Star.
London, England, 1817-10-18 00:00:00

POLIer.

ktits:AX-House.—Nos-Pnymitla or TITOI/I.
Tbe Rev. Dr. Rose, of the Parish of St. Martin Out-
'rich,. preferred a complaint against one of his pa-
rishioners, residing in Bishopsgate.street, for the non.
p ryment of tithes. The defendant to an tea a shop,
kc. in the house. The Doctor produced th. Act of
Parliament. which authorized his application for
9.1. in the pound upon teat.
The defendant contended very strongly against the
right. He submitted that he was a I,oger in the
house. and that there was another lodger, paid
twice as much he_ did 1 'hat the cl:m.inA must be
against the ground landlord ; and 1114 a tax so op-
pressive could not be extended by the Legislature tip
those who took part n 1 a house without any staspiciim
of an obligation of that kind. The demand, he stid.
had never before been made, and the Dui tor had
evidently acted towards him with a printed feeli•ig.
Dr. K .se expressed his thanks for the intelligence
that there was a person in time house who paid twice
as much, tor he sh:iold visit hint with a proportionate
civility. There was, be said, a very general impres-
sion. that the Clergy were exceedingly rapacious;
but the fact was, that 99 out of 100 were contem
with littlemore than one half of wh it they were en-
titkd to by the Act. lie had demanded of the pa.
fish no more than Is. 6d in the pound. In the pre.
sent car he applied for 2s 9.1. according to .he Act.
but it rested with hint to diminish the ,lemand, which
he certainly should do to his usual charge.
The Defendant declared that he was resolved to
rekist the demand.

The Lour Mason said the Act was peremptory.
He had read it with much attei.tion ; for, upon one
“ccasion, he had been personally interested, and put
his case into Chincery. The ground of his refusal
was, that the tittles had not been dem Inded before.
He found it, however, the best w .y ti, settle the bu-
siness with the %Nem, with whom he was now sico-n
the best terms.

Dr. Ross assored the 1.-rd Mayor that his patish
did nut cousin of more than forty houses ; that he
had a large family, and the refusal of a parishioner
to pay tithes was a source ut great inconvenience.
The LORb Moms said, e believed Dr. Ruse de-
manded as small a sum as any of the Clergy required,
and a smaller sum than most.

The defend...lt agreed to pay the tithes and the
'expenses, and the case was discharged.
QUILIX-SQUARIL Or COININO..-•-• f{ i/tram
Lowe, of Mcrcer-street, Long-acre, die-sinker and
press•tool maker, 'with Jose/sa and Thomas Lowe, hib
two sons, were brought to the Offirce in custody of
Lavender and Pace, Iwo officers I,t Queen-square. and
charged before the Sitting Magistrate, W. FULDINGID
Esq. with coining a Lige quantity of foreign copper
coin, called ten cad. pieces.—John Lavender, stated,
that in consequence of information received lie went
very early yrster..ay morning, accompanied by Pace
and two as.istania, to the house of the prisoner W.
Lowe. After surrounding the house for upwards of
an hour, they knocked at the door a little atter seven
o'clock, and in about a %nailer of an hour after wards
the door was opened by fhomas Lowe. the youngest
sin, and they all fine entered the house; and pro.
ceeded up suits, where they met the prisoner William
Lowe, the father, coming cut of the door of his bed-
room, being the back room on the first door. Wit-
ness asked him if be was the occupier or owner of the
house! He said he was. Witness then informed him
he was their prisoner, at the same time acquainting
him with the business they were come upoo. Prisoner
immediately submitted himself to their authority, and
accompanied them, as did the two ions also, over the
house, while they searched it. They found several
wolf/shops, but nobody at work. They then divided
their force, and began a regular search, one party tat.,
ing the lower, and the other the upper, part of the
house. Witness took the lower part, and in a forge
in the back yard he found the stamping machine,
which was fixed Its the ground to the depth, he be-
lieved, of ten feet or more, from the ponderous ap-
pearance of the jack or hammer with which the die is
struck. In the same placehe also found two dies;
and in a cupboard in the back parlour, the immense
quantity of foreign copper coin, in the several square
mahogany boxes is which they were prodticed in
Court; the pieces were all copper, and intended for
French ten cent. being in the centre of each, and
round the edge, Napoleon, Emperor ; on the reverse
side the Roman letter N. and an Impeiial crown
over it. There were in the whole 20,0u0 of them.—
Pace deposed, that in a back attic which be searched,
he found a die, and a fly machine for striking the
pieces from the copper in its plain state, of which
pieces there were in one of the boxes upwards of
2,000, besides the finished ones. In another room he
found twenty packing cases made of thin sheet iron,
calculated to hold each 1,000 of the pieces. It seems
these cases when made up are cased over with pies
of lead, and ate thus contrived to be sent out of this
country through the very medium of the Custom-
house itself.—Prisoner was remanded.