Star. — London, England, 1813-09-09 00:00:00

ivdrAt FALi4ViitYTH, SEPTEMBER 6. ,Arrived the Queen Charfotte packet, from the Leeward Islands—sailed from St. Thomas's the 24:1 ultimo; and the Unity, BROWNIIILL, front Teneriffe; also, off this port, the Francis Freeling packet, friim Malta and Gibraltar—she has proceeded for Stangate Creek. Sailed the RACER gun-brig for Passages; and the MAKAKEL schooner idr Cadiz, both with dispatchei. PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 7. 'Caine In t'le Gunton, HALL, from Minorci—sail ed with a fleet of 34 merchantmen, under convoy of .bis MAjesty's ship ACHILLE and THUNDER bomb, on the Oth ult. which are passed upChannel—the Gunton rartcd on Sunday morning last, and is under qua-an tine. Arrived the ORESTES sloop of war, frPm a • Sailed the CREOLE frigate for the Spanish Coast. Put back the ABERCROMME Man of war.— His Majesty's brig COLUMBINE, which arrived here jesterday, :ailed from Oporto with a fleet, under the protection of the UNicontr frigate, and ANDROMEDA sloop of war, which passed by this Port yesterday, With a favourable wind. The COLUMBINE having been in the Mediterranean, has been put under qua ranttne. PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMB/R 8. Nothing Arrived or Sailed to-day. Came into bar b3ur, the SitattpsizoorEa sloop of war.—Wind W. DEAL, SEPTEMBER 8. Arrived Lis 111.:j_•sty's ship ACHATES, With a 'convoy from Cie z. Gibraltar, and different parts of the Me anil :Ire proceeding for the River. Also arrived ihe ANhrtomEnA frigate, with a fleot from Oporto, &c. last fr an Portsmoudt.Wind W. Y .%ItMOL! I'H; SEPT. 8. Sailed yesterday the FLAMER, for Wingo Sound, aAd this rnc.rning the Pnosptuo and DEFENDER lug gas, after having put hack several times strong ;:.!vetse winds, the former fur the Nore and the latter for the Down. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. Arrived the I - lizard, from Libbon—supplied Hope, Wlct.imi,:bN, from Africa for London, with provi s;ms, in lat. :38. lg.; also the Old Friend from Cadiz Lisbon, in lat, 49. 15. long. 11. The Adven twe, CIit•CIiSTIANE, from hence and Cork Quebec, which sailed front Cork With the fleet on 31st ult. put back thi:: day, having prung a leak. Seireral of the fleet were dispersed in a gale, and some of them rut back to Cork on the 4th. HARWICH, SEPTEMBER 1. The Lady Francis, Captain Rurrzm i , and the Lord Nelson, Captain DEANE, sailed this aftelnoon with their respective wads of the 7th—the former for Got tepiargh, the latter for Heligoland. Wiind W.N.W. MILFORD, SEP I EMBER 6. .Arr!Vid, and put under 4tiarantine, the Malvina, Viii;Nc, from Gibraltar, for Newcastle: the Master states, that it was it porzed at Gibraltar that the plagite Ilia 'considerably decreased at Malta. Also arriVed the Maria; SIMBERLEAK, front Waterford for this port: LEITH, SEPTEMBER 6. • The ADAMANT, 50 gun ship, sailed again trnin the Reads yesterday afternoon, for Sheerness, With the wind from the S.S.W. The Queen Charlotte arrived from London on Saturday, the Swift yesterday ; Mid the Ca edonia, Prompt, and Thames, this morn- Thi! Neptune, CA RRON ; and Marv, Cust laisos, irom Leith, arrived at ArchangLl 2 . 5 th July, and the Neptunus, Srevkats, on the 18th. The Isa bella Shu t scn, Cartaiii Dovg, one of the Jamaica rcet.bokind tcr Leith, 58 da)s from Jamaica, arrived at Plymouth on Monday last—she was run foul of by die Coledu.4;a, -:nd stove in her starboard side, and received other damage, but has been repaired sail- Cieutly to carry her to Leith. 11C William, VALLENTINE, from Plythouth to Sunderland, and anbthcr brig, name unkno;sn, were captured off Br - ghton on Monday, by a French lug. ger pri yam' . ; the William is re-taken, and arrived at .I.),,ver. A Itito-r tom St. Pierre, of the 30th of July, says, Cii the •23d of this month we had here pne of those terrible ca astrophies of which the actual experience can alone tinaLle you to form an adequate conception. At about five, or halt.past five in the moi rung, the Conflict of the atmosphere led us to apprehend some dreaLiful event. In half an hour, about 40 vessels foundered, and two only escaped. Tht , . Watt, a ship or between 7 and 800 tons, Was reduced to splinters and atoms. The %retched mariners were seen extend ing their arms and imploring