Star.
London, England, 1820-11-02 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE STAR.

SIR—In corning from Hastings on Friday last, I
saw before me, a little on this side Tunbridge, a cart
loaded' with coals. On approaching it, I found it
was travelling without horses, drawn by an appara-
tus managed by two men, apparently without much
exertion. On enquiry, I found it was invented by a
Clergyman in the neighbourhood, Dr. CARTWRIGHT,
with the view of opening a new source of occupa
tion fur the labouring poor, so many of whom are
now starving for want of employment. The princi-
ple on which the carriage moved seemed to be dif-
ferent from anything I' had before seen, the motion
being given, not by muscular exertion, but by the
mere absolute weight of the persons employed to
work the apparatus. Each man had two treadles,
on which he trode alternately, iii the same manner
as a weaver does, bi‘t with this difference, the weaver
sits at his work ; in this case the men stood' up, and
trode with their whole weight. Its pace was uni-
form, and, as the men informed me, varied very lit-
tle whether it was on level ground or going up hill,
provided the carriage was not overloaded.' On ex-
pressing my doubts how this could be, the men could
not explain the reason. But much as I might have
doubted its facility of ascending a bill, I should have
doubted sill more (had I not been an eye-witness of
it) the rapidity and safety with which it went down
the hilk On coming to a short steep hill, instead of
locking the wheel, considering how heavily the car-
riage was louded,"the carriage was suffered to run
down with unrestrained velocity, much faster than
any prudent man would have ventured with a light
gig. I saw clearly, however, there wasuo danger,
for the whole machine, I observed, was guided with
the greatest accuracy, and its speed, as the men in-
formed me (and of which, on inspecting the mecha-
nism, I had no doubt), could be regulated at plea-
sure, or even stopped, should occasion require it, in
the middle of its career, in an instant.

It is impossible to foresee the extent to which this
new application of human power may be applied.
To none, I should think, more advantageously than
to hackney-coaches and chariots. Much misery would
be prevented to the wretched animals that draw
them, and a very heavy expense to those who main-
tain them.—lsarn, Sir, &c. A TRAVELLER.

CHARGE OP MURDER.—Yesterday Mary Ann Rb.
bergs was charged before the Magistrates at Union-11411
with the murder of Ann Elderson. The deceased
kept a house in the vicinity of Dovenstreet, in which
the prisoner and a man who kept her lodged. An
old grudge, springing 'from jealousy, subsisted be-
tween the parties, and on Tuesday night, when the
prisoner returned home, she was informed the de-
ceased had been into her room, and had taken away
the key. The prisoner taxed her with it, which she
denied, and a violent altercation ensued, during
which the prisoner struck the deceased who was far
advanced in pregnancy. She, however, returned the
blow, and a scuffle ensued, in which the prisoner
knocked the deceased down with a poker; and she al-
most instantly expired. A Surgeon Was sent for,
who performed the Cesarean operatiob, but the child
almost instantly died. In defence, the prisoner ,ob-
served, that when she called for an explanation of
the conduct of the deceased, she attacked her in the.
most furious manner, tore her clothes, scratched her
face, and otherwise ill-treated her; she then struck
her inter own defence, but hadno intention of doing
ber serious injury. She was yemsaded sill the &CI-
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•COOIT OF CHANCERY, NOVEMBER 1.
'This was the first Seal befove Term. •
The LORD CHANCELLOR came into Court at
past ten o'clock, and heard a few motions. His
Lordship rose at a quarter past eleven o'clock ; and
was immediately waited on in his private room by
the ATTORNEY GENERAL.

