Star. — London, England, 1809-07-25 00:00:00

THE GRAND EXPEDITION. A Messenger was yesterday aftera . don seat off to p or tsnowth, with final instrtictioas for the part of the s z pedition at that Port to put to sea as speedily as i;ssible ; we trust we shall have to announce the s ong of the whole armament in dur next publication, i s there are no symptoms whatever that any change bas taken place in the plans of Government, in con: l equence of the late intelligence from the Continent. The Beet will sail the moment the wind permits it to leave our harbours. The fleet conveying the Expedition has beri vic tualled for four mOnths. DEAL. JULY 24. •, Arrived the LEYDEN, from the Nore, having on board 650 Light Infantry of the Ist, 2d, and 3d Battalions of Foot Guards. Al! the small craft in this neighbourhood are fitting with all possible dis irtch for the Expediticth." RAMSGAtE, JUt? 24. 41 Two troops more of the Queen's Bays, heavy Dragoons, arrived here l4st night, and immediately ,vent on board the ships OT, 42 men, and 42 horses ; SS, 26 of each ; 54, 40 of each ; VD, 36 of each ; 0, :56 of each ; JV, 18 of each ; GW, 18 of each ; this morning's tide they proceeded to the Downs. Three more transports arrived last night froin the }More to receive troops." . • e INTELLIGENCE. • PLYMOUTH DOCK, JULY 2S. y ester * by the FAME, a very fine new cutter, id tently engaged by Government, was put in commis . - *ion at this port.--Arrived the TIsIPuoNE sloop of war , 20 guns, from Portsmotith.-;-Sailed the LYRA, 10 guns, for Rochefort, with three victuallers under convoy, for the Supply of our unit squadron off Rochefort:---A large French schooner privateer ap peared off Penlee Point on Frida' night, and bore sway fel- the French coast unmolested. The Louisa impress tender, mentioned In a former lever as being detniued here foe having smuggled salt on board, has been finally condemned, and was last evening taken possession of by the Officers of Excise, who struck her colours, the crew liaing been previ c:sly impresied into his Majesty's service.' POR.TSMoUTH, JUNE 24. Arrived his Majesty's ship PRWVOY his Majesty's ship DtiNEGALL I for tatliz.-:Acrind E HARWICH, JULY 24. • • Arrived the Lord Ndsdn packet, with chspatchei from Hellgoland: COWES, JULY 22. • . Arivcd bore last evening, the English Ship Mentor, Goodwin, with 4 cargo of swilo s and rum from Jamaica, bound for London, ow i 1 waeks.. She paned from a convoy of too sail on the 2?th et June last, wider the Wort of the Dianwnd frigate; and is tidy y..it in by contrary yirsdri.. c FROM LLOYDS LIST. Cuvtsra►t<, Jux.y 23.---Artived the Rose, Marshall, from Uutiaique. Pm of the Jamaica fleet, and one vessel of the Leeward Island feet, have arrived in the Clyde. Arrived at Leith, the Union, 1101 1 Gown, from Viriscasset, Ame rica with wood and lumber ; also a vessel from Liebau, and arcAer from Rotterdam; with si genet-al cargo. The Scorpion, Wheeler, from Liverpool to New Providence; vhs c.iitured and destroyed off Cork, on the 24th of May, by a frrach 84—crew arrived at Cherbourg. • The Oak, Hall, of Hull, was lost at Greenland, about the mid dle of May; and two persons drowned. The Hlroadelle privateer, of Marseilles, has captured two vhsels In the Mediterranean ; one an Angio-Atnericau, laden with 50,000 pieces of nankeen and other merchandise ; the other, Phonfdi vessel with basalt:. They hive both been carried Into frkas. The Raltt atiiinid I.ei.th on Thursday night frotn.Davis's Streithts, frith Mils good fish, a full ship. Reports the William and Ar.o of Leith, Wttit If fish; Tholnas and Asn, 15 ; Rattler, • 11 or 12 Success, 101 Royal &Rimy, 2; in May. Saw the Nor tek of Berle' ick, with 10; Jane if Dundee, it; Horn of ditto, 12 ; Middleton of Shields, 7 . ,„, leth June; and the Leviathan of Hull, about-the ietli or Zak Lathed, with 16. Ihe R2ith left the ice ca ;he .7th J une. • Arrived in tile Bay of AberditA, nu the 18th inst. the Conshlas MAIN, from St. Jul.n's, New Bran iwick, with timber. Multiuse-p..11u the Downs, the XCMI. Marshal, from Ment alist. In the Clyde, the Farmer, Shore, from Bo.toa ; at:d• Miry, Babe; fro m Trioadlicl. At Hcilyhezd, the Nabby, Smith, from New York ; J.nt, Boyer, ttom Lisbon ; and Mersey, Min ion, from Jamaica. .t Hull, the Erginton, —; Eh.abe:h, "'""'s and Leviathan, —, from Dalri?'s Straits. _At Cork, the Brzsty, Anderson~.no Patdelphia. 