Star. — London, England, 1816-09-18 00:00:00

vl is eti hd p ru' isc.. a• a • I. ice :be Pg .. 111^ P 4 ' rut TIM *MLitt he following Letter has been issued from the War Office, addressed to the Arbay Medical Board, dated Augt•st 7, I§l6, and signed Etwaaarosi: OrtiTLIM ell —lt being found that the Purveyorl sumbed is General Ho.pital Estabhshmems .14 not is all cities specify the armee incurtvd fur 'he 'utters% of deceased men at the time they omit* their death to the corps to which they beleeg, am tq acquaint you that in all future instances in which this is net bee. the Purveyor neglecting so to do, will be bald liable to b ie r any loss which may arise in consequence of the men's ac- A ping having been made up without including any charge for theleatill. laM further to abtuaint you. that I shall communi ide this regulation to the . Conimanditig Officers of Corp.. and dank ',gibe props, that you should circulate it to the Officers year Dipinitieult cnncitned therein, with an iodination that I Tigtliasbn da . duly to miff , / every casualty taking place among she army, in any establishment m *hick they are . k is prged, within no dais after its occurrence." KING'S THEXTRE. yesterday the re rale s valuable property took t one at the Public Sale Room in Southampton r, pursuant to the order of the Loan CHAN. . 02402 . Previous to the commencement of the sale, some discussion took place respecting the wardrobe, i ma m, music: machinery, and the other properties of the Theatre, of which it appeared that no account had been stated, or inventory made. D'Econas said, from his own knowledge, 'that value of these amides. whea Taylor. quitted the management of the Opel a, was between 420000 :10 430,000, perhaps equal to the value of - sate' building stilt. • Mr. RICHAND WILSoN was of opinion that the sale shoirld not proceed till such account and inventory }td been made, and from what he knew of the Lord Chancellor, be was persuaded his Lordship would Scot have authorited the re-sale of the Theatre bad be been aware of this. Mr. Maui, the Solicitor for Mr. Waters, in answer to these objections, stated, that if the value of the pro. iertws of the Theatre when Mr. Taylor left the ma. sagemetn of etie corker(); was so great, he could assert they fin:. Much more viluable now; and be pledged himself, th.st every at title belonging to the Theatre*, Should b.: delivered to the purchaser, whoever he' ' alight be ; And he would direct an account of them to be taken immediately. 0 this assurance, all opposition to the particulars of sale was withdrawn, and the biddiogs commenced, beginning with £5,000. —The principal bidders were DtiTHIF., Mr. GALT. Secretary of the Caledonian hsylint, Mr. ENEN39. the bookseller of Bond-street, Sad Mr..WaTzas, who, at seven o'clock, was declared the purchaser, at.the price of £70,150, being £29,150 more thau it produced at the former sale: A few cliys since, as a man was in the act of rob. ling an orchard, in the vicinity of Higham, in Kale, he fell from a tree, and broke his neck A man, a ser‘ant in husbandry, having left his ser tice, and gone home to his friends at Holker, in lan while, on finding them gone to bed, it is supposed' ' he had determined on going down the chimney, so as sot to disturb the family, but unfortunately be be came so fixed in his descent as not to be able td extri cate himself : in which situation he was found lifeless 4111$auirday night. A shoe was found in the room below, which led to an examination of the top of the thiainey, where his hat was also found come. newly the wan was broken into, where the body was fixed ask were into a state of suspension. Gene resgAin, one of the conspirators, still re v-mains in the House of Collection, it not beirg deemed safe to remove him to Newrite, lest Ire should suffer from the impulse et that indignation Which his aSominable conduct has excited. GUSH PIHI26TMIAN MATCH Or 1500 Mmes. IN DATIio—BARNIFT. the Pedestrian, last' night, at Lir PH nine o'clock, accomplished 46 miles, making sip, at that time, since his commencement, (on Satur nay, at two o'clock), 163 miles. During the greater tan of yesterday his regular pace. from his starting in the morning, to his finish, was nearly four miles an hour, being necessitated. from the intense heat in tbe.middle et the day, to rest for same time. The !friends of the pedestrian yesterday had him weighed. being anxious to know, at the conclusion of this match, the difference in point of