Star.
London, England, 1802-08-20 00:00:00

P3t.ICP, &e.

I%totv,tev three men were
hi "tight befnm the L,• NLivroc, char;red e.ith
flealin a great quantity nrkathet not the wart
haute rf NteifrA. Newman, katherfeAcrs. It ap-
pear.:! in ev;dtiice th t: two of the prifoners were
ti.e srare:•ntdimait and porter of Mr. Newman, j
and thz ntlyr wi:s'a man, to whom this lealt,•l
was c ..is•zyed on purpo;e to difpnfe of it. The
prFt tiers eing b::rn examined apart, feermd to
:metric earl' other, while AI pretended to tell the
..111.h. The warchni,:,:inan (rid he had alibied to
ll:ree bundles of l•rather, and to put :t iu
the cat ;, over.perfnaded by his Gilroy fer- 1
vant, wl,irot he c,,nlarA was to be Inld fot their he J
'refit. lle said he had lived nearly twelve years
in his place, but never WAS guilty of any thins of'
the Iciud before.

The porter faid he was perfivaded by the re-
ceiver, who f old them ropes oceafionally, and told
hint if he coull get any quantity of leather at any
time, he would z..;:et it fold fur him; and laid he
bad fold him lonic before,
The receiver conceited having received this lea-
ther fcom the rover, which he had offered Ivr
file; and that he was only offered fapence the
pound t or it, which would not produce above 51.
for what w.:s worth fifteen, but pretended he did
not know it was iiolen ; laid he kept a honte in
Wiimp's Conn, Coleman-freer, and dealt in many
things wh;vb he pure:tared from warchnufemen,
porters, &c. fueh as wrappers, boxes, ropes, r.nLi
other things, an.l that he knew wareliottfemen
porters who dealt in goods to the amount of
a year, and offered to give dllr n:am►s, which his
Lor,:thip thought would he tag: mn:t pt ud ent. to
take in prie.to.:, which was done accoidingly. The
officer who le:lrvin:loe home of this prifoner
he did not find any leather, !Italie found in tl:e
cedar bundles of paper, wrappers. boxes,
&c. They were all three committed for farth,r
domination.

Yefterday a hackney coachman was convilicl
in the penalty of xos. for exalting from a Gentle-
man is. more than his legal fare.
Guixtsuaer..--Yellerday John Chambers was
committed for trial, fin the teliimony of fcvtral
witnelles, on fufpicion of r..ing into the warchoufe
of a wholetale linenidraper, in Breed-ftreet, Cheap-
fide, and flealing thereout n piece of prin-ed linen,
value 31. cos. who, on being p.rceived by Come of
the witnetres, dropped the fame, when he was pur-
fued, and brought back.
A perion, who refidzs in the neighbourhood of
Blacktriars, was brought up before Sir Wavicax
Lewes, upon the charge of a watchman, for hav-
ing the night bcfore obliirnited, intuited, and
abitted him in the execution of his duty, with
raped to tome diforderly women ; the charge,
however, being very flightly fuppnrted by the
watchman; was &milled. One of the women
alluded to immediately came forward, and pre-
ferred a charge agaildt the watchman, for having
received a gation of beer to compromife the huti
nets of the preceding evening. Sir Wa nits
LEWES immediately ordered the watchman to be
committed, in order, as he laid, to warn watch.
aid conflables, that they mud not abufe the
antlawity that is given them, or plunder indivi-
duals under the pretence of prcterving the public
p=ce.

Woastitt-rralET.—Yeflertlay a man was tal:cn
hel,,re the Magitlratec, charged on ful)icion of
being concerned with two ot;iers, now in cullocl7,
on furpi.ion of flealing from the pren:ifes of P.L.
Alderman NLWMAN, on Snow-hill, a large quan-
tity of leather. The offence being committed iu
the City, he N7its referred to the IsLnfion•houfe.

SHADWELL.—TuefiIay night three girl:., the
youngett only t t years of age, were committed for
re-examination, charged with cutting :4 yard; of
printed cotton from a linen draper's amp, in I:at-
cliff-highway. They had feveral pawnbrokers'
tickets in their polLtilon, and raid their parents
lived at the welt end of the tawn.

