Star. — London, England, 1811-12-28 00:00:00

_ NAPAL INTB FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 25. Arrived the RAPID schooner from Portsmouth ; his Majesty's ship PHEASANT from a cruize. Sailed the Lapwitco, witiT mails for Surinam ; and his Majesty's ship PHEASANT on a critize.—Wind E. S. E. • PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 26. Arrived the Sturt, COOLING ; Hawke, PERCY ; Wil liam, FAULKNER, and Doire, FOOT, London traders also, the ARNILDE frigate, from a cruize. Sailed the DIANA frigate, Capt. FERRIS, for Basque Roads—she has a number of live oien on board, fur the fleet on that station.-4 , Wind N. E. DEAL, DECEMBER 27. Sailed the CYGNET sloop of war on a crtiizee GRAVESEND, DECEMBER 27. Arrived the Sir George Prevost, Ginsow, from Quebec ; the Rassen; ALLEN, from New:To: k ; the Francis, HAYES, from Antigua i and the Carnarvon, ROBINSON, frOITI Quebec. Sailed the favourite, NUN b, fur the Cape of Good Hope; the Esther, CLIFTON, for Senegambia the Cornet, BRADY, for Lisbon ; the London, LE CEN. rEurt, for Oporto and th; Wiiliain, MITCHELL, for Jersey. 'ARMOUTH. DECEMBER ef. Arrived the &Ors, Lieutenant CrrastProx, from the Baltic.: during her passage home she encountered a severe gale, and for her safety, she was compelled to throw her guris overboard. The following ships Left the Baltic with the SNIPE, and are hourly expected to pass this port, YiX. VICTORY, Sir JAMES SAIAIRREZ ; ORION, 74., Sir A. DiescsAN ; Vito, 74, Rear-Admiral DIXON ; DEFENCE, 7-1., CRESSY, 74, with the Sr. GEORGE under jury mast, in tow. The HERO, '3, put back into Wingo Sound, with her convoy, bound to England, on the 17th inst. Remaining ships are. the ARDENT and DICTATOR, 64 guns each, C. lIRSCEN T Ind Fiscano frigates, and URGENT gun-brig, Arrived the LEViRET sloop of war, and a convoy ft oni Remain in the Roads Solehay, Portia, and three cutters.—Wind W. t'STRACT OF A LETTER FROM A PHYSICIAN SERVING IN THE ARMY UNDER LORD WELLINGTON, DATED AL FA LIES, NOVt 28. 44 You must know 1' have again got back to my Old division, the gth, which was stationed at Guarda, horn whence I wrote you some 18 or 20 months since, where I rejoined k on the 18th, and on the 24th marched off for the frontiers at an hour's notice, and arrived here the second day, where we have been since expecting minutely the orders for advaheing, as all the army is on the move, end a vast quantity of our artillery is assembled at Fuentes de Guinaldo. It appears the enemy want to form a large depot in' Ciudad Rodrigo, and. are now approaching with an Immense convoy of provisions, ammunition, &c. es corted by le,ooo Men, and his Lordship being deter- Mined that no supply shall be sent into that garrison without Marmont's whole army being drawn together Vanier met only females his men, but gives the ‘Spaniards an opportunity of attacking and annoying their out-posts), we are brought up here to act as cite cumstances require. e The enemy, in consequence of our forward movements, have halted near Salamanca, till Man- Won . can • bring up a sufficient number of men to overpower us, and accomplish his object ; and if he is not in a state to do so, the convoy must Or course eall back to Selamanca, where it will be consumed by the garrison, in which case our end is answered. However, I shall not close _this letter for some days. in order that I may give you an account of any thing that happens. From the irregularity of the army post in this country, I hardly ever get a letter, and have only received twelve papers during the last 4 months. I never suffered so much from cold before. We have i ce every where, and the floor for a bed. The sky is to be seen through the roof, and there are neither *lass or shutters to the window of my miserable bile' let ; added to this, my pocket quite empty, our pay being between three and four months in arrear, nor do we know when a dollar will be paid. Should the' weather contieue eqteally hard a fortnight longer, I do - net think I shall be able to keep in the field with the army,but be obliged to se back to Cie mbra or Lisbea." =reeler OF ANOTHER LETTER, DATED GUA RDA, NOVEMBER 30. 