Star.
London, England, 1812-05-05 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 4.
JUDGMENTS.
William Brotherley was brought up to receive the
judgment of the Court, for having in his possession
a quantity of copper bolts, having the broad arrow
marked thereon. The defendant put in an affidavit,
in which he stated, that he purchased the copper in
question of a person named John Cox, without exa-
mining it ; that he informed the officers of the cir-
cumstance at the time of the seizure, amt gave them
such information, as he hoped would have led to
Cox's apprehension ; he, however, had absconded,
and had not since been heard of. . .
The affidavits of several persons were put in, speak-
ing highly of the defendant's moral conduct.
The Court sentenced him to be imprisbned in
' Maidstone gaol for six mouths, and to pay a fine of
twenty-five pounds.
C. ASSAULTING A PRESS-GANG.
W. Farrough was brought up to receive the judg-
ment of the Coprt, for having, in the beginning •of
January last, together with several other persons,
riotously and tumultuously assembled at Chichester,
broke open the house of rendezvous belonging to the
press-gang, and violently assaulted the gang, for the
purpose of rescuing G. Farrough, an impressed man.
The Court, after adver‘ing to the aggravated and
mischievous tendency of the defendant's offence, pro-
ceeded to pass judgment, which, after taking into
consideration that he had already been 71 days is
confinement, was, that he should be imprisoned in
Horsham gaol for four months.
AIDING fRENCII PRISONERS TO ESCAPE.
ThO,ATTORNEY GENERAL then moved the judg.
merit of the Court on Henry Heatraff,' convicted of
aiding and assisting three French prisoners of war to
escape. The prisoner had already been in confinement
eight months.. The sentence was, that he should be
imprisoned in Winchester gaol for three years, and
!pay a fine of £lOO to the King.
- Lord FALLENBOKOUGH observed, the Court did not
forget that the defendant had already been in con-
fineluent eight months : it was a most enormous
' offence ; he was a sort of wholesale dealer, as ap-
peared from the evidence taken at the trial ; it was
au offence Lining little short of high treason.
THE KING v. JOSEPH WEST.
The ComMON SERJEANT moved for a writ of Certi-
orari, to remove a conviction which had taken place
before two of the Police Magistrates, at Worship-
street, against the defendant, for exercising his call-
ing on use Lord's Day, on the wound that no spe-
cific act had been laid in the information. The Lear-
ned Counsel stated, that there were at present a
bundle of informations, under similar circumstances,
depending before the Magistrates ; they had, how-
ever, suspended convicting upon atly of them, till
the Court should have decided on the present case.--
Writ granted.

A general review of all the troops of the Home
District is expected to take place about the middle
of next month. .
The Hon. Lieutenant-General MAITLAND, aceom-
fanieu by Lieutenant-Colonel 11 'Nan, of the. Adju-
tant-General's department, left town on Saturday,
under especial orders, to take the command of the
troops employed to quell the distui bances in the inte-
rior pares of the kingdom.
Three hundred of the.,l3.oyal Berks Militia, under
the command of Lieute-Colonel RAVENSRAW, passed
through Derby on Wednesday last, in waggons, on
their route from Nottingham to Manchester.-
Four troops of the 15th Hussars have been sent to
Nottingham-
A detachment of the Horse Guards (Blue) have
been stationed at Glossop, in Derbyshire.
During the last week, not fryer than seven regi-
ments proceeded towards Cheshire and Lancashire.
The Ist battalion of the 91st regiment has been or-
dered for foreign service.
The Ist battalion of the 33th regiment, stationed
at Fetmoy, has been ordered to embark from Ireland,
for_ foreign service.
A detachment of the 55th regiment, has arrived
from Jamaica, in the Prometheus strop.
The volunteering from the Militia Regiments to
the Line commenced yesterday at Dover, when 134
men turned out horn the Derby fir the 48d and 98th
Regiments ; and I'2B from the 3d Royal Lancashire
for the Guards, 14th, and 29th Regiments.
The King's County Militia will arrive at Ports-
mouth on the 12th and 13th instant, when it is expec-
ted that one of the regiments in that garri on will be
removed :o Gosport, on account of the Wiltshire and
East Devon having left that place.
Two Captains, with 200 men of the Royal Lime.
rick, lave rale ved the Wiltshire at Fort Cumberland.
