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London, England, 1810-09-01 00:00:00

PARISIAN FASHIONS.

The most elegant bonnets are surmounted by flowers, disposed
like those in a parterre. The lower part Is round, and bordered
with silk lace. No particular preterence is given to the species
of the flower nor the colour of the bonnet. The colours in ge-
neral are white, jonquil, sky-blue, and pink, in the garden, of
Tivoli. In these assemblies the ladies display a profusion of fea-
thers, while thost, who attend the promenades and the theatres,
on the contrary, wear only muslin caps. Here and there, among
the innumerable puffed trimmings, may be seen some.khiu—
Some trains in small plaits. All the trimmings are festooned.

Five hackney coachmen were convicted yeserday,
at Bow-street, in the penalty of 10s. each, for ob-
structing the highway, near the Haymarket theatre.

ESCAPE OF ROBERT ROBERTS AND HARPER.--Yes-
terday, Mr. CHURCHILL, as the senior Middlesex Ma-
gistrate, was in the chair, and Mr. Aris, senior, his
four ions, and the whole of the servants of the prism
were closely examined. It turned out, as was stated
yesterday, that the two prisoners were not supposed
to know each other, and that the whole of the gates,
leading from the confinement of Roberts, six in num-
ber, were found open in the morning, they having
been made fast at locking-up time, on the preceding
night. The prisoners then made their escape over
the wall, by ascending a new lodge in the prison, not
yet finished, and when at the top of the wall they
were supposed to have let themselves down by a rope,
aj a hook was found in the morning by Daniel Aris,
the jailor's son.—The most important witness was a
youth of the name of Macar, or M'Gar, who stated
some conversation which he had overheard betwixt Da-
niel Aris and Robt. Roberts. This youth was an evi-
dence against a party of burglars, and his testimony
relative to this affair, with other circumstances of cor-
roboration tending to implicate D. Aris with having
been privy to the escape of the prisoners, induced the
Magistrates to commit him to New Prison for trial for
aiding and abeting in such escape. It turned out that
Roberts had been indulged with walking in the gat den
of the prison, after he had been locked up in the even.
ing, as usual, at the same time as other prisoners.—
Neither of the watchmen could give any satisfactory
account of the business. The investigation closed
with the suspending of Aris, the Jail-keeper, the com-
mittal of Daniel Aris, his s6n, and the dismissal of
another of Aris's sons, who was a turnkey. Mr.
Newport, from New Prison, Clerkenwell, is appointed
successor to Aris, at the Coldbath-fields Prison. The
youth who gave evidence against Daniel Aris, was
committed to Tothill-fields, Bridewell, and to be kept
private. No clue has yet been had of Roberts or
Harper. The evidence against Roberts, relative to
the forgery upon the Bank, was quite conclusive, and
a woman he cohabited with was admitted an evidence
in the business. It would defeat the ends of justice
to publish the particulars of Roberts's examinations,
as several other persons are involved in the business
who cannot at present be found.

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719. THE JEDIPM OP TRZ STAR.

August so, t s to.
The following lines have been hastily written in
answer to these signed ALLEN CLINNINORAM, which
appeared a few days since in your paper, and if they
are thought worth insertion, they are at your service.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, a.

