Star. — London, England, 1822-12-10 00:00:00

BREADALBANE'S MARCH: , ' OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. Strike up the pibroch, 'till echoes the mountain-4 , Strike up the pibroch, 'till echoes the fountain ; Quick draw your broad swords, and on for the foray, And hey for the hil:e and the mountains of 'Moray ! Strike up the pibroch, 'till hills of Kindrogan Ring wits the not( < o the terrible slogan ! Strike up the pibroch, till mountain and Corr* Shall wail for the sons of the mountains of 'foray ! Wave shall each bush, each briar and bramble.— Shake shall each cairn with the tread of the Caasnitts; Wave &all our banners, all bloody and gory, O'er the dead sons of the mountains of Money ! Quake shall each ravine, each torrent, and river z Ballet% Ben-lawns, and Benlomond shall qUiVel BISADALIANZ, undaunted, shall triumph in glory O'er the proud sons of the mountains of 'Moray ! Quick on his foes see the CAIMULL is rushing— See from their bosoms life's torrent fast gushing ! - While the coronach echoes from mountain and corns, A sad williwa to the daughters of Moray ! X. Yesterday, Mark Herd, Wm. Watts, James Browne, and Thomas Fuller, were indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of James Alexander de Reymar, and stealing therein fourteen silver spoons, value £lO, and other property ; and Charlotte Batifseld, for being an accessory after the fact, by harbouring them, &c. well knowing them to have been guilty of the burglary. The witnesses, by desire of the ptisoners, were or dered out of Court during the trial. James Alexander de Reymar deposed, that he reified the house No. 12, Euston-place, St. Pancras, and had lived there six years. His house was broken open in the night of the 13th and 14th of November. When he went to bed his doors and his shutters were all fast. Ile heard no noise to alarm him in the course of the night ; hut on coming down stairs the next morning about seven o'clock, inconsequence of what teas said to him by his cook, he found his back kitchen window tie, the max k of an instrument on the sill of the window, and a square hole recently cut in the shutter inside. The fastening of the window was broken off, and was found on the floor. To get to this window the parties must have climbed a wall ten feet high, as the premises were not open to the back, but bounded by a tow of houses. The witness then described the manner in which the burglars had forced out the pannel of a door to get into his par lour, and stated, that he found that fourteen spoons had been taken from the sideboard in the parlour, worth at least £9, a penknife, a plated winefunnel man th £l, a tortoise-shell snuff box mounted in gold, value 10s. and a fleam. On the Monday folloWing, he saw at the Police Office, Westminster, the whole of this property, and recognized it as his own. He could net of his awn knoa ledge state who committed the robbery. Cross-examined by Mr. LAM-It was broad day light at seven o'clock when he discovered the robbery. Charlotte Burge, cook to Mr. de Reymar, corro borated this statement, and added, that an umbrella of her fellow-servant had also been taken away by the persons who had committed the robbery. Thomas Pace deposed, that he apprehended all the prisoners about seven o'clock in the morning of the lid] of November, at No. 13, Castle-street, Seven Dials, assisted by his brother officers Cooper and Handley. They found the door of that house open, and went up stairs to the attic, where they found an umbrella very wet. The witness listened at the door, and heard, as he thought, the voices of several men conve; sing in a vet y low key. Ile then burst int. the room, and found some silver plate lying on the table. Watts, Fuller, and Browne, were then sitting round the fire ; Herd and Bonfield were in bed toge ther. Witness ran up to Watts with a drawn cutlass, and told him he would run him through the body if he stirred a step. His brother officer Handley ran to the bed, and placed a pistol at Herd's head, whilst the Other officer, Cooper, secured the property on the table, which consisted of fourteen table spoons and a wine-funnel. Witness then proceeded to handcuff Fuller and Browne; whilst he was