Star. — London, England, 1811-12-14 00:00:00

THE MURDERS .rt,a'4iiss.Hrompairf Yesterday, I.rhe Nervy, a man dressed in a sailor's jacket, was charged before the LORD MAYOR t.. on sus picion of having some knowledge of the atrocious murder in Ratcliffe Highway. The persons who charged the prisoner said he had been at the India House for the two last days, very anxious to get a ship to go out of the kingdom ; that he had appeared in different dresses, and had cods seed he had never been at sea before, but would not engage with any ship that was not going to sail directly. He made every resistance when taken in custody. Being asked what he was ? he said he was a bricklayer's labourer, but gave no account how lie had been employed lately. The Loan MAYOR observed that the prisoner ap pearnig in different dresses, together with his anxiety to quit the kingdom, and his backwardness in giving a fair account of himself, certtinly left him in a sus picious situation ; at the same time, from what had been adduced, there was no proof of the prisoner's being concerned in the shocking murder with which the mind of the public was so much agitated. But esthete were Magistrates sitting at Shadwell Office, for the investigation of this business, he-should send the prisoner to them for examination, and cissired that he should be properly secured. FUNERAL Or MR. MAUR AND FAMILY.—To-nor row it the day appoimod for the interment iif Mr. and M.S. Mart and their infant son, in the buiial place of St. George in the East. The bodies will be depol•i ted in the same grave. The father and mother of Marr will Ktteugl the melancholy procession, ac companied by the relatives and particular friends of the deceased, with the servant girl. In order to pre vent any obstrUction to the afflicting spectacle, par tes of officers and extra constables will be stationed in the front and rear. • • Since this paper was put to press, we have been informed that two Portuguese sailors, and their fe male associate, have been taken up on strong suspi cion of being the perpetrators of the above horrid murder. The woman, it is reported, has turned King's evidence. - DARING ROBBERY' AND Monote.--10n the evening of Saturday, the 30th ult. as a Gentleman of the name of Minshull was returning from a matrimonial excursion to Gretna, and passing over Shap Fell, a barren heath to the north .of Kendal, with two young ladies in the carriage, they ware sitddenly alarmed by the cries of the postillion s and before they could enquire the cause, the doors of the carriage were burst open, and two men darted forward, armed with pistols, which they presented to the breast of the • gentleman, and demanded his money ; he, perhaps, not thinking the pistols were loaded, made some re sistance, when one of the ruffians immediately dis charged the contents of his weapon into his breast ; and, with the assistance of his comrade, rifled his pockets, while he was weltering in his blood, of every thing valuable. They then decamped with their I. booty without molesting the ladies, who became in rensible when they made their appearance. Upon their recovery, what was their horror at the sight which presented itself ! -Otte of them, possessing more prey nce of mind than the other, went in search of the 1 postillion, whom she•found, tied hand and foot, upon • the ground. They then pursued their melancholy journey to the nearest town, where, soon after their I arrival, the unfortunate man expired. He was a young man of very promising abilities. • Saturday se'nnight the body of an infant was found in a hat-box, on the Town-moor, Newcastle, in a pu trid state. On the Monday followinga young woman, named Robinson, before,an inmate of the House of. Correction, went to the Court to swear she was .the mother of it, and had murdered it ; but on investi gation, the surgeon proved that she had never bad a child. Her object, it appears, was to procure a com fortable lodging for the winter. A Coroner's Jury brOught in a verdict—Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown. Tuesday night, a watchman, going his rounds, at Richmond, was shot by some person unknown • and when found, was unable to give any account ;if the transaction : he died soon after. Thrirglar se'nnight, a wavrant was granted by the Mayor of Walsall, for the apprehension of Richard Davis, miner, of