4.4 On the evening I wrote the former part of my let • ice', we received a route to fall beck in the rear, and it: consequence marched yesterday tittoring, halting last night at Marmaloira. a miserable small village, hearty stripped of its inhabitaate. In the eveninge as some of the men were reeling. they by accident set fire to the house, whit:: beitsg covered with strew, occasioned the destruction ofae whole range, seven in number. Two were burnt in out advance, five days before. The situation of this place is so bleak,l and the frost so intense, that hue of the guards over the live stock in the field *as killed by the cold, and found dead this morning on his post, In my billet, the poor family (husband, wife, and 5 children) had only one old blanket to cover them. We march on Monday, Dec 2, totrards Galexes, where we shall arrive an i Wednesday, and are to take up our winter quarters in the village round it. What diversion may come here Is not known, but all are retirine• back on our re sources for the winter, it being found to be absolutely impossible to maintain the army so far advanced, particularly as the frontier of Spain is already drained, l Med we have little or no money to pay for what tittle articles the CoMmissary could obtain from the intl.+. tietanure and the bread which was bought cost one sbilNng per pound. I understand that the large guns! are got into Almeida, and that a strong garrison will be kept there with the light division stationed about Peniel, and probably the 4th division here, and the first at Vieseti ; however,,this latter is only report. It appears now, that our advance was only a feint to deceive the enemy, previous to the army Miring lo better quarters. I gave you no account of Hugs bUsiness, knowing it only from hearsay, and that but little sooner than you could sec it in the pa- His Lordship eidelighted with it, as being the Peking done during thewar.' : - L 17 - e -- ... S . • . . ton, that it happened at Mr. Lawrence's, the Sh'p public-hcuse, near the Pear Tree, the landlord was . DEATit OF ThFIN WILLIAMS. 'out at the time, but his daughter, a very ithlligent The Magistrates assembled soon after ten o'clock, female, most completely cont ra di c t e d th e st a t ement . ' accompanied by Counsellor Reao r e t , a nd severa l Miss Lawrence knew Williams before Ma r r's mtir other Gentlemen. Th e y we re t h en i n f orme d t h at der ;he used to be very free, go into the bar, take his Williams had committed s u i c id e . On h ea ri nth i s glass, and gained her good opinion f rom hi s i ns i n u l information, all business was sus p en ded un til the are tulle address. After Marr's murder, he used to s ay, Miss L. I don't know what is the mutter with me, I rival of Robinson, the keeper of th e l oc k- u p ro o m feel so uneasy." Once he came int o tOrn house greatly attached to their office. B e fo re t we l ve be re tu r n e d in a hackney-coach, when he s t a t e d t o th e M ag i s - agitated, and said, " I don't thnk I am well, for I trates, that on going to the Gove r nor of the prison, am unhappy, and can't remain ea s y." Mi ss L. an with their order for delivering th e p r i s o n e r i n t o hi s swered, "Williams, you ought t o k n ow be s t what custody, he proceeded to the New Prison, and on I you have done." He replied, " Why, lett night I going into Williams's place o f confi n em en t, he s a w ate a good, supper off fowls, and h a d pl en ty of li the turnkey, whO conducted him to the cell, and to quor.' Miss L. inimediately said, " Good eating it his great surpt ize saw Williams hanging to a ran, not the way to make you happy ;" ein e hich he retired which partly extended along the cieling, and is placed ,—The Magistrates asked Miss L. if she ever saw for the accommodation of prisoners to throw their Williams in company with any other m a n ? "Only linen, clothes, &c. on. Williams was suspended to once, to the best of my recollection; he was a stout man; I only saw him, but cannot describe his person." the rail or post by his white neck handkerchief, tied securely about his neck. On inspecting the body, it The examinant was shortly after called in, to clear was supposed that he had not long commi ted the the character of two persons who were seen in Wil act ; his eyes and his mouth Were open, and the state liams's company the night precedin g the mu st ier of Mr. Williamson and family. Her statement was So of his body clearly