Star. — London, England, 1813-08-24 00:00:00

41 AlGli7'oN, UGUST 20. alitshidtpast eleven o'clock this morning, Divine Service was performed in the Pavilion, in the pre tence of the PRINCARSGSNT, the Duke of CLAninscs. sa d t he Nobles and distinguished characters there vi s i t i ng , attended by the whole of.T.he Royal Household, by the Rev. J. S. CLARK& The Duke of, CLARENCI, subsequently, with va. ? inns Noblemen attending and accompanying, took a lengthened promenade on the Steyne. ~,.. , MdRGATE, AUGUST 22. This town perhaps never was known to be fuller than at this titne, the packets front London having . (iring the • delivered cargoes of not less than 140 a day g _ l as t seven dart; and that number was exceeded yes. terday and Friday, many of the pugilistic corps, with their patrons and train of followers, having tokee'tii be in readiness for the fight which will take place in the neighboui hood of St. Nicholas to-morrow betwiit Naffs Harmer and Ford. Another battle will lie fought between a promising thirteen-stone candidate from Cheshire, and an. Hibernian, of much repute. The prospect of these exhibitions, together with Cut. terbury races, which contin e nce on Tuesday, have inundated the town with a very suspicious and motly group from the Peer to the pickpocket, including every description of sharper ; but the generali ty of the Mitigate visitants are of a steady cissikely in afford these woltarer little or no prey. Every kind of conveyance will be put in requisition to-esoravers for' the snit of action, and not even a donkeycanieithod.. RAMSGATE, AUGUST 22. • imisr•mmim Yesterday morning Mr. &maps, 011 of Mr. BIM* GESS, at the Library, welnt in :a machine, together. with a young gentleman of name of JOHNSON, to bathe. Mr. Jonssotr, the tide going out, swam too far to return, and was drowned. This accident took place in the presence of considerably more than 100 spectators ; a great number of whom . were expe rienced sailors, who saw him struggle, and heard his cries for a long time, yet no one attempted to rescue him but his friend, Mr. BURGESS, who at length, be. came so much exhausted, that he could scarcely save himself. Sunday, a most shocking accident happened at Hampton : a man who keeps a green grocer's shop, in James's -street, Oxford-road, accompanied by his wife and a young child, were in a gig, when, by a sudden jirk, one of the shafts bu.ke, and the splash ing board falling on the horse, frightened the animal, which set off lull speed. The man had no pnweir to stop him, arid losing all presence of mind, jump, d out ; his wife followed his example, l e aving the, child in the gig, when, opposite to Bushy Park gate, the horse was stopped, and the child rescued from its pe rilous situation, without sustaining the least injury.— The man was taken up with his arm dreadfully frac tured and much lacerated ' • his face cut in several places, and otherwise much injured. The unfortu nate woman, dreadful to relate, was taken up quite dead, and conveyed to the Toy Inn. Medical assist ance was almost immediately given, but life was quite extinct. She has left a family of tire children to la ment her loss. The man was sent off in a post chaise to one of the hospitals. On examining the gig, it was found to be in so decayed and shattered a state, that it was impossible for it to perform a journey without breaking. By the overflowing of the River Birse, at Dornach, canton of Soleure, upwards of ISO persons perished last month. The following relation of this rneLincholy event is copied from the A‘chaffenburjh Gazelle: " On the 18th of July the River Birse, swelledb). the rains, overflowed its clannel, and undermined the foundation of a house, the proprietor of which c4Jed for assistance. The al .rrn bell was rung, and a number of p , reons ran to assist the inhabitants in saving their effects. While employed in this humane office, the house snd an adjoining wall fell, and buried twelve persons in the ruins. Near this house and the bridge over the river was situated an ancient tower, which served as a prison, and in which were detained three men,_ who, perceiving the waters gushing out from the ground beneath their feet, en treated loudly to be released from their perilous state. The gaoler, who had been long deaf to their prayers, persuaded that this tower, which had stood so many ages, would yet resist the violence of