Star. — London, England, 1830-10-25 00:00:00

THE " AIR 61'N sliOo i ERA." On Tuesday heat a king account appeared in one of the daily papers the detection of two young gem omen in firing clay bullets from an rir•gun. and demolishing several et ineitiws, to the alarm of the good ;plc of Richmond. Upon inquiry, it was ascertained that the parti riii..re of the transaction, as related before the magistrates, had been :,oppressed by the wish of the offenders, who were anxious to keep their delinquencies from the public as much as possible. However, our in formant succeeded yesterday in procuring an account of their examine tie ti before the magistrates, and every tact connected with the affair—The ing, therefore, are the particulars : Between six and seven o'clock in the evening of Friday se'nnight, windows of Mr. Blanchard, the Hare and Hounds public-house, at b.e Sheen; also of Mr. Thorpe, grocer; Mr. Barnett, baker; Mr. 'Lomond, of the Bull inn; and Payne, the tallow-chandler, were 1. - Awn by round pieces of clay about the size of a sloe, which were sub sequently picked up by the owners of the houses. They ran out im :railiately expecting to detect the individual who had broken them, tot were astonished at not seeing any person near, that could be Aullenged with the act. A gentleman's chariot was seen proceed wg towards Richmond it great speed, but no suspicion arose thot the windows had been demolished by any person in •,de. and the sufferers were obliged to put up with their loss. When the carriage entered George-street, Richmond, a little boy, named Haddaway, got up on the seat behind ; and as it passed the ,hup of Mr. Morrill, the grocer, lie licanl the windows in his shop :quashed, and, a little farther, the boy heard another window troken at Mr. Steven's, the staymaker. The boy then got down, are' the carriage proceeded on at a rapid rate towards Richmond. hill. Subsequent to the boy leaving the carriage, the windows of Mr. Dean. the grocer. Mr. Rudwell, the hair dresser, Phalin, the fruiterer, a. d Mungo Dick. Erg. the magistrate, were demolished. The err :t: astance soon became the subject of general conversation, and nuttier :at were the opinions of the inhabitants respecting the manner, to which they were broken. At length Holiday, the officer happened to meet with the boy liaddaway, who related the story of heating the windows break whilst riding behind the carriage, which hr described as being of a green colour, and bearing a coronet. Holli die imtantly pro:ceded to the Star and Garter, taking the boy with him, and in the yard he saw a green-bodied chariot, with an Earl's coronet on the panels, which the lad immediately tteiatgnised as the one behind which he rode. Holliday at once entered the house, and requested the head waiter to introduce him to the parties to whom the carriage belonged. lie was shown into a ream where lie saw two tell gentlemen, elegantly dressed. On entering the room. the officer apologised for his intrusion, and said, " Gentle. it en, there are sad complaints against you." One of them said, Ge Com plaints, what about ! what have we done, have we committed murder?" Holliday—" No, sir, you have not committed murder, but you have been breaking windows." The other then said, "Oh, is that all; o ell, here arc our cards, you'll find us at home." He then gave the officer two cards, elegantly engraved, one bearing the name of the Hon. I'. D. Ryder, 39, Ormivenor-square, and the other Captain C. Begot, grenadier Guards. Holliday told them complaint would be made be. reirt. the Magistrates in the morning, when they said, " Very well; let 1: he early, for we shall leave at 11 o'clock, and we are going to the Theatre to-night with the Duke of Cumberland." The officer, having' sifted the matter thus far, left the room, and on passing the carriage atain he opened the door, and in the bottom he found some clay balls, exactly corresponding with those with which the windows had been de. nalished. Holliday lost no time in making this discovery known in the town and in East Sheen, and in the morning a summons was granted against the gentlemen, desiring their immediate attendance. They . tame to the office, amidst a vast crowd of persons who had assembled to he-ar the examination, and amongst them were all the persons whose wii,dows had been broken; and also a youth, apprentice to Mr. Hart, the plumber, who was struck violently upon the arm by one of the bullets, whilst standing at his master's door. The lad Haddaway, Mr. Hart's apprentice, and several others de. pos-el to the above facts, and the defendants, in answer to the charge, slid they were very sorry for being so foolish, and that they were ready io pay the amount of the damage they had done. They then paid for squares of glass compensated Mr.llart's apprentice, and the expenses altogether amounted to seven guineas. The defendants having paid the money left the office. The Honourable Frederick D. Ryder is the Earl of Harrowby's son.—About three months before•many windows were broken in the town in a similar way. LAW REPORTS. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, OCT. 23. BALDWIN V. rErrEav •ND ♦NOTHER. Mr. J. WILLIAMS stated that this was an action brought at the in stance of the parith authorities of St. Bartholomew the Great. in the rizv of London, to recover 51. and a fraction, due front the defendants to: rates payable by the houreholders under an Act of Parliament, for paving and lighting the parish. There had been some doubts whether the rates were payable for empty houses, and this action had been b-ought to try the question. Mr. DENMAN, tor the defendants, at once admitted the liability, but pleaded payment. The parish solicitor had summoned several per ms before a magistrate to compel payment of the rates, on the 17th of April last, and a friend of the defendant who was present, heard that there was an intention to bring an action against them. He immedi. ately gave then' notice of the circumstance, and on the lath or 20th of April he, by their directions, paid the money, not that they were satin. lied as to their liability, but because they did not think proper to con. Pro the matter at their own expense. The writ in this action was sued out on the 24th of April, so that the money was paid before the action war brought. This fact was proved, and put an end to the cause.—Verdict for the defendants. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—SaTustIAY. WIILLIANS AND ANOTHER, V. WOODWARD, GENT. Ore ' Ike. —3lr. Serjeart %Vti.nn (with whom was Mr. NICHARDS) stated that this was an action of assumpsit brought by the plaintiffs to recover a sum of 1541. which they alleged had been paid by them in mistake. The defendant had pleaded the general issue. The plaintiffs were bankers, carrying on business in Birchin-lane, and the defendant was an attorney residing in the City. The defendant hada private account at their house. and he also drew cheques upon them in his character of Se cretary to the Independent flu-light Company, by whom an account was kept at their house. On Saturday, the 3d of November last, a person named Jones, who was a brother.in.law of the defendant, re amed at the plaintiffs counter a cheque, fully written out in his own hand, but signed by the name of "C. 'Woodward," in such a manner as to induce no suspicion that it was not the defendant's hand writing; it was accordingly paid. On the Monday following, the de fendant called at the plaintiffs' house, and on observing this cheque marked in his pass-book, said he knew of no such cheque. It was then shown hint, when he pronounced it to be a forgery, and said that he would take his oath it was not in his hand-writing. It appeared that either on that day, or on the preceding Saturday. Jones had run away. Several interviews took place between the partners in the banking-house and the defendant, and the result was, that in the early part of the month of December, believing the defendant's assertion that the cheque was a forgery, and knowing him to be a respectable man, they con seated to debit themselves with the amount of the loss. Some time afterwards, Jones was discovered and apprehended, at Hull, and, on being brought to London, was taken before the Lewd Mayor. Mr. Woodward attended as a witness, but did not then seem se positive as formerly that the signature was not his, but stated at first most distinctly that the instrument was not his, and that it had been fraudulently filled upon a signature in blank. which he had made for some other purpose. He afterwards qualified that assertion, and said that, to the best of his knowledge and belief, he had not given the pri soner any authority to fill it up. As such a filling up, if unauthorised, was u much a forgery in law, as the counterfeiting the name of an in individual, the prisoner was committed for trial. Mr. Woodward was one of the witnesses who went before the Grand Jury. What be then mated it was impossible to say ; but the result was, that the bill was thrown out. Under these circumstances, the plaintiffs now con tended' that the defendant was bound to reimburse them the money they had paid him. The case that most resembled this was that of Young v. Grote, in which the Court h e ld a man li a bl e fo r th e am o u nt o f a cheque ;hat he had signed in blank, and which was afterwards fraudu lency filled up, in consequence of the negligence of the person to whom he had entrusted it. These were the facts on which the Jury had to de. tertian*, and he felt satisfied they would think the plaintiffs fully en. titled to their verdict. Mr. Wm. %Pi!hams, ,cashier of the plaintiff", house ; Mr. George Pollard, a clerk in the house; Mr. Cope, the City Marshal ; and Mr. James, from Mr. Shelton's office, in the Old Bailey, gave evidence in support of the learned serjeant's statement. A letter from the defendant to a person connected with the Independent Gas-light Company, an nouncing the fraud committed by Jones, and warning his correspondent against the possibility of Jones's attempting, by means of the defend ant's signature, or in any other way, to dispose of Shares in the Com paq, was put in and read. Mr. Serjeant RUSSELL, who was assisted by Mr. Sergeant dorms, contended that die plaintiff's had established no right to recover in the present action. Although, however, the defendant might be saved front the pecuniary loss which this action was Intended to throw upon him, it was to be feared that an unfavourable.and an unjust impression might be created against his character. The defendant, who was still a young man, had begun life as a solicitor, but bad since quitted that branch of the profession, and was now pursuing his studies at College. To him, therefore, it was of more importance that his character should stand right with the world, than that he should be saved front this pecuniary loss, and he had therefore a double interest in de fending this action. Now what was his conduct throughout this affair? It was that of a man who had been