Star.
London, England, 1803-01-26 00:00:00

PARR AI) °TAMA O. TAYLOR.

A motion was made on behalf of the defen-
dant's bail, for an Habeas Corpus to be direfted
to the keeper of Newgate, to bring up the defen.
dant for the purple of being furrendered in this
adion in difcharge of his bail. Since his arreft he
had been made a bankrupt; was examined by the
Commiffsoners, and committed by them for not
anfwering fatisfaelorily ; and this was the only
courfe the bail could take to exonerate thcmfelves
from the civil fuit.—Rule granted.
The like motion was made in another cede of
behalf of the bail for the fame defendant, at the
lint of another plaintiff, and the motion granted.

CUTHBERT V. SWITI4EN.

Mr. GARROV/ moved for a rule to (hew cattle
why a warrant of attorney, which had been
granted in this cafe, fhluld not be delivered up to
be cancelled ; and why an execution, which had
iffued under it, for levying it tl. timid not be
fet afide The defendant had obtained of the
plaintiff the loan of two fums of money, 351. and
751. and gave him a warrant of attorney for tool.
The plaintiff was to receive only los. a week for
the loan of this tool. which was to be for twelve
months. Orders were tent to the plaintiff's at-
torney to prepare this warrant of attorney, and to
have the los, inter& per week inferted in it.—
The Attorney's Clerk Paid he could not do that,
but if they pleated, he could do what would be
equal to that ; he would make the warrant of at-
torney to•fecure t atsl. The plaintirdid not choofe
that ; that would not fuit him. They were then
told they muff fettle it among themfelves. The
plaintiff (aid to the defendant, I melt have the
warrant of attorney to pay at the end of &month,
and you muff troll to my honour." He received
his i os. on every Monday, for a (bort time, and
then told the defendant be wanted tome money,
as he wiled to buy goods. He

gave him il.
Mid

which was equal to fonr weekly payments, and 1
expeifted to hear no more or this warrant of ;mon I
ney for lime time. The plaintifF, however, loin
entered tip judgment co the warrant of attorney,
and tnok out execution.
Lord Ltstassoltoozin.—Take a rule to fhew
cattle. WINDLE.
This wafan aChint for penalties upon the Sta. I
tute h-r delivering-coals:hint of meafnre, in which
the Jury hail found for the plaintitT upon the
whole cafe of fraud in the defendant, and a mu-
t was made fur a new on the ground that
CI: cafe did not corri^ aalai the meaning of the
AO on which the int- rrner relied.
After a very long dif ofi-on, in which the Court
rbfervA, that the dirferent :itatires which had
t•!tt hit the regnlation of the coal trade from the
~.te of ',Zing William and Qecu A.,0, down to
t Le prefect time, had been enacted, i.orfe to repeal,
1.-me to :titer, conic to continue, rid lane to re.
ve the provilions of others, had cAulc.l conic.
lion that was almoll inexplicable ; that in !tune of
the modern Afts on this fubjeft, the Legitimate
in endeavouring to mend a pane or two of glafs
in one window, had detlroyed three windows at
once. It was at laft determined that there was
no foundation for the objeBion in this cafe made
to the verdift, and that there Viol.' be no new
trial ; the confeluence of which is, that all the
caufes, which are numerous upon this fubjeel, for
penalties in the coal trade for delivering (hurt
rneafure, and (landing in thr piper for trial, keep
their places, and will be tried in due feafon.
Lord ELLINBOROVCH afkcd what ttfeet this had
nn the great number of caufes on the fame fubjeet,
that CO remained to he tried ?
Mr. GARROW laid, thank GOD, they remained
in the Ain Prim: Paper to be tried, fur the benefit
of the public. •

