Star.
London, England, 1801-12-31 00:00:00

POLICI£, eti.

Tony:at Ta Luta s.--Althongh fo saucy im pot
tors, by preerndin&ip petrel; the power of foretel-
ling future events as fortunes, have lately been
prntubed, And fo many unthinking young women
Lave been defrauded of their money, there ;ire Ilia
perfons.to be fbund almoft in every neighbeiurhood
who carry on their deceptions, and numbers of
credulous young Women refort to them and are
defrauded of their money.
A few days finee, a hand-bill of one of thefe pre-
tended Fortune-tellers was fent to a Magiftrate for
Middlefex--•-it was beaded with large letters, "Mrs.
D. Mantua-maker and Atirologer. —lt then Rated
that the bought and fold all forts of Ladies' wear-
iv apparel, and anfwercd all lawful queftions
gratis, in every thing that ladies defired to know,
Loth by feat and land, and allured thole who will
tatour her with their commands, that the will give
fitisfadion. It was requefled that thofe who fa-
voured her by calling would only inquire for the
mantua-maker. The Magilirate fent the bill to
the Public-Office, Bow-fireet, when the Magiftrate
employed a woman to go as direisled by the bill,
nosier pretence of hearing her fortune.
After obtaining an interview of the Learned
Lady, and hearing her fortune told, an information
was grounded, and the was taken into euftody.—
In the room were found two young I.adics gen-
teely dreffed, who the Officers likewife took into•
eattody, and who turned out to be the daughters
of a very r.:ipe,lable Gelltleman. They contetred
Oat they had come to London for the purpofe of
cooluiting Mrs. D. One of them is fwenty-two
scars of age, and lately married, and fhe collec-
ted that her et rand was to know ifher hufband was
true colter? The other, about feventeen, walled
to know i;* (lie was to have a Food hufband, and
if it would he loon The Magtftrate, after giving
them a Ittitable admonition, adsifed them to go
and attend to the counfel of their parents.
Mts. I). was committee' to the Houle of Correc-
tion as a rogue and vagabond.
Qyzeti-Scz,All.—Saturday loft
.moor Browse
unde, went a third examination, charged on the
oath of James Illy on furpicioa of ftealing two
lacks of coals, the property of fume perfon or per-
lons unknown.—The tareumllances of the cafe arc
as follow, and ought to he a caution to all houfe-
keepers lily depnfed, that on Saturday evening,
the loth inftant, ;is he was going to Covent-gar-
den, through Cattle-court, in the Strand, he ob-
ferved the pi ironer coming down tie court with a
fackof coals on his back, and law him (hoot them
Into coal-fhcd in the laid court. Sol-peering the
coals to have ben floltn, he watched the pi honer
to a waggon loaded with coals. in Chandos flreet ;
the prifuner inftantly took a fecond lack of coals
from the waggon. and de poked them in the coal-
Hied whet c the fira lac!. had Seen delivered, when
Et, wpi,r, ',tided the ptifotter.
The prifoner, in his defence, raid, that going
through the Strand, he was met by a (pare boy.
named Osprey, who engaged the ;mitotic:: to XII
him to unload a waggon of coals, to which he con
• on arproaching the waggon, in Chan
oe !pare boy raid, we have a Pack and
1,515 over ; win you fell them for us. to
It Ulmer confented ; an• finding the fad
mr, scent into it, and agreed with the
: to take a tack of (pare boys, meaning
if coals which arc picked out of the mud
ter of the coal•tbed acknowledged, that

