Star. — London, England, 1813-08-07 00:00:00

InIVDSOII, 41I7GUST 6. Yesterday afternoon Earl Wuromr..saA arrived 'on a visit to the Queer . This morning Princesses AUGUSTA and SOPHIA took an airing on horseback, accompanied by the Earl of WINCHILSEA. Lord WALSIRGHABI, Countess of Ross- LYS. General CARTWRIGHT ) and Major MURRAY. The Qu LEN and Princesses ELIZABETH and MARY went to Prince,t CHARLOTTE took an airing in her phaeton, drawn by tour beautiful greys, attended by Miss KNIGHT, in t, r Royal Highness's chariot. ROTAL MIT TO KEW. Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke of CAM• TAI;DGE gave a grand dinner to his Royal Mother the Qt. FLN And his Sisters, at the Duke of Cumberland's , use, Kew-green, and had a select party to meet them. His Royal Highness's domestics and trades men went from London to prepare for the honoured occasion. The Royal Duke, accompanied by Count MUNSTER, left his house in South Audley-street, about twelve o'clock, for Kew. Soon after his arrival at the Duke of Cumberland's house, the QUEEN, accom panied by the Princesses ELIZABETH and MARY, at tended by Lady J. THYNNE, arrived from Windsor. Her MAJESTY was escorted by a party of the Royal Horse Guards. BRIGHTON, 4UGUST 5. The PRINCE REGENT, soon after his arrival at the Pavilion last night, sat down to dinner with Colonel THORNTON, Sir Wlll. CAVEL (or KerrLE), Colonel BLoOMFIELD, Major HOWARD, &c. His Royal High ness's Band were harmoniously employed until about midnight. Unfortunately, this day opened under the most unfavourable auspices, in respect to weather; it rAined, almost without ceasing, until after mid day, and it has been very cloudy and windy and un pleasant ever since. The PRINCE, therefore, has not been seen beyond the inclosed limits of the Pavilion grounds, where marquees are pitching, beneath the foliage of the lofty trees, to form cooling retreats when the weather again becomes settled a:4l warmer. His Royal Highness, however, has taken consider able exercise on horseback in the Riding School. Directions have been given to-day for various im provements to be made in the Royal property when the PRINCE next leaves us, which, it is understood, will not be before the 1 1 th, including two Porter's Lodges, one on each side of the carriage entrance to the North. At an early hour this morning, a Requisition for a General Meeting, to propose a congratulatory Ad dress and an Address of Thanks to the PituscE RE-' cENT, at the Town Hall, signed R. J. CARR, Vicar; S. F. MILFORD, M. J. TIERNEY, M.D. J. H. Barn, C. BEw, BARRATT, C. BLICKE, Knt. was sent to the High Constable (Mr. BaErmy) who instantly complied with the Requisition, and the Town Hall soon after was crowded, many hundreds besides hay. lug applied there for admission also, but in vain.— The Address was moved by Dr. TIERNEY, who elo quently descanted upon what Brighton once was, and what it now is: he traced the glowing alteration to its source, and iidppily evinced the more than gra dual progression which had been made from the gloom of former days, to the comparative splendour of the presern, to have almost entirely emanated from the resti•citatittg, and even creative patronage of the PRINCE. REGENT. The Address was seconded by Mr. MILFORD, amidst the loudest acclamatirns of all those both within and without doors. The following is a copy: Tollls ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT. " MAY IT P‘EARE YOUR ROYAL SIORNE”, " We, the Inhabitants of Brighton, publicly assembled, being deeply sensible of the ohhgationa this Town is under to your Royal Highness for its present importance and prosperity, feel out selves called upon by every principle of gratitude, as well as of affection and respect, to approach your Royal Highness, on your rt.i ui a amongst us, afttr so long an absence, in order to tx- 1 press with all humility our satisfaction and joy on the occasion. We cannot at the same time refrain from offering to your Royal ighness our cordial corgratulations on the late glorious success of his ;s*.ajesty's arms, which in this country has filled the public mind with irultation, and excited the admiration of the world. " We eevoutly pray, that the DI; I'INSER of ALL GOOD may long continue to your Royal Highness the enjoyment of perfect health, and every other blessing." C( vers for sixteen only are laid for dinner at the Pavilion