Star. — London, England, 1817-07-18 00:00:00

gad themselvei called op to give damages which /night have the effect of immuring him in a prison, where tie law would not allow him to be released for a period of lets tl'..n ten years. Lord ELLlENamtovoit recaoitulated the principal puts of the evidemce to the Jury. With regard to Mrs. Stewart, he said that blame was certainly im. pitted to ILI, for not having communicated to her brother the knowledge she had of his improper con duct towards the wife of his friend, as soon as s h e was in vssession of such knowledge, instead of which she kept it co.iee•ticd tro:n all the parties for several months. P,,,•n her ril'ence, however, in that repect, it was not to be ii,feried that she had fabricated this army; for it teas in part confirmed by the evidence cf Mary Rolfe. the servant; and it was pr: vLd that sl.e had c”rnolunkatcd the c;rcurnaance to a friend very won after it took place. If the Jury believed that the seduction and adultery had taken place, they must estimate the damages ac..ord nit to the amotint of the injury the plaintiff api.e.tred to Lave suatainedi and in doing so, t ` ,.•y mita not attead to any argu ment drawn from the supposed F.vcrty . of the deter. dant ; for it mas a rule of law, that it a man could not pay in his t a►rse, he most pay in I i, Arson. The Jury, without retiring, found A verdict for the plaintiff. Dismagts —One Thousand POWIti!. The Court was uncommonly crowded during the whole trial, which lasted several hours. One of the State Prisoners committed to Lincoln Castle was liberated from thence on Monday se'n night, by Lord Sumouru's order, on his entering into a recognizance of al2loo for his appearance on the first day of next Term at Westminster. Monday, in the High Court of Justiciary. at Edin burgh, .laNtes Stash and Beatrice MLerod, charged with forging a bill for relti, pleaded Guilty, and were sentenced to seven years transportation. MAII L DOROIIOII•STUELT.-The Horse Chaunting case came on again yesterday at this office. which was in consequence much crowded, a number of per. sons hAving been defrauded in this way. The evi dence w is only partly gone into, one of the men im plicated not being forthcoming ; so far as it went it d a scene of gross fraud in the sale c•f horses (preett:usly advertised) pretended to be of great va in::: and warranted sound, for which the pa: ties nb. tained the money, and when the anima!, were found (as they were alrnost immediately) to he lime or b.lls were given to the purchasers as a secu rity fur the soms p.i J, whielhion inertiry,tinnedotit to Le of no v.du.., tfe person pretended to be the ec.:eptor not L•eing discoverable. The case stands evi.r tilt Monday. tTmos ALL.-- Mars Shull:on was brought before the sittieg Magistrate y.sterday, ~e ct with the wilful m.irder of her daughter. John Owen, a r..zer grinder, who lived in tile same house with the priso. ner and the deceased at Lambeth, stated, that on ht iday evening last his attention was drawn to a noise in the prisoner's room. He looked is at the window, where he baw the prisoner strike the deceased a vin. lent blow, which knocked her down against the beclz post. She .hen lilted her up, placed her in a chair, and gave her another blow under the eye: The de otamtd lived from that time till Tuesday morning, when she died in Lambeth work-house. One of the nUSISS of the workhouse stated, that when the de ceased was brought into the house, her eye was black as if from a violent blow; she was very sick and weak, and appeared to be in a decline. She spoke in moat ffectionate terms of her mother, who, she said, had always been kind to her up to the night when she struck her. On Friday night her mother came home much int• xicated, and she foolishly called her a diunken bunter ; this she believed provoked her, and caused her to beat her. The deceased told the wit ness she had been in a decline two years, during which time her mother supported her, and treated her with great kindness. The prisoner was ctmmit ted till the result of the Coroner's Inquest is known. Colin/me: leuuraer.