Star.
London, England, 1822-07-27 00:00:00

JULY a 4.

Isaac Jessopp was indicted for burglariously break-
ing into the dwelling-house of Mr. Jonathan 'foothill,
on the night of the 29th of April, in the parish of
Ilopton, and stealing various articles, his property.
The prosecutor, l‘fr. Toothill, had been the Minis-
ter of a Dissenting Congregation at Hopton for up-
wards of fifty years, and lived in a house which was
a part of the property of the Chapel. On the night
the robbery was committed, the family retired to
rest at an early hour, as was their custom. About
one o'clock they were alarmed by a noise in the lower
part of the house. The servant was first disturbed,
but she was too much frightened to give an instant
alarm, and after having laid trembling in bed for
some minutes, she saw a man with a candle in his
hand approach her bed-room, and having stood at
the door and thoroughly surveyed it, he again retired
and went down stairs, without offering any violence
or uttering.a word to any one. The girl, as soop
as the man had left the stairs, jumped out of bed,
and screamed out " Murder !" Having brought her
master and mistress to her assistance, they sallied
down stairs, the old Gentleman and Lady, who were
both verging upon eighty, leading the way, and the
girl keeping at a respectful distance behind them.—
;the shrieks of the girl were, however, so shrill, that
she terrified the robber, and occasioned him to make
a precipitate retreat. On examining the house, it was
found that the entry had been Made by forcing away
she kitchen window, and before the villain had yen.
tureck up stairs, lie ransacked all:the drawers of the..

Edward Cass stated, that he was proceeding to•
wards 'Pickering with the mail bags delivered to him
by the last witness, and had accomplished 17 miles
of his journey, when the prisoner came up to him
and seized the horse by the bridle, and at the same
time demanded his money and watch, under a threat
that he would kill him if he refused. The lioy an-
swered, that he had neither money nor a watch, when
instantly he was dragged from his horse, upon which
the prisoner mounted, and rode.off with the greatest
speed. Sohn men were ploughing in a field at a
short distance, to whom the witness gave the alarm,
and minutely described his person and dress ; he also•
circulated the news in every direction on the road to
Pickering. On his arriving at that place hand-hills
were printed and distributed about the country,
making known the robbery. The witness never saw
the prisoner before, but two or three days afterwards
he saw him riding along the road in a chaise, and
he directly recognized him as being the man whc had
robbed him.
Thomas Kitchen, a labourer on the roads, remem-
bered the prisoner coming up to him on the 11th of
March and anxiously inquiring if the mail had
passed, and as to the direction it would take ? On
being informed it would go by about three o'clock, he
went away, and took the road the mail would come.

Thomas Ceultars a farmer, was working in a
field, under a hill, about 14 miles from Whitby, when
he saw a man on bareback at the top of the bill, cros-
sing the road. • The man left his horse, and ran down
into a flat, and crossed a moor towards Hurcombe
Hole. He was shortly afterwards informed of the
robbery, and he then mentioned what he had seen.

'.lolu; Smith, a labourer, heard of the robbery, and
proceeded, with two ethers, towards Hurcombe Hole,
in search of the offenders. On their road thither they
found the post-boy's horse fastened to a gate at the
entrance of a moor, and, after consulting as to the
best steps to be taken, they agreed to search the Hole.
They traced the impression of a man's foot to a- se-
cluded part of the glen, and there found in a rivulet
four bags, and also a great number of letters scat-
tered about. It was suspected that more property,
was concealed about that spot, and on the following
day they renewed their search, and were successful
in finding, artfully concealed in the dyke-bank, in
two -holes .dug out with the hands, more opened
letters, but the valuable part of their contents had '
been taken out.
Timothy Nunn, kept the Hare and Hounds, at,
Stape,which was between Hurcombe Hole and Kirby
Moot-side. The prisoner was at his house on Monday
afternoon, the 11th of March, about five o'clock, and
took some refreshment, in payment of which he ten-