to day. A musical divertisement will suc ceed the munificent hospitalities of the tables. Lord YAItAIOUTH is among the last arrivals at the Royal Residence, and other Noblemen and Gentle r:len are there expected. The Dukes of NokeoLK 2nd Sr. ALBAN'S are among the comparative few to what there would have been had the weather been favourable, that have paid a visit from hence to the commencement of the racing diversions at Lewes to day, and of which the following are the particulars' and their results : THURSDAY, AUGUST 5. Subscription of inv. each, for r. olds, to which 2Cgs. will be added from the County Subscription ; colts au. 7lb ; fill ies Bst. 41b. The last mil e a n d a h a ll. ' 1 h e winner of the Derby. Pavilion, or Oaks Stakes to carry 71b. extra. Id. Pgremont's b. c. out of Carthage, ost. 71b. 1 P. of Chichester names Mr. Bond's ch. f. by Popinjay, Sit. 41b.,11 1). of Nor:olk's ch. e. Heriot, by Gamma, list. 71b. - Lord G. Cavendn.h, Hon. C. Wyndham, an d Sir. 0. w e b sters Is Subscribers, but did not name. A?Ti• DINNICR. His Majesty's PIA, of lOngs. for any lit7e, ware, or gelding; 4- yr. olds to carry am 41b.; 5-yr. oldir list. 61b.; 6 yr. olds, I 2st.• l and aged 12at . tlls —TLe best of three 4-mile beats. M. I.a.lbruke's b. b. Whalebone, Gyrs.olu , 11st. 1 1 Mr. Imamslon's b. h. Lumen, 4 yr.. old, list. 41b. 2 dr. G. Webster's Judgment, aged lilt. klb. dist. Seven to :our on Luezen. Ten o'clock, te. m.—This town is now ealtibiting glaring effects of a very general illumination; the wind is so high and the night so damp, ;I:At extreme difficulty is found in many quarters, 'A he:e tiicre are exterior lamps and lights, in keeping term ignited. The Marchioness of HEADFORT gave a grand con cert on Thursday night at bcr elegant house, Great Stanhope-street. Among the company were the fol lowing persons: 1 he Duchcsats of I eeds and Ronbur-h, Eirl Percy, Cows. 'MOB Percy and liarrowity, Lords Nes/roll* and Mans Murray, General Phipps, Ladits J. Murray, nbellieli, Pierrepoint, and Willoughby, Mr. Manners, Mrs. and the Miss Thompson*, Mts. and Miss Altana!, Acc. Mrs. Fri auk:am:kr remains in Town, at her house 1!t 'rilney-street. In a short time .she proposes to in -I.4bit her elegant muisica at Brighton. ASSIZBS. LINCOLN, AUGUST S. MURDER. AzubahPerntain, aged 36, and GeorgeTufner Rowell, ) aged 23, were indicted for the wilful murder of Ro bert Fountain, the husband of the said A au b a h F oun -‘ tain, by poison. Mr. Whiteman deposed he was a constable of Wal tham, knew the deceased, also the prisoners. Rowell was a lodger. Witness went on the 2d July to Foun tain's house, on a Friday, about three o'clock in the afternoon ; found his wife and Rowell there, and saw the deceased laid on a bed up stairs; witness thought he was dead. Mr. Foreman, a surgeon, went with witness, as also Mr. Chatterton and Mr. Parker ; they examined the body, observed the body warm, and the loins appeared red, went down stairs, and saw the prisoners and four children. Witness asked where deceased had been the day before? Mrs. Foun tain said she did not know, and said, " Oh ! that I -did but know where he was yesterday." She was afraid he had been to some bad houses ; she expected he was at work at Grimsby, but understood lie had not been there, as Rowell had been there to inquire ; she said he came home about ten o'clock at night very drunk, and fell twice at the causeway before he got to the door, as she had heard him fall, and when the door was opened he fell headlong into the house*; she asked where he had been ? be said be did not' know ; he said he had had a fine sprey, and was burnt to death in the inside, clapped his hand on his stomach, and said he bad done for himself ; he asked for some drink, and they, the prisoners, gave him some ale; his shirt was torn, and he appeared bruised. Rowell said the deceased came home very drunk.