Star.
London, England, 1824-07-16 00:00:00

BOW.WRZET.

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I BMW atininiveft/lait likkalies“ itsigkr-ftet BC" was
brought before Sir B. Hint= Tamed', Moraolis with
basely* focciblyntlewPred tO rob a Willows Moon of watch.
i W. Mon* eihe is en' addle and father lards pew" was
vralldnit Mitt the fieW between eleven and twelve oklorb en
# Wednesday night, Whin .legg'd Bob cane up to him boldly
float to hem, sad to jerk his watch out of his fob.—
Fortunately for Mr. , however, his watch ribbon gave way—
as it Well might, for according to Mr. Moon's account, it
had been in wear eve dice the day of his Majesty's Coronation.--
and so the watch fell back quietly to the bottom of the fob, whilst
4Pider-kited 3* got nothing but the Coronation ribbon and a
superannuated gold seal for his pains. Nevertheless he ran off
with them lustily, and Mr. Moon followed him, as fast as he could,
crying., " Stop thief l " so that Rabat had not ran far before he
was stopped by a watchman, and at day-break nest morning the
ribbon and seal weed found trampled amongst the mud upon the
very spot where he was stopped.
In his defence he gave himself an excellent character and stoutly
•'denied that he was the person what did the robbery;' but the
Magistrate committed him for trial
G, made and Davis, the Hammersmith burglars—or rather, the
young men who would have been burglars if the witnesses had
given them time, were brought up for further examinatioo, and
some additional confirmatory evidence having been taken they
Were Milli Mminitted to take their trial for the misdemeanour,
in having house-breaking tools in their possession with intent to
foam& burglary.

.2 DINFTICILI AND DAT Paraoz.--Messrs. Dick Bowers and
M With three other men, whose names did not appear, were
Wu& before G. R. Mntsuuttand T. HALLS, Esquires, on Wed-
neallay night, by Herring and his party of patrol.
Messrs. Dick Bowers and Joel Bond are duffer of dupes—or
dealers in real India goods manufactured In Grad Britain ; and the
three other men are deputy duffers in their employ. Herring was
mite a soldier, and did good service in the Peninsular war, and he
Is now the condector of the St. James's party of day patrol. It
appeared that Messrs. Dick Bowers and Joel Bond, with their de-
puties, had, for these five or six days last past, established their
duffing depot of English-India shawls, Sec. in the upper room of a
public-house in Tiebborue-street, Piccadilly, in which room Mr.
Joel Bond sits to receive the customers that Mr. Dick Bowers, and
the deputies, pick up among the Piccadilly passengers; and in this
picking-up department they have been so impudently industrious,
that; no Gentleman could pass the end of Tichborne-street without
bring accosted by them—whether there was anything duffable in
his physiognomy or not. herring, much scandalized at having
such doings in his district, repeatedly warned Mr. Dick Bowers
off; but air. Dick Bowers, instead of taking his warning, set him at
defiance ; and on Wednesday afternoon he boldly said to Herring,
" If you will only wait here five minutes, you shall see me pick up
a 'wet, and duff him before your face, in spite of you!" In less
than five minutes he was as good as his word, for he picked up a
very nice-looking Gentleman, and took him into the public-house
abovementioned, and Herring followed—to see the nice-looking
Gentleman dujrd ; but when they got up stairs, Mr. Dick Bowers
ascertained that another nice-looking Gentleman was at that mo-
ment undergoing the operation, and therefore be desired the last-
caught nice-looking Gentleman to wait on the stain till his turn
came. Herring, however, pushed on into the room, and, to his
great astonishment, he found that the Gentleman under operation
was a Conuninary-Genera,i ! Mr. Joel Bond was just then expa-
tiating on the niperlative beauty of a real Cachnirre shawl (spick
and span from Nortrzch), for which he only demanded thirty gui-
neas ! and the Commissary-General was admiring its fabric, but at
the sante time expressing an opinion that the price was too high.
In this opinion the sight of Herring's scarlet waistcoat instantly
confirmed him, and he hastily withdrew without having been third,
whilst Herring called up his party and took possession of the whole
stock in trade, which he now produced before their Worships, to-
gether with Messrs. Dick Bowers, Joel Bond, and their three de-
puties, as aforesaid. The nice-looking Gentleman, who had been
left Waling on the stilts till his turn came, was also induced to at-
tend before the Magistrates, and he stated that" the man with the'
Wooden leg"—that is to say, Mr. Dick Bowers, had inveigled him
Into the public-house by telling him he could sell him better gloves
at a shilling a pair than were to be bought in the shops at three
and sixpence !
When this Gentleman and the Officers had said all they had to
ay, blesses. Dick Bowers and Joel Bond manifested much indig-
nation at the coup de grab which had been made upon them. Mr.
Joel Bond produced his license from the Hawkers' and Pedlars',
Office, and contended that by this license he was authorized to get
as much as he could for his goods-a-a-
-" But it does not authorise you to cheat people, by selling them
British goods for India," raid the Magistrate.
" Why, your Worship," replied the soft-spoken Joel Bond, " it
is a well-known fact that English Gentlemen will not buy goods un-
less they believe them to befbreign ; and realty you will put me
eat of bread altogether if you compel me to manage my business
with spa a nice attention to words!"
Their Worships could not but smile at Mr. Joel Bond's candour;
end they asked Mr. Dick Bowers whether he also had one of these
convenient licenses?