Birch-hills, for threatening to murder his wife and infant. On rho peace-officer approaching to take him inter custody, be seized a stake from the hedge, with which he knocked him down and escaped. The constable, though much wounded, upon receiv ing information the sante afternoon, went to Davis's house, accompanied by his sons, who were likewise peace-officers. After a desperate defence, made by a large ,fits Zen pater, Davis was subdued, and con veyed to prison to a gig, being unable to teal*. The body of an elderly man was found floatag in the Thames, near Fulham-bridge, on Thursday mor ning, by two watermen. The deceased was re,pect ably dressed. From the appearance of the Wily, it had lain in the water for some days. It was conveyed to a work-house to be owned. On the '24th ultimo, a torrent of rain fell at Gibral. tar, resembling a water-spout. St. George's 'Power was struck by the lightning, and a great part of it thrown down ; upwards of seven inches of rain fell in 24 hours, and many houses and cellars were ov:r flowed. Considerable mischief was occasioned in the warehouses. All the Manclit:ster goods in. the lower 'apartments were covered with the water, and rendered" of little or no value. A large quantity of oil and other articles were materially injured. The iheigallican Monitor • .and Anti-Cors;can Chronicle of to-morrosv, Dec. 15, will contain Secret . Instructions given by BOSAPARTE to a‘ confidential Agent sent nn a Mission to Germany, Prussia, Austria, Poland, and Russia, in 1803. CA MpaglCS. Mc. 10.—Early on Sundaymorning, Mr. C. and Mr. D. of Trinity, went Out accompanied by, Mr. C. of the suite Caigege, and qr. C. of saint Mtn* to decide an affair ollionour. They.procetdc4 I ou the Granchester road,. where* is reported. they holy fired, but fortunately without any elisastrous cons-.4ll4cies. The seconds then interfered, and atlittAcci the difference, when, being reconciled, th7y ; reitirned together to morning prayers. The quarrel orsginated in ties stale trick of obit school-Goy the pet frtiie ;! ts 11q was deed asleep, siter . 8 tine it# p;) the _Saturday evening. .! • jit_OF MUST. Vesterciay, at one o'clock, the examination of Mr. l Walsh was resumed, at the Public-Office, Bow-street. ' Mr. Fern, a silversmith in Corehtll, deposed, that Mr. Walsh called upon him, and informed him, that he wanted Portuguese gold coin to the amount of 4500. On Monday, the 2d of December, the witness sent his clerk to Mr. Walsh, to keto w the exact amount .he wanted in foreign bullion. The clerk brought back for answer, from 4400 to £5OO. Witness then sent him with doubloons, &c. to the amount of 4308, in return for which he brought him Mr. Walsh's cheque for 4500, on the banking-house of Curtis and Co. The bullion weighed 60 ounces and S drachms. On the evening of that day, Mr. Walsh called on him, and said he had got a sufAcient quantity of bul lion, and asked for the difference between what he had received and his cheque. The witness gave him a cheque fur the balance. William Bell, clerk to the last witness, corrobora ted his evidence. Mr. Ewings, cashier to the bank . of Meisrs. Cos ling and Sharp.. Fleet-street, stated, that on the 4th of December Mr. Walsh presented a check of Sir . Thomas I'shomer's for 022,000, which he paid in 9.2 ' £l,OOO Bank of England notes. On the sth of De- Cember, in the evening, Mr. Walsh called and lodged . in their banking-house the sum of 86,645 18s. 6d. in Exchequer bills, on the account of Sir Thomas Plo mer, for which the witness gave him a receipt; he also left his own check on the banking-house of Sir Wm. Curtis for 415,000, which he said was to be put also • to the account cf Sir Thomas Plomer, and asked for a receipt for it. The witness told him it was not usual to give receipts for checks so late in the evening, but if he would call in the morning, he should have a • receipt. Mr. Walsh's draft was dishonoured. Mr. Dennis De Burgh, of the house of De Burgh and Co. Freeman's-form, Comhill, deposed that some days previous to the 29th of November they had a conversation relative to American Stock with Mr. Walsh. On the 29th, he called at his office in Free man's -court, and informed the witness that he would on the Wednesday following want American stock to the amount of from 10 to 411,000. The witness inquired, whether it was a resident in the United States, or a person going out' there. = Mr. Walsh said it was for a person going out to America. The sum was so large, that the' witness thought it necessary to have a writ ten order from Mr. 