Star.
London, England, 1802-01-02 00:00:00

CRIM. CON.

The difcovery that has lately taken place in a
mon refpeetable family is truly affliaing to every
friend of morality and virtue. The Lady, wh,,
is the daughter of a mots refpeflable Baronet, and
the mother of (*even children, has hitherto patted
for a model of modelly and finod•condu•9, and the
charaaer of her hufbaud and all his family is as
amiable as any this kingdom boans of.
His fituation is peculiarly cruel, the fcandalous
commerce of Mrs. M. with his moll intimate friend,
a Clergyman, having commenced five years back,
fince which period it is impollible to filiatc the
children.

The abandoned mifcreant who has thus brought
forrow and thame into a refpeetable family, is
worfe that: a felon. In fuch cafes, the virtue of
fociety thould fupply the inadequacy of law. Such
a wretch thould be chaced from the intercourse of
good men to the communion of thieves, and rob-
bers, and murderers. The individual that coun-
tenances, and the family that admits him into its
circle, thould be branded with infamy. It is in
vain to profcribe crimes when the criminal is en-
couraged ; and what crime is fo great as this ?

Several years a,r,o, Mr. H , the only fon
of a Gentleman of confiderable landed property,

in confequence of repeated imprudences: had the
misfortune entirely to alienate the affetlionsof

his father. His diarcffes accumulated, and his

applications redoubled for reli:f ; hut every ave-
nue was choaked up to tendernefs and forgive-
nefs, and the unfortunate young man was aban-
doned by a rigorous parent to the five; ity of his
fate. At broken-hearted with remorfe,

trefs and defpair, he fell into a dangerous illnefc,
during which he was frequently vifited by fome
members of the family till he expired and was bu-
ried. So at kali thole perfons believed, and be-
lieved they had Peen fo. The whole, however, or
at leatl the confummation of this extraordinary I
fcene, was a delufion. Mr. H. whether in the
hope that his father, appealed and mollified by
this dreadful cataltrophe, might be induced to pay
his creditors, or plainly perceiving that he had no
other profpelt of avoiding being difinherited by
his unrelenting father, had had recourfe to the
aratagem we have defcribed. As foon as the fn•
neral was over, in which he performed to fignal
charaEler' lie withdrew to the Continent, where,
amongit the feveral adventures that befell him, it
is laid, poverty or fome other misfortune conducted
him into the (.4fickfilver-mines of Hungary, from
which mifery to rarely returns to the light of the
fun. _ _ _

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Mr. H. however, had very lately the good for
tune to effe4l, by lime method, of which we are
uninformed, his liberation from f.) horrible a pri-
fon, and is returned after a long Afence to this
kingdom. Finding his father had died in the in-
terval, and that his three Idlers were, as heirs at
law, in poireffion of the eilate, he is piny rejoicing
in the fticcefs of his policy, and claims an im-
menfe property, .Which can only be contefied by
difputing the identity of his perfon, of which how-
ever perfons of great rank and integrity arc tho-
roughly fatisfied. This Gentleman we underhand
to have formerly cut a very dillinguhhed fiyii e in
the kau moruk, and to have led the Ton of whim
and faihionable difripation.

About ten days ago a perfon, ftippored to be a
maniac, went to the QLieen's houle, and laid there
was a great deal of money owing him from Go-
vernment, and that he wanted jullice ; the fcr-
yams then perfuaded hi m to go away, but on Th urf-
day evening laf, coming again on the fame buff.
nets, and being extremely, troublefome, !delfts.
Baker and Bevan, two of her Majelly's porters,
detained him till Sayers, one of the Bow fireet of-
ficers, was fent for, who took him into cußody.
On examination the fame evening, before Sir RI-
, CHARD FORD, he Paid his name was Patrick Rn-

ney Nugent, and that he was formerly employed
at Cape Breton as Surveyor General, but left it
about tcn years ago, in order to fettle his account
with Government, which appears to be true ; and
that he was a man of extreme genius, having in•
vented a machine to find out the longitude. In
other refpeets he talked in a very incoherent man-
' ner, refuted to tell where he was born, and faid
that many attempts had been made to deßroy
him by throwing arfenic into his room through
engines and long tubes, which had got into his
finmach and lungs ; that vitriol 11.:d been poured
ihto his head through an engine ; and that me-
tallic traftors had been pradifed on him to take
away his life. At prefent he teems in great dif-
trefs ; but, as there cannot be a doubt of his being
in a deranged Rate of mind, he was ordered to be
fent to Tothill•fields Bridewell, and proper care
taken of him until his fituation can be exaelly at-
; certained. _ _ _ _

.....
On Wednefday there was a tolerable thew of
fat and lean cattle at Gloucefter Great Market,
which fold at fomewhat reduced prices. Lean
fheep and pigs were alfo plentiful, out fold at good
prices, though (tore pigs fell towards the dole of
the market.
On Saturday the 19th nit. a pair of faddle-bags,
belonging to a gentleman of Whitehaven, were
cut open, at the Crown Inn, at Peniith, (where
1 they had been left in one of the parlours) and
bank notes to the amount of Soo guineas taken
out. Sufpicion fell upon a certain perfon, who
had dined in the room that day. Proper (leps were
taken for making the difcovcry. Part of the pro-
perty was found upon him, and from his cpnlef-
fion, &c. nearly the whole was recovered, though
a confiderable part of it had lain expofed for two
hours under the gate way. of the Inn ! The of;
fender was committed to the Honfe of Correthon,
to take his trial at the next quarter feffions.
Thurfday morning George Ruffed, going on
board a Well Indiaman, lying off Rotherhithe,
with a box containing property for the Captain,
fell into the River,and was unfortunately drowned.
A young man, of the name of Rippon, was ac-
cidentally wounded in the leg, a few days ago, by
his companion's gun, whilfl (hooting upon Cart-
mel Fell. The hmb was tunputated, the young
man is fume dead.