Star.
London, England, 1826-04-03 00:00:00

. MARLBOROUGH-sTREET.

Saturday, Joseph Lawooster, jan. proprietor of the Stearn Packet
booking Office, Regent err— cus, was broseit before Sir GROWL r. a-
mom, charged with laving coonnlytod various frauds.

%nay Addison, tip deposed, that on the id if Mara hi
booked a parcel at that office, containing two 101. bank noses and I
gold wa(cb and Chain ; it was directed to Mist Matphersda, Yort)
and he paid 4s. 6d. for insurance to Abbott, the book-keeper. tilt
receiving an answer, he was induced to write, and found the the
parcel had not come to hand. Hewes told hat It bad beets sent
to the White Horse, fetter-lane, whithospen inqiiry, he [sand to
be false. Having procured a search-warrant, a paper parcel %%ken
open was round in the prisoner'. desk, wklehdepossint Wit upon the
20th January.—Mr. Wingfield attended as Counsel for Inscaster,
but the intemperate behaviour of Lancaster, tea prevented that
Gentleman front rendering any service to his client.-L-The prisoner
is remanded until nest Wednesday.
WORSH I P.STRICkT.
• Saturday, a poor min, in an infirm state of health, was brought
tb this office by the parish officers of Islington, in ordei to be passed
to the • parish of St. Andrew, Hollsorn, The Magistrates bad
signed the ortler, and the poor man set oUt on his road to the latter
Fattish. He had proceeded above one hundred yards from the
office, however, when he fell down in a lit and expited alum:
immediately.
Norton was charged with robbing Mr. Hughes, a hackneyy:.
coach master. The prosecutor was mounting his bus in Smithfiela?
when the prisoner said he would ride with him, anti took the relit,'
when instead of driving towards Pentonville, watts proserutui
lived, and where ptisoner said he lived also, he &vire to
ditch, saying it %vas very little out of the Way.• They, storped ar
the Gun puhlic.house, and had souse gin ; prisoner then asked bum
if he Could spat? Prosecutor refused, when prisoner struck him on'
the breast, snatched his watch with gold appendages from him!
and ran off.—Fully committed.

LA M BET ST 11 MT.
A female named Greeley, a pauper in Mile End torkhouse,
was charged with inducing some *Whim, paupers therein, to int al
several articles, with which she eloped, taking with her one of
them, a girl twelve years of age, whom she delivered up to the
loose embraces of a sold ier.--ltemantled.

UNION HALL,
Saturday, an interesting luaking young Woman. named Anal
hp, was charged on suspicion of plundering her master, Mr.
Smith. of Hanover-place Kent-road.-.. Sho was remanded until
her friends should be apprized of her situation.

Oxford and Cambridge Easter Terms commence on
Wednesday next. The former ends gay 13, the latter July 7th.
The Oxford Act will be July 4th, and the Cambridge commence-
ment 'be same day.
The Middlesex Sessions commence to-morrow ; the
Borough of Southwark Sessions on the same day; the Guildhall
Stations on Wednesday ; and the Old Daily Sessions on Thursday.
WRSYMINST*II SESSIONS, APRIL I.—Peter Winchester
was charged with corrupting a young boy of the name of Flanagan.
The prisoner merely said the story was all false. Verdict, Guilty.—
He- Was again placed at the bar, together with a very respectably
dressed boy, aged only 14, of the name of Francis Grant, on an in-
dictment charging therh with unseemly practices. The ury found
them both Guilty, but recommended the boy to mercy.—The Count
sentenced the elder prisoner to one year's solitary confinement, and
the hoy to two months.
The Admiral Cockburn, bon nd.from New Sou th Wales
to Batavia, touched at Melville Island, a settlement lately formed by
order of the British Government. She brings information that the
natural productions of the settlement are of the- Spice Island de•
scription. Wild nutmegs and cloves are found in abundance. The
trees are of a very large growth, some of them producing a gum of
remarkably astringent quality. On the shores of the settlement
were found quantities of the sea slag, designated Tee Pang, or
Beache de la Men so valuable in the China market, but not so
abundant as it is supposed to exist further to the eastward. The
settlers had cleared, in September last, above 20U acres, which pro-
diced almost every vegetable except the potatoe, which seemed to
decline. Captain BALLOW, of the 3d Buffs, who was resident, was
indefatigable in his endeavours to promote the welfare of the young
settlement. He had discovered a fine fresh-water river on Bathurst
Island, during an excusion in one of the Admiral Cockburn's boats,
but nothing could induce the natives to an intercourse with the
settlers up to the time of the sailing of the Admiral C,ockbqrrt, in
September last, notwithstanding every inducement had been held
out to that object.
A meet ug of the credttt.rs of S:r J. _PettatNto and
Co. has. been held, and a letter-of license for two years
agreed to.
There is now living at Heddington, a few miles from
Devizes, an old woman named Perrott, 82 years of age.
surrounded by her children, grandchildren, great
grand-children. and great great grand-children. This
old woman reaped on the down during the whole of the
last harvest with the alacrity of a person of SO; besides
leasing nearly three bushel.
EXTRAORDINARY INGENUITY.—John MiDonald, of
Newtossoards, who is perhaps the most perfect knitter
in Ireland, has manufactured a very handsome frock
coat, from cop cctton, without the aid of any descrip-
tion of machinery, save the simple use of two wire
needles; the cotton having been doubled and twisted
solely by his fingers. The coat fits rematkably. %yetis
without seam, and the neck, cuffs, buttons, Stc. are
fashonably formed, entirely by the knitting. process.
Indeed the garment might be worm with eclat by a
dandy of the first water. The same individual some
time since produced, with his two incomparable needles,
a bed quilt, two yards and a half long by two and a
Trailer wide. It was without a seam, and the Royal
Mason: Arms exquisitely worked in the centre. The
quilt was presented by M,13 oald.to the Marchioness
of Londonderry, who was pleased to bestow, besides a
h tedsome present, her highest approbation of the inge-•
nieusisowers of this aspirant after fame in a novel
therm Whig.
During the Rebellion of 1745, a Scotch Lady pre-
served her husband from being engaged therein, in
the following manner :—The husband was a warm
partisan of ,he House of Stuart, and had signified 'his
intention of joining Prince Charles's standard on the
day folio% itig. His wife, after trying in vain to dis-
suade him from it, begged, as a favour, that he would,
at leas-, breakfast with her before has departure. To
this he consented. Next morning, he had his boots on,
his horse at the door, and everything prepared for his
journey : his wife took an opportunity of pouring some
boiling water into his boot, while she was making tea.
His r itte may be easily conceived. " Kill me, it you
please," said his wife, .• but I could devise no other
means of saving you from the fury of both parties. N 3
person can now be offended, for I hope you, will not
be able to quit this house for some weeks."
An Arabian writer says, he found an inscription to
the fallowing effect, upon one of the pyramids of Egypt:
Our power was sufficient to construct these pyra-
mids. He that wishes to give a proof of his strength
may try to demolish them:'
THREE G1711.--ALRX.ANDKR DANIIII. died iD 1668,
Ind on his tomb, in the Church-yard of Maddern, is
this inscription:
" Belgia me birth, Britain me breeding gave,
Cornyrall a wife, ten childreh, and a grave."

BIRTH.
March 18, at Netherton House, the Coyotes' of Stirling, of a son.

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