Star.
London, England, 1804-08-21 00:00:00

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Monday night and Ttaday morning lan, Major
Sway and Capszia Wasson apprehended four peefons
who were concerned in the plundering the houre of
the Right Hon. Lord Not soar, at Cabra, in this
county. They were arrefted in the city, and after-
wards committed to gaol by the Superintendant Ma-
gi ftrate..—Ply the fpirited and aftive exertions of the
above Magiftrates, nearly the whole of the property
taken and carried s*ay belonging to his Lordfbip's
family have been recovered.
Tutfday an adjournment of the Qcarter Sefflons
fur the city of Dublin was held before the Recordee
at the Seflion-houfe, Green-Once, when the follow.
mg journeymen carpenter* were tried on an India-
trent for combination to regulate the pike of trade
&c. via. Mich. Murphy, Alex. MiGAbe, John Ellie,
Rich. Montague, and James Corinth
The witnets for the prnfecutioa was Mr. Thomas
Thorpe, from whole teftimony it appeared that the
a-emit-era, with fevcral journeymen carpenters, were
in his employment, at and previous to Saturday the
3oth June loft ; that he then paid at the rate of as. ad
per day a man ; that he paid them their wages in the
evening of raid Both June, and admitted.but one man
eta time, into his office for that put pofe ; atilt the tra-
verfers individually as they came to be paid feparate-
ly, informed him they could not work with him longer
than the epfuing week, without he would raife the
wages from as. 4d. to as. told. per day, and that
they could get es. ed. in other places; that he haying
declined to fubmit to their demands, the tr.,vetk.,4
with the reit of his workmen, who had All made Ilk
like declaration, amounting number,
to 3o in all
left his employ at the fame time. He laid he had
6en weak enough to give them ; that they were cm.
00191 by. the week, and had given a week's ii..t,ce
of citation's:ion to quit; that one of them, viz. Ales.
M•Cabe, did not require higher wages, but raid he
-*mild work with Mr. Thorpe no longer, without af-
figning any reafon.
TN; Connie' forth* traverfers were Neff Lateen,
Geese. Coates, and Attar, who contended that.
the offence of combination was not legally brought
home &saint! the tweerfers---em wrote behalf one
witnek was preataced, viz. Mr. Henry Ward, of
Moonollreet, whelk evidesoe went to prove that at
tbe time alloded to. be paid different. pekes tp diffe-
rent jeturnepmee, according to their abilities—from
4A ad. to p. ;4. per day, and that there was no fet-
'tlekrate of vistas among the' matter carpenters. ^
Costafellor Gager mule a very impreffive *ma
to the Jury es the nature of the evidences mul
tended that, it did not (Whin the indiament. That
the Astute required the affembling of at lean fives'
people togethef to form a combination of Ibis kind;
that here sot two perfons were proved to have CAM.
suntan :t together on the fu 'ea $ that each man
made his declaration tingly, ea be came to receive his
wages. That they had given fair notice to their em
ployen. That there was nothing to prevent aay
Individual from appreciating the value of his own
tabour. That they had even propelled to work for
IMr. Thorpe at 6d. per day lets than might be got
elfewhere' and than was aaually paid by others, end
although from the circumaance of fo great a number
of peens leaving the employment at the Caine iallant,
the Jury might (tape& the circentftance proceeded
from combination, yet being on their oaths, they were
not to ground their verdict on fufpicion, but on the
evidence which was laid before them.

The Recorder delivered a very able charge to the
Jury; obferving that in his opinion, the cafe as
proved, fully fupported the indiBment, and that
there was fufficient evidence to go to the Jury. He
Paid that the demand of higher wages, made at the
fame time. from fo great a number of men, and
their departure from the fame employer in code
queoce of his non-compliance, all at the fame time.
uere fads to fatisfy the Jury a previous unlawful
agreement am me them, which unlawful agreement
was by the flatute made evidence of combination—he
left it, however, to the Jury to find according to
their confciences and judgment, a verdia of convic-
tion or acquittal, obferving at the fame time the atro-
city of the offence, and what public injury arifes
from the crime t•f combination.

The Jury retired. and After about half an hoor's
confultation, returned with a •erdi@ of acquittal.

On the Bth innant, Mr. Gamin, gardener to J.
C. GIItAItiYIT, k:fq. of 'Wham, near —Newark-upon-
Trent, cut a pine apple, of the New Providence kind,
which weighed 91b and 3 ounces.
Saturday lark Sarah Hearne, a native of Egbam,
dropped down in a field at Winkfield, and expired
without a groan or the kaft previous indifpolition.
What renders this eiteumflance the more remarkable,
her be. tiler and two other fitters expired in the fame
fudden manner.

On 1 hurfriay a flack of chimnies in Gravel-lane,
SpitArlds, fell, and beat in the roof of an adjoin-
ing houfe, in which weie (enrol lodgers, who efeap-
ed unhurt.

Thurfday evening an inqdefl was held by
SKrLrow, Efq, Coroner, at the Bricklayers Arms,
Lai-Arens Blackfriart, on the body of Samuel
Sewel, killed on Taefday lan. at the Ben Wharfs
Upper Tliantes-Area, by a can wheel ; when the
Jury returned a twill& of ,4 Auidnitel Death I" and
ordered the wheel, valued at four pounds, to be
forfeitel as a dendand.

At Linlithgow, a few days ago, an 'Ohm of in
trepidity occurred, which meats the highea honour
on the ardent and humane heart of the young man
who performed it, and of which the mull public men-
tion ought to be made : A young man unfortunately
happening to bathe in the loch, at a place where a
mark pit had been dog, and being unacquainted
with Iwimming, he abruptly went beyond his depth
and difappeared. The alarm was fpread of a man
being drowned; when it reached Mu 11.iwie, who
has a leak of the loch. and the only perfun having a
boat on it, the inftantly tan to her nephew, William
Bowie, a young Crain at fehool in Linlithgow, who,
on hearing oldie difaller.inflead of going for the boat
as detireef, inliantly made to the place where the un-
fortunate lad had entered, firippiti; as he ran. NVlren
lie cianie up hatiily, enquiring fcr the fatal (pet, which
being pointed out, he boldly pluliged, e.itcd to the
bottom, and found the body entangled among the
, ‘r
. weeds. gulped it, he hi to the fur-
I face on I.i: fhoulder, and ittimmii.g our. i.e delivered
him to his friend,. Every effort IN As I I 1•7,1 In I ell”re
the body to I,fe, butt having beco fJ luni, in the water
proved itaclicatod.