Star.
London, England, 1823-10-22 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Yesterday, William Rowland was indicted for con-
spiring with a person named Hanson, to defraud Colo-
nel Wheatley, of Hill-street, Berkeley-square, of the
sum of 55 guineas. The defendant is the proprietor
of livery-stables in Mary-la-bonne-street, Golden-square.
Induced by an advertisement in the newspapers, the ,
prosecutor went to his yard, and seeing a horse which
he thought would suit him, asked the defendant if it
answered the deicription given in the advertisement ?
to which the defendant replied, that he believed so.
Hanson then coming in, the defendant pointed him out
as the owner of the horse ; and the prosecutor was • as-
sured by him, that the horse was in every respect
'build. lie therefore purchased him for S. guineas.—
It turned out, however, that the horse was broken-
'wiacied, and worth little or nothing, and that the de-
fendant knew it. The prosecutor, not being able to get
back his money, preferred this indictment against the
defendant and Hanson ; but the latter did not appear to
take his trial.—The Jury found the defendant Guilty.—
Judgment deferred.
John Cooper and Henry Cooper were indicted for as-
saulting Jacrib Josephs. The prosecutor stated that his
wife, one evening, in August last, asked leave to go to
see a young woman who lived with Henry Cooper.
'and who was then in her confinement. After she had
been at Cooper's lodgings about a week, he went there,
and was informed by the people of the house that she
slept with John Cooper every night. He went up stairs
to Cooper's room, and found his wife and the defendant
John sitting at tea. He told her that as he had found
her out to be guilty of adultery, he would have no more
to do with her : upon which John Cooper collared and
struck him, and Henry Cooper coming tip, did the
same. Both of them, with the wife, then followed him
borne, and endeavoured to 'carry away his trunk. He
struggled to keep hold of it, until Henry Cooper, pulling
a knife from his pocket, threatened to cat off his hand;
upon which lie went and lodged his complaint before
a Magistrate.
The statement on the other side was, that Josephs
'was going to choke his wife, and that John Cooper only
interfered- to save her ; and that the reason why they
-iollowed the prosecutor was because he invited his %%lie
home to give her up her clotbes,.4nd they were afraid,
'Men his threats, that he would murder her.
.b The Jury fotind both defendants. Guilty, and they
. were adjtidged to a fine of 13s. 41 each.

• Last week, a RAO was poisoned near Irvine, by swal-
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lowing a quantity Of King's yellow. His daughter had
laid some powders, which she received-from the doctor
fat her father, upon a.shelf, beside a paper containing
King's yellow. In mixing the medicine, the girl un-
fortunately Med the 'Kings yellow by mistake. The
error was notdiscovered until the powder was swallowed
'by her father, who lingered about twenty-four hours,
and expired hi great army.
-Flag IN Pgfascur-sten .TAlL.—Saturday evening, be-
tween five and six o'clock, a strong sensation was ex-
cited in Manchester, by a report that the New Bailey
Prison was. on fire. It appears that a Lady, who was
passing by, observed more smoke rising from the roof
.of the Court-ho Use than could be supposed to pass
through the chimney, and she communicated the cir-
cumstance to the gate-keeper. On examination, it was
found that that part of the roof which covers the Magis-
trates' room wagon fire: though, from the depth of the
'nfister-drawing, the extent to which the flames had pro-
ceeded,was not at first ascertained. Soon after six o'clock
the roof fell with a tremendous crash into the Magistrates'
room, from which veers" Gentlemen, who had been
employed in removing the books, had not retired more
than a minute. Beneath the Magistrates' room are the
• lock-ups, in which persons are confined who wait the
decision of the Magistrates, and in which there was at
the time a number of prisoners, who, of course, were
flreadrully alarmed when they heard the roof fall upon
the floor above them, and expected every moment that
the burning wreck would the place - here

SURREY SESSIONS.
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Yesterday. Marisa Coitus esti indicted for an
upon Mr. 8. Bennington, tin the lath of Amble:to'
• • Mr. S. Bennington, the prosecutor, had carried on the
business of an auctioneer ; and has' retired, he let
his premises, in Gravel-lane, to the decant, who had
been hitipprentiee, for 12s. a week. In consequenceof
arrears of rent being due, the prosecutor put a distreu
idto the house, and obtained payment of the rent. Soon
after the prosecutor went into the defendant's counting-
house, as he thought, upon it friendly invitation, but be
had scarcely entered, when the defendant said he bad
taken too much rent, exclaiming, at the sane time, "I
ri=ve it out of yon r He then put himself in a
position, and struck the prosecutor a violent
blow on the face, which was repeated. A scuffle en-
sued, and the inmates of the house parted them.
It was contended, on the part of the defendant, that
Mr. Bennington was the aggressor. The defendant
went to Union-Hall, and charged the prosecutor with
an assault, consequently the case came in the shape of
a cross indictment.

