Star.
London, England, 1803-02-02 00:00:00

CHURCH V. STUPART.

This trial tatted a great part of the day, and
derived its interett principally from the improper
conduit which the parties imptued to one another,
and from the contradictory fwearing on both fides.
Mr. Serjeant Seer:4ElD faid the plaintiff was a
poor young woman, who had lived as fervant of
all-work with the defendant, and brought this
anion to recover the furn of 4 55. 6d. that being
the amount of (even months wages which was due
to her, and which the defendant refuted to pay.
The defendant, he faid, was an Attorney, but
bow far his bufinefs extended, or what his general
eharaiter was, mua belt appear from the manner
in which he had conduited himfelf. At the time
the plaintiff went into his ferviee, he lived at
Whiterhapel. He afterwards refided tome time
with part of his family at Brompton ; butfor rea-
lism perhaps belt knewn to the butcher, the baker,
and the publican, he decamped from that place
and went to live in Edward-greet, Blackfriars-
toad, where he was when the plaintiff left him,
which was en September, :lat. &fides the wages
due to the plaintiff, it would appear that (he bad
•at various times laid out money of her own for
trifling articles in the neighbourhood, and which
The had never been paid.
The firft wittier: on behalf of the plaintiff, was
ter own Aunt, whore name was Place. She proved
the agreement, by which Mrs. Stupart had under.
Oaken to give the girl wages at the rate of 71. a
year. She alfo fisted, that the girl had laid out
feveral (mall fums for the ufe of her mailer and
• miftrefs. Being ailed if the knew the latter fait
from her own knowledge ? the anfwered that the
beard her niece fay fo, and that (he had fuch de-
pendence on her, that the would believe any thing
the faid. The Noble and Learned Judge told
tier that that part of her evidence mutt go for
nothing.
The witnefs was then crofs.exarnined by Mr.
Berjeant Bear, who :liked, as the had once
thought fo highly of the plaintiff's integrity, what
opinion did the now entertain of her charaifter ?
To this no fetish/tory anfwer was given. She faid
the plaintiff had not been in place finee The left
Mrs. Stupart, who refteed to give her a charaaer.
Being afked where the plaintiff lived at this time,
and in what manner the got her bread ? the an-
fwered, after fame hefitat:on, at a great houfe in
Fetter-lane ; and that the got her living in any
way the could.-4Z Did the ever tell you that the
bad been turned away from her place becaufe the
vied to wear her =tildes clothes, and admit
men into the bode, whom the afterwards conceal-
ed in the coal-hole ?—A. No : never.—After Come
further quettions, the witnefs began to grew warm:
he laid the was a Lai of Foriane ; that (he had
advifed her niece to have nothing to do with the!
prefent butinefe, or with fuch mean people as the
defendant and his wife ; and that The withed not
to make fo little of herfelf as to come iu.3 that
place at all. Being further Felled as to the man.
ner in which her niece concluded herfell at this
time, The faid the believed her to be on terms of
marriage. •
Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD at length interpofed,
by obferving, that he could not conceive the oh-
jea of this crofs-examination. This poorgirl might
be unfortunate ; but that was no reafon why the
thould not be paid the money that was due to her :
and he was lorry to fay, that the misfortunes of
unhappy young women were often occafioned by
the treatment of thofe with whom they lived as

fervants.
The nest withers was a ynunit woman, coulin
to the plaintiff, who had frequently vitited her at
the defendant's bnufe. While they refided at
Whit chapel, Mrs. Stapatt and three of her chil
dren went away for fame time, and left the plaint.'
tiff in the li-iufe with one of the children. During
this time the paid for fe mai articles for the ufe of

the child and of her mittrets out of bet otlin pocket.
She faw her lend her !Tanis half.a.gvinea one
day, when fhe was going to Greenwich. Before
the plaintiff came there, ihe lived at Jones's Ri-
ding School. She fail the plaintiff lived now with
her aunt, the latt winters ; and that that Lady got
Il her living by working in a cotton manufaEtory.—
[The witneffes had been ordered out of Court be-
fore the trial began.]
Mrs. Place was then called byLord At.vmmar,
in order to explain the contradiaion between her
evidence and that of the other witnefs. She Paid her
niece did not live with her, but occafionally called