" Your Worships, I have not," replied Mr. Dick Bowers coming
forward to the table—" your Worships, I have not, fur this Gen-
tleman (Mr. Joel Bond) is my partner, and there is ho need we
should both have a license. But the facts of this case are very short,
and With your permission I will state them to you. The fact is,
your Worships, that everybody knows the way in which we get
our living; and if the first Gentlemen in the land were not anxious
to buy goods which they believe to be smuggled, we could not live,
at all. I #trre been addicted to vice, as your Worship well knowsi
and I think It's a little torthard upon me for Mr. Herring and hie
people to be harassing and disturbing me now that I am getting my
living honestly, your Worships. If there is any harm in it, the Gen-
tlemen who deal with us are more to blame than we are, for they
tempt us to It ; and there's that very Gentleman now present in the
eornen—orho has thought proper to appear against us before your
Worship-41e himself was in treaty with me for two nibs elms brandy.
" Why, you infernal liar !" said the Gentleman, starting upon his
•legs--" you infernal liar ! How dare you utter such an infamous
fsisehood ?—you infernal liar !" Mr. Dick Bowers stepped back.
" You infernal liar." Mr. Dick Bowers took another step back-
Wards. " You infests! liar !" reiterated the Gentleman ; and Mr.
Dick Bowers slunk behind his fellows, and held his peace.
Their Worships now asked Mr. Joel Bond whether the goods he
mid for foreign were so in fact? " Certainly not," replied Mr.
Joel Bond," and in proof of it 1 am ready to submit those now here
to the inspection of any linen-draper your Warships nuy be pleased
to send for."—" Because if they were," said Mr. Minolta', .4 I
should proceed against you at once l and even supposing they are
not, I cow give you notice, that if it should be proved before me
that you have sold British clods for foreign, I will commit you for
the fraud."
A linen-draper was sent for, and having looked over the goods be
pronounced the whole of them British ; sod eventually the matter
was dismissed, with caution to Messrs. Bowers and Bond to-Mind
what they were about, and an instruction to the officers to watch
'diem narrowly, and bring them up again whenever they bad proof
that they had detraudedAn_y person by false representations.
Ma. WAIIVLS .010 ens Womb= Tou.oa.--Thh Gentleman, who
broke a poor tallor's head with a poker, because be could not make
a coat like the King's and who is said. to be the son of the once
conspicuous Colonel Wardle; was brought up to put in ball foe the
assault—the surgeon's certificate having pronounced the tailor es t
Of danger.
It was communicated to the Magistrate (Mr. Hatt') that the
tailor bad received a sum of money as a compensation for his broken
bead; and that he therefore wished to drop the prosecution.
The wounded man may do as he likes," said his Worship, " but
I have a duty to perform to the Public; and I cannot consent to
this person's going at large without ball. What security have I
that he will not knock down the first man he meets, whose face does
IN happen to please him?'
&That is not a fair supposition," said Mr. Wardle.
" In my opinion it Is a very fair one," replied his Worship, " for
the man who could deliberately take up a poker and strike a man
over the head with it—at the risk of fractutig his skull—and that
merely because he could not make a coat like the King's—is fully
capable of doing as I have supposed ; and therefore I call upon you
to put in bail for yourappeerance at the neat Westminster Sessions;
Ind in the meantime to keep the peace towards all his Majesty's
subjects; yourself in SOL and two sureties in V. 51. each.
Mr. Wardle said be ;add not find bail, and be was therefore or-
dered back to prison; but be afterwards gave the bail required, and
was set at liberty.

