Star. — London, England, 1815-03-25 00:00:00

?boyar, 12+1TALI e lOVICtik • • I MAIL& • :• • -• • 411 A ' ay.F • Alit. DU! • a int mottenbititi • •• l, Waterford - lidao f a, •, , , ~.,0 . 0 c,Lcis:t..y Sc Jersey t 0 Cadiz '" • ' • •Ib, 1101!and - .1* •Franee , , . i : 4 l t,,l;go;an4 tHarnburgb , A ..„14 mibFORD.I,IAVE!§I, 414,11 1 CR .1 : • • t. Arrived his tlaie . sty'l.ship,MluTLE, IS guns; each. u rnDipunuAto, oni . a cruiz Cliarles Henry, PHlL yrs. Until 'Lona& for this Port 'aid - Catniarthen I; Three Brothers, :BCACKl6loitild front BstiUtaPre fok. ti o crfoedwast ; .Milford • Packets •Iticpanns, froth. t r ictolktlibtO Agenori, Bevtrap, from -Newpoit Bourileau.s ; Rose, 1217 . 412Y 2 front ditto for Ply. trot h Whitehall, Citils. 'front ditto for'Watefford.; c i rrge,*ealAlti, 'front Cardiff hit *aterford• ;. with. 4 tied of cetlierit front different Ports• in' due:British. chann el, for I.reland. • Sailed the Diligence Custt•pi. Boise eiltter on. a cruize.; Satisfaction, S4arontaut,. f ro n ' hence for LiverpoOl ; and the Pea c e, F op, from ditto for Dublin. 'The Lord Welliiiteni, y ArT mrwo, from 'Swansea, with coil's, for Water ford, struck matbe.Hats and Barrels rocksyesterday and c.irried sway berludcter,.in consequence pf which she has been du,en io.to i st,Brides Bey, to the north. card. of this port, ..where she' now rides hard • off lioulton TALMouTIA, MARCH 22. • The fleet appears to ride.the gale well. .There is accident that we hoar W.S.W. fresh r:les and dirty weather. .: „ . . PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 24.• SAilcd his Majesty's thips-Livotri, PICKLE, and s.::uctinv, for the coast of'FranCe ; also three trans. r . , rts for the Downs, having part of the 23d and 51st RGiments cf Foot on botttd.Wind W S.W. DEAL, MARCH 24. C.ime down from the Rivet the Hope, Walmer Cv..tle, Princess Amclja, and Warier, for India, and ten: iin the Downs with the outward-bound as per last iirnved last evening atter post, three Dover t-ie•lwats, with passengers froth Calais.—Wind W. WEYMOUTH, MARCH 24. Arf•••;•..). the Countess of Liverpool packet, with rul, from Guernsey and Jersey.—Put back by con. vary wiith. Hirchinbruok packet. HARwICH, MARCH 24. Arrivcd Auckland and Lady Nepean packets, tr . :th mails from Hamburgh. Arrived the Jane, , i•ith a general cargo, from Antwerp. bound toLorl,:on, was run foul of by a brig unknown, an the Gitntiert, has her bows stove, bowsprit broke, sad is in a leaky state. CHATHAM, MARCH 24. • The RnMNL , '. of 50 guns, lately launched from PELIIANI% yard, is ordered tb be put into com— mission immediately. An .order has arrived at Chet. Earn dock.yard, not totals* the copper from any more of the shin= lying in the Medway. A new ship of C 0 guns, to be called the PRINCE REGENT, is to be Luilt on the slip from which . the Howe: will be launched. - ORAVESEND, MARCH ?4. - Arrived the Kline Peter, Faber, from Harlingen ; and Liberty, ? ..,z i, Oporto.: ailed the hone Catharine, froM Cala, tor Hans; lArothea and I.ootro, Wiettag 4 for .liremen ; Aetiver Mann, v tor Mc Id ; Vigibotte, liodeman, tor Amaterd.un ; gad Atfoodras, tia,e; for Rotiefditd. • ..• .. • - . . Friday se'enight; about seven.csiclock, the trans: p:rt Charlotte, ceasing from Gibraltar, with 200 of t Veteran )3 ntalion oq board, mistalcog .a- large tea off tl‘e south pint of Schrichall Bay, for the Nedles melt, hauled up accordingly, for the 'pin-- .of. anchoring in Yarmouth Toads ; the wind Fp ) ,eing freslit 'from . the •N. W.. This mistake was fatal to the vessel; for in a few rqitattes them:ruck ua the Needles rock; (which it was suppsed she had. past) close 'unBeir the light-house', and soon after wards, by' the lcice of the wind, - was driven high upon the small beach which is at the base of the eifr, that. rises 600 feet perpendicularly. ,The soldiers, as soon as the vessel struck, broke open the spirit room. Tgd 12 of them literally drank until they expired! The v.ornen and children, and remainder of the persons on • birtrd, safely latidettupon the beach; but, in the course rf the night, one of the women and two children pc= rhhcd by the cold ! In the morning about 40 of the -1 acts (who had continued sober) succeeded in clrtibing to the top of the cliff: no boats could land until the evening, owing to the heavy surf that ran: aflothet sw:man and child died in the course of the day from want. At length the unfortunate survivors %vete taken off : they arrived at the Motherbank on Siturtliy night, anti were put on board as empty tunsportthire, to peifotta quarantine. NinripAtitis.