Star.
London, England, 1824-08-28 00:00:00

TILE ARMY.

We understand that the Officers of the 85th Regiment. flow sta-
tioned at Malta, animated with a meritorious %pick of public zeal,
have, of their own free accord, completed,
,by their united ezer-
tions, an able and correct military ptan and survey of the whole of
that interesting Island, which has been received, and justly appre-
cLited at the Horse Guards.

Colobel Sir ALEXANDER Barcc is appointed pro tampon Deputy
Inspector-General of Fortifications.
Major-General C. TURNER will, it is understood, embark in the
early part of the ensuing month for Sierra Leone. The Major-
General will take out with him a large detachment of recruits for
the Royal African Colonial Corps, and will, after making a short
stay at Sierra Leone, proceed to take the command of the troops
at Cape Coast.
During the last week a number of invalids from the Regiments
in America, arrived at Fort Pitt, Chatham.
SultßiT YEOWANey.—The Surrey Yeomanry Cavalry have just com-
pleted their annual period of permanent duty, having, for that put-.
pose, marched into quarters at Croydon on the 19th instant. During
the service, their conduct in the field was marked by military disci-
pline, and their behaviour in quarters has been exemplarily good.
On the 26th they marched out of Croydon to Meratham, where
the whole Regiment was regaled at dinner by their Commander,
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir WILLIAM Jomarre, Bart. on which occa-
sion, that unanimity and reciprocity of sentiment so essential to
promote that admirable establishment, the Yeomanry of England,
was preserved to a late hour. On the 24th the Officers were sump-
tuously entertained by a dinner given to them by Josry Mammy,
F.sq. M.P. at his seat, Shirley House; and on the 25th the Regi-
ment was inspected by Major DAIUDY, the Field Officer for the Dis-
trict, who expressed his highest opinion of their appearance and
manteuvres, after which the Officers gave a splendid dinner to a
large party of friends, and the conviviality was considerably enli-1
vened by the Band of the Regiment, which was allowed by every
one to be of a very superior description.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

BODMIN, AUGUST 24.
PRAED V. SPARGa.

This was an action to recover the amount of various
promissory notes, possessing no peculiar interest, but
rendered somewhat entertaining by the examination of
a witi;eir,, who was called to swear to the hand-writing
of the defendant.
Mr. Carter—Tike these bills into your hand, and look at them.
Is the signature you see there the hand-writing of Spargo?
AVitness—(After turning over the bills very leisui ely)—l should
not be surprised if it was.—(A laugh.)
Do you know the hand--writing of Spargo? Is that it?—Why, to
be stare, there is a great similitude—(Lned laughter).
Similitude ! but if you received a letter written in that hand, and
signed in that way, would you have the least doubt that it was wi it.
ten by Spargo ?—( After a pause)—Why, not a bit—(Laughing).
Well now, Sir, is that James 5/No-go's hand-writing ? Why, to
be sure it is—(Much laughter).
The following scene excited some merriment like.
wise.--A case was called on, and as the attendance of
Jurymen was not very numerous, the associate was
under the necessity of calling a great many names. At
length he arrived at a series of five names, the first of
which being called, a voice in the Court exclaimed—
" He is ill."

The next name wag called. The same voice—" Ill."
Another name. The same voice--" Ill."
Another name. Same voice—" Ill," and this was repeated. As
soon as the fifth name was called,
Mr. Baron GA/MOW ordered the person who had been thus ex-
claiming to stand forward, and state what authority be had for re-
presenting those persons to be ill.
The person stated that he was a Juryman, and lived in the
neighbourhood.

kr. Baron GARROW—What is the complaint ?
Juryman—The decline.
Mr. Baron Gwaftow--What ! are they all in the decline? it matt
be epidemic then ?

Juryman-7 do not know as to that.
Mr. Baron GA RROW—I suppoie, if rightly construed, having a
dechnc, means that they decline to came—(Much laughing).

GUILDFORD, AUGUST 27.
THE KING D. MONTAGU AND OTHERS.

