Star.
London, England, 1818-07-24 00:00:00

Ni nit INTELLIGENCE.

FALMOUTH, JULY 91.
rad N. N. W. to S. W. fine weather.—Arrived
gajesty's ship Peoarcrnzys, from a cruize ; Duke
Aariborongh packet, with a Mail, from Lisbon, in
r days; lincithe Princess Charlotte packet, with a
lU;„ from the Leeward Islands, last from St. 'rho-
in 35 days.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY sts.
Wind E. S. E.--Passed down Channel the Water-
Cot.; for Smyrna.

ORAL. JULY 23.

• Wind N. E.—Arrived the ROYAL SOVERETN
from Calais, after landing the- Dtichess of
MIZE); and suite, and remains ; also arrived the
tareip, Mc,YARD ; Blendon Hall, Bens; any tiis
lard Cranston, AITIIN.B, from Jamaica. Came
icy' from the River the Norfolk, &urn, for the
Lath ivs; Fanny, Dtz.z.ozr, for Constantinople;
rd tte Rebecca, O'Cosbroa for. Oporto, and all
teed with a kr& breeze at Isl. E. with the Brilliant,
has, tr Calcutta, in.company.

DOVER., JULY es.
L lei this day the Chichester packet, Captain
knit, with amid and passengers, for Calais; also
the Lad); bee JaltteS, Captain HAYWARD, with his
keine/ Prince EITERHAZY, for that pert.—_Arri•
Ted this af•.emoon the Lord Duncan packet, captaipu
Eisen, ima Ostend, with a mail and passengers;
scathe Deka, Captain ADAMS, from Calais, with
rasseigers.

• GREENOCK, JULY Su. •
Arrived yesterday evening the Jan, lantsort,
from .Gieenland, with thirty-one -fish.' nearly
luring the fishing, one of the crew Was unfortnriately
owned, and another lost a leg by getting ,entangled
the files after striking a fish. Arrived . also the
..11ATTRAT, froth St. John's, Newfoundland:
:ed thence the Let instant ; on the Sth, in lat. 48.13,
long. 37. SO. W. spoke the Alert, of and for'
lark, from Liverpool, all well----Arriied
:,the Homer, BELL, fraEl Savanaalt. 7
• RAMIOATR, JULY 23. . • " 1
Tht tuip 11.1p,stalboon; •of Emden, is britughtin
'liya macs: .of this port, after Shure in
and kist.two anchors, and cables. •
_ eperowt-HCAISE, -JULY n 3.
anxisiO KrwaanaThe Vriendschap, Roos ; Hoop,
ur; aid Vrovi; ninny, from Antwerp ; Hope; Pail; and
Ildt, Drees, from Harlingen ; Atlas, Staniland ; Jonge
64:66aap; and Mercurius, Overahaw, from Rotterdam ;
from Rena; Dice Gebroeders, Cleasson,
Methuen Castle, Anderson, from Dantzie ;
Ludt, from Pit All •' Charlotte‘ Tharmouth, from
scare, Harrington, from Malta; Libre Eal, &lumina,
4'recum*, Wilbelmina, Rung, from Finland; and Voact,
c.A. bun Harlington.
(ml,ll4--The Mar'.a, Brown, for Waterford; Harriet,
lgrty.fcr ; Sir Henry Stanhope, Appleton, for
1..;a41 Larert, 1341, for Ilamburgb.

TeEQteure—The regular account front Kew yes-
Y only stated, " Her Xtigsry is much the same
aS yesterday" Private accounts said :
Tut tlzte% is much indisposed."
Qlov;Pg is the report of this morning : " Tier
'I°TY has had a good night, and is better this
iag."

