Star.
London, England, 1805-09-13 00:00:00

P3LICF.

Pearrets.--In the cafe of the King, on the infor•
mation of John 11211, v. James Whiting, relative to
the recovery of a pcnllty of zcl. for printing the

title-page of a book, wilrout announcing the printer's
name (a report of which appeared in our paper of
Tuefday lad), we are forry we were not correa with
refpe& to the reafon of the Defendant's acquittal,
and the opinion delivered by the Magi(hates. The
cafe was thus, Mr. ALLEY. as Crunfel for the infor-
mant, after the examination of his witnefs, feeing
that he could not fubflantiate the charges, obferved,
that, under the prefent ciicumllances, he would not
prefs the cafe againft the Defendant, as it did not
charge him with any moral crime. He therefore
would withdraw the complaint. In confequence of
this, the Magittrates raid, they were glad they were
not called upon to give their opinion on the prefent
occafion ; and that, in entail:pence of the honour-
able condo& of the Counfel for the informant, the
Defendant mutt be acquitted.

We therefore take the earlieft opportunity to cor-
rea our mis-flatement, left any printer fhould he led
into a fnare, conceiving that Inch printing, without
his name annexed, did not come within the meaning
of the Aft. Of this, however, we can affure them,
that we have feen feveral of the mon refpeflable law
opinions, all of which diftinely Sete the liability of
printers, under the aft, to a penalty of aol. for every
copy of any paper whatfoever, to which his or her
name and place of refidence are not annexed, except.
ing auction bills and cards containing the name and
articles dealt in by any trader.
' At Marlborough-ftreet Office, a fingular charge
of robbery was yellerday made by a publican in
Bloomfbury, againft a gentleman of repeeability and
fortune, in the vicinity of Bedford Square :—A kind,
of military inflitution had been eilablithed at the
public houfe for many years. On the Complainant:
becoming landlord, a feftival was held when a mil:
underftanding arofe with the landlord and the mem-
bers of the inbilitution, whole devices decorated the
room. The gentleman charged in this inftance, in-
timated to the landlord his intention of removing the
inflitution from the houfe, and that he fhould then take
with him the devices of two of his friends. He did
fo, when he was charged with the robbery complain-
ed of. The Magiftrate difcharged the complaint,
with a fevere reprirm• d to the landlord.
MURDIR.—About half pail eleven o'clock on
Wednefday night a horrid murder was perpetrated'
on the body of a perfon unknown ; the circumfiances
of which, on the belt enquiry we couldmiake are
as follow :—At the time above hated, a lad, ;bout
fifteen, the apprentice of a tradefman, palfing through
the narrow lane at the corner of Holborn-row, Lin-
cold's Inn-fields. called Whettione-park, at the end
of an alley called Feathers-court, leading to 'Hol-
born, beard fome blows given ; law a man fall ;
heard him moan piteoully ; and faw a man in a
dark coloured (mock flock, who. had given thofe
blows, run away down the lane. The boy immedi-
ately gave the alarm to a man who keeps a public-
hook the coiner of Feathers-court, who came out
with a candle, and law the deceafed lying fenfelefs,
with his face much bruifed and wounded, his front
teeth knocked out, and bleeding. He immediately
called the watch, and other affiflants, and after well-
ing the face of the deceafed, and finding him with
fcarcely any fymptoms of life, had him can ied, for
aillitance, to the (hop of a furgeon in Holborn, from
whence, though appearing to be pall all furgical aid,
he was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, but,
on examination, was quite dead. The body (hewed
no other marks of violence but about the head and
face, which were feverely bruifed and wounded, but
not apparently by any fharpinftrument ; neither was
there any fracture of the Ikull, or any of the bones,
though it mull be obvious that the deceafed died in
confequence of the violent blows he received.
Notwithflanding the general alarm excited at the
moment the body of the deceafed was found, there
was no clue left by which the perpetrator of the mur-
der could be traced. except that he ran into Holborn,
whither the watchman purfued, and railed the hue and
cry. The coachmen at the next Rand reported that
a man anfwering the defcription given by the boy
who law the tranfallion, had been (kulking about
their carriages, but that he ran off towards St.
Giles's ; fo that all further purfuit feemed ufelefs.
One of the Bow-ftreet Patrole going his rounds,
and palling through Charles Itreet, Soho, law a man
coming rapidly towards him, dreffed as above de-
fcribed, and flopped him, on fome fufpicion from his
appearance, alking the way to Soho-fquare. The
fellow aufwered him rudely, pulled him off, and ran
on, when the Bow-ftreet Officer, who had a flrong
recognition of his perfon, called out flop thief: The
fellow immediately redoubled his (peed, but was met
by one of the Patrole from Marlborough-ltreet. who
tripped up his heels and fecured him ; when he was
taken to the next watch-houfe, where the rumour of
the murder of Whettione Park had jun reached, and
the defcription of the perthn by whom it was com-
mitted exactly anfwering that of the prifoner, he was
kept in dole cultody, and yelterday brought before
the Sitting Magittrate at Bow-street, when he under-
went a foil examination. The boy who had feen the
fatal tranfaeion identified his periim. Many marks
of blood were (till apparent on his thin-neck, Beeves
and hands, about which he could give no fatisfaaory
explanation, but denied any knowledge of the tranf•
aftion. He is a tall, robult, defperate-looking fellow,
has the appearance of a liable keeper, or ion-porter,
and calls himfelt 114. Moji. He was recognized as
an old offender by fome of the Officers, and is Paid
to have lately returned from tranfportation.
A woman who reticles in Feathers-court, with
whom the prifoner is alledged to have cohabited, was
alfo taken into cuilody and interrogated. It appear.
ed that the deceafed was killed oppofite to her door,
and fhe was not quite lure whether the had ever feen
him before, but would give no pofitive evidence
about the traufaeion. The prifoner was committed
to Newgate. The Corriner's Inqueft had not fat
yellerday evening on the body, but it remained in
the dead room at St. Bartholomew's Hofpital for in-
fpeeion. The deceafed was reputably dreffed, in a
blue coat, leather breeches, and boots, had the ap-
pearance of a countryman juft come to town, ant,
in all probability, had been wheedled into the vil-
lainous alley, where he met his death, by fome' of
that horee of prollitutes who have fo long inferred it,
as the common rendezvous of themfelve‘, and the
midnight plunderers who are their affociatc.

