Star.
London, England, 1810-05-24 00:00:00

.LAIP ArELLlcEArcif.

• • COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY
Richard Barrow was brought up to receive judge
ment for cruelty to Samuel Strange, a child of eight
yearS old.
From the affidavits read to the Court, it appeared.
that Barrow, who was a Surgeon at Hounslow, had:
taken the child into his house with the intention oft
adopting him, and allowing him to be called by his
own name: He, however, gradually treated him
with severity, and on the 27th of July last committed.
the particular acts of atrocious cruelty of which he
had been found guilty. For some boyish.trick, of
Setting fire to a few sticks, Barrow dragged the child
into the kitchen ; after tying hi.. legs, flogged him
severely with a horsewhip, forced s red-hot iron into
his hand till he was burned, put him in a cupboard
filled with straw, brought fire, and threatened to burn
him alive, fired pistols close to his head, forced him
to swallow tobacco and other sickening substances till
he vomited, and after this discipline, put him into the
coal-hole, with hisiegs tied, and his stripes smarting
upon him, for twenty-four hour 4, with no other sus-
tenance than bread and water.

One o£ the affidavits stated, that earlier in the year,
on a remarkably frosty morning, Barrow, for some
slight offence, had stripped Strange naked, put httn
into a large watering trough in the yard, and pump-
ed on him till he grew perfectly insensible.
The ArronNex GENERAL, in praying judgment,
observed with great effect, on the unpitying invention
which this man had exhibited in his experiments on
human suffering. He conclitded by hoping, that
while the passing fit of humanity, which adopted this
little victim, was not to be overlooked by tlf! Court,
yet its sentence would teach masters, and all othei s
who have the power of good and evil to their species,
that the laws of the land were sleepless in securing
the dependent and the child equally hum the exercise
of arbitrary severity.
Lord ELL ex nottorou felt the cast tobeof a dark dye;
but the first anxiety of the Court must he for the.pre.
sent state of the child'•'health. (It was answered by
the Attorney General, that the child was recovered
after a surgeon's attendance on him in the work-
house for a month.) If so, the object must be his
future provision ; it.might he left to the Counsel o•n
both sides, to settle the income to• be allowed to that
injured boy, for a definite number of years. If no
such Settlement could be agreed on, the law must
take its course, and it its hand fell at all, it must fall
heavily.

Time was then given till to-morrow to make the
arrangements, and the Court adjourned.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 2S.
PARSONS t. SCOTT

This was an action on a policy of insurance, on a
voyage from London to Oporto, from tlwnce :o St.
Uhes, and afterwards to the island of Bornholm.—
At Oporto, however, Ow ship was taken, when that
place fell into the hands of Marshal Souk; but the
plaintiff ransomed the vessel, and she arrived at Ply-
mouth soon after as a cartel, and there she was Aban-
doned to the Underwiiters. The y, when the
cause was tried, found a verdict for the plaintiff; ()IA
at List Sittings in Term, Mr. Serjeant Brag', for tie
defendant, applied tor a ruie to stew cause why that
verdict should not beset aside, and a nonslit entered,
on the pound that the vessel was not a total loss.
The Court this day (yesterday ) gave judgment,that
the vetdict should be set aside, and a HOMO it entered.

MArtfuortountt-sriikKr. John Criers, gardener to
Mr. Manton, of Barrow Wild Corinne., A. 15 finally
examined yesterday on a charge of his fellow-servant,
ine Woodfiird, for filing a pistol loaded with hall.
The prowcwrix came to the Office in a coach, and
was carried before the Magistrates to give evidence.
She stated, that about nine o'clock in the evening,.
whilst salting for a washerwoman, the prisoner
wished her to go to bed, NYNCII she refused to do, :Ind
he immediately put: out tire and candles, saying, she
might remain in the dark. The prosecutrix ran into
the yard, when the prisoner pushed her down, hI t she
got away and hid herself in an out-house. The pri-
soner went and faslened a gate which lends to the
front door of the house. and he then returned and load-
ed a brace of pistols. The bell rung shortly atter, and
an alarm having been given, a man of the name of
I)atwell was sent fur ; on his approaeking the door,
the prisoner swore lie would shoot any one who at-
tempted to enter the house, and having been opposed
by Datwell, he fired and lodged .three balls in the
leg of the prosecutrix. Inebriation was pieided in
defence. The prisoner was fully comtnitteei for.trial,
for a copital offence.
The men belonging to the Naiad frigate, who were
tried by a Court Martial at Plymouth, s-me time
since, and sentenced to he hanged, tor Ay' icing what
were deemed mutinous letters to the Admiralty, com-
piaining of the conduct of tneir Capt sin ( Hill), have
been pardoned. Their reprieve was read to them on
Sunday, on hoard the Salvador del Mundo, by Cap-
tain Wooley.
Tuesday morning, as a man WAS cleaning a horse,'
at a stable by the Marsh-gate, Westminster Bridge-
road, the horse kicked him on the head, which killed
him instantly.
A few days since a child fell into the river Twy,
in Carmarthen, when two sawyers plunged in to its
assistance, one of whom perished in the attempt ;
but the other succeeded in his humane endeavour,
!.and brought the poor innocent safe to shore.
Jannaway, a bticklayer, in the employ of
Mr. Yardnel, of Northumberland-street, fell from a
scaffolding, in Bedford-street, yesterday, and was so
shockingly bruised, that he died soon after.

Tuesday a Gentleman was riding along the Clap-
ham road, when his horse took fright at something
iu the hedge, and set off at such a pace, that the rider
found it impossible to keep his seat, and, in falling,
got his foot entangled in the stirrup, so that he was
dragged a long 'way. When the horse was stopped,
the face was so disfiguied that the features could
hardly be distinguished.

Tuesday evening, as the Peterborough coach was
driving along Bull-and-Mouth.strect, it broke down,
by which the coachman hid one of his legs broke,
and several of the passengers were hurt. And pearly
at the same time, as a hackney-coAch wac gong
down liolboyn.hill, the c(.aelimun fell from his toz,
and dislucatetl his ritiik.