Star.
London, England, 1809-10-05 00:00:00

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had irregularly issued, enneecpsently the plaintiff was
entitled to a; verdict; the astsebneof the dalak&s wds
therefore the single question.
The Jury consulted a few miftutels, and returned a
verdict for the plaintiff--Damages £2O.

Tuesday, st female infant was found at Eaton, near
Bromley, cleanly dressed, and carefully protected
from the weather, and which is rather singular in.such
cases, its pitiable state so wrought on the compeasion
of the neighbours that au amicab:e contest arose for
its protection, till at length it was decided in favinit
of a widow tidy, who, having no children of her own
chearfully accepted the charge, and professed-her in-
tention of.having it baptized by her own name.
Thursday last as George .Tames, an industrious
waterman, of King's-stairs, Rotherhithe,wasreturning
from Gravesend. in his open wherry, accompanied by
ltis'son; a youth near fourteen years of age, whom he
had taken.tO initiate into the duties of-Ws occupation,
on a sudden, by a violent gust of wind, his boat was
upset, and they were both drowned: He has left a
:widow and five helpless children to bewail their hap-
less situation.
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Saturday Joseph Cresweller, a boy of abut fifteen
years-of age, caught a hawk at Hayling Island,
4ampshire, which, as is the custom in the country,
he was showing about at the houses, to obtain a tri-
fling reward for having freed the inhabitants of a foe
which is so destructive to their poultry, &c. George
Colebroke, another lad of about the same age, of a
passionate malicious temper, forcibly attempted to
take the bird from him ; and after knocking him down,
he knelt upon him with such violence, th.►t Cresweller
died in two hours afterwards. Coroner's verdict--
Afax.rlaug!ilerb
A the son of Mr. Rob.:rts, ironmonger, in Word-
street, was cleaning his gun, on Monby evening, npt
knowing k was loaded, by some accident it went off ;
the contents were lodged in his body, and he died
two hours afterwards.

Monday night-, thelonse of Mr. T. Biggs, a tallow-
chandler, at Acton, was broke into by a young wo.
man, named Mary Harris, who had some time since
lived in his house as.serv.nt. She had broken seve-
ral panes of glass in one of the windows at the back
of the.house, and by that means removed the fasten--
ings of the Shutter;, and obtained admittance. She
then proceeded to break open two cupho,trds, and
took out six tea and two silver table spt;oos„ a pepper
castor, and a /21. note. liavg ransacked the hose
of every valuable at title that she could hide about her
person, she deliberately kindled a fire in the kitchen,
and made herself a cup of tea. By this time, the
watchman, who was going his rounds, discovered the
demolition of the back windoW, and gave the alarm.
Mr. Briggs immediately began to search • the house
for the concealed thieves. Finding herself detected,
and without the me ins of escape, she confessed the
robbery, and prodaned the property. She
.was then
taken into custody, and fully ccmmitted or trial.

Bot•-srosiiv.---:Four men, named .lone.r, Oforriss
Brown,. and Crouch. were on Tuesday brought up, nn
a charge of stealing twn compasses from the shop of;
Mi. Proler, optician, Prince's•street, Soho.
Mrs. Parker state 4, that the two latter, one of
whom had a wooden leg, and dressed as a seaman,
asked to see a compass, which ihey agreed to pur-
chale for lts. but omits being packed up, they said
they.would no: give 'more thin 7s. which Mrs. Par-
' ker refused to :ake. They then went away, and im-
mediately after Mt s. P. missed two compasses of con-
siderable value, o►te of which had been in the window,
and the other on the floor, a few minutes lycfore.—
. She then went out for the purpose of going to Bow-
st-eet, to give information, and as she passed through
Leicester-share, she saw the two men who had been
iat her shop with three' others, and having lodged her
tll::rmation, with a description of the pi isowrs, they
inn: apprehended that night. They were all cont.
mitted for re•ertminatif•n.

-NIASMON Hour. —Yesterday S. Brown was MCC.
arnined, on acharge of obt.tininz; books under false
pretences.
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Sev..ral booksellers steed, that the prisoner and
Ws brother had obtained books from thLm, pretend-
ing to be sent from Mr. Bourn, a bnokseller, but hav-
ing applied for several not yet published, it led to a
su'picion of the fraud, and the prisoacr Was takcn
into cu•tody.
Mr. Bourn deposed, that he never give the.pri.io-
ner 'any authority for this purpose ; nor was lin em-
ilofed by him at the time. The prioncr's- fiends
sacited the 1.4.WD MAYOR to Stare' him to he sent
to sea ; but this his Lordship refused, and remanded
him fcr another examination.

HALL—A .Knight of the Co;',Z who resides
at I•kw Cross, near Deptford, applied, a fkvr days
ago, for a summons against Mr Ingleby, better
known as the Kiag ot the Conjurors," to recover
the value of a number of wigs of different patterns.—
The cause came on 0 be heard yesterday, when the
plaintiff stated, that he was sent for, a few days since,
to operate according to his art, on the Ai? of Mr. De-.
mee, master of the New.cross- Coffee-house, when,
knowing it to be a well-accustomed house, he deter-
mined to make a trading excursion of it, and for that
purpose packd up such an assortment c.f scratches,i
bola, Brutus's, and full-ha:toms, a:.; he thought would
hit the fancy of every customer ; he placed the box
containing them in-the bar, and commenced his ope-
ration on the chin of the landlord ; his progress, how-
ever, was soon suspended, by the sudden disappear.,
ante of the' box of 'wigs, which vanished in such a
manner that he was convinced the Drtid or a as!jii-
rfor must have had a hand in it ; and being informed
that a person who had just quitted the room was the
famous King of the Conjurors, be frAsinclincd rather
to give him the cie,;i't of being concerned.than the
first mentioned
.gentleman. The wi4s, however, by
some means" had found their way back to the barßer's
saiole--and the defenlant having answered the charge
to ;the perfect
.satisfactioh of the Magistrate, Mr.
Ftim, he dismissed ette complaint, but advised the pro-
sectitor, if w he. vas not satisfied, to apply to his Attor-
ney, who would advise him how to proceed.
Ttraiteu Pottbe OPF.mc..---Yesterday, Elizatrth
liawell fru: fUlly commit ted,,chargod by Mr. Kyle,
linnert-draper, in:Xatelia-highway, with buying a
trilling article at his shdp, when she stole a piece of
muslin ; from then.ce She went ta.• another shop, in
Cannon-street-road, ; nd stole 26 yards of eerie., which
were found upon her, for which she ;wet ordered to
ha detained. Upwards of foiay pawnbrokers dupli-
cates were found -upon her, supposed to be the prob
duce of stolen lirpperry.