Star. — London, England, 1803-09-15 00:00:00

TRIM!? HOIISE ROW, vozzivrinEs. GENERAL oILDIRS. The Lieutenant-Colonel thinks it due to the very refpeetable Volunteers who coati- Lute the divifions of his Corps. to explain why they : have not been earlier called upon,to fulfil that part of their duty which confitts in training for fervice, when the offers of the Corporation were accepted on the Toth July. and the Country throughout produc ing the moil animated exertions—exertions that con fer infinite honour on the fpirit and energy of the Zritiih charafier, and which saloon furrounding Nations. • The delay has in part arifen from the cattle& de. fire to obtain that fanftion and authority which would have been more anslagous to former habits and edu cation, as well as more congenial to a feaman's feelings. But the rigid rules of the Naval Service, even tinder the prefling exigency of affairs it was thought unadvifeable to Infringe :—Yet under filch an exi gency, it would have been on our part Unpardonable to have been tenacious—our Country required our example and Our fervices—wi ought rather to revere the inflexible iteadinefs of the principle which con stitutes one of the chief bulwarks of that maritime pre-eminence which dirifies the Nation than either el arraign it, or be difpored to tonfide; it as an in tentional difregard t . His Matssrv, his Mittens and the Country at large, entertain a moil favourable opinion of eke. salters trained from early life to the ufe of great guns. Oar offers of fervice were in a line not ufual, were underflood to be much wanted, and therefore have 1j en accepted by his Mai airy in a manner that con firms their value and importance. - To be eminently ufeful in fuck a aids, is becom ing the dinette: . of Erni fh feathen i and though many tilus, from our years, may be confidered as inva lided, the oceafion (hall renovate us, and our hearts and inclinatiima be in unifon with thole of the 'oungeft amon gft us. The period is an awful one ; the flake never before fo important I—it is liberty or slavery, mid Revery of the molt direful changer I—let every man's heart Fine& to him what he it to expea if fubdued.— Thh thought alone reconciles all difficulties in our way to be fully prepared 1 we will realise the expec tations of our countrymen, and be one of the means, tinder Dims ottosnee, of frullrating the de- Egos of a power ful, inward,, and enterprifing foe. To explain the 'attire of the fervice we have under taken, is to facilitate its caseation. A line of hips is to be Rationed aerofs the en trance of the Thames, above tale Lower Hope Point, and to be fo cennefted as to forma boons and bat tery, las far as walkable, that will °banal the paf rage of in enemy up the river.-this pats it is our province to defenii--the fenrice is ftatioaary, but Impo tint s and the whole maritime eetansernity will 'twin us in the probable event of inva fi on..we are m ien alto to an batteries on the River's hanks, or up within ten miles of the metropolis: the lottery and flip gun, with the ah of the boarding etwill be our chief wEaptian-.but in proceeding one poll to another, oar own fafety may coa l* in fi eld artillery and our pikes--belies the ne lielfity of Mint la Rro&r.d in their ufe.-the band oe and the au*ne may oecalionally be refort gara d , when numbers bumf., and thus be fully cow &tent topcoat sad defend our poll. A portion of the cortis not exceeding one fourth is propoAd to be afloat. a week at a tinse.--arvangements muff there fore be made ; privations Inuit be undergone ; last in a cash like the prefent-r-it would be as cfifereditable as impolitic, to relax in our gluttons, and the Lieu• tenant-Colonel fully relies on the attention, energy, and ready compliance of the Volunteers to fit them hima far a*ual and effictetit fervice. Covent Osamu Ta airar.