Star. — London, England, 1823-07-18 00:00:00

THE SAILaR'S PARTING. Oh! could the wind but waft a sigh Or burning kiss to thee; And, as it chang'd, return again Thy softer kiss to me! Or could a wandering breeze impart Each thought I loned to share ; To murm'ring whisper reach thy heart, And keep mine image there ! From desart wilds, and stormy seas, Reviving breath of Hope we'd glean ; From tempests snatch our bosom peace, And bless the cruel space between ! DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. SEVENTEEN PERSONS DROWNED. Sunday afternoon, the passage-boat, which plies across the river, at Swansea, had taken in so many as thirty persons, who had just left a place of Divine Worship, and were proceeding towards Britton.Ferry. -There being a strong fresh in the river, and the boat man, in the act of sculling, having accidentally. slip ped his oar, a gust of wind precipitated the whole party under water. Of the thirty, only thirteen were saved. One of those lost was a young woman 17 years of age, on the eve of being married. Her lover attempted to keep her above water, but was obliged to sacrifice his betrothed to self-preservation. One of the dead bodies was picked up by the Glamorgan steam-packet. Repetitions of the same sad office throughout the afternoon, and the view of fThating hats and garments upon the waves in the Bay, ren dered the town an appalling scene of sorrow in sur viving relatives, and of dismay in the spectators. Tuesday se'nnight, Mr. ROBINSON, owner of a wherry trading between Dumfries and Maryport, and his Mate, WILLIANt GRAVES, were both unfor tunately drowned, while returning to their vessel, then lying off the Cane, and within less than 100 yards of the beach. A most awful instance of sudden death occurred at a small cottage in the New-cut, leading from the Mai-sit-gate tol3lackfriars-road, on Wednesday. A carpenter, of the name of Manners, and his wife went to bed hr good health about eleven o'clock at right. In the morning when he awoke at his usual hour, he found his wife a lifeless corpse by his side, stiff and cold, with her infant, about five months old, locked fast in her arms. • SPIVALVIET.D3 WEAVERS.— :esterday being fixed for the third reading of the Silk Weavers' Bill, in the House of Lords, an immense number of the Spital fields weavers assembled as usual in Palace-yard. The greater pat t of the men very prudently went by water to Westminster Bridge, to avoid collecting a crowd,. as they were anxious to avoid mixing with • any persons that might act ruddy, or create anything like disorder; as usual, they bowed respectfully to their Lordships as they pass.ed to the House of Peers, and their Committee were admitted below the Bar of the Home. As soon as it was communicated to the men that the Bill was pas.ed, they peaceably de parted. and the Committee returned in two coaches to Spitalfields, attended by several of these well cowl n ctA manufacturers. A Gentleman who visited Benlornond last week, found, towards the summit, on the north-west side, a quantity of snow, extending, as nearly as he could guess, over twelve feet of surface in length and six in breadth ; its depth was, in some parts, above three. feet. The neighbouring mountains displayed similar indications the encroachments which the past win ter has made on the more genial months of the year. LEAPING FOR JOY..—CIIARLEMAGNS revered the dignity of the Priesthood, but he was careful that its members should conduct them'elves in conformity with the gravity of its Character. A young man to whom he had just given a nishoprie, left his presence in such high spirits, that in mounting his horse he vaulted quite over to the other side. The ENIPEROR, w ho had observed him from a ss halms-, ordered him to be called back.—" You have heard of the diffi culty that I have in forming good cavalry troops," ;aid his MAJESTY, 44 and seeing that you are such an excellent horseman, I am rather desirous to retain you in that capacity. Yon will serve me better as a sol dier than a Bishop—:go into the ranks, and I will promote you, as you may deserve.' blaatiOvisss.—lt is recorded, and generally be lieved by Mihomedans, that the tomb of their .Pro phet is Imported in the air, at Mecca, by the action of equal and potent load -stones. The possibility of such an occarttnechas been justlT ridiculed as false and fabulous. Notwithstanding, it appears from the Led: Independent, that it is practicable to suspend a person by these means. Mr. Abraham, alecturer on this subject, by way of illustration, suspended by means of an artificial magnet, a young Gentleman, who, with the apparatus, weighed upwards of 7st. Irma MARBLE.