Star.
London, England, 1806-11-14 00:00:00

HAMS CORPVII.

On the firfl day of Term Mr. Plana obtained a i
writ of Habeas Corpses dire led to the Keeper of
the Houle of Comities at Guildford, in Surrey,
commanding him to bring up the body of George
White, irnprifoned as a dilater from the sd regi-
snout of Sorrey Militia, but which the application
afferted not to be true, he having been committed for
refuting to vote at the late elation for Mr. Sumer,
within to poll for General Norton.
Mr. MAIITATT produced a return to the writ
from the Keeper. It Gated, that upon the loth of
Oflobet, White had been committed to the Houfe of
Correflion, by a warrant from one of the Jutlices,
and bit was therein defcribed as a deferter from the
sd Regiment of Surrey Militia. On the 3d of No-
vember a fecond warrant had been lodged againft
him, charging him with having been late a private
in the Supplementary Militia, but now as a deferter
from the sd Surrey regiment of Militia. The fe•
coati warrant required White to be given up to Cor-
poral Strickland, of one of the regiments of Gnards,
in order that be might march him to the regiment
from which he had deferted ; the Keeper thereby was
prevented from having his body in his cullody and
keeping.
Mr. Nast Rated, that he was much furprifed at
(itch a return, and that at prefent he was not pre-
pared to offer any thing on thefubjea.
The Court told him the return to the Habeas mull
be filed, and afterwards their Lotclibips would hear
Mr. Plata.

ONIAL V. mint..

Our Readers will recoiled, that on Monday we
Rated this fingular cafe. It was a motion for a rule'
to Mew caufe, why the bail bond given to the Sheriff
of Middlefec, (hould nut be given up to be cancelled,
awd the defendant difchared out of cußody on filing
common bail. The parties were American, ; the
plaintiff refiding in Paris and the defendant in Lon.
don. The plaintiff had made affidavit to his debt in
Paris, before a perfon authorifed twadminifier fuch
oaths, and the queßion was, whether the execution
could take place in England on fuch an affidavit ?
The Court &bed time to look into the cafes, and
ordered the *ibje' to be mentioned again.
Sir V. Goias and Mr. Sc ***** r rpnke in favour
of the motion. They Gated that there was no ex.
ample of fuch a cafe in the Court of Common Pleas,
or in the different offices. An affidavit (worn in
France, war going on between the two countries,
could not poffibly be received or 'tied upon in this
country. The Plaintiff, although an American ei•
Ilan, might be domiciliated in France ; but fuppof
ing him to be an alien enemy, in what fituation
would the Defendant Rand ? He might be arrefled
here, if that alien enemy clink to make an affidavit
ogainli him ; he mull find bail qv go to pate until
the Minn might be tried, and after all what was his
remedy 1 None. For the pert n who made that
falle affidavit was beyond she reach of punilhment
by the laws of England. That being the cafe, the
Learned Conniel argued, that if a man its a foreign
country could ty.t be punilhed for ahille affidavit,
affeAing the liberty of another man in England, that
affidavit nugiit not to have been ailed upon at all.—
In (upgrirt of this pofition they quoted the Aft of
12th Geo. 1. which was exprefs upon the (objet,
that bail for all millions above ,en pounds Ihnuld be
tak:ii by the Sheriff, the writ having been iffued on
seal affidavit. It was nest unfilled upon, that an
affidavit drawn up and (worn in Paris, was net nith•
in the meaning or contemplation cf the Legillature,
and was never intim...led to apply in this country for
any aid or putpofe whiners:, unlefs the perfon mak.

ing it Iltould appear in perfoa. !Mere were dit fleill•
eipel grounds, and the Court granted the Rale.

