Star.
London, England, 1825-04-08 00:00:00

OP THE UNITED STATES.

BY TRI NIW

E

In the summer of 1100, Mr. John Quincy Adams made an ex-
cursion through Sieda, and visited Giant bias:nada, the highest
land in Germany. It was the tustom of travellers, after they had
visited it, to write their names, and some sentiment, in a book kept
at a cottage on the side of the mountain. Mr. Adams was Ike Ira
American that bad ascended the inouritain, and he then describes
his sensations :

" Sentiments of devotion I have always found the first to take
possession of the mind on ascending lofty mountains.—At the
summit of the Giant's Head, my first thought was turned to the
Supreme Catavou, who gave existence to all that immensity of ob-
jects that expanded before my vieW. The cremation from this idea
to that of my own relation, as an immortal soul, with the Author
of Nature, was natural and itnmedlate ; from this to the recollec-
tion of my native country, my parents, and friends, there was but a
single and a sudden step. On returning to the but, where we bad
lodged, I wrote the following lines in the book :
• " From lands beyond the vast Atlantic tide,
Celestial Freedom's most beloved abode,
Tasting, I climb'd the mountain's craggy side,
And viewed the wondrous work of Nature's Goo!
•I Where yonder summit, peering to the skies,
Beholds the Bank beneath it with disdain,
O'er all the regions round I cast my eyes,
And anxious sought my native home—in vain!
" As to that native home, which still unfolds
Those youthful friendships to my soul sodear,
Still you, my parents, in its bosom holds;
My fancy flew, I felt the starting tear!
" Then, in the rustling of the morning wind,
Methought I heard a spirit whisper fair
Pilgrim, forbear, still upwards raise thy mind,
Look to the skies, tby native home is there !"

COY ENTRY, APRIL 4.
Trade is certainly very brisk here. Some say the
ribbon trade was never better; others complain, and
say it is good for the workmen, but not for the masters.
Be this as it may, the workmen are not contented.
The poor rates, which were some tune ago ls.6d. in
the pound, are now only threepence! Those weavers
who work in the patent looms can earn three or four
pounds a week ; but those hands that are engaged in
the common o'd looms cannot get more than ten shil-
lings a week. So much for improved machinery. The
Coventry people are all loyal. Some t,f those who
were the most determined Radicals a few years ago,
now say they do not think it is possible to have better
Ministers than the present!
Great improvements have been lately made in this
city by widening streets and erecting new buildings.
Owing to Coventry possessing three of the finest spires,
pethaps, in the world, there are few places that present
a more magnificent appearance at a distance. The city
itself, however, is, or rather was, a most miserable
place. Thepbuildings were, for the most part, old, and
projected oh each side of the streets, so as almost to
meet each other. Still the antiquity of the city, toge-
ther with its beautiful churches and spires, render it an
object of great curiosity. One of the smallest of the
spires, though not the least beautiful, stands without a
church, the latter having fallen into ruin. The spire
itself is in a vet y decayed state, and unless speedily re-
paired, the probability is it will not stand many years.
Building is now going on to a considerable extent in
Coventry. This city would not have remained so many
years stationary with regard to size, had it not been
almost surrounded with what is called Lammas land;
that is, land which partly belongs to the freemen. This
land the freemen never would suffer to be sold or built
upon. Tire land upon which the new houses are erected
is freehold, but not so convtniently situated for build-
ings as the Lammas land.. •
Coventry has been for many years famous for its
great number of Dissenters; and a new sect has lately
sprung up there called Samaritan. Amongst these
people women are permitted to preach; indeed, the
founder of the sect is a female, the wife of a druggist
of considerable property in Coventry, of the name of
Grant. Mrs. Grant is a woman of considerable talent
as a preacher. and quite devoid in her speaking of
what the religious call the kcly twee, or what, in the
language of the profane, is designated cast. The Sa-
maritans inculcate the necessity of wearing plain
clothes, and of abstaining from swearing, even in a
Court of Justice. It is one of their fundamental prin-
ciples, too, not to allow their preachers to receive nrusey
for their services. In other respects they appear to hold
similar doctrines to those of the Methodists.

