Star. — London, England, 1804-02-23 00:00:00

PS.9. Hr. 'Meagan Lae sot yet failed, sad I . am truly con cerned to Batt. that Helms is not better. His MAMMY'S rut has ceder bong fenfstion of grief and here. sad I &could deny my own feeling, and reader Welke to there of the public. if I omitted to nseadotibe circuetheace. I tarne r iag ni Ti_ your nest publication will announce Afro io a late of recovery. %gra. Terry, who warts:Aare bees emoted this day; according to -his fawn, at the New Prins, foe linpsllloing; beso.refpned fora week. The ytigDer lately !melted is the Interior, and sraafasitted to Dahlia, is found to be a Dane, and in this . country with so other viet/ than the parfait of his.profethoo of a dentill. The Poi boy conveying the man from Newt to Merlat.hin, was murdered on Wednefday the tlith in& Atha*. the hour of one o'clock is the aftweers near-Lenity*, by come Woe or pukes =known, who roblosid.> lei of the whiles( the email, ceotaiaing the bags of lents% for the fullesdag towns, viz. Ar magh. Market hill, Riels.bsik,Cockilown, Wakens. felt, Stewartflown, Dungannon, Moneymore. Tab. b ef auxe, Urea, Moy. Tynan. A reward of sod. is offered for the appsehenlioa of the Parties. ii. ADDINGTON had an interview with Lord Sr. Vracss, yefterday at his houfe in the Admiralty. ThaDube sad Michels of bfseasosouon have arrived is woo at their bade in Pall Mall. The Receiver Cenentlflip of the Duchy of Corn wan, lately fo honourably bellowed on Mr. Semi. eel by the Prince of Wats', is worth about stool. per swum. A tool. Bank note was, aura litany dueller donations, found in the Charity Box of the loyal Edinburgh TairmarYlately. Three paper natonfafturers have been fenteaced by the Coon of Ezebeetocr to pay the fines of wool. Hod. aced toool, for sot rendering a jud account of paper mtheir pollees. •Aoesediag to a account probated to the Hank of Common*, the produce of the permanent taxes for the yew maim_ g the ph Janitor, lad, was Lo a ,roa g yL sag. opt. Infidel' the war tax of tilos, "to 1,874.6ye1. as. t dd. making aboge• (ether she fun of 35.5854191• sp. id. Sy the Abated of the flubdivifies R.dls, returned wader the Defeats Aft, to the ditteTAUT of STOWS 011 es, and laid before the Hoofs of Comments, it 'lbsas:ber Maks Mtn Is is nit Ctd; le Mew Mao la - • • MOM glees, MCI& • • 4 . • • t iara! akia • . • • aka • .s. -it ,1 Velarassy Swaim • - - Piot* Array, Miriam Vataaarri Cap ilea 11Paidbles cia.475 Clew s Wiwi Trackers. MAW Caallisblas 114.861 ham - • . . g 0435 laraikil la iodine sat at tadr repittiva maths stns On Saturday the rids int- died, after a few days inners, at his feat at Port Eliot, in Comma in the Will year of his age. the Right Honourable Eswean Cattoos Lord Um?, Baron of Bt. German's. A nobleman, whole elegance of matinees. reined tab% wad brilliant wit. rendered him the ornament and admiration of fociety ; and whole kindnefs. hofpiudity, and be:invoking to hie fries& and dependents, will make hint be long and incemly regretted. He is fucceeded h; his title and taste. by his Mei foe. the Hon. lour Elam. one of the RepreCestatives is Parliament for the Borough of Lilkeard. Lieut. Wstsaattest is appointed to command the Borer gun veal, in-the liver Colm, Effes ; Liam ant STIWAIT to trjackall gun-veffel ; and Lieu. tenants Scamps& POPS to the FURS bomb..- Mr. Gao . VAISCS is appointed Surgeon of Hadar Nofpital. Information was en Sunday night received from France by a moll refpeaable Quarter, and insmedi atel_y communicated to his Majefly's The intelligence in (maim Rates, that one hun dred and fony of the 'styli clefs of gun boats, each carrying four guns of heavy calibre, are affenablad et Boulogne. together with an incredible number of (mailer veffels of the third elafs. each armed with two guns, for the carriage of Rotes, harks, and troops, amounting to above goo in number, and calculated for the embarkation of 60.000 men A force con fiders* larger than this is now a ff embled at Bon- Inner and all boats already contratted for in the dif ferent ports of Flanders, Picardy. and the &Ran Department of Normandy. have been ordered to at• femWe at Calais, or at Boulogne. by the toth of this month, under a very revere penalty in cafe of Jiro bedienee, and of having the expence of the default. log boats throws wholly upon