Star.
London, England, 1817-08-09 00:00:00

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• I WPM: Aar* the extraordinary Pedestrian, finished
116 w.!lk of 1050 miles in twenty successive dam IL
l'ortmeadnw. near Orf,:rd, on Tuesday last. fie
.„,„1. ,bruno his wonderful tall without erFeriencing
any ill effects. and appt:•red in as good health and
spirit; at the termination as at the commencement of it.
The following i . a statement of each day's progress:
July It rant Day • 531 July 29 Thirtit'eneh • 40i
la Second • j.. AI Fourteenth . f:t
19 Third • 524 31 fitreenth • 4/
t:o I::,orth . SO 1 Aug. 1 Sixteenth - !4
21 Filch • • 41 2 ':.'evetternth - Si
V:: Sixth . 524 3 Eighteenth
23 Seventh - Stlf 4 Nlne:Mtb .52i
24 Elgirh - -5,2 A .i. I-Twentieth Mb
25 Ninth . 521: Walla? to ar.4 from his
2G Tenth . 62.; fa!gings at V.'oivreein St
27 Wevei:th -4::
......
2S Twelfth - s''{ it'Lt)

SINGULAR Pnormat-- In a ccaTipany in which it*
iifieulty of firing the atter.tien, even tor a few ma.
menu, on any one subject, WAS discussed, a Gentle.
man offered to give his horse to any ',arson who
.:ould repeat' the Luau's Prayer without allowing bis
nind to wanders One of the patty gladly accept::g
he proposal, immediately began—•• Otlf FATIRI
vh.ieh att in 1-leaven--but mind riu to hare tn.
'sidle and saddle too I" by %hid) 4st ett;o4 rt, ef
:muse, lost his anticipated reward.

Lel I:v7 EL

COUttl. OF CPANCEItY, AtJGUjf 3.
THE OPERA HOU.iE.
WATURS V. Tavt.ott.
This was a motion by Mr. HART on the part of
the plaintiff, who prayed tai hive the property of the
King's Theatre assi stet over to him, and his title
thereto made good on hi. payinz Tutu Court the sum
of £29,001), whiela, .€7,000 furmerly paid, and
certain mor'g r.zes a,1.1 whir claims allowed in the
Master's report, would m eke the whole purchase
inkney of 5E71.000.
Sir SAMUEL RostaLT ()ppm:a tl:e motion on the
round that Ow Mister had not had sufficient evi
dencu bit ,re him when he made his report. One of
the solicitors in the cause also stated that a bill of ex-
ceptioas was tih d ai.ainst the Master's report on this
grove,!.
The Lni:DCllANcgunft in motel, that as the Mas
ter% rep -it was excepted to, lie wui`ied to see all the
documents on which the report had been founded, in
order to ascertain precisely the relative situation of
these parties as vender an,' vendee. as well as mon-
gager and mortgagee. His Lorssliip would therc-
tors look into the report and the all-Davits that night,
and in the mean Cm.. desired that the case should
stand over until to-morrow.

TA‘l.-it V. RBERS.
Mr. Suorous moved to diss4ve an injunction oh-
twined bi Mr. Tayl •r, for retraining the delzndant
from wiling certain property, inducting the Opera.
box K.. 75, and silver tickets for admissien to the
same. The property had been taktat in execution, by
cr-rt iin judgment creditors, of shout the defendant
WAS °tie
Mr. HART, on the part of the plaintiff, intimated
that i.e wriiii.l riot oppose the dissolution on the silver
tickets being given up, if the injunction was dissolved
Wi bout prejudice to the question of env', or any
!store action that might be btought.-o:dered
ac-
cordingl
DURHAM ASSIZES, TUESDAY, AUGUST' S.
The Jadges arrived here yesterday, 311(1 this day aC
one o'clock, they proceeded with the business of the
assize.