—Tbe very excellent Comedy of 21. Si#tiost IliAmsl was !aft night per formed. Lawts's was as attnaive as ever; slbd Mrs. Giovsairiede, and Koran's Yeti Mad, afforded unconitneen illeafure. The Opera of 49 a tollokwed, for the purpofe of introdaang Mifs MARTYR, by whole ading and frog. ing the heroine of the piece was rendereciextremery finterelling. Mr. fec‘snor was the Bolvalk. He Met with a very warm reception after his narrow efrape from the perils of the yea. The clear receipt of the play en SatUrday the 3d lull, at Liverpool, for the benefit of the Patriotic Fund, amounted to 3171 ts. 6d. We have the pleafure of informing our Readers, that three barge loads of exotic plants from Guiana, which it took many years to coiled, have been lately captured in Punion, on their way to France = and were yefterday fafely depofited in his Majelty's Bo tanical Garden at Beer. On Monday fenaight. Mr. joie WALTON; game. keeper to HURT Biuwosit, Efq. of Ince, for a triter) wager went oat with a double barrelled gun, ascended by one dog; and is the courfe of the day killed sal brace orartridges, being morn than kill. he had engaged to' Yefterday, about three thlock, t 1 man decently dreffed is black, with a large fkrbiti by MI fides en• tend ik-ames's Palace, and was ptotiedinj op (lain(laintewa J ds the Levis, when the Yeoman the Guards inquired of hiss where he was going, be not being in a Court drefs ; he replied, he was going to the Duke of PORTLAND he was informed he - could not proceed any further to fee the Duke there, but he perfilled, and Paid the Duke was to lay his claims to an elate which he was kept out of by Lord Otos, rostraiar t and that he was brother to Admiral Sir RICHARD BICRIRTON ; and by virtue of the noble family to which he was allied he carried the fwOrd by his fide, which cut en both fides. He likewife pro. duced the following extraordinary paper, and there was annexed to it a likcnefs of himfelf, and his coat of arms : Muhum Delideratem I or a few Hints mandig the lichen toes who lived is Chain, after they came Into is‘rod with Witham the Cseq.etar I and refpedleg the R. J. Ilithenells M. C. P. goon's Orford. el the lane Family; together with a mod& Addrefa to We Prism* he. to Whew then how they may be rich sod hap lo the }Wen tine and hone, with a Re minted= of the Tian Bread Arrows. the Pardies Con of Ana% and of the aforehid Perke..—itegristed by the dein of, and to accommodate his Priced% who Ike at a Mane." He refuting to leave the Raircafe, Sayers and Townfend, the Officers attending, took him into eof tidy, and forced the fword from him, and took him Ware Sir Riot. Fat , at his bode in Sloane•llrtet. D/BLIN. •SBP7 1.. This day, a very celebrated negociator of forged Bank Notes, of the name of Behan, after whom the mole alive fearch has been making for Tome time back, was arrefted l Mr. Webb, the Lottery Office keeper, of Dame-ftreet ; to whole clerk, Behan had fome months fince pared feveral forged notes ; but their forgery being detected immediately afterwards, payment of the draft on the Bank, which the clerk had given Behan, was (topped. The draft was pre fented at the Bank, by a man in very good eircum fiances, of whom, of courfe, firong fufpicions are entertained ; indeed, it is fuppofed that many pefons of refpeaability in trade, have been conneaed with Behan ; for, otherwife, his depredations could never have been fo extenfive. It is Paid, that he has con trived to negociate not lets than ao,oool. worth of Bank notes. He mull therefore have had many ac complices ; a vaft number of forged notes were found upon him, at the time of his arreil. After undergo ing a long examination at the fuperintertdant Magif trate's Office, he was committed to Newgate. RUSSET. THE REBEL CHIEF. It was owing to a Mr. EMIRSOII,_of the Attornies Corps, that Ru ff el was arrefted. Mr. Ellt it Imo* had received information which was obtained through the vigilance of the Divifional I nfpcilorof the Diftri it,that a aranger of fufpicinus appearance was obferved in the honfe of a Mr. Mussr, gun.maker, in Parliament- Rivet. This ciretunftance Mr. Emeasow immediately communicated to Mr. Secretary MARSDEN, by whom he was referred to Major Stu. Mr. Ew eason ac cordingly called upon the Major la(' night, and ac companied by him and Lieutenant Mumma, with a detachment of Captain Gassea's Corps of Yeoman ry, .under the command of Lieutenant Bsrow, pro ceeded to the hence in queftion alma ten o'clock left night, where in a garret room they difcevered the perfon whole ondu& had excited fufpicion. On their attempting to etamine him he drew forth two loaded piftols, which he (napped at them, but both of them miffed fire. Being recogniAd by Simi, as Reid the rebel general, he was felted And taken to the Cattle. He reprefented hinthelf as Mr. Tmoseas, but Sill had reconciled him force be was a ?Wooer