dettionstrated that he struggled very hard. The turnkey of the prison locked him up correct, that the Magistrates were s a tisfied that the the night prec e ding, men were free from all suspicion of criminal esiocia and did not discover any mate. ,iial depression in Ins spirits, although he had consi- lion with Williams. derably fallen away since his confinement. John Harris deposed, that he vets iii the habit cf . ticepinet with Williams, but knew of no friend he had On the relation of these particulars, the Magistrates excepting Hart. On die night of the murder, 'Wit held a conference upon the steps to be pursue.l. At n •liams can* to bed at a little past two. The witness length it was determined to enter into the examination rose first in the morning, wentout, heard of the intirdir of Witnesses, whose testimony would bring the late melanch ly events to more decisive proofs of Wit- of Mr. Mate, and when he returned t o ld Williamsot it, e liams's guilt. In a preceding Palm - , the examination who replied, though he was :till in bed, " I knowit." of Mrs. Vermilloe, Mrs. Rice, and the prisoner's fel- The witness found the moldy s to c kings and shoes low-lodgers, was fully stated. It is only'necessary which Williams afterwards took out of his hands, and now.to insert any new circumstances which were dis- sa id , " Give them to we, I will go indwarelt and clued before the Magistrates, and tO establish the wash theta." Since the murder of Mr. Marr,Williams fact of Williams having been assisted, in order to had slept little, and was very uneasy in his bed. Wil trace out his accomplices. * i liame once observed to the witness, that Mr. Lee's the ! house, the Black Horse in Gravel-lane, was very con- Ma Mrs. Vermillioe was very closely questioned by venient for a robbery, the outlet behind was so good. gtstrates as to her knowledge of the fatal maul, , Mr. Lee said that he once caught Williams opening which she declared she never missed" until Monday 1 his till. i Corbela coal-heaver, was one of Williams' last, . She could not be at all positive that it was one most intimate frlentli, but he was in bed at the wit of those which belonged to John Peterson. She ap ness's house at the time of Kith murders. The witness Wired Unwilling to identify it, and was asked by the Magistrates whether, when she heard that her bus- was standing at his derr, nearly opposite Williamton's band in Newgate stated it to be the same, she had not when 'l'urner descended from the window. Just be exclaimed, " Good GOD, why does he sty so i" She fore that he heard " Mr.Wiltiamson exclaim in a weak, " at first denied having used the expressi n ; but, on a half-stifled voice, Watch, Watch, Watch ! The witness being called who heard her, she confessed , witness telt certain that more than one man had been that she emproyed it, or something like it. The first concerned in the murders. llfargetra Reilly, a girl of the town, deposed that time she lai.d any suspicion that W Mien's was con- ' she saw two Men tun out of Gravel tine, one of them, cerued in either of the murders, was, when a young as st ell as she could see, with large whiskers, the other man named Harris, who slept vith Williams, spewed lame. She thOught that a man brought before the Me , her a pair of stockinge belonging to him, which had gistrates on Tuesday was like one of them. been tucked behind a mink in an extra ntely muddy ! John torlett, the coal-heaier, being called, pointed state, even to withinfibout an inch of the op. On it named man, lia comonly called 1 further examination of them, she saw evidently the cut a Long Billy, who w Wil as lamm Oldblass,e, ns an intimate friend of rmarks of two bloedy fingers aeon the top of one of Williams. 'the witness and those two were d e a t h iag them. She then called in a man named Glass ! to look at them, who, believing the stains to be those : " 'of blood, advised Mrs. at Mr. Lee's on the night of the mUrderif Williamson. Vermilloe to turn Williams : Trotter, the carpenter, once said to the Witness, It out of the house. The witness was asked why she is a very shocking concern, and you would say so in did not disclose this important fact at her former exa- 1 deedit_you knew as muck as I do. ' Mrs. On' agan gave her evidence, as desiribed in mination ? and whether she was not intimidated by I Williams ? On which she admitted that she was : rfs'er•targ parer. On the eu bject of tbet chivied, afraid that either he or some of his acquaintances tee Vern-Aloe corroborated the accuracy of the wit would murder her, j nest, and said, that she well remembered the china, . Q. w You need have no such fear ; yon knowelvlr froinjak l t were the motives for Williainf e ailiseite.