Star.
London, England, 1808-10-21 00:00:00

.11ARRACX DEPytli-i'MENZ

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Many;• arid greet abuses have been detected, and.
rectified in this department. te;r, the assiduity of the'
present Board of Commiisionen.
• Th 9 infinite kteculations and collusions of Bar
sack-masters, builders and others, • hive been greatly
checked', and the public has been tried from many
palpable impositions. Complaints bare' been made
that Barrack-Masters frandulentlywithheld from Of-
Been and men in barracks the full alioWahce of coal
Std r<an4le to which they are entitled by his Majesty's
warrant, and such complaints seem to have been as well
Ibunded as the impositions practised by some Barrack-
Masters in making wanthn and extravagant demands
from regiments for alleged damages to the barracks done
by the officers and men. The present board has exerted
itself to curb this evil, to which there has been so great
an opening to the ill.disposed. We learn that it has
been agitated to discontinue Districtßarrack-Masters,
the utility of whose• services has been disputed.: and
it is supposed that, in order to prevent complaints
from Officers in future against Barrack-Masters, the
Board of Commissioners will enjoin the latterto furnish
cer ti fie ate from the Commanding Officer of every corps
or detachment, immediately after their removal from
the barracks under their charge, setting forth that the
several duties had been faithfully performed agreeable
to the regulations, and that no improper demands
had been made on the part of the Barrack-Masters
*gaint the officers or men of the corps, during the stay
of the corps in the barracks, on the score of damages
dr otherwise.

It is to be ardently hoped that the unceasing repre-
sentations Ofthe Medical Board hvie been attended to,
on the Subject of unhealthy bart'acks.

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The I wiprecedented mortality, stiOred. by tha ill-
fited tro%s, who occupied uni/bnlesome;and ill con-
trv.,d bliaciri. in the beginning, of .the present year,
is still sao fresh in our roeikry to be soon forgotten,
4jia irould haye'salled for the exertion of every man
rhor has die good of his country and the health of his
II Cpuntr inFli _at. heart,: W. would ask, has_. rieTy
gong: -.11..136n0 which Was practicable to preyent a
return . such • ill health in many of ow barracks )
Tlie_latf mortality among the troop was produced,
ioriifii-a yiiiii continuance of severe weather, in large
cold Vainaktroosii,. perforated in all directions by
IsullWrpyit, summer TentilAtora without proper warm
liedding, and without fires for the comfort of the men,
•slici Irn. Owp benumbed with the intenseness of the
q:Adi TiViZed with an inflammation and congestion
the i
in s which speedily provatflatal.

at nia.o'clock, a pitched bat-
viaotibsights4 a iteld atkleaten, between Joyce,..,
wkney-coachnian, and Jones; a cooper, for five
teas. The contest lasted about 40 minutes, when
tes received a viblent blow, 'Which broke his jaw-
aad ltewas removed to the Hospital.
grand. Match at Backsword'was played at Shei:
porton, Middlesex, and much courage was displayed
t that % right valiant pastime." The hero of Berks,
iNwOOO, obstinately disputed the great prize with
Eosin-, who won it. The hat for two young
jers afforded much sport, and was carried away
DtwitecT of Staines. The tythes were all played
t. Fifteen couple played, affording 131 bouts, and
heads were broken !
At Chest,.r fair, which commenced en Monday,
Irish linens' sold as usual, but lowpriced goods
sere abut 2d. per yard higher. Muslim and Irian-
tester goods were on the advance, as were woollens.
..eather maintained • its last price. Old hops sold
tm 60s. to 765. and new ones from fi4s. tot:Ms.—
:ere were very few buyers of any description.
A most shocking accident occurred last night,
about nine o'clock. 'A poor woman, a lodger at a
lbinet-maker's in purleigh-street, Strand, left an
ant,..about nine months old, on a chair, while she
is gone down stairs for a pitcher of water. On her
..urn she was presented with the melasicholy specta-
of her poor infant literally.burut to ashes.

ee • lA.? 'irICIP:IIII47STER' IMAM:
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' iYessirdiertliese Sessions cotnmeneed at the New
13addittili, when D. Willi and Ann, his wife, were
indicted for assaulting J.. Moore and R. Munday,
constables, on the-21.th of May last, in the execution
of their duty.
It appeared that there were some arrears of taxes
due by the Defendant, which he refuted paying to
Cartwright, the tax gatherer, therefore on the above
day he employed Munday to distrain, who according-
ly went with his son to the Defendant's house in Pe-
ter-street, when he used violent language, and resis-
ted their entering. They, however, got. Onsissieti
with the assistance of Moore, when they we :struck*
several times. D. Williams then drew a sword, and
said he would run any man through the body that.
should touch his goods.
Munday, on cross-examination, admitted that he
did not receive any injury, and could not produce the
warrant under which he acted ; indeed he confessed
he had none but Mr. Cartwright's " General War-
rant." The demand was only 15s. and he distritined
for 11. 11 s. 6d. though ss. only were due by the De-
fendant, who had not been above three months in the
house.

