Star.
London, England, 1804-09-13 00:00:00

A woman named Crow! proved alto, thatthe fon •
fiber tea-fpoons fiolen at the fame time, and fount
her cuftody, were given to her, as if jun re
deemed from pawn, by Stevens, the reputed wife of
Ifaac Tibbs.

There flag being fully fubaantiated, the'priforiers
told a very incoherent Rory. by way of •defence, but
adduced no witnefes.

Verdi& of the Jury, Guilty,--Desti.
They were both very young ram *the age of
John being reported to the Court as may 37 ; that of
Mae only 59.
Vontal !{ebb, alias Dear, was capitally indiatd for
(leafing a bay gelding, the property of David Cadell.
He was alto indided for (leafing a chefnut gelJing,
the property of Charles Alderman, Eft]. and alto for
(leafing a bay gelding belonging to his Royal High-
nets Prince William of Glcuceller. He was tried :a
the fecond inditiment.

It appeared that Mr. Alderman had fent the horfe
in quellion to grail at Hamworth Park. near Haunt).
ton Court, from whence he was mitred. He was
traced into the bands of one Eat}, a liable keeper, to
whom the ptifoner had fold him. Upon being quell
tinned by Eall as to how he came by the hork ? he
at firth raid he had bought him from one Franklin, in
Berldhire ; but, npon being further creflioned, he
turned round, and laid he had found him on Komi-
low Heath—upon which Mr. Eall had him appre-
hended. He was capitally convicted.
Mary Beard, Mary Merril, Frances Elisabeth Stringer,
Anne jobnfoa, and jaw Wiliam, were indiaed for
an aflault and robbery on Jofeph Borer. Thefe five
laijies were a lady abbefs, of Wapping, and her
four daughters. The profecutor was a St. Domingo
Frenchman, who had JO arrived in this country.
He could not Peak Englitbs but was obliged to give
his evidence through the medium of an interpreter,
who could hardly fpeak either French or Englilh.
The Rory, as well as could be colleaed from this
fort of explanation was, that the profecutor, on the
fir! of September laft, between five and lix in the
evening went to take a walk, but in what greet he
did not know. As he was (trolling along, apatite de-
ntoifelk invited him into a bottle, and as the was mu
joke he complied and went in. As loon as he got in
doors Mary Beard told him he had better enjoy a
little private ocnverfation with the lady up Rain.—
He again complied, and when he came down he
told them if they would give him toe. be would give
them a sl. note, being tos. for their civility. He
admitted that he conld only expels him[elf fo ins-
pet Italy. •that he was not lure whether he was un-
derflodd, but he refuted to give the .note fi.fl, left
they (hould think the whole was not too much, and
decline giving him any change at NIL Whether they
could not comprehend his meaning, or were deter-
=load to have mere, be could not fay, but they all
fell upon him except the petite Pe, and tore of the
flap of his coat, in the pocket of st hich was his
pocket book, containing three one pound, and a two
pound note. He cried out murder, when rhey tem
bled him out of the bottle into the mud in the fireet.
A Gentleman and Lady coming by wbo underltood
French, he related his cafe to them, and ander their
advice he applied to the Polite Office, by whofe an.
thority the lady and all her family were apprehended.
On his erofssaanaination by Mr. Knee', Canute
for the prifoners, it appeared that though he [poke
by an interpreter in 'the Court, his converfation with
thole ladies was managed in loch Englith as he could
command, and that; fur explaining his meaning as to
the bull of the one pound note;he had never produced
the. iota ism. The altercation was corroborated by
other witncll s ; and when the pocket book was re-
covered it was found to contain nothing; and on
[earthing the ladies no notes were found on them.
J. Anderfon Rated, that he was coming by at the
time the lait witnefs was turned out of the houfe.—
Upon hearing his Rory, knowing the character o f
die inhabitants. he went to Mrs. Beard, and told
her lintels She gave up the pocket book, that he
would have her apprehended. Mrs. B. laid the would'
go up Hairs and inquire among the ladies after it.
In a fhort time the returned with it. but the notes'
had foinehow difappeared. The Jury acquitted all the
Defendants.