on hcr.
The defence to this a&ion was founded on the
eke utuflances, that the witnelles fupporting it had
contradided each other ; that the adion was not
brought, nor the demand made, till twelve month!'
had elapfed, and that the defendant had paid the
plaintiff every thing he owed her at the time Ste
left him. The nude who attended Mrs. Stupart
in her lying-in, and another woman, were then
called; they faid they were prefent when the plain-
tiff came and demanded twenty.eight fhillings
from Mrs. Situpart, who gave her a 7s. piece, and
defired her to call or fend the next day for the re-
mainder. On the following day, a young woman,
who.faid fhe was filler to the plaintiff, came and
got a guinea from Mrs. Stupart na receipt was
given. In anfwer to this evidence, it was Rated
on behalf of the plaintiff, that when her Attorney
made a demand for the wages upon the defendant,
lie did not feud for anfwer that he had cleared off
the debt, but that the' girl had robbed him, from
which it mutt be evident that the whole of her
wages had not been paid.
The Jury retired for force time, and found a
verdkt for the plaintiff ; deduding from her de-
mand the fum of 285. which was proved to have
been paid here

POLICE, &e.
Mae LIBOROUGN-STO. EF r. —A man, exhibiting all
the appearance of a Buck of the prefent day, of the
name of Woodford, was on Monday brought before
the Magiftrates at this Office, charged by Mr. Jen.
bins, a Liveryman, in Br yanitone-Ilreer, with hay•
ing ftolen a bode his property. Mr. Jenkins had
before feveral times lent the prifoner hones, and
therefore, on his ha application for one, felt no
hefitation in letting him have one which had been
left at his (tables for fide. The hark, however,
had never been returned. The prifoner Paid his
father was a coachman—he had been a Poll boy—
fince
then, with a working jeweller; he was drunk'
when he lalt had the honk, and could give no ac-
count of the manner in which he had difpofed of
it. He was committed for further examination.
Bow-sraarr.—On Mond iy evening Molnar
Afider, alias Fins:era/4 was charged with defraud-
ing a young man of tsol. undzr pretence of pro-
curing him a place in the Stamp Office. The
profecutor Aced, that fame time ago he adver-
tifed for a place under Government, and offered
a handfome reward. The prifoner anfwered his
advertifernent, and they had feveral meetings upon
the but-Inds. The
.prifoner told him he had two
places to difpofe ot, one in the Navy Office, at
tool. a year Glary, and one in the Stamp Office,
Glary 601. a year. Fitzgerald defired to have a
fpecimen of his writing, when he Paid he thought
the place in the Stamp Office would fuit bill; as it
, required very little writing, which the profecntor
agreed to, and the prifoner was to receive isol.
' for his trouble' which was accordingly paid to him.
The prifoner laid he was agent to a lady at Ba.
fingftoke, who had the difpotal of the places for
her own benefit, and they were given to her by
Lord Bolton. A day was appointed for the pro.
leaner to meet the mifuner at the Stamp Office,
to put him in poffcUloa of the place.
The profccutor attended at the appointed time
at the Stamp Office, but could not learn any ti-
dings of the prifoner, nor had he been able to meet
with him at his lodgings finer.
A few days ago the profecutor obferving an
advertifement in a newfpaper fimilar to his own,
of a perfon offering a reward for a place under
Government, and forpeaing the prifoner would
anfwer the advertifement, he went to the perfon
advertifing, and, on enquiry, found his fufpicion
true, upon which be related to the perfon the
manner in which he had been defrauded. They
accordingly agreed to exert themfelves to appre.
bend the prifoner; and on Monday evening, being
the time appointed for the final fettlement of the
bufinefs, they gave information at the above Of-
flee, and Rivett went with them, authorifed with
a warrant; and on the arrival of the prifoner, he
took him into coarsely. He was committed for
further examination.
Yefterday, the two men in caftody, on a charge
of robbing the Chifwick errand cart, and (tabbing
one of their purfuers, underwent another exam.
natiop, before Mr. BOND and Sir Wm. Names,
and *ere fully committed for trial, and the parties
bound over to profecute, both for the robbery and
&fault.
NoWiland, the prifoner, who fo dreadfully
wounded one of the men who purfued them, ap.
peared extremely callous during the whole of the
examination, nor fhewed the leaft figns of remorfe
at the produition of his own cloaths, which were
nearly covere with blood from the wounds of the
poor man whom he had fo inhumanly mangled.
When Mired by M.l. BONN if be would will to
make any anfwer to the charges, he replied, in a
Curly manner, he (honks defer what he had to fay
until a future time. The wounded man is in a
fair way of recovery.
Maestro, Houss.—.Ricbard Alford was yeferday
brought bet ire the LORD MAYOR, charged by Mr.
Ward, of Newcaftlrupon-Tyne, with picking his
pocket of a silk handkerchief, on Monday !alt, in
Cnrnhill. The prifoner in his defence, laid Mr.
Ward dropped tl:e handkerchief, which he picked
up, and offered to Mr. Ward. A Gentleman,
however, who was walking behind, faw the tranf-
aftion. He was confequently committed to take
his trial.
A man of the name of fie4ffit, was put to the
bar, charged with flealing a great coat. It ap•
peared that on Monday evening, about fix o'clock,
the prifoner was met by one of the City Police
• Oicers, company with another mans they