- Extract of a letter addressed by a scientific gentleman to a house largely concerned in the marble business in London: " The bed of mar ble which Mr. Martin is working is from 18 to 20 feet wide; it has been traced a quarter of a mile in length, ranging from N.E. to S.W. It lies on gness, and is covered by trap, which is again covered by marble ; then comes quartz, and then marble again, and so on to the top of a mountain, as I am in formed, for I did not - trace it beyond two strata, the lower of which is a most beautiful white marble, sufficient to supply the most extended' demand." THE AIR OF FRLEDOM.—MAnceLLvs, the French dancer, - used to say that the. French had too much fire for his art—the Spaniards too Much ice—the Germans too much fat—the Italians too much ether—and that grave dancing was peculiarly suited tothe English. He asserted that he could discover, simply by his carriage, to What nation the man who presented himself before him belonged. A young foreign Nobleman who wished to receive his lessons, and who was apprised of his predilection for the English, introduced himself as an Englishman. As soon as he had made his salute, MARCELLUS cried out in a disdainful tone, "You an Englishman! You born in the atmosphere of inde pendence I I am not mistaken. You are only the titled slave of some little Northern Prince." And MAItCELLUS was rights He was the son of the Great Chamberlain of tlig Prince de H. SIR HENRY RAEBtlia• • In our Paper of Monday last, we had the painful duty of announcing the death of this eminent and excellent person, whose talents have done so much honour to Scotland, and entitle him to be ranked as a portrait painter in the same class with -REYNOLDS and LAWRENCE. His full length pictures of the Earl of HOPETOLTN, Lord FREDERICK CAMPBELL, Sir DAVID BAIRD, ADAM ROLLAND, Esq. GLEN GARRY, and many more, might be mentioned- as proofs that he was equally remarkable for correct ness of drawing, freedom of penciling, brilliancy of colouring, and a personification of character not less vigorous than . graceful. He possessed the rare faculty of producing in every instance the most striking and agreeable likeness, and of indicating intellectual ex, pression and dignity of demeanour, wherever they ap peared in the original; often approaching in his por traits to the elevation .of historical painting. His modesty was equal to his merit; and in his inter course with the young candidates for public favour, be was uniformly kind, communicative, and liberal; and on all occasions had the candour to bestow just praise on rival excellence.—The Royal Academy in London, in testimony of their high estimation of his talents, elected him first an Associate, and afterwards an Academician, without solicitation. And when his MAJESTY, on his visit'to Edinburgh, conferred the honour of Knighthood upon the distinguished Artist, we do not recollect any occasion on which a more universal feeling of satisfaction was expressed. In society, few men were more acceptable than Sir HENRI* ; for he possessed a cheerful disposition, much good sense, and an inexhaustible store of anecdote. In his domestic relations, no man could dispense or receive a greater degree of happiness ; and those who had apportunitiei of seeing him in the midst of his family, will ever cherish the recollection of his amiable and endearing qualities. Sir I Igvny was a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Member of the late Imperial Academy of Florence, a Member of the Academy of New York, and a few days before his death received a commission appointing him por trait painter in Scotland to the KING. BURNS' .V MEN f. On Friday se'nnight BunNs' Monument, erected at Ayr, was completed, by the tripod being raised and fixed on the summit. Fifteen Mason Lodges walked in Precession, besides Yeomanry, and a vast numhe of kersons were present at the ceremony. On the Proces!.ion reaching the spot consecrated to the memory of Coila's lair d, the first corps of Ayrshire Yeomanry, commanded by Colonel CRAINT , ,IID, of Newfield, formed on the road, while the Masonic Bodies encircled the building. In the centre stood WILLIAM FULL A aTON, 'Esq. of Skeldon, attended by several other Ceuntry Gentlemen.