Star.
London, England, 1822-05-23 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.•

Lord and Lady Selsey, in Lower Grosvenor-atreet.
Countess of Strae and Lady Louisa lions, in Hertford-
street, May-fair.
Mr. and Mrs. Smyth, and Miss Frances George, in Green-
greet, Park-lane.
Mrs. Charles Percy, in Privy-Gardens.
Miss H. Parsons, in Wimpole-street.
Mrs. Stephens, In Montaguequare.
Mr. Stewart Montgomery, in Wbnpole-street.
Mr. and Mrs. North, in Hilletreet.
Mrs. Jane Talbot and Miss Talbot, in Grosvenor-street.
Dowager Lady Lambert, in Manebestereistre.
At the Hyde Park Hotel, Ozford-streets—Mrs. Rushont, from
her seat, Wanstead-Grove, Emu ; Mrs. and Miss Watson, ben
Derbyshire; Mr. and Mrs Hervey. from Chellenhant.

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Lord and Lady ICING gave an elegant aptertain-
ment yesterday to the Marquis and Marchioness of
LANSDOWN, the Marquis and Marchioness of TAVIS.•
Toot, the Marquis of Dowesmits. Lord FOLRXII•
TONIC, Sir EDWARD CODRINGTONt Bart. Sir QRORGIC
Roarnsow, Bart. and Mr. BaououAu, at their house,
in Dover-street. _

'he following is an extract of a letter from Jersey,
dated May II : .
It will be recollected, that ism par the English and Jersey
smt Ming-boats were mach 'Meseta' and annoyed by the
"feu& armed vessels, ese various pretest° of eserusehmeot,but
do virility to destroy the Jersey oyster lisle mud thus
cagy the llogliegsoymor empaika to "herb 'imodlei tom
'note. The Aso* Amherides hare soda asmisujiuunds of
war en the Webs disomerill by the Jemmy ilillsomus • in 1117 ;
sdldadipsd arsasa et,byerisg,la dose al goseeon
ibborinft.iai is* Ihmo the sucks that
v• Thee Delitiesdlops have attracted the attensiesirE
ita, fats paddle has been.emed to his Mail/err in
'Co m* • These srpsliollisOics are situated between Jersey and
:the oppseite coast of France, stretching from Cape Rose! to the
Ado aim the husupoO, a few miles to the north-west of the
ass betweq case and three leagues fromthe
TheiiMery is now la a flourishing state. It roc-
yr mesa/ of thia:swarde 00580 &On"-
trf 11099: seesneol4lves gluon,
of tits poor .09 sawn coast ,
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aung fraud, _ negligestei— discharge
the duty of agent, and not buying at the lowest price
which would have been taken.
Mr. SCARLETT detailed the circumstances of the
case as they were proved by the plaintiffs witnesses.
'lt was sworn by Mr. John Austin, that the plain-
tiff, who-resides at Olney, in Buckinghamshire, de-
posited .£5OO in his hands to cover the amount f ten
shares in the Gas-light Company, which he had em-
ployed the defendant, as his broker, to purchase. On
the 20th of September, 1820, Shott asked him to go
with him to Broad-street, and pay £382, which he
represented as the sum to be paid for the shares.—
They went to the office of Mr. Humphreys, a broker,
where the witness was introduced to Dr. Gardiner,
also was the seller of the shares; He ultimately left
with Humphreys, but Short was then waiting
in another office. .
Two clerks of the Gas-light Company swore, that
at this time only £2O was payable on each'ihare, and
the premium was £B, so that the sum which should
have been received was £2OB, to which 'two pounds
for a stamp should have been added. Indeed, one
tall of £lO actually was not paid on 'behalf of Dr.
Gardiner, till the 26th of September, six days after
'the assignment
_ was completed.
Mr. MA RILTATT, for the defendant, offered to prove
that Austin never paid more than 2821. For this
purpose he called Dr. Gardiner, who swore that he
never received more than that sum (which was ad.
witted by all parties to be true), and Mr. Hum-
phreys, who positively swore that no more than that
sum ever came to his hands. The accounts given by
these two witnesses of the transaction did not agree.
Mr. SCARLETT was about to reply, when
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE stopped him, and said,
the simple question was, whether the Jury believed,
Humphreys or Austin, who was contradicted by the
other witness for the defendant.
The July immediately found a verdict for the
plaintiff—damages 1001:
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, that the defendant
might be ignorant of the fraud, but he ought to have
protected the interests of his principal with greater
diligence.

