Star. — London, England, 1811-09-21 00:00:00

Tilt AWAY. Frorii\every quarter of this country, where the Irisq Militia have arrived, we hear nothing but praise; their steadiness and soldier-like appearance is spoken of highly by every General Officer who has seen them. The Waterford Militia and Westmeath Militia tontinue in transports at Spithead, tht former regi =eat is bound for Harwich, the Westmeath for Dover Castle. The Louth and some other regiments *re at Plymouth. The 2d battalion of the gallant 45th regiment, corn. rnanded by Colonel Foam, is at Hilsea Barracks— the 2d battalion, 57th regiment, at the elegant new B irracks, at Winchester. Embarkations of men, horses, and stores of every description, are going on every Jay at Portsmouth and Plymouth, for Lord WELLINGTON'S army. Many Officers have lately gone out. Those able Officers, Generals LEITH and HOUSIITON, are about to return to the Army. It is a matter of the deepest regret that our fine tavalry continues to be surprised or taken by the enemy. Another party of the 11th Light Dragoons have lately been surprised, with a Lieutenant. The Phoenix and Monarch transports have arrived from Cork at Plymouth, with the Leitrim Militia on boarJ. Wednesday two transports sailed from Falmouth, With the East Kent Militia on board, under convoy bf his Majesty's brig BLOODROUND. ft is said to be the intention of Ministers immedi. stely to send out a further reinforcement of between three and 4000 men to the British army in Portugal. EXTRACT OE A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER o► THE ROYAL DRAGOONS, DATED EL ISISDOZ, sec. 20. cs Vtre are all on the alert, but in a state of Iner. tainty what the result of our movements may be. fl• MARMONT does not appear inclined to quit his present quarters. We are more healthy now than when in the plains of Estramadura, but the heat has been much against us, and when the cold weather sets in, we hope to do better,Notwithstanding our fatigues the army Is in excellent spirits, and high condition. Lord WELLING•TON has done all in his power to make tis comfortable ; and we (the cavalry) have been doubly fortunate is our commanding officer, Sir STA- In.wros COTTON, who has conducted the operations of the cavalry, during the three last campaigns, in high style—he is a most active and excellent officer, and has endeared himself to every good soldier under his command. We expect reinforcements. Our chi friendsi the 8d Dragoons, join our brigade.-.-Captain Dt:noty, Aid-de-camp to Sir STAPLETON COTTIN, a most valuable officer, is appointed Governor of Be lem Castle, the cavalry depot.—General GRAHAM has succeeded Sir B. SPENCER in his command ; and Sir W.C. Bettr..,Fono is recruiting .his health near Lisbon. We had 8,500 sick on the 6th of August." NifrilL INTELLIGENCE. Sriukzt gun brig arrived off Scilly 17th inst. from Gibraltar. The STAR sloop of war has arrived c Scilly, from the Leeward Islands. The Lisbon Mail of yesterd ty was brought by the ZENOBIA, of 18 guns, Captain M.KENztz, which *rrived at Falmouth. FALMOU rit, SIPTEAIBER U. Arrived this d.ty a Mail from Lisbon, brought by his Majesty's brig ZENOIIIA, 18 guns, Captain MAC -ItlrsZiE, out 16 days from Lisbon. No picket was itt Lisbon when she salted. The Manchester packet, with Mails for Lisbon, had arrived out aod proceeded on for Surid.tni ; ;Also arrived from Lisbon his Ma jesty's ship ltostutus, with sick and wounded soldiers; also the Jeune Baptiste (French brig) prize to his Majesty's ship ABERCR6MBII, from off Rochefort, 'with resin and tar, taken ! w.t.l two others of a eon- •ov about 14 days since ; also put in by contrary wind his Majesty's ship GRAMPUS, 50 guns, Captain HARWELL; with the fnllowipg East Indiamen und.r tenvoy, viz. Royal George, Captain GLADsTANO ; Bombay, Captain HAMILTON ; David Scott, Captain Loci Alnwick Castle, Captain Rot.t.ann ; Surat Castle, Captain Rotanisow Cirendestef, Captain BALKETT ; Canton, Captain GRAY; and the Inspec tor ( whaler), Captain WHIRLER ; from the South Seas. This fleet left China on the 2d April, and St. lielena on the loth July.—Wind L. PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMIIIt Is. Arrived the Dm:MARK, 74 guns, from the Eastward, end t'le FANCY cutter from Looe. SEPT. 19.