Star.
London, England, 1815-03-25 00:00:00

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Thursday *thin British Officers belonging to the
'.ComMissarial of the army in Belgium had orders to
proceed, without a Moment's delay, to join the corps
to wh.c'h they were respectively attached.
Three transports, having the 23d and 51st Regi-
ments on board, sailed from the Downs yesterday for
'Porishiouth.

A large expedition is now assembling in the
downs. •

Tuesday a strong detachment of the 69th Regi-
ment marched from Ipswich for Harwich, to embark
tor_ he Netherlands, where that fine regiment is now
stationed.

• The depots of the 69th; 54th, 80th, and 73d' are
ordered to Harwich, to embark and join their rt spec.
tive regiments in Holland ; the 55th, we understand,
is also under orders for embarkation to Holland. It
is saidithat twenty battalions from Canada, and five
from NoVa Scotia, have been ordered to return to this
country with the least possible delay.

The following letter, written from the Banks of
the Mississippi, by an Officer on the Staff of the Ex'
pedition, contains some interesting particulars of the
late disastrous attack and repulse
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" JANUARY 16.

" Here. we .aie lying wet enough in sugar.cane
huts, after having /net with a severe repulse, on Sun-
day, the Bth of January, in a general assault on the
strongly fortified position of the Yankees, covering
the capital of this country. The 85th regiment,
sailors, and marines, were, after incredible labour
and exertion, passed over to the right bank of the
Mississippi during the night of the 7th and morning
of the Bth ; but owing to the unforeseen and una-
voidable difficulties, they were not all over so soon
as had been calculated on, consequently not suffi-
ciently advanced when the signal for the general
attack was made, just before dawn of day ; owing to'
which untoward circumstance, those on the left bank,
where the principal strong opposition lay, did not
profit, as was meant they should, from their combin-
ed attack, and the fate of the day was decided on
our part before they began to act; but for all this, I
do not know that them could be any remedy, under
all the circumstances of the case; nor du I know that
blame can attach any where, however .uthrtunate
the result has been.

,4 General Gibbs commanded the 2d brigade, con-
sisting of the 4th, 21st, and 44th regiments ; General
Keane the 3d, consisting of the IsStli,
.934, and 95th;
General Lambert had the Ist, consisting of the fusi-
leers and 43J. This latter brigade was to be in le
serve ; the two first to begin the attack; which *they.
Accordingly did.
44 The enemy's position was uncommonly strong,
in the form of a crescent, flanked on the right by
the Mississippi, on the left by a thick v:( od, and
an impassable morass; the whole crowned with in-
numerable artillery; and all loop-holed for the mus-
ketry, with a narrow plain in front, not m. re th.in
half a mile broad, by which only we could approach
them.