The 2J battalion of the 50th regiment have landed
at Portsmouth from • Guernsey, and marched for
Little Hampton, after leaving a strong detachment
it Hihea for the lit battalion. '
: :The 103 d regiment, 800 strong,* under the corn.
enand of I,iellleCOlOnel SCOTT, are arrived at Ports-
mouth from Guernsey, and will sail in the Hero,
William Pitt, and Eolus transports, for Canada, in
the course of next week, if the wind continues fair.
The 4th battalion 60th Foot, which is now embark-
ing, at the Isle of Wight, for the West Indies, is to
• relieve, for service in Canada, the Ist battalion Royal
Scott, which is distributed-at present among the dif-
ferent Leeward Islands.
Anlid the great influx of Spanish and Portuguese
. papers by the last packet, it escaped us, in common
.with our cotemporaries, to notice the reported detach-
ment of General HILL, with two divisiens of the e7XECUTlON.—lftilfiam Wyatt, convicted at the last
'army, in aid of Ciudad Rodrigo. We perceive that Launces,on Assizes, for the robbery and. murder of
-This °Biter is uniformly detached upon the most re- J. F. Valentine, a Jew, underwent the sentence of the'
intite earninand from' bead-quarters, an honourable law ou Friday last at Buchnin. Needling ever exci.
Trod of Lord WiLLINGTON'S confidence in him. Led so strong a sensation in the county of Cornwall
• in •
E'vtry regiment Plymouth Garrison was review. and western part of the county of Devon, as the trial
ed last week by General Tilostas, who expressed great and execution of this unfortunate man. A strong
satisfaction at the state of the different regiments.— chain of circumstantial evidence left no room to
11/'e parties sent to recruit from the different regi- • doubt of his guilt ; but the perseverance with which
• -stunts have paraded Plymouth Dock for several days, he asserted his innocence, excited no small curiosity
' and expect to. get all their men. to h-ar his sentiments at the place of execution, and
' 'Saturday apstards of 70 men of the Dorset Militia the day before this occurred, Budmin was literally
volunteered into the Line. - thronged with visitants--at night hardly a bed
Yesterday the 4th Regiment of Local Militia, cons-
was to be procured for money, and in the mor.
minded by Lieutenant-Colonel SANDYS, assembled in Bing the roads were thronged with thousands
Oxford, for 14 days training and exercise. pressing forward. to the place of execution. At ten
The 2d East Kent re invent of Local Militia is o'clock Wyatt apeeared on the platform, attended
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by Mr. FATIIER, the clergyman, but did not address
! ordered to assemble for training and exercise at Fa. ,•h. e populace--his thoughts appearing wholly engaged
. versham, on Tuesday, the 12-th of May, for 21 days,
in ser ions abstraction. He made a confession of
in respect to the Staff, non-commissioned Officers,
his guilt, and atter a few minutes spent in prayer was
' ! drummers, and those men who did not assemble last
. turned off. His body Was given up to his friends who
year. , and those who have been since enrolled ; anal
are all respectable persons.
, .on Tuesday, the 19th of May, for the rest of the re-
At Marlborough-street Police Office yesterday, a
-giment for 14 days. . man named Green was committed for striking a young
The Sevenoaks and Bromley regiment is also or. ,lady in Berkely4quare, on Sunday evening, under
. tiered to assemble at Sevenoaks, on Monday, 4th of -cirgumetancee of considerable aggravation.
• May, and Monday, the 11th of May, under similar Maltase, Amite 29.—0 n Tuesday night last, an
• regulations as the above, and the Cinque Ports mgt.- outrage' (and one of the most diabolical description
mentatt Neal, on Monday, the 25th of May, .and thireati wedge
imagined) was committed near 13x1•
*Monday, the lst of June. .lyparriik. While the family of a farmer there, named
r'"b Ciretibeni bn've been received by the Officers come Patrick Keeffe, were heavy asleep, the dwelling house
inandirnffeomanry Corps in Ireland, that arrange. appears to have been set on fire, and with such effect,
`'ltients ATV tO CODlTtlefice firm the 25th of May nest" that the first communication of the dreadful event
eViriCipally directed in order that the permanent ser- was by the falling in of the particles of the roof, and
'lasts' trumpeters,:tind drummers, shall attach them-'
of the burning timber : Keeffe, from former visita.