HATTON-GARDEN.

A Fig: Swam—.. Yesterday, Whkehair, a/eatable edit pariah
of Bt. Pancras, appeared before the sitting Magistrate, to recover
the customer, reward, by making ofildavit to a fire that occurred
between three and four o'clock the preceding afternoon, at the house
of Mr. Nelms, an attorney, residing at No. 5, Church-terrace, St.
Pancras. Whitebait stated, that at the time before.rnentionW, the
neighbourhood was alarmed on seeing the first floor of Mr. Nei.
ion's house on fire; the family were below stairs in the parlour,
and the vriodirs of the first door being open, a lire-balloon let Of j

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lion the fur of IL •Datietshee,trot 18_4 the a• the windows, d
art are to the middle Of the fleet dlifftittka ebtnninalcated v.)
the window-curtains, sad part of the walesoot.and window-framer
were shortly on fire. the pariatr engine, sedated by another. sac.
coded In extinguishing the fire, .bat sot until considerable &nape
wet not only by the are, bet by thereat.
The te, on heating Ws atnweltet. *Bed the celelest*
of the sMdsvit, which wM amble Witham& sod °then to teen.
vet their rewards. -
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letter received from St. Helena mentions, that the
late hurricane which had been expetienced with such
desolating consequences in the Mauritius, had emended
a considerable distance to the eastward ; and fears were
entertained that the accounts would prove severe losses
,to have taken place in that quarter.
4 There is residing in Dundee, a widow, who has given
birth to twenty sons and two daughters, the oldest or
whom was born when the mother was in her eighteenth
year, and the youngest when she was in her fiftieth.
The ravages of death have reduced this numerous family
to two sons and two daughters.
Sunday, one of the Marquis of Hastings' coal-pits,
at the Moira Colliery, Ashby Wolds, in Leicestershire,
was discovered to be on fire. Fortunately there were no
workmen in the pit at the time; bat nine fine horses
were destroyed by the accident.
Some years since a Jew, who dealt in diamonds, going
Laccidentally into a public-house in Wapping, happen.
iing to want change for a guinea, occasinaed the land.
lady to poll out the contents of her pocket in search of
a sixpence to make up the sum, among which a large
pearl was noticed by the Jew, which the landlady said
was given her by a sailor, and had been carried in her
pocket for several years. The Jew betraying much
anxiety to purchase it, so enhanced its value in the pos-
sessor's opinion, that her husband applied to an eminent
jeweller in the City, and sold it for so considerable a
sum, that, retiring from business soon after, and pur-
chasing ground near Holywell-mount, he built a row
of houses, to which he gave the name of Pearl-place, in
commemoration of the incident.
ROYALTY IN DANGER I—ln the le,trned, astrological.
and never-failing Prognostications of " Francis Moore,
Physician," in his Almanack for the present year, the
following is stationed in July In the beginning of
this month (July) there is an untoward aspect of Soi
and the God of War, Ste. Let the Grand Signior, this
Brother of the Sun and Moon, take care of h;s head, for
his Janissaries are likely to prove troublesome and dan-
gerous to his person!"—lmportant advices may, there-
fore, be hourly looked for from the dominions swayed
by the Crescent !

I .7.

BIRTHS.
July 6, at Newcastle, the wife of Captain Bradshaw, late of the
Sth Dragoon Guards, of a daughter.
May 14, at Spanish Town, Jamaica, the Lady of Lieutenant
Colonel M.Neill, of the 91st, or Argyleshire Regiment, of a son.

MARRIED.

Tuesday. at Biddendeo, Kent, Lord George Henry Spencer
Churchill, third son of the Duke of 11Iarlborough, to Elizabeth,
eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Nares, Rector of iliddenden.
July G, at Edinburgh, Richard Penton, Esq. of Jamaica, and
the Univer7ity of Cambridge, to Sophia Elizabeth, eldest daughter
of the late David Morrison, Esq. of the Hon. East India Com-
pany's Civil Service, Bengal establishment.
July 2, at Edinburgh, Dr. John Argyll Robertson, to Anne, se-
cond daughter of the late Charles Lockhart, Esq. of Newhall.
July 7, ac Edinburgh, Dr. Anderson, Sid Regintent,toGeorgiatta,
third daughter of the late Capt. John Graham, of the revenue service.
July 5, at Dundee, the Rev. Dr. Ireland, of North Leith, to
Catherine, second daughter of the late Dr. Henderson, of Dundee.

