Star.
London, England, 1814-03-16 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING ON THE DERBY, OAKS, &e. MARCH 14.
DitaaT.
T to I apt Lord Stawell's e by Want. •
II to I apt Duke of Grarton's Partisan, by 'W'alten.
13 to i apt Mr. Hewitt% filly, by flit k Andrews.
tot apt Loid holey's Magician, by Sorcerer.
Taken— t 5 to 1 apt Mr. Ben•ou's Dauntltss, by Eagle.
IT to 1 agst "any other.
Omls.
Taken—ll to I apt Mr. Hewat's f. by Dick Andrews.
9 to i apt 1). of Utatton's f. sitter to Whaleboats.
10 to I apt 1). of Ruland's 1. by Selim.
12 to 1 agr Sir J Shelley'. f. Vittoria, by Sorcerer.
Is to I apt Mr. Wilwin's 1. by Orville.
IR to I apt any other.
100 to IS apt Lord Stawell's c. winning the Derby, and Mr.
Hewitt's filly the Oaks.

OATLAND STARTS—First Class.
S to 1 agst Dcfloner, p. p.
7 to 2 art Octaviwt, p. p.
6 to 1 art any other.
40 to 1 agst naming the winners of the S Classes.
ST. I.tnesa STitats.l)(stiC.:Srra.
10 to l apt D. of Hatnihnit's Mum.
31 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's SUy, Altos.
17 to 1 apt Sir W. Mazwell's N..rton.
18 to 1 agst Mr. Grlinston'sc. by Orville.
it) to 1 agst any other.
G.keral Oroorettor bas sold Defiance to Mr. Blake.

Captain G ItANT,a peiestrian, undertook yesterday,
on the Stanmore road, to go a mile in five minute'
• and fifteen seetinds. He had no mining, and he
• started and accomplished his task in five seconds
within the given time.
SvapittstNo ,Lsta.—Last Wednesday, a fierourite
hunter of Colonel Woe's. having got loose about. a
Milo front Clonattin, Wexford, immediately ran home,
and filidiag the gate of the lawn shut, trotted abort
as hundred yards up the road, and turning stout,
took the wall of the deniesue in a stand, which he
cleared without the slightest touch ; it measures six
feet high of lime and stone, and I inches broad.—
The spot where the horse took off to where he landed,
is shove eighteen feet ; the exact -place, on the wall
has been marked since by a streak of white-wah.
A Gentleman just returned from France, states,
that great improvenrentt are made in the roads of
that country Instead Of raising a stone at every
mile, a small house is Sulk, in which is placed an in-
• valid soldier, to whom a t;easi'ob is given, with a plot
of ground, which he cultivalVs, 4nd maintains his fa-
en4y in independence. The extent of his watch and
Litspor is kill a mile to the right and
.left of his house.
- plan. is adopted throughont the kingdom of
freueass,
A person oftindleyastrress Wolierbainpion., pur-
chased lately a quantity of rags of an ohi woman,,
who, with a view to cheat the purchaser, had wrap-
ped up in some of them a bar of heavy metal, in-
ert-I:41g die weight of the rags somewhat above a
pound. On discovering the fraud, the person endea-
voured in vain to find out the woman who sold the
-rags Some considerable time after the event, a
Gentleman looking at the piece of metal, seemed to
doubt what quality it was of, and the circumstance
Vesnaineil undecided for some months ; when a Jew,
with- whom the owner was intimate, offered to oiet
'be-fact-ascertained. He accordingly took it to Iltr-
*gingham, and brought back to the owner thirty-five
guineas as its price, the -metal bring gold. Some
doubts were made as to the value of it, after this cir-
-setrarstance; when the purchases* of it was traced, and
it Was discovered that the Jew had sold it for eighty-
. be guineas ; the remaining Rif guineas beihg the
sagainee if d %It tar's oaescienoe.
Mummy LY rlcontorr.—We are sorry to an-
*Once, amongst the many fatal • accidents which
evoltandy ;occur; from the incautious handling of fire-
- it: ms, one of a most Melancholy nature which hap-
pened on the evening of 'Saturday se'nnigbt, at RI-
• veridale, in the county of Limerick, the seat of the
late Hueir Wane, Esq. This unfortunate and much
lamente4 Gentleman was sitting with his brother-in-
law, Gamma BUCHANNAir, Esq. and making some
arrangements towards the-detection of fellows con-
cerned, in disturbing the public, peace, when a loaded
ferither spring pistol, which one of the Gentlemen was
in the act of moving from one to the other side of the
table where they were sitting, went off, and the ball
lodged in Mr. Masae's head, who almost instanta-
neously expired. It is much more easy to imagine
than describe the 'agonized feelings of Mr. &WAN-
XAS, in being thus suddenly deprived of a must re-
bisected and valued friend, and the distraction of an
'amiable wife and eleven children, in the loss of a most
. indulgent husband, and the loudest and beg of parents.
Monday se'nuight an accident of a singularly dis-
tressing nature occurred at Leeds. Three children,
(two girls and a boy) of Mr. John Kitching, foreman
to Mr. Walker, of that place' went into the Dye-
house in the absence of the wot k-people, and unfortu-
nately fell into a vat foil of boiling liquor, and wts:e
so dreadfully scalded that two of them died in the
course of a Jew hours ; but the eldest girl, who is
about Seven years of age, is expected to recover.—
Tbe boy was only 16 months old, and the girl tout
yeas 5.,-,—Same day a girl, four years old, the daughter
of a person of the Mame of hallewell, residing in the,
tape at the back of St. George'sastreet. in Leeds, was
so dreadfully burnt, by her clothes taking fire, that
she expired almost immedi-tely.
Saturday see' night three boys, sons of Captain
Kenna:4e, weutNn board the Henrietta Greeithattal
ship, now fitting out at Whitby, where they found
smut bread and butter. and ateit, which had, by Mr.
ittaitseeir's orders, been mixed with sublimate of
mercury, to kill rats. When they got home they told
t tear lather and mother what they had found and
eattela on, board the ship, and that it was very good.
'kite father inthrediitely sent for a surgeon, who admi-
t ntstered medical assistance ; two of them are in a lair
way of recovery, but the other died.
Isoursr.—Saturday last an Inquest was held, by
4.1,1A11 Kisici, Esq. Coroner, at kieracastle, over
the. body of Taunus Hewes, a dragoon, who died
theie the preceding day, and whose death, it had Wen
cutillJeutiy assertetkwas occasioned by tnurderers.—
'Vet. die juliest investigation, however, nu suspicion
sviiatelrer attached to any ono AS having been ittsurt-
Urental to the. death of this unfortunate man ; nor did
it appear. that evert the ituiet blame was imputable to
lostatael‘, either trot. intorAittion or otherwise ;?---but
• ealerely by aw accidental. 411 ',from his hone,
I'mgre Usti tomi was-covered. with ice,, he received a
slog Violent contesion upon thitycis part of heady
44
4 ruPtsamet a bi 4,4 vitiorix kit Adthtlitte4 P". -
8"a" " "IL - %kW —Accusen tat death.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

