Star.
London, England, 1801-11-28 00:00:00

ROBBERIES, E;:c.

A few evenings fince, a parcel, containing
Bank-notes to the amount of 2501. was ftolen from
the Bath and Exeter Mail.
Lan Monday evening the (hop of Mr. Haddock,
in Bath, was entered by fome villains, and robbed
of upwards of 4o watches and and other property
to a conliderable amount.
Late on Monday night, or early on Tuefday
morning, the bottle of THMIAS HISSER% Efq. in
Wimpole-fireet, was broke open, and robbed of
540 guineas in gold, and other property to a con-
fidaable amount.
Tuefday evening, about (even o'clock, Mr. Mors
gan,' farmer, of Hint" was flopped on the top
of Midford-hill, by a tingle footpad, who held a
plant to his breaft, and tubbed him of half-a-gni-
nea and his watch.
Wednefday morning, about fix o'clock, tkehoufc
Of Mr. STREATON, in Duke-fircet, Aliate, was
difeovered to be broke open, and robbed of wool-
len cloth and other goods, to the amount of up-
wards of 601. with which the thieves made their
efeape.
One nightla ft week the dove-houfe of Mr. Towle,
of Swanburgh, was feloniotifly entered by fame
robbers, who !tole therein a number of breeding
pigeons, and efcapcd undScovered, although the
pillaged premiles Rand very nigh to Mr. Tourle's
dwelling houfe. To prevent the cfcape of the pi.
?eon% the thieves flopped the outlets with Itraw,
bar th• major part notwithftanding got away.
The fame night a liable (the loft of which is ufed
as a depontory for apples) in Southover, belonging
to Mr. John Verrall, was broke open and robbed
of a confider-Ale quantity of choice keeping fruit.
On Saturday fe'nnight the daughter-houfe of
Mr. Rolfe, butcher, at Brighton, was robbed of the
carcafe of a fheep, and as much of the firth of a bul-
lock, which was hanging up in quarters, as the rob-
bers could conveniently feparate from the bones.—
So much were the above-mentioned quarters of
beef mangled, that the butcher could not cut one
joint properly fit for fate front citherof them. The
above is the third robbery of the fame defcription
committed at Brighton in one week.
About eight o'clock on the evening of I'hurfilay
fe'nnight as Mr. Brought, Supervifor of Excife,
was coming down Silver Hill, he was met, within
two hundred yards of the turnpike gate, by a fob
dier belonging to a regiment of foot, ilationed at
Silver Hill barracks,who,without any pros ocation,
with a bludgeon, knocked him off his borfe, and
notwithflanding the moll earneft (applications for
mercy, protefted he would not leave him till he
had done his bufmefs, which fuppoling he had of-,
fected, be mounted Mr. trough's bode, and rode
away.— After much lofs of blood, Mr. B. crawled
to the gate, and loon got furgical afiftance, and
although his head is terribly bruited in every part,
there are hopes of his recovery.
Mr. Robinfon,of Robertlbridge, being at Hawk-
burn the morning after the above robbery, men-
tioned the circumtlance, and was informed that a
foldier anfwering the defcription he gave had paired
through that place an hour before. Mr. Robin(on
inttantly went in purfuit of him, and after riding
thirteen miles on the London road, got fret intel-
ligence of the offender, and continued the purfuit
acrofs the country to Watteringberry ; at that place
he met Mr. Boys of Teeters, who had pared the
foldier about half an hour before; Mr. Boys was
eafily prevailed on to join in the purfuit, and be-
ing acquainted with the country, they overtook
him at Burling Hill, within about eight miles of
Gravefend, to which port he livened directing his
mirk. Mr. R. !Icing firft, although the (oldies.
carried his bayonet in his hand, r-dolutely attack-
ed him, and, with the affiftance of Mr. Boys, hap-
pay
_fecured and fafely lodged his the fame night
Maidftone gaol.
On Monday fe'nnight, about eight o'clock, as
MT. DANIEL SoLordiom, of Wentworth-ftreet,
Whitechapel, was travelling near a place called
Jack in ;he Hole, about a mile aid a half beyond
Dartford, he was flopped by two footpads, who
robbed him of his watch and calls; likewife pro-
perty to the amount of eighty pounds, which be
was travelling with as a hawker and pedlar. The
robbers beat him in a moll cruel and inhuman
manner an the head with their piltola, and left him
for dead : he was found on the mad by fome tra.
yellers, who took him to Dartford for medical of
finance. Two men, of the names of John. Allen
and Edward Garratt, have fince l:en apprehend-
ed at Maidftone, in Kent, for a foe toad robb,:ry
on an inhabitant a that town, and the watch be.
longing to Me. Solomon found upon et::: of them;
likewite property belongin to two (i-ntlemai of
the neighbourhood of W,'lllcad, ia Kent. Tl.ey
:VW both examined before the Mayor of that
'own, end ronunitted lot farher milli:wt. lion.

