Star.
London, England, 1814-08-04 00:00:00

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KENT ASSIZES.-MAIDSTONF, AUG. t.

Mr. Justice HEATH and Mr. Justice LE et,ANC ar-
rived here last night. They were received by our
Corporation with the accustomed formalities. This
morning they attended Divine Service, and afterwards
proceeded to the business of the county. Mr. Justice
Le BLANC sat on thn Crown Side,. and Mr. Justice
HEATH 011 the Civil Side. The Calendar contains
:lot so many prisoners as are usual in this county,
n,r a,ly offence of deep malignity. On the Civil Side
.11,, the business is not so much as is usual for Kent.
J ;:n Brigs was indicted for stealing a cask, con-
taluilig 1 cwt. of silver, the property of Thomas
_Cooke, Esq.
The Prosecutor, Mr. Cooke, was master and com-
mander of the ship Tortoise, in his Majesty's service.
In the month of October, 1813, the vessel arrived at
Deptford, on a voyage from Cadiz, and amongst
other things she brought a cask of silver bullion. The
prisoner was mate on board the vessel in that voyage,
and Captain Cooke said he had known him for many
years: They had formerly served together, had been
taken prisoners together, and he had the utmost confi-
dence in his honesty. When the vessel arrived at Dept-
ford, Capt. Cooke put the cask of bullion under the
care of the prisoner. On the 12th of October the pri-
soner was found to have left the ship, and on search
the bullion was also missing.
The following chain of evidence was adduced to
chew the guilt of the prisoner ; On Sunday, the 10th
of October, a waterm in stated that he had carried the
prisoner ashore from the Tortoise, who said he should
return in the evening again, and that he should want
him. In the evening he returned with a post-chaise.
The waterman then carried him on board his ship,
from which, shortly afterwards, he lowered into his,
boat a something wrapped up in canvas, which look.
ed like a cask. This was put into the past-chaise, and
the prisoner drove away.
The post-chaise boy stated, that he drove Wm to a
street in Finsbury-square.
Here a couple of Jews proved that one of them, of
the name of Solomon', bought the contents of a %ask
of him, which consisted of silver in bars, and part of
the payment was made in a R5O note, whichatas-treeed
to the 13. ink, with the hand-writing of the prisoner r
dorsed upon it.'

In confirmation of this, a letter wap produce irs
the hand-writing of the prisoner, addressed toa ladY,
in which he conlessed that he had absconded hem the
ship, and had taken the cask of bullion with him.
On the evidence the Jury found him—Guilty. '

