Star. — 1826-07-03 (London, England)

NORTHAMPTON, JULY 1.  Boughton Green Fair has been this week attended with its usual reinue of giants, dwarfs, princes, wild beasts, pickpockets, and all the various bazaars of jewellery, haberdashery, hard ware, Tunbridge ware, gingerbread, and ready-made clothes. There was, however, a great quantity of merchandise of every description, a considerable portion of which remained unsold. The pleasure fair-on Monday was respectably but not so numerously attended as we have seen it no former occasions, the extreme beat of the weather preventing many from visiting it. Tuesday produced a large stew of horses and cattle on the Green. About 12 o'clock on Tuesday night a :irons party of nearly 50 of the lowest class of prigs mustered together, and marshalled in pairs, they sallied, "seeking whom they might devour;" and having succeeded in kicking up a bit of a row, a very serious affray immediately took place. Having armed themselves with bludgeons, every person they met received a knock-down blow; the watchmen (of whom, unfortunately, there were but three on duty on the Green) were disarmed of their halberts, and being broken in two, the upper'part formed a most dreadful weapon in the hands of the miscreants. The cry of murder was heard in every direction, and. many persons were seriously injured : one poor fellow, a waiter at a booth, bad his nose cut entirely asunder, and was otherwise much bruised, and the pocket and watch lob of his breeches completely cut away, from the waistband to the middle 3t the thigh. For a long time no one durst attack so formidable a gang, but a little strength being obtained, a desperate effort was made, and, much to the credit of several individuals, no less than 31 of these notorious characters were taken into custody, and brought to this town in a waggon, and a more despicable set of ragged wretches could not well be conceived. _ _  Tke motley stoup consisted of boys and men, from 10 to 53 yeas s of age, English, Irish, and Welsh—from London, Bit mingham,Warwick, Manchester, Dumfries, and Kilkenny. The whole of them underwent examination before our County Magistrates, but sufficient evidence only was produced to justify the commitment of seven of these desperadoes. As a proof the determined character of some of the higher cuss of thieves, a north country dealer had his pocket picked of 200 i. in one of the booths, about one o'clock in the day, by absolutely forcing him backwards on the table, stopping his mouth, and extracting his book from an inside wabtcoat pocket, with which they got clear away, their numbers preventing detection.  It is rumoured that one of the ships which are to join Lord Cocunawa, on his route, was fitted out at Antwerp. The Committee of Philhellene', at Liege, have purchased for the Greeks 500 stand cf fire-arms, which have been already s. nt off, probably on board this vessel. At the Admiralty Sessions, on Saturday, gorge firer, Daniel Fleming, and Sameel Bell, were tried for piracy, for dispossessing the master of the Alert merchant vessel of his command ; bur it appearing that ttey acted under the influence of liquor, and flaying again reinstated the master, the criminal past of the charge was not made out, and they were acquitted. Tne damage done by the late thunder And hail-storm in various parts of the countt y was immense. The bail, stones in somtplact s measured neatly four inches round.