Star. — 1820-01-20 (London, England)

PITOSITION ON THE CHARITABLE.—We have to record, as a, caution to the humane and benevolent against similar frauds, the case of WiWant Henson, who was convicted, last Friday, at Hicks's Hall, for a fraud on the Bishop of Durham, in endeavouring to obt:!in money under false pretences. 'He represented himself to be the brother of a poor woman, 'named Arden, whose husband had been killed in the iron-mill belonging to Messrs. Wilkinson. and Co. at Rotherhithe. Henson incla:.ed a petition to the Bishop of Durham, with the names of several Noble Families, and a certificate, signed by the Rector and Churchwardens of the Parish of Rotherhithe. He was convicted on the evidence of James Price, servant to the Bishop, who suspected it was .not a true case, and accordingly applied to the Rector and Churchwardens of that Parish, when he found the certificate to be a forgery; and on Henson applying for his answer, be had him secured by a Constable, and taken before a Magistrate at Marlborough-street, who committed him. Price received the thanks of the whole Coutt, for having taken so much pains to send such a character out of the country.  INouEs-rs.—Yesterday, an Inquest was held at the Rose, Ratcliffe, on the body of It. L. Della, Mate a the Achilles \Vest lndiaman, who was found dead in the cabin. It appearing that he was subject to fits, and their being no marks of violence on the body, the Jury returned a Verdict—Died by Apoplexy: An Inquest was yesterday held at the Triumphant Chariot, Pembroke-mews, on the body of S. Grange, a coal-potter, who on Friday, while in a state of intoxication, was driving awaggon from Scotland-yard to Kensington, and in attempting to get on the shaft he fell, when he wheel passed over his thigh, and injured him so much that he died in the Hospital ow Sunday evening. Verdict—Accidental Death. Another Inquest was held at the same place, on the-body of J. Meadow: The deceased, eight years old, had been on a visit_ to his uncle, in Queen-street, Pimlico, and was left to mind the shop while the family were at tea, when his pin-a-fore _caught the flames, and he was burned so dreadfully that he expired in a short time. Verdict—Accidental Death. . An Inquest was also held at the King's Head, James-street, Buckingham-gate, on the body of J. Mills, a painter, who died in consequence of his trowsers, on which a quantity of turpentine had been spilled, catching the blaze, on approaching the fire-place. Verdict—Accidental Death. An Inquest was-held at the King's Head, Plymouth, on Saturday last, ou the body of W. Memo: y, the Mate of the vessel belonging to- Brixham, who died in consequence of a stab received in an affray last week, in Castle-street. The Jury, after a long and minute investigation, returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against the Dutch seaman who inflicted the wound. Last week, a young man of the name of Arnold, belonging to the Company of Dredgers, of Faversham, went with three others, in a boat, for the purpose of shooting wild fowl in the Swale. The deceased was in the act of steering the boat, when a sudden heel causing one of the ,guns to move froin its place, it unfortunately went off, and lodged the whole contents in his body. ':'he charge, (which was two pipes of swan shot), entered just above the right groin, and passing through the body, was only ::tamed by the skin on the opposite side. The deceased languished in great pain for about twentyfour hours before he expired.—Accidental Death. A few days since, as some workmen were employed on the roof of a house in the Kent-road, they accidentally ,t fall a roll of sheet lead between the rafters. The immense weight of the lead forced a passage through the ceiling of the room beneath, and it fell on a desk at which Mr. Williams (the master of thehouse) was seated writing ; in its fall it knocked off his hat, hut without doing him any injury. The desk was entirely demolished.