the waters, re solved at last to go and assure them that their fears were groundless; but fouild it no easy task to pacify them ; and he was still engaged in conversation when the tower, with a tremendous crash, fell upon the bridge, and he was killed, along with one of the prisoners. " The calamity did not end here. The alarm-bell had attracted to the bridge a great number of persons of both sexes : the ruins of the tower fell upon the bridge, broke it in the centre, and all those upon it were precipitated into the torrent, and many were drowned. The two prisoners with, difliculty gained the bank; one of t h em , w h o h a d been committed on suspici , In of robbery, gave a noble proof of humakity : perceiving a y oung fimale, whose cloathes kept her buoyant, struggling in the water, he thtew bimseit again into the midsrof danger, and succeeded in sav ing her. The next day, on the 14th, upwards of 3000 persons went from Basle to Dornach. They found Lid out in the church 28 bodies, which had been taken from the river between Dornach and Arlesheint. About 60 persons from Basle, 50 from Dornach, and 40 from its environs, are still missing. It is known that they were upon the bridge at the time of the ca tastrophe, and it is believed they have perished. " Among the sufferers are the two daughters of the Mayor of Dornach, the eldest only 15 years of age their bodies presented a singular and affecting spec tacle ; they were locked . in each other's arms : in the water each had affectionately attempted to save the other's life ; the effort proved fatal, and both perished. A mother and her daughter were found in the same position. A third daughter of the Mayor owed her preservation Co the intrepidity of the porter of the Convent a t D ornac h, w fi o, after drawing four other persons from the river, was desirous of saving a fifth ; but perished himself, the victim of his generous en deavours ! His last words were- 6 l have done my duty--I die bappy P " S • - ~ I .- , `4IF.? :.?. t. , t. ', .4 I • . 4 , . 4 .. :7 - CatiRTS-1f410741L. ' , assistlnee are alone ttecessaey to close the *misfits ? -t'....- 1 -..-' 1 "--'-.._ r _ M _ AS _----SEREAUX AND NICHOLSOIt.- EXECUTIONS • .. , - :0.. —I do, as far as regards the mating up of the att. ? - O LEEDS, AUGUST 11.1. • - • •COunts. ' n - Yesterd for the ay morning the gallows intended . . On Thursday last, at tee o'clock, the Court-Mar , Hier* you any reason' to suppose that an offer was. .' tial convened on the trial of Lieutenant-Colonel made by Mr. Maxwell to liquidate the balantels-11 execution of Jileuureaux, who was convicted op Fri. Mamiztt, the Paymaster of the Leeds District, as. have understood•from Mr. hie:vigil that he had made Jay last at the Maidstone Assizes of murderink a sembled in the large room of the White Horse Ta-; Mt nfferto liquidate part.of the balances. • Marine on board the Sampson prison ship, as early Teen at this place. • • ' To what amount i—l do not know, as_ three o'clock, was conveyed to Gillinghant, of • Peeezpvwx, Meler-GmerslCasear, Vint Toot Chords. A copy of a letter from Colonel Catephell (now . which place the . prison ships are stationed. It was DirOTT.JUDGt ADIFOCAT% : •. denial Campbell) to the Secrttaky at Win' dated erected on the hanks of the river , in the Lull v i e w/ o f Major Gunter Dassiusox, Royal Retintent, 404111ary. • the 12th June ISIS , and suiting that upwards •of all the inisdhere- The Members being sworn, the g charge, " • • At seven o'clock, Missereanz was taken from the' •••• e • 4410 had. been paid taco his bands by Lieutenant-, was read : . jail heavily ironed ; and, together with the execnti9ner for =welled= in his office otperhoocont.coet..e Leads ffie . ' Colonel Maxwell, op account of the public, was then' trailing District, In laving telbesaleder osisamplistate sent of, inn ill. allid lead. • . • and his assistants, and a clergyman, look his seat in seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-el& pallikis 4131.1hii^ • The next questions were proposed by t h e pewees. a post carriage and four, and was driven to the spot ling., or thereabouts, of the public mosey. ~ , tar; siadrtlated teethe twolids paid by the Paymas. ' where he was to pay the forfeit of his life for the crime Colonel SALM, to whom, by the appointment of and it . he had committed. After sentence of death was r which were sot entered i s " t he blivernmeni p the conduct of the prosecution was ap p e ar ed t........a.. p assed upon him, he . lost all. that.firratioss which he confided.. submitted the different items in the Sc- trot... the lettsversvttatit this transaction took e "Jame while.