Star.
London, England, 1814-10-20 00:00:00

COURI 2114 k 1 IAL OW COLONEL QUENTIN.

Yesterday Cant ain Harding, Lieutenant Eversfield,
titacl Lenten Int Seymour, of the 10th Hussars, and .
Cnlniiel Elle, Assistant-Adjutant-General to the Duke
of Wellington, were examined in support of the 2d
tdu .
The vi t n. e recoec•ine the latter having been
brought to a col:chi-ion. Colonel Palmer, before en-
terine epon the fourth charge, wished to apprise the
Coml., that Sir E. Pakenham, whose presence was
reneert d necessery for the purpose of proving the let-
ters described in the charge, the authenticity of which
was not admitted by Colonel Quentin. had not arriv-
ed from Ireland. and he appired to the Court there-
fore for farther delay.
The JUDGE-ADVOCATE suggested, that if Colonel
Quentin sheted refuse to admit the letters in question,
the charge might still he proceeded in, leaving the
decision of the Court to depend upon, as far as it was
connected with, the issue of that point. He did not
mean, however, to state, that any unfavourable infe-
rence was to be drae-it from the refusal of Colonel
Qaentin to admit the letters.
Colonel Quentin here signified, that he did not dis-
pute the authenticity of the ..e letters.
The JUDOL-ADVOCATE then observed, that he felt
it necessary to express his opinion how far these docu-
ments could be received as evidence. He conceived it
quite clear that they could not be read as evidence of
their own contents. The charge itst If was of the most
vague and general kind, and rested entirely upon the
two letters mentioned in it. The Court could receive
no evidence, therefore, that was not within the scope
and view of these ; that is, of no circumstances a
date subsequent to the period when they were written.
The letters themselves were not specific, and must be
supported by parole evidence taken upon oath, and
subject to cross-examination. If proved, the letter
showed that their writers had passed a censure upon
Colonel Quentin ; but they did not shew the grounds
upon which the censure had been passed, and which
might have been passed, therefore, upon just or uFon
false representations t f his conduct, and the conduct
of the regiment. It might, after the facts in detail
had been heard in support of the general censure con-
tained in the letters, be necessary, from their novelty,
to allow Colonel Quentin some time for the prepare-
tion of his answer.
Colon,l Palmer said, that he could prove by many
persons, if it was possible to produce them there, that
their houses had been plundered. His object was to
shew a general relaxation of discipline, and for this
purpose lie had introduced the words, " during the
period of f irvign service.".
The JUDGE-ADVOCATE lamented that Colonel Pal-
mer had been misled in his mode of d: awing up the
charge, as his-object was very fairly to bring
material facts under the cognizance of the Court.—
The charges had been sent to him, but not for the
purpose of his revising their merits (with which he
had nothing to do), but to be examined merely as to
their technical fitness to be regularly submitted to a
Ceurt-m rt ;al.
Colonel "'Amer here acquiesced in the limit sug-
gested,.and desired further time to produce his evi-
dence. •
The Court then adjourned till 11 o'clock this day.