—An Inquisition was taken at the White Raven, back of the London Hospital, Whitechapel-road, on the body of Ann Boone, a wo man of the town, who was stated to have died in conseqeence of a wound she received on the head with a pint pot, by the hand of a Young man named Thomas Swan, the son of a respectable tradesman, who had been dancing with the deceased at the Star public house, opposite the Royalty Theatre, Wells aireet, Wellclose-square.—Mary lieone, the sister of the deceased, being sworn, stared that she was at the Star public house on Saturday night ; the deceased herself, and a number of girls (abandoned women), and young men, were in a room on the first floor, dancing and singing. The deceased and a girl named Elizabeth Warren, quarrelled and struck each other; they were parted by some men in the room ; they *Bre they would fight, and set-to. The deceased received and gave several blows and fell ; the second round she bad no better chance than the first ; she at the close fell again. Thomas Swan was present ; he took the part of Warren, and in the scuffle he came in coptact with the deceased, but he never struck her. Several other women of the same description were examined, and they all stated that Swan never struck the deceased with a pint pot—he might have pushed against her.—Mr. Cobb, House Surgeon at the Lon don Hospital, and two other medical gentlemen,, stated, that they had examined the-head of the de ceased, and were satisfied that her death was not caused by the wound ins the back of the head, but by a suffusion of blood in the ventricles of the brain, caused by over-exertion, or a deterrninatio of blood to the head. Verdict—." Her death was caused by a suffusion of blood on the ventricles of the brain, and not by any violence exercised towards her by Thomas Swan."--A certificate of the decision of the Jury was sent to Lambeth-street Police Office, and swan was discharged. HiGHWAY ROB/MY. -..TUIIday night, about 12 ./clock, as Mr. Parkhouse and Mr. Warrenwc re pro te-eding a l o ng Wych- street , they were surrounded by • a _gaing of fourteen er fifteen fellows, who began to hoidelhem. Mr. P. knocked four of them down, sail the rest ran away. They were igain attacked by tie unit gang at Drury-lane Theatre, and agaiu eonq'' Ise' red them. The fellows then gave a whistle, and attacked them in greater numbers at the Bury. ink-ground higher up, where they succeeded in rub.. biog Mr. Parkhouai of his watch. By the activity, however, of several watchmen, four of the offenders were lodged in St. Giles's Wstchhouse. REPORT of the co ITTEr on .57 R.t 31 BOATS. (Continued from the STAR of yesterday.) Seth Hunt, Eq. called in and exirineei. Are you concerned with the province ot Louisiana? I have been in Louisiana ; I formerly was Comman dant in Upper Louisiana. Can you furnish the Committee with any informa. tion in respect or the safety of Steam B tat; ?—ln the United States a great number of Steam Boats have been established. The first was at New York; there are now running between New York and Albany ten heats; two between New York and the State o$ Con , necticut ; four or five to New Jersey; be.,ides the ferry boats that pass and repass across the river, of wl:ich there ate four; those boats work all by low pressure engines; no accident Las ever happened to any ene of them; they have beers running since the year 1837 r and the boats at Albany perform about forty sips ' each pe r annum. What distance is that ? —An hundred and sixty miles. They go np in 21 hoots, and come down in 19; sometimes a little longer, but never shorter than 19; that is the quickest passage. At what rate per hour do they go ?—Some of them go about seven miles an hour in still water ; suns boats have gone trine, ten, or eleven knots; but that is under particular circum , tances. They have come from Newhaven to New York (90 miles) in sic hours and a half, without any sail. Do they ever make use of a sail?—They have a sail and a mast, which they can lower down and raise up to take advantage of a favourable wind, to assist them in their passage. Those boats are upon the rivers ?