— Witness attended the Coroner's Inquest, was present there when the prisoner Rowell was examined on the Saturday; heard his account given, which was taken in writing. During the examination of the prisoner Rowell, witness went out of the room and saw the prisoner Fountain, who asked him how they were going on with Rowell ? Witness said, he could not tell. She then said, she must know what they were doing with Rowell. Prisoner Rowell, in his exami nation before the Coroner, stated, that the deceased came home late on Thursday night, very drunk, and passed through his ( Rowell's) bed room, and said, 14 Cooper, I have had a fine sprey." Deceased then went to bed, and called for ale; his wile said she had none ; he' then said, 6. Cooper, give me some ale," which he did. Deceased then called for wine; said his wile had some elderberry wine, and he would have it ; said, he remembered going to Mr. Bennet's, chymist, of Great Grimsby, and buying some anti ' mony wine, lavender, and Dutch pink, but did not remember buying any laudanum ; afterwards, said, he did remember buying four eunces of laudanum, which be brought home and gave to the prisoner Fountain, but did not know what became of it.—The prisoner Fountain was then called in, and when she came into the room, she said, Gentlemen, I will tell you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. She then said, it has been teported that my husband was out on Thursday last ; it is not true, for he laid in bed the whole day. The ccoper (mean ing the prisoner Rowell, who was a cooper by trade) and him bad quarrelled the over night, she gave her husband three cups of elderberry wine; in the first she put four ounces of laudanum, which Rowell had bought the day before of Mr. Bennett, at Grimsby; that the prisoner Rowell laid in bed in the next room, and laughed to hear the deceased snore ; at one o'clock at noon, she came into Rowell's room, and said, George, come, get up, dinner's ready. Rowell said, .‘ he will recover, I will go and get some more laudanum." That in the afternoon she mixed two ounces more laudanum, part of eight ounces which Rowell brought from Mr. Bennett of Grimsby on Thursday, in a cup of ale, which she gave her daugh ter Jane, who carried it to her father, who drank it, he died that night ; that Rowell had lodged there about twelve weeks; after he had been there about ' four weeks, be said to her, you have got u very bad husband, you cannot have any comfort or a single good word from him ; he then talked of shooting him, and then of frightening him to death by cover ing himself with a beast skin, and meeting him in a lane alter dark ; that Rowell paid for all the poison, and knewwbat it was for. She then said to Rowell, " Oh ! George, George, you have been the ruin of vie—what is to become of my family ?" She then added, " Gentlemen, this is the truth, the Gob's truth." Mr. Bennett, chymist, proved the selling the pri- 1 soner Rowell four ounces of laudanum on the Wed-; uesday, and that he came again on the Timrsday, and asked for eight ounces more, saying he had been unfortunate and broke the bottle the night before, and said he had spilled it in the pocket of his coat, not the one he then had tn, and asked witness if it would spoil his coat, witness said no. The coat was after wards examined by the witness, but found no marks of the laudanum having been spilt ; witness then sold him eight ounces more. Mr. Bell, surgeon, deposed to being called in to examine the body by the Coroner, stated the appear ance of the body, which was livid in many parts, par ocularly the back ; he assisted Mr. Foreman, another surgeon, to open the body ; he could form no positive opinion as to the cause of his death, but his belief was, that it was from a solution of opium. Mr. Foreman, surgeon, deposed, that he was called up on Thursday night by the prisoner Rowell, who said the deceased was drunk, and they did not know what to do with him. Witness said he could do him no good. He was again sent for the next morning, when he went, the deceased was dead ; the body was under the clothes, and was in a state of perspiration ; he placed his hand on the heart, but it did not beat. He assisted in opening the body, the contents of the stomach were carefully taken out and placed in a dish, and about two ounces of a darkish coloured liquor was extracted and put into a phial, and was produced in Court, which witness believed to be a solution of opium or laudanum. The stomach was otherwise empty. He had no doubt his death was occasioned by a vegeteible poison. Here the evidence closed on the part of the prose cution. The prisoner fountain, in her defence, said, that previous to her being called in before the Coroner, one of the Jurymen came out, and said si Rowell has hanged you, or will hang you ;" on which she fainted away ; this was on the Saturday, and