Star.
London, England, 1802-03-15 00:00:00

ASSIZP.S.

The affixes at Maid(lone commenced this day,
before Mr. Baron HOTHAM and Mr. Juftice
HEATH. The calendar contains near ninety pri-
foners for ti ial ; twenty-five Venire: arc returned on
the A Prius fide, marry of which are fpecia juries.
The affixes at Chelmsford finilhed on Friday
lafl, %%hen Edward Newman, David Wright, getres
Pmenrh, and 70/nr Power, for highway robberks ;
Richard Gock.in, for dealing twenty-fix (beep from
Lady llacre ; and Samuel Sharp, for burglary, re-
ceived fentence of death. John Power and Samuel
Sharp were reprieved before the Judges left the
town; the others were all left for execution. New-
man and Weight were Iriflimen employed in the po-
tatoe grounds near Stratford, and committed the
robbery of which they were convicted upon Mr.
John Rcnnett, who keeps the Three Rabbits, on
the Ilford road, and is all° a falefman at Smith-
field; they ufed much violence in committing the
robbery, and when the patrole came up fired their
piflols before they were fecured. Pincori and
Power were foldiers belonging to the 49th Regi.
ment now in Chelmsford barracks, and it appear-
ing that Power had borne an exceeding good cha-
raCter in the Regiment, and was on the point of
being promoted to be a non-commiffioned officer,
and had been led to commit the offence by the
other, was the reafon of his being faved ; the Co.
load of the Regiment, the Captain of his Com-
pany, and his Serjeant,all appeared upon the trial,
and (poke very favourably of him.
At the Lincoln affixes a caufe was tried, in
which an Innkeeper was plaintiff, and a Cornet of
Cavalry, defendant. It appeared that the latter
gave a dinner to fifty-four of his friends a' the
plaintiff's houfe, and refifted the payment of the
bill on a fuppofition of its enormity. It appeared
that the party met at half pall four, and retired
about ten o'clock, and the items in the bill were—
"
one hundred and twenty-fix bottles of Port,
forty-eight of Sherry, fixty-four half-crown bowls
of punch, and twenty of negus." nit jury
thought it Was probable t_ but difpleafed at
the price charged for the Port wine, and took off
fixpence a bottle.
At thefe affixes George Gil,, convissled of hay-
' ing burglarioufly broken into the houfe of Mrs.A.
Robinfon, at Bolton; and 7. Brown' convicted of
horfe-ftealing, were fentenced to be hanged ; the
latter was reprieved before the Judges left the
town, and ordered to be traurported for life. S.
Evifon, tried for the murder of her infant child,
was acquitted.
At Worcefter affixes, jaws Mather:, conviited
of burglary; joftp6 Hingley and William Atwood,
of tbeepßealing ; and Peter Mints (capitally con-
vieted at the fummer Axes of ritoo, but judgment
refpited), feverally received fentence of death.

Monday laft, as a boy, in the fervice of Mr. Ta-
ylor, of Swardelion, Norfolk, wasndingon a turnip-
cart, it overturned upon him, and killed him on
the fpot.
Tuefday morning the dwelling houfe and work-
fhops of Mr. Edward Torvey, clothier, of Road,
were deftroyed by fire accidentally occafioned.
On Thurfday afternoon, about five o'clock, as
two men were paffing with a truck, heavily laden,
down the narrow part of Leadenhall-ftreet, and
endeavouring to pafs a carriage, the wheels came
in contaa v ith fuch violence as to throw one of
the men forcibly on the pavement, and cut and
bruifed him in the moft terrible manner.