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desiring ,
receive hereapenses, said—he should not do her jus-
tice if he did not tell her that-she deserved the thanks
of the Public for her intrepid conduct.
John Lomas, a respectable-looking young man,
19 years of age, charged with uttering forged £
Bank-notes, pleaded 44 Guilty."
Mr. Serjeant BOSANQUET, who appeared on the
part of the prosecution; felt bound, in justice to the
prisoner, to state, that the Establishment for which
Ie attended knew nothing in the case to induce it to
take any steps in favour of the prisoner. If, therefore;
the prisoner chose now to plead guilty to. the indict•
anent, he must abide by it, and take the consequence.
The prisoner said, 44 I wish to persist in the plea."
Mr. Justice BAYLKY thought it would be well far
the prisoner, and more satisfactory for the Public, if
would' consent to take his trial. lie was the more
desirous of pressing this upon the prisoner, especially
after the intimation, very properly given, by the
Gentleman who appeared on behalf of the Bank. He
strongly recommended the prisoner, therefore, to
consider of the matter for two hours, and if, after
that time, he still persisted in the plea, it might be
then recorded.

Prisoner—My Lord, I should still be of the same
mind.

The pleas of a Guilty' was then recorded, and the
prisoner was removed from the bar.
No fewer than 42 witnesses were subpsenaed to
give evidence on this trial. It was last Sessions post-
poned on the affidavit of the prisoner, that a person
of the same of Jones, a traveller, was a material
witness, and was absent. Several examinations of
witnesses on this interesting case have taken place at
various times at Bow-street, and it will be recollected
that the prisoner was a most extensive utterer of
forged Bank notes. He is the same person who, on
pretence of relieving a distressed family of orphan
children, gave them a forged £lO. note, and took
away nine good £l. notes, which had been giVen
them by their charitable neighbours. There were nd
fewer titan 16 charges against the prisoner for utter-
ing forged notes.
Rebecca Martingdak was indicted for stealing eight
yards of cambric, valued in the indictment at £4, in
the dwelling-house of Joseph Sparkes.
It was stated that the cost price of the cambric was
ten 'shillings a yard. •
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty—Death.
John Fuller, aged 27, for returning from transpor-
tation, was also capitally convicted.
John Green was indicted for stealing six reams of
paper, value £6, the property of Richard Taylor.—
The prisoner was formerly in the service of Mr. Tay-
lor, but when the robbery was effected he had run
away 'from his employment. The paper bad been,
taken by the prisoner from the house of a hot-presser
of paper, under the pretence of being Mr. Taylor's
servant. The paper was delivered to him, but it
never reached Mr. TAylor's hands. The Jury found
the prisoner Guilty without hesitation.
The prisoner was. again convicted upon another
indictment for stealing nine reams of paper, the pro-
perty of George Edwards. There were several other
indictments against the prisoner for similar robberies
to a very considerable extent.

• Mr. liaron GRAHAM told the prisoner that he must
expect to be transported for seven years. It was not
to be endured that a lad, who might have been, if,
he hid chosen it, in constant employ, should with
impunity commit robberies to such an extent.

John Cameron was indicted for stealing a scarf, a
pair of gloves, and a few other trifling articles, the
property of Esther Woodley.
The prosecutrix is one of the unfortunate women
with which our streets abound, and late at night she
was met by the prisoner, who prevailed upon her for
a very trifling consideration to take him home, and
while she was, asleep be packed up the few things he
found in the room, and made off. He was taken two
nights afterwards.
He was found Gstilty; and Mr. Baron GARnow
told him, that a man who could be capable of add-
ing to the distress of a woman in the unhappy si-
tuation of the prosecutrix, by plundering ber of the
little she possessed, must not expect any mercy. He
would certainly be sentenced to transportation for
seven years.
The following were also convicted of felonies, viz.
Robert Slap, aged 20, for stealing ael 19s. Thomas Mowbray,
aged 21, and Thomas Freeborne, aged 20, for stealing ss: 3d.
John tram, aged 15, for stealing a book; John Ware, aged 19,
for stealing a pair of breeches • Thomas Wilson, aged 16, for
stealing a handkerchief ; Jeremiah Harragan, aged 64, for steal-
ing a pair of breeches; Charles Lewis, aged 14, for stealing a
handkerchief; John Perryman, aged 95, for stealing a handker-
chief; Philip Love, aged 16, for' stealing a water; John Thomp-
son, aged 29, for stealing a great coat; T. Lewis, aged 15, for
stealing a gold watch; and Ann Sinneads, aged 23, for steal-
ing three Nankin dresses.