—Those which go to Albany pass the North River, and the others to Cennecticut pass through what is called Long Island Sound, which is 40 miles broad in one part of it. On the river Delaware there are a number of boats alto established, which ply between Philadelphia and Tren ton, its New Jersey; and Philadelphia and Bordenton, in New Jersey ; also others between Philadelphia and Newcastle, and Philadelphia and Wilmington; beside ferry.boats which pass and repass the Delaware. Se veral of those boats have low pressure engines, others have high pressure engines, working the high pressure engines from 100 to 140 lbs. the square inch, and as high as 160; but those eugines are constructed upon Oliver Evans's plan, called the Columbian Plan. Are they of wrought iron ?—Yes; there are no cast iron boilers in America. I presume that may arise from their not having founderies in which theycatt cast them sufficiently large ; they are all wrought iron boilers or copper ; all which have to pass through salt water are copper. The boat Etna, which passes be tween Philadelphia and Wilmingtmeis a high pressure engine, and outstrips all the other boats ; there is no competition between them. There are boats which pass also on the Chesapeake, which is there 4.0 miles wide; they pass from Baltimore to French Town and back, regular boats, two lines of boats ; or.e leaves Baltimore one day, and the other the next ; they pass every other day alternately. There are other boats from B thimore, which go to Norfolk ; there they pass a still wider part of the Chesapeake, which may be GO miles wide; they have been to New London, which is still more exposed ; and ben been up to New Hertford. Are those with high pressure engines ? No ; low pressure. On the Potowmac there are also Steam Boats, *and the James River, which pass between Richmond and Norfolk. Have any accidents been known to arise on account of the heavy seas? No, no accident whatever. I have not mentioned the most important circumstance con nected with this c the Powhattan Steam Boat was built at New York, went into the open ocear, enecuntered for three days a very severe gale, arrived s.ile at Nur. folk and up to Richmond. The gentlemen is now in England who navigated her, and I have heard bins say that he felt himself as safe as-he should in a frigate, and he said there was this advantage, that the steam power enabled him when they could not have borne sails, to put the head of the vessel to sea, instead of lying in the trough of the sea, being exposed to be over-run by the waves. _ What was her toanage ?—Two hundred and fifty tons. What k the largest Steam Boat in America ? The largest I have seen are those on the Mississippi, the Etna and the Vesuvius, which ply between New Or leans and Natchez :• they are 450 ions, and they carry 280 tons merchandise, and 100 passengers, 700 bales of cotton besides the passengers, are transported to New Orleans. Have you any regular allowance of power accor ding to a ton ?—I believe that after they have proved their boilers, which I presume should be done in all cases, if they wish to ascertain the pressure, they work with safety at half that which it has been proved at. Is there any rule according to tonnage established as an usage ?—I am not an engineer, and am not conversant with that subject ; I have passed through the countiy, and have been on board most of those boats, but am not acquainted with that fact.- Have any accidents happened ?—Within my reed'• lection only three accidents have happened to Steam Boats in America; the first happened on the Ohio, and was tccasioned, as stated by the public papers, by the negligence and inattention of the engineer, who loaded the safety-valve, and neglected to attend the fire; all hands were engaged in hoisting the an chor, the fire was in a very high state, and of course produced a van deal of steam that did not escape by the ordinary operation of the engine, which would discharge it and carry it cff. What is called the safety-valve had been impro perly loaded and neglected 3—Yes, but that never need happen ; the principle of steel-yards is to put a weight at the enst, and if you put no more than that, it will answer its purpose ;—so with a Steam Engine; it may be overloaded, and its effect destroyed. The neat accident happened, not from a fault of any body, but from an act 01 GOD it was lightning, as was sa -tisfactorily explained to the public,•both by the pas sengers and those interested in the boat ; that was at Charleiton in South Carolina; the pipe which carries the smoke up to the top attracted the lightning, and it went down and split the boiler. It was not considered as at all connected with the operation tit the engine ?