Star.
London, England, 1822-12-28 00:00:00

WINTER HOME mecum.

•- LEWES, DRICRMBRIt N. • •
R. Weston and G. Eastwood were indicted for wil-
fully setting fire to a barn in the occupation of Mr.
-John Flurry. •
The prosecutor resides on a small farm of his own
near Burwash. On this farm there was a barn con-
taining nearly all the hay and•corn which he grew in
the present year. About midnight on Sunday, the
10th oh. the barn was discovered to be on fire. The
prosecutor, his servant, and a great Many persons
from the town were soon collected together, and
every exei thin was made to save the property ; but
only a few sacks of wheat, and about a load of wheat
sheave::, with sonic implements, could be saved—the
remainder, with the barn, was destroyed.
Among those collected upon the. occasion were the
prisoners, who assisted in endeavouring to save the
propel ty, and at that time no suspicion was enter-
tained against them, and iNvas only from a concur.
rence of suspicious circumstances that they were sub-
sequently suspected.
The prosecutor is one of the Overseers of the Parish
cf Rurwash, and was in the habit of attending the
Select Vestrie.,; the prisoners are paupers of On
Par ish. It having been strongly recommended by
the Magistrates that the Overseers should riot grant
relief to paupers who have gt own-up daughters at
home dressed above their condition, and the prison.
ers being so situated, the Select Vestry frequently
told them that they should not be relieved until their
daughters went into the poor-house. On Saturday,
the 2d ult. We lon demanded relief, which was re-
fused on the grounds above stated ; the prisoner then
suspecting Mr. Flurry, the prosecutor, to be the cause
of the refusal, became very inveterate against him,
and, on aliplication to Mr. Westover, the Assistant
Overseer, several times in the course of the ensuing
week, used to that gentleman the most abusive lan-
pute,e towards Mr. Flurry. On Thursday, the 7th,
Weston was heard.to say, I wish I knew my friend,
(meaning, as it was supposed, the prosecutor) tl-.n.
seize my blood, if I would not do a job for hinkand
give him the length of my tongue." On Sattirday,
the 9th, Weston was at the house of Mr. Gilbert. one
of the Select Vestrymen, and then said to Lucy Wood;
servant to Mr. Gilbert, that "Mr. Flurry was fibre
against him than any one else—that he should not
sun ve—and that. he should go about in the 'day-
time to see what he could hook at night *;" and, on
her asking him why he did not do it in the day..

time ? he answered, " Because I shall be observed."
In the evening of the same day he said to Mr. West-
over, " I think Mr. Flurry is the man who has pre-
vented my being relieved ;" and afterwards, " if there
is any sin in these great b--s starving the poor, I
thing they will have a great deal to answer for;' and
as he was leaving the house, he said, << Mr. Frurty is
my enemy, d—n his heart !" In the afLernoon of the
10th (the day the barn was burnt), Weston was again
at Mr. Westover's ; and on being refused relief upon
the same grounds as before, said, in a very malicious
manner, speaking of the prosecutor, " I'll be d—d to
hell if I be not a match for him before to-morrow

night." Under these circumstances Weston was taken
before a Magistrate on the 14th ; it then transpired,
that on the night of the fire, Weston, who lives 'be-
tween fifty and sixty rods from M. Flurry's barn,
ent, after supping at home at nine o'clock, to East-
wood's. lie was remanded until the 18th, for re-
examination ; when Thomas Clifton stated, that on

the sth, after having some convelsation with East-
wood about parill business, he (the prisoner) said,
that if he could get a couple of gond hearty fellows,
he would set fire to the barns of Mr. Flurry and Mr.

Button. Upon this information Eastwood was also
apprehended ; as be was being taken before the Ma-
gistrate, however, he ran away, but was overtaken,
and brrnigl.: back : it was thought rather a suspicious
circumstance against Weston, that, although he was
alarmed as soon as his neighbours, he was not at the
barn until half an hour after them ; upon evidence of
this nature, the prisoners were committed for trial,
on which occasion, evidence was given of the same
facts, and, in addition, . _ _

ciusic the shopman missed the property, and suspected
the prisoner, who was 'apprehended at a-short dir
taiice from the shop, when.he said he would give up
the watch if they would let him go. No promise was
made, but he subsequently gave up the property.
The Learned Junoe summed up, and the Jury re-
turned a verdict—Guiky—Death..
His Lordship then proceeded to pass sentence of
death on the fallowing prisoners :
David Raglest. aged
.86, for passing forged notes ; William
Again, 24, William Stiibberfield, 18, and James Miller, 41, for
burglaries ; Moses Chandler, 28, and James Crossingham, 24,
for horse-stealing ; and Daniel Murray, 14, for felony.
If to these be added the 15 .on whom sentence of
' death was passed on Monday and Tuesday, there
will appear to have been convicted at these Assizes,
for capital offences, not less than half .the prisoners
that have been tried ; the Calendar originally con-
tained 50 pi isoners, but true bills were found by the
Grand Jury against 43 only, and the number of those
capitally convicted is 22.

