Star.
London, England, 1824-01-19 00:00:00

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• •TO THE RED-BREAST.
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IMMIX DIMINO A HIATT TALL Or SNOW.
timely little.cbirplng Robin,
Winter's winds. have wreck'd thy nest;
Viarsn's my !starch—thy heart is throbbing—
, Wilt thou he my cottage_suest?
Here no greedy grey Grimalkin
Slily couch'd shall mar thy play,
Unannoy'd by cruel Faulkin,
Undisturb'd by angry Tray !
Thou may'st hop about my lattice,
Dry beneath the dropping eaves;
Share my crust—my cup too—gratis, -
And my couch of soft seer leaves!
Fast the flaky snow is falling,
Night's black hour is drawing near;
Dark, and deep, and more appalling
Lonely I:lgritits' paths appear!
Come, then, while the latch is lifted,
Ere the hoar winds chill thy breast;
When each bush and brake is drifted,
Where will little Robins rest?
0 how cheerful glow the embers,
flow the crackling faggots blaze !
Shelter here till past December'i
Lonesome nights and gloomy days !
And when Spring again returning
Cloths the earth with leaves and flowers, • •
Thou shalt. from my cot sojourning,
Join thy macs aitong.the bowers!
Yearly with a sons I'll greet thee,
Visitant of this-.one spot ;
Yearly, too, thou wilt repeat me
Nature's melancholy note!
Come, then, lonely little Robin,
Her. meddling hands molest;
Warm's my hearth—thy heart is throbbing—
Come and be my cottas.e.guest! _

111 Ott 2 ELL.
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The Medical Adviser of Saturday, contains sketches of
the " Phrenological appearance of Marielb head ;"
and they are followed by remit ks, founded on actual
observation, from which the foLowing are extracts :
The science of phrenology is every day gaining
partisans, and many of those who at first laughed at the
theories broached by Dr. Gall, now flock to has banners.
We are glad of it.; for their steps are upon ground the
.most interesting, and of which we have hitherto, ands
perhaps as get, known nothing. On this account we at-i
tended the execution of Thuttell, and, having received,
permission, examined the head two hours after his,
death. In the plates we have marked those elevations
which appeared to us as peculiar.; and although ,Re dif-
fer in some points from the physician who was also pre-
sent, and who, we understand, was deputed by the Phre..
nological Society to examine Thurtell's head, yet we
have the satisfaction to think that we only differ upon
niceties—points of difference which must be exploded
by phrenological discussion, before that scienco can
1:4 - decided improvement.

make any very
We only observed five developementt, namely,
-,be-
f:vdeacc, form, destructiveness, VERY SLIGHT—Com-
Li.tiveness and amativeness. The physician pi esent with
us, however, was of opinion that the organs of ideality,
imitation, rod comparison were full; however, we must
confess we could not perceive any particular develope-
ment of these organs. He also was of opinion that the
organ of destructiveness was fully shewn ; but again we
disagree with him. It appeared to us that the organ of
destructiveness was very tlight indeed, that it- blended, as I
it were, with combativeness, which was a little fuller, I
and that, benevolence was entirely developed. We no-
ticed a fullness from the junction of the nose with the
forehead, extended back to the veneration. These are
decidedly strong arguments against the system of phre-
nology, if we-admit that- Thurteß was a cool and deli
berate, malicious murderer—for :+e must either do that
or defend him, in accounting fur his crime, by imputing
it to a sudden impulse of passion.
" Admitting that Thurtell's head exhibited the ap-
pearances we represent: lie was, according to the derini7
tion of the Phrenological Society, a well disposed man,
and they would lead us to-think that he committed the
murder under the influence of his combative organ, or
from the united influence of that and destructiveness..
And if his head exhibits what the deputed physician
stated before us, namely, the organs of ideality, imita-
tion, and comparison, Thurtell must have been farmed
of elements the most enviable. We know that he was
a great imitator, and that he indulged in imagination ;
but we cannot allow that these organs appear developed.
We also know that he was a murderer ; yet the organ
which indicates the disposition to -thr't crime has -but a
slight appearance, while benevolence is large and 1011
Thee arguments, however, should not, we think, be
oppOsed to the system of phrenology, rather should they
go to prove that the unfortunate culprit did the murder
under'an irritation of feeling and revenge, with which
supposition the fullness of the organ of combativeness
. will bear us out. Cool and deliberate murderers are
generally cowards; but he has proved by the manner
in which he deported himself upon the scaffold, and im-
mediately beforehe left the jail, that he was a courageous
man-,-one that could meet death in any shape; and this
power belongs to the organ of combativeness. We could
percei4e in his countenance when he was upon the fatal
platform, that the feeling of initation was working ih
his bteast : his brow—his fierce eye—his contracteofliP
--his flan step—all shewed that he was in such a state
of mind, that if he had then been storming a town, he
would have laid many an enemy rastrate.
