The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-27 00:00:00

PORTUGUESE SL;WE TR.WE.

The King of Portugal has published a Royal
etrara. or saw, doted Kin Janeiro, May 6, 1818. to
roforee the articles of the late Convention with the
British Guyer eeeee eht for the eloohtioo of the Slava
Trade, North of the Equato►. It tiara the penalties
to which those traders are liable who engage in the
prohibited traffic. and snakes the urces.aly regua
Istions for the protection and support of those slates
who in consequence of these penalties shall be de.
dared free. The following are some of its provi-
sions :

Art. 1. All persons, of olistsoever quality or condition,
who shall proceed to lit out or prepare resists for the traffic
in slaves, in any part of the coast of Africa l!iiis north of
the Equator, shall lemur the peaalty of the loss id the slaves,
who shall be declared free, with a destination Is. rein after.
wards niesitiosed. The weasels engaged in t►e traffic shall
be confiscated, with all their tackle and appurtenances, tops.
thee with the cargo, of w►ate►er it consist, which shall he
on board on accusal of the owners er rn•ielstert of such
vessel, and the owners of ►uch laves. The Odiccrs of such
vessel, to wit, the Captain or master, the pilot mud super•
, cargo, shall be banished for fire years to Musanilimise, and
each shall pay a bee equivalent to the pay or ulhrr isQevesls
which he was to frau by the ailvtuture. l'olicies of in.
tonsure cannot be made on such vessels, or their cargoes;
and if they are made, the 111/11111"Cfs who shall knowingly make
them shall be coadesatied is triple the autuant of the stip'.
kited premium. _ _ _

Att. I. The same penalty of the Inns of the slaves shall
attach In penes of whatever rank or condition wbo shall
import slaves into Mobil in foreign vessels.
Art. 3. declares that one-half of the confireated property
shall be gives to the hammer, and the other Itrinight into
the royal treasury. If there is nu informer, the whole pro.
duce of the cargo, and the whole sum of the fine, shell go
to the royal tramway.
Art. 4 regulates the mode of proceeding I. ranee where
information is given, into the authorities before whom the
prosecution is to be brought, and appoints the manta its
which the sentence is to be ezecuted,

Art. S. The slaves consigned to the royal treasury, and all
those declared free by the above article (a* it would be unjust
to abandon them without support), shill he delivered up to
the Judge 4.f the district before whom the tondemuation
shall take place (whose powers shall be enlarged with that
jurisdiction), townie as freed men for 14 years, in any pith.
lie service of the navy, the fortresses, agriculture, or public
officer, as may be thoseght most convenient, being for that
purpose enrolled in the respective sodium.; or shall be hired
out to isdividuals of known properly and probity, who shall
be board to sup?ort, clothe, and instruct them, leaching
them some handicraft or labour that may be agreed upon
daring the stipulated period; the terms and the conditions of
which shall be renewed as oats as necessary, till the 14
years are expired; the time of servitude may be shortened
by two or more years, according as the good conduet or
these persona may entitle them to the enjoyentoi of full
freedom. lit case these freed sea ere destined fur the pub-
lic service, the ed&er who shall have authority in the teepee.
live station to which they are assigned, shall nuntinate
pens°. capable of Axing their term, who shall be responsible
fur their education sad treatment. They shall have as curs.
for a pursue of Imo.. probity, who shall be nominated every
three years by the Judge, sled approvesl of by the Judicial
Council or Governor and Captain-General of live province.
To him it shall belong to provide every thing which may
coutribute to their well-Whig, to rectify abases that may sf.
feet them, to procure theist release atter their proper terns of
service, sad enforce geuerally fur their !markt the (deem.
once of the laws prescribed fur the protection of orphans, in
as far as those laws are applicable to them, to the end they
whatever is ordered coateraiug Arm may be strictly ex.
eculed.

