Star.
London, England, 1820-11-22 00:00:00

POLICE.

MARLBOROUCTI•STREET.—CaptaiII Waldron regri
of the 101st regiment, was charged with assaultilig
and wounding Samuel Plank, an Officer lit:ontzirT
to this Office, who Was looking out to serve a ex
rant upon him on Saturday morning. Plank had
been applied to, to serve a warrant of assault tipm
Captain Kelly, at the suit of W. Henley, Esq. a
tleman of fortune, residing in Sloane-street, bet Ile
had much difficulty in finding him: at length, I.e
had information that he was at a gaming-heuse,
King-street, St.James's, where he waited his coning
out, and then politely accosted him, and asked Lin:
if he vt.as not Captaia Kelly? His reply was,
upon my honour as a gentleman, I am not Capt.:i7
Kelly ; my name is Johnsen: But the Officer, ER.
tisfied it was the Captain Kelly he wanted, fom
lowed him into St. James's-square, when the Captai-
demanded, in au impel: five tone, what he want.:./
The officer told him, and sheaved hi, staff, which
defendant snatched from his hand, a!•.d. knocked is
down by a violent blot y which fractured his !.e:1,
and then made his escaL,e. The warrant was nu:
put into the hands of Jefferies, another officer, •.;-!y
took the defendant into custody op Monday eveni'g.
at the Bath Hotel. A surgeon proved the str.e
the wound which Plank had received, and said Ile
could not pronounce him out of dAnger, as he :IA
known instances of persons losing their lives cr.,!;.:.
similar circumstances. Tne v.-as
to be the person who assaulted t:.e :F:er, -,ld he wit,
committed to Tothill-fields Brit;:, and orderec'
give forty-eight hours notice o:

HATTOX-GA ADEN,.—Yesterdity, G. Re.inrz
J. Sack, both lads, were charged by Mr. Moti:..Lt'n,
proprietor of the Saracen's Head, Snow-IA,
stopping him in Goiv:ell,treet:road cn 5.:117.:ar
night, and robbing him of hi; watch, chain,
seals. Mr. M. stated, that Rubinson ranbkeyad,,st.ll:l:-;
him, and snatched the watch out of his fob, Mr. M.
gave him a blow with his stick, apinndiontoc
down, but he was immediately
and both effected their escare. After tome time
they were found in company with about 2t) young
thieves, drinking in a public-houe, and were
taken. They were searched, but the watch was not
found on either of them. Mr. NI. was positive to
identity of the prisoners, and they were reinan!.ed.

CHARGE OF HIGH TIMASON.-It was expec:ed tint
J. Palin, the man charged n ith being cuucerne.i in
the Cato-street Conspiracy, would have undergeme
examination, on Monday, btfore the Privy Council,
and the Officers who apprehended him were waiting
the whole of that day fur an order to convey him to
the Secretary of State's Office, but it .a•as at length di-
rected that he should ,ernain in the•llouse of Cot.
rection until Saturday next, when he will he
mined. On the arrival of the wretched man at CI:-
‘House of Correction en Friday evening last, he be.
came dreadfully agitated, and trembled so t.11:1'
could scarcely stand. He was placed in one of
State apartment, and was accommodated with every
thing that the nature of his situation would admit
His mother, an aged. woman, and very pocr, was in
waiting nearly the whole of Monday and yesterday :o
see her son, and she applied to the Sitting 31agi:;trate
for an order to visit him in the House of Correction.
Palin was formerly a man of very industrious habit;,
and entirely supported- his mother and a family
his labour.

The total number of Schools in Scotland, of
descriptions, is 3,556, in which are taught 176,5::-3
children.
On the morning of Friday sennight, about 25 mi-
nutes before one o'clock, a meteor was observed by
several persons to pass over York. It had tI..A ;--.:1-
peat-ance of a large ball of fire, but was not cer.-t-
-pletely round, and was first seen in the south-west,
passing in a north-east direction, and was visible
abont tour seconds, during which time the streets
were a light as at noon-day. About three minutes
after its disappearance, a loud peal of thunder was
heard, and darkness then continued is before, withoiit
any other meteorous appearance.
A fine young woman, named HAWEES, while at-
tending Divine Service on Sunday, at a Dissenting
Chapel at Barnet, fell down, and instantly expired.
FUNERAL CLOTlL—Several cases of litigation hav-
ing occurred respecting the right to the black cloth
in hanging Churches at •'
public funerals, it may be
worth while to record a recent decision of the ques-
tion by Judge BAYLEY. His Lordship, in his charge
to the Jury, laid it down, that no individual had a
right to hang up what ,are called ornaments in a
Church, without leave of the Rector, because the
freehold of the Church was in him, and he might
make his own terms for that leave. "In general,'
said his Lordship, " when private individuals hang
np black cloth in the Church with the con-
curttnce of the Rector,,there is a kind of understani-
ing that the cloth shall become the property of the
Rector. In the present case there has been no bargain
made between the Churchwardens and the Clergy-
man, with respect to the terms upon which the cloth
should be hung up, consequently the latter had no
right to take any part of it ; because, by law he was
not entitled to take such property, unless by matter of
arrangement between the partiesto whom it belonged:*

BIRTH.
Nov. 4, at Ducidingitone, the wife of Thomas 1116Waltsr, its
nartermaster of the Scots Greys, of a son and heir.

MARRIED.
Nov. 14, Captain George Wyndham, R.N. to Jane, daughter
of the Rev. W. Roberts, 'Vice-Provost of Eton College.

DIED.

Yesterday, at his house in Hill-street, Berkeley-square, in tli'r
7Sth year of his age, the Earl of Malmesbury.
Nov. 10, at Edinburgh, Colonel Maxwell, late of the 7t6
Dragoon. Guards.
March 3n, In the Island of Tobago, Mr. John Duncan, mer-
chant, youngest son of the late George Duncan, Esq. Conarrol-
ler of Stamp Duties for Scotland.
At Castle-Douglas, in Galloway, on the 7th inst. Mr. .1(412
Douglas, sen. aged 75, one of the earliest feuars, and one of :be
oldest inhabitants of the Burgh. He was one Of the fooldeof
of the Friendly Society, the first institution of the kind in Clitis
Douglas; and the last of his life was an act of charity. tn:,t
going round with a subscription paper, for the relief of a ',Woo
in distress, he was suddenly seised with a violent illness, w:1101
curried Lim offin a few-hours.

HIGH-WATER at LONDON Mil DG IC TO-Mtill tils •
Mcrning - 19 minute.; after 4
-Afternoon - 40

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