Star.
London, England, 1814-07-14 00:00:00

These witnesses stated, that the deceased w

atter reaming the ropes end on the 6th of Janes
he was afterwards in a delitious state, and
the ‘26th. There was, however, a material c(
tion in the statement of these witnesses, a

could not say hi• was steer man. The
died there days after .he gstat &boa, and
lady where he-indged proved,-that he•was me)
tered. and that his tate was altogether disfig•
Mr. Bateman, a singenn, who opened the body, stared,
th:.t the deceased had died "of inflanimation on the
brain, which might have been occasioned either by
excessive drinLing, or by blows. • There were many
marks of exterior braises about the head and body ;
excessive drinking, alter the blows were administered,
might cause the inflammation, when the erect of the
blows without it would not.

Two passengers, who were on board the vessel, one
of whom was a surgeon, never heard any complaint
by any cf the crew of having been ill used. On the
day the deceased was said to have been so much hurt,
thr •surgeon was spoken to. He saw nothing the
matter with him, but that his jaw wa..i swelled, which
he attributed to the tobacco he had in his mouth ;
the deceased was drunk ; and the surgeogrecommen.
ded temperance rather than physLC.
the Steward, S:IlV the prisoner rnpe'send
the deceased (al the 6 1) of June, and it was in course.
quence of his not k, eping the head of th.• vessel from
the wind, and thereby endangering its safety. The
deceased we often drunk, and the prisoner was a hu•
mane gotta maa. Captain Hunter, the prisoner's
employer, spoke also very respectfUlly of him.—Not

MoGuire, William Gardner, and R. Hardy,
were also acquitted:

Tueslty Mid was indicted for at!empting
to murder James Hale. The second count charged
hin► with wilfully cutting and mairnin7 him, and the
third count with doing him a grievous bodily injury,
with a sharp instrumei.t, denominated a hatchet.
Sarah Foreman deposed,. that she lived with her
mother, who kept a house in Morgan-street, St.
George's Fields. The prisoner had lodged in the
house eleven months. On the Gth of July he came
borne much intoxicated ; her bother was out ; be-
tween 11 and 12 o'clock the prisoner made a great
,noise ; witness requested him to desist, which he re-
fused ; he then put a large bundle of matches and an
apron on the fire ; she begged he would not burn the
?Wise ; he then attempted to throw her down stairs,
►ut she prevented his by running dawn. She heard
Lim breaking crockeryware, in both rooms, in the
one which• be occupied, and the other, where her
mother was accustomed to sleep. She went out for
a watchman to take him into custody until he got
sober. On her return, she found the door bolted on
the inside. A patrole had joined them by this time,
the prisoner was looking out of the window. The
watchman asked him to open the door, Lot he refused,
arid said, if any one attempted to enter, he would do
them mischief. Her mother arrived with the key,.
when witness asked for it, and trying to unlock the
door, found it was bolted; the patiule then tried, when
the bolt was drawn back, and die watchman entered,
but immediately retreated with his ATM wounded.
Mary Foreman, the mothesof the last witness, cor-
roborated the latter part of her evidence.
Jr Hale's (the watchman) evidence went to
but added that the bone of his arm
by the blow of the hatchet—the Pei.
second blow at him but he escaped it—
'rived it.
of Isaac Lane, the pstrole, produced

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Su were our hopes of joy and triumph crust, James Hale's
And busts, and flags, audios-41s, all were lust the same effect,
The company, hptverer, sat down to a comfortable was cut in two L
breakfast at lour o'clock in the afternoon; and at seven soner made a sec
dancing commenced in the drawing-room, which con- the patrole recei,
tinued till a late hour. - The evidence