Star.
London, England, 1811-08-22 00:00:00

TAE, FOR A MURDER• COMMITTED iID YEARS AGO.

Mr. CLAnkE addressed the Jury. . The subject of
this trial WAS the death of a young man, named Ri.
chard Whitton, at Kenilworth, in the month of Octo.
her, 1790. He was found floating on the water, lifeless ;
at the time it was not known who it was that VW the
cause of his death, but there appeared to be manymarks
of violence on his body. During 20 years, nothing
had transpired to throw any light on the mysterious
circumstances attending the death of this unfortunate
person, till abut eight or nine months ago, when
Lee, who had been tried for an offence and sent to.
the hulks, in conversation with a fellow convict, gave
the particulars of the whole affair.' Oughton was in
consequence, taken into custody As an accomplice ;
and tilty were now to take their trial, on suspicion of
the above murder.
Mrs. Elizabeth Burbridge formerly lived at Kenji.
worth. She knew the deceased (Richard Whitton),
before she was married : he was a young man. She
.Ipyt w both the prisoners, Oaghton and Lee ; they
wets both living at Kenilworth. The last time she
NW Whitton was the night before he was found dead
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the thought chi, &Mt 20 years ago, lleCiasecl viera
took witness as She Was walking at. lienilutorth the
'night before; about nine o'clock; they walked near
Washbrooke-bridge: Deceased had h.,ld of het hand,
but he slipped behind her. There was an orchard
near the bridge where he slipped behind her; she
walked slowly on, expecting, him to follow. She
heard him call ; ke said,. 4. Stop, Barnes," (Mrs.
Bnrbridge's maiden name) two or three times ; he
called in a 3phispering tone of voice, not very loud ;
she looked back, and saw him stdoping down—this
was near Lee's house. She heard deceased run along
the bridge; she walked along the bridge after him,
towards Lee's house, after which she saw no more
of him.
Sarah Smith lived at Kenilworth in the year 1790.
[She remembered the time when Whitton was found
drowned. The evening before, she was going to Mr.
!Dunn's, the brother of her master, alloy. 8 o'clock
lin the evening; it was a very moonlight night.--
*hen she got opposite to Mr. Littleton's, she saw *
'man come over the Hallybone-style. as it is Called ;
the man was running very fast towards Mr. Little-
ton's factory ; she knew him to be Charles Lee—he
was dressed in a light-coloured coat, with sleeves dark
ker than the body ; his waistcoat was unbuttoned ;
his stockings were ungartered and slipped down.—
When lie met her, she said 44 Maio, Lee!" He
held up his hand, clenched, and said, " Hold your
itongue, and don't speak a word." He did not stop
at all, but ran on all the way very fast. Witness
stopped and looked after him to see where he went,
but lost sight of him against Mr. Littleton's factory,
She went on till she came to a small wooden-bridge
its Mill-end ; when she heard a great noise in the was
ter, but did not see any thing. The next morning
she .;aw the prisoner, Charles Lee : she said, 4. Lee,
where was you going in such a hurry last night when
I met you r. He said, 4. I'll be d---d if you met
me : I was not away from home after seven o'clock
last night." She was quite certain Lee was the man
she met.

Mr. Matthew Wilcox was a Surgeon, living at Ke.
nilworth in the year 1790 ; he remembered' being
called in to examine the body of young Whitto I,
when he bad been taken out of the water two or three
days : from the examination of the body, he judged
that the deceased had been strangled.
John Woodcock, Esq. was Coroner on the body ,
Richard Whitton. He received the deposition of Mr.
Ridges, a Surgeon of Kenilworth, but who is since
deceased, and who examined the body, together wi''
the last witness (the examination was then read
by which it appeared to be his opinion, that the ,
ceased was partly strangled before lie was thrown into
the water.

The next witness celled was John ClAyton, a con.
vict on board the hulks. He knows the prisoner Lee
he saw him on board the hulks at Langston Harbour,
near Portsmouth. It was some time in January
he was with Lee, and had conversation with him
specting Whitton. About this time a newspaper
into his hands respecting the death of Mr. Whitton,
and that a man of the name of Oughton had been
taken up for the murder. He told Lee of the cir-
cumstance : previous to which, he asked Lee if
knew A man of the name of Oughton ? He said
did. Lee then told the circumstances of the case
—" I and Oughton went to get apples in WI
ton's fat:ier's orchard. Is left Oughton to watct.,
while I went to the apple-tree; Oughton saw‘Whittoss
coming, and called out to me, he was after us..
Oughtun ran across a small meadow, and Whittors
after him. When I saw them run, I dropped do-
from the apple-tree, and followed them across
mead ivr. Oughton leaped at the mill-dam, and ju,
ped into it. When I got to the edge of the mill-dam,
Whitton and Oughton were struggling in the water,
Oughton called out to me, if you do not assist
be will drown me, he is too strong. I ran up, art
'jumped on the top Of Whitton in the mill-dam. Soon
after, Oughton and I left. the deceased in the dam.'
His Lordship then asked the prisoner Lee, what
had to say in his defence ?
To which the prisoner replied—." My Lord, I hal
nothing to say, but hope you will spare my lite."

