Star. — London, England, 1821-06-12 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSION& R. Kihg and J. Cotton were indicted for a libel on J. Waiteley. The prosecutor is a managing clerk to Mr. Price, a Solicitor; the defendants, one of-them the Clerk, and the other the Steward of a Benefit Society. Some time ago the prosecutor became a member of this Society, and soon after had the misfortune of cutting his hand, in a manner which disabled him from fol lowing his occupation. For some time he supported 'himself without making any application to the So ciety, but his disability of following his employment continuing much longer than he expected, he applied to the Society for assistance, and 12s. 6d. a week were allowed him. But although he was unable to write, it became necessary that he should go to Mr. Price's office, to give information respecting the busi.. ness in which he had been previously engaged. The officers of the Society having heard of those visits, refused to continue any further relief. The prosecu tor, who was not receiving any salary in consequence, summoned them before the Magistrates at Worship street Office, when the payment of his allowance was ordered. In the course of the examination the pro- . secutor'ssage was enquired, and he stated what he believed it to be, 23 years. The defendants proceeded to make a search in the Church books; where the prosecutor's baptism was registered, from which they came to the conclusion that he was not quite 22, and they issued a circular letter to the members of the Society, in which they stated that he bad committed perjury, in the account he had given of his age before the Magistrates. The prosecutor proved the case as stated. He ac counted for his uncertainty respecting his age by the death of his parents in his infancy; but remembered having entered into the Navy in the year 1811. • • Mr. ANDREWS, for the prisoners, said the circular was only intended to give notice to the Members of the Society of the conduct on the part of one of them, with which it was proper they should be made ac quainted, for the purpose of considering whether any proceedings should be taken on it. The CHAIRMAN charged the Jury, that they were the Constitutional Judges of both the law and the fact ; and, be their verdict what it might, the charac ter of the prosecutor must stand above suspicion. The Jury consulted for a long time, and then en quired of the Chairman whether a part of them might give up their opinion to the. majority ?—The Cttntn- MAN told them they must all agree in the verdict.— They renewed their consultation ; and, after a little time, brought in a verdict of Not Guilty on both defend ants. Richard Abbott and his wife were indicted for uttering counterfeit coin. In May last the prisoners went to several shops in the vicinity of Finchley, and passed several bad half-crowns, and sold the commo dities they had purchased, till at last they were taken into custody by a Bow-street Officer. There were about ten different charges against them. Verdict— Guilty, and the Court adjudged them to be confined for twelve months in Newgate. • William Rayon was convicted of passing a bad half-crowns and sentenced to six months imprison :Lent in the House of Correction. Jan:es Moore was indicted for assaulting A. Dallas, Constable of St. Mary-le-Strand. The prisoner was a pauper on the Parish, and in April-List he applied to one of the Overseers, and conducted himself with such violence, that he was sent to the watch-house, but after the watch was off, he broke out and escaped. The Constable met him begging at the Church door afterwards, upon which he struck him, and again escaped, but was found at the Apple Tree, in White Hart-yard, where he again attacked the Constables with a knife, but he was overpowered, and taken to Bow-street. Verdict-Guilty. He was sentenced to six months solitary confinement in the House of Correction. William Odam and William Robertson were indicted for assaulting J. Henson, Headbotoueh, in Kentish Town. Verdict—Guilty. Sentenced to two months imprisonment in the House of Correction. A young man, a Lieutenant in the Navy, was pro secuted for a violent assault, by his own father! The father, who delivered his evidence in a state of agi tation little short of insanity, stated, that lie went to a public-house where his son was, and stated to life landlord, that his son was living with another man's wife ; that on leaving the house his son followed him, and took his stick from him, with which be brat him till the stick broke. He produced the broken stick in Court. A person who saw the assault corrobo rated the father's statement. Mr. C. PHILLIPS made a feeling address to the Jury on behalf of the defendant. He said he would produce evidence to prove, that the monster of a fa ther made it his daily employment to report to every one to whom his son was known, that he lived by the prostitution of his wife, who was, in fact,* a wo man of purity of conduct. 