Star.
London, England, 1826-10-30 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

FALMOUTH, OCT. 27, Wind W. N.W. to N. N.W. and 28, Wind
W. N. W.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Foote, from Plymouth, and
sailed for Lisbon, with Lord BIM:SWORD ; Charlotte, Sraxcaa, from
Bristol to Odessa • and Venus, Rowe, from Naples. The Comet,
Hasswm., from ioole to Liverpool, which artived here leaky, has
commenced discharging her cargo.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 27 and 28.—Wind W.—Arrived the Centurion,
Rums, from Ancona. Sailed the Nymph, Waxxiss, and Three
Sisters, La Bea, for London. _ _

DIV-MORT, Orr. 26.—Arrived the RITNARD. Lieut. WORTS
(tender to the Gmtoa),with dispatches of importance from Madrid
and Lisbon—fifteen days from the Tagus; and the Layettes., Lieut.
Batumi, with seamen from Liverpool. Sailed the PRLORUS, 18,
Captain CHAS. Cerro', for the Mediterranean; the Carnation 10,
Capt. P. Mecums, will sail to-morrow for the same station. The
Fong; Capt. J. COWMAN, C.B. is expected to sail tomorrow with
sealed orders. Remain—Britannia. Windsor Castle, Thetis, Forte,
Canselion, Reynard, Leveret, Sprightly.
PORTSMOUTH. OCT. 28 and 29.—Wind W.—Arrived from T. 04.
doo, the Madeira Packet, Witiians, for New South Wales;
William Manning, SMITH, for St. Kitt's ; C. Brooke, Bus., and
Prince Leopold, —, for St. Vincent's; Lady Dunmore, ---,
for Jamaica •' Potton, HwTew, for Sierra Leone; and the Nour-
mahal, Km, from Genoa, in 24 days, with loss of bulwarks, and
is under quarantine. On the 22d, 'peke the Thomas King, Wm-
L 14311014 for Madeira, in lat. 42.20. N. long. 11. W.—Passed by,
the Partridge, Footage, from London for the South Seas; and the
Hope, from Quebec. His Majesty's ship SYRILLI came into
harbour, to be paid off.
A letter from Santa Cruz, dated Sept. 27, states the arriial of
the Helton, 18, Capt. Taw, on her passage to Rio de Janeito--43
days from Spithead, and 2.1 from Madeira.
The Earmage, 18, Capt. YATES, arrived at Jamaica from &g-
-land, and sailed en the 2.5 d July with the mail for Vera Cruz.
The Atrearry,lo, Capt. G. J. H. JOHNSTONS, is taking on board
specie of the new coinage, at the Tower, for Gibraltar and Malta.
Wednesday, the Vaanarr, Lieut. Mgagorro, returned to Ply-
mouth. Thursday, the ARROW, Lieut. &mamma, sailed on a
cruise.—At Spithead, the Blonde Pyramus, and Galatea ; in the
harbour, Victory, Asia, Melville, Spartiate, Diamond, Sybille,
Dartmouth, Arachne, Clinker, and Cracker.
Wednesday, the Numa transport, Lieut. WaNgwoarn, Agent,
arrived front the Mediterranean. She sailed from Corfu, July 2e ;

Malta, August 17 ; and Gibraltar, September '26.
The Thum, 46, is recommissioned at Plymouth ; and the
AIPACAINR, 18, at this pert. Lieut. C. J. Nam is appointed ago the
Tarns, and Lieut. JOHNIDI to the ARACHNIL
Dug" Ocr. 28.--Wind N.W. to W.N. W. —Arrived from
Landes, the Lady Dunmore, M'Ct.r.aw ; John Ronswick, TURNYR;
Melville Watson, PURDY ; and Hampton, WILLIAM% for Jamaica;
and Britain, Commas, for Barbadoes. Also, the Zepheline,
Lemmas-' from Malaga; Ellen, Per:mem, from Leith to the
Cape; and Suian, Massie, from Memel. The Ada, and several
outward bound, sailed in the course of the day.
Ocr. 19.—Arrived from London, the Procris, A emor.n, for
Aieundria; Crusader, Bucaorr, for St. John's; and the Percy,
Stress, far St. Vincent's.
Mr. ACKERMANNIS attnit me Not for the ap-
proaching year is now before the public; and although we thought
that there was hardly any room for improvement, yet the present
tiered* its predecessors in that ekgancewbich in an eminent degree is
always conspicuous in Mr. ACEIRMA roes publications. The engr iv•
lags, thirteen in number, may justly be regarded as esquiAat
specimens of the talents of our first-rate artists, both in design and
execution; and thr numerous contributions. in prose and verse. are
written by persons of the highest rank in the department• of
literature.

