Star.
London, England, 1824-09-17 00:00:00

MA RY-LA-BONNE.

A singular case Was heard at this Office on Monday and Wednes-
day last. It was is the form of a charge of robbery, preferred by
a Frenchwoman, calling herself Virginia Penot, against Mr. Askew,
a respectable tradesman in Oxford-street. It appeared in evidence,
that the prosecutrix was in the employ of the prisoner for some
time previously to and sip to May last, when, by his permissive,
she went to Cheltenham. She stated that she left, locked up in a
drawer of a bureau in hxr rAnn, a number of articles her property,
particularly some trinkets wrapped up in a billet dour, from a No-
bleman. On her return, she found the lock had been picked, and
the property taken away. The .sillet dour was in the possession of
Mr. Askew, and there was tont! evidel:ce of his having employed
an Irish smith to pick a lock.
Miss Deulard (a French lady, in the enteloy of Mr. Askew) gave
her evidence through au interpreter. She knows Miss Perot. She
had seen in her possession coral and 'amt er necklaces, rings, and
ear-rings. One ring in particular, with the portrait of the Emperor
of Russia. (Some rings set with brilliants were handed to witness).
She thought them like those she bad seen in Miss Perot's possession.
Mr. Askew shewed 'her a letter. It was signed S. V. hat is net
quite certain. It contained something about " blue eyes and black
eyes." On being asked to explain what this meant, she said the
French Nobleman wrote to Miss Perot, " If you hate a boy with
blue eyes, and I have black eyes, you must find a father with blue
eyes te maintain it." Witness received from Mr. Askew i,sno
francs a year.
The Sitting Magistrate cottidered that a suffizient case had been
made tout to jestify his sending it to a Jury ; and he according'y cons-
matted Mr. Askew to Newgats fur trial, and bound the parties
over to prosecute.

Cuanza usat.—ln the bfig Suhana,which arrived at this p6rt yes-
terday. from London, catne pattaenger,hlr.Joseph Price, of Wilinieg.
ton, Delaware, who was one of the crew of the brig General Gates,
of Boston, and was taken prisoner by the natives of New ZeaLnd.
The General Gates sailed from Boston in 1821, on a sealing 'torte,
and on the 10th of August following, Nu was landed with tve
others on the coast of New Zealand, to catch seals.—.liter remain.:
ing there six weeks, having procured 5,56 a skins, they were tam
by a party of natives of New Zealand, at ten or eleven o'clock at
night. The natives set fire to their huts, burnt their skins, and de-
stroyed their provisions, sot knowing the use of them. They then
tied their hands behiud them, and marched them to Looking Glass
Bay, a distance of more than a hundred and fifty miles. They had
nothing to eat but roasted fish. They were then marched two
hundred miles to Sandy Bay, where they found a collection of
savages, who carried them before their King and Queen. As soon
as they arrived, one of their number,John Rawterof London, was
ordered to be killed. lie was tied to a tree, and struck nis the
head by two savages, armed with clubs. His head was cut off old
buried, and the rest of the body they roasted in a kind of oven
under ground, and offered to the survivors to eat; and haafog
nothing else, they were forced by hunger to partake of it. 'lies'
tied the remaining five to a tree, with fifty men to guard them.
IThe next day, James IVeb:•ter was killed anti roasted; the city
after, William Rawson, of New London; and the day thee,. Wit-
ham Smith, of New York, shared the same fate. The twat day,
from what they could learn from the chief, James West, of New
York, was to die; but the night previous, a heavy squall rose from
the east, with thunder and rain, which so frightened the natives,
that they all ran away to the West, with a hideous nose, leaving
the men tied under the tree. They succeed-d in ua:)icg them-
selves, escaped to the shore, found their boat, in which they put to
sea without provisions. They were not thirty yards from the shore,
when they saw 700 savages coming in search of them. They had
been three days in the boat, when they were picked up by the brig
M ,Margery, Captain White, of Sidney, New South Wales, at which
place they were landed on the lOtis of November.—Bastan (Unita
States) Daily Advertiser.

BIRTH.
Sept. 9, at Sandwich, the Lady of the Rev. W. Rlvryp, of a sc>:•

• I)IED.

Sept. 12, at his seat, near Southampton, aged 73, the nee. Sir
C. Rich, Batt.

Sept. u, at Edinburgh, isabeila, eldest daughter of the lase Per,
Andrew Chatto, of Alainhou•e.
AltainlAy, at Brough 11at1, Lady Catherine Lawson, aged .7.4#
wife of Sir Henry Lawaaon.

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