Star.
London, England, 1823-10-20 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

K. S.

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OVERCHARGE RE PORTERS ON Tile CARRIAGE or PARCEI3.•--$l.
turday Mrs. Hine, a Lady lilting in %Valcot-place, Lambeth, ram.
plained of a ticket-porter fur having made an over charge on the car-
ri::ge of a basket of game that was sect to her by the coach from
Birmingham. Mrs. Hine stated, that the porter, instead of bring-
ing the parcel to her beige, delivered it at a carrier's booking-
office, in Gracechurch- street, for which he charged eightpente, ankh
the carrier, by whom it was delivered, charged eightpence additional
for taking it to her house.
The porter, in his defence, said, that when parcels were sent by
the coach to persons living beyond the carriage pavement, it was the
uniform practice to deliver them at the office of a carrier 1N ho passed
in that direction, who of course added his charge to that made by
the porter for leaving thcm at his office.
On reference to the Act of Parliament, the Z.9:b of George 111.
it appears that all coach-masters and other '.carriers by whom par.
eels are-sent to London, are bound to send them to the place di-
meted, unless it is more than half a mile beyond the cart-file
pavement, at rates of porterage stated in the Aet. One of toe
Officers stated, that Mrs. Hine's house was nut half a mle beysstl
the carriage pavement.
Time Alaglstrate said, as it appeared the practice of seeding parcels
to carriers' offices was very general, it was proper that the porter
and the public should know that it was illegal, and that the potters
were-bound to deliver all 'parcels as directed, at the rates prescribed
by the Act, within the specified distance, under a penalty, which,
for thefirst offence, was 9.05. The portenpaid the fine, and pro-
mised to conform to the -Act of Parliament in future.
LA MBETH-STIEEET.
It may not be generally know!, that.tbere arc in the Metropolis
many houses for the sale of liquors, kept by persons calling
selves Woolcomhers, who have for a considerable time ezoched all
the privileges of Licensed Victuallers, without having a license to
do so. They invariably plead their right to keep open pubic-houses
without any license, and say they ate authorized to do so by virtue
of an Act passed in the 35th year of Geo. 111. cap. 124, entkled,
u An Act to enable Woolcotribera to exertise'trades in any town
or place in Great Britain."
This Act states, that in consequence of the many ate; machinery
is put to, a great number of Woolcornbers bad been thrown out of
employment: it therefore authorized any person who bad served
an apprenticeship as a Woolcomber to set up and exercise any trade.
he may be apt and able for, without any Yet, suit, or molestation
whatever, for, or by reason of their using such trades."
Tne above ate the grounds of the Woolcombere claims.—The
Magistrates, however, decided otherwise, and ordered informations
to lie laid against all such persons who exercised the calling of a
Licensed Victualler without licenses.

&mud Walters was the first person informed against; he keeps
a public-house, without any sign, situated ncar liarbour-squarr,

-aim Magistrate said he felt it necessary to convict the defendant
in the full penalty of 201. for selling beer without a license.
It is singular that the Act under which the defendant was con-
victed was passed in the same Session as the Woolcombers' Act,
by which he thought himself authorized to act as he had done.

EscAra or A Dzszurzu.—Saturday evening, about
nine o'clock, a deserter made his escape from a file of.
soldiers, in the following alert manner :—He was walk.
ing in the centre of the guard, the corporal and two,
men being in advance, and three men a few-paces
hind him, on the right hand side of the Strand, and WS
going to the rendezvous off Somerset-House. Whentlse
party arrived nearly opposite Roundcourt, in cony
quence of some obstruction in .the road-way, caused by
a coal waggon, some persons were standing listenias to
the altercation that generally follows such interruptang
the crowd produced a temporary halt of the guard, and,
at that instant the deserter sprung off the curb, under
the horse's belly, and darted up Round-court : two sol-
diers followed him with much activity, and at the head-
of, the court presented their muskets. The c
who followed them, seeing the court thronged withl
son:, very properly desired them not to fire, but Weis,
the passage, and hold their comrades' muskets, while be
and the others, armed -with drawn bayonets, pursued
and searched the quarter, which they did, but the fat.
tunate deserter seemed to have a thorough knowledr,
of the intricacies of the neighbourhood, and, assisted bY
'some of the.iphabitants, completely eluded

DIED.
Monday, after an illness of three days, at Hartweod Heelitinq ,
twenty, the Hon. Frederick Laments, sixth sem of the BO 111!
Countess of Harewood.