The patronage of the parish of Mirsie, in Fife, his
been purchased from Lord &ors, for the Society fur Improving
Church Patronage in Scotland.
HYDE PA BK.—The appearance of yesterday was rvw:t
gratifyingly indicative of an early Fashionable Season. Numerou•
elegant equipages were spurted in the several Rides. while: the !it
ferent Promenades exhibited crowds of gay gentilicy and Minos,.
Mr. JOHN BARRETT LENNARD, brothel to the Mem'
her for Mahlon, entertained the Gentlenten of the Privy Cnurc4l
Office with a grand dituitr, un Friday last, at Ms rat ic•Aro;"

OLD BATLEY...TOM DAY.
•
- James Bennett was indicted for stealing a quanety of
candles, the property of James Banks, sit Allow chandler.
The chief evidence was a person in the employ of the
prosecutor, who gave the information to his master, and
the prisoner was apprehended, and broken candles found
to the amount stated in the' indictment.

Mr. PHILLIPS pirtiv elicited, in an ingenious cross•
tesamination, that an Excise prosecution had been insti-
tutidogainst the prosecutor, and that the prisoner was
likely to be a chief witness against the piny. The wit-
ness denied being himself included in the prosecution,
lona the. Jury gave a verdict of Not Guilty.
• A second indictment was preferred against the pri•
inner fnrstealing two cakes cf soap. The same witness
that supported the last wasexamined) and deposed that
,he heatfi.the prisoner ip an apartment where. he had
ne business, and after his retiring, found two cakes of
.neap had been taken sway, •he suspected the prisoner,
end put ' nail into the heart of another of the cakes,
the nextclay he missed it, and the prisoner's lodgings

were searched, and the soap found.
On cross-examination it appeared that the man had
•ifeen before Mr. White, and discharged, and that he
was thcaYairied before a Magistrate. at Bow street, that
one of the men in the employ of the prosecutor had
called the prisoner up to work, and had, consequently,
been .to'his house.• The prisoner denied all knowledge
of the soap, and stated the particulars of the prosecution
agiinst his master, and protested that he had often been
called up. to do work before the exciseman came, and
that ttis-was done to get him out of the way. The. Jury
found hint Guilty, but recommended him to mercy.
,joiner fiforris and Jofin Edwards. were indicted for
stealing .a 51. Bank of England Note, the property of
Mary Edwards, from her person.
Mary Edwards examined.-1 live in Fashion-cAurt,
Spitalfields. On Saturday the 23d September last, my
daughter gave me a 51. note, to take some tkings out of
pledge, but-the pawnbroker not having change, I went',
to a public-house to procure it, and was looking at it by
. the light,When some persons snatched it out of my hand