doing so, the snuff-box dropped front Fuller or Watts, he could not say which. Handley in the meantime handcuffed Watts. After these three prisoners had been secured, they ordered Herd to get up and dress himself, which he did. He put on all his clothes but his coat,which was banging up on a chair ; as be took it from thence, a knife, which the witness produced, fell from the pocket. They then ordered the woman Banfield to get up also. Cooper then asked to whom the plate belonged ? but to the best of the witness's recollection, none of the prisoners made any answer. The witness then searched the room, and by the %iglu hand side of the fire-place he found a board loose in the floor. Under that board, but at some distance from it, he fOund five skeleton keys, and several other implements of house-breaking. On the back of the chair where Fuller-sat there was a blue coat very wet, and on the bed a pair of worsted stockings very wet and very dirty. The pi isoners were theta taken to the Police Office, where they gave no account of the reason which had brought them all together. Browne's whole clothing was very wet ; so had been the shoes' of all the party ; but at the time he apprehended them they appeared to be fresh dried. Their hats were also wet. On the Monday following, the witness went with Cooper to Mr. de Reymar's house, and on examining the marks of violence in it,,found them to correspond with the implements of housebreaking found in the prisoners' apartment. It is half an hour's walk from Mr. de Rey mar's house to the place where that apartment is, and in his opinion the break ing into the house and the taking away of the pro perty must have occupied three-quarters of an hour. This witness was cross-examined at some length, but nothing material was elicited from him. He said *hat the female prisoner was very ill when appre hended, from the effects of some blows she had re ceived recently. Mr. de Reymar was here called to prove that the Life and snuff-box producedby the last witness were property. To the first he spoke doubtingly, to last positively. Joseph Cooper, one of the Police officers who had accompanied Pace, corroborated his testimony in all .iaterial points. He found fourteen silver spoons, wbiolt he produced, on the table, wrapped up iu a 'blue rag, very Wit likeirfee — Mice tunnel, which he also produced. . • • Mr. de Reynier then looke d at lifie‘ spoons; he knew them to be his by the initials. Re could not speak so positively as to the wine funnel; he believed it, however, to be his. John Edward Handley gave,the - same account as the former police officers of the apprehettaitM of the prisoners. He. produced the umbrella taken away from Mr. de Reymar's house ; it was recognized by that gentleman's cook. This was the evidence on the pah of the prosecu tion.,..-The prisoners wag then called on for their' defence. Mark Herd stated that he had never been nut of his bed all that night, except when he got up to let the other prisoners in. William Watts said fiat Fuller and he went to Herd's to get some breakfast. Not finding him at home, they waited till he returned. He returned in a quarter of an hour, and shortly afterwards they were all seized by the police officers. Thomas Fuller made the same defence. James Browne said that he called in at Herd's as he was passing by, and declared his total ignorance . of the robbery. Charlotte Bonfield declared that she had been in bed with Herd from eleven o'clock at night, and • said that there were two very decent persons who could prove it.—These two persons.were called for, but did not make their appearance. • • The RECORDER then summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guiky against all the prisoners. The RECORDER recommended the four male pri soners to prepare themselves for the worst, and to make the best use of the time they had before them, as their offence was of a very serious nature, and one which it was necessary should be visited with severity. He was proceeding to address them further, when the female prisoner, Charlotte Banfield; was seized with an hystetic affection and carried out of C(furt in strong convulsions. He then again bade the four male prisoners to prepare