Star.
London, England, 1813-03-19 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Ilefoodity, the first division of the 2d battalion of
'jlst Light 'artistry Regiment, commanded by Colo-
nel NsTastitat. PEACOCK. marched into Canter-
bury, from Hythe, and were followed by the 2d di-
yesterday, ou their route for Gravesend, to
embark for Leith.

Yesterday the 2d battalion of the 71st regiment
embarked at Gravesend, on board she armed smacks
Prompt', Matchless, and Caledonia, fdr Leith, on their
route to Glasgow.
The Wiltshire militia passed th;ough Carlisle, on
Friday and Saturday, on their route to Glasgow.

Friday the West Norfolk militia commencechheir
much from Sheffield' for Berwick upon Tweed, on
their route to Idinburgh.

s. An Officer from the General Stag' of Scotland.has
enlisted from amongst the prisoners confined in the
depot at Perth, a considerable number of Germans,
for th• King's German Legion.
',Saturday morning. the 36th infantry, which have
been some time stationed in Lewes Barracks, under
the command Of Captain Caoss, marched from thence
•tis Bletchington.
4.'"The 2ci battaliOn of the 62d Regiment is amongst
*. reinforcements about to proceed to join Lord
WZLLJNOTON, in Spdin. The 2d battalion of the 81st
Regime,nt has sent a large draft to its Ist battalion,
which are now upwards of 1200 strong, and will de-
Arrive the 2d battalion of the prospect which they had
of gaining fresh laurels this campaign, and will no
doubt teep them in Jersey, their present quarters.—
Ilse 7th, or Royal •Ftrsileers, are great ftvourites with
dm Militia, and expect to be immeighlely sent on
mice.

Sunday se'nnight, while: the people were assem-
bling in the church of Roskeen, Scotland, a part of
the loft, wh;el was immensely crowded, yielded sud-
denly with a crash, which excited th,greatest alarM.
In endeavouring to escape from tha'clanger which
threatened Viem, many persons were trampled down
,ireadtully hrnised. We are sorry to state that
two of the women have since died of the injury they
received, and that several others ate in a hopeless
situation.

Tuesday se'nnight, a ringe of thatched houses,
consisting of a staldt, cow-house, and dwelling house,
belonging to William Eason, tanner, Woods of
,Muire, in the Carse of Gowlie, was discovered to be
on fire, and in a short time presented an alarming ap-
pearance, but the neighbours arc,lind repairing imme-
diately to the spot, and there being very little wind, it
was pfevenzed from communicatin,,,. to the corn-yard.
All the black cattle, three in number, and one horse,
were burned to death, and another hone, the only se-
=naming one, was considerably injured: The houte-
hold furniture was likewise consumed.

. FORGBltY.—Yesterday Ryden Jcuynour was brought
before Mr. Itaan,.at Bow-street, charged with utter-
ing a forged Bill of Exchange for at 63, purporting to
be accepted by Dav:d Thomak, Esq. of the Army
Pay Office, to Messis. Biddulph and Cox, }linkers,
Charing Cross. He was fully committed for trial.
UNION HaLc--An Irish woman, named O'Lough-
lin, came to this Office yesterday, to mate a com-
plaint against one of her countrywomen, for assaul-
ting her ; the Magistrate, considering her complaint
as unworthy of criedit, dismissed it, upon which she
proceeded to argue the point with him, with rather
more energy than was pleasant, in consequence of
which Clarkwas rethoving her from the Office, when
be perceived she had something in her hand, which
she se. med desirous of concealing. This excited his
curiosity to examine it, which he did much against
ber inclination, when he discovered it was a watch be-
longing -to a 'mother officer named Smith, and which
she had contrived to draw from his pocket as he stood
by her whilst she was telling her story to the Magis-
trate, without his perceiving it. She was now re-
moved from the place where she had been standing
as prosecutrix, and put, though not without strong
oppsit ion on her part, into the-place appropriated to
prisoners, when, on being questioned as to the manner in
which she obtained the watch ? she, with the greatest
effrontery, denied ever having had it, or at all know-
ing what watch they' were talking about. She was
committed for trial.

CHARGE OF MURDER.--Yesterday morning the
Coroner's Jury s.►t Again at the Crown Tavern, Cler-
kenw•ell Groen, on the body of the little boy that was
taken out of the New River on Sunday morning last;
several persons azai,.. attended, and made depositions
ivbich went to prove that Mrs. Evans was the mother
Of the child. The Jury returned a verdict of Wilful
Herder, by Drowning.

EXECUTION OF THE MURDERERS OP MR. WEBB AND
, SERVANT.—Monday Redeloel and Carpenter were
removed from Salisbury gaol 'to Warminster, in a;
Int:turning coach, attended by the usual escort, pre-
paratory to their execution on the Down, close ad-
joining to Warmit.ster. The spot chosen for this
purpose was the point of an almost perpendicular
lii;, nearly 500 feet above the town, looking down
on Warminster church, in .whicli Mr. Webb was bu-
ried, and nearly in view of the house :There the mur-
derous deed was perpetrated. On reaching the
place of execution, the Clergyman spent a consider-
able time in pioyer with the criminals ; and after
they were tied up, a handkerdhief was given to Car.
pester, to drop as a signal for the cart to be drawn
from under them. The poor wretch, however, clung
so to life, that he delayed dropping it for nearly half
an hour, begging earnestly for a few minutes longer;
at length he (ironed it, but even then endeavoured
to prevent his fall, whereby he suffered greatly in
dying ; whilst ltuddock, who jumped boldly from
the cart when it moved, was dead in a moment.--.-
After luinping the usual time, the bodies were cut
down, and taken to the Infirmary at Salisbury, for
dissection. The concourse of ptople assembled was
immense ; the place of execution would readily' have
allowed ten thousand persons to see it without pres-
sure. The gallows is to remain. The murderers
made no ci,ntession of any importance subsequent to
their conviction ; indeed, their first confession was

