Star.
London, England, 1809-04-08 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL AN) ACADEMICAL

PROMOTIONS.

The Etrl of SOlcitY. has been pleased to appoint the Rev.
Alex. Scott, A.B. Rector of Bondleigh, in Devonshire, to be one
of his Lordships' domestic Chaplains.

Rev. Thomas Image, M.A. Rector of Whepstead, Suffolk, has
been appointed to the Rectory of Stanrungtield, n:ar Bury, vacant
by the death of the Rev. Frederick Barnwell.
Rev. George Mathew, to be alternate Preacher at the Found-
ling Hospital.

Rev. Michael Mackeneth, to the Vicarage of Ellerton, York-
shire.

_ OXFORD) MARCH R.—Yesterday, W. James, B.A. of Oriel
College, was elected Fellow of that society.

PREACHER'S--BT. MARY'S.

Mr. Coneybeare, of Christ Church On Sunday morning.
Mr. Brown, of Magdalen College Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Heyes, of Exeter College Latin Sermon.

The Lord Bishop of Oxford has been pleased to appoint the
Rev. Dr. Phillimore, of Christ Church, Chancellor of this dinette,
in the room of Dr. Lawrence, deceased.

SEPARATION AND RESIGNATION.
A PARODY ON COWPER.
There goes the DIIKILO most illustrious spark !
And there—no less illustrious—Mrs. CLARKE
Saturday last, Mr. Gwillim, of Wendover, Bucks,
was ilium? dead on the road between that place and
Aylesbury, and is supposed to have fallen from his
horse in an apoplectic fit.
Yesterday, as the carriage of Mrs. Irvin, of Pall'
Mall, was passing St. James's-street, one of the hones
fell and broke the pole. The other horse immedi-
ately became frightened, and rushed on the pavement
to the great terror of two Ladies within the carriage.
Fortunately the footman, and several passengers, laid
hold of the horses. and the Ladies were rescued from
their perilOus situation, without having suffered any
serious injury.
Yesterday mornnig a desperate battle was fought
in Locks-fields, between one Jackson, a butcher, of
Walworth, and a carpenter named Smithson, resi-
ding near the scene of action, for 20 guineas each.—
The contest continued with unabated fury for nearly
40 minutes, when, through loss of blood, the latter
was obliged to yield to the superior strength of his
sturdy opponent.
Thursday evening the shop of Miss Tracy, jeweller,
in Duke-street, Smithfield, had a lane cut out of the
window,and jewellery to a considerable amount stolen
without the least discovery of the time when it was
done, or by whom.
On Thursday night, Mr. Weeks, of Wilkes-street,
Spitalfields, was accosted by two footpads, dressed
as labouring men, near Lowton, one of whom
seized his horse's bridle, while the cthm-, with a pre-
sented pistol, demanded his money, which Mr. Weeks
gave tris, to the amount of 301. The villains then cut
the bridle, and made a precipated retreat into the •
forest.
Thursday an Inquest was held at the Jolly Gar-
timers, 'Windsor, on the body of Sarah Newton,
who was found dead, on Wednesday, by her son, a
youth 15 years of age, who called on her at her
apartments, found the door open, and his mother a
corpse on the bed, much bruised. The lodgers heard
her call murder several times, about two in the morn-
ing. Suspicion fell upon one Broomhall, a rough-
rider in tke Horse Guards (Blue), who had co'ia-
bited with her five years. The evidence proved his
frequently ill-treating her, and therefore they paid no
attention to her cries at the time this happened ; but
it came out that Broomhall was left: with her at two
o'clock on Wednesday morning, and upon this evi-
dence, and that of three surgeons, who opened the
deceased, the Coroner found a verdict of Wilful Mur-
der against him, and he was sent to Reading gaol.
At the Monmouth Assizes last week an Action for
Defamation was tried by a Special Jury, which in-
volved the parties in considerable anxiety, and occu-
pied the Court a considerable time. It was an action
commenced by Edward Eagan, Esq. late a Lieute-
nant in a Regiment of Dragoon Guards, against
James Novies Arnott, of Monmouth, for having, on
various occasions, publicly and maliciously accused
him in that town of having committed various crimes
whilst in such regiment, and of being obliged to leave
the same in consequence of it. The case on the part
of the Plaintiff satisfactorily proved that the Defen-
dant uttered the defamatory words complained of, on
his own accord, authority, and without any reference
to any one as the author of them. The Defendant's
plea averred, that before he published the words for
which the action was brought, he had heard, and
been told by one Lieutenant Robert Read, of the va-
rious criminal charges he had imputed to Plaintiff ;
and that he declared in the presence and hearing of
the same persons, in whose presence and hearing the
same words were so spoken, that he had heard and been
told the same from and by this Read, which plea the
Defendant totally failed in proving ; this Read, who
represented himself as a Naval Officer, but, who on
his cross-examination, denied that he was ever an
officer in the navy, was a total stranger to Monmouth
as well as to the Plaintiff, and became the companion
of the Defendant by being in lodgings in the neigh-
bourhood, where he resided : the evidence on the
part of the Defendant, which went only in mitigation
of damages, was distinctly asserted to be a gross and
wanton aggravation of the case.
Mr. JERVIS, Plaintiff's Counsel, replied with that
animated and affecting eloquence, which excited the
very anxious interest in Plaintiff's favour, of a very
crowded Court, whose feelings were very highly and
loudly indignant at the truly unmerited and unpro-
voked calumny which Defendant had propagated
against him, under circumstances of accumulated ag-
gravation : the Court was abundantly gratified by
the Learned Counsel's just and severe exposition of
the conduct of this Readahealledged authorofsuch infa-
mous conduct in this business, which was the subject of
marked censure and indignation. The learned Coun-
sel congratulated the Court and the Country in ener-
getic terms, that the English Navy was not disgraced
by such a character.
The JunGE summed up the evidence to the Jury oat
both sides, decided in Plaintiff's favour, and observed
that Defendant's poverty and family might, perhaps,
induce them not to visit the Defend 't with damages
which the innocent suffer with the gutty.
The Jury returned a vere'c! the Plaitl.titri
the costs of the Special Jury shou,lcti.
Lain
Plaintiff, to the gr,:at satiblA,:tion o
40s. damages, and the Judge icst.intlyh
cert iicwe,d
the