Star.
London, England, 1824-12-09 00:00:00

kAVAL INTELLIGNCE.

FA LAMED. Dac. 7.—Wind W. N. W. —Put in here, the rondo/-
big outward bound, viz.—His Mijesty's yacht HERALD, with the
Bishop of JAMAICA, Ztc. on board; Orpheus, FORD; Garland Grove,
Pamcmut ; Louisa, Lowmv ; Russell, MENA'S; and Louisa, 'Omuta.
Pin back, the Vigitant, Tarr; Desire, HAMM( ; Hiram, Baown ;
and Johanna, MlCE—this is Lb, eighth time the latter vessel has
put back. Sailed the Cumberland, CLamayr, for Lisbon ; and Bel-
lona, HARNZS, for St. Michael's.

PLYMOUTH, Dec. 7.—Wind W.—Put in, wind bound, the Lady
Amherst, LISLE, for the South Seas; and the Berbice, WATTII,
for Genoa. The Sisters and Concordia have been sold this day.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. B.—Wind W.—Put back, the following out-
ward bound, viz.—Lovely Aon, Royal Charlotte, Duke of Mae-
;heater, Nancy, Atalanta, j.llars, Janet, Hero, Salacia, Enterprize,
Sir C. Forbes, Brothers, and Richard and Sibella. Arrived the fol-
lowing outward bound, from the Downs, viz.—Alert, SCHOLES ;
Ceres, HUGGINS ; Berwick packet, Iluotres ; Robert, BATHOAEL
DEAL, We, 8. —Wind W. by S.—Arrived the Cuba, WATSON,
from Havannah ; Heroine, OSTLER, from Batavia; and Marla, Dar
HILLS, from Copenhagen. Pm back, the Thomas, BELL, for St.
Vincent's. Came down from the River and remain, the Elizabeth,
Naar., ; Wilhelmina, Ltiosranr ; Augustus Caw, &Lay ; Eilbeck,
REM); Nautilus, WINSLOW ; and Elizabeth, COLLINS; also the
York Merchant, Hiccitizormsr, from Hull.
Livraroor, DEC. 6.—Wind W.S. W. blowing hard. Arrived the
Glide, PEARCE, from Wilmington ; and Transit, PEROUSON, from
l'ugwash ; and the }NUJ, from Cadiz with damage, bound to Dublin.
DEc. 7.—Arrived the Orion, Wort's, from Richebucto ; Cato,
M'COLL, from Quebec; Three Friends, 'lran, from Newfoundland.
Dom, Dec. 7.—A cutter from Jersey, loaded with apples, re-
ports having seen a great number of pipes of wino floating about to
the'svestward of Beachy Head; four of port wine she took on
board, but being heavily loaded, she could not receive any more.

ABUtE OF MAGISTERIAL AUTHORITY.

FROM TIIE TIMES OF TIIIS MORNING.

The following statement has been communicated to
us, upon the authority of those on the spot who had
the best opportunity of knowing the facts as they oc-
curred. On Thursday last, the Rev. John Bond, Doc-
tor of Divinity, one of the Justices of the Peace fur the
county of Middlesex, and proprietor of a seminary for
the education of young Gentlemen, at Hanwell, near
Uxbridge, sent for Levick, the constable of the hamlet,
and delivered into his custody Sarah Cull, one of his
female servants, whom he verbally char.ged with felony,
and ordered that she should be locked up in the Cage
until the constable received further orders from him
respecting her removal to town, for the purpose of be-
ing, brought before the Magistrates at Mary-la-bonne-
office. The constable, in pursuance of the verbal or-
ders which he had thus received, locked the woman up
on Thursday evening in the Cage at Hanwell. These
cages itt country villages are in general pretty well
known; this at Hanwell is ten feet in length, and four
feet in width; the walls are of the bare brick; the fur-
niture one stool, on the ground a truss of straw, with-
out a particle of bedding or bed-clothing, fire, or can-
dle-light. As small a portion of external light is admit-
teol into this cell through a very narrow iron grating, as
cannot be intercepted by the outer wall, of the building.
—ln this cell did this wretched woman lie during the
whole of Thursday night. Friday came, but no inti-
mation of her removal ; and on the evening of that day
she was visited by a constable, who supplied her with
some warm beer. She then complained to him of her
sufferings from the inclemency of the weather, and the
absence of all accommodation, and entreated he would
send for some of her fellow-servants. Two of the fe-
males immediately came to her, and brought a cloak
or a blanket for her use ; and at half-past ten o'clock on
Friday night, the constable, who had, up to this time,
heard nothing further from Dr. Bond, except that,he
had gone to London, locked up his prisoner for the
night. Upon opening the do ,r of the cage at nine
o'clock on Saturday morning, to furnish her with some
breakfast, he saw her extended on the straw, apparently
lifeless; her hand felt cold, and fell as he endeavoured
to raise it. Alarmed at this appearance, he ran in-
stantly to Mr. Evans, the medical attendant of the neigh-
bourhood, and informed him of his fears. that the
woman had perished. The de ctor quickly repaired to
the spot, and on assisting to remove the wretched pri-
soner from her position in the cell, discovered some
signs of animation, which, by the aid of restoratives, and
being brought into the open air, were quickened into
activity, and the woman recovered so far as to state, that
she had spent the greater part of the night in hysterics;
that her limbs were benumbed, and site had lost the
use of them.