The Jury found the defendant Guilty, but, in conse-
quence of some circumstances of aggravation which led
to the assault, they recommended him to the favourable
consideration of the Court,

Andrew Box, a coil-porter, was indicted for.assault-
ing Mary Elderton.
The prosecutrix was an aged female. On the 12th'
of August she was standing near a coal waggon, in
Walworth„ which the defendant was unloading. With-
out any pretence (as she stated) the defendant wantonly
threw a coal, which struck her on the head, and ipilicted
a slight wound above the eye.
The defendant called his partner, who was at work
with him in the wagon, to prove the coal fell out of
one of the sacks accidentally.—He was Acquitted.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—Sunday evening abou: seven
o'clock, a young Lady, daughter of Edward Jamieson,
Esq. of the Islington-road, had nearly losther life, under
the following accidental circumstances Mr. Jamieson.
had a party of friends to tea and supper, and-after tea
Miss Jamieson was solicited to play on the piano. In
rising from her seat she passed the.fire-place, and the
draught from the door caused her dress, which was
very thin, to fly against the bars, and in a moment she
was enveloped in flames ; all wits in an uproar, and
another Lady, one of the party, in attempting to save
Miss Jamieson, was terribly burned, as were also two
Gentlemen. The young Lady was at length rolled, in
the carpet, and the flames were extinguished : her breast
and arms were dreadfully scorched, and the hair from
du.- front of her head was burned off. She was placed
in bed, medical assistance immediately provided, and
she is doing well.
On the forenoon of Friday week, as several north
country people were returning home from the harvest,
they found, on what is commonly called the Fir Mount,
a mountainous district on the confines of Forfarshire,
between Glenesk and Glentanner, the body'of a woman,
recently murdered in the most shocking manner ; her
head was literally dashed to pieces, and many blocks
of granite, still bloody, were lying around her. The
party proceeded on their way to the latter place. and
told the inhabitants of the horrid deed, who immediately
went to the body, and recognized, by the •clOihes, the
person of a woman who had been travelling amongst
them, and who left that place the preceding day, in
company with a hardware-merchant, both in a state of
intoxication, near the spot where the body was found,
which was several miles from Glentanner. They w ere
seen quarrelling, on the evening of the fame day, by
four men who were likewise crossing the mountains for
the south. One of these men being in Brechin last
Tuesday, identified the merchant in the streets that he
had seen quarrelling with the unfortunate woman, and
a warrant was granted by the Magistrates for appre-
hending and lodging him in jail.
About one o'clock, on Saturday morning, an ex-
plosion of gas took place at the Broomielaw, corner of,
Jamaica-street, Glasgow, which fyrced up the hatch of
a spirit-cellar, knocked open the doors of the premises
and the staircase windows. How it originated has not
been satisfactorily ascertained, but fortunately no per-
son was hurt.

A Gentleman, lately arrived from the South, informs
us, that the few resident Gentry, and principal farmers,
are obliged to fasten up their doors and 'windows at six
o'clock in the evening, and remain with their arms
loaded, ready for defence, until about six or seven next
Morning. Carlow Paper.

A successful effort has been made to execute the pur-
pose of therms, Tithe Composition Bill in Ireland. The
parish of Mallow is the scene of this new and fortunate
consummation, and £650 per annum is the sum secured
by agreement to the Rector. The average number of
burnings and other villainies appear, by the last post, to
have been fully maintained throughout many parts of
the south of Ireland. But the most striking matter to
be found in the newspapers, is the report of a trial under,
the Insurrection Act, at Cork, where eleven men were
convicted of nocturnal meetings, and where a priest, the
Reverend Falher M.Swzsity, was called to give eiri-
deice in their favour. This parish priest affirmed posi-
tively, that no conspiracy of any sort could exist in b'
parish without his obtaining a knowledge of it. Oa
being questioned pretty closely by the Court, whether the
Was an impossibility peculiar to him (Mr. M,Swist ,
and his parishioners, or common to all Irish p •
and their pastors, he admitted fully that a Cache&
Priest does not do his duty, if he does not make bimte
acquainted with the preparations for disturbance in his
parish ; and therefore, that where timely noticejs :4
given of such proceedings, a priest must either bt col
pable in failing to observe them, or criminal in supp
ing what he knows. ,We imagine that many persoii
will think Mr. M'Swreev has proved too much. •
About four o'clock, on Wednesday evening last, a
aumber of persons, armed with stones and pitchforks,
pursued a man who was returning to Limerick, when
near Loughmorei in the South Liberties, crying out—,
.. Stop the spy !"—" Stop the spy, who bung ajl the
men at the Assizes !" He fortunately escaped braining'
to the house of Mr.Childerhouse wherehe got pinteetion.,
—Monday a party of the City iblice, accbtapauied by
the witness, went to Loughmore, Where they hoped to
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POLIn INTILLIOrNCE.
OUILDHALL.

