Star.
London, England, 1808-11-30 00:00:00

MIDDL.E:STX-SES37OYS.

The only trial of any interest yesterday was that of
Benjamin Deacon, indicted for an assault on Sarah
Chiffinge, a child of eight year's old, on Sunday the
31st of Jul
It appeared from the evidence of the child, that she
went with her father and mothei, who keep a pawn.
broker's shop, and live in Carnline-street, Bedford-
square, to dine at the house of the defendant, who is
an eminent pastry-cock, residing in Orange-street.
Red Lion-square, and is first cousin to the mother of
the infant witness. He is, !Moreover, a married man,
of above 45 years of age, anUhe father of seven
The circumstances ()Me case, proved by the
Old as having occurred on that evening, are unfit
for detail in this place.
The jury, after five minutes' deliberation, found
the defendant guilty ; and the Court sentenced him to
twelve months' imprisonment in the House of Cor-
rection ii.tCold-batii-ficlds.

Yesterday the 1.01t7 MAYort went in state to Guild..
hall, and held a Com t f Aldermen (being the first
in his mayoralty) which was attended by sixteen Al-
dermen and the City Odicers. The Court examined
the Reports of the Meal-weighers, and ordered the
price ofixtead.to be reduced one assisejial a half, or
Sd. in the-peck loaf, to talce place to-morrow ; the
quartern loaf of wheaten is then to be sold for I
111 and household at Is. 10. Thanks were voted
to JOHN Atqauv, Esq. late Lord Mayor, for which
see- idiertisement in front of this Paper.—Two pound
pet cent. on the orphan's stock, due the sth of Janu-
ary, was ordered to be paid on the 11th of January
next.—Precepts for the election of Common Council-
men on St. Thomas's Daffiest were ordered to be

Cons EXCIiANG4 NOV. 30.---The
inpily, of Wheat yo-day Is pientiftil, at a reduttion of
ss. per qtrarter=—Oats and'Barley are about' SC lower
than Mondayl-Flour-laic...wise.
Lauchian Esti. of Raigmore, has re-
mitted to the ProvoFt cf Inverness 2,811/. 7s. being
the amount of a Subscription carried on under his
benevoh at auspice; in India, fir the support of the
Academy andlNorthern Infirmary.
FOUNDLING HosrlTAL.—The Governors of this in-
stitution have at length consented, that no another of
good character shall m entire be refused pbesonal
communication w:th her offspring, upon making re-
spectful application to the Conmttee ; and shall be
permitted also to visii.theta at the places of their ap-
prenticeship, With the' approbation of their respective
masters or mistresses.

The poor woman who used to adieu the. CHAN.,
cuton so often in Court, on the alledged deprivation
of property due to her, died last week. She was the
last of a 'numerous family, who have all expired
broken-hearted, in consequence of a ruinous concern
in the erection of a light-house on the coast cf Corn-
wall.
Yesterday se'nnight, at a Criminal Court held by
the Sitting Magistrate in Glasgow, two very young
lads, apprentices to a baker in the Gallowgate, were
convicted of having most inhumanly thrown into the
heated oven, a cat belonging to one of their master's
neighbours, which they had caught in the bake-house,
and were punished by fine and imprisonment.
The confidential' clerk - of stti eminent Clothing-
house in the Strand, having decamped with consider-
able sums of money, an information was given, asd
he was traced by two of the Union Ha'l -Officers,
Goff and Lockie, that he had embarked in a vessel
bound to America; detained in the Downs for a wind.
They went off express to Deal on Saturday, and ar-
rived there at an early hour on Sunday morning ;
unfortunately', the wind had shifted early the pre-
, ceding day, and the vessel made her way from Dun-
geness, with a fair wind down Channel ; of course
the officers lost their object.
A very long examination of Winifred Bond, an agent
Of the notorious Mary Baieman, took place last week,
before the Magistrates of Leeds. This woman was,
it appears, employed by the sorceress to carry letters
from 'her at Leeds, directed to Wm. Perigo and
-others, and to put them, as occasion required, into
the Post-Office at Bradford, Keighley, Huddersfield,
and even as far as Manchester. She was also sent
frequently by Bateman to buy for her certain poi-
sonous drugs, and to transact other concerhs in fur-
therance of the ends of her fraudulent and diabolical
purposes. Whether Winifred Bond has been an ac-•
complice or a dupe of Mary Bateman, does not ap-
pear very clear ; at all events, she will be a material
evidence when the dark business comes to be judicially
investigated. It is not, we believe, the present inten-
tion of the Magistrates to commit her to prison.
THE PANTOLOGIA, now publishing in monthly
parts, in the royal octavo size, possesses all the ad-
vantages of other Encyclopcedias, and is, besides,
particularly distinguished by two circumstances :-
Ist. It is a general Dictionary of Words, as well' as
of Arts and Sciences, comprehending every word in
Dr. Jornsson's Dictionary ; and, 2dly, all the plates
in the department of Natural History are beautifully
coloured. The fourth part, just published, contains,
in addition to plates relative to Astronomy, Archi-
tecture, and Pneumatics, four coloured ones, exhi-
biting subjects in Anatomy, Zoology, and Ichthyo-
logy. The engraved figures of the Acipenser Huso
(or Isinglass Sturgeon), and the Cottus Cataphractus
(or Mailed Bull-head), arc coloured with a delicacy
and accuracy unequalled in any English Work. The
History of the.theory of Arches contains much in-
formation• that will be perfectly new to the merely
English Reader': while the articles Anti-parallels and
Areopagus, point out important errors relative to
those topics, which have been copied from one Dic-
tionary into another for more than a century. Be-
sides many valuable and interesting single artiiies,
comprehensive and accurate Treatises spa Algebea,
- Anatomy; Architecture, and Arithmetic) are 'al-
ready given hi this vrhrk, and that on Astsomauf is
commenced: The Gentlemen engaged in thistxpen-
si,ve undertaking have devoted much of *airline
for some years past, in collecting and arranOrdlnia-
terials in their respective• departments; so ,-..as
the mndeitf.ptiblicatiot adopted, is in the dire me.
dium between•the extremes of great rapidity ii te.
dioas slowness, it may be confidentially affirmed, that
the PANTOLOOL:A will be free from the nUrnt ro tl s
blunders and omissiolas which nave been ton com-
monly complained of in some hasty and Tangles xi
productions; :which have recently been laid baiont tin
public: .t.• - • . .. ri io:•r.
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TO ISABELLA.