—.TheaCcount of the number of bation hiawspapers dispatched bj the Clerks of the Lads in the General lost-office, in the capacity of Deus-agents, on their respective roads, in the three rilOnths-ending the lit of May.lol4, and for the. three months ending the lst cif February 1813, is as follows : increase of D.iily MorrAng, !WS—Decrease in Daily Eeeuing, -. 77,620-I)ectenia it, Alternate Days; 8342 - .Decrieastinyeelkly, l 7l7 Decrease, 9*,3511 London Eiagi E s . u, . It appear s , laid: before the 'IVAN: '.n Feitl4y, relative to the Civil List, that the charge of destoesrabl men t toe the pear endrngthe sth Apr il, was Ini 3 4oo2o4a:tsldt, far theyear endingttbe of A?ril, 1814, CI „q 81,551 19s. 4 , 14,.. and far the 14 "` Paderi• Ftily ;q_ of.. . 1 4 1 04 1 79 1815, 41 , 1 6.717 25.: Id. VilsdAihe"Civil Leaf ' pi..was under • • • c 0 nstt.eratiottur rarrrament fast year-- the then de ficiencramonating to . C111t,1157-46; 17 d. wasArtade 4411 - , b, 3 In•te.or the flour,, uod an additional sum t 100•000 was also v.ited to meet the anticipated •r:aordinary charges-_4, the Civil List. Upon the of the present accounts , however, there appears 4 4elkeir deDciendrof idt4'2lAi,s 2i. sd. The ainount In the ' .I,4iirct thanilserlain's clepartriient is ~ ' aged at 4:247p Oig Lord Steward's department crL000; a ''that of the Master' of the Horse. !''i,ooo, du r in g t h e s h ort period of three quarters of LiNe. 'The extraordinary disbursements of our rs • libiroaid, in . the like time, amount to 4 1•000: - The sale of admission tickets into the !ki, at thittirne of the Jubilee, which was expected `'')todoce a very' considerable sum, actually yielded 91 1 4926 I Is. which will ultimately be appro prhiN tdthe relief .of Widows and orphans of the 5 . 1)14 :rs and seamen who have fallen in battle. For Present, it has been applied in part payment of the tudeitneus' bills for the erections In the Parks. .11 last A tsar; A Flo to L the tad Eat! of t! ICO Lui: Maur A lA•rc titv tt tnt• toc 1 th:l,4 U,) fat: un FA Q o npc va tita son a..4(t00v0 bo• c., : ur da S. I*e R tt I. to in it E 1 ri 0 0 F AAAIr. Thursday *thin British Officers belonging to the '.ComMissarial of the army in Belgium had orders to proceed, without a Moment's delay, to join the corps to wh.c'h they were respectively attached. Three transports, having the 23d and 51st Regi ments on board, sailed from the Downs yesterday for 'Porishiouth. A large expedition is now assembling in the downs. • Tuesday a strong detachment of the 69th Regi ment marched from Ipswich for Harwich, to embark tor_ he Netherlands, where that fine regiment is now stationed. • The depots of the 69th; 54th, 80th, and 73d' are ordered to Harwich, to embark and join their rt spec. tive regiments in Holland ; the 55th, we understand, is also under orders for embarkation to Holland. It is saidithat twenty battalions from Canada, and five from NoVa Scotia, have been ordered to return to this country with the least possible delay. The following letter, written from the Banks of the Mississippi, by an Officer on the Staff of the Ex' pedition, contains some interesting particulars of the late disastrous attack and repulse _ _ " JANUARY 16. " Here. we . aie lying wet enough in sugar.cane huts, after having /net with a severe repulse, on Sun day, the Bth of January, in a general assault on the strongly fortified position of the Yankees, covering the capital of this country. The 85th regiment, sailors, and marines, were, after incredible labour and exertion, passed over to the right bank of the Mississippi during the night of the 7th and morning of the Bth ; but owing to the unforeseen and una voidable difficulties, they were not all over so soon as had been calculated on, consequently not suffi ciently advanced when the signal for the general attack was made, just before dawn of day ; owing to' which untoward circumstance, those on the left bank, where the principal strong opposition lay, did not profit, as was meant they should, from their combin ed attack, and the fate of the day was decided on our part before they began to act; but for