L'`Llrtl3:f morning, at a quarter before eleven
the Duke of GLOUCESTER took an affec-
leave of his beloved Duchess; and quitted
louse in his travelling carriage tc pursue
• His Royal Riglar.cis was attended by Co-
C"Tor, Major Sir ARTHUR MURRAY, and
,tatzov. They proceeded from London to
'rout's, where the Royal Duke was to dine with
3kizer Gan', and sleep at the Commissioner's
Imrning the Royal Duke and suite were,
f it
Bourdon board his Mesty's friiate SnottrAx,'
mina. His itoyal HigLc3s proceeds
.0 France to Italy, and intends to visit Gil:,ral-
esious to his return to F.ngland, which is es-
It. to be in about three months.
ed'et'Lly last, several Gentlemen, in honour of
'age of the Duke of *KENT, sat down to an
inner at thr Freemason's Tavern, WILLIAM
‘TILSOL Esq. in the Chair, Sir THOMAS Hta.t.
• After the usual toasts of the Sovereign, te. had been given the healths of his Royal
''sts, the " Friend of the Poor and of the rising
"on is the cause of Universal Education," and
''!essirious Consort, were drank with enthusiasm
g!I encomiums were passed in the course of
ros the effort! made by his Rcyal a. groat e groat Cause of humanity !

NORWICH tr.vroArrnm: AND nil IN;

S (IR ANCE.

TO TIP. EDITOR OF TIIP CTAR:
Copsequence of what I have just seen in
The Tkes Newspaper, I have written the following
letter to our Directors, and request you will.give it
publicity. Your's, &c. THOMAS BIGHOLO.

" 38, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, July 24; 1918.
" GO,-ri.rtti.s—.On reading the Resolutions relating to this
Society, and to myself as one of its °Seers, published in The
Times Newspaper of this morning, you may naturally expect
some communication front me on the subject.
".Yon are well aware that I have been the chief instrument
in rearing this extensive and useful Institution, and I beli:ve you
will give me credit for having served it faithfully and zealously,
to the best of my judgment and ability, for more than 21 years.
An attempt is now made not only to charge' me with miscon-
duct, but by identifying me with the Society to,effect its down.."
fall. In this, however, lam well assured that its adversaries
will be disappointed. Let the Institution stand or fall upon its
own merits, and I ant content to do the sante.

" I am assured that you will lose no time in taking proper
"and constitutional measures for maintaining the character of this
concern. With regard to myself, I hesitate not a moment to
request that you wit! aTord the Society an opportunity of judg-
ing, whether or not I have forfeited confidence which has now
been repbsed in me for so many years. I leave myself most
cheerfully in your hands, and in the hanti of the Society, and
will conclude by expressing my firm conviction that the present
attempt must issue, as all previous one, have done. In extend-
ing the influence of this System of Insurance, and-la raising.
your Society still higher in the estimation of the Public.

" I remain, (ieutleructi,
" With much respect, faithfully your'S,
" THOS. BIGNOLD.
" To the Board of Directors of the Norwich Union Insurance."

NORWICH UNION FIRE AND LIFE. OFFICE 'IN-

SURANCF, ESTABLISHED 1797.

" The blernbert of this Institution are respectfully cautioned
against being influenced by the Respon contained in The Times
of the proceedings which took place yesterday at the George
and Vulture Tavern, at a Mcoting called by seven individuals,
stating themselves to be Sufferers by Insurance with this Office.
'The Meeting in question was called without any application to
the Board of Directors, though they were the most obvious source
from whence both information and redress were to be obtained,
had these been the real or only objects of the- conveners of the
Meeting. It was attended by no one on behalf of the Directors,
and consequently the statements made were er-jairtr, and un-
contradicted.

" I have reason to believe that of those who assembled, many
were not Members. The report given of the proceedings suffi-
ciently displays the spirit of those who instigated them; and
With regard to the charge of vexatious conduct in the adjust.
ment or claims, I can safely state, that such is not the fact, as
far as respects the d.:partinent under my superintendence, which
comprises the whole Kingdom, with the exception of the Me-
tropolis, and ten miles round it ; but I shall abstain from en-
tering into any details until the sentiments of the Board of
fl -
rectors, and of the Committees, can be obtained.. .
" In the mean time I am persuaded that the lodembeis at.'
large and the public will do us the common justice of suspend-
ing their opinion on what has gone ford), until a limper oppor-
tunity shall have been afforded of meeting the allegations. which
.have been preferred. " BAM. —IIIC4C9L,Cov --
Seeretary to the Couturr beru*ent. •
PauPs Coffee-house, July 24; ISIS."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

" Gray's len Coffee-house, July2l, 1818.

