Star.
London, England, 1810-11-24 00:00:00

POLICE, Ue.

BOIV-STREET.—On the night of the Ist of October,
as Mr. Ware and his son were returning from Brack-
nell fair, they were stopped by a gang of men armed
with bludgeons, who robbed them of goods they
had been purchasing, their watches and cash, and af-
terwards murdered the son while he was defending the
father, by knocking his brains out with a bludgeon.
Tile father they beat and bruised, and left for dead •
however, a traveller passing by soon after, procured
assistance, and he was e alveyed home, where he has
been confined with his wounds tll within these few
days, before he was Able to attend at the Office to
give information of the fact. He stated his belief
that the murderers were Irishmen, and it was sus-
pected they were labourers in the employ of Mr.
Copeland, at the Military College near Black Water,
in consequence of six having absented themselves on
the morning after the murder ; and Pearkes, the offi-
cer, having received private information that they
were to be found at a house in Peter•street, Soho, on
Monday night he and a party of officers apprehended
1.5. They have since undergone several examina-
tions, from which it was stispe,ted some of them had
made their escape to Ireland, and others to have en-
tered on board of a man of war ; in consequence of
which Peat Ices went to North Fleet on Thursday, and
apprehended one of them on board the Essex. Yes-
terday he underwent an examination at this Office,
when he was identified as having absented himself
from his work the morning after the murder. He
was committed f r further examination.

A Clerk belonging to Mr. Lockett, of Gray-'s-inn,
was charged with receiving se7 7s. for a lease and
counterpart, of Mr. Alexander, of Upper Mary-la-
bunnt-btreet, and not accounting for the same. The
prosecutor declined proceeding, on the prisoner agree-

ing to enter on board a man of war.
MANSION Housz.—Yesterday two disorderly wo-
men were charged with robbing a man of his um-
ella, and wounding him severely with their pattens.
They were remanded.
A carmarl was charged with wilfully driving his
cart against the chaise of a clergyman, in Bishops.
gate-street, and was fined 20s. and discharged, on
agreeing to beg pardon in two public papers.
GUILDHALL. Smith, who has been examined,
on a charge of stealing a trunk from the Belle Sau-
vage Inn, as already stated, was again brought up for
ex.imination ; but, as the proprietor of the trunk had
not arrived in town, he could not be ktained on that

charge ; but Mr. Millington, of the Gray's-inn Cof..
tee-house, exhibited a charge of robbery, committed
in his house on the 25th ult.
Elizabeth Morris, a chamber-maid in the above
house, stated, that the prisoner came there on that
evening with a box, and asked for a room, to which
she spewed him. He said he had lost the key of the
' box, and asked for a screw-driver to force it open,
which she gave him, and in about a quarter of an
hour he went away ; but immediately after his de-
parture, it was foutid that a gentleman's room, next
to that in which the prisoner had been, was robbed
of a quantity of wearing apparel, fur which Mr. M.
as master of the house, paid the gentleman £lO. In
the box which the prisoner left behind were found a
pair of womens' packets, a pin-cushion, &c. which
spewed it belonged to some poor woman.
The prisoner denied that he ever had been in Mr.
Millington's house. He was, however, remanJed, to
give time for the attendance of the gentltman whose
clothes were stolen. •

MA LBO RO UGII-ST LET.... Yesterday a Mr. M'ln-
cosh, a merchant in Hatton Garden, was charged
with having sent a challenge to a Mr. .Mitchell, to
meet him at Chalk farm, in order to fight a duel, in
ousequence of a dispute at a card-table, and was
bound over to keep the peace.
A merchant of respectability, in Pulteney-street,
charged his son: n youth of fifteen, with various acts
of felony. It appeared, that the prisoner had broken

open drawers at various times, atul stole plate, a
watch, and jewellery, to the amount of more than
£l5O. He was described, with a parental tear, as
possessing every vice, and to be too dangerous to be
at liberty. He was ordered to be kept in confinement
at St. Anne's watch-house, until the Magistrates have
duly considered the case.
Quitzs-stniatte.—A man, in the dress of an officei,

haiheen committed for robbing a gentleman at the
Cannon Coffee-house, Spring-gardens, a few nights
ago. The prisoner engagtd lodgings, and was detected
with the portmanteau of a Gentleman who lodged in
the next room, froze which he had taken money, &c.
to some amount, part of which was found on him.
Wairccitsrli.--Yesterday a Portuguese sailor
was charged with stabbing a messmate, in conse-
quence of a dispute about a woman of the town. He
was committed till the fate of the wounded man is
ascertained.

