Star.
London, England, 1814-09-06 00:00:00

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The followire Lines to the Nt..... , Mr. W. Cowesov, late
Prt,pr,etor of the Manetestei Gazette, are flout the pen of
E. fzusti ins, of Liverpml, a gentleman who wit titnAttly.
• connected with the deceased in bonds of the purest
for upwards of Mien' y years
Ye loy,-rs of meal delights,
• Whose bosoms ate mild and humane,.
Alt! pause—from your perilous rites,
• And mark for a moment my swain:
Poor Care kOr, by nature endow'd
With talents to please and illume,
To Nature's dead fiat has how'd,
And silently sunk to the Tonibl

There are who remember his powers,
Ere his nerves by detay were unstrung,
Who remember how Night's 'witching WA
Ey his fancies were specied icing;
Who rtmember his bright beaming eye,
Anal those lips where benevolence play‘d;
And these, with true feeling, shalt Sigh
et_r the turf where their fairite is laid.
I know there are minds who disdain •

The verse that extols the ohlture,
But if fortunes were measued by brain,
♦What numbers of those would he poor!
The treasures poor Cow DIIO Y VOigef‘q
Were futh!‘ of wit, humour, and whim,
Avd thousands with runs, may be blest
For one that is favour'd like him.

As the Elephant's trunk can upraise

The Inrcis of tke forest or straw;,
So Cowoaov could pun on a pl.race,

Or cou'd advocate Freedom's great cause..
It bate ever rankled hie breast,

`Tons against the dark toes of Mankind,
And each link that enchains the oprrrss'd
Tens the s►:sh cf his soul to unbind'

His Hear was the nest of the dove,
Tlere gendeneu found an abode;
And, like tl-e blight day. Ear, his love
For the whole human family glow'd.
But that Bosom wit% feeling once fraught,
And t;.at Tongue the diffuser of mirth,
And those Eyes evrr beaming with thought,
Ail, all are gone down to the earth!
August :9, 1614.
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191.1 CE.

r Bow-arnem—R. Ruskin was examined on suspi.
tion of stealing £26, the property of J. Duncan, a
sailor. The prosecutor stated, that he came from
Woolwich by the coach, to Charing-cross, on Tues-
day last, and on alighting, the prisoner asked him to
go and :.hare something 'to eat. They went to an
eating-house near" the spot. and the prisoner asked
him if he bad any money? and said he had better
learie it with him for safety. He laid his money on
the table,. and went out to get something to drink,
and could not find his way back again. The tailor
Irifcl been looking after the prisoner without effect,
tmtil yesterday, when he laid hold of him, and the
• prisoner offered him aAI note to let him go. He
was committed for another examination.
Gtitionaza...:Yesterday J. Berry, an elderly man,
was charged. by Johnson, the Officer, with picking
the 'pockets of two Gentlemen, at the time the Duke
of. Wellington honoured the Corporation of London
with his company to dinner in Guildhall. From one
cf the gentlemen he took a pocket-handkerchief, and
from another a pocketbook, Johnson took him be-
iotesti* Lord'Mayor, but while he was spewing some
el tie note! to a Gentleman, the prisoner made his
escape ; and the Officer was unable to find him, un7
til he met him cm Saturday evening in Bartholomew
He was remanded till Monday, In order to
pia.; rant for Gentleisen whom he robbed to ap-
pear.azainst him. ' • •
it-tiornher, of juvenile depredators were charged
wish picking pockets in Bartholomew Fair. They
vieridial sent to bridewell to receive the correction of
the house.
A hoof-closer, in Chancerplane, was charged with
tuning his wife in the hand, and beating her on the
head ;hat as the woman did not appear against him,
rid he expressed his sorrow for his bad conduct, he
was discharged, .un his promising never to offend in
that way any more.
liarioN-Gannest.—Ati information yesterday
came on to be heard at this Police-office, before Mr.
LEACH and Mr. SZLLoN, the Sitting Magistrates,
against Messrs. Packwood ai.clCo. the proprietors of
the Birmingham and. Coventry Union Coach, for
suffering more than the licensed•number of passen-
gers to ride outside. The information was in part
heard last Monday week, but stood over at the re-
quest of the Defendants' Solicitor, who undertook to
produce evidence that would satisfy the Magistrates,
that the Det,ndants had derived no benefit, emolu-
ment, or advantage from the offence, if it had been
entrimitteti, and that consequently the driver alone
was the offender.
*Mr. Ast.ev now attended for the prosecution, and '
the eviden•-e taken on the last hearing being read, it'
appeared that the only inquiry made after the driver
was at a public-house opposite the Castle and Falcon
Coach-office, Aldersgate-street, from which place the
coach runs.
Mr. KNAPP, who attended for the Defendants, up-
tin this contented, that the Legislature in making
th's Act of Parliament, had in contemplation the in.
Jliction of punishment upon the persons who actually
committed the ofi'evce, and that, therefore, the Pro.
secutor must give strict evidence that the coachman
wits not known, or could nut be found, otherwise the
Proprietor could not 6e liable ; and the Learned
Maelstratt s being also of this opinion, the iuforma-
. lion was dismissed. In what a dangerous state does
this determination leave the public ?
MARLIWROUMI-STREET.--Ycsterday—Hayman,
• *watchman, of Duke.sireet, Hanover square, charged
Fatly Carroll, an Irish labourer,. with fobbing a we.
man of tie name of Smith, ad Sunday morning, in
that streewand of afterwarits so tutting and beitiag
her as tfi endanger her life. The watchman stated,
thAl while going his rounds he heard violent screams
of " Murder I" front some female ; and on going to
the spot whence t!:ey proceeded, he found Smith
lying on tue ground, much wounded and braised, and
incapable of helping herstlt. Carmll
was near her, but on the appearance of watchmen he

