Star.
London, England, 1824-12-23 00:00:00

ROBBERY OF THE STIRLING BANK.

Saturday evening the Stirling coach was robbed of
a Bank bag, containing money to a considerable
amount. The robbery must have been effected with
great dexterity, as the bag Was deposited in the box im-
mediately under the feet of the guard, who is never at
any time above a minute or two absent from it. The
Police are on the alert in various directions, in search
of the thieves. _ .

The following account of the apprehension of the
robbers w•e have received in a private letter from a
friend at York :

EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER.
" You, 21st Dgc. 1824.

gg A few minutes before we left Newcastle, say two
o'clock, a chaise and four arrived from the South.
From its speed several people flocked round, and I re-
cognised in the inside, a friend, Mr. E. of the Bank of
Scotland, in Edinburgh. My imagination was imme-
diately exerted, and I had only time to put g few que-
ries, of which the first was, ,4 where did you get him ?
He informed me, at Thirsk, twenty miles northward of
York, in his bed.
44 At two o'clock yesterday, the robbers had the
honest audacity, to the utter astonishment of the inhabi-
tants of Edinburgh, to pay Smith, the stabler, 401. for
the gig they had destroyed on Saturday. There is no
doubt rww this was to save pursuit of the principal, who
had quietly, as he thought, dropt at Thirsk, probably to
proceed across to Liverpool, or some other port. The
Bank of Scotland have lost 2,5001. by stolen notes."

The sentence of death that was passed on Cratuford
Dixon, late seaman of his Majesty's brig Swinger, at a
Court Martial on board his Majesty's ship Victory, on
the 30th of last month, was yesterday commuted to
transportation for life to New South Wales.
An Inquest was held at the Vine Inn, Hillingdon,
Middlesex, on the body of Elizabeth, wife of W. Good -
erham. It appeared, that a difference arose between ,
her and her husband, through jealousy, when he beat
her most severely, which brought on a miscarriage, and
she shortly after died. Verdict—Manslaughter ; and he
was committed on the Coroner's warrant.
An Inquest was held at the Fox and Horn, Clerken-
well Green, on the body of Mary Brunton, aged three
years, who, while sitting at a tea-table, pulled it over,
when some scalding water fell on her bosom, &c. which
caused her death. Verdict—Accidental Death.
Nothing can better describe the great humidity and un-
towardness of the season, than that a great number of
hares have been discovered dead in the woods and fields,
with the same disease as the rot among sheep, and par-
ticula'ly in the neighbourhood of Ashford.
Yesterday, between eleven and twelve in the forenoon,
a melancholy accident occurred on the River. A party,
consisting of five privates belonging to the 57th Regi-
ment of Foot, embarked at Gravesend, with their wives
and families, on board the King George the Fourth
sailing packet, in pursuance of their route from Chat-
ham to Chelsea. When off Bug-by's-hole, Wool-
wich-reach, a sudden squall upset the vessel, laying
her on her beats-ends, and involved in its conse-
quences the death of two individuals—the wife and
child of William Hilliard, one of the soldiers, who
was standing upon the deck, with one of his arms
clasped round'his wife, who held their child, all of whom
were washed overboard. The husband kept his hold
till he was rendered senseless by being dashed by the
waves against a boat towing at the stern, and was saved
from death by the exertions of his comrades and
one of the sailors. His wife and child were lost. Oa
the person of the soldier's wife was seven sovereigns and
fifteen shillings in silver—her and her husband's little all.
The following atrocious case, which for the honour of ,
human nature we hope is exaggerated, is stated i n a
private letter from Madrid, dated the Ist instant
" You will, no doubt, remember the fate of the five or
six men who were hanged hell some months ago, on a
charge of having been concerned in the affair of the
Priest VINUESA, and that another escaped the same
fate by breaking prinn, disguised in woman's clothes,
on the eve of the day appointed for his execution, and
got clear off to some foreign country.—This man's
name was LA CALLE, a doctor or surgeon. His wife
was thrown into prison, and condemned
.to four years'
hard labour in the galleys, on no other evidence than
that the fugitive was her husband, and notwithstanding
that her innocence was fully proved by another woman,
the real person who aided the escape, and to her eter-
nal honour took on herself all the dreaded conse-
quences. The testimony of this latter person was ad-
mitted by the Tribunal of Mock-Justice, so far as.to
cause sentence to be passed on herself for six years' hard
labour in the Rallies; but not in proof of the innocence
of CALLS'S wife, whose sentence remains unmitigated.
But all this is nothing when compared to what tbe un-
fortunate woman has since suffered; when first com-
mitted she was far advanced in pregnancy, but her de-
licate situation did not save her from being locked up
in a dungeon sin comannicacion, and there she was left
to be delivered without a human being suffered to ap-
proach her. The humanity of the Jailor opened the
prison door to hand out the infant to its friends without
an order from the King, the mother remaining in the
dungeon—when told that the child was taken care ofl
she is said to have dropt on her knees and prayed for
death to put an end to her miseries."
The Morning Chronicle of yesterday, Dec. 22, -con-
taining sixteen columns of the Trial (Miss Parrs), will be kept on
sale this day,andtke whole of Friday, at the Office, No. 17.0, Strand.