The Sun.
London, England, 1814-10-29 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

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Mar-Office, Oct. 1814.—The PRINCE REGENT having been
,graciously pleased, in the name a• pctoji the beltOkojel-0 Z.V.g.
"Zi:Siti 'the Army, no; being Colonels of Regiments, instead
of the Half-pay, or Fulllay, of their Regimental Commis-
sions, viz. :•-!- Per Diem.
General - - - -kI 18 0
Lieutenant-General - - 112 6
. Major-General .. - - 1 5 0
I bait, the honour to acquaint you, that the Pay of your
Rank, commencing the 25th June last, will be issued to you
-quarterly, by the Paymahter-Getteral, upon the production,
bv yOursolf, or your assign, of your declaration, upon honour,
that you are the person entitled th'ereto.
I have the honour to be,
Your most obedient humble Servant.

The Duke of YORK arrived in town on 'I hu,s-
day. Yesterday his •Royal Highness trausaced
business at his Office. " -

• - General TAYLOR arrived inlown yesterday from
Windsor, and v6ite4 the Duke of 'YORK.

.. Major-General GIBBS accompanies the Hon.
E. PAKENFIAM to America, in the Statira
An increased alacrity has appeared in thes;\''
tary Departments during- the present week ; the
Adjutant-General and
_Quarter-Master-General
were recalled from the sea-side ; directions were
given for the re-enlistment of soldiers Whose pe-
riods of service had expired, and fresh orders for
detachments of Militia.

Au order has been issued from the Office of the
Secretary of State, to suspend the disembodying
of the Dorset, Oxford, and Ist Snmersei Militia.
The Oxford is ordered back to Portsmouth, front
whence it arrived on the 20th inst. at Oxford.--
The following corps, on their march for disee)u-
dying quarters, have been halted, and ordered to
march to the following places :--The Bedford •
Militia to Colchester, Berkshire to L'verpool,
Cambridgeshire to Derby and Nottingham, Car-
marthen to Milford Haven, Derby to Plymouth,
South Lincoln to Chatham, and the Cumberland
fbr North Britain.

The 2[l-Battalions of the 25th, 37th, 44th, and
other Regiments in the Netherlands, which were
to have been disbanded on the 24th of the present
month, are continued on the establishment until.
farther orders.

The Royal South Lincoln Regiment of Militia
were on their march to this town, in order to be
dise►nbodied ; they were, h9wever,
.halted at
Ashbourne and Derby, and have since receivek.
a route for Chatham, for which place they are
now on their march.—(Lincoln Mercury)
The 2d Royal Veteran Battalion is arrived At
Spithead, from Madeira, Ivbere they are now per-
forming quarantine, and are afterwards to proceed
to Chatham by sea.
The 2d Battalion of the 21st Foot are ordered
to embark at Gravesend for. Scotland.

ANTI-ATTRITION.--Two Hundred and Fifty
Pounds worth of the Royal Patent Anti-Attrition,
which is sold at No. 40, Charing=cross, is, on a
Ship's Bottom More than equal to Seventeen
Hundred Pounds worth of Copper, as- it most
etleetually preserves the Planks from the worm,
and neither barnacles or weeds will adhere to
wood when primed with the Anti-Attrition, which
also gives a Ship a better sailing-bottom than
copper. The Public may easily satisfy themselve.3
of the fact by making the first trial on one plank
only. • '

OLD BAILEY, Fain‘Y, OCT. 28.

ill)F.ll,Nr !iENTN!i-TowN.

Thomas Sharpe was indicted fur the ‘vilful mar-
tier of Elizabeth -Dobbins, at near
Hew ish to‘cn, on the 4th day Of (:)ctober instant,
by beating her Latins ouOt a,poker.
Anot.ptius havin4 opened the cafe, Mr.
ANDREWS Staled the circumstances of the murder.

