings as in arms) would be the first to reflect upon this Court for screening the insolvent un der such circumstances. The judgment of the Court therefore is, that the insolvent shall not be entitled to his discharge until, alter he Judi have been confined eight months, at the suit of his detaining creditors." Me Meer Pepper came up to be heard oa his petition to be discharged, and was opposed by Mr. Heirs, on behalf. of a creditor named Kenna. Te insolvent, who had been a farmer, stated that his whole stock was sold in 'March, by his father.in-law, Mr. Allen, to whom he had given a bill of sale in December, 1821. The stock had been valued at 4E1400, but sold for no more than £lOOO. He owed his father-in-law £2500, and all his other creditors but £299. None of them got anything. He borrowed the money of Mr. Allen in the year 1811, and married his daughter next year. The money was nut given as a marriage portion—he received none, nor was there any marriage settlement Ile never paid any interest for the money, nor gave any security till the year 1818, when be gave Mr. Allen, a note for £2OO he received then; and in the year 1820, be gave him a note fur - £l9OO, being, with in terest, the amount of the money he had received before. Mr. Thomas Allen, the insolvent's father-in-law, stated that the insolvent courted his daughter previous to the year 1811, at which time he appeared to be in good circumstances, Out failed while the courtship was going on. Many persons then advised witness not to consent to the match," but (said he) I be resolved as he courted her in prosperity I would not forsake him in ad versity." In consequence of this determination, he bought all the insolvent's property at his sale, and enabled him to pay every one twenty shillings in the pound; on which occasion he advanced him £l4OO, and afterwards £llOO. lie never demanded any notes of hand till six years after, when the times being bad for farmers, be thought it right to take same security ; had the times mended, he knew the insolvent would be able to pay the interest and go on, which was all he (the witness) wanted; but the times getting worse and worse, he advised with his attorney, List De cember, how he could be secured, and he advised a bill of sale, which was accordingly executed by the insolvent. The witness produced an account of the money he bad advanced for the in solvent, and of the produce of the bill of sale, by which it ap peared that he was a loser of £l5OO on the whole transaction. He never gave the money as a marriage portion with his daugh ter to the insolvent. Mr. Hearn submitted to the Court, that an undue preference from the insolvent to his father-in-law had been clearly proved. Ali. Allen himself admitted that he did not even take a note of hand from the ir solvent for years alter he had advanced the money to him, and only then because he knew the insolvent was in failing circumstances; and when he saw there was no hope of his retrieving. he then took a bill of sale, which the insolvent gave without pressure, and swept away every farthing from' every other creditor. Mr. PoLtocx, who was Counsel for the insolvent, contended. that Mr. Allen had only dune what every creditor win entitled to do, and if a father-in-law could not exercise the rights of other creditors, no mats could assist a relation without exposing him• self to a risk from which a stranger would be free. The COURT said, it was quite clear the insolvent had given his father-in-law an undue preference. It had been asked by his ' Counsel, d:d not his father-in-law possess the same rights as any creditor ? No doubt he did ; and had 1w obtained his bill of sale ' by pressure, even by threatening legal proceedings, the Court could not object to it; but the only pressure in the case was, Mr. Allen, kt:owing the insolvent's circumstances, advised with his attorney how be could be secured. The attorney recommended a bill of sale, and the insolvent acquiesced. The Judgment of the Court-was, that he should be imprisoned fourteen months from the date of his petition. . Richard Holt came up to be heard on his Petition. Mr. Hiarn made an objection in lintine to the insolvent being heard. The insolvent, he