Star.
London, England, 1809-09-27 00:00:00

OLD BALLET.

Yesterday 33 prisoners were tried, two of whom
were capitally convicted, viz.
Jane Brown and Mary Smith, .girls of interesting
appearance, were convicted of stealing thirty-six
yards of ribbon, on the 3d of August, in the shop of
George Gibbs, a haberdasher, in White-chapel-road.
IV. Bland was indicted for stealing
.a quantity of
books, the property of a bookseller, in Fleet-street.
The defence of the prisoner was rather inconsistent ;
he stated that he had been tried for the same offence,
seventy
.years ago ; and, on being asked by the Recor-
der what his age was ? he said he was an hundred and
sixty years old ! He was found guilty, 'and the Re-
corder said he should be taken care of.
Sarah Gold, an old woman nearly 70 years of age,
stood indicted for stealing ten Bank notes, of 51. each,
from Tobias Solomon, on the 25th of July last. -It
appeared from the evidence, that the prosecutor went
into the house of a man named Stevens, a publican,
in Clare-Market, where he dropped the notes in ques•
Mon. The prisoner was seta to pick them up ; but
when charged with that fact afterwards, she denied
having them in her possession. The son of the pro-
secutor, however, and a constable, searched her
lodgings and person, when a part of the notes, which
. were identified by the prosecutor, were found.—She
was found guilty of Petit Larceny.
Michael Mordecai, a Jew lad about 18, was ar-
raigned on an indictment for stealing from the person
of Angelo Majora, a Portuguese, on the 26th of Au-
gust last, in the Minories, 281. in Bank notes.
The prosecutor, who could not speak English, was
attended, by an interpreter, and stated that he was
walking with a comrade through the Minories, and
• had just before received his pay, which he had put
into his jacket-pocket. As he pursued his way, the
prisoner came up, picked his pocket of the notes,
which he gave to an accomplice, and then ran off
Witness pursued and apprehended him, gave him in
charge to a constable, and conveyed him to the Po-
lice-Office, when, on examinatian, he was committed
to take his trial for the offence.
Several persons of the prisoner's persuasion gave'
him an excellent character.

