Star. — London, England, 1821-11-23 00:00:00

YOUTH AND AGE. Youth is sweet with many a joy, That frolics by in artless measure; And Age is sweet, with less alloy, In tranquil thought and silent pleasure! For Ha who rave• the life we share, With very charm uts gift adorning, Bade Ewe her Pearly dew-drops wear, And dress'd in smiles the blush of Morning! A reverend Clergyman lately sitting in a public-1 home over a pot of beer, from his dress attracted the notice of a country lad who had sat down in the same room. After the latter had eyed askance the Parson for a short time, he, judging his profes sion by his habit, begged to have a certain passage in the Scriptures explained to him. In reply to his request, the Parson, after a pain his malt, slid— " Pray, Sir, what business are you?" " A weaver," was the reply. " Then, Sir," retorted • the Divine, you did not come here to weave, neither did 1 to preach t" In one of the principal towns in Yorkshire, the leading Clergyman is a Proprietor of the Theatre; but 'notwithstanding his interest in that concern, he delegates his assistant Minister, at the commencement of each theatrical season, to inveigh from the pulpit' against the immorality of stage exhibitions.. This answers the double purpose of presenting the cha-, racter of the worthy Minister of the Gospel in a very disinterested point of view, and at the same time of enhancing the value of his property, as it inva riably happens that the Theatre becomes the great scene of attraction, immediately after those who re sort to such places of amusement have been anathe matised from the pulpit. SINGULAR INSTANCRS OF CONSANGUINITY . In a village adjoining to Bath, there are now living, in one house only, four persons, who are related to each other in not less than eighteen different degrees of consanguinity ! viz. one brother, one sister, two mo thers, two daughters, one uncle, one great-uncle, one father, one husband, one wife, two nieces, one grand niece, one grandmother, one g rand-daughter, one mo ther-in-law, one son-in-law, one sister-in-law, one aunt, and two first cousins. The two eldest members of the family are brother and sister by the same fa ther and mother, who are both dead. The sister has a daughter, who is married to her uncle, her own mothers brother, and by her uncle the daughter has a daughter. The names of the family are John, Sally, Grace, and Ann. John is both brother and son-in-law to Sally; husband and uncle to Grace, and father and great uncle to Ann. Sally is sister and mother•in-law to Joint, mother and sister-in-law to Grace, and grandmother and aunt to Ann. Grace is daughter to Sally, niece and wife to John, and mother and first cousin to Ann. Ann is daughter to John and Grace, grand-daughter to Sally, grand-niece to John, first cousin to Grace, and niece to Sally. HI DOO WIDOWS.—As an inducement for Hindoo Widows to burn themselves with the bodies of their husbands, they are taught by their Pundits to believe, that there are three millions and a half of hairs upon the human body, and every woman who burns her self with the body of her husband, will reside with him in Heaven a like number of years ! Several gangs of pickpockets, of two each,.have, within the last few days, infested the vicinity of the Exchange and St. Paul's. One of these light-fingered gentlemen accosts the passenger, and calls away his attention by offering for sale a gilt watcli-chain,which lie states is gold, as a bargain; and,whilst he spews the chain, the companion packs his pockets. One Gentle shun, yesterday, coming from Leadenhall-street to S.. Paul's, wasaccosted by no less than three parties, and the fist time had his pockets attempted. They have all the appearance of being noted characters. Extract of a letter from Tiverton (Devon), dated N ov , 19 We had one of the heaviest falls of rain last night ever recollected in the memory of man.— Many well-informed people here say, such a rain was never known in this country, but that it was similar to what is experienced in the West Indies; it extended about three miles in circumference, and this town might be taken as the centre; it continued from nine, till half-past ten last night, and again tram two to three this morning: About ten o'clock last night, the elements to the north-east appeared to be one large £re, and continued in that state for many minutes.— A bridge which crosses the Lowman, in the meadows opposite Blundell's school, was washed away during the night, though a very firm bridge and not of many years standing. Several stone walls have been washed down, and, in many parts round the town, the water came down with such violence that nothing. could resist it ; the iron-gates at the school-loJge, although locked and barred, were forced open.about two o'clock with a tremendous crash." Fine large fowls were selling last week at Plymouth, for 1 s. 4d. a couple: butchers' meat upon equall y cheap terms. Four fat sheep (says a Correspondent) were pur chased at Withei idge•frir, on the 7th inst. for 16s. In consequence of the prodigious export of cattle, poultry, pigs, &c. from Ireland to Liverpool, the cattle-market, held every Monday at Kirkdale, has lately become one of the most