Star.
London, England, 1802-09-07 00:00:00

DUBLier, AUGUST 31.

. A failor on the plank, when going
aboard thip4 t.O Tueiday eveniog, fell into the
river, at George'karay, and being drawn under
the vet Tel by the vortex or attraElion of the water,
was unfortunately drowned, bcforeaffillance could
be given.
Sam: nigia, w.! hear, a failor going to the fame
quay, was f.u:td dead, being !hot through the
bady.—lt was ftypofed he made refirtAllCe to Come
robber or robbers, which cautcd his murder, for
when difcovered he had no money; in his pockets,
though it was known in the veffel to which he
belonmed, that he had a guinea and a halt note,
with silver, in the forenoon.

On Saturday laft, the High Sheriffs (KING and
ClavrN ) proceeded with a competent force to
Donnybrook fair, and ordered the perfons affem.
bled to bike their tents and difperfe. With this
order the greater number complied, but a few
tents were again crated in the night, and on Sun-
day and yetlerday; many parties from the city
were to be teen regaling on the fad, to which the
fine weather, now happily let in, proved particu.
lady favourable.
On the 2:,t11 came. on to be tried at Mullin.
gar, before the Right Hon. Baron NORBURY, and
a fpecial Jury of the county of Wetimeath, a caufe
•by ejeftment, on the tide, wherein Drury Jones,
of the city of Dublin, grocer, anti Hannah Jones,
otherwife Hatfield, his wife,
.rms4 feveral other
//Akre of John Hatfield, late rif At4nagrab in the
fail county, Efq. decealtd, were. plaintiffs ; and
Striatum Hatfield, widow and devilee of laid John
Hatfield, was defendant, for recovery of Mr. Hat.
fieldis feveral elates, impeaching the will whereby
they were deviled to the defendant, when after an
*impartial hearing of twelve hours, and a moll able
charge from the Judge to the Jury, a verdift was
found for the defendant, Mrs. Hatfield, on the
clearer' and molt refpeflable evidence.
Thurfday lafl, came on to be tried at Trim, be-
fore the Right Hon. Baron NORBURY and a fpe
vial Jury, a caufe wherein Chr. Cufack, Efq. was
plaintiff and Thomas Keoghan, defendant. The
.aition was brought by the plaintiff againft the de.
fondant, for diverting an ancient water-courfe,
-which occupied the entire of the day, and which
intereaed every gentleman of property in the
county; when, upon a full and patient inveftiga-
iion of the fads, and the examination of feveral
witneffes on-both fides, a verdia was found for the
plaintiff, which met with univerfal approbation.
The following perfons were tried and found
znilty at the Downpatrick Atli-ses
Henry Wskiker fubmitted to an indi&uent for ob-
taining money by falfe pretences, with intention to
defraud the Commillioners of the Inland Naviga-
tion, and ordered to be tranfported for feven years.
Anne Hardy, for petty- larceny, ordered to be
Imprifoned one month.
William Bell, Ate ran deV Madine, John Madine,
Thomas M' Kee, James Balfet,and Robert Coulter,
were all found guilty ofa riot, gnd-unlawfully ap-
pearing under arms at Strewell,near Downpatrick,
on the. 27th of June lath, where two men were
killed, (for which murder thefe men had been pre-
viouily tried and acquitted.)—Wm. Bell was fen-
tenced to 12 months imprifonment—A. and J.
Madine and Thomas' McKee to fix months, and
all to give fecurity for their good behaviour.
The Roman Catholic party implicated in this
tiot were acquitted. In the courfe of thefe trials,
which occupied three entire days, it appeared that
the quarrel originated between two individuals on
Strewell-green, and though it afterwards became
general between the Proteitants and Roman Ca-
tholics there affembled, yet it was by no means a
pre-concerted or general party quarrel ; on the
contrary, it appeared that many perfons of both
perfuafions remained there without interfering, and
without infult or moleftation.

John Callaghan, Patrick Callaghan, Dan. Cal-
laghan, and Thomas Callaghan, for a riot and if-
fault near Bambridge.—John Callaghan fentenced ,
to a month's imprifonment, and the other two to I
a fortnight. The fentcnce was mitigated on 2C-
count of the prolocutor, Andrew Caldwell, avow-
ing his intention of bringing a civil action for the
injury he received.
John Killen (who Rood indifted for murder) his
trial was poltponed, as was that of* James and
John Browne, for cutting and (tabbing Michael
Cranny, on the 28th July lad, at Redemon.
Lifford aCS zes commenced on Monday the 16th
inR. To the credit of the county, we are enabled
to. Rate, that the trials for criminal offences were
very few, and chore of a petty nature, Cave one,
wherein a Clergyman of the Ellablifited Church
was inditted for murder, but it appeared that the
difcharge of the piftol, by which thideceafed
happened in a fcufße, and was unintentional on
the part of the prifoner—He was icquitted.