re!icf,but their cries were unheard amidst the dangers of the storm. The vio lence of the elements was greater in the country than in the city, and spacious woods were blown down by their impetuosity. A large portion of this place is in ruins, numerous lives have been sacrificed, and the loss of property seems to to incalculable." The meteor observed at Glasgow and Ayr, was seen Ly several people on Leith Walk, about twenty tiinntes past nine o'cloCk on Saturday night (21st Airoist), in t^ direction from nearly south to north, rilianinining the Walk in a most remarkable manner. globular part of the meteor appeared eitremely I:labala, and in its path through the atmosphere Was beaetifully marked by a very luminous train of a fainter colour. It was observed for about eight or tea seconds. YAIt:tIOUTIT, SEPT. s.—On Wednesday our Gene ral Sessions were held before W. ADAIR, Esq. Re order, and finished on Friday afternoon, when Jahn ilaitnah, aged 67, charged with the murder of his wife, by strangulation; was found guilty, and ordered for execution on Monday. During his trial, which laded from ten in the Morning till three in the after noon, tle never once appeared to change countenance. When the Recoider, in a very impressive Manner, the dreadful sentence of the law, the whole €Uutt was affected ' but still he remained utunuved. iffURDER OF CLIP.76RD. • PSLL COMMITTAL OF lOUS I.IIAIrf,YOR IttURDER OF 'EPWARD CLIITFORD. Yesterday Mr. Ttneins, the Magistrate, recont mewed the examination of witnesseCeoncernitirthe Murder •of Edward Clifford, in the ....Prison of told Bath-fields, in the presence of leis Royal Highness the Duke of SuisEr., and a nuttibei of Ladles and Gentlemen. • Mary Burke, aliai Clifforti,. was plated at the Magistrates' table, and Jilin Leary, accompanied by two officers, was placed in a cornet of the room; so that all who were ipiiiined should have a fitll sight of him. The • murderer appeared perfectly Unconcerned, but behaved with much decorum and propriety. • The Magistrate then desired. the Clerk ;to read over the deposition of Mary Clifford in an audible Manner, so that she might haye an opportunity of amending what was defective; ind adding any parti culars which had since occurred to her recollecti6n. This deposition, which has been already publiSheci, mentioned, that on the evening of the murder, Clifford, who had been in Leary's company all day, was very drunk, and Leary was perfectly Sober.— Clifford was fully deterinined to return' to Ireland, for he could not speak Englith, neither could he obtain employment. Leary tried to petsude him to remain, and told him 'that he would get him into good employment on Monday morning. Clifford persisted in his determination to go to his native land, and they roamed from public•house to public house till neat eleven o'clock, at which time they were at the foot of fitilborolhill. Here Leary told Mrs. Clifford that she might walk home at her leisure, as EdWard was resolved to walk fast; and she would find them at home before her she remon strated, but they walked away very fast and were out of her sight immediately'. She went home; pur chased.a cal;dle, smoaked at pipe, and went to bed at twelve o'clock, and awoke at two much troubled in mind at the absence of Clifford; She arose at four o'clock, and sometime afteiwards she enquired for her hu.bancl at Leary's house, where the Was in fortned that he had gone off foe. Ireland on the top of the coach. Mrs. Burke said, she had no corre c tiont to make nor any 'hint'; further to add, upon which she signed the dep.sitiin with her mark, and was bound over to give evidence at the prosecution of Leary. William Broughton, of Paradise•street, found the Murdered Lady in the pond on the smarting of the 26th of July ; a large cut appeared on the eyebrow and blood issued very. profusely from the ears. The pond was situate in AdaM's field, near Wellington place. Ihe ground near the pond was mai ked with footsteps,. and bloody, and a hat lay ott the spot, in the crown of which was a cord, with a running noose upon it. This witness said he had nothing farther to state, and signed his deposition with his milk, and was bound over to give evidence at the prosecution. A large instrument, which bricklayers call a ripping hammer, a shoe-maker's hammer, dappled with blood, and a small hammer for driving nails, were now laid on the table; along with a pair of old shoes, whitened with lime; and discoloured with something like blood on various parts of the bolts.