On Thurfday evening tome of the tow-greet
Petrale met a man with a large bafket on his head
in the Spa-fields, Clet kcnwell, and, fufpeaing it
to be Rohm property, they !topped him ; on exa-
mining the contents of his load, they difcovered it
to be two dead bodies, the one that of a woman
between thirty and forty years of age, the other a
male child, three or four years of age, which there
i• no doubt had OR been Itolen out of force church
yard in that neighbourhood; bat the fellow who
carried the hi/diet unfortunately eicaping from
the Patrole as they were conveying him along,
this nefarious bufineCs cannot be traced to its pro-
per fource. A man who was fuppofed to be in
company with him was taken into cuflody, and
brought before Mr.. Folio, at Bow-fired, but tl!ere
being nothing to criminate him, he was .:rg-
ed. ed. The bodies, which were contained in feparate
.ags, and tied together in the bafket, were ordered
to be taken to Cicrkenvvell parifh, for a fecond in-
terment.
An old man, at Doncafter, who was frequently
employed to carry parcels into the country, in put.-
fang a farmer's houfe in the neighbourhood, tiled
gener-ally to call, under Tome pretence, for the put-
pole of begging a drink; and, a few nights ago,
v. ry officroully flepped in to inform the farmer,
that, in going over his turnip-dole, he had detec-
ted a man Rearing his turnips, but tint the thief
had made off before he could difcover who he was.
—This piece of intelligence not only obtained the
old man the thanks of the farmer, but alfo a cup
of good ale ; and the latter, wifhing to profit by
the information, took a walk out the following
evening, when obfcrving, at a dißance, a man in
the aft of cutting off the leaves and filling a fack
with turnips, he inflantly fecured him ; and lo
to his furprize, who fhonld it be but the Ilona in-
former, the old man himfelf !
On Sunday morning tall, about three o'clock, a ,
(form threw down the chimney of the vellry -room
of St. George's-church, Liverpool, which falling
on the blocking-courfe, forced a great part of it,',
with the ornamental vales, cornice, and lead co-
vering, into the churchyard, and confiderably da-
maged the upper part of the fouth wall of the
church. -

On the 9R WI. while a labourer at the Claver-
hour:, Illeachfield, was oiling fome wheels be-
longing to the machinery, a raged part of his
sleeve was taken hold of, by which his right arm
was drawn in, broken, and lacerated in a (hock-
ing Manner. He was carried to the Dundee In-
firmary, and there are hops that his arm may yet
be fared. _ _

On Tuefday Morning laft, a man employed in
blcwing up the rock in Cattle•ftreet, Dundee, was
much hurt, in confequence of the charge liner-
pettedly exploding; and a girl of nine years of age
palling at tbe time, had her fcull fra&ured by a
splinter of Hone which struck her on the forehead,
and fhe now lies daugeroufly
A perfon on horfLback last week, in crating the
Ford above Abergwily, Carmarthenfhire, was
carried off by the torrent, and drowned; his honk
Was laved.

On Tuefday fennittlit the body of Elizabeth
Graham, wife of Dan. Wright, alias M'lntyre,
weaver, in Gorbals,Clafgow, was found dead in the
Monkland Canal. in the immediate neighblurhood
of Clafgow. The hulhandhas fince abfconded; fuf-
picions are therefore entertained of his being accef
fary to her death.
Thurtday afternoon, as a tailor was paffing a
fugar-houfe in Wellclofe-fquare, at the time tome
hoglheads of fugar were craning into a cart, the
flings unfortunately gave way, when the hoglhead
knocked him down, and eruthed one of his legs in
a terrible manner.

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MARRIFD.
On Thurfday. at St. Mary-litßonue Ctime6, Deny* Sadly,
Erg. eldelt (on of James Scully, Efq. of Kilfeade, in the county
of Tipperary, to Ms May Huddleßon, eldeß daughter of
Ferdinand Middleton, Eftg. of Sovaton-hall, in the county o
Cambridge.
Oa Monday fat, it Herderorpon-Thatnesi Ain Rowe, E.fc:.
of the New River Oiler, London, to Mrs. Pep • of Henley.
On Thurfday fe'nnitan, at f,t. John's Church, Prelltm Or
Rev. Mr. I Loris, incumbent came of St. George's Chap:l, in
that town, to Mng Lodge, doughtier of Edward Lodge, 1:f1. of
:ht. Line place.