Star.
London, England, 1816-11-01 00:00:00

32.1211WEVS TO MISS ah WARD'S ENIGMA•

• TO THE EDI TOR.
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Sist•Theesiiii•intitillolution of Miss tirnartri Enigma 1 bad
framed on Thurs.lay.:' Should it be the proper one, 1 beg you to
give it publicity, .o entitle me to the Amen( annexed to ilk Wu.
tion, and the Mated, after deducting the Lrgacy Day, may tr
paid to my I.latAexs for me —I am, Sir, your obedient terrain,
Exeter, October 26, 1816. O. W. L. E.
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I. Sculpture. • 6. Resignation. •
S. Eye. 7. Venus.
3. L'archntent. H. Angel.
• 4. Half i'a•.
9. Interest.
5. Agricui• orbit. 10. Money.
The City--SEPIURVAIM.—,Stie Kings and Isaiah.

MR. EDITOR—I take the liberty of submitting the following
Solution of Miss Stu Altp.ll Enigma:
cony is noblest in all works of Art,
Arid brielleds the gent which Nature does Impart;

Time is essential in a Lawyer's lease,
.And &weed 14 the well-known sign of Peace;
The Ploughman's km wbll.t he griefs his plough;
Pie'kis the Soldier's duty and the Lovtee vow;
Jutster. Is seen betwixt the Earth and Suns
istmsitib a prize which Merit ne'er has won;
Lmeris the Miser's treasure and the badge of Jews;
Wives long to dictate, 'xis the Parson's dues!
LITCIiFIELD.
pantoovlile, October t 6.
' Ma. Eby:roam-I request you to insert the following in your
Paper, as 1 Satter myself with the idea of having discovered in
one of the citiesTihe true solution to Nils& Sawato's Enigma:
The noblest object in the works of Art; the Compass.
• The brightest gem which tirure cao impart;
.Absolution.
The point
.esselnial In a Laviyer's lease; Negaciatiou.
The well known Signal iu the time of Peace; Treifiz.
The pio►►ihtueas when he drives his plough; Enfilades..
The Midis:et; deg', and the Lover. vow ; Resignation.
The Planet seen between the Earth and Sun; Barbata.•
Tim Nee orhOt Merit never yet has won; Übiguity.
• The Misses treasure, and the badge of Jews; Riches.
The. 'Wife's ambition, and the Parson's dues; Yield, to the
CANA'ERBUIitY,ao ancient City. will of a superior.
• A tits ~! Venus. G.

