Star.
London, England, 1808-01-16 00:00:00

OLD BAILS?.

MURDER.
' Yesterday dints Thom on was indicted for the wilful
tat 'der of Joseph Walker, a Negro seaman, on the
28th of December last.
Mr. POOLZY was Counsel for the prosecution' and
Mr. GURNEY and Mr. KNAPP exerted their talents
on behalf of the prisoner.
It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner and the
deceased had lived together for a considerable time
previous to this melancholy occurrence, in a street
called Denmark-street, East Smithfield, where they
occupied a lodging. About ten o'clock, on the even.
ing of the day mentioned in the indictment, a man
named Antony, a friend to the deceased, and
who lived the very next door, was alarmed by
the voice of his friend crying out murder. He in-
stantly went to the door of his apartment, and endea-
voured to .pin admission, but found his exertions in-
effectual, because it was locked on the inside. He
looked into the room, through the crevice, under the
window-shutter, and there he beheld the prisoner
hanging her head, and the deceased lying on the
floor. He went away to get some assistance, and re-
turned again immediately, and found the door, which
was before fastened, now open. He immediately en-
tered the room, and saw the prisoner with a knife in
her hand, and mocking the deceased, who was then
groaning with pain on the floor, seeming as if she
were not conscious of the injury she had done to the
deceased. Onperceiving the witness, she cried out
0 Jonas !" a nick-name he went by), and shook
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her head. At at moment a watchman entered the
room, accompanied by a black seaman, to enquire
what was the matter. The prisoner answered no-
thing was the matter ; and at the same time told the
black seaman to go about his business, for it was no
affair of his. He refused to do that, and she ordered
the watchman to put him out of the room, which he
immediately did. The witness Antony asked the
prisoner to let him see the deceased's wound, which
she refused, till the watchman was gone. But upon
the watchman being given to understand that there
was no occasion for his interference, he went away,
and left the parties to themselves. Immediately upon
his disappearing, Aatony went to the deceased, and
asked him what was the matter ? but he made no
answer : upon which he procekded to examine the
wound, and found the collar of His shirt sprinkled with
blood, and apparently torn open. He asked the pri-
soner for the knife to cut open the shirt, to get at the
wound to see it ; but she refused, saying—" This is
the bloody knife with which I did it, and I wish my
bloody hand had been cut off before I touched it."—
Antc7ny then tore open the deceased's shirt, and found
a wound in the lower part of his left side, out of which
a part of the omentum and intestines projected. Alarm.
ed at its dangerous appearance, he exclaimed to the
prisoner—" Nancy, it is indeed very bad." The pri-
soner then asked him, what had best be done ? He
advised her immediately to send for a Doctor, and to
tell him that the deceased had received the wound in
a drunken fit, by falling over a jar, which was then
lying broken on the floor. A surgeon was imme-
diately sent for • and in the mean time the deceased
having recovered his senses, exclaimed to the priso-.
ner—" Nancy, I forgive you." When the surgeon
arrived; he immediately ordered the deceased to be
carried'to the Hospital. The unfortunate man was
accordingly conveyed to the London Hospital, where
he languished till the Monday following, and died of
the wound. It was remarkable that the conduct of
the prisoner towards the deceased, during the time he
was in the Hospital, was marked by the most tender
and kind attention to his sufferings, having constantly
attended him, night and day, by his bed side, to watch
his every motion, and anticipate his desires, and ex-
pressed the moss apparent concern and grief for the
melancholy act she had committed. The unfortunate
deceased being exhausted in strength, and wasted with
loss of blood, at length breathed his last in the arms
of his unhappy destroyer.
Griffiths, the Police-officer, who apprehended the
prisoner, stated, that having been informed that there
was a man lying dead at the London Hospital, by
violent means, he went thither to ascertain the truth;
and upon finding that the fact was so, he went, by
direction, to Denmark-street, were he found the pri-
soner very easily. Upon interrogating her how the
death of the man happened, she told him, that they
had been quarrelling—he had beaten her very much,
and the result was that she, by the excess of his cru-
elty, had seized a knife, and unfortunately wounded
hint. She shewed a severe bruise on one of her knees,
and another between her eye and her nose, which she
had received from the deceased. She further added,
that the deceased had been in the habit of treating
her very ill, frequently beating her most unmercifur-
ly. Griffiths, however, in the proper execution of his
duty, immediately conveyed the prisoner before the
Magistrate.
Is then appeared by the evidence of Eliz. Jakes, 1
Cath. Blunt. Jos. Blunt, Ann Murray, Mary Gorr
don Jane Barlow, and J. Johnson, that the substance
of this statement f the prisoner to the above Police-
officer was correct—that she and the deceased had
had a quarrel ; that there had been a great noise in
the house just before the accident ; that she had bolt-
ed him out ; that he had walked up and down the
street muttering in great anger, and vowing vengance
against her, saying, you b—..-, I will mark you to
night for burning my nose with the candle. That
they met that afternoon in a public-house where he
had been drinking, and behaving outrageously; he
said to her that he would come home ; she said, he
should not, " I have kept you too long already," &c.
&c. She had as good a character as a person in her
unfortunate situation could be expected to hive,
The CHIRP BARON. of the EXCHEQUER told the Jury,
that in order to make out the crime of murder, there
must be open malice, or malice to be implied from the
act, or that malice was to be collected from the cir-
cumstances of the case : but if no such malice ap-
peared, then the killing of a human being wore a
different aspect from that of murder. If one person
was struck by another, and that he was apprehensive
of danger to his own life, the law did not require
that, in repelling that danger, he should act in the
manner which upon cool deliberation be might have
done, but would make allowance for the common in.
firmity of human nature, if, in such a state of confu-
sion he should happen to go beyond the limits of that
which in cooler moments might he deemed necessary.
A human creiture, when put into a passion, was not

