Star.
London, England, 1825-01-01 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.,

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the Rast India
House. when Captain Been was sworn In to the command of the '
Princess Charlotte of Wales, consigned to Madras and Bengal.—
The following Commanders took leave of the Court, previous to
departing for their respective destinations, viz. Captain ALilanaca
NAtazze General Kyd ; Captain Joan FITE& Witsox, Hythe, Ben-
gal and China; and Captain Joux raszasos, Repulse, St. Helena,
Bencoolea, and China.
FALMOUTH, Dec. 29.—Vind variable, N. to E. light airs.--Az.
rived the Elizabeth, Now's, from the was for Cadiz ; Azores
packet, from ditto, for St. Michael's. Sailed the Palmyra, LAMS,
for Bengal; Augustus Czsar, Sm.sv for Jamaica; Julius, JACR-
SON; Lord Wellington, Menages; Churchill, Laxooos ; Caroline,
Outguns; and Hope, Beata.
Dtc.3o.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Rolla, (uiLn, from Got-
tenburgb for Baltimore ; and the Levant, 3Lsee, from the Downs.
Pat toick, the Augustus Caesar ; 'Lord Wellington, litcnaaps; Ju-
ne, JAMISON; and Dove packet, for Rio. Sailed the Lord Ho-
bart packet, for Buenos Ayres.
Poarsamexo, Dec. 31.—Wind S.W.—it has blown bard the
whole of this dap—Arrived from the Downs, the Donor, Duces* ;
Herald, —; Johanna Catherine; Suffolk, Hope, Foam ;
Smyrna, PLAIN; and Rapid, Mtitza, with several others, names
unknown.
DIAL, Dec. 31.—Wind W.S.W. strong breeoes.—Arrived the
11cm, Janus% from Cephalonia—sailed the 18th November • left
loading there, the Matilda, of Plymouth, and Aurora, of London ;
Ben Lomond, Seems, from Sr. John's, New Brunswick. Arrived
from the River and remain, the Sultan, INGHAM; Navigator, Lo-
om. ; Swiftsure, Tux? ; Essex, AITLILTON; Mersey, BRASLRT ;
Golden Spring, &recta; and Agapha, Davison.
Ltvenoot., Dec. 29.—Wind West.—Arrived the Standard,
Drone., from New York; Concord, Lannon*, from Villa Vi-
ciosa; Taskett, Cianzwrs, from Yarmouth, (N.S.) and the Nep-
tune, Cone, from Africa.
Den. 30.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Silas Richards, Hot.-
IMMO; (ruin New York--sailed Bth December. The arval of
his Alajesty's ship AURORA at Rio Janeiro, from Valparaiso, is in-
correct-4h! report arose from the circumstance of letters having
been received through Bhp, which bad been brought by the •As-
Moans to Valparaiso. The Hiram, Gum, from hence to Buenos
Ayres, was spoken with on the 30th October, in lat. 90. S. long.
27. V. out one hundred and seventeen days, very leaky, and short
of water. The Osprey, PORTZN, front Alexandria (Egypt), is on
shore in Bootle Bay, and bilged, having been on the North Bank
lust night.

ROYAL HARBOUR, RAMSGATE, DEC. 31.

Yesterday evening, the Eclipse packet, from Ostend,
arrived bere with passengers, and this morning the
King George, Ostend packet, made this harbour, with
passengers, and a neither of stout cart-horses, of the
Flemiji breed, which are landing. A third Ostend
packet also arrived here to-day, with an extra Mail, it
is said. Ramsgate harbour has now nearly SOO sail of
vessels ; many of them have got out several times, and
been obliged to put back from the Downs, the wind
having returned to the old quarter. Nothing can prove
more clearly the utility of Ramsgate harbour, than the
great number of vessels, of various descriptions, it has
afforded shelter to for many weeks past, which must
convince impartial nautical men that it is well situated
Fax a packet station for Ostend and Calais, particularly
Idle former, as Ramsgate is nearer to that place than
lolly neighbouring port on this coast, as a number of
packets, steamers, and ethers, come here after trying
Dover ; whereas, had they steered direct for Ramsgate,
from Calais or Ostend, half the time, as well as distress
and inconvenience in many instances, might have been
saved ; for vessels of the packet description can come
into, as well as leave, Ramsgate harbour, at any time
of .the tide.