ROBtRTSOIS b. TRENCiI.
This cattle was tiled a few days a tzo at Cu:Li-
lian, when the plaintiff was nonfuited. It tray
'be recolleifted, that the policy was on the Ihip
Chefleaflrd, for fit months, and on goods to he
loaded on board her at the Brazils ; that the was
captured, after failing from Rcio de Janeiro with-
out changing her cargo; and that Lord Ellenho:
rough was therefore of opinion, that the policy
had not attached,
Mr. ERSKINE now moved for a new trial. By
way'hf preface he laid down three general rules
for the conftruelion of policies, which, he con-
tended, had never been departed from A
policy r.finfurance being a commercial inftrument,
was to receive the molt liberal conftruetion. Lord
Hardwick, in the cafe of Winkle v. the London
Affurance Company, Paid, in confidering a policy
there was no difference between law and equity.
It would be in vain, therefore, to apply to the
Court of Chancery, as they would be there told
that any equitable circumilances would be an
equally good ground for relief in the Court of
King's Bench. a. A policy of infurance being a
printed form, though applied to liras infinitely
various, the written part of it mull conttoul that
which is in print. The meaning of the parties
mutt be gathered from what is mferted to give
particularity to the voyage more than from what'
conftitutes a part of every contra& of this kind en-
tered into. 3. If a policy should have two ob.
jeas, one to cover the %hip, and the other the
cargo, it was to be conftrued reddendoinplafingulis.
The Court mutt aft as if thefe were two diftinft,
independent inftruments. Mr. ERSKINR then went
on to fbew that the goods were proteded under
the policy in queftion. " From the loading of
the goods on board," among merchants, he infift
ed, meant merely that the goods fhould be on
board before the adventure commenced, without
any reference to the place where they were loaded.
But, from the grammatical conitration of the
words, the policy for time atached, independently
of the policy upon the terminus a pa as to place, and
it ought to be fo confidered. ut re: masis akat
panspersat.—Rule to thew caufe granted.

POLICE, &e.
MAIMBOROUGH-STREIT.--Saturday Sarah Far-
rell was brought up, for robbing her ready fnrnifh-
ed lodgings, No. 54., Stewart's Rents, Great Wild-
lreet, bade' robbing the apartments of a neigh•
hour, (Mrs. Kepbell, at Nt. t t), of wearing ap-
parel, the duplicates of which were f >and on her
when (he was taken into euflody. She was fully
committed, and the parties bound over to prole-
cute her.
HATI'O7I GARDEN.—Monday Jain Dew was ex-
amined a fecond time, on a charge of having at-
tempted to rob Charles Poole, Efq. in comoany
with another man, who has made his efcar. e, nu
Thurfday lA, on the Edgware-road, about four
miles from London. As Mr. Poole was riding in
his carriage with his lady and daughter, he was
attacked by a man anfwering the defcription of the
prifoner,who is a (mart looking man,about 3olyears
of age; buthaving a vizor can,he could not fwear to
his lace. He pointed a -piflol at the men ; when
loon after fome gentlemen's let vants coming up,
the prifoner with the nth er h igh waymant urned Ihnrt
without effening robbery. Mr.Ponle dating the
circa:l:fiance to the ftrvants,who were well mount-
eel, went in pm fttit ttl them, when the purfued turn-
ed into a road leading to Hentfun,then turned (port
towafds Highgate, entered into Gray's Inn•lane,
and were cloiely purl te into Gitildford-ltreet,
where by a pile ()lice the horfe u•ac thrown upon his
haunches,by which means the prilhner was lecured;
but the other made his cfcape in:o a liable yard,a fter
having quitted his boric, returned into the ilreet,
•nd walked away with his great coat on his arm,
as if nothing had happened. In the general chafe
that was given, the men threw away their
which were loaded, and their marks, which weir
picked up by difLrent puffins.
It appeared that the horfes were hired of a (table-
keeper on the preeeditr cloy, iind that thr.ire WAS
nri,ng r :;if on to believe that they had hired honks
of Li::: r.ime perlhn on the (itla of this month, when a
robbery was committed on Ealing Common, on a
Gentleman and tat, Ladies in a polt.chaife ; being
malltd, the Gentleman could not fwear to tile
it yof the prifoher. Upon the firit charge the
pria;•,. r (lands fnily committed, and upon the fe•
ri..nd Le.is to be brcuglat up again.

