Star. — London, England, 1812-04-03 00:00:00

EAST !NDI4 MOAOPOLT. , mm••••••••..... Tn a great empire, every branch of the civil admi tistration requires the continual superintendance of a . large and enlightened mind. It is idle to say, that Go vernment must not interfere with commerce at all : ond it is no less so, to say, that all the details of coma rnetlie must be directed by Government. The East- Indian trade has long been subjected to a monopoly, under various qualifications. The approaching termi nation of the present Charter naturally leads to views of a possible enlargement of the national advantages from that commerce, by the admission of private ad venturers ; and this as naturally produces exaggerated i leas of immediate benefit from a total abolition of the monopoly. Notions of this kind have been circulated of late, with great industry, and probably from very laudable motives. The existing distresses of the ma nufacturing classes have seconded the impression of much plausible reasoning on this topic ; and the result of the whole has been to excite hopes, which, we fear, will be eventually found as delusive, as they ate at pre sent fiattei.ag. That the restraints on the individual rights •of free trade should be lessened, as far as is consistent with the general good of the community, must be the anxious desire of every reasonable politi cian—but that we should hastily resort to injudici ous and unappropriate remedies, for any tempo rary evil, is what every friend to his country would wish to prevent. Commercial difficulties resemble certain disorders •of the digestive system, which are much more effectually relieved by a cau tious abstinence, than by a hasty repletion. There are few things that the mercantile world onght. so much to dread, as the spirit of specu- Lition, which is generally excited in this country by the sudden opening cf-a new channel of trade. Have we furgot Buenos Ayres, and the Baltic ports ? or do we nut consider how soon the depots of Malta and Heligo- . land were overstocked ? not that we mean to condemn —on the contrary, we highly approve, and strongly recommend new attempts to excite the commercial spirit of the country ; but the real problem, in such a case, is, to hold the due balance between judicious ert terprise, and rash speculation. This is a problem to be determined by Government, not merely by evidence of what har been, under circumstances now In a great mea sure altered ; and still less by eager hopes or what may be, in A state of things wholly untried ; but it demands for ifs solution an accurate knowledge of existing facts, and a deliberate calculation of probable chances ; it requires that " resolution to preserve and inclination to improve," which together constitute, in Burke's opinion, the practical statesman. Let us look, then, a little to the plain facts of the case. The private trade, as it at present exists, is about 1E3,000,000 in annual amount ; that is, about three eights of the whole trade to India and China : but it is supposed by some persons, that on anew system it would emirs ce a much larger field now occupied by the AmeriCans. Is the American trade with India then really very large?. By the official report of the Trea surer of the United States, tor the ye .r ending 30th September, 1810, it appears that the exports of domes tic produce fn m that country to the Brush East Indies, amounted in value only to 58,438 dollars, and of fo reign produce to 98,257. To the French and Dutch colonies and all other parts of India, the domestic were 41,229, and the foreign .50,6b6: and lastly to China, the domestic were 201,U92, acid the foreign 118,387 ; so that the whole of this mighty competi. tion, into which our merchants are so anxious to eh r, does not amount to £130,000 sterling-; and that part of it, from which, by the acquisition of Java and the Is'e of France, we are enabled to exclude the Americans, is scarcely 460,000, including probably a considerable portion of English produce. We need not say, how insignificant a relief, such a trade, with 'all i.s chances of profit and loss, could afford to a single manufacturing town in Britain. If we turn again to the present state of the British trade with India, we find the Directors asserting, that " as an object of gain, it has gradually ceased to be of impor tance, either to the Company ox to individuals."— This, perhaps, is somewhat too strongly expressed; but the fact is, that, with the exception of tea, which has remained pretty steady for the last twelve years, the company's imports in that period has fallen near ly three.fourths, viz. from about five millions to little 1 more than a million and a quarter for the year. These are, undoubtedly, strong facts, especially when coupled together, to shew that a sudden and considerable relief to our home trade cannnot be ex peered from any possible relaxation of ti.' Company's I monopoly. Whether any and what relaxations might eventually be useful, and to what extent it might be safe to admit private adventurers, are questions of a ' vet y different complexion, which we propose to dis cuss hereafter. ' Two gashing gig drivers ran their vehicles against each other on Wedt.esday, in Bcnd-street, and locked their wheels together. Each blamed the other's want of skill ; and after lashing their horses with much fury, they proceeded to exercise their whips on each other's shoulders, to the no little diversion of the spectators. The horses were the only beings to be pitied, for they received many of the stripes intended for their respective drivers. At last, the wheel of one gig flew cff, and the hero in the other drove away triumphantly. PEDESTRIANISM.