CILD BAILEY.
Yesterday, Thomas Gordon was indicted for inter-
marrying with Frances Elizabeth Lewes, his former
wife, Harriet, being then living.
This case excited considerable interest, and the
Court was crowded to excess during the whole of
the trial. The hearing of the case occupied more
than six hours, and the evidence was extremely long
and intricate. - '
It appeared that the prisoner was a mariner, and
bad served as gunner on board the Venus frigate. In
Ibo 9 he roamed his first wife, Harriet Cole, and in
1818 he married Miss Frances Elizabeth Lawes.
Both the first and second wife were now dead ; and
the prosecution against the prisoner was instituted by
the relations of Elizabeth Lawes, to recover the
money which the prisoner had obtained by his se-
cond marriage.
. The material witness for the prosecution was Sarah
Short. She was the landlady of the Navy Arms, at
Woolwich ; and she proved that, in 1809, the pri-
soner went' from her house to be married to his first
wife, Harriet Cole. She stated, that in Febi nary last
the prisoner came to her at Woolwich. She then told
him that the Rev. Mr. Frazer (the Clergyman who
bad married the prisoner to his second wife) had been
applying to her about his, the prisoner's, former mar-
riage. The prisoner then told her, " You are the
only person I am afraid of; and if you will swear
that I am not the same Gordon who married Harriet
Cole, I will settle upon you half the property which
I have obtained by my second marriage." The wit-
ness disdainfully rejected the bribe, and said she was
sure he was the man. The prisoner then said, ds
It
is no matter ; I can get a man of the name of Collard
to prove that my first wife has fallen overboard."
Being cross-examined, the witness said that she
came now to give her evidence for the sake of justice.'
She had seen some hand-bills posted, offering 4:30
reward to the person who could prove the first mar-
riage of the prisoner. She positively denied having
said " What odds is it ? we can get the reward."
By subsequent evidence it was proved, that at the
time of the prisoner's second marriage, his former
ife was living ; and that the prisoner had said to
another female, who knew of the fact, " You can save
my neck, if you choose."
Susan Matilda Lawes, sister to the deceased F.

Elizabeth Laves, stated, that before her sister's death
she had some conversation with the prisoner. She
told him that she knew of his first marriage, and in-
tended to inquire into it.' The prisoner at first de-
nied it, but in a subsequent conversation, he said he
did not know whether she was alive or not. He
added, -that he would give up the d—d business al-
together if she (witness) would allow him £4O a-year.
This was refused, and these proceedings had been in-
stituted to recover the property which had been made
over to the prisoner, immediately after marriage.
When the prisoner married her sister, she was in an
infirm state both of body and mind, and, notwith-
standing, the prisoner married her.
The witnesses for the defence were called to Thew,
that at the time of the second marriage of the pri-
soner, his first wife, Harriet Cole, was dead; that, in
1815, she obtained her bread by walking the streets
as a common prostitute, and went under the feigned
name of Mary White ; and that she died in the Mag-
dalen Ward of St. Thomas's Hospital on the Bth July,
1815. This was proved by a woman of the name of!
Elizabeth Millivon, a person with whom the pri-
soner had cohabited on board the Pomona frigate,
and who, it was proved, was on The Bth July, 1815,1
on board the Pomona, then lying at Portsmouth.
A clerk of St. Thomas's Hospital proved, that by
the books it appeared that a woman of the name of
Mary White had died in the Magdalen Ward. There
were, however, many women of the same name on
the books.

A blacksmith, of the name of Bone, resident at ,
Woolwich, also stated that Mrs. Sarah Short was
not to be believed on her oath, because he had seen
her frequently intoxicated : and that lte had heard
her say, when talking about the reward, " Oh, what-
does that signify, if we can get the money r
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, after a very
short deliberation. The prisoner is a man of 42
years of age, and had served many years in the navy.
John Scott was indicted, under Lord Ellenborough's
Act, for cutting and maiming William Thorn, on Fri-
day last, in the execution of his duty as an Officer of
the Peace. The prisoner, with others, was discovered
by the prosecutor pursuing his avocation in breaking
into the house of Mr. Charles, Bill, a surgeon, near
Soho-square. While endeavouring to prevent the
prisoner's escape, the prosecutor received a deep
wound in the head, from a clasp-knife, which the pri-
soner aimed at him. The Officer remained for a
considerable time in a state of danger.—Guilty. The
prisoner is twenty-one years of age.
Charles Pater Norton was indicted for stealing a
large quantity of jewellery and bank-notes from
Mr. John Mainwaring, his employer. The prisoner,
on being put to the bar, pleaded Auer
said he was instructed by the prosecutor to say that
the prisoner had done everything in his power to
make amends for the crime he had committed.