Awake, awake, my sleeping lyre,
And, equal to thy Master's fire,
No longer sooth the love sick swain,
But raise thy notes in stern disdain;
See, Scotia's Thistle tow'ring grows,
And lords It o'er the English Rose;
Vain hope ! that Rose immortal fiow'rs,
And in Britannia's bosom tow'rt!
Sweet Rose, thy charms In Britain's fair
Unrivali'd bloom—beyond compare,
In battle 'tis thy triumph glows,
What tints can match thee, bloodstain'd Rose?
In Acre's plains, on Sydney's brow,
Thy lustre bade the Tyrant know
What NeLson's thunders loud proclaim'd
On Nilus' banks, for Victory fam'd.
Hark! where on far Trafalgar's shores,
Again the British thunder roars !
So Talavera, on thy plains,
The blood-srain'd R.se the laurel gains;
But see! e'en now down Cos's tide
Th' ensanguin'd torrent rolling wide,
See Gallia's Lily bianch'd with fear:
Trembling avoid the English Spear !
It's warrior head the Thistle rears,
And tow'ring grows 'mid gloomy spears ;
Unyielding seeks the Battle's roar, •
And deeply lxtthes in hostile gore
The Shamrock too in honour glows,
Close by its side the sister Rose:
0 ever thus in union great,
May each support the parent state!
Let Gallia% Eagles proudly soar,
And rashly tempt the British shore;
Serenely great amid the storm,
BRITANNIA treats the threat with scorn !
See on her shield, in union sweet,
The Rose, the Shamrock, and the Thistle meet !
Yet Britain's Rose, her blood-stain'd Rose,
No rival fears, no rival knows !

THE SAMPFORD GHOS7.

The Taunton Courier, which has pledged itself to ex-
pose what it states to be a trick, has published the fol-
lowing particulars relative to the Sampford Ghost,
and promises more :
46 Mr. Chave, it appears, has lived in the house
(the haunted house) he now occupies at Sampford
IPeverell, about seven months. Before he came to
!this place to exercise his preient business of a huck-
ster, the premises in question were unmolested by its
present troublesome guest. Mr. Chave brings into
the aforesaid premises two servants, the one some-
what stricken in years, the other a girt about eighteen,
called Sally. A person named Taylor (Mrs. (.have's
brother), is also another inmate of the house.
66 About a fortnight ago two Gentlemen, from
Taunton, attended the troubled house, and requested
permission to pass the night in the haunted room.
Taylor looked out of his bed-room window, which is
next to the haunted room, and assured them, that it
would be of no use for them to sit up unless there
were females in the house, for otherwise nothing was
ever heard, and there were then no women in the
house. Entreaties were in vain, and the gentlemen
alluded to retired, after a promise of being admitted
the next morning. Accordingly they went to the
house early on the next day, and were entertained by
Mr. Chave with a history, compared with which Ba.
ron Munchausen's adventures form a series of proba-
bilities. After having had the monster described
(very much resembling a black rabbit, only wonder.
fully larger !) and which, when pursued, escapes
through the close palings of his garden in a moment,
permission was allowed to visit the haunted room,
but which was delayed by Mr. Chave a short time, be-
cause the maid-servants were not up. Proceeding at
last to the chamber, Mr. Taylor's room was passed
through. He was lying in bed Kith a drawn sword
on,it. The unfortunate chamber was then examined,
and agreeably to the prescribed mode of,incantation,
the floor was stamped upon, and the ghost politely en.
treated to favour his visitors with a few conversational
thumps, but it was not so inclined. Not a single
knock, tap, groan, or even a social grunt could be
extorted from it, and all attempts at a friendly dia-
logue proved utterly fruitless. In the adjoining room
where Taylor slept, some boards had been taken up.
A considerable hollow depth appeared underneath,
but hcw far it went Mr. Chave did not know. Sally
was interrogated as to the attacks which have been
made upon her by the monster. She observed, 6it
never came when there was light in the room. She
had caught it twice; that it was very large and heavy,
felt like a dog or rabbit, and so powerful that she
could not hold it ; that it usually came as soon as the,
light was withdrawn, and vanished on its appearance
—that she had repeatedly been slapped by some in-
visible means ; and that she lately saw through the
sheet, while her head was under the bed-clothes, a
man's hand and arm, perfectly white !' All this in
the dark, too ! Oh, Sally !! !
44 Since the above stated particulars occurred, it
has been ascertained that the ghost never visits Sally
while she is asleep ; for this damsel, in the middle of
the night lately, while two Gentlemen were in the
adjoining room, having got into a profound sleep, and
the ghost being perfectly i eaceable, the experiment was
tried by waking her. Soon after, Sally, by her repre-
sentations, evinced that the ghost had not forgotten
her, though, like Sally, it had thought bt to indulge
in a little nap.
46 But what end is proposed in the conduct of so
detestable a plan ? Our Readers must have a little
patience. We know the end in view, and the public
shall be very soon in full possession of it. In spite
of the ghost's solicitude to be always in the dark, we
are mistaken if we do not succeed iu bringing it to
light.
66 Of Sally, Taylor, and the old woman, we shall
say nothing at present. We have gone beyond our
limits,-and must postpone many other particulars con-
, netted with this vile farce until our next."