Art. b. lis the ports to the south of the Equator, where
the lilac In slaves is still permitted, the regolat ions passed
in the law of the 114th of November, 1813, shall be observed
wills the followseg modifications:—The distinction hetweao
vessels which dull exceed or shall not exceed 201 tons, shall
be abolished, and die number of slaves shall lo• reaelatid
according to the teenage of the vessel, in the proportion of
five to every two tams. It shall ►e allowed to the persons
who own or freight slave-vessels, to isle indiseriminasely
iron or copper kettles, provided the latter every voyage Ito
tensed anew. If surgeons do not mil the board web ismerfsr
um arcuout of the impossibility of procuring them, this
owners shell be obliged to carry with them black assets.
dam, experienced in the tresitwoot of the diseases olds
which the slaves are commonly allietell,
Art.?. Tell the commerce in slaves is changed by arc re.
gestations, the inipuetatsoo of slaves 1010 Neat.ii Gum asp
ports where the freak is sot prohibited. Is permitted.
The usual order is subjoined to all the A uthotio
ties. to observe end enforce this leis,

Foiday se'nnight, tieing the 00000 venire of the
decease of the late Sir W. JIRNIII6B 411, Bari,.
High Mass was celebrated in the tiopel (.701.•
lesser, by the Right Rev. Dr. %la tairiit. V. t . ut
Midland District, whit was ou Imo tour siduniniong.
ing Confirmation perilous were multi mc4 at
Cwiteswy, and 59 in Norwich.

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"r4VCAISTER, TMUS:,DAY, 9ffetsl to.

CROWN SIDE-RAPE.

