Star.
London, England, 1814-03-19 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE ASSIZES.

A cause which has excited considerable interest in
this county, nod of great importance to all uninclosed
parishes, was expected to have come on at our pre-
sent Assizes, but an afEda%it having been made by
Mr. WEDD Nnsn, an attorney at Royston, one of the
defendants, that they could not with safety at pre-
sent proceed to trial, owing to the illness of an aged
man who would be a material witness for them, Mr.
Justice HEATH allowed, as a matter of course, the
trial to be put off till the next Assizes. The cause
above alluded to was one in which the commoners of
Hinxton were plaintiffs, and Mr. Wum NASH, an
attorpey at Royston, and Mr. JOHN QUAY, farmer of
Hinxton (tenants of the mancr farm in the said pa-
rish, under Mr. WILLIAId HOLUM, of Cambridge,
and claiming under him the right of ploughing up
the walks, or pieces of grass land in the open fields,
hitherto accustomed to be fed by the cows of the cot-
tage commoners) were defendants.

A melancholy accident occurred on Thursday
evening to two fine children, belonging to Mrs. Wil-
son, in Whitcomb-court, Whitcomb-street, Hay-
market, who, during the temporary absence of Mrs..
W. began playing with some lighted paper, which
immediately set fire to thew clothes, and, dreadful t 3
relate, they were nearly burnt to ashes. Their bodies
presented a scene too shocking for description.

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I.IIBLR S'OCIETT.

The Bath Bible Society was held at the Guildhall'
in that city, on Thursday, the lOtbinst. The Meet.
iq was numerous and respectable, and composed of
various religious denominations. •
Sir W. CocKeuaN, Bart. being in the Chair,
After the Secretaries had read their Report,
The Rev. Mr. Roamers (oi Bristol) addressed the
Meeting in a very eloquent speech, from which we
have extracted the following passage in the concLi.
sion, and which may 'not be uniuterestiag to Our
Readers. After describing the benefit and important
obieets of this Society, he adverted to the prt-Taga-
ti:m of Christianity an India, and concluded thus:
" The eloquence that flamed in the Senate was kind-
led at the fires of the sanctuary, and the idolator was
rt'sci,ed from the chains which were forging for his
ul. The shores of the Etstrin World cease to be

bounded by charters and prohibitions agrinst Chris-
tianity. The poor Ilindoo, when upon his parched
journey, and resting under the shade of his Banian
tree, may possibly he Seen in future taking the &We
from his pocket, and refreshing his weary spirits with
the information, how Gon commends is love :o man.
All India is now thrown open to the possibility of re-
ligious culture, to which this Society has already
turned a most benevolent eye. And now, Sir, what
a subject will the• state of this world afford for the
pen of the future historian ? Is it the kindness and
benevolence of man to man, and of nation to nation ?

The glaring side is that of enmity : war is the subject
Which fills nearly the whole ct our history. The first
accounts we have of mankind are but so many ac-
counts of their butcheries.' All empires have been ce-
mented in blond ; insomuch, that if we were to judge of

the individuals 'of our race by their conduct when
united and packed into nations, we might imagine
that every sortjaf virtue was foreign and unnatural
to the Minds of man. A late celebrated St itesman,
after roughly calculating the number of lives sacri-
ficed from the wars of Sevestris down to the day in

which he lived, uttered the following striking asser-
tion:—, I think, the numbers of men now tipott the

e irth are convened at about five hundred millions at
least : here then,' says he, ' the slaughter of man-
kind, on what may be called a moderate calculation,
amounts to upwards of seventy times the number
of persons this day upon the face of the globe.'—My
GOD (said Mr. Roberts) what a picture! And is
there notiiing that can possibly be produced to pre-
vent the perpetuity of this horror ? Yes, Sir !—Let
the energies of this Society be universally felt, and
the page of history will record the wolf lying down
with the lamb—the lion with the kid ; the sword
beaten into a plough-share, and spears into pruning-
. hooks ; the savage will relax his bow, and throw
away his quiver; the European shall break his sa-
bre • the bodies of men shalt no longer be the sheaths
of dagger's and swords ; and where the curses of war
have been ‘felt, even there shall the blessings of hea-
venly peace be felt ; they shall neither hurt nor de-
stroy, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of
the LORD. This Society, Sir, will ennoble and de

