Star.
London, England, 1802-07-17 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, JULY Is.

The Roe, IslicHoLsok, and Fanny, Lem, from
Africa, have pallid the Bahamas for the Havannah.
The Will, Clow, and Young William, B ENN sr t,
from Africa, have pallid Barbadoes.
The Mary, BAIR ; Agreeable, SEDDON ; Tri-
dent, WALKER ; Agnes, IcITTE ; Devonthire, COR•
MICK ; and Mary, BRADLEY, failed from Bonney
in company with the Will, Ckow, about the z 7th
April.
The Venerable, KIDD, from hence for Jamaican
is on chore off Portland Point, and it is feared will
be 1011.

Captain WHITESIDE,of the Atlas, from Jamaica,
(poke on the 19th ult. in lat. 39, 41, long. 47, the
Hercules, Powatt., from Jamaica bound to Brit:
tol. On the t9th ult. in lat. 39, 41, long. 47, the
Alexander, from hence for Portfmouth, America,
out 48 days, all well. On the 23d ult. in lat. 4t,
it% long. 43, the brig Golden Grove, from Ja-
maica bonnd to London.

The Ranger, EVANS, from hence, arrived at St.
Michael's, and would leave for England about the
tsth June.

Yeßerday the Lolls MA rot held aConrt of Com-
mon Council, to finifb the bufinefs left at the loft
Court ; and on Tuefday next his Lordfhip will hold
a Court of Aldermen, for the purpofe of (wearing
into office the Bridgemaflers, Rulers of the Water-
men and Lightermen's Company for the year en-
fuing.
The ill division of the i Bth Light Dragoons,
commanded by Major At.LE pa, paned through
town yellerday morning, on their route for York.

The Military Ellablament for Ireland will be
very conliderable. That part of it which refpels
the infantry is to confdl of the followi►tg regiments
of the line:—the 15th, 16th, 176, 18th, loth,
21 ft, 32d, 35th, 36th, 38th, 44th, 45th, 46th,
Both, 56th, 58th, 62d, 63d, 701, 73d, 82d, and
89th. Each of thefe regiments is to have 34 fer-
jcants, 4o corporals, 22 drummers, and Ito pri-
vates, making in the whole, exclutive of Corn.
miffioned Offcers, a force amounting to 17,632
effeßive men.

The Iri(h State Prifoners, formerly confined at
Fort George, have arrived at Hanihorgh. A let-
ter from one of them of the Gth of July, fpeaks
highly of the politenefs they experienced on their
leaving the garrifon, and the kindnefs (hewn to
them in the courfe of the voyage.

Two of the crew of the Carnatic, of 74 guns,
lately paid off, drank fo much raw fpirits, on 'land-
ing at North Corner, that they expired in great
agonies.

From Demarara Newfpapers, received by tl.e
Sifters, HAMILTON, which arrived in the Clyde on
Sunday WI, the following extra ft is made
Camp, May 28, leC2.
" Colonel Him), has received by the laa
Packet a letter from Lord HOBART, one of his
Majeny's Principal Secretaries of State, of which
the following Copy he delays not in giving, for
the information generally of thofe to whom it ap-
lic
" 821, a Downinvitreet, April 2, doz.
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" It being the intention of his Majefty th.at ands Simsld be
granted at Trinidad, upon very favourable terms, to fuch Britilk
(objets as may be inclined to remove to that illand with their
Negroes from the Colonies which are Shortly to be reftored to
the flatavian Republic I I am to &fire that you will make this
intention generally known to the Britills fubjeas refident in De-
marara, and acquaint them that the fpecilic terms upon which
fuch gr.ints are to be made, will very Shortly he communicated
to Governor PICTON, who will, at the fame time, receive in-
Stadion for carrying the intentions of Government into exe-
cution. I have the honour us be, Sir,
" Your molt obetlient Ninth's Servant,
• To

LAU' INTEr.LICIINCE.

CONSISTORY COURT, Doc roes Cox:rota, Juty 73.
Before the Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM SCOTT.

SEDGCWICIC V. SEDGEWICK.

This was a caufe of divorce or leparation from
board and mutual cohabitation, by reafon of adul-
tery, promoted by Mrs. Sedgewick againft Mr.
Sedgewick, her hulband. It appeared, that Mr.
Sedgewick was a performer at one of the winter
Theatres ; that be had formed a criminal connec-
tion with a lady of the name of Marthall ; that
they patted as man and wife at the different places
where they raided, and (till continued In to do.
The fa 5I of Adultery being clearly proved by the
witneffes produced (particularly by the fervant-
maid who lived with Mr. Sedgewick), the Court
pronounced, that the wife was entitled to the re-
medy the prayed, and allotted her, as alimony,
Gol. a year, to be paid quarterly.

OLD BAILEY.
Yefterday nineteen prifoners were tried, dhe of
whom was convicted of a mifdemeanor, viz.

