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~~, ~ ~'; THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1819. THE FUNDS. RIME OF STOOKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Bank Stock shut 3 per Cent. Reduced shut 3 per Cent. Consols 70.14 69f Si per Cent. shut-4 per Cent. shut 5 per Cent. Navy 103114 Irish 5 per Cents. 1051 India Bonds 11 pre. Exchequer Bills (2d.) 3 6 dis. Ommium 2 1 pre. Consols for Acct. 70. The Paris Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday arrived this forenoon. The Election of the Representatives of the Fixth Series is nearly completed, and it appears that the lnde2endent interest has generally prevailed, to the discomfiture of both Ministerialists and Ultras.— Rouen is strongly contested between M. BEUGNOT and M. COTTEREL. Neither of them having obtained the absolute majority required by law, the choice was to be decided on Wednesday by ballot. According to letters from Madrid, a report prevails that the yellow fever has spread from the Isle of Leon to Seville, and that all Andalusia is in a state of the greatest alarm for the consequences. _ _ The storm raised in Germany by the pretended Prussian Conspiracy, appears gradually to die away. The referendary, M. HENNING, who was said to be one of the principal chiefs in the plot, has been set at liberty, and the Inquisitorial Commission which has been sitting on the business, has declared that he was perfectly innocent. He has suffered two months' imprisonment. It is said that he intends bringing an action of damages against M. KAMPTZ and the other Members of the commission. Five per Cents.—Tuesday, 731 r. 15c. A Dutch Maill arrived this forenoon, but its con tents are not interesting. . We learn, by a letter from Malacca, received via C alcutta, that the Dutch, alarmed at the progress making by Sir STANIFORD RAFFLES, v.) establish a British interest in the Indian Archipelago, had suc ceeded in compelling the Rajah of Rhio to resign the dominion of that important possession ; and that a royal salute had been fired at Malacca on the receipt of the intelligence. 4 . I NA VAL IA TELLIGENCE. Pazstouzn, Stn.. 15.—Wind E.—Arrived off this port the Proselyte, llsazoir, from Montserrat for London. PORTSMOUTH, Sart. 17.—Wind N.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Hum, from a cruize ; and the Success transport, from Chatham. HARWICII i Strr, 17.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived d the Auckland packet, with a Mail from Holland. lIGLYBEAD, SHPT. 16.—The Abbey, COWLING, of Penrhyn, from Charleston for Liverpool, ran upon the back slope of this Pier last night, and is bilged. LZRIVICIC, SEPT. 4.—Arrived the Inverness, Ports, from Greenland, clean. Dorm Sara. 17.—Arrived the Ocean, Ilinstss, from Ja maica, with loss of anchor and cable, and has been supplied with another: also the Mary, Swam from Amsterdam for the isle of May, having lost her top-mast, main-top-gallant-mast, sails, and rigging, en tfie coast of France. Star. 17.—Wind N.—Came down from the River and sailed, the Langfutd, AJ•TONY, for Ilerbice ; and the Susannah :Realms, for Tencriffe. The Hopewell, Cout.sox, from Quebec, lost an anchor and cable in the Downs this morning, and has been supplied with another. Sidled the Colonel Allen, Burn, for the Cape de V girds--she has lost an anchor and cable. Cosa um-llousr, S Err. t 7.—F.ntered Inwards—The Fortitude, Smith, from Rarbadues ; Claremont, Gander, from Madeira and Jamaica ; the Flying Fish, Smith, from Ostend; Zumen, Plug, from Rotterdam; Prospectus, Jordan, from Heligoland; and the Brunswick, Mathur, from Archangel. Entered Outwards—lkverly, Ilutchinson, for Hamburgh ; Ceres, Penny, for St. Mary's; Ancandre, Hamilton, for Grand Canary ; Ann, Wilkie, for St. Domingo ; Latona, Levie, for Madeira and emenua ; Union, Dean, for Petersburgh ; and the Staines, Spence, for Bremen. Cleared Outwards—The Annus, Saunders, for Jamaica; the Hibernia, Hurley, for Cork ; Syrene, Preager, for Calais ; the Sarah, Ilodgson, for Seville ; Ann, Dick, for Hamburgh ; and the Vine, Prince, for Newry. The PRINCE REGENT left Carlton-House yesterday afternoon for Portsmouth, accompanied by Sir BEN JAMIN BLOOMFIELD. A Correspondent asksL- ,, The war being at end, why is not the Glacis, at Portsmouth thrown open pro bono public° for a promenade for the inhabitants, cooped up.in a confined walled town—instead of be ing ice for grazing cattle, &c?" The Contractors for the Lottery have to apologize to their Friends and the Public for the delay in ad vertising the New System ; but the CHANCELLOR of the Excneouen will be in town on Tuesday, when it will be immediately published. Its principal features arc EIGHT I'rizes of Twenty Thousand Pounds, many other Capitals, and the lowest Prizes £l6 each; and that one fourth part of the Numbers (being all that are on sale) will have the chance of all the Prizes.