required to weigh in exact balance the proportion be-
tween the injury received and the manner of repelling
it. The question here was, whether the prisoner was
not, upon the evidence, in the state rich she had
described herself to be in to the
.Police ..er ? If she
was, then the crime. would not amount to more than
manslaughter. There was sot enough of thefacts of
the case before the Court to mike it justifiable hOini-
cide.—Guilty of Manslaughter only.

25 yards of sarseneti It yards o&'muslin, &c. the
property of Messrs. Morhall and Evans, in their
dwelling-house.

Elizabeth Mauler was -capita

.convicted for stealing

HIGIIWAY Rovinrny.—Martha Dlll,ll a St. Oge-
Amazon, apparently about 60 years W e
age, was ca-
pitally indicted for assaulting and putting in bodily
tear, on the King's highway, John Tidsweli, a lad
aged 14, servant to J. Lewis, Esq. comedianOind
taking froth his person two shillings and sixpence, a
hat and piece of saver lace, the property of the said
Mr. Lewis. • • • .

It appeared in 'evidence that Tidsu-ell, on the 6*
of this month, was sent on a Message for his mistress -
to Gower-street, Bedford-square, and from thence he
was to go on some farther business to Broad-court, .
Bow-street. He had performed his errand at Gower-
street, and was making the shortest road he could to
Bow-street, but mistaking his way, he turned into
Dyott-street, St. Giles's, where he had not gone
above twenty paces before he was seized violently by
the prisoner, who stood at the corner of a court, and
dragged him forcibly into the entry, and from thence
into a room on the ground floor, where she knocked
him down several times when he attempted to resist, and
threatened to murder him if he made a noise. She

then proceeded to rifle his pockets, and took from
him two shillings and sixpence, being the only coin
he had about him—she also took off his hat, and

threw it under a bedstead in the room. Finding no
more plunder to take frpiu him, she suffered him to
depart, not, however, before he had gained his hat
again. On recovering himself in the street, he im-
mediately called for the watchman, to whom he told
his complaint. Upon which they returned together to
the prisoner's apartment, where she was taken and
carried to the watch-house. When she arrived there

she endeavoured to compromise the matter, and
offered two shillings ; but finding that her terms
would not be acceded to, she threatened to murder

the boy, flew into a violent rage, cursed and swore
in a furious manner, and knocked the boy down with
her doubled fist. He was, however, rescued from'
any farther injury ' • and the prisoner was the next
morning carried to Bow-street. She there stated in
her defence that the prosecutor (Tidswell) wanted to
take improper liberties with her, but, not coming to
her terms, she had insisted on the two shillings and
sixpence, which he accordingly paid her.
The prisoner made a very improbable defence,
when the Jury pronounced her--Guilty; Death.

