Star.
London, England, 1820-04-04 00:00:00

CLASGOff; MARCH So.

Ikon information, yesterday, that ma smiths in
the machine manufactory at the heed of John-street
had been discovered making pikes, one of theMagic-
trates, with a party of military, proceeded. to seise
' them; but the premises being very large,. they were
not sufficiently surrounded, and the t*o men who'
were the object of search made their esa-apethrough
a window into the grammar school-pound, and have
not since been heard of. On entering the building,
the Magistrate and the military were received with
cheers, three times three ; and were ;old by the work-
men, that if they were in search of Radicals, they
might take the whole of them, as none of them pre-
tended to be better than others in that respect. Th.
politics of the men employed in this work cannot be
ascribed to the pressure of the times, as they hare
been in constant employment, and at very high wages
SUFFOLK ASSIZES, MARCH 27. •

Waal Jackson and Samuel Leiner pleaded guilty
to the miner offence, of having notes in their posses-
sion, knowing them to be forged, and were sentenced
to fourteen years transportation. No evidence was
offered against these prisoners upon the capital part
of the charge, namely, that of issuing the notes.
William Summons (against whom there was no ca-,
pital charge) pleaded not guilty to the minor offence,
but-after the Judge had summed up, the Jury re-
turned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was se.n-
tenced to fourteen years transportation.
John Wales was charged with an assault and rape
on Mary, the wife of WiskLambert, in the parish of
St. Mary Stoke, Ipswich. Mr. ALDERSON stated this
case to the July, which he supported by the follow-
ing evidence :—Mary, the wife of William Lambert,
hai been married nine years, and was in service a
mon•:- before she married; after her marriage she
went again into service, and staid five years with Mr.
Collinsun; she then went nursemaid to Mr. Steward's
family ; the prisoner came into the family as footH
man shortly afterwards ; remembers on the 16th of,
February Mrs. and Miss Steward went to dine with
Count Linsingen ; she that afternoon obtained leave)
to go and drink tea with Mrs. Myers servants, at
Ipswich, a sister of her mistress, it is two miles from
Stoke Park, where Mrs. Steward lives; witness went
about six ; after she had been there twenty minutes
prisoner came there to drink tea; they staid there till
about twenty minutes past ten, when they went home
together : in going through the stt eet prisoner offered
witness his arm, and they walked very fast and went
over Stoke Bridge, they went on very well till they
came to Stoke Hall, when they came to the gate
opposite the Mill, about a quarter of a mile from'
Stoke Bridge, they left the road, -and went by the
foot path into the fields at the last gate prisoner
said, this is a kissing gate, and kissed witness and
took liberties, witness-saying"lll have noneof your
nonsense, I will• not put up with it;" prisoner took
liberties, and said he would do more ; witness begged
him not..aral got through the gate and said she
would ten down to the town (Ipswich) and give some
alarm, witness then said she. would getover the hedge;
prisoner prevented it, threw her down,. and perpe-
trated the trimehe was charged with ; she struggled
and screamed, to prevent which prisoner.pot his fingers
into her mouth,which she bit almost through; he cram-
tried a handkerchief into her mouth, she then fainted.
Elizabeth Mann, who is a servant at Mrs. Steward's,
proved that, ea the night of theampe, the last witness
returned home, in an agitated -and exhausted state,
'and bloody, and that she immediately related every
thing that passed, and that she and the prisoner bad
not been on good terms, which arose from his having
once before treated her indecently.
James Hay was called, and spoke to Mrs. Lambert
having immediately complained to him of the usage
that she had received from the prisoner, and also that
her handkerchief was covered with blood.

The Juooc, in summing up, alluded to the nature;
of the crime, alid said that there could be uo doubt of
her having Leon violated against her will, and that she'
Made an the resistance she WAS capable of.—Guilty.

