Star.
London, England, 1822-02-04 00:00:00

POLICE.

Maintow-House.—Saturday, Foster, the patrol, whom Ca/isum.
the person charged with committing a burglary in the Old Jewry,
accused of having struck him while he was handcuffed In the
watch•house, requested that the Loan Maros would make in-
quiry into the charge. Foster added, that he certainly knocked
off the hat of Colman in the watch-bouse, but the prisoner was
not handcuffed at the time. The Loan Mayoa said he was
sorry to hear anything against so active and intelligent an offi-
cer ; and examined a witness upon the subject, who satisfied his
Lordship that the statement of Colman was exaggerated.
Bow-Sasso.—" Lire ne Loanos."—Three dashing sons of
frolic were brought before Mr. :11rmittirt I. at this Office on Satur-
day, charged with a most unwarrantable obtrusion into the house
of Mr. Thomas Greensell, figure maker, in the Strand. h ap.
peared from the statement of Mr. Hammy-the Solicitor, who
attended on behalf of Mr. Greensell, that on the preceding night
Mr. Greensell had, for the amusement of his daughters, given a
dance to a party of friends. The happy circle had continued their
evolutions on the " light fantastic toe" until nearly two o'clock
in the morning. They were then summoned to the more solid
pleasures of a good supper, and were actually proceeding to sur-
round the " plenteous board," when their harmony was suddenly
dkturbrd by the unexpected, and certainly unsolicited appear-
ance of the prisoners, who, " ripe for sport," rushed up stairs, and
came in contact with a group of Ladies, who were at the moment
descending: Their dress at first attracted attention, and it was
asked, who the Gentlemen were with black silk _handkerchiefs?
The master of the ceremonies not beinglit attendance to answer
the question, one of tse bucks replied fur himself and companions,
that they were come to supper, and hoped they were in time?—
Mrs. Greensell immediatel► came forward, and not being able
to recognize them as friends, assured them that they laboured
under some mistake. " Oh, no!" was the reply ; "its all right,"
and they were about to enter the supper-mom. Mr. Greeningl
was then called, and, not less astonished than his Lady, ordered
them down stairs. 'ibis command they reluctantly obeyed, and
slowly retraced their steps to the shop, where they very coolly
began to resume their coats and hats, which, on their arrival,
they bad left in care of the servant. Mr. Greensell could no
longer suppress his indignation : and being somewhat peremp-
tory In his desire that they should quit his house, one of them
made use of language of a most indecorous nature, and threat-
ened destruction to every person who should lay a finger un him.
Mr. Greensell, still more incensed by this conduct, instantly
seized the spokesman by the collar to shove him out. A mutual
senate followed, in which Mr. Greensell had his shirt torn, and
his opponent received some blows in the face. By this time
Mr. Harmer, who chanced to be present, and several of the Gen-
tlemen, came down; and it was resolved to send the intruders
to the watch-house. The watchmen were then called for ; and,
with mach difficulty, the heroes were secured and conducted to
" durance vile." Oa arriving at the watch-house, one of the Gen-
tlemen seized the poker, and was about to commit some act of
violence, when he was disarmed, and ultimately left to reflect on
his folly as well as the inexcusable outrage he had committed.—
In the interim Inquirks were very naturally made as to the
means by which the offenders had gained admission, when the
servant who had let them in stated, that her attention had been
attracted by two rings at the door, and a doubt: knock. She
instantly ran and opened wide the porch, when our heroes en-
tered, and asked "if that was Mr. Thomas Gi eenselfs r She
answered in the affirmative. She was then asked if they were
dancing / to which she replied, " No, they bad just concluded
the dance, and were coming down to supper." " Oh, then,"
rejoined one of the party, " we are just in time to sup with
them," and, without further ceremony, they took off their hats
and coats. The servant at once concluding that they were friends
of her master, civilly assisted in this at rangement, and asked
them if she should carry their things up stairs?" "Oh no,"
said they with great non-chalance, ‘, let them remain where
they are." and up they walked. The Gentlemen stated their
names to be Messrs. Langdale, Willis, and Corfield, and their
appearance bespoke persons moving in a respectable rank in so-
ciety. Mr. Corfield, in his defence, said, he was an Officer in
the Army, and that be and his friends, deceived by the music,
had mistaken Mr. Greensell's fora public-house. Mr. HAIIMga
al4 that it was utterly improbable that they could have obtruded
by mistake, as the shop, in which they had taken off their coats
was well lighted, and was filled with figures and other things,.
which sufficiently indicated the nature of the business which was
carried on.—Mr. MINSHrLL said, he could find no apology what-
ever for the conduct of Mr. Corfield, who had certainly acted
in a way extremely unbecoming his character as connected with
the honourable profession to which he belonged, and with the
rank in society to which that profession entitled him. Under all
the circumstances, he felt it his duty to call upon Mr. Corfield
to find bail to answer for his behaviour at the Sessions ; and if
the case went there, be would have an opportunity of urging the
topics which he had that day advanced in his defence. Mr.
Willis and Mr. Langdale both attributed their share in the trans-
action to a mistake; and were ready to bear their testimony to
the violence with which their friend had been treated.—Mr.
MiNsuutz said, their conduct was not to be• justified. They were
ordered to be discharged on payment of the usual fee of is. each.
Mr. Corfield was then ordered to find bail, himself in £5O, and
two sureties in £25 each. This he shortly after did, and was
in consequence liberated.