The Jury, however, believing the testimony of the•
prosecutor, returned a verdict of—Guilty.
119:t.” Bri:PP-.1., a deplorable looking object, was
inilic.,ed for stealing a silver watch, and a silk hand-
chief, the property of Robert Ini..,ranr, from his'
dwelling-house, Shakspeare Walk, Shadwell.
unfortunate wretch, it appeared,had gone into
the house to ask for a drink of water, and during the
absecce of the prosecutor's daughter, to procure for
her the water, prompted probably by her necessities,
she took occasion to enter the parlour and take the.
articles specified, and was detected with them in her
posse,..sicar while attempting to escape-
The Jury found her guilty of stealing to the value
of thirty-nine shillings, which does away the capital
part of the charge.
An Woo,!, late a clerk in the employment of Mr.
William Smith, a respectable livery stable-keeper, in
Curzon-street, May-fair, was next arraigned on a 1 A circumstance of a nature peculiarly distressing
charge of receiving sundry monies on his master's happened some months past at our settlement in the
account, he being his confidential servant, and felo- Bay of Honduras. Lieutenant Hazlegrove, of the
niously embezzling the same, and appropriating it to sth West India regiment, being on duty, and having
his own use. occasion.to pass a bridge recently erected (to visit his
The particular sum it was now interded to prove guard), which was without railing, the night being
he had so feloniously embezzled was sf.'l6 10s. which extremely dark, he unfortunately slipped off into the
he Lid received from a Mr. Angelo, a customer of river. Captain M'Kay, of the same regiment, being
his master's. at the quarters of a brother officer in the neighbour-
Mr. Smith, the prosecutor, stated, that the prisoner hood of the bridge, from which Lieutenant Hazle-
had been in his service for a considerable time, but grove had just gone, and hearing the plunge, instantly
that suspecting from the tardiness with which his ac- flew to his assistance, by attempting to cross the
counts were collected, there was some unfair play, he bridge for lights, when, most melancholy to relate, lie
ciralknged him with receiving money and not passing also missed his way, and was precipitated into the
it to account. The prisoner at that time did not make river and drowned. The bodies of these unfortunate
:any particular observation, but on witness saying that young men, neither of them having reached the age
lie should employ his solicitor to-enforce payment of of twenty-five, were next day found. It appeared
the accounts he alluded to, he said the money was Captain M'Kay had two of his ribs broken, which
perfectly safe, but that one of the gentlemen had gone must have happened from his striking some part of
to Portugal. After this day the prisoner absconded, the bridge in his fall, and which no doubt contributed
but on the following day he sent to his master a list to his death, as he was a most excellent swimmer.—
of debts which he had received and had not been Both these officers were married about a year past to
passed to account; they amounted to between five sisters, and whom they have left with families.
and six hundred pounds. Mr. Smith, on examina. SundAy morning D. Congreve, a watchman, in a
two, however, found that this statement was not cor- craft at Allhallows Wharf, Thames-street, fell Over-
rect, prisoner having omitted to specify several I
board, and was drowned.
other sums which lie had received, and amongst
Sunday night, as Mr. Holloway, of South-Lam-
others, that from Mr. Angelo. It appeared, from , was returnrog home from Peckham, he was
a further inquiry, that the prisoner had appropriated
g
to his own use between twelve and thirteen hundred stopped by two youu fellows seemingly not more
pounds. than 18 years of age, when one of them instantly drew
Mr. Angelo proved his having paid the prisoner a dagger from a large stick he had, and seizing fact
l hold of Mr. H. by the collar, threatened to stab him
rsi 10s. by the production of the receipt he had re-
ceived from him. if he attempted to make the least noise or resistance.
On the charge therefore he was found G uilty.
The other then began to rifle his pockets, and after
F. Was indicted for uttering a counterfeit' taking from him a silver snuff-box, what money he
had, they ran off across the adjoining fields towards,
slsilence.—R. Swan, apprentice of Mr. Battley, the-
mist, in St. Paul's Church-yard, swore, that the pri- I
Brixton.
s mer, en the `29th of July, came into Mr. Battley's The body of a young woman, named Eckersly, of
shop to buy an ounce of cream of Tartar, for which ; LYmm, Cheshire, was lately found sewed up in a bag,
he tendered in payment three bad sixpences; Mr. I with a large stone tied thereto, weighing about half
Battley refused them, and desired the prisoner to no a hundred, in the canal near Lymm. The supposed
away, on which he produced 6s. 6d. bad money ; and, murderer, a young man 21 years of age, is in custody.
on a constable coming, more bad money was found Sunday a man and his wife were drinking, and eat-
en him, to rha amount of 18s. Several good sixpences ing bread and cheese at the Monster public-house, in
were also found on him.—lt was also stated, that '
when the constable appeared, the prisoner affected t
Monster-row, Milbank ; a quarrel ensued between
to them, when the woman took up a knife and cut her
be tipsey, and reeled about very much , throat in a dreadful manner. She was taken to St.
Mr. ALLAY made an able defence for the prisoner; George's Hospital, where she now lies dangerously ill.

T. Parsons, for-stealing a coat and a jacket, the property of J.
Oliver.

P. Simons, for stealing two sheets, and a feather bed, the pro-
perty of May Peters.
J. Rafferty, for stealing a watch, and other articles, the pro-,
perty of C. Megeran.
Mary Profit, for stealing certain articles of furnitUre, out of her
,ready furnished lodgings.
P. Newberry, fur stealing two saddles and a bridle, the pro- ,
perty of J. Sims.
W. Smith, for stealing a great coat, and several pair of silk-
stockings, the property of G. Hazel.
Elizabeth Sullivan, for stealing a copper bowl, the property of.
H. Hutchins ; and _ . .

I. Scurrey, for uttering a counterfeit sixpence.

And nine were acquitted, viz.

J. Cole, ordered to remain; R. Streether, J. Hancock, N.
Dill, B. Rashall, J. Evans, Elizabeth Biggs, Margaret Pew, and
Elizabeth Wood.

DUBLIN QUARTER SESSIONS.

JEWISH OATHS.