4t Liverpool,/ Menjeci;----, from the Brazils; Maxwell, Edvrarcis, tram . At Gifernoey. Dart, - from Rio Janeiro: At -RIG 171midoie, London. At Fadrotasila, tki Congress. Clark, from plikimore and Adamant, Clark, fraperlirragaaa. 1":le CALYPSO sloop of vrakarriitliat Yarnio' ittE.en Sunday, from convoying the Hudson's Bat ships past Orkneys; On the 9th, a small boa*, frith four French:2 . miloti e,:aped from an English prison; arrived at 02 1'0 She was two days - at sea. . • . The LORD MAYOR landed yesterday evenlt i On :As return from a su r ve y o f t h e E a ste r n bo 'es of the City's Jurisdiction, as conservator of the 'ti t 2lers Thames-and Medway. His Lordship left Lcmr, ion at an early hour on Thursday morning, accons- N plied by the Aldermen, Recorder, Sheriff's, &c, and, ;3ceeded to Lee, where he - landed, and went" to the nose which marks the boundary of the City't jtttis diction over the Thames. On - the nitwit putting the finishing stroke to the datei 1809, abQle %thigh we*, cut the words, ,4 The Right Hon. CHARIMI VILOWEIis Lord Mayor," his Lordship laid the state sword upon the stone, claiming the City's jtirisdiction, and drank " GOD prese rve th e Ci ty o f London !" in which alt joined most heartily with -three cheers. They they talked 'in procession three times round the stone, the sword of state being carried before his*Lordship)* and distributed to the people present pieces of new silver coin, and wine. Having returned to the Tri. Wily yacht, they. dropped dowi to the Nore, and sail ed up the Medway. On the following morning they visited the stone which marks the boundary of the City's jurisdiction over the Medway, at Ppnor, Cas tle) and went through the same ceremony a:. at Leo. dissizßi , At Winchester Assiies, nine prisoners were capi tally convicted, and rcceived sentence of death, Antonio Janni, for Maliciously stabbing Anteni4 Merlo, with intent to murder or Maitn him ; William Davies, for maliciously stabbing William Georg 4 With intent to murder or maim him ;. Robert Fergu- . snn, for uttering a forged 101. Bank of England note; George Nevill, also for uttering a forged 161. Bank of England note ; John Broadway add Thomas Crutcher, alias Kircher, for horse stealing ; Margaret Sullivan, for stealing a gold watch, seals, &c. the pro perty of William Lucas ; William Wilson, for a burglary at Portsea • and JonOun Pollard, for steal ing money f rom the box of Mary Tolfree, a servant at the George Inn, Basingstoke. Pollard is only 16 tears of age. , STAlblkb ASSIZES`. The Assizes for this county commenced on 'Nuts day last. The highly respested THEOPIIILUS LSVETT I Esq. Was attended to the town by a nume rous body of friends, who afterwards dined with him it the Swan. There were only nine prisoners for trial, and twenty-two causes; three bf witch were Special Juries. SEDUCTION.••• CL AR ICE V. RA ILSTON E. This was one of - the most interesting trials at these Assizes. It was ad action brought by the plain tiff, Mt. Thomas Clarke, of Wolverhampton, against the defendant, Mr. Thomas .Railstone, of the same place, to rftoverdamages for the Seduction of the plaintiff's daughter s . :The principal cirantstabc.es, as given in evidence by the daughter,. i'vhdiS between 19 or 19 years of age, were, that the defendant, a near neighbour of the plaintiff, became acquainted «ith her, in consequence of her visits to Hannah Taylor, i'ho resided with the defendant as a servant. It appeared that the defen dant's wife had eloped with Colonel Bedingfield, for which he had received from the Colonel. 10001. da. ma es ; and the defendant, in order to insinuate him self-into the good graces of th s young lady, represen ted hi/itself as willing to marry her at the death of his wife, which he stated as likely to happen very shortly. By these promises he seduced her. After the seduc tion had taken place, she was desirous of giving up the connection, but was induced torenew it in cbdse quenee of the defendant threatening to make her sis ter and a person of the name of Ellis, who paid his addresses to her, acquainted with her conduct, unless she repeated her visits. The consequence was, that she did, and proved with child. She afterwards went to her friends at Birmingham, who applied to the de , fendant