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KINGSTON. DECEMBRIt
Willirrnr Detnhaut stood indicted, on the Coroner's
Inquisition, .for having, on the 17th November, wilfully
murdered Caroline Dewhurst, his infant daughter.
The prisoner, when placed at the bar, appeared very
faint; a chair was offered him by Mr. KERRIDGE, the
Solicitor, for the prosecution, which he gladly accepted.
The application of water appeared to revive him.
The evidence adduced (that of Elizabeth Adams and
the two watchmen) being the same as that given at the
Police Office, and published some time since in our Pa-
per, we only add that which contains some novelty.
John Swift—l am a surgeon, and reside in East-lane,
Walworth ; at about three in the morning of the 18th
Nov. I went with Mrs. Dewburst and Mrs. Adams to
prisoner's house; I found him in the middle of the bed.
room between the watchmen; he had no hat or shoes
on; he was using insolent language to them. I asked
what was the matter? he said, nothing; he asked me
what business I had there? I said I had come to see a
child; he said there was nothing the matter with the
child ; it had only fallen down stairs a few days back,
and he requested I would leave the house and go abcut
my. business. I went to a corner of the room, where
there was something covered with a rug or flannel : I
removed it and saw the child; there were marks of
violence on the face ; I said I must insist upon ex
amining the child ;he said, " I'll be d—d if you shall."
Gave him in charge; he was taken down stairs. Previ-
ously I said to him, " your child is neatly dead"—he
seemed rather agitated, and said calmly, " I hope not,
it can't be deacr—he added, that he had always done
his duty to it. After he was removed I examined the
child ; the legs, thighs, arms, and neck wete also much
bruised, particularly along the spine and on the buttock.
I took means for the revival of the child. I went down
mairs for warm water, to put the child in a bath ; I then
eaw the prisoner, who I asked to get a candle, for the
Purpose of lighting the fire to make the water hot.—
Hhere was only the light from the watchman's lantern.
e replied, that he should not—that he was not accus-
`omed to housekeeping—knew nothing about the can-
dies, and that I might ask " that person out of doors,"
meaning, as I supposed, his wife. I went to her, but
she did not come in. I spoke to the prisoner of the
bruises on the child. He said they were produced by
a fall she had had a few days back. During the time
the prisoner was sitting in the kitchen, he said to me,
" I have done something that would hang me"—his
hand was resting on his forehead ; he appeared in a
calm state, and rather sullen ; up stairs he had been in
a violent passion ; I returned to the bed-room with the
watchmen, and examined the room ; there were several
(large patches of blood on the floor, wainszotting, and
wall ; the next morning I saw hair, apparently human,
I attached to a patch of blood on the wall ; the state of
the child could not be inflicted by a fall down stairs a
week previously ; Mr. Thorp, a surgeon, iftetwards at-
tended the child with me until its death, about eleven
o'clock in the morning ; after its death we opened the
head, and fodnd much blood on the brain, beneath thei
bruises; the cause of death was an oppression on they,
brain, caused by external violence; the bruises were)
such as might have been produced by the dashing of I
the child against the wall ; 1 bad never before seen the
prisoner, and cannot give an ()pinion of his state of
mind ; he appeared, when first, I saw him, in a pa-
roxysm of passion.
John Walters, Governor of Horsemonger-lane Gaol.
—Prisoner has been in my custody about six weeks; I
have generally seen him twice a day ; I have observed
that he dislikes conversation ; I never saw any symp-
tom of insanity ; he now, as at first, in my opinion, is
perfectly sane.
MroJustice Bounounts called upon the prisoner for his defence.
He whispered that ho would leave it to his Counsel.
Dr. Uwins—l am a physician, in Bedford-row, Lin-
den ; on the 14th of March I visited the prisoner ; I
have attended him but twice; he was in that condition
of brain that I thought it would terminate in insanity ;
the nerves were affected, although not sufficiently to
exhibit outward acts of insanity ; I do not consider
that his mind was then deranged, but I considered
that derangement would follow ; I thought loss of rea-
son would probably be the result of his then state.
Thomas Sibrey—l am a surgeon, and reside in the
Blackfriars Road ; I have attended the prisoner for two
years ; I think, during the last ten months, he has been
pattially deranged; he has rung me up at all hours,
,night and morning, in a state of great agitation, so
much so that I have been obliged to have him confined
upon a sofa until he recovered; in the latter end of
August I was obliged to keep him at my house for
three or four hours, until I sent for his wife, and di-
rected her to take him home in a coach ; I consider the,
prisonet in that disordered state of the nervous spstem,
that at intervals he possessed no controul over his ac-
tions; he is a man of highly cultivated mind and acute,
sensibility ; his misfortunes in business always greatly
affected hint when he referred to them, which he some-
times did in conversation with me.
Dr. Price—l reside in East Smithfield, and have had
occasions of seeing the prisoner ; I attended Mrs. Dew-
burst in her confinement; for two months I was in the
prisoner's house daily ; his conduct towards a child
who died during the confinement of his wife was most
affectionate, more so than I had ever witnessed before ;
he did not pull off his clothes for the eight days and
nights the child was ill ; he is a man of a highly culti-
vated mind and acute sensibility.
Dr. Forsyth considered the prisoner to have laboured under
mental affection, from observations on his conduct and state in
October last.
Henry Green, sirgeon;of Comm.—
considered the prisoner insane.
The Learned JUDGE thought it only necessary to
state to the Jury the law of the case. It was obvious
that the prisoner was subject to temporary derange-
ment. Had it been otherwise, the murder, would, per-
haps, have been sufficiently established. It was beyond
all doubt that the prisoner had killed his own child—
an act abhorrent to humanity. But the act itself was
proof of the prisoner's insanity. Indeed the evidence on
the part of the prosecution established the fact of the
ptisoner having been in a state of derangement imme-
diately after the commission of the fatal act. Would
a sane man have attempted to convince those about
him, that the appearance of the child had been produced
by a fall a week previously ? He thought that circum-
stance sufficient evidence of a disordered intellect.
His LORDSHIP then read the evidence for the defence,
which having concluded, he observed that the Jury
would be justified in ending a verdict of Not Godly,
because at the time of committing the afence he was
in an insane state of mind.
The Jury returned a verdict according to his Lordship's sugges-
tion.—The prisoner was then aseibted front the brr.
George Gregory, was indicted for feloniously killing

