Star.
London, England, 1810-01-17 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

January 27. Thomas Harris and John Prfce, of Bristol, mer-
chants, at twelve, at Guildhall, London.—March 3. John Potter
and William Monknaan, of Silver-street, Wood-street, London,
war,:lrouse.ilen ,at twelve, at GoilPhall.—Fete. 13. Thomas Liver-
more, sen. of Chelmsford, Essex, grocer and tallow-chandler, at
el••ven, at Guildhall.—Feb. 7. Jolm Dewhirst, late of Halifax,
Yorkshire, grocer, at eleven, at the Talbot, Halifax.—Feb. 10.
\Vm. Gee Pilkington, of Bawtry, Yorkshire, innholder, at eleven,
at the Crcwn Inn, Rotherhtun.--Feb. 12. J Hand, of Worm-
wood-street, London, warehouseman, ct eleven, at Guildhall.—
Fe 5. Peter Davies, of Manchester, liquor-merchant, at ten, at
:he Moseley-Arnts Inn.—Feb 19. Edmund Woodreffe, of
i'uollastone, Gloucestershire, iron-mato:lt:curer, at ter., at the
Beaufort Arius inn, Cherstow.—January Samuel Bishop, of
Gleticeste•rshire, halx.rtiasher, E eleven, at Guild-
Itar.—Feb. .5. Richard Briggs, of Liv,rpool, merchant, at eleven,
at the York Hotel, Lieerpool.—heb. 9. Nl' tu. Dr: wry, junior, of
lialkingbam, Lincolnshire, cal-renter aa.d builder, at eleven, a: the
Greyhound Inn, 'alkingliain —Fein-nary 8. John Ellis, of Hor-
lbling, l.inrdeahire, ;,racer and dra;ser, at eleven, at the Grey-
hound Ina, Falhingham.—Febru3ry M. Isaac Brown, late of Ma-
ryporr, Cumberland, brewer, at • lev.:11, at the Crown and Mitre,
Carlisle. —Feb:entry 10. Win. It ose, of Earl's-court. Kensington,
Middlesex, 'newer, at ten, at ei LUlt;hall.—Feb..s. John ArMitage,
' now or I ate of Leeds, Yorkshire, cloth-merchast, at eleven, at
the Three Legs Inn, I.e4.els.—i;eli. I ''.. George Hawker, Stroud,
Glonee..tershire. c.ut:tior, at eleven, at the King's Arms, Stroud,
—Feb. 9. Thonlas Gibbons, late of Disritend,. parish of Aston,
Warwickshire, 6r.ieec, rt eleven, ac :Le .-watiTavern, Bull-street,
liirminghatn.—sreb. 8. %elm.% i"rawil the younger, late of Steep,
Hants, fellinot:gcr and tae.ner, at two. at the 51% and Bell, Horn-
dean.— Feb. 17. James of Ve oud with 'n Satltllewortle,
Yorkshire, dyer, clothier, dealt r and chapman, at ekven, at the
Mar inn, Ma:,.ches:er.—Fah. 13. Ltntes I:rynier, of Kieg street,
parish a St. Anti, Nliddle sex, tit for, dealer and ehaproan,
at etp, at Gtlih!leall.—V el.. 5. Paul I.:sier, late of I leptatistall,
parish of Halifax, Wm. lasso, late of Morton, parish of Bingley,
anti John I.onvleo ton', het t• of mertem, palish of Kildwick, York-
shire, cottuu-spinners, at out, at the White bite, Vtk y.

A curious indictment was precrred at the Norfolk
Sessions, last week, in which a Clergyman was the
prosecutor, under the following circumstances :—lt
was alledged, that, on a cert,iia Sund:!y, wile be
was preaching, the daughter or oac his payi,,hioners
came .vith her sister into the church, attend :A I. a
nun, who carried a b:,g. The ladies, " clunE7-
mg stride," clattered in their patens up the aislr—
opcned the door of tht it pew—packed their narNeal‘ e
therein into the bag, anj, after pasting a lAel
t:iiniog the words " a pew to let," opened the Coo-,
and retreated in the same order. To punish this
conduct the indictment was piclerred, but the bill
wa:, not fund.

In consequence of a Jury upon a Writ of Enquiry
in WiltAiire, in an action of tr 4 spas;, 6, Simkins v.
Hunt," where the Defendant suffered judgment l'y
deiatilt, having returned —No Damage—a rule for
.1 new Writ of enquiry was granted in the Court of
King's Bench last term, it be in!, held that the defen-
dant havi•-g suffered judgment by default, there must
be some damage. On Wednesday last this second
writ of enquiry was executed at Devizes, but the Jury
again rewired— No I)ama,2e: and after being twice
advised by the Under-Sheriff to re-consider it, per-
sisted in returning the same verdict.
Saturday evening as two boys were amusing them
selves with gunpowder at a house in gird-street, Ox
ford-street, a e:innister, containing about two pounds
caught fre sou exploded, by which accident severa
panes of glaei were blown from the windows, the
boys were severely wounded, and a young child in
the room, where the explosion took place, was so
badly hurt, th.tt it is supposed it cannot live.
A daring robbery was committed a few days ago,
on the premises of Messrs. Bowden and Tucker, of
Camomile ,street, drug-brokers. The thieves took
from the warehouse a considerable quantity of musk,
to the amount of 5600. A man is now ill custody,
on suspicion of receiving and selling the same ; he
underwent a long examination on Saturday last, be-
fore the Sitting Magistrates of Lambert street Police
tThF.c.e, \Vhitechapcl, and was remanded for a fur-
ther hearing.