VIOLIST ASSAULT (PDX TORII RSOLNII GILITLIMIX IX FRANI,r.
—Sunday, the 27th ult. about four o'clock in the afternoon, as
Mr. George Trevor Spencer, son of the Hon. W. R. Spencer,
Captain Hollis, R. N. nephew to the Dean of Winchester, and
Mr. John Fordyce, were on their return from Paris, they got
out of the diligence in which they were travelling, for the per.
pose of walking up one of the steep hills which lie between Bou-
logne and Calais ; when they had almost ascended the hill, they
were met by two Frenchmen armed with double-bar-elled guns,
apparently returning from sporting, who, after staring at them
in a very impertinent and offensive manner, accosted them with
I, Voila de ces b—d Anglais." On Captain Hollis remarking that
he hoped the sportsmen would know them when they met again,
they cocked their guns, and threatened to fire upon them ; at
the same time one of the Frenchmen presented, and immediately
recovered his arms ; but the other waiting till the English Gen.
tlemen had turned their backs in order to proceed on their
walk, deliberately discharged his piece at them, at the distance
of not more than 35 paces, by which the whole party were
wounded. Captain Hollis received several shot (which were
what the French call cheurotin, and about the size of the English
buck-shot), in his hand and arm, as well as in different parts of
his body, by which he was very seriously hurt, and Mr. Spencer
and Mr. Fordyce were also injured, although in a much slighter
degree, The villains proceeded down the hill till they came in
sight of the diligence, when they ran away across the fields, pur-
sued by the wounded Ger.tlemen, and Sir John Scott Lillie, who
was travelling in their company, but happened to be at some dis-
tance behind when the assault was committed. On finding
themselves closely pursued, they again presented their guns,
threatening to blow out the brains of any one who attempted to
follow them ; so that the English party, who were totally un-
armed, were compelled to abandon the attempt. On their ar-
rival at Bfartiuise, they gave information to the gens-d'armer on
duty at the village, who instantly went in search of the assassins.
At Calais the affair was laid before the Prefect of the Police,
who behaved in the most gentleman-like manner, and made
every exertion to discover the perpetrators of this unprovoked and
arivardiy attack upon three unarmed stranger.. The party were
also vary much indebted to the kind attentions of Thorns Fon-
blauque. Eaq. the English Consul at Calais, who immediately
wrote a rerteentatlon of the eve to Sir Charles Stewart.