Is the midst of the ined4ese of tide Joaefee-tenila yesterday con-
siderable interest was excited by a report generally bailed about
the roses, that a Lady had that morning shot a Gentleman in the
Temple; and shortly afterwards a yellow chariot, with the initials
K. M. upon it, drove up to the owe, In width Was an el gently.
dressed young female, attended by her maiti-servans,ha the custody
of Masters, a Qty Akar.
When tined in front Sc the Magistrates' table, she stated her
name to .dgites Watson. Her eeentenante was by no means
handsome, but her dress and general appearance might almost be
called mettdid. Her fingers were 'West covered with rings_seve-
nil of them diamond ones; We *had an depant gold watch It her
side, and the portrait of a gentleman, set round with large pearls,
was suspended by an elegant gold :halo round her neck. The
female servant who stood by her side seemed deeply affected, and
was robbing continually, bat the prisoner was evidently labouring
to keepherself composed: so much so, that she corrected a mistake
the clerk had made in her Christian name, having caught it as Ann.
On Mr. Alderman C. SIMITU, the sitting Magistrate, asking who
charged the Lady, a Gentleman at whose instance she bad been
brought there said he bad no wish to charge her. The Magistrate,
however, felt it his duty to know why she had been given in cus-
tody; on which the Gentleman, who now stated himself to be
Win. ganseen, Req. Ne. IS, Paper-buildings, Inner Temple, reviled,
be charged her with an assault. He had, he said, never seen ber
before dil that morning,when she came to his chambers and guest-
toed to shoot him with a pistol. She upbraided him with having
caused her paramour, a Gentleman of his acquaintance, to break
off his connexion with her and leave her. This be *explained by
saying she had been living with the Gentleman. He told her, in
reply, that he had given him the same advice that he now gave her,
which was, either to marry or separate; on which she pulled a pis-
tol out of her muff to shoot him. lie seised her right hand, and
the pixel in it went off; she had'another pistol in her left hand ;
he immediately seised that hand, and that pistol also went off..
There was no apparent :sank made on the wainscot, nor did he
think the pistols was loaded with balls, though one was subse-
quently found on the Soor, which she pointed out. - He had said
to ber that be was sure itwas only a joke, and that the pistols were
not loaded; to whie&she replied, wily the ball fell at my feet, and
then pointed out where it lay.
The ball was now prelieced, and wan evidently flattened on one
side by striking the ceiling. Masters also produced a pair of very
small pistols, and an elegant morocco case which had contained-
them, the powder.luk, &c. The pistols, he said, he took from
her reticule, and the case out of her muff.
During this statement, though the prisoner maintained her com-
posure tolerably well, she was evidently much agitated; the tears
rolled plentifully down her cheeks. and shy raised the portrait two
or three times, and looked at it with much apparent affection.
When asked by the Magistrate what she had to say in her de-
fence, she replied-4 I have no defence to make. It is all true that
he has said. Tim ball was in it, but I had nu intention to shoot
him, or I should not have held the pistol towards the ceiling as I
did. It may be true what be has said sow, but I bad been told
very different. I am,. indeed, in duty bound to be his wife; I have
his promise."
Mr. Ouitesen here stated be had no wish to proceed limber against
her, and the Alderman pointed out to her the great impropriety of
her conduct, which he hoped she was now sensible of.
The prisoner replied," I am indeed aware of it, now I am called
back to my senses • but my friend is flown, and I thought this Gen•
tleman had advised him to desert me; but if what he now says is
true, lam very sorry for what I have done. She then gave her
promise not to go to Mr. Oaumen's chambers any niore, and was
discharged. On leaving the table, she applied to have the case and
the pistols returned to her. They were, she said, her own, and had
been made her a present of.
The Magistrate, however, thought it not right to trust them in
het possession in her present state of mind, and directed them to be
detained at the once, promising they should be delivered to her, on
her application, a day or two hence.
The prisoner submitted to this arrangement, curtsied very respect-
fully to the Magistsate, and withdrew with her servant into the
,chariot, and drove WE