A soldior belonging to the Buckingham Militia,
lying on the heights of Dover, has confessed that he
was concerned in the murder of Mr. &roma,
near Chatham. He was sentenced to receive 7001.
lashes for a recent offence, on which he made the
above discovery ; be, however, received 300 of them,
in part, being as many as he was then able to bear.
Sunday eleven deserters were lodged in the Savoy,
in the Strand. These men deserted from the army
in Halifax, with an intention of getting into the
United States of America, but were pursued and
made prisoners.
Last week, as a farrier in Fife was turning a rowel
on a horse, some of the morbid matter with which
the horse was affected went into a cut he had in his
finger ; his arm immediately sweUed, and his body
soon afterwards, and he died in a short time after,
notwithstanding medical assistance was speedily pro-
cured. The horse also died soon after.

On Wednesday last an Inquisition was taken at
Great Cowell, on the body of J. Smart, 13 years of
age. He, with several others, had been firing off a
touch-gun, being part of a barrel of an old fowling-
piece, in which they had put two ounces of gun-
powder and some slugs, when it recoiled, and struck
the deceased on the forehead. Verdict—Accidental
Death.

On Thursday, the 24th ult. an Inquest was held

at the Crown, at Hatfield, on the body o. J. Honey-
ball, who, for a wager of Is. Gd. undertook to drink
three quarts of beer in twelve minutes, which he per-
formed within the time, but died in the course of five
hohrs afterwarJs. Verdict--Died by Excessive
D. inking,
Tuesday se'nnight nn alarming fire broke out in a
corn kiln, belonging to Mr. Steel, of Dornock, near
Annan, which entirely consumed the same. A con-
siderab!e (paucity of corn was destroyed, and a mare
and thou pigs were suirocated.

•-• isOLIa: "•'

MArsterr Housv.,—.Testerciiy7 cemper Was charg-
ed with uttering forged Check; drawn upon the
banking house of 'roster and. L-AbOck,.with a view
to ihfraud Mr. Minkirrier: 5- • •• -

Mortimer stated,: that the prisoner came to
his shop on Friday, lind pm-chased •a- gam, wnich he
Agreed to let him hateit:4- k 43, ready money, and
which he sent, as dire' veil; to No. 70, Greenfield-
' street, Commercial-road ; when the servant retuned
with a check, drawn Upon Foster and Lubbock, who
stated it to be a forgery.
1' Doubleday, servant to Mr. Mortimer, stated,
that on delivering the gun, the prisoner wrote him a
check, which they refused to pay, not knowing any
thing of the drawer ; that upon going back to Green-
field-street, he met the prisoner going WE with the
gun, who told the witness he coutd not stop, as he
was going into the country, and seemed surprised the
bill was not paid ; the witness, however, w‘iuld not
part with him, unless he gave him back the gun or
the money, and at length gave him in custody to a
watchman. _ _ _

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Mr. Anltct, a clerk from the banking house, proved
that no person of that name kept an account with
them. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and
a great many persons attending to prefer similar
charges against him, he was remanded.
HATTON GA It DEN. —Yesterday Ann Rolfe and
Sarah May were fully committed, charged with steal-
ing from the shop of Mr. Thwaits, linen-draper, in
Holborn, 37 yards of cotton, making a riot in the
shop when detected, and striking M. A. Newton, a
shopwoman, on the breast with a paten, of which
she had been ill five days.

A. case of a very extraordinary nature has lately.
been under investigation befiire Mr. Guaumi, at the
police office, Bow-street :—A cloth factor, who re-
sides in the City, had his pocket picked of his pocket-
book, containing several bills of exchange to a consi-
derable amount, at Lansdown fair. The bills having
some time to run, upon his return to town, !he sent
written notices to the acceptors not to pay theni
when due. Among the acceptors, one was a breeches
maker, at the west end of the town, whose IA Ct.
&I-6 was among those stolen ; the breeches maker
had a notice seat him not to pay the bill. In a -few
:lays after, the cloth factor and the breeches maker
had some business together, when
the latter, to the
great aszonishment of the cloth factor, produced the
stolen bill, and said he laid paid it. The cloth factor,
not being satisfied with this account, summoned the
breeches maker an: his shorrn n before Mr. Gas a %AI.
On Wednesday evening an investigation t;iok place;
the cloth factor proved a leritten notice at the house
f the breeches maker, not to pay the bill, in conse-
.! tluence of its having been stolen ; and also a mes-
! sage being left with the breeches maker's wife, early
on the n.orning when the hill became due. The
breeches maker denied having received the written
notice, or that his wife had told him the message
that was left. Mr. GttAIIAM requested to see the
bill, and on the breeches maker producing; it, and the
Magistrate having examined it, he discovered that
there was no regular receipt to it, there only being
written on the back, " Received the sth. of January ;"
but no name to it, there being merely a flourish, but
no letters could be made out. Mr. GRAHAM desired
hint to withdraw, and then axamined his shopman,
who said he recollected a clerk of of the cloth factor I
calling at their shoe early on the morning of the sth
inst. but- what he said to his mistress he denied that
he heard ; he said his mistress gave him bank notes
to pay the bill. The master was then called in, and
he persisting in the same account he bad given be-
fore, Mr. GRAHAM told him he had a great mind to
detain him on suspicion of being concerned in the
robbery ; but however let him go, ordering him and
his wife to attend him on Saturday. On that Ll.,y
the cloth factor attended, and told Mr. GRAHAM the
breeches maker had agreed to give him security lOr
the amount of the bill.