Star. — London, England, 1823-10-02 00:00:00

THE NEGRO'S EUTHANASIA. ?Rom rim INTRODUCTORY STANZAS TO ♦ OZZIZ PRIER OW OF KR. eoLatioor. . PROM THE LONDON MAGAZINE. Fling wide thy gates of darkness, Death ! Speed to the race with Misery yoked : No mangled cheek or howling breath Shall greet thy presence, long invoked! But circling dance shall beat the ground ; The joy of song shall burst around; Stern tyrant! dreadful though thou be, Thy dwelling is with Liberty! They, wafted on thy dusky wings, Look down upon the ocean swell; Their wandering foot on ether springs To filar own land beloved so well! And there the lovers to their loves, By fountain brink, in citron'groves, Recount the deeds of wrath and scorn Which they, as men, front men have borne! OLEN. LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS. Yesterday. at the sitting of the Court, John Watson, Robert Selby Heal and Charles Knatchbull, known as Captain Knatchbull, were arraigned for a riot in the Fleet Prison, some weeks ago. - The prisoners were brought from Newgate, to which they were committed during the late Old Bailey Sessions. Mr. ADOLPHUS. was conversing with his client, Cap tain Knatchbull, when The RECORDER asked the Gentlemen connected with the case if they were ready to proceed ? Mr. ANDREWS, in reply, said he believed that his Learned Friend (Mr. Adolphus) was then consulting with his client, as to the probability of his being enabled to save the time of the Court. In a few - minutts Mr. An drews observed, that the prisoners had consented to plead Guilty to the charge ; and as Mr. Brown, the Warden oldie Fleet, had no vindictive feelings towards them, the Court, he humbly submitted, might be in clined to p.os a nominal sentence, and suffer the pri soners to return to the Fleet ; as the only object of Mr. Brown wa., the good discipline of the prison over which be presided. The It FEORDER remarked, that he could not suffer such an offence as the prisoners were charged with to be thus passed over ; and he was convinced his brother Magistates felt as he did on the subject. It was not only a question between Mr. Brown and the prisoners, but the Public were also deeply interested in the charge made against them. Mr. ADOLPHUS said, that as far as his client was con cet ned, he did not regret the decision of the Court. He was accidentally mixed up with the transaction, and s% as by no means a promoter of it ; neither did he take a leading part during its continuance. The Learned Counsel then moved the Court to traverse the ti ial until the next Sessions, in consequence of the absence of a material witness, and was proceeding to plead in favour of the postponement, when he was interrupted by Mr. CLA RKE, the Deputy Clef k of the Arraigns, who stated that Mr. A dolehirs had no occasion to argue the point, as the prisoners had the privilege of traversing their trial once; and they had not previously taken ad vsntage of that right. The prisoners Mere then removed out of Ccurt for the pu rpo,e of being conveyed back to Newgate, where they w ill remain until the next Sessions for the City of Lon don, when they will again be brought up for trial. John Helltedl was charged with an assault upon Jane Riley, on the 10th of May last, with intent to commit a rake. There was a second indictment, charging the as sault only. The prisoner was tried and acquitted on the capital charge at the last Old Bailey Sessions. Jane Riley, an interesting little girl, only nine years of age, deposed that she lived with her aunt, at No. 4, Duke.street, West Smithfield; has seen the prisoner be fore to•day; about three months ago, at the Old Bai ley ; prisoner committed the offence one Sunday morn ing, between ten and eleven, in a little room adjoining the shop iu her aunt's house; prisoner lived in the house, and was an apprentice to her father; has one brother and two sisters, who are all younger; on the day in question her aunt and father «ere out; the maid ser vant was on the second floor; witness was going down stairs, when the prisoner came out of the little room, and, taking bold of her throat, carried her into the little room, and, putting his knees on her stomach, treated her with brutal and indecent violence. She screaaied loudly, the servant girl came down stairs and tapped at the is indow, which almost fronted the prisoner. The prisoner looked up, and the servant bestowing on him a coarse epithet, he released witness, and the servant took her away. The testimony of this witness was corrobo rated by Jane Herrabin, the servant alluded to. Mr. Thomas Parker, a surgeon, deposed that violence had been offered to the prosecutor. The prisoner put in a written defence, denying the offence charged, and impugning the conduct of the pro secutor. which