Star.
London, England, 1822-09-24 00:00:00

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM BOULOGNE, SEPT. 20.

66 Yesterday, as the Dasher Post Office steam-boat,
from Dover, was 'mar the port, the unfortunate en-
gineer was caught its some of the steam apparatus,
and came into the hasbour with his arm dreadfully
shattered, and his leg miserably torn, lying on the
deck. Soo❑ after seeing this unpleasant sight, and
p issing through a street in the tipper part of the lower
town, I saw a crowd, and a-ling the cause, a French
woman told me that an English Countess was rode
over and killed. In a state of horrid anxiety I imme-
diately went to her house, Rue de Virllasd, where I
saw breathing Iler last the beautiful daughter of Mrs.
CuartLEs Luca, the daughter of the Duchess of
LEANSTER by her second husband, Mr. OGiLVIE.
iler eldest daughter married a foreign Count of the
name of VIZY, and had just recovered from her ac-
couchement. As she was tiding out for the first time
on her donkey (bowie, as they call it here), and
corning down the hill towards her own house, with
her mother walking at her side, and her sister, Mrs.
MURRAY GREVILLE, in company, a cart came down
from the top of the street, the horte surining away
with it at full speed, ran over and killed on the spot
the boy in attendance, and ran over Countess de VIZI(
and her twitt, the wheel passing over the lower part
of her body. In an almost lifeless state she was taken
into her house close by, wile' e I saw the melancholy
scene above-mentioned—lies husband, frantic,leaning
over her almost inanimate body. By force he was
torn away, to give the surgeons liberty to examine
the hurt ; but, alas ! to no purpose, she had breathed
her last at the moment of separation from her hus-
band. Mrs. (JREVILLE had a narrow escape, the
wheel scraping her arm, and Mrs. Loci( was thrown
down in the confusion."

Sunday evening, a tumult prev:ti:ed in the chtirch-
yard of St. John, Horslydown, in Tooley-street,
Two funerals were appointed in the old burial-ground,
at five o'clock in the evening, but only one came at
the appointed time, and the Rev. Mr. J. C. Abdy,
having performed his duty, left the ground, saying
he would return as soon as he had taken some re-
freshment, The Reverend Gentleman arrived at the
church-yard as soon as the mourners had alighted
from the coach. Mr. Abdy headed the procession,
repeating the funeral service as it proceeded ; but it
moving slowly, he beckoned to the bearer of the
corpse to quicken his pace a little. He was told by
the undertaker not to mind " that fellow" (meaning
the Clergyman). Mr. Abdy took no notice, but pro-
ceeded to the grave, into which the body was lowered,
and Mr. Abdy was proceeding with the service when
the undertaker placed himself before him with his-hat
on: upon Mr. Abdy telling him to take it off, he re-
fused. Mr. Abdy instantly took off his surplice, and
addressing the mourners, told them he must be under
the necesity of &lei ring the interment till the under-
taker should think proper to behave himself with de-
corum. The undertaker still continued to act inde-
corously, and Mr. Abdy died left the ground. Just
as he got outside the gate the undertaker struck Mr.
Abdy in the eye. Mr. Abdy took refuge in a house
near the place, and the corpse still remained on the
ground uninterred. Mr. Abdy dispatched the Clerk
to the undertaker, to know it he intended to act pro-
perly, if he should return and finish the service? but
his message was not listened to, and Mr. Abdy pro-
ceeded to Bow Church. Alter an hour or two had
elapsed a Clergy man was obtained, and the corpse
was interred. The church-yard was filled with people,
'le street was kept in the utmost disorder

vening.
rv.—ln the year 1821, seventeen persons
of Naples upwards of 100 years of age.

Otio4kik?'BlsebkB.

Yesterday, Jake Balding, a labourer in_ the Lon-
-1
don Docks, was indicted for stealing four pounds of
opium, value four pounds, the property of the.„,Lon-
don Dock Company. .
J. Judkin stated, that he was a watchman in the
London Docks, and on thedayift question he saw
the prisoner stoop behind a pile Of oakum, pick ttp
the piece of opium, put it hut:phis bat, rpul place the
hat firmly on bis.head. Witness called out to him,
and the prisoner immediately took of his hat and
threw the opium away.
The prisoner, in his defence, said,' that it was a
piece of oakum and not opium, which he had picked
up and threw away.
He received a good character from Alderman
Aoslcy, the Lord Mayor's butler, and other persons.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recom-
mended him to mercy.
The Common SIIRJEANT assured the Jury that their
recommendation should be attended to.