The Learned JUDGE having thanked the Jury for
heir attention, the Court adjourned at two o'clock.

A robbery of 20 coombs of wheat was effected last
week at Sibton• Mr. White, the proprietor, a few
days after received the sacks, with a note containing
the following lines:—

•' We have got your wheat,
And you can't find it ;
'Twas a famous wind
ihat help'.l to grind it."

Wednesday se'enight, J. Hartland, waggoner of T.
IlAtes, Esq. of Coddington, was committed to jail
for a month, for beating his master's horses with a
pike, whereby he so seriously injured one of that it
died in about seven days.

BOW-STREET.—A young man was charged by a Gentleman in
partnership with Mr. Collier, an. Attorney, with riding away
with his horse. The complainant was riding, on Thursday af-
ternoon, through Kensington, when the horse fell lame, which
induced him to alight, when he discovered a gravel stone be-
tween his hoof and shoe. The prisoner assisted, with the ferrule
of his umbrella, to get it out, but could not succeed, and, while
he was gone to borrow a hammer, the pristmer mounted the
horse and rode off; which he explaiued,ip-his.defence,hy saying
he had a box with some feathers, at which the horse took fright,
and ran away with him, over ploughed fields, &c. ; he at-length
found his way home, on Clapham Common, where he resides
with bis mother, and had the horse taken care of. lie also ac-
counted for his mounting, by saying he was ih a state of intoxi-
cation. Yesterday morning, when he recolk cteil the circum-
stances, he sent an advertisement to be inserted in a Newspaper,
for the owngr to apply for his horse, and rode to London for that
purpose, when he met the complainant in Piccadilly, who took
him into custody. The prisoner produced the manuscript of the
advertisement, to prove the correctness of his account. The
complainant being induced to believe his defence, did not press
the charge. The young man acknowledged tb impropriety of
his conduct, and, after a suitable admonition front the Magi-
strate, was discharged.

thamphreys deposed, that on the evening of the
10th of November, he was at Eastwood's house, and
a short time before witness' left, Weston came, and
said, " he had come to his word, to know if East-
wood had been to Mr. Davenport, the Magistrate."—
East wood said he had, but could get nothing of him;
Weston replied, that he would have a living by fair
means or foul, and that he bad just given old Jack
Ketch Westover a good blowing up, and that he
should like to send old Flurry, and all the rest of
them, to hell ; Eastwood said, if he'd a gun he would
go and shoot twenty of them ; witness then left the
house alone, and as he passed the chapel near Well-
field-style, between nine and ten o'clock, he saw
person whom he took to be Weston, but as he did
not answer witness when he said good night, he
could not swear positively that it was the p: isoner ;
as witness passed Eastwood's house, about ten o'clock,
he saw his daughter, who told him her father was
gilne to bed.
Ann Clifton, wife of T. Clifton, remembered the
night of the 10. h of November; she went to bed be-
tween seven and eight o'clock, and was awaked in
the night by her little boy, who told her of the fire;
she then heard a person run down the lane by her,
house, the back door of which opened in the lane
he stopped at about eight yards from Weston's back-
door ; the window of the room in which witness slept
was so situated, that if a person had knocked at
Weston's door she would not have heard it ; the lane
is not a thoroughfare, it ends near Weston's ; about
hell an hour before the alarm of tire, witness heard
Weton's wife say " get a light," or " put out the
light."
No defence was attempted, and the Learned
Judge recapitulated the evidettce very minutely, and
si:mnied up the case, %%ben the Jury returned a ver•
diet of—Not Guilty.
Os Lordship then addressed the prisoners init feel-
ing manner, upon the unjustifiable expressions they
had used towards those who had contributed to their
support in times of great distress.

D. Murray was indicted for stealing a gold watch,
and chain, value twenty pounds, the property of V.
Silvani, of Brighton.
The prisoner, who is only LI, went to the prose-
enures shop, on the murniug of _the sth instant, and
pur,;:lased a gold pin. lle caned twice afterwards,
the same d.ry, on some trilling pretences; and about

ROBERT BURIVS.

