Star.
London, England, 1809-08-26 00:00:00

SPOPTING INTELLICENC.S.

YORK MEETING, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23.
Sweepstakes of lnogs, each, h ft. (Six Subscribers.)
Mr. Clifton's bs c. Poulton .. - •
Mr. Wilson s b. c. by Hambletonian - -
3tol on the winner. Won very easy.

Sweepstakes of sOgs. each, h. ft. (Five Subscribers.)
Sir E. Smith's gr. c. by Hambletenian • . - 1
Mr. E. Phillips's b. c. Sir Thomas Teazle - - 2
Duke of La.d's ch. c. Fancy - .- - .
Si& to 4on the winner, A fine rare, wnn by hallo head.
.6SO given by the City of York.
•
Ld. Fitzwilliamvs h. m. Pauline . • 1
Mr. Clifton's b. c. Poulton, 4 yrs old - - .• 2
Ld. Darruigton's b. b. Archduke - .. - 3
Poulton the favor tite,--A very fine race.

MURDER.—Thursday evening:an inquisition was
taken at the Royal Mortar Tavern, at Woolwich,
before JOSEPH Ivlsarrn, Esq. one of the Coroners for i
the county of Kent, on view of the body of Thomas
Jones, a convicted mutineer, who was confined on I
board the Retribution hulk. It appeared, on the in.
vestigation, that one of the convicts, who was em-
ployed with others in unloading bricks from a barge,
had thrown part of a brick at the overseer who *as
attending them, and struck him on the back part of
his head. The overseer could not tell, which of the
convicts had thrown the brick, and the convicts re-
fused to disclose who was the guilty person, and in
consequence of such refusal, the convicts were de-
prived of some indulgencies they had been accus-
tomed to • and Captain Reed having, on Monday,
obtained information that William Coleman, another
convicted mutineer, was the person who threw the
brick, be had Coleman put into heavy irons ; and
Coleman having taken it into his head that Thomas
Jones was the person who had Informed against him,
although Jones had not done so, and was his intimate
friend, Coleman in the evening appeared much en-
raged, and said he would do some mischief that
night ; that he knew his man, and would have the
life of two or three before the morning; but he drank
some porter with Jones, and they appeared very good
friends, when Coleman went to bed ; but during the
might he was seen to get up, and go to a seat be-
longing to one of the convicts, who was a shoe-maker,
froth whence he took a round pointed knife, the
sharpness of which heSied with his thumb ; he then
with that knife broke open a little box, from which
he took a sharp pointed knife, and said, this will
do for him." He next went to a table, on which a
lamp was burning, and tried the point of the knife
upon the table. He then turned to Jones's hammock,
which hung near, and, raising his hand with the
knife in it, stabbed Jones in the neck with such vio-:
lence as to penetrate nearly to the blade bone ; the
blood gushed from the wound with great force, and
in a few minutes Jones died. The Jury without he-
sitation gave a verdict of—nil Murder against
Coleman, who was committed to Maidstone gaol for
trial at the next assizes.—A great number of wit-
nesses were examined, and the investigation was not
finished until eleven o'clock.

EXECUTIONS.—On Friday, the 18th instant, about
half past eleven o'clock, Patrick Wickham, convicted
at the late Assizes for Warwickshire, of shooting Mr.
Avern, in January last, on Stank-hill, near Warwick,
and also of robbing Mr. Gardner, between Warwick
and Longhridge turnpike, and Susannah Grant, for
having in leer possession, in Warwick, an.edger or in-
strument for marking seven shilling pieces round the
edges, were executed over the door of the county gaol.
Wickham, although a young man, had been con-
cerned in several robberies, besides those for which
he suffered. He had, since condemnation, sbeen pe-
nitent and resigned ; and, being a Roman Catholic,
ke was attended by a gentleman of that persuasion,
whose spiritual admonitions appeared
.to .have had
their intended influence upon his mind. He did not.
make any confession publicly. When he was tied
up, and just before the cap was drawn over his face,
he said—" GOD forgive my prosecutors, for I am in-
nocent of what I suffer for." Wickham was a Ser-
jeant in the 103 d foot, and only 21 years of age
Susannah Grant was far advanced in' rife, being
61• years of age. She acknowledged that she well
knew that base money was concealed in her house,
having let one of her rooms for that express purpose;
but she positively denied having taken any part in the
coining of the money, or that money was ever made
in that house. With regard to the instrument that.
was found in her house, she appeared to have no
knowledge of its being there ; neither, she said, was
she aware that the concealment of such an instrument.
in her house was a capital offence. She was penitent,
firm, and collected, and confident in the hope of for-.
giveness. She expressed her warmest gratitude to
thechaplain who attended her,. and prayed incessantly.
_ _ _ _

A. hell, executed on Monday at Portadown, Ire-
iand, was convicted on Lord Ellenborough's Act.—
He had stabbed a man with a bayonet, and returned,
armed with a hatchet to complete his horrid pippose,
but which his intended victim has recovered from.—
This wretch obstinately maintained an opinion, that
all the punishment required by law was a life for a
life, quoting the Bible, which asserts, an " eye for an
eye,' and " a tooth for a tooth," to be a fair equiva-
lent. He refused to say he forgave his prosecutors,.
neither would he repeat the Lord's Prayer, nor re-
ceivethe Sacrament, saying, itwould Nebut amockery.

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.

Rev. Arthur Presion, is appointed to the deanery of Limerick.
Rev. Thomas Trench, to the deanery of Kildare, vacant by the
promotion of the Rev. A. Preston.
Rev. Henry Kempsen, M.A. student of Christ Church, to the
vicarage of Long Preston, in Craven, Yorkshire.
Rev. Thomas Shuttleworth Grirnshaw, M.A. chaplain to Lood
Montford, to the rectory of Burton, Northamptonshire, and the
vicarage of Biddenbmn, Bedfordshice.
Rev. Samuel '‘,l *ikon Watneford, 8.C.1.. of University College,
to the Rectory of Liddiard Millicent, Wiltshire.
Rev. Adam Join,: Walker, to the. Rectory of Bishopstone, and
Vicarage of Yazor, Herefordshire.
Rev. Henry Rice, of Colderton, 'Wilts, to the Perpetual Cur-
acy of Swingfield, in that county.
'Rev. Robert Leman Page to the Rectory of Penfield, Essex.
Rev. James Grant, to the Rectory of Wrabness, Essex.
Rev. Charles Idler, to the Rectory of Tilbury just& Clare.

MARRIED.
Yesterday, Andrew Gairdner, Esq. of Edinburgh, to Lzticia,
widow of the late Thomas Meredith, Esq. of Calcutta.
Saturday last, at King,land, Mr. H. J. Tymbs, Printer of the
Worcester Journal, to Miss Emma Wanklin, or the former place.