Star.
London, England, 1803-12-15 00:00:00

PCLICr,

Pl' TILIC Orr:PY, BOW•STR ElT.—Tuerday a man,
lately onuloycd at the Angel. Inn, the back of St. Cle-
m-ft:C.:, was hi-ought •re N. Boon, Efq. and Sir
PA'I,,ON S, charged on ft fpieion of felonioidly
Portin.aot.h Bank Notes to the amount of 5001.'1
It appeared in evidence, that on the 26th of laft Oc-
tober, Portimotith bank Notes to the amount of 5031.
were tent from that town by the mail, directed to Mr.
BE Rit.IDG E. a mcrehant of that plate, in London; the
parcel was regularly entered in the way-bill,but did not
conic into the polfdlion of the book-keeper at the An-
gel Inn. Mr. Berridge, with much difficulty, traced
the prifoner on Friday morning la a to his father's haute,
at E ihnhorough, in Norfolk, and found upon him va-
rious Notes to the amount of 3781. A Banker's clerk,
where the Note, were payable in London, proved that
the prifoner and his wife changed two tool. notes of
thofe that wet e 1011. He was committed for trial.
Mara sins: Housa.—Yelterday a hackney coach-
man was-furninoned before the LORD MAYOR, for
keeping three gentlemen fitting in his coach, in Corn-
hill, half an hour, before he would drive them to
Temple ear, he wifhing to drive them to Whitecha-
pd. The coachman confeffed the charge, but plead
cd it was a late hour, and he wanted to go home.—
His Lordthip told him the penalty for this offence
was 51. but being his fiat offence, he mitigated it to
los. and tltc expences.
A carman was likewife fimmoned, for refuting to
load his cart but with Inch goods as he pleafed, when
plying in Thames-Meet. The carman not making
his appearance, the mailer was allowed time to pro-
doe:. his driver, according to an Ad of the Court of
Alder men.

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Acmas Ives was brought before the fitting Alder-
man, at Guildhall, having been flopped by the City
OAcern with about faty pound weight of lead in his
pnifeffion, refpeaing which he could not give a fa-
tklnctory account. He was committed to Giltipur-
ttreer Compter for further examination.
Urazon Hat.L.—Tuelliay Francis Face,' was exa-
mined, charged by Mr. CORDY, corn-dealer, at
Iydown, with robbing him of a quantity of Boar at
vat inns tithei. The defence id the milliner bcing in.
conliftent, he was committed for trial.

SNADWILL —Tuelday evening two young men
were examined, charged with healing a boat, belong-
ing to one of the blocking lhips in tite River, and a
roqueleau, and fome jackets, belonging to an OfE
CCT of the Navy. They were committed far re-ea.
amination.

WORSHIP -sre r r.—Ydterday a man was examin-
ed, charged on fufpicion of having ittilen from a
livery (table a box great coat. He was committed
for re examination.

A man, (topped by the officers with thirty pounds
of folder upon him, furpeded to be ttolen from the
premites of John Liptrap, Efq. in Whitechapel•rud,
wascommitted fur re-examination.

Samuel Icahn:, lately difeharged from the Honfe
of Correftion, was examined, under the charge of
being a common titterer of counterfeit filver. He
was committed till the Solicitor of the Mint [hall
attend.

Yelierday fennight the matter of a public houfe,
in George greet, Brighton, was committed to the
houfe of ci4reliinn by Sir CH•RLIS BURILILL, Mat.
for violently Abutting, with a poker, in his tap-
room, a rnufician of the bend belonging to the Suf-
fer Militia, named Cramer.

A few clays fince, as Mr. Bosarroyo, a foreign
gentleman, wa, :ray, fling over the New Foreft ne
Cht iacharch, he was overtaken by a perfon on bode
back, apparently much confided, who Rated that he
jult been robbed by a Engle highwayman, of a con-
fiderable fum of money, and rcquefted Mr. B. to join
in purfuit, which he acceded t.,; when, having rid-
deu about a mile, a man ruffled upon them, and of
filled the Tormer in robbing, Mr. B. of his watch and
money, after which they bound him to a tree, and
took the bridle and fiddle from his horfe,whicb they
turned toos'e upon the Fotefl. •
Lift Saturday evening, as Mr. May and Mr. El.
liott, of Lewes, were returning home from Charley
on h irfeback, th.:v were furionfly attacked, between
Cookfbridge and Offham, by a (Ingle highwayman,
who rufhed from one fide of the road, and, without
fpcaking a word, knocked Mr. May off his bock by
a violent Wow acrofs his face with a bludgeon, and
on Mr. Elliott's coming up, also was a little dillance
behind his companion, he tirrack him in the like man-
ner acrofs the temple, but not with the fame etre.%
as he was enabled to retain his feat, which fo alarm-
ed the villain. that he inliantly rode off at full fpeed.
Mr. May's hn:fe, nn his being drfinounted, having
run away, Mr. is ant, with difficulty, placed him on
his, and conatt.-,eLl him to his houfe, where he left I
him in a Hate of inicarbility, but he was next day
much recovered.

