Star.
London, England, 1803-01-05 00:00:00

POI.ICE, &c.

MANSION •HOUSE .—Yeflerday the two ptifoners,
who have been in cutlody fome days, and who
have undergone a private examination before the
Loan MAYOR, were again privately examined be-
fore his Lordfhip, charged with being concerned
in the plundering of a (hip at Barnilable, which
was outward bound ; the plunderage of this (hip,
it is Paid, amounted to soool. and on purpofe to
conceal it, fubftituted brick hats and Ikraw, &c.
inftead of bale goods. A Count-el attended the
examination, and feveral merchants, concerned in
the cargo, with the lighterman who had (hipped
thefe goods; but as there are fome others concern-
ed in the robbery, not yet in culody, we forbear
to mention any particulars, as it might defeat the
ends of jnflice; the prifoners were again remanded
to clofe confinement for further examination.
GUILAHALL.—A man was yefterday brought
before the Sitting Alderman,charged by a woman
(big with child) with giving her two violent blows
on her body, in Fleet-market, the evening before.
A witnefs attended to prove the fad ; which the
Magiftrate thought of lo brutal a nature, that he
told the defendant, jibe did not make the molt
ample amends to the woman, who complained
much of the pain Ike funred from the blows, be
thould immediately commit him, to find bail for
lo Profs and unprovoked an alLolt.
The woman received fome remuneration.
WHITECHAPEL.—YeRerday gnfeph was
fully committed fur tiial, being charged on fufpi-
cion with Pealing wet linen.
Pbilip Solomon was committed for re-examina-
tion on fufpicion of a burglary in Biihopfgate-
ilreet, and Pealing a large quantity of wearing
apparel, &c.
A widow, of the name of Chapman, from
Camberwell, appeared againft Sarah Walker who
was fully committed to Newgate on feveral Charg-
es, for robbing her lodgings. The poor woman
Rated, that Walker hired a losiging of her about
two years ago, pretending that the was the wife of
a gingerbread.baker, in Oxford-greet—had three
children at boarding-fchool, the one the-had with
her had the hooping-cough, and had come for
country air; by which plaufible talc the was taken
in, (hid a week, (tripped the lodgings, and ran
in debt in the neighbourhood, which drs. Chap-
man was obliged to pay : the only remedy the
bad left was to prefer a bill of indiament againft
the prifoner.
UN lON.HALL.COMIINATION.-YefteidaY Mr.
Edwards, a Mailer Millwright, in Vine-street,
Lambeth, came before the Magiftratet, with Mr.
Cussssiaos for his Counfel, to complain, under
the terms of the Statute of 39 and 4o Geo. 111.
for preventing iilegal Combinations among jour-
neymen, &c. againft Robert Steele, for that he
being employed by him, did malicioufty, and
without any jut' eaufe "rile and refute to continue
at his work, unlefs a man working in the fame
(hop with him was difcharged, on the pretext he
was not a fair Num. and thereby compelling him,
the raid Edwards, to difcharge the Paid man,
named Murton, againft the Statute.
Mr. Cott ?lilt Gs, after timing the points and
bearings of the Statute, proceeded to call evidence
to prove the charge, which was fully ellablithed
by the teftimony of the Mailer, Foreman, and two
Journeymen. This offence being in its operation
an extreme ferious one to mechanics, who, con-
trading to do certain bufinefs, are liable by fuch
proceedings to fail in their contrafLs, and thereby
loise the cuftom of their employers, the Learned
Counfel craved the Judgment of the Bench, that
Robert Steele be conviaed for three months im.
prifonment in the county gaol, being the full ex-
tent allowed by the Aft, which was granted ac-
cordingly.
Maausoaouon•Svaarr.—Yellerday John Con-
ner and Richard Barry werebrought here, charged
with breaking feveral panes of 'grafi at the Duke's
Head, in Monmouth court.
Mary Ann Etheredge depored—" I keep the
Duke's Head, in Monmouth-court, Monmouth-
ftreet : my hatband is a hackney coachman ; he
has a pair of plates of his own ; fometimes it is
very late at night before he comes home ' • I fat up
lag night pail twelve o'clock waiting for him. At
about half pail twelve, there was a rap at the
greet door, and the found of many voices, on
which I laid that I would not open. the door at
that time of night. One of my lodgers, who fat
in the tap room eating his fopper,went and opened
the door, thinking it was my hutband's voice ; on
which feveral men ruched into the pairage. whilft
others remained outride. The two prifoners at
the Bar defiled me to give them half a pint of gin,
on which I laid it was now too late, and that I
would not serve an at that time of the night. They
infilled I thould, for they would not go out with-
out being fervid, or, if I did not ferve them, they
would fcrvc themfelves. There were two of my
' lodgers, and a neighbour in -he tap room, who
came out into the paffage. The piabners being
backed by feveral others, film of whom came in,
and fame remained at the door, called for flicks,
which were }lauded in, when they la- pn to (Tike
away, fwearing molt horribly, until they broke
the bar winJow, all to pieces. Mr. 1121114 and
my lodgers came, and with a great deal of dial.
culty puilied then; out, and the door being Prong
and having a fpring lock when rant to, it refifted
all their force. They began to puth and ftrike at
the door, which, when they found acids, they
(truck at the fan light over the drat-, and broke it
into a dial:land pieces. I went up hairs wl.;i11 they
were ftrivii-g to break open my place, wad having
a rattle, 1 utted up the lafu o. the one pair of