— Two Numbers may be had of the same fate, to pro duce above £40,000, and to begin 9th November next, LORD MAYOR'S DAY.—J. and J. SIVEWRIGHT, sole Contractors ; who sold, not only No. 15,760, the last £30,500, but also;No. 3710, a Prize of £36,000, and many other Capitals, on the 27th of August last. LITERATURE.—The most interesting and valuable Volume of new and useful information, which for many years has been presented to the Public , is the First Volume of the Journal of New Voyages and Travels. This Volume, at only 20s. bound, contains give complete Works, separately worth ten guineas, and the chief contents of six Works, value other ten guineas. A complete Work, as usual, will continue to be published on the 15th of every Month ; but, fur exportation, the six*Numbers, done up in a Vo lume, and the Volume of the Monthly Magazine, constitute, together, a body of unrivalled contem porary Literature and Science. RIOTS AT PAISLEY AND GLASGOW. PAISLEY, SEPTEMBER 15. EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER. " A Scotch mob is always worse than an English ones it has more determination, as it has generally some more definite purpose, which is persevered in as a matter of principle. The Porteus mob was one of this sort, when the people executed an offender whom they thought the law was wrong in sparing : of a similar nature was the mob in Edinburgh lately, when they witnessed the torture of a poor wretch, from the neglect of means to put a period to his suf ferings. The Paisley mob appears to have acted on something like an obstinate principle of retaliation, ' for an outrage committed upon itself. Previous to the seizure of the flags, thtre was nothing in the con duct of the people to justify apprehension, unless it was the waving of the flags, which appears to have been considered as seditious by the PnoVosT and the Constables; nor did disturbances commence even then. It was not till the dispersed mob had collected in groups, and had conversed on the disgrace of having their flags taken from them, that the rioting commenced with throwing stones through the win dows of the Court-house, where the constables were assembled. Whatever opinion may be formed of the conduct of the PnovosT in seizing the flags, there cannot be a difference of opinion as to his humanity in his efforts to disperse the mob when it really be- came mischievous. Finding all efforts to disperse it in vain, the Riot Act was ordered to be read—not privately, as at . Manchester, so that none of the peo ple should hear, but publicly; and the Puovosf and his friends incurred some danger in going out in every direction, and notifying aloud that it had been read. The arrival of Cavalry from Glasgow, at ten o'clock, removed the apprehension of danger, though the constables continued to be annoyed till three o'clock on Sunday morning by stones thrown from narrow lanes and cross-streets. " The great degree of decency with which the Sab bath is observed here, renders the riot which occurred next evening rather extraordinary, and leads to a suspicion that spies had got amongst the people, to keep alive their angry feelings, and instigate them to violence—and this suspicion is not without ground, for The Glasgow Chronicle, which exposed the spy system in 1817, had, in a recent. Paper, a declaration, signed by half-a.dozen persons, stating that a stran ger had appeared amongst them, who shewed them a drawing of a pike for acting against cavalry, and represented how easily Dumbarton Castle might be stormed and taken. It is not easy to account for the outrageous proceedings, on a Sunday evening, of the Paisley operatives, who are generally decorous and peaceable, unless we suppose that this scoundrel, or some others of the same stamp, had got amongst them. The windows of the Coffee-room were broken, and almost all the street lamps ; and it was again necessary to read the Riot Act, and call out the Mili tary, who dispersed the crowd without using their arms." ~~ c 11 GLASGOW, SEPTF.7.IBER 15. The mischief committed in Glasgow does not seem the result of an ordinary Riot. On the con trary, it appears that the perpetrators acted upon an arranged plan. They met at the Green before , sunset, with the view, apparently, of determining on their proceedings. They then went along the streets, breaking the lamps and effecting other devastations. They met with no opposition ,in going through the town, and encreased in strength as they proceeded. When the work of wanton injury could no longer be performed with safety, they mixed with the crowd,' many of whom were present merely from curiosity. Last