Star.
London, England, 1805-06-25 00:00:00

CONJUGAL INFELICITY.

An intivent debtor, of the name of Dodfon, was.
brought up to .be dTcharged under the Infoivent
Debtors Ad, when his difeharge was oppofed 1, dip
earn wife, who prefented an affidavit. eating, that the
have been a widow, and poffelfed in money and houfes
or property to the amount of mod. when the mat-.
Tied the Defendant, who then kept a public honfe in
Thames-lireet, who had alto tome property in houfes
which he fettled upon her in the event of her fur-
viving him. That loon after the marriage he treated
her fo cruelly that (be was obliged to apply to the
Eccleliallical Court for relief, by which a feparate
maintenance was ordered to her, which he refuting
to pay, the coifed him to he art-cited on . a writ de
txestaintaitelo capiendo, on which he went to prifon ; a
commiffion of bankrupt has fince been awarded
againit him. That he has a honfe within the rules
of the King's Bench pi itOn, where he carries on the
trade of a carver And gilder. Tl,at the had con•
dueled herfeif toward; him, as well as towards her
former hotbox!, with cholity ; but that the Defen-
dant had become conflated with other women, by
whom he had children, Btc.
Mr. Janke Ls &am c difapproved of the 11. tensest
of hi Anuch irrelevant matter in thi, affidavit ;lath

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as the ehaflity of the parties, ate. '.The fingle (ref-
lion was, whether the Defentlant was eatit cd o his
difchar- ?

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When a proclamation inti made by the Offirer of
the Court, to thew catafe•Why he ihould not b!
charged," his wife came forward and gave hint three
Allig: and fixprnee, together with a proraiffory note
for the payment of that fum to him on - Monday in
every week, to keep him in euflody.
N. B. This incident, it •was obferittd, wxs not
kom the Comedy of "The Way to Keep Him."
• • .- • • :e Carierem. tsroassaTtoa,
GArtlaW moved for leave to filea criminal
information ageing% Mr. Mitchel, an attorney, Mr.
Stiles, Mr. Walker; and a Mr. Sinitts ; Mt. Mit-
chel for compofing, Mr. Styles for copying, and Mr.
Walker and Mr, Smith, for tinging or ell:stinting, in
a public inn at Brighthelmilone, a fly, written for
the purpok of ridiculing the profecut4r, who is a
coal merchant at Brighthelmfinne, and who had en-
tered three caufes for trial. at the lift ailise, for Suf-
fer,
but had found himfelf under the neciarty of
withdrawing his records. The hymn was a mock.
lamentation that the profecutor had been mrfuccer-
ful in Court. The witneffes were reprefeated as
Saints tinging the hymn—
" Weep, the Hoge of lirtel, weep,
• • Weep, and ramble in ma. sialfrd.
• • Cry and lenient throopetouritie deep,
" Satan Wales hie fainted ixiAaa.-
Midi this fpecies of publication was fuppreffed,
there would be no chance for the Defendant's ob-
taining
a fair trial in his own neighbourhood, and
this fpecies of libel was highly injurious to fociety,
being a mockery on the grave Adminiaration of Jac- I
tics.—Rnie to Thew caufe granted.

