Star.
London, England, 1807-01-23 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY SESSIONS.

Yefterday thefe Seffions commenced at the Old
Bailey, before Sir WM. Sewn-, Baron Tuorarsoir,
and Mr. Jullice CH AMERE.
John Robilion, a Liverpool Captain, was arraigned
for the murder of James Williams, a feaman on board
the Lancafter, when off the Coati of Africa, on the
J 7th of March, 1835.
An affidavit was prefented to the Court by the
prifoner, eliciting that his trial might be put otF un--
• til the next Seffions, on the ground that feveral wit-
miles were abfent. The affidavit went to hate, that
the Filmier, whri was under bail for manflaughter,
had been publicly on the Change at Liverpool,
arnongfl the crew of the Laneader, from the arrival
of the yen!, on the 14th of June, to the 29th of July,
unconfcrous that any charge was about to be mad e
againft him. The witnefres ho could fpeak to his
conduft were the Surgeon of the Lanealler, the third
Mate, and a feaman, who had failed from Liverpo4,l
oa another voyage, on the 17th of July. He had
Leen advifed by his Counfel to nand trial, even in
time abfence of thele witncifes; but he would beg the
indulgence of the Court to give him the benefit of
their tellim6ny. If he had been aware of any charge
being about to be made againft him, he mild have
prevailed on the witneffes fpoken of to have waited
his trial ; and Lkw and Smith, and others, who had
inflituted the charge, knew that tilde perfons were in
Vverpool and about to go to tea again.
Mr. Gaettow enforced the petition, and made many
pertinent remarks on the conduit of the accufers, in
not innituting the charge whilft he had an opportu-
nity of having the tetliniony of his witneffes ; one of
whom, the Sur,,,,e6h, who had attended the deceafed,
would be a very impottant witnefs, as would alio
the other two. His advice to the prifoner was to
!land a trial, even without thole witneffes, huVie
preferred their tellimony, and confequently Mr. (Jar-
row moved that the prifimer be admitted to bail.
The ATTOR N V GENERAL was of opitrion, that the
Surgeon was a material witneti, and in cafes of man-
fiawiliter puifeners were frequently held to bail. The
Admiralty had ailed agreeably to the reprefentation
of the cane, and he was not inclined to interfere with
the queftion, whether, under the circumflances of
the cafe, the prifoner lhould be admitted to bail, but
milled the Court would hold the prifoucr in. Inch re-
. c'ognizinees as the cafe required.
Hatou Troia YSON i:Cd, that under all the cir•

cumllances or the cafe, the ptirc-ner was entitled to
bail, as it would he November before another Ad-
miralty Salon would he held.
He was accordingly held to bail, hingelf in fool.
and two fureties in 4001. eich..
7 homa: MO, Richard turfing, and John Frearrti,
pilots rut the coalt of Kent, who had been capitally
convicted, at a former Seffion, for felonioufly and
piratically (Ealing 65 fathoms of cable, and an an•
chor, from the hi ig Traveller, on the high leas, were
brought up to receive fentence. Judgment was re-
fpited at the former Sefflons, a point of law having
arifen, refpeding whether or not the offence was
capital. •
Sir Wm. SCOTT obferved, that a confultation had
been held aniongfl the Judges, who had decided,
that by an AO of 39 Geo. HI chap. 32, which AIR
recited the 28th Henry VIII. their offence was ca-
pital. The Learned Judge made fome remarks on
offences committed on the high fear, which were ca-
pital, and which amounted only to larceny on the
lapd, which was precifely the cafe of the prifoners.
The Judge then paired fentence of death on the pri.
Toners, in the ufnal manner; after which,he intimat-
ed his imention *recommending them to the Royal
mercy.

James Greenfield, a journeman carpenter,of Brighton,
was on Friday latl found guilty at the Suffix Salons
of cruelty towards his wife, in refuting her all necef-
fade", in confequt.nce of which the was reduced to
the trtmott (tate of wretchednefs and ttaivation.—
Venal, twelve months imprif.nment.
SURREY SESSIONS.— john Waterman, who was tried
and found guilty of an a(fault of a mutt atrocious
nature on an infant child of (even years, on Saturday
lag, was on Monday, before Set jeant s Low,brought
up for judgment —Serjeant ONSLOW, before he pro-
nounced fentence. addrefred the prifoner on the enor-
mity of the offence of which he had on the cleareft
evidence been found guilty.—The lenience of the
Court was, " That he be confined in the county goal
for In: calindar months, and in the comic of that
time to (land in and upon the pillory for one hour."