MIPIING OF AIR. 11-I;WVS-1111END.v. -1

Yostrrday a Meeting of.the 'Friends of Mr.Hunr
took .place- at the Crown and • Anchor Tavern, toJ
consider of some testimony to be given to him of the
national gratitude, for his conduct during the Trials
at Cork, and his defence of the Right of Petition.
Mr. GALa Jorgas entered the room, and informed
thoussembly, that, in consequence of a disappoint-
ment which had occurred, with respect to the at-
tendance of the expected Chairman, the Meeting had
been detained already beyond the appointed hour.
TO prevent further delay, he moved, that Mr. Hay-
den should be tailed to the Chair.
Mr. Harm; took the Chair accordingly, after
having apologized for the effects which surprise and
inability were likely to produce in his performance
of the duties. He felt, for his own part, that Mr.
Hunt was entitled to his personal thanks and grati-•
tude for his behaviour, more especially for his manly
defence of the Right of Petitioning, upon which all
the other rights of Englishmen were founded. It was
for the Meeting to consider what claim ..Mr. Hult
had upon the national gratitude for proving himself;
as he had done, the staunch advocate of the people's
rights.. He hoped all opinions-and sentiments which
should be offered to thtlin on the subject wcuid be
attentively considered. He hoped for their support,
as Chairman, so far as that good order might prevail
while he was there fixed.
Mr...loxes then rose, and said, that it had often
happened to him, and the present was one of the oc-
casions, to be called suddenly and unexpectedly tct
act at Public Meetings. He did not mention this AS
a thing Which he lamented, for he did not regret it ;
but as an apology for the unavoidable want of-pre-
paration, with uhich he so frequently had to appear
before them. For some months past, indeed, he had
made up his mind to preserve a most religious and
scrupulous silence on all political subjects whatso.
ever. It might have been remarked, that he had
staid away from every scene of public business which
had occurred 'for some time past ; and eve:: at the
Westminster Election, where his slight szi vices basil
been considered before now of some use, he had not
strewn himself. The reason for this was the same,
which he had given when last he addressed them.'
The occasion was on the Manchester Massacre—for
a massacre he would persist in calling it, notwith-
standing the worst perils of legal prosecution. Wheie.
a moral obligation intervened to require his attend-
ance, he could have no alternative betwivn inclina-
tion and rimy. But his conviction at that time,
which he then pronounced, and would now repeat to
them, was, that after the slaughter of women and
children at the Manchester Massacre, executed in
cold blood, and followed by no legal rettibution, all
further discussion would be v ain.—(Applaure).—
Such were the, sentiments which bad occurred to him
while ruminating on that dreadful subject by his own
fire-side; others might differ from hint, and probably
the greater part of those present thought differently.
He appealed to them, and all others who thought
there was still any virtue left in indictments and legal
procedures, •for curing the wounds of the Constar:-
don, And defending the little, very little, remainder
Of their liberties, to stand forward and support the
only man who seemed capable, in these times, of
maintaining the strife against corruption and Minis-
terial oppression, in The last dyke left at all dispu-
table. He remarked on the difficulties which men of
ordinary rank had to contend with in the arrange-
ment of their measures, however useful tto the Public,
if not supported by that portion of aristocratic in-
fluence, which, he regretted to say, WAS absolutely
necessary for the support of any public scheme.—
If there was any real independence left among the
people, let them now come forward and prove it.—
Mr. -Hunt had expended ZOO in conducting his trial
at York; and it was a fact, that he had not received
ewe penny out of that fund which had been raised
for the.sofferers at. Manchester. He did not mean
to impute anything wrong to the Gentlemen who
superintended the application of that money—he
hoped it was well managed—all he wished to state
WAS the fact, that Mr. Hunt had been seriously in-
jured by his exertions in the public cause—that his
circumstances. were deteriorated. The public plints
cried out, Why then will men become orators ?
Why don't they, like others, follow some profession
or occupation r But Mr. Hunt did attempt to fol-.
low a trade which might reimburse him in some
degree, the great losses he had sustained ; but the
Government seized his whole stock, on the very arti-
cles by means of. which he was to procure himself
some indemnity—())isapprobation).—Yet there was
a systematic design pursued by the Government to
destroy, not Mr. Hunt' but every man who dared to
stand forward against the present system of corrup-
tion—(4l:Azure, and cries of " True").—lf this was
true, it they acknowledged it to be so, their next step
was to come forward and protect him, to see that his,
efforts -on behalf of their rights, and those of the
community, should not subject him to personal in-
jury. He bad not strength to state to-them, in the
manner that he wished, the great claims of Mr. Hunt.'
Ile hid before said, that he appeared before them

