Star.
London, England, 1815-10-30 00:00:00

VERSES.

FROM DR. C— To DR. P—.
For ore short day the world forego,
Its noise and cares and follies nee;
That short unclouded day bestow
On friendship. solitude, and me.
For you my table shall provide
A harn-door fowl, a brace of fish,
And, what was onee Old England's pride,
Roast beef, on a galvanic dish,
Though with no costly viands grac'd,
Disdain not, then, my board to share;
Wine, suited to your classic taiste,
Compensate shall for homely fare.
The Teanf grape's nectareous juice,
That once Anacreon guard, is mine;
Were mine the powi.t, I would produce
Atiacreoti's wit as well as wine!

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And yet ho knows what wine ntay do?
Wine might Anacreua's art supply ;
Tipsey, he might have rival'd you,
When sober, be ai dull as I !

Dr. P.'s ANSWER.
Nor Rowing verse, nor lofty flight,
Expect. my worthy friend, from me.;
We M.D. Doctors do not *rite
Like Doctors in Divinity.
Beneath your Oak's luxuriant leaf,
I'd not disdain the juice of Malt;
Tor there I know Old England's beef,
Is galvanied with attic salt !
To me far other salts belong,
Salts, that require my chemie slat; '
While you compose an ode or song,
My composition is a pill!
The visit, then, I ntwit decline,
London is full of coughs and pbthlsis;
I'll come and drink your Trap wine,
When others cease to drink my physic!

• It is the opinion of a adebtated philosopher, that porter is
galvanized, and thereby improved. by being drank nut of a
pewter pot ; aed for the same reason. why may not roast beef be
improved by the galvanic influence of a pewter dish ?—[See Par-
liamentary Debates between Mr. Giddy and the late Mr. Whit-
bread.)
t Wine from the Island of Nio, supposed to be the ancient
Teo., the birtbylace of Anacreon.

OLD BAILEY.

