Star.
London, England, 1812-09-04 00:00:00

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*Dew-entarr.—Wednesday afternoon, a person was
brought in the custody of another man, who suted
that he had met his prisoner in the street, and had
brought him there in consequence of his having de.
fronded him of a sum of money some time since.—
On Mr. NARES investigating the charge, he discover-
ed that the transaction Mounted to a debt ; and on
an explanation of the connection of the parties, it ap-
t yeared, that the MAR who had been brought in cus-
tody, had given evidence against the other. as being
concerned with the late Colonel Despard, and his
conduct in endeavouring to convert a debt into a fraud
was a matter of revenge. The man who brought the
other a prisoner was at consequence ordered to find
bail fur the assault.

A man, formerly a servant in the employ of Mr.
Kuro, a late Under Secretary of State, was brought
to. the office, charged with defrauding Mrs. Gray,
wbo keeps Tattersat's Tap, of £5, about six weeks
since, under a pretence that he wanted it to pay for
some parcels for Mr.;King. He was committed for
further examination, to ascertain whether or not he
was in the employ of Mr. King at the time.
MA R LBO RO UOII-STR EICT. —Yesterday a young man,
the son of a gentleman of fortune in Portland-place,
was charged with having uttered several forged bank-
ers' checks, with intent to defraud Prescott and Co.
and others. It appeared that he had become so in-
corrigible, as to forfeit-the countenance of his rela-
tives, but he received £2 per week to prevent him be-
ing reduced to want.- The farther hearing was post-
poned to a future day.
Two genteel dressed men, of notoriety in most
of the metropo;itan prisons, have committed various
depredations in obtaining goods of different trades.
people, by plausible but fraudulent pretensions.—
'They got two valuable horses et a dealer in Blooms-
bury, as recent as Friday se'nnight .last, which were
traced to have been sold the day after for little more
than half the value.• They gave a bill at seven-days,
with the acceptance of a fraudulent firm in the City,
which is since broke up.
UNION-Hatt..--Yesterday Join and Franca Mac-
kenzie were charged before the Sitting Magistrate, by
Lady LECALE, w th hay ing ,on various occasions,threa-
trued to do her personal injury : a servant of her Lady-
ship's also stated, that he had heard the defendants
use threatening language towards his mistress, when
she was not present ; and her Ladyship swearing that
the.belieeed her life to be in danger, the defendants
were ordered to find bail.

Wigan: Collar, a publican, was charged on an in-
, fat mation preferred against him, for selling beer at
Peckham far, nct having a license for that purpose.
he offence being clearly made out, he was fined ten
pounds and costs I but on his promising not to offend
in future, the Magistrate remitted the penalty.
7: Bozgitigten and 1. Bogsingtopt, father and son, the
latter not more than 13 years of age, were brought
(rem Bow-street, charged on suspicion of aving been
concerned in entering the Three Compasses public-
house, in Bermondsey, on the night of the .22d of
August, and stealing a quantity of silver, and a watch,
out of the bar. Ana etthwemd, who lived servant in
the house, was also charged with aiding and assisting
them. They were all three fully committed for tirai.

Last week one' of the carts of the Maybole carrier
was robbed in Glasgow of 19 pieces of cambrics.
Yesterday afternoon an interesting young woman,
;very respectably dressed, who, it appears, was on her
journey to Whitchurch, in Hampshire, fell down iu
a fit, in the field near the Southampton Arms public.
house, Cambden Town. A surgeon was imme-
diately sent for, who gave her meuical assistance.—
She was afterwards conveyed in a lifeless state to the
Workhouse.

Friday last, whilst Elizabeth Vickers, a woman of
80 years of age, was passing two yoked oxen to a
cart at Pontefract, cne of the animals, stung by a
gad-fly, toswd up its limns, and struck the poor
woman on the temple with such violence as killed
her on the spot.

Monday evening a horse, harnessed in an empty
cart, whilst standing before the door of a public-house
in Broad-street, Peymouth, took fright, and ran from
thence up Little Church-lane. Tile driver, named
Ellicott, in attempting to stop it, was thrown down,
and the wheels passing over him, fractured his skull,
broke his leg, and otherwise so much bruised the un-
fortunate mau,.that his life is despaired of.
An some 1 !routers were a few days ago cleaning
out pit at Woodseaves, near Drayton, Shropshire,
they discovered a coat-of-mail; extending from the
neck to the girdle, which weighed %lb. It is in
excellent preservation; the leathern thongs which
buckle it on, and the gold or gilding on the seams,
being nearly as fresh as ever. As a battle WAS fought
at Blore•heath, in the year 1459, between the united
forces of the Duke of YORK and the Earl of SALISBU.•
nv, and those of the King commanded by Lord
AtroLvie, who was beaten, about 4. miles from this
spot, the coat might possibly have been thrown away
by one of the soldiers of the rowed army.

ADUSP.I Ix PRISONS.—The regular provision of the'
Constimion •for correcting Abuses in Prisons, is
pointed out by Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS, in his Treatise
on Juries, in the following terms :
The state of the several prisons; the rnalversation of the
gaolers and turnkeys ; the conduct of all magistrates; gross and
scandalous abuses of ary kind; acts of public oppres,iion, how.
ever and whet:Ner committed; and all public nuisar,ces, within
the county, are proper oljtcts fbr the enquiry, examinatioo, re-
Dor, and presentiment, of a Grand Jury. In walking through
Ike prisorw, ail and every part of which should be vpdted, the
Jury should see with their own eyes, and deeile on their own
convictions. Gaolers, and their turnkeys, and wily characters;
and their -Misconduct will seldom he etected on their own
admissions. 'The stiff-rings of the prisoners can only be known
by encouraging them to speak out, and by assuring them of
procce.ior. from the resentment of the gaoler, should their
condfdin reipshe animadversion. Grand Juries usually walk
through gaols I.ke automata, or like children, to admire evi.ry
thing they see, gnod or bad, for its novelty. 'flteraltoukl recol
lect, that in their office they are conNtitutional public censors—
that the country relies on them as such—and that except by their
pres:ntmcnt, public abuse, noire:lces, and oppiesNions, may con-
tinue and escape with impunity. If the Court toNvltieh they be.
long has not cognizance of the abuse, or power so retirees
ir, or if any proceedings of the Court itself are the subject
of emiplsint, the Jury are warranted in petitioning the High
Court of Parliament. This is the surest mode of obtaining re-
dregs; but some Juries content themselves with laying their
complaint before the Secretary of State, presenting as matter od
form a copy isftheir helot to the Court.—Uokappity, however,
eland io ottsNeloseit ,of the stoteltrienrolate
.20 are apt
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