Star. — London, England, 1812-03-21 00:00:00

I. es ty b. of t to By bat lat hs. an, 'he ai'A Fe. nay Rll4 19, n obdi ,geld n tbn need. muck z ths m OR rat VI et ad 4 ,asals 14 dal id that se. The Magistrates assembled at the last Quarter s c io n s were in many Counties under the necessity of increasing the weekly allowances to the wives and c hild r en of the Militiamen. In Norfolk it was filed s i two shillings per week to each individual. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PLi'MOUTii, MARCH 19• Nothing arrived or sailed this day. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH ft.. Arrived his Majesty's ships MCIIMAJD and Catimus, from the Deihl: Sailed the plc aLi et limner, on ar cruise. The Comfier A s p of war, that sailed yesterday, sa4 to be to join Admiral e pewit, in pursuit of the French fl ,it now appears was to Mier the Admiral and hjs squaditin to urn to port.—Wind S. HARWICH, MATCH 20. Arrived die Earl of Leicesterpacker, Captain Hammond, with s Mail and Passengers. . A Swedish Courier has also arrived in ' the Leicester., • DEAL, MARCH 20. • I l'h' e SeacvLarba armed lugger has a signal for convoy for Poruniouth.—Wind S.E. and more mcldtrate 4 YARMOUTH,, MARCH 20. Arrived his Majesty's ship Dt3lltit, from the Downs. DUBLIN* MARCH 17. ovrikettti _ Thursday morning last, very early, a party of men pelted the bank of the Canal, above Mußinger, y the progress of provision-boats to Dublin was arreited. In the Markets, potatoes fell this day to sit pence per stone. Thursday night the Royal Canal was again cut, at Use downs betwneti Kinnegad and Mulliagar. In consequence of these alarming depredations, a meet ing is to be called, of the *hole county for Saturday, to take into consideration the most effectual mode of preserving the Canal, and bringing the offenders to josticei By statute, the offence is a felony, punishable by transportation. '-- ' - testricia sew* after one 1) 1 6:04 his Royal High les the Pantos Ramer held a Court at Carlton, Rouse, which Ores attended by the Lord PresideetA the Council, the Lord Chancellor, the Privy Seal. the Master-General of the Ordnance, and the three . Secretaries of State ; when the Marquis of Wirecniet. GrDOM of the Stole, the Earl of YARMOLY7I4 Vise•ChamberLein, and Johns Mordeumr, Esq. Keeper tithe Privy Purse and Private Secretary L were sworn is of his MAJESTY'S most Honourable Privy Council, and NA their places at the Board accordingly. The Lord and Groom in Waiting upon the PRINeR Rtostet were Lord Borrow and the Honourable Mr.. Hussar. ' His Royal Highness gate Audiences to Bad Can. Ins, the LORD CHANCELDOR, an she Earl of LiVo toot, His Royal Highness the Duke of et.Aersitat in tends to leave town, On Monday, for Bushy, The Duchess of Goencor last night continued in the same alarming state as daring the list four days: ,_The Duke of Wee follows the example of his Matth in habits of early rising; his Royal High= Hess was in the Green Park on Wednesday morning, attended by a Stan Officer, at ten o'clock, soon after Which hour he is usually prepared td receive the Heads Of the Military Department. We understand that the Naval bid: Heal Departs tient is again to be separated from the Transposl turd, to whi c h i t was b ut a f ew yea r s ago united. The nature ) indeed, of the two services seems brit little congenial. ORATOlHni—tast night terminated the Oratorios it Covent-Garden Theatre ' *ha Mr. ASIILZY has this season conducted With his usual ability, The house wu crowded, and the boxes were particularly FIBRUAZY.....NO less than Sve . Sattirdays occurred ill last February. It is 40 years since the same day tithe month corresponded with the same day of the *KC There is a nittIOUT in circulation, that serinus turbances have broken out in Manchester ; but as the Papers printed at that place art silent on the subject, * are incli ne d to t hi n k that the report is withoiit foundation. Yesterday Morning a distressing scene oteurfed at 1 the Angel Liverpstables in the Borough. The wife , of Mr• limas, a respectable Stable-keeper, who•was sectistcaned to be called to breakfast by one of her children, was found a corpse, while an infant nearly I tern years o ld l ay sticking at her breast. The shock it caused to the surviving husband may be imagined, hut cannot be described. Mrs. H. who was univer sally respected b a numerous circle of acquaintance, I *nest to b e d on the preceding night in perfect health. t i ode REPORT..