Star.
London, England, 1804-08-09 00:00:00

lit:/tv, AUL,. 4.

On Mnneleirritnifig his Majefly's (hip the Lar.
Pan, arviered at Cork from a maize. 'rhe intetli
price which We communicated fume time ego of this
Frigate having inefeetually chafed the Genet al Au
gereats French privateer, has been confirmed in every
refpeet. The LAPWING fell in with her about twelve
leagues eff Cape Clear, and immediately gave her
chafe ; but being a bad railer, the utmoll efforts of
her offic-rs and crew to come up with the enemy
were oaf. ettinat. ly abortive. They had the morti-
fication to fee her for almort thr e days. hut the
weather was fo calm that the privateer got away
iuft as fhe pleated.
On Sunday hill, the feveral corps of yeomanry of
the county at Tipperary. confitlitig of the Eallern
tffa and.Offe and the *ream IS: and Offa cattail y,
Ole Cinnmel Went, Y. the 'Royal Garrifon Battalion,
-and the Wederntlffa-and Offs Infant, y Corps, were
•teaiewed on the Green at Clonmel, by Brigadier
Genteel Lord Cori Yenil•te, who eapreffed the high•
eft fatisfaftion'tat their appearance and diftripline.
Alderman Seastee is appointed a Cnroner of the
'reify of Dublin. in the room of Alderman Varies,
refigned.
eleaion for Leitrim bidi fair to be enntefted.
:ateddition tes M3j tit Oceserfurs, another candi-
hat flarted, in• the perfort of NV. .Wlttiast
lanes. of Dublin'. Ca ftle.
a;• Wedoefday die affixes at Watetford ended, and on
tl'hurfday morning the judges fee off for Kilkenny.
,Vtielday, in the .county iCnnet, William tlardnete
was tried for robbing the mail between Capponoin
• and'Clonmel, and found guilty : he is tentented
to
'lpe eireuted on Wednefday, the inch MG.
Iltaast o. O'N,it —On Monday lalt, this eaufi
which was an aftimenf troves.. time on to be tried
fin the. City Ciiort. Waterford, befdre the Right q.•
fisntleatlie LoreNtsaatraY and I .Special Juryaa-and
eveltiOr. after a patient inveiligation of the
*Fjls t.tbs"Jury fonnii.a verdift ns favour of Mr. tat-
^114.34.011, tss. sch-etarnaies, and 6d.-enfts.
ot all in the'Cßy Curt, Limerick. Patrick
./.ISonane was. capitally enmities] and received leo•
tenet of death. for, borglary and fenny commi-red
tbrhint sod-other% near Newtown.Pery. on the night
;4, the .6th of Augoft taft.
-;•• • Committed to Connie' gaol by R. Caracas. Efq.
4tlentohy; Ryan. of Clougedeigh, charged with the
tonotelerrektdieb.i.iloneigan, of faid place.
Tnetdaytoor men, one of wisnai was difgnifed
in
mtneduatt's apparel, were apprehended in a rape fold
bps tits twiglibmtahrind of New Inn; Tipperary. we
*film ander a• fufpicion of being concerned in a
rituider. viiii;chwab perpetrated foal months back,
Join. sAllr.atten.
3. A (Metiers wIY, had a pistol in his hand on Thort
silky olghti going-te arreit a deferter, was (hot in the
'head lathe &ea, by its accidentally going off. and
expired.
At the gazette Aftewibly held yeflerday of the
'll#l tneportatton on the (Wye& of the Pipe Water. it
_wee refoleek as an ultimatum, to offer the Grand
Canal Company the acenflomed ten per cent. for a
tupply of their water to every (trete in the city. The
,ettiurated property of the cot poration of the city in
-their water pipes amounts to soo,occl.