Sm. 20.—A trial of some curiosity, from its no-
velty in this country, took place on Tuesday last, at
an adjournment of the Quarter Sessions, held before
the Recorder of the city of Dublin, and two of the
Aldermen, CARLETON and ARCHER.

Abraham Lewis, a German Jew, was the prose-
cutor, and Solomon Davis, another German Jew, was
the prisoner on trial. The indictment charged the de-
fendant, th it he, at the city of Dublin, did feloniously
take, steal, and carry away several articles therein
enumerated, among which were gold watches, dia-
mond rings, and other valuable ornaments and trin-
kets, to a very great amount. The prisoner tendered
an affidavit, to postpone his trial, stating, that he re-
sided in Bedfordshire, in England, could not have
the benefit of his witnesses there, who were of his
own religion, as the White Feasts were now going on,
during which time the Jewi never attended as wit-
nesses, nor would they travel before the 4th of Octo-
ber, and prayed that his trial might stand over until
the 6th of that month.

His Counsel, Mr. M'NALLY, urged, that though this I
affidavit would be insufficient in a common case, yet
he hoped the Court would allow the prayer of it in the
present case, upon principles of justice : he would not
now argue upon the common law privilege that every
man had, of being tried in the vicinage, by a jury of
his neighbours, as a recent statute had enacted, that
when stolen goods were exported from England to Ire-
land, or front Ireland to England, the party charged
with the felony could be tried in either country. But
as the prisoner had so far to send for his witnesses,
full time ought to be granted to him, or he would be
tried upon ex parte evidence, that is, merely on the
evidence of the witnesses who instituted the charge,
and appeared before the Grand Jury ; and,here ire
mentioned the case of the Hearts of Steel, tried before
Judge ROBINSON, at commission, by virtue of an Act
of Parliament, now repealed ;—they were tried in
Dublin, by a Dublin Jury, for a murder in the North
of Ireland, but acquitted on this principle, As ex-pres-
sed by Alderman HINT, the forermut of the Petty
Jury, that the statute was against the principles of the
constitution, in authorising a trial out of the vicinage,
by a Jury not of the vicinage ; which principle the
Jury adopted, from an argument of the learned, the
great, and virtuous HussEv Button, the prisoner's
Counsel, and afterwards Chief Baron.

WILLIAM HOLBROOg,
IF the above WILLIAM HOLtROOK, Son cf
the late Captain JOSEPH FIOLBROO/i, of the Pert of
Bristol, will apply to Mr. Cobb Taylor, at 53, St. Michael's Bristol, he will hear of something to his advantage.

IMPORTANT
rrHE Advantage the Publiz must always deriv.
-A- from ,regularly educated professional men directing a,;
exclusively their studies to one species of malady, was ILO:, r
clearly demonstrated than by the unexampled succe w:iit r
is ;
attended the administration of their new ri-ntedy, and t!-.,
• dinary cures it has performed. For a long serics !.f yea' q,
r.
Colima and Co. Surgeons, formerly in his Majesty's
,;
made the Venereal Disease the particular object of th,•!;
ption, and are happy in having discovered a niedicin set: tr:t - *0
mercury in the cure of that Lomplaint ; it is ,utricietit to u!,
that the effects of this remedy ,arc diametrically cr,,;ort:e tc. tit 'A
of.rnercury, for though it completely eratdeates every
the virus, in its most confirmed stages, ye: if dots it: t el,.
injure the constitution ; on the col:miry, it r:tmv,tt,
In all its natural functions, prornot;:s appetite, ra,..1,-„ t.
,t.
gestion : thus instead of reducing a strong and
don to the frightful condition that mercurydoes, it r• J 1 u:.;
serves that constitution in its primitive state, but rcst.,,:s a
and debilitated one wits natural strength and vigour,
less instancy are on recent record of the superior LL7:O:v this
medicine, its inherent and specific virtues acting as a tt,.41
Icorrective to bodily debility, whether proceeding 1: ont att
of conjugal or illicit pleasure, or from the more ithiditi:tf,
not less destructive, indulgence of incautious yowl' of both sties
In a certam pernicious kzibit. .4:Ali:lst the melancholy varitly ci
. disorders which are the ceaasequence of this solitary vice, there ate
none more afflicting than that distresi,ing state of debility art
ficiency which prevents or embitters the matrimonial .;;;te ;
unhappy sufferer broods over his misfortune, asilanit:d to see': r,.
llef, until he is reduced to suck .a state of weakness as to rett:te
!l life oppressive. To such persons it must be a ettasoling ree
don to know, that they may now, by a new infallible nviti • 4.
treatment, be restored to that greatest of all human a
• strong, manly and vigoraus constitution.
In all cases of debility, deficiency, from whatever cause rtsit:r.,
I as well as in every species of venereal infertion, turr.,
and Co. may be consulted by patients of either see the
greatest secrecy, and honour, at their house, No. 107, 1,-14to,
Gairden. Patients in the country, describing the par:ieci. ;tot
their complaints, by letter post paid e closing a Bank rote, ell
have the necessary medicine and :dyne :ent to any of the
kingdom. no. 107. Hatto:tcardm