and ran away.
The daughter of the last witness proved giving the note to her
mother for the purpose she described.
- Sophia Fordham—l live at No. 14, Golden Lane. I
wits at the public-house, and saw the old woman come
in for the change, and while she was holding op the note,
the prisoner Mortitsnatched the 'note out of her hand,
tend Edwards, who was standing behind him, ran out,
and both escaped.
Mrs. Jonps, the landlady of the public-house, proved
'that the first witness called at her house on the day
mentioned in the indictment, and asked her for change
of the notes and while there, a fellow,-in a light jacket,
snatched it-out of her hand and ran away.
A publican proved changing a 51. note on the 23d
Sept. but could not.say it was the note stolen from the
prosecutrix, he had since paid it away. Neither of the
prisoners changed the nate.-
An officer proved apprehending the prisoners.
The prisoners protested their innocence, and the Jury found
them Guilty.
Saturday, J. Ford was arraigned on a charge of man-
slaughter,in causing the death of the driver of a brewer's
cart, near the Southampton Arms, Camden Town.
It appeared that the unfortunate deceased, whose name
*was not known to any of the witnesses, was sitting upon
the shaft, Ind driving his cart upon the proper side of
the road, and that the prisoner, who had the conduct
of a four-horse van, in attempting to pass the deceased's'
cart, struck the wheel, and threw him down in such a
position, that the wheel of the cart passed along his
body from the head to the thigh, and killed him instant-
aneously. It being clearly proved that there was no
malice, wanton driving, violence, or any apparent want
of care, Mr. Justice PARC stopped the case, and inform-
ed the Jury, that although there might be some want of
skill on the part of the prisoner, there was nothing to
sustain the charge for which he had been put upon his
trial. The Jury immediately returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.
James Bishop, Charles Downe, Henry Ore, alias
Hawse, and George Hickman, were indicted for stopping
Henry Fuller upon the King's highway, in the parish
• ttf Si". Matthew, Bethnal Green, putting him in fear,
and taking from his person two sovereigns, three shil-
lings and sixpence, a case of instruments, two cases of
lancets, his hat, cravat, and handkerchief.
The prisoners were alleged to have formed part of a
gang of desperate characters who infest the neighbour-
hood of Bethnal Green, two of which gang, it will be
remembered, were tried and convicted last Sessions for
the same offence with which the prisoners were now
charged, It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Henry
Fuller, the prosecutor, who is a surgeon, residing in
Bethnal Green, that on his way home from visiting his
patients, about half past seven in the evening of the 11th
September, twilight having then scarcely commenced,
he heard, on his walking up Fleet-street Hill, a sudden
shrill whistle, with a cry of " Now," and immediately
after felt his arms pinioned, and bound with a rope.—
Upon recovering the fiat shock of such au att.ck, he
perceived that he was surrounded by upwards of
twenty men, who, with di eadful o tths, threatened to
knock out his brains unless he gave diem all the
money he_possessed. He entreated them to take it all,
but to refrain from using him ill, and some of them
having then promised him protection, they proceeded
to strip him very deliberately and quietly, of the various
articles stated in the indictment. Having taken all they

could find, they ran off by different ways, and the pro-
secutor walked to a chandler's shop, then open, within
a few yat ds of the place ; upon his attempting, however,
to give an alarm by a cry of 1‘ Stop thie! !" several per-
sons came up and begged him to be quiet, as the gang
were so daring and numerous, it was very probable he
might severely repent his boldness. From a butcher,
who lives near the chandler's shop, he borrowed a hat,
And went in search of an officer, declaring that he knew
well seven or eight of the gang, and that he had fre-
quently met them in the street, while pursuing his pro-
fessional avocations. Notwithstanding every exertion
of siz or seven officers, none of the (rife') :ers were found
on that night or the next day; but from the very accu-
rate description given by the prosecutor ot their persons
and dress, the four prisoners were taken and positively
identified, Mr. Fuller swearing that Downe and Ore
were the persons who held his arms pinioned, and
searched his breeches' pockets, while the other two psis
soners stood nearly opposite to him during the whole
time of the robbery—so positive, indeed, was the pro-
secutor with respect to the identity ot the prisoners, that
he pointed them out successively in the midst of thirty
others, wbo were brought up undet suspicion of being
concerned in the crime.
The two O&M of lancets were traced to the po.sesNion of Downe,
through the means of a girl named Sarah Ilult, who swore to
having received them from him.
This was the substance of the case for the prosecution.

.