" It is trite, as stated in the Times Newspaper of this morn-
ing. that 1 a.ttended a Meeting held yesterday at the George and
Vulture Tavern, Mr. Alderman Tuentrin the Chair', but I dis-
tinctly stated to that Meeting, that I did not attend at the de-
siie of the Directors of the Norwich Union Office, and further,
that I attended Solely for My own satisfaction.

" It was a circumstance perfectly novel to me to witness the
:proceedings of a Meeting hostile to the Norwich Union Society,
and convened for the purpose of receiving complaints against it.
" As the Meeting was for Sufferers by Insurances,' I could
not be considered as an invited party; and I felt that I was in-
debted to the kindness of the worthy Chairman for the permis-
sion I obtained of witneaing- its proceedings.
4 ft surely would have appeared very extraordinary to the
Meeting had I offered' any contradiction to statements which
were perfectly new to me, and pretty much confined to the
London Department.
" Had there been a single complaint from the Midland Coon-
ties, with which I am more immediately concerned, I could,
and, (with the permission of the worthy Chairman,) certainly
should have spoken to it.

" It does not argue much against the management or libera-
lity of the Norwich Union Office, that not a single complaint
wal, scat up from the Midland CountleS. though sought after by
numerous Advertisements; and as the Norwich Union extends
in those Counties to about Ten Millions of Insurance, I certainly
felt gratified wick such a zonfirmation of the statement I made
to the Meeting, vit. tbat I did not know of a claim in that Dis-
trict litigated or disputed—that I did not know of an instance
white a fire claim had ever met with the least delay in a full
and honourable discharge.
" It is unfair to conclude, or even to infer, that I admitted
every or any charge made against the London Executive, be-
cause I did not contradict statements with which I was prevl;•
only wholly unacquainted.

" I much wish that the Meeting had adopted the proposition
which I made, viz.—that a' Deputation of London Insurers
should meet a Deputation from Norwich, and that the joint
Deputies should forthwith proceed calmly to investigate and
decide upon the m,-its of the complaints made. Such a measure
would have been attended with consequences far more beneficial
to those who may think themselves slighted or injured, than a
string of angry Resolutions publishel in the London and Coun-
try l'riatb. " Yu:a's, &c.

" JOSEPH LOVELL"

•
The Duke and Duchess of Bsprono arrived .at
l'.uis on Monday last.
Wvdnoday se'nnight, the foundation stone of the
entrance to the new Gloucester and Berkeley Canal
was laid by the Duke of GLOUCESTER, supported by
Colonel BERKELEY, Captain BERKELLV, &c. In the
afternoon his Royal Highness dined with the Corpo-
ration of Gloucester at the King's Head. The Wor-
shipful the Mayes presided, having on his right his
Royal IlighticA, at.d on the left the Recorder of the
Borough, Lord SOMERS. Colonel Brittutx.iy, bir
R. W. Guise, and other distinguished individuals,
were also present. A number ofioyal, Constitutional,
and local toasts were given, many excellent ..songs
were sung, and the whole enjoyments of the etreutugl
left scarcely a wish Ungratified.

ASstiP,S.

sAttgatlny, WEDNESDAY, JULY et.

