Star.
London, England, 1803-09-20 00:00:00

OLD BALLET.

Yetleiday eleven prifoners were tried, three of
whom were capitally consider!, viz.
Dania! Brtml. aged 16 ycarc, for having affanited
on the Kinr.'s high way, a perfoa of the name of
hn I.udacu, putting him in fear, and felonionfly
takir g trim hi: persona tiiver watch and flyer chain.
John Ludden. a !ugar baker, in litiek-lane, Spi-
taltields, depoled, that on the 29th of July, at nine
o'clock at night, he was in Hotfman.ftseet. White-
chapel, the mit. •wzr came up to him, when he (the
wi•nels) was Aiine, and there gave Lim a violent
Wow, laid nothing, but !Latched the wittiefs's watch
out of his pocket, and tan away with it. There were
three or fi..ir other perfons in company with the pri-
loner •' it was not then quite dark. The witnefe fol-
lowed the prifotter, and never loft fight °Chins. He
fecured him about five minutes afterwards. Verdi&
G•iilty.

Samuel Peach, for being found at large without any
came, after havtng been ordered to be tranf-
ported for the term of his natural life. having been
found guilty of a burglary, and capitally convieed,
but afterwards pardoned by his hlajelly, and put op
board the hulks at Woolwich.

Mr. Kirby, jun. AfiiiLau Kt; per of Ncwgate,
be recognifed the prifoner, having been prefent at his
former trial, and that he delivered him over to the
hulks in Febtuary laft, previous to his being tranf.
toned.
Thomas Mors faid, he apprehended the prifoner in
Piccadilly as he was going at large towads Hyde
Park Corner, nn the 6th of July.
The prifoner in his defence faid, that it was no
wonder he did not like his fitnation on board the
hulks, and therefore he had made his efcape with the
intention of going on board his Maielly's fleet, in or.
der to fern his Majelly in return for his moll graci.
uus pardon..—Vcrsloft, Guilty.
jobs Rid, for uttering as true knowing it to be
hire, a forged Bank Note of sl. with intent to de-
frond the Governor and Company of the Bank of
England ; another count Rated it to be with intent
to defraud Reuben Dear.

Reuben Dear Paid he is a butcher, living at No.
175, High Holborn. He law the prifoner on the
2341 of July, (Saturday night) near is o'clock; the
prifoner came to his Ihop, and asked the witnefs
whether any beef was left ? he Paid he had a little
but not much ; he asked fixpence halfpenny a pound,
but laid ,he would take 6d. it weighed filb. 3 oz.
and he agreed to take 4s. for the piece of beef. The
prifoner silted the witnefs whether be could give
him change for a note ? hesafked him what note? be
Laid it was a 51. note. The witnefs went on thus . '
44 I gave him change—three one pound notes. and
fiver:Yen-Chilling pieces and a Shilling : I afked him
what his name was ? he Paid his name was Wii;.;.im
Biddle, No. s 3, Drury-Line, and that he was a but-
ton-maker ; on which I pat his name on the note
and asked him if it was a good one ? I anted him
to write my name on my notes. as I bad written his
Lame on his. He laid be would dare fay they were
all good ones: he laid that the change was to be di-
vided between three or four others, and therefore it
did not fignify that he fhould write my name on the
notes. He feerned rather in a burry. and I anted
if he Would have the bones of the meat chopped ? be
faith yes. When he went out, he went a contrary
way to the direftion for Drury lane, therefore I fol-
lowed him, and he never got one of my fight : he
met a lady, and they went down together to the,
Turnftik. I heard him fay to the woman. .6 Poor
fellow ! he will rue this tomorrow, and damn us."
On which I defired a watchman to take charge of
bim, laying, he has given me a bad sl. note ; they
bad then puffed Gray's Inn lane. The watchman
',lured to take him, (eying lie could not go off his
'beat. After that they went to Brook- fireet,Holborn ;