—Yesterday the Recorder • ` ll . lll e a tenon to the Prince Regent Of the following C amte rs convicte d at the last Sessions , viz.—Wm. bite, for returning from transportation ; D. Dick- Fo ,,, t r e:7 : l l n ing a gold watch, the propercr of his dwelling-house ; Benj. Hitchcock, Tom`.mto a lettr, containing Bank notes ; T. ' ins, afias E. Britten, for stealing goods, the 1 P r 'PertY of W. Strong, in his dwelling-house ; Gretn, and J. P for a burglary is the dwelling. I intent to steal; C. Wheeler, and J. Seine, for stealing a Haile,; Joint Liidger, tor, the property of Mary M. , ackley, tor stealing; when , tHE ARMY: 7 1 :12L1L OP rza NOTtINOIIAji :1110 1 1`EAS. • • We understand tisit an einbirkatidi of Caleb . y m il s oon take place in ai of the Earl of %turns " 4 upon a much larger Scale than any which h as hi t herto been sent to hil Lordship. Monday next, a deuchnient of the Sd Regintetit 'of. GuarJs will march for Portsind'uth, for erabarkationi • to join the Ist battalion in Portugal. A ditision of the Scotch Royals has Puled thiongh Chichester, on their r oute to Portsmduth, for entbar . ] r ation. Wednesday morning a small deiachnient of the coidsuram Guards, under. the command of Lieute. sauttolooel .MACDONALD, marched for Portsmouth, for embarkation for Portugal. m a j o r-General H. M. GORDON is appointed to the command of the trinopi in the island of httcleira. m a j or . General WIDDRINGTON, having lately been • • st ed to the Staff of the Army at Gibraltar, will sbcat i aP r y embark with his family for that fortre s s. , Mooday morning last 'the Assiies commenced at Nottingham with the following Charge to the Grand Jury, by Mr. Justice BAILEY GENTLEMEN—Nothing could give me greater ia tisfactioa, amidst the troubled state to which this im portant county has been reduced by a number of mis guided iodividuals, than to see so respectable a Jury assembled, as a barrier between guilt and innocence ; and at a safeguard to property, to our liberties, and to our lives. The calendar laid before me 'does cre dit to the moral state of the county, with the excep tion of one crime, which swells the awful list. It is not for me to inquire, whether the persons who have thus involved themselves in trouble, have any just cause of complaint; becaute, if grievances do really exist, the proper, and indeed the only way to get them redressed is to apply to the legislature of the country. • But this should likewise be particularly remembered, , that while the complainants continue in , a state of open violation to the law, even the legislature will not attend to their prayers. And, to add to their I sufferings, partly brought about by their own miscon duct, the law will be too strong for them—many of them will fall victims to their own daring folly ; for the law must and shall be obeyed. The violent pro. ceedings, if persevered in much longer, may have the effect of driving the"lace manufacture from Notting ham ; for why cannot it he carried on in other places as well as at this ? It is true, that this appears to be the native seat of this , branch of the British lace ma nufacture ; and no doubt it will be grateful as long as it is treated with indulgence and care ; but when that ceases to be the case, it may leave those who have been fed by its bounty in a state of deep repentance for having exercised their own .folly and violence.— The length of time these outrages have been carried ott,,might almost make it a matter of inquiry, whe ther the Magistrates of the County have done their duty ? but the highly and reTectable assemblage of Noblemen and Gentlemen this morning, renders such an inquiry unnecessary ;. for none can doubt but that their duty has been done." His Lordship then gave it, both as his own and Lord Ellenborough's opinion, the latter of which he produced in writing, that it was the bounden duty of every good citizen, particularly the wealthy, to risk their lives for the protection of private property ; and he hOped by exertions like these, aided by the salu tary rigour of the law, that the misguided would see their error. After stating that when he left the town, the Assizes would only be adjourned, and that upon the seizure of any rioters, a Judge would come down and act upon the present Commission, his Lordship proceeded to state, that