'Walsh for the purchase of the stock, which •he gave him. Here witness produced the order. Ori - Wednesday, the 4th of December, . Mr. Walsh called' again on hint, and told hint he . would not be ready for the stock until the following • day, and if the witness woullcall at his office, at 12- o'clock, he would pay him in Bakkof England notes. Accordingly, on the next day, Thursday, the sth of. December, the witness waited on Mr. Walsh, and re ceived from him eleven 41000 Bank of England notes; it was about 12 o'clock in the day, and the witness gave him a check on his banker for the ba lance. Mr. Walsh said, 'that any time in the day would answer him to have the stock, as he was not going our, and the witness need not hurry. He re turned about a quarter after three o'clock, and deli vered the Bank stock to Mr. Walsh, and asked him if he should bring his Notary the next day, to make ' them over to the person going to the United States? *Mr. Walsh said that he need not, as he was going out of town for two or three days. The witness said that it did not make much consequence, as he had pur chased the stock of most respectable persons, who were sufficiently good for the amount of the stock. if it was burnt. He paid the eleven 41000 notes into the bank of Masterman's and Co. On Saturday last he heardon the Stock Exchange that Mr. Walsh Mad gone off with .422,000, the property of Sir Tho- Inas Plofner. He took a coach and went to Sir Tho mas Plomer's house, and informed him that he need not be uneasy, as he had seen Mr. Walsh on Thurs day, who told hitt that he.was going out of town for two or three days. Sir Thomakieplied, he had lost all confidence in Mr. Walsh, Skid would have him' immediately pursued. Mr. Fern proved the order given to Mr. De Burgh for the purchase-of the American stock to be the . hand-writing of Mr. Walsh. Mr. De Burgh then proved that the American Bank Stock then produced was the'same he sold to Mt. Walsh. The case Of BLACKER %Perm Lord FFRENCH and Co. for usury, was tried on the 10th inst. in the Court of Exchequer, Dublin. There were one hundred and eighty-two counts in the declaration, ani dama ges were laid at £147,000. According to the state ment of the Somerrou-Gemm., the crime of usury , was committed in discounting certain bills, partly by cash, and partly by a 31 day-bill, upon Which me re- - bate of interest was 'allowed. There was besides st Charge for accepting a commission premium of 14 per cent. which on the whole made an jcess of in terest of Ils. 2d. After examining documents, the Rev. THOMAS RADCLIFF was called to prove the negociation of a certain-paper.. This gentleaum was immediately asked severaLquestions, but Serjeant BALL unexpectedly interrogated him, whether a suit of Chancery to invalidata'a bond in which he was concerned, would not in his opinion be affected by the result of the present action ? He answered in the affirmative; and after a variety of discussiun by the . Counsel on both sides, this answer was pronounced by the Court to be fatal to the plaintiff, and a nonsuit was accordingly granted. • The trial of JOHN Mamie, Esq. Proprietor of The Dublin Evening Post, for an alleged Libel against the Police Commissioners, was to have come on last Tuesday, in the Court of King's Bench.—The Jury appeared in the box, ready to be sworn; when an ap plication was made on the part of the prosecutor, to put off It's trial until treat Tom, upon the grounds that a witness, whose testimony was very material, could not be found. This motion was warmly resis ted by the Cpunsel for the defendant; but the Chief Justice was pleased to grant the application, and the trial was put off accordingly. In the interim, the coots ; ot the defendant are to be paid by the prosecutors. Miles Grogan, a private in the Wexford Militia, l i who had been lately on furlough, returning to .his, quarters, was met by two men near Birr, aho Called ! themselves Caravats, and after beating him in a most: brutal manner, cut off one of his fingers, at the same time declaring that they would render him unfit for the King's service. The unfortunate man was con veyed to an hospital in Birr, where