I faw the watchman on the other fide of -the way,
•and defired him to take him; then they croLled, and
lithe man went into a public houfe ; I went in after
"int, but did not find him, he went out at the other
Jdoor, I believe," [The note being produced, the
rofecutor faid, this is the note which the prifoner
paffed tome, my hand-writing is upon it.] 4, On
the Monday following, I gave the note to Mr. Notts,
AVIto is-a banker in Smithfield ;he takes our money
'-foretttle at Smithfield. The note was returned to
ins on the Saturday following. I made an enquiry
at Drury-lase, but no fuch man lived there as Wil-
liam Biddle. I afterwards gave information at the
office in Bow-ftrect. Three or four days afterwards
I law the prifoner at a public-houfe in King ftreet.
Holborn he was not then in cufiody. I was then
fent for by Croker, and when I came into the pub-
lic-bottle, I knew the man again directly t be went
out and came in again. I then relateu the matter to
Croker, and he was fecure4, When he paled this
note to me, Thomas Hoblock was in the little cznut-

ing hoofe in my limp, atil he few the whole that
paired as well as I did."
Thomas HoMock corroborated the tellimony of
his mater in every particular that Paired in the.ilinp.
Edward Croker Paid, he had had the defciiption
of a man from whom the note was received ; he law

, him on the evening of the following Monday, which
was on the sth of Augull. The prifoner knew me
and I knew him : his red name is Smith and he goes
i• y the name of Tiglcy s be declined telling me
here he lived. I alked him where I (boold fee him,
and appointed to meet where I live: he Paid he would
come on the Thurfday, and then we paned. In the
evening I mentioned it to ;dr. Dear. IF went to the
ptaee at the time appointed, but he did not come
then. Bet w:en five and fix in the evening he, came
on the Thurfday. I met him in King's.ltreet, and
afked him why be had not met me at the time and
place appointed ?he laid he could not. I appointed
to meet again at the Turk's Head in King-Ilreet. I
tent for Dear, he came. The priioner was going
out ; Mr. Dear followed him. He was not then in
charge. I told him then of what Dear charged him
with, which he denied. I allied him where he lodged,
but he would not tell me. I fearched him, but found
nothing on him bot a dollar. I never knew him by
the name of Biddle. . .

Mr. 'Flumes Niro, Infisettor of the Bank Notes et
the Bank. ',roved the note in queßion was a forgery.
The prifoiter faid ho wa► :serer in his life in 11. e
rafeeutoes mop, and that as to Crokcr be would
IR+' Mir thing.
Lf.ac Batter, a elseefenionger in Drury lane, fsrore
be had known the profecutus for three quart‘ss of a

year, intt never faw the priConen Lefore Wednefilay
lail. lit had a cons erfation with the precentor, on
the fitKtost of this cliail,Te, fix or feven weeks ago at
his own honk, agreeing whit the firti part of the
prolecutoi's evidence, of his receiving the ante, and
hi; 6,llowing the prifoner until he 101 l him in Brown-
low-tireet. That afterwards, about fix days, he bad
another convocation with the ptefecutor, when he
faid Croker Las apprehended a periim on fufpicion of
his being the man who had given him the bad note;
laid he, my boy fwears to him bard and raft, that he
knows him to be the man I anted the profecutor.
what do you think of him ? on which the profecutor
Paid, if he is not the man, he is very much like him,
but he has altered his dreCs. The witnefs then laid,
that on Wednefday latl Come friends of the pt ironer's,
one of whom the witnefs happened to know, wee -
paffing by his fhop, and kid they were going to
Rimes's trial, heyaid he had never heard filch a trial,
and he agreed to go with them to hear it ; there per-
Cons took him to fee the priConer, who stilted him,
what he had heard the profecutor fay ? which he re-
lated. and he was defired to attend as a witnefs.

The profecutor was called np again, and he fwore
pofitively that he never expreffed any doubt whatever
that the prifoner was the man who delivered to him
the note.

Mr. Jußice La BLAwc fummed tip the evidence,
and left the twillquefiions to the Jury :—Fira, whe-
ther the prifoner was the man who delivered the ntke
to the profecutor t Secondly, if be was, whether he
knew it to be a forgery at the time he uttered it ?
unlefs they were fatisfied of both there points they
could not find the prifoner guilty, but if they were
fatisfied of it, they would of conrfe convia the pri-
foner; if they had any doubt of it they would acquit
him.—Guilty—Dearh.
Two were ecnvifted of felony, viz.
jobs White and 7ofeph Bygrave, who were indiaed
for entering the awelling-houfe of Robert Dallas,
Efq. in Beclfordtquare, one of the King's Counfel,
and (leafing a filver fugar-baiket,- twelve filvet tea-
fpoons, &c.
It appeared from the evidence of a man named
Mennows, who was at work on the hook adjoining
that of Mr. Dallas, that he nbfcrved the two Prio
Toners lurking about the area-flair'. This was about
eleven in the forenoon. In the afternoon they re-
turned; one went down, and prefently came up,
carrying fomething which the witnefs could not dif-
tingui(h. He went direftly to give the alarm, but
the thief and his adherent had forefight enough to
confult their fafety by a precipitate retreat to St.
Giles's.
The articles loft were then defcribed, and (worn to
by Mr. Dallas's butler and footman. They confifled
as above, with the addition of a china baton. It is
proper to mention that none of the tea.fpoons had
been recovered.

