Star.
London, England, 1830-07-06 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

Bow.wrizsr.—A respectably dressed man, named Grovel
Mew, wasyesterday charged, before Sir R. Bisxts, with having
been in the robbery committed in September last in the
Doncaster betting.rooms. The prisoner was remanded for a week,
in order that the neeessary evidence connecting him with the trans-
action might be brought up from Doneaatev.
Maasszonosow.Srazsv.—Three journeymen tailors, named
Shingly, Wachington, and Hardy, were yesterday brought before
H. hi. DYZI4 ENI. charged under the Oh of George IV. whh en.
&avowing by threats to intimidate the workmen of Mr. Steen a
muter tailor, of Bond-street.
A Solicitor attended for the prosecution, and Mr. !Lewis for
the defendants.

Mr. Story stated, that himself and other members of the
profession, (including Smits, Burgbart, U.) were determined
to resist the late strike among the journeymen for double
wages, and that this prosecution bad been brought to show an ex-
ample, and not out of any vindictive feeling spinet the men. It
appeared that on Friday morning Shingly, accompanied by Hardy,
tame up into the workshop, and after making use of some insult-
ing language, asked the men how they dared work under the price
that they (the defendants) had struck for, and said they deserved
cheeky for so doing. Shingly then turning round to Hardy said,
" You know your man now; and immediately pointed to a young
man who was at work. They then went away, and returned again
on Saturday, when they forced their way up stairs. Being imme-
diately apprised of it, Mr. Story sent for Mate, a police constable,
who arrived almost immediately, but they then discovered that one
of the men was missing ; and after a long search be was found
locked into a cupboard in the lower part of the house.
The Solicitor to the Complainant contended that a mu had been
made out under the statute, "inciting them by threats to leave their
employ."
Mr. Haman, in reply, observed that the statute was a highly
penal one, but that the cue was not sufficiently strong. He did
not mean for one instant to justify their conduct, but he hoped, at
the same time, they bed never really intended to commit the actual
offence.

Mr. DYIR said the circumstance of the Act being of a highly
penal nature induced the magistrates to be more positive in the
proof of the intended commission. He exactly agreed with Mr.
Harmer, and hoped that the men who had struck would take a
warning. They were acts under an erroneous ides. The 7th if
George 111. had certainly given them the harass of wages on the
demise of the crown, but the price of labour was one-sixth less
than that of the present time, and that act had been repealed in toto
early in the last reign. conclusion, he observed that the trade
were indebted to the complainant, and Maus. Stales, Burghart, and
others, far having resisted such a system.
The defendants were then discharged.
Henry Leigh, a fellow dressed in the uniform of the East India
Company, was yesterday placed at the bar, charged with stealing
several t of peal and ivory handled knives and forks from the
warehouse of Mr. Bright, of Brutoe4treet.
The prisoner, it appeared, had some slight knowledge of a relative
of the prosecutor's, and by that means bad called upon Mr. Bright
two or three times, and on each occasion he contrived to be left alone
for a minute, and after his departure a large quantity of knives and
forks of an expensive description were missed. He came again on
Sunday morning, and Mr. Bright concealed himself, when the pri-
soner was admitted, and sent the servant down stairs for some beer.
During his absence he pocketed three or four doses knives and forks,
and was about le go, when Mr. Bright stepped out of his hiding.
place and gave Harbour into custody.
The prisoner stbeitiod &edict, and was fully committed.
Quznx.snonnio—Yesterday, a street preacher, named John
Martin, was charged with disturbing the peaceful inhabitants of
of Cheynscow, Chelsea, with hie drunken bellowing, on the pre.
vious day. The police constables had warned him to depart in
peace, but he was so stupidly and obstinately drunk, that they
were compelled to drag him to the watch-house. On his person
was found fifteen shillings, five of which the Magistrates made him
pay for being_drunk, and then discharged him.
TUAKIS rOLICILYCSterday, Hears Seethe", In the employ
of Messrs. Fowls and Co. ironfounders, at Waterloo Bridge, was
charged with robbing his employers of property to a large amount.',
Saturday he was stopped by Fogg and Mitchell, Thames Pollee
officers, as he was leaving the factory with some iron tools in his,
possession, and on going to his residence in Isabella-street, New-cut,l
they found a great quantity of files, brackets, hammers, sheet iron,
&e. a portion of which marked J. F. and Co. was identified by the
foreman. He was committed for trial.