Some days fince the body of a new-born male
child was difcovered floating in a pool of water in
the parith of Hartfhorn, in Derbyfhire.
J. Roberts has been committed to Wnrcefler
gaol, charged with Sealing three fowls, the pro-
perty of T. KING s, of Fladbury ; alfo with having
(tabbed the raid T. Rums in three feveral places,
of which wounds he lies dangeroufly ill.
J. Grcen was alfo committed charged with the
wilful murder of J. MOIR Is, of Aftley.
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, .
On the 2d of March, H. Edwards, under fen-
tence of tranfportation, broke out of Beaumaris
gaol.
A battle was fought between two men at Mir-
field, a few days ago ; one of them died Ihortly
after, from the feverity of the blows he received.
A ferious affray took place at Greenock a few
evenings ago; a party of American failors, and
fume women, were watched by a crowd of boys
to a houfe of ill-fame; they had no fooner entered
it than the boys affailed the doors and windows
with a (bower of Clones, at which the landlord and
Tailors rallied out, and attacking in their turn, dif-
perfed them, and knocked down feveral perfons
accidentally palling. The Magillrates, with a
party of the military, went to the place, and took
the landlord and three of the failors into tuftody.
The former was fentenced to be drummed through
the areas of Greenock, and banillied that town
for life ; two of the failors were fined sos. each,
and fent on board their flip, giving bail not to
return on fbore while the (hip remained in that port.
A letter from Plymouth, dated March it, lays-
-44 A young man of the name of Netherton, who
has been milling fince November kit, was yellerday
found dead on Hcnlake Down, near Ivy-Bridge,
about i a miles from Plymouth. A reward of bye
guineas was offered by his friends, who were of
this town, for his difcovery, and every fearch has
been made, but without effect, until yellerday,
when a, Gentleman riding near the fpot, with a
pack of hounds, the dogs fcented him, by which '
means he was found : he was lying on his back
' with his hat and Dick by his fide, and is fuppofed
to have died there the night he was fikl miffed,
which was about the middle of November lafi.—
He had with him, at the time when he left Ply-
mouth, a favourite dog, which did not return to
Plymouth una near a month after, and there
is great reafon to believe that this faithful animal
remained by the corpfe of his mailer at lean. 14
days : by the hair upon the coat of this unfor-
tunate young man, it appears as if the dog had
frequently lain on his brealt, and from the ap-
peatance dr the ground round about the body,
%%loth was dtig to a confiderable depth, it teems
as if the dog had made an attempt to bury
it. The Coroner's Inquett found a verdia of—
Accidental Death.

At a Court. Martial held on board the Cam-
bridge, flag-(hip, in Haniciaze, on a marine,
charged with itriking a Mid(hip/Ilan on duty, he
was tound—Guilty, and kntenced to flitter• Death:

