Star. — London, England, 1821-01-06 00:00:00

ra DUBLIN OUTPACE, FURTHER PARTICULARS. (From rru Freeman's Journal). After the SHERIFF withdrew, the most perfect or der and decorum still prevailed. The Court-house then exhibited one of the most crowded and respect ehle Meetings we have ever witnessed. Mr. BURNE addressed the Chair, and proceeded to discuss the topics which he thought ought to be coin prised in a Loyal Address—such as would be credit able to the Independent Freeholders of the Metropo limn County, respectful to the Royal Person, and serviceable to the stability of the Throne.—He had n ot uttered many sentences, when a side-door was thrown is with a violent crash ; soldiers, commanded by one Officer, entered, and were soon seen at every side of the Meeting ; they commanded the Freeholders, in the most peremptory manner, to withdraw ! Sono violence was offered to individuals; but cer tainly not much, as the privates conducted them selves with good tem per, and the freeholders dispersed. Lord CLONCURRY kept his seat. Mr. CURRAN placed himself by his side. Two soldiers, with bayo nets in their hands, ascended the bench, close to Mr. CURRAN, who, good humouredly, but firmly, put the w eapon's aside. The Officer, standing on the table, ordered Lord CLONCURRY to withdraw. Lord Contrails' replied, that he was a Magis trate, presiding over a legal Meeting of the King's objects; that he would remain until the proceedings were ren.uFarly brought to a close, unless he was re moved by actual force. The Officer said he must use force, and he drew, or was in the act of drawing his sword, and force was actually applied to Lord Cloncurrys person Wore he 10 the Chair. This statement neeos no comment, indeed it baffles all attempts at describing it in ade quate terms. The Freeholders being thus dispersed by open vio lence, assembled in immense numbers at the oppo site public-house. A chair was procured for Lord I CLONCURRY. Mr. BURNE moved the Address, which was read and seconded by Mr. O'Certauer..L. The question was then put upon it, by Lord CLONCURRY, when it was adopted, amidst the acclamations of the IFreeholders that filled and surrounded the house. Mr. O . CON NELL then moved, "That a Committee 'should be appointed to lay before the Lord Lieute nant the outrageous and illegal conduct of the She tiff on that day." He prefaced the motion in a short and animated speech, in which he congratulated the Freeholders upon their triumph, which the very violence of their opponents was the strongest 'proof of their having attained." He said, that he ' felt happy in the hope that all that were honest, and manly, and Constitutional in England, would sym pathise with the inhabitants of this trampled land. The people of England would now see that the Irish, however attached to liberty, could attend a Meeting convened by the Sheriff only at the peril of their lives. Let the People of England learn, from the events of this day, the fate that is reserved for them, if they do not, while there is yet time, one and all, resist the machinations of a Ministry of which the leading personage is the very man who extinguished the liberties of his native land, and laid her prostrate under the hoof of every illegal violence —(Load cheering).—Mr. O'Connell's motion was seconded and carried unanimously. It was then moved that Counsellor Buxom (King's Counsel), should take the Chair, and the Thanks of the Meeting were voted, amidst the most enthu siastic cheering, to Lord CLONCURRY, for his reso lute, manly, and constitutional conduct that day, and for the uniform and undeviating patriotism of his whole life.—The Meeting then broke up. As Lori, CLONCURRY was departing, there was an universal cry to chair him into town, and he was sur rounded for that purpose by a large group of Gentle men near the gate of the Old Man's Hospital, but his Lordship succeeded in preventing them from car rying their intention into execution, by addressing them in a short speech. He entreated them to for bear. They owed him no compliment, or, if they did, their thanks amply repaid him. The approbation they had uniformly bestowed upon his conduct was, to his mind, a reward superior to any Monarchs could bestow. He would always live in Ireland. He was early attached to the principles of liberty, the founda tion of the British Constitution; the