for the worst. As to the woman, her offence wasolii very distinct and differ ent nature. . The Recoeuen then called up the three police of. liters who had apprehended this gang of burglats, and told them that the Court returned them its best thanks for the courage and vigilance which they had displayed in the capture of these offenders. fie should take care that tile utmost expenses which the law could award should be paid to them by the cdunty. He also reminded the prosecutor, Mr. de Rey mar, that it was to their daring and act vity that he was indested for the restoration of his property. Mr. de Reymar begged the Court to grant him its attention for a moment. As the prisoners at the bar had not used any personal violence, or given any alarm to any part of his family, he wished to recom-. mend them to the mercy of the Sovereign. The RECORDER informed him that his recommen dation should be I tisi before his Majesty, when the fate of these offenders came under consideration. Frederick Middlesex was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and hard labour for feloniously utter ing hase silver. Eli a Physick, a pretty girl about twenty years of age, was indicted for rubbing Mr. Baker, tallow chandler, of Foley-street ; and Sopleia Stephenson was charged with having received the stolen pro perty, knowing it to have been illegally come by. The prisoner Physick, it appeared, was a house servant to the prosecutor, and, after a service of three days, she decamped with his cash-bor, contain ing certain writings and papers, two five-pound notes, eight soveieigns, and a guinea. The evidence against her was conclusive; she was apprehended at . Chatham on the 2d of November, (five days after the robbery,) and confessed the fact. Stephenson, who was a woman about 40, kept a house of ill.fame in Westminster. It was proved that she had received the property from Physick immediately after the robbery ; that she had changed one of the .51. notes under circumstances of concealment, and that she had given false accounts as to the manner of her beconong possessed of it. • Physick admitted her guilt, but said that Ste phenson was innocent; she had not known the pro perty to be stolen. Stephenson said that she understood the property to have been a bequest from Physick's grandfather. The RECORDER charged the Jury that the offence of the first prisoner was capital. The Jury, against both, found a verdict of Guilty, Mr. Baker (the prosecutor) then stood up, begged to recommend Eliza Physick to mercy.— lie had great reason to believe that the whole had been done at the instigation of the prisoner Stephen. son ; and that the bulk of the money had fallen into her hands. When he (Mr. Baker) had apprehended Physick at Chatham, he had found her without a shilling ; and he heard she bad been sent away from Stephenson's house two days after the robbery with only eight shillings in her pocket. The fteconnEtt said that Mr. Baker's recommen dation should be attended to, and would doubtless have its weight. For the prisoner Stephenson, he should at once inflict upon her the severest punish ment the law would allow ; and she might prepare 'herself, therefore, to be transported for a term of fourteen years. James Montgomery was indicted by Me. Toplis, of St. Paul's Church-yard, for obtaining money from him under false pretences. Mr. BRODERICK opened this case. The defendant, he said, was employed by Mr. Toplis as foreman in the painting business. Mr. Toplis was a house-agent and upholsterer ; and having occasion to employ carpenters, painters, and other workmen to fit up houses, his custom was to engage one man as fore man, who hired others under him and paid their wages, .charging the amount to Mr. Toplis. The defendant Montgomery, haiing been retained as one of these foremen, had hired workmen at one rate, and charged them to Mr. Toplis at another; and in this way (overcharging the wages of four men in one week) he had robbed the prosecutor of 168.6 d. Mr. ADOLPH us, for the defence, insisted that Mont gomery was a master painter, and that he got work men as cheap as he could, charging a certain price to Mr. Toplis, who was bound to object if he thought., himself imposed