44 The whole of our columns were at their appoin
ed stations beiore daylight, awaiting the signal rucke
to be thrown fur the ~eneral attack. It.was fired off
as the day began to dawn; a short time before which
Lie E. Pakenhans had passed the first brigade, with-
out speaking to any body. We all moved on to the
trout, under a must galling fire of cannon and malt
trms ; but, as the day opened, we soon observed the
broken columns making for the rear, and a vast
number of wounded passing and lying groaning
around us.
" General Lambert was, at this present moment,
informed of the lamented fall of the Comm mder in
Chief, and that, in conaequeuce of this and the severe
'wound of General Gibbs, he was left in command.
We were ordered to deploy into line, and lie down
in the swamp, to avoid the destructive showers of
grape, which were within three hundred yards, play.'
ing away most turiously on us. Here we lay till
ten at night, as wet as ever poor deviis were, seeing!
all the movements of our toes, and hearing all
their orders.
4, A flag of truce was sent in towards the evening,
and the Americans spoke much of peace. but every
thing around them looked quite the contrary, as
nothing could be seen before them but the dead
and dying. Major King, of the fusileers, was killed
early, as was Captain Henry, with the Lieutenant-
Colonel detached with the third brigade. Lieute-
nant Hutchinson had no less than four balls through
his cap ; Lieutenant Lorentz, the other L. C. Sub.
received a wound between the shoulders, not very
severe. The column lost a great many men. Cap-
tain Robinson, Brigade Major to Major• General
Lambert, had a ball through his saddle-cloth, with-
out injury.
" The Americans lost very few men ; .not one
hundred to our thousand, being completely under
cover of their position, and protected by a wet ditch,
altogether too formidable for so trifling a force to
carry ; for we had not altogether above 500 men in
the attack.
4' The first brigade preserved a noble front, and
wore too formidable an appearance for Jonathan to'
oppose them. The 'nth lost above ninety, the 49d'
sisty-three. The 40th are. -just arrived from Cork,'
but are not to laud, as we hope to be alt cut board
our ships in less than a week., Indeed, we thought
to have been 'so ere this. We ought to have had thei
free navigation Of the Mississippi before we landed.
We have several sickly from the wet weather, and it
we are not off immediately, I. fear we shall have
numbers more.
" We expect to go to Bermuda—they are at this
moment shelling us as fast as they can—the Ameri-
cans have no enterprize or we should not escape so
well—we get nothing to buy, but bullocks and a few
wild fowl—we are on a sugar plantation, and of
course have plenty of sweets without cost. The river
is a fine one;' but, believe me, there is nothing else
in this quarter Worth coming 6000 miles to see."

NEW ORDER OF THE Ilarn..An impression having
prevailed that some favor had beep improperly
shewn in the distribution of the new Older amongst
the Military, we are happy to. have an opportunity of
recommending the RoYAL MILITARY CALENDAR,
which is just published by Mr. EounTom, from which
the public will have the power of judging; by the
statement of services of every GENITAL OFFICER in
the BIUTLSH SUMS/ whether such partiality really
exists.

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Jeremiah Shed was tried for the wilful murcier of
Mary Crowley, at Woodhouse, in this county; bn
the 12th of July, 1814: - -It appeared from the evi-
dence ot Anne Crowley, mother to Mary Crowley;
the deceased, that two men came to witness's !mum

oti the 12th of last July, between the hours of four
and five o'clock in the afternoon, while she Was
suckling an infant at her breast, one of them armed
with a blunderbuss, and ti►e other With an old rusty
gun ; the first man that came into the house was the
prisoner at the bar, whom she t,ok to be a friend or

neighbour, as he asked witness in a friendly manner
when he came in, " what she was doing r' •he an-
swered, " not mach ;" he then pulled a blunderbuss
from under his coat, presented it A her breast, and
desired her to give up what arms she had in the
house : witness said there were no arms in the house

but an old gun, which he should have; them w,ti
no person in the house with witness at.this time, but

her son, a boy about sixteen years of age; she de-
sired her son to go up to her brd-room and Wing
down the gun; and just after telling this to her son,
the second man came in, pushing in befure him her
two daughters, who had been churning in the dairy;
deceased begged of them for GOD'S sake to allow
her to go and shut the dairy door, as the pigs would
get in and spoil the cream, which they had been
churning. Prisoner desired her to Itay where she
was, and gave her a blow of his blunderbuss on the
neck, which cut her in a most cruel manner; deceased
exclaimed, "Oh I you villain, you have ruined me ;"
after deceased hid said these words, prisoner rested
his blunderbuss on the breast of the deceased, and
lodged the contents of it in her neck, when she in-
stantly fell ; witness cried • out, clapped her hands,
ran to her dying daughter, and begged of her to
speak to her .41licted mother before she expired ; de-
ceased strove to say, 4, Oh, mother, lift me up ;" de-
ceabed did not live for three seconds after the shot
w.!s fired ; the other man, after prisoner had mar-

dcred her daughter, struck him with his gun on the
shoulder, turned him out of the house, and asked
him " what ni.ide him do so ?" and seemed so tern.

tied at prisoner's conduct, that he could scarcely go
away from the bons,: ; witness had not the least
doubt on her mine, that tte prisoner at the bar was
the man who municred her daughter; prisoner never
ty..,k his blunderbuss from witness's breast until he
sh.t her L'augt.ter.
This evidenc.: was corroborated by Jaae Crowley,
&tighter of the above witness, and- sister to the de-
ceased. On the pars of the prisoner, a long .cross-
.examination took place, and several persons were
brought forward with intent to prove an alit; ; this,
however, -failed ; and the 3nry, after some oehbera.

