Star. — London, England, 1823-04-02 00:00:00

TL E MINSTREL. PROM THt BMW MONTHLY AGAZIM There sits a matt near Sadler's Wcl li, ''hose litrb-excited peal of bells I)ipuse kill beret moulder ; Each elbow, by a skilful twist, lungs one, one rings from either wrist, And one from either shoulder I ch foot, hell-mounted, aids the din ; Each knee, with noddiisg bell, chimes in ha phil.barsnonie dapper. One bell send, forth a louder note Fr..ou that round ball which tops the throat, By bruisers called the nipper Thus, sightless, by the river side lie tunes his• lays, like him *be cried " ilk:wend from heaven, Urania," But not as poor; his wiser stave I:, like the laureat's, mere God save The King—not Rule Britannia! Thu but a single tune he knows, Ili,-gains are far exceeding those Of pass-supported limner: Ile keeps the wolf outside the door, And, doing that, to cell him poor Were,-certes, a misnomer' The school-boy lags astride the rail, The milkman drops his clinking pail, The serving-maid her pitcher, The painter quits th' unwhiteu'd fence To greet with tributary pence This general bewitcher ! See! where he nods his pealing brow, Now strikes a fifth, a second now, In regular confusion; Bid, ere he finishes the strain, pa capo goes his pate again, The key-note of conclusion! Satire, suspend your baseless wit, The tuneful tribe may sometimes bit On patrons bent on giving. Here's one, at least, obscurely bred, Who by the Isbou► t his hem', Picks up a decent living ! . SLAVE TRADE IN THE EAST. Mr. Rae Wit.sow, in his late Travels in the East, when treating of Grand Cairo the capital of Egypt, states some facts which we believe are not very gene- rally known:—" I visited the Slave-market which has been long established in this particular quarter. Although. I may attempt a description of those de plorable objects I witnessed, yet no idea can possibly be conveyed of the painful sensations I experienced on this occasion. It may in general be observed, that the plice set apart for this most scandalous traffic is a large court, air the principal street, in the form of a quadrangle, with a range of apartments around, elevated 'about twenty feet from the ground, to which there is access by a staircase at one end, aad a sort of platform or gallery in front of the apartments, not unlike what is to be seen in the yards of Inns in London. In one corner I observed a Turkish woman bargaining for the purchase of a young female, who was stripped of her rags previously for the purpose of examination, turned round, bar joints fklt, and tongue inspected, 4te. In others I saw wretched creatures of all ages, from infants up to fifty years, in a state of nudity, and absolutely huddled together like cattle. At the door of the miserable den was the cold-hearted guardian or keeper of this receptacle. of woe, tyrannical in countenance, and seated cross-legged smoking his pipe with the utmost sang froid, who was watching the arrival of pur chasers; and presuming I had entered the market in this view, demanded in a growling tone , if I wanted, to buy a boy or a giil, as they would be turned out for examination! At this time a poor helpless child was brought forward, when I could not suppress a tear at the incident, and the unfeeling conduct of this barbarian, and hurried away from this scene of hu man degradation, so disgusting to the eye of a Euro pean.—This depot, it will be remarked, continues uniformly well stocked with slaves of both sexes, who arrive in prodigious numbers from upper Egypt.° On any .arson being observed to enter it, which is always concluded for the purpose of buying these most despised creatures, they are hurried out of their .dens as such person passes along, when they are ranked and exhibited by their savage keeper; and such would appear to he their own anxiety to be pur chased, in order to be liberated from captivity, that dime is a rivalship and emulation among them by looks, gestures, and motions, which should attract the most attention. Some of them were completely black, with an excellent set of toeh, finely formed, and had a mere rag thrown round part of the body." This short description of _an Eastern Slave-market is concluded by the following remarks, which have a strong claim on the notice of those who are advocates ft:r destroying this abominable system;—" When we reflect on those blessings which one distinguished dividual has conferred on humanity, by those indefa tigable acts he has .exercised in the Senate to crush this detestable traffic, so revolting to the feelings of iltitons, it is impossible not to feel a high degree at pride in looking to the land which gave him birth. is it not, on the other hand, mortifying to every timent of charity and civilization, drat a Legialature of the most enlightened country on the face of the globe has debated fora series of ye %t, whether this accursed