Star.
London, England, 1822-09-14 00:00:00

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OLD IWO
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Yesterday mote."
tbe=rg
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John Mernisowartd • • .
for the wilful murder of
pleaded Not‘Guilty.'
Monies Prior, who stood rlhargedtrpon the verdict
of a Coroner's Jury with the, cilfalltatiter. 4sf Eliza-
beds Martin,. was then plaCeitit ebelsar,. The pri-
soner, on advancing to the barowawaheiliands about,
and in a loud tone uttered some mahatelligible sounds.
The unfortunate man is about tatty years-of.. age,
and his couirtenanceethibitt all ibe..appearances of
yidiocy. He had from his infancy been cothidered a
person of weak intellect, and thiold woman whom he
is charged.with murdering was -employed as the pri-
toner's keeper.
Mr. Justice BEST informed the Jury, that the duty
they were called. upon was not to try whether the pi i-
saner was guilty of the crime laid to his charge, but
whether he was at . the present moment in a sound
• ate of mind.
Ann Shelton was then sworn, and examined ly
Mr. ANDREWS.—She- deposed that she knew Elias-
beth Martin. She lodged in the same room with her
.from the29th of May until the Bth of June, when the
unfortunate event occurred. The prisoner was usually
out all day, and came home at eleven at night. She;
always thought that the prisoner was not in his right
senses. He frequently danced about the room be-
fore the pictures, and laughed without any cause.— :
From all his conduct the witness thought that he was
not capable of knowing right from wrong. He went
out to work, and returned home again unattended.
In answer to questions from Judge ,llzsr, the wit-*
ness detailed several instances of extravagant conduct,
which induced her to form the opinion that the pri-
soner was not capable of distinguishing between right
and wrong. .
Sarah Jackson deposed that she had known the
prisoner five years. She always thought him a silly
stupid boy, but she saw no symptoms of insanity until
about ihree weeks before the death of Nlrs..Martin.
He called upon her one day, and said he hadheeti
out all night. The witness advised him to go Dome.•
He shook hi's head, and said it would not do, and
went away. On the following morning, about seven
o'clock, he came again.. He looked very wild and
dirty in his appearanCe. The witness asked him
where he had been? he replied that he had been
sleeping in the fields near the Two. Sisters (two trees,
near Islington). The witness reprimanded him, and
he laughed very wildly. During the course of the
same day the prisoner called upon her again, and,
amongst other strange things, told her that he had
got a prize of £14,000 in the Lottery. He said it
would not do -for him to. go home, as he might be
as rich as the King's son. He also said that he bad
dreamed he was the son of 'GOD, and that he had
died and come to life again: lie was unwilling tol
go home, because, as he said, Mrs. Martin was very
cross to him, and if he went home he feared he should
be tried and hanged.
Dr. Cotton, the Ordinary of Newgate, stated, that
in the performance of his duty he had visited the pri-
soner
about three or four times a week. From what
he had observed of his conduct, he conceived him to
be an idiot, and incapable of regulating his conduct.
John Pocock Holmes, the surgeon of Newgate,
stated that the prisoner was a complete idiot. He did
not believe that he Could answer to an indictment.
• Messrs. ANDREWS and Anoiratiii declared that
they could produce further evidence, but they con-
sidered that that which had already been produced
was sufficient to sati,fy the Jury.
Mr. Justice BEST summed up the evidence to the
Jury, who
,immediately found that the prisoner was
not in sane mind.