- The tripod, amid a flourish of trumpets, was then slowly raised to the , summit of the edifice, and in a iew moments ren dered a fixture. The whole ceremony was conducted with the greatest eclat. The Monument has been al ready described: its entire elevation is abdut 70 feet. Whets the Presbytery of Glasgow broke.up, 'after their recent resolntion for delaying the induetiosi of Dr. Matcenns..trie, Principal of the College of Glas gow, into the charge of the High Church of that city, to which lie has lately been presented by the Crown, on the ground that such a plurality of of f ices is in consistent with the institutions of the Scottish Church, an elderly person, in the dress of a tradesman, pressed through the crowd, and addressed a Reverend Mem. her with— , . Sir, ye maun gi'e me a shake o' your han : this day ye ha'e foughten the battle o' the Loan: I'd gre five pound mysel' to raise a monument for you !" There will. be a remarkable and tot a l eclipse of the moon on the 231 inst. and as it w ill happen soon after the moon has passed her apogee, her motion through the earth's shadow will be slow, and consequently render the eclipse of long duration. It is said that the frozen Norwegians, on the first sight of roses, dared lint touch what they conceived were pees budding with fire! and the natives of Vir ginia, the first time they seized on a quantity of gun powder, which belonged to the English colony, sowed it for grain, expecting to reap a plentiful crop of com bustion by the next harvest to blow away the whole colony !—D'lsraeli. In the Russian service, every Officer faithfully sew ing his country for 25 years, without ever being broUght to trial, is. entitled to claim the insignia of the Order of St. George, exclusive of other rewards for particular services ; and this prudent system is found to reduce very much occasion for punishment. IRISII FISIXER/ES.—The Commissioners have pre sented the Fourth Report for the year ending the sth April, 1823, being the Fishery of 1822, which the House of Commons has published. Notnithstanding every obstacle, incidental and legislative, the Fish eries of Ireland are annually increasing. The number of seamen employed in 1821, was about 36,000, and this year the amount is 44,892, being an excess of 8700 men. The number of decked vessels is 306- 1 of burden 10,960 tons, and employing 209.5 men ; that of half-decked vessels is 286-5694 tons, and 1684 men; of open sail-boats 2516 —and 12,783 men; and of row-boats 6196, employing 28,5£10 men. lIERRINGS.—The herring fishing continues to do well, particularly about Campbeltion, Isle of Man, and Loch Long; it is seldom that the fish are so large and ofssuch good quality. Eight boats arrived the other day at the Brocmielaw, Glasgow, and sup posing each to have eight mazes (500 to a maze), the supply would in the Ole - amount to 32,000. Corron.—After all the extraordinary statements we have made, at different times, respecting the pro digious extent of our trade in this article, it is still rapidly on the increase. The sales effected last week in this port amounted to 21,000 bags or bales, and it is not long since the sales of a single week amounted to 45,000. The demand for Manchester only, has averaged, we are assured, 10,000 bags per week for some time past. This astonishing consumption will not appear so incredible when it is recollected that our spinning-mills supply the twist or cotton thread-for the weavers of a considerable part of Europe, as well as for our own manufactures.—Lioerpeol Paper. . Two men, who had drank freely on Wednesday afternoon at a public-house in St. John's.street, having quarrelled, went out and fought in Islington Fields. After knocking each otheiabout in hugging fight during the space of an hour, one of them, At kinson, a coachman, received a heavy fall, and he was taken senseless off the ground. He died on his way bowie to West minster with one of his friends, in a coach, from the rupture of . a vessel in the bead. ASSIZES. CIIELMBF9RD, JULY 11. • James Coote and Wra. Lamplough went; in.itated for assaulting Catherine Dallaway, on the King's highway at Stratford, on the 29th of May, putting her in fear, and stealing from her person a silk scarf; her property. It appeared that Miss Dallaway and her sister, young ladies of respectable appearance, were return ing