Star.
London, England, 1814-09-09 00:00:00

NO U VE L LES.

Jessamines came into England with Mary, the
Queen mother.
Laurell was first brought Over by Alathea,Countesse
of Arundelloy,randmotiier to the Duke of Noripike.
Mr. J. Gadbury assures'me, that the first printing
in England was in Westminster Abbey ; they yet re-
taine the name, treasurer of the chapell.
Po-ukes, not commonly worne till 1660.—Mem.
There WAS one Gregcrie, in the Strand, that was the
fix,t famous petiwige maker, and they were then call-
ed Gregorian:. He lies buried by the W. ch. dore of
St. Clement's. Danes, where he had an inscription
which mentioned it. 'Twas in verse, and Sir W.
Gregorie (one of the Barons of the Exchequer) read
and told it me.

. • The first glasse.coach that came into England was
the Duke of Yorke's, when the King was restored.—
In a very short time they grew common, and now
(1681) at Waltham (or Tochnam High•crosse) is
sett up a mill for grinding of coach-glasse, and look-
ing-glasse, much cheaper.
The Penny Post was sett up Anno Domini 1680, a
-most ingeniose and usefull project. Invented by Mr.
Murray first (he was Clarke of the Committee of In-
dempnitie) and then Mr. Dockery joyned with him. It
was first sett up February 1679-80. Mr. Murray was
formerly clarke to the generall Commissioners for the
revenue of Ireland, and afterwards clarke to the Com-
missioners of the grand Excise of England, and was
the first that invented and introduced into this City
the Club of Commerce, consisting of one-of each trade,
whereof there were after very many created, and are
still continued in this city ; and also contrived and sett
up the office or banke of.credit at Devonshire House,
wt Bishopsgate-street Without; where men depositing
their goods and merchandize were furnished with bills
of current credit, at 2-3ds or iths of the value i•f* the
said goods, answering to the intrinsique value of
money, whereby the deficiency of coin might be fully
subplyed ; and for rendering the same cut rent, a cer-
taine competent number of traders, viz. 10 or 20 of
each trade, whereof there be 500 severall traders
within the citty, which were to be associated or formed
into such a society or company of traders, as might
among them compleat the whole body of commerce,
and hereby any possest of the said current credit, be
furnished amongst themselves with any kind of goods
and merchandise, as effectually as they could do for
money elsewhere. Mr. Rob. Murray is a citizen of
Londonrof the Company of Cloth-workers ; his father
a Scotchman, mother-English ; bcirne in the Strand,
Anno Domini 1633, christened Dec. 12.

Mr. Theod. Haak saith, that the antiquity of pinnes
is not above 200 veares. Before, they used a thorne,
or, Btc..more primitive. He says, moreover, that he
heard the Swedish Ambassador ask two other Am-
bassadors, what they thought was the greatest waste
of copper ? one said bells, another said cannons.—No,
sayd be, 'tis pinnes.
Shoes—l doe remember in my native county of N.
Wilts, the husbandmen did weare high shoes till 1618,
common enough—scilicet, half-bootes, slit and laced.
The Benedictine Monks wore bootes, 1 beleeve, like
these, at least, half-bootes.
The paper mills at Bemarton, Wilts, in 112 yeares
standing (1681)—'Twas the second in England.
A Bristow man, living in Castile, in Spine, learnt
their art of makeing snape, which be first sett up in
Bristow—now (1681) 80 and more yeares since.
Since tobacco brought into England by Sir Walter
Raleigh e. 99 years (1682.) The custome whereof now
is the greatest of alt others.

When I came to Oxford crucifixes were common
in the glasse, iti the studies windowes ; and in the
chamber w:ndowes were canonized taints (2. 9. in my
chamber window, St. Gregorie the Great, and another
broken), and scutcheons, with the pillar, the whip, the
dice,'and the cock ; but after 1647, they wereall broken,
doWne went Dalton ; now no vestigia to be found.