hi agreed foe a rack holy, that he *red tabu, &eh
-fort of canlsjos befOgn defaibed, for. Is. per Pack
-he was in an inner room wheathe prifoner Ihot the
firft rack, he West to the fhop to pq hint', whet' fit
• jails/tidy difappeared, acid retinal:p.m a few
Minutes with- the fccond.fack, end .t officer fol.
lowingNm, who took him into 'cu z, Sot,,ne:
fava,,Me circanalances appearing in his FAVOUrfr
after a ,rebuke fast the marinates, he was dir-
e .
birdp.rifoner,Anaother '4ircuraffaincs, was d -
charged from the Monj, hitt adjudged guilty Of a
inifda,mcattor, 40' 81. ant committed toinfon,
Yefferday a feafaring man, lately returned front,'
(ea,' win attacked by a Rout follow it-the •conter
of the King's Mews Gate, by an old trick of pre-
teiding to have hhth` or- Chins •gOods to'rpore
of cheap, 44g:being (snuggled, and the'lastA w
forced into slipublic•houfe, the corner .of the
Mews, br thee* mm, when a wafflers* was pro- ,
doted bi one of them, rho alerted it demi from'
Chine; hat ja:eir been m CM*, Jetted
it never was made there. At leer t.k difpnte
arefe, and the NUM Officers were fent for. leho
took the* to Bow-Area. On maintains the
waiftcottupicet, 11 proved to bee Spitalfields
ma-
gnfaaare. They were Itlf eonsmitted• as idle mut
W- orderly .periods, cot behlg able to shoe at fittiv
fattory *thou* of thethfelves.
A feW eveniagt fate the back premifes of Meffrs.
Winder and limshurfl, of Lambeth, were broke
open, whesiAsiesteratticles were flolen. The hal-
ter of a horfe was tut to lead array the horfe, but
being dißisrbed by - kime noife, the villains went
away without fuceeeding in that part of the in-
tended fpoil.
• The fame evening the dwelffng hook of Mr.
Watfon, in Chigwefl ftreet, Ratcliffe Highway,
was broke open by thieves, and robbed of a quan-
tity of plate and wearing-apparel, to the amount
of upwards of 401.
Late laft Saturday night, the Star public.houfe.'
in Chipilcad, near Croydon, Surry, was entered
by fivc men, who tied Mr. Bailey, the landlord,
his wife, and daughter, in their beds; they then,
in the molt deliberate manner, packed up and car-
ried off every thing that was valuable; even the
cold vifturals they did not leave. • They are fup-
pofed to be Irithmen.
A few nights (nice,. as Mr. NASH, of Tooley-
ftreet, was returning home tictofs Peckham fields,
he was Sopped by three footpads. who robbed him
of his calls and watch.

Waddifday fe'nhighttwo foldiers were difturbed
in the a& of haling coals, at Brighton, bythe
patrol., from whom they fled, and by Rani/Tin
time ekaped the purfiiit ; bnt without their booty.
A fetv days' fince a drummer of the fontth
fantry was committed to Hor(ham jail, charged
with Realing a (liver marrow-1' on in the fcullery
of Mr. Medwin, an attorney of that town.
Committed to Lancaller Caine, laR week, by
T. B. Baytsr, Efq. John Wrigley, charged with
having uttered a counterfeit one pound hank note;
alfo with having in his poffellion, at Manchefler,
two other forged bank notes, without being able
to give any fatisfaeory account how he came by
them : and Edward Bromiley, committed by NA-
rnAni at Mrtas, Efq. coroner, charged with wil-
ful murder of Mary Roßron, of Little Bolton.
On the 7th inn. Peter Macpherfon, fon of the
deceafed Archibald Maepherfon, in Inverchollan,
Argyllfhire, accufed of petty theft, was, at his own
petition, and with confent of the Procurator
Fifcal of the county, banilhed the Paid (hire during
life. And on the 2111 ult. Donald Paterfon, ac-'
cured at the inflame of the. Procurator Fifcal, of
(leafing planks from the Crinan Canal, being found
guilty, was fenteneed by the Sheriff to payment of
a fuitable fine, and to be imprifoned until payment.
An inquilition was held on Monday fe'nnight,
before the Coroner at Little Bolton, on the body
of a young woman, who was precipitated into a
coal pit, near Great Bolton. Sufpicion has fallen
on one Edward Blomiley, who is, in confequence,
committed to Lancafler-caflle. _ _

An inqueft was held laft week before the Coro-
ner, at Little Bolton, on the body of a man killed
there. The caufe of his death ought to be a cau-
tion how to place fire arms when loaded•. A num-
ber of people were drinking together in a public
pouf--, amongft whom was the deceafed, when one
of the party took up a gun, which had been bleat.
tioufly put tip in a corner of the room by the land-
lord. From handling, it accidentally went off, and
the contents palled through the body of the de.
c:afesi; he languiffied two days and died. The
Jury, after fbme deliberation, brought in their ver-
did, that the deceafed was killed by accident.
The (hocking accident mentioned lately to have
happened at the Holum, near'New Church Roffen•
dale, of eight people being drowned by the break-
ing of the ice, was atended with a circnmftancc
extremely dillreffing : ottr• of the men plated into
the water, and bad the good luck to draw one out,
who was fared; he then got two more in his arms,
when endeavouring to call them out ■lio, another,
at the bottom, clung fo fad to hi-. legs, that he
could not poflibly extricate himfelf, but, in the
midft of his utmoll exertions, and loud fhriekings
for help, lie and the two in his armi funk to the
bottom and perithed. The neighbourhood wat
!bon alarmed, but too late to afford any affillance
The dreadful lamentations of parents for their
children, which would have pierced the molt un-
feeling heart, exceeds all defcription.
Assoc, that modern Hippocrates of the
Northern Hemilphere, in all his deep refearche,
for an Effectual Removal of a deftruetive Difeafe,
never difccvered to the world an Antivenereal In
fallibility : But whoever has tried the efficacy of
DunOr BRODLIN'S BOTANICAL SYRUP. which, with;
us the fhadow of a niercorial ingredient, diipels,
in a few doles, that deadly poifili which is com-
municated from impure embraces, will remem-
ber with livelong felicity, the happy confecrienecs
of applying that never tailing remedy, and exit
•cith tilleongratulation at the iffuc.—As the ex-
perience of thoufands has proved, that every
aphroditical contamination has been entirely (lib.
clued by it, in defpight of the molt obilinate In-
c woe rAcy.

