Star.
London, England, 1811-09-06 00:00:00

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LINES WRITTEN AT AN INN.

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CARLISLE.
Chritioftier Hohne was indicted for embezzling two
bills of exchange of the value of £soot).
The points of evidence in this cast rested upon this
circumstance—Whether the prisoner was to be consi-
dered a partner in the concern or not ? He had been
principal clerk fair eight years, in the house of Graham,
Ramshay, Mounsey, and Beck, Bankers, Carlisle,
and always conducted himself with very great pro-
priety. But in the year 1809 s,nue peculiar circum-
stances took place which were the grounds of his de-
fence. In this year, (1809) Mr. Beck, 'me of the
partners, being appointed one of the Deputy Re-
ceivers of the county, which necessarily occupied a
considerable portion of his time, and being of a ner-
vous habit, engaged Mr. Holme to transact the chief
business of the batik for which he was to receive one-
third of Mr. Beck's profit, in addition to his own sa-
lary. This was c intmenticated to the rest of the part-
ners, and received their approbation. In consequence
Mr. Holme acted accordingly and considered him-
self a partner in the concern. The bills for which
the prisoner was indicted, were drawn subsequently to
this agreement. The bills being dishonoured, were
returned-to the house, and occasioned the discovery.
It was contended, on the part of the prosecution,
by Messrs. Mounsey and Beck, that they never under-
stood that the prisoner was a partner, or that any
meeting had taken place for that purpose. They al-
lowed that there was an agreement between the pri-
soner and Mr. Beck by which the prisoner was al-
lowed one-third of his individual profits. But this
was merely a private agreement between themselves,
without any reference t.) the other partners. Holme
had more than once allowed his share of the profits
to lie over; but this was entered in Beck's name,
and was .considered a private transaction between
Beck and the prisoner :—nevee recollected having
mentioned Holme in any other light than in the one
already explained.
In favour of the prisoner, several persons were
brought forward to prove, that Mr. Beck had often
mentioned in company, that Mr. Holme was a part-
ner—particularly, Mr. Warwick, who proved that he
had been himself, and until some little time ago,
partner in the said firm, when he retired. He per-
fectly recollected meetings for the purpose of making
Holme a partner, and ever alter understood him to
be such. He believed the rest of the partners consi.
tiered him to have ash tre. _ . _ _

Whet early the sun sinks in winter to bed,
And the western horizon gleams faintly with red,
When the mists of the ev'ning rise thick from the vales,
As darkness creeps on, and husb'd silence prevails,
At tb' approach of night's gloom o'er the rest of hie course,
The Traveller moursis for himself and his horse,
And bewails his hard fate, fore'd alone, thus, and weary,
His way to pursue through roads dirty and dreary.
But when safe in Isis inn, and his horse at the tratteer,
How snug he reflects on past darkness and danger
His fire now so warm is, his steak so well dress'd!
His wine (gin and sloe juice) so truly the best !
The armchair so easy, the bed room so neat,
The warming-pan ready, and Molly so sweet !
So gratefully slumber encircles his brow,
Nu hero mere blest than our traveller now !
Can an inn then such comfort impart 'midst the squall
Os Waiier ! Boots ! Chambermaid ! Ostler ! and all ?
Far from home, far from spouse, far from children, and friend,
Can the 'I raveller fancy all care at an end?

Ibe reason my Muse in few words shall explain— ,
To Contrast we owe all our pleasure and pain ;
For cause and effect are confounded in this,
That bliss leads to woe, and then woe leads to Hies!

POLICE.

