Star. — London, England, 1813-06-02 00:00:00

, mss writ mut die *dot td MN% A *tie, o e iiiMu Boaat bad slit* diicharged from hi. , o rs ice fc.r improper tosiductt He found him at the le d Lion phblit-houses and told Mitt ht Was glad he was t h er e, as his master And mistress had been mur, d er ed, and that te (Dale) was suspected. flichdltnn h; ,id, he next went, to give utaiiii at flo*- street of the inur d e is, anJ to . teqiiest proper igibiers might be sent down to Chislchurst. Acre the prisoner was rerlrhanded for haiing o ne to look afteiDale, who was at least a suspicious character, before he went to Bow• Street, which gate him the opportunity, incase he had been guilty; of alscoadhig, and eluding justice. After giving the necessary information .at Bow -street, instead of re turnir,p, home to Chislehurst, he repaired to White elidpcl, to call on his 'friends, with whom he Was makaig merry when he was taken into custody. The prisoner stated himself to be an Irishman; and wave an account of the several places in which he had rived since he left the 12th Dragoons, to which he belAged, and from which he was discharged in con soquence of a broken wrist. All questions which veresdeemed necessary having been put to the prisci be was sent to .Chislehtust, id custody of Adkins and Another officer, to give evidence before the Coro ner's Jury, who lifer! to sit on the bodies of the de ceased at six o'clock in the evening. THE CORONER'S INQUEST. , The'CorOnees Inquest sat yesterday,' at the house of Mt. BoNan, to Mquire into the perpetration of these sios tatrocious murders. The Jury were sworn about t welve o'clock, by Mr. bilmervai the• Coroner ; and atter proceeding to inspect - the: birdies, returned to bear the examination of witnesses. Mr. STAFFORD, Chief Clerk of Boxy-street, was present to contribute Lis able assistance towards the discovery of this horrid business. The foreman of the Jury was Mr. ItsEvEs. The first witness called was Mary Clarhe ; she had been lady% maid in the family for two years, first as /errant to Miss Bonar, and afterwards to the old Lady. Mrs. Bonar always retired late to bed, some. tinus at one, sometimes' at two, and now and then, though wry seldom, at three o'clock. Mr. Bonar generally went to bed earlier, at about 12 o'clock : the last time she saw him alive was on Sunday even ing, at ten o'clock,• when he was reading prayers to his servants in his sitting-room ; she does not exactly know at what time he retired for the night. About twenty mintttes alter twelve o'clock Mrs. Bonar rang her bell, and the witness went to her in her dressing. room, which adjoins the bed-chamber ; Mrs. Bonar said, she had ordered the footman, Philip Nicholson; to fasten the lawn-door, but that he had not done it; witness offered to go and do it, hut her mistress said it was unnecessary, as she had locked the other door herself, meaning, as the witness supposes. the folding-door, which is between the lawn-door and tl:e hail ; witness then we:r into the room, and un dTessca rs. Bonn and ,varined her bed ; Mr. Bonar - - was then in his bed in the same room; the witness then went to her own room as usual, to lie down till Mrs. Bonar should ring a second time; about twenty minutes past one the bell rang again, when witness went into her mistress's dres,ing-room, and j folded up her clothes—Mrs. Bonar was then in her bed-room ; in about a quarter of an hour the bell rang again—her mistress wasin bed, and the witness gave bar the string which communicates with the door to c 9 en it more or less—she then went out of tke room, b.ing first desired to call her mistress at half-past seven o'clock : she.lighted the rushlight as usual in the anti-room, and went to bed, leaving, according to custom, the doors both of the bed-room and anti room wide open : witness on going to bed, waked the housemaid who sleeps with her, and asked her to call ber at half-past seven o'clock : the housemaid waked her as she had requested, and told her there was a bad smell in the anti-room coming from the bed chamber of her mistress : and asked the witness whe ther she had lit the rushlight, which was gone, and whether she had locked the door of the anti-room on the outside ; at the same time she told the witness that there were footm . trks in the anti-room. Witness immei!iately was much .larmed, and cried out (as she is told, for she was too much agitated to have any recollection of the circumstance) that there had been murder. The unusual circumstances which had been mentioned to her induced her :o think th.it something ereadtul had been done. She went up sours with rite housemaid, and knelt down on the floor of the anti-reom, to see what the marks were, and thought they looked like blood : she does not know whether Ihe then looked inm the bed-room ; th i nks she did, and saw the toilet thrown over and some things lying on the Rocr ; but does not recollect whether this was tirst or second time of going up : the