trade in the flesh and. blood of creatures should or should not be abolished ; nut that the most powerful and cousive measures have not beau prom_pdy Adoptad to tear op slavery by the very roots r • During sons years the number is add to amount already 20,000!. NAT4t4l4.lqmirts, a firmoustock-fighter, fairing: abler:is in um Church at Dean, in the middle al s drowsy Sermon, the beadle tapp ed him on the shoal der, who= !storms, who was then dreaming of his favousite diversion, started up kid esclainsecc "Slack atekfar ever!" which so disconcerted the Divine, and excited the laughter of;tlre congregation, that it was some Lime befoi - e the former told proceed in his dis course, or the latter latome silent to Lear him. Il .; I • r I I 7 . . , 1 1 1 • r I ~ 1 1 . • , , , •••••• ASSIStS. • •:' ARDUCIION or HOOORA • James Coffee was indicted for feloniously assai Honors Ryan, and with others, did carry her away, 'with intent to marry or defile; he was also charged in another indictment with similar offences, on the IStli of June following, at Lackland, in this county. llonora Ryan being sworn, deposed. that between I twelve and one o'clock on the night of the 9tl) of March, in the year aforesaid, a party came to her mother's house, and were breaking the dour with a sledge, when she (the witness) arose from .her bed, andl)egan to dress herself in her brother's clothes; when die had got his great coat upon her, her bro .ther got up, placed her behind the door, and opened it, which when he had done, they rushed in, and she stole out;. but one of them observing her, they fol lowed her, took her, and brought her to Cragg. Coffee was one of them, but she did not know him at that time.: At Cragg'the men went to drink ; on leav ing it they put her en ahorse behind one of the party, but that man got so drunk that' two men failed to hold him up. They then brought her to Castlenock, where, being fatigued, she begged to be allowed to get a sed. Being Suffered to retire, she influenced et woman in the house to go anit and try to get her some assistance for her release : the woman accord ingly went to 'Mr. Parker, a magistrate, at Castle lough, who soon came_to her with assistance; those who had carried her off immediately ran away, save one, who being drunk was taken, and witness was re stored to her friends in a few hours after having been taken away, without other injury than the fatigue of the journey. In about a fortnight afterwards, when witness was on her return from Cloamel Assizes, in the Limerick coach, the coach was stopped near Mount Catherine by the prisoner Coffee, with four or five ethers, who dragged her off the coach. It was then she first re marked him, as he said to the coachman— ,4 I ven tured my life for her once before, and it's the least I can have her now." Coffee had a pistol; in car rying her away from the coach, he told witness he would not take her if he was rich, but he would have her on account of her money. She was taken from the coach in the day-time, and her brother being in it, he ran off to Mount Catherine, from whence he brought the military, who soon overtook her, and Coffee and his friends ran away. After this, wit ness, for security, went to live at Lackland, near Newport, the residence of the Rev. Mr. Peftne father, where she remained nearly three months, when one day, while talking to her mother in the yard, leaning on a gate, she was seised by around the waist ; but she, catching fast hold of the gate, would not let it go till one of Coffee's assist ants came up and dragged her from it, tearing her hands and pulling off her cap with the violence of dragging her away. Coffee then, with another man, one them under each of her arms, forced her across the river that was hard by, while another man hel • down her mother, till they had dragged her in a creel across a bog, for fear the mother would go for assist ance: they then mounted her on a horse, before Coffee, but from which she soon threw herself off... Coffee threatened het, that if she would do that again, he would make a show of her before the whole coun try. In a short time afterwards the horse was taken by one of the party, :tad witness was brought on foot a little further—when, fortunately, Mr. Ryan, of Bal. lymackeough, with some others, came up, and im mediately Coffee and his friends ran off, and witness, for the third time, happily escaped without any per , sonal injury, but fright and fatigue. Upon these oc casions witness hada full opportunity of seeing the prisoner. Oa the witness being asked on her oath if she was taken off on these occasions -by force and against her consent ? she replied most determinedly in the affirmative and declared, that Wooer than con sent to marry •COffee she would cheerfully suffer to be torn to pieces. Catherine Ryan, mother of the last witness, corro borated her testimony. • Thomas Ryan, soft of A* lost witness, and brother of Honors, deposed that be knew Coffee; that in the month of April the prisoner and some other persons came into his cow-house; that when Coffee came in he saluted witness, and said he knew it was assuz a in y s in him to come to witness; but he said he ad witness bad raised part of his sister's fortune from . Mr. Pen . nefather.