upon, and not to charge the defend,. ant with fraud. The four men (at to whom the overcharge was imputed) were called for the prosec u tion ; but they all distinctly stated, .sti. orotaletiMinitThis, 'that they were hired by Montgomery as a master, paid, by, him, and dismissed by him ; and; in faet.,•-that knew no other employer. Mr. ADOLPHUS, after addressing the Jury on the part of Montgomery, called a number of witnesses. Two of these were men charged for toToplis on the same account as to Which the overchnrge was im puted; and it appeared that,. if the four first witnesses had received less than Montgomery charged for them, these two men received more. Several tradesmen of wealth and respectability were called, wholvad known the defendant many years, and employed him as a master painter ; and all gave him a high cha- . racter for fair dealing and skill in 'his -business. It appeared further, that there was a suit pending be tween the prosecutor and Montgomery, for stoney which the latter claimed, and theformer refused to pay. Mr. BRODERICK was rising - to reply, but the Jury (who had been impatient for some time) declared themselves satisfied that no fraud was intended. The COI6IbION SERJEANT said that, at• least, it was a very doubtful case, and the defendant received a very high character.—Verdist, Not. Guilty. knife his p the I . Jo 'tee° anatc whic • • • MIDDLESEX SESSIOA S. The trial of Clarkson, yesterday, excited a good 'heal of interest, in consequence of its producing the attendance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Lowther, the prisoner being indicted by John Anderson for having obtained money from him un der the pretence of procuring him a place in the Treasury, in the course of which fraudulent transac tion he had shewn prosecutor a document purport ing to bear the signatures of the Noble Lord and the Right Hon. Gentleman. They in consequence at tended to prove the signatures attached to such do cument were not their hand-writing. The llinister and the Lord of the TreaSury sat on the bench on the tight of the Chairman (Mr. CONST). It appeared Anderson advertised for a place, and prisoner an•' swered the advertisement. After some negotiation £lso.was paid to the prisoner, who, however, took. the preCaution of giving his note for the sum, hoping thereby to make a simple contract debt of the negocia tion.—The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of £lOO and to be imprisoned one year. James Davis was indicted for assaulting William Gibbs, a Custom-house officer. The prosecutors in this case were the Commis sioners of the Customs; and their legal represents• Live, Mr. BOLLAND, stated, on the29th of Ju'.y the prosecutor was going along the Commercial-toad, when he was met by the prisoner, in a gig, who pulled up, and asked him to buy a French watch, upon which the duty had not been paid. The officer, full of amor ojicii, on bearing this, said he must seize it. The prisoner jumped out of his gig, col lared Gibbs, and tore his shirt, and then threw a silk handkerchief in his face, which he said was also French, and had not paid the duty. Mr. ADOLPHus, for the defence, declared this to be one of the most trumpery actions be had ever known, ! and one way of taking care of John Bull's money for him, by thus wasting it in litigation. He, for his own part, wondered the over-zealous Custom-house officer did not seize all the French rolls in the bakers' I shops, co sharp a nose did he seem to have for any' thing French : for his own part, he had been appre hensive of using a napkin, in the presen...a . of this Argus-eyed gentleman, lest he should find out his pocket-handkerchief was a Bandana one. The defendant, who is a licensed hawker, was fined 40s. which he stated himself to be unable to pay, upon which he was ordered to make an affida vit of the fact. John Webb Weston, Esq. whose case has already ex cited so much interest, WAS in Court yesterday during the arguments of Counsel, whether judgment should be stayed in this prosecution. The Court was exces sively crowded, and the proceeding seemed to excite strong anxiety, from the sphere of life the defendant had previously moved in. It appeared that the deed which founded