The following prisoners were acquitted, •iz.—
Daalel GiHoley, of a highway robbery ; William and George
Ellis, of stealing a pewter pot; and Henry Porter, of steal-
ing a book.

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feidant told Min hit had been robbed the night be-
fart, and sheered him the window at which the rub-
bles must base entered ; the iron railing had been
removed from the window. The witness examined
the whole premises, and was perfectly satisfied that
the house had been broken open and robbed. Thsr
defendant consulted him on the best mode of pro-
ceeding to discover the robbers, and he advised otter.
ing a reward for their bpprehension, which he
Some time after he had left the defendant's house,
he heard reports that it bad not been broken open,
and that the defendant had not been robbed. These
reports elicited his suspicions, and he went. again to
the house, and examined it more minutely, but saw
nothing to confirm his suspicions.
Mr. ALLST said, that after the evidence given by
an officer so intelligent as the last witness, that the
house had been broken open and robbed, he should
not proceed with the prosecution.
Mr. ADOLPHUS, who was Counsel for the defendant
said Mr. Alley only acted like himself in giving up
'the prosecution; but although the charge against his
client was abandoned; yet he would, for the sake of
his character, ask the witness a few questions. The
Learned Gentleman then asked Read, whether the
defendant had not sent for him twice on the morn-
ing of the robbery, very early—whether a consi-
derable part of the defendant's stock in the shop had
not been removed near the door, as if for the pur-
pose of being taken away; and whether he had not,
on his examination of the premises, found a button
which appealed to have recently dropped from -rime
person's clothes, and compared it with the batons
of all the defendant's family, and found it diffeient?
to all which inquiries the witness answered in the
affirmative. The defendant was instantly acquit ed.
. William Audley was indicted for a,saiiltLiA J.
Summers. This was a cross indictment. Mr. Sum.
omers is a butcher at Somers'-Town, and Audley is a
Beadle of the Parish; they met at the NlA•q,,is of
'Hastings, in Ossulston-street, where Summer- .ic aced
the other of causing his shop to be shut lip on Good
Friday, and a battle took place in consequence, in
which Summers was vanquished. The Jury acquitted
them both, and each had to pay his own costs.
William Byrne was indicted for assaultiii, Jane
Williams, by firing a pistol loaded with powder and
wadding at her, on last Guy Faux Day, which in-
jured her so much that she was twelve weeks in the
Hospital.—Referred to arbitration for damages.

As Lady THOROLD was, a few days since, driving
a low four-wheeled carriage through Grantham, the
horse took fright, when her Ladyship in jumping Out,
got her feet entangled in the reins, and was thrown
with great violence on her head. She was conveyed
.to the George Inn, where she now lies in a very dan-
gerous state.

Last week, as a man was at work in a well 90 feet
deep, at the New Pa7sonage House at Pristoit, near
Bath, 27 feet of the upper stone work; weighing, it is
calculated, full 10 tons, fell in upon him ; thett was
also 30 feet of water below him. Eight men were
immediately employed to remove the stone and rub-
bish, and after the greatest exertions for six hours, to
their great astonishment, they found the man unhurt,
with the exception of a slight bruise MI the head,
from the fortunate circumstance of the large stones
locking one in the other across a piece of timber that
was a few inches above his head.

A little girl, about a year and a half old, named
Thorn, whose parents reside at Eyton Bray, in Bed-
fordshire, was lately found drowned in a brook near
her, own house. She fell in unperceived, and was not
discovered till quite dead.
Monday morning the sifting-house belonging to
the powder-mill, at Crowhurst, in Sussex, blew up,
by which accident'a man named Peacham was un-
happily killed. The deceased only being in the house
at the time it blew up, it is impossible, to say how the
accident happened.
At the Annual Meeting of the British and Foreign
School Society, held at the Freemasons Tavel n, in
Great Queen-street, on Friday, his Royal Highness
the Duke of of Sussiti was in the Chair, supported
by Lord EBRINGTON, Mr. WILBRREVIICE, M.P. and
other Gentlemen of distinction. The major icy of the
company were Ladies. The Secretary's Report pre-
sented a flattering account of the exertions of the So-
ciety during the past year, and was receiveJ with
great applause. After it was read, several Resolu-
tions were proposed by the leading Gentlemen, who
delivered eloquent speeches in praise of the Institu-
tion. A handsome collection was made at the doors.
Covent-Garden market now snakes a most beauti-
ful and abundant display of every sort of flowers,
fruit, and vegetables.

BIRTH. -
Tuesday, in Barley-street, the Lady of Sir Jacob Attley, Bart.
of a son and heir.

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