defrauded by a person whose si tuition made the fraud easy; bet every one must admit that the de. fondant himself gave the earliest possible notice of the fraud to the - ties concerned, and not only as them, but to others who might dos b e Z be affected by it. The letter Nth which the plaintiffs' evidence shoved choir 411160 fide bitter that they had been defrauded. It had reffirmusli as as tramilaany that the defendant had at first de hied his Amstar*, awl than alssitcod it, but denied the instrunientto which it was attached. !Were was nothing surprising in tea Every one must know that when a man saw an instrument which he knew not to have been his, he was strongly, hastily, perhaps rashly, but honestly, inclined to deny the whole instrument, signature and all ; and it was only upon a very deliberate conside ration that he sotnetimes subsequently discovered the signature to be genuine, though it had been fraudulently employed. The plaintiffs wanted to make a strange use of the dismissal of the bill by the Grand Jury. Because the Grand Jury had thought the forgery not proved, the plahniffit wished the Jury to assume that the whole in. moment was the genuine instrument of the defendant, and that he must bear the loss of his own negligence. That was an assumption too strong for them to make on such weak grounds, and they would, of course, feel the necessity, under these circumstances, of returning a verdict for the defendant. The CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the ease, and then told the Jury that unless the plaintiffs had, subsequently to their re-crediting the de fendant's account, discovered something to show them that they bad been in error, they could not recover in the present action. If the Jury were of opinion that the re.aedit had been given in mistake, they must find for the plaintiffs; but, if otherwise, they must give their verdict for the defendant. . The Jury, after ashen deliberation, returned a verdict for the plain. tiffs ; but observed, at the same time, that they wished it to be under stood that they did not cast the least imputation on the character oe conduct of the defendant. EAST KENT SESSIONS.—FaIDAT. These Sessions commenced this day at Canterbury, before Sir E. Ynatchbull, Bart. Chairman, and a very full bench of Magistrates, among whom we noticed the Marquis Camden, Lord Lieutenant of the County, and the Earl of Winchilsea. There appeared in the ca lendar eleven prisoners charged with breaking thrashing-machines in different parts of this (the eastern) division of the county. Of these, two, George Youeus and Ingram Swain, who surrendered themselves to the magistrates, are, it is intended. to be admitted as approvers. There are else for trial two cases of assault, with intent, &c. both from the parish of Sutton, near Dover, and in one of them the parties charged are boys of ten and twelve years of age. On calling over the Grand Jury, one of them, a Mr. Quested, from the neighbourhood of Ashe, where several outrages and burnings have taken place, wu excused attendance, on the ground that there had been a second fire last stgla at his place, which occasioned his absence. Sir E. KitaTennnu., in addressing the Grand Jury, alluded to the cases of the persons who stood charged with breaking thrashing ma chines in the county. It was not a little extraordinary that in not one instance were the offending parties identified by those whose pro perty they had destroyed ; hence the necessity of having recourse to the testimony of accomplices. He would not undertake to say what the cause of those disturbances was t if it were owing to the want of employment, he need not say that an exertion should be made use of to remove that cause. Those who were , unemployed had a reasonable right to have employment procured for them. If necessity were the alleged ground of complaint, they were all aware that no applicant who came to the Magistrate was denied redress, but all found ultimately such relief as the law of the country afforded them. But whatever cause had led to these unhappy transactions, the supremacy of the law must be asserted. There were other offences of a still more serious character, by which the county was afflicted. These offenders were undiscovered for the present, but they might depend they would speedily be detected, and become subject to the awful respon aibiliq and punishment of the law. It was a species of consola tion, that the great number.—and a great number they were, Heaven knew—who had engaged in the breaking of machines, felt the same ab horrence as themselves of the burnings. He trusted all who heard him would exert themselves to put the people in their neighbourhood into the right course, and endeavour to procure them employment. Mr. D. PoLLocx, Counsel for the prosecution of the machine. breakers, applied for leave to have the two approvers examined by the Grand Jury on the bills sent up to them, which was allowed, and the Jury soon after returned into Court having found the bills. The trials excite the greatest interest. The acts of the incendiaries have not ceased. The guard of the mail which left London on Thurs day night, states, that lie saw four stacks of corn on fire at a small ham. let, called Upstreat, about half a mile from Sittingbourne. BREAKING THE THRESHING MACHINES. The prisoners against whom true bills had been found for destroying the threshing machines were William Spicer, aged 35; John Patter son, 26; David Arnold, 25; Edward Reed, 51 ; Stephen File, 26 ; Henry Reed, 50; Charles Carswell, 28. They arc all labouring men. When called on to plead, they all, except David Arnold. admit ted they were guilty. 