Star.
London, England, 1828-04-26 00:00:00

NAVA L INTELLIGENCE.

The Dime, from St. Thomal'r to Hamburgb, is supposed to be
arrived off Poole.

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DEAL, Aram 23.—Wind W. to W.S. W.—Arrived the Colonies,
SMITH, from Barbadoes ; John. ---, from Berbice ; Emilie, Fiok,
from Copenhagen; and St. Vincent's, —, from St. Vincent's.
Arrived from London the lkilivar, SMALL, for Cape Verd ; Cana-
dian, MORGAN, for Quebec; Britannia, Surrow, for Gibraltar;
Elizabeth, liaow, for Quebec; and Maria, Hooray, for Valparaiso.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL •25.—Wind S. W.
Fazatouviz, Aram 24.—Wind W. to W.S. W.—Arrived the
Malvina, Hamm, Irom Gallipoli. Put back, the Skylark packet,
for St. Domingo, and sailed again this day. .
YARMOUTH, ArRIL 25.—A Danish squadron of three frigates and
a brig, bound to the Mediterranean, was spoken with on the 23d
instant at the back of the Sands, and reported that a Swedish fleet
for the same destination was ast, rn. _

SCA REGROUGH, APRIL 24.—The Itabert and Mary, MAWLIN,
from Sunderland to Rey, struck on Filey Bridge and sunk; crew
saved.

HULL, Aram 25.—The Henry, Hurraos, from Memel to Goole,
caught the grow near s! and is swain.
PiNSANC RIL 24.—The Market Maid, Mums*, of London,
front Awls/erg) to Liverpool, put in herr yesterday, leaky, and has
been hauled up the harbour.
GREENOCK, APRIL 23.—Arrived the Mercator, Wtascix. from
Demerara; and Shakspeare, Gemara, from Charleston.
Dom, Aram 25. Arrived his Majesty's ship Crusader, from
Calais. Sailed his Majesty's ship Salamander, for Calais.
LIVeRPOOL, Antra 24.—Arrived the Bee, —, front Aricali ;
Lindsay, ROILSON, from Pernambuco; Fame, front Barba-
does; Avis, MILLER, and Minerva, Rees, from Mobile; Catherine
Ni'Donald, DANIRLS, and General Brown, —, from Charleston;
Mountaineer, DODD, from New Orleans; New England, Huta.,
front Boston ; and Mary, Salsa, from Charleston.

THE MURDER AT POLSTEAD.
POLSTEAD, APRIL es.
As was stated in our Paper of last Thursday,
Corder was sent under the custody of Lea, of Lambeth-
street, and a country constable, named Ayres, by the
D.l ince coach to Colchester. During their journey
the prisoner conducted himself with such an astonishing
deg•ee of levity as to disgust every person on the
roof of t!.e coach—o.uch more those who were ac-
quainted vtith the nature and heinousness of the offence
with which he was charged.

At nine o'clock the prisoner artived at the George
Inn, Colchester. The news of his apprehension had
s' me way preceded h m, and immense crowds were
collected before the Inn. It was arranged that the pri•
soner should remain at the Inn for the night, and he was
accordingly taken to an upstairs room, whore he was
secured, by being fastened by one hand to the bed post,
and by the other to the wrist of his bedfellow, the con-
stable Ayres. _ _

Befo:i railing to test he w:ote a letter to his mother,
of which the following is a ye, batitn copy :
" Colaester, George Inn, Wednesday night,
Eleven o'Clock.

" Daas 3101 H 1/1.•••I scarcely dare presume to address you, having
a full knowledge of the shame, disgrace, and, I may truly add, for
ever a stain upon my friends, family, and late formed connections.
I have but few minutes to write, and being unfortunately labouring
under this serious charge, I have to solicit that you will receive Alt.
Moore on Friday morning, with whom may probably be my injured
lawful, and I must do her the justice to say, worthy and af-
fectionate wife. I have always experienced from every branch
of their family the kindest treatment—hope and trust the sante
will be returned from you the short time they continue in this
part of the country, which I am sorry to have to state is too
near the event of this dreadful catastrophe. lam happy t• hear
you are tolerably well considering the circumstances. I may, per-
haps, be allowed an interview with you in a day or two, but that is
very uncertain.—Must beg to subscribe myself your affectionate
son. " W. CURLER."