CIMWN SIDE.
Ju4n Laws was indicted for burglariously break.,
ing and entering the house of Mary Stevens, in the
parish' of Ilishopstone, on the night of the 18th cf
April, 1817, and stealing therefrom 66 guineas.—
This trial occupied a considerable po:tion'of the day.
and depended upon very peculiar and circumstantial
evidence s--:Mary Stevens, an elderly woman, and a
widow with four children, deposed, that on the
night in question she was awoke by hearing a noise
resembling that of a Person rummaging. in her
drawers, and perceived, a tall man walking through
her room. She was-much alarmed, and called out,
" Who be you, and. what do you wants" He an-
swered " Be quiet, or I'll blow your brains out."
He had in his hand a lantern, with a candle burning
in it, and wore a dark great coat. There was
great deal of money, consisting of guineas, half
guineas, and seven shilling pieces, which she kept in
her chest, but the exact amount of it at the time she
did not know. It was left to her by her husband in
order to provide for her children. •
Being cross-examined, she admitted that she re-
ceived assistance from the parish at the period of the.
robbery. 'Her daughter and another woman were
in the house, and they all went to bed at the same
time, after fastening the doors and windows. The
woman who lite 1 with her was- named Fanny Per-
ring, and was placed there by the gentlemen.of the
Parish. Her own weekly allowance was 3d. and a
cyeartern loaf. She paid no rent for the house, as It
had been her husband% freehold. She could pot say
whether the prisoner at the bar was the man she saw
in her room, although the moon shone brightly.
Re-examined—She got up when he was gone, found
that the money had been taken away, and a windoi
forced open wide enough to admit the body of a man.
Sarah Stevens, the daughter of the last, witness,
was next called, and corroborated the testimony Of
her mother in all its material circumstances, with
the addition that she also saw the man described,
and believed him to be the prisoner. She had seen him
frequently before, but being ignorant of his name,
had been unable to give any information to the Ma.'
,gistrate until he was apprehended in April last,
twelvemonths after the commission of the robbery.
She, ana not her mother, had the management of
the money left them by her father, and she knew.
the exact amount of it at the time it was carried
away. Thirty guineas of it had been lent to a per-.
son of the name of Lodge, who had returned it in,
the March preceding.
Fanny Petting also saw a man as above described,
pass through the outer chamber in which the slept,
between the hours of twelve and one at night. Ile
had en a dark great coat, with- several capes to it,
'was of a rift* complexion, and sandy hair,.. She_
was quite sere it was the prisoner at the bar, haVihg'
frequently seen him before. They got pp after be,
was gone, and went to one, or .two 'nelghßoiiring.
farmers, who came to theit house and witnessed tire'
'state of the window. 'She, met the prisoner •on the
'road in company with Mrs. Lodge about two montlii,
after. He accosted her,'but they had no conversation;
Gross-examined—She had known the prisoner's
perion for some time, but was ignorant of bit name
Sbe had always stated, that 'if she should sec him
again she could recoguise him. She had been in,
the habit of observing him •atthe meeting house,
where he assisted in performing the music. She
could not distinctly recollect, but her belief was, that
she did not see him there after the robbery. She
could solemnly swear that she had never expressed
her belief that it was another person, or that she had,
ever said she hid her head under the bed-clothes
when she perceived a stranger in her chamber.
Richard Curtis, a tithingman, in consequence of
information which he had received, apprehended the
prisoner in April last. He found him in jail at Bad.
ruin, in Cornwall, and knew him as having formerly
been a labourer in the parish of Eis.hopstone.
W. Swains, Deputy Clerk of the Peace for the
county, knew the prisoner's person. He had been,
previous to April, .1817, in the habit of receiving
parish relief, and working on what was called The
Stern, whiCh signified the doing jobs for different
farmers in succession; In the month of April last
year the prisoner came to him handsomely dressed,
having before.generally worn. a shabby dark great
coat. lie produced two guineas, and said he came
to pay the fees of an expired recognizance to keep
the peace, which for himself and sureties amounted
to IL 19s. He had a purse with more guineas in it,
and likewise paid the fees of another recognizant.
which had been respited. He saw him no more until
lie was taken into custody. The prisoner was a mar-
ried man, and his wife left Bishopstone a short time
after his disappearance.. -I,`
The prisoner in his defence merely threw himself
on the merciful consideration of the Court, observing
that he had been addicted to poaching, the conse-'
'quence of which was that his friends had become
his foes.