" We conclude this article by remarking that the new
science has received nu accession of strength in 'rhurtell's
bead. Physiognomy, on the contrary, has more claims
upon it: The narrow forehead, thickeyebrows, small
eyes -with fat swellings under them, long jaws, curled
nostrils, thick lips with the under one falling, thin hair
and circumscribed beard, the lines of the cheek; and
angles of the lips almost. continuous—all develope the
temper and disposition of the criminal far more intelli-
gibly than the preient system of phrenology."

"We are happy to state that the differences between
the masters and journeymen weavers of Kam esborough
are drawing to a close, and that several men' ‘t ent i:4O
work-4ast week. •
In 1823 there have been more cattle killed in Glas-
gow titan •in any preceding year. During this 'period
one butcher akine killed and retailed 1196 bullocks;
and four -other butchers killed among them. 18,833
sheep andlernbs, exclusive of bullocks. The cattle killed
during The year ending the 31A. a December, 1823,
Was as follows: .
putrocks - - . - ics,to _
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Calvo - - • - - • 9,537
'. •*4 • - - , - '57,1,83 #.
n:- '' - Liliibs. - - - - 679796
'"Total '- • '.= •ltf,lS6
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,110iellItileie is ,from the bookfOlt
.ti Ale-Hide Searchers
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• aiikigl;tisdor .Patliainentary, antelsorstt, !ho make their
entries daily, and receive a fee for their trouble. •
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MAIDSTONE SESSIONS, JAN. 17.
Gipsey Cooper and Bishop Sharp were yesterday
brought up at Maidstone, in limbo, to answer to a
charge of riot, instituted against them by one John
[lodges, a constable in the. employ of oar Lord 'the
_King. On being placed at the bar, the Gipsey cocked
his eye at the Chairman in a very knowing manner, be-
traying no symptoms of fear at the situation in which
he wa's placed. 'The Bishop eyed the Jury as placidly
as if l'he mitre had actually been .planted on hichead.,
After the Clerk of Arraigns had read the indictment,
the two pfeaded Nut Guilty, with is good 'a Ace' Asif
they had been fifty mile; from the scene of adtion oh:the
day 'in coestion.
Li support of the prosecution, John Hodges was first
Called; and deposed as follows ant a constable at
Blackheath; on the 13th November, receiVedlnforma-
tion from some ,Magistrates, that a fight was to tall!
Rlace on Blackheath,. with orders to take the patilei
into custody. Went to the ground, and found the two
defendants peeled, sitting on their seconds' kneeir
watched them; anti saw them knock each other aboitt
a great mob was collected, who shouted when Wets
were struck; I took the prisoners into custody, who'did
not resist; some of their friends gave me a wipe on the
head ; am confident it was neither of the prisoners.
Another constable confirmed Hodges's testimony.
The prisoners' Counsel said there was nothing to affect
his clients,and therefore he declined making any defence.
The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of
Nut Guilty. Several. of 44 the Fancy" were I.resent;wlto
appeared to take considerable interest Ur the reiult.
ESSEX QUAlll'k.;ll SESSIONS, JA la. .
• Samuel Clarke was indicted for feloniously stealing,
at Little Leighs, inthis County, on the 26th of Decem._
ber last, a woman's shift, a bed. gown, a-nightcap, and a
-pair of cotton stockings, the property of James Chin-.
fiery. This case excited considerable interest.
It appeared in evident e; tfrat yentig woman, about
twenty-two years of age, the wife of a labourer named
James Chinnery, had been buried in Little Leighs
Church-yard, on Sunday, the 21st of December, having.
died on the preceding Monday. Previous toher death
e expressed a wish to be interred in a night-cap, shift,
bed-gown, and cotton stockings, and..her, request had.