21 boy, named Wally, who was an accomplice
with the Prifoners, hut who was admitted an evi-
dence agaillt them, Rated that they came to him, in
Broad St. Giles's, in the afternoon. He took a walk
with them. He had only known them a fortnight.
They went along Great Rolla Rreet, where White
was amazingly expert in diving into various areas.
He was not fo fuccefsful as Mercury, his patron, was
with the woodman, till he (pied in the window of
the houfekeeper's room, in Mr. Dallas's boat, the
articles mentioned in the indiament. He ilia:lndy
defcended the (lairs, hoifted the window, and, with
extreme caution, took off part of the things. The
witnefs next went down, and he brought np the
' fpoons, which he gave to Bygrave. They then fet
off, under ftrong apprehentions of being purfued.—
They proceeded to a nett of iniquity, which it would
be well for the community were it deltroyed ; they
' went to a honfe at Rags-eagle, Dyot-greet, St.
Giles's. This is a famous receptacle for aolen goods,
where every thing of the kind finds a ready market.
The fpoons were fold for twenty-eight thillings, of
which the witnefs, as a reward for his meriterioat ex •
erlieru, got half a-crows
White called two witneffes to his chfraEter.
The Jury found the Prifoners Guilty of fiealiog to
the extent of twenty [killings only. This verdiQ dues
away the capital part of the charge.
And three were acquitted, viz. Aliwalseth Edwards.
Eat= Lewis who was tried for affaulting John Haley,
and taking from him a red Morocco pocket-book,
containing a 21. Bank note, &c. The Profecutor
NW, that he happened to be in Covent Garden about
three o'clock in the morning of the txth of Auguß ;
he was much intoxicated; he had been (pending the
evening with fume friends, and was going home to
his house in Role Rreet,Covent Garden. Near that'
place he met the Piifoner, who defired him to fit
down on the Reps of a door, and reit Modell: After
lie had been there for a Gott time, the Prifoper pot
his hand in his pocket, and took away his pocket-
book ; when the Profecutor charged him with rob-
bing him, he knocked him down and ran away. He
was afteni..ads taken by the watchman, arid his
pocket-book was found lying on the railing of a win
dow in King-fireet. The profecujor could not recol-
jeft whether the Trifoner was the loan who had rob-1
bed him.

The watchman raid, when he heard the try of
'0 flop thief," he taw the Prifoner running towards
him. He called to him to liar, and faw him let his
hands fall from his breaß, is% if he dropped Come-
thing. This was at the very 'pot where the pocket-
book WAS afterwards (Gond. The watchman took
him in the middle of the (beet; and when Mr. Haley
came op, he charged him as the perfun who had',
robbed him.

The Prifoaet, in his delete', called two rerpeßa•
hie patrons; one a Mr. Francis, refiding in Fleet.
ftreet, who fed the Prifoner had once been in a re-
rpeetable line of buliners; that he had known Lim
for tiversl Tears, and that he always bore a good
charaftcr. the other winters was a Mr. Dolan, a
linen-draper, in Sr. James's-give, who Paid the l'ri.
roper had been employed by him, and that he had
often trolled him with property to the amount of 3
or 4000l.—The Jury, after hefitating a few minutes,
found the Prifoner Ace Gus/ o.
Irsath Tb•ofon, an elderly man, of a very mean
and forbidding appearance, was capitally indiacd
fur afraulting and committing a rape on a young
girl, named Melita Willis.
The girl gave a very clear and eircumflantial ac-
count of this horrible tranfaEtion.. She raid her fa-
ther was coachman to a Gentleman ; the Paine
livid in the neighbourhood, and the had often feen him
railing; but he Led bad no acquaintance with bee or

