Star.
London, England, 1813-08-03 00:00:00

TEL LITE MIIRBEROFE.CLIFFORD.

CONFESSION OF LEARY.
The refrains of the- late unfortunate Edward Clif-
ford, after the Coroner's Inquest was held on the
body, were removed on the same evening (Tuesday)
from the sign of the Prince Regent, in Sidmouth.
street, where the Inquest was held,. to the Hare and
Hounds, in Buckeridge-street„ St. Giles's, for the con-
venience of being waked, according to the custom of
his country, and several hundred persons, during the
time, came, out of curiosity, to see his murdered re-
mains. On Thursday morniflg last, Jame: Leary,.
the murderer, was brought there from the House of
Correction, Cold Bath-fields, in a hackney coach,
heavily ironed and handcuffed, attended by eight
police officers, well armed, in order that he might see
the body. On entering the room where the deceased
lay in his coffin, the lid was removed for him to look
on it, and his motions were well watched. He took
the hand of the deceased in his, and with a faultering
voice, declared his innocence of the crime, and said he
did not know the man. The person of the deceased
was certainly much changed. Leary trembled ex-
ceedingly, but on his going down stairs he seemed to
resume his wonted courage, and di ank a pint of pot-
ter in the parlour. He was then conveyed to the Po-
lice Office, in Hatton Garden, where he underwent
an examination, the particulars of which we have al-
ready laid before our Readers.
The unfortunate Clifford was buried on Friday i
evening, in St. George's burying ground, followed
to the grave by a vast concourse ct his country peo-
ple, male and female. The unfortunate widow, with
her five orphans, who lodged in a miserable room in
the next street, removed to the house of a Mrs. likes,
'2, Market soca, Fitzroy-sqn.iie, where she is ex-
pected to lie in, and where o.e,se who would wish to
relieve real distress may have an opportunity to ex-
ercise their benevolent purpose.
Ever since Leary beheld the mangled remains of
Clifford, he was seized with remorse, and laboured
under great agitati in of mind ; that night he was
troubled with frightful dreams, the following night he
appeared horror-struck : he did not wish to be shut
up alone ; and with great reluctance he parted from
the turnkey. The following day (Saturday) he
wished to see the Governor, to whom he declared the
tortured state of his mind, and confessed his being
guilty of the murder. The full particulars we have
not yet learned, and whether he had any accomplices,
or whether his wife was privy to the murder, remains
unknown ; she is still in custody, but we understand
he has confessed where he concealed the money and
notes, that they might not be found on his person.

Another shocking accident occurred on Friday at
the Regent's Canal close to Chalk Farm. A few
minutes before eleven o'clock, as the workmen were
preparing to fill some waggons, twelvemen who were
lately taken, not being aware of the danger they ran,
ventured too close in undermining the bank, at the
depth of 25 feet, when suddenly the bank fell in with
a most dreadful crash, and completely buried them ;
eight of them were dug out alive, but four with their
legs and arms broke, and the other four much bruised
and cut, six of the eight are in such a state, that their
recovery is not etpected. After a length of time,
four more were dug up quite dead, and their bodies
removed to the canteen for the Coroner's Inquest.
A melancholy accident happened at Lisna, in the
vicinity of Killileagh, on Tuesday last. As some
men were working at a gravel pit for the purpose of
repairing roads, the bank shot down and killed two
men on the spot ; two more were so desperately
bruised by the stuf falling on them, that their reco-
very is yet very doubtful. Each of the suXerers have
lel t a wife and a large helpless family to deplore
their loss.

A young Lady of the name of LEACH, residing in
the neighbourhood of Mary-la-bonne, was shockingly
burnt on Thursday night last, by her clothes taking
fire by the candle, whilst reading in bed : she lingere&,
till the next day, and then expired in the greatest
agony.—A Coroner's Jury sat on the body, and
brought in a verdict of Accidental Death.
At Nancy, in France, the following accident re-
cently happened :—A son of Mr. Dutertre,. a lace.'
merchant, was playing with some schoolfellows in
his father's house, and, having taken a gun from the
counting-house, went through the manual exercise ;
not knowing that it was loaded, he presented and dis-
charged it : at that moment his father was entering
the room, and the unfortunate parent received tlic
whole of the charge above the left eye, and died in a
few minuses afterwards in great agony.
While James Welsh, one of the servants at Torrery,
near Kirkbean, was plowing in a field, one of the
horses struck him on the lower part of the belly, in
consequence of which he lingered ti,. Thursday,
when he expired.
Sunday se'nnight, during the performance of di-
vine service, at Kirkcudbright, a considerable part of
the cieling of the church of that borough fell with
great violence ; but fortunately no person was hurt.
Sunday se'nnight, a boy fell from a tree in the
Green, Glasgow, and was so much hurt that he died
shortly after.

Friday; a young man of the name of Leonard
Caitlon, residing at the Dunk, in Leeds, was seized
with a fit of apoplexy, while preparing to bathe in the
river Aire, and died.

As several gun boats were going out of Sheerness
harbour on Wednesday, one of them got across a man
of war's cable and sunk, by which two men and a wo-
man were drowned.

Two carmen had a casual boxing match on Satur-
day night, in Oxford-street, and, after fighting more
than half an hour, one of them, named Gilders, met
his death by a-fall on the side of his head, which rup-
tured the vessels in the brain.

The boxing match between Ford and Harry Harmer,
will take place in a fortnight on the coast of Kent.
MATCH AGAINST TIME.—A young ge'tleman, stu-
dent at Mazwelltown, on Saturday -List, fur a comi-
derable wager, undertook to bring 100 stones, dis-
posed in a straight line, a yard distant from each
other, one by one into a basket, placed one yard from
the first stone) a distance of 44 miles nearly, in 50
minutes, whichle•performed ten minutes within the
'time, with apparent ease; being at the rate almost
of nine miles in the hour, besides his trouble of lift-
ing the stones, turning, At.