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- Everything connected with the life or memory of
Ayrshire's departed Bard, whether in the farm di
anecdote, unpuljished rhymes, or in the more tangi-
ble shape of oaken rafters, cups, and punch-bowls,
being now sought after with the greatest avidity, we
feel a pleasure in giving publicity to the following,
anecdote of the Poet, as related in our hearing a few
week's ago, by a medical gentleman of the highest
respectability, to whom the accompanying versos
were addressed. In the summer of 1714 the Gee-
tlenian referred to, who then resided at .hfauchline,
and enjoyed the personal friendship of the Bard, was.
met by him one forenoon, and invited 'Pi attend the
anniversary meeting of a Masonic Lodge, about *to
be celebrated at Tarbolton. The Doctor could not
then give a decisive answer, but tequested Bytom to
send him a note previous to the air), fired for the
meeting. He soon afterwards,received the following
Metrical invitation, which we copied from the origi-
nal manuscript :
Friday first's the day appointed,
By our Right WorAipful anointed,
To held our grand procession;
To get a blade o' Johnuie's morals,
And taste a swatch o' Manson's barrels,
I' the way of our profes4itna:
Our Master and the brotherhood
Wad a' he glad to see you ;
For me, I wad be mair than proud,
To share the mercies wi' you.
If Dcath, then, scaith then,
Some mortal heart is heehtin,
Inform him, an' storm him,
That Saturday yell feght him !
Mosgiel, June 14, A. M. 1793. ROBERT BURNS.