the contreactr—an or der which explains the exertions made in the lan week, to get their boats under the proteaion of their ports, in (pita of the exertions of out flotilla. It is, however. clearly underßood that no part of this Armament will fail, until! the force colleaed at Brefi and in the Teed is fofficiently Rrong to fight their wee through our Blockading Fleets. For this Ptopofe Bourivarra is at this moment making the mon - incredible exertions at Brea to fit for yea every thing that can twins. And it is announced, that on the nab of this month. he would have ready for yea 34 fail of the line, with which BONAPAITt has ero- Mired to embark in perfon. And in the Tent, ot is well known that five fail of the line have been for feveral days perfealy ready. With Tepee, how ever, to the French (hips it mull be oblerved, that though their crews have been Rrengthened by the greaten part of the Genoefe (cameo, of whom 4,000 litre been impreffed and fent to France ! yet we Nave every rearm for thinking the crews dill incom• Otte, and Many of the (hips very unfit to encounter ether a gal.: or a heavy thip. And we fitr.ild con gratulate our country at hearing that thefc 24 (hips, *oth Bo AAAAA Ts on board. were ailually engaged with the t 8 Britifh (hips ( to of them three deckers. row blockading the port of Breß.) The expedition f•orn that port and from the Teed are avowedly in tended for Ireland and Scotland ; and the Boulogne flotilla will not move till the attempt has been made °force Admirals Coe WALLIS and THOIOI soiov c ets from their Rations. We are perfealy fatisfied that the mink of this enntell at fca mull be to the ulleft extent glorious to the Britifls navy. And we re as little doubt that every thing will be done that an be 'vetted from the bravery of our troops, if • difcmbarkatioe of the enemy Onashi fucceed. zifir oriLMIPINGL tOUPT OF Inklo% WSCH, FBI 12. uusisirucni.:s. Till tend ir. Loom alio OTll6ll2.—Mr. Auer opened the pleas in this Cafe : he kid this was i an nformation filed by his Majefty's Attorney Ge neral. of which the following was the fubilanee s The fir* count fiated. that John Locker, of Ted- 1 dington, yeoman ; John Locker Wahswrighteof tht fame place. yeoman ; and Ifabella Wainwright, his wife, vs the all of Anna lab confpirod with MINN to inveigles end clandeftinely to take away Bury Pearce an illegitimate daughter of Thomas Pearce, der.eafed. being a virgin, unmarried, and being un der the age of twenty-one years, viz. of the age of nineteen years, and entitled to a large real and per fowl edam of the value of :spool. and upwoode I and being under the culled and guardlisnlhig of Jahn Cruehfield and John and living in the dwelling-hence, and under the protettino of the hid John Crutchfield, end to procure her to be mar ried to the Defendant, John Locker, in a Caret and checkable manner, without the knowledge, sad again& the coarse; of her Guardians, he the raid John Locker being a perfon of low and mean con. sedan and circoadiances. That in purfisance of the Confpiracy, the Defendant on the 7th of Aug**. ',rind the will and without the content of the Guar dians, enticed and inveigled the Paid Mary Pearce to depart clandeflinely t That the (rid 'John Locker, and Ifabella Wainwright, on the evening of the Paid 7th of Angie, went in a poll-cheifit to Teddingmn, where the raid Mary Pearce was, and took endear-I reed her away to Gretna Green in Scotland, where Ilse was married to the Paid John Locker. and that they were afterwards married in the parids of Saint Luke. in the county of IkEddle&x, without the knowl ledge and content. and againft the will of her Guar dians; they. the raid Defendants, knowing that the was an infant, and minded to dick 'real and perfocal elate ; and that the laid John Locker was a perfon of low and mean condition and eirmundaucescin contempt. &e. mid again* the pesos. &c. The &wad Coast differed from the fir* Gay by &sting. that Mary Pearce had no father or mother living, without calling her an illegitimate child. The third and fourth Counts differed from the others only by omit to defenbe the Defendant, John Locker, as a peas of mean cireuniftanees. The Defendants had pleaded Not Guilty, upon which Sloe was Joined. The Awreausse Gsssaat. opened the cafe for the Profecutioa. Mk t he laid. was