When pined on fovkience, Bishop, whose name was
first, said
that he would leave the case to hii Counsel.
Downe put in a written paper, in which' be alleged
that he was two miles from Fleet-street-hill at the time
of the robbery, and declared that be had received. the
lancets from a person named Bailey, to whom he-had
applied for them at the requestof the father of Horton,
(one of the men convicted last sessions of the same of-
fence,) as it was said the surgeon would not proceed
further in the prosecution if he recovered them. The girl,
Sarah Holt, got them for the express purpose of carrying
them to. Mr. Fuller.
Ore, in hs defence, denied all participation in the
'robbery, and urged as a proof of his innocence, that
Mr. Fuller had called at his father's house, to ask him
questions, before he was apprehended, and that if he had
been guilty, there was full warning enough to induce
him to make his escape.
Hickman protested his innocence, and added that the
only object of accusing him was to prevent him from
'appearing as an evidence for Downe and Ore, whose
innocence be-could have proved.
Lydia Bender was then called, to prove that she was
drinking with Bishop at eight o'clock on the night in
which the robbery was commuted; and that when he
joined her to go to the public house, he was as calm
and cool as usual.
Another witness, named Tiddytnan, corroborated this testimony,
adding, that he saw them in company at that hour, and that they
continued together till 10 o'clock.
Mrs. Dover, the keeper of the chandler's shop in
which Mr. Fuller was on the night of the robbery, swore
'positively, that she heard Fuller say he could not tell
who robbed him, nor would not know them again if he
was to meet th •m, although Mr. Fuller positively as-
serted that he knew them well. She also maintained,
that it was quite dark on the side of the way where it
happened, although the moon was shining bright on the
other, and that it could not be less than 20 minutes
past eight o'clock, because the Spitalfields' bell, which
always rings at eight, had ceased some time. This
Witness aslo swore, that Mr. Fuller came into her shop
when Bishop was brushing his clothes, a few days after
the robbery, and although he had a full view of him,
he did not recognize him.
Robert and Frances Burdett, Jeremiah Morell, and
Mary Reason, all gave testimony to the time being 20
minutes after eight, to its being very dark, and to Mr.
fuller's declaration of his being ignorant of the persons
ho robbed him.

Sarah Barlow, William Cecil, and Elizabeth Blacken, swore to
the time being nearer nine than eight. All these witnesses took
their time from the ringing of the bell.
Matilda Moire swore she saw all the gang, to the
number of thirty, and that the only man she knew was
called Norton—the man who stole Mr. Fuller's hat.—
She declared solemnly that the prisoners at the bar were
not among them.
Thomas Aidy swore, that the prisoners, Doane and
Ore, spent the evening of the robbery with him, at the
Angel and Trumpet public•house, in Stepney, and that
he saw them come in there perfectly cool and quiet, as
if nothing had happened, about eight o'clock. This house
is two miles from Fleet•street•bill.

The witness, in answer to a question from Baron Gaaaow, con-
fessed that he had been in custody for bullock hunting.
The Learned Judge observed, he feared too many in that neigh-
bourhood were concerned in such practices.
A weaver named Sidebotham having sworn he saw
these persons at the Angel and Trumpet, and some
ridicule appear&g to
_be excited by the fact that
the witnesses were persons of that employment, the
same Learned Judge took occasion to observe that no-
prejudice ought to be excited in the minds of the Jury
by such disclosures. The crime was said to have been
committed by weavers, in a place where nose but weav-
er:lived—none others, therefore, could be called to prove
their innocence, and GOD forbid that either Judge or
Jury should consider men unworthy of credit, upon their
oaths, because they happened to be weavers, and to be
in distress.

Two other tilt:teases, named Lesson and Bond, saw the robbery,
and knew most or all of them concerned in it—they swore, how-
ever, that the prisoners were not there.
Several other witnesses having been called to support &ilia, to
prove that Hickman had offered to give evidence at the police•oiBce
before he was taken into custody, and to bear testimony to previous
good character on behalf of all the prisoners.
Mr. Baron GARROW, in summing up the evidence,
commented with his usual acumen upon all those points
of the case which tended to elucidate the truth on either
side. In conclusion, he observed, that the Jury ought
to convict without hesitation, or regard to consequences,
if they were completely satisfied that the prisoners were
guilty. But if there was room for doubt, they ought to
remember the golden maxim of the English criminal
law, viz. that it was better that any number of guilty
persons should escape, than that one innocent person
should suffer.