Mr. GREEX, Counsel Ibr the prosecution, was pro-
ceeding to answer this argument, but was stopped by
the RECORDER, who said the affidavit was deficient in
several parts, and the trial must go on.
The prosecutor, Abraham Lewis, was then called,
and appeared with his hair in curious artificial ring-
lets, and a peaked beard. The Old Testament in
English was handed to him to be sworn. Mr.
M4kALLY objected. The rule he said was established,
every man must be sworn according to the rules of
his religion—the Turk on the Alcoran, the Persian
on the Sun—the Presbyterian by holding up his hand,
as in the case where Lord George Gordon was a wit-
ness, before be was a Jew—the Jew must be sworn
not only on the Pentateuch, but the book must be in
Hebrew ; and even that is not the symbol of an Is-
raelite's belief in COD, unless the language runs on
uninterrupted by mark or punctuation. In support
of this position, he quoted the case of Omichund and
Baker, from the report of Akins, and in " the rules
of evidence on pleas of .the Crown," and observed, a
translated Bible was not a sacred book with the Jews,
foethey denied the purity of the translation. The
Court allowed the objection, and gave directions that
a Hebrew Bible should be sought for. Mr. GREEN
then called and examined Major Sirr, Divisional Ma-
gistrate, who gave his evidence from written notes in
his own hand writing, which stated that the two Jews
came before hint, and he examined the prisoner in
the presence of prosecutor. The prisoner admitted
that part of the goods produced, and which were
found in his lodgings, were the property of the pro-
secutor, and he selected such articles as he claimed to
he his own, and separated them from those he ad-
mitted to belong to the prosecutor. The prisoner also
said that he ana the. presecutor were partners. On.
the last point Mr. MaNALLY rested his cross-exami-'
nation, observing, that if they were partners there;
could be no felony, as the possession of one was the'
possession .of the other, each had dominion over and
property in the goods, and of course a civil action
only could decide upon the right of ownership. •
A Hebrew Bible was now produced, and Abra-
ham Lewis declaring that he believed in the Old Tes-
tament, and that the book he held was in Hebrew, and
such as the Jews used in their Synagogues, the Court ,
ordered him to be sworn.

Mr. GREEN examined him, and in a simple, clear,
and pathetic voice and manner he deposed, that he
met the prisoner in •Stemey Stratford, Bedfordshire,
and only knew him for eight days previous to the rob-
bery—that on returning home to his lodgings, he
found his boxes broken open, and that he had been
robbed of all his property. Suspecting the prisoner,
who had disappeared, he immediately pursued him,
and heard of him from stage to stage, till he arrived
'at Holyhead, from whence he sailed after him to'
Dublin, and, by th'e assistance of Major Sirr, had him
arrested, and recovered his diamonds and other va-
luable articles. He positively denied on his cross-
examination, that any partnership or trading connec-
Ltion subsisted between him and the prisoner, or that
' the prisoner had any legal claim whatever on the
goods. The prisoner of course had no witnesses to
produce, either to facts or to character, and the Jury,
without hesitation, found him guilty. He was then
sentenced to be transported for seven years.

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTION.
Rev. Mr. Protheroe to the vicarage of Llandilovasvr, Carman.
thenshire.