the act of one individual, in a riotous multitude, became the act of the whole ; and consequently that every man became accountable, in the eye of the law, for the misdeeds of his neighbour, when thus assembled. On the subject of collecting money for lawless purposes, his Lordship said, that the person obtaining money by means of intimidation, subjects himself to the punishment which attaches itself to that crime which is perpetrated through the application,of such money ; and that those who give money freely for the promotion of a lawless purpose, likewise stand amenable to the law in the same de- F ree as the former. His Lordship concluded by en joining the Nobility and Gentry to remain at their respective seats, while the troubles, or the probability of their renewal, continued ; and likewise with en joining the Grand Jury to do their duty without•pre judice or partiality to one party or the other. TUESDAY, MARCH 17. FPrllimre Camel, aged 22, and Joseph Naples, aged 16, both of Basford, were brought to the bar, and pleaded not guilty. Mr. CLARKE, as leading Counsel for the Crown, opened the charge in a. violent philippic against the prisoners. He began by observing that this was no ordinary case ; for here we saw men, under the name Of Luddite), disciplined and marshalled under diffe tent leaders, and armed with various instruments of death, acting in open violation of the laws and con stituted authorities dr the land. An exception was here taken by the Counsel for the prisoners to this strain of declamation, as tending to.prejudice the Jury against them ; and the Judge allowed the exception to be a good one, and ordered the witnesses to be called. Elizabeth Braithwaite *is the first witness called. Shestated, that in January last, she resided at Old Basford I that her husband, John Braithwaite, was a Stocking-maker, and at the time above stated, he kept seven plain cotton frames, which were occupied kr five apprentices, one journeyman, of the name of lowlson, and himself. She further stated, that on the 3d of January, about ten Minutes before eight in the evening, a person knocked at the door and asked for Towlson ; that the door was bolted 4 and, before she could open it, it was forced, and a man entered, whom she saw have hold of the outer handle of the door, he fell over a chair, and believes it was Camel, mentioned in the indictment ; that he walked into the shop with a hammer over his arm, and broke the end of a slur-bar; that eleven more entered after him; that the first Man who entered stood as guard to the rest; and that one man whom she knew, and Who used a hammer, is not yet taken. Here the . witness was desired to look round the Court, and point the prisoners Camel, out. She turned round very attentively several times, and declared she could Dot see him, and that If he was there, he mu s t hold down his head—thought his imprisonment in prison would alter his appearance ; but not so much as to prevent her from owning him, ticept he was dis tsed, for the lad inputs /simians a dull She was Veen ordered to mount the table in the centre of the Court, to try if by that means she could identify him. She did so, and, after twice pacing it round, she [ pointed out a man who was mixed among the spec -I,tatorsi whose features she thought was like Camel. She was then desired to look at one of the Sheriff's Officers, who stood near to Carnet, and give her opi -1 l as, y• that war the wen. On firing her eyes closely 1 rn that quarter, she pointed out th e man , an d sa id w that is Centel." She was then ask e d wh e th er s he I knew any other person near him, when she pointed i to another in the prisoner's box, add said, di that is I Maples." On being asked why she knew Camel to be one of the men who had violated the premises of her husband, she said, thatwhen thescuffie was going I on in the shop, she called out for her husband to be brought out, and that Camel (atter having given her i husband a aside over the shoulder with a hammer, in consequence of which he had been lame ever since), complied with her request and that In the bustle the Mask was puUedoff his !see; which iheimniediately reL cognized, tho Ugh his cheeks and nose were black, and his upper -lip red. he deciated, she Was nowise dis mayed ; and 'why should she, tot the saw they were bent upon destroying their pro Petty, and it was of no, use to oppose them. She