Dogrel it/merest Ass zes.—At the Affizes of Down-
*atria, which ended on Wednefday, the eft of An-
Rua inliant, a molt important trial took place in the
Crown Court, hefote the Hon. Baron Geoaca and
erepeffabk Jury of the county of Down
dfkit. Skevart and Rant Stewart, the father and
fun, flood indiSed for forging and uttering a deed
err conveyance. and a receipt f r the c Int:aeration
• itieeent. indorted therein, dated s ash Dec. :793,0
with intent to defeat's! Thomas Watfon, the grand
-
*on cf raid Alexander, and Nephew of Thomas
Stewart, and being capitally convited of uttering
the laid receipt, !mooing it to be forged. which is a
capital felony tinder the AS of 39 Gen. 111. received
fentence of death, to be executed at Downpatiick, on
Weethafday. the ,gib Anglin indent.
The Learned Bason, in palling lenience of death
too the ptifimas, (Merited with great force on the
crtielty and emsemity of the crime. Forgery in it
Self. he 'aid, was highly injurious to fneiety, but when
prtelii.ed by. filch near relatives to defraud a poor
helplets infant of his (mill patrimony, and was flop-
ported by perjury and et afpiracy, it became doubly
stroeione, and called loudly for punitfiment ; and
therefore he befuught them pathetically and hu..
Inanely not to indulge any vain hope of mercy
(which in this cafe w aid be public cruelty) but to
Prepare by repentance or prayer for the law taking
us entitle.
Astrid litaltras was eonsifted of borglarintifty
breaking into and robbing the bode of Nll%. Mary
King, at Milltown, in the 9th of June and re-
ceived fentence tii he hanged on the 29th Ang.
Martka Martin, conviiiked of Ibnplifting in Newry,
WI/ buinel. in the hand, awl ordered to be impri-
Coned a year.
Nog ' and joint: ArCart, (two travelling
pedlars r. ettieatJ. but pickpocket. renitr) were con-
tented of picking the Pocket of Ji.ht.Duff, Efq. in
. Newry market, were burnt in tl e hand, and ordered
to be imprilincd two yeah..
Rebut fii.Lartuy for an :Sault, with intent to
SOUVIDit at rapt., v..as or.teted a in impr;fi,n.
trent, and to find (reality I.:e his future good be.
!saviour.
ireatbsr.lwone, and his fon Jobe, who have
rawer
"teen confined t. r bealinahk praAiecs, were 44-
• argeil. on giving fsettrity to traulport themlelees
befoie Noveniber nest.
Can:fle, of Hiliet rough, for buying and re-
ing vat iutis pieces t lead, It, len I.y • labourer
of Lt.,: Dowitthitebt; vAS ficitcl rt.l. and ordered to
be irriptifortc.l Yx rro..th,
Patrick Burns, for !: ;(Peg varione forged Bank a
IreLusl n.)!,,, brat aLq,tittel, Noting to the nf
tentiance of v•itnefTes, who ace by rec, go,-
lance to pr,•1•1-tite ; hot it appearing by aff..tvir,
that another man, to whom he had paned t, her for-
geries, Ica• hi..g tick, and unable in atte”dr the
Court put. off ti c trial, and ordered the irif.mer to
Leman ill nest Affiser.
Cote, JUI.Y 17 —ln contennence of private in
formation given to Fa A•IC IS I.OOIW N. tha
eftive Magitlt.tr apprehended live men, row
of the nAtoc ..1 D., Icy. a, d one of the nArife tit Cal
lagban, at Suit day's Wr:l. I r burglary and robbery.
wanamitt.ed in the Hi.ufe 14 Samuel. Fowass, Egg. o.

that place. After the moll diligent festal fur the
pr. petty, he dilcovered km it valuable articles of
pl ue, Ilea notes to A confid:rahle amount, together
with a number of guineas and many pieces.of ftiver
coin, ultich have been advertifei by Mr. Fowiss.—
Mr ; :visors, determined to bring the offenders to
judice, planed one nt them, who endeavottred
to
make his efcape. hy.telling Mr. Jouss.,a he would
Thew him the place where the streater part of the
property, was concealed. Mr. Jour:sow, reg..ilefs
of hi% own faftt-, accompanied the fellow Come diG.
tauce. till he was I.d to a piceipice, when the Id-
iots, made an eff.,rt to dilengaze himfelf and leaped
'into a (parry underneath. Mr. Jona son. •thoito
unprepared for fi.ch an event, f1;11 kept his hold, and
leas ed in with him, and at th. mult imminent :ilk of
his life, fecured the fellow.

