Star.
London, England, 1813-04-10 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Major PRESCOTT sailed, on Saturday the 3d inst.
in the Arabella packet from Falmouth, to resume
the command of the sth Dragoon Guards, in the
Peninsula.

Wednesday se'nnight the ‘2d Battalion of the 41st
Regiment, about 500, arrived in transports at Cork,
did not disembark, but proceeded with the 19th
Light Dragoons for Quebec, as well u a detachment
of about forty of the 89th going out to join the 2d
Battalion, which came also from Portsmouth.

Sunday an embarkation took place at Cork, on
board the transports, of the horse intended to be taken
ont to Quebec, by the 19th Light Dragoons. We
understand they are confined to those of the Commis-
sioned and Non-commissioned officers, amounting to
160. This fine Regiment, dismounted, embarked on
Monday. His Majesty's ship SYBILLE, Captain UP:
ToN ; AIIMWE, Captain Sir T. TROUBIUDGE ; and the
CYGNET, Captain RessELL, take charge of this convoy,
and intend sailing immediately. Brigadier General
DA ROCK and suite go out in theSicasu.s, nearly up to
Qu EBEC.
We have authority to state, that Government hav4
resolved to erect a Monument to the Memory of the
late gallant Major-General Fooßto Bowes, and we
!eel gratified to understand it has been expressed as
the wish of the army in general.
The 6th Dragoons march next week for Ireland,
and the Perthshire Militia have got the route for
England.
The 7th Light Dragoons were inspected yesterday,
and it is supposed to be preparatory to their embar•
kation for Hanover.

Lak week the West Suffolk Militia pasted through
Berwick, for the North. The First Norfolk have Ar-
rived there, and still remain.

Thursday the Shropshire Regiment of Militia re-
lieved the Gloucester Regiment in the duty of the
prison ships in Hamoaze.
The volunte-ring from the Militia for the line, we
are happy to hear, proceeds most prosperously. The
Vd'ltoyal 'Power Hamlets regiment furnished their
quota in the first two days, and would have given
much more if required or permitted.
The Bedford Militia, now quartered at Yarmouth,
with the alacrity for which that regiment has ever
been distinguished, gave, on the day appointed for
volunteering (Ist April), its quota. to the Line, and
every man for unlimited service,

A General Order, issued at Quebec on the Sd of
February, containing the particulars of General WlN-
cHesTEit's defeat by the Britifh troops, Nas been re-
ceived in town. •

The prisoners, at the close of the action, amounted
to 1 General, 1 Colonel, I Staff, 1 Major, 9 Cap-
tains, 20 Subalterns, 27 Serjeants, and 443 rank and
file; but the Indian warriors were hourly bringing
in prisoners, and had taken a strong escort of the
enemy, with .500 hogs.
Colonel PaocTott reports in strong terms the gal-
lantry displayed by all description of troops, and the
able support received from Colonel Sr. GEompg,
and from all the Officers and Men under his com-
mand, whose spirited valour and steady discipline is
above all praise.
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it is with regret Colonel PROCTOR reports the Bri-
tish los.s amounts to 2& killed and 158 wounded.

UITACE&i trogtantD.
Col,,nri St. George, four Wounds, tut not severely.
Car ain Tallon, i Ira P,xttiluent.
Lieutenant Clernion, ditto.
Ensign Ker, Royal Newfoundland FenFiblese dangerously.
Li,u,enant Ryik4, Marine Departinent.
Lieutenant Irvin, ditt.
Midshipman RicAirdsoo, ditto.
Cap,ains Mills, Essex Militia.
ditto.
I.i,utenant Gordon, ditto.
Ensign Garvin, ditto.