Catafakonii, the magnificent contrivance for King's
and Prince's and Generall's 'effigies to lie in state, in
some eminent church for some weekes, 2. 9. K. James
Ist. F.obert, Earle of Essex : Gen. Monke, D. of Al-
bemirle. It takes its name from Faleoni, which signi-
fies in Italian, aw eagle.---Mcm. At the solemne in-
nerall of the Etnperours, they had an eagle to fly away
from the Rigus when it took fire.

The first Pointe-de-Veniee band that was worne in
England, was by King Charles the First, at his Co-
ronation. Now 'tis common.
The tradition is, that the bell of Lincolne's Time
was brought from Cales, tempore regime Eliz. plundered
in the expedition under the E.trie of Essex.

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EPITAPHS.

It is seldom one rambles into a Country Church•yard
without looking round for the memorials of those who
lie scattered about you. We have of late made a pretty
large collection of these homely compositions, and if
in the following extracts our Readers now and then'
meet with an old acquaintance, we fancy they will
find some altogether new to them :
•
Under this stone lies Timm Wytars,
He errs who years, months, days, here seeks;
Have not weekes days ? No, Sir, be not vilendei,
When Wances same here his days were coded.

H. lies our dearest child, who's gone front w 6
For evermore unto eterrity,
'Where us do hope that us shall come to L•t,
But him can nere go back again to we.

Under thisrone lies Jo nttrr v GR cr.
Ne roichel good have I of him to say
Full fifty years he preach'd and ly'd,
For which Goo d—d him when he died.

TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. PORTON, 171$.
Such was her vettae, and her merit such,
She might have married' a lord or judge:
Yet notwit'i andi g, >uch was her humility,
bet was content t 9 take up with—e: doctor of dlirinity !

POLICE.