Last week no less than five Inquests were hela by
B. WILLIAMS, Esq. one of the Coroners for Brecon.
shire, on the bodies of persons who were found dead
on the 10th instant, in that neighbourhood, four of
whom were young men, the fifth a woman aged 60.
Verdict in each instance was—Starved by the incle.
mency of the weather, and the want of the necessary
comforts of life.

Friday se'nnight, JOHN Hewett, Esq. Deputy
Mayor, held tin Inquest on the body of M. Killigrew,
Who. died in consequence of a severe beating he re-
ceived from a party of men iu the south suburb •of
Clotunell...o7l the evening of Saud**, the 38th vie. A.
verdict of Wilful. Murder was returned pima sort
limns iuknown.

7.701.0547- WARM
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TIM ma sOBTON ram oe Tuarpar, "VW. 20.
Are resume the melancholy duty of d6talingthe
injuries done in this neighbourhood by the late tem.
pest and inundation. The latter, though it has sub.
sided about two feet, and has left the roads passable
now in the drowned parishes, is yet very extensive ;
and its consequences (not the leapt of which may be
considered the impregnation of the herbage with the
saline properties of the waterl, will not be overcome
by those whose farms have been flooded for max"
months. As to whatever it is possible for human en-
deavours to accomplish, in the, way of relieving the
oppressed parishes from the inundation, on that head
the anxious care and activity of the Commissioners,
who hold their court at Boston, leave not a hope un-
satisfied ; but even when their labours shall be matured
and a sufficient drainage effected, still the.distres4 is
but alleviated—much still remains for the work of
time, and for the ordering of an all-powerful PROVI-
DENCE. Almost as much of fresh water will be wanted
to sweeten the pastures for the cattle, as of salt water
which at present oppresses the land.
We mentioned last -week the way in which Mr.
'Smith Jessop lost his life by the water, and slightly
noticed the drowning of two females at Fostiyke. 'e-
veral•other persons, we lament to add, have lost their
lives by this calamity. Inquests were held byWalter
Davis, Gent. Coroner, on Wednesday last, at Fos.
dyke, on Esther Tunnard and Anu Burton, both of
whom were drowned by the flood inundating their
humble dwellings. The poor women retreated to the
upper stories ; but these were insufficient ii. elevation
to save them, and their cries for assistance were una-
vailing. Ann Burton was 85 years of age.
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Ann Marfleet, .a servant of Mr. Birkitt, of the
same place, was surrounded by the flood on Satur-
day night, the 10th, whilst milking her master's
cows in a pasture near the house, and perished with-
out the possibility of being assisted. The body of
the unfortunate woman was-not discovered till yes-
terday, when it was found to have lodged under a hay-
stack. The Coroner's Inquest was held this morning.
William Green, a servant of Mr. William Kelsey,
of the parish of Boston, was drowned on Thursday
last, in riding down to his master's farm at Fishtoft.
The deceased was a lad about sixteen years of age.
He had on several preceding days during the flood
ridden down to Fisbtoft ; but, taking a new road
through the water, on Thursday, his horse is sup-
posed to have slipped into a ditch and thrown him.
An Inquest was held by Mr. Davis on Friday.
The same Coroner, on the 13th and 16th instant,
held Inquests at Fishtoft, on the bodies of a boy
found drowned (supposed to belong to the Ambler,
Captain Blay) : and of John Jackson and Williatn
Black, two of the crew of a schooner which drifted
from the scalp, and was wrecked during the late
gale. And on the 15th an Inquest at Gibraltir,
Point, in the parish of Wainfk at All S.Cnts, on the
body 9f a man unknown found drowned.
In Claxby church-yard, on S.lnday last, we under.
stand, the bodies of sixteen mariners, which had been
cast on the coast by the tidc, were with the obual
rites of the chinch committed to the earth. The. scene
must have been wonderfully impressive and shocking.
The various accounts from the parishes along the
coast are more or less distressing in the relation of
dead bodies being found. Twenty vessels were
wrecked off Saltfleet, and the whole of the crews of
some of them perished : the bodies of these have been
mostly cast cn shore; and an active and melancholy
duty has fallen to the ministers and officers of the
parishes in which thee. have been found. The oldest',
persons living on the coast declare that they have
not known so dismal a time in this particular as the
present. :
The corn-stacks oa Mr. Kemp's farm at Fishtoft,l
we understand, are yet up nearly to the eaves in
water : this gentleman, of all the sufferers by the
deluge, has Nen, we believe, the greatest. Mr.
Carter, of Fosdyke, has also been a sufferer t
amongst other losses he had £lOOO worth of wool
washed out of a granary near the inn.
The entire repair of the different banks which were
broken by the great tide, we understand, will cost a
prodigious- sum, and will fall heavily, sot merely
upon the contiguous parishes, which ordinarily have
been.charged with the reparation of sewers, but upon
all the towns in the level of the tens.
A mill at Moulton seas End, the property of Mr.
Walljs, was blown over in the gale of Saturday se'n-
night.—At Grimsby hiss mischief was witnessed than
might have been expected. The excellent quality
and formation of the shore, however, in some mea-
sure, accounts for this : the vessels which grounded
were secured in the mud, and not one will be a
wreck. An. accident of a melancholy kind hapipen-
etl to a labourer named William Smith ; whilst dig-
ging yesterday se'nnight, under a vessel blown on
shore, he was crushed to death. Added to this, some
inconsiderable damage done to a few hcuses in the
town, is all the injury experienced from the gale at
Grimsby.
We were misinformed last week with respect to a
boy, who, with Captain Massam, was environed by
the water at Frampton, having perished. Capt. Mas-
a= believed that the boy was drowned ; btit it seems
that he floated and waded to a house in the parish
which had been deserted by its frightened tenants,
and where, after some time, he succeeded in finding
the pantry ! The boy (who is a Swede) did as any
body else under such circumstances would have done
—he regaled himself with what he found, and did not
leave the house till he thought k quite safe to venture
into the water again. •
A correspondent at Surfket writes as follows :•••••
" To your distressing and faithful account of the it
storm on the late memorable 10th .of November, I i
beg leave to add a few particulars of what happened
under my oven observation :—Just as the inhabitants
of Surfleet, near Spalding, had retired to bed, they
were alarmed by the information that the sex-banks
were broken, and the sheep swimming in the pastures.
Immediately the graziers exerted themselves with the
greatest activity, and bore the pelting of the pitiless
storm,' to rescue tbeif distressed flocks in waggons
and carts. Several fanners and graziers have-sus-
tained very serious losses elf, cattle ; and the. greatest
damap has been done to 'di* winter stock of vile
and turnips, as well as to the,hew:sown wheat. The
Reservoir presents a suelluscholky, scene of ruin ; the
road stilled in several places the sluice of Vernatt's
Vrain segaratirsl froin the shore. and the salt Waist