CO AT OF KING'S BENCH, DUBLIN, MARCH 10.

THE HON. FREDERICIC UATENDISH V. SIR T. THU/PHI-
. LUS METCALF, KNT. JOHN HEAVE, AND ISAAC LEWIS
GOLDsMID, E-QRS. DIRECTORS OF THE GLOBE ISSUES-

ANCE COMP ANY.

, This was an action of assumpsit on a policy of in-
surance, brought by plaintiff to recover compensation
for the loss and damage he'sustained by fire, on the
night of the 3d of July, 1812.
The principal averment in the plaintiff's declara-
ration, stated—" That nn the day of July, in the
year of our LORD 1812, at apntarff, in the County
of the City of Dublin, part of plaintiff's dwelling-
house, and the furniture and printed books, in private
use contained therein, were horned and consumed,
last and destroyed by fire, twhichivas occasioned by
misfortune and accident, and without any kind of
fraud or evil practice whatsoever," &c. &c. &c.
The property was insured for £lo,ooo—the plain-
tiff laid his damages at Je12,000, and the def:ndants
pleaded the general issue.
The trial occupied the time and attention of the
Chief Justice, the Right Hon. WILLIAM DOWNES,
and a Special Jury, for thirteen days, viz. from Wed-
nesday, the 23d of February, till a late hour on Wed-
nesday, the 10th of ?tech.
The material issue which the Jury had to try was,
whether the plaintiff himself were guilty of- the fia,t,
of burning his own house, or had consul:, d
others to commit that act—or whether it were con-
sumed by accident, or by some evil disposcd persons,
without the knowledge of the plaintiff ?
The Jury found a verdict tot the defendant!.