ASJ,ZL:S.

Noawices, Ava. 3.—On Mondiv afternoon the
Judges (Sir JAIM Maoism en, Kitt. Lord Chief
plaice, and Sir JOHN Hewett, Knr.) arkiveel in this
city, attended by the High Sheriff of the county
(Hearty STYLEI.IIII, Efq.) and the Sheriffs of the
city (Et:oßu° Rinse and losern CLARKS, Efq).
they immediately proceeded to the Shire Hall. and
from thence to the Guildhall, where the:Crimmiffien
for holding the Summer Atli Le. was opened.
CAUSES MORE TN/ 'LORD C1414r jv-Tict.
There was not a fingle cattle for trial in this city.
There were.linnever, t 7 meted for the county. are
of which were/Special Jury cadres.- The only enure
tried on Tuefday was the following
cHatereconria ask V. THOMAS
This caulk was !tied at our Sumener.Affizes in
tRo3, but Ow verditn ref the Jury having been con•
teary to the reenmMendation of the Lard' Clint' Ba-
ron, and lft direa.nprn•fition to the evidence width
had been given, the Plaintiff obtained X 'ner trial.
The liairdiff had purchated a threnaing machise
of the Defendant, who rendes hr YorifhPit..atid
whn fent i feivant to ere& it fur the Plaintiff', at Iris
ref dance at Oby, in this coonty. This fervent, it
appeared, was wholly inetutapetent to the talk he
had undertaken, and after two unfuccefsful attempts
the Defendant fent his foreman to complete the
job. which, after all, was fo badly executed, that
Mr. Cooper could make but little Me of the ma-
chice, and he fuliained, in confequence, a confider.
able lofs from a fail in the price of corn while his
.crop remained unthrefhed• The Plaintiff's cafe was
Dated to the Jury by Mr. Willem, and proved by the
evidence of the Plaimiff's fon, of a workman who
sinned in potting the machine up, of feveral engi-
neers who bad finceexamined it. and who pronourced
its original ennftru&ion to have been bad, and of
Mr. Cole, the corn infpeltor, in this city, who prov-
ed the fall in the prices of grain. Mr. Seijcant
&Hon. for the Defendant, called the two fervants of
the Defendant who had been fent to put up the ma-
chine, and who endeavoured to reprefent, that Mr.
Cooper had occaficned the failure of the machine, by
furnilhing improper wood Inr its 'Teflon, and by
wet king it, ia hen .it was completed, with fiorfes which
were unequal to the talk. The Lo.d Chief Jullice
decidedly expreffed his opinion ter be, that the de
fendant had greatly failed in performing his entitraft,
and that the plaintiff had fuftained a confider:tide in-
jury : he therefore recommended the Jury to find a
verdi& for the plaintiff, with damages the amount
of the price of the machine (pl.). and fuch en addi-
tion for his essences in repairing it, as they might
judge to be (efficient. In this cafe, lie thought that
the machine ought to be returned to the defendant.
' The Jury, after a trial which continued more than
five hems, found a verdiet for the plaintiff, with 451.
damages, the plaintiff returning the machine
1.311111011 O. D4W1.0111•
This was an anion of replevin brought by the plain-
: tiff as occupier of the fold-coeife farm. in Huh, b •
longing to the Rev. Mr. Smith, again& the defendant,
who was the (weepier of certain lands in that partfh
' belonginr to the %Vorfhiptnl Company of Fifhmon-
-1 gars, in 'London, to try the quetlion, whether (bele
lands acre half-year lends, fubje& to be fed from Old
Michaelmas to Old LAelyolay, by the flock belonging
to , the fild-ctiterfe farm. The plaintiff. by f I
refpeitahle witneres, ptored, that this right of thack•
age had been uniformly exercifed from time imme-
morial, and the defendant not being able, by living
v itneffes, or any other legal evidence, to controvert
the right which the plaintiff claimed, the Jury, which
was ipecial, found a verdift tnr the plaintiff.
SMITH V. TATI.OI.