weight. Betting is begin aii.g to be rather brisk ; and, at present, some few odds are offered against him, which has been taken up by his friends, and the money placed into the hands of Mr. Prestidge. at the Mitre. --• BARblir is in height 5 feet 2 inches, and remarkably strong, and havi n g been for many years habituated to travel the country as a pedlar, his task seems to hint tri he at present amusement only. He eats but Sparingly, though every luxury that can be had for Liao is not only provided by the landlord, but every delicacy and dainty that can be thought of, have been within this two days sent him by the most re. fiectahle families in the neighbourhood, and the Ladies and Gentlemen begin daily to visit him both early and laic' this morning, alter having enjoyed a sound sleep fof nearly six hours, he started off at que past three o'clock, and had accomplished hattnast eight o'clock, eighteen miles, when he re tiree to breakfast, and set off at nine s and was travel ' ling on in molt excellent spirits. l'uniusnc Conrt:'ir.—Tuesday last the amateurs 61 the listic art. and many hundred spectators, col lected at Hythe Bow, Cueddar, Somersetshire, for the purpose of siitnesssing a boxing match between J..Yord, a butcher, of Axbridge (brother to the cele. bated boxer of that name of Metropolitan notoriety ), and Simon Bunn, a man notorious for single-suck playing. It a p pears that an altercation which took Pine between the parties on the day before, id COhte. lance of Fotd having pushed Bunn front the single. stick Mtge at Cheddar Revel. was the cause which led to the ecenhat, and nothing would satisfy the wounded honour of Bunn, but to give his antagonist a good drubbing. or receive one himself. A good deal of manly *tins was expected, but the ode looked looked iu vain for much science on either side. fat muscular powers, however, of the combatants were such as insured to them extraordinary manual "lion- They set to with considerable vigour, and taught Si rounds in 25 minutes, without drawing the tisret,on either side, although many tremendous rsere liberally _dealt out. In the last round alma gave Ford a violent cross buttock which almost tied him in a knot his wind took leave of him, he teak measure fur a grave, and died dung, whilst his !ftagoniat waved his shallow in the air, and declared at had not half a belly full. Considerable sums I tem betted on the Kali. • • imiiiistitisiloit Yellurd . ai• TrirsdoffissikiEbq. of Ha:1;6004 Ms charged by Frances Stevens, wife of Ricrund Ste. yens, a smith. with committing Ai assault with the intent to ravish her. Mr. ADOLPHUS stated the cape to the Jury. Mrs. Stevens deposed, that she and her husband had been for ten years a tenant' of the defendant's, who is a. married man, and has several children, par titularly one daughter ' above 17 years of age. On the 19ili of Decemb e r last, between ten add eleven in the forenoon, Mr. Hinds called at her home when her husband was from home, and said, " Where is Dickey)" and on her saying he was oat, he replied, " very well, I am come to plague you, as 11111.1 a."! Ha then proceeded to unwarrantable liberties with her, which she resisted as far as she could t but at length , he desisted on her making a noise, wad said, " D—n the woman! she will let all the people hear." He then went to a grindstone in her garden, where kis servant and her husband's man were grinding an axe, and soon after left the premises. Creu-examirsed.—She declared, she is thitty.five years of age, and has been married eleven years. Hinds took some liberties with her nine yens ago, of which she complained to her husband with tears, and he said, " it ever he do so again, I'll murder him." In July, 1815. he renewed such liberties, but she did not then inform her husband. She saw Hinds once in her bed room, when he read a letter to her from a brother of hers, although she could both read and write. When this assault she now complains of happened, she did not make any exertions to run off, nor did she call for assistance, but only gays him a good scolding for his impudence ; nor did she teU any female of it, as after he left her, she resumed the-employment she had formerly been engaged in. .vix. cleaning her house. She took no steps in redress of her assault, till after she and her husband had received notice in March to quit the premises of Mr. Hinds. She de., nied having ever said within the last six months that . a Gentleman at the Bar, whom she knew, was her best friend. She gave Hinds no blows nor scratches, when she was thus assaulted. She called for no as. sistance, although the grinding stone was not twenty yards off, and she only preferred thircharge last July. Daniel Hussey. her servant. deposed having seen Mr. Hinds come to the house that day, having heard him say, a I)—n the woman, don't speak so loud," having heard his mistress speaking louder than usual, and having heard Mr. Hinds say on Leaving the house " that d—d woman is mad." Cron-exardersed.