Star. — London, England, 1816-08-24 00:00:00

n S FV 7 .. • biVON.-7411.1C1140. CLAY WITH noua. TIIII*2IfO V. TRAHAIt. This was an indictment for a misdemeanour. in wilfully, malicious y, and unlawfully mixing clay with flour. Mr. Serjeant Less, who cnndscted the prosecution on the part of the Crown, briefly stated the case, and then proceeded to call the following witnesses : Mary Arthur deposed, that in the beginning of February 1814, she bought some flour of her brother, who keeps a shop at Falmouth, which her servant made into bread. It appeared to rise in the dough, but fell in baking, and tasted bad. All her faun!, complained of it. .1. Came, the brother of Mary Arthur, said, he ordered some flour from Trahat's Mills, part of which he sold to his sister. It was the best bur— ls* was to give 635. per bag for it. His customers. generally complained that the flaw was bad, and his sale became much injured. Told 'Frahm- of the'cir. cumstance, who agreed to fall it 6s. pet bag. In weighing eut the, flour it arose in a cloud ot dust, ashich he never observed in any flour before or since in an equal degree. Bread was made of it in his own house, of which his father ate part. • J. Came, sen. had tasted the bread at his ton's, in February, 1814., and oliservcd it to be very objection able. ' It was more solid, and less porous, than 4 bread generally is. He paid a person named Rowe, for Trahar, on account ot his son, £l4; the original price was 415. J. Holman said, that he was employed by Trahar, at Treyew Mills, about February, 1814, to bag up flour. Knew Rowe, the servant, who was also em. ployed at the mill. Was put into a rooni to turn over some wheat-flour with a spade ; observed some tole whiter than the other; he mixed the two sorts together. and turned it twice. Rowe then brought up something in a peck tub, five or six times, which he t. rew over the heap. In the evening Trahar, the defendant, came to the. mill, and asked Rowe how he got ot bagging t Rowe replied, " Wry well." They had bagged 52 bags, each contain i ng two bushels, Cornish measure, ot the mixture. Cross-examined.—Couldsnot tell- how much beer he had drank in the course of the day. -Dr. Edwards, of Falmouth, had procured some of the fluor of which Mrs. Arthur complained : part of it was clay. It appealed to be that sort of clay pro. duced (rem decomposition of granite. It was most . pernicious and unwholesome. Mr. Serjeant PELL, for the defendant, principally dwelt on the little credit there' was to be given to the evidence of a Person (Holman) who 1. - a appea►ed before the Court in a state of intoxication; and whose evidence alone went to attach any guilt to the de. fendant. JUDGE, in summing up the evidence to the Jury, observed, that he did nut conceive it was but& cieutly strong to convict the defendant; and the Jury, atter A very tew minutes' deliberation, gave a verdict of—Not Guilty. THI KING V. COWL This was also an indictment for miziag clay with flour. Rowe was the servant of Tyahar, and lived at Treyew Mills, near Truro. • The first witness was R. Brown, a constable, at Truro. In May, 1814, he went to search Treyew Mills. He there met R.Ave, whn had the manage: meat of them. There were two mills ; one appeared furred round with clay. •OR examining the premises with Clemence, another constable, they found in a loft, the door of which they broke open ( Rowe saying be bad. ant the key) a heap of clay, about two tons, and a flue sieve, and some flour in bags. He took some of it and carried to Truro, before a Magistrate, and he was ordered to remove all the flour from the Mill, which was condemned, and thrown away. Did not know wkether Trahar was master of the Mill or alt. Had seen Rowe driving Trailer's cart. E. Clemente, a constable, at Truro, searched' , Treyew Mills. Rowe was in possession. He took', particular notice that there were two mills, one of which appeared to be used for grinding clay, and the I, Mbar - foe corn. (He here produced a sample of the lour and clay which he found on the premises). His' evidence was to the same effect as Brown's. Grace Warren said, she kept a shop at Falmouth ; knew Rowe, who is a milkr ; dealt with him in 1814, and received several parcels of flour. At one time she complained to Rowe that it was very bad, and wished him to take it back again. Rowe said, he would send better. Witness had given some to Dr. Edwards. 'She had eat some of the bread made with the flour, and it had a very bad effect upon her : several other persons had also complained of its bad effects. Cross•examinei.—Does not know Trahar. The flour she had for sale was kept in a back kitchen, which was not locked. The bags were marked Rowe. Dr. Edwards took three samples of flour at Grace Warren's house, which he analyzed ; they all cone tamed about a tenth part clay. In that proportion it was very prejudicial to health. Two or three witnesses were c. died 'to speak as to Rowe's character. Guilty.