all this, I do not know that them could be any remedy, under all the circumstances of the case; nor du I know that blame can attach any where, however . uthrtunate the result has been. ,4 General Gibbs commanded the 2d brigade, con sisting of the 4th, 21st, and 44th regiments ; General Keane the 3d, consisting of the IsStli, .934, and 9 5 th; General Lambert had the Ist, consisting of the fusi leers and 43J. This latter brigade was to be in le serve ; the two first to begin the attack; which *they. Accordingly did. 44 The enemy's position was uncommonly strong, in the form of a crescent, flanked on the right by the Mississippi, on the left by a thick v:( od, and an impassable morass; the whole crowned with in numerable artillery; and all loop-holed for the mus ketry, with a narrow plain in front, not m. re th.in half a mile broad, by which only we could approach them. 44 The whole of our columns were at their appoin ed stations beiore daylight, awaiting the signal rucke to be thrown fur the ~ e neral attack. It.was fired off as the day began to dawn; a short time before which Lie E. Pakenhans had passed the first brigade, with out speaking to any body. We all moved on to the trout, under a must galling fire of cannon and malt trms ; but, as the day opened, we soon observed the broken columns making for the rear, and a vast number of wounded passing and lying groaning around us. " General Lambert was, at this present moment, informed of the lamented fall of the Comm mder in Chief, and that, in conaequeuce of this and the severe 'wound of General Gibbs, he was left in command. We were ordered to deploy into line, and lie down in the swamp, to avoid the destructive showers of grape, which were within three hundred yards, play.' ing away most turiously on us. Here we lay till ten at night, as wet as ever poor deviis were, seeing! all the movements of our toes, and hearing all their orders. 4 , A flag of truce was sent in towards the evening, and the Americans spoke much of peace. but every thing around them looked quite the contrary, as nothing could be seen before them but the dead and dying. Major King, of the fusileers, was killed early, as was Captain Henry, with the Lieutenant- Colonel detached with the third brigade. Lieute nant Hutchinson had no less than four balls through his cap ; Lieutenant Lorentz, the other L. C. Sub. received a wound between the shoulders, not very severe. The column lost a great many men. Cap tain Robinson, Brigade Major to Major• General Lambert, had a ball through his saddle-cloth, with out injury. " The Americans lost very few men ; .not one hundred to our thousand, being completely under cover of their position, and protected by a wet ditch, altogether too formidable for so trifling a force to carry ; for we had not altogether above 500 men in the attack. 4 ' The first brigade preserved a noble front, and wore too formidable an appearance for Jonathan to' oppose them. The 'nth lost above ninety, the 49d' sisty-three. The 40th are. -just arrived from Cork,' but are not to laud, as we hope to be alt cut board our ships in less than a week., Indeed, we thought to have been 'so ere this. We ought to have had thei free navigation Of the Mississippi before we landed. We have several sickly from the wet weather, and it we are not off immediately, I. fear we shall have numbers more. " We expect to go to Bermuda—they are at this moment shelling us as fast as they can—the Ameri cans have no enterprize or we should not escape so well—we get nothing to buy, but bullocks and a few wild fowl—we are on a sugar plantation, and of course have plenty of sweets without cost. The river is a fine one;' but, believe me, there is nothing else in this quarter Worth coming 6000 miles to see." NEW ORDER OF THE Ilarn..An impression having prevailed that some favor had beep improperly shewn in the distribution of the new Older amongst the Military, we are happy to. have an opportunity of recommending the RoYAL MILITARY CALENDAR, which is just published by Mr. EounTom, from which the public will have the power of judging; by the statement of services of every GENITAL OFFICER in the BIUTLSH SUMS/ whether such partiality really exists. ottSl 2 4 Vt. Atiatirom "gnat timaitt . . • ~ ~. . . Jeremiah Shed was tried for the wilful murcier of Mary Crowley, at Woodhouse, in this county; bn