Star.
London, England, 1806-01-13 00:00:00

IYESTUINSTER SF SSIOIVS.

Friday F lizalab Convoy was tried nn an indiement
for keeping a diforderly haute, in Q.Lielo-ftreet,
den.fqoare.
'the profeention was inflitnted by the parifh of St.
James',, and a number of refpeetahle bookkeepers
came forward, and depofed, that they were, (ince
September lan, continually annoyed and didurhed at
all hours of the night, by noifes and riots at the psi.
f bottle ; and the molt flagrant indecencies were
eihihited at the windows, by the inmates of that
houle, in the open day light.
Mr. Com rr Hated the cafe for the profeention.

Mr. Cawatwn, for the prifoner, endeavoured to
(hew, that the profecutors mull have been altuated
by error, or wilful mifreprefentation, as the inmates
of the prifoner's houfe were all perfons of refpeaabi-
lity, and far advanced in years, three of whom were
above the age of fifty.
Mrs. Hunter, formerly of Covent Garden Theatre,
was called forward in evidence for the defence i—
lhe Rated, that (he and two elderly ladies, her friends,
had been lodgers in the houfe for a confiderable
time pall, doting which (he always confidered the
prifoner to he a very orderly well condufted wo-
man ; and never had heard any extraordinary mile
in the houfe.
Mrs. Hunter, being silted as to her own mode of
livelihood, anfwered, that the principal part of her
life had been (pent as a performer of Covent Garden
Theatre, and that the now lived on an annuity.
Another elderly female :citified to the like purpofe.
The Jury, after a very Ilion deliberation, return-
ed a verdia of—Guilty.,; and the Court fitntenced
the Prifoner to three months imptifimment.
Maas Breilly, a coal porter, was indiEled for felo-
nionfly Realing from a barge lying off Scotland-yard,
on the night of the 25th December lag, three bufhels,
of coals, the property of Mr. Hodges, a coal men.
chant.
Mr. Hodges being (worn, Paid, that having been
robbed, from time to time, of confiderable quanti•
ties of coals from his wharf, and unable to difeover
the thief, he determined to watch on the above night,
and accordingly took poll in his countinghoufe, arm-
ed with a fowling piece loaded with (mall (hot.—
About two o'clock on the following morning, he
heard a rumbling noife in one of his barges called
the Price ; he immediately proceeded to the wharf,
faw a man lifting a bag upon the gunwale of the
next barge, and then jump on the fhore, the tide at
that time was out: he called ad, and afked who
was there ? threatening, if he was not inftantly an-
fwered, he would fire at the perfoo. After repeated
challenges, and receiving no *diver, he fired. He
heard a groan, and faw a man run away, whom
he mined, caught, and found to be the prifiiner.—•
He conveyed him to the watch-houfe, and found he
was feverely wounded in the left leg.
The Jury found him guilty ; lenience, fix months
imprifonment.
Saturday, at the Weßnsinfier Salons an appeal
brought by Mr. Kitchen, of •Berkeley-fireet. againll
a decifion of the Magißrates of Marlborough flreet,
relative to a portico which Mr. K. had conaruded,
being a nuifance, was determined againft Mr. K.
notwithßanding ;he arguments of his Counfel,
Mars. Conti, Gurney, and Alley.