said, was an outlaw, and it was the established ractice of every Civil Court, that before an outlaw should be permitted to plead he must pay the cost of the out lawry; which the insolvent had not 'done. Mr. Cooxx, for the insolvent, quoted the tenour of the Aet of Parliament, which says, " any person in custody, on any process, for, or by reason of any debt, may prefer a Petition," &c. The Court said, under the very comprehensive terms of the Act of Parliament, even an outlaw was not prohibited being heard. Mr. Ilxistn proceeded to examine witnesses. J.' Julian stated, that be was a leather-seller in Oxford -street, and was discharged under the Insolvent Act in July, 1818. In the following month the insolvent applied to him to accept bills for him. He knew he had taken the benefit pf the Act, and said he would set him up in business again—he'd give him 401. or SOL for accepting for him. Witness accepted many bills at different times, the first was for 12C1. he recollected accepting fur 1501. 1701. 2501. and 5001. The insolvent had an office in Lime-street. The firm was Wade and Co. He frequently saw Wade in the course of the year 1819, at the insolvent's house, Nu. 2, Broken Wharf, acting as his clerk. Witness knew Marsh, a labouring man at Oxford, had seen him accept bills for the insolvent. J. Veal is witness's brother-in-law, and a labouring man.— Witness bad seen him accept bills for the insolvent. lie first became acquainted with the insolvent in August, 1818. The insolvent gave his (witness's) wife a £5 note at Christmas, 1818, when he came down to Oxford to pay the first bill, which was the only money received by him for accepting. He never knew Wade but as the insolvent's clerk; the acceptance of a bill p ro duced by Mr. Cooke, in the name of H. Wade and C o . was Wades writing. Mr. Marshall, of the firm.of Marshall and Co. wholesale gro cers, 179, Thames-street, stated, that en his return acquaintance ,tofa t o wn which fro h : e f a journey in the year 1820, he was informed that the insolvent bad w be i e tn n es a a t . and his purchased house ,and the rep ea r p ese an n e t li e ea d a h a im ai se al lt a ' a e tandapt applied had t t a a k . e l n v i i t away, and a d ndhad never was aatp t a o id p t a .a y r r i e t a , d a r t ha m mosey ; a nd e a c ri son lam before that day in Court. On receivin e g , h th ow e e i v n e fo r m dis. a. don he went to the insolvent's house to 'demand payment ; but though he went often, he could never see bim ; h covered where the molasses was, and had it attached, but it was then in the hands of a purchaser who had paid for it, and he was ' obliged to deliver it up. yr readyua I lshtw m one y,iht .e whop i h ' eee i w ith ll alif l et r e . tra h hp l e a a The insolvent was examined by Mr. Marshall. He did not represent himse f lf oc to it be tHhe at e sa di qu it n ama not ted p un w n d boughtbut wea theto paymolas ses. season he did not pay was, that Mr. M a rsh a ll' s clerk came for the money before it was due, and came se often, and made h a riot, as to injure his credit. He told the clerk that wa s reason he did not pay him. C,u Cosusissionsa—Let me give you a hint; you are liable to Bebe Indicted Z i go tor to Per M ju r. " Mars . hall's to pay fees Mr. Wandsworth, i - ajds of the conduct of the clerk. lie who setting was u f p or batou the seansboreh ntolaantos t the mdala jr ac ti 1 who had been at Mr. Marshall's to make the purchase molt , p bee had been refused credit. He was not t o get any ill & * W t telk trasisacti that b l e n, w b ost at id ezfe do et tl a le d New by " for g kha n gena r. W ttl ande rnf w or tie - ;oV ta 4 seag the meanies without taking titan to Gambol? s and paid tap loailiVilitt a Oft Of dm ibobry. HP bit Flinty of money of hie' Mr. The . t., 4)74/ZMr , • . es . 'r • dor the meloonte InheikilOWAN* atilidlOda bet' jq ldm on account as camilase._, admit asked of the Coat dine to Wald , tir! l !. .:Ouar • add, if it were an Windy reePseedig propertl which the !count we supposed to have, dam aharki lie given for Ow production of evidence; bet the imeiventinuo 11 14. 