Star.
London, England, 1814-08-18 00:00:00

HALT O. /01 TY.

This iras an ac,i 3n tot 33 aftAult. It was brought
t)y the osilm- t!,e Castle at ltichn:oad, against nis
the keeper of the l:ouse.
The facts' of the else, as prove.] by 011 nther
servants, were,, drat at a public dinner, Mr. F. ty
bang disple:isabccause the ovier was not as ready
:is he thou,-).t he should have beei, Legan t's use a
tittle twastual farce sit!) him. His eon j•inei in
the- Affray, and the ostler, as they tiec:ibt.d. was
violently beaten, having recti.4.l from N 4:. ferry
sccer.sl blows nu the head, %Oki' a tre.rc II nsati said
he was apprehensive would have poduc. ti inflamma-
tion on the brain.

Tor the IL:lend:int, several gentlemen of the din-
ner party were called, and they said the ostler ap.
pcared to be riotous atd drunk ; but they could not
speak to the beginning of thy tian• !ctioa.
Verdict for the Plain ill—Dain.ges
Mete was a second action. fr- giving the Pl4in.
tiff in charge c.f thc co•nstahle, in which the Jury
found a veld ct with £5 damages.
The Assizes ended to-day ; and this finishes the
Home Circuit.

EXETER ASSIZES.
MURDER.
Kant Plarnd eras indicted for the wilful murder
of Thomas Wills, at Churston Ferrero, in 1805.

Sxmita•l Matthews said, that in the beginning of
May, 1805, (abeut five or six weeks of ter the dete ssed
was missing) he was at Ivy Cole, with some other
lads, where he saw the body of a man, but could not
distinguish whom, as it was much disfigured ; he had
seen deceased, who wore gaiters similar to those the
body had on ; the body v.-as then taker. in a bust to
Bri ham.

James Austin said he was a tailor, at Brixham ;
that he knew the deceased, whom he saw th seme
night that he was missing ; five or s:x weeks after-
wards he saw a dead body in a !rut ; it hed oa t'ie
same ccat deceased had when he went away.
Daniel Pierce said, he lived at Brixham ; that he
knew deceased, who aiso lived there in l 805; five cr
six weeks after deceased was missing, he saw his body
in a boat, much disfigured ; he knee:• it by the clothes
it had on ; the wrists were very black, as if surneuing
had been tied round them.

John\Vescombe said, he lived at Brilliant in 1805;
that in the spring of that year a sloop arrived from
Guernsey, called the Lurcher, with smuggled liquor;
be went off in a boat to her, and assisted in bringing
some cags to shore ; they went a second time, wirer;
Prisoner, Featherbridge, and King (w!.o were on
board the vessel) got into the boat ; they then pro-
ceeded towards the shore, kit the cap on the beach,
and hauled and turned up the but against the cliffs ;
by this time deceased had arrived, and was gathering
lip the cags; Prisoner west and pushed him rawards
Featherbridge and King, who took hold of him by
the collar, and dragged him to the water ; when they
had got deceased there, he exclaimed, " Let me go,
and I'll go home quiet;" they made him no answer,
but threw him in : witness Is ent away, and returned
again in a quarter of an hour, when he saw deceased
floating on the Water;—prisoner was in sight of the
body, and Feathcrbridge and King were hauling
down the boat; again left the beach, and retiiincd
in a quarter of an hour ; saw prisoner a I:ttle way
from the store, and asked him where deceased was ?
Prismier said, There," pointing to the body in the
water. Witness afterwards ha w prisoner and Feather-
bridge at Gliernsey ; wired Featherbridge how they
came to kill deceased ? who answered, " D— me, it
was done in a minute ;" witness said nothing.
Robert Burg oin gave an evidence nearly sirni:ar
to the list witness.; and mentioned, that in a conver-
sation prisoner said to hint—" It's a hard ca.e to go
over to Guernsey and lay out our moaty, and cores
, home and be taken."

Richard Sprague said, that in ISOS, he lived at
Brilham ; that one day in March, he heard deceased
was missing; the nest day he saw prisoner and
Featherhridge in his entry ; he asked them what trey
had done ? Featherbridge said 'l'w•s done, and
could not be undone ;" and prisoner said We
must all go away."
The Learned Judge summed up a•'th great pet sp.:.
cuity ; a..sl the July. afi• r retiring 1:: a few minnzes,
returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Judge, in passing sentence of death upin the
prisoner, remarked npon the heinousness of the crime
of which he had been fiund guilty, and the clearness
'of the evidence. He said, in speaking of the length
of time since the crime had been coin:a:tied, that jus-
tice would, in aim .t every case, snow's. yr later, he
satisfied ; he feelingly entreated the prisoner to make
the bust use passible if the little tame he had left, by
preparing himself for that eternity into which he RAS
SOUL' to be launched. .

Sir Jolts Cootrit.r., after an absence of twelve years
from his native cc.untry, is returned to k:ngland. He
was amongst the original ekenu: in France.

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