considerable in the three kingdoms. It was calculated that, on one par ticular market-day not very long since, the quantity of cattle sold at Kirkdale equalled the average amount of the cattle sold in Smithfield-mat ket, London, on the regular market days. A letter from Gibraltar, dated October 1, says, “ A false report having spread at Alcanez, on the 14th of last month,, that the Militia intended to plant the Tree of Liberty in the principal square, the Town Council was compelled by the mob to disarm the twenty-six individuals who composed the obnoxious corps; which having come to the Civil Governor of Arragon, his Excellency, on the 17th, informed the Council that satisfaction must be given to the Militia for the affront they had received, in order that they might continue to discharge the important duties laid upon them by the laws. Seventy individuals have been carried off by the fever at Mequinenza, by the latest accounts; 12 continued on the sick list, and 24 were convalescent. At Asco, seven died out of eight, who had caught the distemper. In Aquilas, five died from the 11th to the 13th, 14 were returned sick, and five tonsidered convalescent. The suspicious cases in the suburb of Seville, on the 16th, amounted to W. Both the patients and the persons living in the same houses have beat removed to the Lazarete: POLICE. Boer-sTairer-Yesterday, J. Francis was charged with disorderly conduct is the Adelphi Theatre. — Needham, a constable, stated that the defendant, on Wednesday night, placed himself at a fruit-table. in the pit entrance, where he amused himself by quiz zing the company, and at length became so offensive that it was found necessary to remove him, to which he leaden violent resistance. He then exclaimed, that he had been robbed of his stick, 'which was no seoner given him, than he floored the complainant, knocked down several of the lamps, and committed other outrages. At length, by the aid of the street keeper of St. Martin's parish, he was taken to the Swatch-house. In defence, he acknowledged his con duct to have been irregular; but said, he had been Sleeted brutally by the street-keeper, who had cut his bead desperately, the wound on which he exhibited. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE said, the conduct of the defend. ant had been extremely indecorous, and he muse give bail; but the street-keeper had also behaved with unnecessary violence, and he wished to know what business he had in the Theatre at all?—The street-keeper said, be was employed there by Mr. Rodwell, the Proprietor.—Sir RICHARD 41 Then Sir, you are a very improper person to be employed there, or at any other place. You know I was personally insulted by you the other night;— and, besides, you are no constable."—The street keeper said, he was sworn in as a constable at this Office.—Sir litettaßD IItIINIE-L." Then your appoint ment is now at an end."—The street-keeper begged very hard; but Sir RICHARD would not retract. The defendant, Francis, was detained till he found bail.— Sir RICHARD BIRNIE then related, that he happened to be with his family at the Adelphi Theatre the other night ; when coming out, his servant was put ting them into a coach, and a waterman offered his services. The servant said he could do it himself; upon which the street-keeper, whom he bad just dis missed, called out, with a gross expression, " What do you want to rob the poor waterman of a penny for, you Johnny Trot—it's always the way with your mock Gentry thcugh ; so it's no wonder." Upon hearing this, he (Sir RICHARD BIRNIE), looked from the winilow, and the street-keeper,' seeing his face, started back, and muttered nut, " it was quite a mis take."—The poor street-keeper, before Sir lticuaitts had well finished his story, came back, and, with tears in his eyes, begged him to retract the order he had given, for he had an ailing wife and five chil dren, and his dismissal would be the ruin of him.—Sir Mena tt u Bt tee t E—" Well, Sir, I will reinstate you; but it is upon this principle—the insult was offered to me, and I ought not, perhaps, to take upon my self to inflict the punishment which you certainly de serve. Had any other person made a similar com plaint, no entreaty should have saved you." Here the matter ended. MaNstos-Housz.—Yesterday J. Thompson was charged with stealing a pair of boots, the property of a labourer. The complainant stated that he was cleansing the sewers in America-square, with his mud-boots lying near him, when the prisotier snatched up the boots, gave one of them to his companion. and both ran off. He (the complainant) pursued them and overtook the prisoner, whom he secured, but the other made off with his part of the booty. The prisoner raid he bad for some time been in the greatest distress for want of employment ; he was at last so reduced that there was nothing left but steal ing or starving. It was observed to him, that if he were in the state he described, he would rather have robbed a baker's shop than steal a mud-boot! The prisoner replied—" My Lord, I can prove that I have robbed a number of bakers' shops—l have kept myself alive by it for upwards of a week—l was watching for a long time before I took the boot, but could not get an opportunity." Being asked whe ther his companion was in the same state as himself? he replied that he did not know him, but knew by his looks he 'was hungry, and he agreed to take the boots the moment it was proposed to him. The com plainant said, he could not afford to lose his time by prosecuting.