The Jury now retired, and having been absent for an
hour, returned into Court, and expressed a wish that
Sarah Barlow should be again examined. She was ac-
cordingly recalled, but nothing worth notice was elicited
in her re. examination.

Before leaving the Court to return to their room, some of the
Jury complained strongly of the want of proper accommodation iu
their room.

The JUDOE said, that they should have proper accommodatiuh;
but that forthe present they ought to attend to the very serious
matter they had in hand, and not confound it with any thing else.
The Jury again withdrew, and after the lapse of another hour
returned into Court, bringing a verdict of Aqui/kid as to Downe,
Ore, and Hickman, but finding James Bishop (hay.
None of the prisoners appeared to be more than 18 years old, and
some of then were under that age.
The trial, which excited considerable interest throughout, lasted
nearly twelve hours.

Private letters fi om Gibraltar, of the 15th, state that
a D2cree had been promulgated by General Dox, pro-
hibiting Col-ombian privateers either to victual or carry
their prizes into that port. These letters refer for the
full particulars to the Gibraltar Chronicle of the 12th,
which we believe has not been generally received.
By accounts from Maranhao' we find that the pri-
soners, consisting of some of the first people of the
place, who had been confined on board the men of war,
on suspicion of a conspiracy to assassinate the President,
had been liberated, nothing having been proved against
them. All the guns at both forts had been dismounted,
and cannon placed in the Palace-square, and ,at the
entrance of every avenue to it, and sailors from the men
of war were stationed at each avenue. Parties of the
inhabitants patrolled the streets nightly, and the military
was under arc's. No actual disturbance had taken place.

Letters have been received from Calcutta, by the
Olney, arrived at Liverpool, which state, that the Court
Of Ava had solicited, through t e medium of Dr. Price,
an extension of the time for the payment of the second
instalment, viz. '2,5 14cs of rupees—that Ole solicitation
was rejected by the Supreme .Government, who insisted
that the conditions of the treaty recently rajified by the
Borme,e should be strictly' adhered to, and that the
British troops should retain possession of Rangoon till
'the several stipulations of the treaty should be fulfilled.

EDUCATION AND RESIDENCE IN FRANCE.

TO THE RDITOR OF THE STAR.
Stst—l was mucfl 'gratified by'reading the very
judicious and satufary reflections in
.y our Paper of the2oth
instant, on the lavish diffusion of Elcome spent by our
countrymen on the Continent, to the manifest injury of
their own, while sd unfairly enriching the countries to
which they resort. Having paid long and minute atten-
tion to the state of our foreign intercourse of late years,
and having had particular opportunities of witnessing
the deplorable consequences of its influence on British
interests, as, well as on our public and domestic charac-
ter, I cannot but rejoice to see the attention of my mis-
guided countrymen awakened by another warning voice,
and I am.willing to hope that the day is not far distant
when the returning good sense and national feeling of
Englishmen will lead them to view the lamentable evils
of a foreign residence in their true light. No person at
all really acquainted with continental habits, and-having
lived sufficiently abroad to form a correct estimate of
the demoralized state of all ranks in the principal states
of Europe, and allowing an unbiassed mind to exert its
natural influence, can deny the truth of the facts stated
in the article of your Paper referred to.
Let any parents, having the welfare of their families
at heart, but calmly reflect on the general and unre-
stricted dissipation of continental soc;ety and amuse-
ments—let them pause on the utter disregard of the
Sabbath in the majority of foreigners, and on its very
lukewarm observance by the.few that consider it at all
sacred; and, above all, let them watch well the influential
power of such example in its corruption of strangers,
and say, if they seriously can think, that such a country
can be a fit or safe place to send their children for IN-
STRUCTION ! Did the absent parents who now send their
children for education abroad in their fatal ignorance of
the risks they are incurring, know but half the evils
whose influence is contaminating and unprincipling
them, they would shudder to think of the danger to
which they are exposing them. May the voice that
warns them of these dangers be listened to, before it be
too late to avert or check the inveterate and rooted evils
of French philosophism, and continental demoralization !
Yours, respectfully, PHILO-PATRIS.