Star.
London, England, 1818-12-23 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.

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SCHOOLMASTERS SOCIETY.

'Yesterday an unusually numerous Meeting of the
most respectable individuals connected with the Edu-
cation of Youth, took place at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, for the purpose of celebrating the Anniver-
sary of this excellent Institution. Mr. Russel., the
Master of the Charter House, in the Chair.
After dinner the King was drank in solemn silence.
The Prince Regent and the Duke of York, with the
rest of the Royal Family,were drink with threetimes
three, and appropriate demonstrations of loyalty.
The CHAIRMAN observed,that when individuals in
high stations, and especially the Membersofthe Royal
Family, patronized Institutions for Charitable pur-
poses, they contributed still more to elevate their
importance in society. But sucir individuals estab-
lished also, by such conduct, a great claim to the
gratitude of those who were particularly benefited
by their liberality—hence he felt himself called upon
I make a proposition to the Meeting, which he had
. doubt would _be cordially received by all who
heard him, for such reception would only evince
their sense of the obligation conferred upon them by
high patronage with which they were honoured.
• whom this Institution was indebted for that pa-
tronage, he did not think it necessary to mention,
. the majority of thsse whom he had the honour to
address were; he presumed, aware to whom sucliirn-
portant patronage was attributable. The Learned
Gentleman concluded with pibposing the health 01'1
' The Duke of Cambridge, the President of the In.!
ration." This toast was drank with three times three.

Dr. LINDSAY then rose. and observed, that upon
former occasions when the President was unable to
attend, one or the other of his Royal Brothers, whom
(Dr. Lindsay) was about to mention, generally at-
tended as the substitute of his Royal Highness.—
Those illustrious persons were, however, on this.oc-
olt4on, necessarily absent from a cause which he need
describe. But from universal acknowledgment
well AS from personal communication, he could
undertake to say, both those Royal Persons were cot--
dishy anxious for the spreai el knowledge, and the
(tiff:l:ion of '4 charitable. spirit throughout the country.
They were also, to his knowledge, sincerely attached
to the interests of this Society:and therefore he could
notlentertain a doeht that the toast isith which he
meant to conclude.svouid be unallitnotnly approved
I—namely, " The health% of their Royall I ighnesies
.fiell•akcs of Kent anti SLvisex."—(Applattses
nurd uhile the toast was a'rt:::k nit's three times three.} 1
Dr. CLUrTON, afte:.observing that no one who
..trd him—that, indeed, no cu:tiv•tted being in et-
istence could fail tc recollect something of his youth
I:ich was calculated to excite an interest in favour

:he very helivolent Institution, whiise adve,•!tage
r Meeting WAS assembled to promote—concluded
with proposing " The Schoolmasters Society," which
drank with the most entliu.iattic marks of a?-
probation. •
Here Mr. DIGNUM sung a Song, descriptive of the
character• and laudatory object of the Institution,
which snug allusion was made to the engage-
ment of the present Duke of Orleans in the lionoara-
' - and uietul office of a Schoolmaster. This song
, well received. Several other songs wee sung
~ the course of the evening, by Messrs. TAYLOR,
BELLAMY..CLARKE, TYRRELL, and COLLIER.
Drs: Flewisrr and BURNEY aldressed the Meet-,
ing io speeches peculiarly calculated to promote the'
object of the Institution.
The health of the CHAIRMAN having been drank
ith the warmest plaudits, that Gentleman, in return-
' thanks, stated the objects of ;he Institution. The
object was, he said, to relieve the several Mem-
bers of the Society, their widows and orphans ; and
next, to. assist distressed ushers and others con.:

