Star. — London, England, 1821-10-22 00:00:00

oissiara • IMPROMPTU, V 11•I1TOL, OTIS • 1 DOLTS& AND CILLAILS. ~~l There's a Spirit above, and a Spirit below ; A Spirit of bliss, and a Spirit of semi The Spirit below is the Writ o f Noe, Hot the Spirit above is a Spfrit Divine! Friday, the Bishop of LONDON held a Confirma tion at the General Penitentiary, Millbank, when, after a very eloquent and forcible address from the Bishop, two hundred prisoners, male and female, in that truly philanthropic Institution, were admitted to that solemn rite. -Sermons are now preaching every Sunday after soon, to the Fishermen, on the beach, at Brighton. The survey now making of the extensive Diocese of Chester by the exemplary BISHOP, in person, is of the most minute description: every Church and Chapel of Ease is visited—the state of the building, charities, &c. are particularly noticed; so that, in .addition to its being of present importance, as con nected with that venerable establishment, it will hereafter become of incalculable value as 'a general Parish Record. It is his Lordship's intention to pro ceed with the Lancashire Parishes. INTIMATE ACQUAINTANCE.—A British vessel, with the Bishop of QUEBEC on board, touched formerly at an island in possession of the French, and princi pally inhabited by savages. The Bishop being missed for several hours, a party of sailors went up the island in search of him. In their progress they met with a • savage, and inquired of him whether, from their de .scription, he knew anything of the Bishop of QuEsee? Si je le connois? jen as mange." Know him? said he—l've cat him ! A neat marble Tablet, with an appropriate In scription, has been erected in Trinity Church, Cam bridge, to the memory of the late ltev. HENRY MAP TYN, Fellow of St. John's College, and Chaplain; in the East Indies, to the East India Company. This lamented Clergyman translated the New Testament into the Hindoostanee and Persian languages. The Equestrian Statue of his late MAJESTY, King GEORGE 111. may shortly be eipected to be added to the ornaments of Liverpol. The spot on which it is intended to be erected, in London-road, is now being inclosed, to enable the workmen to proceed without interruption. Monday last the mother of the family of the Bar tons, and her daughter, both of whom had been some time in Oxford City Jail on a charge of assaulting the Police officers, were discharged by Proclamation. On their entering into the house of Mrs. ltymill, the • mother of Mrs. Barton, the poor old woman, ninety years of age, was so much affected and alarmed by their sudden appearance, that she fell back iu her chair and instantly expired. Sunday se'nnight, at Bethnal-Green Church, du ring Divine Service, Mr. J. Mri.ume, who had been constant attendant for the last 30 years, suddenly fell off his seat. He was taken out of the Church, but the vital spark was extinct. The Rev. Mr. Co AM P• NETS made some impressive remarks on the awful event in the course of his Sermon.—Coroner's ver dict—Died by the Visitation of GOD. Saturday an Inquest was held at the Bricklayer's Arms, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, on the body of Mr. M. Turner, Groom of the Chambers to Mr. COUTTi, the banker. J. Ileveus deposed that he was porter to Mr. Coutts. On Tuesday night he let the deceaied in, and asked if he would have a light, which he declined, He followed him to the top of the kitchen stairs, and saw that he had fallen, and lay senseless at the bottom. He was intoxicated ;he procured assistance, and laid him'on a bed. On the following morning he appeared to be in a dying state; a surgeon was sent for, and he expired soon after. Verdict—Accidental Death. A distressing circumstance occurred at the house of Captain BULEECK, in Middle-street, Brighton, on Thursday afternoon, the 18th inst. The servant girl went up to an attic, taking with her a child of Captain B: s, a fine boy between three and four years of age;• and while she was engaged in pitting on her gown, the little fellow unperceived pushed up the sash, and leaning out of the window, lost his equilibriuln, and fell headlong into the street. The skull of the unfortunate child was so dreadfully frac tured by the fall, that he survived only a few mi nutes. The parents of the infant have been ever since almost in a state of distraction. Friday afternoon, an attempt was made by six felons, confined in the Old Bridewell, at Devizes, to, effect their escape. Slanmore, a notorious horse stealer, and who, with his gang, has this summer Stolen not less than 103 horses, was the ringleader of the party. With an old knife, which was concealed about his person when committed, he removed both his fetters. The plot determined on was, however, discovered about two o'clock, by one of the debtors. In about a quarter of an hour longer it is likely they Would all have escaped. In the neighbourhood of Hamilton an experiment , was - made this year to try the difference between the spade and the plough. A field was taken, which was in beans last year, and oats the year before ; two ridges were dug and two ploughed alternately, and the whole was sown on the same day ; a part both on the ploughed and dug being drilled with the garden hoe ; the whole was reaped the same day, and being thrashed out, the result was , t ha t the du g sown broad oast - was to the ploughed sown broadcast as 55 to 42. The dug and drilled was as 2O to upon the ploughed and drilled. The additional grain is not the only beaeficial result gained by digging,_ as in this instance there was also a great deal more straw. The land is free of weeds, and will be easier fallowed pert year. . ENORMOUS CARROT.