'been complied with. Between four and five sclock on:
the morning of the 26th, a labourer, whose right road
lay through the church-yard in his way to work, thought'
proper, from superstitious apprehensions, to make a short:
:tut, and clambering over a hedge, got into a field, where.
he found a horse yoked to a .chaise,cart, and tied to a
tree not far from the turnpike-road. No person ap-
pearing near the cart, he suspected some 'accident,had.
happened to the owner, and immediately gave an alarm
to the toll collector at au adjacent: turapikegate.—
'The latter went to the spot, freed the horse from the
tree to which it was tied, and drove the horse and cart
to a neighbouring public-house, leaving. directions.with
the landlord not to give them up to anybody who could
not give a good accotint of himself. About_ seven
o'clock another labourer, passing within a few rods from
.the spot where the horse and cart-were seen, picked up;
a sack with the words 4' J. Harvey, Crayford," printed
thereon, a shovel, a small crow, and a pair of pistols.
A few rods further on, in a direction towards: the
.:church-yard, part of a human body was seen just above
the earth, in a ditch. The earth appeared as if newly
'turned up, and on uncovering the corpse, it was dis-
covered to be the naked body of a female. All these
circumstances led to a suspicion that a murder had been
committed. The Churchwarden was sent for,.and upon
seeing'the pse,. he immediately, recognised it. as the
body of Mrs. Chinnery, at.whosefuneral he was present
'He then proceeded to the church-yard,aad found that the
*are 'in which the deceased had briwa buried was open ;
the coffin was still visible, having been only pat tially
vered with earth, and some pieces of linen strewed about.
About eight o'clock, the prisoner called at the toll-
house, ci asked the gate-keeper if he bad seen any
thing of a horse and cart, and gave a_description,
which corresponded with the horse and cart which had
been sent to the public-house. The g.t..e-iceeper an-
swered in the affi. :native, and referred the prisoner to
the place where he might find them. Ile was asked
how he came to leave them in the situation in which
they were found, and he replied that he had been drink.
ing all night at a public-house about four-miles off,
and in his way home had driven the horse and cart into
the. field where they were found, tied the horse to a tree,
and fell asleep in a ditch. The gate-keeper observed
that he didtaot look like a person who had .beet asleep
in a ditch, as his clothes were: 'neither. wet. nK direr
with the exception of a few drops Of moisture an she
skirts of his coat, as if from fain. •To tine he teir
plied, that though his clothes were not ctirty; yet they
were wet; and then turning away, went to the pub.-
'lic-house whither the horse and cart had been sent.
—He told the same story to the - publican, of hii
having been drinking all night, and sleeping in a ditch.
He gave so accurate a description of the horse and cart,
and of the contents of the latter helium they were.shewn
to him, that the publican was convinced he was the
.owner.- 'ln the cart had been found a,pair of ,pauta-
loons, an umbrella, some bread and cheese, and a few
slices of fried bacon or pork. In consequence of his thus
proving himself to be the owner, 'the horse and cart were
delivered to him, and after staying about-ten minutes,
he got into'the cart and drove away. By this time the
discovery of Mts. Chinnery's body, as above-mentioned,
'having become generally known, and suspicion falling
on the prisoner; he was pursued, overtaken, and charged
with robbing bar grave. He vehemently. declared his
innocence, and denied all knowledge ,of the body. It'
appeared that the box under the chaise-care-ems calcu-
lated to hold a couple of human bodies when-rolled up;
and on examining it, a most offensive odour proceed&
from it, as if it had been recently used in the priionerk
unhallowed occupation. It further appeared, that the'
gate of the field in which the cart was found,: having
been nailed up, was forced open. These were the circu
stances ()a vpirich the case for the prosecution rested.
- The Jury deliberated a few minutes, and fouod • the
prisoner Guilty.—The verdict was received by the audi-
to: y with a general expression of pleasure. .
, Wednesday, CHARLES, the third son 91'10160RA
BliCoN, EA. of Ipswich, met with a severe ate ent,. He
fell in jumping over a ditch,:and broke his thigh.,. We
hope this unfortunate occurrence will opeirtte as a cau-
tion to our junior readers to desist froM inizirdOus leaps
whilst the ground is indurated by frost..
Saturday week, rime of the labourers employed in pull-.
in down the materials of Winstead House, fell froth*
considevble height through thy joists own to the
ground floor, and was killed on the spot. Thisis the
second man who has lost his life during thedemolitien
of this noble edifice;

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POLICE IPTELLIGENCE. \- . -
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MANSION;HOUSR.• ' • ' . '
. PostsITAHORAINTS.,-:Tge LORD ALLTOt . announced in the ithee
taco Room, that the widows and children
of the Em;grants to
Poyais, in behalf of whom a , small subscription had been rsiVal.
were sent down to their homes, in Scotland, as the place *here
they ',Mold meet with the gieottst attention, and where they Would
Most speedily recover from the !tisk:left under-which they laboured.
