Star.
London, England, 1812-01-11 00:00:00

719 THE EDITOR OF THE 51',AR.

SlR—Having observed lately in the Sran, some
remarks on the inadequate provisions for Assistant-
Surgeons in the army, the contents of which I am
most willing to allow, I trust that the Petty Ulcers
das they are termed in the nautica3 language), of that
escription us the navy, have no less a claim on the
attention of Government, and as things of this nature.
are but too apt to be overlooked, from a want of due
representation, may .I request that you will be pleased
to insert, when convenient, the following remarks on
the comparatively great grievances under which both
the Junior, but particul triy, the Senior Assistant Sur-
geons, in the navy, labour.
The Naval Assistants are all, on their first Ap-
pointments, obliged to supply themselves with instru-
ments, to the amount of .€'2o or upwards, while the
Military Assistant do not supply themselves with any.
The Assistant in the atmy commences full pay
from the date of his Commission, the Naval Assistant i•
from his appearance on board : the ship to which he
is appointed by warrant being perhaps then up the
Mediterranean, an iaterval, in all probability, of three
months elapsing btfore he can join her. The half.
pay of a Naval Assistant commences at two shillings
after two years servitude, while that of the other com-
mences, if reduced, the day after tsis first appoint.
ment, at three shillings. The full pay of the latter is
seven shillings and sixpence, that of the former is only
six shillings and sixpence. The foinur messes with
-Isis Colonel, while the other Lours under the painful
necessity of living in a cockpit, amnag a set of noisy
youngsters, just let loose from 'heir mother's apron.
strings; the Second Lieutenant of- Marines. who by
h;s Majesty's Order in. Council, is inferior in rank,
living in ete ward of a gun-room;' what a situation
for a man of liberal education, and of a contempla-
tive and studious mind, to be placed in. The Army
Assistant, if he happens to lose any part of his bag-
gage on a march or otherwise, is most handsomely
compensated; the other, after braving all the incle-
men:ies and, fury of the tempestuous elements, and
losing his all, by shipwreck, on application, receives
only a Oat denial, and is, if not blessed by fortune,
obliged to run in debt, if he is lucky enough to find
a creditor, or go nearly in a state of nudity, until his 4
next quarterly bill becomes due.
He is thus con trained to make an appearance, the
most distressing to an Officer, that of being unable to
shew himself on the quarter•deck, in the dress suita-
ble to his situation in the service. The Military As-1
sistant, if ordered a passage on board any of his Ma-;
jesty's ships, messes in the ward-room, and walks the
starboard side of the quarter-deck, while the Naval
Assistant is allowed neither privilege. This last cir-
cumstance I should not mention, as not being of any
material consequence, but I want merely to point out
the great distinction made in the situation, and pre-
I, ranee strewn to one set of Officers, more than ano-
ther of the same rank, whose services and education
(without meaning to give offence), 1 will venture to
say, are both at least on an equal footing. In a fu-
ture communication. I shall point out the peculiar
situation in which the Senior Naval Assistants are
placed. I am, Sir, yours, &c. A NAVAL SURGEON.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

1 COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JANUARY 10.
HISLOP V. KNICHIT.
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This was an action to recover £lB3, as dam iges '
for the supposed improper treatment of a quantity of
calicos, in the operation of stretching and calender.
ing. The cottons were the property of the plaintiff,
and were shipped to Madeira early in 181(1, and wet e
disposed of in that island, by Mr. Hislop's agent, to,
a Mr. Jacobson, in May and August of that year.,
Mr. Jacobson, on inspecting the parcels, alledged that
he f nind many of the pieces considerably damaged,
and Mr. Downin, the agent of Hislop, proved, that he
saw a few pieces in that state. He returned to Eng-
land in December, 1810, being succeeded in his
agency by a Mr. Rowe. The amount of the sales to
Mr. Jacobson v.-as Bdo ; but on account of the
deterioration of the cottons, an abatement, was al-
lowed by the agent, in April, 1811, amottnting to
£lB3, the sum mentioned.