— These had been all found in Leary's lcdgings, ex cept the bricklayer's hammer; which was iound at a new house where he was employed as a labourer, and the axe end of this instrument nearly cone sponded with the wounds which appeared on the head of the deceased. Daniel Brewer assisted the last witness in drag ging the body of Clifford from the pond. When the murdered person was canted away, he proceeded to look about the field, and he perceived the impressions of several feet, and a considerable quantity of blood mingled with brains lay in various places: Neu - the margin of tire pond he perceived several holes appa rently pizforated with :dine blunt instrument, and he thought. they corresponded with the mouth of the nail hammer which was now lying ott the table. — The other hammers were too large in the head to make such holes as he saw. This witness then sign ed his deposition, and was bound over to appear and give evidence at the prosecutioo. The hat which Clifford wore on the evening when lie was murdered was now produced, one large hcile appeared in that pan of the hat which covers the left temple, and corresponded exactly with the wedgt end of the shoemaker's hammer which was found concealed in Leary's apartment. Robert Shuttleworth observed a number of holes made in the p,roithet beside the pond into which the murdered body was thrown. He placed the body of Clifford on a barrow, and carried it to the Prince Regent public.house. William Price, the landlord, examined the clothes of Clifford, and found much blood on the back part of his coat. These witnesses sighed their depositions and were bound o'er to ap pear at the prosecution. • John Law, a bricklayer, saw a crowd of people collected round the pond in which Clifford's body was found: he went up and found a large unclasped knife uniting the grass, and which was knoWn to belong to Leary. He also saw many holes in the ground, he thrust his thumbs into them; they were large, and appeared to be made with a shot maker's hammer. Tlas witness having signed his deposition, was bound over to appear, and give evidence at the trial of Leary. Mr. Uppon, a surgeon, was called by the Coroner's Inquest to examine the body of Ldward Clifford, he found the back part of the skull shattered to pieces, and a large wound on the temple, which correspond ed with toe wedge end of the shoemaker's hammer, and also with the chisel part of the bricklayer's rip ping hammer. He signed his deposition; and was bound over to give ttsuniony at the prosecution. Mr. Barnet, a salesman, in Field-Line, sold the hat, which was found near the murdered body, 'to Clifford himself, on the .25th of July. It was then perfectly whole, but a band and a buckle had been added since. This witness also gave surety for his appearance at the trial of Leary. William Slattery; the cousin of Edward Clifford, was now brought forward, and his former deposition was read to him. The Magistrate inquired it lie had any thing farther to say, or had any corrections to Make in his testimony before that 'he signed it i Slat- tery hesitated at first, and then he said that he had Misrepresented one circumstance, which he wished to Set right.---In this pest deposition it will be remit- 0 , " • !• I • ‘e. •• • • • kited, that aft . et deiaTen . g krtivr of Mrs. ford, in lidos/3, and of hir arrival in this country, pthceeded ,(d mention, that on the evehing pre trediiiii the murder, he was present *heft Leary and his wife called at Clifford's lodgings, and when, bet and Mrs.glifford and the deceased all went put to gether. He also went away with a Mrs. Champion; and returned home about nine o'clock and Went to bed. He recollected Mrs. Clifford coming biome ibput twelve o'clock, and ailed if Clifford had come Ninne? Hosalso recollected her sitting on the bed, and smoking a pipe.. and bore testimony to other facts which have already been detailed: This de position having been finished, he was asked whe ther it was sprreo ? He answered in the negative, and *as proceed i ng to enter into another Statement, shin deposition which he had subsectuently made Was told to hiln. In this he stated , that the circus:l- Stance to which he formerly alluded, of Mrs. Clif fbrd returning home and sitting cn the bed to smoke her pipe, had occurred on smite other night previous tothe murder, and that on the night of the sulkier. awl'irs. Clifford did Sot return home at all to his know ledge, and he must have known if she did, for he should hate heard her. C/n his cross•examination he admitted that he had been awoke by Mis. Clifford on Sunday morning, and that she might then have left or come into the room without his knowledge. He. however, per sisted that she did not cothe home on the night of the Murder-, although he might love been asleep and not bear her. Mr. Tuerow directed that this man's depoSition stould be retaken, and condensed into a shore tom. pass, for the consideration of the Court Of Justice. During this man's examination, Leary regarded him with particular attentions and seemed to feel great ankiety of mind ; his colobr heightened, and lie perspired violently. He seemed perfectly satisfied when Slattery persisted in his latter story. Mrs. ChaMpion's deposition, and that of Mrs. Sin gleton, were next read oVer to those persons. That of the former merely went to prove that she saw Leary and his wife in Clifford's apartment, on the evening of the miirder—and that of the latter, who was Clif ford's landlady, proved that the door of her house was often open all night ; and that on the Saturday night previous to the murder, there was a dispute between Clifford and his wife. Mr. Hesston, the master of the prisoner, is in Yor kshire, and did not of course attend. His depo sition, however, was read. It went to prove that th? ripping hammer prdlAced was his property, and also spoke favourably the general character of the prisonei. The depositions of Cooke and Thistleton, officers of Hatton-Garden, who. apprehended the prisoner, were next read. The principal part of which went to prove the finding the shoemaker's hammer in Leary's room. and his acknowledgment that he knew they came for him relative to the murder of Clifford, be fore they told him that such was the fact. Joseph Becket's (a turnkey in the prison) evidence ; was then read, and froin it, it appeared that the pri soner had confessed the knife found by the edge of the pond was his property. Mr. TURTON now directed that the confession of I . Leary should be read to him. That which he last, made, and in which he implicated Mrs. Clifford, was accordingly read over to him, and he subscribed to its truth. Since the foriner publication of this con fession, he had added, that when he, Mrs. Clifford, and the deceased, approached the spcit where the murder had been committed, they ,met Slattery, who asked who came there ? And on Mrs. Clifford an swering, he said they were well met, for he had been there only five minutes. Mrs. Clifford then drew forth a hammer, and knocked her husband down with it, and while he was on tire ground, she repeated her flows until he was dead. Slattery, as well as he, (Leary) witnessed this, and Slattery drew the de ceased by the feet on the top of a little mount, and rolled him over into the pond. Mr. TURTON here observed, that this addition to ll the confession of the prisoner had been made in con sequence of something which he had said to him about Slattery. Until he had reminded the prisoner of Slat tery, he did not give the slightest hint of his being concerned in the murder, in the way in which he now stated. The first confession made by the prisoner, in which he stated that he had parted with the de ceased at the corner of Gray's Inn-lane, and left him in company with Slattery and another flan, whose name he now stated to be Bryan, at ten o'clock on the night of the murder, and returned to his lodgings, in his way meeting Mrs. Clifford, was next read.