miseries of his native land only rendered these principles more dear to him, and the events of that day served but the more to convince him of the value of law and li berty, by shewing how abject was the state of man when deprived of those blessings. A chairing, however innocent, might be construed into a riot, and that construction might be written in blood. "Let us, (said his Lordship,) by our orderly conduct, furnish the strongest contrast to our opponents, and net tarnish the victory which we have gained this day, by affording them the slightest pretence for censure. Let us, my friends, depart in peace, and not give a handle to our enemies to any additional act of violence."—The people then gave his Lordship three cheers, and retired, exclaiming—" your advice shall ever be considered by us as a command l" " PUMAS MEETING, THIS. DAY.- We are autho• riled to state, that several Gentlemen intend to meet at the Corn Exchange Tavern, at half-past one this 4ay, to discuss the best steps that ought to be taken► in consequence a the We outrage on the Freeholders of the County of Dublin, on Saturday, at Kilmain ham." " Monday Evening, Five &Clock. "The Meeting spoken of in a preceding paragraph, was held at D'Ancy's, and has just separated. It was extremely numerous and highly respectable. A Committee of fifteen Gentlemen was appointed g to consider the best means of DEMANDING REDRESS for the OUTRAGE perpetrated on the Freeholders of the County of Dublin, at Kilmainham, on Saturday last,' and report their opinion to an adjournment of the present Meeting, to be held at D'Ancv's, at two o'clock on Thursday next. The marked and warm thanks of the Meeting were voted to Lord CLON CORRY, for his manly and patriotic conduct—and it was the general sentiment of the Freeholders, that the Government must feel itself called upon to super sede Sir RICHARD STEELE immediately." THE ARMY. Monday, upwards of 300 men of the Honourable East India Company's Artillery and Infantry, marched from Chatham to Gravesend, under the command of Major SOMERVILLE, to embark for India, as also a detachment of the 65th Regiment. Last week, detachments of the 2 tth, 59th, and 37th Regiments, arrived at Chatham from the Isle of Wight. Detachments of the 46th, 47th, 66th, and 67th Regiments, and 11th and 13th Dragoons, marched to Gravesend last week, to embark for India. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Constantinople, dated the 25th of November, 182 f : " On the 12th inst. it blew a hurricane from the S.W. aces m. panied with large hailstones, which did a good deal of dam ge to the shipping, and some lives were lost. No accidents Ii ye been heard of, either above or below.—Eight British vesstle e laden with tallow, for England, sailed from Odessa in November. The East India Company's ships Royal George, Tritstims ; In glis, BoitaAnait.E; Repulse, PATERSON ; and Marquis Camden, LaaciNs, left Gravesend on Thursday, bound for China. Th e —, FALK, from Istadt to Stockholm, having been on shore, put into Klinto on the west side of Gethiand, on the 7th ult. to repair; and the Stjernam, Asst.svitom, from Bergen to Stockholm, was driven on shore the 9th ult. near the same place. About 50 or 60 vessels (names unknown) were at Scilly on the 30th ult.—wind E. by N. The Anna Maria, Cove, from London for Copenh agen , p ut into Leith on Tuesday, in distress. The John and Sally, Swszysnowsis, from Southampton for Waterford, put into Falmouth on Tuesday, leaky. PLYMOCTII, Jautraar 4.—Arrived at St. Michael's, on the 17th November, the Three Brothers, DUGD A L E , f rom Dart mouth; on the i3d, the Bustler, MUDGE, from Topsham; on the sth of December, the Whitehall, Cease; on the 7th of December, the Nassau, TOXISATNIC ; and on the 12th December the Christian, GADIT, all from Plymouth ; also on the 12th of December, the William, from Exeter : on the 15th, the Lovely Cruiser, Lama" from Dartmouth ; and on the 14th, the -Friendship, Weiss, from Exeter. DOTER, JAN. s.—Arrived the Mars, HALL, from Baltimore for Amsterdam, with loss of anchor, and windlass damaged; having been riding under Dungeness or ten days. Wiltrar, Jax.3.—The Mariner, Thomsen, of North Shields, in attempting to get to sea, was driven by the wind against the north picr and on the ground, by which she has received much' damage in her bottom. DEAL, Jay. s.