** Assistant Paymaster was on duty display on his trial. and seemed to be absorbed in count,. from which it appeared that the following with the Laval Militia, and that not having been despair. On. his arrival at the gallows he joined ,in bdances were due from Lieutenant-Colonel Max- placed on the office She; they were overlooked. Cap., prayer with a Catholic chaplain, arid after a short WELL to the Public : la i n js e i t i s i t f urt h er state d , that, on a f i nal strange. ' interval was launched into eteroity. An immense From June et, tato, to Dec. 24, to . ets77 14 4 21 „,„, . 1 .. —7 . larowd attended on the occasion, and the river was Front Dec. 25, laic, w Dec. at,. let 4 . toss.. . a.... ni .....-secounts, he did not t hi nk the balances , • . , ' Prom Dee. its, 1811,tti-Des. es. mini , '" ; - 170 ,as• a ; 'would b* Materially different to the statement that covered w i th boats, filled with spectators.. From Dec. 25,181 w, to Dec. ilk tette...: . - 714 OIP . iled-iiireedy been made out of the accounts, not. This awful ceremony over, the executioner atid. .. . Deficient in the• Clothing Amount .. . % 111111 •%.14 I, psoircii i t h e o wn s b alance e i ther way than £lOO . the other officers of the law returned to Maidstone, ' . Property Tax Account not made up. - .• - Ificlusive of the bills of £lOO and £l5O which had toettend the execution of Nicholson, who rose at an Against these deficiencies a nediber of items in i been • . •• • • early hour in the morning, and seemed to regard hit admitted, and which went to diminish the b e- ' 1 favour of '.ihe Paymaster . were to be placed, wl ch ' I: once againet• Mr. blame:lL .•, ii approaching fate with calmness and fortitude. reduced the balance to . the iguana; stated sir ' din ' . - ,he was ce visited by . i • Darin Sunday, tau • Mr. &oar, 4 .. lied you any wens of knowing any thing respee.., 1,... s charge. • • th .prior to the time you and General : It' stio entertained a suspicion that the wretched • - The only wheelie. . 44 , 4 41 0 1! the irtleccetlee l lette we'S t i b e ex . fled t h e setenuts?--yes, i ha d. e i i might have_ _somethieg to communicate. To . General CHARLES CAatPlial‘ late nspecting t eield • . la P yo ur ' from the office on - duty, . who ~ e %if the bung ess of ' dent question4'whieb, weK put to him, howeier, 011icer of this District, and CAPtain Jae.irauti„ the .: tea y I—l suppose, the n solemnly declared th i s he had alreatly diselosed Assistant Paymaster, who deposed, that they - had, - . all that he had ft make known. - 1 Pa master. by the direction of Government, examined the Pay.i . • Yesterday inoetiag Mr. Bonar paid him a last visit e t Lieutenant-Col l Bennett, Of the Std regiment, master's . accounts, and that the balance, as stated . and, in compliance with his earnest entreaties, told sibittaptain Priesdey, late of the same regiment, de. above, was, to the best of their knowledge, cotreet.., him repeatedly that he freely forgave him for all the posed, that they had known Lieutenant-colonel hdaz. This s i ns the case of the prosecutor , and at the well intimatel yi both when he was a injuries he had sustained at his hands. or many years, request" Of Lietttenant-Colonel MA xwri,L, the C. le tAt twelve o'clock Mr. Dudlow, the Under Sheriff, Field Officer in the 52.1 regiment, and since he b e- . adjourned sit one o'clock on Thursday, to lY i 'clock returned from Gillingham, and, on reaching the gaol, came Paymaster of the Leeds District, and that they .on the following day, at which hour the . Colonel said --- - - - ' possible , desired that Nichol. ' ; lit hold himself in readi- he should be prepared to enter upon his defence. Pit WAY, AUGUST 20. The Court having assembled, at twelve o'clock, Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwzt.L, after a tew introduc tory observations to the effect, that the deficiency which had arisen was rather to be• imputed to the embarrassment of the accounts than to guy intention on his part to " embezzle or misapply" the public money, proceeded to call his witnesses. General CANIPWALL, his first witness, , stated, that Cohiinel Maxwell had