the 12th of July, 1814: - - It appeared from the evi dence ot Anne Crowley, mother to Mary Crowley; the deceased, that two men came to witness's !mum oti the 12th of last July, between the hours of four and five o'clock in the afternoon, while she Was suckling an infant at her breast, one of them armed with a blunderbuss, and ti►e other With an old rusty gun ; the first man that came into the house was the prisoner at the bar, whom she t,ok to be a friend or neighbour, as he asked witness in a friendly manner when he came in, " what she was doing r' •he an swered, " not mach ;" he then pulled a blunderbuss from under his coat, presented it A her breast, and desired her to give up what arms she had in the house : witness said there were no arms in the house but an old gun, which he should have; them w,ti no person in the house with witness at . this time, but her son, a boy about sixteen years of age; she de sired her son to go up to her brd-room and Wing down the gun; and just after telling this to her son, the second man came in, pushing in befure him her two daughters, who had been churning in the dairy; deceased begged of them for GOD'S sake to allow her to go and shut the dairy door, as the pigs would get in and spoil the cream, which they had been churning. Prisoner desired her to Itay where she was, and gave her a blow of his blunderbuss on the neck, which cut her in a most cruel manner; deceased exclaimed, "Oh I you villain, you have ruined me ;" after deceased hid said these words, prisoner rested his blunderbuss on the breast of the deceased, and lodged the contents of it in her neck, when she in stantly fell ; witness cried • out, clapped her hands, ran to her dying daughter, and begged of her to speak to her .41licted mother before she expired ; de ceased strove to say, 4 , Oh, mother, lift me up ;" de ceabed did not live for three seconds after the shot w.!s fired ; the other man, after prisoner had mar- dcred her daughter, struck him with his gun on the shoulder, turned him out of the house, and asked him " what ni.ide him do so ?" and seemed so tern. tied at prisoner's conduct, that he could scarcely go away from the bons,: ; witness had not the least doubt on her mine, that tte prisoner at the bar was the man who municred her daughter; prisoner never ty..,k his blunderbuss from witness's breast until he sh.t her L'augt.ter. This evidenc.: was corroborated by Jaae Crowley, &tighter of the above witness, and- sister to the de ceased. On the pars of the prisoner, a long .cross .examination took place, and several persons were brought forward with intent to prove an alit; ; this, however, - failed ; and the 3nry, after some oehbera. 4ion, found'the prisoner—Guilty. • The:Cnise BARON, after a most impressive admo nition, .an .admonition that affected the Court, lice rally to teats, proceeded to pass the awful sentence of the law upon she convict. The prisoner more than once interrupted the Jodze's remarks by protestations of innocence. heard the sentence almost unmoved-.-he heard it an. 'Jounced in a manner that struck horror` into every !remit but his, that he was to be hanged by the neck at the usual place of execution on Monday next, with the ordinary accompaniments of dissection, &c. &c. and no effect was observable, but that he prayed ear nestly, yet coolly, " that the gates of Heaven might be shut, and the gates of Hell open to him, if he knew more than his Lordship of the murder for which he was about to suffer." He added an assurance •of his resignation. HORSHAM. THURSDAY. MARCH 2s. Jane Burnett, wife of a publican at Lindfield, in this county, was indicted for the wilful murder of Sarah Lee, a pauper servant, and the indictment charged the murder to have beeivommitted by a se ries of cruel beating, and a refusal of proper food and aliment. One of the witnesses, who was a fellow servant with the deceased, did not appear at the trial, having gone out of the way, and was called on his subrcena. The evidence adduced iri support of the indictment was as follows: J. Everest, the Overseer at Lindfield, stated, that the deceased was a pauper, belonging to that parish. At Lady-day, 1813, she had been put out to service with a shoemaker in the parish, of the name of Shel ley. She staid with him the year, and the next year she was sent to the prisoner's. She staid with them until February, when she came back to the work house in very bad health, and in a few days died.