The National Register. — London, England, 1815-02-12 00:00:00

116 scat iu the county of Kildare, thirteen mil town. It was agreed by the seconds. that t , be ten paces, and that each party should hav , to fire according to his judgment. They . same instant. Mr. Dtsterre's bullet fell short; but be re ceived that of Counsellor O'Connell in the thick part of the thigh, which occasioned his imrnedike fall, and terminated the affair. Surgeons Macklin and Peile were fortunately in attendance. Nothing could be more correct or honourable than the conduct of the parties upon the ground. FURTHER PARTICULARS. We understand, when it bad been agreed by the seconds that the opponents were to take their ground with a case of pistols each, to u s e ai they might think proper, Sir E. Stan ley, Mr. D'Esterre's friend, addressed Major Macnamara, Mr. O'Connell's friend, as follows Sir EtjwA R D.., Wei 1, Sir, when each has discharged his case of pis tols, 1 hope the affair will be considered as terminated, and that we leave the ground. Major MACNAMARA—Sir. you may. of course, take your friend fruus the ground when you pleases You, Sir, are the challenger, and you may retire from the ground whenever you think proper; but I I shall not enter into any such condition as you propose. However, it is probable there may be no occasion to discharge the whole of a case of pistols. The opponents took their ground, and the fist shot termi nated the affair as already stated. Mr. D'Esterre was removed to Dublin, where be died of the wound on Friday. LATV INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH ; AttliDAY, Fr s. 5. TILE KING V. MORPUEW, ESQ. The Attorney•Ceneral prayed judgement against the defendant, late Lieutenant Cobitel Commandant of the Lobel Militia, who had suffered judgement to go by default to an information filed against him under the late Act of Parliament. for selling the office of Adju tont to a Yorkshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cdvalry for 100 guineas . The defendant put in an affidavit, stating, that he was ignorant of his having committed a legal offence, but it appeared that be had made the purchaser swear that he would never divulge the transaction, drank or sober, and that he had pretended the purchase money was to co to the Hon. Mr. Rubinson, whom his pretence further slandered in • tmoiner we forbeir to mention. The defendant also swore, that tiff this information was Sled, be held the locratiee office of Comptruler of tits Customs for the Nand of St. Lucie, of which he had been deprived, dind that he could not bring his successor in that office to account for past profits due to him, upon the strength of receiving which he had in. tarred debts. the inability to pay which had thrown him into prison, %%here he subsisted only upon the bounty of his friends; and that the imposition of a fine upon him by the Court would operate as perpetual iMprisoninent. Mr Attorney-General supported the prosecution ; and Mr. Gurney spoke in raitigation.—The Court adjudged the defendant to twelve - months iinprisouinetit in the Mlarshalsea. • 4 - m 7 114 •.• •-••:•-•• ;q11;•• ,• • •••• • T . '. r : MARMON _ Edward Webb, and Robert and William Searle, who have undergone several ezitaimoiot.s on a charge of stealing a q►tantity, of paper, the property of Neure. Maguey and Pickering, were again examined; and, it appearing ;hat the Searles were not implicated, they were discharged. Wotb was fully committed for trial. On Tuesday, the Duke of St. Alban's, accompanied by his Solicitor and other agents, attended at Bow•street, fur the investigation of a bur glary' in his Grace's house. against J. Lindsay, his gardener; when it appeared, on the night of the 18th ult. his Grace's house, at Hanworth Park, was broke open, and the housekeeper's desk stolen, containing a number of Bank-mnes, three pair of sheets, and other property. Since his confinement, the prisoner's lodging has been searched, acrd part of an old knife found, which, on being compared with the part of the shutter forced, was found to fit exactly ; soine•pearl buttons were also found, which resembled soinu stolen from ,the Duke's house. The housekeeper identified part of a sheet food, in the prisoner's lodg ings to be similar cloth to those which had been stolen at the time of the burglary. Another charge was preferred against the prisoner, viz.' stealing a basket of carpenter's tools and. a jacket from the premises of the Noble Duke. He was fully cornmitteu on both charges. -Ilis wife was then brought up—a laundress, to whom the husband had gis en a jacket, which had heel' stolen with the carpenter's tools, to wash, having said it was fetched away by a woman whom` she did not know. Alm L. acknowledged herself to he the woman alluded to. and that She had, by her husband's directiou, thrown it over Richmond Bridge. There appearing, hoWever, nothing to .criminate her, she was dis eltarg. d. • ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. Munnett.