UNION HALL—The Gipfcy Iliwer.r, and his'
.two boys, were on Monday brought up : the fa-
ther was difeharged, and the two boys are detain.
ed to give evidence againd Cragg.
The woman Gipfey, Sowers, was at the lat'
feffions at Maidilone, tried on charges of vagrancy •
and acquitted. I leridaughter, :silo is the wife of
Cragg, the fupprfed murderer, is nearly in 4 Hate
of bringii., an addition to this unfortunate family.
The Coroner's J,irr having returned a verdia
of wilfol murder againa pertons unknown, the
young nicn in cndody on fulpicion of the murder
the child found at Chritichni eh, in Surrey, are
again remanded, in hopes that the vile perpetra.
tors of this hutiae. may he difcovered.
SaADWELL. Veaerday licarr Williams was
committed for trial, on a charge of dealing ,a num-
' Ix r of articles belonging to the docks at Poplar..
II rrECHAPEL.—On Fiiday WI a young man,
of the name of Haim:, was difehargel firm this
',dice, for want of a proof of a fig:poled felony,
and )eiterday he was again brought up on a frelh
charge of taking fome ::rticies out of his lodgings.
He was committed fiw reexamination.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Yeaerday three men and a
womcn were examined a fecond time, on fufpi-
cion of having committed divert burglaiies in dif-
ferent parts of London ; they were committed for
re-examination.

Early on Sunday morning the (hop of Mr.
Inhmar, of Cheddingly, Safes, wasibr,ike open.
The villains drew (lit upwards of So drawers,
containing divers arricle;: ; took away with them
three remnants of }minted cotton, and about four
pounds worth of hailpcnce and penny pieces.
Monday rriorninc; early the bottle of Mr. Chriftie,
in Lower Tharnes•ftreet, was broke open, and
robbed of plate and other articles, to the amount
of upwards rf by thieves at prefent unknown.
On Mcn lay fe'nni7,ht two men broke into the
hour:: of Ylts. Fatikoner, at Dialcn, near Pet.
worth, and little therein a little box, containing
writings, loonds, money, fpoons, two watches,
two gold rig,, and feveral tither articles of va-
lue. Mrs. I.:ltticcner was in bed s% ids her maid
when the viilains tntered the room in which the
flept, where, to prevent her knowing them, they
!placed the curtains of the be before her, alluring
her at the fame time that they would not hurt her
if the made no noife.

The country houfe of Mr. J. B. Lambett, ofJ
Hull, at Kitkella, has been three times attempted
to be broke into, in the fpace of 5 weeks. The lall
attempt was made in the night of Monday fennight
between twelve and one o'clock, at a time when
Mr. Lambert was abfent, and when only one man
fervant was in the houfe. A Hort time ter the fa-
mily had gone to tell that eveningthey were alarm
ed by the noife of fome pet fons endeavouring to
break in. The man fervant immediately role, and
having prevtoufly loaded his gun with a handful
of that, attempted to open the window of his room,
the noife occafioned by which alarmed the robbers,
and two of them male offs a third the fervant
fired at as he was turning a corner, and it appears
had wounded him, as the adjoining wall was itt the
morning found covered with blood, which was alfo
traced from thence along the road as far as Weft
Ella, about three quarters of a mile dilant.

About half pall eight o'clock on the evening of
Monday fe'nnight, a young man, clerk to Mr.
BLINKIN, of Hull, having been out e..lleding
money, was followed by a man in failor's clothes,
rsho knocked him down nearly oppofite gtory-
ilreet end. with a view, it is conjeaured of robbing
him ; but the young man alarming the neighbour-
hood by his cries, the villain made off precipitate-
ly. The blow appeared to have been given with
a hammer or a large nick, and had been inflieled
wick loch violence that it had cut through the
young man's hat, and wounded him fevcrely in
the head.