:AI Zoos: via s charged with suffocating o.Evans.
.her son, four years and a half old, by tying a hand-
kerchief round his neck, and throwing him into the
New River, on the 21st of February.
The mass of evidence on this occasion would fill a
Newspaper ; and we cannot give it, better than by
briefly abstracting the evidence on a case most singu-
lar in its nature. The deceased was counted a fine
lively child. The body was found in the New River,
near Cleikenwell, in a putrid state, on the 14th ult.
The woman had formerly been 'a prisoner in Cold-
Bath-fields; and Arts, the late Governor, was the re-
puted father of the child. The prisoner, according to
the testimony Of a number of witnesses, had expressed
loudly her distresses, and her anxiety and solicitude
to get the child into the workhouse, she having had
another of more tender years, and the embarrassments
of Aris had rendered him unable to support herof late.
The child, when found, had a Chambrey handkerchief
twisted about the neck, with a running knot under
the left ear; and another handkerchief, containing
half a brick, was tied round the body. It had on.a
silk cap, a bed gown, and shoes and stockings. Mrs.
Blakely, of No. 16, Northampton-street, Clerkenwell,
where the prisoner lodged, proved that she (the Fri.
soner) took the youngest child nut at six o'clock on
Sunday, the 21st of February, with the deceased,
who she said she was going to take to the parish offi-
cers. The child was then dressed in the manner in
which it was found, with the exception of the bed-
gown, which had been substituted for a red grounded
frock, which was afterwards found by an officer in the
prisoner's apartments. It appeared by the testimony
of this witness, and many others, that the prisoner
positively denied that the child was het's, and that
none of the clothes belonged to the deceased ; but
both these assertions were completely ialsified by
many witnesses who knew the child, and also the
clothes—one of whom gave the child part of them.
The prisoner told different stories about the child
to different persons—that it was at Pancras nurse: y.
house, and then at her aunt's at Brompron—in all o;
which she was detected, and which at length she
confessed by acknowledging the child to have been
her's ; and aho the clothes, in separate confessions
before Magistrates. These confessions were of the
prevaricating order. and alledged that Aris, the la-
ther of the child, had caused a woman, whom he re-
presented to be about to take the child to his sister, to
meet her in Gray's Inn-lane, on the 21st of February,
and to whom ske delivered him. She accounted for
telling different stories about the child to the interte-
fence of Aris. Another witness proved that the pri-
soner called on her on the evening of the 21st of Feb-
ruary, about 7 o'clock, and told her that she had
George to the parish; and another strong circum-
stance against the prisoner was, that she asked the
beadle Who came for her at her service, at Mr. —'s,
in Paternoster-row, it he did not come from the ot-
fice and added, that the child drowned was not her
son George—not having seen the body.
Mr. Webb, a surgeon, proved it might have been
the conjoint efforts of strangulation and water which
caused the death of the child; but from the putrid
state of the body, he could not state the single cause.
The confessions of the prisoner were here read,
which stated her to have had five children by Aris.—
He had allowed 10s. 64. a week fi..r the deceased
but had lately been unable to pay any thing. She
stated, that she lent the handkerchief, found about
the child's neck, to Aris two years ago; and that the
bed-gown found on the child was no part of the dress
when delivered to the woman in Gray's Inn-lane.
What is very remarkable, every female witness spoke
in high terms of the prisoner's kindness and affection
for her children.

