Star.
London, England, 1806-07-23 00:00:00

SUMMER CIRCUIT.

HOME CIRCUIT.—HERTFORD, MONDAY, PIT at.
This morning the Loco ClftlF BAROK and Mr.
Janice HEATH arrived in this town, and read their
Comma:on for holding the Affizes.for this county.
After hearing Divine Service, they proceeded, to dif-
cult in their refpetlive Courts. Mr. Juliice HVATH
fat on the Crown Side, and the LORD Carty BARON
en the Civil Side. There were but two caulks tried
on the Civil Side, one of which was a queßion, svhe.
Ocean orchard was demifed to the Plaintiff or De-
fendant and the other, whether a drain had aright',
to run through the Plaintiff's grounds ? both- were
mainterefling in the extreme.
CROWN SIDE.
WUliam Ilficcoe and jekin Dann were indited for n
burglary in the houfe of Sufannah Moule, widow, in
the path of Muchiiacldan, in this county, on the
71h of February left.
Mr. Cuawoon, as Counfel for the Profleution,
Rated, that the profecutrix was a poor widow wo.
man, who lived at a place called Tye Green, in a
I,:nely cottage : the was fo poor that the received re.
ha from the parilh ; yet, notwithflanding that cis..
comflance, the had by economy fared what fhe con.
!Acted a little fortune—the had, in her Rote of
wealth, a Spanith dollar, a King William and
Queen Mary's crown piece, a 0, j_r_een Anne's half
guinea, and it had alfo fo happened that a day or two
liefore the robbery Ilse had fold her only pig to a
neighbouring farmer, by which fhe had inereafed her
Joie with a pound note and another half guinea.—
i'i;e whole of her fortune fhe kept mull carefully tied
up ill her pocket. On the night of the 7th of Feb.
Glary the went to bed at the ofual hour, when about
twelve o'clock the heard a noife in the kitchen of her
cottage, which adjoined the room in which fhe
As there was a man of the name of Fitter who flept
up flair', the thought it was he. until the heard her
had room door burg open. She then called out,
Who is there 1" and 1' What do you want P' A
man replied, in a hollow voice, " I want your mei.
ncy." She Paid the had none ; but the man approach.
VI the bed, and put his hand under her pillow, as fire
toppotid, to take her pockets, and in fall he did find
Owns, and tore them from her. While the was
':ruggling with this man, to endeavour to lave her
pockets, (be heard another voice at the door, talking
I the man near the bed, and telling him to take her
r!:cts, or knock her brains out ; and this man then
;:x round the yard, and broke open the door which
..ired from her bed room into the yard. When the
a was broke open, the Moon Roane brightly into
• :r.oal, And the dillinely faw the perfons of the
it., v hum file knew very well, and the was
~. • i.e; wars the two ricottas at the bar. oar of

thefts, Dane, *29- her pest nephew' and .the miter,
Brifcoe, the had known all her life. After they had
thus rifled her, they both went away, but the was po-
fitive as to their perfons.
The profecutriz proved thefe Etas very diftinaly ;
but being croft examined by the COMMON Seat SANT,
the (aid the was eighty-four years of age, and ad-
mitted Ole did not tell a Magiftrate until the t Ith of
April, the reafon for which delay the raid was be-
caufe the was afraid of being murdered, if fhe. had
faid the knew who committed the fads.
Mr. Jolliet lisero told the Jury he thought it
was too much to find the prifoners guilty on the un-
illtenfirraed tellimony of a witnefs, who, from advan.
ia age, might moll probably miftake the perfons of
t*lprifoners.—The Jury found them Not Guilty.
fAkey were tried on a (econd indiament for a bur•
slaty in the houfe of Thomas Clarke, farmer. at
Great Hadham, on the 19th of March.
Mr. CORWOOD Rated to the Jury the circumftances
of. this cafe, which was proved by Mrs. Clarke, as
follows : She fisted that they lived in a (mall farm
houfe at Eaft Hadham, and on the aoth of Mardi,
about two in the morning, the was awakened by a
crafts of breaking open the outer door. She awoke
her hufband, and immediately jumped out of bed,
mod bid herklf in a corner of the rooms direaly two
men ruthed into their bed room, and one of them
coming up to the bed tide, afked where her hulbancl
was t the told them that he had gone down (lairs the
believed. They then went to the drawers, which
they rifled and went away. While they were in tbe
room the thought the knew the perfon of Etikoe,
and the believed Dane to be the other man. There
was no light in the room, and it was rather a gloomy
night, but yet the believed the two prifoners were the
two perfons who committed the robbery.
On trots examination by the Common Sitaixaxx,
it appeared that before the Magiftrate the had faid.the
only knew them by their voices.
. The Learned Judge thought this evidence too
flight to convia,dte prifoners, and direeted the Jury to
acquit them.-rWerdia, Not Guilty.