The following extract of a letter from Cork, dated
January 26, gives a better account of the present
state of Ireland than has appeared in any of the Jour-
nals of that country :
" The Insurgents in the South of Ireland consist of a variety
of men, acting in concert at the moment, but influenced by very
different motives: perhaps they may be properly classed under
the following heads:—lst, The pennyless; id, The disaffected ;
3d, The superstitious. Of the first class there are many, who,
by tke itepression of farming produce, have been reduced from
' the rank of substantial yeomanry to downright indigence.
' " These men fall in readily with any project likely to embroil
the country ; and, by the share of education they possess, unac-
companied by coma religious sentiments, become at once the
able and unrestrained promoter; of mischief. The second, and
least numerous class, consists of the survivors since the Rebel-
lion of 179*, and their disciples, whose principles were Jacobi-
Meal. In the open country these are extremely few ; but in po-
pulous towns, where seditious publications find admission, they-
also are found. Of this description some, it Is said, have left
this city to join the insurgents upon the mountains, fifteen or
twenty miles westward.
" The third class is a formidable mass of ignorance and bi-
gotry, diffused through the whole South of Ireland. It con
of persons who blindly follow a few fanatical leaders, incited,
like themselves, by artful predictions of the overthrow of our
Protestant Church and Collsth•ition. Similar putlicstions were
circulated many years ago, and one such in the year 1117, fore-
telling the extirpation of Protestants to take place on the follow-
ing year. It is remarkable Olt these infatuated devotees to
Popery have not been undeceived by the notorious falsification
of the prophecies formerly employed for their delusion; and
that they are to this day quite co.;fident that the Protestant name
is on the eve of its final extinction.

" I will not pretend that there are no grievances endured ;
nor that those which afflict the country are all beyond lcgi•la•
tive remedy. There is an outcry against tithes and taxes; but
the former were paid nearly a thousand years ago; and even
•ne hundred years ago, were much heavier than at present ; for
about 50 or 60 years since the agistment tithe was abolished by
the Irish Parliament ; and now no tithe is paid of calves, lambs,
pigs, or any other livestock : which tithe was formerly immense.
Further, the tithable articles, viz. corn, potatoes, and hay, are
not charged, as far as our experience reaches, at anything like
their full value.

" With regard to Government taxes, our husbandman pay
none directly ; and the few indirect ones fall, with but one ex-
ception, upon luxuries; whereas, if our memory serves rightly,
they were subject in the poorest hovel to hearth-money, in the
time of Charles 11. and down to the reign of George 111.
when it was taken of. And at this day our most comfortable
farmers (having no more than six windows) do not contribute
one shilling to the State; nor, unless they think fit to use tobacco
or liquor, do they even pay an indirect .tax—the small one on
shoe-leather alone excepted.
" Yet, after all this, the clamour about taxes is not groundless;
for, owing to the absence of our great Landed Proprietors, the
important office of Grand Juror and Justice of Peace is so often
filled by Inferior persons, that jobbing is practised to a shameful
extent, and /sea/ charges are laid on without mercy.
" Moreover, owing perhaps to the facts before alluded to, that
the country is widowed of its natural guardians, there is no mo-
dern survey of Baronies or Townlands; so that it happens that
a farm of 500 acres will pay as much County and Barony rate as
one of I,uoo acres; both in equal state of culture, and equally
contiguous to the market, &c.—So that there undoubtedly exists
some cause of complaint, and the proper remedies ought long
ago to have been applied. The bulk of our people have but little
interest in what you are often made to believe our great national
grievance—the inadmissibility of Roman Catholics to certain
offices of State.

" We must not omit to notice an opinion entertained by some,
and not without reason, that discontents are fosnented, and the
peasantry stirred up to insurrection, by the unprincipled men who
carry on a contraband trade in tobacco, dm upon our western
coast; cud by the proprietors of unlicensed distilleries in some
remote parts of the County of Cork,who, it is thought, have fur-
nished the peasantry with arms and ammunition, in order that
the army may he kept in play in the interior, and that their ne-
farious trade may go on with less interruption. The smuggling
trade has been carried on with an effrontery unmatched at any
former period : its agents are men who have made up their minds
upon perjury and murder; and who have numberlras opportu-
nities of bringing in, from I loliand and France, supplies of mili-
tary stores,which they may land in the deep bays of our western
coast, where the country is nearly uninhabited, as large portions
of Bantry-bay, &c. undoubtedly are."