Monday se'nnight, a serjeant and a private belong- ;
hig to the corps called Military Artificers, were pro-
secuted by the Fiscal, before the sitting Magistrate in
Glasgow, for improper behaviour to a person on
whom they had received a billet. It came out in
evidence that, having presented their billet at the shop
of a respectable tradesman on whom it was granted,
he proposed to give them 3s. a week to procure lodg-
ings for them:,e:ves. They insisted for four, upon
which the citizen said he would rather give them a
room in his own house, which was hard by, and to
which he desired his foreman to shew them. They
ohjected to the foreman; the clerk was then offered,
• but they insisted that the master of the shop himself
should conduct them, and continued making a noise
in the shop till the police was sent for, who lodged
them in the police-office. On finding security for their
appearance there rext morning, they were discharged,
and then proceeded to take possession of the quarters
offered ; but, at the same time, informed the mistress
of the house very plainly, that they were determined
to put her to all the trouble they possibly could ; that
they meant to bring in a sheep's head and singe it,
by way of nosegay, and the serjeant added, that he
would bring a new man in upon the billet every day.
The Magistrate imposed upon the serjeant a fine of
fifteen shillings, and ntn the private one of ten shil.
lingo, and committed them to jail till payment.
A labouring man who has a wife and famiiy, was
discovered on Monday se'nnight, in the orchard of a
lamer near Chepstow, supposed with an intention of
stealing fruit. A person who was on the watch with
a loaded gun, most incautiously fired at him, and was
so near as to lodge the whole of the charge in the
pour man's loins. He was alive on Tuesday morning,
but in excruciating pain, and without any prospect of
his recovery.
The unfortunate Admiral Brad/-y, who in an evil
hour listened to the sogges:ions of avat ice, is now on
board the Indefatigable transport, in the Sound, des-
tine.l to proceed to Botany Bay.
FEMALE iNTILEPIDITY.—On Monday between four
and five o'clock in the afternoon, as Mrs. Howes,
wile of Mr. Ilowe, solicitor, of Northampton, was
returning to bilghrook, in company with a Miss
Pit kins, they were stopped by a villain near the side of
the canal, who with imprecations, demanded their
money. Mrs. li. positively refused to give him any,
on which he gave her a slap on the face, which she
very spiritedly returned. The villain then seized Miss
• Pirkins, threwher into the beige, and tore her clothes.
Mrs. H. immediately. on his back being to-
wards her, caught him by the ttroat, and griped him
31 tightly, that he begged she would release him, pro-
mising that they should then proceed without further
interruption. The villain, however, on finding him-
selfd isengaged, immediately turned to Mrs. H. and
said, " Now, my lady, I will be revenged of you—
I have a knife in my pocket, and 1 will have both your
lives and yourmoney." Mrs. H. replied, he should not
have her money'but with her life. A violent scuffle en-
sued, when Mrs. H. was again fortunate enough to
yet such hold of him as to enable her to prevent him
from carrying his threats into execution, and to secure
him till a person came to her assistance. They imme-
diately cook the fellow before a,magistrate, who com-
mitted law to the county gaol.

POLICE.