'attempted tip ran ; .Hayrnsa, however semen hat:
and' found in his possession part of the woman's dress,
and her pocket containing money,*which Carroll had
torn from her perscn. Smith was removed to St.
George's Hospital, where she continued in a danger-
ons state. Tha watchmen represented the Medical
Gentlemen of that establishment to have stated that
she could not leave the Hospital for a week to come,
without imminent danger to her l fib C atoll was
proceeding to relate, that Smith, aflo having picked
him up, seeing that he was a good-natured man, was
about to take some unwarrantable liberties with his
pockets, which contained a few halfpence, when,
some how or other, he having hold of het, she gave a
sudden jerk from him, which, by accident, tore the
pocket from her side, and happened to leave it in his
hand : when the Magistrates to1)}. him he must be
committed till to-morrow, and then brought up again.
The case could not be proceeded in without a certi-
ficate from the Hospital as to the dangerous state of
the woman, which prevented her attendance.
John Richards and Ann Goodger, charged with coin-
ing and colouring base money, and with having in
their possession apparatus for carrying on such traffic,
underwent a minute examination. They were exa-
mined at Guildhall on Wednesday and Thursday
last ; but the offence being committed '..s Middlesex,
in a court near Drury-lane, they were ordered to be
conveyed to this Office. The cam: being made out
.by the officer who found the parties in the act of Ca-
lotitinz and coining base money,They were fully com-
mitted for trial.

UNION-HALL—R. Ca!slough, a waiter at the Nag's
Head Inn, in the B:rough, was charged by E. Beloe,
another waiter in the same house, with robbing him,
at different times, of various sums of money. It ap-
peared, from' the statement of the prosecutor, that he
had frequently missed money out of his pockets, but
could in no way account for it. The prisoner and
himself slept in the same room, and his suspicions at
length fell on him : he communicated those suspi-
cions to his master, Mr. Wissenden, by whose advice
he m irked some money, and put it into his pocket.
—He Said nothing of his suspicions to the prisoner ;
but, on going to bed, put his cloaths with the mirked
money in Ole pocket by the side of his bed, as usual.
Next morning the prisoner got up first, and the pro.
Necuzor observed him to go to the place where his
climtlis were lying, and take them up before he left'
the room. As soon as he was gone down, the pro.
secutor examined his pockets, and found his money
mizut, as usual. lie then informed his master, who
sent for Goff, the Officer. The prisoner was taken
into custody, and searched, and some of the marked
money found upon him. He did not attempt to give
any account of the manner in which he got it, and
was fully committed for trial. 'A 3E50 note was also
found in his trunk, and when questioned as to that,
he said it was the amount of his honest earnings, and
what no one had any right to enquire into.