On the fame ni7,llt the Cale public bonfe in
Lewes, was burglatiouflr entereJ and robbed of up.
wards ,if ninety ponuds in calls and Bank bills, by
Come villains, v.ito ereaped with their booty. The
entry was mad: by the help of two ladders, tied tn.
getlicr, :It a front window, and at an early hour of
the ni-4ht, to which the weather was peculiarly favour-
able, brinz extremely wet and boifierous. The rob-
he.rs w• 591,1 :lave met with a better booty, had not
!.'fr. Petit 1 ickily paid feretity pounds to his brewer
the t:ay Four militia men, who flept in a
room adjoining that its whids the Bolen property
was de!iptitei!. have been liopreled, and examined loc.
fore a ".la;; !hate, ulna committed them to the huufe
of cor t ti.r f:rther examination.

A r'w evenings time a hale belonging to MciTrs.
Hotitiln and listitcr, containing 200 pair of gaiters
and other arlicics, g,:0,.; to the George Ira.. in the
11(.v.101, was 1101 co ou: rf a cart, it is fuppoliii in
Ealtclicap.
Tacfslay laf, alson. two o'clock in the afternoon,
a cart, loaded v it;2 it a 12 •pfheads of Cigar, the pro.
perty of a maiicr carman, in Stoner-Log, in the no
rnu h, was ....y from the Commercial Road,
kitting tiorn t'.: At while OW driver
flopped to sec
Oa Saturt:iy the Stir:Act:l;re, mail was tithed of
eighteen parcel., th: et pus'. ns places
t!rrci-s : tLe t. 1:1). ry was e:i I d at 'he Green Mall
lY.l.4,;.itrcet. Their pro rival oiled was
t•) get P. -111 of a hr contr.;: worth of
p; 'petty, %%Lich &Lir sapAciv6. L. 111,14.

Musnts.—An.inquintion was taken on the 6th
inflant, in the parilh of Chrifichurch, on Wm. Har
ben, a farmer in that neighbourhood, who, a few
nights before, was murdered in his bed. After three
days invettigation, the Jury returned a verdict of Wil-
ful Murder againfl J. lharben, (Con of the deceafed),
and J. Guliby.— The ci-cumfrances attending this
horrid murder, from the fon'seonteffion, are nearly as
follow : having formed a reMlotion to murder his fa-
ther, and prevailed on Gabby to aid and atlifl him,
they, for fame nights before carrying their diabolical
Ichemeinto execution, laid wait for the deceafed, in the
lanes near his houfe, hut not meeting with him, they,
on the night of the lit init. gat into the deceafed's
liable, and endeavoured, by rattling the knobs of the
hortis halters, to get hint up : this plan not anfsver.
ing their purpofe, they broke into the houfe, and went
to his bedroom, where, with large bludgeons, they
beat him in fuch an inhumar and cruel manner, that
he Coon alter expired. Nn pet fon was in the houfe
with the dzcearzd but his chill (a gill about ten ) ears
r;I:w) and wife, who fl.pt in an adjoining room.—
The wife airertt,, that lie heard the blows, and her
holband cry murder, but was prevented getting to his
bed room by the door being held on the inlide.—The
Coroner has committed the lon and Gubby (nne only
19 and tl:e other 20 years of age) to the county gaol,
to take their trial at the enfuing Affixes. The wife, fm•
wane of fareties for appearance to give evidence, is
committed to the county Brideweli.
About half paa one on Sunday morning, a watch-
man of the name of Whie, belonging, to the parifh of
St. Martin's, went into the pal ilh of St. Paul, Covent
Garden, to ail in cinching a diaalbance at the top of
James-ftrect, Covert Carden. A violent altercation
took place between him and one Reilly, belonging to
the parilh he was I hen in, on account of his having I
frequently called people up at an early hour vho lived
within the beat of the I titer, who acenfed the former
of robbing him of his perqiiifttes by that means.—
They at length oc-:ed.,d to blows, andandWhite re-
ceived threeslti,,e,ar Iv •in his head. He was Cat-
lied to the watelitioti..7 of St. P oil, Covent Gardcn,at
&,I, in an alnirtfi ;!felefs it•ite, having lotf a gr.:at
deal of blight. lie 'WAS ill a flint tittle removed to
St. Martin', e continued to bleed
a trail quan it) ;..trgi. at ~ffiiiance was procured.
—He was removed front thence to the workhoufe of
the fame pariflt, where he (till lies is a very dangerous
date.