This anion was brought by the plaintiff, a phyli-
ciao ai Yarmouth, to obtain a compenfatitm for the
injury Inflained by him in ennfeeptence of words
fpoken of him in his profetfinnal charaecr by
the Defendant, who w an apothecary ill the fame
town. It Appeared from the evidence, that Dr. Ger-
dlenone. of Yarmouth, and the Defendant, had Atten-
ded a Mr. Helfdon (who lately kept the gaol there)
in a clangerrins Mack, and that two days before the
patient's death, Dr.Grdießone had pronounced him
to be rather better. ben Mrs. Helidon, wifhine to have
further neediest affiftance, called in Dr. Smith the
neat morning. Dr. Emith was unwilling en ereictibe
for the patient, witlintu confulting Dr. Girdieflone,
and wccuidingly rent for him, bolt Dr. G. rehired to
attend. Dr Smith then wrote a preterit:tint), and
fent it to the Defendant (nix prepared. The patient.
however, was unable to take mole than a very mall
quantity of the medicine which Dr. S. had prefetibed,
and he died the neat day. On the morning of that day
the Defendant tilted in at the Toyen*Clerit's Office,
where Mr. Cnry (the Maynr) and Tome oiher pawns
were, and on being anted how the get ler was, he re-
; lied in the following words: " bniti Dr. G. and my
telf thourfet him is a fair way of tee vet ins, till
Mrs. Heltdon called in Pr. Smith, ‘` who is umetting
all we have been di big, and die lie molt." 'nee
roads were proved be the Ma) or.
:Ir. en the pat of the Defendant, con
tended, titer iiie eid ry r e) outs upittion of
a n.o,t of net?! in :he Pia.•.tiff, her n•ctely that nut
having ati opporto. i v of cr v oh Di .C.i, ille•
gone, aed uniiititog iti take tr ri,;•••: Inuits a liii•it he
had of procurirg mhirmation froi.; Defendant as
rn the 1,411• Ila'C, and the net in, et i.e. had been
art ,ti: him, ins pietereprions were likely 1.. be tin-

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thqi•u ugh as, no fpecial damages had been attempted 0
be !moved, be did not think that the Terdift fhould

for it large amount.
The Jury, which was epecial, after withdrawing,
ft and a verdiet for the NAM'S, with tool. damages
The following trials hf die t Pritchards, from
the many robberies which had Leen committed here
within the tall is.months, excited much interel.
Benjernia Pritchard, othermif: Price, and
.7chn Ben-
jamin Pritchard, otherwife Price, were indiEted for a
grand latceny, in breaking open the Counting-houfe
of Meths. Gurneys and Bleed, in St. Saviour's,
this City on SVedireeday the t yth of Augulllafl, and
fleeting ihereont (cereal bank notes and calf., to the
amount of about 1201.
Mr. H in addraing tke Jury on the part of
the Crown, dated, that the prifoners were chargedby
the indietment with Grand Larceny only, becaufe the
rime had not been that of breaking open an inha.
bited dwelling-houfe, which was necellery to coital
trite a burglary. It was, however, a Giand Larceny
of a molt fetious nature.
Mr.- Edmund Sparthall, clerk to Meer,. Gurneys
and Bland, Rated, therbe had left the wanting-1100ft
ou the ryrh of Auguff, between four and fike o'clock,
leaving upwards of tool. in cant and notes, in the
drawer of an iron fare t of this fum there were fevcn
or eight guineas in eifb, and the ref partly in 0.
Inotes of biers. Gurneys and Partly in 11. and al.
antes or the Bank Of England.. The notes werc in a
bag folded up, and envereyl with a piece of brown
paper. The withers locked' the drawer or door of the
fare, and kept the 'key in pocket till :he next morn-
ing. when, on unlocking the fafc and the drawer, the
locks went (tiff j ein'opening the drawer, he found the
brown paper but the'hag with its contents was gone.
When he took the key out. it was covered with wax.
Charles Steward porter to bleier'. Gurneys and
Bland, locked the inner and outer doors of the count-
ing.honfe, on the t yth of Augult, at eight o'clock,
in the evenine, and left the keys' at Mr. Sparthall's
hook, si.h the maid fervent. In the morning, be
took the keys and mlocked the doors, without meet-
ing with any impediment in the locks. .