represented to him, that owing to the inadequate assistance in the Paymaster's Office, Ideraf the accounts had got' const4 bly into arrears, and that it was within his own knowledge, that the finan cial department of the depots created so much busi ness in that office as to lead to much embarrassment' , and delay in the accounts ; and that he, Genernl Campbell, had repeatedly, at the instance of the Paymaster, submitted representations to the War- Office to this effect. in confirmation of these facts, two series of letters, the first from Lieutenant-Colonel MAXWELL, and. the' .second from General CAMPBELL, to the Secretary at War, were put in and read, in one of which it was stated, that the Paymast is tooks were seven quar ters in arrears, for want of sufficient clerka in the office to make up the accounts.' . General CAMPBELL proceeded to state, in answer to questions prt,posed to him by Lieutenant-C(4onel Maxwell, that he had at all times had lull access to bad. ever held his character in the highest estimation, both as an officer and a gentleman. The evidence on the part of the defence having closed; • • , -.Lieutenant.Colonel MAXWELL, in order to ishew that he had no intention to embeZzle the public mo. pry, appealed to the whole body of evidence to prove that he had not in any single instance kept back any voucher . or document that could furnish a shadow of suspicion against him ; end that the only omission that had appeared, was in his-favour. That he had been guilty of misapplication of the public money, he did not deny but he hoped the Court would not _ _ \y visit the indiscreet anticipation of resources which had unexpectedly. failed him, with the penalties and dis grace of an abandoned swindler. He admitted, that he had found himself incompetent to the intricate de tails of official affairs, and that the accumulated load of unsettled balances quite overpowered him. He was aware that the ruin of his fortunes must be the' result; but he implored the honourable tribunal be fore which he siood to save his honour; and, if his character was not destroyed, all would not be lost : he begged this for his own sake, but more especially on Isoki.df of his unconscious wife and unoffending children. He then proceeded to offer some observa tions on the evidence on which the charge rested, and said that nothing but the clearest proof should be ad mitted to substantiate such serious balances. He de clared solemnly, that he was never till very recently aware of the - Ide of the balances as> inst him • his accounts. and that he had reason to believe that the Paymaster had not practised any fraud or kept back any vouchers, 46 and that he had . always the highest opinion of him as an Otlicer and as a Gentleman." of _ magnituL and he said it must be manifest, trom an examination of the accounts, that all the deficiencies must have arisen before the 23d of March last, when the Mu tiny Act, which made the offence with which he stood charged so highly penal, received the royal assent. By the CoonT.—As you have had constant access to the prisoner's public papers, have you any suppo sition how so large a sum as that stated in the charge became deficient ?;---By an unfortunate indiscretion. Did Mr. Maxwell exert himself as much as possi. ble, as far as came under your observation, to for ward the business of the office ?—1 did not think Mr. Maxwell a man of business. By the COM KT, to Lieutenant-Colonel MAXWE4I.-•••• Is Mr. Maxwell in. posssesion of any document that can in any way account for the large deficiency that remains due from bins to the public ? — ln my pecu liar situation I must decline to answer that question. Captain JacasoN, the next witness called fur the accused, stated, that on his entrance into that office at-t4\April, 1811, he found the accounts very much in ears ; that there were then six depots in the district, and that the requisite attention to their finan cial affairs introduced great confusion into the pay. master's accounts. He further stated that two bills, one of them for 4€loo and the other for £l5O, bad been paid by Colonel Maxwell, on account of the public service, without having been passed to .his credit, and he thought it probable, that on a final examination of the accounts, other sums might be found in the same situation. During the time he had been in the office he never discovered the least Wien. don of fraud or dishonesty on the part of Mr. Max well, who, he knows, has paid money out of his own , pocket to clerks employed in the duties of the office, to facilitate the progress of the accounts. By Lieutenant• Colonel MAXWELL.