Star.
London, England, 1810-12-01 00:00:00

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.

No mixture of grey whatever is admitted into the prcient or-
der of mourning ; the under dresses arc likewise invariably of
black silk. Black kid shoes, with jet roses, and plain black or
white silk stockings. _ _

In regard to jewellery, every species of jet ornament vre worn;
plain rows of large beads seers to have the preference above
fancy necklaces; large Maltese crosses are innumerable; the
long monastic necklaces and crosses are also much worn ; and
cameos in rings, brooches, combs, and crescents, are in the high-
est estimation ; they are much used also in necklaces large in the
centre, but of a diminished size towards the ends.
Black is not only :he entire colour, but such also is the colour
of the times, that though the metropolis is thronged, there is
neither gaiety nor bustle in our streets, and so general is the
inourting that fashion is no where to be found.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

QOURT OF KING'S BENCH, NOV. i 9.
YAL3E 1114 PR ISON II EN To—..COLTA:TON V. PRA RSOM.
This was an action brought to recover damages
for false imprisonment.
The plaintiff was a young Lady, and the daughter
of a Baronet residing at Putney. The defendant was BowsTwerr.— Yesterday Blair and Dak, in cnstody
a hosier, residing at No. 4, Picadilly. for uttering a forged draft for A 1.300, purporting to
From the evidence adduced, it appeared that the be drawn by Greig and Corfield, solicitors, upon
plaintiff, accompanied.by her brother, a youth of 14 Were, Bruce, and Simpson, bankers, in Bartholomew-
years of age, went into the shop of the defendant, and lane, underwent a final elimination, and were fully
purchased stockings to the amount of two pounds, committed for trial.
and tendered a €lO note in payment, which he heso On Thursday, when 'lonian, the gaoler, belonging
fated to take. alledging that he feared it was 4 forgery. to Tolhill-fields Bi idewell, went from the Office to
At last, however, he took the note, after the plaintiff fetch some prison( rs for examination, he was informed
had put her name and address on the back of it.-1
a prisoner, charged with a capital offence, had made
This happened in June last, at about ten o'clock in, his escape from the prison, supposed to be disguised
the evening. The plaintiff and her brother then lett as a woman, On going to the Brown Bear, in Bow-
the shop, and proceeded on her way home ; when street, he saw a man in the passage, whom he
they arrived at Knightsbridge, she was somewhat thought he had some knowledge of, and challenged
alarmed at the lateness of the night, and endeavoured him as being a prisoner in Tothill-fields Bridewell, in
to get some one to accompany h.,' home. The inha- the morning; and asked hina his name ? the man denied
bitants of the house where she applied were gone to having been a prisoner, and saidhis name was Neville;
bed, and before she had proceeded far on ber road, Homan, not being satisfied with this answer, turned
she was accosted by two men, one of them being the up the trowsers which he had on, and discovered that
defendant, who, it appeared, had followed the Plain- Ihe had got an iron on. He was afterwards identified
tiff at a distance, and who, after walking with her as 1 by the turnkey and clerk of the prison to be the pri-
far as Little Chelsea, they began to enquire for a, soner who had escaped, and that his II ;MIS was James
constable. They at last knocked at the door of Mr. Britton. It was observed, that the stupid fellow de-
Redhead, a baker, at Little Chelsea, and when it was served to be punished for going to the place where,
opened, the defendant pushed the plaintiff into the of all others, he was the most likely to be discovered.
shop, at the same time shutting the door, and placing It is supposed, however, he went there for the pur-
Lirnself against it, to prevent any one from opening pose of seeing some persott who would tell him how
it. The defendant said, he wanted a constable, as or where to get his iron off. He was sent back to his
the plaintiff was a passer of forged notes ; and on her old quarters.
rebutting the charge, in saying she was the daughter
Woestrzesereem—Yesterday Catherine Higgins was
of a Baronet, the defendant turned her into ridicule.
fully committed, charged with stealing a hat from the
Mr. Redhead interfered, and undertook to see Miss
i shop of Mr. Pedder, in Chiswell-street ; as was
Colleton home ; and it was more than half-past one.
Mary Notting, for robbing her furnished lodgings.
when they arrived at Putney. The defendant fol.
A backney coachman was fined 20s. fore xtorting
lowed, abusing and reviling them all the way they
more than his fare.
went, informing the plaintiff that he knew Lord El- i
lenborough, and would take her before him. On the I MARLBOROI24I-I•STREET.••• Yesterday B. Edward:, a
Monday following, the plaintiff received a letter from
hackney coachman, was fined 40s. and costs, for ex-
the defendant, informing her that the £lO note was
forting from Mrs. White,..s master, was fined 20s. and
of Fulham, more than his
,
not a forgery, that he had passed it ; but offered no fare ;and Pace, his
apology forgery,
his previous conduct, costs, for not appearing to three summonses, when the
The Jury retained a verdict for the plaintiff.—Da-
driver absented himself.
mages R5O. WHITECH APLL.—Yesterday a Custom-house officer,
on duty on board a foreign vessel in the River
Thames, near Blackwall, Was charged with having
stabbed with a knife, in a dangerous manner, the boat-
swain of the said vessel, who was taken to the Lon-
don Hospital without hetes of recovery. The pri-
soner was committed to Clerkenwell, to be brought
up again when the fate of the wounded man shall be
ascertained.
Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, the house
of Mr. Coombes, the sign of the White Horse, in
Baldwin's Gardens, was entered by some villains sup-
posed to be by means of a picklock key ; they then
proceeded to break open the bar, and ransacked the
drawers ; they afterwards proceeded to search the
rooms up stairs, where they found some valuable ar-
ticles, together with cash to a large amount. They
afterwards went down stairs and poured off liquor to
a very considerable amount, with which they got
clear off, although there is a watchman stationed
within A few y; r.is of the house.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, NOV: so.
iItNIPTON V. C.TOVEY.

This WIS an action on a bill of exchange for 4300,
of whick the defendant was the acceptor.

The payment of the bill was resisted upon two
grounds, first, upon the assertion of the defendant
that it had already been paid, and next upon a
charge that the plaintiff had exacted usurious interest.
In order to support this defence, a person named
Hind, the drawer of the bill, now a bankrupt, was
called. He ..,tated that the bill in question, was drawn
as a matter of accommodation between him and the
defendant, and that the plaintiff had discounted it.—
It became due, he said, in the month of April, 1808,
and was paid in the May following. Witness de-
clared that he had received *l5O from Govey, as his
share of the bill, with which, and those new bills of
he had taken it up. He could not account
being in possession of the plaintiff, although he

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