Star.
London, England, 1825-03-22 00:00:00

FROM AN AMERICAN PAPER.

♦ letter from Lexington, professing to give an ac-
count of this interesting affair, lately appeared in Snow-
den's Advocate, stating, that in order to intimidate the
Jury who tried him, " a piece of paper was by some
means or another conveyed to the Jury-room, on which I
was written a threat in these words-4 If the Jury did
not bring in a verdict against the prisoner, Is lac B.
Desha, they should be hung in effigy and burnt. " In
consequence of this the verdict has been set aside, and a
new trial granted-r—The following letter, detailing the
circumstances of this atrocious murder, as they came
out on the trial, was taken from the same publication,
and written in consequence of the appearance of that :
" The late Francis Baker, Esq. was a Gentleman of
learning and talents, fr9m New Jersey, and was edu-
cated as a lawyer, under the late Attorney-General
Woodruff, and removed to Natchez about nine years
ago, where he became the proprietor and conductor of
a public journal.
"In September last, he set out on a journey to his
native State, on horseback, and had necessarily to pass
through the State of Kentucky. An attack of fever on
the road compelled him to remain some days at Lex-
ington, to recover sufficient strength to pursue his
journey. In this enfeebled state he left Lexington on
the Ist of November, and rode to a place called the
Blue Licks, where he lodged. The next morning he
rode to Doggett's Tavern, where he fell in with Isaac
B. Desha, the son of the Governor of Kentucky, and
breaklasteJ in company with him, and a large party of
Desha's acquaintances. In this vicinity resided the
murderer, his father, and father-in-law. _

•• The deceased was an entire stranger here, but. he
knew that Captain Hickley, with whom he had become
acquainted at Natchez, lived in this neighbourhood,.
and feeling still too weak to continue his lout ney,. he
inquired the way to his house, with the intention of
remaining the►e a day or two. Desha professed to be
well Acquainted with Captain Bickley ; said that be
lived off the main road ; that he was going to ride that
way himself, and offered to she* him the house. This

fatal offer was accepted, and after breakfast they
rode off together from Doggett's, each On horseback'
in the presence of a number of persons wSo witnessed
their departure; Desha with nothing about him but a
horsewhip, heavily loaded with lead, and drea;ed in:
a round-about jacket, with nn-coat or overt-coat.—
In two or three hours afterwards, or between ten and
eleven o'clock, Desha was seen in possession of the
horse, saddle-bags, and pocket book of the deceased,
under the following circumstances. Oa a bye•rnad, or
bridle path, gloomy and retired, the country motintait►...
ons and covered with wood, leading from the til,un road
to Desha's, lives a man of the name of Ball, about two
miles from Desha's. To this man's house the hone of

the deceased ran up, and one of his sons got on him
and rode off in search of the owner. He hai n pros
ceeded far before lie met Desha on the path very much
agitated, his hands and clothes stained with bl,•od, an 1
carrying a pair of saddle-bags on his at m. Which here
afterwards found in the woods with the ends cut open,
and proved to be the same with which the deceased
left Doggett's, and the' same that Desha was seen to
carry on his arm. Desha claimed the mare (it w •Is. a
white mare of a remarkable appearance the deceased
rode) as his property, and said he had just bought her
of a man who owed him,-and could not pay the money ;'
get on her, and took the boy up behind him, and rode
off. In a few minutes afterwards Desire's horse ran up
to the same house, without a bridle, and another son of
Ball's put on a bridle and rode off in pursuit of D.sha,
whom he knew to be the owner. He had not gone far
when he met Desha and his brother on the mare; a
pocket-book was in Desha's pantaloons pocket, which
one of the boys had a good opportunity of observing, for
it dropped out of his pocket, and he dismounted, and
handed it up to him. The pocket-book was afterwards
found in the woods,cut to pieces, and in evidence it ap-
peared to be the same with which the deceased left Dog-
gett's, and the same that was seen in Desha's pocket.
When Desha left Doggett's he had neither saddlebags
nor pocket-book; it would have been observed if he had,
for he was clad in a roundabout jacket, with shallow
pockets. It also appeared in evidence, by a man resid-
ing at Desha's, that he never came home until evening,
and then he waked round about the house with a pair
of saddle bags on his arm, peeped in at the door, but
went off without entering, and returned in two or three
houts without the saddle-bags. He had been mai tied
not quite a year to a respectable woman, Mho was so
terrified at hi; manner and appearance, that she insisted
Upon going to her father's next morning, and actually
left his house.