The Aims of Cork terminated in a funilae man- -
ner, a few convictions having taken place for of-
fences of minor crinmality.
At the aMies of Trim, which doled on Friday
there were two capit:il conviftions.
Extraa of a letter frbm Cavan, Augult 3t.—
Yellerday our affixes ended, which proved a
maiden one ; one perfon only was tried and acquit-
ted, and one bill only was found by the Grand
Jury. When the grand Jury were affembled in
Court to have die IC prefentments read, the Rev.
Mr. Archer, htfpettor General of Prilosers, addref-
fed the Court, and related liime enormous abufes
pradifed in the pritim: he expatiated largely on
the cruelty of indifcrimisately bolting all prifoners
with heavy bar-bolts, which were a ligature ex-
tremely painful to the wearer-snot fo time as
chain-baits, an were extremely dangerous iu the
hand of a snail-, made Jeff:irate by inhuman treat-
ment, and were ufvci only for the purpoie of extort-
ing money from the wretched prifoner. Lord
AVONIKOItd having minutely examined the abufes
c9mplaitied of, told the Grind Jury that he would
not pars a'fmgle prefcntosent for the gaoler.of the
tomtit. and Out he wove a tc20410 the next

eorreaed, he would advice the difmiral of a per-1
fon culpable of fuch cruelty. The Grand Jury
thanked his LordWl), and prefented 501. to be ex-
pended in adapting certain alterations and improve-
ments filggelied to them by the Irrpeelor General;
and at hib requeil they agreed to mile thg gaoler's
falary 401. per ann. if he thould in future deferve
it, the fmallnefs of which (aol per ann.) appeared
to lanetion the exactions which he drew from the
w;.etched and fometimes innocent prifoner."
On Friday !ail the Clunmel affizes ended, when
the following perfons received fentence, viz.
Patrick Brown, John Hartley, and Phil. Corbet,
found guilty of a burglary and fciony in the dwel-
ling-houle of James• Ryan, of Carrick-on•Suir, to
be hanged on the 18th of September.
Hugh Atkins and Thos. Locker, found guilty
of aiding and affiaing John Laze, and forcibly
carrying off Sarah Holmes, fpialler, to be hanged
on the fame day.
Dan. Heelan, for pig-Healing, to be tranfported
for feven years.
Patrick Harney found guilty of an afrault, and
firing on the Calhel police and a party of the lath
dragoons, to be confined twelve months.

During the very thick fog on &Imlay afternoon
laa, as Mr. Devereux, Navy Agent at Gofport,
and a party of twelve other perfons, were return.
ing in a wherry from Ryde, they were impercepti-
bly carried, by the rapidity of the tide, through
the Needles. In this perilous fituation they. con-
tinued drifting until Monday afternoon, five,
o'clock, when they were picked np by a Torbay
fifhing-boat, a few miles below Portland.
Yeaerday morning, about ten o'clock, the ga-
ble end of Mr. Meux's granary, attached •to the
brewery, from the weight of the malt in the loft,
gave way, and fell on the roof of a public houie
adjoining, which foon after fell in.

On Saturday night, about nine o'clock, a Rage
coach coming to Town was .topped on Finchlcy
Common by four highwaymen, who robbed the
paffengers of what Money they had about them,
and rode away ; after which the coach was again
attacked by other villains, who demanded their
money, when one of the gentlemen told them of
being 'flopped before and robbed of all their pro-
perty, upon which this gang of marauders gave
a Chilling to each of the paffengers and wiled them
a good night.

An opulent butcher at Dore, in Derbyfiiire, was
laft week found drowned in a pond adjoining his
houfe ; he was 84 years of age,And about a month
since married a a young wife.
A large native veffel was lately burnt on the
Coromandel coati ; five or fix of the crew (warn
to the (hors, but many others perifhed ; the acci-
dent happened in the night, but is not at prefent
accounted for.

On Wednefday, the 25th ult. a fire broke out at
the Paper Mills of Mefrs. Fowlers, near Tam-
worth ; a major part of the buildings ufed in the
paper manufarftory were confumed.
Lail week an accidental fire deftoyed a cottage
at Ingham, in Norfolk, by which the poor occu•
piers loft all their little property.

On Saturday morning, about two o'clock, a
moil dreadful fire broke out near BaldoCk, Herts,
which confumed the dwelling-houfes, out-houfes,
&c. containing the amount of the produce of 3'so
acres of wheat, and other fpecies of grain in pro-
portion ; and about s 5 cottages in the fame village.
How this unfortunate carophe was occaiioned
we are not informed.

