Star.
London, England, 1803-10-13 00:00:00

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Charlotte Alien, ymelierts .—.lfary efat Hera, Narriet
Las, Penn:rainy Lovdl, and Jobe Lovell, all of the gip-
fey tribe, were put to the bar to anfwer the matters of
complaint exhibited againft them.
This was Rated to the Court as a profeention in-
Aituted by the Society for the fupprellion of Vice, to
endeavour to correct the fcandalous praUice of thofe
Giplies, in bringing idle perfons about them at Nor-
wood, to have their fortunes told ow a Sunday ; it was
to coffee and fupprefs that evil that had induced the
Society to come forward and punifh them, (till wifh-
ing. that, were there a ray of hope of amendment,
the parties migh, be acquitted for this time. The
whole were examined, and' the charge of fortune tel-
ling proved againft them; but on expreffing their eon-
ition for the pall, and promifing never to offend
again in like manner, they were liberated.
Charlotte Allen, who appeared the mother and
leader of the fet, having fix young children, was dif-
charged on finding bail for het future good behaviour.
• Puntervitjny did nnt meet fo mild a fen-
tenet. The evidence againft her proved that the not
only told the f,.:;l:!ern an's turtune to be rich,
'happy. and have a toil enjoyment of all l.is willies,
but teeing him when he came nr with a young Lady,
the alked him tl:e nature of their conneetion; he (aid
the was his fweethcirt : the v:ily Gipfy then in very
plain terms 0!1;•rrd her fervice to tell her fortune,
warn the pledged her elf that the would fo we-rk upon
her as to make I er fublervient to all his defires—this,
it thonld feem, by the evidence before the Comfort's
The main pour of their fchemes, it being a general
wile with -abandoned libertines to ingratiate them.
(alms with your g and inexperienced females, %Lout

they take as on a pleafurable patty to Norwood ;
there they dine, and, the poor gir s &tilled with wine,
Lilly forth to get their fortunes told: the Gentleman
has his fortune told firth The plan is then laid what
i, to he laid to work upon the feelings of the poor
who thus, by a combination of circumdances,
i plun:o,ed into inevitable ruin. This fart, mclan•
choly as it is, has been ellablithed beyond contradic-
tion, and is the chief rearon of the Society tding
their utmoll efforts to fupprels the praElice.
She was fentenced to fix months imprifonment in
the Houfe of Coneflion at Newington.

At the General Quarter Sell-ions for the county of
Kent, held at tile Old Callle, in Canterbury, ol Fri-
day 1311, James Webber, for an affault on Sir Edward
Knatchbull, Bart., one of his Majeity's Jultices of the
peace, was fentenced to be imprifoned fix calendar
months, and to find fureties for two years, viz. him-
fell in Sol. and two fureties in 251. each. John
Allefion, for an affault upon John Head, and for at-
tempting to reale William Maddon out of confine-
ment, in the parilh of Saltwood, to be imprifoned
two calendar months and find 1-tactics for one year,
viz. himfelf in 201. and two fureties in t each.

Tuefday, a Coroner's Inquefl was held at the Ta-
vinock Arms in Little Coram-fireet, on the body 2f
a man who was found drowned in a fmall hole filled
s‘ith mud and water near fquare, on Mork.:
day morning. He had a one pound note, and a 110
1411, in hi% pocket. It was thought he was in liqtßri,
and fell in the night before. The Jury brought in
their verdiet 44 Accidental Dent/." The body was
owned tome time after. His name was George \Vol-
land, ar.tl he lodged at No. 30, a coal-fhed, m Mon-
mouth-timer. He was a 'lngle man, and fuppoicd
to have been deranged in his mind.
A female ftvindler, aided by a gawdy equipage,
has very recently drawn on fume of the Shropfhire
banks with conliderable fuccefs ; but a failure in the
orthography of a name employed has led to her de.
teflimt and the is now in confinement. . . .

A man of genteel appearance was apprehended at
Ormtkirk on Friday last, fufpeaed of being a French
fp). He is, or pretends to be, deaf and dumb.
Tuefday morning, about fix o'clock, as a milkman
was paging by the New River, near Sadler's
he obferved a box floating on the water, which he took
out. On being opened, it was found to cnniain
body of an infant, fuppofed to be not more than two
days old, and was taken to the Clown public•houfe,
fur the infpeelion of the Coroner's Jury.
On Saturday fe'nnight, 22 fine wether fheep, the
property of the Right Hon. Lord Ts si►LEI-own, were
Ilelen from a field adjoining his refich.nce at Ongar
hill, near Chettfey.