Star.
London, England, 1817-08-25 00:00:00

TAYLOR, !WORN' AND MINNS 4. 141(14E WING.

The amolvent was a butcher, in Newpiii Market,
and clerk. in the Albion Fire Office on Ludrte.liiii.
In 1811, while carrying on bII%I.IeSS Ai a clot. ier, h.
tailed t.ir RI SflO. I u 1811 he ah 1111 14114 d, and stop.
ped paymint tor 41900. In June, iBll., he tool: the
benek of the Insolvent Act ; his debts were then
81S00. He was dcscrib d at that time as a meal
an] biscuit baker ; at this peri.id he dealt in Man-
chester goods ; in short, he bad followed, in the short
p.tce of six years, the several occur:alum of cloth:sr,
floor merchant, biscuit biker, butcher, de..hr in
Al giaids, and a clerk in the Insu-
r slice Office, Ludgate-hill, and failed in each occupa-
:inn except the last. He underwear a very long and
,crat x rminaticm in the cour,e et which the
niartai of his having taken the benefit of the present
Act was discussed by the prisoner's Counsrl, Mr.
Pouncli, and by Messrs. BAUM( and HeaTit, for the
opposing creditors, which ended in the Ci.itrt deck.
'mg its opinion, that the insolvent seas em.tled is
his discharge, notwithstanding his former discharge,
as he had nut contracted debts front a ;!:slionest
itt-
ten.ion, but necessity.

TowKENDEN V. CAPTAIN' Prtlnn.

The insolvent, Thomas Prior, an riXer in the 18+
Hussars, on halt-pay, and A MAO of very reskretaol.•
connexions, was opposed by Mr. &unit. on behalf of
the opposing creditor, Mr. Tuwkenden. Being exa-
mined, it appeased, that he married in N member,
1812 ; that his wife WAS left the sum of 115000, and
that be received ,he interest of Cl5OO from that sum.
The rs ate was sold under tl.e will, and co;dy 1310-
duced the latter sum, which, by A marriage
event, was settled on his wily solely. It fur ifitr
ap-
p.arrd that the insolvent iikained L"100 Isom Mr.
Towtenden (the opposing cteditor), attorney, wham
insolinnt Aniployed putt...44)1121y ; that he was re-
duced to hair-pay, in consequence of an affair at
Boulogne, bin I.ad expectations of being rettored.-:.-
W! en the insolvent b rrowed the sC2i.O he had f.o
meet a bill of sCGO. I-le code:monied a! ter w irds to
liquidate the debt, by exeltangilig from the eavalt y
to Itifatory ; but having recently exchatted, the
Duke of York refused the application, and u. conse-
quence thereof he was unable to pay the deht.—The
Court decided there were no grounds for the remand
of the insolvent, and he was discharged.

Friday sennighr. Joseph liZors, Wiliam Poritr,
aid Jame Crorier, vele executed, pursuant to tht.:r
sentence at the last Chelmsford Assizes.

Friday se'nnight ll'Man Longland, convicted at the
lite Lincoln Assizes of counseditig and abetting the
burglary at Miss Mondetes, at Grantham, and
whose execution was iespited (or fourteen day,
starred the sentence of the law on the new drop At
Lincoln. He ascended the platform wi.h great fe nt
ness, joined in prayer, but protested his innocence to
the plot to the last, saying he etas a murdered man.
EXIiCUTION oe J.i.ava HARKY.--Mlaidty
.ntoriking
last this wretc!i:t d mart,
whose trial will be wand iu
the STAR of Tuesday last, paid the forfeit of his ex-.
usteace on the jail of Monmouth, in the presence of
several thousand spectators. No sooner was the un-
happy culprit convinced that he had no mode ofl
escape in this world. than he sunk into a wden +pithy,
and the whole of Saturday resisted every attempt to
awaken his mind to a due sense of the dreadful situ..
lion in which he stood. His brother. his son, slod
his frierels, were alike regarded by him as oho-fairy,
and were fA.h.de his presence. Avarice, as we be-
fore stated, seemed to be his ruling passion, and the
loss of the trifling property in amassing which he had
derived so much pleasure, seemed to have solely oc-
cupied his mind. From the first of his apprehen-
sion. so much reliance did he race on the all-power-
ful ii.flueoce...4 money, and so confident was he that
" goid (torn law would take out the sting," that he
declered his confident expectation of escape—a confi-
dence which was suengtlitned by the promise of
some min sr practitioner of the law, who assured him
that UR money be would procure witntsses to swear
a clear and unquestionable aisLi. When Mr. Stoker,
the attorney. of Cletemunt, was called into his aid, Ise
unfolded the plan which had been suggeeed to him ;
but that Gentleman instantly deprecated so foul a
scheme, and expressed, in becoming terms of Wee.
notion, his horror at the conduct of the mat, by whow
it had beeo suggested. The prisener at le °gilt
placed himself mutely at the disposal of Mr. Stakes,
and resolved to rest upon what be considered t:se
self-evident proofs of his innocence which his feigns et
anxiety for the loss of Ins wile had furuislied.
verdict of the Jury. how(ver. blasted his !epees antll
in proportion to the belief which he cherished of cer-
tain acquittal, his coildeasnation produced a corres-
ponding depieesion. At length, by the unremitting
exertions of the Chaplain of the jail, his soul was
awakened to a seine of futurity, and he was induced
to confess his guilt. He admitted the justice of his
sentence. and acknowledged the fact of his having
murdered his hapless wile, under circumstances, how-
ever, he said, on her part, of great aggravation. It
appeared from his statement, that he laded her on the
Sunday night by a blow' on the temple with some
heavy instrument, but not the stone produced on the
trial ; and when her spirit had tied for ever, he ern-
Oiled himself in cleating up those traces of the deed
which her 11.,wing blood produced. Having at
length partially accomplished this work, he secreted
the body under the bed, and in the harden buried
1
' some of those clothes with which he had been perfor--
ming his tertilie labours. Thus matters rested till
the sue ce edit% night, when he went forth to the Cres.
Wood side, and there dug the grave, in which he on-
tnediately deposited the remains of the deceased,
le,pisig that by the course of conduct which he bad
I adopted he should avert suspicion, until he should be
; enabled to depart hoot a spot which his conscience
exl;rheempellaycewinildwhich
tar nietundrdeerredwp:ucloiamrinyitteterdribilse.
h ills, and spicturesque ;orsritouuantdd
situate in
btyhewbcoosodm,
ita
ff d
of seuvre.salamlopfti);
food for visionary speculation, in which the few inli,l-
- bizailtu of the county are but too much disposed to
indulge. A strong degree of superstition seems still
to prevail among these poor people, and even row
scarce a lone cot is to be m-1, in the front otte.clic!tt
may not be urn nailed a rude cross, whit!, the ,
pant imagines is au itainc.ble battier against evis
spirits. The cottage of Harry at present It:matte
closed, and the surrounding rottAgas there iruagisia
they hear the dyieg swam; of its late inmate.

