Star.
London, England, 1825-02-23 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, FEBRUARY 24.

John Delsenhant, aged thirty, and Joseph Owen, aged
twenty-six, stood indicted, the former capitally, for
stealing in the dwelling-house of Mrs. Elizabeth Ladd, in
Gilbert-street, Bloomsbury, two watches and other pro-
perty, value 101. the property of William Henry Tids-
well ; and the latter for feloniously receiving the same,
knowing it to have been stolen.
The Jury consulted for a considerable time, and re-
turned a verdict against Debenham, Guilty, and against
Owerr Gtiiity of Receiving, after stolen.

NEW COURT.
Sarah Strong was indicted for stealing nineteen yards
of lace, value 475. the property of Messrs. Shoolbred,
of Tottenham-court-road. The prisoner purcha'ed
some trifling articles at the prosecutor's shop, and was
about departing when the sbopman observed her con-
ceal the lace with her pocket handkerchief. The pri-
soner, in her defence, said, that when she was in the pro-
secutor's shop she was seized with the pails of labour,
and was wholly unconscious of what she was doing.—
She was subsequently delis eted of a child in Newgate.'
She had no intention of stealing the lace, and had
hitherto borne a most irreproachable character. She
called witnesses who gave her an excellent character,
and the tumkey of Newgate proved that she was de-

livered in the prison.
The RECORDER left the Jury to consider, whether the
pains of labour, with which the woman said she was
seized, had made her unconscious of what she was
doing, and that she had by accident covered the lace
with her pocket-handkerchief. The Jury acquitted her.

