Star.
London, England, 1821-10-08 00:00:00

DROCIIEDA, OCTOBER 2.

Sunday/ a jaunting car, belonging to Mr. Mons, of
Pbillipstown, in which were three sisters of Mr. EN xis
and Miss LANGAN, were coming into this town, about
eleven o'clock, when the horse took fright opposite
the pound, ind ran furiously dcwn Magiell •n-street,
passing over an old woman, who was dreadfully hurt.
Miss ANNE Estas imprudently threw herself off, and
her head coming in contact with the pavement, was
most dreadfully shattered ; a comb which she wore
was sunk into the skull, two of herteeth were knocked
II out, and part of her tongue came away. She was taken
into the houseof Mr. CHA RLESCAMPELL, where every
thing that medical and surgical skill could suggest
was administered by Drs. Sszwros and FOGARTY,
but without effect; she languithed In a state of in-
sensibility until six o'clock in the evening, and then
expired. Another Miss Esittaswasthrown from the

car, ad although not mateiially injured by the fall,
yet it is feared that the shock will prove fatal to her
previously delicate constitution. The horse was soon
after stopped by the driver turning his head against
a gate. The deceased Vas a tine young woman,
twenty-five years of age, and very much beloved by
her family :tad friends.

Saturday a melancholy accident happened between
Chichester and Bognor : as a Gentleman and Lady,
of the name of Fisher, were proceeding to the former
place in a gig, the horse took fright and fell to kick-
ing ; the Lady was thrown out, and receiving a blew
from the horse, WAS killed on the spot ; but the Gen-
tleman received no material injury. The gig was
dashed to pieces.
Wednesday, a boy, of the natne of Moire 1, about
fifteen years of age, being employed by his father to
lead coals to a lime• kiln near Alasham, attempted to.
ford the river Ure, at Brigwith Wath, about two miles
from Nasham, in order to save himself the trouble
of going round by the bridge, which is a mile dis-
tant from that place. The Tad had the management
of three horses end two carts, and having crossed the
'same ford the day before, he thought that he could
safely repeat it, although the water was unusually
high. He was, however, cautioned not to venture,
but he was obstinate, and the horses and himself were
carded down the stleaus, and all of them drowned.

Tuesday evening a young woman, servant to a
Lady in Bury, was defrauded of £l5, by a fellow
who represented himself as a baker to the Chatham
division of marines, and pretended to know her bro-
ther, a private in that corps, who, he said, being in a
bad state of health, wished to obtain his discharge,
which, the swindler asserted, he could accomplish
upon a sum of money being advanced in order to
provide a substitute. The credulous girl, with the
aid of her fellow-servants, immediately procured the
sum, and saw no more of the stranger.
A most daring burglary was on Monday night last
committed in the house of Mrs. Frederic, of High-
street, Devizes. The thieves fist effected an entracte
at the back part of the house into the brewhouse, and
thence into the wash-house, but not finding anything
portable worth their taking, and being unable to pro-
ceed to any other room, they again got out, and went
to the front of the house : here they took a pane limn
one of the windows, and got into the parlour. Hav-
ing a tinder-box with them, they very deliberately
lit two mould candles, commenced ransacking the
room, and carefully discriminating the silver from
the plated goods, they took every article of the for.
mer, and proceeded to the pantry. They here se-
pled themselves with some bread•and cheese, and
milk, and son after, hearing the watchman, made off.
About six weeks ago, the colliers in the neighbour-
hood of Glasgow struck work for higher wages, and
the consequence has been, coals have risen in value
from 10s. to 15s. per waggon, and a further rise may
be anticipated, as we bear the supply is completely
exhausted to a great distance round that city. In
consequence of a proprietor of coal-works in the im-
mediate neighbourhood having employed some new
hands, ax attack was meditated against them on
Wednesday by the former operatives. The Civil
Power was, however, aware of their intention, and
took the necessary measures to prevent it. Accord.
ingly. a party of Dragoons on Thursday morning
brought in some prisoners from the work in question.
The following is an extract of a letter from Paris,
dated the 30th nit," The higher circles in Paris
are at this moment appalled by the intelligence of an
event horribly tragical in its character, and the par-
ties in which are personages well known. I have just
been told, and, unhappily, I cannot doubt the truth
of my information, that M. de one of the sons
of a distinguished merchant, who, by most honour-
ably amassing,afortune, hai qnriched his native place,
Neufchatel, had conceived suspicions of the fidelity of
his wife, Mademoiselle de C—. Their marriage
was the result of mutual inclination. Mademoiselle de
C— had no fortune, that of M. de P—.-. amounts
to about five or six millions of francs. The suspicions
entertained by M. de P— were, it appears, but too
well founded. Some days ago, desirous of resolving
a fact which a wise man always leaves in doubt, he
pretended to quit Ilk residence, but promptly returned,
armed with a sabre, and finding his wife and her
lover in a situation which was but too convincing, he
immediately killed the former, and left her Lover
for dead."
CORN Excataxon, NUR:4.mm, Oct. B.—We had an immense