HATTOW.GAILDIS.—Jariss Weatierall, Mired Goodyear,
George Crump, Edward 11114 James Pones, and John Youen,
CtCinbegl:72ogwto the
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not yet in tod were chly, charged
Mr. Gaubert, one of the overseers of St. Pancras. On Saturday
night, an immense number of paupers assembled round St. Pancras
workhouse, seeking relief. Upon Mr. Coultart coming out of the
workhouse to go home, Hardtack, instigated by the prisoners, at-
tempted to run him through the bowels with a pitchfork. Mr.
Coultart seised another pitchfork, with which he defended himself.
Mr. Price, another overseer, with assistance' took the prisoners into
custody. The prisoners were committed in default of bail.
William Lilly, a journeyman baker, in the employ of Mr. Tubb,
baker, Hatton-walk, was charged with having robbed his employer
of money to the amount of about 1101. On Saturday night the pri.
saner was giving a woman change for a shilling, tendered for a
fourpenny loaf, and was observed by the prosecutor to take a crown
piece, a shilling, and a sixpence, from the till, and conceal thew
some dirt upon a sack lying on the floor. Police Sergeant
ord was sent for, and the prisoner was given into custody.
At the polies station the prisoner was searched, and four half.crowns,
four sht, and two pence, were found in his possession. Upon
Alan his box 1031. in sovereigns and half sovereigns, and two
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SCINTILL.H.
MATRIMONIAL SPECS.—It is not long since the ap-
pearance of matihnosial advertisements in the newspapas was
looked upon with no less surprise than disapprobation. Happily,
however, the imposed liberality of the age, and the increased adop.
den al his mode of courtship, soon removed the prejudice ; and
the " wanted." which appeared in some of the London pe.
d" a young lady of a moderate fortune" now became as
=sent as thou of " a situation as housekeeper or lady's-maid."—
As yet, however, the system was but in its infancy, and as an im.
peumist on this plan, matrimonial agents began to offer their ea.
view for erecting introductions between " single persons of both
sexes,* whom innate diffidence and previous station In life bad pre.
vented meeting with suitable conjugal companies. Still, though
the matter began to assume all the features of a regular profession,
there were points on which it was susceptible of improvement ; and
in ceder to rends it mote perfect, an ingenious Frenchman, who ad.
airtime In a London paper of last week, after setting forth, in mel.
Miura, language, his numerous claims to extensive patronage, ac.
tually furnishes a " list of per to be married," which, as a mat.
ter of curiosity, we present to our readers :
1. A young lady, 18 years of age, having 1,500,000 francs, up.
wards of 62,0001. expects 900,000 francs.
2. A widow lady, aged 22, having 120,000 francs rent.
& A young lady 11 years of age, of an agreeable physiognomy,
having 1,200,000 hum, expects 1,000,000.
4. A young lady, 19 years of age, possessing 1,800,000 francs,
exposes 1,400,0110.
& A young lady, 28 years of age, having 1,400,000 francs, ex.
pets 1,000,000.
8. A widow lady, 26 years of age, having 200,000 francs rent.
7. A young lady, 18 years of age, possessing 20 mlllour, expects
1,800,000 francs.
8. A Widow lady, 36 years of age, having 160,000 francs rent.
9. A widow lady, 36 years of age, having 136,000 francs rent.
We confidently anticipate that these priests of Hymen will soon in.
elude in their descriptive catalogues not only the financial, but the
personal qualifications of their votaries. How satisfactory, for in.
stance, it would be to know that a young lady, who possessed the
tolerable fortune of 50,0001 was also, to use a hone-thala's phras
seventeen hands ,high, sound In wind and limb, and perfect in all
her !"
ORIGIN OF CHIVALRY.—In the beginning of the
twelfth century the only powerful body of laymen in Europe infra.
bleed small fortresses scattered over the country, from which they
rushed forth in quest of plunder, and where they returned to shelter
themselves and their spoils. Never befoul were so many dwelling.
houses called " little camps." Access to these dwellings was not
easy. Intercouse between them, except foe short orgies, was little
known. Young women in that unsafe time were almost as much
mailed by the care of fathers, as in the East by the jealousy of
*ahead.. The young warrior could but rarely steal a glimpse of
damsels of his own age and condition. Hence it naturally happened
that these ladies were sometimes regarded, at least foe a time, with
a warmth of passion and depth of admiration unknown to ha is
times. When men were engaged in the constant exercise of -ace.