ObOrving such various and contradictory statements in the
columns of our cotemporaries respecting an allegA reduction of
the wages of the Operative Carpenters, we have thought it our
duty to make enquiries into a subject of such vital importance to
one of the most industrious and valuable classes of mon in this
city ; and the result is, that we are enabled to state, upon good
authority, that, although to eff.:ct a curtailment of the earnings
of their journeymen to the extent of ss. a week, has been some
time in the contemplation of some few of the master carpenters,
and one has io fact made an attempt to enforce it, the alteration
has not yet been carried into execution; nor do we expect that
it will ultimately take place, as we cannot discover any just or
cogent reasons ter such a measure; the more especially since
there are circumstances (one, for instance, the expense of tools,
with which they are obliged to furnish themselves) in the situa-
tion of these men, which make 'he comparatively low price of,
provisions nut so equitable a criterion► ot their wages, as those of
many other mechanics...—Bristed ltbattrer.
It appears by the census taken in that the popr•l.:tin:l of
France is 30,165,C91 : the department of the Seine aloi:e cuu-
tal,s 821,706 persons.

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'CLONCURRY'S LETTER TO THE UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
.` • •'. DUKE OF LEINSTER. • --.......,
CAMBRIDGE, FEBRUARY 1.
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requested' by
Magistrates ,the commencing Bachelors of Ann were on Frtri.4" ..1"4,-,`
for whom I have a great respect, to join in a Requieltkin for a
judged to Mr. Hammett Holditch, of Caine Col " last
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Peace Preservation Act put in force, in Clan", Timeline, and Ii MI t WraNnee
County Meeting, for the purpose of having the provisions of the_
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College,
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and
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some °fib, western pans of this County (Kildare), where musses OXFORD, FEBRUARY 2.
are said to have been committed. I object to haviat rec.°6rlc t° . Monday the following Gentlemen were admitted to Degrees,
these measures, because theysvoald excite unnecessary alarm—be- MASTERS Or AIM
Rev. Joseph Palmer Griffith, Fellow of Wadhani Collet
cause the Magistrates erarest to, the spot complained of. de not
.seem to think such measures necessary ; and, because, whatever Richard &dies, Scholar
of wadhaso College,
sad _
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sse
insubordinatirm does exist, basins source; net so much In politics
Scholar of Common Lon
as In the abject want or the labouring classes, end the misery ZACHFLORS OV AVIS.
of the small land-holders, both of which would he Increased by
William Harding, Scholar of Wadhain College.
the expense of a well-dressed police. We have also still amongst Charles Candy, &baler of Lincoln College.
,us a sufficient number of young men of spirit, who, on any At a private Ordination held on Sunday last, at the Palm,.
emergency, would lend their aid to the clvii power, to put down
Gloucester, by the Bishop of that Diocese, the following ft%
mischief and preserve the peaces
dermal of this University were admitted into Holy Orders.
I am" I
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sill latoingu
be that esecohn
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harrow Beans, M.A. Wadharn College.
t,enry James Buchanan, B.A. Wadham College.
your Grace's service, in that impartial administration of justice, sg
which secures you the respect and affection of all good men, and
Augustus Clissoul, M. A. Exeter College.
which our countrymen can so fully appreciate and admire, though
PRIPATc.
their calumniators presume to say the contrary. Rely Hutchinson Smith, li.e.. 11: Mot College.