11 on such provocation the son had been betrayed beyond the bounds of duty, they must attribute it to the constitution of human nature. The Learned Gentleman was proceeding to call his witnesses, when the COURT said, the father's con duct, however bad, could not justify the assault, and • it was therefore better not to distress the feelings of the Court any further by hearing it. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty; and the CHatastatr, after an eloquent admonition, sentenced him to pay, a fine 'of Is. and to enter into recOg nizar.ce; to keep the peace in the sum of £2O. Sunday night, about twelve o'clock, as Mr. Harris, a'solicitor; was, in company with his wife, proceed along Oxford-street, a daring ruffian came behind Mil.. Harris, and gave her a desperate blow on the side of her face, which cut her severely. The villain endeavoured to drag her shawl froth her shoulders, but in this attempt he was frustrated, in consequence of its being carefully pinned. Mr. Harris pursued the fellow till he saw him enter a house, whets he infortned some watchmen of the occurrence, and they accompanied him to the house, where they found the fellow undressed , in the act f getting into bed.— Mr. Harris instantly identified him, and he was taken into custody. He was yesterday committed to New gate for trial. In taking up the population list, last week, one of the High Constables found, in Bell's Wynd, Edin burgh, an Irishwoman, aged 141, who still continues to earn her subsistence by spinning. • Klitatox-Hottaz.—Yesterdaya poor fisherman was air g ed with working with an unlawful net. In his defence he complained that the water in the Thames had been rendered so unwholesome by the continual discharge of the poisonous gas matter into it, that but few fish could live in it, and the fishing had been so unprofitable for some time past as to compel the fishermen to have recourse to unlawful nets, to avoid utter starvation. The fish in the River had been de creasing for some time ; but now the increased dis charge of gas water into the River promises to drive the fish out of it entirely. The LORD MAYOR ex pressed his astonishment at this statement, as, he said, the Gas Company had been indicted at the Sessions, and the nuisance had been promised by them to be abated.—Mr. Nelson, the Water Bailiff, assured his Lordship that the nuisance was more ex tensive than ever, and that - the water was in an in creased degree unwholesome. The baneful effects were felt as far as Bretitford up the River, and be yond Rotherhithe down it • but the extent of the evil was incalculable, as the fish that entered the conta minated water were destroyed often by whole shoals. There was a long bank of mud, which extended for a considerable space, before the Temple, on which the red worm •was bred in great quantities, and to this bank the smaller flat fish formerly resorted in abundance, but now that the gas water was .dis charged, the numerous broods of fish were destroyed or driven away. He mentioned the recent circum stance of a horse having drank at the water-side by Westminster, and died immediately after, when, on its being opened, it was declared that its death was caused by the poisonous quality of the water, which was saturated with the residue from the gasometer.— The fisherman also declared the docks had done suffi cient injury before, for those bodies of stagnant water were saturated with copper, and other ingredients, to such a degree, that if a man sunk in it, death was as certain as if e had fallen into a brewer's vat. The water of this description which was emptied from' the docks, had driven away many species of fish that formerly visited the river periodically. The salmon was some time sive caught in abundance, but during the last year oily one salmon had been caught. The shad and smelt had almost entirely departed, and if the Gas Companies were suffered to- go on as they had done for some time hack, the fishing would be totally destroyed. The LORD MAYOR expressed his regret at this intelligence, and said that the use of such nets as that found upon the prisoner would only tend to increase the evil. The Act was imiserative upon him, and he condemned the net, but ordered its appendages to be restored, and mitigated the penalty. GUILDHALL.