—lusprisoned two years, and fined £lO. ANTRIM ASSIZES.—CARRICIORROUS, AUGUST is. This day the Court met at nine o'clock, and imam, diately proceeded to the trial of John Magill, Jams: Dickson, John Doe, Janus Puri, and Joseph Madden. The indictment contained several counts, charging them with conspiring to set fire to the house of Mr. Francis Johnson, also conspiring to murder him, also of having made an attack on hit house, and of break ing into it, and setting it on fire, oe the morning of the 28th day of February last, &c. &c. Francis Johnson, the first witness, deposed, that on the 28th February last he lived i Peter's-hill, Belfast; he is a muslin mannfacturet; is the month of Au gust, last year, his house was Bast attacked; leis hall door was tarred and set fire to, a basket with tar was also placed at the hall-door and set on fire sit was during the night; he never discovered who it was done by between this time and February follovring he had received several aaonymous threading let ters ter for weeks previous to the 28th February be bid etttirWed John Lewis to watch his boase, and be bad got the shutters ef his parlour and kitchen windows iheiliod with iron ; on the 28th February he employed at least 450 men. On the preceding night jtis windows were shut, and be and his family retired bed up stairs between twelve and one / lea iat ~: teals, dui ' and four in the tnotniajj‘ be NM **bite bt a greit noise, as if!** door was breaking open,' he got Ns' and went fUthe window*-of the bed roout,-'opened the shutters and looked out.; he saw a great number el persons in the street; opposite his hoose4 he did net know any of them the noise cootinued below as:ef windows breaking, and Lewis called to . him that tiny were bursting in ; he took his -blenderbuss and fired among them, when if* persons in the streetformed into 4 kind of line and fired into the windows, priori. pally into the window next to him ; a short pause then ensued, when two men came forward and fired a shot each I he saw three men run from the parlour window-above which he was standing, and he fired a pistol anthem; he then went to the head of the stairs, and was about to go down, %her an explosion took place which shattered the house almost to pieces, leaving it a perk" wreck. Mrs. Johnson had goer down stairs at the time be was firing, and in going' down the stairs, which was covered with pieces of wood, he heard her voice frone a dark closet off the stairs ; she said she „haft been thrown there by the explosion, and was much hurt ; the side of the stairs 'had been boarded, and these were all mocked to pieces; he made his way down and found the door of the closet broken to pieces, and blocked up with pieces' of wood, brick, &c.; when lie got his wife extricated, he found she was very much bruised, the hair of her forehead and eye brows a good deal burned s he ob served that the kitchen door and several ethers were broken ; the kitchen was taking fiat, particularly some clothes and the pieces of wood scattered abort ; the partition wall between the kitchen and hall was completely levelled to the ground ; he called toLewis, to bring water to extinguish the fire in the kitchen, but he made him no answer, and be found him ly!ng insensible in a back hall, but he recovered in a short time. The front wall of the house, which was. three stories high, had been separated from the gable, and the joints Of the floor on which he had slept were broken to pieces. Had this article which exploded in the kitchen exploded in the parlour, it would have destroyed the whole house and family ; but the back hall door off the kitchen being -open, gave vent to it. John Lewis—Was in the service of Mr. Johnson, and was employed by him for some time before the ach February to sit up from twelve at night till six in the morning ; he was there that night, and had a pitchfork with him; about three or four in the morn trig, when he was in the kitchen, some persons came furiously to the door with sticks ; he went to the door and hailed them, and then called on Mr. Johnson ; at that time he heard shots outside; he saw in the parlour the window next the door broken, and some thing coming in resembling a man's hat ; he made a stab at it, and sunk his tork deep into it ; be retreat ed into the hall, but it stuck on the fork till he reach ed the kitchen, when he forced it off with his foot ; he saw something like a spark of fire in it: it was about the size of two crowns of a hat ; when he had left it two steps it exploded, when he was blown into a little closet, with his face and hands much burnt; he was blind for same time, aid a ft er he recovered he found the house in ruins; the partition wall was blown down, the furniture, tables, chairs, dtc. thrown about and broken. William Gray said he was a