Star.
London, England, 1812-01-13 00:00:00

' ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO ROB ANT) 11/41tAnER.--Last

night, hetweea the h• iris of nine and ten o'clock, the
hothe of Mr. Pryor, Boor alit! Shoe-maker, No. 72,
St. Margaret's-hill, Borough, was entered by two
mm, by picking the lock : the sery int maid came
dor-n stairs to go into tl.e cellar, in coining up again
she 4aw two men in the shep, one of wirch she
thought was her master ; she asked him if he was
going out ? When the man she took tur ler master
•tuned round, she perceived a crape on his face,
and he swore if she spoke a word he would cut
ha throat. The girl immedi ttely dew to the doer
and cried mu, der ! and in the scuffle ole man

vt out and shut the door, and the man inside cut
at the kill's throat about an inch, and also cut
her arm and gave her a violent blow on her head.—
The master hearing a noise c.trne down, but being in
the dark and fright -nett went back fur a light, the
rutir2n then made his es:ape, and left the gill bleed-
ing oa the 11 .or. A gteat nuinber ot Vots and shoes
were p !eked up ra ady to be taken away.
Mr. J A NI rs CANIPBELL, who WAS woart led in the late
riots, at Uinbutgli, is since dead. Lie w.as Clerk to
a m• r:antih boos! in Leith.
M11et:11.-411C latest accounts whi:ll we have
received represent the hopes which were entertained
of seeing a speedy end to the outrages in that neigh-
bourhood as ing again disappointed. Last week
frame-breaking and burning increased, but only one
burglary has been heard of. The gang in Derby-
shir it was belieVed, was nearly broken up. On the
2.1 inst. an idle wretch, who had excited suspicion by
a sudden transition from rags and poverty to well•
essed p:enty, was an csted atHeatior, in that county;
and we understand, trom information wrich he has
given, that two other del3..rado s were taken at a
public house in Loscoe, last Wednesday, and conveyed
in ch tins to Derby jail ; one of whom, a celebrated
peclesti i in, and well know n as a deserter, had long
been the terror t the neighbourhood for miles around.
A stack, containing twenty ums of valuable hay, was
set tire to at Mansfield on Sun !ay Wg.it ;—the
flames of which drew a part of a congregation from
the melodist chapel in that place, dining divine ser-
vice. On Wednesday evening a large *wooden hovel
containing a quantity t f straw, the property of Mrs.
Daykin, of Bagthorpe, was set fire to at Basford. the
whole of which was c' nsumeci. The frame-breaking
at Basford, on Fr'd.ty night, had created considerable
sensation. An elderly woman, the wife of a person
who held seven of these frames, has sworn to several
persons, as bemg concerned in the outrage, (two of
whom are committed ;) on which account, such was
the indignation excited against her among some of
the stocking-makers of Basford, that it was judged
expedient to remove the family with their furniture,
escorted by the military, to Nottingham, as a place of
refuge, lest they should fall a sactitice to the yen.
geance of the rioter.
!Mal-LANE.—This day there are considerable ar-
rivals of Wheat coa tw se, ..vith about 44,0 quarters,
of Foreign ; sales in general are named at a reduction
of '2s. and Gs. p r quarter—B irley rather lower—.
Malt and White Peas hardly at list prices—Beans of
the two descriptions likewise—The remaining sup-
plies of Oats ate considerable, and sales of this arti-
cle are quoted lower, excepting for line samples—
Flour rather gives way in price-.

CVIIItENT PRICES OF GEAIL
Wheat, 84s. 78s. 1066 Deans
Fine ditto, 1146. 1186. 7 ick ditto (Lew) 44a. 481.
Rye 50s. 564 Ditto (Stu. Old) 50s. 536.
Berle), 406. Cgs. cd. Oats, 261
hir.l•., 765. e4e. Polan ditto, :•.3• sTs Od.
White Pea; thoilas) 765. 821. Potatoe ditto, 40s. 41s. Od.
Grey ditto, 55.. t l a. R tpe Stud,
fine Flour, PSE 98s.—Seconds, 901. 05a.
SMITHFIELD MARKET.—January Is
. Bee! 6s .0d to es Od Vest 76 od to Rs 04
Mutton 5s ed to 66 ed l'ork eis 4d to 7s ta
ARAD OP CATTLE THIS DAY.
Beasts, bout 2320—Sheep and Lainbs, 14,450.
Calves, 120—Pigs, 820.
PRICE OF HAY. AND STRAW IN SMITHFIFI.D.
Hay 41 Ks to 51 Ss New Cloves SI Cs to 61 es
New flay 411 us le ol Us Straw 81 2s to al 1411