'they did not confess to having destroyed the ma chines, but they admitted that they were with those who did it, and the Chairman said that they were therefore as guilty as those who actually committed the mischief. Si'hen Arnold was put on his trial, no evidence was offered, and he was therefore acquitted. The other seven prisoners were then put forward, and Sir E. KNATCHBULL addressed theta at some length. He ob served that the charges preferred against them were of the most seri ous character, and had a tendency to produce the most awful mis chief. They had acted under the influence of bad advisers; but they ought to recollect that the punishment for the offences they had committed was transportation for seven years. He thought , he was right in the belief that the plea of guilty had emanated from the prisoner's minds, because in that part of the country from which the prisoners came, great numbers of those mis guided and deluded people, who had committed these offen ces, had voluntarily acknowledged their guilt, and manifested their contrition. What had caused such a state of things he could not accu rately describe—some ascribed the whole to a general state of distress, and if to such it had been attributed, he, on the part of the county, had now to complain. If such had been the case, they should have mot lected—indeed it must be within the knowledge of them all—that if they made application to the proper source for relief, they would have been relieved, or received redress, if they had any ground of complaint. The Chairman then alluded to the great kindness of the prosecutors in not pressing for a heavy punishment on the prisoners, and said he hoped it would be met by a corresponding feeling among the people. He concluded by sentencing the prisoners to three days' imprisonment. The prisoners seemed evidently affected at the unexpected lightness of the sentence. ISLE OF ELY SESSIONS. The only business of importance, and that particularly so to licensed victuallers, was an appeal, wherein John Finch was appellant, and the Rev. H. Fardell, the Rev. J. H. Sparke, the Rev. B. Sparke, and J. Page, Esq. were respondents. It appeared from the opening of Mr. Pryme, that Finch kept the Chequers public-house in Ely, but the Magistrates at the last licensing day refused the license but assigned no reason for so doing, in consequence of which Finch gave notice of appeal. The following evidence was given :—Thomas Gilbert, a labourer, lodged in the house fourteen months. Slept out during that time only four nights. Never came in after ten at night. The family always went to bed between ten and eleven. Never saw or heard any disturbance. The house was regularly and quietly conducted. William Langford and John Shearman, both watchmen of the city of Ely, stated that the Chequers was within their beat ; all was generally still and quiet at 11; heard no disturbance or complaint during the last 12 months. Daniel Holmes, a constable, heard nothing against the house for the last year; witness was hired by Finch at fairs and statutes, to keep order. James Barley, a gardener, lives within twenty yards of the Chequers; heard nothing amiss the last twelve months. David Davies, a draper next door, spoke to the same effect. Thos. Spooner, Esq. W. Layton, Esq. Robert Dixon, Esq. churchwarden, Mr. Cheesewright, overseer, and Mr. Thomas Wilson, all spoke to Finch's character, as a steady, sober, and industrious man. - _ - - - . - 31r. Flannagluut insisted, in a lengthened speech, that the Act of Par. lament (9 G. 4) gave the magistrates a discretionary power to refuse if they thought proper, and that it was not to be supposed men of the honour, learning, and integrity of the respondents, would exercise that discretion wrongfully, or that any impure motive or spirit would Induce them to withhold the license, if Finch was a proper person to have one. The Learned Gentleman 'called no it itneaies: The Court retired for soma time, and on their return granted the license. The announcement was received with applause by a crowded Court. POLICE REPORTS. LAIIIIETHZTRIET.—ALARMIKG INCREASE OT PAIIPERISKI Saturday, a number of poor persons congregated about the door, and crowded the avenues leading to the justice room, for the purpose of ap plying to the magistrates to compel the overseers to afford them relief. Among this unhappy group were seven blacks, six sailors, most of them able bodied, and a female who is closely allied to a noble family of dice. tinction, end a descendant of the celebrated Archbishop Usher. To 1 such of the applicants as were single, though their appearances be. tokened the greatest wretchedness, Mr. Walker refused to order any relief, telling them that they might procure a good and honest live. lihood if they would, adding in many of the cases, that the appli. cants ought to be ashamed to make a request for parochial relief., Mr. North, of Mile-end Old.town, who bad served as overseer and churchwarden of that hamlet, had interfered on bellall of a poor woman' and four children, whom be represented had been so neglected by the Akers of Whiteelsapel, as to be in a state of absolute starvation. Mr. WALKER, alter a somewhat stormy debate between him and Mr. North, oo points of humanity, told the lade/ that he would not suffer any individual belonging • to one parish to interfere in the govern ment of another, and was about to order Mr. North out of the office, but be, taking the hint, retired. Quzuw-assuass.