Star. — London, England, 1823-09-26 00:00:00

HAPPINESS. Qal fit, Motsenas, ut nemo, quints sibi wheat. Hon. fri&a. Sat. I. 0 Thou, our ant and chiefest care, The object of each wish and pray'r, The end we all pursue, How shall I trace thy secret road? Where find thy ever-blest abode. Reveard, alas! to few? • Can wealth, or power, thy favour claim ? Can virtue, or exalted fame, Attain thy smile or love ? Shall I pursue thee to • tbe cell, Where venerable hermits dwell, In cool sequester'd grove ? Art thou (0 tell me !) a Ue found Amidst gay Pleasure's giddy round. That mirth and joy ehtviine? Or don thou plate thy blissful seat In solitude's belov'd retreat, Thou plant of seed divine/ Shall giddy youth, of silver age, Thy envy'd Proteus form engage. Or subtile 'deuce please ? Or dost thou shun the learned stores Enraptur'd knowledge still explores, For indolence and ease? Or dost thou rather fill thy throne In the contented mind alone Which truth and honour guide ? I see thee, in thy beauties drew, ' In virtue's lovely form coolest, Associate by thy aide! Then let me rest, and here reveal Tb' unerring dictate which I feel, And each alike may Ind; That Happiness to all is known, Who seek with bumble heart the boon, To no one spot confin'd ! Jail—Morpeth. MEDICUS. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. Yesterday, John Hanuchel, a lad of the age of 16, a native of Prussia, was indicted for stealing a watch, value f'd. 10s. from the shop of Mr. Harris, a watch maker, living at Shadwell, and Jacob Levi was indicted for receiving the watch, knowing it to be stolen. The facts, as proved against the prisoners by evi dence, were these :—Hanischel went into the prosecu tor's shop under the pretence of buying some beads, and Levi was observed peeping into the shop window while the other prisoner was inside. Ilanischel did not at this time succeed in the theft, but on again entering the shop, he asked for the beads, and at the same time pulled out his handkerchief, and placed it upon the counter, cover ing a silver watch svhicb was upon it. He then toek up the handkerchief and 'etch together, and put them into his packet. tie soon after Lett the shop undiscovered. The theft being subsequently found out, the prisoner MU` rifchel was apprehended, and Levi was soon after taken into custody. At first Levi denied all knowledge of the business, but afterwards admitted that he had buught the watch for 18:. The Jury retired, and found both the prisoners--. Gui'sy. The younger prisoner was recoillmended to surrey by the Jury. - - - _ _ The Beconnen, in sentencing Levi (a Jew with a very fetocious countenance) to transportation for four teen years, told him that he was a very hardened cha racter, and was very unfit to renpain longer in this country. He had probably been the means of insti4 gating the lad to the commission of the offence for which he had been found guilty.—The Count intimated that the recommendation of the Jury *unit certainly have its effect with respect to the younger prisoner. • Thomas Wilson, a very respectable-looking man, and whose appearance and manner were far above those of a common thief, was indicted for stealing a coat and other articles of apparel, the property of L. Neal. The prosecutor was a working man at an empty house near Bayswater, and kept his clothes in one of the rooms of the house. The prisoner was observed to enter the house, go up stairs, and presently return - with a bundle under his arm. The room in which the clothes were deposited was locked. The prisoner, when he elute down stairs, perceiving that he was observed by one of the labourers, immediately asked the man where his master was The labourer answered, that, his master would be there presently. The prisoner then' told him to tell his master when he came, to go to a public-house over the way, as he (the prisoner) warted to speak with Mast The peiscuser then left the house, but instead of going towards the public-house, turned to the right into some fields. The labourer, sus pecting he was a thief, followed him, and took him.