knew Carnet by , his voice, but d are d n o t to call him by his name ; but that it was him, she had no doubt. Maples clapt a pistOl to her breast, with this exclamation, i‘ llama you for a bitch, I will shoot you if you don't hot] your noise ;" the seized the pistol, turned the muz zle towarck his throat, and drew the tricker, and had it gone off it Must have shot him ; but believed it was not charged, because it struck fire without going off. While this was going on she heard some cite call out, my lids, Work on !" which order, sh 2 thought, was obeyed, as, she said, the hammers went like those in a smith's shop. When the seven frames were broken, she stated that seven men went through the shop windows, and five out a t t h e h ouse door ; am ong t h e l atter of whom was Maples, who she saw charging a pistol, after he went out ; new, according to her own acco unt , h a d s h e any other way of identifying his person, than those above described. She stated the mischief to be done in 20 or 22 minutes, which makes the ending of the time 12 minutes after eight ; and that Carnet returned in 20 minutes after, on pretence of looking at the ruins; and said, if Ned bad not done his work well, he was come to corn pkte it; when she said, you rogue, are you come again ? you are not the man you was some time ago; to which he replied, I , haveoot been here before,-- you have, said she, for I know you right well! She then said, that his head was wet, as if he had been washing himself; that black streaks were visible from his ears to his chin ; and . that she said, you have been to the upper pump to wash you, and you are not now. disguised.—On her cross-examination she admitted, that she had said to a Mrs. Jackson; that a person of the name of Wootton had first entered the house, and that he absconded the next day. At the same time she stated, that such admission was only with an in tent to “gorge" Mrs. Jackson, whom she knew, was “ pumping" her, for the purpose of telling tales. Never said positively Holroyd was the second man. John Briithwaite confirmed his wife's evidence. Here Serjeant ROUGH put it as a questi?n to the Judge, whether, to constitute a theft, the stuentiou of thieving was not necessary to be proved ? To this opinion the Judge assented ; and as it was his opinion the frame-breakers had no other object in view than that of krealing frame:, he wished the 'Jury to divest their minds of that part of the charge which related to stealing the articles named above, in particular as nothing of the kind had been found upon the premises or persons of the prisoners. John Griffin and Burrowes, two constables, deposed, that they seized and searched Maples on the 4th of January, and found upon his person a pistol and some flints, which were produced in Court. The evidence on t h e p art of the Crown being closed, the prisoners were called upon for their defence, when ICarnel declared that Mrs. Braithwaite had made a different statement before the Magistrates at the time l of his commitment to what she had done then, re vetting his treatment of her husband, at the time tbe frames were broken : and on her re-examination, she admitted, that instead of Carnet nudging" her husband with a hammer, he had, she believed, been the means of saving his life. The Judge noted this circumstance down in his Wit, and said it would stand in Carnet's favour ano titer day, providing he was then found guilty. On the part of Maples, who is a bricklayer by trade, It was severally stated on oath, by Sarah Rawson, 'Ann Rawson, and Joseph Rawson, that he. on the evening the frames were broken, was at the house of the latter, from a quarter before seven o'clock until past twelve; that he had never been off the said pre mises during the whole time, nor out of the house more than from two to five minutes, and then not out of the hearing of them all; and that from half past seven to eleven, he was busily engaged in whitewash ing a room. - Francis Syson made oath, that Carnet was at his house on business from half past six till ten minutes before eight the night the frames were broken ; and that they then should not have parted had not the witness been going out ; and that he saw the priso ner again k little before nine.—Three other witnesses spoke to the same effect. After a patient hearing of six hours, the Jury re. 