—Tuesday a barbarous murder and daring robbery were committed at Darrell in Buckinghamshire, on Mrs. Mary Hall, who Was found mattered in her house about twelve o'clock on the above day. There is every reason to believe that the horrid deed was perpetrated between nine o'clock and the above hour, astute was seen tur the last time by her neighbours about that time. The %vim& appeared to have been Indicted with a bill hook, as one was found near the body in a very bloody state. A chest was found broke open, and eash and notes to the amount of about 350!. stolen ; a variety of other articles of property were also discovered to have been carried off. On the discovery being made a general alarm took . place in the neighbourhood, hnd a number of persons weld inyursuit,, Iwo fuspicions' men were in consequence apprehended, and. were taken before the Sitting Magistrates at Great Hem klsamstead, and' underwent an exataination.. It appeared that the prisoners called themselves Thomas Young and :lames Worth, and stated, that they had been at Dunstable, in Bedfordshire. which is about three miles from Dagnall. It was proved that they were seen begging at Dittman, and near Mrs. Hall's house, on the morning of the murder. Time account they gave of the resolves was by no means satisfactory. They have been wandering about the country from place to place tinder pretence of getting work. They met at a public•house at Dimatabk, resorted to by persons of their description, on Saturday last, for the first time, and they agreed although strangers till then, ' according to their own account .01 themselves, to go a begging together.round the country. The groinkd of suspicion against them .is principally on account of their having been seen near the spot about the time of the murder, and their giving contradictory accounts of themselves on their being examined separately, as to their being seen begging near the house of the deceas ed at that time. Nothing was found upon them to strengthen the suspicion.—They were com mitted for further examination. • The two men, William Pratt and Thomas Turner, who we recently stated to have been folly committed in Hertfordshire charged with several burglaries, were also committed on another charge, that of the wilful murder of Henry Trigg, jun. of Berden, in the County of Essex, on the 9th of March last. The father of the deceased, a shoe maker, was alarmed • about twelve o'clock on the above wight,hy some persons breaking into his shop, -which induced him-to get op, and with only his shirt on, accompanied by his son, went and found two men in his shop, who were in the act of tilling two large sacks with leather and shoes. Mr. Trigg and his son went into the shop and attacked the robbers; they got one of the robbers down, when the other diseharged a pistol at them without effect ; the villain their tired another pistol, the contents of which lodged in Mr'. Henry Trigg, who Was killed on the spot.—They have confessed the murder. THE NATIONAL REG . IS . TtR . . ten. It. . t . , . miles distant from his premises. The dereudant's Solicitor atsended ) and claimed of the he distance should Magistrate that he should be admitted to buil, to appear at •a future time with evicknee to prove of whom he bought the wool —This was at:- ve a case of pistols ceded to by the Magistrate. mid he war held to bail. fired nearly at the MARRON HOUSE. • - POLICE. GU I LDHA 1.T.. Robert Smith Wakefield, who has ustdeigene several examinations, charged with rubbing Messrs. Cook, Townsend, and Cook. Crown &tart, of goods to the value of near 1001. was 'gain brought up. There is also a farther charge against him, of having rubbed the house of Sawyer and Hall, Queen-street, of goods to a considerable amount. —...vresh discoveries are daily snaking, and he was remanded. Elizabeth Murray was charged with robbing her ready ftirni,hed lodgings, in Field lane, of a quantity of linen, wearing app mrel , Wan kali, he. on Tuesday last, during the absence of her landlord.—She was fully tommittcd for trial. UNION HALL. William Melton was brought up by May and Goff, charged with having in his possession a quantity of rabbits and other wool, value about 1001. suspected to be embezzled property. The Iz:ismer is a fitter by trade, and the materiels iii question were kt 10 by May ups