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Eta sia, Yait(Cfregory. Yds rather', by itaiiniiitfai.
withA knife on the sti Miyi, art St. Mary, Newington.
The Coiener's Juryllid retarned .14 Aceidentil ljeith."
The cirOtustanies of this cite were 'fatly stated iq
the STAR at the time the accident happened. Our
readers will 'recollect that while the prisoner went to
cupboard to alt a piece frOM i loaf 'of bread, the de-
ceased pursued him ins treat .fission, and in the Con:
fusion that ensued the fatal acclient took lAice.
After hearing, the evidence, far. aiihtike liustioucti
expressed his opinion, that there was no case to convict
of maniLitighter ; and supposing the prisonei to be con-
victed, he should only..6ne hint one
Mr. Ibtonatct pressed for a genera acquittal, on account of the
stigma Which a c,onvictiont cast UpOn the boy's 'character
through lire.
'rite Counsel far the prosecution yielded to the suggestion tit the
Learned Judge, and
The Jury, under the Judges directionl, intniedtattly foiled the
prisoner 24t Cat', and he was discharged.

UNIVERSITY and CLERICAL I ‘TiLLIeENC4.

OXFORD. JANUARY 1.

Sunday se'nnight, the Bishop of Bangor held a Geneial Ordins.
Hon in the Peri:is Church of Llandegai, CarnarvOnshire, when 'did
follodring Gentlemen were admitted into Holy Ordeals:
Osscons.—William Goddard, B. A. Fellow of Jesus College,
Oxford ; It• R. Parry Mealy, B. A. St. John's College, Oxfeed ;
Edmund Williams, B.A. Jesus College, Oiford ; Ryan Lloyd,
B.A. Jtms College, Cambridge; Henry Richards, B.A. Jess*
College, Oxford
Pasuss...t-Bdiketey Williams, B.A. Sc. Peter's College, Cara.
bridge; Thomas Lloyd Owen, B.A. Jesus College, Cambridge;
Howel Hughes, B.A. Jesus College, Oxford; Hugh Hughes
Wynne Jesus College, Oxford; John Pughe; B.A. Jesus Col-
leges 0;lord;

dAMBRIDOE, DECEMBER 31.
The Prize for the Huh eas Dtmertathin frig the year 1994, is ad-
judged to J. Amiraux Jeremie, B.A. Scholar of Trinity College.
Subject-4 The Doctrines of our Samna, as derived from the
Four Gospels, are in perfect harmony with the Doctrines of Sc..
Paul, as derived from his Epistles."
The following Gentlemen of this Utdvarsity Were ordained Des•
cons by the op of Litchfield sod Coventry. sto Sunday the 19th
instant :—Henry Bascule, B.A. Queen's College ; Edward Kemp'
son, B.A. Trinity College.
The following Gentlemen of this University were on the same
day ordained by the Biel* of Gloucester :
buxom—Thomas Phillips, B.A. Jesus College ; Dainon Mts.
terns, M.A. Trinity Oillege.
Pamirs—James Hayes Sadler, B.A. jewel College ; George
Podiejl Pembroke Hall.
Sunday ienniglit the Bishop of Ossory held an Ordination in the
Cathedral Chbech of Kilkenny, when the following Gentlemen
were admitted into Holy Orders
Ducom—Sambel litaddeni for the Diocese of Ossory ; lisso
Charles Webber, for, the Diocese of Eiliala ; Edward Boyle; fhr
the Archdiocese of Cashel; sad Samttel Roberts, fur the Mom*
of Waterford.
Puerto—The Rev. Richard Pack; for the ain't, Of Gamy;
the Rev. Robert Elliott, James Wm: Despatd, and Charles M. •
man, for the Diocese of Waterford
Sunday siennight, the Archbishop of York-held an Ordinstins
at Bishopthorpe, when 16 Priests and 16 Deacons *ere admitted
into Holy Orders.
20612111• MILL eunensois.