Saturday, William Bradford was indicted for forging
and uttering a Bill of Exchange for £B6B. 9s. 6d.
with intent to defraud our Sovereign Lord the King
Ind in another count, with intent to deirand the
Commissioners for Victualling his Maje,.ty's Navy.
The ATTnItNEY-GENERAL stated the case on the
part of the Crown.
William Parkhurst, a clerk in the Secretary's de.
partment at the Victualling Office, proved, that when
hills are drawn for the Victualling service, they are
left at their office for acceptance. A bill for £B6B.
9s. 6d. drawn by Mr. Traverton, Purser of the
Acasta, and certified by Captain Ker, of that ship.
was left for acceptance on the 3d of June. The bill
was shewn to the witness, and identified by him.-
IThe bill was accepted by Mr. Gosling, the Secretary.
The registry and entry or' the bill were also proved
by the clerks who executed them; as were the dif-
ferent checks.
Charles Smith, also a clerk in the Victualling
Office, proved the delivery of this bill on the 13th
of June, to a person named George Williams, for
one George Guy, of No. 7, Montague-street, Rus.
sel.square.
R. H. Bower also proved the registry of the bill
when delivered to a person calling himself George
Williams.
Charles Tweeddie, cashier of the Victualling Office,
proved that the bill was presented to him for payment
on the sth of July. It was past two o'clock, their
hour of business; but the person who brought it said
it would be a matter of convenience for him to have
it paid, and witness did .so, by a draft on the Bank
of England.
G. J. Williams, a writer in the East India House,
had known Bradford three years. About the 13th
of June, the prisoner came to witness's father, and
requested witness to call between twelve and two at
Somerset House, to do a little business for him.—
Witness did so, and the prisoner gave him the parti-
culars of a bill for Mr. George Guy, of Montague-
street, Russell-square, as he being a clerk in the
Victualling-Office, he was not allowed to act as an
agent. The prisoner said he wanted this bill for a
friend of his, a Lieutenant in the country : and he
read to witness an extract of a letter, to confirm his
statement. Witness went as directed, and got the
bill, which he identified when produced to him.—
Witness gave the bill to Bradford. About three
weeks after. he saw Bradford at his (witness's) fa-
ther's, who requested hint to call again at Somerset-
House before two o'clock ; but it was past that hour,
and Bradford told witness to say, if Mr. Tweeddie
objected to paying the bill on account of its being past
office hours, that he had come a considerable dis-
tance, and Mr. Tweeddie would oblige witness by
paying it. He did so, and Mr. Tweeddie paid the
bin by an order on the Bank of England, which be
gave immediately to Bradford; and they went to the
Bank together, where the latter got the-money for it.
The prisoner wrote the receipt on the back of the bill
in witness's name. One of the notes winch the pri-
soner received was fur 8500. Witness never re-
ceived any compensation for what he did, nor had
he the smallest suspicion that there was any thing ir-
regular in the transaction.
Mr. Bentley, a clerk in the Bank of England, paid
a check for 8868. 9s. 6d. on the sth of July, to a
person who wrote the receipt in the name of G. Wil-
liams, for George Guy, No. 7, Montague-place,
Russell-square.
Thomas Wragg, a pay-clerk at the Bank, checked
the notes paid for the check ; one for £5OO. No.
5327, dated 28th June, 1815 ; one for £lO. No.
12,555, dated 7th of June, 1815; and one for £420.
No. 3747, dated 26th of May, 1815.
Mary Hodges keeps the Nelson's Head, in Nelson-
street, Hackney-road. She knew Bradford, who, in
August last, called on her to pay her 4s. and wished
change for a 1120. note, which she gave him, and he
wrote his name on the back of the note. She iden-
tified the note, which was numbered 3717, and dated
446th ot May, 1815.
John Vatiehan, sliopman to Mr. Fleming, a pawn-
broker, in Whitechapel, proved, that on the sth of
July, a person calling himself John Smith, of Oa-
rd•street, Whitechapel, redeemed a watch, No.
1698, maker's name J. Rawliuson, London, for
which he paid, by giving a 810. note, No. 12,55.5,1
and dated the 7th of June, 1815, and received the
change.
John Vickery, a Bow street Officer, proved that
be received Beadford in custody, who directed him
to go to Mr. Sharp, of No. 10, Nelson-street, Hack-
ney-road, where he would find a £5OO. note, and
two of £lOO each. Vickery produced a £5OO
note, No. 5327, and dated 2oth of June, 1815. He
did not find the £lOO notes, but he produced a
watch, which corresponded with that pawned at Mr.
Fleming's.
A. It. Ker, Esq. late commander of his Majesty's
ship Acasta, proved, that on the '27th of March, 1815,
his ship was at sea, about 500 miles to windward
of Bar badoes : but received no provisions there as
stated by the bill, neither did he believe any part of
it to be the hand-writing of his purser, Mr.Traverton.
John Traverton, late purser of the Acasta, believed
that the signature, purporting to be that of Captain
Ker, was not his hand.writing.
T. Moore, a clerk at the Victualling.Office, proved',
that the prisoner was a clerk in the same office.—
Witness believed the receipt on the back of the check
in the name of G. Williams, to be in the hand-writing
of the prisoner.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he received the
Bill from Mr. Guy.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent
character. The Jury, without hesitation, pronounced
bim guilty.—lleath.
He is a genteel looking young man, 23 years of
age, nod seemed deeply affected with his situation.
1114SEZZLING a LITTER.
Charles Petit Stone, aged 18, was capitally indicted,
he being employed as a letter-sorter in the General
Post Office, for feloniously stealing and secreting a
certain letter, from Cargrave, in the county of York,
containing two Bank notes, the one for €2O and the
other for £5, which he appropriated to his own use,
on the lath of July last. •
M. Wilson, Esq. resides near Cargrave, in York-
shire, where Miss Curran lived on the I lth of July.
On that day the witness gave Miss Curran a £2O
note, No. 12,979, dared 12. h May, 1815.
Miss Curran
_deposed that she put the note in

qiesiion in a letter. directed to Mrs. Simpson, of
Knightsbridge, which she marked post-paid.
Edward Hon Witch, Mr. Wilson's servant, proved
the delivery of the letter at the Post fficeof Skipton,
in Yorkshire, the post town of Cargrave.
Margaret Tindall keep: the Post-office at Skipton,
she transmitted the letter in question to London.
William Clapper, of the Inland Office-of the Ge-,
nerd Post, proved that on the 14th of July the Skip-
ton bag anived in London.
James Reid was employed with the prisoner on the
14th of July, in sorting the paid letters to Knights-
bridge. It was the duty of the prisoner to put the
letters in the box on that day.
J. S. Atler, of the Post-office, at Knightsbridge,
proved that the bag of letters came in the usual course
on the 14th of July.
Mrs. Simpson received no letter from Miss Curran
on the 14th of July.
Mr. Vestris, a perfcnner at the Opera, had his be- i
nefit on the 20th of July. He recollected a person
purchasing four tickets for his benefit, for which he,
gave a re2o note, which witness sent to he changed.
He had no recollection of the prisoner, but his dress'
corresponded with that worn by the person who pur-
chased the tickets.
Ann White, servant to Mr. Vestris, recollected
carrying-a se2o note to Mr. Price, to get chauge for
her master.
Mr. Price proved changing a 420 note on th,!
of July, the note was numbered 12,979, and d.tted
the 12th of May.
Edward Wills, a clerk in the two-penny post-office,
knew the prisoner, who offered the witness, on the
18th of July, a ticket to Vestris's benefit, as he had
received two Opera tickets, given him by his uncle,
in Arundel-street; and be would ask his uncle for a
ticket for Charles Tomlinson, another clerk in the
office. On the morning of the 20th of July witness
received the ticket from the prisoner.
Charles Tomlinson received two Opera tickets
front the prisoner, for Vestris's benefit, which he said
he had procured from his uncle.
Thomas Piper, the uncle of the prisoner, deposed,
that he had never given the prisoner an Opera ticket,
tor he never had been possessed of one.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent
character.
The Jury retired for an hour, and then returned a
verdict, finding the prisoner—Not Geilty.