DIED.
Tuesday, at Vale-place, Hanunertrisith, John St. Leger Han.
snrcl, Esq. late Captain in his Majesty's 624 Regiment of Foot.
July 5, at the Manse of Lit William Scott, second son of the
Rev. George Addison.
Saturday, at Haistead-place, in Rent, Axes Maria, the wife of
Alderman Atkins.
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July 14, at C.heltenham,Octrnias den le% e at Martindale Con.
stable, Eq.
May 2, Mr. Thomas Thornton, tififfler, Plantation Plaintiff,
east coast of Demerara.

In April last,OffiVer, on boiled thi brig Pero, on his passage
from New South Wales (whence hewas returning with a free par-
don under a mitigated sentence, accompanied by his sou), Mr. John
Croaker, a native of Canterbury, and formerly of Margate; after
enduring the hardships of a shipwreck on Ibe oast of South Ame-
rica, leaving a widow and four children in New South Wales.

EAST INDIA BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, An DEATHS.
MADRAS BIRTHS.
Jan. 18, at Madras, Mrs. L. Griffiths, of a daughter.
Jan. 12, at Madras, the Lady of John Carruthers, Esq. of a
daughter.
Jan. 13, at Tranquebar, Mrs. U. C. Penman, of a daughter.
Jan. 12, at New Town, near Vepery, Mrs. E. Cornelius, ofa so".
November 5, at Belgaum, the Lady of Capt. 111. Itemble, As-
sistant-Adjutant-General, of a son.
'MADRAS luisalAS2lll.
Jan. 12, at Vellore, Captain James Harris, Sub-Assistant-Com-
missary-General, to Miss Mary Shaw, niece to Lieutenant-Colonel
Welch, commanding that station.
Jan. 12, at Madras, W. R. Smith, Esq. to Charlotte Harriet,
eldest daughter of Major P. T. Coesyn, of the Bengal establishment.
Same day, Lieutenant-C*ocl Weldon, Madras Artillery, to
Miss Hatriet Hockley, youngest daughter of the late Colonel
Hockley, of Bury St. Edmund's.
NADIA. DtATHI.
Jan. 22, at Vepery, Lieutenant and Adjutant James Clemons,
of the lit Native Veteran Battallota, after serving the Bon. Com-
pany 48 years.
December i. 77, at Caleb, in Travancore, Mr. %tram Brown,
late Danish resident at that place.
Jan. 22, at New Town Vepery, Mrs. Christian Eli:, Phew.
Jan. 22, at Madras, Mr. Lewis Olivabelar, aged 102 yean and
fire months.

December 25, on his way from VeSore to Madras, Mr. G. P.
M. Leong.
December 24, at Bangalore, Capt. Edward James Foote, itSth
Native Infantry, Assistant Adjutant-General of the Light 'Field
Division of the Hydrabad subsidiary force.
BOMBAY MIMI.
Dec. 17, at Tanta, the wife of the Rev. J. Nichols, of a soo.
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December 16, at Surat, Mr. Francis Houston, to Miss Eliza-
beth Cantrell.

December 18, at Bombay, Patrick Stewart, Req. to Louisa,
third daughter of the late Captain Cotgrave
December 86, at Bombay, Lieutenant and Adjutant William F.
Allen. gd Battalion Igth Regiment Native Infantry, to Miss Mary
Jane Paget, second daughter of Dr. William Paget, of Ihnnotght
in Devonshire.

DOMIBAT DIATItt.
December 15, at Thannah, Maria, the wife of Identenant Wa•
terfield, Fort Adjutant.
December 29, at Sooner, near Rypoor, Lieut. William Ord, 19th
Regiment Madras Native Infantry, Adjutant to the 2d Battalion
Nagpore Brigade.
December 9, at Belvidere, Lieutenant John Duncan
of the std Battalion of Grenadiers.
December 19, at Poonak, Lieutenant and Adjutant George Dn''
berset, tat Battalion sth Regiment Native Infantry.
MAIIALIAGMB AT TIM CATS OF GOOD HOP&
March 29, Major Webster, of the Hon. East India ComParf's
soreice, to Miss Agnes Roos.
Same day, Lieutenant P. Donald Holm, of his Majesty's
Regiment of Foot. to Miss Maria Horak.

MAILS—THIS DAY.
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