—Considered Mr. Hinds, on coming. out. had a hotter fine than usual. Mr. ALLEY took a candid review of the evidence, and contended it was morally impossible for twelve men of common understanding to convict his client, because no doubt whatever could be entertained of the infamous and profligate character of his accuser. She had concealed former amours from her unhappy husband ; she had told her story to-day with a front harder than brass. and which bid defiance to every feeling of modesty ; she had been assaulted in De cember, and had preferred her complaint only in July. No man, except one whose mind wt.; upset from its very.lotindations, would doubt she had pre ferred this complaint now, from diabolical 'revenge on Mr. Hinds, for ordering her and her husband to, quit his premises. He should call no witnesses (he bad many to call if the Jury chose), because he sup. posed his calling them would be an insult to the Jisry, as it would in tact be supposing they doubted a case which was to every honest mind as clear as the meridian splendour. A more detestable design than what this deluded, ill advised, and unfortunate female had attempted to execute, he had never seen, except in one case before a celebrated Judge in a country circuit, where a female, after detailing parti culars somewhat similar to the impudent immodest disclosure of Mrs. Stevens, was asked by the Judge as to the mode in which the assault commenced, she said, '• Why, mi-Lord. he admired my ancle first ; he then said my garter was tied wren 4, and lie fixed it. as he said, right." 14 Well." said the Judge, ‘, and what did be de next ?" Why," said the woman, 14 he went ea with his pranks." His Lord. ship, justly astonished. said N Woman, woman. why did you not stop him?" " Oh, please your Lord. ship," replied the jade, “ I wished to see how far the rogue would go on with his tricks." Ha (Mr.ALuty) had no hesitation in thinking Mrs. Stevens did the same ; and he, theretore, sat down with the firmest confidence in their giving a favourable verdict to his client. The CHAIRMAN summed up the evidende, and ob. served, that there were three points to which the, lug were bound to attendfirst, her not calling to her servant, who was so near, and could easily have come to her aid; secondly, her not giving any intimation to her female acquaintance; and, thirdly, her not" bringing this action till after she had received notice to quit the premises of the defendant. The Jury, without any hesitation, found a verdict of Not Guilty. A. Moak, was indicted for assaulting Sarah , his wife; and 1. Spice was indicted lor assaulting A. Dunning. Mr. BARRY stated the case for Dunning, who was a man in humble life, a bone cheMter. Spice was net of mere exalted rank, he was a cameral butcher, and all the parties lived in Spratr•allty. It appeared, however, that Mr. Spice, debt:mining to imitate the tailings and foibles of high life, had cast an eye of desire on Mrs. Dimling; and, having succeeded in' gaining her affections, induced her to elope ftom.her. lawnsl Lord. The loss of hie spouse, was one for which perhaps poor Dunning would have consoled himself, but the lady, .being of a onsitot disposition, took with her as many of her husband's moveables as she could convey away. These he felt a great desire to recover, and having trued his ilia partner to the abode of Spice, he attempted to take bet away, but the fair one spurned at her l o ordand husband. Fate, however, seemed determined to punish her, for her foot having got entangled in her busbaad's apron, she fell baeltwards, and now was prepared, it seemed/ to swear that her husband knocked het down. On fal• ling, she called oat et Murder I" when Spice came to her, and threw her husband, who is a cripple, down; and whilst prostrate, junsped spin and kicked him, seas to disable him from attending to his business for sone days.