Star.
London, England, 1808-10-06 00:00:00

DUBLIN, OCTOBER 1.

The following very extraordinary robbery took
place on Tuesday last, between Cappagh-hill and the
Nineteen Mile House : Three Gentlemen travelling
in a post-ch4ise, were stopped by a single highway.
man, who demanded their money, watches, &c. &c.
The Gentleman on the side of the catriage which the
highwayman attacked, told him he had hut a few
shillings in cash, and gave him a handful of silver,
with which the robber arvared perfectly satistied,and
rode off ; in a few minutes he returned, and said,—
" You are a very honest fellow, and shake hands."
The Gentleman took him by the hand, and having
got him in his grasp, he held on, until his compa.
nions in the carriage got nut, by which time the high-
wayman had disengaged himself and made off. One
of the carriage horses was immediately disengaged
from the harness, and he was instantly pursued and
apprehended. He now lies in the gaol t,f Naas,. to
take his trial for the offence. \%Then taken before Mr.
AYLMER, of Kilcock, the Magistrate who committed
him, he addressed him as follows: " Now, Sir, take
my advice, and do nut sell my horse under forty
guineas, for on my honour he is the best horse in the
kingdom."
JOHN Wasos:, commonly called " Whiskey Jack,"
from his remarkable intemperate life, having return-
ed from the funeral of his father on Friday last, was
that night cruelly murdered in his own house. He
and his unmarried brother and sister have rendered
themselves notorious in the neighbourhood of Antrim,
for some time past, by their contentions and quarrels
about a small farm, the property of the deceased's
father, to the great affliction of their dying parent,
and the annoyance of the neighbouring Magistrates.
Petra AIKIN, Esq. and a respectable Jury, sat in
inquest on the body of the deceased from twelve until
a late hour on the 17th, without coming to any de-
cision, and were to resume the painful task at ten the
next day. The deceased has left a wife and six help-
less children to lament his unhappy fate.
On such an extensive scale are the outrages of the
miscreants, called White Boys, carried on in Ireland,
that they actually make use of beacons to spread an
alarm, when the military go out against them, as ap-
pears by the following letter :
TRALM Sam 17.--Thursday night Major
PONSONEY, accompanied by a party of the 7th Dra-
goon Guards and Yeomanry, scoured the country
round about Listowel, in search of the White Boys. '
We understand) however, that this design was ren-
dered
frustrate by some miscreants, who shortly after
the departure of the military from Listowel, placed
a fire on the top of an old• Castle in that town, which
from its elevated situation, could not fail of being
observed at the distance of several miles round, (the,
plan, no doubt, having been previouslreoncerted by
the White Boys in case of any sudden attack) and
the whole country was soon after completely illumi-
nated by fires on every adjacent bill. This artifice,

we ire sorry to say, had the desired ellbet:hr al-
though Major Poesonsy and his party remained out
during the night, they were unable to apprehend any
of the banditti who disturbed that rtei,gliboarhood."

POLICE, eldc.
Granuati..— A young man in the employ (4
Messrs. Bryan and Brandon, grocers, in Nee/gate-
street, was yesterday charged with embezzling SQL
ss. 4d. which he had received from Mr. Sutton,
cer, of East street, St. Mary-la-bonnie, and for which
his receipt was produced. His employers stated,
that he was their confidential clerk, pt.a yearly sa-
lary of one hundred pounds. That they had advan-
ced him, a few months after his service commenced,
Which was on the 21st of January, 431. and that they
had also charged to his account, about the same time,
r 101. The young man denied that he was employed
as the hired clerk, or servant, of the prosecutors. With
the advice of a friend, he bad applied to them for em-
ployment, to sell their goods on commission amongst
his nwn extensive connections and theirs, at a rate of
per cent. Mr. Brandon, after a day's considera-
tion, proposed to allow him one per cent. upon a six
'months trial ; engaging, in all events, to secure him
a rate of 1001. per annum, it his commission should
not exceed that sum. He acknowledged the circum-
stance of the 431. and 101. advanced him on commis-
sion ; and he said also, that he kept this 321. on ac-
count, as there was a considerable balance due to
I him, but his employers refused him a settlement at
the end of six months, as was agreed, and upon his
pressing it, they brought this charge. He had ac-
knowledged the money to Mr. Brandpn, who, he sup-
posed, had placed it to his account, and there was
still a considerable balance in his favour.

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Alderman CURTI! said, the prosecutors had failed
to sustain the proof that the Defendant was a yearly
clerk, and therefore the charge of felony not being
sustained, he discharged the prisoner, with a very se-
vere lecture.

