Star.
London, England, 1822-11-12 00:00:00

ABBEY V. CAS%

Mr. Sc„tar.rrr said, that tuis was an action against
the Recut ning Officer of the Borough of Aldborough,
tried before the Lord Chief Justice at the last Assizes
for the County of York. He had been instructed to
look at the case in all its beatings, in order that he
might find some ground of motion for a new trial if
any existed ; but he mast confess that there did not
appear to Lim to be any. He would not, therefore,
trouble the Court on the subject.

CRIMINAL INFORNIATION AGAINST TILE COUNTY OF

BLnKs.

Mr. TatINToN gait], that he was instructed to move
the Court for a Rule to shew cause why a criminal
irformation shoald not be granted against the inha-
bitants of the county of Berks,for their refusal to repair
a bridge situated within the county. The applica-
tion would, at first, appear extraordinary, but a si-
milar application had been made to the Court when
Lord Ellenborough presided, against the same county,
when his Lordship directed another bill to be pre-
ferred before a Grand Jury ; but observed, that in
the last resort, the Court would interfere in the man-
ner requested, rather than there should be a failure
of justice. Now this case was not brought before the
Court until after repeated applications to Grand Juries
and to the Magistmtes at Sessions, the resultof which
pt oved, beyond all doubt, that unless the Court would
interpose, there would be an entire failure of justice,
and no means would remain of trying the liability of
the county to repair; if, indeed, on this print, any
doubt could exist.

Tile LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE asked, what view the af-
fidavits gave of the liability of the county to repair ?
Mr. TAUNTON replied, that the bridge lay in the
direct line of the turnpike road, and had'always been
used by the Public. It was built across the river his,
in the road from Aston-line, in Oxfordshire, to Fat-
ingtion, in Berkshire. In 1778 it was erected by the
trustees of the road, part of the expense of its erection
being defrayed out of their funds, and part by volun-
tary conti ibutions. In 1779 it was taken down, and
the present bridge was erected in its place. The affi-
davits stated that this bridge was in Berkshire; tha
it had been completely adopted by the Public ; and
that it had gradually fallen to decay, and become
even dangerous to passengers. At the Spring Sessions
in last year, application was made to the Magistrates
on the subject; they appointed twoGentlemen,named
handy and Mills, to inquire of the state and local
situation of the bridge; and on their report that the
bridge was ir. a state of dilapidation, and situate
within the county, they made an order for repairing
the bridge, but directed that payment should•not be
made until the question of liability should be decided.
Some repairs, therefore, were done, but no payment
made on account of the expenses. A bill was pre-
felled against the county at the last Lent Assizes ;
and though four witnesses swore to the local situation
and the condition of the road, the Grand Jury threw
out the bill. At the Midsummer Sessions another bill
was preferred, which shared the same fate. Again,
at the Michaelmas Sessions, a bill was preferred,
when certain circumstances occurred which he (Mr.
Taunton) would rather read from the affidavits than
trust himself to detail, as they were of a peculiar na-
ture, and involved individuals of high character.

The LORD CHIEF 'hams—Why need you state
them at all. In the event, your bill was, I presume,
again thrown out?
Mr. TAcraroN.—Yes, my Lord.
The Loan Cu lETJUSTICE.—You have stated enough
to entitle you to a Rule to shew cause. Do you pro-
pose to serve it on the Clerk of the Peace ?
Mr. Tauaros.—Yes ; and on two Magistrates to
whom the affidavits particularly refer.
LORD CHur JUSTIOE.—Take a Rule to chew cause.
THE ICING V. WADDINOTON.

As the Court was about to rise.to-dub Wadding•

. ,
ton offered- hiniself to the *mice of theiii LordsTsipg,
bat the Cate Jusiica intimated to him that he
would do himself more service by postponing what•
ever he had to offer to the Court until he was brought
up for judgment.--The defendant then withdrew.

