Star.
London, England, 1809-07-25 00:00:00

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to Ins d.iug'6icr on thejilgktof Ole lid of
I May;'wlpa •he met her, lie.vrai much struck with
her appearance. The next day, he went in search of
dm prisoner, aid t 'Mid him at
.Leeds, On being
asked if.he was at Cildersome,the.preceding night? he
said, " I do net know such a place as Gildersolne."
Sarah Sykes, the mother of the child, corroborated
the testimony of the child; as to the violence exer,.i-
ed on her person.
John Broader. corroborated the eVidente of the
`child, as far as
.respected..his meeting her and the man
in the wood, and kwore positively that Wilkinson
was the intm.
Benjnmin Sawyer was called? to prove that the
'prisoner, having lived at Worthy eight or ten years,
must have known Fartiley Wood, a distance of about
half-a-mile, and the village of Gildersome. He
stated the priioner to have borni a good character.
The JUDGE said; the question oh which there could
be any.difliculty was, as to the identity of, the pri-
soner, ~-,'hetlier he was the person who committed [hid
rape ; for that a rape had been committed He thought
was clearly made out ; and the Jury; in determining
this point, would take all the circumstances of the case
into their consideration..
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The Jury retired for a considerable time, And on
returning into Court, found the prisoner—Not Guilty.
. This following prisoners Were convicted t
F elcling , for having lotted Bank of England notes
In his pomade*. pbaded guilty. -
ii'L.iddliqpiffitaburgary in the house
of Sjirnuel Crook. nris...—!-

Jonas Crabtree, in the parish or gtvynevi.
Richard Donnison, of Darlington, for robbing. Thomas Hall on
the lithway. . • '
Adam Watson, for stealing a piece of muslin from the shop of
Michael Pfrker, of Ripon.
Thomas Ontersott,' of Scarborough, for stealing a horse from
William Arrewsntlth, of I.eytou, in the county of Durham, on
the 224 March.
John Whitfield, of Vista, for bigamy.
Jane Snell, late a servant in the Post. Office at Basingwoldjor
taking out of a-Letter a 101: Boston note, 514 e property of Robe!! •.
Gallant!.
William Dobbin, fit' fobbing the house of Richard Appleton,
of Stohe4lty.

BREAD.--There being no Court of Aldersnen to-
d:,y, the Loan MAYOR, after inspecting the returns
of the Bakers' Company and Meal-weighers, ordered
it to fall 1d: per peck loaf. ' .. •
Mr. Howe, who has been attemptit* to do the Bar- .
clay mttrli in Soinersetshire, resigned the task on Sa-
turday, the 15th day's performance only having been
completed. He has thus loSt a stake nf'2oo guineas,
anal hi.s health is much injured.
The inhabitants of Duke's Place were some seven-
siace much alarmed by a loud crash, which was .
distinctly heard in the Synagogue: On examination, -
it w is found that the large chandelier had fallen 1: ona
the cielihg, a Id done considerable damage to the:
benches, &c. beneath it.
The elegant and expensive chandelier which r raa- -
mertted the centre of the Marine Library at Brighton,
.fell to the floor on Tuesday last, and was completely
dashed to fragments. Fortunately, there were no in-
dividuals near the spot at the tine. •
On Friday, as Sir Jotm and Lady LADE were go-
ing down Liampstead Hill, on their way to Hendon,
in a curricle, the pole came out of the splashing lea-
titer, and falling against the horses, set them kicking
and running at full speed. In this perilous situation
Lady LADE jumped out of the curricle and fell, but
received little hurt. • Sir .Tunri kept his seat until the
foot-board was kicked off and the harness broke, when
finding that he had no command, he leaped from the
curricle, and was much bruised from the fall. The •
horsei continued running fniibusly to SirJomes house
with the curricle, a distance of near four miles, and,
entering the yard, got ;nth a pond, from which they
were got out with diffichlty, very much cut about
the legs,
.but not otherwise hurt. Sir JonN and Lady
LADE were both bled, but fortunately have received
no very serious injuty. •
Last Thursday a partition wall of one of St. Mar y's
Alms-hotites, in Ox-lane, Shrewsbury, fell down; some
gentlemen hearing the crash, opened the door of the'
hotise, and discovered, half buried with bricks, the old
and decrepit tenant, who, together with the ruins, had
sunk intr.) the vault below, where she was scarcely dis-
cernible amid the dust- Notwithstanding the appa- •
rent danger of her situation, she sat calm as a philo-
sopher, " Unhurt amid the war of elements and the
wreck of matter." At first she declined accepting the
offers that were made to remove her ; nor could the
reasons for her attachment to the squalid and ruinous
habitation be guessed, till it was discovered that she
had hoarded a quantity of money in the holes and
corners of it. •
'A young gentleman of the name of Matthew, whose
father resides in Clarges-street, fell out of a boat as
he was fishing, above Kingston-bridge, on Saturday,
and was drowned.
The Rev. Mr. Wright, curate of-Long Sutton, in
Lincolnshire,returning on Wednesday se'nnight, firm
Lulon, where he had been burying a corpse, was vio-
lently attacked by a Bull, which was grazing in a
pasture, through which the foot-road to the church
passes, and was so dreadfully gored by the furious
animal, that his life is despaired of-.
A child, • about two years and a half old, on Wed-
nesday se'nnight, crept unperceived behind his father,
Mr. David-Harry, while mowing hay in a field -at
Llangake, near Swansea, and the scythe entering his
belly, he expired soon after. The feelings of the un-
happy parent can be better conceived than described.
On the night of the 10th inst. the gaol of Derry was
broken by the prisoners, and three of than effected
their escape—one of them, of the name of Stewart, a
very notorious offender, from Madera.
Early on Wednesday morning a post-boy of Mr.
Hyson, of Southampton, having fallen asleep on his
return -home from Winchester, the horses took into •
tl4 Crop-pond, within a mile of the latter, place, where
the chaise was overturned and the unfortunatedriver
was found under the fore-wheel drowned.
MURPER.—Yesterday se'nnight John Bryant, a • '
butr
emoa nin quitting
a considerablethe
house
Chelsea pensioner, who has lost a leg in his Majesty's
service, went to a public house at Bradford with
'MtimareydMrinakrkins,g
wheretogethe
they
an altercation took place, during which Bryant struck
the woman a violent blow, which killed her on the
spot. An inquest was on Wednesday taken by Mr.
CLARE, the Coroner ;—verdict Wilful Murder.—
Bryant was in consequence committed, on the Coro
ner's warrant, to Devizes Bridewell, from whenc,
has been removed to the county gaol in Fisherton,
take his trial at the Assizes.

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