7. Hawker, who was tried upon feveral different
indiSments, charged with defrauding and fwind.
ling many filk manufalturers and haberdafhers of
goods to a great amount, pretending to be in the
employ of feveral refpeetable men in that line.
The &II of thefe indictments was preferred by
Mr. Hyden, of Cheapfide, of which the Judge or-
dered the prifoner to be acquitted, on account of
fome informality in the drawing up of the indi&.
ment, which, he (aid, would not be proper to ex-
plain in the Court.
The fecund indktment charged him with de-
fraudins the houfe of Mr. Smith and Company, of
the pardh of Mary-la-bonne, of feventy-feven yards
of filk, pretending he came from the warehoufe of
Meas. Wells, Gilchriff, and Neuel, haberdafhers
in Fleet.fireet, who, he Paid, had fent him.

Mr. Smith Rated, that he found a great quanti-
ty of the articles in the poffeffion of different pawn-
brokers, pledged by the prifoner.
Mr. Gilchrift declared, that the prifoner was
not fent by him, nor by any of his partners; that'
all he knew of him was, that he recolleded hay.
ing purchafed tome fans from him feveral years
ago.
Mr. Holdfworth, the City Marfhal, Paid, that he
was lent for to Mr. Sibbits, in Wood•Rreet, where
the prifoner was deteited in attempting to defraud
them in the fable way; that when taken into cnf-
tody, he invited the Maraud to a houfe in Leather-
' lane, Holborn, where he produced about eighty
tickets from pawnbrokers, moft of them for filks
cut up in pieces of three and feven yards.
Many of the pawnbrokers' fervants produced the
filks, with tickets to them, exaftly correfponding
with the tickets found upon the prifoner; and ibme
of them fwore to the goods being pawned by him.
Such filks were by Mr. Smith picked out, and
fworn to by him from a particular mark of four
tight threads, which run through the whole piece,
and which could only be perceiveable by perfons
converfant in that article. Both he and one of
his young men fwore pofitively to his perfon.
Hawkins, when called on for his defence, refer-1
red to two Gentlemen in Court, one of whom, he
Paid, he had lived with. This Gentleman Rated,
that he remembered fomething of him living with
him when he was a boy, ten years ago, but knew
nothing of him fince.
The indiament having been clearly primed, the
Jury found him Guilty.
The RECORDER told them this was only a mif-
demeanor. biat fubjed to tranfportation, or fuch
other punifhment as the Court thought proper.—
He declined going into any more of the India.
ments, but defired all the pawnbrokers would give
up the property to the profecutors, without any
further order of the Court.

Nine were eonvided of felony, viz.
7. Brady, for healing two pair of cotton heck-
ings, the property of L. Lefage.
1. Car, for healing a great coat, the property
of P. Pendergrafs.
g. Richardfon, for healing a flyer watch, the
property of C. Hull.
Mary Swan, for felonioufly healing a flyer
watch, the property of John Tothill ; and 7ofeph
Spur, for being an accelfary after the fad in the
Paid felony. •
James Kennedy, for affaulting upon the King's'
highway, Elizabeth, the wife of Samuel Butcher,
and forcibly taking from her perfon, a bundle con-
taining the fundry articles of wearing apparel laid
as the property of the Paid Samuel Butcher. The
evidence in fupport of the profecution in this cafe
was fuch as induced the Jury to mitigate the capi.
tal part of the charge by finding a verdiet—Gaiky
of leafing only.
7antes Slretherd, for healing, on the 141 h of July,
a mahogany knife-cafe, the property of Marma-
duke Welim ore.
The profecutor, it appeared, is a cabinet-maker
in Crooked-lane in the city, and one of the people
called Quakers : He obje&ed to being (worn; and'
the RECORDER, in the firft infiance, raid his affir-
mation could not be taken in a criminal cafe ;
however, as it turned out, his evidence was not
material. The principal witnefs was Mr. Weft-
mare's errand•hoy, about twelve years of age,
who gave a very minute and colleded account of i
the tranfadion. He hated, that on the day men-
tioned in the indidment, about eleven o'clock, he
was in the counting-houfe, which communicates
with the raop by a glafs door. He obferved the
prifoner walk up and down fcveral times appolite
the (hop door; at length he walked in with the
meh perfe& compofure nobody was in the tbop
at the time.he took the knife-cafe which lay at one
lend of the counter, and walked away with it.—
The boy immediately ran out and gave the alarm,
crying, " hop thief," &c. and before he loft fight
of him, the prifoner was (topped by one of the
other witneffes, previoufly to which he had drop-
ped the knife-cafe. He was immediately given in
charge to an Officer, who kept the property ever
1 fince, and the boy above.mentioned (wore it be-
longed to the profecutor.
The prifoner incenuouflv owned b.II•A