he yet remains. ; Thursday night, the 28th ultimo, Mr. B. *Kenna, of the Royal Oak, Drogheda, was attacked between the hours tiC nine and tea o'clock by four armed meni: knocked down, nem . the Rotunda, and robbed of his watch, &c. One of the gang exclaiming, " Shoot him I he knows me," they snapped a pistol three or four times at him, which fortunately missed fire— they_ Then made off. Notwithstanding that Mr. 1 114‘1Ceinst was severely woOnded, he followed the robberi, callid the watch, and exerted himself until he came up with them near St. George's Church, when he knocked one man down, of the name of.) James Flood. The robber again snapped- hiS' pis.' tol at Mr. *Kenna, who having fortunately cured one also, knocked Flood on till head, and held him by the neck.hindkerchiet till a watchman came to his relief. The robber snapped his pistol in ti the watchman's face, and was instantly sent to Si. George's watch-house. Mr. Farley, with the assis tance of a watchman, apprehended another cf the gang, of the name of James Fitzpatrick, or: Whom were found Mr. Kenna's watch, and three pistols, all loaded. 'The other robbers effected thelr escape for that night. Next day, however, Mr. M'Keitua, - with the assistance of Mr. D. Dodd, attorney, hended another fellow maned J. M'Mahon, anal there was found on him a gild watch, the property of a gentleman rho was r-bbed a ,fiy( days beton: The three were Iddged in Neu/gate, andthe fourth was taken next day, and also cominitteJ.- • . Mr. Jenkins, the prosecutor's solicitor, who accom. ponied Adkins, the Bow-street officer, to Falmouth, I deposed, that Mr. Walsh, on Monday morning, at the Vine Inn, Falmouth, acknowledged to him, that he intended to have gone to Lisbon, if he had not been overtaken, and from thence to America, the first opportunity. Mr-John Wilkinson, stock clerk to the banking,' house of Messrs. Coutts and Co. Strand, deposed there was no a 'ent P or clerk in tl'e banking-house, of the name of frotter—one of the partners of the house was Mr. Trotter—he had not been in town for the. last month, and was not expected before the 20th of the present. Mr. Walsh did not apply at their house to purchase Exchequer he bad the witness must have known it. ' Mr. Mutts stated, the reason of putting the last question was, that Mr. Walsh had written to. Sir Tho. mas Plomer, that he had accomplished a purchase of Exchequer Ells to the amount of £15,000, from Mr. Trotter, the agent of Messrs. Coutts and Co. who would arrive in London on last Monday, when he would make the transfer. Mr. Walsh was committed for further examination. Mr. Rear and Mi. NAnEsboth attended the inves tigation: • The SolicitorGeticral and other witnesses, proved the ;:bore statement. - Sir Thomas Plomerproduced, and had read a num ber of letters, some of them had been iritetteriteitat the Post Office. One of his clef ks received a letter frop him on Saturday morning, confessing to him that he had made offwith money that did- not belong to him. Not to say where he was, if he discovered it by the post-mark, Promised to remit him the money he owed him—inclosed a letter difected to Sir •I` 14.«. t'P hnt rint 611 between thr,:e and fotir o'clock in the afternoon—' however, the clerk, finding his master had be. n acting terms, took it to Sir Thomas in , the morning,. soon after he received it by the post. it was dated at half past two o'clock that afterno6n, from his office in An gel-r•urt, Thiogmorton-street, stating that Messrs. Couus' broker being out of town he coultknot procure _ • , ; r." • • 44,.. :1 • I• ,- • -- ithe Eachequer Bills a the nett day. His letters to .. rs. altafti' INTELLIGENCE.. . ,y. ~. his brother-ere of the moseadiettessitag nature, and • •s• he confesses the-Impropriety of his conduct, says be COURT OF KING'S BENCH, OwnMitaltis% has gone out of the country, probably never to meet : CARRUTHERS V. GRAY. '1 again. The money he has taken 01 Sir T. Plumes. 