J. P.

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Yesterday Lydia. Pqett and William Perry stood
indicted for assaulting Jane Preston, and taking from
her person a silk shawl.
The prosecutrix, it appeared, in company with a
Mrs. Hill, was proceeding along the narrow part. of
Rathbone Place, on their way home from the theatre,
when she was met by the prisoner Pagett and two
other women cf the town. Pagett gave het a vio-
lent blow on the cheek which knocked her down,
and on snatching- at the shawl the prisoner also
fell on her back. She presently, however, recovered
herself, and gave the shawl she had in her hand to
Perry, upon which they both made off. The other
' two women who were in company with Pagett wept,
A poor man, named Grant, who fell over the un- away'before the shawl was taken.
'tailed sunk area in West St. Vilicent-street, Glasgow, The Jury lotlnd both the prisoners guilty.
lately, died on Wednesday se'nnight in the Royal David Ilsochiason was capitally indicted for steal-
infirmary. He was a well behaved industrious man, ing a heifer, value e 312, the property of John Russell.
and his widow is left with a large family. John Walden deposed, that he VMS a drover, liv.
On the mottling of the 18th ultimo, a respectable ing near Boston, and on the 22.1 September artived in
young man. shopman to a Merchant in Cupar, was London with a drove of beam, about fi'ty in num-
found dead at the foot of a stair leading to his lodg- bey. On the next day, the 23d, a heifer, ethic.' had
Tugs Hid body was immediately examined by media been previously masked H P on the rump, was
cal men, and, from the marks on it, the belief at missed. On the 22J the witness had delivetei all
resent is, that his death was occasioned by violence. the beasts over to Wm. Nicoll; drover in Smithfield.
Vtredlies,ety se'nnight a melancholy catastrophe William Nicoll received thirty-three of the beasts
happened at Tattershall Thorp, Lincoltshite, to three on the day mentioned by Walden : the rest wake lett
of the tiatnes of Abner Wray, W. Richardson, at Islington. The beasts were marked differently,
and Thomas Williams, who;in company with another some being masked B on. the off rump, and others
man, in attempting to cross the Witham in a '(shout) HP. On Sunday, the 23d, the heifer in question,
setruyt, to work on the opposite bank, one of the men marked H P, was stolen; and in consequence of in.
observed that the boat was aground, and that three formation he, received, witness went to a butcher's
of them had better go is the further end, in order to. shop,akept by a man of the name of Stent, in West-
halerice her up, while the other pushed her off, which . monster, and there found the hide of the heifer,
he had no sooner done than she sunk, and the above marked H P.
three unfertunate men perished : the other had well Joseph Hurst lived with, and worked for Mr. Stern.
neigh shared, the same fate. He knew the prisoner, and on the 21st of September
A man, of the name of William Croft had his met him in the street. He asked.witness whether he
hand so lacerated by the bursting of a gun last Tues. lived with Mr. Stent ? and whether' he thonibt his
stag, at Grimsby, when firing at some wild geese, as master would allow him to lull some beaits in his
to render amputation necessary. He was taken over slaughter.liouse ? Hurst replied,' that he had better
to ragu• infirmary, and the operation there perfor. go and ask his master.- On the 24th, the Monday'
mod, and at present he is in a fair way of recovery. following, the priioner brought abetter to the 'laugh.
It is leather remarkable, that the above is the third ter-house, marked H P, and there killed it.
brother In the family who has experienced a similar Joseph Guy, butcher, hiving heard of the robbery,
anaifortune- went to Stern's slaughter-house, at half past three
An atrocioes met was lately toniniitted on afoul o'clock on Tuesday, the 25th of SepteMber; in the
inibtatetglibewthood of Aberdeen, in conseqience dunning, and 'having 'Waited until six, Asir the'Peisie
of an unhappy quanel between a father and son, ner o into the slaughter-house. As he was .pro..
concerning the property of field of barley. The cording to cut the hind from the fore. quarter, wit.'
parties were on the .field, *beat to reap the barley, nesitook.him, in the-presence of Bly, the .Officer,
*hem, after some altercation, 'the father woonded bis into custody
moo in the groin, with the sickle he held in, his hand, A written defence vent put in,;ia which the prisoner
arid• infuriated witkpassion, ;continued his violent at. declared that he received the bean from a.enan in
tack, by throwing stones tit him so as to break several
.Smithfield to kill forbian.--Gailra.—Death.
of his ribs; white the son, who had falioragainst a John greatest wieput td the bar on the charge If
dike, endeavoured to defend himself with a Ice, and stealing's- silver *AO and teal, value 575. the pro-
IMO some difficulty made good his retreat to the petty of Elisabeth Harris.
awellingshouse,wberebelieswitbouthommcf recovery. The prisoner, as'avu 'hewn upon the examination
Wednesday evening, about seven o'clock, as Wm. of the witnesses, becense acquainted with Jas. lateen.'
Shady, a boy, about twelie /ears of age, son to a field, a steward cro board a West Indianian, by whop
pocir'vrotban in the neighbourhood of ElaCkfriare, was be was ietroduced the house of Mr. Balfour, and
playing an St. Andrew's Hill, he fell &mil, what a passed among the servants as his-brother. On the
scavenger's cart gcing down the hill at the ume 22d of October the prisoner came to Mr. Balfour''
•--se, one of the. wheels west over his bead, and bel house, and was invited by the servants to sleep there.
upon being takes to the hospital. —The room in which. he slept was next to that
Tuesday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, of Elizabeth Harris; and it appeared that about half
who drives one of those'single horse carts now pest seven o'clock she got up, as usual, to clean the
anon in hawking coals through the town, was house, leaving her watch under her pillow, with the
by some passengers stretched at full length, key hanging out, apparent to every one who might
ground, and apparently in a lifeless state, in enter the room. At about eight the prisoner carat
Swine-street. Golden-iquare, nearly opposite, doWn, passed Harris, and tvent out of the house
ing's Arms tavern. No person saw the accident, through the kitchen without his hat. The watch
hot* finding that his driver was no longer was presently missed, and traced to a pawnbroker's,
im, bad taken the liberty to rest. from his la- where the prisoner was proved to have pawned it,
sod, with the cart at his heels, was standing having at the time no hat upon his head.
few, yards distance ffom its unfortunate" The property- eras identified, and the Jury convic-
It is supposed the poor fellow, overcome with. ted the prisoner.
had been, as is often the case, riding on the • "Wiwi afekon Riantes' Itentkkea; and Froissis
, the animal and fallen aslatias and in that state Dime, werilindictell--Aslitoa, for *toiling a woody;
off, and the wheel went over him. He was car-' end 'grid seal. Sec. the property at Edward Ogilvie_ e
Inid'llenriekson and Dixon, the one for reqeiving
• an apothecary's close by, where he was bled.:
etas
short time so far came to hinieeltas to swat- watch, and the other the seals, -knowing them to be'
cordial *mitt that was given to him, but be stokns
not speak. The poor man was then taken in a; The etrosecutorelsdooged 40 the Griffin, a ship
St. George's hospital, and the horse and cart, ing in the river Thames. -sultortaiistance-lelow the
livery stables hard by, to be taken care of wait Tower, and the•preperty Wieltdieo (ram the calsinil
where he had left *Nils Tbc witnesses eziuniessil;

TM noblest object of the works of Art ; Love.
The brightest gem which Nature can impart i Innocence.
The powt essential in a Lawyer's Lease; Terms.
The well•kuown ',goal in the time of Peace; Commerce.

7 be Plnightuaii wh u be drives his plough ; Hanow.
The Soldier's duty aud the Lover's vow ;
The Planet semi between the Earth and Sun; idalia.•
The prize which Merit never yet has won; Eternity.
'The Miser's tres.ure, and the badge of Jews; Lucre.
The Wile's ambition, and the Parson's duii. Donthiatios
LITCHFIELD. an &Infant City.
• A. title of Venus. C.

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