—No, not at all through negligence; a third accident happened lately to the Nyman:us ; she was not in operation when it hap. petted; they were out of feel, they stopped th e i r boat and lay still upon the water while they went alter wood ; still, however, they kept up their fire, and the steam was high s and it euluded to that situa tion, there bring no eottomptin at the dram as it accumulated. 'Those are the only accidents that ever happened, except such as have happened from vessels taking fire. Were those vessels high or low pressure engines ? —All fow pressure engines. No accident has tver happened in America to a high pressure engin: , , eii!xr in a manclactot y or out of it; and there arc m engines used in the manufactories, and in flour mills and saw nulls, constructed upon tile plan a Evans, whichact on the high pressure principle t,, 150 lbs. Aft inch ; be has worked ICO3 hut 120 is his constant average. There is not an 041 woman in Ant .rica that is ever frightened at all at 4 high pre.- 'ire eitgire,nny mote than they are at cannon.— . I%,ete is a very large eagine, about 4. horse power, at St. Sentiati, on the Ohio River, which nuevcs scv n pair of stones in a flour-mill, a wo filet:-manuiactory, And A cotton-manufactory seven stories high ; it tv,,i ks upon the high pressure, and there are saw-mills and grist-mills at various places. What is the fuel ?—Wond in mcst places. At Pitts burgh and on the alio River, it is coal and word : at Pittsburgh and at Weeling, and a hundred other places, there is fifty miles square a solid mi!ss of c , al, they drive the shet horizontally into the hill, an.;) the coal is abundant, their head in the mountains, as iitie coal its any in the world; it is delivered at t lie houses of the inhabitants at 16 bushels for a clonal-. Is the number of Steam-boats now increating in America ?—Very rapidly. Are those that are now constructing upon the high or the low -pressure system ?—Upon both, be cause there are different interests and different com panies. Mr. Evans being a patentee, they hays to give something for the use of his patent ; it they cannot make their bargain with him they use the low pressure engine ; but there is a new engine invented in America, a perfectly rotatory engini, bait ler one third of the money, which is now coming into use in several of the Steam Boats; and it v.'it; supposed when I cameaway it would supersede albitlivr engines. Do you know of any particular guard in tit,. con struction of Steam Engines tl,cci in Am. rica to pre vent accidents ? --I know of no other than that of properly constructing the safety vtave, and the man lier of loading it, so that they cannot get on more than a certain weight ; they must, of cute se, con struct them strong enough and prove Cum. They are under nu Government regulation ? , They are not. Does that with a rotatory motion consume more coals ? -.•lt is supposed to consume less : twelve bushels of coals with the rotatory mntiou will per form the same work as the other engine with twenty. Arr. T. Braasala, called is end examined. Yon are an Engineer, at Ptrnheti ? -I am. Volt were one et the gentle:nen that went to Nrw wich to inquire into tlic explosion of the Steam Brat ? I was. Did you go nt the request of any party, or of your own voluntary suggestion ?—I went in consequt ace of my hiends, Mr. Collinge and Mr. Donkin, upon me to ask my opinion, whether it would to rig!.: for us to inter:etc upon such an occasion ; I tor:en:lei with them :hat it would, and •olunteered to go. Your deni;. , ,n was to inquire into the CAUSei of the explosion ?—Yes, and to examine as much ot :he wreck as we could find. State to the Committee to what yin att.:l l )llre Ow accident ?—Tht. observations I made ltd me to dete:- mine it was owing to the expansive force of the steam, and tivz inadequacy of the boiler to sustain that force. Was a Ifigh prestige or a low pressure engine ? A high prestige engine; the boiler was bAdl) con structed and shaped. Qll what materials was the boiler composed ? Of wrought and cast iron, and it was the cast iron part that gave way. Those two materials expand in a different propor tion with the same degree of heat ?—Yes, the) do. Is it usual to have the boiler of wroiight and cast iron ?