Star.
London, England, 1802-03-13 00:00:00

POLICE, &c.

Bow Sr x.—Yefterday morning Henry Cock,
the perfon advertifed for forgery, was brought to
trAvn from Cambridge, by two of the Bow-ftreet
officers, where he was apprehended as he came
from Riding, having been nn a vifit to Tome friends
at Neat Place; after undergoing a fhort examina-
tion at this office, in which he admitted be was the
perfon defcribed in the advertifement, he was com-
mitted for re-examination.

MANSION HOUSE.—Yeaerday tome foldiers,
working on the quays, in Thames-ftreet, in the
merchants' employ, being dete4led in pilfering :tr-
ades, were committed for re-examination.

GUlLDHALL.—Veltertlay a man, under a charge
of (leafing three boric% which he had offered fur
fale in Smithfield market, underwent an examina-
tion. The horfes were hated to have been ftolen
i'rom Lincelniltire ; the prifoner was therefore re-
manded to Lincoln to anfwer the charge.
Woftsitiv•Svsmr.---Yellerday a man, of the
name of Teafdale, was committed for trial, on a
charge of footpad robberies in and about Layton.
Bone, within a few weeks paR. A Mr. Trueman
fwore to the prifoner having robbed him of a flyer
watch and fume money.

A diftrefling event took place at the houfe of
VERNON COTTON, Erg. of Gilbert's-Lea, near Ec-
clelhall, in Staffordfhire, on Thurlday fc'nnight.
Sonic villains were endeavouring to break into the
hook, when Mrs. Cotton was fo much terrified by
the noife as to be thrown into convulfion fits, in
which the expired in a very fhort time.
On 'firefilay lalt Sarah. Richardfon, aged four
years, the daughter of a labourer, at Springfield,
in Elfex, being left with other children, near the
fire, her clothes caught the flame, which fpreading
with refiftlefs fury, in a very fhort time rendered
the poor infant a moft fliocking fpettacle. The
mother, on entering the house, witneffed the
lituation of her child; whom, in the moments of
alarm and diftraaion, the fnatched up in her
arms, and plunged into an adjoining pool; by
which the progress of the flames was, indeed, ar.
relied ; but though immediate furgical afTillance
was procured, the miferable victim died on the fol-
lowing evenin:,afterenduring the feverefl tortures.
On the 3d inft. the wife of Mr. Rumball, at the
Fleece, Witham, fuddenly dropped down and ex-
pired, as the was (weeping her room.
On Wednefday laft, an inquifition was taken in
the parifh of Great Baddow, in Eifex. before the
Coroner, on an occalion, the particulars of which
arc intereliing and extraordinary. In the evening
of Thurfday, the 40 init. as the wife of a labourer
(who had on the Saturday preceding taken poll
fellion of a cottage on Galleywood Common, in
the (aid which had been quitted at Chrift-
maslaft, by a family who had occupied it nearly
for the (pace of forty years) went to fetch fome.
thing out of one of the chambers, the accidentally
difcovered, in the corner of a clofet, adjoining. a
chimney which had lately undergone tome repair,
three tiles placed in a particular manner; on re
moviit uhich, the withered remains of a fmall
form, apparently human, dropped on the floor, to-
;ether with the Ihattered remnant of an old hat,
in which the body had evidently been depefited.
Alarmed at the incident, and not direttly knowing
what the had found, the carried it down (lairs to
her hufband, who, conceiving it to be only the flee-
leton of a monkey, defired his fon, then prefent, to
throw it ont into the road, where it lay until Tome
of the neighbours, more intelligent or more cu-
rious,
picked it up, and communicated the matter
to a neighbouring Magiftrate, at whore dcfire the
in quell was taken, as above Rated, and though the
molt critical inveftigation took place, which the
nature of the ciicumftances would allow, nothing
tranfpired to criminate, in the leaft degree, any of
the parties above mentioned. The thrivelled and
disfigured remains, which formed the fubjed of the

fettly dry and withered Rate. Stich being the cir-
cumdances of the cafe, the verdia of the Jury
was, " that the (aid child was fill-born, of the bo-
dy of fome perfon unknown."
On Thurftlay fe'nniqht the body of a young
woman, who, about five weeks (ince, was drowned
in the river Derwent, near Darby, was dilco-
vered floating in the river in the liberty of Al-

Some nights fince three men, armed and &I-
gttifed, knocked at the door of Mr. S. Stmesow,
of Shotly, in Suffolk, and by imitating the voice
of Mr. S. induced a female fervant, who with a
boy was fitting up for him, to open it, when one
of them prefenting a blunderbufs to her breath,
impofed filence on her, while another carried off
a box in which Mr. S. kept articles of value, and
which then contained calk and notes to the amount

'of about gol.
Tuefday, at noon, the DIAMOND frigate, lying
in Barnpool, by means of a pitch-kettle boiling
niter in the galley, under the forecaftle, caught
fire, but affiflance being loon rendered from the
fleet, and by the naive exertions of both Officers
and men, it was got under with very little damage.
Britl°l fair Taft week exhibited a large number
of horfes, but few that were good, and thole went
quickly at high prices. Cattle, of which there was
a great Phew, fold at reduced prices. Although
the quantity of leather was but fmall, it did not
meet a quick file.
Mr. Browning, of Saltford, had his pocket pick-
ed of his pocket-book at Briltol fair, containing
fundry bills, &c. of confiderable value. He, how-
ever, fecured the fellow, who was committed !Or
trial.

