Star.
London, England, 1821-04-11 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Yesterday these Sessions commenced, when C. J.
Knight and W. Clerke were indicted for conspiring to
defraud Mr. Christie and Captain Rowe, of goods to
the amount of £lB6.
Mr. Christie is a timber-merchant in Clerkenwell,
and Captain Rowe is the master of a vessel which
brought a cargo of timber from Africa, in 1820,
which was unshipped in the London Docks. J. Price,
an agent, had some slight knowledge of Knight, and
it was proposed that he should become a purchaser
of part of the wood, but Price refused Knight's secu-
rity, and he introduced Clerke, his brother-in-law,
who represented him as a very solvent man, that he
had at least £5OO upon his books, and could give
good bills, to which Price agreed ; and Clerke him-
self accepted a bill for forty pounds, which was paid
when it came due. Knight accepted two hills for fifty
pounds each, which, however, were dishonoured.
A warrant of attorney, which Clerke had against
Knight in the preceding May (this transaction having
taken place in June), for upwards of £2OO, was put
in, and had been drawn up so ingeniously, as to give
Clerke power to put it in force, not only for the spe-
cific sum mentioned, but for any other transaction or
negociation between them afterwards ; so that Clerke
actually took the timber, when it was delivered.—
Knight became a prisoner in the Fleet, and was now
brought up by Habeas Corpus; his business, it seems,
is still carried on in his house. Witnesses were called
to prove the facts ; and, after a long argument of
Counsel on both sides, the CHAIRMAN summed up,
and the Jury returned a verdict, finding both the de-
fendants
After an hour had elapsed, the prisoners were put
again to the Bar, when the CHAIRMAN sentenced
Clerke to pay a fine of £5O ; and the Court taking
into consideration Knight being already in prison, sen-
tenced him to be further imprisoned for two months
from the expiration .of his present confinement.
P. P. Leykine, J. Hirst, G. R. Rowland, J. ROW..
son, and L. Ziroadstreet, were indicted for assaulting
J. Forester.

The defendants were stated, by Mr. ADOLPHUS, to
be sons of respectable men in the City, and the pro-
secutor a watchmaker, in Union-street, Bishopsgate-
street. Early in the morning of the day stated in
the indictment, he was coming home through White-
chapel, when the defendants, who were in a state of
inebriety, pushed him off the pavement. An alter-
cation ensued, when Leykine said he was the cham-
pion, and would give him a nulling, and took off the
prosecutor's hat, and handed it to his companions.—
The watch was called, and the prosecutor charged
them with robbing him of his hat. A scuffle ensued,
when Leykine lost a gold watch.
The Jury found the defendants Guilty, and the
Court sentenced Leykine to pay a fine of C 5. Hirst
£2. 10s. and all the rest EL 4s. each.

E. Blade was convicted of an assault upon J. Tip-
ping, owner and driver of the hackney-coach N 0.615,
which coach the defendant hired in Broad-street, St.
Giles's, to take him to his house in Yorkshire Stingo-
lane, and instead of paying the coachman's demand,
he thrashed him. The defence was, that the coach-
man was insolent, and broke defendant's windows.—
Sentence deferred.

James Pigdet and William Clayton, two of the
convicts left for execution at the late Assizes for
Kent, and who were to have suffered on Thursday
last, were respited the preceding day.—lsaac Boor-
man and Henry Bridger, who had been previously
respited, have since been reprieved.
A charity Vox, placed at the Trosachs by the Rev.
Mr. COCKER, from England, was opened some time
ago, and contained upwards of Ell sterling. This
sum was made up of donations from travellers who
visited Loch Catherine and the Trosachs during the
last season, and has been distributed to the most ne-
cessitous cf the poor in the parish of Callander.
The Devon County Meeting was most numerously
i attended. The Mott &MIFF was in the Chair. A
letter from Lord ROLI.E was read, in which he ex-
pressed a hope that the Meeting would not mix with
their objects of complaint " the old bug-bear of Par-
liamentary Reform." This drew from Mr. TUCKER
an animated censure. Lord EBRINGTON, in an able
speech, proposed the Resolutions and Petition. He
was seconded by R. W. NEWMAN, Esq. An Amend-
ment was moved by the Rev. Prebendary DENNIS,
agreeing to the representation for relief from Agri-
' cultural Distress, &c. but omitting Parliamentary
Reform. The lion. NEWTON FELLOWS, Mr. CAL..
MADY HAMLYN, Colonel PELL, and Mr. TUCKER,
supported the original motion, which was carried.
The blowing-room adjoining to the large Cotton
Factory, in Portland-street, Manchester, was destroyed
by fire in the night of Thursday last; about 1,100
weight of cotton lay loose in the room at the time.
By timely assistance the other parts of the extensive
buildings were saved.
GEORGE THE THIRD, HIS COURT AND FAMILY.
The New Edition of this Work just published, ap-
pears to give very general satisfaction. It presents
a personal illustration of our venerated Monarch as a
King, Statesman, Patron of Literature, Art, and
Science, as a Husband, Father, Patriot, and Friend!
sketching his character more by his actions than by
his words, yet neglecting nothing which may deve-
lope his virtues, and relating an affinity of original
Anecdotes from the most authentic sources, collected
during a long period of close observation and sedu-
lous research.

Coax Etatnmses, 7•Ltax..-Later, APRS 11.—The Wheat trade
continues extremely dull, for although there has been no fresh
arrifala since Monday, what remained over from that day's sup-
ply could not be disposed of this morning, although offered at
lower prices ; for, at the close of Monday's market, the Millers
made a further reduction of 2s. per sack on the price of- Flour,
which has Increased the depression on the Wheat trade. Barley
supports Monday's prices, the quantity at market to-day being
small. Oats are Is. pFr quarter cheaper, in consequence of large
arrivals since Monday. In Beaus and Peas there :s ew.lteration.

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