Star.
London, England, 1805-01-02 00:00:00

DU3LII'. DECEAIRE.R i 4.

PETP.P. CARROLL, foutA guilty of mail ro!)bery, &
and who was to have been executed at tl.e fig :a of
the New Prifen, on Saturday, has bc:n fur
a week, by the interference of the Judge before whom
he was tried arid convitted, in confequence of it having
fince come to the knowledge of the Judge, that a
witnefs fr.r CARROLL had been at re:t.:l for deirt, on
his way to give evidence, and put in pat, whereby
CARROLL was precluded fi um any benefit which might
have arisen from the reflirnony of that perfon.

DECkMBtit 27. -
Mr. Looax, the chief peace-officer, returned to
town on Thurfday lag from Donegall, without being
able to apprehend the poifoners of the poor blind men
of Sintrsom's liorpit,rl, though he made a molt in-
defatigable fearch.

Sat—urday night, Captain Wicsox, the chief peace
officeri apprehended TOI.IS MENCICs, Tl.omas-Itreet,
charged with havoig been guilty of force fraudulent
tranfaftions near Longford.
Yelterday, a journeyman taylor, of the name of
CURLEW, was taken up drowned out of the river at
the Old Cuftom-houfe.

A noble inftance of human fortitude was given a
few days ago on the Qi!ay, by a lad of the name of
Blake.—He happened to be prcfent when a poor wo-
man who was doffing a plank to go on board oue of
the potat-e boats, fell into the River, and immediately
plunged in to her relief; his efforts were fuccefsful,
and the po•:r creature was brought afhore amidt
the acclamAtions of the furro•tndiog fpe6tators, who
were aftonithed at the extraordinary efforts of a youth
fcarcely fourteen years of age.—This is the fecond
life Blake has faced within a thou time.
On the morning of the t 6th init. the office asljoio-
ing the dwelling 'wag of Hams )LOAN EISMS, Efq.
of Ballytweedy, was broken into and robbed of 27
guineas. _

Lail week, P. W. Harvey, Efq. in purfuance of
the will of the late F. Higgins, Efq. compounded
the debts and paid the fees of 23 poor confined
debtors, enlarging them from prifon, and refloring
them, at a defirable period, to their families and
friends. This was pundually executed, under the
direCtion and the approbation of the Lord Mayor.
Thurfday fe'nnight as a private belonging to the
Royal Artiilery, was proceeding to Duncannon Fort.
he was flopped about two miles from Waterford by
two villains, apparently countrymen, who, having
knocked him down, and cot him in a cruel manner,
rifled his pockets of 2s. 2d. and wok out of a
baficet which he had with him, feveral papers, &c.
They propofed to each other repeatedly to murder
him, laying, " there were too matiy of his fort alive."
Providentially, however, on hearing a bode ap-
proaching, they fled, leaving the poor fellow in a
pitiable flare. _

Two melancholy inftances occurred on Saturday
of allowing children to approach a fire, without the
fuperintendance of fome proper perfon to preferve
their inexperience from danger : one of the children
was burnt to death, in confequence ofits c:other taking
fire, and the other is dange:outly ill. Such negled is
more to be reprobated, as the ordinary high fender
which is ufed in nurferies, makes fuch occurrences
impoflible.
On Sunday morning the child, a fine boy, between
five and fix years of age, w.lll left playing in the
drawing room of Lee's lodgings, in South Anne-
flrcet, by his grand parents, who went out to prayers;
unfertunazely he approached too near the fire, whets
the flames caught his cheque bib, which he endea-
voured to extinguifh by putting it between his legs;
which canted his pantaloons to take fire, and they
being lined with calico, made no blaze, but continued
to burn : as the child did not fee any blaze he thought
it was out, till the heat forced him to Icream : his fa•
ther, who was in bed in an adjoining room, heard
him, and ran to his afildailce, when he found him
in the micift of flames, the fire having caught the
tuckers of liis' fhirt ; his father immediately extin-
guithed the Hames by covering him with the carpet,
and then fir ipped him ; but he was much burned at
the bottom of his belly and back. Medical aid was
intlantly obtained—but the f.-fight was fo great that
about five o'clock on Monday morning he was
feized with a consultive fit—another at ten, and a
third at two, which terminated his exiftence. .What
adds to Mr. Lee's affliaion, is, that be was his only
child, his daughter, eleven years of age, having died
two months fince. Mrs. Lee is only ten months
dead.

Lout-Aisle, Dtc. so.—The 36th, or Pompadores,
have marched from hence to Cork, a fine body of
men and in high (piths. They are to be replaced by
the 3zd regiment from Longford, the &Li divifiors
of which have arrived, all ferviceable and well ap-
pointed. The za, or Fuzileers, remain here, and
are very healthy—they are well known on fervice,
and are now complete.

On Tuefday fe'nnight, a porpoife, 12 feet long,
was caught by forne lightermen' at the Broomielaw,
Glafgow. In coming up the Clyde, it bad entangleil
kali among the velfel% at the quay.
In an open garden at Renfrew, there is :It prefent
a role fully blown. On the fame both, a rote alfa
budded in the month of o:tober, and another in the
month of November.

Early on the morning of the 13th, a large meteor
pallid over G,,wer, a few trples from Swanfea, in a
north call diration, illuminating the atmolphere
much more vividly than lightning. After being vi.
file for a Mort time,it hurft with a tremendous noire,
and numerous fparks of fire; of a confiderable free,
apparently fell to the earth. Several perfons obferved
the phenomenon, and others who heard the explofion,
dekribe the latter as ftm:lar to the falling of a large
building.
•Yeflerday morning, as the Pnrtfmouth mail coach
came into the Angel inn, :it. Clement:s, the guard
perctived three or four men, uho he conlilered as
fufpicious charaders, lurkint about the
t!ate way
as fuch he adviled a g,:ra:rnan, who cam: 'Wien-
ger, to have his trunk car; ie.; into the room where
he fat ; it was accordingly taken into the coffee-room,
where foon atter three gentlemen came in, and or-
dered coffee, and very loon aftlr the trunk and two
of the reemea were mitrag. A fiords was fet on
foot, d ;. ing which the other:ode/man got away, and
w•ts purft,eu by a boy, who, with affiliance, fecured
him, and tent for an officer, who recognized him.
The other two were traced and apprehended, but the
trunk is Rill miffing.