—The LORD Mayoa, under these cir cumstances, committed the prisoner as a common pilferer, to the House of Correction for two months, to be kept to hard labour and well whipped. HATTON•GARDEN.—J. Dumpy, a patrol on the Foundling estate, was suspended, charged by two Gentlemen with giving them abusive language, and threatening to take them to the watch-house for merely knocking at their own door about six o'clock the preceding evening. QUERN•SQUAne.—Yesterday,John Loader, belong ing to the establishment of Lord Carrington, was charged with assaulting T. White, a watchman, in Privy-gardens, and J. Non, a sentry at Whitehall.— White stated, that while crying the hour on Tuesday night, the defendant and his daughter passed, when complainant's dog barked at him. Loader then kicked the dog, and threatened witness, who told him to go about his business; but he refused to move, on which he gave him in charge of the sentinel, when he as saulted them both. He then fetched some troops from the guard-house, who conducted him to the watch-house; but Mr. Stanley, the constable, refused to take the charge. Loader, in defence, stated, that in passing the watchman, the dog seized his daugh ter's clothes, when he kicked at it; on which the watchman seized him by the collar, and he knocked him down ; after which he was again seized and 'taken to the sentinel, who, on his attempting to lay lbold of him, he pushed rom him, as he could not recognise the right of the Military Power to interfere. The Magistrate said, the watchman ought to have obtained the aid of other watchmen, and Rot have, applied to the sentry. He however understood a charge was pending against the Night Constable, which he wished to hear before he decided in the case. Serjeant Armstrong, of the Coldstream Guards, then said, he, with a file of men, conducted Loader to the watch-house, when the constable said it was a very trivial charge; that the watchman was the aggressor; and that if he (the serjeant) was not satisfied, - Ifemight take the accused to the guard-room. This, however, he declined, as he did not feel himself justified.— Magistrate : " Certainly not; you did very right." The constable said, he was young in office, and if be had erred it was unintentional. - He thought he had i the power. to dismiss a charge that appeared frivolous, or where the accuser was the aggressor. The Magis trate said, it was the bounden duty of a constable to take every charge that is brought, and not to assume the ace of the Magistrate to deciding upon its 'twits. A recent Act of Parliament empower: bins to take the bail of two respectable housekeepers, but here his power ends. As the constable was young in office, and expressed regret for his conduct, he should fine him only in the mitigated penalty of ten shillings. Several respectable persons spoke of the watchman as a very turbulent character; on which the Magis trate read him a severe lecture, and Mr. Loader was discharged. MARY-LA-BONN! OFFICE. Monsieur Henri and Mademoiselle de Ville, accused by Mrs. Worledge, corset-maker, of Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, with surreptitiously decoying her female apprentice from her, attended voluntarily to explain their con duct. onsieur Henri assured the Magistrate that he was totally unconnected with causing the deser tion of the girl in question. He certainly had en gaged her as servant for Madame de Vile, who ex pressed a with that he should do so, and he had as often told her of the impossibility of taking the girl from her mistress to Paris, and advised her to en gage with some other, but Madame persisted in engaging the girl in question, and requested him to write to leer for that purpose. He declared he had no knowledge at the time that she was an apprentice, or he most certainly would have refrained from so doing. The moment he heard he had done wrong, be proceeded to Madame deVille's lodgings, in Greek street, Soho, and placing the girl in a coach, con veyed her back to her mistress. Madame de Vile said, that she was totally ignorant that she was doing 1 wrong in taking the girl away with her, but she -having frequently complained of ill-usage limn her master and mistress, she had acted as much from motives of humanity as for her own accommodation. She, however, was extremely sorry for having so done. The Magistrate said, the blame was certainly attri butable to Madame de Ville, but, as the gill had been restored to her mistress, and the parties having acted in ignorance, he did not feel inclined to proceed further in the business, and they were dismissed. • Wednesday, this Office was crowded to excess by a number of shoemakers, who appeared to be much interested in the progress of a case before the sitting Magistrates, Messrs. RAWLINSON and GRIFFITHS. A man, named Isaac Homier, was charged by Mr. Skinuer, a respectable master shoemaker, of Oxford street, with encouraging a