the Cont.n as to the rcrult.—The Jury, of coutfe,
immediately found him t.vitr.
IVil..'urra /1"7//ifuw, for Ilealing a quantity of raw
coffee, laid as the property of Richard Ciook.
It appeared, that a confiderahle quantity of
coffee, intended for exportation in bags, was de-
pofited on Bear Key. Early in the morning of
the 14. th of Jeale, about four o'clock, the prifoner
was found lying down among the bags, one of
which that WAS near him, was cut, from which
tome of the coffee was fpilt ; and on fearching the
prifoner, the quantity laid in the indiCtment was
found in his hat, breeches, and in other parts of
his apparel : the coffee was found to he precifely
the fame kind as that which the cut bag contained,
and on weighing In much was found deficient as
had been fpillcd and found about the prifoner.
In his defence, he Paid, he fell asleep among the
bags, and in that fituation was found by the par-
ties who took him into cuftody; as to the reft of
the charge, he was innocent of it.
No proof, however, being adduced to fubßan-
date this defence, the Jury had no hefitation in pro-
nouncing the prifoner Gay.
Jeremiah Daley, a boy twelve years of age, for
ftealing a flyer watch, the property of Richard
Adam,.—The profecutor depofed, he was butler to
a Gentleman in Hanover.fquare, and about ten
o'clock in the morning of the day mentioned in
the indielment, was bufy in the pantry ; the iron
gate lead ingto the area was left open, and he obferved
the prifoner come down the tier, go into the
kitchen, and takeaway his metal watch, which was
hanging up ; he immediately followed and took
him. •

The prifoner, in his defence, faid, he was very
hungry, and only went down to beg a little water
and a crult of bread. He had no friends to ap-
pear for him. He was found Guilty.
The Court enquired whether this was his fir&
offence? and Mr. Kirby faid he had never feen him
before.

Sir Gil. Fs Rook* hoped this trial would be tom.
munieated to the public, in order that fervants
might learn how extremely dangerous it was to
leave the doors of areas open even for a moment.
It was not only expofing their mafters' property,
but throwing a temptation in the way of the
needy. He confideNd fuch condud in fervants
highly reprehenfible.
Nine were acquitted ; among whom was,
Robert Delamaiae, who was indicted for feloninuf-
ly affanlting Simon Nazaret on the King's high-
way, putting him in fear and robbing him of di-
vers 51. and 11. notes, his property.
The profecutor was a Frenchman, and convey.
ed his evidence through the medium of an inter.
preter. He was one of the mariners belonging to
the Friendfttip, lying in the river Thames, and cm
the t zth June lift was paid his wages ; he received
fix 51. notes, three il. notes, and three half guineas.
He was put afhore by the prifoner, a waterman,
about feven in the evening, and lauded at a place
he believed to be Deptford, but the defcription he
gave of it was very vague. He agreed to give
the prifoner fixpence and a pot of beer for bring.
ing him afhore. When they landed, they went to
a public houfe to drink. The prifoner went out,
and the profecutor foon after followed, and faw
' him watching dole by Tome wind mills. The pri-
toner ftruck -him over the neck with a piece of
Rick, then on the arm, and afterwards knocked
him down, and took all his money. Another per,
fon who bad been with the prifoner in the boat,
came up and took off the profecutor's neck-hand-
kerchief, which had coil him two Spanifli dollars.
The profecutor Paid he had drank nothing previ.
ous to his coming afhore, but what the Captain of
the Friendfhip had given him.
Perry, an officer, Paid he apprehended the pri.
Toner from the defcription given of him by the
profecutor; it was remarkable from the circum.
fiance of his hair hanging down in long curls or
ringlets. The prifuner teemed noway* alarmed,
nor did he hefitatc is telling him who he'was, and
where he lived.

The prifoner, in his defence, faid he never Caw
the profecutor.
Alice Bones depofed, that The lived in the fame
houfe with the prifoner. She was pofitive he came
home on the evening of the isth of June at fur
o'clock to tea, and that The gave him Come hot
water to make it.

A female fervant at the Fox public houfe, at
Poplar, near where the prifoner refided, Rated that
at half after fix he came to her Matter's houfe, had
a pint of porter, and (laid till he had drank it and
fmoaked a pipe.
Mary Nodrum, filler in law to the prifoner,faid,
he came to her houfe about liven, and flopped till
nine. She was certain as to the day, becaufe it
was the fame on which the had given her Land.
lord notice to quit.
The Mate of the Friendfhip depofed, that on the
day the profecutor was paid, he left the Blip in a
Rate of intoxication.

It appeared that the place where the profecu.
for Paid he had been knocked down and robbed,
was a very great thoroughfare, and much Ire.
quented.

Captain Wells hated, that he had commanded
his Majefty's Ihips of war the Defence and the
Glory, of which the prifoner was one of the crew.
It was his objet to find out among the numbers
who compofed the crew, fuch men as were dill
tinguilhed for their honefty, integrity, and
gence, in order to place them in fituations of truft
and confidence. He had made the prifoner his
Coxfwain ; and he believed him as incapable of
the crime imputed to him, as he was himfelf.
Sir Soy LOIN Lev/mice fummed up the evi.
dence, obferving, that from all the circumftances
it was improbable the prifoner &could have corn.
mitted the robbery with which he was charged.—
It teemed, indeed, extremely doubtful whether the
profecutor had been robbed at all, for it was very
unlikely he fhould have been knocked down and
ill ufed in a place fo much frequented, and at fuch
an hour of the evening, when it was quite light.
without tome perfon having witneffed the tranfae-
tion ; betides, if the witneffes for the prifoner were
to be believed, they had clearly proved an alibi.
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