across the fields from Temple Mills to Stratford, on the day in question, and when near the style passed two men lying under the hedge. The men immedi ately rose and followed them, and whilst the ladies were in the act of passing the style, one of the men seized hold of the prosecutrix's scarf, and attempted to pull it from her shoulders. She resisted in great alarm, but, after a short struggle, the ruffian sue- - ceeded in possessing himself of the scarf, and ran away towards Temple Mills Bridge, followed by his companion, who stood by and witnessed the struggle. The ladies, however, pursued them, and, having ob tained assistance, they were taken into custody. Nei ther of the ladies could identify the prisoners as being the offenders, but a little boy, who was on the bridge at the time, and to whom both the prisoners were well known, proved that they passed the bridge precisely at the time stated, pursued by the ladies. The scarf was not found upon either of the prisoners. The prisoners solemnly declared their innocence. Mr. Baron GRAHAM charged the Jury, and said, that if they were satisfied of the identity of the pri soners, the charge was fully established; for the strug gle between one of them .and the prosecbtrix, and the alarm which she declared she felt, fully Supported the legal definition of a highway robbery ; and as both the prisoners were evidently concerned in the same design, both were equally amenable to the law, though one only committed the actual violence. The Jury deliberated a few minutes, and found both prisoners Guilty—Death. WORCESTER, JULY 16. Elizabeth Gibbons, a single woman, was indicted for the wilful murder of her female itlegizimate child. The body was found in the river Stour. Mr. Justice PARK summed up at great length, and left it to the Jury to say if they were satisfied that the child c as born alive; and if so, that it was wil fully and maliciously destroyed by the mother; and if such were their opinion, they would return a ver dict of Guilty. If they were of opinion it was not wilfully destroyed, but that she supposed it lifeless when she threw it into the water, it being in a torpid state, they .would acquit her. Before the Jury retired, the prisoner said, that she supposed the child was dead when she threw it into the water. The Jury consulted for a short time, and at four o'clock last evening, returned a verdict of .‘ Not aunty of the murder, but Guilty of concealing the birth of the child." She was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the County Jail. Mr. Justice PARK said, if the verdict had been that of Guilty, no one who had heard the evidence could have denied its justice, and he should have left her for execviiion on Friday. He gravely admonished her upon her future conduct. She was then carried from the dock apparently insensible. LINCOLN, JuIAT 15. John Siorr was indicted for the wilful murder of Sarah llumstance, by administering to h'er a quantity of arsenic. Sarah Humstance, the sister-in•law of the de ceased, stated that the late Sarah Humstance lived as servant with Mr. Walker, of West Keals, in the Fen.. On the 4th of April last, she visited the de ceased at Keal, and found her very ill in bed, and complaining of soreness in the throat. On the follow ing day she again went to see her, for the purpose of removing her home, the deceased having expressed a strong drsire to be taken from Mr. W'alker's house. As she, with some other females, were raising her from the bed, they found a dead child, recently born, which was wrapped up and taken home in a cart with its mother. On the road they stopped at a pub lic-house, and the diceased there drank some wine and water, after which she seemed . to be much re vived, but before she got home she died. The mother and the child were buried together in one coffin, and they were afterwards taken out of the grave to be e;amined by a surgeon. The evidence of the other witnesses did not go to prove the cbarge. Mr. Baron Ganaow, said, in his opinion the case had failed in all its points. In the first instance it had not been proved that the deceased died by poison, and if it had there was not a shadow of evidence to shew that it had been administered by the prisoner. In order to bring home the charge to the prisoner, the Jury must clearly understand that the deceased did not die' a natural death; and even if it had been a fact Completely