Star.
London, England, 1824-11-29 00:00:00

SHIPWRECK.

EGOCIATIONS WITH THE THIEVES FOR
rzuz RECOrm OF STOLEN PROPERTY.
—raw.—

Early in the last week, Mr. J. C. Crampin, of the firm
of Charlesworth and Crampin, silkmen, N 0.22, Wood-'
street, Cheapside, applied co Mr. Alderman Cox, ht
Guildhall, for advice under the following circum-
stances :—Wednesday, the 27th of October, their pre-
mises were broken into, and about £lOOO worth of pro-
perty carried off. The same afternoon, Salmon, the
Bow-street Officer, and Mr. Lidbetter, the landlord of
the Dolphin public-house, on Ludgate-hill, came; and
his partner, Mr. Charlesworth, said, Lidbetter had in-
troduced him to Salmon and Perry, of Bow-street.—
'l'he next morning, Mr. Charlesworth told him, they
should get their goods back; and the business could
not be in better hands than Mr. Lidbetter's. At a sub-
sequent interview, Mr. Lidbetter said, he knew where
the goods where; and that he would see Ikey Solomon
and Old Crowder. On the following day (Sunday), he
saw Salmon, Perry, and Lidbetter, at Salmon's house,
in Tavistock-street ; and they said, they should meet
/key Solomon and Old Crowder at two or three o'clock.
.The same evening he called on Lidbetter, who said,
they were in the right hunt; the thing was got so now,
the goods must be given up—he would bet £lOOO to
£lO of it. He required an invoice of the stolen pro-
perty ; and said, Mr. Crampin must make up his mind
as to what he would give. The invoice was delivered
to him, with 30 sovereigns, which he said he must have
to give the thieves ; and on the following day, Lid-
better reported he had seen Ikey, who wanted £350 for
the things, but some of the articles were deficient. Mr.
Crampin said, perhaps it would be as well to give the
1:450, but Lidbetter replied, be quiet, and we shall get
them for £2OO. He, however, had heard no more of
them since. The Bow-street Officers delivered in a bill
of C2l lls. for their trouble, but Mr. C. gave thein
. Mr. Lidbetter had since given in a bill of £l4 18s: for
eating and drinking, and £lO for his services; and he
held back the 30 sovereigns till he should be paid. Mr.
Lidbetter came before Mr. Alderman Cos, on Saturday,
on a summons; and was informed that he was charged
-with "receiving money to give to the thieves, under pre-
tence of getting back the stolen property ; and Mr.
Crampin was sworn to the truth of the above statements.
Mr. Lidbetter, in his defence, said, he had acted en-
tirely under the direction of the Bow-street Officers, and
Mr. Crampin and his partner. He had done his best to
get the goods back, and had not paid the thieves the
3.:30. He held himself accountable for that sum, and
would forego his demand of £lO fir his services. He
intended to have taken the person, who should bring
back the goods, into custody, but Ikey Solomon would
not trust him.
Mr. Alderman Cox said, at present Mr. Lidbetter stands com-
mitted for further examination.
Mr. Lidbetter asked if he could not be bailed ? He could give
security to any amount.
The City Solicitor replied, that the Magistrates could take no
bail. The only way in which he could be relieved from the charge,
washy producing the thieves, and giving evidence against them, in
which case he himself would be excused.—This he profesed him-
self unable to do.

A PICKPOCKET.—Friday evening about six o'clock, as
BARBER BEAUMONT, Esq. was walking down Holborn,
from the end of Chancery-lane, he felt a pull at his coat-
pocket, ,and his handkerchief gone; he turned round
quickly, and collared the thief, who dropped the hand-
kerchief, and attempted to escape. Mr. Brantrowr held
him fast, and a desperate struggle took place; however,
Mr. BEAUMONT succeeded in detaining him, until the
watchman came up.and took charge of him.