het Lonny. She falti,..that bn the evening of the r sth
of Auguß, fhe and another little girl were playing
in the upper end of Titchfield-ltreet, when the Pri-
fond- came up, put his hand round her Moulder, and
made her go along with him into Fiteroy-fguare.—
When he came to this place, he kneed her into one
of thofe hollow pits made as the foundations of bottles
intended to be built there. He then, according to the-
girl's account, perpetrated his crime.
A Mr. Baflett Paid, that at this very time he was
palling through Fitzroy.fquare, and hearing the cries
of a female proceeding from one of thole hollow
places, he ran and Caw the Prifoner behaving toward%
the girl in that violent manner the defcribed ; he ref.
cued her from him, and had him immediately fem.
ed. When the Prifoner was anted what he was about,
he Paid he was the girl's father.
The parents of the girl gave evidence as to the
marks of violence that appeared upon her.
The prifonees defence was an attempt to imprefs
on the minds of the Jury, a belief that the girl had
confented ; and this was attempted to be done by
calling evidence to Rate that the place in queßion
was fo public and frequented, that if the girl made
any alarm the mutt have been heard.
This defence, however, was not attended to ; but
from certain parts of the evidence, which we cannot
repeat, fome doubts having arifen, the Jury acquitted
the prifoner ; but he was detained, in order to be
tried for the afault with intent to commit the crime.

LONDON MARKETS.

CORN-EXCHANGE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19.

The demand for Wheat is not hien-gird finer our IA ; and the
fupply being tolerably fair, it has declined in value for the mid-
dling forts about is. per quarter. Rye is much wanted for Iced.
and gets higher prices. Barley and M,lt have not the fmallcit
variation. The very few Oats we have has called au advance of
full is. a quarter. Beans and Grey Peas are near is. higher.
—Boilers unaltered, as Is Flour. Mallard looks down, and Rape
Seed is a heavy fate.
CURRENT PRICTS PS UNDER.
Eng. Wheat,s6s.s9r. per qr. Hog Peas, 40s. 425.
Fine ditto, 611. 6311. Boilers, 501. 525.
Fine Dantek ditto, 545.605. CarrawaySced te cwt.
Rye, 325.
25.23,45.245. New 46a sos. Coriander, 1501. 201.
Canary, 765. 7111.
Superfias ditto, ISP. White Mußard Seed, 101.11 s.
Malt, 54s 565. ' Brown ditto, 16s iSs.
Oats, 225. 255. 3cs. Rape Seed, 361. 371. per Taft.
Hole Beans, 355.3 g,. Winter Tams, i is. per NAM
Tick Beans, 331.341.
Flour, per tack, 501.555. American Flour, 371. per barrel.

•40Y TUC
___ , SIM' 17.

Average Price of Corn in England and Wales, from the returns
sedlng the roth of September, 403.
Wheat. I Rye. I Barley. I Oats. I Bouts. I Feats.
a. d. a d. s. d. a. d. a. d. s. d.
56 0 38 2 115 1 23 I 35 6 39 9
The average Price of Sopr, computed from the Returns made
in the week ending Sept. tetis.tos. oL per hundred weight.

PRIZTS.OI;-.1-bY AND STRAW.

Whitesbapd.
4 4to 6 z 8 o
t z 6 to s 8 o
6 oto 7 00
SMITHFIELD, September ip.

Smithfield. St. James's.
I
O. H:,7 5 15 to 6 is 4 to oto 6 o o
Straw 3 10 to 3 14 1 10 oto I 17 0
Clover 6 6to 7 7

To fink the offai--per Roue of 81b.
Bad as od to 51 ad
ri,.r.md 4t 6d to ss 6d
Mutton as 6d to s' od Pork as Bd SO SS 44
NEWOATE and LEAD NHALL, September 19.

. .
Per none of 81b. by the wade.
Beef 31 6d to as 441 Veal ee od to s• od
p Motto. 84 to 44 6d Posit 42 8d to 5s 4d
Lamb p. .to 42. Bd.
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PRICE OF TALLOW IN LONDON.

