Star.
London, England, 1806-09-08 00:00:00

IPAR7 O.IfEW FAIR.

The tumours due to the pious patron of our Me-
tropolitan Wake, having been rendered during the
°foal pet iod of three day., doted fur the relent year
at twelve o'clock on Saturday night. As much
bullle enfued as at the breaking up of a grand army
The Steward of the Curt Pled "'Andre fortentier-
ed his wand, the Homage was difotiiTed—the itinerant
traders packed up their merchandize—the lions,
bears, and tygers, prepared themfelves for a new
movement ; Punch and his jocular attendants were
allowed to repofe after their labours. Behave the
dawn of day the conilituent puts of this motley at-
femblage filed off with all the pomp and parade of
an Afiatic caravan. The proceffion bent eta courfe
North from London, and it is conjectured ;limit will
halt at Edmonton. We base for the, prefant only to
notice a comp! int in the Court of Pied Ptiudre which
occurred late on Friday night, and one ()tort caufe
tried on Saturday morning j
COUR!' OF PIED POUDRE.
Stroll THS STLWARD AND • treClal HOMIOI.
CRIM. COS.—The proprietor of 1/041 of the feenit
exhibitions, whole name, as we could not ditliaaly
bear it, we omit, preferred his plaint againft a Fen.
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tleman of a refpelltahle firm in thiheity, tor a molelion of his conjugal tight. The Plaintiff was a nil.
tire of Flanders, but be pleaded his eattrz in pretty
good Englifls. He faid he had formerly refided in
Pads, but was proferibed during the tyranny of Ito-
berfpierrei—that he came over to this country, and
having no other means of fubfiflenee, he for three
years exhibited a magic lanthorn. He accompanied
it with dialtigne and mufic, and wash. fbicefsful that
he wet enabled to become the manager of a move-
able theatre, at which he reprefented pantomimes.—
He had married a young woman, a (errant at an
inn, who had fared tome money r they had lived
happily together for leveret :ears, and had four
children ; the two Elden were rible to perform, and
were confidered good afters. He never knew his
wife guilty of any intfiferetion, hat on the contrary,
the had always conducted herfelf well, and fulfilled
the duties of a goad mother towards her children
On the firft morning after the prefent fair was pro-1
claimed, the defendant came to his booth, and pur.
chafed as many tickets of admiffion as amounted to
two guineas. Afionifbed at his liberality, he ex-
pelled his obligations to him. The defendant faid,
he willed to encourage an honed man with a family'
—There was no ground for fufpicion rill Friday at',
noon' when he miffed his wife, and' was informed
that (he had entered a hackney coach with his pre-
tended patron, the defendant. He hatched for and
dikovered them at a honk near Sadler's Wells. He
brought his wife back, and the defendant followed,
adding intuit to injury. As fooe as the defendant
'was within the precinct of the fair, he had him arra-
y:l by the officers of the Court.
The dehndant did not deny his familiarity with
the lady, but he maintained that the plaintiff was,
privy to it, and in fad the enure of his own difhonouri
AQer Tome excellent obfervations from the Stew-
ard, the Homage returned a verdid for the phistiff
mages toL 1
Louis Riviere, a Frenchman, was brews/14141de
the Court for a very handalobe offence.— He was
charged with affixing a (harp needle at the end of his
walking flick, and goading a lion on the note and
race, in order to iiritate him. This bate fellow Paid,
by way of elcsife, that he only meant ro route 'de
Engliffs Lion. The Steward eold him that he was
Site the reit of his countrymen, who were always
forward to provoke the Ettglifh Lion when he teal
not in a fituation to rivenke himfelf. It would, he
obferved, have been• a jolt punihment to have dun
him up in the noble 'bead's •den, where he might
have antufed Martell with pricking his stole till he
was tired—but as his power did not extend fo far, he
&could fine him aos. and imptifun him till the conchs.
fion of the fair.
occurred worthy of notice.