muslin weafer, and was its the employment of Mr. Workm,aqo 'knows Mr. Francis Johnson, and recollects the morning of the 28th February when the outrage was committed on his house. About eight or ten days before that, he was called on to attend a meeting of muslin wea vers at the house of one Watson, at the head of Mill street, Belfast ; it was John Magill, one of the pri soners, who called on him. He west there with him in the evening . when it was darks he found several persons there an an upper room, among whom were James Park and James Dickson, two of the prisoners. They were all talking about Mr. Janson having lowered the wages, and . .they thought it would be right to put a stop to it if it could be done. They then spoke of putting something in his ware-room that might destroy it, and that might be a means of stopping him, and thought some combustible or something of that nature Would answer the purpose. Nothing was determined upon that night, but was deferred till another night. When he first *eat into the house, it was thought necessary that every man should be bopnd up by an oath to keep the secrets of the meeting, and they took the oath.-09 the night of the 27th, at eleven o'clock, he was in the house of one Hewett, near to his own, at the Rookery, when the prisoner Magill called on him there, and there was another man with him whom he did not know. Magill said there was to be a meeting that night, and wished him to go to it, and . said he would call on him again. About two hours after that, Magill, William M‘Dowall, and the same man who had been there before, called on him at. his own hoist. He immediately went with them towards .mason's house, and wbea he arrived there he saw sevlrral per sons at the entrance to Lodge.lane, opposite to Mr. Francis Johnson's door, He then found they were about to put in execution the plan that Mad been spoken of on the former night, and to nit tombus. tiblesioto,hislesse. Jobe DOesis4 Joseph Madden there, but Aid not see Dixon or PAK at the lane. Doe said that witness and him watt° stand at the gateway going . backwards into the,office.— Witness then got a pistol from a person ho.did not know, but it was afterwards taken ifOgi him and given to another person, and he got a blade:bun. Doe had a bright musket and so had Madden. They were to be all stetioned at proper places, and when they heard the first shot they were all to proceed to the place where it was fired. It bad been agreed that something was to be put is at the windows. and 'he saw the end of a box under a man's at m. It appeared to be about five or Sin incises square. When the order was given hawthorn to come to the frost when they beard the first shot, they were at the same time ordered not to fire in at any windows, as apme of them did not know Mr. Johnson's house, and alight fire into another person's windows. The firing was meant to deter any poops. from coming forward.— The person who was appointed to put the emboli. bles in at the window, was to fire as a signal 4hat he bad got it done, and it was then that ail wage to as semble in front. Theo west eighteen or = persons in all, ad of these tea or twelve wets He soon after bear/ the glass sadist is boat of the house, and got beg after he-beest Aos. uppe,whisil he and Doe came tu the fent, where they sin saw , persons stinding, gad ethers coming frees wear of Carrickrhill. Witness then fired kis bisaiiibileg bli f l lf ed6 i t i hs:bskille;:eocmen"vdlskittsbr home 4cti u d r i t a t a tllical ,: 4l:e a r ik n a ‘ele d: th : f'n:rerufde:hlf and b n n l e ef t itbrwhu thre e i a s t h n tort out of the way, as hand was very sole. — James Dickson went with him to Portadown, in the neighbourhood of which they called on one Malcom. son, with whom Dickson was acquainted, and they went into Portadown, where he had his hand dressed early in the morning by Dr. Sanderson. Sarah Gray, wife of the preceding witness, corro borated a part of his evidence. The Jury retired, and remained enclosed for some time. They then returned their verdict, finding James Dickson and James Park Guilty of the conspi racy, and John Magill, John Doe, and Joseph Mad- I den, Guilty of the attack on Mr. Johnson's house, Vie. The Jury recornmended diem to mercy. MAYO ASSIZES. • Ext It &ORDINARY TiitAt. Tuesday week, at these Assizes, Hauer Deacy was put upon trial, charged with the wilful murder, on the 18th of May last, of the daughter of John Joyce, of Westport, a child aged eight years, and with re ceiving money under false pretences. John Joyce, the prosecutor, sworn.—Said he be came acquainted with the prisoner when severely af flicted with rheumatism, seven months before the 1, murder charged in the indictment, in consequence of i - beinginformed of her skill in the management of va rious diseases; that in prescribing for him, she direc ted him to purchase sixpenny worth of arsenic, which he did, and mixed it with other ingredients, and ap plied it, without success, to the part affected. Sarah Joyce sworn.