—Wind E. by N. blows fresh.—Ne arrivals or sailings. MARGATE, JAIL s.—The Union, Plummer, from London for Bideford, was got a a lee shore yesterday, by some boatmen from this place, and carried up to Whitstable, with loss of anchor and cable. SHSIRWESS, JAN. s.—Arrived the Lard Duncan, Walnut, from London for Shields, with lou of an anchor and chain cable. The Bideford, CIWIII2IIII, and Kingston, STILVTVIELL, from London for Hull, have received slight damage, by being run foul of. Amman—At Hull, the Providence, Gardner, from Riga. At Belfast, Sarah and Ann, from hliramichi ; Ann, Hill, from Rotterdam; Regina, Anderson, from Trinidad; Hope, Middleton, from Quebec ; and Pelican, Lacey, from New York. Currost-Ilorst, Jaw. s.—Ships Entered Inwards : The Isa bella, from Genoa. Entered Outwards : Briton, for Jamaica; Robert and Sarah, for Hamburgh ; Sirene, for Calais; Sisters, for Jamaica ; Salacia, for Trieste ; Plaudia, for the Cape of Good Hope. Cleared Outwards : Active, for Bahia ; Jane, for Jamaica ; Cordelia, for Dublin. LIBEL ON THE DUKE OF YORK.—Westminster Ses sions.—Yesterday, after hearing one or two unin teresting cases, Hanbury Price, convicted of having published a libel against his Royal Highness the Duke of York, was brought up to receive the judg ment of the Court, which was delivered by the Chairman, F. Conn, Esq. He informed the de fendant, in an impressive manner, that he had been found guilty of uttering a most gross libel against his Royal Highness; but on the nature of the of fence it. was unnecessary for him to expatiate—so much had been already said upon the matter, on a former occasion, and so much adduced to satisfy the minds of those who had found him (the prisoner) guilty of the offence wherewith he stood charged. He, it was true, professed to appear in the character of a bill-sticker only, whereas he was described in the indictment as the distributer of the hand-bills that contained the libel in question. And this latter occupation might be open to a thousand excuses : ignorance of his employers—a want of information upon the contents of the bills—an erroneous opi nion as to their evil tendency, or otherwise. So fat however, from any such defence being available to the prisoner, he had not only by the tenour of his ac knowledgments professed himself guilty of the libel, but had even ventured to justify it, and to talk as if he were glad of standing in the situation where he now appeared. In that defence he had adduced a manuscript pamphlet, fraught with references to the most objectionable passages contained in the bills in which the libel appeared ; thus manifesting a desire that the mischievous tendency of his offence—far from being confined to those printed papers on which he had been convicted—should be disseminated as widely as possible by means of the public Press.— The Court, in maturely considering the nature of his crime, thought that the life of the prisoner could hardly atone for the mischief which he had intended 1 to do; but fortunately he was now to be sentenced only for what he had done; and it therefore sen tenced him to twelve months imprisonment, and to , find sureties in the sum of it:so, for his good behaviour. SPORTING iNTELLIGENet BOXING. A Match has.been made, for £2OO a-side, between Cribb (the Champion of England), and Bill Neat, of Bristol. This great Match was knocked up in an instant, on Thursday evening. The Champion had called in at the Castle Tavern, en passant, merely to take a glass with his friend, Tom Belcher, when a Steell from Bristol being present, and admirer of Neat, without ceremony proposed the battle in ques tion. This challenge was immediately taken up with some warmth, by an old London fancier, who felt for the pride of the. Metropolitan Prize Ring, and offered to stake £lOO, if the Champion would• con sent to fight for the sum mentioned. Crihb answered, that he had said he would not fight for less than ROO a-side, in cansequence of his business; but there had been so much chaffing about it, that he would fight Neat for £2OO !