Mr. Baron THOMPSON than addressed the Jury,
He requebted they would dismiss from their m:
any circumstances they had heard related, or
thing they had seen in print, respecting the tranL
tion; against the prisoner Charles Lee. With respect
to Oughton, his Lordship observed, that there was
evidence whatever to criminate him. After rec:
ItulAting the evidence with much perpiscuity, his Lor,
ship closed by saying, it would be the safest wa-
find the prisoner Lee, guilty of manslaughter.
The Jury consulted for about five minutes, at
turned a verdict against Lee—Guilty of MansiAtk
ter ; and an Acquittal in favour of Oughton.

The trial of Mr. Montgomery, for the alledf
murder of his wife, took place on Monday at
way. A number of persons were subpcened
Crown, amongst whom were three Captains,
LieutenAnts, the Doctor, and a Seijeant, of the ►
way Militia ; the trial occupied the attention of ,
Court the entire of that day, and he was acquitted,
At the late Assizes held at Philipstown, for
King's County, B. Fagan, a hawker of books
pamphlets, was convicted and sent.2nced to six nit
imprisonment, for having published a seditious
in a periodical publication called 7he Irish Magazin:,
It appeared on the trial, that this man could neitl
read nor write; he did not appear to be actuated
any motives in selling this book, but the desire of
little pin which he obtained by disposing of it
criminately with other books in the way of his ,
It was purchased from lim by a constable, sent
a Magistrate for the pnrpose. But the Judge, in
f sing the sentence, observed, that designing persons
might, without such a check, popogate their mis,'
by employing undesigning and illiterate person:
their agents.
At Castlebar Assizes Jobs Gibbons was tried for
:murder of John •M`Nally, of style, in that county
the 17th of January, 1799. He was found guilty,
receivedsentence of death.—Dennis Bingham, Esq,
lErris, was tried before Judge Fox, for oppression,
the exercise of his duty as a Magistrate, by issuing
warrant for the apprehension and transmission to the
gaol of Castlebar, of deny Nash, Eaq. and others,
upon an alledged charge, and informal information,
felony. He was found guilty, and will next term
ceiro sentence in the COUtLok King's Bench.

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THE COMFORTS, OF THE SEASONS.
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In Summer's cool shade bow delightful to sit,
In Winter, hew social, When, few friends are met;
. In Autumn, ripe fruits may our palates regale,
In Spring we delight in the stveetsblossom'cl vale!
Each Season has pleasurerind blessings in store ;
Be content, and you're happy, if rich or if poor.
To know the best season to laugh and to sing,
Is Summer, is Winter, is Autumn, is Spring !
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POLICE.