arm- 53.--vsa CHILD 07 TWO WOTIIIII.
Tn this cafe, which has already been fo often be-
fore our Readers, under the heads of Police and
County Seffions, Mr. Aeolus moved for the re-
turn of the W,it of Habeas Corpus, which bad been
direeed to Peter Hopkins, and Mary, his wife, to
bring up the body of Saral Purcell Knott, an infant
of tender years. The Learned Counfel Rated, that this
child was born illegitimate, but the father and mo-
-1 ther, Peter and Mary Hupkins, bad been fince mar-
ried.
Mr. CAIROW, on the other fide, fide he thought
it was net neceithry for him .to trouble the Court
upon the fubjed, es their Lordthips were now ac-
quainted with the fans.
Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins, in compliance with the
Writ, attended in Court, with the child in queftion.
Lord Et tertamtnuco—" Ike no grounds what
ever for removing this child from the candy the is
in at prefent. Let her, therefore, remain with the
perfon who now has the care of het."
An affelling km now took place ; Mrs. Hopkins,
mifeonceiving his Lordfhip's lords, when the Offi•
eer came up to affill her out of Court, the thought
it was to take the child from her the (creamed, and
the infant clung to her with all its Rrength. Mrs.
Knott, who laid claim to the child, was alto in
Come, and when the heard their Lordthips' order,
fell into byftericke, acid was carried out with tome
difficulty.
MI ZINC 0 'MUMS 1011111.

Mr. Avzollssy Gs x Rated, that he had been
called upon to (hew caufe why leveret Mandamufes
moved for on behalf of the Defendant, thould not be
iffued to the Courts of Kin's Bench and Common
Pleas, in the illandief Dominica, Grenada, and Bar-
Woes, calling on thefe Courts to take and tranftnit
to England, certain pieces of evidence relative to an
indiament pretested againkihe Defendant in June
Tall, which evidence, he unde►foed, the Defendant
conceived effential to his defence on the impending
trial. The Defendant had been a Military Commit
fart', and furnifised 2116 forage and provillons to his
Majefiy's troops in the .Weil Willi Mends ; and he
had entered into *4 a ebryipt contras" with- a perfnn
named Higgins, who was in all nv, on fuch cervices
made to the troops, the Defendant one moiety ;
which in fat he did allow, and paid him i60,0n01.
currency (about &Nom!. lierling). The Defendant
had pleaded not guilty, and had moved for the Maw
damufes abo►e defctibed. He had alto particula-
rized the names of five Gentlemen in thole Mande,
whole evidence he writhed to be taken, as effetitial to
his defence. But as the affidavit ran in general terms,
and did not (pea; the nature of the evidence wanted,
or to be expelled from thofe Gentlemen, he fubmitted
to the Court, that before the Mandamufes thould iffy.,
the Defendant thuuld make a more definite and fpe-
eial affidavit.
Mr. PARKA, for the Defendant, oleferved, from
what had fallen from Mr. Attorney General, he feem•
ed determined to oppofe the Mandamufes being al-
lowed to be iffued. If fo, he ( Mr. P.) me i beg the
Court to allow the matter to Rand over, as his Learn-
ed Friend, Mr. Topping, who wa► with him for the
Defendant, was indifpofed. Mr. Parke farther raid,
that Mr. Jones had informed him of the nature of
the evidence to be expelled from the five gentlemen
alluded tn, and he declared he thought it highly ma-
terial to his defence. One of thefe witneffes was the
Defendant's Clerk.

The court obferved, that it did not appear that
any evidence of the kind hinted at would be of any
life. The Defendant was inclined for " a corrupt
contrail" with Higgins.
Lord Ettanaoatwan defired Mr. Parke to afford
the materials for ezetcifing a found difcretion, whe-
ther the Mandantufes ought to be allowed or not.—
He could do fo by an affidavit, which might not
difclofe the defence, but merely Rate, in a more eon-
nefted and confiftent manner, the reafons which bad
impelled the application for Mandamufes being ifrued.
Mr. PAM agreed to obtain an affidavit to that
effen, and the matter was ordered to (laud over un-
til it fhould be produced.