Susanna Walk" aged ID, was soon after put to the
Bar, indicted for having uttered a forged res iv
purpot ting to be. a note of the Batik of Bac khouse and
Co. at Darlington, knowing the same to be forged.
Mr. Serjeant 1-Im.Pck,for the prosecution, stated,
that there was no evidence of the forging of the note
by tilt prisoner. The evidence, however, would shew
that the note was a forgery, and that the prisoner bad
uttered it ; and the sole question for the Jury, after
these facts shiuld by proved, would be, whether the
circumstances were sufficient to :hew that the prisoner
knew at the.time of uttering the note that it was a
forgery
Bei.jamin Fenwicke, linen-draper at South Shields.
dirised. chat the prisoner had tendered the note at
his ship for calicoes and other articles. Suspecting
that the note was not good. lie vimmunicated his sus-
. piciens :o the prisoner, who said, " If it is not gond,
it is a bid job for me." The prisoner agreed to re-
main in the shop while he went out to get the note
examined ; and he left her in the shop with his sister.
The sister stated, that in about five minutes after
her brother went out, the prisoner said she would call
set a house further down.the street, and return again
immediately. She accordingly went out, but did not
return.

William Wallace, an accomplice, stated that it had
been agreed between himself, John Wilson, afia:
James Brown, alias Michael Logan, one Butdan, and
another person, that Wilson and Burden should go
to South and North Shields to utter these notes, and
that the witness and the other person named Dubor-
dieu should go to Sunderland for the same purpose.
The notes were lurnished to them by Burdon's wife.
Thefrisouer had lived for some time with Wilson,
but was not his wife. He knew nothing about her
share in the concern.
Addison, a Clerk of the Darlington Bank, proved
the note to be a forgery.
The examination of the prisoner was read, in which
she stated that she had been sent by Wilsim and Bur-
dun to pass the note, without knowing that it was a
forgery. When she left Fenwick's shop she went
to these men, and mentioned that the note was sus-
pected, and they advised her to leave the town as
fast as she could, and that she tad accordingly done.
The Cwt." BARON observed to the Jury that there
was ao evidence of her knowledge of the forgery ex-
cept the suspicious circumstance of her escape, which
she had in some mesure explained.
Verdict—Ntst Guilty.
CHM? Dattox.—ig Susannah Walker, you are a
very young woman, but there is reason to belieie that
you have long beer. engaged in vicious practices.
The Jury have, and most justly on this evidence,
found you Not Guilty ; but there is great reason to
suspect that the whole truth *has not come out. If
the Jury had found you guilty, I should now have to
pronounce your sentence of death, instead i f thns ad
sfresing you. Remember the danger from which
you h.; ve jest escaped, and let the reflection have its
Froper influence on your future conduct."
NORWICH, AUGUST 0.
Last night Sir %%CARY Glum and Mr. Justice
PZldOl-1 airived in this city from Bury ; and this day,
having attended Divine Service; proceeded to
b.aieess at the Shire-hall. The Chief Justice presi.
ded on the civil side, and Mr. Justice Amirr sat for
the trial of prisoner's.
William avdchifil, a boy under I-I, was indicted for
a burgl.iry, in breaking and entering the house of
George Eovell, of Downham, during the night of
he Itith of July last. It appeared from the evidence
Ci the prosecutor, a very infirm old man, that on the
rig:A of the flith of July, he was awoke from his
&Lep by t1;.2 noise of some ene, coming down the
chimney of Ira bed•roorm He got out el bed as ex-
peditiously as possible, and called to his daughter,
• At) slept in the next apartment ; and whilst she was
getting a light, he pbserved a person of small size
quit his room, and heard him unlock the front door
of the house, and escape. In his hurry, however, he
kit his bat behind him, and on inquiry next morning
the hat was ascertained to belong to the prisoner,
who was immediately apprehended : at first he de-
nied having any knowledge of the transaction, but
on being taken before a M.igistrate he confessed he
got down the prosecutor's chimney, but said he did
not intend to steal ail moue: lions him. He was

b4d-ranticr. and liad a great fancy to h tee a bird
And 4:Age which rrosecutor had limiging up in his
house. These fact-, were proved in evidence, und the
Jury found him giiiity, but recommended him to
mercy on account (,1 Inc youth.

MALWTONE ASSIZES, AUGUST 7.
SPECIAL JURIRS.

.THE KING V. JOHN 114)Y4 A:to STEPHEN SACKETT

MIA NCELLnit.