George Monmouth Little. of Blackheath, was
charged with nabbing his wife, and is committed
till the furgcon reports her nut of danger.
Yetterday John Johnfon, anti Sopl:ia his wife,
both ncgroes, were committed for trial, for heal-
ing two twenty pound Bank notes 011;. of the chat
ts. Joierit Howard, a negro, their friend.
Macy I ancgar, Elizibeth Ricliartlfon, and Mary
Smith, ail very young, whole parents live weft of
were finally examined, on the accn.
i.o.ant of W. Williams, linen-draper, in Ratcliff-
highway, with Mitering a'bout hi: iliop, 'and cut-
ting away yards at cotton, value 365. which
was tract:d upon them, bides a number cf dupli-
cates fur p1e.:;,,e4 goods, fappofed to have been
11c es idcnce being .rang, they were com-
mitted 1; .1' trial. •

ViliTai.lll of the name of Miller, who expofes
lierf,:lfall over the toy:a for her fingularity of con-
nal in 41iting, coachmen, &c. was com-
mitted in prif..ti for want of fureties, on a charge
of riotous behaviour.

THAMES OlFlCE.—lreftertlay one of the Gen-
tlemen connetied 'with the brig Adventure, Grid to
oe bulk at bi ighton, in older to defraud the un-
wat exam;bed ; be was anted in his
defence by Counfel. Several Gentlemen belonging
to t. 1);: concern attorki for the profecution, %%hen
gre:it number of cloctitnents. were produced, in
arch to prov. his eriniinitlity, and !kink connate:l
vith Capt. Codling. ST the fuggcnit.n of his
Comifel, all flraugers were ordered to withdraw.
The bufiners, we undertliutd, is to undergo further
• Fr iday 'evening laft fevers filver table fpoons and
nine Myer tea fpoons were ptivately flolen from a
turbo:ad in tlic kitchen of the Spread Eagle Inn,
Salifbury. The thief as yet remains undifcovered.

A few nights (ince the flint) of a tradefrr.in of
Culla:11ton WAS broke open and robbed of cant and
goods to tht amount of 6cl.
On Saturday night, :shout n;ne o'clock, a gentle-
man on innfeback was !topped toy two footpads, by
Alton road wall, near Birmingham, and robbed of

girths, drove his horfe Come way back on the road!.
and then got uff acrofs the fields.
Wednefday evening, about eighto'clocit. a blae;
leather trunk was cur from a chaife near Temrlo
bar, thy property of Captain Wardell, of tatil.7.:!
areer, lloodinan's fields, containing a grut v.,
riety or female attire, and other articles to a Lug,:
Amount. The villains are not yet tracei out.

'fv'o persons were conviCted at Liverpool be
fore the Worthipful P. W. Brancker, Efq. Mayor,
or. Monday le'nnight, for buying regimental ne
cetraries from a foldici in the regiment now gum..
tend there, and paid the penalty of 51. each.

Tot:Clay fe'lltight S. Baker, of Warminlier, wa
:ortmlitted r..Fitherton.gaol, charged en oath wit!.
a violent foiricion of his being one of the rerion,
who riotoully affembled on the t 4.th of July, ar.ri
tired into and attempted to deftroy the bottle M 1.,:
mills belonging to J. Jones, Efq. at Stavcrton.
On Tlntriilay fe'nnlght, S. Ferris, of Trow-
bridge, was committed to the fame gaol, charged
with having, in or about the month of pine, been
aiding and ;Witting, and been prefort at and con-
renting to the adnunidering of an unlav7fol oath.

At the fame time J. May, of Trowbridge. was
committed to the fame gaol, charged v itititax
in June lati, adminillered an unlawful oath or on-
gagcn:cnt.

And J. Milner. G. Marks, and P. Edw•ard;,
are corn:pitted to pric,,n at Devizes, charged with
various Mimics the fame tendency.

Friday fenr,:g:lt was committed to Ilellvfler
gaol, by Roach, Ertl. Mayor (Jr Glatlonbory,
I'r f )71 e momit tr. hard Lbour, John II:ley, an ap
prouiee to 1le:11.s. Adynis and Son, hofiers, of
the t;I:j totva, difol:edicoc:, idicacfs, and (cur-
l:lons lanzuai,.: to bis waiters.