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house, and collected as much of the plateiihe could Ldered a 54 note, bet
find, With which he got off, There was no doubt wards west away
but that the robbery was committed by some person Examinedby the
who was well acquainted with the premises ; and as Boner for three years, -
the prisoner had formerly been one or Mr. Toothill's Mr.-Green, in the neighbour._
flock, and had acquired a knowledge of the House, • Benjamin Carr lived at Beck-house, viesit Cropton.
About eight o'clock on the evening of. the robbery
that, with other circumstancesofiesed the prisoner
to be suspected, and these suspicions were not un- he saw the prisoner asking of two men the road to
founded, for eventually six safer tea-spoons and a Think, and said he had come across the moors from
pair of sugar-tongs were traced to his possession. Whitby and Stape. The witness joined in the con-
These facts were principally elicited from the set- versation, and the prisoner said he would give him a
vant, but Mr. Toothill himself, who is a remarkably pound note or a guinea if he would guide him across
fine, strong, and healthy old Gentleman, was era- the moors to Hambleton. He offered to pay thei
mined, and the desire he evinced to spew that he was money first, but said he . had nothing but L'.s notes,
not backward in meeting the midnight villain, occa- and that he was compelled to be at Think that night,
sioned some little merriment in the Court, and more and at York the following morning. The business
especially so on his using the expression, that " if the he was going upon the prisoner said was important,
house had been filled with devils, he. would have and he was not without plenty of money to carry
gone forth, and cast them all out." him through it. The witness represented the danger
The crime was so clearly proved agaitist the poi- of travelling such a lonely road with property so late
soner, that the Jury immediately found him Guilty. at night, upon which the prisoner answered that he
Henry Thompon and Wm. Bromley were cNarged had a-good pair of loaded pistols, and should not be
with committing a highway robbery, on the 22d of easily.taken. The witness declined going, and after
June last. directing him the road he was to take, bade him
The simple, unaffected, and feeling manner in good night, and they separated. The night was se
which Thomas Myan, the prosecutor, told the tale dark, that he was not certain that it was the prisonef
of his misfortunes excited very considerable interest with whom he had this conversation.
in the Court for the calamity that had befallen him. John Clarke was a constable. In consequence of
He was, he said, a native of Ireland, and in conse- information he received, he went to the Blucher Inn,
quence of the 'distresses in that country, he had at Hambleton, between Kirby Moorside and Thirsk,
brought over to England much the greater part of and there found the prisoner. He was betting a wager
his property--namely, eleven pigs, with the intent to with a quack doctor of £lOO to £l, that he would
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sell them at some of the country fairs. In the prose•be there that day week, and flourished about a £lOO
cution of this design he landed, the latter end of last note. In the hall of the Magistrate before whom he
May. at Liverpool, with his swinish co:npanions, was taken, a bundle of notes was found upon him,
and had made his way into the country as far as to a very large amount.
Stockpot, where, at the fair, he casually met Thomp- Mr. l'Ardoe and Mr. Lawson, both of Whitby,
son, who saw him receive some money for three of proved that they had ' sent letters to their corre-
the pigs which he sold. Dom Stockport he jon rnied spondents containing inclosures, on the Ilth of March,
which they had never received. This was the case
on to Sheffield, and there he had the good fortune
to dispose of some snore of his pigs, and was paid on the part of the prosecution.
for some of them in the presence of Thompson, who The prisoner called no witnesses in his behalf, nor
he again accidentally met. Proceeding up one of made any defence.
the sweets of Sheffield, in the evening mentioned in Mr. Justice Woon summed up the evidence, which
the indictment, Thompson accosted him, and asked he said was clear and unimpeachable ; and the Jury,
him if he did not want accommodation for himself in a few minutes, found the prisoner—Guilty.
and his cattle for the night? and said that his father During the whole of the trial he appeared to be in-
kept a house which . was always frequented by the different as to what was passing, nor did the verdict
Irishmen who attended the Sheffield fair. The pro. of the Jury seem to make the slightest impression on
hifb. Had he been acquitted of this charge, he would
secutor was much rejoiced to find that he was likely
to meet with some of his countrymen, and readily have been tried for a burglary.
accepted the proposal. The prisoner then conducted
him up several streets, and on Thompson's seeing
'Br-Ammer, he said 13rammer was his father's hostler,
and dispatched him under the pretence of preparing
the stables, but really for the purpose of getting as-
sistance to carry their scheme of plunder into effect.
The prosecutor was taken up an unfrequented lane,
%then suddenly four men surrounded him; one of
them seized him by the throat, and it was with diffi-
culty he prevented himself from being strangled.—
While these villains were beating him, Thompson
took from his pocket a linen bag containing £23, and
some silver, the whole of the-money he had. The
others escaped into the town.. As soon as he re-
covered himself, he went id roaring" into the city
and related his disasters, but his endeavours to find
the pri.ange;s were unavailing till the next day, %%hen
they were taken in a little back parlour in a public-
house, but none of the money was found upon them.
The. prisoners made no defence, and the Jury int-
•lnediately found them Guilty.
Roger Dobsots was indicted for robbing Edward
Cass on the highway, and stealing from him the
mail bags which he was conveying from Whitby
to Pickering.
Mrs. Ann Rogers, the post-mistress of Whitby, de-
posed, that four mail bags for Yoi k, London, Mal;
ten, and Pickering, were safely delivered to Edward
Cais, the post-boy, in the forenoon of Monday, the
I id) of March last. _

