Star.
London, England, 1805-03-13 00:00:00

ASS IZES.

HUNTINCDON. Mato' to.—The Judge, CROSY,
arrived here yeaerday from Bedford, about four
o'clock P. M. attended by the Under Sheriff ;—and
about (even opened the Court with the ufual forma.
lities. The Grand Jury was &idled from the firs
families in the County, having Lord Hinchinbrook
for the Foreman, and Sir John Arundel, Sir James
Duberly, John Heathcote, Efq. M. P. with other
Gentlemen, equally refpeltable, compofing it. The
Judge, in his Charge to them, complimented the
Court molt highly on their full attendance, and on
the efforts made by its members : advifed them, dur-
ing their fitting, to vifir the county goal and fee that
the milliners confined in it, had every thing to make
their deplorable fituations as comfortable a. the (late
of the cafe would admit ; and doled a !bort hut ani
mated fpeech with difmi6ing them, and requctling
their early attendance on Monday morning. The
only caufe of intereit is the one in which the three
French prifoners of war are implicated, for forging,
counterfeiting, and uttering one pound notes of the
Bank of England. and the Court is expelled to be
much crowded on the occafion.

READING, MARCH 9.—At the Affizesfor this Coun-
ty, held at our Town Hall, on Monday and Tuefday
laft, the following prifoners were capitally convilied,
and received fentence of death, viz. James Ward, for
afraulting Richard Jones on the highway in the pa-
rifh of Chievely, and robbing him of fix halfpence
and a pocket handkerchief ; Thomas Cook, for Peal-
ing out of the dwelling houfe of Thomas Pike, of
Hungerford, the amount of logs. ; Wm. Hollovhey,
for (Leafing a lamb, the property of Edmund Wa.
thing, of Warfield ; James Seward, for breaking open
the dwelling houfe of David Stacey at Aldermalton,
in the day time, no perfon being therein, and Pealing
thereout a man's furtout coat, and various other ar-
ticles of wearing apparel ; and Wm. Lambirth, alias
Lamburn, for dealing an ewe and three lambs out
of a field near Prince's Rifborough, Bucks the four
latter were reprieved before the Judges left the town,
but Ward is left for execution. Miles Gilbert, for
Pealing a large quantity of hemp, the property of
Thomaa Wedbrook, of Abingdon ; and Robert Gat%
diner, for Pealing feveral checks and fowls, the pro-
perty of the Oeen's molt Excellent Majelty, at
Windfor, were feverally lentenced to be tranfported
for (even years ; Mary Greener, charged on the co-
roner's inqneft with having murdered her female bar-
tard child. She was acquitted of the murder, but fen
tenced to be imprifoned two years, for fecreting its
birth ; Benjamin Steel and Wm. Webb, for ftealing
(even buthels of wheat, the property of Francis Jus-
tice, Efq. at Sutton Courtney ; the former was fen-
tenced to be imprifoned two years, and the latter
one.—Charles Francis, for Pealing a letter out of the
PoP-office, at Hungerford, containing divers pro
mifrory notes, the 'property of the Rev. William
Finch, Doftor of Laws, to be imprifoned one year;
Ann Woodroffe, fur leaving her infant child in a by
footpath in New Windfor, to be imprifoned fix
months;—John Collet, on fufpicion of having ftolen
a mare, the property of William Lawrence, of War-
field ;—James Sawyer, on fufpicion of having flolen
A letter from the Poet-office at Hungerford ; and
Henry Brown, on fufpicion of having stolen feveral
property of her Majefly, were Ave-
• bilk were found against Robert
cf Pealing a pair of Limb, and

James Laacy, on fufpicion of healing five racks of
barley.
At the• above affizet. a carafe between Mr. John
May, of Sonning, farmer, Plaintiff, and Mr. Thos.
Billinge, the proprietor of Twyford Mill, Defen-
dant, was entered for trial : the objeet of which was
to recover damages for fume injury that Mr. May
had fuftained by certain dams and alterations lately
made by Mr. Billinge, by which he had con-
veyed the wifle water of his Mill through annthcr
channel, which often occdioned floods upon the
neighbouring lands; but Mr. Billinge being advifed
by his Counfel that no legal defence could be matte,
a verdid by confent was entered for the Plaintiff, da-
mages is. and coils of fait, Mr. Brilinge having un-
dertaken to remove and alter all the rievances cum-
plained of within a week.