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were both well inidozoll to the oficer,whO Wiry-
ing a great coat under his arm, and fufpeding be
had not come honeftly by it, he immediately
made an enquiry amongli the Hackney Coach-
men, (as it appeared a coat off' that defcription,)
whether airy one of them had loft fuch a one ; at
length it Was owned by a butcher's boy, who had
left it is his cart, out of which it had been Men;
The prifbner Was purfued, and taken in White-
%hapel, with the great coat on. The other two,
who were in company, efcaped. The prifoner was
committed for trial.
GUILDNALL.—A woman of the town, of the
name of Mary Litslahall, wis yellerday brought
before the Sitting Alderman, charged by a Geo-
damn, with having Winnfield himfelf and his
wife in Alderfgate-fireet, and having made ufe of
fuch indecent language, as mutt Chock and terrify
any modeft woman. The Magiftrate feeling the
full force of fuels unwarrantable condo& on the
part of women, who, he faid, were in many in-
fiances to be pitied. but who, when they for a mo-
ment preforned to infult the ear of modefty, de-
ferred the moll form reprehenfion, ordered her to
be fent to Bridewell, and there to receive the cor-
ration of the houfe.
HATTON GA RDE N.—An information, under the
Excite Laws, came on to be determined yellerday,
before the Magiftrates at the above Office, which
was exhibited by Mr. Norman, an Officer of the
Ezcife, again(' --- Davis of Rotherhithe.
Mr. JACKSON opened the cafe to the Magi ftrates,
on the part of the profecution, and called Mr.
Norman, who faid, that on the day named in the
information, he, together with another Officer,
obferved Davis (whom he very well knew) in a
cart, in St. Majtin's-lane. SufpeLing foam (mug.
gling tranfadion, he followed until he faw the
cart (lop at Grafton Mews, Fitzroy.fquare ; here
he followed Davis to the houfe of a man of the
name of Sackfield, and fhortly atter faw two bags
taken out of the cart, and carried into Sackfield's
houfe, which he immediately followed and feized,
it proving to be 250 lb. of raw coffee.
Mr. Gwen Ey, on the part of the defendant, trots.
examined Norman, in the courfe of which it ap.
peared, that an information had, in the firfi in-
fiance, been laid againfi Sackfield, as well as
Davis, but bad been afterwards dropped, and Sack-
field made a witnefs of. He was therefore called,
and fully corroborated the evidence given by Nor.
man. Mr. Gurney laid. he Ihould not call any
witnefs, but throw himfelf upon the mercy of the
Ezcife, and the Magifirates, praying (in confe.
quence of the man's being poor, and having al-,
ready, upon a former occafion, been fined one
hundred pounds) they would not go far, or award
the whole penalty, ,which being treble the value
of the coffee, amounted to ltd. and upwards.
The. Magiftrates, taking the whole of the cafe
into their confideration, and obferving it was not
the with of the Ezcife to crnfh a man, convicted
him in a penalty of 501.
Arch held Dew, the man who has been Tome days
in cuftody, on fufpicion of having committed a
highway robbery on Ealing Common, on the 6th
of January LA, and who is (worn to as having
made a (smilax attempt on Charles Poole, Efq. on
the Edgware roads was put to the bar, when Mr.
George Millward, the Gentleman who was robbed
on Ealing Common, gave evidence as to the rob.
bery having bean committed by twnmen, on the
6th of left month, about ten o'clock in the morn-
ing ; there were two Ladies in company with him
in the chaife. The highwayman fired one piftol in
order, perhaps, to induce the driver to (top, and
took from him about 51. ifis. They then rode off.
Another witnefs corroborated the circumftance
of the chaife boring Hopped, but could not fay any
thing to the perfon of the prifoner ; no more could
Mr. Millward, as they had crapes over their faces.
l'he two honks, upon one of which Dew was
mounted, when apprehended, as was his corn
panion (who made his efeape) upon the other,
were claimed by Mr. Fox, a Liveryman, in London
wall. On his book being examined, it appeared that
two honks had been let on the 6th, and were taken
away from the liable about eight o'clock in the
morning, ( the robbery was committed at ten) but
neither Mr. Fox, nor his fon, who let the horfes on
the over night, and received 2 c. each in advance,
could recoiled whether die pr Ulmer was one of the
perfons who hired them.
The Magifirates were of opinion, more care
ought to have been taken in enquiring into the
character of perfons hiring bodes, than in the pre-
fent inflance appeared to -have been done. They
therefore bound both Mr. Fox and his fon over to
appear at the Old Bailey, but refuted the applica-
tion of the Stable keeper to let him have the horfes
again, until by the verdict of the Jury, they could
be Pure whole property they were.
The prifoner was folly committed to take his
trial for attempting to rob Mr. Poole, and a de-
tainer lodged again ft him, on fufpicion of having
robbed Mr. Millward.
Saturday morning, at Porthnouth, the Royal
Marines were drawn op in the Court of the Bar.
racks, to hear the fentence and attend the pima-
ment of Serjeant Scnitivr, of that corps, for de-
fertion and embezzling money, with which he had
been intrufted as a pay ferjeant. The proceedings
of the Court were read by Lieutenant anti Adju-
tant Valeta The charge being proved, the pi.
Inner was fenteneed, for the defertion, to be re-
duced to the ranks, and receive five hundred lathes ;
and for the embezzlement of the money (which
was Hated to amount to 60. r Bs. mid.) to have all
rums now due to him for pay, &c. applied to the
repayment, and alfo to have his future pay flop.
ped, to an amount not exceeding the half, till the
whole deficiency &mild be made good. Part of
his punifiiment he underwent this day.
A Com t Martial was held the fame day on Patrick
Smith, for defecting from his Majefty's (hip Loral,
and entering on board the HYDRA; being found
guilty. he was fenteneed to receive plates on
board the former fhip.—Capt. Da uar, Prtfident•
The Seamen at Shields, on Saturday and Sun-
day fe'nnight. again proceeded. to ads of irregu.
larity, perambulating the greets in a riotous man-
, net., and even going on board different flips in the
harbour, infifirag that the men on board lkould
r ant proceed to fea, valcfs their wages wets ad-

