Star.
London, England, 1802-05-06 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'. LIST.

DEAL. MAY s..... Arrived the Laren NG frigate from Leith*
and failed for Portfmouth. Came down the Britannia, BAIL.
aew, and Herculean, Buret a, for the Eaft Indies, and failed
with Cenral other outward-bound veffek..—Wind N. E.

011AVSSZND, MAT s.—Paffed by the Major General VIM
Brook, —, fro-n Mzinel; Albion, —, from Konigiberg;
Cogna, Poo, from Oporto; Four Friends, Dentine. from
Norden ; Cyres, SYME, and Ftientlihip, from Dantek ;
Liberty, loans, Liberty, Witc a, and Henrietta,—, from
liamburgi; Two Friends, Real", from Dunkirk; Mary,
Hansom, from Stockholm; Ann and Dorothy, —a, front
Norway ; Ilenrietta, STOICS/; Young Brent, Itosoars, and
Vrow Catharine, —,from Ettibdena—Sailed the Ann, SPOR•
RING, for Nants ; Ming, G , for Konigfberg ; and
Vrow Jaiitje, for Dieppe.

COURT OF KING's BENCH, MAY S.
Ye(erday being the firft dal• of Rater Term,
the Judges opened the bufineis of their rcfpec-
tivc Courts with the Actial formalities.
Lord ELL F NIIOIMUCH tnhk thr a ply-lime] oaths,
and airttrucd his feat on the Bench as Lord Cl.ief

A Captain John ShuttLworth, the Maft:r of a
Crunland Whaler, WllO flood charged with the
murder of. -William Archer, a boy on board his
was admittei to bail upon the affidavit of
the itirgeon, who &poled that the boy's death was
not oecafioned by the blow h. had feceived, but
proceeded from a DAt mat bodily infirmity.
Mrs. Riddle e..Libited Articles of tic Peace;
ar;ainf't 11,r hufoand, Alexander John Riddle, a'
Captain of the Light Dragoons. The exhibitant
ILted various aels of cruelty on the part of her huf- •
band toward; her. that he had at various times
beat her, and endangered her life ; that he had
thrown a plated candleilick at her, and which, by
th: violence with which it was thrown, was broken
in pieces ; that lie had feveral times kichd her
cut of Led; and fluffier, that he had written to
Ether while fhe was with him nt Bath, with
an intention to challenge him to fight a duel. The
artic!,:s iv,re then filed.

CLERKENWIT LI. SESSIONS, MAY 3.
RtsURRECTION MEN.
THE KIM"; JOSEPH NAPLES.Titis was an
indiament for stealing dead bodies from the Spa-
tilds bus i.d ground, of which ground the prifoner
w.ss ;;rave digger; and alto for flealing the
caps, pilityvi,flirouds, nails, I::.rews, and coffin-
piaci belonging thereto, and the coffins wherein
they had been 1)01 ickl.

Mr. Cox sr on the part of the profecution,
opened the cafe, by dating that the prifoner's of-
fence was one of the greateft confequence to the
ptil)lie, the atrocity of which demanded the moll
exeriplary punithment. He alluded to the great
benefit derived by the public from the prafliee of
dilfcaion, v. Lich he admitted to be the only fource
from which our profeflional met, who prattifc
furgery, could derive their (kill; yet, however
great loch advantages might be, nothing could ex-
cute the prifoner for carrying the offence to the
unlimited extent which he had done. He had ra-
vaged the ground in quell ion in a manner fearce•
ly to be believed, and which it would be Painful
for him to deferibe. He had.catried on th's flu ck-
inj traffic merely for the fake of gain, and with-
out a with of rendeting the lead Ai:Lance to his
fellow-creature-3 by the aft. In !bort, his condo&
proceeded from a mind totally void of feeling, and
front a heart bereft of all humanity.—He then en-
tered fully into the circumstances otthe cafe, which
were confirmed in the cleareß manner by the wit-
neffes, :tad which were in fabflance as follows :
W. Bacon, one of the Bow-fireet patrole, faid,
that late in the evening, on the 26th of November
lad, as he was walking along, Bravne's row,
fields, he law a man with a large load of a fufpici.
ous nature on his !boulder ; that he flopped him,
and delircd him to go into a public houfe near ;
that when the roan had got up one Rep .f the pub-
lic houfe, he threw down the load and ran off, and
they purfued, but without fnccefs. Upon opening
the load, which was inclofed in a bafket, they
found the bodies of a woman and a child in a Pack;
that they were taken to Bow-tercet, and afterwards
fent to the parifli of St. James, Clerkenwell, with
a letter to the churchwarden, defiring they might
be again buried.
George Windfor and Edward King were next
called. They fworc that, having heard of theta
mention-se! circurnflances' and that the bodies were
lying in the vault under Clerkenwell church, they
went there, when the former recognifed the body
of the woman to be that of his wife, and the latter
that of the. child to be his fon, both which had
beta buried by them a fhort time before. They
~ccre much agitated during the delivery of their
tedimony.