COMMER:E.

(From I hutch Piper.)
CIIKISIIANIA JULY 10.

Thr measures wine' h •vi., since the bez;intrt,
'spring, Leent.ken 'a Swedrn against foreign trite-,
is hick coif:nue to be seserely blamed by the Engh.i
Papers (we find among others the remark, bat the
whale is but a miserable imitation of Napoleon', C -
lonia! System), excites, as was easily to be furrwtn,
general dissatisfact c' in the counit y itseP. F e
competition with frreignera it thereby nosily inter.
rupted, and Lecause no foreign gorats may be forme t
to our markets, our productions grim with tin We
abroad; we :11C entirely COT:fi,.Cd within our own re.
source:, and hc who :m05...., how Fn,:;: our c.tintry is
in the first necessaries of 14i., will easily see in what
an ti easy situation we ~re placed Icy these rneasur,.:
of our Gi.vrrnm-nt. V:hea it has ttece;stry
summer to purchnte a Late quantity of corn 'heir
for the supply ef the ccunt!y p-o;:lt., no private p
son could or would engagt in this lousiness, the Go.
v./nment was forced to take i: upon itself, and it is
hardly rec-issry ro observe how much dearer the
corn thereby became to the country. Every post day
all exchange tratisacti,ns, both v the interior and
.rith foreign cninstries, must b! c.inimunieated t., the
o,verriment, that it m.y ricer the bias at a lifted
r rte r:f exchange. In short the Government inter-
fires ;r1 such a (r.ll nu.aritj manner, indeed, in all
',riven! stile inns, that it must Le Considesed as the
first merchant end banker :n the kingdom. For
rest, bow impracticahle a proh:hitin7 system, such as
the G rtern•nnot has ord.:red, is inn S. elan, is .e.a-
cienti. evident Iron- the maiy bumbed miles t f clabt
by which 'iii,c4ro ships sail every year. It is i • Fu-
sible lA. o:ri Sate t 9 exerci,e a rigid cont•oul, even ;f
Forrign Po, cis should approve f the proceedings of
the Sw dish Govetrinent, which establishes its first
hr.! of Custom-house stations on the oven sea, and
causes armed vessels to examine those ships th it are
bound to h,veden. The great and rich met,h4;it:
gain by this system of pr r ibitory iinpottat on, since
they even haz..rd large cilia:lls to snits, gle lar;.e
quantities if vrohitiited goods int,' the Swedish putt:,
but the little merchant. must Le riiintid by it.
Witen the prohibitii it of ..lmos. as kinds of foreign
wines u. is ai.ide known at S. ckoim, several of the
principal wine mer‘hants th,re immediately ortltted
several thousand pipes t f French wine cf hou•vs in
Copenhagen, .for their account, till a fie urabli2 oT.
portunity offers to smuggle them into Sweden.
Norway the want at employment, and consiquently
distress, increases in a rapid progression.
Several bankruptcies arnorig the first houses at
Dronthciin and Christiania have si read general alarm
among the merchants, and the fall or those will
daub less draw after it that at many nti:er houses.
AVERAtif. PRICE of CORN ie F.NOLAND and W.II.EC,
front the rrluttii the 1..t1i of August, le:7
Wheat. Rye Barlry, Oats. Bruns. Peas.
s. 4. I s. .1. I s. 4. l s. d. Is. d. rs. d.
es 2 I 54 11 I 45 0 1 34 e 148 6 l4f. 8
'The average Pike of Sugar, eonyuted from .hr rcturci raids
in •he week ending the 90th of Aupst, Is Sts. 10..1. per cwt.