Star.
London, England, 1812-09-29 00:00:00

OLD BAILEr.

TO. -TM' MOON.
my. ••••••••••

t*.4. 0 radiant Lanai is thy light
Woo/boos should pay;
A gratehd contrast to the bright
Ribhence of the day
'When sinks the evsning 3un to rent
• Demanding from on high ; •
Radios. In glorious splendor drost,
And gildi the ambient sky-..
In etbtr thou dust lucent rise,
• • Dispelling torrent glcom;
Removing darkness from' our eyes,
The Earth thou doss flume

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Bomstimes by transient clouds thy light.
Ame cast is asuceard ;
Yet men emerging to our sight,
k. Again thou art rrveard.
Thu, sacred 'froth is oft suppresed,
By Falsehood's base design ;

Tet bursting forth, soots stands cooked,
In malebty chin - !
Attendant Planet I thee we dewy
Not only to 'admire ;
Our pstkude is alto due,
To war At.ssrnu ss Se
Respkadem Orb I with argent hewn,
And slimly pleating,light ;
With lustre mild, thou reign's' supreme,'
The Empress of the Night !

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Yesterday W. Joh Staseterts put to the bat to
take h:s trial on an indictment, charging him, with
having stole* several books, a silver muff-box, and
other articles, the property of Hugh M'Kenzie,.Elii.
It appeared, from the evidence of Charles Strachan,
the seivaht boy of the prosecutor, (who lives at No.
2, Brick-court, Temple') that on the 20th of July
last, the prisoner c;lled•at the Chambers, and asked
if Mr. M Kenlie was at home f s Ott being answered
in the neflative, he said he would write a note to him.
The boy immediately procured him some paper, and
a pen and ink. Prisoner then complained of being
thirsty, and begged the boy to get him a glass of wa-
ter, which the boy agreed to do, and quitted the room
for that purpose. Ou his return the prisoner gave
him a note, which hedesitedlim to give to his mas-
ter, and then went out. This note being unsealed,
the boy observed, that it was nothing but a piece of
blank paper. His_ suspicions were immediately cad-
ted, and he followed the prisoner into New-court, estd•l
there told him that the note he had left had no writing.
in it. The prisoner said he was mistaken, it was writ-
ten with a pencil.. This, however, not being dm
case, the boy insisted on his going back to the chant-
bers, and the porter of the Inn having come to his-ai-
-1 listAnce, the prisoner agreed to accompany them;
and in going up stairs, a hook fell from him, which the
bo7 picked up, and recognised as his master's. The
prisoner was searched, and other books, also the pro-
perty-of the prosecutor, were found in his possession.
He was afterwards conducted to the Brown Bear,
where a snuff-box, likewise the property of Mr. I
M'Kenzie, was found.