William aid, Ciarlat Coolly. and Jolla Lary, were
tried upon an :adißment fe.r a burglary in the dwel
ling !mule of Richard Porter, in the parills of New
Ealing, on the 3d of Auguft lall, in the day lime,
no perfon being therein, and telonioufly ftealing
thereout feretal articles of wearing apparel, and
other articles, the gocids of Richard Porter.
Richard Porter and his wife clearly proved, that
their houle had been broken open I and it was pror-
ed by a number of evidences, that the prifuners were
leen runoirg from the houle—were purfued, and
taken. and toe goods itt,len either picked up in the
track they ran, or found upon them. •„ ,
l'he Court, on fumming up the evidence, (swerv-
ed, that the charge cl burglary had not been fuffi-
ciently brought home to the prifoners ; and that the
fect.nd count, namely, that of Reeling in a dwelling
hook to the value of ss. and upwards, had not been
fully fubliantiatcd, in.tlmuch as the articles (worn to,
at the valuation Rated in the profccution, did not
amount to five Ihillings ; and though the Jury be-
lieved the prifoners guilty of the leafing, ret, within
the letter of the law, to the benefit of which the pri-
loners would certainly be entitled, the capital part of
the charge was not fullained.—The Jury totted a ver•
dil M./leafing to the value gas. sod.
Voila Parry was tried upon a capital charge of
burglary in the hoofs of Walter Welt, ironmonger
and brazier, in Crown-Rreet, rinfbury, on the s7th
of July lad, and Reeling thereout a brats warming
pan.—Apsitted.
Edward Wasonal, alias Davit, was capitally indifted
for affaulting in his dwelling-hour, is Chifwell-greet
on the Gth of July left. Mr. Bryant, draper and ha-
iler, and felonioully taking from his perfon Busk of
England notes to the amount of 851.
There was a fccond count, charging the Panne,
capitally with dealing the fame notes in a dwelling-
beufe. &c.

Mr. Kiarr, for the prnfecution, in Rating the
cafe, abandoned the firtl count as not tenable, under
the circumtlances of the cafe, but relied his char=t
span the fccond.
It appeared, froth the evidence of the Profecutor,
that on the morning of the day Rated, he was behind
his counter, making up the bank notes in queßino,
and their amount, in order to find them to his
bankers, and haring laid them on the cod 'lithe
colour, with Iti4 banker's book upon them, the psi-

forme, whoa be hod fees fir fuse *De Perir"_. I
lacing before his door in the drefs qf a porters with
pipe ro his mouth, came into the flop under the pre-
tence of bargaining for the price of a waiftgoat ; but
took an opportunity of fuddefily /hatching the notes,
and running away with then. The Profreutoe 'was
fo much alarmed, that he could festively murder re-
.colleElion to call for affißance. He, however, applied
to the Office in Worthip-Ilreet, in confequenee of
which the Prifoner was apprehended at two neat
morning, at his lodgings in Holy well-lane. He was.
found in bed, much.intrusieawd, and yol. of tht
notes in his polragTh a: upon being interrogated how
he came by them, he Paid, they were part t.f4 legacy
left him by an aunt who died in the country, and paid
him in town, eleven weeks before, by her esecutor.
The notes were produced, and identified by the Pro-
fecutor's fon.