W. Welk was indicted for a burglary in the dwel.
ling-house of J. Cock, and stealing therein a pier-glass
value 61. the property of Basket. -
Mr. Guararr stated, that the prisoner lodged in
the house of Mr. Cock, at Kensington, 'nth his
mother and grand-mother. The prosecutor, Mr.
Basket, also had apartments at the same house,
which he did not always sleep in. On the 10th of
December, the front parlour, which belonged to Mr. -
Basket, was brake into, and the drawers forced open.
In consequence of some suspicion, the apartments of
the prisoner were searched, and the stolen glass was
found fastened underneath the bed, bound close to
the laths of the bedstead. There had been several
articles stolen, but the glass, and two trivial articles
were all that were found in the prisoner's room.
In defence it was stated, that the parlour windows
were sometimes left open the whole of the night, and-
the door was open until eight in the evening. The .„
prisoner could not account for the glass being undbr,r
his bed; but he stated, that Mr. Cock's son was a •
painter, and kept his materials in his father's house, •
where his workmen often attended. These materials,
however, were proved to have been kept in the area,
and the workmen consequently were never up stairs.
The Jury retired for half an hour, and returned a
verdict of Guilty of Stealing, thereby taking of the
capital part.

John Butler and Cornefier Fogerty were capitally in-
dicted for feloniously stealing on the 7th instant va-
rious Bank notes and money, amounting to upwards
of SOl. the property of John Catesby, privily from
his person.
This case took up a long time ht the investigationt
but our limits restrict us to a very brief notice of its
merits. The gist of the evidence appeared to be that'
the prosecutor, a militia recruit, together with a com-
rade of the same description, and a corporal, went
to the Thatched House public-house in Field-lane, on
the evening of the 7th ; they had some oysters there
and some liquor, a young woman was with them.—
The prosecutor went to the bar to pay for what they
had ; he changed a 51. note ; he had the rest of the
prves.y tied up and knotted in a white handkerchief
in is pocket. The two prisoners, with a person
named Thomas Moore, and the prisoner Butler, were
observed by more than one of the witnesses standing
near Catesby soon after he paid ; and the young wo-
man alluded to swore that she saw Moore take out
of the prosecutor's pocket a white cloth, or handker-
chief, which appeared to have money tied up in it.—
Moore and Butler went out of the house the moment
after, and in a few minutes Fogarty followed. The
prisoners were apprehended the same night at the
Black Deg, in St. Giles's ; but Moore escaped.—
Butler was fotind Guilty, but not of stealing privily
from the person ; and Fogarty was Acquitted.

FlRES.—Thursday afternoon a fire broke out in thc-
house of Turnley, chair-manufacturer, in Gar-
den-row, London-road, which burnt part of the work-
shop, and the greatest part of the stock.
Same day a fire broke out in the back premises of
Mr. Wince, a cabinet-maker, in Fleur-de-lys-court,
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Spitalfields, which threatened the destruction of thf-
adjacent houses, owing to the great quantity of wood
on the premises. The firemen, however, by inces-
sant exertions, succeeded in suppressing it, with the
loss ef part of the workshop.
About six o'clock last night, a fire broke out at the
house of Mr. Arrot, a shipwright, in Sliadwell, which
burnt the furniture, and materially damaged, th* km se

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44*WCA.

