Star.
London, England, 1825-07-18 00:00:00

NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL.

--r---r-

• POItTSSIOUTIL JULY 16.
A ConrOtattial was held on board his MAJESTY'S
ship VICTORY, at this port, on Monday and the three
followinkdays, on Lieutenant JAMES CAMPBELL, late
of Lis Majesty's ship TYNE, on the following -charges,
wising out of 11:s conduct at the capture of the pirate
schooner Saragozana, on the 51st March, 1823:.
act.—That the said Lieutenant James Campbell bans a Lieut.
of his Slajesty's ship Tyne, and having the command of a pinnace
or boat belonging to the ship on the 31st of March, 1823, and
being ordered by his Captain, John Edward Wakes'. the Cem-
mander'of the Tyne, to advance and board the pirate schooner
Saragozana, then about to be assailed, did not use all possible endea-
vours to put the said order in execution, but wilfully disobeyed the
same, in breach of the 11th Article of War.
2d.—That being such Lieutenant of the Tyne at the attack of
the said pirate schooner Saragosaaa, the said Lieutenant James
Campbell, did, through cowardice and negligence in time at action
with the said pirate 'dower, withdraw and keep back, and did not
do his utmost to take and destroy the same, in breach of the 12th
Article of War.
Ti.e Court having patiently investigated the circum-
stances, and heard the defence of Lieutenant CAMPBELL,
agreed, that the charge of cowardice was not proved
against the said Lieutenant Jas CAMYItELI., and did
adjudge him to be acquitted thereof ; but that with
respect to the first of the said charges, that he did not
u-e all possib'e endeavours to put theorders of C4ptain
J. EDWARD WALCOTT in execution, but disobeyed the
tame ; and with respect to the second of the said charges,
that he did keep back, and did not do his utmost to
take and destroy the said pirate schooner, which it was
his duty to do; had been proved against the said Lieut.
JAUES Caairazu.; but, in consideration of circum-
stances, cloth adjadge him only to be placed at the bot-.
torn of the list of Lieutenants, and there to remain for
the tcrm of two years from the date hereof.

In consequence of the extreme heat of the weather,
Covent-Garden Theatre closes for the present season to-morrow
evening ; and Drury Lane on Thursday evening.
Thete is now no doubt °as to TRELAWNZY having
joined the Turks. The following is an extract of a
letter (urn the lonian Islands:—", Have you heard
that TRELAWNET has gone over to the Turks with
ULYSSES. whose daughter he has married r—Taztaw-
ney was the friend of Lord BYRON, and many most
respectable persons of this metropolis were strongly at-
tach:d to him.
Letters from Chili to the Bth April, state that the
proceedings of M. IYEGANA respecting the formation of
the Chitian Mining Association, had been received by
she Government, and very favourably reported upon in
the Jourual entitled the terra, de ilraueo.
Spanish vessels shipping rice at Genoa are no longer
to pay the six teals vellon per quintal which they for-
merly paid; but are put in this respect upon the same
footing as Sardinian vessels.
Samuel Masco, the leader of a desperate gang of
pickpockets, who forced property from Mr. Hughes
Lee, at Epsom, May 18, was sentenced last Thursday,
at Guildford Sessions, to transportation for life.
A new three-wheeled carnage has been invented at
Bristol, which will travel at the rate of eight miles per
hour, and is to be propelled by manual labour from
within the vehicle.
Wedoesd y, a commercial Gentleman; travelling for
a spirit and vinegar firm, in London, whilst bathing in
a hot bath, at Mr. Maypee's, at Exmouth, suddenly ex-
p;red. He had requested the attendant at the expiration
of a quarter of an hour to call him, on ding which he
was found a corpse. The unfortunate Gentleman had
ar: iv ed from London only on the preceding evening.
There is no alteration in the state of affairs at Brad•
ford. The masters and men continue to meet as u,ual,
15...:t without any approach to settlement of their differ.
eaies. The number of petsons out of employment is
weekly increasing, as all those who belong to the Union
cease to work when they have finished the goods or the
won! they had in band at the strike.
ItIECIIELMANK.THEGaIt MA N MACHEATH.—The Bre-
men Ciazelte Las the following article upon the adroit-
test, &c. of a German robber of the name of Riechel.
taann, who was lately apprehended in that town. He
is," says the paper in question, " not only a well-in-
formed, but a very polite man, and truly elegant in his
mansgers. His deceptive arts were carried to a rare
degree of perfection and finesse. All the authorities
with whom he had :o do have, one after another, be-
come the dupes of this extraordinary being. At last,
however, fate has decreed his arrest in this city, after he
had made arrangements to be conveyed by a vessel
from Hamburgh to the Brazils. Riechelmann was bora
at Hildesheim, and is the son of a postmaster. He is
so well known by his thievish propensities, that he has
been justly called the Carloudie of Germany. He ap-
pears to possess the necromancy of ancient times ; and'
has the art of disguising himielf so effectually as not
to be known. When the French were at Bremen, he
escaped from prison in the dress of a gendarme. His
appearance has frequently been so altered, that the
peasants have said he was invisible. The genius of the
man is so extremely subtile, that it has been alleged he
often went to prison to amuse himself, and to laugh at
the Judgei. On board of the vessel which was to have
conveyed him to , Brazil, he had hid a considerable
quantity of gold, but-no one knew where. He had his
passports, his certificates, and all the other documents
recesntry for his safety, apparently in the greatest
order. It is said i‘e has numerous partisans all along
the shores of the 'Weser. The depredations in that
quarter, indeed, were so ficquent, that the inhabitants
hardly dared to stir out ct their houses in the enuinii,"

