Star.
London, England, 1818-03-13 00:00:00

CHELMSFORD, MARCH 10.
8174.--•-IAWRIENCE V. Wli3ll.
This was an action upon the case, to recover 4
mages against the defendant, a miller, for widening
and deepening the river Blackwater, near Maldon,
whereby the plaintiff, as reversioner of certain landed
property on the borders of that river, sustained con-
siderable injury, in consequence of the banks thereof
being overflown by the sea water.
On the part of the plaintiff, it was proved that the
defendant had deepened the river upwards of a foot
and a half; by digging gravel, in order to increase
the draft of the tail of mill, whereby the banks of
the Blackwater were considerabiriejsred by the un-
usual accession of water in the channel of the river,
to the pernicious alluvion of the .plaiatirs land.
On ;he past of the defendant, a great many wit-
nesses were examined, for Ma plow of sheering
that the imputed injury to the plaintiff was more
beneficial th ..1 otherwise, and that the defendant had
done no more than cleanse the river of filth and mud,
as had been frequently done for many years past.
Mr. Baron Wow) summed up all the evidence in
the case with great minuteness; and the Jury, atter a
short deliberation, found a verdict for the defendant.
C'nows &DR.—Cornelius Miller and Sarah Tyler
were indicted for unlawfully having forged Bank
notes in their custody, knowing them to be forged.
They were found Guilty, and sentenced to be trans-
ported.—Two other persons pleaded Guilty to the
indictment for the same offence.
Joseph Mays was indicted for bigamy, in marrying
on the 7th of November, 1816, Elizabeth Hazlegrove,
his former wife being then alive.
The facts of the case being proved,
Mr. CURWOOD, for the prisoner, objected, that this
case was no felony, as by the evidence it appeared,
that the parties had been absent from each other ftr
ten yearn, and therefore the prosecutor ought to have
adduced in proof, namely, that the prisoner knew his
former wife to be living at the time of the 24.1 marriage.
The preliminary fact being proved of above seven
years absence from each other,
The Learned Judge (Mr. Baron GRAHANI) said,
upon his present consideration he thought that it
ought to be proved that the wife was the party wl.v
eft the other ; but if he should alter his judgmeLt
iereafter, the prisoner should have the benefit of
The Jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced
Co three months imprisonment.

Wedneu.lay night, or early yesterday morning, the Auction
Room of '.Jr. Ili:snit, in (lancery-lane, Wab broke!. i iv. ;LA
robbed of wati.hrs and jewellery to a very consii!erble
Saturi:ky .le::es Keogh was executed at the, drop,
at Dublin, at the front of Newgate, for a rekbtly
commitred in August last, in the day time, at the
house of Mr. Wilmot, Gardiner-street, in that c ity
he was a well-looking )9ung man, abou. 28 years
of age. He cc.n'.essed the justness of his sentence,
and throughout the awful ceremony, evinced much
fortitude and contrition.
The ancient rookery at Newton, the seat of the fa-
mily of HARBvNs, Somersetshire, was entirely blown
down during the hurricane on Wednesday se'nnight.
Nearly '2OO trees were tern up by tile roots ; only one
remains standing in the whole wood.
The Savings Bank at Whitechurch opened on:Sa-
turday last, when the sum of 9651. 12s. 6d. was depo-
sited. The subscription in aid of the same amounted
to 15'21.65. 6d.

The .4mateur Managers of Drury-lane Theatre
have announced, that after Easter it will be fur-
nished with stoves. The audience have, therefore,
some reason to hope, that these machines, aided by
the genial warmth from the projected gas-lights, will
render their situation at le:;st bearable. At present
great coats and furs are deemed essentially necessary
to render it in any degree tolerable, and the money
and check-takers, v.huse births are now, by-the-bye,
rendered ahnost sinecures, are, we understand, about
to petition for some remuneration in lieu of theemo-
lument they formerly derived fur taking care of
these articles during the time of representation. In
fact, we fear, from the 'numerous rows of empty
benches, that the time is fast approaching when
KENIII/IS prediction will be verif.ei, that the The-
atre would become a splendid Desert!
Der .—A meeting took place yesterday, at an early hour, be-
tween Captain B—a--v and Lieut. T—a—s, in consequence of
a dispute at play on Tuesday Wimbledon Common was
the ground, and the parties fired twice, whe❑ the Lieutenant was
slightly wouiteed in the piittel hand, the ball grazing the right
side, and here the affair ended.
Duet l'arvesnrx—lnformation having been received at the
Ilatton Garden Office that a meeting was intended to take place
yesterday morning between Hien. Jolissos, Lsq. and &NJ.
ALDER, Isq. both of Windsor-terrace, City-road, William Wad,
jun. one of the officers, with proper assistance, was immediately
dispatched to prevent their tiohting. The officers succeeded in
apprehending the principals, fittli of whom we►e bound over to
keep the peace.
Dttraoret Accuses/T.—About four o'clock on Weclacsela
morning the Bedford waggon, on its wiy to London, stopped
near I litchen, having no driver with it. 'r lte driver, whose name
was Kemp, was a man well respected, having drove that wagger
lei years; he was discovered about a canner of a mile distant
lying on the road, with his head 'crushed to atoms, and one of
his hands scratched as if stroggiiiE with the wheel of she wag•
eon. On examining the wheel afterwards, part of the uni.rta-
nate man's skull was found attached to it.
rian.—Wealneetclay night last a tire brake out in an span
aunt at the house of Mr. Grac-t Thome', the sign of the White
Swan, Mile End-toad, which in a short time sprettd to an :111nr,
lug height, and threatened deAruction to the surro.nuing tuatara
The servant-maid was going to wash the linen, and went uj
stairs with a lighted candle to the first floor sparunent. srd ga
thered t p all the articles she was going to wash ; but in conic•
qiicuce ui the candle falling from the candlestick, they caught
fire, and she, being alarmed, pulled some sheets and blankets of
the bed and threw them into the flames, thinking to extinguish
them, which adding to the &mars, they soon spread all over the
roam. Ti e servant ran dnv'n -tsars to give the alarm, and an en-
gine w.e. sent for, hut previous to its arrival, the &Oki rushed
from the windows of the first floor, in an alarming manner, and
likewise through the door up stairs, which prevented the lodgers
in the tipi er part of the house• from making their escape down
stairs, and !rest of them saved their lives by being let nut of the
back wineows into the yard. A man who lodged in the secor.d
floor jumped'out cf the window ; he had kis kg tieltn, sad
te tohai.its.