Star.
London, England, 1817-05-03 00:00:00

Sevrralwitnesses corroborated this statement.

Mr. BA ItRY, who, with feelings of the greatest hu-
manity, volunteered to plead the cause ot wretched
prisoner, addressed the Court. The subject, lie said, of
the offer.ce imputed to the prisoner, and whether.that
offence was brought sta:iently linme to her, was a
question for the decision al the Jury.. In consideting
this they would take, he had no doubt, the circum-
stances under which she was !:laced at the time the
offence was committrd—a weak but affectionate wo-
man endeavouring, by desperate means (ot the im-
propriety or consequence 4)1 which she was, perhaps,
utterly ignoialt), to rescue her tiusband front his pe-.
I riluus situation. lie submitted this, not with a view
•
of turning aside the minds of the Jury from the law
or the fact, but to shew how small a prrportien of
the guilt of the trnfortunate woman be attri-
buted to is criminal intention. The Learned Comisi
'sel concluded an affecting appeal, by-Stating, that ii,.l
in the minds of a British Jury, whom he then Will
the honour to address, conviction shot ld be esta-
Wished against the prison: 1 be would ten to]
the Court, and, appealingot‘jts mercy, say, that the I
pangs, the contrition, the grief, and tie sorrow, efutt.
AL peseta, inundated the st,ul tot this unfortunate
aidow and mother, were to her a far greacts pnn:sll-•
meta than All the penis and penal:Ws ut theirmst spa
guinary law. •
The havintT turrimea up.ine evidence.
with great humanity, the Jury, after sonirniiiimet.
consult/6:ln, pronounced a rerdict-cf--Guilty; b 44,1
' through their Fineman, tints aildrer.st,tl the C!;, !t :.
„.
-- Lord. and Gruersii,o, we most earnesey rvni;.:;:f
rids abutnt heipbtos and wre t het? tCorima to your no rep." •1 is,
whole ClAtrt, we feel, hasl woh acrit42o.ar 41,e
cireuttwtance, clear she, who this incite:;,, bet a tcsv 1.004, :411c, ,4
WAS a wire, is now a whlovr, cast tTna society under
cir-
eaatstat‘s of the most heart-reeding nature, 4o seeirsprotre
Lion for Arndt and orphans. We beg that in nor:), you will
visit her with the most reagent patestanent
The Coutt having consulted a iew marnents to;
getlter, the Rs:count-at pri cee,:eif to pais sentence 1
upon the prisoner, and having highly c,:mp!itneitl.ll
the Jury for their very humane tecommend.itioti, in
whirl), be said, tint Bench heartily concurred, of tiered;
het to le tort sed in Nowsta-1.,r lite calendar Alwah
The prisoner, in a Haut of tears, bee gcd the Conn
would stiffer her to go to the wale of her husband
(he being an Irishman and Roman Catholic) and see
the last of him." . .

The Court said it was not in their power to' grant
such a request.
She was then conveyed in custody from the Court,
the Jury, however, aui aln.ost every individual in
Court, pleviouily bestowing upon her sums of money.

ATRcielotri At;sAt.n.r.
Sarah Divine ava, indicted for assaulting Mary
Walsh, ur.der the following num aggravated circi.m-
stances appealed the prisoner had, without any
provocation, seized the hand of the pr.:sector and
getting one of her finger.; in lie r mornh. mangled it in
sn dreadful a intoner that part of it fell off to a
days, the remaining part el, and the wh..le
was eventually amputated. The prisoner, in order yr
prevent a plosecurion for this (Armee, immediately
went !afore a Magistrate, and instant...it piocei:dings,
not only charging the prosectur ix with an assault, hat
all the patties who had interfurcd to prevent the cot-
tage in question. Upon this they were subsequently
tried and acquitted, and Mary Walsh now brought
a counter prosecution.
Several witnesses were called in support of the pro-
.secution, each of whom described the assault of the
prisoner as most brutal and outtageouS.
The prisoner WAS found Guilty ; but in conse-
quence of her being far advanced in pregnancy, the
Court sentenced her but to:one month's imprisonment,
her husband and another saucy to be•bound in recog.
nuances of pounds each for her good behaviour.

r Briw-rrnik?.—Yesterday John Miss, John
Richard Golden, and a boy, were fully committed for
trial at the ensiling Admiralty Ses•ious, chArged with
being, part of a crew belonging to a stringgiirg cut-
ter, which attacked his Majesty's Revenue Cutter, the
Ranger, commanded by Captain Sayers, en the 19.1:
of Marais last, off the coast of Yet kshire, near Ito.
binhorld's Bay, when three of the mariners of the cut-
,ter were kilted, and the Ma:e and six others wounded.

RUPTURED iIATIENTS. SM.— Dr s.Cooeiitt. MuNnow,.
and Co. of Chaslotte Howe, oppisite the Rev. Row.
Lind Hill's Chapel, leave established a Medical L.,ard
in Woodstock •striet Oxford-street, ailitibirg Few liocd
where a PhyAiciau and Surgeon, Members id the Royal Cohere of
Loudon, of thirty years experience, reille and. where alt the
Members of the Board alternately attend. 'hat thousand: have
been restored to health by them, without coelnicinent,
disputable, after hospitals load failed, Eruptions on the head,.
Lice, and Lindy, ulcerated throat, &c. ifcc. are the consequences
of a certain complaint it:Troyer!), treated.—Messrs. Cooper,
Munroe, and Co. are consulted daily, at turd houses, until Nine
at here are aide doors at each house, and i ri.va.e refute
for females.—.'e • The' Piles and Ft, tech cure.; ss it hind cutting.
—t:r Ruptured Patients attend at Charlotte House tan Mondays
and Fridays, and at Woodstock House on Wednesdays, who are
radically cured of reducilile Hop:tires on scientific anti ;mato-
/ideal principles, without surgicat operation or the least era,' Li-
don. Patients at adistancu describing their vas;, may have the
curative preww seat to zny part ut the Kinadom, by wh;c:-.
mans !lorry may obtain a radical cope. lAttets
closure ltainsalately :inward tu.