- Witness said he had only takes di' interest, which he and his mother were authorised to take. Prisoner then said, that if the witness would not give his consent to have his sister married to the prisoner, that he would suffer for it, if it were 'extol years after, for there was no one preventing the mar-' riage but him. To this the witness replied, that be and his mother were determined to withhold his sis ter's fortune, till they got a suitable match for ber. The case having ended here, Mr. 'JAMMU., pri. soner's advocate, said they would leavelle ettfejvich his Lordship and the Jury, and called no entwine' for the defence, nor as to character. The prisoner was convicted on one of the indictments, but as both are capital, that sufficed to determine hi's fate. . Eli:; [MULLEN. At the Enniskillen Assizes (which closed ea 144. , l • the day, the list ult.) John Keys was indicted Air murder afJatnie lteys, his father, on the 23d Arii last, at Shank itt this County. The fives witness called was Ann Keys, examined by Mr. &SUM Jontorron.--Decessed -was father, and prisoner is brother of witness; prisoner and de- I ceased went out on the-morning at the gild of April to mikes ditch ; they came home and dined to rdier that d4 ' ; they brought ouf spades with them tan the MOMS ; deceased &d not return in the even ting, but passer did, and bad two spades with him; the (wily asked prisoner where the deceased was ? be said he went a little above the house to look for a goat; prisoner supped with the &May and went to bed ; the family sat up later than awl, waiting for deceased to come in; be never returned ; the family became alarmed the day before the body of deceased was found ; witness told prisoner the day before that there would be more about it ; prisoner replied Ira did not value her. It was a little di: toned from the house where the body was found ; could not look at it; prisoner was not present at fiudipg the body ; wit ness has another brother (Thomas), who is not at home, and hod ale been at home for five weeks he fore that; uituess and tinily were afraid to make a r . lest-she laistrirldlllllo4 eana k • 81044 . 1 .* • bYet.allf..X4oll.l. l lo2ox.—Le ai is eh trier} to; his life, and, tbassirs tolis e he be contri4. sorrow inher mind surely as deceased and the prisoner worked , • for years ;on the day deceased was missed h ey were working as usual ; deceased was a strong, but not, a large man ; prisoner seat above 21 ; had an elder brother, who was *fast-writs with her father ; deceased gave part of his hind to prl snner to live on; her eldest brother old not stay with her father, but Went to the army ; deceased was kind enough to prisoner. It was the hallowday (Ist of N. trenther) before deceased WAS missing that prisoner got the laud; the sisters were well enough pleased at prisoner's getting the land.; her elder brother had never appeared since the death of her father; prisoner lived in the house with deceased for years (except odd days), and they dined, breakfasted, and supped together until the time deceased disappeared; they appeared friendly when they came home to dinner on the day deceased was 'missing; went out friendly enough after dinner ; there was some conversation about a goat; prisoner said the deceased had gone •up the rock to look for his goat ; it was not night fall when prisoner returned fiom the fields; witness saw some one on the rock, thought it was her father, but her little brother said it was he; her little brother is about thirteen years old ; witness told her sisters that she thought the person she saw on the rock was 'like her father; prisoner brought home two spades, his father's and his own; he came in, sat down, and talked as usual; had opportunities enough of run ning away the next day ; he dined 'and supped as ' usual next day and the day after ; prisoner woi ked some days with other people, but slept every night in his father's house, and had every opportunity of going away. By the CoURT.—It happened on the 23d of April. John Keys examined.