Star.
London, England, 1826-12-01 00:00:00

COMMON COUNCIL

Yesterday the Lord Mayor held Ms first Court of
Common Council in the Chamber of the Guildhall. and
upon taking his seat addressed the Court, expressing his
high sense of the honour that had been conferred upon',
him, and his determination to preside over their debates
with the utmost impartiality.
Upon the motion of Mr. Deputy RoutH the Court'
unanimously voted their thanks to the late Lord Mayor,
which were ordered to be ornamentally written, pro-
perly emikasoned,&c. and presented to his Lordship.
The Court directed the Chamberlain to present the
Rev. Mr. Dillon, Chaplain to the late Lord Mayor, a
purse of fifty guineas] as a testimony of their regard
and approbation.
The sum of one hundred pounds was ordered to be
paid as the gift of the Court in aid of the Fund usually
distributed on St. Thomas's Day for Relief of Free-.
masons' Widows.

The General Purposes Committee presented a Report
on having filled up the blanks in the Bill for increasing
the Number of Common Councilmen for the Watd of
Cripplegate Without.
The said MI was read a third time, sad passed.
The same Committee presented a Report on a Peti-
tion from the inhabitants of the above Ward, for the
Court to apply to Parliament to irepeAl the Act for re-
gulating elections in London : which Petition they re-
commended not to be complied with.—A considerable
disco ssion ensiled thereon, and the Report was
,finally
ordered to lie on the table.

S:veral Reports from the Committee of City Lands,
with sundry regulations for better conducting the Fish-
market at Billingsgate, and also in respect of Leaden-
hall-market, were presented, and ordered to be printed,
previous to being taken into consideration.
The Court then took into consideration a Report of,
the Finance Committee, respecting the state of the
Chamber, and the propriety of that Committee being
empowered to consider and report on the expediency
of any extraordinary urn k or expenditure being done,
incurred prior to the same being proceeded with) and
after a very long discussion and some amendments pro-
posed to be made in the motion, a motion for an ad-
journment was put and carried, and the Court, in con-i
sequence, immediately broke np.

Tie statement in all the Morning Papers of yester-
day, of the wreck of his Majesty's ship Barracouta, on
the c•nast of Madagascar, and the Captain, officers, and
crew being nmurder•ed by the natives, is wholly without
foundation. That vessel arrived in England three months
since, was paid off at Deptford, where she now is in
ordinary, and the Captain, officers, and crew, all regu-
larly discharged.
As Mr. Andrew Pinson was bunting whir' Colonel
Seale's harriers, in the neighbourhood of Dartmouth, on
Thursday week, what taking a fence from a turnip
field, a partridge rose under the horse, and was struck
dead with one of his fore feet.