—Arrived the PoecoPiNe, 44 gains, from the Brazils'; the SCYLLA, 18 gu:is, from the CLAM of France ; andalie Peacock sloop of war from Lisbon and a mouth's cruize off the Coast of Portugal. Sailed ' the PHEASANT sloop of war on a cruize. Went out of ilarbour the STORK sloop of war. POR'TSMOU'TH, SEPTEMBER. se. No arrivals.—Sailed his Majesty's ship NYAIIIE with a convoy for Cadiz, Gibraltar, and Malta. DEAL, SEPTEMBER Sailed his Majesty's ship Imre rogue to join Admi ral YOUNG, off Flushing. Arrived the Vl:minus gun brig from a cruize, The Gitina fleet are hourly ex pected ; the Swift pilot yacht is waiting for them. Jt is a singular fact, that the united ages of the ten first A dmirals on the list of our naval heroes, amount 10 eight hundred and fourteen years. This circum• stance spews ileat jghtiq Dot a very ualasalthy flu 4404. •LD MILE►Y. SBPT.2•• • Daniel Davit, a letter-carrier in the General Post office, was capitally indicted, for having, on the 31st of May last, feloniously embezzled a promissory note of the Bank of England for RIO, which came into his hands in the course of his official employment, in a letter entrusted to hint for delivery, but feloniously by him secreted, with intent to defraud Wm. Scolfield. The case was stated by the ATTORNEY GENERAL, and the facts proved were shortly as follow ;—The letter containing this note, was put into the General Post-office at Liverpool, on the 29th of May, addres sed by Mr. William Scolfield to his father, Mr. John I Scolfield, and directed to the care of T. Rape, No. 25, , King -street, Covent-Garden ; and it aught, in due course, to have arrived in London on the 31st. On that day the prisoner was employed with all the other letter-carriers in the sorting room at the Post office, assisting in the business of sorting the letters for delivery ; and upon that day he received credit three different. times for mis-sorted litters delivered to him, the addresses of which were not within his re gular walk. In consequence of some correspondence which took place between Mr. Scolfield and his fa ther, the note was missed, and the payment stopped at the Bank. On the 21st of July following, the note was paid into the Bank from the firm of Robarts and Co. into whose house it appeared to have been paid by Messrs. Meux and Co. brewers ; through whom it was traced to a publican named Rose, attheCrown and Two Chairmen, Soho ; and to whom the note being brought, in order to enquire how he came by it, he.turned up the back, and shewed it to. be endor sed in his own hand with the word Post.man," which the publican said referred to the prisoner as the person from whom he had received it. It also appeared by the testimony of a pawnbroker that on the 31st of May the note was tendered to him by a woman, in order to release a ring which she had pawned there for ss. ; but after he had endorsed this woman's name on the note, he declined'taking it, and this name also appeared upon the note produced in Court. This woman also proved that she had re ceived the note from the prisoner, to whom she re turned it when it• was refused at the pawnbroker's, and he gave her a one pound note in return. The prisoner being afterwards interrogated by Mr. Par kins, Solicitor to the Post-office, as to how he came by the note, he answered that he had received it in payment of a draft for £l2, from an army clothier, named Oswald, upon the house of Messrs. Marsh, Sibbald, and Co. but upon enquiring there, it was found that the RIO bill paid there to the prisoner was No. 17,734, on the 6th of May, and was then paid by the prisoner into the Post-othce—whereas the note in question was numbered 8,161, and did not arrive in London until the 31st of May. Mr. Justice HEATH summed up the evidence, and the Jury immediately found the Prisoner, Guilty Deal h. George Basset and Thomas Ford, two labourers be longing to the London Docks, were indicted for stealing 571bs. weight of silver from a vessel called the Archduke Charles, the property of Mr. Thomas Moore, on the 30th of July last. Most of the facts are already before the public, on pr.:vtoes examinations at the public office. The pri ' soners had been employed in clearing out