1.41 V 11141:ELLIGENCL.

COURX OF BENCH, JAN. it.
TittratokAd u.EIIIKETT.
Thie -was an action upon two bills of exchange,
amounting to nearly ,e3OOO, brought by the indorser
against the drawer. The defendant was the agent at
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, of Messrs. Preston and Co.
merchants, of London, and had been in the habit of
drawing bills upon them for their accommo4ation.-
- The bills in question were accepted 4, Messrs. Pres-.
: ton and Co. and one of the partners of that House
carried them to the plaintiff, who resided at 'Brixton,
requesting he would discount them for-the accommo-
dation of the defendant (the drawer). The plaintiff
•
gave him cheques on his bankers to the full amount
• of the bills, upon condition that the money should be
'returned on the following Saturday se'nnight. When
that day came, the plailltiff•demanded back his ad-
visitce, but Messrs. Preston and Co, not being pre-
pared to p.iy it, lie returned them the hills, insisaog
upon their payment without delay. In the mean
time, and just as the bills were falling due, Messrs.
Preston became insolvent ; and the day before their
insolvency was declared, one of the partners destroyed
_the bills in question, through mistake, along with
others, and she money was never paid to the plain-
tiff. Notice of non-payment, at the time the bills be-
came dtie, was given to the acceptors, Messrs. Pres-
ton, but not to the defend et, the drawer.
The ArroneEY GENettnL, lex the plaintiff, conten-
ded, that such notice to the drawer was not necessary,
inasmuch as these were accommodation bills, and
there was no proof of any assets in the hands of the
drawer belonging to the acceptor at the time the bills
became due. But it appeared, that both at the time
of making the bills, and when they became due, the
defendant was a creditor of Messrs. Preston on a ba-
lance of accounts, but in a much less sum than the
amount of the bi•ls.
Lord ELLENBOROUGII nprm this, held, that not-,
withstanding the amount of the bills was much be-
yond the bitlemce of account, yet, as there was an ex-
?sting balance on an unsettled account at the time
they became due, the defendant was entitled to have
such notice of non-payment. His Lordship, there-
fore, direct.:sl that the plaiiitif should be nonsuited.
SAME V. SAME.
This was an action under the statute of Will. 111.
for refusing to
,give new acceptances, upon the de-
struction cf the former as already mentioned, upon
the plaintiff's tendering the usual indemnity, Furei-
:nit to the statute. But it appearinz, that the word,
of the statnte were ~bill or bills lost' or miscarried,"
and n. t extending to bills destroye,f, the plaintiff
agreed to wi:hd,raw this case, till he bad moved the
Court to set aside the nonsuit in the former case, up, n
the ground that notice to the drawer of an accomme-
dition bill was not necessary.

Fines.—Yesterday merging, about nine o'clock, a.
ire broke out in a shed, c n acting deals, in Perry's
dock yard, Blackwell, by which about 150 were
burnt ; but by the extraordinary 'rations of the
workmen an immense nuvrily.r were preserved, and
the ravages of the destructive element :confined to that
'part in which it commenced, previous to the arrival
of engines or firemen,
Friday se'nnight the Tar House of Mr. Castle, rope-
maker, Chatham, was set on fire-by the boiling over
of the copper. The whole of the adjoining premises
were in danger of being destroyed, but the flames
were extinguished without any farther injury being
• unstained than the consumption ofnine barrels of tar,
stand the destruction of the building in which the fire
began.
A woman has lately been committed to-Hunting-
don' gaol, on a charge of setting fire to a stack of
straw, the property of a tenant of Messrs. Gee and
Clarke, at Holme, near Stilton. The woman was a
damestic servant of the farmer, and, it is supposed,
contemplated the destruction of the whole of his
property ; but the fire was d'scovered before it spread
beynd the straw-stack of about 20 tons, which tt
siOtirely consumed.
The church of St. Nicholas, at Stettin, in which the
French garris'n had deposited 40,000 quintals of hay,
Was, on the Bth ult. entirely consumed by fire.
The PRINCE REGENT has confirmed the sentence
of a Court-martial held on Lieutenant Edward Tully,
of the 75 h regiment of foot, in October last, at St.
Hclier's, Jersey, for leaving several places withr'ut
settling his accounts, and neglecting to pay the baker
who supplied the detaclime:it, though he regularly
received his own psy, and that of the men under his
command ;—for having appropriated to Lis own use
two sums of money received by him, in July, 1809,
from a Supervisor of Excise, fur guarding a seizure ;
~-and for denying any such receipts in letters to his
Cs mmiindingofticer, dated July 21st and 25th, 1809,
Lieutenant Tully is dismissed from the service.
Last week at Yaxley barracks, as a sentinel was on
bis pest at one of the inner gates, a French prisoner,
pith a bucket full of water, asked leave to go through,
and on the soldier's hesitating threw the contents in
his face, which made him drop his firelcck, when the
Frenchman unfixed the bayonet, and pin off with it.
Tier soldier, hoWever, quickly recovered, and snatch-
ing up his piece discharged it at the privoner ; the
hall catered below the shoulder, and came out at the
tireast, but he is still alive.
- Doss,.—A duel took place last month at Baur-
deanx, between two mercl.ants. On the first fire, one
of the parties fell, and the seconds.immediately ap-
act,, supposing that he was mortally wounded;
ester a close inspection, however, they find that he
bad not sustained any injury, his antagonist's ball
baring glanced aside, and lodged in the trunk of a I
tree ; but be was nevertheless dead ; having, it is ci
lectured, anticipated by his terrors, that fate which
he might otherwise have' escaped. His antagonist
was wuunded in the right arm.
A letter from Tralee, dated Jan. I, says, a despe.
tate affray occurred on Monday. last, at Kiilinbau, a
f, miles froni this down. Two men, named Mar-
tin and Garret Seers, were on their return home that
evening, when they were met by a party of ruffians,
who assailed them with clubs, and beat them in such
antishisman manner, that one of them (Garret beers)
dill the next day. Four of the fellows concerned in'
this horrid business have been apprehended, namely,
John Scannel, John Scannel, jun. Michael and Ed.
annud Connor, who were yesterday brought is bare,
pad.comaguad to poi.