Star.
London, England, 1802-01-29 00:00:00

GOPERIk'OIt WALL:

• The fate of Governor Wall, and that of the
Mutineers lately executed at Spithead, holds forth a
great and falutary example to our fleets and armies.
Obedience is the duty of the failor and the foldier,
and every departure from it. fhould be feverely and
impartially punifhed. Protettion, humanity, and
a arid adherence to the forms prefcribed by the
Code Military or Marine, are expetted from the
Officer, and any deviation from them merits chaf-
tifement from the State. Both one and the other,
to the honour of our Conftitution, have been ac-
complifhed. It is a glorious illultration of the ex-
cellence of our legal fy Item, and fhould induce
every lingliihman, in (peaking of it, to exclaim-
4ft° perfrctua !

The interell made to fare Governor Wall is well.
known. The whole of Wedncfday his cafe occu
pied the attention of the Great Law Officers ; the
Judges met at the Chancellor's in the afternoon.
The conference Lined upwards of three hours.

Mrs. Wall, we believe, is filter to the Earl of
Seem th, and is confequently nearly allied to other
noble faMilies. All there interefts and others were
exerted with the utmoft vigour to fave Mr. Wall,
and the petitions prefented to the King were nu-
merous, as well as from powerful quarters ; but
his Majelly, With great firmnefs, refilled every ap-
plication, and Wilted that jullice Ihould take its
Comte.

It has been Rated, by thißake, in moll of the
daily Papers,that Major WINTER, who fo fuddenly
dropped down dead when coming to the trial of
Governor WALL, was to have appeared as an evi-
dence in his behalf, and had been his intimate
friend for many years. The fad is, Major
Witirst was fummoned as an evidence againft
Governor WALL ; and fo far from being in habits
of intimacy with him, 'dually left Goree on Go-
vernor WALL's arriving to take the command.—
This we Rate on the hell authority. It has alfo
been moll ungeneronfly Rated, that the majority
of the African corps were compofed of the outcaßs
of fociety, who were not to be kept in order but
by the molt rigorous meafures. So far from this
being the truth, we know, on the heft evidence,
that at the time the punifhment of Serjeant Arm.
thong and the others took place, a great propor-
tion of the African corps confifted of di•iffil from
other regiments, and they were a remarkably quiet
and well difpofed body of men.

Of tog men who figned a depnfition againß
Governor WALL at Chichefler, on their arrival in
England, and who were nearly the whole who
returned from Africa, 56 were drafts from the
75th, or Prince of Wales's Regiment, which was
always highly efleemed as a corps. •

It appears, when Mr. Wall came over from
France, finding fome of the witneffes Rill living,
who, he thought, might have been dead, he had
views of going again abroad.

Many perfons were of opinion, that as he had
been twice milked, he would have obtained a mi.
tigartion of his fentence, but we know that Mr.
MALL never entertained fuch a flattering hope,Und
therefore negleited no opportunity of preparing
his mind to meet the awful event, by applying
himfelf to prayer molt fervently, and at length
became fo reigned as to be able to hear of his
death without the lealt emotion. The following
is a fuller account of the circumilances that took
place at and previoufly to his execution than we
had room for yetterday :