The shbscriptioin received before their deism-tuns amorteal
.9a.14, I
which hich 91. were given to defray the expenses of their piurney..l9
consequence of the publicity given to the transactiods whcla 'brought
down so much misery upon those poor peoPle, some benevolent 1
Gentleman, who signed himself " B. T. 0.7 transmitted hint ;01. es
be appliedoo their relief. % • •• .
Mr. Doon/d Donaldson, alias Macdonald, a pereon,of respertoh*
appearance and address, was brought before the. laoan MAYOR, ill'? '
Messrs. Cope and Co. sugar-dealers, for transacting some bitsiness
which led to disagreeable suspicions, under the name of Donold
Donaldson,'while a Mr. T. Hawes Ayres stated that he knewilifin
to pass by the name of Donald Macdonald.
ron.
- The pre-oner said, that the two names both meant the same
he had respectable connexions, and should be able in a fen-
pay for the forty hogsheads of sugar he had purchased-4)f
Cope and Co. that he had never forged* name of any deseri
and should be able in a few days to clear up the whole business.
had affluent friends at Greenock ansl Glassow, and trusted all won.
be right hi due time. _
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1 ;' • ‘ 'MARY-LA-BONNE OFFICE: '.„ •
• Saturday, • James Rcrnond, Gcorie Bristow, and lrilliffm Itlclye*,
were chatted on informations, tiled at the instance of nazi!lliddli
Byers, their landlord, under the 11th Geo. 11. cap. 19, seci.Sientl
4, for clandestinely removing tensile household good:, with ' .
to defraud him.•
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Mr. Byers stated; that the defendant Raymond was a tenant hf
his, holding a house in Reston-place, ;Mary-la-Bonne,' and at al?
times it was very difficult to get him to pay his rent. On the last
quarter becoming due, application was made fur the rent ; Inuit
was not forthcoming, and a promise was given that it should be paid
by 11onday, the loth inst. but on Saturday night information was
brought: him that Raymond was making a " thodttlight" removal,
assisted by the other two defendants, consequently he hastened to•
the place, and arrived just its time to meet the cart starting, loaded
with the furniture, which he seized, and subsequently levied a dis-
ttese upon it,,andthen instituted thisprocceding against the defen-'
dent,. He found it necessary tb serattehly, as he had a uuntber of
0 slippery" tenants. ' -
Mr. Byers caUed some witnesses, who proved having seen the,
defendants very active in !making the cut, audio getting it away.
Raymond said nothing was farther front his thoughts than cheat-
ing Mr. Byers, and he still*as wilting to pay the rent. ' • .
Mr. Byers said if he would new pity the rent and expenses, be
would forego all proceedings.
Rryinond said he was not preparedahett, to pay It. The goods-
that were removed did not belong tohitn, but to Richards, who was.
merely a.lodger, and who early in last year bought them from him,
to prove which he handed in two receipt&
The Magistrates, after some conversation, convicted in double the
mount of the goods sworn to as belonging to Raymond.. .
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COURT Of EKCISE—JANUARY.I7.- . .
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Willian Rundle, the landlord of the Pites Heat
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public-house, adastreep!road, was charged with havingsl
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had in his possession a quantity of a compound-Or mix.'
tune, which was fit (Or colouring beer,or porter, whereby
be had incurrcd,the.penalty of two hundred pounds.
The defendant:pleaded Not Guilty. • - • .• • .', .• i
' John Ellatd,•ao officer of the Excise, stated, that MI
'the 27th of October last ht saw a man,' whprn le ilk('
reason to suspect, :go: into thebouse kept )04 the fiefpn-1
dant. Witness went in after. „Ilse • man tookabOttle
out of a basket, and gave it to 'the defendant, who pelt
it down in the .bar, observing, '.lg- you' have come too
%bon, I have not used the other yet'-"'Witness desire('
iir.knov, What was in the bottle, andon uncorking it,
he found it contained beer colouring; made of molasses
and burnt sugar. Witness seized it, and broughr is to
the Escise Office. A Surveyor-General of the -Excise
has examined the liquid contained:in the bottle, and de-
clared it to be burnt sugar .and molasses. It was fit for
colouring potter. It would also serve to colour brandy
or spirits.
