Star.
London, England, 1807-08-22 00:00:00

dons charafter, &fired hint to give an account where
he had been ? The prifoner refilled to give him any
information, and threatened him if he attempted to
detain him, endeavouring at the fame time to force '
his paffage. The witnefs, however, detained him
by force, till he called the watch, feveral• of whom,
the moment they appeared, the prifoner knocked
down. He was, latterly, fecurcd by two of the
Volunteers, who carried him to t!te Cumpter. On
fearching him there were found in his pocket two
filver table fponns, which he Paid he had purchafed
all•ng with others which were found in his bieatt.
The officers all flared that they knew the prifoner,
and that he was one of Bill Soaniet'4 gang. No per-
fun, however, appeared to claim the fpnons, and the
fitting Alderman (Scuoctr) feting no fpecific charge
made againfi the prifoner, ordered him to be difcharg-
ed, and the fpoons to be deliver( I up to him.
Yeflerday feveral per Inns were fined in the penalty
of sl. each, at the Thames Police Office, for having
naval flores in their pofreffron belonging to the Cro
Yeflerday T. Hennington, a boy of ten years of age,
was fully committed horn Shadwell-office, fur Beal
ing a watch in ltatcliff Highway.
On M •nday afternoon, T. Barnard, in the employ
of Mr. King, brewer, of Springfield, near Chelmr
ford, fell from the flats of his mallet's waggon, at
the entrance of Moullham, when his head was fo
dreadfully crufhed, by nne of the wheels pal ng over
it, that he expired iutiantly.

CSR JNER'S ZUES7.

Yeflerday evening, at feven o'clock, an inquell
was held at St. Ba►tholomew's Hrlpital, before
Tuomes SHELTeN. Efq. Coroner for the City of
London and B••ough of Southwark, ru the body
of William Warwick, a gentleman's groom, who
died in that hofpital. The general tenor of the P vi-
dence was as follows :—The deceafed was laft Sun-
day evening in company with James Field (a gentle-
man's footman) and Come others, at the Clown,
nearly opp'lite the great entrance gate to Sadler's
Weill. A difpute arufe between them about words
which were in themfelves ir.fignificant, fuch as "You
keep your company, Sir ;" and " You keep yours."
A challenge to box, given by the deceafed to Fief,'
(who is now a prifnn.r), was the confequence. Field
was rather ono illing to 60 ; however, when he wa•
preffed to it, he laid he would fight the deceafed for
love. The deceafed polltd feveral notes out of his
pocket, faying he would fight for to, g, 2, or tl. but
not fn• let' than the late mentioned turn. Finding
that Field was 11111 unwilling to fight for money, the
deceafed laid that he and others who fpnke in his
favour, were cowards, and had no money. One
Mears, a butcher, of Iflington, then flaked two
feven shilling pieces, to bind the bet for it. on the
part of Bield, and the parties went our to an adjoin-
ing field to fight. When they were flripped, oue
James Morgan, of C•imberland row, carpenter, went
to each party, Aced them individually to put off the
fight until M mday, a' he laid he would rather do
any thine almost, than that they fhould break the
L•-RD'S Day. Field laid that he would have no ob.
jedion to make the matter up over a pot of beer or
ale: but the deceafed laid, " No, I'll be damn'd if
I will," and then cl, fired the other to come on, as he
appeared to be rather flow of commencing the fight.
‘Vhen they had fought two or three rounds, the de
ceated laughed, and laid he would lay another pound
or two on the battle ; hat no one t 'el( him up,
though feveral wage's were laid among the fpeda-
tors. At laft, after they had fought f r about the
(pace of an hour .r an hour and a quarter, his fe-
cond, in the name of the deceafcd, gave in. He was
then carried, fi; it to the Bloc: Coat Boy, in the City
Road, and then to the Hofpital. Neither of the
parties were fuppof d to be intoxicated.
Mr. John Liddal, the Houk Surgeon, depofed
that th deceafed vas in a (late of infenfibility from
the time of his bei7te ara brought to the hofpital
until his death, which took place ot three o'clock on
Monday snotr•ing. He took is ounces of blood rut
of the temporal artery, and, by the advice of ano-
ther gentleman, two or three ounces more from the
arm. Upon difiedion, fume lode blood was fcen
within the outer coveting of the brain. In his opinion
this was the caufe of the man's death. This injury
might have been brought on wi;hout a blow, but in
the prefent cafe he thought it fair to conclude. that
it was occafioned by either a blow or a fall. There
was not any eaternal mark, however, which he could
fay was likely to have been the caufe of the lots of
life
The Cortowee then addreffed the Jury upon the
occafion. He (Wed, in effeft, that they were to de-
termine from the evidence adduced, as to what had
been the caufe of the death of the party ; of which
indeed, there could be little doubt : but as to the
farther confideration, which went to affed the other
party, they were to confider from the circumfiances
of the cafe, whether the prifoner was juflified in
ading in fuch a manner, legally, in his own defence,
and thereby caufing the death ? in that cafe they
would [lupe their verdi&. In fuch a cafe the law
laid down, that when a man was compelled, for his
own fafety, or the prefervation of his life, to ufe that
degree of violence which occafioned the death of
another, in fuch cafe the law would deem the party
as acting in his own defence ; but how far fuch a
confideration applied to the cafe of the prifoner 2nd
the deceafed, was a queflion to be decided from the
circumstances in evidence ; they had gone out and
agreed'to fight, and although the provocations were
very great on the one fide, yet the law would not
confider, in filch circumfiances, the death of one of
the parties as proceeding from. the neceffary felf-
defence of the other : in fuch a cafe, the law confti-
toted the crime to be that of manflanghter.
After Come further rernatks, of which the foregoing
was the gilt, the room was cleared, and the Jury
deliberated allow half an hour, whet; they returned
a verdid of Mantlaughter against William Field.
After the Jury returned their verdid, the Coto-
NEIL ordered all the witneffes to.be called in, when
he addreffed Meers, in a very impretlive manner.
on his conduit ; remarking, that it was partly owing
to his laying down the money to bind the het, the
battle took place ; and, as a warning to him n•rt to
be guilty of the like again, he fhould make Irina be-
come the profecutor againit, his friend. in this cafe,
and accordingly bound. pint in the penalty of 401.
and alfo Jeffery Morgan,' to give evidence at the next
Old Bailey &Mons.