—Tar Diustaix WATCHMAKER awls errs Coatozza's GOLD WATCB.—T. Dais a Chelsea pensioner, w as charged with having in his promotion a gold watch undo very swept. does circumstances. Information was given to the police that the sonar had been offering a gold watch for sale about Chelsea, which be said had been gives him by a lady is Itsdia p is s , moduli:Nay of Wm gratitude for saving her life from a tiger, which was just upon the point of springing upon her, when he kvellud his musket, and shot the f e rocious animal. lie also Ada that he had only artived from India about three days ago. This story, though well told, wu not credited by some of the Chelsea folks, and one person informed Grossmith, the inspector, of the circumstance, who gave directions to have the dger-killer t aken into custody, but on being apprehended the watch was gone. The prisoner told the magistrate that the watch belonged to Mr. Wise a chemist and druggist, at Sanford, Essex, who had entrusted it with him to mend, that he had got drunk with a man named Randle, who got the watch from him, and pawned it for 11. 15s. Randle gave him 16s. and kept% the pound himself, and he had never seen him since. Mr. WHITZ ordered him to be remanded. . . ---- WORSHIP.STAZIT..---Mni, Jones, who keeps a new-beer-shop, in Hoxton-square, appeared before Mr. TWTTORD and Mr. BENET!, upon the informatba of Johnson, charged with having her house open after the hour mentioned by the Act under which such houses are licensed. _ _ _ The offence charged was, that beer had been sold on the premises at a quarter to eleven o'clock at night, as the Act does not allow of the sale of beer after ten. Of this the poor woman was ignorant, not hay. inqr i :d the Act. The oson, Magistrates were reluctant to convict, but considered the had no alternative. Eventually, however, they adjourned the proceed ings till, they could ascertain whether certain charges preferred against J were true. _ An information preferred by one Wyse was dealt with in the same manner. _ TNAKLIS POLtcs.—BittrTAL OUTIACIE•••4AVAGE AB WILT OF • Son ox NIS PAIIENTS.—J. Kincsid, a tall young man, a coal potter, of Eihadwell, was charged with cruelly beating his fat her and mother, and inflicting injuries of a serious nature on the former.— The old man, who was formerly In the navy, and is now living on his pension appeared to have been dreadfully punished. A deep wound was visible on his forehead, his head was bandaged, both eyes were blackened, and his face was bruised and disfigured. It appeared that his moo was brought home intoxicated on the previous night by a police constable. In return for this attention he knocked him down, and went up stairs for a poker, to inflict further punishment upon him. The old couple left their bed to prevent further mischief, when the defendant struck them several violent blows with his clenched fist, and knocked them down. He then seized an iron frying-pan, broke it to pieces over his father's shoulders, and cut his head open. The police, alarmed at the cries of murder, rushed into the house. and found the old man in a gore of blood, which was flowing from a deep cut in his head. After a determined resistance, he was lodged in the watchhouse. Captain RICHNILL and Mr. BALLANTINN said the assault was a most atrocious one, and amerced the prisoner in the highest penalty of 61. and in default of payment sentenced him to two months' imprison. ment and hard labour. CORONERS' INQUESTS. DANGEROUS STATE OF BLIERPRIARS-BRIDGE.--An inquest was held before T. Palms, Esq. and a jury, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the remains of J. Smith, late a waggoner in the employ of Mr. Elmore, a coal-merchant. It appeared that on Wednesday week, while the deceased was passing over Blackfriarsbridge with his waggon, which was heavily laden with coals, he overlook a child belonging to a neighbour, and wishing to give it a ride, he took it and placed it on top of the sacks of coals. From the effort which he used to reach the top of the waggon, he lost his balance, and fell between the wheels of the waggon and the steps of the foot-pavement—the former being quite close to the latter, crushed the unfortunate man against the edge of the foot. pavement. He was removed at once to the Hospital, where he lingered until Wednesday, when he died. 3lr. Bulmore, one of the house sur geons, deposed to the death of the deceased having been caused by the injuries ; and the jury, slier expressing themselves in strong terms on the present state of the Bridge, returned a verdict of " Acciden tal Death, caused by the present dangerous state of the Bridge —the foot-path being such an immense distance from the carriage way." MELANCHOLY SU ICIDE.—An inquisition.was yesterday afternoon taken at the Shakspeare Tavern, Great Marlborough-atteet, before Mr. Hulas, on view of the body of William Salle, aged b 3, the landlord of the above house.—Mr. Joseph Seclie, a son of the deceased, stated that about twelve months ago he had the misfortune to lose his mother, which circumstance affected his father's mind to such an extraordinary degree, that he frequently burst into tears and wished himself in Heaven with his dear departed wife. In consequence of his not coming down at his usual time, and his door being locked, a panel was broken in, when the deceased was seen hanging against the door on the inside, having sus pended himself by tying his handkerchief and a towel together, which he threw over the door, and fastened one end to the lock on the other side.