Star.
London, England, 1823-06-30 00:00:00

FREEM.4SONRY.

Tuesday, the Festival of St. John. was celebrated'
by a dinner at the Globe Inn, Winchester, at which
were present the members belonging to the Lodge of
Economy, held in that city, and other members of
the fraternity, who passed the evening in good fellow-
ship and hilarity.
Tuesday, the Freemasons belonging to the Lodge
of Harmony and St. Rocques Hill, celebrated the
Festival of St. John, at their Hall, in Newtown, St.
John-street, Chichester, by a grand dinner.
The Festival of St. John was celebrated on Tuesday
by the Brethren of the Royal Gloucester Freemasons'
Lodge, No. 212, at their New Masonic Hall, in
Bugle-street, Southampton. The Lodge was opened
in due form by the R. W. M. Brother PRITCHARDai
with his usual ability ; after which a numerous party
of Ladies were admitted to the Hall, and partook of
'wine and cake, and were pleased to express them-
selves highly gratified with the polite attention of the
brethren. After the usual cerernunies of the'day were
gone through, an excellent dinner was served up on
the occasion by Brother Lavattsum In the course
of the evening many excellent songs and glees were
sung, particularly a beautiful Masonic O'it, written
by Brother H. Lae, of Taunton, set to music by Bro-
ther I. LACY, of Salisbury, and given by Brother
HARRINGTON in his accu,tomed chaste style. The
Lodge was closed in dire form at ten o'clock, and the
brethren departed highly delighted with an evening
spent with that order and unaiiimity so truly charac-
teristic of all regular Masons. I

Wednesday afternoon the members of the Scottish
Club (which as yet is only in its infancy) met in the
Castle Inn, Lord-street, Liverpool, many of them in
splendid Highland dresses, for the purpose of cele-
brating its establishment. A little after five o'clock
they sat down to an elegant dinner, which, t&the
credit of Mr. JAMES, was in the highest degree plen-
tiful and excellent. The sonsy face of Scotland's
favourite dish, the haggis, graced the festive board.
DONALD !11.LEAN, E,q. discharged the duties of the
Chair with the greatest ability, politeness, and urba-
nity, and was most ably supported by Mr. PETER
LINDSAY, the Vice-President. After dinner, Non
nobit Dominc was sung in fine style by Messrs. Wilt
UttICK, ENTWISLE, and BALL. A great number of
loyal, patriotic, and appropriate toasts were drank in
the Course of the evening; and the company was ad-
dressed by Mr. D. ADERCROMBY at considerable
length, the Rev.. Dr. Srnw*ar, Mr. J. DoxiatusoN,
and other Gentlemen.
It has been said by an eminent writer on the Arts,
that to compose a Church Where every perfection of
which the Gothic stile is capable should be combined,
he would choose the situation of Durham, the-western
front Of LinColn, the Lady's Chapel of Peterborough,
the nave of Westminster, the tdareri of Yak, and the
cloisters Of GloistOtei. • " •
Some years agooeverat persona of distinction went
to visit the SChciol" for the edotation of the deaf and:
:dumb children at Paris, Und4i'thit'Aireexicon of a Ce-'
lebrated 'Abbe, for the purpose dfsViinissing the pto-
tress they had made 'in learning. One of the boys
being asked the meaning of the word grail:n(le, -he
immediately took hii pen and wrote, t/w memory of
the heait !