R. Munday, junior, corroborated the evidence of
his father ; as did John Moore, who said he had-been
knocked down after he had got into the, house.
Mr. ALLEY, for the Defendants, contended, that
the prosecutors had no right to enter the house with- .
out a proper authoritrfrom two of the Commission-
ers of the Land Tat! The proper way would have
been to summon him before the Commissioners, and
in the event of his not shewiug proper grounds, and
continuing to resist, the Commissioners were then jus-
tified in issuing their warrant ; instead of that he was
told they pleaded the authority of " a general war-
rant," which had been declared illegal by Lotd Chief
Justice Pratt, in the case of Wilkes, and afterwards
by both Houses of Parliament. He was, therefore,
astonished to find them now revived by tax gather-
ers, for the purpose of oppressing the poor. He
maintained it was no assault, for the Defendant had a
right to defend his castle. The poor man, who had
for years served honourably in the army, had taken
this house, dnd had hardly got into it before a de
mand was made for 15s.—he was ready to pay .ss. but
the rest was due from the former tenant ; however,
Mr. Cartwright threatened him with Miind .y, and
certainly it must be allowed that the name alone is a
terror to the poor of Westminster. As for General
Warrants, be trusted he should never hear of them
again in a Court of Justice. The tax-gatherer ought
t levy himself, and, in place of charging, as in this
case, 11. 11 s. 6d. for expences, ss. is all that could
he legally exacted. He then called several witnesses,
who proved that Mr. Williams offered the Iss. re- ,
peatedly, which had been refused, and that Munday
committed the fist assault by collaring him, and
treating him with violence.
The CiIAIIMAN gave it as his opinion, that the
prosecutors had no warrant, therefore no right to en-
ter the 11-)use ; and the July found the Defendants—
Net Guilty.—The Court expressed a positive dis-
countenance to such persecutions, and expressed its
marked disapprobation of the conduct of the prose-
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tutor.
John Jones, a gardener or salesman, 'who attends
Covent Garden Market, was found guilty and sen-
tenced to ten days imprisonment, in Bridewell, for
assaulting C. Bell, one of the constables of the mar-
ket, on the 19th of Marck, in the execution of his I
duty.
A plump matron, about .50, named Mary Love,
who keeps a toy shop in 'Westminster, was indicted
for assaulting the fair person of Miss Mary Anne.
Lewis, a beautiful young woman, about eighteen.
It appeared that the father of the prosecutrix, who
is a school-master, occupied the upper part of Mrs.
Love's house, and had with her some unpleasant al-
tercation. In the month of July last, Miss Lewis was
standing at the hall door buying some fish of a
hawker, when Mrs. Love came out and insisted on
the fish-hawker's going off the nagged way. Miss.
Lewis said that she must first have done with her,
when Mrs.Love,seizing with one hand a child's chair,
and with the other a mouse-trap (commodities of her
calling) made a violent attack with the latter upon
Miss Lewis's face, and very nearly spoiled a fascina-
ting chefd'arevre of Nature's handy-work ; while, with
the other hand, she furiously pressed the chair upon
her delicate hot, which, resting on the threshold,
peeped from beneath her snow-white petticoat.
The' Jury found the intemperate matron Guilty,
and the Court sentenced her to pay a fine of 3s. 4d.