The Rev. Bennett Mitchell, Clerk, M.A. hat bah bucketed by
the Bishop el Bath and Wells, to the Vicarage of Winsford, void
by the death of James Slade, clerk, on the presentation of the
' Masker, Fellows, and Scholars of Emmanuel College Cambridge.
Re/irked Frederick Holmes, B.A. of St. JAWS College, Calls.
kridge, is appointed Professor at the Bishop's ruilege, Calcutta.
Rev. Henry Blayds, M.A. is Reamed to the Perpetual Curacy of
Charterhouse Hinton, lately augmented by the Governors of Queen
Anne's Bounty.
Rev. R. S. Babson to the Perpetual Curacy of Muth, Tor&
shire, vacant by the death of the Reverend Dr. Bracket).
Rev. G. J. Davies, of Hull, to the Perpetual Curacy of Marileld,
in Hoklerness;
A dhpensation has passed the Great Seal, to enable thi Rev. W.
Hudwicke, M.A. Chaplain to the Right Honourable Lord Gwy-
dyr, to hold the Vicarage of Lemon, alias Lavitigton, in the county
of Lincoln, with the Rectory of Outwell, in the County of Norfolk.
Rev. George Wood, 31. A. Rector of Cann St. Reinhold; :lid
Chaplain to the County Gaol, has been presented to the Rectory of
the Holy Trinity, Dorchester, vacant by the death of the Revs. H.

J. Richinan. •
Rev. William Greene, late Dean of Acisonry, to the Valuable
Rectory of Abogbill, in the diocese of Connor.
The Bishop of Gloucester has histituted the Rev. John Boudier,
Chaplain to the Earl of Warwick, to the Rectory of Farmington,
in the county of Gloucester, on the presentation of 111: E. Waller
Esq. of Hall Barn, Buckinghamshire • a dispensation having pawed
the Great Seal to enable him to hold ;hat Living, with the Vkarage
of St. Mary's, Warwick.
Wednesday last, the Reverend Thomas Godfrey, Clerk, was In-.
stitnted to the Rectory of Newbourn, in the county of Suffolk, on
the presentation of Sir William Rooky, of Tendriaphalli in the
said county, But.
Monday se'nsight, the Rev. Miles Formby, M.A of Brasenttoso
College, Oxford, was licensed maw perpetual and augmented Cs-
racy of Cothelstono, void by the death of the Rev. JdboTowlesidid.
Rev. Jeremiah Smith, D. D. oT Corpus Chrigti College, Oatbrd,
and Master of Manchester School, is appointed one of the four
King's Preachers in Lancashire.
Rev. Andrew Quiche, M.A. Fellow of NeW Collett; Ozford, is
presented to the Vicarage of Newton St. Cyres, Devon, sad by
the resignation of the Rev. W. H. Cbsicke.

We have authotity for stating, that the account df
the failure of Sir H.Dviv's experiments on the preserk
vation of the copper sheeting of the SAMARA % gives
in the Hampshire Telegraph last week, and copied into
most of the London Papers, is a fabrication.

Dudfield, the notorious receiver of stolen ptopetty,
who was convicted on Wednesday last at Kingston, for
having received some of the notes of which the steward
of Earl Cowmen was robbed, was so dishonest atn,lng
thieves, that his conviction caused not the slightest le-
vet in Shire-lane, Petticoat-lane, Angel-alley, or arty
other of those places to which the abandoned of both
sexes resort. His father educated him, strictly in all the '
elements of fraud, and was himself for 34 years no-
torious as carrying on the trade of a receiver of stolen
goods, or fence. In the case for which Dudfield was
tried, he had promised the family-men (so called front
their breaking into houses in which families reside)
£750 for the whole produce of the robbery of Earl
Comma's steward, but he gave no more than CM.—
In some instances, the thieves have been even with him,
and he has found it necessity to shell out, from the fear
that information waled be given tax those who were
robbed. It is calculated that the compromises he has
been obliged tike in consequence of .his, fears of
losing all, hauls cost him as much as he could have
made for the last four or five years.. When he was con-
veyed to the j4ce-room, he d—d the Police for daring
to lay hands opt a gentleman who had more property
than all of them put together. He whistled, and sung
obscene songs, and swore that the pet son who took 5,50
sovereigns out of his hands, was guilty of nothing less
than a robbery. He, however, lost some of his cons
dence when he found that he was to be committed. He
now derives hope from the invalidity of some parts of
the Act of the 3d of Geo. IV. under which he has been
convicted, and epos which the Judges have expressed
doubts. A point has been reserved for the consideration
of the Judges; and Justice Bun &Goon told him upon
his trial, that, if the Judges decided the point of law in
his favour, he 'Should be pat donech—lt is not =Gs
stated in son... of the Moining Papers, that Du .s
mother is dead : she is still living, and is the proprietor
of more than one house of infamy. • • #.