to give his bond, engaging to marry her at his wife's death, which he refused to do. Other cir cumstances were given in evidence, which would be improper in us to state. The Plaintiff's daughter was cross-examined at considerable length by Mr. JEavis, who attempted to prove that the religious education of the plaintiff's daughter had not been properly attended to—and that she had permitted Ellis to sit up with her, after her father had gone to bed ; but in this he failed. Beside the plaintiff's daughter, one witless only was called in , rippott of his case, to prove the refusal -of the defendant to enter into any engagement to Marry her after his vices death ; and that upon the girl's friends expostulating with him as to his conduct, he admitted, that he was much to be blamed. Mr. JERVIS addressed the Jury on behalf of the de fendant, particularly adverting to Ow improper ac quaintance of the plaintiff's daughter with Hannah Taylbr, whom he stated to be an unfit person for her to associate With •to the neglect of the plainti ff in giving his daugliter a religious education t and his suffering her to visit the defendant, whom he knew to be a Married man, living separated from his wife; and, in support of the latter part of his argument, he Cited the case of Iteddie and Scoolt; Peake's Niri Prim; 2to. The Junot, iii summing u p, in the first place took notice of the case referred to by Mr. Jervis, Which he said did not apply to the present questiOn, as there was no evidence to she* that the. Plaintiff was ac quainted with the Difendant's attentions to his daugh ter. He then took a most perspicuous review of the case, giving it as his opinion, that theiirrt mind ve-As not debauched previonsli to her seduction by the de fendant ; that it by no Means appeared that her fa ther had neglected her religious education, but had, on the contrary, attended to it; reminded the Jury, that the defendant had adiiiiited that blame was im- potable to him alone; and Concluded by reCommedd log theM, in fixing the cldtnagei; to attend to the triatim of doh* unto Osbert as they would others , should do unto them, The Jury consulted Ablite few mititiiesi and , returned a verdict for 0300. There were Many caiotis circuiiistanceS which were brought forward at this trial. The Counsel for the Defendant attempted to shew that it was a cus tom in Wolverhampton for women to be taken on leages, and that the plaintiff had offered his daughter to the defendant on these terms. This, however, was -not proved. Miss Clarke appeared' an Interesting and well dreseed girl, and gave her depositions in tears. MANCHESTER, JULY es. COMBINATION.—At our Quarter Sessions, in April lest, a case of considerable importance to Hat Manu facturers and others, who employ a number of work men, came before the Court. It was a prosecution at the instance of Messrs. Thos. Philips and Co. against a hat-finisher, of the name of i3uchley, for assaulting one of their workmen, for having engaged to instruct their apprentices to finish hats, and for having refused to unite with Buckley and others, in a combination, under the denomination of Flints, to prevent Messrs. Thomai Philips and Co. from taking apprentices. . The case being made out to the satisfaction of a crowded Court, the Defendant was sentenced to three months imprisonment in Lancaster Castle. In the course of the cause, Mr. ScantErT made a most eloquent and impressive speech, spewing the evil tendency of combinations of all descriptions. The COURT much approved the conduct of the Prosecutors, and declared they would, at all times, protect the honest and industrious workmen from in jury and insult, and strongly condemned the combina tion of servants in general against their masters. On Wednesday last, at our Quarter Sessions , an appeal was heard upon a convict ion a g ainst JohnDal too and Joseph Midgliy, journeymen hatters, at Old ham, for having entered into a combination to prevent .. e .. - Meters Frenshavr, Barker, and Co. frois employing one Elizabeth Johnson. . It appeared that many of the Worktnen - hid con spired.tosether, to . prevent the Manufacturers from employing women in their works, and that they had entered into rules to carry their wishes into execution. , The Court confirmed the convictions, and the pri soners were committed to hard labour in