Star.
London, England, 1826-09-25 00:00:00

WORSlif P:STREET:

I Saturday, its 3PLottgldist, a journeymm weaver, was charged,
under very aggravated circumstances, with embezzling a quantity
of silk, the property of his employers, Messrs. F. and J. Giles.
In the month of July, materials were delivered to b m to mans-
facture* piece of silk, the wages fur which would have been 2/.161.
but after hatridg received IL la advance, be made away with the
whole of the property, Including the harness, bobbins, &c.
being apprebeuded he confessed that he had sold it to Robert.
son, for 31. 25.6(1.

In his defence be repeated what he bad previously admittel,
adding that he did it at the suggestion of a person named Humphry..
He was sentenced to three atonths'imprisonment and hard labour.
Robinson was then put to the bar, and a quantity of silk, dm
taken front bis premises, under a search warrant, produevd.
Silk Act says,* If the person in whose pos.ession silk shall b^ found
on, cannot satisfactorily account for it. he shall, fur a first offence.
belined.9.ol." Robinson said be bad bought it of v.uious persons
in the course of trade. lie was allowed time until tVedueeday s.
produce witnesses.
THAMES POLICE.

Saturday, immediately after Mr. BALLANTINS entered the OILY,
one of the officers handed him a written communication trout a
body of operative shipwrights, who were waiting outside ; Mr. /LI.
biotin, desired that they should be admitted. Mt their entering
the office, they handed Mr. Ballaotine a memorial, which they said
the intended to present to his Majesty's Attorney General. and
upon which they were anxious to have Mr. 13allatitine's opinion as
to its propriety.
Mr. Bat.i.aNtius returned them the memorial, sod said that he
bad nothing whatever to do with it. It appeared to him that they
I lately bad been in the employment of Mr. Tebbut, and fur leaving
their work Tebbut had brought them there spat a warrant. Whether
there might be any blame attached to them, he would not nay.; but
the Gentleman who had heard the ease dismissed it, as not coming
within * clause of the Act of Parliament, therefore the inference
was that they were not guilty of leaving heir work. Under the
particular circumstances, he was sorry that two, three, four, or five
shipbuilders had refused them work. However, Tebbut, by send-
ing round circular letters Vise bad done so) to prevent them getting.
work, had done that which Was highly improper, and he hat! good
reason to think it was illegal; but he begged that any observations
of his should not regulate their conduct ; they might present their
petition to whomsoever they choose. He was no party to it, neither
should he give an opinion upon it one way or another; but he shoeld
observe, that if masters formed a combination for any other purposes
than those for regulating their trade, he should say that they were
setting the men a very bad tannish ; and, on the other hand, should
any body of men refuse to work for any particular master, of courser
his yard would remain idle, and such conduct would be highly re-
prehensible ; but he trusted that a better feeling would regulate
their conduct than to follow the example which bad been set, and
which deserved the greatest reprehension, and should any reference
be made to him on the ssbjett, he should not hesitate to repeat thaw
observations.

The men said that they had never teen able to get any work,
owing to the circulars ot Mr. Tebbut, and their families were in
the most deplorable condition possible, so much so, tbat souse al
them were obliged to appiy to the pathis for relief.
Mr. BAs Laystua having expressed much commisei
situation, they thanked him/ and then left the olice.

for dieir

A beautiful piece of native gold, weighing nearly
ten ounces, was lately found in the town of Newlane
Vermont. It was picked up by a boy near a small
brook, and was r, udded with crystals of quartz.
EMIGRATION.—A .611011 time since an emigration
society, consisting of about thirty-sic families, was
established in one of the parishes of Glasgow. This
society, on the Ist instant, forwarded a petition to his
MAJESTY, in which they stated, that being chiefly em•
ployed in the cotton mannfactuie, the present depression
of trade has brought them to'she verge 01 misery; that
had it not been for the assistance they received from
his Mmitirres munificent donation, aided by the sub-
scriptions of•the charitable in. the city, they must have
been left to starve. That they considered etnigrcioa
as the best means of,relieviog their distress, and there-
fore humbly prayed that hie MAJESTY would be gra-
ciously pleased to send them, at the national ezpense,
to Canada, and provide them with land and such other
assistance there as would etrable them to make a com-
fortable settlement. The statement of their distressed
condition was certified by the fifinisteri of the prri,h,
and addressed to the Secretary of State for the Home
Department. On Monday the, following rerly wai re-
ceived by the society : Widtehall, 9th Sept. 1826.
lam directed by Mr. Secretary Peet to acquaint you, that the
petition which you forwarded to hits on the Ist instant has been
transmitted, by the 'Ling's command, for the consideration of Bari
Bathurst, Secretary of State for the C.olonial Department, to whom
an Witter •ppliations on the subject must be addressed.
G. ft. DA WSOK:

A number of the labouring minttfucturers 1 Trow-
bridge are now at work on the toad for the purpose of widening
and improving the London line of entrance into the town. This is
a source of employment the poor fellows a:e but ill calculated for,
and from whom but little can be expected.
The following Epitaph on James Foote, a soldiery
may be seen in Madley Church.yard, Herefordshire:
" Life is a town all full of streets,
Death is a place where all men wets;
Keep the high road than lest. like Foote,
You gets there by a shorter ens."

MARRIED.
Sept. 24, at Paddington Church, by the Rev. Dr. Crane, Prederie
Newman Appleysrd, Esq. of Connaught Terrace, Paddington, to
Miss Theresa Maria Mordaunt, of the same place.
Tuesday, at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. the Wt.
Henry Dashwood, B.A. of 'frisky Colleges to Ann, third daughter
of Wm. Leader, Ur' q. of Putney Hill.
Tuesday, at Itostherne, the Rev. W. Hamilton Tvremtow, M.A.
of Christ Church; and Incumbent of High'Leigh, Cheshire, to
Filen, only daughter of the late Rev. J. Hordern,

DIED.
Sept. 23, at Kidlington, near Oxford, greatly lamented, Mrs.
Itline Dupuis, Proprietor of the Star Inn. Oxford.
'The 4th efJely, at Ailflln county, United States, William 'toss,
aged 109 years. He was with General Braddock in the fast war,
and with General Washington in the second.

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