—Last week Mr. G. Boors, gardener, Mansfield, drew from his garden i carrot of the following extraordinary weight and .dimes , sions six pounds, and within four inches' of the top (that not being the extremity of the girth), it measured sixteen inches ! It censistvof six separate branches, the centre one in particular being consider ably larget than any carrot almost ever seen. • Mr. Mir-wow, of Weymouth, has in his garden a pumpkin which weighs 47 pounds, and wait= zouud foci feet four miles. POLICE. GUILDHALL.—Thomas Johnson, the son of a man who professes to get his living by letting out carts and horses, in King's Arms-yard, Whitecross-street, was brought up on Saturday for final examination, before Alderman &HOLEY. The charge against him was the being a party in a robbery of the most daring nature. The prisoner and two other men drove up in a small cart about six o'clock one evening last week to the door of Mr. Green's carpet and blanket warehouse, in Bread-street, Cheapside, and after waiting at ashort distance for a few minutes, watched their opportunity and conveyed into the cart a large bale of blankets, value £24 10s. and drove off. They were, however, fortunately for Mr. Green, observed by the shopman at a neighbouring warehouse, who thought the circumstance suspicious, and on his giving the alarm, the cart was followed and stopt in St. Paul's Church-yard, with the bale in it, and the prisoner driving. Two men walking near the cart were seen to make off immediately on its being stop ped. The prisoner, in his defence, stated, that he had been regularly employed by the two men who were with him, but whom he did not know, to re move the goods to avoid an attachment. 'This state ment was also corroborated by Johnson, the father, who said the parties applied to him, and he took them to his son in Smithfield, and gave him direc tions to go with the Gentlemen and do the job: Ile did not know the names or address of either of them. The prisoner has been in custody a week, in which time inquiry has been made respecting him, and the result being by no means favourable to his character, he was committed.to take his trial for the robbery. MISTAKEN HoNia NI rIf.—JOSC/M a nd Thomas Gray, father and son, the latter a child only 13 years of age, whose examination at this Office, on a charge of frau• dulently obtaining two pair of boots from Mr.lledges, bootmaker, 92, Dorset-street, Salisbury-square, on Wednesday last, was reported in our Paper of the following day, were brought up again on Saturday, before Mr. Alder man SCHOLEY. The tears and ex cessive emotions of the child, the ap r arently deep and unaffected contrition expressed by the father, his anxious supplication that the weight of punishment might fall only on himself, and the melancholy story he told of the distressing state of his family, to relieve which he had been tempted to this his first and only crime, excited at the previous examination the strong est feelings of commiseration in the minds of the Ma gistrate, the prosecutor, and every individual pi esent and in the participation of this feeling, added to the possibility that the man might be restored to his fa mily, and yet become a worthy member of society, we were induced to suppress the names and residence of the prisoners in our report of the case. It now ap pears, that, with the exception of the distress of hi; family, the whole exhibition was a well-acted trick to excite compassion, and ecape punishment. The residence given by Gray, the father, No. 5, Cebutg , row, Westminster, proves to be correct ; he has, how ever, lived there scarcely three months; he is not a milkman, and the clumsy explanation given for that pats of his story was, that they were wishing to get a ; by his own account he has not worked at his trade of a bookbinder for more than a twelve month, his last employ in that trade being with Mr. Fearman, Catliviii.e-street, Strand ; and from the evidence addticed on Saturday it is evident that the support of himself and family for the whole of that period has been procured by the commission of simi lar frauds to that for which he has at length been ap prehended. His plea of " a first and only offence," is an ingenious mental reset vation ; this, from all accounts, being the first and only experiment in this line with the boy. When the prisoners were placed at the Bar on Sit• tuiday, an anonymous communication to the Magis trate was read, which stated that numerous book sellers and stationers had been defrauded of at titles to a considerable amount, in exactly a similar m:ut ner to that practised upon Mr. fledges. Sever al persons were in attendance to give evidence against the elder