established, that she did die by taking arsenic, they would ask, in the absence of all evidence which could affect the prisoner, whether it was not possible that she had taken it herself with a view to self-destruotion? It was impossible to say the prisoner was properly charged by legal evidence with the death of this party, and his Lordship therefore would not call upon the prisoner for his defence ; and he aaled, if the Jury acquiesced in his view of the case, they would pronounce him not guilty. There was good reason for supposing there had been an imprOper intimacy between the prisoner and the deceased, and as theyoung woman had died prematurely, the pro secutors acted perfectly consistent with their duty to. the pu'olic, in thoroughly investigating the case to the. bottom, and having now done so, his ;sordship con ceived that it plainly appealed there was no fonn4. tion for the charge. The Jury immediately acquitted the prisoner. There were other indictments against the prisoner,' charging him with administering. certain deleterionel and poisonous drugs to Sarah . Hi:nuance, for . the , purpose of destroying ber . iinborn infant. This accts= sation could only be supported by the same evidence as was brought forward on the above trial, and the Court considered that as being 400 loose and vague to beat all relied upon, and therefore suggested that the.prisoner should be acquitrasi without again ex amining the witnesses. The Jury were of theome . opinion, and.directly acquitted the priipner:. • • • POLICE INTELLIG4NCE. ihnow-141.1.--,A.uomaa Meson or MU. Comantsrls.„„ Yesterday Ad s who had been discharged, after the vet cli;:,r the Coroner's Jury, from prison upon bail, attended to node., an examination before M. Swaatrr and J. CLF.LI , :c, Ps i " . Overseers of Bermondsey Parish having learned some ',aw e , lays with respect to the death of Mrs. Chatrkerlayne calcal. 4 to increase the suspicions against the accused. The investigat e , lasted the whole day, but nothing occurred to - xarrant th e pi . loner's linal eonunittaL Mr. Wade, the master of the prisoner, of whom he h : , high opinion, and in whose case he feels a very strn-g: i nteTe was in the Office. He stated that his servant girl told iii b e : fore she heard of the death of Mrs. Chzmberldyne, tS.4 had killed two fowls the day before, and that hi.. hauds w t r em , vered with blood. The girl again stated this fact. Mr. Swatter remanded the prisoner until Sat ui eay. am „ h. served that he should on that day either discharge or comfit him M4III.IIOROUGH4ITRZICT.-•- Townsend, the Duke of Na me s, coachman, who so peremptorily refused to make any apology fat his misconduct in upsetting Mrs. Blackburn's carriage, tent principal of the Duke's household yesterday, to irterce4ewip Mr. Hos, the Magistrate, that he might he permitted to sin e , publish any apology that might be dictated. Mr. 110, Said, f h,. when the offer was so liberally made to him before aYa v dence was given, by Mr. Blackburn, he rejected it, and the'b e e : ness Was now entirely out of his (Mr. Rot s) hands. lle mi g t f , he thought proper, apply still to Mr. Blackburn. In the en te .„, of the day Mr. Blackburn came to the Office, and said, that fr ail the extreme contrition of the man, and learning that he had pr e . viously borne a very good character, he still felt ioc4uid ta g R him the same terms he had first offered, and on !hoe codifi es expressed his intention of not following up the pioiecutio. Wednesday night, the premises of Mr. Alm 1141, bury, of Bartlett's-buildings, carpet-manufact ur; were broken into and plundered of 24 ponderous rolls of carpet : Each of which w,.uld requite two m e/4 to lift out of window, and must have been toure;e4 away in a cart. l': - ...terday morning a young mart was employe,' cleaning the w iildnvs of a house in Saatford-plare, Oxford•street ; while standing •outside the first floor window, his foot slipped, and he wa s p ett io. tated headforemost to the pavement with peat no. leace. Ile was conveyed to the Middlesex Ilnspita, but on hi; arrival there he was found to be (pa e teat Ara, drr.r 10.