Send or private war, superiority in valour was the virtue which
most oommaaded esteem and applause. The timid female va.
laid it u highly from awe as the sturdy warrior from fellow.
feelings. The excellent virtue of veracity was held in the same ha-
sour, and an offence against it was followed with the like chance;
for it was then rather admired as a proof of courage than es-
teemed as a part of integrity. They despised falsehood, as
Bowing from the fear of speaking truth. They imposed on wo.
men, under pain of ignominy, the inflexible practice of those
severe virtues, which they themselves least o and least un.
derstood, partly to quiet their own jealousy, and partly, also, be-
cause where love was aworship it required a more perfect purity in
its objects. In so turbulent and Insecure a state of society a few
of a more generous nature were led, by their temper or their cir.
cumstances, to taste the delight of employing valour for the protec.
tier of the feeble against the spoiler. Women, or Leather young
and beautiful damsels, were admired for their attractions, pitied and
defended for their weakness. The ministers of religion were pro-
tected because they were venerable, and beanie they were consi-
dered unwarlike. Religion itself, which was guarded only by
unseen powers and, remote punishments, claimed from the ge.
nerous warrior the use of his sword against her human enemies. In
time all the weak became objects of defence. The pupils of the
school of chivalry were taught to take up arms against wrong, how.
ever they might often be deceived in their judgment as to what con.
stituted it. The grand defect of this system, in its best state, was,
that it was confined to a small portion of mankind. In its purest
form it never prevailed among the majority of the class who exch.
lively pretended to it. The writers who soon supplanted the bkpt.
phers of saints, and became for their day the delight of
represented in their romances a picture of chivalry, in m610111:1:
roes were purified from their defects, and invested with power is
cope with preternatural beings, or to subdue the mdit amosmileus
monsters. These imaginary pictures were applied 17adrokka pa.
terity to the favourite heroes of a past age. 4th
placed perfect chivalry in the time of their fathers. F&sas
was
confounded with truth ; and at length it came to be thought that
the roads of Europe were really coveted with wandering redressers of
wrong in some former age, better and happier than that in which
the believers and admirers had the misfortune to live.—Dr. Lord.l
war's Cabinet Cyclopedia, Vol. VIII. being As First Volume of
Sir Jaws Mackintosh's History of England.
OSSIAN, MACPHERSON AND NonoLioN.—Some
fragments of the songs of the Scottish Highlanders, of very ulcer.
Min antiquity, appear to have fallen into the hands of Meepiarma,
a young man of no mean genius, unacquainted with the higher
criticism applied to the genuineness of ancient writings, and who
was too much a stranger to the studious world to have learnt thou
refinements which extend probity to literature as well as to pro.
t=enElated by the praise not unjustly bestowed on some of them
ts, instead of Insuring a general assent to them by a pub-
lication in their natural state, he unhappily applied his talents kw
skilful imitation to complete poetical works in a style similar to the
fragments, and to work them into the unsuitable shape of epic and
dramatic poems. He was not aware of the impossibility of poems,
preserved only by tradition, being intelligible lifter thirteen centu-
ries, to readers who knew only the language of their own times;
and he did not perceive the extravagance of peopling the Caledonian
mountains in the fourth century with a race of men so generous and
merciful, so gallant, so mild, and so magnanimous, that the most
ingenious romances of the age of chivalry could not have ventured
to represent a single hero as on a level with their common virtues.
Be did not consider the prodigious absurdity of inserting as it were I
a people thus advanced in moral civilisation, between the Britons,
Ignemat and savage as they are painted by Cesar and the High.'
leaders, fierce and rude as they are presented by die first accounts
of the chroniclers of the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. Even
the better part of the Scots were, in the latter period, thus
spoken of In Scotland ye shall find no man lightly of honour
or gentleness : they be like wylde and savage people." The great
historian who made the annals of Scotland a part of European
literature had sufficiently warned his eoun against such faults
by the decisive observation that their f there were unacquainted
with the art of writing, which alone preserves language from total
change, and great events from oblivion. ltlacpherson was 'neon.
to overleap these and many other improbabilities by youth,
t, and applause : perhaps he did not at first distinctly present
Ith his mind the permanence of the deception. It is more probable,
ad it is a supposition countenanced by many chatmstances, that
ither enjoying the pleasure of duping so many critics, he intended
Me day to claim the poems as his own ; but if he had such a design,
esulderable obstacles to its execution arose around him. He was
leaded with so much praise, that he seemed bound in honour to his
admirers not to desert them. The support of his own country ap.
pared to render adherence to those poems which Scotland lam.
siderately sanctioned a sort of national obligation. Exasperated, on
the other hand, by the,perhaps, unduly vehement, and sometimes
attacks made , him,