prisoner, but two cases only were gone into. The first charge was made by Mrs. Wiggins, a straw-bonnet maker, in Tottealiam-court-road, who stated, that six months ago Gray came to her shop with a pre , tended message from a Lady, who wanted to see her and give her an order for some straw bonnets. Mrs. Wiggins was about to send her s hop-wmi,an, but the prisoner said it was the Lady's particular desi.e to' give the order to herself. Mrs. Wiggins accordingly accompanied the prisoner, who soon contrived to give, her the slip. She found no such Lady ; and on her return home she was astonished at hearing that the prisoner had been there as if with a message from her, and had obtained two of the best Leghorn bon , nets. Mr. Keys, the bookseller, Coleman-street, de posed; that some time since the prisoner came to his shop, and told him there was a Gentleman in Fins bury-square, who was going into the country, and wanted to give• Mr. Keys an order for some Books to take with him. Mr. Keys accordingly went with the • prisoner, who, on their coming to Finsbury-square, pointed out the house, and said he must himseif go to a trunk-maker's near at hand, to order a portman• teau for his master. Mr. Keys found there was no such person living at the house, and ran home as fast as he could, but was just too late. The prisoner -had returned to the shop, saying to Mrs. Keys that' he had been sent by her husband to fetch the best folio Bible, and the guilty) edition (..f Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, which was in the window, which Mrs. Keys did 'not hesitate to let him have. Several others, were anxious to relate examples of the prisoner's ad dress in his profession. The Magistrate thought it unnecessary to multiply charges against him; and as Mr. Hedges's scruples abcut prosecuting were re moved by the• accounts given of the prisoner's long practised frauds, he was bound over to prosecute, as was also Mr. Keys ; and the prisoner was fully committed. Bow-mum—Saturday, James Eddows, a notori ous housebreaker, underwent an examination before the sitting Magistrate, 6. R. MI NSH tiLL, Esq. charged with burglariously breaking and .entering the dwel ling-house of Lucas Bull, a master basket-maker, residing at N 0.6, Paradise-row, St. Pancras. He was committed for trial. • QUEEN-scuiAae.—Saturday, a desperate fellow, named Aaron Pond, a well:known character, residing at No. 19, Crown-street, Westminster, was committed from this Office on two separate charges of assault. The-first charge was preferred by a AUNume, a re spectable tbetnAveperin Chaxles-street.Wesvign-.. ster, who stated that the prisoner came into his house 1, on Wednesday, with a large dog, and set it upon his' cat, which it. killed almost instantaneously. He at tempted to save the animal, it being a favourite, but : was abused by the prisoner, whom he ordered to leave the house, which he refused to do, and struck him a violent blow. He attempted to turn the fellow out, and was knocked down by him, and he set his dog upon him while he lty on thetround, and but for a constable who came in at the moment, and struck the dog on the head with his staff, the furious animal would have torn his face. The constable attempted to secure the prisoner, but was knocked down, and the prisoner and dog escaped. Mr. Nurce applied for a warrant against Pond, which being granted, Hand ley, Gillmore, and Dew, police officers, were dis-, patched to the prisoner's house to execute it. On en tering the premises the prisoner set three dogs at them. Handley seized the prisoner, and was as saulted with great violence. One of the dogs also seized him by the leg, and he was compelled to let the prisoner out of his grasp. Dew also seized the prisoner, but he was bitten by the dog and beat by the prisoner. Gillmore made an attempt to secure the prisoner, but had cause to repent his temerity:— he was bitten and assaulted. So determined was the prisoner's resistance, that his clothes, even to his shirt, were torn from his back. While the prisoner was re sisting Dew, Handley shot one of . the dogs, and the rest slunk off. The prisoner was eventually secured: he had suffered in the conflict considerably. Commit ted for trial on both charges. iiATTON.-GA lIDEN.—Marg, otherwise Tom Jones, was charged under the Vagrant Act. The prisoner, who was pregnant, was sitting on the steps of a Gen tleman's door, in Gloucester-street, Queen-square, in a fainting fit, sunounded by a great crowd, when two officers of the Mendicity Society took her to their rooms, where it appeared she had been relieved three times, and each time passed to Birmingham, her parish. In her defence, she gave the following extra ordinary account of her own life:—She was a soldier's daughter ; her father was killed ; she was dressed in boys clothes, and at the age of twelve years she en listed in the 47th Regiment of Foot, in which she selves! seven years as a drummer, when her sex was discovered, and she was discharged. At nineteen, she man ied a soldier in the 7th Dragoons; her hus band was killed at the battle of Waterloo, where, as a volunteer, in men's clothes, she fought by his side, and received a sabre wound