Being unable to walk, she was placed in a chair be-
tween two men, and removed to the Coach and Horses
public-house in the village,,aCten o'clock on Saturday
morning, where she was permitted to remain until to-
wards evening. She still continued in a state of great
debility, although every necessary restorative which the
humanity of the place afforded was administered to her
by the doctor, the landlord, and the officers. Up to five
o'clock on Saturday evening, there being no order for
the further disposal of the woman by the Rev. Dr.
BOND, since his verbal commitment on the preceding
Thursday, the landlord refused to permit her longer
stay at his house. The constable was terrified at the
further peril of his charge under such circumstances,
and Mr. Bert y, the Overseer of the poor of the parish,
was called upon to take her under his care. He hu-
manely complied, and the poor woman was carried by
three men, in an arm-chair, from the Coach and Horses
public-house, where she had been since morning, to Mr.
Berl y's, whose wife immediately put her to bed, and
attended her with the most humane attention. Oa
Sunday the first intimation reached Hartwell that the
Rev. Dr. Bond had recollected he bad left a prisoaer in
the Cage, and this appears to have occurred to him in
consequence of a letter from Hanwell.
' Upon the discovery of the perilous situation of the
woman on Saturday morning, a letter was transmitted
specially to the Rev. Doctor in London, apprizing him
of her situation. He sent on Saturday night for the
father of the pour woman, who is a beadle in the parish
of Mary-la-bonne ; the mother immediately waited
upon him, and he informed her, that he had received a
letter (as she understood) from a Medical Gentleman at
Hanwell, stating that her daughter was ill, and must
be sent for immediately. He did not state that he had
left her in the Cage of the town from the previous
Thursday, but gave the woman a written paper, stating
that it would bring her up. The following is a copy,
of that paper, the original of which remains in the
hands of Levick,, the constable of Hanwell :
" to, Upper Berkeley-street, Portman•square.
" 'laving taken surety for Sarah Cull's appearance at Mary-la-
bonne office, I hereby authorize you torrelease her.
"JOHN BOND, D.D.
" Justice of the Peace for Middlesex.
Tu the Constable of Hanwell, 'Middlesex."
On Sunday morning the father (by desire) waited
upon the Reverend Dr. Bond, at his house, when he
told him that his daughter had robbed him of some
things, at the school at Hanwell, and that he had left
!rer in custody there; but he repeatet, that the paper
which he had given the mother on the previous night,
uld release her, on being presented by the father to
lie constable at Hanwell.