—I should think it would be avoided on all oc ca►ions by experienced enginceis ; but I have often seen it. This engine was not made so at first, but altered af terwards, was it not ?—Yes, in consequence ul the other giving way. Have you any reason to suppose that the accident might be attributed to negligence or mismanagement in the director of it ?—We had veibal testimony, from which I had no doubt that the steam was at a considerable degree of pressure ; but the end was very improperly made. Did you ever learn at what rate the man was working ?—No, I understood lie was autking at 601bs. an inch generally, probably it might be 120 at that moment ; but 1 should think it not equal to the working of 60, for it was only three-fourths of an inch and a sixteenth in some places in thickness, and it was four feet in diameter at the end; it was a flat end to the cylinder like a drum. Is it possible to construct the engines in Steam Boats in such a manner that their is great of any accident happening ?-1 do not k:liw how to answer as to their being perfectly sate ; 1 do not feel that materials, when they are submitted to so great a pressure, are safe, for we fend that very few materials will stand a great degree of prerttre for any length of time; we often ii;U that a water . press, which lids been efficient six or seven )e:as Ll;- gether, at length gives w;:y, when the metals are sub jected to a very great pressure ; it is like a i;le , c with a heavy machine for bteakiag metals, which dues net break the tirst time, but is .cumtantly tensfing to loosen the particles. Do you that a liiAh pressure eviyi;:e, outlet any guard that can be sop.ied to it, is a si!c et:gine to use ►n a Steam Boat?-1 do lan cunctive it ►s a proper engine, or a bale o►:e. Do you ever hear of their having been us.•d with wrougtit iron boilers with perfect safety ?—No, I have not heard of any comparative statement nt tither the wrought or cast; I know they are usually made with cast. Do you consider yourself suf f iciently an engineer, with respect to the construction of stem engines, to be able to give, of your own knowledge, a decitiej ' answer to such questions ?..—Yec, I do conceive s.) ; I have paid a great deal of attention tq the subji:ct of steam engines. and I believe I - know the Ft of every one in existence. If on a certain pressure in a high pressure engint a safety valve or safety valves wtre, si. ecustr nor d, as that they would open and dischArge the stc..n. with a ptessurc much less than the la..tkr . WAS t;etittl- N I% tiled for. wnul not nch a boiler be perfectly sate. admitting it to be made of proper materials and prt• perly constructed Yes, if it could be pi , ived tt.a t the boihr was vilcillated to resist a pressure ...ouch Amster than that to v hien it was to be stibiecte2 the or.inary wa of busint3s, and that propel safety valves were applied, it would be salenslcsig as theas. tion those safety valves were insured, an.: as tile perfection nt the metal could bells:4ld. If r boiler was found to sustain the pressure of itT•i!:f. to a s.onare inch, and soelt boiler had t:cen tried, and it was feund, before used, that it would bear a pressifre s. upon the loci:, w itid !;., E such a boiler be ;pion...sty sire to be used, if the lifte:* valve was so constrnct:d as t“ opea itself at the pres sure of 60?—1 cannot pronounce it. perFecCy safe: and I must give this reason; I think it a was prepared to sustain 1001bs. end strained to 29y, it might aft( rwards pr.rh.ips burst at 40, the straiterit 11:.virg injored it. lo 1:;.! situatioa rr ':'.!!•1711 Boats, might slot ;be rinl skilfulnass of the sot z of persons sho manage thnits render any Seam orisafe do not Ittiowisetv that could be the c:itstf y usight by wiliest pery sion of the proper princip:e of management red r them orsafe to a sfor.rative Intent; for instanc e , i f there was half the pressure there would be but biif tho danger under like circumstances. Die you or rot e7rprehend, that a boiler :Tem a proper constractior, nt wrouszlat rzetal, roily 'oe tried with a certaiii force, so smali - ni cooparisiin %tit!! that pressure which it 1., Tr:sendet 4 to bear, as nut to incur any tisk of bean itiiiired is the proof, and have to complete surplus of mt.:slot), so as to eiabfe it to be afterwards used without Any danger in t!iie use?