night there was a full attendance of Special Constables, who patroled the several streets until the' people, at the usual hour, went to their homes. The streets presented the customary appearance, except at the Cross, where there were some ruffians who hissed the Special Constables. A band of fellows went down Saltmarket, proceeding to the Green,l where, it is said, a scheme was to be laid for attacking the shops in Calton, but the Special Constables seiz ing five or six of the most active in the crowd,_and a person crying loudly, at the foot of Salunarket, that the Hussars were coming, the mob decamped. An alarming disturbance took place at Canterbury on Tuesday last, on the annual election of a Mnron for that City. Particulars will be found in a pre; ceding page. Signatures are collecting to a Requisition calling on the High Sheriff of Essex to convene a Meeting of the County to Address the PRINCE REGENT, Oh the late atrocities at Manchester. A Public Meeting on tlief;teManchester transac tions was to be held - to-day at Kilmarnock. Sir CHARLES WOLSELEY, with Mr. JOHNSON, of Smedley Cottage, were at Litchfield Races, on Tues day, in a carriage and four, to witness a match, for 100 guineas, between Lord AN s ow's Aylesbury, and `fir CHARLES'S br. c. nicknamed Radical Wormer. The race was admirably and closely contested, and considerable cheering was heard as the horses came in. Radical was the winner. A Correspondent requests to know the nature of the Grand Jury which the Sheriff of Middlesex pricks at Westminster for all England? We havis not before heard of this, but we earnestly recommend the subject to the attention of some intelligent Mem ber of the Bar. For if there is such a Grand Jury, we presume the Bills found before it, must be tried by the Court of King's Bench, the pro-, Titania to bring the delinquents of Manchester Mre—re. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. TRIAL OF STENT. Henry Stent was this day put on 'his trial, charged with haring stabbed his wife, Maria Stent, with in tent to kill her. There were three counts in the in dictment. Maria Stent was called. Mr. ALLEY objected to the evidence of the wife against the husband. He knew no case in which such testimony was admitted, except that of Lord Audley. Mr. Justice BEST said, if there had been no deci sion on the case, he should take the evidence, for the protection of married women. The case of Lord Audley was a most powerful one, which had all the possible legal assistance that could be given. Mr. Baron GRAHAM considered a dying declara tion from a wife, evidence, and could not hesitate in taking the evidence of the wife in this case. . . Mr. Justice RICHARDSON was of the same opinion, Maria Stent.—" My Lord and Gentlemen, I hope you will not ask me to give evidence." (In great agitation.) Justice 13EsT.—I cannot help it. I shall ask you as few questions as possible: it is your duty to answer." She then stated that the prisoner was her husband; that she had gone to France twelve months ago, and teturned the sth of August, on which day she sent a letter to her husband in Pimlico ; she saw her hus band in the course of that day, at the Saracen's Head, but had no recollection of any thing after she saw him; she did not recollect that he did any thing to her; the first thing she recollected was her being in St. Bartholomew's Hospital ; she had wounds upon her person. Cross•examined by Mr. ALLET.—She had no chil dren ; her husband was an excellent one.—Mrs. Stem was asked no further questions. King, the Waiter at the Saracen's Head, stated, that the prisoner arrived, and was introduced to the room where Mrs. Stent sat. Mrs. Stent got up to meet him, and witness shut the door, leaving them together. In ten minutes he heard a shriek, and on going into the room saw Mrs. Stern on her back, and the prisoner standing close by. A knife was lying on the floor, and it had blood upon it. The woman was wounded : she said she hoped no harm would happen to him for what he had done—that she had been a very base wife, and he was the best of hus bands. An Officer was sent for. Pithouse, another person employed at the Sara cen's Head, deposed, that he saw the prisoner stab Mrs. Stent in the neck. After' which Stent said, " I have accomplished my purpose, and wish for nothing more. I know I shall suffer for it." She said, " You have, you have, Henry, and I freely forgive you, and 1 1 hope the law will take no hold of you—kiss me, kiss me." He kissed her twice, and she said he had been the best of husbands, and she had been the worst of wives. She then said, " she highly deserved all she met." Witness took her to the Hospital—when witness entered the room, she cried out, " take him away, take him away, he'll murder me." Stent dropped the knife. The knife was produced, and identified by Pithouse. Turner, a waiter, was the first person who went into the room after the shrieks. Stent had his knees upon his wife't stomach, and stabbed her in the neck. This witness then repeated what the other witness stated. He said " You are a rash man, and have signed your own death warrant," Stent said he had cause, for she had been a base woman. She said, " Indeed, indeed, I have." At her request, Stent kissed 'her. She said she freely forgave him, and hoped her fate would be a warning to all bad wives, or women.