across her nose, a bayonet wound in her left leg, and a wound from a musket ball in her right. After the action, she found her Captain, dreadfully wounded in the head. She had him removed, and he recovered ; he now lives in Sloane-street, and allows her a shilling a day : she also had nine pence a day from the King, which has since been taken from her on account of drunkenness; -after which she was married to her present husband, a soldier in the Guards, with whom she lives. Being taken with a tainting-tit, she sat on the steps of a door to rest, some humane persons threw halfpence into her lap, and she was •tal:en into custody for beg ging. The officers could not prove that they saw her begging, and she was discharged. The Sessions for the Borough of Southwark corn menced at the Town-Hall on Friday. . ISWliiret Ladd, a decent looking rning man, was indicted for a violent assault upon Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Humphries, a smith, in Barron's-place, Illackfriar's-road. The prisoner, it appeared, had lodged with Mr. Humphries, and was in arrear for rent to the amount of 1.3 17s. 3d. They gave him notice to quit, and finding at length that Ile would not go, and that there was no chance of getting paid, they locked the door against him, and refused him admission. The prisoner gave theth no annoyance at that time, but. about six weeks afterwards he came and demanded a tub, which Mrs. Humphries said she had sold : he, however, got sight of it in the coal-hole, and insisted on having it, and in his endeavours to obtain . it struck her several violent blows, particu larly on the abdomen. She was pi egnant at the time, and the violence committed on her brought on pre mature labour. In consequence of the blows the mother had received, she was considerably bruised, and it was stated .in evidence that the child, when born, exhibited similar appearances of violence to that on the mother. The prisoner, in his defence, denied having struck her, and said the bruises on her arms, &c. were oc casioned by herself in her _struggles to prevent his getting the tub. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to mercy. Sentenced to twelve months imprisonment. Stephen Tyler was indicted for an assault on the wile of Mr. Newton, a respectable builder, of Welling ton-street. The prisoner was going along the Borough road, on the evening of the 13th of March, drunk, amusing himself with beating the lid against the side of a four-gallon saucepan, which he had just bought. The prosecutrix unfortunately happened to come out of a passage at the moment the prisoner was passing, and he, without any provocation, struck her a violent blow on the temple, which felled her to the ground in a state of insensibility. The prisoner attempted to make his escafe, but was stopped and secured by the watchman. Mrs. Newton was in the eighth month of her-pregnancy at the time of this outrage. She was put to bed with every symptom of premature la bour the same evening, and suffering great agony for four days, was at - length delivered, when, as in the former instance, the child was found to exhibit marks of violence similar to those that appeared on the mother. That side of the temple corresponding' to the part on which Mrs. Newton had received the blow, shewed marks of, violence, and the eye was turned in its socket. The prisoner's Counsel had nothing to offer in his defence, but in mitigation of punishment, pleaded the state of intoxication he was in at the time, to which alone this wanton act was to be attributed. He had been annoyed in his way home by some girls of the town, at.d, drunk as he was,. his rage had been in discriminate. He.waa a married man, and had a wife and three children entirely dependent on him for support. He had already offered the only recom pence in his power, that of his services in the way of his trade as a . painter, to any reasonable amount, which had been -refused. The Jury, without hesitation, convicted the pri soner and the Court, taking into consideration his Tenitence,_ and the' belplerd situation of his family, sentenced hw to only six months inwrisoltment. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Saturday the Court net pursuant to n.ijeu rnrn ,„, and proeeded to dispose of the cases remaining Nal last Term in the special paper. LORD EGRENIONT V. KING. This was a que s tion in-a:testin g to agricultrrii:t.._. The defendant had been tenant of a tarm, and a n... lion had been brought against him for a b reac h e i one of the cove:lants of his lease, by which h e " ae bound to spread annually on the arable heals of the farm five kilns of lime, each kiln containing 040 bushels, Winchester measure. It was alleged by th e plaintiff that the defendant, during the last yea of his occupation, had failed to fulfil this covenantnf the lease. An action had been brought, an d a or; diet obtained by the plaintiff, against him fo r Ai breach of covenant. Mr.. MANNING now applied to have that verdi ct so aside upon a case reserved. The facts were op t The defendant had held a lease of the farm tion for eleven years. His term commented at mi e chaelmas, but by the custom of the country t