—RIGIIT OF CITY COMPANIES.—Mr. Boult, who formerly carried on an extensive business as ,a wharfinger and lighterman, at St. Catharine's, appeared before Mr. Alderman ANst.ev, to answer the complaint of the Master, Wardens, and Assist ants of the Lightermaa's Company, for refusing to pay the cwarterage due from him as a Member, by virtue of a bye-law of the Company. The informa tion was founded upon the statute of the 34. th of the late King, which inflicts a penalty of five shillings for such refusal, and gives jurisdiction of the case to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen. Evidence was then given of the. existence of the bye-law by which every Member is bound to pay sixpence per quarter to the use of the Company. This Mr. I3oult had refused to do for the space of twelve years, the demand for the same having been regularly made by the Corn pany's beadle. Mr. Boult, in his defence, admitted he was a freeman of the Company, and so long as he carried on the business of a lighterman, had regu larly paid his quarterage; but having long since re tire,l front business, and now deriving no advantage from the Company, he conceived he was no longer liable to contribute to its funds. The clerk of the Company, in reply, observzd, that until Mr. Boult 'was disfranchised, he was, to all intents, a legal Mem ber of the Company, and bound by his oath to con form to its bye-laws. Mr. Payne, the Magistrate's clerk, said, if the defendant had chosen to avail him.' self of the rights or privileges of the Company, he could not have been debarred therefrom, and watt consequently liable for all the dues of the Company, so long as he remained a Member. By application to the Lord Mayor's Court, lie might probably have been able to have disfranchised himself; but as that .did not appear, he must certainly be considered as a Member of the Company, although no longer carry ing on business. Mr. Boult then urged the Statute of Limitations, and contended that the claim could not be enforced beyond the period of six years. Mr. Alderman ANSLEY was clearly of opinion that if the case now before him was for the recovery of the amount of the quarterage, the Statute a Limita tions could not be pleaded under the circumstances. With that, however, he had- nothing to do. Mr. Boult was there before him upon an information un der a penal statute, under which he was liable to be convicted in the penalty of five shillings for refusing payment. The object sought now before him as a Magistrate, was not the recovery of the twenty-four shillings quarterage, but the penalty for refusing to pay it, which, if pressed, he (the Magistrate) must certainly at' and against him. Mr. Boult perceiving that the opinion of the Magistrate was against him, consented -to pay the sum demanded, and the in formation was accordingly withdrawn. • BOW,STREET.— G. Payne and G. Springet, the lat ter dressed like a respectable farmer, were charged with defrauding a lad named Johnston, of his watch. Johnston is groom to a Gentleman in Portland-place; and being in attendance upon his master at the Ep sin Races, he saw the two prisoners at a table, play ing with cups and balls, betting and losing sovereign after sovereign, with infinite good humour, to a num ber of other men who surrounded them. The silly lad took it for granted that these winners were all strangers, and that " it was all right;" and there fore he offered to bet to the amount of half-a-crown. Half-a-crown," exclaimed the farmer-looking pri loner, " plant a sovereign and win it—you're sure to win it, for I saw' the ball roll from under the cup." The lad said he had not a. sovereign. " Then plant Tour watch against five sovereigns, and make a man of yourself at once," rejoined the pretended farmer. The lad hesitatingly drew forth his watch ; the far mer took it in his hand, the other prisoner added the five sovereigns to it, the cup was lifted, the ball was under it,. the horses for the Oaks