A sue n COACIIMAN.—The driver of a hackney-coach appeared
to answer the complaint of Lord W. Lennox.
Ills Lordship, on Monday night, was at Drury-Lane Theatre,
and at five minutes after twelve desired one of the box-keepers
to get him a coach. Some time afterwards he went down, got
into the coach, and ordered the coachman to drive into Man-
chester-square, where they arrived before one o'clock, and his
Lordship tendered half-a-crown fur the fare—the time being
within the hour. Coacher:, however, insisted upon five shillings,
alleging that he was engaged soon after eleven o'clock. His Lord-
ship would not sutler this imposition ; and coachee, not being
aware of his quality, gave his Lordship in charge to a watch-
e-an, who, sans cerensonie, carried, or rather handed the young
Lord to Mary-la-bonne watch-house! where he paid the extor-
tionate tare demanded, and was suffered to depart in peace.
Coaches', in his defence, pleaded that he was called at twenty
minatee past eleven, and was therefore entitled to the money he
demanded; but not being able to prove this, he was fined in the
penalty of forty shillings; being unable to pay, he was committed.
Maesrow-House.—Yesterday Mr. Pritchard, the Secretary of
the Society for the Sisppreuion of Vice, applied to the Loun Maeoa,
stating that a great nuisance had existed at the corner of Gilt-
spar-street, which was occasioned by placards of the worst
description that were daily hung out in the front of Carlile's
shop, in consequence of which the pavement was from morning
to night blocked up by the crowds of idle and ignorant people
which they attracted, to the great benefit of the pickpockets.—
Ilia Lordship read over Mr. M. A. Taylor's Act, which ap-
peared to hits to provide for such obstructions as were occa-
sioned by the things often hung in the fronts of green-grocers
shops, for instance; and others where the projection was often
very considerable. But it did not clearly appear to him to pro-
vide for such cases as the present, where the projection, and the
obstruction occasioned by the projection alone, appeared to be
inconsiderable. His Lordship desired to know what definitive
pleasures Mr. Pritchard wished hint to take? Ile thought chat
the Commissioners of Pavements were the persons to whom ap-
plication should be made.—Mr. Pritchard suggested that parti-
cular instructions should be given to the Police to watch the --
spot, and take down and convey such placards to the Green-
The following anecdotes of this Minister, who has
yard, as nuisances.—Mr. Hobler laid that had been already
11 st received his dismissal from the French Cabinet, are
donee.—The Lotto Maros said that he felt as much as any one
the odious nature• of the nuisance, and he would go to the full contained in a letter from Paris :—The Baron. Munt-
extent of the law ;but at the same time he would not go beyond morency has taken the fate created Duke of the same
the law. The party must have notice to abate the nuisance, and name to task, and told him that he acted more like a
he (the Lord Mayor) could have no cotitroul over them, until
..
that notice was disobeyed, when the matter might be brought parvenu than like one of the ancient family of Mont
before him upon the oath of a credible witness, who would swear moienCy, to whom belongs the title of the first Chris-
that the placards overhung the area. ti an Baron, in taking the title of Duke ; that, at least,
if be had so inordinate a desire for a Dukedom, he
Rhea Poker, the guard of the Exeter coach, underwent a
final examination, and was fully committed. No new evidence
should have taken the title from an estate, and not
was offered.
Hareoe-Geantee—The time of the Magistrates was princi- have given such a scandal to the French Noblesse
pally occupied yesterday in adjusting disputes arising from Christ- as that produced by the title of Duke de Mont-
mas gambols. One poor devil was brought from the watch- trim eirey. The consequence of this reprimand bas
Louse, who was found lying, in a state of drunken stupidity, close •
ueen that the Duke wrote to the Editors of the
to tile railing, in Red Lion-square, without hat, shoes, necker-
chief, or money, all of which he had been robbed of. The Ma-
different Journals, conjuring them to call hits) for
gistrate told hint he hoped the less would operate as a warning the future, Duke Mathieu de Montmorency ; in or-
to him, and ordered his discharge. The other disputes were der that all the world may know and clearly under-
principally between Irishmen, and were totally uninteresting. stand that it is not the first Christian Baron who has
CIer.EN•SQUARE.—Boxing-day was, as usual, its Westminster, demeaned himself by accepting a modern Dukedom..
productive of a host of prisoners an disorderly charges. Some
-
of them not being sober when brought up, were remanded with-
Another curious anecdote of Duke Mathieu is as fob.
out examination. A private in the Guards was committed, in loses:—ln 1802, seeing that Bonaparte was all power-
default of bail, fur assaulting a publican, who refused to obey his , fid, he thought that the true French Noblesse was
calls for liquor, knowing he had no money. annihilated for ever, and lie detet mined that the race
Mr. Spark, a fashionable young man, charged his chart antic,
of the Montmorency s should cease, as it was no longer
whom he said he had raised front poverty to a state of splendour
and luxury, with assaulting him. Latterly, on every frivolous , possible for them to be born noble. He was then
;
occasion, she would seize a razor to cut his throat, load a pistol married to a Lady of twenty-five:years of age but in
to shoot him, saddle his horse and ride out alone, .&c. The consequence of this resolutam, he made a vow of
Magistrate would not interfere ; and the lady, who had fre-
chastity to the Virgin. Madame de Stall, his hlti-
queenly mooned, was discharged.
mate friend, x.vas the confidante of this continent vow,
LASIZTII-S2REItt was an information preferred by
and, it is entd, was in raptures of admiration at it.
Martin, the informer, against Joseph DivigQ and Wawa Ifidkins,
drivers of two Stratford Opposition Coaches, wherein they were i But in 1816, when M. Montmorency saw that the
each charged with furiously driving their coache'' seasto t."- Bourbons were pretty solidly established in France,
danger the lives of his Majesty's tibj,xts, ard the property of i
and that the Noblesse was again likely to flourish,
their employe's. The defendants were sever:ire; covvic:eddn the
penalty of Al% the same to be paid in fourteen d; ;s, otherwise / more than ever, he repented bitterly of this vow,
a Warrant of Distress would•be healed, and in case of no effects which was to deprive the world of little Aloutmo..
being found, they would he committed for three months each to rencys. He applied to the Papal Court for a the.
the House of Correction. Ipensation, but was exhorted to follow example
UNION-HALG—Three men, named. anbr.,y, Roberts, and C.
of the Apostles and primitive Bishops, who, shaving
Austin, were charged with having burglarrously entered and
robbed' several houses in the :naighboto hood of Walworth, on • made similar vows, never sought to be relieved from
Christmas Day. The latter prisoner, who also exercised the then) ; however, M. M. persisted in his demand, and
calling of body snatcher, had only been liberated a few days pre- after a delay of eight months, and the payment of
ceding on a charge of attempting to disturb the dead in the
twelve thousand francs, the Pope granted him per.
church-peel of Newington. The three prisoners were coo-
mission to continue the race of tl.e Montniorencys.
mined for trial at the next Assizes for the County.
Thursday evening, a gentleman of the name of
Co r., living in the neighbourhood of Covent-Garden, We are sorry to announce the death of Lady
A PREECE, which took place on Thursday last, after
while rAasing along Bart-street, fell down and in-
os-
stain'', expired. A Coroner's inquest was held last. a short illness, at her-residence in South-street, Gr
`senor square.
night. erdict, Natural Death.