Star.
London, England, 1823-09-25 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

Yesterday, John White was indicted for stealing six
table cloth, some towels, and other articles, the pro-
perty of Thomas Harrison, the proprietor of the Tani-
stock Hotel, Covent-garden.
The prosecutor stated, that the prisoner had been in
his seevicc, but quitted it about six months ago. After
the prisoner had left the Hotel the prosecutor examined,
his linen, and missed a considerable quantity. He sus-
pected the prisoner, and having procured a search-war-
i ant, proceeded to his house, where he found six table-
cloths and three towels, all having his name marked on
them at full length.
Limbrick, a constable, stated that he apprehended the
prisoner, upon whom he found a pawnbroker's dupli-
cate referring to a table-cloth. A table-cloth was found
at the shop of Mr. Beauchamp, a pawnbroker, in 'lois
n, the prosecutor identified as his property.
Mr. 13eauchamp's shopman produced the table. cloth,
%.11;ch, he said, was pledged in the name of Collins.
The RE:CORI:MK asked whether it was pledged by a man or a
woman ?—The witness replied that he did not know.
The Ilr.coitrims.—Look at the ticket : that will tell you.—Wit-
ness.—There is only the name of " Collins, Holborn," on it.
The RECORDER.—Then, Sir, you have shamefully
neglected your duty. By the Act of Parliament you
are bound to write on the ticket the full name and resi-
dence of the person pledging. You have adopted a
pretty mode of relieving a pawnbroker from the neces-
sity of identifying a thief. I hope your master will dis-
charge you for your neglect, and I will not allow you
your expenses.
The Jary returned a verdict of Gui?iy, and the RE-
CORbEit sentenced the prisoner to be transported for

seven years.
jam IVilliam Rodgers, a young man of an extremely
gentlemanly appearance, and dressed in a complete suit
of black, was indicted for stealing from Mr. Coward a
suit of clothes, his property.
Mr. Anotrnus stated the cast for the prosecution. In the course
of his statement, he said a question would arise, on which he would,
in the first place, take the opinion of the Court. It appeared that
the prisoner, by a series of false representations as to his rank and
connections, Induced the prosecutor to furnish him with the articles
in question. They were sent to the Oxford Coffee-house, and left
for the prisoner under the name of 3lajor H4litirne. The question
for the Court to decide was, whether or not the case was one of steal-

ing, as the prosecutor had parted with the possession?
Mr. A RABIN, who presided in the absence of the Corn-
mon-Serjeant, said it was his decided opinion that as the
possession of these goods had been parted with, the in-
dictment, as it was now framed, could not stand. Under
these circumstances, the prisoner must be acquitted.—
A verdict of "Not Guilty" was immediately pr:mounced.
The prisoner was ordered to be detained till the con-
clusion of the Sessions, that another indictment might
be preferred against him.

Tlomas Thomson, a little urchin scarcely ten years
old, was indicted for picking a Gentleman% pocket of
a handkerchief.

The Gentleman stated, that he was walking through
Bedford-square on the evening of the 20th of August,
when he felt somebody pull at his pocket. He turned
round, and found the boy now at the bar reaching at
the handkerchief in his coat-pocket, and had succeeded
in getting it half out of the pocket. The Gentleman took
hold of him, and gave him to the next watchman.
The boy said nothing in his defence, and called no
witnesses.—The Jury found him Guilty.
Mr.Wontner, the keeper of Newgate, said, the lad had
been once before tried at the bar for a similar offence.

A letter has been received, via Ancona, from Corfu,
dated on the 18th August, which is said to be written
by a Gentleman whose sources of information are
good, and on whose authority the greatest reliance may
be placed. After confirming the accounts previously
transmitted of the victories gained by the Greeks in Li-
vadia, and wherever the Ottoman forces had ventured
to shew themselves, he states that the Christians had
pursued the Barbarians into the centre of Thessaly; and
that at Agrapha the Pacha of Scutari, at the head of
8,000 soldiers, had suffered a signal defeat, and had
himself narrowly escaped with the wreck of his army,
consisting of only from two to three hundred men.—
Great reliance had been placed by the Turkish Govern-
ment on this division of the army, and its destruction is
of much importance to the final restoration of the Gre-
cian Empire. At the date of this -letter the Turkish
fleet was still cruizing off Patras, the Greek vessels were
stationary in the waters of Capo Matassan and Cherigo,
and were resolved to intercept these ships on their re-
turn to the Dardanelles.

