Star.
London, England, 1816-12-26 00:00:00

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DISTRESSED SONS OF TRW IS. • 1 IRELAND.
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MOBIL AND
i RaZ'r. .
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There sin the City of Glasgow a veteran and al-
WAD/WORD, DEC. gle--A.
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most forgotten Actor, formerly well Imola on the W mutt his corn-
municated to us the distressing particular of anoint
Scottish boards, of the name of Corm. He is now
cious murder and robbery s Some time before So'clock
depressed by age, infirmities, and extreme poverty ; on Wednesday morning, Thomas Cosker, farmer,
but, in the vigour of his life, he was distinguished as
of Cullenstown
a performer of some celebrity : he was many years county of Wei: between Ross and Taghmon, in the
Wexford, left home with a load of corn
Manager of a Company of Comedians which visited
for Ross. His only servant, James Kavatiagh, went
the towns of smaller note to the South and North of
a short way with him, and then returned.
eadfull It appears,
Edinburgh, and was ever distiuguished by the gentle- that immediately upon his return,
nest of his manners and the unaffected goodness of his master's wile who lay in bed, and
lett her for
he dry beat
his heArt. He is now to he seen occasionally creeping dead; a very small infant, Avila lay
along the obscure streets and lanes of Glasgow on with her, was
, killed, as is supposed, by the fiest blow. He had
two crutches, 66 almost ashamed to know himself,"
and bent double with age, sickness, and sorrow. The previously locked up three other children, and terrified
them with horrible threats and imprecations. The
tollooing dialogue which took place between him and
two Gentlemen who casually met him some time monster finished by robbing the house of about 660
in Bank-notes and cash. The villainy. *as not dis-
since, illustrates the indelible stamp of the histrionic
character which this veteran has preserved. Let us covered until far in the morning, when some of the
neighbouring women chanced to call. The little pri-
hope that the inhabitants of Gia,gmv, where Mr.
CtITHIL, we believe, first caught the dramatic /meow, soners were released, and from them alone could any
account be gathered of these complicated honors. The
will smooth his passage to the tomb ; and, not defer
their munificence, like the admirers of BURNSi until' poor
cation. Late on Wednesday evening she woman could barely be said to be alive, but was
the tongue is mute, which could have expressed its utterly speechless, and quite incapable of
stillcommuni-
lived,
thankfulness, and the heart is cold which could have
but aff,rded no expectation of recovery. After the
dictated a song of gratitude mid praises
ANOta.—Mr. quthil, you have trod the boards In your horrid deed Kivanagh absconded, and has not, we
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time : lan% sorry to see you so treble. believe, been since heard of. ,
Larch.—Yes, Sir; far vise in the shith age; and (glancing
down his eye) l cannot even boast that my " youthful how.* are
" well saved."
arammea.—Pray, Mr. C. what was your line of parts, for
I am hardly old enough to remember your p,rformios?
Carrara.—Oh, S:r ! Every thing. I have appeared in all cha•
enters, from Alexander the Great down to—the second Mut•
darer In Macbeth.
STRANVAIIte.•-YOU have no objection (taking out a shilling) to
a pot of beer from a well-wiiber, though presented in the shape
of ibis " Pale a:Jen:union drudge
" 'lween own and ma„?"
CuTatt.--Not a " quvationable shape," Sir, by any means
(taking it).
The other Gentleman having also presented his
shilling, the old Comedian, lifting his hind from his
crutch and laying it gracelully on his breast, rejoined
1 with great readiness—
Kind Gentlemen, your pains are registered,
• • Where every day I turn the led to read 'tin !"

EXTRAORDINARY BAND OF ROBBERS.