Qtntre-sotrette.—Yesterday Jame: Stu/Aorta was
charged on suspicion of having been concerned with
Thomas Boulton,the son of a respectable man who keeps
a public house opposite to the office, in breaking into
the shop of Mr. Hammond, Dover-street, Piccadilly.
Mr. H.'s shopkeeper stated, that Mr. H. was out of
town, and that he slept in the shop. About helf-past
two on Tuesday morning, he was awakened by a
noise ; he started up and stood at. the end of the shop
about ten minutes without hearing any thing further.
He then saw a man, after breaking the glass, get half
through the fan-light, when, by means of a hooked
stick, he began to pull silk shawls, &c. front strings in
the window. At that moment he shot at him, and he
immediately fell. He opened the door but the gang
It id escaped ; and he called the watch in van for five
minutes. The robber, who was shot, and who turned
met to be Buulton's son, was afterwards traced to the
Strand, and. thence to the Westminster Infirmary,
where he had been sere by his father. A ball en-
tered the left jaw, and remained lodged in the right
cheek, the surgeons having hitherto been unable to
extract it, and it knocked out three teeth. From the
Infirmary he was committed to Tothill-fields. This
was the second time that Mr. H.'s shop had been at-
tacked by a gang within the last ten days. Gilmore •
and Pace, officers, said, that Boulton had confessed
himself to be shot by Mr. H.'s shopman, but be could
not now be moved, and having ascertained that Scul-
thorpe was in Bolton's company two or three hours
before the attempted robbery, and knowing that both
of them were noted thieves, they apprehended Boul.,
ton's constant companion.
.They had stronger evi-
dence against Scunthorpe to adduce at the next exa-
mination. Sculthorpe was committed for re-exami-
nation.
Br/W-STREET.—Yesterday Donaldson reported that
he had been to the Westmaister liospitel to see Tho-
mas Boulton, who is suspected of being the person that
WAS shot in the act of breaking op .n the shop of Mr.
Hammond, linen-draper, in D iver-street, Piccadilly.
The surgeon desired him to state th tt Boulton was
going mos well as could be expected, elte.otigh the
ball had not been extracted from his cheek, and tti.it
it would not be unsafe to rt move him. In citse-
quence the Magistrate ordered him to be committed
to Tothill-fields Bt
On the night of Monday se'nnight a baker's shop,
the corner of Upper Baker-street, in the New Road,
was broken open : the master of the house was alar-
med twee with the noise : the second time he went
down stairs, when he saw a man in the act of enter-
ing. He went out for assistance, and on his return
the robber had made off. He supposed the robber
strongly resembled a journeyman whom he had dis-
charged a few days previous, and had him taken
into custod), t.ut he satisfactorily proving that he was
at hooie et the time the house was broke open, be was
discharged. Yeiterdey the baker attended at the
Office, when H. Illorris, another journeyman baker,
being in custody on suspicion of another burglary, he
stated that he knew his person extremely well, and
that he strongly resembled the person of the man
who entered his house, but was not sufficiently clear
to detain him on that charge ; however, there was
strong evidence adduced against him of breaking open
the Wheat-sheaf public house, in Dorset-street, Mary-
la-bonne, on the night of Thursday se'nnight, part cf
the property stolen at the time being traced to his
possession, and which he said he found in a Mews.—
Other articles were traced to have been pawned in
the Edgeware-road by a young woman, named Buck-
/,y, who was examined with him, as was also a male
companion of hip suspected of being concerned, on
whom were fount...a dark lanthorn and candle, a
bottle of phosphorus and matches, and an iron crow.
Mrs. Tanfield, the landlady, identified the property
tr-ued upon them. They were all conunieed for
further examination.
A Naval Officer, who was brought to London on
Saturday, by Taunton, from Portsmouth, was com-
mitted for further examination on a charge of forgery.
Five persons were charged with selling fruit in Co-
vent-gal den Market last Sunday, four of whom were
convicted in the penalty as directed by the Act, with
costs ; the other, being a widow with seven children,
Mr. BIRNIE humanely remitted the flue on her pro-
mising not to offend in future.
The driver of the hackney coach, No. 45, was con-
victed of misbehaviour to his fare, a Mrs. Watts, a
respectable female, and refusing to give her a ticket.
George Sloat was charge) on suspicion of the wilful
murder of Elizabeth Gudge--It appeared from the
evidence of Mary Richardson, who resides in Cle-
ment's-lane, that on Tuesday night, about eight
o'clock, the prisoner was in company with the de.
ceased at the Crooked Biliet public house, in Wych-
street, where they were drinking together ; they had
a dispute which ended in a quarrel ; they went out of
the house together, and after they had proceeded a
few yards the deceased fell from the footpath into the
carriage-way in Wych-street, occasioned by a push
given her by the prisoner ; a cart passing at the time,
the near wheel went over her body. She WAS taken
up with all possible speed, conveyed back to the
Creoked Billet public house, where every possible
assistance was given. A surgeon was sent for, who,
On his arrival, attempted to bleed her, but could not
effect it, life having departed. Mr. BIIINIE ordered
the prisoner to be committed till further inquiries are
made.—[An Inquest was held yesterday evening on
the above unfortunate woman, and the verdict re-
turned was— efecidental heath.]
Ustox-HALL.—J. Newland and D. O'Hara were
brought before Mr. CHAMBERS yesterday, charged by
Mr. Balls, of Oxford-street, with hustling him in
Blackfriars-road about eleven o'clock on Sunday
night, in company with some friends, when they were
met by several persons, who ran against them, and
assaulted them. He was convinced he saw the pri-
soners amongst them. Newland was one of those
who assaulted him, and he also observed that O'Hara
ran off at the moment the prosecutor called the watch.
At the time O'Hara ran off he misseclehis hat, and he
suspected the prisoner had it. They were both com-
mitted as suspicious characters, for want of bail.
MANSION-HOOSE.—Copt. Frederick Bernaorj; alias
Wolfworm, charged with breaking open and robbing
a bureau at the Pitt's Head, Old Bailey, was finally
examined yesterday. Additional evidence was given
against the prisoner, respecting some wearing apparel,
the property of the landlord ; also some silver spoons
and a pair of silver sugar tongs, together with a bag
in which the money he bad taken was contained.—