were coming up to the winning-post peck aud neck; and;-in the twink ling of an eye, the table, the cups, the balls, .the.bet ten, the prisoners, and the watob, were all vanished ; • leaving the simple lad with his empty fob, staring in stupid wonderment. Shortly after, some of the pa trol accidentally hearing the prisoners, who were ca rousing in a booth, congratulate themselves upon having "swished a thimble which was worth two quid upon the cross," took them into custody, and locked them up in Epsom cage, where they were soon after recognised by the lad. Messrs. HARMER and ISAACS attended for the prisoners, and argued that the pro secutor had lost his watch by fair betting ; but the Magistrate was of a very different opinion, and com mitted both prisoners for trial at the next Surrey As sizes, on a charge of feloniously stealing it. An unfortunate girl, apparently about eighteen yeari of age, and of the most interesting and hand some person, but whose attire indicated extreme poverty and distress, applied to the Sitting Magis trate, RICHARD BIRNIS, Esq. under the following circumstances :—lt appeared from her statement, that she had for the last three weeks been living at a house of ill-fame in Exeter-street, Strand, kept by a Man named James Lock ; this wretch had exacted the enormous sum of three guineas per week for her board and lodging, and in consequence of her not being able to pay the sum due for the last week, he threatened to strip her of her clothes and turn her naked into the street. This threat he deferred exe cuting until yesterday morning (having in the mean time kept her locked up in a dark room, without any covering whatever), when in lieu of her clothes he gave her the tattered and loathsome garments she then appeared in, which were barely sufficient to preserve common decency, and then brutally turned her into the street. Being thus plunged into the most abject wretchedness, without money, or fliends to whom she could apply in her present situation ; her bodily strength exhausted by the dissipated life she had led, and rendered more so by a long abstinence from food; her spirits broken and overcome by the bitter and humiliating reflection that her own guilty conduct debarred her from flying to the fostering arms of affectionate parents whom she had loaded with disgrace and misery, and the now inevitable exposyre of her infamy, it was some time ere her wandering senses were sufficiently composed to de termine what course she should pursue in the present emergency, when she thought she could not do bet ter than to have recourse to the justice of her coun try against the villain Lock, who had so basely treated her, and after extreme pain and difficulty she succeeded in dragging her enfeebled limbs to the Office. During the detail of the foregoing particu : lars she seemed overwhelmed with shame and re morse, and at times sobbed sq violently as to render her voice inarticulate. Her piteous case excited the attention and sympathy of all present, and it was much to the general satisfaction that Mr. BIRNIS or dered Humphreys, one of the conductors of patrol, to bring Lock on the Office. On his being brought there, the necessary proceedings were gone into for the purpose of indicting the house as a common brothel. This unhappy girl is of the most respectable parents, and for the last six years had been residing nith her aunt. About three months ago some dif ference having arisen between them, she absconded, taking with her a few shillings, and the clothes which she then wore. The first night of her remaining from home she went to Drury-Lane Theatre, and was there picked up by a genteel woman dressed in black, who, having learned her situation, enticed her to a house in Hart-street, Covent-Garden, where the ruin of the poor girl was finally effected. It was not un til she had immersed herself in vice and folly that she reflected on her situation, and it was then too late to retract; and, after suffering unheard-of mi set ies, was in the short space of three months re (timed to her present state of wretchedness.—The worthy Magistrate ordered that proper care should be taken of the girl, which was readily undertaken on the part of the Parish.—The prisoner set up a de fence, in which he said that a friend of the girl's owed him £l4, and that he detained her clothes for it, but was stopped by Mr. BIM:IE.