Star.
London, England, 1815-09-12 00:00:00

tient, that the Committee of the Patriotic Fund have
afforded an exemplary precedent to the Waterloo As-
sociation. Without their grant of Forty Thousand
Pounds, the Naval Asylum at Greenwich would
•never have become what it is—a national ornament
and benefit.

On the receipt in Edinburgh of the intelligence of
the battle of Waterloo, an old woman was passing a
crowd assembled to read one bf the Bulletins put up
by the Magistrates, on which she asked-4, What's
that ye're a' looking at there, folk ?"—She was told
it was an account of a great victory gained over Bo-
IMPARTS. She then asked when that happened ? and
being told, on Sunday, she exclaimed—" Sunday !
say ye?—the blackguard! he neer minded Sunday,
but in trouth, he'll no forget it now!"
A covered cart was stopped last Thursday evening
near the Elephant and Castle, Newington, by two
Custom house Officers, who insisted on its being
opened. The driver insisted it should not. This en-
raged the officers, who forced open the tail of the
cart, when out leaped a large die-bear, which, seizing
one of the officers, hugged him so close, that had not
the driver interfered, he must have been squeezed to
death, It afforded fine sport to a vast crowd who
were on the road. The bear was on its way from
Bartholomew Fair.

Yesterday the London Sessions commenced at
Guildhall. The principal trials that came before the
Court were those of five persons indicted by the
Parish Officers of Bishopsgate, for keeping disorderly
houses in that parish. They were severally convict- '
ed, and seritenced.to six months imprisonment.
At the Middlesex Sessions yesterday an indictment
was preferred against the Parish of Hampstead for
not keeping in repair the road from that place to
Hendon. It was contended that the Conamissione-s
of the Roads, and not the Parish, were the parties
liable to indictment. The CHAIRMAN, however, held
that whatever private agreement might have beet)
made between the Palish of Hampstead and the
Hampstead Trost, yet the Parish was undoubtedly
liable. Jams Bache:, a hackney man, was indicted for
rassaulting Sarah Pinfold on the l6di of June last. It
appeared.fmen the statement of the prosecutrix, that
she had for wan time lived with the defendant as
his wife $ his cruelty, however, had often induced
her to express a wish to leave him, but he always re.
toed to let her go, auJ kept back her clothes from
her. On the day mentioned in the indictment she
had been out cussome business for the defendant, and
was absent rather longer than he thought she ought to
have been, and on tier return he first beat her with a
pitchfork, then threw her down and stamped upon
her, stuffed her mouth full of corn, and threw her out
of the window of a hay loft z fortunately she fell on
a dunghill, otherwise she must have been killed.—
The Jury found the defendant guilty, and the Court
sentenced him to one month's imprisonment.
BARBAROUS MLIRDER.....—AS Mr. BASSET, of Linton,
Somersetshire, was sitting with his family of four
children, en Friday night, four fellows entered, and
beat them so dreadfully that Mr. BASSET was left
dead ; and his eldest daughter, sixteen years of age,
is not expected to recover. They stole £9O in notes.
Putacv—The sloop Scotia, WBRALEBY, was about
a mouth ago on a voyage to Oban, in the West High-
lands, with a cargo of oatmeal, and being taken in
a calm, came to anchor in the Sound of Mull; in a
little time two boats came from the land: with nine
stout fellows, none of whom could, by appearance,
talk English ; they took possession of the sloop, went
into the cabin, demanded the mess' clothes, and
broke open the drawers and took all their shirts ; they
tlso took their shoes and hats; they then went into
the forecastle, and took out a sail and a coil of rope,
and also demanded four new oars which were lying
upon the deck ; even the pot with the beef for dinner,
did not escape these marauders. They examined the
cargo, but left it untouched. After.many threats to
destroy the men, and after robbing one of them of 3s.
they left the sloop and made fcr the land. The crew
consider themselves fortunate in having escaped with
their lives, as the pirates were all armed with knives.
Ferias—Yeeierday morning., between six and seven
o'clock, the neighbourhood of Flea.sireet was thrown
into considerable alarm by the breaking out of a fire'
•in one of the cellars of Mr. Ltaen, the wine-mer-
chant, next door to the Globe Tavern. The fire,
however, we are happy to stare, did not extend be-
yond
the cellar in which it commenced, and by the
exertions of several of. the inhabitants, and the prompt
arrival of some engines, the whole was subdued by
eight o'clock.
Friday se'nnight a most alartnint.,,, fire broke out'
in the centre of Somersham, in Huntingdonshire,'
which at one time threatened the destruction of the
whole town. Every exertion was used to stop the
&ogress of the flames, but all would have been of
no avail, had not the wind providentially changed at
that time. Twenty-four houses, many barns full of
corn, with several stacks of hay and corn, were at
one time all in flames, which are now reduced to an
heap of ashes. Property to the amount of MUM
and upwards has been entirely consumed. Few saved
at! y thing of what they once possessed, and some no-
, thing but the clothes they bad on.

We are informed that Dr. Cooren, and three emi-
nent Surgeons, of 30 years experience in Strictures,
Fistulas, Debilities, &c. &c. have established a Medi-
cal Board at Charlotte-house, Great Charlotte-street,
opposite ROWLAND HILL'S Chapel, Blackfiiar's•road,
where the public are relieved from the most dangerous
diseases without salivation sr confinement. The In-
stitution claims the attention of those who may have
attempted the cure of themselves, or who have been
so unfortunate as to consult men ignorant of so un-
portant a branch of the profession, whose improper
treatment have mercurialized thousands out of their

existeace•-.erttptions on the head, face, and body, sore
eyes, throat,mouth, and nose, vertigo, noise in the ears,
deafness, dimness of sight, often ending in blind-
ness ; pains in the head and limbs, frequently.mis-
taken for rheumatism ;extreme weakness in the knees,
swelled ankles, with a general debility, &c. are only a
few of the dreadful symptoms which frequentlyappear
years after, and too often embittei the matrimonial
state. Messrs. COOPSR and Co. are consulted daily by
all ranks of people, from ten till eight, or by letter, in-
closing a fee (for no others are answered), stating
their case, when medicine and the best advice is sent
to all parts of the kingdom. They also cure the
piles and fistula, without burnin4 or cutting, and
give advice gratis, on Tuesday, '1 hursday, and Suu
day inoriiinv, till twelve o'clock.