number of persons to stand round his house, and also with attempting to excite a number of journeymen in his employ to quip 'that employment. Mr. Skinner stated, that he had employed a number of men, to whom he paid wages considerably beyond the regulated prices of journey men. Lately, finding it necessary to lower his wages, he at once reduced the wages to the usual standard. Some of the workmen objected to this, and some others refused to work ; the prisoner was never em ployed by him ; but since the period when the men struck, he occasionally made his appearance about his door, brandishing a clasp-knife, and threatening, by gesture, Mr. Skinner. On Tuesday he stopped a woman who was carrying home work, and repri manded her for carrying home any work, or for work ing, when the men had declared themselves " struck" for wages. The woman answered, that the regular wages were paid, and she world not declare off. On Tuesday evening the prisoner, and several others, made their appearance, and commenced their usual practice of walking about the door, threatening every person who went into the shop of Mr. Skinner, who at length seized the prisoner as the ringleader s and handed him over to a watchman, who lodged him in the watch-house. Several other witnesses proved these facts, and added, that the wages paid by Mr. Skinner were much beyond the usual rate, and those he now paid were the regulated prices. The wit nesses underwent a cross-examination by Mr. HAR MER, but nothing material was elicited. The pri soner, by his advice, declined saying anything, and the Magistrates were about to commit him for two months to the House of Correction, under the nth Gen. 111. for preventing combinations among jour neymen, when Mr. HARKER observed, that as the Act admitted of an appeal, he conceived his client was entitled to bail until the Sessions. Mr. RAW.. tassos said, if the prisoner wished to appeal, the' Magistrates would admit him to bail until the Ses sions. The prisoner was ordered to find two sureties, which he soon did, and was liberated. MARLBOROUGH-STREET--James Rhodes, a boy, was fully committed, charged with picking the pocket of the Rev. Henry Boucher, of a handkerchief, the pre ceding evening, in King -street, Covent-Garden. UN lON- HALz.—Henry Angel, a boy about 16 years of age, was brought up charged with having beaten and kicked his mother in a most desperate manner. Mrs. Chapman, sister to the boy, stated that he had been a long time in the habit of beating and other wise abusing his mother, so often and so violently that the whole neighbourhood in which they lived attributed every noise they heard to the filial atten tions of the prisoner. The witness was absent from home four or five days ago, and had left her mother and brother in care of it. Upon her return she found her mother in a deplorable state, the poor old woman having been beaten and kicked from head to foot by this inhuman villain. Notwithstanding this treatment the mother would never have appeared to complain, had not the neighbours joined with the witness to prevail upon her to attend. The boy spoke not a word, but smiled during the examination, and appeared quite indifferent to everything, until roused by the decision of the Magistrate, who said, when the mother was sworn to the fact that her son had beaten her that very morning, " Lock up the scoun drel in a solitary cell in the House of Correction, at Brixton, for three months, and let him be well flogged." The prisoner then changed countenance, and the unfortunate mother supplicated in tears to have the " flogging" remitted. In this entreaty she was joined by the daughter.--The Magistrate (Mr. Cumuli/as) strongly censured both mother and sis ter for making so absurd a request, and observed, that if the unfeeling son had received such punish meat as he was about to undergo, some years ago, there would probably be no necessity now for making any compla int.—The boy was then taken to prison. LAMBRTu-sTazET.—Yesterday Israel Alexander, driver of Mr. Moss's Bishop Stortford stage-coach, to and from the New Inn, Old Bailey, appeared to an information at the suit of George Martin, wherein he was charged with driving his employer's coach at a furious rate, so as to endanger the lives of his Ma jesty's' subjects. This was another ease of coach racing.—The Magistrate convicted the defeztant its the penalty of £5 and 10s. CDR& SCCLESIASTICAL COURT, nr.22. THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF DIMMEST'S" tt. T , REV. MR. HATCHA no. In this case articles were exhibited against th e R e. vertmd defendant for attempting to eject, vf d from the pulpit of the church of St. Margaret' s , IC' est. 1 minter, the Rev. 3. R. Rodber, who claimed to hav e been legally elected thereto. It will be 'ec o ll ected, in the latter part of last year considerable disputes arose among the parishioners on the election o f t h e Evening Lecturer, when the defendant claim e d the election by a majority of votes. The authority to whom it was left to decide gave it agai nst h im however. endeavoured to gain possession by the true above described. The allegations in the articles exhibited stat e d I li defendant to have pulled Mr. kodber by