an information filed aria* the three Ddendaats. Mr. John Locker, the uncle, Mr. John Locker Wainwright. the nephew, and Mrs. Ifehella Wainwright. his wife, and it was a cafe which. milers be deceived bimfelf very much. the Jury would think deferving of their very ferious attention, and which the Court would think alto de ferries of wen ferrety punilliment in the event of easivi&rie The law of all countries he believed, the law certainly of this country applying . itfelf to the infirmities and wants of our nature, is careful in protedting their who are Es** in need of proteitioo ; and with this view it was a part of the fyllein of our law. and the law of all well regulated Wades. that perfoes who are either &fabled altogether from adliag for thenifelves. without the advice, fspeAseasdiusee. or contrail of others, are tube proteded by ether% end efpecially by the law. Upon this principle an infant is held by the law incapable of making any enacts& except for his own benefit and fecurity : in Irma the law affords him prixediou even spina his own contrails, orders for his own advantage, and declares. that if he does enter into any contrai, not for his own advantage, that contra& is void. that is. it cats not be enforced again* him while he isan infant, nor afterwards when be comes to maturity, if he chutes to object to it. Thus Rood the law ; but there are coitus& again* which even as infant can have no fecurity agasnik the cite of them, nor than even the infant be at liberty to diffolve them. and centred& of that nature involved in them that points which are mod ioterefting to the welfare and happinefs of ho mes life. Of that defeription was the contra& of marriage. a contra& into which it might be ex crawly interefting for a perfon to enter, though in infaecy ; that is, it might be extremely interefting and beneficial for an infant to enter into marriage, il l diferectly chofen by a perfon of mature and Ready underitanding. and it might be a great difappoint- 1 meet to the expeitation of happinefs of a minor to be prevented, in Come of thefe cafes, from en tering into marriage. But, on the other hand, nothing could be more fatal than the marriage of an infant, or indeed of any body. if entered into indif creedy and imprudently. If infants did this with out being under the protection, or ailing under the advice of their parents, or did it without the fuperintendanca of fame paten of difcretion, if they happet.ed to have conliderable fortunes, 27 this young lady had, they would hold forth an invitation to the avarice of the world, and fo they were likely to fall into hands who would bring them into diftrefs, and perhaps mifery, for the red of their lives : with this view the law prohibited the marriage of an infant without the content of parents or guardians, or with out a courfe being taken which would give the pa rents or guardians notice of the intended marriage.— The charge againit there Defendants was. that they confpired among thernfelves, intending to cite, and having effcecd by confpiracy, the marriage of this infant, Mary Pearce, to the Defendant, John Locker, without the content of her guardians. That was the offence which was charged againft the Defendants.— The aggravation of that offence, like the aggress trim of all other offences. depended on'the circum fiances under which the offence was committed, and the Jury would find them abundant in this cafe.— They would find it a cafe which called for the pecu liar animadverfion of the Conti and Jury. They would judge of the wickednefs of it by the mifchief likely to be effe&ed by it, and aggravated extremely by the difpatity of ages and fortunes of the parties between whom the marriage was contraled ; they would find it particularly aggravated by the motives that gave it birth, and the manner in which it was effeetcd. It would be his bufinefs to *ate (hardy to the Jury thefe circumftancrs of aggravation. The Defendant. Mr. John Lrcker the circum fiances of whole marriage with this infant were now tinder confederation. was the uncle of the other De fendant, John Locker W aiawright ; John Locker ‘Vammight, therefore. was his nephew ; Ifsbella Walowright was the wife of Jobs Locker Wain. weight, and the was the wide, of the father el ehlt Win. Mr. Thomas Pearce, a very brewer, who had