Star.
London, England, 1802-01-07 00:00:00

bIIZLIND YAM I

On Tharfday laft, a veftry of the paridsoners of
St. Andrew's was held, for the purpofe, amongft
other bufinefs, of railing money to continue the
building of their Church, when, after applotting
a (mall fum to keep the work in progrefs, it was
agreed to petition the Right Hon. tbel.,ozn CHAN-
CILLOR for the grant of wool. on the parifh &cu-
shy, out of a confiderable flan for which they are
at law, and from which they entertain hopes to be
enabled to complete the work.
On Monday laft Patrki and John Mooney were
executed, for (lopping and robbing the mail-coach
at Knocknagee, in the county of Kildare. They
were hung at the fpot where the robbery was com-
mitted, near Colonel Ravin's wall, on the road
to Carlow.

And on Wednefday the noted robber yaw: Ma:
chews, was executed atCappagh.Hill, on the great
Weftern road, three miles beyond Kilcock, For
the robbery of Wm. Ksom, Efq. at that place,
fome time fince.

The poll•boy conveying the mail from Rofcrea
to Parfonitown, was attacked by two armed men,
drefed like foldiers, who wounded him feverely,
knocked him off his horfe, and robbed him of the
Ban. gher and Parfonftown bags of letters dif-
patchedfrom the General Poft-office the 22d intl.
and the Eyrecourt bye•bag.

Provifions of all kinds rofe confiderably during
the left week. This rage for high bred Meat is a
good pretext for railing the prices of plebeian beef,
mutton, and poultry. Me fee no profpeEt of again
obtaining provifions at a fair and moderate price.
Fah keeps up in proportion.
The principal natural produelion on our newly.
acquired Trinidad, is an imtnenfe lake of liistmen,
of fuch a quality as to be ufed in building or re.
pairing (hips, without any preparation. Super-
flition has accounted for this lake in various ways,
but it has never, we believe, been examined by
Wilful naturalitls.

The roads in many places begin to bear an ap-
pearance of impeding travelling, owing to the
great fall of fnow, particularly in Oxford and
Gloucefterfhire, for between Frogmill and Witney
the fnow in many places is four feet deep.
A Dublin Paper of the 29th ult. in a letter to
the Lord Mayor complaining of the abominable
filthy !late of that city, a(ks, 41 but what will be
the indignation of a ftranger when he is informed,
that we pay more money for cleanfing our (beets
than any other city in the world!—that the corpo.
ration of the city only pays two thoufand three
hundred pounds annually, for carrying away that
manure which is fo fuitable to the poor foil of our
country, and which aiiy where elle would be fold
for money ; that to facilitate this carriage, there
are two canals leading from our city, and that not
only Honourable Inn Right Horrenrahle Perim:, Com-
onffoners, and Governors, have comfortable man/ens
and brge diplomas in money for fuperintending
this departtnent ?"
A few evenings fence as a Gentleman, an in.
habitant of the neighbourhood of Charles-flreet,
Weftminfter, was palling down the Reps leading
from Duke-ftreet, into the Park, he obferved the
aged woman who attends there to (weep the Reps
in the day time, and in the evening with a lantern,
to light the paffengers, to he in a wretched Rate
from hunger and cold. He put his hand into his
pocket, intending to give her a [billing. On the
following morning the called and told him the be-
lieved he had made a miftake the evening before,
and had given her a guinea inftead of a (billing,
and (he had brought it back; and for this uncom-
mon honefly Mr.C. caufed a number of copies of a
full “atement of the cafe to be written and polled
up in the neighbourhood of Duke.ftreet.
Russian
.W 1 or sa.—Two interefling periods
for Peterlburgb are thofe of the froft and the thaw,
All communications are then interrupted for fume
days between the different ilinds of the Neva and
the new and magnificent town of Peter I. It is to
be obferved, that it is not the water of the river that
freezes, notwit/aftanding the north cold ; the rapi.
dity of its current prevents it. The ificles come
already formed from the Lake of Ladoga, from
whence they are driven by the wind ; they float on
the lake until repulfed by the lea, or, colleCting in a
mats at the entrance of the river, they flop, and
joining one to another, they fir on the Neva a plat-
form of ice, which often requires but few hours to
be cemented into a folid mars. The ificles of dif-
ferent fires are feveral feet thick, and loon are teen
Hiding on it heavy fledges and loaded cars. A
lady of a more genial clime would fhudder at the
idea of croffing in a coach and fir fo deep and
wide a lake on frail blocks of ice: but at Peterf:
burgh there are only a few timid women who are
frightened at it. At the approach of the ice all the
boat bridges are laid afide, and only replaced after
' feveral weeks, during which period there is no
communication except by a road acrofs the river.
On returning from a (upper, a ball, or a play, dur-
ing the night, (hut up in a clofe carriage and
wrapped in a warm peliffe, you are apt to forget
that you are croffing an abyfs for more than a
quattefof a league. When the ice is covered with
fnow, and the road beaten, you would not even
perceive that you were on the water, if a trickling
found .did not inform you of it, and if.ybo were
not fa riled to pafs between lines of (hips that
feem placed on the (now, and which form ftreets
on the Neva, that gives it the appearance of a
town of a very fingular architeCture.—The time
the Neva is frozen is the moll brilliant for Peterf-
burgh, and winter is the linen (carom—Communi-
cations are eftablifbed every where; the roads are
good; provifions of every kind, game and fowl,
come from the extremities of the Empire to the
market. In Spring, the ice of the Neva breaks
fuddenly, and in an infant you fee the barges fail-
ing where the fledges Hided. The cannon of the
fortrefs announce the thaw, and the commander,
in a fuperb Hoop, brings to the Emperor, who,
furrounded by his Court, waits for him on the bal-
cony of his palace, a bottle of water, drawn from
the centre of the lake, that then it in all
its majefty. The Neva is generally Tez:irisin the
beginning of November, and remains covered with j
ice till the latter end of April."