4ion, found'the prisoner—Guilty. •
The:Cnise BARON, after a most impressive admo-
nition, .an .admonition that affected the Court, lice
rally to teats, proceeded to pass the awful sentence
of the law upon she convict.
The prisoner more than once interrupted the
Jodze's remarks by protestations of innocence.

heard the sentence almost unmoved-.-he heard it an.
'Jounced in a manner that struck horror` into every
!remit but his, that he was to be hanged by the neck
at the usual place of execution on Monday next, with
the ordinary accompaniments of dissection, &c. &c.
and no effect was observable, but that he prayed ear-
nestly, yet coolly, " that the gates of Heaven might
be shut, and the gates of Hell open to him, if he
knew more than his Lordship of the murder for which
he was about to suffer." He added an assurance •of
his resignation.

HORSHAM. THURSDAY. MARCH 2s.

Jane Burnett, wife of a publican at Lindfield, in
this county, was indicted for the wilful murder of
Sarah Lee, a pauper servant, and the indictment
charged the murder to have beeivommitted by a se-
ries of cruel beating, and a refusal of proper food and
aliment.
One of the witnesses, who was a fellow servant
with the deceased, did not appear at the trial, having
gone out of the way, and was called on his subrcena.
The evidence adduced iri support of the indictment
was as follows:
J. Everest, the Overseer at Lindfield, stated, that
the deceased was a pauper, belonging to that parish.
At Lady-day, 1813, she had been put out to service
with a shoemaker in the parish, of the name of Shel-
ley. She staid with him the year, and the next year
she was sent to the prisoner's. She staid with them
until February, when she came back to the work-
house in very bad health, and in a few days died.—
He could not say the cause of her death, but
she came back very muck out of health. 'Once
during the year she ran away, and came to the
poorhouse. Mrs. Burnett, the prisoner, came after
her, and she was sent back. • •
Thomas Shelley, a shoemaker, at Lindfield, de-
posed, that the deceased lived' with his family from
Lady-tide 1813, to -Lady-tide• 1814, during which
time the girl was in good health ; she was not a very
good labking girl, nor very 6, laudy in her mind,"
but she-did things al well as she was able, and they
had ao.fault to kind with' heel ' •
Charles Cox, a labouring man,: lived near the pri-
soner's. He was at, the house.one day, and saw the
prisoner strike the deceased with a broom one or two
had blows, but be did not see any ill effects from
the blows. He could. nOt recollect the time when it
happened, but he retallicted thit the .sno.v .was • on
the ground at.the•time. • • . • . • •
William Potter saidi.he lived within twenty rods
of the prisoner's house ;:ki knew the deceased ; she.
was not a very hellthp looiing girl, and as the cold
weather approached' hk observed she lost •tiesb • very
Cast,and appeared tobesome very much out of health.
Charles Watford,'. a- hiller, at Lindfield, stated,
that he was in the coustapt,habit of going to. the pri-
soner's house. He knew the deceased very
About five or ax leeks before the girl died, he was
at the house, when he' found the deceased crying in
the kitchen. He risked her what was the matter f she
made no answer ; but that the prisoner said that she
had detected the deceased in, having dirted her bed,
that she had attempted to clean it with her pockets,
but that she (the prisoner) had found the pockets in
that filthy state, and had stuffed them into her mouth.
He said to the prisoner that she' had better send the
girl back to the poor-house. The prisoner replied,
d—n her, no: It she sent her back before Lady-tide;,
she should get nothing for the time they bad already