The following intlance of moll unnatural condu&
in a father is mentioned in the .!tafirdfiire istiv:rtifir
of Saturday laft
One George Allen, a labourer, at Upper Mayfield in that coun-
ty, who has been for fome time palt fubjeet tonileptic Lie, and
ava4 ill the whole.of the preceding week. appeared to he quite re
covered of his illnefs on Monday. He went to bed at his ufual
time, and was found by his wife fittingthp in bed, Caulking his
ripe. according to etiftom. There-were time children in ank-ther
bed in the room, one of them a boy about ten, the fccond a girl
of Lx, and the third a tin', only three years of age; the wife had
an infant at her breaft. He queitioned her twice about Come other
man who he fuppored had been in the houfe; the wife allured
him that no man had been in that houfe but himfelf, afferting her
iNaocence in the mutt folemn manner; however, be perfifted in
his aecufation. The reft of the llory is almoft too shocking even
to mutton • hut the fuhflarce of it is that with the greateft.com-
pofure imaginable, he arempttel at first to kill his children with a
razcr. On the wife attempth gto prevent him, he cut her throat,
but rot fatally—a thick handkerchief which the had tied round
her head and under her chin, faved her life. She ran out and
alarmed ber neighbours, but Irz, in thc.intcrim, accompliflied his
horrid purpofe—the three childr. n were all found dead. When
th- fellow was a'-en into cuftody, he Paid, with the molt harden-
ed appthy that i: was his intention, if he bad tint been prevented,
to have killed his wife aid all their children an old woman that
lay bed-ridden in the houfe and then bitr.felf. On Wednefelay
laft an Inquell was held before Fxoca HAND, FIG. at Uttoxeter.
He there upin eotifefred his guilt, but without the fmalkft fymp-
tom of conipundlion or reniurfe. He even had the hardihood to
obferve to the Coroner, that he furpored it was as bad a cafe 23 be
i.jd ever heard of. 'Yet it is remarkable this man had long had
the chaiacter of an hone*, induftriaus man, and lived in the
rental harmony with his wife fur the fpace ut 17 years.
On Friday evening THOMASINWARD, a very decent
elderly woman, who kept a fmall chandler's (hop at
Saint Peter's, in the file of Thanet, was murdered
on her return horn vifiting her daughter, who lives
at Broadflairs. A pirate of the German Legion,
fufpeEted of the horrid deed, is in culkody.
On Monday night, about twelve o'clock, the Duke
of Co MBERLAND s apartments, in St. James's Palace,
were difcovered to be on fire. The dilcovery was
made by a fervant of Mr. GORTON, who refides in
the apartments adjoining to his Royal Highnefs's
lie gave the alarm, and the fire was found to proceed
from the large finves ufed in dreffing the dinner.
Notice was immediately given to the Labourer in
truft of the Palace, who with a number of nievr; al
ways fits up on the night afres the celebration of
Birth-days. He brought the Palace engine in a few
minutes, and after ripping up fame beards in Mr.
Goa T.'iN'S apartments, and getting the engine to play,
the fire was got under in a !bort time without d ting
much damage.
By the lois of the three boats belonging to Stot-
field, lately menioned, feventeen widows and fluty .
five children are left witliont fupport. One of the
widows, wain had lull her hu(band arid two funs, has
died of grief fince the difafter. In addition to which
melancholy account, we are furry to Rate the follow-
ing loffes :—A boat with three men at Burgh Head;
one boat with feven men at Rottenflough, near
Buckie ; and a boat with (even men, at Atigh,in

.12.ofslhire, many of them leaving widows and famili. s.
In the gale of the 25th ult. the brigantine Ifabella,
Frafeiburgh, which failed from the Orkneys the
preceding day, after !cling her fails and rigging, was
abAndoned by the crew, who got on board a London

veffcl. Four men were afterwards put on board a
veffel belonging to Hull, wherethey have fluce arrived.
The Europe, Cootc, from Dantzic to Liverpool, war.
in the fame gale wrecked in the Orkneys, only the
Mate and two men laved : anu feveral other velrels
are reported to have flared a fimilar fate among there
Mantis.

