Star.
London, England, 1821-06-20 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, JUNE 19.

Sentence of Death was passed upon the following
prisoners, twenty in number :
Robert Hitchnulf, Thomas Cisme, Christopher Thorne, Eliza-
beth Webster, for forgery; Henry Williams, Robert Holding,
Charles Wade, Henry James, and Cornelius Knight, for bur-
glary; William Clapperton, Mary Ann Bell, and Sarah Gillum,
Tot' stealing in a dwelling-house • Joseph Lilley, George Taylor,'
and John Ryan, for house-breaking; Richaid Luck, and John
Quittenden, for hone-steallng ; John Jackson, for rape ; John
Blakeny, for highway robbery; and William; Wilson, for re-
aming from transportation.
The following, who pleaded Guilty to the minor
offence of having forged Bank-notes in their posses-
sion,were sentenced to transportation for 14 years:
John Salton, John Smith, Jane Carter, John Dart, Charles
Field, George Kemp, Edward Smith, George Price, George
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Baker, Thomas Stevens Joseph Smith, Eliza Smith, Richard
Lynch, Sarah Reading, Sarah Stewart, Sarah Appleton, Frances
Grey, Eliza Pascoe, Catherine Taylor, Elizabeth Eaton, and
Sarah Johnson.

Fourteen were transported for life, viz.
John Brooks, Thomas Jones, James Casey, Boniarnhi Furber,
John Baker, John Jacobs, 'obi Jackson, John Johnston, Tho-
mas Burgoyne, Charles Sidle, Mary Smith, Robert Fowler,
Thomas Williams, and Charles Lloyd.
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Thirty-seven were transported for seven years, viz-
James Clements, Mary Ann Newland, Elizabeth Clarke,
Hannah Noon, Isabella Smith, William Creed, Falward Grif-
fiths, Wm. Hanby, Edward Coombs, Harriet Holland, Joseph
Eastman, Robert Watkins Pike, James Moore, Thomas Sutton,
John Page, Susannah Jenkins, Charles Hall, John Morgan, Jo-
seph Perkins, William Nash, Joseph Wignell, F.dward Buck-
land, Charles Godding, Henry Penfold, William Martin, Wil-
liam Dimond, Mary Pimlett, James Nolan, Mary Smith, Sarah
Austin, Mary-Davis, Elizabeth Brown, Wm. Gould, Elizabeth
liatswell, John Pawky, James Tierney. and Ann Smith.
Seven were ordered to be imprisoned in Giltspur-
street House of Correction, and thirty-one in the
House of Correction Cold Bath-fields, for various
periods, several of whom were to be publicly and
privately whipped ; eleven were privately whipped
and discharged ; four judgments were respited ; three
fined Is. and discharged ; and 56 were discharged by
proclamation.
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The RECORDER, in his preliminary address to the
unhappy criminals, observed, that some of the pri-
soners were peculiarly the objects of commiseration,
from their having been deprived of the protection of
their parents at an early age, and turned loose into
the streets of the metropolis, where, he lamented to
say, they could not pass along without meeting, at
almost every corner, some indecent print, or some
blasphemous and seditious publication.
Sessions adjourned till the 18th of July next.

Bow-mem—Female Pickpodet.—Yesterday a woman named
Foster. aged 6.1, was put to the bar, charged by Robert Duke,
who stated, that on the preceding evening he was in Brydges-
street, and observed the prisoner put her hand into several
Gentlemen's pockets, but did not see her take anything out.
Witness, being struck with the appearance of the woman,
watched her, and after trying various other persons' pockets
without effect, she at last succeeded in picking the pocket of a
Gentleman in a crowd opposite Drury-Lane Theatre. Witness
then informed an Officer of it, and he apprehended her in Bow-
street, with a quantity of silk handkerchiefs in a bundle. liking
asked where she had got the sang? she said, a man had given it
to her in Bedford-court. She was fully committed for trial.
The prisoner was immediately identified as being a common
pickpocket.
Yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, the in-
habitants of George-yard, Whitechapel, were thrown
into considerable alarm at hearing terrific screams
and loud cries of Murder!" proceeding from a
house in that neighbourhood. A crowd of persons
immediately assembled in front of the house, when
:in ill-looking fellow, brandishing a large rivetting
hammer, made his appearance at the third floor win-
dow, who lifted up the sash, and made a desperate
charge at the populace, letting fly at them various
articles of crockery-ware and other missiles, which
soon caused them to disperse. The near approach of
the Police being announced, the man retreated from
the window, when instantly a bursting noise was
heard inside, and the cries again became loud. A
most frightful scene soon presented itself. The wretch
again returned to the window, out of which he, after
a hard struggle, succeeded in thrusting a female, the
features of whose face seemed disfigured from wounds
and blood : she clung fast to the window frame, but
the villain striking her several times with the ham-
mer on the hands, she was obliged at length to let go
her hold, and was precipitated on the pavement.
Foster, one of the Lambeth-street officers, accompa-
nied by Gibbs, Fitch, and Miles, belonging to the
Bow-street Patrol, came up, entered the house, and,
after a good deal of resistance, succeeded in securing
two men in the room where the outrage was com-
mitted. A coach was procured, into which the un-
fortunate female was put, and conveyed to the Lon-
don Hospital, almost in a dying state, having both
her thighs and arms broken, and with other severe
bodily injuries. The prisoners were taken to Lam-
beth-street Police-office, before m --ATTIIEW WYATT,
Esq. where they represented themselves as braziers,
and their names to be Luke Smith and James O'Brien.
The latter proves to be the husband of the woman,
and is described to be the person who had thrown her
out of the window ; the other is supposed to be his
assistant in committing this dreadful act. They were
remanded for examination on a future day. Their
unhappy victim, who is far gone with child, is con-
sidered in a very precarious state.
An affray of the most serious kind took place on
Monday se'nnight, at the Fair of Tubberbracken,
near Loughrea, county of Tipperary. Two men were
killed, together with a horse, a cow, and an ass, and
a man and woman were wounded.

Saturday, just as the Royal Mail Coach arrived at
Sunderland-bridge, about three miles from Durham,
on the London-road, the horses took too wide a sweep
in turning to go over the bridge, and the wheels
grazed along the side of the wall, but fortunately the
coach escaped without being overturned, and with-
out sustaining any damage; but the occurrence has,
we regret to add, proved of the most tragical descrip-
tion : two Gentlemen, who were upon the roof of the
coach, were, in consequence of the violence with
which the wheels came in contact with the side of
the bridge, thrown from their seats over the wall,
upon the bed of the river, which in that part was dry,
a depth of many feet. They were both killed.
HIGH WAOES.—The last Congress sat 240 hours,
and each Member received three dollars fifty cents
an hour—handsome wages this for the valuable ser-
vices of some of the Members.
Economy.—ln the Miscellaneous Estimates of the
present year, there is actually a charge of £15,000
for a brilliant diamond plume, a present to the Per-
sian Ambassador: