Star.
London, England, 1812-04-15 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The following private letter from an individual in
humble life, who has lately emigrated to this land of
promise, breathes so much good sense, and affords
such a striking proof of the sentiments of the great
body of the American population, that we give it a
place with great pleasure. The concluding sentence
is a striking illustration of the correctness of the in-
formation which has from time to time appeared in
the columns of the STAR on every subject relating to
America :

" NEW-YORK, FED. 12.
" I arrived bore aftet a tedious passage of nine weeks; and I
am sorry to inform you, that I am greatly disappointed in my
expectations of bettering my condition. Britain, I now find, is

the only place for trade; when it is dull there, it is almost at an
end every where—and here, it is indeed bad enough. This is a
fine country to live in ; and the aireragekof workmen's wages is
-one dollar per day,/but there are hundreds in this city at present
out of employment. I can here purchase a turkey for 41. a goose
for Is. 6d. a peck of apples fur Is. and s gill of brandy for 64.
but then I must pay 4d. for an English pint of milk (if I want it
warm from the cow, it will cost me 13.4 d.) and a p'ck of pota'ees
cost 2s. 6d.—besides houso-rent is double what it is in Glasgow,
and fuel immensely dear; so that I find I could have been as well
off at home, for though some articles are cheaper here than in
Scotland, others are a great deal dearer.
44 A weaver can get no employment here ; if I.e wants to
work at his trade, he must travel hundreds of miles up the

country. There is a strorg French party here, who are trying
all in their power to bring about a war between Amtrica and
Great Britain, but the general wish of the people is fur peace ;
for they say the present are the worst times they ever bad, and
they seem very senchle that war cannot better them."

We do not recollect that any Travels have more
deservedly excited curiosity and admiration than those
Of the celebrated DE CHATEAUERIAND in GREECE and
PALESTINE, and we congratulate the public on the
appearance of a new and elegant French Edition, in
octavo, which has so king been looked for: It may
be procured of Mr. CoLnuatsr, Conduit-street, and a
few of the principal Booksellers.
Tuesday se'nnight the Lord Lieutenant of IRELAND
held a Levee, at which his Grace was invested with
the Most Noble Order of the Garter, by Sir JOHN
Hofer, K. B. Commander in Chief of the Forces, who
received his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT'S
Commission to officiate on the occasion.
DUBLIN, Aram 9,—As yet, dot one of the nutue-
rt us gang, that robbed the Newry Fly Coach, has
been apprehended. It has been ascertained, however,•
that the gang was commanded by that notorious refs.
tier, Collicr, whom FRANCIS Fox, Esti. (one of the
Sheriffs' Peers of the City of Dublin,) at the risk of
his lite, and after a desperate struggle, apprehended
about three years ago, when the ruffian had escaped
item prison.
Lately at Mothil, two miles from Carrick, Ireland,
the house of an old man, who had been warned by
the Caravats a week before, to throw up his farm, was
surrounded ; but having expected their attack, he se-
cured the entrance, whereupon they climbed upon the
roof of the house, and stripped the thatch from about
the chimney, they fired down through the breach,
and shot dead a tine boy of 3 yetis old, at the mo-
ment vainly clinging for protection round the neck of
its unfortunate mother, who, far advanced in preg-
nancy, has been reduced to a state that leaves little
tope of surviving.
A young man who has, for 'these five months past,
practised as a surgeon at Broacistairs,'went on Sun-
day &night tocantes bury; to visit some I.at. ents, ss hen
he was accidentally recognised in the sums of Can-
terbui y by Captain Pitt:scorr of the Navy, as a deser-
ter from the Dryad frigate, then lying in Plymouth
Sound, sad of which ship he was gun-room-steward,
passing by the name of Scott. He was taken before
the Mayor, and committed to prison as a deserter.
A most notorious gang of coiners and forgers of
bank-notes, has been tiettcted at Birmingham. The
officers, on searcWng the premises, found concealed
in different parts of the buildings, tools for coining,
presses, dies, &c. besides great quantities of notes of
different country banks, ready for circulation ; in dig-
ging round the premises, £e;i000 in good notes, WO
guineas in gold, and about 4600 of bad silver, were
found. - The head of the gang has been fully com-
mitted for trial, with nine of his accomplices. Two
of his men who worked with-him weretaken into cus-
tody, and have confessed enough already to bring
him to justice ; in short, such scenes of iniquity have
mos Co light' as perhaps were never before quailed.

