Star.
London, England, 1809-07-28 00:00:00

/awed all the date, was a strong contrast to al! this.—
A petition was handed rip to his Lordship, who said
lie would peruse it with attention.
DUBLIN, JULY el.
Carlow Assizes commenced on Monday last.
The onty case of importance in the Crown Court,
was that of Mrs. Ann Ryan, of Barnhill, a widow
lady of some property and• respectability, who was
prosecuted by the Revenue for keeping an unlicensed
still. The case on the part of the Revenue was
stated by Mr. tSPINASSE, and after an examination of
three witnesses, who clearly established the fact
against her, Mr. Justice DALY, at considerable length,
charged the Jury, oho returned a verdict of Guilty.
• The Judge, in pronouncing sentence upon her,
animadverted upon the. alarming height this offence
had arisen to in• other counties, and the heavy bur-
dens that was necessarily obliged to be Inflicted upon
the inhabitants ; and as it appeared in evidence, that
at the very time the armas in the act of removing
the still in question, persons in. her confidence and
employment were engaged in erecting another. He
said it was necessary that a.public example should
be made, from which neither her property nor her
rank in life should protect her., His Lordship then
pronounced sentence, that she should be imprisoned
for One Year, and pay- a fine to the King of One-
Hundred Pounds.

Saturday last Michael Fitzpatrick, found guilty on
Thursday in Ennis, of the murder of Patrick Kelly;
on the 13th of May, 1805, in the parish of Kilfarboy,
near Milltown, county of Clare, was escorted from
the jail to the place of execution by a strong guard of
The Leitrim militia and Ennis corps of cavalry and
infantry. He appeared peniteraN and duly impressed
with a sense of his avoid situation. ' He confessed
himself guilty of the murder, and acknowledged the
justice of the punishment he was about to suffer, but
denied that it was marked by the circumstances of
atrocity which had been asserted by his ptosecutors
in order to blacken his character and aggravate the
crime. After addressing a numerous assemblage of
spectators, he was launched into eternity.

EFFECTS OF THE LIGHTNING.—Tuesday night, as
one of the Bath coaches was travelling near Coln-
brook, the leaders took fright at the lightning, and
became unmanageable ; in consequence the animals
:,tasted off, at full speed, and the vehicle was upset,
and literally shattered in pieces. Nine persons were
seriously hurt, and one female passenger died of her
bruises on being conveyed to Hounslow. About two
miles from the same spot, a poor man was killed in a
lane, by a cart turning over ; the animal also having
plunged eut of the road. Several accidents happened
also on Wednesday night, from the same cause, in
and about the metropolis. A labourer, named Fur-
niss, was struck blind in the King's Road, Chelsea,
whilst going home with his two children. A house,
belonging to Mr. Fame, in Poland-street, was set on
fire ; it originated in the second floor back room,
where two children were asleep, but fortunately it
was discovered in time to save them, and to subdue
the flames after destroying the room.
Las week a private of the North York Militia, was
killed by the falling of the cliff under which he was
digging, with several others, on his Majesty's works
on the road between Sandgate and Hythe.