he considered as vindictive. • The ltEconumt summed up the evidence—premising, that the prisoner was now indicted for the misdemean our of an attempt to commit a felony; it would seem that the prisoner, in his cross-examination, wished to prove a full commission of the crime, in order to escape a conviction under the present indictment for the mere attempt ; the previous Jury had given their opinion upon that point, and tightly so, if the same evidence as had now been given was that upon which they had arrived at their verdict. His Lordship dwelt minutely upon an exposition of the law on the capital offence, and had not concluded tt hen the Jury expressed themselves satisfied, a:.d returned a verdict of "Guilty of the Misdemeanour." The lteoottuca, in sentencing the prisoner to 18 months hard labour, animadverted strongly on the line of conduct pursued by him in his cross-examination, in endeavouring to evade the present indictment by seeking to establish the full completion of the crime charged. FRANCE.—From an OthCidli return published of the births, marriages, and deaths, occurring in Paris in the year 182'2, it appears that of 26,880 children born, no less than 9,751 were bastards, or more than 36 illegiti mate children out of every hundred ; the marriages were 7,157, and the deaths 23,260; in every instance th( )roach sell bets the males Afternoon Lei/DON : / 14 ' pnDiixlh James H , him for worth I.k. width, and perficial the cost weight at there is a near approach to equality between the males nunthe r. The ancient Irish used to utter a benedietion'on the new enter as a pupa oc cue noyas iccauemy. PACEStrOVG attnougn tie confined the branch of profile-painting to o n e , by each m COUll h t e nohnn " MAILS.-..TH and the females. moon; and in the Highlands of Scotland. at the present day. ,the had several pupils in that of flower- Amin f rom 1 MM. DUX. The largest and finest log of mahogany ever im- girls get astride *cress a gate, at first sight of the crescent, endear—. received not less than 100 vdneas. p in some instances he received ---- 1 0 Fl v All hail to thee, Moon! all hail to thee; Waterford 2 o H potted into this country has been recently sold by auc- tsui. He took occasion, in p r oof of his ingenuity, to declaim I prithee, good moon, come tell to me Guernsey and Jeff*, 0 0 Fl against the Bank notes in present circulation, said it was scandalous - - • - tion at the docks in Liverpool. It was purchased by ?his night who my husband shall be!" Lisbon 0•4 hi James Ho:ason Es for 3781. and afterwards sold .. , q. by Alain in his Mbeelanies, actually declares that he knewthat Government permitted the diffusion of such wretched things, mani a two chat in eight-and-forty hours he wotild produce the ac siatile of 0 0, G him for C and it it open well, is supposed to be maids Who sung this, and then going to bed, dreamed of the two Bank note, and nobody could' discover the differe n c e f a between it Meditarranran , 1 OJi worth 1,0001. It is 17 feet in length, five feet in men that they respectively married afterwards. and the original hit be hid sent to the Bank the plan of a note arOaNATEk al LONDON-1 width, and 14 thick, and contains more than 3,000 an. A young Lady, in the freedom of conversation, said impossible to be imitated, and that he was able to copy every sig- Morsong • - •• - " perficial feet. If sawn into veneers, it is computed that to a military friend, " Pray, Captain, can yAnt a fan r—dg 1 nature with WoOderftil success. do not think I can," replied be, " but I egg gwhat is equally gob. Alter all this fine talk, theft was no sktisfactory referettee; and - _ • the cost of labour in ahe process will be 7501. The ful—l can fan a flirt e and he karlcdistelY blitaa to fan the Mrs Judge was very unwfiling to meddler son to Rackserow,nrho at LOND'ON: • Printed and flublialie weight at the King's beam was.sis tons 13 cwt. young WT. - • length prevailed upon ber, by declaring that he had gone to the ea- i Place, Tempi LOGAN In the spring of 1774, says Jefferson in his notes on Virginia, a robbery and murder werescommitted on an inhabitant of the frontiers of Virginia by two Indians of the Shawanee tribe. The neighbouring Whites, accord-,' ing to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary manner. Colonel Cresap, a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured people, collected a party and proceeded down the Kanhaway in quest of vengeance; unfortunately a canoe with women and children, with one man only, was seen coming from the opposite shore unarmed, and unsuspecting an attack from the Whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore singled out their objects, and at one fire killed every person in it. This happened to be the family of Logan, who had long been distinguished as a friend of the Whiten. This unworthy return provoked his vengeance; he accord— ingly distinguished himself in the war which ensiled.