At Northampton Assiies, held last wecic, Ri-
chard Loci was indicted for stealing it silver watch
in the dwelling house of E. Green, of Middleton.—
'rhe fact being proved, and the prisoner having been
called upon for his defence, he addressed his Lord.
ship (Baron Woof)) nearly as 101 l iws :—.4 It is usual
for persons placed in similar circumstances with my-
self to endeavour to extenuate their offences : to tliat
I shall not presume. I have forfeited my life, which
has been a continuation of captivity and misery. The
only thing of which I have had any thought or con-
s:deration for the, last six months has been death. I
am weary of lite, and hope for a better in another
world : and I request that your Lordship will pass
sentence on me, and that it may be executed as spee-
dily as possible." He was Mound Guilty, and sen.
mace of death having been passed upon him, he ex.
claimed—" This is the happiest day I hate seen for
20 years !"

At the Winchester Assizes, Henry Worthington,
Purser of the Etna, was convicted of forging a bill,
purporting to be drawn on the Commissioners of the
Navy, for a quarter's pay of Lieutenant LANE, of the
Zephyr ; the bill was endorsed with the name of a
fictitious person. The trial had been put off tieo"As-
sizes, upon affidavits of the absence of witnesses who
could prove the prisotier's insanity. The evidence
adduced, however, amounted only to extravagant
acts done subsequent to the forgery ; and which, sic-
crirding to the testimony of an Officer of the pri-
soner's ship, might be accounted for from habitual
intoxication. He was sentenced to be executed on
the 26th instant—At the same Assize!, no bill was
found against Rehert Glare, charged with the Murder
of the Rev. NICHOLAS WESTCoiIBE ; nor against Louie
Anomie Fauche and Michael Livauty, for the murder.
of Claude Racol Ponion, :n a duel.
BOW.A3TttnT.—Yesterday B Warren was fully com-
mitted, charged with stealing Bank notes to the
.amount of £275, and a draft for £3OO, the property
of Mr. Bray, a horse-dealer, in Red Lion-yard, Hl,l
born. Mr. Bray slept the night of the robbery at ti,e
Swan Tnn, at Orind.e, and placed his brezches, con-
taining the property in question, under his head. On
the following morning, they were removed to the out-
side of tl:e bed, and the property taken away. The
prisoner was suspected, pursued, and overtaken at
Dowser's Hill, when he delivered up a B.ink-note for
£lOO, and acknowledged.he had purchased a horse
fur £25 with part of the stolen property.
Mary Roger:, Efizabeth Coaheley, Mary Pastel, and
Ann Ross, were committed as rogues end vagabonds,
for taking insurances in the State Lottery.
Gurt.onata..—Yesterday Maefled, apprentice to
Mr. Johnstone, tailor, of Dyer's-buildings, Holborn,
was charged with arson. On the night of Monday
week, while Mr. Johnstone was absent from home,
his wife was alarmed by a strong smell of fire. She
proceeded to the workshop, at the top of the house,
and found some pieces of wood alight under a pan,
which supports a German stove. This stove, when
Mr. Johnstone went from home, was quite cold, and
that was no appearance, whatever, of fire. The pri-
soner was in the shop immediately before the fire was
1- discovered. The next morning he absconded, and
was not again heaid of fill Monday last, when he
came home in a riotous manner, and was taken into
custody. On further inquiry, it turned out that the
wood had been placed as a supporter to the stove,
and as there was a hole in the flue, from which it
was possible the hot soot might have fallen, the pro-
bability was, that the fire had been attributable to
that circumstalice.—The prisoner, in his defence, said
iris master and he had never cordially agreed, and lie
had dikermined to leave him, and carried that deter-
mination Into effect on Tuesday, after the fire, which
he attributed to the hot soot. He was ilformed on
Monday that his master had lodged an information
against him at the Sun Fire Office, and immediately
surrendered himself.—He was permitted to go at
large upon e promise to attend this day.
.thos lVatlin and Mary Barnard were charged with
stealing a piece of lrisir from the shop of Mr. Rio,-
ington, on Ludgate-hill. The prisoners went in tin-
dzi pretence of put chasing two yards of calico, arid
wear leaving the shop rather quickly, when Mr. it,
mington, satisfied they had got something not their
°wit, stopped them, and Watlin dropped a piece of
linen : he consequently secured them. Alter the
prisoners were in custody, Barnard was sein to throw
from her a large piece of Bengal gingham, whichjap-
peared to bear several marks, as it at had been stolen
from a person who had lately taken stock, but was
not Mr. Rimington's.—They were remanded.

