Star.
London, England, 1813-06-09 00:00:00

PAYMENTS.

First Payment, Saturday, June 12, ,EIO per Cent.
2a Ditto, Friday, July 23, 10 Do.
5d Ditto, Friday, August 20, 15 Do.
4th Ditto, Friday, September 17, 10 Do.
Sth Dkto, Friday, October 22, 15 Do.
eth Ditto, Friday, November 19. 10 Do.
7th Ditto, Friday, December 17, 10 Do.
Bth Ditto, Friday, Jan. 21, 1814, 10 Do.
Last Ditto, Friday, February 18, 10 Do.

£lOO
BIDDINGS OT TOL DIMITNT LISTS.
Barnes, Steers, and Ricardo
Baring, 1.1. Angeratein, and Ceo. Ward 4.0 8 6 Long Ann.
bawls, Etna, and Co.
Trower and Battye
There was an unusual bustle at the Stock Exchange
this morning after the parties returned from contract-
ing for the Loan. -As soon as the terms had been
known, Omnium opened at 2 2' I 3 prem. and
then fell to 2i, and then rose to 3i, -which was the
price at 12 o'clock.

MURDER OF MR. AND MRS. BONAR.

CONFESSION OF NICHOLSON, &c.

' We yesterday stated that Nicholson had confessed
his guilt. The following are some further interesting
and authentic particulars :—On Monday, in conse.
quence of the numerous visitors, at Chislehurst,
(among whom were Lord CASTLEREAGH, Lord CAM-
DEN, and Lord ROBERT SEYMOUR), who went to con-
template the supposed murderer, Nicholson shewed
repeated symptoms of annoyance and agitation ; this
circumstance, together with the attempt to make him
look more cleanly, c:tused his wound suddenly lo bleed
afresh. This happened about seven o'clock in the
evening. The hemorrhage being of an alarming
nature, an express was immediately dispatched for
Mr. A.Coorsat. He arrived at about 11 o'clock.—
Mr. BIiAMSTON, the Catholic Clergyman, came about
the same time with Mr. BONAR. The wound was
dressed, and nothing farther then took place. Yester-
day morning at half past six o'clock, Nicholson vo-
luntarily requested Mr. BRAMSTON, who had. been
with him a short time, to bring Mr. BONAR to him
immediately. Mr. BONAR went to him, when Nichol.
son burst into tears, and begged pardon of M.
13osaiii, expressed his wish to make a full confession.
Mr. WELLS, the Magistrate, who resides at Briskly•
house, in the neighbourhood, was sent for ; and in,
the presence of the Magistrate, and other Gentlemen,
Nicholson made, and afterwards signed, a deposition,
acknowledging himself to be the murderer.
He states, that on Sunday night, after the groom
left him, he fell asleep upon a form in the servants'-
hall, the room where he was accustomed to lie that
he awoke at three o'clock by dropping from the form:
tie jumped up, and was instantly seized with an idea,
which he could not resist, that he would murder his
master and mistress ; he was at this time half un-
dressed ; he threw off his waistcoat, and pulled a
sheet from his bed, with which he wry pped himself
up : he then snatched a poker from the grate of the
servants' hall, and rushed up stairs to his master's
room : he made directly to his mistress's bed, and
struck her two blows on the head ; she neither spoke
nor moved : he then went round to his master's bed,
and struck him once across the face: Mr. Bososit was
roused, and from the confusion produced by the stun-
ning violence of the blow, imagined that Mrs. BONAR
was t len coming to bed, and spoke to that effect :
dia. when he immediately repeated the blow, Mr.
BONAR sprung nut of bed, and grappled with him for
15 minutes, and at one time was nearly getting the
better of him ; but being exhausted by the loss of
blood, lie was at length overpowered: Nicholson then
left him groaning on the floor. He went down stairs,
stript himself naked, and washed himself all over
with a sponge, at the sink in the butler's pantry.—
He next went and opened the windows of the draw-
ing-room, that it might be supposed some person had
entered the house that way : lie then took his shirt
and stockings, which were covered with blood (the
sheet he had left in his master's room), went out at
the front door and concealed his bloody linen in a
bush, covering it with leaves : the bush was opposite
the door, and not many yards from it : he then re-
turned without shutting the outer door, and went to
the servants'-hall: he opened his window-shutters
and went to bed (it was not yet four o'clock) : he did
not sleep, though he appeared to be asleep when King
came for the purpose of waking him at half-past six
o'clock. He stated, in the most solemn manner, that
no person whatever was concerned with him in this
horrid deed ; and to a question put to him, whether
he had any associate ? answered, 6 How could he,
when he never in his life, before the moment cf his
jumping up from the form, entertained the thought
of murder ?' He can assign no motive for what he
did :he had no enmity or ill-will of any kind against
Mr. or Mrs. BONAR.

This deposition was regularly given before the
Magistrate, and attested by Mr. A. COOPER, Mr.
HERBERT JRNNER, the Rev. Mr. LOCKWOOD, Mr.
It.oTT, and Mr. BONAR.

It appears that Nicholson had been drinking a
great quantity of the beer of the house during the
Sunday ; and though it is not stated that he was in-
toxicated, yet the quantity might have had some
effect on his senses.

In consequence of Nicholson's information, search
was made for the Ilnen, and it was found in a laurel
bush close to the house, covered with leaves, except
about two inches : the stockings were very bloody,
and the shirt was also rent almost to rags about the
neck and throat.