WITH A FLowza.

The Flower to which this is appended
Gives to Fancy ample scope;
Tn-dav it blooni'd—it's reign is ended--;
Emblem Of my short-liv'd hope!
Its tints, its fragrance lur'd the senses;
As if it proudly meant to prune,
How far its beauties could entrance u;,:
Just like IsaBLLLA'S love!
But, soon it fadesitoo soon refuses.
, Farther pleasure to impart!—
Thus lc aa her power now uses,
To wound what she has gain'd—my heart i
To Her, resistless in attraction,
All my anguish I impute!
She, like the Flower, scduc'd affection,
To make refusal more acute!
The fickle Flower well suits the Fair one;
Her cold neg!ect i, may reprove:
Its charms, they liv'd but to ensnare one—
lust like ISAUELLA'S love!
Dunbar.

L .111/ INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING' BENCH, NOV. 29.

This day the sittings after termcommenced atWest-
minster, before Lord ELLENBOILOUGII, and Common
Juries.

WTDDRNE V. III:NT.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated, that this was an
action brought by the Plaintiff, an Attorney of the
Court, against Mr. Henry Hunt, one of the Trustees
of Mr. Laurence Williams, to recover 671. 6s. Bd.
for business done for these Trustees. Mr. Laurence
Williams, of Nicholas-lane, merchant, had employed
the Plaintiff as his Attorney ; three actions were
brought against him, and he had put in bail bonds;
but his affairs becoming embarrassed, he, in a state
of insolvency, conveyed his property to certain Trus=
tees, and. amongst others, to Mr. Hunt, for the pur-
pose of distribution amongst his creditors. The three
actions still pending, Mr. Wyburne was acknow-
ledged by the Trustees as their attorney, for con-
ducting them, as well as four others, which were af-
terwards brought against Mr. Williams. The ques-
tion in this case, was, whether the Trustees were to be
liable for the expence of defending these actions, in
consequence of the covenants in the trust deed ?
Mr. Laurence Williams, after being properly re-
leased, deposed as to his embarrassment in 1805, and
his execution of the trust-deed alluded to. Mr. Hunt
was one of the parties who had signed it, and he was
present at a meeting, when some directions were
given by Mr. Hunt and the other Trustees, to Mr.
Wyburne, relative to the defence of the said actions ;
upon which occasion he was told he should be paid
out of the PfTects of the trust estate. Mr. Wyburne
accordingly went on defending these actions, and he
had since seen him at a meeting of the Trustees, con-
vened for the purpose of making them acquainted
with the progress made under the trust-deed. In the
course of carrying that trust-deed into effect, certain
difficulties occurred, and it was found necessary to
give it up, and that a new one should be granted, to-
gether with a deed of composition, by which the cre-
ditors were to be liable for all expences, according to
the amount of their debts. Mr. Hunt made it the
grotind-wOrk of the new deed, that the former Trus-
tees should be indemnified for the liability they. had
incurred, in carrying the first deed into effect, so far
as it had proceeded. The second deed was in April,
1806, and Mr. Hunt, upon being applied to by Mr.
Wyburne for money, said he did not wish to part
with any till he was completely discharged. That
was about three or tour weeks ago, and he supposed
he, Mr. Hunt, had had money in his possession
• about twelve months, and was then possessed of nearly
17001. of the trust funds.
Mr. Burke, tbrrnerly clerk to Mr. Wyburne, now
Iris partner, deposed, that he had delivered a copy
of the bill of costs to Mr. Hunt, upon the 4th of
March, 1806, and had elemanded payment thereof ;
upon which Mr. Hunt observed, they were rather in
a greater hurry than necessary ; that there was no
doubt but Mr. Wyburne must be paid, but that the
Trustees were not then prepared to do so, they hav-
ing no money in their hands.
Lord ELLENBOROUGII thought there was not suffi-
cient evidence that there was actually money in the
hands of the Trustees belonging to the trust estate, at
the time when the first action was brought for pay-
ment of this account (this being the second action) the
Jury must nonsuit the Plaintiff.—Plaintiff nonsuited.
JOHN lICDGUED U. EDWAHD DAVIES.
This was an action brought by the tuner of musi-
cal instruments to Messrs. Broadwood, for payment
of 311. 10s. for a piano-forte, furnished to the defen-
dant, a dealer in salt provision!, in Broad-street.
The evidence had not proceeded far, before it ap-
peared that the Defendant had, upon various occa-
sions, accommodated the Plaintiff by discounting
bills, and had actually a claim against him for a ba-
lance.--Plaintiff nonsuited.