The late King of PRUSSIA being asked one day
why he permitted so many libels to be printed against
him, said—" Myself and my subjetts* are•come to a
composition : I do as i please; and they write .as
they please."
A Frenchman being afflicted with the gout, was
asked what difference there was between that and
the rheumatism ? 11 One very great deferance," re-
plied Monsieur—" Suppose you take one vice, you
put your finger in, you turn de screw, till you bey
him no longer—dat is de rheumatic; den spose you
give him one turn more, dat is de gout."
Friday, Mr. J. BARKER, of London, was drowned
in the river Gipping, at a place called Deep'Corner,
near Ipswich. The deceased was about 24 years of
age, and was upon a visit to his mother in that town.
THOMAS HOWARD GRIPIITHS, Esq.—The remains
of the above unfortunate-Gentleman were removed
on Friday morning Last, from his late lodgings, No. 4,
Maddox-street, Hanover-square, to the turial-gronnd
of St. George's parish. The body was deposited ip
a handsome coffin with the following inscription :
" Thomas Howard Griffiths, Esq. died June 23, aged
57 years." Among the party as chief mourners were.
Captain Gnimussi, and smother son of the unfortu-
nate deceased, two fun-looting young Gentlemen.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.
TRIAL °PROM GOTTR,CHARGED WITH HOUSE-
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ruarsen-lbaarternmsias, 1x CaIITIIIII4tMik
Tit orAn OW SATURDAY. • • *...'t
Mr. BOLLAND sta,l77-71 case to the July.".
Hannah Gibbs s Ors. •Gibbs's evidence in
chief wets the sannain substance as already given in
the Police Reports.
Cross-examined by. Mr. Anoien,us.--She lived in
Brick-lane, Whitechapel. Mier hnsband was, since
1819, one of the_Bow-street • police penole; he. was:
also in the East India Company'seeaPlPT. She al;'
ways gave the same account of the transaction. •I
A plan of the house was laid on the table, and the
witness was questioned respecting the relative poi-,
tion of she rooms. In 1811 she was not Mrs. Gibbs.,,
nor for a year after. When 17 years of age she was
married to a Mr. Atkinson, from whom she was sepa-
rated; she lived with Gibbs for twelve years before mar-
riag e ; but a few months after Atkinson died he mar-
ried her. She went to the Eagle Office, in conse-
quence of being sent for, d told .there every word
she said here, respecting Gotte's house.
William Gibbs examined *by Mr. MARSHAIf, was
husband of the last witness. In 1811, he was an
East fiodia labourer, and was nowa Bow-street patrol.
He knew the prisoner at the bar t be corroborated all ,
that had been said by his wife, respecting the taking
and occupying Gotte s. lodgings, the fire, and the
escape. He was a cabinet-maker, and used to work
a little in his lodgings. The whole of Gotte's furni-
ture was.not worth 7s. Did not know Gotte lived in
New-street, Covent-Garden, till after the late fire.
William Stuck, a broker and butcher, who, in Sep-
tember, 1811, lived at 197, Whitecross-street ; andl
Hester Stuck, his wife, gave the same evidence as at
Bow-street; as did J. Carmichael, pastry-cook, mho
lived in 1811, at 16, Little Russell-sttect, Drury-lane ;
also Joseph Sather, a pastry-cook, .oto was Vtith
,the prisoner the night of the fire in Whitecruss-street ;
atid Walter Biggs, who lived, in the year 1811, at the
Corner of Henry-street, Old-street. and knew tlw poi-
soner, With whom he had-dealings before that year.
. Elizabeth Brookes, who in 1811 lived at No. 1,
Shrewsbury-court, Whitecross-street, knew the pri-
soner, and described Gotte-and another man coming
to her house and depositing there the leather trunk
on the morning of the fire.
George Manchea, once intended to be an appren-
tice to the prisoner, with whom he was at Shadwell,
where they were burnt out eavly in 1811. He also
remembered the fire in.Whitecross.street. This wit-
ness corroborated the statement that there.was hardly
any furniture in the house on the day before the fire,
and there might be a couple of sacks of flour. All the
furniture was worth certainly not -more than £lB.
Re-examined—The stock and utensils and furni-
ture, all together, including the whole of Gotte's
moveable property in the house, at the outside might
be worth L4O.

Thomas Baker, a coal-merchant, who resided, in
1811, at No. 193, Whitecross-street, knew the dri-
soner, and remembered the fire at his house. On the
alarm being given, be met Gotte-,- as if coming from
the back door of his house, and dressed just the same
as witness was slow ;..he had something in his hand.
Witness said, gg Mr. Gotte, where. is the filer his re-
ply was, « Hush, hush I" Soon after the flames burst
forth, and he saw Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs endeavouring
to break out. al the window.

Grose-examines.--This occurred about eleven
o'clock ; he saw tie poisoner dressed, and carrying a
small trunk, _when the fire bloke out, and he seemed
quite unconcerned.
George Manton Carr meldy proved his being the
owner of the house in Whitecross-street.