flatles llntreleshe. awed 31, • tall athletic man, arta pat
hi. trial for wrsastilit•O and ravishing Betty Clitheroe,
of 'oho Clitherunr. at VtAto
' COURTIIMAII Ogled Ik. caw to the Jury. He men.
..e.l that the Milano* and .I.•lns Clitheros 1/Clll poor Is.
11.0.1 ring men in neiglebnering town.hilal
It 111 elislowne, a surstiest aimple.looking wnman, stated
th II she is wife of John Clutkerne, in VeltuuHand. She has
l—en iv sears married. ha. three children. •...1 is now very
is • h r On the 11th of loves.. a1t....1 eight in the
renting. sle• swot to see h.* mother, atm lives In Orrin,
a townahip ahnnt a mile from CAA! sad : there is a public
way and a path Ihrongh the Ault's ; she left her niother's
I'll"' at mines eareTtur a basket with calls, r„fre. and
Mead. and took the truth tbeneutdi the Gel Is tow-w.fa her
awes she met the prisoner in she R-1.1.. and they
pawed wohnnt speaking a word; hid 'weer seen him
'wrote: it noa onite hest, en ve to distinguish the far* and
fealso es frite well. She efterwrinto met Tit 'ma. 0..11...11141
they paused without speaking. When she had gnaw ab,oit a
quarter of a mite she heard steps b:•hind her. It war a
remote solitary plate. She turned round, acid was like to
when she saw the Proems, reaeltiag his hand to.
wards her shonsder. She Giul Mese me. km. ~,„„
frighten m'" He toothed the basket off her heed, took
11.11.1 of her, and tent mend indecent liberties with her, whirl,
she re.iwed with both bey heeds and screamed ord. He said, if
she wenhl not hush he aroeld kill her. She was screeching
n. hard as she maid She said, " Do. gond man, have merry,
for t am with ehild." After She most bentaf outrages be
efferted hi. piwprele. He th ran the way he had come. to-
wards Oerill She went home, and Arend her hnshand laid
nn his bed in his clothes. She said, " Hie (haste) thee,
Clithrroe. and get thy hat, and en with me, for I have
been an elution' with a man as I never was before," or (" as
unbolt ever maid be") Ile get sr, and would have Tone
without, his hat, het she mottle him get hi. hat Thee went
treerthre, snot an they went she told him hour she had been
11.11.1. She said she was certain she could Awl him, if she
eontil either see him or hear his voice. She coedit swear to
the man. Tiny wilt on the way to Thomas Gos.'s, at
fyrrill. 11e was not (one to hid. Illey asked him who the
Owl he went after (followed when she hail met him
running with two suilk.eans on the path). They asked wl.e.
thee he borer the non that he followed (ram his 'wither in.
Isle. fold? He said he believed his name was Martell flaw.
tilesh y. who ernrked at Mr. H'iondell'a, anti lived in the Nooh
Go.. said to lwr husha..d, st Is there any thing to do r. we
lipid llim be wenld come to no hart, if Is" voted tell the
inau's name. Sue he'd Vin that a man had hero ill 'wine
Mr. They wont to Mr Atherton, a publiean, who had used
t., hr a ronetattle. Tlwy d•ol ant see him. They went
then Inwards .Intro Wiushoolen's, and nut their way met
Treitte and another man. N-trille had reamed to be a eon.
.table That month, 11•11 informed them that Wilsalattlee was
the .' rnetahle. They went to him, accompanied he Neville
nod Ow other man, Winstnoley's w;fe will her linstuasol was
ant at home, hot they heard 'sits speak His wife then in td,
be *mild not what lime of otitis' for say one. The
wan who ura• wi•se Neville mid he knew Mawilesley's, and
woehl et, on with them. They went said found his house in
the Thee node a noise the PI isomer answered. Her
bushel, I *skeet, irony Charles Masuleske lived there; health!,
" Ave, I believe an" Abe said, " Tll-I is the man; swear to
bit 141"111/ if 1 111141111.1 sever see bins " Her hothead slaked iflw
witieul he at time to.norrow he said he voodul for an 4111 1w
'mew. They went again to Winattnl• y% to eel him to lake
Mawdesley into ett•toda, hat he *0,0.1 wilt get op. Mir and h. r
tm.hanil went to her m Ater's. A 'welter of persons came
tn.:ether there. Her twitter and other persons went unit, and
reborn I Wth Mastdesley with them. When she saw hien
else asked him where the chokes w: re whirls he load 011 oleo
be ahatued ker. He said she was mistaken, he was not the
maw. She said he was the man that haul ill used in r, Imo
those were not the clothes be haul on, and oohed hills why he
lead thanzed hi. cloths. He said tinter hail lain upon the
Utz ea rr since ation.lay„ thy w-re the readiest ;he said if
there wet soy 'hint In 40 he wonttl putt on 11w nth r eludlws.
She %aid she eon* I swear hi him in flue* a. well a'. in the
other te* oanr the scratch on hi. right the• k, which slw
tad maul, with her right band in lie ,t, nettle with him. She
told the people in the hawse that she had scratched him ; he
henna her Ile was with other people about the house .11
night He it:us taken into ettoody on 17eiday night that was
the next day, and honed,. Is. f .re the Maci%trates on Saler.
day. She went leaner Mr. Vi'moleusek, at Wigan, un Fleshy,
was rxoni.ieJ on oath, sad rimed her elaustuatims ; slw
Lai! b. en lot tsaint tee or half an hour ate nettling with the pri.
amber; he shinned She inside of one of her knees; *he thewell
it In 'namely Ind tier husband ; she could hardly walk to the
Ja.t.re's, and frequently .lopped to rest herself.
• was er/ri5.e.13111".1.1 he Mr. WILLIAMS at SIMI
length ..he knew Jane G 'skill /rely well, and remembered
0.1 .1e• • umulameil two years nen of a man ill nsiog her;
htie ii v. r say to Jaur G skit that she should go Is•fore a
Jo•lire sod swear against the man, and that she could grt
eiume mot. y ; the man of wiwiu she bad complained was
\I.. 'noun
%It COvivecnutv obit Ord to this examination tea culla.
time! point.
Mr liJrnsi Wenn said lie ni.glit ;int the questi 0000 a, hot lie
witi.t ratioGell with her asawurs; he could nut call sit.
sirgorin 1.• rotas:Owl 10 r.
The witsse.s gave the er-oliest anal tiumrst negative to the
torsi i .... as her advising lane Gaskill to swear ravishment,
moul roving that if she oti:y opened her mouth she would get
31. Iler mother was Cathes toe T.)lor; she had nut phew.
the viol •he hail reerie‘d to her miller, nr to ally hid
her hushaunl. thi re csant.ssatiuts, she said ebe did not know
of luny injuries she haul en:Treed but that on her knee.
Judos Clitlwroe, longhand of the fount. r •itnese, gave the
mow s vi,leoce am his wife, as far as he hail the means of know/-
int On Ilwir way hit. wife pointed out the spot where she
Is.ol been ill natal ; he saw authung that night ; it was rather
d Iwo day be saw some real. scattered at the place.
Tisoinas Goss, no ruining into Ilse hue, complained that lie
bad :y got I/. for Ina expense: his Lordship aid 114111 was
• ; I.e might gel 111111141 if the Court thought proper.
Hem& sworn, he said, be had ea a Thus slay met a woman its
the path : be knew Mrs. Clitheroe lay sight; he hail Co words
with her; a moo haul gone lecture him aeon after the witaem
haul pasw ul the woman; h. saw the swan crouching down in
a ail. It bottom, stud thought he was doing eurnething fur
himself. He said, s' A hoe warm night;" She man twist
•• Ayr" Ile !mitered it sal Chalk. 31.audesley, but was not
posit see; lw then slated liir a,sslat tiroon.lauceo as to Chilies
~e and Isis a ifr tailing al 'u. house idles w•rils.
0 1.41.1,1•11•111•11.14, he mid be haul formerly known Mrs.
Chilteror by stela, but slid nut kuuw that the 14.4•311 he
saw pa,sulue with the bast.. t was she. There was a bodge
behind Ow dutch, he usialit have gut over it very easily, he
could mut then have west : he had KM 111.1 berme. He
ol lima II the rifllll/11.1 fm 11•111111 four years ; be be ht. cut
he has a site and ebildrem , he nesse mw them; he never
hoard shy thine before against the mans* tharacter.
J uuie farat.i's wife its Uplitilland, knows the
Is shirt, th.• pails goes. Sire lives nearly a mule
how fohl, stud • .g... 14 ..f a 0111611.11
4114 miss( of the Ilea of Jame, betweru stole and ten,
she !sta..' itiao) a shriek; Obey wire very daanal; they coati-
nut.: tuts..• mitotic.; die ennisl 1141 whether they
W.. 4. .. 111 M } .
ou a eruitosu's. They appeared to come Guns
the path was. Site stood there hearkening to
rt. an Wily a poor woman to the hussy, who beard-
ed a tia lllt nu, anti *kJ hail Wit all her wares.

