Star.
London, England, 1806-07-14 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Friday an Admiralty &Mon was held at the,oli4
Nile*, before Sir WILLIAM OCOTT, and Mr. Juilice
s BLANC.
/140 W, a Malay, was indifted for the wilful murder
f a man called Anguin, on the 24th May.
James Robert Oliver, Second Mare of the Travers
halt Indiaman, fated, that on the 24th of May, the
vett I was in the Ealt India Docks; he had charge of
he watch at twelve o'cl..ck that night ; ti e prifonet,
rho was taken on board at Bengal, was in hi. watch.
The decealeal, Arpin, was a C who en-
'reed nn hoard .he velfel with the i ruiner, and he
officiated as cook. Allow two o'clock, on the morn-
ing of the 25th, wirnefs heard a crying noife :.orward,
which teemed to come from the fnrecaille, but our
going thither, he found it proceeded from the fore•
hatchway. Witnefs fent down two officers, to fee
what was go ing on, when one of them thortiv after
called out, .6 wonder has keen committed." Witnefs
called up the (hip's furgron, and ..n going below hint.
fel, he obfereed the ptifoner in cuflody of the . (firers
he had fent below. He was covered with blood ; and
on feeing wiritefs he exclaimed, 66 Me till Arpin;
Zrzoin tell me lie ; to morrow you hair, me 4inefilllhion;"
and lie gave himfelf op to whneti. with the 'smolt
comp: fore. After having fecund the prifoner, the
wiertefs proceeded to the fore hatchway, where he
obferved the deceafed lying, with his head nearly
fevered from his body, near to his hammock. He
had alfo many dteatiol wounds in different parts of
his body ; and he expired immediately. Whorls had
not miffed the pt if !rer mote than five minutes before
he heard thect jet of the deceafed. decealed was
of an entertaining dirpofition, and beloved by the
whole flip's crew.
This teltimony was cirroborated by a number of
%similes, and the Jury found the ptifnner
He was fentenced to be executed on Monday, but was
refpited till Friday by Sir Was. SCOTT, on account
of the (late of the tide.
Richard Kirling, ?bows MO, John Samadere, ?ho-
mer: Aced, and lobo laulwood, weie indizsed for Real-
ing, cm the High Seas, 65 fathoms of cable, value
581. and an anchor, value tol. the property of Joreph
Whales and Gambol Jones. The prifoners are all
Pilots, who refided on the coaft of Kent, and three
of them went on board tire Traveller brig, Captain
Ballard, to condo& the veffel, which had been injured
by an anchor, into Rainfgate, from the Downs : while
on board, a plan was entered into by the prifoners
and the Captain, to cut away the cable, and that a 1,
rope fhould be faftened to it, by which it could be re-
covered
by two men who were in a boa,. This was i
done, and the Captain, according to his own fate.
went, committed this fraud, in conjunction with the,
prifoners, to make.the loft more revere on the Under-
writers, and eor.fequently more profitable to the,
Owners, who very laudably infituted this profecu•
dm. The trial excited a good deal of interell, but
our limits will only allow us to give this abaraft.—
Three of the prifoners were found Guilty ; and Saun-
ders and Reed, who were in the boat, were acquit-
ted, the evidence nor being fatisfaftorily eftabliahed
again tt them. The Jury tetired upwards of *about.