Mrs. DiSHOP, whi lest
her life by tie fall of the
house in S.iitmsrket.street. Gldtgow, oa • Thursday
se'noight, wAt dug out of the tines on Saturday •••••10
From the severe WWII24IS ao bet Wadi law death must
have boa. instantamoss. .

MILITAtV PftONfOtIOMi.

WA rt-fmrincs, /MCI' IS.

2d Regiment of Maroon Guards-4.W. La Orange, Gent. to be
• Cornet, vice Nagtt, who resigns.
9th Regiment of Light Dragotiaa--Cornet D. %Muffle to be
Lieutenant, without purthase,vice Lord Ayiesford, who mires.
Ist Regment of Foot Guards-t-Captain George Ramsdell to be
Captain of a Company and Lieutenant-ColJnel. by purchase,
vice Cliiherovr, who retires; F.naign Philip J. Percival to be
Lieutenant and Captain, without purchase, vice Riititsden ;
Al4ernon Greville, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Gentleman Cadet John I) xon, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cross,
prt,moted.
2d Ditto—Second Lieutenant D. Jenkins, from the Cornwall Mi-

ners, to be Ensign.
4th Ditto—First Lieutenant Mathew Thsekeray, from the Royal
_ _ _

Cornwall Mikis. to be Lieutenant, with tenipnr.Ary rank.
9th Ditto—Ceptam•ltohert Page, from the Wvst Kent Militia
to be Captain, with temporary rank.
12th Ditto—Assivantz,urgenn Geinge Martin, from the Ar-
magh Militia. to be A...stun-Sul-von.
16th Ditto—Ensign N. Lesde, frum the Monmouth and Brecon
Militia, to be Ensign.
Lath Ditto--Enilgulward Inge to be Lieutenant, vice Camp-
bell, deceased; Dominic French, Gear. to be Ensign, vice

Inge.
qed Ditto—William Augustus Bury, Gent. to be Adjutant, with

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the rank of Ensign.
26 h Ditto—Captain W. Wit!hots, from the Royal Flint Militia,
to be Captain, *sib tempo:try rank.
27th D tvt—Eusign John Ant* to be Lientenant, by purckate,
vice 1-hYslalr,_ Prnmoretl; Ensign it. B St. John, from the

BiA Punt, to be k.isigts, without purdime, vice truiit, Fro-
rooted. •
.1, . alto—Ensign Bernard Crump* to be Lieutenant,' by
vie. Wilson, who retire*.
i :I,to—esptain 1: H. Baker to be Major, by purchase, vice
owl ts, promoted ; JoknAlusitemnerie, Gent. to br Ensign,
_ _ .

. purchase, vice ilembharti, promoted in the 99th Foot. -
3th Dttn—James Ormsby Baetott, Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Orr, whose appointment has nut taken place.
37th Ditto—To be Captains of Comp.mi -s, wiiiiiout purchase—
Lieutenant John Arin.triing, v.ce Nleuu, sleerased; Lieute-
nant C. E. Bird, from the sth Font.
To he Lieutenant—Ens,gn.Gtorge Joynt, vice Armsirong.
fu beEnsign—Edwari Cox, Gent. vice Joynt.

99tb Ditto—Sir Orford Gordon, Bart. to be Ensign, by pt,r-
chase vice Lindsay, appointeto tlte 78th Fodr. •
40'f Ditto--Frederick Holland Durand, Esq. to be Paymaster,

•icr Clarke, deceased.
44th Ditto—Serjeant-Major Robert Barry to be Adjutant (with
the rank of Ensign), vice Simpton, deceased; serj...ant Richard

Berry to be QuaTu.:v-blaster, vice Donaldson, prumuced in the
4th Royal Veteran Battalion.
49th Ditto—l:l'94n Black to be lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Kough, who retires.
S I st Ditto—Capntin W. P. Stapleton, from the Cornwall Miners,
to be Captain, with temporary rank ; :nrst Lieutenant loselits
'Cluck:Tay, from the Royal Cornwall Mt, lo be Lieute-
nant, with temporary rank.
5241 Ditto--Ensitin 1). Macdowall to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
Vice Dighy, promoted An the rich garrison Battalion.
56th hire—l.seuteeatit Henry Jacob, from the stall Foot, to
be Captain of a Company, without poredne.e, vic.l Blackwood,