— This he said was quite incorrect, he would not sign it, and persisted in the truth of the statement he had last made, which he signed. The testimony of a publican, named *Canby; was now read. From this it appeared that the priso ner sent for him, and he called on him at the office in Hatton Garden, cn the day he was first examined. Witness had some conversation with him, and said, You have got into a pretty predicament—you will certainly be hanged." The prisoner said, Do you think so—l was at home at ten o'clock." Witness asked him, if he had any one to prove that fact ? and to this he replie,l, "No ; there lam lost. Without I can get a witness to prove that, I am undone." — Witness advised him to confess his crime ; and upon asking him how Le should get out of it ? he said he did not know, unless he could fix it upon somebody else. WitneSs asked him who he could fix it upon ? and he said he klt a hammer in Mts. Clifford's poc ket in the public-house. Witness said he did not be lieve him, and he went away. Thistleton, who overheard this conversation, cor roborated• the teAimony of M'Carthy ; and on be ing questioned by the Magistrate, he said he had laid no design to entrap the prisoner into any con- fes it i v l. olutitary witness came forward at this period . : o t f ru i t h i e ) e e x k i c a p n t in t i i i i e t i o f r e . aco H ck e p sa u i b d lic h - i h s o r u ii s im e i e n w G a r s a K y, i s ls l b n e n y . , lane. On the Sunday evening of the murder, he said two or three men and a woman far advanced in preg nancy came into his house about eleven o'clock. One of the mat wore a dark great coat [such was worn by Leaty on the night of the murder] and the other seemed to be very stupid ; lie took out a handful of Bank-cotes, and handled theta very carelessly. A half pint of gin was called for, and witness was asked for Gl:tinge of a one pound note ; he refused , how ever, to vivo it ; and the man who had the notes pulled out a shilling and paid tor the gin. The man in 'tit. dirk great coat then wanted to have soSI jams gin; bat witness refused to serve any More, as 't iias then past eleven. They then went away, and p _fis‘ried•one of the men much intoxicated. He Apid, hot ia). with certainty that the prisoner was lone of the persons who woe so in his house. As he was passing a house in Windmill-court, Smithfield, where the prisoner Was at work on the Monday fol• lowing, however, he *as hailed by him from a ladder, and asked fOr a job. He had ro: known him before , but coupling the fact of his so coiling him with the cir cumstance of the persons who had heed in his house the night before, and the manner in which the man . . der hid been committed, he was induced to think that the prisoner was one of the when who had been in his house. He took particular notice of the wo man; and although he bad not seen Mrs. Cliffoid, if she was tbe.Woman who had been in his h o u s e, he bad no dou bt he shoUld recollect her. Leasy positively denied thit he had been in this witness's house. . Mr. Turtori, however, in order to decide the 'point, requested Mr. Adkins, the Goiernor, to take Mr. Kilsbey ihto a room in Which hits: Clifford and other females were, and see if he could select her from them. This Mr. Adkihs did, and in a short time return ed; and stated that Mr. Kilsbey had picked Mrs. Clif ford out from twenty women, and said she was the woman who had accompanied the men to his house and Mrs. Clifford, on being asked whether she hat been to his house, said she had. Much sutpri was expressed at this heiv discovery, as, from the evidence hitherto received, it appeared that Mrs. Clifford had parted from her husband and Leary before they teached Gray's Inn-lane: To elucidate the point, however; she was sent for when it turned out, that frdm the manner in which the question had bfttl put to her by Kilsbey; she thought he *as the landlord of the public-hoist at the corner of Fieidane, in which she did go With her hnsband add, Leary*, and had Some girt. Mr. Tint-roil Said he was perfecq Satisfied with the consisten4 of the woman's story, and apprehen. ded Mr. Kilsbey laboured under a mistake. Mr. BARRY, CounSel for Mrs. Clifford, observed tint easy for Mr. Kilsbey to select her from a hun , dred, as she had a black ribband round her head, at a sort of mourning for her husband, and had HU the appearance of a woman who had lately risen from bed of sickness, which Kilsbey well knew she had. The whole of the evidence being now gone through.. Mr. Matron observed, that many other witnesses had been examined, but their testimony only Went satisfy curiosity, without throwing any new light od the subject under examination. Their evidence there. fore he had thought it unnecessary tO embody w 1 the evidence intended for