Star.
London, England, 1814-11-28 00:00:00

LAW IiViELLItiANC.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, NOVEMBER 25.
THE KING V. TIIONIAS BEDF,IRD
Mr. Scrjeant Less prayed judgment against this
defendant, who was convicted at toe last Lens. As,
sizes for the county of Devon, before Mr. Justice
Dampier, of perjury, in an answer in Chancery, to a
bid tiled against him by the Directors of the Hopi
Insurance Company, for a discovery of particulars of
certain insurances effected by the defendant, upon
which he had received £9.000 or sl3ooo, for losses by
fire. It appeared that the defendant, having effected
an insurance with that Office upon the stock. &c. of
his paper•mill, applied to the Company' by letter on
the lath of October, 1809, to effect a second insur-
ance upon a building called a linney, in a field, de-
scribing it as shuttered and thatched, and entered by
the exciseman as a drying linney. The defendant's
premises tieing partly consumed by fire, but the above
de•cribed building not being touched by that fir., the
defendant received 4750, the insurance money upon
another building which was not in a field, tint part of
his mill, and not thatched but slated, and this the de-
fentlant swt re in his answer was the building insured.
He had also received losses upon certain cottages,
which were not those he had insured. He put in an
affidavit, vhich stated that he had lost 470t)0 by the
flue, which had consumed his paper manufactory and
stock, and only insured to the amount of W3OOO :
that the cottages were considered Fart of his manu-
factory, but being resided in, he had insured them as
" cottages :" that he had sv mall without knowing the
exact precision required : that he had been ruined
and a bankrupt by the fire : and though he had ob
tained his certificate, had no means of supporting
himself and four infant children : that the Company
had published pamphlets which tended to inflame the
public mind, aid had prtjudiced his fellow citizens'
(of Exeter) against him : that he had aheady been
in poison five
months on this ind:euneur.
Mr. GIFFORD, in supeort of the prosecution, said,
that that was because he had-secreted himself so that
he could not be apprehended in time to he brought
up for judgment in l'rinity Term last. The Court
adjudged him to be imprisoned tw•o years more in the
common gaol for the county uf Devon.
NOVEMBER 26.--.-THE KING V. KAWLINSON.
The cross judgment of the Court was moved for
against the defendant and others, convicted as the
proprietors of •the Greenwich stage-coaches, for suf-
fering their coaches to obstruct the highway, by
plying before the houses of Messrs. Drummond, Bid-
dulph, Cox, and other houses, at Charing Cros,. The
-parties expressed their readiness to do whatever the
Court should require of them ; and the judgment of
the Court was deterred till next Term, to afford them
an opportunity of abating the nuisance.

Bow-sTnErr.—SatUrday a woman was brcught to
the Office, charged with felony. She has beer thir-
teen times before in custody for various ofE:ricei, and
been Once cast for death.—Mr. HANDURY, Surgeon
of Tuthill-fields Bridewell, reported that Boedion, who
was shut in attempting to break into the shop of a
linen-Jraper, in Piccadilly, was so Tar recovered as
to beat being removed in order to take his trial.
HATTON-GARDEN.--On Saturday, a stout anletic
fame, of the name of Edward Keys kdwards, and
Henry Watts, ali is' Alards, who stated that he was
an uncertiticated bankrupt, were brought up in
the custody of Brown, Cook, and Ti.issletori,
Charged on suspicion of halting committed a burglary
in the house of Thomas Smith, of Bowling street,
Turnmill-street, or C9w-crc.iss, yesterday se'nnight,
during the tempor.,,, absence of Smith, and his
wife. tAn account of this burglary appeared in our
Paper of Saturday.] The prisoners were both corn.
.mitred for a second examination.

Friday evening, about hal!..past five o'clock, as Mr.
Downes c f the City-road, Islington, was ir veiling
on foot from Greenwich to Woolwich, by the low. r
road, after he had left Greenwich about a roieland a
half, he met two corn, armed with aidgeons, having
the aKearance of drivers; one of them seized him
by the throat, tripped him up, and at the same time
gave him a violent blow with his bludgeon, which
made him insensible for a short time. They fobbed
him of his pocket.book, containing Bank-notes to the
amount of fl 3, his gold watch, chain and seals. On
leaving him they swore if he attempted to follow them
they would morder him.
A genteel dressed man endeavoured to pass Judd,
one of the cbcck-fakers'at the Pit of Drury-laneTifia-
tie, at ten o'clock on Saturday night,•but not having
been in before, the man did his duty, and stopped
him. The strangrr unbuttoned his coat, drew a
loaded pistol from his pocket, and was in the act of
presenting it, when Baker, a constable, belonging to
the Inspector's Office, snatched it from his hand, and
the offender was safely secured in St. 11/41.:rtio's watch-
house,

J. J. Chisholm, late Captain's Clttk of the As-
TREA and Ltox, accus.A of various forgeries on
the wavy, at Plymouth, %as on Wedne,day last
fully committed to Exeter gaol, on seotral in-
dictments, by J. WILLIAMS, Eig. of Plymouth Dock.
All the goods which he had received at Plymouth

D )cic, in part of payment of the saidbillq, were found
et his lodgings at Shrewsbury, brought to Plymouth
Dock by Vii.kery, and sworn to. He is a fine young
man, '2i years of age, respectably connected, and u as
much esteemed in the navy.
We are concerned to state, that on Tuesday, the
15th of November instant, between the hours of twelve
and one in the night, a mu t atrocious and violent
assault was committed on the hinse and premises of
Geotioz Davrzs, Esq. at Scarborough. The win-
dows and blinds were broken, and the furniture in
tie room damaged, by large stones, which were
thrown into it. The gai d'n-rails were also broken
down, the trees and shrubs destreye.f, aid every in-
jury which the most determined malignity could sug-
gest was perpetrated. We understand that Mr. DA-
VIES has offered a reward of fifty guineas for the ap-
prehension of the villains by whom the same was
committed, and we sincerely hope that they will very
shortly be convicted, of so gross an outrage of civi-
lized society.
CAUTION TO Paartirs.---Thursdly se'nnight, two
children of Mr. Chicken, at South street, Boughton-
under-blean, Kent, were burnt to death from their
cinches catching fire inlh-e temporary absence of their
mother I arid on Thtifsday last the son of H. Hart,
labouiLe, of Fclkestone, aged about three years,
shared a likemelanitholy fate from a similar cause.

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