— In the autumn of the same year a decisive battle was, fought at the mouth of the great Kanhaway, in which the collected force of the Shawanees, Mingoes, and the Delawares, were defeated by a detachment of t! le Vir gieia militia. The Indians sued • for peace. Logan, however, disdained to be.seen among the supplicants; but lest the sincerity of the treaty should be distrusted from which so distinguished a Chief abstracted himself, he sent, by a messenger, the following speech, to be de livered to Lord Dunmore: " I appeal to any white man if he ever entered • Logan's cabin hungry and he gave him not to eat, if he ever came cold and naked and he clothed him not ? During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, Logan is the friend of white men. I had even thought to have lived with you buc for the injuries of one man. Colonel Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood, murdered all the relations of Logan, even my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. — This called on me for revenge. I have fought for it. I have killed many. I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I re joice at the bea . ms of peace; but do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to sive his life. Who is there to mourn fur Logan? Not one!" Yesterday afternoon, as a man was driving down Di ury-lane with a horse and cart, in which were two children, one of the wheels got into a rut in the street, and the concussion threw both the children out. A man passing at the time fortunately caught one of them in his arms; the other's head was shockingly cut, and the right arm broke: it was carried to the Hospital. DUELLlNG.—Commodore Decatur fell in a duel, he having killed five men in the same way himself. He swore shamefully at the Doctors while dying, because they could not extract the fatal ball from his bowels. He is called by the National Intelligencer, " one of the bright stars of Colombia, set for ever !" and the country is summoned to mourn for him. The President and the heads of departments, with military and naval of ficers and citizens, walked in procession at his funeral. " The laws of HEAVEN and earth on this subject," says Mr. Faux, " are here quite insulted, by common con sent. —A Lady, hearing that her husband was gone to fight a duel, sent an express, charging that he should be brought home a corpse rather than disgraced."— Lady's Magazine. • INDIAN GREATNESS OP MiND.--In the year 1781, when almost all the Indian nations were in the British interest, except a part of the Delawares, among whom were the Christian Indians, between two and three hun dred in number, the British Indian Agent at Detroit applied to the Great Council of the Six Nations at Nia gara, to t emove those Christian Indians out oldie coun try. The Iroquois, upon this, sent a war message to the Chippewa% and Ottawas to this effect:—" We here with make you a present of the Christian Indians to make soup of;" which, in the war language of the In dians, is saying, " We deliver these people to you to be murdered r These brave and magnanimous Indians sent the messenger immediately back again with this reply, "We have no cause for doing this!" At the late Confirmation in Exeter, one of the young persons who knelt at the altar for episcopal benediction, was observed by th? Bishop to laugh just as his hands were extended over him : his Lordship paused, and after addressing a few words of admonition to the indifferent youth, on the impropriety of hypocritically presenting himself before the DEITY with his lips, while his heart was far from Gun, passed him ht without admitting the ratification of his baptismal vows. DEATH BY FlGHTlNG.—Thursday, an Inquest was held at Yarm-uth, before E. PRESTON, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Thomas Pile, about seventeen years of age, who, in a pugilistic contest with Richard Tennant. on the Tuesday previous, received two viclent blows on the stomach and throat, and being removed from the ground in a senseless state, expired on Thursday after noon. The Inquest was adjourned till the following morning, when the Jury returned a verdict of Man slaughter against Tennant and the two seconds, C. Parker and B. Paul, jun. who are committed for trial. A man who described himself as William Snell, a machine•maker, travelling in search of employment,, was found on Sunday morning, lying senseless and bleeding, on the highway about a mile eastward of Truro. Being relieved, he told his tale—that he had been robbed, and beaten by some foot passengers, &c. He was takenl care of; and some men apprehended