VEtsts,

Cupid ! tempt me as wick gold:

O ! lead me not for wealth .gray !
Can Love be ever pure that's fold,
Or haft beyond the Wedding day t
Will not, when the welfare's had,
Coldnefs and Indifference rife;
Can I appear a moment glad
Or happy in ELIZ A'S CyCl ?
Shall I not feet the rattling town,
And VitIOUR pats my hour., au ay ;
Give, on her with to go, a frown,
And bid her in the country flay t
Leave tae n.e fo, deceitful Boy !

But at as Cupid fairly mould;
Tempt me with loft donee tic joy,
With beauteous MARY, wife and good!
Whether with riches bk ft or not,
With her contented I could be,
With her the Palace and the Cot
Would have the fclf-fame charmi for ire !

POLICE, &c.

MANSION•HOUSZ.—Yeftcrday Mr. Holdfsvorth,
the City Martha% brought two miferable looking
Children, the one about ten years old, and the
other eight, whom be found laft night near the
Exchange begging. Thefe poor children were al-
molt naked, and exhibited a molt wretched ap-
pearance. Mr. Holdfworth raid, it is the praftice
of the parents of there children, of whom there are
a great number wandering about the firms, that
if they do not bring home a certain fum every
night, they are abufed and unmercifully beat.
The children raid their parents lived in Shore-
ditch, and that their father is a copperfmith, and
is at prefent out of work, and that fometimes they
had bread to eat and at others went without. His
Lordfhip ordered them to be taken care of for the
prefent, and direCted that an officer fhould be fent
to the parents to bring them before him.
William Templeman and Ann Lloyd, fervants
to Mr. Bifh, flock broker, Cornhill, had a fhort
examination, on fufpicion of their being principals
or accelfarics in robbing the haute of that gentle-
man, of plate and other articles, to a large amount,
between Tuefday night and yeflerday morning.
The prifoners were committed for re-examination.

As was George Grimes, on fufpicion of utter-
ing counterfeit 7s. pieces.
S HADW L.—Yelterday two perfnns, of the
names of Doyle and Brewer, were fully committed
for trial, charged by a gentleman in the City, with
knocking him down in Red-lion-ilreet, Goodman's-
fields, about feven o'clock in the evening, on the
37th ult. and robbing him of a watch.
THANES Orrica.—Ycil••rday Wm. Lee, a wa-
terman, was finally examined, on fufpicion of cut-
ting away the' hawfcr of the Verona extra Ealt
Indiaman, in the month or July laft, then lyinr,
on the Kent fide of the River, part of which
hawfer, by the evidence of a young man, em-
ployed as a waterman to convey it away, was de-
livered to a woman in Deptford, who is a corn.
mon dealer, and who is, therefore, held to bail to
(land trial. Lee was committed for trial at the
next affixes for the county of Kent.
Three men were conviaed under the Bumboat
Al, for having various articles in their poffeftion
fuppofcd to have been ftolen.
MAILSOILOUGH.STILEET.-.- Yefterday William
Lonfdale, mailer of the Tap under the Opera-
houfe, and Ann Lonfdale, his wife, were brought
before the Sitting Magiftrates, the former charged
with affaulting Cuthbert Ketchen, and alio aiding
and affifting a perfon unknown, to rob him of
601. • and the latter charged with alfaulting John
Balciron.