Letters received yesterday from Madrid to the SI st
ult. state, that Manx° had been defeated• near Bur-
gos, and all his band destroyed, but no other news
are mentioned. A courier had left Madrid to carry
the Order of the Golden Fleece to his Majesty the
King of SWEDEN.
Advices from Bayonne, of the Sd inst. state, that
QUESADA had entered that town as a fugitive, having
lost all his troops. The scene of his defeat is not
mentioned, but the fact of his flight, almost unat-
tended, is mentioned as certain. The next post will
probably bring the details:
The Political Chief of the Province of Billioa has
addressed a circular to the Judges. of First Instance-
within that district, until a law on the subject be
passed by the Corms, to sequestrate and register all
the property, moveable and immoveable, of persons
in arms against the Government, or who have fled
to France. The revenue arising from the property
to be applied to the indemnification of families who
may suffer by the rebellion.

Thursday morning, about four o'clock, a new at-
tempt was made to decorate the statue in College
Green, Dublin, by a party of Orangemen, headed by
Mr. Scitter. They were, however, soon interrupted
by a party of police, under Counsellor Gabbett, and
compelled to desist from their purpose; one of the
most refractory sf the party being taken into custody.
Thursday, a Court-Martial was held on board his Majesty's
ship Auntie, of which Captain J. B. HAT was President, for the
purpose of trying Mr. Ttiostas F.sowa, the senior surviving Offi-
cer of his Majesty's ship DRARR, and the ship's company, for the
loss of that sloop, on the 23d of June last, on the passage from
Halifax to Newfoundland.—The COURT agreed that the loss of
the Drake was caused by her striking on a rock on the Eastern
Head of St. Shines, on the Island of Newfoundland ; that there
was too much confidence put in the reckoning on board her;
that sounding+ ought to have been resorted to in approaching the
land; but that no orders were issued for that purpose; and that
having run nearly her distance, she was not hauled up in suffi-
cient time to clear the land ; to which circumstances, and to the
currents and in-draughts into the Bay of St. Mary's, the loss of
the said ship is to be attributed ; but that no blame attached to
the surviving officers and company of the said sloop for their
conduct upon that occasion, but that they appear to have con-
ducted themselves with zeal, energy, and discipline; that the
conduct of W. LENNARD, the Captain of the Forecastle, was
highly meritorious; and by the extraordinary exertions of Mr.
James TURNER, the boatswain, the lives of the surviving officers
and company were preserved ;—and the Court did adjudge the
said surviving Officers and Company to be acquitted.
GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday Win. Dean, John Plummer, John and
Thomas Huby, Joseph Williams, Wm. Damn, Thomas Read,
Thomas Dossett, and Win. Walker, were brought up, having been
suspected of trying to pick pockets among the crowd, on Lord
Mayor's Day ; but nothing of a suspicious nature laaving been
found on them, they were discharged.
Maaraortouon mm.—Yesterday P. Marks, in the dress of
a sailor, was charged with picking the pocket of Mr. E. Cotton,
of John-street, Berkeley-square, of his watch and appendages,
during the procession of Mr. Hunt. The prosecutor stated, that
about 12 o'clock, he was standing at a door near Carbon House,
when the prisoner, with six other persons, made a rush, and the
former made a snatch and drew his watch from his pocket, which
he immediately handed to one of his associates. Witness instantly
collared the prisoner, and gave him In charge to an officer. He
was remanded.

Bow-yrarir.—There Is scarcely a night but some stage is rob-
bed. The villains contrive, while the guard is sitting in the
dickey, to creep under it, and, while holding by the right hand,
contrive with the kit to take what they can catch from the hind
boot. On Saturday a fellow, called Yockey Jack, was detected
in robbing the Stamford coach, on Finchley Common, where
the guard was sitting over him at the time. The servant of Mr.
Wells, of Manor Cottage, hailed th. coach as it was passing, for
the purpose of sending a parcel to London, which the robber did
not hear; but the coach stopping, he dropped from behind it,
and ran off. The servant, however, gave an alarm, and he was
pursued and taken, and near the spot was found an iron crow ,
and two latch-keys. Two constables then went to his lodgings,
in St. Andrew's-street, where they secured one Andrew Scott.
Two other men were coming up stairs, but hearing the constables
were there, they ran off and escaped. In a cupboard were found
two wrappers, directed " Miss Foot, Keppel-street ;" which
the father of Miss Foot, the Actress, said was an envelope to a
parcel which he had sent to his daughter, and which was stolen
from the Winchester coach. A large skeleton and two other
keys were found on Scott, and a tremendous bludgeon, loaded
with lead, on the premises. They were both remanded.
Between seven and eight o'clock, on Sunday evening, the
warehouse oecupied by Mr. Emerson, of Watling-street, wrs
feloniously entered, and robbed of silk shawls, scarfs, and other
property to a Large amount.