BIRTH.
At Longhorn HAIL in the County of Suffolk, the ittght Hon.
Lady Charlotte Gootd, of a fon.

MARRIED.

Lately, at King's Norton, in the County of %Vomiter, by the
Rev. Dr. Croft. Mr. George .Palmer, of St. James's-firm to Mils
Mary Ann Gill. of Balfall Heath, youngeft daughter of the late
Thomas Gill, Efq. of Birmingham.

MARRIAGEN BIRTHS AND DEATHS, IN INDIA.
[FROM TIM CALCUTTA MONTHLY JOUlt NAL, TOR DFC. 1104.1
BENGAL MARRIAGES ...OD the 2Sth ult. Mr. Robert Deane.
to Mifs Mary Edwin—On the ift inftant, Mr. John Peters, to
Mifs Leonora Swards—On the zd inftant, Mr. Jofrph Ferran.
brother to Mrs. Jleph Barretto, to MifsThereza Pereira—On t' e
gtb biltant, at Chaodernagore, by the Rev. Father Benjamin, C.
A. M De Framond, Elq. to Mifs Lucy Carlier—Same day, M..
John De Rondo. to Mils Off Chriltobo—On the tcth inftaur,
Mr. John Sterenfon to Mrs. Philippina Strange—On the 9th inft.
Mr. joreph Simplon, Architedt, to Mils Sarah Hinckfman.

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BLNGAL BI RTH S.—On the 19th ult. Mrs. Franks, of a daugh-
ter—On the 26th ult. the Lady of James Colvin, Efq. of a daughter
the 29th uk. Mrs By‘ballee, of a daughter—On the Ift of
December, the Lady of George Tyler, Efq. of a fon—On the 3cl
inftant, Mrs. E. Muckerties, of a daughter—On the 4th Wilma,
at Balna Ghaut, near Benares, the Lady of Wm. Scott. Efq of a
daughter—On the xr.th initant, at Jeffore, Mrs. I. De Courey, of a
daughter—ln the Fort at Agra, on the 23d ult. the Lady of Captain
Cumberledge. of a daughter—On the 14th initant,the Lady of G.
A. Simpfon, F.fq. of a fon—At flarraepore. on the ttth infant,
the Lady of Captain Charles Port ous, of a daughter—On the
9th ult. at Dinapore, the Lady of Captain J. Brooks, Ma;or of
Begade, of a daughter—At Howrah, on thy t Ith inftant, Mrs.
Matilda Verdoncel, of a fon—On the z3th November, the Lady
of Captain ',nitrites, of 11 M 66th Regitrylit, of a daughter—On
the t3th itiftant, at Fort William, the Lady of Captain Thomas
Bayly, of H. M. Ceylon Caffic Regiment, td a daughter.