in Newgate, and upon being taken to the Cattle, he was immedi ately identified by an old acquaintance of his, the Hon. Captain Knox, fon of Lord Northland, under whofe patronage Ruffel once was, tintil be bad for feited it by his political principles. Other Northern Gentlemen who were at dinner with Mr. Wscs ma st, alto knew Ruffel. After he had acknowledged his real name, he avowed his purport in in coming to the country, and fpoke in the holden language of the 4 , glorious carafe" in which be has engaged. I , It is that ( laid he) for which I would meet death with A:Are, either in the field or on the feaffold—but do not imagine that my death, or that of hundreds, will avail to Tecate the exigence of your power—No ! Though my arrelt may prove Tome embarraihnent to my friends, the organization is too extenfive, and the plan too well laid, to entertain a doubt that the obje& will ever be relinquifited." He was enineed la* night in the Wile, and was examined this day before the Privy Council i—where, I underhand, be maintained the fame tone. He abated the fyftem of the Government, and in fait, the whole (imitate of the Conffitutioa. He reprobated particularly the conduit of the late Adminiftratioa towards Ireland. Various reafoes are awned for his coining to toeit at this particular time, for he had not been many days in DubM : tome hate that be meditated ano ther infurreaion immediately ; and others, that his intention was, with a chofen band, to attempt the refene of Mr. Emmett, who is Paid to be eoofidtred of the higheft confequenee, from his abilities. Rued has been long diftinguithed for fup -wkrity of talents, particularly as a military man. He combines all the *dour and perfonal courage of Lord Edward Fitzgerald to a much greater *gree of military (kill. I underhand that he has ferved both in the Kaft and Well Indies, and ie the latter with great credit in the fame regiment with General Knox , with whom be went to Ireland, and was very atten tively treated by the Northland family, through whole intereft he was appointed a magiftrate of the county of Tyrone, and he lived for fume time at Dettigannon 1 but in confeinence of a difference with the Northland family, entirely arifing from politics, he removed to Bath, where he refided until the year 1192, when be was arrefed, with Samuel NO. fon and others, and conveyed to Newgate, Dublin s there he remained a prifoner until a 79& whet he was lent with Arthur O'Connor and others to Fort . St. George, in Scotland.—At the concluftoa of the IA peace be was, with the other Frifoners.llberated.and, he preened to France. He loved in Paris during the peace, and was obferved to be intimately acquainted with many of the Members of the French govern ment. and with reverts' of the fira Generals in France. Immediately fabfequent to the declaration of war, he was mead haw Paris, and fines then it is concluded that be his way to Ireland. Rufel. though a the proceedings in 1798, appeared to C r e lf : s ery lir m ." ;:ni the confidence of the leaders of the inihrreeion at that period. It was remarked by the gaoler of the prifon in which be was confined, that he was frequently vifited by Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Arthur O'Connor, Thomas Addis Emmet, 'Oliver Bond, Dr. Id'Nevia, the Sheares's; and all the other chiefs of the isdhneition of 1798, by enter other of them ahnoft every day. This naturally induces a fofpicion that be was highly eflimated among them. It is reported that it was intended, in the event of their heeds, to appoint hint to a very important command, namely to that of the North. where he was then extr mely popular. Great reliance was always *iced upon his profelfional knowledge and fidelity. and on that account it is (aid be was frequently confulted. Rule) was very liberally edu cated, and is foam pamphlets written by him up= the Rate of Ireland previous to 1798, he nsanifefted confiderable genius and informatim. He is about fix feet high, of a very noble mind, a remarkably wen proportioned nature, and very marked coun tenance. His mind hems Rrong. ins eonverfation is very intereffing, where he is difpofed to be com municative ; but be is in general referved. His man. ners are highly Fainted. On the whole, he appears to be amazingly well calculated to conciliate attach ment and infure obedience. Muley, in