on suspicion when, lo! Snell himself absconded! and the hue and cry of the neighbourhood are gone in search of him. Monday several favourite tunes were played on the bells of St. George's, Camberwell, by three of tbe So ciety of St. James's Youths, and, being the first tunes ' ever played on those bells, excited surprise, and af forded much pleasure to the inhabitants. It is a constant practice with the Wine-merchants who supply inns, says a Correspondent, to make " Inn keepers dozens" of from fifteen to eighteen bottles each; and allowing from each of these lit& quarts the esta bli.hed perquisite of a top and bottom glass, before and after decanting, to the waiter, the thirsty guest need not be much afraid of intoxication. There are already eighty•seven prisoners for trial at the Michaelmas Old Bailey Sessions, which will commence on Wednesday fortnight. The superstitions respecting the moon are without They - - POLICE INTELLIGENCE.- BOW-STRERT. GDOSN MISCONDUCT or • Paraca..--Yestesday a complaint was made before the sitting Magistrate, by a Medical Gentleman of the name of Wilson, residing at Park-place, Brixton, against Andrew Lloyd and his partner, two of the patrol belonging to this office. Mr. Wilson stated, that having lately removed to Brixton from the neighbourhood of Blackheath, he had employed himself in anist ing in putting up some shelves, &c. in his new habitation ; after which, having occasion to call on a relation close by, be did not stop to change the old clothes he had purposely put on, but merely throwing a plaid round him, proceeded towards her residence.— Having been much afflicted with the rheumatism in his knees, he had occasion to stop repeatedly on the road, when he was at length challenged by the patrol, who not only used the most offensive ex pressions towards him, but even thrust violently against him with the intention, as he imagined, of provoking a quarrel, and not only persisted in such improper conduct after he had given him his ad dress, but threatened to lock him up if ever he caught him out at that time of the evening again. The hour was bitween seven and eight o'clock. Mr. - 111iNsaum. assured him this case should be carefully inquired into ; adding, that as Lloyd had been many years attached to the of and had ever borne a good character, it was but fair he should have ab opportunity of making his defence. He therefore gave or ders that the two patio' should attend to.mort ow, when the affair would undergo a further investigation. RY-LA-BONNE. E. Brawn, and Elizabeth his wife, fringe-manufacturers, were charged with a brutal assault on an aged couple. The complainants stated that they lodged in the house of the defendants, in Norfolk street, Middlesex Hospital, which they were about to quit, and while the man was gone to get a cart to remove their goods, the defend ant entered with apparatus to whitewash the room, and on his wile refusing to admit her, and closing the door, both defendants forced it, and assaulted her most furiously, and on tie husband entering they threw him down, and while the female held him, the male seized the foot of a bedstead, at the end of which was a nail, with which he beat him on the head most violently, and when fatigued, the virago seized it, and gave him several violent blows, till he wa• nearly covered with blood. They set up a frivolous defence, without denying the charge, and were ordered to find bail. WORSHIP-STREET. Joseph Irwin, a native of Edinburgh, in appearance a working man, about 40 years of age, stood charged with bigamy. The two wives were in attendance. The first, a respectable-looking woman, attended by a female friend, and supported on crutches, wept bitterly. The Magistrate, Mr. Erna., humanely ordered her a seat inside the bar. Ile then asked her if she and the prisoner were ever married? She answered that they st , ere marricd on the 2d February, 1817, and that she w.ts then an inmate of Lambeth Workhouz.e. Mrs. Anne Wart en deposed that she was present at the marriage of the prisoner with his first wile. The second wife then came forward and deposed, that she was married to the prisoner on the 2d of December, 1819. A Gentleman here observed to the Magistrate, that they were in search Of a third wife in the neighbouthood of Covent-Garden. market, and he did not apprehend but they would be able to make out a fourth. The prisoner being called upon his defence said, that after spend ing a great part of his life at sea, and just returning to this country, be was totally ignorant that he was offending its laws. Mrs. Warren and the second wife were then bound over to pro secute, and the prisoner was remanded. LIABILITY OY CHILDREN TO BUFFOUT THOR PARlENTg.