Star.
London, England, 1814-08-16 00:00:00

DEVON.

At the Devon Assizes, three sub•contractnrs,
flared Twyram, Drake, and lara,;-ens,a, were fouvd
guilty of conspiring to defraud his Majesty, by fur-
nishing bread to the prisoners of war at Dartmoor
made up of barley sharps, Indian corn meal, bean.
meal. BCc. instead of bread made of Meal the entire
produce of British or Foreign Wheat, as specified in the
contract. They will receive sentence iu the Court cf
King's Bench next Michaelmas Term.

Admiral Bradley, sentenced for death, at the late
Somerset Assizes, has been respited during the
pleasure of the PIIINCE REGENT.
Wednesday James. Macdougall, cattle-dealer, who
was lately condemned by the High Court of Justi-
ciary, for uttering forged notes, was executed at the
west end of the Tolbooth, Edinburgh. The unhappy
man, who was upwards of 60 years of age, behaved
with much renitence and resignation.
Friday morning, Edward Clarke, Wiliam Potter,
and Jesse Palmer, capitally convicted at the Essex
Assizes, were executed at Cheimsf• rd, pursuant to
their sentence. When on the scaffold, they appeared
penitent, and resigned to their awful fate.
.Saturday, ll'illiam Yincentt convicted at the late
Exeter Assizes, for the murder of Tiicmas Willis,
was executed at. the New-drrp, Exeter. Early in the
'morning he attempted to destroy himself, by cutiini
his throat, which he had nearly accomplished. Liti,
however, was not extinct, and he WV carried in his,
Ind to the fatal spot.

Yesterday the RECORDER made a Report to the'
PRINCE RELLIST of the following convicts under sen-
tence of chath in Newgate, viz.—Henry Lye, for
burglary ; John Field, alias Jonathan Wild, and
Michael Berry, for a like offence ;Cbarles
for horse-stealing ; Ann WilliaF,s, John , Fisher,
Chs. Hoilin2.!shead, Jolla Roberts, William Pritchard,
Francis Turner, John Robinson, Janses-Kni, shtt and
Samuel Knight, for stealing in HOUR; 17-
William Marshall, alias Masseter, fen burglary ;Mary
Dunn and Mary Leonard, for Coining ; Thomas
Alexander 4lid. Juseioh Payne, lor.stealing privately
in a shop.; Charles Smith, alias th.!priitp, for return,
ing from trensportatlon $ JOhn Mitchell, for for-
pry.; ititchmt llOaz and Mines Rpeliipz,, for steal-
rig in a dwelling house ; l'r-cmc;s Sinigess, to; a
highway robbery ; &Lehi:4 Maroney, alias Naloney,
John Ashton, lig a• like of ; Thomas Wall,
tbs. house breaking ; limes Milier, alias Josephs, for
highway robber; and Charles Elliott, for maliciously
cutting, &c.— Wien Henry Lye, John Francis
&urgers, .41;chatl Marong, alias Maloney, John Field,
alias Jonathan Wild, and Jan .dAtolz, w.re ordered
for execution on Monday next.

PCLICE. .

BOWSTpET.—On the 15th of ,Marlast the Hem
fcird coach was lobbed of a parcel, :containing Notes
:and Billi to the amount of £5OOO, from the Bank of
Messrs. Christie and Co. in Hertford, to Messrs.-
Ramsbottom, their Agents, in London. Shortly
after the robbery, the bills that were not negociable,•
to the amount of £2,800, were returned by the rob-
ber to Messrs. Christie. Diligent enquiries were
made as to who the passengers'wera, and one of them
MS strongly suspected to be W. Cooke, a well-known -
character ; a reward of £lOO was in consequence of-
fered for his apprehension, but in vain. It was,
however, ascertained within these few days, that he
was at Yarmouth, and that he was to leave there on
Sunday by the Telegraph coach, and in consequence
Vickery, Lavender, and Bishop, left London on Sun-.
day morning, and proceeded as far as the Whale-
bone-turnpikednear Romford, where, in the evening,
the coach drove up, and, the Officers having previ-
ously arranged with the gatekeeper, the gate was
fastened.—Vickery and Lavender were concealed,
being known, and Bishop went to the coach on its
stopping, :AA. observing Cooke on the roof, ordered
him to come down; which be complied with; and
Vickery and Lavender then appearing, he was se-
cured and bought to town in a post-chaise. Yester-
day he underwent an examination, when Mr. Christie
attended, and proved the robbery.—He was commit-
ted for further examination. _

A. Soper, a collecting Clerk, belonging to the Can-
non-brewhouse, in Knightsbridge, was also remanded,
charged with embezzling £B, which he received from
Mr. Schofield on the 23d of December, and which he
had not brought to account in the balances of his ge-
neral account.