supply of When this morning from Essex, Kent, Suffolk, and
the northern seaport Counties, which, together with what re-
mained over from last week's arrivals, produced an almost total
stagnation in the trade, and what asks were made were only of
the finest Old Wheat, which obtained last Monday's prices ; but
New must be quoted nominal, as no sales could be effected &cm
the dardp state of the samples. Barley and Beans are 4s. per
quarter cheaper ; but Oats, although the arrivals are very large,
al support last Monday's priees.—Currency as under:
=GLUM. I Small Beans

Wheat, Kent and • Tick ditto Hi 3111
Ease:, New4os 541 old 60 76s Oats, potatoe 34e No
Suffolk 4os 54s old 60s 76s Poland 20e 320
Norfolk old 64s 74s Feed 201 24e
Rye 30s 34s Flour, per Sack Ms 651 .
Barley 0111 40s Rapeseed, per Last £3l 4153
Mail 64s 72, TOftIIGN.
White Peas 32s 56a. Wheat, Dantsic Os Os
- , Boilen ...38s 404 Baltic Red, Ilambro' or
Grey Peas 28% 31s Brabant red ........ Os Ca
Sumter= Rumor, Oct. B.—There was an abundant sup-
ply of every description of Cattle at mark: t this morainf, ;a
consequence of which the market was heavy, and the prices .are
lower than those of LE week's market.—Carrent prices :
Beef, 3s. Od. to 4s. Oki. per stone of Sibs.; Mut:on, 2s. 6d.
to 41. Od. Veal. 3s. 61. to Si. Od. Pork, 3%. Cd. to 4s. 6d...
Cattle at Market : Beasts, 67J; Calves, 3-0; Sheep and tomb.,
21,9001 rigs. 210.—Hay and Straw per load, Hay, 3L 10s.so
C. tis. clover, 41. 105. to 3i. 13. Suaw, If. Ils. to U. 165.

STANZ AS

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WRITTEN ON THE INSTITUTION .07 THE ABIRDZEIT

HIGHLAND SOCIETY.

Blest be the Thistle! symbol of the land,
For which a Biwa hts fought, a WALLACZ died ;
irdeetemblern of a bare and rugged strand,
Be now and evermore old Scotia's ptide !
Though England'iioses blossom by thy side,
'.And Erin's verdant shamrock round thee twine;
lehonet dearest far, howe'er cold hearts deride,
Or say thy leaver sieve better left tapitie,
Because these stranger flowers have wirathed their stems
with thine!