ASSIZE COURT, PARIS, Dec. 20.
A band of robbers, only sixteen of whom are yet
as
before the •Court, stand accused of having, in the
cino,urasevomfathneuymeaber.rcooproibttebedr,ioesr
a-
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ino different of
being accomplices
rent quarter.,
particularly in the Hotel de Lnines, Hotel de Cars
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man, Rue St. Dominique, Seminary of St. Sulptce,
Hotel Perigord, &c. An honest fripperer, in the
faubourg St. Germain, received the pillage produced
by the expeditions of the corps. The Police had been
long on the watch for these gentlemen, when one of
the chiefs failing in that fidelity which men of honour
ought to maintain with each other, most shamefully
Welted to give one of his associates the reward of his
labour. The latter, offended by this ungentlemanly
conduct, lighted the match, and the whole mine was
speedily exploded.
The train of connection which had subsisted between
an infinite number of robberies commei.ced in diffe-
rent quarters of Paris wa then discovered, but in
other respects the affair was only extraordinary for the
boldness end ingenuity with which some of the de-
predations had been executed. At the Hotel de
Courtrai), for example, one of the prisoners contrived
to got under the cloud of night even into the chamber
of the Counze,, of Caraman, approached her bed, and
finding her asleep, took out the pins which fastened
the curt tins, drew them, and without waking her
ladyship, obtained possession of a very fine watch
which was hanging at the head of her bed. He con-
tioued his reconuoisance in the other apartments, when
one of the servants perceiving from his chamber that
there was a light in the passage, rose and discovered
the robber, who, on finding he was noticed, fled, and
succeeded in escaping.
The immense quantity of property stolen, consist-
ing of %svelte', clocks, candelabras, mattresses, bol-
sters, featherbeds, &c. was all brought into the
Court, which now has somewhat the appearance of a
warehouse to be let.
The first robber who underwent interrogatories, is
a young man, but a youth of experience, and the
whole of whose attempts were master-efforts. He
frankly explained how he stripped an apartment, the
window of which he found open. io I carried away,"
said he," some chandeliers, ear-rings, a couch-bed,
&c." The d cetera afforded some amusement to the
assembly.—Other revelations which took place, seem-
ed to afford considerable interest to certain auditors,
who, for their particular instruction, never fail to at-
tend such investigations. The robber continued to de-
tail, with a very edifying candour, a numbos of cir-
cumstances, which some may doh* added nothing to
his glory, But tl ere is a manner,of viewing every
thing, and this worthy gentleman did not blush for
his profession. He never spoke of other thieves but
with respect ; he always used the phrases, " the man-
ners of my club,"—" my colleagues." All the
youths in his neighbourhood, he said, were well in-
formed of the circumstances he stated. A fine edu-
' cation indeed, and an excellent eulogy on the youths
of that quarter ! The President asked, whether the
youths he alluded to belonged to his club ? He an-
swered, " Yes."
This affair will, doubtless, occupy the Court seve-
ral days.

MR. BEM, ANOTHER COMEDIAN.
CUPAR ANGUS, DEC. 15, 1816.—A handsome tomb-1
stone, with the following inscriptifin. has lately been
placed over the remains of poor 8011, who died here
in August, 1815, and lies interred in our church-yard.
Those who were acquainted with him must acknow-
ledge the justice of the portrait ; and it is highly cre-
ditable to the feelings of the Society who have thus
caused to be marked out the spot where the steps of
the poor, bnt contented itinerant were stayed, and
" where all his wanderings ceased."—On one side :

Sacred to the Memory of
Mr. THOMAS BELL, Comedian,
Late of the ibeatre Royal, Edi.diurgh ;
A respectable Pet former, an agreeable Companion, and
an honebt Man.
While on the siege of life,
He encountered some of the rudest shocks of adversity,
And felt the chill gripe of penury,
In many a ebeequipted ,eve i
But,

Possened of a happy equanimity of temper, a social
disposittor, and a well•infarmed mind,
The arrows of misfortune fell powerless
On the slit of August. lilts.
The curtain of fate dropt on the drama of his ezistenee,
And he retired from the thinre of the world,
To the sorrow and regret of all who had
the pleasure of irs aequalmange.

On the other side :
Erectedtly the
DUNDEE

ECCENTRIC 11 SOCIETY,

In testimony of their esteem for Mr. BaLL. an honorary member.

MKS. COUIT4q.