what she said before the Coroner she eoeld not tell, as she did not perfectly recover' erself until the Sunday. The prisoner Rowell said nothing, but left k to his Counsel. The Jery, after consulting about two minutes, re turned their verdict of Guilty against both prisoners. Mr. Justice La &ANC then passed sentence on them, dwelling much . on Ilse:enormity of the offence in both the prisoners, partienbrly the wife, Fountain, who fainted at the conclusion of the sentence. The other prisoner, Rowell, received the sentence with the ut most indifference, and treated his fellow prisoner with marked contempt during the trial. The prisoner llzubah Fountain is a respectable good-looking woman, rather stout, aged S 6, and ap peared much affected at times during the trial. The prisoner, George Turner Rowell, is a slim young man, aged St, pale complexion, light hair, and is by trade a cooper ; he appeared wholly indifferent during the whole trial. They were ordered for execution on Thursday ..morning next- and their bodies to be anatomised. The trial lasted nearly five hours, and every avenue to the Court was crowded to excess. Ti.e execution is respited until Friday morning, Ming !!!,arket day. • ESSEX.-CHELMSFORD, AUGUS T 3. MURDER. Yesterday, the LORD CHIEF II I ;STICE OT ENGLAND, and Mr. Justice Hea:rit arrived in this town, for the purpose of holding the Assizes for this county.— They immediately after opening their Commission proceeded to church, and this morning at nine o'clock went into Court. Mr. Justice HEATH sat on the Civil Side, and Lord ELLENBOROUGH on the Crown Side. This day came on the trial of William Cornwall, the man who was committed sometime back on suspicion of being the murderer of the late Mrs. Stevens, of Woodford ; when, after a very laborious and patient investization, which occupied the Court nearly six !loins, he was found Guilty. The evidence, although merely circumstantial, was, 'nevertheless, so conclu sive, as detailed at length by 18 witnesses for the prosecution, that the Jury returned their verdict without a moment's hesitation. The Learned Judge (ELLENsonouott), in a most impressive manner, which drew tears from several of the auditors, imme diately passed sentence of death upon the prisoner, and ordered him for execution on Monday next.— Under the very peculiar circumstances of the case, the Magistrates of Woodford made application to the Judge to order the prisoner for execution at Woodford, which his Lordship promised to take into consideration. The prisoner exhibited the same unbecoming levity and hardihood during the progress of his trial, which he had shewn during his previous examinations, and since he has been in custody ; always persisting in his innocence: and upon the.ludge pronouncing the awl ul sentence of the law, the prisoner, with a convulsive grin, said—" Thank sr,n, ry Lord, nerd Gentlemen;" upon which he was removed from the bar. The prisoner having complained, on . the preceding day, that he was friendless, and wi►hout the means of employing Counsel, one of the Magistrates resid ing at Woodford, with great humanity, ordered him a Counsel at his own expellee. CIVIL SIDE. THE KING v. GIFFIN. This was an indictment against the defendant, one of the Keepers of Hainault Forest, for an assault upon a Mr. Elsee, a respectable farmer, who lived on the borders of the forest. The statement of the case, as given by the prose- j cutor himself, was, that on the 24th of October he ' was riding oa the public road in the Forest, leading to Mack's gate, with a greyhound or lurcher, and a spaniel puppy running by his horse's side; that the defendant met him on the road, and asked him where he was going with those dogs ? he replied, the dogs were doing nothing to him, and he should not tell him. The defendant said he had no business to bring such dogs there, and that if he had a gua he would shoot them, and he should not mind shooting him also. This. produced some altercation, in the course of which the defendant used the most abusive language, swearing in the most violent manner, and proceeded to ride against the prosecutor with his ut most strength, in order to dismount him, and like wise endeavouring to sieze him by the collar, with a view to pull him to the ground ; that in consequence of this dl usage, the prosecutor, in his own defence, struck at the defendant with his