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
In the time of our youth, when the day and Ihit hour
' For laughter and frolic comes round with the year—
When the pledge in the wine-cup redoubles its power,
And brighter the eyes that we worship appear !
Now sweet, to remember our sorrows no more,
And a while to disport in the gay title of mirth,
Like the larks, with the first blu4h of Summer that soar,
And start from their cold beds of clay on the e !
Then farewell to reflection—hail mirth and good cheer—
Let the Winter of care sink in Summers of smiles-
-llay a Christmas of mirth, and a jovial New Year,
Throw their halo of pleasure in light round our Isles !
Ah ! little they knoW, in the far foreign clime,
Of the women of England, who say they are tame;
Fur their hearts, like the sun tl6t is changeless by time,
To the bosoms they love are for ever the same !
Hand in hand then unite;to each lip pass the bowl,
" The bright days of Albiun" be still our lov'd toast ;
While each heart the wine cherishes dwells on the soul
That beams from the eyes of the girl he loves most !
Then farewril, &c.
Swift, swift pass the dance, and high raise the song,

1,..t each bosom beat with the bound of the roe,
While the stream of festivity bears us along,
And the zephyrs of joy and delight gently bloW !
Those we love, by our side—those we hate, far away-I-.
:Ally no speck on the fir tide of pleasure be seen ;
But may Fancy wreath garlands of gladness to-day,
That each coming season may findrerer green!
Then farewell, &c.
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Dec. 29,1824. KIT. COURTWELL.

DUMFRIES, DECEMBER 28.
Christmas Day, the water accumulated to soar
a depth on a morass near New Cumnock, is Ayrshire,
that the public road which passes• through it, although
raised on an artificial mound, left no indication of its
existence visible, except the ledges. of a bridge which
seemed to rest on the surface of the new-formed lake ;
and when .the Independent and New Tines coaches
reached this dangerous spot, they were fain to avail
themselves of the security afforded by a guide preced-
ing them on foot. At Anldgirth-bridge, the road was
also immersed by the overflowing of the Nith, an event
which has not occurred for many years before. Lower
down, after this river had received the tributary streams
of Scar, Cairn, Cluden, &c. it rose to an alarming
height, sweeping away the parapet wall, which had
been built along its margin, to secure the gardens of
Mr. Thomson, architect, and Mr. Threshie, writer, near
to the Academy. Opposite to this town, it covered the
Green Sands, from whence it sent a stream down
Brewery-street, not less it is said, than two feet deep,
It ascended the Friars Vennel, as far as Mr. MgCaskie s
shop, spread all over the White Sands, and the wood-
yards towards Waterloo-street, converted Nith-street
into a pool, crimpletely cut off the communication with
St. Michael's-street, by Nith-place, and submerged the
Dock from end to end, and from side to side. A small
coal vessel which lay in the river opposite to the In-
firmary (the Neptune, of Workington) rendered buoyant
by having discharged her cargo, was fairly lifted by
the waves,• over the wall or wharf, which bounds the
channel of the Nith, and after a granite pavl, or moor-
ing post, had thrust its head through her bottom,settled
down upon the Dock Parade, where she lay high and
try, upon the subs:ding of the flood. The river entered
many houses in the luw part of the town. In soma the
water remained from four or five o'clock in the after-
noon till after midnight. It is said that, bursting
through the temporary barriers erected against it at the
door of an Inn in Nith-street, it rushed, an unbidden
guest, into a room where a Christmas party were just
abou,t to sit down to dinner, overset the table, and, to
the dismay of the hungry company, swallowed up the
whole banquet at one gulp.
A large and valuable raft of wood citified from its
moorings on Saturday, bit was fortunately caught by
two weirs at the Nether wood Terse. In several in-
stances, houses hive been unroofed, and in Barns-street
a stack of channies fell this morning, with a fearful
crash. But solar as we have heard, no lives were lost

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' catts, coming to town with ultry,.&c. endeavouring
• tci'pass each other, in thellfile-end-road, the wheels of
the vehicles got locked todther, ancrthe concussion was
so,great, as to. throw,b46l the drivers off their seats.-
One bad his leg brokeit,;and the other his head dread-
fully fractured.
-:,Xltursday se'nnigliC three brothers, named Grant,
charged with having beeng,concerned in an atrocious
murder, were sent off, under a proper escort,:to Ireland;
/They had arrived at Liverpool about a fortnight since.
and after a diligent and patient search, dining several
days, were all apprehended in one night, at their places
of 'abode, in different pints of the town, by the
,Mtianea OF A TITHE PROCTOR NEAR BLESS,INGTON,
COUNTY OF WtocLow.-71Arednesday last. William Wal-
lace, tithe-proctor to the Rev. Mr. Tucker, waited on
Mr. George Hot nidge, a Gentleman. or high rank and
fortune, for the purpose of settling tithes. Mr. Hor-
nidge kept Wallace to dine with him, and after dinney
an allet cation unfortunately took place, and blows en-
sued. In the scuffle both the men sell, when Mr. Hor-
rtidge stabbed Wallace with a small dit k, which caused
his immediate death. A young lad, a nephew of Wal-
lace's, was preietti; and in trying to save his uncle, was
also wcsilded. A Coroner's Inquest was held on the
body of Ole deceased, and a verdict of Wapiti Murder
was returned agaipist• Mr. Hornidge, who has fiedor.-
Dublin Evening iftsoi . • -
'Saturday sennigitt, iii theltening,. as Wm. DUNCAN
ol'.
Hoylake, was op, his return home, ia walking to-
- %aids the pier-head, Liverpool,. through ignoratice
hii:Way,.and fru m the sad deft of lamps in that
pareof .the :Dock,. he was piecipitated into the gut,
which unites the rriiFe's Dock iitd Geolge's Dock
Basin i• vihen takentout he, was alive, attdiingered for
firleurs. 'He has left I widow and' nine children,
seven of wilt= are under fourteen years 'of age, who
solelytlO:his labour for surport.
A4,eitraotdinary instance of so indling and forgery
took place in Okfo:d last week. A Mr. Busby, a sale:-
m.la of;Loiidon, the sum of .Cl 5 10s. for a bull stag
de.,ll,ited to him' for sale by Mr. tee, of Hinkiey Hill,
It
sford, with Mr. Graham, of the White Hart Inn,
"yo: ket. On the evening of Christmas day,
the apreatance .of a fat :flees servant,
'altam, and produced a note which he
from .Mr. Gee, and which. was signed
tidet tag the payment of the £l5 los,
id the money, and has since discovered
w nothing of the order.