ri4shing in with every mon rn
tide. Agst
nuerty,
losses, a barn and corn stacks belongang to 1,41..viri:
ittitarayt.hemnaeowy seasher-bpar:tkh,e have bet;n4cothine p&iiente.Tve_e 710
were drowned; and the cottage of his shepheid,‘
'tally gtftted by the tide, and the poor inhabitant,
pelted to- wade to the house of their neig.,bo"
Beasler, whose lt.ss has been very extensive,
aflcting scene. was at rosdylce, Earti wh,
plßce to Boston it appeared me sheet of wdter,
both new and old banks were broken on eveiiids,
The Inn was in the most imminent cia,ger i.t bein
swept away, and the stables Mete actually .fern 13,1!
' ed. Owing to the violepce of the rain from itb„,e,
and the fury of the waves from below, there WAS cct
a dry room in the house. It was abocking mire ha&
dreds of sheep lying dead, and the corn, hay, od
heinsehold furniture floating in every direerizin,
self counted nearly forty drovrited sheep in a tividei
about five acres. Mr. Birkett has been a great suCeit
in the loss both of live and dead st"ck ; and, inc
plate the horror of the scene, he had iieeu ,:reab;ag sp
wheat, which stood in sacks dci.p in water, ale
near them lay the corpees of tutu wtown, orient clks
80 years of age. Whit added :Tit!) to the disten,
(a day or two after the inundation, when the ery
land began to be seen) was to hear the nanunfulltar.
ings of tie hulkcks, which, alth-ugh part ,1 Ivey
field was still flooded. in vain tried to quench civil.
thirst, and could obtain no ;chef frOm their miners,
who are themselves in the greatest want of that ee.
cessary article, fresh water. I could mention resew
other particulars, but as I have aloobtless been atti„
eipated by former accounts, r will close my tak ot
woe with the consolatory reflecoop, that Cot) Ls
been merciful to the old inelosur. s Sgrfleetorliek,
were in the moss perilous situation from the
!tended blowing
up of the Glen Stuice: This
was expected to gull every moment, but, prueidea.
tially, weathered the late most tremendous scorn,
which the memory of the oldest man living ulna
parallel—Sas/ea, Nov. 15."

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