whip, with the thong doubled in his hand, by which resistance he prevent ed at that time •any further violence from the defen dant; that the defendant finding he could not pre vail, quitted the prosecutor for a short time, and then returned with a large hedge-stake, which he bran dished at the prosecutor, swearing most furiously that he would do for him now, and struck at him accordingly, but the blows were warded off by the butt end of Mr. Elsee's whip. On his Cross-examination by Mr. Serjeant SHE'- HERD, he denied using any violent or abusive lan guage to the defendant, or that he struck him, ex cept in his own defence. It appeared, however, that he had had a dog shot, on a former occasion, for chasing in the forest. The next witness who was called corroborated, in the main, the testimony of Mr. Elsee, but exhibited great warmth in describing the defendant's expres sions and attitudes; and it appeared, was under a summons to appear to a charge for illegal practices in chasing in the Forest at the time this assault was :Wedged to have been committed. - - Two other witnesses were called, one of whom stated, that the high words between the parties were pretty equal on both sides, and that there appeared little difference between the voices or abuse of either; and the other stated, that the defendant was at her house ordering a cask of small beer, when on a sud den he said, " here comes Mr. Elsee with his dogs, I must go and ask why he comes into the forest with ' them." Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD commented very strongly on the evidence for the prosecution, and contended, that from the evidence of the last witness it appeared that Giffin had encountered the prosecutor by pure accident, as he was engaged on a quite different bu siness from that of his occupation, when he saw him come into the forest : that the conduct of the prose cutor appeared to be equally intemperate .with that which Mr. Elsee imputed to the defendant, and that the temper with which he wad the following witness had given their evidence, clearly 'hewed the dispoa. tion they had to colour the transaction more highly than they were warranted in doing. • The Jury, after a pause aof very few minutes, found the Defendant Not Guilty. At the Rutland Assizes, held at Oakham, on Fri day te'nnight, Elizakth Rolland:, collector of old iron and woman of all trades, aged 70, was found guilty of breaking into the house onAr.Flintham, of Ingthorpe. Some accomplices, who were waiting to receive the produce of her aged activity, at the loot of a ladder, escaped, while she was caught sticking in a hole in the lattice of a rt indow, which she had made to take out some cheese which had excited her covetousness. The e of burglary was abandoned, and she es caped wit out any other punishment than an impri sonment of two years. UNION HALL—Hear" Herring, charged with pick ing pockets, at Vauxhall Gardens, on the night of the grand fete, was again brought up yesterday.. Mr. Hall declining to swear positively to his note case, or the note which it contained, they were re turned to the prisoner, and he was fully committed. on the charge of having picked the pocket of the Earl of /sl4rmanton of his snuffbox. Two bakers were fined, one 416. 10s. the other 210. 10s. for exposing to sale bread short of weight, SIN brew was forfeited. QUEEN-SQUARE —Jose Thearprog, of Cat's Head. court, appeared yesterday to answer a complaint against her for dreadfully beating her own child.— The prisoner, it appeared, had ordered her own child, a buy about eight years old, to go out and get money for her by begging; this being peremptorily refused by the child, she proceeded to beat him in the most inhuman manner : his head was dreadfully cut in se. venal places by a square piece of wood. A Gentle man, who was witness to the circumstance, took the child before the Magistrates, and a warrant was im mediately granted for her apprehension. She was committed to prison. HATTON GARDEN.—Yesterday several petty shop. keepers, in the parishes of St. Mary-la-Bonne and St. George's, were fined, at the instigation of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, for vending their com modities during Divine Service on Sunday. THE MURDER OF EDWARD CLIFFORD.