Letters of a very late date from Barhadoes men-
tion, that an infortenion, fomented by a Frenchman,
had broken out in the Caraccas ; the appearance of
which becam: fo alarming, that the Spanith Governor
fent to Guadaloupe for a fupply of troops, arms, am.
munition, &c. with infirut:ions that they fhnnld he
14n&cl at the mouth of the river Oronoko. It is poi:
fible that this movement might be a ramification of
MIRANDA'S projdt, and concerted to facilitate a
frefh dcfccnt, either on the part of that entetpt iling
Officer, or fume other power. We believe there
are Imre French Emigrants of condition engaged in
Miranda's enterprife, of which the inftigator of this
infurration might rflibly be one.
Morro° PA,R.—It was always. deemed in Africa
a very impolitic meafure to travel through the inte-
rior of that country with a military force. He arrived
at Sego with but a few of his followers, having loot
the greateft number of them on his journey, by Lk-
ncfs. The remainder were cut off, it is believed, by
the King's orders. Sego is the refidence of the icing
of Batnbaap and contains about 30,00 c inhabitau:s.

ratu stAsTtem. PRomoTrowt.
Thappointe RT. Evans, Vicar of Seaford, Sisifel, was a few an°
ago et,
ed Chaplain to her Grace the Ductal', of Roxburgh.
The Univeruty of Edinburgh have conferred the degree of Doc-
tor in Divinity upon Mr. John Campbell, Ooe of the Miniftas of
Edinburgh.
The Bifhop of Lincoln las been thrafed to inflitute the Rev.
Richard Dods, M. A. of Benet College, Cambridge, to the ree-
-1 tory of Fleet, in Liticoltifhire, on the prefentatinn of his father.
The Rev. P.. Morres is prefcnted to the Rectory of Great Chi-
, vac'', Wilts, on the &Eon of the Rev. Dr. Lawrence.
Ot FORD, JAN. 17.- Wednefday the astir inftant, the Left day
I of Lent Term, the Rev. Edmund William Eflcourt and Edward
Garrard Marlh, B.A. of Oriel College, were admiqed Mafters of
Arts.
Merrell Robert Simfon, of Magdalen Hall; Evan Herbert. of
Jefus College; Edward Lloyd and Jofeph Burrows, of Brafenofe
College, were admitted Bachelors of Arts.
CAMBRIDGE, JAN. rx.—Mr. John Browning, of King's
lcge, was on IVednefday admittea Fellow of that fociety.
The Rev. Thomas Mines, late a Fellow-commoner of Chrift's
College,' has been inftitutcd to the valuable Using of Agnes Barton,
with ilarpham annexed, in the Eat Riding of Yorkfhire, on the
prefentation of his father, the Rev. Dr. Milner, of Newark, and
vacated by the death of the Rev Dr. Dadc.
The Bifhop of Ely has prefented the Rev. J. Davis, Chaplain to
the GOVCrlaMtnt chapel at Portfmouth, to the living of King's
Langley, in Hertforelfhire.
The Rev. J. Parker, M. A is Whiled to the Prebend of Ric-
call, in the cathedral of York, vacant by the death of the Rev.
John Prcitoll.

BIRTHS.
On Friday laft,tbe Marchiouefs CornwaMs, of a fifth daughter.
On the 19th iuftant, at Mrs Cheitar's, Hampton Cow, the
Lady of Captain Bradt:),ll, of a fon.
On the isth infant, at Wonham, Surrey, the Right Hon. Vif-
counters Templetown, of a fon.
At Slain* Cattle, on the Bth loft. the Count( fs of Erroll, of a fon.
Lately, at Twickenham, Lady Elizabeth C.,le, of a lon.
On Friday lett, the Lady of Charles Watk in Williams 'Wynne,
M. I'. and Uuder Secretaty of State for the Home Department,
of a daughter.
Sunday, the Lady of William Moore, Efq. of Dodors' Com-
mons, of a daughter.