On Thurfday fe'nnight the Earl of Car He's
Gamekeepers, with other antance, being out
watching the woods belonging to his Lordthip, they
heard fome guns fired in a wood canc.! Wathwood,
about twelve o'clock, on which they immedi: eel
repaired to the place from whence they heard t!tc
reports, where they feparated in different direc-
tions, with a vi. w the more effeaually to dere& the
poachers. Whin they approached the wood, J. Har
rifon, an under keeper belonging to his Lordfh;o, tc!-
ing two men fire at pheatants, attemptcd to get
over a hedge into the wood to dete& and, duo,
ing the time be was getting over the fence, one of the
men, without (peaking a word. fired a kaded gun at
him, within the durance of ten yards. From his pry
fition, much of the contents of the gun w,:nt into hie
knee, notwithitanding which, many hint penetrated
his body and thigh, and he cannot yet be pronounced
out of danger. The offenders immediately fled, and
being purfued by his Lordthip's tervants, one of them
only (the night being thick and rather dark) was'
taken by John PA:Eerie:l, another of his Lordlhip's
keepers, after a violent (Lingle and footed of up-
wards of a quarter of an hour. The man deterfted,
' ( Janos Carr of Mallon) prove. to be the perfon
who ;hot at Harrifon, and he has made known his
a•,complices, viz. Jolla Nicholton, of Welborn John
lVait, of Balmer; and Jofeph Wait, of Siing(bY;—
all of whom have Leen fecured, and were on Sunday
morning committed to York Cagle, to takc their trial
at the enfuing Lent Affixes.
Monday afternoon the Coroner's inqueft was taken
before ANTHONY Glee, Etq. on the body of Mrs.
Smith, a refpeßahle Ladc, between 73 and Ro yenrb
of age, who was burnt to death on Satirrd.,y even-
ing left. On the esiience of her fervant maid., it
appeared that Mrs. smith had been vet y inditpofed
for the IA oleo years, l.v a paralytic arrike, which
confined her to her rotArs ; that op Saturday timht
laft about eleven o'clock, the corpreffed a will; to her
fervant to ?elite to hc,l, ; that from the feeble weak
Ilate of the (errant, the hod oftrally received frme
ahihiance in the diicharge of her duty on that ocea-,
lion; that after retiring (torn the room, and on be-
ing ablent morb than three minutes, on tter return.,
melancholy to relate, the defeated lay proftrate is:
the chair, with the who;: tit her clarlrea, from her.
knees to her chin, in one blare of tire; the had, how..
ever, the pretence of mind, to cover the decenfed
over with a blanket, which ct4itiguillsed the flame.—
Every furgical alliftance wa, %hen immediately prio-
cured, but is vain, for the defeated hogere,l tl 1
Monday evening, when the expired at eight o'clock.
—The Jury brought ire tht.r eerdiet.—Accitlental
Death by Fire. • y :

Saturday fe'r.night, late in the evening, a coin•
rick, in the farm pia of :qr. Ha7matt, of Wood-
bury &thereon, D‘VC:i. WAS dircovereti by his fel.-
vants to be on fire, h it v. hAt, by their exeitiims,
Was got under %idiom fu: chilli:qt. On the
Monday ft,P,o,t;;;g, %AO; lilr.-1-1. was ;t.
tending the CIA minati or two ittifms aruehended
on fufpicion, his titvel'irg-liwire was f.t on tint, which,
together with has i.ut c,rn, h iy, &c. were
entirely delir^YeJ, and liCtirC) of the oiflnder,
has yet been
A !ew days a „In, as a waggon, drawn by five
hones, near Ball Bourne, attenced a man and a
boy, who both impriidea,ly went to it:ep the fame
time, the former is, t:.e v..ggon, and the hitter on
the flats ; the h irf,l h. :rg lot to thenni% es,
got fu near the j: It tot ,
that the wagvn oveititined, .11.3 t -e- th,ni with
it to the bottom, by t‘hit.h acr•i, rt. the p 'rut, and
two of the bunko, r. crc ki:lcti nit the ;pot ; the man
being thrown out of the scogvii, eteaped unhu,t.
On Saturday as a woman was ii:iffing dole
tart on Tower-hil:, her cl..atlis wcr: Laugh: in the
wheel, which drew her chile to th:, ca. her
arm was broke before fbe could be estricated.

Lan Eight, alptut eight o'clock, A h.R ktier-coach,
with three perfoti uilide ran agAirii bt wis dray.
when she sch.:-...1.• let, to iricces, I4Cittg the Cruwn
and Anchor Tavcib, 1114.

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HORNSBY and Co. No. 26, Cornbill, had the pig, t.
fore in the two IA Lotteries of (haring among the
Friends, capital l'ri zes of gool. wool. road. 0,00.t.T.
20,0001. and they hope to harp the fame fatisfaeirzu
in the caning Lottery, which be,,,ins Drawing the
9th of next month.—Hosti 3 BY and Co. folicit Clubs,
Societies, and individual purchafers, not to delay
buying their Tickets and Shares, as they will advan:e
in price. The Lottery con:ills of only 26,000 Tick-
ets, and the demand is daily increaliug from, all
parts of the United Kingdom.