'This was an action upon a policy of insurance de he promises to repay, should it ever be in his power.. dated to be on. gonads on board the Antoinette ua . He alludes to his father, at the time of his death not Zabrth, from Laudon to any port or ports in..the having left him any thing, supposing him to be a Baltic, with leave to carry similated papers, a; i pre. wealthy man, which would have been the case, but 1 miurn of 35 guineas, to return 15 uaon arrival. TM every thing he had embanked in had failed, and he i i ntetest was averred in Messrs. Oppenls inter,. and had lately lost £2OO by a person be was security for, , the license was granted to them and others. Tha ship and he now. found it imposible for his commissions. ! tooli.paer:, purporting that she came from the island as a broker, to be sufficient to meet his expenditure; of Teaeriffee - and was bound for Petersburg!) : she he therefore could not bear the thought that his be - j was captured; However, at Cronstadt, and the reek loved wife and children should come to want, or po. Were never restored. Mr. St:masses, for the defen verty, which bad induced him to commit the act, and dant, fitst• objected on the score of interest, that de craves their pity and forgiveness. He confesses that : toods were consigned to Myssri. Wolff and Co. ; but ord he is not going to Ireland, as he had told his wife, ELl.P.NpostouGst said, it, did not matter a farthing but to America, where, as soon as he had got set- : whose name was put in, provided it was proved that tied, he would send for her and his children. .He Messrs. Oppeabeiener • had actually mid,: the ship. directs him that to do as to the arrangement of his meat. Tlye,Leatned Counsel next objecto..l that the affairs—tells kipa the debts he had paid previous to plaintithaci produced no document of con fi scation : his leaving him, &c. The money he had taken of Sir but Lord Eotasu ItOUtallstisi; that the cat go had Thos. Plomer's, he said, would support his family been proved_ to have been , seized :. and it must be comfortably in America, and the loss to Sir Thomas soppoteet that it actually got into some fiscus or trea could only be imaginary, possessing the large for- sury, and was con fi scated. tune that he did. , , • ' Mr. Se:taut - rt . then addressed the. Jfiry, as being He vainly flattered himself that Sir Thontas:ik-ould prepared to-prove that 16 bales of the goods on board not make his conduct public on account of thelarg i e- were actually smuggled, they forming no part faith. ness of the sum—if he did, he anticipated that it, Captain's manifest, sworn to by him, and entered at would make a great noise, particularly When%it got the Cus.om-house. To prove this, be called the oft; into the newspapers, but which he . calculated:could "ter of the Customs in whose custody that manifest nut possibly be the case till last Tuesday—in this. wds : but Lord Etaesaostovou said, that aoeglect of particular, however, he was mistaken, as it a PP e i l r e 's!. ..eitity on the part Of the Captain would not make the on Monday. • vdyay i e illegal, quo ad the owners. Although these i , Mr. Jenkins opened the bag or gold which 'Mr, oods, tieing British manufactures, paid no duty, yet Walsh gave him at Falmouth, which contained 7J, ' they weke`' tequired by the Act of Parliatneut to be . doubloons, worth se3 12s. each, and a half one.. .., I 'tattered at the Custom-house, and a drawback cif He WAS sent to Tuthill Fields, Bridewell. £199 from the excise had been actually obtained upod Mr. Walsh never spoke during the examination. them. They were actually shipped in open day; and He bowed respectfully to the aagittrates, as he left it might as well be said, that one could not recover the offiGURNEY attended as Counsel for the prosecu- ed in the wwaybill .hiu. ce. . , against a carrier, because one's goods were not amp Mr. tion Mr. Tits and Mr. JENKINS, Solicitors. 1 Mr. PARK, for the plaintiff', was allowed to call the Mr. HARMAN Solicitor for Mr. Walsh. The Office was crowded at an early hour, and no wharfinger who entered the goods at the, Custom house ; he produced his books, which contained them, person was admitted without being passed by a Ma and said that the searcher saw them on board from gistrate. his wharf, and three topics of the rocket were after- Sir Thomas Plomer did not appear until 4 o'clock, wards entered in the Long-roOm, and one with the when he arrived in time to cuter into a recognissuice Cemptroller. This witness swore 14 did every thing to prosecute. • to procure the due entry of the goods at the Custom- A docket had been struck. against Mr. Walsh after - - house. Lord Eceitssaostotart*put it to the other side, his departure, and a commission of bankruptcy issued to prone that