'turned a verdict of Not Guilty for Maples, and Guilty eFrame-brealins against Camel ; when his Lordship 'desired them to reconsider their verdict, and pointed out to them the impropriety of disuniting the bur• felony, entry into the house f r om t h e act o f s i mp l e felony, occasioned by. breaking the frames. All the alteration, however, which the Jury chose to make, was that of uniting Maples with Camel, and finding them both Clay of Frates4reakiag yap thus doing 'away the capital part of the charge. 1 The verdict being recorded, his Lordship address ed the prisoners in a most solemn and impressive manner. He deeply lamented that two young men, i whose character till then bad stood unimpeached t should have so far forgotten their duty to themselves' and the laws of their country, as to let their misguid ed zeal, and the evil councils of others, older and possessing more cotrupt hearts than themselves, ever have led them into so perilous a situation ; a situa. tion which wottld have been far mote perilous, if the burglarious part of the charge had been found against them ; for in that case, as in the present, he should have felt himself constrained, for the sake of example, in Order to put an end to such disgraceful outrages, to have exerted the full authority of the law ; nor did by know but he should have ordered it to have been carried into execution. As it now stands, the extent of his Dower was to order them to be trans ported for the term of Fourteen Years, to any part of his Majesty's foreiza settlements to which has Majesty's Privy Council might direct; whiCh sen tence he accordingly pronounced. At the same time, he gave them to understand, if they behaved them selves, and the tumults in the neighbourhood ceased, they might expect the hand of mercy to be extended towards them, in lessening their. punishment. Robert Poky, aged 16, charged with frainebreaking at Sutton-in-Ashfield, on the 13th of November last, was next brought to the bar, and pleaded guilty : in consequence of marks of contrition, the Judgosen tenced him to seven years transportation. .10,0 pea, aged 17, was brought up, and pleaded not guilty.—The first witness called was Francis . . Betts, hosier and Chapman. at Stittou . 4n-Ashfieid, who stated, that on the 13th of November, 1811, in tb afternoon. four or five men approached his houir, and asked his permission to break his frames, to Which so licitation, as might naturally s be expected, be refused his consent. lie then saw a multitude approaelt, armed with sticks; and on a gun being fired, he heard a great shout for the hantmermen to come up, who entered his house, and from the noise he heard, he suppos3d they were breaking his frames. He then fled for his own persona/ safety ; and on his return, he found more than twenty frames broken, and same of his householdfurniture. Daniel Horsecroft said, he heard the prisoner call out to his ccimradew « d—n your eyes, smash as ay."" He knew the prisoner from a child, had no doubt as to the identity of hii person. The prisoner on being called uptm for his defence. said, that Horsecroft struck the frames as well as himself. The Judge in his charge to the Jury, stated. that in a lawless assembly, the act of one person become the act of the whole. The Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty ; and the Judge, in passing sen tence of transportation upon him for the teem of Fo .„—een Years, remarked the simplicity of the pri. soner's defence ; pitied hii youth, and give h an hopes of mercy on the ground named to Camel and Maples. weot<asDAY, XI A ECU 18. Benjamin Hawed, aged 41, charged with frame. breaking at Sutton-in-Ashfield, on the 18th of No vember, 1811, wits next brought to the bar. Sarah Betts was the first witness called. She de: posed, that on the d ty above st.tted, she sAw about a thousand persons, 14 on abreast, some armed wilh I guns, assembled in Sutton ; that she bolted her door for safety; but that the hammer:nen advanced and broke the pannels in pieces. George Jefferies, a boy about I`.l or 13 years of age, was next examined. He stated, that he was at Mr. Bett's when the frames were broken, but did Jot see the prisoner there; saw him at Kirkby, when he had agun in his hand, but did not hear him say any thing to the mob; 'though he went to a house and demanded a gun, which he gave to Wm. Fell. Robert Hodges, also very young, was next brought forward as a witness; said. he