—ls mother of the deceased child : prisoner came to her house on the night pre ceding her child's death ; she took the child in her lap and kissed her; she appeared to be intoxicated, end was offered a bed, of which she accepted : in the morning, at nine o'clock, she sent the child to witness, who was at a neighbour's house, saying she wanted to see her s witness came and asked the pri ' soner what she wanted ? Prisoner replied, that it was only to tell her what she might have told before, but she did not wish to alarm her, viz.—" that her child was to die soon—that she would get sick within two hours, and die before six o'clock that evening— that at all events, except she (the prisoner) could save them, the father or the child should die ;" and she put it to the witness, which she would rather lose, her husband or her child ? Witness replied, that if either must go, she would wish the child to be the one ; but asked why she should say her fine little girl, that was in good health, was to die ?—Tlie prisoner answered, that although she supposed she slew her very well, that it was not her child that was there a: all, hot kr shadow, as the child had been overlooked—( a,superstitines expression in use amongst the ignorant). Witnt,s consented to put the child under prisoner's care; witness immediately went to see the child, found her look very ill, and severely griped; she soon afte-wards discharged quantities of green stuff from both her stomach and bowels; wit. ness told prisoner how the child was affected, who replied, it was best so, and that those were the pro per symptoms. The prisoner then directed witness to get twenty-eight half-crown pieces, and to take them and the thild tc wards Murrisk, about four miles from Westport, where the money was to be thrown against the wind, and if it was retsina, the child would live, but if not, she certainly would die.— Witness accordingly procured the money, and, ac. companied by the child's aunt and the prisoner, set out as directed. When they came to a small river near Murrisk, the prisoner informed the aunt, that she should return home ; for that if she passed the river, she would be in as great danger as the child : she therefore returned, and the prisoner then called to witness for the twenty-eight half-crowns, with which she ran away furiously out of sight ; upon her return, being asked what she had done with the money ? she answered, that she had thrown it against the wind—that it had been received, and that the child would recover : the prittiner brought home the child,. wbo continued all the way in great agony, crying out for drink, which was supplied from every pool of water they passed ; the evacuations of green of fensive matter were frequent, and the child now com plained principally of her throat, which she said was burning. Witness proposed to prisoner to call in a physician; to which prisoner objected, saying-44 for what did I come front Castlebar last night, at ten o'clock, but to save your child ?" She died about six in the evening. liridget Mugging, maid -servant, confirtned much of what had been sworn by the former witness, and added, that the child slept with her the night before her death ; that she got up and went to School, from whence she returned at nine in the morning. in per fect health ; prisoner called' to witness about that hotir for a jug of water ; the child came to her after wards for more water for the prisoner, and again for a tea-cup, and some salt for her ; all of which she gave. Honor M‘Greal, the child's aunt, corroborated all that had come within her knowledge of the foregoing facts; and farther stated, that the prisoner told her that a girl In the town had give: the chill as evil ga i that she would recover if a piece of the girl's gown was burnt and given the-child to drink ; this was also done; the child died soon after, when prisoner fell into a fit, foamedat Mlle mouth, threw out some blood, and was very violent. Surgeon NichOlsda, South Mayo Militia, saw the child dead, and has no doubt that her death was occasioned by poison—by arsenic, he believed ; hot, upon openipg the body, be could not discover a par ticle of it. Richard Kelly proved that he lodged in prisoner's home in Castlebar, during the last election ; that in a quarrel with her husband, who is since dead, she mid she would have satisfaction, and put an end to his life in a short time; she then took a tea-cup full of water, and taking a paper from her bosom, with powder of white or yellow colour in it, mixed some of it in th a e s uu : th e husband gang it against the end).