_ctcd with the business of education. For the first
object a fund was created by the subscriptions of the
Members themselves ; but to answer the second ob-
ject, the subscriptions of the public were necessary.
Those subscriptions, which on former occasions had
been very liberal from the most eminent individuals,
had of late, he was sorry to say, become very scanty ;
therefore the Gentlemen of the Committee had been
obliged to limit their contributions for the relief of dis-
tress, and several applications were necessarily refused.
But this refusal became indispensible, for the Com-
mittee actually exceeded their funds no less than
£250. This was a most melancholy fact, especially
from the consequences which • it occasioned ; but he
hoped and trusted*that the liberality of the Meeting,
• well as that of the public at large, would enable
Committee to put an end to calamities afflicting
individuals so well deserving of a better fate.—

Applause:).
'the subscriptions for the evening, which were an-
nounced by Dr. Kelly, the Treasurer of the Society,
were, we are happy to say, of a very encouraging
character. The ladies were among the most liberal
contributors, and wherever they are interested, as
they very rarely fail to be in the cause of merit in
distress, the heart and purse of the public are likely
be open and generous.

A few days ago an Inquest was hfld at Butter.
wick, on the body of J. Richardson.—The deceased
had just come from sea, where he had been 10 years ;
his friends supposed him dead, when he suddenly re-
turned to the inheritance of some property, and to
die of an element more dangerous than the one he had
braved ; for, after drinking most immoderately for
several days, he returned from Boston n:arket to the
house of his brother, at 13utterv.ick, where he oxpired.
verdict—Died from excessive Drinking.
The well-known General SARRAZIN k now a pri.
over at la Forte, in Paris, charged with bigamy. No
than three women claim him as their husband, one
A them an English Lady, whom he married in Lon-
don its 1813, having previously married at Leghorn
- 1799, and subsequently in 1817 at Bordeaux. Re
children by two of the marriages. He is to be
tried early in the neat year.

An adjournment of these Sessions was yesterday
held at Guildhall.
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Robert Graf a young man of respectable con-
nexions' was indicted for violendatailting, on the
14th of August, 1816, Sarah G a Johnson, a
gill 14 years of age.
Mr. BA Riteaccounted for the delay of the prose-
cution. The defendant was, he said, brought before
three different Aldermen, at Guildhall, and at length
committed ; but the Grand Jury ignored the bill on
the capital charge, recommending, however; that a
bill should be preferred for the charge now exhi-
bited against the prisoner, which was accordingly
done. From that moment to the present the defen-
dant had, by every means is his power, put off the
evil day. Ten Sessions had passed over, but at length
the day had arrived, at which the criminal was to
meet with condign punishment.

Sarah Georgian a Johnson, a very interesting girl,
was called. She resided with her mother in Fetter-
lane. She had a father-in-law, who was a milkman,
and she frequently went out in the morning and even-
ing to serve milk to customers. The defendant re-
sided in Cursitor-street, close by, and she went there
regularly with the milk. On Monday the 14th of
August, 1816, having taken the milk there as usual, she
was invited by him to come that evening to tea with
his sister. She had drank tea there once before. On
going home she obtained leave to do so, on condi •
tion that if defendant's sister was not there she should
return home immediately. he went at five o'clock,
but finding the sister was rot there, was about to
quit the room, when the defendant laid hold of her
by the arm, and said she should not go till she had
had her.tea. She intreated him to let her go, but
he fastened the door, and proceeded .to acts of vio-
lence. She screamed as well as she could, but the
defendant threatened her, and said she had better
hold her tongue. Ho effected his purpose—bruised
and huA her very much. She was ill in consequence
of it several months.
Cross-examined by Mr. ANDREWS—She mentioned
the circumstance to Sarah Finch, with whom she
slept,. the night it happened. She delivered the milk
as usual next morning at the house 'where the defen-
dant lived, before she told the matter to her mother.
Sarah Finch told her mother, and on her coining
home her mother questioned her about it.
Saran Houghton, the mother of the child, corm•
bonded her in many of the facts. She had given her
daughter leave with a caution, to drink tea with the
sister of the defendant, and suspected that nothing
improper had occurred till Sarah Finch told her.—
Oa being asked questions on the subject, her daughter •
replied, in tears, " Dear mother, he has done what
he ought not to have dose." Witness immediately
applied to the Magistrates, who committed the de-
feirklant.—The.Jury returnel a verdict of 6 ui]t}•.

