Star.
London, England, 1824-04-23 00:00:00

TOWN-HALT»

A rospectable tradesman _charged an abandoned female, named
Elizabeth Clawson, with seducing his only child, a gill between to
and 17, into a course of prostitution.
The particulars detailed by the unhappy parent were these:—
On Saturday afternotra last, his daughter obtained his permissiou
to take a short walk-, but remained absent until eight o'clock in the
evening, when she returned home, to his surprise, in the last stage
of intoxication, from the effects of which she had scarcely reco-
vered on the following morning; when taking advantage of he•
aunt's absence, who was his housekeeper, she again went out, since
which time he had not seen her, until an hour previous, when
learning her retreat, he took with him an officer, and removed her
by force from the prisoner's lodging. It now appeared, partly by
her own confession, and partly by the testimony of others, that she
had passed the whole of the three days and nights in the prisoner's
society, by whom she had been taken to Greenwich-fair, and led to
the haunts of profligacy, where she revelled amidst scenes of vice,
returning long after midnight, deprived of reason, to the prisoner's
lodgings, amid a corrupt mass of soldiers, sailors, &c. and where
she was concealed from the researches of her aunt, whom the pri-
soner assaulted with a poker upon her insisting on her niece being
restored to her family. The aunt swore to the assault.
The Magistrate, after expressing his conviction of the demoraliz-
ing tendency of such fairs, called upon the prisoner, a squalid miti-
dle-aged woman, to account for her flagitious conduct, who coolly
replied, that as a sinner before GOD, if she was to be crucified, she
was the tempted and not the tempter, av the girl had solicited her
to go with her. She had danced a reel or so, she admitted; had
drank a glass or two, it was tree, and they had visited more than
one public house, and concluded by adopting all her male associates
as brothers and first cousins.

The poor girl sat down humbled and abashed, while her vile be-
trayer, after some rebuke from the Magistrate, who lamented his
inability to punish her according to her merits, consistently with
the evidence, was handed over to the gaoler in default of bail
for the assault.

NEW ROYAL MEWS, PIMLICO.—This extensive range
of buildings is now bordeting on completion, and consists cfa prin-
cipal quadrangle for bis AIAJESTY'S stud, and adjacent buildings for
the reception of the horses of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Yoaa. In the former are two ranges of stables, containing stalls
for twenty-four state horses, the creams, and' his late MAJISTY'f
favourite blacks, the remainder being apportioned for hi► Maassres
private curriage.borses and hacks. Those for the state horses are
already finished, as are the Royal Duke's, in Arabella-row.

At the Admiralty, on the ISth instant, the Lady of William R. K.
Douglas, Esq. M.P. of a son.
April 16, the Lady of Colonel Sir Colin Campbell, of a daughter.
Sunday, the Lady of the Rev. G. P. Lowther, of a son.

DIED.

Saturday, at Bromley, in Kept, the Rev. John Baker, A. M.
Monday, at Bath, Capt. Alexander Nesbitt, R.N.
Sunday, at Nenagh, county TippErary, the Rev. Thos. O'Meara.
Jan. 24, at Spring Vale, Jamaica, Peat. J. Clerk, 94.41 Regt.
Monday, in Cadogan-place, aged • 26, Mary Anne Williamson,
only daughter of the late Capt. Williamson, R.N.
Tuesday, the Rev. Robert Clarke, M.A. of hTerham, Northum-
berland, aged 53.

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MAILS.
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Waterford 2 0 Hamburgb 0 0
Guernsey and Jersey 1 0 Flanders 0 0
Lisbon 0 0 . Brazils 0
Holland , 0 0 I Gottenburgb 0 0
Leeward Island 0 0 I Jamaica 0 0

RIG H-W ATELI at LONDON-BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Montan - • . • 20 minutes titer 10
Afternoon - 46 minutes after 10

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