Star.
London, England, 1803-01-07 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, JAN. 6.

The Seffions of Peace for the City and Liberty
of Weßminfier commenced this day, before W IL-
LIAM MAINW•ILING, Efq.
Warm jaws, and Ann, his wife, were indicted
for keeping a diforderly boufe, in Market-lane, St.
James's. To this intliftment they pleaded Guilty.
Mr. SYLVESTER, as Counfel for the profecurion,
having Rated the cafe, and obfcrved that this nui-
fence Rill continued, though it is now condueted
by the filter of the woman, evidence was gone
into to prove the cafe. Several refpdtable wit-
-metres, reading in the neighbourhood, defcribed
the fituation of the houfe, and the bad government
which was obfervable in it, having been frequently
alarmed by cries of murder, and (hocked by re-
peated•indecencies. In particular, a refident in
Et. Alban's-greet Rated that the back part of his
premifes looked into the back rooms of this houfe.
and that be has been frequently obliged to draw
the curtains, and to call to them not to behave fo
indecent, on which they have drawn their curtains.
Two unfortunate girls, who had lived is this
woman's houfe, Rated, that there wets fometimes
twelve or fourteen girls lived in the houfe, and
they ufed to lie four or five in a bed. One of
there witneffes the woman canted to be arrefted
and lodged in Newgate, for rent due for lodgings.
She had charged her at the rate of fix (billings per
week for fleeping with three others in a bed.
This profccution was carried on by the Parifh
of St. James, who eased to remove this nuifance,
which has exifted for a number of years.
Mr. KNOVLIS was Counfel for the defendants.
The bufhand is a foldicr in the Guards. The de-
fence relied upon the defendant's having, upon the
indidment being preferred, removed from the
houfe, and the woman living in a reputable man-
ner. It appeared, from the evidence of thefe wit.
netfes, that this woman, In far from havino
mended her morals, actually refides at No. tg,
Suffollußreet. Middlefes Hofpital, in quality of a
frame de charteltre to a cyprian. Two Serjeants
of the Guards proved the general good character
of the man.
The CUMLNIAN made fume obfervations on the
general bad tendency of honks of this defeription,
and the man was fentenced to be imprifoned four-
teen days, and the woman three months.
A mart named Ice was found Guilty of Reeling
a plank, vaiite tanpence, the property of our Sea
vcreign Lord the King. It appeared that this
plank had been lodged, with lonic other wood, in
the gardens of the Speaker. at Whitehall, whole
houfe v.ias tinder repair. What rendered this theft
more unfortunate was, that a little boy, who was
in a boat near the fpot at the time the plank was
taken, was killed; the watchman on duty being
alarmed, fired his piece. the contents of which
Lodged in the boy's body, and killed him, and
(truck another boy in the leg ; tilde boys the man
bad taken to Alia. The watchman who fired has
but one arm.
The CHAIRMAN °braved, that it was a great
pity the watchman had not fired his piece in the
air, pnd then this unfortunate accident would not
have happened.
`robe Cover was found Guilty of affaulting his
fellow-fervent, George Williams, and throwing
him over a boat into the river. He was fined five
pounds.
john 11"e3b was ind:Cted for affeniting an infants
named Martha Spencer. with intent to commit a
rape. The child, it appetrcd. is filler to a young
gill with whom lie cohabits, who is not more than
17 years of age. The circumflances difeloled in
the cootie of the trial were ton (hocking to be de-
tailed ; and what rendered it more diiireiling was,
that the G`ter was the means of bringing the
intent into ti.c fituatinn.
The Court ordered him to be confined twelve
Lomb% in the !Inure of Cm redion.
OW% was found Guilty of affauliing
fiats! three Willing: and four.

pence. The rinks were employed as Criers in
the Court of Exchequer, and quarrelled about
fome green cloth, when Harris feized hold of Fox,
and gave him filch a gripe by the throat that he.
was near choaking. Atliaanee came, and he was
refctied from the fury of the enraged Crier.
John En,;l:fidi was indiaed for *faulting Mary
Clark. Theft: parties raided ix Marygold-court,
in the Strand, 3 place which is a common recep-
tacle for gills of the towel dtfcription. The man
lives in the Court, and keeps a houfe for the re.
ceptiou of tilde girls, of which number, the poor
girl who complained was one. It appeared that
he had beat her in a moll brutal manner. He was
found Guilty ; and the Court ordered him to pay
a fine of five pounds.
Several prifimers were tried for petty thefts, anil
fentenccd to various imprifonments.