Saturday, Mr. Angellini, an Italian, who had previ-
ously made application to the Lord Mayor on the sub-
ject, presented himself at Newgate, telling die Ordinary
that he came to take the place of Mr. Fauntieroy, being
very anxious that Gentleman should be saved, in consi-
deration of his wife and family. The Ordinary rea-
soned with him on the absurdity of the idea, but the
more the Rev. Gentleman argued with hini the more
clamorous the Italian became. He was then turned
over to the care of one of the Officers, and after a
time quitted the place, regretting that the privilege was
denied him. _ _

Tuesday last, a poor fellow named Howard, who was
convicted at the last Sessioni of an assault, and senten-
ced to imprisonment in the New Bailey, Manchester,
met his death in a most shocking manner. He was
emplo)ed in the wash-house, and was reaching over the
boiler to fill a bucket, when his feet slipped, and he fell
to the neck in boiling water. Several persons being in
the wash-house at the time, he was promptly rescued
from his dreadful situation, but too late to save his life.
He lingered in great agony until five o'clock the next
morning, when he espied.
GLENKENS, GALLOWAY, NoVEDIBEE 20.—1 n the
elevated and romantic region of the Glenkens, the
effects of the recent tremendous storms and tempests
have been more felt than in more champaign and
sheltered districts.—Houses have been unroofed, trees
broken and uptorn, and flocks scattered, &c. The
mountain furrows, even now, are gushing with white
cascades, and falling from steep to steep with the roar
of distant thunder, and throwing their light clouds of
drizzling spray on every blast. Every tiny brook here
has been swollen to a river, every 6, Linn", or waterfall
to a resistless torrent, sweeping down trees and rocks,
and adding the debris of our most distant mountains to
its sandy shores; and every river (Deuch, Polltairow,
Ken, &c.) has overleaped its banks and spread over all
the adjoining plains. Even Loch Ken itself, unable to
• disgorge its accumulated waters, as if in contempt of
its embankments, has submerged the whole of the Halms
of Kenneure in one wide and rueful inundation. The
birch and ash trees seemed to bend to the earth by the
force of the hurricanes, and the rooks and ravens were
seen swinging on their branches, alike afraid to remain
or to trust their ruffled pinions to the tempest.
AMERICAN SENSIEILITY.—We might fill a large
space with the numerous anecdotes we have heard of
the deep feelings which La. FAYETTE has inspired. Two
men, at the mere touch of his right band, actually fell
and swooned away on Wednesday morning. Our feel-
ings could not carry us so far ; but if we were to give
way to the enthusiasm by which we were animated at
Yerk Town, we might be suspected of romantic or
affected sensibility.—American Paper.
ANCIENT SHIP.—The Captain of an Italian vesselbes
brought from a voyage into Lapland an antique bark,
in very good preservation, which had been thrown by a
storm on those coasts some hundred years age. The
prow of this vessel represents a head of Medusa, and
the poop is adorned with a double figure of a Satyr.--
These sculptures are very well , preserved, and seem
to belong to a celebrated epoch in the arts among
the ancients.

By the ---, Barfoot, from Newfoundland, we have
received news of the shipwreck of the schooner Union,
J. Mosier, owner and master. She was sailing up the
river St. Lawrence, under a light but unsteady side
breeze, Ist of August last, having on board the Captain
and crew, six in number, six carpenters, and nine pas-
sengers: among whom was a family, consisting of the
husband, the wife and five children; with 16 tons of
merchandise, besides about nine tons of ballast. When
the vessel was about two miles above Brockville, a sud-
den gust of wind took her sails, and notwithstanding
the Laptain was at the helm, and all the hands properly
stationed to ease off in the event of danger, and but one
topsail up, yet so sudden and violent was the gust, that
no efforts could save her from upsetting: in four or five
seconds she was on her beam-ends, aad the ballast and
' cargo having shifted, prevented her from righting.
The five children were in the hold, and their parents,
were on deck. The woman fell overboard, and was
with much difficulty saved ; two children, one seven I
years old, the otheran infant, were killed by the falling
of some part of the cargo upon them. As the vessel
did not fill for twelve or fifteen minutes, two of the
children were saved, but all exertions failed to save a
boy about twelve years old, who was in the hold when
it filled ; at that time, when his hopes were all gone, it
was truly horrible to hear his shrieks within, answered
by responding cries of parents and children without ;
but description can tell no tales of keen distress.