110W-STRZET.CRIM. CON. AND Caretvr.—Mrs. Elie. Flight,
a very comely personage, of middle age, made a lamentable com-
plaint to the Magistrate of the cruel treatment she had expe-
rienced at the hands of her husband. lie had taken some en-
accoum able joilousy into his head, deprived her of all the rights
and immunities of a wife, beat her repeatedly, and finally ex-
pelled her from his house. In this dilemma she consulted with
a Solicitor, who advised her to re-take possession of her house,
and a few mornings ago she put this advice in practice; but ft
did not answer, for throughout the whole day her husband
' amused himself with standing at the window and calling upon.
the passengers to come in and look at a strumpet ; and in the even-
ing he engaged three fellows to eject her violently from the
house. This they did do, in the grossest manner, and she was
in ronsrtmence adrifed to lay her case before the Magistrates.
The Magistrates recommended her to go once more, and en-
deavour to conciliate her spouse; and if he assaulted ber, they
would bring him before them, to 1 cause bim togive sureties for
keeping the peace towards her.
She went accordingly. In e evening she returned, saying,
she had made the attempt, and in so doing she had been violently
assaulted by her husband's sister, a Mrs. Etheridge, and there-
upon the Magistrates issued their warrant for the apprehension
of Mrs. Etheridge, who was very shortly brought hel-.re them.
She came attended by the cruel Mr. Flight, who, it seems, is
lancll:rd of the BuU's Head, in Tottenham-court-road.
The matter was now gone into at great length, and in the
course of it mine host of the Dull's I kad solemnly declared that
new evening he actually met his wife, the complainant under this
warrant, coming out of a bagnio, arm in-arm, with some buck of
a fellow ! Before that evening he never suspected her fidelity
even for a moment ; but since that time he never could like her,
and that was the reason he had put her away.
The poor man was really eloquent upon his wife's faithlessness,'
and his own misery, and satisfied the Magistrates that he had
actually commenced a orim. con. action against her seducer.—
The Lady treated the whole story with a sort of conte.-aptuous
wind:dance, and eventually the Magistrates, " under all the cir-
cumstances," dismissed the warrant, and would have no more to
do with the business.

A singular and curious disputed hackney-coach case was inves-
tigated on Thursday. Mr. Smith, of Gough-square, Fleet-strect,
was summoned by the driver of the hackney-coach No. 1,1-19,
for five hours and a half waiting at Vauxhall Gardens. Ile
stated that he drove Mr. Smith and some of his family to the
Gardens, when Mr. Smith gave him 3s. and desired him to wait,
which he accordingly did. The entertainment being a fete hi
honour of his Majesty's coronation, the Gardens were extremely
crowded with company, which brought a great number of car-
riages; they were so numerous that the public road, and the
open spaces round the Gardens,were completely blocked up, and
continued so for a consid!rable time. He admitted that he fre-
quently heard his number called, and he made every possible
exertion to answer it, and to get up to the door of the Gardens,
which, after considerable exertion, he accomplished, and directly
afterwards several persontiot into bis coach. In a short time he
discovered that it was not the party who had engaged him to
wait, and he with much difficulty got them out of his coach, for
which a Gentleman of that party summoned him for refusing to
take him as a fare, and he appeared to that summons last Tues-
day, and stated the above circumstances in his defence, which
did not avail with the Magistrate, he not producing any proof,
and the Magistrate was about to convict him in the penalty of
10s. but the Gentleman did not press his conviction. Ile also
stated that he waited for Mr. Smith till the Gardens closed.
Mr. Smith, in his defence, admitted all that the driver had
said up to the time of his paying him 31. at Vauxhall to wait;
and in answer to the charge, he said he went in the complainant's
coach in company with a friend in his own carriage, and who
procured his carriage, when he wanted to go away, with veey
little difficulty ; that the complainant ought to have kept close
with his friend's carriage; but Instead of that, he had the num-
ber of his coach called fur half an hour, or three quarters of an
hour, which was proved by his son, who in addition said he
went in all directions in search of the coach.

The coachman, in reply, said it was impossible to keep close
to Mr. Smith's triend's carriage, from the confusion which pre-
vailed, and they were obliged to obserie the course laid down
by the constables who were placed there to regulate the car-
riages. To prove t'.:at he did wait and answer the call of the
number of his coach, he called the waterman, whu satisfactorily
proved that he was not absent from his coach all the night.
Sir Iticuaas BIRNIE lamented the slifficulty of the case, but
thought the coachman had made out his charge, and ordered
him to be paid.

