Star.
London, England, 1808-04-04 00:00:00

WESTMINST4II-IiSSIONS.

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The Sessions entledons Saturday with a gwel deli-
very, iii which thirty-six* persons .were discharged by
proclamation ; about twelve prisoners were tried, +no.
of which is not destitute of public interest..
William Currey, a watchman in tile Haymarket, St.
James's, was indicted for fraudulently °Wining.*
guinea of Serjeant M‘Donajd, belonging to
.89th
regiment of foot, under pretence that he was able and
willing to serve in the army.
The evidence of the Prosecutoi went to prove that
he met the Defendant at the Plough Ptib&-bouie,-
Fenchurch-street, Westminster, ou the 14th of Jam!.
ary, who seemed to wish to enter into the army.—
The Prosecutor observed to the. Defendant that he
would give him a shilling if he chose to enlist, butthe
latter refused to take less than a guinea, and the Serb
jeant, having understood from bun that he was an
able bodied man, gave him that sum in part of eleven
guineas bounty. The Defendant at length informed
the Serjeant that be had a bad leg, which was exhi-
bited, and consequently he was taken to Queen-
square, and committed for fraud.
The CHAIRMAN observed, that the case was not
made out, in as much as the Prosecutor had decided
that the Defendant was not fit for service on his own
Tjdgment, without .taking him before a surgeon.—
his proved fatal to the indictment, and 'the Defen-
dant was acquitted.
A man of the name of James Ater, was on
Saturday convicted of shop lifting, and sentenced to
six months imprisonment, broke out of the stable in
which the prisoners are kept at the Sessions-house, in
tan hour after having been tried, and has not sincebeen
heard of.

An interesting duel lately took place in the neigh-
bourhood of Petersburgh, between Count Chrepto-
witsch and Colonel Von Arsenjew, respecting a lady
of whom they were both enamoured. These rival
lovers had long lived in habits of friendship, and had
each offered his addresses to the lady unknown to the
other. She preferred the Count, but he on being ap-
prised of his friend's pretensions, waved the advan-
tage of her preference, and very romantically pro-
posed to decide their claims by combat.—
A meeting was the consequence, and Gis the Frq fire,
Colonel Von Arsenjew was shot through the heart.
A man of the name of M'Gregor, who was suspec-
ted of having murdered a woman about a fortnight
ago, at Tain, in Scotland, has himself been found
murdered, and his body shockingly mangled, in a
wood about a mile from Tain, on Monday last—hi
was known to hallo po..sessed some money. After he
was killed, the perpetrators went to his house inTain,
which they rifled—it seems while they were in the act

of plundering, they were observed by Catherine
Monro, who lived in the same house, and whom they
also killed, to prevent their being discovered. Two
Men have since been taken up and committed to gaol

strongly suspected of-being the perpetrators.
A young woman lately confined as a lunatic at the
charge of the parish of St. Dunstan, but who, under
apparently restored sanity, had returned to her mo-
ther-in-law in Apollo-conrt, Fleet-street, on Friday
night beComing again mad, stabled the old woman
in various parts of her body in such a manner, that
her life is despaired of.

A young lady, of the name of Maria Matilda Par-
set, on Friday afternoon was walking on the leads of
the house of her aunt, near Kenningten, when a trap
door gave way, aad she fell tl:rowth into a ltialber-.
loft, by which her skull was fractured, and she,died
in two hours.

The hon.: e of Sir William Care, in Wintry,lc-
strcet, took fire on Saturday night, about nine o'clock,
the fu mit nre of the back drawing-room was destreyed,
but the fire u•:u happily got under without further in-

On the sanne night an alarming fire broke out at
Mr. E,tai)let-oh's, in the Old Bailey, a great quantity
of Blum was consumed, b...t the fire was got under by
the activity of the Albion fire-men. We regret to
state, that Mrs. Stapleton was so much burned, that
her recovery is de%wried of.

PIRTIL
On the ..13d tat. at 'he Royal Hospital, Dublin, the Lady-of
CnlaN.l,A*,str,ther, tt::4l:v!ght(r.

iED.

Rn gliturlav list, John l'earson, Esq. of Upper Clanton, to
!ve c. Rota, Wolow of Late I\ Ir. Basil Rout. of Roche...ter.
'ame day, at Twiekerham, James Alexander Hodson, Esq. of
the Town of Liverpool, to Miss.Saralt Hodges, youngest daughter
of !he la:e Jeremiah I lozige.s, of Eoutney, in the County of Oxon,.
Eeq.
attl7, P. 7.. Fletcher, sl.7lcst son of Philipps Lloyd Fletcher,
Fsq. of Gweruhevled, ilints:lLT, to Maria, widow► of Walter
E-sq. of Gler.-Rilidell, aid youngest daughter of the late
W. iVoodle y, Ge.vernr r Gent ral or the Leeward Islands.
t,enrye Mr,ile, Eeq. of the Feth regiment of foot, to Miss
atharine Brown, niece to Nicholas Brown, Esq. of Eccles, in tie
county of F.-rwich.