CUILDUALL.—J. Collis!, a Sherits Officer, was
charged With forcibly tittering the premises of Mr.
Barker, of Wood-street, on Tuesday evening.
iasnk-
ing Mrs. Barker, and assaulting her husband. Mr.
B. stated, that about nibe o'clock he found the pri-
soner ringing at his house bell with great violence.
He asked what he wanted ? when he said he had au-
thority to entet the premises, and insisted upon doing
so. Ile produced his mace as his authority, and told
the officer who was sent for to take him into custody,
that he had a writ against Mr. Barker, and should sell
off his goods the ilea day. The prisoner, in his de-
fence, said, he had got intoxicated at the Jubilee Fair,
and did not recollect %t hat he Lad done. Alderman
Poses, however, said, intoxication was no excuse for
his conduct, which was reed -red more reprehensible 1,
from his being a prism who should have preserved
the peace. The worthy Alderman then sent for Mr.
Collingridge, the Secondary, who immediately sus-
pended the prisoner frorn liis.ofiiee. This, however,
did not s.aisfy the plaintiff, who required that he
should be committed for the Sessions, and having no
bail present he was accordingly com:nitted.
ManeboitoUGir-sTKEET.—Yesterday Sarah Croiten
wits charged with robbing F. Farell, a pensioner, of
/89. The prosecutor had just received his pension,
and whilst counting the rioter into his hat, as be sat
on the steps of a door in St. Giles's, the prisoner
snatched them from him and made off. She was seen
to take shelter in a house of ill-lame, but was appre-
hended : and was conimitted for trial.
Stsoueatt Rosaine.--An old man, named Nield,
a jr.bbing tailor, residing at Barrow, had by parsimo-
nious habits for a long series of years, accumulated
370 guineas in gold ; but fearful of being robbed he
always carried it about his person, sewed up between
the lining and the back of his coat. Last week, con.
ceiving his load did not sit quite so easy as usual, he
determined to ease himself of it ; he accordingly strip-
ped off his coat and opened a seam, when, to his asto-
nishment, out fell a leaden weight ! the gold had
flown ! but how, or when it had been extracted is to
poor Nield a petit:et mystery, and remains yet undis-
covered.
The thunder and lightning with which the town
and neighbourhood of Birmingham was visited on
Thursday evening last, appears to have axtended to
a considerable distance ; the inhabitants of Uttoxeter
were considerably alarmed for the safety of their
church steeple, which was in the spring thrown down
by the lightning, and but lately rebuilt. In the
neighbourhood of Ifichfield, the following disasters
occurred : Mr. WARD, of Fisherwick, had three cowls
killed; Mr. PYMM, of Effort!, one cow killed; at Mr.
Folveztt's, of Alder Mills, eighteen sheep were killed
in the sight of Mr:FOWLER, jun. who was standing
at the window of the house. At Leamington the
thunder-storm was attended with more alarming con-
sequences than were experienced at other elaces in
the neighbourhood. A fire-ball, accompanied with a
tremendous peal of thunder and liglinieg, but provi
dentially succeeded by a violent torrent of rain, fell
into the picture-gallery belonging to Mr. Btsserr, and
in its progress forced the rafters from the root into
the centre of the room, leaving an aperture in the ciel-
ing, of upwards of 100 feet square. The doors of
the room were knocked down with considerable vio-
lence, several panes of glass were broken, and the in.
tenor arrangements t+ ere thrown into the utruest con.
fusion. We are happl,however, to add, that no very
'great damage has been done to the collection ; a few
paintings were rent and peeled from the canvas, but
the more valiable part has fortunately escaped injury.
Two persons who were near the spot at the time, with
difficuAy enPiCAted Llaconel v es it Diu Use Laing r übbibh.

'READFUL ACCIDENT.

The .11tanciater Herald gives the following account
of the dreadful accident, a statement of which we
stave in our Paper of Tuesday :
TO many of our Readers the situation of the
houses on the west side of Huntsbank is well known;
for the information of strangers it may be proper to
say, they are built upon the rocks which form the
margin of the river Irwell, and many of them actually
hang over the bed of the river, which, by the cam-
tioned action of the streatn, and its additional force
upon the rocks, which, in times of flood, and more
particularly on the breaking up of frost, have been
undermined so much, that the appearance of the
house, on their summit has very often made those
who have carefully observed them, shudder with fear-
ful apprehension for the consequences. Their pre-
dictions were, about half-past seven o'clock on Fri-
day 'morning, unhappily realized ; for, without the
least previous alarm, about five yards in breadth, of
the rock. on which the two cottages and a Nit of
Messrs. Fogg, Birch, and Hatnpson's candle manu-
factory stood, at once gave way, and splitting off
fell into the river, bringing the cottages and part of
the candle-shop along with it. The noise which ac-
companied it was tremendous, and occasioned an
inunediate alarm for the safety of the inhabitants.—
It was an alarm too well founded; a stene was pre-
sented which woul‘i have shaken the hardest heart.—
In the candle-house, there was, fortunately, at the
moment, only one person, William Hall, the fore-
man of the works, a most faithful and valuable ser-
vant to his employers; he fell with the building into
the river, and in all probability was killed before he
sunk into the water. The inhabitant of one of the
cottages, F. Robinson, a tailor, was sitting at work,
he, together with his eldest daughter, and three of his
children who were in bed, were inclosed by the ruins,
and fell with them down the dreadful precipice. The
children were rescued from their perilous situation
very shortly, by the help of boats from the opposite
side of the river; two of-them very much hurt, but,
we are happy to add, are in the Infirmary in a fair
ivy to recover; and the third is so well as to be no
more than an-out-patient to the charity. The unfor-
tunate father, and his eldest daughter, had a different
iate ; about noon, the poor girl was dug out in a
ragtag/led state quite .dead ; but the remains of their
father were not discovered till Saturday morning.—i
The sitnatlan of the disconsolate widow, oho, whirl
one of leer children had a miraculous escape Item the
;trine, may be more easily imagit ed than described,,
ally when the circumstance of leer being in an
advanced state of pregnancy is added to the sum of
misery, in having, in one unexpected moment,
lost an affectionate, kind-hearted, and good husband,
(for such all the neighbnurhood bespeak him), and a
dutiful child--by a horrid catastrophe--together with
all the savings of their humble life, and two of her
rem wining children suffering bodily, anguish from the
same cause. The pictare of misery is complete, and
wretched must that man be, who can contemplate it
narovede The usher cottage Alicia fell, though it
presents not such a scene of death and bodily suffer-
ings to the mind's eye, is still most interesting.—,,
Happily no person was in it at the moment. If the
fall had taken place fire minutes earlier than it hap-
,'• cued, or had been delayed as mouth longer, teeth
would have had more 'victims. It was inhabited by
'an industrious old man, of the name of Hill, about
70 years of age, who, by a life of industry and ecor
nomy, had,. after many years of toil, elected what
he had long laboured for, the purchase of his little
dwelling, in which he had hoped to end his days.—
Providence, however, has decreed it otherwise. He
and his son-in-law had just gone out to their work ;
and his daughter had just lett the door, to provide
something for breakfast, when his all, except the
cloaths on his back, was in a moment destroyed--
The house, for avlnch he had toiled so many years—
the furniture, which, to him, was as valuable as that
which decorates the Palace—all the little epic': ndages
of comfort which he had collected—and, to him, an
important sum of money, for he had saved it against
the time when his hands can no longer labour—were
rent from him, and he was left at his advanced period
of life, to begin the world again."