irept het Ole pa ri alloyed is. pd. treek tor hit..)
Vhe'litiesi said lie didliOi think the Biel Would bold
out to Lady-tide, but would diil, it came. The
prisoner replied, d—n her eyes; the ii.thed'she would •
then drop dead on, the floor. The witness saw no
mow, and here die Conversation closed.
.Robert Martin, on the et:i of A ogust, saw the pri.
toner best the • deceased. He afterward! saw her
with a black eye, -bUt did not know bow she came
by i..
Sarah Stanley had seen the prisoner beat the girl
once with a boot.
• William Typing, surgeon
.to, the parish, stated,
that he attended the girl when site .vas broue.t to the
workhouse; the had a wound on her arm whic!,
'said was occasioned by Isting, kicked clown stairs;
she had also atioth r wound in kr foot, which he
thought seal a nci;lected chilblain. Her cli•stitution
was very debilitated, and she was f,f an irregular
habit. He could not say sli,r died of ill tr.•
On this evidence the Learned Ju.li;t. directed Pl:e
Jury to acquit the prisoner, who rein:tied a ve:lct
of—Not Guilty.
Jonish &new, an old man of 63, was indicted f )r
the wilful murder of Solomon Young, by st:ibhiag
him with a knife in tlie side, on the 15th March last.
The prisoner and the deceued were bt,th pmperg
.Seaford pour-house. On the 15th of M irch the
deceased was sitting on the table in the com:n.al worn
making himself a new smock frock. The prissner
came into the room intoxicated, having two la: zings
in his hand, which he wished to dress at the fire.—
The deceased's night cap was hanging on a chair
before the fire, which the prisoner threw away. This
produced a flight altercation between them as to there
being room enough or not, when the prisoner dabbed
his :ierrings in the deceased's face. The deceased
upon this gave the prisoner a push, who h +sting his
knife in his hand, with which he had just dressed his
herrings, made a blow at the deceased, which unfor-
tunately struck him on the side, and penetrated be-
' tween the ribs. He was put to bed and died in two
days; but before he died he expressed his convic:i.)n
that the prisoner had not intended to do him the in-
jury which had happened.
The Jury found him Guilty of Mandaughter, and
he was sentenced to one year's imprisonment.

STEPHENS V. STEPHENS.
This was an action by the plaintiff Stephens and
another, against the defendant and others. The
following is the whole of the case. The plaintiff keeps
a library at Brighton, and the defendant Stephens.had
furnished the plaintiff with certain articles of toys and
jewellery to :ell upon commission ; but shortly after•
wards, not liking to give credit to the plaintiff, he
wished t 9 take his goods away again. The plaintiff
did nor give them •up ; upon which the defendant,
Stephens, accompanied by the others, went to the
'shop a:id took away the glass case which held them,
by force. The plaintiff made some resistance, and, as
lie alleged, he was assaulted in the scuffle.
The witnesses fur the defendant, however, proved
that nothing more was done than taking the glass case
away.—Verdict for the defendant.