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Aris stated, that he was formerly Governor of
Cold bath-field. Prison. He had a residence for the
last three months over the water. He knew the psi.
stiller, and he recollected the child George, the de-
ceased, who he und.rstood was sworn to him about
11 months ago. Saw the prisoner about three weeks
after this, and asked if she had sworn the child to
him, when she answered, she had done so, from ne.
' cessity Witness asked where the child was, and she
• infermed him, by her side. She had another child in
her arms, which she said she had to nurse, at 7s. per
week. Witness never saw the prisoner after that, un
til at Hatton-Garden Office, in March, charged with
° murdering the child. He had gone there voluntarily,
having heard the fact from the Newspapers. He
never appointed to meet her as stated, on the 21st of
February. He was at home on that day with a per-
son of the name of Jones, and seldom went out on al
Sunday. The story of a passage in the prisoner's
cenfession, that his sister had been pointed out to her-
at Clerkenwell, was also false, as his sister lived in
Bucks, and had not been in London these 45 years. I
Witness attended every examination of the prisoner
voluntarily, and had not been held in any recogni-
zance to appear at the trial.—On cross-examination.,
witness stated the prisoner was his servant, after her
imprisonment ; he was once very familiar with her,
but he had seen her but seldom since, perhaps once in
six months, and for nearly two years only once ini
Northampton•street. He had supplied her with mo.
ney formerly, but he had lately been distressed him-
self. He had eight children to keep, besides three of
• the prisoner's, but he had no intercourse with her to
justify the imputation of his being the tither of the
last child. On looking at the handkerchief which
was found round the neck of the deceased, witness
swore positively against the confessi•>n of the prisoner;
that he never saw the handkerchief before, and that
he never borrowed one of the prisoner, as stated.
J. Jones, formerly turnkey, at Cold Bath-hells
prison corroborated Aris, that he was not Out 0:1 the
evening of Sunday. Feb. 21. when the prisoner said
she met him.

Mis. Peachy proved the falsity of another part of
the prisoner's confession—that she, Mrs. Peachy, had
pointed out Aria's sister to her, who St was repre-
sented was about to take the deceased child. Witness
never having seen the sister.
In defence, the prisoner, who till now had rerer
sheaved her face, verbally echoed her confessions.—
She had told falsities in the first instance by Aries
threats. She was alarmed at him, he having threaten.
ed to shoot her three different times, besides doing
the same nine yeais ago. She delivered the chiid to
a woman, by his desire, influenced by his threats, as
he said, that if she ever told when die child was taken
from her, he would kill her.

Mary Sfrorion, who washed for Ails, when a ri.

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belief, that the Otulkerchief roundabout the neck 4
the child belonged to Aria. It had changeC.
but she was confirmed in her *pinion by a jrin at one
end, and she washed no other chambrey handles
On cross-examination, it appeared that Mr. Brooks,
the prisoner's master, called on witness on S it urday,
and informed her, that a handkercltief was in the
hands (lithe Officers, which he a isfied her to look
at, And that brought her thither. A
Police Officer it contradicted a part of de
evidence, of Aris not being out on a Sund,+y;—t
had seen him one Sunday* about a mouth since,
ten in the morning.
Lord Etassnououou, in summing up the esidences
commented, with much furceom the con:radiNory
statements of witnesses, and lamented the fr.nutricv
of such practices. He particularly remarked on the
strong circumstance against the prisoner, of tilt:
frock in which the child was taken out, no the eveo-
ing of the Plat of February, being found in her hox.
—Again, the Learned Judge observed, that :t did
not flew the affection of a mother, v,lio had h,d
her child taken from her, when she saw the s (id child
in the state in which it was found, to deny the idea•
city of her offspring. It would seem rather, that in-
stead of denying it in that state of martyrdom, she
would have used every effort to bring the guilty offen-
ders to justice. His Lordship left the case to the
Jury, and they retired for. three hours, and then ro.
turned a verdict of Not Guilty.
After the verdict was given, the Jury informed
Lord ELLEMBOROLICII, that, on the grouihis the
handkerchief which was found round- the murdered
child's neck being last seen in the possession of Tho.
mas Aris, they conceived that he was implicated in
the murder, and hoped that judicial notice would be
taken of it.
Lord ELLENBOROUGLI observed, that he could taker
no judicial notice of any person except those who
were before the Court for trial, but his Lordship
thought the Jury had' done their duty in making this
representation.

The Prisoner retired from the Bar amidst 0)t greet.
ings of a most crowded Court. She appeared 4..l)Jut
Si yeat s of age, of respectable appe.ii3nce, and con-
ducted herself throughout with great ueadiuess and
propriety.