the vessel, las also was Jarvis, an accomplice, wro was admitted l as a witness for the prosecution. Thom is Cap, a publican in t? .e swighbourhood of the Ikcics, was the person to whom they entrusted the stolen silver, in or. tier to dispose of it, and who fiat made the discoirery s upon his learning some time al terwards that a reward was offered for the offenders. Captain Henry Mooie stated, that his vessel arrived in the Docks from Lima, in Punt, on the 9 h July last, and having a quantity of silver on board, tie had deposited two bags of it under some indigo upon at the tank fir payment, hue instead of having the above indorsement upon it, they found the words " bad note," converted.into 44 bad notice," and Hop wood was completely obliterated, and " Wcst.street" was converted into " West-Ham ;" 27th" was changed into R 27, and " April" into " Appleton." On the prisoner being called upon to account for again issuing the note, he excused himself, by say ing, that he had kept it among other notes in the till, but some person came and robbed it when he was ne cessarily absent. It was very singular (said Mr. Knapp) that the robber had taken that single note and left the others, which were represented to be genuine. He rills ed, however, that the prisoner would now give a better account of it, or submit to the sentence of the law. Mr. Justice BAILEY asked the Counsel, whether he was prepared to prove that the prisoner had uttered it ? The latter answered, that he was not. Couter. " Then there is no evidence to convict the prisoner," and he was discharged. ' Margaret Arowland was then tried, on an indictment similar to the last. It appeared that she went to a pawnbroker's named Hulme, in Bow -street, Bloomsbury, and tendered the note charged in the indictment, in payment for a pledge which she wished to redeem. Mr. Hulme having discovered it to he a forgery, asked her where she had got it ? when she told a variety of different stories, but at length, on being taken before the Ma gistrates at Bow -street, confessed she had received it of her father, who was a bricklayer's labourer. These facts having transpired in the course of the trial, Mr. Justice Hearn was of opinion, that there was not just ground for imputing to the prisoner either the act of forgery, or the guilty knowledge of the note being forged. In this opinion the Jury con curred, and the prisoner was Acquitted. Jeremiah Nagaland, the father of the last-named pri. soner, stood indicted for feloniously having in his pos session, without lawful excuse, one forged and coon -1 terfeit note, for one pound, purporting to be of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, well knowing the same to be so forged and counter feited. In this case also, the prosecution failed through defect of evidence, and the prisoner, under the direc tion of the Court, was Acquitted. Sarah Davis and Elisabeth Edward: were capitally indicted for forging and uttering a certain note for Je.s, purporting to be a note of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, wiih intent to de fraud the said Company; and afterwards for f.. 10- ' niously having such forged note in their possession. . Mr. KNAPP for the prosecution stated, on the part of the Bank Directors, that as the prisoner Davis had this morning pleaded guilty to the minor charge, they were not disposed to press the prosecution on the ca pital offence, as they conceived the ends of justice would be answered by the minor conviction ; and with respect to the other prisoner Edwards, it was found that she had a sister so like her in person, that something like doubt had arisen as to the identity of the prisoner. The latter,: therefore, was at quitted ; and the former remanded under the conviction upon her plea of - Guilty. [The difference of nerve between these two priso ners was strongly marked on this occasion. Davis, who had pleaded guilty to the minor charge in the morning, had a prepossessing person ; and ahhough she was aware that her plea had averted all danger of capital pttuishment, yet was so much affected that she could. scarcely stand at the bar, but seemed all honor and dismay ; whilst Edwards, a tall, robust, and rather masculine young woman, pho had made no such compromise, stood upon her trial on the ca pital indictment with the greatest firmness, and per fectly unmoved—but the moment she heard the ver. dict of Acquittal, she fainted away, and in that state was carried out of Court.] MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, SEPTEMBER U. the starboard side of the hold. On the `lath of the! same month he discovered' that it was taken away. I CIIILD STEALING.