This was an indictment agair.st the defendants for a'
nuisance. The object of the indictment was to deter-
mine whether the Corporation of the City of London
had, in virtue of its Conservancy of the River Thames,
a right to clear a water-way from the Thames to the
Medway, through a creek called Gauntlet Creek, which
separates the Isle of Grain from the main land, in the
county of Kent? The alleged nuisance was in widen-
ing and deepening the creek in question, at a spot called
Grain-bridge, by the removal of a considerable quan-
tity of soil, and thereby destroying a land communica-
tion between the island and the Adjacent country. The
indictment had been originally found in the county of
Kent; but with a view to a disinterested and impartial
trial, it was agreed that the question intended to be
raised should be determined by a Jury of this county.
In order that the Jury might understand the question,
most of them had a view of the locus in quo.
In support of the prosecution, the case was in sub-
stance this :—The Isle of Grain contains between 3,000
and 4,000 acres of land, and on three sides is surrounded
by the water of the Thames and Medway, where they
unite at the Nore, and on the fourth side is separated
from the main land, with the excelaion of the spot
where the alleged offence was committed, by a narrow
creek of considerable depth in different places. For seve-
ral years past the Corporation of the City of London
has claimed a right of conveyancy in this creek, as being
within its jurisdiction. On the part of the prosecution,
it was alleged, that from the most remote antiquity
there had been a land communication at the spot in
question between the island and the adjacent farms,
which had never been interrupted, and had always been
kept up at the expense of the owners and occupiers of
land. On the other hand it was insisted by the defend-
ants that, from the earliest times, there had been a na-
vigable water-way throughout the whole of the creek ;
but that, by the gradual accretion of alluvial matter,
the passage at the locus in quo had been choaked up,
and thereby became useless, until it was lately opened
by them, which, it was contended, they had a right to
do, under the direction of the Corporation of London,
to whom the conservation of the river Thames belonged.
In reply, it was insisted, first, that none of the char-1
ters produced in evidence gave to the Corporation of
London any jurisdiction to do the act complained of;
second, that if the Corporation had a right so to inter-
pose their authority, it would have been exercised at a
much earlier period; and, third, that according to the
evidence on both sides, the spot in question had never
been a navigable water. way, and consequently that the
Idefendants were guilty of an act of trespass and nui-
sance, which the law would not sanction.

Mr. Baron G RA II A NI summed up the case to the Jury,
and dwelt upon the circumstance that, according to the
charter, the City of London had only a right of con-
servancy as far as the mouth of the creek in question,
and that only with respect to the preservation of the
fishery of the Thames ; and also, to the extraordinary
fact that the Corporatica had never, on any former
occa,ion, attempted to exercise an authority to the ex-
tent now insisted upon. his Lordship also observed,
that there was by no means any satisfactory proof, within
living memory, that the spot in question was ever a
navigable water-way, and if not then, coupled with the
other circumstances, the defendants had no right to do
the act charged against them as a nuisetce: •
The Jury immediately found the defendants Guilty,

thereby negativing. Ile jurisdiction of the Corporation
01 London over the spot in question.
GLOUCESTER, AUGUST 126.
7'. Taytor, aged 35, a most respectable looking-man,
was put to the bar, charged, that he, being in the employ
of John Gaunt, of the city of London, tea-dealer, in
the capacity of clerk and traveller, and having received
and taken into his possession, at and in the city of
Gloucester, 521. Bs. J. for and on account of his em-
ployer, did feloniously embezzle, secrete, and make away
with the same.
On being brought up the prisoner pleaded " Guilty."
The Jima' requested the prisoner to consider again, as, by plead-
ing guilty, he subjected himself to all the punishment as though be
had been found guilty by a Jury, and from the circumstances of the
cue, he (the Judge) could not hold out to him the least chance,
from such a plea, of a remission of any part of the punishment,
therefore be would advise the prisoner to reconsider the plea.
Prisoner.—l have pleaded guilty by the advice of myfriends, and
I throw myself upon the mercy of the Court and the prosecutor.
Mr. Caoss, who was for the prisoner, said, he bad several wit-
teases to character, if his Lordship would allow him to call them.
His Loansmir said, he did not know bow that could be done.
Mr. CUR WOOD, for the prosecutor, said he had known
cases where it had been done; a sense of justice had
compelled Mr. Ga:ratt to have recourse to the present
proceeding, and he (the prosecutor) Mr. Curwond wa.z
cert.iin, would nig wish the prisoner to 10;:e the benefit
of any former character.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS, on the same side, said, as the punish-
ment was at the discretion of the Judge, the evidence
if former good chat acter might have a beak icial effect
towards the Frisoner.
The JUDGE again asked the prisoner whether he intended to alter
bispfra ? _ _ _

Prisoner—l plead Guilty. Verdict of Guilty recorded accordingly
Mr. Crtoss then called Jahn Roberts, who stated that
he is a grocer at Glouce,ter—has known the pri-
soner about ten years, and has done business with him
several times, and always found his accounts to be very
correct—his general character for honesty was very
good ; the prisoner. has a wife and family.
H. Day lives at Bristol ; has known the prisoner above
ten years; his character was always good for honesty.
John Saunders lives in London ; has known the pri-
soner twelve or fourteen years; his character has always
been very good for honesty ; has known his employers
during the whole of the time; never heard .1 complaint
against the prisoner by any of them. He should have
no objection to take prisoner into his employ to-mor-
row, and in a confidential situation.
The sentence of the Court upon the prisoner was deferred.

UNIVERSITY and CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

ECCLESIASTICAL PAOMOTIONt.

