Star.
London, England, 1825-01-24 00:00:00

FRAUDS ON THE UNDEitIVRITERS.

The following notice has been made public, of the punishment
inflicted in Prussia 011 parties concerned in endeavouring to defraud
the Underwriters at Lloyd's and Harnburgh on insurances effected
on the Dorothea, Blackstaduis, from Dantzic to Amsterdam and
Bilbba, and her cargo, which vessel was lost on the coast of Jutland
early last year :
At the criminal examination carried on by the Directors of Com-
merce and of the Admiralty, " Oe!ricks against the merchant Ed-
ward Alexander Krieger and consorts," the Criminal Senate of the
Royal Oberland Court of West Prussia, adjudges accordingly :
Ist. That the merchant Edward Alexander Krieger is condemned,
on account of rogueries committed in regard to the insurances on
gouda shipped in November, 1823, by the ship Dorothea, to a pe-
cuniary punishment of 25,488 dollars; and in the case of his inabi-
lity, to ten years' imprisonment in a fortress : he is also declared to
have forfeited the right of wearing the national cockade.
2d. That the Counsellor of Commerce, Joachim Friedrich Mar-
quardt,is condemned, on account of having cheated the Underwriters,
in regard to tbrinsurances on goods loaden by the ship Dorothea,to
a pecuniary punishment of 7,654 dollars and 26 cents. for which, in
the case of inability, a punishment of a seven years incarceration in
a fortress is to be substituted ; liktwise, on account of the great
negligence in making his oath as to the quantity of goods shipped,
to a punishment of six months' imprisonment in a fortress, besides
which, he is to be deposed from his office as Counsellor of Com-
merce and of the Admiralty, and to be punished with the lots of
the national cockade.

3d. That the merchants David Oorz and Frantz Goullon are for
the present to he acquitted of the fraud they had been accused of, in
regard so the insurance on the goods loaden by the ship Dorothea.
4th. That the charges ognvestigation, in as far as they had orl-
gloated from the endeavours of ascertaining the cargo of the Doro-
thea, are to be charged to Edward Alexander Krieger solely, and
eventually the remaining charge to all the culprits proportionally.
blarienwerder, the 30th November, 1824. Criminal Senate of
the Royal_Prussian Oberland Court of West Prussia.
(L.S.) Signed T ETTA N.

The turnout amongst the spinners and others em-
ployed in the cotton-factories at Hyde and the neigh-
bourhood, begins to assume a somewhat series appear-
ance. A general parade of the hands now out was
made on Monday last through Hyde, and with those
who aie expected to leave their w ork at the expiration
of their present °notice, the number will, it is conjec-
tured, be augmented to 10,000. Such a step, we are
sorry to remark, is too sure to bring with it distress and
misery on the whale neighbourhood, for we are credibly
assured that the payment of wages to the various hands
there employed cannot be less than 50001. weekly.—
Stochport Advertiser.
In the Sheriffs' Court, on Saturday, the case of
" Skinner v. Knight and another" was disposed of. It
was an inquiry to assess the damages sustained by the
plaintiff, by the publication of a libel by the defen-
dants. The plaintiff was a man-midwife ; the de-
fendants, Knight and Lacey, were b•sok :tilers. The
action was brought to recover a compensation in da-
mages for a libel on the plaintiff, published by the de-
lendants in a periodical work called The iiiedical Ad-
viser. The Jury, after a short consultation, assessed
the damages at 501.
A Meeting was held on Saturday under the Com-
mission against MARSH, STRA'CIIY, and Co. at which a
dividend was declared of four shillings in the pound.
The total amaunt proved and claimed is about 800,0001.
Of this sum, about '2509001. is claimed by the Bank,
and 80,0001: by private persona. The dividend will,
therefore, be on 470.0001. but it is supposed that the
Bank will petition the LORD CHANCELLOR that payment
be deferred, 'until their claim is definitively admitted
or rejecte.:l.
INQUEST ON TWENTY•ONE OF THE MINERS, KILLED
BY THE LATE EXPLOSlON.—Wednesday, at eleven
o'clock in the morning, an Inquest was held at the
Brandling's Arms, Belle Isle, near Middleton, before
Mr. Jawtsos, Coroner for the Honor of Pontefract, on
the following men, who were killed by the late explosion
in Gosforth Pitt, viz.
Peter Hamill, Ben)'. Broadhead, William "Wood, John Proctor,
Joshua Liversedge, Benjamin Wood, sem George Wright, James
Drury, William Heald, John Ramsden, Luke Kormanton, San-
derson Handforth, James Wood, Jos. Dixon, Kalita Ramsden,
James Heald, Benjamin Wood, jun. John Ambler, Samuel Cromack,
James Foster, and Samuel Ramsden. The Jury, after hearing wit-
nesses, theta returned the following 'verdict.:—" Actidental Death,
occasioned by the sudden explosion of a quantity of hydrogen gas,
commonly called fire damp, in Gosforth coal pit.'
Saturday last, Dr. Willis was at Aylesbury, for the
purpose of ascertaining the mental sanity of Lynn.
By an order of one of the Magistrates, the doctor ob-
tained two interviews with the prisoner, and remained
with him about an hour each times Dr. Willis's opi-
nion of the case, •of course, did not transpire. The
visit, we understand, was undertaken at the instance of
the prisoner's friends. Lynn himself was not aware of
the object of the interviews, 'or of the character of his
visitor..—Buckingharreshire Chronicle.
A letter to a Gentleman in Exeter states, that four of
the banditti who robbed and murdered Mr. and Mrs.
Hurt, on'lheir way between Rome and Naples, have
been taken, and were about to be immediately executed,,
the stolen property being found upon them.