The Magiftrate obferved, that the offence with
which he flood charged was of too high a nature
to admit of bail, but he had no objection to allow
his wife to be at large, on entering into fufficicnt
fecurity for her appearance to anfwer the com-
plaint for the affault, and in the mean time he muft
be remanded for a further hearing, and he hoped
the other perfon would then be forthcoming:—
The Prifoner was then remanded, and his wife
was bailed.

HATTON GARDIIN.Fie/dinop the man examined
Come days fince, on a charge of defrauding feveral
publicans, by regaling at their expence, and after.
wards flipping out oftheir houfes without paying the
fame, WAS brought up again on Monday, when Mr.
Smally, who keeps the Blue Bear public houfe, in
Great Ruffell-fireet, Bloemfbury, and a number of
other publicans, made various complaints againft
him, and flrongly urged the numerous impofitions
they were liable to, and the hardfhips they laboured
under in confequence. The prifoner acknowledged
the different accufations to be true : he was tea-
ble of the impropriety of his conduft, was ready to
give fecurity for the payment of the debts he had
contraaed, and raid a friend waited. for that put--
pore. The Magiftrate, after Tome very judicious
remarks, advifed a conference between the whole
of the panics, obferving, that it they were fat isfied
with the terms the prifoner had to propofc for their
payment, be would not perfill in advifing a profe-
cation. The parties accordingly retired, and pre-
tendy after returned, informing the Magiftrate
they were willing to accept the fecurity offertd by
the prifoner ; in confequence of which the Magif-
trate ditmilred him.

Accounts from the neighbourhood of Chichef
ter slate, tha,t fome nights fince a lad, who had
been millin; for many hours, was dug out of a
deep ditch into which he had fallen, together with
fome Cheep, which had likewife been covered with
a valt depth of fnow. He defcribed his fituation
to have been at &it deplorable, from the idea of
perithing in that melancholy fituation ; but he has
coffered much lets than could have been expeded
from the feverity of the cold.
On Monday the t4th nit. a girl, about four years
old, belonging to Mr. W. Bagful, of Trenthays
near Stokompon.Trentobferving a waggoner throw
a hammer (which he had been ufing) into the
fnow, picked it up, and applied the face of it tol

he tongue, to Which it immediately flack fart; and
When fire took her hand from the handle, the ham.
mer was foltiended from h:r tengue. In this fitua-
tion the crib of the terrified child were heard by
her father, who, taking her in'a cautious manner
into the houfe, applied tome warm wafer to her
tongue, and in !Ile courfe 4,f ten the ham-
mer was loofetled, without doing any injin f. We
infert this as a caution to others ; for, it' th; ham
mer had been taken hallily off, the chill might
have been dangzroutly hurt.
I-all Sunday t.wo Ladies had their pockets pick-
ed at the door of a Meeting, in Eaficheap, one of
whom loft a pocket-book, containi►;g Bank of Eng-
land Notes to the amount of 261. and the other 4
pocket-book, but in which there was no valuable
property.

. On BUnday night, or early on Monday morn.
the warehoufe of !Yidfrs. BereAord and Co.
in Wood &ea, Chcapti.le, wa; broke open, when
Irifh linens and Kery:4,:re werc flolen to a con-
Ciderable amount.