A most distressing accident occurred on Saturday
last, at Mr. 51-uLtutt,tes bark-mill, near Crediton
As Sarah Bolt was atteading the mill, one of her
hands was caught between the wheels, and crushed
alnacht to pieces, and in endeavouring to disengage
it with-the other, that also got entangled with the
whole arm, which was shattered in the most dread-,
ful manner ; in this pitiable state she was conveyed
in a chaise to the EseLer Hospital, accompanied by
a shrgeon. Soon after her arrival, one of the surgeons
of the Institution amputated one arm. above the
wrist, and the other close to her shoulder, which she
endured with extraordinary fortitude. Thus, a fine.
young v:ontatt, who the day before industriously la-
boured to maintain herself, is now deprived of all
means of present and future support.
A melancholy accident happened at Hatch Bean.'
champ, near Taunton, on Monday se'noight, by the.
destruction of a cottage belon4,Ping to a labourer in,
the employ of II; P. Cotztms, Lsq. in which the poor
-'s two childr the eldest about old,

two years

man's ,ren,
- unprepared, and therefore he trusted were burnt to death. he should be
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Saturday last, a waggoner was driving his team excused, if he did not do justice to his merits gene-
rally, but particularly km his conduct at. York. It
along lsleworth, heavly laden with gouda, en turn-
had been truly observed by the Gentleman in the
ieg into iigateway, gateway, the wheel came in contact with
a newly built wall, and threw it down, the .waggt be ener Chair, that Mr. Hunt had boldly stood forward in
thinking no other injury was doneydrove on, ou
defence of the right of petitioning, but in his (Mr.
was induced to turn back on bearing
dreadful Jones's) opinion, this was not his greatest merit.—
screams from where the wall had fallen ; when it .11, also furnished =strong example of the advantage
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appeared that four children had been sitting behind of a man of good sense and stron mind, trusting
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the wall at the time °fits felling, by which they were to his own fearless energies to defend him from a
buried under the ruins ; assistance was immediately therge in a Court of Justice—(Hear).--Besides
,procured, and they wele all dug out dreadfully Lawithout meaning to reflect on the Gentlemen of the
kuised ; a boy, about six years of ago, son to Mr: w, many of them, no, not many, but some of
Newson, a car ter livin at the above lace, was them, certainly were men of independence and prin-
so much injured,
ciple) Mr. Hunt's managing his own cause had the
pen, g p
that he died shortly afterwards, but
the rest are likely to recover. effect of curbing the unlicensed insolence of the
English Bar—(Applause).—Mr. Jones then pro-
nounced a glowing panegyric on the various talents
A very important decision was made at Enter on
Monday, by Mr. FRA3III/ the Assessor appointed by
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the Candidates at the Devon Election. Parish Clerks and qualities displayed y Mr. Hunt hi the course
were allowed, in respect of the fees arising from their Of the trial, after which he rose to propose a series of
Churches, to vote at the last Election ; but the result Resolutions, recommending a subscription, and con-
of a long discussion on this pint was now, that they damning the venal press for its abuse of Mr. Hunt.
were not entitled to vote, unless they had been as-
He strongly contended that there never was a man
amid to the Land Tax. As such assessment has I
who, in so much danger, could have displayed so
never taken place, upwards of 600 persons were die- ,much rectitude of principle, and integrity of feeling;
qualified from giving their votes at the Election. and where indeed was the man who could have stood
It is calculated that the opposition will obtain ark' so clear of danger, notwithstanding all the faults im-
atcession of from twenty to thirty Members tw the puted to him ?
present elections.
. Mr. Gnat (of Deptford) seconded the Resolutions,

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which were then put, and sevefally azreed to
Thanks were voted to theChilrMan, who in reply
'observed, that he had most .unexpectodly beenvalled
to the Chair, and that he had called on Mr. Hobhouse,
lately erected M.P. for Westminster, to preside, but:
that Gentleman declined it. At the same time Mr.
Hobhousc said, that there wat not a mail is the empire
who could have defended the cuuse like .111 r. Han,
and that he would most cheerfully subscribe Ms pro-
portion. to its support. 'flu: WOidly Member had,
how evet, de:lined coming to the lieeting..from the
fatigue he lately ;offered in the Westminster Eltetka,
and the imprisonment in Newgate.
Mr.Vrie.s Joss said, he had no wiis ithatrote
to contradict the Chairman, who had no doubt spoltoo
the truth, so far as he kr.ew, but he must say that the
conduct of idr. Uobhouse was very reprehensible.
A:subscription was then mitered into, and the :.reel).
ing Woke tip.