— He could not say the cause of her death, but she came back very muck out of health. 'Once during the year she ran away, and came to the poorhouse. Mrs. Burnett, the prisoner, came after her, and she was sent back. • • Thomas Shelley, a shoemaker, at Lindfield, de posed, that the deceased lived' wi th his family from Lady-tide 1813, to -Lady-tide• 1814, during which time the girl was in good health ; she was not a very good labking girl, nor very 6 , laudy in her mind," but she-did things al well as she was able, and they had ao.fault to kind with' heel ' • Charles Cox, a labouring man,: lived near the pri soner's. He was at, the house.one day, and saw the prisoner strike the deceased with a broom one or two had blows, but be did not see any ill effects from the blows. He could. nOt recollect the time when it happened, but he retallicted thit the .sno.v .was • on the ground at.the•time. • • . • . • • William Potter said i .he lived within twenty rods of the prisoner's house ;:ki knew the deceased ; she. was not a very hellthp looiing girl, and as the cold weather approached' hk observed she lost •tiesb • very Cast,and appeared tobesome very much out of health. Charles Watford,'. a - hiller, at Lindfield, stated, that he was in the coustapt,habit of going to. the pri soner's house. He knew the deceased very About five or ax leeks before the girl died, he was at the house, when he' found the deceased crying in the kitchen. He risked her what was the matter f she made no answer ; but that the prisoner said that she had detected the deceased in , having dirted her bed, that she had attempted to clean it with her pockets, but that she (the prisoner) had found the pockets in that filthy state, and had stuffed them into her mouth. He said to the prisoner that she' had better send the girl back to the poor-house. The prisoner replied, d—n her, no: It she sent her back before Lady-tide;, she should get nothing for the time they bad already irept het Ole pa ri alloyed is. pd. treek tor hit..) Vhe'litiesi said lie didliOi think the Biel Would bold out to Lady-tide, but would d iil, it came. The prisoner replied, d—n her eyes ; the ii.thed'she would • then drop dead on, the floor. The witness saw no mow, and here die Conversation closed. .Robert Martin, on the et:i of A ogust, saw the pri. toner best the • deceased. He afterward! saw her with a black eye, - bUt did not know bow she came by i.. Sarah Stanley had seen the prisoner beat the girl once with a boot. • William Typing, surgeon .to, the parish, stated, that he attended the girl when site .vas broue.t to the workhouse; the had a wound on her arm whic! , 'said was occasioned by Isting , kicked clown stairs; she had also atioth r wound in kr foot, which he thought seal a nci ; lected chilblain. Her cli•stitution was very debilitated, and she was f,f an irregular habit. He could not say sli,r died of ill tr.• On this evidence the Learned Ju.li;t. directed Pl:e Jury to acquit the prisoner, who rein:tied a ve:lct of—Not Guilty. Jonish &new, an old man of 63, was indicted f )r the wilful murder of Solomon Young, by st:ibhiag him with a knife in tlie side, on the 15th March last. The prisoner and the deceued were bt,th pmperg .Seaford pour-house. On the 15th of M irch the deceased was sitting on the table in the com:n.al worn making himself a new smock frock. The prissner came into the room intoxicated, having two la: zings in his hand, which he wished to dress at the fire.— The deceased's night cap was hanging on a chair before the fire, which the prisoner threw away. This produced a flight altercation between them as to there being room enough or not, when the prisoner dabbed his :ierrings in the deceased's face. The deceased upon this gave the prisoner a push, who h +sting his knife in his hand, with which he had just dressed his herrings, made a blow at the deceased, which unfor tunately struck him on the side, and penetrated be ' tween the ribs. He was put to bed and died in two days; but before he died he expressed his convic:i.)n that the prisoner had not intended to do him the in jury which had happened. The Jury found him Guilty of Mandaughter, and he was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. STEPHENS V. STEPHENS. This was