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Gutt.num.t..—Yerterthy, a number of known
thieves and pickpockets, and of other persons appre-
hended in their company, in suspicious eituatioee, and
in crowded parts of Bartholomew Fair, were remand.
ed for further examination on Saturday.
A person of the name of Lee, was charged by Mr.
Mader, the City Marshal, in-ving been found play-
ing the violin, at the hour of two o'clock in the
morning, to a number of dancers, in the Plough pub-
lic-house, in the vicinity of Bartholomew's Hospital,
in which, from its proximity to several of the wards
of the hospital, it was peculiarly desirable, and had
been ordered by the Lord Mayor, that, for the ease
and accommodation of the unfortunate inmates of the
hospital, as little noise as possible should be made,
and reasonable hours kept. The prisoner having
made no resistance, and seeming to have been igno-
rant of the order made respecting the public.house in
question, the Sitting Magistrate ( Mr. Alder man
Woon) ordered him to be discharged.
A number of bakers were, as usual, charged with
being ring-leaders of the riots and confusion incident
to such tumultuous assemblages.
An Hibernian named Dennis Foley, and a coun-
trymen named Kearsley, were charged by a person
named Gill, and his wile, with a violent assault ; and
the accusers were in turn charged, by the accusers
with a similar offence. It appeared from the testi-
mony on the former charge, that the plaintiffs, who
had gone on a party of pleasure to the fair, had en-
tered one of the refeaoria in its neighbourhood to re-
gale themselves on cold buttock, and other delicacies;
and they met there with the defendants, who were
perfect strangers to them. Mr. Delay, probably
thinking that all was fair play inlfair time, made soroe
overtures o(a tender kind to the lady, which were re-
sented by the husband, and a battle-royal ensued ; in'
the result of which Mr. Foley had one of his eyes
ecNueat by the fist of Mr. Gill ; and besides, be re-
ceived so many other good and sufficient proofs of his
antagonist's superior skill, as taught him the good
policy of discontinuing the combat.-I'he landlord
of the house, too, who appeared as a claimant in civil
action, stated, that his tables were overset, his plates;
mustard.pots, and the other fragile furniture of his
board, broken, and his guests thrown into confusion;
and many so frightened, that they weut off lot getting
to pay their reckoning.
The Magistrates judging, that this complicated
dispute would be best adjusted by arbitration, order:l
ed the parties to retire with an officer, and settle it
amongst themselves.
BOW-STREET.—Chrittian Crane was charged with
being concerned with two others in burglariously
breaking open the house of Mr.Castan, on the Hamp-
stead-road. It appeared, that so long since as the
morning of the (2911 of May, the prosecutor's house
r• was brol-e open ;an alarm was given by the watch-
man on seeing the street-door open. Three men were
seen to conic out of the house, two of whom were se-
cured, and have been tried, and found guilty ; the
third made his escape. The prisoner was brought to
the office on a warrant for a common asea tilt, when
he was recognised as the man who escaped at the
time of the above robbery. He was fully identified
by a watchman and others, and connnitted for trial.
Abraham Lerly, a well-known Jew pick pocket, who
was apprehended by Humphreys, at Hackney, on
Thursday se'nnight, at the ascent of the balloon, un•
de: went a final examination.
It appeared, from the evidence of Humphreys, that
The value of Dr. FarteMAN'S Gorr.% Seetarents
he saw the prisoner put his hand into a Gentleman's
has been so long proved, that nothing of the present
pocket, and take out something. and put it into his
day can beer a competition with it, in all the are-
6osom—un which he seized him, when the pri,oner
let a pocket-pohook fall ; he picked it up. The prisoner) rent stages of a certain disease, which it effectually
cores and era) sate, from the habit, without exciting
resisted violently, and endeavoured to get away ; he
was then surrounded by at least a dozen well-known
the painful feelin;;s and exposure that attends saliva-
pick-pockets, and he received a violent blow in his
tion—w.ithout debilitating the constitution in any de-
mouth ; notwithstanding, he was determined not to
gree, or even requiring confinement from business or
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let the prisoner escape. The owner of the pocket-
restriction of diet. The radical virtues of these ines-
tr-,ok has not been traced. The pl,3„,,ier was there
.1 ornai;le Drops have proved their claim to publ c ap-
the probetion for more thin 30 years. In all the debility
fore committed for trial, charged with stealing
of both sexes they prove a never-failing restorative
property of some person or persons unknown.
whether the debility ie produced by too free use of
The officers belonging to Hatton Garden Office, a mercury, by illicit pleasures, or the effects of? warm
few days since, apprehended a man, who, having
climate To traveller s and those going abroad, they
been put in possession of a bankrupt's house and
cannot be recommeacied t{a) strongly, as they will re-
effects, had decamped with articles to a considerable calve a safe, speedy, and. complete cure, in all olp
amount. When apprehended, he pretended to be so stir:born gleets, and every weakness that affects the
lame from an accidental hurt received in his efforts to 1 bladder and or eans of urine. By its eilicecy many
escape, that be could not stand without support, and } women have become mothers, who for many years
was conveyed to a public house in the neighbour-, had been deprived of that happiness.—Sold fi holesale
hood of the Office, to wait the sitting of the Magis- and retail, at Mr. Butler's, No. 4, Cheepside, corner
trite soon after, he requested to be assisted into al of Paternaster-row ; and retail, by Belam and Sharp,
building in the back yard, and being left there, he ; Poitsmouth ; Hall and Johnson, Gosport ; Allnutt,
continued sn long without calling for assistance back Weston, Mallory, and Jones, Portsee; 'Freeman,
again to the house, that the officers began to be agar.
Exeter ; Cookworthy, Glenville, Gilbert, and Hoz.
med, and went to look for him, when it was cliscovel land, Plymouth; Newbury, Dublin; Beater and Mac-
red that the cripple, during their absence, had reco-1 dunald, Glasgow ; Smith, Manderston, Scott, and
veresi the use of hib feet, made a way through the, •
Ca; ill, Edinburgh ; Crutwell, Bath ; Roes and Peck,
roof of the back part of the building, and over a highoregson and Billings, Liverpool ; Stains and
wall into the yard belonging to an adjoining house, , Ly% ;
ch, Manchester ; Bowen, Norwich ; Knott and
through which he found his way into the street, and Lloyd, Birmingham; Gregory, Brighton ; and most
ostected his escape-. He has not yet been heaid of. •Veatiera, in bottles, at tin. & 1.25.