ft.iirs window, and put out my hand, and rpron7
the rattle ; on which the Watchmen came amt,.
took John Conner into cultody, and brought him
to the watelihoule. Shortly after, Richard Barry
came to the watvhhcale of himfelf to fee his com-
rade, when [ gave charge of him. I am fore both
were in the palfage, and Itriking at the glals, and
that it was Richard Barry rho firft came in and
demanded the gin.
John Harris, being the neighbour alluded to.
(wore they broke the fan light into a thoufand
fhivers, and when Mrs. Etheridge fprung the rat-
tle, the witnefs opened the door and feized on the
prifoner, John Conner, by the collar, and held
h;ir.^ fall, in fpite of his exertions to the contrary,
.il the watchman came, and he was taken eu
the watch-houfe.
William Jenkins, a lodger in the hoed, corro-
borated the whole of the evidence, proving both
prifoners to be very aaive in the riot.
Both prifoners were then ordered to find good
bail for their appearance, or be committed, and the
parties bound w profecute.
Maurice ritzgerald, a watchman, in Welbeck-
ftreet, brought a woman to Mary-la-bonne watch-
houfe, whom he found naked at half-pall one
o'clock in the morning on his heat. She could
give no account of herfelf ; but it appeared that
the was a married woman, and of good charathr,
and being at times deranged in her mind, the Role
out of her hulband's bed, and went in that nian•
ner into the fireet. On her being miffed, they went
out, and on inquiry, found fhe was taken to die
watch-houfe ; on which her hulband brought her
clothes. She told Mr. BRODIE, the Magittrate,
that, when a child, the had the misfortune to fall
out of a window, when her head was fraCtured,
which canted her at times to be in a dreadful [late.
Moreover, the complained of the cruel ufage of
her hufband, who, the laid, often beat her about I
the head. She requelled being fent to an infirma.
ry. On inquiry, Mr. BRODIE found all that the
poor woman had Rated to be true, and ordered
that fhe fhould be taken proper care of.
On Friday morning LIR in the Borough, a vi-
cious grey horfe in •.t little dray being left to him-
fell, ran off with the dray on a gallop down New
Lant.ftreet, round by the ruins at the back of
Mint-ftreet, through Great Suffolk-greet, by the
back of the King's Bench, and round again, down
Blackman-area, till be came to Dr. CR asswELL's
door at the corner of Lant-ftreet, where, on turn-
ing too Rion by the corner, the near wheel got
into contaft with the poll, and brought him up,
having in his progrefs ran over a child, who now
lies with the lots of a foot, with very little hopes
of life.

Several of the Leaders of the recent Revolt at
St. Domingo, who figned the pretended Conllitu.
tinnal Aft, as the Paris Papers flyle it, which was
publiflud by Toussaier Louvcaruas,andwhich
was, with flight qualifications, praifed in the Mo.
niteur, have been ordered to be removed from the
Ihip in Bret harbour, where the'', have been kept
clofe prifoners, to Paris, where they are to be
brought to immediate trial before the Criminal
Tribunal of the Seine.