POLICE, &e.

On Wednefday night, in confeqnence of Tome
real, or fuppofed infult to a lady, an Officer had
a knee with a butcher's journeyman and appren.
Lice, and the latter was wounded by a piftol fired
by the former.—. The gentleman is in cuftody till
the effefts of the wound are afcertained. As the
charge is of fo ferious a nature. we forbear giving
particulars, although we are in polfellion of diem.
WHITSCPAPLL.--Yellerday Pines Deering was
examined a fecond time, being charged with a
burglary in the fhop of Mefirs. Welton and Co.
the Black Doll, in Whitechapel.road. and (teal.
ing a quantity of haberdafhery goods. He was
fully committed for trial.
WOR en! r•ST F it.—Yefterday two journeymen
carpenters were committed for trial, being charged
by Mr. Cooper, dingier, in Chifwell.llreet, with
robbing him of a quantity of goods.
THAM E s-Or r ca. —Yeflerday amanitas charged
with a felony, on fufpicion of Itealing a quantity
of King's ftores out of the yard at Deptford. He
was conviEted in the mitigated penalty of 51. and
205. coos. _

An old woman, of the name of Palmer, charged
with having in her poiTeffion a large quantity of
new iron and fugAr, fitfpeaed to have been Itolen,
was convided in the penalty of gos. and the goods
forfeited. _ _

UNION• HALL.—Yesterday.—'Jar. yaw was e a-
mined on fufpicion of robbing Samuel Gibfnn on
the highway, near Merton, in Surrey—Commit
ted for fin ther examination.

On Friday laft a robbery was committed near
M:ffing, in Ea:, by a highwayman, fingitlarly
mounted on a heavy, long•tailed grey boric, and
wearing a light coloured coat, refembling that of
a miller.

Between Wednefday night and Thurfday morn-
ing, lafl week, a fhop in Trongate,Glafgow, within
3 yards of the box of one of the police watchmen,
was entered with a Calle key, and filch money as
the villains could lay their hands on, and feveral
articles of goods carried off; after which they
Ikon-locked the door.

Wednefday fe'nnight John Berry, poßman, who
carries the bag between Linlithgow and Borrow-
Rounners, was taken up, anal committed to prifon
on fufpicion of abltraCting letters out of the hag,
which, as reposed, he had ben long in the prac-
tice of doing.
A new (pecks of fwindling has been praeliCed in
America, by a fe. of fellows who.pretended to miff
the evil ; but their real *eel was to raifi the stohtel.
They were found guilty, and fentenced to fine
and imprifonment.

On Thurfday fe'nnight, a perfon in the neigh-
bourhood of Haddenham, Cambridgefhire, was
conrifted, before the Rev. CXSAIL Moacms, D. D.
and the Rev. Wm. MITCALTF, CICI k, two of his
Majeftyr's Jullices of the Peace for the file of Ely,
of Courting on the Loan's Day,' and paid the
penalty of I 01. impofed by the Mt of the 13th Geo.
111. for the offence, with all coils.

LaR Thurfday, a perfon who had been {hooting,
having left his gun, which was loaded, in the
hook of Dr. 15ssair, near Chapel-le-Frith, a
fervant girl, unconfcious of its being charged, in
a fportive manner prefemed it at another girl, and
inftantly fhot her dead.
At Leeds, four young men, for ill-treating three
Mermen, were laft week fined S guineas—a man
fur (wearing, trs.—a publican, for refilling to
accommodate a foldier and his horfe that had been
quartered upon him, fined 4os. and colts—two
men for drivipg their waggons through that 80.
rough nn Sunday, fined 30, each—and a perfon
for purchafing a pair of regimental breeches from
a foldier belonging to the I 8:11 Light Dragoons,
was fined yl. by the fitting Magi(lrate', at the Ro-
tation-Office.

Saturday fe'nnight one of the tidefrnen at
Grangemouth, nvrned Malcolm, fell over the quay
in the inner bafan, and was di owned.

On I'hurfday fennight a fire broke out in one
of the !mules called Clyde Buildings, on the South
fide of the river, oppofit. the Broomielaw. Glaf-
gow•, but it was loon got under by the alive exer-
tions of the neighbours. The damage done is con-
fide rabl c.