having acknowledged that she had herself pawned the
declared that Dunn was not at all concerned.
The convicted prisoner was then told that she had sec perni,.,,,
pay, and that in default of payment she must go to prism. '
The unfortunate woman requested to be hard. Qiitress
yi
she said, &igen her to the commission of the offence, but flew%
no impostor. Her father had been in the situation she had deseribm
and her family WON telated to the noble family named by her.
Here the Magistrate told her that the penalty must be paid, or d.
must gia to the •Holuie of Correlation for a fortnight.
The Beereraq said, that if she would abandqn the mode of linri
dye had followed, the penalty should be paid, and she should beam
home to her parish.
The prisoner consented, and the Secretary paid the penalty.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Edward Watts, Spencer-street, doswellitreet-road, merchant
BANKRUPTS.
John Neale, Liverpool, merchant, to surrender Nos/umber in. 11,
and Decetuber 2, at one, at the George Inn, Dale-street,
. pool. Attornies, Mr. Lodge, Liverpool; or Mr. Battyc,
eery-lane, London.
Joseph Myers, Preston, Lancashire, wine-merchant, Nov,•so„,
12, at ten, 13, at twelve, and December 2, at five, at the Mitre
inn, Preston. Attornies' Mr. Blakelock, &.rjeant's Inn, Refl.
street; or Messrs. Blanchard and Dickerstaff, Preston.
Samuel Bamford Hamer, lat., of Furnival's Inn, Lill-broker, Q:.
sober 25, November 1, and December 2, at twelves, at the Court
of Commissioners. of Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. Anomie%
Messrs. Williams.and Goddard, Gray's inn.
Robert Davis, London, ironmonger, November 1,5, and Derere.
her 2, at twelve, at the Albion Hotel, Birmingham. Attorrue,.
Messrs. Clarke and Co. Chancery-lane ; or Mr. IVilla,Birminghani,
George and Isaac Peet, Gutter-lane, Cheapside, ribbon-manufac-
turers' October 28, November 1, and December 2, t: tevelve,se
the Canirt of Cnnimisvioners of Bankrupts, Balbsghall-street...-
Attornies, Messrs. Webster and Son, Queen-street, Ch?apeitle,
Joseph Ord, St. Paul's Chnreh-yard, haberdashlr, November 8,
15' and December 2, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners
of Bankrupts, Basinghall.street. 2S ttorniet, "Al.nsrs. Gleason sad
Fonnereau, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street..
DI V I DENI)S to be reads its lIASINGEIALISTItITT.
_ Nov. 15, W. Crowther, Chariesitreet, Middlesex Hoapitak
coach-maker, at twelve. Nov. 18, T. A. Minchin, latent port,
mouth, banker, at eleven. Nov. 11, W. Plimpton, lower Thames.
street, seedsman, at twelve. Nov. iI, C. Fearnley, .Crutcheti.
friars, wine-merchant, at twelve. Nov. 11, W. Herbert, jest.G•ldsmith-street, Wood-street, Cheapside, ribbon-manufacturer,
at one. Nov. 15, R. Pullan, Leeds, merchant, at one.
DIVIDENDS to he made in th.: couNritY.
' Nov. 21, J. Frost, late of Derby, saddler, at ekven, at the
King's terms Tavern, Derby. Nov. 11, J. Fisher, Lancaster, soap.
nsanafatturer, at eleven, at the King's Arms Inn, Lancaster. Nev.
14, W. Roads, lateof xford, grocer, at eleven, at the Star fun,
Oxford. Oct. 25, G. Knowles, Brighthelinstone, stable-krroer,
at twelve, at the New Inn Hotel, Brighthebustone. Nov. 12,
H. and E. Taylor, Mancheiter, calico-printers, at twelve, at the
Star Inn, Manchester. Dec. I, J. Clarke, Worcester, coach-pro.
prietor, at eleven, at the Bell inn, Worcester. Nov.. 13, J. Al-
derson, Liverpool, oil-merchant, at one, at tl.e George lea,
street, Lverpool.
CERTIFICATES.—Nov, it.
G. Lawrence, Stratford, silk-manufacturer. P. Marsden, She,-
field, grocer. C. t.Yßryan, Elolhorn-hill, taiLr. W. 11oIrnyd,
Leadenhall-street, machine-maker. 11. Dawson, Leeds, silkoner-
cer. IL Consitt, Hull, merchant. • J. Alicock, late of Reuel:-
court, Drury-lane, victualler. T. Phelps, sell. Jewin-street,Crip.
plegate, silversmith.
DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIPS.
Sewell and Carter, Water-lane, Tower- treet, ship-broker's-.
Gray and Co. Charleston, and Thomson and Co. Liverpool. Ger;
don and Co. New Orleans, and Thomson and Co. Liverpool. J.
and IL Read, Laverstock, Wilts, carpenter. G. Benthf, sea. lad
jun. Maidstone, cordwainers. Winkles. and Pardoc, Coventry,
fancy-trimming-manufacturers. Pitts and Co. Stowford, Dem,
lime-burners. Taylor and Co. Chippenham, woollenonanufacte7