ovr-sTnrrr.—J. Peucham, driver of the hack-
ney-coach, No: 106, was committed for assaulting'
and detaining a gentleman against his will, until he
had paid the fare. The gentleman asked him for a
ticket, but he said he had none, and the gentleman
refusing to pay him without lie Lid hold of him, and
positively declared that lte should nut go away without
paying him.
A'rlion, driver of the hackney.coach, No. 606,
was also committed for a like offence.
GUILDHALL.—Yesterday, J. Wifin, groom to Mr.
Humphries, of the Crescent, Biidge-street, Black-
friars, was brought up, charged with robbing his mAs-
ter of various articles of weal in; apparel. Mr.
Humphries stated, that a servant of the person in
.Whose house he lived had lost a watch some time ago,
and suspecting the prisoner had stolen it, he went into
the stable, searched the iftisoner's coat pockets that
hung there, and found in one of them the duplicate
of his watch, which he immediately took out of pawn.
Mr. H. being informed of this circumstance, began to
suspect that the prisoner had made free with some of
his.clothes, of all of which he had the care. Accord-
ingly on examining the inventory of them with the
stock left, a very large deficiency was discovered
among the shirts, neckcloths, stockings, &c. which'
had been committed to his care, and many of the mis-
sing articles were found on searching the prisoner's
lodgings, besides duplicates of others. The Magis-
trate recommended to Mr. H. to bring the pawn-
brokers up who held the articles, to give time for which
he remanded the prisoner till Saturday.
A German, in the employment of Mr. Danvers, of
Thames-street, Sugar-baker, was charged with steal-
ing about three pounds of sugar, the property of his
employer. Being suspected he was searched at the
door, as, he was leaving the warehoUse, and the pro-
perty found in his breeches. In his defence he said,
he had lately lost his wife, who had left him two small
children, for whom (being very poor) he was taking
'the sugar. He was fully committed for trial.
Mattotonouctr-sauscr.--- 81. IVoy Leilonan was
charged with defrauding a lady of muslins, jewellery,
&c. to the amount of £5OO and tipivards, under the
following circumstances :2-TheLady, who is the
wife of a distinguished officer, had lately returned
from her travels ; and having more articles than she
stood in need of she disposed of part of the property,
but she never obtained any money.for the same ; and
she lodged a complaint to the High Priest of the Sy-
nagogue. It was by lodging this complaint that the
prisoner got introduced to her as a foreign merchant,
by a man who imposed upon her, by stating, that he
was sent by the Priest; when he readily obtained the
goods of the lady, but she could not get any sot t of
payment ; and at length it was discovered that the
prisoner, instead of being a foreign Merchant; was ori-
ginally a school-master. Bennet, the officer, appre-
hended him yesterday morning, and he was fully com-
mitted for trial for stealing the articles.
A master stone-mason, in Mary-la.bonne, Was fully
committed, charged with violating a child twelve
years old. The alledged offence was completed.
QUEEN - SQUARE. A very wretchedlooking old
woman, of the name of Milne, was-yesterday charged
with robbing a garden of fruit. Mr. Parry, a market-
gardener, in Chelsea, stated, that a few'hours previ.
onsly to bringing the woman to the Office, he had
found her in his grounds, having with her a lame
bundle of apples, pens, &c. which she had stolen in
his garden. The Magistrates said, that far stealing
fruit they had power to fine her, and to order a whip-
ping ; but on ascertaining that she had also stolen
cabbages, and broke up the ground for potatoes, she
was ordered to be confined for one month.
UNION-RAlL:—Sarah Retortion and Mary Seymour
were charged by P. MgArtab, a private soldier, with
robbing him of his knapsack, some linen, and 1.55. in
silver. The proSecutor stated, that lie was stoisped in
the street by Hovetson, st.ho invited him home to het
lodgings, he having known her before. He accepters
her invitation, and having taken some beer, and othir
refreshment, he fell asleep ; when he as oke again,
Seymour, the other prisoner, was also in the ree:rn.—
He got up, intending to go away, but looking round,
he could not find his knapsack, which he had left ly-
ing by his side when he went to sleep. He enquired
for it, but both women denied having ever seen it ;
and, finding he could get no account of it, he went
for a constable, who took both the women into custo-
dy. On searching them 15s. the sum which was in
the knapsack, were found in the possession of Hewet-
son, which money she said the prosecutor gave her.
Both women denied ever having seen the knapsack at
all. They were both committed.
Thirteen women of the town were brought up,
charged by the Parish Oaks ers of Newington wilt
being riotous and disorderly in the strees, after dark,
in the evening, and with being common prestitutes.
They. were committed to the House of Correction for
a month.

Friday night, on of those unfortunate girls who
prowl about the streets at night, coming out of a
house in Blair-street, Edinburgh, with a bottle in her
hand, and reeling with liquor, fell fOrward and broke
the bottle, a fragment of which pierced her lungs,
and she died in a few minutes.
Monday se'npight, William Graham, late of Kil-
marnock, was committed to Carlisle Gaol, on a
charge of stealing a mare from John Bell, of Wood-
house, in the parish of Caldbeck.
Bernard, alia: Peter Duffey, Mary Duffey, sen.
Mary Duffey, jun. Mary Smith, • M.iry Mlc Guire,
and John Davis, who had been remanded for further
examination, on a charge of obtaining money rut raise
pretences, by means of passes far soldiers' wives,
purporting to be signed by the proper authorities,
have been fully committed for trial at the next Cum-
berland Asizes, on charges of forgery.
Saturday night, the guard of one of Ole stage
coaches between Edinburgh and Gl.isi!ow,
down a stair In St. Anne's-street, Edinburgh,
and having fractured his skull, he died in a slant
time alter. .

Lady Fair was held at Dundee on Friday sell-
night. On that evening, in a public house in the
Seagate, a competition arose among a number of
young men, which of them should soonest drink
la quart of whisky. Charles Neill, a ahOtillAkcr
tritdes,-dra'nk off his at a draught, anti al,n parOci-
patnl6 the' share of one of his comp.nions. In
spite of medical a6sistauce, he died in the cvurse
vt the night.