1 r. “. Alisadom on a penal clause, and it wasthe rule of shit Clout that such an examination should not be adjourned ; but 'Mr. Nankai might be satisfied, that when the Court tame to pronounce tte judgment, his ease should be taken into considerate:4.—Thu bo ther examination was then adjourned till the provisional aosigune of the Court should make his report. 11M.......M1NM=... Bow-rneer..--Monday evening, Ms Bombs, .was .I'Jha Bei jawthsebroonce,g:BhmkesTizerhoe'seasilinrreaßicslidrePe:Eisedisinitioinrißbre:ldvinn.cotheguirtne,u7lL:ydiriebsairleimagite:: one of the principal officers, on a warrant, charged with trio nioudy uttering and publishing as true, a certain forged receipt or acquittance for money, to the amount of 151.'105. be welil knowing the same to be forged, with intent to defraud William Clarke. The circumstances under which this prosecution arose were as follows:)-Mr. Clarke is a licensed victualler, and some considerable time ago he employed Brookes, who, he thought, was himself an attorney, to recover Ontlnber of debts for him. Among other persoi s whom he-weeemployed to sues was a man named Sutherland, who was and ted to Mr. Clarke in the sum of 151. lOs. and the latter havin learned that the money was, paid, applied to Brookes for it, but was answered that he must i look to his (Brookes's) employe for it, as he was only clerk to a Mr. Isaacson, who was alone possible. Mr. Clarke had not Mete beard of Mr. Isaacson, and said he employed Brookes , and Brookes only, and to him: he should look for the money.-- Brookes refused to pay it, and Mr. Clarke entered an action against him ; to which he pleaded, first, that he was not liable,, he bring only the clerk to the attorney employed to sue for the debt ; and, secondly, that Clarke had received the money in divers payments. Upon the trial of the cause in the Court of Common Pleas, before Mr. Justice Pate, Isaacson was called for the defame, and swore that Brookes was his clerk only, and to establish the other plea of set off, the.instrument which was the subject of the present charge, war put in evidence. It was a check upon Brookes's bankers, Messrs. Hodsoll and Stirling, for 101. and on the back of this appeared an endorsement of several items, amounting exactly to the sum of 51. 10s. which it was alleged had been paid over to Mr. Clarke, and which, *ids the check itself, amounted to the sum sought to he recoveeed.— Under this endorsement :appeared the name " William Clarke," written apparently as a receipt for the whole sum. This docu ment was put in and relied upon by the Counsel for Brookes as a complete answer to the c'aim of Mr. Clarke; bilk on the part of the latter, it was denied that he had ever received a shilling of the money, Or had ever seen the cheque; and it was declared, that the signature " William Clarke" was a forgery. Thercase went to the Jury, with an observation from the Learned Judge who tried it, that if they believed the signature to be genuine, there was an end to the plaintiff's demand. The Jury found for the plaintiff for the full amount. By an oversight, no app:ica tion was made to intpound the cheque, and it was returned into ' the possession of Brookes. Subsequently, a Rale Nisi was ob tained in the Common Pleas, calling upon Isaacson and a man named Clarke, attornies (under whose respective names Brookes had practised), to sheer cause why they should not be struck off the rolls for permitting him to do so; and upon Brookes why he should nut be committed for a year to the Fleet, under the Ast of Parliament, for practising, he not being an attorney.— Mr. Clarke, in his affidavit in support of that Bole, swore that his signature was forged, and that he had never seen the cheque in question, until it was produced upon the trial. Mr. Clarke's attorney, anxious to get possession of this document, pro Cured the attendance, by summons, of Brookes and the other parties before Mr. Justice Best, at his chambers, and upon a hearing, the Learned Judge ordered that a copy of the cheque should he sent to Mr. Clarke's attorney the following day; and that, by the next Friday, Brookes should produce the cheque itself at the Judge's chambers. On the Friday Brookes attended, and on being asked for the cheque he said, " he had taken advice