—Amongst the persons assembled about the pond, on the morn ing when the body of Clifford was found, was a female, who said she resided in Lucas -street, at the back of which street is the pond. From the situation of this street, the pond can be seen from all the back windows, and any persons talking there in a very loud tone, or screaming, might be heard in many of the houses. In conversation with others in, the field, about this afflicting event, the above ft'male said, that during the night, while in bed, she heard dreadful screaming in the field, in a direction as if from some man calling for assistance. It startled her, and she listened, but the noise soon ceased, nor was any noise made afterwards that she heard of. She also said, that the watchman was spoken to about this screaming, and the cause of it ; but whether in the night, or on the re-appearance of day we do not know, and she related that he answered—" it was only some people quarrelling in the field, some drunken men, it Was soon over." HS this circumstance has come to our knowledge, we think it right to mention it, because the time when the murder took place becomes of more consequence than ever since the tiniortunate widow Clifford has been involved in this mystetions affair, by the extraordinary second confession of Leary; and • it any screaming were heard in Lucas -street, from some quarter in a direction with the pond, on the night of the murder, the great probability is, that it came from Clifford; and this notice, it is to be hoped, will induce the above female to go to the Magistrates land state what she heard, the time, &c. Toe murder appears to have taken place close to Inc pond, for the gentleman who heard the above relation from the fe male, and who also resides inLucas-street, examined its appearances very soon after toe body was found, and which was not wholly immersed in the water, as has been stated by some, the lice and part of the shoul ders being above water, lying on the edge of the hank. On the banks, close to whire the boily was tUtoid, there were a good many marks, evidently occasioned by the top of such a hammer as has been described to have been the fatal him ument. So that it may be fairly inferred, that the murder was committed not far from the pond and completed there; iNdeed it would not be going too far to suppose that Clifford, who was in a state of intoxication at the time, as ap pears on all hands, was inveigled to the edge of this pond; the water being four or five feet from the sur face of the field, which is a brick-field, and hen pre cipitated down the banks into the Facer. The marks that appeared on the side of the pond, in c nse quence of blows from the top of the hammer, may then be satisfactorily accounted for ; because, having so pushed a drunken man into a hollow containing water, a gcod opportunity was offered to dispatch him with such an instrument as a large hammer, while he was endeavouring to scramble from the place into which he had been designedly hurled.— From an examination of the place, it would seem that a more masculine arm would be required than the Widow Clifford's, particularly when her situation is considered, to commit suck a murder ; and while the ends of justice require that the murderers should be brought to light, the claims of humanity appeal to demand of us, that no feeling of horror at the bare idea of the widow of Clifford having been the de stroyer of her husband, on the eve of the moment too when she was about to make him a lather, should induce us to abandon all efforts to prove her innment of so abominable a crime. It the above-mentioned fe male can be found,and the probable time of the murder ascertaiqed from her evidence, the Widow Clifford's lodger, who spoke to her being at home outing great part of the night, to his knowledge, he being awake, may fortunately prove that :he was restless and dis consolate in her room, when the scream was heard which but too fatally announced the departure of lite. But let such evidence prove what it may, it is impor. cant that it should be known. It may not be unsatis factory to add, that through the field in which the body of Clifford was found, and where most probably he was murdered, there is a thoroughfare leading from streets lacing Tavistock-square, and near Bruns wick-square, to the-Gray's Inn-lane-road ; and that the pond is at no very great distance from this path. way, being about midway between the path and the houses forming Lucas-street.