As Richard Wilson, Esq. of Bildestone, and his son-
in-law, Mr. Oxenden, were returning from church on
Sunday, the 26 h ult. they extended their walk by the
plantations near the mansion; and although Mr. Wilson
knew of spring-guns being set, he put his foot by acci-
dent upon one of the wires of a gun, which was fired,
and its contents were lodged in his knees and thighs.
An alarm was immediately given, and Mr. Wilson was
soon conveyed home. The family surgeon was sent for,
who extracted several of the shot. but many were out
of his reach. Every means possible were used to pre-
vent inflammation, and Mr. Wilson appears to be going
on well. Mr. Oxenden was very slightly wounded.
This is the third accident from spring-guns on tEe pre-
served grounds of the same Gentleman. A poor wo-
man, a stranger from Needham, on her way through
Wattisham, inquired her way to Bildestone; she was
desired to take the second ga.e, but she, by accident,
took the first,. which led her into a wood called Scape's
Grove. No sooner was she in, than a gun was fired by
her treading on a wire, and the contents were spread
upon her. She harpened. to be pretty thickly clothed,
which,, luckily for her, prevented serious consequences.
The second case was his own game-keeper, of the name
of Scott, who in taking his perambulation in a wood
called Muckenger, discovered a rabbit in a snare; he
immediately placed a spring gun, at the same time ex-
claiming with an oath, that he would trace the villain by
his blood. Scarcely were the words out of his mouth, be-
fore he, by some accident or other, came in contact with
some of the leading wires, and he received the contents
principally in one,leg; the man being in a bad habit
of body, a mortification soon followed, and his limb
above his knee was amputated. A single shot injured
the branch of an artery in the other legjand some doubt
was entertained for several days whether that limb
would not share the same fate; however pressure sue-

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LENT ASSIZE&

YORK, APRIL A

ROZBUCK 0. DUNDUIDALZ.
Mr. PARER stated that this was an action brought by
Mary Roebuck, to 'recover damages from the defendant
for a breach of promise of marriage.
Elizabeth Roebuck examined.-1 am the mother of
the plaintiff. She will be 28 years old next July. My
husband is dead. He died in June, 1824. Besides the
plaintiff, I have a daughter and a son younger than her.
My daughter was at school at Mrs. Pye's, at Hatfield.
When she first went there she was about 16. She after-
wards went to Miss Wymberley's, at Doncaster. When
she left Miss Wymberley she was about 18. She then
came home. Very soon afterwards the defendant began
to come to our house. He was intimately acquainted
with my son, and he came very often. He lived at a
distance of about twelve miles from us. His sister mar-
ried an own cousin of mine of the name of Moat. My
daughter had a child in July, 1823. I discovered her
situation on the 12th of December, 1822. The defendant
was sent for and he came on the 15th. My husband
asked him what he meant to do, seeing the situation of
my daughter ? He said that be meant to marry her be-
fore her confinement. He continued to come after that,
till May followirg. My husband bad a large farm and
some property of his own.
Cross-examined.—My husband had the misfortune to
fall out of his gig and break his neck. He received a
compound fracture, and died in eight days after. Myl
daughter was under the age of 21, in December, 1822.
The defendant is about three years older than the plain-
tiff. The defendant sometimes used to 'leg) all night
at my house. Sometimes he came and stopped of
evenings when he did not sleep. He came regularly
for a day at a time every two or three weeks. He i)ev r
stayed up with my daughter after I went to bed. Ile
never sat up later than me. lam genera'ly the last up.
I remember the child being christened. The defendant
was not these. My daughter was present. Other per-
sons were present besides my own family. The christ-
ening took place a fortnight alter the child was born.
Some of my friends, who were present, stopped to din-
ner. My daughter dined at the tab e with us. The de
fendant is living with his father, who is a farmer, as
my late husband was.

ke examined.—The defendant's father is also a man of some
property. Not long before the accident happened to my husband
he was low and nervous. Before the pregnancy was discovered, he
was very well.
By Mr. Justice BAYLIM—The defendant's father has
property to :he amount of, perhaps, five thousand
pounds. He has only a daughter and son, the defen-
dant. The daughter is married. My husband was 52
years old when he died. When the defendant came to
my house, he came particularly to visit the plaintiff.—
He appeared to me to be attached to her, and she to
him. Their attachment was not concealed, it was open.
I had observed it for two or three years. The defen.
dant's father's property consists in goods and lands.
The land is in grass, farm, and ploughed land, to the
Itxtent of about 300 acres. He has also an estate of his
11 own, which I heard his son say cost 3,0001. My
daughter never paid any attention to anybody else.—
Upon the defendant's father's estate there was a house,
which the defendant t 04.1 me was refitted for himself
and my daughter to live in. He first told me this in
the early part of 1822. The defendant never told me
that his father borrowed anything to buy the estate.
Samuel Hanks, uncle to the plaintiff, was in the
habit of visiting her father's house. He frequently met
the defendant there. The plaintiff had sometimes been
on avi ,it with witness. The defendant came to see her
there, and witness received him as the intended husband
of Miss Roebuck. His manner indicated that such was
his intention. Was at Mr. Roebuck's on the Ist of
January, 1823. The defendant came into the room
where witness and Mr. Roebuck were sitting. Mr. Roe-
buck asked him what he meant to do respecting his
daughter's situation? Defendant answered that he
meant to marry her, and that that was always his in-
tention. Witness saw him again on the 21 of January,
and, by Mr. Roebuck's desire, he stated to him that he
was authorized to make him an offer of 5001. on the day
' he would marry his daughter, and also that she should
have an equal share with his other daughters on the day
of his death. Defendant said he meant to marry hr,
but that he wished his father to be willing. Witness
never heard before that his father had any objection.
His fathvr's objection was, that he wished Mr. Roebuck
to give his daughter an estate which he purchased from
Mr. Grant. Witness said he could not do so with
justice to the rest of his family. The estate cost up-
wards of 1,0001.