Jolla May, a labourer, ves indicted for stealing two
trunks containing wearing apparel, the property of
Lizey Donnollan and Elizabeth Twycross.
Mrs. Donnollan stated, that on the 29th of July
last, the prisoner was engaged as a porter to carry the
trunks from Lisson-street, Paddington, to Newcastle-
street, Strand. Witness and Mrs. Twycross, her mo-
ther, accompanied him. He walked behind them.—
Witness saw him at Blackmoor-street, Drury-lane,
but on arriving at Newcastle-street, and turning
round, she perceived that the prisoner was gone. She
diyi not see him again until a fortnight afterwards,l
then he• was apprehended.
John Pitway swore that he kept a public-house in
Gray's to which the prisoner came on the
29th of July, at about four o'clock in the afternoon.
He brought with him a small trunk and a bundle
tied up in a red handkerchief. He went into the
kitchen, and witness heard him ask his maid servant
to go out and pledge the articles which he had taken
out of the bundle, but he (witness) forbade her. He
then went out of the house, leaving the trunk and
part of the bundle behind, and returned in half an
hour. He remained until about nine o'clock, when
witness insisted on his taking the things out of the
house, as they were in the way. He said that they
belonged to his sister. A fortnight afterwards wit-
ness hearing of the robbery went to Bow-street, and
stated to the Magistrates what he related here now.
Martha West stated, that the pris.mer came to her
house and asked her to pledge some articles of female
apparel for him. She did so, and the prisoner after-
wards gave her the duplicates, which she sold to
Moses Davis for .5.6 d.
Mt us Davis and the pawnbroker corroborated this
statement, and some of the property was produced
arid identified.

The prisoner said, he bad accidentally missed the
Ladies, and did not know where to take the things to.
The Jury, without waiting for the Court to sum
up the evidence, found the prisoner Guilty—and the
RECORDER sentenced him to two years iii.prison-
merit, and to be publicly whipped.
George Willoughby, Wm. Hedges and Thos. Brown,
were charged with burglariously breaking and enter-
ing the house of Thomas Hughes, on the 26th of Au-
gust last, and stealing therein a watch and seals, a
clock, a snuff-box, two silver spoons, and other ar-
ticles, his property.
Susan Angel stated that she lived in the service of
Mr. Hughes, in Green-street, Grosvenor-square. On
the night of the 26th of August she saw the doors
and windows locked and bolted before she went to
bed. She heard no noise in the night, but on rising
at seven o'clock next morning she went into the par-
lour, and discovered that all the drawers had been
broken open. On going into the kitchen, she found,
that the lock of the outside area door had been forced
open. The door leading from the area to the kitchen
had the pannel cut nut, which would admit a man.
Another door, leading from the kitchen to the par-1
lour, had the hinges taken off. The prosecutor, she
said, was not in Court. He is quite blind.
Elizabeth Elliot deposed, that she was niece to the
prosecutor, whose name was Thomas Lowe Hughes.
She heard so, but it had been disputed. She then
corroborated the last witness's testimony; as also did
George Chowbs, an upholsterer, who was called in
by the servant in the morning.
' John-King, a watchman near the Penitentiary, de-
posed, that he saw Hedges about twelve o'clock on
the night of the robbery, with three other men whom'
he did not know. They had large sticks in their
hands, and went towards Buckingham-gate. Witness
followed them to the next watchman, to whom he
communicated what he had remarked about them.
Thomas Simmons, another watchman, swore that
his box was in Park-lane, near Green-street. He
knows Hedges and Brown. He was calling the hour,
about four o'clock on the morning of the robbery,
when he saw the prisoners Hedges and Brown, and
two other men, coming from Green-street. When
Hedges came opposite to witness, he asked him what
hour it was? and he told him. They all went into
Hvde-par k, through Grosvenor-gate.
John Donaldson said he was a watchman in Vaux-
hall-road. On the morning of the 27th of August,
about five o'clock, he saw four men, one of whom
was Hedges. They were coming in a direction from
Grosvenor-place, Hedges carrying a bag on his shoul-
der." Witness lost sight of them in Gardiner-street.
As they came along they seemed busy handing things
from one to another.