Taw r r ESCAPS rims Paisoc—Aboot fbor
o'clock in the morning, on Monday fe'nnight, Mr.
Cramp, Keeper of the Houle of Correition at Lewes,
went to the apartment of Bignall, a fnlitary prifoner
in a cell on the ground Boor, to prepare him for re-
moval to Hoefham Gaol, but on opening the door,
found, to his afloniihment, that the prifoner had ef-
caped through an aperture in the wall, which he con.
trived to make for that purpofe, into the prifon yard;
and from thence there was every reafon to believe,
he had effected his liberation, by means of a fcaling
ladder, which was dircovered appendant to the outer
w,tll, on the South fide of the prifon. hi the con-
Station and difpofition of this ladder, no fault
there of ingenuity was etineed, it being compofed of
his bedding cut into flips, and broken mopflickt, cn-
rinufly put together, and fo fecurely attacked to the
wall, by a fort of three sld counterpoife thrusts over
the coping, that it was capable of fultaining the
weight of the man, and with the urmoft fafety. Soon
after the difeovery of the feeling apparatus, a hue
and cry was railed, and many perfons fent different
ways in putfuit of the criminal, who, however, about
three o'clock the fame afternoon, was accidentally
found concealed behind fome boards, in a diluted
privy in the gaol yard, and concluded to the interior
of the prifon, where he had no opportunity of mak
ing any further attempt to efeape. To the want of
time alone he attributes the failure of his plan. He
commenced his operations at eight o'clock the pre-
ceding evening, and had completed them only a few
minutes before the chaife that was engaged to take
him to Northam, arrived at the prifon gate—this he
heard as he was afcrnding the ladder, and in an over
exertion to catch the top of the wall, was ro painful4y
affated by the cram)), that he had no longer power
to retain his ficuation, and fell backwards ; hat hit
fall being broken by a pear tree againfi the wall, end
the ground below it loft, be received no other injury
than a brtrile on one of his legs, of which, howe\er,
he complained much in the courfe of the day. 3he
only implements he had to aflift bias in making the
breach in the wall of his cell, were a !woken knife,
an iron hold fall, and a Boort handled broom, the
latter of which he tiled, with good effedt, as a lever
iu removiog the bricks.

t'ORONBAsS ./NV. 411:
Wedarnay Mains. z r feven o'clock. a Jury was
ifspannelled in St. Bartholotnewis Hofpital, by
THOMAS SHILTOH, Efq. Coroner for the City, to in-
quire how William Broad, Competitor, deceafed,
came by his death.
Edward Goold„ a fruit Merman. In High Hot
born, depofed, that pang through Long Acre, on
Wedoefday night latt week, he faw two men fantalli-
cony dreffed, with birds of paradige feathers in-thair
hats, red piper with the name of "Paull" as another
ornament, and one of them having a mop Rick iahis
hand, and fumething like a ferjeant's fah over one
Smolder down to the oppofite hip. The deceafed
Aced the forma if he was a woman The other
went irJo a (hop about that time : about ao
I people gathered round the door, and in the courfe
of a minute the fii It man Paid, " What the devil do
you all do here ? you nad better go about your boli-
nefs, or the gentleman in the (hop will (hoot you."
They loon after came to blows, the deceafed retre►t•
' ing and catching the blows for a short time, until he
fucceeded in wrelting the mop flick out of the other's
hands. They then fought with their fills, and the
deceafed was twice knocked down. The witnefs then
faw the man that was in the flop tall forward to
where the others were fighting, take a knife out of his
breeches pocket, and nab or cot the deceafed two or
three times. Some people in the crowd exclaimed,
that he had got a knife; upon which the witnefs ran
towards him, and laid hold of his right arm ; but
whin; they were !boggling together, he faw the pri-
foner Nerdy, who was the man that gave the cut,
change the knife from his right towards his left hand,
and then 101 l fight of it. He Sieved the prifoner into
a cheefemonger s (hop, where be pulled off his coat,
fat dawn upon Come cheery's, and when fpoken to
about the (tabbing, Paid," I have got no knife," open-
ing his hands ; but upon an officer fearehing after-
wards, and finding two knives in his clat-pocket, he
confeffed that he had nabbed the man with the green
handled knife.