The defendant submitted- that the bottle was -not in
his possession, as he had. not paid,-for ii,• or. agreed to
-take it, and the:retort war. not liable.' 'He had ordered
.ti small gitantity of colouring, for the purposeof oelont4
ing-his rams and sphiti, whiChwas perfectly legal, but
instead of bringing him- a• stnall bottle full, of little
more than. the sire of a, phial, the.man brought him
large three gallon bottle full, which he bad not con-
sented to receive, end with the contents of which he
declared himself utterly unacquainted. '
The officers who surveyed the stock of the house
stated, that on the last survey it was six gallons of ram
and sixteen gallons of brandy. The colouring found :
the defendant's house would be sufficient_ to colour
Many hundred gallons of liqUor. . • ' .•
Mr. 111-avow, the Solicitor. of Excise, said the offend
was not having a compound in his possession for tit(
purpose of colouring or-adolterating porter, Nut havinl
a compound which was fit for that use; and this ha(
been clearly made out. Publicans have no right what!
ever to have such colouring in their possessioh,f6raut.
ptirtiesse'whatevtr. • ~,:,!. • :
TheCounr proltOunced judgment 001141)01e clefen;•
-dant ; but in consideration of his preeiona,igood cha-
%ratter; convicted him in the mitigated penally of E-85.)
UNIVERSITYand CLERICAL INTELLIGENC4
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..Jaa. 9,„ the Rev. John Henry Steward,- Clerk, A. 02 was insti-,
;tit:- the Vicarage of 'Swardeston, in Norfak, on the pre-'
of John Steward, of Norwich, Esq. And on Ithsiiday ism,.
Ai lilt John Henry Steward was instituted Oci lb. Recuity 4
63111Bibee Nethergate, with Saitlhighins Thorpe atmoned,is the
ailitir It T , on the, preeetstation of the said John Steward, Esq.. •
Rev. John Still, Itectg of Foothill Galforil;hislieen- cis
Mated by the Bishop of Saltibilry; to the'Prebend Stall of Straiten%
fOunded in the Cadivdral•church, vacant by theileatleof tin Ho-
.
nonraiste sod:Rev. T. A. Harris. • •
The Di the of Derlinghatts has appointed the Rev. Henry Wink-
wortia Simpton, .M. A. of St. John's College; Cambric, ani
Lltilollathlg, Middlesex,
iddlesex, ohs of his Grace's hsmestic OM laint.
. * ECCI.E3TAtTICAL i'lltiiktdtraNls.
Stifiday se'nnight, the Ry.,Charles ?tont*, Ilinnp was
denied Priest by the Bishop of Liticohcat Itaikdea, ' named.
ately after instituted to the LiOni: - • -- • ..`'-
• The Rev. Robert Meadows white, M.A. of Magdalen. Celiege,
Oxford, has been presented by G. W. Wentworth, Es+ tothe----
petual Curacy of Woolley, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Di!
Wednesday sennight, Stewart Bates, A.M. *as ordlibed to
pastoral care of the congregation of Old Dissenters, Kefse.
The Earl-tsf Buchan has appointed Mi. Patin Ferguson, 'leacher
of the Gospel, to be assistant and successor to the liev. John Feu
guson, Minister of the I'arish of Uphill. •
General Hay, of Ranee', has presented the Rev. John Wilson
toi the dhoreb.anti Parish of Premnay, in the Presbytet7 9f
tioch, vacant by the death of the liev. James• Douglas.
james Raymond Johnstone, Esq. of Alva, hat presented .
James Sad** A.M. to the Church and Parish of Ate*, Fresh)
tery of Stirling, vacant by the translation of the bey. Andrew
'llniloch. A.M. to l'ulliallan. .
The flea. Ch4stopher Greig, of Leslie, has bees electedha
herltors, dtc,ni the Paristi of St. Ninians, to be 'Moister of
Parish, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Wm. Shirreff.
The Lard Lieutenant of Ireland fibs appointed the Rev.
Kinablin to be one of his, Etcellency's- Chaplains. . ,
Tuesday,se'uniglo, a Mjoister, of -the Presbyterian Church ,
Ireland was ordained in Weatport, county of alayo;'to take charge
of the congregation lately tilts-11M there.
- Sunday the 2 iituk.'at an Ordination'hild in the Parish • Chits%
of Belfast, Mr. James Gray. 'Principol of the Belli* Academy,'
was admitted a Deacon of the Rpispopal Church by the giaopcof
Down and Connor. . ,
- Rev... Joh- More,tothe Vicariate of Otenhalt 'Olbtictiliis4j
'Vold by the death of the Rev. T. Davies. .
• Rev. Charles Heath, M. A. I. 9husva.Aveuulg L.ecthrer ar
inington, Hants.

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