—Saturday last application was made to ROBERT BrvILL , Esq. on the part of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Walton, in the County of Hertford, representing that Ann Squire, living at Walton, had, for a long time, been receiving alms, and was then supported out of the poor-rates of that parish; and that she was old, lame, impotent, and unable to work ; hut that she had children resident in Middlesex well able to support her at their own cost. Mr. Bevitt directed summonses to be served on the children al luded to, requiring their appearance at this office yesterday, to an swer the complaint of the parish. Accordirgly they all, excepting one, who, it seemed, was not at home, appeared before the same Magistrate, and &must Mitts, Esq. yesterday. After an examination into the circum,tances of the defendants, Mr. Brettt said, the Magistrates would make an order of Is. a week nn each son, which would be 4s. a week for the mother. Mr. Thomas Squire observed, that he and Joseph might be able to pay Is. a week, but he was sure the other two sons could nor. Mr. Baena. then suggested, that the Magistrates could perhaps equalize it, by ordering that Thomas and Joseph pay Is. 6d. each, which would leave only 6d. a week for each of the others. John and Philip both positively declared they would not pay six penee a week. Mr. Mitts observed, that the law was binding upon children to maintain their parents, and it was to be regretted that men should resist the law on a point of obstinacy, for the ultimate consequence was imprisonment ; and it was not the wish of the Magistrates to send men of their appearance to prison, it they would accede to any reasonable provision for their mother. Mr. Brant. said, as they had refused every suggestion from the Bench, they should make an order of Is. a week each, and by the 59th Geo. 111. and 43d of Eliz. if they did nut comply with the order, they were liable to forfeit :Xs. per month, and in default of pay ment of the friffeiture, they would be committed to prison without bail or mainprize, until the forfeiture be paid. The sons still declared they would not pay the money ordered, and that they would rather go to prison, and leave their families to be supported by the parish. UNION-HALL. Yesterday the Office was crowded with persons interested in the charge of fraud against Thomas Car Rackstretv, the profile and flower painter, of Lambeth-road. A great number of the defendant's pu pils were amongst the crowd. The following case, which was supported by a respectable solici tor, named Judge, who said that his brother and mother had been defrauded of the sum of 401. by the defendant, notwithstanding which a prosecution should not be instituted, was it not for the extensive injury which they understood had been dealt by Rackstrow amongst credulous persons who could not afford to be pecuniary sufferers. Mr. Charles Judge, of Albemarle-street, having seen an adver tisement in The Tunes Newspaper, similar to that topied in our ac count of the first examination, waited upon Rackstrow, who, after some conversation, declared himself pleased with his visitor's ap pearance, and disposed to treat with him in preference to three others who were not so punctual. The secret of the art was then unfolded; the same advantages which were promised to Mr. Seaman were pro mised to Mr. Judge; and the same assurances made as to the mono poly of the profile trade. The ',refits were described as enor mous, and the skill as that of a child. Rackstrow, the sole inventor and accumulator of profits, bad himself taken upwards of 17,000 profiles, for every one of which he had charged ten shillings and sixpence, including frames, to which he fastened the profiles in such a manner, as to prevent their removal without destruction to the painting, for the double purpose of insuring that sort of exhibi tion which was most flatted :.ig to the artist. and of preserving the proofs of such excellence from the effects of absurd curiosity. The total Ignorance of the art acknowledged by Mr. Judge, was consi dered by the master as an important advantage: and a pledge was given by the latter, that the most perfect knowledge would take the place of that ignorance in six or eight weeks. This was followed by the information that the person whom Mr. Judge was to succeed was one of high connections, and had secretly practised, lest his friends should lower their opinion of him, and therefore the individual and his connexions must remain a secret. The references given by Rack grow were limited to a man and his housekeeper, and were not at all to the satisfaction of Mr. Judge or his mother, who undertook to wait upon Rackstrow, accompanied by her eldest son. Rackstrow, with a good deal of address, gave a history of his life, stated that through the interest of