James Dobhins deposed, that lie Works at the
water-works of the Hampstead Water Conipany,
and lived in Abilield-lane, Kentish-tow. The
deceaxed was not his wile, but had lived .Ivith,him
20 years, and- passe,l by his name ; her real name
was Eliz-abeth Buchanan, and she took in washing.
On the day the murder was committed, witness .
came home to dinner about 20 minute t past
,one,
and staid hest part Of an 'four. When he went Out
•the was at work; sorting her linen in the .room
belisw. There is a little passage between the
loom and the door. ..On that day a. man
Daum' Clarke- wonted with hint, and about a 6.
quarter past three o'clock witness sent. hint to hiS
lonsc for a -mug to get some water in. They
were then putting their tools into his bay!), about
15 yards from the house. Clarke came hack, and
said he could not get, in, the door was fast. lie
had called to his wife several times, but received no
answer In consequence of this information, wit-
ness went home immediately, when he found not
only the outer door .hut
,that of the lower- rooni
also wide open, an:l saw the deceased lying on her.
side by 0'1: copper, groaning anl bleeding. lie
tried 6-, raise,her,.but could not, on which he call-
ed Clarke, and with his assistance' they raised
and put her on -a chair. lie perceived that ,her.
head was cot open, lie believed the brainSwere
io,but the bones .were scattered about the floor%
found the poker upright On one side. of
.the
copper, bent and bloody. .She lived about a tplar-
ter of an hour, but-never spoke after he entered
the house.
•

James Clarke deposed, that between 3 and 4
o'clock on
.the tigy of the murder, he went to
Dobbins's cottage for a mug, and found the door
fast. He called to Mrs. Dobbins -twice or thrice,
buveceived no answer, on.which lie returned to
Dobbihs, ‘vho, on his information went himself
for the mug. Soon after, Dobbins. called to him;
and on his .going to the door, he saw the deceas-
ed lying. on the floor, with her head very much
cut. .He 'then, at Dobbins's request, assisted in
placing her on a chair.
James Bateman, a carpenter at Kentish-town,
on the tlay.of the 'murder, passed Dobbins's cat-
tsge about half-past two o'cloA, "here .he saw
the prioner 'landing with his back towards him.;
but he Jurneci, and ivitues3 had a view of his face.
Pyisoncr :•ad on a bl.lek si.k.handkerchief and a
fustian ja ket. About four o'clock lie saw hini iir
custo4, anil knew him to be the Dante man.

Wm. Tyler,. a labouring. man, eras, on fhe 4th
October, at %%roil about 150. yards from Dobbins's
mtage. He went. tbere'to binrow a barrow, add
saw the Okoner in ,lie linSe,- eating brea,d and
but:er. Saw him again in the evening,

. .
11.14)nri!, (, anther, a lanonrer, on the same day,
was at work about 300 Varas front Dithbins's-cot-
tat:e. Seel and Bremmer were worg.ing with him.
Anont half past tnree o'clock; Saw 'prisoner com-
ing towards him out. of .111i'field-lane, with an
at in-full of elothes,, untied and hanging loosely
Rhone; Ott seeing witness, prisoner'tnnted iteross •
the road, and went through a ,gap 111'6e: hedge.
irto a field. Lie and Bremmer and Seel followed
hint, and saw-him kneeling. and- packing np the
linen in a red handkerchief with white spots.—
Seel asked. where lie got the 'limn?" Prisorier
answeyed, be had
.11otight it iti itltiu a mile of
Edgeware, of a gipsey Man,. for 0..5. They took;
}tiro to Mr. Nees,. the Magistrate, tvlicr,e they
beard of the ninrdery
James Seel confirmed the former evidence :4s, to
fullowing prisoner into the, field. After••be bad.
beard his aecouat of how- he cane by thelluen,
witness told him it a poor !line story, anti he
must Lave stolen it. near the, spot inhere they then
were: hut the prisoner,persisted in his having
bought it, adding, that•it might have been stolen,
or it might not. Witness advised him to take it
back to where I c had stolen it ; btu. prisoner
swered, he did nut know where to it. As
the were taking Dian down the road, he said to -
witines, ‘- Good G,ict Almighty' young- man,
don't hurt ittc ; I'll give you the bundle ;
audit ..votdd be a sad thing if 1 were let
ii:to further trouble about it ; I am the eldeSt of
eleven chldren." They then took him to the
Just ice, where they were informed .of the murder.
James Bremmer corroborated the evidence of
Camber and Seel.

John'l.ll:sk, a constable, received the bundle
from • `peel at Mr, lyers's house on the 4th inst.
which he produced in Court.
. James DObkins (re-examined) said, he the same
day thc.murder was committed missed same shirts
and maim kerchief, one of;which out of the bundle
lie itU:nLined to be his; own. He also- swore to
the bloody poker, which he was positive was-not
bent v..hen he went out from dinner, He also
stoved a waf.->hin.z.-bill found, in the bundle.taken
'frffin.prismier to be deceasetri hanit-writimg.
James
.3,mes, a servant, deposed that • Mrs. •
Dooonts washed for--him, and prOved five. shirts
Bud a Silk handkerchief found in the bundle, to be
iris property. :
GeorgialvaCollltis delivered some things belong- .1
ill; to her Master, Mr. Lingham, which she swore
to he the same found in the bundle. . • • 1

bvLord ELLENIIORou6H,:,
that tinier he left Hs wife after dinner, slitr"
(1;t1 not conipiain of having been robbed of any
thing. •

Lord tLLENBOROVGIi summcd up the evidence,
at:d the Jury wiihout-hesitation found the prisoner
Guilty. -
The prisquer,, on being asked what he_had to
vy, why judgment .of death should not •he pro-
inotmccd upon him ? said he knew nothing of the
Inurder.

The ItEcolumn then pronounced sentence of
4eath upon him in the.mual Wanner, and ordered
Lint to he executed onMonday mornin* next.
The in-isoner innnedi.ately died out, ' Mny-the
curse of 60d be upon you night and day, both in this
world and the next.

It is ialpossit;le to tl'acribc the shock which
this horrid exclantion excited.
The prisoner, thronghout the trial, seemed per-
fectly at his. ease; He :wp dressed if a pOl-
jacket,.ami in his appearance cotupletely looked
the character capable of committing- the act im-
puted to him. He is of short stature, dark eyes,
overhanging brow,' and swarthy complexion, ra-
ther sharp featured, with two Woks on hie
cheek.

CHARGE OF MUltDElt Gt.-,:ottGE,s IN THE

• • EAST.
James Sullivan, IFilliant Conol!y, tfillia'm Han-
moony, Janus Lcary; we,rt. indicted for the
wilful murder of B.,.rnardSiii a watchman, of
the Parish of St. Georges in the on the
29th of September last. • The evidence, to sub-
stantiate the charge were chielly.lrish ;vatchnien,
who gave a most confused account of the trans-
action. But the substance of their evidence was,
that on the, 29th. of . September a quatrel„took
place .among.the Irish labourers who frequented a
pablic-house-in King; street, St. George's, called
the Ship and Blade Bone.. 'The- watchmen' were
callCd in, and Ilannaway was taken into custody.
This produced an ,attempt to rescue bin), and. a
general row ensued, in which the Watchmen were
ill-treated and wounded, and Shields, one of
them, was killed nearly on the spot. The Jury
acquitted Ilanuaway, who it did not appear took
any part in the attempted rescue, and found the
three others Guilty of .lianslaughtef.

ANOTHER CHARGE OF MURDER.

John .Strong %.vas indiett,d for tht tVI d murder
of his wife. 'lltis case presented the melanchOly
spectacle of children giving evidence against their
parent on a•capitat charge: It,,ap.pcared that the
prisoner ,WiiS clerk to Mr. christiv,"a biscuit-baker
in Wapping, 'and hail long mainTaincd a good
character. The deceased, however, to whom he
Inid.been,nntrried s..years, and by whom he had
had children, had-, bv-her dissolute habits'and
prtvetnuty to spirituous liquots, marred. all his
domestic peace, squandered ,tne produce of his
indnstry, and finally reduced him almost to a statt
of frenzy. The lamentable .eVent for ti hick he
stood, to take Lis mat; originated in a inisappii-
cation of sync ltu the deceased for
family_pnrposeS ; a dispute in consequence arose,
which ended in the prisoner throwing, an ink-
stand. at -the deceased,: which six returned, by
'throwing at him some cups and saucers; he then
struck her several blows, which ocea,:ionel her
death, from a ,concuss,ion of. the braia The tes-
timony givelj itt support of the case t;), the child-
ren, unsupported hy,other evidence, was, how,
ever, of so 'confuSed.a nature, that the prisoner
was acquitka...

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