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• INSOLVENT D.EBToRg.CQUAT, DEC. $l.
PETITIONS of. INSOLVENT DE TORS, to be heard in
PORTUGAL-STREET, Lincoln's-Inn:Fields, on TUES-
DAY. J.inury 11; at Nine in the Forenoon. ' •
John Staples, *art-street Lissom-grove,' Police-officer.
George William Butler, Fleeet-market, baker.
Ralph Pearson, Bermuda-place, ,Commercial-reed, butcher.
Wm. Watling, Thames /3ank,place, Westminster, publisher.
Thomas Davison, Barking, Essex, oilman and shopkeeper.
Robert Reynolds, Cannon-street-road, carpenter.
Charles Avory, Kent-road, Camberwell, baker.
Joseph Phillips, Farringdon, Berkshire, victualler.
llenry Horne, Margate, lodging-house-keeper.
sElward Simmons, Stanway, Gloucestershire, road-maker.
William Arthur, St. Neot's, Cornwall, baker.
John lleatimont, Hurl, master-mariner.
Thomas Wakeling, Prescott-street, Cify-foad, cheesemonger.
George Whittaker, Parson's-street, Kateliff-highway, stationer,
Hare Woodhouse, Allen-street, Clerkenwell, baker.
Richard Johnson, Garden-terrace, St. Lute's, chin-dealer.
Thr.s. Norris, lawstorne.street Goswell-street-road, silversmith.
George Slow, Caroline-place, Regent's Park, merchant's clerk.
John Perry, Turnbam-green, chandler's-shopkeeper.
Henry Allihon, Ilanwortb, Middlesex, whitesmith.
George Crooks, Kennington-street, Walwortb, brewer.
-Fred. Thos. Malleson, Stafford-street, Lisson-green, gardener.
Robert Stanford, Church-street, Greenwich, baker.
John Furneaux, Oraiige-street, Red Lion-square, shoemaker.
William !lurch, Whitmore Road, Hoxton Old Town, builder.
Thomas 'Print,. Martha-place, Hackney-road, labourer.
Alfred Grave, Hounslow, baker.
John Karn, North Keppel Mews, Bedford-square, backneyman.
William Adams, Cumberland-street, Middlesex Hospital, cabi-
net-maker.
Charles Butcher, Thurton, Norfolk, victualler.

