Star.
London, England, 1807-06-12 00:00:00

CIIRTMLART.

The Arroansv GENERAL applied for a rule to
thew caufe idly a writ of Certiorari ffiould not be gran-
ted to remove an important legal queftion for decifion,
into this Court. The application was made on behalf
of Mr. John Crundell, who for upwards of eighty
years held the office of Surveyor for the dittria of
CAildington, Pancras, and St. Luke, Chelfea. The
allid.qvit en which the motion was made, Rated, that
Mr. Crundell was appointed to the office he held in
the year t 774, and that the Mt under which (itch
appointment was made, was the 14th of Geo. 111. c.
78. On the 9th of February, 1807, he received a let-
ter from the Clerk of the Peace for the county of
Maddlefer, requiring him to attend before the Magii-
trates in obediew.e to the Act of Parliament, and to
bring with him an account of all the erections and
party walls built during a certain number of years.
To this requifition, Mr. Crundell replied in refpeft.
NI terms, in a letter direeled to the Magiftracy
of
Middlefer, Rating, that, by the ftatute, fuch an ac-
count as was demanded was not required, and that
therefore it could not be expeCted that he Mould fup-
ply it. The confequence of this anfwer was, that, on
the 9th of April following, Mr. Crundell was re-
quired to thew caufe why he thould not be difmiffed
from his fituation of Diaria Surveyor. Mr. Crun-
dell attended, according to the fummons, and remon-
(hated with the Seffions • but they thought fit to
dire& his name to be (truck from the lift.
Lord Eeessaciaotrc tt enquired what was the form
of the appointment of the DMA& Surveyor ?
The ATTOIWEY GINEIAL anfwered, that he was
nominated by the Q2arter Seffions, and might be
difmiffed at the will and pleafure of the Magittracy.
Sir V. Glass hoped that the Court, by granting
this application, would allow Mr. Crundell an oppor-
tunity of jutlifying himfetf from the charge of 11:aving
mifeondueted himfelf in his office, after having ful-
filled the duty of it for upwards of thirty-years.
Mr. Top, 'NG, who was inftrufted to thew cattle
againft the rule in the firft inflance, objected, that the
queftion on the Statute was not fuch a one as could
be the fubjelt of a writ of Certiorari. Their Lord
!hips, however, granted a Rule to thew Caufe.

A Court Martial was on Monday hold on board
the VALIANT, off North(feet, on John Francis, the
Captair'a Steward of the Royal Yacht, for robbing
his mafter,Captain FOOTS, of property to a confider-
able amount, and abfconding therewith in the begin.
ring of this month. It appeared that Captain Fo-ae
bad come to town to attend Court on his MAje ay's
birth day, when the offender took an opportunity of
feizing feveral articles of his Court dtefs, as well as
other clothes, which he pawned, and made off wish
the produce. He had alfo made away wit many
of the limes belonging.to the yacht, which Als. not
difcovered till the inquiry took place, fubfequent to
his elopement from town. There circumftances being
clearly proved, the Court adjudged him to receive
one hundred lathes, and be thereafter coufint.d for fix
I moot N.

POLICE, Etc.
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Bow silts t t.—On' Wednefday evening, ?bean:
Fkichtir was brought before AARON GRAHAM, Efq..
lin the cullody of John Sniith, one of the patrole,
charged on forpielion of hating been guilty of a foot-
pad robbery. •
George Black, Efq. of Prince!e•Areet, tleat. the Bank,
Rated, that on Sunday evening, the 3 lit ult. between
ten and eleven o'clock, as he was returning bons •
from Hampstead, he was met by two men nearly
eppofite a lane leading to Chalk Farm ; ore of them
feized him by the collar, and held up a flick to hint
in a menacingway, demanding his watch and money,
and deflred him to be filent ; he accordingly give
y him his watch, two guineas, and fome laver :—the
I robber was not content with this, but fearchei his
pockets, and took out of them Come valuable trinkets.
The robber then demanded his pocket book ; he al
fined him he had none ; the robber then ordered him
Ito be off. The witnefs laid, the ptifoner is very lik;
1 the robber, and the watch produced by the officer is
1 his property, and which .was pawned by the prifoner.
Henry Overton, firoprnan to Mr. Salkeld, pawn•
broker, of Fleet street, Paid, that on the t a inflant,
the watch he took in pledge from the prifoner in the
name of Robert Fletcher, for the turn of 21. Oa
Tuefday the prifoner called, and Paid he had loft the
duplicate, and defireil him to flop it if any perfon
produced it. The witnefs having received previous
information that the watch had been flolen, detained
the prifoner ; and as he was conveying him in a
coach to the Compter he attempted to make his
efcape, by jumping out of the coach, and ran a con
fiderable dillance.
On his being taken before the Lord Mayor, his
Lordfhip ordered him into the cuftody of Smith the
patrole, the offence having been committed in Mid-
dicier. He was committed for further examination.
At the Police Office, Qtseenfquare, yefterday,
Hannah Goodwin, a young child, under thirteen, was
brought up for a final examination, on a charge of
having committed various felonies, and, amongft
others, of having flolen from the (hop of Mr. Ken-
yon, of Newport Market, three pieces of lace. It
appears that this child, even from the early age of fix,
(hewed ftrong fymptoms of a propentity to pilfer,
and, after repeated detesiions by her parents, the
thought proper to abfcond from them. How (he has
lived, or with whom, for a long time part, (he keeps
an inviolable fecret.
Mr. Cotctpuoutt made a very feeling addrefs to
the girl, as to who, if any, were her feducers from
the paths of reaitude ; and pointed out to her the
neceffity there was for her doing that degree of pub.
i lie jaftice that was required. She declared that no
I one was concerned with her. With the content of
the profecutnr, the was ordered to be fent to the Phi-
lanthropic Society.
Guttatratt..—Yeaerday a baker in Fleet Market
was fined for filling bread deficient in weight. Some
of the quarrern loaves were two and three ounces
(hurt ; but as the defendant was a widow woman,
and ftrongly recommended by the inquea to the hu-
manity of the Magiarate, on account of her not
taking an active part in the bufinefs, and as a fimilar
circumaance never happened before, the was convic-
ted in the mitigated penalty of one Milling an ounce,
and
_the bread given to the poor of St. Sepulchre's