OLD BAILZ r.

I esterday T. Brothertoss was indicted for stealing a
clock from a Committee Room of the Howe of
CommonF.

Mr. Spine: stated, that he locked up tlieCommittee
RoOm where the dock was, at five in the evening 'of
the 26th of March. He recollected seeing the pri-
sonerlurking about the lobbies three or four days be-
lore. He asked witness several questions, as to the
time the Committee generally brute up.
Brooks, shopman to Mr. Folkard, a pawn-
broker in the Westminster-road, stated, that a man,
whom he believed to be the prisoner, pledged the
clock with him, between six and seven o'clock in the
evening of the fitli of March.
Mrs. Myers stated, that the prisoner called at her
husband's house opposite the Asylum, durint his ab-
sence, and offered to dispose of a duplicate of a clock,
in pledge at Mr. Folkard's, on the morning of the 7th
of March, and the prisoner left the duplicate, and the
price he expected for it: Myers did not think it a
bargain, and refused to buy it.
Mr. Rickman, of the Strand, proved that the pri-
sorer had offered to sell him a duplicate of a clock.
Witness had known the prisoner some time ; he was
formerly a clerk in Crown-street, Westminster.
In defence the prisoner said, he had received it of
a foreigner for a gaming debt.
In support of the pawner, it was attempted to be
proved, that he was at the hose public house, in Sa-
ville-row, from a quarter before four to ten minutes
before six. on the afternoon the clock was stolen.—
B. Churchill, a journeyman butcher, in Saville-place,
Luxton, a journeyman bricklayer, and
Winter, the 'Landlord, were the witnesses called en
this occasion ; but as they ;were examined out of
the hearing of each other, in the cross-examination
by Mr. ALLEY, they contradicted each other in al-
most every particular, and the Jury found the pri-
soner—Guilty.

Jamei Stamp Sutton Coale was indicted for marrying
Sophia Sanders, while his former wit.e, Jane Brown-
ing, was alive, and in full health.
The evidence on the part of the prosecution, fairly
proved the prisoner's guilt. He defended his own
cause himself, and set forth, that when Le consum-
mated his first marriage he was not of at;e, and
had made a false affirmation as to the date of his
birth.—The Jury, after a short consulta►ion, found
the prisoner—Guilty.—Transported for 7 years.
The following were also convicted of felony, viz.
A. da Sylva, for stealing right pieces of calico ;
J. Hughes, for stealing five pigs ; niry Smith, for
stealing a soup-ladle ; Ann Stevens, for stealing 22
yards of cotton ; W. Rogers, fur stealing 141bs. of
ginger; T. Kipping, for stealing 12 gun-barrels ;
and A. Aston, for receiving the same. •
And eight were acquitted, viz.—W. Carter, J.
Hollis, R. Stone, alias Peppitt, E. Connolly, J. Smith,
R. Hayward, Mary Lewis, and Elizabeth Cooper. •

A true bill was found at Clerkenwell Sessions, on
Friday, on behalf of the celebrated Mrs. Clarke,
against one cf her old legal friends, charging him
with defrauding her of severa,l sums of money.