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1 - IN THE MATTER OF JAMES MARTIN.
The insolvent, who was formerly a druggist at Bris-
td, was discharged under the Act in the beginning of
the year 1822. Some time ago, Mr. HEATH, on be-
half of one of the creditors, Obtained an order for bring-
ing up the insolvent to be reheard, on the ground of his
having made a fraudulent transfer of his business and
property to his brother Charles, and also of his having
been collusively arrested at the suit of Mr. Bowles, on
a fictitious debt. In consequence of that order, the case
came on for rehearing to-day, and occupied the Court
until past six o'clock in the evening.
The insolvent stated, that he went to jail in 1821.
He became a bankrupt in 1819, but did not obtain his
certificate. About the time of his bankruptcy, Mr.
Rowles, an attorney and conveyancer, at Bristol, lent
him the several sums of 311. 10s. 181. 10s. and 151. and
also took three journies to London, for the purpose of
endeavouring to procure his certificate for him, for
which he charged him 201. making his debt to Mr.
Rowles altogether, 851. for which he passed him his
bill. He dented having come to town for the purpose
of Mr. ltowles arresting him, or having gone to the
King's Bench prison the day before he did arrest him,
to bespeak convenient apartments for himself ; but he
admitted that he did go there the day before his arrest,
for the purpose of inspecting the premises. His brother
Charles had purchased his business at Bristol from the
assignee under the Commission of Bankruptcy, for
1801. and paid the insolvent a salary of 801. per annum,
for assisting him in conducting it. The insolvent un-
derwent a long examination, and gave his answers in a
very unsatisfactory manner; his memory appearing to
be extremely imperfect on many points.
James Grey, shoemaker, swore that the insolvent and
Rowles concerted the arrest at his. house in Clerken-
well; and that the insolvent and witness went to the
King's Bench the day before it took place, to bespeak
apartments to be occupied by the former in a day or two.
Edward Grey, brother to the last witness, who de-
scribed himself to be a licensed preacher, having a cha-
pel for the last three years at Bristol, swore that he was
present in 1821, when the bill for 851. was manufac-
tured between Bowles and the insolvent, who arranged
it so, that it was to fall due by the ensuing November,
in order that the arrest might take place on the first
day of Michaelmas Term. The deed executed hetven
the insolvent and his brother Charles, now produced,
was executed in witness's presence; but it must have
been antedated, as he (witness) was not in Bristol inlB2o,
the year it purported to bear date.
I This witness underwent a rigid cross-examination by
Mr. CooKE, on behalf of the insolvent. He would not
allow, he said, that he was a shoe-maker; his father
was one, and he had assisted him ; he could make a
shoe, but he had not made shoes for bread. He was
asked respecting his separation from his wife, and
whether another woman did not live with him ? bat the
Court interposed. ,He denied, however, having ever:
lived with any other woman, or having been obliged,
to escape through a wiadow from his flock, in conse-1
quence of something that had occurred in his chapel
about six months ago.
Mr. HEATH having, closed his case;Mr. Coosa ex-
amined the insolvent in explanation. He then called
John George Crannidge, who stated that he was an
accountant at Bristol, and made up the accounts be-
tween the insolvent and his brother. He was present
when the latter purchased the insolvent's property from
the assignee Or 180/. of which he saw him pay 1001. in.
cash, and give his note for the balance. He also spoke-
to the transactions between the insolvent aad Rowles'
as being bona
.fide, so far as his knowledge went; and
swore ne would not believe the witness Edward Grey,
of whose " ministry" he spoke in very contemptuous
terms, upon his oath.
After hearing far ther evidence, and the arguments of
Counsel on either side, the COURT deliberated for a few
minutes, and then pronounced their opinion, withotlC
being called upon to decide upon the question of pro-
perty, that there was no debt existing between the In-.
solvent and Mr. Bowles at the time of the arrest of the
former ; and consequently that his discharge must be
revoked arid his petition dismissed.

The cause betty een Miss Foots and Mr. HAYNE has
found insertion in the French papers. The Journal des
Debuts of Sunday be ins att anslation of the trial in the
following terms:—" Miss Fools, the first actress of
Covent Garden Theatre, demanded 10,0001. sterliniGl
with interest, from a very rich young man named
"'Ayes, fol. having broken his promise of mariage
M. IIAYN it, according to the expressions of his own.
Counsel, was a sort of innocent who had been made the
victim of a coquette ; but notwithstanding the tertifi-*
cate of innoceince given* to Monsieur HAYNE, by his
Advocate. he was condemned by the Jury to pay MOIL
sterling (72,000 francs) damages, and costs:'
The once celebrated singer, Madame MA RA, who re-
sides at Revel, was lately thrown down in-the street aid
a carriage passed over her ; but she only received some
bruises, from which she has recovered. She is at a very
advanced age, and is said to have lost nearlY the whgle
of her property by the burning of Moscow.
During the last Assizes at Lewes, a Gentleman asked
Mr. Seijeant ONsLow, what was meant by an alibi?"
" It's a lie by which many a rogue escapes hanglag,"
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An maffinagettreerman, lathe 'Path yard his ye, washesloght
before the Lose MAYOR for begging in the streets. Tian poor -fel..
low4it appeared,
bad
been transported for stealing a waistcoat, and
upon completing the term of his _sentence, he. was on Weehisoffay
sentatdcift upon the-world,-without any means bf existence. He
lamented much his discharge from the bulks, where he wis,well
treated, for he was always willing to work, but unable to preform
the rough duties of a seaman, as he had done id his former days.
• The Loan Maths directed that an application should be made to
!the Bavarian Consul on the subject, and that in the mainline the
than should be relieved.
BO W-ST B EET.
Mt. Jeremiah Miller was charged with assaulting the persons,
and cutting the throat, and breaking the best black chip bonnet of
Mrs. Mary Jones, the sprightly spoose of Mr. Griffith Jones, Cam-
brian purveyor of skykidus to a very large proportion of the worthy
tea-drinkers of St. Clement Danes.
Mr. Jeremiah Miller is a green islander, who, after many vicissi-
tudes, has settled down as a green•groecr, and picks up a pretty
little living by the dispensation of praturs, parsnips, and pot-herbs,
from his own rented place in that lane of strip, slush, and fog, which
leadeth from St. Clement's Church-yard to the mutton ntanufacto-
ries in Clare-market. He is a great contemner of soap and water,
and has a mortal antipathy to razors ; but be is a man of a merry
temperament withal; and it was this merry temperament that
brought him into his present predicament with Mrs. Jones.
" And please your Worship," said 'Mrs. Jones, "as I was
standing on a step oppz.site Jerry Miller's shop last night, he and
his second wife, and his first wife's daughter, and two or three
others of 'em, sallied out at me, and basted me shameful, and
dragged me about by the hair of my bead, and cut my throat with
A piece of broken glass, and ranted my best black chip bonnet ail
to tatters !" This was an awful charge; but awful as it was, Mrs.
Jones could not deliver it without laughing. " Here, your Wot-
ship," she continued, holding the tattered bonnet upon one hand,
and a quantity of hair in the other—" here, your Worship, here's
my bonnet, and here's my hair pulled off of my head, and here's
my throat cut, as you see !" Here she pointed to a scar on her fair
neck, and still she smiled ad tittered, and seemed to have much
ado to help laughing outright.
The-Magistrate asked Mr. Miller what he had to say for himself?
" Laws bless your life and soul, Sir !" replied Mr. Miller—
" there isn't a nsonny-kyllibk of truth in it frost *beginning to end !
It's all spite andjillisy agen me, because she's got into a holy alliance
with the green-grocer's shop over anunst mine. And what are
your praturs a pound, Jerry Miller ?' says she. Don't be axing
the !nice when ye don't want the praturs, Mrs. Jones,' says I; and
with that she stoops down and grabbler up a double hantle admit
and slaps it right at me !"
• Mrs. Jones, in reply, declared that there was not a monosyllable
of truth in Mr. Miller's statement, and she called a disintelested
witness, who swore that be saw Mr. Miller and his wife take Mrs.
,banes up in their arms and shave her head right bang through a
pane of glass in a shop window—battering-ram fashion; and that
was the way her throat was cut. This witness also corroborated
all the other material points in merry Mrs. Jones's story, and Mr.
Jerry Miller was ordered to find bail, whereupon be withdrew,
exclaiming—" Oh, Jewel Oh, laws! there's neither law nor justice
to be had in this wicked world !"
MARLBOROUG H-STREET.
• Yesterday, a young man, named Henry Zing, in the employ of
Messrs. R. W. and C. Jearrad, the eminent builders, at No. 261,
Oxford.street, and clerk of the works that are now extensively
going on at the mallow of Lord Suffield, in Park-lane, was brought
before Mr. Cortex:, the Magistrate, by two of the Bow-street patrol
charged with having stolen a large quantity of lead pipes and sheet
lead ; and Mary Ann ling, his wife, was charged as an accessary.
After an examination of witnesses, the prisoners were remanded.