At Margam in Wales, a flupendous machine is
now erdling to roll copper. Two waft wheels of
call iron,each 24 feet in diameter,are let in motion by
a Ream-engine ; one of the wheels, which they
call a fly-wheel, makes thirty revolutions in a mi-
nute, and regulates the movements of the whole
machine. Notwitlatanding the number of iron-
works already cftablilhed in Glamorganthire, near
twenty blaft furnaces are now conftrufted, or in
contemplation.
A vine-dreffer, of the name of Noisst, in the
village of Aunay, near Sceaux, in France, as he
was lately planting tome vines on the fide of a
fandy hill near that place, dilcovered, a little be-
low the furface of the ground, feveral coffins in
planer, two of which were almoll entire ; and at
each end were the remains of fire pans, in which
there was found a quantity of charcoal. The two
heads were entire, and the bones very large ;
without, however, exceeding thole of men of an
ordinary flature.—Coffins of the fame defcription
were dircovered, a few years ago, near Bagneux,
on the road to Pat is. It belongs to Antiquarians
to afcertain the age and nation in which filch cof-
fins were ufed, and of the intention of the fire-
-1 pans placed under the head and feet of the body.
A new Opera was performed laft week at Pa-
ris, entitled, Le, 111:illere; d' IP. The Chief Conful
was prefent. In the courfe of it, a compliment to
his virtues was introduced as a clap-trap, but it
failed wholly of its effeet, as not ten perfons were
found to applaud it. A perfon of lime
diflinc-
tion, who vas fitting in one of the boxes, ohfervcd
very Ihrewdly, J'ci/a (mne it Inge pour I'ajaire de
Milan, alluding to the unpopularity he has ac-
quiredby affuming the Sovereignty of that country.
In confequence of the condat of the returned
Emigrants at the performance of Edward en Eqfire,
the leaders, who were well known, were fent for
by the Minifler of the Police. They were remind-
ed of the benefits which they had received, and of
the lenity with which they had been treated by the
prefent Government. This, it was obferved, they
had repaid by endeavouring to pervert the mind
of the people ; and it was added, that the next
offence committed by them individually or collec-
tively, Ihould be followed by immediate banifh-
ment from the territory of the Republic.—lt is
laid that an end is pnt to all further erafures from
the lift of Emigrants, and that every perfon of this
defcription now in France is to be placed under a
ftrietjiirveillanct.
ENGLISH STATE LOTTEItY.III.II Day.—No.
36,959, a Prize of lociol.—Nos. 28,778, 39,846,
27,511, 56,623, Prizes of 501.
The Eleventh Day of Drawing, No. 36,959, a
Prize of wool. was fold at Ca elute and Co.'s Old
Licenfed State Lottery-Office, No. 26, Oxford
fired, near Itatlibone-place, oppofite Soho-lquare,
where Tickets and Ramped Shares, warranted un-
drawn, will continue on fide during the whole of
the Drawing, from eight till nine in the morning,
land from three till eight in the evening. At the
above Office, No. 6345, a Prize of 30,0001. in the
fall Englifh Lottery, was fold and (hared in three
eighths and ten fixtbenths, and other Capitals to a
great amount. Prizes paid on demand.

There are no claire: of men of greater impor.
tance to fociety than thole which devote their
time and talents to the prefervation of the health
of their fellow creatures. How eminently fitc-
cefsful the late Fitamcis SPILSBURY was in
this truly laudable employment, is completely
evinced by the rapidity of Cale which his celebrated
ANTISCORBOTIC DROPS have invariably command-
ed. As a purifier of the blood, rellorer of the con-
ftitutian, and bracer of the fytlem, their effeas
have been atlonilhing, as may be teen by the fur-
prifing cures of perfons who were affliaed with
Scorbutic and Nervous Complaints, Gout, Rheu-
matifm, &c. and therefore the deteaion of thole
impoflors, who, by means of forged bills and
other pretended credentials,have vended a fpurious
comp fition of this truly excellent medicine, mull
be a fatisfaaion to all perfons who have a com-
petent idea of the abfolute neceffity there is in be-
ing careful to purchafe the genuine Remedy, as
well as of preferving perfonal property from in-