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Though times are gone when o'er the purple heath
The crested Chief led on his Tartan band—
. Ileady alike in peril and in death.—
To chew the South ron on his border land,
That FINGAL". arm sway'd Caledonia's brand—
That OSMAN'S harp thrili'd in her battle-lay—
A thousand hearts still beat upon her strand,
Who'd die to turn the foeman's arm away,
And save her Thistle green frOm insult and decay !
Oh, Caledonia! many a foreign coast
Has heard thy pibroch in the conflict's hour;
Vith Worse it rang amid Canadian frost—
Then India heard it in each orange bower—
And Maida's plain and Alexandria's tower—
And Spain, where'er th' invader's eagles flew ;
But ne'er more proudly did thy war-cotes pour
Than when the Belgian blest the bonnet blue,
And thy wild slogan rose at glorious Waterloo !
peace to the warriors of our land, who fell
In her defence, as heat becomes the free,
Stemming the waves of battle's crimson swell—
Their shout, in onset," Scotland! Victory r•
And joy to those who fondly lone to see
Their country's spirit reft from time's decay—
Who dearly love the war-pipe's mountain glee,
The.crested bonnet and the tartans gay—
As did their dauntless sires far in the olden day !
Then pipe the gathering—call the Goanorr forth,
MAGI/USE, NIACDONRELL, CAMRRON, and MACKAY,
FRASER, Macrson, and Sunsara, of the north,
And I...AMP:ARSON. and SW/BERLAND, and lIAT
Bid Snafu. and the DOUGLAS haste, array ;
Nlntao, MACKENZIE, roasts, and ARGYLE,*
The bold Mactraroort, and the black Mac Kay,.
GRANT and IMIACLACULAN, of the Western Isle,f
To prove a native right to Caledonian soil! J. Z.
• Campbell. f The Isle of Mull.

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• POLWZ.