The evidence was ably summed up by the Judge;
and the Jury, after a short consultation, brought in a
verdict of—Not Guilty.

NEWCASTLE.
GREY 41. COORSON A!,)D CLAYTON, MRS.

Mr. Patti.: informed the Jury, that this was an ac- !
tion to recover damages for false imprisonment. The
plaintiff was a very respectable woollen-draper, in
Newcastle; the defendants are Magistrates, and men
of the strictest honour and integrity, and he was ex-
tremely sorry to see, that, in the present instance, they
had overstepped their line of duty. In this instance
they had no authority to act, and their own warrant
of commitment decided the same. Mr. Grey had
articled himself to Mr. Spencer, a woollen-draper,
who is now dead ; and it April, 1809, he left him,
before the time of the indenture expired, but with his
master's consent. Nine months after this, his late
master, Mr. Spencer, went to the two Magistrates,
Cookson and Clayton, complaining, not on oath, that
Grey had absented himself from his service. Mr.
Grey was accordingly brought before them. At this
time Mr. Cooks,m, one of the defendants, was Mayor.
When in custody, Mr. Grey sent for his Solicitor ;
but he being' rom home, his clerk attended for him :
when I'e got into the Mayor's chamber, Mr. Cookson
said, " I want no attnrnies in my chamber, I have
the Act of Parliament before me, and will act upon
it; and if Ido wrong, I am answerable for it. I
will either 'commit Mr. Grey to the House of Cor-
rection for one month, or ire must go back to his
master's service." The young gentleman preferred
the former, and he was committed. Mr. Grey moved
for a writ of Habeas Corpus in the Court of King's
Bench ; and %then the warrant of commitment was
read, Lord Ellenborough ordered him to be instant-
ly discharged. Agreeably to a Statute of Elizabeth,
no indenture was legal for a less term than seven
years. His client had suffered much on the occa-
sion; he had been unjustly dragged from his busi.
ness and friends, and confined 13 days. The expen-
ces incurred were also very great ; he had paid the
jailor who accompanied him to London,R46. 10s. 6d.
land £2i) is law expences had alr,;ady been paid, and
lit was from the decision of the Jury that he was to
receive compensation.
This case was proved in evidence. Verdict for the
plaintiff £l7O damages, subject for leave for defen.
1 ti.ints to enter a nonsuit, should this case come within
[ the meaning of the Act passed 43d Gco. 111.

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AMERICAti NATAL BIOGRAPHY'. I

No. I.
Cossmonont Roncens. The American Papers
give the following account of this Commander in the
Navy of the United States. Captain Rodgers entered
the American navy is the year 1798, during the ad-
ministration of Mr. Adams, then denominated the
Federal Administration. He first sailed under the

command of Captain Geddis, in the Potarsco, a small
sinop of war, as a S.J►-Lieutenant. In the year 1798
he was promoted to Master and Commander of the
Baltimore sloop of war, and made a cruize off the
Leeward West-India Islands. On his return to the
United States, a Court of Itiqitiry was held upon him
for unofficer-like conduct in striking one of his mid-
shipmen. From the Report of the Court of Inquiry,
he was dismissed the service by the President, and
was not again called into service until the war between
the United States and the Bey of Tripoli, when he
got the command of the John Adams, nuw a shop of
war, hot originally built for a frigate ; she sails badly.
He kfterwards commanded the It igate Congress and
Constitution up the Mediterranean ; and when the late
Commodore Samuel Barron wits obliged to return,
alter making peace with Tripoli, Captain. Rodgers
being Senior Captain, hoisted the broad pendant,
which he has ever since retained. The gallant Com-
modore entered into his nautical career in the Guinea,