Monday se'nnight, the Society of Scottish Antiqua-
ries met at theirMuseum,F.dinburgh,when a ballot for bew members
took place. A very interesting paper was read by Dr. 9
containing a narrative of various incidents connected with the pro-
gress of Prince CHARLES through Lancashire, in 1745, from mate-
rials, partly original, collected by the late Rev..l. GRESSWELL. An
original letter from Mr. Pima Vows°, Preceptor to King JAMES
VI. to Sir Lewis lizuarNnos, of Auchnoul, Lord Justice Clerk,
was also read to the Society. Next was read In account of some
stone colitis and other antiquities lately discovered in the parishes
of Rynie and Clatt, Aberdeenshire, accompanied with a drawing
by ALEXANDER LOW, Esq. communicated by Mr. Sarzwa.
- The delay in commencing the season at the Italian
Opera House is occasioned by the indisposition of tw o
of the performers, in consequence of which the cast of
the Opera of the Marriage of Figaro has been changed,
and the performers require time to study their parts, in
which they never before appeared. Other reasons have
been assigned for not opening the Theatre, which we
understand are erroneous.
Mr. HAYNE was present on Friday evening at Miss
FooTE's benefit, at the BrightonTheatre,and was liberal,
it seems in the purchase of tickets. The performanCes
were 'I he Inccastant and Matrimony, and he is expected
to take a hint forhis course from toe titles of the enter-
tainments. A Brighton Paper says—"r The best under-
standing decidedly seems to exist between him and the
much-to-be-pitied young Lady.'
The inhabitants of Lambeth assembled yesterday at
the Vestry-hall, when a Petition was agreed to, praying
for a repeal of the Assessed Taxes.
CAUTlON.—Yesterday the Board of Excise fined from
twenty-five to thirty publicans in mitigated penalties,
from 15s. to 101. for not renewing their licenses.
The plague'has !tested itself at I. mail, and besides
the Lazaretto at Scoters), a second has been establi bed
halt way to Odessa. The plague has ceased at Bucharest.
Amon the Parliamentary Papers delivered yester-
day, is a list of the Petitions for Private Bills presented
during the present Session. They amount in number
to 367, of which 26 are tor Rail-ways; 107 for New
Roads; 21 for Gas Companies; 11 for Water Com-
panies; and eight for Mining Companies.
The Turnpike Trusts Committee of the house of
Commons (for ten miles round London) assembled for
the first time on Friday, 'chose Lord LOWTHER to be,
their Chairman, and adjourned to yesterday, when
witnesses were to attend—amongst others, the 'flea
-
surer and Clerk of the Highgate Trust. Lord Low-,
Tom's plans are understood to be, amongst other mat-
ters, the appointment of a Board to controul the several
Trusts, and to enforce the Acts, the Commissioners of
which are to be independent of all Treasurerships, &c.
and such Board again to be superintended by the para-
mount authority of a Parliamentary Commission.—
These plans of course may be modified or superseded
by the Committee.
An account has been printed by order of the House
of Commons, giving a detail of all the customable com-
modities seized by the various establishments formed
for the prevention of Smuggling, namely, the Coast
Guard service, the Preventive Water Guard, the Riding
Officers, the Revenue Cruisers, and the Ships of War,
in the United Kingdom, for the last three years. The
account comprehends, from 902,684t1b5. of tobacco,
down to a single musical snuff-box, seized, and exhibits
a total of-129 vessels, '746 boats, 312 horses and
cattle, 135,000 gallons of brandy, 253 gallons of rum,
227,000 gallons of gin, 596 gallons of wine, 10,500
gallons of whisky, 3,0001b5. of snuff, 19,0001b5. of tea,
42,000 yards of silk, '2,100 pieces of India handker•
chiefs, 23 Leghorn hats, 3,600 packs of cards, 10,000
pieces of timber, 75 stills, with sundry minor articles.
The law expenses incurred by the condemnation of these
articles amount to 29,8161. 19s. 41-d. the • store-house-
rent, freightage, and distillation, to 18,875/. 14s. loid.
the expenses of salaries, wages, equipment, repair;,
casks, cooperage, &c. 1,533,7981. 4s. 10d. the amount
of rewards to seizing officers, 488,1271.25. Hid. The
'King's share is set down at 25,7231. ls. sfd. the pro-
duce of all these seizures at 282,5411. Bs. sd. indepen-
dent of 5,0001. worth transferred to the Victualling
'Office.—The result of the statement is, that the produce
lof the seizures does not amount to mire than one-
eighth part of the expenses incurred by making them.
ALLEGED MURDER Or A WOMAN IN ST. GILICS'S.—•
The above neighbourhood has been thrown into ask*.
lion again, in consequence of the reported murder of
Mary Coleman, a woman who cohabited with Richard
Hawes, who resides in St. Giles's. The evidence upon
the Coroner's Inquest, however, proved, that though they'
were in the habit of quarrelling, the death of the woman
wascaused by excessive drinking.—Verdict accordingly.
A niece of General WOLFE, of the name of ANNE
WETTON, is now residing is a small room in Jones's
livery-stable-yard, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square; she
is nearly 80 years of age, and is so poor as to receive
part of the Sacrament money, as well as the contribu-
tions of a few charitable individuals.
A letter from Captain DAVIDSON, of the ship Northum-
berland. of North Shields, to his owner, states the following fact.
Tho ship was lying at Sierra Leone. "On the Bth of November,
4524, one of our crew, being on the bowsprit fishing, dropped
Vs knife overboard. He made a great deal of work about it; but
bodge his surprise, when, on the same afternoon, lie caught a do..
PIO, with the identical knife in its belly ! The Gab was cut up in
my presence, and I saw the knife takes out."

PAZZCZ OrELLtdtgd.