Mr. H. F. Hove, furgeon, fwnte nearly to the
fame general effea, but with more minute particu-
lars—for inilance, that the (Wigging of &Initials
Grandi, the other Italian's arms, Lift gave offence
to Come one in the crowd; that after that, a feufile
enfutd, and the old man (Grandi) charged forte one
with sobbing him of his flick, and a flick fell in the
ftreet at the time. Hardy then came forward, and'
knocked the deceafed down, with a back-handed
blow of his left hand. Upon feting the deceafed
fall a fecond time, abd hearing Come one fay, " the
feliow's got a knife," he flepped up to the deceafed,
perceived that he was wounded in the thigh, and,
from the noife which the great iffue of the blood
made, at firfl imagined that the main femoral ir-*
tery had been cut acrofs ; but on examining the
patient at the Chop ofd neighbouring apbtheeary, he
difeovered that the chief tendon had been feparated
above the bend.of the arm. He pot a ligature round
the wound, and fent him to his uncle's, in May's
buildings, after which he was fent to the Hofpital.
Some other Witneffes depofed eery nearly to the
fame effeft.

Jofepb Manley, a baker, of Vinedtreet, however,
fwore that he did not fee the old man (Grandi) fight,
but that the prifoaer Nardy, who is by far the younger
man, was (truck at repeatedly before he drew the
knife, and cut the deceafed. -
_ _ .

Mr. Thomas Parker, Honfaurgeon at St. Bartbo- 1
lomew's Hofpital, depofed that the deceafed grew
amazingly better until Monday night, when a lie&
homorrage took place tofuch an extent, that the floor
was wet with blood, that ran through the bed on
which the deceafed lay—that was flopped up, but the
wound broke open often% on Tusklly morning, about
s is, and at ball after ix o'clock the patient expired.
To the great loft of blood he akribed the cattle of
the man's death ; and it was his opinion, that even
if amputation had taken place fhortly after the inflic-
tiQn of the wound, it would not have fared the pa-
tient's life, his aonfikution had received fuch a (hock
io the 6rft inflance, by the immediate loft of blood.
Mr. Ralph Chambers, the Wier, into whole (bop
Ward; went, depofed, that on feting the crowd ga-
ther round his companion, Grandi, he waved a (mall
whip, which he had bought in his !hop ; told the
people, in broken Englifh, not to hurt his brother
Robert, laying, Me foadjah ; me 59 broders foad-
jaws ; will any one lift ? Me foadjaw.' Upon thi,,
fume one in the crowd exclaimed, ' He fays he will
(boot you.' There was then a general kilt, and the
deponent could not well afcertain what followed.
The Coroner (rimmed up at a quarter after eleven
o'clock, and the Jury pronounced a yenta& of wilful
murder againfl Hardy.

Bow-svasar.—Yefierday Seballian Grand and
John Andrew Nardi, the two natives of Portugal,
who are charged with the wilful murder of William
Broad, a journeyman printer, on Wedaefday fe'n-
night, in Long Acre, were brought up for re-exami
nation before t4r. GRAHAM. Several other witneifes,
in addition to thole examined on Wednefilay even-
ing, before the Coroner's loquett. attended. Mr.
GRAHAM confidered the evidence fufficiently firong
to commit both the prifoners to Newgate for trial,
although the Coroner's Jury only returned a verdi6
of Wilful Murder againti the prifoner Nardi.

BIRTH.
On the yoth uk. at Armagh, the Lady of Sir Geo. Leith, Bart.
of a fan and heir.

,ARRIEI

On the 3d Inn at Newport Church, In the We of Wight, by the
Rev. Mr. I lamilmo, Colonel Foßer, of t►e Hon. haft India Cont•
pany's faviee.6th Regimest Natree Infantry, to Mila Ropes, It-
coed daughter of John Rosen, Flo. hooker, Newpott of Wight
At l.hldal Bank, on the 4th Intl. Major Malcolm, of the Royal
MIAMI, to We Jean Oliver, fourth daughter I sod Mr. Archi-
bald Little. If+ of London, to Mlfs Agnes Oliver, art► daughter
of William Oliver, Efq of Deolahyre.