Joseph Cooper, an officer of Queen-square, stated,
that in consequence of information he received, he
and another officer went to Perkins'-rents, Tothill-
fields, on the morning of the 27th of August, and
searched a house at the corner of Pump-court, but
found nothing. As they were going out, witness met
the prisoner Willoughby, and asked him who lived
in the parlour, and who kept the house? He said he
himself lived in the parlour occasionally with a girl
with whom he cohabited. He produced the key and
opened the door. Witness went in and searched, and
under the head of the bed he found two shirts. He
asked whose they were? Willoughby did not answer,
but demanded witness's search-warrant. Witness
again asked him whose, were the shirts? and he re-
plied that they were two of his own old shirts. Wit-
ness then handcuffed him and lodged him in the
watchhouse. Witness afterwards apprehended the
prisoner Hedges, but found nothing on him. One of
the shirts was mai ked H. T. S. and the other T. H.
Thomas Pace, the officer who accompanied the last

witness, ecamborated.his testimony. He apprehended
Brown in a house opposite to where Willoughby was
taken, but found nothing upon hiin.
Edward Hanley, another offiief, statedi that he
apprehended Hedges on the lit of September, walk-
ing in Peter-street.
Susan Angel recalled.— Swore that the shirt marked
T. H. was her master's property.
Miss East also identified the Thin marked T. H.
as her uncle's; and the other as that of S friend of
Mr. Hughes, who had been with him on a visit. It
was lying •in the corner of a drawer on the night of
the robbery.
The prisoners were then called on for their defence.
Willoughby said, he received the two shirts on the
morning of the 27th of August, about Ave o'clock,
from Hedges, who asked leave to place them in his
room.—diedges denied ever having seen them.
Brown disavowed all knowledge of the transaction.
Several witnesses appeared to speak to the prisoners'
characters,.but pro'ved nothing satisfactory.
The ltecortoe:n then informed the Jury that they
must acquit the prisoners of the capital part of the
charge, in consequence of the prosecutor's third name
not having been mentioned in the indictment.
The evidence being summed up, the Jtkry found
all the prisoners Guilty of larceny.
The prisoners, Hedges and Willoughby, were then
tried upon another indictment, for a burglary com-
mitted in the house of Mr. Spencer Simms, in Sloane-
street, Chelsea.
In the present case five doors had been broken
open, which the witnesses stated could not have oc•
cupied less than two hours time. The noise was
heard by a servant maid, who alarmed the other
servants; and the robbers escaped without com•
yleting their purpose. A variety of articles were
found packed up, but, except a brace of pistols, little
or nothing was carried away. The evidence of iden-
tity, especially respecting Hedges, was extremely
slight ; the Jury, therefore, after having retired for
a quarter of an hour, acquitted,heth the prisoners.
The RECORDER then proceeded to pass sentence on
the three prisoners convicted on the former indict.
ment. They were extremely fiertktnate, he said, in
escaping capital conviction, which was merely owing,
to an accident. It was very evident they were most
daring thieves, and that his Majesty's subjects could
not be safe while they remained in the country : the
sentence of the Court was—that they be severally
transported for the term of seven years.
Maria Rix was indicted for having stolen from the
person of a man named Cowie, in the month of Au-
gust last, between Great Turnstile and Little Queen-
street, Hdlborn, a watch, chain, and seals. On the
prosecutor's securing her (as it appeared in evidence),
she passed the booty to a female companion, who
ran off and evaded all pursuit. The prosecutor and
the watchman who came to his assistance were posi-
tive as to the prisoner's person.—Guilty.
Ann Rogers, indicted for stealing from the clothes
of a sailor, whom she had induced to accompany her
to her lodgings, and to sleep with her, five sovereigns
in gold and some silver, was then put to the bar. On
the morning after the robbery, the.sallor found that
his companion had quitted him, and that his money
was missing. In the course of the day having ap-
plied to a Officer of Police, he succeeded in tracing
the piisoner to her new lodgings, from one of the
windows of which she. recognized the prosecutor,
and at his cleshe she came down to him and was se-
cured.—Guilty.
John Turner, a respectable-looking young man,
was indicted for having forcibly unfastened and car-
ried away a copper, value 15s. from the cottage of a
widow named Mary Metcalfe, residing in the parish
of St. Mary-la-bonne. •
The witnesses for the prosecution did not succeed
in establishing the identity of the prisoner's person,
and it turned out in evidence, that the copper itself
had never been examined and compared with the
bracket from which it was said to have been wrenched,
or with the bricking in which it had been fixed.—
Suspicion seems to have attached to the prisoner
chiefly from the circumstance of his having formerly
worked as a gardener in the ground attached to the
cottage, and from the facility with which it was pot-
sible tor him to have scaled a wall that divided Mrs.
Metcalfe's dwelling from that of his then employer.
The witnesses for the prosecution having been
cross-examined at some length by Mr. C. PHILLIPS,
and the witnesses called by the prisoner having borne
ample testimony to his good character and honesty,
The COMMON SERJRANT summed up, and tbe Jury
found the prisoner—Not Guilty.
The following were convicted of felony :
William Needham, aged 27, and Edward Ford, aged 22, for
stealing a handkerchief; John Frederic Muniche, aged. 24, for
stealing ^.O sovereigns; Harriet Lee, aged 23, for stealing eight
pair of stays; George Marshall, aged 15, for stealing a pair of
spectacles; John Ahaphy, aged 30, for stealing a quantity of
tea; William Price, aged 47, for stealing a watch; Richard
Pragg, aged 20, for stealing two saws; John Stone, aged 19, for
stealing a pair of trow%ers; John Sly, aged 14, for stealing a
waistcoat ; Joseph Tlieake, aged 22, for stealing a spade ; John
Bailey, aged 10, for stealing two handkerchiefs; Robert Wilson,
aged GO, for stealing a coat ; Joseph Weller, aged 18, for steal-
ing a watch ; Sarah West, aged 35, fur stealing a hat; and Wil-
liam Young, aged 14, and Charles Fisher, aged 12, for stealing
two handkerchiefs.—Th,- following were acquitted :
Hannah Fisher, aged 38 ; Sophia Bathe, aged 20; James Me-
gan, aged 26; and John Tyrrett, aged 13.