— Upon opening the bundle, it was found to contain the prosecutor's clothes. The prisoner was afterwards searched by a constable, and twelve shillings were found in his pocket. Upon =akin a further search, a skew, leton key wss found concealed in the sleeve of his coat. The coat he then Lad on was a very good green co loured coat, but the coat he now wore was black. Ott being first apprehended; the prisoner begged hard for mercy, and promised to commit no more thefts. The prisoner strictly cross-examined the witness with much acuteness, and slrewiag evidently that he was a ioan of education. %Viten called upon for his defence, he declined saying anything. lle held in his hand, at the same time, a written paper of some length. The COURT then asked if he had any wttuesses ? The prisoner said his friends were known to be highly re spectable, but they lived at a great distance from this town. A high atrtlmrity in this Court, he said, was well acquainted with his family and friends, The RECORDER said, the question skas not vJiether these friends were respectable, but whether they were present to give him a' character ? The prisoner ad mitted that be certainly had no friends here to give him a character.—The . Jury found a verdict of Guilty. The RECORDER said, he had reason to know thatthis was not the first offence the prisoner bad committed.— The houses irt the neighbourhood of Bayswater had been _ pilfers thief had Lydia Bates deposed, that she was the daughter of the prosecutor, who resided in Butcher-row, East Smith field. Prisoner came there to lodge three weeks pre vious to the 28th of July, on which day he quitted the house, and did not return. The prisoner not coming back', witness examined his mom, and found all the things in his room, that had teen lent with the apart ments, were safe ; but on going into the chamber op. posite to that whisk the prisoner occupied, she signed two sheets. Tbeasumanza abseried, that this charge must fail, as the indictment imputed to the prisiner the robbing of his furnished lodgings of two sheets which were lent to Mm for his use ; and that was not the fact. _ The prisoner was, in consequence,. *quitted. Woods and Fearby were indicted for steal- 1 ing five sovreigns, one five pound note, and two ten pound notes, the property of Thomas Harrington. The following is the substance of the evidence of the prosecutor, who appeared to be a simple country fel low :—He was bailiff to Earl Cowper, and lived at his . Lordship's seat in Hertfordshire. On the 12th inst. he came to town on business, and the prisoner Woods came up to him near Smithfield, and entered into conversa tion with him. They went together to two or three pub-, lic-houses, and drank beer. At length they entered a public-house which - the prosecutor supposed to be in the New-road, because the Paddington stages were passing and repassing. Whilst the prosecutor and Woods were in this house, Fearby and another man, whose name the prosecutor did not recollect, entered, and, without seeming to know Woods; entered into conversation with him and the pPoocutor. Fearby mentioned, as if acci dentally, that his b. other had dislocated his ancle, and ol4.served, that it was an infortunate event. Woods said these was no such word as " infortunate" in the English language, and offered to back his opinion by a wager of a pot of beer : the prosecutor also offered to bet a pot of beer against the correctness of 'Fearby's notions of or thography. Fearby accepted both wagers, and Johnsoris Dictionary being produced, he shewed, sure enough, that it contained the word 44 infortunate. l .! Fearby then offered to bet one pound that the prosecutor could not produce ten pounds. The prosecutor said he had no money at that time (twelve o'clock at noon), k2t he ex pected. to receive at.) by post in the course of the day, and he agreed to bet one pound that he would produce ten before two o'clock. The prosecutor then left' the house in company with Woods, and proceeded to his lodgings, but finding that the letter which he expected had not arrived, the prosecutor went to a friend in Tot tenham-court-road, of whom 'he borrowed five sove reigns, two five pound notes, and one ten pound note. He hastened back with Woods to the public-house where 'he had left Fearby and the stranger, produced ten pounds, and received one potmd, the wager, from' Fearby. Fearby then betted one pound that the pro• secutor could not produce ten pound more ; the prosecu tor exhibited his £2O, and received another 11. of Fearby. The whole party, viz. the prosecutor, Woods, Fearby, and the stranger, now sallied forth to see Mr. Graham ascend in his balloon from White Conduit Gardens. After the sight was over, they adjourned to a tavern, where IVoods introduced cards, and he and Fearby played at 44 all fours." Woods had won four points, and Fearby only one, and the cards had been dealt for the decision of the game, when