Star.
London, England, 1818-12-17 00:00:00

P4LIOE.

Bow-seame.—Yesterday Jabs Adams was committed for trial
on five distinct charges of uttering forged RS Bark of England
notes to five different tradesmen, all grocers. This fellow ap-
pears to have been a perfect mens : sometimes he was dis-
guised as a porter, sometimes as a livery-servant; and yesterday
ke appeared to be a .Dandy of tie first order !
Hemat-Haci..--By the vigilance and intrepidity of Wortley,
a Constable of Lambeth, four men belonging to a gang of grave-
robbers, have at length been taken luto custody, and are likely
to become the subjects of a spirited prosecution. In consequence
asf Information which had been privately given, that a plunder-
ing expedition was on foot towards some place in the lower part
of Surrey,•Wortley, concealed himself in a convenient place near
the King's Arms turnpike, In the Kent-read, and continued to
watch until between five end six o'clock yesterday morning,
when observing a hackney-coash coming along the road, he came
from his place c:concealmentand desired the coachman to stop.
He then inquired who or what was in the coach? The driver
replied that three getollenten were his passengers, whom he had
taken op at the Assernblf house, Blackheath, where they bad
been at a ball, and that ise.pras conveying them to Charing-cross.
.Wortley, not being satisfied, opened one of the doors, and ob-
serving three men in dirty dresses, with ropes, spades, and other
articles used for disinterring bodies, closed it azaiu immediately,
and with a pistol in one hand, and a cotlata in the other, threat-
ened instant death to the first that attempted to escape. Me
coachman, terrified at his threats and attitude, obeyed his di-,
rections to turn round and drive towards the turnpike. Upon
his arrival there, he procured the assistance of several persons,
and conducted the three men who wqe inside the coach, and
also the driver, to an adjacent Watch-house. The coach was
searched, and In the boot, In a sack, the body of an unusually
tall roan was footed. The prisoners were yesterday morning
brought to Cis Office by Worley, and Heron a Constable of Sr.
George's, followed by nearly a thousand persons, who literally
covered them with mud and filth of every description. They
stated their names to be itechrtl ntagiant, J.hn. llwroos, fras.
Daeis, and ,far. 13ofall. Theysoarii nothing in defence. The
Magistrate ordered them *0 find zuod bail fbr their appearance
at the Sessions, which fatting to do, they were committed to
Hog semonger-lanc jail.
.Tavjsi Late ears, of the Borough-road, gingerbread baker, was
charged with having ill his possession a quantity of pearl-ash and
sal ainttle. The defendant contended, that being a baker ill
gingerbread, and not of bread, he was not subject to the Act.
lie also argued, that sal volatile was not an ingredient of an un-
wholesome nature. Ile had taken the opinion of an eminent
chemist upon the subject, and was by him iniurmsel, that the
operation of baking ton; from the id volatile an/ noxious qua-
lay which it might previously have pnssessed.—lie was fined in
the peualty of Li, but stated his determination to appeal against
the conviction.

Tuesday evening some persons were alarmed on
passing through Essex-street, 'Mile-end, by hearing
the cry of " lire r which continued for a length of
time; at length a woman who occupies an apartment
in that street, on looking through the window, saw a
mass of flames in an opposite room. She ran as fast
as possible, and informed the people of it, who went
up stairs,'end on opening the door found- an elderly
Lady who was-by herself in the house, sitting in an
arm-chair by the fire all in a blaze. Several pails of
water were thrown over her, and the flames were
soon extinguished. It appeared that her husband had
just gone out, and she being feeble and unwell, when
her clothes caught fire, was unable to move, and
remained in that dreadful situation till assistance ar-
rived, by which time some parts direr body were
burned nearly to a cinder. She was„taken to the
London I lospi tal, where every asestance was afforded,
but she died in the greatest agony soon after.
An Inquisition was taken yesterday afternoon, at
the Committee Room of Sr. Olave's Workhouse, Pa-
rish-street, on the body of Mr. Joseph Oram, the
miller of Messrs. Barclay and Perkins.—While oiling
the machinery of a steam-engine, he unfortunately got
entangled with the cog-wheels, and was drawn be-
tween them. llis hands were literally torn off, his
head was heat in, and his body dreadfully lacerated.
The deceased, it appeared, should have rung a bell
before he began to oil the wheels, and the engineer
would have stopped the engine. His imprudence
cost him his life. Verdict—Accidental Death.

An Inquisition was taken yesterday, at the Board
Room of St. Giles's Workhouse, on the body of
Richard Wilford, who was found dead under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—The deceased rented a back
garret at No. 5, Short's-gardens, St. Giles's, and lately
had been in great distress ; his wife had been admit-
ted into the Workhouse, and he was offered an
asylum there if he chose to accept it ; he thought
proper to decline it, preferring to suffer great pri-
vations at home to what he termed imprisonment.—

He lay upon nothing but straw in the corner of bis
garret ; Monday week was the last time the deceased
was seen alive ; is the evening he lighted a bit of
candle in the apartment of a lodger; he then re-
marked that his distresses were so great, he thought
he was not long for this world. The lodgers were
surprised during the whole of last week, that the de-
ceased had not been seen as usual going to and from
his wretched lodgings. On Monday last his wife left
the Workhouse, and went to see what had become of
her husband, v;ho had not called to see her as usual.,
The deceased's room was found locked ; it was broken
open, and he was found dead in bed. He must have
been dead near a week when discovered. The cause
of his death was not ascertained. Verdict—Died by
the Visitation of GOD.

An Inquest was held on Tuesday at the Turf Tap,
the back of St. George's Hospital, on 'Mary 'Ann
Leonard, aged five years, who was so much burnt
that she died, in consequence of a spark from the fire
communicating with her dress during the absence of
her parents. Verdid—Accidental Death.
Saturday an Inquest was held at the Old London
Inn, Exeter, on the body of Miss Mary Jackson,
who died in consequence of a severe fright she met
with, from a cow on the Heavitree road. Verdict—
Died by excessive fright, occasioned by a cow.
Tuesday se'nnight, about eight in the evening, a
melancholy event took place in the neighbourhood of
Kelso. As the servant of Mr. Walker, of Mellendean,
was returning from the river Tweed, near Crown Point,
with a horse and cart, to which he had been giving
water, the horse (it being moon-light) was scared by
some object and overturned the cart upon the man's
legs, and severely injured him. After calling re-
peatedly aloud, he was at length heard by the people
at Crown Point, who came and rescued him, conside-
rably bruised, from his perilous situation. Being un-
able, however, to raise the horse and cart without
help, a boy was sent to beg the assistance of a person
driving a cart on the turnpike road towards Kelso.
The unfortur.ate man whose aid they solicited was
James Dryden, a rag-gatherer from Tweedmonth ;
and the animal he drove being young and spirited,
started at the upset horse and cart, and springing
upon the foot-path, overturned that which it drew.
upon its unfortunate owner, and instantaneously killed
hun upon the spot. Dryden was a married man,
and has left a family to lament his loss.