—Ire at first treated the matter very lightly ; but on perceiving the determination on the part of the Parish to pro ceed in the business, he offered to give up the things : this„,however, he was not allowed to do. RLSOROUG II STREET.—Yesterday, a soldier of the Ist Regiment of Guards presented himself before Mr. Mats WA nt NC, the Magistrate, and made the fol lowing statement :—Having found it necessary lately to changelis lodgings, he and his family, consisting of a wife and three children, took up their quarters in Hopkins -street, Golden-square, in apartments ad joining the Chapel in which Wedderburn, the Black Pt eacher, used to a fEciate. In the course of the last week, they had been frequently alarmed by the hi deous yells of some animal, and the shouts of an as semblage of persons. On. inquiring into the cause of this annoyance, be ascertained that an amusement called a bear-bait was held in the Chapel; twice a-week, which being separated from his apartment by a very thin partition, he and his family were in a constant state of alarm, fearing that the bear might, in an unlucky moment, take it into his head to pay them a visit. It appeared that his apprehensions were not altogether groundless; for on Sunday night last, when his family were retiring to rest, his wife had occasion to go to the cupboard, where, 'to her great alarm and astonishment, she beheld ruin on all fours through the partition regaling himself with the contents of her beaufet ! She and her children were so terrified, that they all ran into the street, and did not return till their uncourteous visitor was escorted to his own apartment. The poor soldier wished to be informed how he should proceed, in order to prevent a repetition of the visit. The Magis trate ordered the apprehension of Bruin and his mas ter, as well as all persons who were found attending the sport of bear-baiting. William Jones and Thomas Woodgate were brought up to the above Office, charged by the Hon. Berkeley Noel, of Seymour-place, Mary-la-Bonne, with having attempted to break open his dwelling-house. John Harris, a groom in the service of Mr. Noel, deposed, that on Sunday evening last, about five o'clock, being in the servants'-hall, he overheard the prisoners discussing how they should enter the house and rob it; soon after, he heard a noise, as if •serie one was forcing open an iron grating which communicates with the coal cellar, but being alarmed they ran off. At about tend:o'clock, however, witness having occa sion to go into the coal-cellar- found the prisoners again at work, and so fir ha d they that . the body of Jones W 43 alicady through the hole which they wade. Witness immediately tim e aa alarm, and rah into the Pitt's Head-yard, which ad. joins his master's house, where he found Woodgas e dragging Jones from the hole, who, he said, w•a s i ts toxicated. Harris seized them both, and cha rge d them with' the offence, on which they made a desp t . rate resistance; but he held them fast till the watch. man arrived, who took them into custody. A er a* bar which they made use of in forcing the gr at i ng, was found near the spot. Woodgate is one of t h e Rescue-gang, and was charged some time ago with being concerned in the attack upon Marsden, sh e jailor.—They were both committed for trial. A shark of the blue species was taken last w ee k by one of the Itchen fishinrboats, in the Southa wp . ton river. It is eight feet in length. A tohite sparrow was caught, a few days ago, at the Hermitage, near Lansdown, Bath. This tare o w, was accompanied by another, with feathers of (-nea r the same colour, which escaped. A young cuckoo was discovered a few days si nce in the roof of Peamore-house, near Exeter, where it had been hatched by a water-wagtail, and is n on daily fed by its foster•mother. It is a well-kook% fact, that the cuckoo never hatches its own younst, but deposits a solitary egg for incubation in the ne s t of another bird. A Gentleman who has been in Ireland for a num. ber of years past, returned to Scotland about thre e months ago, and is now residing at Gateside, ip t h e vicinity of Glasgow. Two ay:el.:s atter his arrival, & favourite dog, which he had left at Belfast with hi t son, made his appearance, so/us, at Gateside. This appeared the more surprising, as the animal had never before been in Scotland. In a few days, huts ever, information was received that the dog h A d h em put on board the R^pid steam-boat, under the chair of some person ; but it is supposed, that after coning on shore at the 13roornielaw, he had got the sce.it his master's foot, who had been dime the day befell!, and had succeeded in tracing him to his residence, a distance of eight miles,. A CARLISLE BILL.