— Is uncle of the prisoner, and was brother of the deceased ; recollects the time of the deceased James Keys' absence; made a search on May-day ; went with others to the house of de ceased at sun-rise; the door was shut; went in and saw Elizabeth, witness's niece : made search with one Richard Keys; prisotler came out of his father's house before witness went to search ; prisoner said he had not seen deceased fur eight days before, when he was ditching ; prisoner said deceased went to look for a goat, or to look for his (prisoner's) brother in the army; prisoner came out with witness and his patty; witness and two others were present when the body was found in a mountain, in a newly-made ditch, whit)) was about eight steps long ; there was a marsh ditch near this ditch, but it had no connection with it, it was useless as a fence; prisoner at this time was on a hill in view: witness brought a spade from the house of deceased, and fell to dig down the ditch; prisoner's sister was present ; witness dug down, and on the rim of the ground got a scraw, under which he discovered a body stark naked ; it was his bro.' ther's body ; there were marks of violence between the bead and neck as of blows.- As soon as witness* discovered the body of the deceased, he pursued the prisoner, who was then out of sight; witness myth* prisoner walking by a lough, in company with shoo- ther person ; when witness came up, prisoner jumoed, into the lough up to his shoulders, and said he would, ,drown himself; he would not come out ; and said to. witness. " Yoe accuse me of killing my father ; I will never stand on green ground again.; no one shall cast up to me that I killed my father." Prisbner re mained upwards of two hours in the lough ; when witness and those with him would go away, prisoner would come out to the shore, and when they would return he would go in again : witness told prisoner if he was an innocent man to come out, and go seek after his father, and that he (witness) would pay his expensh ; prisoner began to make his. will ; he re mained in the lough until William: Cullum, who could swim, came and fetched him out. James Keys sworn.—ls brother of John Keys, the prisoner.: remembers the day his father-was missing, Wu in the house after dinner ; did not see prisoner sad father go out together in the morning; saw them go, but after dinner; lived in the house with father's family : went to watch some goats that day. Janes Gordon sworn.—Knew deceased; was at the place his body lay about an hour or two after it was found ; remained there nearly two hours ; priso ner was th ere ell the time; it was about nineo r clock in the morning; Went with prisoner to Captain Faus- Ott's, the Alegi:trate; knew prisoner before; had no conversation with him going to the Magistrate's, but bed a conversation with him in the Magistrate's kit chen; theMagiseratewas not present. There was no hope or etpectation of forgiveness, or threat, held out to the prisoner by witness; had not seen the Magis trate at the-time; there was no constable there; wit 11e.10 erallsed 'behind prisoner ding to the Magistrate's house. Nemet saidhe had helped at killing his fa. thee; that he was not the wont, nor the first upon bim. Witness ;shed prisoner . wh:r was concerned 'with him? Prisoner hesitated,. then said, , 4 that his ride* brother Thomas had come td him the day he 'fore; and that they had agreed to kill .their father the nest day, that they might have his property.!" John • Cbtfigan exantined.—Xnew deceased ; was one of the persons who found his body ; prisoner was not then in tiew; the place where the body was found was like a grave ; it was covered with a cope sod in a ditch; the body was naked ; saw f,risOnet :e. few hours after in the lake; he saw nothing bdt his head and shoulders. Surgeon Leonard examined.—Recollects seeing * body which he vial brought to examineon May-dayt saw it at the place where it was found; he observed marks on it; there were two wounds, one of which seemed to have been inflicted with a blunt weapon, the other with a. sharp one; the former a contusimi over the right eye, the latter a wouhd on the back of the head near the neck, one end of which appeared to be deep; there were two ribs fi actured. These• wounds might have been the c au:to of deceased's death, but he has . seen men worse wounded recover. By the Comm—Thinks the deittli not occasioned by 'strangulation, but by temporal y syncope, and that the man might have been buried in that state although not dead. John Keys and James Gordon were recafled, rind examined by the Court. Nothing material was, however; elitited. Anne Wilson, examined by lkfr. Tr.tu - :;ns.—ls not 'related to the prisoner ; was in tha Magisttates hems! :sit the kitchen firs when the prisosier was bronM ;dim; there wtie several persons there; JAMS ( t om ri on on was there; he had been speakingas nitwits:ft* in; Captain F.tussett's maid was in the kitchen; tin. mild told the prisoner that if he would acknoWle.lo dray Sosid,libarate blot. -• - -i r-.2,1_,..: -. 