Star.
London, England, 1813-02-16 00:00:00


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POLICE. •
HATTON CAnnxii.—Saturday two servants of a
farmer at Finchley were committed to the House of
Correction. The farmer stated, that he sent them to
town for two cart-loads of dung, with teams worth
03501 that they left the teams on the road, while
they were tippling at a public-house, which were
'brought home by a stranger, as the defendants dot
so much intoxicated as to prevent their returning
home till the next day

&mat. uay.
MARLBOROUGH-STREETe•—Thonlat GlOllO and Thomas
Milburn, apprentices to Mr. Thompson, bridle, bit,
jead harness-maker, in Rupert-street, were yesterday
'eltarged with a misdemeanour, in falsely.
.swearing
they were not apprentices, and thereby committing a
fraud by enlisting into the army. It appeared that
the defendants absented themselves from their mas-
ter's employ, and enlisted at one of the rendezvous in
Pimlico for general service. The prisoners were re-
manded for another examination.
!oh* Smart, servant tb a publican, was charged
with obtaining, by false pretences, of Mr. Rivers, two
al notes ; and of other persons, more than a dozen in
number, various articles of goods. The prisoner ob-
tained tife articles in the name of his master. In de-
fence he said, two persons had employed him to com-
mit the frauds, and they had received the goods.—
The prisoner was committed for trial.

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wearer, of any number of appointments he may have
to attend in the course of a day, without the trouble '
of opening the watch, and to awaken him at any
time required. The mechanism is simple, so as to
.insure the performance of the watch. It deprives
the wearer of all fear of deranging, and even allows
him no opportunity for mismanagement, offering
every desirable convenience at a moderate expence.—
Its simplicity of construction admits of its being made
to watches of every principle and description. Sold
by the Manufacturer, C. E. VINERI 44, Castle-street,
Holborn.

We are happy to be able to contradict the report
of the explosion of the powder-mills at Hounslow—
no such circumstance has occurred.

On the evening of Monday se'nnight, Mr. R. Sack,
of Pensharst, Sussex, farmer, was barbarously mur-
dered by Henry Lengridge, a labourer, who resided in
a cottage belonging to Mr. Sack. Langridge has
absconded.

The woman R&M 'Kerrey, convicted of aiding and
abetting Lomas in murdering her husband at Hanke-
low, in Cheshire, and whose sentence was respited on
account of her pregnancy, was executed Saturday
se'nnight at Chester. When on the scaffold she ac-
knowledged her guilt, and exhorted the spectators to
take warning from her melancholy situation ; she has
left five children, the last of whom was brought into
the world about a month previous to her awful exit.
PlLLORY.—Yesterday H. Gawkr, convicted of the
crime of obtaining pensions for seamen by giving
them false certificates of service, underwent that an
of the sentence of the Court which adjudged him to
exposure in the pillory for one hour, in front of the
Admiralty. At half past twelve, the culprit stept
from a hackney-coach upon the platform, and, with-
out paying the least attention to the surrounding po-
pulace, put his head and hands into tie places, ap-
propriated for their reception. After walking his
hour, at a quick pace, he was released from " the
wood," and conveyed back to Newgate. The po-
pulace did not assail him either with clamour or mud,
but appeared rather to regret that a young man ct
such a prepossessing appearance should become an
object of infamy.
ARRESTING A DEAD BODY.---II will be in the recol-
lection of our Readers, that, some few months ago,
the corpse of a person who died in circumstances of
indigence was arrested by a creditor for a small debt,
and that the bailiff, who was concerned in the trans-
action so repugnant to law, after the caption, carried
it out from the shell wherein it lay, and lodged it in
the cellar of the creditor, from whence it was at last re-
moved, and interred by the surviving relatives. Poi
this perversion of the law of the land, those relatives
brought their action against the aggressor, who, per-
mitting judgment to go by default, the cause came
on before the Sheriff and a Jury on Friday last, to
assess the damages, when, after hearing Counsel and
witnesses on both sides, the Jury, after some consulta-
tion, brought in their verdict for the plaintiffs —Da-
' raages £2OO.
On Monday se'nnight, between eight and nine
o'clock in the evening, a most daring attack was
made upon two of his Majesty's game-keepers, by
five poachers, who were discovered in a plantation in
Windsor Great Park, in the act of shooting the phea-
sants. These men were all armed with fire-arms and
bludgeons, and several with long poles of a peculiar
construction, with which they are accustomed to dis-
charge the spring-guns which are set in their way.
By this unequal force the keepers were overpowered,
although they manfully fought with the pikes
ehich they usually carry when they-expect a conflict,
.Ind inflicted many severe wounds on their sturdy op-
ponents. One of the game-keepers was so dreadfully
beaten that his life is in the utmost danger, from the
severe blows he received on his head with the butt
tnd of a gun, till it was shattered from the barrel
and the lock broken in pieces. One of the offenders
in is custody—the others escaped.

About six o'clock on Monday se'nnight, as Mr.
John Turner, of Boltongate, and Mr. John Irving,
were returning from Cockermouth market, they were
stopped by six foot-pads, who, after ill using Mr.
Turner, robbed him of fourteen guineas, and took
from Mr. Irving £2, with which they made their
I escape.
Mr. Hall, a coach and harness-maker, residing in
Oxford-street, was unfortunately killed on Saturday
evening last, in the following dreadful manner :—he
was going up stairs after returning home, and sud-
denly fell backwards, by which accident his neck
was dislocated, and he died within a short period
afterwards.

Sunday, about eleven o'clock, a man, in a state
if intoxication, ascended a two storey ladder, and
got upon the scaffold, erected against the house of a
grocer, in Catherine-street, in the Strand, when one
if the boards giving way, he fell on the pavement,
and fractured his skull. He was conveyed to St.
Bartholomew'; Hospital in an insensible state.