Star.
London, England, 1825-12-21 00:00:00

NARLBOtLOUGH•STRBBT.

Famine—Yesterday Wm. a Payne, a middle-aged man, of Very
distres
sed
er: of thePPear Allicebiaiwiyuna,scdrheargfalseed with obtaining hG trout Mr.
representations. It a.,ips,,c,,i
that the prisoner called on Mr. Mortimer, on Thursday eveniil la,!,
said he was the son of a freeholder living at Breather, Sussex, will
whom Mr. Mortimer was very intonate, and that be was ll:Jch di—
tressed, and in want of money. He told a very pitiful bb,ry ,ii 1,,,
having been obliged to pay the expenses of his brother'. :41'1,r14;
and to meet other demands he had sold his cow ; the p,rsos, t„ wy,ea
be had sold it had promised to send the money to him to Erik,;;,
but when he arrived, he found that the person bad unle,:ted rjr,:li
his promise. Hr gave such a full description a Humber,that .11r.
Mortimer believed his story, and lent him six pounds, the p;i,,,,,
promising to return it by the next post. Upon inquiry A ar,.,,btr.
it was discovered that the prisoner was an impostor, aailLbistw:
of intelligence was communicaed by the very time ptliiii, 0,,,
the prisoner had said, would at any time lend mint .650. The u:k,t
who apprehended him, found hint in a garret, with A Par.le .44
a Court Guide, which composed his library; and he was in theta
of writing a letter to some person, whom hc sty:, d,• He Se;
and said, " as Mr. lillis, M.P. was out of town, be bad taken tie
liberty of troubling him;' Ste.. There were, in tact, all was si
materials for carrying on drceptions of th.s kind. The prisoner node
no defence, except that he practised his impositions through slistzesi,
and he was remanded for a further exammation.
1 MARY. LA-BONNE.

Yesterday, Mr. Mathews, a highly respectably mercer, of Orrot4.
street, was charged with obstructing an Annoyance Jury.
It appeared, front the statement of several of the Jurors, that,
during their perambulation, they entered the defendant's shop, zal
found he had no standard yard measure, but only had a certain
distance nailed off on the counter, which was not only improper.
but against the Statute, which required every person to have a
standard stamped measure. Upon their remonstratinz, hr very
unceremoniously proceeded to turn them into the meet, fo: sL,.h
they now sought redress.
Mr. Mathews defied them to prove he traded unriirli ; his yard
measure was as fair as any man's in England, althoL„,h, pet haps
not stamped. He protested against the interference of a few no.
pertinent and prying persons, vested with a •' little brief authority,"
who always acted partially.
Mr. G airrirms said he had acted illegally, and held hlnt in sarriei
to appear at the Sessions. • .

WORSHIP-STREET.

Perkiou, alias Welsh, and Pder eltkiluen,charged with defratiJin:
various silk manufacturers of property to an amount exceeding
£5,000, under the assumed firm of Alexander Wail and Cu. oi
76, Queen-street Cheapside, were re-examined.
Mr. Auxr,and Mr. Miller, Secretary to the Satiety fur the
Suppression of Swindling, appeared fur the prosecution. Nir.
/3aosimea and Mr. Price or the prisoners. In addition lo the fa -
raer charges, the eases of ilr. Oliver, a silk manufacturer, and M.
Nieman, a furrier. were entered upon. From the former thq h4J
obtained goods to the amount of £774, and the latter Was tiserni
.155, besides a bill fur £27 Os- Prom the evidence of Wooh-y,a
person who.had been warehouseman, at 76, Queen-street, it spree,
that the goods, after their delivery at the warehoure, were .arid
away in sacks. The prisoners were remanded c:II the isth
LAMBETH-STREET.

J. Russell and J. 11;liam, were charged with having base Cni !is
their possession. Plunkett, the Beadle of Whiteehapel, states!,
that on searching the former, he found twelve counterfeit
hal -
crowns upon him; and the case against Bilbam was clearly Fttnel
by Wright, a constable of East Ham, who further stated, that 11:
had been recently tried at Chelmsford for a similar crime, and that
his wife and two sons were now undergoing the settteue of the
law is that gaol fur the like practices.

The Coroner's Inquest which sat on the body of the
woman named Smith, an account of whose murder
was given in yesterday's STAR, have returned a nerd ct
of " Wilful Murder against some person unknown."
Friday se'nnight, about twelve ocl -ck, the mills of.
Mr. Henry Heagarty, of Lislehane, nith;n ahr.iit two
miles of Clonakilty,were discovered to be on fire,and such
was the rapidity of the flames, that in a few hours the
whole concern, in which was a large quantity of flour,
wheat, bran, &c. was. con urn .d.
During the night of Friday se'nniglit, three lirge
mastiffs got into a field belonging to Mr. Coteme, 01
Cheverill, and of a flock of 97
recently purcluted
lambs, they killed 50, and dreadfully maimed and L-
cerated nearly the whole of the remainder.
Thursday evening, about half past six o'.l"rk, tw"
lassassins entered the house of a money-changer, named
IJoseph, in the Palais Royal, when one of them thrnst
stilevo into his right eye. They then effected their
escape across the garden on the side of the Palais Rori•
next to the. street de Valois. We have nAt heart
whether or not the wound is mortal.—French Riper.
At a late Churchwarden's dinner at Devises, de
Clerk and the Deputy Sexton made their appearance
On the latter being asked the reason of his fathei's ab-
sence ? he gave the following very cogent reply:—
" rcyther be got mold, and ha' lost his zthonntaci.:4
that he can't eat zo much as he audit° do, so he ant 10
make up vor't, as my zdunernach be 'nation good. Thal
it." The execution the deputy did at tale, fully lubti-
fied the account he had given of his " idnmesitch.
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DIED.
On the 17th inst. at her hotm,Lutiklvrater,neat Ilickmuissottl't
Herta, Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan.
Saturday, at his house in Great Britain-street, Dublin, AIr.A.SO
Moore, the father of Thomas Moore, Eq. the poet. ,
At Selkirk, on the 4th inst. Mr. James Douglas Olivet 0--
Rector of the Grammar School of Selkirk. _

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