The last paragraph had been altered by partial erasures.—ln-
cludiug the blotted part it ran thus:—" Must beg to subscribe my-
self your unfortunate though unworthy son—W. Corder."
The letter was addressed as follows on the outside—" Mrs.
Corder, Polstead by Stoke, favoured by Mr. CatchpouL"
On Thursday morning the prisoner was visited by several Ma-
gistrates at the Inn, where be still remained under strict surveil-
lance. A numbrt of other persons, actuated by curiosity, were
ausious to see him, but were refused their proposed gratification
by Lea. Among those who saw him was the Rev. Mr. Seaman, a
Clergyman resident near Colchester, and who was acquainted with
his family. He was afterwards visited by his brother-in-law,
who, in the course of conversation, asked how he could think of
sending letters, declaring himself to be living happily with
the deceased Maria Marten, when, in point of fact, he was residing
with another female whom he had married? The prisoner replied,
" 1 shall answer no questions now. I say nothing about it." Lea
interposed, and suggested the impropriety, as well as the indeli-
cacy, of pursuing such an inquiry, and it was accordingly de-
sisted from. The conduct of the prisoner was far different on
Thursday from what it was on the previous day. At times he
paced about the room, with a silk handkerchief thrown loosely
round his ilea, scarcely speaking for an hour together, and his
head downcast. Again he would sit down, and turn over the tracts
and other books' sent him; but, from the rapidity with which he
passed over their leaves, it was evident he was not in that com-
posed state which would admit of a patient and calm perusal of their
contents. Once or twice in the course of the day he exclaimed,
while pacing the room, in a Wl' suppressed voice, " Obl if I could
but be as free ft om sin as my beloved wife is."

At halt-past ele•en o'clock on Thursday night, the prisoner was
removed, well secured, and attended by Lea and Ayres, in a post-
chase, to the Cuck Inn, At Polstcad. The IVRIOV4I at that dead

hour of the night was owing to a suggestion of Sir Vint: Rnwles
who considered that it would best obviate those popular exeve'
ments which the circumstances of the case were calculated .t;
produce.
In the accounts which have appeared of the circumstances whiik
led to the discovery of the body of Maria Marten there are woe
slight inaccuracies. The prisoner, who is the son of a widow Lady
rented an estate of 400 acres in the neighbourhood, had formed s,
intimacy with the deceased, whb is the daughter of a connive,
labourer. The result was the birth of a child, which substqwently
died. The parents of the girl, as well as herself, had importuned th,
prisoner to mart y her, and at last he professed his willingness so to (It.
On the 18th May he agreed to meet her at the Red Barn,belonging tt
his mother, situate on the brow of a hill, and is distant so
yarb
from any house. Ile, in the presence of her mother, requested she
might dress herself in male attire for the purpose of avoiding notice,
and said he would follow with a gig and take her to Ipswich,
where the marriage ceremony would be performed. It would Bp.
pear she was in the act of changing her dress when the foul deed
was perpetrated; fur the coat worn by her and the hat, and her
owa bonnet, were found lying beneath her, and her remains were
completely dressed in her proper attire, with the exception of her
igown. Neither the gown nor the miss .:re have been discovered.

TURTII IR YARTICULA RS.
FRIDAY Arrzawoote—The prisoher reached Pc4stead by two
o'clock this mo 11l i l lg. He was lodged at the only public house fe
the village. It is an obscure one, and does not contain more than
20 or 30 houses. The barn where the body was found lies about
half a mile to the left of the •illage. Since the examination of
the body the barn has been narrowly inspected. There are same
perforations of small shot, about the size of No. 7, observable
in one of the walls, and there are also some spots and stains an
the floor, which by many are considered to be produced by Blood,
It is remarked in the neighbourhood as a singular fact, that the
accused, who previously to the month of May had expressed ors
anxiety to keep the key of the barn in his poetession, bad afterwards
uniformly retained it. In the stacking of the wheat in the ham
also, it Is now remembered, ahhough little thought of at the time,
that he personally assisted in placing the first layers over the spat
where the body was found.
CORO NEWS INQUEST.
At half past 10 o'clock the Coroner, J. Wartaaw, Ees arrived,
and immediately proceeded to open his Court ; but previous to 10
doing, he inquired whether any Reporters were present, and Iwing
answered in the affirmative, he said, that although be had no widl
to exclude them from the Cout t, still be could not allow them to take
any notes of the proceedings.
Mr. Humphrey, front London, attended in behalf of William
Corder, and requested the• accused might be present at the exami-
nation of witnesses, and put such questions to them as he deemed
necessary to his defence; but 2$ he could produce no precedent, a
was not complied with. The Coroner said he should be called in,
and the evidence should be read to him.
The first witness was John Balaam, a constable. He said he
never tuldCorder that he bad a warrant to apprehend Maria Marten.
George Marten, a boy about ten years old, deposed, that us the
18th of May, Corder was at his father's house, aructhar he and
Maria Marten left that place between twelve and one o'clock at
noon she was dressed in man's attire, and was in tears, because,
as he supposed, her child (an infant of about two years old) would
not kiss her at parting. In the afternoon of the sante day, 11 men
being in a field adjoining one through which Corder passed, saw
him go front the lied Barn with a pickaxe on his shoulder, being
about twenty rods from him.
Mary Stow lives in a cottage near the Red Barn, and about the
middle of May William Corder went to her house and borrowed'
spade. Francis Stow, her husband, harvested at Mrs. Corder's,
and said they put the first wheat into the bay of the barn, where
the corpse was afterwards found. One day during harvest, as he
and the other workmen were at dinner or bevel., Wiliam Corder
told him he would give hint a pound if he would cut his (Corder's)
throat. He seemed to speak this laughingly.
Lea, the police officer, front Lambeth-street, went to the pri
soner's house at Ealing, and told hint he bad some business with
him; he took hint into the parlour. Lea then said he had a very
serious charge against him, and that he must, consider himself bit
prisoner. Lea asked him if he knew Maria Martin, a sweetheart
of his in Suffolk ?he said no. The question was repeated, and
Corder again denied all knowledge of her. Lea then said, I
will ask you a third time: he still persisted in his tienish Lea
then searched him, and took from hint a bunch of keys, and
went into the drawing room and unlocked two writing desks,
and took out four letters, which he produced—he also took out a
black velvet reticule, in which were a brace of pistols, maker's
name, Harcourt, Ipswich, with powder flask and balls, and a bullet
mould. Corder told hint, he bought the pistols when he was tee
years old. The pistols were produced, and the Jury declared they
did not appear to have been made more than four or five years.—
Whilst walking to the Lion, at Brentford, Lea said, the body of
Maria Marten has been found; the prisoner then said—how long
bas it been found?