Alatistou-Housx.—The driver of the Blackwall stage-coach,
relative to which the examination had been held at the Justice-
room on Thursday, appeared yesterday before the Lose Mayo,.
to answer the complaint of the Gentlemen of the Ward of Corn-
bill, by whom be was charged with having violated " Mr. Tay-
lor's Act," by plying for passengers.
Mr. Baena, who appeared on the part of the Ward, stated
the very great annoyance to which they were subject from the
conduct of stag .coachmen, and called witnesses to prove that
the defendant bad plyed for passengers.
Mr. Hassles, for the defendant, called several highly re-
spectable men, some of whom were upon the coach, and others
getting upon it when the officers seized it. Those Gentlemen
stated that the coachman was driving off, when 'a Mr. Batson,
who wished to take a neat, called upon him to stop; that the'
delay which took place in consequence was net for one minute,
and that the coachmai and passengers repeatedly told the officers
the cause of the delay.
The Loan fil4voa said he was perfettly toddled that the

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..cod that - _up at Child's
bank se, Temple-bar, on the Bth instant, and drove him
to the Bank, where Mt. Powell alighted, toot the namstr of
doe Coath, and ordered that it should wait. Witnest waited fur
five boors, bet Mr. Powell did not rintu-n.
Mr. Poen:U.—My Lord, I declare to you, upon my hollow,
and I am ready to take my oath, that I did not enter a hackney
coach on the Bth.
The.coachman.--I cannot positively swear that lt was on the
Bth, but the Gentleman will remember himself. The day was
very wet. The porter knows that I waited.
Mr. Powell stuck to the first mode he had adopted of ureter_
ing the coachman, and was willing to he put upon oath as to the
day of the month. When, however, it was asked him whether
he remembered any transaction with the coachman that mizlit
have given riot to a mistake of the kind ? he shifted his ground,
and said, upon his honour, and be was ready to take his oath, ttut
be had not hired a coach for twelve months within the City u!
London; and Child's banking-house, where he said he tuck
him up, was in the City. The coachman mud, consequent; ,
be in error.
The Loa* Mavoa repeated this observation to the coachman,
d told him he must be mistaken : but the coachman rtplied,
that the Gentleman had certainly. held up his hand to him at the
Westminster side of the bar but he did not get info the coach
until withers drew up at Child's banking-house, at the City side.
So far the Gentleman was certainly correct.
The coachman added, that he had called three several tinlc%
for payment at the house of the Gentleman, who offered hie,
eighteen-pence for his day's work, and said, that upon coming
out of the Bank he looked about for the Coach everywhere, but
he could not find it.

Mr. Powell having been foiled in the two legal objections, ex_
pressed himself they ready to swear that the coach was not is
waiting on his return from the Bank; but
The Loan Mayon ordered at once that the five hours' f:,t
should be paid, together with the poor man's expenses, and rt.
muneration for his lost time.

RIAORMIGN-STREET.—A young Gentleman applied to the
Magistrate under the following circunastances I—Yesterday he
lost a cheque for X 160; its payment had been stopped; he had
traced it to an old woman, who had endeavoured to get the
money. The young Gentleman had applied to her to give it up,
but she had refused to do so without a remuneration, which he
did not seem disposed to give.—The M.igistrAte saisl c.43;aa
give him no relief; his only remedy was by civil process.
A4.rander Brown was charged by Edward Furneaux with
r.!•-
king him. The prosecutor had lett his smaU ektftes in a drawer
in the kitchen, when the prisoner had contrisk.l to empty !lis
pockets of seven sovereigns and some silver. The fats
case being fully proved, the prisoner was cr =flitted.
Three foreign minstrels neither of whom could speak rnclii!!,
were charged with being found begging in the streets. 1,1,02
searching their persons, thirty-four shillings and some halfp,:.ze,
in an old leather bag, were found on them. They were
mitted under the Vagrant Act. •
Thursday night, Mr.'l'evsTALL, of Doctors' Com•
mons, was hustled in Thameststreet, by two fello.,s.
one of whom met him with a rush in the breast, the
other jostled him against the wall ; he knocked ,!:7e
man (!own, and then hurried off', thinking hirsc:i
pretty lucky; but on reaching a friend's belle, net
five minutes walk from the spot, lie discovered thi:t
he had lest his watch, worth at leas! guit:Cll.

NE G ATE AND LEADENH A LI. MA ETS, J.'tv :5.
(By the Carcase.)
Beef OU to t2i 6,1 I Veal
Mutton.. 0.1 to t!s Sd Perk .........=s 4,1 :o Z 3
Lamb Zs 0.4 to 46 4d.

YR ICES OF II.IY AND ST RA W ESTER DA Y.
ST. JAMES'S. SA lIITECIIA
Hay 51 Os 04 to 41 45 cid I Hay... 31 Ss to 41 C 4
Straw 11 75 Od to el 55 04 I Straw 11 Ss to 21 94 0.1
Clover 31 55 Od to 41 Ss 04 Clover 31 les to 41 155;4

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