-1 sinittld pronounce such a 'coder to be perfee:ly saf,•, and so long as it maintained these prcprrtie: • continue so. Have you considered how spfcty-lcalve: inny be constructed as adaptcd to boilers, so vs to put it o':t of the power of the person havinz the managemegt or them improperly to load them, cr to alter their nature ?—The most simple mode which ii ,a - gested itself to me is, to have a double and to lock one tip, ;Ind to have it examinco onc • a week, or as otten as may be necessary, to see th.C. its action it perfect.—(Th be continua) A silver coin of the reign .►t CHARLES i. was lately found At the depth of eight feet, • at Glrianorkton. It is in a good star.• t p..• • a, having on the one side the King'..lle4d, e►o-. .4 VI. at the back of it, (denoting the v..1u.), .us 1). G. MA. BR. Fn. Er HI. Rex, t.►;tn.l ttsk r.tu„ 'ad on the reverse, the arms, and CHRl..ra .11:MICE Wednesday se'nnight, at a County C. tit ',old ac the Bear Inn, Ncwnham, iNlLvmAstis L. LCHt.;.EIt. Esq. was eitcted one of the Veracity:, tat site s (55 of Dean. There wAs av: ry anuses...us and highly respectable atn.neane.e of For.itt•rs and Uteelolders. almost all the o.. , ntlemin of property and :oases quenee in the F. rest neiglit,uthood, aid niatilt from a distance, hti , rg I.restnt. At the Cl , :ric 11 Charity Meeting held at the An Inn, in Bury St. Edmund's, last week, the Reif* GEOlter. ST , IX4 of fin; ton, w as sueidmly seized with a paralytic fit. just .4s he yeas preparing to di part, eat:) , in the evening. and 'homer immediately aster.. tied by skilful medical assistance, he still continues in a wry dangerous state 4t the above Inns SEItInUe Accry. - r.—Yesterelay john Co; * fine boy abmit tell yarrs of age, the son tit Mr. Cox, of Lewi,ham-street, Westminster, was p!ayieg some of his schoolfellows, in tome old ruins flee his father's house : they agreed i•r have a bonfire ; Ard also purchased some gunpowder, .o make a wig. ..ie 3 , young Cox was in the act uf setting fire to it, w en, in consequence of the powder being tro dry, • up all at once in his face, which it not only burred in a dreadful manner, but, we are sorry to say, that eyes were so badly scorched, that the surgeons, who attend upon him, give no hope of his ever recovering his sight. His GRACE THE DUKE. OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S COiTIN.—The inside coffin is lined with .hte satin, and the dress of the same, trimmed woli fine po;rit lace, &c. The outside case snide of Engl.sls oak, covered with rich crimson Genoa velvet, and finished in the handsomest manner, with stars of tl - e Order of the Gant r and coronets, with every sppil priate decoration. On the that are tl.e. a,rns supporters, with the following. inscription engraved: The Most l Puiesaut and Moat Noble Ii;JOR Dtilte and farl of Nrit , litmilsaland, Earl pfd Perm Percy, Daras Lucy Pnynings, Fuzpayue, B,yan, Latimer, and N'arltwort and Barges t, Lord Lirtnemolr and Cusses Rondonia' of the county of Northumberland and of the town and onintY of the town of Nesvcavle-upod-Tytte, ‘'ice Admiral .t toe t-.me and the Maritime paris ti:vreof, a id Knight of the Mo4;Nrk!e Jr der of the starter. Died foi the I:A dad• of Je.lv, ISt 7, In the 7 ith year 0:: The cavalcade will move Iron' N •tl:u•nba:lard House tti-morrow at twelve BIRTHS. On Wednesday last. fn Grossenor-square, Mn. Faller Matt. land, of a son. On the 7th innanr, at Ferth, the IA 'y ere:Trak Jsmts Prn't, of the Carmarthen Eest.lndia^van of a t.aotth On t l' 38th ult. at ii:n-cA.11:1, near the crt' t Rev. Artustus Hobart, of a t!.r , gt •er I.attly, at Naar% the Lady of La .1 Compton, 4 a d.mghter. MA IthlhlL At tl.v C. , thettralCitoreh of l ten,Liewtonant-Colotollt-' - neo, ~1 t:.. brelooo Gnard , , Jemn.z, olds:A ughtt-r of tar Fraley, B;l4;per,, Bart. I'. At Aberdeen, Caren George Orit•ne .:f the Madras Native Intl.ntry, to Sara!, Forber, daugt.ter of ete latek.r:na Slueler, of a:ntown, near lartirnet+. At Ediaberek. on t:..! tith Inenno, Ot,rge Andersor. Patter the Royal Navy, to R.2111:1. )ountoa daughter of Air. An drew tri;!ia, ntereunt, 1.1i.0. At St. Helier's, lerfee, the La!' of Captain Adamson, or ti .e Sib Veteran Batt ail In. On the virh ult. at Weo Wickham. 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