—Frances Dunkerly, a strong and He identified the property, which was pr ielticed in ' stout young woman, was put to the bar, charged with Court. The amount of the silver stolen was about ! stealing a child's frock, of the value of one shilling, £BOO, and the loss still sustained was 83.50, the whole' the property of William Turner. Mary Turner, the not being yet recovered. lwife of William Turner, stated, that she lives in the The prisoners made nu defence, but called several ! neighbourhood of Bethnal Green. That on Friday persons, who spoke ravourably of their character. I morning her little son, a child of two years and a half Mr. Justice HEATH itAted to the Jury that this i old, was sitting at the door of the house where she offence was merely a simple larceny, and cautioned lodged, when it was suddenly missed, and after a them as to the manner in which they should receive long search was found a considerable way off, strip the testonor, of accomplices. ped of its clothes. On the Wednesday after, the wit • The Jury found both the prisone rs—Geilty. nos was sent for to the Public Office, Whitechapel, where the prisoner was in custody, and identified the The following prisoners were capitally convicted, viz.-4lur Kent, for being at large beft:re the expira- child's frock in the hands of an Officer of the Police. A Mrs. Thatcham, who keeps an old clothes shop in lion of the term of seven years, for which he had been James-street, Bethnal Green, deposed that the pri ord.oeil to be transported; Afergart Davis, for stealing a g?iLang, price 45, the property of John Hanmore ; sorer sold her the frock in question, and that hearing JetiliAM /airy, for ste.aing a quantity of plate, the a woman was taken into custody upon a charge of stripping several children, she had the curiosity to go property of William Rowlatt, in his dwelling house ; and John Bond, alias Smith, for a burglary in the to the Public Office to see her, and there recognized dweillig house of John Mackinder, and stealing se- • her as the person who had sold her the frock in ques tion. On being asked what she had to say for her veral articles of wearing apparel, his property. self, she said that the witnesses were all perjured.— The following were convicted of felony, viz... John The Jury found her Guilty, and the Court sentenced Pawsey, for stealing two silver salt•spoons, the pro- h erto party of Thomas Record; Joseph Dalton, for stealing John Leval was indicted for assaulting Margaret several hanks and bobbins of silk, &c. the property of William Winter ; Sarah Collier, for stealing £3 in ; 16, Barnes and Mary Barnes, her daughter, a girl about and treating the latter in a most indecent manner, halfpence, the property of S. Nicklin ; Ann Lewis, !on the 9th of March last. It appeared that the par for stealing various articles of wearing apparel, the : ties lived next door to each other, and that they had property of George Robinson ; Caspart Thomas, for I each the privilege of dryin g linen on a platform erected sealing a hearth-rug. the property of Messrs. Wooe r - i • ward and Marton ; Charles P arsons , f or stea li ng five at the back of the house. On the day mentioned in ! the indictment Mrs. Barnes had hung some linen out black scarfs and 24 half pieces of ribbands, of Tho max Hughes ; and William Wil son , f or stealing ito dry on the platform, and some dispute arising re mss specting it between her and Mrs. Leval, the latter deal plank, the property of Thomas Hacker. I threw a waistcoat into the mud, and said her husband ' Join licieweed was indicted for uttering a forged .on his return should roll her, the prosecutrix, In it too. note fir .IEI, purporting to be a genuine note of the No blows passed at that time ; but in the afternoon Bank of England, knowing the same to be