hi s go se% and called out shame! :at the t ime he w as about td enter the pulpit. Mr. Hatchard intended to rebel them by affidavits o the Court, however, considered that the original articles wanted some verbalotend; ments, and they were withdrawn for that purpo se , Mr. Hatchard, addressing himself to Air. Rod* said—s , I 'wish to give no offence, but ask you befe r ; Goo and this Court, if you will swear I pulled yo-, by the gown, and called 4 shame ? " No answer w ai given, and the consideration of the case was postponed COURT OF EXCISE, X 0 IT3IRER22. John Morton and Henry Hunt were chargai w i t y i having manufactured soap at an unentered pi g; I and, upon several other counts, with having inclined penalties to the amount of £6OO. The latter dcfeal ant alone appeared. B. F. Gardner, an Officer of the Excise, stated tax, on the 17th September he discovered, in White Han. place, Kennington, a complete and extensive so a p. manufactory, with apparatus and a large quantity ef imperfectly formed soap and some materials, whole of which he seized. He was assaulted upon It t occasion by a man known by the name of hiak .j,. From the evidence adduced, the Counr expressed, themselves satisfied that Mr. Hunt had not been et gaged in the undertaking. Mr. Hunt was then sworn, and examined as a nit. ness. He said that he met the defendant, John 31ot. ton (whom he knew some time since, and who was known in Lambeth by the name of Irish AGO, som l after the seizure had been made. The witness was ek tremely angry with him for making use of his name (in taking the premises where the soatkmanufactory was discovered), when Morton asked him in reply, what occasion he had to be angry, since there were more Henry Hunts than one? The COURT said, this was an implied acknowledg. ment on the part of Morton, that he was the °via of the premises ; they, therefore, pronounced jedg. ment generally on all the counts against Job Mor ton, and condemned the apparatus and goods fond upon the premises. • Wednesday afternoon, about three o'clock, is. spectable tradesman, holding the situation tjf to collector, at Whestone, was robbed in A 1064 ands. cious manner, in a bye•road, leading from Barnet to Colney Hatch. He had been to the former place with money to take up a bill, but not meeting the person with whom he was to transact business, be was going towards Colney Hatch, when he wasstop ped by three men, knocked down, and his pockets rifled of sixty guineas and his watch. Theybed has severely, and one of them proposed to 4 , rip his gun open;" upon which another took out a knife and made a cut at his belly ; it penetrated his clothes only, the ruffian did not repeat the blow. They dealt him lying on the ground much bruised. Theirs of two of the robbers were partially concealed ail pieces of cloth. Information was given of the sib. bery to some of the horse-patrol in that neighboa• hood, who immediately commenced an active sixth, and apprehended two notorious characters, lbw dress and appearance exactly answered the de a? tion given of two of the robbers. They were takes before a neighbouring Magistrate, and, after a shat examination, were detained until the person wholes robbed can attend. A few evenings ago the Olympic Tavern, Neg. castle -street, Strand, was broken open, and the he plundered of property to a considerable amount. 7 The servant maid was alarmed about four o'clocks the morning by an unusual noise; she put sari clothes on and ran down stairs, and perceiving sme persons in the bar with a light, she called, you, master?" A voice answered, 4 4 Yes." She has it was not her master's voice; and, when she af , proached the door of the bar, she saw three 1 ,5 inside, who had rifled the place, and broke opens] . drawers and cupboard. She ran to the bottom a the stairs in the greatest terror, and screamed asksi as she could for her master. He came down sod with a pistol in his hand, and in the interim therd bers had opened the street door and escaped, nigg with them cash from the till, and other prop* BIRTHS. Yesterday, the 22d November, at KentishTown, Nniatbol Valpy. of a daughter. At Killballyowen, Limerick, the Lady of DeCourcy o'Gr* , Esq. High Sheriff of that County, of a daughter. In Carlow, the Lady of the Rev. Joseph Jameson,oraaist ilL , At Whinney-rigg, near Annan, on Wednesday Kw' Mari, the wife of Francis Johnston, farm-servant, of child, entirely without arms, but well proportioned is On other respect. MARRIED. Tuesday, at Me*awn, Henry, youngest son of the O a Colonel Seymour, to Charlotte, youngest daughter of de lel Samuel Whii DIED. On Sunday, the 11th inst. at Douglas, in the bled 110, 011 _ sincerely regretted by all who knew her worth, and to del: pressible grief of her family, after giving birth to a daiSW the preceding Wednesday, Mary Ann,wife of D. Hooke. late of the Royal Artillery; having, a few days inert her 434 year. Tuesday, at Brighton, aged 83, Mrs. Cancellor. id . Nov. 5, at Lochee, near Dundee, the Rev. James ligr" Minister of Fettercairn. At Ballygalane, in the County of Waterford, lir& PO' wife of the late Dr. Alexander Power. .. ------.-- _„ a MAILS THIS DAY....IIIII.DtIt. 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