Mr. Justice PARK summed up the-evidence with
great accuracy and minuteness, commencing with
the remark, that it was a case of extreme importance.l
A doubt had been suggested whether this charge
Could be maintained by the present indictment, on
the ground that the stolen money was not the pro-
perty of Mary Stevens the elder. This doubt was,
however, altogether removed by the circumstance of
the indictment containing another count, in which it
was laid as the property of the children. Whether
the father had died intestate or not, the verbal de-
claration by which he intrusted the money in ques-
tion to his wife vested it either in her or her children.
The freehold tenement necessarily belonged to them.
An attempt had' been made to 'discredit her testi-
inon.y, by spewing that if the money was her own,
she must have falsely sworn that she was not worth
five pounds, that being required by law to be done
before a person can receive parish relief. This, how-
ever. was a form not always observed, and the pro-
bability was, that the witness, who was ignorant of
the amount Of the money, considered it as belongin •
to. her children rather than to berself. There was
;Other circumstance, also, to be taken into consi-
' deration, that of her having a woman quartered on
her by the parish, for whose maintenance it might
be that the weekly allowance was administered. The
*aim:point, therefore, in 'this case, teferrcci to the
quation ad identity ; and it was for tart J.. 1 y to cut,-

Bidet, whether a Variety of carrespondlog eirento-
stances might not establish as firm a conviction of
the truth, as the most direct evidence, and whether
the finger of PROVIDgNCR did not Oust :out the pri-
soner as the man who had committed the robbery in
question.z. Death. •
The 'business on the Nisi Prier side terminited this
morning, one cause alone remaining for trial. It re.
lated to a question of right of fishery, which hasi been
before tried, and was of no general intetesr. Mr.
Henry Huht, the Westminster candidate, was the
principal witness.

DUBLIN, JULY night a dreadful Ere
broke out tin the dwelling-house of one M'Keon,
publican, in Meirion-row, corner of Merrion-street,
and the whole concerns were destroyed. It is .singt.
lar, that while the neighbourhood of Dublin has en-
joyed a Fontinuance of warm,, and even sultry wea-
ther, some parts of the country are not equally fa-
voured. &Correspondent from Belfast writes, that
during the latter part of June and the beginning of
July, the weather was in general cold, and frequently
rainy, -" and now," continues he, (on 'Thursday last),
I am writing by the side of a blazing fire."
At the Sligo'Assizes, Jame; Dolan and Anr K;!!-
reaglsill; alias Dann, his sister, were found guilty of
the murder of their brother, in September last, and
ordered for execution on the I nth instant. The male
culprit steered, but the sumac: was reprieved till the
35th of Auzu it.
At the Waterford Assize;. 1!..4k1 on the 1 sth instant,./. Foger,
indicrgcrfer stealing a watch, phided Guilty. Upon being ad-
monished of the rooseqw,m,.. of his ',let—transportation to Ho-
tany Bay.for.igven years—he sail, that be was well aware of the
eyeiiinatanseii, and anxious to g:t there, or any where else where
lie might get even bread and water cor support: Ile was, he
said, an Englishman, a tailor, and, finding it impossible to get
work, he had r.Tourse"to robbery, as the only means of getting
suppert in the country, or of bring sent out of it.
. . STATE OF POLLS IN IRELAND.
cirr or Lustuct,
Major Vereker - .689 I Mr. Riee
COUXTT Orlviaroeb, JULY Is.
OATeW '• • 51*12 r Stopford -
Colclougk • - 3011 Valencia -
recurs- OP GALWAY, JULY lg.
J. Daly - - 4093 I Co!. 54,stin -
D. a. Dail - - 221/11