Nicholson, who, before the confession, looked
gloomy, and fierce, and malicious, has since that
period been perfectly and has even an air
satisfaction in his countenance. He appears to repent

his attempt at suicide, and it is not apprehended that
he would now repeat it, though the watchfulness of
his attendants is not on that account at all rorukted.
He is at present in a tolerably fair way, but his reco.
very is somewhat doubtful, because it is feared that
it may be nece%sary to re-open the wound, an opera-
tion which may be tollcwed with dangerous conse-
quences. Every thing which may tend agitate
him is studiously avoided, and as few persons as
possible are admitted to see him. -
Mr. Boxart rode to town early yesterday morning
with the intelligence of the conlesion, to Bow-street,
and afterwards communicated the same to theSECRE.
TARY of S E.

411'011IER MURDER.

A very decent elderly widow woman, uho kept a ,
small chandler's shop within two hundred yards of
the Castl4: Inn, at WandfOrd, was on Monday morn-
ing found murdered behind her counter. She ap-
pears to have been sitting on a wooden chair at the
back of the counter, casting up on a slate, either the
receipts of the day, or the amount of some articles
which the perpetrator. of this horrid deed had pre-
tended to purchase ; when, it is conjectured, she m st
have received a violent blow between the eyes, af.er
which a large knife, with which she was in the habit
of cutting the cheese, &c. was plunged into her • bloat,
whereby the jugular vein and the windpipe were both
cut. When discovered, she was lying upon her face
on the floor behind the counter, and the bloody knife
depoSited upon a kind of wooden bench within a yard
of the place whete the body lay. The murder must
have been committed late on Saturday evening, atter
the shop was closed; and was not discovered until
Monday morning,' as her neighbours .keard her
say she was going out on the following day, which
being Sunday, no suspicion arose from the windows -,
remaining closed until Monday morning, when en-
trance was obtained by the window. Her pockets
were turned inside out, and the till emptied; but
some silver spoons were lying in the back parlour,
untouched, and upwards of seSO in a box in her bed-
room. Tiro door nas a spring lock, which was closed
upon the heels of the murderer, who, no doubt, quitted
the house by the front door. It is remarkable that
there is a cottage, with a family, next door, which is
merely divided by a thin lath and plaster partition,
and no noise was heard.

Two Magistrates are actively employed in examin-
ing, witnesser;, and collecting evidence for a Coroner's
Inquest. At present suspicion attaches to a journey-
man tailor, who has been lately discharged from his
work in the neighbourhood, and was seen in the poor
woman's shop late on the night of the Saturday pre-
ceding; the day on w:.ich the murder was committed;
and the deceased is said to have complained to a
neighbonr, who happened to come into the shop at
that time (after the man had left it), that he had
alarmed her very much by his manner, and had made
her vet y uneasy by dodging and watching her, and
using strange language. from other circumstances
(it this be the man) there is nu doubt but he mean:
to have pet patrated the murder on the first Saturday,
after the receipts of the week tvare all collected in her
till, but was disturbed by the woman in question
coming in, which was near eleven o'clock, when the
shop was shut for the tight. A lU4II ut the descrip-
tion alluded to was traced upon the London mad, on'
Monday morning, near Stratford, who had on a psis.
trowsers very bloody at the knees. Search is•niakin'y
after him.

The PRINCE RECENT gave a grand dinner yester-
day to a select pal ty of friends, arnungsc whom were
several of the Cabinet Ministers.

The Princess of WALES Was at the Opera last 11;..,..hr.
Her Royal Highness entered her Box a little befole
the commencement of the last act of the 0p..4 ; 41. d
as soon as her presence was recognise .1. the w.i
greeted by three distinct rounds of itfplause. by a no.
merous audience. Lord YARMOUTH Aas in the Pit.

_
WRTAIOUTU F.Lecrion.--/vlonday, 7th luny.
Mr. Utit, 173 Lord CIANBOURN, 161 I Mr.WILLIAMI,I36
Mr. IOU:, 166 Mr. STUAR r, 140

Mr. BURNIE, a Merchant, w:lose hotise, in Ruk.
sell-square, was robbed about two years av, having
reason to apprehend that Richarehon was one oi the
gang that broke into it, went the tither day to this
convict in Newgate, and plainly asked him, whether
he was or not ? when the latter ackno 'edged hirn.,lf
to have been one, wiaiout any hesitation.
Cutuous MISTAKE.-•-•Tile appointm, nt of Sir G. L.
Cote to the Queen's Regiment wiif not take place,
for the best possib:e reason—General Coverts, u.
whose supposed decease be was appointed, Laving
notified that he is alive. The Regiment (103 J). va-
cated by Sir G. L. Cote, was also given av ay. The
mistake is rectified in last night's Gaze/A%
INQuesr.—An Inquisition was held on Tuesday
the Ist inst. at Upton-upon-Severn, on the bodies of
H. Weed, a corporal in the 2lth Foot ; J. Tayl•ir,
George, and W. nettling, recruits in the same regi.
ment ; and W. Pumphrey, a Waterman, of Upton.,
By the evidence it appeared, that eight young men,
of whom the five already named formed a part, took
a fisherman's boat, on Sunday evening, for t:te
pose of going to Hanky Quay and back by water.
They were returning from this excursion, when Pu tr-
phrey, who had the management of the boat, rock td
it, in order, as he observed, to frighten the recruits.
In consequence of this folly, the bait filled and tunk._
Two of the party swam to the shore, procured :tamer
boat, and rowed u ith their hats in searcti of their
companions, who had been carried a considerable dis.
tance by the current. Of those struggling in the
river, one only was preserved by this assistance,
the rest unhappily perished. It seems to be clearly
ascertained that Puniphrey was alone to blame : he
was a good swimmer, and would have saved himself,
had not the corporal held him fast by the collar in the
convulsions of death, and thereby prevented him from
using the necessary exertion. The Jury returned
their verdict—" Accidental Death, occasioned by
Pumphrey rocking the boat."—The three men saved
are Oakley, a waterman ; Callowbill, and another
soldier, of the '2d regiment of Foot