—He was taken into custody ; he made no resistance. The officer who apprehended Stent deposed that he said "I am the man." There was a letter and a razor case in his pocket. Mr. Benwell, surgeon of Bartholomew Hospital, stated, that Mrs. Stent was brought into the Hospital on the sth August ; she had wounds--one had pene trated the windpipe ; it might have been the cause of her death. Though she had not had surgical assistance she might have done well, it was probable—she had a wound in the front of the breast, a superficiM cut; another on the right breast, which was likewise su. perficial—it might be the eighth of an inch. She had a wound on the right side, and the right lung was wounded it was a dangerous wound, and much bitiod came from her. The wound of the lung might have occasioned her death. She continued in dan- I ger several days. The knife produced would inflict these wounds. Mr. Justice Barr-0 Now is the time to speak in your defense Henry Stent." Stent.—" I leave the case entirely to my Counsel." Witnesses were called. Charles Edward Clark, of Pimlico, knew prisoner well. He bore the best of characters—was kind hearted and good-natured. James Lee knew prisoner eight or nine years; al ways thought him harmless, mild, and inoffensive. Thomas Glandon knew him eight years, to be civil, good-hearted, and industrious. Thomas Shaw knew him nine years, and be is an excellent husband. 1 , Thomas Baker knew him to be the most mild and humane man imaginable. - Several other witnesses were called, who said he sras'alltayi kind and affectionate to his wife, and very 44 r i tab le n° P e rs°4 . “4 l ( l be lAttet disposed. Sumie • • • 0 - .+c- -4.14 : • •• •• • - of these witnesses knew him 12 and 11' y( oae of them knew him 20 years. Thi s mail was the best son and husband that could h e any where. The body of the Court was with witnesses to the unfortunate prisoner' s , Twenty-five relpectable men were examined. Mr. Justice Best—A most painful task latdves on me. We cannot but be sorry to man, who has sustained such a character, into the commission of an act of which bye and by, determine, whether it arises fre! ferocity which comes within the meaning of The Learned JUDGE here proceeded to nass ,eulogium upon Lord Ellenborough' s Act.] made allowance for the infirmities of hur and determined that, if a man should is!unge ger in his wife's breast,fingrante delido, whi' perpetrating the crime of adultery, he was , of murder. But the great principle of the Ch i Religion was forgiveness of injuries --and if reflection intervened, nothing could excuse lence which led to the destruction of the objt vengeance. It was well known haw dangerous to trust a man to the guidaace of his own Whatever the crime of the prisoner's wife it was evident that she had repented. If her , was capable of redemption, the humanity exercised did that effectually, for she called self base, and kissed the hand that It appeared from the conduct of the prisoner too felt some compassion, for he stooped kissed his wife; but it was to be feared, that wi malignant passion was once gratified, the perm n laboured under it fell back into all the former derness and affection by which his comiuct tinguished previously to the commission of the violence. There was no excuse; there were • cumstances which were calculated to reduce , fence below the crime of murder, if death had lowed. The Learned Judge then read over dente. The Jury retired, and were in consultati two minutes, and upon their return, they a verdict of Guilty. There was a general expression of sorrow Court. Several ladies were in team STENT, was not in the slightest degree agitated dtnini trial, received the verdict with perfect indi He spoke to several of his friends. The Jury recommended him to mercy, in o quence of his previous excellent character• Mr. Justice Bear— ,, Gentlemen, that . dation shall certainly be forwarded to the p , quat ter." WEST-EXI) FAIR. • • Yesterday, Thomas Brown, a wretched-1 boy, was indicted for putting in bodily tear, violently robbing, a person named Walte , s. The prosecutor, on returning from that Fair, had his hat knocked off ; he pursued the low who did