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This morning the Right lion. the LORD NfATOR
went in.stlite to St.:Bride's Church, Fleet-street, and
held a Wardmote fa; the eleetionslf an Alderman in
the tooth of Sir Cuont.iti.Pluca, deceased, late Al-
dertrian bf the .Ward of Farringdon Without. Mr.
Deliatiy.e. o proposed It. WayrustAw, Esq.
•
the nommation- was seconded by Mr. REEVE, and
there being ntsopposition.the Limn IlLsvon declared
Me; WArrusaseduly elected Alderman of the 'said
Ward.
His Royal Highness the Duke of lona arrived'
onMonday last at Woodlands, Lord FALstzestoN'a
seat; De4r Ittutrksey, where. his Royal. Highness was
met by a large party to dinner. Qn Tuesday he took
an airing_ in the New Forest, accompanied by the
.of CAVAN, Lord PALMERSTON, and Mr. LAXE,
''end dined with 11. SI,OANE, Esq. at Paultores. -On
'ednesday
.this Royal- Highness arrived .at Cadnam
iAltrtile'snestteSt boundary of the
,Forest to Broa
lac th silitbreilt was met by most of the gentlemen
' in the neighbourhood, as well as by the Forest-keeper,
ic. in their prinper. dresses : a rural procession was
then • formed to the King's House, at Lyndhurst,
'where -Ms Royal IliAbiiess held a Levee, and most. of
:the-neighbouring gentry were presented. His Royal
`-f-ligliness afterwards dined with the Members of the
-New Forest flan, •Earl' CAST.4I in the Chair.- Att.
eleven oclock at night his; Royal Highness left the '
root* and immediately set out for4..condon,-
iiVed early yesterday morning. /
. . •
Sir RoscaT STEEL Mot with a dangerous accident
while riding fast in St. James's. Street, the day before,
yesterday. 'His horse slipped off the when',
passing between a tilburyon which Capt. Cox, of the
Life Guards, was driving, and a coach, the tilbury.
horse trod on Sir ROBERT'S temple, and the chaise
much hurt his side. He was carried to a neighbour-
ing surgeon, and copiously bled, and in an hour he
was able to-bc conveyed home.
The following occurrence lately happened in the•
old Church Yard, of Tulliallen, Perthshire. • The
sexton, whilst.digging a grave, had his attention at-
tracted by an unusual noise under ground, whias
encreased as he proCeeded in the operation, until
having reached a coffin, on breaking which he was
assailed with swarms of bees which had there taken _
up their residence. The breast of the skeleton was
found completely filled with honey combs, and from
I its quantity it appeared the inhabitants had remained'
in undisturbed possession Of this, singular station for
many years previous to the 'discovery.
A dreadful swim cf thunder, lightning, rain, and
hail, visited Ittimsey, in Hampshire, op Wednesday
afternoon. A number of trees, in the New Forest,
were torn up by the roots. At llromshaw, seven
miles from Itumsey, the hail-stores did considerable
damage'to the hot-houses adjoining ; at Mr. Oita's,
not less than 500 squares of, glass were broken ; two
small horses, which had taken shelter under a tree,
were found both dead on the following morning.*.
Lieet;pool 'was visited with a slight storm of ;Inn-
' der and lightning on Friday evening, whizli was su.:-
ceeded.by rain, which continued to descend copiously
during tht whole of the night, and throughout the
greater part of Saturday and yesteiday• This sea- •
sonable blessing will be of the moss essential service
to the different crops in this neighbourhood, partial:
laxly the potatoes. We are informed that this rain
has been very g:aneral in all parts of the county, and
in Cheshire.

In Warwickshire, Staffordshire, thi wheat, oats,
and barley, have every appearance of abundant crop,
In Kent, Bucks, and Oxfordshire, also, the crops are
mast promising. At Norwich market,• oa Saturday,
wheat declined in price 3s. per con.:,. Several refresh-
ing showers have fell in various parts cif the country
within the last fortnight.
CO R N-EXQII A NOE, MAR IC-LRIPE, Jrbilf 24.--Our
Market continuing to be well supplied with all (;stain,
both English as well as Foreign, and there being bur,
few buyers at the Market this morning, a cosup.lere
stagnation has.t.iken place in ahaiest every amide.
Our prices must be quoted nominally, as o;i Monday;
for although offered at lower prices, scarce aoy sales
could be effected.

•
ditrtic rm.') . Mazza', Jcar 44.-Bett, 4s. Od. te 4t,
guriti. of bibs ; Matto., 46. to S. Vt.2l 36. to 36. ed.. Fab It
to ed. Lamb 3s. to es. Begatii, .17(0-; CaYeil 1110'; !beep
and Lambs, 7260 ; figs, 220; Ho, pet 1114, ..t. to 64. (Amer, St
to tl. u. Straw J. 105. toil. •