the-New Bailey Prison fol• two months ; and also until they paid 211. the costs iniairicd, as authorized by the Acti of Parliament. There was also another proseittOn against Alex ander Stochtlak, for having with several other journey. men entered itto a similar combinationngainst Messrs. Mellor, Gee, and Kershaw, of Oldham: The Counsel for the prosecution stated that it vas hot the wish of the master manufacturers to preSii foe the conviction of more journeymen, as they hoped a sufficient example would be made by the punishment of the former two (example being their only object); and:* .prosecutors trusted that their lenity would hive t . paver effect upon all other journeymen hatters, who min have formed such a combination, particularly against aiscuatefi being employed ; but should it hereafter appear tisat_ the journeymen at tended their illegal meetings, or othrawise conducted themselves as they had lately done, therivenritall be prosecuted with the utmost severity. • The Couer remarked strongly against the illegal proceedings of the men, and hoped the great mildness which the hat manufacturers had shewn to the jour ' ncymen, in not pressing further prosecutions, would indul.-C them to be subordinate to their employers,. and dissolveAteir Meetings, which would certainly be , ratttonk t o themselves ; andOn future, the Journeymen I found g!tihy of these combinations, would meet with a More sarac j)iftilshment. I •• • I e . . • . YORKSHIRE. . .. , Chi Satnrday Wight, the Assizes for this county ilit4e. opened at the Castle, before the. Hon. Sir ALAN Ciiis4sitC. Knt. one of the Justices of the Bench, and the Hon. Sir GannonWoon, lEnt, one of the Barons df the Cott of Exchequer.. : . .• . . ... . Fri ft lai_ 4,st the bubineis on . the, Crown side .was finialied. . • . .if.l Pinion, jun. of Be‘ley,. butcher, was 'elated With the wilful murder of Rabat Gardener, of • Aillike place, on the IC* of April lust, by stab lal him in the side with'a knife. t his was f. trial which excited much interest ; the prisoner was much respected, and th particular cir curristancaS tinder which the deceased came by his death, poWerfully interested the feelings of the Court in the prisoaer's favour. It appeared that the de ceased was suspected by the prisoner, and,. as ap peared from the evidence, not without sufficient rea son, of a criminal intercourse with his wife. A few minutes before this unfortunate event took place ; he found his wife, at a very unseasonable hour, in com pany N , it'l the deceased, in the street, which so irri tated 11;r/1 ; that he declared he would-stab him, if ever he came into his house or premises. The deceased unfortunately persisted in accompanying the woman into the house, and the prisoner immediately said to the deceased, ‘I D—n you, Gardner, I will stab you ; You have huddled my w!fe in the street," and immediately made a thrust at him with a knife he had snatched from the table, and wounded him mor-. tally. The unfortunate Man languished until the 16th of April, and then expired. Previous to his death he admitted that the suspicions of the prisoner were well;f9unded, and which was, indeed, sufficient ly apparent from other circumstances laid before the Court. . The JUDGI4 in explainitg the law to the Jury, said, that if a man should kill another in the act of a cri minal intercourse with his wife s ii,,Would not be murder, but Manslaughter ; but if a person wlio had received such in j ury should deliberately contrive the (lath of the person who bad so injured him, it would donbt. leii• be murder ; his Lordship; however, 'thought; that any circumstances which tell short of the actual crime, and yet should clearly indicate such an inten tion, might come within the meaning of the Law. The lury; without a moment's deliberation, acquit-, ted the prisoner of the murder, and found him guilty of manslaughter only, to the satisfaction of a very crowded Court. ; John Wilkinson was charged with having, on Tues. dar, the 23d of May last, violated the person of Eli zaiwth Svkes, a female child, about eleven years of -age, in l'arnley Wood, in the parish of Leeds. Mr. Halsoy stated the case on the part of the pro secution, with his natal ability and perspicuity. The first witness examined was Elizabeth Sykes. She stated, that, on the 23d of May last, as she was , retaining. from her work in the evening, she was ac cc;sted by a man, who asked her to shew him the way to. Qildersome, through the wood ; the witness point ed it out to him ; but he said he could not find it, un less she went with him, and he would give her half a-crown. The witness accordingly accompanied him ; they had only gone a little way when they met a per son of the name of John Bromlf y, who asked her why she was going back ? She said she was only going a little way, And would return immediately.. Witness sad, they went on the foot-path, through the wood, and she frequently wished to return, but he always wished her to go a little further, which she did. When they had got into the middle of the wood, he threw her upon the ground ; she cried; and he taking a knife from his pocket, said, if she made a noise he Would cut her throat ; this frightened her so much that she made no further noise. The man then com pleted his abominable design, and left her, giving her two-pence, The witness, on her return home, met with her father, who asked her what she had been doing ? She replied she durst not tell him, an beg ged him not to beat her. Her mother soon discover ed the cause of her distress, and next day she came to Leeds, and saw a man at the Chief Constable's and the Rotation Office, whom she knew to be , the matt that had used her ill. She knew him bath by his dress and his look. Witness was asked if she should know hint at pi esent. She replied she could not tell. On being desired to look round on the per sons in Court, and see if shy could point him out, she could not fix upon the person of the prisoner ; and though the Judge ordered her to be brought up again at the conclusion of the case on the part of the prose cution, and had her attention fixed upon the prisoner, she could not identify him as the person who bad. •committed the outrage. William Sykes, the father of the last witness, stated her age to be rather u.tder II years ; remembers go- . 4 7 • • , I pg " to Ins d.iug ' 6icr on thejilgktof Ole lid of I May;'wlpa •he met her, lie.vrai much struck with her appearance. The next day, he went in search of dm prisoner, aid t 'Mid him at .Leeds, On being asked if.he was at Cildersome,the . preceding night? he said, " I do net know such a place as Gildersolne." Sarah Sykes, the mother of the child, corroborated the testimony of the child; as to the violence exer,.i ed on her person. John Broader . corroborated the eVidente of the `child, as far as .respected..his meeting her and the man in the wood, and kwore positively that Wilkinson was the intm. Benjnmin Sawyer was called ? to prove that the 'prisoner, having lived at Worthy eight or ten years, must have known Fartiley Wood, a distance of about half-a-mile, and the village of Gildersome. He stated the priioner to have borni a good character. The JUDGE said; the question oh which there could be any.difliculty was, as to the identity of, the pri soner, ~- , 'hetlier he was the person who committed [hid rape ; for that a rape had been committed He thought was clearly made out ; and the Jury; in determining this point, would take all the circumstances of the case into their consideration.. , The Jury retired for a considerable time, And on returning into Court, found the prisoner—Not Guilty. . This following prisoners Were convicted t F elcling , for having lotted Bank of England notes In his pomade*. pbaded guilty. - i i'L.iddliqpiffitaburgary in the house of S j irnuel Crook. nris...—!- Jonas Crabtree, in the parish or gtvynevi. Richard Donnison, of Darlington, for robbing. Thomas Hall on the lithway. . • ' Adam Watson, for stealing a piece of muslin from the shop of Michael Pfrker, of Ripon. Thomas Ontersott,' of Scarborough, for stealing a horse from William Arrewsntlth, of I.eytou, in the county of Durham, on the 224 March. John Whitfield, of Vista, for bigamy. Jane Snell, late a servant in the Post. Office at Basingwoldjor taking out of a-Letter a 101: Boston note, 514 e property of Robe!! •. Gallant!. William Dobbin, fit' fobbing the house of Richard Appleton, of Stohe4lty. BREAD.