whore houfe he was arrelle , l, has been committed to prifon, and all the arms tit Lis houfe have be= taken to the adds. OLD BAILL►I: Yeftentay the Seriions commenced before Mi. Baron HOTHAM, Mr. JUOiCe Ls BLANC, Sir ALLAH Cnestste, the RECORDER, and the City Officers. Raphael Martha, an Italian, was firif put upon Els trial, but, on account of his not underflanding the Englifh language fitfficiently, an interpreter was or dered him by the Court, that he might underhand what was Paid againit him, and be able to esprefs his own ideas to the Jury and the Court. No interpre ter being then pi-4.cent, the Court humanely ordered that his trial (hould be pciftponed till to-morrow, when fuch a perfon will be provided. Twenty prifoners were tried, four of whoth were capitally convicted, viz. ilminab Barton, a girl of only about firteen years of age, for healing feveral articles of plate, by breaking open the dwelling of Mr. Robert Gordon, her late mallet, at Sttpney, on the tith of Auguh laft. She had quitted the fcrvice of that Gentleman force time, was a fhort time in the employ of another perfon, but was then out of place. The evidence againft her appeared to be molt clearly and confcientioufly given. Some of the articles were found upon her perfon, and others were obtained accordin to her direction, Three witneffes gave her an exce llent character for induary and honefty, and (he was recommended to mercy by both the Profecutor and the Jury. William Basilian, for felonioufly entering the dwel ling houfe of Mr. Davenport, .mealman, of Stains, and taking thince one bulhel and three pecks of flour, the property of Mr. Davenport ; and Jame, Sparks, for being an accomplice . in the robbery. Frederick Charles Davenport hated, that he faw the prifoner Boulton while he, (Mr. Davenport) was in an oppofite houfe, try the latch of the mill door ; and after about a minute had elapfed, obferved him try the door again, and enter. Shortly after he faw him, with a light, going up (lairs. Q_ Did you fallen your doors, and how ? A. I did, at eleven o'clock, by barring them. Did you leave any one in the mill ? A. Yes; my tervant James Sparks, who was grinding below.' (List what diflance were you from the mill when you tult faw the prifoner try the latch ? A. About ten yards, in an oppofite houfe. I faw him Rop twice before he came to the door. Q. Did you obferve a bag in the poffeffion of the prifoner ? A. I did not. Q, You few him with a light go up Rain in the milli A. Yes; and in about five minutes I few the prifoner come down with the flour on his back, which was a quarter of an hour after he had fiat entered; be (but the door, and I immediately followed and (cited him by the collar, then called my father, who affifted me in taking him to the cage, whilli my bro ther remained with the flour in the greet. I did not go into the Mill till half an hour after we fecured the ptifoner Bonbon. We then likewife took the parr Per Sparks to the cage. Thomas Davenport corroborated the evidence of his brother, F. C. Davenport. The prifoners being called on for their defence, left it to their Counfel.—Guilty. Jabs Past, for a capital offence in felonioufly pa tios off and circulating as true certain counterfeit coins, in the liken& and fimilitade of the current coin of the realm—ht being convidied of a like of fence bifore. The Record of the Prifonees conviction for a fimi ler offence, at the Middlefex Scions in February tBo2, was given in evidence by Mr. Powell, Solici tor, and Mr. Roberts of the New Prifon, Clerken well, depoted to his being in his cuftody one year after the Paid conviction. The prefent cafe againft the Prifoner, which was conducted by Mr. KNOLLTS, 'Mounted to his having put off, on the tab of Anna, a counterfeit *'billing at the Cagle Public-hook, Fortmal-llretii Lincoln * " Inn Tields, in payment for a glare Of gin. Shortly after it was d&oversd to be bad, and carefally laid &fide. However, on the nett day, the Primer came and ape d for font trilliOgenietalatter, IS width . Soane, the mimes of the him with haviaff pot off a bed ban dm da c y= and fidpuffing bins to be a profereduneter, bad an Aker fent for. He led the prifoner into a back room, and fat down betide him, while the officer was fent for; while they were thus 6tuated, the Prifoner put his bad into his pocket and took out fomething, whirl