—Evideocs was called to prove these facts, and the lain acquitted Denning of the charge of assault upon his wits, bat found Seas goihr of the assault upon Dumb% 10:1114 TEMPER 14. .wiri4v traffie. Richard listestoa;, P MINA ;Mae Us& rebid ifaciall t and David joaliah *ere charged With a misdemeanor; itt having, with other perms, to the number of one hundred and more,tinlawiully and riotously assembled at Liverpool, on the 10th of June last, to disturb the public peace, and in having, when so assembled, made a great noise, riot, and disturbance. This prosecution arose out of the scenes of riot and Unlink that attended and concluded Mr. Canning's late Election for Liverpool. Our Readers will re member,. that fof several , days prior to the 10th of June, a great tendency to disorder and disturbance had manifested itself, and Abet on that day the tu mult arrived at its height, that the authority of the Magistrates was despised, the Officers of Police were insulted, the procession of Mr. Canning assailed on its way from the hustings with all kinds of missiles, the windows of Colonel Bolton's house, where he lived, demolished, his friends who came to bear his speech dispersed, and his colours every where ob. lined to submit to the Green of the opposite party.— The active part taken by the different prisoners at the bar was attested, and their persons identified, by different witnesses. The prisoners were all found Guilty.—Six Months imprisonment. Jams, Whelan alias Whelican, and Jobs Cannicial, were indicted for the wilful murder of James Beaghan, near Liverpool, on the 22d of June last. Our Rea. dens may probably remember hearing of this atrocious murder on the Liverpool Canal at the time that it happened, and of perusing the accounts of its cir cumstances is the public prints. After a long and patient investigation, it could not be traced with such certainty to the prisoners as to convict, though, as was mentioned by the Learned Juoor, there were strong cirsumstances of suspicion. The Jury return ed a verdict of Not Guilty. Suer. 13.•••••ATIOCIOUS swam. Susannah Haresd was put to the bar, charged with three murders—with the wilful murder of her hus band, at Ashton-under• Line, by administering poi son to ,bim on 'the 15th day of April, of which he died on the 18th; as also with the murder of her own son, a boy. of eight years of age, by the same means; and of Ann Newton, as infant of aboat fifteen weeks old, by the same means, and on the same occasion. Mr. Cams. Counsel for the prosecution, stated the law applicable to this case to the Jury, and gave an outline of the evidence by which the charge WAS sap potted. The deceased, Matthew Holroyd, followed the trade of a weaver, and bad the misfortune not to live on good terms with his wife, the prisoner at the bar, by whom he had three children, the last cf whom was mentioned in the present indictment. The prisoner w►as in the habit of nursing illegitimate chil dren, one of whom likewise she was now charged with murdering. About a month before she exercised shil unrelenting cruelty, she had a very extraordinary conversation with the mother of this infant, who re sided in the•bouse with her. She told Mary Newton that she had had her fortune read. and that in the worse of one week, and within six weeks tram the period on which she was speaking, three funerals would go from. her door. One of the destined victims was her husband, another her son, and the third the child of the person to whom she was addressing her. self. She did not delay her purpose, however. till the six weeks of the fortune•teller had expired ; for, in about a month afterwards she went to a chymist's shop and purchased an ounce and a half of arsenic, to tile the prophecy. This happened on Saturday, the 13th of April,, or Easter-eve. Next morning her husband bad some coffee for his breakfast; and soon alter became ill. To restore him, she prepared him some water gruel, and in it she mixed the poison`- The wretched man immediately felt that the gruel had an uncommon , taste, and refused at first to drink it; but she urged bias so strongly. by telling him that Nit was the last gruel ever She would prepare for him," that he complied with her entreaties, not knowing the enigma bid under these expressions. As be grew worse, she called in Medical assistance, the better to allay suspicion, and was instructed by the medical man with the remedies m he administered ; but she refused to administer theist. saying, it was of no use for N her husband would die." After the death.ot the deceased, the prisoner was taken into