N'tILLIGIOCK

/ COMM OF ICING'S BENCH, DECIIMBIR at.
SCHOLINQ
This 'vu an 01013 by the indorfee, upon a bill
Of exchinge for 3661. rys. drawn•upon one The
philns Bowfey, and accepted by the Deftndant.
The defence fet up was, that the bill was a for-
ger). and the canfe became intersiiisig from the
variety and contra.dielory nature of the evidence.
Itir...Eiturea led the caufe, ash. Rated the civ-
etutellanges of the cafe.
Thomas FLiCli, the fir witnefs, faStt; he had been
ilea to'Mr. Windei tot two Yeafslie'knew his
habit-writing, and the acceptance' was his—Winder
and the DraWer were in the habit of drawing bills
upon eaCh other.
.1-J* • CI-
Thomas Hill raid he hid known thE Defendant
for iv:verve years—he knew his hied-writing. The '
fignature ofthe acceptance poffetled d. all the idea- I
tity which diftinguillsts one. man's hand writing ,
front another." Upon comparing it alfo with other,
fignatures in his poffeflion, a polteffed all the ilia-
raaeritlics ofthe Defended's handwriting.
Thomas Homfea faid, he had fees the. Detect.
dam's Itind,Writhig daily for foar.or five ytarse,'
Upon looking at the hilt he laid it was not,Pie.tdual
mode of. ceptanc This witneis prevaricated a
great deal; at length'be confeired believed it to!
be hit hand-writing. It alto appeared that he bad
bees with the Defendant and his wituelles at the
Crown public-hotife, in Bowlanet
Henry Straiten and John Neale both knew the
band-viltingt and agreed that the acceptance to
the bill was in the band-writing of the Defendant.
Andrew Neale (aid he had dealings with the De-I
findine—he believed the acceptance in quellion to.
belie hand-writing. Upon looking at it clerkly,
hpwever, tome of the letters appeared to have a ,
little Riffnefs ; but he fhould have accepted a bill ,
with that fignature.
T. Bowfey, the drawer of the bill, was then cal-
led, he faid the defendant accepted the Dill it, h"
prefence,in lieu of another bill for the Lime amount
which was then cancelled. The cancelled bill he
tore to pieces, and threw them into the defendant's
fire-place, among Come lilac papers. There was en
entry in his bill-book of: this bill. He indorf:d it to
Scholing and Laurens for a good contid.:ration.
, Upon crofs examination he laid he wa, not a bank-
rupt when the bill VMS given. It wet gien the
latter end of May or beginnin,, of June, though
it was dated the 18th cf t•lay. He had never cons-
' pdunded with his creditors; a deed ef compotirion
wastnow preparing ; he offered the first c,.mpo fit i en
in Auguft•lall. lie hal never received ao v letter
' from the defendant by the hands of ;dr. Ay, nod,
in which he told him that he lentil(' pit 114efelf
under no more acceptances for li!m.—Screral ce her
witneffes alfo faid that the 'acceptance on the bil!
was the hand-writing of the d.fendant. ;
Mr. Pallas, for the defendant, admitted if he,
could not rebut this evidence, his client mud he
confidered as making a mod infamous dcfehee. In
order to do this he
calied—
Richard Jackfint—He laid he had been clerk to
the defendant four or five months. He was prefent
at Mr. Schol in g's,in Billsopfgate-flrect, fo on afte r the
bill became due ; Mr. Winder was thet e, and he then
Paid that the acceptance to the bill was not of his
hand-writing, the witnefs was of the fame opinion.
ScholingprelledWin der very hard, to fay politively
whether it was his hand-writing or not. Mr. W. did
did not give as immediate anfwer. There was fence
other general converfation about Bowfcy's affairs.l
Schtilinghimfelffaid, that he thought the bill was
unlike the defendant's ufual acceptances, and he had
entertained Come apprehenfions of that fort. He
called at Scboling's again in the month of Novem-
ber, to look at the bill; hut he did not fee it, as it
was in the hands of the Attorney. He then had
*tome converfation with &holing, who faid that,
he hoped Bowfey would take the Bill our of the
way before it came into Court, and that Bowfey
had been with them, and offered them a bill upon:
Mr. Thurfion, at the Hermitage, Wapping, as pay-
ment. The witnefs then looked at the bill, and laid
he believed the acceptance not to be the hand•wri•
ting of the Defendant, and he would not have ac-
cepted it.
Awood, Clerk to Winder for eight or nine
years, faid he went with a letter to Mr. llowfey's,
on the eoth of April Lift He faw Mr.. Vt'indes
write it, and he delivered it to Bowley Limrelf at
the office of his brother, on the iteith call fide, of
the Exchange. Upon looMng at the bill, he
it was Co extremely different from his ufual mode
of acceptance, that he did not believe it to be the
Defendant's hand-writing.
John Taylor, clerk to Alexander Ralty, mer-
chant, Thames-11feet, and Loc kit!, a brandy-
merchant, both faid that they knew the Defen-
dant's hand writing, and they did not btlieve the
acceptance to be his hand-writing.
Mr. E esetx a replied at confidcrable length, and
:Ads great animation, remarking upoh the are- '
rent bearings of the evidence.
Mr. Juflice La BLANC funned np the evidence,
and was decidedly of opinion that the weight of
evidence, even without the ()Atha rellimony of
Bowfey, was on the fide of the Plaintiff. The
Jury without hefitation pronounced a verdia for
the Plaintiff for the amount of the Bill.
DF C. 14....-11A1Wtbc.D AND It 110 P. Vitl3o4.
ThiS %SAS an anion a-R:11140c Defendant, as a
Whartinger, for not fending odd Ity•a particular
boat, as threaed; the goods having been loft in
I another boat. _ _ _ .