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POLICE.
MA Nilfelt Hover --Saturday, an old lady mined Cusingham,
manager of a tumbling booth In BA tholomew Petrov's brought
before the 1.0 so NIA Tot, by the mother of • diroinutive female
child about (even yeah old, wha bad been difelaying her infantine
al/dirks under the aurpices of Mts. Cunningham, kr the divertion
of gating mukitude, in fader to obtain a reputation of this in-
fant to her own Mod and maternal protection. From the flee:nem
of the another, • well drefred young woman about s 4 whore name
we undelitood to be Kest, it appeared that the had committed
this child to the care of Mrs Cunningham asst hoarder, at the
liie.al penlion of two (billings per week ; that Mrs. Cunningham
bad taken the child on a Thefpian Tonethrough all the wakes and
(strain her circuit foe fla weeks pelt, exhibiting her as a lower, a
toneUer, a Cericaa Fairy,and fuch ousts parts as the concaved belt
adapted to the,takno of this little Rids, and at length brought her
up to the grind, rendezvous of agile mummery at Bartholomew
Fair,where her mother, who came hither for Am, law her child ex-
hibit, and demanded her to be reamed, which Mrs. Cuoniagliain
, refufed.
Mrs. Cunningham, in her own viodicrion. produced a written
agreement, front which it appeared that this child wog sprat.
deed to her by the mother, en condhion that the was to be taught-
' the art of hailing With all its gr.tier, by that greNd profefor of
Cramp egiP;:• tne 3itar lanernet,aind that ter mother was to
1 ply a confide ration of two thilliogs per we, k toward. her bused : i.
I.ut the had no ohisatort 'et furrender htr pupil, on being paid the I
arrears due for ber maintenance.
The mother very prevideml, urged, that the child mutt have
'earned a great deal more by her tumbling, rind therefore demur
red to the claim.
.The Loan Mayon, however, befitted on the juttice of fulfil-
ling her agreement. and, alter a very kvere ledure upon the inhu-
manity as well as the graft immorality of a decent mother, in de-
I voting her itinecent female child to be brought up to a life of we-
b growl, and terrain tweet, ordered the child to be rettured to her.
A reputable tradefman named Hail, of the hook of Hall and
Bexley, in Fridaydtreet, charged a man named Smith, whom he
tilled a Harker, of Moorlieldt, with wantonly blinking and abi
faulting hint in Moorhelde on Wednefday evening loft.
Mr. Smith is one of thole facetious tied Importunate gentlemen
who Vitally walk before the broker's !hops In Moornehle.topfaii
1 et the euftemers, and °.p:, trade; ail who have long born coo-
-1 lidered a very great annoyance, if not an ahtnlute nuilanee to all
I perfoni who have creation to par. their beware in the courfe of
the day I more efvecially women, who are fur. to be teased with
the fi....tbeed alliduities of thole wags, and to be F•drni and
y„.: x d by the whole Corp., it they velure to einli In awl /v."
Mr. Hall fated, that he ww taking A walk with two little hem.
his children, through Moorfielde, ,era Wi_dnefday evening, thong
Mirk he h n 1 flopped to minute hie chil.lreo with a view of isms
• boys playing at ericket,lhni on coning along the footway, Mr.
I month, who was a hick jetfroi with his e•ening's Rev. rutted his
Iway, and refuted to let Mon pals. Mr. Ilan endeavoured to get
forward, lint Mr. Smith kited hint by the breast ..nd heist him
fait. Mr Han in his tom caught Mr. Smith, and. (kill hto what
he attain by (~eh coneludt ' Smith then retreated towards his
aloe, pulling Mr lilt Moog with biro. tennis him that ''' as he
It, nod as able man. he mull hcht bins" Mr. !tallow being dd.
' p01,.1 tor kliiitig. and elm-daily with an antagonift fo much lat.
irr and more peeverbil. t.,,t hy 411 i) not want to fight; that he
1 ~1 iy want ti, walk by gutsily with his dildrcis ; so which Mr.

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