Trly be defigned to throw away, on which e got np, and laid hold of his arm, with a view to prevent him, when the Prifoner forced his hmialowards his month, and, pat in fanething in his numb; it appeared to the Witnefs to be a counter hit billing. He ?pliantly (wallowed it, and Mr. Some defcribed that he felt it going down his throat. The /Wooer on being fearched, had five or fix pen nyworth of copper money about him. Mr. Meacelin of the Mint proved that the (Lilting produced in Court, and which bad been taken /tom the Prifoner, was a very bad one. The Priloner's defence not being in the ftightefi degree fatisfaeory, the Jury immediately found him Cropet—Drati. Eight were convicted of felony, viz. T. dies+ and yeas Pilfer, for privately (haling in the dwelling houfe of their matter, Mr. Donut, 35. Brutowfireet, divers articles of wearing apparel. Mr. Dwatt Rated, that he bad milted numberlefs things for Come months pall He rather fa - paled that his fervent" matt know foniething of them. On the 3d of September lift be took his man finest is his chalk with him in the morning; leaving orders, that as officer might be fetched from Marlborough freer to interrogate the prifoner, Jane Proffer, as to the property loft. He kept his man fervent out till near two o'clock. When he returned, he charged the officer with him. He had waited tome time to fee his property go; but abfiained from accufing the prifoners till this event. The Police Officer 4,4,4 1 that he fearched thig female fervant's box in her pretence, and found fame of the articles mentioned be 1 the indictment. He alto examined the man fervaat's bolt, and found Come table linen and other articles,' the property of his make., in their pretense. He knew nothing more. He fecured the prifoners. Crofreitansined by Mr. ALLY. Q_ Did the partners willingly give up die keysof theioires t A. Yes; perfeMy James Dore, the Mal witnefs, raid, be was fervent to the pawnbroker. Mr. Bureafter Rated, that a young woman. apparently to him the fema:L e lz ner at the bar, brought table sign wbe on width he las 79. id. Mrs. Doratt (mother of the profeentor) identified the property milling. Q2ellion frc.m the prifoner. C4n you (wear to the property ! A. Not to all ; though I can venture to Oat that it is my property. John Ailarnby, the prifuner, being called on for his defence, Rated, that he bad received the gold pin produced from the female fervant, and a flyer tongue fcraper (likewife produced) which he fated to have found in a box among tome rubbilh. Jane Proffer being called on for ber defence, Rated, that Mrs. Doratt had faid to her, (he might have the things found in her box.—Guilty. The prisoners were neither of them at years of age ;—and from their appearance, much excited the attention of the Court. Jane: ifyrcr was tried for picking pockets. Mr. Lewis Owen, an ironmonger in iket freer, faid s that on the evening of Saturday the 27th of Augult, he went from his houfe into the Strand, and feting a crowd (landing round a perfon who was in fits, he went and mixed with the crowd. He was not there two minutes, when an alarm was given that a pocket was picked ; he turned round, and found he had loft his pocket handkerchief. A young man who was prefent, collared and fecured the pritoner. The name of this young man is March ; he laid he flaw the pri. toner take a yellow tilk handkerchief from die pocket of Mr. Owen. The father of March, who is a Con fable, and keeps a !bop in Fleet-freet, corroborated this evidence, and the prifoner was found Guilty. Mr. March, fen. in anfwcr to a qoeflion from the Bench, raid, he had often ken the prifoner in com pany with pickpockets in Fleet-Ilreet. Milian Ire/and was indided for healing 2 yards fi i s of Irith linen, in the dwelling - houfe of Mr. eanings, of Cheaplide, being the property of Me rs. &fp, , Rawden, and Jennings. The Clerk belonging to thefe parties raid, that on the rgth of Augutt, he came down (lairs, and raw the prifoner and another man in the paffage, cutting i a large pack of goods. When they were dircorered they ran away down Fofter-lane. The prif mar had a knife in his hand, and threateaed to flab feveral perfons who attempted to &cure him ; but he was at length taken, and the other got of. At a mart diflance from the door of Mr. Jennings he threw away the goods laid in the indi&ment. The