These articles were sent up from Woodbridge, in Sof
folk, by the persen with whom the prisoner had lndg
ed after his committing the robbery.—He was full)
committed for trial.
MA RLBOItnUGH-STREET.-..-Mary Connelly was fully-
committed on a clvrge of robbing a man of £6 an
upwards. The coMplaintint had been drinking at the
Marquis of Gransby, in Knightsbridge, and after he
had left it, he took up his night's abode on Knights-
bridge green. On turning himself round in the morn-
ing he found the prisoner by his side fast asleep, and
his money was gone.
A Spaniard, servant to the Spanish Ambassador,
in Grafton-street, Bond-street, was charged with as-
saulting another servant, in the employ of Captain
—, on Tuesday evening, in'Bond-street. by draw-
ing his sabre and cutting his coat. It appeared by the
testimony adduced, that the defendant was engaged
in conversation amongst a party of the Cyprian corps
in Bond-street, when the prosecutor impertinently ac-
costed him, and asked him what business he had with
these girls ? The defendant replied, What was that to
a common servant, or some such words, when the
complainant burlesqued his whiskers and his trap-
pings of dress. The Spaniard at length drew his
sword, and first struck the complainant on the right
breast, and then on the left, and s iid "dere." The
clothes were cut on both sides, but the flesh was un-
touched. In defence it was stated, that no harm was
meant the prosecutor, who consented to receive £5 as
a compensation.
GUILDHALL.— Yesterday a young Gentleman
brought up another under a charge of assaulting
him. The prosecutor stated that some time ago a
difference occurred between the father and mother of
the defendant, which he, the prosecutor, reconciled ;
in consequence of which the lady, who heel qaitted
her husband's roof for a fortnight, was induced to
reture, and an adjustment of the oispute was effected.
On Tuesday evening he met the defe i.lant near the
Temple-gate, when he congratulated him on the re-
conciliation, and some words arising, the defendant
struck him a blow in the eye. The deleted Ant in
reply stated that the complainant congratulated him
as aforesaid, when he told him be considered hint a
hypoci ite, in first encouraging his mother, in a belief
of Joanna Southcott's revelations, and afterwards ad-
vising her to take out a warrant against his father fur
an ass-tali ; which pro.cedings accorded but lit lr
with hisi assumed character of a peace-maker. To
this reply the complainant rejoined by giving him
the lie direct, which was bandied from one to the
other two or three times, until he lost his temper,
And struck him in the face. Sir W. CURTIS said it
was a foolish business altogether • but they had better
retire and settle it amicably : and if the defendant
could convince the complainant that he was a block-
head for believing in the impostures of that woman,
he would do well ; but he must do it by Argument,
not by force. For his part, he thought that she
(Joanna Southcott) and all the blockheads that fol-
lowed her, deserved to be dragged through a horse-
pond. The parties retired, and in a shot t time re-
turn( d, and informed the Alderman that they had
settled their dispute.

• INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—Yesterday, after a
few Insolvent Debtors had been discharged, whose
causes did not afford any information of interest. to
the public, Mr. Serjearit PALMER adjourned his sit-
tings to the 2Gih instant, in consequence of being ch.
liged to give up his mom for the use of the Magis-
trates attending the Westminster Quarter Session:,
which begin this day at the Sessions House.
List night six sheep and tight lambs were stnlen
from a field in the Regent's Park.
Early yettertlaf morning the shop of Mr. Pace, a
watch-maker, in Whitechapel, was broke open, and
upwards of 50 valuable ..arches were taken away.
The villains succeeded in cutting the shutters of the
shop, and taking out three panes of glass.
Early yesterday mowing the Red Lion public-
house in Type-street, Chiswell-street, was broke open
and robbed of cash and ni:tes to the arnt.iint of £l2O,
with other property.
A few days since a woman named Murphy, going
from l3ensagh to Clonmel, was attacked by three men,
near the former place, who violently murdered h r,
by breaking her skull with large stones, and violently
squeezing her neck, she was far advanced in preg-
nancy, which was nut any preventive to the cruel and
wicked perpetrators.
Sarah Chandler, who was capitally convicted at the
last Spring Great Sessions, at Presteign, for altering
a one pound Kingston bank note into a five pound,
but whose execution was deferred until the succeeding
Sessions, on account of alleged pregnancy, has since
broken out of gaol, and has not yet been heard of.
A man named Davis, alias Davidson, was recently
convicted at Kingston Quarter Sessions of violently
flogging a female slave, his property, so as to lacerate
her from the stomach to the knee, and sentenced to
pay a fine of £l5.