Mr. Justice BEST directed that the prisoner should
remain in custody until his Majesty's pleasure re-
specting him shall be known. -
The unfortunate man was removed from the bar
without uttering a sound. 0
Michael Coyne and Thomas Cline were indicted for
the wilful murder of James Murty, on the 20th July,
by striking him on the head with a piece of iron ;"an-
other count charged them with aidirig and assisting
in the murder of the said James Murty.
It appeared, from the evidence, that about ten
o'cl ick on the night of the 30th of July, the &teased
was drinking beer in a public-house called the Cooper's
Arms, inWest-street, Smithfield. In the same room,
but not in company with the deceased, were the two
prisoners and another man, named Gantly, 'who had
quarrelled with the.deceased some days before.—
Murty rose to leave the room, when Gantly also rose
and got into .the passage before him, and as soon as
Murty came up to him in the passage, he (Gandy)
struck him downwards upon the head yith.some
sharp instrument which be held clinched in his hand.
Gandy then seized Murty by the right arm, and con-
tinued to strike him in the manner before mentioned,
the blood gushing out upon the infliction of every
blow. The prisoner Cline came into the passage
whilst this scene of barbarity was acting, and assisted
in it by holding up Murty to receive the blows of his
brutal antagonist. Coyne, the other prisoner, was
seen among the persons who surrounded Gantly and
Murty bur only one witness, a child, and niece of
gurty, connected him with the attack, by stating
that she saw, him assisting.to hold her uncle up. The
landlord of the house not only would not interfere
'when called upon, 'but even seemed to exult at the.
brutal treatment which Murty received. After the
,affair was ended, Gantly-made his escape, but the.
prisoners were apprehended. Murty was taken to
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where be died the 9th ult..
Two SUrgeons from the Hospital were of opinion
that the injuries which Murty received were the cause
mbf his death, he having been at the time,. and previ-
ously to-receiving them, in a very bad state of health.'
The prisoners said nothing in their defeiice, but
called several witnesses, who deposed that they be-
lieved them to be humane men. •
- Mr. Baron Gamtait minutely sutniredup the evi.
dente, and the Jtty, after cos iiltini together c.
*few ,enotpents,retureed a verdict _

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murder, -and also -Not *Gs-Ws
both- prisoners. • ' ,
The verdict was recsiied
And Mr. BarOR.GRA A Iktitaktd '
to .understand that the slaty
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He immediately mimed tit spoons,
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spoons
of the door.—The Jury formal.'
AndreloPetersost, a seafaring wain and a foreigner,
was put to the-Bar; upon an indictment charging
him with stealing a sovereign from the, person of Sa-
uel \Cooper, on the 12th of August List.
It appeared that the prisoner and the prosecutor,
who is .a blind man, lodged in the same rooms, in
an. obscure lodging-house in Gravel-lane. About
noon of the Jac in questioA, the prosecutor intimated
a wish to lay down, and desired to be called at two"
o'clock. Before
.going to sleep he had a sovereign a
and sixpence in purse in his pocket. At two he
was awakened by the prisoner, but soon discovered
that his pocket had been picked in the meantime.—
The prisoner immediately.left the houSe, and did not
again return. Having, however, met with hini afler-
wards, he charged him with stealing Iris money, when!
the prisoner said—" If you will say no more about
I will give_you two sovereigns when I get to my ship.
The landlady of the house proved that the prisoner
left her house suddenly after the robbery was com-
mitted. He sent her part of the money to defray
lodging debt he owed her.
The prisoner urged that he was driven to &lib*
act by distress.—Guilty.
Jews Leeper, a youthful thief, only.thirteen years,
old, was indicted for stealing an ass, the property of
John Hasling. The robbery was clearly proved by
the prosecutor.
Two 'other witnesses proved that Leeper sold the
ass for five shillings, stating that he had himself
bought it for half-a-crown.— Ihe Jury found the pri-
soner—Gsay.
The Raconoan desired that he might be handed
over to the Philanthropic Society; if they.,coniented
to.take.charge of him.
Milieux SoniiA and 'Thomas liftixjfeid were con-
victed of stealing five pigs, value .51. the property of
William Rhodes. They were each sentenced to Ire
publicly whipped, qd confined for two years to hard
labour in the House of Correction:
George Ball was put to the bar charged with havini
stolen 14.1b5. of pork, the prOpertyof John King.
The prisoner begged that his trial might be post-
poned till to-morrow (this) morning, in consequence
of his having been described by a wrong name in
the paper stuck on the gate, purporting to be the
names of the prisoners for trial. His name isl?allks,
but was entered as Ball.
The RECORDER said he had pleaded by the latter
name, and his friends ought to have been prepared
to attend.

