Star.
London, England, 1806-10-23 00:00:00

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Yeiletetain St Vinton Hall. sT Jaw tl/TCEd Jacobs,
wbo keeps Onside of civil Pinot, is Ai tillerrareet.
near Higtarss.lame, was brought no on fulpicion of
having a knowledge of the perfon Mhn moldered
Ann Webb or Winterflond. His apprehettfion art fe
from the following circurnflanee—He was (handing
at Ids door with his nightcap on, in converfattnn
with another man, when he in a kind of playful
manner, pulled the cop over his eyes and raid
" that is what you mutt at last come to." Jacobs
raid. " Yon had better go home, nr you will be
ferved fo for the murder of the girl in Higler's.lane."
—On this the man went off hattily, and a woman,
named Baldwin, gave information of the circum-
fiance. Jacobs, in his examination, Paid he made
ufe of the swords merely from the provocation of hay
ing hi. cap pulled over his eyes, and ptomitid to
have the man brought forward at, a future day, if he
was allowed to gn in fearch of him, which Mr.
Evasci allowed on that condition.
Mamma Hcrtriss....Yifterday Mary Jones, who
was examined, for the firfi time. on Monday, an a
charge of uttering counterfeit flnifings, and having
five pieces of the like counterfeit coin concealed in
het month, trridefweist a feconci examinatinn, in pre.
fence of the Solicitor for the Mint, and was cows-•
mined for trial.

NNW OFTICP, SHADWILL,—ChatIa Mtn!' *ad
James Foßer were conimitted to Dartford gaol,Kent;
one charged with an attempt to commit a rape on a
young woman, and the other for endeavouring to
refeue the offender.

Mant.nonotics-sres;y.—Yefterday Ann Rockall
and her daughter were charged with receiving Rolm
property, to a contiderable amount.

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Mr. Wilmot, upholflerer' in John.flreet, Oxford.
flreet, having been robbed, as he Infpefted by his
porters, has for Come time been uGng every effort to
trace part of his property; and he fueceeded in do-
ing fo on Tuefday, at the honk of the priioner, Ann
Rockall, who keeps an old iron &np in Green's-
court, Little Poulteney.llreet. A (catch warrant
was procured, and Foy and Burton, officers, event
to the houfe and brought away ticking, mattrafs-
cafes, printed cottons, &c. to the amount of sol.—
A conliderable part of this property was identified
by Mr. Wilmot, and tome by other perfons. A fe-
cund fearch was made in the cow fe of yefterday, and
Tome filver fpoons, cyphered J. F. and other plate,
were found, as was elle; a table-cloth with a mark
.and coronet on it. It has been the cullom among
the porters of upholllerers to form a committee fur
the purpofe of carrying on their nefarious practices,
more effeitually to evade jullieei and they have alto
a fund to obtain legal advice, where required. A
porter lately in the employ.of Mr. Wilmot is in etsf-
tody, chargesi with the robbery. The prifoncrs were
remanded till next Thurfday.
Saturday, at twelve o'clock, Marl Dright, for
merly coachman to a gentleman at the Weil end of
the town, Rood in the pillory one hour, at the bottom
of the Hay marker, purfuant to his entence at the
left Middlefex feffions, for delivering a bill for a
quantity of hay to hi,. Mailer, which had never been
had, with intent to defiaud.
Common Nene:mem —At the lag
Quarter Seflions, two of thele rgpettaLle gentry were
fentenced to Rand in the pillory at Greenwich for
trtwo hours, for compounding an offence againa a
cett: t penal law.
At the conelnfion of the Ayr Circuit, the Judge,
Lord AINADALI, in an elegant fpeeth, replete with
the molt liberal fentiments and Wein', information,
addreffed the Gentlemen who were fnmmoned tot; a
Jut y, upon the benefits the country derived from the
inilitution of juriec, and on the important advan-
tages that would refult from extending the powers of
lodes to civil cattle& ; and remarked how great a
boon Goverment was about to confer upon Scot.
land. by introducing a law founded on the refltitions
prorated by Lord Grenville to the Houfe of Lords.
On Saturday night, about twelve o'clock, as a watch-
man was going his round, he heard the cries of a'
new born infant near the opening made for the Lon.
don Docks, at the upper end of Old Gravel-lane,,''
Ratcliff.highway, where it had been left to perith.—
He took it to the watch houfe, and Irons thence it
was fent to the svor khouft. •

Au extraordinary accident happened lan week in
the neighbourhood of Wotton under Edge :—Four
men, who had affembtsd in the night, with an inters•
lion, it is toppled, of Healing timber, went into a
field adjoining that town, where feveral pieces had
recently been placed, for the purport of bnitifing.—
Three of there fellows, in this nefarious purfnit, had
got a fmall tree upon their Boulders, and were car-
rying it off, when tie man who fupported the butt-
end flipped down, and the whole weight of the piece
falling upon him, be was killed on the fpot.
Lail Thurfday morning, as a party of fmngglers
were landing a quantity of fpirira at a creek near
Deals they were furprized by the CuArnn Houfe Of-
ficers, when a rencontre enfited, and fevers' (hots
were fired on b.ith fides ; one of the fmugglers, named
Pollard, w•a,. flint dead on the fpqt. and leveral of the
officers IVCIe fevertly wounded. The fmugglers fuc
needed in getting off their illicit trade.

The hat., Chroniele Rates, that forte ',twat mit
creams, 1411 week, cot nut the tongue of a hotfe at
the Mumbles, which, it is conjectured, they fuppofed
belonged to a Gentleman againtl 17 Nim they enter-
tained Come animotity, but which was the property
of t pone pisblic.in there.