—Conversant ad you are in the accounts of the cffice, had you any reason to suppose, till very lately; that the balances against me were so considerable ?—No ; I had not: By the Couttr.—Can you give any reason why the accounts of Mr. Maxwell have not been made out since his suspension as Paymaster ?—They have been made out for one quarter, and tendered to the Superintendent of Accounts; and there is another quarter in as great forwardness as the means of the office will allow. ness. The sledge which had been prepared for hi s conveyance, was then drawn up t..) the door, and shortly before one, he was conducted forth, still heavily ironed, and confined in the same manner as dining his trial. A halter was placed around his neck, and which was tied to the front 2f the sledge. He looked extremely pale, but still preserved a de gree of fortitude perfectly consistent with the resig. nation which he evinced throughout the whole of his unhappy situation. Every thing being in readiness, the melancholy procession advanced at a slow pace towards Penning. , don Heath, where a temporary' platform and gal lows had been erected. It was preceded by a coasi derable number of public officers and constables to clear the way. The sledge went first, and was fol. lowed by the carriage containing the executioner arid his assistants, and a chaise, in which was Mr. Dud. *low and the Catholic Priest. These were followed by other Police Officers, and an immense concourse of spectators, who had been collected from MU parts of the country, closed the exhibition. It was nearly two o'clock before the procession reached the Heath, where the multitude assembled exceeded any thing we evir before witnessed on a similar occasion. : The unfortunate wretch, now the object of such general acteation„seenied to be deeply meat on the drzulf4Lscene, in which he was so prominent a cha racter. He looked around him with confusion and slame marked in his countenance, and seemed anxi- nighly _ 1 After a number of other observations, he concluded by saying-44 If then the evidence which has been laid. before you establishes beyond a question the charge of misapplication, I ask you not to screen me from the consequences which await my extravagance ; but I . conjure you, by the sympathy which honourable, minds feel in the wounds of an injured reputation, to protect me by your sentence from the accusation, or even the suspicion, of dishonest motives." Lieutenant-Colonel Maxweu.'s defence being gone through, tht Court adjourned till Monday, on which day the deliberations will close, but the sentence can net be promulgated till it has received the sanction of the PRINCE REGENT. Lieutenant J. Joys, of the 24th Regiment, serving in the Peninsula, has been sentenced by a Cyurt Mar tial to be dismissed the service, for defrauding a ser jeant and several privates - of some balances due to them ; and also tor defrauding one Latour, an hotel keeper at Lisbon, of the amount of a bill which he had run up at his house. • - ous to bury, in a speedy dissolution, the rev:inaction Of his crimes. Mr. Branum, the Catholic Clergy. man, now approached bins, and joined with bim in . fervent prayer. He ascended the plattirm with some difficulty, by the assistance of the executioner, who soon made the necessary arrangements of his office, and in a few molds the wretched man WAS no more ! Among others who IWO 'present was Mr: Boner. who having thus witnessed the last struggle of ouo who had' heaped upon him miseries so arnising s • took his departure for London, having previously made arrangements, by engaging horses on the road s ' for his speedy conveyance.. The body of -Nicholson, after hanging the usual time, was cut down, and conveyed, we understand s to a surgeon at Bromley, for dissection. HATTON GAND2N--YOSSOCIST Cask:riser Leery the wife of James Leary, was brought up from the House of Correction, Coldbath•fields, in order to un- . dergo an examination relative to the murder of Ed. — ward Clifford. The two eldest daughters of the sup. posed widow of the, deceased were also brought from the workhouse, and several fresh witnesses at tended, whose testimonies might throw some more