HOLLY LOWY, HIGHGATIL—Mrs. Contts distri
buted comfort yesterday to upwards of '2OOO objects
of real compassion and distress. It is not possible to
describe the scene which presented itself at so early
an hour as ten in the morning, at which time Mrs.
Courts arrived from town to witness the proper dis-
tribution Of her charity. An assemblage of the unfor-
tunate horn the age of' 10 to 90, had collected about
nine in the morning. The day, as if the Heavens had
smiled upon the charitable act, was serene and mild ;
and the countenances of the wretched were made
placid by the arrival of their benefactress. The most
respectable tradesmen of Highgate had, for the last
month, been requested to search the abodes of the un-
fortunate poor ; and those who were considered real
objects of beneficence, many with six, seven, and eight
children, received sealed tickets, with the number of
children on the ticket—which, when presented, en-
titled the parties to obtain relief in bread, meat, clo-
thing, and money, according to the description given
in the ticket, certified by a signature. One thousand
of those tickets were issued, and the greater number
contained, independent of the father and mother, from
three w eight or nine children. Wi.rds cannot describe
the m'sery pictured in the appearance of many of the
objeßts, nor could benevolence be more gratified than
in beholding the beam of joy. which enlightened the
countenance of the relieved. The generous and feeling
giver consulted the condition of all, and as the object
appeared to her, she bestowed her goodness. Some
received bread, mat, and money—others the same
with blankets, shoes and stockings ; others with shirts,
gowns, sliee ts, coverlids, and handkerchiefs. Money,
bread& tea, and sugar, were given to all, and as the case
required, every necessary. The whole t f the poor of
Hrghgate, with the most distressed of Hampstead and
Hornsey, received her charity ; and it is a proud feel-
, ing for benevolence to boast of, that at four o'clock
not one poor object, requiring relief. appeared at the
gates of Holly Lodge. Let this example be imitated,
. and let it tor the honour of charity be also told, that
independent of this holiday, and yearly gift, 50 poor
and deserving old women receive weekly, from the
same hand, three shillings per week ; 12 aged women
also in the alms-house the same, with each a sack of
coals ; and 100 of the poor every Saturday, during
! the lour severe months of the winter, a dinner of the
best soup, and half a pound of meat 1, The power to
reward such . benevolence, remains alone with the
Gma-of all Goon!

General St. Leger, Chevalier of St. Louis, vres
lately travelling from Versailles in a diligence %. nth
a person of the name of Germain. The latter intro-
duced a conversation on politics, and asserted, that if
all Frenchmen had, like him. done their duty at
Waterloo, foreigners would aot have entered Paris a
second time in triumph. This remark was followed
up by him wi►h some very reprehensible reflections on
the King, and the persons who had followed bim to
Ghent. On their reaching Paris, M. St. Leger re.'
solved to deliver the said Germain tojustice, and
with the asisstance of his two companions, conveyed
him to the guardhouse. The Court rf Correctional
Police has since tried him, and in consideration of his
having a young family dependent on his industry,
have sentenced him to nine months' imprisonment
and 50 francs' fine.

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About seven o'clock on Monday evening, as Ca-
therine Skinner, a young woman lately come to town
from Enfield. was going along Barbican, a fellow of ,
creditable appearance followed her closely until she
came to the corner of a dark coon, when he Issocktd
her down and snatching her bundle, ran away with
it. The attack was in sudden, that before she could
give any alarm, the villain was out of sight.
On the evening of Wednesday se'nnighr, about
five o'clock, a most tremendous shower of hail tell
acrou the middle of Cornwall, extending about three
miles in breadth, and passing over the parishes of
Cubert, Grantocic, Newlyn, St. Columb Minor, Co.
lan, the South of Sc. Colamb, and the north part of
St. Kander and St. Dennis, spending its fury about
goat!). Many of the hailstones measured four
inches in circumference, and the sound made by their
filling was like the breaking of a heavy sea. A great
quantity of glass was broken, scarcely a house esca-
ping which was ez,iosed to its fury.