Star. — 1822-01-16 (London, England)

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JANUARY 15. THE PSEUDO-PRINCESS OP CUMBERLAND, IN RE OLIVE WILMOT, CALLING HERSELF PRINCESS OP CUMBERLAND.  Mr. Ii LATH moved for a Rule to shew cause why the Princess of Cumberland should not be allowed • to air her Petition in this Court, pursuant to the pro-, visions of the " Act of Ist Geo. IV. for the relief of, Insolvent Dcbtors in England." This application was m.tde on the ground that she had not complied with one of the sections of the Act, which required the Potithm to be filed within fourteen days alter impri sonment. The Learned Counsel handed in an affidavit signed "Olive." It set forth that she was confined in the Fleet Prison ; that she had but /22 in her possession ; that she was entirely supported by the charity and benevolence of her friends, that slie had wasted no personal property, and that she should have applied within the fourteen days required by the Act, had she not ex pectei that some of her fr iends would have become security for her debts until her claims were established.  The COURT said that the Petitioner could not gain anything by her affidavit, as it was signed "Olive" only, without the addition of her surname. The Petitioner must know whether her surname was Willmot" or " Serres."  Mr. HEATH, in order to set aside this abjection, called Trapnell, the deputy tipstaff of the Fleet Prison, who stated that the Petitioner was committed by the same of " Olive," without any surname.--The Leal ned Counsel (Mr. Heath) therefore contended, that as die Affidavit corresponded with the commitment, the Petitioner was entitled to her application. The COURT then granted the motion.  Friday se'nnight, about 11 o'clock at night, the inmates of a house in King-street, Aberdeen, were alarmed by repeated cries of murder, proceeding from a back apartment on the ground floor. occupied by William Gordon, a fishing-tackle-maker. A Gentleman called for tha assistance of the watchman, and entered the apartment. Here they found Gordon;— and on the floor of the room, near the fire, the appalling spectacle of his wife apparently in the agonies of death, bleeding profusely from a dreadful wound iu her thigh, three inches deep, inflicted, it is said, by a sharp pointed poker ; by which the femoratartery bad been lacerated and laid open. Medical assistance was immediately called; but the unhappy woman breathed her last in a few minutes. The hus-. band has been committed to jail. Sunday, at twelve o'clock, when the guard was relieved in the Stable yard, St. James's, an accident occurred which was nearly attended with fatal consequences. An Officer in the Life Guards dismounted 'I in the Stable-yard, and an orderly, who was in wait-I ing, took possession of the animal and mounted it. lle was no sooner on its back than it commenced rearing and plunging with great violence, gallopped down the yard into the Park, and threw the rider with great force against a tree, by which his breast, ileac', and face were shockingly injured. He was conveyed to the gate-house, and there bled by Mr. Smith, surgeon, of Pimlico, and afterwards carried to the barracks, where he lies in a hopeless state.— I After the above occurrence, the porter of Lord Harrington mounted the horse, and with a kind of bra. sracio expressed his contempt of the orderly for not being able to manage the horse, but he was not mounted an instant before the horse began to rear vsed plunge, and soon the servant lost all command of the animal, and it gallopped down the Mall with extraordinary velocity,and opposite the Horse Guards the rider was unhorsed, and dragged by the stirrup' far some distance. When he was taken up he was fousid, to have received most. extensive injury, and was carried to the Hospital.