NIDDLESLA SESSIONS, OCTOBER 23.

THE KING V. mimics.
The defendant in this case WAS *gentleman of pro-
perty, residing in the neighbourhood of Parson's-
Green, and was indicted for assaulting Wm. Carley,
and presenting a pistol to his breast, on the 19th of
August last.
William Carley stated, that on the 19th of Au-
gust he was at Parson's Green fair; he had been
seta for to take down a booth; he was there early in
the evening ; the booth belonged to Mrs. Steers, who
about eleven o'clock sent him to Mr. Wilcox's bomb
for some bread for supper. Mr. Marks was standing
near the booth, and told the witness he shotild have
no bread, he was just going to clear the booth ; wit-
ness paid no attetition to this ; but said, whilst Mr.
Wilcox was getting the bread he would take a glass
of gin. Marks again said witness should have no-
thing, there, and, taking a pistol from his pocket,
put it to the witness's breast, and threatened to shoot
him. Witness was much alarmed, and quitted the
booth without either bread or gin. The booth was at
this time very quiet ; witness did not see Mr. Marks
till this happened, and it was near twelve o'clock ;
these might have been a mob following Mr. Marks,
but witness did not know it. He heard since that
there was a disturbance after this transaction.
Nathaniel Charemore, collector of the King's taxes
at Fulham-bridge, was collecting the tolls of the fair
about nine o'clock in the evening. I)efeadant said
witness had no authority, and gave charge of the wit-
ness to the constable. The constable, however, re-
fused to take the charge, saying Mr. Marks was a
troublesome man. At twelve o'clock witness went
round and closed the singing and dancing booths.
Mr. Marks came up and told him he had not yet
done his ditty, and insisted on his going to Wilcox's
booth and clearing that. Witness told him he was
not so fond If taking John Bull by the horns, and
Marks might do it himself. At this time there was
no noise in the booth. He went round the fair, and
on his return to Wilcox's booth he found all disturb.
ance, and was told Mr. Marks had been presenting a
pistol at a man. Witness told M,atks he was wrong,
and offered to go home with him ; Mr. Rodgers, a
constable, offered also to do so; they got him out of
the booth, and as he was coming out of the booth he
turned round and struck a man, but who witness
could not say, as soon after the mob rushed upon
them, and the witness was knocked down and much
hurt; what became of Mr. Marks after witness did
not know, but on the Monday he summoned the wit-
ness before a Magistrate at Queen square for an as-
sault ; the complaint, however, was discharged by
the Magistrate.
W. Sparks was in Wilcox's booth at the time Car-
ley came in for the bread, and corroborated Carley's
statement. Marks, on presenting the pistol at the
prosecutor, said, 46 If you don't go, d—n you, I'll
shoot you." There was at this time no riot, and
Marks's own conduct was the cause of the riot which
followed.
Mrs. Wilcox, mistress of the booth where the dis-
turbance happened, confirmed the testimony of the
former witnesses. When Marks threatened to shoot
the prosecutor, the prosecutor said, •• Shoot ; I am
not the first Man you have shot at." Upon which
Mr. Marks said, " No, I will not," and put the pistol
into his pocket immediately.
Mr. ANDREWS. for the defendant, contended that
his client had done nothing more than endeavour to
repress riot and disorder in the fair. All the wit.
nesses, however, called by Mr. Barry for the prose-
cutor agreed in stating that there was no disturb-
ance at all in the fair till the defendant's conduct

caused it.
The Jury found him Guilty, and the Court ordered
him to pay a fine of £3O to the King.

Saturday se'nnight, the house of Mr. Hase'grove,
near the barracks at Arundel, was broken into, and
robbed of a quantity of silver spoons, table cloths,
and other articles: the robbers got clear off without
being dacovered.