Yeflerday morning, a little after four o'clock,
the fcaffold began to be erefted by torch light, for
the execution of this unfortunate Officer, and was
completed loon after (even, except the black hang-
ing, which is not permitted to he difplayed, nor the
pnfon bell to toll, for the departure of any one con-
victed of murder. The prifoner had an affeCting in-
terview with his wife, the Hon. Mrs. Wall, the night
before, from whom he was painfully fepra ted about
eleven o'clock. This dilconfolate and affeCtionate
Lady, unremitting in her folicitude, caufed the
Colonel to write a note to Mr. Kirby, (the Gaoler)
about nine o'clock, rcqueßing that the might be
permitted to remain in the cell until eleven; thus
cordially manifelling her fond but delufive hopes
to the very lateft moment. Mr. Kirby, with a feel-
ing of humanity highly creditable to his charader,
readily complied with this requeft. But, greatly
unfortunate Lady ! the had not any acquifition of
reafonable hope at the hour fixed for her departure.
Eleven o'clock came, and the law the end of all
her earthly joys !—Numberlefs tender embraces
now took place. The loving wife reluelantly de-
parted, overwhelmed with grief, and bathed in
tears, while the unfortunate hufband declared,
that he could now, with Chriftian fortitude, fob-
mit to his unhappy fate. During the greater pan
of the night, the Colonel slept but little. About
four o'clock in the morning his ficep was, ho\vc.
ver, oblerred In have become found, and, ac-
cording to the bet recollection of his attendants,
he continued in this fleep rather more than an
hour; fo that he could not have heard the fatal
machine in its paffage to the debtors' door. His
voice prefcrvcd its ufual ftrength and tone to the
end ; and though very particular in his quellions
refpating the machinery in every part, yet he
fpoke of his approaching execution and death with
perfed calmnefs. At half after fix in the morning,
his prifon attendant going to his cell, was Aced by
him, " whether the node he heard was not that
of crating. the fcaffold ?" He was humanely re-
plied to in the negative. The Ordinary, Dr.
FORD, loon after entered, when the prifoner de-
voutly joined him for fome time in prayer they
then palled on to an anti-room, when the Governor
afked, " whether it was a fine morning ?" On being
anfwered in the affirmative, he Paid, " The time
hangs heavily—l am anxious for the dote of this
recut !" —One of the officers then proceeded to
bind his arms with a cord, for which he extended
them out firmly : but recollecting himfelf, he Paid,
" I beg your pardaa, a moment," and putting
his hand in his pocket, he drew out two white
handkerchiefs, one of which he bound round his
temples, fo as nearly to conceal his eyes, over
which he placed a white cap • and then put on a
round hat; the ether handkerchief he kept between

his hand:. he then obfirted, u the eord cuts nt2 ;
but it's no matter ;" on which Dr. Foot; deiired it
to be loofened, for which the prifoner bowed, And
thanked him. As the clock (truck eight, the door
was thrown open, at which Sheriff Cox and his
Officers appeared: the Governor approaci,in.:
him, laid, " I attend you, Sir!" and the proceilim,
to the !Colloid, over the debtors' door, immediately
fucceeded. He had no fooner afcended it, accom
panied by theOrdinary,than three !beet:dive fhouts
from an innumerable populace, evidently deprived
him of the !Mali portion of fortitude which he had
founnoned up. fie bowed his head under tin
extreme preifure of ignominy, when the hangman
put the halter over it, but took it off again to re-
place it; this done, the Governor !looped forward,
and (poke to the Ordinary, who, no doubt at hig
requel, pulled the cap over the lower part of th:
face, when in an inftant, without waiting for am-
fignal, the platform dropped, and he was launched
into ete-nity ! From the knot of the rope turning
round to the rack of the neck, and his legs not
being pulled, at his particular requell, he was fuf-
pended in convullive agony for more than a quar-
ter of an hour. After hanging a full hour, his
body was Cut down, put into a cart, andknme-
diately conveyed to almildin in Cod/ Crofs.llreet,
to be diffeded. He was drelT Mixed coloured
iwa
look coat, with a black toll r fwan.down waist-
coat, dark pantaloons, and white filk Itockings.—
He appeared a mifcrable, and ematiated objefi,
never having quitted the bed of his cell from the
day of condemnation, till the morning of his cxe•
cution.

During the time of his confinement, previous to
trial,. he occupied the apartment which was for-
merly the refislence of Mr. Ridgway, the book.
feller. His wife lived with him for the laa fort-
night ; fhe is a very accomplifhed woman, about
his own age : although he was allowed two hours
a day, from twelve to two, to walk in the yard,
he did not once embrace this indulgence, and,
during his whole confinement, never went out of
his room, except into the lobby to confult
with his Counfel. He had not many vifitor-,
his only attendant was a prifoncr, who. was ap
pointed for that purpofe by the turnkey. After
trial he did not return to his old apartment, but
was condaled into a cell ; he was 1 far favour-
ed as not to have irons put on, bnt a perfon was
employed as a guard to watch him during the s
night to prevent his doing violence to himfelf.—
His bed was brought to him in the cell, on which
he threw himfelf in an agony of mind, raying, it
was is intention not to rife until they called -him
on tM'e fatal morning. The Sheriffs weA particu-
larly pointed and precife in their ordees,-with re-
fpe6l to confining him to the uftial diet of bread
and water preparatory to the awful event. This
order was fcrupuloudy fulfilled.

On Tnefday evening latl, while Mr. ,Robert
Kerr attempted to take a fmall %ins-boat, be.
longing to him, into the burn at Irnerkip, the over.
fet, and he was unfortunately drowned. Every
exertion was made to lave him, but in vain. His
body was not found till the next morning.