upon the matter ; that he had been told he was awkwardly situated, zed had been advised to destroy the check, and he had destroyed it," or words to that effect. Application was then made to Sir Dantean Mentz and Mr. Haul to grant a warrant for forgery, but it was objected to, on the ground that it would be impossible to prove the cue without the production of the document alleged to be fuiged. Mr. Hai. Clarke's attorney, however, cuntended that it would be possible, and Cited many cases in which it had been so decided, particu larly one case where a man swallowed a 101. note which he was charged with forging. The note had been previously identified, and upon the trial the case went to the Jury, and he was ac quitted, but it was upon the merits. Mr. Hill having also ob tained the opinion of Mr. Espinasse and Mr. Adolphe, in his favour, the warrant was granted. ati fo,i.. N itrol l it it sni r r nn. . lat l sfe il iun l .si In n i(d o iin: w .aua a tat ('t'urner's) et., oe r ed o d rrn.uls u )lp.u c tiub e d rcranh: de,r t i l a e wwsti c tr ih o at oto p t iin y ost:n o t i,e f ?d t hbeewc Judgesas heck, which was sent clerk ord e r, i o and Isaacson u kec 1 , it looked like his writing, but he did not recollect writing it. He was pet•s;ed hard by Mr. Hill,hut refused to give any other answer. The copy was dated the 15th of June last. , Brookes, in answer to the charge, denied that any forgery had been committed, and accused Mr. Hill of instigating, this prosecu tion to avoid one whichwas about to be commenced against him self for perjury, in swearing upon the trial of the cause, that he (Brookes) had made a confession (of what kind did not appear) to him at his own office, where he never was in his life. That prosecution, however, would still go on in spite of this proceed ing, as long as he (Brookes) had a guinea. Mr. Hut, said the abuse of such a man as Brookes did him ho nour. I-k was afraid of no prosecution himself, and he insti tuted this to rid society of a nuisance with which it had been too long pestered. lithe Magistrate would commit the prisoner for re examination, he pledged himself to bring forward evidence still more conclusive than that already adduced, and a scene of iniquity not often equalled would be exposed to the public view. A bill acknowledged by the clerk, Turner, to be written by him was produced, and Sir Itensao Bums, on comparing it with the copy of the check, said they were certainly written by the same person. . . _ Brookes submitted, that without the production of the docu ment stated to be forged, the Magistrates could not commit him. lie also denied that he had said before Mr. Justice Best that he had destroyed it. Hiu..-1 have sworn you did, and I shall subpana the Learned Judge hiniselt to the Old Bailey to prove that fact. Sir Ituma RD Baum said he should commit the prisoner. Brookeiwar accordingly committed to the House of °twee tion for further examination. • George Stevens, a hay salesinan in the &. James's Hay-market, was summoned under the Act of Parliament by which that mar hat is governed, for neglecting to enter in the book kept for that purpose, the sale of a certain load of hay sold by him on the 11th of July. He was also charged on a second information, " that he having sold to one William Coulson a load of bay, did deliver less than the number of trusses comprising such load, and that he did em bezzle and keep back six trusses, by which he bad forfeited the penalty of N. upon each truss so embezzled." 'The evidence being precisely the same upon each Information, we give the two cases togeth, r. Joseph Probart, servant to Joshua Walker, Esq. of Hendon , deposed, that on the 11th of JUly h e sent a load of bay, by order of his master, to Mr. Nicolls, a salesman in the Haymarket. to be disposed of. • Mr. Nicolls proved that be sold the full load for Mr. Walker to the defendant Stevens, for U. William Coulson, coachman t o hi s G race t h e D u k e of St. 