Star.
London, England, 1801-12-16 00:00:00

pofirre, Etid,"Gentlemen, I mnfl now wifh you al
good night, for I have a long way to travel before
fupper.'• jVo fooner had he uttered there words,
than lie furioufly broke through the mob, and, fa-1
voured by the darknefs of the night, vanished in a
twinkling.
A Cayricn.--Several young men, of rather
genteel appearance, have lately committed a num-1
ber of robberies by going about under pretence of
hiring ready-furniff:cd lodgings, and then, either
by getting polieffion of the apartments, or by Dime
frivolous enure of wanting to write a direaion,
perfuadc the mewing the fame to leave the
room, when trejy linake the opportunity of carrying
off whatever is portable. A gentlewoman in Ber-
wick.ltreet, Soho, was robbed of a black (ilk cloak
laft week, by, a good looking
.feoundrcl of the
above defcriprion, who had previottfly given a re-
ference for charater to a houfe in Ludington-
fouare.
A few days ago tie houfe of Mr. Teafilale, in
Featherflone-buildings, Holborn, was robbed in
this manner by a young man, who. had been re-
eeiled into the houfe before the nectirary inquiries
reiescling his character were made, and who, a
few hours after he had got poffefton of the lodg-
ings, bundled up the bed-furniture, fleets and
counterpane, threw them out of the window to
fume of his accomplices, and theu ringing the
bell for the fervant to light him down [lairs, deli-
berately vralked out of the houfe.
The horde of Mr. Donaldfon, of Sall Ibury-ftreet ,
Strand, was robbed of a pair of fleets, and other
articles, in a milar manner, on Saturday after-
noon laft. fi
The fame evening two young men were flopped
by a pawnbroker in St. Martin's-lane, to whom
part of the property Bolen from Mr. Donaldfon's
houfe was offered to pledge by one of them, while
the other waited at the door.
On Thurfday night WI Mr. Shay and Mr.l
• Ballet, two of his hajdly's hiefrengers, were (lop-
ped in a poft chaife on the Deptford road, by two
footpads, who robbed them of their watches and
about :oh

Owing to the badnefs of the roal, the Shrew'''.
burg mail was on Saturday morning overturned
about fix miles on this fide of Oxford. The coach-
man had his leg and the guard his arm broken by
the accident, but the palfengers escaped unhurt.
A party of Revenue-Officers, from Woodbridge
and Bawaey,affifted by a detachmentof dragoons,
on Wednifday evening feizedtoo tubs of gencva,
on the malt:. Oat ofj tha dragoons got fo much
intoxicated, au to aceafiotahis death. The Coro-
net's: inquelt fat on the body on Thurfday : their
verdid—His death was occafionecl by intoxication.
An unfortunate accident Laszly happened at
Spey:--As (even men, all flout young fellows,
were floating a large raft of wood down the river
Spey, for the Kingftown Port Shipping Company,
they were all unfortunately by the rapidity of the,
water, (wept off the raft, and (hocking to relate,l
five out of the feven were chsowned.--Tlicir
dies were time days afterwards found, and they
were all interred in one grave in the churchyard
of Garmouth. The lamentations of the friends
of there pom fellows may be caller imagined than
defcribed.—They were all young men of c::cellent
ch.-traders and their untimely fate is univerfally la-I
mented.

On Wednefday evening, as a girl was returning
front Kendal to Witlicrflack, driving a cart, the
horfe took fright on Breathwaite-green, and pre-
cipitated down a cliff twenty yards high, and was
stalked to pieces. • The girl, feeing her danger,
fprung from the cart as it was on the brink of the
precipice, and fortunately efcaped unhurt.
Friday a woman of the name of Merrick, nearly
70 years of age, was found dead in her bed, at her
lodgings in Swift's-court, Eaft Smithfield. She is
thought to have died through the *ant of the
common neceffarics of life, although cat to the
amount of fool. was found in a !mall box, in a
private clofet in her room. She gained her live-
lihood by working in gardener's grounds.