Star.
London, England, 1827-08-21 00:00:00

CAMBERWELL FAIR.

The Beech of M•gistiaies; who are sitting daily in
the Vestry Room of Carribei weil Parish, doting the ,
fir, acre yesterday occupied some time in the investi-
galiun 1.1 an assault charge, preferred by a 111 w-street
pond, aga.nst a person named Perrin, which arose out
of Me ti flowing eircnmstan, es :
The Rev-rend Mr. Smith, of Penzai ce, who re-
cently app*ared .before the Lord Mayne, requesting
permission to preach in the streets, within tl e juris-
diction m his Lordship, havir• publicly annnuoted
his inttnt'on preaching the -Gospel," cii the Gr en,
at Cantb:o well, last Sunday, a vast number of people
assembled, among whom were numerons pickpockets.
Alt. Smith was tequested by the constable•, who were
iii attendance to preserve the peaco, to retire, but lie
t!eclitied Joieg so in the first instance, • and formally
calrd upon them to give their names, with those of
the Magistrates who had einposeied them with t' e
authority which they had exercised. Having taken
down the names thus furnished, he called aloud for a
chair, declari tg to the multitude that he would preach,
and was again most civilly desired to retire, other-
site he would assuredly be taken into custody. A
person by this time was observed with a char in his
pessession, snaking way through the mob, towards the
new. Gentleman. A. he approached the Tot, on the
constable endeavouring to seize him, a fight ensued,
when a Bow-stteet patrol was very roughly treated by
Perim, who was ultimately captured and lodged in a
place of .secusiii.. Mr. Smith, finding that he could
tint obtain a q•ttet hearing to his doctrine, retreated
with as much expedition as possible out of Camberwell
pans'', and on the Cambers ell-road, in Lambeth palish,
he held forth. In the course of his address, he corn-
tlained of the interference r f the Magi•trates, de-
slating at the same time that he would publish their
tames to the would.

Mt. l'cri in, when before the Bench, composed of Mr.
Sergeant Scriven, Mr. Lett, and two other County
Ilagiqrares, wist.ed to address them respecting Mr.
Smith ; but at that Gentleman had declined attending,
although the a%sault arose out of ' his conduct, the Ma-
gisttates declined beating him.
Mr. Perrin, who, it seems, is a tradesman, and a
ftiend of Mr. Smith's, was then held to bail, for assaulting
the patrol in the execution of his duty.

At the Assizes for Worcester, certain parties were
indicted for stealing two ducks; bat as it came out in
ividence that they killed the two ducks before they stole
them, !dr. Justice LITTLEDAL6 directed the Jerry to
It if them lint guilty, ou the ground in legal con-
struction, the words 'a two ducks" muit be taken to
mean " two live ducks," whereas it was proved that
lime ducks were dead; and the parties were found not
guilty accordingly.
Tuesday a King's Messenger, who had been dis.
reched Iv om London with the intelligence of the death
CANNING to the Right Hon. MAURICZ FITZ•
G"nn, the newly appointed Lord of the Treasury.
m,:t within about twenty miles from Tralee, by a
Furry of fellows, who plundered him of his money, and
"''tad have maltreated him, but that he made known
to them the business on which he had come. The MA-
Fis:rate at the Petty Sessions' Court have instituted an
Ing.riry jinn the subject. As soon as the intelligence of
the death of Ir.CANNINo reached Tralee several of the
oh l•keepers put up their shutters, and closed their shops
Le time 1114litiCt 01 on the death of a near relative.