Star.
London, England, 1802-10-14 00:00:00

COUNTIZT ,vEIVS.

EDINMII G tt,Oc r. 9.— Monday Wilbert Moodie,
ali:ts Campbell, w.ts brought to town from New-
caille, 'mac:- the charge of Mr. George William-
fon, n:effenger, and, after examination before the
Sheriff, committed to prifon. He is charged with
forging bank notes on the Greenock Bank.
On Tuefday evening about eight o'clock, as two
Ladies were eroding the Cowgate, and juft as
they were fteppiug into Merchant Court, a fellow
came behind and wreled an umbrella from one
of them. Notwithflanding there were feveral pen-
pie palling at the time, and the cry of " flop thief,"
immediately given, he made his efcape.
Yefterday a woman was brought before/he Ma.
gifirates, having been taken up when attempting
to fell a fmall barrel of gunpowder, pretending it
was a barrel of butter. - She faid fhe got it from
another woman, who told her it was butter. The
Magillrates committed her to Bridewell, from
whence the had been but lately releafed.

On Saturday evening, a poor old woman, who
ufcd to go about Glafgnw gathering broken bot-
tles' 'dropped down on the.. ftreet, at the bead of
the Gallowgate, and almoft inftantly evict& -
On Sunday Daniel WIC:Iy, a boy about eleven
vests of age, fell through the kill's, from the
third ftorey of a tenemeut buildins in Argyll-
ftreet, Glafgow, and was fo Mockingly bruited
that he died oil Monday. ,

On Tuefday tenni& Alexander Cunningham,
one of the workmen at the Green Coal Work,
!mai of Cambnfnethan, fell from the top to the
bottom of the pit, and was killed on the fpot. He
has left a wife and eight children.
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On Wednefday morning, the 6th inf. a male
child, a few days old, wrapped up in a piece of
flannel, was found expored at the road fide, at the
gate of the farm of Rofyth, in the Etna of Inver-
keithing.
Ocr. t s.—ln the beginning of laft week, a
child in the Seagate of Dundee, was burned in a
(hocking manner in the neck and breaft, by pull
ing over a tea pot filled with water boiling hot.—
The child died in 36 hours after the.accident.

Thuriday lall, a Seine net was flint at St. Da-
vid's, Fifeltire, on trial 'for herrings, when a few
very fine ones were brought on (here.
Saturday laft, feveral barrels, of white herrings
*ere fold by aultion, at tbe_Weigh-hnefe here,
which were knocked down, on an a?erage, at 4s.
6d. per barrel. -What mull the quality have been?
HULL, OCT. I T.-At the annual fair of this
town, held this forenoon, there was as plentiful a
thew of elude in "general as has ever been roma'.
bared. Fat and lean balls went off very flowly,,
the - aficed biting hither than thole who wi&

.4 prices as._ AV,
cd to purchafe were willing to give : foals fold
high,' and fat cheep maintained Iheir prices; but
young pigs were confide:ably cheaper. Upon the ,
whole, nuthing went off britkly ; the difference .of
opinion between the buyer and feller protraited
the Pale to an unnfual late hour ; and a good deal
of cattle are likely to be driven away unfold.

. A man named Robert Lawfon, a tailor, was 'I
nn Wednefdarfe'nnight taken out of the river at
Gainfborongli. He had fallen off a teal a week j
fince, leaving a wife and three children.
At York fortnight fair, held Taft week, there was
. the largeft thew of limp ever known ; fo much fo,
that feveral thonfands could not get into pens, but
were obliged to remain without the bars :—the
greaten part remained unfold. Breeding ewes
fell, fincc the former ifortolght fair, about Cos. a
head. There was alto a remarkablegooafhew of
beans, Which were fold at reduced prices.
The crops of beans throughout this country are
this year the mon prolific ever known, time fields
producing what it is conceived will yield at thcrate
of eight quarters an acre. It is exaelly fifty years
find an autumn fo remarkably favourable to the
hirveft was witneifed, the influence of which filled
.. the land with plenty for Tome years after.
The ihnah of herrings are immenfe on the York-
fhire coaft, and are a great relief to the poor dur-
ing the prefent high price of butcher's meat. On
the night of the 7th mit. the crew of one (mall
coble caught t t,OOO, in a very fhort time, and two
other cobles took above a left ( to,000) clofe to
the rocks off High Whitby, not two miles from the
mouth of the harbour.
The houfe of Robert Rounding, cow-keeper, at
Drypool, was robbed on Thurfday, whilil his wife
was fent to this town with milk ; the perpetrators
broke a pane of glafs in the kitchen window, which
it is foppored one of them had entered, and opened
the door to his compiniop ; they then forced open
a door into the front room, broke °peg the locks
of three drawers and two boxes, from whence they
took forty &Wings. in filver, and a few articks of
wearing apparel. This robbery was committed
fo early as tic o'clock in the evening.
Since our lan was committed to Yoric Cattle,
Richard Simpfon,.charged with feloniouilT Real-
ing out of the dwelling houfe of John Wright, of
the Lock Houle, in the panib of Bentley, a quan-
tity of wearing apparel, the property of the faid
John Wright.
Late on Sunday night or earl on Monday
morning, force villain's broke into the Spread Eagle
public honfe, in Lime-ftreet, aaJointng to this
town, and took away all the liquor in the bar, j
what viEtuals they' could find, dreffed and nadreff-
ed, and fome other articles. They cut away part'
of the -.vindow fhutter, and opened the window,
by which they entered the haute, and are as yet uts.,
difcovered. -
During the night of Wednefday laft tome per.
fon or perfons broke into the dwelling houfe of
George Dranr, tallow chandler, in High-Thee, in
this mwn and forced open the door of a defic,
therein, from which they took away near thirty
pounds in notes and bills.. This robbery appears
to have beep committed by .perfons well acquaint-
ed with the pre:mires. A. man of the name cif
Richard Brims, lebolodgerj in the houfe, we on
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