I, week was committed to Bridewell, Bath.
Idw:u•d .Wnolcott, nn fufpieion of cutting the
manl4 and tai:s of f:veral horfcs, more than go of
which hive Olen thus mutilated within a few days
in the fd►urbs of

A young r:orann, named Mary Horner, not fa
tistied with the allowance for the maintenance of
her ballard ehilJ, left it Nit week upon the Corn,
muninn Table of St. Nicholas church, Isl,,wcaftle.
Sunday a new born infant, quite naked, was
Bound twder a h. ;p of dirt, in a lane near Mar!,'s-
hill, Path. It is fuppoied to have been dead when
placed there. No marks of violence appeal-A.
On Sunday evening lime unarmed foldiery
paling throunh Townfcnd-ftreet, werz
wautunly fct upon by the mob, and with great dif-
ficulty, after mach abufe, efcaped alive.

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On Monday evening a difpute arnfe bttween a
Tailor and a Ihncruaker, in Dynt-street, St. Giles's.
in which the former, in a malt ravage manner,
force,: on,: of the latter's eyes out with a Rick. He
was talt !!! to the Matilde). Hofpital.
A fingitlar c..rape occurred on lArchcf,lay
morning, in Pcy:ton-itrect, Iflington-read: a child
falling ont rf a tw-o-pair of.ttairs wind.,w, was
caught by its liars upon a clothes-line, ar.d fell
fr:.Til this fufpeniion to the. ground, without the
leaft injury. •
On Monday fennilhe a gentleman from Wex-
ford. in irel:-.rd, of the name of Cunningham, died
at Buxton, immediately after going into the bath.
He arrived there in a very infirm Rate, and too
eager for the t elief ,vhich he expelled from bathing,
went into the water its two or three hours after.
wards; but it cauftd him to throw up a quantity
of Mood, :Ind he died in a few minutes.
On Monday laR T. Turner, a farmer at Little
Wee:on, in t c:urnin:: home from Beverley, late in
it a eveninz, mach intoxicated with liquor, fell
from his hni tr,nn the road in Beverley Wet.
wood, and died seat day in confequence.
On Saturday La the Coroner's Inqueft fat on
the body of Ca pt.V.`rn. t:mith, lately from the \Veit
Indies, who iinfortnitattly fell overboard whilst
viewing the halloon on Friday latt off Deptford,
and falling Letween the ihipping,he was drowned.
His body was taken to the fign of the Mantion-
bottle at Deptford, where every method was ufed
to 1.:14)re animation, but without died. The Jury
returned a verdi& of Atilt:dal Death.

A few days f►nce an in:inert was taken at Nor-
tham, on the body of an invalid foldier, who was
found drowned : as no memoran.lum was found
upon him, or any account to be obtained refped-
log him, it is fuppofed he fell in the night from
come Gnernfey trader in the river, and floated with
the tide up the river to Northam.
On Wednerd:tv an inquilition was taken at Afh,
on the body of John Staples, a lad of I h years old,
was gathering cherries on a high nee, when
one of the limbs broke, which occafioned him to
fall to the ground, and he was killed on the fpot.
Verdi& Accis:ental Death.

Titcfday evening as one of the long Rages was
palling the strand, by St. Clement's Church, the
coachman not obferving a bank of earth, which
had been laid in the courfe of the day from the
making the large new fewer, the wheels went on it,
and the coach was unfortunately oterturn,:k! : the
outride pafiengers were thrown off withost an;
n elerial injury, hut feveral of the inllde pa trengers
were bruited in a moll Vaocking manner. A Lady's
head was cut by the breaking of the gtifc, and on
her being taken to a furgeon's, it was feared the
bruife was of ftrious coulequence.

On Wednefday lennight a remarkable accident
occurred in a hay field near the Ketch, on the
road to Kempfey, Worceterlhire: one of the
mowers having laid his feythe down in the gr afs
by the hay-rick, a valuable horfe employed in the
team fet his foot upon it, when it turned foddenly•
upwards, and (truck him in the theft with fetch
force as to penetrate to his heart, and be inliantly.
fell down and expired.
About fix o'clock on Tuefday evening, a girl
with a yonng child in her arms, going down Hol-
born hill, happening to tread on a bean (hell, her
foot ilipt,and the poor child was pitched with g, ,:at
forte out of her hands upwards °flour yard,. The
child by its fall hardly received any hurt, although
e;vl Ise her fall .very nearly broke her back:,