—Verdict of " Temporary Insanity." MYSTERIOUS DEATH Of T. KINNEAR, Bsct.—On Thursday evening, at seven o'clock Mr. Stirling, the coroner for Middlesex, and a jury composed of gentlemen of the highest respectability in the neigh. bourhood, assembled at No. 8, Cornwall-terrace, Bev il :l ; pr to in quire into the circumstances attending the death of Kinnear, Esq. late the occupant of the house in which the inquiry was held. A rumour had gone abroad, that there was some mystery oanneeted with the sudden demise of the deceased ; and when the coroner and jury had' assembled, great anxiety was manifested to keep the proceedings as secret as possible. Dr. James Patterson, of 16, Queen-stmt, May-fair, had been called in, by a man named Thompson, to his master ; he found him dying. , There were no peculiar indicati ons of the cause of death, and he thought a minute examination of the body necessary. Thomas Thompson deposed that he had been servant to the deceased since the 16th of February last. On Tuesday evening last the deceased came home at five minutes to nine o'clock. He took off his boots and overalls at the foot of the stairs, as was his custom; and he asked whether Mr. Jaques (a tradesman in the neighbourhood) had been there, and was answered in the negative. The dinner things were prepared for him, but he said he should not take any, as he hail died at the club. He told witness not to call him in the morning, twit Ito would ring the bell when he wanted him. He then ordinal a illy Ms. cult, and witness left that and half a bottle of sherry and Iwo on the table in his bed.room. About live minutes before 12edesh, whams who slept in the kitchen, beard a footstep - :above stairs, and beard the bolt of the window fall, and he thought that strangers were in the house. He got it light and went up stairs, and as he reached the Rent door, he saw his master going up stairs. He asked witness how it was that he had come in at so late an hour, and witness said he had not been out, but had come up, thinking that he beard a noise, and that strangers were in the house. The deceased said, " you may come up and see, " and he went to his bed-room, and before I could enter after him, he was in bed, and covered ever with the clothes. He had no light, and was undressed when witness saw him on the stairs. Witness went into the library, and finding no one there, he returned to his master's room, and asked, " Are you asleep, Sir ?" and receiving no answer, closed the door gently after him. He then went to fasten the dining. room shutters. These had been fastened at nine o'clock, but had subsequently been loosened by some one, he could not tell by whom. When witness was coining down the last time, after fastening the win. dow-shutters, he heard his master open the door of his bed-room, and he sited him whether be should get him a light or leave his own, and 3lr. Kinnear said, " Leave me yours, if you please." Witness did so, and when he got to the kitchen he heard his mas ter again leave his room and go to the upper part of the house.— He was quite po'aer when he came home, but witness thought he had been a little unwell for a day or two before. There were workmen in the house, and it was witness's practice to call his master every morning at seven o'clock, but on Tuesday be desired he would not do so. He was under 40 years of age, had a wife and eight children, who were at Brigh. ton. Witness saw nor heard no more of his master until half.past one on Wednesday afternoon, when having knocked repeatedly at the door, and failed to obtain an answer, he procured the attendrtnce of Mr. Trotter, an intimate friend of the deceased, and a ladder being procured, witness got in at the bed-room window, and let air. Trotter in at the door, when the deceased was found lying on the bed to all appearance a corpse. Medical assistance was procured as soon sa.possible.—By Jurors: Witness and his master were the only persons who slept in the house. Witness made his master's bed. Mr. Alexander Trotter, of 16, Usnaburgh.street, Regent's-park, said, he was the intimate Mend of the deceased, and saw hint last alive oa Monday evening, when he spent the evening with hint. The deceased then appeared perfectly healthy and cheerfid. Thomas 31•Carthy and George Whitfield, workmen on the pre. miser, stated that they were alarmed on Wednesday morning by 31r. Kinnear not rising, as wu his habit, to superintend the work. At ten o'clock they asked Thompson to call his master. but he refused; and at twelve they urged him to break time door open. or permit them, but he refused, stating that his master was very particular. They looked through the keyhole and saw the covering of the bed move as though a person was breathing very heavily ; and they also heard the deceased make a low moaning noise. At half-past one they heard the same noise, and then Thompson went for Mr Trotter. Both witnesses were certain that the deceased was breathing three minutes before the room was entered by Mr. Trotter. The wit ness Whitfield stated that he heard Thompson say that his master told him he was going to take a composing draught oa Tuesday night. 