- a llatakilegietra tee asked Mt% *hats . atet 'situation: you have heard diet he has hanged him- self P' *tinning out . the house when the watchman enter ' A. (Much affected and shocked) " Good Goal?, I .ad t- She !risked, KTo look after the chisel, and hope not." , finding that die watchman had picked it up at her Q. 4, Why do you hope n o t ?" • I doter le returned in,a great passion, which now con -0 A. (After some hesitation) " I should have beebeene t vinced her be intended to break into her house." sorry, tf he were innocent, that he should Several witnesses were then called as to the coraluct Irate sufa. l feted." * i of Hart and Fitzpatrick before the murders, but they The discovery of the maul marked . „ J. p . r, was I were completely exonerated. the first thing that made her suspect Williams of the I Cuthbert, who slept in the same room with Wil murder of Mr. Marr's famil - The witness then res. i limns, deposed, that • e heard him talk in his sleep, , ?,, iiii . LA)* MURDERS. since the niurdas, and say, 41 }lngo, what is this ?" lated the circumstances of the dikovery before men- timed of the ripping iron, at Mrs. On's window, The witness called out, Williams, what is the which somewhat coati med her suspicions. j matter ?" Williams replied, incoherently--" Five The questions then put referred to the connections' shillings ! Why my pockets are full of shillings." and associates of Williams, to which she replied, that It appear. that Williams was a shipmate of Mr. he had non , !, excepting now and then a fey? shipmates; Mart's, and came home with him aboltt a year and a he was in the habit of going to all the public-houses, half ago, in the Dover Castle East Indiaman. Marr and behaving with great familiarity ; but she never was Captain's servant, and Williams was registered knew that he . had any friends. When he returned as an able seaman. Williams has since been to Rio from the East Ilidies in the Dover Castle, three : Janeiro, from whence he returned about 12 weeks mouths ago, he deposited £BO in her husband's' ago. He had often mentioned being in comp my with hands, which was not all expended at the time of the , Marr. He always passed by the name of Williams, 'orders. i except when he first introduced himself to Mrs Wit- The stockings and shoes Williams is supposed to liamson. - the night -*of Williai Marr, from his good conduct, was put into business by Captain Richardson, of the Duver Castle, and a Mr. Lloyd, of this city. CORONER'S INQUEST ON WILLIAMS. have worn on of the murder .amson, *ere now prnilw.ed. The stockings ap.tred to have been washed; but the stains of brood had not quite disappeared ; the shoes had likewise been washed. Williams was in the habit of wearing very large whiskers, and Saturday night last was the first time she perceived that he had cut them off. Alter this period she closely watched him, and she thought he seemed to be afraid to look at her. The subject of the two murders was of:en mentioned in his company, and though before very talkative, she observed that Williams always slunk out of the way into the pas sage, and seemed to be listening to what was said.— One day it was remarked to him that Williamson's *as a very shocking affair- 4, yes," said he, " very shocking," and he then turned off ti*.: conversation. The maul, the ripping-iron, and the two chissels, were now brought. before the witness, that she might, if possible, ideutify them, but she shrunk away from the fatal instnsments with horror. All she could say was, that she had seen a maul something like it in her lunband's house. She remembered alhetuguese being stabbed in Newmarket-etreet, and seat Wil liams was then in Eaglinsd e as well aS Richter. She never heard it salltilleit wait ohildtert had seen Wil liams stab the Fllll. Since the arrest of Wil hams, a carpentjalr name of Trotter had called ingoire after him aad said he would