—Tuesday morning, for a wager of live pounds, a young man, a breeches-maker, of the name of Wills, engaged to go on foot from Weal ' miuster-bridge to Croydon, and back again, the dis vince being nineteen miles, in two hours. He started at six o'clock, accompanied by several horsemen, v.he* bets were against him three to two. He took 34 treshment twice on the road, and readied Croydon a x minutes .before seven. Atter some refreshment, he started again, and arrived at the starting post in two minutes less than the time allowed, b'n dropped down immediately with fatigue. He was taken home by his friends in a coach. ARIAL EiovasioT.--A letter from Naples, dated February 21, says, " We have here many fears re specting tf,e fate of Madam Blanchard. Four days have elapsed since her ascension, without any intelli gence wlyataver respecting her. The kingdom of Naples is surrounded on three sides by the Mediarra beau and Adriatic Seas, and is not the most favour able ti these sort of enterprizes. We however hope, that Madame Blanchard may have suffered no injury in her forty-third ascension, and presume her balloon L may have been carried into a distant country. 1 ASSIZES. KINGSTON, APRIL L Adam Lee, 7homar Lee, and Eleanor his. wife, were indicted for a highway robbery, by stopping Eliza beth Collier, on the 21st of October last, and forcibly tarring from her her clothes, pockets, money, &c. The prisoners were three gipsies, and the case ex cited a considerable degree of interest, on account of the cruel manner in which the prosecutris had been treated. Elizabeth Collier, when called, was in a very languid and debilitated state,.front the ill usage she had received. She stated that she lived, in October last, at Horsham, in this county, with Mr. Giles.— On the morning of the 21st of October, she was sent to Walton, by her mistress, and on her return home she saw the three prisoners. The woman•, gipsy asked her if she would have her fortune told ? she replied no, she knew her fortune very well. Imme diately the prisoner Thomas Lee came up to her, and caught heiby putting his round her neck. The other came up, and they dragged her towards the park-palling of Sir John Frederic's park. While the men were dragging her, the woman kicked her several times. hey then loosened a palling from the park, and dragged her through the aperture into the Old park. Here they abused her very much, by beating her violently. She fainted away, and when she recovered she found that they had stripped her of her gown, pockets, petticoat, and left her almost naked. " She made a noise, but they were not gone, and they returned back again, and told her if she made any more noise they would murder her. She then described the dress of the persons of all the three. She said that Thomas Lee, the taller gipsy, had more hair and whiskers. They were taken the next day, and she recognized them again, except that the whiskers of Thomas Lee had been shaved off. • Another witness proved that she passed the same place shortly before, end she saw the three prisoners near the spot which the prosecutrix had described as the scene of robbery. Foy, the officer, stated, that 'then Thomas Lee was taken into custody, he appeared as if his whiskers had been lately cut off, as that part of his cheek seemed much lighter in colour than the rest of his face. But with respect to Adam Lee, he did not take him into custody, but took his word for his ap pearance at the office. The prisoner did appear on the day, but the girl not being there that day to identify him, he was again let go at large, on a pro mise to appear on the following Wednesday, which he did, and appeared to answer the charge. This was all the evidence on the part of the pro secution, the case resting on the correctness of the prosecutrix, as to the identity of the prisoners. For the prisoners, an alai was set up, to support which a great number of witnesses were called ; the general outline of which was, that Thomas Lee and his wife were in their hut, at Brixton Causeway, on the day of the robbery, and for several days preced ing. Some of the witnesses had not seen them so near the, time as to be inconsistent with the fact of their having been to the distance of twelve miles, the place of the robbery ; but others spoke with indre certainty as to seeing them at near nine o'clock, the time of the robbery. Several witnesses also said they saw no alteration in the appearance of Thomas Lee's