these several entries were not made.; on Wednesday. It is probable, therefore, that a legal the manifest was only one muniment of this transac. question may arise whether the property found upon tion wining others. It the Jury were convinced th:s him by Adkins shal be considered the property of was a fair transaction, they would find their—Verdict Sir Thos. Plomer, or, as in the case of, Daniels, shall be divided amongst the creditors proving their debts for the Plaiota. under the Commission? • JEFTERTAND ANOTiIEIt V. TAT& . . • This was an action of trover for goods which Wen . pledged to the defendant by Mr. Harsuess, deceased, who was the ptaituiff'slactor. Mr. GARROW rested his defence upon the late decisions of the Court of King's Bench, that,Mr, Hartuess was the buyer of the wads,- and not the f actor ; or,. if he was only the factor, that the plaintiff had so masked him, ot, to use„ Lord Ellenborough's expression, clothed him With the iadicia of property, that he gave him the .power to represent himself to the defendant as the actual owner of the goods. The factor had bees a bankrupteand was now dead ; and therefore the plain tiff came upon the defendant, who ought to have -known that lie was the mere agent - of the plaintiff; for the invoice of the aoods to Lisbon was represented to have been made " by John Hartness, of Londoe 0". . and not, as it ought to .have been, lied the plaintiffs meant hind to becunsidered as their mere agent, o . by . Messrs. Jeffery and Co. who had consigned them for ,safe to Mr..lehq Hotness, their agent at Lisbon;" and Mr: 1 - tartness had swum at the Custom-house . that Atli were his'own goads, and it was that re. . . ceived the drawback upon them. Lord ELLENB tROUGH said, it was quite clear that a factor could not pleige the goods of his principal ; but bete there was a liter from Mr. Hartness, agree ing to guarantee to the plaintiff the amount of the goods, provided he was allowed to maiWihe insurance Itelf. Mr. Hartness had Also sworn himself to be the owner of the goods, a proceeding not quite honest on-his part. Had this bill of lading only been before the defendant when he advanced money on the goads, Lord ELLENR01101;611 Would have held that the plain tiffs could not recover ; .bu; it was proved by a wit ness, that before the , defendant acted, he was told OW the VA werenig kiatckiesa's, but the plaintiffs', which asi.le all the difference. Verdict for the Plain tiffs—Damages a5O. . _ 4Z, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. is. OOLE ro. ATKINSCMS. 1 This was an action for the recovery of the value of ' certain goods, hemp and flax, alledged, on the part of the plaintiff, to have been shipped for him by Schmidt and Co. of ltiga. The goods carne in the Bremen tpacket, Captain Haynes, and he • proved that he re ":creived them on board for the account and risk of John i Ogle. The clerk to the plaintiff's attorney proved ithe demand for the goods on the defendants, who were warehousemen, and who got possession of them in thri"following manner: When the ship came into the river, the Captain gave up the goods to Mr. Ogle —and the latter had them lodged with the Messrs. Atkinsons, for his account. The Messrs. Atkesons were aflerwardS applied to by the Messrs. Rickert, to hold the goods over for them, as the bill of lading had been tritetfetted to' them by the agent of the house at Rigt. The 111wri. Atkinsons in conse. queace kept the goods from Ogle, and afterwards sold them ; and the present action was for the recovery of their value, at thti time they arrived in EnLlsnd. The average price of !wry, in November, !SIN the time alluded . to, was £7l a two ; and flax 484. - . - On" rite iiirt . efthedefenchint, Mr. Setjeant Suit titan conttn4ed, that ,Mr, Ogle had been guilty of . a .g n ivs il eir le a g .j. i spec l ). a m : i.a.r :w v,l lteitt entiotx,xl4r is t it fi joi hc: c : ltah t rge a ; b ul i a ll nih ti eitr l 2 ; , i u ti :r i , n ci g :l)o , l l ortid. le u t y no t li possession °Ohs goosl4 ItithJigh the bid of lading was actually in Hits country. Mr. Serjeatit .rEST cont.:kW, that the Captain had no tight tci - sijil a b:fl of I;cnng, which liwl ihe an swer of transfaiing Oa ca rgo to any person. The bill of lairingthiced was wgned by him. 'the valtio - of the ends whoa they came to EnV ,Verdict fa Plaitt:!l. v 1 r ~' 4 :Y