Yesterday se'neiglo the first stone of the new Lan-
castrian school in Wakefield, was laid in the presence
of more than 5000 people.
Muitrierts.—A bout nine o'clock in the evening of
Sunday se'nnight, a number of reapers who had been
.drinking at Denbigh, and were returning to their
homes, quarrelled ; a man of the name of E. Ed-
wards was passing by on horseback and endeavoured
to peen y them, when one of the party, a native of
Lapel Garmon, near Llanwrst, struck his horse upon
the nose( which so much exasperated him, that he
' gave the man a blow across the face with a stick,
won this the other plunged a knife into his belly.—
Ilie immediately dismounted, a scuffle ensued, and
be fell through loss of bled. He was removed to
) Denbigh, where he expired in a few hours. Upon
; examining the body his bowels had protruded through
• the wounds Coroner's verdict —Wilful Murder.—
) The olleuder was committed to Ruthin gaol
A melancholy circumstance occurred at Dover on
Sunday to a seaman belonging to the Olympia cutter
which came to that port on Saturday. A Marine
was placed on the quay to prevent the crew from
coming tin shore ; he was much inebriated although
on his post, and seeing one of the crew on shore at a
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very short distance, he levelled his piece and shot the
Frfellow through the body,which killed him instant.
Them tame was immediately oaten into custody,
. end as Inquest was held on the body of the deceased,
, wren alter a long investigation, the Jury returned a
se roiet of Ways! Monk, against the marine (John Os.
• born) and he has, in consequence, been committed to
• Z)over gioal to take his trial at the next Sessions.—
The dyeeased's name Was Henry Gordon : he had
been upwards of twenty years in his Majesty's ser-
. vice, and was much beloved by his shipmates on
board the cuter.
Dumas, Seer. 25.—Upwards of 200 disturbers
of the peace, with fire arms, marched into the town
1 of Croom, county .Limerick, on Saturday night,
dashed iu the Bridewell door, and took thereout a
prisoner, confined for murder.
A Most bat barous Murder was committed near
Tralee, last week, upon the body of JOHN SEEGER-
-1 110 a, Esq. a Magistrate, in the execution of his duty.
..—He had gone to superintend the execution of
a Sheriff's warrant upon two brothers of the name of
Penii gtnn, who refused him admittance, and one
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• of them fired at and shot him.--After the Inquest
ik
CII I lbetio Plr, HlCKahtt and Dr. BUSTEED were return-
ing to naive, when a shot was fired at their carriage,
1 but the ball only passed through the side windows.
On Pri...ay se'nnight, the lb:courier( of Limerick . GUILDHALL.—A boy, named 'toast*, was yester.
proceeded born thrice to Newport, in the county ofi
day examined on a- charge of stealing a three shilling
Tipperary, where he arrested a person, formerly a ' piece off the counter of a shopkeeper in Fleet Market,
; Captain in the artny, on the information of Philip ;by the means of a long stick, covered at the end with
• • liroughan, publican of that city. 'The informatio ibird-lime. The offence appears to be a new kind of
• which Was swum before the Reconnen charges him depredation.
o He was remanded.
with meeting at the informant's house, and submit- nsine-srazzr.—A person named Slater alias's
ting to him a plan for organizing the inhabitants of Lir •'
, is, was committed yesterday by J. Mosna, Esq.
Limerkk, and the adjacent cotunies, for seditious
. on a charge of uttering a forged bank note, purpor.
'ForPost s• ting to be a one pound note of the Bank of England.
A robbery was last week committed in Dublin, at.
HUDDERSFIELD, SEPT. 24.—N0 depredations have
tended with very singular circumstances. About mid-
night, iiprostitute was accosted by a person somewhat i been committed in this neighbourhood this week: pri.
soners, t chie on
intoxicated, who took het to a house of ill-fame, where ;
of Luddism),fly
are charges of burglary, under colour
daily brought in here by the vigi.
she contrived to pick his pocket of a small envelope,l
lance and activity of the,police.
I containing 19 notes of stloo each. One of these she
I • entrusted the next day to a Mr. Casey, a mealman, to Saturday last, at noon, four of the unfortunate men
precitre change; and two more to a Mr. Lynch; with I who were condemned at the last Lancaster Assizes,
whom she had formerly lived. The latter, hawever, , underwent the awful sentence of the law, viz. James
disclosed the transaction to the banking-house whose I Colgarofor highway robbery; Thomas Robinson, for
- name appeared to the notes ; and it was agreed to de. I maliciously stabbing; and Henry and Joseph Mac-
• taint the woman when she came, and take measures' Gleade, for burglary. John Wright, for forgery, has
to recover, the remainder of the notes. But in the been tespited till the 3d of October.
mean time Casey and one M'Lin, a nexodoor neigh-' Wtocimerax SEPT. 26.—Last week an inquest
hour, contrived, by threatening the woman, to get ' was taken, by Mr. Green, at the parish of Hawkley,
possession of the entire sum, and then turned her out ; on the bale of Richard Gamon, who was ridingon
of doors, telling her to get away as fast as she could, the shaft of a waggon, and is supposed to have fallen
for her lite would be in danger if she were taken. For ...off, as he was dead on the road, with such marks as
a few hours she was inclined to comply with their sug-t, to satisfy the jury that the wheels must have gone
gestions, but afterwards gave herself up, and disclosed over him. Verdict—Accidental Death. And on the
all the facts. Casey and M'Lin are both in custody; , same day, on the body of James Adams, a child
but the most extraordinary circumstance in the whole , about four years of age, who was riding in a cart,
case is, that no person has yet come forward to claim when the horses' running upon a bank overturned it,
the property. I and the cart falling •on the child's head, 'instantly
Wednesday, Messes army, Midshipman of the killed him. Verdict—Accidental Death.
. Press Gang stationed at Greenock, was brought be.l Thursday last, as the Rev. Mr. Talbot, curate of
• fore the Magistrates, ft r wantonly firing a musket, I Tisbury, was riding a spirited horse, it leaped over a
supposed to be charged with ball, among the specta.. stem; bridge and pitched upon all.fours in the water,
tors witnessing the scene, while in the act of impress. about ten feet beneath, with the rider upon his back ;
ing a man upon one of the quays. After a tong and this Gentleman's escape *as miraculous, neither the
interesting examination, in which the fact was fully rider nor the horse being materially hurt.
proved, and from which it clearly appeared, that
no : FATAL Boauee...-On Thursday last at Ditton
attempt had been made by the spectators to eircuno. ' Marsh Fair, near Westbury, Wilts, twe labouring
vent the prisoner in the pursuance of his duty, or to men having quarrelled, they proceeded to blows,
rescue the person impressed, he was sentenced to 30 when one of them receiving a blow on the neck, fell,
days confinement in Bridewell, and before liberation, and immediately expired. The offender, whose name
to find caution against such unwarrantable conduct is Morris, is in custody. The deceased has left eleven
ia time to come. t.c.444rpn unprovided for, his wife died some time since.