NEAT ASSIZES.

MAIDSTONE, AUGUST' 30.

,441/44

DOE. ON Tilt DEMISE OF HONYWOOD, V. LORD ItAIDJ-41.
This was an action of ejectment to recover the pos-
session of some small parcels of land, situated be-
tween Hythe and Folkston, in this minty, which
Sir John Honywood, the plaintiff, claimed AS belong..
ing to him, and Lord Itatinor cl timed as part of the
waste of his manor. The place in question was a
narrow slip of land, between a sea-wall and the sea,
called the Slipe ; and the evidence consisted of read-
ing a great number of ancient deeds, deducing the
title of the Honywonds from the time of Queen Eli-
zabeth to the present day.
For the defendant a great number of ancient deeds
were also read ; but on comparison of the several
deeds, they did not destroy the plaintiff's title; he,
therefore, under the direction of the Learned Judge,
had a verdict.—. The cause lasted for several hours.

CHALK r. WYATT.

This was an action of trespass, for entering the
plaintiff's close, in the Island of Sheppy, near the sea.
shore, and taking and carrying away the beach of the
sea. The defendant was Lord of the Manor, aid
claimed the right of taking all th. stones and beach
thrown up by the sea. This case was tried before, and
was a long.contested right between the parties ; the
Plaintiff contending that the Lord of the Manor had
no right to take the beach beyond the ordinary high
water mark; ani the defendant claiming it by a pre--
scriptive right, wherever it was cast up by the sea.
The case, however, went off on the form of the
pleadings—Lord ELLEN BOROUGH being of opinion,
that as the defendant had pleaded 'amply a right of
entry, for the purpose of taking the stones, that he was
not justified in coming with horses and carts, which
the evidence proved him in this instance to have done.
A verdict was taken for the plaintiff— Damages se2o.

CHARLTON V. FOWLS.

This was also an action of trespass for breaking his
dose. The defendant justified, as being a common
landing-place. The facts of the case were, that the
defendant landed his goods on a certain place on the
bank of the Medway; and the question was, whether
it was a common landing-place or not?—After a
great number of witnesses were-called, it turned out,
that from the time beyond the reach of memory the
spot in question was a common landing-place.—The
Jury therefore found a verdict for the defendant.

THE RING W. BROTHEHHEAD.
This was an indictment against the defendant for
having in his possession naval aores, the property of
his Majesty. By the evidence of a custom-house of.
ficer it appeared, tharhe 'saw the defendant's cart on
the Rochester-road, and suspecting that it contained
smuggled goods, he searched it ; but, instead of find-
ing any goods, he discovered 52 copper rings, marked
with the King's mark ; and also 1261 b. of new cop-
per in bolts.
Mr. GURNEY, for the defendant, addressed the
Jury, and stated, that he had bought them at Grave-
send, wholly ignorant that they Were King's stores,
of a person who abscbnded as soon as the defendant
was taken into custody. • No witnesses were, hbwever,
produced to prove these facts.—The Jury, without
hesitation, found him guilty.

