Star.
London, England, 1811-12-16 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ST4R.

In consequence of theAtrtiggle. Charles Bowtelli ti
boy above mentioned, *hied, that 18 years ago h.,
was apprentice on board a Gravesend boat. He re..
metnbered a serjeant coming on boardaloag with an-
other man, as' pas'sengers to go to London. The sew
jeant called for a bottle of beer, which witness having.'
given-him, he offered him a shilling, and said, "Mae,
my lad, is a shilling, and I enlist you as a drummer-I
or fifet for his Majesty King•Geotge." Witness thought
he was joking, took the shilling, as he supposed it was
in payment of the beer, and presently brought him
sixpence in change, which the serjeant refused to take.
Witness then went down to his cabin to go to bed.
In the mean time his master having got a better job,
and there being only two-passengers, he called a boat-
to take the soldier and his companion on board al
vessel just going to sail. • The Serjeant •then came'
and dragged him out of bed, and said he must came
with him. Witness cried very loud for help, when
Mr. Fonsick, who was in the ferry-beat alongside, I
came on board, and rescued him from the Serjeant. I
—A scuffle then ensued, when the Serjeant drew his
sword, which Fonsick snatched from him, bnike it,
and threw it into the Riv a. Witness went on shore ,
next morning to get his breakfast, when he saw the
Serjeant in the High-street, Grayeseird, and being
1 afraid of his going to take him, he ran away. tie'
never heard that the S-..rje ant, had been murdered, or
leven hurt. The next witness was a Waterman, naniid
Waters, and be deposed nearly to the same Clr et a.;
the first witness, with respect to the poise of the
scuffle ; but he added, that after he saw Tonsick
break the sword, ht threw the Serjeant down in his
(w itnest's) boat, and limped upon him. Ftmsicki
then went aft, and the serjeant gra up again, and sat
at the opposite end of the boat, tramming that, he
would seek redress for the ill usage he hid received. )
Witness then put Fonsick on board another Graves-
end boat, after which he linded the serjeant, whom
he saw next morning c,ftning out of the house of Mr.
Cr uden, the Magistrate 2 sit Gravesend. He never
heard that the snluirr was killed. If he had been, lie
must have heard of it. It appeared from fiirther testi-
mony, that there was something like malice In the
conduct of Ashhour, who had frequently told Fon-
sick that he had the means of liangaig him. Under
1 al the circumstances of the case, the Magistratesl
thouLtht it their date to admit Mr. Fonsick to bail, to i
be forthcoming when called upon, which was com-
plied with accordingly.
Saturday Eliza Deadman, an antiquated matron,
was fully committed, from Hatton Garden Office,
charged with stealing a quantity of halfpence from
the bar rf the Carpenter's Arms public house, in
James-street, Clerkenwell. As was al id for stealing
a quantity of apparel from the box of his fellow-1
lodger, at Hampstead.
Mary Parker was charged at Union Hall, by Mr.
Story, linen-draper, in the Borough, with waling a
piece of printed cotton, containing 28 yards. Mel
cotton was barging out at the door, and fastened
tv:th a piece of pack-thread to the handle of the shop-
bell The prisoner not perceiving this circumstance,
took hold of it to pull it down, and had got one end
of it under her clothes when the bell began to ring:
This excited the attenticn of Jr.:s Story, who imnirs.'
diately came to the door, and taught her in the tact,
with one end of the cotton in her band. Mr. Story
immediately sent for an officer, who took her into,
custody, andilm was fully committed for triaL

Sin—Many plans have 'mei stigge4rd. throrifa.
the 'tedium of the public prints f r lessening there) :
sumptio* of bread i•apd it has been very propenv
recommended that rice should he brought into
,tire ar
a substitute. The following very simple plan h 4,
b:eri'adopted in some fainites in this neighbouthooti.
and iflenerally folloirecl, would be of incalculatil:
benefit to the country,
On one day of the.week, ate whole family dice on
.bolted rice only. ' • " • .
To abstain tram meat and bread at...dinner, one day
in the week, can be no very assent privation; and at
times like these, ft ia.worshy of the highest pitronati.
One potaid R.ce cost:, 64.
Bum: ise lute - - - 4.
Sitgar ler Otto • - - *41-1-161-
and which will dine four perscus. • ,
yor Ann; tow persons snake a &liner!
there is not oily n 'treat saving in a fainily's As: en;
diture, but a certsinty of.leaeming thin 'cir.s.•ii
of flour and me4,produc:itg.to the pisbUc a sect:
dgaitat 'Emile, mid urrrually a better static it. t!.s
butcher, the baker, and the farther.
1 am, Si,- your's, &c. •
tietc.streei.
P.S. I: is necessarythe public shottli be catt:or.s:f
against the use o(low stnil che.tp Ricii-t it is offered
fon sale, at perhaps half the price of'ibe fine- article
it not:ohly yields cons:dthahly less Os 1,41645. but :s
unwhoksonie, being, nothing • but • part ei the .oid
stores of vessels returned flOlll a low, voyage, and
which have beLn I.cl Ted u 'tit . for tisk use of 'the
crew, and sold for dr:• public cons•imption—a pl.n
which ought to be severely reprobated.

