Star. — 1822-09-09 (London, England)

IZN-SQUA Fu a inn s Dansito.—Somitei Greenstood, a carman in the employ of Jonathan Ford, grease-molter, of Cowcross, appeared on a summons to answer tile complaint of Joseph Cooper, of this Office. Mr. White, of Bridge-street, Westminster, stated, that on Wednesday, about eleven o'clock, he saw the defendant sitting in a cart drawn by a very powerful and spirited horse, which be was driving at a very quick rate down the Strand. At the shop of Mr. Minier, the seedsman, near Adam-street, stood a waggon which was unloading, and a Gentleman in a gig was passing it, who held up his whip as a signal to the defendant to stop. Th.: latter, however, regardless of the motion, drove furiously on, and struck against the gig with such violence as to throw the Gentleman from his seat into the bottom of the gig, and then whipping his horse proceeded at a most furious rate down the &rand. The people called to him to stop, but looking round he put his hand upon his breech in defiance, and continued his career. Mr. White saw him turn down into Hungerfordstreet, where he drove against Cooper, who must have .been thrown down and run over but for the interference of the driver of a coal waggon, who, catching him by the arms, drew him on to the foot pavement ; he was then stopped, and being much intoxicated, conducted himself with great violence. The defendant said he was very sorry; he was " tipsy" at the time, and his deafness prevented him from hearing the call to stop.—He was convicted in the penalty of 10s. and Ss. costs.  Captain OwEN, since the attack made on him by the convict on board the BELLEROPHON, has been in considerable danger, though the symptoms, by the most recent accounts from Sheerness, are represented to hive become less alai ming. The following are the particulars of the most unprovoked attempt on his life p—" Hartley, the man who is suspected to be a participator in Mrs. Donatty's murder, ttas removed from Maidstone on board the BELLEROPHON last Monday week, and on the following Wednesday he was called to work with the other men, which he excused himself from by pleading illness;_ and on the Thursday, when he was again called, he refused to go; upon which Captain Owen had him brought up, and remonstrated with him in the presence of the other Officers. Hartley declined he would not work, but had rather be executed ; and wished he had been, in preference to being sent there; to which Captain OWEN replied, that he was an ungrateful wretch, both to thin and his King ; the one for bearing with him so long, and the other for sparing his life; when the fellow drew his hand from his bosom and snuck Captain Owen with the knife, as before stated.— ' It appeared that he had taken some trouble to rub up the back edge of the knife, and it is supposed that the Chief Mate, whose duty it was to set them to work, was his intended victim : it is not known by what means the knife came into his possession. Until Monday, Captain OWEN went on very well, when pain came on slightly, but nothing unfavourable appeared till Tuesday morning, when so great was the inflammation in an hour and a half, that the surgeon took .eighty ounces of blood frcon him at once, and -soon after ten more, besides leeches, which entirely subdued the inflammation; and from that time till Thursday morning he was mending, when he was seized by a violent attack in the bowels, attended with most severe pain, which continued till late at night, and from his low and exhausted state, fatal consequences were dreaded ; but towards morning he obtained some very comfortable sleep, and at eight o'clock on Friday morning was left much refreshed, and, in the opinion of the doctor, altered for the better. The culprit was still in the black hole' on board, hardened and Sullen."