This was an 'indictment against the Defendants
for publishing a most disgusting libel, of and con-
cerning a Gentleman, turned Taylor, by writing in
paint, against the walls of his house, certain inscrip-
tions, imputing to hint the crime of perjury and other
atrnciou. offences.

Mr. GURNLY, Mr. TADDY, and Mr. Bettexs, ap-
peared for the prosecution.
It appeared that the Prosecutor was a Gentleman
of fortune and respectability, residing at Margate,
and that the Delcndreits were also inhabitants of that
to,' n. Mr. Boys being a s •licitor, and Mr. Chancellor
a baker by trade, and collector of tee tolls for Mar-
gate Pier. The Prosecutor had become obnoxious
to the Defendants respectively, Ist, in consequence
of his having appeared as a witness fu a cause, in
which Robins was the plaintiff, and a namesake of
the defendant Boys was the defendant, which was an
actioa for false imprisonment, and in which tne de
leadatit acted as the attorney for hit namesake; and
ttd, in consequence of his having detected Chancellor
in selling light bread ta the Set-Bathing Infirmary,
at Margate, of which the Prosecutor was one af the
Goer:mots, or Visitors. Tie offence which was the
subject of this indictment, had been repeated three
times before the Pros-tator bad any su.picion that it
was asctibahle to the Defendants. Oii the 15th of'
June, the 2`.1t1 of July, mei the 25:h of October, in
the last year, he found teat the back and front of his
house were covered over in the night time with the
most disgusting and abominable inscriptions in oil
paint, the letters hung some of them two feet in
length, and painted in the most glaring colours.—
On each of these occasions the Prosecutor had copies
taken of the libellous matter, which was afterwards
erased by the operation of fresh painting. The case
of the Prosecutor was suppoi ted by his own testi.
mony and that of several persons of character and
respectability, the effect of their evidence being, that
on the two latter occasions, persons rriemblies the
Detentianis were seen in the right time at or near
the Prosecutor's house, and from those and other
circurn.eances, it was insisted the infeterce might be
drawn, that they were the authors of the libels. It
appeased, however, that there were several material
contradictions between the Prosecutor's own evidenc,
and that of his witnesses, most of whom contradicted
themselves and catch other.

Copies of the libels were produced, but they were
so disgusting and abominable in their' contents, that
they were handed to the Jury with:Jut being publicly
read, the Learned Counsel on both sides agreeing
not to offend the eyes and the ears of the public by
having them read aloud.
Mr. MAKRYATT and Mr. BOLLAND appeared for
the Defendants, on whose behalf a complete case of
alili was opened. The Learned Leader urged to
the Jury the improbability that the Defendants could
be guilty of composing the indecent and abominable
libels which had been cabmitted to their inspection,
both being men of the highest character and honour.
On behalf of his clients he disclaimed all idea of im•
puling to the Prosecutor the atrocious crimes men-
tioned in the libels. They had never suspected him
of such abominations, still less were they disposed to
make them the subject of positive charge. The
Learned Ceunsel happened to be placed in a most
difficult and unpleasant situation s—within the last
few days the real author of these indecent publics-,
tions had discovered himself to Mr. Boys, and volun-
tecred to give his evidence on this trial, and avow
his own guilt, if the ease of the Defendants was such
as to require such evidence. After such a disclosure,
perhaps a sentiment of honour, as well as of candour,
ought to restrain the Defendants from subjecting the
author to the peril of a prosecution, by putting him
into the witness's box, and therefore he should con-
tent himself by calling independent evidence cm the
part of the Defendants to negative that conclusion
of their guilt which had been strained from the evi-
dence for the prosecution.
Two witnesses were then called, the object of
whose testimony was to sustain an alibi, when
• Lord EtLerfaonot:cu (who very early in the case
thought there would be great difficulty in convicting',
the Defendants, upon the contradictory evidence
adduced for the prosecution) interposed, and es;
pressing his doubts still more strongly, the case went
to the Jury, who immediately found the Defendants
Not Guilty.
This case excited a great deal of interest, and the
Court was crowded the whole day to excess.