" In a practiced sixteen years, more extensive than almost any
William Samuel Birch, M.A. Oriel College.
other non-stipendiary Magistrate, I never recollect three instances,
him Bunter, M. A. Magdalen College.
where the poor man resisted my warrant : I have bad some
trouble with Squires, hut, without giving them sati!fartian. I Eccr.r.si ASTIC A T. Plt 011 OT f ON'S.
have %hewn them that I could make them respect the law. The . The Ike. Charles Lloyd, D.D. I'rcecher at Linentes r..„_
consequence is, in this neighbourhood, personal security and and Student of Christ Church, is eepeinted Canon of et,
industry, though poverty and wretchedness make rapid advances Church, and Regius Professor of Divinity, is the room •-i e
here and everywhere. Hew. Dr. Hodson, deceased.
" I disbelieve the reports of the Dublin Magistrates, that the 'ripe Rev. T. Thompson to the Vicarage of Adlington, in e,
entire County are sworn Ribbonmen; but I feel that, se misera-
county of York.
hie is the situation of the people, that oaths are unneceesery to
Viscount Torrington has appnintel the Rev John Parl,.•
make them wish for a change. Under these circumstances, I B.A. Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, one of his I._
trouble your Grace with a hasty sketch, as to what I think of ship's Chaplains.
the present state of Ireland and her Police. lam not a Rejoin The Rev. Robert Lynam, M.A. has been eletted Asee
sentative Peer, and &tee not so respectable a mode of coneey• C.baplain to the Magdalen Chariteee Institution.
ing my opinions as by addressing your Grace, who are more in- The Rev. J. Baker, el. A. Spiritual Chaecellor of the I;
terested in the good order and prosperity of the country, than cesT of Durham, to the Living of St. Mary the Less, 1h.:1%
any other man in it, and who are acquainted with my manner The Rev. Georgelarshall Do:iv:ell has been presentee
of acting and thinking as a Magistrate ; that whilst I enforce obe- Lord Yarborough, to the Rectory of Swallow, Lincelaseire
o
dience to the law, Ido no eut ring the alarm on *every trivial The Rev. George Beckett, M.A. youngest sen f Sir J,
occurrence; that if Ido not accuse the people of disaffection to Beckett, Bart. to the Vicarage of Gainsborough and Pr,ber.
the best of Governments; because they do not lie down area cerringeern.
starve in quiet, neither do I accuse the Govennnent of the pre- The Ver. W. Edge, B.A. to the Rectory cf Ned Line, ...m
sem day for the loins of their predecessors. Lord Talbot has own penriose
acted a just and mild part, worthy of the character he hears in The Rev. W. Harding, to the PerpettiA Carey ~1 ......i
his own country ; and if at length, for a quiet life. he yielded to with the Chapeiries of Long Eaton and Wihle 41111 t: t.:, in
the violent councils of those about hint, be must allow it was county of Derby.
not easy to avoid it :he takes with him my best wishes. • His Grace the Duke of Argyle has nominated the Ron. V
4' My dear Duke, your faithful and obliged friend, ter Farquhar Hook, B.A. Student of Christchurch, Oxfoie, •
4 CLONCURR Y." son of Archdeacon Houk, of Winchester Cathedral, ...) he
Domestic Chaplain.
The lite. W. I'. Richards. late Fellow of New Coll, leo
Master of Tiverton Free Grammar School, wi; on the I.
ult. admitted a Bachelor in Divinity, and Greed Comiotav
at Oxford University.
Sir James Culqiihoua has presented the Rev. .Inhn Mtn
Minister of the Gaelic Chapel, Edinburgh, to the Church
Parish of Halkirk, in the county of Caithness, vac_ut by
death of the late Nir. Cemeron.
Tuesday se'nnight, the Rev. Richard Skinner, M.A. Re,
of Sampford Peverell, and Domestic Chaplain to the Li..5•;-
of Norwich, was instituted by Mr. Precentor Barda:r., to •
Rectory of Uplowman, Devote on the presentation of J
Sillifere, of Coombe, Esq. and Thos. Ilugo, of Creeitee
void by the death of the Rev. Simon Pidstey.