Star.
London, England, 1818-10-07 00:00:00

GLASGOW' CIRCUJ2 COURD, SEPT. 30.

Simon Ross, James Boyd, John Govan, and Char-.
toile Hutchison, were indicted for housebreaking
and theft, and reset of theft ; in so far, as on the 15th
April, 1818, they broke into the house of 3lr. John
Scouter, jun. wright, in Rutherglen, and stole there-
from a sarsnet spenser, a silk shawl, a scarlet mantle,
a pair of shoes, and a sarsnet gown. The-Jury found
unanimously Ross and Boyd Guilty of the ,house-
breaking and theft; and Govan and Hutchison Guilty
of the reset. Boyd, on account of his youth, being
about 14 years of age, and Hutchison, on account of
her former good c•iaracter, were both recommended
to mercy.
OCT. 1.--. Margaret Kennedy was indicted for utter-
ing guinea notes of the Stirling Banking Company,
knowing them to be forged. The forgery libelled
on was a wretched imitation of the genuine note, and
supposed to be imported from Ireland. She pleaded
Not Guilty. The notes produced were proved by the
late and present Cashiers, and a Clerk of the Stirling
Bank, to be forgeries from a plate.
Mr. Gearrame, as Counsel for the prisoner, objec-
ted to the production of James M'Ewan, Clerk, a, in
the copy of, the execution of citation returned to the
Court there was a misnomer, and the objection was
sustained. He then held, that owing to the absence
of Mr.M‘Ewan, the forgery was not proved as laid in
the indictment ; for the signature of that Gentleman
was not proved to be a forgery by the person s'ho was
best able to speak to the fact—the person subscribing.
Lord Gt LIES charged the Jury. He &served that',
the forgery was proved, and the remark made by the
prisoner's Counsel respecting the absence of M'Ewan
was not feasible. The circumstances against the pri-
soner are, that she had a number of these forged
notes in her possession ; that she had used them while
she had change in her pocket ; that she gave a false'
account of the way in which she got one of them,
and that the dropped two of the forged notes when
the officers were about to search her.

The Jury retired for a few minutes, and, viva voce,
found the prisoner guilty of uttering one forged note
to Thomson and another to Cuthbert, knowing them
to be forged, and recommended her to mercy, on ac-
count of her want of education.
After a suitable address by Lord Gtra.tEs, she was
sentenced to be hanged on Wednesday, November 4.
During the whole trial she appeared to be much
affected; and when the judgment was made known
to her she said something.; but she was crying so
much that it was impossible to kaow what she was
saying. Shy is only 22 years of age, and it is said that
she can neither read nor write.

OCTOBER s.—Simon Rosa and James Boyd, con-
victed of house-breaking and theft, "committed at lin-
therglen, were sentenced to be hanged on Wedaesday,
the 4th Xovember, and John Govan and Charlotte
Hutchison, convicted resetting the articles stolen, to
twelve months confinement in Bridewell.—Loss and
Boyd heard the address of the Judge, Lord SUCCOTH,
with the greatest indifference. Boyd is only fourteen
years of age.

Saturday morning, a corn-mill in the Gorbals of
Glasgow was discovered to be on fire. The city fire-
engines were dispatched with the greatest prompti-
tude, and set to work in ten minutes after the al.trm
was given. The fire was raging with great fury on
all sides within the building; but notwithstanding
this alarming appearance the steam-engine was saved,
and most olthe grain, though partly damaged.

The first stone of the new Corn Market at Guild-
ford, was laid, last week, with much Masonic cere-
mony by the MAYOR, attended by the Corporation;
at the conclusion of which a salute was fired, whilst
the bells rang a merry peal, and the populace gave
three cheers.

A man calling himself.J.Wheeler, was apprehended
at Guildford, on the evening before Catherine-hill
Fair (Thursday last), having 240 counterfeit shillings
on his person. A parcel containing .q. 20 more, was
also found near him when taken, and whiCh was the
cause of suspicion, as he had fallen from intoxication,
and the parcel attracted the notice of two gentlemen.
Monday night the house of Mr. Williams, of Sun-
court, Whitechapel, was robbed of furciture and plate
to a great amount.

Monday se'nnight the body of an aged man, named
Elias Grime, was found near the Red Lion, at Snig-
brook, near Blackburn, which public house he had
visited the preceding evening, but his stay was short,
and he then appeared in good health.

Yesterday John Preswick, a young man, while
walking along the bank of Mr. Fletcher's Wharf, at
Wapping, slipped, and was precipitated from a height
of fifty feet on some stones, which-dashed his head to
pieces, and he expired on the spot.
Saturday Mr. Seville, an Officer of the Privy Coun-
cil Chamber, London, arrived at the Head Police Of-
fice, Dublin, bringing in custody K. O'Neil, charged
with murdering, in the county of Sligo, about six
years ago. M. Callboy. The prisoner was brought
from Guernsey. Under the existing laws of that
island, no warrant from the Judges of the King's
Bench, or other Magistrates, can be executed, and it
was found necessary to assemble the Privy Council,
to sign the warrant for the arrest of the prisoner,
who was on Saturday committed to Kihrrainham jail
for trial.

Friday night, five men, armed with pistols, entered
the lands of Knuck, the property of H. Milward,
Esq. on the Mortkstown-road, in the south Liberties
*of Cork, and proceeded to the dairy-house, where
Murphy, the dairyman, and his wife, were in bed;,
they demanded eatrance, saying they came to look
for a deserter, but finding they could not be admitted
they broke in the door, and, putting a case of pistols
to Murphy's head, demanded the key of the box from
his wife, who gave it to them. They next proceeded
to rob the house, and on their coming to the box she
with heroic courage knocked down one of them, and
was herself knocked down in turn by a blow of a
pistol on her head. Murphy, who was guarded by
two of the villains, rushed out of the bed and attacked
the five, and in a few minutes his son, who lived in
an adjoining house, having come with a spade to his
assistance, they succeeded in beating the fellows off
the lands, and pursuing them to the Monkstown-
road, in hopes of taking one of them, but without ef-
fect. We regret to say that the elder Murphy has
lost his left eye in the scuffle; one of the fellow's hats
and a brass-barrelled pistol were taken from them,
and are now in Mr. Milward's possession.

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