carried on trade in IMbe= Weentintter, who by inhiry in banners had as (mired a very confiderable fortune, indeed a very large one ; he left it. honver, all , or ahnoil all. between his two Wegitiesthe children, of whom this yeses lady was one. His real elate, bonne, did set pals by this will, but weal to the heir at law. bethefe he had Coffered a recovery of that iaftir the emotion of his will. Yet the perfonal peederty. which certainly and isafpetably did pea by his will, went to theft chiles* mid that amounted to togs& and upwaskis ; fo that this young Lady. who was entitled to a moiety of it, would have at leaft ts,OOOL when the came of age. He appointed Mr. Cruel:field of Teddington, and Mr. Emmett, of St. Alban's, executors of this will. and guardians of there his children. Perhaps the Jury might know that it was not competent to a fags; to make guardians for his natural children, but the Court of Chancery had the power of appointing loch par dins, and it was pretty much of courfe for that Come to confirm the guardianthip of that. who were named in the father's will. unlefs foam objceioe ter Viesit; that appointment. Here the Court of had dons to by approving mod confining althea Gentlemen as the guardians of chefs infants. The' father. he thought, died ha November, an ; at. an early period of that year he married a Mitt Mathey. He Mould fay nothing rdpeang ICA Marra,' or any body. but what aro& out of tie cafe seaChefore the Jury. Mr. Pearce died is Novellier., tan Nth Pearce, whoh marriage was the of the resat trial, tedded with her fathae • fee foie. time after his decade, upon the pranks where the father had lived, and the Engem* and Onaidians were not' aware of any inwreptiety is peentittiog her to mane ender the panmer of her apotberoe.law, if indeed he aisle sew, with any propriety of lawn*, be fa called ; -is bet after they found the married the Disinhibit . Mr. John Leaser Wainwright, they had mafioso be on eland of the impro rof fairing her todsve the care of this young Lady, in oonfamasnot el which Mr. Crechfield, who lived at Trianon'. took Mls Pearce ao his haute, and placed the boy, her brother, ea felthel a little way tit This young ar efor ha e d set been long at the hoofs of her th ere were font to her a packet of = rila : l ;d there was between her and Mr. and Mrs. Wain & a pww tualeorrelixindence, andthis railed t he i prfpid.sof Mr. Crochfidd, the guardian, and he nastiest one of thee letters before it was delivered to Mifs Peens. and took a copy of it. This was a letter written to Ws Pearce by Mr. Locker Wainwright . . the Dden dant, evidently for the purpcife of preparing her mied to the appointment of a guardian ether own choke, until flee fltonld become of age—and that was not to be Mr. Locker Wainwrighthimfelf, or his wife, who had had for thine time the care of this young Lady. bet, of all the perfects in the world, the was advifed to fele& Mr. John Locker, the p er on who afterwards ran away with her, as the only fit pain for that trolly office. Thus they deluded this weak young creature tb appoint this rain her guardian ;they fent her a letter which they defied her to copy with her own hand, which the did, directing an Attorney to apply on her behalf to the Court of Chancery, to bave'Mr. Mtn Locker appointed her guardian. At this time the Court of Chancery had not appointed any guardian for this young Lady, and therefore See had no guardian who had any power bylaw, bum f. being an illegitimate child, her father's appointment of a guardian fur her by his will, bad no force in law antil Inch appointment was fanaioned by the approbation of a Court of Equity. The Defendants were about to apply to have this appointment of guardian. for Mr. John Locker, the Defendant; but before that could be done. the real guardians applied to the Court for the confirmation of their appointment ; but before that could be .said alto, the Defendants had fo worked upon the nind of this young girl, that as her brother came from kinds the allied leave to walk out, and ha obtained it, the eloped from the houfe of Mr. field, at Teddington. and went to Richmond, where Mr. and Mrs. Wainwright had taken lodgings, and where Mr. John Locker life was, and which lodg ings were taken, probably. to facilitate the elope ment of this young girl, for it