Star.
London, England, 1821-12-27 00:00:00

HOLYDAY FRAYS.

In the early part of Tuesday a vast number of
persons assembled in the vicinity of Saffron-hiu. and
from thence proceeded to the Crown public-house,
in Chick-lane, to celebrate Christmas. The party%
which consisted chiefly of Irishmen, had nut been
long seated before several Smithfield drovers cinema
the room, when a general disturbance took place._.
In the hurly-burley every one was anxious to iTt at
the best means of defence, and pots, pokers, ma
every other portable article, were instantly put in re•
quisition, and a grand fight commenced. The
bernians defended themselves with their well. known
weapon, " a sprig of shillelagh," with great ga
lantry ; but, unfortunately, 1. Donnelly having been
deprived of his stick, seized a poker, and struck ore
bf the drovers. Another, armed with a riVhlntk,
made a rush at Donnelly, %%hen the latter stritc
drover, and fractured his skull in a most dreadful
manner. Fortunately several City officers arrived
and prevented further mischief. The wounded //in
was taken to Bartholomew's Hospital, aid Donnelly
to Giltspur•street Compter, where he was brought
from, before the Sitting Magistrate, Al lem:in S
CLAUDIUS S. HUNTER, who remanded him mail the
fate of the wounded man is known. In consequence
of the immense mob, a gang of thieves exercised
their avocations in the most successful, and at the
same time most daring manner. In this unfortn-
nate business more than twenty persons have bees
ses iously wounded. •
During the whole of Chri ,tm is-day the ne;gl;hons.
hood of Peter-street, Golden-square, was a scene of
the most disgraceful confusion. A party of Irish-
men from Connaught ploceetle i t sheet, in
order to insult the Munster-men, who chiefly irhabit
Pete,:-street, and, for the I.urpose of excitin. then
to a hairle, they insulted several females (t...e wires
of the °NA:like part)), which gave rise to a ,le•perae
tight between two the rufha is. w ith the • fists.—
, After fighting for a length of time the parties were
ue irly dead-beaten, and carried awa? In. asskance.
This Fcht gave rise to many others in the mouse of
the day, between the opposite parties. who unfor.
tunately escaped the vigilance of the Hun.
of persons stood by and itnessed the bruul
encounters, appatertly with the greatest The
parish are adopting every measure to stop suck dis-
k graceful scenes in future.
•

Yesterday evening a number of the convicts left
the Old Bailey in caravans, escorted by a troop the
14th Dragoons, on-. their way to Sheerness to embark
for Botany Bay. The Convicts displayed the most
unfeeling hardihood, and cheered when they tet off.
ROYAL CLEMENCY.--The KING has Iven pleas!d
to grant a free pardon to eight convicts whoa:e co;:-
fined in Newgate, one of whom was capitally con-
victed, and others under ,entence of transportation
for various periods. Among them' are the names of
Mary Troop, P. O'Egau, T. Evans, t►drrat, Arnntruz,
and Pott, mho, together with• Tipper, was capitally
convicted at the Sessions before last for a forgery on
Wiiliams arid Co. of Birchin-lane, the particulars of
whose trial we reported at considerable lengtholle
Under Sheriff arrived with the pardons on Monk
night, and the prisoners were discharged on Tee.day.
Tipper is detained to take his trial on another charge,
at the next As,izes for the county of Hertfurd. A
doubt arising at .the time of the trial, a point waste-
' served for the opinion of the twelve Judges, which
' was, that the conviction be affirmed ; but owing to
some mitigatory circnmstances, the Royal clemency
has been extended to one of the offenders. For Job
Jacobs, whose singular case has considerably ercitoi
the interest of the Public, in the course of last weeks
free pardon, or what is equivalent to it, commutation
of his punishment to three months imprisonment, eras
received at Newgate. No man's lite was, perhaps,
ever placed in jeopardy on such slight and indeed
trifling evidence.

BIRTH.
Dec. 13, at Guernsey, the Lady of Capt..l. WynMWebb,af
a daughter.

MARRIED.
Lately, Thomas Yates, I‘l.D. of Brighton, to Olive, widowd
the late Frederick Charles Street. Esq.

DIED.
At Lewisham, Kent, on the 234 inst. Major Fead, of tie
Royal Regiment of Artillery, son of the late Lieutenant-Gala
Fead, of the same Corps.
On the 22d of May, at Keshme, in the Persian Gulf, dt
bilious fever, Lieutenant Samuel Peregrine Palmer, of the f.d,
or Marine Battalion of the 12th Regiment of Bombay Infest';
a young man whose urbanity and gentlemanly manners endeared
him to all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance.
Dec. 6, at 3lusselburgh, Richard Jones, Esq. late of the OS'
toms, Edinburgh.
Suddenly, in October last, Mr. Moncrief Blair, of the lIes•
treal Bank, son of the late Rev. John Blair, CohnonelL
July 27, at Batavia, aged 38, Mr. Wm. Leslie; and, se tis
9th inst. at Boghall, aged 33, Mr. Andrew Leslie, farmer; 861
of the late Mr. William Leslie, Kinpbarns.
Dec. 15, at Re.ht House, aged 37, Sir Harry Nieven Lund*
Bart. of Auchindoir.
Dec. 21, at Hutings, Mrs. James, wife of Lieutenant-01991
Elphinstone.
Nov. 29, suddenly, Marjery Reid, spouse of Mr. J. INA
merchant, Aberdeen, deeply and deservedly regretted. ,
Saturday, in Upper Gower-street, Harriet Ann, daugiter•
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Dance, aged ten months.
On the coast of Africa, on the 4th of August last, Baru"
Assistant R. S. Gillespie, Esq.
At Arcot, on the 7th of August last, William Cairo Lech
Lieutenant Bth Madras Cavalry, son of the deceased Nil*
General William Lockhart, of his Maiesty'a

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