an action by the plaintiff Stephens and another, against the defendant and others. The following is the whole of the case. The plaintiff keeps a library at Brighton, and the defendant Stephens.had furnished the plaintiff with certain articles of toys and jewellery to :ell upon commission ; but shortly after• wards, not liking to give credit to the plaintiff, he wished t 9 take his goods away again. The plaintiff did nor give them •up ; upon which the defendant, Stephens, accompanied by the others, went to the 'shop a:id took away the glass case which held them, by force. The plaintiff made some resistance, and, as lie alleged, he was assaulted in the scuffle. The witnesses fur the defendant, however, proved that nothing more was done than taking the glass case away.—Verdict for the defendant. At Cork. on Saturday, an inpest was held nn the body of Dennis Coffee, who was stabbeti the before by a watchman of the name of Cornelia: Hurry, in Mallow-lane, and who instantly died in consequence. It did not appear that :try person e 35 near when the watchman stabbed the deceased, hut some persons came immediately afterwards, when he confessed that he stabbeA the mail, and aile.iged that he was wantonly attacked and did it in his own defence. The Jury wit having any positive evi dence as to the homicide, brought in a verdict, that his death was caused by a wound in the breast from a bayonet found in the hands of Hurly A German Paper gives the following story ac a reason for Bonaparte 's seclusion during the lattet period of his residence on the Isle of Elba: a After be had attained to the supreme authority in France, he was particularly solicitous to erase all traces of the civil wars in La Vendee and the other northwestern provinces of France. Hi therefore en. tered into negotiations with the lie..ds of the royalists, and was so successful as to gain over the most of them, and to form arrangements with each indivisiti ally. All of them obtained considerable pensions, on certain conditions : one, for instance, engaged to ezile himself from France for ever " another was not to leave La Vendee ; a third was to reside constantly at Paris—according as the circumstances of each led Bonaparte to consider it to be most advantageous.... 'Among tpase who were confined to Paris, was Bru: fart, a zealous royalist and a good soldier. A con siderable time after the complete pacification of La Vendee, Brulart solicited for a friend, who had sti pulated not to quit La Vendee, permission to Visit Paris • and Bonaparte, with apparent kindness, re plied that he needed only to invite his friend to cumo, as every thing was now settled, and all appreheimin was unnecessary. Upon this Brtilart's friend came to Fatil, but no sooner had he arrived than he was • . seized and shot, by the express command of Napo. leon Brulart, being apprized of this circumstance, fled, horror-struck, to England. From that country he wrote.to Bonaparte, sayiug that he had made i•itn the innocent cause of the death. of his friend, 4io had•come upon the faith of the assurances he had given him; that the shade of the murdered victim hovered.incessantly before his eyes, demanding ven geance ; that he was determined to devote himself to this duty, and had sworn to the shade of his friend that Napoleon should die by his hand. 0: this letter Brulart fetd,a few copies printed, and sent them by diff!reot channels to France, so that at last it was handed by the Police to Napoleon. He laughed at the menaces of the chivalrous enthusiast, and forgot them in the brilliant career of his prosperity. But when Louis returned to Paris, Brulart also was in his retinue, and by a singular accident was soon after *ardi appointed Governor of Corsica, with directio: to watch the Isle of Elba. For this purpose Brulart removed his residence from Ajaccio to Bastia, oppo site to Elba, from which, with a favourable wind, the passage might be made in a few hours. No sooner had Napoleon received intelligence of this cir cumstanch than he again recollected the letter, and became apprehensive lest &Wart might abuse the authority entrused to him by the King, and, mindful 'of his oath, should, in spite of the law of nations, only to the dictates of personal revenge. From this time he an to seclude himself with the greatest 'CltUtila from almost all-society.'; 4 ‘i r --