—The followin g ¢ sapient miser. tisement appeared in the Carlisle Patriot of last we e k ; Wanted, at Whitsuntide, a man and his wife, with. out incumbrance : the man as a ploughman, and the woman as a dairy -MAID! Apply," &c. NIEWG ATE AND LEA DENH A lA. M ARK ETS, Jcre u. (By the Carcase.) Beef is 4d to is 8J I Veal ls of to 41 ad Mutton..• ...... 2s 84 to as Ss! Pork 25 13%1 to 4s a Lamb 51. 4d. to ss. Od. PRICES or HAY ♦ND STRAW YESTERDAY. IT. James ' s. W4IITECHAPiL Hay 31 4s Od to 41 101 Od Hay... 31 185 to 41 Bs Of Straw 11 4s Od to 11 131 Od Straw 11 8s to 11 Ms 04 Clover 41 Os Od to 41 161 041 Clover 41 4s to 51 St el PRICE OF HOPS SEW •ACM. Kent Sussex 2l 5s to 31 4,1 Essex Foreign NNW POCKIM Kent „ 21 10s to 41 41 Sussex 2l Os to 21 les Essex. FailsMtn 41 10s to 61 101 PRICE or TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 110. Town Tallow sos Od Ditto rough Yellow Russia ... ..... 50. Od Yellow Soap ... ..... White ditto Soap ditto Melting Stuff 38s Od Palm ............ ...-...... Gs PRICE OF CANDLES—From raow Chandlers Hall. Candles, per doz. lOs Od—Moulds, lls 6d; 6d. per dozen. allowed for ready money. PRICE OF LEATHER. - -- -- -- ---- I3uttd, SO to S6lbs each lad to sod per 11. Ditto, S 6 to 661bs each ..c........ —d to —d Dressing liitle. l5l to lid Fine Coach llides 174 to 181 Crop Hides, 33 to 40Ibs for cutting 15/ to 161 • Ditto 45 to 501bs lid to 194 'calf Skins, 3.0 to 4olbs sod to 264 Ditto 3ti to 701bs sod to 3:41 Ditto 70 to 801bs 05d to 971 Small Seals (Greenland) 17d to 19d Large ditto Tanned !Torte Hides Spanish Horse Hides... ........... ..... to 2241 _ _ _ RAW lIIDES. Best Heifers and Steen (per Ordinary «. 2s Od to 2s 44 stone) 2:lod to 5s Od Market Calf 84 Od to Os Ot Middlings 2s 6d to 2s 8d Erg. horse Os Od tO Os Oi Sheepskins—Lambs, 2s Od to 41 Od—Polled. Os Od to Os Oil Ships at Market. 92 Newcastle 29 Sunderland 4 Cuim Price• 33s Od to 41s a 34s Od to 43, Oi —s Od to 54$ 01 COAL MARKET, Jums 11. Ships Sold. 78} 26* BIRTHS. May 29, at Boulogne, the Lady of the late Captain Coll ,'Alai• dougall, 42d Foot, of a daughter. June 8, at Brompton-crescent, the Lady of Lientenant-Colo. nel Hook, IGth Regiment, of a son. MARRIED. On Thursday, the 7th of June instant, by the Rev. Aka Manley, A.M. Henry Dalston Lowndes, Esq. of Red Lis* square, to Sarah, second daughter of William Lowe, Esq. W Montagne-street, Russell-square. June 5, Thomas M. Fogo, M.D. late Surgeon of the Roll Artillery, to Ann, eldest daughter of James Scott, Esq. an* chant in Leith. June 5, at Berwick-on-Tweed, John Pratt, Esq. of Addtr• stone Mains, to Emily, daughter of the late Lieutenant-C*lOW J. R. Forster. DIED. May 19, at Linlithgow, Mr. Peter Clark, one of the BO trate. of that burgh. June SI, at Commertrees, near Annan, Mr. W. Owen,stsdril of divinity, aged 23, eldest son of Mr. Owen, Schoolmaster that parish. Tuesday, at the Hermitage, North End, Fulham, in ti 6 t 7 C ll year of her age, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, wife of Major Brava May 2, at Dumfine, parish of Lusts, Patrick 51.Au1liar • the 105th year of his age. The greatest part of his life waispeci in the service of the Argyle family, from whom be 00/ 4 considerable pension for the last eight years. • Friday, at her father's residence, Parsemage.row, NMl* * , Butts, in her 18th year, Cecilia,4he eldest daughter of the Robert Dickinson, Vicar of Ilfordcombe, North Del" stl Lecturer of St. Mary's, Newington Butts. June 5, at Potter's-bar, in the 72d year of his age, Danid penter, Esq. one of his. Majesty's Justices of the i's-ace and DP puty Lieutenant for the Counties of Middlesex and Hera April 24, at the Ilavannah, after an illness of three dap, Micah Hine, son of John Hine, Esq. of Dartmouth. MAILS THIS DAY.—AAA. DIM Dublin 2 0 Waterford 2 0 Guernsey and Jersey 0 0 Holland 0 1 Flanders 0 1 Malta 0 0 - . alt•° ° ' Ligban . 0 ° France 1 0 0 I Hamburgh 0 I Gottenburgh Leeward Islands 0 0 New York Lf HIGH-WATER at LONDON BRIDG R T O-Ault leo". • Morning - 0 minute; Ad It Afternoon - - 22 LONDON-; Printed and published by Litva. Kot,Pasn. 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