Fearby left the room for a few minutes, desiring that nobody should look at his cards in his absence. %Vhilst Fearby wils away, Woods looked at his own " hand," and said that he was sure to win the game. The stranger also made the same asser tion. Fearby, when Ve returned, declared that he would play against Woods' " hand" fur 601. lle immediately placed, as the prosecutor supposed, 601. in a hat, in which the prosecutor deposited his 201. and Woods and the stranger pretended to place the like sum each, as it was agreed they should go shares in the wager. The prosecutor was induced to play Woods' " hand," for he was told that'" a child must win it ;" but he neverthe less lost the game. Fearby immediately took the stakes out of the hat, and left the house, and shortly after. wards Woods and the stranger followed him, leaving the prosecutor to deplore the consequences - of his cre dulity.—Mr. ADOLPLUJS cross-examined the prosecutor: You know how to play at" all fours," I suppose? Witness—No, I don't. You know all about 0 high; low, Jack, and game r. Witness—l know very little about than. Why did you play, then? Witness—Because they told me, that let me lay down die cards as I pleased, I must win. Sly the Cooar—Did you think you had lost the wager T—Yes. The COURT then stated to the Jury, that the conduct of the prisoners, ,although extremely wicked, did not amount to a felony. They appeared to have had a fool to deal with in the person of the prosecutor: he had swallowed the bait greedily, and afterwards acquiesced in his loss. The prisoners might be made to answer for their conduct before another tribunal; if not, it was pro bable that some other guilty act would cause them to be again brought before that Court, and then the pre sent business would not be forgotten. Fearby said, " 1.11 take care you won't , see me again, my Lord." The Jury, after expressing their regret that the psi *nets must be permitted to escape unpunished, returned a verdict of Not Guiltip After some conversation with the Clerk of the Ar raigns, the Court directed the prisoners to he detained until next Sessions. An officer who apprehended the prisoners produced to the Court some articles which he found upon them, namely, a pocket edition of Johnson's Dictionary, some flash notes, and bright farthings, which they had made the poor countryman believe to be sovereigns. BAPTISMAL IMMERSION OF AN INFANTr-•••StIllday, the.llth instant, was baptised by his father, with trine immersion, in the font of Littleham church, after the second lesson at evening prayer, FONTELAUTOS, first-born son of the Rev. Prebendary DENNts, B.C. L. This is probably the first instance of the scriptural and primitive mode of administering church baptism since the Restoration. Friday night. at eight o'clock, a beautiful meteor was seen by two Gentlemen at Sauchithall. It appeared to be from eight to nine feet long, if light-blr colour, DIED. Lord Yarborough. His Lordship i eldest son, Charles Andanon. At Bangor, the Rev. Henry Ward, the Rev. H. Mahon, of Killogally, Ik Sept. 11, in Newcastle, Mr. Geri the elder brethren of the Trinity Ho+ Tuesday (9th April), in the Ursa,: States, Mrs. Mary Magdalen .7. Ryan community. This young Lady, a nat that city some years back with her tl founding in Boston a Convent of the Thursday sennight, Henry Etty, ag liam Buy, wine -merchant, at Milton, this fine boy was occasioned by his r vent, as she. was carrying a tea-pot fi kitchen to the sitting-room, and mud water upon him, which scalded him* second morning after the accident. POLIO INTELLIGENCE. Dow-sTßaar. Tat Bouts' At:V..4l4r RiewAan Brume was yesterday again engaged fir nearly thfelt honra let deciding spat informal:bans laid against different bakers under the New Bsikers' Act. The first defendant was Mr.Joknstone of the Strand, and the charge against hist, u well as Skeet *the , foliOrtid, wee for selling a loaf under the denomination of a ball-quarters loaf. This person, it ap pears, was one of tb hinters of the Act, and of course one of its most strenuous suppotteft The witness, Byers, suited, that he tsmkt into Johnstone's sbop on Monday the kth, and steed a woman who was in the shop if she sold bread? sho inlhe allbinative. He then said he wanted a loaf. Sbe asked if he wanted a quartern or a half-quar tern ? He answered, aitaff-quartern, and sheput down two loaves for him to take his choice, }kook one, and weighed it the same, night ;it weighed llb. leos. The weight of a half-quartern was