DUELLING.—During the late Assizes of Trim, a
trial of considerable interest occuried before Baron
Sstrrn. Cornelius O'Brien and CorreliushisDonogh,
Esqrs. were indicted for the murder of riancis Drew,
Esq. The death happened in a duel, in which Mr.
M'Donogh acted as O'Brien's second. It appearing
from a variety of proof, and especially from the evi-
dence of John Pollock, Esq. that the original provo-
cation had been offered by the deceased, (by whom
also the message had been sent), that Mr. O'Brien
had been uniformly desirous to accommodate the bu-
siness, but had been prevented by the imprudent con.
duct of Mr. Drew, and it likewise being in evidence
that the prisoners seemed hurried to the ground with
some precipitation by their opponents, rather before
the time appointed, and with some circumstance of de-
fiance, and of an irritating nature, the Judge charged
the Jury—that though homicide ensuing upon a
duel, fought by deliberate appointment between the
parties, was murder, yet to constitute this offence it
was necessary to connect the meeting with such deli-
berate appointment ; and accordingly, in the present
case, if, upon evidence, there was even reasonable
ground to doubt, whether the meeting, hurried on,
was not rather to be referred to intervening causes of
an irritating nature, and occurring too recently to
leave time for these passions which they had raised to
subside—he thought the Law might %arrant a ver-
dict of Manslaughter.
One of the Jury observing fiat, as the deceased fired
at the same moment in which he received his adver-
sary's shot, the prisoner's discharging his pistol was
an act of self-defence, his Lordship corrected this er-
roneous view, by remarking that, as the priioner's
coming to the ground was a voluntary and illegal
act, he could not be permitted to justify any fatal
consequence that ensued—and the only question
would be, as to the extent to, which he ought to be
considered as criminal?—The Jury, under these direc-
tions, found a verdict of Manslaughter.
When the prisoners were called up for judgment,
his Lordship animadverted at considerable length on
the cirehmstances of the case ; professing his abhor-
rence and contempt for the character of a professed
duellist, and especially of a veteran in that sangui-
nary art, expressing his fears that Mr. O'Brien's
offers to accommodate had been more plausible than
sincere ; inasmuch as he knew that a blow had been
given, and not only offered for this, through his aged
second, what might be called a mock apology, rather
aggravating the offence; but when called on to make
that satisfaction which punctilio was thought to re-
quire for a blow, peremptorily refused to do so. He
observed that this was not the first combat in which
"Mr. O'Brien had been engages, and that he feared
he had not previously escaped the reputation of a
fighting man. He also dwelt in terms of disappro.
bation, on what, he said, fortunately for the prisoner,
had appeared but indistinctly on the evidence, namely
his having, shortly before the duel, practised shooting
at a mark. The Learned Judge closed by sentencing
the convicts to an imprisonment of some months, and
requiring them to find security for their future good
behaviour.
Mr. O'Brien having addressed the Court in mitiga.
tion of punishment, his, Lordship closed, by limiting
the imprisonment to the lows of a week.

.