applinted to the Stith Frio.; -Lieutenant A. Darling, Irmo the
1034 Hon to be Licutenaot, vice Kendall, who exchatiges.
60th 1/itto—Ho4pital-Mato 'fully Daly to be Assi tatn.:.ut.-geon.
62d Ditto—.Lieutenalit b. H. Colman, from Dilltstia Regiment,
to be Lieutenant, without purchAse.
7341Ditto—lireve: Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Crawford, from
the late Royal In-b Artillery. to he Ciipta nof a l onyany,
without purchase; Ensign '1 homa., Reynold. to be Lk uteilatit,

withrut purchase, v ce l'urcell, who resirt,s.
78th Ditto—Ensio M. G. Lindt.ay, irons the !19 h Foot, to
be Ensign, vice Mill, prom•itvd.
83d Ditto--Richard Hely, Gent. to be Ensign, try purchase, vice
Jones, who retires.
84th Ditto—Charles Maypothev, Chat. to be EusiKri, without
purchase, vice Cast, promoted.
with Di. to—Captain isobert Blackwood, from the 56th Foal, to
be Captain of a Company, without ptirct•ase, vice d, itro-
tnoted; Ensign Jaunts Leach to be LletittllAilt, without litlr-
Cisa.e, vice Jacob, prommed.
To be Emirs.. without purcit:ote—Andrew Russell, Gent. vice
• Leach ; and John Holland, Gent,
To be Adjutant, with the rank of Ensign—Serjeant John Lewis,
front the Ist Regiment of Fvot Guard,.
To be Qaartur-Master—Serjeant Cross.
fiat Dttm--Hor.pital Assistant H. Caldwell to be Assistant-sar-
Lon, vie.: Henderson, who rttsigns.
93d Ditto--1 obe Lielenauts, without purchase, Ensign D.
Cumming, vice Hartz, promoted; Lusigit h.. 1. Stuart, vice
Build°, deceased.
l'o be F.osigns—Charles Gordon, Gent. vice Cumming ; Quar-
ter-Master R. Mackay, vice Stuart.
Tube Quarts*'-Master—Quarter-Master•Serjeant Duncan,
vide Mackay, appointed Ensign.

itteth Ditto—Captaan T. It) tut to be Mojor, without purchase,
vice Haminun, appoiuted su In.ptialug field (Acts of MihU
in Canada.

101st Ditto—Lieutenant T. Tbomrson, from the 81 st Foot, to
be Captain of a Company, ern hoot put thaw, vice Kirkwood,
promoted in the New Brunswick I:enclitics.

tOid Ditto—Lieutenant 1. Kendall, front the 56th Fout, to be
Lieutenant, vice Darling, who ea r.!tatiges .
Royal Waggon Tram—Lkutenatit F. H. B. own, front the West
Kent Militia, to be Licutenati., with temporary rank ; Second
Lieutenant M. Richard, trout the Ru)al Cornwall Militia, to
be Cornet.

4th Garrison Battalion--Thotnas Tuckett, Gent. in be Ensign,
vice Knox. promoted.
4th Royal Veteran Battalion—Qctarter-Master Donaldson,
from the 44th Foot, to be Lieut.-nun, vice 14 alit deceased;
Hospital Assistant H. King to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Lea,
promoted in the 26th Foot.
New Brunswick crucible Infantry—Captain T. Kirkwood, from
the 101st Foot, to be Major.
Garrison Company at the Cape of Good Hupe—Fiaiign W. Gard-
ner to be Lieutenant; —De la Vole, Gent. to be Ensign,
vice Gardiser.

SKIVED.
Captain the Hon. G. L. Dawao of the Ist Dragoon Guards, to
be Major iodic Arniy.

STA rt.

To be Deputy-Assistant-Comints.artes-General to the Forces--
James Wickens and Robert Gridlay, Gents: •
To be As•fiunt-Surgeons to the Force4—Howitsl-Assistants W.
Twitting, T. Soe.en; and Hospital-Mate R. C. Hall.
To be Deputy Purveyor to the Force.—Forveyor's Clerk
F:ndley, vice Kent, who ft-s:p'.
The Duke of Brunswick 0.4' Corps—Cavalry, Set-jest-A
to be Comet, vice Radon:, lilted iti act:-n.
Dillon's Regiment— Lieutensitt C. Renault to -be t al.c aitr of a
Company, vice Cani!loch, who retires, aid t.,:. Bruniby,
to be Lieutenant, vice Stenziwbu resigns: