Star.
London, England, 1810-04-18 00:00:00

The following were convicted of felony, viz.—

Mary Wilson, G stealing a piece of cotton.
Helen Smith, for stealing certain articles of furniture.
J. Penny, for stealing 51 iron umbrella stretchers.
H. Lazarus, for stealing a roll of carpeting.
Mary Atclift, for stealing a watch.
J. Barclay, for stealing a hat, a coat, &c.
Diana Thorp, for stealing a watch and nineteen shillings.
R. Reeves, for stealing a quantity of lead.
Mary Cavan, for stealing a gown.
A. Hart, for stealing a handkerchief.
E. White, for the like offence.
Sarah Sharp, for stealing a cloak.
J Pearson, for stealing a coat and handkerchief.
D. Moggeridge, for stealing twelve brushes.
J. Martin, for stealing a handkerchief.
S. Gardener, for stealing a gown.
J. Crosby, for stealing a gown and a handkerchief.
Eleanor Aikman, for stealing a pelit*se.
T. Williams, for stealing a cloak and a handkerchief : and
W. Wink, for stealing a table.
E. H. Seephenhaven, a German, was indicted for
stealing in the shop of Isaac and Israel Marks, a
watch. The prosecutors are slopsellers, in Lower
East Smithfield. The prisoner, accompanied by ano-
ther sailor, called at their shop on the 2d of April,
and were shown some waistcoating, and, in half an
hour after they had left the shop, the watch was
missed, and early next morning, Israel Marks, went
in search of them. He found the prisoner at the
Black Boy public-house, St. Catharine's, with the
watch in his possession.—Not Guilty.
The following were also acquitted, viz.—
Eliz. Smith, Mary Kite, T. Crothall, A. Mendoza, J. Raw-
linson, J. Sparrow, Eleanor Thompson, and Mary Reeves..

At the late Assizes for Somersetshire, a Lady, who
keeps a boarding-school, in Bath, recovered £2OO da-
mages against the editor of Le Papillon, a publication
which appeared during the last winter, for defama-
tion of character.

Saturday a woman in good circumstances was
charged at Union Hall with having in her posses4on
a quantity of spices lately stolen from Messrs. Bow-
LEY, WALKER, and Co.—She was admitted to bail.
A waiter at the Nag's Head Inn, in the Borough,
charged a frequenter of that house, with having in
his possession a £lO note, which he (the waiter) hid
dropped in the coffee-room, and with refusing to ac-
count how he received it. The Magistrates referred
the case for a further hearing.
Thursday two children, belonging to a journe) man
baker, in Cow-court, Liquorpond-street, were kit
alone, in a room, when the cloaths of the youngest,
about three years old, caught fire, by which it was
so shockingly burnt, as to expire in less than three
hours.

A boy, 12 years of age, son of shoe-maker, at Ro-
therham, was last week committed to York Castle, for
the murder of another boy about the same age, a fel-
low apprentice, with whom he quarrelled and stabbed.
Last week, as J. TIIRAVES, of Bingham, and his
wife, hoth inebriated, were going from Nottingham
to New Radford, they fell into the canal. Thrares,
with difficulty, was saved, but the woman perished.
Saturday se'nnight a most dreadful lire broke out
in a bake-house employed for baking bisket for the
Victualling-office at Plymouth, at the back part of a
house at the lower end of Tavistock-street, Gibbon's-
field. It raged with great violence from half past ten
o'clock till two in the morning, when it was finally
got under. The only damage was the burning down
the bake-house, a flour and biscuit lo't, with sortie
sacks of flour, and about 300 bags of biscuit; for his
Majesty's service.
Friday a tire broke out at the mausion of Gloss-
hampton, at Astlev, Worcestershire, the residence of
the Rev. J. D. Cookes, which destroyed that edifice.
The pictures, a valuable organ, and the wines were
the only property saved.
Saturday morning, about two o'clock, a fire took
place at a house on the Lower Road, Deptford.—
One house was consumed, and two much injuted, be-
e it was extinguished.
The extensive cotton-mills of Messrs. Jenkins and
Cudford, Langley, Wilts, were destroyed by fire on
Tuesday morning ; and such was the rapidity of the
flames, that very little was saved.