COCKNEY Seottrasalia.—Two journeymen tailors, and
stiout trey man shoemaker, were brought betore the Ma-
gutrate at Uniiin•hall, for damaging the trees, hedges,
&c. of certain ruarket gardeners at Rotherhithe, by the
discharge of fire arms. The mar ket gardeners having
sustained much damage in consequence of shots and
bullet, having been lodged in their trees by the cock-
ney sportsmen, a constable was directed to take such
persons into custody, who might be found trespass*
on their grounds. On Sunday morning, at an early
hour, the prisoners were discovered on their knees, be-
hind two trees, taking aim at a flock of little birds.
The constable, therefore, seized them, and brought
them before the Magistrate, and also produced their
fire arms. One of the tailors claimed an old rusty
blunderbuss, and his brother snip, a thing which •he
called his fowling-piece, the barrel of which, about a
lard and a half in length, appeared to have been once
an old gas pipe; and it was fixed to the stock by means
•of pieces of iron hoops, over which it was twitted tightly
round with strong waxed thread, and some piects of
list, the emblems of his trade. The slroemaket> weapon
uas of short dimensions—it was a pistol barrel, fixed.
very clumsily into the stock of an old musket.-The
constable said that they 'cry nearly shot him ; but out
of a flock of 200 birds, only three were killed, and those
were shattered to pieces. The tailors said, "they did
not wish to offend nobody;" they went out to amuse
themselves the only spare day they had in the week, to
kill a lew 4 pee wees,' to make a pie for their Sunday's
dinner." On their promising not again to break the
Sabbath, by encroaching on the grounds of the market
gardeners, for the purpose of killing 4 pee wees,' they
were discharged.
EEDUMATION OF Till BODY OF MR. EDMUND Hot.-
LAND, me DRAFTSMAN. It will be recollected that
about a fortnight or three wetks ago, a young Gentle-
man, whose name was unknown until the Coroner's In-
quest sat, was found lying dead, in the mud in the
Thames, off Esicz Wharf, in the Strand, with his pockets
emptied of their contents, with the exception of a key,
and a pawnbroker's duplicate of a brooch, pledged at
the shop of Mr. Essex, in Aldersgate-street. There were
such dreadful contusions on the head and forehead, and
also on the nose, which was broken, that the friends of
°the deceased were strongly of opinion that be bad been
murdered, and afterwards thrown over one of the
bridges into the water. In this opinion they were
strengthened by two burgeons, who were not examined
on the Inquest, but who had seen the body, saying that
they believed he bad not come by his death by &own-
irsg.4-Ik)wever there was no evidence to stew to the:
contrary, and the Jury found a verdict of—" Found
Drowned." The body was subsequently interred in St.
Clement's Church-yard, yet still the parents and friends:
of the unfortunate young man had a presentiment that
he had been wilfully murdered, and his body shrown
into the River for concealment. Under this impression
they came to a determination to have the body disinter-
red, in order that the bead should undergo minute sm..
pical examination, by which means their minds would
he ,et at rest. Accordingly application was made to
Mr. Muisnutr., the Magistrate, of Bow-street, for per-
mission to disinter the corpse, which was immediately
granted, and Wednesday forenoon, about eleven o'clock,
the body was exhumated by Edwards, the undertaker,
and conveyed to the bone-house, where the head under-
went an anatomical examination, by two skilful profes-
sors, in the presence of Mr. HOLLAND, the lather of the
deceased, and several of his friends. The result was,
that nothing could be discovered in the head that would
warrant the surgeons in pronouncing that the unfortu-
nate young man bad been murdered; and the friends
and relatives having expressed themselves satisfied, the
body was placed in the coffin, and agaii consigned to
the grave.

LAW lEPOR?.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. SQ.

Val A2TOINNT-OOMIAL 14 OLDlnif"
The ATTORNEY GENERAL stated CO the Jury that
this was an information, consisting of several counts.
The first was for procuring a permit under pretence of
transferring a certain quantity of wine to a Mr. Buckby,
a manufacturer of anti-attrition paste. It would appear
by the evidence that Mr. Buckby was not the purchaser
of any such quidatity of wine, and that the permit had
not been returned to the Excise-office. The second
was of a similar nature. In this the supposed purchaser
was Mrs. Oldfield, the mother of the defendant. He
(the Attorney• General) should not dwell upon the
circumstances then, but suffer them to be opened to the
Jury by the evidence which he was about to offer to
them. it was his intention to shew that these two
perinits Were fraudulently obtained, for the purpose of
concealing illegal and punishable practices. The third
count arose out of the preceding ones; it cempjained of
there permits not being returned to the Excise-office,
Which he could only insist upon, when he bad proved
that the permits were not applied to the purposes for
which they were obtained. The fourth count alleged
the adulteration of certain wines; the mixing of Capel
with sherry., and then selling the said mixture as pure
sherry. He need not remind the Jury that Cape wine
paid a Very small duty, and sherry a very high one ;
or explain to them the mode in which the revenge was
defrauded, and the public imposed upon and injured,
by the sale of a composition of this description. He
would not detain the Jury any longer from the evidence,
but he must be allowed to observe, before he called any
witnesses, that as it would be proved that the defendant
had been in the habit of adulterating his sines inanother
way also—with certain compounds of almonds and
oyster-shells—the Jury would see the necessity of an
information of this kind, if it were only for the purpose
of holding up an example to others. There were many
persons who constantly adulterated articles in daily
use; add these adulterations, if they were not injurious
to the health and constitutions of the consumers, were
at least a fraud upon them, in making them pay, for I
instance, duty upon lex which had beret seen China;
or upon pepper maitufacturei out of dirt.
After a long trial, the Jury then retired for about a quarter of
an hoar, and upon their coming into Court again, returned a
verdict fit the Crown on one permit, that of Mr. Buckby.