soon be clear ed. On the eight of the last murder, Williams had fold the witness that Williamson was going next day to pay his brewer. Williams's name, she Irad heard, Was John Murphy. Mr. Lawrence, the landlord of the Ship and Royal Oak public-house, spoke of the familiarity with which Williams used to come bird his house, and a in the bar. He never liked the man, and he always wished him to avoid coming to his horse. Williams having stated on Tuesday, *Wu he en deavoured to account tor his shirt being- Moody and Yesterday a Coroner's Inquest was held at the House of Correction, in the parish of St. JAmett, Clerkenwell, on the body of John Willows, who eras found dead in his cell, in the Coldbath-fields prison, before JOHN WIUCHT UN WIN S r s q . one of the Coro ners for the County. AU the witnesses on this In quest signed their declarations. THOMAS Wens sworn.—" I am surgeon to the pri son - I was Called to the deceased this morning; I found him in his cell s lying on his back on the bed, whet e he had been placed by the person who cut him down ; he was dead and cold, and had been dead many hours; on his neck on the light side, it a very deep impression of a knot, and a mark all round the neck as from the handkerchief by which he had been suspended; the handkerchief was still on - the neck ; I saw no other marks of violence on his body ; I have no doubt he died from strangulation ; he told me the day before yesterday, he wts perfectly easy and satisfied, for that nothing couldhappen to him. THOMAS scene." FRANCIS Knovv sworn—" I am a prisoner here ; I saw the deceased alive and well yesterday, about half-past three in the afternoon ;he asked me if he Could see his friends? I told him I did not knieiv.— This morning, about half-past seven o'clock, Soleph Becket, the tnenbey, came to tile in the yard, and de sired now go up tp the cell of the deceased and cut him dot* that be had found him hanging ; went up immediately, and put my arm round his body, and eat the handkerchief,. tart of which was vounithikneck, and the otber part was fasten td to -iiiim . - . V , - , • • the"mil which the bed and doles are hung u s an in , the day-time--the rail is 6 feet 3 inches from t 1= grdital4 i I laid kiln nn his.hack on the bed ; be we: cold, and seemed to-have been dead . come time ; he was ironed on the right leg; he was placed in what is railed the is.examtnatiou cells, and left as feet sons in his situation always are ; I had no suspicion of any thing of the kind happening, he was quite ra !tiOnel and collected when he spike to me. 66 rtiANCig KNOTT." HURT HARRI 4 tworn.—dl I ani also a prisoner here; I was standing at my dell door about half-cast seven this morning, Mr. Becket came to me, and de sired mb to help Knott with the men who had hung himself; I went up, and found Knott rending at I the door of the deceased's cell—Knott observed to me, the decessed had hung himielf on the rail ; I l ivent in and saw him !taught- , .., to the rai l with a 1 hand kerchief round his neck, one end cf which was at tached to.thc rail; I assisted Knott in cutting him down ; never saw the deceased before to my know ledge. " The 0,4 mark of HEYRY Haunts." WILLIAM HASSALL sworn .-•-a I am clerk to the prison ; I have been so tipwardi of three ye 'es. The decea:ed Was committed here by Edward Markham!, _ Esq. on the 24. th of December, and was iti custody here for re-examination. He was placed in the re ! lesamination cell, and irimed on the right leg ; I con ! sidered him secure ; he was placed in the prison as pets—, for re-examination invari .bly are i-I went tip to him on the m vning of the '2sth, to a‘k him his age—he told me he was 27 years Of age; I ob served to him his situition was awkward—he said h i e was not guilty, and hoped thesaddle would be placed on the right horse ; I asked him his buries;—he re• plied he was a seaf.ring man, and iaitl he WAS a Scotchman. Willims in person is abotit 5 feet di inch& in height ; he was dressed in a brown great coat, lined withsitk, a blue under-coat, with yellow buttons, blue and white waistcoat. striped blue pan taloons, brown worsted stockings, and shoes ; he is Iby no means of an alletic make. . 