Star. — 1826-12-26 (London, England)

SIMGLINT. for the defendant.  Evidence having been produced of the delivery of the harness at the Office of the Company in Queenstreet, Lincoln's Inn-fields, a letter from the attorney for the defendant to the plaintiff's wtorney was then put in and tend, stating that the Company had consisted of 50 persons, of whom Major Codd was one, but it had now fail,d, and it was too much to expect that defendant should pay more than his proportion of the debts which had been incurred.  The Common SSIOIAWT observed, that this Company had never been properly instituted. The Luau Cuter Justice—Constituted or not, the defendant Is by his attorney admitted to be "one of the Company." The COMMON Seaceant—We are in a situation to prove that the defendant has been a considerable loser by ibis Company. The Loin CHM Justice—l% dear, no one can doubt that— (A laugh). Under the direction of his Lordship, the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, £3 ISt. Rd. The LORD CHIEF Jus•rrca observed, that when it was publicly known that every Member of such Companies was individually liable for the debts so contracted, he trusted it would be a lesson to render people cautious how they engaged in such undertakings. The Court on rising adjourned to the Bth of next month:  YORK, Drcemsza 23.  Wednesday, the deposition of Francis Charlton, the unfortunate man who was wounded in the affray %%WI two poachers, at Gosforth, on the morning of the 9:h instant, was taken down in writing, as was also the deposition of the other man, Moore, in the presence of the committing Magistrate, and of the two alleged poachers, Thomas Armstrong and Jonathan Campbell. Francis Charlton was examined in bed, where he still remains exceeding ill from the wounds he received.— Both prisoners were then fully committed to take their trial at the next Spring Assizes. The prisoner, Campbell, has made a full confession of the whole transaction, and as a great many witnesses have already been examined, by way of confirmation of his statement, little doubt remains but that it is the present intention to make application for Campbell to be admitted an evidence for the Crown, against his associate, Thomas Armstrong, the latter being the person accused of firing the gun at Charlton. Thursday morning, one of the Scarborough cobles met with at sea, and brought into that harbour, the coble Cambridge, of Robin Hood's Town, with three of her crew drowned, viz. William Moorsom, John Marshall, and Benjamin Granger ; and the fourth (Launcelot Moorsom) in nearly a lifeless state. The latter, howe►er, is under the care of the Humane Society (whose prompt and unwearied benevolent exertions on those occasions cannot be too highly spoken of), and is likely to recover: From what has been collected from the survivor, it appears, they had been on board a vessel from the Baltic the preceding night (said to be the Larpool, from Rostock, for London) to see their relatives, and the general impression is, that they had got too much liquor—fallen asleep in the coble, and thus been starved to death.  Between eight and nine o'clock on Saturday evening, a respectable young man, clerk to Mr. Parnaby, who is steward to Wm. Fenton, Esq. was on his way to his father's house, at Oulton, when he met two men on the Wakefield Road, at High Goslam, who passed and re. passed him two or three times between that and Low Goslam. Feeling somewhat alarmed at the conduct of those men, he stopt at a farm house on the road for some tinge, and then started again. When he had got a little past the Waggon Road Bridge, going up the hill towards the John o'Groat's public-house, one of the men knocked him down, and two others rifled his pockets of a metal watch, and an ebony flute, and also took from him two shirts and an umbrella. The young man's head is severely bruised. They swore that if be spoke a word, they would murder him. They each tried his bat, and when they found it would not tit any of them, they threw it back, saying " d—n thee, take it."