pend upon the creak-the Joey would actual to the "A
deuce of the accomplice. ns corroborated in some parti-
culars by the other Nimes. If the Jury felt a doubt
at all. no matter bow stipicious their conduct war, they
should have the bate& of it.
The Jury, after consulting half an hour, brought in
their verdict—Guilty, but recommended them to mercy
on account of their youth. Two points of law were
reserved in their favour.

Anthony Bray,Joha Bray, James rthilny,Christophor
Tinny, Heary Naitoll, Joha Dyson, and James Lais,
were indicted for the wilful murder of James Diggles.
The seven prisoners were inhabitants of the parish of
Halifax, and were said to be strongly addicted,to the
practice of poaching. The deceased was one of Sir
George Armytage's game-keepers, between whom and
the prisoners there had been a good deal of mutual ill-
will. The prisoners were sitting in a public-house at
Rastrick, near Halifax,belonging to Richard Hepworth,
on the night of the sth November last, drinking ale.
Shortly before twelve o'clock, James Diggles, the de-
ceased, Emanuel Brooke, and two others of Sir George
Armytage's game-keepers, went into the room where
the prisoners were gifting, having previously left their
guns in a hedge in Tottril-lane, which was a short
distance behind the public house.- As soon as they
entered, the prisoner Ellis offered to fight one of the
keepers. They fought for a few seconds, when
Hepworth, the landlord, went in and separated them.
Someangry language passed on both sides, and Hep-
worth, seeing that they were likely to come to blows,
prevailed on the keepers to go into another room. After
the keepers had some ale, Diggles and one of his com-
panions went out, and proceeded down Totttil-lane to
get their guns. They were followed by some of the
prisoners and attacked. Diggles fired at them, upon
which Anthony bray wrested the gun out of his hand.
In the meantime Brooke, heaths,' the report of the y un
ran for his piece to the hedge. This brought the whole
party into the lane, and them was a general contest,
which lasted for some time. Brooke fired through the
lane, and was immediately attacked ; his gun was taken
loom him, and he was brat with it till it was broken.
He was moch injused. While some of the party were
engsged with Brooke, Anthony Bray and the rest were
engaged with D ggles and the two other gamekeepers,
who, as soon as they could escape, ran away, except
Diggles. He was so severely treated that he could not
move, and the next day he died. The evidence against
all the prisoners, as to the attack upon Diggles, was
not sufficiently strong, with the exception ut Anthony
Bray; and as to him, it went to chew that he did not
ill-treat the deceased till after the deceased fired at him
and his party.
Several witnesses gave the prisoners good characters, and the
Jury, under his Lordship's direction, Acquitted them all, except
Anthony Bray, who was found guilty of Manslaughter only.

WARWICK, APRIL 6.
James Kinney, aged 22, stood charged with having,
on the 26th of December last, at Birmingham, violently
assaulted Sarah Bayliss, an infant of the age of six years,
with intent to commit a crime of a very atrocious na-
ture. Verdict—Goilty.
His LORDSHIP observed, in passing sentence, that had
the prisoner been tried for the capital offence, the result
might have been a verdict of guilty. The sentence of
the Court was, that the prisoner be confined in the
House of Correction, and kept to hard labour, for the
space of 18 calendar mouths.
The prisoners Williams, Woodward, Ann Fox, and
Pharbe King, who had been convicted of highway rob-
bery under circumstances of great cruelty and atrocity,
were brought up before Mr. CLARK, King's Counsel,
who presided at their trial, to receive sentence.
His LORDSHIP observed, that in the whole course of
his practice, he never met with so atrocious and cruel
a case of highway robbery as the one of which the pri-
soners had been convicted. As for the prisoner Wil-
liams, who appeared to be the principal in the robbery,
there were no hopes left him in this world. He must
suffer the extreme sentence of the law. To the other
prisoners mercy would be extended, but they must leave
their country for life. His Lordship then passed sen-
tence of death in the usual form.—The Assizes finished
here this day.