At Cork. on Saturday, an inpest was held nn the
body of Dennis Coffee, who was stabbeti the
before by a watchman of the name of Cornelia:
Hurry, in Mallow-lane, and who instantly died in
consequence. It did not appear that :try person e 35
near when the watchman stabbed the deceased, hut
some persons came immediately afterwards, when
he confessed that he stabbeA the mail, and aile.iged
that he was wantonly attacked and did it in his
own defence. The Jury wit having any positive evi-
dence as to the homicide, brought in a verdict, that
his death was caused by a wound in the breast
from a bayonet found in the hands of Hurly
A German Paper gives the following story ac a
reason for Bonaparte 's seclusion during the lattet
period of his residence on the Isle of Elba:
a After be had attained to the supreme authority
in France, he was particularly solicitous to erase all
traces of the civil wars in La Vendee and the other
northwestern provinces of France. Hi therefore en.
tered into negotiations with the lie..ds of the royalists,
and was so successful as to gain over the most of
them, and to form arrangements with each indivisiti-
ally. All of them obtained considerable pensions,
on certain conditions : one, for instance, engaged to
ezile himself from France for ever " another was not
to leave La Vendee ; a third was to reside constantly
at Paris—according as the circumstances of each led
Bonaparte to consider it to be most advantageous....
'Among tpase who were confined to Paris, was Bru:
fart, a zealous royalist and a good soldier. A con-
siderable time after the complete pacification of La
Vendee, Brulart solicited for a friend, who had sti-
pulated not to quit La Vendee, permission to Visit
Paris • and Bonaparte, with apparent kindness, re-
plied that he needed only to invite his friend to cumo,
as every thing was now settled, and all appreheimin
was unnecessary. Upon this Brtilart's friend came
to Fatil, but no sooner had he arrived than he was
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seized and shot, by the express command of Napo.
leon Brulart, being apprized of this circumstance,
fled, horror-struck, to England. From that country
he wrote.to Bonaparte, sayiug that he had made i•itn
the innocent cause of the death. of his friend, 4io
had•come upon the faith of the assurances he had
given him; that the shade of the murdered victim
hovered.incessantly before his eyes, demanding ven-
geance ; that he was determined to devote himself to
this duty, and had sworn to the shade of his friend
that Napoleon should die by his hand. 0: this letter
Brulart fetd,a few copies printed, and sent them by
diff!reot channels to France, so that at last it was
handed by the Police to Napoleon. He laughed at
the menaces of the chivalrous enthusiast, and forgot
them in the brilliant career of his prosperity. But
when Louis returned to Paris, Brulart also was in
his retinue, and by a singular accident was soon after-
*ardi appointed Governor of Corsica, with directio:
to watch the Isle of Elba. For this purpose Brulart
removed his residence from Ajaccio to Bastia, oppo-
site to Elba, from which, with a favourable wind,
the passage might be made in a few hours. No
sooner had Napoleon received intelligence of this cir-
cumstanch than he again recollected the letter, and
became apprehensive lest &Wart might abuse the
authority entrused to him by the King, and, mindful
'of his oath, should, in spite of the law of nations,
only to the dictates of personal revenge. From
this time he an to seclude himself with the greatest
'CltUtila from almost all-society.';

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EASTER HYMN.-BY A LADY.

Again the LORD of Life and Light
Awakes a kindling ray,
Unseals the eyelids of the morn,
And pours increasing day.

! what a night scis that, which wiapt
The heathen worli iu gloom!
: what a Sun, which broke ads iLty
Triumrhaut from the muds!
This day be grateful homage paid,
And loud Hosannaiss sung;
Let gladness dwell in every hear:,

And praise on every tongue !
Ten thousand suie'ring lips shall join
To hail this welcome morn,
Which scatters blessings from its wings,
To nations yet unborn!

ROTA!. ',CADENT.

LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE.
Mr. SOANE, on Thursday evening►, concluded his
course of Lectures on the science of Architecture, at

the Royil Academy.
Among the various instructions laid down in his
Lectures, none, be said, would prove more useful
than those on construction. By construction we ob-
tain the knowledge of the different materials for build-
ing, and the most economical mode of applying them.
Without this knowledge, which is only to be acquired
by long stuay and c%petience, the other departments
ut the science are useless.
The ancients studied to give to their works that
suength and solidity, which might withstand the
most destructive ravages of time. When we com-
pare their edifices to ours, it would appear that they
have succeeded, for there still remain the rains, and
smnetimcs nearly the whole of buildings executed
two thousand years ago, whilst many of our own
edifices lie buried in the dust, melancholy examples