The Rannee, -or Princcfs of Delle, rho we fAte
timc (*ince mentioned to have been confined at
Dindigol, by the India Company, on fufpicion of
having allifted the iafurgent Poligars, has offered,
as her ranlom, a lac of pagodas, and a very con-
fide:rabic yearly tribute in the event of her being
reftored to her fovereignty. This unfortunate
Princefs likewife engages to give up thole who fc-
duced her to hoftility to the Company, and make
the furtender of her country to them the conic-
(pence of any future milcondat on her part.—.
Thefe terms, however, have not been accepted ;
as, 'prior to any accommodation, we underttand it
is infinuated, that her condat thall undergo an
invcftigation before the Supreme government at
Bengal.

ANF.CDOTE. OF A SAILOR.—A fail.)r named Fle-
ming was pref Ted about two years fence, and put
on board- a tender, the day before he was about to
be married. This was done by the treachery of
art acquaintance, who had not only borrowed a
fum of money f him, but who endtavourecl to
fupplant him in the affections of the girl of his
heart. The girl, however, proved faithful in his
abfence, and her fond tar lately arrived, flufh of
prize money. Informed of the iniquitous conduct
of his luppofed friend, he arrefted him for the fum
lent, and then feat him the following letter :
" So, Mr. Crimp, you are in Gilbert, 1 God.—
That. was a d—d foul weather trick you played me;
but you are under batches, and there I'll keep you,
until matrimony has fpliced me to my dear Poll—
I'll then give you leave to,/beer of; but hark'yc,
my boy, when you are free from the grappler, don't
flee,- in my wail:, or I may give you a you
won't like. I wori'dn't with to fend you to Dery's
loeler, becanfe as how, if I had Lot been pryfid, I
might not have jell in with the prize-money. So you
ungrateful ftva, I forgive you, that is, after I am
&index:y:llde of my fweet Pull. No more at prefect
from Your's, JOE FL k m iNc."
P. S. As I underfland you love Poll, I fend you
a guinea by bearer to drink her health.
A French Lady, of extreme beauty, and con-
fiderable fortune in Paris, being a fhort time ago
fmitten with the theatrical chefs and manner of
a celebrated comic actor, feat to him behind the
fcenes after the performance, and moil earnefily
requefled the pleafure of his company to a tts-a-
ewe fupper. The comedian, who was fond of ad-
ventures, acceded to the invitation, and, as loon
as he had changed his drefs, waited on the whim-
fical fair one. When he entered the boudoir, he
found the Lady feared on a fuperb bersere,looking
as if fhe had been attired by the Graces, and way
addreffed by her in there words :—" You looked
admirably well in your theatrical habiliments.
Citizen, but your native drefs does not become
you ; fo good night."—" I fee then, Madame,"
Paid the difcomfited fon of Thalia, " that you fell
in love with my coat, and I (hall fend it t 3
fup with yon."—The actor then retired. Madame
• B—, fince that event, entertains the higheit
contempt for Citizen La Fond.

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LAIV-INTELLIGEACE.

THE SING V. STETFOiTON.

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COURT OF KINC.-BENCH, JAN. 2s.

