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

"To J. N D'Esterre, Esq. 11, Ilaelhelors.walk."

Mr. D'Esterre was advised to persist in the Correspou.
deuce, and. addressed another letter (but directed in a dif-
ferent band-writing) to Mr. O'Connell. It was i.e•tirned tq
hirn by Mr. James O'Connel, inclosed in a Letter of the fol-
lowing tenor:
"Sin—From the tenor of your letter of yesterday, my brother
did not expect that your next communication world ti:ive t, en made
in writing. He directed me to open his letters in Iri4 absence ; CU,
last letter, bearing a ditfrrent address from the former one, wail
opened by me; but, upon perceiving the name siiscribed, 1 bat*
declined to read it, and by his direction, 1 ninon it to you inclased,
and unread. 01 am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" JAM ES ()'COxNrLt.
" Merrinst.square, Friday Evening,
"To J. N. D'Esterre, El. 11, Bachelors'-walk.
This letter was received by Mr. D'Esterre on Friday
evening. Here the matter rested until ‘Vednesclav
and Mr. George I.irlwill, who, at Mr. 01Connell'i, requv,
had waited. in town for four days. in expfietat:no Of the pro-
reeding which Mr. D'4sterre's first letter ai.pealed to ac.
noitnce, and wa3 ready to make ttitabie arrangements, at
length left town, under the itnprcy,ion that Mr. D'Eqerree
Avi..,ers in the Corporation had :discovered their mistake,
both as to their man and as to the sup ect in general.
On Wednesday morning, however, Sir Edward .Stank F,
as the Friend of Mr. D'Esteric, waited upon Mr. O'Connell
with the hostile message so lonz expected.—(Sir Edward is
one of the Duke of Richmond's City Knights. Wine
(+ant to the Castle, and made Wirr.ick-roaster of the. City cf
Dithlio, 8001. a year, by the I)L.lce.J—lle message was ac;
ceptod; tile necessary melsll,es %tete arranged between Sir
Ed/raid and Major Mactiamara, of the County of Clare, sot,.
in-law of .fudge Finucanc, eldest son of Francis Macnannita,
of Mosieslc. Esq. an officer of consn.uunaie bravery and 1)(401..
ea manners. The hour appnir.ted was three o'clock. on Wed.
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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 use 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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