:

•

-

-WITCHCRAFT.

.
Saturday sv'nnight, a man was "swam for q wizard,"
at Wickham-Skeith, Suffolk, in the presence of some
hundreds cf people !!! The particelars are these :
lit that parish lives Isaac StAsbiny, a little spare man,
about 67 years old, who obtaias a 4elibood as a huck-
ster; and hard by his cottage lives a thatcher, whose'
wife, unfortunately, is afflicted in mind. In the same
palish there hanens to be a farmer whose mind is also
occa ionally di:turbeJ. As in former days of gross
credulity and ignore ante, some one or other put forth
the surmise, tlut these two afflicted persons ate be-
witched, and Stebbings was spoken of as the gg worker
of the misch'ef." Among other things it was said, that
the friends of the afflicted worn4n•had recourse to the
means recorded.in witchcraft-annals for duetting the.
devil's agent, and whilst the fi ying.pan opeiatien was
going on at night, Stebbings came dancing up, to the
door. In his denial of this circumstance, Stcbbings
admitted that he dii once call at his neighbour's with
rn.rckarel for sa'e, at four o'clock in the morning,
before the family were up, and this admi.ssion was
taken to be as much as Ire was likely to mike.—
Besides this, the village shoemaker persisted that gine
morning, as Stcbbings, passed two or three times before
his house, he could not "m ike" his wax—the ingte-
die:as would neither melt nor mix. Dabbed a wizard
beyond all doubt, poor S:ebbiogs, ignorant as his
neighbours, and teszed beyond all bearing, proposed at
length of himself, the good old-fashioned ordeal of
" sink or se i in." The proposal was readily caught at.
Time and place w ere agreed on—the following Satur-
day, at two o'clock, in a large pond called the Grimmer,
on Wickham Green. Four men were appointed to walk
into the water with him, and the constable of the parish
engaged to attend and keep the peace. The sides of the
pond were crowded with spectators, men, wc,tnen, and
children. Stebbings had on his breeches and shirt, and
when the men had walked will] him into the water
breast-high, they lifted him up and laid him flat upon
his back on the water. Stebbings moved neither hand
nor foot, and continued in that position for ten minutes.
This was the first trial, and the spectators called out
"give him another." • Another trial was accordingly
given, for the sante length of time, and with the same
result. " Try him again, and dip him under the water,"
was then the cry. They did so ; one of the four men
pressed his chest, and down went his head whilst. up
came his heels; in a word he was like a piece of cork in
the water. These trials kept the vor old fellow three-
quarters of an hour in the pond, and he came out " more
dead than alive."
Still some were not satisfied. Another man, they said,
of his age and size, ought to be swam with him. Steb-
bings agreed even to this, for he was determined to get
rid of the imputation, or die. The following Saturday
was appointed for the purpose, and a man called Tom
Wilden, of Bacton parish, tear by, was named for his
companion. The story now got more wind, and hun-
dreds of people from all the neighbouring parishes at-
tended to witness the second ordeal. But, in the inter-
val, the Clergyman of the Parish, and the two Church-
wardens, had interfered, and the swimmers were kept
away, to the no small vexation and disappointment of
, the deluded multitude.
It is now gravely told, that at the very time Steb-
bings was swam, the afflicted ,farmer alluded to above;
was unusually perturbed : he cried out, " I can see the
imps all about me; I must frighten them away with
my voice ;" and his delusion and his noise, as Stebbings
did not sink, are put down to his account. To com-
plete the affair, a respectable farmer in a neighbouring
parish has been, it is said, to some "cunning man," and
learnt to a certainty, that Stebbings is a wizard. The
sum of 31. was paid for this intelligence, upon the
as:mance that Stebbings should be " killed by inches."