Mr. Setjeant VAIIGH AN moved for leave to file
a Criminal Information aping John ParVtifon,
E. a Jake of the Peace for the City of Liritokr,
for what NA/ alledg,ed to be partial arid corrupt
condul in his office, as a Magillrate. He flared,
from Affidavit. that there was a great dillurbance
and nproir created by a mob, that affembled at
"lace appropriated for Divine Worfhip. A Meet-
I tg Houle of I)iffenters—a congregation alrembled
so the anal manner in the evening% for the pm-
poles of religious wra :—a mob was colleaed
there, and proceeded to aas of dillurbance to the
Meeting. A liptib was thrown at a woman with
a child in her arms ; her clothes took fire, the
flames were with difficulty extinguiffied; the leader
o' the t int, one Lewis, and another of the nanle
or %%Ilkinfon, were taken before the Magiftrate.—
The Gentleman againfl whoin this Motion was
made, who Mewed every difpnfition to thwart the
Profccutitin, Which the Court knew was regulated
by Statute, and to which Was attached a feverc pe.
malty, a fine of
.aol. with other regulations—this
Magifir4e, be faid, manifeßed a difpofition to
thwart the Profeention—fief, he demanded the
licence of the Teacher of the Meeting-.--it was pro-
duced. He then faid, "he knew thole Meetings
were held at night very improperly, and that they
were the caufe of there difturbances." They Laid
they held their Meetings in the night accord:og to
cullom, and for reafons of their bwn, one of which
was, that they did riot like to interfere with the
Grvice of the Chinch of England. This Magi':
trate, howtier, took upon himfelf to difmifs the
complaint.
Lord KtavOm.--t‘ When did this take place r'
Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN.-.;•" On the sth of No-
vember Jail, my Lord."
Lord lianyow.`" Here a whole Twit has
elapfed between your complaint before the Court,
and the caufe of it. I think you (liould be left to
your common conrfe—go befiire a Grand Jury.".
Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN faid, that from this fort
of encouragement given to thefe rioters, they had
committed fume other alto otexcefs, and (or which
a Bill of IndiOment had been found againft them.
Lord KILNYONA-.-64 That fortifies the objeaion
to your Motion—you Arnold go before the Grind
Jury with your Bill of Indiament alto."
Motion refuted.
CIIMINAL INFORMATION.

A Gentleman of the name of Sir t Wird
O'Brien Pryce, Bart. fppeared in Court to jultify
bail, in the fum of 7751. An affidavit was made
to oppofe him, in which it was (Wed that he had
formerly gone by the name of Barnet Parker
Pryce, and had lived in a fervile capacity with a
Wnol Merchant at Briflul ; that he had finceat

famed the addition of Baronet, and occupied ii
fplendid matifion: that he had been turned out of
a ball-roont at Brian) given in honour of the King's
Birthday, in confequence of his being confidered
a perfon of fiaitious charaaer ; and that he had no
vifible means of living in the (lyle he did.
• Upon the affidavit being read, he admitted he
lad formerly gone by the name of Barnet Parker
Pryce, and had been Clerk to a Wool Mcrchaia,
' but he was at that time therheir of Sir John Burl
Pryce, and entitled to all his ethics ; that he had
fatisfied a Herald of his title ; had intlituted a fuit
in the Court of Chancery, and obtained a decree
in his favour. He hated that he had an elate of
7001. a year in Chefhire, and another of god. a
year in Ireland. With regard to the circumfiance
of his being turned out of the ball-room at Britiol,
it was occafioned by a mifunderaanding which
bad produced a quarrel, and he had given bail in
as,oool. to keep the peace.
Upon enquiry it turned out the ;col. a year
albite in Chefhire, was nothing more than a large
walk, over which the Freeholders had a right of
common. It appeared, however, he aaually was
in polliffion of the rents of the eftate in Ireland.
It was objefled that a man could not be ad-
snitted as bail in refpea of any ellates he held
in Ireland.
Mr. Mice LAWREWCt faid that °Nation would
hive prevailed before the Union, hut it had been
decided in the cafe of I'oll.trd v. King, that pro.
perty in Ireland did pow conaitute a qualification
to become bail.

The ATTORNEY GENI fhewed cadre aglinft
the Rule obtained by Isle. ERSKINE. for arreiling
the judgment in this cafe. The Defendant .had
been found guilty of a confpiracy to keep a Wit-
nets out of the way who had been fummoned to
gibe evidence- againit a perfon of the name of
Forge, charged on the information of one Pilking-
ton, with an offence againft the Esctfe Laws. The
objection on which the Rule for arrelting the
judgment was obtained, was founded on the Act
26 Geo. ill. c. 77. fee. t 3. enafting that from
and after Augull, 7'(. no p:rfon fhould profe-
Cute any aftion or inft.rm.ttion relating to the
Culloms or Excite, unlefc the fame was entered
in the name of the Attorney General, or of fame
Officer of the Revenue ; and if otberwife, that all
fuch proceedings thould be null and void. It was
alledged that Pill:4%mo, who had laid the Odor-
attation before the Commiffioners of the Cuftoms,
did not appear upon the record• to have been an
Officer of the Revenue.
The Avrovnav GruIRAL arguoll, that the Al
referred only to proceedtogs in the Superior Courts
at 16"eftmitifter, and not to informations laid be-
' lore the Commiffiriners.
The Learned Counti3 was interrupted by Lord
Kaavow, who aat.e4, how to point of fait the
ciaufe ni the Ratter l:ad hive tided upon—bad
foty informations, ;'rte Ansa, 1786, been is
htbited before the Commiltioners of the Cultoms
by private perfons
After a variety of ohrervatitn.4 front Comte] on
tides, the mover was deferred till Wednef-i
• iir ne r, in order that COMO information might
obtained as to the queition.atked by Lord
rayon; and alto that it might be afcertained,
.‘l,2ther the Commiaioners a Collonts were re-
r evnized is ar.v Aft of Parliameat as a Court r