custody, and before the Coroner made a.. full conies. sion of the murder, which, as it was signed by. her, would be given in evidence. There were two counts in the indictment respecting Matthew Holroyd r the first charged the prisoner with petty treason, in making an attempt on the life of her husband; the second with administering poison, of which he died. It was necessary to have these two, as on one occa sion, where the latter was omitted. and the former could not be proved. the Judge felt himself obliged to direct the party to be acquitted, though there was so doubt that the deceased died by poised. John Taylor, a chymist at Ashton-under Line, proved, that he sold an ounce and a half of arsenic (or mercury, as the common people call it) to the prisoner, for destroying rats and mice ; that he re fused at lust to sell any, unless the prisoner would bring a neighbour along with her, to vouch for the I purpose for which it was to be applied; and that upon such attestation he sold the quantity in question. Mary Newton had lodged with the prisoner for ten or eleven weeks previous to the murders, and had her child, Ann Newton, about 15 weeks old, in the house with her. She remembered Matthew liolroyd becoming ill on the 14th of Apiil,and he complained of a tire or a burning pain in his stomach. His son sickened about the tame time. When his wife gave him the gruel, the witness heard him say, " Busy, you have put pepper in this gruel," which she de nied, and he persisted in deitlacing. She threatened kits with cooking uo more fur him while he lived, ii he did not drink it. He died on the . Faday morn:ing, at six o'clock, after a week of severe agony ; and his son survived him only six beers. The child of the witness. which was under the care of the prisoner when witness went out to work, died bn Tuesday, at •.ix o'clock in the ev ening, with violent retching*, con vulsions*, and vemsmog. like the hosbend and son of the prisooer. This witness recounted the story of the fortune-telling s na stated above. There were no rats or mice in the boom to justiff the purchase of arsenic. John Swindels, who 'medicine at Allows under-Line, deposed, wu teat for by the pri. ions, to her husband i that be complained of violent t (Wu itoSitirr slim he gave hip* an emetic, which relieved him a little I bet that be gave Over bis visits when the pris o ne r retied to administer hie prescriptions,. . . Jonathan ,liagne; Cleik itl Mr. Gibbon,. lin attoi.iter . at Ashton-tinder -Line, stated a confession that the prisoner made to him, when in eustodyi after her ap prehension lor the murders. . . Samuel Newton; a C o n st abl e; p re se nted to the Court the confession of the prisoner before the Coro, nor, stating that no threat, promises or allurement was held out to her to induce her to make it t,Out that, on the contrary, she WAS warned not to elimi nate hen self, and told that every thing she said triiirtit be given in evidence against her on her 4;4 ' Tito confession was read ; and acknoWledgedika-ntorder in the most unreserved manner. . . • • , Tiiomas Ogden. a surgeon at Ashton, was called at the incinisition taken on the body. He examined the stomach, whidi waft infltmed nearly over its whole extent, and in one place the inflarriniation had amounted to gangrene. There was a quantity of fluid on the stomach, which he analyzed, Mil in the ani lysis detected arsenic. He hid no doubt that inflam mation was the cause of the death, and the wink the . cause of the inflammation. the JUDGB summed up this evidence, which seemed very clear, and the Jury returned ti verdict of—Guilty. The JUDGE immediately pronounced the awful sen tencestf the law, that Susannah Holroyd, being con victed hi so atrocious a crime, should be banged on Monday, and her body giten.for dissection. The pri soner, who hacrcontieued during the whok of her trial apparently insensible to her avow' situation, and tad even heard the word pi/ty without betraying any symptoms of emotion, seemed iMpressed with the solemn formalities and moving hddress that accom panied the delivery of her sentence. Sare. 14.