Star.
London, England, 1807-10-14 00:00:00

qyARTER SFSSIONS.

Ocrortrie to.—At the General (carter
&thong of the Peace for this town and county, held
at the Guildhall yellerday, the following prifoners
were found guilty, and fentenced as under, viz.
Elizabeth Valentine, for Realing 26 yards of cot.
ton lace, from the !hop of Mr. William Butter, to be
confined in gaol two months. William Hart, coal•
man, fur (leafing ;4 quantity of wearing apparel from
his lodgings, to be held to hard labour in gaol for
three months. Benjamin Hall and Francis Abel, for
(leafing a quantity of wearing apparel from their
lodgings, to be held t hard labour fix !ninths each
—and Elizabeth Serjeanr, for robbing her lodgings
of a quantity of bed linen, to be held to hard labour
in the Houfe of Corredion for four months.
At the above Seffions feversl butchers and fifh
mongers, who had been hawking meat about the
town, were fined in different penalties, for fuffering
their carts to Rand in the Ilreets.

SOUTH A IN P TON, OCTIAI ER to.-,-.Friday the Qarter
Sellions was held at the Guildhall (the Recorder pre.
lent) ; when the f,ldier for robbing a woman at
Blandford, was tried and convitied. He belongs to
the ad, or queen's Regiment of Foot—tranfported
for leven years.

Commiflioner Otway's groom, for afraulting the
butler, was ordered to be confined for fix months,
and to be bound to keep the peace.
Toefday fe'unight the New Se(lions 1-I,,ufe for the
Eafl-riding cf the County of Ycrk, built at a little
ditlance north of Beverley, was opened, and the
General (Iliarter Seffions of the Peace held therein,
for the fira time, when the Rev. Fiwicts LUNDY,
the Chairman, addreffed the Court in an appropriate
fpeech, after which the following prifoners were found
guilty, and fentcnced as under, vit. William Bates
and John Penticott, two privates in the Suffcx
for healing fix table cloth!, three linen fbeets, and
two damalk napkins, the proprity of Daniel Syke,,
Elq. of Rnywell, to be confined in the Cagle of Ynrk
for fix months; and Samuel Frankland, late rf Sher-
bnin, in the dell riding, f r healing one pair of
wortled flocking•, the•rroperty (tf William Swales,
to be confined in the hunk of correakn at Beverley,
for one month.

OCTrI3FP, to.—On Monday laft the
Michaelmas (2222tter Se(lions fur this city were holden
before the Recorder, the Mayor, and other Magif-
tratec, when James King was indiecd for burgla-
rionfly breaking the dwelling houfe of I'. F. Brick-
nell, Efq. in St. Giles's, and (leafing thereont fix
geefe, his property, and beir.g found guilty of the
larceny, was fentenced to be tranfpnrted for fevers
years. Abraham Darby and William Holloway,
indieed for receiving the geefe, knowing them to
have been Men, was acquitted; and Elizabeth
Griffin, convicted of (leading a quantity of white
thread lace, the property of Mr. Thomas Newman,
mercer, was ordered to be imptifoned in the City
Gaol for two calendar months. At thefe Seffions
alfe, Solomon Blcay was found guilty of affaulting
Captain Greed, in the execution of his duty, as Ad-
jutant of the Oxford Loyal Volunteers, and was ad-
judged to be confined one month in the City Gaol,
and to find fureties to keep the peace ; and John
Hitchcock was tried for affaulting a conflable who
was conveying Bleay to priton under a Magiftrate's
warrant, and attempting to relcue Bleay out of his
cullody, but the fpecialpart of the charge failing,
from a verhal incorreilnefs in the warrant of cons-
' mitment, John Hitchcock was convieed of a common
affault only, and fentenced to pay a fine of so pounds.
On the following day the County Seffions were
holdun before CHRISTOTHER WILLOUGHBY, Bart.
and a numerous Bench of Justice:, when Mary
Buil/ was convteed of Healing four pair of cotton
Itockings, and other articles, the property of John
Kerby, and fentenced to be imprifoned en the Cattle
Gaol for three months. And Henry Arnott, Ro-
bert Batten, John Hamp, and Francis Bullock, were
convieed of a riot and atrault on Benjamin Lambert,
a French prifoner of war, at Thame, and fentenced
to be imprifoned in the Cattle Gaol for fix weeks, and
to find fureties to keep the peace for two years.

REaninc, Ocrontn r 2. -At the Q.‘tarter &irons
for Berkfbire, held at Abingdvn, an Tnerday, Richard I
Seymour for having affaulted Mary brown, of Yat•
tendon, with intent to commit a rape, was fenteneed
to twelve months imprifonment to hard labour ; the
fit ft and latt week in a folitary cell ; Jnfeph Rnndy,
for (leafing a goofe, the property of Elizabeth Wing
field, of Sunninghill, were ordered to be imprifoned
fix months ; the fill} week in a folitary cell, and
publicly whipped in our market at their difcharge.
There was no bufinefs of importance at our Bn•
rough Seffions yefterday. JOHN GLEED, Erq. the
Recorder, took the chair, for the firft time fince his
appointment to that office.
DUBLIN, OCTOBER B.—Tuefday, the Kilmainham
(ZEarter Seffions opened before the Chairman and a
tetpeltable Bench.
John M'Grcady was indifted for the attempt of a
rape on a young girl fome time back on the Strand
between Mcrrion and Booterfiown; he was acquitted,
the indiltment being laid in the County, initead of
the City : but hills are, we hear, before the City
Grand Jury to the fame effect.
Several perfons were brought up, who have been
confined for debt in Kilmainham Gar 1, to be liberated
under the Infclvent Alt, fame of whom %tie reman-
-1 ded to prifcn.

CORONER'S Itto,TEsr.—Frid ty lull A Coroner's In-
lentil was held at the Greyhound Public houfe, in
Greenwich, on the body of a drummer belonging to
the Tower Harillets Militia, who expired fuddenly
the preceding evening, on Blackheath. It appeared
from the inreflieation of the circtimftances of his
death, that an r fficer belonging to the above regi•
ment, being about to retire from the fervice, was
pleafed to give a treat to fume of the privates and
the drummers belonging to his company ; for that
purpofe, he invited them to the Greyhound public
houfe, in Greenwich, where the men, as well as
iiimfLF, drank pretty freely. When late in the even
ing, Ile, the officer, was about to depart, a few of
the men offered to fee him home acrofs Blackheath,
which offer he accepted, and they all let out together.
Being art ived at his hook, the r.flicer gave the men
a bottle of gn to drink as they returned back again
to Greenwich. On their way home, the men agreed
to take a drop of the gin by turns, ;too }rding to fe•
; from the bottle having all drank, it came
to the turn of the deceafed, who applied himfelf fa
ghittonottfly to the bartle, that in a few minutes he
told his companions he was very ill, and could not
(land, and immediately fat down on the ground.—
His companions endeavoured to perfuade him to
rife, and to go home and go to bed, but he told them
he could not. Upon this, his companions went in
different directions to leek for medical affillance for
'tim, and on their return with the watchman of the
Heath, they found the deceafed lifelefs. He was im:
mediately conveyed to the iteareffilonfe, where every
medical aid was afforded him, hut which unfortu-
nately was of no avail, the vital (park tieing com•
pletely extinguifhed by the deleterious potion he had
imbibed. The jury immediately returned a verdiel
of—Died by Exceflive Drinking.