so a‘uple, that it admitted of but little addition. They
were.to the last much exasperated against each miter,
''tath'ci..ndemning the other Inr the distiosum of their
bloody deed. They wire extremely ignorant, 'with.
lordly any idea of a future rune.

4fts)re&

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At the Kent Assizes, Ms Brett was indicted for
stabbing his wife, with intent to murder her. The
prisoner was•a labouring man, living at Deptford.—
Two witnesses stated, that the prisoner lived in a
room above them, and hearing a quarrel, they went
up stairs ; that as they entered the room they saw the
prisoner rise from his wife, who was on the floor—he
had a bloody knife in his hand, and she was bleeding
• from the throat. He was asked what he had done :
He replied, he meant to do it, and would certainly
do it some other time.. The Jury found him Guilty.
Wm. Smith, W. Browning, J. Jackson, M. Prosser,
and J. Bowers, were convicted of horse-stealing.—
The following causes were tried on the Civil side :
SILVIR v. Cons.—This was .an action to recover
a compensation in damages for slander. The plain-
tiff and defendant were both residents at Margate,
where there is an old Catch Club. The Plaintiff was
a member of this club, and the defendant became a
candidate for admission. He was accordingly elect-
ed; but the defendant not being pleased at his having
been elected a member, declared to some of the corn.
pany, that he would as soon they had elected a
Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD, for the defendant, contended,
that the defendant did not mean to impute any thing
criminal to the plaintiff, but he used the words merely
to express his disgust at his company, which he might
do without being answerable for the fact charged for
the present action. The Jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff, Damages £5O.
"":11gottoAx v. ALDASLEY.—This was an action by Sir
Charles Morgan to recover six acres of land, which
had been long occupied by the defendant as part of a
farm. The case lasted a long time, and depended on
the examination of several old documents. At length
an old map was produced, made under the direction
of a person from whom the defendant claimed, in
which the land in question was described as belong-
ing to Sir Charles Morgan's estates. This map was
produced by chance by a witness who had the pusses
lion of it. Verdict for the plaintiff.
NORRIS v. CROSSWOOD.—This was an action of
debt, founded on a statute of last year, which enacts,
that every ship coming from the westward, on her
arrival off Dungeness, and from thence to a given
point, shall take on board a Trinity. House pilot, under
the penalty of paying double the pilotage charges,
and £5 for every twenty-five tons burthen of the ves-
sel. The present action was brought against the
C..ptain of a brig coming from the westward, who
did not hoist the usual. signal for a pilot, and when a
pilot-boat dine alongside, he refused to suffer a pilot
to come on board. This fact was proved, and the
Jury gave a verdict for the penolties.
Yorkshire Lent Assizes commenced last week.—
Justice LE BLANC, in his address to the Grand Jury,
observed—,4 lam happy to find, that there are in the
Calendar no persons charged with outrages which
.some time ago were unhappily so prevalent, and
which, for a consideraWe period, kept one of the dis-
tricts of this county in a state of almost complete in-
subordination. lam happy to observe,• that there
are no cases of this description likely to come before
you, and that the good sense of that part of the county
seems to be dgain returned.'
At the Northampton Assizes, an action of some
interest to the sporting world was tried—J. ROBINSON,
Esq. v. Lcrd LII.PORD. It was brought by the plain-
tiff, who is a qualiirc-1 man, against the Noble Lord,
for shooting a brace of pointers, the property of the
plaintiff, as they were returning from chasing a hare,
which had run into the defendant's estate. The Noble
Lord suffered jthigment to go by default, conse-
quently it was decided before the Sheriff and his Jury;
when a verdict was given for the plaintiff," of 480
and costs.

At the Assizes for the county of Rutland, at Oak-
ham, on Friday, three of the abandoned gang by
which the country had been preyed upon for some
time were capitally convicted of house-breaking and
robbery at Great Casterton, and were left for execu-
tion. The three convicts are—l Pm. Almond, a black-
smith, lately at NVakerly ; J. Holmes, a mason, of
Stamford; and H. Millington, a character well known
at Boston as frequenting fairs and markets, and whose
wife is at present undergoing imprisonment in Stam-
ford gaol for shop-lifting. It is expected they will be
executed in about a fortnight.

Wednesday evening Major CALITWRIGHT was hus-
tled at the corner of Long-acre, in St. Martin's-lane,
by a gang of robbers, and robbed of his watch.
A.gang of -23 thieves were last month tried and
convicted at Paris. Many of them are said to have
been singularly dexterous in their predautry avocations
requiring only a hook at the end of a long cord to scale
the highest walls. Their depredations had been car-
ried on near three years, during which, however, they
had never committed murder.