On the 9th April, the Sovereign Congress of Mexico
decreed, that the tide of Marquis, Count, Knight, and all other
noble titles, should be for ever abolished.
The great heat of the weather has had a serious effect
upon horses within the last few days. On Thursday, a fine mare,
carting hay at Skipstooe-upcm-Stour,.Woreestershire, dropped down
dead. Friday, the riding horse in a post-chaise, coming through
St. Mot's, fell down with his rider, who fortunately was not hurt.
W
Massy cases, similar to the above, ve occurred In various parts of
the Metropolis—particularly In Smithfield, on Friday afternooo,
where many poor creatures, frum the continued riding about for
spew and sale, seemed ready to drop down.
A plan for paying the Greenwich Pensioners in Lon-
don is about to be adopted by the Admiralty, for the
convenience of those residing near town. The journey
to Greenwich being attended with much trouble to the
sons of Neptune, and liable to those many iri egulari-
ties by the way, which take place on their being paid
so far from town. It is well known- that the whole of
the money has often been squandered away before they
have even got back to London. The place for future
payment, it is said, will be in Crosby-square.
Orders have been issued to the Irish Police over the
Kingdom to preve:it all party processions. The opi-
nion of the Attorney and Solicitor-General has been
bad by the Government that such processions are
illegal. Orders have also been received by the com-
manding Officers of Yeomanry to prevent any of the
individuals of their Corps joining in such processions.
A true bill was found at the Gloucester Sessions, one
Wednesday, against Samuel Young Griffiths and Wm.l
H. Halpin, Proprietor and Editor of the Cheltenhant
Chronicle, for an assault on Mr. Judge, Editor of the
Cheltenham Journal. The case, it is said, will be re-
moved by certiorari into the King's Bench, an it is
not expected to be tried till March.
Thursday, an Inquest was taken at the Duke of
Clarence public-house, Rotherhithe, before R. CARTEni
Esq. Coroner for Surrey, on the body of Richard
Painter, who met hisdeath by falling down the shaft of
the Thames Tunnel. It appeared from the evidence,
that about one o'clock on Wednesday morning, the de-
ceased, who was employed upon the tunnel, whiht
walking on the curb of the shalt, slipped and fell to the
bottom of the tunnel, a distance of upwards of 50 feet.
Both the bones of the deceased's right arm were broken,
and he was dreadfully bruised about the head. He
lingered until eleven o'clock, when he died. The Jury
returned a verdict of Accidental Death.