aawitOss-Hotisr..—An unfortunate man, who was
once in a respectable way as a tradesman, caused his
wife, a woman of very prepossessing appearance to
be brought before the Loan MAYOR, on Saturday,
for having upon various occasions broken the peace
and endeavoured to drive 'him from, the only means,
he now has left of supporting his children. The com-
Plainant, a fine young man, stated, that about four
years ago he married the defendant, who had, he un-
derstood from her friends, conducted herself with
great propriety up to that period ; that soon after-
waras she became addicted to gin-drinking, from
which it was impossible to disengage her for a mo-
ment, and that, occourse, his property began to di-
minish in no slight degree. Although she was the
mother of a child, her duties in that way were usually
neglected. After some experiments, he found -it ne-
cessary to part altogether from her, but had not done
so until his wife's habits had reduced him to the most'
deplorable condition. His business having been neg-
lected, and there being an incessant demand upon
him for the price of his wife's favourite, he shut up
shop, disposed of his property to pay his creditors,l
and obtained. after some labour, the place of porter
at a warehouse. His wife, however, pursued him to
this situation, which he had regarded as a retire-
ment, and there used a 1 her efforts to ruin him, al-
though he regularly gave her his salary, and de-
pended upon the bounty of his friends for his own
support. She then began upon an old practice of I
hers, of beating him with a poker about the head
and legs, and raised such disturbances that his master'
declared he must part with him if they were persisted'
in. The master of the complainant substantiated the
statement as to the wife's conduct upon his premises,
and said it would be impossible for him to keep the
complainant in his service if his premises were to be
exposed to fartlier annoyance from her. The woman,
upon being asked what possible motive she could
have for treatiag an indulgent and forgiving husband
so shamefully? replied, that he had refused to let
her see her child, and until she could have that sa-
tisfaction, she could not think of letting him have
any peace or quietness. The complainant admitted
that he had separated the chili from a mother whose
example was so pernicious. One of the officers stated,
that the defendant had sworn to be the death of her
'husband. The LORD MAvon hoped the complainant
would not appear in a day or two to beg that his
wife might-be set at liberty. The wretched woman
was then committed in default of bail.
GUI LDII A LL.-.-FENI A LE PICK reel: ers.--Mary
limns and Anne Gordon, whose dexterity in robbing
Mr. Kernot of four sovereigns, was noticed in our
Paper of Thursday last, were brought up for le-exa-
mination on Saturday, before Alderman ANsr.ey.—
Since the publication of the report of their first exa-
mination at thii Office, 'numerous applications have
been made at the Giltspur-street Compter, by per-
sons who base had their pockets picked lately, for
leave to see them ; and the Justice-room was crowded
on Saturday by sufferers in this way, for the purpose
of ascertaining if any of them could identity the gills
as the plunderers. Two or three persons expressed
themselves nearly certain that the prisoners were the
parties by whom they had been robbed, but would
not venture to swear positively to them. One indi-
vidual, a seafarir., Gentleman, who:e pockets had,
by his description, been rifled of five sovereigns, re-
cognized Miss Williams as the offender, and stated
himself able to speak posktvely to her person ; he,
however, declined to give his name, or to be sworn,
alleging as a reason that he was about to leave the
country, and was not willing to be detained to give
evidence at the Sessions. A -Mr. Smith attended with,
a letter from a friend of his, a respectable Gentleman
in the country, of the mime of Boorman, which stated
that he had been accosted by two well-dressed fe-
males, and robbed of his pocket-hook near the same
spot, and abOut an hour amid a half earlier on the very
night of the depredation upon Mr. Kernot. His
pocket-book contained, among other papers, a £lO
dote of the Rye Bank, the marks upon which. he
could swear to; the note had been cut nearly in two,
and one sovereign was wrapped up in it. Mr. Boor-
man's letter authorized his friend to tell the girls,
that if they would deliver up the pocket-book, and
the important memorandums, Etc. that it contained,
he would be content, and not appear against them s.
but if they refused, he would attend, and prosecute.
The Magistrate observed, there was very little hope
of the pocket-book being restored ; that, and its con-
tents, were articles so easily sworn to, that there was
no doubt but that they were disposed of past recovery
long ere this ; but in either case, it was a duty Mr.
Boorman owed to himself and the Public, to assist in
ridding the country of two such notorious and exten-
sive practitioners as the prisoners appeared to have
been. He therefore directed them to be brought up
again on Wednesday next, and desired Mr. Smith to
write to his friend Mr. Boorman, to require his im-
mediate attendance.
Bow-grazer.—Friday evening, a genteelly dressed
youth, about 17 years of age, was brought betbre
Mr. MINSDULL, charged with stealing two silver
spoons, the property of William Allen, Esq. of West-
square, Lambeth. Mr. Allen said, the circumstances
under which the youth at the bar was brought there
were truly distressing. He was the son of a widow
Lady of high respectability, whose treatment of him
was uniformly kind and indulgent, but he had lately
conducted himself in such a manner as almost to de-
prive her of her reason. He had unhappily got ac-
quainted with a gang. of young thieves, at the head
of whom was a notorious pickpocket, who some time
ago received the Royal clemency when under sen-
tence of death in Newgate. This fellow was his
constant companion. The practice of the prisoner
for some time past had been to call upon hit mother's
friends as a mere visitor, and to pocket some article
of value before he left the house. One day last week
he called at the house of the witness, and when he
was gone two table spoons were missed from the
drawing-room, where he was left for some time alone.
On Friday evening he was apprehended, and imme-
diately confessed the robbery, and that he sold the
spoons to one Green, a salesman, in Oxford-street.—
Mr. Allen added, that his sole motive for bringing
the prisoner here was to check his career in time, and
to save him from a disgraceful death ; for it was to
be feared that when he could no longer plunder those
who, from their knowledge of his family, were in-
clined to spare him, he would rob strangers, and per.

'ldips die on the gallows. The prisoner seemed very
indifferent about the matter. Mr. Missnuid. ordered
the prisoner tube remanded for a.few days. and on
Saturday morning he sent an officer with a warrant'
to search the house of Green, the salesman. Th offi-
cer found the spoons, and brought Gieen withe him
before the Magistrate. The spoons, it appeared, were
sold to him for 16s. and they were said to be worth
at least double that sum.
Mr. Muumuu ask{d whatjte wis?
• ..