Martha Alexander, Mr. Spatfhall's maid-fervent,
received the keys from Steward, and placed them in.
a drawer, where they were uesolly left. The nett
morning Steward called and took the keys. •
Robert Parmesans Mayor's Cap"blerbwith
Cordran and Chives, two other tonfla cep with a',
fearer warrant, to the !tenet of the yotinger Pritchard
nn the Morning of the' llith of Augnft. Young'
Pritchard came to the door, and did not 'objeft yo
the frock. They alfn forma in the hottfe of the eldtt
Pritchard, and one Menclham, a coachman, helossg
ing to the 'Norwich Expedition. The lather at.
tempted to gm away, but Was prevented ; and on
he.ing' afked where he lived ? he laid he lodged iu
Norwich, and had field the night before at the
Black H. tie, on Tombland. It appeared, how-
ever, that he occupied a honk in St. Paul's, which
the witnefs afterwards fearched, with Cordran and
Church, and found in it an earthen bread pot, co-
vered with a cloth, in which was a peaty knife-
cloth, containing five five-pound notes of Meths.
' Gurneys', and one two-pound and ta one pound
' notes of the Bank of England. The withers marked
them, and delivered them to the fword bearer.—
, Cordran found underneath the flair+ two. bags of
pickled keys. Old Pritchard Paid that he knew'
nothing about them.
arrillasas Much, another Mayor's officer, eonfir-
' med Paraman's evidence reepeeting the rearch he
added, that in young Pritchard's houfe they found a
large quantity of working tool,.
Richard Cordran, the ether Mayor's Officer, who
effifted in the fearch, produced Come wax, working
tools, and pieces of keys, which he had found in the
houfe of the younger Pritchard, and alto a bag of
keys found under the flair-cafe at the father's !bunk.
Some of there keys were what are called Ikeletons,
" and others were filled up with war. Amongll them
were two keys with wiiich the witncffes and Mr.
Bland ripened the hotter and outer doors of the
counting houfe.
Mr. Lubbock, (word hearer, produced %e bank.
notes which he had received from Penmen. He
roved that on ld Pritchard's examination, before
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the Megiflrates,o he had declared that the keys had
been thoiv.-n over his garden wash
John Witty, whiicfm ith, took off the locks at the
counting-hout'e, Avid found fume wax in them, which
he gave to Mr. Bland.
WIT. Clarke, thOCMACT, proved that the wax
' found at. Pi itchard's was not filmmaker's wax.
Mr. Sn.irio engraver, deputed that it was not dal
by engrave's.
And Mr. Bennett, watchmaker, fail, that lie bad
never known any fuch was ufed in the litter trade.
Mr. Cl the was of opinion, that the W3I found in
the locks was of the lame quality with dies found at
Pritchard's.
Mr. Mi,;ll. Bland, one of the partners in the houfe
of Gurneys and Bland, laid that he had (defied two
keys from the hag• which se ere taken at old Pritchard's
boa:, and that he readily opened the totter and in-
ner doors of the couoting-houfe With them. He alto
picked out a (mall key with which he opened the
drawer in the fife. It broke in the ha it. Mr. Bland
raw the batik notes at the NI tyres )(rice, and laid,
that they were alien art a.ssce.l in the lime way in
which he and Mr. Si a. (hall were accuttomed to ar-
range their notes. He added, that amongll there
notes was %Castile of Mcirre. Gurney", with the n eine
of "Weeds" upon it, which he recoll:fted to have
teen at the counting-house a firott lirbC precious to
the robbery. He verily believed it to be the fame
note. On v 01.,: lamination, be laid that 11.: ciiiii.l
nut poicisety roc 1. t how long t:me it eras lid, re
the rtibbery that he had ken this note' bt.t he thiliAhr,
that it mod have been within a few days, °theirs, ale
it would not has e thud. him fu forcibly.
eviikiier for o,r prilecution I caul coral, the
prifiartrs rasing any ?hilts in t'•e•r deterce.
The Corridellit the voringer Pilchard railed s
In prose e earn,: d or. the trade of a Nat..I.ITACI",
anti arlse..Y.t.: It. ht
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