the Judges. From all the inquiries, however, he was satisfied, that althougl• rsome things had occurred to place Mrs. Clifford' conduct, in a moral point of view, in no very amiabl light, yet he discovered nothing which went in the slightest manner .to invalidate her testimony, or render her an incompetent or a discredit Able witness in a Court of Justice. The worthy Magistrate thed directed that Mrs. Leary, the wife Of the prisoners against whom these did not seem to be any just accii cation; should be discharged. With respect to Slat ' my and Mrs. Clifford, he desired they Might be 'tamed until the trial. Leary Will be committed to ke*gato on Friday, At the request of Colbnel O'Keta.y, seconded. that of the Duke of SUSSEX, it was detetinined that a Catholic Priest, Mr. DEVERXUX, Ordinary of Netvgate, a most respectable and highly estbrtised Clergyman, should be requested to attend on the r soner to-morrow (this day), a bobn which the pri I ner seemed to be very desirous of obtaining. The, vote confession of the delinquent to this Gentleihai cannot of course be made public ; but in all probal lity, his exhortations may have some effcct on hi_ and induce him publicly to do justice to those be may unfoundedly have maligned. The Duke of Sussbc and the. Ladies present the children called in to them, after the examinal was over, and all present were well satisfied with result of the investigation. EitECUTION or Luxe ilvern.—Monday se'nnight, soon after twelve o'clock, this criminal was executed at the drop, in frO t nt of the County Gaol, Gloucester, for the Murder of Sarah Harris, at Cow-Honeyborne, four years ago. An amazing concourse of people attended to witness the execution. After attending divine service in the chapel, and spending a consider able time in prayer, he was brought otit upon the Scaf fold, and seemed so completely overcome with tertbi, that it was with great difficulty he could support him. self. He appeared to shrink with horror from the awful scene kefore him ; and, after remaining a very few minutes id this situation, he uttered a short ejacu lation, and was launched into eternity. After hanging the usual time, hisAsiddy was cut down, and sent to the Infirmaty for dissection. The apparent indifference and want of feeling manifested by this unhappy cri. minal, both during the progress of his trial, and at the dreadful moment of sentence being passed, have been formerly mentioned : on his return to the prt. son, however, after condemnation, he evinced due contrition, and made an ample confession of his guilt. The manner of his perpetrating the horrible crime he stated as folloWs had, for some time kept company with the deceased, and, under repeated promises of marriage, had robbed her of her r irtde ; she was six months advanced in pregnanty. On the night of the murder, lie went, about twelve o'clock, to her father's house, and called her out of bed. She came down stairs dressed, but without *shout. Some words passing between them, he struck her so vio lently with a white-thorn stick on the head and temple, that she fell to the ground, crying, 43 LORD have mercy upon us !" He then (to use his own words), 44 with the assistance of the devil !" picked her up, and carried her on his shoulder to the pool of water, into which he threw the body, believing there was then but little life left ! He denied making use of the dung-fork spoken of by some witnesses, in the perpe tration of his diabolical purpose. It Mould appear, however, that his conscience, notwithstanding his ap. parent apathy-, had been but ill at test ter the firit year after the commission of the mut der ; for, during that period, he had been several times in Londbii, had visited Birmingham, traversed Kent and North. amptonshire, been lour months on board a tit ig be. longing to Newcastle, bad gone into stilly p arts o f Scotland and Ireland, and still was bereft of the power of settling ony where. as td it as d, )1. Dr, et ir- Ise Ir. nk en if he his nt, ter m. 'if- the ; lad red end ich the at her ith Len. d it un- as the it a Igh, ,eel t to od ere- Kith the ugh rd's able the tb tness then mek, tccii- Slat- de- sy. d. by iincd ry of etned e pri- pros°. le pi- •than, obabi- him, may t had th the night, tcuted center, borne, People !nding nsider- e icaf- tertbi, .t him.