no faed.
water ass so rook yaw any emery for dm
this bit is dun 3am year's. reepecentay,
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" P. 8. Mt. glop of llow.etreet Ace,
yea don't undentand this, he will explain. 1
apinies, like ail others connected with the laid.
bays had your 1001. foe my canoes (carcase) glee
have been made a boa of mild meat at Maidstone.
loss to him and his party. No doubt they are -
ibis ought to be a mad= to the public bow "
of his character. for once driven to shining,
first that will Mien I have robbed nearly .
and new others, sod had I lived looser, I
0047 mete, ma oak. In fact, I felt a pleasure
is true, u lad Sig to die. " JON?
As the demoting Ode nun was in perfect
lost moment of Its itOsOissa. nog see be
readers, if we ahji a sheet thelsant. On
spot, be conversed end smoked his pipe with
applielin lOW of *sits. as if he were going to
Le= hem Ilmsd round kis neck, oo hearing
dorms s dadre to have his clothes -
disc bt was round to him,
would wbh her nowear the breeches? A moment
was launched hits may. Thus lived and
happy man.
We are happy to hear chat the Subscript
Relief of the Widow and Family of the late
PALSY. Iratkarnellatil to nearly 4001. excisdeely
received in Wales.

SINGULAR RACOVIiitY op A ST'
—mop— •

Between fifteen and sixteen months
little bey, about five years old, the second
Williams, of Priory Pat k, near Guildford,
suddenly disappeared from thence, during
of the parents, who were thee in London
The boy, and a younger sister, had been
the charge of a maid, who took them
evening, as usual. A crowd having '
the road to wi ness the exhibition of an
man, the girl's curiosity led her to
I spectators, and, to her great affright,
tion, she discovered that the little boy
and no trace whatever could be obtained
cis cumstance was speedily communicated
who instantly adopted every method
a recovery of the child, but he was ev(
as lost. Accident, at leng h, accompli
perseverance had failed to effectuate.
who lived in the family of a Gentlemai
distance of Pi iory Park, had received
her relatives at Kew. and, on Monday
see Mr. &Otani make his balloon ascent
place. Of course, such a sight attracted
of people, and a number of exhibitors,
banks, jugglers, and tumbling boys.
latter gentry, the gill was struct by
lity of one boy, and also by the certait,
seen him before; though she at that moment
recollect whete or when. However,
serration convinced her that he was
Master Williams who had been stolen
Park, and for whose restoration such
been offered by his parents.
The girl communicated her suspicions
accompanied her ; and the latter having
tions to the boy. a formal demand was
on the fellow who seemed to be master
relinquish the child, which he as perer
till the interference of Burton, one of
Wes, put an entire end to the dispute,
charge of the boy by virtue of his authorit,
man finding that his right was very
disputed, now stated, that he met the
London about six months ago, litteralr
most starving, his former protector,
trade of a 44 petition beggar," (or a fei
on the pavements) having been sent
Correction as a vagrant. The boy was
for the same literary profession, but•was
pursuing it by Elie fate of his preceptor
new master, the little fellow became •
exhibited at fairs and other public
eclat. The truth of ;his statement was,
only by the testimony of the boy himself, ,by ,
ence to the b, oks of the House of Correction, of which
place the fellow is now an iamate,having been recen;ly
convicted at the prosecution of the Mendicity Satiety.
The foundling was yesterday restored to his ovetjoyed
family; and the parties instrumental to his recovery,
have experienced the bounty of parental gratitude in
the fullest extent.
It is difficult to say what is the legitimate name of
this determined child-stealer, he has passed by so many.
Surgeon Major's son was taken from him nearly two
years back, at Union Hall, when the fellow was brought
up there on a charge of roguery, and committed to
Brixton -Tread-mill for six weeks.

ti
ceeded in curing him.
A few riming' ago, the coachman of Mr. Martineau, an,
of Mr. }town, two Gentleases residing at Stamford
aZidedrinkthi at the MO Cage public house as the HA ' arose isetwawsliseimv, askalter a littk 'tarring,
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the way to the fats! .
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bearing one of his felt
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been collected on taw
an itinerant chew.
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mutually given tip . • -
)lished that which 1
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lan within a short • on
pet mission to visit •,;. its
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if the local conga- _
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very likely to be els
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ally naked and al- 1 a
who pursued the In
fellow that chalks tit
to the House of li,
as being educated "V
was deterred from
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a had, q,iin, and a
places with great A
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