He was sentenced to six months' imivisonment.
was taken into consideration that he had been con-
fined seven weeks in Newgate, or. the former charge.

Bow-ST FET.---MUrdCr ?TAT?... Taylor, at Harnsey.
Yesterday an investigation took place before At-.
lIIRNIE, the sitting Magistrate, respecting two men
who were is custody, and erroneously staced in some
Sunday Papers to have been discharged ; the result
of which was, that there was no ground Okr suspicion
agirh:st them, but their being in the neighbourhood,
on the nipht of the murder, and which they cle7;ly
proved to have been in tbe course of their necc!A.iry
avocations.--They were in consequence discharged.
MA Ittli EZT.— The que::.ion *relative to
the disposal of dust; cinders, &c. from Carltron- house
came on again yesterday. The Magistrate left the
former conviction as it stood, and the appeal being
lost for want of timely notice, the cause will be heard
in another shape.

AWFUL VlsrrATloNs.—Monday night last, James
Lewis, of 11-ell-street, Hackney, just after conversing
with a friend, dropped down in his apartment, and
instantly expired. The same day, Mrs. Jane Wright,
o:'Shoretlitch, near the Church, was found dead in
her bed : she went to bed the preceding night, in
good health and spirits, after eating a hearty supper.
Lord Clifford's groom died suddenly in his bed at
' the Manchester Arms, Adam-street, Baker-street, on
Monday. He had only arrived in London the pre-
ceding day.
Yeste day, an elderly man was walking up Ber-
ner's-street, Oxford-street, and while in the act of
talking-to some friend, he suddei !y fell an his face.
tic was raised up, and was quite black in the face,
and blood issued in a stream from his mouth ; lie
immediately expired. Upon inquiryit was found that
the person's name was Goring. He was carried to
the Middlesex Hospital, for an inquest.

Saturday morning last, John Ring, Esq. of the
town of Windsor, who was invited by some friends
' in London to spend a short time with them, booked
himself for a place -in the Windsor stage-coach, for
that purpose. He took his seat in the coach at the
appointed time, and was very jocular with his fellow
prssengers until their arrival at Hammersmith, whenl
the strewstopped at the Hop-pole Tavern, where he'
was seized with a shivering all over his body, and
lost all power. He was put to bed, and surgical
assistance procured ; but although every bind assist-
ance was afforded him, he died in a very short time
afterwards. An inquest was held on his body yester-
day morning. Verdict—Died by the visitation of GOD
On Monday night a Coroner's Inquest was held at
the Cross Keys, Wood-street, on the body of Mary
Price, who was found dying in the street on Friday
night.—R. Bothers, porter at the Saracen's Head,
Itated, that on Friday night the deceased arrived in
the Portsmouth waggon ; she was then very ill. Wit-
ness assisted her out of the waggon, and she inquired
if he knew where the Norwich waggon went from ?
Witness told her it set off from the-White Horse, in
Ctippleg ite. She was scarcely able to stand, and
asked witness if he stould assist her to the White-
Horse ? he said, he had so much to do, that he could
not, and he was unable to procure her a porter. The
deceased walked from the Inn, and soon after was
found insensible, sitting on the steep of a door in
Friday-street ; but her bundle had been taken away
from her by a female, whom the bystanders consi-
dered as her friend. The Parish Officers reroved
her to the Workhouse, where die died.
Died by the Visitation of GOD.

FROM LAST MGT T'S GAZETTE.

Gahm la the Shrewsbury Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by
the Lord lieutenant of the County of Salop.
Ardor Lloyd, Itaq to be Captain ; John Thomas Lloyd, Gent.
to OS Lieutenant; John Eaton. Gent. to be Cornet.