Saturday se'nnigb a most daring robbery took
place in the neighbourhood of Masham, in the North
Riding of Yorkshire, in open day.—A Scotch drover,
of the name of Edward M'Golrick, travelling from
Ripley fair, where he had sold his cattle on the Fri-
day, stopped and took up his lodgings the same night
at a public house at Gruelthorpe, along with two
other men, who had joined him on the road. Between
five and six o'clock in the morning following, they
all three set off in company towards the North, one
of the men being mounted and the other walking by
their side ; when they had proceeded about half a
mile, the man on foot taking up a large stone, threw
it at the head of the drover, who then, for the first
time, began to suspect he had fallen amongst thieves.
Under this impression he put spurs to his horse and
galloped off at full speed, but not so quickly as to
outstrip the fellow on horseback, who laid hold of his
bridle and . detained him till the other man coming
up, took him by the foot, and threw him off his
saddle into the road._ One of the two then seized a
large stone, with which, he made a ir)olent blow at his
head, which must have fractured his skull had he not
warded it off with his hand. After a desperate
struggle, in which he was severely bruised, they threw
him into a hedge. where tearing open his coat and
waistcoat, they. took from him his pocket-book, con-
drafts and bank notes to the amount of ,C 255,
with: Which they got off,. taking the direction of Azer-
Oroaver, the fields„ and leaving their mare, which is
of a light grey colours:in the hands of the poor unfor-
tunate Scotchman. (n. • •
•
Tuesday morning-,: about four o'clock, a plan of
breaking the New jail, Glasgow, was attempted to bt
exeented bya number of the felons. They had sue-
ceeucci in digging a hole through the back wall, pa-
rallel with the second storey, and being prepared to
descend by the aid of their blankets, one of the prise.
ners had the audacity to call to the sentinel, and in.
treat him to go to the south side:of the building till
they effected their escape. The soldier having been
alarmed by the falling of the rubbish, threatened to
fire if they did not instantly desist from any further
attempt. The prisoners, however, refusing to aban-
don their design, a shot was fired and the alarm being
given, a jailor instantly procured assistance, And pro-
cee led to secure the prisoners, who had now all re-
tired to their respective cells, except a man of the
name of Cowie, confined on a charge of robbery, who
was afterwards discovered concealed behind one of
his confederates. On a search being made, a quan-
tity of vittiol and a number of saws, fries, &c. were
discovered, by which the prisoners had cut the iron
stauncheon above the doors of their cells, and one of the
cast iron beds had been taken to pieces, and used as
instruments for breaking through the wall. The locks,
flooring, and walls of that part of the jail have been
materially injured. Cowie, who was bred a mason,
seems to have performed an active part in the busi-
ness, which appears to have been conducted with a
considetable degree of skill.
The annual games at Lostwithiel on Tuesday last
were numerously attended. The hat for jinling
was won by Thomas Saunders of that places the
purse of guineas for the best wrestler, was carried off
by Hoar, of Cardingham • the silver cup, for the se-
cond best wrestler, fell to the lot of Gill, of St.Mewan;
the third prize, a hat, was obtained by Varco, of Lan-
livery. The regulations were well enforced and the
play excellent.
One of the mail coach guards was found dead in
his apartment in Arbroath, on Thuisday se'nnight.
He was sitting in his chair, apparently in the act of
taken# off hi 4 clothes.