He, however, called upon the father to sign a paper'
which he held in his hand, and which he explained to
him was a bond or surety, in the sum of 201. that he
(the father)would;produce the girl at the Mary-la-bonne
police-ofitie whenever he called upon him so to do.
The poor man signed the paper, and went down on
Sunday to Harwell, where the constable released the
daughter, Upon having the note from the Rev. Dr.
Bond delivered to him.
The woman being unable to travel on the Sunday,
from extreme debility, her father was obliged to return
to town without her. She was, however, removed at
one o'clock on Monday, in a chair, between two men,
from Mr. Berry's house to the Coach and Horses, where
she was put upon one of the stage-coaches which left
for town at that hour, and set down at a house in Grove-
street, Paddington. Her mother described her yester-
day as being in a very debilitated state of health, and
that she appeared to have lost the use of one side of her
body. She walked with the constable at the time of
her arrest as it in perfect health, and made no complaint
to him of bodily disease. She became much agitated
and was in a state of great distraction, from the time
she was locked into the cell of the Cage which we
have described.

Witk respect to the nature of the charge of felony
made against this woman, it was not particularized to
the constable to where custody she was consigned'; nor
did he, as he says, from the Thursday until the Sun-
day following, when the note from the Reverend Ma-
gistrate was brought, receive any further intimation
from him respecting his prisoner; but the woman her-
self confessed that she had taken some odd gloves
which belonged to the school-boys, and most of which
had been given to her, and some trap-balls and knives
and forks; but she denied having taken or appropriated
Ito her Own use any of the boys' stockings, as had been
imputed to her.
The above is the narrative voluntarily given by the
parties who had the best means of knowing the facts;
any description of the feelings with which some of the
poor people related the parts which came to their know-
ledge, is carefully suppressed.
Without saying one word as to themeral character
of this proceeding, we shall merely remark, that pro-
vided the narrative be true (and we have no doubt of
it), the Magistrate appears to have committed three ille-
galities, which we shall state in the most general terms:
Ist. A Magistrate has no right to commit a person verbally, and
without specifying the offence.
2d. The. Cage is not a legal place of confinement one minute
longer than is necessary for the safe detention of a prisoner, till such
prisoner is examined on a regular charge.
3d. A Magistrate has no power to release a prisoner, except after
a regular examination : and in case of felony, he has no power to
accept bail.

POACHIAG. •

A desperate encounter took place about two o'clock in
the morning of Thursday, between the keeper of the'
Duke of Norfolk, and a party of poachers in a plantation
at Tersfield and North Lopham, belonging to his Grace.
It will be remembered that so lately as Monday se'fl-
night, George Mayes, the gamekeeper or woodreeve,
prosecuted two men to conviction for an offence of the
same kind, who are now expiating their delinquency in
the tread-mill, at Swaffham House of Correction. On
Thursday morning the moon shone very bright, when
Mayes, assisted by two other persons, of the names of
Williams and Blomfield, were on the look out. They
soon discovered a party of poachers, consisting of a man
of the neighbourhood, of the name of James Gill, and
three others, coming near ; the poachers,who were armed
with guns, fired on the keepers, two of them missed ;
Gill levelled his piece at the head of Mayes, who ad-
vised him not to fire ; but he was determined not to be
deterred ; Mayes stooped down, so that the charge
slightly grazed his shoulder, lodging a few shots in the
flesh ; he now fired in his turn ; the contents of his piece
lodged in the fleshy part of the thigh of Gill, who fell
disabled, and was soon made prisoner; the other
poachers ran away, and have for the present escaped;
Gill was put into a cart, and conveyed to Diss, where
he arrived about four o'clock in the morning, for the
benefit of medical advice; and for better security he
was carried to the Half Moon Inn, where he remains in
a very dangerous state. On Friday last, Gill underwent
an examination before GEORGE Liz, Esq. and the Rev.
Mr. MANNING; Mayes, Williams, and Blomfield, cor-
roborated the beforementioned facts, and Gill was fully
committed to the county jail to take his trial at the next
Assizes. He still, however, continues in too dangerous
a condition to be removed at present, his life being in a
very precarious state, and is therefore in the custody of
two constables, till a medical Gentleman shall decide
on the propriety of his being removed with safety.