saw a large mob at Sutton, on the day alluded to in the indictment ; but when he was asked if he saw the prisoner there, he began to weep most bitterly. After his passion had a little subsided, he said, he saw the plischoer there with s light coloured hat on and a gun in his band. Hayes, another boy, remembered Bette. frames being broken, and saw the prisoner in the mob' with a gun in his hand ; saw him at Kirkby with two guns; saw the mob throw frames out of Betts' win dow, in Sutton; saw Robert, the Scotchman, there, but did not see the prisoner do any ILing, nor was he well acquainted with him. Fripcis Betts being swcrn, said, he should remem ber the 13th of November to the latest hour of his life, for that he had property destrpyed that day worth £4OO. Germ Afardsall, aged 17, and Grorge Green, the two next prisoners that were tied, received ezcelkat characters; but as they were both found Guilty for being concerned in the Sutton-in-Ashfield busir.ess, it is unnecessary to detail their trials, as the riots in that town have been already sufficiently dwelt upon. They were each sentenced to Seven Years Transportation. John Ortorst,s frame-work-knitter, aged 29, of Rea nor, in the county of Derby, was arraigned at the bat on a double indictment for burglary aad felony, and after a long trial, found not. Guilty. A number of respectable persons spoke to the cha racter of Hancock ; but the Judge, in his addtets to the Jury, assured them, as he had done on the pre. ceding cases under the charge of frame-breaking, that character oup,ht not, in the smallest degree, to sway them in they consideration. 44 For," said he, 11 this crime has not that degree of moral turpitude attached to it as other crimes have, V. hitt'. in the eye of the law, call for a simil ar p un i s h ment . With the worst of crimes, which merit a like punishment, it is equally dangerous to the well-being of society, yet it bears no proportion to them in moral guilt;"--. 6 6 Frame-breaking," continued his Lordship, 64 is not a breach of the Ten Commandments, though it breaks down the barriers of peace and felicity, and as such, must be punished with the utmost rigour of the law:" The Jury found Hancock Guilty, and his Lord ship sentenced him to Fourzeen Years Transportation. • At the Wexford Assizes, last week, Loth Creel, was convicted of the wilful murder of hiason ; the priso ner was a sweep, and his son was his apprentices-. The prisoner on the Sd of Deoetaer, came home somewhat in liquor, and beFan quarrelling with the deceased : the child to avoid his fur) ran up the chimney, the prisoner immediately put a bundle of straw into the grate, and set fire to it, which burned him iii Such a manner that he languished for nine days, and thin died. Prisoner was between 60 and 70 years of age. At the Stafford Assizes, B. Myatt, was teed fur the murder of his brother, on the 10:h of February. It was proved that he lived with the deceased more than two years, and on some difference between them. left his service at Christmas last, and from that pe riod to the time of the murder, lived with Mr. Har ris, at Throwley.hall, within a mile of the deceased's pfemises; that on the morning after the murder, he came into the house, clasped his hands, and exclaim. ed—mAh, Mistress, what is amiss ? what is antiss?—.. is he dead rs—lt was further proved that the priso ner had a gun repaired about the latter end of 1)o -' ember last ; that it was borrowed on the 10th of February by his nephew, G. Butt, to shoot a hare, and returned on the same day, loaded with shot, No. 4. It was placed by the prisoner under some straw. 'I On the I lth of February, G. Butt and his brother, on bearing of his uncle Joseph's death, went to look for the gun, which was found under the straw, un ) loaded, and had every appearance of being recently ' discharged. It was further proved, that the prise ! ner told his nephew, G. Batt, to state at the Inivest, that the gun was his. After ten minutes delibera tion, the Jury found the prisoner —Guilty. fie was executed on Wednesday, and his body delivered foe dissection. The execatical of Milian Jew:: will tali* pine cat Saturday the 48th hut. in consequence of the tides ',III and J. Partin, tor z house Wyk Rogers, with int Z 1 alias er, E. Droust ai heifer, the Property of W. 1- st. stealing 414 and upwards* Thompson Tr' tbef west all revised. Eliza Bu 18401 Vildb