Yellerday morning, about fix o'clock, a cart,
laden with pork and poultry, (landing in Grace-
church-ftreet, to be unladen, was driven a.vay
by fome villains, and was found about el .ven
o'clock, near Golden-lane. The property taken
away amounts to near 151.
Between fix and fever' o'clock on Sunday morn-
ing a fire broke out at a muffin warehoufe in Ba-
finghall• areet Poftern, which damaged the pre-
miles, and burnt the goods. Engines foon arrived,
and there being a great fupply of water, the fire was
got under without making any farther progrefs.
Late on Sunday fe'nnight, the mate of a fhip
lying in Dundee harbour, fell from the point of
the Eat Pier, between the fhip and the Pier, into
the water. By the alertnef, of a perfon prefent, be
was immediately taken out, after having funk
pretty deep in the water, and almoft got under the
(hip's bottom. ExCept a wound on the back part
of his head, he received no material injury.
On Tuefday fe'nnight, the Portfmouth Rage
coach, coming to London, was overtvraed : born
four miles this fide of Gofport, by which an iniide
paffenger had an arm broke, and feveral others
were very much bruifed.
Some days fince Mr. TAPPENDEN, of Fufler.
lane, coming to town with a friend, flopped at
the Elephant and Ccftle, in Sr. George's-fields, at
which place a parcel, containing upwards of wool.
in Bank of England and Country bank notes, was
Bolen out of the feat of the chaife in which they
travelled. We have not heard that any of the
notes have yet been recovered.

Laft Friday afternoon, as an honeft failor was
coming out of Somerfet Honfe, where he had been
to receive fome wags, he was accofled by a fiv.r-
per, who enquired of him the name of a pertini he
foil was his brother on board the fame (hip? The
f..ilor knowing a perfon the enquirer mentioned,
they cutered into a converfation, when prefmtly a
confederate dropped a pocket book near Tomple
Bar, whlch was picked lip by the (harper, when
on opening it a fparkling crofs was in it, with
receipt to the amount of Sol. He (hewed as it
were fome difinterefledn4s to the fai;or, otfe.ring
him to go equal (hares in the prize. Having ar-
yived at Eta Smithfield, they went to a public
houfe, when the credulous tailor gave the (harper
ten pounds and his note of hand fur the remainder
of his (hare. After the rogue was gone, the failor
went-to a tilverfmith, who valued the crofs at
nos. 6J.

Lately was apprehended at Deal, a feaman for
committing lime offence en board a merchant flip
outward bound, but it has fince appeared that he
is one of the mutineers on board the ALBANES3
(loop of ‘var, Capt.,Nr wcom a. When failing on
the coaft of Africa the officers and their few ad-
herents were overpowered in the month of July
iBOO, and the mutineers ran her into Malaga.—
The Captain demanded her of the Commandant in
the name of his Britannic Majefty, being under
fuch peculiar eireumtlances as no national honour
would countenance ; notwithllancFng which the
mutineers were all made prifoners of war, and this
man made his efcape.

MURDER.—lntelligence has been received by
the Concorde, lately arrived from NewlOundland,
that a tnoft horrid murder was committed in that
ifland previous to her failing by a tailor. Having
quarrelled with his landlady, he immediately
fnatched a hatchet, and murdered the woman,
with her infant at the breatl, and four others.—
Being taken, and put in prifon, he found means,
during the night, to liberate his hands, and take
off his fkockings from beneath his fetters, with
which he lirangled himfelf, and that fo effeCtually
as to render all means tried for his recovery abor-
tive. •

On Thurfday laft the Coroner's inclnefl. fat on
.thc body of an infant. found in the privy of a rc•
fpeetable tradcfman in St. John's-fquare, Clerken-
well, the Sunday preceding. It appeared, lions
the evidence adduced before tl'e Jury, that the
fervant girl came down on Sunday morning as
ufual to do the work of the honk ; bat complain•
ing to a young lady in the family, that the was
very unwell, fbe fent for a female acquaintance,
who, upon enquiry, found it neceirary to call in
the advice of a furgeon. When he came, he im-
mediately fonnd the unfortunate girl had very re-
cently been delivered of a child; however, the de-
nied the circumftance ; but, upon a ariel fearchs
it was found concealed in a privy adjoining the
houfe. She then acknowledged the had delivered
herfelf of a dead child, and had difpofed of it in
that manner to prevent the 11;ame and dilgrace of
fuch an unfortunate fituation. The furieon, upon
his eraminatioa, thought differently, for after
opening- the_ body, and minutely M4,11111:11 t‘b e
child, he was of opinion it was bola alive. '1 net
Jury, in confequenee, returned a verdi& of Wilful
Murder againft the unhappy mother, who Dow
tics dangeroufly ill at the workboufe, from whence
(he is to be removed to the Old 13.1:1ey, by oter
of the Coroner, to take her trial at the entt.mg
feffions• It feerns the unfortunate female was
much refpceed by all the family, as being a very
good and confidential nrvaiii. Her fecluct:r, wa
hear, is a married man, kith a wife and tannly;
lading nearly in the neThb:mirhnosi•

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