Bow aTierr.—About six weeks singe the Stamp-
Office .1. Liverponl, kept by Mr. .Poole a number of
years, for tt.at District of Lancashire, was discovered
to have been set on fire, and no doubt was entertain-
ed that it was done by design. The discovery was
made by the Chief. Clerk going to the Office early in
the morning ; when he perceived that the desk be-
longing to a clerk of the name of Luckett, had been
on tile, and paper put in different parts of the office,
as if intended to assist the fire in spreading all over
the office. Lockett reminded ,he Chief Clerk that he
was the list in the (Ace the preceding evening ; he
esl.res•ed himself in a particular manner, but not suf-
ficient to ground any suspicion upon him, and the
circumstance passed over without any discovery hay-
big been made. In a short time after, Luckett left
the office in the town of Liverpool, in such an extra-
ordinary manner, as to cause a suspicion that he had
acted improperly ; and accordingly an examination
of the srock of stamps took place, which is extremely
large, for a full stock is about £lOO,OOO worth. Se-
veral considerable stamps were missed, and it 'could
not be ascertained but he might have made off with
about £20,000 worth. Mr. Miller, the superinten-
dant of the Police,
,was employed to pursue him ;
' and be commenced an active search. He traced him
from Liverpool on the road towards London, and
found that he had sold great quantities of stamps at
different places to respectable persons, for a trifling
sum less than is usually allowed by the Stamp Office
to the retail distributors ; imposing upon them with
the plausible pretence that he was vending them for
a general distributor of stamps, who was under em-
barrasments, and wanted to raise a sum of money
without delay. Mr. Miller traced him to London,
and from thence to Chatham, where some of his re-
lations reside. There he remained and in London
upwards of a fortnight, without being able to appre-
hend him ; and business requiring him at Liverpool,
he was obliged to return there.
Adkins, the officer, received private information
from Chatham, that a large trunk was sent off from
thence onTuesday morning by some of Luckett's con-
nections, directed to Mr. Appleyard, Prince William
Henry, Bermondsey-street, Southwark, by Rutley's
waggon, with J. W. at the corner, which was suspec-
tail to be for Luckett. Adkins in consequence went
to the Three Kings Inn, in the Borough, on Wed-
nesday, where the wagon put up at ; but it not ar-
riving at the expected time, he was not able to wait,
owing to engagements on other business, but left his
brother Harry Adkins, who waited till the waggon
came in, and saw-the trunk as advised, which he
never lcist sight of, till it was taken to the Prince Wil-
liam Henry public house, in Bermondsey-street, where
the landlord towk it in, and immediately went up
stairs. In a short time after a man came down stairs,
and held a conversation with the landlord ; their eyes
being fixed upon H. Adkins, the landlord saying he
was a stranger, and die man observing lie did not
know him : they at length went into the bar together;
and Adkins suspecting the man to be Luckett, but
was net confident enough, from the description he had
received of him, to apprehend him. He went out to
fetch a man who was waiting in the neighbourhood,
who knew his person ; and, on his seeing him, he
identified him ; upon which Harry Adkins took him
into custody. On tearching his room up stairs, he
-found the trunk which had been brought from Chat-
ham, directed to the landlord, to be full of stamps,
and two other trunks full of clothes.
He underwent an examination before Mr. NARES
on '1 hui rday evening, when all the witnesses against
him being at Liverpool, Harry Adkins was sent off
with him for that town.

Timothy Toomey and William Bards were brought to
the office, charged with robbing the shop of Mr.
Brooks, a silversmith, of Charing Cross.
The prosecutor stated, that on Thursday morning,
between eight and nine o'clock, being in the parlour,
behind the shop, he heard a pane of glass in the shop
crash ; and, on his going forward, perceived a piece
of glass in one of the panes that had been previously
cracked, pushed out, and almost immediately after
saw the prisoner, Toomey, come up to the window
and put his fingers through the broken pane, and, as
he believed, take a gold ring, and saw both the priso-
ners together. On searching Toomey, when he was
brought back to the shop, a knife was found upon
him, the point of which had some putty on it, which
corresponded with the, same kind of putty as was on
the prosecutor's windows, and also with that taken
away. They were committed for trial.
Matisios:-House.—A u ffi an named Jennings, who
stated himself to be a porter belonging to the West
India Docks, was brought before the Lord Mayor,
charged with a most violent and gross assault upon
a lady of respectability, in the Poultry, on the pre-
ceding evening. From the deposition of the lady it
appeared, that she was passing through the Poultry,
in compat y with her niece, about eleven o'clock,
when the prisoner came beside her, and without pre-
vious notice, seized her in the most indelicate man-