BIRTH.
At Bristol, Mrs. busy, wife of Timothy Deasy, Esq. of a eon.

W of EducatHEN PROFESSIONAL MEN icn
and Responsibility deviate front the Genera system by
the selection of a particular branch, the sanction of lung continued
success is the best criterion of superiority.
Fourteen years have we devoted our practice to the exclusive
treatment of two disorders, and the successful result of en- I,:sri
gives us additional ardour to oppose, as far as we are able, :In: rz.
vases of those complaints which are the tuost in:portant in the
catalogue of human infirmities.
After initiation into every branch of practice, we contem.o..!ei
the sufferings of Siphylitic and &flaunted Patients, and lorr,cd 3
wish to rescue individuals front the ignorance of tiordacated
or the equally dangerous precipitancy of general prArtitiorers.
The disorders, to the cure of which we have devoted our are'.
tion, coroprise every species of Venereal Infection, whether of a
receht or long duration: 2dly, All hinds of debility, whether
arising from the hans of school-boys, or the indulgencies of n:1-
cure age.---diumerous diseases are the insult of ignorance, ur
haste bathe treatment of a simple 'Conorrhcea, and it net arfre-
quenth happens, that the seeds of life are poisoned by the indis-
cretion of an unguarded hour.
By a superior method such complaints are may coral; lr.l
ev6 where others have failed, we trust that we tr..ty ?:;acne to
offer a radical re-establishmeut.

Few, however, are the cases of complicated distress in this
order, compared with the calamitous situations of men,
from an indulgence in a Solitary Vice, er the prevalent raietie,t,r
a fashionable life, acquire that state of debility, which a thy et:.
avoidable consequence of such pernicious liat•;%,„
Where the unhappy sufferer broods over his n.igcry, but cre-
idly conceals his misfortune, it may be some cnnso;.;tiutlke him
to know, that although it be an object of doubt or uaccrtairtv
with other practitioners, the removal of these deficieecies by t'le
gradualprogresaefreawration is the acquirement of our vxperi, ro.o.
If the rites of Bacchus or Yentas have begun to reduce nn.l4
vigour, much anxiety will be prevented by an early counteractiou
of this languid stare,and in those cases, no great diflicul.y will occJr.
But where this deficiency has for years existed, a proper perz!..
veranee is indispensibly requisite to revive the slumbering spaiks
of life, and ta re-animate the constitution.

The secrecy which is so essential to our undertaking, and the
qualifications which, We presume to state, form the basis of ,ear
pretensions, and in coincidence with such this intimation i,Fivra
that Messrs. Lem it and Co. may be consulted. F.rsenally, or by
letter, (inclosing a Bank Note) at their house, No. '29, Art;l:del.
street, Strand, near Temple Ban—There is an ati.lition:den,r.lsse
in Water-street adjoining, and the name is on both doors.
A Diploma from the Royal College of Surgtons in London, arl
Testimonials from the most eminent Physicians and Lecturers 4
regular education, and assiduous attention to the si udits
branch of the profession, are open to the inspection of any enqairer,
and constitute a fair ground for that succeßs with which we Lae
hitherto been honoured. E. LEIGH and Co. Surgeon,.
Nu. Q 9, Arundel-.;:retl.

DIED.

At Deal, on the 14th of tile month, Lieutenant Feake, of the
63d Regiment, immediately on his return from Flushing. Ills
disease was that which is at present so prevalent in Flusbing.—
His loss is most deservedly lamented by all'bis Brother Officers.
On the 24th ins, at Bath, after a very loot and painful illness,
Caroline, fourth daughter of the late Rev. Robert Watts, Rector
of Fethard, in the county of Tipperary.
Thursday, in Dartmoor prison, where he was confined in Cott.
sequence of having broken his parole, General Jago, a Frenchman
of colour. He rose entirely by bravery and merit from the rank',
laving, in various engagements, received upwards of 20 desperate
wound=, in fighting the battles of Bonaparte, who was much at-
,t. ehed to him. His fellow-pristiners bestow the highest 611COMfUrlIS
on his bravery, and deeply lamest his des*