Yesterday a Coroner's Inquest wsr.s held in one of
the Round Towers of the Penitentiary Prison, Mill-
bank, on the body of Charlotte Harrison, aged 19, ,
who died on Sunday night in the Prison. It 'ap-
peared from the evidence that the deceased was a very
fascinating-girl, but unfortunately, notwithstanding
the benefit of a liberal education, she strayed from the
packs of virtue,' and became the instrument of a de-
signing fellow, who persuaded her to engage in the
dangerous practice of uttering forged notes, of which
offence she was found guilty at the Old Bailey, and
sentenced to seven years transportation. She was sent
to the Penitentiary on the 22d of April last, since
which her constitution gradually decayed, nOtwith.
standing every attention, conformably to the regu-
lations'of the Prison, had been paid to her. She
gered till death put an end to her misery list Stinp
dir.--Verdictp.—Utd.by the tisitstitlii of Gob.

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ErmeStoti-liousg.--yeaterday; Kr. Sivas, of
lonnhar+sieet, attended by his-Solicitor, Mr. Emu,
ti ?dabber of the Court of Common Council, ap-
peared befdre the LORD MAYOR, to answer the charge
of having printed, and ordered to be circulated andi
placed against the walls within the City, a certaial
'placard, of which the following is a copy:
0 A GENERAL ILLUMINATION
axesesave Or POI MIMIC OPINIOII
OP
THE QUEEN'S INNOCENCE,
8o My and satbfacterliy esteblisied at die recent Close of
Ilex Majesty's Defence, is expected to take place
ox moxnar, tea 61111110TEIMPA.
.Stokes, Printer, 6, Lembard-street"
The bill-sticker attended also at the Mansion-House,
and was put to the Bar.
Mr. Alderman Scitoczy was present at, and took
a part in the investigation.
Brown, the Officer, said that he had the day be-
fore gone about the City, by order of the Marshals,
to pull down the bills that had been stuck up re-
specting the illumination. He pulled down fourteen
or fifteen, and upon returning to the Mansion-House,
heard that the bill-sticker was in a neighbouring
public-house. The Officer immediately west to him,
and was told by him that he had performed the office
of sticking the bills, and that he had been maim-
rised to do so by Mr. Stokes, who, he believed, had
been induced to print them by a Gentleman in Al-

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dermanbury. -
The bill-sticker said, he slid not like the business
from the first, and that be went to consult Harrison,
the Marshalman' the night before, upon the pro-
priety of putting the order into effect. Harrison ad-
vised him not to do it until he had consulted Mr.
Wontner, but he (the hill-sticker) could not see the
Marshal at tke time, and Mr., Stokes had promised
to indemnify him for any. injury he might sustain;
he therefore thought nothing mischievous could take
place, and accordingly stuck the bills.
The LORD Mavoa.—The responsibility .of Mr.
Stokes does not exonerate you. If Mr. Stokes has
committed an illegal act in printing this placard,
you are certainly parliceps
Bill-sticker.—My Lord, I have stuck up bills in
favour of your Lordship many a time.
Mr. STOKES then admitted that he was the printer
of the placard.
The LORD Mivort.—Did you print it from your
own mind, or at the suggestion and by the command
of any other person?
• Mr. Stexas.—l decline answering that question,
but am ready to answer for the offence of printing
the bill, if it be any offence.
The Loan MATOR—I feel it to be my duty to
interpose upon this occasion. There are, in my opi-
nioj, persons who might take advantage of a public
invitation of this sort. The rabble might be excited
to a disturbance of the peace of the City, of which
I am Chief Magistrate, and I am bound to prevent
such an occurrence.
Mr. Stortza.e—May I ask your Lordship in what
light you consider this Bill? How can it tend to a
breach of the public peace?
The Loan Mattoa.—The tendency of it no one
can doubt. The House of Lords has not yet thrown
out or assented to the measure. This is anticipating
the judgment of that tribunal. It is anticipating a-
possibility for which theta may not be the slightest
ground. It is our duty to wait for the decision of
their Lordships, before we set the town upon illu-
minating. Now, suppose the converse should take
place, and that the. Bill should pass, how do you
suppose you could justify yourself from the charge
of holding out a false persuasion to the People, that
the Queen was inrocent? Consider fora moment

