Star.
London, England, 1826-09-25 00:00:00

MURDER.

At the Perth Circuit held at Perth on the 2lst inst.
Duncan Clark, 'Ate a writer of that City, was put to
the bar, acccused with the murder of a female infant, in
the autumn of last year, by locking it in a writing desk,
which caused suffocation.

Several female witnesses, who were examined in
Gaelic, deposed to the fact of bringing the child from
its mother, and giving it to the prisoner, and of its alter-
wards being found dead in the writing desk. Among
other evidence given of the like n4tore, was that of
David Low, a day police man, who accompanied by a
blacksmith, opened the lock of the ptisoner's desk,
in which they found the body of a child. Drs. Malcolm
and Stewart were sent for, and the body was not
touched till they came.
Dr. Malcolm, gave a ratified report of what he saw
at the prisoners house. Read the certificate, which
concluded that the child had been put alive into the
desk, and its death caused by suffocation. Tile cheeks
were livid and the lips also—the nose flat, and the
blood squeezed out of it ; the tongue protruding a little.
The pres ure of a ruler on the arm haJ been so strung
as to force the blood to the border of the mark, while
the concave part of the mai k was white ; the lungs were
tinged with blood. In his opinion, had the child been
dead before putting in, such appearances would not
have ensued. The lungs also bore appearances which
warranted the same conclusion.

Dr. Alexander Stewart agreed entirely with the evi-
dence given by Dr. Malcolm. He had no doubt but the
child died by suffocation. It had been a fine biota child,
and eves ything proper seemed to have been done for it
at its birth.

The prisoner's declarations were then read, in which
he acknowledged having received the child from the
women, on their insisting on le wing it, and stated that
it had been taken away by Mrs. Shaw to find a nurse
for it. He denied putting the child into the desk, or of
having knowledge of how it came there
. .

The Jury, after Wearing the opinion of Dr. Johnson and Pro-
fessor Christian for the panel, and the evidence of several persons,
who gave the prisoner a good character for humanity, Om retired,
and In a quarter of an hour returned with a verdict of Gulley.
The prisoner, on hearing tl.e verdict, fell down► at the bar. He
was then sentenced to be executed at Perth on the 3d November.

WINDSOR, SEPT. 24.—This morning his MAJIISTY
and suite attended Divine Service in the private Chapel in the
Royal Lodp, which *as performed by the Rev. Dr. Pia xsota, Dean
of Salisbury. Yesterday afternoon the Kum, attended by his suite,
left the Royal Lodge, in phaetons, and proceeded through the en-
closures by Frogmore up the Little Park to the Castle, where his
blaaasry was received by the chief clerks of the works, who con-
ducted the Kis° over the various apartments, &c. His Majesty
returned to the Royal Lodge to dinner.
Mr. MICARBS, the King's Messenger, arrived at the
Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on Friday night,
from Lisbon, with despatches from the Right Hon. Sir W.
A'Cevav, our Minister at Lisbon; also from the Right Hon. F.
LAMS, our Ambassador at Madrid, to Mr. Secretary Cilium.
New York and other American Papers have arrived
to the 40th ultimo. Accounts from Colombia repeat the report that
an express bad arrieed from Botrraa, the liberator, in which he
hly disapproves of the movements of General Pan. The latter
is represented to have immediately quitted Valencia. The follow-
ing official notice has been issued by the Consul General of Colons-
his in the United States;—" The new law regulating the duties of
importation and exportation in the Custom House of the Republic
of Colombia will go into operation on the Ist of September, 1826.
Persons interested in that trade are hereby notified, that the 25th
sod 28th Articles of the said law, which exact a consular certi

ficate to the respective invoices will be rigidly enforced, ant.
on default of producing said certificate, duties will be levied on the
value of the goods at the place where they may be imported.
(Signed) " I'ALACIO."

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