Rtttet.
Richard garnell, otherwife cullii•tivle Dick:
who was fentenced to three year: hard Ilhottr nn
hoard the hulks► and at the fame. time Rood
charged with a civil proccfb, was brmight again
into Court, and Mr. Stuart Erfkine, the Cnn-
tniltor for the hulks, was ordered to I ccive him.

MtSMAN V. CALE.

This was an atlion Alty, ritlierwiCe
El:sated, Ca % ntherwife Crosteb, fnr board
and lodging. It appeared the Plaintiff kept a
houfe in Greffe.ltreet; Rathbone-place, and that
the Defendant, a young girl, of about 19 Tears
of age' had occupied this fiat floor for about three
months. _ _ _ _ _

Upon the crofs-exattlnation by the Counfel for
the Defendant of the &II w•itnefs calleJ to prove.
the Plaintiff's cafe, it turned out that the Defen-
d:tut was a lady of the town, and that the Plaintiff,
if he was not participant in the profits of her
courfe of life, was at lealt privy to the irretfnlarity
of her condua. He was, therefore, under the di-
reaton Of the Noble Judge—Nrmluited.

HARRIS V. FEDERICI.

Thii was an adion on a Bill of Exchange for
2501. drawn by Mr. Taylor, the Manager of the
Opera Honfei upon and accepted by the Defen-
dant, and indorfed by Mr. Gallerini to the Plain-
tiff. who difcounted it. The defence fet up was,
that the Plaintiff, who was a money-broker, had
difcounted the Bill, by giving only Sol. in cafb,
and the remainder in goods, confiding of blankets,
fwanfdown, flannels, and other articles, which the
diftrefs of the party forced him to accept, Xnd
among the reft, a new Chart el' the Channel—
there things were difpofed of at a lofs of 3o per
cent. It iPpearing, however, that the goods
having
-been given upon a reafonably fair efUma-
tion of their value, and the lots not exceeding
what a neceirttous perfon traria have expefled, a
terdia was given in favour of the Plaintiff. Mr.
Fedetici, it appeared, was only the nominal De-
fendant ; Mr. Taylor was the oftenfible one.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JANUARY 28.
gENNITT FONBLANCLyr..
This was an aftian tried at the lall Sittings at
buildhall, brotT,ht for damages fuflained by the
Plaintiff in conlequence of the Defendant's not
completing his contract for the purchafe of a quan-
tity of Gum which he had bought at a public fale,
and which it was alledged he had agreed to take
with all its faults. It was alledged on the part of
the Defendant that the gum was of a very inferior
quality to that which it was held out to be, and,
that from the manner in which it was packed and
conveyed to the warehoufe where it remained for
public infpelion, there appeared an iinpofition on
the part of the Plaintiff, force .Guin of a prime
quality being put at top in each calk, whilft the
inferior fort was beneath.

The Jury, however, found a Verdie for the
Plaintiff.

Mr. Serjeant Suctkrim now moved for a new
Trial, on the ground that the vcrdia was againa
evidetice.—Rule to thew caufe granted.

BURNELL, Esq, v. CARR, KRT.
This was a Special Anion brought againff the
Sheriff of Suffex, for not levying under an execu-
tion againil the effeas of the Marquis of Donegal,
and for making a falfe return, he having returned
nu//a bona. On the trial of this tulle at the laft
Sittings at Weftminffer, it appeared that the Plain-
tiff having made an arrangement with the Marquis,
had initruaed the Officer to a.t in purfuance of
that arrangement ; and Lord Avian Lit: was of
opinion, that the Plaintiff had thereby exonerated
the Sheriff from all refponfibility.
The Jury found a yerd:a for the Defendant.
Mr. Serjeint 13x*T now moved for a new trial,
contending that the evidence went in favour of
the Plaintiff.

Lord ALVANLEY expreffed the fame opinion he
had given upon the trial, but gave his confent, as
did tile other Judges, to a Rule to thew caufe
being granted.