A I.lbourer who had been employed at Mug-
drum, in Fife(hire. to demolith part of the garden
wall, conceived the e4fleii method of accomplifh•
ing his ohje& was to undernsine it. Nettling too
long in his operations, notwithtlanding the re.
monflrances rf the people about him, on Friday
laft the wall fuddenly fell, and the ralh engineer
WAS buried in its ruins, and we underaand, was
iutlantly killed.

A' young man, who worked at the manufaanry
of Meas. Is ma vs, at Dover, returning late in the
evening from a Christmas party, it is (tippled,
found liimfelf thirity, and,in endeavouring to reach
fome water out of a fallow well, tumbled in head
foremoft. The inhabitants of a neighbouring houfe,
who dillinaly heard fame groan', examined every
place aJjacent, but, as the found ceafed before
they got out of the houfe, they had no guide to a
difeovery, and returned. The next morning the
unfortunate man was find with his feet againft
the tide of the well, and mull hare beca rafEasated
alma intlantly after he (f ia.

How To Cheat tns Dt vit. 1.--sAt Bennington,
in the American State of Vermont, two men,
named Noah Milis and William King, were, as the
October affizes, condemned to puniflortera, by fine
and imprifonment, for a fpecies of twindling which
would fcarcely fucceed in tins country. They re-
ceived from different perfons for each, too dollars.
For this payment, they engaged to introduce the
payers to a bargain with the Devil, by which his
Satanic Majefty (hould bind himfelf to gratify,
for the fpace of (even years, every with of his
'clients' hearts, on the condition that, at the end
of that time, the client &mild, foul and body, be
his for ever. The candidate for this diabolical con-
neition having provided his money, was introduced
to what he was taught to believe the real pretence
*of Satan. Either King or Miles was always the
conjuror who called him up. The too dollars
were pretended to be for Satan's own treafury.—
They were depofited on a (pot, from which the
fuppofed Devil was teen to take them away. The
covenant was formally concluded by a bond. And
the poor fools whom King and Miles thus deluded,
went away, in the hope draining, for (even years,
from Satan's faith, all their wildeft and wickedeft
defires. King, betides, told them, that, even to.
wards the end of the (even years, they might con-
trive to cheat Satan himfelf, by liking him to
achieve impoffibilities, upon which the Devil moll,
per force, content to a renewal of the contract :
King had once, he raid, thus triumphed over Satan,
by commanding him to mem the ace= with ea pal;
pill! and once again. by (king him Leh with Ilia;
on hiejboultler: le Heaven ! The fraud was at Taft dii.
covered, when numbers who had paid their too
dollars each, and figned the engagement, found,
that not one with of theirs the more would the
Devil gratify !
A Cock that had been purchafed by the prefent
Admiral BERICELLY, when Captain of the MARL-
BOROUGH, of 74 guns, for the purpofe of being
kept as his live flock, greatly diftinguifhed the
undaunted fpirit attached to the Englith breed.—
During the time the above (hip was engaged in
clofe action with the French fleet, on the glorious
ill of June, by being ordered on the boldeft fer-
vice againft the enemy, the became totally difmaft-
eel, and WAS reduced to a mere wreck. At the
time her main mail went, the cock alluded to, flew
upon the (lump, which projected about twelve feet
from the deck, and began to flutter his wings, and
to crow with exulting boldnefs. So fingular a
circumflance attraded the attention of the brave
Tars, who became re-animated by the example,
and fought with additional bravery, until victory
crowned them with her laurel. This undaunted
cock was preferred until the (hip reached Ply.
mouth ; when, in remembrance of his valour, and
the glorious occafion, he was given to Lord Le.
mox, who placed him in a walk, where he to this
day firms ‘vith a Giver collar round his neck, de-
grit:tare of his worth, proudly fupporting his ho-
nour, and the gallant behaviour of the &nab Beet.
The fcandal of Paris tells the following anec-
dote :—A Counfellor of State, of great eminence,
went lately to buy a pearl necklace for his wife,
at the (hop of a jeweller. The jeweller a(kcd
.20,000 livres for that which the Counfellor chafe.
The purchafer was unwilling to give more than
tz,ooo. One of the admirers of the Lady over-
heard the converfation ; and upon the hufband's
departure from the (hop, paid the difference to
the jeweller, and bade him carry it home to the
gentleman, and offer to accept the 12,000. The
jeweller did fo. The Counfellor furprifed at fo
fudden and fo great a lowering of the price, (of-
fered him to leave it, and then carried it to be in-
(paled by another jeweller. The fecond jeweller
inftantly Paid, that to a cuftomer it would be fold
at 20,009 !livres, and that he would himfelf give
sy,orao for it. The Counfellor left the necklace,
took the money; paid the t 2,000 livres; and thus
difappointing his wile's admirer, pocketed 5000
livres by the affair.
Seventeen young men were lately convided ht.
fore the Magiftrates at Stockport, Chefhire, of play-
. ing at foot-ball on the Sabbath Day, and fined in
ithe turn of 3s. ad. each.
Wednefday the Annoyance Jury for the City and
Liberty of Weftminiler made their prefentment,
at the Guildhall, of all perfoas in trade whole
fcales, weights, or meafures, had been found de-
ficient, and the cuflomary fines were levied. A
butcher, whore fcales bad been broken and taken
from him, in confequence of his having fallened a
piece of lead underneath the one he weighed his
meat in, which made it greatly overbalance the
other, appealed againft the fine, on the ground of
his having a large family to fiipport, and that the
, deception had been projected by his father, with-
out his knowledge. The Chairman alkcd him hf.w
lie could, with hope of fuccefs.folicit the humanity
of others in behalf of his family, when he had
fhewn fo little regard to the families of others ? The
price of butchers' melt was already fo high, that
it w working men could purchale it fur their f..mi- 1
lies ; and the ttadetman who could curtail them of 1
, their weight when they tbould !Crape together
enough to buy a joint for their family, was guilty
, of an offence of the molt aggravated nature, and
I defer Ted no favour from that fociety he daily tiruve ,
to injure. He felt it his duty to infift upon the
fine in preference to any other almoft that could
be inflicted.

