The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-12 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c.

111nronn, MAncir 10..—Arrived the Lady Gallatin,
Harris, from Liverpool for Savannah ; she had been struck by
a heavy sea, which caused her to leak so much as to keep both
pumps going : the crew is much fatigued. By the Anna packet,
from Waterford, we learn that yesterday, off Craton Head, the
Nlartha, Dean, from Waterfbrd for Liverpool, was struck by a
sea and instantly sunk ; 8 men and the Pilot drowned ; only the
Mate saved.

MARGATE, MAncir 11.—Arrived off Margate the Alfred,
Trist, from the %Vest Indies ; she struck on NlArgate Sand and
lost an anchor and cable, but is now at anchor in the roads.—
The Dick, Harrison, from the East Indies, has lost an anchor.
RAmsGATE, SIARCII 11.—The Pallas, Rendall, of Dart-
mouth, has sent on shore for an anchor and cable.
DEAL, MARCH 11.—Wind W.N.W.—It has blown hard
at intervals the whole of last night and to-day. and still con-
tinues. Arrived and remain the Anne, Milne, from Teneriffe ;
Five Friends, Reid, from Lisbon ; John Murphy, Holmes,
and Thirza, Myhill, front Malaga : and Fruit Preserver,
Taylor, from St. Michaels. Came down from the River and
remain the Briton, Cram, for Jamaica ; Kingston, Luckie, for
Demerara ; and Palambam, 'Tit, for St. Lucia.
SEv EN o'CLocE.—More moderate, and the weather looks
settled. The outward.bound arc all well.

SCARBOROUGH, MARCH 10.—The Melville, Liston, from
Newcastle for Lisbon, was abandoned at sea, a few leagues
from Flamborough Ilead, on Wednesday the 6th inst.; crew
taken up by the Defence of Hastings, and landed here.
I'mursmolmt, MAncit 11.—Wind W.N.W.—Arnved
the Catharine, Young, from Honduras for Chatham ; sailed in
company with the Lloyd's ; Albion ; Surrey ; and Lady slack-
worth for London ; and Snipe for Bristol. The Mary, Watts,
from Trepani, in coming into harbour to stop a leak, got foul
of His Majesty's Hulks, and damaged her stern and stern-boat.
We have had a strong wind all day ; at times very squally.
num° t:Tit, ILsnett 10.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the
Fox packet, with mails from the Islands, last from St. Thomas's,
in 27 days. Orpheus, ('ristall, from London for Ancona, and
Timoletin, Tellaeche, from Bristol for llilboa.
The George, Wright, from Liverpool for the Brazils, was
driven on shore at Campbcltown, but was got off with damage
to her rudder.

Lice.xsiNG MAGliTHATES.—Yesterday a very
numerous and respectable Meeting of Licensed
Victuallers, and others connected with the Li.
ceasing of Public-houses, took place at the Free-
masons' Tavern, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the case of Mr. James Meek, for-
merly of the Green Man, St. John's-lane, Clerken-
well, who having lost his license in 1816,
preferred a bill of indictment against Sir
Nathaniel Conant, Thomas Collins, Esq. and
Samuel Mills, Esq. three of the Magistrates
of the County of Middlesex, who were on the
9. 7th of February last tried thereon in the Court
of King's Bench, and convicted of having refused
to grant a license to Mr. Meek. Mr. IticllAnn
JAcicsos was placed in the Chair, and a series
of resolutions, applauding the conduct of Mr.
Meek, congratulating him on his success, and
recommending a subscription to indemnify him
for his expellees, was proposed and unanimously
agreed to.--,-(Morning Paper.)