curate the reign of our revered Sovereign. Henry
- the Fourth of France once said, that he wished a
fowl boiling in the pot of every peasant. This has
furnished a subject of panegyric both for French and
English Statesmen. What might they have said, if
they had heard George the Thiid declare, that be
biped the time would come waer: there would not be
sepoor child in his dominions w1t1.,-.3t a Bible, and a
capactty to read it. May GOD > him a heavenly
crown, whenever Hz thinks it fit to take away that
which is earthly I—After all., that ever has, can, or
may be said of this Society, its merits will still ex-
ceed description. What au eloquent man once ex-
travagantly said of his fellow-creature, may here with
propriety be applied t--. The British and Foreign
Bible Society is a magnificent pyramid in the soli-
tude of time, which, in the face of wasting nations,
*rears itself as a lantlmark of the zeal and benevolence
of our Country—a pyramid beneath whose shade the
spiendoui of royalty might moulder, and around
whose summit eternity most play I'"

The Hedge Hyssop (GratiolaOfficinalis), and its
preparations, which have been found so highly bene-
ficial in Pulmonary Consumption, Asthma, and
Constitutional Cough, at the Phthisical Dispensary,
which has recently been established under the Pa.
• trpnage of the PRINCE REGENT, may be obtained at
the Chemical and Medical Hall, 171, Piccadilly, late
of Bedford-street, Covent Garden.
• Last week died, at a village near Rotherham in
Yorkshire, WILLIAM SOBIERVILLE, tsq. While dut
shooting, as be was getting through an aperture in a
thora hedge. in the act of jumping across the opposite
ditch, his foot got entangled in a slip of thorn that
•
!VAS fast in the hedge, and be fell, and struck his head
.against a stu'np that grew out pf the bank so vitt-
. leatly, as go cause a contusion of the brain, of which
be became tt victim in a very little time.
SINGULAR bitsraice.—The following we have co-
pied literally from the oriqtral letter, which was 'ad-
dressed to the Clerk of Si. Anne's, Liverpool, by a
person married at that church on the 10th ult.:
." Rev. •
M. who was married on last thursday to a whoman
calling herself Hellen Macer of K:rpy has been imposed upon
and &cavil her name was not what sties represented neither is
shee the person he expected her to b- though an exact likeness
her name is Margaret W— I here state the case honestly
and beg the favor of your advice.
" Nine years age. I wii.s in love" with a young whoman of the
Mime of name of Hellen Macer but from being unfortunate in
haisiness4 c.,ased.to pay my addres-es to her and lett the Cnu:'try
and Saturday previous to Our marrisgt. I unfortimatsly Me: this
• Margaret W-- shoe stopd ask'il me Low I V/43 a few c,..mpit-
went, past 1 told her she had the advantage of me but ohserv'd
visy is your nano,- Ellen it;e RIPSWiT In he alb mative I
then invited her m tsite a ease ol wine sLe consented when
seated shoe began to talk shout her Faber and Mother her rel.-
duos and particularly our last parting evsry tki.ig so accurate as
Vicar did not then appear the shitlow or a doubt In short I
. etijoad what .my heart tvishd for as an earnest of my future
happiness. Marriage then became the subgect of her conversa-
tion, at the same• time delareing &het d make herself .awaf if I
refused Lailetieoteti the time iix'd I was punctual the deed ..one
I had scarce tumid my error whet. shee down on her knees and
Contrast! slice Was not ;he "'Arson I took her, for hut hoped sliced
make me a good wife and used evry Art to reconcile me to what
',aqua- sod. though sbee has committed hargeray and Perjury
besortGonand map Jet do 1 fear the law is against nee It any
think tan to 'the bishop or 111 may way that
1p", may istii,ise 1 wil •olugy.pry all expenee but my finances
will aux admit tvinvs sivitiqg redress by titre catimmon outs oi.
• law , L will watt upon you at twelve.Oitiosit or may trowtt you
tray think souvemi,at. • • Yours Win. IS.
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/34 SO Oritt ss.ta onMrs. W. and iJ beg her pardon but
I ostaisselvirAarste tali to sestbor wayaelL •
" 14* inwintbid <ltrs
-119 T atm who. granted, the
4cea.ce but I have skint hint Pirsetnally.l.Bl4ll

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Baw-srtiss'r.--Yesterday,• tr. Drift'',fer, 70 years of
age, was charged with taking insurances in the State
Lottery, in a house in Marlborough-court, Carnaby
Market, and was convicted, and sentenced to six
months imprisonment. He had been only liberated
three days for a similar offence.