commonly called the Slave trade, and from the lowest
grade on board of a slave ship, rose to the honour of
being a master. He sailed out of Baltimore, and was
known by the names of Bully Rodgers and Blacklack,
the latter from his complexion being dark, the former,
from his tyrannical and blustering disposition.
He has been often known to strip himself to his
shirt, and fight with one of his foremast hands; if
conquered, he confessed it, and was always the tricnJ
of his conqueri4 ; inn where the reverse was the case,
he always sheered his superiority of strength by ty-
ranny. He is about five feet ten inches in height,
very muscular, has a dark but not unpleasant coun-
tenance, his features are prominent, a full black eye,
heavy blow, and a low forehead. His manners are
coarse, and where he affects the contrary, they shew
the sycophant.- His education has been bad; he is
very illiterate, but allowed by every person who knows
him to have great judgment in the working of a ship.
He is a native of Maryland, barn at Have-de-Grace,
I where he has a very handsome seat, highly romantic.

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POPULATION OF LONDON.
The war; fur the City being now arranged. we
have subjoined a general view of the returns ft.r West-
minster, and the re:pective districts. The returns • f
the same districts in the ye it 1601 are added, and the
increase it) the popidatien mire mitiutelysstated, while
the relative nun.hers of males and fernates are also
given. The disproportion of females to males is
equally Acacril throng/lent the kingd•al ; 110ZWIth.
standing, from Ow registry of births at hie the bills
of mortality, it is -calcult:ea, that to Rd males, tl.ele
are less than 100 females ts..rn.' The p wishes con vi-
cunas for an accession of iiihabitauts are.alsq noticed.
Sir Wm. Petty, in 1652. eznreted London w0.,L1 so
an incre.i4in.. till the year 18(0. at which tims
tliont.tht the popttlation would amount t. fivemillion•l
Dr. Brakedni,l..e, iu 17.:;1, caletilatel the populatien.
of London at 7.7.1.81 f , whis.h was probAbli as ova.
estimate at that time. _

Lost.l3n (Ci:y) ISt

?‘ Yrs. Praialis 'revs
i7,u4S IMPIS 1te,753

Weituantter (City) Is t 1 7 4.50 • 7...13 101437/
11101 70.114* BY fait; • 1; t. 272
5.8.17

The Borough, lel i
1801

lneress•

3544
.....4.....

PA .5

2 %In 51,590 Si, ICI
29,0:: 1 3b,f.5.1

lists 2,6'4

4,4.4

Holborn District, IS! t I s szi u:*
10.4 7 0,03 S 101.7117 low.•xt

Ircrem 1%,1111 MOM

Finsbury Diatict, 1511 44,262 St,sy3 • C 1.,• iS
lbJl "Sili 39,4113_

lr.ma!e I 0,4 '7 I^,; 00

Tower Dlvisbn, ISII 96.1411
1801 77,366
Increase 9.3111

1f.1.1 di
NMI

2 :,

11%5011

1:10P,S

Surrey ditto, 1611
isOl

C 4,1119
47,491

SV,V*4

se.ses
Se.su

14 %SO

Increase 10,7 i 0 21415
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Middlesex ditto, 1111 114,177
1401 27,34 i

alai!

46,770 11 •47
5c.,,, el.!,*;