selvesfor 30 days drill to the troops under the Com. - dons made upon him, by the villainous banditti that
'Mending. thilionearest the districts, to be completed infests that country, had, some time back, gotten
*ln their exercise, &c: iron gratings to his windows, and a strong lock to
his door. On the first alarm, being awaked by the
• IN a letter frotn the Secretary of State received on cry of," fire" from his wife, they both jumped out of
'lit at the Coital •Erchange by the Officers of .the bed, and, in the,sudden agitation of their minds, lost
-Ttlytir irenalei, that corps has been dismissed, and i the few short moments that might have • saved some
ths.proteedon from the impress given to •the members, ; of ibis Unfortunate family in a distracted and ineffec-
has 'been in consequence is ithtfrawn. 8° great was , tune search fir the- key. Missine. this, Keeffe recol.
.ta
' Itii appreheosion yesterday of a hot press below bri4e
.leeted a windcw through which he might pass, and
Ils'eutply hands for the Baltic fleet and other purist:-made for it, the burning:timbers still falling in upon
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'sex, t artio men couldl j
e procured in that situation them in increased' number ; and, while he was making
fet pet it= the ordinary labour on the river. 1 this effort, his Wife ran for the purpose of bringing
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yeeteeday the dispatches were finally closed at the' same of their children from an inner room, but out
East India 'House, and delivered to the Pursers of of which neither she nor they ever came alive. Out
:,the ander•mentioned ships, viz. I of a family consisting of nine persons, either in youth
Thomas Grenville, Captain NV. Patterson; Princess Charlotte ! or middle life, within a few minutes, but one was left
44. Wales, Capt. J. Craig.—Madeira, Ctrylon, and Bengal. j to relate this horrid story.
trozbournebury, Captain T. Pitcher; Sir Godtril Webster,. S • ACClDENT.—Saturday evening, as two
D -OCKING A •
';'Opt. J. Pearson—Bengal direct.
!young men of the names of Clark and Fordyce, in
eat laird Duncan, Captain T. Price—Bombay direct.
'llm. )3iana, Capta'n D. Bowman; Julkma, 'Captain R. Rawes, the employ of Mr. Mailson, a builder, were returning
, .1.,111t• avla. - • ••
borne from Brook-green Fair, in company with four
Passengers wlso arrived in his Majesty's ship Set- respectable females, Fordyce, with two or the feniales,
„irow,
- from the Isle of France and the Cape. were knocked down in crossing the road, previonsly
--.. Prom the Isle Of Fainee--Capialn AJ. Chao's, 20th Reg! to enteting Kensington, by a cart drawn -by four
-,
tricot Madras Army. • • : horses, end the two' women were run over. Neither
- • From the Cape--Captidn Heatheote, Royal )Vary; . Captain c ,
.t them. vere killed on the spot, but the recovery of
• }liggin', 21st Light Dragoons; Captain Ilatungeardt, tub light
vies ; C *us James and Bett,.tield, 6th Foot; Cap alts either is doubtful. They had each of them limbs
liubirau..B3d your ;t J. and 3. Stronitcon, Espy.; S. Ben ioc, fractured, besides violent contusions. One of the suf.-
* gsq. and Mr. Sheppard. ferets is the daughter of a herald painter, in Duke-
.
' . . A letter. frpnt. Leith, dated April 'SO, saps— sacet, Hampstead'-road. Fordyce escaped unhurt. .
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ig VIC .salty sloop a war arrived
.in the Roads Captain ADAM, of the levieeine,, had a very
.
Tuesday, ,p44;..e"Danish schooner privateer of i
,r fowl ow escape] timer since; he was in his barge,
trCU-the cap urn a
;a ass and 24.:Meoe. whieb real on Sunda . Arecoonoitringociet• ;Isteragoaa, wlrp a French rifle,
t •off Fair :Isles in chace of two brigs. She :w e paae, who had conceiled himself 6 hind a rOciritdok.
o
si''s '- ' in the tt.rek of vessels going trom:Liv
r•ateulg ,1 aim at him; ibibulliCPaised close Ctter: tie Chip.
``''''riaind: and W, staof Scotland, to join- *eonytt t- taftlis.ihowhi iihdlass us ;knows,
clad jowl