Alais henton, • very young girl. was sworn. She Bahl
she 1'1.4 w Irpbunautl, at her Nike?* house. She heard •
•••itie ins a Thule(lay night. Tu the heat of her thinking it
wait in ni.tu nine cut less. She 'ward a shriek. It was kept
agate ie.tine) tut suns, time. It mese friar the S. Ida. She
Inn:oat at the tlttllu,w, awl afterwards SAW a wuncin pass.
iug by the.t house. Is was Betty Chits/Tue. She eatririt
avails in a *Alike' uu htt head. She Will guttig bouts.
said maltose to het.

Mi. tllitherias was spin called, and said she bad ...era I:le
Wit •tluaw as sa a MOW VIII6IIOW, whir said she had heard a
Ark ► ; • hats. said it was ale, and II 11641 i had Leis very ill
IMO .

The p, Smuts r was now called opus fur Isis defence ; and
only seta that hr was out guilty.
Henry Faityns.as, a farmer us Urbullassi, kanws the Pri.
saute, alms Is.us t•sktu sous.; potato gnosis& hums bins On

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the Thurs.'sy eventistlis lineation. lir saw Mae an toe ground
(skis /or pot does. He saw hiss at sine, sad worked till
si• ler ten He raise to their door. sod asked the time or the
ta.4111. It hail atrisek lea about five mitintes. He bad Weil
him in tie fii-141 mulls( at ter. Ile bad seen him from time
le time hum nine till Ile missies past Ira. He is very
lilrfirtils• 01001 his chick, all Mail 1104. a 1.. wind it bill him-
self. 1001 it was as gnat as any dock 101 the parish. During
tM do h • worked with Mr. Blundell, and had only the
evening fin himself; be knew him veil well ; he ban a wife
a e 1 three
On cross-examinAints, he said there was a path thrmigh
I'or gelds in time Prismier's way home. Ile soinetimin set his
cluck hy the dial. Ile did not set it by any public clock.
Ile would swear it wis the time of the day. The dials were
in Holland, two 001r4 of, and H'igis Ire wok, wa; which
h^ nits on market days Tkey are in churchlards, open to
all chil (Tv the Court ) He did imi 'sing his cluck
to the sh de, but be *auk a particular scrums( haek.—(A
Mogi.
inner lives at (krill; had business with the
Prinnter on the 11th June; waited for Inns at Prisoner's
house till after ten. He went nut to the end of 111C110use
after ten till he came. lie came. quarter or twenty minutes
peat ten. Ile saw nothing wrong shoal hint---no flurry...—
He knew him floor years; he Ma married man, and has three
cl.ildrro He sever heard any thing against him before.
(ha his eruss-examivation, he said Faurynian's was better
than a mite from Ilse Prisoner's.
Mr. Priryinaiii called agaiii, said, that the distance was a
guod mile, ass uhf mile.
Jrne Gaskill knew 8. Sty CI theme very well. She is a
single woman. She ',membered a men of the tissue of
Mrchivon taking Ith•.rties with her.
An objection was 00. repented, Put his Lordship thought
it was not shot, Iber collateral, 1111,1 aßnwrd slur (Imminent tun
lu krooni Kiting lilverty tip call up Mrs. Clithery
Witness rind, she had told the liberties taken to John
Clitheroe. 1114 Willi afterwards said In her, that if any mss
had used her vo, she would tiVe him the law. She did nut
say she nimbi swear a ravishment azainst him.
His Loanguir refused to .slaw this examination lu be
alined North. r, us 1101 relevant.
Mr. WILLIAMS 111C11,11 upon " the King arainid Tewin,"
and " Harris S.OOlll ('amphell, MT), that
evidence was n. 11111.41610 a. 10 the is having re. r
'riven advice limy S. get mousy Ity a petratcutiute of this
kind. _ . .