IRISH ARGUMENTS TOR SETTLING THE
UNITED STATES.

The following is an exact copy, with a few correc-
tions in the orthography, of a letter found in the street
on Sunday morning. As it is somewhat complimentary
to our city, you may think it worthy of publication, of
course omitting or changing all names:—" Dear Bro-
ther, I wrote you soon after we arrived in New York,
letting you know how I liked the ' Land of Liberty
however, it was not so much better than Limerick;
after all, I was obliged to work for a living, and be-
cause I got into a little row, they took away my money
and kept me in jail two weeks ; I soon got tired of that
country, and have come to the southern parts. I like
things much better here, and advise you to come to
Mobile as soon as you can, and try to get Phelim and
David to come too: This is the best country in the
world for all but potatoes, and they don't grow here,
except what come from New York, and they an't good
for nothing. Whisky is only sixpence a quart, and you-
can get 4s. for a whole day's work. I don't work but
half the time, and have plenty to eat and something
left for night too. But the best thing of all is, people
never have to pay their debts here as they do in Ireland;
you have only to go before a Justice, and he fixes your
papers, and figures it out, all handsome, just like a mer-
chant, and soon makes it out, that instead of being in
debt your creditors owe you, and then you sue them
for it, and put it in the paper, Joh n O'Twistem against
his creditors,' and tell them the 'Squire has appointed
such a day to hear them, and to come up if they have
anything to say for themselves. There are six or seven
of them in the papers every week. A man sued his cre-
ditors four times, and- beat them every time, and has,
got trusted almost enough to sue them again. There is
no shame about it, for you don't cheat anybody, it isi,
only a way to pay off old debts, and people do it here
when their creditors don't owe them more than a hun-
dred dollars; this is the reason why people are so inde-
pendent here, for if one man tries to make another pay
what he owes him, he laughs at him, for if • he takes
the benefit,' as they call it here, nobody cart touch him;
and besides, it helps poor people to get along, without
WOI king so hard, and have plenty to drink too.'— United
States Paper.