Nottingham Simplon fail, he was Clerk with
Meths. Bennet, Cure, and Co. Grocers, in Lnn•
Jon ; in November lilt they received an order
from the PlaintiC, living at Birmingham. and In'
confequence of that order, they fent to bags of
fugar to Brookes's Wharf, kept by the Ihicn•
lint, by one Stevens, a Carman. Thetiarman
'lad, as ufual, a cartage note, which dlreeied by
what b. at they &mild go.
The Carman proved :be delivery of the goods to
he Defendants, together with the note, in which
.hey ware direeted to be fent by Paries's boat.
A Ali s Hall wAf then called, who proved that
he goods were Pink near Henley.bridge, in bet
'oat, en board which they had been fent by %JO
;Jefctdants, inflcad of Parkes's boat..

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di' England the 106 . in.aidA •
li :cafe muff fiill upon
ala_P-artY who had heak.atiiitY at acglal in not
tierlocrniqg what he undertook to do.—yettiia for
tile Plaintiff, damages R;1. 1 is. 6d.
! • ~. , msavt.s V. WHITE.
~ This was as anion by the Plaintiff, a Gentle,
than of Durham, againft th: Defendant, a hoile.
skater,. upon the warranting of a horfe.
I wrak, Guy, Clerk to the Defei:dant, pi-m. 4 the
!andrwriting of White, in which he: unde t rt,k the
ovie.in qdeition was Sounel.
Wm, Giddies, fervant to Mr. Wa.crie, laid, 1,,,
ternenicte.l the. day when th, horfe ot .;...,i',ut!
was brought to Kendall's Livery-1141as, Vs'::^l!: J:S
Mallet's hill i;.!S stood; the fo I.,i:ig Jar, fil 1:;
day atter, he rode sit out as fir ds I.; ~,.. I; 4, i,
• then dircovered the. boric was lame ; the latnel,::.:
!I was in the hind ;Al leg; upon ~ NAlli;tiatlon be f.,;;11d
1 it had a rve.b. (4 levelling nudes the ietiock); his
Mailer was then at A:Cot 1 he iidoitacd hint what
he came heme, and on di:: leventh. c'....y the hovti
was rettnne,l to tbc D..fentiant.

John l'i itjniral, at liendall's, J, 5e re-
membered tylizn the. torfe carne ; it v-.,t
Of june.aad he immediecly cre.l.i L to 1:e !aim.
TheophilusCounibc, Farrier, i n The
faid he examined the horfe*and far yid it Lane, zith
a curb in the off hind leg: •
On behalf of the Dacndant, C6iliiirn, a
Horfe-dealer, aid, he was *vial Mr. Wiii-J!e when
he bought the boric; he tried it in ail its pa, ze, and
the boric was then found.
Several other Wituelles were called, who _sum
the boric was found.
Lord IaNYON aid, when he foord it v..as a
liorfe Caufe, he expel ed contraricty a evis!oce._
for they ufually had it in fuch cafes.
fhip was however of opinion, that the Ave:3lit of
evidence was in favour of the I'laiat4.--I.crdia
for the Plaintiff,. for 45 guineas.

rented; that
dos-fret, tl.
a liAlfrif coa
which the pt
coal filed ne,
owner of it
thofe fort of
►p the rtvcr
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