Mr. Baron Woos raid, that he was of opinion slit this
evidence was not admissible. 11 was nut rrlio not to rail
witness.. to prove that slue had expressed all ialeatiull to
swear rairishuirsit against • man. That «s• arhrd, and
negatived. It wa• not relevant to ask coconut's as to any
advice givens for taking motiry.
His Limit...hip thee summed tip the evidence. When the
rVilittlet ■s to She scratching was rend, ki• said,
that Slip was • most important eirramstasice fur their gun-
odr►ation.

Mr. Mgy.uasts said, will your Lorftship forgire me saying,
that no utlwr witness spraks to that ?
Mr. Cou AAAAA Y-Atul will your 11.oriirtiip allow me le
soy. he has mil vroh,rnl to ask a iiegle qurslion of an-
other witurss as to thust foci ?

la immensities his Lordship seemed evittently to think the
criticiser 'Kabul the Primmer extremely strong. Is was for
the Jury to take all the eircumiitAileca who their considers-
lion, and give a verdict according to the evidence.
The Jury, &her (minimising in the b.'s for minutes, re-
tired al half-past one. A fret minutes past Iwo they retorts.
gni with a verdict of Guilty, bat recommended to nosey.
The P. inner Mood in a *tale of sorrowful rompolare slur-
hog she trial. Irby.' the Judge WAS 1,1111111611: ap he stacked
his diutka wills rriiliest appearance of the utmnat anxiety.
He heard the verdict in silence, hot the quivering of his lips
intheited the slate el his mind. lle was dressed in a cor-
duroy jaek.t, mid the corn...pundit% apparel of a labouring
tea.'.

lIATCROAY. ArCUST 43.

The fullowint 10 enovicts were ranted at inset at 11w liar,
to rcriveionteure of &Oh Charts M•wihalirei few fare;
Untie' and Wm. Fitzpatrick, for highway roliliery ; Bantry
11Losialilin' John Brisslioss, Walloon CellllleP, Christopher
Thompson, John Somas (on his own couressim), Thomas
Brooks, Robert Bedouin, altNllllkan Craldree,Thonmas Gloves,
and Wm. Stanley. for hurt *aro ; booms Dmeaun and Jones
Norma, for horseeetraling: Jitorph Wilkinotin, for she. p.
stealing, Richard Wright, thumps. Bradley, and Win. Retell-
ford, for stealing in a dwrllint-house above the value of 40a.
Mr. Bona W00D..." YOU have severally been convicted of
most atrocious crimes, of which yea stand there to receive
sentence of death. Although all your offences are capital,
they vary in their complexion of rationality. true of you is
convicted of a rape. This is au offence of the moil heinous
nature, and in your case it isareumpailied with many citrons.
stauresuf oggi ovati tttt . It appears that you not only writ bent
upon gratifying your brutal inclinatiost, Ina that coo used
the poor woman in a erne! MINI itlllllllllll MAIIM'e. The Jury
who rum"' 1"0 guilq lhotizlit fit lu irromnicial you to merry
1 heir ri a mmetithei tttt may he token into considrrati ttttt but
I rats give jou no hope that mercy can lw strewn to you
(His !airilship then made souse appropriate iihservationt ON
ihelllilwr planer sari ime.)—Any earu Instances of a I teals lion
that may lw found ill your cases will be Liken iilto considera-
tion; but whether his Majesty may mercy to any of
yon, II dues not Is curve ma sit rresmit to say. 1 reruns.
mewl it to you all to repent of your iglu*, and say penitence
and prayer to prepare fur that fate which may possibly
await you
The. the bovines& of the Crown Court was finished at half.
past two.
The cotton spinners are still in custody for wool of bail.
Their trial fur conspiracy is traversed till aria Amass,.

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