Star.
London, England, 1821-08-18 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Gloucester, Sunday, August 12, 1621.
SlR—The Christian religion teaches us" to live in charity with
all men :" I was therefore much surprised this morning, at !ma-
ing the Assize Sermon, preached by the Sheriff 's Chaplain, be-
fore the LORD CRIED JUSTKR and Mr. Baron Gasaow, the ob-
vious tendency of which was to induce his hearers to refrdn
from all intercourse with persons who disapproved of the present
Ministry and their measures, and was, to all intents and pur-
poses, what is termed a political sermon. The text was taken
from the 24th chapter of Proverbs, verse 21, " My son, fear
thou the Loan and the ILING ; and meddle not with those that
are given to change."—l am, Sir, your's, AMIC US.

Thursday, James Catethorne, late of Whapload,
was executed on the drop at Lincoln, pursuant to
his sentence, for the inhuman murder of his wife.—
At the time of his trial and condemnation he behaved
with the utmost indifference; but his conduct after-
wards, till the termination of his sufferings, was sin-
cerely penitent. About a quarter before twelve
o'clock he was conducted to the tower, which he
ascended with much firmness ; at the foot of the
drop he joined fervently in prayer with the Minister,
and shook hands with several of the by-standers. He
advised the Constable who took him (who had pledged
himself for the delivery of the letters) " never to take
a false oath again, but he forgave him." lle then
ascended the steps, and in a few moments was no
more. To the Minister he made a full confession of
his guilt, and said, " he deserved more than he
should suffer."
Matistort-HOUSE.--Yesterday, Mr. MASON, the
printer, who had interfered for the boy Charles San-
derson, when charged, on Thursday, with having sold
a blasphemous publication at CARLILE'S shop, in
Fleet-street, came before the LORD MAYOR, accom-
panied by Mr. THOMAS Moses, a cabinet-maker, in
Wilderness-row, and both entered into recognizances
for Sanderson's appearance to answer the charge at
the next Quarter Sessions. Mr. MURRAY, the Secre-
tary of the " Constitutional Association," attended ;
and after making the usual inquiries respecting the
solvency of the bail, said, that from what had fallen
from Mr. MASON on Thursday, as to the possibility
of a boy under the age of fourteen being capable of
committing a misdemeanour, he thought it right
publicly to state, for the information of all those
concerned in the sale of blasphemous publications,
that a person even younger than Sanderson, might be
convicted of the offence. On the fee of Ss. 4d. being
asked for the bail bond, Mr. MASON was excessively
indignant at the demand, and said, it was one of the
monstrosities of this country to charge money in such
cases. He refused to pay the demand, which was
not persisted in.
FATAL CATASTROPHEr—EatIy on Friday sennight
a man and his wife, with a young child, ventured on
an attempt to cross the sands from Parkgate to Flint,
with a horse and cart, loaded with herrings. This
is sometimes done at ,low water by persons who are
particularly conversant with the track, though at
the best it is a hazardous undertaking. In the pre-
sent instance it proved fatally disastrous to the whole
Saturday, George Lenney, an industrious labourer
at Netherton Quarry, near Glasgow, was killed by a
piece of the rock falling on him; he was taken home
alive, but died in two hours.

Wednesday se'nnight, a young man, a carpenter,
was killed at Letham spinning-mill, Arbroath, while
working near the machinery, which got hold of some
part of his clothes, and dragged him in between one
of the shafts and the wall, till his body was literally
crushed in pieces.
A few days ago, a poor woman was seen begging
from door to door in the streets of Maxwelton, who
carried on her back her own grandmother, aged 103,1
and reduced to the lowest stateof imbecility; yet this
most affecting sight could not extort one thousandth
part of the charity that was lavished on the sham
Captain Barclay, because he was thought to be a
gentkma►l in disguise!