SING° LAR CMAIACTIC—A Ilion time fince died,
at Eddiftone, in Yorkthire, Edward Norton, aged
56, by trade a tinker, which he followed zealoully till
about fix weeks before his death. His apartment
ponrtrayed fymptoms of the moil abjet poverty,
though at his death he was found to be poffeffed of
property to the amount of between five and fix thou-
fend pounds. He had a wife and feveral children,
which he brought up in the molt parfimonicns man.
nor, often feeding them on grains and the offals of
meat, which he purchafed at reduced prices. He
was no lets remarkable in perfon and drefs ; for, in
order to five the expellee of (having, he would en.
courage the dirt to gather on his face, to hide, in
tome meafure, this &fee. He never Coffered his
fhirt to be waffled in water ; but, after wearing it till
it became intolerably black, he ufed to walk it in
urine, to Cave the expellee of foap. His coat, which
time bad tranformed into a jacket, would have
puzzled the witell philolopher to have found out its
original colour, fe covered was it with fhreds and
patches of different colours, and thole fo diverfified,
as to refemble the trophies of the different nations of
Europe, _and teemed to vie wilt Jofeph's coat of
many colours." The interett of his money, together
with all he could heap up froin his penurious mode
of living, lie tiled to depotit in a bag. which bag was
covered up in a tin pot, and then conveyed to a brick
kitchen ; one of the bricks waii taken up, and a hole
made jolt large enough to hold the pot ; the brick
WAi then carefully marked, and a tally kept behind
the door of the rum depolited. One day his wife
difcovered this horde, and refolving to profit by the
opportunity, took fit om the pot one out of (lateen gui-
neas that was then placed there. Her hulband loon
dilcovered the trick, for when he came to count his
money, and finding it not agree with the tally be-
hind the door, which his wife did not know of, he
taxed her with the theft, and to the day of his death,
even on his death bed, he never fpoke to her without
adding the epithet of Thief to every expreflion. In
his younger day s, he ufed, at the death of any of his
children, to have a little deal box made to put them
in, and, without undergoing the folemn repines of
a regular funeral, he would take them upon his thoul.
der to the place appropriated for their reception ;
where, once interred, he feemingly coincided with
the old adage, " out of light, ont of mind ;" and
went home As unconcerned a. if nothing had happen.
ed. A lhnrt time before his death, which he evident.
I y battened by the daily ufe of near a quart of fpirits,
he gave thin charge that his coffin fhould not have a
nail in it, which, was adually the cafe, the lid being
fattened with hinges made of cord ; there was no
infeription on the coffin, but barely the initials E. N.
cut out on the lid. His (brood was made of a pound
of wool ; his coffin was covered with a fbeet inflead
of a pall, and was carried by fix men, to each of
whom he left half a crown; and, at his particnlir
defire, not one who followed him to the grave wore
mourning ; hut, on the contrary, each of the mour-
ners teemed to try whole chefs would be the moll
balking, the undertaker even being haliiied in a Nue
coat and feat-let waillcoat. He died without a will,
and his fortune was equally divided among his wile
and family.

POLICE,Cfc.

Bow STR es•.—On Wednefday rating Crocker, in
palling along the Strand, feu, Soanes's gang of pick
pneke:s ; he feized Soanes and Rowley by the arms,
and endeavoured to fecure Wo.-dford, bat he made
his drape. Crocker took them to the Office,-*nct
they were committed for farther examination on
Saturday, whet, they were brought up; but there
being no dired charge ag dna them, they were dif-
miffed.
Saturday a female, named Marnes, was commit-
ted from Bow-Ilreet, for uttering bate coin.
A woman, named Marlins% near Bolton, was
lately committed to Lincoln Cattle, for firing at and
wounding another young woman. She is fuppofed
to have been aduated by jealoufy. The perfon
wounded is likely to recover, but with the las of
both her eyes.
Saturday -- Butterfield, was committed from
(:).2een rewire, for [leafing a cart and horfe, from
Roehampton, two year. (ince.
Saturday a woman of the town was charged at
the above office by a man with picking his pocket of
a 51. note. The fellow had been In drunk that be
could neither (peak to the identity of the woman or
note, and the complaint was difmiffed with a repri.
mand.
Saturday the fezton of St. James's, Clerkenwell,
his ailittant, and a drover, were again examined at
Hatton Gatden, and admitted as evidence againft
Newman and Chivers, who keep old iron Chops; and
who were committed as receivers. Spencer, the dull-
man, implicated in the charge, is committed for re-
examination
Saturday at MAI lborough.fireet, two young Naval
Officers, and a waiter from a coffee-houfe in Oxford.
Greet, who accompanied them as their pilot, were
charged with a riot, at a houfe in (leen Ann-flreet,
on 1 hurfday evening. The charge was made by the
hollers, who, it appeared, firhsifhed apartments to
two ladies of the Cyprian order, one of whom had
made an appointraent with one of the defendants.—
The lady, however, was engaged, and the defen.
dants, after forcing open the Ilreet door, ailed in.
decently towards the complainant ; for, according
to her own Ilatement, her under garments were torn
in ribbons, and had the not been sailed by three
watchmen, the did not know what might have been
the confemiences. Another charge was made by
the guardians of the night, their faces having been
much disfigured in the affray. However, after pay-
ing for lanterns, rattles, de. elk atoning for their
condud, the defendants were liberated by content of
the complaining parties.
Thurfday, at the Public Office, Hatton Carden, a
man of the muse of Chivers Jones, a grave digger
at St. James's, Clerkenwell Bradbury, his man ;
Maxwell, a drover ; and Spencer, a duilman, were
examined a fecund time—the fir( as a receiver, and
the tell for Reeling lead out of the vaults in St.
James's Church. On Bradbury was found a large
fheet of lead, on which was afflred a beefs plate, hav-
ing engraved thereon, 1, Mts. Elizabeth Crofs, died
ayth September, 1741, in the 55ith year of her age."
Chivers was committed for trial as the receiver, the
other prifcnere were committed for re examination,
other charges being expelled againti them.
A few days ago as the daughter of Mr. Johnfon,
of Appleby, near Brigg, fix years old, was flirting
the fire, the flames caught her drefs ; the ran into
the Rreet for afflaance, but expired before it could
be procured.
Saturday a fifhwoman, mach intoxicated, fell un-
der the wheel of a cart, in Thames.fireer, which
cruised her leg fa that the was taken to St. Thomas's
Ho(pital, and underwent amputation.
A perfon of the name of Wellard, an inhabitant
of Harbledon, near Canterbury, a Ikon time fince
placed fome gun-powder in the oven of the houfe
where he dwelt to fecure it from slampnefs. Sunday
halt a fire was kindled in the oven by his wife, in or
der to bake bread, and as the powder was forgotten,
a dreadful eels/infirm (non took place which lhattered
the oven to piecee, threw down the chimney, Sand
forced the oven door with fuch violence againß the
woman, as to break her leg, and burn her face, hands,
and different parts of her body fo dangeroufly that it
is feared (he will not furvive the accident.
Mr. CI ice, of Thurlow, in Suffolk, who has been
lately killed in the Newfpapers, at the antedilnvian
age of 1:5 yews, is retlored to life, and is now living
at the pottdiluvian age of 83.
A few days fince a human fkeleton, of uriufinsi
length, was found in a bottom on the Downs near
the Devil's Dyke, Sure:, a few inches only under the
rod, by fome Shepherds preparing a (heepfold. The
Shepherds did not meafure the length of the boner,
but Rate them to he of gigantic dimenfirms. What
renders this difcovery remarkable is, that Come mice
hadadually taken op their refidence within the Atoll,
three of there little animals having efcaped
on the remooal of the bones.