Mrs. Marten, stepmother to the deceased, identified the reticule
in which the pistols were found as having belonged to her daughter,
which was taken away with her clothes in a bag oa the litth May.
Maria Martenwas out of spirits when she went away, having pre-
viously had tome words with Corder concerning a U. note. Colder
told Maria Marten that Balaam, the constable, had a warrant to
take her to prison, and she replied—" If they tale me to prison,
you shall go also."
Wm. Towns, was foreman in the employ of Mrs. Corder, and
considered Wm. Corder to have the management of the busineu
from Lady-day 1827.
Mrs. Marten re-examined—She had been to the constable's
house, and seen the clothes found with the body; there were too
handkerchiefs, one a silk one, which she wore round her neck on
the lath May, and another handkerchief over that; a Legbaut
bonnet tied up in a blue flowered shawl. The coat she bad sect
was net the one Maria Marten wore when she went away : swore
to pieces of the shift and busk of the stays, and pair of high sit,.es.
Offord, a cutler, at Hadleigh, deposed. that in May last Wm.
Corder carried a sword, about twelve inches long, with a white
handle, and brass-mounted, which he wished to have ground very
sharp for a carving knife, as he had a cousin who was to be mar.
tied, and he (Corder) was to sit at the head of the table, and ia.
tended to carve with it.

Mr. Lawton, surgeon, examined the body on Sunday last, and
deposed that be could perceive a wound in the orbit of the right eye,
the bone of the orbit was broken, as was that which separates the
nostrils; the wound appears to have been made with a sharp
instrument : he cannot say whether it affected the br.in, as that
was in a state of putrefaction : the silk handkerch;ef was tied
so tightly about her neck, that if the wound had not caused death,
she would have died by strangulation. The body was found lying
on the right side, and the head forced down on the shoulder; the
left hand was separated from the wrist, probably from decay. lie
took several portions of the sack and shift from the body, 21
examined the stomach and abdomen, but they were in such a stale
of decomposition that lie could not perceive whether they had or
had not received any injury.
Another witness deposed that the body was found in a sack
closely tied over the head.
The witnesses being all examined the Coroner proceeded to sum
up the evidence, in the presence of the prisoner Corder, and the
Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of "
Murder" against the said Wm. Corder, who was thereupon com-
mitted upon the Coroner's Warrant to Bury Gaol, to take his tri
at the next Assizes.

The evidence occupied six hours.
A Clerk from the Bank of 'Messrs. Alexanders and Co. of Man-
ningtree, and another from the bank of the same firm at Iladhigh,
were in attendance to exhibit a charge against the prisoner, iar
having on 111onday, the 14th instant, presented a check at the
former Bank, for which he received 931. The check purported to
be drawn by John Cook.

Boston Papers to the 2d of April have been received
at the North and South American Coffee-house. The
report of a serious insurrection at Aux Cayes, blooght
by an arrival at East River, which left Port au Pi;iice
about the BLh ultimo, is contradicted by an arrival
di-
rect from the place in question.

MARRI

At Rio Janeiro, on the itl;Of Feb. ult. Commander Thos. Ithit.
land, R. N. to Amelia, daughter of Wm. Young, Esq.
Thursday, by:Special:Licence, at St. Luke's, Chelsea. the Marquis
of Carmarthen, to Lady Hervey.
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