Nsw CHURCH, IN TKs STRAND.—A Confedion-
er, who rents a houfe directly oppofite wit, in the
narrow pa rage on the northern fide of the Strand,
fome time ago formed a plan of making an ice•
houfe direaly in front, under the (Erect.. A Witty
was accordingly called, for the purpofe of procur-
ing theaffent of the parifhioners to the undertak
ing, who gave fanetion to the plan. About three
weeks ago, preparations were made for its execu-
tion,and the necelfary fpace in the ftreet was paled
in, leaving a pane on the gag•way for pedef-
trians. The workmen then proceeded to excavate
without any interruption, digging below the cel-
lan of the neighbouring houfes, until the middle
of laft week, when fome of the bank fell in; but
no alarm was excited until Saturday night, when
there was another fall of a larger quantity, to the
amount 3f about twenty loads. The place was
now fuppaed to be in great danger, and further
means offecurity were adopted by the addition of
,new timbers, but they proved infufficient ; for on
Sunday evening, the weftern fide gave way, and
yefferday morning, about nine o'clock, the eaflern
followed, fo that the great pit that had been dug,
is now filled up with earth and timber. Fortu-
nately the workmen were at breakfaft at the time
or they muff all have perithed. By this accident,
the duce Wades next to it were placed in the moft
'imminent danger, the flag-way and the cellars
having fallen into the excavation, and even thofe
that are more remote, to the number of two or
three at each end, were not confidered perfeetly
fecure. Some of them have confequently been
abandoned by the inhabitants, and new precau-
tions have been adopted in all. To prevent any
further mifchief, feveral of the houfes have been
propped, and the lireet is now completely blocked
up on the Eaftern fide as far as Mr. Vigueres's,
and on the weifern as far as the One Bell Inn, into
which there remains only a narrow entrance for
foot pallengers.

he following red's, which to Navigators in
warm climates promdes to be ufeful, and which,
from the known anti-feptic qualities of charcoal, is
molt likely to be fuccefsful, is given in one of the
lAti French Journals: ‘1 When the aliments, from
intcnfe heat and long keeping, are likely to pals
into a (late of cortuption," lays the writer, " the
fipple but fore mode of keeping them found and
healthful, is by putting a few pieces of charcoal
into your pot or I'aucepan where the 6th or meat
are to be.builtd. The elicit-of this is, that your
ICoup will be good, and that the fith or Reth will
be both found and agreeable to the talk." This
I experiment has been *4 and Amid not be for-

LAW INTILLIVENCE.

COURT OF REQUESTS; SEPTEMBER 4.
VERNON V. BROOMHEAD.

r4it plaintiff in this caufe was a journeyman ca-
binet maker, and fought to recover the film of zss.
of the defendant, who rented a finall houfe ortwo
ftories high, for making a fort of trap-door from
the upper room to the lower one. It turned out
that the ddendant had fpeculated upon acquit ins
confiderable profits by fortune•telling, and this
door was to have been one of the delufions; he was
to have pradifed on the fimple gulls who applied
to him for information as to their future deltinies.
Unfortunately for the defendant, he had fcarccly
commenced hismagical and allrological operations,
when his condo& was placed fo immediately under
the Arveillance of the police, that he found it necef-
fary to decamp, in order to avoid impending pro-
feeution. This was the only inflance in which his
anticipations had favoured of any thing like pro-
phecy, for had he (laid, the officers, to uf... the
plaintiff's expreflion, would have grabb'd him.
The plaintiff, however, difcovered his retreat, and
fummonednim.—`lheCommiffioners cenfured him
for making trap-doors for conjurors; and upon
his promife never to do any thing of the kind
again, allowed him his demand.

PALACE COURT, SEPTEMBER 4.

CARTIRMOLD V. GARDINER!

The plaintiff in this caufe was a publican, who
kept the Crown public-houfe in Chandos-ftreet ; and
.the dCfendant was a fon of Neptune, but he ap-
peared not altogether impreffed with that rigid
principle of honefty which in general difiingnifhes
a Britith tar. Jack had a girl, but he had not the
means of keeping her—Jaci loved good eating and
drinking, but had no fhot in the locker. To fatisfy
all his wants, he was obliged to have recourfe to
his wits ; he thought the countenance of •the plain-
tiff betokened fimplicity, and he repaired with his
dozy to his houfe; told him a well varnifhed tale
of his having jut} returned froin a long voyage ;
that he was entitled to 2501. prize money ;. ;hat he
had the LORD knows how many bags of hard cafh
in his, birth, with which he meant to enjoy himfelf
as loon as he could get them away from his chip.
The Landlord of the Crown fwallowed the bait ;
gave Jack and his lady the belt room in his houfe;
and regaled him with hot dinners every day, with
plenty of grog. This went on very well for a time,
and the landlord even advanced Jack 141. to enable
him to go to the play and the different places of
amufement; but as there was no appearance of the
prize money or the cafh,; he began to fufpeet fome-
thing ; and upon making enquiry at the AdmiraLty,
he found that the whole was an impofition. He
accordingly cookout a writ, and had the defendant
arrefted, who forth*ith went to gaol; and has there
continued ever fence. His lady who could not
bear to fee him in difirefs, • left him to get out of
pawl as well as he•could. The plaintiff proved
hie claim to the entire fatisfailion of the Court,
and the Jury gave him the whole of his debt.