APT SuuoLans.—A Lady the other day, speaking
of two very fine young children, said they came on rery
fast in their leaf sing ; only they had Lot an habit of
mistaling one letter jar another.
Such a dreld of individual ascendancy exists among
the Genoese Clergy, that the Ytesidept or Moderator in
theis assemblies is changed once a weds; and when
some repairs wtte made in the room where they assern
ble, the carpenter having raised the chair of the Mode.
rator a few imbes above the rest, this gave such offence,
that lie WAS 01 di red to title it down, and rlat.e it on an
exact level with the other seats.—Bali wars 1 mills in
the. Tmentaii.

,~--.

~,

lip •
• *-

-

4.
POLICE LYTIELLEVVM

• 1

GUILMIAJ.L.
Satinlay, frilliens Swims* was brought up on rile 'following
charge :-11etook up his quarters, it seems, accompanied by a
Lady, at the Old Bell Inn, Holborn, on Thursday afternoon ;
and having eau up 2 bill of it. Its. by the nest eiening, was
about to depart without discharging it. Mewls, in conseqUence,
brought back, and being unable to " raise the' wind," he was
sent off to the Compter. Mr. Tinson, the landlord, said he tried
very bard to impress upon him an idea of his boundless wealth ;
for, under pretence of soliciting his vote and interest for him as a
candidate to represent the county of Middlesex in Parliament, he
talked of spending X 600,000 to secure his return, and offered to
shew him a letter from Sir Francis Burdett: hir. Tinson, how-
ever, declined looking at the letter. Mr.. Alderman C. SMITH
gave the prisoner leave to settle with the landlord, if he could.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
•
Ben Burn,the pugilist, and landlord of the Rising Sun, Windmill-
street, Haymarket, was charged with assaulting Mr. George Henry
Palmer, a sporting Gentleman of some notoriety. The complain-
ant said be went to the deft tulant's house at the beginning of last
week, where he had scarcely taken his seat before a gambling dis-
pute arose, and he was loaded with abuse. On standing up to resent
this, Uncle' Ben, as he is called by the" Fancy," instantly floored
bins with a tremendous blow on the left eye, and on recovering his
perpendicular, kicked him into the st rect. mt. defendant said he was
first struck with a quart pot by Palmer; the Magistrates ordered
him to find bail.
HATTON-GARDEN.

- - -
An elderly man, named James Michael Firman, a translator of
shoes, and a fieid preacher, was brought up under a warrant,
wherein he was charged with violently beating, and otherwise
using his wife and children. Mrs. Firman, who preferred the
complaint, stated, that they had formerly kept a respectable shop
in the Borriugh, and were in a fair way of making a suitable pro-
vision for their family ; when, unfortunately, Mr. Firman took up
with a set of fellows, styling themselves" Separatists, or Separists
and from that nsorhent he became separated from his family and his
home, and everything else that bad a just or legitimate claim upon
his attention. Mrs. Firman that exhibited at least a score stripes of
varied hue, on her arms, hands, face, bosom, &c. Two little girls
of tender age were then produced, on whose persoas it was evident
that the strap had not been spared. The defendant declined enter-
ing into any defence, and was ordered to find good bail.

Friday being the day which was appointed for the
consecration of the New Church of St. Luke, at Nor-
wo.)d, at an early hour a most respectable assem-
blage, amongst whom were a great number of La.
dies, filled the interior of the building, in order to
witness the ceremony. The Church was built by Mr.
BEDTORD, in the Corinthian Order of architecture,
with a steeple and portico supported by six pillars.—
There is but one aisle, with a gallery at either end ; the
interior is 100 feet long by GO feet wide between the
pilastres, and 36 feet in height. The ceiling is divided
into fifteen compartments, with a flower in the centre
of each. The tout ensemble is simple and pleasing in its
effect, and is also well calculated for bearing.
Mr. GEORGE Ett.stax, of Beddingham, has just lost
a valuable brood mare, which was bitten about six
weeks ago by a dog, supposed to have been in a rabid
state. A cow, which was bitten at the same petiod by
the above dog, died a short time since, exhibiting pre-
ciszly the same symptoms as Mr. ELLMAN'S mare, and
a very respectable veterinary practitioner, who attended
the animals, is decidedly of opinion that they both died
of hydrophobia.
Manufactures in Ireland are sensibly spreading, not
in the North only, but towards the South and West.
Coarse cottons from Ireland have, since the repeal of
what were stupidly termed the " protecting" duties,
found their way to Manchester, from which great
centre of wealth and enterprise the Irish, not five years
ago, were in fear of being deluged and destroyed ;
and as cotton takes up a share of that industry which
in the northern counties bad hitherto been confined
to linen, so linen itself, thus partly superseded in its
ancient seat by a bolder and more ponderous manu-
facture, sends off its feelers and forerunners into other
provinces, where they have struck vigorous root, and
have almost universally multiplied and prospered.
Thousands of families in Leinster and Munster have
taken up the culture of flax, and the preparation of
yarn and linen for the market. In many places this
new branch of industry has been encouraged and di-
rected by persons of rank in the country, and authority
has thus displayed itself before the people to other
purposes than those of coercion. In certain districts
the Leghorn straw-plait has been taught by women
carefully instructed, and has began already to afford
subsistence to the younger female peasants. The rudi-
ments, moreover, of a-woollen manufacture are visible,
though its growth will no doubt be slow. But the
object which seems to be most actively and successfully
prosecuted is the linen trade, the interests of which,
we observe, have been provided for by an Act of Par-
liament, passed not long before the close of the Session.
The main intent of the law in question is apparently to
open the trade—to remove restrictions, which used to
be looked up to as protections—and to annihilate a
long train of stamps and other forms, which were mis-
called securities, but had only the operation of frauds.
WHAT IS THE SUN MADE OF WM4IOIIOI
Debating Society, assembled not longer since than the
7th day of July. 1825, the subject of discussion was the
cause of light, which the majority attributed to friction,
This led them tto enquire respecting the sun, whether it
was a body of light or an opaque substance, and it was
eventually decided that, it was entirely composed of
Lluminous matter. " What, then, ,is the sun made of ?
[ for here we have the cause of light." This question
Nvent beyond the comprehension of all but an honest
cobler from the emerald isle, who had till then sat mute,
but now rose, and silenced the whole society by the
quaint reply, 66 Friction to be sure."
The' Horticultural Society of London, has holey
received from New South Vales, a fine healthy hive of
native bees. They differ materially from the bees of
Europe, being infinitely smaller, and, like the Mexican,
wholly without stings. The honey which they prodoce
is said to be of excellent quality, and is distinguished by
a peculiar fragrance ; it is one of the few products of
that singular countrywhich serves as food for the natives.
The Government of Wirtemberg has just made a
valuable acqui ition by the purchase of the Principality
of Oclasenhausen and its dependencies. It contains a,
market town, 28 villages, and 14 manors, with a,popo-
lation of 6 258 inhabitants. The revenues are stated
at 70,000 florins. It was assigned to Count METTER..
NICH (father of the p! esent Minister of Foreign Affairs),
as an indemnity fi r his losses on the other side of the
Rhine. The purchase-money is understood to be
1,300,000 florins.
George Trqtrord was indicted, at the Huntingdono
ahti'e S:ts;ons, for having, on the 20th April last, coml.
mined an assault on Elia ibrth Cousins, a child of abo4
e!ever years of age, round guilty, and sentenced t 6
twelve months' confiqement in the county gao!.
An Inquest was held on Wednesday, at the Infirmary,
t'se body of Mr. Steventon, cabinet-maker, late of
'
the Plough, in Shrewsbury, whose death was caused
by locked jaw,
brought on by a slight wound on his
finger from a rusty hoop. Verdict, Died 611 the
tioa y*Gub.

. _

iiarcity oared to slit OUL CI tileu 1101/5611 w the elleeln
1
•
'4
I
-40 .
..
40glar
its