A dreadful accident occurred on Saturday last, to
a poor boy, whose parents reside on the Brook at
Chatham. •He had been fos some time past employed
at the Saw Mill, in Mr. Brindley's yard, at Frinds-
bury, and while the engine was at wot k on the above
day, in endeavotiring to pall it, he was caught by one
of the circular saws, and literally cut to pieces.
A few days since as the miller of Glasker Mill, in
the vicinity of Loughbrickland, near Belfast, was in
the act of cleansing and preparing the mill to grind,
having previously drawn out the water, the upper
mill-stone split into several pieces, and killed one man
on the spot, and wounded four others, one of whom
is so severely hurt that his life is despaired of. Of
six persons that were in the house at the time, only
one escaped the effects of this dreadful event. This
unfortunate circumstance aff wds one of the strongest
possible proofs of the necessity that exists of causing
mill-stones to be strongly hooped with iron.

LIRTI4S.
A few days since, the Lady of Captain Ogden, of the Navy,
of a daughter.
At Cambridge, of a son, the wife of the Rev. Dr. Marsh,
Margaret Proft.sor of Divinity.

MARRIED.
At Bath, on Monday last, the Rev. G. Mao era, to Louisa,
daughter of Sir A. Grant Batt.
On the 19th ult. the lieu. Henry P.le,to Ann, second daugh-
ter of J. Blagrave, Esq. of Engrave, Esq. of Calcut Park, Berks.
At Doddeshill, July 2s, the Rev. J. B. liollingwortb, B. D.
Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, to Lydia, daughter of
the late R. Amphlett, Esq. of Hadoos-House, Worcestershire.

DIED.
On the 12th ult. at Leamington, In Warwickshire, Isabella,
sixth daughter of Sir Wm. Strickland, of Boyntoo, in Yorkshire,
Dart. in the 16th year of her age.
July 23, W. G. Lobb, Esq. Cotntnlssloner of his Majesty's
Dock-yard, at Sheerness.
July g 9, aged 77, the Rev. T. Wlntle, B. D. forty years rest-
dent Rector of Brightwell, Barks.

July 30, Mrs. I.erde, wife of Mr. John Leads, surgeon, of
Chelsea.
Lately, aged 50, the Rev. ThLophllna Lane, L. L. D. of
I.ewishaia Mills, Blackheath, and one of the riebendaries of
Ilereford Cathedral.

COAL-MARKET, AUGUST S.
st Market bkips sold, Prke.
32 Newcastle - St - 455.04. to SM. lid
Sunderland - S 48s. 6d. to Si s. 94

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CATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW.
• taking - - - £4 minutcs aler 4
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os• The Genuine has a Black Ink Stamp, wits the name ef
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