For near two years pan a moll alarming fpecies
of robbery has been pratlifed on the Merchants'
goods Chipped from this country to divers foreign
parts, before the stack conveying the fame have
left the river Thames, and this new mode of pecu-
lation is managed by fecretly opening the packages
containing the molt valuable articles, fuck as Mks,
fine muffins, printed calicoes, laces, hole, &e. &c.
land after taking out their contents,the fpace is then
!filled with old wrappers, mats, flraw, look paper,
London paving (tones, chalk firmer, or fome Inch
rut:Nth, and the packages doled up again in fo
I snaflerlya manner, that the,fraud is not difcovered
until the flips arrive at their port of deninatiow
abroad. Several individual Merchants, robbed in
this manner, have loft at one time sool. or upwards,
and the whole funs, coliefiively, flolen iii this way, '
within thefe Lin twelve months, is fuppofed to be
not far Ihort of so,oool.
This fpecies of depredation has been the means
Inf caufing diftrufl atid didatisfaaion between the
hlerchant of this country and his correfpondent
abroad—the one asking payment for the goods
Ifent off, and the other tefufing it, or. the ground
of the goods not coming to hand. Various have
'been the expedients had recourfe to by individual
flifferersfiirdetening the perpetratorsofthofealarm-
ing a.9s of depredation, but hitherto the proofs
against them have failed, owing to a link in the
chain of proof being broken.
At the adjourned Garter Sefflons at Ipfwich,
lan week, a GUM' %101 l nearly 30001. was in-
, dided fur Pealing a pair of girl's flints, and ho-
nott• ably acquitted. Ile was then tried for an afteult
in aiming a blow at the hawker, on being charged
with the theft ; when thz Jury gave one tam, da-
mages. The profecutor was afterwards committed
to take his trial for perjury.
On Saturday night a poor woman was run over
by a hackney coach in Featherflone-fireet. It is
I ppOrid file was intoxicated, and had fallen down
fume time before the acci.lent happened. She
Was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hofpital; but
her Lead was fo much milled that her recovery
is doubtful.

Sorce time fence, as a bny was driving his mar-

ter's yvaggon over Winborne bridge, he Met a gen-
tleman in a cu-ricle, who unfoi tunately took the
along fide, and perhaps did not perceive, till too
late, that there was not room for him to pats clear.

The poor boy clung dote as he could to the wheel
of his waggon, in the hope of avoiding the math
,etw•een the two carriages ; in this draggle he fell.
!lie wheels paired over him, and killed him iliime
diately.

Yeflerday afternoon, about four o'clock, a c
rious circurralance took place, on the IPire of Bow
church, Cheaplide, which attrafted the attentio.
of pairengers—A hawk having caught a pigeon,
flew with it to the fleeple of the Church, and.
a fmall dillance below the vane, found a ,rehin,y,
place, where it tore it to pieces, and eagerly d:
voured it, the feathers of the pigeon flying about
in the air.

Citizen GALL ET, formerly apothecary in the
armies of the North and in Italy, has accidentally
diicovered a remedy for poifon communicated by
verdigreafe in ill cleaned copper vetrels. Having
been himself poilbned by drinking tea made in an
old copper coffee pot, before oil or milk could be
procured, he drank a flrong folution of fugar and
water, and as he increafed the dofe, his torments
diminifhed. He afterwards ate a quantity of fu-
gar not diffolved. Atlength the vomiting ceafed,
and, after other motions, he fell asleep. On
awakening, he felt weak, but without pain.
A curious fpecies of fheep, called the Perfian
Hindoo, and which are employed to carry burdens
of light merchandize frortione province to another,
have been introduced into Bengal, where much
attention is paid to encourage-the breed.
One day laft week, James Herriott, Game-
keeper to GIORGS SNIFF NU, Efq. of Comb Place,
near Lewes, difcovered in the river, a fmall diC
tance above Barcomb Mill, tightly jammed be-
tween a willow Rump and the Ihore, a dead pike
of an extraordinary fine. It meafured in length,
from eye to fork, four feet, was one foot thick
acrofs the back, and weighed, in its wafted Rate,
4.clbs. Its confined fituation is attribtited to the
rapidity of the current, during the late flood, when
ta ftem the torrent, it is fuppofed, this enormous
frelh water fiat, fought a lodgement, from whence
it could not afterwards extricate Well, and, con-
fequently, there remained until it was literally
flarved to death.

Mr. James Gray,of Netherhampton, in returning
home from Salithury market on Tuefday fe'nnight,
encountered an accident which might have been
attended with ferions confequences : lie fell from
Harnham Longbridge into the water ; but fortu-
nately Mr. B:11, the dairyman, was pang by
flintily after, and difcovering Mr. Gray's perilous
fituation, he obtained 1 boat, and extricated him
therefrom.