MARLBOROMII.STRRET.—YeSt( rday---- Bryant
and Kite were charged by the father of the lat-
ter with robbing him, on the '24.th ult. of a bank note
for 1001. It appeared from his statement, that he
had saved by his industry, a sum exceeding 1801.
which he was accustomed to carry about him for se-
curity. Some time since he went to Ireland, his na,
tive place, but soon returned, determining to pursue
his customary labours as long as nature would per-
mit him. On the day above stated he accompanied
his son and the other prisoner to the Union public-
house in St. Giles's, where he soon became i itoxicat-
ed, and in the folly of the moment, he exhibited the
contents of his purse to the prisoners, consisting of a
1001. bank note, a 501. a 301. and a '2l. Bryant took
the notes from him, counted them over, and read the
value uf each. After which he appeared to roll them
up in his hands like a ball, and returned them to the
prosecutor, who, not suspectinf that he was robbed,
wrapped them up in a piece ut paper, and put them
into his small clothes pocket. He was completely
ignorant of his loss until last 6unday morning, when,
on shifting his clothes, he opened hi; purse, and
missed the property, when he immediately went to
Bryant's lodgings, and told him of his loss, why de-
nied any knowledge of the notes, and insinuated that
the prosecutor's daughter must have robbed him.—
The obi man, on this, went in pursuit of his daugh-
ter, who, it turned out, however, had been wrongfully
accused. The prosecutor then took out a warrant,
and the prisoners were apprehended. The note had
been traced to the Bank, where it had been changed
on the preceding Friday, in the name of Southwell, a
tuilder, of Adam.street, Adelphi, whom the wife of
the prisoner Kite served with milk. Enquiry was
made of Mr. Sonthwell, but he denied any knowledge
whatever of the transaction. The prisoners were re-
manded for further examination.

Baketnan was charged with an assault on Mr.
and Mrs. Smith, on their return from Drury Lane
Theatre, on Tuesday evening. The Defendant is
one of those fellows who, without ceremony, seek to
create disturbances in the street, at the expence of any
mischief that might follow. The prosecutor, a very
respectable man, was assaulted in a gross manner, by
being challenged with harbouring a lady, who was
under the protection of the Defendant, although she
WAS the wife of the prosecutor, and a perfect stranger
to the intruder, who insisted on escorting the lady ;
and, after a rude attack on her, he struck the husband
in a violent manner. The Defendant wished to apo-
logise ; but his offer was treated with that merited
contempt it deserved, and he was ordered to find bail.
Harrow GARDRN.—YesterdAy R. J. Harris, jour-
neyman to Messrs. Frost and Co. braziers, was fully
committed for stealing a Urge quantity of copper in
their manufactory ; as was
Elizabeth Bider:toff, for robbing a man of a bundle
of cloaths in the tap room of the Black Boy at
Islington.
The Landlord of 2 public housein Gray's Inn-lane,
was charged with wantonly throwing water out of
his first floor window, which fell on the cloaths of a
Mrs. Miller, of Sloane-street, who was passing at the
moment, and who on remonstrating on the impro-
priety of the act, was assailed by a torrent of the must
scurrilous language, and conveyed to the watch-
house, from whence she was, however, instantly.dis-
missed by thecons table, on her husband, who waswith
her, answering for her appearance. The Magistrate
severely reprobated the conduct of Miss Ht,st, and
ordered him instantly to find bail.
CORONER'S INCRIPST.—A- -Coroner's inquest was
yesterday afternoon held at the King's Head public-
house, James-street, Buckingham Gate, before AN-
TitoNY Getx, Esq. on a view of the body of John
White.—lt appeared, from the evidence of William
Lambert, a butcher in Abingdon-street, that the de-
' ceased was a servant to Mr. Sale, a Livery Stable
Keeper, in Milbank-street ; and, on the 20th of last
month, between three and four in the afternoon, he
was observed passing along Abingdon-street on horse-
back, galloping as fast as the animal couldge. In
; an instant the horse tell, and rolled over the deceas-
ed, who was taken, in a state of insensibility, to a
neighbouring Surgeon,
to the Westminster Mrllolt, and from thence
Infirmary.
Mr. Lynn, the House Surgeon, stated that the
skull of the deceased was so much fractured, it was
deemed necessary to have it trepanned on the follow-
ing Saturday ; but, after all the care and attention
they could bestow, he died On Tuesday morning,
'about seven o'clock. The Jury immediately returned
la verdict of—Accident.d. Death.

A* Bath, Jatnes Mayer CrliantlE,"E'sq. Barrister, eldest son of
Charles Cram, Esq. of the island of St. Vincent.
The following alarming mementos of mortality, in four instances
o' sudden death, occurred at Whitby, during the night tittivecr
Thursday and Friday last: Mr. Andrew Hall, late owner of the
Elizabeth Whitby and Hull trader, bad been indisposed by sane
11* it spasms in the stomach the preceding day, bat was sof-
cie-tly well to take 11;s usual walk upon the pier in the (venal;
about midnight, on the appearance of some alarmirg symptom%
mead c4l ossiiiiince was ptaicured, but without effect; he espied
about a e Joscgh Breekon, whkesmith, hal rains
to rest in his usual state of health, having previously been smok-
ing his pipe in a rudghbour's house, and died in the tours: of tie
night.—Mrs. Ann Crow, widow, who hal gone to bud witlsosa
apparent indisposition, died early in the morning; which was also
the CAW with Nlr.Thomas Gosling, mariner, who about two years
ago had been obliged to leave off the sea, in consequence of abort
reSeived on board ship.

TO-MORROW.
Sun rises. Sun sets. I Moon riser.
t 6 minutia after 6 I 34 minutesafter SI ♦7 minutes aim C.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning - - as otimtes after 3
Afternoon - 52 minutes after

TURTL.E,S.

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WILLSHIRE, King's Hex' Tavern, Poultry,
is now landing several loots of fine lively Turtles, for She.
Turtles dressed every day in the House, for parties, in the billies*
perfection, ow sent to any part of Town or Country.