MONDAY, lona 24.
H•RCOURT,AIIOFSICER rM TH[MAtT-L.A-10WW17OLuw.
TERRI T. BAGG, ORR Cr TN& ra.Svarti --mut SAME
CORPS, FOR DEFAMATION. •
It appeared that the company went oast
one morning toffee for a (Byer cop, hut the weather
proving extremely bad, they retiredt.l a tavern, and
inßead of firing at a target.idifcharged fo many well.
direfted collies of grape acrofs the table at each t Sher,
that a numbet of dead ma were in a w hours
(hewed on the floor. The goddefs i f .Dfcord. how-
titer, at length put an end to the orgies of Berrhrer,
and the torch of -civil warfare was lighted, no.--
The Defendant Paid the Pla:ntiff could well afford
to treat his friends with fumptuous dinners when
he had robbed the corps, when in the flotation of
Treafurer, of poi. I he added, that he was a fwind.
ler, and many other ungentlemanly phi ales, of no
credit to the party uttering them, or to him of whom.
they Were fpoken. The next day, when the Defen-
dant had dept off his intoxic.atiou, he was told of
what had pallid, and expelled his total ignorance of
the whale affair : he alto offered an apollty for his
own intemperance. This, however, was not accept.
ed, and the ptefent anion was brotight. The Jury,
believing the Defendant to have uttered the words
in the abfence of all malice, gave the Plaintiff One
Shilling damages.
ALDER n. Bearisuer.-.-Mr. Calumet Rated this
attion to be for boots and (hoes made and mended
by the Plaintiff for, the Defendant. The Plaintiff
was a boot and (hoe Maker. The Defendant was
Clown at the Royal Circa,, and was, betides, as
he underßood, a profeffor of the Pugilinic Art.
—The amount of the Plaintiff's bill was fol.
ss. ed. one of the items of which %erg for foie.
ing, heeling, welting, countering. eallalhing and
topping a pair of the Defendant's favourite booty,
for which the charge was 11. rot. and he under.
flood it to be a realonable charge, confidering how
much was done in theft. varions operations. It was'
indeed true, there was but little to be feen -of the pa..
rent flock, that was of the original boot; but what
then the Defendant fancied the old hoot was about
him, notwithilanding it was thus regenerated. it
would hereafter be difficult to afcertain •how long
this article of drefs had been in the family. And
this reminded him of a circumnance relative to his
Learned Frieod Mr. •Erfleice, who had an oddity
about Win, not, perhaps, eafily accounted for, eh.
eept, indeed, on the (core of frlendlhip and affec-
tion, in which he was remarkably Ready. " Abbye
25 years ago, (laid Mr. Garrow), my learned Friend
had a bag given to him by his late much honoured.
friend, Mr. John Lee, which, in the courfc of that
time, as you might well imagine, from the qoantity
of briefs it has held for my learned Friend, mul
have been worn out ; but he has from term to tell
and from year to year, patched up the boles in it,
faying.always that he never will have another bag.
This has fo changed the thing, that fcarcely any of
the original bag is to be teen; as you • may obferve
(holding up Mr. Entine, bag to prove the truth of
his obfervation)' ii being indeed the determination
of that learned Gentleman, as be has ezpreffed, ne-
ver to give up the veltige of that prefent of his de.
parted triend,-111r. Lee. Jun fo it was.with regard
to thefe boots, they were, in the language of the
trade, totally regenerated,' that is, made over again
on the cad ttock. There were betides, tome new
bOots, three pairs of Heflians, a pair of dress, pumps,
tome !hoes. &c. to the amount of rot. ss. 6d.
Upon the evidence it appeared that the Plaintiff
had charged his Haan boots in this bill al. 6s. a
pair, whereas his own Foreman proved his coulter:l
charge for that article was only A. 45.
The SOLICITOR Gaseaaa., on the part of the De.
' fendant, obferved, that he had nu defire to withhold
from the Plaintiff what was due to him, but he bad
to complain ofbarfh treatment in this cafe. The only
notice he had of the Plaintiff's demand was an are.
He was a public pet former, and arrefling him was
one way of procuring payment, sheltie' the demand •
was realunable or not, becaufe his engagements will
the public compelled-him, at the rifle of his lot; of
bread, to appear before them. He thought that ar•
rening filch perfons jug as the demand upon ti.ent
was mi. without notice, was an illiberal proceeding.
But for this, the Defendant would have made no re.
finance to this claim, but now it became ioterelling
to him to fubinit to the July that the 13..•iiiiiff 's de.
mand was not fairly more than 91. 19s. 6d. in which
• event it would be eliablithed that he t ught not to hays
been arrefled.
• Mr. Gait,tow obferved, that the Defendant could
' not have (offered from the erten n ..c..ount of inter.
ruption to hie public performat.ce, the ,r,til being
t in Febroaty,and the Circus did Luc open until _Noir
w-Vetdift for the Plaintiff, damages Id. os. 641.

TO THE COMMISSIOKERS Cr MIIITANT

ets•rtgarcv, jam re, :kg.
Ac a time when, to the immortal honour of the
Boole of Commons, it is pinfeeuting enquiries into
the expenditure of the public money, detecting de•
imquents, and expofing their malverfations, it be-
comes the duty of every man of honour to give fich
information in his power to the Reprefentatives of
the Nation, as may tend to aid them, as well as you,
it, the purfuit of this highly laudable and honomable
slctign.
In the Barrack Department, I perceive, it is inten-
ded to Innicute an enquiry, and this leads me to re-
mark on a grievance that affects a large and ufeful
body of men, I meats the Officers of the Army in
general, but particularly the fubalterns.
The grievance I complain of is the withholding
from them for fo many months, when in quarters,
the paltry (urn allowed them for!odgings,whith they
are compelled thensfelvea to pay weekly, in many
cafes double and treble the allowance by Govern-
ment, for they fcarcely in any cafe get lodgings fo
low as that allowance.
I could name a regiment which has, for the lafl
(even months, not received one Ihilling of lodging-
money, nor can they get it, though it is pretty cer-
tain that Government has ailed Come of it long finee,
the poor fubaltern officer is cdmpelled to ad-
vance it fur fo many months out of his fcanty pit-
tance of pay, already molded and reduced.by the
property tax.
I am eonfcious our worthy Commander in Chief
knows nothing of it, or he would, tta coned
fuch a flagrant abufe. Surely Government could be
at no lots to pay the army, when in quaff tars, their
lodging-money OISCC a month, and not expofe officers
to the inconvenience of lacing fuch a length of time
in advance for it, or for whoever it alma the money
to. I troll, Gentlemen, this hint may meet your
eye, or that of fome friend to the Army in Parlia-
ment, as it is not the regiment above alluded to
alone that complains, it is the whole Army.
AN OLD 0/FICIR.