Many difficulties occurred in attempting to prove
the identity of the property. Hislop's tint agent was
the most decisive evidence ; but his evidence did not
extend to any considerable quantity of the property.
He saw the goods at the Custom-house, and was cer-
tain that the injured pieces were those sent by his
employer ; they had net passed into the hands of a
third person, or were npt removed before the ble-
mishes were discovered ; but he saw but three pieces
in that bad state. Two other agents who succeeded
him, could establish no more, ffian that they had
reason to believe that the pieces complained of were
the very same that were sent out by Hislop ;—but, as
they had been removed from the Custom-house, and
were then in Jacobson's stores, this evidence was held
to be insufficient.

Mr. PARKE, who addressed the jury for the defen-
dant, stated the evil consequences which might arise
to the commercial interests of the country, by giving
countenance to suits of this nature. His remarks
upon the deficency of the evidence—upon the time
when the ptes:nt claim was made (not till November
last), though the cause of complaint had arisen so
lorg before—and upon the other circumstances of the
case—were so apposite, and so strongly enforced by
his Lordship to the Jury, that, without hesitation or
!delay, they gave their verdict for the defendant.

POLICE.

Maxstoe-House.--Yesterday, Robinson, Primly,
Brice, and Gould, the porters, who were examined. on
Monday last, charged with breaking open and rob-
bing the wine-cellars of Messrs. Mann and Ingall, in
Queen-street, Cheapside, on Sunday morning, were
brought up for their second examination. The de-
positions of the Gentlemen of • Tower Ward by
whom those men were apprehended at the house of
Thompson, No. 15, Miles's-lane, Thames-street,
we; e read over, and the only additional witness now
adduced was Thompson, owner of the house, who
swore that the prisoners were not, as they pretended,
lodgers in his house ; and that the wine and imple-
ments fur house-breaking, found that morning in his
cellar, were brought there that morning by the pri.
soners. They were fully committed for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.. —Yesterday, Lloyd,
Monday a hoax was played off in the name of the who resided in the Edgeware-road, and his daughter.
sight Honourable Lady Srrtaxovoen. Letters were I were committed, for receiving a copper, which had
addressed to several tradesmen in her Ladyship's been stolen from a neighbouring brazier.
name, desiring them to attend at five o'clock ; chaises D. Jonei was committed for attempting a burglary
were ordered, hair-dressers, tailors, butchers, poul- lin the house of a baker, in Portman-street, in coin-
terers, upholsterers, &c. &c. I pany with another who escaped.
On Saturday, while some Gentlemen were skating CHARGE ON MVEDER.—Yesterday a man, who is
on lluddingstone Loch, Edinburgh, they dicovered, supetintendant of labourers at a Wharf, in Tooley-
under the ice, the body of an old man, which was street, was brought before the Sitting Magistrate at
afterwards found to be that of Mr. Alexander Steel, I Union-Hall, by Collingbourne and Glennon, charg-
many years proprietor of the Steel-yard, Causeway- I ed on suspicion of the murder of a man, whose name
side. Mr. Steel was about SO years of age, and bad lis at present unknown. The deceased, it appeared,
been for some years in a superannuated state, under I was a labourer, working under the prisoner, and was
the.care of his relations, from whom he had wandered ordered by him to do some particular work, instead
on the Thursday evening ; and it is supposed that he of obeying, however, he made use of some imperti.
had fallen into the Loch in the dark, and been I nent language, and gave the prisoner a slap on the
Crowned. His body, when found, was in an erect I face. The prisoner told him he was to blame for
posture, and had some scratches on the hands and j having struck a man who was able to break his neck :
face, apparently received in a struggle to extricate I further words ensued, when the prisoner pushed the
himself. deceased, and two others, off the Wharf into the river,
On Wedsesday, as some men were digging some and the head of the deceased coming in contact with
earth off a brick field, in Grove-read, Bethnal-green, a vessel in his fall, he sunk immediately under the