the ori ginal prosecution against Mr. Weston, had been ob•' tamed horn him by surprise, and that he also really had an interest in a certain property in Welbeck street, which on the trial bad not been allowed. It further appeared that one of the witnesses, of the name of Harris, had been asked on the trial if he had ;not ecently been bail ? to which he replied, not for tour years; but, on being reminded of one instance, he said he had forgotten thit, but it was the only in stance. Mr. Harmer, the defendant's attorney, after wards searched at the Chambers of only one Judge (Justice Bayley), and found he had been twejve times bail within the year, and even three times since No vember. This was submitted as a strong fact,which, together with the circumstances eteviously noticed, and others forcibly argued by- Mr. Adolphus, inclu ding the temporary loss of an important document, when Mr. Weston was originally before the Court, formed, as defendant's Counsel maintained, a phalanx of circumstances which ought at least to induce the Court to stay judgment. Mr. ALLEY was heard in reply, which went almost entirely to points of law. The COURT being of opinion that it had not the power, under all the circumstances of the case, to ac cede to Mr. Adolphus's motion— Mr. ALLEY consented to waive his right of pressing for judgment till next Sessions. • This was indignantly rejected by the other side,who said they asked nothing as.a boon from their oppo nents ; upon which— Mr. ALLEY insisted on judgment, which was pro nounced by the Court on the defendant to be a fine of lOW. and one month's imprisonment. About one o'clock on Sunday morning some thieves'' broke into the house of Mr. Beverley, of Seymour crescent, Alfred-place, and, after regaling themselves with wine, and the best the larder afforded, they pro ceeded to rummage the house, and packed up the plate, atc. Fortunately, they tried to open a desk which has an alarm spring, and which making a re port like a pistol, the family were aroused, and the thieves precipitately decamped, leaving 'all the pro perty behind. The hot-houses in the Botanic Garden at Glas gow have recently been heated from the introduction of steam, by a method equally simple, novel, and ingenious, and which not only proves more beneficial to the healtk sof the plants, but is calculated to afford a most materiel savwg in the ankle of fuel. lerS T -comilviti.: SARK SPASIPNA'Co MT, OE emir* . t .YehisMannimg was indicted'for a:Molting - Jeremi a h Daylor.—This case roused a strong sensation. Jeremiah Daylor being sworn, stated that lie wa s a bit and stirrup-maker, and that on the evening mentioned, he went with two friends into a respe ct _ able public-house in Patrick -street, where they v a n e d for threepints of porter. 'The priionir, a Weber, and two women were at the time sitting in another part of the room. hi a short timt the.prisoner got t i p and danced about the room violently, in doing wi l i t h he overturned the table at which witless and his friends sat, and upon witness saying, " they were pretty high-road tricks," he struck him, and then seized the table and struck the witness with its 'Mn Heron, the master of the house, upon hearing th e noise went into the room, and endeavoured to tars the prisoner our, but he resisted and threw Mr. Heron down. The witness upon seeing this, got up and seized the prisoner, and while they were e r .. tangled, the' witness fell—the prisoner over hi ck and while on the ground, the prisoner bit off the wit ness's ear! John Bass, a black boy, waiter at the public•hou-e. said the conduct of the prisoner was most outrager s , that of the witness very peaceable. He saw the pi. soner bite off the prosecutor's ear, and chew it, and was sure he mast have ate it, for himself !earthed all the place for it afterwards, but could 'not find it. This witness was cross-examined by Mr. HOWARD, very humorously; his answers were all sharp, per tinent, consistent, and good tempered. He admitted that Daylor was in a passion at the end, but perhaps Mr. Howard himself would be so if bis ear was bit off. He considered himself a middling judge of a boxing match, having been for some time with Su:- ion, but the fight