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MANSION-HOVSE.—Yesterday Elizabeth Herne, alias
Gooding, was charged on supicion of robbing a gentle-
man of his purse and money in Cheapside, the night
before. The gentleman stated, that having been
spending the evening with some friends, he gotzlther
forward in liquor ; that near the top of Wood-itreet
he found himself surrounded by three or four women ;.
when he crossed the street to avoid them, but the pri-
toner *ill followed, and pretended to assist him, when
he missed Ms purse, which he had every reason to sup-
pose was taken by her ; he likewise complained of the ,
constable, who compelled him to go to the Compter
as a prisoner, without any charge ; though he had i
told him he lived in Trinity-lane, just by.—The con- ~
stable and watchman said, the gentleman was much
in liquor, and they doubted whether he had been rob-
bed, as no purse was found upon the prisoner. The
LORD MAYOR reprobated the conduct of the constable,
whom he told, it was his duty to send a person home
with the prosecutor, if he was not in a state to take
care of himself, and not lock him up from his family
all night ; as for the woman she was not a stranger
to Bridewell, to which place he again committed her'
for a week.
A journeyman shoemaker was charged with a fraud,
he having sold,to a woman,who keeps a broker's shop,
i a feather bed, which was in pledge for El. She has?-
! ing advanced him some money on the bed, he went 1
with her to take it out, which she paid for • but in
carrying it home he gave her the slip, and either: sold or
pledged the bed a second time • and refusing to give
an account of it, was committed till he should make
satisfaction to the plaintiff.
MARLBOROUGH-sntsur.—Yesterday eleven master-'
butchers, residing in the markets at the west end of
the town, were summoned by a Society of the same
profession, for serving on the last Sabbath day, when
about half the.number were fined, and the others dis-
charged, owing to the information being incomplete.

-TO tiioP Etifto OPPIM trif .
• : pctpber /9, liKh.
!..;gllwvigPrinee•Edvrard formerly'the
of st. ',John, is so highly gifted by nattui .thrit t)*
more it is t4lown the better. Thither the poor Indus.]
tvious man may, repair with a certainty Ot lfisie)Re-
name., The climate is uncommonly: healthy; in4.lkr.
profusion of fish and game which any =Otter fos-1
sass for the tremble of taking them, form butAt'ilttdillo
part of the. numerous advantages anneted to PA?*
Edward's Island. saa.l
PRINCE EDWARD'S WAND.
Say, inestimable Truth,
Only sesame of plzastwe, ay,
How shall age, or how shall youth*,
Find thy bright insructive ray 1
ou'ding thro' this mazy life, •
Votaries of simplicity,
. Who despising pride and strife,
Seek in peace felicity.
Shun the thirsty streams that flow.
Of fell luxury refined;
" Man wants but little here below,"
if w PaoviDLNCE resigned.
Oh! in thy munificence
Nature's beauteous charms impart,
Peering in magnificence
Over vain, elaborate art. •
Shall we in the climes of old
Seek thy pure, primeval view ?
Friendship's flame 'mid fashion cold? •
Glimmering, catches objects new. •
Complex schemes and deep designs,
Busy, plodding speculation,
Crafty traps and countermines
Of o'er-crowded population.
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All with warning seem to say,
Fly, as from the lightning. ituzlesir •
Westward far direct your way
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To the trans-Atlantic Wald.
.. To that quiet peaceful isle,*
Nature's undisturb'd abode;

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Where contentment, free from guile-
Bends the knee, and praises Goa.
There the azure brilliant sky
Mantles o'er the waters clear. •
Fogs, nor noisome reptiles nigh,
While salubrious breezes chear.
Lightly fcels th' adventurer's toll,
Bold his nervous sinews spring;
His reward—a generous soil,
And his Landlord—George our King. • " .."
There no traitor's gni/1y hand,
Daring aims at revolution; •
Loyal Sons of Britain's lard,
Prize their matchless Constitation!
Edward's fair adopted Isle,
Seat of modest piety;
There kind Nature with a smile,
Placed her own soelety ! •
• Prince Edward's Island.

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WAIL PEW?,, 01101

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ini.satAkCi+A.litfrfloahriscoß Bur TL
Daotg,w4os had pnldnc, va26l,.sake 444 rektl,
rot ,fta-Telcasts. Dicey and sittton; Me. in,
church-yard Newbetvv.soct Sons, .240. 43, 3G ; s! a • a. 4
MONK bi;• 06, S. POWs ; 1314104 Cistain4dt idevo;44
Evans, .1,4K111614.1 Varcilln.and Salle Elt.o Markt*
Zit* Ids oPstit-sAreet•• Sohn Bgadite, and Co. Catrl. §i1,71
Bow)* .1.4 CAA Seglnigh ; al • (Nyyslou ; and Nenceetl tie
Wig .T:keinisstane mesileine has thf; 'mortis— lotthe Kingiya7
tept--expressecLon the Bottle, 80, and sA,',l-4,ver, 34,43 cat Kc
ditty painted iu biz& ink. in bgttles of to. Gst Ws. and ii 91 dµTt
included, as usual, at tba oalyStispe,sary. )44.• V!, 60130.4647
1.9r.d0n. --.•