Some workmen, repairing the houfe of Sir H. PIT•
Toll, at BUcknell, near likelier, difcovered. daft week,
a concealed clan, with feveral pieces of plate, and
two iron cheat, locked. which ftill remain unopened,
till the will of the prefent proprietor, E. TIOT MAN,
Efq. be known. They are fuppofed to have been
concealed during the rebellion in 57,45, and, from
their weight. are probably valuable.
On Sunday died, at the Menagerie, in Ewa I
'Change, Mr. Pincoces celebrated female Elephant.
Co well known for her fagacily and wonderful tricks.
Mr. Pencoca had been offered fifteen hundred gui.
neat for her a (hurt time fioce.
Sisal:Lea Dasam.—.A man was yefterday
charged at the Public Office, Marlborough.areet. with
a burglary in the houfe of Mr. Neptune, the Nag's
Head, OafordAreet, when the following fiognlar
evidence was given :
Mr. Neptune Rated, that early Weedily morning
he dreamt two thieves had broken open his houfe,
and entered the bar, the door of which they had
propped open with a (lick ufed by hintfelf for that
purpofe, and were carrying 'off the liquors. The anzi.
, ety of the dream having ;woke him, he went to lir-
ten on the Hairs, hut every thing appeared quiet.—
He, however, fatisfied himfelf by going down flair%
when the saYen became rralifed ; fur a thief had bro-
ken into the houfe through a back window, and was,
carrying off the fpirits from the bar, the door of
which was kept open by the identical flick to %thick
we have before alluded. The robber had conveyed(
a quantity of fpirits from the houfe to an adjoining:
yard,- and he retnme.el for more when firmed by
klelr. Neptune. The per fon of the prifoner was iden-
tified by a watchman and the profecutor, and he was.
folly committed for trial.
MUADIR.—An inquifition was taken yefterday
the King's Arms, Five.field.row, Chace, before A.
Efq. Coroner, on the body of John Coral, a,
private in the 88th regiment of infantry, who was.
Riot in the knee, on the sth inn. which was the ne.
cation of his death. The deceafed had obtained a
furlough from his regiment, which was Rationed, at
Horthass barracks, Suffer, and on the ph inftapt, net
be was going through Bockingham.gate, at elevrim
o'clock at night, he law two men, whom he recog.
aired to be deferters from the 88th regiment. kit:
purfued them as far as Pimlico wharf, when the de .
fetters, whole names are James Kennedy and Patrick:
Kennedy, rufhed through a wicket, and ran into the
wharf. The deceafed kept in purfuit of them, and he
few one of them run into the privy, and the other on
hoard.a lighter. A piftol was immediately fired from
the privy, and the ball entered the left knee of the
deceafed, and lodged in the thigh. The deceafed
made an affidavit of theft fags on the Bth init. which
affidavit was read before the Coroner. The only
wheel's who could fpeak to the tranfapion was Wm.
Cook, a milkman, who heard the report of a ORO,
and on his going on the wharf he law the deceafed,
who Paid he lied been (hot. He was then bleeding
very much. The deceafed was taken to the York
Hofpiral, where he expired on Satarday lift, the
wound having mortified. The furgeons who attended
the deceafed had agreed that he mull undergo am•
potation, but this he declined in the hall moment....
Verdi ft 4,119 id Murder 4,741,11 ike two Deftriert."