—Sunday everittg, about vine o'cloek, Nl`Cluie, weaver in Ayr, when returning from a sucranteul occasion at Ochiltree, was attacked near Holeastone two men and two women, who were sauntering along theron, apparently ill a state of intoxication. Their names are inn Ander.am, collier, David Glen, weaver, Margaret rresred Margaret Anderson, all well kt.owncharactets in Ay r . I'a attack was made without any provocation, as the d ecene k i religious, sober, inoffensive man, was walking gristly lota _without disturbing anybody. After the mast cruel treatmer s beating him with stones, and kicking hint, they nearly p et , period to his existence on the spot, which they would have en accomplished, had some people not come up and rescued bis The milicroants made off. M'Clure was brought into Ayr, be expired in the course of two hours. An immediate pursuit toot place, and the• whole of them were secured in the plantin g et polite Craigie House, and safely lodged in gaol. They baseline uncle:tone an examination before the Sheriff, and are ikons. mitted for trial. INQUBsT.—The 35th Inquest since January last eat yesterday held at the Penitentiary; Millbank, on the body of B. Johnson, aged 28, who was sentenced to transportation, at the Old Bailey, in January, 1823, but whose sentence was commuted to five years la. prisonment in the above place, where he was ro ceived, in good health, in February.. 111 r. Prete r it surgeon. said, he was received into the Infirmary Oa the 12th of May, for a diarrhea, of which he died os Tuesday last, though he was attended daily by Dn. Roget and Latham, and by the witness three times a day. He had nourishing food, and port and sherry wines. The witness was asked what medicines were prescribed in these cases ? which he declined to an• swer. Did the witness consider the diet to have bees the cause of this fatal disorder? This question the wit. ness refused to answer, but said, there ate now 400 is the Infirmary. One of the Jurors observed, that the diet is tolerable now. Another said, that at a forma Inquest he took a piece of bread home with himavhicit the next morning was so sour as not to be eatable.— The Jury expressed a wish to see a healthy prisoner, and for that purpose retired to a visiting cell, is which one of them was brought, and also some bread, of which each Juryman tasted, and the prise. ner was asked if such was the bread they were 4 lowed? to which he answered in the affirmative, aal added, that for breakfast they had three quarters al a pull of milk , thickened with flour, and the same is the afternoon, and six ounces cif beef, and three quy tens of a pound of potatoes for dinner, with which)* -was satisfied. Another prisoner was then broegbt . up, who had been in the I n fi r m ar y, an d imputed Dli disorder, which was also diarrhoea, to the former diet, but which is now much improved. He said that when in solitary confinement he had nothing butts boards to lie upon. On being asked what he was? he said he was a Wardsman. The Jury then 04' jeered to his further examination ; and a prisoner not in office was then brought in, but his evidence corm. berated completely the former. The Jury then el• pressed full conviction that this fatal disorder had been brought on by the former state of the diet; ad on being called on for their verdict, eight were ix' . Natural Death, and six for adding the words " °VP stoned by the former bad diet." The CORONER stre• nuously impressed upon the Jury the discontent winch such a verdict would occasion out of doors, an4o l4 ' mately succeeded . in obtaining from them a verdictuol Died a Natural Death, brought on by.diarrher.a. - - - BIRTH. Yesterday, of a daughter, the lady of Richard Dukes 14 Burton Crescent. MARRIED. Yesterday, at St. George's Church, Hanover-spares CAI Mackinnon, to Anne Jane, eldest daughter of J. Denr,7 4 44 0 : . Tuesday se'nnight. at Stamfordham, the Rev. Ralph A.M. of Trinity College,and Head Master of the King'ssl -Sherburne, Dorset, to lizabeth, geovad dinghter M r ' Goodfellow, of the former place. Tuesday, at Speldi•••rst, Kent, Major Brook Bridges raft of the Madras '`iv Maria Plumb. I. tO DIED. Monday, the 14th inst. at Ha swell Grove Middlesex, Serh ia l,.. -eldest daughter bf Edmund Henry Lusbi;igton, Esq. of 1 . 1 "' place, aged la years. On 'Tuesday, the 15th July, at Bosworth Park, Leiter 111n. 4 Pochin, relict of the late Colonel George Pochint of 8 61 ° Abbey, Lincolnshire, and eldest danghter and ultimate/ 9.• heirs ! ! of Sir Wobton Dixie, Bart. formerly of Bosworth --, 6, at Peckham, aged VS, Jane, the wife of Llinst. lo ' Mai Young, R. N . MAII4-- 7 THIS DAY. miti. DIM. Alll. 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