—(Loud cheer s). The following articles were immediately drawn up, and signed by the respective parties: " Castle Tavern, Holborn, Jan. 4, 1821. _ _ " Mr. S. on the part of Thomas Cribb, puts down ten pounds ; and Mr. J. E. on the part of William Neat, also puts down ten pounds, to fight for two hundred pounds a-side, between Bath and London, on Wednesday, the 9th of May, 1821. To be a fair stand-up fight. Half minute time. In a twenty-four feet ring. The above twenty pounds are placed in the hands of Mr. Belcher. The whole of the stakes are to be deposited in the hands of Mr. Belcher, who is appointed to name the place of fighting. The sum of one hundred pounds a-side to be made good at the said Mr. Belcher's, the Castle Tavern, Holborn, on the 24th of January, 18111. An umpire to be chosen by each party, and Mr. Jackson to namv the referee. The whole of the money to be made good, £2OO a-side, on the 9th of April, 1821, at Mr. Cribb's, the Union Arms, corner of Panton-street and Oxendon-street, Haymarket, between the hours of seven and ten o'clock in the evening. In case of either party not making the £lOO good, the above deposit of £2O to be forfeited. " Witnessed, P. F.. " Signed J. S. - " Thomas Belcher. J. E... A screw, it seems, has been loose between Neat ar►d the Champion of England, for sometime past, which is now to be decided by the fist. Several wagers were immediately offered that the stakes are not made good ; more especially, as Neat is to be con sulted upon the subject. It is, however, well known, that Neat, a short time ago, offered to fight Cribb for £2OO a-side. The Champion, it is said, is much too heavy at present ; but the good effects of train ing will put that to rights. Neat is a very powerful young man. SKAITINO. Thursday, at one o'clock, the Match for One Hundred Gui neas, to skait a mile In three minutes, was decided. Previously to the match being performed the mut .was the favourite, and was backed at odds at Tsrreasatt's and other places. The person selected to perform the match appears to have been a countryman in the neighbourhood of the fens. •He started a few seconds before the time, and came up in speed to the scratch at the moment appointed, and performed the distance seven se conds under the three minutes. At first it was reported in town that a dispute had arisen as to the correctness of the time keepers : the report is, however, unfounded. The spot selected for the performance was on the fens, near to Islebam, four miles from Ely, and eleven from Newmarket. Considerable bets were depending on the match, and the result has surprised most persons. Indeed the speed is extraordinary, as compared with that of the first race-horses recorded in sporting annals.— The Beacon Course, at Newmarket, Is font miles round, and is generally performed in seven minutes fifteen or twenty seconds ; but it is recorded that Flying Childers, for a considerable wager, being put to his utmost speed from the moment of starting, ac complished it in five minutes and seventeen seconds. QUEER TRAVELLING. Mr. Honor, the Postmaster of Lismore, lately travelled, for a wager, from that town to Fermuy, in a Dungarvon oyster tub, drawn by a pig, a badger, two cats, a goose, and a hedge hog ! The eccentric sportsman wore a large red night-cap, and merely used a common sowielder's horn and a pig-driver's whip. Mr. HUDDT is In his 97th year.—This exploit assembled a numerous concourse of spectators, and is the theme of con versation in that part of Ireland where the extraordinary.feat was accomplished. HUNTING. Lord Arson's Fax-hounds will meet on Monday, at Fisher's Mill; on Tuesday, at Netherseal; on Friday, at Oldbury; on Saturday, at Black Brook; and on Monday, 15th, at Sibson. Mr. Mitinszi.i.'s fox hounds will meet on Monday, at Eton Wood ; Thursday, at Catton; and Saturday, at Holly Bush. The Wexford Club hounds, kept by W. Bouvrow, Esq. bad a remarkable fine run on the 22d ult. They drew the cover at Harriot-lodge, the seat of Arrant Cnscuzirrza, Esq. The hounds never came to a moment's check during the whole hunt, and the sportsmen rode fairly up to them, and were in at the death of the fox, with the exception of one or two, who were lost in a thick fog which covered the top of Slievekeiher. A few days since, the hounds of P. TILLERY, F.sq. ran a hare so hard, near Ridway, Devon, that she mounted the low roof of one of the houses adjoining the field, ran along the neighbour ing buildings, and at last jumped into the court-yard of a house belonging to bliss Cummins, from whence puss made her way into the parlour, followed by the whole pack, to the no small consternation of the peaceable