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day,lan 8, at Blitiield.
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GERMAN. SPORTVVO;
• The. Eniperne Francis I. made a bunting party in the year.l7ssr
consisting of twenty-three persons,. three of • whom were Ladles-.
the Princess Charlotte of Efir" rinse The chase Loted le
days, and. dig tbat tithe they killed 47,9t0 head ntgame and
Wild deer; of which 19 were stags, 77 roebuck., 10 foxes, 111,44;
hares, 19,545 partridges, 9,499 pheasants, 114 larks, 55G
-and 54 other birds. '.Emperor fired 9,798 shots, and die eria,
cess Cbatlotte.9,oJo ; in all, there were 116,`„:09 shuts fired.

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Eeeetmow.-..-Thursday morning the dreadiiil seri,
tence of the law was enforced upon the three uahai vs:
culprits who were convicted at the late Assizes for thy!
county of Kent, viz.—John Turner Ingram, for bleak-
int; into the dw•elling.honse of Mr. Abrahams, a!
Sheerness; George Shrubsok, for stealing twenty-nine-
sheep, the property of Mr. Edward Hughes, of Smeeth;.
and J. Ludlow, for th..: highway rubbery o: J. Olive,
at Gillingham. At half-past eleven o'clock, the pro.
cession began to move for Pennenden Heath. The
condemned were as usual conveyed in a waggon, and
while moving on, seemed engaged in fervent pi aye,.
They all acknowledged the justnes of than- sente .ces:
but Ludlow denied having ►ll-used Olive on the night
of the robbery. On their arrival at the place of exe-
cution, they -devoted some time to prayer with the Rev,
Mr. Winter, and appealed resigned to their fate.—
Havingascencled the scaffold, the hangman proceeded
in the discharge of his duty. Daring the time, a ,on.
versation was kept rap between theutiblippy-men. When
the rope was adjusted, Ludlow appeaked to the p,,pu!ace,
enquiring if any one was there from Gillingham ? and
on a person answering in the athtrnative, he requested
that when he had hung his hour, that his clothes might
be taken off and conveyed to his wife. On heating
which, Ingram said, " Do you want your wife to wear
the breeches then?" Ingram behaved with the most
unbecoming levity—before being launched off he wished
them all " Good night." Shrubsole was penitent, and
addressing the populace said, " Got) bless you all," and
hoped his fate would prove a warning to others. -The
signal e as soon after given, the drop fell, and the suf-
ferings of the wretched men appeared of short &nation.
Although it rained incessantly, the concourse of people
to witness the execution was numerous.

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