Star.
London, England, 1830-03-27 00:00:00

THA DIES-OFFICE.

DARING RoMBERIEII---il/I;3E iftvia.—Yesterday Wittiani
Robinson, a fellow of ferocious appearance, in the glob of a sailor,was
brow t before Messrs. BRODERIP and BALLAXTINE, the sitting
e M strays, charged with robbing the ship Frances Ann, now lying
in t
ate nver, under the following daring circumstances :
It appeared from the evidence of Captain Charles Stewart, the
master of the vessel, and Robert Taylor, the mate, that early yes-
terday morning they were awakened by a noise on board, and on
going upon deck, after groping about for some time, they felt the
prisoner, who was without his shoes, which he pulled off' to prevent
his footsteps from being heard. After a desperate struggle they
succeeded in securing him. and then discovered that he had broken
open the captain's private cabin, and abstracted the master's clothes.
nautical instruments, and books. He had also forced the sleeping
cabin, and taken from a drawer • watch and seals, sonic silk hand.
kerchiefs, a pencil-case, and other articles, and the thief even had
the audacity to remove the pillow on which the captain was sleeping,
and take from the pocket of his small clothes a few sovereigns and
some silver. The mate's chest was also disturbed, and the property
taken out.

George White, a Thames police-officer, produced the property
stolen, and said hat the prisoner had taken a waterman's boat to
go on board the ship. The witness then produced a pair of shoes
found upon the deck of the Frances Ann, which the prisoner had
pulled off. They belonged to the captain of another vessel who was
also similarly robbed of eleven sovereigns and other property. The
captain, however, could not stop to prosecute as he was about to
set sail. On their way to the office the prisoner made a most de-
termined resistance, and knocked witness down, and he was com.
wiled, in self-defence, to adopt severe measures to secure him.
Robert Mawton, the jailer, said the prisoner was an old offender,
who had been repeatedly committed for similar offences from that
office. He was :a noted "tier ranger," and visited and plundered
the tiers of shipping in the river during the night.
The prisoner behaved in a most outrageous manner, and staggered
about the bar pretending to be drunk. He repeatedly attempted to
strike the witness, and in defence made the usual remarks, that he
had mistaken the Frances Ann for his own ship; it was all a mis.
take.

Mr. BALLANTINE committed the prisoner for trial, and said he
hoped the case would be followed up at the sessions. The prisoner
was a desperate character, and ought to be speedily sent out of the
country.

COACH ACCIDENT.—At Nottingham Assizes, last
week, Mr. Webster, Surgeon, lleckmondwike, brought an action
against Mr. Nelson and other proprietors of the Courier coach,
to recover compensation in damages for injury received by him
through the negligence of the defendants' coachman, he having
driven the coach against the post of a turnpike gate, near Notting.
ham, by which Mr. Webster was jerked off, and received so much
injury tint he is not yet recovered. The d -deuce was, that the horses
were quiet and the coachman sober; that they were proceeding at
an ordinary pace, when the bones shyed at a candle flashing in the
window of the toll.house. Mr. Baron Darrow said if this defence
were good, no action could ever be sustained in such cases.—Verdict
for the plaintiff—Damages, 6001.

BIRTHS._

At Brighton, the lady of Lieut.-Colonel Sir W. De Bathe, Bt.
of a daughter.
The lady of the Rev. C. M. Mount, minister of Christ Church.
Bath, of a son.
At the personage, Cambome, Cornwall, the lady of the Rev .
Hugh Rogers, of a son.
At Notting-hill, the lady of W. J. Hoene, Esq. of a son.
The lady of James Wm. White, Esq. of 31albury.terrace, Dor.
set-square, of a daughter.