A (hocking accident happened lately on board
a gun boat in Dover Harbour. As the people were
in the a& of lowering the matt, previous to going
through the bridge, the gay rope which flipported it
unfortunately gave way, and the mall falling nn the
head of one of the men, it cruthed him in fuch a
dreadful manner, that he lived but a f-w hours after-
wards. His name is W. Evans, and he belonged to
his Majelly's Ihip Antelope.
The Hope, Denton, failed out of Scarborough on
Thorfday week for London, the wind N. E. and
confequently, as teetering men term it, dead upon
the coati, and blowing, at the fame time, a violent
gale. She had no fooner bet fail, than one of her
owners immediately took his horfe, and rode to
Flamborough Head, and jolt arrived in time to
witnefs not only the lobs of his veffel, but of every
foul on board There were two hundred people af
fembled an the Cliffe, and yet there was no pogibility
of refcue. That part of the Cliffe which immedi
ately faced the (offerers prefenting a perpendicular
rock, eighty yards high, and it being befiJes about
half good—the waves raging with violence, which,
after throwing the relict on a rock, in a moment
defiled her in a thooland pieces. She no fooner (truck
than the difappeared. Two of the people got upon
the bowfprit, end ftruggled ageing the cold, and the
woes which broke over them fur a confiderable time,
beckoning with their hands for affilience, but in vain.
Befiden her crew, confiding of the Captain, four men
and a boy, the had two paffengers, Captain Ward,
and one lVili m, a Tailor. No part of the (hip or
cargo ( worth together pool ) was infured.

Os the ill Inßant„ at I.aouto.ent Cattle, Carmarthen, the
of Major R. J. Starke of s (on.
At brofeley, near Shreettbory, the Lally of the Rev. rownlhen I,
Forfeiter, of I' fort.

Monday, In Grafrenor ftreet,Willians Baker. Efq.
On the 2[ll ult. at Annan, Seodand, Andrew John Eon, Efq.
of Johnitnnefield.
On the 19th ult. at her father's honk, in the 3d year (ghee age.
Mils Charlotte A twang' Cayley, youngeß daughter of John Csy-
ley, Efq ofl.endall, isa York.
On Wedifehlay, at h,r tather's houfe, In the Old Jewry, the
eldeft Daughter of John Whitmore, ifq Member of Parliament
for liridgnorth.
On the 27th ult. st EAnhargh, Utter( maledia, are. or
Rocbfoks.