YtCrinous NOTtt3.
GIMMIALL.—.-Ttlesd.ty Mary Isaac was charged
with uttering a penny note ol the Fleet Bank, which
she paid as a one pound note 'of the Bank of England,
at a chandlers shop in Wiii.e Cross-street. Joseph
Nash stated, that the prisoner, with her daughter,
came to his shop on Sunday morning, and purchased
several articles, and gave him this note to change,
which she • called a Bank of England note for one-
pound. He was not able to read it, on account of
its being so dirty ; but his wife put the prisoner's
name upon it, gave her the change, and did not dis-
cover the fraud till the next morning, and the priso-
ner said she found the note in the street. She av,.s
remanded for further examination.
Bow-seaute.—Marearet Nswiand was committed
for further examination yesterday, charged with ut-
tering a forged one pound Bank of England note.
.Ifettoti-HALL.—A young man of respectable ap-
pearance was yesterday charged by Elizabeth Hill,
a poor woman, with who:o he lodged in Snow's
Fields, with -putting off to her one of the papers de-
nominated j7arh notes, as a Bank of England note
for £5. Mrs. Hill said the prisoner and his wife had
lodged in her house upwards of a month. About three
weeks ago he came into the shop ,to her, and request-
ed she would give him change for a pound note; she
did so, but on her giving him twenty shillings, be said
he had no less note than a fife pound one, and tender-
ed her the note in question. This she was not able to
change, and the prisoner said he was going out and
would get small notes for it, and on his return would ,
give her one. When he Came home, however, he had
not got change, and Mrs. Hill wanting her pound,
offered to get it changed for him. • Her offer was ac-
cepeed—she received the note, and took it io a neigh-
bour:ng coal-dealer, who gave her five small notes for
it, four of which she gave to the prisoner..Tne person
who changed it for her gave it in payment to his ba-
ker, who again paid it away to his flour-factor, and
this la ttereo another person, who detected the cheat
--and on Saturday morning last, after more than a
fortnight had elapsed, the note was returned to Mrs.
Hill. The note was produced, and was a close imita-
tion of a Bank of England note, except its being made
payable " to Mr. Abraham Latitat or Bearer," and
signed for the " Governor and Company of the Bank
England"—Abraliam Latitat being placed under
the number in a manner similar to the words Henry
Hose in the Bank of England notes, and the word re
being defaced as if by accident. The letter I) was
placed before the word five, but was torn off so as to
leave only the bottom of the letter, which at first sight
resembled the bottom part of the letter L.
The prisoner, on being asked by the Magistrate
hew he obtained the note, said he travelled the coun-
try with pamphlets and periodical publications, and
took the note of a person who stepped him on the road
between Greenwich and town, and purchased a book
of him ; he did not know the person, and had over
seen him since.— He was remanded, till all the parties
through whose hands the note had passed should be
able to attend.

A few nights since, about twelv o'clock, a grocer's
shop in London-street, Tottenham Court-road, was
. br ken open and robbed in the most daring manner,
by cutting an aperture in the shutter, which was art
inch and a quarter thick, and stealing a parcel of half-
pence to the amount of £lO. They were disturbed
from taking more property by a woman passing them,
as she was going to order some pi ter at a public-
h tune, a few doors off, the landlord not being then
gone to bed. They were then endeavouring to get a
loaf of sugar out, but it was too large for the aperture.
Tire Mrrnonts•re —Tuesday last, the Conference
of the People called Methodists, closed their Sittings',
at Sheffield. There is an increase of 7445 Members,
and the PreaChers and Chapels have increased in pro-
portion. Their missions in Ireland were spoken of
very favourably; Mr. Charles Atmore was chosen Pre.
sident, and the Rev. Dr. Coke, Secretary. The num-
ber of Preachers wha.attended was not less than 250.
Twenty-six Preachers, having finished their probation
of four years, wei c publicly received into f till connexion;
• end the demand for preachers from differen!. partiof
the .United Kingdom—induced the Conference to admit
40. young men,f or trial as candidates for the Ministry
• ;•r-at clear proof of the growing strength of this corn-
manity.—Mr.Frey, the converted Jew, is now preach.
• ing in the Methodist Meeting-house in Cot k, where a
subscription has been made for she institution in that
city., for converting the Jews.
Beautiful White Teeth may be regarded as one of
the greatest blessings Providence can bestow, without
which the finest formed face is imperfect; inattention
to the teeth and gums is 'the principal cause of an
Offensive breath.— BUTi.EII'S VEGETABLE RESTORA-
Ity TooTB POWDER is a most elegant and certain
remedy for all diseases of the teeth and gums • its
particular qualities are not simply confined toclean
sing die teeth, but will preserve themin the highest
st.:te ~f perfection; it will render them beautifully
white, fasten such as may be loose, and restore them
to their. origin tl purity, entio'l eradicate the scurvy
in the gums, caose them to adhere close and firm to
the teeth, render them of a healthlul red, and the
breath delicately sweet, retkve and cure the most
excruciating t' 0,11-ach, gum-biles, and swelled fitce.
—Sol,{ whi,le:.alc and retail at Mr. Butler's, 4, Cheap-
.side, corner of Pateraoster-row; and retail by Belam
and Sharp, Portsmouth; 13::1l and Johnson, Gosport ;1
Minna, West. Mallory and Jones, Portsea ; Trew.
'man, Exeter ; Cookworthy, Glenville, Gilbert and
Boxiaad, Plymouth ; isiewbury, Dublin; Baxter and
WDonald, Glasgow ; Smith, Manderston, Scott and
- Coign, Edinbarer ; Crowell, Bath ; Ross and Peck,
Hull ; Gregson and Billinge, Liverpool ; Stains and
Lynch, Manchester ; Bowen, Norwich ; Knott and
Lloyd, Birmingham ; Gregory, Brighton ; !midmost
Meilicise Venders, in Boxes Ss. 9d. each.