Star.
London, England, 1802-03-15 00:00:00

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MAN SION Homy —S.lttndi:+v James Jones was
accilf:d before Lotto Mayor, with Itealing a
japanned tea tray, value zl. 16s. from the thop of
Mr. Evans, iroonionger, in John-itreet,C.itched-;
mars, about ti3lit o'clock on Friday evening. A
perion law tin. 'intoner take away the article in
crictiion, and on hi, :;iving the alarm, Mr. Janits
Evans puiftied him to Jewry•flicet, where he was
taken into cutlody with the property .in his hand.
He was committed for trial, and, at his own re-
quell, fent to Newgate.
On Friday Thomas Potter was charged before
the ',Oat) Marna, with affaulting John King,
and olUitua:ng his tervant in the exerrife of his
butinels. Mr. King slated that lie was an nyfler
meter, and that he kept a warehoufe at Billingf-
ctate for the depotit of goods previous to their be-
ing Blipped to the port of deftinnti..n. On l'hurf-
day morning his tervant was removing 1.6 ~c at-
ticks on board one of the vetrds about to fail that
tide, when roller came up, infilled upon the man's
putting down the goods, and on his refuting, pulp-
ed them off his thoilleters, fwearing that none hut
a privileged porter should do the labour. King
renionittated, telling him, that lic had a right to
employ his own fervant in any way he thought
prorer, more efpecially as he was h;mfelf a fellow.
'hip pot ter. roller infifled that the man was nei-
ther a fellow fhip or tackle porter, confequently had
no right to work on the quays; a quarrel enfued,
Ind the goods were prevented going by the veffels.
His Lordlhip difmiffed the charge, leaving the
parties to fettle the queftion of right with Mr. Al-
derman NiWN Hi M, who was Governor of the
Tackle Porter Company.
Co I LOHAL L.—Saturday a man was taken out
of London Houfe-yard, St. Paul's Church-yard,
for dealing in illegal infurance in the prefent State
Lottery, and committed to Bridewell for fix months
as a rogue and vagabond.
HATTON GARDEN.OTI Saturday night one
attorney charged another with a criminal aft, in
velpeft to a cafe relating to a Mrs. Saint Hill ;
bad beets before the Court of King's Easels tome
tetras back, and which endet! in a compromife at
the recommendation of the Court. New difficul-
ties, however, had ariten between that lady and
htr !ma'am], with refpat to the poffeffion of Come
title deeds which eflablithed the right of 4001. per
OMIU/71 to the huffiancf. She conceiving his con-
euft unworthy I her atTeftion, had conveyed the
deeds, with a book of corrcfponding letters and ac-
counts, to a brother of the legal profeffion to vin-
dicate her right ; on which the hufband procured
a wat rant under an aft of felony, when by defcrip-
tion an officer got podia-ton of them, and retained
them in his hands until a further hearing takes
place.
WH ITICHAPVL.—On Saturday laft Frances
Ward underwent examination, charged by Mr.
M'ilmott, in Eall Smithfield, with coming into his
fhnp and flealing Tome articles, which were found
upon her. She was fully committed for trial.
A lad, about twelve years of age, was charged by
?.!r. Lawfi!n, baker, in St. 'Catherine's, with rob-
bing him of 171. in bank notes, taken out of a
drawer, in confetmenec of Mr. Lawfon lofing the
key of it, which this boy found, being a fervant in
the !mule. As Coon as he got poilaion of the
money, he bought himfclf new clothes, Ice. He
was committed for re-examination.

The fpeedy execution of fames Snool, (Thud-
day morning), who was only contirifted at Hertford
on Tuefday, will tend more to leffen the crime of
?dad-robbing than any other meafure whatever. It
was a maxim generally adopted by the late Lord
MatisrirLo, efrecially when any crime was parti-
cularly prevalent, fo as to become alarming, or the
offender extremely obnoxious to fociety, to order
quick c vcution after being condemned ; andinone
p it ticillar iallance well remembered, as to a noto-
rious charader named Lambert Reading, for bur-
glary in the houfe of John Conyers, Efq. of Cop
ped Hall, in Effex, who being call for death on a
Tuefday, was hanged early on the Thurfday morn-
ing following ; and Inch was the effect on the minds
of houfebreakers from it, that the crime was almoa
unknown for a length of time.
COURT Or Itti:VESTS.—Saturday an Italian, of
the name of Starini, a manufafturer of grand piano-
fortes, fummoned Mifs Maria Elizabeth Tooke
for thirty-nine !billings, the amount of a demand
which he had reduced to that furn, in order to
bring it within the jurifdiCtion of the Court. The
debt was Rated to have accrued in confequence of
his having lent on hire to the young Lady, a grand
piano-forte, with a ecelefiina flop and pedals, at
the rate of a guinea per month ; the inarument
the Lady had had the ufe of was an uncommonly
fine one, rich in tone, and melodious in expref-
fion, filch as ladies of rank and quality uniformly
paid him two guineas a month for ; the had had it
two months and a fortnight, and had returned it
very much deteriorated; the cceleaina flop in par-
ticular the had quite worn out, and many of the
firings n ere broken.
The defendant admitted having had the inaru-
'tient. but flic denied it was lent her on hire. She
Paid, the had accidentally met with the plaintiff
about three months ago at the play, on a night
When Mt s. ilillington was performing ; that they
fit in the lime box, and the conceived the pl
tin-
tiff, from his convelfation, a gentleman who Itu-
died mune for his amidernent ; and as the was
pallionately fond of that Icience herfelf, the in-
vited him home with her ; that lie frequently af-
terwards called and took a pie-rtie flipper with her,
and of his own accord fent her the inarument, for 1
the bite of which he now pretended to make a
charge ; the added, that his company becoming
irkfome to her, (lie defired him to difcontinue his
virus, and returned his inarument in as good a
Rite as the had received it, having played upon
it but very little.
The Ci niniillioners immediately law through
the Ittifitv. is, and that the fait was nnly inaituted
tint of rilue on the part of the plaintiff, at the
L idy not having thought proper to encourage his
• tits for any longer period. They, therefore,
&Unified his complaint, and ordered him to pay