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Thursday last, at the Birmingham Public-office, before Hvut
liotneo, Esq. and the Rev. 'dr. Faxwtee, Magistrates, James
Thropp and .I.,serh Hill, two privates of the 14th: Light Dragoons,
now stationed at our barracks, were charged with stopping two
men on the highway, in the parish of Aston, on the night of
Wednesday. It appeared from the deposition of a young man,
named 'homes Petty, that he was overtaken by two men dressed
in soldiers' clothes, on the Aston-road, between 11 and 12 at
night, and that one of them, the prisoner Joseph Hill, after
some conversation, collared him, and demanded his money. He
stated that he was a poor man, and bad none; the prisoner Hill
then searched him, and finding none about him, allowed hint to
proceed without further molestation. Front he evidence of a
pensioner, named Joseph Bell, it also appeared, that about 12
the same night he was stopped in a lane near Vauxhall by two
soldiers, who seized him, and forcibly tookfrom his person three
sovereigns, some silver and halfpence. He resisted them to the
utmost of his power, and in the scuffle wounded one of the as-
sailants in the face with his nails. The watchman on the neigh-
bouring beat hearing the alarm, proceeded to the spot, on which
the soldiers hastily decamped. After pursuing them some dis-
tance ineffectually, he proceeded to the barracks, and acquainted
the serjeant on guard with the circumstance. The latter, with
commendable promptitude, instantly ordered the roll to be called,
when it was discovered that the prisoner 'Thropp was absent,
and that Hill had within a few minutes reached his bed, by
scaling the barrack. wall. On returning to the guard-room, the
serjeant found the prisoner Thropp endeavouring to gain admit-
tance ; he immediately took hint into custody, and on searching
him discovered in one of his boots money answering the descrip-
tion taken from the witness; his face too, which was then
bleeding, bore evident marks of being recently scratched. The
prisoners were. both sworn to, and in consequence fully com-
mitted to take their triaL—Birmingenos Gazette, Nov. 11.

A poor lunatic, of the name of David Adams, aged
57, who was arrested at York,- for setting fire to the
premises of the LORD MAYOR, but no evidence ap-
pearing against him, was afterwards committed to
jail for sedition. The following are the terms of the
commitment :

" David Adams, the elder, committed upon the oaths of IL
Hawkins and J. Sipworth, who state, that on Thursday morn-
ing last, at the parish of St. Michael's, Spurriergate, in the said
city, David Adams wrote on the yrs% in the public street there,
the following seditious words, viz.--6 GOD d- the King !' "

Mrroroas, Nov. s.—The smack Two Sisters, of Pembroke,
Lewis master, from Bristol for Pembroke and Narbeth, with a
cargo of shop goods, was lost, together with the cargo, on Fri-
day night, near St. Gowan's Point, to the eastward of the Crow
Rock, when Mr. Platt, of Bath, in the straw bonnet line ; a
Mr. John Mimi., a native of Solve ; and Henry Mown, a
seaman belonging to the vessel, were washed overboard and
drowned on the sloop striking the shore. The master and a boy
got on part of the cliff over the mast, which was carriedoway ;
here they remained till the following morning, with scarcely
strength to reach the summit.

Oct. 31, at Death, Nafinshire the Lady et St tam Dew
bar, of Math, Dart. Captain ellit of a son. •
Nov. 3, in 11Juntjoy-square, Dublin; thy Lady V lota
Macau, Captain in the Hon. Company's Military Unite, et a'
daughter.
Tumday, at L'Hfrreuie, Guernsey, the Lady of Lltutooace.
Colonel Kenna.y, of a daughter. .