Mr. Donatty, the nephew, was then called, and deposed as
follows :—The deceased is my aunt; she brought me up from
my childhood ; she was a widow, and resided by herself at the
house in Robert-street. The female prisoner was in the prac-
tice of running of errands occasionally in the day-time for her,
and sleeping in the house at nights. Abont three weeks ago,
the deceased in a great fright came; to Ins house, and said she
was fearful to remain in the house alone, as the female prisoner
hal signified her intention of leavingher, and that she was afraid
'she was connected with a bad clan. I went home with her at her
request, and.remained in the house till 11 o'clock, when the
female prisoner came home, and. the deceased went down stairs
to see her into bed. She afterwards came up stairs, and said
she was determined not to stop in the house that night,
and that she would go to my house. 1 told her there wits
no convenience, unless she slept with the children ; she said she
would put up with any thing rather than stop in the house.—
She went home with me that night, gnd in the morning, about
five o'clock, she went back to her own house, and told the girl
she had been called out to a friend who had been taken ill. I saw
her last Sunday week for the last time ; she then, in talking
about the girl, said, " Mary is getting better ; I shall let my
first floor, and then I shall be safe." I have never seen her
since. The male prisoner has been a watchman in the House
of Correction, and is connected with a very bad set. I certain-
ly did, on seeing the murdered body of my aunt, utter the ex-
pression that has caused the arrest of the prisoner.
Mrs. Sarah Chessey sworn.—l live next door to the deceased.
About '2O minutes before nine on the night of the murder, I
was standing talking with the deceased at her own door, I had
borrowed an Italian Iron of her, and had taken it home. I
knocked twice at the.door before the deceased opened it. She
had no light. Whilst we stood talking at the door, a strange
cat ran past the deceased into the kitchen, and the deceased
went down st4liirs to turn it back. I wailed till she came up
stairs, and :deer a few minutes' conversation I went away, and
left her standing at the door. I saw no person standing about
the house at the time. In about ten minutes after I was told
she was murdered.

Mrs. Mary Earle—l lodge in the house of last witness. In
about 10 minutes after Mrs. Chcssey came in, I heard a scream
of murder ; it proceeded from Mrs. Donatty's house ; I heard
it a second time, only weaker ; and then 1 heard something
fall down; I instantly called Mr. Wilson, a lodger in our
house, who went and knocked at the door, and coughed through
the keyhole, but received no answer ; I then mentioned it to
the watchman, who, with farther assistance, entered the house
by means of a ladder, and the body was fund weltering in its
blood in the passage.
The watchman stated, that soon after he came on his beat,
he was told by the last witness that a cry of murder had been
head from Mrs. Donatty's house ; he therefore communicated
with the patrol, and they descended the area, and found the
windows and door fast; a ladder was then procured, and wit-
ness, the patrol, and the night constable got in at the first floor
window, and on going down stairs into the passage the body
of the eased was found lying with the heels towards the
street door, and her head towards the parlour. The back door
was open which leads into the yard, in which was a wall six feet
high ; there were marks in one corner as if some person had
been climbing over ; sonic mortar was lying about. The other
side of the wall was Mihnan-place, into which the murderers
must have escaped. The house was completely ransacked ;
every Elrawer was opened, and their contents packed up, ready
to be taken away. A hag, containing a quantity of wearing.
apparel, was lying near the deceased, also a sheath, which had
contained an instrument about half an inch wide.
The night constable corroborated the above statement ; add-
ing, that when he felt the body, it was quite cold, and appear-
ed to have been dead about an hour. There were bloody foot-
steps towards the yard door.
The prisoner, on being called on for his defence, called his
employer, Mr. Jacques, the ivory-turner, millaldwires-gardens,
who proved that the prisoner was in his factory till 35 minutes
past nine on the night of the murder; and several of his
shopmates proved he was drinking with them till 10 o'clock
at the Hole-in-the-Wall, llaldwin's.gardens.
After Some observations from the Magistrate, the prisoners
were instantly discharged.

CORONER'S INQUEST.
A Coroner's Inquest was held at the Workhouse, in Gray's
Inn-lane, at three o'clock. After an examination of witnesses,
which lasted until ten o'clock at night, and by which nothing
material was elicited, a verdict was returned of —" Wilful
Murder against some person or persons unknown."
The following was the only additional evidence of any in-
terest :