The Earl of DARNLEY has subscribed the munificent
sum of SOW. towards making a new turnpike road between the
road leading from Maidstone to Wrotbam and Stroud, which will
be of great public utility.—Upwards of 2,000/. have been subscribed
for this desirable ot.ject.
Saturday, one of the blockade men stationed at War-
den, in the Isle of Sheppey. received an injury in his left
arm by his pistol going off accidentally ; a surgeon was
sent fur from Sheerness, %hen the arm was amputated
below the elbow.
The herring fishery has been very successful at
Folkestone, one of the boats belonging to which place
has earned upwards of 4.001. this season.
Lady Dryden, of London, who died at her lodgings
in Margate, was interred in St. Peter's Church,Thanet,
on Wednesday last.
HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE..—Friday, as the hounds
of the Marquis of Waterford were drawing for a fox,
on Mount Misery, near Waterford, they came to a fAulr,
when, on some of the Gentlemen riding up, it was
found that they haa met with an infant, in appearance re-
cently dead, and had devoured a great part of the body.
An Inquest was subsequently held by Alderman Eve-
lyn, Coroner, but no evidence was adduced to throw
any light on this mysterious circumstance.
Upwards of 120 square-rigged vessels have been
built in the province of New Brunswick during the pre-
sent season. This number, however, includes a few
built on the Nova Scotia side of the Bay of Fundy on
New. Brunswick account. A rich bed of iron ore, yield-
ing •75 per cent. has recently been discovered in Nova
Scotia, or the Bay of Fundy, and as coal exists in great
abundance in the immediate vicinity, it can be worked
to great advantage. ,
OPENING OF THE NEW INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.
—Friday morning; Mr. Commissioner HARRIS and
Mr. Commissioner Law took their judicial seats for the
first time, in the New Court erected in Portugal-street,
Lincoln's Ina-fields; where the sittings will hereafter be
bold. The central situation of the Court will be found
eery convenient to the Profession and the Public.
A few days since, five couple were married at Stoke
Church ; among these a sailor appeared with his blush-
ing belle; Jack's face presenting to the Clergyman's
view no small number of scratches, intersecting each
' other in all directions, he looked at him earnestly,
which Jack perceiving, exclaimed —" I know, your
honour, what you are glimpsing at; 'twas illadam
there that did it, last night," pointing to his intended
bride, 44 but I served her out for it—only look at her
eyes and Jack was right, for on inspecting the damsel,
the orbs of vision were found surrounded by nearly all
the colours of the rainhow—Ahey went to the altar in
perfect good humour, to complete the ceremony.
At the dissolution of the monasteries, those who pur-
chased the religious houses took the libraries as part of
the booty, with which they scowered their furniture.
Some they sold to- the grocers, and others they ,sent
abroad for the bookbinders, in ship loads. Boyle, who'
relates the circumstance, states that he .knew a mer-
chant who bought two noble libraries for 40s. each.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSIL

Saturday, Jahn Worley was put to the bar, when Mr. Carrington,
a cheesemonger, in Fore-street, stated, that the prisoner, on Friday
week, ordered a quantity of cheese to be sent to No. 15, Fetter.
lane, which was accordingly done, together with the bill, amount-
ing to 41. 1 Is. The prisoner then told the shopman that he must
take 44 in copper, which the latter, after some hesitation, agreed
to, and received I is. in silver, and ixteen papers, which were re-
presented to contain 54. each of copper. They were taken home,
and the prosecutor, next day, paid eight of them away, when it
was discovered the papers contained sheet lead in the form of
penny.pieces, with one or two at each end, to avoid detection, in
ease the papers should be partially opened.
Mr. Humphries, who attended for the prisoner, said that be had
taken the papers in the way of business. He then applied to the
Lard Mayor for the return of those articles which had been pro.
perly paid for, which was acceded to, and the prisoner committed.

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HATT ON-G ARDEN.
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A ydimg man, named Kilian Lilly, who has been detained under
a charge 'Ol having stolen plate in his possession, was brought up
for final ex mination on Saturday, in \s\cl
consequence of an ownet
having been iscovered for the property, through the instrumen-
tality of a report of his last examination, which appeared in the
public prints.
William Lev. one of the officers of this establishnient, who toot
the prisoner into custody, stated, that on the day of his apprehen-
sion, which was nearly a month since, witness, and Limbrick, his
brother offico were going through Wilderness-row, and observing
the prisoner and another fellow lurking about a pawnbroker's shop,
they suspected them to be about to make away with some article
improperly obtained, and after having dogged them some distance,
the fellows, perceiving they were observed, took to their heels, but
being closely pursued, witness overtook the prisoner Lilly, in
Great Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, and having remarked his fre-
quently putting his hand to his bat, as if to prevent its, falling off,
while running, witness took it off his head ; prisoner strove hard to
prevent him, but on searching the hat, it was found to contain
(wrapped up in a silk handkerchief) six tea, four desert, and two
table silver spoons, all marked " M M‘C." in a cypher on the front,
and the figure of a shell engraved on the reverse, but having neither
crest nor Hall-mark.
The prisoner is presumed to be one of that numerous fraternity
called siienks, or sonietimes diners, who watch opportunities of
darting into the areas of houses, and carrying off anything they can
lay hold of.