The General Qnarter Seffions fnr Middlefty and
Wellminfler c,mutenced y ellerday morning, at Guild.
hall, WaminHer, before W. Main wait two, Efq.
Chairman, and a nnmernus Bench of Juliices of the
Peace fnr Middlefex and Wetiminner. The feveral
Grand and Petty Juries for Middlefex and Wellmin-
fler attended, and were (worn in, in the ufual way.
Liar of the petty conflables were Alfa called over,
and the bufinefs concluded for the day. The tieffions
for Middleftx were adjourned over until Monday next
at Hicks's Hall, Cler kenwell,and the Court proceeded
to the babel& of the Salon' for Wellminller this
morning.

'This morning the prifoners who land committed
nn charges of felonies in the f 1 city and county
Fit iron*, *ere removed to Newgate, reparatory to
their trials at Jullice Hall, old Bailey, on Wednef•
day nest, the 19th inflant.

!! PAiITNERSHIPB niscot,via
Robert little and Thomas Stork, of kiroad-Mtad, Ifflßol, cab!.
net makers and uphollterees, Odoher.4, Ito 6.
John Heasley and Alexander Struthers, of 4reitos,Lineachire,
bread-bakers. October t t, 'Sob.
John Armitrong and Charles Dickinfem, of Northwarmborosgb;
Hants, March ac, 1806.
James Hall. of the New Inn. Old Bailey, London; William
Wyatt, of Creat•Marlow,Backinghamllaire ; and Ellealarth keilt-
chener, of Colubrook. Middkfex.• coach and waggon matters, (as
to the fdd Elizabeth hlinehener only). Ogtober ts. tflo6.
William Brown and Rickard Smith, of St. Alban'a, Hanford.
Mire, merchants, Anguft ta. 1806.
John Pearce and William Newton, of Briltol, gingerbread bakers
and cenfeetloners, October ty. 1806.
Robert Roberts, June* Sergeant, and Robert Sergeant, of Frith,
Kent, briek•makers, and of Doekhesd, Berniontlfey, Surry, brick-
layers, June 14, 18:6
Charles Greenfword and Thomas Kidwell,. of Belmar, near
Chkhefter, 3uth.z, (hip-builders, September 6. 18c6.
Willem Bennett. George Moore, and Thomas Woodward, of
Waudfworth, calico-printers, October 16, ;gob.
John Jones, William Watfon. and Robert Davis, of Birminr
barn, Warwleklbire, nerthrellienanafedliwers, Sept. at. sBe6
Humble Lamb, Warren Maude lamb, John Hebfon, john
Fnrfter, Robert Waldie, and Timothy. Forft,r, of Dalfton, Cam •
beriand, cottoo-manufadturera October t, t 306.
DrVIDYNDS.
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Ddlober 18. Ration 'Francis the Vonore. of Bread-ltreet, I.ondoo
warehoufemian, at twelve. at Guildhall
' oAnher 28. john Iferriman, of firewee.-ftrect, Pimlico, floral,
dealer and citacurso, at tw-lve, at Cullih.M.
Odlolier 28. Stettin Newton Chifwell, of Wareham, Suffolk
lhopkeeper, at ton. at Guildhall, London.
°disbar as. Jolla William Usher, now or late of Bawling Morn.
lane, Ckrkeowell, vidtealler, at twelve. at Guildhall,
October at. Thomas Hart, late of Brittol, merchant, at tweive,
at the White Lion Tavern, Broad-ftreet,
Odtober 27. James White, now or late of Newoham. Gioneefter •
&ire, patten riny•rrraker, at eleven, at the George imr, Bearably.
Gelnber 18. John Statham,. of Coningthy. Llncolaibire, common
brewer, at ten, at the Rein Deer Inn, Lincoln.
Offieber 28. Robert Whitehead. now or late of Sheffield, York-
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Ibi'e csni•raelor, at the Angel inn, Sheffield.
Detobce 17, Samna 'Stow, of Wifberh St. Peter's, in the iffe of
Dansbrldrealse,ploosller. Oozier and painter, at eked',
at the Rae i (bows lon. Wilbcoh St. Peter's.

PRICE tHI Hopi, ;wpm ismalam nutaxim
1 New Begs 41 sos zo $1 $s I Pockets 41 tss to 61 6s
/Iles Or mat AIM STSAW llt 11111TIMILD.
UM, - 31 101 10 41.1011 I C/0111/ 41 OS 10 SI 31
New Do. 01 cs to 01 os I Straw. it 16s so 11l $s
COAL MARKET. Odder st.
. Ships at Market Ships cat Price
' s 3 Newcaftle Coal 7 475 3d to 564 od
• z Ssoderland t 46s 6.1 to ON od
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
Amiterdans 35 1s 2U4 Cadiz 381 &eel Genoa 47
Do zt6gbt 3$ s Madrld3Bleffeet Lilbon 6t
'ltotterJarn it j s 114 Hilims 311} circa. ( Oporto 6
Hamburgh 33 $s Ut Leghorn 511 1 Dublin 11
Altona 33 6 a Ur Naples 44 I Cork 13
Paris., day's &nese o Lir. VCISICC 46 Hy. Piccolo Offedive
Paris, s LIC. 14 4 per 4. Red.
Boards:aux 14 Pakrmo po Peace per oz.
Agle on the Bank of Hand j 4 pa Cent.
New Dollars

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BIRTHS.
On the yth 'nitwit, at 9altafb, Dam, the Lady of Brigadier-
General Hereto, of a fun.
Lately, a woman in Hamilton, of three fens; they are all in
good health.
Oo tkr tit h initant, at Ortnnochy parith of Largo, county of
Fife. a Sailor's Wife, of three children, who were all baptized, and
ha* every swpdanmee of doing well.