On the 13th ult. (as formerly mentioned) the Right
Honourable the Earl of GLASGOW was married to Miss Just.' Stu-
CLAIR, third daughter of Sir John Sinclair, of Ulbster, Bart., and
on the 9..qd they arrived at Kelhurne House. From the universal
esteem in which his Lordship is held by all ranks of the community,
much rejoicing took place to welcome hint and the Countess to
Kelburre ; bonfires were kindled up in all directions, and were seen
blazing till an early hour next morning. The whole village of Fair-
lie, the farm houses In the neighbourhood, and a portion of Largs,
were briliiantly illuminated.
FlRE.—Yesterday evening an alarm prevailed that
the extensive Pottery belonging to Mr. WISKER, near
Vauxhall Bridge, Lambeth, was on fire ; the occurrence,
it appears, took place in consequence of one of the (ear.
naces being accidentally overheated, when the flames
communicated to a quantity of timber in the building,
which soon broke into a blaze and burnt for some time:
hcwever, immediate assistance being at hand, the fire
was speedily subdued by the workmen,without the pre-'
mises sustaining any material injury. A number of
firemen and engines promptly arrived on the spot to
prevent the devouring element extending its ravages;
bad their services been required.
It is scarcely possible to behold a more striking figure
than that of a Schernomorski Cossack mounted and
equipped for war. It is then only that he may be said
to exi,t, and in his native element, brandishing his long
lance in the air, bending, turning, or halting suddenly
when in full speed, with so much graceful attitude and
such natural dignity, that the horse and the rider seem
to be as one animal.

ANTIQUiTtES.—In the course of last week, as some
labourers, in the employ of F. E. Nitoftatce, Esq. were
trenching land for planting, in the neighbourhood of
De:shanger, they dug up a large urn filled with ashes,
and the remains of burnt bones ; and on another spot
Above a quarter of a mile distant, two smaller tuns of
the same description, placed side by side, and not above
eighteen inches below the surface of the ground. One
of the smaller owes only Was preserved entice; the
larger, which was first discovered, having been unfor-
tutiALely much broken by the Men. The fragments,
and a great part of its contents were, however, after-
wards collected. A very large quantity of ashes, and
the remains cf bones had previously been dug up newly
half a mile off in another direction.

• NE 1V MINING

The Shares of a Nev7g7ing Asinciation were on
'Tuesday brought into the Money Market, which have
beet doing for some days at an anticipatory premium of
10: By the prospectus we learn that this is a scheme
for working the gold; silver, and other mine, of the
Provinces of Rio de la Plata, almost all of which have
scarcely been worked, and therefore are nearly in the it
virgin state. This scheme is in conformity with a decree
passed at Buenos Ayres, authorising the Minister of
State for Foreign Affairs to cause a company to be gs-
tablished in England for working the mines in the ter-
ritory of Rio de is Plata, and an official communica-
tion has been made by that Minister to Messrs. Hullett,
Brothers, and Co. which authorizes them to take the
necessary steps for carrying that object into elect.
The Government has also addressed circular letters to
the Governors of the Provinces, requiring them to col-
lect all the information possible regarding the mines in
their respective districts, and official -copies of their re-
ports have been transmitted to Messrs. Hullett, Bro-
thers and Co. By a law passed at Buenos Ayrei, in
November, 1822, for regulating the duties on importa-
tion and exportation, the duty on gold and silver on ex.
portation is fixed at one per cent. This AssociatiOn
possesses one very great advantage, which is that of not
being compelled to confine their operations to any par-
ticular province, but being at liberty to select, work, or
abandon at their discretion, any of the mines within the
ptovinces of Rio de la Plata. In order to .effect the
working of these mines, it is proposed that a capital of
one million be raised by ten thousand shares of one
hundred pounds each, of which sum five pounds per
share is to be paid as a deposit on the first acceptance
of the shares. It is proposed next that intelligent agents
and miners be dispatched to examine the mine, and
commence working suds as they deem fit. The above is
an outline of this speculation, which, from the respec-
tability of the house of Huliett, Brothers, and Co. has
made a considerable noise in the money market. On
the shares first coming out, the sales made were nu-
merous, and lowered the premium from 10 to about
seven, but as this is only the result of the operations of
such as bought for immediate profit, and not with a
view to hold, little reliance is to be placed on it. The
best proof of the general opinion entertained by those
acquainted with the nature of these speculations is, that
of Messrs. Hullett hal'lng had applications for more
than three times the number of the shares they had to
dispose of. It is also declared in the prospectus, that
no shareholder will be deemed liable for a larger amount
than the unpaid moiety of his share or shares.