This trial excited the greatest degree of interest
imaginable, and lasted from ten in the morning unta
nine at night.
Thirteen other prisoners were tried. driven et whom
were convicted of felony, viz. Elia. Jones, Jane Smith,
E. Abell, S. Hillary, R. Bagg, J. Chave, H. Ad-
cock, and J. Olive, for having in their poises:ion cer.
twin forged Bank-notes; %'m. Smith, for stealing a
piece of Irish linen, the property of G. Smetb ; Wm.
Clarke, for stealing 7lbs. of cheese, the property a
J. Stapp ; and J. Tuft, for embezzling divers sums of
money, the property of his emplo)er, f. Rankin.

It is reported that Ministers hare received notice
that the negociation with Denmark has been uwtuc•
cessful, and that no hope cat be indulged of her f
bearance as to our trade. Our private adsices by the
Gnttenburgh Mail of yesterday annnunce the re-conat.
mencement of a maritime war with th 4 power, of
will appeir by the following extract s

_ _ NOM MARCH rt.
" Admiral Molten boa elriady capturifd ab;iitt twenty prise,
oh the renewal of houilitlas; and on the other band, the Dana
gensboots have received orders taco oat ag Anst :he British trade,
As soca as the answer ecitiregoent on Ado oral Hove's missioe
shall be reeeived bore, 'Acre is nos doubt of our d. ciaritg war
against Denmark, and landingabort 10,000 men In Jutland."
AU the accounts admit, that 13eitinark must be-
come the sacrifice of her mistaken policy.

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Thursday.Eatl MOIRA took his initiate farewell of
the PRINCE /brow; and yesterday, about haltpast
eleven o'clock, the. Noble Earl set off from his house
in St. James's-place, for Portsmouth, accompanied
by Mr. Tuost, sox, his Secretary, and Mr. Eaernz,
his valet. The Noble Earl's children set off 'Q f )Ilow
in the afternoon: the three eldest proceed wit} the
Earl and Countess to India, the two youngest remain.
in England. The Countess left town this titOrtfins
for Portsmouth.
COVENT Gst RUES; THEATRE.--The Orator i Season
Was terminated list night at this Theatre, to the high
credit of the management of its conductor, Mr ASH-
LEY. The performances were of the same high cha-
racter with those of last Wednesday. The Theatre
was crowded ere the performances were commenced,
and this popular solicitude was folly justified and re-
paid by the great merit that was diplayed by all the
performers, both vocal and instrumental.
DRURY-LANE.—This Theatre also had to boast of
a very numerous audience, who expressed their high
approbation of the petformances by repeated plaudit,
A dashing Nubbman threw in 18 Mains at Hazard,
last Monday night, at a Suliscription House in St.
James's—the odds are prodigious • yet Philosophers
deny Luck. What is it then ? Most of us have
Lucky moments iu the course of our lives. How
often, when we go to buy a Tick-t or Share at a
Lottery Office, hare we hid the identical Numh^r
of a £20,000 Prize put before us ? and although it
might not have been our Lack then to chose the for-
tunate Number, it miy be new; and one such lucky
choice settles all our cares for lute. No Lottery was
ever so well devised to confer Luck on Adventurers,
as the present State Lottery, containing S Grand
Prizes of £20,000, 3 ditto of ill 0,090, &e. &c. and so
arranged by Government, that all the Tickets drawn
on 6th of May, will be Prizes.
Among the many vainaoie discoveries of this ;in-
proving age, none deserves m •re notice and public
patronage than the nev.iy-dis.mveied, aid much ad-
mired Japan illicking, made only by DAY and MAR-
TIN ; who have, atter mud: solkitation, opened a
warehouse, No. 7, Wet ts.steet, Jermyti-street, St.
James's, for i:s Sale ;. where we are Informal, any
person desirous of a trial, or willing to add to its
most respectable patronage, viz. lei laity, the fiist
Nobility, and his Majzst)•s Army, part of the latter
considerable Orders, of a portable quality, are now
prepared for the Life Guards Ong Lu Lisboa—nisy
he supplied with a Siattle