housemaid was with her in the anti-room. Witness then went :o the wash-house, to the laundry maid, and asked her to go back with her, to see what was the matter; they proceeded together to the bed-room, when the laundry -maid went in and opened one of the window shutters, when on looking back, she clapped her hands together and screamed : witness saw the bed-clothes ant other things on the floor : she then ran. down stairs, leaving the laundry-maid behind : in the ser valits'-hall, she saw the coachman, who made her sit down, as she was fainting : when she recovered her self, she saw the footman, Nicholson., coming into the servants' hall, with what she thought were bloody sheets in his hands ' he took a sheet from his bed, (he sleeps is the ha ll,) and folded the bloody sheet es sheets in it: the footman. then said to witness, "Mrs. Clarke, go to your mistress, she is still alive, Perhaps she may be recovered ;" she then ran up stairs, and saw her master's body covered with, she klieerss a blanket on the floor; her Mistress was in bed, and still breathing ; did not see her mistress afterwards, till she was dead; had not seen the fot.t -tII since. Susanna& emit' was next sworn she had been a bousemaid in the family three weeks last Saturday : the fnotman was in the place before she came :—she never heard him express•any angtr or disappointment against her.master : she put the rush-light in its usual piace v i tt the anti-room .bout tea o'clock : it was cracked about half-way down; she went to bed be tween ten and eleven : she remembered - Mrs. Clarke cowing to bed, aid desiring to be called at half-Fast m-ven : she rose herself about half-past six, leaving Mrs. Clat ke in bed : in passing through the ball she Observed the house-door half open, a circumstance she liad never seen before t she shut the door, and then went to the lawn-door, which was shut, but the shut ters were Open. The window-shutters in the library were all close4l; she then tient into the drawing -roost, • *Ufa were edit biii - oise in the ceotiei which Wei Wide Open I the windows are IoW, and only raised one itet froth the laien • . She went up stairs, and folind the tints-moth lot*, with the key outside: she opened the &or; and saw foot tniarks on the floor, and the rush light gone froth Its stand i she thought that perhaps Mri tliike hid been there i the bed-titim door was nearly wide open: she then Went into the roans hen the bed-room : there Was a dreadful smell in the place: she left the room, and *went down stairs. and after cleaning the dressing-room and the brary, she went again Info the anti-room to take away the dust. She then repaired to her own room to call Mrs. Clarkd, to whom she told the circumstances of the appearance and condition of the anti-r00m.... Mrs. Clarke exclaimed in great alarm and agitatiotii Then my master and mistress are murdered !"-- She helped Mrs. Clatke on with her gown, and they went together to the bed-room. Mrs. C. was afraid to go in, and witness did not go in, as she had never been accustomed so to do. They knelt down and , siw that the footsteps were bloody. They then went together to the pantry. Witness did not go up again till after the footman came down with the sheets.— The footman tried out for assistance, saying his mis tress was not )Ict dead. She saw him with the sheet or sheets covered with blood, which he wrapt up in something, she does not know what. The footman left the bundle in the hall, and said he would go to Mr. Astley Cooper, and for his master's partner, as he said he was the properest person to know what had happened. He then went down the yard with the coachman. The poker in the•bed-room lay be. tween her master and the blanket, on the floor. She had never seen it before. All the pokers belonging to the house were in their place. Had never seen any thing particular in the footman's conduct. Saw him both before and after the discovery in the morn ing ;he appeared sober. He looked rather sharp at her when he first passed, but that was usual with him when any one passed him. Penelope Fold: had been laundry-maid in the family fifteen years. She rose a little after four o'clock ea ' the Monday morning, and soon after the washer: , woman came, who let herself in by the laundry-door. About half-past seven Mrs. Clarke came to witness in the laundry, and said she was afraid something was amiss; and asked witness to go up stairs with her. She did so, and went into the bed-room, and opened pan of one of the window-shutters. She saw her master's body lying on the floor, and blood on her mistress's pillow. She came down stairs and went up again, when she saw the footman covering her master with a blanket, and then stooping, as if med. dling with the clothes on her master's bed : she found her mistress still breathing. She afterwards saw the footman wrapping up the sheets, taken from his mas ter's mom, in a sheet pulled from his own bed : he had not been desired by any one to do so : he said that Mrs. Bonar was still alive—he was the first who made this remark, it was not made to him : he said he must go to town, though she desired him not to leave the house without a man in it. William Evans, the groom, had been in the service of the family since December ; he was in the hall when the footman put the sheets into a sheet pulled from his bed; witness does not sleep in the house, but over the stables he was in the house till after twelve o'clock on Sunday evening, sitting with the footman, and never saw him in better hu mour: he had never heard him say any thing disre spectful of his master or mistress, except now and then an angry expression at being overworked, such as,—" D—n the old woman ! she wears me r,ut."