inhabitants! Being taken alive, the hare was again let loose for a second run, and finally escaped. Tuesday morning last, Mr. ENGLISH, woollen draper, in New-street, Birmingham, met with a se rious accident, from incautiously neglecting to se cure the trigger of a spring-gun he had set in his shop before lie had released the wire connected with it; consegnently the piece discharged its contents, and his right arm was so shattered as to render am putation necessary, the operation was performed, and he is doing well. Yesterday morning the son of Mr. BARKER, a butcher, in Islington, swinging on a rope in the wash•house, fell off backwards, and broke his back. Last Tuesday night, a labouring man named Ad cock, living in the Borough, was enticed by a pros titute into a coffee-shop in Dover-street.. Before he had been there long, the lady contrived to rob him of what little money he had, and then decamped ; finding himself without money, and confident of being locked out of his lodgings, he laid his head down on the table (as he saw others do), and pre sently fell asleep. About three o'clock in the morn ing he awoke, and found that dining his sleep, his company had managed to take off his half-boots, which fitted him rather tight, which, together with a pair of new white stockings he wore, they had stolen fairly off his legs! He became outrageous at his loss, on which the landlord turned him out, and he:was doomed to walk about the streets barefooted for four hours, before he could get into his lodgings. Thursday night, between six and seven o'clock, Mr. CLARKE, of Elliott's-row, Lambeth, was attacked near the Obelisk, by two men who rushed violently against him, one of whom snatched his watch. By a sudden effort, Mr. CLARKE managed to snatch it from the main who held it ; but was almost imme diately knocked down by his companion, and the property forced from him ; he, however, contrived to catch the thief by the heel, which brought him down, and Mr. CLARKE a second time had his watch ; but before he could conceal it, and having no strength in such a position to defend himself, the villains got it from him again, and they both escaped; ititinbEit A brutal Murder, itccompaniad by robbery, wit committed on the person of a man named Timothy Niven, a few evenings since', by a gang of ruffians in Rosemary-lane, at so Carly an hour as nine o'clock in the evening. The unfortunate man was a native of Ireland, and resided at No. 14, Brook'scourt, Vine yard, Herslydown. On Tuesday morning, about eleven o'clock, he left his lodging for the purpose (at was understood) of receiving a sum of money from his:Club, in Rosemary-lane ; he did not return again, nor was anything heard of him till between aline and ten o'clock at night, when the people of the house were alarmed by some one Moaning on the stairs ; they listened, and presently heard a voice, which they knew to be the deiea , ed's, exclaim " 011! Gon, will no one help me!" The landlord was the first alarmed, and he immediately left the room, and found Niven on the stairs, endeavouring to trawl up to his room ; he appeared very weak, and his head was bloody, but the landlord thinking that he had been drinking, and had only got into some affray, did not ask him any questions till he took him to his bed. In this room also slept a Captain Mg - lowan, belonging to a country trader, whom the deceased awoke, and then requested to have some water to drink. A glass of water 'was accordingly brought, which he drank greedily, and then vomited large quantities of blood. Captain M'Gowan and the landlord judging, from his appearance, that he had received some deadly injury, they questioned him as to the cause of his being in such a situation, and the following was the explanation which he gave : After leaving home he crossed the water to Bill lingsgate, and after partaking of some refreshment there, proceeded to the Minories, and from thence to Rosemary-lane, where he met with a number of ac quaintances, with whom he spent the remainder of the day till about six o'clock; he then parted from them, and went to the Anchor and Hope, public.; house, where he had some beer in the tap-room, and remained till about nine o'clock. He then thought it time to return home, and left the Anchor and Hope for that purpose, but he had not proceeded far before he remarked that some