The Sun.
London, England, 1813-09-21 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY

Yesterday 4/;(1a/10, a Malay, was indicted for
tlketvilfal. murder of Se.da-Sidee, by,stabbing him
%vith a knife.

Sack Malinioud, who was sworn. on the Koran,
deposed that he is a Lascar, and , native cook of
the Lady Ca,4tlereagli. 'On Wednesday Se*nnight
the prisoner mrd the deceased. 'were • both in the
galley roastidg potatoes. They quarrelled about
a potatoe, each claiming 'it as his.' They then
begun fighting-, and the prisoner took his shoes,
and solid: the deceased. The Malays who were
there wanted to tie up the deceased and flog him,
but the prisoner wanted to fight the deceased. It
then became a general fight between than all.
They were armed with knives and deck-scrapers.
The prisoner %vas armed with a l3atavian
The Sidees retired into another room and shut the
door, to prevent the Malays from corning after
them,
.but they oune id by the window, and
• struck the deceased with sticks. The prisoner
:,tabbed him in the belly with his kftlic, which
came Out at his hack. The Sidees are natives of
ulagascar.
The Surgeon proved the wound, in the belly to
have been the cause of the death of the deceased.
The prisoner, in his defence, said, he could not
say how, in the scope, the deceased came 'by the,
wound.
Mr. Justice HEATH was of opinion, this being a
,
slaying on a sudden pi ()vocation, it could Hot
amount to murder.

The Jury ar:eorclingly...found the •pri,,her--
Guilty of illonslaughter.
.•

Andrew Verween was indicted for burglariously
brz.aking and entering the dwelling-house of John
Lindsay, and stealing therein several silver spoons,
a silver watch, &c.

Mrs. Lindsay proved, that she locked her house
upon the night of the titlf of August, and in the
morning found that it had been. entered by the
window, and robbed of the articles specified in the
indictment, together with a quantity of wearing
apparel., She saw the prisoner in .the afternoon,
and observed that his pockets appeared Ital.—,
There was a haLdherchief banging out of .his
pocket, which she thought wall one which she
had lost. He took it out of his pocket, and said
it was not her's, hut she knew it to be her pro-
perty. The prisoner ran away, bat was stopped
and secured.
J. Williams, a pawnbroker, proved that the pri-
soner pledged a watch with him, on the, morning
of the burglary, which was produced, and identifi-
{4,
ed by 'Airs. Liods.my.
A woman, whose yard joined that of the prose-
cutrix, heard the noise of the br...:lking into the
dwelling-house between 12 and
Death:

7 John Langdon, who'wto, to have been tried for
bigainy; he ving married no fewerAlian four wives,
had his trill .pestponed till nest. Sessions.. •
pizateth the wife of John Sheehan,. 'arid Jere-
miah Neale; were indicted tor, robbing Peter Jo-
seph, a black seaman of 28/, in conjunction with
the husband of the female prisoner: who could
not be found. All the parties, it appea:rett, rose
,upon the prisoner; but John,Sheelion'sWas the
hand which actually. took the property.
Mr. Justice DAMPIER left, it to the Jury .to sUY,
if this was an acting in concert ; so, then wai
Neale equally guilty as if his.. had been the hand.:
that took the money. Any thing which Al:e
ti -
mule prisoner,lthwever, had done"; being dune
presence of her husband, she might he stipposed'
to be. acting under his,intinence,
.and therefore
they would acquit her.
The Jury aceordingly found Jeremiah, Neale
Guilty, and Elizabeth Sheehan Not Gnilty.,
John Chalkley was capitally indicted, under the.:
pluck. Act, f9r,?Stabbillgn fool,.tke property of:
'Edward KinintOn, florstsey. The prost.sentor's
. mitre anti foal, it appearetl, had been in the habit
of straying into an adjoining field,' belonging to a
person of the name a Stringer, to whonk the
sonar was servant, , and the prosecutor.had gene 7
rally: given the prisoner peer for driving them
home. 'A quarrel, however; having taken place,
the prisoner had been hcard to mutter threats!
against the prosecutor, and when the prosecutor's
foal was afterwards found in Stringer's field, with.
its'entrails hanging, out; the pr;srsner, on b.eipg•
challenged with harhig done it, was beard by se-
Wit)ICASCS to rickunWledge that 41c ,had done
it, and that he, hadllaid he would do it.

441StiCe IiAMPI-aft, left it to the Jury:•tersay
if this did net go-to prove im:lice agitinAt :the pro.
seciitor ; um% if then•wh's isrlisouer
of the eapitaliirt of the charge.
l'he Jury immediately. found the prioner---
Guitty—t-imoth.

George Furfoug tvas p i tall v.r,onviet et: for steal-
ing two pieces of carpet, value:q. Om property of
John Paulin, in his tht

We have been tnformed, 'but we know not whnt.
credit ib due to the report, that a -,j'ounger SOD Of
the brave And good -Nioaitu, is on board the4al-
- del 111'076. Ile allef,,,vs that be has been
estrunged horn hiA parent 9., for fourteen
.year.,,
during which period he has undergone many
situdes, unit triat he was afraid to discover
self, until negnointed with I;',, father's inivi4
Joined tilt Allies. in great distress.—(Pty-
mouth Telegraph.)
The denvYhments embar.V.ed'titst week
at Portsnuinth for Spain; viz. :---34 ltbral Horse
Guards tun!. stit Dragoon thntrcls, Ist, aott3rl
Dragooos,-10th, 15th, ;lad 18th.liiis-;ars, • Ist and,
24 Dragoon,l, and Ist tn;sars Ki.ng'sGerraan
Brigade of Vota have Also ar-
rived, ill tau divi,iioll:c aol lac enibarlicd and a
detachment of the Royal ‘Vagizon Train will this.
day embark fur the sztnie tleAtiwltion. A detach-
ment of:Abe Royal Artillery embarked on Fri,ll4y
for Gibraltar.