Star.
London, England, 1826-10-19 00:00:00

QUERN-SQUARE.

Wiliam Lawrence and Francis Sailing's, two very Young boy'',
were charged with an attempt to take a handkerchief off the should

dein or a little girl about he oe die teat* tad; in Ate pad& of at.
John, Westminster.
r Several of the parishioners attended an the occasion; and eft.
plained bitterly of the multitudes of young thieves. by whom that
quarter of the town is infested, and who become everyday mot,
daring in their depredations.
The two prisoners were ordered to be detiloed, and their Mantis
to be sent for.
THAMES POLICE.
The parties who have been under examination some weeks liciti
charged with robbing several granaries on the river, were broughi
up, prerieut to committal. One of the prisoners, JaMes Fnuoi,
died suddenly in HOrsenionger.lane, since the last examination. A
report had gene abroad that it *is Douglas, the informer, who bad
died, and the grearett carlositt teemed to prefrail to axes taln the
fact; boweier, Douglas's appearance removed all doubt. Wilkens
Taylor, another of the pristiners. has also turned approver. Tb
reading of the depositions occupied several hours.
After the depositions had been read, and aU the parties bnaa4
over to prosecute, the prisoners were teminte'd. liet*ten forty
fifty persons were bound over as witnesses.

Yesterday a person who gave his address and business
Edmund Holeworthy, No. 12, Church•terrac-,Waterloos
road, snapseller, was charged at Mary-la•bunne Police
Office, by a respectable young lady, from Brighton,
named Miss Westwood, with having rudely assaulted
her in the streets, and used the most brutally indecent
language to her. The seller of soap seemed, at first,
inclined to treat the matter lightly ; but on the Magis-
trate (Mr. ItAWLINSON) expressing very serious indig.
nation, and the Lady avowing a determination to pro.
secute, he at last made such an apology as Miss West-
wood consented to accept. He was then discharged,
on paying half, sovereign for the use of some charity.
Yesterday, at Union Hall, an elderly man, of re-
spectable appearance,who gave his name James Brown,
and who professed himself private tutor to a young
Gentleman named Fitzpatrick, was committed in de-
fault of bail, on the charge of having made an ahomi•
nable attempt on a respectable tradesman nameJ Janes.
He lives in the Wandsworth-road.
When the learned John Selden was a member of the
famous assembly of Divines at Westminster, who were
appointed to new model religion, he used to delight in
puzzling them with curious quibbles. In one of these
debates these venerable sages were very gravely em-
ployed in determining the distance between Jerusalem
and Jericho; and one of the brethren, to prove that it
could be but a short distance, observed, " thatish was
carried frome one place to the other." On which Mr.
Selden said. 44 Perhaps it was salt fish." This remark
threw the determination again into uncertainty.
The traveller, Sir Wm. Johnstone, is known to have
made a long residence among the Notch American
Indians. These Indians are great observers of dreams,
and when one of them happens to dream that be has
received a present from another, the owner is thought
ill-bred if he refuses to bestow it on him. The Indian
Chief happened to dream that some glittering trinket
had been given him by Sir Was. Johnstone; the latter
acted handsomely, and desired his acceptance of ivr but
shortly after, Sir William had a dream in his torn, that
the Chief had ceded to him a large tract of country.
The Indian granted the land, but declared that he would
never again dream with Sir W. Johnstone.
Before the production of Dr. Goldsmith's laughable
comedy of She Stoops to Conquer, at Covent Garden
Theatre, the stage had for some time been usurped by
what the authors called sentimental comedy, which w ese.

" in fact,
Dull prosing sermons, only preachl in acts."
The Doctor, on reading his comedy in the green-room
to the actors who he intended should form the dramatis
persons, was astonished at the grave faces of the per-
formers, who entreated him to withdraw it, as the piece,
if produced, would certainly be damned. Their request
not being complied with, two of them declined accept-
ing the parts allotted to them—one of these was the pub-
lic favourite Woodward. Thus circumstanced, the ma.
nager was necessitated to give the part of Young Marlow
to Lee Lewis, and that of Tony Leatpkin to Quick, at
that time considered merely third or fourth-rate actors.
—The great success of the comedy, to which in same
measure their acting contributed, raised them at once
to the 'top of their profession as comedians, and little
Quick soon became a great favourite of his late Mlicsty,
who annually sent him a purse of ten. guineas phis
benefit night. The cause of Lee Lewis s first becoming
an actor was a singular one; he was previously one of
the letter carriers of the General Post Office, and passing
one fine morning through St. Paul's Church-yard with
a person in the same employment, with their bags of
levers under their arms, Lee Lewis proposed to his
companion that they should ascend to the gallery round
the dome of the church, and take a bird's-eye view of
the metropolis. This was agreed to, and when there,
the eccentric Lee Lewis offered a bet of a shilling bovil
of rum and milk, that he could throw his bag of letters
further into the church-yard than his compantoticould.
The wager was accepted, and the latter collecting all
his strength, threw his bag, which fell on the steps lead.
ing to the portico. Lee Lewis's, with a 64 here's goes,"
instantly followed, and his bag unfortunately caught on
a crooked iron that projected from the building, and
some hours passed before the bag could be got down.
—An afternoon delivery of the letters it contained of
course followed. This accident so alarmed Lee Lewis
for the consequences that arose from it, that he fled into
the country, and joined a company of strolling players,
and was, after a lipse of time, engaged at Covent
Garden Theatre.
A Lady expressing her vexation at her daughter's
having danced the_ evening before with a y rung man
who was a surgeon's apprentice, a friend conifer ed her
by observing, that es it was only one of the lancers."

DIF.D.

At Skandwick.place, on the 9th instant, in the 87 year of her
age, Lady Sophia Henrietta Wharton, widow of the late Thomas
Wharton, Esq. one of his Majesty's Commissioners of &else in
Scotland.
At Edinburgh, on the Bth Instant. Mrs. Margaret Coulter, widow
of the late William Coulter, Esq. formerly' Lord Provost of the
city of Edinburgh.
At Counthall, Rear Falkirk, on the 20th ult. Mr. Andrew
George, tacksman of Parkkall Colliery; and, at the same place, an
the 7th instant, Robert, his soo, aged lit years.
At the bland of Guernsey, on the sth instant, William de la
Condamine, Esq. Deputy-Assistant Commissary General of Ac-
counts, aged 30.
The 3utb ult. Lieutenant George Lindsay, of the 9th Regiment
,of Foot, in the 37th year of his age.

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