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The Easx India tkirecuns have entered into a re.
solution not tu drink, at their own tables or at. tl Ls:
of other persons, any wines whatever of !rend pro-
duction until it shall apnea- that the exchange in
favour Csf this ccuntiy. We trust this example wdt
be generally followed.
The r,tiue of Dr. it Rat Ws Oa TTA SM.,/ nla
has beenso lcsnb proved, that nothing Of the present
day can bear a competition with it, in all the diffe-
rent stages of a certain disease. which it effectually
cures and eradcates from the habit,-without exciting
the painful feelings and exposure that attends saliva-
tion—without debilitating the constittition in arty de.
gee, or even requiring confinement fi om business ur
restriction of diet. The radical Virtues of these Ines.
double Drops have proved their claim tei pubic au•
peohation for more than 30 years. In all the debiler
of both sexes they prove a weer-fail:rig restorative.—
whether the debility is produced try coo free use of
mercury, by illicit pleasures, or the effects of a warm
climate• To travellers and those gokigibroad. they
; cannot be recominended too strongly, as they will re-
ceive a safe, speedy, and complete cure,- in .all.old
stubborn gleets, and every wesiknets• that affects tr.*.
i bladder and organs of urine. Be its efficacy mailir
women Wee become mothers, who for many yeare
had been of that happiness.—Sold wholesale
and retail, ak/atr. Butler's, No. 4, Cheapstde,-corner
of Paternoster-rote; and retail, by llelant and Sharpe
Portsmouth • -Halrand Johnson; Gosport • A4nutfe
Weston, Mallory,: and Jones, Port sea; Trewman,
Exeter ; Cookwurthy..Glenville, Cilbert, and Hnx.
land, Plymouth; Newhitry, Doblin j Baxter and Mac.
donald, Glasgow; Smith, Maiderston. Suomi and
Cargill, Edinburgh; Ottawa, Baths Russ and hleok.
Hull ; Gregson and Billingiti Liverpnoi; Stains and
Lynch, Manchester; triwert, NorwiCh ; Knott and
Lloyd, Birmingharn rGregory, Brighttiti; Eifirards
and Penny, Liverpool ; and most Medicine Venders,
in bottles, at 'A. 9d. 41. 6d. & £l4.
, SEA-COAL METP .0 .ti ' I{4

WANTON ROBBERY AND ASIAITI.T.—A few days
since, as a young lady was crossing the fields, be-,
tween Camden Town and Somer's 1 own, about
past six in the evening, she was stopped by two
chimney-sweeps, the one of them carrying a sack .n 1
soot on his back, who ordered her to stand and de-
liver her money. The young lady, terrified in the
extreme at being thus accosted, vark to her heels gud
ran with all her speed towards Camden Town. The
sweep, without a sack, instantly pursued, and socit
caught her. As soon as the other had joined him,
they threw her down on the ground, the oneholding
her prostrate, whilst the other deliherately emptied
the greater part of the contents of his sack over her
face, at the same time rubhing it into her mouth,
ears, eyes, 4tc. They then rifled her pockets, and after
recommendbiglrer to wash herself in the first horse.
pond she met with, ran off exulting at the succes a of
their brutal outrage.
Wednesday a hawker.. from Glocester was commit.
tad to York Castle, for buying two guineas at Shed
field, for which he had given. 47 shillings. He is ela,
take his trial for the misdemeanour.
Moses Haler is committed to Reading gaol, chaev
ed with the .Murder of Victorma Hughes, of Nets
Windsor, by giving her arsenic to procure aly.rtion.
The Rev. latwts PoweLL has been filed A:A for
preaching in an unlicensed house at Llanrwst, Den-
bighshire, by a Magistrate of Rhydlanver.
FIRES.—An alarming fire broke out last night
about seven o'clock, in Kingsland-road, which en-
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tirely de,troyed three houses, and damaged several
others before it was got under.
A fire broke out last week in a stable at Warmin-
ster, Somersetshire, by which two horses were. sot-
focated.
Thursday morning a fife broke out in the coach
manufactory of Parry and Co. in Chester, which,. its
the course of two hour,, nut withstanding the exer-
rtions of the firemen, was completely gutted.
A fire broke out ou Wednesday in -a hog-stye, at
.Chatteris, in the Isle of Ely, and which, controuniea..!
ting to the premi,es of Messrs. Bennington and Petit,
reduced them to ashes. Between 20 kin.l 30 stacks.
of grain, hay, Ste. were consumed.
Mrs. Peacock's boarding-school near Hooper's.hill,•
Margate, was discovered to be on fire both on Sun,
day and .Weinesday, but each time was extinguished
by the promptitude of the neighbours, with:int m
rial damage. A female servant has been taken up,
and conveyed to Dover, on suspicion of being the in-
cendiary.
Last week, J. King, whilst driving a waggon from
Maidslone • w Allington, being in x state of titmice:
don, got on the shafts, from whence he fell under the
'wheels atiii was* killed ;—he has left 1 wile and I
ehilikeit;t •. .
Dud% the heavy gale of Thursday sennight, the
sea mad; a breach an the foundation of the Custom- tiwtl WATIA 14,01*1210/1 SSWQE T04,5011140W.
Buse at M..3egate, part of the building consequently Mnu ...... 16 mimosa aft.
ire way, and the rentaincler.isia great jeopardy. Aftrave 34 • alicusti. sJav
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111SAIII. ty.:yrpier did nut sustain the least LutwoN Nino* beLmig,, ei2katt_puer, a,
vighbed share, mud u the Star-Ofk, Ttalioll•rar.
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