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CHING'S FlN4iliKr- Vg •
(PE•
rr putts: GA443.41. toihoth .WllO hire tie'
1 rare of Children, this valusiliiii...nalallealettn4.. nrnot be.beh4
strongly' litl recommended:*. atlell are 4letankr_ tiladren es-
cape, Thby. destroy the sepetite,, vcephen Opp omits of dile*
produce pains in the stomarsis awlirtevith,.teprive,the
nourisknuggt, acc.caion ema,ciatio:2 andiellaseevsfep th.• mugs
of For*. 4ietisrV the zikose selthciaost.stargLlS. opo•ruhkgi,.
which too often terminate in death. Ner are their drativiek
severe on etude persons ; y elceratine she sumach andlsowth,
thee are often the cline of Jimgcring, complaints, witichprit,
fatal, at last, and subject the patipatcrt the most isherue:ltligyar.
of agony ansldistress. . in chilish4o4; esery diseasc *anis schiag.
child is afiligt44lo4o.laisitly itair.p,ritrd Wtlein. 'l4 ccttalig,
-and ssfety Intitot.thr:ir pressmAtip ;Ad cure, liy,zbe, abovesgett-
eine, is so fully .-stahli,lsu4 to tbe.satisfaction of the Vuhllt, kw*
testimony of. tic faro and wet characters of the blqiggi.
and of others of high rcsperlab..ity, who base
awls)* tevito in tiicir own families, teat it is only wry"
to observe, this is thtperiod of the season whets spells Not
ought 6).4 dun to clii4dreA and others, to prevent any atm*
?this complaint. Sold wholesale and•retaii, at Ciiipgscugsw‘
No. 4, Cheapside, Cox= of paittinoster-sow; Bauer,
iburgh and Glasgow; and retail, by most country wader; a
!boxes, at sts.V. and Si. (id.

ittizet of a Lpttcr, from Mr. )(styli Morris, Qf Chostow
To DIS:SOLOMON; Gilead Iliotiab•near
Olmitwsw, October 5, tees,'
,Sigtalt,balre torrit ygo of the topivin
Irr your to al talm
Mr. LeWfs Williami, -of the tows Ala
St% iq the CeuPtll (‘'.4.4roC Wto vrmfqr I:Tefg inttime
under an extreme lowness ot spirits,so much so that he
god to i%eglict i greet part of bfirinclusess.. *lOWept to•
*0441 btqain 79414 Pe.4.4friife tp PYA, .144 Pal
concern,
concern, be found -no relief. He afturwards came to act
stow, kit 'native place, where lass tinttltizotia, icy
live : ile.complained to Me her itlkhe allakaii•PEAS4
dejected ; sayiK•:, he thOught he should never tk min
l'advfsWd kim to take your Cordialßattu Ofrsibtacka•ahitusughtil
%a a 44e uypll vale, and liibpgother ailaufsaisuelt fts* ibty•
that lie is now as well as he ever knew k_ • being fully "jai_ _,tll
that it was the Balm of Giteatlimilyth it kid restesettttlit
usual boalth and ....• *.• • ~ • • . .
*am,. r„...y9y r luaxahA qerfapc, sart:itss4
The Cordial 41. P 4 in of Ga a sovereign rented.), r Welk.
dell; Uriertess of Spltitil,"McsitlOn of Mind, and the velie:e trait
of symptoms whi.:h attend bizreoits Diseidsrs in gtnalsa, from
whatever cause locerliro ' •
Hysteric Compraiiirgracfitaly go off by the use of flits !dab*
As Odrdhf. In Ili/Wilds ortlieiltovirich; flatuleticies;
structions, it is a sate, powerful, and efficacious remedy. Wtf
fit4t synopsinsof its, gm:4 r,rects are seretAty.anil.cheerlyinesx
Tit M,dtat• ltdas otGllcatf saki in Wilk, 'price Hstf-a-
-.oellwa malt;' diem are also faniity Bottles, -ptict•-• an • ISa. tan.
taiuisg alsgsissugxy cif four isasslier boalci.; .*kich tivizatiep
saves W.- with "S"P#.4 Solomon, Livequal"
Qs tli.Stitti-ps:
Sold by Matthews itle'LefettisTo. TS, Strand, Loodoni.Xild
may. be had•oi evkyrospectable Medicine Vender in tbelianti
Kingdotii.