Star.
London, England, 1808-11-26 00:00:00

COURT OF SESSION, EDINBURGH, NOV. 9.1.

The following notice, put up in the Outer-house,
evinces the determination of their Lordships to give
that dispatch to business which has so long been con-
sidered as essential to the ends of justice, and which
it was intended, in a great measure, to effect, by the
recent division of the Court into two Chambers :
" The Lord Justice Clerk gives notice, that answers to peti-
tions, memorials, and all other papers ordered by the Court, must
be given in on or before the Ist of December next ; and that,
after that day, every case will positively be taken up in the order
in which it stands in the Long Roll, whether the papers swain-
ing are given in or notsil
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Agents acting n both Chambers have been direct-
ed to indorse upon the back of each petition the name
of the opposite party and his agent, as well as that
of the petitioner.
Saturday last, MATTHEW Ross, Esq. Advocate,
was unanimsusly elected Dean of. the Faculty of
Advocates, in room of the Right Hon. Lord Presi-
dent BLUE.

HArrox-GAnDEs.— Thursday evening, the Star,
veyor, Bricklayer, Carpenter, and the Chairman of
the Committee of Paving, for the parish of St. Cle-
ment's Danes, attended before Mr. GRAHAM, in con-
sequence of a bill of indictment having been found
against them at the last Middlesex Sessions, fur a
nuisance, in stopping up the thoroughfare of the
Strand several months, for the purpose of digging an
ice-well, for Mr. Moussard, a confectioner, adjoin-

ing the Crown and Anchor Tavern.
Mr. Collier, the Vestry Clerk, attended for thc De-
fendants, and observed, that he thought the Gentle.
men who had preferred the bill of indictment must

be mad.
Mr. GRAHAM stated, that he had been applied to
months since, by a number of persons,.respecting the

nuisance.
Mr. Collier said, that when leave was given to dig
the well, there was not the least idea that the public
would experience the least inconvenience, except from
the erection of a common hord, or leave would not
have been granted.—The disagreeable circumstances'',
that had resulted from it, were entirely owing to un-
foreseen and unavoidable accidents, such as the falling
in of the ground, digging to a very strong spring, so
much so, that now the well was complete, it was from
twelve to fifteen feet deep of water, and if this could
not be prevented, the well would be rendered useless,
although it had cost Mr.Moussard £l5OO and when he
began the work it was only estimated at about £l5O.
Mr. GRAIL‘m held them to bail, themselves in £lOO
and two sureties each in £3O. _ _

THAMES PoLtm—Thursday Geert Tohiat, master
of a Dutch vessel, was convicted in the penalty of
401. and the forfeiture of his vessel, for having wil-

fully landed an alien, at Holy Haven, not being one
of the ports mentioned in his Majesty's Proclamation
of August 12, 1803. •
MARLBOROUGH-ST/ME-T.—Ai. "Akins, alias StarLy,
Sam. Collins, alias Jasper, and Thomas Cavell, alias Pretty
Jad, were on Thursday examined on a charge of
burglary in the house of the Countess Dowager of
Morton, on the sth of October. The burglary will
be remembered by the circumstance of one of the pri-
soners having been wounded in the arm by a pistol-
shot, and the other having broken his leg whilst ef-
fecting his escape. Cavell was afterwards taken.—
The wounded prisoners had been removed from St.
George's Infirmary to Bridew•ell until they should be
sufficiently recovered to be examined. The evidence
brought forward was exactly to the effect of what was
stated at the time of the burglary being committed.
Budgehill and Foy corroborated what had been stated,'
and the former identified Starkey, whom he had be-
fore seen in custody. He also proved, that Cavell
was in company with the others in Park-street.—
Owen O'Brian, a watchman, proved having taken
jasper, after he had jumped from the wall of Lady
Morton's house. He complained of having been
wounded in the arm. They were fully committed,l
with the exception of Cavell, who was remanded for
another examination. John Foy charged Jasper with
breaking out of the dock at the Westminster Sessions,
a few months since, he having been convicted of an
attempt of burglary, with Cavell the other prisoner,
and sentenced to six months imprisonment.