Star.
London, England, 1808-12-27 00:00:00

To THE EDLIOR OF THE STAR.

StR---,9pending a few days lately with a Brother
lotiquary in the country, whose library, though
lot large, contains-a tolerable collecti Nit of 11:.1 k
1 otter lore," I stumbled upop a thin duodecir o
v 'lune of 95 pages, entitled Termer de la Ley, in
,erse ; Ihe'Author Nicholas Drown, Gentleman. it
appears on the title page to have been printed at
Dublin, in 1591 ; but whether, in fact, the produc-
tion of an Irish lawyer, or of an English wit, I was
so pleased with the humour of some of the articles as
to extract about twenty. Of these I now transmit.
three, for the Wrath:as of our English students, and
the amusement of your Readers in general. If you
think them not unworthy a place in your columns
(devoted, I confess, to more useful purposes) the rest
are at your service.—Your's, &c. F. A. S.
As SON is burning, with a fell intent,
Of rick, or barn, or other house, Or LAND,
For which the Law Inflicts the punishment
Of DtATII to all, with BUNNING IN rat HAND.
BA.TTIllv—If A strike E, without a Is mful cause,
Sciewroa, knowingly and with design,
It's Battery by all our Irish Law-,
Both criminal, and civil, and my: trt.
FR sz-FtsataT— /Free-fishing is a cox mot;
In rivers broad and wide.
To all who have a RICHT thereto,
And to none aim beside.

As a miller, of the name of Poll, on Thursday
sennight, was attending his mill at Downham Mar-
ket, a sudden squall of wind caused it to separate,
and to flu in pieces in all instant. The miller who
was employed on the upper floor, leaped out, and
escaped with a slight bruise ; but his brother was pre.
cipitated to the ground, amidst the ruins, and sus-
tained so mbch injury as to render his recovery hopeless.
'A sailor, of the name of Simpson. lately deserted
from a ship of war, and established himself at Ro-
chester, as the pastor of a congregation of Non.con-
formists. He was, however, recognized some days .
since, and removed from the pulpit to the guard ship
at the Nore.
. The Stowmarket waggon, a few evenings since,
was overturned on the road near At-Weigh Crown,
by which unfortunate accident three children were
instantly crushed to death, and the mother of one
of them much bruised.

The journeymen boot and shoemakers in Glasgow, •
have refused to work without an advance of wages, -
which the masters have determined to resist. •

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An unfortunate girl, who as very brutally treed ••
by a number of young men, a few nights since, in the
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public streets of 'Worcester, died of tke ill-treatment.%
she received. Several of them are in custody.
Tuesday. morning last a hay rick, belonging to.;
Mr. King, of Wytham, was maliciously set on fire. . .
A young woman was lately buried at Blackburar -
I whose deatli.was occasioned by having swallowed *ye -
quantity of fruit stones seven years ago. ..sti
Gtnntham Charch has. lately been robbed of tier'
Church plate, to the amount of 2001. the poor's box,
and other valuable property. The robbers were traced
to Retford ; where two of them left their horses and
made their escape.
Yesterday, about noon, the body of a young wo- • .
man, genteelly dressed in a black silk gown and crape
bonnet, &c. was picked up floating in the Thames,
near Execution Dock. She had not, apparently, been
long in the water. Her name and connections are as
yet unknown ; neither is there any knowledge of the
means by which she was brought into that melan-
choly situation.
Brennan, the noted highwayman, had the audacity
to appear a few days since in the suburbs of Tippe-
rary, in the open day ; but though several attempts
were made to apprehend him, he effected his escape.
The Ticket No. 13,106, drawn this day a prize of
£lOOO, one of the numbers contained in the first lot
of Five Hundred Tickets belonging to the fortunate
holders of No. 7081, sold in one-half, one-quarter,
one-eighth, and two-16ths, by SIR JAMES BRANSCOME
and Co. at their Lucky Offices No. 11, Holborn, 37,
Cornhill, 38, Haymarket, and 269, Strand ; where,
likewise in'the present Lottery, No. 3256, a prize of
R 20,000 No. 13,318, a prize of £5,000, and four
prizes of £5OO each, have been sold in 4.8 shares,
and where Tickets and Shares are now selling, war-
ranted undrawn. Next Saturday is the last day of
Drawing.

A GENERAL BILL
O 1 ALL TIC CIIILISTININO3 AND BURIALS, PROM DILCALIDDIL
15, 1807, To DACIMAAD. 14, 1808, •
According to the Report made to the King's Most Excellent Ma.
jetty, by the Company of Parish Clerks of London, &c.
eaairrlstro. avaltD.
Males 10,189 Males 10,298
Pommies
I••••••. 1•11•1
In all
warattor ',Lys MAD.
I=lo years of age 6,075 kitty aad Sixty
Two lad - Sixty aad Seventy

Fin 2,464 .._ ,
_ _
1110eieurrest
Tee and Twenty
Twenty and Tbirty...... 1,200 Ninety ends Hundred 6.5
1
Thrty, end Forty • ....... 1,792 A Hundred —
Potty and Fifty ..... .. 1,971 A Hundred and wo 1
Inereasecrin the Burials this year 1,020.
' There have been executed in the city of London and county et
Surrey 5, of Nelda number none have been reported te be buried,
tee each) within the bias et Mortality. aril/

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