The Library of Trinity College, Dublin, is, we
underftand, about to be enriched by a molt valu-
able colleCtion of Books and Mandel ipts, which
during the unfettled Date of the Continent were
conveyed to England for fectnity. This colleCtion
comprifes the molt authentic and belt arranged
fyftems of Diplomacy and Natural Hiitory extant.
Such an addition to the line collection of Theology,
Science, and Ctailics, already in pc-deltic:it of the
Univerfity, will enable Trinity College to boaft of
the finch Librar7 h Eurcpt. The Board of ERAS-
MUS SMITH, from the funds entrnlled to tl:eir care
for literary lifts, have voted to,ocol. for the pur-
pofe of securing to this country fuch a treafitre ;
and Dr. ELRINGTON, fuccellinr to the late Bitii op
of CLON FELT, in the Philpfophy Chair of Trinity
College, has been feleCted, we underhand, in older
to examine and report upon the coficaion.
The late Rev. John Hulfe, of Elworth, Chefhire,
has bequeathed to theUniverfity of Cambridge cer-
tain ehates for the advancement of religious learn-
ing, and direlted in his will that out of the rents
and profits, fo foon as annuities and other incum-
brances would admit, an annual ftipend fhould he
given to fome "learned and ingenious perfon of the
degree of Maher of Arts, or of Bachelor or DoClot
in Divinity, of the age of years or upwards, and
then refident in the faid Univerfity, as (hall be by
the Vice Chancellor, the Maher of Trinity College,
and the Matter of St. John's College (appointed
Truftees for the difpofal of this btnefaftion ), or any
two of them,thought the belt qualified,andby them
fucccffively elated by any terms not exceeding five
or fix years, in order to compote fome proper and
judicious anfwer or anfwers every year to cuell
new and popular or other c and" objeCtions
"7:.* revealed religion, or againft again ft the Chriftian
the religio". 1:r nature, as may, in the opinion of the
raid Traces or any .woof them, feem bell or moll
proper to deferve or require an anfwer, whether
' the fame be ancient or modern objections, but chiefs
ly fuch as are molt modern, and efpecial!y loch as
have appeared in the Engin language of late years
again(' Chriflianity, and which may not feem to
have received a full and fufficient anfwer, if any
fuch there (hall be, until the year preceding fuch
eleetion; as likewife to be ready to fatisfy any real
temples or objeCtions,in a private way, that may be
brought, from time to time, by any fair and can-
did enquirer againft the fame ; fuch writer to be
called the Chriflian Advocate; and Inch his written
anfwer to be in Englifh, and only againh notorious
infidels, whether Atheills or Deifis, not dcfcending
to any particular • controverfies or feels among
Chriltians themfelves ,• except fome new or dan-
gerous error, either of fttperftition or enthufiafin,
as of popery or mcthodifm, either in opinion, or
praCtice, fhall prevail ; in which cafe tinly, it may'
be neceffary for that time to write or to reafon
againft the fame ; and fuch treatife or treatites to
be every year printed ; the expence whereof (hail
be deduCted out of the Ilipend, and 'the remainder
(hall be paid or given every year to the feveral au-
thors fucceffively as a reward for the fame ; but no
perfon (hall be ever re-eleded, or at any time after
he has once filled the faid office, appointed thereto
again." The elates alluded to admit of an annual
flipend of 451. and the eleCtion of an advocate is to
take place next Chriftmas Day, or within fey=
days after.
THE Cacti tvet..—The clofe of the late reoclry
which took place at Paris, is thus defcribed by a
perfon who was prefent
44 The preparations which were made for Mord;
Ira:, (Shrove Tuefday) were of the moll extraor-
dinary defcription. From La Madelaine to the
ci levant Battik, the Boulevardes was occupied
through the whole of the day by a double file of
carriages, filled within, and covered, for the greater
part, without, by mafks of different defcriptions.
The line, including thole which paraded the Rue
St. Honore, &c. could not be lefs than five miles
in length. Turks, Greeks, Chinefe, Sultanas,
Circaffiani, and Poiliardes, met the eye in every
direElion. Harlequins, clowns, and punchinellos,
filled every ftreet, in defiance of a very heavy rain.
The general appearance was fuch, that a ftranger
might eafily have been induced to believe that tune
tenths of the people of Paris were aCtually gone
mad !—There were indeed fome circumflances
which went very nearly to juftify fuch a perfttafion.
I faw an equipage, confifting of a landau, drawn
by fix horfes, with poftilions and out riders, all
very Inperbly drefted. The group in 'he carriage
was a Neptune and Amphitrite, with their atten-
dant Nymphs, all in charafteridic dreffes of velvet
and embroidery. The horfes and the landau were
covered with rich bear fkins. The expence of this
fingle difplay was calculated at no lefs than to,ooo
livres (vol.) and what adds to the fingularity is,
that the belt informed perfons in this capital are
completely ignorant of the perfons who lent them.
felves to this ftrange extravagancy. There was
alfo a fplendid car, exhibiting a Venus and Ado-
nis, with decorations nearly as fuperb as the pre-
ceding. From thee the folly defcended in grada-
tion, until it reached the Canaille, who proudly
(talked about in their faits of coloured paper, or in
a complete armour of oyfter (hells, lining one
over the other. There were two or three Englilit
carriages in the proccffion, which were much fol-
lowed on account of the profnfion with which the
mafks diftributed oranges and bon-bons to the mo-
bility. The ..tticial Journals feemed to dwell with
fatisfaCtion on this fpecies of amufement, " which
tie- people furniffied to the mfelves." It is fhrewdly
fufpeCted, however, that the police contributed, in
the firft initance, at leaf', fomething more than ;ts
tacit permit:Eon. The political infeten::es to be
drawn from the gaiety and confidence of the pco-
pie were certainly not without their value.
"The faloons, which were opened fur the mafics,
were beyond all calculation. At the Fauxidl
d'Ete,thePerrlonellanovre,and a number of others,
decorated iu the Engliffi fafhion, the admillion
, was trente Alt ( 15d.) and thole who take pleafurc,
in the Pele-male and confulion of this fpecies of
amufement, might there have been gratified even
t to fatiety."

ENCUSH STrrt•LovrtßY.—,Twelfth •
No. 15,440, a Pt 14C sc.ccl.—Nos.
12,873, 46,862, Prizes cf tool.—Nos. 55,5,4
7,467, Yt izcs cf
The Tic!.•a Xt.. 15,440, drawn cn Saturday IA
a prize of Five Thoufand Founds, aS I,.id at
Meas. HA% A kr), Bur.NE, and Co's. Othce,
Exchange. in 441 e Half, one Fourth, one
and two Sixteenth Shales.

and every avenue lea4'.n7 to it wia
be crowded on Wetlneillay tnotnini.;, t.i
tint news of the ti,lt-d. twn %%hid: is ct-
ti:led to tc,occl. aud a celebrated Lottery•L'a• arr.-
cr near N.zwgatc-market, having in
with ti:me other Calculator:, to:•etcld that
fira.drawn will he a 20,c0c1. Pri,e, ,if
the tc,ocol. attached to it as a It: tionary nur:oe!..
has made all L6ttery Speculators anxious to 'v.:lye
at,Ticket or Share, to obtain lo great a Pt i7e.—A:
ali events they gave an evceetling good Chance,a3
the Wheel i, immeniely rich.