BOW-STREET. •
The Caledonian Rowing, Mr. Flowerdetv,"was brought before 31 •
RiCIiAILD Braise, by a posse of women and watchmen, who charged
him with having struck a little girl, the daughserwf one of the
women, a severe blow on the arm with his perpetual broomstick—:
or " immortal skewer," as he calls it.
The Magistuda said,'` really it is high time something was done
With this man. Iwo* in hopes Ix his friends had ptovidrd foe
him, and that -we should have troubled with him no {tore.
However, we must not have children assaultedin the streets in this
manner, and therefore he must find bail."
" dudi ailerons port on I" exclaimed Mr. Flowerdew, Sit
RICIRAILD, will you give ear to my defence?"
" Certainly," said the Magistrate.
" I knew you wenki, for Oh, Sir Rkhardi.you• are my second
father !" rejoined Mr. Flowerdew t and thaLbe went into his de-
fence in form and manner followingi—!! Ste Richard, you may re:
member that when I last bad the honour of appeating befbre you%
you earnestly recommended me to lay aside my plumed CaledriniA
bonnet, lest it should make me a flied figure for the hand of Fulii
to point its foolish' finger at. And 0, my .second father ! I did
do laid aside my bonnet, with all its honours, ard covered in!:
caput with this plain round hat. But, nevertheless, the small fly
this teeming metropolis, prate continually of my whereabout, and
hunt me through the streets as though r was a rat, or a bear, or tl
badger, or a polecat. lam like the owl, the wisest of birds, fol-
lowea wherever I go by troops of nasty little pecking sparrows and
tomtits. And how, 0, Sir Richard! 'am Ito bear all this? Behold
I have a weapon 1 or rather I had—for my immortal skewer has
been taken from me by ignoble hands-even by the hands of these
watchmen. But, whilst it was mine, was it wonderful that I should
sometimes endeavour to keep off my pestering pursuers by giving
them the Anglessa cut ? (Here Mr. Flowerdew, by way of epi•
sode, pronounced an eulogiutn on the valour of the gallant Marquis
of Anglesea, and the nice dexterity of his " cut.") Then turning td
the mother of the little girl, he addressed her thus : " And now.
my good woman, mother of this most innocent child, whose hurt I
shall never cease to lament, let me ask you whether those filthy rags
are a fit envelopement for the injured arm of a beloved child?"
" I assure you, Sir," replied the poor woman, " that they were
quite clean till I steeped them in vinegar."
" Vinegar !" exclaimed Mr. Flowerdew, " you are vinegar •
itself!—vinegar mingled with muitard, and with a modicum of
pepper to bout."
" indeed, Sir, I don't wish to hurt you," said the woman,
somewhat awed by his lofty delivery—" but to have my child brat
in this manner was enough to make me angry."
0 Anger is unbecoming in a woman," rejoined Mr. Flowerdew,
" a woman moved is like a fountain troubled—middy, ilbseeming,
thick, bereft of beauty; and what shall be said of you' who are toe
flower of brimstone and the very cream of tartar? hut lea mar
go home, my good w,,at.lit, t will not trouble you with more qua.;
lions at this time. So go home, and take your neighbours wit
you, and your little girl, and make yourselves eomfertable, and in-
struct your children nut to congregate in the str.:tts."
*Mr. Flowerdew uttered this as one baying authority, st tbte
same time patting the _women on their shoulders, and pointing
towards the dour ;• and they, good easy souls, were tuning to with-
draw, when Sir R. BIRNIK, called them back, had their evidence
taken down, and directed that A:r. blowerdew should hod bail for
the assault. "So long as your eccentricities were harmless,' said
his Worship, " they were tolerated; but you cannot be allowed to
be..t children with a broomstick." _

" Ye officers, lead on!" cried Mr. Flowerdew ; and, calling
upon the watchmen to take especial care of his " immorul skewer,'
he followed the jailer to his strong hold.
Eliza Louisa Wibster, alias Eady, was re-examined before Mr.
HALLS, on a charge of swindling, with the circumstances of which
the Public are already acquainted. A number of pawnbrokers
appeared, and produced several articles, which had been pawned by
her. She was committed for trial. _

A Gentleman then presented himself to the Magistrate, describing
himself as the second son of the late Sir George Dunbar, and begged
leave to observe, that the woman just committed, however she
might say that she was connected with his family, there was not the
slightest foundation for her aesertidn.
James Sinus, alias 'fie Saida, the celebrated pickpocket, was
brought before Sir BIIINIK on a charge of attempting to pick a
woman's pocket, at Drury-Lane Theatre, ou the previous evening.
Sir Mutate') liisieta committed him for two months to the House
of Correction.

James Despeigne, a watchman of St. Martin's Pacis‘was brough:
up on suspicion of stealing a reticule and a cheque fur £l4, the
perty of a young Lady named Nicholson.
Miss Nicholson resides in Northamberland.street, Strand, and
was going home late at night with a male cousin, who carried her
reticule until he got within a ftw yards of her house, and Men, as
he supposed, gave it into Miss Nicholson's hand, but it would seem
it dropped between them, for Miss N. did net receive it. The
prisoner was standing near them when the reticule was banded. lie
was remanded.