THOMAS JAY, Tliß KING'S Posrtwow.—The re-
cent trial of the above individual at the Old Bailey,
for picking pockets, and the subsequent trial of Gook,
Harrison, and Connell, constables of St. James's
parish, the evidence against him for a conspiracy,
must be fresh in the recollection of our Readers.—
Gook, Harrison, and Connell, we understand, again
presented a MB to the Grand Jury, now sitting at
Clerkenwell, for the attempt to pick pockets at Drury-
Lane Theatre, and on Friday last a true Bill was
found. Jay was yesterday taken into custody, and
is now lodged in the New Prison, Cler kenwell.
TrrirEs.—A curious and important decision re-
specting tithes was made at the Kilkenny Assizes in
March, 1789, which is worth notice, and is as follows :
" KILKCNNV, APRIL I.—On Thunday, a remarkable Nisi
Prins cause was heard at the Court-house, before :Mr. Justice
DAQUCItY and a respectable Jury, iu which the Rev. Mr. Stone,
of Kells, in the Cbunty of Meath, was plaintiff, and Sydenhain
Davis, Esq. of Jahnsville, defendant. The action was brought
to recover JEW° due for tithes leased by the defendant to the
plaintiff, as Hector of Kilmoaahill, in this County ; when, after
a trial of some length, the Counsel for the defendant produced
a Statute of Charles 1. by which it is enacted, that every Rector
shall re►ide eighty days in his parish every year, and preach
thirteen sermons, abet wise he will not be entitled to the tithes
or dues of his parish ; and as it was proved that the Hector was
non-resident, the Jury found a verdict fur the deteudant, with
Sixpence costs."

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Friday, at the Rectory, Weetlegmeth, 1•161‘ iiaTallyit
the Rev. Edward r.::..
The of eon. :
The Lady of Camel Ross, Commandant Alitaapairach,
of a daughter. ,
At the Deanery House, Dublin, the Hon. Mrs. Poommaby,er
a daughter.
Sept. 17, at Irvine,-the Lady of Colonel Faillaruses of Falk&
I ton, of a datighter.
Seat. 17, at Edinburgh, Lady Aunt Wardlaw, of a out.
Sept. 17, at Edinburgh, Lady Elibank, of a con.
Sept. 15, at -North Berwick, the Lady of Major-General D
rytupie, of a still-born Child.

ARRIED.
William Watts, En. of the City of Dublin, to Letitia Mr_
lotte, daughter of the late Rev. John Day, formerly of Kiltas„
lagh, in the. County of Kerry.
In Alary's Church, Dublin, Walter Blake, Esq. Captain is
the late Royal Irish Artillery, to Catherine Ely, second daughtet
of Thomas Ely, F.sq. of ll:shaves, County of Tipperary.
James Dawkins k:eq. M.P. of Upper Norton, Ozfordshire,t•
Maria, daughter of General Gordon Forbes.
At Kilmore, Captain Brady to Ml4s Jane Oldfield.
At Armagh, Leonard 'Dobbin, jun. Esq. to Mary, fourth
daughter of the Rev. Dr. Miller.
Sept. 17, at Hatton, the Rev. John i.ynes, Rector of Ponley
i.ovett, Worcestershire, to Caroline Sobieski, eldest daughter ve
John Wynne, Fol. of Garthmeillo, Denbighshire.
Sept. 16, at Capar Fife, Mr Wm. Adamson, of Glasgow, to
Allison Frances. daughter of the late Captain Ruy, of the Aber-
deenshire Militia.