light on this mysterious murder. The two children of Mrs. Clifford, by Burke, sat with their uncle, Mr. Thomas Lyons, in the parlour of the Bleeding Hart • public house, and Mrs. Leary, with her infant in her Arms, sat above stairs in the same house, in the cus. tody of Cooke and Thisleton, who, at their own ex. pence, ordered her both meat and drink, and pro. mised her to represent her situation to the Magis trate, in order to let her have a little more allowance whilst in prison, she having a child seven months old to support, and lost her breast of milk. She was also promised that she should see her unfortunate husband that evening for a quarter of an hour, in the presence of the officers, on condition that she should not speak a word of Irish. • Colonel O'Kw.tx sat along with the Magistrates, who commenced the business of the day by hearing summonses and night charges, &c. in order to have the Office clear, wheat a difference between some builders took - up the time till nearly three o'clock, an hour too late to commence the inten ded examination, and in consequence of which it was postponed. Bow-srazrr.—Yesterday several Lascars attended to make a complaint against a person for the sup posed Murder of one of their countrymen, soon after they sailed from India. On Sunday night a party of the horse patrole ap. prehended three young men on Finchley Common, on suspicion of being footpads, and yesterday they un. derwent an examination before Mr. READ. On being pressed so give an account of themselves they atknol. ledged that they were sailors, and had ruu away from their ship at Deptford, to which they were appren tices. This statement was corroborated by scvgral circumstances, and the Magistrate ordered the pa trole to carry them on board the ship which they de scribed themselves to have deserted from, and if their account was correct, to deliver them up. NAVAL COURTS MARTIAL.—Friday se'nnight, a court Martial was held on board his Majesty's ship tGLADIATOR, Rear-Admiral FOOTE President, otr nomai Mahal, seaman, belonging to his Majesty's ship GARLAND, for desertion, and for being afterwards found serving on board-the American brig of war Vixen. The Court was of opinion that the charge was proved ; but, in consideration of circumstances, did adjudge him to receive SOO lashes through the fleet, to forfeit all his wages, and to solitary confine ment in the Marshalsea for twelve calendar months. The Court Martial which has been so long em ployed in the trial of Dr. Hume, terminated last Wed nesday at Plymouth. The decision of the Court awaits the approbation of the PitiNce REGENT. Tuesday last, a Court-Martial was held on board the GLADIATOR, Rear-Admiral FOOTE President, on George Brooks alias Alexander' Lovendale, and James roung alias Samuel Butler, seamen belonging to his Majesty's ship PORCUTINR, for mutiny when on board an Ameritan brig detained by his Majesty's brig FERRET, in the year 1807 ; the Lieutenant and two seamen being put into a boat that was stove at ten p. m. it then blowing fresh, the Lieutenant reaching Jamaica two day' after.—The charge not being proved, they were acquitted. The Court then proceeded to try Lieutenant John Baldish, of his Majesty's sloop HAZARD, for a breach of the 27th article of war, preferred by Mr. —, Purser of the said sloop : the Court were of opinion that the charge was frivolous and unfounded, and highly.injurious to his Majesty's service. The Court then proceeded to try Lieutenant R. Carter, 2d of the HAZARD, on nearly the same charges, brought for ward by the same person, and gave the same opinion , wt the merits of the case. Inform the Court, if you believe that time and as- i sistance only are requisite to remove the embarass ments in Mr. Maxwell's accounts do. Another question was handed to the Deputy Judge Advocate to transcribe into the Minutes; but before it was put, the public clock struck three, after which hour the Articles of War do not allow Courts Mar tial to sit ; and they, in consequence, adjourned to half-past nine in the morning. SATURDAY—Auourr 21. The Court being resumed, Captain Jacicsort's exa ruination was proceeded in ; and the first question proposed was— • Do you think That time and assistance would have liquidated the balances due from the prisoner to the public, or any cousiderable part of them ?—I do apt. Inform the Court, if it is your belief that time and