Star.
London, England, 1813-11-03 00:00:00

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I3ow-sratrr.—..Yesterday • J. Plennmer,. one of the
letter-catrier of the Mile-End divisinn, underwent
a second' examintation, charged with stealing a num-
ber of letterviind their contents. Mr. Paititov,
-citci-f to the General Post-Office, stated, that tile
`-charge upon which the prisoner was original'
ought to this Qffiee, viz. for keeping a letter in his •
',possession containing a .ElO note, he should nor per.
sist in, as tlie letter was not opened, and it wkas pos.
sible for it to get into his possession by mistake busl
there were several others he thought it his duty to
bring, arising out of the number of letters that were
found open at his residence : and first, a. letter found
by Lavender, the officer, and the Comptroller of the
'Office, sent by T. Thompson, of Chelmsford, to J.
Mumford, purporting ti contain the halves of Bank,
notes, amounting; to £26; which helves were also
_found at the.pisoner's residence. Mr. Mumlorit
proved, that'lnk, •*.minot received she letter or its con-
'tents, and ptioifiletit The other halves, which he had
'duly reeeivecl,4o4 Which, on cow Paring, r responded.
R. Leal, a bitteiri of Mile-End, stated, that he had-
,a correspondent Hneklesdon, in Hertfordshire, who
remitted him a bill Of exchange. for ,Q 6, but which
did not come to hand. A letter found on' the pri4-",
"Ws premises be 'identified as intended. for
Several other charges of a similar nature were brought,.
,whea he declined saying any thing in his defence; and •
vie committed for further examination.
Friday two females went into the shop of Mr.
Cliarman, jeweller, in Piccadilly, -looked at a varety•
of trinkets, and at length fixed on a butterfly orna::
ment, but stated, that they had one at home resem-
bling it, and would call on the following day to'
compare them, and left the shop. &:ion after they
were gone, they missed an amethyst broach, of the
value of 60 guineas. Information was given at the
Office, and from the description of their persons, the.
officers strongly suspected them to be Mary George
ind Elizabeth her daughter, and in consequence, un
Sunday, Lavender, Adkins, and Vickery, accompa-
nied by the two shopmen, went to a house in Trafal-
gar-street, Walworth, the residence of Mrs. George
and ha- daughter, when the shopmen identified-them
to have been in the shop at the time the broach was
*stolen. The officers took them into custody, and
they were committed for further examination.

POLICE.'

Mu :DER.—Thursday evening, between eight and
niae o'clock, as &tic men were crossing in a boat tram
Hakiug Point to Angle, a dispute arose between two
of them, respecting the fixing of the rudder : when
one, at the name of Purdy, drew a cluip knife from
his pocket, and instantly stabbed the other in the
,hest, with such violence that the knife penetrated the
breast-bone, and considerably injured the lungs. The
assassin immediately leaped overboard, alid swam
ashore, but was instactly seized and taken before A.
J. SroKes, Esq. who fully committed him to Ha-
verdfordwest Gaol, to take his trial at the ensuing
Assizes.

FATA L FUGILISAL••••A battle of two hours and an
half's ;I.:ration took place on Solden Common, near
Colnbrook, on Saturday, in cortnquence of a dispute,
between Cellen and liunt, lal.Entrers, e‘hich termi-
nated in the death of the foaner by a fall.
A genteelly dressed man was coor.d dead in the
meadows leading from Watford to Totteridge, on
Monday morning, in a ditch of water. He turned
out to be the son of a gardener in Harnpstead•read,
and an apprentice to a jeweller in Cr:•wn-sti eat. He.
went to Watford to see a relation on Sunday, and is
supposed to have been drowned by accident on his
way to Finchley, where he intended calling on his
way home.
Monday se'nnight Robert Salmon, formerly dea-
con of the tailor incorporation of Perth, was found
dead by the side of the road near Goodly Burn.
Wednesday, James Proudfoot, a slater, fell from
the roof of a house of three storeys, on which he was
at work, in South-street, Perth, and was suseyerely
hurt, that he died in a few minutes.

Monday se'nnight, about eleven o'clock at night,
as Mr. Brown, an officer of the 31st loot, was visiting
his posts, he perceived symptoms of fire in the exten-
sive buildings of Abraham Martin, Esq. lately occu-
pied as a distillery, at the east end of Derry, and
giving an immediate alarm, the flames were liappily
got under with trifling damage to the buildings, but
with the loss of a considerable quantity of excellent
unthreshed wheat.

Ftiday se'nnight a fine schooner, belonging to Lal-
beattie, laden with lime, caught tire in the water of
Ihr. So quick was the action of the water on the
4ime, that four men, who were asleep in the cabin,
had hardly time to escape before she was in flames.
No sooner had they avoided the impending danger,
than they recoil mil the affecting situation of a bey
who sleet in the forecastle ; but untortnnately nothing
could be done to extricate him from his lamentable
fate, till he was stiflvd to death. .The vessel was
total y vaisurned. - - - _

We understand that the public derive the following
most extraordinary advantages by the use of the Et-
TENT ANTI-ATTIIMON COMPOSITION, sold at No. 40,
Charing cross : For instance, to work a steam-en-
gine of 50 horse power, with tallow, it requires in
:.acking tl.e piston at least 12s. worth, after whiCh it
will requile the same quantity every 12 hours, till
the engine is fresh pack'd, which it must be at the
end of six weeks, if the work is heavy, and continued
12 hours each day ; consequently besides the cost of
oil, packing, labour, loss of time, wear and tear, the
..xpence will exceed 422. The same engine, to per-
form the same work, will require to pack the piston,
eight guineas worth of the Composition, with wlnich
it will work cool and well, for upwards of a quarier
of a yei-r, without either tallow, oil, or any kind of
.grease, Rnd without any other application than about
2i. w. rth of the Composition daily ; therefoie the
expence o (working three months with the Cumposi.
ion will t3t weed £l5. 12s. ; whereas, to work
ti ids tallowohe.expence, in that article only, will ex-
:eed £44 ; and the public have still greater advan-
tages, by using the Composition to the rigging of
slum instead of tar, " parceline, and service ;"—to
instead of a plat, service, or rounding to
ineserve wood and wooden buildings,- from the
weather, worm, and dry-rot; to mills, machinery,
c.ariages, coaches, carts, and waggons; and •it ap-
plied to ships' bottoms, instead ct copper, £250 worth
of it, is equal to £l7OO worth of that article ; and it
also saves fuel in working steam-engines, and rm.
ders them perfectly steam-tight.