'Thompson was called in, and he declared most vehemently that be never said any thing of the kind. Whitfield—l declare that you did. Mr. Lovegrove, the surgeon. said he was called in. and fo u nd M r . Kinnear quits dead. He could form no judgment as to the cause of death. The Coroner and jury proceeded to view the body, and on their re , turn. Dr. Patterson was again questioned, and said, there was no appear.. sum width could possibly enable any medical man to state the cause of , death. The sees *bearable might have been produced by ea. or rious moral • I The mom was then cleared of all but the jury, and the result al their debilities' • was declared In a written paper, in the' follow's% earasa _.4 That the jurymen were of opinion that the body should. be opened in the presence of Dr. Paterson and the parish and any mho:medical mace whom the family might choose to a s ;prt il ." • A tolidtot, who had been present from the commencement of the proceedings, sad bad taken copious notes, here arose, and in an ad. dress of considerable It.ngth and earnestness, protested against tilt termination of the jury being carried into execution, and contended .Ir•. the Coroner alone had the power to direct the dissection of the bid ) ; and he submitted to that officer whether there was anything which could call for or warrant such order ? The Foreman of the Jury (Edward King, Esq. of Baker -di: Portman-square), said that he and his brother jurymen were asseml,l « i to inquire upon oath into the cause of Mr. Kinnear's death, and 1., humbly conceived they were entitled to demand the best evidence. else could they satisfy their own consciences, or the ends of i. 1,1, justice ?—The solicitor again urged that in law the Coroner slon.• • the right to order the dissection, and begged he would withhold tl order in the present instance, as it was not proved to be necessary. Mr. fivratistra said, that if it was the unanimous wish of the jun he certainly should not withhold the order, and he finally ditected tip body to be opened ; and the inquest was then adjourned until Satord. • evening at eight o'cloek.—The inquiry did not terminate until 11 4 1." past eleven o'clock. The presence of a reporter was objected to at p commencement by the solicitor, but the coroner refused to interfere. •We learn that five medical gentlemen present at the post r/..rt examination of the body of the late Mr. Kinnear, have signed an report that " death was occasioned by the rupture of a blood.vco s i , the stomach." The names of the gentlemen were Drs. Hamilton, p tenon, Lovegrove, Ake. Saturday sight, at seven o'clock, the inquest upon this gentletn, was resumed, at his mansion. No. 8, Cornwall.terrace, Regent's Pa t t i when Dr. Paterson presented the report of the examination of the the by himself and five other medical gentlemen, among whom was Maj„ milton, the Demonstrator of Anatomy to the London Hospital, an this report stated' that the deceased died of the rupture of a blond Vf,. sal ()tithe stonaach,—A conversation took place amongst the jury, of n importance as it respected the question at issue, and a verdict was turned" That the deceased died by the visitation of Gon." SCINTILLA. BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OP DON FRANCISCO VALDE: As general attention is now directed to the attempt of the Spanisl emigrants to reestablish liberty in their country, a short biographical account of the first military commander who has entered into Spain. cannot fail to be acceptable. Colonel Don Francisco Valdes, commonly called by the Spaniards Valdes of Tarifa, is a gentleman of good fa mily, and a native of New Castile. His brother, a wealthy landed proprietor, was chosen one of the members of the Cortes for Madrid, and was among those obliged to emigrate to England .for having joined in deposing Ferdinand. He was very young when be entered into the army. He went with the Marquis La Romana to Germany, and rc. turned with him in 1808. He took an active part in the military orra tions under General Blake, and was present at the battles of Lamm. and Valmaseda. He fought afterwards with the army of Gallieis— went to Estramadurs—and was there taken pt burner by the French. ii however contrived to effect his escape, and after many dangers, joins' General Ballasteros in the mountains of Ronda, where he soon distin guished himself and became a great favourite with the General who used to intrust him with the command of the advanced guard in the. desperate skirmishes, which made that general's name celebrated durin • the Peninsular war. When Ballasteros was deprived of the command. Valdes joined the third corps of the Spanish army, and served in to Pyrenees under the Duke of Wellington. At the termination of t!. war, he gave proofs df the rashness of his character, and entered into a conspiracy with many other officers of his division of the army, to compel Ferdinand to swear to the Constitution. They were betrayed, and o. course unsuccessful; and all implicated in the conspiracy would has. been obliged to leave Spain, had not a great personage here interfere:. in their favour. From that time to 1820, Val es kept clear of the many conspiracies which threatened Ferdinand's throne, but on the 3d of Ja. nuary of that year, we find him commanding the small body of patriots who under the direction of Riego took the bridge of Suazo, which unite% the Wand of Leon with the Continent. He was one of the chiefs of the liberating army, and was afterwards sent to Castile against Merino. where he resided until 1823. In that year when Ballasteros too! the command of the Constitutional army, Valdes joined him, and s appointed military commander of the province of Teruel then overru: with royalist militia. He soon