Mr. Jullice CHAMBRI, in charging the Jury, ob-
ferved, that the firft count of the indiement bad peen
very properly abandoned ; and, with rerpee to the
feeond count, elating in a dwelling houfe. he con-
ceived the capital part of the charge equally eircum
danced by the evidence. The Piave upon which the
law intended to attach punillunent, and that fpecies
of charge was, where the rods were under the pro-
teeinn of a dwelling bottle, in which no one was pi e-
fent to afford them a perfrnal proteeiou. Here the
profecutor was proved to be aeoally prefent, and in
open day"; and therefore the Jury, if they believed
the evidence, mud acquit the priiiiner of the capital
part of the charge, and find him guilty of dealing
generally. The jury found a verdict accordingly.—
The prifoner was Rated to be but is years of age.
George Reach was itididled for an ahfault on Robert
Corbett, and for robbing him in his dwellin-houre
of a pocket-book, containing a two pound Bank of
England Note. The profecutor is a Publican in Ead
'Smithfield, and it appears that a woman named Mary
Brookes, who had for (trend years lived with him,
paffed for his wife, and was called Mrs. Corbett. The
prifoner was a lodger in the profecutor's haute, to
whom, according to the defence, he had been ex-
tremely fervicrable in drawing beer, are. and, indeed,
it was very plain, from the evidence, that he had
fupplied the landlord's place in more ways than one.
Phe hiflory of the cafe is this;—Bet wren nine and
ten o'clock on the night of the 4th of Auguft, the
profecutor felt himfelf fatigued and unwell. His
kind helpmate urged him with the mod affeeiotiate
1 tenderneti to go to bed, and he took her advice. Be-
tween twelve and one o'clock he awoke, and began
to grope about for his dear,, who was not, as ufual,
lb) his fide. Finding that the was neither in the bed,
nor in the room, be role, and without any other drefs
1 than Isis fliirt and nightcap, proceeded to fearch for
her. He foots found by on the Rau s, and, as he Paid,
fituated in a very indecent way with the ptifoner.
The amorous pair fled in different directions, and the
enraged publican, with a fork in one hand, and a
eandlehlick in the other, attacked the prifoner, who
being a flout man, had prohably little ditliceilty in de-
lendinp himfeif againft his old and feeble antagonill.
The profecutor went up (lairs, put on his breeches,
and returned to the attack. In this reenact (Coale, he
Paid the prifoner ri.bind him of his pocket-book,which
was in his breeches pocket. The amiable Mary
Brookes left the boufe that night ; but it came nut in
the crofs examination, that the profecutor had loon
after made up the matter with her, and had lately
contented to have the bans publifhed, in order to their
being fill more intimately united for life.
The prilimer called Mary Brookes to prove that the
profeeutor had not his breeches no him during the
(eagle. She fwore pofitively, that her loving lord
and mailer, when fhe few him, was naked all but the
thin and breeches. When be came down (lairs the
fecund time, the following words, fhe raid, palled.
Profecutor—" You have robbed me."
Prifoner—il Why do you fay I have robbed you ?
What have I robbed.you off ?"
Prafeeutor—.. You have robb:d me of all that is
dear to me in the world, the affeflii.n of my viituous
wife."

This witnefs had the true figure of a Wapping land-
lady, and her charms were heightened by pair of
black eyes, which the prnfecutor had bellowed no
her when he learned tl,at the was fubpcenaed for the
prifoner.—The Jury returned a verdi&—Aot Gai4.

Monday a curious cafe came on at the Police
Office, Marlborough-Sneer, relative to a riot, of
which the circurnfiances were hriefly there :
A Captain Atkinfes had left Ireland about four
months ago, leaving his wife and two children lle-
hind him. Upon his not mecums, his wife followed
him_to London, and found that the Captain had been-
eonfoling himfelf with a lady of eafy virtue. This
ufage could not be espeited to be borne with patience,
by a jealous wife and an Iriet woman, and her rage
might, perhaps, have been exalted, if it had been di-
retied againn the proper objeft. This was, however,
feldom the cafe on filch oceaftoos, and how could it
be hoped for on the prefent. Mrs. Ai kitifon, who is
'certainly a hanJfome woman, bin rather mAfeuline,
having affembled an army confiding of Mss. Hogan,
her mother, who might well have lcd a band of Ama-
zons, Anne Hutchinlon, her maid, Henry Hutehin
fon, and Thomas Sheridan, marched to attack Mrs.
Harris, the object of her jealoury, and made a great
deal of noire about her houfe, but for the two Sell
times committed no dire& violence. On the third
time, however, which was at two o'clock on Monday
morning, her houfe was attacked in form, and feversl
of the windows were broken by the commands of
Mrs. Atkinfon, who diet Ted that the honfewas Item
Upon this Mrs. Harris eillcd the watch, and lodged
a charge againfl them. While in the watch-hook,
Mrs. Hogan, the mother, aimed a blow at the pro.
fecutriz, which was turned afide by the watch hoof.
keeper.

The condo& of the whole pony was marked with
a fingular degree of violence. Mrs. Atkinfoa exhi-
bited a perfe& fpecimea of a jealous woman. Her
features were consulted, and it was with the immuil
difteuhy the could refrain her rage at the fight of
her hated rival. Strumpet and proditute were com-
paratively mild terms, and Menet was with d.fficolty
'refereed by the authority of the Magistrate. Upcn
abferving that herrival was pregnant, her fury could
not be reßraintd. She Ramped on the ground, and
cried out, " There is the fruit of her villainy." and
in a rage Rung out of the room. A. there was no
anfwer to the aft of breaking the windows, the whole
party, except Tbumas Sheridan, were occunitted for
u ial,