Obi. ?oz. so that the loaf is questforfwas neither a half-qnartern nor a two-pound loaf. Mr. Johnstone, in his defence, said, that ever since the New Act had passed, he had given strict cordon that no loaf should be sold in his shop of the denomisatien of s peck, half-peck, quartern, or half quartern, and he had his young woman in attendance, who would swear she had never sold a loaf under any of these denominations. Sir RICHARD BIRNIX asked, whether she could swear that she did not sell the loaf in question ? The int:it woman said she did not recollect the witness ; but was satisfied she never had sold a loaf under the denomination of a half quarters. Sir iticaAaa Bzaxis said, that evidence of general practice was not an answer to the particular fact charged. Mr. Johnstone was then fined forty shillings and costs, with a recommendation that lie should , get his Act repealed as soon as pos. ible.—Mr. Johnstone said he should appeal. Mr. Howse, of Pickett -street, &rand; Mr. King, of Bedford court, Bedford-street ; Mr. Webb, of High Holborn ; and Mr. Mopes, of St. Martin's-lane, weir also fined in similar penalties for the like offence. Sir ittemAan Brame remarked, that they had made the rod for their own pimishment, and they ought to submit to its provisions with becoming philosophy. Lawmakers ought not to be law-breakers. Faun.--Jobt Brown and Clara, his Wife, together with a young man, who stated his name to be Tkonsas Baker, were brought up, the latter charged with obtaining, under false pretences, and the former with receiving, a complete piece of superfine double-milled drab cloth. jt appeared that the prisoner Baker went to the shop of Mr. Custard, a woollen-draper, in Bedfrrel•street, on Monday, the 15th instant, and stated that he was sent from Mr. DaUman, the tailor, who was a customer of Mr. Custard's, And asked for some patterns of drab cloth, which, he added, a Gentleman was wait ing to see. The shopman instantly cut of some patterns, and he went away. In an hour afterwards he retiii-ned with one of the patterns, and said that Mr. Dallinati-bad.-desircd him to get the piece from which that had been cut, and that when lie had taken what he wanted, he would return what remained. This being a very common practice, and the shopman having no suspicion of fraud, at once parted with the cloth, and the prisoner decamped. In a week afterwards he called upon Mr. Dalhuan, to know if he had done with the cloth, when that Gentleman denied ever having gent so Mr. Gustard; nor did he know anything of the prisoners.— Subsequent inquiries led to the detection of Brown and his wife, who had pawned part of the cloth with different pawnbrokers, the rest being found at their lodgings. They said they had received it from two young men whom they did not h,sow, but whom they accidentally met at a public-house in Chandos-street. The prisoner, they said was not one of those men, The prisoner was apprehended, from private information, in Westminster, and was well known to the officers. Dlr. Gnstard's sheprtuut swore positively to his person. —The prisoners were all remanded. GUILDHALL wow ' a Seill Joh:. was istli his master. money, whi -The Jury sideration, • William , dwelling.hou the precinct THE VASICAK? Oction.—ashcan Hodges was again brought rap yesterday before Sir Cr.aumes S. 111/rase, and having undergone the operations of shaving and washing, would have presented a pretty tolerable appearance but for his long and bushy hair, the ce remony of" the cut," as it is termed, never taking place in the Compter against the prisoner's consent till after a heal com m itment. In order to place it beyond doubt that the prisoner was the de scription of character clearly within the meaning of the late Vagrant Act, the evidence against him was again very minutely gone into ; and in addition to the statement of Scanlan, it appeared on reference to former minutes, that the p‘iioner had been apprehended in bruary last, by Turner, the street-keep er, of Fleet-street, who found hint begging at the corner of Bride 's -passage. That Scanlan, in July, found him on board some of the barges ; and that the ac count he then gave of himself was that be lived ill Gardiner's-lane, by the water-side, And was in the habit occasionally of selling jewellery. The suspicion at that time was, that he bad the inten tion of drowning himself ; he, however, then disclaimed it, and when offered a couple of shillings by the Magistrate to relieve his apparent distresses, be indignantly declined accepting it. This evi dence having been read, Sir CLAUDIIPI, addressing him, said—" You have given yourself ..nd me a great dial of trouble, and have now been in custody for three days, and all because your ideas are so magnificent that you. will not condescend to give any account of yourself. What have you now to say ? Prisoner.