one of them found a human skeleton in irons. En- water. The body was taken out in less than ten mi.
quiry has since been made, and there is no doubt but nutes, and conveyed to Guy's Hospital, but the vital
it is the remains of the murderers, Richardson orCon- spark was extinct. The other two men were taken
way, who were hanged and gibbeted on Bow Com- ! out of the water, with no other injury than a good
mon,libout forty years ago, for the murders of two ; ducking. The prisoner was committed for re-exa-
butchers of Whitechapel, of the names of Venables ' urination, when the result of the Coroner's Inquest
and Rogers. Both bodies were stolenfrom thegibbets. shall be known.
,The Mind, like the appetite, must have its ordi- I Thursday evening, as a party of the patrole belong-
nary quantum of food : and among the various gouts ng to the public-office, Bow-street, were on duty in
of mankind it is visibly manifest, that what is one Islington, they observed two men go into a public-
man's meat, is another's poison. The comparison is ; house, whose conduct they suspected to be improper, !
certainly a wide one, but there are extremes in and supposed they had been at the public-house to
nature which will bear it nut. We do not wish to ob. sell the contents of the bundle, but were disappoint-
trude ourselves as caterers for the minds of mankind ed. When they came out of the public-house, the
en-masse, but to those of a refined and superior relish, patrole stopped the man who had the bundle, and
we would recommend to take a repast at the Nan- asked him what he had in it ? He replied, some li-
niachia, in Princee-street, Leicester-sqnare, where a nen he had bc, a getting from a washer-woman.—
morceau the most superior faculties Of the mind is This did not satisfy the patrole, and they told him
capable of enjoying, is to be obtained ; which we he- they must see what it contained. About two hun-
sitate not to say cannot be entailed by any exhibition ! died pairs of silk-stockings and gloves were found in
of the works of art in the universe. it ; upon which they took both men into custody ;
The immense rich assemblage of rare quadrupeds . and upon enquiry, the stockings and gloves proved
and Birds, at the Royal Menagerie, Exeter 'Change, to have been stolen from M.
B
a hosier, on
is now the topic of conversation among the first Cono- Fish-street-hill, and the man who had the bundle to
sc. enti hod Amateurs, and justly observed how easily , have been his rter. When he WAS taken into
so noble noble and interesting a sight can be purchased, in t tody, he offerepod the patrole £5O to let him go. The
comparison to the great dangers and fatigues, that
travellers have to encounter after Nature's wonder- ! taken before the Lord Mayor to be examined,
ful productions. Here the formijable Rhinoceros,
the scientific Elephants, the real Majestic Lions, the Monday night last, about eleven o'clock, two sea-
Royal Tygers, Panthers, Leopards, raguar, Hyznas, ' men, rather intoxicated, belonging to the Artnide
Ursine Sloth, Vultures, Eagles, Owls, sec. Sm. of the i frigate, lying in Plymouth Sound, walking over the
finest kind, and in she highest condition, can be seen, ! New Quay, one of them, named William Palgrave,
and even approached, with the greatest safety. But was unfortunately drowned.
amongst the more docile class comes the 'rapier or I General Siurr, charged with having, on his own
Hippopotamus of the New World ; those singular ! confession, teloniously stolen, taken, and carried a
animals of the Peruvian Mountains, the Laina and cock and eight hens, from a hen-roost, at Bapchjld,
Vecun a, the Arabian Camel, the Kangaroos, the Elk, the property of William Coleman, has been cowslip
the stupendous African Ostrich, the Grand Casso. to Maidstone Gaol.
wary, the large Emews, the tender Pelican, the Royal Wednednesday morning, two thieves stole from a
- Crown Birds, the Cirus, and upwards of Two Hun- , shop in the Strand a piece of floor-cloth, upwards of
dred of other beautiful and interesting objects of Na- 100 pounds weight. A few mornings ago a sivnlar
tura' History, which forms one of the grandest views ' Fiece was stolen from a shop in Holborn ; and 'eve.
of Animated Nst are that this or ally other Metropo. ' rat shops have been lately robbed of large quantities
lis ever produced.
of carpeting.