Star.
London, England, 1817-03-22 00:00:00

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Maitt.sOnonns-rtallariss-lassioavarrie f)casinte.—*`e Se.
cretary of a Benefit CM& aminsoned several oetsuns fur arffars
up to the dlly of exclusion. The Deienelatits contended that
strairhinz Was all the pankibment the society could inflict for not
Clearing their books oh the quarterly ni?ht• The .Theibiretes
decided that they should pay up their Toots; to the day n' exclu-
sion, coo ,kleris ig the quiftterly paystents as risk and not an adv.nice.
R. WrAlty, the farmer, of Edgewise*, charged. on a Coroner's
inquest, with manslaughter, in slaying James (;ullieer. a turn -
pikequan, in the New-road, Mary-la-Venue, (the particul.z. of
which was stated a Ibis Paper of Wednesday), was brought up,
add committed.

Mr. CLAWK, the Spa•fitlds President, has given
notice—
" '1 hat, as the Sn pension of the Habeas Corpus Act has taken
place. the Alerting at Spa. fields will out be bclJ uu Monday
next, according to adjournniet.t."

The County of Wilts has voted a loyal Address to
the PhINCE REGENT* Mr. HUNT attended, bit the
cries of " No Hunt !" rendered lila hArat:gue altogc•
tber in.udible.

The Glasgow Cimnicle of Tuesday last, states, in
addition to former arrests, that, " on Saturday. the
Rev. NEIL Doemas (Representative for Douche to
the British Convention at Edi:iburgh in 179 i), was
examined at Glasgow as to his recent conduct, but
was allowed to go at large till yesterday. He was
then committed for farther examination on a charge of
uttering seditious maser in harangues and sermons."
Friday se'nnight, came on hetcre tire Court at
Ediiihurgh, the trial of IWe.! ,1L::.n! Si, shoemaker,
and David Macintosh, painter, accused of four diffe-
rent acts of housebreaking and theft. Tfil prisoners
having pleaded guilty to tao of the charges, the St).
LICITOIt-GENERAL humanely restricted the I,bel to an
arbitrary punishment. Mr. Tit •stso?t, senior Coun-
sel for the prisoners, very shortly addressed the Court
in mitigation of punishment. Alter a most impres-
sive exhortation from the Lord JUSTICE eLliltK, during
which the prisoners sln.d tears, they were sentenced
to transportation, the el. t for fourteen, the other
for seven years. The prisoners were rather good-
looking young men, well dressed, and read ly signed
die confession of their guilt. Title: is a distressing,
but perliaps not a singular instance of the inefficacy
of the infliction of capital punishments in deterring
front the commission of crimes. These young men
Ore brothers to tire•unforutnate iced who was executed
in the year for rioting, and fur muttering a
Police Officer.

Monday Came on the trial of Junks Fergsuon, ac-
cused of four different acts of theft, committed
Edinburgh and Leithoon the 17th nt Mcember last.
The prisoner ple4drd guilty to three of the lour
charges against him, before tke Court and J:iry. A
cettificate of the prisoner's forma lend cliar4cter
WAS read from Captain Mainattata, of then 13at.t.etto-
; and his Counsel, in a short address, said, that
he was driven to the commiss;on of these crimes by
extreme distress and want, both for himself and fa-
mily. The Court sentenced him to eig:it•mn months,
confinement at hard labour in Bridewel!.

Wednesday last, about dusk, a young woman,
name." Sarah Hickey, savant in a family at Hos:on,
was stopped on her return from Islington ; and, not
kw% ing her way, was led into a by-path, by a man
in a smock frock, who then demanded her money or
her life. The poor girl had received £:i- en wages
that morning; which she intsuded to spend, bt-,
having neglected to purchase Appalig, she now deli-
vered it to the robber, who stripped her of her shawl,
and was u4king other liberties with h.-r, when her
crtes attracted the notice of a Gentleman, who coming
up, the robber trade off.

Du:cull:lA.-841mJay Elizabeth Whiting, tried and
convicted the inecruiug Thursday. at Lincoln, for
the murder of her intant child; underwent the sen-
tence of the law, hting she tirst•ctirninel who suffered
death on the new drop at that place. She wns, it
seems, a married woman, but t.ad been .?i,arated
from her hosband the last four years, ant! had c .ha-
bited with a labonring.man ; and the child destroyed
by her was the fruit di that illicit connectiuu.

ROYAL ACADEMY.--•On 'Thursday even;itg, Mr.
SOANE delivered his Fifth Lecture tin Arel.itet tore.
Alt,-r noticing tie origin, rise, and maidian splen-
dour of architecture, he proceeded to the petiod of
its decline. When Christianity first began to be
firmly established, Cu)oNirANE the Great, in strew-
ing his disgust to Pagan worship, contributed to the
obliteration of true taste in architecture. lie muti-
lated and destroyed she beatitifOr Pagan Temples of
Rome, for the purpose of adorning Christian tales at
Conitantinople. St. Sophia, and the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre, were little more than a combination
of numerous parts of the various beautiful Temples
of Rome. These two churches, although they pos-
sessed size, grandeur, and splendour of ornaments,
wearied the eye with a false taste, and were totally
devoid of that Galician and Roman simplicity, which
was the foundation of all beauty.
He next proceeded to notice another rem of archi-
tecture, which commenced immediately after the
overthrow of the Roman Empire; this was the
Gothic--a style in every respect unlike any other,
and whose origin could not be exactly ascertained : it
might probably be traced in some respects to the
Christian Religion; because, in the primitive state of
our holy Religion, its forms, and rites, were prac-
tised in caverns, the teachers of it wishing to avoid
the persecutions of the Pagans, and perhaps it w.
the gloom and awe of these caverns that firs: gave r ise
to the idea of Gothic architecture. Indeed, nn one
entered a Cathedral without experi,arcing a kind of
awful Reverence. There was (me great disadvalitiv.,e
in Gothic structures—the lines, supporters, &C. were
so close and frequent, that they admitted of nu 1001.1
for the introduction of pictair.:s and figures.
Mr. Som.:inhibited a number of drawings ciom
the finest temples at Rome, and drew some comp:i-
mam between these and our buildings, particularly
between the portico of the Pantheon and the inferior
ones of Sr. George's, Hanover.square, and -the Ad-
miralty. He afterwards proceeded to take a survey
of the works of the best English Architects. " Co--
vent-garden Church, the Water-gate at York build-
ings, and other works of ,liligo Jones," said he,
64 may vaswith the best works of antiquity." IL:
did justice to the great merits of Sir William Cham-
bers, Sir Christopher; Wren, and Vanbrugb. I:kn-
helm House, the work.of she last of these, was never.
surpassed by any, ancient or,moadera. • The Lecture
concluded with time nbservations upon, and recoil-
ateudatious furs the rule of die A caritrny.

into Leven, in Fii

ear; o. The pnnr

the time very mul

and understandin,
sty
that at tide, a number of wt,men, headed by the but-
cher's wilt, seized the shop, and were be:tinning to
help themselves, when the leadet's husband appeared
at the head of an opposite party, and set the example
of putting in force his authority, by b 'duly chastise-
ment on his leiter Zalf. This mode of feat (((( ing had
,he desired effect, and rendered the itrerposition of
theltolice wholly ...ail ecessary.
A boy was shot by a gamekeeper's assistant fait
week, at Great Chesterlord, Essex. The lad, it ap-
pew s, %vas returning from a rood with rahbits, and
on seeing tl4: iamekeeper's party, ran off, whet a
gun *AS fl o=t unjutori tbly rir_d, rZhiels v:ounded the
buy in the leg and thi::h. Tne peyout supposed to
have fired t!,e stint, has bevn committed to tt,e Hru
of Correctio- at New port, for eT.totaination.
The tax levied by the Oauith Cowes-60km on ttnts
produced tle sum of 10,331. crowns last 'ear, at
Copenhagen. A part of this was applied to the ',lief
of the poor. .

A child seven years old, eaugh..rr of Mrs Lanham, bombes.,
in Chiswi.ll-row, Nottirghatn /met St. Luke's, t nt-e 4 a it...vo
of boiling water, hokling tour 'rations, tr.en hersOf
morning, and was so dreadfully sca.leil tn,t snrvi...
She was stirtinz the fire &mot; the tttuputarj of the
mother.

CORONaIeS intutvr.—Yesterciay, an furriest was helot she
Workhou te, luille•Lnd, New Town, on clic burly f l'-uock Webb,
a pauper, who . w. 5 accidetitally poisoned—Ann Ward, who Zeta
as nurse to the deceased, said, he was taken ilf uu Musid:y irc.k
ar 1141 s.; he told t.er he had tastis se of a bottle...-
Übe bottle contaii.ed •a va.lt so ct:,e the tc. ; the iircrastki
thouzlit he had the itch, and ha.l ;...e • "it internally to
cure it,--l'. Packer, a Pupil at Me Loudon h ..pi.4l, .otendel
wh. a the body ut thedeceaseil was opened. Os. it specting the
stomach, there was sulliellent btftatntu ion disc wered upon It to
cause death, Verdict—l'uisinted through igst.sraittly thinking s
poisonous mixture prepared a, a waA t, :ore the I:ch.

Silver has advaaced a little this week, be;ag 2t
1; Id. per ounce. gold (above our standard), re-
mains as before, at aC3 18i. 6d.

The hank has just given nctice, that all pernons
possessed of Dollar 'Vok .'is, who are desirous of re.
ceiving .value ler the same at the rate of ss. 6J. each,
are to present them at the Bank of Logi ttsJ for pay.
went on or before the 1,,t of May next, as no further
extension of time will be given to the circulation
here' t....—set Alveriztemkvi.

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Wednesday nett, is three to one against the latter.
L.maifer and Pandl —The ftort.t which WAS ro h :re carrA
riace beween these second-rate nn din ..!t;.' !:.%tate.
appear, is put off for a fortnight. It is urg-d e
&at Laticacw frithough like a drum, !lort sitar.: of but wSrn
it is beaten).must wia this 111 Vulva' is nut tho4f:
wrighty enough to norow the effunis of 1 iescaster wi.b
thh:g U.! succar• Botta% is 4,4 4 tipottl.attca.ter.
Ht7Vrimt.—Tlie fox holinds of R. S. LLOYD. Este
met t or. l'oesday at AssingtonThicks, and on Friday
et Prest•in ; each day at ten o'clock.
A tinnp, Lulea with catmeal for Greenock, put.
into Leven, in Fifeshire, to receive some additional
ear; o. The prior people t'ere, it appears, arse at
the time very much in want of grid meal tv nrait' Matti
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