The prisoner said his friends went away, not ex-%'
petting his trial to come on.
The RECORDER said" this was an ,idle pretence,
and the trial must proceed,
The trial went on, and it appeared from the evi-
dence of King, that the prisoner was employed as a
bricklayer's labourer in his cellar. On his way out
in the evening, he was detected with the pork, con-
cealed in an apron round his waist.
Prisoner in his defence said, that he had been pro-
mised something for his supper if his woick was
finished in time, and finding the pork rolled up in
.the apron, he thought it was intended forhim.. He.
was-a poor man, with a wife and *six r.hilaren de
pending entirely on him for support, and he threw
himself on the mercy of the Court. He had, he said,
scores of friends to character. They Were called,
but none appeared.
The Jury found him Guilty, but .recommended
him to mercy on the-ground that he might have had
a good character, had he had an opportunity of coil,'
ifig his friends.
The RECORDER said the recommendation should
be attended- to. He had been already in custody two
months. The Court would consider this ; and as it
Was very probable that this was his fitst. offence,
would order him to be fined a shilling, and dis-,
charged at the end of the Session.
' This sentence produced a slight burst of applause
from some parts of the Court, which the Recoftueit
very strongly reprehended.. '

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In April last, we inserted a letter froMsßaltimom
stating, that young Warsobt, who'signalized. himself
in the Spafields riots, and afterwards fled to America,
had been there found guilty of burglary, and sen:
tenced to_death. The account produced a-tery af-
fecting appeal from the father of the young man, the
well-known Dr. WATSON, whereinhe stated, that h
bad not received any account of such circumstanceo
and begged the Public to suspend-their judgmenead
, thi subject.—The Glasgow Herald, however' has re..
.ceived a confirmation of the report, with the addi-
'tional particulars, that he had obtainecia second trial
at the. Circuit Court in Davison's county, at which he
was acquitted of the capital offence, but found guilty
of the lesser charge, and sentenced to receive twenty
lashes on the bare back, and to-be imprisoned two,
months; with liberty to appeal to the Supreme Court
at Nashville, which he did, and which said. Court
'confirmed re sentence; and fixed on the 20th sf
'March to inflict the same. The crime-of which- he
was convicted, was breaking into the house of Mr.
Hume, and stealing a blue coat, value 40 dollars, a
thermometer,• value five dollars, and an .eye-glass,
value one dollar.
Lexiarre-Slaxxv.—Yesterdtty, Mr. Stapleton, a tin-plate-
worker, in Great Alie-street, was charged with ill-using his ap-
prentice. . The lad, it seems, had offended by not getting up NH
a little after six, and his master had given him a violent blew on
the mouth, • and nearly forced out some of Ms front teeth—and
bad also knocked his head against a door-post, by which it was ,
severely cut. defendant, a meek-looking Quaker, chid the
done • -

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PRICE OF LEATIIEIL.
60444' SO to 661bs each to 211 pee gg-
,Ditto. 56 to G6lbs each ............ to —4
Dressing Ilkles ..... ..... .....)81 to 194
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Pine Coach hides .l9d too*
Crop 11ide5,.35 to 401hs for cutting.--.... 194 to 201
Ditto • 45 to SOlbs.- . 2od to 224
Ml' Skins, 30 to 401bs ....... to 274
Ditto so to 701b5..• ' eNtl to 531
Ditto ' 70 to Solbs. ........ to 4821
Small,Seals (Greenland) . . to 24
Large ditto....- .......... ...... ...I skl to 1,1
Tanned Horse 11iJcs .......-... ........... ~. Isd to al
Spanish bores ...... ....... to 21