, MARLBOROUGII.STREET:—.A. complaint was prefer-
red by a horse-dealer, in the neighbourhood of Fins-
bury-square, against Nicholson, a Kentish runner, for
cheating him or more than 8100. It appeared that
a match for £2O was made for the defendant to run
with Leach (last week at Chelmsford Races), by a
publican in Bird-street; and the runners consented to
do the pi: by running a cross. Leach was to win, as
Nicholson was going among his countrymen' and
friends, who would back him. The distance was
100 yards, and tile complainant was sent to. Vdselms-
lord to get bets on the match, and succeeded in doing
so to the amount' of more than AlOO. The day for the
race arrived, and the pedestrians started: Leach
made play, and kept a head until near the end, when
Nicholson made play, went by Leach, and won:
thus playing off a dosb/e-cross (as termed by the
learned), and paying his friend, the publican, for his
acts or kindness.—ncholsen and the stake-holder
walked off with the stakes. Mr. Alley attended for
the defendant; but he reprobated his conduct in the
strongest terms; and jocosely observed (in comparing
the law to foot-racing), that Nicholson had the best
9f him, for he could either win or lose.—From the
complexion of the case altogether the Magistrate dis-
charged it.
Harros:-GanneN.—Yesterday, six boys, part of a
ging, were brought up, viz. John Dunn, near 14. years
of age ; M. Walsh, a sweep, aged 11; J. racier, a
sweep, aged 12; T. Willi:, aged 12; G. Willis, aged
10; and J. kw-n.l, aged 9. John Barnsley, a con-
stable, stated, that the six prisoners formed part of a
large gang ; that, on Saturday, two of them were
stopped in stealing a pair of shoes from a shop on
Saffron-hill, on which he took them into custody,
and from them he learned who their accomplices
were, and succeeded in securing the other four; that
having learned from them that a Sarah Broadfield,
better known by the name of Mrs. Gillman, who
keeps an old clothes' shop in Field-lane, was the pur-
chaser of the stolen goods, he searched her house,
where he found several articles alledged by the pri.
' soners to be stolen by them, and sold to her; and
also 450 in Bank Notes. He also took her in custody
Ho produced ai piece of bacon found on her premises,
which Dunn acknowledged to have stolen from
John Chalmers, a chandler's-shop, in Sea Coal-lane,
and sold to Mrs. Gillman for 6d. Mrs. Charmer
proved the bacon to be the property of her husband,
and worth about 20d. ; another piece of bacon was
acknowledged by Tucker, to have been stolen by
him from the shop of James Griffith, in Saffron-hill,
and sold to Mrs. Gillman, for Is. which they divid-
ed, being two-pence each.—J. Griffith identified tle2
bacon, which he missed from his shop ; it was worth
about 4s. Another piece of bacon, Walsh acknow-
ledged to have stolen out of a cheesemonger's shop,
on Snow-hill, which he sold to Mrs. Gillman for 16.
6d. Barnsley next produced a silk handkerchief,
which Walsh acknowledged to have picked out of a
gentleman's pocket, in Skinner-street, on Friday last,
and sold to Mrs. Gillman for only 9d.—Barnsley
stated, that there were several dozens of silk hand-
kerchiefs and other articles in Mrs. Gillman's shop,
which were suspected to have been stolen. The Ma-
gistrate said, he would commit her for another exa-
mination on Thursday, and the boys were committed
to places of separate confinement.

BIRTHS.
Saturday the I sth Instant, the wife of John Galt, Esq. of Bar-
ton Crescent, ut a sun.
Friday, the wife of the Rev. John Morris, of Eggletheld-house.
near Brentford, of a daughter.