Sarah Ham and "Inn Farris were charged with rob-
bing Errima Bowen, on Thursday night, of a veil, a
scarf and a neckllce, inCatherine-swet, in the Strand,
and fully committed.

Mary Mit and W. Crl,:eler were charged with
being common utterers of forged Bank of England
no:es, and will) having a number of such found in
their possession. On searching their apartments in
Horn.alicy, Aldgate, over the staircase, between the
joists, ten £l, and five notes, were found. Mr.
Fist-., one of the Inspectors of the Bank, proved the
above notes to be forgeries, and the prisoners were
committed for further examination.

R. .Eartman and T. Powell were charged with steal-
ing a quantity of silver lace, the property of Messrs.
Lambert and M'Lauren, in Whitcomb-street, who
had sent it in a parcel to the White Horse Inn, Fet-
ter-Lane, to go by the Yarmouth Coach, where it was
stolen. The prisoners offered it for sale to a Mr.
Smith, in the Hop Gardens, St. Martin's-lane, whose
wife undertook to sell it for them, and took it to
Messrs. Rowland and Coben's, in Pantun-square, who
sent it to the prosecutors, and they discovered it to be
their own. Powell was admitted an evidence, and
Eastman was committed for trial.
Some curious circumstances came out at this Of-
fice on Thursday. A cObler, who works in a stall
under the Edinburgh Castle public-house in the Strand,
was charged by the Parish Officers of St. Martin's in
the Fields with deserting a young woman who was
pregnant by him, and who had become chargeable
on their parish. The woman •being near her time,
had sworn him to be the father ; and the Magistrate
asked him if he had any security to give the Pa: ish
Officers ?—if he had not, he must •be committed.—
The culprit, who appeared to be near 50 years of
age, replied, with much agitation, that he had no se-
curity to offer. A woman with an infant in her arms
then pleaded for him, stating that he had a wife and
a large family of children to maintain, and that the
young woman who was pregnant knew it : she said
she was his wife, and the child in her arms was his.
Another woman, with an infant in her arms, also,
advocated his cause. She was asked if she was an-
other wife ? which she denied, but s lid she was a
friend of the wife, and the infant in her arms was the
prisoner's and his wife's, it being a twin of that
which the wife had in her arms. The young woman
who was pregnant also pleaded his cause with much
energy, saying, that sooner than any harm should
come to him, she would leave the parish, and cease
to be chargeable to it. The Officers not being able
to resist the pathetic pleadings of the female orators,
consented to his dismissal, and he went off in triumph
with his three Sultanas.
IclatststoN HouSE.—A. Samuel and Levi, the for-
mer charged with breaking into the room of Moses
Piucas, in Gravrl•lane, Houndsditch, and stealing
from thence pearls and jewellery of the value of 4120,
and the latter for receiving the same knowing them
to be stolen, were brought up for final examination
yesterday, when Samuel was fully committed, and
Leiii discharged.