A fcw days fence, early in the morning, the
body of Mr. James Elias Carpenter, aged 42
years, Schoolmafter, at Cheddingly, Sufic', was
found on' the highway in the faid pati(h, quite
dead. Mr. Carpenter is fuppofed to have died
through fatigue and the inclemency of the wea-
ther.

On the night *of New Year's Day, 11/41r. John Ja.
miefon, of Glafgow, who has reacted at Ham-
burgh for Tome time as a merchant, being alarmed
in his fleep by the beating backward and forward
of tome windows, left open in his warehoufe, pro.
bably by the negled of his fervants, went up Itairs
to fatten them ; but in attempting jr he was hur.
vied down into the yard, by a fudden gull of
wind, from a height of near too feet, and dafhed
in. pieces. His mangled remains were not dlco-
vered till morning. 1
Early on Tuefday fennight, in the morning,]
Wm. Henry. a filverfmith, was found lying near
the bottom of his own flair, in Warrillon's Clore,
Edinburgh, in a very languifbing flap. His
meanings had awakened one of the neighbours, ,
who arofe to afford hint affillance, but a aranger
who had difcovered him got him conveyed to the
city guad, where he grew worfe, and expised
about nine o'clock in the morning. There is no
certain account of what occafioned his de;:th, but
it is fumfed be had been going home rather late,
and having fallen in the dole, which is very fleep,
had been hurt by the fall, and periflied !wily
through the inclemency cf the weather.
Thurfday morning Mr. Cola: met with a moll
unfortunate accident when attending the prepara-
tions at his rooms for next night's Concert, at
Edinburgh, by having one of his knee bones
broke, without either a fall or a blow. He met
with a like accident on the other knee a few years
ago by a fall, which has rendered him lame ever
fence. It was by tripping on this lame leg, and
throwing the other violently forward to lave a
tumble that the bone was broke by the at:lion of
the mtifeles.

On Monday morning the only daughter of Mr.
G. VAUGHAN, a hatter of Gravel-lane, Southwark,
was burnt in a moR dreadful muffler, in conk-
buence of her cloatlis catching fire. The child who
was only eight years of age, was left alone in the
nurfcry when the accident happened, her cries
brought up the maid fervant, who in endeavouring
to estinguith the fire, sad both her arms level eiy
burnt. We are lorry to add that the child died in
great agonies, at twelve o'clock on Monday night.
Diforders that proceed either from an impty-e
Rate of the blond, or a relaxed Rate of the nerves,
having, in innumerabl: inßances, fubfided by a
courfe of SPILSZURY'S Antifcerbutic Drops, ton
much cannot be laid in praife of that invalu..Mc
preparation. This unparalleled fuceefs, in the
molt complicated cafes, has ellablifhcil i:s celebrity
thronghout the univerfe ; indeed, where is it fulfi-
-1 ble to obtain fuch a reflorerof the conflitution and
infallible cure of the Scurvy, Gout, Rheumatifm,
Evil, Leprofy, and a variety of other complaints,
too generally incident to human nature ? Thefe
Drops are fold in bottles of 55. and 6d. to,. and
tI. 2s. each, with a black Ramp affixed to each bot
tie, by the following venders in London F. New.
Ivry, 4s, St. Paul's; Dicey and Sutton, Boss
Church-yard ; E. Newbery, corner of St. Paul's ;
Wray, Birchinlane; Bolton, Royal Exchange;
Evans and Co. Long-lane ; Barclay, Fleet-market ;
Bacon, Oxford-Rreet ; Ward, Holborn; Bayley,
Cockfpur-Brett; Swinney, Pall Mall ; Walfh and
Withers, No. 2/9, Strand; Brennand, Bilhopf-
gateArcet ; Clark, No. 269, and B. Shaw, No.
74, Borough, Southwark I and at the Difpettfary,
Nos.ts, crfqaare.

On Sr.reaty, at XlLre'.vorill
1.34 of a t.!.....4,11ttr.
Oil Friday 1:!it, Ow t ad} Wo7Ligat,-, EN. of
ruohr;.l!e tart.le, Kent. ,p 1 r.
At Nrwportprat, count of tLe Rev. licory
On W lueftLy la% the I.acly of 7..1:j0r Tio;ing, C
Edikburgh, of a hi.