4 bee- oCearrenee of yesterday
arising from the recollec-
• . • , • • .•
:cent ctrcurelianc we shall state to our
liarttenlap dale occurrence of yesterday,
reborn relitedtsi is, and as we believe• to
• tchkeeman, belonging_ to the French ship
ei• the ship that was destroyed by the
Us coast, hid sortie tfine.,since entered at
, on board one of the gun-boats in the ser-
e United States.. Yesterday he deserted,
a-board the tender of the French ship le '
dee ..W4-iris wish to return WO the service
xtri. The Officer commanding the gun-
-fired and &Minded the seaman, when the
Officii,rifased to deliver hini. Sonie discus-
Aid; Whirl the AMericin Officer departed,
promise, that the man
Be. removed Until the affair should be re-
to Decatur. While the Officer
tria-alfqiiis44ki waiting the orders of
t e Deczug, and for a letter which he was
die French Commander, the Pattiotes
passed with the Seaman in question on board,
which orders were issued by the.Commcidore,
coned the Cheiapeales boats, and pursue the
boat, lira orders to his officer to endeavour
on ffeeFrOth officer to return and come
the Chesapeak, but to bring. the deserter
events. Upon the boat's getting alongside
ttercation ensued, partly, we understand, by
and without design to injure or offend.
rench Officer, we _ understand, agreed to

the Chesapeak. Afterwards some corres.
ice took place between Commodore Decatur,
Commander of the Patriote, the contents of
ife not infbrmed of. We understand that
:ers adhered, the one in refusing and the
isting ; the result, however, is, that the man
anti carried on board the Chesapeak, where
remains, until the pleasure of Government
mown.
'ORK, DEc. 16.—1 t is stated frOm Washing-
Congress are about investing the President
power to suspend the Non Importation Act, if,
opinion, the state of our relations with England
require such a measure., Philad. -Pap.
we stated in our last the circumstances res.,
the French seaman, we did not know that two
seamen belonging to the United. States service
within a few days past, taken down on
Patriote; but which we are assured from
tuthor:ty is a fact, whether by force or by their
)asent *e are not informed.—Norldi Ledger.

,TH ‘NGFORD still labours under a high do.
debility, attended with fever. His Lordship
ork House., Clifton Hot-wells, under the care
tothor, and several of the faculty.
unusual circumstance occurred on Thursday

Drury-lane Theatre. During the perfor-
die Pantomime, a Gentleman leaped from
second tier of public bores on the stage ; he I
good his leap, but then slipped and fell on the'
lamps, several of which he broke, and rolled
orchestra amongst the instruments, from
be was . taken up and brought before Mr.
_I. His ancles were much hart, but he did
appear to regard the injury, and Walked out of the
where he was joined by a friend who had ac-
ied him to the Theatre, who, on seeing him,
Jed,--"/Vr7/, jot, you 4411 ever .be the same thing !"
were both naval officers. This new Harlequin
sacrificed too freely to his bottle, and it was his
.appearance at any Theatre since his release from
'tench prison. He gave his address to Mr. GRA•
• and, we have no doubt, the greatest pain he
eel will proceed from the alarm he gave
Ladies on Thursday night, several of whom
most violently. Considerable Aura was ex-
through the Theatre by this extraordinary oc-
ice.

:el was rittpht, on Monday, between Mr. Mor-
Mr. English, Midshipmen, of his Majesty's
President, of 44 guns, in Hamoaze. They met
back of Mount Edgcnmbe Park, without se-
, stood back to back, and after walking six paces,:
turned and fired. Mr. Morris ,was shot in the'
elder, and the ball broke his collar bone. He was
'.yed to the Royal Hospital.
inous attempt to injure, probably to murder
tart of Mr. Moncur's family, at Fineshade,
Stamford, .was.made early on Sunday morning
About three o'clock a gun was discharged
to Mr. Moncur's bed-room window, which,
alarmed his wife so much that she immediately got
'bed ; but before she could reach the window,
gun was discharged through the shutter into
room, which providenitillY dtd her no injury.—
_ light being procured, it was found that sere-
large shot had passed through the shutter, grazed
and lodged in the wall of the room, close
bed. Some villain has for many months lain
led in the neighbourhood in which this offence
nnmitted, as other extraordinary escapes from
\tended.harm have been known thereabouts.
iq at heard to regret their not making abetter
critical periods tit their lives. Will such add to
reirets, by neglecting, at a very critical period at
;resent; to make an effort to participate of the nume-
ait*l immense benefits in one of the most opulent
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was to be drawn. In the present Lottery, it is
resolved, that there shall be no day fixed upon to de-
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Chance. HORNSBY and Co. beg leave to point
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now lose the benefit to be derived by the present
Jchetne, if they do not purchase before the Drawing
begin!, (the Eighth of March) as, on that day, a
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