Gretna—l am a clothes-sal
Makstrate,—Whit has a

to do

• Green.—Oh, your Worship, I deal in ievrellery and plate as well.
blagistrate.—Yes,when you can get it cheap, I suppose.
Green.—l get them as cheap as I can, your Worship ; but I
deal fairly and honestly.
Magistrate.—Do you call it dealing honestly to buy spoons
with a crest and initials upon them from a boy?
Green.—Why, Sir, the young gentleman came to my shop,
and exchanged some clothes, and he said he had two spoons to
sell, and so I purchased them.
Magistrate.—Did you ask him any questions?
Green.—l asked him who the spoons belonged to, and be

said they were his own.
Alag i strate.-- A nd you, good easy man, implicitly believed him.
Green.—l had no reason to doubt him; but if I have done
wrong, lam very sorry. lam bat ryoung beginner in busi-
ness for myself, and this, I assure you, is the first time anything
of this sort bas happened.
Magistrate.—Weli, u you are a young beginner, I will do
you a piece of service.
Green.-1 thank you, Sir.
Magistrate.—The service is of a kind that you may not
relishrli
perhaps; but I assure you it will do you much good.
stop you in your career before it is too. late, by making you
find good bail to answer to this charge at the Sessions.
Green.—l bope Si:, you will be less severe. I assure you,
upon nay komostr, I had no idea the spoons were stolen.
'Magistrate.—Tour konostr 1 But for such men as you, we
should not so often have the pain of listening to such a ease as
the one before me •' and I am determined, as far as my pro-
vince extends, to enforce the law with the very utmost rigour

against receivers.
Mr. Allen, said, that when he first asked the youth
where he Sold the spoons, he said, " at a fence."—
The officer esPlained the term fence, to be the flash
word for the shop of a receiver of stolen goods.—
Mr. Allen said, there could be no doubt that the boy
was instructed by his companions where-to find a
ready market for his goOds. Green begged very
hard to be let off; but the Magistrate,was inexora-
ble, and he was compelled to enter into sureties.for
his appearance at the Sessions.
MARY-LA-BONNE OFFICE.—IMPORTANT. CASE TO
THE COAL TRADE.—Satuiday, the adjourned in-
formation preferred by Mr. Bradfield, a respectable
Gentleman, against Mr. Acocks, a coal-merchant,
for vending coals short of measure to Mrs. Collins, of
Manchester-square, received its final hearing be-
fore Mr. GRIFFITHS, the Sitting Magistrate. At
one o'clock, the appointed hour, Mr. ANDREWS,
Counsel for the prosecution, with his witnesses, ap-
peared in the Office, but neither the defendant, not
his Counsel, Mr. ALLEY, was in attendance. Mr.
ANDREWS opened the business by expressing his sur-
prise at a letter which had appealed in some of the
Public Papers, purporting to be from the defendant
(Mr. Acocks), dated October 3, stating, among other
particulars, that the case had been dismissed that
day by the Magistrates. He (Mr. Andrews) wished
to know whether that was the fact?—The MAGI-
STRATE answered, certainly not, and appeared sur-
prised at the statement. No such decision, he ob-
served, could have been made, as Saturday was the
adjourned day for hearing the case.—Mr. ANDREWS
then proceeded to argue the case at considerable
length. He contended, that the information, as it
sought to recover the penalty of 40s. on each sack
(sixteen in number), was strictly correct, and came
within the jurisdiction of the Magistrate; and in,
support of his argument quoted the case of Fleming
and White v. Bailey, before Lord Ellenborough,
%%hen the defendant was convicted on each separate
sheet for printing bills without affixing the signature
sf the Printer. The Learned Counsel, after com-
menting on the grossness of the deficiency, and re-
iterating his former arguments, called on the Ma-
gistrate to give decision in the case.—Mr.GRIFFITHS
then delivered his opinion, and declared that he con-
ceived the information to be entirely without his juris-
diction, insomuch as it sought to recover £32, that
being the amount of the penalty; at 403. on sixteen
sacks of coals. That being above £2O, he certainly
could not receive the information, and after having
given the case the most mature consideration, he was
confirmed in his opinion. If the Judges in the Court
of King's Bench should decide the information to be
within his jurisdiction; he should certainly feel much
pleasure in airin hearing the case.—Mr. ANDREWS.
Then I take it, you decide against the information.
Mr. GRlFFlTHS.—Certainly. Mr. ANDREWS here
observed, that he felt much obliged to the worthy
Magistrate for the patient hearing he had given the
investigation. This important case, it is determined,'
will be removed by mandamus into the Court of
King's Bench.
WORSHIP-STREET.---FORGERY OF THEGOLDSMiTHS'
COMPANY'S SIA RR.— William' Weston, residing at No.
30, King-street, Islington, was brought before Ro-.
BERT Beirit.t., Esq. the presiding Magistrate, 'under
the following circumstances :—Mr. Miles, Inspector
of the Goldsmiths' Company, received information
which'induced him to go to the prisoner's house,
ac-
companied by three police constables of this Office.
They went into the prisoner's workshop, where they
found two of his sons at work upon a cloiin silver
tea-spoons produced. The witness asked the prisoner
for his mark? and he gave the-mark-now produced,
which he kept locked up in the counting-house. It
was his regular mark, of which there is the impres-
sion, signed by him in the Goldsmiths'-Hall, and the
spoons produced were marked by the same mark.—
Mr. Smith, engraver of the marks for the Goldsmiths
Company, stated lie had inspected the spoons pro-
duced, and he found that all the impressions, put'
porting to be the marks of the Company, were forge&
and counterfeit.
,Mr. LANE, the Solicitor for the
Goldsmiths Company, suggested that the spoons
had not yet been assayed, and on that account the
prisoner was remanded till to-morro*: •