between Manning and Daylor was not a fair or a regular one, as they did not stand out from each other, and give blow for blow as they ought to do. Wm. Heron, the master of the.house, sworn, con firmed all the particulars of the other evidence. The prisoner was convicted, and ordered to be im prisoned one month, and pay the prosecutor twenty• five shillings for his expenses. Saturday sight, a quantity of blood was observed upon the ground, .about ten yards from the banks of the Serpentine, in Hyde-park, and also drops aloog to the waterside. Upon dragging the river, the body of a very respectably dressed individual was found about 20 yards from the shore. Upon the tlaoat there was a deep •ash on each side; and, from there being also cuts upon the chin and knuckles, and :N property or money found upon him, except a bad sixpence, and a pair of spectacles. BIRTHS. Dcc. s,in Wimpole-street, the Lady of the Hon. T. T. Lelle ;Nlelville, of a daughter. Thursday, at Knightsbridge, Mrs. Bartley, of the Theart Royal Covent-garden, of a son. Al A RRIED. - - • - ----- --- Thursday, at Holkharn Church, the Hon. Spencer Stanhope, of Canon Hill, near beds, to Miss Coke, daughter of Ti.o.r.as William Coke, Esq. M.P. for the county of Norton:. George Hill, Esq. Captain in the 88th, or Connaught Bangers, to Charlotte Sarah, second daughter of the Rev. James Wilmot Ormsby, Rector of Cappagb; formerly of C.asticcomer. Dec. 5, at Cheltenham, Maier llill Dickson, of the 44th Regiment, to Caroline Emma, second daughter of Thomas Stoughton, Esq. of the county of Kerry. DIED. Nov. '22, at Abbotsball Manse, Dr. James VThytt, formed? of Charles -street, Edinburgh. Wednesday, Joseph, youngest son of Capt. W. Ferris, of his Majesty's revenue cutter Stag. Nov. 28, aged 71, Mr. Gainsford Long, of Mahlon, in Es sex : he was in apparent good health, and in going from tam room to another, suddenly expired in a it of -apoplexy. MINING INTELLIGENCE.—The Copper Ores sold at Redruth on Friday, 2019 tons—standard £lO5. 14s. Copper Ores for sale this week at Redruth, 1284 tom. NE WC ATE AND LEA D ENH.4.1.1L. M ARK En); D. 9. (By the Carcase.) Beef ...........Is 84 to 2s 8d I Veal 41 to 4s 44 Mutton.. ...... 2s 04 to 2s ad Pork Qs 43 to 54 84 PRICES or HAY As STRAW YESTERDAY. ST. JAMWS. WHITIGCNAIPIL. Hay 31 Ss Od to 41 2s 04 Hay... 31 8s to 41 4s Od Straw 1110 s Od to 11 19s Od Straw 11 Os to 11 14s Od Clover 3110 s 01 to 41 4s Od Clover 31 10, to 41 6s 0d PRICE 0 , F 110 PS. NEW •ACS. Kent Sussex 2l Os to 21 8s Essex Foreign 141 W TOCI:tTS. Kent Sussex 2l 4s to 31 Os Essex Farnham 6l Os to SI Os PRICE OF LEATHER. Butts, 50 to 56Ibs each 2ld to 23d pet lb Ditto, 56 to 661ba each ........... 24d to 26c1 Dressing Hides 18d w 194 Fine Coach Hides 19d to 20d Crop Hides, 35 to 40Ibs for cutting 19d to sod Ditto 45 to 60Ibs ...20d to sod Calf Skins, 30 to 401bs 22d to 264 Ditto So to 70Ibs 064 to mod Ditto 70 to 80ibs Small Seals (Greenland) 16d to 19k Large ditto ldd to ISCI Tanned Horse Hides 164 to tad Spanish Horse Hides 18d to z4d° RAW HIDES. Best Heifers and Steers (per Ordinary ... 2s 44 to 2$ a stone) 3s Od to 3; 2d Market Calf 109 04 to 01 od Middlings 2s Sd to 29 103 Eng. Horse Os od to Os 01 PRICE or TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Town Tallow 4ls 6d Ditto rough Yellow Russia ... ..... 42. 6d Yellow Soap White ditto Soap ditto Melting Stuff 32s Od Palm .:....m--...-......--•-.--..-... PRICE OF CANDLES—From Tallow Chandlers' Nast. Candles, per doz. 9s Od—Moulds, Ms 6d; 6d. per dtzen allowed for ready money. COAL MARKET, DEC. 9. Adair's 42s 6d—Burdon 41s 9d—liebbucu Main 44ti-- 12• •• lingworth 44s—Wallsend Bewicke 44s 9d—WaUsend Oleo 40. 6d—Wallsend Russell 45s 54.—Wallsend Lambton 41 WaWend Springwell 42s 61-11edworth NUM 38.. 1541 Ships at Market-1'254 Ships sold-29 unitell MAILS. Asa. nu a. - • as. pee. Dublin 1 0 France 1 0 Waterford 0 1 Hamhurgh 0 3 Guernsey and Jersey. 1 0 Flanders 0 0 Lisbon 0 1 Malta 0 0 Holland 1 0 Gottenburgh 0 t Leeward Islands 0 0 I Jamaica • 0 IiGH-WATgliai LON UUN Aitiitis •••- - May - - •SO "Mow :fur IS Aftemorn • • - 40 minutes after IS • .rte LONDON; Framed and pubhArd by Lam. Kerr, Vicitetc place , ltoli*. Bar. fr 1, 1 1 II ct r