" The day after the murder a glove was flund, whi h
produced no alarm ; but the following thy the saddle-
bags were found in the woods, empty, and the ends cut
open. This excited su.picions of some foul deed, and
led to a further search of the woods, when he pocket-
book was found cut to pieces, and in a hollo v tree, r dt
far distant, eight shirts, with the mat ks cut out, a vest,
a handkerchief, and four pair of stockings, and l)esha's
bridle tied to a tree, where his horse had slipped it.—
The search was pry secured, and the spot where the
murder was committed was identified from the appear-
ance of the ground ; but the body was not found until
the Bth, six days after the deed had been committed,.
when it was discovered in a gully, whe:e ;t had been
draggee, about 190 yards down a bill. The skull was
fractured by repeated blows of a heavy loaded whip
or bludgeon, one stab in the breast, two bruises
in the shoulder, and the throat cut from ear to
ear— a shocking spectacle of human barbarity._
There was a deep cut on the left thumb, from which it
would appear that there was an endeavour to ward off
the fatal knife, and that the helpless sufferer was still
conscious of his dreadful situation. The body was
stripped of everything but the shirt, whi :h was mai ked
" Francis Baker," with durable ink, a vest, stockings,
and one glove on the right hand. The next day, the
pantaloons were found, very bloody, and in the watch-
fob 70 dollars in United States bank notes, wrapped
round a silver dollar, which had escaped the eye of the
murderer; the watch gone ; and at the distance of 200
yards the coat and hat were found, the latter much
broken by the blows on the head ; and at a short dis-
tance,Deshesloadedwhip,thebuttend sh ruffed to pieces.
" The discovery of the horse of the deceased in the
possession of Desha, led to his apprehension, at the
house of his father-in-law, who is said to be a man of
great respectability, and who, indignant at the injured
honour of his family, declared that he should never
enter his house again, whether he was condemned or
acquitted. So satisfied was he of his guilt, that he and
his terrified wife at once abandoned him to his fate.—
Indeed, it is but too probable that this is not the first
murder he has committed. Mr. D. a member of
the bar, recently from Louisville, and now residing at
Natchez, declares that Delia attempted to murder him
in the same mar.ner about a year ago. They were
riding together on horseback, when Desha made some
excuse for falling behind. A short time afterward., he
looked round, and saw Desha with a club uplifted, in
the act of felling him from his horse; he clapped spurs
to his horse and escaped. He was silent from uderi-
tial considerations; he was a Toting man, unwilling to
provoke the resentment of a family so powerful and in-
fluential; be was about to leave Kentucky."

A subsequent paper adds, that if Desha is tried and
convicted a second time, his father will grant him a
pardon. A. Bill was introduced into the Legislature, for
changing the place of trial. Against this Bill as many
Members as dared brave the displeasure of the Cove,-
nor's family, protested.

Mr. O'CONNELL left town last night on his return to
Dublin. He intends,we believe, to be in London again after &stet.
By the Jamaica packet, we have received a series of
Bogota (Colombia) Papers, to the 20th of December.
There appears to be a sort of controversy going on in
the Colombian Journals on the subject of tie last Loan
contracted in England for that Republic, the terms of
which, by one side of the controversy, are thought un•
favourable to the bortouing party. The best proof of
the contrary, however, is, that within three months
from the conclusion of the contract, the Loan fell to ir
discount of twelve per cent. M. Quarrel, the Dutch
Commissioner to Colombia, left Bogota on the 16th of
December for Panama, from whence he was to proceed
for Mexico, on a similar mission to that which had
brought him to Bogota. It appears that shortly after
the battle of Junin, Canterac, the Spanish Genstar,
wrote a letter to RoJil„ the Governor of Callao, in
which he dwells with much emphasis on the disastrous
consequences of that battle to the Royal cause. This
letter was intercepted by the troops of Bolivar, and af-
terwards published in the Truzillo Gazette. The opening
of the Congress at Bogota was expected to take place
on the 2d of January. A considerable portion of WO
Members had attired in the capital.