Friday se'nnight, the wife of .1. Burrell, a labourer went with
her daughter, five years of age, and some other children, to glean
on Nocum Heath. After remaining in the field some tizit'e, the
children were sent home, and they all reached their dwellings,
except this little girl, who turned back to follow her mother and
was lost. The parents, in the utmost distress, searched the
fields all night and the next day—evening was, again fast ap-
proaching, when the little innocent was found under a hedge,
three or four fields from the place where it had left the: tither
children. The night which the little sufferer Druid in the. bad
was very wet and cold, and, when found, life was nearly valimil
It however spoli recovertd.

UNIVRRSU'Y NrParcrws.

CAMBRIDGE, OCTOF.ER 5.
"mon Joseph Bayne, F.sq. B. A. of Trinity College, psi qi
Monday elected a Fellow of that Society. The circumumce
of there being only one vacancy at the annual ekrtiou
Fellows, has not happened before for upwards of :A yeas.

in South Wales, to pre.'
OXFORD, OCTOBER 6.
Monday, Lord Gainertas.a, the Chatscellor of this tnir • ,
pmaorsiced. through gLoh
cdOeshifoprda,prfrorredTeninhgyo,od
health.
2.

BCCLESTASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
The Rev. henry Wrey Whiuneld, to the Rectory of Battles.
don-eum-Potsgrove, in Northamptonshire.
The Rev. Charles blackle, hi.A. to the Rectory et (hark
The Rev. B. Crutwell, LL.B. to the Rectory of **alit
alias Spexall; Suffolk.
The Rev. L. R. Brown, B to the Rectory of Morriogt
Suffolk.
The Rev. J. Homfray, B.A. has been licensed to be wed.
the Ministers of St. George's Chapel, Great Yarmouth.
The Rev. James Robson, to the Vicarage of Ainderby Std
Yorkshire.
The Rev. George Harker has been presented to the hints
some new church, consecrated last week by the Bibhup of 01.-
ford, at Chatham.
The Rev. William Cockburn, to the Rectory of Telbridys
Devon.
The Rev. W.. 7. Farrington, to the Rectory of St. James's,
Rochdale.
The Rev. J. Wetherell, LLB. l'as been ap?ointed one of the
Prebendaties of Hereford Cathedral.
The Bkhop of Bristol has appointed the Rev. S. Scyerjßam
Dean of his Lordship's Diocese.
The Rev. William Prouelfoot, late of &lons, has been ad.
mitted, by the Presbytery of Ilamilton,• to be Minister of
Strathaven.
The Rev. Henry Law, B.A. Fellow of St. John's College,
Cambridge, and on of the Bishop of Chester. is collated by his
Lordship to the. Vicarage of Childwall, Lancashire.

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BIRTHS.
Sept. 22, the Lady of the Rev. Dr. Oglr, of twin daughters
Sunday se nnight' at Stratton, the Lady of John Panchen,
Fag. Master in the Royal Navy, and Ilarbour-matter of Bade,
of a daughter.