Star.
London, England, 1810-07-31 00:00:00

SUMMARY DlVORM—Yesterday, Mrs. R4chael Mac
Milian, the spouse of an Hibernian carpenter, exhi-
bited
at Guildhall, against her husband, charyks of
frequent battery and outrage, which she sustained by
i a considerable share of voluble eloquence. The more
immediate cause of appeal occurred on Sunday night.
This discordant pair have, for some years, kept two
houses in the vicinity of Fetter-lane, well stowed with
lodgers. The husband had some time since presented
his rib with a small watch, as a token of his affection. ,
For some cause, which did not appear, he came on •
Sunday evening to demand the restoration of this gift.
The lady was full dressed in white muslin, and a fa-
shionable straw bonnet, for An evening's promenade ;
and conceiving her time keeper too important a part of
her dress to be surrendered at that junctures refused
to give it up. Refusal tended only to render demand
more peremptory, and the husband insisted on having
the watch—or else !—A warm debate ensued; and
the business of argument and answer, reply and re-
joinder,
was carried on for some time with increasing
heat. At length the husband finding himself no match
for his yoke-fellow in eloquence, thought it might
serve his cause ~ to suit the action to the word, and
the word to the action ;" and, suspecting the smart-
ness of her dress boded nothing favourable to the fi-
delity of her conjugal attachments, he laid violent
hands on her bonnet and scow-white robes, and sa-
crificed both to his fury. The lady produced the
fragments, in evidence of the fact ; adding, that lie
had repeatedly agreed to part from her, and allow 1
her " a separate maintenance," but as often broken his
word ; and she now claimed the performance of his
promise in a formal separation. This demand was
accompanied by a long detail of black Byes and rib-
roasting's, conferred on her by her cruel yoke-fellow.
The defendant now spoke in his turn, said he had
been married to this woman twenty-five years, and
bitterly complained of her extravagance and infidelity;
that she ran him in debt in the neighbourhood, bor-
rowed money from his lodgers, which he was obliged
to allow in their rent ; and, in short, that she confus-
ticatalevery penny he could rap or run ;" that she was
a very bad woman ; for while he was industering early
and late to get the better of poverty, she was spen-
ding his property with other men ; and that one
morning after he went to work, he made a short
turn upon her unawares, and found her locked up in
his room, and she refused him admittance ; that he
got in at the window and pulled a man from under
her bed ; that for four years together she frequented a
noted receiving house in Holborn ; that one night last
week, she went to Vauxhall against his consent, and
staid out all night ; that when he went home en Sun-
day evening, and saw her dressed in her lfralMereen
bonnet, he suspected it was for no good, and he was
provoked to tear it ; that he was willing to do any
thing in his power to get rid of her, and now offered
her an allowance of 10s. per week, which was one- I
third of his earnings.
These proposals, however, the lady did not think
sufficiently advantageous ; for although divorce and 1
alimony formed a principal part of her abject, yet a
divorce a mensa et Moro did Hot suit her purpose ; for
she insisted on a moiety of his beds and tables, think-
ing it but just, that if he divorced her, he must also
divorce one half of his houseliald furniture to her •
use, for ever. This point was discussed for some
time with diplomatic address .on both sides ; and at
length, the husband professing himself disposed to
sign any terms, upon the basis of a riddance from
his yoke-mate, agreed to give her one half of his fur-
niture, and to get quit of her. Not content with ,
this article of the treaty, the lady still acting on the
uii possitlrtif, wanted to have one of his two houses, 1
with the proposed tin-money, and to saddle her hus-
band with the costs of suit, and compensations to the
watchmen who inter feted during the last evening's
quarrel. But these conditions were deemed inadmis-
sible
by her husband ; and every thing would have
relapsed into the status quo, had not the worthy Ma..
gistrate succeeded in advising the lady to be content
with what she had obtained : and both parties went
away seemingly well satisfied with the issue of the
negotiation.
QrEE2MQUAItr.--Yesterday a lady of accomplished
and elegant manners, whose name it was afterwards
discovered to be Amelia Larkham, was brought to
the above police office, by a Serjeant belonging to the
Guards, from the orderly room at Whitehall ; by
whose testimony it appeared that this unfortunate
lady had•gone there about ten o'clock in the morn-
ing ; and said that she was the Duchess of Cumber.
land, and that she wished to be conducted to Wind-
sor, under the escort of a military power, as she wan-
ted to see his Majesty and the Queen respecting her
marriage. On which it was thought advisable to se.
cure her and bring her before NVILLIAM Flei.nixo,
Esq. when she stated that she had been lately married
to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cum')erland ;---
, and that Selli,, w:io attempted hii Royal Highness's
life, was hired for that purpose.
The worthy Magistrate, readily perceivingher state
of insanity, committed her to the care of J. Lavender,
the officer, and ordered him to go with her in a coach
to endeavour tO find out her connections, which he
fortunately succeeded in, in the neighbourhood of
Fitzroy-square ; and from whom she had escaped at
an early hour in the morning. This unfortunate lady
was afterwards sent to Tothill.fields, till her friends
1 (who ate people of great respectability) provide her
!with a proper place of safety.

Bow-sTaerr.— On Saturday night, a gentleman
from Wiltshire, accompanied by his lady, entered
London in a single horse chaise, about nine o'clock ;
just as they had passed through Broad street, St.
Giles's, and were about to enter Holborn, some per.
sons called to them, observing they would lose some
straps which were behind the chaise. The lady looked
behind, and discovered that their trunk was gone.

R. Limberick, one of the conductors of the Pa-
trole, belonging to the above office, hAppening to be
on duty near the above spot, with his party of Pa-
troles, on hearing of the circumstance, ran off with
all possible speed to Bowl-yard, where they overtook
a well-known thief with the trunk upon his back.—
They secured him with it.

Yesterday morning he was brought to the or .e,
and underwent an examination, when the Gentleman
and Lady attended, and identihed the mink found
upon the prisoner, John Graver, to be the same that
was stolen from behind his chaise. It contained their
wearing apparel, and moral article, of old valuable