• Mary Ann Dix, the young woman whose case,
through the interference of Lord FOLKESTONE .n 4
some other Gentlemen of Bristol, lately occupied the
attention of the House of Commons, was released
from prison on Monday last, after a confinement of
two years and four months.
A cause of very considerable importance was de-
cided on a Writ of Inquiry before the Sheriff, OE Wed-
nesday last, in Bath. It was an action brought by
Mr. Wm. Dore, against Colonel Thornton, of Spye-
Park, Wilts, as the assignee of Stephen Clement
Webb, who is become a bankrupt. It was to recover
from the Colonel a large sum of money, which it was
contended was due to Webb for his services as a law
agent and general manager of the defendant's busi-
ness, from July 1808 to April 1809. The Jury were
impannelled lull 20 hours, when they gave their vet-1
diet for £344. 14s. 9d. against the defendant--the
full amount of the balance claimed to be due.
Last week, at the East Riding Sessions, at Beverley,
came on the trial of the Mill,',, alias Slims, who have
lately made such depredations on the public, particu-
larly inthe town of Leeds. fhe Court was crowded
at a very early hour, so that admittance for the wit-
nesses could scarcely be obtained. The Counsel for
the prosecution made a very animated speech on the
subject of the various frauds the parties had been guilty
of, in obtaining goods under the assumed name of
Seim.. A.ttadesman from Leeds proved the decep-
tions they had practised there, and their sudden flight
from that town; and Miss Watmow, a milliner at
Hull, And her assistant, proved the impositions which.
had been used against them, in obtaining cloaks, pe-
Uues, and dresses. The prisoners' Counsel contend-
ed, that the statement made by the daughter, of their
mother having used the shop, was'unknown to the
mother, and that they might really imagine their
mother had used the shop before; and that the adop.
tion of the name of Slim was only to avoid the odium,
Bte. to which the name of Mills would hove subjected
them. The Jury, after deliberating about half an
hour, acquitted the mother and two daughters. The
prisoners were by 110 means of an interesting appear-
ance, either as to their manners or persons. They
were detained to be tried at the ensuing Sessions, on
a bill found against than for a conspiracy; and had
not this been the case, there were persons waiting to
arrest them for the debts they had incurred at Leeds
`and other places, in their predatory tour.

'BIRTH.
A t G'engary House, on the 4th inst. the Lady of Colonel Mac•
donell, of Gleng.u-y, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
At Arngibbon, Perthshire, the 3d inst. the Rev. John Som-
met s, Minister, 1 hurt:hill, to Ettphemia, youngest daughter of
the late Thomm Forrester, Esq. of Arngibbon.
At Omagh, the ‘29th ult. Joseph Orr, EEq. Captain in the East
Norfolk Militia, to Miss Buchanan, daughter of John Buthanan,
Esq. of the same place.

U■ the 31st ult. the Rev. Mr. Smith, of Carnmoney, to Mho
lwene, of Taldarg.

DIM).
On the 3d inst. at her father's house in Upper Merrion-street,
Dublin, of a tetiumi and slow consuming ilmcss, Miss Walker,
daughter of the Rev. Chamberlain Walker.

HIGH WATER Al' LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning.. 42 minutes after S
Afternoon f minutes after 6

wito EMAIIItA BLE CUBE.—Rich. Simison, tsq. I
Poland-, treet, Oxford-street, near 50 yaws of age, has
communicated to Dr. Senate one of the Most extraordinary Cares
of a Paralytic: Affection which has ever occurred in the annals of
Medicine, and which has been aimed by the use of Dr. SE- .
NATE"S BAI.M of MECCA, without the aid of any other 1
remedy whatever. This Gentleman has had several attacks of the .'s
disease and in his Letter to the Doctor expresses himself in the
fol!Awing words," The last attack was most severe,l wis confihed
to my bed for upwards of nine months, could not hi the least assist ;
myself, or write my rattle if the whole world had been given me
for doing so, and you sec how well I can Write now; a certain very
eminent Physician, now in attendance on hie Majesty, attended 1
meal! the time, and after prescribing all the usual remedies, raid ;
in the most candid and liberal manner, " Mr. Sirnison, I can do no
more for you." Thus deserted by the most eminent medical ta-
lents, as a hopeless case, helpless, and incapable of perfurmint; the 1,
common avocations of my profession, I was recommemild by a I,
friend to try your Medicine, which to the astotishmeneof all who
knew me, has restored me to perfect health, and I was never
known to be in such high spirits ; it therefore appeases tome that
any further delay in making my case known to you, and to the
world, would be an act of injustice; the prejudiced part of the ,
community may suppose that this is an exaggerated statement, or
a deception, but those who will take the trouble to inquire will
find that I am incapable of lending my name to a false hood.
(Signed) RICHARD SIMISON.
The Balm of Mecca is prepared 'by Dr. Senate, 47, Soutliamp- ;
ton-row, Russell-square ; and sold by his Agent, Mr. Richards,
Chemist, 193, Strand, near St. Cl-ment's Church; and retail by ,
moss respectable Medicine Venders, price 'is per packet, ur the
(inanity of four in one for a guinea.
Observe the Doctor's signature, E. Senate, in If., !iliol.wr:tiug
on the outside of each packer, or It cannot be genuine.