forged. Mrs. Barnes having sent her daughter ()mon the plat- Mr. KNAPP, for the prosecution, stated, that he was form for something, Leval, the defendant, being at ,not instructed, nor had he any desire to throw the least home at that time, came out, and seizing her, pro reflection upon the general mural character of the ceeded to correct her in a very indelicate manner. prisoner; on the contrary, he understood that ha was The girl cried murder—on heat ing which her mother a Master Baker, near tie Seven Dials, and had al- came out, ss hen the defendant attacked her, threw her ways acted honestly till the present transaction pc- down, and rolled her in the mud several times. The curred. The Learned Gentleman then stated, that detente set up was that the girl was impertinent. The the Officers of the Bank having heard that the pi- defendant, however, denied having treated her in the soner had had a forged note returned on him, sent a manner stated ; but said he only took hold of her by the person to inspect it, who instantly discovered and in- arm, and shook her—and on her calling out, her mo formed him that it was a forgery, aMd marked ort the they came out, seized him by the collar, ano struck back of it, the words " bad note, J. Hopwood, Aim several times. The Jury found him Guilty, anti Baker, Vs'est-street, 27th April," and told the pri- the Court sentenced him to pay a fine of £. for sad: soner and his wife, that it was felony to utter it after assault. that notice. The prisoner promised not to part with R. Browne was indicted for assaulting Atch but shortly afterwards the mums was pramted d ,eacoll. The prosecutor wits cookies. to Mr. Mac- ~- <~ryr Donald, the Army-agent, in Pall-Mall: He *as turning from the Public Institution, on Vie night of the .sth of July ; having occasion to turn aside, he Stopt near the defendant's house. Whilst standint with his back towards the street, the defendant cams bellied him and knocked him doe 1. The defence Was, that the defendant remonstrated with the prose. cutor nut to stop there, but he persisted in doing so: The Jury found hirn Guilty, and the Court Sentenced him to pay a fine of 13s. 4d. David Martin was indicted for a riot and assault; charging him, with 10 other persons, with creating riot, in breach of the King' s peace, on the 50th of June last, on Saffron-hill. The prosecutor, Jahn Barnsley, stated that he wart • la shoemaker in Saffr eohilf, and also a street Constae ble; that about seven o'cli ck • n Sunday, the Seth of ,June, he was disturbed by a g:eat noise opposite hie door, he saw a number of persons, between ono and . 200, collected together, braudishing sticks. and knock.. ing each other down ; he Went out among them, itt the hope of quelling the disturbance, and took an active part among them, but catild not succeed in dis persing them, and the disturbance continued until I after nine o'clock, when they retired. In the after. I noon they returned with many others, and Again com, menced the same disturbances, swearing vengeance against any b—y Constable who would prevent them," and by this time the diiturbances had got to such a pitch, the witness was obliged to collect his ' neighbours to protect his house, which ti:e tiuters Ithreatened to pull about his ears ; they continued ira this manner until nine o'clocit at night, and lie ob served the defendant, whom he knew, taking an active part among them. On his cross-examination by Mr. A/IDRIS/i t for tbst. defendant, he admitted he was a very smite Officer* but denied that he had thereby made himself obtiesi, ous fn the neighbourhood ; he admitted that-some the parties who were to have been prosecuted, had compromised the matter with some of them who were to prosecute, and th it some money was paid f r chit purpose, but denied Leing any participator in it; he could not say whether he was to rer.ive any of that money, but he might possibly partake of & supine on the occasion. Several otter witnesses were called on the pert of the prosecution, who spoke as to the tint, but none of them could identify the defendant as being a party ' concerned. One witness spoke to a sum of res cing paid by one Donovan to settle the matter, with the ' knowledge of the defendant. —Upon