Star.
London, England, 1804-08-16 00:00:00

Saturday night,. Mr. Pnixtv Brame, ordnanceo
Bore-keeper at Tarbert, was found dead n
door of his lodgings in Creagh-lane, Limerick. On
inveßigaring the caufe of his death next day, by the
Right Woithlptul AMTMUL VIMCAMT,
be Efqmu& have
Mayor,
AS Coroner, and a Jury. it appeared
raifed up the window of his bed-room, and, having
but one arm, fuppofed lislt his equilibrium, and fell
thereout, in confequence of which their undid! was',
—Accidental Death.
LaftWednefday evening the (tables of Mr.Taavra,
of Blackall-(beet, took fire, owing to the triiling
over of a pitch ot. Fortunatel, by the exertions or
Mr. Howl, of the Pipe Water Office, affißed by ,
Sir WILLIAM Worrortaorow and many other Gen-
tlemen, the fire was extinguifhed without doing any
material damage.
The•back concerns of Lord NO‘BUIT, at G irdi-
net's-row, were entered-on Wednefday evening by a
few plunderers, who robbed the place of fume pto-
perry belonging to his Lorilhip.
Tinulday mornits7, Captain Waxsow of the peace
eflabfithment, in consequence of information, appre-
hended an impure, on wbom he found so 'guineas in
Bank notes recently The frail fair. we ac-
knowledged that Ilse had purloined thole notes and
others to the amount of 24 guineas, the night before
fro a countryman with whom the bad an amour.—
Shem silo 'acknowledged that the had expended AI
guineas of the money on old clothes in Nankai.
Itreet. Mr. Witsos immediately repaired thither,
and recovered the funs Co expended, and as a fair
value bad not been given for fuel firm (the articles
not being worth three guineas), be apprehended the
moratoria's, trader, and had him committed to prilun.
Two offenders,
.70Crs and APAlebase, efcaped from
the gaol of Weerford on Sunday laR. The former
is one of thofe • ao lately broke out of the New Pri-
am, in Green-hreet.
Firma Burks and Malrfell Rye., for the murder
of Simon Ilansmond, were left for execution, at
Limerick.

CAUTION--At the late Exeter affize;, two appren-
tices to a farmer in Devortfhir e. Were tried up
n in-
diaments, charging them with falfely declating,
upon their enlifling themftives into His Majetly's
Marine Forces, that they were not apprentices ;
thereby fraudulently obtaining the bpnnty ufually
given to Marine Recruits, with intent to cheat and
defraud His Majefly of the fame. The fads being
clearly proved, the Jury found them guilty, and they
were each fenreneed to pay a fine, and to be impri-
Coned for the fpace of three calendar months.
As a warning to Apprentices, againft this fpecies
of offence, which is becoming too ficquent, it may
not be improper to add, that the Court has power
to pnnifh offenders of this defcription—with the pil-
lory, whipper, and even tranfportatinn.
Friday night fall the inhabitants of Egbam and
its vicinity were greatly alarmed by a peal of thun-
der, the lcudeft and moll terrific ever remembered :
it failed upwards of a minute, and was millaken
by many perfons for the chock of an earthquake ;
indeed its &efts were nearly fimilar. Moll of the
honks were thaken by the violence of the (hock,
and in Come of them, the occupiers really inutgined
the whole of the rafters and joins were cracked.
Monday, in the afternoon, a riot broke out among_
the labourers at Poplar, originating from a difpute
they had amongst themfelves, which was the bell place,
and belt men in, Connaught or bluntter. There being
feveral hundreds of them armed with bludgeons,
the Civil power was called out to fupprefs the tu-
mult. Two of the moll aBive of the rioters being
fecund, the telt difperfed. The two men were
taken before a Magiatrate, where ['sewing much con-
trition, and promising to condua themielves with
propriety for the future, they were difcharged with
an admonition.
On Thurfday evening, at a public-boofe at Ban::
Top, in Manchefler, a peth.ra (truck the maid fey-
vane fo violent a blow on the, head with a hair
broom, as to frafture her fkull in a dreadful man-
ner, infnmesch that her life is defpaired -of. The
girl having Rruck a dog belonging to the offender,
for dirtying a room, was the occation of his cum-
the rafb
A dreadful thunder-florm took place at Chipping
Sodbury, on Friday 1.111, which ferioully alarmed the
inhabitants of that place. Mr. James Wickham, a
butcher Irving thtre, had three fine (beep (truck
dead with the lightning, which was extremely vivid
and awful. A young man, in the aft of throwing
a wheel barrow full of (tones into a lime kiln, pear
Wotton-ander•Edge, was in a moreeot Muck dead
on the edge of the kiln, and precipitated headlong to
the bottom. It is a remarkable citcumflanee, that,
though his clothes were not ringed, his body was
but nt in a dreadful manner.
Lath week, a common beggar, known by the name
of Scotch game, paired throngh Liflceard, on her way
to Falmouth, having, it is furpoted, a pars from
Mancheller, for that plaice. She had a fine livlt
girl, about three years and a half old with her,
whom, front the dreadfui niage fhe gave her, it was
fuppofed the had flol.tra. She was taken up by order
of the Mayor of Liftsear,l, and fepatated from the
child, who Welt talked of her own mania, at lntmet
fetid the had a ga7den, that the gonfcb7tvics were
gone horn it; Paid that the had b-en at fclosl, that
the could tell her letters, and fpcll a little. She was
fent for to dinner by a gentlewoman of lallteard.and
(At at table, and behaved as one ailed to Inch a Chet
tine; laid, up,.n being h. 1.1 the was go.i.g dine at
a gualewornas, the thotild not go with the old
things put en her. by the na:ly new mammy that had
her now. When ;tilted ltLr name, laid it was Ann
Grey or Crey ; and, upon teeing a bonnet, laid it
was like her own man nta's Theic hats
can be filly proved. AhLr Litt one tight, the
woman was examined, A. .1 the L ..;.1 given tip to he; •
the grounds i t futpictutt rv,t being thin ;ht thong
enough to radii it, and tint a. cut on t-oardi Fal
mouth. The chid is Its
file .ks differentl) tra.m tl.e 1,•• talks brawl
Scotch; 10)5 h.r mumn..; i• aZ:a 111 C, bat this is her
new mammy. When tanked o hete the bv.d, (4:.!--
" over there, by the barnacles." It ibis would give
any clue to de. 1.•fi...t. of the Lax, ati 1,. •
•,f rcfcuing her Irani I,ht of •
afford us the higic-A

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