h e i a. coming tenant was admitted to take posse:sinn o f such pairs of the farm as were intended for sch eat i l the 12th of May preceding the Michaelmas, ino r d a that he might have time to lime and prepar e su c k land to receive a sowing of wheat. The defenda nt had, accordingly, been admitted to such part; of the farm in question, which he prepared for wheat, l e , ing on and spreading the necessary lime and mut t On the expiration of his lease, :e defendant e n . tended, that having, previous to the commenceiree of his lease, manured as coming-in tenant, he 114414 equitable tight to deduct such portion of IVAlltata outcroing tenant.. the Court, however, held that the words of th lease were imperative, and that he was bound by lease to lay the specific quantity of lime nu the land, They therefore directed that the verdict (or the plain. tiff should be affirmed. Several other causes were called on, but the Cora sel or Atrornies were Lot ready. The CHIEF JUSTICE observed, that the CoUngt on Thursday, e hen none cf the suitors were read! ; he now felt it his duty to himself and the hike say, that unless Counsel were ready on Monday% proceed with their cases when called on, he shock order them to be struck out of the paper. Friday night, at the commencement of the cods gration in Illackfriars-road, a numerous gang if thieves assembled, who plundered almost every* spectable person present. In some instances day knocked at doors, and when opened, forced their way in, to the number of 20 or 30, and plcndatitle houses of plate, or any portable article they cotddlay their hands on, while they kept up the mond** ing cries, anti set the attempts of the Policed at defiance. Saturday morning they again n. sembled, and evinced a similar disposition, bat see 'defeated by a strong posse of Police-otlicers. They, however, created great confusion, and succeededs demolishing a wall, to the great terror of the passe. sengers, notwithstanding the efforts of thelremeta pt event theni t , A few days since R. Robson was apprehended in bp ham, for selling arid exposing to sale ansbmped or Belfast .Almanacks, a number of which wre found in ' bishat. On being brought before the Magntrate,he alleged, is his defence, that he had found the Alma flack s, and expressed a hope that his punisLatentwooll be mitigated, as 'he had already been in the Kitty,t Newcastle, for the same offence. He was &Aye* , victed, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. At the Taunton Michaelmas Sessions, which can menced on Monday last, there were 73 prism committed for trial ; among them were sera it bastardy, andfive for assaulting and desertingthi wives !—On calling over the names of the (id Jury, several applied to be discharged from atei ance on various grounds. On WILLIAM HOl.O Watchett, Gentleman, being called, an elderlyni offered a paper to the Court, which be said wasf the Doctor, who therein attested Mr. Hoids pacify to attend. The CHAIRMAN observed thati statements were not admissible. He was then " Do you know that Mr. Hole is ill ?"—" Yes.'- " When did you see him ?"—" Sunday last." "SI did he then appear to be?—" Pretty middling.' IlotE was consequently. .fined £2O, which the DX proclaimed in due form. The County of Derby is about to have a newhi calculated to accommodate 100 prisOnets, upon it most approved state of prison discipline, and alit' new House of Correction, with conveniencies Pali persons. The site fixed upon for the buildings* ' tains about six acres. BIRTH. • On the 13th instant, at Coventry, the Lady of G. a Isilh Esq. Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, of a daughter. MARRIED. Oct. 6, the ltev. Samuel Rickards, A.B. Curate of Ginsall in Kent. and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, to WI, 616 daughter of Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart. of Chaddesden,'Beit Thursday, at Shcrhorne, liants, Mr. Stephen Sandersos,a of Pembroke College, Oxford, and Sydenbam, Kent, toe* lotte Maria, only daughter of the late Rev. Henry Arnold,TO of I ongstock, Ilants. Oct. 11, at Guernsey, Thomas Carey, Esq. of Rotel, bill island, to Barbara, eldest daughter of the bate Colonel Jabot M. P. for the county of Mayo, Ireland. Oct. 18, George J. Waters, Esq. of the lion. East bilge* pany's Civil Service, Madras Establishment, to Catherioe*s daughter of James Moss, Esq. of York-street, Glouceste9lll DIED. Sept. at Frankfort, Lady Charlotte Hill, Mest a ° of the Marchioness of Downshire. • Tuesday, James, the infant son of the Rev. J. Colchester. May 8, at Bombay, Lieutenant Crawford, late of Plitt Oct. 14, at the Artillery Barracks, Brampton, ryell, half-pay of the 52d Regiment, after along illaelspum" — by his services in a foreign climate. Sunday se'nnight, Mrs. Woods, wife - Of Mr. W00d5 91614 of East Denham. _____-- s° rats TLS DAY....-A RR. MIT .0 . I Dublin 2 0 Lisbon Waterford 2 0 France 1 i 0 Gsernsey and Jeney 1 0 Hantburgh 0 1 Holland 0 1 Gottenburg h i Flanders 0 1 Leeward Islands 0 0 Malta 0 0 New York __________ --- HIGH-WATER at LONDON BRIDGE TO-110_0; Mcntipg . • 9 Omuta OP ; Afternoon - 1 :'""7" - - 1 LONDON : rated and published by Lon lisni re Liao, Tompirp.