Harriet Col:ins, the rifler to the prifoner's wife,
a girl about fan-teen years old, (wore that the:-
lived with the prifoner, when he firfl took the fitn-
ation of grace digger at the ground in queflion,
and all the time he was there, which was about
two .•;...:1-%; that he began to Real the bodies about
a m...ith after ; that he then took the bodies from
two coffins, and brought them into his houfe
(v. hich honk is on the burial ground), and after-
wards took them to the hofpital ; one was a girl,
from whole coffin he offered her the ribband that
was round the (brood, and the other was a boy ;
that the ptifoner, from this time, continued to take
two or three bodies each day during all the winter 1
'Cabo, and until the time cf his apprelienfion.—
He generally took them up in the daytime, and
concealed them at the bottom of the grave, cc.
vered with mould, till dark, when he took them
out, and carried them away in a bafket, provided
for that purpole by the limpital, which balket,the
fornatimes held for him during the procefs, and at
other times kept watch ht the ground to prevent
detection ; that the once law him cut off the head
of a 'young woman, which he took to the 114424
immediately, and many times after faw him with
the heads of perfons who, he laid, had died of pat...!
titular difordcis, and which he alio took to the'
hofpital; that he fornetimes opened the coffins, and
drew the teeth only, which he did with pincers,"
and which lee Rewire took to the hofpital, and got'.
a guinea, arid fometimes more, for each fet ; that
fumetimes took the bodies to Bartholomew Hof.'
pital, to which place the frequently accompanied
hint, and at other times to two hofpitals in
the Borough ; that he generally got about two,l
guineas for each body. She remembered the two
bodies being flopped on the 26th of November ;
that the prifoner had the fame day got the bodies
of a woman and a child ready, and at the ufual
/Luc in the evening, about tiz o'clock, he went
int:, the gi °mid, and brought out the bodies in the
lotiket it, which they were flopped, and the held
opeu the gate for him : that he then put them on
tea ihouttess of another man, named Jofeph White
(~ne of his accomplices), who took them away,

nun , was pro worn to by this wh-
iles to be the fame the prifonei always packed the
bodies in. She Elated lome other circumflances
relative to the nails, fcrews, &c. and laid, that he
iifually tack qv the throud; with the bodies, fume
of which were thrown down the privy, and others
I burnt ; the fit;cl the priloner threatened to murder
her if the difelofed any thing of this matter ; and
that the had now been induced to do it irons his
wanton cruelty to her, which had compelled her
to detert him, and leek protection front thole con
cerned in the profecution.
' John Brown corroborated the laa witnefs's evi.
deuce in part, and likewife fpoke as to the nails,
fcrews, &c. he alfn laid, that Naples once fent him
to one George Atkins, an undertaker, to know if,
he would buy tome throutis, caps, pillows, &c. fay-
ing they were little worle for wear; but Atkins
would not buy them.
Mr. Woolcott, the Churchwarden of Clerken-
well, fpoke generally on the fubjeet, and laid, that
upon opening the privy, which is Übout five or fix
feet wide, and many feet deep, it was found quite
full of fhrnuds.

Mr. Jou FS, on behalf of the prifoner, entered at
tome length into the fubjefl, and in a very able
end appropriate fpeech, but which fcarcely amount-
ed to a defence ; he, after paffing the higheft en-
cuminnis on the Connie], and all 'thole concerned
in the profccution, for the fair and handfome man-:
ner in which they had conduced it ; laid the fads
had been fo clearly proved, that if one circum-
fiance he fhould mention would not avail, he had
nothing elf.: to urge in favour of the prifoner : Ile
faid, the witnefs Harriet Collins, on whole evidence
all the pi ofecutor's cafe depended, ought not, he
conceited (from her youth, and confidering file
might be aanated by pique and rcfenttnent againft
the initialer, her brother-in-law), to be relied up-
on to the extent (he had depofed, if at all ; and that
it the Jury Ihould coincide with him in this, which;
he trutied would have its weight, the other evi-
dence would nut warrant them in finding the pri-
foner guilty ; if, however, they (hobble! (filagree!
with him in this and believe her teflimony, he muff
trine to the impartiality of their decifion, and
doubted not it would do his client jultice.
Mr. GRAHAM, who prefi ded as chairman, then
funneed up, and laid, that unlefs the Jury believed
the girl. whole teflimony had been difputed, to be
grossly perjured, and lie taw no reafon why they
Ihould difbelieve her in any refired whatever, they
moos, he Itibmitted, convict the prifoner. They
Amu dint lv, without one moment's liefitation, pro-
nouncee him—Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN, after delivering a very pathe-
tic fpeech to the prifoner, in which he commented
on the heinous nature of his offence, laid, that
even in uncivilized nations they relpeaed the bu-
t ial of the dead, but that he, although in a civi-
lized nation, Ind totally difregarded it, violated
the laws of reli.zion, and deviated from the condi
of nature in the inoft inhuman and unparalleled
manner. The fentence of the Court was, Thai be
be initrif rid to- lioufT of Corredion T'ws ream
When ;lit, fintence was pronounced, a murmur
of difeontent ran throughout the Court, becaufe it
was not more fevere, when the m Weiler asked the
Chairman if his fate was not hard enough ? It was
with difficulty in conveying him away that the of-
ficers could proted him from the fury of the po-
pulace. _