Of all advertifed Medicines, perhaps none WAS
ever offered to the public (lets liable to fufpicion
than Dr. TAYLOR'S celebrated Remedy for Deaf.
nets ; for though si Fancy may kill, and Fancy
care," yet, no deaf perfon will beliele that his
malady can be removed by faith alone. That the
moR obflinate Deafnefs fi s ires freqoently cured
by tills moll invaluable fpeciftc.cannot be doubted
by the moil feeptical, as it is a fat to which the
following refpetlable perfons have borne tell-
mony :—Mr. Lowe, of Leek, and Mr. Barnes, of
Cheadle. Staffordlhire ; Mr. Jenkinfun, flationer,
Huntingdon ; Mr. Minibull, printer of the Lan-
caller Gazetteer ; Mr. Wright, pruner of the
Liverpool Saturday's Advertifer ; Mr. Drewry,
Hinter of the Staffordihire Advertifer ; and many
other perfons.—lt may be afoul to motion that
a few houlcs of the remedy has lately been t retired
lby Mr. bistl.cws, No. :8, Strand, Loudon.

lITATTI.
On the aft inbat, at Newton, Mrs. Brown of Rawiat, ors
daachter.

MARRIED.

Monday, at Greenock, Mr. James Leitch, merchant, to MA:
Helen Colquhoun, Twinge: daughter of David Colquitoun, Efq.
At Belhaven, op the 3 t ft ult. James Purvey Efq. late of Cal.
ono, to Mite Chrilliafe johniton•
At Chefterlield. on the 1 rib ult. Richard Richardcm,
of Capenbusit-Hall, Clarthin, to Ma Bower, of the teen=
place
Os the ayth ale. at grouse-Green Mr. Richard Noble, fog
of Mr. Rowland Noble, of Langdale, to Rowlandfon, cc
Birbeck Fells.
At Youghal, Rickard-Adams, of Knockmnaelearh, FA. to
MIA A. Hadten, da-ghter of John Hud:on. of Wipdfetd, Erg.
In Scotland, llamas Sherlock. of Knock Abbey county iat
Cork, Efq. t Mifs Bevan, daughter of the late lieury Senn,
of Mdtowp, county Limerick, Efq.
George Lcake, jun. Ef of Rathked Abbey, to Mifs ?anal
daughter of the late Mich. Purnell, of Banyabane, Efq.

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