Another inflance of a flrange fbop.lifting !acme
occurred a few days ago :—" A certain Lady flop.
ped to buy a few pounds of potatoes at a potatoe
ware,houfe in Fore.ftreet, Cripplegate, when, in
the abfence of the landlady, who went to the in-'
fide room to provide fome change, the Lady em-
braced this opportunity to Al her muff with pota-
toes out of the bin, in which the was detected, and
offering a confiderable fum of money, and being
a refpeftable tradefman's wife, the was difmiflid
without expofurc."
On Monday evening Lift, as Mr. Wm. Smith,
deputy coal meter, of Five Foot-lane, was going
' from St. Paul's Church-yard into Patersofler-row,
he was knocked down and robbed of what money
he had about him. A few evenings before, Mr.
Smith was robbed in Chartcrhoufetquare of 21.
173. 6d. it is fuppofed by fume of the fame gang,
who are partly known.
Early on Friday morning IAR fome perfons broke
into the houfe of Mrs. Hainfwortb, of Silcby, in
Leicefterniire, and forcing open a bureau, (tole
thereout upwards of soot. in call' and Bank notes.
Three men are in cullody on fufpicipn of having
committed the robbery.
On Thurfday evening, while fome people were
bringing in a quantity of whilkey to Aberdeen,
they were met at the Bridge of Dee by the officers
of facile, when a defperate encounter enfued, in
which fome hard blows were dealt on both fides.
The Excife officers, however, got the fliperiority,
andlucceeded in bringing the whifkeytoAbercken
together with (even bodes which were carrying it.
-Lail week the Magiarates of Paifley, tipon a
complaint againft a fervant maid for &lei thig her
fervice, in order to Ise married, ordered her either to
return to her fervice, or declared they would irn-
prifon her. The girl, however, thought proper,
inflead of returning, to forfeit her wages, and pay
her mallet the full wages for another fervant in,
her place.
The attention of the Magiflrates of Glafgow has
been lately taken up with the following rather fin.
gular cafe. About eight days ago, information
was given at the Procurator lifcarsoflice, that A
rumour prevailed that Elie. Walker, wife of Ro.
Bert Cochrane, carter in the Dovehill, w h.. had
died fuddenly, and been then two days bin ied, had
owed her death to the maltreatment of her hat=
band. The Magiarates immediately coined a per.
cognition to be taken, by which it was 01,16111)M.!
that Cochrane had behaved with much barbarity
to his wife for fome time pall, and that, in parti-
cular' he had wounded her 011 the head 1% ith a
pan, Come days before: her d: 'tit.
crates hereupon ordered the h.,dy of the .!_re
to be lifted from the gear-, ai.d
phyfician and furgenn of relpeet tl;:hity ; hat tLeir
report did not confirm the flipi:ions arl'ing
the precognition. On the cemlary, ft ••••d
the wound on the head to have been owl ply taper-
ficial, and that there was no to tt k of vi.,,:ace up.
on any other part of the body. Ir -iatnce of
this, cochia•,e, who h3cl -bcen I:as
been admitted to bail, Fein; full op .1 7o
; tion tor the affault ct; 11:b

BO:rct. c-.-: 'i.elN7.

An eminent Divine 'is with tlyi I.oll,•ir-
ing recipe, which he lay:, is mote vali•-•".. • -.k
gold, and which he aiinres us h., pjvcti v.
tul relic:* to numberlefs perfns, who were
aflliaed with pains in their cold;, ;1.1
aflinnatie diforders, and even to many, who wJ,
bordering on a coufamptif,n:.Take a
feverfew, rolemary tops, and linleed, t!:•
feed, and boil all together, in dace pin's of watt:
till half reduced, Brain it off, and aid as !noel;
citron, Narbonne Loney, as the flornach will hear;
take two table fpoons full night and rm.rnii-ig.
a child, one fpoonful is fufficient ; if a hinr•
llanding ailhmatic complaint, d:tliculty in
breathing, take the honey on toa!led bread every
morning with new or warm milk, or tea made
rolemary, or fage ; it will cure them, by pe.:e•
verance.

BIRTH.
At Bath, the 24th tilt. the La of Colonel of Zr,-
Dorfetfuire, of 3 dauS!,r•r.
On the 29th ult. Mot. Scgoletlen. of 2 r: n.
Lately, Mr". Oliph:ut tof Ca:.;, .;