--There being no Court of Aldersnen to d:,y, the Loan MAYOR, after inspecting the returns of the Bakers' Company and Meal-weighers, ordered it to fall 1d: per peck loaf. ' .. • Mr. Howe, who has been attemptit* to do the Bar- . clay mttrli in Soinersetshire, resigned the task on Sa turday, the 15th day's performance only having been completed. He has thus loSt a stake nf'2oo guineas, anal hi.s health is much injured. The inhabitants of Duke's Place were some seven siace much alarmed by a loud crash, which was . distinctly heard in the Synagogue: On examination, - it w is found that the large chandelier had fallen 1: ona the cielihg, a Id done considerable damage to the : benches, &c. beneath it. The elegant and expensive chandelier which r raa- - mertted the centre of the Marine Library at Brighton, .fell to the floor on Tuesday last, and was completely dashed to fragments. Fortunately, there were no in dividuals near the spot at the tine. • On Friday, as Sir Jotm and Lady LADE were go ing down Liampstead Hill, on their way to Hendon, in a curricle, the pole came out of the splashing lea- titer, and falling against the horses, set them kicking and running at full speed. In this perilous situation Lady LADE jumped out of the curricle and fell, but received little hurt. • Sir .Tunri kept his seat until the foot-board was kicked off and the harness broke, when finding that he had no command, he leaped from the curricle, and was much bruised from the fall. The • horsei continued running fniibusly to SirJomes house with the curricle, a distance of near four miles, and, entering the yard, got ;nth a pond, from which they were got out with diffichlty, very much cut about the legs, .but not otherwise hurt. Sir JonN and Lady LADE were both bled, but fortunately have received no very serious injuty. • Last Thursday a partition wall of one of St. Mar y's Alms-hotites, in Ox-lane, Shrewsbury, fell down; some gentlemen hearing the crash, opened the door of the' hotise, and discovered, half buried with bricks, the old and decrepit tenant, who, together with the ruins, had sunk intr . ) the vault below, where she was scarcely dis cernible amid the dust- Notwithstanding the appa- • rent danger of her situation, she sat calm as a philo sopher, " Unhurt amid the war of elements and the wreck of matter." At first she declined accepting the offers that were made to remove her ; nor could the reasons for her attachment to the squalid and ruinous habitation be guessed, till it was discovered that she had hoarded a quantity of money in the holes and corners of it. • 'A young gentleman of the name of Matthew, whose father resides in Clarges-street, fell out of a boat as he was fishing, above Kingston-bridge, on Saturday, and was drowned. The Rev. Mr. Wright, curate of-Long Sutton, in Lincolnshire,returning on Wednesday se'nnight, firm Lulon, where he had been burying a corpse, was vio lently attacked by a Bull, which was grazing in a pasture, through which the foot-road to the church passes, and was so dreadfully gored by the furious animal, that his life is despaired of - . A child, • about two years and a half old, on Wed nesday se'nnight, crept unperceived behind his father, Mr. David-Harry, while mowing hay in a field -at Llangake, near Swansea, and the scythe entering his belly, he expired soon after. The feelings of the un happy parent can be better conceived than described. On the night of the 10th inst. the gaol of Derry was broken by the prisoners, and three of than effected their escape—one of them, of the name of Stewart, a very notorious offender, from Madera. Early on Wednesday morning a post-boy of Mr. Hyson, of Southampton, having fallen asleep on his return -home from Winchester, the horses took into • tl4 Crop-pond, within a mile of the latter, place, where the chaise was overturned and the unfortunatedriver was found under the fore-wheel drowned. MURPER.—Yesterday se'nnight John Bryant, a • ' but r em o a nin quitti n g a c onsiderablethe house Chelsea pensioner, who has lost a le g i n hi s M a j esty ' s service, went to a public house at B ra df or d w i t h 'M tim ar e y d M rin a k rk in s, g wheretogethe they an altercation took place, during which Bryant struck the woman a violent blow, which killed her on the spot. An inquest was on Wednesday taken by Mr. CLARE, the Coroner ;—verdict Wilful Murder.— Bryant was in consequence committed, on the Coro ner's warrant, to Devizes Bridewell, from whenc , has been removed to the county gaol in Fisherton, take his trial at the Assizes. ..: „~.,. rl