Star.
London, England, 1821-10-03 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.

Yesterday these Sessions commenced at Guildhall.
A young man, named James Bright, was convicted
of having assaulted a Gentleman in Smithfield, some
evenings since, with intent to rob. The prisoner had,
with some others, hustled the prosecutor, and had
snatched at his watch, without success.
The COMMON SERJEANT animadverted upon the
offence, which was now so frequent as to render it,
unsafe for persons with any property about them to
walk in the streets after dark.. The Court would feel
it their duty to endeavour to repress this daring spirit
by inflicting the most severe punishment in every cast.
where the offence was proved. The sentence upon
the prisoner was, that he should be imprisoned two
years in Bridewell, and at the expiration of that time
to be once publicly whipped.

MARY-LA•BONNE Orrica.—Yesterday, a youth,'
apparently about 15 years of age, named Henry Jen-
kins, was brought up in the custody of William
Hewitt, the officer, before JOHN RAWLINSON, Esq.
charged with stealing several articles of wearing ap-
parel, the property of Mrs. Martha Salter, residing
in the Edgeware-road.—Remanded for a week.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—A fellow of the name
of Caley, was charged with two assaults, the one for
throwing his son, a boy 13 years of age, from the
window of his first floor lodging; and the other on
Mr. Wall, a cowkeeper. The defence was, that the
boy was viciously inclined, and that he had thrown
himself from the window, but this was disproved.—
Mr. MAINWARING held the defendant to bail for the
two assaults.
QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday Henry Kerts, a young
man of respectable appearance, was re-examined be-
fore Mr. WHITE, the. sitting Magistrate, on a charge
of obtaining money under false pretences. He was
ordered to find bail for his appearance.
Mustuza.—On the evening of the 18th of August,
an atrocious murder was committed on a Mrs. Gre-
gory and a Mrs. Crump, in the lower end of Camp-
bell County, Virginia, by two negro miscreants, be-
longing to Colonel It. Jones.—Mrs. Gregory was
killed on the spot, by repeated blows with an axe;
and Mrs. Crump left for dead from similar wounds,
although she did net expire till some days after. The
Ladies were returning from a yisit in the neighbour-,
hood, when they were assailed by the sable fiends,
issuing from a wood. The husband of Mrs. Gregory
was alarmed by the shrieks, and while taking steps
for removing their mangled bodies, his house was
fired and burnt to the ground. One of the villains
came and pretended to assist to extinguish the flames.
He was seized, the other escaped. No attempt was
made on the virtue of the Ladies; and the slaves are
supposed, from circumstances, to have been the mi-
nisters of another's vengeance. A murder, attended
by some peculiar circumstances, and a most provi-
dential discovery, lately took place on the river Pas-
quotauk. A man, called Captain Yellowly, departed
from Norfolk, Virginia, in a small boat, managed by
himself and one other person, for Plymouth, North
Carolina, taking a passenger whose name was un-
known, but who was reported to have a large sum of
money. At Sawyer's-landing they took on board,
some stones for ballast. A few days after their de-
parture a floating corpse was taken up in the river,
sewed in a blanket, with the throat cut, and other
marks of violence. A quantity of stones had been
sewed up in the blanket, but by the ripping they had
all fallen out save one, which, from some peculiarities,
was identified as one of those taken by Yellow•ly at
Sawyer's-landing. There were other circumstances
which placed the foul murder on Yellowly, who fled,
and for whom a warrant was issued.
KILN-DRYING.--IR consequence of numerous ap.
plications to the Board of Excise, the Commissioners
have kindly ordered, by a general Circular to the
Collectors in their respective districts, " That no ob-
jection be made by the officers of this revenue to
corn, grain, and pulse of every description, which
has received injury in the field, being dried on the kilns
belonging to malt-houses, in which no barley is ac-
tually making into malt. But they at the same time
strictly enjoin, that whilst any such corn, grain, or
pulse, is so drying, the respective malt-houses be vi-
sited by the proper officer every day in his residence,
and as often as if the same were regularly worked in
other places, to prevent any undue advantage being
taken of this