- Witness prisoner what she had pus into the cup ? She replied, as much poison as would kill a hundred men. He naked what she would Isere dime if she bad Fiona the men ? She said, if he had taken it, she insult have, cared him; witness took up the paper, Ltbt powder that remained -in it to a dog, WA I L shortly after. • • .. • .-i-Hatei the mention closed, and the isholetaudi , yappeared so have bets struck with horror at the 'lllmi . itimense turptardi of the: rimier's con4lict, T be t , was no defence made, no Counsel ettiplOyed for ri le prisoner,- nor any crass examination of the witnes se , that had been produced against her. The unfo r r e . nate woman was not, however, abandoned altoge t h er:, every favourable suggestion that pres e n te d itself...! every argument that could be advantageously r e li ed upon for the preservption of her file, was humanely brought forward by the Judge (Sir W. C. Slam, Bart.) in an impreestve charge to the Ju r y. Hit Lordship argued, that the evidence was entirely tie. cumstantial, and should not be received as conclusive: that there was An direct testimony that the prisoner had administered any draught to the deceased : th at it was decidedly her interest to pree.:rve the th idy life; that so far from harbouring malice towards the deceased, there was evidence that she had carema and fondled her; that she certainly did not conterk plate the crime of murder; and that, as the Cot, for the prosecution had laid the indictment is ways, it might reasonably be concluded that eve; they felt it would be diMcult to sustain this charg e : ; and farther, that when the child died, the pr i , ; , flet had fallen into a fit, not fictitious, but real; 0 4 , lastly, that it was very doubttul whether the I was in a sane state of mind. These were the points principally dwelt upo n b y the Learned Judge, to get rii of the capit.,l char ge. His Lordship thought that the indictment for cairn money under false pretences was supported, and, sunviction for that offence would be justifiable. The Jury retired for about ten minute% when returned a verdict of Guilty upon both indictment. The prisoner was then sentenced to be hanged ( l Thursday last; but the Judge on that moiningr e , spited the execution till the 9th of September. At the Surrey Assizes, at Guildford, on Tuesday, William Sias was convicted of forging a bill f or t h e payment of £lOO, drawn by William Jones, and ac . cepted by Richard Jones, of Deal. Lord & Luso . smolt, in pronouncing sentence of death upon hie assured him that there was no hope of mercy, and he was left for execution ; as also was Janie: Andrew:, for setting fire to a barn in the town of Godahning. Jammer Sielly, charged with murdering her husband, was acquitted, on the ground that there had been a quarrel, and probably a scuffle, between the pries, during which a knife had been hastily used by the wife to the accidental destruction of her husband. It was evident that she had no murderous intention. The Guildhall, Westminster, is, we unthread, undergoing a thorough repair; in con..equence ut which the Insolvent Dtbtots' Cain has necessstly been adjoutned to the 4th of 'wt. , month. PRICE OF S LOCKS YE.. ERDAY. Bank Stock 216 2141 215 i Long Annuities 16 5.160 3 per Cent. ked. 6‘l.tii I India sti.A.:c Ditto Cons. 6i i 6_ tit ii 62 India BoLtis 8 6 7 pre. 4 per Cents. 7811 I Exchequer Bills 1 t; prem. 5 per Cent. Navy 92: ill Cons. lor ace. 61} 62 61 ; :i 62 PRICIiS OP GOLD AND SILVER. Portugal Gold in Coin, per oz. .C 3 i9l Od. Foreign Gold in Bars New Doubloons New Dollars - Silver is bars - S 1:1+ Cd. 3 lis 6d. O is lOid. O Os Od. • COURSE OF EXCH. Motterdani 40 4 13.2 U. 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Ships sold. Price. 11 i llew•cartle 9* 34a. ed. to 44% flat 1 Sunderland 0 OW. Od to 004.01 I Cannell Coal 1 600 Od. prr ton. 9 Stone Coat i .124 (Id. to Ott. 1 Welsh Coal 1 68s Od. to 01. 2 Cinders it Vits od. to ed. 3 Cohn 2 86. Od. to 31t 3d. COUN FRY MAIIKE August 22,—Wheat per load £l7 Os to it. - 4 Oe. Barley, per quarter 26s to 30a. Oaterts to 354. Beans Os to 465. Old Beans 00s to COs. Peas 00s ro 00%. O: roan, August 32.—Price of the Quartet* Loaf, IV. lid. B.tNever, Asti. 12.—Wheat Bs. 9d. to los.ed. a bushel. band 625. per sack. Bread Is. 4l d. the bail peck. NEW suaT, BE aas—Waeat 74s to Sits Barley Sts to 36s (XL Oats lits to 325. Beans 475 to Sls, Peas 41s to 461. Noewscu, Anousl• i9.—At our Corn Market, on Saturday, Wheats were rather dearer than last market; Barley also held is price; but Oats were rather lower. Wheat, 411 s. to 445.; L ley, 15$. to 15s. 6d.; and Oats, 14s. to 15e. per Womb. On the Cr• de Hill, there was a large spew of Scots, homebred., cows, Sr. but notibe appear:like of much business. The pens for sheep and pigs were also well filled, and •ery little alteration in the late prices. HIOH WATh TO MORROW Al LONDON BRIDdEi Morning - 37 min. labor Afternoon • - 53 " LONDON: Winced by Llivat. KNIT, Pickett Place; rubbilbad there, and at tbodtar-Ofika,.fonpir Bar, r r