Star.
London, England, 1824-06-28 00:00:00

110 W-ST It E ET.

A DVFNTLTIIES or A MATO VASA TICLAX.—Three duck-legged nymphs
of the Piazza were charged with having despoiled 'llionsas George
Lord Townsend of three sovereigns and a 104 hank note. The
damsels gave their names Charlotte tra,b, Jim:tut Bennett, and 31ar-
!ha Archer; but Thomas George Lord Townsend designated them
" the female in blue"—" the lemale w green"—and " the female in
the,straw butmet and cloas."
Thomas George Lord Townsend is not a Lord, but a Mathemati-
cian of small dimensions and large voice; and, with a three ounce
snuff-box in his right hand, and a pinch of Prince's mixture between
his left thumb and finger, he detailed the adventure which led to
the loss of his money with great coolness and apparent self-satisfac-
tion.—ln the first place, he described himself to be " teacher of
mathematics and writing-master, at Mr. Byng's Establishment,
Acton-green, near Baling, in the county of Middlesex." This done,
he absorbed an ample pinch of Prince's mixture, and, without
closing his box, or waiting to disencumber his upper lip of the super-
numerary particles, he proceeded with his story, front which it ap.
peared, that as he was walking along James-street, Covent-garden,
between four and five o'clock un the preceding afternoon, be met the '
"female in blue," who very kindly asked hint how he did ; and he as
kindly asked her to take a glass of warns brandy and water with him.
Now the " female in blue" was no other than Charlotte Webb,
otherwise Dunstahle Charlotte, a damsel chiefly celebrated for an
Ashantee physiognomy, an unfortunate penchant for thieves and
thievery. and an unquenchable passion for a compound liqueur called
"gin and cloves." She accepted the Mehematician's invitation to
drink—only she stipulated tor her favourite beverage; and when
they had each taken off their glass at the Ship Tavern, in James-
street, Dunstable Lofty invited the Mathematician to a cup of sou-
chong and cr 1111 l pet*, at her apartments in Seven Dials. At those
apartments Dunstable Lotty,alias" the female in blue," introduced
" the female in green" to the Mathematician; and when they had
taken a very comfortable cup of tea, the Mathematician and " the
female in blue" sat down to a game at cribbage. They played till
the Mathematician was minus nineteen shillings, and then, having
had cribbage enough, he proposed that they should go back to the
Ship Tavern, and have some more brandy, or anything else the La-
dles might like better. Just at this moment "the female in the straw
bonnet and clogs" dropped in, and they all adjourned to the Ship
Tavern together—the female in blue, the female in greets, and the
female in the straw bonnet and clogs, all in a row, arm in arm, and
the Mathematician in front, gallantly leading the way. Arrived
at the Ship Tavern, each called for what liked them best ;" via.
—the female in blue, gin and cloves; the female in green, gin and
peppermint ; the female in the straw bonnet and dogs, a modicum
of pure mar; and the blathentatician, brandy slightly diluted.—
Glass after glass went gaily round, and the Mathematician dis-
played his money, and begged the Ladies not to stint themselves
in anything, and for everything they drank he gaily paid; and, as
he said, it was all exactly commeilfaut and quite comfortable. But
happiness like this was not made to last ; and the tenth round
of glasses was but just brought in, when the Ladies began to be
aweary of max and mathematics; and therefore, in order to
get rid of them both, and bring the business to a regular issue,
they resolved to pick a quarrel with the generous Mathematician.
The female in the straw borinet and clogs began the row, by de-
claring that the Mathematician had boxed her ears; the astonished
Mathematician denied it; the female in blue told him, if he had
served her so, she would have knocked his eye out at his ear ; and
the female in green threatened to unscrew his snuff depot. And
then, before he could reply, the female in the straw bonnet and
clogs seized him by the collar; the female in green dived her hand
into his pocket with mathematical precision, and abstracted all his
tett:gaining money ; and the female in blue bolted with it ! In a
moment blue and green were both gone, and straw bonnet and clogs
—unclogged by her clogs, was not long in following. The simple
Mathematician, thus " cleaned out," had no resource but calling
the watch. The watch came to bit call, and in the course of an
hour after the ladies were all lodged in the watch-house ; but none
of the money was found upon them, except the 19 shillings which
the female in blue won at cribbage.
In their defence they endeavoured to make the Magistrate be-
lieve that the Mathematician was not a mathematician, but a " re-
gular flash man," and therefore not entitled to the protection of the
law; but, at the same time, they positively denied having meddled
with his money; and they declared that they ran away from him
because he challenged them to fight !
They were committed for further examination.

The Rev. JAMBS GARDNER, against whom a verdict
for £l5O damages was obtained at the late Armagh
Assizes, for " Seduction," came up to be discharged oar
Saturday, at the Insolvent? Court, Dublin, but was rep
eluded for 15 months from the time of filing his petitios.
Saturday William Philpot, in the employ of Mr.
Bassett, town carman, Holland-street, nearly fella victim to what
Was thought a joke among his pot.companions—the infusion of some
hellebore in his beer. lie was carried to St. Thomas's Hospital in
a shocking state, but is now out of danger,