—l have nothing more to say than that I have been brought here three times without giving any provocation for it whatever, or committing any offence. Sir CLAW/In.-I'oy were found lurking about at night under cir cumstances of suspicion, and you refuse to give any satisfactory ac count of yourself. Prisoner.—l went *ere for 'nurses which neither decency nor delicacy allow me to describe further. Sir Ccaumul.—Hare you any friends to speak to your character? Prispner..—None. I have respectable persons who know me,but in my present circumstances *id situation (looking significantly down at his wretched attire) they would probably not choose to at tend here to my character; butt do not acknowledge that I have I committed any fault. Sir CzArours.—That is what you hate said over anal over again, and you will not be convinced. All I rein do IN if ytao will nut give any account of yourself, to commit yop to hard labour for one month as an idle and disorderly person, and it will probably mend both your appearance and your health. Priapster.-oslf it Is to be so severe, I may probably get some one to speck for me to-morrow. Sir Cs.amous.—You had already have three days to do that, and I shall tberefore now commit you. However, if in a abort time. ou can lasing forwlird anybody to convince me that you have hottest means of getting your livelihood, your punishment shall be short. The primmer submitted without further remonstrance, and was removed from the bar. aohnlitiachloill, whose committal for want pf Mint* on the charge of using Akers threats toward► Mr. W. R. H. ,grown, the Warden of the Fleet- prison, was noticed in our Paper of hfontlaYl was yesterday admitted,to bail. MARX-LA-BONNX orncx ilsoirwAr Roesler sr • Fealet.e.—A miserable-looking crea ture named Elisabeth "season, was charged with robbing Robert Gibbs, a servant or Lord Brownlow, of his watch and appendages. It appeared in evideuoe, that thous 11 o'clock on Wednesday night, Gibbs was walking through Regent street, geing.honse to his mas ter's residence, wins be was suddenly pounced upon by the pri soner, who snatched his watch and attempted to run away, but be seized her, at.d she thelithrew herself down; two other females, her companions, meting up, seeing she could not get away, called to her to give up the watch, and disappeared; the prisoner then 'tensed, as she lay on the ground, to be biding something, and the watchman soon came up, and, as be was raising her from the ground, detected her kicking the watch among some rubbish.; she was then taken to the watch-house. _ _ Mary /sae Graves was also fully committed for robbing her mis tress, Miu Brisne, of Charles-street, Manchester-vinare, of some table-linen and napkins. She denied the robbery, and was fully committed to Newgate. I„AMBETH LJ. Ryas was committed for want of bail, charged with violently aetanking his wife, and attempting to shoot her with a pistol. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. MARRIE; Tuesday, at Wanstead, George B 1 youngest daughter of Sir W. Penner, In Bandon, Robert Tresilian Brie Regiment, to Alicia, only daughter of f.- pilfered for some time, and fortunately the thief had be from eight to nine feet long, of a light-blue colour, itlied'ent Chisy,she woman is whose hone, No. 9. Maynard. - snow been discovered. The Court immediately passed and its course was from east to west, and disappeared Amato the manias svasznaunined upon Thomas Barnes (who h MAILS — TiII about Greenock, after dividing into two bodies. It new confined in the Middlesex Hospital), by Isabella Sullivan and •fts.ptni. a sentence of seven years' transportation. - the. Ca rine Fitzgerald, who are charged with having forc ed him out Dublin 1 0 Fri John - Jorees, a servant to Mr. Brown, a linen-draper, seemed to be very near the surface of the cant, and ' that c t ost m od orow yo:Bartiet oo o memo , the beadle of S li t ; in Gilea se he s r 's w b h y e mr aPP . rehee cosmi ded ; her of atw- of stairs window, brought to the Ote yesterday Waterford 1. OHa G ue uz o n o sey and Jersey 0 0 Fla was "indicted for embezzling a quantity' of silver from illuminated all round. his master. The prisoner had taken from the till. the Saturday se'nnight, a persop of the name of Jonathan Magi ei strate, on application of Mr. Turner, tbe solicitor, who is very o it Ma the ou part . of the Parisbin bringing to justice the Holland 0 1 Go money, which the prosecutor hise.previously marked. Pinder, a cordwatner, at Starches , near Whitby, having Leeward Islands craze The warrant was grounded on the . 