A most daring robbery, accompanied, with much
violence, took place, on Thursday evening, at the
house of Mrs. Seymour, No. 50, Upper Bakerstreet.
A woman called at the house about dusk with some
unmeaning questions, and soon after a well dressed
man rang, and inquired if a Captain who lives in the
house was within ? On being answered in the nega-
tive, he laid hold of the servant maid, when two other
fellows rushed into the house, and fastened the door.
The man who first entered the house drew a pistol
from his pocket anti demanded silence on pain of
death, and the servant was hurried into a back room,
where there was another feniale servant who was se.
cured. The robbers then proceeded to ransack the
house, and after more than an hour's search, they got
off with plate, jewels, &c. to the amount of betwixt,
three and four hundred pounds. From the manner in
which the house was robbed, the robbers did not ap-
pear to be regular workmen. J.4foy and Bennett at-
tended from Marlborough-street Office, and waited
there until midnight, but no trace was had of the
property. Mrs. Seymour was at the theatre at the
time of the robbery.
A letter from Grimsby, dated March 12, says—
" A tall, seafaring-looking Gentleman made his ap-
pearance here this morning ; said he had come from
on board a cutter in Grimsby Roads, and wanted
provisions; called upon a butcher, and ordered a side
of beef; said his Mate would be on shore very soon,
and would see it weighed, previously to being taken
on board ; borrowed eleven guineas of the butcher,
until the Bank was open, as this was early in the
morning ; then went to another butcher, ordered
another side of beef, presented a draft on his Agent
in London, ullich the butcher took and gave him
twenty guineas in change : the gedlentan then went to
the Qneett's Head Inn, apyeared in a great hurry,
could not stop breakfast, as be must see the beef on
board ; walked off, arid was met on the road near
Laceby ! ! Where he intends to ship the beef is un-
certain ; but as he has taken his departure from
Grimsby, it is not improbable he may give orders
elsewhere before he himself gets rhiltred."

DIED.
On-rksinesday, the Idth in•ta.nr, after a very short Illness,
Mrs. Her: ies, the Lady of Co!unel Herries, Cadogan•place.
I.ately,at•his hot. in Uosport, Car. James Lys, R.N.

BMI I'HFIELD MARKET, MARCH 18.
PZR ETON]; OF Bib. TO SINN Tits orem..
Beef ' 6, ' 411" to 7e. 4e I Veal 7s ad co 84 •64
Mutton. 7. 04 to 8s Od I P:.rk 74, OJ to Se 6d
Ile4Ntit, 620—Sheer, 1,570--:Caleeq, 100—Pip, 200.

OF HAY AND S I'IL4AV IN SMI I HFIEIL.U.
Meg. dour flay 41 Os to 51 O' I
Clover 51 Os to 61 101
Rwwen 01 Os to 01 Os Straw 11 lea to 4.1 Or

NEWCATE AND LEApENHALL MARKETS.
(Ay the Carcass)
Beef, per st. 41 Ed to OA 'Oil Veal - • is 04 en Is 441
Muttod a 54 '6AI to 7s :id I fork . E. 04 to 9.

• PRICES 011 WAY AND ST itAikVEXTERDAY.
se:jssies's. - worriellotz&-
Hay 'll} Os to. SI Os ad 1 Hay rn. • lit 4s to SI 7s
;um Ito ID al Ss, od IStraw - II 14s to II Ss
• - - • 1 66•41' ei • :411 Os to 71 lilt

PRIOR arson nr Ts' soievellilpiWr•
NNW SAGS. , NSW riNINTS.
'Coot • •71 'to* 'et th Koot, .0. to HI OS
Bovect 71 CO to II Its losses s2' 1111;toc1C4 IC4
Erse: 91 oi to 111 Os Farnham 141 Os' sip 101 C 4

RAW HIDES.
Best Heifers and Steers (per' Ordinary. Ss 44 to 4s Sd
stone) Ss 1541 to as 9d Market Calf - -14 s each.
Middlings, •Ss Od to Ss ad Esg.Horsa 14s Od to 16s Od
Shear Hogs, 79d to 144d..-4,aatb Skins, 00t1 to 00d

PRICE OF TALLOW.

St. James's Market 6$ 61 Town Tallow ills 64
Clare Market Os Od Yellow Russia 110 s Od
Whitecbapel Market 6s 6d White ditto 105$ cd
per stone of alb. ..----- soap ditto 106$ Od
Average 6s 7d Ditto rough 62s Od
Yellow Soap 112s—Mottled, 124s—Curl, 14.—Palo 009.
Price of Candles per dozen. 161. o.l—Moulds. tTs 64

PRICE OF LEATHER IN LEADENHALL MARKET.
Butte 234 25d Calf Skins sOd 344
Ditto 264 27d Ditto 38d 42d
Merchants' Backs 22d 230 Ditto 38d 42d
Dressing Hides 23d 250 Smell Seals 34d 36d
Fine Coach Hides 25d 2ei4 Large ditto, Ter dee. 1201 150 s
Crop Hides for cutt. 234 240 I Fanned Horse Hides 22d 25d
Ditto 45 to 50 lbs 22id 23k4 I Goat Skins 11 s snd