• profits. v. hereas the occupiers of land loth, parish were --.ll;4;yre'si&-r.lniire;e-wiini this prize, reminded she musician general diffusion ot education, and an -exemption, in the 1
701-gus--tllatTPortsoy, Mr. Wm. Dawson, surgeon, aged M'
I assessed on the amount of their rents tinny, taking them of the ancient importance of his art—that the martial itraios of case of the labouting classes, from the lost of tittle at- Sept. 25, lit ElsinoreMr William Gowan, merchant le lafre•
as the stand-ard of value. The third objection involves his instrument had inspired our ancestors to deeds of chivalry and tendant on the endless holidays of the Catholic Church. =.-----' -6•—•=:•----------
heroism, even from the time of the Unman invasion, and had been
the difficult and intereating question, how are farms to In agriculture, the operation of these advantages is less COURSE OF EXCHANGE, OCT. it.
* great means of preserving the liberty, Independence and chant-
apparent, most countries sufficing wholly, or nearly to Amsterdam ......12 9 C.F. Seville 541 •
be rated—and are the occupiers liable for profits made teristic spirit of the Scottish mountaineers, unimpaired' and onsul-
Ditto at sight 12 6 Gibraltar........ Pie
their own consumption, while the insulated position 1• '
by them beyond the amount of the particular rents? lied, against allintrusions of hostile hands. Be recommended per- totterd ... .. -.12 10 Leghorn 44*
The usage has been to assess the rent only. After some severance in the cultivation of that art, in which he had already of the husbandman prevents, in <a great measure, the AntwerP,ei-mo.. 12 8 Genoa 424
discussion, it was agreed that the facts should he em- arrived
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suchsil distinction.l o _
,to 'Alexander Dewar, Piper to benefits arising ffom competition and frequent per-
sonal communication. But in manufactures, parties- Ilamburgh.:...... 55' 1 Venice Ital. UT. file
bodied into a case, and the point stated, for the opinion sir'N'oeill lidnieniines.- Barr.o t"Mona ...... ......5$ 2 Malta ... 45 .
of the Court of Ki'lig's Bench. . . • In presenting this prize, Dr. Stewart expressed a hope that *lt larly in those prepared for foreign sale, the case is very tairiso'MaY.B.lloll2s 90 Naples
Palermo lll Pa al•
Mudge,in a sermon on Anarchy, has the following never would be drawn with a hostile purpose, except in the cause different ; the ease of transporting them to a distant wart .a.,....... ... :v. ...
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admirable figure :14 Every, man 'projected and re- of Ling and Country, or in personal defence ;, and hoped due to market, and of comparing their respective quality and Cadla effect ' 554 Lisbon 55
Rio Janeiro... .• ell •
either sue the owner would shew tbespirit el ids country.
formed, end did *hat was right in his own eyes: no
ad. A handsome ailmr-moontod Sporran MoUacb, awarded to price, opens a Wide field of competition, and awards the Barcelona ..i.-- ••551
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*age can better eMptess such a condition than that of John M.Gregor, Portinpll, late Piper to the Duke of Admit. preference to su skill and ingenuity. Accordingly, BM"' arced" 56 Cosh ....... ....
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a dead lion its a state of putrefaction. when, instead of 4th. An excellent Piscosine Chanter, to Donald Gunn, Piper so though the CatPheorlig of Europe are collectively much = _
one.-noble creature, as it was when We held it together. the Hord l'erthohlreMella. more numerous than the Protestants; the far larger •• ht A ILS.—THIS DAY.
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In presenting these two risen, Dr. Stewart trusted that for-•aa. nut. ' 115 z, ass
there ere -t in thousani little nauseous reptiles growing b ind
and *odd serer
vast
___,... share of exported merchandise proceeds from Protestant Dublin . 2 0 France 1 0
mar, I WWI sew, W """""°'"‘countries, the
out of it, every one erawlia
.k is a path of its Own." line the Spain; and that the latter wield nee his rise ft mei labour of the' Flemings,. the French, and Waterford 2 0 Hamburgh 131
lilColltsAllitraLT Be 0 bull of Irish extraction purpose as might soon being him to the pitelt-adproliciancy displayed the Northern Italians, forming a feeble counterpoise to GI rtril, "y a" Jana', 1 0 Flanders
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can excel one of Cobbettie,* in case of his late ~ Rural in the poeformantes of mere ferennae, a emaetteses. those of the Silesian% the Saxons, the Prussians, and na
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denies, reels,- - - Holland 1 0 Gmtenburgh - -
Rides." a I saw 80 cent standintrn ticks, tithing littler '‘fter db. 411lverr 5f llaa liflaese IN," all, of our countrymen. In behind linen w v Medi
•and jigs, wen raw throe. *di BM that aunty, mse, and grade, above . . _ _ _ , ea . temn„n 0 0
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wee it fr • MD cosseicuena. wholly in the hands of Protestants. LONDON: Printed.and published by Lives Kaus,
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