—The Assites of this Cobnty closed here this afternoon about tour o'clock. and sentence of death was passed on Thirty prisoners: Alice Mew. and Margaret Pouliot-. accused of child Murder, bat convicted ably of concealment, weakfantenced to in:: prisimment for one par. There ate at present its Lancaster Castle. on different terms of imidisonmenti and for transportation, 151 prisoners. The list of Civil Causes that were fixed for trial ati these Assizes amounted to 162: many of them have been referred, particularly one very interesting, an: tidying the question whether a steamengine is a nui. sance ? There was only one Special Jury cause. Thd tollowing may be considered interesting to sportsmen i /4 A IiGINSON V. HOWARD. This was a gui tam action for a breach of the game laws. The defendant was a carrier between Orms.: kirk and Liverpool. The chief witness against hint was William Wyberley, a surgeon, at Ormskirk.- . = On the 25th of August, the defendant entered hit house at eight o'clock in the evening. He bad game in his pocket. Witness, with a little opposition frOnt Howard, took out a partridge, and gave it to' bit father. Howaid then goodnaturedly drew out ano. titer, and gave it to witness., saying, 66 that will make you a brace." Another person of the name of Nixon, who was present, after a little struggle, took twos more front him. aiward said the birds were given him, and that he did not kill them himself. Being cross examined, the witness allowed that Howard did not offer them for sale—that the struggle in which they were taken from him was rather jocular than serious— and that he never demanded payment for his game, and never received arty, though the witness allowed that it was delicious. On ihoi evidence the Learned Judge directed to find for the plaintiff. Possession here was not Ls puted, and possession by every unqualified person without lawful excuse, was reckoned in the eye of the law equivalent to an exposure for sale. . e, Thera was no difference allowed by the statute. It kvasin cumbent on the person to bhew he came by game in. meanly. Otherwise he was liable to the penalty by the mere circumstance of possesaing it without being duly qualified. The penalty was Al for every hare, partridge, ate. Here there were four birds. Verdict, 820 penalty; with costs. There are at present in the gaol of Lancaster, among the itkore, two individuals whose debts were created by a similar proceit as the above. The one owes for penalty and costs 819, and the other Mai The former wit fined for having snares in his pocket, and the latter for detaching a partridge front a entire, perhaps laid by himself, but according to his account, by another. The former is a weaver, 'the latter a firm servant. They have both been confined fa nearly twenty weeks, and see as yet no prospect of s release, as their trisdas are not increasing by their imprisonment. A Frentli valet, who had been upwards of thirty, five years in thi, service of Lord MaLnonttne, and in the course of •at time, by frugality, had realized the sum of &MO, lately died ; and upon opening. Iris will, it was found . that he had left the whole of his property to be divided between his fello.w.sereants, according to their rank, in his Lordship's family. A French Paper nientioas, that at the Court of . Assizes at Lion, iti the Department of l'Aiane, a.. man had been condemned to eight years forced la:. hour, to he publicly exposed, and to be branded, for. tidying tioldteil the persons of no less than sit WOUWII4 The offender was thirly•three years of age, and was married to a young woman. Of the &Is women whom he violated, the eldest was seventy- fix & and the youngest/fry : fie& Two dolphins were shot in the Ipswich river last week ; the largest was a female ; the youngest might have -escaped, but when the dam was woun. ded it appeared to rash to her assistance, and rising to t h e surface of the eater, was shot by a Gentleman, of the name of ConaoLD. Monday se'rinight, after the heavy rant, as a per. sinn was going down Stafford's Hill, at Plymouth, he became invisible in a moment, to the inexpressible astoi.tihment of the other passengers. On examining into • the cause, a large hole was discovered in the pavement, through which he had fallen by the fadeout of the arch, into the common sewer. He was so i liberated from confinement, without injury, bnt in a Miserable plight. . A contract has been recently made to supply the `troops - in the Portsmouth district with meat, tor sir mouths, at less than Md. pa lb. f . Coats EXCHANOII, MARIC•LANS, SUM lilo—Hatifig . ' but few buyers of Wheat at market tilii triornipg, cary little business was done, and prieefitmiorho mioallpsis 06 Moods, for old•Whoati tit Os airiplet of. sew, being• soft and Coarse, are' iitiatettble.-Lltt i reill i Bcaos, and ether articles, there is no varieties. ~.,,