va eed tfie wind fakeat. tNe twin
adverfe to the Nips falling; iliey have. *dete
front further pioeettdings ;. but it i$ Much feare
they their efforts As foon as the strin
favour their putpofe. We have no d. übt,
euer, but the interference of the WTI. Magliiratki
of NeWcaflle, &c. will prevetn any ferious cot&
quences ariang dieregotit. '
By the late Packet,front Jamaica, we are gaunt
tounderaand; that the fyfteM of Rolylveryfo loodlY
complained of, arnongli the Merchants of this
Country, is daily fpreading to a degree which; if
not timely fuppretred, bids fair to lap the very
foundation of its Commerce. Ainfingil. 9thet
merchants who have recently fuffered by this fpe.
cies of depredation, the relive/Ale bottle
.ot
tleffrs.AG VILA ft, Dias, and Son, of this city, have
received information from one of their Corrapon-
dents in Kingtton, hating that (-unary packages;
(hipped by them per the Ihip Matthew, h om ton._
don, in September lea, hare Conte to hand in ap,
parent good order, but upon being opened,. were
found to have been robbed of their contents, Silks;
Muffins, and Laces, to the amount of pooh and
in the lieu thereof, billets of Wood, rope yarn, pa.
per, &c. were found fubflituttd for the Potpie of
tilling up the packages. Grievances like tilde, at
once to feriotis and alarming to all branches ofthe
community, call aloud for the flrenuons exertions
of every honed member of which it is compOlea;
in order to pnrfue, convi& and pnnifh the perpe,.
trators thereof. It is with pain we leant that that
late reward offered by the Committee of MeV-
chants, and fenelioned by the LORD Maros,
for bringing to jutlice the nett of fccret
who have committed thefe robberies, has not
yet had its defired effen. We, however, ituft
that every ncsv ael of hollility committed on the
property of the indoltrions merchants of this coun-
try, will annulate them to unite and redouble their
efforts for the purpofe of countera:ting fo dreadful
.en evil.

BIRTHS.
Laft week, at his father's hook, Sohepfqeare, of a Rill-horn
child, the Lady of Richard Burton, Efq.
The Lady of Samuel Walker, Efq. of Ecrlerftreet,Thlblin,
of a fon.
On the 23d Inftant, Mrs. Archibald Cantpteft, of Clathiek,
of a fon.
At Caftle-Widcnham, county of Cork, tie lady of J. Beata
Creagh, Efq. of a daughter.
On Arthur's...pay, linterlck, the lady of Captain Vincent,
of a fon.