parifh.
MANSION Hotrst.—Yefferday,Michins and Still, the
two prifoners who Rood committed after their fecond
examination, yeaerday fortnight, on a charge of
forgery, for iffuing certain notes, purporting to be
the notes of a banking-houfe at Ipfwich, were again
brought up before the LORD MAYOR, upon Come fur-
ther charges of a fimilar nature; and, after an ex-
amination which continued nearly two hours, were
fully committed to Newgate for trial, at the next
Old Bailey &Mons. Mr. ALLEY, Mr. CURWOOD,
and Mr. KNAPP, attended as Counfel.
Friday tall, as the child of Mr. Wile, of Mothe-
ricks, near Margate, was playing near his father's
refidence, he was run over by a loaded cart ; provi-
dentially falling into the wheel rut, the force of the
wheel was in fome meafure eluded, and inflead of
being crufhed to death, he efcaped with a !hocking
laceration of the groin and thigh, and a violent con-
dition on the arm.
A perfon, aged 36, had a (mall Scrophulous Ul-
cerationin her hand, giving her much pain; it then
I broke out in her writt, both her shoulders, and her
j knee, each Ulceration difcharging much, and not dif-
poled to heal ; it then affe&ed her right elbow ; and
1 thefe ulcerations, with a difpofition to general debi •
lity, the fuffered for twelve years. Her knee utashekled
in the Woreeffer Infirmary, and the experienced come
benefit while a patient for a short time in St. Bartholo-
mew's Hofpital, where the made application for the
benefit of SPILSBURY'S PATENT ANTISCOREUTIC
Drops, at the Difpenfatory, No. IS, Soho fquare,
London. fly the application of the Drops for lix
months, her ulcers gradually healed, the regained
her strength and appetite. It is now a twelvetnonth,
and the remains pelfelly well. Any information of
the above fa& may be obtained at No. 9, Duke's
Court, Dinry Lane, London.
As great number of perfons are rendered very
unhappy by Spafms, Wind in the Stomach, Obaruc-
tions in the Bowels, want of regular Peifpiration,
Vomiting:, and Bilious Complaints Head .Achs,
Heart Burn, Coflivenefs, Nervous Diforders, Cholic,
Gout, &c. We are authorifed to fay, that SPREDI-
MAN% Pills re in moll cafes an excellent remedy for
thefe Compflints ; and efpecially recommended dor-
lag the time of Sea Bathing, and drinking the Sea
and Mineral Waters; alfq for thole vifiting warm
Climates. Prepared by THOMAS SHRLLITOR, PS:
Druggift, Tottenham High Crofs, Middlefex, by
virtue of an affignment from H. and J. Bsswics,
fole Proprietors of the Receipt, by the Will of M.
SPEEDII4AN ; and are fold by Shaw and Edwards,
No. 66, St. Paul's Church-yard; and Bacon and Co.
No. tso, Oxford•fireet, in Boxes at ss. 45. 6d. los.
i 6d. and One Guinea ; and may be had of the prin.
I cipal Venders of Medicine in town and country.

DIED.
Monday night, Mrs. Davy, wife of the Rev. William Davy, of
Ingoldfiliorpe, Norfolk.
On Monday %aft, Lieutenant Alexander Willioghaufen, of the
RuElan Navy.
At Newton, near Paiiicy, on the 3t ft ult. Mr. Hew Snodgrafi,
writer
At Trinidad, in March !aft, of the yellow fever. Mr. James
Bertfon, eldelt (on of Henry Beatfon, Efq. Commander of the
Ytinecfs Cuarlutte cache revenue yacht.