This was the witness, upon whose alleged indis-
position application was made in the morning to have
the trial postponed. kle is a corpulent man, nearly
80 years of age, and apparently of rather eccentric
manners. Upon being asked, when he was ,provingl
his being the owner of the house, whether he was not
ill this morning ? he replied, " No ;" he admitted, in
answer to a subsequent question, that last night he
was indisposed, and he added in a loud voice, " but
,
here I am now well.foi you—what more do you want?l
I suppose my wife took 'the liberty of saying I was ill
to-day, to save me this journey in such weather."
William Pye lived in Shrewsbury-court in 1811.
On the night of the fire he heard himself called by
Gibbs and his wife about eleven o'clock at night ; be
got up and saw their house on fire. He went into the
house nest day; all the back part of it was burned.
Hugh Stone, lived at 98, in Whitecross-street, in
1811. On the night of the fire in Gotte's house, the
prisoner came into Witness's house soon after eleven
o'clock at night; he was nearly dressed. The pri-
soner's house was then on fire. The witness's wife
asked theprisciner reipecting the safety of Gibbs and
:htkwife: Prisoner said they were both safe ; all was
iviell.l—The case for the prosecution closed here.
kr: Justice BURaouol addressed the prisoner,
and told him if' lie.siished to say anything to the
Duty then was his time.
The prisoner said* nothing, but put in a paper of
great length (which Was read by the Clerk), and gave
a long account of the different situations in which
the prisoner lived since he came to England from
Germany, in 1804.; it asserted that at the time of the
fire he had property in the house to more than the
amount insured, but he was unable to carry on a suit
against the Insurance Company.*
Mr. Sebby. a Solicitor, proved that Gaskin, who
was the prisoner's Attorney at the time of the fire, is
since dead.

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William Clarke stated that be was proprietor of
the White Lion public-house, Edgewise ; before be
went there he kept the Marquis of Anglesey, in Co-
vent-Garden; lie knew Mrs. Gibbs, said Would not
believe her on her oath.
On his cross-examination be said, the reason was..
when he kept the house in Covent-Garden, his wife
was ill, and Mrs. Gibbs came to himos a friend to
offer her assistance, which he accepted. • While in,
that situation, she was seen by Jack Randall to•lake
a crown-out of his till. Randall acused her of it,
and witness took it from her. He did not prosecute,
because her husband was a Bow-street patrol. "stil
he was afraid the officers mightbe unfriendly toes*
He never saw the prisoner till at the ..„. '
John Randall said he never saw ar5.,(9101,- bat
once, which was at-Clarke's bogie. , • '
John Drakewar* y a baker, in Sopers4owit knew

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Mrs. Gibbs, who lived in Sotnefighwr, and
hot believe her on her oath. . . .
pu his erosiltaminat,ion, he ;*J, the reatee.)
yrirtild not believe Mrs. Gibbs was, that she told'
thild that he, witness 2 was a reputed thief.
i The Depaty-Marshal of the -Maxiisalsea E
PTed that the prisoner was-coslined•for debt in,
. 1843, and was tl ischaraeci 44rier the Lords 4
a Thirteen witnesses, mostly. respectable tradent*
Other had known the prisoner from four 'wen yea
fg:o
Ve'hitti a good characterfor integrity and inesnt,
etal isl.therir stated that they knew his honik,
net.coort and New-street; that.he had iti*.ueci
m Abitfimur, and was to be seen in both pie,.
• igl.., Auntie* guns ouon charged the Jury,' sod n
capitulated the evidelice. tie observed, that the eat
priainly depended on the evidence of An:r Gibbs,.eb
had made a stress case. again.t dr^ prisoner, if4bei
believed herevidence.; but they robst be satisfse,iii
was deserving, of credit, before they would conic
the prisoner of so serious an offence.
eku
' The Jury, after deliberating an hour, returned,
:twenty minutes to eleven, a verdict of—Not Grohs.
The Governor of Newgate .addressed the

and said there Was a detainer lodged against the;
saner for another offence (the charge of setting on ti
the house in New. street, Covent-garden).
The JUDGE said, he must of course be detained.
Hannah Hutchings, aged 16, was capitally cm
victed of stealing in a dwelling-1)011w.
Mary Davage, a married woman, aged forty, t
indicted on Friday last for the wilful mu der of M,
Davage, her daughter. The prisoner had been CoO
mitted on the Coroner's warrant for Wilful Mande
buz it appeared that the certificate was not propel
signed by all the Jurynien. The Inquisition wash{
by the Learned Judge to be bad in law, a:•id
necessity be quashed. The 9:And Jury had duoii
out the hill charging the-prisoner with the crime
murder hence it was the opinion of the Learn'
Judge.(Hosatovo), that there was no neces.ity to pi
,teed to trial, because it would be impossible to 51
rain a convictiost.—The prison*r was theta remor
from the bar.