7r. Cross-examined by 'Air. Jotimetera.....Thwe illioja . talk ihout prisoner being- naariiedito het %tangent:A witheii scarcely knows anyhodji`s naindbitt her eslitr attended at the Magistrate's; had cattlegratioilvirt prisoner ) and followed to see what would he with him; saw James Gordon in tho kitchen, tend 44 ,the room wri4ing with Captain Ftissett ; taw ;Loom Gordon and prisoner talking at the kitchen fife. - Jane Keys is- daughter of deceasedi nimollettna the 23.1 of April last : her father and lie l ther,lfo. prisoner, were ditching that day within a call ofMI) 'house; was within when they returned to dinnir,ind was there when her brother returned In the evening; he returned befor e nightfall; Bessy and Anne, let sisters, were in the house ; Anne went out, ar. I l aid when she came in, that she law her father on the trio of the rock ; prisoner slept at home that night, and for eight nights after; witness has an unclti-Joint; who would not speak to deceased or prisoner feta year or.more; he was not in her &thee:how,. for a year before that day. The Learned Judge (Jens) then recapitulated th whole of the evidence in a very accurate and peetpi. coons manner, commenting and explaining as he w along.' The Jury retired for nearly half an howiromd returned with a verdict of Guilty. His Lordship then addressed Vie prisoner at eel. siderable length, in terms the most feeling and its. pressive, expatiating on the enormity of his crimta. a crime rarely to be heard of among the Most bar. barous nations, and what is more to be wondered at, committed in a county distinguished in Yreland for its civilization. He exhorted the prisoner to make the best use of the short time now allotted to him, to appease his offended GOD by humble penitence and prayer, and concluded by pronouncing the awful sentence of the law. His Lordship's pathetic tad eloquent address made a most sensible impression OD the prisoner, and the whole auditory. The unfortu• nate man appeared deeply affected, and begged in tears to speak a few words. He said his brother, who was accused with him, had nothing to do in the murder nor had Anne Wilson or her daughte r eve r given him the slightest advice to commit the horrid deed: he alone conceived and perpetrated it. EXIDEUTION Or Keys.— Monday, about one o'clock, John Keys, convicted on Saturday of the murder of his own father, underwent the sentence of the law is front of the ja il of this town. From the moment ke was removed to his cell after condemnation, till the morning of his execution, the unhappy man evinced the most penitent dispositions, and was incessant is his supplications for mercy, fully confessing the enor mity of his crime. He acknowledged that he had been reared and lived in - total ignorance of all ridi gious knowledge: but that, _Since his confinement in jail, he derived such instruction from the school taught there, and reading the word of Gon, as led him to sock for pardon and salvation through the Ramtesttit.4 About half-past twelve on Monday, the prisoner sp. peared on the platform in front of the jail, intended by the Rev. Mr. Johnston, the Rev. Mr. Ovens, andthe proper officer!. He seemed perfectly resigned whit fate. There was an immense concourse ot spectatess assembled on the occasion, and he spoke a few wet* to an acquaintance whom he recognized - in the crowd* He then addressed the people generally, is a Sam tone of voice, repeating circumstantially the ail*: sion of his guilt, and exculpating from any partici.. pation in the foul deed, his brother and other perm.* whose names had been falsely implicated in theta.' action. Ht freely forgave his prosecutors, and col.' eluded by expressing his humble hope of mercy fur the sake and through the merits of Censer. 'As prisoner then joined the clergynien and others remit in fervent prayer, after which the eitecutiouer ptio .. seeded to do his duty, and in a feerlrainutes thew' fortunate man was launched into eteinity. - A letter has been received by the Mayor of Lys. caster, from Mr. Secretary Pest., stating that kink not probable there will be any alteration in the Assizes. The people of Liverpool and Mi ter have been snaking strenuous endeavours to the Assizes alternately intweeu those towns inid Lancaster. MINING INTELLIGIINCL—The Copper Ores wild 0: Truro on -Thursday, 2,105 tons; standard Xll9. its; For sale next Thursday, at Pool, 2,875 tons. ELECTION 701, Nissist-Curiut.—M the eendosice ofthiFfi, on Monday, for Vestry-Clerk of it. Mathew, iseassisi4M the numbers were—for Mr. Bretton IU4; for Mr. the r i • . ~ . ~ I .411 thl .tin • ilr obi .POI - . 1 tw v Dal • . 4ra tbar y. • Oa sad ' • • IY7l''. • Eaa Vol lull • .4" ~ a .4 1 4 -kot ; Tt *4' Pite •1. . Pii • 1111Z:it hi• the go ii,e.s4upi tied bp, ;.knows be asAvyt forty•eightJ 3 "iting N IL S strong feelings of away , to prioencei state ; de4 harged on the ____ __ in the fields together • Bland& • . ' • Thursday, at Hilton, the Lady of the Rev. 'DOW Me • " a l of a daughter. idg Saturday; at Mariann, in Dereetshire, tie lady d Wale. jiiiii Mamas Taylor, of a daughter. • ',ot.. 'or" MARRTRD. . 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