4 6 WILLIAM HASSALL." JOSEPH BECKETT swore!. — " lam turnkey Here ; t locked the deceased up. about ten minutes lt:fce e four yesterd ty afternoon ; he was then alive ani wcli—l asked him, if he wanted any tiling— he Said no : he has said during his confinement, he !lisped the inno :cent would MI suffer, and that the sadd'e might be placed on the right horse. Between seven and eight o'clock 6is morning I unlocked the door of his eel! I discrotered him hanging to the rail in his tell, wilt his feet nearly or quite touching the gmtind; with a white handker chief round his neck, which hendkei 4 chief I had seen him wear—l called Knott and Har ris, mid saw hiM cut down. " JOil.:Pfl ncarree" : Mr. Uswie, the Coroner, then addressed t h e Jury. a The misearble wretch, the object of tild prefflitt enquiry, was committed here on auspic . • being one of the perpetrators of the late Marin d most inhuman merdere, and that suspicion is seedy in. creased by the result which hes taken plate; for hew much ateomented is the suspicion of guilt against a man,. who, to escape jteeice, has recottrse to self-de struction I All homici,:e is murder till the contrary Jutllte shown. The, law ranks the suicide hi thE worst class of murderers, and this is a case of most unqualified telf-mearder; a I have applied my attention In. tote conduct of 4 _Lk. .f, of this wrothe4 rilrbriEe * FTGlTc"'Misid. ansi I leave it with you ; I think there is no culpability at taching itself to them. It only therefore remains that we consign the body of this silt:murderer to that famy and disgrace which the law In q prescril , ad ; anti to leave the pithishment of his crimes to HIM that has said " vengeance i s su ne. and f will tepdy."—: Verdict— . polo de a. Mr. CAPPER and Mr. I§4ARkLAXT). Magistrates of Shativrell Office; attended the inquest. Mr. ATMs. the keeper of the prison, wa.i so indis posed, that he was linable to attend the inqUest His evidence WAS not essentially necessary. Nothing ap peared to affect his conduct, by any charge of inattati: tion o the cafe of the prisoner. - The Coroner, Mr. Uswra; has IsMi particularly sedition in the discharge of the melancholy dutiet• which he has of late had so repeatedly to preform. Poises OFFICE, Quails SQUARE.—tisterdaf t hadi `Claris, a native of Shrewsbury, underwent a geeon examination, charged by a Mr. llligh, on suspicion of baying been one of the peipetratori of die murder of Williamson and family, be was stated to have worn g great outside fur coat on the night of the murder, like to that described upon one of the mut. derers, by the persott who escaped out of the house by the window, at the time of the perpetration of the decd. The accused also being very till and thin in his person, appeare'd to meet the deseripttrin given of one of the murderers, and being in the constant nightly habit of resorting to a variety of pnblie-homes; and drinking with everyone who offered him liquor, as well as receiving money from any person willing to give it to him. In his defence he stated that since he was discharged from the first regiment of Foot Guards, owing to fits, he had gone about to pubilel houses at Westminster, and the west4nd of the town . ; usually at night, to play a musical instrument for what he could get from the company in a voltuctarp manner, and also exhibited his skill in dancing horn pipes ; and that on the night of the murder, the 19th mstant, he was at the Sign of the Biel! public-house; Prince's-street, Westminster, front seven o'clock till near eleven, after which he went to other houses ;----- but the publican not attending, nor any of the com pany then present to corroborate this statement, he WAS remanded fur farther examination; A duel was prevented yesterday, on Old Oak Coin. mon, between the skin of a Noble Lord and Major W--,r by the interposition of Peace Officers, sitter paces had been,measured. Both were held in surettis to keep the peace. Monday evening as Mr. H. Scholefield, of Padding. ton, was returning trom Merton, where he bad dined; by way of Battersea, he was stopped within a mile ot the latter place by two footpads, armed, who de manded his money. Mr. H. was going at a gentle trot, and had no idea the men were robbers, trom 'their genteel appearance. He gave them £l5, and the,; took his watch, and made off towards Wimbledon, without rising his pockets, having first turned the horse louse without a bridle. Il -