Star.
London, England, 1817-01-06 00:00:00

Monday evening a man was stopped by two men
about a mile from Chichester, and robbedofnearly £4.0.
A farmer of Frampton Cottrell, whose potatoe-pit
had been robbed, determined to watch it on Thursday
last, when he saw a man approach and begin to plun-
der : a scuffle ensued, when the thief was shot dead.
Thursday night the house of Mr. John Harris,
N'). ii, Charles-street, Mile-end, was entered by
means of picklock keys, and robbed of a quantity of
plate, a time-piece, tablecloths, napkins, sheets,iblen-
kcts, and a variety of articles of wearing apparel.
AUDACIOUS ROBBERY.—A few evenings since a
most audacious robbery was committed at a house
in Sackville-street, Piccadilly, under the following
circumstances :—On Wednesday evening, the Ist
inst. about seven o'clock, a man knocked at the door
'with a letter directed to the Lady of the house, which
the servant girl carried up stairs to her mistress, who,
together with several friends were at dinner. On the
letter being opened, its contents were found to be the
following, which is a copy My name is Chas. Tur-
pin ; I am come for yout three togs (flash for great
coats) and your two celps (hats). I wish you a happy
'new year. No more at present from your well-
wisher, Charles Turpin, the grandson of old Dick
Turpiti." The Lady being quite at a loss as to the
meaning of the words 66 togs" and 66 eelps," the
note was handed round the table to several military
officers who were of the party, none of whom could
form an idea of their meaning. At length one of
them determined on going down stairs, to ask the
man who had brought it, and was supposed to be
waiting in the hall,lor an answer, to explain it, when
he found that the fellow had decamped, taking with
him for the answer, four' ilitary great coats, which
bad been left hanging up in the ball. Shortly after-
wards- the Gentleman went to Marlborou7ll-street
Office, to give information of the robbery : and upon
bring interrogated by some of the ofilcei sas to the
tuanner in which it was committed, the note was pro-
duced, which they said bad been brought to the
!untie by the fellow who was supposed to have stolen
the coats : when, to their utter astonishment, they
were informed, that the words " togs" and " celps,"
were their great coats and hats that the person came
for, which had been written in the flash way, for the
purpose of taking up the person's attention that i WAS
addressed to, whilst the fellow who brought it strip-
ped
the hall of all that was in it. Servants, there- I
tore, moot be too careful in future in guarding
against strange persons who may come at night with
letters, Ecc.
Communes IthauitsTs.—The folios log Inquisitions
have been lately taken by Mr. Gouott, title of ate
Coroner( of Oxfordshire
At South Newington, on view of the landy ..f Elizatth Dum- '
Meson, who suddenly expired in her dw.qui.g.houw.
At Chipping Norton, on view of the holy ut kackti Fibber,
tem suddenly dropped down and expired it. a fit.
At Dietching,on, on view of the body it a yeoman, a deplorable
obit ct, at present neknown, who tea. found dead in 4 cow - hey el ,
but bow or when she came there could not be st,c,-rta.ifted.
At Neithrt.p, on view of the body rot honias biorri4, a fanner,
who, through intoxication and the &Amos of the night, was un-
fortunately drowsed-
At Stamford, on view of the body of Mary Walton, a child,
who was found dud In bed. It was proved by the Surgeon, to
'the satisfaction of the Jurors, that the child died in a fir.
A Cororer's Inquest was held on Friday last,,
and continued by an adjournment to the next
day, at the house of Mr. James Wyatt, the sign of
the Marquis of Granby, in Brick-street Piccadilly, on
view of the body of William Watkins, the upper
coachman of the Earl of Yarmouth.—The Noble
Earl was present during the last day's investigation :
he stated? :hat the deceased was a most healthy man
to the hour of his death, that he drank very freely of
porter ; and he particularly wished to be satisfied
whether that liquor had been itistrittromtal to his
death or not, as he had heard that* there were some
improper ingredients used in making porter which
caused apoplexy.—lt appeared in evidenc.., that the
deceased was in the habit of drinking a went deal of
porter, and had got very fat and bloated. He had
been drinking porter on Wednesday morning, and
was attacked with a sudden illness which caused his
immediate death.—From the above obsarvatioes of
his Lordship, the Coroner caused some of the re.
unainder of the beer which the deccasid had been
'drinking to be analyzed. The porter was found to
be perfectly pure from any improper ingredient.—
He said, that he should recommend that the porter
from all the brewers in the metropolis should be ana-
lyzed, in order that the public might not be deterred
from partaking of a wholesome beverage, it made as
sanctioned by law ; and if any improper ingredients
were used by porter brewers, that they might be pu
nished as the law had provided.— It appeared further
in evidence, that the deceased had been sparring,
about halt an hour before his death, with a roan
named Humphrep r he received several sight blows
on the body ; but they were not of that violence to
have caused his death. From the evidence of seve-
ral surgeons it appeared that the deceased died in
consequence of an effusion of blood upon the brain.
The Jury, after examining that. no marks of violence
were upOn the body, from the sparring, which could
have caused his death, returned a verdict according
with the opinion of the surgeons—o Died by an effu-
sion of blued on tbc brain.
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