this evidence the 'Jury acquitted the defendant. ! JAN Barnsley (who was prosecutor in the befere. mentioned case) was indicted for assaulting Catherine Anderson. The prosecutrix stated, that she was a barrow-woman, and the defendant a beadle. A girl in her empl iy was standing in the Old Batley veldt her barrow, whin the defendant seized t;!e barrow • threw its contents into the street, and drove it to hit own house. The proseeterix toil wed him, a d in. treated he would return it ; instead of d rng so, ho pursued her out of the hotoe, when she tell, and het leg was broken ; she was taken to the hosietal, anti Iwhen disch irged from thence it;;plied to the di fen: dint to allow her a trifle till :he was able to wolf& .vin ; this he refused, and slid he wisf.ed her leg • had been worse. This staternent was correb Tate by two uitnesaes.;--Mr. ADOLPHUS, for the delendaila con:ended that he had only been in the execution of his duty in removing a nuisance. Hr ce:tAtnly se zed, the barrow, as stated by the prosecierie, and cenvey led it to his house, the prosecotrix followed, and abuse led him, and on his arrival at his house, she assaulted him ; upon her doing so, lie laid hold of her in order to take her to Hatton-Garden Office, when, in her struggling to get from him, she fell, and the accident in question happened to her.—The Jury, without he. sization, found hire Guilty.—The Court observed. that the defendant had certainly bees' guilty of great want of caution in the execution of his duty, though it could not be supposed he had any intention of do ! ing the woman the injury. It was necessary that parish•officers should do their duty, but it was equ illy necessary that they should do it with humanity. The Court, therefore, ordered him to pay a fine of U to ;1 the King!—The poor woman may st. ll bring an ac. _ '1 lima for damages. THE APPEMACIIING BATTLE.—Somernivinderstand. ing has existed the last two days between the partizans of Molineaux and Cribb, relative to the place of com bat, and to such a height, that it was even betting yesterday there would be no fight. It was agreed ,t the time of the match-making that the battle was to take place on the North Road, above 100 miles from Lon don; and within this day or two the Black's friends have claimed the toss for the choice of the place for combat, and in the event of winning have named the Cheltenham Road, which wound leave Crib nearly 300 miles to travel in four days, and this has been claimed within the last two days ; but Crib's friends are deter mined to abide by the articles. Our Readers will recollect the melancholy affray which happened at Thatcham, as inserted in our pupil of Saturday last, which has since been investigated by the Magistrates of the Newbury division ; when Richard Farran, George Arnold, John Hairis, and James Ccok, ii.habitants of Thatcham, were corn- Tin ted to the County Gaol,' for the wilful n.u-der of the Irish soldier at that town. The other soldiers were liberated, and are bound over to prosecute. REFINEMENT IN PUNISHMENT.—The following cira. cumstaiice is stated to have taken place in May last, on board the Sampson prison-ship, in the Medway : In May last, the French prisoners confined on board the Sampson, formed a conspiracy to forcibly take vs session of the chip and effect their escape, which was prevented by one of their people imparting secretly se the Commanding-Officer their projected plan: ena raged at the disappointment of their hopes, they neat every elf rt to find out the indivitia.il by whose cum. munication their secret transpired ; and haviog, as they thought, fixed upon the right man, as soon as the prison doors were shut, they assembled a Csurs for his trial, at which a preC47 Verbal was drawn up, declaratory of their proceedings-..a diversity of (lat. nicn prevailed as to the punishment necessary to bit inflicted on him for his imagined treachery ; at length A refinement on punishment was suggested, which wan the tstuoing Cn Ilia tace the u.iture . f the c i ne, ana the man, Who is now on board the N.4-tur, bears 1 the following d' claration on his forehead and cheeks, J'ai 'nodal mes fuses aux Anglois abaci tits pa. tea, LC 4*zapson, May ill, 1011.'1 ~n_s ifl~i