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RAW HIDES.
Best Heifers and Steers (per Ordinary—. ye :6d to its 14
stone) • "is 2d to 3; 4d Market Calf lOs od to'Os sJ
Mlddlins; ...Wad to 3s Od Eng. Horse os od ,O 04 Od

PRICE or TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per4l2lB. -
Tpwa Tallow 41s Od Ditto rang* ..:.. ..... .. lIN
Yellow Russia ... 429 Od Yellow Soap .. us
White ditto
..:........ Os 04 .Mottled • • ..5:........ Mt
50ap.ditt0................. 385 od Cutd —...--.....5..: 11l
Melting Staff... ........ Ws od Palm ..............—..7.. :.2. St

PaICE OP CA NOLP.S—Vrosn Tallow Chandlers' nalL
domes, per dos. Os Od—Mostkli, lOs 6.1; 6d. reir dorta
all Swed for ready money.

CO A 1.-11 AUK ET, sr.ret. 13.
Adair's 3658 d to 375 9d— Beaumont 38s 9d—Dean's Primrose
380.--tleatm 40s 3d—liebburn Main 4D. 911-11o1ywe:1 37s cd
—Killingworrb 393 9d—Ord's Redheulth 354—Pomop Wind-
isor's 36s 6d—Townley 365.64.-..%Vallsend Hell and Co. 4G5
to 4is--Wallsend Hewicke 41a 3d—Wallsend Green .lbs
ed—
Wallsend Neormarch 40s 3d to 40s 6d—WOlsend Northumher-
land 09s 9d—Wallsend rtitlddrs 41$ 9d—Wallsend %moll
49. s 9d—Wylam Trader 38s--Cowpen 35;
Nesham Main 39s 3d—Walhnd Lambton 43,--Wallsend
dell's 38s 6cl.—Walisend Stewart 43s—Eden Main 395.
59 Ships at market; 48} Ships sold ; 10; unsold.

COUNTRY 'AI .IRKETS.
Ozroen, Sur. 12.—Wheat ss. :.d. a bushel. The price of
a haltps.k loaf (household) Is. 1441.
BAKIMPIX,. SErr, 12.—Whear, 3s. Od. to is.otl--Wans 3s. od.
to 3s Bd.—Vetches, Os Od pet bushel.—Barley, 16.4 to 26
Oats, 15s Od to 1.5 s 041 per quarter—Bread, is :1 half peck;
and smaUer In proportion. Flour 255. to 3os. per sack.
Usaarnas, Sem 12.—New Wheat per load, .e.lO Os to El4los
Wheat, X 8 to .C 1 1 Os—Barley, per quarter, 24s to 28s—Oats,
18s to 25s—Beans, 24s to 305:7-Peas, 28s to 525.
• Newsome, Buts, Sarr. 12.—Wheat, 20. to 52.4—Barley,
18s to 28s-.—Oats, 16s to 22s.—Beaus, 24 to 7,os—Pras, 264.
to 26s.—.Rye, Os to Os.—Bread, llid to Is i fel per Gallon.

COURSE OF
Amsterdam 8 CF.
Ditto at sight 12 5
Rotterdam... l2 9 211.
Antwerp,ex-mo 12 6
Harnburgh... 3B 0 2U,
Altona 7, 8 1 2U.
Paris, May's sight 2.5 60 U.
Ditto 05 90 211.
Madrid, effective 36#
Cadiz effect 16

Barcelona ......
Gilboa, effective

:X CAING E.

Seville 351
Gibraltar ...... 30/
Leghorn
Genoa 431
Venice Ital. Liv 27 50
Malta ............45
Naples
Palermo . ..... ll7 per oz.
Lisbon... ...... .
lo Janeiro 4B
Dublin
C0rk....... 93

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Jaen: es; and No.ll, Bon vet le-street, nett-street Laultiatersa.
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