Star.
London, England, 1823-08-07 00:00:00

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Woasntr-Srarre.—Yesterday the investigation of the boat-
men charged with the rape was resumed before Rower limttr.,
Ifeq.—Thomas Shaw stated. that he was a labourer from Ka.
laskee, in Ireland. He and his sister, and her five children,
took their passage to London, in Hodgkicson's boat. On Sun-
day last he was informed a woman WAS in the men's cabin,
which was so distant from them, that he could not hear what
passed. About midnight he was awoke by his sister screaming,
He started up, and found a woman had got into their place, and
he helped her up, and said, if she did not be off quickly, he
would push her overboird. The woman said, Gen pity tLe
stranger," and then got up and sat upon the top. lie heard a
man insisting upon her leaving that part of the brat, to which
the woman answered," Where shall I go ?" Ile answer:ll, " In
the cabin." The woman said, " Will you protect nto ?" I:c
said he would. The woman said, if he would eng;,ge to do that,
she would go upon her knees to him. Witness heard the man
who was steering call to the driver to stop the horse, and the
boat was stopped about ten minutes. Ile afterwards heard the
woman crying, but there was a noise from the boat and the
horse. Ile also heard her say, " You are, I suppose, a Gentle:
man of your word." Some time afterwards he heard footsteps;
as of two persons going down from the boat.—Catherine
don, the sister, corroborated this account ; but said, she was W
frightened as not to recollect what passed.—The prisoners de:
Glared that the prosecutria had taken a false oath.—John
belonging to the same boat, stated, that he saw the woman id
the cabin unmolested ; and that, in a conversation, she said she
was indecently treated in the first boats, and that on hoard flo4,;:
kinson's she had met with more civility.—The Magistrate con-
sidered the evidence sufficient to commit the prisoners for trial,
and bound Hill over to appear. The prisoners were then cam-
mitted to Newgate.

PENITENTIARY, MILLRANK.—A Coroner's Inquest
was taken yesterday afternoon, at three o'clrck, be.
fore Mr. Gad., Coroner for the City and Liberties of.
Westminster, at the General Penitentiary, Mil'bank,
on the body of Mary Chapman, one of the convicts
there. Mr. Benjamin Chapman, the new Governor,
deposed, the deceased was tried at Nexingtoa on the
6th of December, 1819, found guilty of felony, and
sentenced to seven years transportation, ohich sen-
sence was zommuted to five years' imprisonment in
the Penitentiary. She was received on the Bth May,
1620, in the 22d year of her age, and in good hea!th:
Mr. John Pratt, surgeon, deposed, the deceased was
removed to the Infirmary on the Ist of February,
1823, with a violent cough. She did well until the
29th ofJuly, when she was seized' with uncommon
vomiting, accompanied with pain in her head. Sre
expired on the 4th of Airgrvt, about ten at night,—
Previous to her death she was insensible for two days.
He believes an effusion of blood had taken place in her
head, and occasioned her death ; he had no hopes of
her recovery from the 29th
.ot July. She was at-
tended daily by Drs. Roget, Latham, Southey, White,
and himself. The Jury unanimously returned a ver.
dict of—Natural Death.
DEATH BY BURNING.--About seven o'clock, on
Tuesday evening, the neighbourhood of Petticoat..
lane was thrown into considerahle alarm by rolumm
of smoke, intermingled with sparks ot fire, bursting
through the windows of an apartment on the second
floor of a house in Mulberry-court, Occupied by a
blind woman named Swabey, upwards of 70 yearsof
age, of the Jewish persuasion. The door of the room
was broken open, where the poor old occupant wits
found crawling in he middle of the floor, nearly dead;
her appaiil was reduced to a cinder, as was almost
every article of furniture in the place, and the room
,Much damaged. The' oor woman was taken, speat
less and insensible, on a shutter, to the London Hos-
piial, where she lingered in the most excruciating
pain until about forir o clock yesterday morning, when
death put a period to her sufferings. She had been
quite blind for many years, and was supported by
some 'charitable persons of her own persuasion.
FATAL EXPLOSION.—At about four o'clock in The
aftetifocin of Monday, a dreadful accident happened
at the button-manufactoiy of Messrs. Wilson and
Storkey, Birmingham, by an explosion of a consider-
able quantity of gunpowder. Mr. Wilson was lita
rally blown to atoms, and Sarah Cope, a young wce
man employed in the warehouse, was also killed
upon the spot ; four of her fellow-wolkwomen were
dreadfully wounded, and carried to the Hospital
without hopes of recovery: Ott Tuesday morning onf
of these unfortunates died ; the others still linger to
dreadful agony. Mr. Wilson was a single rosy
about 21 years of age, and was highly respected by a'
most numerous connexior„.
A boit was launched on Monday last on the Seise.
opposite the Louvre, at Paris, which is constructed
on a new principle. It is moved by a wheel simile
to those of steam-boats, placed at the poop,orlikkji
turned by a simple crank, directed by a man. Pf
experiment succeeded perfectly, and the beat, eid
eight or nine persons on board, rapidly descended
the River towards St. Cloud.
Thursday, two very tall men were matched mron
for a wager two miles on the Rathfarnham rout
near Dublin. A person perceiving the crowd, ribl.d
a purveyor of gingerbread what was the cause do
great an assemblage of persons? to which the otlw
answered—" Please your honour, they are core P
see a steeple match r
Such is the effect of perseverance and indoOriti
the science of Medicine, that great numbers, many If
had lingered under the most painful and abstiada ablOw.
who were pronounced incurable by respectable prardeeallw_,..
several discharged from Hospitals, have bees restoretk
health by the celebrated Dr. EADY,. who, afse:baslglst
borious practice, is enabled to remove the most
real Complaints, however long and deeply axed in en_
Eruptions, Pains in the Limbs, 'obstinate Gieets, Dialfo"
Sight, Nodes on the sbia-bones,- Ukeration, and 60111411" t
are among the symptoms arising out of improper trOViric
which without timely assistance prove fataL not
consulted daily by patients of both sexes, at St • beld4"
Soho, by persons from every part of the country, and by liot
(if poet paid) enclosing a fee. -
BIRTH&
On Tuesday. the Stb instant, at Wiraborne, the Lady
Frieart,e Esq. of a daughter.
ly, Badmouth, B , thu„Lady of the Rev. Preblagril*
nis, of a son.
At Thurscycon the 6th .IsikA. Elm Lieutenant
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July 28, ekVenainis, in the intb
youngest daughter. of Godfrey Hisi
Doncaster, Yorkshire.

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