it, and knocked him down. " ' him 1" cried another of the gang, and straitwat Walters was surrounded by about two dozen knocked down, robbed of his money and handkerchief, and left senseless. The my the prisoner was seen to pry about the spot; being asked by the officer what he was doin7? swered, that he was looking for a murdered i,. The prosecutor's handkerchief was found upon him. Justice BEST observed, that there was proof that 3 robbery had been committed, and that the prisowe bad been connected with it ; but it was not quite plain that the prisoner had perpetrated any par: the violence, the evidence which it was necessary to establish clearly, before the prisoner could be carp victed of a highway robbery. Verdict—Guilty of stealing from the person, but not violently. Henry Lovell, aged 16, was indicted for violently assaulting, on the 27th of July, Michael Bedding ton and taking from his person a snuff-box, a hat, a handkerchief, and sixteen shillings in money, g West-End Fair. This robbery was committed by a part of the ge neral gang, amounting to about twenty or thirty The prosecutor saw them corning towards him, and getting through a hedge. On approaching him, the prisoner came up boldly, and knocked off his hu for which he returned a blow, which felled the pzi soner. A cry was immediately made of--" Stall bins !—stall him r by the prisoner : this was re. echoed by the gang, which now amounted to atleatt fifty. The prosecutor was so dreadfully beaten thst he fainted away, and remained senseless for a day and a night. The prisoner was described by the pro secutor to the officers, who, assisted by a body e i special cons:ables, took him, and about a dotes others, from a booth. The prosecutor recognizedthe prisoner immediately among, the others, when ' le l were taken to Bow-street. The prisoner put in a written defence, in which he denied the charge, and described h imself as getting his living by going bout with a drum and Pan's-pip% He also said Liar he had lost his mouth-organ std drum in the confusion. Guilty—Dcath. CHARGE OF MURDER. Thomas Francis was indicted for killing and s layir Maria, his wife, by inflictin upon her body di vers J mortal blows, on the 29th of uly of which she died. Mr. Guise, a surgeon, examined the body of Me. woman short l y after she died, on the 28th ofJuly , and could find no marks of violence upon the body w would warrant a supposition that she had met her, death by violence. There was no mark of externa l injury which could justify an opinion that she had Met a violent death in any manner.—The Jury . stantly returned a verdict of Not Guilty. BTATH. On the 16th instant, the Lady of Major (byword a raugb ter, at the Cottage, near Great Marlow, bianday. at Esq. formerly -r-- DIED. Bury, in the 896 year of his age, William Sm. of Wurrigne, where he shone as the eritio e, in the Comedy of The Sobel fir ScendaL____..- 1.4,01110 N Printed and iniblidmid by Lyn Ku" rid ° Place, Tenlide-liat. . • I.• • • • n l e : s y c o h ats, ar: a s ismine n k idt b. g e e no s f a 44 d wa s crow it sorry to k ., 1 ctee, surpri 3 O rhich C4, 11,4' 4 :NI rises f rcrn Ling o f t h e .11 ,. to pas s a al? c t.] Th e Li FIE human nat k ., or' Viet: 1, while ~ heti ' ICI an was no: gui, .r tiss f the Chtisk t .• erio and if time,. excuse tile if the objerti mgerous it il l own passiu tt liE wife migh t lc sro . If her ct i st it er humanity' he c:Illed stabbed her.. mot arisoner that '2 aped dow n al the iced d, that w1.?:2 thet the person :he former te, m‘iuct was es• . on of the ac ' n cee th: re were ac reduce Ile r. death had i. Id over the e.. 2ny ce o ii tat ion men. lut !fey pronouccti he S.A sorrow in to li, . STENT, tth L, ated dining ti rat: !ct indiffemict tercet, in to :a. m•o: 4 icter• Lull that recomnte› to the plop: xi ] retched-1944r )dily fear, ani Ax eed n that unlucky mrsued the hi down. " Sri d 01 straitway Ms •' dozen MT= ey and packet• e next morniril the spot ; aal Pot vas doing ? art. Ipl xrdered man.— :we Ind upon hint. y 0 ras proof that 3 °fit • at the prisoner vil was not quite red any part ci ras necessary to could be care Licit—Guilty of ently. ed for violently :had Heddint rie iff-box, a hat, a in money, g ti e he oa k tt l t c s tpceafhyaedr felled t nl o oe s g r di thin f of ht him, t i 5 1 i ge : hIL on • •pa u de of—" Stall : this was re- tested to at lean Illy beaten that !less for a dal xed by the pro- by a body .) about a dozen recognized the abt ers, When tel ce, in which he .74 If as getting his nd Pans-pips' uth-organzed ing and !,layirg er body divers which she died. 1: to body of the th ofJuly, and he body WLiC S had met her trk of external that she had -The Jury ia• ).: 3 &Ugh' t: 1 7" 1 " r, William tit ne as s, KV; 1 4' t, i r