rers. lIiU and Meath, Nottingham, wharfingera. S. and W.
Booker, Sheffield, grocers. Day and Co. Sheffield, house-printers.
Dinner and Martyn, Llano, Devon, to:haters. Lance and Towns-
end, Liverpool, insurance-hrokeras
.Carter and Cahours, Crosby-
square, merchants. Bourne and Co. Bromley, Middlesex, brewers.
GAME QUESTlON.—Saturday the Petty Sessions 111.Te'
held at the Town Hall, Rornsey, berme Geoana:F.vne, Esq. rod/
Sir Gamma Haney Rosa, Justices. Among other game casesok.c,
occurred one of more than ordinary public interest. It was
follows gamekeeper of the name of TIIRIISHaII, in the semen
of -the Right Honourable Viecount Patmeasion, preferred k
charge against a man named German, for poaching. It appearre
from the evidence o( the keeper himself, that, alarming tie
defendant of having_ game about his person, he stopped him in a
public road, known by the name of Wahlson-lane' near Stoadtandi,
and demanded to search his person, which Gifford resisted,thresi-
'ening to draw his knife on the witness, if he attempted it, bat Wen.
lag at the same time, to accompany bins to the Magistrate'!
office. On their way they entered a public-house, when the poacher
drew from under his • jacket I pheasant and gave it to the
keeper. Thie was the material part of the case, and, as far :sidle
poacher was concerned, sufficiently strong against him, but it ap-
pearing, from the testimony of the prosecutor, that the accused bad
neverbeen seen of the pleb& mod, and that he was on it eke* oSppol,
the presiding Magistrate, Mr. Eves, with his wonted judgment as&
discrimination, took the opportunity of reprobiring the irregoisr
and Illegal conduct of the keeper in presuming to arrest any Obrice
on a public way on bare suspicion of his being in possession of game.
After reading him a severe lecture, he threatened to dismiss the
case altogether ; bat the fact of the defendant's having the bird in
his possession, Sts determined the Bench, after some del:be:dim,
to convict him, but no sentence was passed. The defendant wa
severely reproved by Sir G. H. Boas, for his sue-Eaditis three d
using a knife.
A few centuries since, the business of brewing ferule
was chiefly carried on by women, who are recognised
in several old Statutes, as " Ale-wives." At present,
the premises of one brewing-company (Messrs. Barclay
and Perkins) cover seven acres of ground, wad their
nentud consumption of hops is estimated at 3,000 bags.
How TO CHOOSZ • Cm:Par.—Persons who are dis-
posed to itudy durability more than ornament, should
always select a carpet the figures of which are small;
for in this case, the two webs of which the carpeting as-
sists are always much closer interwoven than in carpets
where large figures upon ample 'eounds are reprt tented.
PLATE GLASS AT REDUCED :cos.—The Naha:'
and Gentry are respectfully informed they may be *ap-
plied with the best Cast Plate Glass, of the largen
dimensions, at Gao. Cootie and Co.'s Plate Glass Woe-
house, 36, Piccadilly. A large assortment of Cellit
oey, Pier, Console, and Dressing Glasses on view. pleee
Glass for sashes, carriages, conservatories, librettos;
book-cases, lamps, &c.—G. C. and Co. respectful,' Y$
to call the attention of Architects, Surveyors, and Dr-
corators to their new and elegant mode of fittint
Glass Windows, to prevent unpleasant prospects ON
without, and to afford a chaste and pleasing emboli*
meat mithin, in i t e entirely new. .

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Saturday, at Eloutead Vicarage, um; Vpielliplip Pillijil.
wife of the Rev. William Wlison. •
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Oetoberl3, the Rev. W. Cox, Rititedie 1111'
Weymouth. He was presented lit Sal Vigithew
Ms hue Majesty. . ' ;'.: ~ - . .a A r •,;.4... j,I. •
ibse'ngight, at Sherhorne.
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igliherton „von at4imewilm■
e said to her sister, " I rhalti" smaGeorlastarArWal
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12, Mrs. Mn Wadi!, Wife 'of Mr.
, gardener. She lost bar weddlog.otag trom it hit
*ye when weeding is the garden about two or throrpsersillfr
knfOlarrillau; and the same ring was found*** Wands tip,
in 1795, after having been lost fog ten or twelve years.
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