fice, nor did it appear to them that he had cut off any whiskeri or hair. With respect to Adam Lee, some witnesses stated, that they saw him near four on the day ; but, on cross-examination, they did not seem to have fixed the day by any certain reference. The Learned Judge told the Jury, that this was a case of great nicety, and begged their par ticular at. tention to the evi,fence, observing, that it merely de pended on the crc,lit they should give to the prosecu. air. He then detailed the whole, most minutely, observing upon the beating of every part of it ; and said, it was for them to determine between the contra dictory testimony. The Jury found the prisoners all Guilty. SHREWSBURY. The trial of J. Griffiths, for the murder of W. Bai• ley, came on about half past nine on Friday morning, and occupied the Court about six hours. The fact of the murder was established by a chain of uncontro verted evidence given by 22 witnesses, the substance of which is as follows : The finding of the body about seven in the morning of Saturday e Ist of February, in a stone quarry was proved by a boy, who communicated the circum stance to a woman in the neighbourhood, who, with another woman and the boy, went to the spot. They found the corpse lying, with the head badly fractured, and the throat cut. It had a flannel jacket on, which was clean and dry, as were also the shoes, though the former part of the night had been very wet. The pit was very wide, some-parts of the sides were steep, and there are several roads into it ; the body could not have been put there till it had done raining. The next witness saw the deceased about five e',lock, on Friday evening, standing near her house, just above the prisoner's new house, from whence the pit is not a quarter of a mile, and about the same from his other house. Prisoner is a cooper, and has a wife and one child. Eliz. Bewdler lives a short distance from the prise ner's new house, on the same ride of the road ; hct window faces his door ; saw the prisoner at half past eight on Friday night, at which time it did not rain : the moon was up; but did not shine clear : and Mr. Botfield's iron works gave a light down that road : — The prisoner was by his owa door ; he went into the house, and staid about a minute, and then dragged a large sized parcel to the door, put it on the step, and then went into the middle of the road, looked up and down, went into the house again, and when he came out, threw something like cloathing over the parcel ; then shut the door, and taking hold of the parcel, went backwards, dragging it with him round the corner of his new house, which would lead to the pit where the deceased was found. Prisoner's new }liise was uninhabited.J. Bailey was informed that his brother was found dead in a stone gnarl y ; on which witness went to the place a little before one &clock. Deceased had a flannel jacket on, and a blue coat and waistcoat under, in other respects as described by a firmer witness. Found the key of his house, and three small keys in his pocket, but no money, nor his watch. klas seen him have two watches. On go ing to the house of the deceased; with two other per -1 sons, he unlocked the door, and did not find much dis- and some for the purpose of erecting his }reuse, an d turbed below stairs ; in the room Übove, the cloaths paid regularly for what he had. • of the deceased lay scattered about. Unlocked the The Jury, after consulting together a few minuse s , chest with one of the small keys, and found the clothes I returned a verdict of—Guilty. in it all in one corner. There was a private till in The prisoner, during the whole of the t r i a l, re. the chest, where witness thought his brother had kept,.: mained apparently insensible of the fate that await e d his money ; saw two or three little boxes, which had ' him ; nor was it till the ..wall sentence of the 14W %as no locks on, and the lids were taken off: the only ' passing upon him that any sign ca relenting was vise. money he found was 7s. 1 ltd. on a shelf in the pan- ble to the Court, which was crowdeu excess.— try down stairs. There were in the private drawer Towards tie close of the solemn addree; of the Jud r ., 'a promissory note for ASO, and one tor . ego . He. the prisoner was gre..tiy affect e d , anu on las return also found a watch on the hob under some shavings, to the cell, burst into tears. From that near which was a candlestick and candle. The de- disc meted f 1613 of penitence, and iu the count tit ceased was sixty-four years of age. Witness then the followiii", day (Saturday) centesseet having p u rp,„ ; returned to the stone quarry, and after giving 'ch.. crated tl,e lion id crime. rections to have the body carried home, pi ()clued a A fter: ing received the Sacrament from the hr ds warrant, and went to the prisoner's dwelling-house. of the Chaplaiu Monda)' m. ruing, he While -some person was searching there, he went to the drop about 12 o'clock; end after singasga Is: ma, the new-house; he saw a great deal of blood on the' and shindy exh-sting the surname:Lig po ol s. e . ground floor; and sme sprinkled on the wall ; sand (hundreds of wooni nad come from the ne , 4l : . b oug .. had been throWn over that on the floor, and there hood in which the deed :.ad been ciguilimej) were marks on the wall as it to scratch it off. Blood warning by his un inte,y f.ee, tie v..s Lew s u,s also appeared on a large step at the door, which had eternity ; and his body, alter hariA n ti ihe taw I siuo d been chipped that morning, as if with an intention to was eta down ; and, trteably to .. get the blood off, but a little still remained. If the the surgeons fur disse.tion. body had been dragged along, his clothes must have been dirty. His brother and the prisoner were inti mate.