M ARRIE
Nov. 4, at Edinburgh, George Forbes, Esq. of Spcingb,
Aberdeenshire, to Wiliselmina, daughter of the late Capt. .123.
Walker, of the Hon. East India Company's service.
Nov. 6, at Edinburgh, John Williams, Esq. of the no.
East India Compassy's Civil Service, to Soplfla, daughter of the
late Dr. William Roxburgh, also of the Hos. East India Casa.
pangs service.
Oct. 26, at Rennyhilt.house, Roderick Mactenzletraq.*Mert
to the signet, Edinburgh, to Eamhemia, eldest daughtetof Ac.
drew Johnston, Esq. of Iterulyhill.

MED.
In April last, at Berhampore, East Indies, Major Beek, 17,*
Regiment.
Thursday, at St. Mary's Isk, the seat of the Itarl Af Sr•tki
occasioned by infiamtnadon of the lungs, James Wedderbutr,
Esq. Solicitor-General for Scotland.
At Dublin, Hans Hamilton, Esq: many years Representative
in Parliament for the county of Dublin.
Lately, in Jamaica, the Lady of John Read, Esq. Star,.
keeper at that Wand.
Nov. 8,- at Wandsworth Manor Home, in his Sth year, of re
iniammation in his bowels, ,Henry, tenth son of Christoiaer
Mornay, Esq. late Lord Mayor.-
In Chichester, at the house of his father, the Rev. Archdea-
con Webber, Francis P. Webber, Lieutenant in the 36th
merit, aged 24.
Sunday se'nnight, suddenly, whilst attending divine worship
in St. Michael's Church, Mahon Yorkshire, Mr. Thomas Kill,
of that place, clock and watch-maker, aged ID.
Oct. 28, at Minburgh, aged 44, after a lingering illness, Mra.
Ann Chalmers, relict of the late David Darkng, Esq. Assistant
Surgeon Hon. East India Company's Service, Rungpore.
Tuesday, in Carlisle, after a short illness, Serjeant-Major Ro-
bert Daniels, of the 5d Dragoon Guards.—He had been n;.-
wards of 20 years in the Regiment, and had previously serer
in a corps of Fencible Cavalry. On Thursday he was intern;
with military and masonic honours.
Last week, at Nottingham Infirmary, Richard Gaunt,
58, of New Brampton, near Chesterfield. He had lately ur •
slergone the painful operation of lithotonty,"and had a.large stoL;
extracted frnm.the bladder, but did not long survive it.
Lately, Thomas Hughes, shoemaker, of Penniarth, near Linn-
ryunog, Montgomeryshire, aged 94. Some years ago, his wire
died suddenly ; and in several parts of the house were discovered
hoarded, about a strike of halfpence, besides other cash, which
the wife had put there at various times, unknown to bee partner.
Nov. 1, at Hamilton, Robert Burns, Esq. of Westport, Both-
well, aged 65, after a long illness. This Gentleman was the
fourth pupil of the celebrated Mr. 13raidwold, of the Edit:in
Deaf and Dumb Institution, where, at an early period of h.e,
'bot made such astonishing proficiency, that he felt but conspara-
tieely little inconvenience from the want of hearing, being natu-
rally a genius of quick perception. So sensible was the deceased
of the advantage he derived from the Deaf and Dumb Institu-
tion at Edinburgh, that he left £lOO to-be applied for its support.

NEWGAT E *Ma LEADENH ALL M ARK ETS, Nov. n.
(By the Carcase.)
Beef ... ls Sd to 2s 13d Veal 2i Od to 41 04
Mutton.. ......ls 4d to 2s 4d I Pork is 84 to Zs 41
Lamb Os 01 to Os od

PRICES or HAY AWD STRAW YESTERDAY.
IT. JAMES'S. STMITIVIIAPEL.
Hay 31 us 6d to 41 4s Od I Hay... 31 Ss to 41 Os oa
Straw 11 75 6d to 21 Os 6d 1 Straw 11 13s to Od
Clover 31 9s Od to 41 4s Od 1 Clover 31 lOs to 41 los cid