On Saturday fe'rutight, a woman walked through
part of North Shields An the fettered remains of a
foldier's old watch-coat, which was without Reeves,
flit up the back alined to the (boulders, and did not
relch_halfway to her knees—except which the was
entirely in a Rate of nature. This miferable young
woman had followed a foldiet nearly to Morpeth,
where he (tripped her, when the wax obliged to re
Iran in the'abor e grotelque guile. She Paid the be-
longed to South Shields. The humanity of thine
charitable perfons rendered her more decent before
the left that place.
On friday afternoon a young womin of genteel
appearanee, went to the (hop of a cheefemonger in
Bahopfgate.ttrect, and purehafed a quantity of eheefe
and butter to the amount of rye. 6d. for which the
tendered a 51. Bank note ; the received the differ-
ence, and left the (hop, laying the would fend her
fervant for the articles in the error& of an hour.—
Soon after the was gone the note was difcovered to
be a forged one. No perfon came for the goods, and
there is no clue to trace out the woman,
A woman has been in the habit of going aboirt for
tome days paR, and ttepping into houfes, from which
the furniture has been removed at the approach of
quarter-day ; and under pretence of being employed
to lake Come articles, the (teals as many things as the
can lay her hands on.
Saturday as Mrs. Basin, of Mary-la-bonne•Rxeer,
was going in her chair to vifit a lady in Hanover.
(gum, one of the chairmen flipped off the curb in
Oxford-ftreet, and broke his kg. The violence of
his fall broke the vehicle, and the lady within re-
ceived a violent (bock.
A few days ago, an enraged bull gored two firm
team-bodes to death on the turnpike road, near Ro-
thin, and very nearly °Wet the load of coals which
they were drawing before he could be mattered. It
h fuppofed he attacked the holies, in confequence of
being foiled by the boy driving die team (whom he
ran at) running under the belly of the leading bode.
At the Rotation Office in Leeds, a few days ago,
a Gentleman was fined ss. and coif, for being drunk!
A man named Cooke, of Skeyton, Norfolk, has
been committed to Norwich gaol, for marrying three
wives I
Saturday at Marlborough ttreet, Martha Luke was
charged by Mrs. Woodford, of New Boltowitreet,
with decoying away her daughter, fix years old.—
The prifoner was ken to converfe with the child at
the mother's door ; and after the had held forth a
promife of fruit, &c. was detefted in the aft of car-
rying her off. On being examined at the Office, her
perfon was identified, as having recently (tripped
five children in one day, two of which the left in a
haycock in Harper's Fields, without a garment to
cover their nakednefs. Four charges were fublian-
tiated again( her, and the was fully committed for
trial.
PUBLIC OFFICT, Bow- sTRIET.—In confequence of
a number of houfes being broken open in the county
of Kent, for fome time part, without any detection
•••-- or trace of the robbers, Mr. HARRINGTON, a Magif-
trate for the county of Kent, applied to Sir Ric fIARD
Foto, for the affißance of officers from the above
office. The robberies having been committed with-
in four miles of Blackheath and Lewitham, Melfrs.
Adkins, Limberick, Jones, and Hopgood, the officers,
were Rationed on the roads leading to thole places,
day and night occafionally, above a month paß.
During the time they were on the watch, no robberies
were committed, and no fufpicious charafters were
apprehended—till, on fiatureay morning, about three
o'clock, they met in the town of Lewitham, Leonard
White and Edward Elkton, two well known cha.
rafters. On inquiry, it was found that the houfe of
Mr. Papillon, at Leigh, a thort diflance from where
they apprehended the prifoners, had been broke open
about two hours previous to their apprehenfion. Yef-
terday they underwent an examination before Sir R.
/Porto, when Leonard White was recognized so be a
very old houfe breaker by the officers in general.—
They were committed for further examination on
rfd ay. It appeared that twenty houfes have been
-broke open within thee ten weeks paR, within four
ssriles of Lewitham and Blackheath, and plate to the
,unionnt of two thoutaAd pounds has been ftolen,
Macs other property.