—J. Baggs met the prisoner and his dog about half- past seven, on Saturday morning, going down below the prisoner's dwelling house. As witness was returning, about ten o'clock, with two other persons, saw prisoner coming from the corner of his new house with his two hands full of sand, but on seeing wit ness and the.other persons; he dropped the sand from his left hand, opened the door, went in, and shut it to, and they walked past the house. S. Jones assisted in taking up the floor of the new house about three o'clock on the Ist of February ; part of it was covered with slabs, under which was a vault about eight feet by four feet, and between four and five feet high, into which there was no way but taking up the floor. There was a large quan tity of blood on the bottom of the vault, and some on the slabs. Saw a handkerchief and shirt taken from among some coals in the cellar; a cooper's adze was found on the ground ficor, Which had a little blood on the point. He also saw a bag in the vault, which he did not examine then ;it was thrown aside. The house was then locked up, and the key given to the High Constable. On the Monday fellow-mg, the bag was examined, and a good deal of blood was in the bottom of it. The blood appeared to have run be tween the slabs into the vault. is . . Bristol Assizes, last week, J. Keel s , for y a w ns and'stabbing an officer, in the excutiink t tit, duty ; and F. Gnome, for forging an it rn a hu.itling I contiael, were condemn : d, but atte: w ar d s rep it veil; ' I and three were ordered to be transported for serest years. At the Westminster Sessions, rn Wednesday, Jam Ciriitian Frani was convicted of astauaing a ed. named Ann Late, Vnth intent to ravish hu, on the 2d of June. The priscitia was a master tailor, i ll Poland-street. The Cohn, in - considzration of his Leing a forzigne7, only sentenced bins to be impi. Boned six months. EXECUTION.— Cn Saturday moruing last, W. BA convicted, at the last Cambr.dge Asazes, of iorgie and uttering a Windsor and Berkshire Bank Nem; was executed at that place. The prisoner ascended the platform, which was erected 10 feet high on the top of the gateway, in front of the gaol, and, de w continuing about half an hour in prayer with do Charlain, .suffered at a quarter past 12. Au r. auntie concourse of spectators attended on the me lancholy occasion. Wilma James is furtfier respited for one week from the expiration of his form, r respite. We have alseady noticed, that the No.tinghass r.oters, convicted at the last Ais'zes in tb.t toles, had been brought fo Newgate. They were escorted on a part of tharkurney by . a guard .s cavalry, she . left them a few miles trout Leicester. These n n men were yesterday delivered on board the hulks at Vs'oolwich. Wedne.day morning the remain, of J. A sEont,Esi. late Clei k of the Stables to his Royal Highness Ca PRINCE RkOENT, were removed from CAtitull House for interment at Chob,laro. Six of hs Royal High ' ness's horses drew the heat '.e, followed b; many °r um upper domestics of his Royal Highuess'sHiithehoid, G. Sheppard, the High Constable, had the key of the house from the prisoner; he unlocked the door; and was present when the house was se.irthed. The slabs were nailed down over the vault, and were prized up with an iron bar and pick. There were poles and planks in the vault, which were bespattered with blood, as if it had run through the slabs. He produced the adze ; when he first received it there was blood on it. Was present when the shirt and handkerchief were found, and they were delivered to his care. The shirt was marked W. li. it appeared to have been washed, but not ironed. %Vent again to the house on Sunday, but made no fresh disco very; he locked it again,• and took the key. He confirmed the evidence respecfng the bag. k:lizabeth and Mary Bailey, relations to the de. ceased, swore to the shirt produced being his property. Ann Bailey, also a relat.on, deposed to t:.e same effect .; rat said• the prisoner Wine to the house of the deceased very often. W. Rigby said the prisoner was at witness's house when intelligence was brought of the body being found. Asked prisoner several times to go with him to see it, but he refused, saying he did not like to set dead bodies. BIRTH.. On the 2361 ult at Ayr, Mr.. Colonel Farquhar, of a dausater. On the 3d ult. at Islandrioch, her fads is Louse, Mrs. t;:ainala