was only three seam from Teddington, where the was at her Guardian's houfe ; this was on the AIR of July. Mr. CID field, upon this, loft no time in making two apfpii cations to the Court of Chancery : the one be ore the MASTIR of the Ross% to have his appointment lot Guardian confirmed ; and another to the LORD Coarsest:At, for an Order for the prodaaion of this young Lady in Court, both of which appli cations fucceeded, for the was a 'Ward of the Court of Chancery. Accordingly the three Defendants sp. peered before the CHauctiemt on the 6th of Auguft, and produced the young girl in Court, on which occalion his Lordfhip gave the Defendants, as might have been expected, a fuitable admonition not to interfere any further with this young Lady, but to let her go to her Guardian, and to let her remain under his care ; and alum, as might have been ex petted from nis Lordfhip, lie gave them a very friendly aid kind caution about their future conduit, informing them of tl.e confequence of their dig*. obedience to the law, which he explained to them in this cafe, fo that hey were totally without ex cute. His Lordfhip told them very plainly what they ought to do, and what they ought not to do, and at what peril it was if they fhould not follow his admit. oition. The young Lady was then delivered to bar guardian, Mr. Cruchfield. This was on the 6th of Auguft laf. As they were going out of Lincoln's- Inn Hall, where this took place ' Mr. Locker (poke to Mils Pearce afide, and Mr. Locker Wainwright lifted perrniffion for Mrs. Waiowright to %grit MA Pearce, at the Houfe of Mr. Cruchfield, which Mr. Cruchfield thought improper. and therefore refuted. The child was then carried to the houfe of her guar dian, Mr. Cruchfield. at Teddington. On the yth of Auguft. the very nest day, the fubjea matter of all this complaint in the information took place s l namely, the elopement. The Defendant. John Locker who had been at the lodgings of his nephew at Ric hmond. during the latter part of this time, and who had been there tomtit Mire Pearce,on her firft ar rival on the s ;ft of J uly, tame and Dept there frequently : on the 7:i of Auguß, be and Mr. Locker Wainwright ordered a pole chalk to be got ready to to take him, Mr. JAus Locker, and his party . t••••Ao, • . . .• la d ielmeeing. Mr. Leeks IMM to dm WSW& big nephew. Mr. Locker Wainwright, at 4 'lnc trees* anions to have the driver be wd bine MOO to have, god Vats the other pothbriy two to give up his turn to the other driver, who= i Locker likml bed. Mr. John Locker (pent the Irbil.' of the day of the lei of Aqua with hie thaws, Mr. L ocke r Wainwright, and his mat: Mn. Wainwright. Mr. Locker sod Me.. 1111olimpisiot - came . together and took the poliehmileveglidiors veilel on the driver to take with Idisaller si frame of the carriage. a ladder. for the facilitating the ekape of Milo Pearce over her Guardiao's garden. which the was not of the fueseser.boefe, and go into a id* led into the road, and from which the 111;110. gain Balky-park gate, where the polldmith ems to. be ready to take her op. Aiieoedlasky t1rII& chaife was taken about eight at night, beirr i6 4 door of Mr. Wainwright, where - Mrs. and her fervent Mary t , wait iota the pell.dkedei. together with Mr. Jobs Locker. the Dtkeithei.— • Mrs. Wainwright was to iodic the yora i Led di z and prevail open her to be tree to hOt if there lbould happen to be any didkohy iewsks_ in her soiled on the (odds.. sad Miry Cor , the hint vane. was to attend doe parties to Graft Gram Thef • pea-choice filled, and the ladder heft Um fades( to it, a pas of the same of lieweefes was sew ployed to b f e with ii them ea the monde (.r the per. ;sok of • the lady over the wall, cad eke due pert she bulimia wawa, he was to mere • with the ladder. The peillms wps thin ordered to drives a place sear lideMis kink at Ted. • *er e whets Mu Pewee this was. Thine!" we es the wall of the genies Mr. •Idd a • when th ey got so she plan Ma. Waiewright mer chaifi but Mr. Leeks did est fefiya l u ng ape Iheeld fee them iliogistrom sad wi The chaife then wee *kill to bay ANL-. dim Weiewright breeot the w = L AM ady theme mil Mary Cs walked Airs _ by Pearce wee them takes into the alike reed away it dregs towards Richmond t they ported from lieweefem with Is ladder. haviggi no fartiser watfies fes him. They "et down Mn. Wainwright ea the bridges 06 the walled boos to kr Weed. wbaslM his pesky seedy the pelbeliaifee mad ell lase The &rife was that drives es lit Wiedoodlditeet, where audio was ie drive, and was aeorosey driven to limes from thence to a Geademmealtaith in and from thou to Gretna Geese, when din jelia Locker and MICA Pearce were monied. They ono beck to Leaden. and having pet .