Jf,hu rage was indicted for kitting and ,laying
jamin Era Iferrry Day, the so rg eon>
sided at Acton, was called on his sunpeeut, but
not appear.

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TheCoURT said, it was impossible to proceed wit
out his testimony, sand the prisoner must be acqiiitto
The deceased met with his death by. fighting, sth
be received a blow that brought on a loakardje
which in sr. few- days terminated his existence. V
M
dict—Aot Guilty. ..
Vakittfite as 49
n, aged SB, and Sarah a
alias Bailey. aged $7, were Indicted for stealian
artides of wearing apparel, the proi.erty of
Morris.—The prosccutor stated, that he knew,
male prisoner by the name of Sarah B.tiiey, who
been in his employ. Witness is by trade a '
she worked in his house, situated in Cow Crass!
The . male prisoner was represented .as her ht
and they had lodgings 'as such in lib house ft
months previously to the robbery. On•the ll
May, suspecting so:net/Mfg:wrong, witness w;
duced to send for A vie, theofficer, tt ht) came i
evening, when he related the circumstance 1
having lost, 'among other things, two ends of
At the request of witness the prisoners were
Charge. The officer accused the female with
committed the robbery. Part of the propel ty
came into his possession after the prisoners •
prehended.—The shopman to Mr. Chapman,
broker, of St. John-street, produced articles ,
at his shop by a female, and identified by the

cutor as his property. Witness could not s\
the female prisoner was the person who pled g:
in the name of Ann Martin,—Another witness
duced other articles which had been disposed
precisely the same circumstances.—George
130 w-street officer, deposed, that he apprehended
prisoners, at. which time he found the duplicat
the goods now produced on both the prism
female prisoner said her husband had been very
and she pledged them with the intention of
them out again.—The female pi isoner etc,
Hodgson, and threw herself on the mercy
In summing up the evidence, the Lest ned
(H.outorn) observed, that there had not been
evidence adduced against the male prisoner;
fore directed an acquittal as to him.
Verdict—Sarah Bailey, alias Hodgson,
Death—Valentine Hodgson Aot Guilty.
John Mackintosh, a watchman, was int
stealing, on the 3d of June, from the person .
Collins, a watch and appendages, the property
husband.—Mrs Collins said, that on the 3d
about two o'clock in the morning, she was.v
towards home; when near Hyde Park, where
prisoner was on duty, she asked him if he could
form her where she could dry ber clothes, as it was
very wet night, and get some refreshment ? Thept
soner took iler to the corner of Tauersall's yard, b
the house was shut : shewas so fistigtkecla.that she;
down.on a step,, and the prisoner wept Ww..2,9
a quarter before four he returned, and (feted her
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was .walki

asylum with his wife; sbe accompanied him to
house in the Almonry, Wiattninster; he then said
lived in a public-hour, but she would be-mare
fortable in that house; she then took off her
only, and laid on the.bed. Her watch was 1,0
her side, and the prisoner must have seen it w
helped her to take off her goWn. She had --
obliged to 0)449 his assistance, as it was solve.
about an hour after she awoke, and f9,40-1#
soner and the watch gone. -She had lost no
On asking the landlady who the prisoner
said she did not !know. Witneii went to the
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house, and by describing the•prispner, Paced bilk
his lodging, where the watch was (pond. Armes
married, and resided a Waotswarai. Ittt
the prisoner.hadremained son* tiSmivittivtile '
cutrix..—Las4asse, a wetc*.a4, spa Timbxn,
as
ficer, proved taking thcprisoner. into custatlY.—
prisoner denied intending to steal the *arch:
The Jury consulted forahost an 4010919 d, -
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a verdict. of Guilty.,
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