the mischief that might mane. An • illumination
might partially take place, and those who would not
light' their houses, because they considered the
Bull a presumption of guilt, would be subject to great
injury. In fact there might be a necessity for calling
the soldiers again into the City!!
Mr. gicsca.--My LOid, this Placard is not calcu-
lated to produce any disturbance. It contains an
[expression of that which your Lordship is aware is
'the public opinion of the Queen's innocence.
The LORD MAYOR.—I shall not suffer a public
assertion to be made under such circumstances
within the City.
Mr. Eactx.—Why, we may as well calculate upon
a disturbance on Lord Mayor's Day, in consequence
of the chew. I should feel obliged if your Lordship,
would state under what Act of Parliament this pla.
card is. cognizable as an offence?
The LORD MAYOR.—I repeat that I will not allow
it, and if any More placards are stuck up, the person
shall be taken into custody. It is necessary that, un-
der all circumstances, I should preserve the peace of.
the City. I shall neither suffer bills to be stuck up
inst nor for the Queen.
Mr. &mtg.—This bill cannot be called for or
against the Queen. It expresses, in ccnamosswith the
opinion of my fellow-citizens, my conviction, which
is, that she is completely innocent. The citizens of
London have, in Common. Council, and in Common.
Hall, expressed themselves to this effect, and the bill
is grounded upon that decided opinion. If I think
proper, I shall illuminate.
Mr. Alderman Scaater.—Not one in ten have ex.
pressed themselves in that way. I would not do so.
Mr. Eiccx.--This bill does not call upon you to
illuminate. It only says, that it is expected.
Mr. Alderman Scuotay.--Well, well, if the bill.
sticker persists, he shall be taken into custody and
punished..
Mr. Eicicr.—l should be glad to know what cha-
racter your Lordship gives the placard ? Whether
you call it treasonable, or seditious, or what? I am
anxious to know this, that I may be enabled to ad-
vise those who may hereafterconsult me, and pre-
vent them from getting into dangers, which may
otherwise overwhelm them. Your Lordship will
consider, that upon this very subject, you have called,'
Meetings in the City yourself, and nobody imputdd.
to you ,a seditious or treasonable purpose.
The Loan Matrons —I have given this bill no chat.,
'ratter of the kind you speak of, and I think it neapol
sary here to, state, that a very general misapptelstes.l
sion has.gone abroad as to the fact of my having '
called out the ,soldiers. I had much to apprehend
Amin the various circumstances that co-operated at
the period alloded to to excite to acts of violence,
atui4 did not,know what sort of rabble inighthave
thilit themselves into the City with 'the most liagi`

.tiottiiritehtlons. had sworn to do icy bty. stud is
adopting the measure of applying for eailitacy assist-
ance, I performed that duty conscientiously. Asa
the placard, I shall take advice before I prooarat
upon its character; but I certainly am of opal*
that it is calculated to excite to breaches of the races.
I shall not detain Mr. Stokes, who, I know, wall sot
refuse to come if called open, but I prohibit the

placarding.
Ifr. Stokes and the bill-sticker then left doeoScs.

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