ner, although she was far advanced in pregnancy.—
A Gentleman accidently passing, observed the assault,
and with praise-worthy promptitude, knocked the
villain down. The watch was then called, and he
was conveyed to the Compter.
The fellow, in his defence, urged the,usual plea of
being intoxicated ; he also said he had a wife and
three young children living at Mile End, which he
hoped might operate in extenuation of his punish-
ment. The Lord Mayor, however, declared this to
be an aggravation of his offence, and very properly,
in the absence of bail, committed him to take his trial
for the outrage.
Thomas Walker and Christiana his wife, were next
plaCed to the bar, on suspicion of felony.
The first witness examined was Mr. Baiter, watch-
maker, of Bethnal-Green, who stated, that on Wed-
nesday night, his family and himself ism to bed at
a quarter past twelve o'clock, having previously fas-
tened the house in the usual way. In the morning
when he arose, he found that the pannel of one of the
shutters of the slu p-window had been broken open,
and, on examining farther, he missed thirty-six silver
watches, and three valuable time-pieces, which were
all finished and. ready for sale. He had no suspicion
whatever of any particular persons, and was there-
fore comrletely at a loss to whom to ascribe the rob-
bery, until he was visited by Thomas Sapwell, one
of the most active of the City officers, who shewed
s._ him a part of the stolen property.

Thomas Sapwell was !text examined. He deposed,'
that he was sent for on Thursday eftning by Mr.
Clarke, pawnbroker, in BUopsgate-street, where, on
his arrival, he saw the prisoner Christiana Walker,
who had offered a new gown to pledge; but Mr.
Clarke, suspecting from her appearance that she had
not obtained it honestly, very properly sent for the
officer. When witness entered the shop, he accosted
the prisoner ; said he knew her, asking at the same
I time, if her name was not Walker, and if she did not
I live in Angel ;alley (one of the most notorious hives
for thieves in London ?) she replied in the affirma-
tive. Witness then requested Mr. Clarke to detain
her in custody, while he went to examine her lodg-
ings. and she was accordingly accommodated with a
temporary seat in the parlour. Witness immediately pro-
ceeded to a house well known to him, in Angel-alley,
where Walker lived ; and on going up stairs, he met
Thomas Walker at the door, with whom he solicited
a private conference ; and having entered the room,
he searched his pockets, in which he found two new
silver watches, one with a seal attached to it, and the
other in a leathern case, similar to those used by watch-
makers. This circumstance gave rise to new suspi-
cions, and he searched every part of the room, and
found in a chest of drawers six other new watches, in
leathern cases, and on a shelf three new time pieces,
elegantly mounted in marble. Such furniture not
being usual in such •houses, he deemed it prudent to
convey Mr. Walker to the Compter, from whence he
returned to Mr. Clarke's, and condq,cted Mrs. Chris-
tiana to her husband. He now examined the watches,
and discovered the maker's name to be Baxter, whose
address he soon leaent, and to whom he instantly pro-
ceeded, and was informed of the burglary committed
the night before.
Mr. Baxter recognized all the watches and time-
pieces found at the lodgings of the prisoners, as those
which had been stolen from him ; he had also some
slight recollection of the male prisoner, whom he
thought he had seen at two different times, peeping
into his shop window.
Thomas Walker said he belonged to the first regi.
ment of Tower Hamlets Militia, and that two men,
whom he did not know, left the property found in his
room, in his care. He denied all knowledge of the
robbery, and craved mercy.
The Lord Mayor observed, that the defence of the
prisoner was too stale to meet with much credence ;
but as the robbery had been committed in the county,
it did not come within his jurisdiction, he therefore
directed the parties to go to Worship-street office,
whither they accordingly went.
GUMMI A LL.—A young plunderer, named Plummer,
was committed to take his trial, for stealing from the
person of John Keenon, a sailor belonging to the
Coutts, East Indiaman, nineteen shillings. It ap-
peared that the poor tar was searching for lodgings
in Smithfield, having just come from visiting his
friends in the country, when he was accosted by the
prisoner, who offered to find him lodgings, and con-
ducted him to a house in Blackboy-alley, at the door
of which he stopped ; but while they were waiting
for admisilion, the young villain put,his hand into the
sailor's pocket, and took from thence all the money
he had (nineteen shillings) and ran off. He was
pursued through a devious course, and was at length
secured in Blackboy-alley. Part of the money to
which Keenon could swear was found in his pocket.