The Lord Chancellor has been pleased to present the undermen-
tioned Reverend Gentlemen to the following Livings :—The Rev.
William Palmer, to the Vicarage of Petesworth, in the county of
Warwick ; the Rev. Richard Jenkyns, D.D. to the Prebendary of
Dinder, in the Cathedral Church of Wells.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has collated the Rev. Samuel
Hill. A.B. to the Living of Snargate, in the Diocese of Canterbury.
Rev. John Sheepshanks, M.A. Minister of Trinity Church,
Leeds, has been presented by the Bishop of Chester, to the Vicarage
of St. Gluvias, Cornwall.

Rev. Mr. Knight, late of Halifax, is appointed Perpetual Curate
of St. Paul's Church, Sheffield, vacant by the death of the Rev.
Thomas Cotterill.

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The Countess Dowager of Clonmell has appointed the Rev.
George Crookshank, B.A. and Curate of Charlton Madmen,
Somersetshire, to be her Ladyship's Domestic Chaplain.
The 13th ult. was instituted, upon his own Petition, the Rev.
George Palmer, to the Rectory of Sullington, Sussex.
The Lard Bishop of Kit'aloe has presented the Rev. T. Hawkes-
worth, Vicar-General of the Archdiocess of Tuam, to the Rectory
and Vicarage of Kilruane, in the county of Tipperary.
At an ordination on Sunday, at Gort, by the Right Rev. the
Bishop of Clonfert, the Rev. Thomas Logan, the Rev. John
Spray, and the Rev. Fleury Morgan, received Priests' Orders; Mr.
Richard Ardill and Mr. W. Roe were admitted Deacons.

Monday, the Hey. John Howard, Clerk, A.M. was instituted to
the Rectory of Taeolneston, Norfolk, on the presentation of Eli-
zabeth Catherine Warren, of Taeolnrston aforesaid, widow.
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The recovery of a young Lady who lately eloped with
her father's groom (George), and was restored to her fa-
mily, through the exertions of Kinsey, of the Town-
hall, Southwark, and which appeared in all the papers,
it has turned out, was a most fortunate occurrence for
the happiness and welfare of the fair runaway. The
gallant George, whose surname is Idon, and who was
bred a baker, for about a fortnight mourned his disap-
pointment in lodgings near the Mint, from whence he
suddenly disappeared, and was not heard of until about
a fortnight back, when he was taken into custody by
May, the constable of Chiselhurst, in Kent, for horse-
stealing, and placed in Chiselhurst cage, whence,
during the night, he contrived to escape, and shortly
after broke into the stables of Mr. John Green, a farmer,
at Eltham, in the same county, and took away a valu-
able gelding. For this last offence he was taken in the
neighbourhood of Smithfield, two days back, by Barn-
ley, the night constable, who brought him before the
Magistrates at Hatton-garden, by whom, after being
identified by May, from Chiselhurst, he was committed.
DEATH FROM WANT.—An Inquest was held yester•
day evening, at the Rose and Crown public-house, Com-
mercial-row, Lambeth, before CHARLES JEMMETT,
Esq.. Coroner for Surrey, on the body of William Payne.
It appeared from the evidence of the witnesses, that the
deceased was formerly a respectable master sawyer, but
a long struggle with misfortune had reduced him to
the necessity of seeking employment as a journeyman,
and even that scanty employ seldom fell to his lot ; in-
deed, for the last six months, he had been entirely des-
titute of work or other means of support to his dis-
tressed wife and three children. Thursday he left home
about five o'clock in the morning, as was his daily cus-
tom, to endeavour to obtain employment, but he re-
turned in half an hour, and complained of being very
ill ; and about two o'clock in the day, his wife called
her landlady, stating that her husband had dropped
down dead. On going up stairs the deceased was found
on the floor with his head resting on his wife's lap. He
only gave one groan, and expired. Two surgeons were
called in, bat the vital spark had fled for ever. The
Jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased died by
the visitation of GOD, but that they thought his death
accelerated by a want of food."
IRISH AND DUTCH BULLS.--The bull related by Sir
John Carr, in his travels through Ireland, of the Irish
hangman, who upon asking a criminal (about to be
executed), for the customary bequest, and receiving it,
exclaimed" Long life to your honour," at the same
moment that he drew the bolt which launched the unfor-
tunate man into eternity—has found its fellow in a re-
cent instance at Antwerp. A criminal there, when con-
demned to be broken on the wheel, is permitted to have
anything he niay require for sustenance, previous to his
execution. A person deservedly condemned to this pu•
nishment for a murder he had committed, demanded a
glass of beer; .he obtained it, and was observed blow-
ing off the floth which surmotinted its top. Upon being
asked his reason for doing so, he exclaimed—" Cm dat
het zeer ongezond is" (Anglice) " Because it
.was very
' unwholesome." The criminal was execute%i in a few
minutes afterwards.