cleared the province, formed a brigade with fresh recruits, and joined the General on his retreat to the south of Spain. But Ballasteros was at that time meditating his treatherou , abandonment of the Constitutional government, and was so sure that Valdes would not sanction it, that he sent him to Carthagena under pre. tens of giving him the command of that fortress, which however was eventually transferred to another. But there Valdes remain. ed, till after the fall of the Constitutional government, when hL retired to Gibraltar whence he madly determined in August, 1824, to invade S pain, having received many invitations front the patriots on the coast of Malaga promaing support. Unfortunately, as soon as hs end his Ihnowets were embarked, the wind changed, area! it not biligpsesible fee them either to go es Malaga or remain where they were, Valhi donnedned M Ind ow des fortress of Tarifa in the middle of die aid tbe ipmelarn. In this rub advsntur, he was mesusell ; imellstely after surrounded by the Frusta imps, he withal &sufficient garrison even to is as Mir. In tilde be noslskii urns to the prisoners, end the panne part few#t their sew benner with more heroical =and fidelity than antler their old one. At last, when all their and ammunition were corismed, Valdes and his followers =Wed to retreat, which they did, to the coast of Africa, in open boats, without other oars than their assn eta. After residing some time is Tangiers he came to Inlaid, whine he continued to reside till within these two months. Colonel Valdes is considered by his conniry. men as most rash and daring—cool in the hour of danger—always the first to attack and the last to retreat ; but his courage is little tempered with prudence s be is well skilled in military duties, a nd not d e id ent in general knowledge : his figure is elegant, and the impetuosity of his character nay be read in his bold carriage and the quick penetrating glance of his eye, We are full of fears lest the nest mail should bring the most melancholy news of this gallant soldier and his handhl of devoted followers.—Athenann. MEDICAL DISCOVERT.Dr. Ringseis, Professor of Medicine at the University of Blunich, and Director of the Bavarian Board of Health, as appears by his address on the commemoration of the foundation of that University, on the 28th of June last, has dis covered, that "all the sciences have been stripped of their adamantitfe pediment by the rude assault of human reason ; that pediment being religious faith ! And even here," he adds, referring to medical science, " the devil has equally forced his way ; and not all the oratory of the world can disprove his presence !!" Ad ogni ucello—suo nido h hello. THE PRESENT COMPUTATION OF YEARS ERRONEOUS. The recent eclipse of the moon," says a foreign observer, " has enabled us to prove, that our present computation i s defec tive by no fewer than three years- Correctly speaking, the year 1830 should be 1833 ; for losephus tells us, that shortly before the death of Herod, dur ing whose government the Saviour was born, there occurred an eclipse of the Moon in the night of the 12th and 13th of March ; and it hoc been astronomically demonstrated, that this eclipse took place in th, fourth year preet ding the Christian computation of time; consequently modern chronology is three whole years in error. • The Royal East India Volunteers, under the command of Captain Attell, will form the Guard of Honour on their Majesties' ap proaching visit to the City, on the Rib of November. This regiment. consisting of seven hundred men. are raised and kept up at the expetvw of the East India Company, and is the only one which is allowed tlx distinction of Royal, or whose Officers hold the King's commission. Saturday evening, a dreadful accident occurred near Har row. Mr. Campbell, a gentleman of great opulence, of that place, was driving to town, when the horse, a spirited animal, shyetl, went off at the top of his 'peed, and coming m contact with a cart, Mr. C. was thrown to the pound with great violence, and received, it is feared, fatal injury. The arm, thigh, and s k u ll are mmured ; and notwithstanding ' the first medical assistance wu obtained, Mr. C. has continued in a mate of inbensibilite. We are informed that the accident occurred through an imprudent practice of Mr. C. going over letters of busi ness on his journies to town, which prevented the necessary atten tion to the management of the reins, and fur which he so lament, ably answered: IitBDORIADART. Tuts DAY.—St. Crispin. This !vim and his brother were natives of Rome. who travelled into France to propagate the Gospel about the year 303. subsisting by following the trade of shoemaking. The Go. vemor of Salmons ordered then: to be beheaded in 303. Day decreased six boon and a half. Little of Agincourt 1416. Chaucer died 1411.1. To-Monnow.—Jupiter sets 44 min. past 8. Dr. Doddridge died 1751. Wennesnae.—Saturn rises 50 minutes after midnight. From this day to the end of the tnorth the ancient Romans celebrated the games to victory instituted by Sylla. The celebrated Captain Cook born. 1728. TEURsnar.—St. Simon and St. Jude--not now a holiday at the Bank. slercury may now be seen a little before sundae : it is at its greatest distance from the Star. Moon in conjunction with Mars 4 afternoon. Erasmus been, 1487. FRIDAT-Bir Walter Raleigh beheaded, 1618. SATUITAY.—Ktog Alfred died. 000. BIRTHS. The 22d that. in Queen Anne-etrtC;.the lady of J. 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