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THE EVENING STAR.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1825. '
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened at 931 g fee the Account, with little or nothing
doing, and no variation. •
In the Foreign Market, the most doing is in Pearl and Coral
Fishery Shares. Pasco Peruvian Shares were done as low as 16
this morning. Spanish Bonds remain steady'
Current Prices* New Spanish 19, Old ditto 221 1, Russian 95,
Itlexlcan 811, Milian 904, Colombian New 914, Mexican Scrip
21 3 rem. Brasil Scrip 213, Greek Scrip 4e 4 disc.
Pa ICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
per Cent. Cons. 9334 3/4
4 per Cent. New 106 1053/4
£l,OOO Exclieq. Bills 52 55
£5OO ditto 52 55
£lOO and £2OO ditto 52 56
India for Acct. 279% % 280 279.%
Cots. for Acct. 9431,4 3 .
CHILE LOAN.
The SIXTH HALF YEARLY DIVIDEND on the above
Lean, which becomes due on the 31st instant, will be paid by
Aleurs. Hutt.err Brothers and Co. at their Counting-beese,
109,
LeadenisaU-street, on that and every succeeding day (Sundays es-
etpted), between the hours of Ten and Two. The Dividend War-
rants, with a list thereof in numerical order, must be left foi tea-
minadcm one day previous to the applicadon for payment.
London, March 16, 1825.
CHILE LOAN.
Notice is herebysc given, That in conformity to the General Mort-
gage Bond, on the 21st day of May, 1862, by which the
sum of X5OOO was to be appropriated an the 30th September last,
for the purposes of the Sinking Fund for the fifth half year, and
also the sum of .81440, being the amount of interest on 480 Bonds
already deposited. Don MraiasO DC Roasts, Minister Plenipo-
tentiary of the State of Chile, jointly with Messrs. Humes Bro-
thers and Co. in the presence f Mr. JOHN Vista, Notary Public,
did this day CANCEL and deposit in the Bank of England, Eighty-
nine SPECIAL BONDS of the said Loan, being seB9oo, toge-
ther with the fifty-five Dividend Warrants attached to each Bond.
London, March 16, 1825.
The following arc the Numbers of the said Eighty-nine Special
bonds, viz.
42 2105 3301 3931 4955 6175 8883 90f0
251 2112 3381 4191 5083 7492 8951 9064
466 2188 3382 4372 5088 7622 8991 9090
467 2197 3883 4374 5183 7680 8992 9126
468 2338 3384 4682 5551 7785 8993 9376
846 2352 3406 4843 5733 7786 8994 9436
1441 2353 3407 4844 5757 7864 8995 9478
1927 20/0 3408 4845 57.58 8079 8996 9480
5005 3013 3409 4346 5759 8122 8997 9500
2019 3014 3410 4847 5E48 8757 8998 9555
2072 3315 3628 4952 6132 8759 8999 9608
2103 •

FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Anstriar. Bonds 5 per Ct. 983 Mex. Bonds, S per Ct. 801 3
Braidlian Bonds Bvll Ditto Acs. 801 4
Ditto Scrip, 5 per Cent. Ditto Scrip OW, 2/pin.
Ditto Sctip 1825 Ditto Acct. 23 piem
Ditto Acc. 21 preni Neapolitan Bonds, S per Ct.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 911 l'eruv. Bonds, 6 per Ct. 873
Chilian Bonds, 6 p Ct. 901 Ditto Ace. 871
Ditto Acc. Portuguese Bonds 901 4
Oslombiatt Bonds, 6 p Ct. 911 Ditto Acct. 903
Ditto Bolds 18.24, 903 Prussian Bonds) 822, 5 p 0.1003
DI
.Ditto Ace. 901 nurs.B.inds,lB22, 6p. Ct. 95
Danish Bonds 5 per Ct. Ditto Acct. 95
Ditto arks Krim Spanish sp. Ct. C. 221 1.4 1 3
Greek Bonds 523 Ditto for Acc. 223 3 1
Ditto Acct. Span. 5 p.Ct 0.1823, 18 171
Ditto Scrip 1825, 44 dis French Rentes, 5 per Clo2f. 25c
Ditto Acct. Exchange 251. 10e.
BRITISH AND FaREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.