Mary Ann Young, the young woman who, with her step father,
were in custody on suspicion of the murder, was next examined.
She deposed as follows :—She liveS at 16, Baker's-row, Clerken-
well ; she occasionally attended on the deceased near two years ;
they agreed very well together, but sometimes there might be a
trilling difference about something. -Witness lived with her
mother, but came sometimes in the middle of the day to do odd
jobs, or to carry message% for the deceased, but came to sleep
there every night; she sometimes came there at eight o'elock,
and sometimes not till past eleven or twelve. On Saturday
last witness left the deceased at half-past seven in the morning,
and after leaving her a loaf of bread, did not return until about
half-past ten at night, when she found a crowd collected before
the door, and then heard of the murder. Witness had no sweet.
heart or other person that came to visit her at the deceased's,
neither did she ever describe the situation of the house to any
person ; neither had she any suspicion of whom the murder was
committed by ; the back door was always bolted both day and
night. All witness knows of the journeyman baker is, that
Peter used to visit Mrs. Chessey. Mr. Donatty, the nephew,
lived on very good terms with the deeeased. Witness does not
know of any property the deceased might have in the house.
Mr. Lewis Hensley, 42, Great James-street, Bedford-row.
suri;con, deposed—l was called to attend the deceased on Satur-
day night last, a little after 11 o'clock, at No. 16, Robert-street;
I was informed she had been murdered, and therefore hastened
instantly to the spot; on entering the house I observed the
deceased lying in the passage on her right side, in a slanting
position, the head being on the floor, and against the partition
neat the parlour door • the lower extremities were drawn up.
and the left leg was lying over the right; there was a consi-
derable quantity of blood on the floor, which had flowed some
distance, and there was blood also on the wainscot; the ear-
ringsswere torn from the cars of the deceased ; 1 was desirous of
ascertaining if life was extinct, and I found although there was
still some warmth about the eheit, that respiration and circulation
had entirely ceased for some time ; the extremities were quite
cold ; I then proceeded minutely to examine what injuries had
heen inflicted to produce death ; I found a deep wound on the
left side of the neck, passing from thejugular vein in a slanting
direction towards the vertabrw, the instrument having divided
both the internal and external jugular vein and carotid artery ;
there was another wound on the right aide of the neck near the
back part, extending towards the transverse process of the cer-
vical vetabrm ; probably inflicted with the same instrument as
the former wound ; I should think it must have been a pointed
double-edged knife, or some instrument of that kind, probably
about half an inch across the blade, that was used in the per-
petration of the horrid deed. The other injuries I observed,
were a few slight bruises on the legs and arms, and the forcible
removal of tile ring-finger of the left hand ; it was cut off at the
second joint, and probably by the same instrument with which
the other wounds were inflicted ; 1 do not consider the wound
at the back of the neck would have caused sudden death, but
the division of, the large artery on the left side, which almost
immediately communicates with the heart, from the sudden
rush of blood which it would occasion, was sufficient to cause
instantaneous dissolution. It might be as well to mention, that
both the wounds were stabs and not cuts, therefore the instru-
ment must have been sharp-pointed. The bruises that I have
referred to were in all probability produced by the struggling of
the deceased, either prior to her receiving the wounds, or at.
the time she tell.

[wog/new cu it cm t4t.x.)
The pawnbroking scheme of advancing money
to farmers or warehousemen on deposits of grain
has justly excited a great sensation every where,
though people can hardly persuade themselves
that such a scheme, through approved of in the
Committee, will receive the approbation of the
House. They justly observe, that an advance of
money on goods manufactured for the foreign
market at a time when the violent closing of that
market (the long continuance of which could not
be looked for) had glutted our warehouses, might
•have some show of reason for it. it was then
thought requisite that an effort should be made to
save the destruction of much valuable property,
and preserve from ruin anddilapidation many es-
tablishments of industry, on the activity of which
the strength and welfare of the country depended.
There was no over-trading in the case, against
which no protection ought to be afforded.—The
market existed, but the communication with it
was unexpectedly cut off. But the present loan
is not for the purpose of saving but destroying
property ; no good grain will of course be ware-
housed. But the damaged corn, with which the
market is now glutted, will be thrown into ware-
houses, for the sake of the money to be ad-
vanced, where it will of course rot, and thereby
diminish by, so much the quantity on hand. The
quantity being reduced, a rise on the remainder
will, it is thought, take place; and thus the
people of England will have been made to pay,
in addition to their other taxes, a tax to raise the
price of their food. And the best of the matter
is, that, by so forcing up the price, a species of
cultivation will he continued—namely, that of
deriving white crops from sterile soils, which en-
gulphs the capital of the country, and involves
the cultivators every day deeper and deeper in
ruin.