men of suspicious appearance . were following him, however, as they did not molest him just then, he did not pay any particular atten tion to them. Just as he reached the corner of art alley which was very dark and lonely, they rushed upon him, and one of them, presenting a pistol, der manded his money, accompanying his demand with a menace, that if he refused, or made any noise, he would blow his brains out 1 The-deceased refused to obey this mandate, and.watitistantly felled to the ground by a blow of .the. butviend of tbe.pistol, and. • whilst down he received a. great many_ kicks and blows; he roared out for help,.but no watchman or other person came .to his assistance ' and the thieves .. continued their brutal violence till he. fainted away . from repeated blows 'on the head and loss of blood: 'ln about a quarter of an hour he recovered his senses and found himself lying in a corner, his clothes dirty and bloody; he got up, and with great difficulty dragged himself home without meeting any further interruption. At this stage of his narrative, the unfortunate de. • ceased got very weak and his speech failed him, so that it was deemed dangerous to ask him any ques tions with respect to what he had been robbed He earnestly entreated to be left carefully in bed, observing, " I shall be better to-morrow morning s when I wake!" He did not groan nor make any noise during the night. At six o'clock in the morn• ing the landlord of the house came up stairs to see if he wanted anythiag, but finding him (as he con ceived) in a sound sleep, he did not disturb Captain M•Gowan got up in half an hour afterwards, and went to his bed for a similar purpose. At first, like the landlord, he thought him asleep; but after listening some time, and not hearing him breathe, he felt his forehead, which was quite cold, and he then concluded he was dead, and alarmed the people of the house. A surgeon was sent for, and he confirmed the suspicion most unequivocally. Information of the circumstance was given to the Parish o&cers, who communicated it to the Coroners and an Inquest was accordingly held on the body in the Vestry-room of Horselydown Church, before Mr. SHELTON and a Jury of the principal inhabitants.-.—; Captain M'Gowan and the landlord were both fully examined as to the foregoing particulars, and they added, that the deceased was a perfectly peaceable and inoffensive man. The landlord of the Anchor and Hope public= house in Rosemary-lane, was summoned before the Inquest, and fully examined, in hopes that his evia dence would throw some light on the affair ; but all he knew was, that he saw the deceased in his house about nine o'clock on the night of the murder ; that he left it perfectly sober, and that he bad not seen him since that time. Two watchmen, whose beats are in the street where the man was assaulted, underwent a long exa mination, but they professed to be perfectly ignorant • of the matter. One of them had got drunk and kept from duty, so that it seems there was no one in hi, place, and the other's station being at some distance from the spot, he did not hear the alarm, or, if he did, paid no attention to it. Mr. Ainsley, the Parish Surgeon, stated, that he had minutely examined the body of the deceased, and found the skull fractured at the back, and the brains much injured; there was extravasated blood upon their surface. Other parts of the body were much bruised and swollen, as if the man had been kicked, or struck with sticks; the neck was particu. larly black, seemingly from an endeavour to strangle the deceased. He did not think a man could have inflicted such injuries on himself * if he had been so inclined. The fractures in the head might have been inflicted by the butt-end of a heavy pistol. A good deal of other evidence of the like nature • was heard, but none of it afforded any clue that would be likely to forward the ends of justice, by bringing the perpetrators of the bloody act to light. The Coroner observed to the Jury; that it was his opinion the deceased had met his death by the hand of robbers. It did not seem that he could have cam. mined suicide ) from the nature of the wounds: After a momentary consultation, the Jury returned a verdict of—" Wilful Murder against some person or persons at present unknown." The deceased was a single man, of about thirty. sii years of Ages , ,