Star.
London, England, 1826-11-20 00:00:00

POLICE COURT, EDINBURGH, Nov. 16.

Friday, a son of 'Neptunc—the Mate of a merchantman—was
aricustd of capturing and running away with a milk cart belonging
to tne Caledonian dairy, thcrchy: causing a great clatterluguf the
milk cans, and the effusion of much of their contents. The offence
was conunittt-d on Wednesday, on the London road. When the

Irk witness was put in the but:, and bad Wanton* stag stacaym..
opened, preparing to speak, Jack, twitching his by the collar 14
his fore finger, caused him at once to descend, and etel4inteti-
4. Avast there; none of your jaw—who wants you to spin tea
long yarn? Can't I skak to his Honour, the Commodore tilt?.
myself?. Then addressing his Honour, 46. You see, year Rotors,
said he, " having got tors much grog with some of any nveqsrrt*,,,
I seed a great clumsy Dutch !ogre of a thing bearing down
way, and towed by a horse. 6 My eyes!' said Ito them, D.!
you ever see such a thing? Do you thiok I could navigate bet ?'
And with that I gave a .quarter-deck spring upon the toy of the
beast; and, not liking my pilotage, I suppose, away it ran Wm..
the wind at the rate of six knots an hour. How eke estsfean,lea
ballast rolled, and what a noiscit made? What could I do. as suss_
would not answer her helm, and I having no Uwe or sheet an.
chur to throw out, and no port within sight ? To the pilot of a
thing they call a they, I mug out, that if he picked as up, be wool
be entitled to salvage"—(here the laughter in Court, which oat
great before, became immoderate)—" but the lubber only r•iird
his tongue in his cheek, and west on hie cour.e. Well, at last
tried to put her about, and sail upon an opposite tack string *
how breakers were ahead; but she would not wear round; and of
I was comiderating what to do, she made a heavy teeth, whid,
pitched me overboard, and brought heron het beamonds. The.}
the whole naked truth, your Worship's Honour; and t thrum
myself on your Reverence's mercy."
The honest fellow's statement was confirmed by the different
witnesses, who described the catastrophe of the firsti as WAN'
taken place at the Abbey•hill ; between which, and the poic
where he first set off, the London Road, was timidly* slily ay.
The Judge ordained the unfortunate navigator to pay a fine ei
guinea, or he confined twenty days kr the Lock-up-house. Sour
of hismessmates came forward and paid the firith

The two children mentioned as having been takes
from the possession of a man in thefair who ex ibited
them as young savages, living upon raw meat and oil,
have, since their abode in the workhoine, returned to
their natural habits, and the whole has been discovered
to be a gross imposition on the public. The Man is
whose possession they were found has decamped ; but
it is hoped that he will be discovered and biought to
justice. The children were born in London, tiler fatha
is a mulatto, their mother an English woman ; they were
sold to Sanger by their aunt, utider whose eare
were placed, for a sum of money, and have been exhi.
bited at Liverpool, Bristol, Exeter, and other places:. It
appears by their own account that the man hsci• used
them with great cruelty, starving them into the dis-
gusting practices witnessed m the fair. Our chief Ms.
gistrate deserves great credit for his detettion' of this
abominable imposture: The Children will be returned
to their parish.—Plyusoitth Annul.
' A horse-in a gig. supposed to have been in the charge
of a groom, ran off on Thursday afternoon, in Picca.
dilly. When opposite to Mr. Itothsebild's house, he
was going at the utmost speed, and though he had no
driver to guide him, he steered his course arr.ong the
different coaches and carriages, with which tie street
was crowded, and winded his wry 'at the same sm.!
'through the whole of them with the utmost dexterity.
The most skilful driver could not hate conducted hits
more safely. On paXsing.Hysle.;rintif-tolutt, a mason';
tabourer had the hardihood tonsil tip-ter him, seized the
dangling reins, and at length succeeded in stopping the
noble animal's career. Neither horse nor gig had sti,-
tained the least injury.
The Russian fowls are lodged dining the winter in
cabins erected under furnaces, and under benches which
,are used as beds. The common domestic goose is not
met with every *here.. Many persons keep **ridged:
they catch the young ones befote they can fly, fat thern,
and kill them in autumn. In the spring they catch is
fresh stock, and by this arrangement avoid the expense
of their keep during winter. In' S betia are some.
times seen small wild geese with white heXds. Instead
of the domestic duck, some of the inhabitants keep
various kinds of wild ducks. Dares and pigeons make
their nests about the villages, and ate not the property
of particular persons.
Saturday se'nuight, seven persons were summoned
to appear before the County Magistrates for baiting a
bull in the town of Theme, when four of them express.
ing their contrition. and paying the expenses incurred,
the prosecutors did not press for their conviction. Le
other three, Richard Bonner, James Liles, and George
Hastings, were convicted in a penalty of forty shillings
each, and costs.

The dross of the male peasantry in Sweden has
always great uniformity; because the inhabitants of
the same district always wear suits of one colour ; and
being restricted to the use of only three colouss, blue,
grey, and black, there is not the smallest diversity in
their appearance. In some of the Provinces where
they all wear black clothes, their appearance is sombre
in the eiteeme.

The redbreast is a bird well known by everybody to
be the most familiar of wild birds. Every season afrordt
new stories of its domestic nature, and the followiog is,
perhaps, amongst the most interesting:
A robin was in the habit of coming to the window of a house
in Causelon, near Falkirk, and receiving a supply of crumbs fiats
the mistress of the holase, but she supposing there nilgh,t be mote
birds than one, the little visitant was caught and panned-ups the
head, and, lest the paint should be washed off, a collar was also put
round its neck. Still the bird continued its visits: but this is Dot
all, for when the Lady had occasion to visit her friends, Its several
instances, it followed her, and perched upon a neighbouring tree
till she left the house, and again returned with het. Upon one
occasion, it went up to Ilantaskine with her, and petforrised
journey of about a mile. . .
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DIED.
After a very short illness, at his residence, din it a it-
upeo-Tren! aged 73 the Itiv. Wm. Ragtag; )>f.' Neter d
Ift:ttlagliamsltire.
At the Dinglaisnad, Tortetb
'ohn Yates. •
At Rdinburilk oar tile Stet ultimo, Sir Stephen Muhl), late his
Majesty's (steal-Oentstal at Sr. Petersborgh.

Park, near Liverrenti t►le Rev.

Noe. 13, suddenly, at his redden!, In tongpo' rt Canterbury,
osias William' Du Pre, iCsq. Barrack Master, in his .sid year.
Friday se'nnigkt, at Brundel, Kasha De Hague, Esq. who fat
nany year Stied the important offices of Town Clerk and Clerk to
the Commissioners of Taxetin the City of Norwich.
Sunday sennight, at Higham, a hamlet of Gazely, aged 75 years,
Thomas Batley, commonly.calkd Bind Tom, who had been de-
prived of sight (tom his youth. He was the regular postman Inc
the conveyance of letters and parcels from Gazely to Iligham.
without the guidance either of a fellow.creature or a dog. Ire was
a constant attendant at two Churches every Sundzy,loweveit bad
the weather—at Gazely, a distance of twit Mites, andat Barrow
(the same distance), or sometimes Denhant or Delhant ; and his
memory was so retentive, that he could. tell thettext of the'Sertnon
on any particular day, if asked fcir it some time after, and alwayt.
knew the Lessons and Psalms for the coming Sabbath. He was at
the same time cheerful and a musician, and his violin was Aro
employed to enliven and entertain the parties of thesurrounding
villages, where his venerable countenance will be missed with many
a pleasing recollection of Old Tom.

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