— When the examination of this witness was finished, he begged to state a circumstance which lie had just recollected. He said, that he saw the footman daub ing the sheets in the blood at the foot of the bed.— Being pressed upon this point, he said that the house maid, who was in the room at the time, could tell more about h. Susan Curnick being called, said, that she never Was in the room with the footman, as stated by the gloom ; she said also, that the groom had exclaimed at the toot ot his mistress's bed, with a dreadt expression,-44 this comes ot keeping company with the Jews." The Groom, in answer to a question` from the Co roner, said, he had not seen the butler (Dale) from the time he left the service till yesterday. IV. Randall had been coachman in the family for eight years ; slept over the stables ; came to the house about half past seven, and went to call Nichol. son ; found him sitting on his bed side ; almost im mediately heard the cry of murder from the female servants. It was not long before - he saw Nicholson come down stairs with bloody linen, and wrap it up in a sheet in the servants' hall. The footman was a very quiet, good fellow-servant, but used, when he had money, to get drunk. The rest of the servants observed, they could not have handled the sheets as Nicholson did. Nicholson was very anxious to go to London, and would have a horse. Coachman ,thought Nicholson wild-looking whin he went away, and appeared as if he could not ride, though he had been in the dragoons. quirks King had been a labourer for seven years in the family ; slept in Green-lane, Chiskehurst ; came to.work at between five and six on lvlonday morning. The washerwomen were up ; he came to the house about 20 minutes after six, got into the house by the laundry, went into the hall, and found the front door open. Phillip was then in bed ; he went to him and said, how is it you sleep with the door and window shutters open ? He answered, " I did not know that they were open." I am sure he was in bed with his shirt on. _ Williams, a washerwoman, came to the house about four in the morning. The hall windows were all i'pen. Philip Shillington, the gardener, got up between three and four o'clock. About four o'clock observed the middle drawing-room window open, which he did not shut. Nap Nicholson was then called, and asked what he had to state. He replied, nothing but what he had said before the Lord Mayor. The windows of his bed-room were shut when he went to bed. No far. Cher questions were asked of him, and he was ordered into the custody of Lavender. Mr. Smith, another witness came over on the morn ing of the murder, and saw the bodies and bent poker. He then went to the servants' hall, and found a bun dle, which he opened : it consisted. of two bloody sheets, the one fine and the other coarse, which was the most bloody of the two : they were wrapped in a which. was iCatielY stained. 'fie genie to ivied b oody Sheets to a servant cane& t4vieetapple; to take to Mt. *liar's loom. A candlestick in Mr. B.'s room viaibent and broken. There Was a Small spot of White paint on the poker. /*elide:, the Bow-street °Meet, ftated, that he ar , rived on Monday about one o'clock : he foutid a pair of shoes by the side of the footman's bid, Which he compared with the traces the anti-room, and, as he thought, the impressions corresponded with the shoes: the shoes are not fellows. A night-cap was found on the, Nathan's bed, with some stains, appa rently bloody. Foy, of Marlborough -street, compared the shoes, which he hAd found yesterday morning is a closet in the servants'-ball, with the foot-tracles, and found they tallied; the shoes were odd ; one common. heeled, and worn at the toe ; the other with a spring. heel, as was the; case with the shoes which Lavender found ; there was blond both on the soles and the upper-leather. He had just shewn them to Nichol son, who acknowledged them to be his, and said he believed one of them had slipt off in the room from which he fetched the sheets. Foy found them toge ther in the cupboard. Nicholson had also acknow ledged the night-cap, and said he supposed the bloody stains came from the blood on the sheets. The groom was called again, and said he found the shoes