1 0 An -The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, after some - con- incautiously left a tea cup half filled wi th oil of vitriol acut el y I engag e e f d a HIGH-WATER at LONDON-B sideration, and recommended him to mercy. on a table, one of his own children, three years of age, of Barnes, Wean the day before at th e H os pi ta l b y the . Morning - • . - William Gerford.was indicted for stealing, from the got to it and drank it off. No discovery was made rill =te, and which charged the prisoner Godey with aidin g and . Afternoon . is waft in an attempt to extort money from him by force and vio- . dwelling-bouse of John Bates, on the 28th of July, in they were alarmed by its agonising' cries. it lingered . lace. The prisoner applied to be admitted to bail, but Mr. Tur- LONDON : ?rimed and published the precinct of St. Catherine, two sheets, his papperty. foi about ten hours, and then expired in great oriole. ear submitted that the Magistrate had no power to grant such io- aci, Temple , • - .• . . • • • . . - . . . , diligence, inasmuch fib the prioner s act, under the 7th of George 11. c. son Wig shall by threat or menace ei money, /cc. shall be deemed guilty of met, who presided, considered this remanded the prisoner fot further ex; with the other two prisoners. CORONERS' I Yesterday an Inquest was hi Esq. at the sign of the Wate street, on the body of James C flight of stairs at No. 24, Jun After the examination of seve cumstances of the deceased's d to the satisfaction of the Jury, cidentally fallen down stairs which accident had deprived 1 that effect was recorded, an order for the liberation of Jos! Holland, both of whom were implicated in causing his deatl An Inquest was yesterday White Lion -street, Norton Fal Fricker, a shoe-maker, who wa: by a dray at the end of Worsh last. Three witnesses deposed yards from his vehicle at the t but that he stopped immediai and expressed great contrition ; the circumstances, returned Death, with a deodand of 1:5 Monday morning, G. E. Br terbury Jail, where he was co eur. It appears that he conti gimlet, to break the door of 1 himself down from the top of of his bed being cut into slips. John God, who was convii Court held in Aberdeen, upon and in consequence sentence< seven years, has some time ago der a remission of that seine' has been graciously pleased to Yesterday, information wa , tensive burglary and attempts of Mr. W. Thomas Bunnyon, a at Long Farm, Brixton-road, S a month ago, went to a wat house in care of an old woman and a farming man, who had 1 great many years. On Wedn of day, the yard dog made a got up-as soon as he could. El distance down stairs, when he low, who pi esented a pistol to I mendous oath, declared he won he made the least alarm. An , the same time, entered the b where the old Lady was in bet a similar manner. Whilst this fellow strangle.] the dog with t the yard, lest it should make brought the servant man into woman .lay, bound his hands, him. They took a bunch of ke: pocket and began to rifle the hi the iron chest, and carried off family plate, and everything of linen, apparel, &c. IMPORTANT To Cuipturtir. Garvey, of Roche's Town, a lai brought to the County Infil having, two hours previously, into his windpipe: he was in tl tween his teeth, when it slippe, sudden respiration, was drawn lungs, which produced a tend as the stone rentained lengths was able to breathe at intervals In this state he was brought Dr. Gaooan and Surgeon Tuv diately afterwards to arrive, a under PROVIDENCE of saving I coughing the stone got across duced a total strangulation, at be lost in performing the opt which consists in making an and then an opening into the struction, so as to admit the pa land although Mr. THWAITER forming the operation, yet be the boy was apparently dead ; tunate as to bring about the ad began to beat, the circulation of salutation was restored; in a I extracted, and the boy now ren fair a way of recovery as such mit of.—Limerick Evening Paz BIRTH Sept. 19, st Ditchk7 House, in ( Harminton, of a goal _ _ _ In Dublin, the Lady of the Rev. ( I' l