ORIGINAL Po Wraitli OF COLUMBVS.--(From the
New York Daily Advertiur).—We are highly gratified
to state, that by the last arrival from Spain, our coun-
try is put in possession of an original and celebrated
likeness of Columbus. Its more particular history has
been forwarded to Washington, where the picture is
destined to add to those already in the Capitol. By a
certificate from the President of the National Museum
verified at the office of the Political Chief of
that city, and which is attached to the canvass, we ob-
serve that it is identified in all its parts as an original,
and by the same master who produced the full length
likeness of Columbus which is still in Seville. The cer-
tificate further states, that this is the same that was in
the Cartuja. It is presented to the nation by George G.
Harrell, Esq. United States Consul at Malaga, who
~uied the possession of it at Seville, by the aid of the
Prior of the Cartuja, when that institution suffered sup-
pression. The painting itself manifests the hand of a
master, and is well preserved ; but its chief value con-
sists in its being an original and true likeness of Colum-
bus: as such, to Americans it must be deemed a va-
luable acquisition, and to the votaries of painting a
triumph of their art, which possesses thus a faculty to
rob from the grave that portion of its terrors which it
derives from oblivion.

Captain COVRELDALE'S Letter to Mr. FRASIER, 103,
Houndsditch:

" Off Football, in Madeira, June 21, 1823.
SIR••-•Having an opportunity, I take the earliest of sending you
my opinions of the Fire Hearth put on board of the brig Belinda,
hound for New South Wales: I should have written to you from
Plymouth, but had not then sufficient proof of it; but now I am
happy to say, that it deserves every praise that I can bestow on it ;
and I have not the least hesitation in saying, with forty persons now
on board, besides twenty sheep, and other stock, to make a suffi-
cient quantity of water to supply their wants, without having occa-
sion to take any from the water-tasks. There is another great con-
venience—that Is, of having always the Oven hots with the mute
fice Mat boils the steamers, and, in my full belief, with not more fuel
than what would be required to be made use of in the common
cook-house. The only fault I have got to find is, what I made
mention of to you in London—that is, the grave that contains the
water round the copper lids wants en improvement on it; for
at sea, that water, with the motion of the ship, will not rest in its
place to keep the steam in; but we remedy this by putting canvass
in the grove, and by this means are able to keep water sufficient to
confine the steam. I hare nothing more to add at present, only
linpirg every success will attend you as the inventors of this very
!Isefel Machine, su I remain your obedient servant,
,"1"IIOS. CO VERDA Master of the brig Belinda."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday two lads of the names of Beliamin Archer and Corns-
lisrg Donorati, were brought up by Goodwin and another officer, on
suspicion of having been concerned in bitrglariously breaking and
entering the dwelling-house of Mr. Dobbin, a baker, at Laytonstone,
in Essex, and stealing bank notes, and other property to the amount
of 430/.
The family of Mr. Dubbin retired to rest on the evening of Satur-
day. the Ilsth instant, leaving everything safe. In the morning it
was discovered that the house had been entered by thieves, and a
drawer in which Mr. Dobbin kept his cash opened with a picklock
key, and plundered of its. contents, consisting of two 100/. bank
notes, two for 501. one CO/. several 101. notes, 54 sovereigns, and a
quantity of guineas, half-guineas, and seven-shilling pieces. No lock
but that of the drawer had been touched, and the thieves must
have effected an entrance by lifting one of their number to the top
of a bow-window which is in front of the house, so as to enable him
to lift up the sash and get Into the sitting room, where the money
was kept. 2.0 noise was heard by the inmates during the night.—
information was immediately given to the London Police, and
Goodwin an (I his brother olicer, atter a great deal of active inquiry,
obtained information which led them to apprehend the two pri-
soners. Donovan was taken on uesday night at the Coburg
Theatre, and on searching him, a silver watch, two new gold seals,
a pattern mourning ring, and some mcney, were found upon Lim.
Nothing particular was found upon Archer. They are both mere lads
Archer, when asked if he had anything to say, declared he knew
nothing of the robbery, and could prove that he was at work in
London on the night that it was committed.
Donovan merely said, " I was not that way at all at the time of
the robbery."—They were both committed for re-examination.