*, Isaz dasa is Pl'. via ehereb Mamba Lek, *hi* iw the 7th , toth. sad sad of Augollo-l e t tl6 — r — et.gaa wore manias ea while they were resakg MI dray were neerried here to the tees of the Church of Eaglaad, er a y went at the heeler of Mr. and Walawrigr ie they were re. caved as they impeded. . Co s amempeolail them through the whole if thane to thretleada where Ow few them married. and bask eel& The parties were afterwards Theft the Arreasev a rettfaid. were the eira madames of this mot atireciess ode. Ms bad Lid Wen the Jury the oethoss sf it, obi*, if doable( asks bad emesed.they weeklies k was asphis aut. • . of crofearney to betraZL this wog girl. sad to gee her married to this defied ore. es wee seem beam a Coen of Jake. *m e in erikr to &web. beim& of this coofpireey, it was set aeostery that he Ihrieddi fay notch: the leading homes of it sto-611, that one of the defendants is this vale (chess teas the wi. doer of the father of this add. the it was. who boles kilt married Mr. Waiewlik e thought Kerr to aid oa inveigling her. sad is nemenearieg her.eo marry s men of no Ws ea age then 60. If this woman had say of grotitede oboes her. the troikas,. reminaboed that bar hothead, the father alibi, child, was the plies who ambled her to live es he sew did is aMesite, andtherefore the sreghtle have a feel. he of Addeo for his child, but - the had ro bitr e ra this child. and given her op for the loafs et Istisfyieg the fordid avarice of an old lame. was reprefenta to him to be as low is eircatalleases ea outfit to poise of age, to be the hothead.' this yeses woman ; the oegU to bare beat the guardian and proudior of this unhappy girl. who had been them completely facrifieed to the artifice of there three vile and fordid confpir,tors. The aggravatios of the cafe of Ifabella Wainwright, therefore, was too great to require comment. The aggravation of the cafe of Locker Wainwright was, that be lent his af fiance barely to terse the porde of his uncle. The aggravation of the cats of Mr. Locker bintfelf was. that he did this with the fordid view of pealing this girl's fortune, caring nothing for bee pace of mind or pagan. as was muffed from the wanner to which he behaved to her. Under tuck a combination of atrocious cireumftances, he bad no doubt the Jury would readily hand over to Jake all there dors* cunfpirators, who would in doe feafon feel the pas cinilbment of their guilt. He then called his witneffes. The palms of sheen the chaile was hired by John Locker and John Lee. her Wainwright, who proved the taking of the eheife, the ladder. the going to Bullay Park with Mr. John Locker. Mr. Wainerright. and Mary Cot. together with Hewetfoo ; of their midair wp Mike Pearce Is Bulky Park ; of their parting with Hewetfea there, and of their fitting . Mrs. Wainwright down at the bridge ; of their going thence to London aid fades of towards Barnet in mother pod chaife. Mary Cos related the whole dory from Menke to end, of going to Gretna Greta, of the parties being married there and returning to Eailead l _and coming again to the haute of Mr. and we. was. wright. Mr. Crachlield, the Guardian, proved the Coin. fpondence which prepared the fesse of the elopement. of NW. Pearce being prevailed on to dein ao Astor. sty to apply to the Coen of Chancery. and copying a letter tent to her for that perpok. in order to have Mr. John Locker appointed her Guardian —He proved alto all the proceedings is the Court of Chan cery, precifely as = , : l o t y . the Aerialist, Gars. tat., and alto the Both the Gordian, proved that the marriage was svithoet their knowledge nod aphid their eindent g that the young Lady'tiWt. was upwards 155.0001. which was to condense under the &thee. will. is their bands, until the ball attain the age of es. That the is a Ward of the Coen of Chancery. The marriage by beast is Si. 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