'Al ban's swore that on the 11th of July' he bought a load of hay from the defendant for 4/. Bs. When the load was delivered at the stables of his Noble Master, there were sex trusses short, thirty only being brought. When he bargained with &evens, with whom he had dealt before, for this load, the latter asked him if he wanted a whole load and he replied he did net, for he had six trusses left of the last. &evens upon this said. " Well. then, I can take six trusses off the cart, and still make it look like a full lead." To this witness csos snted, sonJ thirty tresses only were delivered. Mr. Attar, for the defendant—And you. Sir, received one pound as your share of the six trusses that were kept back. and arfor the full load to y our N o bl e M aster. di d you not ? itness.—lfes, 1 did. Mr. Au.se.—You told Stevens you had six trusses left of the , last Wads and Peninised to him to strike off six from the our In vestioo, and you would arrange the difference with hies? The witness replied in the affirmative. Mr. Asa.mr.—Aud pia ebeated yede if tlitalkiret Tice witness Flawed he had dens se . aelimil • . . ~,_... 'rt" ' . ry• : . • 7 - ':~ ; was liable it* b*tisagittAkt igigs4.4 1114, I. t h e service arthe Duke at air. MittlN. 5 t , • Chowthan Durk ej tb. agouti rasa thebeklal: proved 11, i mie the lead la : pastime was sot amend. James DWeby 'tarter to Mr. Walker, proved tint ito ger order of the delbilleat, took da trusses frown the loot in ism du i and swami-the ressaladyse to the Dohs of 91. Alines' stables. Mr. Auer, upog thia reicher', admitted tht amid not ewer the charge et sigretry is tinily*. With reject t e a* o th e r c harge of e .d*drl , t. be oil it depended solar u m, the testimony of a biro Mai ougheMinedf to bare am at the Old Bailey for lUatid, mad tsempersed; and Ewen if as i s said were true, he bad contratred C'2r the 'delivery of in es " them 30 trusses, and that *umber was delivered. 'The one& man was the person with whom the contract was mode, medium the Duke of Be. Alban's, who undatibtPdly had been ebesolg bin his calcimine was the greaser delitiquent, and he Alt, Ax e d could not kelp expressing 'his surprise that the Noble pa s should keep him one moment in his eerriee after SUE% &dile eatery. The Learned Counsel contended further, out the• identity of the bay was net sufficiently shade me. The Magistrates (Sir R. asaing and Mt. Haus) conies. the defendant in the full penalty of t 5 for the non-entry, dismissed the other charge, on the ground that it was not unit thinly made out in evide nce, it being, in their minds, Lupo.. sible to rely upon the testimony of CoOlson, as to the nature t it the bargain, wkkettt some corroboration. Liman Hat.t.—Yesterday, J. Barber and J. Thowspor., the fol.', mer the proprietor of an indecent exhibition of a double /atm sod the latter, his assistant, were charged with exposing tin. same to women and children in Great Guildford•otteet, Southwark. The defendants expressed their contrition for offending the 12% 3 , and they were permitted to go at large on procuring two seturi:. ties id X2O each, not to exhibit it *gain, as otherwise they veh-'4•l subject themselves to becommitted as rogues and regatxiads In the course of the last week, the Bow-street offi cers were sent down to Chatham to apprise the proper authorities, that a plan had been laid by a gang of desperate housebreakers, who have robbed several houses at Blackheath, to break open the Pay-Office in that bock-yard; additional guards have in conse quence been -placed, and every precaution takeu to prevent such a serious mischief.—Two of the i,are. b 'have been apprehended. As soon as the matter connected with the disgrace. ful conduct of a certain Bishop came to the know ledge of the Home Department, the tragic:liars were submitted to the Crown Lics'vyers ; and, according to their advice, if the criminal do not resign, icor Irve is to be had to the solemn process of Episcopal deprive:- Ilan. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL will also officially prosecute the parties at the Middlesex Sessions, either to trial, or if they evade that, to outlawry. Saturday last, as Mrs. and the Miss MADDIES were returning from the 0 1 :era, the servant being cated, drove the carriage furiously through the turn. pike at Queen's Elms. The gate being closet, the shock was so violent it threw the man from the box ; the horses set off, full sreed, and were fortunately stopped by Lidy FRANCES WILSON'S servant, the car riage at that moment being nearly upset, by driving upon a mound of stones near the turnpike. Provi dentially, no injury was sustained. The Ladies we lt conveyed to Lady FRANCES WILSON'S in her carriage, who afforded them every assistance to procure a con veyance for them to BArnes. . Saturday afternoon, Mr. Baron WOOD passed ere awful sentence of death upon the following prisoners, capitally convicted at York : Robert Moseley, Robert .Ibbet:on, Tsaac Jesanp, 1211..7: Craggs, Robert Wright. and Rob..rt Moore, convicted of b 7,7. glary; Robert Welford, for stealing in a d•velling•hotpir value of 408. James Brown and George Colley, ice Henry Thompson, William Brammer, and Roger highway robbery ; James Hewsen, fox:horse-stealing; -.:!7 maduke Dennison, for sheep-stealing. His Lord-hi, , that mercy might be extended to all, except Linger IL'. robbing the mail. SUFFOLK ASSIZES.—When the Learned Jr! passed sentence of death upon Bennett, whose trial was reported in the STAR of yesterday, he told him, in a very impressive manner, that he had been con victed, upon the most satisfactory evidence, of setting fire to the p emises of a neighboor, who, in a mon.ent, found himself hereft of his property and !rime. " Your's," said his Lordship, " is not a case ow:-z., more or less to the ciflarrities of the times, nit to the pressure under which some individuals suffered ; but is a crime originating in malice of the worst possib:e kind—malice long entertained, deliberately planned, and finally executed. It is impossible to hold ect any hope of mercy to you, as the law must take its course."—The unhappy culprit interrupted the Judge two or three times by assertions of his innocence, saying the witnesses had sworn falsely against him, and the Jury would one day or other repent The day previous to the trial Bennett made over pie perty to the amount of £l5OO, in order to secure it from the Crown in case . he should be totind guilty. Bennett is left for execution, which will take place on Monday next, at Ipswich. The coal-porters in general on both sides of the Thames have struck, on account of their emp!,' - ers proposing a reduCtion of wages. Their flnmer tra;.tes was four-pence a chaldron ; lately they have been re duced to three-perice halfpenny; and now it is posed to reduce them to three-pence. A few coal merchants, however, continue to pay at the rate of three-pence halfpenny. BIRTHS. July 22, at Aberdeen, Mrs. Angus, wife of John Angus, Esq. Commissioner of the Board of Requests, Calcutta, of a daugh:r:. July 23, at Stirling Castle. Mrs. Captain Johnston, of a >on• Monday, the Lady of Dr. Lushington, M.P. of a son, at bit house in Great George-street• July 15, at the Manse of Kinglassie, Mrs. CunnyriL• of a son. July 24, the Lady of Major Middleton, 2d I)ragoon of a son. MARRIED. Lately, at Weymouth, Sir John (Meld, Bart. to Alicia, th':l daughter of Mrs. Macartney Hume, of Lihsanour Castle, Ant:en• June 27, Lieut.-Colonel Clements, M.P. for the County z" Leitrim, to Catherine Frances, daughter of Godfrey Wentwar.h Wentworth, Esq. of Woolley Park, Yorkshire. Feb. 14, at Calcutta, Sir It. D.Culquhoun,liart. of Tilly Colqa houn, to Anna Maria, second daughter of J. Colvin, Esq. Cal:u'•'" July 13, hi. Albtrtini, teach* of languages at York, to :' , l: 4 s Ann Cant, of knaresborougb, milliner. Soon after the cert.. many the harmony of the party was considerably interfere.' by the appearance of a Gentleman, who statJci that the groom had another wife residing at Dublin ! • DIED. July 24, at Hampton Court, Miss Gunthorpe, youngest daush• ter of the late Wm. Gunthorpe. Bag. of the Island of Antigua• • July 25, aged 67, Mr. Thos. Hinton Burley Old&id, Author of the Representative Histury of Great Britain. NI A ILS rum DAT RR. DM Dublin. 1 0 Waterford 2 0 Guaranty and Jersey 1 Lisbon _ 0 0 Holland . 0 0 HIGH-WATERat Morning Afternoon • 111. DI 16 France 0 0 Hamburg,' 0 1 Flanders 0 0 • Jamaica 0 0 r______gt Gottenbu 0 0 INDON BRIDGE TO- MOH kt,' • - 0 flamer' after 11. • - m salaries after 2. LONDON; Printed and publisbed by tsviii. Kars. 110Wa" • - Plate, .. o''4 l . 'lt , 117 t, 1:11 G ... Jul sk..; •:"