Sept. 8, In St. James's Church, Guernsey? A. M.Wm.Yount,
F.sq. the younger, of Flarburn, to Ameli i, youngest daughter o
Sir James SaUmarea, Bart. G.C.B. Vice-Admiral of the Fleet
of Great Britain.

• Sept. 17, at Itedhall, Benjamin Dighy, Esq. of foitntjoy-
square, Dublin, to Sophia, second daughter of the late Vice-
Admiral John Inglis, of Auchh dinny.
Sept. 18, at Hermitage-place, Leith, Wm. Curulinghim, Esq.
of •Dromono, Ireland, to Ileku, eldest daughter of the late
Daniel Shiels, Esq. It. N.
Sept. 16, at Aberdeen, LicutenarxWm. Anderson, late Arlin-
tent of the 71st Highland Infantry, to Ann. Patrick, relict of the
late Mr. Peter Russ, of Aberdeen.
At Whitehill, on the 18th inst. Caprain James Donald, late of
the 94th Regiment, to Anne, eldest daughter of Robert Gra-
hame, Esq. of Whitehill.
T. Cave, Esq. of Yeovil, to Mary, eldest daughter of the Ike.
.7. Temple:llan, Rector of 13uckland St. Mary.
Mr. J. Wells, of Minehead, to Jane Ball, eldest daughter et
the Rev. W. S. Bradley, Vicar of Chard and 'fimberscumbe.
At Bristol, George Frederick Stansbury, Esq. Composer and
Director of Music at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, to Miss E.
Stratton Roberts, daughter of the late Rev. Edward Roberts.

DIM/.
Sept. 12, at Dieppe (whither he h id gone from Paris for the
benefit of sea bathing), suddenly, from a violent liemotrhagt,
Don Jose 'fiburciO Echevarria, native of Marac4ibo, in Colom-
bia. Ile formed part of a mission seat List ytar front the Go-
vernment of Columbia to Spain; he visited I.:!:gland Itst April.
At Wick, on the 7th inst. Mrs. Phin, wife of the Itev. liohtte
Min, Minister of that Parish.
At Westbury Leigh, aged 64, after a very short illness, Mr.
Isaac Tucker, well known as a musical composer.
At Cormy Castle, county of Cavan, the Lady of C' rent
In Dublin, sged 87, Anastatia, .ady Browne, of the
late Sir Geo. Brown, Bart. of the Neale Park, c 00... ,:" Mayo.
At the Crescent, near Clontarf, Capt. John Bayly, :•.: of the
Kilkenny Militia.

Thursday, at Nymphsfield, at a very Jvanced age, 'hales
O'Hara, Req. M.P. for the county of Sligo.
Sept. 14, at the Manse of West Kilbride, the Rev. Arthur
Oughterson, in the 87th year of his age, and 5: of his
Sept. 5, at Hope Park End, Jeminia &rowan, fourth
laugh-
ter of John Simpson, late Captain in the 27th Foot, formerly
Captain in the Inverness-shire Militia.
Saturday, at the Ivy-House, near Leeds, in the 47th year of
his age, William Jackson, Esq. formerly Captain and Adjutant
in the Local Militia.

Lately, at the quarters of his Regiment, In Ireland, Lieute-
nant-Colonel 11..2nry Hooper, Commanding the .7tl Royal Vete-
ran Battalion, one of the must valuable Officers in his Majesty's
Service. His courageous defence of a wing of the army at New
Orleans, where he was Acting Adjutant-General, will be lung
remembered. Although already wounded, finding a t about
to be deserted as untenable, he assumed the command, and
succeeded, though with the loss of his left leg in so bad a nun-
ner as to afflict him extremely for the remainder of his life.—
Dia intelligence was equal to his bravery, and while in com-
mand at Deal, he formed a plan which promised to beconi: of
high value to the country, and of advantage to the Army. His
premature death will probably prevent its adoption. lie was in
the prime of life, and has left an amiable young widow and se-
veral children.

NEWGATE AND LEA DENII.4I.L MARKETS, Sam :23.
(By the Carcase.)
Beef ..... ...ls 8d to 2s tid I Veal os 4J to Ss 4d
Mutton.. ...... Is 4d to 2s 4J I Pork ...... Od to 3s dd
Lamb 23 ud to t2s Bd.

PR ICES or HAY AND STRAW YESTERDAY.
ST. JAIITS'S. W lIITECDA TEL.
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Straw 11 4s Od to 11 14s od &raw 11 145 to /1 18s 0,1
Clover 01 Os Od to 01 Os Od Clover 31 101 to 41 10s Otl

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