Mr. Canning, to whom his wife was related, he had, daring the late war, been appointed to the charge of the medicines, &c. on board an hospital ship at Sheerness, and that at the close of the war he was suddenly informed that Government had no further occasion for his services. The art of painting was then resorted to, but rather privately, as a profession, as Rackstrow bad large expectations from his father, who was a man of fortune, and might cut him off with a shilling if the degradation of his son once reached his ears. The beauty of the plan, however, drew upon him immense business, and, as it were, plunged him into public life, notwithstanding his aversion to public notice, on account of his father, who bated arthts so much as to refuse a letter of recom mendation to the celebrated Mr. West, when that artist wished to enter as a pupil of the Royal Academy. Rackstrow, although he profit e-painting . _ . pens, of between 201. and tiol. f o ra eat She then gave him 201. and her note - upon the understanding that her son I nished with the cabinet, and that his as payment of the note. The cabins the note was due. Mrs. Judge was pounds expense, her son found that h cabinet was proved not to be worth n ' Mr. Awes said that this, although though Rackstrow had told five thou, did not come under the Act for the p Several other eases were then state Mr. Aim; said, that the charge of justify him in sending the case before defendant to bail to answer the charg ties of SOL each, and his own for 100 Mr. Seaman was bound over to prc HOAX EXTRA° One of those most stupid an, amusement, denominated a hoa day morning, to the infinite me spectable tradesmen at the We wags. Between the hours of party; in sptnce livery and sn himself at the several houses rigged (as the phrase elegantly lity of footman to a widow la South Audley-street, stating, a: mistress was about to give an a large number of fashionables or Mrs. (uhoever he add: required, precisely at twelve o'c Lady into whose service our N teered, being well known in nrahing seemed more probable the time for fashionable parties, of that hospitable mansion tl from the beaten crack of etiqu collect around her whatever sc. London for the Summer month! venture to dispute her right? brightest gem in fashion's cii seat of genius anl of taste—th the gay, and her heart was th who, therefore, could doubt for tions of the smart lacquey ? It summons was obeyed with punt hour, the dour was besieged b) almost every denomination. cooks, confectioners, grocers, poulterers, together with co= tailors, shoemakers, dress-make frizeurs, and a full band of insti indefatigable footman omitted office from infancy he could a, fait to the duties of his station. ley-street display a more anim the clock of the adjoining chuff hour of noon: the knocker w with sundry thumps, and th state of agitation. Such were I by the brass plate on the doer. though they fully obeyed the monitor, they might have kni and knocked again— " From morn tilt " From noon to ti '6 A live-Tang Sun without either gaining any adi answer. That mansion, which to peal with sounds of mirth an, less and silent, silent as the for well it might ; for she, whose F mation through its halls, hac Channel, and was then, perhai in the Tuiler ies, or whiling au in Paris, un:onscious of ever Audley 7 street. This rnoi tify' was somehow communicated ti probably by a passing domes! family : no matter how, but a never were execrations and c vished on any mischief-loving e vainly bestowed: for the smar out of reach, though very prc to enjoy the consummation of Grenville Edward Brown, w bury gaol has been appiehendt arranging his bed-clothes to rope, he, by some means, miss nearly the top of the parapet, c distacne of between thirty as standing the severe hurt he rec fractured in two places), he su the neighbouring fields (often and knees). He found shekel about Tyler-hill until Wedni took refuge (with the permis lodge at Tyler-hill; here he when intelligence was brought was concealed, by a Mr. G. 13c sorter, of Canterbury, who, worthy of imitation, refused entitled to. The Sheriff, am proceeded to the spot, where t in a wood-stack, in a state of injury he had received in the in a post-chaise and re-lodged A duel was lately fought ne Canada, between Colonel Nosmon. another Chief of his neighbourhood slightly, and the latter mortally wo greasing in the arcs of civilization / BIRTH Sept. 25, in Rutland-square, Dubl of a son. Sept. 27, at Knowlton Court, the a son. September 21, at Plymouth, the Esq. Purser, R.N. of a daughter, h • DIED On the 30th of September,after a well, Esq. of Ewell, Surrey. At her house in Portland-place, aft Lady Ternpletowit.- COAL MARKET, Ships at Market: Ships & 44} Newcastle 56 22 Sunderland 511 2 Scotch Coal 1