St. jansees market 0 714 Tuna Tallow ylis od to 79$
Clare Market 42 ytd Rolla ditto (can.) yza od to 77s
Whitechapel Market Raffia ditto (hop) 7u od to as
(per Rime of 81h.) es yil Melted Stuf bas oil to 6,56
Ditto rough 448 od to Os
t3s sod Greives tcs od.
Average Prier SS yid Good Dregs las to oa
Yellow Soap, liss. to os.—Mottled, 9os.—Curd, 945.
Price of Candles per dozen. zas.--Moulds, i3B.
RAW HIDES, Sept. 19.
Hides (perßone) 38 &I to 38 ltd Huefe Skies 238 re 351164
Middling 3s ed to 3s 6d Heavy (Elf 9s 64 each
Ordinary 35 od to 35 ad Sheep Skint 25 od to 3$ 6d•
Lamb Skins, as od to 35 94.
PRICE OT LEATHER, per lb. AT LEADENHALI.
Butts, so to 361 b sack 2244 to 2314
Dkto, flo to 631 b 24d to idd
Merchants Backs stid to sad
DrefEog Hides • sad to 23
nu Casa Hides 2314 ' to es
Crop Hides for Cutting 214 to 334
Flat Ordinary solid to 283/41
Calf Skins, 30 30 40Ib pa doses aBd to 364
Ditto so to lob tBd to 324
Ditto yo to Sob 26d to 1.84
Small Seth (Greenland)per lb. 3. 6d to :Is 94
Large ditto 1008 to i•os per dot.
Tamed Horfe Hides 188 to 30s each
COUNTRY MARKETS.
MCI/ 01 (MAIN. AT TES LLLLL WINO M •

.
Bastmerroca...—Wbset 411 od to 514 id per %tarter.
Barley cod od to oos ed I Beasts 331 od to 39s 1
Oats ass dto *Ss °Weak ea dto cos
Matatessao.--Wlest 14. od to Iles d par quarter.
Barley up ed to sibs od I Besse 366 dto 39s el
Oats us dto a9a dPeak cot ed to ea od
NtWittilllrVibeit. 455. od. to 626.0‘ per (batter.
Barley op od to sts od I Befall :,64 od to eat od
Oats 3.ts 64 to ate ed Peak 37$ od to aos al
M ..--Whoat sea al to 64$ oi per %totter.
Slaw sis od to ads odd Batas 39sdto 4os d
Oats Hs dtO 17. od Peak set dto 44. est
13.samost.—Wheat sad. .to 635. oil. per %arm.
Batley up id to ass dI Beans 376 to 391 o 4
Oats ass 64 to ads *Weak 406 od to 46,1 ad
At Warminfter Market, oa Saturday laA, the
prices of Corn were as follow : Whaat.
_per quarter,
sl. tos. to al. 145. Barley, 11.45. to a 75. Oats,
il. 35. to tl. 55. BOOM 21. IS. to 21.65.

In thofe ages when limplicity of manners and re•
gularity of living were the refult of mankind's inch-
nation, difeafe had made little propels on the race of
men ; perhaps it was from this caufe Scurvy had not
made its rapid prngrefs till about the time of Hippo-
crates, whole aphosifms prove he knew the difeafe.
When DILAKI, Aason, and Coors extended their
route is unexplored teas, their hiffories prove fuffici-
ently its fad exiftenee. The United kingdoms of
Great Britain would teltify this fetturge on land aids-
out fearching the binary of campaigns. When ana-
tomy taught that the human body was capable of ab-
forption. they partialleburied the atllificd. The rue-
errs of this treatment gave the idea of a complete an•
tidote, and a vegetable and mineral preparation was
to be the remedy appropriated by medical experience.
Onthi.principle.Srat.sauar's risco* auric .Daors
obtained the fanftion of Europe, has gained his Ma•
jefty's Letters Patent, and held fuch an ellimation in
every county of the United Kingdom.—For the truth
of the aliertion of its action on Scurvy. vide Spit.
Ibury'sTreatife and Cafes ofScurvy,Scrophula,Gont,
&c. price 3s. 61 fold, together with the Drop., No.
It, 'inhn•fqua►t. in bottles of 5. ftd. tos. acrd
with a black Ramp axed to each.

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ably, the tail, of 'Wm. Lave, ati. M. P. of .1 fee. at
Shropthiee.
lto the sth ret Yarmouth, the Lady of Sir Richard itAing.
Sell. Ba••. of a init.

Tour. lay, at his book at Ealit?. tin. Lady of Charle; Morgan,
Erg. of a fon.
I riday Unnight, at the Lady of Charles Drake Gm'.
rand, a daughter.