this morning, in the closet where he went to look for a stick to beat Mr. Bonar's coat ; he saw they were bloody, and shewed diem to King, and then put them back again. King confirmed this statement. The Conk, who made the servants' beds, and Ni• cholson's among others, was called : she had seen the sheets in the custody of the officer, and believed them to be the same with those which she had put on the footman's bed. The Laundry-maid did not recollect seeing any sheet on the floor when she first went into her mas ter's room. The poker was then produced : it is bent in the up per part : it has been new bitted, and seems never to have been in the Ere : the other part is old, and a new top has been rivetted on': it is a common kitchen poker, about two feet four inches long, and the bit is about nine inches long. The Jury retired about twelve o'clock, and, after a long and patient investigation, returned a verdict of Warm. Muitaza against Philip Nichsh on the Footman. THE EVENING STAR LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1813. PRltll OF STOCK - 111MM DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Red. 5714--Cons. 581-I—For ace. 5811-4 per Ct. 711{ • per Cent. IN 88 +—Bond. is. Ss. dis.—Ezeh. Bills lit. Ss. pc. Bank Loos Annuities 14 7-16ths We have reason to believe that Government are in possession of Paris Papers of the 27th and f.. l Bth ult. in which the particulars of the tremendous battle of Bautzen are detailed. It is s tic' to have continued, without intermission, for thirty-six hours—viz. the whole of the 20th, and the greater.part of the 21st. The advantage was in favour of the Allies during the whole of the 20th ; but next day BON APARTZ is said to have brought up an overwhelming reserve, which outflanked the allied- a: my opposed to him, and a crmplete defeat was the cons,.quence. The confl;ct is represented as of the most sanguinary de scription ever recorded—even more destructive than that of Borodino : the French admit a loss of twenty five thousand, but they state that of the Allies at forty thousand Men !—These are French statements, it is true, and we shall be Lappv to contradict them upon better authority : it would be fool-hardy, how. ever, to refrain from expressing our fears on thc oc casion, although we are not disposed to think that the A Hies were completely overthrown. it is said that after the battle, BONAPARTE offered an armistice to the Allies, but his flag of truce was sent back without any communication being made in answer. It will be recollected, that the first intimation of the battle of Bautzen was received through the me dium of the letter from our Dover Correspondent, which we gave in the STAR of Monday, and which announced a heavy firing on the French coast. Upon the same authority, we think it highly probable that another battle has been fought subsequent to that of the 20th and 21st, for another firing has been heard along the coast. BONAPARTE will, no doubt, represent every affair with the Allies as terminating in victory ; but if his loss at the battles of Lutzen and Bautzen is any thing like what may be reasonably inferred from a com parison of similar military occurrences, ,he cannot obtain many more. On the other hand, the Allies are falling back upon their resources, and most as suredly they will have it in their power speedily to outnumber their opponents. It appears by General SmvAar's dispatch, in the Gazette of last night, that the new Prussian levies alone already amount to forty thousand men. The following are the letters from the coast, which mention the firings subsequent to that which at nounced the battle of Bautzen : DOVIT.R, JUNE 1. 44 There has been some heavy firing again this day on the French coast ; between ten and twelve it was particularly heavy, and apparently from Bou logne ; for about an hoar after noon the firing was.at a greater distance from hence, as we could but jest hear it. " Si f t P.M.—No more firing heard since ten o'clock." HARWICH, JUNE 1. CI Many reports are in circulation of a great battle having been fought subsequent to the 20th, in which the Allies are represented as totally defeated :---GoP grant it may prove untrue ; be that as it may, a tre. mendous firing has been distinctly heard since day light to-day oil the opposite coat, and the sound of the nuns are so very distant, that we must suppose it is a rejoicing for * victory, and not a naval action." bistibi.oi . oli b . MA. 4i II MM. hOlicAR In our iiieLvdifig have given all the • farther partietitais that fiavE fee tiatispired respecting the inurd4 of Mi. and Mts. iicnimt and vie have here to add, that the correetneis of the Coroner's verdict of Wilful Mtirder against Phillit .Viikabon his received a strong confirrnatitin from the conduct of the prisoner. When the Coroner was abort to finish the evidence, Nicholnn naked the officers whb had him is care, to permit him to go into thi yard; Which they refused ; brt suffered hint to go to g water.cicset ; and although one of the Bosi-street, and one of the City Of went with him, he; with a *nor, which he had contrived to conceal; in an instant cut his throat, but every assistance being directly afforded him by the MediCal Gentle-. men present, the wound was scircd up, and he is in a fair way of recovery. Mr. ASHIREY COCiPER returned to town this day about noon. When he left Chislehurst, Nicholson was alive and likely to recover—hr has confessed thi murder, and says that he had no accomplice. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOU TH, MAY 10. Arrived the' NORTH STAR sloop of War, from tl, Eastward, to give convoy to the West Indies; Man chester packet, from Halifax, in 19 days. The Little Catherine packet arrived at Halifax a few days pre vious to the sailing of the Manchester packet. PLYMOUTH, MAY st. Arrived the RESOLUTE gun-brig, with a fleet of transports, from Portsmoutb.—Sailed his Majesty's ships S&AI.ARK and Foxirouxn, on a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE I. Arrived the PARTHIAN, 10 guns, Captain GAR* HEFTY, from the Eastward. Sailed the Missurroz, With a fleet for Guernsey ; and the GALATEA, of 86 guns, Captain LOSACK, with several Officers, and half a million sterling, for Lisbon. Came into bar- bour, the BOYNE, 98, Captain 13CRLTON, to be re paired. The outward-bound convoys got under weigh this morning with a light air from the South ward and Eastward, but are brought up again at St. Helen's, from whence it is most probable they lo dl start early in the morning. DEAL, JUNE 1. The CORDELIA sloop of war has det tined, and brought into the Downs last evening, an American ship—particulars unknown. Came down from the River, the Lord Cathcart, BELLAMY, for Per•tambuce, and s%iled with the whole of the outward-ly.und met.- • chantmen and transports, under convoy of the Courc- TM OF ELGIN and DWARF cutter, for Portsmouth. Sailed his Majesty's ship YORK, on a cruise uff Elvsh ins. Remain, the rest of his _Majesty's ships a nd transports for orders, as before. Arrived the ALERT hired armed cutter, from P Irtr.mouth.—Wind N.E. A Mail from Halifax arrive.l this mcmin3, brrmght to Falmouth by the Manchef;ter packet, in 19 days. We have received Halifax Papers to the 4th of May. The various British fl.)tillas on the American coast . are now busily employed in negociating for a Peace, with the American Government, in the proper way-- we mean with Bombs and Rockets. The Gazelle of last night contains a Dispatc:i from General Sir CHARLES STEWART, dated MI the 15th of May, from the Head-quarters of the Allied Army. It details no splendid victories, it is true, but it ezhi• bits a most striking picture of the high state of disci pline of the Allied Army, and ample proofs of the transcendent military skill which distinguishes its leaders. Not a gun—not a wheel carriage was left behind, a*d the enemy was compelled to follow the retreating army with the utmost caution. The Rus sian artillery performed prodigies. Her MAJESTY, with the Princesses Aueurra and MARY, returned to the Queen's Pal4ce yesterday, from dining with the Duke of CAMBRIDGE., to dress for the PRINCE REGENT'S The Ball and Supper given last night by his Royal Highness the PRINCE RECENT was conducted in a similar manner to that given by his Royal Highness about three weeks since. The company wete more numerous, but equally select. WEYMOUTH ELECTION.—The following Gentle men, on Monday morning, appeared an the Hustings at Weymouth, and offered themselves Candidates for that Borough and Melcombe Regis. The contest • between each party is expected to be very severe:— Lord CIANIIOURN, Mr. IDLE, Mr. Ewan, Mr. Wu.. Lusts, and Mr. STVART. FATAL Dori..—A duel was fought on Thursday morning between two Gentlemen, at the rear of the Custom-house Mews, Dublin, when one of them re ceived a ball in his breast, and instantly expired. At a meeting of the English Catholics, heLl at the Earl of SKRIWSBURI'II. on Saturday, it was proposid, and carried by a, great majority, that Dr. Nlit.Nen, whose politics have been so detrimental to the Catholic Emancipation, dots no longer possess the confidence of the Catholics; and as such, his politics and wri tings, either for or against, are to be considered of no authority ; and to convince the world at large, that Dr. MILKER possesses no political power. in his person as Bishop, over the minds and perso!:s of the .English Catholics, they also voted him to be no longer considered a person fit to belong to their Board. CORN-MARKET, MARK-LANE, JUNE it. We had no fresh arrivals to this morning's market, when Wheat obtained Monday's prices, but the ordinary sorts were unsaleable. The demand tor Barley being wall, that article is heavy sale, and our prices of last market day scarcely maintain ed.—Having a large supply of Oats, the sale was very des ll at a decline of hill Is. per quarter. Beans are also is. per quieter cheaper. In Peas and other articles there wa no alteration.