The prisoner said nothing in his defence, but left his
case in the hands of his Counsel, who called five most
respectable persons; from whose depositions it ap.
peered, that the prisoner was formerly a Fellow-
commoner at Cambridge, and a Professor of Che-
mistry; that he had at all times supported the cha-
ractertaf a man of the strictest honour and integrity ;
but that of tate, in consequence of a variety of mis.
fortunes which had befallen him, he had evinced the
strongest marks of a disordered mind. It also ap-
peared, from the evidence of Mr. Landseer, an en-
graver, that the prisoner was above the ceremony of
asking any small favour of a friend, such as borowing
books, or other trifling articles. He always took
them without asking, and expected his friends to be
equally free with him. It farther turned out, that
the prisoner was upon the most intimate footing with
a gentleman of the name of M'Kenzie, but whether
the prosecutor was that person or not, did not appear.
The Commorr SERJZANT having summed up the
evidence with great impartiality, the Tury, without
hesitation, acquitted the prisoner.

Twenty-three prisoners were also tried,ls of whom
were convicted of felonies, viz. T. Jones, for stealing
three candlesticks, to be imprisoned one week in New-
gate, and fined Is. Ann Hudson, for stealing a sheet,
fined Is. and discharged; Mary Hughes and Ann
Thomas, for stealing two pewter pint pots, to be im-
priso n e d one year in the House of Correction, Cler-,
kenwell, and fined Is. J. Frederick, for stealing s
shirt, fined Is. and discharged ; J. Neale, for stealing
a brass cock, and five pieces of brass, to go for a sol-
dier or sailor; Elia. Graves, for stealing a quantity
of ribband, imprisoned six months in the Hoose of
Correction, and fined Is. B. Wellington, for stealing
a pair of shiets, to go for a soldier or sailor; Sarah.
Sniith, for stealing two blankets, fined ts. and impri-
soned one month in Newgate ; I. Cowell, for stealing
a sheet, fined Is. and imprisoned in the House of
Correction for six months ; J. Smith, for stealing ss.
in halfpence, judgment respited W. Thredder, for
stealing some wood ; T. Randall and J. Wallis, for
stealing a leaden pipe and two brass cocks, to be
transported for seven years; T. Kettle, for stealing
a pair of glass salts, fined Is. and imprisoned six
months in the House of Correction; and Mary Quin,
for stealing a washing tub, fined Is. and discharged :
and six were acquitted, viz. W. Brown, W. Manning,
Frances Longhuist, N. Phillips, Sarah Allen, and
T. Foley.—Sessions adjourned to the 28th of Qcto-
her next.

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