Daniel Reid, of a sun. MA it R 1 k.D. At Mary&ld, flute:Lost foutaas Stewatk, of thoßoyel to Beattio thirst clauatz ut the ittv. Deo WILOBit, aeir stet of Fo dderty. DIED. Lately, at Was, after an Motu of 80 : Te en. t h e R ev Th .. Eyre L.L. D aged 81, Canon Res ttlistsaei and Trea s ures d Wells Cathe Jral, a Canon Resider.nar y Jen of asuman cab deal, and Rector of Fovant and Chit/ nark, Wiits. On the 90th uh. Alexander Sitstlair, Es+ son of the Mt SI John Sinclair of Murklei Ban On the t. Ist utt .t kaiinbagh, the Rev. Chrissopbeett, minister of Kincardine, in the 69th year of his age and tab di his ministry. At Ayr, on the 24th ult. Captain Greenlees, who bad bis kg broken, and was otherwislos much bruised by a nubs of ice in dot harbourillotne tame sinck. On the Loth ult. in the S 1 at year of his,, W. i, Fig of the Transport Offict. Mr. Hammersley deposed that he saw the prisoner about a quarter affix nine in the morning on which the body was found, and related the circumstances to him, remarking what a shocking murder it was. Pri soner replied it was. Witness said he hoped the vil lain would be found out ; to which he made no reply. Witness then asked him whether the deceased was not an acquaintance of his He replied, they sometimes met at the Meeting together, a place from which de ceased would be much missed. Witness remarked, that a. great number of people had been to see the body, and asked why be did not go ? Pi isoner said that he had been. HIGH WA I Z. 4. Al' LUNIX)T4 BRIDGE TO-MORROW. MMurnine• •• •• • • • ••••••• ••• 00000 • •••••• 000000 43 minutes dui • A fteilio ••• 00 j••••• ' Is minute, ober 7 T. Walford, clerk to Mr. Elton, said he was pre. l sent when the prisoner was examined on the Ist of ' February, and that he was was warned by Mr. Eyton previous to his examination, to be caution; what he said, and what answers he gave, as they might come against him. There were two examinations, one on Saturday, the 'other on Sunday. The examinations were produced in Court. They stated in substance, that the last time he saw the deceased was on Thurs-1 day evening, the 30th of January, at which time he asked the prisoner to give him change for some bills ; prisoner told him he could change two or three, and that he would bring it hint ; that he took him change for three bills that evening, and Bailey gave him the bills. He accounted for the blcod in the vault, &c. by saying, that he kept horse flesh ta feed his dog with, and that it must have proceedid from that. He bought the shirt about two years ago from one Ful ler, who lived at Birmingham ; and the handkerchief from a hawker about three years ago ; could not tell how they came under the coal. He had ground the adze on Thursday;the 30th of January, and could not account . for the blood on it ; was working in his new house the whole of Friday,till half past eight at night, and was not out of it, except occasionally to, go to his dwelling house. He received the money found upon him in the way of trade, and mentioned the name of several rers.ats from whom he bad re ceived particular sums ; among others a Shiffnal five pound bank note, from a Mrs. Dunning, of Coalpit Bank. Told Ann Cariwell he had been at Don nington Wood only as an excuse for . not being at Meeting. The only witnesses who appeared for the pri'soner were Ann Lawley and W. Harley. The former knew the prisoner kept a dog. Was at his nest haute once, and observed it would - be a comfortable place when -ortfplete—saw a piece of horse flesh on the floor, which might be about five or sit pounds. Did not observe any blood cn the floor. This was about ten days before the murder. W. Harley said, he had known the prisoner . about twelve months. He bad frequently purchased timber of witness, some for his business as a cooper, LONDON s Printed by Lwei KENT, L: Pi a . sile s published tbere, and at Übe Star ce, Templo4llol _4 _ -.1. SOCIAL HAPOINESti. MARRIAGE should be the foundation of &cid Happiness, which is often disturbed through the pardel that form the union not taking those precautions width imago curs them the enjoy anent of that great domestic bleedeg. Pespla of every rank pay adoration to the shrine of wedlock; but oboe the constitution has been tainted by disease, or dabiligeed bps certain ba'sit contr a cted at an early age, a renevatias N silo previous to entering that state is inibtprniibly Traits ti revise the slumbering sparks of life, and to reanimate the ryes& M no disorders have contributed more esseetialty to destroy Hyor Real happiness than those which are the consequoceehogliarid pleasure. It was this consideration whirl Weald Mews CURRIE and Co. for these last twenty gars, to direct their ime dies and practice exctusively to the treaauent and came/theft nereal Disease, and the di %orders arising therefrom ;asOm WO derangement of the synth, produced by the demos:deo bailiff the inconsiderate 'timid-boy, which brings so Moss Debilities and DeAciencies that prevent or etab:rer tte ig =_ monlal state. 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