prifoner, when called on for his defence, faid. he was able to ferve his King and Country. The Jury found him Guilty, but not capitally. .7. Pantie, for Reeling a cloth coat, and other ar ticles, the property of Michael Hinehe ; Sarah rag, for Reeling three one pound flank Notes, the pro. pert y of Elisabeth Taylor; W. Tyler, for Iteati 2.t ( ilk handkerchiefs, and other articles, the property of Maks. Clay and Smith; and Hauus This, for Reding a flyer fpoon, and other articles, the property of L Williams. And eight were acquitted, among whom gobs Irma flood indided for Wilfully (hooting with a pillol at Sarah Fox, and wounding her on the a4th of May left, in the parilli of Marrla-Bonne. Sarah Fox, fervent to Sir Ralph Woodford. de. pofed, that (be was a fellow fervent along with this prifoner in Sir Ralph's family, the prifoner being the Butler. On the a4th of May LIR, about half paR 52 o'clock at night, when two maid fervants • were in the kitchen along with her, the prifoner came in, and brought with him three pub is in his h clearing all the femme fair then prefent to Rand clear. Soon after be had entered, he pzintsrd one of the pillols at the witnefs, and drew ilk but it flatbed in the pan. He then laid that down, took another and fired it off at the wissefs, and wounded her feverely in the &milder. the had . tried to get away, immediately after be had pefettteg the firft one; but the could not, as he ted the other immediately after. She fell down breathlefe l , and could not be fenfible of any thing that afterwards. She bad ao quarrel whatevertr the prifoner during all the time the had lived in the houfe win; him, which was foe the 4am of nearly two years and a half. He appeared to her to be perfolly (ober, and the had no reeks to ezped_ ldsat be would aft in fuel a manner, 6°6th: ti l l : l IblllettiMa behaved rudely to her, sad hie before without Aping any elan She believed that the LA thee he threatened her, was about a Ihmaight previous to this event. She had no restos to fuppofe that be was out of has mind. She hid the prifoner had, been married. bat Ms wife was now dead, and be bad never paid his addraes to her. Elizabeth Harding faid the was pretest in the hitches at the time tMs event took place, though the was not a fervent in the famOy i the bevies goes -. there at the requeft of the girl's mother. The reatim aifigned fur talking her to go to Sir Ralph's highs pi that late hour. was berade the gid laid &a MGR not venture into the kitchen berfelf. Sarah 74111111‘ her mother acquainted the witnefs with the mom in which the prifoner bad behaved to the forage, and the witnefs faid it would be proper that Sank Gadd come aw and leave him. The cook add the +bads that Wragg was a comical Mad of a fel low, and that he had threatened to take away the life of Sarah For.. He west ieto the per. and the mother and 'the withers followed him. The wit:. nets shed him what be meant by afing Sarah Os ill He anfwertd, that he did not Mb her ill. The= the "shads, 0 for what do you kin ia desk concealed in a pair of Mete, end fteimee m Wm her brains oat P He Rat perfevered la 10. *MOW ings, and faid be would pot these into execution. if the (meaning Sarah) fad not Me hand to a paper which he had prepared and for the purpoft. The witnefs never knew what oaten of the paper was to which be alluded. He added, that, " there was one for her • sad one fee me." He did sot teem inclined to talk to the wit. nets; but faid be would talk with the e rrs amber cosi fo the witnefbldt him in the pantry. He a perfealy fober. The witnefs faid to the th at as the did not like Wragg's behaviour, it emallibs better to let the girl go home to her mother. 'II* were OR about going off at twelve o'clock. wkem the paean came in with three patois. He ibid e whoa he entered—es New I fret it yes fa ado • .... Ave a r dlitirie u refearr ie his mild." The IMP her, on hearing the prrforaer talk then rag elf, ao., coaspanied by the bouts-maid. The girt ran Waded the cook. sad the witnefs. in order to fat= bust and the (Sarah) remained abed. when the primer pointed the piaci at her face. The cook at this time run away, fo that there were none left in the kitchen but the girl and the witnefs, betides Wregg. The wimets begged him for God Almighty's Ms sot te [Tura ever. FA. M► At Us. Isa nal 11111. ace )in• and lon. 'Vs,