of ignorant rashness.
The ancients also paid particular attention to eco-
vany in the construction of their buildings, though
tlos has been denied by some. on account of the
thickness of lig' roofs in ancient buildings, uhile in
Gothic arches a %cry inconsidet able thickness is re.
qubed. But it ought to be considered that the an-
cient roof had none above it, whereas the roof of
Ginl;e arches uniformly has another of wood, cover-
v..irb lead, at some distalice met it.
•r. 3,IAmE condemned tlle me of iron railings in
stone •oliiinsts, on mem-int (1- their discolouring the
building by rust. The aucicuts pzeletred copper, as
being less liable to Inst.
l':.e foundation of a building ought to receive most
particillar .actentien, as so much depends upon it.—
Mr. SOANE recurnmeaded the practice of sinking
wens, to ascertain the nature of the soil on which it
is intended to build ; and made a number of trLearl
observations on this important point.
Nothing is more destructive to buildings in port-
ico; cities than fire. It is a remarkable fact, that
very kw fires happen on the Continent, compared to
those which take place in England, and the reason
is obvious: they make use of durable materials,
whilst the greater part of our buildings are formed
of timber. Timber ought never to be used where
incombustible materials would ans,aer the purpose.—
:How much it is to be lamented that there is so great
a quantity of this snick in the dome of St. Paul's
Cathedral. Should lightning, or any other cause,
communicate fire to it, that noble monument of art
would infallibly be levelled with the ground.
Another great enemy to buildings is the dry rot,
which, though now so common, was almost un-
known to the ancients. How is this to be accounted
for ? Formerly the construction of a building was a
work Of consideration ; the timber was cut a long
time before it was used, and the house was completed
l'arg before it was inhabited, by which means every
thing had time to .be perfectly seasoned. But now,
the stone and the timber ate hurried from the quarry
and the {nest to the building, and damps are shut up
in the wails.
Mr. SOANE has constantly illustrated his Lectures
by a great =miler of exquisitely coloured drawings,
which reflect the greatest credit on his pupils, by
whose laborious application he statedlimself to have
been enabled to produce them.

A Bill for the more effectual prevention of the use
of false weights and measures, is passing through the
Legislature, by which Justices of the Piace, or a
ynajJefi y of the inhabitants of any.parish, are to ap-
point examiners, who may enter into shops in•search.
4,t false weights and measures, and seize the same.—;
Persons not producing their measures, or in any way
sibetructing the examiners, arc to be liable to a penalty.
On the passage of the Duke of Wutisvrou
through a town of Baden, the following Circumstance
occurred :—A Baden subaltern, who was on duty at
the gate. had been among those that served in Spain:
havlng been taken prisoner by the English, and well
treated by them, he conceived a sentiment of grati•
nude as well as admiration for the great Commander;
the Duke's carriage drew up to the gate, and the
officer asked "`Who's there ?" "The Duke of
JANGTeN," was the teply--" Comrades," shouted the
surprised soldier, " cut with your at the devil
fetch me if he does not deserve it I"
Tux Patsce OF ARLMBEII6.—This Prince, who
died at Vienna on the 7th instant, lost his life by the
Sollowing accident :—A very spirited horse, which
be was riding in St. Joseph's-square, knocked down
a woman. The Prince, with much difficulty, suc-
ceeded in stopping his horse, and alighted to inquire
into the situation of the woman, who had fortunately
received no serious injury, though she was greatly
alarmed. The young Prince again mounted his
Losses which appeared tranquil, but shortly after-
wards reared and threw his rider. His head was
nearly laid open, and the horse with a single kick
broke several of his ribs. He was carried in a life-
less state to tlx house of his brother-in-law, Prince
Schwartzenherg, This accident calls to mind those
which have already taken place in the same family.
The father of the young Prince received, when hunt•
ing,tt gun-shut in his eye, by which lie was deprived
of sight ; his mother was guillotined ; his brother was
forced to banish himself in consequence of a duel, in
which he bad Ike misfortune to kill his adversary •
and finally, .his sister perished in the fire which broke
Jatituie cot Prince licturtulsopberg at

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