BENGAL DEATIIi —On the i 3th inftant, at Deeg, in an enrage.
ment with Jefwunt Rao Hotter, Captain Henry Norford, of H M.
76th Foot; Lieutenants C. C. Faithful and B. Burgers, of the 4th
Native Regiment; Lieutenant John Forbes of the ad ditto; Lieu-
tenant R. U. Hales, and Alllftant Surgeon Thomas Lynn, of the
15th ditto—On the 27th ult. Mr. James jaek—At Allahabad, on
the rBth Ult. Lieutenant Colonel Richard Ralph—At Welland, on
the 18th tilt. Lieutenant C. A. P. WiPiams, o, the 6th Regime-t
Native Cavalry—On the 341 inftant, Penfiened Lieutenant Janie
Walwr—Captain W. P. Cartwright, of the Marine Battalion, a .1
his Lady, at Hazareebaug, on the 2t ft and 29th tilt—On the 7th
inftant, Mifs Margaret Maria Mofcrop, aged five ytart—Banc
day. Mrs A. D'Crue—On the sth Whitt, after a long inners, the
wife of Mr. Thomas Smith—At &tures, on the 25th nit. after a
Owl Mat of two days, the Lady of Lieutenant Colonel Wood,
of H. M. Bth Regiment of Light Dragoons—At Chittagong, Mr.
Pereira, In the em-doy of H. F Tarrig, Efq —Lately, at Cawnpore,
Major Robert Steer Allen, of the Bengal Eltablifttment—On the
18th loft. M. W. T. Davy—On the 19th init. Mrs. C. CloGn—
Lately, with Colonel Murray's detachment, Capt. Jame. Richard.
fon, of H. M. 86th Regiment—Lately, to the Northward, Capt.
P. Dunbar, of the Honourable Company's 3d Regiment of Native
Infantry—At Midnapore, on the 7th inftaht, lieutenant Francis
Lee Parker—On the t tth init. Lieut. Charles Murray—On the
t ath loft. Mr. Mary• Piccaelty—On the 13th inft. Mr. Thome,
Caro( gy —On the 28th of December, at Barraeporc, Capt. Wm.
Shipton, Efq. of the Bengal Artillery.

Manass BIRTHS—On the nth tdt. at Prince of Wales's Wand,
the Lady of James Carnrgy, Fig. of a fon—At Madras, on the ;d
ult. the Lady of Lieut. Colonel Orr, of a fon—At Madras, on the
scth uh. the Lady of the Reverend Dodtor Kerr, of a fon--At
Jaffnapatam, on the 12th November, the Lady of Carter matter
Dennifon, of H. M. Malay Regiment, of a fon.
MADRAS DEAT:IR.--OD the 7th Nov. at TrincomaUee,Lieut. L.
Rogers, of the sd Bengal Volunteer Battalion, of a fever caught in
Candi, a few days after his return from that country, with the Bat-
tacalao Detachment—At Fort Cornwallis, Prince of Wales's

!Band, on the zsth November laft, in the 29th year of his age, Sir
John Gordon, Baronet, of the Corps of Engineers on this Eftablith-
ment he is fucceeded by his only furviving brother, now Sir Or-
ford Gordon, Baronet —At Madras, on the 3t ft ultimo, Mr. John
frith, watchmaker and Jeweller, late of the Cape of Good Hope.
BOMBAY BIRTHS—At Broach, on the sob ultimo, the lady
of Lieut. Rebenack, of the Engineers, of a fon..--At Bombay, the
lady of Samuel Bourchier, Efq. of a fon.—At tho fame place, on the
27th ult. the lady of James Stevens, Efq. of the Honourable Com-
pany's Civil Service, of a daughter.

BOMBAY DCATH.....011 board the fbip Thomas, the 24th ult.
on his palrage to Bombay, Lieut. Davidfon.—At Bombay, on the
Seth init. Mr. Warner, a gentlttnan cadet of the Vtrfovah Efta-
bliiltment —.At the fame place, Capt. Abler, of the Madras Military
Eltablithment—At Bombay, on the 12th Odober. Enfign AJecin-
dcr Munro, of the Honourable Company's Military Sei vice on
that Eflablilliment, and fon to General Sir Hedtor Munro, K. B.
—Lately, at Baroach, Mrs. Lawrence, the Lady of Lieut. John
Lawrence, of the Honourable Company's Marine.