Increase 6,113 11..79 16 .92
The population of London, Westnimster, and the
abuve districts, by the present census, appears-_
Antra, 1111,7 Sl female% 615,333 ; foul, 1,099.164
Incraase In ten years - - t 3.3 159
The statement for the City of London includes the
whole of tile 105 parishes within the boundaries.
The population of the City has not incre.ited within
the laststen years, because its limits ate tired, and a
great number of houses are yearly converted into
warehouses, &c.
In the estimate for the Surrey district, tv elve
parishes arc included, viz. Christchurch,
Newington, Camberwell, Putney, Clapham. %Vatic's.
worth, Rotherhithe, Sueatham, Battersea, Bet mond.
sey, and Richmond.
The Middlesex parishes ate Kensington, Cliches,
Fulham, Hammersmith, Chiswick, Ealing, Lfinvis.
ton, Tottenham, Enfield, Harrow, Twickenham,
Staines, and Ustnidge.
The influx of inhabitants since 1801 appears very
conspicuous in the undernamed parishes :
harms..
St. Giles and St. Andrew's, Holborn 13,91 K.
St. Mit it-la-bonne - • 11,t,60
St. Genres and Pancras - 90,060
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No 11.
Commodore JAMES BARRON is a native of Halms-
ton, Virginia, an inconsiderable town at the mouth of
the Chesapeak. Its only trade is supplying vessels
which lay in the Roads with fresh provisions and wa-
ter. The father of this Gentleman had the command
of a small revenue cutter, and made out a decent sub-
sistence by that and letting out slaves, that is, hiring
slaves from their owners at so much a head per an-
num, and letting them out as daily labourers. Our
hero had the conducting of them, which he did not
do in the most humane manner. To assist the natu-
ral mildness of his disposition, at 18 years of age he
entered into the Guinea trade, and rose to the lawnutr.
able station of the Master of a Slave Ship, which he
resigned, and obtained a commission as 4th Lieute-
nant. At the commencement of the partial warfare
between the United States and France, towards the
end of the year 1798, he joined the United States fri-
gate as 4th Lieutenant, then under the command of
the ever to be lamented Commodure Barry, the mild-
ness of whose manners, and the humanity of whose
heart did ill accord with the tyranny of Lieutenant
Barron, who never sailed with him but one cruize to
the West Indies. He was not again employed until
the year 1799, when he got the command of the
sloop of war Warren, of 22 guns, an Old East In-
diaman, that had been purchased into the service.—
After an unsuccessful cruize of six months off the
Windward West India Islands. he returned to Hamp-
ton Roads, having lost half his crew by desertion.;
He was not again called into service until the latter
end of the year 1802, when he got the command of
the New• York frigate, built tor a 4*, lout only mount-
ing 36 guns. He went up the Mediterranean, but his
conduct no: being approved of by Commodore Peebles
commanding the station off Tripoli, he was sent to
Washington, in the frigate Chesapeake, she requiring
to be refitted. He, however, baffled his enemies, by
his influence with the then ruling party, die .Ifiree-
nitre:, and war again employed in 1804, and took tl-e
commar..l of the Essex frigate, and sailed in company
with the President, C'ngress, and Constellation hi.
gates, and the Enterpi ire schooner, the squadron tin-
der the command of Commodore Samuel Barron,
since deceased, from Hampton Roads to Gibraltar,
where he cruised for two months, and at the end of
ten months teturned to whence he started, without
ever having fired a gun in anger. He is about 54
years of age, 5 fret 11 inches in height, and clumsily
made ; his complexion more of a disagreeable yellow
than dark. There is a vast deal of severity in his
countenance, always accompanied with a sneer. To
his inferiors he is haughty and cruel, to his superiors
submissive and dissimulating. It would be impossi-
ble to describe his character and disposition better
than he has himself, more than once, when he has
boasted, That he, as an officer, had ordered more
Men to be flogged than any six in the navy—that he
could handle a eat better than any man he ever saw,
and do more execution."—Ttais humane officer was
not again employed until his memorable action in the
Chesapeake, with his Majesty's ship Leopard, in the
American waters. He has been since suspended front
his command, by a Court of Inquiry held at Wash-
iugton. He was in London about two months since,
as die master of a merchant ship belonging to Norfolk.
The Mary Ann, a vessel just arrived in the River,
was boarded by some fellows early on Tuesday mor.
niag, when all the crew, except one man' and a boy,
were on shore, and robbed of a quantity of coffee,
with which the villains made their escape.
At the Greenburn-market, Aberdeen, a short time
since, a scuffle took place between some men who hid
be .n drinking, when one of them drew his kaife, and
stabbed another severely in the body, of which be die
in two days. The offender was aprrehended.
Wednesday afternoon as an elderly reste table-
lnnking woman was swinging in one of the cars at
Bartholomew Fair, she missed her hold of the rope,
was precipitated to the ground, and fractured her
skull ; she was immediately conveyed to st. Bartho
lomew's Hospital, iu a dangerous state.

hackney and Bethnal-green
Cieekenweil and "Anita' .
Lambeth, and Nee Mgt on
Kensington and Chel,es