The long Main of Cocking between the Earl of
Msxsoitounn and Sir F. Bore roe, Bart. was fought
five days left week at York, when the amount of
Battles thus terminated :

Main. Byes.
sir S. Boynton won - 13 3
Lai of Me:borough . to II
Total - .-..13 -11

It is Paid, that a gentleman has difcovered a mode
of preventing AA, frominling : he has waited on Lord
MeiLVILLP, and offered to fuhmit his plan, on receiv.
ing a large film of money. The gentleman has de-
clared, that he will make the experiment on a fano.
ner perforated for the porpofe. We underhand, that
the largenefs of the mum required is the only obtlacle
to the trial being made.

At lati week'sßritlol Fair, the thew of cattle was
unufually great. Fat beans, of which there was a
great number, were dull of rale, and many were
driven home unfold ; lean beans were quickly fold,
and at good prices. The thew of cart hutles was
great, and they fold dear ; good hacknies were fcarce
and high priced.
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Thurfday the French prifoners, taken in the Eliza-
beth of Dunbar, and brought to Leith in the Edin-
burgh and Leith Shipping Company's fmack Hope,
were fet%t to Pennycuick under an efewt. are
informed, that during the chace the Hope was once
fo dole to the privateer, that her (hot fell very near
her. It is much to be regretted that the privateer
efeaped, as file bad a confiderable number of Britifh
-feamen prifoners on board.

On Friday the daughter of a wealthy tradefman
eloped from her father's houfe, near Bifhoptgate
Itreet, with a young man, employed as a junior cl-rk
in the bufinefs. The parties were traced to a houfe
at Barnet, and brought back, when it appeared that
they had been fecretly married near two months, and
the Lady fearing that the lbotild be ably to hide her
indifcretion but a (port time longer, and dreading
her parent's reproaches, determined to leave her
home. It was in vain the young man intreated a re•
conciliation ; the father was implacable, and would
neither fuffer him to remain in his fervice, nor to
take away his daughter. The young man, with ap-
,
'parent feint:lance, quitted the honk. The Lady,
during this altercation, contrived to make her efcape
a fecond time, and neither the nor her hufband have
ftnce been heard of. The Lady has a fortune of
15,0001. recently placed at her own chfpofal. The
hufband has been in the employ of the houfe about
five years, and is fearcely tB. The Lady is 23.
The following fingularly interefling narrative is
from a refpedable Corrcfpondent

On Saturday the 23d ult. a girl between nine
and ten years of age, with her brother, who was
only four-years old, were returning from the head of
Glenclaruel, over the Strathlachlan mountains, to
their parents at Maclachlan Park ; they had not
travelled far when a moo violent fnow norm, accom-
panied with thunder and lightning, commenced, and
continued hut with very fhort intervals during the
two following nights and days. The fnow in a thort
time completely covered the footpath which leads
acrofs the mountains, fo that the children wandered
off the common track ; and by the dole of day the
boy was quite overcome by the fury of the form and
the cold, erpored to which the poor creatures lay
down for the night, the gill, doing her utmon to
(helter her little brother. As loon as day-light came
(he roofed the boy, and prevailed on him to proc:ed.
They wandered about in the mountains the whole of
Sunday, entirely ignorant where they were, or in
what direOion they thould go, the boy frequently
dropping down. txhaufled with hunger and fatigue.
The fitter lays it teas with muck difficulty the could
keep him awake; but that the herfelf did not dole her
eyes during the three days and two nights they were
on the mountains ;—that the continually weeper!,
calling upon Gon'snanie, They paired Sunday night
as the preceding; and were fo weak on Monday,
that neither could move nor cry out, for the girl
once taw a grown op brother of her's within a very
fhort dinance, but the found herfelf quite incapable
to get up or call loud enough to be heard.
On the evening of Monday, the poor creatures.
at the tan gall), were providentially difcov:red by
one of the Strathlachlan people, who, to the num-
ber of about too, were the whole day in fearch of
them. The girl had a ham in her charge, of which
her narving brother often preffed her to let him take
a bite, but the would not allow him to touch it,
making him chew the heather, -as the herfelf did.—
All the way the girl carried a favourite pup about
her neck, which the thinks greatly helped to keep
her and her brother alive during the nights, as it
covered the neck and break of both completely.
When urged that (he muff have flept, the faid that
the did not dole her eyes the whole time, fearing
much that the pup would eat the ham. The poor
children are pettedly recovered from the hardthips
they underwent."

docks, &c. the prope
BANKRUPT IN lIIILAND. rally acquitted. No I
At!thfon, late of Dublin, Uses fatter, to Amender an the Strange, on fufpicion
atb and s3th Marcb,and lab April.