Friday se.nniglit, Henry Gilliott anci%nomas f.;',
head, convicted at the last Essex Assizes, of stealing
Nlieep and cows from Mr. Thomas Layer, ct
well, underwent the awful sentence of the law. • 14z.q-
ther of the culpzitshxd attained their.24:th yet:.
Yesterday, a farmer residing on this side or itoin-
forth went into a shew-booth ist Stepney fair, eutaivd
the Wonderfal Trayelllng Deceptions," and, after
remaining a short time to witness their &rue' ity, Lie
found some of the spectators'* t great adepts in saint
of hand-as the shewi:ten, R* they not only stole hit
pocket-limidkerchlef, but alsu his pocket.book:cozy
raining £l2 in Bank-notes.
Two common informers are now in the neighboar.-
hood of Devizes, obtaining lame sums by laying in-
forma:ions, vender the General Turnpikcz Act, against
persons adorning the common practice of putting.;,five
horses to nai-rotu--wheel waggons: The penalty fur
each offence is Ea, an..i the. Statute is so cletirzite,tirat
Magistrates have no diczet;on to mitigate it.
Sunday te'nhight, the bcdy of Mr.-Robert.Robers,
drover, from near Traw sly nytld, Merionethshire, w
taken out of the river Severn, near the New F.4cto.ry,
just below Salop. The deceased fell into t?;e rives,
supposed by actiklent, on the evening 4:A..111e 4:11 rlv
he was then heard to cry out, bit sunk before any
assistance could ecach him.

The injury done to the public works carrying ea
at Sheerness, by the great storm:on the 4th_ ultimo,
has been very great. it appears that the inner works
Were suddenly inundated, by what is termed a 6/orr
baviv:,-; taken place, under the outer sea wall, facial;
the river Medway, which pene.rated under a space
of about fifty feet; that separates the outer from the
inner or basin wall, which space is fdled with earth,
and continued its course under the inner,. er baste
wall also, by which immediate access was given to
such an immense body of water as to overflow the
.whole site destined for the erection of the inner
works, comprising three spacious dry-docks for first-
rate ships of war, the basin, mast-locks, mast-houses,
store-houses, &c. and the further praecution of those
works, for a time at least, is rendered impracticable.
We understand that the breach in the sea-wall is how
stopped, and that three steam-tngines have been con-
stantly at work day and night, to pump the water
out of the works and Lasin, besides which, betweeri
five and six hundred convicts are employed with fins-
buckets to bail it out.

We are requested to publish the following Letter,
as-particulal-ly claiming the attention of thfee who
have been improperly treated under this complaint:
TO TUT EDITOR OF rim STAIL
&a--Observing a paragraph in your Paper respecting the
Cure of an Hernia (of a large size), by the Medic4l Board, at
Charlotto.Houve, Great .Charlotte-street, Elarkfriar's.rostl, fa
justice to Messrs. Coons and Co. I add my pemonal teatirnerry.
Having been acted nearly 2f yeas, and &caul incurabibbY
enlists= Surgeons, I patiently bore my affliction, expecting ever"
hoar to be my last : i at length applied to the Medical
a r dhave reason to pray for that excellent Establishment, t 2
though lam nearly 50, I was perfeetlyearedta a few see 'snit
now, thank Gon, enjoy gond health. C. CLEVELAND.
Dog and Stile, St. George's-Nelda.
Messrs.tooPan and Co. are consulted at WOO&
stock-House, Woodstock-street, daily, and at C.hart
lotte-House, Great Charlotte-street, opposite the Lev.
Rowland Hill's Chapel. Mechanics have Advice
gratis every Evening, ft am Six till Eight ; and On
Sunday Mornings until Twelve o'Clock.
N.B. Private Doors at each Hotly*, and Ptivito
Doors for Females.